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By Meagan Ellsworth, Staff writer
Updated 9:40 am CDT, Monday, July 29, 2019
(From right) Regan Steinert, 18, and her mother Janelle Martin are seated on a couch Thursday, July 25, 2019 at the Life Giving Life The Recovery Project in Montgomery. Steinert is a client of the center while her mother Martin leads the Parents of of Addicted Loved Ones program.
(From right) Regan Steinert, 18, and her mother Janelle Martin are seated on a couch Thursday, July 25, 2019 at the Life Giving Life The Recovery Project in Montgomery. Steinert is a client of the center while
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A Montgomery teenager appeared to be an All-American girl as she played volleyball, participated in school activities, and worked her job. But off the court, the now 18-year-old Regan Steinert said she struggled with substance abuse.
"I think a lot of kids are really depressed in my generation," Steinert said. "I think a lot of kids my age don't know how to cope with big things or small situations. The most common thing around is drugs. Most kids these days don't go outside and play anymore.
"Literally, drugs is the most common thing we can do with each other," she added. "A kid can have a bad day, hang out with his friends and use, then it numbs, then he keeps doing that because nobody wants to feel anything about what they are feeling."
Ultimately, kicked out of her home, Steinert headed to her father's home in Arizona where she hoped to get away with continuing to use any drug she could — including cocaine, marijuana, and molly—while adding alcohol on top of it.
"I just wanted to be happy again," Steinert, who felt she never had been truly happy or had people there for her, said. "I just wanted it back."
Her plan failed, and she found herself eventually in the arms of a recovery center for 10 months in Arizona, which helped her get sober. But homesick, the teenager moved back to Montgomery.
She relapsed within two weeks.
As life began to spin out of control once again, she turned to her mother for help and a hand reached out from Life Giving Life.
The new nonprofit recovery, counseling and resource center opened April 27 at 14740 Liberty St. with a staff of eight people and a mission to help those who have struggled with substance abuse transition into a "new normal," including with sober social activities.
The 3,100 square foot building that previously served as the China Chapel Church, facility addresses both the individual and the family with various services, classes, events, and resources.
Recognizing addiction as a "family disease" the center is committed to helping the family adjust to the new way of living as well. Steinert's mother, who now leads the new Parents of Addicted Loved Ones support group, described her family as being in an unhealthy place, which she believed was a factor in her daughter's sadness.
"Family systems play a huge part in a person's recovery," McKibben said. "It can literally make or break a person's recovery. It's just as important to educate family just as much as a person in recovery."
From free yoga classes to resume building, the recovery center offers various services built on five core values, including support, education, health and wellness, professional growth and development, and sober fun.
"It was really important to make sure all core elements in a person's life were pretty much engaged," Founder Jamie McKibben said. "If we can prevent that relapse-- that's ideal."
McKibben realized there was a need for the center during her experience working with clients in DWI court. She found that a lot of people were relapsing over a lack of life skills and lack of resources to get help, upon leaving structured drug program and rehabilitation environments.
"I would actually hear judges say, 'I don't want to send people to jail but there is nowhere to send them to get help,'" McKibben said. "There are no resources in Montgomery County and there is definitely not resources full circle."
Since opening the facility, McKibben estimated the facility has seen about 50-75 people from Montgomery between the ages of 25-35, from all social classes and various stages of recovery. About 80 percent were in the contemplation stage of recovery. The most prevalent substance use among the individuals in Montgomery County included Methamphetamine, Heroine, pills, Opioids, and alcohol. In her experience, McKibben said that Methamphetamine has been especially prevalent.
It's been 16 months of recovery for Steinert who used over a year. She did not use substances or associate with students who used her freshman and sophomore year, although she was aware of the groups who did.
"Junior year and especially senior year it seems like everybody is doing it," Steinert said noting peer pressure as a common factor. "Literally, everybody is doing it," Steinert, who noted especially athletes, said. "It's not hard to find, especially in school."
One of the biggest challenges for recovery, McKibben believes, is the stigma associated with substance abuse and mental health, for which she believes prevents people from getting help as well as hinders families from talking about the issue, including those who are concerned about image.
"I feel like if we can talk about some of these tough topics, instead of sweeping them under the rug, maybe we can find some more solutions," McKibben said.
Now, smiling beside her mother, Steinert says she is back on track—working daily to fight substance use and stay sober. She has obtained her GED and set a goal to start cosmetology school.
While she originally didn't want to get sober and thought she could trick the counselors for a place to stay, she credits Life Giving Life for the genuine redirection by becoming a place she loved and trusted that also let her help others through the difficult transition. She will soon be featured in the podcast, "Ordinary People. Ordinary Things," with Melissa Radke that will broadcast after Labor Day.
"It feels so good," she said as her shoulders dropped in relief. "I feel so happy. So, accomplished. Dude—I'm good."
Life Giving Life is a non-profit and member-based organization. To become a member, the cost is $25 a week or $100 a month. The membership includes weekly individual sessions every month and unlimited access to the center's services.
Focused on Youth Prevention, a Youth Camp will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on August 5-9. It will feature professionals and members of the community, including judges, law enforcement, nurses discussing various topics. The camp will break out into small groups with kid's camp counselors.
Those interested in registering can visit the centers website, email, or all. The cost is $200 for the first child, an additional $150 for the second child, and an additional $100 for the third child. Lunch will be provided.
For more information, call 936-597-3339, email lglrstaff@gmail.com or visit www.lifegivingliferecovery.com.
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As autumn draws in, a new swathe of 18 year olds are set to embark on the exciting adventure of university life….and may experience, for the first time, the financial hardship that comes with it. It's an important life lesson I feel and as I comment on another blog, I can't help wonder how much things have changed since I was a student.
As our money saving advocate Louie Spence puts it, buying items such as discounted bread – even when you don't need it – and freezing straight away is good way of stockpiling for potentially harder times ahead. Take some time to think about how you might feed yourself if all the money ran out. Buying storable food that you will not use unless you have to requires discipline but little spending. The discounted aisles of some supermarkets are a good place to start, usually towards the end of the day.
If you're lucky enough to have access to a garden becoming partially self-sufficient through growing your own fruit, vegetables, pulses and herbs can be an option. This not only saves money on the weekly grocery shop; it also gives you a tremendous sense of achievement. Autumn is the ideal time to start this process, so get down to your local garden centre and start potting!
Our recent 'Need the Dough' report found that one in five people has bought clothing that they have never worn or books that they have never read. One in ten (11 per cent) has spent money on shoes or accessories in the past year which have remained unworn and 15 per cent have splashed out on DVDs that they have not watched. Selling unwanted electrical goods and clothes is a good way of making a bit of extra pocket money, whilst also saving some space. Freecycle is a great site for both selling and purchasing used items.
We all know that, despite what they may tell their parents, what most students like to do at university is socialise. It's expensive pastime, notwithstanding the 2 for 1 offers and Happy Hours in most student cities, so some economical types have taken to brewing their own to entertain themselves and their friends. With each pint costing less than 20p, it's an option an increasing number of students are turning to when times are tough.


