2018 Venice Biennale exhibition at the Montenegrin pavillion.
After studying at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, won the first two prizes in 1984 in collaboration with Vinko Penezić, one for the Mladost Swimming Pool in Zagreb, and the other in Tokyo for Style for 2001 . Since then, five times, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2001, he was awarded the Shinkenchiku and Central Glass competitions in Japan, each time inaugurating a new architectural topic such as Simplicity / Complexity, The Possibilities of Non-Movement or Surronud DataHome. Some of the world's most famous architects, such as Aldo Rossi, Fumihiko Maki, Kisho Kurokawa, Jean Nouvel, Kazuyo Sejima, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Winy Maas were members of the jury of these competitions. He won a number of awards and recognitions for his first built work, the Mladost Swimming Pool in Zagreb, built in 1987, most notably from the Grand Prix of Belgrade's Architecture Salon in 1988 and the Silver Medal of the World Architecture Biennale INTERARH in Sofia in 1987.
He participated in about one hundred competitions and built the same number of buildings of different typologies, among which are the mixed use building for the victims of the Homeland War in Vukovar - the first completely new building erected in this devastated town after liberation; kindergartens in the Jarun neighborhood in Zagreb and in the Srdoći neighborhood in Rijeka, with modern approaches to pre-school education; the St Michael Parish church in Dubrovnik, realized following the competition that has accepted the contemporary solution of significantly larger volume in a historical context; Dalmara shopping center in Šibenik, a building at the entrance to the town that transports the city matrix into the introverted content with a distinctly symbolic charge, and a House of Japanese-Croatian Friendship with the Lantern / Lighthouse multi-purpose pavillion in the Japanese town of Tokamachi, a result of a long-term reflection of the two cultures' links through the author's research of context.
He exhibited four times at the Venice Biennale, the most prestigious architectural event in the world. First time in 2000 as a representative of Croatia at the exhibition on Less Aesthetics, the More Ethics created by Art Director Massimiliano Fuksas, second time in 2004 upon invitation of Kurt W. Forster when the theme was Metamorph, the third time in 2008 upon invitation of selector Aaron Betsky at the Architecture Beyond Building exhibition, and most recent as representative of Montenegro, with the Man under the Umbrella exhibit, under the topic FreeSpace, curated by Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell. The exhibit from 2008, called Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf in Digital Age, measuring two hundred square meters of space, is now a part of the permanent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. After the postgraduate study of Theory of Architecture mentored by Prof. Ranko Radovic in Belgrade, he is constantly engaged in architectural theory, criticism and publishing.
He has worked on popularizing architecture with his column in Jutarnji List and published several books, and since 1995 he has been the editor of Psefizma publishing house, which published some forty books, most notably Stjepan Planić's Problems of Contemporary Architecture, Zdenko Strižić's On Housing, Three Fundamental Principles of Urban Planning by Le Corbusier, The builders by Peter Blake, The Architecture of the City by Aldo Rossi, Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrilliard, the Zuerich Charter by Antonino Saggio. He also published the first CD-ROM about Croatian architecture, the one about Stjepan Planić. Nigel Whiteley's book PENEZIĆ & ROGINA Digitalization of Reality was published in 2007 in Rome in Italian and English, and before that, four books were published about their work.
In 1989 he founded the Summer School of Architecture in Grožnjan, he is visiting professor at the American University College in Skopje and UPV Universitat Politècnica de València and a lecturer at several Japanese universities. He is the holder of many professional and other awards and recognitions: 23. Zagreb Architecture Salon Award in 1988, Bernardo Bernardi Award in 1997, Viktor Kovačić Award in 1997, Vladimir Nazor Award in 2002, Zagreb City Award in 2005, Ranko Radovic Award in 2009, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Award in 2013. In 2001 he was awarded the Order of Danica Hrvatske. Together with sculptor Dalibor Stošić, he won the first prize at the Holocaust Memorial Competition in Zagreb, which is soon to be realized and together with the Holocaust Memorial the one in Berlin it represents an authentic and unique monument of this kind on a global scale. In the recent years he is occupied with cultural tourism and social innovations through small architectural interventions with great effects.
Krešimir Rogina is a member of The Croatian Academy of Sciencies and Arts.


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Le français sur objectifs spécifiques (ou FOS) est un enseignement du français axé sur un domaine bien particulier. Par exemple, un non-francophone peut venir en France pour étudier la cuisine, auquel cas il voudra prendre des cours de français de restauration (surtout le lexique). Le professeur d'arts culinaires n'est en effet pas forcément qualifié pour enseigner le français à un étranger.

Cependant, si le FOS est souvent l'objet d'un cours spécifique, c'est aussi un contenu que l'on retrouve dans beaucoup de cours, dès que ces cours sont spécialisés : dans un cours de droit, par exemple, le lexiquel'e  du droit, très particulier, fait partie du cours, alors qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un cours de FOS mais bien d'un cours de droit. De même, le français de scolarité est l'objet principal de certains cours du collège pour les non-francophones, mais il est un contenu que l'on retrouve dans toutes les disciplines de la scolarité (lexique des mathématiques par exemple).

Le FOS, quand il est l'objet privilégié d'un cours, attire de nombreux non-francophones en France. Le cours de FOS est souvent pris dans une autre école que celle du cursus principal de l'élève, ou en cours particulier.

Une méthodologie en cinq étapes

Le FOS suit une méthodologie en cinq étapes :
 identifier la demande,
 analyser les besoins,
 collecter les données,
 didactiser,
 évaluer

Comité scientifique FOS
Cette méthodologie fait l'objet de recherches universitaires et ouvre de nouvelles perspectives didactiques. Plusieurs universitaires spécialistes se sont ainsi réunis en comité afin de créer un pôle de référence scientifique dans cette spécialité : le comité FOS animé par le Centre de langue française de la CCI Paris Ile-de-France.

Liste des membres du comité :

 Jean-Marc Mangiante, Université d'Artois (France) Maître de conférences - Laboratoire de rattachement: GRAMMATICA
 Laura Abou Haidar, Université Stendhal (Grenoble-III) (France) Directrice du CUEF de Grenoble, LIDILEM
 Emmanuelle Carette, Université Nancy-II (France) Maître de conférences
 Catherine Carras, Université Stendhal (Grenoble-III) (France) Maître de conférences
 Karl-Heinz Eggensperger, Université de Potsdam (Allemagne)
 Mariela De Ferrari (France) Didacticienne, Experte indépendante, Co-alternatives, Paris
 Françoise Olmo-Cazevielle, Universitat Politècnica de València (Espagne)
 Chantal Parpette, Université Lumière-Lyon-II (France) Maître de conférences
 Jean-Jacques RICHER, Université de Bourgogne (France) Maître de conférences en didactique du FLE/FOS, CFOAD, section de linguistique française
 Annick Wherle, Université de Bourgogne (Allemagne)

Le Comité scientifique FOS est l'auteur d'une revue scientifique dédiée au FOS : Points Communs.

