Linda Golian, opened the meeting at 9:00 am.
Agenda. Golian reviewed the agenda. 6B and two items under 6C were covered at the Board meeting on Friday.
1) The Friendly Booth awards were made and photographs were taken.
Honorable Mentions: UMI/Bell and Howell, SACO, Blackbirch, National Journals.
2) Thanks to the volunteers who worked at the Scholarship Bash.
* If a bylaws change is required the membership would have to vote.
* A reading of the bylaws led the Board to conclude that the two year term can be interpreted to mean a one-year term as assistant editor and an one-year term as editor. Laurie MacLeod Bennett, Parliamentarian, agreed with this interpretation.
Vote: The Board approved the proposal. Charge: Golian charged Footnotes Committee to ensure that the Handbook is changed to reflect this interpretation. Golian charged the Governance Committee to review Bylaws 5.3 and to report on needed changes at Midwinter. Other committee appointees (e.g., Contact and Exhibitor Relations) have two year terms and this is not reflected in the Bylaws.
Lucio distributed the Treasurer's report. She reviewed changes to the budget. It has been restructured to include Pre-Conference 2000 and the NMRT reorganization. The Preconference has the potential of making money.
Alesia McManus: SALA spent $1000 because the cost of catering is high. Orientation spent $500 for this conference's speaker; this may not be needed next year.
Carol Kem: $1,500-2,000 has been going to the endowment each year. We should consider how far we need to build this up.
It was moved, seconded, and passed to adopt the 1999/2000 budget. Lucio reminded all that reimbursement requests are due by August 1. The originals should be send to Gerald ..., with notification to Lucio via email or mail. Requests not received by August 1, may not be honored.
Monday there will be a meeting with Judy Nelson of 3M to get a sense of how this year's social went and to discuss plans for next year.
1) Welcome Spectrum Scholarship winners, make them a part of NMRT, and bring them into ALA.
2) Support Spectrum financially as a group and individually.
There is one year of funding remaining; financial support will be needed to continue the project after that. Turock wants this to become a part of the ALA budget as an endowment account, but funds need to be raised to fund an interim period.
Minorities Recruitment. Anjana Bhatt, Assistant Chair, brought forth a proposal that the committee name be changed from Minority Recruitment to Diversity Committee. The committee consulted with the NMRT membership and looked at their charge. All the committee members are in support of this proposal. A rewritten charge was distributed. The Board reviewed the rewritten charge and discussed some changes. The task of making changes was delegated back to the Committee.
The Board voted and approved the name change of the committee.
Resume Reviewing Service. Paula Hering reported on the pilot project conducted by the committee. The committee advertised for a month on NMRT-L, the NMRT web site, and through Library School Outreach. Eleven resumes were received. Hering distributed the resumes to reviewers after the deadline. The comments from the reviewers were thorough and useful. The committee also made tip sheets which were distributed at Orientation.
Golian pointed out the challenges faced by this year's committee when chairs resigned, and commented that Hering "really came through.".
The Board voted to accept the Committee's proposals.
Library School Outreach Committee. Joseph Yue, chair, reported.
1) A current charge of the committee is to send packets to all library schools and to contact students and advisors. As the Committee wants to focus on recruiting students, they propose that the responsibility to send out flyers be transferred to other committees. This committee will continue to maintain a database of contacts (deans, directors, students, secretaries) and will provide mailing labels.
2) The Committee proposed a name change to "Student and Student Chapter Outreach Committee. This would not affect the committee charge; it is more inclusive in that it includes "students."
* A vote is not needed on this.
* This committee can be a resource for committees that want to mail information to library schools or library school students.
This would be a positive change.
Vote: The Board approved the name change.
Golian complimented Yue and the Committee for all their work. Outstanding!
In the future, NMRT may look at merging SALA and this committee. Golian charged the Committee with sending needed revisions on their charge/description to the Handbook Committee.
Jedlicka, Shontz, and McManus made a report. Sheets showing the new NMRT organizational structure and officer areas of responsibility were distributed. The Board reviewed them and discussed the changes. The Immediate Past President will work with the ALA Scholarship Bash as this is an important relationship and having someone in the position with name recognition is important.
* We should only support current or alumni NMRT members.
* Concern was expressed about "endorsing" people.
NMRT will help facilitate the dissemination of information of candidates running for ALA positions who are NMRT members in good standing. Golian charged SSRA with working with the Handbook Committee to determine where this policy should be in the Handbook. and with writing guidelines on how we will facilitate the dissemination of information and who will do it. SSRA was charged to bring a recommendation to Midwinter.
NMRT membership list. Should NMRT make its membership list available to people who ask for it. Golian reported that Gerald Hodges, ALA Liaison to NMRT, stated that the ALA membership lists are available so NMRT cannot say that we don't want to make the NMRT list available.
Spectrum Initiative. Ann Snoeyenbos inquired about the NMRT response to Turock's request for support for Spectrum.
Golian charged the Treasurer to work with the Diversity Committee and scholarship committees and to make a recommendation at Midwinter.
Golian thanked the Directors not present at the previous Board meeting for their work during her term.
Golian noted that the NMRT gavel is in two pieces. The president does not work alone. She passed the gavel on to Priscilla Shontz, incoming president. Shontz thanked Golian for her work and presented her with a gift.


