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Above all, this department values the safety of its employees and the public.
Likewise, it believes that police officers should use firearms with a high degree of restraint. Officers' use of firearms, therefore, shall never be considered routine and is permissible only in defense of life and then only after all alternative means have been exhausted.
RULE 1: Police officers shall not discharge their firearms except to protect themselves or another person from imminent death or serious bodily injury.
RULE 2: Police officers shall discharge their firearms only when doing so will not endanger innocent persons.
RULE 3: Police officers shall not discharge their firearms to threaten or subdue persons whose actions are destructive to property or injurious to themselves but which do not represent an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or others.
RULE 4: Police officers shall not discharge their firearms to subdue an escaping suspect who presents no imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury.
RULE 5: Police officers shall not discharge their weapons at a moving vehicle unless it is absolutely necessary to do so to protect against an imminent threat to the life of the officer or others.
RULE 6: Police officers when confronting an oncoming vehicle shall attempt to move out of the path, if possible, rather than discharge their firearms at the oncoming vehicle.
RULE 7: Police officers shall not intentionally place themselves in the path of an oncoming vehicle and attempt to disable the vehicle by discharging their firearms.
RULE 8: Police officers shall not discharge their firearms at a fleeing vehicle or its driver.
RULE 9: Police officers shall not fire warning shots.
RULE 10: Police officers shall not draw or display their firearms unless there is a threat or probably cause to believe there is a threat to life, or for inspection.
GOAL #3: REDUCE POLICE BRUTALITY
Your community's principal aim here should be to get the police department to adopt and enforce a written policy governing the use of physical force. This policy should have two parts:
(1) It should explicitly restrict physical force to the narrowest possible range of specific situations. For example, a policy on the use of batons should forbid police officers from striking citizens in "non-target" areas, such as the head and spine, where permanent injuries can result. Mace should be used defensively, not offensively. Since electronic stun guns (Novas and Taser) have great potential for abuse because they don't leave scars or bruises, their use should be strictly controlled, supervised and reviewed.
(2) It should require that a police officer file a written report after any use of physical force, and that report should be automatically reviewed by high ranking officers.
Your community's second objective should be to get the police department to establish an early warning system to identify officers who are involved in an inordinate number of incidents that include the inappropriate use of physical force. The incidents should then be investigated and, if verified, the officers involved should be charged, disciplined, transferred, re-trained or offered counseling — depending on the severity of their misconduct. The Christopher Commission's report on the Rodney King beating ascertained that the Los Angeles police leadership typically looked the other way when officers were involved in questionable incidents. This tolerance of brutality by the top brass helped create an atmosphere conducive to police abuses.
GOAL #4: END POLICE SPYING
Police spying, or intelligence gathering, on constitutionally protected political, religious and private sexual behavior is an historic problem. And it's particularly difficult to deal with because spying, by definition, is a covert activity. The victim doesn't know it's happening, and it's not witnessed by others.
During the 1970s, the ACLU and other public interest organizations brought lawsuits against unconstitutional police surveillance in several cities around the country, including New York City, Chicago, Memphis and Los Angeles. These suits resulted in the imposition of stricter limits on intelligence gathering by the police.
In Seattle in 1976, it came to light that local police were spying on organizations of black construction workers, Native Americans, advocates for low-income housing and other community activists whose conduct was perfectly lawful. In response to the revelations, the ACLU, along with the American Friends Service Committee and the National Lawyers Guild, formed the Coalition on Government Spying. After several years of hard work and lobbying, the coalition succeeded in bringing about passage of a comprehensive municipal law — the first of its kind in the country — that governs all police investigations and restricts the collection of political, religious and sexual information.
This law, called the Seattle Police Intelligence Ordinance, is an important breakthrough and a model for other efforts. It contains three elements that represent basic changes in police intelligence operations:
(1) "Restricted" information (that is, religious, political or sexual information) can be collected only if a person is reasonably suspected of having committed a crime, and the information must be relevant to that crime; (2) An independent civilian "auditor", appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the city council, must review all police authorizations to collect restricted information and have access to all other police files. If the auditor finds that the police have violated the law, he or she must so notify the individuals who are the subjects of the unlawful investigations;
(3) Any individual subjected to unlawful surveillance can bring a civil action in court to stop the surveillance, and to collect damages from the city.
GOAL #5: GENERAL OVERSIGHT OF POLICE POLICY
Police policies should be subject to public review and debate instead of being viewed as the sole province of police insiders. Open policy-making not only allows police officials to benefit from community input, but it also provides an opportunity for police officials to explain to the public why certain tactics or procedures may be necessary. This kind of communication between the police and the community can help anticipate problems and avert crises before they occur.
The Police Review Commission (a civilian review body) of Berkeley, California holds regular, bi-monthly meetings that are open to the public. At these meetings, representatives of community organizations can voice criticisms, make proposals and introduce resolutions to review or reform specific police policies.
The Police Practices Project of the ACLU of Northern California successfully pressured the San Francisco Police Department to adopt enlightened policies in regard to the treatment of homeless people; the use of pain holds and batons; the deployment of plainclothes officers at protests and demonstrations; intelligence gathering; the selection of field training officers, and AIDS/HIV education for police officers. The Project has also prevented the adoption of bad policies, including an anti-loitering rule and a policy that would have made demonstrators financially liable for police costs.
In Tucson, Arizona, a Citizens' Police Advisory Committee was made part of the city's municipal code in July 1990. The Committee, which is composed of both civilian and police representatives, has the authority to initiate investigations of controversial incidents or questionable policies, along with other oversight functions.
SIDEBAR: CITIZEN-POLICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE TUCSON, ARIZONA (Created by the Tucson Code, Sec. 10A-86)
(a) Consult with the governing body from time to time as may be required by the mayor and [City] Council.
(b) Assist the police in achieving a greater understanding of the nature and causes of complex community problems in the area of human relations, with special emphasis on the advancement and improvement of relations between police and community minority groups.
(c) Study, examine and recommend methods, approaches and techniques to encourage and develop an active citizen-police partnership in the prevention of crime.
(d) Promote cooperative citizen-police programs and approaches to the solutions of community crime problems, emphasizing the principal that the administration of justice is a responsibility which requires total community involvement.
(e) Recommend procedures, programs and/or legislation to enhance cooperation among citizens of the community and police.
(f) Strive to strengthen and ensure throughout the community the application of the principle of equal protection under the law for all persons.
(g) Consult and cooperate with federal, state, city and other public agencies, commissions and committees on matters within the committee's charge.
(h) The committee may ask for and shall receive from the Police Department, a review of action taken by the Department in incidents which create community concern or controversy.
(i) The committee shall have the authority, should it so desire, to use a specific incident as a vehicle for the examination of police policies, procedures and priorities.
(j) At the discretion and express direction of the Mayor and Council, assume and undertake such other tasks or duties as will facilitate the accomplishment of these goals and objectives………
GOAL #6: IMPROVED TRAINING
Over the years, citizens' groups in some communities demanded more education and training for police officers as part of their efforts to solve the problem of police abuse. But at this juncture, the education issue is somewhat moot because the educational levels of American police officers have risen dramatically in recent years. By 1986, 22.6 percent of all officers had four or more years of college. About 65 percent had at least some college experience. The levels of education are highest among new recruits, who, in many departments have about two years of college. Moreover, no evidence exists to show that college educated police officers perform better, or are more respectful of citizen's rights, than less educated officers. In an abuse-prone department, all officers are likely to engage in misconduct, regardless of education levels.
The training of police personnel has also improved significantly in recent years. The average length of police academy programs has more than doubled, from about 300 to over 600 hours; in some cities, 900 or even 1200 hours are the rule. As the time devoted to training has increased, the academies have added a number of important subjects to their curricula: race relations, domestic violence, handling the mentally ill, and so on.
Unquestionably, a rigorously trained, professional police force is a desirable goal that should be pursued depending on local conditions. If citizens in your community feel that this is an important issue, here's what you should aim for:
A first rate police academy curriculum. The curriculum should be near the high end of the current scale — 800 hours or more. It should include a mix of classroom and supervised field training.
It should include training in the techniques of de-escalating violence. In addition to being given weapons and taught how to use them, police recruits should also learn special skills — especially communications skills — to help them defuse and avert situations that might lead to the necessary use of force.
It should include community sensitivity training. Training recruits to handle issues of special significance in particular communities can lead to a reduction in community-police tensions.
The ACLU of Georgia, after a series of incidents occurred in Atlanta involving police harassment of gays, helped provide regular training at the local police academy to sensitize new recruits on gay and lesbian concerns.
The Police Practices Project of the ACLU of Northern California organized a group of homeless people to create a video for use in sensitivity training at the San Francisco police academy.
The ACLU of New Jersey, in response to complaints that state police were harassing minority motorists and entrapping gay men during an undercover operation in the men's room of a highway service area, joined the NAACP and the Lesbian and Gay Coalition in initiating a series of meetings with the new superintendent of the Division of State Police. The meetings resulted in the introduction a two-week seminar on "Cultural Diversity and Professionalism" that all 1,700 employees of the Division were required to take within a year's time. Although it's too soon to evaluate the seminar's impact on police conduct, the participating organizations believe that at the very least it opened up lines of communication between the community and the police.
Unfortunately, even the most enlightened training programs can be undermined by veteran officers, who traditionally tell recruits out in the field to "forget all that crap they taught you in the academy."
In San Francisco some years ago, men selected as field training officers (FTOs) were found to have some of the worst complaint and litigation records in the department. The evaluation scores they gave recruits revealed their systematic attempts to weed out minority and women officers. They labeled women recruits "bad drivers," gave Asians low scores in radio communication and unfairly criticized African Americans for their report-writing. The Northern California ACLU's Police Practices Project joined other community groups in successfully pressuring the police department to adopt stricter selection criteria for FTOs to ensure greater racial and gender integration, fairer evaluations of recruits and higher quality training.
GOAL #7: EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Historically, police departments, like other government agencies, have engaged in employment discrimination. People of color have been grossly under represented, and women were not even accepted as full-fledged officers until the 1970s.
Some progress has been made in the last 15 to 20 years. Police departments in several cities now have significant numbers of officers who are people of color.
A few departments even approach the theoretically ideal level of maintaining forces that reflect the racial composition of the communities they serve. Most departments now recruit and assign women on an equal basis with men.
Nonetheless, the overall employment levels of women and minorities still lag far behind the ideal. In 1986, only 8.8 percent of all sworn officers were women.
The San Francisco police force, even though it has been operating under a court-approved consent decree for 12 years, is still only 12 percent female and about 25 percent minority — just a little more than half the integration level the court required. These disparities are most blatant at the highest ranks of virtually all police departments in the country. Although a number of cities now have African American police chiefs, only two big city departments have ever had female chiefs.
