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After several weeks of on again, off again lunch dates made and then cancelled due to life events and circumstances, I finally met up with Allyson Simmie at her restaurant choice, Biscuit Eater Cafe in Mahone Bay.
As the name suggests, the restaurant offers a variety of meals served on or with their homemade biscuits. It is housed in a meticulously restored, bright yellow Cape Cod home (with ample parking) at 16 Orchard Street.
As you enter, you are greeted with the wonderful smells of freshly baked biscuits. On this day, we were also greeted with the amazing aroma of a traditional marmalade being made on the kitchen stovetop.
Simmie chose a ham and swiss biscuit sandwich with a mixed green salad. I selected a grilled cheese biscuit sandwich with a lovely carrot, orange and fennel soup. Our cleaned up plates proved to me, at least, that Simmie's restaurant choice lived up to our expectations and lunch needs.
A simple Google search of her name brings up her webpage Allyson Simmie Metal Arts and, literally, page after page of press release information about her work and exhibitions over the course of her fine arts career. It also reveals that she is a 1985 graduate of Halifax Grammar School and a 1989 graduate of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. It indicates that Simmie has spent time in Canada's North and seems quite influenced by her time there. Click on 'images' and hundreds of beautiful gold and silver samples of her work pop up.
Google also tells us that her work has been acquired by the Prime Minister's Office as a gift to President George W. Bush, the Governor-General of Canada's Office to supply limited edition and one-of-a-kind presentation gifts, the permanent collection of the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum, and at the Maritime Life Assurance Company's Head Office Collection in Halifax. We are also informed that she was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2016.
Simmie was born in Toronto. By grade 1, she was travelling alone by bus from home to an open concept school in Kensington Market. In grade 2, she moved to Halifax and attended LeMarchant St. Thomas Elementary. The school just wasn't the right fit after the open concept school experience. Her mother soon moved her to the now demolished Alexandra School at Brunswick and Cornwallis streets.
This was the early '70s, approximately 10 years after the Africville 'relocation'. Uniacke Square was brand new. It was also a time when the hit mini-series Roots was broadcast weekly. This experience opened up Simmie's eyes to the diversity and culture around her at a very young age.
In reflection now, she says her experience at Alexandra School may have laid the foundation to get along as well as she did in the North.
By grade 5, Simmie was attending Grammar School and, when she graduated in 1985, was all set to study graphic design at NSCAD. Her choice when she actually registered, was to enter the Fine Arts curriculum. That curriculum introduces students to everything and soon she recognized that she had an obvious connection to working in a medium with both hands in control — ceramics and jewellery.
Simmie came up with an interesting theory back then: "The top 10 per cent of every field always do well," but she didn't know if she was talented enough to be in that top 10 per cent so she reasoned with herself that "if you are good at marketing you don't have to be in the top 10 per cent." In other words, the connection between marketing and art was a natural way of thinking to face her freshman insecurities and move forward.
Simmie talked about her time at NSCAD and two instructors she feels were responsible for her continuing along on her arts path in the way that she did.
It took her almost 10 years before she began to feel that sense of confidence in her own work.
In stepped professor Pamela Ritchie, who retires this year, who read her the riot act, saying that crafts traditionally were made in the home, mostly by women, and these crafts are all the things that add warmth to the homes and meaning to our environment.
The message Ritchie conveyed to Simmie was "get a grip", and that pushed her to the next level.
After graduation, Simmie ended up in Ottawa where she worked in a small jewellery studio for $7 an hour (negotiated up from $6). She rationalized this small rate of pay away by considering herself as still learning. Considering this as an apprenticeship, she focused exclusively on making her designs and perfecting her work.
It was during this time that Simmie began to think that life was a parade that was always going by. She felt her job was to watch that parade and decide when to jump in, but she was stuck inside the jewellery shop.
She quit her job and took work at Ottawa's first coffee shop: The Vienna Cafe. From there, she decided she wanted to work with people and traveled to UBC to do a preliminary year of the Masters degree in Set and Lighting Design (she had previously done some of that coursework at NSCAD and at University of Ottawa). She soon realized that it was going to be another 10 years of time investment and she returned to Ottawa to her old job, but at $10 an hour.
The parade continued. Simmie noticed an airline ad campaign saying "Ottawa to Iqaluit — five times a week, whether you want to go or not". Her employer had a friend up North who was looking for a jewellery teacher in Iqaluit and two weeks after he mentioned this to her, she had "jumped into the parade" and was on a Canadian North flight to Nunavut Arctic College where she taught from 1994 to 1997.
She was working with people doing what she had learned at NSCAD. Over time though, she felt that teaching was taking a lot away from her capacity to do her own work and she decided she wanted to start her own business and work with advanced students. So, she did this and her first exhibition: Arctic Landscape happened using stone exclusively from Baffin Island.
Someone suggested to her that the stone looked like the landscape and she realized it did. She believes that her work sends her message of appreciation back to the Iqaluit community. Out of this work, some pieces remain in her Classic jewellery line today.
Twenty years ago, in 1998, she was living in Ottawa, Her business was registered that spring. This year is its 20th anniversary.
I asked who buys her work and she said she has noticed that "only the nicest and most awesome people are her customers." She believes that this is because that what she is talking about with her work is a connection to nature and to places and this is a set of values that draws her customers.
Simmie lives in Bridgewater. Her most popular pieces are the Shoreline series based on an East River beach she travelled past daily on her commute from Bridgewater to her studio in Blandford. One day, she says, she just stopped the car and did a sketch and now it is one of her more popular lines.
Simmie shared with me that she is now working on a series called Origins with rock texture from Atlantic slate. All these pieces in this series are round. The concept is based on life beginning in the ocean. The texture comes from beach rocks.
Real enthusiasm and excitement start to shine through as Simmie attempts to communicate a concept she wants to fulfill on this 20th anniversary of Allyson Simmie Metal Arts. A delicate snowflake globe or orb that signals the preciousness or precariousness of life in our environment.
Keep your eyes open for this one. It sounds like an exquisite collaboration with a former student from Iqaluit.