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This is probably the most concise yet detailed verse in the Quran pertaining to rituals of religious purification.
Thereafter, Allah the Exalted stipulates the ritual act of ablution. Thus, before one stands for prayer he is required to be in the state of ablution; "wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles." This indicates that performing ablution by washing the four limbs as stated above, is a condition for the validity of ones Prayer. It can be further understood from a linguistic perspective. The address begins with إذا which is one of the prepositions that are used in the Arabic language to stipulate a condition, which is thereafter followed by a فـ which indicates the conclusion. For example, "if you do this" is a condition, its conclusion is "then I will do that." Here the condition is, when you rise from prayer (إِذَا قُمۡتُمۡ إِلَى ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ) and its conclusion is, then you must wash… (فَٱغۡسِلُواْ). Therefore, ablution is a condition for the validity of prayer.
The first word in the verse with regards to the performance of ablution is اِغْسِلُوا (Wash!) which is a command by Allah the Exalted. Commands in the Arabic language are expressed in a specific etymological pattern (here اِغْسِلُوا which means Wash! Is etymologically derived from the present tense تَغْسِلُوْنَ). Usually, as a rule of thumb, a command indicates an obligation (fard), unless there is some other indicator which would change the legal classification of the action in question to a different legal status such as 'mandub' or 'mustahab'. Here, the command اِغْسِلُوا illustrates that washing the limbs attributed to this command are obligatory i.e. fard (فرض) to wash before the prayer. Thus, the legal status of ablution before the prayer is fard, and the three limbs mentioned in the verse, namely the face, the hands and arms up to the elbows and the feet up to the ankles are also fard to wash.
Similarly, the command with regards to wiping the head (اِمۡسَحُواْ بِرُءُوسِكُمۡ) also indicates to an obligation.
So far what have we learnt?
Note: according to Imam ash-Shāfi'i and others, there are more fard acts pertaining to ablution, these will be explored in future lessons. Also, details and difference of opinions will be explored in future lessons.
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News of the Fed's assessment, which had not previously been made public, sent shares in the German lender down 7.2 percent to 9.18 euros by the day's close.
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Croatia vs Greece 9 November 2017: World Cup Qualifier Preview and Predictions
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Croatia takes on Greece at home for the first leg of their World Cup qualifying play-off. This game will be very important in deciding which of these teams will make it to Russia this summer and as a result, I am expecting a really hard fought game of football.
Greece are a side that doesn't have many superstars but have still managed to be reasonably successful in recent years. This will not be an easy game for them as they are up against one of the best sides in the world and they will be away from home. I am expecting the Greeks to play a tight, defensive style of football and hope to control the damage in this leg so they have a chance to win it at home in a few days time.
Croatia, on the other hand, will look to win this game in the 90 minutes they will play at home and by doing so, ensure the game in Greece is just a formality. This side has some of the most talented footballers in the world including Real Madrid superstar, Luca Modric. The midfielder will look to control the game and if he can do that, I don't see a situation where Croatia don't win.
As far as betting is concerned, I think we are not getting a good enough price to bet on Croatia to win this game. That being said, I think the price we are getting on the over 2.5 goals is good enough. I am expecting Croatia to try and blow this game open at home and as a result, there should be a lot of goals. It might take a little while to get the first goal, but once the gates are open there should be a lot of scoring.
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Hadi's hudud bill not for Malaysia
Baru Bian | Published: 2016-10-19 07:39:00+08:00 | Modified: 2016-10-19 07:39:00+08:00
ADUN SPEAKS Many individuals and organisations have expressed objections to the PAS president's Private Member's Bill to amend the Syariah Court (Criminal Jurisdiction Act) 1965, which was listed to be read in Parliament this week.
The question that needs to be asked is why Umno is so amenable to this Private Member's Bill that it gets a high ranking on the list of bills to be read. It looks like Umno has a common agenda with PAS, notwithstanding having been labelled as 'kafir' by PAS in the past.
Nobody needs to be a genius to know that this is all for political expediency; the need to hold on to Malay support in the heartland.
People have begun to realise that this bill will affect everyone, not just the Muslims as those proponents of the bill claim. This is no different to the ban on the 'Allah' word, which the government claimed would not affect Sarawakians and Sabahans. If this motion is passed, it will set in motion a movement to slowly, and perhaps insidiously, expand the implementation of hudud - the Islamic penal system - in Malaysia.
The supremacy of secular law under Article 142 of the Federal Constitution in Malaysia has been upheld in the landmark case of Che Omar bin Che Soh vs PP by the Supreme Court. In that case, the court rejected the argument that the death penalty for drug trafficking was unconstitutional for offending the principles of Islam.
The Lord President held that Article 3, which recognises Islam as the official religion of the federation, was never meant to extend the application of syariah to the sphere of public law.
We should not forget that one of the preambles in the Proclamation of Malaysia, declared by Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, is '...whereas there has been promulgated a Constitution for Malaysia, which shall be the supreme law therein...'.
The supremacy of the Federal Constitution is clearly spelt out in Article 4. This was the social contract to which our forefathers agreed and we must not allow it to be rewritten to dramatically alter the landscape of this country of which we are a part.
The issue of conversion
In all matters of upholding our rights, and not just this hudud bill, we must be consistent. One crucial related matter is the issue of conversion. Regrettably, religious conviction has been politicised in this country for so long that people accept it as the norm. Religion has been legislated and policed in this country so much that the notion of religious freedom has become illusory for many.
All the hurdles put in the way of Malaysians who wish to exercise their right to their choice of religion by way of requirements for consent, counselling, attending courses are unconstitutional as they contravene Article 11 of the Federal Constitution. Given the refusal of closed-minded groups to accept this right, or even to discuss the matter, it is not surprising that opponents of the hudud bill, such as Siti Kassim, had to resort to gestures to voice their opinions.
Would it be too much to hope that, should the matter come up for vote, the MPs will vote according to their conscience and not sacrifice justice and fairness for political expediency?
BARU BIAN is the state assemblyperson for Ba' Kelalan and Sarawak PKR chairperson.
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2-28 events
The Mountaineer collects events related to 2-28.
This year, the 60th anniversary of the massacre, a group of local artists is set to commemorate 2/28 Peace Memorial Day with the staging of a music concert under the theme, "With justice we cure this nation." Renowned international rocks bands such as "Plastic People of the Universe," "Strike Anywhere," "Muse," "Akiakane," "Pan Gu," and local independent rock bands "Chthonic," "Tizzy Bac," "Loh Tsui Kweh Commune" will be among the groups performing live on February 28.
In USA, there is also a commemoration march from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C for five days (2/24-2/28).
On internet, Taiwanese bloggers first held 'the 228 Show Taiwan Writing Marathon' last year. It also drew major Taiwanese media's attention. Because of the success, they hold this event again this year.
If you like music, there are some music used in the Peace Memorial Day (228 commemoration day) concert: 'Taiwan the Green,' a poem written by John Jyigiokk, adapted by Tyzen Hsiao in his '1947 Overture', Je-Lin Hsieh singing 'Taiwan Lily', music by Anjamama and lyric by Kufao, and Hui-Ju Chen singing 'The Spiritual Day of Taiwan', music by Lynn Huang and lyric by Tu-Pan F. G.
If you like drawings, you can check the print 'horrid exam-228 incident in Taiwan' by Jung-Tsan Huang (in the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama), 'Massacre in Keelung harbor on 3/8/1947' by Bing-Shyi Shih, and an oil painting by Wen Ouyang, who is also a survivor of 228 Massacre.
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UPDATE: According to AP, The PRC says 2-28 was actually a democratic uprising aimed at liberation of the island, commie style. What they don't tell you is that one of the leaders of the revolt, the Communist Hsieh Hsueh-hung, fled to mainland after leading a ragtag army in central Taiwan fighting the KMT, where she was eventually executed by the Communists in 1957 (or thereabouts) for her "splittist" leanings. One of those tough-as-nails women that Formosa produces in droves, Hsieh had been arrested by the Japanese in the late 1920s after the Communists had snuck her onto the island, and packed off to prison, but got let out early due to her being in the advanced stages of tuberculosis. Despite being severely ill, she survived and led fighters against the KMT, then escaped from the island in July of 1945, according to Kerr, only to be killed by her "allies." One thing about authoritarians is the regularity with which they murder their supporters. Glad I lean toward the democracy side. UPDATE: Anon below says Hsieh died naturally in the 1970s.
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Satellites and Missile Accuracy
We were just debating the accuracy of China's missiles the other day, when Defense News reported on how the Chinese are using satellite guidance to improve their capabilities:
Beijing-based China National Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp. (CPMIEC) has revealed new details of its P12 short-range tactical surface-to-surface missile at IDEX 2007.
Launched vertically from trucks, the solid-propellant P12 can carry a 450-kilogram cluster or high-explosive warhead up to 150 kilometers, company officials said. The missile has a circular error probable (CEP) of 80 to 120 meters on inertial guidance alone, 30 to 50 meters when incorporating satellite guidance, they said.
"The Chinese improved the guidance system of the SSM [surface-to-surface missile] with GPS or using the Russian GLOSNASS," the Russian equivalent to the U.S. Global Positioning System, said Andrei Chang, founder of the Hong Kong-based Kanwa Defense Review. "The Chinese may also be using the GPS and GLOSNASS guidance technologies to improve the PLA version of short-range SSMs like DF-11 and DF-15 aimed at Taiwan.
Think we'll see the State Department conducting a formal press conference to condemn the more accurate Chinese missile technology? What a stupid question...
Meanwhile Taiwan is also importing advanced information tech for its battlefield management systems.
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Taiwan's Own Holocaust Revisionists
One reason that 2-28 won't go away is because right-wing elements in the Chinese community that refuse to concede that the KMT government looted the island, tanked the economy, let famine and tropical diseases reappear, and then killed the Taiwanese when they naturally violently objected to this treatment. Yesterday the Taipei Times reported on group of right-wing nutcases who still insist that it was Japan that screwed things up:
A recent official report concluded that Chiang should bear responsibility for the incident, and on Monday President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) called Chiang the "true killer" in the violence.
But Academia Sinica fellows Chu Hung-yuan (朱浤源) and Huang Chang-chien (黃彰健) and four other academics called a press conference yesterday to challenge this portrayal of Chiang.
"The incident took place when Taiwan had just been handed over by Japan to China. As Japan was reluctant to give Taiwan over to China, it used economic measures to cause inflation and food shortages before it left," Chu said.
Chu said that Taiwan's economic situation -- which created resentment against the government from China -- was the result of Japan's premeditated economic attack on Taiwan.
The academics also criticized former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) for saying that "government suppression was the main cause of the 228 Incident."
"What Ma said was contrary to the facts. The government had no choice but to send in the army to suppress the violence launched by the people," Huang said.
Yes, that's right. There are academics out there who argue that the KMT was the victim. Meanwhile former intellectual and current mainlander crackpot Li Ao said 800 people died because that's what Chen Yi, the corrupt and brutal governor of the island, had said in a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek:
In other developments, Independent Legislator Li Ao (李敖) told a press conference yesterday that the "sadness of the 228 Incident was created by politicians."
"The Democratic Progressive Party has been saying that tens of thousands of people died in the incident. Only about 800 people died at that time," he said.
He said the executive administrator of Taiwan at the time, Chen Yi (陳儀), had sent a confidential telegram to Chiang to say that the death toll in the incident was about 800.
These people are a sickness. Eyewitness accounts of the 2-28 massacre by US consul George Kerr and Allan Shackleton are online. Kerr's work is particularly powerful, for it discusses in full, knowledgeable, and minute measure the corruption, incompetence, and venality of the incoming party of thieves and looters:
By late 1946 an orderly import and export trade was no longer possible, the entire island economy lay at the mercy of newcomers who controlled the ports and were able to interpose regulations profoundly affecting the use of relief and rehabilitation supplies.
But where regulation was most needed, there was none; the Quarantine Services were neglected and the offices stripped of medical supplies and equipment. As the entire economy sickened, there was a general breakdown of the health and welfare services, most dramatically demonstrated when cholera and bubonic plague entered Formosa in epidemic proportions.
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In midyear 1946, four cases of bubonic plague were discovered at Tamsui and in the Hsinchu district. The victims had come in aboard Chinese junks and had not been quarantined.
The Formosan press broke into an uproar of protest; there had been no bubonic plague among the civil population for nearly thirty years. Here indeed was a threat, directly traceable to the collapse of the quarantine system so strictly enforced under Japanese administration. Houses which had sheltered the plague victims were burned to the ground. Some feeble steps were taken to reactivate quarantine services at the ports, but in these no one had confidence.
As summer approached cholera reappeared in Formosa. Within a few days it had spread beyond control in the southwest. It had not been known in epidemic proportions since 1919. The Director of Public Health made no move to recognize the threat, but UNRRA doctors and nurses, aided by CNRRA personnel, Formosan doctors and public health employees, promptly moved to Tainan and Kaohsiung, cut through extraordinary official red tape (deliberately spun out to embarrass them) and promptly reduced the death rate from 80 per cent to 29 per cent of all known cholera cases. After a long summer fight cool autumn weather brought relief, but by November 1 the UNRRA team had recorded 2690 cases, with 1460 dead.
