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Volvo XC40 review
Volvo has never made a small SUV but it needed one. Hence some new beginnings with this XC40. Jonathan Crouch reports.
Volvo's XC40 is much more than just a smaller version of the brand's larger SUVs. It gets its own all-new 'CMA' platform and a very distinct design to set itself apart. The result is a slightly unusual alternative to premium-branded compact SUVs like Audi's Q3 and the Mercedes GLA.
Volvo has taken its time in developing a contender for the industry's fastest-growing market segment, that for compact family hatchback-based SUVs. Unless you count the gussied-up V40 Cross Country model – which we don't – the Swedish brand has never had a car in this class. The XC40 puts that right.
Under the skin lies a freshly developed 'Compact Modular Architecture' platform that Volvo has created with its Chinese owner Geely. It's a chassis that will in future be used by a whole range of new compact Volvo models, but it's hard to believe that many of them will be much more significant than this one. Established premium brand compact SUV contenders like BMW's X1, Mercedes' GLA and Audi's Q2 and Q3 crossovers are all within this XC40's sights. So it'll have to be good.
The XC40's 'CMA' platform has been based around provision for a whole range of future cutting-edge Volvo powerplants, including three cylinder engines plus a Plug-in hybrid and a fully-electric version. At the moment for buyers, there's mostly a choice of the Swedish brand's efficient 2.0-litre 'Drive-E' petrol and diesel units. If you want to fuel from the green pump, the range starts with the three cylnder 1.5-litre 156hp T3 variant, which is only offered with front wheel drive and a choice of either manual or auto transmission. Alternatively, there's a 2.0-litre 190hp T4 derivative, with the same engine offered in 247hp guise in the top T5 variant. Both these more powerful versions come only with auto transmission and 4WD. As for the 2.0-litre diesels, well things kick off with the 150hp D3, which comes with front or four wheel drive and manual or auto transmission. Or there's the 190hp D4, which comes in auto 4WD form only. Available driving systems include the brand's 'Pilot Assist' autonomous set-up which can steer and brake for you on the highway.
It's an interesting combination this. A Swedish-branded product, financed by a Chinese conglomerate, styled by a British designer and built in a Dutch factory. We'll start with the penman, a young Englishman Ian Kettle who says that the look of this car was inspired by robots he'd seen in sci-fi movies. In styling this contender, his brief was to give the XC40 its own identity, rather than simply making it a down-sized XC60. So while this car shares its bigger stablemate's 'Thor's Hammer' LED headlights and clamshell bonnet, it also gets unique touches like an inverted front grille and coupe-like rear styling.
To some extent of course, the XC40 had to be different because it rides on quite different underpinnings, a 'CMA' ('Common Modular Architecture') platform that'll be seen on a whole range of future small models from Volvo and its Chinese parent Geely. What it means here is that for the first time, Volvo has a range of three SUVs; other brands have that too of course but in this case, the three products are each quite distinct in character. The Swedish brand hopes that'll be significant.
Prices are likely to start at just under £28,000 and range up to just under £40,000. There are three main levels of trim – 'Momentum', 'R-Design' and 'Inscription', with plusher 'Pro' variants of each. Every version of the XC40 is very well equipped. As standard, even entry-level 'Momentum' variants come with LED headlights with optional active high beam, two-zone climate control with a 'CleanZone' air-filtration system, rear parking sensors, a 12.3-inch TFT instrument binnacle display and 18″ alloy wheels.
If you upgrade to sporty 'R-Design' trim, you additionally get gloss black styling details including a contrasting colour black roof, plus diamond-cut or matt black alloy wheels, part-leather seats and aluminium dash inlays. Top-spec 'Inscription' variants meanwhile, enjoy fill-leather upholstery, an electric tailgate, wood detailing and a crystal glass gearlever. As ever with Volvo, a key focus is safety. An autonomous braking system is standard-fit and this system can specifically detect people and animals. There's also an 'Oncoming Lane Mitigation' set-up that not only stops you from pulling out into the path of an oncoming vehicle but can also steer you away from such an impact. Pilot Assist, Volvo's innovative semi-autonomous drive feature, is an optional extra on every XC40, as is 'Run-off Road Protection and Mitigation'. And Cross Traffic Alert with brake support', which warn you of oncoming vehicles when you're reversing out of a space.
The 150hp D3 variant most will choose offers combined fuel consumption of up to 58.9mpg on the combined cycle and CO2 emissions from around 127g/km – that's in front-driven manual form. If you go for the pokier 190hp D4 AWD auto variant, you'll be looking at 56.5mpg and 133g/km. The petrol-powered 156hp T3 offers combined fuel economy of up to 42.8mpg on the combined cycle and CO2 emissions from 152g/km. Go for the top 190hp AWD T5 auto derivative and you can expect the figures to be 39.8mpg and 166g/km.
Maintenance should be relatively affordable for a car of this kind, with three or five year pre-paid servicing packages are available to help you budget ahead. If you pay extra for the useful 'On Call with App' remote connectivity system, this Volvo can be programmed to autonomously realise when a service is due, then automatically book it for you at a dealership of your choice. Finally, we'll tell you that the warranty is the usual three year, 60,000 mile package.
Volvo clearly felt that to break into the premium brand compact SUV segment, it had to offer something distinctively different to its German rivals, so that's exactly what we've got. Not everyone will like the looks but there's no doubt that they will help the brand to target buyers who would never previously have considered a Volvo.
Will these people pass up a premium German-branded alternative to own this car though? Well, the class-leading safety standards may be tempting for some. And the personalisation options a deciding factor for others. Overall, if you're looking for a quality option that's a bit more unique in this segment, Volvo thinks it has a car that'll interest you very much.
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Animals | June 24, 2010
15 More Amazing Animal Facts
Jamie Frater
[WARNING: giant insect picture.] This is now the third in our series of amazing animal facts. If you haven't already seen our others be sure to check them out. Here we present 15 more interesting, and sometimes bizarre, facts about the animal kingdom. Be sure to mention your own favorites that are missing from this list in the comments. Here are the first two lists:
10 Amazing Animal Facts
Another 10 Amazing Animal Facts
Facts 1 – 5
1. The tuatara (pictured above) is a lizard-like creature endemic to New Zealand, and it is thought to have existed for at least 200 million years (if you believe in evolution, or 6,000 years if you believe in special creation). The most fascinating aspect of tuataras is their third eye – complete with lens, cornea, rods and nerve tissue connecting it to their brain. This suggests that the eye was a fully functioning eye in times gone by. By six months of age the eye is covered by scales. Pictured above is a baby tuatara. Tuataras are the only remaining species of the sphenodontia genus.
2. Another fascinating fact about ants is that some species send their queen into neighboring nests, where she will bite the head off the resident queen and begin laying her own eggs to take over.
3. On average, sharks kill 10 humans every year. But here is the thing: approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows. Remember that next time you are in a field of cattle.
