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Promoting Civil Resistance as Part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative
Promoting Civil Resistance as Part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative – ICNC webinar
Thanks to Steve Chase at the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict for hosting an excellent 1-hour resource-rich webinar on "Promoting Civil Resistance as Part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative." Key presenters include Marie Dennis from Pax Christi International's Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, Eli S. McCarthy from Georgetown University's Peace and Justice studies program, and Sharon Erickson Nepstad, a sociologist of Catholic social movements at the University of New Mexico.
In this webinar, we hear from a scholar and two members of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative as they described CNI's efforts to deepen the Catholic Church's understanding of and commitment to "active nonviolence" with a particular focus on civil resistance as a key tool in promoting social justice. Marie Dennis introduces the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative and its engagement through two major conferences with the Vatican. Sharon Nepstad gives more context on the historical role of Catholics in civil resistance movements. Eli McCarthy shares what the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative is doing now to increase the understandings and skills of nonviolent resistance among Catholics.
For those interested in teaching about Pax Christi International's Catholic Nonviolence Initiative in churches, schools, or community gatherings, this is a compact, 1-hour webinar to start the conversation.
Relevant Readings:
Appeal to Catholic Church to Re-Commit to the Centrality of Gospel Nonviolence
Advancing Just Peace through Strategic Nonviolent Action by Dr. Maria J. Stephan
2017 World Day of Peace message by Pope Francis
Peace Movements and Religion in the U.S. by Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Just Peace Ethic Handout
See all resources at: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/promoting-civil-resistance-as-part-of-the-catholic-nonviolence-initiative/
Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on September 29, 2019 September 29, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags Catholic Church, Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, Catholic social teaching, civil resistance, Eli McCarthy, ICNC, Marie Dennis, Pax Christi International, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Steve Chase, video, webinarLeave a comment on Promoting Civil Resistance as Part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative
James Alison: On Clericalism
"Clericalism" is not a "thing" that can be undone with a single silver bullet. It is a combination over time of a number of different things which have together metastasized into what now seems like an excrescence on the face of Christianity. The metastasis, for which "clericalism" is as convenient a name as any, maintains itself as something sacred. That is to say, it has become an apparently necessary form of the group's fake self-transcendence, a form of idolatry. Like all forms of idolatry, it damages not only social relationships between people, but also their capacity to imagine. Since it is not a simple incubus, capable of being removed by exorcism, I propose looking at each one of a number of the strands of the metastasis so that we can welcome in something new rather than simply extirpating the old and leaving space for seven worse demons to arrive. For the purposes of this conference, I'm attempting what in a business group would be called "blue-sky thinking". Here I am calling it "Open heaven thinking" (following St Stephen and St John) aiming at a bestirring of the imagination in an attempt to work through, and beyond, our idolatry in this sphere. Nothing I say here has the pretension of being other than material to promote discussion, and I am probably wrong in a whole series of things that I say. I merely hope that the wrongness be of the sort that encourages mutual build-up rather than mutual down-tearing.–James Alison
Read James Alison's full presentation "Clericalism and the Violent Sacred: Dipping a Girardian Toe in Troubled Waters" given at the Von Hügel Institute, Cambridge University, 18 September 2019.
Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on September 23, 2019 September 23, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags clericalism, James Alison, Pope Francis, Roman CatholicLeave a comment on James Alison: On Clericalism
Fr. Bryan Massingale: 'I come to this conversation as a Black, gay priest and theologian.'
Bryan N. Massingale is a Catholic priest who holds the Professor
James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics at Fordham University.
Tom Roberts has written an excellent opinion piece in National Catholic Reporter titled It's not about ethics, it's about how we imagine God, on preeminent theologian Bryan Massingale's July address in which he shifts the conversation on LGBTQ Catholics.
"I come to this conversation as a Black, gay priest and theologian," said Massingale at a July 4 talk titled "The Challenge of Idolatry for LGBTQI Ministry," at the 50th anniversary conference of DignityUSA, a group that self describes as "Celebrating the wholeness and holiness of LGBTQI Catholics." DignityUSA also hosted a four-day gathering of the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics prior to the conference.
Here is an excerpt from Massingale's email and phone conversation with Tom Roberts:
The major challenge we face as sexually minoritized persons is not a problem of sexual ethics. We tend to think, and we are told, that our problems in church and society stem from our nonconformity with the church's moral code.
But the church has a solution for that issue. If you sin, you can go to confession. You receive forgiveness and absolution. … Our deepest problem — the one that causes us the most pain, alienation, and self-estrangement — is that we've been told a false story about God and have been given false images of God. That's our problem.
Underlying all of the struggles we endure around the world and the stories that we've heard throughout this assembly — stories of being kicked out of parishes, ostracized from our families, and in general being not welcome — underlying all of these experiences is a story that Catholicism tells about itself.
At the heart of this story is that to be Catholic is to be straight. "Catholic" = "straight." Official Catholicism tells a story where only heterosexual persons, heterosexual love, heterosexual intimacy, heterosexual families — only these can unambiguously mirror the Divine. Only these are truly sacred. Genuinely holy. Only these are worthy of unreserved acceptance and respect. All other persons and expressions of love, family life, intimacy, and sexual identity are sacred (if at all) only by toleration or exception.
In effect, we are told that we are "afterthoughts" in the story of creation, not part of the original plan. In other words, we are "children of a lesser god." … Yes, we certainly need to rethink our church's official sexual ethics. But even more, we have to rethink God.—Bryan Massingale
Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on September 10, 2019 September 10, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags African-American, Catholic, dignity, freedom movement, idolatry, LGBTQ, MassingaleLeave a comment on Fr. Bryan Massingale: 'I come to this conversation as a Black, gay priest and theologian.'
'You Didn't Answer My Question, Mr. President'
On Monday, President Trump held a post-G7 press conference with French President Macron. In the last few minutes Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey asked Trump about climate change (see transcript below).
Trump missed or skipped the G7 discussion on climate, oceans, and biodiversity led by French president Macron. France is leading the Carbon Neutrality Coalition of countries that have committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, in part to make up for the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Accords.
Greta Thunberg, the youth climate leader who sailed into New York harbor on Tuesday to attend UN climate meetings, was asked if she had a message for President Trump, who has expressed skepticism about the science behind climate change, Thunberg said, "If no one has been able to convince him about the climate crisis — the urgency — then why should I be able to do that?"
TRANSCRIPT FROM POST-G7 PRESS CONFERENCE
Josh Dawsey: Mr. President, there was a significant talk at the summit about climate change. I know in the past you've harbored some skepticism of the science in climate change. What do you think the world should be doing about climate change? And do you still harbor that skepticism?
Trump: I feel that the United States has tremendous wealth. The wealth is under its feet. I've made that wealth come alive. We will soon be one of the — we will soon be exporting. In fact, we're actually doing it now — exporting.
But we are now the number one energy producer in the world. And soon, it will be by far, with a couple of pipelines that have not been able to get approved for many, many years. It'll have a huge impact.
I was able to get ANWR in Alaska. It could be the largest site in the world for oil and gas. I was able to get ANWR approved. Ronald Reagan wasn't able to do it. Nobody was able to do it. They've been trying to do it since before Ronald Reagan. I got it approved.
We're the number one energy producer in the world. Soon it will be, by far, the number one. It's tremendous wealth. And LNG is being sought after all over Europe and all over the world, and we have more of it than anybody else. And I'm not going to lose that wealth. I'm not going lose it on dreams, on windmills — which, frankly, aren't working too well. I'm not going to lose it.
So, Josh, in a nutshell, I want the cleanest water on Earth. I want the cleanest air on Earth. And that's what we're doing.
And I'm an environmentalist. A lot of people don't understand that. I have done more environmental impact statements, probably, than anybody that's — I guess I can say definitely, because I have done many, many, many of them. More than anybody that's ever been President or Vice President or anything even close to President. And I think I know more about the environment than most people.
I want clean air. I want clean water. I want a wealthy country. I want a spectacular country with jobs, with pensions, with so many things. And that's what we're getting. So I want to be very careful. At the same time —
Josh Dawsey: But, Mr. President, do you believe in climate change? Do you believe in climate change?
Trump: At the same time — at the same time — you weren't called.
At the same time, it's very important to me — very important to me — we have to maintain this incredible — this incredible place that we've all built. We've become a much richer country. And that's a good thing, not a bad thing — because that great wealth allows us to take care of people. We can take care of people that we couldn't have taken care of in the past because of the great wealth. We can't let that wealth be taken away. Clean air, clean water. Thank you very much everybody. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Josh Dawsey: You didn't answer my question Mr. President as to whether you believe that climate change is happening.
From August 26, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D8aTigGClw [Minutes: 1:08:12 – 1:11:09]
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400 Years: Slaves in Our Family
A cleansing ceremony at Buckroe Beach in Hampton, Va., on Aug. 24 during a commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans arriving in Virginia.
EVELYN HOCKSTEIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Today at 3:00 p.m, bells across America will toll for 4 minutes to remember the 400 years since the first Angolans were captured in 1619 by British slave traders and brought to English-speaking colonies on the ship White Lion. They landed at Point Comfort, today's Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia.
In 2012, I wrote an essay for Sojourners magazine about my own family owning enslaved people. I reprint it here today.–Rose Marie Berger
[From Sojourners, February 2012]
My family held slaves.
Among my maternal grandmother's papers there is a 1820s deed of sale. In the list of farm equipment and livestock are the names of two "negroes." The right-hand ledger column lists their dollar value.
That branch of my family is from Louisiana. In that same region, there were several slave uprisings, including the Pointe Coupee conspiracy in 1795 and the Cane River rebellion in 1804.
In 1793, Father Jean Delvaux, a priest who served the Catholic parish in Campti, Louisiana (where more than 100 years later my grandmother would be baptized), was deported to Cuba by his bishop for leading "seditious movements" proclaiming the abolition of slavery and "liberté, égalité, fraternité," the motto of the French Revolution.
On my family's deed, the price for two human beings—chattel slaves—was about $1,000.
"THE AVERAGE PRICE of a human being today," says researcher Kevin Bales, "is about $90." That's the price averaged across the global market. In North America, slaves go for between $3,000 to $8,000. In India or Nepal, you can buy a human being for $5 to $10.
But didn't slavery disappear after abolition? Isn't that what the Civil War was all about?
Bales, author of Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, has a succinct response: "Thinking slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation is like thinking adultery stopped with the Ten Commandments."
However, Bales also wants to make clear that the 27 million people enslaved today represent the smallest percentage of the global population ever to be in slavery. And the $40 billion generated by slavery into the global economy each year is the smallest proportion of the global economy ever represented by slave labor.
Slavery is now illegal in every country in the world; it's shifted from being universally accepted to universally condemned. But, as abolitionist Wendell Phillips preached nearly 160 years ago, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
ONE SLAVE ANYWHERE is an affront to human dignity, a moral outrage. But slavery, in its most pernicious forms, has always been about profit.
When, as is true today, the richest 10 percent own 85 percent of the world's wealth and the poorest 50 percent live off the crumbs of 1 percent of the total global wealth, you've created a market where slavery will thrive.
Wherever he goes around the world, says Bales, the story is the same. Someone came to the village. They stood on the back of a truck shouting, "I've got jobs! Who needs a job?" The person was "suspicious," but her kids were hungry. She tells Bales, "I had to do anything I could to earn some money." So she climbed in the back of the truck. "They take [the dangerous working conditions] for a little while," says Bales, "but when they try to leave—bang!—the hammer comes down. They discover they are enslaved."
Economist Elizabeth Wheaton writes that within the next 10 years human trafficking is expected to surpass drug and arms trafficking. "As people become vulnerable to exploitation and businesses continually seek the lowest-cost labor sources," Wheaton explains, "trafficking human beings generates profit and a market for human trafficking is created."
During the Pointe Coupee conspiracy in 1795, a French school teacher and abolitionist named Joseph Bouyavel was accused of reading to slaves from The Declaration of the Rights of Man. "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights," he told them. "These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression."
What liberating word do we bring to slaves today? If our Christian good news doesn't free the captive, then it's not the gospel of Jesus Christ. French poet Placide Cappeau put it this way, "Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother. And in His name all oppression shall cease."
Rose Marie Berger, a Catholic peace activist and poet, is a Sojourners associate editor.
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Evil Leader or Crazed Elephant?
Shakyamuni Buddha
"Truth is a rare commodity. We need to make sure that our sources have the conscience to do good. Nichiren Shonin was very aware of this as well. He said in his Kyoki Jikoku Sho that the Buddha once warned, "it is more harmful to meet a bad leader than it is to meet a bad elephant."