2-28 commemorates and symbolizes not merely the thousands who were killed, but the Taiwanese experience of re-colonization, exploitation, and expropriation.
Don't Miss the Lunar Eclipse Mar 4
The China Post notes:
People in Taiwan can expect to see a lunar eclipse on the morning of March 4, or Lantern Festival on the Chinese lunar calendar, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.
Sky watchers in Taiwan can witness a partial lunar eclipse, but will not be able to get a glimpse of the total eclipse which will occur after the moon has set. The lunar eclipse for Taiwan viewers will begin at 5:30 a.m. and will end out of sight at 9:30 a.m. Taiwan time. The moon will set in Taiwan around 6:20 a.m. with the total eclipse taking place at 6:44 a.m.
The next time Taiwan will see a lunar eclipse during the Lantern Festival will be on March 3, 2026.
Venusian Politics
And if he went back, there was a warrant waiting for him from the Federation Member Republic of Venus. That was standard procedure. If you got voted out of office, they indicted you for corrupt practices. There were no other kind in Venusian politics.-- H. Beam Piper, When In the Course --
The China Post, the pro-KMT paper, reported the other day on a burgeoning structural problem that Ma Ying-jeou is facing. No longer KMT Chairman Ma, he's just an ordinary jeou now....
He had planned a series of events to commemorate the massacre of tens of thousands of innocent native islanders while he was still heading the largest opposition party.
Ma took part in a 60th anniversary memorial rally yesterday to upstage Wu Po-hsiung, acting chairman of the Kuomintang, who led opposition party leaders to commemorate the victims of the incident before the cenotaph of the February 28 Memorial Museum in the heart of Taipei.
This was two days before President Chen Shui-bian will unveil a cenotaph at the National February 28 Memorial Museum.
Wang Jin-pyng, president of the Legislative Yuan and a former vice chairman of the Kuomintang who is expected to be Ma's rival to get the party nomination for president in 2008, was not included.
Appearing in black, Ma shook the hands of members of bereaved families who attended the event in memory of the tragedy in which hundreds of innocent Chinese mainlanders were killed as well by native islanders rising in a riot six decades ago tomorrow.
In the past Ma was assured of a wide audience and access to all the Party resources and functions. Luckily for Citizen Ma the media, largely pro-Blue, still serves him.
The article also reported on the continuing rivalry of Wang and Ma:
Wang, who has yet to declare candidacy for president, is furious. Ma declared he would run next year when he announced he resigned as Kuomintang chairman.
According to his aides, Wang did not receive an invitation to attend the memorial rally.
"We received no word," said one aide. "How could Wang Jin-pyng attend, if he was not invited?"
There is a special concert in memory at the old Taipei City Hall today. Ma will speak at the concert, to which Wang was not invited, either. Ma will also hold a 2/28 incident press conference there tomorrow.
"It's apparent that Ma wants to ostracize Wang," said another aide to the parliament speaker, who, unlike Ma, is a native islander.
The paper makes a point of noting that Wang's aide is a Taiwanese, while Ma himself is a mainlander -- and refers also to "innocent Chinese mainlanders" versus "native islanders." This is a sly way of reminding readers that Wang is a Taiwanese without saying so directly -- and thus pointing out who, in the paper's view, is the good guy. And this from a paper that constantly hacks on the DPP for fomenting "ethnic tension" -- when in fact that tension is one of the key underlying issues between Ma and his support base, and a Presidential run for Wang.
The article goes on to note that if Ma is convicted of corruption -- and it is hard to see how he would not be, since the money is there in his account for all to see -- then he'd run for President anyway, even though the KMT by-laws forbid it. That by-law was added at the insistance of -- who else? -- Ma Ying-jeou. The gods love irony... A potential independence run for the Presidency was also mentioned, an idea that is constantly floated as an outside possibility. This is unlikely, since the KMT has already demonstrated that is it so committed to Ma it will suspend or change any of its Party rules. Dankwort Rustow once observed that the more the legitimacy of institutions is in question, the more it is necessary to find legitimacy in persons.
A couple of papers reported that Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, Ma's rival, had pointed out that Ma may not be able to take the Presidency even if he wins the popular vote.
But Wang said Sunday the Central Election Commission may initiate litigation to deprive a successful presidential candidate of his office if he is convicted and sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.
He cited the Statute Governing the Election and Recall of the President and the Vice President as the source and called the Kuomintang's attention to the impending trial of Ma Ying-jeou.
The crime with which Ma was charged is punishable by imprisonment of at least seven years. "However," Wang said, "he was indicted as a repeat offender, and that would make the sentence longer -- to 10 years -- if he were convicted."
Wang is close to PFP Chairman James Soong, currently in self-imposed Olympian exile in the United States, brooding, watching, waiting. An alternative Wang-Soong/Soong-Wang ticket might well be a possibility if Ma manages to terminally offend Wang, and if it occurs the "southern legislators" -- the legislators who support Wang and oppose the "Ma troop" -- may become a problem for a Ma victory. Last year they feared Ma was slating them for elimination under the new legislature. With Ma gone as KMT Chairman, he has much less influence over who goes into the pot for the legislative elections. And you can be certain it won't be an overly large number of Ma supporters.
[Taiwan] [KMT] [Ma Ying-jeou] [James Soong] [Wang Jin-pyng] [2008 Presidential Election] [2007 Legislative Election]
0 Comments Labels: 2007 Legislative Elections, 2008 Presidential Election, James Soong, KMT, Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan, Wang Jin-pyng
High School Students Bomb English, Chinese Exams
The China Post reports on the 150,000 students taking the college entrance exam:
More than 13,000 senior students at senior high schools got a zero score for the English-language composition in the scholastic ability test while over 2,100 of them failed to get any score for Chinese composition.
A total of over 150,000 senior high school students who are slated for graduation in June took the nationwide examination.
Both English language and Chinese literature were required subjects for the mandatory test for those who plan to apply for admission into colleges and universities for the coming summer.
Writing short compositions were among the major components in the language exams.
Only one student got the full score of 27 for composition while as many as 2,104 failed to win any single score for their incomprehensible writing in their mother tongue, Chinese.
The students' average performance in English, the primary foreign language in Taiwan schools, was even worse since 13,040 got the zero score for their gibberish.
Only one student obtained the full score of 20 in English composition.
For the translation section in the English-language test, there was an even higher number of 16,465 students receiving a zero score.
One teacher who supervised the examinations shook her head in disbelief about the unusually high numbers of students getting zero scores after studying both Chinese languages for almost 12 years and English for around 10 years.
To those of us who have seen the way teaching is undertaken in the junior high and high schools, this is not surprising. At my university student after student has reported receiving no training at all, in any language, in the organization of writing. In other words, my experience as a teacher of English composition consists of teaching the idea of organization itself, not simply saying, "oh, in Chinese you do X but in English we do Y. See how that works?" Most of the students I have taught have never encountered the idea that writing has to be organized in order to work.
The problems, I suspect, begin in elementary school where teachers focus on what is easily understood and corrected -- production of pretty characters -- and extend upward to junior high and high school where in both English and Chinese the emphasis is on grammar rather than organization. Essays are in highly simplistic format covering profoundly stupid ideas such as "My Worst Day" or "How I feel about my mother" that give students the chance to indulge in subjective and disjointed writing, since such essays typically do not have an obvious organization. Frequently none of the students in my first or second year writing class has ever produced an essay on a historical, political, or scientific topic during their high school years, judging from the comments they make. Too, copying is widespread and must be chronic at the high school level where undertrained teachers freqently cannot tell the difference between a copied essay and a student essay.
[Taiwan] [English] [ESL in Taiwan]
1 Comments Labels: Education in Taiwan, English, ESL, Taiwan
RAND Corporation report on China's Econ Pressure on Taiwan
Murray Scott Tanner has a new report out at RAND that discusses China's attempts to coerce Taiwan economically. Tanner says that Beijing's economic clout is a tricky weapon to use and cannot always be brought to bear. For example:
Beijing's frustration was dramatically illustrated in the 2004 Taiwan presidential election. The elections proved that widespread forecasts that Taiwan's business leaders and Taiwan voters -- both worried about the poor state of Taiwan's economy and anxious for expanded cross-strait economic relations -- would combine to defeat President Chen Shui-bian were mistaken or at least badly exaggerated.
A major reason why Beijing is having trouble exploiting its economic leverage is that most Taiwan businesspeople have become highly adept at "flying below the radar" politically—keeping their true political inclinations and activities hidden from political leaders in both Taiwan and mainland China, thereby frustrating Beijing's efforts to pressure them into forming a ready-made "lobby" for Beijing's interests. While mainland-invested Taiwan businesspeople have been, for the most part, successful in encouraging their government to loosen economic restrictions on cross-strait ties, the business community has been unwilling or unable to use its political influence to pressure Taipei into making significant political concessions to Beijing.
Taiwan's voters have also frustrated Beijing's forecasters. Although the voters have largely supported candidates who favored improved cross-strait economic ties, it
has not prevented the continuous slide in support for reunification with China on terms that Beijing prefers.
Nor have Taiwan's political leaders sat back passively as Beijing attempted to exploit its burgeoning economic might. President Chen has frequently shown himself to be fairly adept at politically disarming or counterattacking many advocates of a more rapid opening up of cross-strait relations.
Finally, China must reflect upon the potential blowback that large-scale efforts at economic coercion against Taiwan might have upon its own economy and society. Although Taiwan is, overall, more economically dependent upon mainland China than China is on Taiwan, there are key regions and sectors of China's economy that are enormously dependent upon Taiwan investment, and these would likely suffer very badly in the event of a serious cutoff of trade and investment.
The report is 180 pages crammed full of statistics, projections, warnings, and analyses too complex and detailed to go into here. Enjoy it yourself.
[Taiwan] [China] (hat tip to Life, the Universe)
0 Comments Labels: China, economics, Taiwan
No Blast in the Past: How the US killed Taiwan's Nuclear Program
Here's a link I stumbled across today, with discussion and documents, telling the story of how the US snuffed out Taiwan nuclear weapons program in the 1970s.
However much more needs to be learned, these documents provide a telling picture of U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy at work. In particular, they offer an interesting contrast to the U.S.'s planning earlier in the 1960s to impede, even "take out," the PRC's emerging nuclear capability. Although President Kennedy had been interested in using force against Chinese nuclear facilities, his successor, Lyndon Johnson, concluded that military force was too risky. Johnson and his advisers would also find that that economic embargoes were unavailing when an adversary was determined to mobilize the resources needed to create a nuclear deterrent. By contrast, Taiwan was generally responsive to U.S. pressures, although Washington would have to exert them repeatedly. What made Taiwan responsive, of course, was not only that it was a U.S. ally, it was a relatively dependent one. Not surprisingly, Washington had substantially greater capability to discourage the nuclear ambitions of a dependent ally than it had to check those of a strong adversary.
A significant advantage that Washington had in its dealing with Taipei on nuclear issues was that the ROC was relatively transparent both to U.S. and international authorities. Both foreign government officials, e.g., West German diplomats, and elements of the ROC elite were willing to pass on significant intelligence about Taiwan's nuclear plans Important clandestine sources increased the degree of transparency. One such source was the alleged Central Intelligence Agency agent, Col. Chang Hsien-yi, a key INER official, who became famous after he fled Taiwan in 1987. Whether Chang provided intelligence information relevant to the controversies of the early 1970s remains to be seen
The ROC eventually promised to give up nuclear weapons because it didn't want to kill other Chinese.
[Taiwan] [China] [US] [nuclear nonproliferation]
7 Comments Labels: China, nuclear weapons, Taiwan, US, US foreign policy
Daily Links, Feb 25, 2007
Seen on the streets of Taiwan blogs....
Thoth Harris rips the State Department a new one over its treatment of Taiwan tourists and general pro-China standpoint.
Jason breaks down the legislative elections with posts on TSU candidates and hot babes. Great, detailed information here.
Kerim goes to Kerala.
Taoyuan nights goes to town on cheap money.
Hai Tien goes to the most photogenic town in Taiwan, Keelung.
Patrick Cowsill blogs on a US newspaper article from 1946 on the looting of Formosa during the period 1945-7 by the Chiang regime.
Taiwan Airpower lists aviation open houses during 2007.
0 Comments Labels: Taiwan, Taiwan blogs
Marketing and Singing Pics
On Saturday, after geocaching on Friday, The Bushman and I headed off to the Taichung Fish Market, women and children in tow.
The only thing new since my last visit was this shaded walkway...
Sugar cane for juicing.
The Bushman, my wife, and Sheridan
The vendors were setting the food out for lunch, sumptuous colors illuminated by bright flourescent light.
Pick a fish, any fish.
Jurassic Park: the closest we'll ever get.
Lots of big pots of delicious soup.
Cod is not cheap, but it is a lot cheaper here. We also bought a ton of sashimi.
As evening came we went up to Hukou to the Barrio Fiesta to meet friends, eat fried food, drink Red Horse Beer (shouldn't it be Ma Ying-jeou's personal favorite?) and sing like madmen.
Here I sing with one of my closest friends, Jeff.
Michael performs to everyone's amusement. I have to admit I've become a convert to beer and KTV. Hope to see you there soon!
[Taiwan] [Taichung]
1 Comments Labels: fish markets, Markets, Taichung, Taiwan
KMT: Nobody wants the job
Ma Ying-jeou's resignation as Chairman has left some big shoes to fill. Taiwan News reports on the problems the KMT is having finding a replacement:
No one within the Kuomintang has shown any willingness to run for the party chairman post in a by-election tentatively slated for mid-April or early May, not even acting Chairman Wu Po-hsiung, KMT Secretary-General Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) said yesterday.
Wu Po-hsiung is a Hakka from a faction in Taoyuan. Wu Den-yih is the former mayor of Kaohsiung, whom DPP stalwart and likely Presidential candidate Frank Hsieh sent scurrying from office before taking over to make large-scale improvements in the city. The article then goes on to give the reactions from the two major sides in the struggle, the Party Machine represented by Lien Chan and his protege Wang Jin-pyng, and the forces of former Chairman Ma Ying-jeou.
KMT Lawmaker Wu Chih-yang, Wu Po-hsiung's son, categorically denied the media rumors that his father is gearing up to run for the party's chair.
Wu Chih-yang said that "the top priority for my father now is building party unity and pushing Ma and Wang to discuss their presidential rivalry."
According to lawmaker Hsu Shu-po, "it would be best" if Lien were to be handed the KMT chairmanship without having to take part in the by-election, and he called for members of the KMT to support this idea.
Wu Po-hsiung has yet to make public any intention to run for the KMT chairmanship, and Ma's aides had better not to speculate over the issue, Hsu said.
Lawmaker Wu Yu-shen, a protege of Ma, argued that Lien should have to run in the by-election in accordance with the party's mechanism if he is interested in assuming the KMT chairmanship.
"Whoever wants to become KMT chairman must follow the party's system and get elected through the by-election in line with the party's reform efforts," he said.
If Lien Chan ascends to the position, which seems likely, his prospects for a third presidential run will improve markedly, and so will those of legislative speaker Wang Jin-pyng. Traditionally the Chairmanship of the KMT is enormously powerful, a key position for placing supporters in key posts in the party, and for gaining access to party resources.
Note that the Ma side prefers elections, the Lien side wants him to simply ascend to the post. Because of longstanding cultural habits of deference to older authority -- in this case, Lien Chan, the honorary chairman of the KMT and a party elder and insider -- it is likely that no one will declare until Lien himself makes clear his position.
[Taiwan] [KMT] [Ma Ying-jeou] [2008 Presidential Election]
1 Comments Labels: 2008 Presidential Election, KMT, Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan
Shih Betrays Again
Former DPP Chairman and turncoat Shih Ming-te, who recently led the anti-Chen protests in Taiwan, is off to the US, going back on his promise to remain in isolation....
Some of the remaining members of the self-styled "Million Voices Against Corruption" campaign were outraged to discover that their headquarters on Chongqing S Road has been closed without warning and that their erstwhile leader has left the country, the Chinese-language Apple Daily reported yesterday.
About 10 protesters gathered outside the locked metal door to protest on Wednesday, but were dispersed after campaign leaders called the police.
The office was closed just days after former Democratic Progressive Party chairman Shih Ming-teh (施明德), who had pledged to "imprison" himself in his apartment until President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) left office, traveled to the US on Feb. 15, reportedly for medical treatment.
Campaign spokesperson Chang Fu-chung (張富忠) said yesterday that Shih had undergone surgery for liver cancer.
Shih also plans to stop in Japan for media interviews on his way home early next month.
Who didn't predict this would happen? Everyone but the dupes who forked over $100.
8 Comments Labels: Taiwan
Jim Mann in Seattle for Booksigning
Perry at Taiwan Focus passed around this book signing news for the Seattle Area:
For those in Seattle Washington USA Jim Mann will stop in Seattle on Monday, March 5 for a discussion and book signing at the University Book Store..If you want more information you can call the book store at (206) 634-3400.
Here's the information:
Monday • March 5 • 7pm
James Mann
The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression (VIKING)
Discussion & Book Signing
University District Store
What if, after all the talk of capitalist free markets bringing open, free democracy to China, it doesn't happen? What if instead it remains an unyielding Leninist system unwilling to stop its abuse of human rights and hold free elections? James Mann follows this provocative line of thought in his newest book.
[Taiwan] [China] [US] [democracy]
1 Comments Labels: China, democracy, Taiwan, US
What good things could we find on our weekend?
I spent this weekend hanging out with The Bushman in Taichung and Hukou. So expect more pics tomorrow....
Explosives are an important component of a fun Taiwan weekend...
Fireworks arrayed on a roadside table.
A local alley.
Taichung, Taiyuan Rd.
Michael's friend and my wife enjoy a hearty laugh. We had originally planned to go geocaching on Tatu Mountain on the west side of Taichung, but when Michael fired up his GPS receiver, it showed a geocache less than 1 km away, near the famous Wind Moving Stone in Ta-ken. The stone no longer moves, thanks to the government's decision to "return the stone to its natural state" by cementing it in place. But the cache was there. So we headed up the hill...
Slowly we made our way up the hellish log steps...
Michael heads up.
Michael and Hui-chen take a break.
It was a crowded day at the top. My son attempts to locate the geocache with Michael's GPS.
Sheridan looks on.
Michael shows the kids how the GPS works.
I won't show you where the cache was. Here my daughter inspects its contents. You're supposed to leave a trinket, and take something out.
Each cache has a book and a pencil so that visitors can leave a record of their names, the date, and what was put in and taken out. Here is an entry from those who have gone before.
Carefully we re-wrap the plastic box in the plastic bags so it will be safe from the elements.
Returning back down the hill, we ponder this oddity: a crossbow bolt impaled on a tree. I thought crossbows were illegal here.....
At the base of the hill are several country KTVs. On a Saturday they were going full blast and the road was lined with cars. You can here them for at least a kilometer in any direction. So much for fantasies of bucolic quiet.
Some enthusiasts had even erected an outdoor system with absolutely gigantic speakers.
In the evening, it was out to the local restaurant, where we ordered way too much food...
But ate it anyway....
UPDATE: The Bushman's account of our journey, with excellent pics.
[Taiwan] [geocache] [Taichung] [geocaching]
0 Comments Labels: geocache, hiking, Taiwan
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The Gundam franchise has had What Could Have Beens aplenty:
The original Mobile Suit Gundam would have had the original RX-78-2 Gundam destroyed not by the Zeong, but by a grunt unit. As well, Char would have taken up a unit known as the Kikeroga and used it to drop Luna II on Earth, predating his Axis asteroid drop by 13 years.
Another interesting turn of events was the case of Miharu, the Zeon spy girl that became Kai's love interest. According to source books, she was originally going to be a member of the Zabi family!
Another was that the meeting between Degwin Sodo Zabi and General Revil would have been much different had the series been allowed to be fully completed: they would have met on the White Base and during the meeting, Degwin would have spotted Sayla and, recognizing her as Zeon Zum Daikun's daughter Artesia, would break down and beg for forgiveness, revealing that he indeed murdered Zeon.
Yoshiyuki Tomino wanted the Gundam to be all-white like a Star Wars stormtrooper, a notion vetoed by the producers, who wanted kid-friendly primary colors.
At one point, there were plans to make a manga known as MSX, set a few years after the One Year War and featuring a whole new slew of Mobile Suits. However, it ended up getting canned when Zeta Gundam was announced.
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ was supposed to have Char reappear and lead the rebellion against Haman Karn, but when Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack got greenlit, Glemy Toto replaced him.
Judau Ashta ended up as a fairly stock All-Loving Hero. In the original draft however he was more readily violent and out for himself and his gang. While this personality is arguably more fitting for a street child surviving by their wits like Judau, it didn't mesh well with the comedic and lighthearted tone they wanted for ZZ. Ironically the series took a Darker and Edgier turn midway through.
As well, there are a number of abandoned Mobile Suit ideas as to what could have shown up. Included were a G-Defensor Mk-II (the original destroyed at the end of Zeta), two different Gundam Mk-IIIs (one of which was a contender for the main hero unit. A Mk-III would later become a Mobile Suit Variation), and a Double Zeta Gundam which utilized various combiner parts, which suggest that they had different, almost Super Robot-like ideas for the suits.
Speaking of Char's Counterattack, Tomino had originally proposed a different version that was rejected (said proposal was later published as a novel titled Beltorchika's Children); it would've featured Beltorchika Irma taking Chan Agi's place (although unlike Chan, she would've survived) and being pregnant with Amuro's child, an entirely different mobile suit for Char to pilot (the Nightengale ), and Quess would've been killed accidentally by Hathaway Noah, leading into Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash.
Mobile Suit Gundam F91 was supposed to have been a full-fledged series, but was shortened into a movie instead. While the Crossbone Gundam manga answered several questions, the question remains as to what the series could have been if it went that way.
This happened with Victory Gundam: the titular Gundam was to be introduced in the fourth episode instead of the first. However, thanks to the new Bandai management wanting the Gundam to appear from the start, the fourth episode was broadcast first, much to Tomino's consternation. It happened again with Gundam SEED, which was originally to follow the 'Big Bang' aftermath of ∀ Gundam, tying into the UC timeline and, as an interview said, "planting the seed for the future". The concept was not followed up on by Fukuda, however, and, once again, Tomino was not happy about it. Most recently, it happened yet again with the revelation that Mizushima wanted Gundam 00 to be originally set in the UC timeline, a proposition Sunrise turned down.
After Victory, reportedly the plan was to have a UC series called Polka Gundam, focused a struggle between people on Mars attempting to get back to Earth and Earthlings; however, as Victory underperformed, Bandai opted to go with a series that would be a safer bet, choosing Mobile Fighter G Gundam (likely due to the popularity of Dragon Ball Z at the time). However, the ideas in the series were likely reused in the Crossbone Gundam Manga, ∀ Gundam, and possibly Mobile Suit Gundam AGE.
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: In one of his artbooks, mechanical designer Kunio Okawara revealed his original designs for the Gundams. Deathscythe, which hailed from Europe, had more Gothic design elements like a gargoyle head on the scythe (which had a metal blade at one point) and a large shield shaped like a coffin lid. Meanwhile, Heavyarms was the American Gundam and had a clown motif; Okawara, realizing this was too silly, changed its motif to "the American military", producing the familiar Gatling- and missile-laden design that would remain even after Trowa was made the European member of the team. Hajime Katoki would end up incorporating gothic elements into his redesign of the the Deathscythe Hell Custom (including a stylized gargoyle-head design on the scythe) in Endless Waltz.
Out of the main cast, the character that went through the most changes was Wu Fei. At various points in the creative process he was African rather than Chinese, had the Newtype power to Detect Evilnote This was seemingly late enough in the process that some official merchandise, such as pencil boards, still list him as a Newtype, and was going to be voiced by Wataru Takagi instead of Ryuzou Ishino. Takagi would go on to play The Hero of the next series.
While Zechs is infamous as the series' resident Char Clone, Noin was almost a Garma Clone, being created as a much more sinister character. The only vestige of Garma!Noin that remains in the final version of the show is the Taurus, which was originally meant to be her personal MS and designed with the keywords "sleek and sinister".
Among the other characters, Zechs originally kept his Peacecraft surname even when masked ("Merquise" came along later in the process), Treize had a character design highly reminiscent of Gihren Zabi (hard to imagine him being Estrogen Brigade bait like that), and Lady Une was conceived as a naive country girl who was in love with Treize and did her best to impress him.
Had After War Gundam X not tanked and got its full 49 episodes, Dark Action Girl Ennil El would have gotten her own Gundam-esque Mobile Suit, the Esperansa II.
Speaking of Turn-A, Tomino didn't just want all the Gundam series used in this series, he wanted to use ALL the mecha series he created, including Ideon and Daitarn 3. That was shot down.
Gundam SEED had a number of things planned for the second half of the series, including having Flay pilot the Strike Rouge as propoganda material for the Earth Alliance, Flay and Sai dying in an attempt to save the Archangel from a bomb and even killing just about everyone save Athrun (who'd lose a leg). This never happened due to the immense popularity of the Seed characters among the viewers.
And a close fight between Strike Freedom and Destiny in the Gundam SEED Destiny finale, both terribly damaged from all the fighting.
Also from SEED Destiny was the rumor that Neo Roanoke would pilot the N Dagger N, an MSV-based suit based off of the Blitz Gundam. Instead, he rode in on the Exus.
Speaking of SEED Destiny, the original names for the Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice were the "Super Freedom" and "Knight Justice", respectively. In the case of the former, it would have explained the "Super DRAGOON" and "Super Lacerta" names.
Shiho Hahnenfuss was to have been voiced by Nami Tamaki (who sang one of the theme songs in both SEED and SEED Destiny), but she declined the role.
In Gundam 00, the incredibly feminine Tieria Erde was at one point planned to be a beautiful woman dressing like a man. That screaming you hear is the many straight male fans of the series that got trapped by Tieria during the series run, particularly during his single episode as an incredibly hot Wholesome Crossdresser. Interestingly, despite this plot point being dropped early, there is still arguably some foreshadowing for it in early episodes of the first season, such as the name and visual metaphors his gundam presents, Tieria's feminine appearence multiplying several thousand fold when he's upset, and the Pronoun Trouble he experiences after revealing his extremely masculine gundam's inner female form that dips in to the gender neutral. Sadly, fans lost a probable Ms. Fanservice and a chance to get a female "main" pilot in the series in exchange for what's probably the closest we're going to get for a canonically gay Gundam pilot.
Years before Gundam Wing came to American shores, Sunrise released a pilot for a series called Doozy Bots, which had a scientist named Professor Doozy turn a bunch of stereotype high school students into SD versions of various heroic Mobile Suits to battle laughable versions of Zeon-based Mobile Suits.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans was in development as early as 2009, but due to a combination of director Tatsuyuki Nagai's involvement with other projects (Waiting in the Summer, Ano Hana The Flower We Saw That Day, A Certain Scientific Railgun) and Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, it was stuck in Development Hell until 2014.
