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Legal Policy Adviser - Legislation & Policy
Department: Department of Premier & Cabinet
Work Type: Ongoing - full time
Job Function: Legal
Classification: VPSG4
Work Location: Melbourne - CBD
Reference: VG/1408501
Salary Range: $85,279 - $96,759
Attachments: Position Description- Legal Policy Adviser, Legislation & Policy- General Counsel- VPSG4 - July 2019.docx (Word, 187KB)
Contact: Fiona Pitman
Play an integral role in a high performing team providing advice on legal policy and legislative matters, including electoral, integrity, accountability and transparency systems.
Play an integral role in a high performing team at DPC's Office of the General Counsel
Deliver legal policy and legislative advice on sensitive matters including public sector integrity, accountability and transparency systems
Lead and support the development and implementation of significant legislative proposals
VPS4 opportunity
The Office of the General Counsel provides strategic legal and policy advice to the Premier, Special Minister of State and the Department of Premier and Cabinet.
The Office is looking for a hard-working and experienced policy adviser or lawyer with strong technical legal policy and conceptual skills to advise and lead on legal policy and legislative advice matters.
For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact the Manager, Legislation and Policy Team, Fiona Pitman on 9651 6243.
To apply online and for further information on position descriptions and key selection criteria visit: www.careers.vic.gov.au
The closing date for this position is midnight Sunday 28 July 2019.
This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.
Apply before the advertised closing date via the http://careers.vic.gov.au website
All applications should include:
a resume
a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages)
Please refer to the contact on the position description if you have any questions regarding the job vacancy.
Employment of successful candidates will be subject to a National Police Check.
DPC actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people with disabilities. All roles at DPC can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role. We work for the people of Victoria by helping the government achieve its strategic objectives. We do this by supporting the Premier, Deputy Premier, Special Minister of State and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Equality, Minister for Veterans, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Women and Minister for Youth.
DPC is proud to participate in Recruit Smarter, an initiative of the Victorian Government to address unconscious bias in recruitment practices. For more information on Recruit Smarter, please visit www.vic.gov.au/recruit-smarter or call 13 22 15.

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Making music for social change
Caroline Hailstone 19th June 2019
Meet the global changemakers who are playing to a different tune. At our Good Deals + Beyond Good Business event this year, four pioneers described how they are using music to break down barriers and change lives.
From chocolate bars to period products, Pioneers Post knows that social change can be created in many different ways.
And at last month's Good Deals + Beyond Good Business conference in London, we heard from four people across the world who are using music as their tool for creating positive social impact.
Speaking at a workshop hosted by the British Council, four speakers from Brazil, the UK, Pakistan and the US explained how music is enabling them to take on issues in their countries including homelessness, violence and social divide.
Becky Schutt, head of Developing Inclusive and Creative Economies at the British Council, said: "The 'instrumentalisation' of culture (pun intended), has been a debate swirling in the arts sector in the UK for some time. The panellists we welcomed at Good Deals + Beyond Good Business demonstrated that music, human expression, creativity, community cohesion and social change are so beautifully intertwined that there is no need to silo the function of music into its 'intrinsic' versus 'instrumental' purposes."
She added: "The topic that we do need to push further, however, is how these powerful cultural initiatives can be deeply supported and their wider economic and social return on investment recognised."
How opera supports homeless people
Bridget Rennie is co-executive director at Streetwise Opera, which runs opera programmes for people who have experienced homelessness across England.
The charity runs 400 workshops every year, and puts on two major performances – in 2016, for example, the performance was The Passion (brief film below) – a shorter version of Bach's St Matthew Passion. It is also starting to create new income streams through running leadership and performance programmes for businesses.
Rennie believes that tackling homelessness is about more than just giving people a roof over their heads. "There is a jigsaw of homelessness support, and arts and creativity are a vital part of that," she said.
For the 600 or so performers they take on each year, the opera programmes are a chance to focus on something outside of their own situation for a while. Rennie said: "We don't make operas about homelessness, so people can leave their problems at the door."
There is a jigsaw of homelessness support, and arts and creativity are a vital part of that
Rennie also explained that because opera is often perceived as elitist, its participants often start by believing that it is not something they can be part of. So when they do, "it can transform their perceptions of what else they might be able to do with their lives."
Hip hop saved DJ Bola's life
DJ Bola grew up in 1990s Jardim Angela – a favela in Brazil's Sao Paulo, which at that time was named the most dangerous district in the world by the United Nations. The one thing that kept him alive, he told the group, was his passion for hip hop music, which he dedicated his time to instead of becoming caught up in violence.
So when he set up A Banca, a business dedicated to the genre in 1999, he knew he would use it as a tool to support others who grew up in his situation, and break down social class divides throughout the city.
DJ Bola leading a hip hop workshop
DJ Bola described to workshop attendees how what started life as an events, music and merchandise company now offers a range of educational programmes. From dance classes to rap lessons, the company brings together young people from rich and poor neighbourhoods. "People in favelas usually go to rich neighbourhoods just to work, and rich people never go to the favelas. So through the hip hop programmes we are trying to build dialogue between them, in order to create empathy and understanding," he said.
DJ Bola has also started an accelerator programme for social enterprises in poor neighbourhoods. These enterprises, he believes, are a useful way of people solving the social problems that they face.
Through the hip hop programmes we are building a dialogue between children from rich and poor neighbourhoods.
Why we need to save the last sarinda player in Pakistan
Zeejah Fazli was next to speak. His mission, he told attendees, is to preserve the rich folk musical heritage of Pakistan, as well as the dozens of indigenous instruments on which it is played.
One way he is tackling this issue is with FACE (the Foundation for Arts, Culture and Entertainment), of which he is CEO and president. One of the foundation's aims is to support musicians to connect with wider audiences and earn income from their music. For six years, the organisation has hosted a festival which brings together Western and traditional music together for two days at a time. "We're getting all musicians in one place, so people can relate to whatever music that is coming from Pakistan, and whatever from the West, and finding relationships [between them]," said Fazli.
Fazli then explained how he worked as an executive producer on a documentary called Indus Blues (trailer below), which hopes to spread awareness of the issue throughout the world. Depicting a "nation losing its culture", it tells the story of the economic challenges faced by the nation's folk musicians – including the last sarinda player in Pakistan.
Stand by me – and you
As a recording engineer in New York, Mark Johnson spent his time in a studio working with everyone from Notorious BIG to Paul Simon. And after experiencing this incredible music up close, he decided he wanted to use its power as a way to break through political dialogue of division and unite people from across the globe, he explained.
So he went around the world recording talented musicians from all walks of life – from Zulu choirs to US street guitarists – and brought them all together in one version of "Stand By Me" (originally by Ben E King), which now has had over 131m views on YouTube (watch below).
Following that, he set up the Playing for Change Foundation, which aims to create "positive change through music education". It currently has 15 music programmes around the world, offering free musical education from qualified local teachers to children of limited means.
"When music plays there's no marginalised anything," Mark told attendees. "The marginality disappears when the music plays."
Header photo: Streetwise Opera performs The Passion. Photographer: Alan Kerr.
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St. Francis Xavier Parish is honored to be affiliated with our sister parish, Santa Rita de Casia which is located outside Cartagena in the beautiful country of Colombia. This vibrant, Jesuit parish serves a vast area including two missions. Over the years, a number of St. Francis Xavier parishioners have made trips to Santa Rita in order to support our sister parish and to learn from the people of Colombia. Linda and Larry McKay have gone to Colombia on a number of occasions and have taught the Spiritual Exercises and English classes to parishioners. Recently a mission trip from St. Francis Xavier included a number of parishioners, students, and Fr. Joseph Carver, S.J. Learn the latest news from Santa Rita by reading this recent letter from Linda and Larry McKay.
From time to time we also support Santa Rita de Casia financially. Through our Lenten Projects or through direct appeals we will periodically call upon the parishioners of St. Francis Xavier to help with our efforts to support Santa Rita. If you are interested in more information or supporting our sister parish please contact Pam Brigham at pbrigham@sfxmissoula.org or by phone 406.541.6041.