4. Woodpeckers slam their heads into wood at a rate of 20 pecks per second. What protects them from injury is a spongy area that sits behind their beaks and acts as a shock absorber.
5. In the seventeenth century, when anti-Catholicism and anti-papacy was rife throughout the puritan world, puritans would stuff wicker effigies of the Pope with live cats and then set it on fire – taking much glee in the screaming anguish of the poor cats.
Facts 6 – 10
6. Unlike most animals, the word for butterfly in European languages do not resemble each other. In German it is schmetterling, in French it is papillon, in Spanish it is mariposa, in Italian it is farfalla, in Dutch it is vlinder, and in portuguese it is borboleta.
7. To vomit, some frogs spew out their entire stomach, rinse it off with their right hand, and then push it back in.
8. The hoatzin (pronounced watseen) bird is a vegetarian which, due to its strict vegetable diet, has stomachs similar to a cows to help it digest. The need for large amounts of food makes these birds very heavy, and consequently bad fliers. The rather beautiful bird is pictured above.
9. Manatees have two teets beneath their forelimbs, which is very likely to be the cause of the many tales of mermaids heard around the world in the days of great sea voyages.
10. Here is one for all the animal rights activists. The giant tortoise was often killed for its delicious oil, which was considered by the Dutch the only way to make the flesh of the now extinct Dodo bird palatable. The flesh of the giant turtle is sufficient to feed several men and virtually every part of it is a taste sensation (including the bone marrow and eggs).
Facts 11 – 15
11. Tappen is the name given to a plug made of leaves, resin and fat which bears prepare and insert into their rectum prior to their three months winter dormition. This is to stop insects from intruding and laying their eggs.
12. An ant chamber can be up to 10 feet deep. Each chamber within the vast network is designed for a different task. The bottom chamber is for eggs, while others are for larvae, the queen, new queens and food storage.
13. Bats manage to hang upside down with ease because their claws lock on to the branch or object from which they hang. When a bat dies like this, it stays in place with its toes locked.
14. The double headed Eagle symbol of the byzantine empire has a special meaning. One head symbolizes old Imperial Rome, and the other symbolizes Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire, and colloquially known as the New Rome.
15. The giant weta is a New Zealand insect which can grow a body (excluding legs) to the size of a mouse. It is also, on average, heavier than a sparrow. It is rather a horrifying looking creature, but unlike its also quite large relatives which are found all over New Zealand, the giant weta is confined to small islands. The picture above shows an adult human holding a weta, which gives a good indication of its size. Wetas are harmless and only bite when in danger.
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Q: How to show OpenSearch suggestions in Safari? We have a intranet website to search customer details. This website is attempting to implement OpenSearch with the suggestions extension as documented at http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/Extensions/Suggestions/1.1#Declaring_a_JSON-formatted_search_suggestion_URL.
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We can successfully get Safari to send the search to the desired page. However, while typing the suggestions are from DuckDuckGo and not our search engine.
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Expected result:
XXX is the autocomplete suggestion (see opensearch-suggestions.php above)
Actual result:
The URL bar shows "DuckDuckGo Suggestions" and some suggestions from DDG.

Have we implemented this incorrectly? Is there an incompatibility that will prevent us from implementing this standard?

A: The reason why this didn't work was because Safari does not send cookies in the OpenSearch suggestions request.
This behavior is not defined in the OpenSearch specification and I don't see any documentation in Safari either.

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Une archéologue est assassinée à Jérusalem. L'enquêteur désigné, Peter Connely, est agent du FBI en fonction à Jérusalem. Rapidement, il apparaît que le meurtre trouverait ses origines dans une prophétie vieille de deux mille ans. L'Agent Spécial Connelly fera tout pour empêcher la réalisation de la prophétie..

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Le 5 mars 2015 les créateurs confirment que la série pourrait avoir une seconde saison avec une histoire différente mais les mêmes personnages.

Le 12 mai 2015, la série est officiellement annulée.

Tournage

Le 23 juillet 2014, le tournage qui se passait en Israël, se déplace aux États-Unis.

Épisodes

 Secrets enfouis [1/2] (Pilot Int'l part 1)
 Secrets enfouis [2/2] (Pilot Int'l part 2)
 Le pectoral (Catch You Later)
 La pierre de la discorde (Meet the Rosenbergs)
 La prière de David (Prayer of David)
 Troublantes coïncidences (Emma Wilson's Father)
 Le puits des âmes (Well of Souls)
 L'ordre du Moriah (Trust no One)
 Les sœurs de Dinah (Sisters of Dinah)
 Josaphat (Jehoshaphat)
 Le protocole Armageddon (Armageddon Protocol)

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Bret Underwood
Engineering Dual Degree Program
Program Requirements Engineering
Academic Expectations Engineering
3-2 Engineering at Columbia
3-2 Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Capstone Symposium
Capstone Symposium 2018
Grad School, Internships, and Careers
Applying for Graduate School in Physics
Recommendation Letters FAQ
Internships and Research Experiences
Careers in Physics
W.M. Keck Observatory
Physics News and Opportunities
Email: physics@plu.edu
Rieke Science Center
Chair of Physics
Email: bret.underwood@plu.edu
Office Location:Rieke Science Center	- Room 249
Website: https://community.plu.edu/~underwbj/
Curriculum Vitae: View my CV
Additional Titles/Roles
Associate Professor of Physics
Ph.D.,	Physics,	University of Wisconsin-Madison,	2008
M.A.,	Physics,	University of Wisconsin-Madison,	2006
B.S. Magna Cum Laude,	Physics,	The Ohio State University,	2003
Areas of Emphasis or Expertise
Pacific Lutheran University, String Cosmology: Connecting the Physics of the Very-Big and the Very-Small, Tacoma, WA (March 2011)
University of Winnipeg, String Cosmology: Connecting the Physics of the Very-Big and the Very-Small, Winnipeg, Canada (March 2011)
Seminar, Perimeter Institute, A Breathing Mode for Warped Compactifications, Waterloo, Canada (March 2011)
String Vacuum Project, A Breathing Mode for Warped Compactifications, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (November 2010)
Seminar, SPOCK Workshop, A Dynamical Landscape, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (April 2010)
D.J. Burger, N. Moynihan, S. Das, S. Shajidul Haque and B. Underwood. "Towards the Raychaudhuri Equation Beyond General Relativity." Physical Review D98 Vol. 2, 2018:
Haque, S.S. and underwood, B. "Consistent Cosmic Bubble Embeddings." Physical Review D Vol. 95, 2017:
Cownden, B., Frey, A., Marsh, D., Underwood, B. "Dimensional reduction for D3-brane moduli." Journal of High Energy Physics Vol. 139, 2016:
B. Underwood and Y. Zhai. "Moving Phones Tick Slower: Creating an Android App to Demonstrate Time Dilation." The Physics Teacher Vol. 54, 2016: 277.