There was actually a live-action Gundam planned in 1983 ! The ambitious retelling of Mobile Suit Gundam would have done away with a lot of the original lore, make it a little more akin to Star Trek, make Amuro and Char brothers and the massive threat being a runaway AI called "Ziong".
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Banks and noncommercial organizations do not always succeed in the extrajudicial settlement of problems of nonpayment by counteragents. In some cases, a creditor cannot avoid using the procedure of collection through the courts.
Can collection through the courts be effective? Yes, undoubtedly, since collection is secured by state enforcement power, its legal regulation is established and, on the basis of an effective decision by the court, a creditor may subsequently initiate bankruptcy proceedings for the debtor. There is also the possibility of coming to a peaceful settlement at any stage of the commercial proceeding.
Debt collection through the courts may be considered effective if, as a result of consideration of the case by the court, the creditor is awarded the claimed amount and the amount of time in considering the case does not exceed the term established by law or a reasonable term.
It is important to not make mistakes during the preparation stage. Very often the maturity of obligation under an agreement does not mean that the party, which has not fulfilled its obligation in due time, is deemed to be a debtor. In such cases, the creditor should take certain actions provided by the law, which will result in the debtor becoming liable under its obligation. For instance, in the case of a loan agreement, one should forward a claim for loan repayment, and in the case of a bill, one should make the bill payable and protest the bill. Only after that may a creditor apply to the courts.
The same applies to a situation in which the creditor is entitled to claim early repayment of debt. Prior to claiming early collection of debt through the courts, the creditor should give the respective notice to the debtor and present proof of this notification to the court. If the claim procedure for resolution of disputes is provided for by agreement or by the law, then forwarding preliminary notice of claims to the debtor is obligatory. Otherwise the claim will be rejected.
1) Arraignment of a foreign citizen as a defendant entails increase of the term of consideration of the case because of the necessity of notifying the foreign citizen of the time and place of proceeding. Therefore, filing one claim against the Russian and the foreign legal entity is unreasonable.
2) The law does not prohibit collection fr om the borrower and its guarantors under separate proceedings. The law provides the respective rules in the case of unjust enrichment with simultaneous enforcement of two judicial acts under one and the same debt. Therefore, in some cases, making separate claims to debtor and each guarantor would be more effective. This allows for the minimization of counteraction and for the reduction of the term of consideration of the case. Should all claims to the debtor and the guarantors be made in one application, each of the defendants may counteract the collection, including by making counterclaims, disputing agreements in separate claims, or changing his location, which may considerably delay the case.
3) Nonperformance of obligations by the debtor is the reason for taking recourse upon the subject of mortgage. The mortgagee has the right to take recourse upon the subject of the mortgage, if the obligation secured by the mortgage has not been performed at its maturity, except in a case wh ere such a right will emerge later in accordance with law or agreement, or the debt may be collected earlier in accordance with the law. No other conditions for taking recourse upon the subject of the mortgage are provided by existing legislation.
Therefore, taking recourse upon the mortgaged property is possible under a separate claim, without previously making a debt claim to the main debtor and issuance of the respective judgment.
Under the filing of claims and subsequent consideration of cases, it is necessary, with respect to the defendants' behavior, to use the possibility of consideration and separation of claims provided by the procedural legislation for the purposes of effective justice.
If defendants file separate claims on nullity or ineffectiveness of respective agreements — or if they demand their amending or termination, which is often done with the sole purpose of delaying the case — it should be noted that according to explanations of the Plenum of HAC RF of 23.07.2009 N 57, the filing of such claims does not provide a reason for suspending the debt collection proceeding, and the defendant is entitled to object or make a counterclaim.
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Protection from glutathione depletion by a glyconutritional mixture of saccharides
D. Busbee, R. Barhoumi, R. C. Burghardt, C. Gauntt, B. McAnalley, H. R. McDaniel
A complex glyconutritional (GN) mixture of mono-, di- and polysaccharides was investigated to assess its capacity to protect two different types of rodent cells, rat hepatocytes and mouse splenocytes, from depletion of glutathione by a sulfhydryl-reactive mycotoxin, patulin, or by coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) infection, respectively. Rat hepatocytes were treated with the GN mixture in vitro or received carrier medium only prior to treatment with patulin. When treated with the GN mixture prior to patulin exposure hepatocytes demonstrated protection against depletion of intracellular reduced glutathione (GSH). Cells treated with the GN for up to 15 hours prior to patulin exposure showed no increase in protection of GSH above that demonstrated by cells treated for 3 hours. Mice were infected with CVB3 and one treatment group was injected intraperitoneally with the GN once a week. Animals were splenectomized each month over a ten month treatment for analysis of spleen monocytic cells. Splenocytes from mice treated with the GN mixture did not show the virally-associated depletion of intracellular GSH or damage to pancreatic acini observed in CVB3 inoculated but non-GN-treated mice. Animals from which spleen cells were taken for analysis showed no decrease in anti-CVB3 antibodies and no decrease in viral titers to accompany or explain the normal levels of intracellular GSH. These data strongly suggest that a complex mixture of exogenous saccharides exerts a protective effect on liver cells in vitro in that the cells are protected from chemically initiated depletion of intracellular GSH, and on spleen cells in vivo in that the cells are protected against a CVB3-initiated decrease in intracellular GSH and increase in pancreatic acini damage.
Profundice en los temas de investigación de 'Protection from glutathione depletion by a glyconutritional mixture of saccharides'. En conjunto forman una huella única.
Depletion Medicine and Dentistry 100%
Coxsackievirus B3 Medicine and Dentistry 100%
Cells Medicine and Dentistry 100%
Mouse Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 80%
Saccharide Food Science 80%
Patulins Food Science 80%
Patulin Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 80%
Glutathione Medicine and Dentistry 60%
Busbee, D., Barhoumi, R., Burghardt, R. C., Gauntt, C., McAnalley, B., & McDaniel, H. R. (1999). Protection from glutathione depletion by a glyconutritional mixture of saccharides. AGE, 22(4), 159-165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-999-0018-z
Protection from glutathione depletion by a glyconutritional mixture of saccharides. / Busbee, D.; Barhoumi, R.; Burghardt, R. C. et al.
En: AGE, Vol. 22, N.º 4, 10.1999, p. 159-165.
Busbee, D, Barhoumi, R, Burghardt, RC, Gauntt, C, McAnalley, B & McDaniel, HR 1999, 'Protection from glutathione depletion by a glyconutritional mixture of saccharides', AGE, vol. 22, n.º 4, pp. 159-165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-999-0018-z
Busbee D, Barhoumi R, Burghardt RC, Gauntt C, McAnalley B, McDaniel HR. Protection from glutathione depletion by a glyconutritional mixture of saccharides. AGE. 1999 oct.;22(4):159-165. doi: 10.1007/s11357-999-0018-z
Busbee, D. ; Barhoumi, R. ; Burghardt, R. C. et al. / Protection from glutathione depletion by a glyconutritional mixture of saccharides. En: AGE. 1999 ; Vol. 22, N.º 4. pp. 159-165.
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Statement by the President of the Policy & Resources Committee
Mr Bailiff
Members will recall that the Policy & Resources Committee last made a statement to the States on Brexit - and the Bailiwick's preparations for the end of the transition period - as recently as 25 November. The Committee had anticipated and hoped that, by now, there would be a Policy Letter for the States to consider: to note the implications of the end of the transition period for Guernsey and the Bailiwick and to make any necessary decisions.
However, whilst that Policy Letter has been drafted, it has not yet been finalised because the negotiations between the UK and the EU have still not concluded. Given the status of the negotiations, the Committee thought that it was appropriate to provide another update to the States.
Various deadlines for the end of the negotiations have come and gone. The latest were associated with a meeting between the UK Prime Minister and the President of the European Commission last week - and a review of the status of the negotiations on 13th December. On that day, the UK and EU issued joint statements[1] to say that "We think it is responsible at this point to go the extra mile. We have accordingly mandated our negotiators to continue the talks and to see whether an agreement can even at this late stage be reached". No specific date for the next review has been made public yet, albeit I and my colleagues have just received a note from our civil servants to say perhaps this weekend might be the deadline - but who knows.
One date is certain at the moment: at 11pm on 31 December 2020, the Brexit transition period will end. This will impact businesses who trade with the EU and individuals that wish to travel and work within the EU.
Many of the issues relating to the rights of British and EU citizens were settled with the Withdrawal Agreement, which was ratified in January, and that agreement will remain in place. The agreement being negotiated by the UK now relates to the future economic partnership with the EU: the terms of trade between the EU and the UK and the terms on fisheries.
Whilst it has not been possible during the negotiations to provide you with frequent or detailed updates, due to the sensitive nature of those discussions, the Committee has, and continues to, firmly and diligently represent the Bailiwick's interests to the UK in line with the States Resolutions from June 2016[2] and January 2020[3].
I don't intend to reiterate all the points made in the statement of 25th November, but I want to highlight the following.
While the UK and EU have stated their intentions to seek a trade deal, the time available to consider and ratify any agreement before the 31st December reduces every single day, every single minute. The final decision about whether the islands will be included in the scope of any UK-EU trade agreement will be for each of the Bailiwick's three assemblies. When the negotiations have concluded, the Committee intends to finalise and publish the Policy Letter for consideration by this assembly before the end of the year. The Policy & Finance Committees of Alderney and Sark have agreed to use the same Policy Letter, with Propositions tailored for their jurisdictions.
Given the continued uncertainty over the final outcome of the negotiations, as a responsible government we continue to plan for all potential outcomes. With only a short time remaining, the States continues to prepare for the risks associated with what's termed a No Further Negotiated Outcome ('NFNO') where there is no UK-EU trade agreement by the end of the year, or some other situation or reason where the Bailiwick is not included. We continue to provide information about the changes that will happen at the end of the transition period as and when it becomes available. That includes updating the Brexit-related content on the States' website. The governance arrangements to manage the issues caused by COVID-19 have been adapted to help manage the Bailiwick's response to the end of the transition period.
The Bailiwick is already a third country to the EU for most purposes, including in relation to financial services. So, even if an agreement is not reached before the end of the year, there will be limited changes for many Bailiwick businesses.
However, the end of the transition period will bring changes in the rules for trade in goods with more checks at the border than there are in place today. So it is reasonable to anticipate some manageable disruption to some supply chains whether or not a UK-EU trade agreement is reached at the end of the transition period as the UK leaves the EU Customs Union and Single Market. Modelling has shown that if there is no trade deal there might be a temporary lack of choice or delays for some EU foodstuffs, but no shortage of food overall. The community is resilient and tolerant as it is well used to weather-related disruption. I want to remind the community that there is no need to stockpile or panic buy. Any stockpiling just disrupts supply chains and denies other people access to essential goods.
The States of Guernsey has put various measures in place to help with stability and continuity at the end of the transition period. That includes the work that extended the Bailiwick's territorial seas in July 2019; a customs arrangement signed in 2018 with the UK that comes into effect at the end of the transition period; and the extension of the UK's membership of the World Trade Organization[4] to the Bailiwick from the end of the transition period so, at a minimum, Bailiwick businesses can trade using those international rules and tariffs. New requirements for workers coming into the islands and for islanders wishing to travel to, or work in, the EU have also been put in place for when free movement ends at the end of the year.
One of the most controversial and sensitive parts of the negotiations is about fisheries. Let me assure the community of this: The Bailiwick is seeking a stable and predictable relationship that works for the specific interests of the islands. That includes retaining access to nearby ports, access to EU waters and recognising that reciprocal arrangements may be necessary. The relationship must ensure that the islands' fisheries are sustainable through controls on any vessels that we allow to fish in our waters, with licensing and management undertaken by the Bailiwick.
The Policy & Resources Committee continues to do all that it can, together with other States Committees and the other islands, to ensure that the Bailiwick is ready for the end of the transition period and for the new relationships with the EU and the wider world - whatever those relationships might be. As the negotiations are continuing, we still do not know yet the extent that the Bailiwick may be, or wish to be, involved in any resulting agreement. We are as prepared as we can be to deal with whatever the end of the negotiations may bring. I would strongly encourage businesses, if they have not already done so, to plan for the changes and for the possibility that a new trade agreement will not be in place by 1st January 2021.
With just a fortnight or so left to the end of the transition period, the timescales are challenging and there will be a need to maintain quick and flexible working by, and between, governments and businesses to ensure that the final pieces of the jigsaw are put into place in time - but I am confident as ever, with this Bailiwick and the people that live therein, that we can achieve that together.
[1] A joint statement from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen - Published on www.gov.uk on 13 December 2020
[2] 'Urgent Proposition' at the States' Meeting of 29 June 2016 (P.2016/19) and the Resolutions
[3] Billet d'État II of 2020 and Resolutions