As promised-- here is homemade barbecue sauce! I am labeling these as 80 because they ARE homemade, and we know every single ingredient that goes into them. No high fructose corn syrup, no preservatives, controlled sodium levels. They do contain sugar and a little butter, but for the amount that is typically consumed (2-3 Tbsp) does not typically cause the calories, sugar, or fat to add up.
I made THREE different sauces, because I really didn't know what I was doing. DISCOVERY: barbecue sauce is so easy to make! Don't buy sauce ever again. Make your own and truly MAKE IT YOUR OWN. Make a signature product!
Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan. Heat over medium heat until brought to a low boil. Reduce heat to a simmer for 30 minutes. Cool slightly prior to refrigerating.
Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan and simmer over a low heat for 30 minutes.
In a medium saucepan, saute garlic until slightly browned. Add remaining ingredients over medium heat and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally. Cool and refrigerate until ready to use.


Topic Title Lower Price bracket Ideal.
2017-02-21 21:53:43 EastKyDigger I use this site to only view areas of interest of metal detecting and have no desire, or need, at all to pay for images. I think a monthly subscription service of $10 a month just to view the maps without watermarks would be a service that would take off among people in my hobby who use it the same way. I've actually got used to the water marks, but $40 a month is way to expensive unless you plan to export images. Your subscription service seems to be tailored to this crowd and IMO you are not taking advantage of a cheaper service plan that many would be willing to pay with no extra options except no watermarks.
2017-02-21 22:08:47 EastKyDigger I would bet they are thousands in the detecting hobby who use this site daily just for that purpose, and yet, we still see subs tailored to a professional crowd of maybe a few hundred hits a month that may want to export an image image. We just need to see a house on a 1950 aerial without having to raise and lower the resolution so the watermark will move out of the way. No one in the hobby will pay $40 a month for that option and the vast majority of your traffic are people like us. I'd be willing to bet money on it.
2017-02-22 18:37:21 katya Yea, could be true. Even something like, "10$ a month + minimal subscription is 3 months + 3$ for each saved exported image 800px", would bring some many new visitors, I believe. I'd also like to see something with bigger discount and longer subscription, like 195$ for 6 months but 300$ for a year.
2017-03-04 06:40:25 Torchfire The metal detecting community is vastly overlooked as a base for this site. For example, my 16 y.o. son Riley started and runs a Facebook page called Civil War Unearthed and has added nearly 1500 members in less than 2 years. Many of them use this site to research and navigate. As an independent business owner myself (and a serial entrepreneur), I wholly agree that the creators of Historic Aerials have missed a crucial segment of the market and have left money on the table...but I am fine with that and with the watermarks. Not interested in building power points or presentations with the images.


A full moon rising over a rainbow desert mountain. Sounds magical, huh? Magical certainly describes this picture jasper with shades of midnight blue, olive, gray, greige, gold and rust. This is a substantial One Of A Kind Statement necklace featuring a hand carved 99.9% Fine Silver gnarled Tree of Life embracing a moonlit mountain sky painted by Mother Nature. Truly a once-in-a-lifetime piece, you'll reach for this one again and again. Hallmarked .999FS and signed with my initials Ag.
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Obsidian Entertainment, makers of Fallout New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity are making a new RPG game. It will be under Take-Two Interactive's new label Private Division, and development will be led by Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky. The two are long-time collaborators and have been working together since the Interplay days. They then moved on to form Troika games which created the underrated RPG gem Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Although that studio eventually shut down in 2005, Cain moved on to Obsidian Entertainment, and finally working with Boyarsky again starting 2016. Obsidian is keeping details about their next big RPG under wraps for now, but many are understandably excited considering their resume.
As companies become more successful however, the pressures of earning more money becomes harder to resist. Many resort to implementing more online elements. Meanwhile others succumb to implementing micro-transactions and other predatory post-launch monetization schemes. The lure of it is irresistable considering companies can earn up to 4x more than launch sales.
For Obsidian's part, Cain and Boyarsky wants to make it clear to fans that they have no such plans. No loot crates and no microtransactions. They even put it directly on Twitter promising on camera that there will be no such features on their next project.
That is obviously good news for fans who have faith in Obsidian. Now the question is, what is the next RPG game that they are working on. And why are they being so secretive about it?
So either they're lying about this or Take Two have already abandoned their "every game must have post-purchase monetization" plan with the Private Division label.
I know which I want it to be – the latter.
And I know which I expect it to be – the former.


Due to how convenient and easy it is to get information instantly from the web these days, we often take the internet for granted. We usually don't realise how much we rely on it until we don't have them.
Travelling abroad is one of those times when we don't always the internet on our sides. In another country, staying connected to the internet to check your emails or making international calls isn't that easy.
Getting a SIM card may be a better alternative if you're planning to stay in another country for a long time. It can be a better choice than paying your home provider expensive rates.
You can get a local SIM card immediately after you land in an airport and most of the time you can top them up in convenient stores.
We mentioned that a local SIM card may be better than data roaming with your home provider, but you can consider getting an international roaming plan if for a few days.
Plans like the Digi's Daily Unlimited Internet Roaming allows users to experience roaming to the max with a fixed price. All you need to do is choose a country, pay the price, and you get to enjoy the internet for the whole day!
Sometimes, you may need to connect more than one phone to the internet when travelling. For example, all your family members own phones too and all of them need the internet too! You may also have a laptop that needs to stay online too.
You can rent these portable devices and connect up to multiple devices at once. Although you may need to carry an extra item while travelling, a portable Wi-Fi device ensures that you have the internet wherever you go.
If all of the methods above fail you, there's still local Wi-Fi you can rely on.
Hotels usually provide Wi-Fi if you're a customer. You can also try your luck for free and available Wi-Fis in coffee shops and restaurants.
There are plenty of ways to stay connected to the internet so you don't have to worry about being offline.
Are you going overseas soon? Check out https://new.digi.com.my/roaming/unlimited-internetfor the list of countries included in Digi's Daily Unlimited Internet Roaming.