J. Karouby, B. Underwood, A. Vincent. "Preheating with the Brakes On: The Effects of a Speed Limit." Physical Review Vol. 84, 2011:
Institute for Particle Physics (IPP) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2011
McGill Lorne Trottier Fellowship, 2008-2010
Lesson Study Curriculum Development Grant, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007
"Exceptional Service" TA award (Campus-wide) at UW-Madison, 2007
I am currently an Associate Professor of Physics at Pacific Lutheran University. My research interests are in the intersection of high energy physics and cosmology. From 2008-2011 I was a postdoctoral researcher in Theoretical High Energy Physics and Cosmology at McGill University. While there, I was a McGill Lorne Trottier and Institute of Particle Physics (IPP) Postdoctoral Fellow.
I obtained my Bachelor of Science in Physics at The Ohio State University in 2003, completing a senior research project entitled "Renormalization of the n-dimensional Delta function potential" under the direction of Professor Robert Perry.
In 2003 I began my graduate study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a Masters of Arts in Physics in 2005 and a Ph.D. in 2008 as a student of Gary Shiu. My Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Warped String Phenomenology: Topics in Cosmology and Particle Physics", focused on the interesting phenomenological and cosmological implications of warped extra dimensions, which commonly appear in string theory models.
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Just In: Cargo ships collide off Sweden's coast in the Baltic Sea
A major rescue operation is under way after two cargo ships collided in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish coast, causing one vessel to overturn.
At least two people are believed to be in the water following the incident in the early hours of Monday, the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) said.
The overturned ship, the Karin Hoej, is registered in Denmark. The other vessel was named as the Scot Carrier.
A spokesman for the SMA said screams were reported from the cold water.
"We have not found anyone yet. But we have requested diving resources… it is dark and very cold," Jonas Franzen, told Swedish broadcaster STV.
He said the reports came in at about 04:45 local time (03:45 GMT) on Monday.
The cause of the collision are unclear.
Two people were reportedly on board the Karin Hoej when the incident occurred in an area of the Baltic Sea between the southern Swedish coastal town of Ystad and the Danish island Bornholm.
Helicopters and about 10 boats from Sweden and Denmark have joined search and rescue efforts, SVT reports.
Swedish news agency TT cited a Swedish coastguard spokesman.
One of the vessels is 90m (295ft) long and the other 55m, Swedish news agency TT said.
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Find appropriate Function Pass Manager or Call Graph Pass Manager in the PM Stack and add self into that manager.
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Implemented in llvm::sroa::SROALegacyPass, llvm::gvn::GVNLegacyPass, llvm::ScalarEvolutionWrapperPass, LoopFuseLegacy, llvm::AAResultsWrapperPass, llvm::GVNHoistLegacyPass, llvm::LoopInfoWrapperPass, llvm::MemorySSAWrapperPass, llvm::DependenceAnalysisWrapperPass, llvm::RegionInfoPass, llvm::MemorySSAPrinterLegacyPass, llvm::LoopAccessLegacyAnalysis, llvm::MemoryDependenceWrapperPass, llvm::AAEvalLegacyPass, llvm::PredicateInfoPrinterLegacyPass, llvm::DominatorTreeWrapperPass, llvm::BasicAAWrapperPass, llvm::BranchProbabilityInfoWrapperPass, llvm::DominanceFrontierWrapperPass, llvm::LCSSAVerificationPass, llvm::LazyValueInfoWrapperPass, llvm::PhiValuesWrapperPass, llvm::BlockFrequencyInfoWrapperPass, llvm::OptimizationRemarkEmitterWrapperPass, llvm::LazyBlockFrequencyInfoPass, llvm::StackProtector, llvm::LazyBranchProbabilityInfoPass, llvm::LPPassManager, llvm::RGPassManager, llvm::DemandedBitsWrapperPass, llvm::DOTGraphTraitsPrinter< AnalysisT, IsSimple, GraphT, AnalysisGraphTraitsT >, llvm::PostDominatorTreeWrapperPass, llvm::StackSafetyInfoWrapperPass, llvm::SCEVAAWrapperPass, llvm::IntervalPartition, llvm::InstructionCombiningPass, llvm::DOTGraphTraitsViewer< AnalysisT, IsSimple, GraphT, AnalysisGraphTraitsT >, llvm::UnifyFunctionExitNodes, llvm::LegacyDivergenceAnalysis, and llvm::AMDGPUPerfHintAnalysis.
Definition at line 166 of file Pass.cpp.
References llvm::dbgs(), llvm::Function::getContext(), getDescription(), llvm::Value::getName(), llvm::LLVMContext::getOptPassGate(), llvm::Pass::getPassName(), llvm::Function::hasOptNone(), llvm::OptPassGate::isEnabled(), LLVM_DEBUG, and llvm::OptPassGate::shouldRunPass().
Referenced by llvm::BreakFalseDeps::runOnMachineFunction(), llvm::SelectionDAGISel::runOnMachineFunction(), llvm::ReachingDefAnalysis::runOnMachineFunction(), and llvm::ExecutionDomainFix::runOnMachineFunction().


I would like to ask is investing in Azzad Ethical Fund or the Azzad Wise Capital Fund (http://www.azzadfund.com ) is halal?
At the outset, the buying and selling of shares is an academically contested issue among contemporary and prominent 'ulama. While some believe it is permissible, others contend against it.
It is stated concerning Azzad Ethical Fund on page 9 of the Azzad Funds prospectus dated November 1, 2013 that the Fund could "invest in instruments that provide a fixed rate of return [emphasis added] in transactions". According to the Islamic laws of sale, it is necessary for the investor to assume the risk of loss as well as any potential profit and, as such, a fixed rate of return renders the transaction as (invalid).
Furthermore, it is stated in regards to Azzad Wise Capital Fund on page 14 that an issuer will "sell the investor a certificate, which the investor then rents back to the issuer for a predetermined rental fee." This statement needs clarity. The statement apparently denotes one transaction being contingent on another or the coercion in renting back to the issuer which, according to Sharia, render the transaction invalid.
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(March 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The last Presidential election was relatively peaceful and calm on the day of the election itself, which has led the government to declare it free and fair. However, there were several aspects to that election that could do lasting damage to the country. One was the government's propaganda campaign that claimed a conspiracy to divide the country. The support that the TNA publicly pledged to Opposition Presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka was said to hide a secret agreement to that effect. In the last two weeks of the election campaign the government controlled media saturated the air waves and print with this propaganda. This had the effect of increasing the ethnic polarization already inherent in society, as manifested in the election results.
After winning those elections handsomely in most parts of the country except for the north and east, the government needs to heal the wounds and divisions its own actions have caused in society. However, the sequel to the Presidential elections that saw General Fonseka being unceremoniously arrested and a large number of high ranking army officers compulsorily retired or sent on transfer has further divided society. Not only has division rent the army, the much respected Buddhist clergy too appears divided on the post-election issue of General Fonseka's arrest. It increasingly appears that division is multiplying in society which only the spirit of magnanimity, self-critical thinking and mutual understanding can bridge.