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Unidad, Servicio y Recuperación: Twelve-Step Recovery in Civil War Guatemala, Part I
Posted byemilydufton August 4, 2020 August 3, 2020 Posted inGuest BloggersTags:AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, Guatemala, Latin America
Editor's Note: Today's post comes from Dr. Heather Vrana. Vrana (Ph.D. Indiana University, 2013) is Associate Professor of Modern Latin America in the Department of History at the University of Florida. Vrana's research interests include disability, social movements, human rights, photography, and youth and student movements in Central America. She is author of the monograph This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala (University of California Press, 2017) and the anthology Anti-colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929-1983 (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). She is co-editor with Julie Gibbings of Out of the Shadow: Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala (University of Texas Press, 2020). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Genocide Research, the Radical History Review, and elsewhere. Vrana has conducted archival and oral history research in Central America since 2007, focusing first on Guatemala, then on Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Today's post is the first of a two-part series on AA in Latin America; the second part will run on Thursday.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its sister fellowship Narcotics Anonymous (NA) arrived in Central America during the region's nearly four-decade crucible of civil war. Incredibly, at a time when gathering in private was suspicious, if not explicitly forbidden (by countless states of emergency, curfews, and skirmishes), anonymous alcoholics and addicts met in homes and rented rooms most nights of the week. In their move to Central America, very little changed in the texts and practices of the fellowships. The literature and spoken rituals (like the Serenity Prayer, or Oración de la Serenidad) of group meetings were direct translations from the English-language texts. But the mid-1990s saw the emergence of a new and distinct twelve-step program, Neurotics Anonymous (N/A).
The civil wars have largely been the purview of social movement history. At the same time, social movement history and alcohol and drug history are essentially separate subfields. But together they suggest why twelve-step recovery was so popular in Central America and, in turn, how some Central Americans responded to the trauma, political violence, and religious tensions of the wars and their aftermath. Histories of alcohol and drugs have turned decisively toward transnational and global approaches, a turn the upcoming bi-annual conference of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society aptly reflects. This research proposes that the same approaches might be usefully brought to bear on transnational and global exchanges of recovery.
Dr. Heather Vrana
In this and a follow-up blog post, I summarize the history of three central twelve-step recovery groups in Guatemala: Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Neurotics Anonymous. Like Stanley Brandes, whose wonderful Staying Sober in Mexico City offers a rare ethnography of AA outside of the U.S., I am curious about the reasons for AA's impressive expansion in Latin America. But where Brandes emphasizes AA's adaptability, I find orthodoxy. Through that orthodoxy, twelve-step programs provided an apparently apolitical outlet for affects, thoughts, and outlooks that were outcomes of political turmoil before and during the civil war (1960-1996). I also suggest that meeting spaces and fellowship practices provided a space for community that was largely unfettered by surveillance and political repression at a time when that was hard to come by.
Guatemalan AA's oral tradition holds that Maryknoll priest Father Edmundo Mickler first introduced the fellowship in 1952 to an employee of his parish, in the city of San Pedro Necta in Huehuetenango, who was struggling with alcohol. A few years later, another priest, Father Joseph Ricket, joined Mickler and together they founded the first AA group. Four founding members, all men, met in the parish house. At some point, a man named Reinaldo Galindo joined the group. They learned the Twelve Steps and the Serenity Prayer. Meanwhile, Guatemalan politics became increasingly polarized and the nation's celebrated Ten Year's Spring began to unravel. For its part, the U.S. State Department and Central Intelligence Agency plotted anticommunist counterrevolution against democratically-elected president Jacobo Arbenz.
The first overseas census of AA members counted just 14,687 members in 1955. It is remarkable that a handful of alcoholics in an indigenous municipality amidst massive coffee plantations, where Catholic saints' days were celebrated in the town square whilst ceremonies asking permission to cultivate beans and corn were observed at the sacred Cerro El Wash, were among AA's global vanguard. In fact, toward the end of the 1950s, the region and its people were thrust into national and international networks of finance, surveillance, labor exploitation, and environmental degradation when valuable veins of antimony and tungsten were discovered in nearby San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán. (In November 1977, striking miners from the region launched an impressive 250-mile march to the capital city, galvanizing the public and uniting various other labor groups nationwide. The Labor Ministry met their demands before the group of 15,000 marchers reached the capital, but the miners decided to finish the march anyway.)
A few years later, Galindo and his wife struck up a conversation with Miguel Ángel Rodas on the bus into Guatemala's second-largest city, Quetzaltenango. Moved by their new friendship, Rodas invited Galindo for a whisky and, in response, Galindo explained AA. The conversation stuck and, four years later, Rodas told the story of AA to a friend named Paulino who wanted to quit drinking. The two agreed to practice the most basic tenet of AA: for twenty-four hours they would not drink and if they were tempted to drink, they would call one another. Despite the earlier fellowship in San Pedro Necta, this date, January 6, 1960, is celebrated as AA's anniversary in Guatemala.
In July 1960, the national newspaper Prensa Libre ran a story about a group meeting in Huehuetenango. Under the headline "Antialcoholic Fight," the story began, "In the town of San Pedro Necta Huehuetenango department one of the strangest organizations formed in the country in recent times is in operation for some time now: an association of hardened drunks [borrachos consuetudinarios] referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous." The reporter explained: "Strange because it is alcoholics upon whom the least sense of organization is conferred; and because the AAs, more than convening in a group with concrete aims like mutual aid and recovery by means of gregarious exercise, have to fulfill one [just] requisite in order to participate in the organization: be hardened drunks." The reporter added that the group counted twelve members and was led by a Catholic priest who had studied the development of AA in the U.S., El Salvador, and Colombia. Historians date the start of the civil war in Guatemala to later that year, though a series of inept military men had ruled since the 1954 counterrevolution.
The book La Historia de AA en Guatemala notes that by January 1963, six groups met regularly and counted 134 regular members. These groups were concentrated in the capital city. These early years were not without their problems, as every AA group was and remains autonomous: political parties attempted to use the rooms to curry favor or loyalty and tensions over opening prayers challenged the group's commitment not to follow any particular faith or creed. La Historia de AA en Guatemala also dramatically recounts how one women's group, Revelación Feminina, collapsed when all of its members abandoned their meeting place, benches, tables, and all, to go out for a drink.
That AA was brought to Guatemala by Catholic priests is notable, at least from the perspective of the fellowship's U.S. history. But it was crucial to twelve-step recovery's success in predominantly Catholic countries. The close association between the Catholic Church and AA in Central America lent the fellowship a good deal of repute. AA did not have the same stigma as seeking help from a private rehabilitation center, public hospital, or physician. Additionally, owing to the high cost of private treatment, AA really was the only option for treatment for many middle- and working-class families. Along with the fellowship's ties to the Church, the practice of anonymity eased preoccupations with shame, honor, and keeping up appearances.
Official curfews aside, the threat of political violence—imagined and real—must have cooled members' enthusiasm for nighttime meetings. With intelligence officers and paramilitary units going door to door in search of subversives, in the countryside as well as the city, suspected "terrorists" being detained and assassinated with impunity, and the roads in and out of major cities frequently barricaded, it is hard to imagine how groups aimed at mutual aid, or apoyo mutuo, could survive. Yet they did.
In fact, twelve-step recovery flourished. Just as AA expanded at a particularly violent and challenging moment in the nation's history, so too did NA and N/A.
Grupo Florecer, founded November 17, 1980 in Quetzaltenango
Source: El Quetzalteco
Mark Your Calendars: ADHS Bi-Annual Conference, Mexico City, 7-10 June 2021
Unidad, Servicio y Recuperación: Twelve-Step Recovery in Civil War Guatemala, Part II
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Jane Cresthyl says:
Wow. This is the first time that I read about this article. I already have background study about Guatemala Civil war. It's really hard to control ourselves when we get addicted over something especially alcohol or any kinds of drugs that made us dependent on it. I am from Philippines, and drinking alcohol is one of the highest addiction here in my country. And people usually do it with reasons, may it be they are broken-hearted, they're celebrating and some would do it just for fun. And all of it's reasons turns out to be their addiction that they can't live their life without it. It's good to know that their is this AA's that help a lot of people who are drown to drinking alcohol and start to change their lives. I know there are still a lot of groups, organizations or fellowships related to this that can help recover a person. There are also people from medical world that helps with this problem of a person. But again, I realized, that if a person is willing to change then he or she is capable to recover. It's a matter of willingness of a person for success of recovering. Treatment, hard work and trust is a key. We just have not to give up in life.