Sales at Pearson rose 6pc in the first nine months of the year, as a surge in revenues at its schools and testing businesses helped to offset weaker performances at Penguin and the Financial Times (FT).
The professional education unit, which ran nearly 6m tests during the period, saw sales leap by 21pc, while Pearson's international education arm, which includes English-language schools in China and universities in South Africa, grew revenues by 19pc. Their strong performance helped to lift operating profits by 13pc, the company said.
However, its North American education business, which primarily publishes textbooks, was hit by cuts in public spending and a slowdown in the number of students enrolling in college, shrinking revenues by 4pc.
At the FT, revenues rose 4pc, as the newspaper grew its number of digital subscribers by 30pc to nearly 250,000, despite a stalemate with Apple which saw it excluded from the technology giant's app store. However, Penguin's sales fell 2pc, as it was hit by an "industry-wide decline in physical retail markets". Ebook sales doubled.
Dame Marjorie Scardino, chief executive of Pearson, said: "The world economy is neither simple nor helpful this year, but... our mix of markets and services, as well as our ability to invest and to implement, has given us competitive strength."
The company added that the final quarter would be a "key selling season" for its educational and consumer publishing businesses, where its Christmas line-up included books by bestselling authors Tom Clancy and Jamie Oliver.
Pearson reiterated its full-year revenue forecasts and raised its estimate for full-year earnings per share from 80p to 83p.


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The Return of the King - Sunday After Christmas: "I Know The Plans"
This week we are concluding the sermon series that took us all the way through the season of Advent, and has now shamelessly encroached on the season of Christmas--which lasts until Epiphany, in case you were wondering. Oh yeah, baby. Christmas is far from over for the Church. That's how us mainline Protestant-types roll.
There's this song on the Beatles "Rubber Soul" album that came to mind as I was preparing for this week's sermon. Sometimes the Beatles just happen when you're sermonizing. Trust me on this.
The song? "In My Life." It goes a little something like this, in case you've forgotten or if you have no concept of good music and have never heard it:
There are places I rememberAll my life, though some have changedSome forever not for betterSome have gone and some remainAll these places have their momentsWith lovers and friends I still can recallSome are dead and some are livingIn my life I've loved them all
Let's just get something straight first. John Lennon was full of it. There are plenty of moments--and people--I would just as soon forget, thank you very much.
For example... I remember a terrible moment many years ago when I was working at Walt Disney World as a supervisor for Pan Complex, which is an ironic name for the attraction cluster that included, Peter Pan, It's A Small World, Cinderella's Carousel and whatever iteration of 3-D movie that happened to be in the theater at the time. One of my employees came up to me and said, "Leon, a guest did something very bad in the queue area." I asked, "Very bad?" She made a gagging sound and then said, "VERY bad."
Let's just say that there are many "bad" things that a guest can do inside a queue area. Spilling popcorn... dumping a drink... vomiting... having their kid drop "trou" and wee-wee... and then there is "VERY bad." I'll leave it at that.
So there I stood in the middle of a queue area pouring the aromatic pixie dust we called "Vo-ban" on top of the VERY bad thing that a guest had done, realizing that I was going to have sweep it all up somehow without getting sick to my stomach and adding to the badness.
This was a low moment for me.
I can also remember--barely--many moments in my young adult years when I tried to drown my loneliness in bad relationships booze and irresponsible behavior. I would look in the mirror in strange bathrooms and all I would see was a drunk... lonely and lost.
I would really like to not have to remember those moments...
Then there were the two years I spent selling appliances at Circuit City in South Florida just a couple of miles from two of the largest retirement communities in Broward County---both of which had the highest concentration of retirees from Southwest New Jersey than... Southwest New Jersey. I remember one particular lovely woman who shopped for a vacuum cleaner for a month, coming in every few days to "try out" each one, ask me a hundred questions about them, and then go to other stores to try and get a better price. Every time I saw her coming I wanted to run screaming from the store.
That's a time in my life worth forgetting.
And then there was the moment when I realized that all of the plans that I had made, all of the effort and energy I had poured into becoming the person I thought I was supposed to become was not working out at all. I was unhappy, dreading what came next and not finding peace in my plans at all...
Yeah, that's a feeling I don't want to relive.
Seriously, we can all think of these moments can't we? There's no way to "love them all" like John Lennon claimed... right?
We all know this. We've all been through bad relationships. We've embarked on careers that looked promising and then led us nowhere. Then there have been the bad decisions we've made, the wrong turns that we've taken... Or the bad people we chose to hang out with that took us down a wrong road.
First, we'd all like to leave these things behind us and forget them... without a doubt. But I think that there's something else that we also feel deep down inside when some of these bad things are happening... and maybe even for some time after they've happened.
It feels sometimes like there's no rhyme or reason sometimes...
Like God---and here's a statement that might make some of us feel uncomfortable, but not for the reasons you think---doesn't know what He's doing...
But what if I told you something that would change the way you thought about those terrible moments, those low seasons of your life... the things you think are best forgotten?
What if I told you that God doesn't waste a moment when he plans your future?
The passage of Scripture that we are going to be studying today is the second part of the birth narrative of Jesus from Matthew's Gospel. As I said last week, Matthew's narrative is not the warm and fuzzy account that we read from the Gospel of Luke this past Christmas Eve.
Matthew's version is a little more PG-13, as we shall soon see.
13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him."
This whole scenario is so jam-packed with symbolism... There's Joseph dreaming--like the Joseph in the Old Testament, whose family came to live in Egypt to escape death by famine. Jesus goes to Egypt just as Israel did, which speaks to us about the constancy and faithfulness of God, who never stops loving, protecting, caring for his children.
14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son." 16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
18 "A voice is heard in Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more."[b]
Herod is the new Pharaoh in this story--like the ancient Pharaoh who killed the male children of the people of Israel in the Old Testament. Remember how Moses was spared because his mother and sister built him a little "ark" to float him down the Nile to Pharaoh's daughter who adopted him? This horrible scene from Matthew is reminiscent of that kind of slaughter. The quote is from a the prophet Jeremiah, which actually refers to the conquering and dispersion of the people of Israel. This is one of the most difficult passages of Scripture in the New Testament. I'll come back to it in a moment...
19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead." 21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.
There are some problems in this text... as you can imagine. God allows his Son to become a refugee... There's nothing to stop the slaughter of innocent children... The bad guys seem to win this round...
So how is this good? And did all of this happen just so that Jesus would fulfill a prophecy, and be called a "Nazarene?" That seems like a pretty poor payoff for all of that sacrifice, doesn't it?
Only it's not... It means literally everything. Because what the writers of these early accounts of Jesus birth, life, ministry, death and resurrection knew that Jesus was more than just a man--more than just a teacher and a really good, wise person. He was the very Son of God--the Lamb who came to take away the sins of the world. And even know they knew this because they had spent time in his presence and saw all of it first hand---they knew that the rest of us needed to know that this was not just some happenstance kind of thing.
God planned it from the beginning.
And all of those terrible things that happened on the way to that prophetic realization, that moment when we are shown who Jesus was and what he came to do... they were not wasted.
Since we mentioned Jeremiah, let me share with you another passage from his prophetic work: "For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans not to harm you but to give you hope and a future." God has just told his people about a bunch of really bad things that are going to happen to them--mostly because they broke their covenant with God, and now have to live with the consequences of that brokenness.
Then he talks to them of plans... and how none of the things that are happening are meant to harm them...
Here's the thing. Tragedy occurs. Maybe you've experienced some of your own recently. I had someone message me recently to tell me that her faith was getting tested severely. She'd only just buried her father when her aunt passed away. Then she found out that her mother had been diagnosed serious heart issues. Then as if all of that wasn't enough, she told me that her husband had cheated on her, and her marriage was struggling.
That would be enough to shake my faith.
Mistakes get made. We pick the wrong person to trust... choose the wrong career... squander money on things we wish we hadn't bought... invest poorly...
And we wish we could forget. And we wonder why God allowed us to do these things and experience such heartache.
But what this passage shows us is that nothing is wasted with God. It's hard to read about the slaughter of the innocents and rejoice. But we know that tragedy happens, and innocents are lost. Only there is now someone who weeps with Rachel over the loss of innocence, the children who are thrown away by a society that doesn't think they matter... Jesus.
And this passage also helps us know beyond all doubt that there is someone who will conquer the Herods of this world and bring them to justice at last. That those who would build their kingdoms on the backs of the oppressed, who would care so little for life, and humanity... they will be held accountable... That someone is Jesus, who the Bible says will one day be acknowledged by all the kingdoms of the world as Lord.
This passage also helps us to understand that God has already seen the future---that he has been there. And that because of Jesus we now have someone who will show us that he has gone ahead of us with the light so we can find our way.
One of my favorite movies by the great writer/director team The Coen Brothers is "No Country for Old Men." In the final scene, Sheriff Ed Bell, played by Tommy Lee Jones, is sitting at the breakfast table with his wife on the first day of his retirement. He's seen pain, heartache, tragedy, needless loss of life, wickedness, evil, man's inhumanity to man... And he'd spend his whole career trying to make a difference.
All that's left to him now is questions---about the past, but mostly about the future... Which leads him to share two dreams with his wife:
Here's the text of what he says in case you'd like to read it:
"...Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em . It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up..."
Listen, I know that it might seem sometimes that the things that have happened to us, those bad things, the tragedies, mistakes, the people who've wounded us... I know that it might seem like there was no purpose and that a good God wouldn't have let those things happen. I feel that way, too sometimes.
But I have to cling to this hope...
This same God knows the plans that he has for us---plans that are not meant to harm us, but to give us hope and a future. Jesus reveals this. He is evidence that all things do work together for the good---even though it doesn't always make sense in the moment--moments that often feel wasted and forgettable.
Beloved, God doesn't waste a single moment when He plans your future. Not one. The king has returned. Rejoice. Live in hope.
Jesus came so that we would not only know who God is and what he is like---but so God would understand completely and fully what it's like to be us. And this same God who weeps with us, who feels loss with us... has gone ahead into the future with the light.
And He will be there when we arrive...
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ANDY Preece has targeted four wins from the remaining five games to guarantee a first-ever European appeareance for Airbus UK Broughton.
Speaking after Friday night's 4-1 home win over Prestatyn Town, the Wingmakers' director of football said: "We're in with a great chance of second place, we're four points clear with only five games to go, with still Bangor to play at home, so all we can do is keep winning our games.
"If we win four games out of our last five, we're guaranteed, but third place might be enough so we've got to make sure we get at least third.
"We're in there with a great shout now."
In fact, Bangor's Saturday home draw with Port Talbot means they can only achieve a maximum of 57 points, leaving Airbus - who have a vastly superior goal difference - needing nine more points.
Preece was delighted with the fourth win of the season over the Seasiders.
"When you get to the business end of the season which we're in now, it's all about the three points but to play like we did again, it was a really good performance," he said.
"We've been consistent in our performances all the way through the season, we've had a couple of defeats and then we've bounced back with two wins, but I've always felt that we've played well in the games that we've lost.
"We looked dangerous every time we attacked, some poor decisions at times where our final ball wasn't right, but we're a dangerous side, I think we are still top scorers in the league, so we've done that consistently throughout the season and if you score goals you've always got a chance," he added.