The reality of a continuing ethnic division manifested itself to me when I attended a workshop for provincial correspondents of national media organization in Gampaha a fortnight ago. Gampaha is a district that is one of the strongholds of the ruling party and most of the participants were sympathetic to the government's point of view. The objective of this workshop was to remind these journalists of the continuing importance of a just political solution to the problems of the ethnic minorities. During the discussion a question raised by a participant was how to deal with an ethnic minority that might be wishing the destruction of the country. Underlying this question was the sense that the Tamil ethnic minority was not loyal to Sri Lanka and constituted a threat to it.
Now with another important election on the horizon there are enough and more leaders of the government who are going on public platforms projecting themselves as the saviours of the Sinhalese ethnic majority and of the country. They are fomenting divisive thinking that leads people, who believe they are less informed than their leaders, to come to extreme conclusions, such as the one put forward as a question at the workshop for provincial journalists in Gampaha. Unfortunately, the politics of trying to compete with the government for the votes of the majority would probably dissuade the opposition from challenging the falsehoods that are being propagated. The opposition would not wish to inflict upon themselves the fate of General Fonseka who found himself accused of being party to a conspiracy with Tamil separatists.
There is a need today to redefine what patriotism means. Leaders of government affirm that they are patriotic by fighting against conspiracies by Tamils, the international community and Sinhalese traitors who oppose them. But patriotism is also about positive values, like working for all citizens and alleviating the sufferings of the victims of past conflicts. Patriotism is also about justice that goes beyond one's own side, as Mahatma Gandhi demonstrated when challenging British rule. He dissented from his colleagues when they sought to cover up the wrongs done by their own side. Today, when the government claims a monopoly of patriotism and the people and polity is divided within, there is a role for those who dissent without trying to destablise.
In the current situation where nationalist propaganda is rampant, and politically unchallengeable, an important task of being a countervailing force devolves upon civil society and non governmental organizations. Those opinion-forming sections of society that are politically non-partisan, and do not seek to be direct beneficiaries of the political process, are best positioned to be agents of healing and reconciliation at this time. There are at least two important attributes of civil society groups and NGOs that need to be appreciated. One is that they are not necessarily dependent on government or political patronage, and so can be politically non partisan. Their main sources of support are the spirit of voluntarism amongst the local population and the financial support they receive from international donors.
Hopefully the role of civil society and NGOs as the main, or sole, representatives of the values of healing and reconciliation will only be a temporary phenomenon. The end of the General Elections may permit the government to take the lead role in creating a more just and ethnically balanced policy environment. Notwithstanding a greater governmental commitment to addressing issues of reconciliation and healing, there is also a second role for NGOs. This is to address micro level issues, including the problems faced by individuals who are left out of the massive macro-level government programmes of relief, rehabilitation and development.
One of the government's claims is that it is launching large-scale infrastructure development projects in all parts of the country, including the war-ravaged north and east. Roads, bridges and buildings are being put up newly in some places and repaired in others and could be of great benefit to the people in the future. However, while this great development activity takes place, sometimes with foreign labour as in the case of some foreign-funded projects, there may be many individuals who are left out of the process, and who need to be looked after. This is another area where NGOs , with their small scale, personalised and grassroots approach can come in to play a useful and supportive role to the government.
After the workshop for provincial media persons in Gampaha in the Western Province, which is by far the most prosperous and urbanized part of the country, I went right across the country to Trincomalee in the war-ravaged Eastern Province. The event in Trincomalee was the prize giving for school children who had taken part in a human rights quiz competition. As the country has become free from guerilla and war-related violence after the end of the war, and has become safe for travelers, I took my three children along with me. Through the NGO and religious networks that my organization has, I was able to visit a school and also a transit centre for displaced persons, of whom there are still a number even in Trincomalee.
At the time we entered the school, just before the mid-day interval, the classes were in progress. But when the little children in the school saw my children, they started waving at them and calling them into their classrooms. Their school was a poor one, and so were most of the children, but they showed an abundance of loving attention. The attitude of these Tamil children towards Sinhalese children who were strangers to them did not indicate the hostility of a community that sought the destruction of the country. It meant that those Tamil children had not been taught by their parents or teachers to hate or be suspicious of those who were Sinhalese. This people-to-people contact is the best answer to the question posed by the journalist in Gampaha.
At the school some of the children we met were from the Wanni. We met a little girl of 9 years who had seen her mother die in the shell fire during the crossing from the LTTE controlled area into the government controlled area. The family of five, father, mother, two daughters aged 11 and 9 and son aged 1 had been fleeing for safety. The little girl had insisted that her father carry their mother's body with them, and not leave it in the water. So the father had given the little boy to the big sister and carried his wife's body to a place where they could bury it. They now live with relatives. But as they are not in the welfare camp they do not get the resettlement allowance and other welfare benefits they might be entitled to. There are many such stories, one of a child with shrapnel that remains in her head and who does not look quite normal, and a boy who lost his father. These are all stories of people who fall between the cracks that the government alone cannot close.
On our return to Colombo, my elder daughter, aged 6, informed us that she had written an article in her notebook. The spellings were a little off, but this is what she wrote. "February 25-02-2010. Trincomalee. I saw a children's school, home and a monkey on a tree and a peacock running and I saw an elephant eating and another elephant working and I saw camps and a mother and a child and I made friends with a lot of children and may God bless them and keep them in his care always.


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Calls for mercy to the world at 5th Int'l Orphans' Get Together Program
The 5th International Orphans' Get Together Program took place in a wonderful atmosphere at Haliç Congress Center on Sunday.
Turkey 04.06.2012
The 5th International Orphans' Get Together Program, organized by the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, took place at Haliç Congress Center in Sütlüce, İstanbul.
Orphans from Turkey and the world came together at the gala of the 5th International Orphans' Get Together Program at Haliç Congress Center on June 3.
The event was attended by 80 orphans from across 14 countries including Albania, Azerbaijan, Indonesia/Aceh, Philippines/Moro, Palestine, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Turkey. The children made prayers, sang hymns and performed local and colorful shows on the stage.
Delivering the inauguration speech of the event, IHH President Bülent Yıldırım shared some worrisome statistics about the situation of the orphans in the world. He said there are around 200 million orphans in the world who need help and most of these orphans are in the Islamic world and that they are in need of education, healthcare, accommodation and food. Yıldırım said IHH takes care of more than 25,000 orphans.
"We are working very hard to increase this figure, 25,000, to 100,000 within five years and we ask our people to give support to our Sponsor Family Project and undertake the care of an orphan. We want every family to take care of an orphan in a Muslim country. We need to raise our awareness about orphans. Those children are our children. Building the future of those children is building the future of ours. Let's build the future of the children in the Islamic geography. We are the ummah of a prophet who was an orphan but our awareness about orphans is not sufficient. Allah willing, it will improve in time and such an awareness has already begun to emerge. Millions of children around the world wait for your support."
