Cairo, Feb 5 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Egyptian activists protesting against the government of President Hosni Mubarak have launched their own newspaper to disseminate information about their ongoing revolt."The newspaper is just a single sheet and is called 'Maidan Tahrir'," said Raed Jaber, editor of Anbaa Mosku, the Arabic-language version of the Moscow News.
He added that the opposition is also trying to set up a radio station.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters Friday gathered on Tahrir Square demanding Mubarak's resignation on what they dubbed the "day of departure".
The 82-year-old president, who ruled the country for three decades, said he was worried that his departure would plunge the country into chaos.
Demonstrators, who have been protesting since Jan 25, have set up a field hospital and spend the nights in tents. Volunteers bring in food and water and special brigades clean up the rubbish.
The situation is calm at the moment though Arab TV channels have reported a few clashes between pro- and anti-government supporters.
The UN said at least 300 people have died in Egypt since the protests began. The Egyptian health ministry said some 5,000 people have been injured.


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Following in MLK's Footsteps Means Resisting Christian Nationalism
King's life gives us a blueprint to fight the religious right.
By Nicholas Powers | Truthout
WN: In the excellent article highlighted below, the author writes:
Today the theological and political descendants of King and Falwell again fight for the direction of the nation.
But my friend Allen Harder (with extensive experience doing relief and development work overseas, including in Muslim-dominated cultures), in response to Kristin Kobes du Mez' outstanding book (see my Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation | 2021/06/12–where his longer reflection is found), writes:
The book has also clarified many of my questions about how evangelicals who believe in Jesus could support such misogyny, violence, racism, anti-feminism, etc. etc. It's a cultural phenomenon and not a religious, theological one, albeit undergirded by a contorted understanding of religion. It has also clarified for me that the extent of convictions and practices of patriarchal authoritarianism explains why democratic ideals mean nothing to this crowd and that it is pointless to call them out on these ideals. It's all too clear that religious leaders could endorse the January 6 uprising.
It's a cultural phenomenon and not a religious, theological one, albeit undergirded by a contorted understanding of religion.
I couldn't help but be reminded of comparison between extreme right-wing evangelicalism and extreme right-wing Islam. The parallels between the masculine militancy, absolute patriarchal authority and subordination of women and sexuality can't be missed. When I talked to my wife about this, she also drew a parallel. It must be something to do with far right-wing religion, whether it is Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and even Buddhism. The more right-wing, the less tolerance there is of "the other" and the more likelihood of resorting to violence through power. The culture of violence in right-wing Islam and in right-wing evangelicalism seems remarkably similar.
What astounds me is how little place there is for grace for others. Being convinced that God is unending and unbounded love and grace for all is the only remedy.
The pullquote above summarizes du Mez' presentation.
As a committed–inclusive!–Christian, that point, as made slightly differently in the article highlighted, is crucial. As one section title reads:
The Two Faces of Christ
If our Jesus is not that face of Christ as seen by Dr. King, then we have no clue about what the Gospel is! None whatsoever!
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Martin Luther King Jr. yanked the burnt Ku Klux Klan Christian cross from his front lawn as his child looked on. It was 1960. Many Black families in Atlanta woke to charred crosses left as a warning to civil rights activists.
Sixty-one years later, a Christian nationalist group called Jericho's Road stoked the January 6 insurrection with prayer vigils and marches. A right-wing mob waving flags emblazoned with "Jesus 2020" and "Jesus is My Savior" stormed the Capitol, armed and threatening to kill Democrats and Republicans. Outside, men prayed near a giant cross. A year after the January 6 attempted coup, the Christian far right is more isolated, extreme and preparing to strike again.
White Christian nationalists, the extreme fringe of the religious right, are increasingly turning to violence. They want to make Christianity the state religion, ban abortion, reinforce conservative gender roles and dramatically cut immigration to ensure a white majority. MLK Jr. endured attacks from racist evangelicals, using redemptive suffering and taking the moral high ground to unite a multiracial coalition, the Poor People's Campaign. What worked for him then can work for us today.
King saw Jesus as a revolutionary pacifist.
[C]onservative Christians, according to Pew Research, tend to be white, older, less educated, pray daily, believe in a literal Hell and Heaven, and skew Republican. They also tend to cultivate racist ideas and deny the reality of systemic racism.
On the conservative fringe are Christian nationalists, a toxic brew of American jingoism and Bible thumping. In an interview with The Young Turks, Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, said, "It basically is the idea that America is founded as a Christian nation … we've moved away from that and the right kind of Americans need to take it back … it divides 'us' versus 'them,' the 'pure' from the 'impure' … it is an organized quest for power."
In this biblical struggle, white Christian nationalists imagine themselves as the foot soldiers of Jesus. Secular society looks to them, Stewart said, to be "Satanic. Demonic. Inhuman." It is a theology that is anti-democratic and juvenile. It is a simple-minded story of good and evil that demonizes whoever is different; the gay person, the Muslim, the immigrant. Finally, the unconverted must kneel at the foot of the cross, by court order or force if needed.
[Jerry Falwell] did not publicly advocate violence, but he laid the foundation for Christian nationalism with his mix of racism, patriotism and Bible scholarship.
"We should be proud to be Christian nationalists," boasted Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the latest face of the movement. Today's upsurge of white Christian nationalism is a reaction to the social protests that have rocked the U.S. — Black Lives Matter, the Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage, #MeToo and Occupy Wall Street. Each protest disrupted long accepted power dynamics and exposed the dirty underside of the "American Dream."
In a contest over public support for civil rights, King and Falwell were two faces of U.S. Christianity. King read the same Bible as Falwell, but instead of Falwell's vengeful Jesus, casting sinners into the fiery pit of Hell, King saw Jesus as a revolutionary pacifist.
Each protest disrupted long accepted power dynamics and exposed the dirty underside of the "American Dream."
King's Jesus was a Black Jesus. He loved the poor. He healed the sick. He was willing to break an unjust law for the greater moral good of love. King wrote about unjust laws in his 1963, Letter from Birmingham Jail, "An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust."
King's Jesus did not reduce anyone's humanity to skin color, class or sex. The Christian tradition he represents always transcended the limits of the Bible's text to reach its spirit. In order to make it real, King and the millions who followed him risked their lives and suffered, in hopes to redeem — really rescue — the racists trapped in their hatred.
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Yorkshire has haemorrhaged more than 65,000 manufacturing jobs in the past decade, a new study by GMB has shown.
The figures were discussed at GMB's annual Congress in Plymouth between June 4 and 6.
They show that 65,600 jobs in the sector disappeared from 2006 to 2016, a massive fall of 19% - among the worst in the country.
Between them the lost jobs have meant the region has seen £1.8 billion less paid in manufacturing wages in real-terms.
In 2006 the Yorkshire and Humberside supported 353,000 permanent and temporary manufacturing jobs – almost 15% of the all jobs in the region.
By 2016, that had slumped to just 287,000 or 11% of the total.
GMB demands the Government invests in UK industries and avoid damaging tariffs on British goods to help reverse this dangerous decline.
Neil Derrick, GMB Regional Secretary, said: "Yorkshire is haemorrhaging manufacturing jobs – and it's massive problem for both our workers and our local economy.
"We should cherish our manufacturing sector, but instead successive governments have driven it into the ground through a lack of investment and tendering processes that hamper our homegrown businesses.
"Manufacturing wages are 20% higher than the national average, and the sector is a keystone of the wider economy.
"These are jobs worth fighting for.