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"I don't think Chelsea will change Sarri during the season but there are those warning signs that make you think it will be a surprise if it goes beyond the summer". If you want to be top of the table and a champion at the end of the season, you have to show in situations like that - and there are worse situations - real passion, real desire, you have to fight. I don't need help, thank you very much, I'm fine!
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Q: Does the X509Certificate2 GetRSAPrivateKey method also return public key data? I was doing some work involving asymmetric encryption (signing and decoding JSON Web Tokens) using certificates to provide the keys.
While doing some tests, I happened to notice that the JWT could be both encoded and decoded using the result of GetRSAPrivateKey() (called on the loaded certificate). This was surprising because the decoding/encoding algorithm is asymmetric.
This lead to the question was there an issue with the JWT library I was using or does GetRSAPrivateKey() include public key information in its response.
Example code:
var certificatePath = @"PATH TO CERTIFICATE";

var payload = new Dictionary<string, object>();
payload.Add("Nosey", "Parker");

var cert = new X509Certificate2(certificatePath, string.Empty, X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable);

var token = Jose.JWT.Encode(payload, cert.GetRSAPrivateKey(), Jose.JwsAlgorithm.RS256);
var claims = Jose.JWT.Decode(token, cert.GetRSAPrivateKey(), Jose.JwsAlgorithm.RS256);

Note: the example code is for a .pfx file that contains both a public and private key.

A: The short answer is that in all cryptographic libraries (barring someone having done something weird) the private key can always be either used as a public key or produce the public key.  In .NET the paradigm is that a private key instance can always be used as a public key.
In asymmetric cryptography, a private key can always recreate the public key; it's the other way around that's infeasibly hard.
For RSA keys the public key is the modulus (n) and the public exponent (e), and the minimal private key is the modulus (n) and the private exponent (d).  From just (n, d) it's actually quite hard to figure out e (except that it's almost always 65537), but it turns out that not only does (effectively) no one use the minimal private key (preferring instead the "CRT" private key consisting of (n, d, p, q, dp, dq, qInv)), that the public standard data format for RSA private keys includes the e value:
     RSAPrivateKey ::= SEQUENCE {
         version           Version,
         modulus           INTEGER,  -- n
         publicExponent    INTEGER,  -- e
         privateExponent   INTEGER,  -- d
         prime1            INTEGER,  -- p
         prime2            INTEGER,  -- q
         exponent1         INTEGER,  -- d mod (p-1)
         exponent2         INTEGER,  -- d mod (q-1)
         coefficient       INTEGER,  -- (inverse of q) mod p
         otherPrimeInfos   OtherPrimeInfos OPTIONAL

For DSA the nomenclature splits the totality of the key into the "domain parameters" (p, g, q) and "the key" (x for the private key and y for the public key).  The standard data format for DSA private keys does not include the y value, but it's easily recalculated from (p, g, q, x).  So, DSA private keys can always produce their public key value.
ECC (ECDSA/ECDH/etc) is a bit like DSA, there's the context (what curve you're on) and then the unique portion of the key.  "The curve" includes a base generator point (G), and the private key is just a number (d).  d * G gives Q, the public key.  So ECC keys can always recreate their public key.  The standard data format for EC private keys "optionally" includes the public key just to avoid the need for tedious computation on the part of someone loading the key.  I put optionally in quotes because it goes on to say "Though the ASN.1 indicates publicKey is OPTIONAL, implementations that conform to this document SHOULD always include the publicKey field."