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Dr. Mercedes Bello is a pediatric neurologist with the Nicklaus Children's Hospital Brain Institute and serves as medical director of the Sleep Disorders Center. She earned her medical degree from the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences in Havana, Cuba. Dr. Bello completed a residency in pediatrics at Hospital Pediátrico Universitario Dr. Antonio Ortiz in San Juan, Puerto Rico; followed by a residency in pediatric neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center/Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis. She then pursued a fellowship in sleep medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Her clinical interests include pediatric sleep disorders, autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and epilepsy.
Dr. Bello is board certified in sleep medicine and neurology with special qualifications in pediatric neurology. She is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and she has presented at medical conferences.
Dr. Bello is employed by Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Specialists (NCPS), the physician-led multispecialty medical group practice of Nicklaus Children's Health System. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Founded in 2001, Nicklaus Children's Hospital's Brain Institute is one of the largest comprehensive pediatric programs dedicated solely to the care of the developing brain. It brings together world-renowned specialists in numerous pediatric neuroscience subspecialties with cumulative clinical experience unparalleled in the United States. Since 2008, the program has been ranked among the nation's top-tier programs for pediatric neurology and neurosurgery by U.S. News & World Report. The clinical and research leadership of the program serves as a beacon to families confronting the uncertainty of a child with a brain disorder, offering the latest treatments and assessment techniques, many of which were developed by the Brain Institute team.
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Internship - University of Puerto Rico Med Sci Campus
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Medical School - Higher Institute of Medical Sciences
Residency - The University of Tennessee Health Science Ctr
Fellowship - University of South Florida
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Child Neur) - Certified
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It is true that some university students live away from their home. This could be for a several reasons, such as because they want to do so or because the course is only available away from their city. In the other hand, there are students that stay in their own town for the same reason perhaps they want to or because they did not have a chance to choice where to study.
challenges and problems than others that never was away from their family.
Definitely, there are disadvantages for the ones that have chosen to be closer to their family. First of all, usually the students will have a support from their relatives for most of the problem they face. So, they will not have the experience to decide from their own point of view. Also, they will not have to work to pay their bills. Consequently, they do not learn how to manage their finance and how the bills work.
In my opinion, living away from family have a several advantages as students will learn the other side of the coin and be more sensible to the family expenses and needs.
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Power grids and gas networks are growing together with an increasing number of traffic and data connections. This enables sustainable mobility, intelligent solutions for neighborhoods, self-sufficiency through microgrids and the conversion of the industrial economy to sustainable energy.
But as the networks are growing, so do the threats by attacks on the energy supply infrastructure. It is therefore important to protect critical infrastructures comprehensively. At this year's BDEW congress Rhebo will show how to use the Rhebo Industrial Protector to protect control networks against breakdowns and attacks.


LOOK SWEET: Crown the holidays with some cuteness-coordinating style. You'll love the candy cane print that gets the holiday spirit going in colorful fashion. Rock these matching Christmas pajamas during the fall season, when taking holiday photos, lounging as a family, or as a cute couple.
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COMFY GOODNESS: Whether you're sleeping or lounging, these Xmas pajamas treat you to snuggle-worthy comfort throughout. We've used microfleece fabric to make the Christmas pajamas for kids and adults extra-soft and comfortably warm; it would be best to live in them.
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Geek Theory Classics: D-20 of Dooooom!!!
Happy New Comic Day, all! Sorry for the lack of content but between work, school, and now moving, comics have been pushed down on the priority list. However, new stuff is on the horizon and in the meantime I'll be re-posting some classics from the Geek Theory archives. As always, thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy one of my favorite reruns!


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Q: Spawning multiple classes without tedious task of naming variables Is there a way to make multiple classes based on a number, say from a variable?
For example:
public class Person
{
    //stuff
}

new Person(3);

A: To make multiple objects of the same class, at some point you're going to have to go through a loop (or a recursive method if you're feeling adventurous). Instead of creating a new variable for each object, you can store them all in a single array/list. For example:
public class Person {
}

//Inside some other class
int numClass = 5;
Person[] personList = new Person[numClass];
for(int i = 0; i <= numClass ; i++){
  personList[i] = new Person();
}

After that, personList will be an array of size 5 with each index containing a new Person object.

A: Yes :) For instance, use a List<Person> and a for loop:
var people = new List<Person>();
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
    people.Add(new Person());
}

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The setting is an old stone manse in a tiny hamlet near Kelso where Jacqui and Jeff Kelly run Edenwater House, a renowned restaurant with rooms. Jeff takes care of visitors' wellbeing front of house while Jacqui keeps busy in the kitchen.
Discuss any special dietary requirements when you make your reservation because dinner is a no choice four-course affair. Typically you may start with seared scallops and foie gras with mange tout, balsamic and chilli vinaigrette, and coriander sauce before moving onto breast of guinea fowl stuffed with tarragon mousseline, wrapped in Parma ham and roasted served with braised leeks, stuffed mushrooms, Pommes Anna and the natural jus. A savoury third course might be something like twice baked Roquefort soufflé with mixed leaves, Muscat grapes and pecan nuts before a dessert which could be perhaps a terrine of mango and tropical fruits, coconut ice cream and pineapple sauce.
The restaurant is open to non-residents but booking is essential.
We offer a four course set dinner priced at £44.00 per person.


standard the Focus ST intercooler struggles to cope with an even slightly tuned engine.
This costs vital power as the ECU adjusts to try and protect your engine.
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Ideal for standard cars and up to 350bhp!