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239 The First Angry Generation
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"Hey? Chief Su, where are you now?" Zhao Yu was making a call while on the toilet near the cafeteria of the police station. "Can you tell me what happened in our branch?"
"I'm at a provincial meeting, Little Zhao. I'm not in Qinshan!" Su Yang spoke loudly. "Let me tell you, you did a great job. After you made a mess at Rongtian Corporation, we found evidence and we joined forces with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to investigate the corrupt officers! Now there is unambiguous evidence. Hey! This was so well done! Little Zhao, don't you worry, there may not be cash reward, but there's definitely a provincial recognition award."
"I'm not talking about that." Zhao Yu asked again, "Bureau Chief Zhou was transferred and replaced by another person. It was so sudden. Do you know about this?"
"What are you talking about? You don't need to tell me everything that happens in your branch!" Su Yang laughed. "How would I know?"
"Then please check for me." Zhao Yu pleaded, "This is unusual, I need to know the truth!"
"Alright, alright!" Su Yang said, "I have to attend a trial in the afternoon. I'll ask around when it's done!"
"Okay! Thanks bro!" Zhao Yu hung up the phone and still felt uneasy. Before he has called Su Yang, he had actually called Bureau Chief Liao Jingxian about the situation, but he did not pick up. So he had no choice but to ask for help from Su Yang.
Zhao Yu left the bathroom and went to the corner of the cafeteria. Zhang Jingfeng, Liang Huan, Miao Ying, and the others were sitting with lunch boxes in front of them, but no one felt like eating.
"There's no way around it." Zhang Yaohui waved and said, "Captain Liu came to take the video personally, but I could not refuse. Now that he took it away, we can't continue investigating!"
"But, it seemed…" Li Beini crossed her arms and said, "What this new bureau chief said earlier sounds reasonable. I guess what Team Leader Qu was investigating was a big deal. The higher-ups were worried that we couldn't handle it so they stopped us from getting involved!"
"But….whatever he said…do you believe it?" Liang Huan said, "What if this is part of a bigger conspiracy? This Tang Zhaolong was sent here to suppress this, saying that there would be other arrangements. What if that was all an excuse?"
"Yes!" Zhang Jingfeng agreed. "What will happen to Hou Meng? If they do not reinvestigate, this guy will be given the death penalty!"
"And I don't understand," Liang Huan said, "if the higher-ups intended to suppress this, why not tell Bureau Chief Zhou to do so? Bureau Chief Zhou was our senior leader. Wouldn't that be easier? What's the need to replace him?"
"It is quite odd!" Li Beini pouted. "But who can tell me what happened to Bureau Chief Zhou?"
"I-I…" Just when Li Beini finished asking, Miao Ying said nervously, "I heard some news!"
Suddenly, Zhao Yu recalled that Miao Ying's mother was someone powerful. It seemed that Miao Ying had asked for her help.
"Team Leader Miao, you know something? Why stop there? Tell us!" Li Beini urged.
"He was…taken by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection!" Miao Ying said. "Bureau Chief Zhou and his wife were arrested!"
"Huh?!" Everyone was shocked and asked why.
"I don't know, but if he was caught by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, it must be regarding disciplinary issues!" Miao Ying shook her head.
"It can't be. Bureau Chief Zhou was going against the rules?" Zhang Jingfeng was surprised. "According to what I know, he was quite clean. What rules could he have broken?"
"Definitely something fishy!" Liang Huan said. "Even his job title was stripped away. It's not a small matter and might already be definite."
"Team Leader Miao! Zhao Yu!" Zhang Yaohui asked softly, "The bureau chief has been replaced, the evidence has been taken away, the higher-ups' attitude regarding this, we…"
Zhao Yu and Miao Ying looked at each other. Although they only shared eye contact for a moment, they came to a common ground.
Miao Ying spoke first. "This is really odd. I think we should look into this thoroughly! If Tang Zhaolong did not lie, we will leave this aside and let the professionals handle it. But if he was just brushing us off, we will not let this slip!"
"Okay!" The teammates agreed.
Suddenly, looking at Miao Ying being so determined, Zhao Yu could not help but be moved! He knew that Miao Ying was respectable and hated evil as anybody hated their enemy. Miao Ying did not know Qu Ping personally, but she would take on the risk and keep going without hesitation. Zhao Yu admired her attitude!
At the beginning, Zhao Yu and Miao Ying were thinking the same thing: wait and see how it goes. Depending on how the story progressed, they would take action accordingly. But when Zhao Yu finished lunch and returned to the office, he was furious! Everything he had worked on overnight had been ruined!!! The writings on the whiteboard were erased, and the information on the board was torn down and torn to pieces! Zhao Yu was furious. He clenched his fist so tight that his knuckles crackled.
Li Beini saw that the computer screen was on and immediately ran toward the computer. She realized that all the information about Qu Ping's Case had been deleted! "It's gone, bro! It's gone!" Li Beini told Zhao Yu. "The information was deleted!"
"Who?!" Zhao Yu yelled, "Who did it?!" The colleagues in the office knew about Zhao Yu's temper. They went silent. At the same time, Zhang Jingfeng and Liang Huan realized that their computers had also been meddled with. They shook their heads at Zhao Yu.
Zhao Yu was raging and slammed his fist on the glass desk. The glass shattered and the others were shocked.
"Quick, tell me! Who did it!" Zhao Yu roared again. He walked towards Liu Xueshan when no one answered.
Liu Xueshan was taken aback and pointed at the door saying, "It wasn't me, it wasn't me! That's captain Liu."
"F*ck!" It was that bastard!! Zhao Yu looked down and saw a wooden flower rack. He took it and slammed it on the window. The flower rack was broken and he was left with a wooden stick! Zhao Yu held the wooden stick and walked out of the office.
"No way! No way!" Zhang Jingfeng and Liang Huan knew that Zhao Yu was furious and tried to stop him. "Little Zhao, calm down. Calm down! You listen to us first."
"Bro! Don't be silly, I beg you!" Li Beini was frightened to death and quickly joined forces with the others to stop him.
At that very moment, Zhao Yu was burning with rage and dying to go to the captain's office to negotiate with Liu Changhu. But the current Zhao Yu was not the same Zhao Yu who first worked at the police station. He took a few big steps and suddenly recalled something.
"No way! That's not right!" he thought. He suddenly realized that perhaps Liu Changhu had done this for another reason. "Is it that…he's trying to make me furious so that he can trick me?" He stopped and calmed down. "Definitely!" he realized.
Zhao Yu knew that if he used the wooden stick and whacked Liu Changhu, he would feel better. But his career would end there! So in order to take revenge on Liu Changhu, he had to figure out something appropriate. He took a deep breath and picked something suitable from the System Device to deal with Liu Changhu. But at the same time, an accident happened!
Suddenly, he heard Liu Changhu's roar from Team B's office, "Miao Ying, you are crazy! I was working under orders—" Liu Changhu was cut off when a slap followed by Liu Changhu's groan. "Ugh…"
"Team Leader! Don't!" Then, Zhang Yaohui and Xiaoliu's screams followed. The room was noisy and chaotic.
"Huh? What is going on?" Zhao Yu wondered. With strong curiosity, Zhao Yu went into the room and he saw Liu Changhu run towards him as he clutched his head, which had blood flowing out.
"What the?! This," he began to think. Zhao Yu was puzzled and as he thought to himself, "I haven't even got on the bandwagon. Who went on first?" But when he saw Liu Changhu walking towards him, he naturally put his foot out.
Liu Changhu was too excited and did not notice Zhao Yu. He fell down on all fours at the door of Team B!
"Aiya!" Zhao Yu pretended to be scared and stepped onto Liu Changhu's back. "Scared the hell out of me! What is going on? Hey? Who's underneath my foot? Such shameful person!"
Zhao Yu had yet to finish when he heard Mao Wei groan, "Miao Ying, what are you doing? How can you beat people up? We are following orders, you can't—Ah!"
Followed by Mao Wei's groan, Zhao Yu saw someone flying towards him. He quickly moved to the side! Mao Wei landed right on top of Liu Changhu!
"Ugh…" the two of them groaned simultaneously.
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Athidhi Devo Bhava: Son of IPS officer accused of raping a German Tourist
ThisIndiaMarch 22, 2006
German woman rape accused sent to judicial custody
[ Wednesday, March 22, 2006 08:03:16 pmIANS ]
JAIPUR: A senior bureaucrat's son, accused of raping a German tourist in Rajasthan, was on Wednesday sent to 15 days of judicial custody.
V.H. Mohanti was arrested on Tuesday based on a rape complaint filed by the woman.
"Mohanti was produced before a local court in Alwar, which remanded him in 15 days' judicial custody. The police are interrogating him," a senior police official said on telephone from Alwar.
Mohanti, son of a senior Orissa cadre Indian Police Service officer, had confessed to his involvement in the rape at a hotel in Alwar, saying he had intercourse with the woman, the official said.
He said the victim recorded her statement before the court under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), adding that a challan (penalty) against Mohanti, an MBA student of a Delhi-based private institute, would be submitted soon.
The woman, meanwhile, was allowed to return to Delhi.
Mohanti was arrested by Alwar police at the Khairthal railway station, around 50 km from Alwar, while he was returning to Delhi by train.
This is the second case of rape of an overseas woman tourist in Rajasthan. In May last year, auto-rickshaw driver Shankast Lal and his accomplice Rakesh had raped a German tourist in Jodhpur. Both of them were found guilty and awarded life imprisonment by a fast-track court.
The tourism industry is worried about the impact of these incidents.
"I feel this kind of incidents will certainly hit tourism in the state as tourists, especially foreigners take these matters very seriously," said Karan Singh, a local travel agent.
"Whenever they go to a place they first enquire about the law and order situation. And now with this incident being flashed all over the world, I think it will take time to convince them," he said.
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White House plans to get more from agency IT spending
Guidance for 2012 budget will emphasize accountability, performance and security
By William Jackson
Despite spending $500 billion on information technology over the past 10 years, the government is still mired in paperwork and remains unresponsive to citizens who are increasingly using online transactions in their daily lives, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said Tuesday.
"When it comes to dealing with the government, we tend to take them back a decade or two or three," Kundra told a Washington audience composed largely of government workers. "It's not because of a lack of investment," but because those investments have gone into costly, overly complex projects that take on lives of their own without producing results, he said.
Kundra spoke at a government IT forum hosted by InformationWeek, during which he outlined guidance for how agencies handle IT investments in their fiscal 2012 budgets, emphasizing accountability, performance and security.
He identified three areas for guidance that will be emphasized in budget preparation:
Infrastructure. Agencies must plan to reduce existing facilities under the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative and expand use of emerging technology, including cloud computing, which promises increased economy and flexibility.
IT project management. Agency CIOs will be expected to review all over-budget or behind-schedule projects before submitting budget proposals. The administration intends to "take a hard stance in terms of performance," by turning around or halting problem projects, Kundra said.
Cybersecurity. Budget proposals must reflect the trend away from static controls and check-box compliance for security requirements, and emphasize automated IT tools rather than paperwork. "What makes us more secure is real-time awareness and continuous monitoring," he said. "Agencies must make these investments in continuous monitoring."
Kundra emphasized the need for government to bring its budget guidance and policy into line with best practices used in the private sector, including simplified procurement to shorten project time frames, increased transparency both across government and with the public, and better analysis of the impact of projects.
The administration already has implemented a Federal IT Dashboard to show the status of agency IT programs and Kundra said that a citizens service dashboard is being created to help the public understand the impact of these programs.
Federal IT has been the victim of bureaucracy and overly long procurement cycles that have produced dinosaurs rather than agile, market-based programs, Kundra said.
But he cited several instances where agencies already have made changes, including this week's announcement by the Treasury Department that it intends to phase out almost all paper checks for benefits payments by 2013. Recipients now can receive government payments through direct deposit to bank accounts or by debit card, but those methods will become the default for payments after March 2013.
Doing away with paper checks is expected to save the government hundreds of millions of dollars over five years as well as reduce fraud. "That's a no-brainer," Kundra said.
He also pointed out that NASA has halted a $1.5 billion contract to accommodate data center consolidation.
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: Can absolute truth reach man? (ESOTERICISM EPISTLES - V)
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I would like to continue on the myth of 'absolute truths'. We will start from this to reach the idea of the 'Bearers of absolute truths' which for the humankind, incapable on one hand and helpless on the other, are the tragic bearers of ideological cankers. The question 'if man cannot reach an absolute truth, can this truth reach man?' originated from your idea that 'the esoteric part of esotericism is mysticism'. If I am not wrong, mysticism, which many people confuse with the carnal cults of devotion, is the only dimension where in rare cases, truth reaches the conscience of man through the heart.
Can absolute truth reach man? (ESOTERICISM EPISTLES - V)
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"If man cannot reach absolute truth, can the same truth reach man?"
16 th September 2007 - Athos A. Altomonte writes:
Dear Antonio, I would like to continue on the myth of ' absolute truths' . We will start from this to reach the idea of the ' Bearers of absolute truths ' which for the humankind, incapable on one hand and helpless on the other, are the tragic bearers of ideological cankers.
The question ' if man cannot reach an absolute truth, can this truth reach man? ' originated from your idea that 'the esoteric part of esotericism is mysticism'. If I am not wrong, mysticism, which many people confuse with the carnal cults of devotion, is the only dimension where in rare cases, truth reaches the conscience of man through the heart.
In the previous epistolary (see) we said that the first cause that prevents man from reaching a totalizing truth is the inability of mind and conscience to assimilate views too superior to their characteristics.
We must also add that they are 'children' of a physical dimension dominated by movement, where the thought undergoes continuous mutations. This is true for every thought, even the philosophical and scientific ones, whose assimilation drives the thinker to continuously overcome himself.
We know that many mental limits can be overcome and that conscience can be expanded up to the point of reaching boundaries far away from the original epicenter. But this occurs in the same dimension. The latter determines the insuperable limit; yet, many people have passed it: how? We wonder. The answers are multiple and we should start wondering about those which are more initiatorily reliable. But first of all we must understand what is an absolute truth and what is it made of.
But first, two common aspects of those who are not prepared on the rules of life: to confuse between reality and truth, forgetting that (one's own) reality is relative to oneself. Furthermore, a particularly striking aspect is that many look for the absolute truth only because they would like to replace their reality, which they don't like, with it, forgetting that by refusing their own reality they refuse themselves. At this point they are ready to become the sacrificial victim: drugged and dependent on the 'Bearer of absolute truth', who is ready to supply them with the illusion they crave for.
An inevitable aspect of 'absolute truths' is that they are indemonstrable. Furthermore, their characteristic is that they are non-deformable, immutable and perennial. This means that in their dimension they don't undergo the changes of time and even less the changes of human thought. Therefore, if I am not wrong, the second characteristic is their absolute immobility. Here is the second question: have you ever seen a truth unchanged through eras, cultures and powers?
Some people might answer that the truths postulated by religious doctrines are absolute. But they mistake dogmas with truth.
We have already talked about this, dismissing straight away the supposition that God's doctrines written by men, therefore in contrast with each other, are vehicles of transcendent truths. This leads us to the elimination of the mind as a possible medium between man's conscience and the truths uncontainable by him. This doesn't stop us at all. Reversing the proposition, I go back to the question: if man can't reach the truth, can it reach man?
Might it be that the heart is the key?
Fraternally, Athos
17 th September 2007 - Antonio D'Alonzo writes:
Athos - I start from the question 'if man can't reach absolute truth, can this truth reach man?', which originated from your idea that 'the esoteric part of esotericism is mysticism'. If I am not wrong mysticism, which many mistake with the carnal cults of devotion, is the only dimension where in rare cases, truth has reached the conscience of man through the heart […]
Antonio D'Alonzo – First of all I'd like to explain the sense of my statement on mysticism considered as 'esotericism of esotericism'.
There are two types of mysticism: mysticism of 'essence' and mysticism of 'conjugal love'. The first, historically represented in the West by the Christian assimilation of Neo-Platonism and that is concretized in the thought of Marguerite Porete, Meister Eckhart, Suso, Tauler and finally Cusano, funds its statements on the ego's ability of detachment in view of a state of spiritual fusion between human and divine intellect.
Sometimes the word 'heart' appears in these authors, but, as for many other spiritual traditions, it means the 'center' of spirituality, the noetic intellect, rather than the seat of passion and feelings.
It is a 'spiritual' feeling that transcends the craving for possession, the anxiety for the desired 'object', typical of the via amoris , the second type of mysticism that finds its highest expression in female monasticism.
In some religions such as Hinduism, but also in some forms of Islamic gnosis, the two mysticisms integrate perfectly into a system whose 'devotional-conjugal' form is the preliminary stage of 'mysticism of essence', which represents the top of the ascent. In the West, in the Symposium and in the Phaedrus , Plato first introduced the possibility to reach spiritual contemplation starting from sensual desire. But catholic orthodoxy saw a danger in the 'mysticism of essence' and tolerated only the 'mysticism of conjugal love', easier to control than the first one.
Many times this second type of mysticism is presented as a bad sublimation of sexuality and of the repressed affection in female monasticism. The most striking example is Teresa of Avila, with her works and sensual 'ecstasies' immortalized by Bernini.
The pages of the Autobiography and of the Interior Castle ooze eroticism disguised as some form of spirituality. On the contrary, the 'mysticism of essence' starts from a simple idea: if the ego is not there any more, one overcomes the dualism Creator-creature and identifies himself with God. The unitas spiritus between the world and God, between man and God, can be reached only through detachment. In this perspective there isn't any need for great techniques to reach the unitas spiritus of rites, prayers or particular techniques, which on the contrary tend to reproduce the dichotomist separation between Object and subject, Creator and creature, Master and servant, etc…
It is sufficient to progressively detach from the ego, all the rest is an arsenal that, when it is not necessary, becomes dangerous because it produces new idolatries. The 'path' is simple and complex at the same time; for Hegel the 'speculative proposition' can incorporate the opposites. The difference between esotericism and mysticism, once we have verified that both have the same purpose, is that the first uses a lot of symbols and mythologems to produce anabasis, the second 'strips itself' of everything and aims straight at the finishing line. In this sense if the purpose is the micro-macrocosmic unitas spiritus we can consider mysticism as a form of gnosis lacking the 'frills' of esotericism.
Therefore it is the 'nucleus', the 'core', the 'pulp' of gnosis, whilst esotericism, with its rites and symbols, is the 'skin', the 'rind' or the 'shell'. It is the interiority or exteriority that many times, through its veiled and secret language, served to protect from the stakes of orthodoxy. We must not forget that the language of 'those who have eyes to see and ears to hear' had a defensive function towards the guardians of the sacerdotal power.
The same relation between 'vacuum' or 'non-dualism' that illuminates and the ritual form that transmits and 'contains' the essence is found in Hinduism and Buddhism Mahayana. Of course, a follower of esotericism has all the rights to think that symbols and rites are something more than simple frills. Everybody must find his own way suitable to his abilities. Perhaps with a banal image we can say that the mystic path is similar to a downhill descent where the skier gets straight to the finishing line. The esotericist is more similar to a slalomist who goes round markers, viz. symbols. Both reach the finishing line. But if by definition the 'center' of a doctrine contains a higher degree of universality, it can't be but bare and reduced to essentiality, lacking all that doesn't concern the immediate spiritual fusion with the Principle. In this sense I wrote that 'mysticism is the esotericism (center) of esotericism'.
These considerations, though, are useful only under a criteriology profile and they don't entirely solve the problem of the possibility of knowledge. The knowledge we look for can't be resolved solely in the path of 'detachment'. Otherwise, it would be sufficient to be definitely inclined for contemplative life and fuga mundi . If we think that the only purpose of human existence is spiritual gnosis, it is sufficient to square accounts with mundane life and escape in an Eastern or Western monastery. There is another form of knowledge that concerns the view of the world, weltanschauung in German, which opens an era.
This view or 'reality tunnel' regards the whole of beliefs that allow us to interact with others and ourselves. In other words, it defines our idea of 'truth'. In this perspective the 'path of detachment' as well, if it is carried out in the world and not in the ascetic life, can't be pursued in the forms elaborated by Eckhart or Angelus Silesius. After all, even the mysticism of the unitas spiritus presents itself as a contingent form, an attempt to 'spiritualize' the harsh perception of the circular journey from life to death.
From death I come and to death I go back; this is the 'atheist' and materialistic form of the unitas spiritus , which I can 'soften' with the theory of a microcosm that merges with the macrocosm, of a drop of water that goes back and dissolves into the sea, of a spark of fire in the blaze, etc.
In other words, the sense of existence is already ours with the formula 'I come from death and I go back to death'; mysticism spiritualizes this proposition replacing 'death' with the Prime Principle, the One and Non-Being. The idea of the One – or in the Indian tradition the doctrine of Karma and Samsara – are already 'optimistic' interpretations of the sense of the being. But this is part of the world where the 'truth' is declined in the various historical epochs.
Athos – An inevitable aspect of 'absolute truths' is that they are indemonstrable. Furthermore, their characteristic is that they are non-deformable, immutable and perennial. This means that in their dimension they don't undergo the changes of time and even less the changes of human thought. Therefore, if I am not wrong, the second characteristic is their absolute immobility. Here is the second question: have you ever seen a truth unchanged through eras, cultures and powers?
Antonio – Archetypes can cross epochs, 'religiousness' can return; but they are not the same archetypes and the same religiosity. I'll explain better with two examples taken from sociology and geography of religions.
It is undeniable that nowadays, especially among very young people, there are 'Dionysian' drives in the thrills of 'Saturday nights'. 'Buzz', drugs, alcohol, speed and violence fill the nights of twenty-year olds. If it is correct to say that 'Dionysus' returns, we can't but observe that it is not the same Dionysus worshipped in the ancient mysteries. It un-veils itself in another way, it be-falls with other characteristics. It is manifested in the playful event and not in the religious-mysterial way; it presents new aspects such as the crypto-futuristic cult of speed, but it doesn't manifest itself in a rigidly ritualized context, etc…
Another example is linked to radical Islamism. The Salafism followed by the born again , by young Muslims in the United Kingdom or in the Low Countries is totally opposed to the original Islamic cultures but it operates a 'de-culturation' by advancing the proposal of a strong and rigorist religiosity deprived of local particularities. Salafism severs the roots with national Muslim cultures, proposing a new kind of Islam for immigrants of first or second generation even in the respect of tradition. The Islam we have known so far rooted the religious element inside the national-cultural aspect; Salafism theorizes the emancipation of the first factor from the second. Yet, a careless observer might be tempted to think that we are assisting to a conflict between different cultures.
This is why, if we don't want to live in the past, we must question the hermeneutic horizon of our era, the way which the sense of the being occurs in us and in our time . Metaphysics is based on the opposition between a knowing and a known subject and then it postulates the mystic overcoming of dualism. The mistake in metaphysics is to think of a hypostatic object-entity only in the dimension of present time. Now, conscience (the observing subject) is a historical, phylogenetic construction in progress. If the observing-subject changes, necessarily the observed object changes as well.
The 'truth', the contemplated object, the being – because of the inner evolution of conscience – doesn't exist as hypostasis but it changes in the becoming. The historicizing of conscience also historicizes the alleged meta-temporality of the known object. The object un-veils itself for the knowing subject; the evolution of the latter involves the un-veiling of the being that opens to the contemplating eye.
The becoming and the historicity of the concept of 'truth' lead to the overcoming of the old dualistic metaphysics of the object-in-front-of-the-subject.
The task of the thinker is to think the way the idea of 'truth' is declined in the age of technology. It is an era where we see the return of 'religiosity' and 'sacredness' in forms which are different from what we know, but which are still post-modern or super-modern products.
The 'sacer' is an anthropological category that doesn't need gods or supernatural beliefs; it goes beyond any specific content inherited from the past.
Of course to refuse contemporariness and return to the 'warm soup' of old cosmological doctrines is a legitimate choice.
To refuse one's own time is a romantic and suggestive choice, at least for the individual. Nevertheless I don't see a great future in this option when it is practiced collectively, because there is the risk of being overtaken by time and living in the past. The challenge of thought that doesn't quiver in front of new things is to think the way the 'sacred' or the idea of 'truth' is declined in the age of technology.
17 th September 2007 - Giuseppe Barbone writes:
Truth always reaches and inter-penetrates man; the problem is to be tuned in the right wavelength. In other words, we need ears to understand.
The topic seems extremely complicated to me, since it should be developed among subjects who have somehow 'touched' this truth (the same difference there is between two blind people talking about colors), but I like to continue pretending that…? Truth can't be but transcendent ( the truth in its perfection keeps perfecting itself, God, perfect being, grows in perfection) because it is beyond visible and invisible, time and space of 'micro and macro'.
Because of these peculiarities, it can't be taken-in and be-held but partially or with a synthetic view (intuition, in the instance of true initiation); mind and conscience can't take it in but in the form mentioned above. Personally I believe that the initiatory path leads or should lead to a fusion of mind, heart and conscience, although we could identify the mind with the alchemic salt , therefore it is not indispensable but certainly useful. (Philosophers say that to make the Work Mercury is sufficient .)
Athos asks: Might it be that the heart is the key?
I can't but answer yes. It is only with the help of the 'heart' that we can 'touch and take in certain things', which are not the result of long studies; indeed a deep study might invalidate the final result.
But let's go back to the heart with a spoken thought: why do we call heart this thing, which is certainly not the physical organ? Is it because of the function and position (like the central physical heart) that this kind of 'essence' has or is it only because of its qualities? Is it the secret Fire that allows its activation? If so, what exactly is this Fire? Of one thing I am sure: Truth perennially vibrates outside and inside us, we must be able to read it. It is not possible to read a musical score if we don't know music.
18 th September 2007 - Antonio writes:
Athos - This leads us to the elimination of the mind as a possible medium between man's conscience and the truths uncontainable by him. This doesn't stop us at all. Reversing the proposition, I go back to the question: if man can't reach the truth, can it reach man? Might it be that the heart is the key?
I draw on Athos' idea to reflect on the possibility that the 'truth' can reach man despite man. That is, despite the ontological limits of the anthropological dimension. These limits concern the impossibility to transcend the phenomenal aspect, since the human subjectivity is 'immersed' in the world, 'thrown' in a collective view of which it is part. If man is an integrated part of the world, of the 'tunnel' that defines our perception of reality, how can he achieve the solitary vision able to perceive the Whole from the outside? Can the part get rid of the whole?
It is the problem of meta-language (language able to describe the functioning and dynamics of language) and of the existential setback of death. In order to reveal the arcane mystery of death we must die, we can't know anything for certain until we live (although there is a wide literature on the 'near-death experience' which brings solace to the soul, it is not possible to exclude the idea that at the moment of passing away the brain produces visions programmed to soften the pathos of death).
Mysticism offers the possibility of re-integration of the individual monad in the cosmic ocean and the consequent liberation from the chains of samsara. Nevertheless, liberation seems to involve several cycles of re-births and perhaps it is out of reach for contemporary man, both Western and Eastern. The doctrine of the 'Pure Earth' of Buddhism Mahayana, for example, is skeptical about the possibility to become a bodhisattva or an arhat for men belonging to the dark age (the 'bodhisattva' is the man who, despite having obtained liberation, gives nirvana up to help all the other beings achieving it. The 'arhat', once achieved the moksha, frees himself from karma and doesn't come back into samsara). The doctrine of the 'Pure Earth' (or 'Amidism') postulates that the highest possibility (I stress on the word 'highest') is to obtain a rebirth favorable to the time of Maitreya, the future bodhisattva.
If the difficulty is prohibitive for a Chinese or Vietnamese Buddhist, how can contemporary western man, with his SUVs and terraced houses, aim at these goals?
I think it's preferable to take the cautious attitude of the 'wanderer' on the way to a finishing line that he can't see.
Nevertheless if mysticism is not for everyone and it is not possible to elaborate a kind of 'meta-language' until we 'live' inside the ordinary langue , the possibility to elaborate a meta-theory or metaphysics suitable to the contemporary age goes through a new type of language and, as a consequence, of thought.
In this perspective, in the last two centuries it has been believed, against Plato, that the poetic word brought demiurgic and divinatory powers. From Novalis to Rimbaud, from Paul Valéry to Heidegger, who wasn't a poet, but a thinker, the 'versifying' language has tried to pronunciate the 'secret' word, the 'sacred', the 'being'. This attempt hasn't been pursued by poetry only, but also by the artistic and literary vanguards of the twentieth century; let's think for example of the surrealist experience or of the 'flows of conscience' of Joyce's Ulysses . Or of Lacan's psychoanalysis.
The attempt to elaborate a language and an 'other' reason is still open and it finds new lymph in the studies on imagery introduced in France by G. Durand. Corbin had already talked about 'imaginal'; presenting the doctrines of the 'Persian Platonics', the ishrāqīyūn , Sohrevardi's gnosis and Ibn Arabi's mysticism, he introduced a middle and medium dimension between the intelligible and the sensitive worlds: the mundus imaginalis.
For a few years Durand has been dedicating himself to elaborate anthropology of imagery that involves survivals of esoteric doctrines. An interesting attempt to harmonize the 'mythical-magical' imagery with the possibilities that contemporary technology opens is also present in neo-paganism. Metropolitan shamanism, techno-paganism, 'medio-mancy', etc…
They are interesting proposals that must be carefully screened, because they help overcoming the old twentieth-century dualism between technology and spirituality. The fault of techno-paganism, I think, is that it can't yet reflect carefully on its fundaments. But this consideration doesn't prevent us from following its possible developments. Likewise other possibilities are offered by cyberspace, virtual words, and interaction of avatars in Second Life.
If the latter continues on the commercial pattern that is characterizing its first steps, this possibility will disappear. But after all, I think that the future of spirituality is in the interlacement between cyberspace, multidimensionality and 'magical-esoteric' survivals. It is already in progress and it can't be stopped. Indeed, we are discussing esotericism and mysticism through the Net.
On the Web there are tens of neo-pagan groups that direct their energy in the cyberspace. This 'open source' spirituality will have to face religious fundamentalism.
I don't see a great future, though, for traditional religious aggregations. The challenge of philosophy is to think the interlacing between vision and thought, the way a new form of thought intertwined to image can happen. This is because techno-pagan 'animism' is fine, but thought can't give up questioning. However, the questioning will have to move inside the scenario of multidimensional reality opened by science and technology.