A: Using the below code to extract the private & public key data into byte arrays, you can see that GetRSAPrivateKey() does return public key data in addition to the private key despite this not being mentioned in the official documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security.cryptography.x509certificates.rsacertificateextensions.getrsaprivatekey?view=net-6.0
var privateKeyBytes = cert.GetRSAPrivateKey()?.ExportRSAPrivateKey();
var publicKeyBytes = cert.GetRSAPrivateKey()?.ExportRSAPublicKey();

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Q: Can't get $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] with RewriteCond I have a setup where I use the following to rewrite any page that uses the .html ext to use a .php file that is located inside the products folder.
This works fine, but since it is rewriting - I am not able to grab the referer page that the user clicks on to get to the page - links/products/whatever.html.
If i do not use this rewrite rule, I can see the referer as expected, but not with the following code.
Is there a way for me to use the following yet still allow the referer to be accessed?
#used to rewrite any url with links/products/whatever.html to use links/products/index.php
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Is there an Android app to call 1800 numbers and other US numbers for free?
Is there an android app to call 1800 numbers in USA and Canada and other US numbers for free?
try to use CallsFreeCalls app. It's refreshed now.
You can use Skype for unlimited calls to the US and Canada, and it's only $30 a year. Just buy the North American plan. But as for free, I don't think there's a solution.
Tmobile has an app called the Bobsled app that is free to anyone on any carrier with an android phone. It allows you to make free internet phone calls to anywhere in the US whether it is lan line or mobile. It does not use your minutes as it is an internet phone. I use it any time I am going to call doctors offices, companies, etc. The call quality is very good. You can also do free video conferencing and texting to other bobsled app user not matter what company they go through. The best part is it is all free.
Tmobile decided they would rather lose a few cents on cell bills if they can cost the other cell phone providers dollars!
You can install Skype for Android free from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skype.raider&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5za3lwZS5yYWlkZXIiXQ.. . The free numbers supported by Skype are mentioned here : https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA24/how-do-i-dial-toll-free-numbers-for-example-1-800-1-866-and-1-877-number-series .. I do not think there is any android app to call a paid number free however lot of free VOIP apps available including Skype where if the other side also has the same VOIP app, you can make free VOIP call over your internet.
There is also a very interesting Android app called HeyTell : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heytell&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5oZXl0ZWxsIl0. . Check it out, it is like walkie talkie over internet across geographical location in real time.


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Daily Journal Names Sarah London a "Top 40 Under 40 Lawyer" for 2018
Published On: June 20th, 2018Categories: Awards, Firm News
The Daily Journal (subscription) has selected Lieff Cabraser partner Sarah R. London as a "Top 40 Under 40" attorney for 2018. London is one of 40 outstanding lawyers in California under the age of 40 to be recognized with this prestigious award.
The publication highlights London's active involvement in the tobacco injury litigation, where she represented family members who lost loved ones as a result of nicotine addiction, as well as individuals still living with tobacco-related illnesses. The suit was filed against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., its subsidiary Lorillard Tobacco Co., and Philip Morris.
"It was a telling moment… for a relatively young woman lawyer to be considered the 'big hammer' against these big tobacco company defendants," stated London. "I've never ever stopped being myself in court… I bring my own experience, my own analogies to the world."
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"The tank in which the eggs and embryos were stored failed, and we're representing these women and their families who lost eggs and embryos or had those eggs and embryos compromised, and are suffering tremendous anxiety and heartache over the loss," explained London.
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"I am deeply proud of all of the work that I have done, particularly as a trial lawyer," London said. "I've had the great fortune and opportunity to represent a number of families at trial and to help tell their stories to a jury and to advocate zealously on their behalf before, during and after trial."
Congratulations Sarah!
About Sarah London
A member of the CAOC Convention Leadership Committee and a partner in Lieff Cabraser's San Francisco office, Ms. London is a determined, skilled, and experienced advocate for the injured, employees, and consumers. She is experienced in all aspects of trial work, from drafting and arguing motions in limine, opposing Daubert challenges to plaintiffs' experts and deposing defendants' experts, and serving as lead trial counsel to writing successful post-trial and appellate briefs. Ms. London's case work involvement includes: the Florida Tobacco litigation, Zofran Infant Injury lawsuits, the Toyota Sudden Acceleration litigation, the Norvir antitrust case, and Pacific Fertility Clinic Egg and Embryo Preservation Failures. A Super Lawyers Rising Star for five consecutive years and 2015 finalist for the Consumer Attorneys of California Streetfighter of the Year Award, Sarah has held multiple leadership positions in CAOC.