One may end up being killed upon meeting a crazed elephant. But, it is still better than meeting an evil leader who will corrupt and defile one's mind to the effect that its contamination will eventually destroy one's mind and body with lingering repercussions, culminating into one's fall into the depths of hell. That is, it is better to die with virtuous thoughts than to be polluted by misinformation and bad direction."—Eisei Ikenaga, minister at Nichiren Buddhist Temple, Portland, Oregon (sermon 2019)
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Ched Myers: Healing as Liberation from Crippling Debt
By Ched Myers, on Luke 13:10-17, for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost
Note: This is part of a series of weekly comments on the Lukan gospel readings from the Revised Common Lectionary during year C, 2016. Published at RadicalDiscipleship.net.
This part of Luke's gospel offers two symbolic stories about the healing of "political bodies" that signify pathology in the body politic: the "bent over" woman (13:10-17) and the "too big" man (14:1-6). Sadly, the second of these is (literally) skipped over by the lectionary. These intimately related healings bracket a series of Jesus' sayings concerning the Kingdom as surprise and mystery (13:18-21), the "narrow Way" (13:22-30) and the cost of prophetic discipleship (13:31-35).
To make sense of the symbolic and even political character of these two Lukan healings, a bit of background is needed. Our modern worldview assumes that the gospel healing stories relate "supernatural" cures of medical disorders. The ancient Mediterranean world, however, like many other non-modern cultures, was not bio-medical in its approach to illness, but symbolic. While certainly traditional medicine (herbal, somatic and spiritual) was practiced to address physiological symptoms, serious or chronic illness was perceived primarily as a "socially disvalued state," an aberrant or defective condition that threatened communal integrity. The job of the healer, then, was to restore the subject back to the community.
Human societies (then and now) seek to order themselves by regulating and socializing bodieswithin the body politic, defining what is pure or impure, safe or threatening to the social norm. Cultural anthropologist Mary Douglas reflects on this phenomenon in a seminal essay entitled "Two Bodies" (1973):
The physical body can have universal meaning only as a system which responds to the social system, expressing it as a system. What it symbolized naturally is the relations of parts of an organism to the whole. Natural symbols can express the relation of an individual to his society at that general systemic level. The two bodies are the self and society.
The body politic (the imperatives, symbols and hierarchies of the dominant socio-political order) is reproduced by how, where, and when we present our political bodies (what Douglas understands as the "socialized self," including the consciousness, physical body, personal habits, and socio-political practices of the individual). Douglas continues:
The social body constrains the way the physical body is perceived. The physical experience of the body, always modified by the social categories through which it is known, sustains a particular view of society. There is a continual exchange of meanings between the two kinds of bodily experience so that each reinforces the categories of the other.
The notion of the political body as a mirror of the body politic is common to most traditional cultures, which do not make the radical distinctions between self and society that moderns do; it was certainly characteristic of first-century Palestine. This explains why the Jesus of the gospels pays as much attention to healing and exorcising individuals as he does to what wemight recognize as "political" engagement. Jesus heals those who are physically impaired because they are also socially "dis-membered" according to the dominant Debt and Purity systems. He also enters into conflict because of how he places his body within the accepted/expected proprieties of social space, crossing boundaries of power and prestige. The political character of such gospel symbolic action was intelligible (and thus subversive) within its original cultural context, but is missed by us, having disappeared beneath our literalizing, spiritualizing, and privatizing reading strategies.
In Luke 13:10, the scene is a synagogue on the Sabbath, symbolizing sacred time and space. The phrase "just then," or "and behold" (Gk kai idou) seems to suggest some essential correlation between the synagogue space and this woman and her condition. She is described as having labored under a spirit of "weakness" (13:11; Gk asthenia, literally lack of strength) for 18 years, which has caused her to become "bent over" (Gk sugkupt?, a verb appearing only here in N.T.). This detail concerning duration could allude to one chapter in the deep history of subjugation suffered by biblical people: "Eglon the Moabite king and the Philistines… oppressed the Israelites for 18 years" (see Judges 3:12-14, 10:7-8). Such an allusion would suffice to reframe condition of this woman's political body in terms of an oppressive body politic.
Natalie K. Houghtby-Haddon, in her Changed Imagination, Changed Obedience: Social Change, Social Imagination, and the Bent-Over Woman in the Gospel of Luke (2011), argues that "this story is a key interpretive text for seeing Luke's social vision for his community at work." Indeed, this is a curious episode in Luke—a sort of combination of call, healing, controversy and exorcism stories. Jesus summons the woman over (the same verb as the call of disciples), but only later addresses the synagogue leader (13:12), defying gender conventions. Moreover, he firstannounces her "release," and then lays hands on her (13:13), suggesting that the issue here is not disease but bondage. Only here in Luke's gospel does Jesus say: "You have been set free" (the perfect passive form of apoluo represents the "divine passive"). This verb, a legal term (it means to "pardon" in Luke 6:37 and 23:16-25), is also used in the parallel healing of the man with dropsy (14:4).
The synagogue leader objects to Jesus' intervention on the basis of Sabbath rest (13:14), but Jesus' riposte invokes Deuteronomy 5:12-15, which enjoins Sabbath rest for whole household, including beasts of burden. Indeed, Sabbath rest is for purposes of continuing the liberation struggle: "Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt" (Dt 12:15). If animals are to be liberated, Jesus reasons, how much more should a "daughter of Abraham" (Lk 13:16, a phrase unique in the N.T., anticipating its counterpart in 19:9) be released from "bondage." The Greek term desmos refers to the chains holding the demoniac in Lk 8:29, and imprisoning Paul in Acts 26:29; Luke may be alluding to how daughters were to be redeemed during the Sabbath year from debt slavery (Ex 21:7-9).
Richard Lowery summarizes this logic in Sabbath and Jubilee (2000): "The connection centers on the imagery of 'binding' and 'releasing' the ox and the donkey… The root meaning of shemittahin the Sabbath-year passage refers to loosening a yoke and letting it drop from the shoulders. With shoulders now unbound, the one released can stand completely erect. By the very nature of her debilitating ailment, the woman is a living embodiment of the standard metaphor for indebtedness and oppression."
What had this woman's political body "doubled over," in other words, was the oppression of debt bondage structured into the body politic, the inevitable result of an unjust socioeconomic system of disparity. How relevant this story is to our economic realities today! After all, we routinely talk about "crippling debt," and how individuals and even whole nations groan under debt "burdens"! This is why contemporary groups are resisting the debt economy both at the personal (e.g. the "Rolling Jubilee" movement) and political levels (e.g. the Jubilee Debt Campaign), and why we work intensively in Sabbath Economics education and organizing.
It is hardly surprising that the release proclaimed unilaterally by Jesus earns the immediate ire of the authorities. Or that such opposition to his liberation mission recurs in the "twin" healing of Luke 14:1-7, in which a "man with dropsy" signifies the disease of "Affluenza" that afflicts the ruling class. (There is a long list of ancient writers who specifically associated "dropsy" with the pathology of being too rich.) Jesus again "releases" a political body, this time representing the opposite side of the body politic's social divide from that of the woman, with a similar appeal to Sabbath rest for animals (14:5; see also the parallel to Lk 6:6-11).
But also unsurprising is the fact that the crowd is with Jesus in this work: our episode concludes with everyone "rejoicing at the glorious things Jesus was doing" (13:17), doubtlessly alluding to the "signs and wonders" of the God of Exodus. True celebration has been restored to this synagogue.
Yet this will be the last time Jesus teaches or heals in this space in Luke's story. In the initial episode back in the Nazareth synagogue (4:16ff), Jesus proclaimed release to those captive (Is 61:1) and oppressed (Is 58:6). At the conclusion of that inaugural sermon, Jesus declared: "Today these Scriptures are fulfilled in your hearing" (4:21). As Houghtby-Haddon suggests, the liberation of the Bent-Over woman in this Sunday's gospel story is indeed the embodiment of that Nazareth promise. And an invitation for us to do the same for all crippled by debt today.–Ched Myers
Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on August 24, 2019 August 26, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags Luke 13; bent-over woman; bodies; Judges 3; 18 years; Mary Douglas; Two Bodies; body politic; Natalie K. Houghtby-Haddon; Richard Lowery; bondage; Judges 10Leave a comment on Ched Myers: Healing as Liberation from Crippling Debt
'A Presumption of Innocence'
Rose and Sorelle, 2018
By Sorelle R. Berger and Rose M. Berger
In July, I was one of 71 Catholics arrested by the U.S. Capitol Police in the rotunda of the Russell Senate building in Washington, D.C., for "crowding, obstructing, or incommoding" while praying the rosary. My prayer was — and is — to end the warehousing of immigrant children in cages, seven of whom have died after being in federal custody since September. More than a dozen Catholic orders and organizations sponsored the event. Seven Catholic bishops sent letters of support.
Before the demonstration, my 11-year-old niece Sorelle tweeted her support. Thus began my conversation about liturgical direct action with a rising 6th-grader at a Catholic school. Below is our exchange.–Rose Berger
Rose: I just wanted to give you all this update. I'm risking arrest tomorrow, Thursday, at the Russell Senate office building as part of the Catholic Day of Action for Detained Immigrant Children. We have legal representation and have talked to the Capitol police. Everything should go relatively smoothly. Likely outcome is that I will sit the a holding cell for 6 hours with a bunch of Catholic sisters.
Sorelle to Rose: good luck I love you and call us when you're out were so proud of you aunt rose.
Rose to Sorelle: I'm out. Everything went fine. Do you want to write an article with me about my arrest on Thursday? Here are some questions to think about: What happened at the Senate building? Who was there? Why did they do it? What were the responses to what they did? Who did they do it for? What did you think about it? Would you ever consider doing something like this? Why was it important that this event was with Catholics? Would you talk about the event at your school? Would you like your teachers to discuss this event at your school?"
Sorelle: "The Catholic Day of Action. On July 18 at the senators' building in Washington DC, Catholics were peacefully protesting about the situation at the border. The priests and religious sisters were try to get the Trump administration to view immigration as a pro-life issue. With current American politics, this is a long up-hill fight, but it is one worth fighting. The situation at the border is one that is not only racist towards Mexicans, but it gives all people of color presumption of guilt. The current president doesn't understand that they are born with presumption of innocence. I think the situation at the border is proof that history repeats itself. In the 1920s, we had to fight for women's suffrage. Before that we had to fight against slavery. Now in 2019 we have to fight against these border problems. At some point Trump has to realize that we're all created equal and stop assuming that whoever comes into America is a drug dealer, because he has no right to. At my Catholic school, they are not allowed to tell us about politics or the border. But this [day of action] relates to Jesus loving everybody. It's important for people to say what they believe. Catholic Day of Action was just that.
Rose: [mic drop]
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LAZARUS AND THE RICH MAN
by Rose Marie Berger (Sojourners, August-September 1992)
September 3, 1992, was the first anniversary of the fire in the Imperial Food Products plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Emmett J. Roe, the owner of Imperial Food; his son, Brad Roe, Imperial's operations manager; and plant manager James N. Hair were indicted in March 1992 on 25 counts each of involuntary manslaughter.
That man dressed fine as Sunday every day
of the week. Owned Imperial Food Products–
poultry processors. Had a plant right here
in town. Every morning, early, the workers
would line up at the front gates–mostly women,
mostly black folk, some with joints froze up from
working those machines, some with emphysema
from working the pantyhose factory
down the road, but all wanting their babies
to eat half as good as what sat on that
rich man's table every evening 'round supper time.
Well, he got to worrying that some folks
might start stealing his chicken parts,
so he took to locking up the factory
doors once the morning shift was in place. The
time came when a hydraulic line blew on
one of the deep-fat fryers and black smoke
filled up the room, followed by grease fire. None of
the state-of-the-art, automatic, carbon
dioxide sprinklers ever came on. Most
folks died at the south end of the building
near the walk-in freezer. They had headed
for the exit, but it was locked. Then they
were drawn on by the gulps of cool air. Some
died down at the loading dock. Piled up on
each other trying to get through the small
hole between the wall and the truck blocking
the platform. There was Mary Alice Whit.
She was dead. There was Peggy Fairley. She
was dead. There was Lillian Mary Wall,
who'd only worked chicken a few months. She
was dead. And Margaret Banks. When
they brought her out, you could already
tell she was dead. All in all, there were 25
who died that day. The Hamlet police lieutenant
said you couldn't tell whether the bodies
were white or black on account of the smoke; but the
angels, who pay no mind to color, came
and carried every single one of them
up into the arms of Abraham.
Now, all of this happened the day after
Labor Day. And even though Imperial
didn't allow no organizing in its
plants, the North Carolina Textile Workers
Union still sent dresses (and suits for the
men) to use as burying clothes. At the
First Baptist Church the mourners cried out "Lord,
Lord," maybe because in the confusion
they had missed the angels. They cried out "Slavery
time's been over! How much longer is it
going on?" To which there was just no good
answer. What all happened to the rich man
was never much covered in the newspapers,
but the actual truth is his story's been told before.[]
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#KeepMertonWeird
Below is a link to the audio of my presentation "Direct Transmission of Faith" at the June to the International Thomas Merton Society conference, where I challenged ITMS to "Keep Merton Weird" (I even had the t-shirt)!
?https://merton.bellarmine.edu/items/show/17838
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The Miller School of Albemarle and Blue Ridge School is an AMAZING place to hold a week of Camp4Real! Not only do we have an awesome gymnasium and vast outside space to play and enjoy our favorite Camp4Real classics like Revenge of the Bulls, Paintball and our Capture the Flag Series, but we have OH SO MUCH MORE! We have a swimming pool that we use every day! We have hiking trails, bike trails and the amazing team of Coach Andy from Cutaway Bike Camp teaching our campers the basics of mountain biking and leading trail rides! But perhaps the most amazing aspect of it all is the lake! Stand-up paddleboards, kayaks, and canoes can be found with our campers captaining the ships as they paddle the sunny days away in pure bliss!