In further remarks, Yıldırım said: "It is the children who are affected most by the troubles in regions hit by conflicts, hunger and wars. They lose their parents. Children are left to live in the streets with no future. As the IHH, we are trying to caress the heads of orphans and meet their needs. In doing this, we would like to win Allah's sake. When we first decided to launch the Sponsor Family Project, many people discouraged us saying we would be embarrassed because the project would fail but thanks Allah, we became successful. We believe in that when you just work for Allah's sake, Allah is helping you."
Children coming from Van and Syria gave flowers to Yıldırım and offered their thanks to him for the IHH's relief efforts in their regions.
In the meantime, musicians Mesut Kurtis and Ömer Karaoğlu gave mini concerts at the event. The award ceremony of the White Pigeon Short Film Contest organized this year with the theme of "Holy Trusts," with a reference to orphans was also held on Sunday.
The event, which brought together orphans, state officials and representatives from non-governmental organizations from 14 countries, was broadcast live by national and international TV channels and radio stations.


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Tags: Adrienne Rewi, Bill Solomon, Cath Brown, Dame Te Atairangikaahu, David Slack, George Tikao, Gerry Brownlee, Iwi Chairs Forum, Jim Bolger, Judge Carolyn Henwood, Kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Kukupa Tirikātene, Mark Revington, Naida Glavish, Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Bill, Ngāti Whātua, Ōraka-Aparima, Ranui Ngarimu, Ruahine Crofts, Tā Mark Solomon, Takahanga Marae, Taku Parai, Te Kenehi Teira, Te Kereme, Tukoroirangi Morgan, Tuku Morgan
Walking the talk
Nā Mark Revington, Adrienne Rewi and David Slack
Taku Parai (Ngāti Toa Chair) Tā Mark Solomon and Te Kenehi Teira at Iwi Chairs Forum in Blenheim, 2016.
Tā Mark Solomon is not the kind of man who speaks at length about himself. He values his privacy and he's prone to under-playing any suggestion that he's made a significant contribution to Māoridom, to Ngāi Tahu.
The fact that he was knighted in 2013 in recognition of the work he has done for Ngāi Tahu and for Māoridom is a case in point. His initial reaction was to baulk at the honour, but there were those who told him to "pull his head in," that it wasn't just for him, it was for the tribe. He relates how he was told firmly to "get up there to Wellington and receive the honour on behalf of the tribe."
The day after tangata whenua and manuhiri celebrated his honour at Takahanga Marae, Tā Mark was up at 5am to catch a plane to Australia for a speaking engagement at a conference – proof, if it was ever needed, of just how much time he devoted to the iwi.
As he leans back in his chair in the family home he has shared with his wife Maria, their four children, and their whāngai son for the last 38 years, Tā Mark (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kurī) is reserved. He's reflective and he's clearly thinking through the sort of brief, articulate response to questions that has characterised his 18 years as Kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu.
It hasn't always been this way. In the beginning, Tā Mark – or "just Mark" as he was known then – was tongue-tied and terrified. He still vividly remembers the blinding panic when called upon to speak on behalf of Ngāi Tahu just after he was elected as kaiwhakahaere, on one of the biggest days for the iwi.
He was called upon to do the whaikōrero at Pipitea Marae in Wellington on behalf of Ngāi Tahu that afternoon. There was one small problem, he says. He reckons his grasp of te reo Māori was simple at best. Others may say it was close to non-existent. He remembers a feeling of abject terror.
He adds that the next day when he arrived at Parliament there were television crews and over a hundred people waiting to be welcomed. He was told it was his turn to speak.
"I bumbled my way through the pōwhiri," he says.
"I was terrified. I finished and then twigged that I hadn't acknowledged all the rangatira from other tribes who had come to tautoko Ngāi Tahu and they're all standing together.
"I was bright red. I went up to them and one of them was Api Mahuika. 'Uncle,' I said, 'I've come to apologise for not acknowledging you being here to support Ngāi Tahu.' Api looked at me with a big smile on his face and said, 'Oh boy, we could see the tūtae running down the back of the legs', which immediately brought me back to earth."
It was also that afternoon when he realised the goodwill which existed in the highest echelons of the government.
"When we did the hongi and the harirū at that pōwhiri … when I got up to Jim Bolger (then Prime Minister), he had his business card in his hand, and slipped it into mine and said to me, 'My private number's on there, any support or help you need, ring whenever you like.' It was the first time I ever met Jim Bolger."
Born in Ōtautahi in 1954, Mark initially worked as a foundry metal worker before being elected as the representative of Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura in 1995. His first meeting with Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu was at Taumutu in 1995.
Tā Mark speaking at the signing of the Ngāi Tahu Deed of Settlement in Kaikōura, 1997 alongside Bill Solomon (far left) and Tā Tipene O'Regan (centre).
"The first person to walk up to me there was George Tikao. He introduced himself and said, 'You know, we are close relations. It is an honour to have you with me – sit at the table beside me.' I was also told that day by Cath Brown and Ruahine Crofts that they were my mentors, and that they would look after me. That was my first meeting," he says.
Mark Solomon was elected to the position of Kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu in 1998, having been nominated by Puketeraki and Waihōpai rūnanga, and supported by Ōraka Aparima. It was a role he would hold until the end of 2016.
Tā Mark has always been big on addressing the issues. He's known for his passion for the Iwi Chairs Forum, which he helped establish in 2005. He is highly regarded for the attention he has brought to addressing family violence; and he makes no secret of the fact that re-establishing Māori trades training after the Christchurch 2011 earthquakes gives him a special sense of pride.
The election came just days before the third reading of the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Bill in Parliament, with the iwi watching on. It was one of the first treaty settlements, the passing of Te Kerēme, and a resolution of sorts to seven generations of struggle.
He looks back on his first three years in the role as an introduction of sorts.
"I was just getting out and meeting people," he says.
He was still a smoker back then, and could often be found during hui either out on the roadway, or out the back of marae, having a puff.
"Get out the back, talk to the cooks – that's when you hear all the issues," he says.
He has been a staunch supporter of iwi development and the education and self-empowerment of rangatahi; and he has been a powerful voice in the recognition of Māori business and the hefty contribution it has made – and continues to make – to the New Zealand economy.
Tā Mark and family. Click on image to enlarge.
Tā Mark's colleague on the Iwi Chairs forum, Ngāti Whātua iwi and community leader, Naida Glavish, describes him as extremely well-researched, and a brilliant leader and speaker.
"He also cares enough to address the issues that others wouldn't dare address. For instance, Mark would speak strongly about domestic violence, whether that domestic violence is right under his nose or under someone else's.
"He is a decent person caring about his whānau in particular and about community in general. It doesn't matter whose community, he actually does care."