Improvements in police employment practices have come about largely as the result of litigation under existing civil rights laws. However, the courts may not be hospitable to employment discrimination claims in the future. Therefore, community groups and civil rights organizations should prepare to fight in the political arena for the integration of police departments.
In the short term, the recruitment of more women and minority officers may not result in less police abuse. Several social science studies suggest that minority and white officers do not differ greatly in their use of physical or deadly force, or in their arrest practices. (Women officers, on the other hand, are involved in citizen complaints at about half the rate of male officers, according to the New York City CCRB.) Still, in the long term, an integrated police force is a very important goal for these reasons:
(1) Integration will break down the isolation of police departments, as they reflect more and more the composition of the communities they serve. A representative police force will probably be less likely to behave like an alien, occupying army. The visible presence of officers of color in high-ranking command positions engenders public confidence in the ability of police department personnel to identify, on human terms, with community residents.
(2) Integration sends the important message that the primary enforcement arm of "the law" is, itself, committed to the principles of equal opportunity and equal protection of the law.
(3) Integration might, over time, reduce overtly racist/sexist enforcement tactics and actions, including brutality.
GOAL #8: CERTIFICATION AND LICENSING OF POLICE OFFICERS
Every state now has procedures for certifying or licensing police officers that require all sworn officers to have some minimum level of training. This was one of the advances of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
An important new development is the advent of procedures for decertifying officers. Traditionally, a police officer could be fired from one department but then hired by another. As a result, persons guilty of gross misconduct could continue to work as police officers. Decertification bars a dismissed officer from further police employment in that state (though not necessarily in some other state). Between 1976 and 1983, the Florida Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission decertified 132 police officers.
GOAL #9: ACCREDITATION OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS
One result of the increasing number of lawsuits brought against police departments by victims of abuse over the past 20 years was a movement, within the police profession, for an accreditation process similar to that in education and other fields whereby the police would establish and enforce their own professional standards.
In 1979, the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (COALEA) was established as a joint undertaking of several major professional associations. COALEA published its first set of Standards for Law Enforcement Agencies in 1985 and issues new standards periodically.
In deciding whether your community should press for accreditation of its local police department, keep in mind these basic points.
(1) Accreditation is a voluntary process. A police department suffers no penalty for not being accredited. (In contrast, lack of accreditation in higher education carries penalties that include an institution's ineligibility for student financial aid programs and non-recognition of its awarded credits or degrees.)
(2) Current accreditation standards are minimum, rather than optimum. They are very good in some respects but do not go far enough in covering the critical uses of law enforcement powers.
(3) Accreditation might make a difference in the case of a truly backward, unprofessional and poorly managed police department in that it could help stimulate much needed and long overdue changes. On the other hand, a police department can easily comply with all of the current standards and still tolerate rampant brutality, spying and other abuses.
(4) Citizens in your particular community must decide whether, taking all of the above into account, accreditation would serve as an effective mobilization tool.
ORGANIZING STRATEGIES
Once your community has identified its police problems and decided what solutions to pursue, an organizing strategy for securing the desired reform must be developed.
In the 1960s and '70s, the most successful method of attacking police abuse was the lawsuit. During the tenure of Chief Justice Earl Warren, landmark Supreme
Court decisions that imposed nationally uniform limits on police behavior were handed down in the cases of Mapp v. Ohio, Escobedo v. Illinois and Miranda v. Arizona. Respectively, those decisions extended Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures to the states, established the Sixth
Amendment right to a lawyer during police interrogations and required the police to inform persons taken into custody of their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Today, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is repeatedly demonstrating its hostility to individual rights, as are many lower federal courts, the majority of whose presiding judges were appointed by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush. More and more, therefore, the task of opposing police abuse falls not to lawyers, but to the citizens in your community.
STRATEGY #1: BUILD COALITIONS
PROFILE: The Indianapolis Law Enforcement and Community Relations Coalition.
The year is 1984. Galvanized by a series of brutal and unjustified police killings that have sparked tensions between the police department and the African American community, 19 civil rights, religious, professional and civic organizations form the Indianapolis Law Enforcement/Community Relations Coalition. Coalition members include the Urban League, Baptist Ministerial Alliance, Community Centers of Indianapolis, Hispano-American Center, Indiana Council of Churches, Jewish Community Relations Council, Mental Health Association, NAACP and the United Methodist Church.
The coalition, co-chaired by the directors of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and the Urban League of Greater Indianapolis, sets the establishment of a civilian review board as its first priority. A board is established in 1989.
Currently, the coalition is seeking to strengthen the board's authority and functions. Coalition members are calling for removal of three police representatives so that the board will be completely civilian and, thus, truly independent. Coalition members collaborate with police academy instructors on sensitivity training, meeting with every class of recruits before the recruit's graduate and take on their first field assignments. The recruits receive orientation around various policies and procedures that impact on the community, such as the use of deadly force.
In Indianapolis today, the Law Enforcement/Community Relations Coalition is regarded by the police, the public and the media as the city's principal civilian watchdog organization. Key to the coalition's success has been its broad based character and commitment to participatory decision-making.
STRATEGY #2: MONITOR THE POLICE
PROFILE: COPWATCH, Berkeley, California COPWATCH is a community organization whose stated purpose is "to reduce police harassment and brutality," and "to uphold Berkeley's tradition of tolerance and diversity." Its main activities are monitoring police conduct through personal observation, recording and publicizing incidents of abuse and harassment, and working with Berkeley's civilian review board — the Police Review Commission.
COPWATCH sends teams of volunteers into the community on three-hour shifts. Each team is equipped with a flashlight, tape recorder, camera, "incident" forms (see sidebar) and COPWATCH Handbooks that describe the organization's non-violent tactics, relevant laws, court decisions, police policies and what citizens should do in an emergency. At the end of a shift, the volunteers return their completed forms to the COPWATCH office. If they have witnessed a harassment incident, they call one of the organization's cooperating lawyers, who follows up on the incident.
STRATEGY # 3: USE OPEN RECORDS LAWS
PROFILE: The Seattle Coalition on Government Spying
The year is 1976. During confirmation hearings for a new Seattle police chief, it comes to light that the city's police department maintains political intelligence files on citizens who are not suspected of any criminal activity.
Sometime later, a local newspaper prints the names of 150 individuals that were found in police files.
A group of citizens, concerned about this clear violation of First Amendment and privacy rights, form the Coalition on Government Spying.
One of the coalition's first acts is to file suit under the Washington public disclosure law, seeking access to the police department's intelligence files (see sample Open Records statute in sidebar). Under the law, the police can refuse to disclose the files only if "non disclosure is essential to effective law enforcement." Since the files are purely political, the court orders full disclosure.
The coalition's charges of abuse turn out to be well-founded. Not only do the files show that the police have engaged in unconstitutional surveillance of political activists, but they are full of inaccurate, misleading and damaging information.
The lawsuit and its revelations receive a lot of media attention, which helps build strong public support for reform. The result: Seattle enacts the first and only municipal ordinance in the country that restricts police surveillance.
SIDEBAR: OPEN RECORDS LAWS
Each of the 50 states has a freedom of information act or an open records law. Virtually all such laws were enacted post-Watergate, in the mid-1970's. Under these laws, community groups can request and obtain access to police reports, investigations, policies and tape recordings regarding a controversial incident, such as a beating, shooting, or false arrest. If the police refuse to disclose information to representatives of your community, that refusal in itself should become the focus of organizing and public attention. Ultimately, your community can sue to compel disclosure, unless the records you seek are specifically exempted.
STRATEGY #4: EDUCATE THE PUBLIC
PROFILE: Police Practices Project, ACLU of Northern California the Police Practices Project conducts education programs to teach citizens about their constitutional rights. One aspect of the police abuse problem, the project believes, is that the police tend to abuse certain people partly because they think these individuals don't know their rights, or don't know how to assert their rights. The project also believes that its programs have the added advantage of recruiting groups and individuals to work in police reform campaigns.
The project also publishes wallet-size cards in English, Spanish and Chinese that inform citizens about what to do or say in encounters with the police. These cards have been widely distributed in the community. (One card-holder reported that he pulled out his card when confronted by a police officer, only to have the officer reach into his wallet and pull out his own copy of the same card!)
The project believes that individual citizens and community groups become informed about police policies just by participating in the preparation of educational materials and training sessions. That participation also fosters awareness about particular areas of police practice that need reform. Most important, education empowers even the most disenfranchised people and helps deter the police from treating them abusively.
If You Are Stopped in Your Car
Show your driver's license and registration upon request. You can in certain cases be searched without a warrant so long as the police have probable cause.
To protect yourself later, you should make it clear that you do not consent to a search.
If you are given a ticket, you should sign it, otherwise you can be arrested. You can always fight the case in court later.
If you are suspected of drunken driving and refuse a blood, urine or breath test, your driving license can be suspended.
If You Are Arrested or Taken to a Police Station You have the right to remain silent and talk to a lawyer before you talk to the police. Tell the police nothing except your name and address. Do not give explanations, excuses or stories. You can make your defense in court based on what you and your lawyer decide is best.
Ask to see a lawyer immediately. If you cannot pay for a lawyer, you have a right to a free one, and you should ask the police how the lawyer can be contacted. Do not talk without a lawyer.
STRATEGY # 5: USE THE POLITICAL PROCESS TO WIN REFORMS
PROFILE: The New York Civil Liberties Union's Campaign for a "Real Civilian Review Board"
The time is August 1988; the place, New York City. Manhattan's Lower East Side neighborhood is rocked by one of the most serious outbreaks of police violence in years. The violence occurs as the police, declaring a curfew, begin to eject homeless people and their supporters from Tompkins Square Park. Fifty-two people, most of them innocent bystanders, sustain serious injuries at the hands of the police. Much of the violence is recorded on video. Yet the officers who are guilty of misconduct go virtually unpunished; only one receives more than a 30-day suspension from the force.
The city's Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) comes under heightened scrutiny. Although it has existed since 1966, the CCRB has long been criticized for its lack of independence and secretive proceedings. Half of its 12 members are appointed by the mayor, the other half by the police commissioner. Most of the CCRB's investigators are police officers.
During 1991, the campaign calls on the city's community boards to pass resolutions in support of "a real CCRB." (The community boards are elected bodies that have advisory jurisdiction over a variety of local matters, such as zoning and land use). Campaign spokespersons debate police department representatives before some 30 community boards throughout the city, and 19 boards pass resolutions calling for revisions of the present system (see sample resolution in sidebar). Each board that passes a resolution becomes a member of the campaign coalition. Coalition members set up tables at street fairs and other community events to collect signatures on petitions for "a real CCRB."
More than 1,000 signatures are collected. The NYCLU, after garnering this broad support develops legislation for submission to the City Council. The bill is endorsed by 14 Council members. At this writing, the bill has yet to be debated, but the cause of true civilian review in New York City has already been advanced.
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André Lichnerowicz (Bourbon-l'Archambault, 21 de janeiro de 1915 — 11 de dezembro de 1998) foi um geômetra diferencial e físico matemático francês de ascendência polonesa.