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Google+ To Challenge Facebook for Game Developers With Lower Fees [REPORT]
By Sarah Kessler 2011-07-22 10:09:31 UTC
If the 10 million users that still-invite-only Google+ accumulated in just two weeks weren't enough to make Facebook nervous, the latest report about the new social network's gaming platform might. Google will take a smaller percentage of revenue away from game developers than Facebook does, reports All Things D. Google reportedly will also, unlike Facebook, host games on its own servers -- which could make them faster and less buggy. The Google+ code includes mentions of a gaming platform, and Google has reportedly invested as much as $200 million in the dominant social gaming company Zynga. But there's been no official word about if and when the game platform for Google will launch or what it will look like. Google did, however, make in-app payments available to web developers this week. This is a technology that would be required for in-game payments, All Things D points out, and Google is only charging a 5% fee for the service. If Google sticks in this ballpark with its fees for game developers, it will be severely undercutting the industry standard of 30% set by Facebook and Apple.
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Screening in competition at Cannes to rave reviews, Portrait of a Lady on Fire stands out as one of the finest examples of recent French cinema. Director, Céline Sciamma, is a noteworthy filmmaker whose glowing track record includes award-winning titles, Tomboy, which she directed in 2011, and My Life as a Zucchini which she wrote in 2016. With star French actors Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel leading the cast, Portrait is set in the late 18th century and tells a story of obsession that revolves around Marianne, an artist, and Heloise, a reluctant bride to be. The striking film unfolds like a visual ode to centuries of forgotten, disregarded, overwritten female artists and the subjects that inspired them with their mysterious stories. Sciamma left Cannes with both the Best Screenplay award and Queer Palm.
Born in 1978. Sciamma studied French literature at Paris West University Nanterre and subsequently film at La Fémis film school from 2001-2005, majoring in screenwriting. A screenwriter and lecturer, she scored an international theatrical hit in 2007 with her directorial debut, Water Lilies, which premiered at Cannes. Tomboy, her second feature film, won four prizes, among them the Teddy Jury Award at the 2011 Berlinale. Her latest feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, premiered at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival and won the Queer Palm.
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Plaza Mariachi offers family fun from cultures around the world
Parents and grandparents seem to always be looking for an affordable place where active kiddos can release some energy, be entertained and learn a few things —especially on a cold or rainy day, when going to the park or playing in the yard are out of the question.
Welcome to Plaza Mariachi, the multi-cultural entertainment mall and food hall that entrepreneurial couple Mark and Diane Janbakhsh have created inside an abandoned Kroger shopping center on Nolensville Road.
The Latin-focused but increasingly diverse entertainment at Plaza Mariachi goes on day and night, with live music, preschooler story times, belly dancers, acrobatic performances, game nights, dance parties, ethnic restaurants and shopping.
"We want to have cool events outside Hispanic ones," Mark Janbakhsh said. "Cultural entertainment is a huge product, and it is something that doesn't get appreciated" often enough.
"Here we can make it part of a regular offering instead of a once a year event."
New Kid's Saturdays
Plaza Mariachi has been offering multicultural entertainment for almost three years, including a Wednesday morning bilingual story time. It recently added a free weekly Kid's Saturday that takes place 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with a bilingual story time, art, music, dancing, face painting and more for preschoolers through early elementary ages.
Not only do you get a toe-tapping, Spanish/English song and story-filled Saturday morning for the children, but the hall has seating, food and entertainment the grown-ups can enjoy, too.
The Saturday morning family event, started in late January, features either children's entertainer Rachel Rodriquez and her wonderfully interactive "Songs for Little Amigos" music and movement program, or Plaza Mariachi founder Diane Janbakhsh, whose English/Spanish story time comes to life with a dance focus.
Every Saturday is different, one week with children invited to play drums, another offering a special dance lesson, Nashville Public Library's traveling puppet show, jugglers or a musical petting zoo. Most weeks feature visits by popular characters like Mickey and Minnie Mouse, the Lion King or Ninja Turtles.
"It's as much fun for adults as it is for my children ... well almost," said Mary Elizabeth Davis, after she and her husband took their two- and five-year-old sons on a recent Saturday morning outing.
"The boys love it. Fantastic authentic food, live music, dancing, clean restrooms, plenty of room for the children to run around and get the wiggles out," she said.
Davis added "don't tell too many people about it because then it will not longer be our hidden gem."
Another part of the Plaza that little ones enjoy is Tito's, which has a free indoor playground and a pay-as-you-go arcade with games and prizes for the whole family.
Entertainment for all ages
"We have a really good creative team," said Mark Janbakhsh. "That's our secret sauce."
Plaza Mariachi's calendar is jam packed with all age culturally interesting entertainment throughout the week.
There is lunchtime live music most days, with everything from dulcimer to violin to mariachi to classical guitar and Latin jazz, and evenings are filled with everything from music to Mexican games ("Noches Mexicanas"), karaoke, Salsa lessons, belly dancers, concerts and dance parties.
On the weekend, patrons can enjoy performances, such as the high energy acrobatic Beyond Wings Circus and Ballet Folklorico Sol de México.
You can also count on Mariachi Sol Azteca playing music from 1-4 p.m. on Sundays.
The colorful facility, which includes high-tech lighting and sound and an LED dancing robot that the kids adore, features a handful of counter-service restaurants that offer everything from $2.50 tacos to $24 Argentine steaks and kid-friendly chicken tenders and fries. I say go for the tacos, which are a real meal deal.
Most all of the entertainment is family friendly, except for Friday and Saturday nights when the scene changes about 10:30 p.m. to an adult-only venue with varying entertainment on Fridays until 1 a.m. and a Saturday Latin dance club "Bailamos" party that goes on until 2:30 a.m.
Plaza also has some ticketed events including Mexican wrestling, boxing and concerts. There is a full schedule on the Plaza Mariachi website.
A diverse cultural experience
Mark Janbakhsh was born in Iran, and Diane Janbakhsh is Hispanic, but they both grew up in Nashville and want the Plaza to be about more than just Hispanic cultures.
They are moving in that direction with more diverse programs, such as the Chinese New Year festival and a Moscow dance group last week, and this Saturday's African Roots program will celebrate Black History Month with music (including Sankofa) and dance from the various cultures that descended from Africa.