From his first tribal hui in 1988, two years after Te Kerēme was filed, it has always been about people. Along the way he has become an enormously influential figure and he acknowledges that it has been "an amazing journey across the whole of Māoridom."
"It's been a huge eye-opener. I've met a lot of amazing people, both Pākehā and Māori."
Kaumātua Kukupa Tirikatene (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu), also known as Uncle Kū, says what has surprised him about Tā Mark is that aroha for all people. "He thinks and cares about everyone."
Ngāi Tahu kaumātua Ranui Ngarimu agrees.
"Tā Mark is unassuming, forward-thinking and caring for all. Those qualities are all wrapped up in his cloak of humility," she says.
"At the same time he has a measured yet very determined approach to everything he does. There's nowhere that was better evidenced than during the Christchurch earthquakes. He was very determined that Ngāi Tahu and Te Rūnanga o Ngā Maata Waka should be included in all decisions that affected our people."
Tā Mark addressing the crowd at He Toki ki te Rika graduation in 2013.
It was that determination, she says, that let other organisations know that Ngāi Tahu had a lot to offer and, along with Te Rūnanga o Ngā Maata Waka, could reach multiple communities.
"He was determined and tenacious, and the assistance the two organisations offered during the quakes turned out to be one of the most helpful things Civil Defence could have had."
In line with that, many believe that the tragic earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 enabled him to show his leadership qualities in a way that some may not have experienced previously.
The Minister Responsible for the Earthquake Commission, Gerry Brownlee, testifies to Tā Mark's calm head in a crisis, and the concern for people he showed after the quakes.
"When so many were tested he sure as hell stood up. I think he's an extremely honest man, in my experience, deeply committed to the wellbeing of Ngāi Tahu.
"The earthquakes have provided us with an unprecedented opportunity to design a cityscape that acknowledges our shared past, our shared experiences, and our common future."
Tā Mark Solomon
"Over the last six years he's been on the speed dial and a very reliable source of advice. He has a mana to him that just conveys solid dependability, and I think that a lot of people in Canterbury and in Christchurch in particular have not only noticed that but taken some strength from it. He's been an extraordinary leader. He articulates powerful ideas in very understandable terms and he has, in every sense of the word, great mana," Brownlee says.
Left to right, Taku Parai (Ngāti Toa Chair), John Leggett (Malborough Mayor), Richard Kempthorne (Tasman District Mayor), Waihaere Mason (Ngāti Kuia Chair), Tā Mark Solomon and Rachel Reese (Nelson City Mayor).
The Christchurch earthquakes may have been a tragic natural disaster but when, as a result of new post-earthquake legislation, Ngāi Tahu was made a statutory partner with CERA (now Ōtākaro Ltd) and began actively taking a partnership approach, working closely with Christchurch City Council, it was a major step forward for the iwi.
Academics called the legislation "globally unique", and Tā Mark said it was the best expression of the Treaty relationship he had ever seen.
"The earthquakes have provided us with an unprecedented opportunity to design a cityscape that acknowledges our shared past, our shared experiences, and our common future," he said at the time.
"It's a known that there are two stories that belong to the heritage of this nation, and for a long time only one of those had dominated. I think with the new legislation, we realised the potential of what we can achieve when we share a common experience and belief," he says.
"To survive in today's fast-paced world, Māori and the wider community, need to consider a much broader range of ideas about leadership. Leadership to me is about empowering our people – allowing them the space to identify their own needs and the time to come up with their own way of addressing those needs, to improve their lives."
One of the key markers in Tā Mark's journey as Kaiwhakahaere has been his contribution to the Iwi Chairs Forum. In the group's early years of the establishment, Tukoroirangi Morgan (Tainui) remembers Mark seeking the support of Dame Te Atairangikaahu – "and she gave it willingly because she was an ardent supporter of rallying our people, advancing our social transformation, and collectivising our economic capability. I came in not long after and we had a very fruitful productive and solid relationship," he says.
"Tā Mark always reminded the forum that demographically the country was in for some changes – that by 2050 the bulk of New Zealand's tax-paying workforce would be made up of Māori, Pacific Islanders and Asians; and that we would need to be prepared for that."
Tuku Morgan says Tā Mark is highly skilled in strategy and goal setting, drawing on the Ngāi Tahu success in housing, language restoration, and economic development.
"It was easy for us to set targets and build a road map. When we got into a scrum with the Crown around Whānau Ora and all those innovative transformation initiatives, Mark was a powerful ally. He's calm and reasoned. Nothing seems to fluster him. He's a details person and he mixes that with vision and strategic nous. "
Naida Glavish agrees.
"He does his homework really well. At Iwi Chairs he's got every agenda item researched and he's able to articulate an iwi and, in particular, a Ngāi Tahu perspective on agenda items. He's an amazing spokesperson for Ngāi Tahu, a brilliant leader."
Tā Mark assisting Te Rūnanga staff member Sharon Karipa with a mail-out at the Wigram offices
It is his unswerving dedication to his leadership that Tā Mark will perhaps be best remembered for. Leadership is something he has been sought out for, something he has spoken about numerous times. It's something he has strong views on.
"To survive in today's fast-paced world, Māori and the wider community, need to consider a much broader range of ideas about leadership. Leadership to me is about empowering our people – allowing them the space to identify their own needs and the time to come up with their own way of addressing those needs, to improve their lives," he says.
He talks about leadership being "ever-changing and evolving", and he stresses the need to make sure we are growing our young people into the well-educated leaders we need them to be.
"It is vital that all iwi work with their young people to ensure our national kete is filled with future leadership talent. Our economy and the social fabric of our nation depends on it," he says.
Tā Mark says leaders need to be able to stride confidently between multiple cultures – leaders who are as confident and comfortable on the global corporate stage as they are on the marae.
A strong leader is always willing to acknowledge those who have helped them along the way and Tā Mark is no exception. He has always spoken of his grandfather and his Uncle Bill Solomon with deep respect and affection.
"Leadership can be learned and developed through experience. I am an example of that. I wasn't born to leadership. I had to learn to be a leader as an adult, and in doing so, I often looked back to my uncles and my grandfather – the men I turned to after my father passed away. They had a profound influence on my life. They showed me through example that leadership is all about whānau first."
Tā Mark has devoted a good chunk of his life to the role of kaiwhakahaere, and is the first to admit that his own whānau have been incredibly tolerant of the time he has devoted to the iwi. In fact, his wife Maria was warned shortly after he was elected that the iwi would become his life, he says. They made a pact: she would bring up the family, and he would be in the service of the iwi.
Tā Mark standing before Te Poho o Tamatea at Rāpaki.
"I could not have done it without the support of my wife, who was willing to put up with the hours that I do," he said in 2013 at a ceremony at Takahanga Marae in Kaikōura to celebrate his knighthood.
Tā Mark may ultimately wish to let his deeds and achievements speak for themselves, but as Tuku Morgan says, "he has spread himself far and wide across this country in his own effort to help others," and in light of that, he will always be remembered as a key figure in the rise of iwi Māori, as powerful contributors to both the New Zealand economy and to wider society.