Recebeu o Doutoramento Honoris Causa da Universidade de Coimbra em 1984.

Obras com tradução para o inglês
Elements of Tensor Calculus, John Wiley and Sons, 1962
Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics, W. A. Benjamin, 1967
Linear Algebra and Analysis' Holden Day, 1967Geometry of Groups of Transformations, Leyden: Noordhoff, [1958] 1976Global Theory of Connection and Holonomy Groups Leyden: Noordhoff, [1955] 1976Magnetohydrodynamics: Waves and Shock Waves in Curved Space-Time Kluwer, Springer 1994. ISBN 0792328051
com Alexandre Favre, Henri Guitton, and Jean Guitton, Chaos and Determinism, Johns Hopkins, 1995
com Alain Connes, and Marco Schutzenberger, Triangle of Thoughts, American Mathematical Society, 2000

Tributo
Cahen, M.; Lichnerowicz, André; Flato, M., eds., Differential Geometry and Relativity: A Volume in Honour of André Lichnerowicz on His 60th Birthday, Reidel, 1976. ISBN 9027707456

Referências
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Alain Connes, "Biographical Note: André Lichnerowicz," in Triangle of Thoughts (see above), 173–5.
Maurice Mashaal (2006), Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians'', American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-3967-5, see pages 140–1 for Lichnerowicz Commission.

Ligações externas

Membros da Academia de Ciências da França
Doutores honoris causa pela Universidade de Coimbra
Geômetras diferenciais
Professores do Collège de France
Professores da Universidade de Paris
Matemáticos da França
Físicos da Polónia
Físicos da França

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"Discordia" is a song by Queensrÿche vocalist Todd La Torre and former Megadeth/King Diamond guitarist Glen Drover.

Writing and recording
Drover and La Torre had previously shared the stage together, when Drover joined Queensrÿche during their show at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto on March 7, 2013, where they played the song "Take Hold of the Flame" from Queensrÿche's 1984 album The Warning as an encore.

"Discordia" was conceived as part of a project spearheaded by Drover, who explained: "I was thinking about doing an album of heavier stuff and have a bunch of guest musicians and singers on it. Chuck Billy (Testament) was going to do something on it, Henning Basse and I covered an old Eidolon song that was never officially released, so I was toying around with having a different singer on each song. I just wanted to work with people that I really like in the industry and respect as musicians. I got in touch with Todd and asked him if he'd be willing to do a song, and he really like(d) the tune I sent him. One thing led to another, we did the track, and we're really excited about it."

"As soon as I heard the track I thought it was great," said La Torre. "Glen told me to just see what I could do with it, no pressure, no rush, and it turned out to be pretty quick and easy."

Initially, this song was going to be kept on the back burner until Drover had completed the rest of his album but La Torre said "(Glen) liked it so much that he didn't want it to sit until the whole project was done."

Release
"Discordia" was originally released as a one-off single in August 2014. The song made the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Songs upon its release. It was later included as the second track of Imperium, the debut album of Drover's current project Walls of Blood.