Le français de scolarité

Notes et références

Enseignement des langues
Français langue étrangère

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Biddeford couple transform former Woolworth's into performance center
The last rays of an early August sunset seep through the window of the old brick building and illuminate a young woman in a loose-fitting T-shirt finger-picking an acoustic guitar and wandering through lyrics in a sweet, raw voice.
The stage is a simple carpet sprawled across the floor and strewn with an old banjo, a couple mic stands and four speakers. A dozen or so people watch from folding chairs in enraptured silence, eating homemade veggie sandwiches and sipping wine and imported sodas.
For the last four years, two Biddeford residents, Gil and Coco Corral, have been working hard to put their small, formerly industrial city of 20,000 people on the map as a destination for underground songwriters from around the country. The Corrals began organizing shows in the area by hosting monthly concerts in the big barn at their home, a former swinery in Biddeford that quickly became known to the local arts community as "Hog Farm Studios." This summer, the Corrals established a permanent home for their concert series, converting an abandoned space in the back of a building on Main Street into the "Hog Farm Studios Annex."
Half a century ago, when textile manufacturing was thriving in Biddeford, the building was a Woolworth's department store, but the store closed decades ago when the mills began facing cutbacks and Biddeford's residents started moving away. In the years since, a shoe store and a burrito shop moved into the storefronts along the street, and the Southern Maine Boxing Club took over some of the massive building's interior, but much of the rest of the building has remained empty.
At the beginning of April, the Corrals began to move into their new 800 square foot space in the building's back right corner and cleared away mountains of dust, revealing the old Woolworth's safe in one corner and an almost fossilized mouse skeleton in another. Nobody had touched the space since the department store closed. "It's kind of a blank slate," says Gil Corral.
A green wooden sign emblazoned with a levitating pig and the words "hfs annex—down the hall" now stands out on the sidewalk, directing customers through the building's small, crumbling foyer and around the two tight corners that lead to the Corrals' cozy domain.
The annex is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday for a variety of purposes. It's a coffee shop with a growing menu of local and organic food and a meeting space for local activists and community groups, as well as serving a classroom for the Spanish club that the Corrals' six-year-old daughter Chloe participates in. But it is the concerts that happen there every couple of weeks that make it unique.
At Hog Farm, the music is the center of everyone's attention. "They're artists and they put in so much time and energy," says Coco Corral. "Our idea has always been to give them the same genuine respect that a gallery gives to visual artists." On one wall, exposed egg crate foam shapes the room's acoustics, held in place by artfully nailed-up planks. Along another wall, sits a worn upright piano. After each performer finishes, Coco is quick to offer them a big hug. Musicians appreciate the atmosphere and come from all over the country to play there. "We could have gone to New York," says Greg Besson, a songwriter from Boston who performed recently, "but it wouldn't have been like this. Gil and Coco really are special people."
The Corrals met 20 years ago at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque where Gil was studying painting and Coco did metalsmithing and jewelry making. From there, they lived in Portland, Oregon for 12 years, before moving to Biddeford in 2004. "We decided that we were looking for something a little bit different," says Coco, and Biddeford's affordable cost of living, thriving community of artists and proximity to her parents' home in Saco made it an attractive choice.
About a year ago, the Corrals opened their first business in Biddeford, a small boutique called "The Loving Anvil" where they sell clothing, art objects and even skateboards designed by friends of hers from around the country as well as Coco's original line of jewelry. High-end art has only recently begun to find a market in Biddeford, but they stock a variety of affordable items and their reputation is growing. "Of course you have to make money," says Coco, "but I want to do it in a way that feels good, hands down. And this feels good."
On a typical summer afternoon, Coco and Gil might be found selling a hand-made sweatshirt at Loving Anvil, making a big crock of chili in preparation for a concert at Hog Farm Studios Annex or enjoying an outdoor community concert at the North Dam Mill, an old industrial building that's being renovated into a shopping area and condo development. Their daughter Chloe is usually dancing somewhere nearby or receiving a music lesson from a visiting guitarist.
The Corrals have moved over a thousand miles twice in the last 15 years, but they seem to have finally found home. As Biddeford revives in the years to come, it seems likely that the Corrals and the spaces they operate will become pillars of this growing community. "We've made some incredible friends," says Coco, "I don't foresee moving."
This article originally appeared in Working Waterfront magazine in September 2009. It has been edited slightly for style and tone. After going through several transformations, the venue, which later became known as the Oak and the Axe, closed in the fall of 2014.
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Side view of front porch.
Built in 1869 by Braley Buxton, a captain in the New York State militia during the Civil War, with homemade bricks.
Buxton (1817-1877) came to Hamburg from Vermont in 1836, marrying Harriet Philips in 1837. He was commissioned captain in the New York State Militia in 1854.
Buxton bought several parcels of land on the former Cooper Ridge Road, now Pleasant Avenue. The area was rich with clay deposits, and he built a kiln south of the house. His 15 children made the bricks for the home, working before and after school. During the 1860s, the Buxton family was in the business of manufacturing bricks.
The first Italianate houses in the United States were built in the late 1830s; the style was popularized by influential Andrew Jackson Downing, a widely respected American landscape gardener who also published house pattern books in the 1840s and '50s.
Downing's one-year partner (Downing died in a fire) was Calvert Vaux who himself published a fairly influential pattern book entitled Villas and Cottages.Six years later, Vaux moved to New York City and soon partnered with the superintendent of a new park that was being created. The park was Central Park and the superintendent was Frederick Law Olmsted. They went on to win the design competition for Central Park and also the design for the parks system in Buffalo. Vaux also designed structures for some of the Buffalo parks.
Downing's building designs were mostly for single family rural houses built in the Picturesque Gothic and Italianate styles. Believing that every American deserved a good home, he designed homes for three classes: villas for the wealthy, cottages for working men, and farmhouses for farmers. He intended for every family to be able to afford one of these homes, but of course this did not occur.
Downing believed that architecture and the fine arts could affect the morals of the owners, and that improvement of the external appearance of a home would help "better" all those who had contact with the home. The general good of America was benefited by good taste and beautiful architecture, he felt. Others in the 1840s believed that the proper home environment could assure eternal comforts in heaven. The private home was becoming the place for moral education and the focus of middle class America's search for the meaning of life.
By the 1860s the style had completely overshadowed its earlier companion, the Gothic Revival.
"Buxton House" in August 29, 1993 "Buffalo Evening News"


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Can grow up to 195 ft. tall with some specimens growing to 250 ft. tall.
The bowl can sometimes take up to 50-70% of the tree height.
Widely known for its wood which is traded all over the world.
Species grown in humid rain forests.
Due to attractive bark and quick growth, it is commonly used as an ornamental tree.
Native to Southeast Asia, Philippines, and New Guinea.
Large doses of its oil of eucalyptus has caused fatalities from intestinal irrigation.
Moderate wind and salt tolerance.
Large puffs of white flowers appear in spring.
Harold L. Lyon planted first seeds from New Guinea in 1939.
A french botanist gave it its name "Eucalyptus" which means "well covered".