1. HOW ARE THE RECORDS CHOSEN EACH MONTH?
Magnolia Record Club is the only vinyl subscription service whose monthly selections are from real musicians. No bots, bloggers or former dj's, just artists. Drew Holcomb is the primary curator, and we occasionally invite other high-caliber artists to share their picks with us.
2. WHEN DO THE RECORDS SHIP?
3. WHAT IF I DON'T LIKE THE RECORD?
Have no fear – we offer a Collection-Proof Guarantee, which means that if the record we send you doesn't fit in your collection, we will send you another option or allow you to skip a month of service. If you decide after receiving your album that it's not a fit, we can switch it out – you just pay for return shipping. You just gotta let us know within 30 days of receiving your album!
4. I DON'T HAVE A TURNTABLE AND STUFF. AREN'T VINYL RECORD SET-UPS REALLY EXPENSIVE?
No worries! We've got you covered, and it won't break the bank. To get set-up, check out the gear on our recommendations page.
5. CAN I JUST GET THESE ALBUMS AT OTHER STORES?
Actually, many of our featured records are exclusive editions—meaning you can't get them anywhere else. Plus, shopping around for records is often very time consuming and more expensive. Having a subscription is like having a built-in reminder to slow down and treat yourself to enjoying your music.
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This year's conference topic of the German Center for Cultural Heritage, The French art market under German occupation (1940-1944), brings together renowned French and German experts on the systematic art looting in France and presents the most recent research in both countries on this topic.
The case of Hildebrand Gurlitt will feature prominently.
The conference takes place at Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4, 53113 Bonn, from 30.11.2017 to 1.12.2017.
Conference languages: French and German, simultaneous interpretation is offered.
Places are limited and the organisers strongly advise to book a place soon.
The first International Workshop of the HERA project "Transfer of Cultural Objects in the Alpe Adria Region in the 20th Century" (TransCultAA) will take at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca on 18-19 September 2017.
The workshop will focus on the Jewish-owned cultural property in the Italian Alpe Adria region.
As a geographic zone of transit, the Alpe Adria region, broadly understood, was characterized by an intense displacement of cultural assets owned by Jews through confiscation, plunder and seizure by German and Italian authorities during WWII.
The TransCultAA project members will point out the complexity of the phenomenon at a transnational level. In particular, they will present and analyze the different administrative practices in the management of Jewish-owned heritage, investigate the institutions, organizations and networks, examine the trajectories of victims and perpetrators, and also try to document the objects present or in transition on the territory. In doing so, the aim of the TransCultAA project is not only to trace the tangible movement of objects, but also their role as symbolic capital. Accordingly, alongside 'high' art also 'low' art and everyday objects – which all played a role in developing individual, collective and national identities – will be taken into account.
Finally, multinational members of TransCultAA will share the results of their recent and ongoing research projects, and recommend new approaches and paths for investigations in this field.
Reference: CONF: The Transfer of Jewish-owned Cultural Objects (Lucca, 18-19 Sep 17). In: H-ArtHist, Jul 24, 2017. <https://arthist.net/archive/16114>.
The Research Project 'The Artists and Their Galleries – Reciprocal Receptions between Paris and Berlin, 1900-1950', conducted at the Centre Georg Simmel (EHESS.CNRS) in Paris, investigates the historic, social and esthetic role of art galleries in the context of emigration.


Berries and cream lovers (everyone?), this one's for you! Today I'm sharing a decadent fudge with a creamy coconut butter swirl, and a new super berry you're going to want to keep on your radar.
Nicknamed "the beauty berry," schizandra has a gorgeous vibrant purple/pink color, an abundance of antioxidants, and it's also an anti-inflammatory powerhouse. It's been widely used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for thousands of years, and for very good reason: schizandra is thought to support everything from adrenal function and our response to stress, to digestive and skin health (hence "the beauty berry" nickname).
If you're curious to try schizandra berry, one of my all-time favorite brands, REBBL, just launched a new Schizandra Berries & Creme Elixir (plus a new Banana Nut Protein and a 3 Roots Mango Spice Elixir, both awesome FYI). We've been collaborating with REBBL for the last three years on recipe development and photography campaigns (see if you can spot our latest work on their Instagram!*), and truly—REBBL is the real deal when it comes to their commitment to wholesome ingredients, sustainability, and innovative flavor combinations. The Schizandra Berries & Creme is fruity and tart thanks to the combination of fresh blueberries, raspberries, pineapple, banana, and elderberries. It's also lightly sweetened with forest honey and scented with vanilla beans, making it especially perfect as a midday pick-me-up that's naturally caffeine-free.
I love Schizandra Berries & Creme all on its own, but it's amazing in dessert recipes too. Currently, one of my favorite ways to use it is in this Berries & Creme Freezer Fudge. The creamy coconut milk base, paired with coconut and cashew butters, is loaded with satisfying and good-for-you fats. Unlike most fudge, this recipe is sweetened with just a small pour of pure maple syrup, then topped with crushed freeze-dried berry "sprinkles" (so cute!). It's a very simple blender recipe that requires only a handful of basic ingredients and takes just a few minutes to make.
*Did you spot our photos? Here are a few recent examples: one, two, three. We did three photoshoot campaigns plus three recipe shoots in June alone, so keep your eyes posted for those on REBBL's Instagram and blog soon!
Super berry fudge rippled with a coconut butter swirl, then topped with freeze-dried fruit "sprinkles." This vegan fudge is over-the-top decadent, all without processed sugar or dairy!
Thank you to REBBL for sponsoring this post! We love their Super Herb Elixirs and Plant-Based Proteins, especially because when you buy any of their beverages, you help give back 2.5% of every purchase to Not For Sale in their mission to eliminate human trafficking and uplift vulnerable communities around the globe. Check REBBL's store locator to find their drinks near you!
Filed Under: Ice Cream, Popsicles & Frozen Treats, Other Desserts COPYRIGHT © 2019 Amanda Maguire. All Rights Reserved.
You are a swirl master! haha Seriously though. How did you get them to look so perfect?!
Chopsticks! haha I spoon a very small amount of coconut butter on top, then use a chopstick to (gently) make the swirl pattern.
Yes yes yes! I'm so pumped for this freezer fudge Amanda! I'm one of those weird people who doesn't like chocolate (I know lol) so this is just perfect for me. Bring on the berries!!
You don't like chocolate?! Kidding. 😉 I wholeheartedly agree—bring on the summer berries!
I think you're going to love this new Schizandra Berries & Creme, Mary. It's creamy but a little tart…perfect.
Hi Amanda, I just subscribed to your blog today and I'm glad to have learned something new: schizandra berries! They seem to be the newest discovery. I was curious to know more about this berry and I learned you can find powdered schisandra fruit or fruit extract, you can take schisandra pills/capsules, you can make schisandra teas, tonic or wine as well as indulging your crazy delicious looking dessert, yum!
I made this exactly as written and it turned out perfectly. It's creamy and rich, but not overly sweet and it doesn't make my blood sugar spike. Thank you for turning me onto the REBBL drinks. They're delicious.
Yay! That's great to hear, Alice!
This is beautiful, Amanda! I love berries and cream and usually do bowls of sliced strawberries, blueberries and whipped cream sweetened with a little maple syrup. It's one of my favorite summer indulgences and so easy too. I'll have to try your freezer fudge soon!
I love the simplicity of summer meals and dessert, when produce is so good all on its own. <3 I hope you'll give the fudge a try soon!