"We want to create a fun environment where we could offer cultural entertainment," Mark Janbakhsh said.
He hopes to take his Plaza Mariachi venue idea to other cities. As malls nationally are being shuttered and sometimes reinvented with entertainment offerings, he thinks his concept could be the answer.
"From the beginning, coming to Plaza Mariachi has been like taking a tour of Hispanic culture without leaving Nashville. But now we are looking at other cultures, too," Diane Janbakhsh said.
Efforts are underway to partner with the Nashville Public Library, Country Music Hall of Fame, schools and other organizations and to seek grants to fund more programs and add more diversity.
"We want it to be a culturally interesting place," she said, explaining that she and her husband like to think of it as a sort of community outreach.
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About Plaza Mariachi
The Janbakhshs bought the Kroger center as an investment in 2013, and came up with the Plaza Mariachi business model as a way to offer a multicultural experience that would blend culture, art, music, entertainment, food, services and retail in one location.
They are also the founders of the Hispanic Family Foundation, a nonprofit serving the Hispanic community in Middle Tennessee by offering educational and support services to the immigrant community. HFF is headquartered at Plaza Mariachi and partners with some of their community events and children's activities.
With 70,000 square feet of interior space, Plaza Mariachi is designed like a small Mexican town. There is an open food hall with restaurants and two stages for performances, surrounded by Latin-inspired street-scape hallways that conjure up a mercado vibe. Other businesses include an insurance agency, two Spanish format radio stations and colorful shops selling apparel, candy, groceries and bamboo plants.
The Janbakhshs own some of the restaurants and businesses in the Plaza, including Tito's and Taqueria Hidalgo. They also have more than 40 traditional tenants who lease space on the perimeters of the Plaza.
The owners said their favorite description of the Plaza from a customer was that it is "like the Mexico section of Epcot."
I say, "muy bueno!"
Plaza Mariachi is at 3955 Nolensville Pike. It is open Tuesday and Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. It opens at 10:30 a.m.Thursday through Sunday and closes late depending on the entertainment.
Details: plazamariachi.com or 615-373-9292
Plaza Mariachi food options
Mazfresco Market is a full-service grocery store featuring a variety of Latin products.
Kouzina Cafe features Mediterranean cuisine with items including gyros, wraps, subs, and Baklava, as well as kid friendly choices like burgers, fries and chicken fingers.
Paletas Tocumbo offers homemade ice cream, paletas and Mexican street snacks.
Taqueria Hidalgo has authentic Mexican tacos, burritos and quesadillas, as well as a kids menu.
Tres Gauchos Grill goes for the higher end with Argentine style steaks, churrasco, shrimp, chicken, potatoes and wings.
Trinity, a new Venezualan coffee shop and café, is getting ready to open
Other eateries on the outside of the complex include Taj Indian Restaurant, WIN Bubble Tea (Asian tea), Chismes Cafe (Mexican food), La Michuacana (Mexican ice cream) and Panca Peru (Peruvian food.)
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Coheed & Cambrias Musical Madness
Leor Galil
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Its official: geek is the new chic. If the over-abundance of Napoleon Dynamite paraphernalia isnt enough to convince you of this, then certainly the widening popularity of bands like Death Cab for Cutie and Coheed & Cambria will change your mind. With both bands riding high on a sudden wave of geek-culture popularity, and the sudden fame that appeared in both bands worlds, both groups have chosen the perfect time to capitalize on their recent newfound success. Yet, it is Coheed that manages to become even more innovative and ingenious on their recent release, Good Apollo Im Burning Star IV, Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness.
With Good Apollo, Coheed & Cambria expand upon the progressive-emo sound that filled their 2003 cult-classic sophomore effort, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. Still present are the lyrical themes of love, violence-fetishes, and inter-planetary adventure: yet Good Apollo takes Coheeds sound, destroys it, and rebuilds it, infusing it with more pulsing metal guitar solos, hardcore-punk drumming, emo verse-to-chorus changes, pop-punk song arrangement sensibility, all held together by frontman Claudio Sanchezs rather subdued falsetto. While many still try to classify and stereotype Coheeds sound, with comparisons between Sanchez and Rush frontman Geddy Lee and musical comparisons with contemporary pop-punk acts, Coheed & Cambria continue to make leaps and bounds in developing their distinct, intricate, and creative musical style which bridges across practically every genre in Good Apollo.
After an interesting instrumental opener and a rather unique acoustic, love-strung number entitled Always & Never, Good Apollo blasts off into the weird and ever changing world of Coheed & Cambria with Welcome Home. The song takes a turn for operatic metal as the dual guitar metal rifts are matched excellently by a string accoutrement to accompany the six-minute marathon story of a song. Welcome Home is one of the many songs that represent the ever-expanding world of Coheed: intricately composed mini-rock operas packed into a song that rivals Queens of the Stone Ages older, sprawling musical material, a lyrical lust for love, violence, and a surging emo choral accompaniment which take the ideals of that genre of music to an entirely different level.
The album takes complete tailspins from that point, moving from the hard rock track Ten Speed to the pop friendly and upbeat Crossing the Frame. Apollo I: The Writing Writer takes a quick turn into the odd musical methods of Coheed, with a minute-long, soft instrumental intro which slowly turns into a hard-churning, brooding song. Sanchez reaches moments where his vocals nearly match the high falsetto that originally highlighted the bands unique style with their 2003 breakout single A Favor House Atlantic as the song reaches its climax with the presence of every chorus. The song really takes an odd turn as a soft, devilish monologue is played behind the bands pounding instrumentals.
Wake Up, perhaps the most emo track on Good Apollo, an acoustic number complete with Sanchezs unusually high falsetto and his strange lyrical violence fetish in conjunction with love. Ill do anything for you/this story is for you/Ill do anything for you/kill anyone for you, Sanchez softly croons throughout each chorus, infusing sweet idealism for love with a bizarre twist of violence. The Suffering, the albums other single, combines pop-keyboard mastery, fist-pumping cheers, and a catchy, fast-paced chorus that pulls the entire song together.
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Q: PostgreSQL: some troubles to insert from select with on conflict I have some Postgres tables:
CREATE TABLE source_redshift.staticprompts (
    id              INT,
    projectid       BIGINT,
    scriptid        INT,
    promptnum       INT,
    prompttype      VARCHAR(20),
    inputs          VARCHAR(2000),
    attributes      VARCHAR(2000),
    text            VARCHAR(2000),
    corpuscode      VARCHAR(2000),
    comment         VARCHAR(2000),
    created         TIMESTAMP,
    modified        TIMESTAMP