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2014 singles
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Capacity assessors who assess the capacity of individuals in relation to property and personal care under the SDA.
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CCB members who are called upon daily to determine issues of involuntary committal and capacity
Community mental health agencies who provide care to persons subject to Community Treatment Orders and others
D'Arcy Hiltz
Anita Szigeti
D'Arcy Hiltz, B.A., LL.B., was admitted to the Ontario Bar (1983) and has been an advocate in the field of consent and capacity matters for over 33 years, acting as counsel to individuals with mental health issues, their families and physicians. For a 10-year period (1991-2001), he was Chair of the Ontario Psychiatric Review Board (Toronto East Region), the Senior Vice Chair of the Consent and Capacity Board for Ontario and the Regional Vice Chair of the Board for Toronto. He presided over thousands of hearings involving consent and capacity matters. Mr. Hiltz has taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He has published widely and is a frequent lecturer on consent and capacity, guardianship and estate matters. Mr. Hiltz is a member of the Law Reform Commission of Ontario's Advisory Group conducting a major review of the laws concerning legal capacity, decision-making and guardianship, and is frequently appointed to act as counsel for individuals whose capacity is in issue under guardianship proceedings. Mr. Hiltz maintains a law practice in Toronto focusing on mental health law, litigation, guardianship and estate matters.
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Anita Szigeti practises law as the senior lawyer in her firm, Anita Szigeti Advocates. She graduated from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law (1990), and was admitted to the Ontario Bar (1992) and to the Nunavut Bar (2014). Ms. Szigeti is President of the Law and Mental Disorder Association (LAMDA), a volunteer lawyer association, which provides continuing legal education and serves as an umbrella advocacy group to connect and support the civil and criminal mental health bars. She is the only Canadian Board member of the National Association of Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA), an American organization of legal and non-legal advocates, psychiatrists and other mental health service providers as well as individuals with lived experience of mental health issues who oppose coercion in relation to our clients. Ms. Szigeti is a Board member of Pilot Place Society, a high-support housing provider for clients with mental health issues in Toronto. She was the former Chair and remains an active member of the Criminal Lawyers' Association's (CLA's) Mental Disorder Portfolio. She served as a Toronto Director of the CLA for six years from 2013-2019. For nearly 10 years (1997-2006), she was the Chair of the Mental Health Legal Committee (MHLC), an organization of lawyers who represent persons with mental health issues. She was the founding Chair and long-time member of the Mental Health Law and Policy Advisory Committee to Legal Aid Ontario.
Ms. Szigeti was Amicus Curiae in the Starson case in the Supreme Court of Canada. She has appeared as co-counsel to intervener groups in many of the leading cases in relation to Not Criminally Responsible accused. In the Supreme Court of Canada she was counsel on Review Board appeals in Tulikorpi / Pinet, Mazzei, and Conway, as well as on related appeals in Conception, Ewert and G v. A.G. (Ontario) most recently on the problematic inclusion of NCR accused on Sex Offender Registries. She was involved in founding the Amicus Curiae program for mentally disordered accused in the Court of Appeal for Ontario, where she appears frequently as counsel or Amicus Curiae to mentally disordered accused. She also teaches Trial Advocacy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and is a guest lecturer in their Mental Health course. Ms. Szigeti has practised mental health law exclusively since 1995 and in the process has represented thousands of individuals with serious mental health issues before the Consent and Capacity Board and the Ontario Review Board as well as on appeals from both tribunals. She has also been counsel on many high-profile Inquests, including those involving lethal interactions between police and persons in crisis. Ms. Szigeti is a frequent lecturer on issues of mental health and the law. She was involved in developing the certification standards for lawyers seeking to represent clients with mental health issues on a legal aid retainer in Ontario. She has provided substantial education and support to legal aid lawyers doing the same work in Nunavut, where she represents accused persons before the Nunavut Review Board. In addition to providing education to physicians and their counsel, she has for many years taught mental health law to families of persons with mental health issues, Crown attorneys and adjudicators, including Judges. As for her clients, she learns from them.
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Commentary – Consent and Capacity Law in Ontario
Substitute Decisions Act, 1992 – Commentary, Legislation & Forms
Powers of Attorney Act – Legislation
Health Care Consent Act, 1996  – Commentary, Legislation, Forms & Related Materials
Mental Health Act – Commentary, Legislation & Forms
Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 – Commentary, Legislation & Forms
Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 – Commentary & Legislation
Mandatory Blood Testing Act, 2006 – Commentary & Legislation
Statutory Powers Procedure Act – Commentary & Legislation
Consent and Capacity Board – Introduction, Rules of Practice, Forms & Policy Guidelines
Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Mental Health (2019 Reissue) / Military (2019 Reissue) / Mines and Minerals (2019 Reissue)
A Guide to Mental Disorder Law in Canadian Criminal Justice
Canadian Tort Law, 12th Edition

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Egg Production and Some Hatchability Characteristics of RockPartridges (Alectoris graeca) Mated at Different Rates
This study was carried out to determine the hatchability characteristics of rock partridges mated at the ratio of one maleto three females, one male to four females and one male to five females. Egg production/hen (%), fertile eggs/hen, fertility,hatchability and hatchability of fertile eggs of one male to three females, one male to four females and one male to five femalesgroups were determined to be 40.53, 48.79 and 44.85%; 38.94, 42.16 and 38.30%; 88.37, 81.73 and 81.95%; 69.70, 65.47and 66.50% and 78.97, 79.78 and 81.16%, respectively. There were significant differences between total egg production/hen andthe fertility values of the groups (P < 0.05), but there were no significant effects for the other hatchability traits. It was determinedthat the number of females (from three to five) mated to a male had no effect on the hatchability characteristics of the rock partridgeexcept for fertility; thus, this finding indicates that it is not necessary to keep extra breeding males.
Orhan Cetin, Turk J Vet Anim Sci 26 (2002) 1009-1011