The login screen in Windows 10 no longer has that plain-colored background that was present in Windows 8.1. You could say that the new login screen is more "alive" now that it features the default Windows 10 wallpaper as its background, but unfortunately, it isn't customizable through settings.
Although it can still be removed to bring back the single-color, theme-based background, here's how to do it.
There you have it. You can test if it worked by locking your PC (Windows Key + L), notice that the background is the same color as your theme, which can be changed in Settings, Personalization, Colors.
Let us know in the comments section below whether you'll be sticking with the Windows logo background on your log-in screen or changing it to your theme color.
Do you think that there should be an easier way to change the login screen background?


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REC 4.2 The supervisory relationship with UK recognised bodies
REC 4.2.1G 03/01/2018 RP
The FCA3 expects to have an open, cooperative and constructive relationship with UK recognised bodies to enable it to have a broad picture of the UK recognised body's activities and its ability to meet the recognised body requirements.2 This broad picture is intended to complement the information which the FCA3 will obtain under section 293 of the Act (Notification requirements) or under notification rules made under that section (see REC 3). The FCA3 will usually arrange meetings between the Infrastructure and Trading Firms Department4 and members of the management body4 of the UK recognised body for this purpose. The frequency and nature of these meetings may vary in accordance with the risk profile of the UK recognised body.
UK recognised bodies are likely to develop and adapt their businesses in response to customer demand and new market opportunities. Where such developments involve changes to the way the UK recognised body operates, they are likely to involve changes to the way it satisfies the1 recognised body requirements.2
The FCA3 expects a UK recognised body to take its own steps to assure itself that it will continue to satisfy the1 recognised body requirements2 when considering any changes to its business or operations.
However, the FCA3 also expects that UK recognised bodies will keep it informed of all significant developments and of progress with their 2plans and operational initiatives, and will provide it with appropriate assurance that the recognised body requirements21 will continue to be satisfied.


The pebcak is a guy.
is this one about me?
or a reference to `wint`?
An ephemeral instance where everything is forgotten in a year.
All toots deleted after 90 days.
vCity has extended length toots.
This is c1t7's home. They are letting you in. Do not make them regret allowing you in.
c1t7 doesn't have the mental bandwidth for drama and will stop it the only way they can: Banishment.
If you need a basic list, cause you like to fiddle with the rules, start with this one: No white supremacists, nationalists, nazis, jerks, trolls, drama llamas, etc.
Check the HR manual for your place of employment. Those rules are a good place to start.
c1t7 knows a lot of instance admins they trust: reports from them carry extra weight.
Kindergarten rules are best. Be nice, share your toys, and don't fight.


FROM THE HEART ART KITS were created in HANDMAKERY FROM THE HEART: making + creating to give with 6 – 9 year olds as a project to learn about making to give. They were then gifted to local children in need, through our local Angel Tree Program over the holiday season! Each artist designed a box and shopped for a collection of art supplies with their families, to create their very own + personalized, FROM THE HEART ART KIT! You could create your kit to gift a loved-one this Valentine's Day to show your love + appreciation. It's a gift from the heart that inspires daily + yearlong C-R-E-A-T-I-V-I-T-Y and M-A-K-I-N-G!
Duct tape or Duck Brand Tape in various colors + patterns. Learn more here about duct vs duck tape!
First decide on your color scheme and overall design plan. Move into cutting duct tape strips using a lot of muscle power to stretch the tape. Cut using the inner part of the scissors, as this surface is the sharpest. Remember to hold your tape tight before cutting and be sure it doesn't twist. We used a simple handmade paper guide to measure our length for strips, as there were two lengths and this method was much easier for this age group than measuring with a ruler. Each artist teamed with a partner for the entire duct tape process, which made the cutting + lining up + taping manageable and much more fun!
There was lots of excitement over tape selection as we discovered lots of solid + patterned duct tapes in our duct tape quest! Creating their own color schemes + patterns was such an expressive piece to this process! A each artist became a product designer and loved every minute of it! I definitely got the feeling there would be much more experimentation with duct tape in the future with these individuals- they LOVED working with duct tape, especially because it's so vibrant and beautiful!
any additional art supply you and your child might want to add!
Each artist in our workshop had our general art supply list and went shopping with their families to fill their box to create a very personalized FROM THE HEART ART KIT!
Two+Two bags are always a lovely + local addition! two+two designs chic reusable bags and bowl covers that are food-safe + eco-friendly. Based outside of Aspen, Colorado this young company is run by two creative Moms with a passion for style, sewing, Mother Earth, and doing what's best (and cutest) for their little ones. two+two products keep goods + food fresh and uncontaminated with a proprietary lining that is free of lead, BPA and phthalates. The various sizes of eco-friendly reusable bags accommodate any and all packing, organizing and traveling needs. We love having the two+two families "two children" part of HANDMAKERY!
A proud + beaming artist just after she had filled her FROM THE HEART ART KIT and it was ready to travel to a child wishing for new art supplies! Each box was taken to our local Angel Tree Program, where boxes were added into gift bags and gifted! Thank you to the seventeen HANDMAKERY Families that donated art supplies to gift and a BIG thank you to each artist that gave from the heart, something special that they had created on their own! Also a huge thank you to Cresta Stewart and the Carbondale Rotary Club for heading-up + organizing + dedicating tons of time and energy to this fabulous project, that benefited so many local children!
Our Winter Vintage Cottages were created in our workshop HANDMAKERY FROM THE HEART: making + creating to give with 6 – 9 year olds! The Winter Vintage Cottage was our third project in a six-week session! The children absolutely LOVED working on these! Most children created their cottage as special gifts for a loved one! We were excited that the cottage could light up with a flameless tea light and be used for a nightlight! With all the windows it has fabulous ambiance! Our biggest challenge was finding enough of these fabulous little houses, but with friends and family searching across two states, we had just enough for our seventeen HANDMAKERY artists! Thank goodness for family and friends that searched high and low, making room in their travels for these delightful pieces to inspire! Here is a little gift to welcome your NEW YEAR focused on making + creating + crafting + exploring creativity + being hands-on + celebrating mixed-media! Enjoy our DIY to guide and inspire you in making your own Winter Vintage Cottage!