);

and

CREATE TABLE target_redshift.user_input_conf (
    collect_project_id      BIGINT NOT NULL UNIQUE,
    prompt_type             VARCHAR(20),
    prompt_input_desc       VARCHAR(300),
    prompt_input_name       VARCHAR(100),
    no_of_prompt_count      BIGINT,
    prompt_input_value      VARCHAR(100) UNIQUE,
    prompt_input_value_id   BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    script_id               BIGINT,
    corpuscode              VARCHAR(20),
    min_recordings          VARCHAR(2000),
    max_recordings          VARCHAR(2000),
    recordings_count        VARCHAR(2000),
    lease_duration          VARCHAR(2000),
    date_created            TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW(),
    date_updated            TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE,
    CONSTRAINT must_be_different UNIQUE (prompt_input_value,collect_project_id)

);

I need copy data from staticprompts to user_input_conf with this rules:
Primary Key : prompt_input_value_id

Unique Values : collect_project_id, prompt_input_value

Data Load Logic :

Insert only when new prompt input value is found for given collect project from source. Inputs column stores the values in JSON format in staticprompts table.

Insert :

Generate unique sequence number for each of the new prompt input value for a collect project id from source and store in prompt_input_value_id.

Update :

If prompt value already exists for a collect project and if there are any value changes on prompt_input_desc or prompt input name or prompt input value then update only those columns.

prompt_input_value_id - Generate unique sequence number for the combination of each prompt_input_value and collect_project_id

prompt_input_value - Inputs.value is stored in the inputs column as JSON text. Create a unique record for each inputs.value. Look at the example below this table.

I try to use this query:
INSERT INTO target_redshift.user_input_conf AS t (
            collect_project_id,
            prompt_type,
            prompt_input_desc,
            prompt_input_name,
            prompt_input_value,
            script_id,
            corpuscode)
        SELECT
            s.projectid,
            s.prompttype,
            s.inputs::jsonb#>>'{inputs,0,desc}' AS desc,
            s.inputs::jsonb#>>'{inputs,0,name}' AS name,
            s.inputs::jsonb#>>'{inputs,0,values}' AS values,
            s.scriptid,
            s.corpuscode
        FROM source_redshift.staticprompts AS s
        ON CONFLICT (collect_project_id, prompt_input_value)
        DO UPDATE SET
            (prompt_input_desc, prompt_input_name, prompt_input_value, date_updated) =
            (EXCLUDED.prompt_input_desc, EXCLUDED.prompt_input_name, EXCLUDED.prompt_input_value, NOW())
        WHERE t.prompt_input_desc != EXCLUDED.prompt_input_desc
            OR t.prompt_input_name != EXCLUDED.prompt_input_name
            OR t.prompt_input_value != EXCLUDED.prompt_input_value;
    """)

But I get an error:
psycopg2.errors.UniqueViolation: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "user_input_conf_collect_project_id_key"
DETAIL:  Key (collect_project_id)=(1) already exists.

A: I think there is a misunderstanding. A unique constraint over two columns does not mean that each of the columns is unique, but that the combination of the two columns is unique.
So your must_be_different is different (and weaker) than the unique constraints on prompt_input_value and collect_project_id. For example, if you have the three rows
 collect_project_id | prompt_input_value
--------------------+--------------------
                  1 | a
                  1 | b
                  2 | b

they will create a conflict with both single-column unique constraints, but nor with must_be_different.
I guess that the underlying problem is that you want to use INSERT ... ON CONFLICT with multiple unique constraints. That cannot be done; see this question for a discussion and potential solutions.