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump put the spotlight on mother's whose children were killed by illegal immigrants at Texas rally. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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The Power of Dressing Progressive Economic Policies in Conservative Clothes
In political messaging, values can be more persuasive than policies, a new study finds.
| by Melissa De Witte
Progressive ideas are more palatable to conservatives when they're packaged as patriotic. | Reuters/Adrees Latif
When political candidates talk about progressive economic policies in language consistent with traditionally conservative values — such as patriotism, the American dream, family and respect for tradition — they gain support among conservative and moderate Americans, according to a new Stanford study.
While progressive economic policies — such as raising the minimum wage and providing parental leave — often poll well, progressive candidates in the U.S. have rather limited electoral success, according to a new study by Robb Willer, a professor of organizational behavior (by courtesy) at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Willer and his coauthor, Stanford sociology doctoral candidate Jan Gerrit Voelkel, found a possible explanation to this paradox: Progressive candidates have not been as successful as their opponents at harnessing values and ideologies that receive broad support from the general public.
Willer and Voelkel ran two experiments with 4,138 people — including one experiment with 1,695 sampled from a nationally representative pool of participants from the National Opinion Research Center's AmeriSpeak Panel. The sociologists found that when progressive candidates frame their policies with commonly viewed conservative values (such as patriotism, protecting family, and showing respect for cultural tradition), as opposed to more liberal values (such as equality and social justice), they receive greater support from conservatives and moderates.
"We find that the values a candidate used to advocate for their policies were more influential on the popular support they received than the policies themselves," says Willer, a professor of sociology at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. "We may underestimate just how much framing matters, often more than the objective features of the thing being framed."
It Works Both Ways
The study builds off Willer's earlier research that found the same framing principle can be applied for conservative policies as well. He found that conservative policies can gain greater support among liberals if those policies are framed in terms of values like equality of opportunity, empathy and social justice.
Willer and Voelkel presented study participants with a set of progressive economic platforms from Scott Miller, a hypothetical Democratic candidate running in the 2020 presidential election. Participants were randomly assigned to a condition that framed Miller's policies in terms of either liberal values, conservative values, or technical language (which focused on growth and employment and will be the topic of a separate, upcoming paper).
For example, participants who received the liberal-value framing read that Miller's "vision for our country is based on principles of economic justice, fairness and compassion" and that he stands for "economic policies that are based on justice and care, policies that will stop corporations from exploiting working people and pocketing huge profits while offering their workers substandard wages and benefits."
Participants who received the conservative-value framing were told, for example, that Miller's "vision for America is based on respect for the values and traditions that were handed down to us: hard work, loyalty to our country, and the freedom to forge your own path," and that Miller believes "it is patriotic to put American families ahead of big money donors and special interests."
Implications for Electoral Strategies
In both studies, Willer and Voelkel found that despite Miller's Democratic party affiliation, when his policies were framed in terms of conservative values, support increased among conservative and moderate participants, relative to when they were framed in terms of liberal values.
The values a candidate used to advocate for their policies were more influential on the popular support they received than the policies themselves. We may underestimate just how much framing matters — often more than the objective features of the thing being framed.
Among conservative participants, a conservative-value framing resulted in a 13-point increase in candidate support on a 100-point scale in the first experiment and a 10-point increase in the second, when compared with a liberal-value framing. Among moderate participants, the conservative-value framing resulted in a 5-point increase in candidate support in the first study and a 4-point increase in the second experiment.
There was no significant backlash among liberal participants when a progressive candidate framed their policies conservatively compared with when the policies were framed liberally.
Willer and Voelkel's findings suggest that decoupling framing and policy could broaden a candidate's electoral strategies.
"We take the current alignment of policies and value-based rationales to be inevitable and necessary, but it turns out to be more flexible," Voelkel said, noting that moral reframing may offer a more effective path to building political consensus than policy compromise. "We often think that moving to the apparent center on policy is a politician's only means for achieving broader popular support, but this neglects that politicians can also broaden their base of support through the values they employ. However, it is important to emphasize that, as with any effective political tool, the ethical value of moral reframing depends critically on the ends to which it is put," he said.
Originally published in Stanford News on May 15, 2019.
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January 28, 2013 · 1 Comment ·
Johnny Cash, prison reformer
This fascinating essay touches on Johnny Cash's lifelong prison ministry. (It was produced for the BBC, which explains the funny spelling). It may sound odd to hear songs about "kickin' and a-gougin' in the mud, and the blood and the beer" characterized as a ministry, but that's exactly what they were. I purchased Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison a few years ago thinking this was the only prison album he recorded and likely the only prison concert he performed. Not so. He recorded two prison albums and performed at prisons across the United State throughout his 30-year career. (more…)
Mississippi can't kick the private prison habit
June 13, 2012 June 14, 2012 · 1 Comment ·
B y Alan Bean
Geo Group, the private prison firm that lost three prison contracts in Mississippi earlier this year because of gross violations that turned facilities like the juvenile prison at Walnut Grove into hell holes, has been disciplined again. This time, Geo is accused of failing to protect the safety of corrections workers at its prison near Lost Gap MS.
You would think that Mississippi officials might be getting the idea that private prisons aren't such a good idea. Not so. Christopher Epps, Commissioner of the MS Dept. of Corrections, immediately announced that all the three private prisons previously run by Geo Corp would be turned over to the Management & Training Corporation of Centerville, Utah.
According to the Associated Press, Epps is hoping for a better result.
"The Mississippi Department of Corrections is looking forward to a great partnership with MTC," Epps said in a statement Thursday. "There is a need for different types of prisons, including state and regional as well as private facilities in Mississippi. MTC will be held to the same high standards as set by MDOC and I feel extremely confident that MTC will do a great job."
Epps told reporters he thought Mississippi would get better terms if the three prisons were sold as a package deal. In other words, Mississippi is trying to do corrections on the cheap, and that's the problem. The only way private prisons can turn a profit is by cutting corners. If they were really held to the same standards as state prisons they would have to hire as many corrections officers as MDOC and pay them comparable salaries. The private prison industry would also have to invest in a safe working environment for their employees, something that Geo Corp clearly failed to do. (more…)
Charles Blow: Plantations, Prisons and Profits
May 30, 2012 June 4, 2012 · 2 Comments ·
If you really wanted to read the New Orleans Times-Picayune's eight-part series on the state prison system, but only have time for one quick read, columnist Charles Blow has what you need: a quick summary of the high points.
Here's his conclusion:
Louisiana is the starkest, most glaring example of how our prison policies have failed. It showcases how private prisons do not serve the public interest and how the mass incarceration as a form of job creation is an abomination of justice and civility and creates a long-term crisis by trying to create a short-term solution.
As the paper put it: "A prison system that leased its convicts as plantation labor in the 1800s has come full circle and is again a nexus for profit."
The T-P's groundbreaking series provides a "thick description" of a deadly interplay between a tragic racial history, a shrinking agricultural economy and tax base, a paranoid electorate, underpaid and under-resourced sheriffs, and a craven political class. This is the kind of description I attempted in my Taking out the trash in Tulia, Texas and it is great to see the mainstream media, even in these belt-tightening times, taking their responsibility, and their readers, this seriously.
Plantations, Prisons and Profits
By Charles Blow
"Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran's, seven times China's and 10 times Germany's."
That paragraph opens a devastating eight-part series published this month by The Times-Picayune of New Orleans about how the state's largely private prison system profits from high incarceration rates and tough sentencing, and how many with the power to curtail the system actually have a financial incentive to perpetuate it. (more…)
Growing old behind bars
May 30, 2012 May 30, 2012 · 1 Comment ·
It is good to see Human Rights Watch tackling the issue of aging prisoners. I will never forget talking to Joe Moore, a brittle diabetic with bad knees, through the Plexiglass in the visitation room of a Texas prison. The folks handling the medical contract for the state prison system were trying to cut expenses. A doctor decided to take Joe off his insulin to see if he really needed the medication. First Joe lost his balance; then his tongue doubled in size, then his eyesight went. When Joe told the guards he was too sick to work, they forced him to dress and join the kitchen detail. Joe tried to comply, but he fell unconscious to the floor of his cell and came within a whisker of death. Without influential supporters in the free world, Joe would have died behind bars.
Joe Moore died a few years after being exonerated and released from prison. His friends were with him and he was able to buy a little farm and work his own cattle after release. He left this world with his dignity intact.
And then I think of Ramsey Muniz, the Latino politician and civil rights legend currently housed in a federal prison in Beaumont, Texas. Ramsey is 70 years old and can't walk without the help of a cane. Like Joe Moore, Muniz is the victim of a shady drug bust and a rigged trial. But what if, like most prisoners, Joe and Ramsey were guilty as charged? Does it make any sense to warehouse aging men and women, at an average cost of $50,000 a year, who no longer represent a threat to public safety?
The excellent eight-part series on Louisiana incarceration in the Times-Picayune emphasized the growing geriatric wing of the state's notorious Angola prison. Decades of life without parole sentencing have created a pitiless system bereft of compassion and common sense.
In her summary of the 110-page report she produced for Human Rights Watch, Jamie Fellner underscores the senseless horror of forcing thousands of elderly offenders to die behind bars.
Among the more than 26,000 state and federal prisoners aged 65 or older are some who have severe physical and mental impairments. One 87-year-old I met last year while conducting research on older prisoners could not tell me his name. He had been in prison for 27 years, 20 of them in a special unit because of his severe cognitive impairments. I met prisoners who were dying and could not breathe without assistance; prisoners so old and frail they needed help getting up from their bed and into their wheelchairs; prisoners who lacked the mental and physical ability to bathe or eat or go to the bathroom by themselves.
Frail and Elderly Prisoners: Do They Still Belong Behind Bars?
As the US confronts a growing population of geriatric prisoners, it is time to reconsider whether they really need to be locked up. Prison keeps dangerous people off the streets. But how many prisoners whose minds and bodies have been whittled away by age are dangerous? (more…)
Trulear: Prison Ministry after Chuck Colson
Dr. Harold Dean Trulear