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BrierFest 2020
CONFEDERATE RAILROAD
Scott Lucas Construction Stage
SATURDAY 9:15 PM
Confederate Railroad first rolled onto the national country music scene in the early 90s with its unique style and sound.
Headed by founder and frontman Danny Shirley, the former backup band for both David Allan Coe and Johnny Paycheck got their big break by signing with Atlantic Records. The first single from their debut album ("Confederate Railroad") was "She Took It Like A Man". It went to No. 26, a preview of what was to come. "The next two singles, "Jesus and Mama" and "Queen of Memphis" went to the top of the charts. Three more huge hits followed, "Trashy Women", "When You Leave That Way You Can Never Go Back", and "She Never Cried". "Trashy" would lead to a Grammy nomination and become their signature song. That album with six hits and nearly three million sales brought Confederate the Academy of Country Music's Best New Group Award in 1993 as well as numerous nominations from the Country Music Association and the British Country Music Foundation.
The second album, "Notorious", produced one of the group's most popular songs "Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind" which became a No. One video as well. "Elvis and Andy" and "Summer in Dixie" would further establish the Railroad as one of the most versatile acts in the business. This album would sell more than one million. Their overall totals are 18 charted hits and five million albums sold.
From rowdy country to raw emotion, a Confederate Railroad concert today covers a wide range of feelings. Young people will be there rocking to "Trashy Women", while their parents and even grandparents will likely be singing along to "Jesus and Mama". The band plays 100 or so dates each year. Whatever the venue, they are right at home…be it a fair, a club, or a biker show. Shirley, the lead singer and vocalist, and his mates, Mark Dufresne on drums, Mo Thaxton on bass and vocals, Rusty Hendrix on lead guitar and Joey Recker on keyboards and vocals are obviously having fun right along with their appreciative audience. At the end of each show, the band stays around until every fan who wants an autograph, or to pose with the group for a picture or just say "hello" is taken care of.
http://www.confederaterailroad.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ConfederateRR/
https://www.instagram.com/confederaterr/


Bexley DSV Youth is a three-year partnership between Her Centre and Little Fish Theatre.
The project has been set up to support young people aged 13-19 in healthy relationships, working with survivors, perpetrators and young people at risk of domestic & sexual violence.
Little Fish Theatre will be touring their 'Kiss & Tell' production and workshop in schools and youth clubs. They will also be running healthy relationship programmes in school and youth venues for single gender or mixed groups. For more information please contact info@littlefishtheatre.co.uk or phone 020 8269 1123.
Her Centre will provide a dedicated Independent Domestic and Sexual Violence Advocate (IDSVA) service for young women in Bexley with access to counselling, information and advice. For more information or to make a referral please contact alexia@hercentre.org or phone 020 3260 7772.


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The American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) is a non-profit consortium of US universities and museums, founded in 1967, for the purpose of promoting Iranian and Persian studies. AIIrS facilitates academic and cultural exchange  between the US and Iran and is dedicated to supporting scholars and funding research in Iranian Studies.  It represents American institutions of higher education and research in Iranian Studies and furthers the field in the US curriculum.

The institute is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.

History
From 1967-1979, AIIrS operated an overseas center in Tehran for the purpose of supporting and hosting visiting American scholars.  The center was obliged to suspend its activities after the rupture of diplomatic relations between the US and Iran, and for the next two decades, AIIrS devoted itself to furthering Iranian Studies in the US by offering grants to students, holding conferences and fostering a sense of community in the field.  Following the Dialogue of Civilizations initiative in 1998, AIIrS resumed sending scholars to Iran and instituted grants for Iranian scholars to research in the US.

Programs
The core program of AIIrS is short-term grant-making for individual scholars. Beyond the fellowship programs, AIIrS also supports conferences on Iranian Studies in the US and abroad, and provides occasional funding for projects including publications and exhibitions. It also awards the Roth Prize, funded by the Lois Roth Endowment, in recognition of demonstrated excellence in translating Persian literature into English.

Officers
 Beatrice Forbes Manz, president
 Matthew Stolper, vice president
 Mirjam Kuenkler, secretary
 Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, treasurer

External links
 Official website

References

Iran–United States relations
Iranian studies
Middle Eastern studies in the United States
Learned societies of the United States
Council of American Overseas Research Centers

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A Judge Has Ruled That A Woman Who Left The US For ISIS Is Not An American Citizen
The ruling means the federal government is under no obligation to facilitate Hoda Muthana's or her 2-year-old son's return to the US.
By Ellie Hall
Reporting From
Ellie Hall BuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on November 14, 2019, at 5:07 p.m. ET
Posted on November 14, 2019, at 1:49 p.m. ET
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Thursday that Hoda Muthana, a US-born woman who left the country to join ISIS, is not an American citizen, and therefore the government has no obligation to facilitate her return or that of her 2-year-old son.
Judge Reggie Walton said there was sufficient evidence that Muthana had been born while her father, who once represented Yemen in the United Nations, still had diplomatic status in the US.
Federal regulations and international law state that children of foreign diplomats born in the US are not subject to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees birthright citizenship, because they are born under the jurisdiction of another country.
Walton also ruled that Muthana's father could not provide financial support to his daughter and grandson, who was born in territory under ISIS control and whom he has never met, without being subject to charges of providing material support to terrorism.
Following the ruling, Muthana's lawyer, Christina Jump, told BuzzFeed News that while they would wait for Walton's order, she believed that there was "likely a basis" to appeal the case and "pursue any additional options which may be available solely to [her] child."
Muthana, 25, left her home in Alabama in November 2014 and lived under ISIS control until she escaped to a Kurdish refugee camp in late 2018. She has a 2-year-old-son, Adam, from her second marriage to a Tunisian ISIS fighter.
BuzzFeed News exclusively profiled her after she arrived in ISIS-controlled territory in 2015. At the time, Muthana was one of the most militant members of so-called ISIS Twitter. Among her many tweets were messages urging American Muslims to kill citizens in drive-by shootings and vehicular attacks, and calls to assassinate then-president Barack Obama.
Four years later, on Feb. 17, Muthana identified herself as an American citizen in a Guardian interview and expressed her desire to return home with her son, even if it meant facing criminal charges and jail time.
"I was really young and ignorant," Muthana said in the interview. "I believe that America gives second chances. I want to return, and I'll never come back to the Middle East. America can take my passport and I wouldn't mind."
After days of widespread media coverage and many interviews from various news outlets featuring Muthana and her son in the Kurdish-controlled al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria, the State Department issued a statement denying that Muthana was a citizen.
"Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a US citizen and will not be admitted into the United States," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Feb. 20 statement. "She does not have any legal basis, no valid US passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States. We continue to strongly advise all US citizens not to travel to Syria."
Hours later, President Trump followed up with a tweet saying, "I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!"
The next day, Muthana's father filed the lawsuit against the government in federal court on behalf of his daughter and grandson.
Ahmed Ali Muthana is pictured during his time as a diplomat in the United Nations.
The question surrounding Muthana's citizenship has been centered on whether her father, Ahmed Ali Muthana, was a diplomat at the time of her birth.
Per court documents, he served as First Secretary with the Yemeni Mission to the United Nations from October 1990 until he was fired in either June or September 1994 (the timing is unclear).
Hoda Muthana was born on Oct. 28, 1994, in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Neither the government nor Muthana's lawyers disputed the fact that her father had been fired before her birth. The crux of the citizenship issue has been whether her father notified the United Nations — who then would inform the United States — that he had been fired before she was born.
Per Article 43 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the notification is what formally ends "the function of a diplomatic agent." And, per documents submitted as evidence to the court by the government, Muthana's father did not notify the United Nations until Feb. 6, 1995, nearly four months after she was born.
Before issuing his verdict, Walton expressed sympathy for Muthana's father and family.
"Kids do crazy things," he said. Acknowledging that he was a father himself, he understood that parents "don't quit loving [their children]," no matter what they do — but he added that those perceptions can't impact his decision.
The federal judge also talked about the ramifications of the president's personal interest in the case.
Walton said that his office had received "6,000 or more communications" about Muthana's case since proceedings began. The majority of the messages, he said, were "spewed with hate," and many threatened that "there would be consequences" for the judge if he ruled in Muthana's favor.
He described the communications as failed attempts to "intimidate the court" and said that he had forwarded a number of them to law enforcement.
Trump Doesn't Want A Woman Who Left The US For ISIS To Return. Her Lawyers Say She's A Citizen. Ellie Hall · Feb. 20, 2019
An Alabama "ISIS Bride" Wants To Come Home. Can We Forgive Her Horrifying Social Media Posts? Ellie Hall · May 4, 2019
Gone Girl: An Interview With An American In ISIS Ellie Hall · April 17, 2015