First, I have to tell you that I'm normally pretty anti- any kind of conventional cancer or leukemia treatment. That is, unless there is a proven record of success, measure by CURE!!! Much of the chemo treatment has abysmal results. The researchers, and the medical establishment in general, measure the extension of increased lifespan in MONTHS. Read the research for yourself. If you can. It's very depressing.
So when I tell you that some of the new information out there is promising, I truly mean it. They ("they" being the conventional ones out there) are working on ways to get those of us with CLL well. This is a new concept.
My White Blood Count (WBC) has never gone done and in fact always been increasing. To me that's the real indicator. This abnormal and steady increase has crowded my arteries and I have trouble even going for long walks. Specially, where we live there are hills in our neighborhood and it's a huge battle to get back to the top. I must say, I am not overweight and used to regularly exercise (jogging, etc.). Something I terribly miss now.
The two herbs I am currently trying which seem to help me the most are: Pau de Arco (Taheebo tea), and Astragalus. Especially the latter which I take in liquid drops form (from Wholefoods store) seems to give me enough energy to get through the work day. Do you do anything to decrease your WBC?
There are a few things that HAVE worked, but they just haven't gotten me all the way well. For the WBC (which we're supposed to watch so closely) the very best that I've done is to go on a non-burnt diet. This means that I do cook food, and I even eat meats, chicken etc. (not to excess, but I eat them) but…I always slow cook and never, never eat anything browned, grilled, etc. I just abstain from eating if that's all that's available. My highest WBC was 47, and now I'm in the low 20s and holding for over a year. I started in January 2013 and have been holding steady since. I will not experiment with trying the burnt food again, that's how positive I am that this was an important factor. Now the low 20s still means that I have CLL (the diagnosis; I try not to own the actual CLL : ) But this has been an important change, at least for me. In my previous life I LOVED burnt food, ate the burnt potato chips, liked grilled meats with burnt fat, carmelized onions, you name it.
How to do this: I make soup and stews every week, and then we eat the leftovers. It's very efficient and makes it easier to not be cooking so much every day. After the initial dinner, we have the meats (chicken, beef, etc.) for lunch only along with fresh, raw vegetables, and try to have vegetarian dinners, sometimes with fish. Also I eat eggs several times/week. Either poached or very slow-fried (so there's zero browning).
The other thing I would suggest is getting an infrared sauna. Look into the Thersauna and the Clearlight; they are the two with low EMFs. I've had no experience with this yet, but several, many people with CLL have reported to me personally that this always lowers their WBC. I've been late in getting one, but it is on my current to-do list. It's expensive, but (as Hessel Baartse would say) it's cheaper than a funeral. Love the gallows humor.
I hope this gives you something to chew on (not burnt!).
Have you heard of vitamin C treatment for CLL?
So I communicated with Todd who later told me that his father's WBC dropped from 70 (70,000) to 9 (9,000) from the protocol of the Life Force and the Liposomal C. Now there are two people with a chronic leukemia who've benefited from liposomal C. So I've started this protocol for myself. Here is a link to the company that makes this product.
CLL Lymph Glands Swelling — Reason for Panic?
I would like to know how your lymph glands react, if that's ok. When I was first diagnosed there were no signs of enlarged glands, but on my last check up a few pea-sized enlargements were detected in my neck and right groin. I did however come down with a pretty bad cold the very next day. Are they likely to go up and down?
Yes, I have the pea-sized nodes and I've had them since diagnosed. I also have one large CLL node in my neck, thank God it's not visible! However it's there; it goes up and down, as do my swollen glands. Here is what works best for me in reducing pressure in my neck when ill.
2.If the pressure in my neck and sometimes across the bridge of my nose persists, I clean out my ears with Debrox ear drops. I follow the instructions on the box for a few days and this generally does the trick. Debrox is in all regular drug stores, not an exotic product.
Oh, and your cold probably had a lot to do with it. An important thought: don't stress about it! The first word in CLL is "chronic" not "lethal". So believe that it is temporary, because it most likely is. Take a deep breath and distract yourself with something pleasant. Believe that you are well, because at this moment, you are!
CLL and Supplements: Safety and Do They Work?
Do you take any supplements? I get a little worried about these. I was looking at the use of Beta Glucan to assist the immune system. It looked really good until I linked it with Leukemia and then found it is not advisable for us to take, even though other pieces of information support its use in other cancers. If it's not an intrusion, can you say what you do on a daily basis regarding diet, supplements etc?
My daily regimen has changed over the years, and now I take somewhere between 150 – 200 pills/day. (daunting, I know) I didn't start taking them all at once. As a matter of fact, in 2005 -2007 I took none, as I went Macrobiotic. That worked for a while, then I had to make changes. So, yes, I think you should take supplements, but I would start one at a time, and give each a few days to see how you react, before starting another. I have a history of stomach aches and fibromyalgia-type pain. The best test (for me) is the blood test. That tells the real score. I do think, in fact I know that many of the supplements I take are crucial to my health. I will attach a list of what I'm taking now.
Keep in mind (I don't mean this to be difficult, it's just the reality) what works for me might not work for you. I've been trying to copy what the others have done to get well, and it hasn't quite worked for me yet. But, still, we can learn from each other, on a trial and error basis. That is the good side of slow-going CLL. I did try Beta Glucan for a while, and it did no harm, and no good. Many of the supps that frightened me turned out to be good for me. For instance, I've read, somewhere, that people with CLL should not take immune boosting supplements, like echinachea. So I stayed away from them. Now I take Elderberry, Peak Immune, Olive Leaf (and I'm sure more, but they don't come to mind). They've only helped and not hurt me at all! So give them a try. Just get your blood tested frequently enough so that you can stop taking something before it harms you. I've found that if I stop a supplement, I get right back to stable.
Vitamin D!!!! One supplement you should 100% take, because it WILL help you is vitamin D. Take 10,000IU a day, get your D levels tested (blood test) and don't worry about taking too much until you're over 100. I was at 13 or 19 when first tested (don't really remember) and my last one was 89.something. But this is vital. And look that one up. There is a lot of literature about how vitamin D is beneficial for cancer in general and CLL specifically. This is a big one. You will improve if you take vitamin D.
I recommend what you can buy at Life Extension, the 5000 IU soft gel, and also I love Twinlabs Allergy D product, even thought the dosage is tiny. I take 5 of those a day and the rest in more concentrated pills. (I've started recently taking vit D 5000 IU in drops from Premier Labs, but haven't tested since starting).
There is a concerted effort on the part of the FDA to put supplements into the same class of regulation as pharmaceutical drugs. This is a move to make it too expensive for the supplement companies to stay in business, which would then put us all in the loving hands of Big Pharmaceutical companies. Not a good thing. I could say more, but Dr. Joseph Mercola has already done a good job of that. Click here to read his latest article on this subject.
I personally feel that the good quality supplements that I take for the CLL diagnosis I've had since 2001, along with my diet and lifestyle, are what is keeping me alive. Unfortunately, when I've sent letters to my Congressmen and Senators, they respond by letting me know that are planning to add red tape and regulation to the manufacture and sale of supplements in order to keep me "safe." Excuse me, but I feel much "safer" when I'm able to buy and use my trusted supplements. Again, please read this article for more detail.
CLL Low Neutrophils ~ An Alternative that Works!
In May 2011 my hematologist told me that my neutrophils were dangerously low, at just about the .5 mark. The normal range for neutrophils is 1.96 – 9.72. We're talking the 'absolute' neutrophil count, not the percentage. Don't worry about the percentage! If you have a CLL diagnosis, that number will be well below normal and you can be functioning just fine. My hematologist (who I like) wanted me to try Rituxan, and some Neupogen. She knows that I'm a researcher, so we decided to wait for the next visit. At the first revisit, the count had gone back up on its own. At the two-month revisit I hadn't taken anything as yet, and the neutrophil count dropped dangerously low–down to .59.
So back in 2011, at this time I took the Peak Immune product, as it was recommended by a Chinese herbalist, and because on the bottle it says that these pills increases NK (natural killer) cell activity. I thought that would have to be good enough and it was definitely worth a try. But it turns out that Peak Immune increased my neutrophil count. At the next blood test, my absolute neutrophil numbers went out of the danger territory and my percentage went up as well. After I finished a bottle or two, I figured that I was out of the woods and didn't need the product any longer. After all, I was taking UBI (ultra-violet blood irradiation treatments) and keeping up with an extraordinarily healthy diet and lifestyle.
I did pretty well with my neutrophils after that, taking regular blood tests to keep track. However, in February of 2013 the count was right back down to .51. I panicked. I hadn't given the Peak Immune the credit it deserved for keeping up the neutrophil count. But for some reason, I looked it up on iherb.com to see if anyone else had mentioned neutrophil counts in the reviews. There was only one review and it was very positive on this very subject! I was so excited. I thought it sounded familiar and I saw that the reviewer was from Michigan. Then in a complete airhead moment, I realized that that one reviewer was me! I had given credit to Peak Immune for helping with my neutrophil count, and posted it online. But I had forgotten this for myself!
Needless to say, I've been taking this product ever since, and thankfully my neutrophil count is in the safe target zone still. This is obviously not a cure, but it is a health and life-preserver. I give this pill my ultimate personal endorsement. And please keep in mind that I sell absolutely nothing on this site and get nothing from any company. Feel free to comparison shop on amazon and any other outlet.
Oh, and please write and let me know if it works for you!
I apologize for not posting more often. Now and again I get emails asking if I'm still here–as in alive. Yes! I'm very much alive and relatively well. By relatively, I mostly mean my parents, both of whom are geriatric (82 and 87) and both of whom are ill (congestive heart failure and stroke) and are more time-consuming than I'd like. Between that and part-time work, and an occasional foray into writing my second mystery book, I just don't make time for this blog. This is a GOOD reason to be offline, however, compared to what other CLL-ers imagine.
This is very exciting! Every success story is exciting. It means that it is possible to beat this thing naturally. However…keep in mind that not everyone heals the same way. This is true when the conventional doctors give chemo (some will go into remission, some will not, some will die from the treatment), as it is with natural treatments. The only difference is that with natural treatment, it may not cure you, but it will probably make you healthier.
Even if I don't plan on following this man's whole program, I'm encouraged to see that he uses an infrared sauna. I've been considering that for a long time. I've heard from several of you that this helps. Please watch this and see whether this provides hope, inspiration and practical suggestions for your own recovery and good health.
There is a reason there are so few posts on this blog. Initially I was positive that I could totally reverse my CLL diagnosis. This hasn't happened — yet. My plan for this blog was to be an uplifting, upbeat place for people with CLL (newly diagnosed or those trucking along like me) to get a positive feeling. To get hope and inspiration. I have to admit I've been discouraged more than once since starting this blog. But…. I'm still here, and I still have NOT had any conventional treatment — even though it has been recommended. I've managed to turn the ship (to use a metaphor), but I haven't yet been able to get the ship back to shore. It's been eleven years, and truthfully, I'm doing fine, and living a relatively normal life.
My last problem was with my Neutophil count, which about a year an a half ago were dangerously low. That was when my hematologist was recommending Rituxan and Neupogen. I didn't want the Rituxan because I looked it up on Google, and apparently it doesn't work well without a jumpstart from some chemo (perhaps a little bit of chemo?), so I said no thank you! The same for the Neupogen. Neupogen comes in a shot, which you apply yourself to your stomach regent — twice a week. If that wasn't bad enough, I looked that up as well. Neupogen does increase your Neutrophil count, but it causes your body to stop making its own. Eventually you need more and more frequent shots. This did not sound like a good plan to me!
So I conferred with my son, a Nutritionist, who suggested that I take several bacteria-, virus- and fungus-fighting herbs. So I started on a heavy-duty regimen of Olive Leaf, Pau D'arco, Coconut oil, and Goldenseal. This helped. The next time I had a blood test, my Neutrophil marker improved. After that, I decided to start the Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation treatments at the Wycoff Wellness Center in East Lansing, Michigan. Prior to this time, I'd heard of it, but was frightened of the process. They withdraw blood, add a little heparin, and then the blood is returned back into your vein, after it passes through a machine that treats your blood with ultraviolet irradiation. I have to admit that it sounded scary, risky even. But now that it's been more than a year, I have to say that it most likely has been a factor in keeping my Neutrophil count closer to normal. I get no more warnings and I'm back to being tested everything 4 months (rather than monthly). The people there are wonderful! It isn't scary at all, or risky.