Ranui Ngarimu has spent many years working with Tā Mark, and says one of his greatest contributions to the tribe has been his principles and his sense of justice in ensuring everyone in the tribe is treated fairly and justly.
"He really strove to make that happen. He has always taken an interest in everyone from the most successful people to the tamariki and the less fortunate, and although he's donated a huge part of his life to the tribe, he's always been a dedicated family man.
"He's always walked the talk. That's one of his greatest contributions, and what I admire most about him," she says.
Like many others, Gerry Brownlee also praises Tā Mark's selflessness, and wonders what may be yet to come. He notes that "there are plenty of other things that he will yet achieve."
So what does the future hold? Tā Mark has been approached by four political parties, and has turned them all down. He chairs the Canterbury District Health Board, and has four other directorships. Beyond that he won't be drawn, but there have been reports of gardening.
Born in Ōtautahi.
Married Maria and went on to have four children.
Elected representative of Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura.
Elected Kaiwhakahaere, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu.
September: the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Bill is passed into law.
Tā Mark observes the third reading after just days in the job.
Payout of $170 million received.
Elected board member of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, a position he held from 2001–2007.
Instrumental in setting up the Iwi Chairs Forum. Co-chair of Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group. In 2005, the first Iwi Chairs Forum was convened at Takahanga Marae in Kaikōura. The Forum meets four times a year at marae throughout the country to discuss and enable Māori aspirations in cultural, social, economic, environmental, and political development. The Forum is a platform for sharing knowledge and information between the tangata whenua of Aotearoa. Its primary focus is for participants to educate one another about what they are doing, how they are doing it, and how they can best support one another. The first hui had 36 tribes in attendance. Now, there are more than 70, and the Forum is recognised as one of most powerful lobby forces in the country.
Tā Mark became an original member of the Minister for Māori Affairs' Māori Economic Development Taskforce, established in 2009 and chaired by then-Minister of Māori Affairs, Hon. Dr Tā Pita Sharples.
The taskforce has seven key areas: tribal assets and collaboration, the primary sector, education and training, small-to-medium enterprises, social and community development, investment and enterprise, and economic growth and infrastructure.
Played a key role in re-establishing the Māori trades training initiative, He Toki ki Te Rika, led by Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu in partnership with CPIT (now Ara) and Hawkins. Patron of He Toki ki Te Rika.
Named Visionary Leader of 2012 in the Deloitte and New Zealand Management magazine National Business Awards.
Recognised in the 2013 Queen's New Year Honours as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and Business. Officially knighted in a ceremony on Friday 24 May, 2013 by the Governor-General in Wellington.
Re- elected as Kaiwhakahaere for a three-year term.
Received an Honorary Doctorate from Lincoln University as Doctor of Natural Resources, recognising his enduring interest and concern for our natural environment.
Appointed to the National Science Challenge Governance Boards for Sustainable Seas and Deep South, which relate to ensuring our marine environment is understood and cared for, and understanding the role of the Antarctic in determining our climate and future environment.
April: announces resignation as Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Kaiwhakahaere, to take effect in late 2016.
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Interesting news in yesterday's newspaper and that was that the movie Zombieland is going to be made into a television series. My almost adult son was thrilled that this would mean TWO zombie t.v. series.
Apparently, Zombieland was originally meant to be a t.v. show but somewhere along the line it became a movie and when it became a movie, some of the interesting ideas were discarded like the Zombie Kill of the Week. There really was supposed to be a Zombie Kill of the Week each and every week.
The new series, which has not actually been confirmed, would feature a half-hour episode each week and would be released in the 2012-2013 television season.
Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone, two of the original stars will not be a part of the television series.
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Economy

International Monetary Fund: Income per capita in purchasing power parity ranked 26 out of 181 (2010)
United Nations Development Programme:  Human Development Index ranked 20 out of 182 (2010)
 Gallup World Poll: happiness  ranked 43 out of 155 (2009)
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For years, the Toronto man sealed his Chinese head-tax certificate in an envelope and hid it from his wife and children, so they would not have any bad feelings about their homeland in Canada.
But the nuclear engineer was all smiles when he was invited to Ottawa on June 22, 2006 to hear an official apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper that the country owed him and thousands of other Chinese pioneers who endured 62 years of legislated racism.
Pon, one of the last surviving Chinese head-tax payers, died Friday morning, his family confirmed. He was 95.
"Mr. Pon was a visionary and founder of numerous community-based initiatives including Mon Sheong Home for the Aged," said Victor Wong, executive director of the Chinese Canadian National Council.
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His grandfather paid a $200 head tax to bring his father and an uncle to Canada.
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Naishtat Files Bill to Protect Pregnant Women's End of Life Care
Bill would strengthen end-of-life directives for pregnant women
By Mary Tuma, 8:00AM, Fri. Mar. 13, 2015
Rep. Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin. (by Photo by John Anderson)
An Austin lawmaker is seeking to expand rights for the state's pregnant women.
Rep. Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin, introduced "Marlise's Law," (HB 3183) with the aim of granting pregnant women equal rights as other Texans when making end-of-life decisions by ridding the health and safety code of a rule that requires pregnant women remain on life support.
The Texas Directives Act holds that "a person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment" from a pregnant patient without a judge's order. So while doctors must adhere to written statements ("advance directives") laying out what citizens want during end-of-life medical treatment in the event they are incapacitated, pregnant women are excluded from this protection.
"Being pregnant should not prohibit a woman from having her personal decision respected. The law should reflect the consideration a woman puts into planning the treatment she wishes to receive, or not receive, when she is no longer able to express herself," said Naishtat. "Planning for end-of-life care is a deeply personal decision-making process for all persons, including those who may be pregnant."
On the flip side, Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, recently proposed legislation (HB 1901) that would push women further away from being in control of their directives by amending the statute so that even when a brain-dead mother's fetus is "maturing and developing," life-sustaining treatment may not be removed, as the Chronicle reported this week. Additionally, the conservative lawmaker's bill would appoint an attorney for the fetus of brain-dead, hospitalized pregnant women to "represent the unborn child's interests." Krause said his bill was inspired by the tragic case of Marlise Muñoz, a pregnant woman who collapsed after suffering a pulmonary embolism in 2013 and remained on life support at a Fort Worth hospital against her family's wishes and her own, explicit directive. However, Munoz's family has vowed to testify against the proposed law, seeing it as disrespectful to families who have their loved ones' interests at heart.
Unlike Krause's Muñoz-motivated bill, the legislation is supported by Marlise's mother, father, and husband, who spoke out in opposition to government interference when it comes to end-of-life decisions and promoted increased autonomy for pregnant women during a press conference hosted by the ACLU of Texas Thursday morning. Pulling the family through a heartbreaking and frustrating ordeal, the state and hospital prolonged Munoz's use of a ventilator for 62 days until her family secured a judge's order ruling her legally deceased. Through this legislation, the family hopes others will be spared the same painful experience.