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I've been out to the DM river and found a family of river otters. Then today at a local marsh I found another group of 3-4 in Story county. These are the first times I've came across them in the wild in 40 years. They are very fun to watch.
I saw my first several years ago.
Must have been a family of 4 .they had a lot of fun frolicking around .
Shoot them all. They are no good for our river systems. As I own ground on the river and a pond. Nothing worse than otters coming in and wiping out your fish population.
SIR, YOU ARE CORRECT! except for saying shoot them all, Trap them legally.
But your statement on destroying river fish in area they live is 100% correct!
Yes. ummmm I mean trap legally.
They catch take one bite, maybe two. Drop that fish and go catch another.
They do seem to cover quite a bit a territory.
And don't forget the pelicans, cormorants and herons.
Had a family of 5 otters cross an icy Brushy Creek on the north end of that lake a couple years ago, and came right at me as I was hidden during a duck hunt. I stood up and said, "Boo!", and off they rushed barking away. I agree that with their introduction they have changed local river sections for the worse. In the Skunk River north of Ames they have put themselves in control of the smallie population. They eat them in the fall, then finish them off as the fish are captive in smaller pools. The number of mid sized and larger fish seems to be on the downhill, even with adequate water summers and winters.


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Klepto is a cancelled action platformer / adventure / stealth game in development by Utopia Technologies / Sandbox Studios between 1998 and 2000, with a planned release on the Nintendo 64. The team was formed in 1993 and was composed of such talented developers and artists as Atman Binstock, Gary Corriveau, Matthew Moss, Rich Geldreich, Steve Bergenholtz and Robert Jaeger. In the early '80s, Robert designed and programmed the classic platform game Montezuma's Revenge (Atari). Utopia Technologies then released Montezuma's Return in 1998, a 3D sequel to the classic predecessor, which was originally planned for N64 but released only on PC.
It seems that Utopia Technologies was one of the few studios that could use their own microcode to develop games for the N64, a privilege given by Nintendo that was shared only with Rare Ltd, Boss Games (World Driver Championship) and Factor 5 (Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, Battle for Naboo).
"Inspired by Umihara Kawase, I set about creating a 3D third person grappling hook game. The idea was that you played a cat burglar-type in a Sci-Fi world. Each mission was designed to be playable in several ways, i.e. you could sneak in and steal the target item and if you were really good, you could sneak out without being detected. However, taking the loot would likely set off alarms and you'd have to fight your way out. Or, if you preferred, you could try fighting your way in and out.
The experience was designed to be as nerve-wracking as possible: the player was allowed as much practice as they wanted in a simulator environment based on incomplete knowledge (one idea was to allow recon missions to fill in pieces of the mission simulator), but only one shot at actually performing the mission for real, with large meta-game rewards/penalties.
The core dynamics were about using a physics-based grappling hook (as opposed to the shoot-zip or stiff fake-swinging types) to move around and manipulate a physics-based environment. The stretchy rope enabled the excellent and deep player-skill rubber-banding movements from Umihara Kawase, with some additions like slip-walls where the grappling hook could freely slide in one direction.
But more than just a fun method of getting around, the grappling hook's stretchy rope provided an indirect yet high-fidelity way to interact with objects and enemies – the player could reel in/let out rope, or move themselves to change the rope's tension. You could shoot out and attach to the foot of guard standing on a ledge, then reel-in while moving back to yank him off the edge. Or you could gently drag a crate of something fragile (and likely explosive) to the edge of a shaft way, then gently lower it to the bottom. There were a number of tools that were added on top of the vanilla grappling hook. In order to fight the entropy of all objects ending up at the bottom of a level, you could attach rapid-inflate balloons to an item (or enemy).
"There were a decent number of prototype levels that I built showcasing the various mechanics. The environments were simple, but we had some really nice interaction driven animations on the characters thanks to Atman's hard work. The rope itself was also very cool. He connected a string of rigid cubes with springs and then skinned the whole thing. The player could then control the tension of the rope, by loosening and tightening the springs on demand.
As the N64's life cycle was coming to an end, no party decided to commit to Klepto and it was left without a publisher. When Utopia Technologies presented the game to Nintendo, they seemed to like it and encouraged them to consider bringing it to GameCube, but that wasn't possible for their small team budget.
Sometime after Montezuma's Return was published in 1998, Robert Jaeger left Utopia Technologies and the remaining team members changed their name to "Sandbox Studios". They then released such games as Dinosaur for Dreamcast and Shrek for the original Xbox. In 2001 the company was acquired by Digital Illusions CE and renamed "Digital Illusions Canada", but later closed in 2006 when DI was acquired by Electronic Arts.
We managed to contact a few people who worked at Utopia Technologies / Sandbox Studios, but sadly it seems that only some early Klepto concept arts were preserved by the studio. We still hope that one day someone could find some screenshots, videos, or even a playable prototype from the game that could be saved and added to the unseen history of video games. Although it's unlikely, it's never impossible.
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Response To Ramesh
Okay, so last night involved more rounds of pool and pitchers of beer than I originally intended. Hence, I didn't think I was in the right frame of mind to post a respose. Though, if my golf game is any indication, I'd make a better point three sheets to the wind than now. But, here goes.
As I said, I was leaning towards the FMA, but really considered Jonah Goldberg's idea of constitutionalizing the Defense of Marriage Act ("DOMA") with additional language prohibiting any judiciary from imposing either gay marriage or civil unions.
Ramesh and I agree that this would be the better option than nothing, but it would greatly complicate matters. Having considered the issue, I've decided that the Federal Marriage Amendment is worth a shot.
It is not anti-democratic. If two-thirds of both houses of Congress and three-fourths of the states agree, there has got to be a heck of a lot of support. Additionally, it is not putting new social policy in the constitution, it would be preserving existing policy in the face of judges and gay rights advocates turning up side down several millennia of social policy by putting a new right in the Constitution without a national debate or an amendment.
The point of supporting FMA is that we should have debate on the issue. Marriage is a national construction, not a state construction. Having 50 different marriage policies would be cumbersome, complex, and costly. Besides, marriage has been between a man and woman since people saw the first sunrise. Why should we, in just a few years, completely undermine the institution? Maybe a majority of people will one day support gay marriage and FMA will be repealed. But, the day that a majority support gay marriage is not yet here and we should not have some elitist in a black robe push us forward at a faster pace than we are willing to go.