As a pastor, a scholar, and an ex-prisoner, Harold Dean Trulear has earned the right to talk about prison ministry from the outside in and from the inside out. I last saw Dr. Trulear in Washington DC when we were both part of a convening of faith leaders interested in ending mass incarceration. Pat Nolan of Charles Colson's Prison Fellowship also attended that gathering. Like Trulear, Nolan has seen both sides of the prison wall and we had some good, frank conversation about the future of reform. In this honest appraisal written for the Center for Public Justice, Dr. Trulear evaluates the mixed legacy of Nolan's old boss, Charles Colson, and points the way to a viable relationship between Prison Fellowship and the Black Church.
Prison Ministry in the Post-Colson Era
By Harold Dean Trulear
The recent passing of Chuck Colson brings opportunity to reflect on the important legacy of his ministry and the ways in which Prison Fellowship participated in a resurgence of interest in prison ministry. Christian faith significantly influenced early forms of incarceration in this country, from the philosophy of repentance institutionalized in the penitentiary movement to the role of chaplains as singular service providers for inmates prior to the era of "corrections" and "rehabilitation." Unfortunately, in recent decades prisons have been more punitive and controlling than redemptive.
Chuck Colson, for many (but not all) Americans, humanized the inmate. He created an organization that pressed for a recovery of transformation, rehabilitation and real "corrections," initially through evangelism and later through initiatives that pressed for reform in prison conditions, sentencing issues and criminal justice policy. For many Americans, Colson's work provided opportunity for a renewed commitment to a population whose treatment Jesus included in matters of judgment in Matthew 25.
In spite of the work of Colson and others, many people are still trapped in what T. Richard Snyder called "the spirit of punishment," in which revenge—often euphemized as "seeking justice"—trumps grace and forgiveness, which are central to our justification before God through the atonement. Many Christians continue to reflect the broader cultural consensus of revenge, which is a sad by-product of our failure to develop a critique of modern and post-modern culture beyond issues such as sexuality, authority and family.
African American churches constitute another group for whom Colson's leadership must be qualified. The historic, disproportionate confinement of people of color connected many Black congregations to jails and prisons prior to the emergence of Colson's Prison Fellowship—both through personal networks and through a sense of serving the marginalized. And while Colson led the charge for federal criminal justice policy reform for white Evangelicals and political conservatives, African American Congressman Danny Davis (D.-Ill.) and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference provided the leadership for African Americans.
Chuck Colson, as a national figure, and Prison Fellowship, as a national organization, have exercised faithful stewardship of their resources in the implementation of their national ministry and its local incarnations. Yet, the relationship between Prison Fellowship and local congregations—particularly Black churches—has been uneasy. In 2008, a partnership developed between Prison Fellowship and the historically Black denomination, the Progressive National Baptist Convention, signaling what Colson himself called "a perfect storm" around criminal justice issues. Yet, tensions emerged surrounding the need for Black congregations to access resources to expand their prison ministry presence in a manner that reflected a true partnership, rather than a paternalistic engagement placing the national organization at the forefront and the local congregation in the background. Prison Fellowship staff were charged with the task of providing training and certification for Black congregations to minister to their own community members. This sense of paternalism—and the resentment it created—was exacerbated by the ability of Prison Fellowship to attract significantly more financial resources than local organizations and congregations.
So whither the future? First, in addition to continued evangelism, prison ministry must continue to expand into matters of discipleship and policy. The presence of the church in the jail cannot simply be a matter of "soul-winning." Secondly, prison ministry must view its work as a fundamental province of local congregations. With 1.6 million adults in state and federal prisons, and up to 7 million more rotating annually through the county jail system, it is difficult to imagine a congregation in America whose relationships do not stretch directly into some prison or jail. Churches must act on their responsibility to minister to the prisoners within their own community. National organizations like Prison Fellowship must also redouble efforts to partner with local congregations to empower them to be indigenous stations of reconciliation that can supply far more social capital than any parachurch/volunteer network. Third, there must be real reconciliation between white Evangelicals who control parachurch operations and African American congregations whose family and community members are the targets of these parachurch efforts.
All of this amounts to a real balkanization of power from centralized control of ministry (that's right, just like political federalism) into the type of local investment that flourishes when properly capitalized in both human and financial resources. Colson saw this need personally, and these shifts would honor his legacy in terms as great as the work he accomplished during his lifetime.
—Harold Dean Trulear is the Director of the Healing CommunitiesPrison Ministry and Reentry Project of the Philadelphia Leadership Foundation, Associate Professor of Applied Theology at Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, DC, and a Fellow of the Center for Public Justice.
Mississippi Warden guilty of sex charges
April 23, 2012 April 23, 2012 · 1 Comment ·
Little Walnut Grove, MS is back in the news, and once again its private prisons are part of the story. Recently, juvenile inmates were removed from the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility after charges that inmates had been sexually and physically abused by prison personnel were sustained by a formal inquiry.
Now comes Grady Sims, the warden of the Walnut Grove Transitional Center, and the community's former mayor. Sims recently pled guilty to transporting a female inmate to a hotel in a nearby town, then threatening her with retribution if she spoke out. Sims will be sentenced in federal court tomorrow.
Is there something sinister in the water in Walnut Grove, or are we dealing with yet another unintended consequences of the privatized prison phenomenon?
Private prisons, by definition, easily flout the limited safeguards and ethical standards enforced by state and federal governments. When responsibility for corrections is shifted to the private sector, an out-0f-sight-out-of-mind mentality takes hold.
Grady Sims is both the embodiment and the victim of this mentality.
In Praise of Charles Colson
April 23, 2012 · 3 Comments ·
I was gratified to see Michael Gerson's tribute to Chuck Colson in the Washington Post. Most of the coverage of Colson's death over the weekend focused on his responsibility for Nixon-era smear campaigns and dirty tricks. His work on behalf of prisoners and their families was mentioned in passing but received short shrift.
Gerson went to work for Colson as a young man and has always been fascinated by the intensity and thoroughness of his mentor's conversion. Consider this lovely paragraph:
Prison often figures large in conversion stories. Pride is the enemy of grace, and prison is the enemy of pride. "How else but through a broken heart," wrote Oscar Wilde after leaving Reading Gaol, "may Lord Christ enter in?" It is the central paradox of Christianity that fulfillment starts in emptiness, that streams emerge in the desert, that freedom can be found in a prison cell. Chuck's swift journey from the White House to a penitentiary ended a life of accomplishment — only to begin a life of significance. The two are not always the same. The destruction of Chuck's career freed up his skills for a calling he would not have chosen, providing fulfillment beyond his ambitions. I often heard him quote Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and mean it: "Bless you, prison, for having been in my life."
I read Colson's "Born Again" during my first year of seminary and came away impressed. For all his compassion, he never strayed far from the core convictions of the Republican Party and, for the cause of criminal justice reform, that was a blessing. Richard Nixon's self-described "hatchet man" had instant credibility in conservative circles. They might not be able to listen to the ACLU or the Legal Defense Fund, but they were open to Colson.
How much impact did Colson's opposition to mass incarceration and the death penalty really have? For thirty years he was a voice crying in the wilderness as bipartisan support for punitive policies controlled the national agenda. His message has registered more effectively in the past two years than at any earlier period of his career. His Prison Fellowship has been instrumental in drafting the "Smart on Crime" movement that has enjoyed considerable success in conservative circles.
Gerson's column is highly recommended.
Are drill sergeants an improvement on prisons?
April 2, 2012 April 2, 2012 ·
As a group, criminals are deeply alienated from mainstream society. They are more likely to have mental health issues, to be drug addicted, to be high school dropouts and to have severe learning disabilities than the average person. Moreover, as David Kennedy argues in Don't Shoot, even when jobs programs are available "not many street guys come forward, not that many can stick with the social-service programs designed to help them, not many can make it even when they really try. They're heavily compromised in awful ways: They have appalling criminal records, street attitudes that are hard to shake, they're shocky, they have terrible work habits."
Are there exceptions? Certainly. Thousands of them. But public policy is driven by the normal case, and that isn't very encouraging. On the other hand, prison normally makes things worse. Prisons didn't work as reformatories back in the day when reformation was a serious concern, and they are much worse now that we have decided to warehouse inmates. When ex-offenders return to the free world, they are walled in by restrictions that would force the most capable and motivated person to throw in the towel.
What are the alternatives? Some people need to be in prison. They're dangerous. But what about the majority of inmates who aren't violent? Can't we find a more creative response to street crime than prison and felon disenfranchisement? (more…)
Bibas: Prisoners should learn to work
Stephanos Bibas has been guest blogging at Doug Berman's excellent Sentencing Law and Policy Blog in recent days. What follows is the fifth installment in a series on the machinery of criminal justice. In earlier posts, Bibas has chronicled the evolution from mercy to punishment. His fifth offering will be controversial. Reacting to the growing for-profit prison industry, criminal justice advocates typically decry attempts to profit off the toil of the incarcerated. Bibas approaches the issue from a different angle. Let us know what you think. AGB
From Idle Imprisonment to Work
Stephanos Bibas
In my previous posts about my new book, The Machinery of Criminal Justice, I've sketched out a few of the ways in which punishment has changed in recent centuries and how modern punishment has become mechanistic, insulated, and hidden. In my last few posts, I'll propose a few reforms to make punishment more visibly pro-social, by encouraging work, accountability, reform, and reintegration. Today I'll focus on prison labor.
When we convict defendants of moderately serious crimes, we usually imprison them. American prisons, however, are deeply flawed. Prison severs inmates from their responsibilities, hides their punishment, and does little to train or reform them. Victims and the public do not see wrongdoers being held accountable, paying their debts to society and victims, and learning disciplined work habits. Instead, they visualize lives of idleness, funded by taxpayers. Thus, wrongdoers are unprepared to reenter society. And victims and the public, believing that wrongdoers have neither suffered enough nor learned their lessons, are loath to welcome them back.
The vast majority of prison inmates spend their days in idleness, with endless television and little labor. The minority of prisoners who do some work in a prison laundry, cafeteria, or license-plate shop rarely cultivate skills that are in demand in the outside world. Even prisoners who are able to work earn far less than the minimum wage, not enough to support a family or repay victims.
Nor is life inside most prisons structured to teach good habits such as self-discipline or productivity. On the contrary, prison encourages listless dependence on institutional routine, setting prisoners up for failure upon release. Healthy habits, such as the orderly work envisioned by prison reformers, broke down long ago.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of imprisonment is its hiddenness. It is out of sight behind high prison walls and thus out of mind. It is too easy for the public to forget about it, to overlook the sporadic prison stabbings and rapes, or simply to discount the terrible soul-destroying, idle monotony. (more…)