After payment you will receive a link by which you can get the license key with the game Fallout: New Vegas. Ultimate Edition from the official supplier - the company "Buka", to activate the system STEAM.
This publication is intended for distribution in Russia and CIS countries.
The full edition of Fallout: New Vegas is the latest to date head of the cult post-apocalyptic RPG-series, highly appreciated by Russian and foreign critics and warmly received by users.
The compilation includes both the game itself and all existing add-ons: Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Road - in short, all the challenges and entertainment that the legendary New Vegas can offer. And so that you can not just survive, but also feel confident in the harsh post-apocalyptic world, you will not enter it empty-handed - you will have an excellent set of Gun Runners Arsenal equipment containing unique weapons and ammunition, as well as useful recipes.
In this journey, you will find many friends and, of course, make many enemies - no matter if you are an experienced Mojave explorer or are you here for the first time. In the Wastes, for each act you need to answer, there are plenty of opportunities to become famous ... or to cover themselves with shame. Every choice you make will be more important than ever.
Welcome and pleasant to stay!
Complete collection. In edition of Fallout: New Vegas. Ultimate Edition includes four large-scale plot additions, as well as sets of equipment and items, including unique weapons and improvements for them, ammunition and recipes - you have to find them in the vast expanses of the Mojave Wasteland.
More and more. The world of Fallout: New Vegas has grown significantly with the advent of new territories. You can visit the Sierra Madre Casino (Sierra-Madre Casino), take a walk through the Zion National Park, visit the huge Big MT research center and explore the very cunning terrain called the Divide. In each of these vast areas you are waiting for new tasks, acquaintance with colorful personalities and additional opportunities to become the savior of New Vegas or the outcast.
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Q: What are the differences between console and PC versions? Are there any differences in mechanics between World Of Tanks in console compared to its PC version?