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They Rise
by Martin Patterson at 26 January 2015, 12:21 PM
Californian band RUTHLESS are back with their first album in nearly 30 years. Their last output was "Metal Without Mercy" (1984) and the album "Discipline Of Steel" (1986). Along with the "They Rise" album the band have also included the "Metal Without Mercy" E.P. as a bonus. "Aggressive US Metal" is how the bands press release describes them and who am I to argue with them.
Even before listening to this album I had to take a second look at the album sleeve. It's a beautifully painted piece of artwork by Bulgarian artist Dimitar Nikolov, who has done a few album covers in the past, most notably of which is the "Hailstorm" album by Ross the Boss of MANOWAR fame. I love the comic book style of this and it perfectly matches the music on offer here. It's the kind of art that really needs to be on a 12" album rather than on a CD to fully appreciate. Great stuff.
"Defender" the opening track is one of the highlights of the album for me. It's a great old school fists in the air head-bangin' heavy metal anthem. I could imagine Rob Halford singing on this one as it has a bit of a JUDAS PRIEST influence to my ear. The intensity drops slightly for "Laceration" as it opens with a short acoustic intro before the main riff kicks in for a more mid-paced song. It was on this track that I first noticed Sammy DeJohn's powerful vocal style reminded me a bit of Phil Rind from SACRED REICH. "They Rise" is another killer track starting with an almost doomy atmosphere. It seems like RUTHLESS have put all the best tracks at the beginning of the album, as the first 5 tracks are great. For me, the album starts running out of steam a bit when we get to track 6, "Time Waits", which is a bit of a change of pace and has a ballad type feel; don't worry we're not talking about BON JOVI type ballads here, it's still Metal, but it's not quite up there with the previous songs.
It's been a long time coming, but RUTHLESS have produced an album they can be proud of. This should appeal to anyone who likes old school heavy metal with an early thrash influence. The style of the band hasn't changed much since the 80's so if you're a fan of the old material you'll not be disappointed.
1. Defender
2. Laceration
3. Traitor
4. They Rise
5. Hang Man
6. Time Waits
7. Out Of The Ashes
8. Frustration
9. Systematic Terror
10. Gates Of Hell
11. Metal Without Mercy
12. Bury The Axe
13. The Fever
14. Mass Killer
Sammy DeJohn - Vocals
Kenny McGee - Guitars
Dave Watson - Guitars
Marc McGee - Bass
Jason VanSlyke - Drums
Record Label: Pure Steel Records