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Happy Birthday Matthew Wade: Here are 5 unknown facts about Australia's attacking opener
First Published Dec 26, 2020, 5:57 AM IST
Matthew Wade hails from Tasmania and has represented his state, as well as Victoria. He made his debut for Australia in 2011 and has since represented the side, across formats. In the Indian Premier League, he represented Delhi Daredevils, in 2011.
Australia's attacking opener Matthew Wade is one of the veterans for the side, having been playing for the side since 2011. The wicketkeeper-batsman has been deemed one of the players, who has been improving as he gets older.
Although he might not be a regular for the side in the limited-overs, he has undoubtedly consolidated his spot in the Tests. As he turns 32, we take a look at some of his unknown facts.
He played Australian football: Believe it or not, Wade did not start his sporting career as a cricketer. Until the age of 16, he used to play Australian rules football and even represented his state, Tasmania, while he was also the vice-captain of Tassie Mariners. His family members have long been associated with the sport.
Battled cancer: Just like a notable few cricketers, Wade too battled cancer. At the age of 16, after he had hurt his testicles while playing football, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, as he underwent a couple of chemotherapies to get rid of it.
Favourite sport: Although Wade might have specialised as a cricket player, it is certainly not his favourite sport. Interestingly, Wade is an avid fan of football/soccer, as he follows Manchester United, while Netherlands' Wesley Sneijder is his favourite footballer.
Best childhood memory: Every cricketer has a memory from his childhood. As for Wade, he had a New Kids On the Block concert in the living room. He used to play all the members and was well aware of the choreography as well.
Celebrity crush: Also, every cricketer has a celebrity crush growing up. On the same note, Wade has forever had a crush on Hollywood actress, Cameron Diaz. He also strives to be famous like former German footballer, Jurgen Klinsmann, and Hollywood actor, Johnny Depp.


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Q: How can I base a cells colspan on a conditional value using angular? Based on a value elsewhere on the html page I need a row within a table to show more cells then everywhere else in the table.  In order to keep alignments correct and everything clean I am looking for a way to dynamically set the colspan of a cell using angular.  I just can't seem to get this working.
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A: Found the solution... I actually had a typo and needed to include "" in the colspan...
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A: If you are working in angular where table rows are dynamically generated you can use following
                                {{fieldsChanged.newValue}}

A: Another method if you are ok with setting colspan through CSS would be to leverage ng-style and define a function which returns an object similar to the one you specified inline.
For example you could add the ng-style directive to the TD element like below:
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And in your JS:
vm.colWidth = function(noInv) {
  return  {"colspan": noInv ? '2' : '1' };
};

A: For anyone having issues getting this to work, the top comment on this post helped. In the end I used [colSpan]="holdingsData.fund.entity[0].ticker ? '2' : '1'"obviosly enter your own variable and it should do the trick.