A: Updates will be much more frequent on the PC than Xbox 360.
For example wargaming are going through all the tanks overhauling their textures and have made several big changes to maps recently.
In order for these kind of updates to be applied to the xbox version, each one would need to pass a number of certification tests.
This was the problem with the console version of Team Fortress 2 and as a consequence the Pc and console version became so different you could no longer compare them.
The console version does have controller support which is a nice thing that the PC does not have.
With the PC version you can install mods and customise how you HUD looks and display live stats to help you when playing the game.

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Q: How to check JsonWebToken (JWT) in Headers? I have a middleware to protect a route. And I am checking whether the token is present in headers or not??
if(req.headers.authorization && req.headers.authorization.startsWith('Bearer')){
        token = req.headers.authorization.split(" ")[1]
    }

*My Question is is it necessary to add something like already did in above code by adding Bearer? is it something that enhance token presence checking or it is just a way.
i think this way should also work
if(req.headers.authorization){
        token = req.headers.authorization
    }

What will be the difference between these two?

A:
What will be the difference between these two?

if(req.headers.authorization && req.headers.authorization.startsWith('Bearer')){
        token = req.headers.authorization.split(" ")[1]
    }

It will check if the authorization header exits and assign the authorization string including bearer with it and you need to segregate it first to verify the token
if(req.headers.authorization){
        token = req.headers.authorization
    }

It will check the authorization exists or not and if it does, it includes the Bearer. It is fine to check, however, not needed unless you follow same approach for all the APIs
You should do this:
const jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');

const verifyToken = async (req, res, next) => {
     const { authorization } = req.headers;
     const token = authorization.split(' ')[1];
     try {
          const jt = await jwt.verify(token, 'key');
          //do something
     } catch (error) {
          res.status(401).send("Unauthorized");
     }

}

module.exports = verifyToken;

A:  1. The difference between the 2 code.
The 2 codes have the same objective: get the JWT in the header Authorization. They will behave differently based on the way you send the JWT in the request.
 2. Explain
Usually, we send the JWT token to the server by using Bearer Authentication. In this mode :

The client must send this token in the Authorization header when
making requests to protected resources:
Authorization: Bearer [[token]]

(Source : https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/bearer-authentication/)
So, to retrieve the token from the request, we must :

*

*Firstly, ensure that the request has the Authorization header in the right format

*Secondly, split the authorization header by space, and the token is the second element of the array.

That is what the first version does.
(Note: It should check whether the header contains a space or not before splitting the string
if(req.headers.authorization && req.headers.authorization.startsWith('Bearer ')){
        token = req.headers.authorization.split(" ")[1]
    }

)
3. Conclusion
The first version is based on a popular standard and should be use with a small modification :)


Start out playing the piano by learning one of the most famous pieces of music in the world. That song would be "Clair de lune" by Claude Debussy. And this video starts you out with playing and learning the clefs, flats, key signatures, and black keys that will help you begin playing this work of art.
Before watching this video, you're going to have to know the navigation of the piano and the basics of the note names and how G clefs work.
Learn about the special rules governing the notes in this piece, and some possible reasons why Claude Debussy decided to use black keys instead of white ones, which would've been easier to play.