"Corruption Proofing" Statutes and Regulations: The Next Big Thing in Anticorruption Strategy?
So-called "corruption proofing" is an ex ante preventive measure that entails review of the form and substance of legal acts (principally statutes or regulations) in order to minimize the risk of future corruption. It is a relatively new strategy in the anticorruption toolkit. As of 2015, 13 countries had enacted some form of corruption proofing: Armenia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
While there is some divergence between each country's specific practices, generally a corruption proofing system requires that draft and/or existing legal acts (statutes and regulations) are subjected to a review process by a designated institution (or institutions), which are tasked with identifying "corruptogenic factors"—aspects of those laws that might create risks of future corruption. Examples of corruptogenic factors that corruption proofing systems have identified include unclear definitions of the rights and duties of public officials; broad discretionary power; over-broad freedom to enact by-laws and other subsidiary legislation; linguistic ambiguity; inadequate sanctions; lack of (or conflicting) regulatory and administrative procedures; and disproportionate burdens on citizens to exercise their rights. The reviewing institution then makes recommendations for changes to the law that would mitigate those risks. The governmental body from which the legal acts originate (the parliament, in the case of statutes) is obligated to consider these recommendations but is not required to implement them, though in some systems the governmental body must state its reasons for rejecting the reviewing institution's recommendations. Another common practice is that the proofing agency's recommendations (and, if applicable, the explanations for why they were disregarded) are circulated as an annex to the draft law being debated in the legislature and are also published online, thus providing both lawmakers and citizens with more information about the potential corruptogenic factors associated with the law.
An example from Lithuania illustrates the corruption proofing process. Lithuania has a Law on Physical Culture and Sport, which established a Fund administered by a Council that can make grants for sports-related projects; the law further stated that the Council can appoint outside experts to assist in evaluating project applications. Regulations were promulgated to implement these provisions of the law, but these had to first be submitted to Lithuania's corruption proofing entity, the Special Research Service (known as the STT). The STT pointed out that the regulations did not specify the number of experts that could be invited, their selection criteria, or their role in evaluating projects, nor were there provisions on the publication of information about the contracts that had been concluded with these experts, or how they were reimbursed for their services. These gaps, the STT concluded, created risks of corruption—in particular, the misuse of government funds to provide excessive remuneration to unnecessary "experts." The STT therefore recommended that the regulations should be revised to establish clear criteria for determining who could be considered an expert, and for how these experts would be selected; and that all contracts with such experts be publicly available.
In addition to the designated governmental reviewing body, many corruption proofing systems also empower civil society organizations to perform a parallel process of review. For example, in Moldova all laws and regulations are subject to corruption proofing by both the National Anticorruption Center (NAC) (a government agency) and the Center for the Analysis and Prevention of Corruption (CAPC) (an NGO). Moreover, the CAPC closely collaborated with the NAC to develop the Methodology and Guide for corruption proofing being used in Moldova. When the corruption proofing law in a country provides for the participation of civil society in the process, this increases the stakeholders scrutinizing the law, the perspectives represented, and general levels of transparency.
More generally, corruption proofing provides the public with more information about draft laws, which in turn can promote a more robust discussion about these laws and decrease the ability of government to blindside constituents with "surprise" legal acts. Increased scrutiny by the public also makes it more likely that drafters and lawmakers sincerely consider the recommendations of the proofing agency. Corruption proofing by a designated governmental agency and civil society will also result in a substantive body of expertise and experience to be built up within these institutions, and what they learn from their work can inform future anticorruption strategies.
As is the case with most anticorruption initiatives, measuring the efficacy of corruption proofing is a complex task. However, the initial evidence seems promising. If we assume that the proofing agency's recommendations are sound, one measure of effectiveness would be the extent to which those recommendations are accepted. In many countries, this acceptance rate is quite high—for example, the rate at which the proofing agency's recommendations were accepted was 68.5% in Moldova in 2014; approximately 60% in Kazakhstan between 2012 and 2014; and 92% in South Korea in 2013. When recommendations are accepted, the substance of the law is changed—often in a manner that reduces untrammeled discretion, increases checks and balances, and heightens transparency and accountability. The corruption proofing agency can also have an impact even when its recommendations are initially rejected. For example, when Lithuania's drafting bodies had dismissed recommendations from the proofing agency regarding three draft laws – including a law seeking to exempt political parties from public procurement law – the proofing agency voiced its concerns to the President, who then vetoed the laws and sent them back to Parliament for further consideration.
Corruption proofing is a promising initiative. It operates ex ante, before corruption has manifested. It alters the process by which the state enacts laws by requiring the participation of the corruption proofing agency in the drafting process, usually from the preparatory stages onward. It influences the substance of legal acts. It increases the participants in the drafting process and can lead to the development of a body of expertise which will make existing anticorruption strategies more robust. And the preliminary evidence suggests reasons for optimism. It is therefore a bit surprising that corruption proofing has not attracted more attention from academics and international civil society organizations. This post is meant in part to invite more sustained attention to corruption proofing. After all, prevention is better than cure.
This entry was posted in Commentary and tagged Anticorruption assessment of Legislation, Corruption proofing, Corruptogenic factors, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, South Korea by Shanil Wijesinha. Bookmark the permalink.
This is both an interesting and important contribution to the GAB. Some interesting work has been done elsewhere in Europe on "Crime proofling legislation" – a similar principle applies. For those interested a Google Scholar search of the term will take you straight there. During a consultancy with an Australian anti-corruption agency a few years ago, we floated the idea that the agency take on a similar function to what you have described. Even in a low corruption environment, the corruption watchdogs should bark before they have to bite.
Thank you for your comment. I absolutely agree with you; in fact, I have written a longer piece (unpublished) making suggestions for improving corruption proofing by emulating certain practices associated with crime proofing. As you would know, one practice associated with crime proofing is that of increasing the level of review when risks are higher (based on empirical data, industry practices, costs, etc). I believe this could be easily emulated by corruption proofing agencies, to ensure that only statutes and regulations with higher corruption risks are subject to strict scrutiny, with all others subject to a lower intensity of review.
Interesting to note that the idea was mooted in Australia! Hope to see this concept gaining more currency in different regions of the world.


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Alicia Keys' 'Keys' album returns her to her piano homebase
New York (AP) — Alicia Keys hasn't felt completely free for much of her career. That may sound surprising, but these days the heralded musician is loving the makeup-free skin she's in and settled into a space of confidence and liberation.
That's readily apparent in her eighth studio album, "KEYS," which represents a back-to-basics approach for the classically trained pianist that heavily emphasizes the instrument that catapulted her into superstardom.
"I think it takes time to just feel good, have your confidence to learn, to grow, to have something to even share," said the songstress, whose album arrived on Friday. "I just didn't feel comfortable in my skin in the way that I do now."
The 26-track album is broken down in two sections: "Originals" which features many piano-driven songs, followed by the "Unlocked" portion which contains more hip-hop and four-to-the-floor remixes of most of those tracks.
"There's such a power to being able to be undefinable and have different sides of yourself expressed, but all based on that original place of the keys," said the "Girl on Fire" singer who produced on nearly every song. "That was so liberating because it felt like I'm in my lane and I'm just driving in it, you know what I mean? It was such a comfort to kind of come back to my homebase."
"Originals" features songs like "Best of Me," a smooth, Sade-inspired love song, while the melodic singing in the atmospheric-vibed "Billions" is more aligned with today's progressive R&B. There are also records like "Dead End Road" and "Old Memories" that most embody Keys' intentions, as the piano chords are distinct, and the records swell with soul harmonies reminiscent of Aretha Franklin or Gladys Knight.
Writing on every song, the 40-year-old also summoned the pens of R&B legend Raphael Saadiq and acclaimed country writer Natalie Hemby who's worked with Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert, as well as Lady Gaga. While the album is intentional in focusing on her masterful tickling of the ivories—as well as traditional soul music—there's also "Paper Flowers," a collaboration with country star Brandi Carlile, and the beautiful folk-styled "Daffodils."
"'Soulful' is the most beautiful way for me to describe music because that can be genre-less," explained Keys, who received a song of the year Grammy nomination for "A Beautiful Noise" with Carlile, along with a best immersive audio album nod for last year's "Alicia." "It comes through because you just feel that baring of a person's experience."
Mike WiLL Made-It, the hip-hop heavyweight producer known for helping craft songs for Beyoncé, Rihanna, Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar, was tasked with remixing most of the songs in an effort to keep the project cohesive and not disjointed from the originals.
It's been two decades since Keys debuted "Songs in A Minor" which would earn an astounding five Grammys and inspire Black and Brown girls all over to get their hair cornrowed in her then-signature style. Throughout her career, she'd add another 10 Grammys and sell more than 65 million records.
But despite her massive success and acclaim, Keys vividly remembers the days of feeling potentially manipulated by the industry and not always sure of herself. Looking back, she'd encourage her 19-year-old self to trust her gut.
"I would just tell her that a lot is coming your way and don't be afraid of it. Don't be afraid of your own power … people might try to make you feel like you don't know you so that they can control you, but nobody knows you better than you," said Keys.
"Just hold on to that instinct, to that pure, raw energy, to that piano. And to the curiosity of just constantly being the best version of you. And you're going to really have an incredible ride."
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For a rural destination, Strangford Lough has an astonishing amount of built heritage sites...
Strangford Lough - Ancient Treasures
Audley's Castle
Perched on a hill giving excellent views of the lough, this 15th century castle is complete with three storeys, flanking towers and murder hole. Exterior accessible all year, interior open during summer months Thurs to Mon 2-4pm. Check first: 028 3885 3955. Free.
Located 2 miles NW of Strangford on foot via Castleward or 5 miles by car. Take A25 from Strangford. Turn right after three miles onto Audleystown Road. Follow to end.
Castle Ward
Built in the 1760s, Castle Ward and its estate combine history and architecture with breathtaking views. This National Trust property includes extensive grounds, a farmyard with medieval tower, working mill (set days only), a sunken garden, quay and forest. Tours of the house are available in peak season 12-4pm. Check availability first: 028 4488 1204.
Located one mile north of Strangford on A25.
Derry Churches
The two pre-Norman churches, when excavated, were found to be on the site of an earlier stone and wood church. A small cross and carved stone are set in the larger church and may be viewed. Open all year. Free.
These ruined churches are situated one and a half miles north east of Portaferry on the A2 to Cloughey, just before the intersection with the Tullymalley Road and are signposted from Portaferry. Access is by a gate at the roadside and along a fenced path.
Millin Bay Cairn
A late Neolithic burial ground, approximately 4000 years old. It was excavated in 1953 and the remains of at least 15 people were found. Open all year. Free.
Situated 2 miles south east of Portaferry overlooking Millin Bay. The site is signposted on the road and access is by gate and pathway at the side.
Portaferry Castle
Overlooking Portaferry Harbour, the Castle is within easy sight of Strangford and Audley's Castle across the Lough. This 16th century Tower House was built by the Savage family but now stands as a ruined shell.
There is access to the Castle from Easter to end of August through the nearby Portaferry Visitor Information Centre.
Slans Graveyard
The graveyard is situated within a former rath. Within are the ruins of a medieval church believed to be the Church of Ardmacossce or Ardmacaisse, mentioned in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, 1306, along with an unusual cross-carved boulder. Most of the oldest gravestones are of slate and the earliest readable date is 1677. Open all year. Free.
Off the Ardminnan Rd, approximately one mile south of Cloughey.
St. Cooey's Wells
Holy Wells founded in the 7th century by St. Cooey and reopened in 1977. According to tradition, it was here that St. Cooey performed his penitential exercises in the late 7th and 8th centuries. A drinking well, washing well and eye well are still visited by pilgrims and are reputed to have healing powers. Beyond the Wells a path leads to the salt marshes with beautiful views and an abundance of wildlife and flowers. Open all year. Free.
Situated south of Portaferry, towards Ballyquintin Point (signposted).
St. Patrick's Church, Lisbane
A small, simple gabled church built in 1777 and restored in 1966. Charmingly situated on a serene inlet, the church is of architectural importance. Open all year. Free. Located on Rowreagh Road in Ardkeen, between Kircubbin and Portaferry.
Parking available at the adjacent Saltwater Brig public house.
Templecranny Graveyard and Ballyphilip Church, Portaferry
This small circular graveyard contains graves dating from the 17th century and the remains of an old church. A medieval church is also thought to have stood on this site. In the 17th century this was where Presbyterians worshipped and many memorials of Ulster-Scots ancestry can be found here including the grave of James Maxwell who died fighting for the United Irishmen in 1798.
Currently receiving conservation work. Check access: 028 4272 9882 / 028 9182 6846.
The White House, Ballyspurge
Built in 1634 by Roland Savage, this ruin is a rare example of the defensive houses that succeeded tower houses. The gables are thick and show sizeable fireplaces and chimneys. Defensive capabilities are evident in the numerous gun-loops on each side. Open all year. Free.
Access can be gained from the adjoining caravan site southeast of Cloughey village.
Kearney Village
Kearney is a picturesque 18th century fishing village restored by the National Trust with scenic walks, myriad coastal flowers and spectacular wildlife.
A small visitor centre is open from dawn to dusk, as are the public toilets and car park. Open all year. Free.
Take the B173 Kircubbin to Cloughey Road and follow the signposts for Kearney.