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SLS Vegas is set to help debut a classic new small name as part of some sort of $150 trillion renovation project currently developing at the building. Owners released Thursday afternoon that SLS will be rebranded as Sahara, the name beneath which it again opened gates more than 60 years ago in addition to under which inturn it worked until the year of 2011.
The launch about the property's upcoming rebrand was made from fireworks and also drone lumination show on the hotel and casino resort's outdoor swimming pool area area for Thursday night.
SLS will probably operate under its up-to-date name for the next few months when details close to its renaming are smoothed out. It is going to then function as Sahara Las Vegas . There have been speculations that business person Alex Meruelo would bring the old Sahara name available as one way or another since his / her Meruelo Cluster took on the legendary house last year.
Lots of believed how the hotel and also casino location would be rebranded as Huge Sahara Resort to match Mr.. Meruelo's Fantastic Sierra Turn in Reno, Nevada.
Participating on Thursday's announcement SLS General Administrator Paul Hobson said that renaming the Las Vegas Strip destination was 'one of the first of all conversations we had. ' Mister. Hobson continued that they observed Sahara a truly appealing preference and that 'Sahara, without any modifiers, was powerful . '
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Often the Meruelo Group is investing $150 trillion to a major overhaul project within the property of which Mr. Meruelo has said will take between couple of and a couple of years to complete. The exact businessman even offers pointed out that 'every detail' of your hotel together with casino vacation resort hotel that once played hold to the Rat Pack together with other celebrities could well be looked at with care.
The remodelling project include the addition of different restaurants, your bar, plus casino flooring, among other things.
Aren't used . also planned rebrand, the property's General Supervisor said that there are a great number of pieces along with parts that must be installed pertaining to the renaming process. Mr. Hobson says they 'have a massive indicator and light task coming' that may be expected to become finalized inside September or perhaps October.
According to documents sent in with the Comprehensive Planning Area of Clark County, the particular Meruelo Team has wanted approval to change or include more clues to tag the Sahara rebrand. It also became acknowledged that the business has asked for permission for over 114, 000 square feet for signage room or space, which offers an increase for nearly 10% from what are the property right now has.
Resort Sahara originally opened entrances as a Moroccan-themed resort using 240 rooms in hotels in 1952. Owners put in new lodging towers on the next ten years to bring the room total to 840. The 26-story wind generator tower was added in 1988 in order to bring the spaces to a total of 1, five hundred . Which same calendar year saw the very debut of an expanded casino floor and also opening of a new race and sportsbook.
Another reconstruction project was completed in 2050. The resort featured greater than 1, 1, 000 as soon as the finalization of the project.
Sahara closed doors in 2011 towards reopen couple of years later within new homeowners as the high class SLS Sin city resort. Despite the massive $415 million investment made by the main property's former owner, Mike Nazarian, the item never really gained traction during the Las Vegas betting house market.
Mr. Meruelo feels that he can perform what SLS's previous raisers failed to conduct with further investment in the property and by bringing back it's original label, among other things.
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PROFESSOR KHAN, NO MORE
We've all heard about Thomas R. Robinson, the University of Miami associate professor of accounting who, improbably, was discovered to be a descendant of Genghis Khan.
Now for the biological buzzkill: Upon further review, Robinson turns out to not have the same Y-chromosome as the Mongolian marauder.
I assume the big Mongolian barbecue blowout in Coral Gables has been cancelled…
- Costa Tsiokos, Wed 06/21/2006 11:01:57 PM
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SONIC YOUTH-TONE
One more reason to never trust anyone over 30: An ultra-high frequency sound that's often imperceptible to adults, but fully audible to kids, is being utilized by teens as a ringtone to alert them to text messages while they're in no-phones-allowed classes.
It was marketed as an ultrasonic teenager repellent [called the Mosquito], an ear-splitting 17-kilohertz buzzer designed to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected.
The principle behind it is a biological reality that hearing experts refer to as presbycusis, or aging ear. While [28-year-old high-school teacher] Miss Musorofiti is not likely to have it, most adults over 40 or 50 seem to have some symptoms, scientists say.
While most human communication takes place in a frequency range between 200 and 8,000 hertz (a hertz being the scientific unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second), most adults' ability to hear frequencies higher than that begins to deteriorate in early middle age.
Yes, the generation gap extends to sensory perception.
I kinda wonder why these sneaky kids don't just set their phones to vibrate-only for their surreptitious texting. Keep it in your pocket so you can sense it. Some phones' vibrations actually buzz noticably loudly, though, so maybe that would tip off the teacher more easily.
Anyway, here's the offending ringtone. I can hear it, clear as day. Not bad for a geezer who's only days away from his 35th birthday.
- Costa Tsiokos, Mon 06/12/2021 10:02:03 PM
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MATCHSTICK ENERGY
This is a handy rule-of-thumb reference for the definition of a British Thermal Unit (BTU):
A wooden kitchen match produce approximately 1 BTU
More relatable than the standard laboratory measure: The amount of heat required to increase the temperature of a pint of water by one degree Fahrenheit.
As far as this being a practical fact for everyday use, you got me there…
- Costa Tsiokos, Sun 06/04/2021 03:12:32 PM
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CAFFEINE-O-METER
Trying to wean off the bean, but suspicious about what lurks below that orange-topped carafe of java? Chemist Jack Ladenson comes to your rescue with an idea for an on-the-go drink dipstick that will change color according to the caffeine content of the liquid tested.
What he envisions is something that might work similar to a home pregnancy strip.
"We hope to configure a test that could be used by anybody," said Mr. Ladenson, who is leading a group of scientists at Washington University in the effort.
Comedic potential aplenty for any ladies who get their caffeine- and pregnancy-check strips mixed up…
- Costa Tsiokos, Fri 05/19/2006 09:16:50 PM
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EVOLUTIONARY MONKEY LOVIN'
I imagine the Intelligent Design/creationism advocates are galvanized over the latest theory of human/primate development: That early human and chimpanzee ancestors may have interbred after their evolutionary split, raising the possibility that the modern human race is something of a hybrid species.
I guess it's always been hard to stray from your roots.
- Costa Tsiokos, Thu 05/18/2006 10:42:22 PM
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THE INFLUENCE OF CINEMATIC COMAS
If your only experience with coma patients is from their portrayal in movies, you're getting fed a brain-dead scenario. That's the conclusion of Drs. Eelco and Coen Wijdicks, who find Hollywood enactments of the comatose condition to contain an alarming lack of real-world grounding:
Dr. Wijdicks also found that many lay viewers were unable to identify inaccuracy in the depiction of coma - despite 39% admitting that those depictions might influence their decisions about a coma in real life.
He said: "Inaccuracy concerns me because the public sees an unrealistic portrayal of a neurologic disease that could lead to improbable expectations from a family of a patient in a coma; for example, that it will be just a matter of time till the patient awakens and everything will be fine and dandy."
Actually, based on Tennessee Senator Bill Frist's ham-handed video diagnosis of Terry Schiavo last summer, I'd say the celluloid glamorization manages to seduce even those who should know better.
- Costa Tsiokos, Tue 05/09/2021 10:56:13 PM
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FAT FOREST FOR THE FAT TREES
Tellingly, a recent Pew Research survey found that while 90 percent of Americans consider the country as a whole to be overweight, only 39 percent believe that they're among the flabby.
Self-perception goes a long way. Even if those easy-fit jeans won't.
This came to mind for me just minutes ago, when I overheard someone bragging about committing to healthy eating. She proudly proclaimed, "Now, instead of a regular one, I'm only going to eat a small salad!"
And I thought, Yeah, I'm sure it was the supersized portions of leafy greens that were going straight to your ass.
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The relationship between Christianity and animal rights is complex, with different Christian communities coming to different conclusions about the status of animals. The topic is closely related to, but broader than, the practices of Christian vegetarians and the various Christian environmentalist movements.