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Identity Crisis: Do Immigration Judges Need More Freedom?
W hen Ashley Tabbador steps into an immigration hearing, she wears a black robe and is addressed as "Your honor." She weighs arguments from the parties before her to decide cases on behalf of the U.S. government, and her rulings are legally binding.
But that, in many ways, is where the parallels between immigration judges and other judges end.
Tabbador, like the roughly 400 other immigration judges across the country, is not part of the judicial branch. She reports to the U.S. Department of Justice. Her decisions can be overturned by the U.S. Attorney General. She is bound not just by precedent, but also by agency policy.
"We don't have control of even our dockets. A lot of traditional, basic logistical authorities judges exercise in controlling their [court] we don't have," said Tabbador, who is head of the National Association of Immigration Judges.
But there is a growing movement to change that.
Increasingly, immigration judges, legislators and other advocates are calling on Congress to shield immigration courts from political influence. A bill introduced in the Senate on March 6 aims to give judges greater independence by protecting them from retaliation for their decisions and removing quotas for processing cases instituted by the Trump administration.
But many advocates are pushing lawmakers to go further and remove immigration judges from the DOJ altogether, instead converting them to Article 1 judges. Putting them on equal footing with the rest of the federal judiciary will allow them to fix severe inefficiencies in the immigration court system, they say.
It's not a new proposal. Advocates have been pushing this idea for decades. But sweeping policy changes implemented under the Trump administration, including decades of precedent personally reversed by the president's first two attorneys general, could add fuel to the movement.
T he immigration court system often shifts with the political winds of the White House. Each attorney general can either expand or contract the independence of immigration judges — originally called special inquiry officers — by issuing new regulations or by reversing decisions from the Board of Immigration Appeals, which takes administrative appeals from the lower immigration judges.
"In past administrations, you feel something when it goes from one administration to another, say from Clinton to Bush. But I feel there's never been a sense before of judges being pressured and pushed to the degree that they are now," said Jeffrey Chase, a former immigration judge and former senior legal adviser at the BIA.
Over the last few decades, federal officials have steadily provided immigration judges with a greater degree of judicial independence, experts say.
But when former Attorney General Jeff Sessions personally stepped in over the authority of the BIA to rewrite published decisions — upending years of precedent in the process — many felt it signaled an about-face towards treating judges more like an arm of the DOJ.
In the first case, known as Castro-Tum, Sessions stripped immigration judges of their authority to administratively close enforcement cases considered low-priority, such as the deportation of someone waiting for a visa or asylum application to be processed. The ruling also removed immigration judge Stephen Morley for delaying a deportation order.
In the second case, known as the Matter of A-B, he essentially eliminated domestic violence as a situation that could qualify someone for asylum. A U.S. district judge placed an injunction on the ruling in December, but it is expected to be appealed.
Lawyers and former judges say the A-B case made it harder to approve asylum cases, while Castro-Tum improperly incentivized deportations over allowing for more time on certain asylum or visa cases.
The DOJ has maintained that the cases reestablished important immigration law precedent — and set bright line rules that should help make the immigration court system more efficient.
"We have overturned cases that did not meet the standards set out by law — and by doing that, we have taken away some of the incentives to make meritless claims," former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who succeeded Sessions, said in a December 2018 speech.
More cases are now moving through the court's pipeline. In fiscal 2018, the number of decisions on asylum cases grew 40 percent over the previous year to 42,224, including both grants and denials, according to data compiled by the Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse of Syracuse University.
A representative for the DOJ did not respond to requests for comment.
During his recent confirmation hearing, William Barr — who became attorney general in mid-February — declined to answer direct questions on the Castro-Tum and A-B cases, but affirmed the attorney general's authority to certify cases to himself.
Sessions is far from the first attorney general to take immigration cases into his own hands. During her tenure, Janet Reno decided three cases through certification, while Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch both decided four, Chase noted. Fifteen cases were decided through certification during George W. Bush's eight years in office.
So far, the AG's office under Trump has certified 10 cases in two years, four of which now fall in Barr's lap.
Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge and resident fellow in law and policy at the conservative research institute Center for Immigration Studies, said certification can be a more efficient way of clarifying policy issues or fixing erroneous immigration court decisions, especially given the government's attorneys can't appeal such decisions. Only those seeking asylum can appeal to a federal court.
The Castro-Tum and A-B cases are part of a bigger push and pull between what the DOJ has presented as necessary changes to reestablish the rule of law and bring efficiency back to the immigration court system, and many judges' claims that they're being treated as means to a political end.
Those judges agree there is a need for greater efficiency. Immigration courts are facing a massive 800,000 case backlog, which grew by 200,000 cases in the recent government shutdown. But some view the administration's more aggressive approach as part of the problem.
"The backlog is growing because we are constantly used as an enforcement tool," Tabaddor told Law360 in February.
The backlog has also long been on the rise because there are too few judges. Arthur, who was a former immigration judge, estimates 700 judges are required to properly deal with the growing caseload.
This administration, more than most, has made headway on that problem. On Sept. 26, Sessions welcomed the largest class of immigration judges in EOIR history. Forty-six immigration judges joined DOJ that day, just three weeks after an initial record-breaking class of 44 judges were added.
The hiring spree was part of Sessions' larger plan to put the administrative court system on track to clear the case backlog. Even critics of his administration applauded the move.
"They are hiring quite a few, which I have always supported. I always felt to have a fair system of hearing of people, you need fair resources for people — judges, clerks, staff," said Ur Jaddou, the former chief counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who left in 2017 with the outgoing administration.
On Friday, during the swearing in of 31 newly appointed immigration judges, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the DOJ now oversees the greatest number of immigration judges ever, including 48 percent more judges compared to three years ago and a more than 70 percent increase compared to five years ago.
Rosenstein on Friday also stressed judges' roles as DOJ employees and members of the executive branch, according to his prepared remarks.
"You follow lawful instructions from the attorney general, and you share a duty to enforce the law," he said.
Other policy shifts, including requiring judges to process 700 removal cases a year and making it part of their performance review, have stoked concerns about independence. Some fear the quotas encourage judges — especially new hires — to weigh their own job security against giving extra, sometimes necessary, time to a case.
"It's not the way you're encouraging judges to make decisions independently," Jaddou said.
On March 6, lawmakers, among them Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, introduced a package of immigration bills that included the Immigration Court Improvement Act of 2019.
While the bill wouldn't separate the court from the DOJ, it would take steps to ensure immigration judges can exercise independent decision-making by barring discipline over good-faith legal decisions and creating a transparent judicial complaint process. It would also eliminate quotas as a way to appraise a judge's performance.
As the newly Democrat-controlled House of Representatives places a spotlight on the administration's immigration policies, there is increasing hope among advocates that a bill to turn immigration courts into an Article 1 court could resurface.
Supporters would include the American Bar Association, which has called for an independent immigration court since 1981 and last year asked Congress to again take up the matter. The group argues it would have a positive impact on district courts, which face the burden of appeals from the BIA, because an independent court would inspire greater confidence in immigration rulings.
Any such bill, however, would have a hard time passing the Republican-controlled Senate, in part because of the constitutional question as to whether a court not overseen by the executive branch can make decisions tied to the foreign policy and national security powers of the U.S., Arthur said.
If lawmakers take a pass on changing the immigration court now, they may only be kicking the can down the road.
Trump's attorneys general may have "exploited" the system's lack of independence, Tabbador said, but there's a larger issue that isn't going away — whether or not Americans want a court of law and its hundreds of judges exposed to the politics of any administration.
"Its indefensible to have a court system run like that," Tabbador said.