Eska, Joseph F., "Laryngeal realism and the prehistory of Celtic", Transactions of the Philological Society 116:3 (November, 2018): 320–331.
This paper examines the proto‐Celtic plosive system through the lens of Laryngeal Realism. Drawing upon phonetic data from contemporary Celtic languages and philological data from medieval Insular Celtic and ancient Continental Celtic languages, it concludes that the active Laryngeal feature in these languages is not [voice], but [spread glottis], and that this feature should be projected back to proto‐Celtic. Such an analysis allows for a much more straightforward analysis of the evolution of the early Celtic plosive system, and, in particular, allows for a non‐stipulative analysis of perhaps the best known of Celtic sound changes, the loss of proto‐IE */p/, in simple aerodynamic terms. It is demonstrated, furthermore, that the loss of proto‐IE */p/ cannot be explained by contact with pre‐Basque or Iberian, but, instead, was, in all likelihood, a natural development.


The 2018 election has become a tale of divided government: the House broke for Democrats, but the Senate held for Republicans — and what's more, Republicans were even able to expand their majority in the Senate. The election has also become a tale of blue waves. But don't those tales contradict one another? Not really. What the "split decision" narrative sometimes misses is just how well Democrats performed in the Senate despite having to defend more seats than Republicans1 — and in territory that was largely more favorable to the GOP.
Some of what we're seeing here is probably related to the overall Democratic-leaning national environment — the popular House vote margin currently sits at D+7. But in 27 of the 33 Senate races included in the chart,3 Democratic candidates outperformed the partisan leans of their states. And there were four contests where Democratic incumbents fared 20 points or better than their state's political baseline — and three of them won. This helped Democrats hold onto seats in two heavily Republican states — West Virginia and Montana — and easily win one seat in a likely 2020 battleground — Minnesota. As for North Dakota, the GOP picked up the seat despite a strong Democratic overperformance.
At the top of the list was Sen. Joe Manchin, who overperformed the deep, red hue of West Virginia by 33 points. He defeated Republican challenger Patrick Morrisey by a 3-point margin. Granted, this race was much closer for Manchin than his previous Senate victories in 2010 and 2012, but it's still impressive in a state that leans 30 points more Republican than the country as a whole. In Minnesota, Democrats found more solid footing as Sen. Amy Klobuchar outperformed her state's baseline by 22 points and won reelection by a whopping 24 points. Minnesota is only 2 points more Democratic than the rest of the country, so this has some people wondering if she could leverage her landslide victory into a case for her party's 2020 presidential nomination. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana also outperformed his state's partisan baseline by 22 points, but unlike Klobuchar, his contest was in a much redder state, and as a result, he won with a 4-point margin. While this is a slim margin of victory, it was the first time that Tester won an outright majority of the vote, having failed to do so in his 2006 or 2012 Senate wins. Although Sen. Heidi Heitkamp ran 22 points ahead of North Dakota's partisan lean of R+33, it wasn't enough to squeak out a second victory.4 She lost to Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer by 11 points.
Indiana and Missouri also had Democratic incumbents who outperformed their state's partisan lean by double digits, but it wasn't enough to save either of them. In Indiana, Sen. Joe Donnelly lost reelection by 6 points while running 12 points ahead of his state's lean, and in Missouri, Sen. Claire McCaskill also lost by 6 points while doing 13 points better than Missouri's R+19 baseline would suggest. So while these Democrats did much better than one would expect based on how red their states are, they did not perform well enough to actually win. Certainly troubling news for Democrats running in statewide elections in other red states.
As for the two seats Democrats were able to pry from Republicans' grasp, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema outperformed Arizona's political lean by about 11 points and edged out GOP Rep. Martha McSally by roughly 2 points. In neighboring (and less red) Nevada, Rep. Jacky Rosen beat incumbent Republican Sen. Dean Heller by 5 points and outperformed her state's lean by 6 points.
One Republican winner who narrowly outperformed his state's partisan lean has a familiar face: Mitt Romney. He defeated Democrat Jenny Wilson by 32 points in Utah, a state that is 31 points more Republican than the rest of the country — so not only did he win handily, he also performed 1 point better than Utah's partisan baseline. The GOP also overperformed in both Mississippi Senate races. Republican Sen. Roger Wicker won by 20 points, 5 points better than the state's R+15 partisan lean. In the all-party special election, no single Republican candidate won outright as 50 percent of the vote was needed to clinch the seat. That said, the overall Republican vote share was about 16 points ahead of the combined Democratic vote, or put another way, 1 point better than Mississippi's partisan baseline. This probably bodes well for Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the state's Nov. 27 runoff.
Looking ahead to the 2020 Senate map, Democrats have a tough slog ahead of them in Alabama, which leans 27 points more Republican than the rest of the country.5 And if 2018 is any indication of how Senate races will go for Democrats in red states, they'll have to hope that Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama can replicate Manchin's level of overperformance and not, say, Heitkamp's. That said, it might be the GOP's turn to see if they can outperform a state's partisan lean with Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado and Susan Collins of Maine. Colorado leans 1.5 points more Democratic than the rest of the nation and Maine 5 points. If the GOP can hold onto both, it will make it nearly impossible for the Democrats to win a majority in 2020.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen for falsely advertising that hundreds of thousands of its diesel vehicles were environmentally friendly, when the automaker knew the cars were emitting excess pollution.
The FTC, a U.S. government agency that works to prevent fraudulent business practices, said U.S. consumers suffered "billions of dollars in injury" as a result of VW's deception.
The FTC is seeking a court order requiring Volkswagen to compensate U.S. consumers who bought a polluting vehicle and an injunction to prevent future similar conduct by the automaker.
The FTC said VW's claims that the cars were "low-emission, environmentally friendly, met emissions standards and would maintain a high resale value" were false. It said the vehicles involved sold for an average price of approximately $28,000.
"For years Volkswagen's ads touted the company's 'Clean Diesel' cars even though it now appears Volkswagen rigged the cars with devices designed to defeat emissions tests," said FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez in a statement.
The FTC said VW promoted its "clean" cars through a high-profile marketing campaign that cost tens of millions of dollars that included Super Bowl ads, online social media campaigns and print advertising, "often targeting environmentally conscious consumers."
VW has admitted to using undisclosed software that allowed 580,000 diesel vehicles in the U.S. built since 2009 to emit up to 40 times legally allowable pollution.
VW spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan said the automaker has received the FTC complaint and "continues to cooperate" with all U.S. regulators. "Our most important priority is to find a solution to the diesel emissions matter," Ginivan said.
The Justice Department sued VW for up to $46 billion in January for violating environmental laws and VW faces more than 500 civil lawsuits related to excess emissions, along with suits from some U.S. states. Last week, a federal judge set an April 21 deadline for VW to come up with a remedy for the vehicles.
VW has an ongoing internal investigation to determine who at the automaker knew of the diesel cheating.
VW remains in talks with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board and Justice Department over the terms of a settlement. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer and lawyers for the government and VW said last Thursday that the sides had made "substantial progress" toward a settlement.