Celebrate your child's birthday in an original way!
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BB-8 was abducted by aliens! It's up to the Galaxy Heroes to rescue this poor little robot. Fortunately, bb-8 has left clues all over the Cosmodome to locate him. Hurry up! Gather all the clues necessary to save him and help him go back to space!
Prices and activities are subject to change without prior notice.
Did you ever touch Galactic Goo? No? Come make your own, here, at the Cosmodome. Work with your team to accumulate all the elements necessary to correctly make your own Galactic Goo and bring it back home!
Birthday cake and drinks for 10 people included. Offered only on Saturdays and Sundays.
*Canadarm restrictions: min 1.28 m (4′ 2") / max 220 lbs (100 kg). Prices and activities are subject to change without prior notice.
In addition to the program planned for the "age 8″ package, the birthday child and friends will enjoy an outer space experience on one of our three interactive, virtual missions.
Offered only on Saturdays and Sundays.
The birthday child and his/her friends will see their physical and intellectual abilities put to the test. Supervised by a counselor who will challenge them, they will experience the space adventure of an astronaut!
Birthday cake and drinks for 10 people included. Offered on Friday evenings, Saturdays and Sundays.
*Minimum 1.28 m (4′ 2") / Max 220 lbs (100 kg). Prices and activities are subject to change without prior notice.
In addition to the program planned for the "age 9-13" package, the birthday child and friends will enjoy an outer space experience on one of our three interactive, virtual missions.
Offered on Friday evenings, Saturdays and Sundays.
Prices and activities subject to change without notice.
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Q: Pip3 install throwing EnvironmentError I've just had to reinstall python on my Widnows machine and have run into an issue installing dependencies through pip.
Regardless of what package I try to install, when I run pip3 install <package-name> I get the following error (eg. installing numpy):
Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /packages/50/42/f8310b51b3b9deccff3fe2e2b4e627ac8010f435f622ad225cd3ca6936ce/numpy-1.15.3-cp37-none-win32.whl (Caused by ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host', None, 10054, None)))

PC Info: Windows 10, Python v3.7.1, Pip 18.1.
Only last week I was able to install packages. I've had a look around SO and have tried a number of suggestions on running with trusted hosts, etc. but no avail.
Edit: Forgot to mention I am working on a University PC, hence behind a firewall. Just tried to run pip using the Uni's proxy settings but threw same error. Using my Macbook on the wifi (private not Uni PC) throws the same error.
I am assuming this must have something to do with the firewall settings?


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Aerial Triangulation – Production Manager
Mr. Taylor is an ASPRS Certified Photogrammetrist and a licensed Professional Photogrammetric Surveyor (South Carolina and Virginia). He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Tennessee Technological University and has over 35 years of experience in the Geospatial industry. He is an active member of ASPRS and TNGIC and is a Past Director of the Professional Practice Division of ASPRS. He currently serves on two committees with the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. He began his career as a Cartographer with NGA (Defense Mapping Agency) and then transitioned to private industry and into photogrammetry, which he has been practicing since 1989. He has worked as a Professional Photogrammetrist in various capacities including project and program management, operations management, business development, AT specialist, and all technical aspects of photogrammetry.
Mr. Taylor has managed numerous project types ranging from the standard photogrammetry-based topographic mapping (Planimetrics, DTM) project to GIS, aerial triangulation as well as both Airborne and Mobile LiDAR projects serving the transportation, mining, land development, and energy industries. He is an expert in the field of aerial triangulation and has written numerous workflow procedures/standards for AT and Photogrammetry.
As the Chief Photogrammetrist, Mr. Taylor is responsible for all technical tasks. He has worked on several contracts for United States Army Corps of Engineers (Tulsa, Galveston, Little Rock, and St. Paul districts), the National Park Service, the US Department of Agriculture, the US Department of Homeland Security, the Tennessee Valley Authority, several state Departments of Transportation including Tennessee, Indiana, Alabama and Arizona, and numerous local governments. Mr. Taylor's involvement on these projects included contract negotiation, flight planning, project management, aerial triangulation, map compilation, and QA/QC oversight.
Mr. Taylor is highly experienced in flight planning both digital imagery and airborne LiDAR projects and has extensive experience coordinating flights with the FAA in highly restricted airspace areas across the country.

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Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by daywalker, Apr 29, 2011.
Does anyone have Vista Ultimate x86 Japanese ?
You shouldn't upgrade like that. Why not you back up your files and do a clean install of Windows 7? Upgrading that way could leave old OS registry files and could slow down your PC.
I know this way is bad, but I wanna try first.
Does anyone have idea to do this?


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Bryce Thompson Net Worth
Bryce Thompson was born on April 13, 1983 in South Africa. South African model known for his work with Soul Artist Management. He's also worked as a photographer. He is popular on Instagram with over 50,000 followers.
Bryce Thompson is a member of Model
Birth Day April 13, 1983
Birth Place South Africa
Birth Sign Aries
💰 Net worth: $15 million
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South African model known for his work with Soul Artist Management. He's also worked as a Photographer. He is popular on Instagram with over 50,000 followers.
He worked in magazine publishing prior to becoming a model. His first shoot was for the cover of a Men's Health magazine.
He's a competitive paintballer and represented South Africa at the 2007 paintball World Cup.
He grew up in South Africa but moved to NYC for modeling. He has a younger brother.
He's state that he and fellow model Justin Hopwood are good friends.
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Garam masala is blended with common ground spices of India.
Is used while making various meals.
Garam Masala is popular all over the world! So robust and versatile is this spice powder, with such a large assortment of spices and seeds, that it can be used to flavour anything, from Pulaos and Sukhi Subzis to gravies and snacks too.


Un printemps / été à Paris.
Riding the metropole by bike.
Attracted by its astonishing light and its turning sky.
the prize for best baguette.
Today I must have taken the worst one.
I've found it in the tenth arrondissement.
The boulangerie was empty, I had to imagine. Tastes like polystyrene.
However, it is nice to be outside today with a sandwich.
I stuffed it with cherry tomatoes and I bite it next to construction sites where masons are working, even if it is Sunday.
A Falcon sails light in the sky. Perhaps a CEO coming back from Corsica.
Sunday evening is probably the most dangerous moment for pedestrians: people do not want to prepare the dinner.
So the streets are sawed wildly by the scooters of takeaways.
They appear just preceded by their chainsaw noise.
but sometimes I note something.
taking some curves even if on the map they let you believe that it runs in a straight line.
Before resurfacing, I drop on the tracks what remains of my sandwich: just a crumb of bread.
Immediately some rats emerge from a black hole behind the cables.
A couple of girls in the opposite quai jump terrified.
It is better outside, definitely.
The evening sun snaps the metallic sheets of the roofs.
only when a telescopic crane touches them.
I realize. Like that: one arm pointing like an arrow to something that otherwise I would not see.
Look at the clouds, dark today, fat and low.
Their speed it's impressive, underlined by roofs profiles behind which they disappear.
"We sit in the small studio in front of the open window.
in an elastic atmosphere, which is the same on pylons and deep in the lungs.
An atmosphere that includes everything: just as difficult for the locomotive to the human lungs.
The city throbs in the summer heat. We feel the hot breath of the city.
Here I am, in a room with old friends. I hear everything nearby, permeable, tangible, living, breathing.
I feel the same friendship, his essence slowly flies from the bottle closed.
I feel the sympathy of wine and of the inlaid saber resting upright in a corner near the window.
Now I say one thing that in America I did not say never: I feel a deep contentment. "


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Tubes recuperators can be supplied separately, to be introduced in a horizontal gases duct (underground or elevated) or vertical (stack), or even include the internally covered cage.
With the same working principle, but aimed at cooling a primary fluid, gases coolers offer an alternative to the air dilution in gases cleaning systems. These equipment, as a previous step to cleaning, avoid gases from getting to the cleaning systems at a too high temperature.
Essential factors in their design are dust content in gases, as much as the capacity of dust separation in the gaseous current, which could require the installation of dust collection and extraction systems in areas where there is a bend or counterboring.