Jessica Chastain has starred in six films this year, including Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or-winning meditation The Tree of Life (as Brad Pitt's wife); the Nazi-hunting thriller The Debt (as Helen Mirren's younger Mossad-agent self); and the summer blockbuster The Help (as a social outcast who befriends her black maid in 1960s Mississippi). Her résumé is bursting, in other words – and yet she still drives a 14-year-old Toyota, calls her mom before she makes major purchases (like she did with her car), rides the subway and works out at the local gym.
Pre-2011 – a year The New York Times has dubbed "the Jessica Chastain film festival" – the L.A.-based actress, a Juilliard grad who has shot 11 films since 2006, spent four years convincing her family that she was actually employed.
This winter, Chastain will appear in the Depression-era crime drama The Wettest County in the World and an adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. And she's booked for the foreseeable future: In 2012, she'll star on Broadway (the show's title hasn't been announced) and play a punk-band bassist in the horror film Mamá; come 2013, she'll star in an as-yet-untitled sci-fi epic opposite Tom Cruise.
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Q: How to resize charts to fit the parent container with Google API So I created a combo chart using the visualization API from Google, but im having problems resizing said chart to fit its parent container

That's how it looks on the website, The parent container's width is the one hovered. And i want the chart to fill the entire parent's width.
I have a panel system, in which each tab will have a different chart. the first one works like a charm, I dont have a problem with that one it fills the parent's container width correctly, but the second one is the one im having problems with.
Here's the HTML