Saying that we should do something because it has always been done that way is rarely a good reason. But, we have had this institution of marriage for eons. We may have forgotten why it came about and we may at some point decide it is no longer needed. But, even though doing something because it has always been done is no good reason to keep doing it, we certainly shouldn't abandon the way overnight because a small percentage of people think they know better. We should at least discuss it and debate it. Two lawyers in court with a judge who was probably selected because of which President appointed him is not a proxy for national debate.
The majority of people in the country are opposed to gay marriage. By putting the FMA to a vote, we will be inserting a needed debate into the free marketplace of ideas where either tradition or post-modern thinking will win.
This is a battle that advocates of the traditional family may very well lose. But it is a battle worth having. We should go no further down the road of judges undermining traditional social policy in the name of progress. We should be willing to defend traditional values.
We do not know what harm might ensue from destroying traditional marriage. It seems pretty obvious to me that there will be serious harm. There may be competing good, but I'd prefer not to rush toward it and risk there being more harm than good. We should consider ourselves blind to the future, which we are, and move very slowly and deliberately. In the meantime, we should not take the sledge hammer to what has always been. There would be no going back and what he have has served us all very well.
So, let's fight for the FMA. It there is not enough support, let's fight for DOMA as a constitutional amedment. But, at the very least, let's nationally make this decision instead of leaving it to the New York Times editorial page as reflected in the selected writings of Sandra Day O'Connor.
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Domino Saints is an explosive Urban Pop Duo from San Juan, Puerto Rico that have been tearing down the house with their live performances since 2007. Their mind-blowing fusion of Latin sounds and urban music along with captivating lyrics has put them in a league of their own. There style is a fusion of Dancehall, Bomba, Reggae and other Latin grooves with a Rockstar vibe that you can't miss. Since the release of their self-titled debut album in late 2009, they were featured as the Latin iTunes Single of the Week and were chosen as winners in the 16th Billboard World Song Contest with their smash hit "Buenos Dias San Juan" sounding in stations all over the US and Puerto Rico. The song created a buzz in the US and in Puerto Rico and exposed the group's original sound all over the world and got them featured in all Puerto Rican media outlets like AOL, AOL Latino, WAPA TV, El Nuevo Dia, Primera Hora, El Vocero, Clear Channel, and Batanga. Shortly after this they smashed New York's LAMC with several amazing performances. In 2010, the group returned from their US tour to work on their first full-length album with a promise to bring a killer album that will rock harder, party longer, and stretch the limits of their melting pot of musical ideas. The time for that is now, and their single and title of the album "Ahora es Ahora" says it all. The album features songs produced by Echo, Pepe Ojeda, Ladkani, and Danny Fornaris and brings in the best Puerto Rican musicians as well as the toughest dance beats. They just won the Independent Music Awards "Best Latin Song" Category for their smash hit "Ahora es Ahora". The release for 2011 of the album will show the world all the Domino Saints has to offer.
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'Screaming was pointless,' survivors tell of school abuse by Christian Brothers
ITV Report
By Peter Smith, Scotland Correspondent
22 July 2016 at 12:27pm
From the Link: http://www.itv.com/news/2016-07-22/screaming-was-pointless-survivors-tell-of-school-abuse-by-christian-brothers/
John Farrell (left) and Paul Kelly outside court
The Christian Brothers were meant to be men of God – a religious order within the Catholic Church.
At their St Ninian's school in Fife, though, two of the Brothers were men of unspeakable cruelty who stole innocence from children and left the deepest scars.
John Farrell and Paul Kelly were today convicted of 11 counts of sexual and physical abuse against six children in their care. Children as young as 11. The pair were doing it with impunity through the 1970s and 80s.
Survivors of their crimes told me how they did it.
"There was a strategy of 'good cop, bad cop," says one man who doesn't want to be identified. "Kelly would go out of his way to be horrible to me – scare me, punish me. We were children in care so we were alone – just scared wee boys.
"Then Farrell would step in. He'd put an arm round you and and act like your best pal. He'd invite you to go into his room to help him with a chore and then he'd tell you to spend the night with him. That's how he got me in. Then he started touching me."
There was no point in shouting or screaming because nobody would hear you.
And if they did hear you they'd know what was going on, so screaming was pointless.
– ST NINIAN'S ABUSE VICTIM
Until now Farrell and Kelly have been free men, walking the streets with a clean record. Those they abused, however, told me they have been prisoners of their torment for more than three decades.
Some have suffered mental health problems, others alcoholism.
Another former St Ninian's pupil explained to me how he still suffers. "This has an affect on your whole life," he says. "It's affected every single relationship I've had as an adult. There are nightmares, flashbacks. It never leaves you."
The Christian Brotherhood has a particularly grim record of child abuse. They've paid out millions of pounds to victims after thousands of allegations emerged in Ireland, America, Canada, and Australia.
This, however, is the first conviction of Christian Brothers in Scotland. As yet there has been no apology from the Brotherhood for these crimes.
While Farrell and Kelly face prison time when they are sentenced, there are others who say they were abused at St Ninian's by men who have never been prosecuted.
David Sharp told me he was taken to Ireland to be passed around for abuse at parties.
I am still campaigning for justice. This only scratches the surface.
Until these people, the perpetrators, are caught, justice is done, and the Christian Brothers and the Catholic Church come out and show a meaningful apology then I can't get on with my life.
– DAVID SHARP
Farrell and Kelly used to brag to their victims that no one would listen to them against men of God. Today, after more than three decades, the survivors of the St Ninian's abuse were at last heard.
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Boys abused under residential school's brutal regime
By Andrew BlackBBC Scotland News
From the sectionScotland
From the Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-36723226
Two former teachers have been convicted of sexually and physically abusing boys at a residential school in Fife in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Paul Kelly, 64, of Plymouth, was convicted of seven charges and acquitted of 22, while John Farrell, 73, of Motherwell, was found guilty of four and acquitted of 18 charges.
Paul Kelly and John Farrell were supposed to care for the pupils at St Ninian's.
Instead, when they taught at the school in the late 1970s and early 1980s, they sexually and physically abused six boys between the ages of 11 and 15.