"The state not only tied our hands, but those of the doctors and the hospital too," said Lynne Machado, mother of Marlise Muñoz. "What should have been an immensely private and personal moment for our family was used as a political debate. The doctors weren't practicing medicine, they were practicing politics."
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After year of divisive debate, US bishops approve tepid document on Communion
A bishop looks over paperwork during a Nov. 17 session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (CNS/Bob Roller)
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Baltimore — November 17, 2021
After more than a year of intense debate on a controversial document originally intended to target pro-choice Catholic politicians like President Joe Biden, the U.S. bishops on Nov. 17 instead approved a milquetoast text summarizing Catholic teaching on Communion.
The 30-page document was passed by the bishops at their Nov. 15-18 assembly here only a day after the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. addressed the prelates and told them to tamp down divisions among themselves. The document makes only one oblique reference to laypeople who "exercise some form of public authority."
Such persons, the text says, "have a special responsibility to form their consciences in accord with the Church's faith and the moral law, and to serve the human family by upholding human life and dignity."
The bishops approved the text in a vote of 222-8, with three abstentions, after a fairly tepid debate on the floor of their assembly, being held at the Marriott Waterfront hotel. Although several prelates asked for small amendments to the final proposed text, they mostly focused on grammatical or linguistic issues, including the meaning of the phrase "et cetera."
The document — immediately criticized online by conservative Catholics hoping the bishops would address politicians like Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — appears to represent something of a whimper ending to an initiative first begun by Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, after Biden's November 2020 election win.
Just two weeks after Biden's election, Gomez issued a warning that Biden's position on abortion created a "difficult and complex situation" for the country's bishops. He also announced the prelates would form a working group to address the issue. That group would eventually recommend that the conference's Committee on Doctrine draft a document on the importance of "eucharistic coherence."
Speaking at a press conference on Nov. 16, Gomez seemed to misstate the origins of the eventual Communion text. The archbishop told journalists the intention was never to address Biden specifically, but rather to help Catholics understand the importance of the Eucharist in their faith lives. Gomez called the text "absolutely necessary."
Massimo Faggioli, a theology professor and church historian at Villanova University, told NCR that the events of the past year risked turning the Catholic Church in the United States into a partisan and sectarian institution.
"Especially when the president of the USCCB shows a partisan understanding of movement for social and racial justice in the U.S.," said Faggioli, referencing a controversial Nov. 4 speech in which Gomez denigrated modern social justice movements, such as antiracism groups like Black Lives Matter, as Marxist-inspired, anti-Christian "pseudo-religions."
Faggioli said the Communion document controversy signals the "risk of an escalation from a culture war Catholicism that politicizes the sacraments, to a full-blown 'evangelicalization' of U.S. Catholicism — 'evangelicalization' in the sense of U.S. conservative white evangelicals, and the loss of a Catholic sense of the church."
It was not immediately clear whether the U.S. bishops would be seeking Vatican approval, known as a recognitio, of their new Communion document. During votes on several other items on Nov. 17, conference officials noted the need for those items to receive a recognitio, but did not make such a declaration about the Communion text.
One canon lawyer consulted by NCR suggested that without the request for a recognitio, the text could not be considered a "doctrinal declaration," under the norms laid out for bishops' conferences in Pope John Paul II's apostolic letter Apostolos Suos.
At a press briefing later on Nov. 17, the chair of the bishops' doctrine committee, Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, confirmed that the prelates would not be seeking the Vatican's approval of their text. Rhoades also framed the document as necessary in order to address declining numbers of Mass attendance among Catholics.
Crookston, Minnesota Bishop-designate Andrew Cozzens also acknowledged than an oft-cited study on Catholics' beliefs about the Eucharist by the Pew Research Center might be misleading, and said Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate was considering a "redo" of that study.
Unlike during the bishops' last meeting in June, which was held virtually, the debate in Baltimore over the Communion text was minimal. Only four bishops offered comments during an initial presentation of the document on Nov. 16, and three interjected in an open discussion during the final debate on Nov. 17.
The bishops also were known to discuss the text in executive sessions, which are held behind closed doors. One of those sessions took place on Nov. 15, another in the morning of Nov. 16, and a third in the afternoon of Nov. 16.
At the Nov. 16 briefing, bishops framed the closed-door sessions as a normal part of their process, although assemblies in recent years have usually included only one executive session.
"That's part of what we do," said Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, chair of the bishops' Committee on Communications. "We do have that time allotted to be able to talk to one another, as brother bishops."
Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, president, listen to a question during a Nov. 17 session of the bishops' fall general assembly in Baltimore. (CNS/Bob Roller)
The final Communion text carries the title "The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church."
Before the final debate on the text on Nov. 17, the doctrine committee recommended to the bishops that they accept nine slight amendments to the document proposed by individual bishops. They also recommended the prelates decline to adopt 19 other proposed changes.
The bishops largely accepted the committee's recommendations.
One accepted amendment was a request from Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron that a line be added to emphasize that scandal, caused by those who receive Communion in a state of mortal sin, weakens "the resolve of other Catholics to be faithful to the demands of the Gospel."
In accepting Vigneron's amendment, the committee added a footnote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2284, which expounds on scandal as "a grave offense" that damages other people and deliberately leads them into sin.
Another accepted amendment was proposed by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, a conservative prelate who has openly clashed with Pelosi and had been pushing for the document to address Catholics in public life who support legalized abortion.
Cordileone sought to include the unborn in a section of the document that addresses categories of vulnerable people, such as the poor and victims of racial injustice. The bishops voted to accept that amendment, as well as another from Phoenix Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Nevares to name migrants and refugees.
Among amendments rejected by the bishops was a suggestion by Bishop Oscar Cantú of San Jose, California, that the text reference the Second Vatican Council document Gaudium et Spes' affirmation that "the joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age ... are the joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the followers of Christ."
Among other items on Nov. 17, the bishops also voted to review the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, the set of procedures originally adopted in 2002 to protect children from clergy sexual abuse.
Presenting the review proposal, Bishop James Johnston of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, chairman of the bishops' child and youth protection committee, said it was necessary to address the various changes mandated by Pope Francis in handling sexual abuse cases.
The proposal passed after several interjections, including one from retired Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, New York, that appeared to ask that the charter's procedures for taking accused priests out of ministry be modified.
DiMarzio, whom the Vatican recently exonerated of allegations of sexual abuse dating back from half a century ago, asked the committee to address "the issue of priests being taken out of ministry because they are actually taken as guilty until proven innocent."
This story was updated at 6:30 p.m. CST to include information from the press briefing that took place in the early evening Nov. 17.
This story appears in the USCCB Fall Assembly 2021 and Bishops, Biden and Communion feature series.
A version of this story appeared in the Nov 26-Dec 9, 2021 print issue under the headline: After year of divisive debate, bishops approve Communion document.
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