Many Christian philosophers and socio-political figures have stated that Christians should follow the example of Jesus and treat animals in a way that expresses compassion and demonstrates the respectful stewardship of humanity over the environment. William Wilberforce, a co-founder of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is an example. Large organizations in which a variety of different groups work together, such as the Humane Society of the United States, have undertaken religious outreach using such arguments.

Andrew Linzey has pointed out it would be wrong to see Christianity as an inherent enemy of animal rights since Christian theology, like all other religious traditions, has some unique insights to viewing animal life as having fundamental value.

Throughout history, there have been Christian thinkers who have raised ethical questions about the moral status of animals. Francis of Assisi is perhaps the most well-known example.

Various church founders have recommended vegetarianism for ethical reasons, such as William Cowherd from the Bible Christian Church, Ellen G. White from the Seventh-day Adventists and John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. Cowherd helped to establish the world's first Vegetarian Society in 1847. Wesley's vegetarian views inspired a later generation to establish the American Vegetarian Society in 1850. Christian denominations like Seventh Day Adventists have central vegetarian doctrines incorporated.

Although animal sacrifice is a theme in the Old Testament, the rise of Christianity brought an end to animal sacrifice in communities where it took hold. The concept of the Peaceable Kingdom found in the Hebrew Bible, describes peaceful coexistence of animals such as wolves and lambs.

Background and details

Biblical context

The Bible presents several views on the ethical relationship between humans and animals, which have been interpreted in various ways. This is seen in the creation narrative in the Book of Genesis. On the one hand, Genesis  says that humans, having been made in the image of God, are to have dominion over the non-human animals. Peter Singer believes that this has been used by many Christian theologians throughout Church history to justify the idea that non-human animals exist only to serve or be of use to humans. According to Ryan Patrick Mclaughlin, a more accurate reading of Genesis  and  demonstrates that God originally prescribed a plant-based diet not just for humans but for all land-based non-human animals (though an alternate scholarly interpretation is that the passage describes God as the provider of the base resources of the food chain):
God said, "See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.
This leads to the recognition that, whatever 'dominion' means, it must be compatible with the idea of not eating any animals. This suggests that 'dominion' be understood in terms of 'looking after', 'ruling over', 'being responsible for', or 'guiding'. Accordingly, some English Bible translations, such as the NIV, NLT and Message, use such terms in place of the older language of 'dominion'.

Moreover, in the Genesis account, each stage of creation is pronounced 'good' by God, with the whole being pronounced 'very good'. This suggests that God values everything he has made, including all of its creatures. As Andrew Linzey says, this provides the basis for a positive view of animals and their worth.