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Cdl. Müller blasts 'Great Reset fantasies' of world leaders, Big Tech
The cardinal also criticized bishops' political calculations in not condemning the reception of Holy Communion by pro-abortion Catholic politicians.
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May 31, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Gerhard Müller lamented that "leading world politicians, business leaders, Big Tech giants are intoxicated by the total surveillance state in China," blasting their "Great Reset fantasies" pointing to "a world of pleasing the masses by eliminating the free thinking of individuals."
In an interview with German-speaking Catholic news website kath.net (translated in full below), the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said on Friday, "The local bishop, responsible for the salvation of his faithful entrusted to him by Christ, has a sacred duty to speak to the conscience of a prominent Catholic and point out to him the glaring contradiction between promoting abortion and receiving Holy Communion."
Several high-profile politicians in the U.S. — including President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — claim to be Catholic, but support the killing of unborn children through abortion. And a number of bishops in the U.S. are currently attempting to slow down, if not stop, the process to draft a document spelling out the Catholic Church's position on pro-abortion politicians claiming to be Catholic.
"Whoever actively participates in abortion, or, against better knowledge and in defiance of all instruction, favors it by word and deed, or, as a Catholic in a responsible position, fails to oppose it, is in contradiction to the will of God and receives the sacraments not for grace but for judgment," Müller explained.
"Bishops who, in political calculation, place their party affiliation and media praise above their pastoral duties are guilty of profaning the Church, which they thus present to the world as an NGO and deny its true being as the Body of Christ and temple of the Holy Spirit," he continued. "With their cunning excuses that they do not want to degrade Holy Communion to a means of politics, they deceive only themselves — but not others who see through the undignified game with which Holy Communion is made a means of politics. In an almost self-destructive way, they confirm the liberal prejudice that religion is a private matter and has no place in public."
Full text of the kath.net interview with Cardinal Müller (translated with permission)
kath.net: Cardinal Müller, what is at stake in the conflict between the U.S. bishops over the admission to Holy Communion of Catholic pro-abortion politicians?
Müller: It is about the unity of faith and life, of profession [of faith] and morality. Only those who confess Jesus as Lord and God, but also fulfill the will of their heavenly Father, can enter the Kingdom of God. Sacramental communion in the reception of the Eucharistic Body and Blood of Christ only brings salvation to the believing recipient if he or she also behaves morally and socio-ethically in word and deed in a way that corresponds to the life in Christ established in Baptism, and to full Church membership.
Pope Francis has publicly excommunicated members of the Mafia across the board, and denounced their private acts of piety as hypocrisy.
Logically, this exclusion from Holy Communion with Christ must also be applied to all Catholics who directly and indirectly participate in "murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia" (Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes 27).
Friedrich Nietzsche had already pointed out the untrustworthiness of politicians who publicly present themselves as Christians, but in their deeds behave in an anti-Christian manner, and thus lead Christianity ad absurdum. In his book "The Antichrist" (1889), he holds up a mirror to a church that has distanced itself from the ideal of Christ, and has made itself comfortable within the state: "Where did the last sense of decency go, of respect for oneself, when our statesmen even, an otherwise very unaffected kind of people and antichrists in deed through and through, still call themselves Christians today and go to Communion?" (The Antichrist, 38) The nihilistic prophet of the "death of God" knew even better than the nominal Christians of today that one can go to Holy Communion only if one's life also conforms to the teachings of Christ.
kath.net: One can follow two strands of thought in dealing with this issue. First, what does Catholic teaching say about the reception of the Eucharist by politicians who are decidedly pro-abortion, and act accordingly?
Müller: Most governments of the formerly Christian West are infiltrated by the ideology of hostility to life. They deny and fight the [concept of] man being [created] in the image of God because this natural and revealed truth limits their absolute claim to power, and hinders their full access to body and life, thinking, acting, and feeling of the objects of their rule.
In contrast, the teaching of the Church clearly and unambiguously states: "Life is therefore to be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception. Abortion and the killing of the child are abominable crimes." (Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes 51)
It is no accident that leading world politicians, business leaders, Big Tech giants are intoxicated by the total surveillance state in China. Their Great Reset fantasies point to a world of pleasing the masses by eliminating the free thinking of individuals. This includes their population policies. They believe that there are too many people on earth consuming the planet's resources. Therefore the population must be reduced by all means, especially by contraception and million-fold infanticide. For this the ruling elite of the oligarchs and philanthropists guarantee an unconditional basic income and a supervised thinking to the rest of the people who are made happy by them. Where there is no alternative, no one needs to worry anymore; everything is already well regulated "by those up there."
In addition, the crime of abortion is played down and disguised as reproductive health and made palatable to mothers as a woman's right to self-determination, while legal and journalistic action is taken against the pro-lifers as violators of the so-called "human right to abortion" with threats and punishments. On top of that, abortion then enables the, highly criminal, billion dollar business with the organs of these murdered children.
That such an attitude is not compatible with the sacramental communion in Christ, the Word of God made flesh, is obvious. The Son of God revealed himself to the disciples as the living bread that came down from heaven: "The bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world … Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him."
An early Christian author stated: Christians participate positively in public life like all citizens, but do no evil and live according to the commandments of God: "They marry like all others and beget children, but do not abandon those who are born," i.e., absolutely respect the right to life of every child as a creature of God (cf. Diognet Letter 5).
kath.net: And secondly, how does one deal with this question with human, pastoral and diplomatic wisdom?
Müller: Some politicians evade this problem by claiming that they're personally against infanticide, but as bearers of responsibility in a pluralistic society they cannot impose Christian positions equally on all their fellow citizens. They say that the opinions of those who deny that children in the womb are fully human must be taken into account.
These politicians forget that it is a question of the natural law and the most fundamental of all human rights, namely life. "For man is the only creature on earth willed by God for its own sake" (Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes 24).
Pope Francis specified in the Catechism of the Catholic Church that the state has no right to punish the most serious criminals with death. How much less can the state attribute to its citizens the right to cruelly kill innocent human beings in the womb? It is a crying contradiction when the state legislature and the judiciary abdicate their own responsibility to protect the lives of young children — in the U.S., lamentably, a disproportionate number of African-American children are among them — and at the same time punish the violent death of an African-American with the maximum sentence of 40 years imprisonment.
Here, there must be no thinking and acting according to double standards based on ideological self-delusion. The local bishop, responsible for the salvation of his faithful entrusted to him by Christ, has a sacred duty to speak to the conscience of a prominent Catholic and point out to him the glaring contradiction between promoting abortion and receiving Holy Communion. This is true mercy, as opposed to people-smart diplomatic tactics.
The positive influence of the Church on politics does not consist in the cronyism of bishops and papal delegates with power, but in the willingness to be placed in the "service of humanity." "And in a service that is determined by the need of humanity, not by our taste." So said Father Alfred Delp S.J. (1907–1945) in his notes from Nazi prison on "The Fate of the Church" — before the justice of a thoroughly godless state sentenced him to death.
Here the testimony of faith is required, including bloody martyrdom, not papal secret diplomacy and episcopal power games.
In the face of the skeptic's contemptuous question about the truth, Jesus said: "I was born for this purpose, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