Political scientist Yogendra Yadav is back in politics. After being forced out of the Aam Aadmi Party in early 2015, Yadav and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan formed Swaraj Abhiyan, a "socio-political organisation" consisting mainly of AAP dissidents. Now, they have formed Swaraj India, a political party, with Yadav at its helm.
In a conversation with Catch, Yadav describes what sets Swaraj India apart. The party, which promises to fulfil the "needs and requirements of 21st century India", has reserved 25% of its positions for women. In the future, they want their election candidates to be elected by their supporters and not the party\'s top brass. Swaraj India supports a gradual phase-out of alcohol sale and consumption.
Yadav clarifies that Swaraj India will not contest the upcoming assembly election in Punjab - where AAP stands a good chance to win - nor, contrary to reports, has the party decided to fight the municipal polls in Mumbai.
How is Swaraj India different from other political parties?
Here's a party which is consciously trying to align itself with the needs and requirements of 21st century India. We either have political parties that cling to one or another of the 20th century dogmas, or we have parties which simply mumble the lingo of those ideologies without meaning a word of what they say. In the first category you can place parties like the CPI(M), in the second category you can place most other parties like the Samajwadi Party. The Congress has always has been a mix of these.
The more BJP-style majoritarian communalism gains, the more old style secularism retreats into its shell, becomes harder and purer and unable to communicate to the rest of the country. What we need is a secularism which can firmly stand against the practice of keeping minorities hostage like the Congress, SP, RJD and even the Left have done. What we need is a secular politics that can take principled stand on issues irrespective of who they offend.
On the selection of candidates, our intent is clear: to steadily move away from a leader distributing tickets to the people and volunteers at the local level deciding who should be their candidate.
There's was a lovely cartoon in the Times of India yesterday in which I am promising transparency, democracy and everything and there's this ordinary voter who says Deja 'Woo'. Aam Aadmi Party also said a few things of this kind when Prashant Bhushan and I were a part of it. People have heard it before so there is that sense of deja vu and the accompanying disbelief, which is understandable and which I don't grudge.
In a sense it is better that we are received with some caution so as to save everyone from that syndrome of complete infatuation to begin with and complete hatred to follow.
There are reports that you will contest 50 seats in the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai? Why the hurry to fight elections so soon?
About Mumbai there is no final decision yet. I also saw it in the news and it's in a sense a good sign that the thinking in this party does not originate in Delhi, and I get to read it in the newspapers rather than being consulted. But I think they may have expressed an intent. I don't think the party unit has met, I don't think the executive has met, I don't think we have a clear decision on that as yet. I personally am opposed to contesting elections without adequate preparations because it actually takes away from the point you wish to make.
Punjab politics is in a flux. People hate the ruling party and will throw it out at any cost. Unfortunately, the alternatives they have so far - the Congress and AAP - don't look much like alternatives. So, Punjab needs, and I think it's ready for, a genuine alternative. The trouble is that what is required in history is not always in quick supply. Lots of conversations are happening there right now. All I can say is that if a genuine alternative comes up in and from within Punjab, we would be very happy to extend moral and political support to it.
I don't think Swaraj India on its own is going to contest the Punjab election. We don't have that kind of preparation. As I said, going to Punjab with the sole intent of somehow damaging AAP is not our politics. That's something we will certainly not do.
Many people remember your words that a new party loses the first election, gets noticed in the next and wins the third.
These are Kanshiram ji's words. He understood Indian politics much better than the scientists do. He did not say we should fight in order to lose, but he was trying to summarise the lesson of history that the consequence of a new force coming up is that very often the first time it loses, the second time it becomes a factor in deciding who wins and loses, and the third time it is a winner. So, he had a slow and steady route to political success.
Looking at the experiment of AAP, I think we need to think hard about Kashiramji's theory because a very short rapid-fire route to power is full of pitfalls. Unfortunately, those who want change have had very little patience.
What about contesting elections in other states?
For me, election is important because it provides a unique occasion to speak to the public and convince them about your viewpoint, to take your message to them and convert some of them to your side. That you can do only if you have made adequate preparations in advance. So if my colleagues from Goa or Uttarakhand come, my question won't be, "Are you going to win?". My question will be, "Will you be able to take the occasion of the election to take your message to the last person?" They have to judge that.
Given the situation, all I can say is that you will not see us contesting anywhere and everywhere, or distributing large number of tickets, but focusing on a few things and putting a lot of energy behind that.
Since you are taking proactive steps on many other fronts, would you also field a large number of women candidates?
In our constitution, we have reserved a fourth of our positions at every level for women. We have not kept it at 33 per cent because there are other social groups that we have thought of. We have kept special positions for youth and for other groups which are under represented. The real challenge is not whether we are going to give tickets to women, the real challenge is what proportion of the women candidates will be women leaders in their own right.
Swaraj Abhiyan has campaigned against alcohol shops running in residential areas. Do you support prohibition?
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that drinking is a social menace in our country. Unfortunately, there is a temptation to go for one stroke solution - prohibition. It has brought temporary relief but in the medium and long run it has had other serious consequences - bootlegging, smuggling and spurious liquor production, which is very dangerous.
I personally think that we need to adopt a firm but gradual approach to reduction of alcohol. Kerala, I think, is one of the smartest states in the country in terms of liquor regulation policies. Which is to say, give yourself a 10-year target and use all policy instruments for gradual and systematic reduction. Keep closing two windows every year, go step by step, and provide for facilities for de-addiction, for help and support to those who are alcoholics, and encourage a vibrant sports culture for the youth. That to my mind is a sensible policy.
But one thing that even such a sensible policy would require is a severe reduction in the number of liquor shops. The minimum condition for a liquor vend to operate in an area has to be that it receives permission of the locality; and I would insist on the permission of women from the locality. This is the absolute minimum.


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Five Irish shopping centres were just bought for a combined €175 million
Not your average shopping centre spree.
Nov 17th 2015, 9:22 PM 69,626 22
THE RECORD FOR the biggest sale of retail space ever in Ireland has just been smashed after the +€175 million sale of five retail parks.
In total, over 1.1 million sq. ft changed hands as the shopping centres were snapped up by investment firm Davidson Kempner.
Estate agents Savills say that there was both domestic and international interest in the properties with bids exceeding €1.22 billion.
Savills' Domhnaill O'Sullivan said that the interest is coming from the fact that investors as observing retail rents and consumer sentiment both going up.
The five properties are:
Nutgrove Retail Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin
Source: Google Maps
Comprising 195,000 sq. ft., the well known south Dublin retail park is fully-let and sits adjacent to Nutgrove Shopping Centre. Individual price for the park stands at €62 million, the largest in the portfolio given its prime Dublin location.
Tullamore Retail Park, Offaly
The midlands park is 170,000 sq. ft. in size and sits five minutes from the centre of Tullamore town. This park, together with the three other regionals, is valued at €100 million in total.
Deerpark Shopping Park, Killarney, Kerry
Source: Savills
One of the few such parks in Ireland which comes with open retail use (i.e. the potential occupier mix is significantly greater than a regular park), Deerpark is 140,000 sq. ft. in size at the heart of one of Ireland's most popular towns.
Sligo Retail Park
A larger scale property again with a size of 260,000 sq. ft, and located just outside Sligo Town on the N4 to Dublin, Sligo Retail Park consists of 18 units occupied by the likes of Homebase and Halfords.
Letterkenny Retail Park, Donegal
The largest of the five parks listed at 380,000 sq. ft., Letterkenny consists of a massive 38 units and serves as the largest retail offering in the country's northwest.
- With reporting from Cianán Brennan
Read: One of Dublin's most recognisable buildings is up for sale and expected to fetch a cool €14 million >
Read: House prices are marching upwards again >
Rónán Duffy
#DONEGAL
#KERRY
#OFFALY
#RENTS
#SHOPPING CENTRES
#SLIGO
#SPARE CHANGE


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La vesícula de Poli es una estructura presente en la mayoría de los asteroideos y holoturoideos, que vierte al canal anular, y cuya función principal es la regulación de la presión interna del sistema acuífero del animal, gracias a que esta vesícula se encuentra llena de líquido.

Referencias

Echinodermata
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Swedes now spend longer talking on mobile phones than on fixed lines, according to new calculations.
Nearly three decades after the first mobile network opened in 1981, the total number of minutes spent talking on mobile phones this spring surpassed the number of minutes spent talking on fixed line phones, according to a study carried out by Computer Sweden magazine.
Computer Sweden assumes in its calculations that the trend established in the first half of 2009 has continued. Mobile use during that period increased by 9.1 percent, while fixed line use decreased by 14.3 percent. If the trend continued at the same pace, mobile use would have caught up with fixed line use on 23rd March 2010.
The magazine says the rate of increase in mobile use and the rate of decrease in fixed line use has been relatively stable for several years, meaning that its calculations should be relatively reliable.
Official statistics will be released by the Swedish communications regulator PTS towards the end of the year.