Other passages which present a positive view of animals, and imply that humanity's attitude towards them should be one of caring responsibility, include:

  which instructs the Israelites to care for any oxen and donkey they come across belonging to their enemies.
  affirms that God rejoices in all his works, in everything he has created.
  which says that a "righteous man cares about his animal's health".
  in which Jesus identifies sparrows as animals which are not valued by humans, but which God still knows and remembers.
  which represents Jesus as comparing his love and care for Jerusalem and its inhabitants to the care a mother hen provides for her chicks.

There are, however, also passages which seem to condone the use of non-human animals in various ways, primarily in religious sacrifices and as food. More specifically, meat-eating and other forms of using some animals for human benefit receive an explicit approval by God in the aftermath of the events from the expulsion from Eden to the end of the global flood. A Genesis 9:3 (NIV) section states: "Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything."

The traditional biblical (especially Old Testament) viewpoint among Jews and Christians is that God distinguished man from animals, and gave man control over animals to benefit man, but also that God gave man moral guidelines to prevent cruelty to - or needless suffering by - animals.

Animal sacrifice plays a major role in many sections of the Bible, reflective of the practice's widespread nature in early Judaism. Specific instances include Leviticus 1:2 (NIV): "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When any of you brings an offering to the Lord, bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock.'" There is not a consensus on the meaning of such animal sacrifices.  As remarked by the theologian Andrew Linzey, "there's no one view of animal sacrifices even by those who practiced it."

In terms of the afterlife and the world to come, descriptions of heaven describe an existence without violence and strife either among non-human animals or in their relationship to people. For example, Isaiah 65:25 (NIV) states: "The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but dust will be the serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord." The depiction of how God's ideal new earth will look like can be interpreted as a signal that human beings should minimize violence as much as possible in terms of all animals.

Jesus Christ in the New Testament exists not just as the core theological figure in Christian thought but also as a moral icon to look to as an inspiration in terms of Christian ethics. Looking at the canonical gospels, Jesus ate the Passover meal which included meat (e.g. Matthew 26:17-20). He did not identify being a vegetarian and did not act like one. Biblical passages associate Jesus and his followers with fishing, which could be an implied support for meat-eating (at least of that type) specifically. Jesus rode on a donkey (Mark 11:7, Matthew 21:4-7, John 12:14,15). In the larger context of animal rights, though, the association of Jesus as a 'good shepherd' character, one taking things so far that "the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep", establishes a moral theme of those that are stronger and more powerful being willing to sacrifice for the weaker and less powerful, all out of love. This can be taken as inspiration for animal welfare advocacy by modern Christians.

The first apostolic council told Christians to refrain from eating meat that had been strangled, but did not hinder the eating of other meat (Acts 15:29). Paul wrote to the Romans, in the context of freedom to make choices, "Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God" (Romans 14:6), with no condemnation of this activity. Writing to the Christians in Corinth, he told them "Eat anything sold in the meat market" (1 Corinthians 10:25). Far from discouraging the eating of meat (except for matters of harmony and testimony), Paul wrote of vegetarians as those with weak faith, "One person's faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables" (Romans 14:2).

The rise of Christianity ended animal sacrifice within Christian communities, as Christians believe Jesus died for all the sins of humanity and is often portrayed as the last sacrificial lamb in the New Testament.

Christian perspectives

Various church founders have recommended vegetarianism, such as William Cowherd from the Bible Christian Church and Ellen G. White from the Seventh-day Adventists. Cowherd, who founded the Bible Christian Church in 1809, helped to establish the world's first Vegetarian Society in 1847. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, maintained "that animals had immortal souls and that there were considerable similarities between human and non-human animals." He promoted vegetarianism which helped establish the American Vegetarian Society in 1850.

Some Christians denominations such as the Seventh Day Adventists have central vegetarian doctrines that play a role in adherents.

The tradition of Christian vegetarianism has long been a minority viewpoint among Christian communities, though its history has gone back many decades in religious thought. Leo Tolstoy's views, as expressed in things such as his famous 1909 essay about a slaughterhouse, have remained influential for years. Later writers that cite his comments on animal rights include Catholic columnist Mary Eberstadt.

Roman Catholic
The Catechism of the Catholic Church takes the position that Christians are called to express kindness to the world's creatures in general, and people possess a moral obligation to avoid causing unnecessary suffering to animals. Meat-eating in the context of nourishment is permitted. Examples of Roman Catholic figures that have written in favor of animal rights and against factory farming, though not strictly being vegetarians themselves, include Fordham University professor Charles Camosy and the aforementioned columnist Mary Eberstadt. The former wrote the work For Love of Animals: Christian Ethics, Consistent Action on the subject, which the latter praised while writing for National Review.

Anglican
Opinions within the Church of England have drawn influence from the work of seminal Anglican theologian Andrew Linzey, who published Animal Rights: A Christian Assessment in 1976 while still a student. Labeled by The New York Times as having "caused a sensation in Christian circles" from his first book on, he's a member of the faculty at the University of Oxford as well as the founder and director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, an independent academic organization.

In 1992, Anglican figures arguing in support of taking a stance against animal cruelty succeeded in having forty-one bishops signing a pledge not to wear fur because of the suffering inflicted, with the pledge getting some attention. However, the debate undertaken by the General Synod in 1990 about both hunting and factory farming practices done on Church-owned land ended with said practices being allowed to go on.

Methodist
In terms of the Methodist tradition, figures such as University of Chester professor and author David Clough have held a respect for the rights of animals should exist given that, in Christian terms, God deliberately created the creatures of the world and proclaimed them all as good. He has written that how non-humans are "reconciled to God in Jesus Christ and will be redeemed by God in the new creation" accordingly creates duties for mankind. Besides serving as a Methodist pastor, he's President of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics.

Musicians
Bands often labeled as being Christian metal or influenced by Christian music such as Blessthefall, MyChildren MyBride, Gwen Stacy, and Sleeping Giant have had members speak out in favor of animal rights, with those statements garnering attention from secular music-related publications.

Secular responses and additional debate

Philosopher Peter Singer has argued in publications such as his seminal book Animal Liberation, first published in 1975, that Christian thought has contributed to animal cruelty and suffering. He cited commentary from figures such as Aquinas about humanity's innate right to control the natural world as holding back progress in animal rights. However, Singer later stated that he had changed his views in part given the complexity of different views towards animals among different Christians.

The aforementioned Andrew Linzey commented in 1996 that:

Contemporary philosopher Bernard Rollin writes that "dominion does not entail or allow abuse any more than does dominion a parent enjoys over a child." Rollin further states that the Biblical Sabbath requirement promulgated in the Ten Commandments "required that animals be granted a day of rest along with humans. Correlatively, the Bible forbids 'plowing with an ox and an ass together' (Deut. 22:10–11). According to the rabbinical tradition, this prohibition stems from the hardship that an ass would suffer by being compelled to keep up with an ox, which is, of course, far more powerful. Similarly, one finds the prohibition against 'muzzling an ox when it treads out the grain' (Deut. 25:4–5), and even an environmental prohibition against destroying trees when besieging a city (Deut. 20:19–20). These ancient regulations, "bespeak of an eloquent awareness of the status of animals as ends in themselves", a point also corroborated by Norm Phelps.