Being a Christian today does not consist privately or publicly in fond childhood memories, sentimental self-pity with the pathos of self-realization, or grand window dressing about environmental protection and climate goals. "Whether the churches once again release from themselves the creative human being filled with divine powers is their fate … Only then will they have the bright eyes that see the concerns and calls of God even in the darkest hours. And only then do the ready hearts beat in them … which are only concerned with one thing: to help and to heal in the name of God … The force of the Church's immanent mission depends on the seriousness of her transcendent devotion and adoration." (Fr. Delp, Mit gefesselten Händen, Freiburg 2007, 138–144)
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PETITION UPDATE (3/7/22) -
To his eternal shame, self-professed "Catholic" Joe Biden has done it again.
In the last 10 days, Biden directly acted to promote the evil of abortion. Twice.
And, to their shame, the bishops of the United States continue to tolerate this ongoing scandal as though it's business as usual.
But, let's not give up on our shepherds!
Please SIGN this petition and let's CONTACT our bishops again, and ask them to do the right thing (or, do something!), and excommunicate Joe Biden.
In the latest episode of this ongoing tragedy, Biden nominated abortion-friendly (and, Planned Parenthood supported) Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.
Then, as if to underline his Supreme Court pick, Biden made the following statement promoting abortion during his State of the Union address:
"The constitutional right affirmed by Roe v. Wade — standing precedent for half a century — is under attack as never before. If you want to go forward — not backwards — we must protect access to health care. Preserve a woman's right to choose..."
Of course, we know that making a decision to exclude public figures from Holy Communion is not easy. But, sometimes, this is the only way to make them understand the error of their ways, and to preserve the Church from serious scandal.
And now that Biden has left no doubt as to his intentions and actions - attempting to anchor the United States to the evil of abortion for generations to come - it is high time for the bishops to act to stop this grave scandal from continuing.
Public excommunication would be a suitable response for Biden's obstinate, public and grave sin of scandalously promoting abortion.
Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this important petition. Thank you!
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'These Republicans could help Biden install his far-left Supreme Court pick' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/these-republicans-could-help-biden-his-left-wing-supreme-court-pick/
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'Biden says he won't debate 'theology' when asked on Ash Wednesday why he supports abortion' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-says-he-wont-debate-theology-when-asked-on-ash-wednesday-why-he-supports-abortion/
Following the US Supreme Court's decision to allow Texas' Heartbeat Law to go into effect, Joe Biden made the announcement that he would initiate a "whole-of-government" response against the new pro-life statute which could ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
This is yet another, outright confirmation of Biden's openly pro-abortion policies, policies which have the main objective of ensuring that women will continue to be able to kill their own children without impediment.
This anti-life, anti-Catholic stance needs to be urgently addressed and condemned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
For the good of the Church, for the good of pre-born babies, for the good of the faithful, and, indeed, for his own good, Joe Biden needs to be publicly rebuked by the bishops and excommunicated until such time as he repents from his pro-abortion policies.
Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this petition, which asks the bishops of the United States to act in unison to exclude Joe Biden from Holy Communion for his scandalous promotion of abortion - the murder of the innocent.
After signing, please take a moment to CONTACT the offices of the USCCB to politely, but firmly, encourage the Conference to take the necessary steps to exclude from Holy Communion public officials who continue to show blatant disregard for innocent human life and the Church's teaching.
The USCCB's Office phone number is: 202.541.3000
"No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." - Matthew 6:24
In the lead-up to their meeting in mid-June, we call on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to exclude Joe Biden and other "Catholic" politicians (like, Nancy Pelosi) from Holy Communion over their public, obstinate, and scandalous promotion of abortion.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition which asks the USCCB to act to stop the abuse of the reception of the Holy Eucharist by politicians who promote the murder of innocent pre-born babies.
We know that making a decision to exclude public figures from Holy Communion is not easy. But, sometimes, this is the only way to make them understand the error of their ways, and to preserve the Church from serious scandal.
Indeed, Canon Law (Canon 915) declares that those who persist in manifest, grave sin should not be admitted to Holy Communion.
Beyond that, at this point, public excommunication appears as the only suitable response for Biden's obstinate, public and grave sin of promoting abortion.
In doing so, we do not hold ourselves up as judges over Joe Biden's eternal soul, but we encourage the bishops to make known one of the consequences of public and obstinate support of abortion by our 'Catholic' politicians.
The fact is, in terms of the manifest, grave sin of abortion, Joe Biden is as bad as he said he would be before the election.
Therefore, it is cold comfort that the USCCB is only preparing to discuss this issue only now.
But even now, if the USCCB publicly excommunicate Biden for his pro-abortion stance (as well as other pro-abortion politicians), the Conference could reclaim some of the moral authority which they lost by their largely silent assent to Biden's candidacy.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition, now.
Since Joe Biden was sworn-in on the 20th of January, he has wasted no time in signing orders and bills which facilitate the destruction of unborn human life.
In one executive order, Biden rescinded the Mexico City Policy prohibiting the federal government from spending taxpayer monies on abortion and the promotion of abortion.
Biden also signed (instead of vetoing) the COVID relief bill, which, for the first time in 44 years, contained funding for abortions in America, using taxpayer dollars.
Biden said that he wouldn't defend Hyde, and he hasn't.
And, if he and the Democratic Party get their way, a lot more of the same regarding abortion is on the way.
Strong action must be taken lest anyone, especially young people, be confused by the scandal of a "Catholic" in Biden's position aggressively promoting abortion, enabling the killing of innocent human beings.
American rank-and-file Catholics don't want any more compromise and equivocation from the Bishops Conference on this "pre-eminent" life-and-death issue.
We want clear action, not twenty more years of dithering and "dialoguing."
50 million babies have been lost to abortion in the U.S. since Roe!
So, we will NOT accept any more lives lost as a result of dithering and "dialoguing." [**Please see "Notes" below about how it has been reported that some senior U.S. clerics are trying to prevent this discussion from even taking place.]
And, we will especially NOT accept one life lost to abortion by politicians who claim the Catholic Faith, but who promote grave evil. God forbid!
With all due respect to these bishops, they diminish the Holy Eucharist and their high office, as well as cause grave scandal to the faithful, by not imposing public canonical penalties on a man who is promoting mass murder of the unborn against the constant teaching of the Church.
The bishops are now at a crossroads and must choose either God or mammon.
We call on them to choose God and choose Life!
And we also continue to encourage those brave, true and good bishops who have done well to warn Amercian Catholics about the perils to the unborn and the Faith resulting from Biden's promotion of abortion!
SIGN and SHARE this petition, which asks the bishops of the United States to act in unison to exclude Joe Biden from Holy Communion for his scandalous promotion of abortion - the murder of the innocent.
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BREAKING: DC archbishop affirms he will give Holy Communion to pro-abortion Joe Biden - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-dc-archbishop-affirms-he-will-give-holy-communion-to-pro-abortion-joe-biden
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Biden's HHS is lying about Title X to push abortion - https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/bidens-hhs-is-lying-about-title-x-to-push-abortion
List of US bishops for and against denying Communion to pro-abortion politicians like Biden, Pelosi - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/list-of-us-bishops-for-and-against-denying-communion-to-pro-abortion-politicians-like-biden-pelosi
Notes about USCCB's June Meeting:
For nearly twenty years, the US bishops have been dithering about whether or not to excommunicate pro-abortion politicians by formally withholding Holy Communion from them.
Their indecision on this gravely scandalous matter is a scandal in itself, but one of the biggest obstacles has been internal opposition from senior U.S. bishops.
And, although the faces have changed in the last 20 years, their morally-and-intellectually-challenged arguments against excommunication have not changed.
Liberal bishops of the USCCB say that excommunicating Biden (for example) would divide the Church, divide the bishops, and would politicize the reception of Holy Communion.
Indeed, in the name of "unity," it is reported that some senior U.S. clerics, including Cardinal Blase Cupich (Chicago), Cardinal Wilton Gregory (Washington, DC) and Cardinal O'Malley (Boston), have been working overtime to prevent any substantial discussion of so-called "Eucharist coherence" (that is, what qualifies as worthy reception of Holy Communion).