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What Breakup? Porsha Williams and Dennis McKinley Are Reportedly Back Together
August 6, 2019, 10:46 AM ET
After rumors circulated of a split, the engaged RHOA couple have reportedly reconciled.
Porsha Williams Introduces You to Her Daughter Pilar Jhena
After allegedly breaking up earlier this spring, Porsha Williams and Dennis McKinley have reconciled, according to a new report. Sources tell Us Weekly that The Real Housewives of Atlanta couple have gotten back together after sparking breakup headlines back in May. Porsha has also been wearing her engagement ring after allegedly taking it off around the time of the news of their break. In fact, Dennis was even spotted hanging with Porsha on her Instagram Stories at the same time the report of their reconciliation made its way online this week.
Porsha and Dennis went public in 2018 and shared the happy news that they were expecting their first child together in September of that year, around the same time they confirmed their engagement. Their relationship was later documented on Season 11 of RHOA and their journey to parenthood was followed on The Real Housewives of Atlanta Porsha's Having a Baby, which aired on Bravo earlier this year. Their daughter, Pilar Jhena McKinley, was born in March (check it out above). During the RHOA Season 11 finale, Porsha and Dennis confirmed their plans to wed at the end of this year on New Year's Eve.
Porsha Williams Explains Her Decision to Show Daughter Pilar's Face on TV
While they hadn't been spotted on each other's social media as of late (well, until this week that is), they have used Instagram to shout each other out and pay tribute to each other as great parents in the midst of their reported break.
Check out more of the RHOA couple, below.
See Which Real Housewives Attended Porsha Williams' Baby Shower
Dennis McKinley
Dennis Shouts out Porsha: "Good Job Mommy"
Porsha Shouts out Dennis as "a Wonderful Dad"