And here's the js file to draw the charts
google.load("visualization", "1", {packages:["corechart", 'bar']});
google.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);
function drawChart() {
    var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([
        ['Año', 'Nacimiento', 'Reconocimiento', 'Adopción Simple', 'Matrimonios', 'Divorcios', 'Defunciones', 'Sentencias', 'Actas Foráneas', 'Promedio'],
        ['1997',  39520,732,39,10332,489,6033,88,0,7154],
        ['1998',  39113,728,61,9908,607,6261,82,0,7095],
        ['1999',  41007,825,58,10476,611,6103,74,0,7394],
        ['2000',  40337,898,30,10479,685,6198,80,0,7338],
        ['2001',  38132,847,10,9856,849,6288,78,0,7008],
        ['2002',  36933,856,7,9532,826,6425,96,0,6834],
        ['2003',  38688,858,63,9600,915,6731,139,0,7124],
        ['2004',  39612,919,40,9088,962,6674,199,0,7187],
        ['2005',  40985,1053,6,8785,1037,6874,215,0,7369],
        ['2006',  38863,1031,28,9023,1063,6954,164,0,7141],
        ['2007',  42757,1226,0,9318,1177,7169,3,0,8596],
        ['2008',  41310,1268,1,8842,1224,7676,1,0,7540],
        ['2009',  41155,1227,4,8185,1136,7757,5,0,7434],
        ['2010',  10867,1258,3,8268,1200,8250,3,330,7522],
        ['2011',  41760,1314,2,8977,1356,8077,5,987,7810],
        ['2012',  41553,1386,4,9240,1400,8622,7,782,7874],
        ['2013',  40953,1415,0,9726,1603,9107,11,622,7930],
        ['2014',  40981,1305,0,9713,1516,9349,5,619,7936],
        ['2015',  27017,887,0,6342,1227,3085,3,398,5245],
    ]);