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NOTE: This procedure is demonstrated on a PC, but the Mac workflow is identical.
1) Connect the iDevice to your Mac or PC computer, and make certain that the device is recognized within iTunes. You can tell when the iDevice is recognized, when the button shown below appears.
Connection issues between the iDevice and the iTunes host are beyond the scope of this AEA digital Library article, but direct support from Apple is available HERE.
2) Select the "Movies" folder in the iTunes Library. Video content contained in this folder will be synced to your iDevice.
3) Next, locate the video file you downloaded from the AEA Digital Library and drag it into the iTunes "Movies" folder.
4) After a brief moment, the clip you dragged into the iTunes "Movies" folder will appear.
5) Finally, you must perform the actual sync between iTunes and the iDevice. This is accomplished by first selecting the "iPad" button.
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I have a gun. I believe if the need arose I would use it. Guns frighten me, but the need to feel safe is even more intense.
When I was growing up you could leave your doors and windows unlocked or even open at any time of the day or night. There was no fear that someone would come into your home and do you harm. Now you have to have everything locked even with you inside in order to feel safe, and even then the idea of safety is questionable so, we have video recorders inside and out as well.
We hear about crime and murder all the time now. Gun control is the new mantra. Keep guns out of the hands of murderers is the chant. But my question is " where do these criminals, these murderers get their guns?
I wish when they talk about a crime that was committed using a gun that they would reveal where the assailant got his gun. Now, I know we have heard many stories of crimes being done by those who have had the weapon in their own homes. But, how many other murders or crimes were with weapons purchased by the assailant off the street, illegally? Those are the numbers we really need to hear before we step on anyone's second amendment rights. "In the 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court held that the "Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home." http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/second_amendment Not just that we need to take guns out of the hands of criminals.
I would bet that most crimes with guns are done with those bought off the streets illegally. I say most, but not all. I say most because more crimes are being done by people that the victims knew. Close family members, friends, loved ones. People that the victim thought they knew. That shared their lives. That had the guns just for fun!
When the politicians talk about gun control I first want to know the numbers. I demand that they start releasing how these weapons were obtained. If the criminal survives being caught we need to question them as to how they had this deadly weapon in their hands at the time of their crime. We need correct information. Not just that guns kill.
I know many guns collectors. I hope and believe that they are stable folks just enjoying the history and the joy of collecting. Not murderers or criminals. I can't swear to their mental stability though. That too is a question among those who commit crimes. Would a stable person kill their loved ones, rob someone, or kill a friend? Nope. I don't think so.
If we are going to cry out at gun control we need to cry out at the poor mental health care in this country as well. I mean a sane person would not harm another without just cause. A sane person would not have a shoot out with the police. And a sane person would not kill their spouse or parents, would they?
Do we know are these folks safe.
How many of the people out there breaking the law are stable individuals? How many are drug addicts with a long history of instability? And how many have a history of mental illness that has gone untreated or sporadically treated due to cost and poor health insurance coverage.
It's not just about gun control. It's about what is the cause behind those using those weapons to commit a crime. Many criminals could not even pass a background check if they tried to buy a gun legally. I mean come on now. Let's be real. Let's be honest about the real cause of these crimes with guns. Let's be real about how we can go about stopping these crimes.
How many times in any job situation has a boss punished everyone because of one idiots infraction? Why punish those who buy and collect their guns legally when making changes to how a person can purchase a gun will never touch those who buy them illegally anyhow.
It is sad to see that the world has become such a dangerous place. It is sad that we must live in a cave with a gun within reach in case some nut case decides to break in. And, it is sad that we need to worry every time we step outside that someone is going to harm us for whatever reason.
Once upon a time it was safe to wander the streets and make friends. I did it as a child. Now I freak out if I can't see my grand kids for even a second. Everyone has to stay in my line of sight. Making our streets safe is just one of the issues we need to address with our politicians, not just gun control.
We also need to improve lighting on the streets and in our neighborhoods so people can see what is ahead. We need to demolish the buildings that are falling down and providing hiding places for the criminal element. And we need to get ILLEGAL guns off the street, not infringe on someone's rights who follow the law to the letter. These are some of the things we can demand from our lawmakers along with the statistics of who did or did not buy their weapon legally.
As to your own safety, be aware of your surroundings, be aware of your neighbors, be aware of what is going on in your neighborhoods, and report suspicious behaviors. And if you need to purchase a gun learn how to use it. Gun safety is a must.
And as I always say, try and have a good day today, you deserve it!
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22 March 2016 Current Affairs: The government on March 19,2016 ,slashed interest rates payable on small savings including PPF and Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) to align them closer to market rates.As a part of its February 16 decision to revise interest rates on small savings every quarter, the interest rate on Public Provident Fund (PPF) scheme will be cut to 8.1 per cent for the period April 1 to June 30, from 8.7 per cent, at present.Similarly, the interest rate on KVP will be cut to 7.8 per cent from 8.7 per cent, according to a Finance Ministryorder.While the interest rate on Post Office savings has been retained at 4 per cent, the same for term deposits of one to five years has been cut.The popular five-Year National Savings Certificates will earn an interestrate of 8.1 per cent from April 1 as against 8.5 per cent, at present.A five-year Monthly Income Account will fetch 7.8 per cent as opposed to 8.4 per cent now. Girl-child saving scheme, Sukanya Samriddhi Account will see interest rate of 8.6 per cent as against 9.2 per cent.Senior citizen savings scheme of five-year would earn 8.6 per cent interest compared with 9.3 per cent."On the basis of the decisions of the government, interest rates for small savings schemes are to be notified on quarterly basis," the order saidannouncing the rates for the first quarter of fiscal 2016-17.Post office term deposits of one, two and three years command an interest rate of 8.4 per cent but from April 1, a 1-year Time Deposit will get 7.1 per cent, 2-year Time Deposit will earn 7.2 per cent and 3-Year Time Deposit will attract interest of 7.4 per cent.Five-year time deposit will fetch 7.9 per cent interest in the first quarter as against 8.5 per cent while the same on five-year recurring deposit has been slashed to 7.4 per cent from 8.4 per cent.The government had on February 16 announced moving small saving interest rates closer to market rates. On that day, rates on short-term post office deposits was cut by 0.25 per cent but long-term instruments such as MIS, PPF, senior citizen and girl child schemes were left untouched.
The government on March 19,2016 ,slashed interest rates payable on small savings including PPF and Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) to align them closer to market rates.As a part of its February 16 decision to revise interest rates on small savings every quarter, the interest rate on Public Provident Fund (PPF) scheme will be cut to 8.1 per cent for the period April 1 to June 30, from 8.7 per cent, at present.Similarly, the interest rate on KVP will be cut to 7.8 per cent from 8.7 per cent, according to a Finance Ministryorder.While the interest rate on Post Office savings has been retained at 4 per cent, the same for term deposits of one to five years has been cut.The popular five-Year National Savings Certificates will earn an interestrate of 8.1 per cent from April 1 as against 8.5 per cent, at present.A five-year Monthly Income Account will fetch 7.8 per cent as opposed to 8.4 per cent now. Girl-child saving scheme, Sukanya Samriddhi Account will see interest rate of 8.6 per cent as against 9.2 per cent.Senior citizen savings scheme of five-year would earn 8.6 per cent interest compared with 9.3 per cent."On the basis of the decisions of the government, interest rates for small savings schemes are to be notified on quarterly basis," the order saidannouncing the rates for the first quarter of fiscal 2016-17.Post office term deposits of one, two and three years command an interest rate of 8.4 per cent but from April 1, a 1-year Time Deposit will get 7.1 per cent, 2-year Time Deposit will earn 7.2 per cent and 3-Year Time Deposit will attract interest of 7.4 per cent.Five-year time deposit will fetch 7.9 per cent interest in the first quarter as against 8.5 per cent while the same on five-year recurring deposit has been slashed to 7.4 per cent from 8.4 per cent.The government had on February 16 announced moving small saving interest rates closer to market rates. On that day, rates on short-term post office deposits was cut by 0.25 per cent but long-term instruments such as MIS, PPF, senior citizen and girl child schemes were left untouched.