St Ninian's, which was located in the Fife village of Falkland, was a "List G" state school for troubled children, run by the Christian Brothers organisation.
Most of its pupils came from Glasgow, Dundee and Perth and many were from broken and abusive homes, and had been in some kind of trouble themselves.
St Ninian's was supposed to give them a chance at life.
But for the boys preyed on by Kelly and Farrell, they were denied that chance.
As well as being indecently assaulted, boys also suffered under a brutal regime of corporal punishment.
They were repeatedly punched, kicked and hit with belts.
In one case, a boy's head was slammed off a sink.
After St Ninian's closed in 1983, Farrell, from Motherwell, and Kelly, who latterly lived in Plymouth, seemingly went on to lead normal lives.
Past crimes
Farrell, who joined the Christian Brothers at the age of 18 and was eventually appointed head teacher at St Ninian's, became a priest, while Kelly continued to teach.
But their past crimes came to light in 2012 after some former pupils independently came forward to talk about their ordeal.
However, there were challenges.
Ch Insp Nicola Shepherd, of Police Scotland, said: "Detectives turning up at someone's door after 40 years and asking about something traumatic – and in many cases something they'd chosen to forget – we are very aware that these victims needed a lot of support, which they received, and we are aware it's been a difficult time for them.
"I don't think there are words to describe how horrific and systematic this abuse by Farrell and Kelly of these boys quite was."
After an investigation lasting several years, the pair were charged and went on trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
As the trial got under way, the former pupils – now in middle age – relived the horror of what happened at St Ninian's, as they recounted their stories in the hope that their abusers would face justice.
Following their conviction, Farrell and Kelly face lengthy jail terms.
For the former pupils who suffered at the hands of the pair, they may feel justice has been served.
But the horrific memories of what happened to them at St Ninian's will probably never fade.
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Father Farrell charged for alleged offences against three girls
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/father-f-charged-for-alleged-offences-against-three-girls-20121018-27si8.html#ixzz2FM80sXi1
Leesha McKenny and Lisa Davies
A former NSW priest who allegedly told three senior Catholic clergy a decade ago that he had repeatedly sexually abused children has been charged with 25 child-sex offences relating to three girls.
The 59-year-old was arrested at a home in Armidale this morning, and is expected to face court this afternoon in relation to the charges dating back to the 1970s and '80s.
Following his arrest, police urged anyone with information about an alleged cover-up by the Catholic Church to come forward.
Sex crime squad commander John Kerlatec said it was too early to say for sure whether Strike Force Glenroe would investigate suggestions the Catholic Church covered up the allegations.
"It's certainly early days in regards to our investigation in respect to the alleged cover-up that's been suggested," Detective Superintendent Kerlatec said.
The offences were allegedly discovered after police formed Strike Force Glenroe in July.
Detectives have spoken to 50 people, including potential victims, their families and others who may have information.
The police say the victims were were all young girls aged between five and 18 when they were allegedly sexually and indecently assaulted by the former priest.
The State Crime Command's sex crimes squad set up Strike Force Glenroe in July to investigate allegations that Father F had abused altar boys while a priest based in Armidale and Parramatta.
Father F, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was removed from public ministry after a meeting with three clergy in 1992, following continued allegations of abuse after he was moved from the Armidale diocese to Parramatta.
The three priests now all occupy senior positions in the church, which has denied a cover-up amid conflicting accounts of Father F's admissions during the 1992 meeting and why he was not reported to police.
Father F, who was defrocked in 2005 but continued to live in Armidale, also told a court in 2004 that he had admitted to the priests that he performed oral sex on boys.
These allegations were brought to light by an ABC Four Corners report earlier this year.
Federal Court judge Antony Whitlam had been appointed by Bishop of Armidale Michael Kennedy and Bishop of Parramatta Anthony Fisher to lead its own inquiry into the church's handling of the case.
Bishop Kennedy said in a statement that that the diocese was offering its full co-operation and assistance to police.
"I am not able to comment any further as this is a matter rightly being dealt with by the NSW Police," he said.
"I again take this opportunity to extend my deepest sympathy to victims of child abuse and their families, and reassure the community of my commitment to see justice achieved."
Premier Barry O'Farrell welcomed today's arrest.
"I welcome the police decision to arrest another person accused of paedophilia," Mr O'Farrell said.
"I wish them well – that's what should be happening, rather than some of the politically motivated calls for royal commissions."
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The Rogue Ex-Priest of Armidale
This is taken from the Court Dude Australia website and the link below is to the story:
http://courtdude.blogspot.com/2012/07/unholy-silence-abc-four-corners-story.html
There's a big difference between a "lovable rogue" and a "rogue". This is often overlooked.
A lovable rogue is a character who, often from humble beginnings, manages to beat the system using extraordinary and unconventional means. Although he at first seems to act for personal profit alone, the lovable rogue can win over an audience with charm and wit, eventually revealing some ethical motivation that was not immediately apparent. He is not condemned as a villain, but celebrated as being adventurous, individual and creative.
Not so the plain old "rogue"!
Some of the perhaps less-used-these-days definitions of a "rogue" include:
1 an unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal;
2 a vicious and solitary animal that has separated itself from its herd;
3 an organism that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
Where would we find such a person? Such an out-and-out, old-fashioned rogue?
Well, through his many contacts around the world, Court Dude can reveal that there's a real live one living right now in Armidale, northern NSW who goes by the name of John Farrell.
Farrell case:
Rev. John Joseph Farrell
(1953-) was ordained at the Armidale cathedral on 21 September 1981. His main parish placements were: St Edward's parish, Tamworth South (as a deacon, early 1981); St Francis Xavier parish, Moree (1981 to mid-1984); and St Nicholas's parish, Tamworth (1985-87). In 1987-88 he lived at the residence of Armidale Bishop Henry Kennedy. In 1989 he was transferred, on loan, to the Diocese of Parramatta, where his parishes were: St Madeleine's, Kenthurst (until November 1990); and St Margaret Mary's, Merrylands (until 1 July 1992). He had no subsequent parish appointments. He was accused of sexual abuse and the diocese made civil settlements with two former altar boys. One former altar boy, who was offered $175,000, was from the Moree parish in the Armidale diocese (in northern NSW) and the other was from the Merrylands parish in the Parramatta diocese (west of Sydney). The settlements were made in 1998 and 2005. Source: http://www.eurekaencyclopedia.com/index.php/Category:Diocese_of_Armidale