Yesterday I ran across an interesting booklet in my grandparents' papers; and noting that it was published before 1977 without a copyright notice and was therefore in the public domain in the US, and having an interest in user-contributed items for digitization projects at the moment, I thought I would scan it and contribute it to the Internet Archive. After a hasty reading of the FAQ I proceeded to mess up the process, so I thought I'd document it here.
The booklet is a prospectus for an art photography course offered by the New York photographer Rabinovitch (who went by his surname alone). My grandmother was a student of his in 1938, and a photograph of hers is on p.8, one of the ones I posted on my other blog. The booklet is in WorldCat (from the Getty) and Google Books, but hasn't yet been digitized, as far as I found.
Now I had a 730mb pdf. Off to the Internet Archive Contribution page, where I logged in with the account I created a while ago when I uploaded a video. Click the "Upload" button at the upper right to get to the main uploading page, then click "Share" at the upper right, and select your pdf. A flash app uploads it; it took a couple of hours on my home connection. Meanwhile you have a form to fill in. It's more oriented to a/v uploads than to books, and you don't actually get to tell it what you're uploading, but the process will figure it out in the end. You can fill in a title (which gets converted into an Internet Archive ID) and a description and an author, and that's it for metadata. You can also apply a license. If you choose to dedicate your item to the public domain, you'll be given the option in the next step to mark it as already in the public domain, which was appropriate for my item.
When the upload completed I submitted the form, and after a minute or so it told me my item was available and gave me a url. And it was available, but it hadn't finished processing yet: all I could get was the original pdf that I had uploaded. There is a link on the upload page to a list of your unfinished tasks: go there, and you'll see the processing task still running. Click to see a log of the ongoing processing (here's mine, after completion). You can see which node in Internet Archive's storage array received and processed the item, the job priority (-1: hey, I don't mind), the generating of the xml (including the assignment of an ARK, replication of the files to another node with rsync, and finally the generation of the various derivatives: OCR, images, pdfs, etc., with the results being rsynced to the mirror node. The whole process took a little more than ten minutes.
The outcome is http://www.archive.org/details/RabinovitchProspectus1938. It's in the Community Texts collection (formerly known as the Open Source Collection), and it has the full Internet Archive treatment. The photographs in the offset-print original have been nicely descreened, and look quite good in the book-viewer presentation. All it lacked was an Open Library page, so I activated my mad cataloguing skillz and created one.
I also have the option to edit this item; this brings up another form with more fields, including date, notes, and rights – things I couldn't fill in from the upload screen. I can also modify the files if I like.
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In our hustle and bustle world, with all of its distractions, it can be difficult to hear the voice of God. Adam and Eve had no problem hearing the voice of God in the Garden. We, like our fallen parents, must be careful because some voices are evil (Gen. 3:4). We must possess the ability to discern good from evil. Anyone who does not have a relationship with the Creator cannot properly discern. As parents we are charged by God to train our children well; so that, they may discern with Godly wisdom and be able to properly hear His voice (Prov. 22:6).
Some years ago a young couple told me they heard God's voice and He told them they could worship atop a local mountain and it was as good as going to church. So they swapped Sundays between church and the mountain. God never contradicts His Word. Clearly they did not hear God's voice. The origin of that voice was none other than Ole Slewfoot himself. He has much to say in this world, he has been at it since time began. God says think on these things, "… whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things (Phil. 4:8). If a voice does not follow this Scriptural pattern it is not of God.
While a newborn Christian I had an immediate need to hear from God. I searched the Scriptures exhaustively and prayed to God continuously. One day while parked in a quiet spot, a powerful, authoritative voice (whether inward or outward I am not sure), directed me to a particular verse in Scripture. In Ps. 29:3-9 God's voice is described as thunderous, powerful and above all majestic. I immediately referenced the verse and there was the answer. I cannot adequately describe the feeling. It was the first time God had spoken to me (that I was aware of).
But how can we hear God on a more consistent basis? The fault lies with us. I suggest we destroy our televisions, rip the radios out of our cars and throw our computers in a wood chipper. Moreover we should turn the ringers off of our cellphones, because God will not be calling us on them.
Seriously speaking, we need to spend more time in God's presence and actively listen. We need to remain quiet in His presence. Sometimes our voices only add to the din. These times are unprecedented in history with all the modern-day distractions. Let us savor our time with the Saviour. We should go somewhere peaceful by ourselves and listen for God. God is the only voice that matters. As Christ got alone with the Father, so too we must (Mt. 14:23). I am reminded of the line in a song by Larnelle Harris where God says, "I miss my time with you." As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God (Ps. 42:1).


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