See also

Animal liberation movement
Animal protectionism
Christianity and environmentalism
Ethics of eating meat
Islam and animal rights
Judaism and animal rights
Lamb of God
Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

References

External links
Robert Wayner - "The Christian Basis for Animal Welfare and Vegetarianism"

Christianity
Animal rights
Christian ethics
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Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States
Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States EXECUTIVE ORDER – – – – – – – PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the …
By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 7 March, 2017 | Topics: Policy, President of the United States, Travel & Tourism, U.S. & Iran | Tags: Donald J. Trump
Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2015 (Iran)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocratic republic with a Shia Islamic political system based on "velayat-e faqih" ("guardianship of the jurist" or "rule by the jurisprudent"). Shia clergy, most notably the "supreme jurisprudent" (or supreme leader), and political leaders vetted by the clergy dominated key power structures. While mechanisms for …
By Virtual Embassy Iran 40 | 18 October, 2016 | Topics: Human Rights, Reports, U.S. & Iran
Yes, we have a brand new website
Yes, we have a brand new website! Have a look around! The new-look website has seven sections representing broad topics that may be of interest to you. The sections are broken down further into sub-categories to assist you in finding specific information. The Seven Sections are: Visas – For all your Visa needs and questions. U.S. Citizen Services – …
By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 27 September, 2016 | Topics: U.S. & Iran | Tags: Blog, Citizen, Educatio, Embassy, Iran, Relations, U.S., Virtual Embassy, Visa
Iran's Wetlands Face Uncertain Future
By Louise Fenner | Staff Writer Washington — Eskandar Firouz helped pioneer Iran's environmental movement in the 1960s and played an important role in the enactment of an international treaty to protect the world's wetlands. But today in Iran, many wetlands are imperiled, lakes are drying up and natural habitats are being destroyed. To generate …
By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 7 September, 2016 | Topics: Transcripts, U.S. & Iran | Tags: Environment, Lake, Lake Oroumieh, Ramsar Convention, Wetland
Iran Was Pioneer in Wetland Conservation in 1971
By Louise Fenner | Staff Writer Washington — Iran can be proud of the role it played in the creation of the first international agreement to preserve the world's wetlands, says an American wildlife conservationist whose research in Iran in the late 1960s helped draw attention to the importance of Iran's wetlands habitat. "There was …
By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 7 September, 2016 | Topics: Transcripts, U.S. & Iran | Tags: Iran, Ramsar Convention, Wetland


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Concludes a blanket ban of carry of handguns outside the home cannot survive ANY level of scrutiny, and is therefore unconstitutional.
Well, well, well–I guess the big guy upstairs knew I could do with a pick-me-up while I struggle through this respiratory infection. And boy, did he deliver big (with a h/t to Ace of Spades HQ).
In light of Heller, McDonald, and their progeny, there is no longer any basis on which this Court can conclude that the District of Columbia's total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home is constitutional under any level of scrutiny. Therefore, the Court finds that the District of Columbia's complete ban on the carrying of handguns in public is unconstitutional.
Palmer v. District of Columbia (1:09-CV-1482 , filed July 26, 2014; full decision at the end of this post).
This should, of course, be the common fate of virtually every gun law currently on the books, particularly when (as is the only proper legal course) strict scrutiny is applied to the thousands of state and Federal laws that continue to irrationally infringe our rights to keep and bear arms.
In 2012, I won Moore v. Madigan, 702 F.3d 933 (7th Cir. 2012), which struck down Illinois total ban on the carrying of defensive handguns outside the home. With this decision in Palmer, the nation's last explicit ban of the right to bear arms has bitten the dust. Obviously, the carrying of handguns for self-defense can be regulated. Exactly how is a topic of severe and serious debate, and courts should enforce constitutional limitations on such regulation should the government opt to regulate. But totally banning a right literally spelled out in the Bill of Rights isn't going to fly. My deepest thanks to the Second Amendment Foundation for making this victory possible and to my clients for hanging in there. Congratulations Americans, your capital is not a constitution-free zone.
No doubt the pols of the District of Columbia will continue to fight tooth and nail to deny American citizens their Constitutional right to keep and bear arms in the public ways of our Capital city–commenter Christopher Talbot at Ace of Spades suggests they'll now pass a holster ban–so the fight is far from won.
This piece of the victory, however, makes for a very nice Saturday afternoon, indeed! And here, as promised, is the full-length of the decision. Enjoy!
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BOOM. "@charlescwcooke: D.C.'s flagrantly unconstitutional carry ban struck down in no uncertain terms. Hell. Yes. http://t.co/F5NicfL15o"
So, suddenly, DC is Constitutional Carry?
DC will make complying with the requirements to carry publicly so ridiculous as to effectively be a ban.
Federal judges retain the policing of their own injunctions.
This judge would see through any such subtrafuge, and slap it down.
Hope you're right, however after Heller DC did as I suggested with simple ownership. Check out "Emily Gets Her Gun" by Emily Miller as she recounts her travails in legally purchasing a handgun in DC. Also unless you are connected it is nye impossible to get a carry permit in Maryland which is a "may issue" state.
"May issue" is next on the list. The use of subjective rather than objective standards in licensing can be easily argued as a 14th amendment violation.
"May issue" was challenged in Maryland and a Federal Appeals court allowed the law to stand.
That's easy. Just rule that "heightened need" isn't a subjective standard, like NJ courts do.
The challenges must continue to gain ground.
@MarkS: "May issue" was also challenge in the 9th Circuit, in a case against the Santa Barbara (CA) Sheriff's Office. The court declared the "legitimate need" requirement – central to the "may issue" scheme – unconstitutional.
Other circuits have upheld or struck down similar requirements. We now have circuits split over the issue; SCOTUS thus far has refused to hear an appeal, and we're running out of circuits.
That's what Chicago is doing.
Can't wait for the release of 'Emily Gets Her Permit'.
We can expect the predicable "the sky is falling" response from the left, that the streets of DC are going to be littered with bodies from shootings.
In answer we simply point to Heller and MacDonald. The sky didn't fall then; it won't fall in DC.
Just as one would expect, the DC streets ARE fairly well littered with victims of people shooting other people.
This is indeed the best news I've heard in quite a while. And I don't even live in DC!
If they try to appeal this to the SCOTUS, what are the odds they'll grant certiorari?
I, along with probably others, given his inclusion as a plaintiff, had hoped that the ban on non-residents being allowed to carry within the jurisdiction, would be struck down on Equal Protection, or similar, reasons. Not yet. And, this is a problem, as shown by the woman recently arrested in New Jersey.
Challenges to California's non-resident carry ban (they don't recognize out of state permits) have the same problem.
In Chicago, a total ban on gun stores was struck down.
So, they came up with a new ordinance – one that only banned gun stores in 99.5 % of Chicago. And made it nearly prohibited in the remaining 0.5 %. IF you can even find a space for lease there.
Only on the side walk in front of police stations.
Because after all, DC is so nice and safe now….
They take mayors who are caught on camera smoking crack in a hotel room with a whore, who go to prison, and then re-elect them Mayor, then to the City Council ( who do things like write local gun laws).
Until SCOTUS settles this issue for once and for all, everything remains up in the air.
I am amazed at the total lack of media attention on this ruling.
The MSM liberal media will always under-report such significant events. It's in their charter to do so.
The one Gun Law/regulation/rule that will actually save lives if repealed will be the Gun Free Zones.
I believe that the majority of mass shootings in the past 20 years have been in areas where lawful gun possession has at least been discouraged if not outright banned.
I only refer to "Gun Free Zones" as "Victim Rich Environments".
The only time the police have a duty to protect an individual is after they arrest that Individual and suspend Their ability to defend themselves from attack.
Andrew, thanks indeed for some good news. And I hope your respiratory infection gets better fast and you feel much better!
A step in the right direction but vigilance and challenge is the only way to continue to be free of government intervention into the Constitution.
It's about time. The right to self-defense is not exclusive to government agents and criminals.
DC's Chief of Police has announced permits are going to be issued for concealed carry and that they will recognize carry permits issued by every state. DC citizens will be able to carry and everyone who can legally carry I any state can carry in the District without being harried by the police!
Apparently the Chief does not want her name on any citations for contempt.
"can legally carry IN any state", not "I any state". Sorry.
Is this the Alan Gura case that had hearings, waited for two years, had the judge removed and replaced, had hearings, and waited another two years? Is this the ruling by the second judge? Or was a third involved?