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Charter and Policies
Charter National Legal Aid
National Partnership Agreement on Legal Assistance Services
National Statistics 2009 – Current
National Statistics 2004 – 2009
Finance – Income and Expenses
Legal Aid Research Reports
Legal Australia-wide survey
NLA Submissions
Disability Royal Commission Legal Service
Family Violence Law Help
Family Advocacy and Support Service
Independent Children's Lawyer
What's the law?
ALAF
National Legal Aid
National Legal Aid (NLA) represents the directors of the eight state and territory legal aid commissions (LACs) in Australia.
The LACs are independent statutory bodies that provide legal assistance services to the public, with a particular focus on the needs of people who are economically and/or socially disadvantaged. LACs provide in excess of 2.3 million legal services each year.
One of the NLA directors, on a rotation basis, is the Chair and primary spokesperson for NLA.
NLA's purpose is to:
lead and encourage a national system of legal aid which allows economically disadvantaged people to obtain access to justice, and
provide a forum for engagement at a national level with government/s, stakeholders, community; and for the individual LACs to engage with each other about best practice of legal aid and related issues.
NLA is guided by belief in the rule of law and the importance of an effective, efficient, independent justice system which is accessible to everyone. These are the cornerstones of a civil and democratic society.
In 2019-20 key priorities for NLA include:
Achieving an increase in core funding to legal assistance service providers with that funding to be adjusted each year in accordance with the Consumer Price Index, so that more services can be delivered to people in need.
Responding to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
Working with government and service providers to ensure the most appropriate response following the release of the report of the Australian Law Reform Commission's Review of Family Law.
Support for adequate funding for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services as the 'specialised legal assistance services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.'1
NLA:
maintains a set of policies which provide the basis for our work in advocating for equitable access to justice;
is supported by a secretariat and by a number of working groups and networks including a representative of each of the LACs with expertise in the respective area of legal aid business, and
meets regularly for strategic planning purposes.
There are four main government funded legal assistance service providers in Australia, including the LACs, community legal centres, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services and Family Violence Prevention Legal Services.
NLA is a member of the Australian Legal Assistance Forum (ALAF), comprised by representatives of the above legal assistance service providers and the Law Council of Australia representing Australian lawyers and their state and territory representative bodies, a signatory to the ALAF Statement of Co-operation, and provides the ALAF Secretariat.
There is a strong alliance between NLA and Legal Aid Services New Zealand. The legal aid alliance facilitates the sharing of information, the showcasing of initiatives, and contributes to the development of best practice. A representative of Legal Aid Services NZ attends NLA meetings to discuss matters of mutual interest.
Further information about NLA and the work that we do, can be found under About Us.
1 Productivity Commission 2014, Access to Justice Arrangements: Overview, Inquiry Report No. 72, Canberra, 767.
National Legal Aid acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders both past and present.
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from django.shortcuts import render, get_object_or_404
from django.views.generic import View
from django.core.paginator import Paginator
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.db.models import Q

from courses.models import Course
from operation.models import UserFavorite

from .models import CourseOrg, CityDict, Teacher
from .forms import UserAskForm

# Create your views here.

class OrgListView(View):
    '''课程机构列表View'''
    def get(self, request):
        # 先查找到所有课程机构 和 城市
        all_orgs = CourseOrg.objects.all()
        # 筛选: 城市
        city_id = request.GET.get("city", "")
        if city_id:
            all_orgs = all_orgs.filter(city_id=city_id)
        # 筛选: 分类
        category = request.GET.get("category", "")
        if category:
            all_orgs = all_orgs.filter(category=category)

        # 搜索关键词: 机构搜索
        search_keywords = request.GET.get('keywords', '')
        if search_keywords:
            # 根据机构名字、描述搜索
            all_orgs = all_orgs.filter(
                Q(name__icontains=search_keywords) |
                Q(desc__icontains=search_keywords)
            )

        # 排序 students courses
        sort = request.GET.get('sort', '')
        if sort:
            if sort == "students":
                all_orgs = all_orgs.order_by("-students")
            elif sort == "courses":
                all_orgs = all_orgs.order_by("-course_nums")

        # 统计当前条件的org个数
        org_nums = all_orgs.count()

        all_citys = CityDict.objects.all()

        # 分页器
        page_num = request.GET.get('page', 1)
        p = Paginator(all_orgs, per_page=2)
        orgs = p.page(page_num)

        # 热门机构
        hot_orgs = all_orgs.order_by('-click_nums')[:3]

        return render(request, 'org_list.html',{
            "all_orgs": orgs,
            "all_citys": all_citys,
            "org_nums": org_nums,
            "page_num_list": range(1, p.num_pages+1),
            "city_id": city_id,
            "category": category,
            "hot_orgs": hot_orgs,
            "sort": sort,
        })

class AddUserAskView(View):
    def post(self, request):
        userask_form = UserAskForm(request.POST)
        if userask_form.is_valid():
            userask_form.save(commit=True)
            # 注意json数据需要是双引号的
            return HttpResponse('{"status": "success"}',
                                content_type="application/json")
        else:
            return HttpResponse('{"status": "fail", "msg": "添加出错"}',
                                content_type="application/json")

class OrgHomeView(View):
    '''机构首页View'''
    def get(self, request, org_id):
        course_org = CourseOrg.objects.get(id=int(org_id))
        all_course = course_org.course_set.all()[:3]
        all_teachers = course_org.teacher_set.all()[:2]

        # 机构是否收藏
        has_fav = False
        if request.user.is_authenticated():
            if UserFavorite.objects.filter(fav_type=2, fav_id=org_id, user=request.user):
                has_fav = True

        return render(request, 'org_detail_homepage.html',
                      {
                          'course_org': course_org,
                          'all_course': all_course,
                          'all_teachers': all_teachers,
                          'current_page': 'home',
                          'has_fav': has_fav,
                      })

class OrgCourseView(View):
    '''机构课程列表View'''
    def get(self, request, org_id):
        course_org = CourseOrg.objects.get(id=org_id)
        all_course = course_org.course_set.all()
        # 机构是否收藏
        has_fav = False
        if request.user.is_authenticated():
            if UserFavorite.objects.filter(fav_type=2, fav_id=org_id,
                                           user=request.user):
                has_fav = True
        return render(request, 'org_detail_course.html',
                      {
                          'course_org': course_org,
                          'all_course': all_course,
                          'current_page': 'course',
                          'has_fav': has_fav
                      })

class OrgDescView(View):
    '''机构介绍View'''
    def get(self, request, org_id):
        course_org = CourseOrg.objects.get(id=org_id)
        # 机构是否收藏
        has_fav = False
        if request.user.is_authenticated():
            if UserFavorite.objects.filter(fav_type=2, fav_id=org_id,
                                           user=request.user):
                has_fav = True
        return render(request, 'org_detail_desc.html',
                      {
                          'course_org': course_org,
                          'current_page': 'desc',
                          'has_fav': has_fav,
                      })

class OrgTeacherView(View):
    '''机构教师列表View'''
    def get(self, request, org_id):
        course_org = CourseOrg.objects.get(id=org_id)
        all_teachers = course_org.teacher_set.all()
        # 机构是否收藏
        has_fav = False
        if request.user.is_authenticated():
            if UserFavorite.objects.filter(fav_type=2, fav_id=org_id,
                                           user=request.user):
                has_fav = True
        return render(request, 'org_detail_teachers.html',
                      {
                          'course_org': course_org,
                          'all_teachers': all_teachers,
                          'current_page': 'teacher',
                          'has_fav': has_fav,
                      })

class  AddFavView(View):
    '''添加(取消)收藏View'''
    def post(self, request):
        fav_id = int(request.POST.get('fav_id', '0'))
        fav_type = int(request.POST.get('fav_type', '0'))