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Tour De France | S 17 Nairo Quintana Attacked And Won The Stage
- Jul 26, 2018-
2018 The 105th Tour de France ushered in the shortest stage on July 25th. The race was only 65km but there were three consecutive stages of the HC-level climb. The Movistar Team "Emirates" Nairo Quintana won the stage with a solo, which is the first victory of the Movistar Team in this round of the Tour de France.
Top 15 in 17 stage of Tour de France
After the stage, there was a certain change in the general classicfication list: Froome Christopher, who fell behind in the last two kilometers, fell to the third place, and Dumoulin Tom, who was biting Thomas's line, rose to second place; The stage championship Quintana Nairo rose to fifth place. In addition, the entire attack of Astana Pro team Tanel Kangert won the day's stage Combativité.
Top 20 in GC list of Tour de France
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Q: Python 3- "local variable referenced before assignment" with imported code I am working on a school assignment that requires me to use the following code:
#!/usr/bin/python3

import re
jfif = re.compile(b'\xff\xd8\xff\xe0..JFIF\x00',
              flags = re.DOTALL)
exif = re.compile(b'\xff\xd8\xff\xe1..EXIF\x00',
              flags = re.DOTALL)
spiff = re.compile(b'\xff\xd8\xff\xe8..SPIFF\x00',
              flags = re.DOTALL)

f = open('manson.dd', 'rb')
sector = f.read(512)

count = 0

while len(sector) != 0:
     if jfif.match(sector):
         count += 1
         print('found JFIF at offset {:X}, sector {}'.format(
             f.tell()-512, (f.tell()  - 512) // 512))

     elif exif.match(sector):
         count += 1
         print('found EXIF at offset {:X}, sector {}'.format(
             f.tell()-512, (f.tell()  - 512) // 512))

     elif pdf.match(sector):
         pdfCount += 1
         print('found PDF at offset {:X}, sector {}'.format(
             f.tell()-512, (f.tell()  - 512) // 512))
     sector = f.read(512)

print("Found", count, "JPEG Files")

The assignment requires me to make a new script that finds GIF files and imports the actual search function into a script that prompts for the file and prints the result
This is what I have so far
Main Script
#!/usr/bin/python3

import search

fileName = input("Enter the file you would like to search: ")
f = open(fileName, 'rb')
sector = f.read(512)

search.crawl()

print("Found", count, "GIF Files")

Imported Code
#!/usr/bin/python3
import re

gif = re.compile(b'\x47\x49\x46\x38..GIF\x61',
              flags = re.DOTALL)
def crawl():
    count = 0
    while len(sector) != 0:
             if gif.match(sector):
                 count += 1
                 print('found GIF at offset {:X}, sector {}'.format(
                     f.tell()-512, (f.tell()  - 512) // 512))
                 sector = f.read(512)

When I run the main script, I am told that "the local variable 'sector' is referenced before assignment'. I haven't the slightest idea how to rectify this.

A: Instead of def crawl(), use def crawl(sector).
And then instead of calling search.crawl(), call search.crawl(sector).
Also, you will encounter a similar error with count.
So you should modify search.crawl(sector) to return count and then when you call search.crawl(sector) in main(), assign to variable count.
In main:
count = search.crawl(sector)

In search:
def crawl(sector):
    count = 0
    while len(sector) != 0:
             if gif.match(sector):
                 count += 1
                 print('found GIF at offset {:X}, sector {}'.format(
                     f.tell()-512, (f.tell()  - 512) // 512))
                 sector = f.read(512)
    return count

The reason for this is because when you import the module search, it has no notion of the sector variable. The only way for main's sector to be sent into search.crawl() is for it to be passed in as a function parameter a la search.crawl(sector).

A: sector variable isn't global, you can pass it to crawl function
def crawl(sector):

and then:
search.crawl(sector)


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Retailers ready for Black, White, and Yellow Fridays
Business Retail
Online portals line up big discounts, cashback schemes — and more
Published: November 23, 2019 16:12 Manoj Nair, Associate Editor
Shoppers during the White Friday sale at Mall of the Emirates. Shoppers during the White Friday sale at Mall of the Emirates. If the forecasts prove right, it does seem local shoppers are ready to have some fun after spending less on nonessentials through the better part of this year. Image Credit: Antonin Kelian Kallouche
Dubai: Which "colour" would you prefer in the next few days?
Online shoppers in the UAE and Gulf will have as many shades as merchandise to choose from competing end-of-November mega-promotions by Amazon, noon, Namshi and others.
There's Amazon with White Friday, noon's in yellow, and fashion portal Namshi is sticking with black.
And despite the "Friday" reference, the promotions actually last one full week!
If shoppers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia get enthusiastic about the deals, this month's online sales could generate between $360 million to $380 million in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV), according to RedSeer Consulting.
That compares with the $230 million to $250 million last year's November campaigns generated from the two markets.
GMV
Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) is the key measurement used in the online shopping business, which is the total value of merchandise sold over a given period of time through a site.
Gross Merchandise Value is the key measurement used in the online shopping business, which is the total value of merchandise sold over a given period of time through a site.)
If the forecasts prove right, it does seem local shoppers are ready to have some fun after spending less on non-essentials through the better part of this year.
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The discounts on offer in the next seven days should help them decide. The latest gadgets such as the iPhone 11 listed at 8-13 per cent off street price.
On slightly older models, this year's discounts go up to an impressive 25-30 per cent, according to RedSeer.
discounts on slightly older iPhone models
Up to 70 per cent off
Amazon and noon could take in around 70 per cent of overall sales during the upcoming promotions.
This is where discounts matter, because buyer decisions are made — or unmade — by those few percentage points.
"We've got discounts that reach up to 70 per cent on some consumer goods; on electronics a little less," said Ronaldo Mouchawar, Vice-President at Amazon Mena. "Many of the brands and partners value our White Friday as a way to get exposure to their items and sales.
"This year, we've got Visa offering a 10 per cent cashback, and 15 per cent when payment is made with a Visa card from Emirates NBD or Emirates Islamic Bank."
Mouchawar declined to say whether online sales in the UAE faced as much of a drop as brick-and-mortar did in the year-to-date. Industry sources estimate the decline in the physical retail could be over 20 per cent year-on-year.
"In May, we switched from Souq to Amazon.ae and in June, launched our Prime programme and we have had good engagement because of that," the VP added.
"For White Friday, Prime members get early access and free shipping. And we keep having many of the big offline retailers/distributors selling via Amazon in the UAE — this way, we store goods on behalf of these partners in our warehouses and thus ensure speedy delivery."
Get back those shoppers
Shopping portal sources in the UAE say that everything hinges on what happens in the next seven days. If shoppers are still hesitant despite the offers and discounts, it would mean the gloom in the retail sector is not going away any time soon. But if the numbers come anywhere near the $360 million plus RedSeer is forecasting, it would give the sector some much needed breathing space.
And not just for online retailers.
"In addition to joining online promotions, brick-and-mortar retailers are working on creating their own sales events and providing omnichannel experience online players cannot provide," said Sandeep Ganediwalla, Managing Partner at RedSeer.
"Keep in mind, online retail is still only a single-digit contribution to the overall UAE retail sector. The majority of sales still happens at brick-and-mortar outlets."
When in the mood, UAE shoppers tend to splurge; an average transaction could be in the region of $756 (Dh3,077), according to Simon-Kucher & Partners, a consultancy.
"This is almost three times more than the budget that consumers in other countries allocate for the main shopping event," it added.
|For example, in Turkey, the average planned budget is $294 (Dh1,197), slightly higher than the budget of $253 (Dh1,030) in the US."
Interestingly, the Simon-Kucher findings suggest online retailers could do more to raise awareness about their (add-a-colour) Friday promotions in November.
"In the UAE, only 36 per cent of respondents have heard about White Friday," it said.
"This is far less than the 99 per cent of those who are familiar with the Dubai Shopping Festival. (And) only 45 per cent of respondents showed an interest in buying during White Friday."
Shoppers during the White Friday sale at Mall of the Emirates PHOTO Antonin Kelian Kallouche Image Credit:
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That's surprising, given how the various upcoming Friday and weeklong promotions have been plastered all over the city, the air waves and in the digital world.
A consumer will not be able to make a turn or switch onto a social media platform without coming across the white, yellow or black promotions.
'Need to be there'
There's no denying that brands big and small all want to be there for the November high jinks.
But it's not as easy for a brand that is still building its way into consumer attention and sales numbers.
"Whether it's Amazon or noon, there are so many boxes to tick to be listed," said Anita Guliakina, founder of a eponymous swimwear brand.
"A new business will have to provide the TRN (Tax Registration Number) and show poof that it has or can generate a certain level of sales.
"Even then, the portals can charge a hefty share of future sales done through them — for a small business, that can be too high.
"But new brands need to be on these portals and especially during the White/Yellow Friday campaigns. It's one way to get discovered."
The coming week will decide whether UAE shoppers are back in the business of brand discovery in a big way.
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