It is also reported that at least 57 other American bishops allegedly joined these Cardinals in a recent letter to the Head of the Bishops Conference, Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles, to try to pressure him to drop the planned discussion at the full meeting of bishops in June.
And now, even the Vatican is getting involved, with the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith suggesting that even more "dialogue" is needed.
These same clerics may mistakenly believe that any attempt to suppress the objective connection between a politician's promotion of abortion and his unworthy reception of Holy Communion will fool anyone.
But, it will not.
Rank-and-file Catholics are not stupid and can smell compromise a mile away, and we've had enough.
With all due respect to the Cardinal, bishops, and the Vatican…those who fail to act diminish the Holy Eucharist and their high office, as well as cause grave scandal to the faithful, by "dialoguing" with a man who is promoting mass murder of the unborn against the constant teaching of the Church.
Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition urging the bishops Conference to take action at their June meeting to exclude pro-abortion Joe Biden and other abortion-promoting "Catholic" politicians from Holy Communion.
**Photo Credit: Joshua Roberts / Getty Images
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kath.net: When a leading politician such as President Joe Biden, for example, presents himself to voters and citizens as a practicing Catholic by attending Masses, while at the same time reversing his predecessor's pro-life policies, and also proving to be an explicit proponent of legalizing abortion even during the election campaign, is there a danger that the Catholic faithful will become confused about Catholic teaching on the active killing of unborn children?
Müller: It is the task of the Magisterium of the American bishops to overcome any ambiguity about the unconditional right to life of every human being.
Whoever actively participates in abortion, or, against better knowledge and in defiance of all instruction, favors it by word and deed, or, as a Catholic in a responsible position, fails to oppose it, is in contradiction to the will of God and receives the sacraments not for grace but for judgment.
Bishops who, in political calculation, place their party affiliation and media praise above their pastoral duties are guilty of profaning the Church, which they thus present to the world as an NGO and deny its true being as the Body of Christ and temple of the Holy Spirit. With their cunning excuses that they do not want to degrade Holy Communion to a means of politics, they deceive only themselves — but not others who see through the undignified game with which Holy Communion is made a means of politics. In an almost self-destructive way, they confirm the liberal prejudice that religion is a private matter and has no place in public.
kath.net: The accusation of "schism" is currently hovering over these disputes in the U.S. bishops' conference. Who exactly is dividing the U.S. church? Those who publicly defend Catholic teaching, or those who are willing to work with pro-abortion politicians?
Müller: The truth of the Gospel is the basis of the unity of the disciples in Christ's Church. Our cosmopolitan "pastoralists" turn this reality on its head. They want a displayed unity after the manner of men in order to evade the challenging truth of the revealed faith.
Many of his disciples found Jesus' Eucharistic discourse in the synagogue of Capernaum too harsh. For "how can he give us his flesh to eat?" But Jesus does not walk with them a synodal path of placating permanent dialog until everyone agrees on the lowest common denominator, or the "salt of the earth" (Mt 5:13) has become so stale that people trample it carelessly in the street.
He asked the 12 apostles then, and he asks the whole Church today, "Will you also go?" And Peter confesses, to this very hour from the mouth of his successor, the Roman Pontiff, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know: You are the Holy One of God."
kath.net: Do you personally hope that the Plenary Assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), scheduled for June, will be able to bring itself to make a clear and public statement? Which contents would you consider helpful, and why?
Müller: If the bishops recognize the primacy of truth and resist the temptation to subordinate — as unfortunately was done so often in history — themselves to the apparent omnipotence of the state and prestige among fickle contemporaries, something good can come out of it for the Catholic Church in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Child abuse is a grave sin against the bodily integrity of adolescents, their souls, and their lives. Hopefully, lessons have been learned from the McCarrick case, and not only that it was unintentionally exposed, but that allowing evil can never be balanced with anything good.
Looking the other way and belittling, fiddling with the powerful, wanting to be smarter than the children of this world, cunningly pursuing worldly interests — all this has never served the Church and has always only obscured her mission to be the "all-embracing sacrament of salvation, which both reveals and realizes the mystery of God's love for man" (Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes 45).
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WorldNigeria threw one million vaccines in the garbage, only 2 percent of...
Nigeria threw one million vaccines in the garbage, only 2 percent of the people have got the vaccine, said – don't want donation!
An imbalance is being created in the world regarding the corona vaccine. This imbalance is about the accessibility of the vaccine to the people. The demand for the vaccine has increased even more after the new variant of Corona, Omicron, came to the fore. Some countries are applying one and two booster doses to their residents, while in many places people are still waiting for the first dose. Meanwhile, news came that Nigeria on Wednesday destroyed more than 1 million perishable doses of the AstraZeneca Corona Vaccine.
They cannot be used after their last date, officials said. Faisal Shuaib, head of Nigeria's NPHCDA (National Primary Health Care Development Agency), said health officials in Africa's most populous country had little choice but to choose from donated doses. The shelf life of these supplements was not very long.
Only two percent have got the vaccine
He said that developed countries bought and stocked these vaccines. When they were about to perish, they donated them to other countries. Last week, Shuaib said Nigeria would no longer accept such donations. Only 2 percent of Nigeria's 200 million people are fully vaccinated. Health officials have set an ambitious target of vaccinating more than a quarter of the population by February.
WHO warns
The head of the World Health Organization has warned that the indiscriminate introduction of booster doses in rich countries will make the Covid-19 Pandemic more likely to last. Also, said that no country will be able to come out of the grip of the Pandemic in this manner. WHO Director-General Dros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that vaccines have saved many lives this year, but their uneven distribution has also killed many.
Relief news for Omicron, 80 percent less dangerous variants than Delta
Only 20% dose booster required
Dross had earlier called for a halt to booster doses given to healthy adults by the end of this year to tackle uneven global vaccine distribution. He said that at present 20 percent of the vaccine doses administered daily are boosters. He said that indiscriminately applying booster doses in rich countries will make the Covid-19 Pandemic more likely to last, not end it.
Israel is giving citizens four doses
He added that increasing vaccine supplies to countries with higher vaccination coverage would give the virus a much greater opportunity to spread and mutate. Tedros said that a large proportion of people admitted to hospitals or dying due to corona virus infection have not been vaccinated. This warning from the World Health Organization comes at a time when Israel is administering four doses of the vaccine to its citizens. At the same time, in many African countries, large populations have not even received the first dose.
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Q: Can I change an existing auto-increment column to plain int (no-increment) and then back again after adding records I have a table that has its primary key set to autoincrement. This table needs to be brought up to date via an import of data, but I want to assign the primary key based on the imported data not on the next incremented value. Also the data to import may not be in sequence - some ids might be missing (101,105,122 etc).
In my head I see it as
Table is at id 50 with auto increment on
Alter existing table modify primary key to straight int (no increment)
Process data.. (adding records according to imported ids 101,105,122)
Alter table when done to enable auto increment again new record should be 123
Possible?

A: You can insert into an AUTO_INCREMENT column just as you would insert into any other column.
INSERT INTO yourtable (id, name) VALUES (101, 'Foo')

You can set the auto-increment to a specific value manually using an ALTER statement:
ALTER TABLE yourtable AUTO_INCREMENT = 123;

There is more information about this in the manual:

To change the value of the AUTO_INCREMENT counter to be used for new rows, do this:
ALTER TABLE t2 AUTO_INCREMENT = value;
You cannot reset the counter to a value less than or equal to any that have already been used. For MyISAM, if the value is less than or equal to the maximum value currently in the AUTO_INCREMENT column, the value is reset to the current maximum plus one. For InnoDB, if the value is less than the current maximum value in the column, no error occurs and the current sequence value is not changed.

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