        # 如果已经收藏了,再次点击就是删除收藏
        if not request.user.is_authenticated():
            return HttpResponse('{"status": "fail", "msg": "用户未登录"}',
                                content_type="application/json")
        else:
            exist_records = UserFavorite.objects.filter(user=request.user,
                                                        fav_id=fav_id, fav_type=fav_type)
            if exist_records:
                # 记录已经存在则取消收藏
                exist_records.delete()
                return HttpResponse('{"status": "success", "msg": "收藏"}',
                                    content_type="application/json")
            else:
                # 添加收藏记录
                if fav_id > 0 and fav_type > 0:
                    UserFavorite.objects.create(user=request.user,
                        fav_id=int(fav_id), fav_type=fav_type)
                    return HttpResponse('{"status": "success", "msg": "已收藏"}',
                                        content_type="application/json")
                else:
                    return HttpResponse('{"status": "fail", "msg": "收藏出错"}',
                                        content_type="application/json")

class TeacherListView(View):
    '''讲师列表页View'''
    def get(self, request):
        all_teacher = Teacher.objects.all()

        # 搜索关键词: 讲师搜索
        search_keywords = request.GET.get('keywords', '')
        if search_keywords:
            # 根据讲师名字、公司、职位搜索
            all_teacher = all_teacher.filter(
                Q(name__icontains=search_keywords) |
                Q(work_company__icontains=search_keywords) |
                Q(work_position__icontains=search_keywords)
            )

        # 对讲师排序
        sort = request.GET.get('sort', '')
        if sort:
            if sort == "hot":
                all_teacher = all_teacher.order_by('-click_nums')

        # 对讲师列表分页
        page_num = 1
        try:
            page_num = int(request.GET.get('page', '1'))
        except Exception:
            page_num = 1
        p = Paginator(all_teacher, 3)
        teachers = p.page(page_num)

        # 讲师排行榜
        sorted_teachers = Teacher.objects.all().order_by('-click_nums')[:5]

        return render(request, 'teachers_list.html',{
            'all_teachers': teachers,
            'teacher_nums': p.count,
            'page_num_list': range(1, p.num_pages + 1),
            'sort': sort,
            'sorted_teachers': sorted_teachers,
        })

class TeacherDetialView(View):
    '''讲师详情页View'''
    def get(self, request, teacher_id):
        teacher = get_object_or_404(Teacher, id=teacher_id)

        # 讲师的课程
        all_courses = teacher.course_set.all()

        # 讲师排行榜
        sorted_teachers = Teacher.objects.all().order_by('-click_nums')[:5]

        # 教师和机构是否已经收藏
        has_teacher_faved = False
        has_org_faved = False
        # 查询是否收藏了教师
        if UserFavorite.objects.filter(user=request.user,
                                       fav_id=teacher_id, fav_type=3):
            has_teacher_faved = True

        # 查询机构是否收藏
        if UserFavorite.objects.filter(user=request.user,
                                       fav_id=teacher.org_id, fav_type=2):
            has_org_faved = True

        return render(request, 'teacher_detail.html', {
            'teacher': teacher,
            'sorted_teachers': sorted_teachers,
            'all_courses': all_courses,
            'has_teacher_faved': has_teacher_faved,
            'has_org_faved': has_org_faved,
        })

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This homepage is dedicated to stamps, whisky labels and lighthouses.
Russia (Imperial Russia, RSFSR and USSR) and Hungary (Magyar Posta).
3550 different whisky labels from bottles.
it is about my stampcollection of lighthouses on stamps.
It is possible to submit your url free.
Imperial Russia, RSFSR and USSR, including revenues, zemstvos, cinderella's and other related items.
Stamps and perfins from Hungary - Magyar Posta.
Julemærker from Denmark, but also from the other Scandinavian countries.
Stamps (topicals) with lighthouses on it, worldwide.
Catalogs and other literature about stamps.
I also collect whisky labels from bottles. At this moment I have more then 2950 different whiskylabels.
Not on stamps, but whisky labels from bottles, some information about whisky and some interesting links.
Whisky labels, some examples of my collection.
Overview in a text table of all my labels (more then 2950 different ones!!).
I have scanned a part of my labels, about 170+.
My interview (pdf) for the Dutch magazine "Whisky etc." Only in Dutch.
stamps before 1950, see my want-list.
Armenia, ever seen the stamps in these colors, I didn't !
A really nice double perforation on a part of a sheet of the worker stamps.
The three periods of Russia, imperial Russia - R.S.F.S.R. and the U.S.S.R.
Unknown stamps - please help me to identify them, please also take a look at my cut-outs and cinderella's.
Identified stamps - have you ever seen these ?
Unknown perfins - please take a look at these rare items.
Revenues - take a look at my revenues. These are the more general ones.
Alcohol and Tobacco revenues from the late 1800's.
Zemstvos - all you wanted to know about Zemstvos.
Republics - read all about the Russian allied territories, republics and occupation areas.
Scans of my stamps from Russian allied territories, republics, occupation areas and bogus issues, like British occupation Batum, Levante, Ukraine, Deniken and several bogus issues.
Scans of non-postal exposition sheets from Russia, just a few examples.
Unique, more then 100 different scans of the non-postal exposition sheets.
Kargopol - see my latest acquisition, very nice cancellation!!
Occupation Azirbayedjan - all the stamps with this overprint.
Nostalgic Pictures from Russia, taken from very old postcards.
Smolensk - How to identify the overprint from Smolensk.
Rare stamps - take a look at really rare stamps, only a few known examples.
Municipals - nice: stamps from the Moscow police.
Cut-outs - nice: some old cut-outs from the late 1800, seems to be revenue papers.
Cinderella's - a lot of old cinderella's, just take a look. Does somebody know there purpose?
Military post: Czechoslovak army in Siberia.
stamps with the overprint PORTO.
stamps with the well known three hole triangle perforation.
stamps with perforations of firms - perfins.
stamps with overprints which are not in the normal stamp catalogues, like army stamps and private stamps. If you have any literature or information on this please let met know it.
I have several stamps which I can't find, see the pictures. I hope someone can tell me more about them.
Revenues - take a look at my revenues.
Julemærker from Scandinavia, here are some examples of Denmark.
From Denmark I also collect perfins.
mainly the older ones, with lighthouses on it.
I have an old catalogue from Seamark, fully illustrated which I want to exchange for a specialized catalogue of Russia or for information about revenues, cinderella's or for stamps.
Copernicus, the well known astronomer from Poland.
Precancels from Great Britain and Canada.
Locals like Herm island, Lundy, Davaar, etc.
I have several stamps, I think from Russia and Hungary which I can't find in the catalogues.
Please take a look and try to help me.
Lets take a look at the unknown Russian stamps and unknown Hungarian stamps or take a look at the identified revenues.
Thanks to you all I have identified some stamps, take a look at the identified stamps. I also have some stamps with a round hole in it, stamps from 1909/1917 (Michel nr. 79-95), and a stamp with the perforation M.N.V. Does anybody knows what that means?? See the (4) stamps.
- Russian philatelic magazines 1996-1998. The name of the magazine is "Philatelia".
For an overview of my literature and catalogues please visit this page.
my missing stamps, see my latest wantlist for my missing stamps from Russia, Hungary and Denmark.
perfins from Russia, Hungary and Denmark.
I can offer stamps worldwide but have a lot of Russia and Hungary.
Lighthouses - on stamps, replicas and a lot of links.
Picture gallery - of Dutch lighthouses.
A lot of interesting and cool stamp related links.
Add your url free !!
Add your url related to stamps, whisky or lighthouses!


An it-company KM.Company specializes in app and software development. KM is a short from KodeMax the nickname of company's owner in social networks.
At iStar Design Bureau was created a logotype in a strict blue colors for the young it-company. In a sign part of the logo our designers used optical illusion of geometry and colors, that hiding the company's name.