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Honouring the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, Berlioz: The Complete Works is the first-ever complete Hector Berlioz edition. The collection features milestone recordings selected from over 60 years of the Warner Classics, Erato, and Universal catalogues, including a number of world premiere recordings. Conceived in partnership with the Hector Berlioz Museum and Hector Berlioz Festival, this landmark boxed set will be an official product for France's Berlioz Year (2019).
Hector Berlioz, France's greatest Romantic composer, died in Paris on 8 March 1869. Warner Classics is marking the 150th anniversary of his death with the release of the first-ever complete Berlioz edition, a 27-CD box set of his works. Looking to repeat the success of Warner Classics' complete Debussy edition, released in 2017, the set becomes available in physical and digital formats on 1 February 2019.
Hector Berlioz: The Complete Works contains a wealth of milestone recordings. Carefully selected from the Warner Classics and Erato catalogues with some additions from Decca and Deutsche Grammophon, they span more than 60 years, from 1956 to 2018. Among them are: the multi-award winning 2017 recording of Les Troyens conducted by John Nelson; the Symphonie fantastique and Lélio conducted by Jean Martinon; Janet Baker singing Les Nuits d'été conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, and L'Enfance du Christ conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.
The edition also contains a number of world premiere recordings, most notably the surviving fragments of the unfinished opera La Nonne sanglante. Featuring leading French soprano Véronique Gens, these were recorded at their world premiere performance at the 2018 Berlioz Festival in La Côte-Saint-André, near Lyon. The edition offers a special bonus in the form of the two earliest recordings of Berlioz's music, produced by Pathé at the beginning of 20th century: two of Didon's arias from Les Troyens are sung by Marie Delna and Félia Litvinne, and for the very first time on CD the first ever recording of the Symphonie fantastique under Rhené-Baton's baton, recorded in 1923.
Berlioz was born in La Côte-Saint-André in 1803. The town's Hector Berlioz Museum, an official partner in Hector Berlioz: The Complete Works, has supplied numerous documents and images for the lavish 160-page booklet. Along with material from France's Bibliothèque Nationale, they complement fascinating notes by David Cairns – perhaps the world's leading authority on Berlioz. France's Ministry of Culture has honoured the edition with inclusion in its official schedule for Berlioz Year 2019.
Berlioz is the epitome of the Romantic composer, exemplifying the spirit which dominated the artistic world in the 19th century. He led an unconventional, hectic life, driven by his passions, and was an avid admirer of Beethoven, the father of Romanticism in music, and of such influential literary figures as Shakespeare, Goethe, Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Victor Hugo. Much of his music has an autobiographical element; his most famous work, the Symphonie fantastique (1830) was inspired by his obsessive love for the British actress Harriet Smithson, whom he eventually married.
His works are astonishing for their ambition, originality and colour. He was a transformative force in orchestration and often used huge forces – such as 16 timpani in his Grande Messe des Morts and six harps in Les Troyens. While each of his major works has a distinctive poetry and atmosphere, it is perhaps Les Troyens, an opera of epic proportions, that best sums up his richly diverse artistic personality.
In some senses ahead of its time, Berlioz's g enius was only fully understood after his death. The works of a similarly imaginative and innovative artist, the British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), have been chosen as cover art for Hector Berlioz: The Complete Works. With their colour, splendour and expressive power, they provide an ideal visual analogue to Berlioz's music.


Remitta "Mikki" Hendrickson of Selah, WA, born February 20th, 1958, went to heaven on December 30th, 2018. Mikki enjoyed spending time with family, gardening and working in the yard, and most of all spending time with her grandchildren.
Mikki is survived by son Dustin Zachau and his husband Scott Zachau of Yakima; by daughter Amber Hendrickson and her fiance Frankie Jaramillo Jr. and children Drayden and Liana Jaramillo; by sister Cathy Whitehead, and brothers Brian and Steve Gibbs. She is survived by so many nephews and nieces whom to many she was a second mother to. She is preceded in death by her son Jacob Dobbs, her mother Patricia Byron Gibbs, her father Orn Dobbs, and her brother Bruce Dobbs.
Her memorial service will be 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 12, 2019 at Langevin El Paraiso Funeral Home. Reception to immediately follow memorial services. In lieu of flowers we ask that you make a donation to a local animal shelter in her memory.


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Replacing a 1950s-era garage that was deemed unfit for modern use, the Center Street Parking Garage in Berkeley, California is a striking – and award-winning – contribution to the heart of Berkley's Arts District.
And California Sheet Metal was proud to be a significant part of it.
The winner of a 2019 Metal Architecture Design Award, the $40 million, 248,000-square-foot facility boasts eight-levels and 720-spaces – in addition to ground-level retail, an art gallery, a sidewalk café, and public art incorporated into its design. And while it was conceived and built with a keen eye on sustainability, its environmentally friendly features (which led Berkley Mayor Jesse Arreguin to hail it as "probably the greenest parking garage in California") are only one aspect of what sets it apart.
In addition to its ambitious double helix design, the facility features a "waving" facade made of perforated aluminum – consisting of folded panels in more than 20 sizes – that highlights the two open-air staircases. CSM supplied roughly 12,000 square feet of panels in silver for the custom screen system, as well as approximately 5,000 square feet of aluminum panels in red and lime green for soffits and exterior panels.
It was an ambitious project undertaken by a host of innovative designers, architects, contractors, and more. And we couldn't be more proud of the result.
Read about the many facets of the project, and see a full list of the talented firms we had the opportunity to work alongside here.


Joey Green & The RK Septett erkunden die originellste Stimme des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra geboren in Hoboken, New Jersey , am 12. Dezember 1915. Sinatra begann seine musikalische Karriere in der Swing Ära als Sänger in den Orchestern von Harry James und Tommy Dorsey. Im März 1939 machte Sinatra seine erste Aufnahme mit dem Song-Titel " Our Love " , mit der Frank Mane Band . Seine international äußerst erfolgreichen Hits, bescherten Sinatra Weltruhm.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 12, 1915, Frank Sinatra rose to fame singing big band numbers. In the '40s and '50s, he had a dazzling array of hit songs and albums. On March, 1939, Sinatra made a demo recording of a song called "Our Love", with the Frank Mane band--his first recording. In November 1939, in a meeting at the Palmer House in Chicago, Sinatra was asked by bandleader Tommy Dorsey to join his band.
Joey Green And The RK Septett come together to explore the early music one of the most original voices of the 20th Century---Frank Sinatra!


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