Last night, as it happens, there was an excellent piece of investigative journalism on the ABC's Four Corners program about a rogue ex-priest from Armidale who according to Court Dude's contacts on the ground there bears a striking resemblance to Good Old Father John – see http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/06/28/3535079.htm?WT.svl=bestOfScroller
The story reveals, amongst other horrific collateral damage to family and friends, that both of the former altar boys mentioned above later committed suicide.
Although no longer practising as a priest, John Farrell swans about Armidale these days as a bona-fide man-about-town, writing articles for the local paper and promoting himself a close student of local history. Specifically, local Catholic history.
But why hassle Good Old Father John if he's never been convicted? The presumption of innocence is paramount – isn't it? Yes, it is. Are there ever, ever, exceptions to this Golden Rule of Justice? Yes, there are. When men, to whom you entrust the care of your children, rape them and get away with it.
John Farrell is a rogue. An "unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person"; a "solitary animal who has separated himself (in this case, morally) from the herd"; an organism who has shown a most "undesirable variation from a standard".
It is sometimes the case that a crime can resonate so deeply and tragically that it actually works itself to make a legal conviction extremely difficult. And that is what has happened here. Will justice ever be visited upon the Rogue Ex-Priest of Armidale? Stay tuned…
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Father John Farrell Pedophile Priest of Austrailia deserves punishment NOW
This is a posting I found on a web search about Father John Farrell titled
Father F
by Derryn Hinch
Monday, 09 July 2012. It comes from the link below:
http://www.humanheadline.com.au/Hinch-Says/Father-F
This time last week Four Corners ran a sickening story about a paedophile priest who was protected by the Catholic Church and is still being protected by the Catholic Church.
Sexual assaults against altar boys in Moree, Narrabri and Parramatta which led to the suicides of several victims.
It has now embroiled the Archbishop of Sydney George Pell, the Secretary-General of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Brian Lucas, the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Sydney, Monsignor John Usher and the Vicar-General of the Armidale Diocese in New South Wales, Wayne Peters.
One name not mentioned in any of the reports – and I will name him in a minute — is the paedophile priest. On Four Corners he was referred to as 'Father F' because his name was suppressed when he appeared in court in 1988 charged with six cases of sexual intercourse without consent and five counts of indecent assault on a child. The charges were dismissed by a magistrate whom I understand had known Father F. for a long time and, in my opinion, should have excused himself.
The Catholic Church hired one of the best, and most expensive, QCs in Australia, Chester Porter, for a lowly Magistrate's hearing in Narrabri, and a jury never got to hear the victim's graphic evidence because the Magistrate said any jury would believe a Catholic priest, with no prior convictions, over a 'wayward youth'.
I now know a lot more about Father F. And so should you.
The paedophile priest's name is John Farrell. He now lives in Armidale. On the same street as a Catholic School. O'Connor Catholic High School. He writes material for the local newspaper and reportedly has been employed to do survey work for the Federal government that entails him going into family homes.
He's still living a good life, untouched by the law, even though several of his victims killed themselves before they reached 30. I tried to phone him yesterday. Got his answering service which told me that his mate Mike was holding a State of Origin football party and advising Queensland supporters to 'bring their own beer and their own meat'.
Life is good for a child molester who has been protected by the Church for 30 years. He was first accused of sexual assault on an altar boy in 1983 — and the Archbishop was told about it. He was charged in 1988 but not defrocked until 2005 – only seven years ago.
And all those Catholic heavies I mentioned earlier are still covering up for John Farrell. I have copies of the documents which show several of them guilty of what I believe are criminal cover-ups and several of them lying about it even now. I'll explain why next.
In 1992, nearly ten years after the church hierarchy was first notified of Farrell's sexual abuse of altar boys, the priest was called before a three-man Church tribunal.
I have seen a report of the proceedings. The meeting was held inside the Presbytery at St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on Thursday, September 3. 1992 and lasted from 7.40p.m. until 10.30p.m.
Confronting Farrell were three members of the Australian Catholic Bishops Special Issues Resource Committee. The men I mentioned earlier: Lucas, Usher and Peters.
I believe that what they heard then should have sent them straight to the Police. It didn't. And some of their recollections now are simply not true.
Lucas said on radio, the day after the Four Corners revelations, that Farrell 'made no admissions of a specific nature. He was very careful about not naming any names and, on that basis, we didn't have anything we could take to Police'.
A spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Sydney sung form the same hymn book. She said: 'Monsignor Usher has confirmed his recollection that Father F made no admissions of criminal conduct'. And speaking on Four Corners, from the Vatican, Archbishop Pell backed them up.
When told Farrell had admitted in court that he'd confessed at the 1992 meeting to having oral sex with young boys Pell condescendingly said he'd 'take the word of three priests against that allegation'.
What's not commonly known is that yet another alleged victim wrote to Pell himself in 2002 detailing the abuse he had suffered under Farrell. Pell said he did not have authority over the priest and referred the complaint to Armidale.
While Lucas, Usher and Pell say there was no criminal conduct admitted by Farrell, the third tribunal member, Peters, actually put it in writing to the Bishop of Armidale. He wrote:
'He [Farrell] admitted that there had been five boys around the age of ten and eleven that he had sexually interfered with in varying degrees in the years approximately 1982 to 1984 while he was the assistant priest at Moree.
With two other boys, according to Peters' letter to Bishop Manning: ' He admitted that over a period of approximately 12 months he fondled the genitals of each of these boys and to quote " sucked off their dicks". As far as Farrell can remember this was done on about a monthly basis over a period of twelve months.'
None of the Church hierarchy thought this constituted criminal behaviour that should have been reported to Police. They obviously still don't. It's a bloody disgrace.
Footnote: Buried away near the bottom of that damning letter is, to me, a clue as to why they might not have alerted the cops. The Rev. Wayne Peters warned that 'in the present climate in Australia, the media and public in general are more inclined to publicise, highlight and pursue the matter of a priest offending sexually against children than the situation of a lay person offending.'
Would reflect badly on the Church. We must hide it. Forget about the victims. Remember, this was five years after I went to jail for naming that paedophile Catholic priest Father Michael Glennon.
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