var options = {

    titleTextStyle: {color:'white'},
    backgroundColor: {fill: 'transparent'},
    chartArea: {width:'85%',height:'65%'},
    vAxis: {textStyle:{color:'white'}},
    legend:{textStyle: {color: 'white'}, position: 'bottom'},
    height: 350,
    hAxis: {textStyle:{color:'white'}},
    seriesType: 'bars',
    series: {8 : {type: 'line'}}
};

var chart = new google.visualization.ComboChart(document.getElementById('anual-bar-chart'));
chart.draw(data, options);
var data2 = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([
    ['Mes', 'Nacimiento', 'Defunciones', 'Matrimonios', 'Divorcios', 'Reconocimientos', 'Adopción Simple', 'Sentencias', 'Actas Foráneas', 'Promedio'],
    ['Ene-15',3865,897,586,130,138,0,0,38,0],
    ['Feb-15',3322,793,818,166,143,0,0,62,0],
    ['Mar-15',3314,802,745,156,88,0,0,52,0],
    ['Abr-15',3289,714,653,159,106,0,1,35,0],
    ['May-15',3153,718,662,155,20,0,0,37,0],
    ['Jun-15',3349,728,901,162,103,0,0,42,0],
    ['Jul-15',3254,697,797,168,10,0,2,70,0],
    ['Ago-15',3462,736,1182,131,123,0,0,62,0],

]);

var options2 = {

    titleTextStyle: {color:'white'},
    backgroundColor: {fill: 'transparent'},
    chartArea: {width:'85%',height:'65%'},
    vAxis: {textStyle:{color:'white'}},
    legend:{textStyle: {color: 'white'}, position: 'bottom'},
    height: 350,

    hAxis: {textStyle:{color:'white'}},
    seriesType: 'bars',
    series: {8 : {type: 'line'}}
};

var chart2 = new google.visualization.ComboChart(document.getElementById('semester-1-chart'));
chart2.draw(data2, options2);
}

The one that's named char2 at the bottom is the chart that im having problems with. I put the other one for u to see that I'm using the same configuration, but somehow it's displaying the charts different.
Can someone tell me what can I do, cause I've been looking around and there's nothing. I tried resizing the "chartArea" configuration that the api mentioned, but that only takes out the labels, but doesn't fit the parents container.

A: Google Charts don't resize automatically. They have to be redrawn when things resize (and showing/hiding is a resize).
I believe the code below, which I ripped off this question should solve your problem (you will need jquery too):
//create trigger to resizeEnd event
$(window).resize(function() {
    if(this.resizeTO) clearTimeout(this.resizeTO);
    this.resizeTO = setTimeout(function() {
        $(this).trigger('resizeEnd');
    }, 500);
});

//redraw graph when window resize is completed
$(window).on('resizeEnd', function() {
    drawChart(data);
});

A: I wonder if my suggestion will solve your problem...  Shouldn't you make two separate calls to draw the graphics?  Perhaps your first bar chart is influencing your second because you have them bundled into one function call.  For one of my projects I needed to deliver a piechart and a geochart and so I created a separate function to call them individually.
Please try this:
function drawCharts(){
    anualBarChart();
    semester1Chart();
}
function anualBarChart(){
    var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([
        ['Año', 'Nacimiento', 'Reconocimiento', 'Adopción Simple', 'Matrimonios', 'Divorcios', 'Defunciones', 'Sentencias', 'Actas Foráneas', 'Promedio'],
        ['1997',  39520,732,39,10332,489,6033,88,0,7154],
        ['1998',  39113,728,61,9908,607,6261,82,0,7095],
        ['1999',  41007,825,58,10476,611,6103,74,0,7394],
        ['2000',  40337,898,30,10479,685,6198,80,0,7338],
        ['2001',  38132,847,10,9856,849,6288,78,0,7008],
        ['2002',  36933,856,7,9532,826,6425,96,0,6834],
        ['2003',  38688,858,63,9600,915,6731,139,0,7124],
        ['2004',  39612,919,40,9088,962,6674,199,0,7187],
        ['2005',  40985,1053,6,8785,1037,6874,215,0,7369],
        ['2006',  38863,1031,28,9023,1063,6954,164,0,7141],
        ['2007',  42757,1226,0,9318,1177,7169,3,0,8596],
        ['2008',  41310,1268,1,8842,1224,7676,1,0,7540],
        ['2009',  41155,1227,4,8185,1136,7757,5,0,7434],
        ['2010',  10867,1258,3,8268,1200,8250,3,330,7522],
        ['2011',  41760,1314,2,8977,1356,8077,5,987,7810],
        ['2012',  41553,1386,4,9240,1400,8622,7,782,7874],
        ['2013',  40953,1415,0,9726,1603,9107,11,622,7930],
        ['2014',  40981,1305,0,9713,1516,9349,5,619,7936],
        ['2015',  27017,887,0,6342,1227,3085,3,398,5245],
    ]);

    var options = {
        titleTextStyle: {color:'white'},
        backgroundColor: {fill: 'transparent'},
        chartArea: {width:'85%',height:'65%'},
        vAxis: {textStyle:{color:'white'}},
        legend:{textStyle: {color: 'white'}, position: 'bottom'},
        height: 350,
        hAxis: {textStyle:{color:'white'}},
        seriesType: 'bars',
        series: {8 : {type: 'line'}}
    };

    var chart = new google.visualization.ComboChart(document.getElementById('anual-bar-chart'));
    chart.draw(data, options);
}
function semester1Chart(){
    var data2 = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([
        ['Mes', 'Nacimiento', 'Defunciones', 'Matrimonios', 'Divorcios', 'Reconocimientos', 'Adopción Simple', 'Sentencias', 'Actas Foráneas', 'Promedio'],
        ['Ene-15',3865,897,586,130,138,0,0,38,0],
        ['Feb-15',3322,793,818,166,143,0,0,62,0],
        ['Mar-15',3314,802,745,156,88,0,0,52,0],
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google.setOnLoadCallback(drawCharts);

The more I think about it, this shouldn't make a difference.  Let me know if it is a bust and I'll remove it rather than copping down votes.

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