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General Synod: House of Bishops Southern Suffragan Elections 2010
Election Address from Pete Broadbent, Bishop of Willesden & Acting Bishop of Stepney
I confess that I still quite enjoy General Synod, having served on it, with one break caused by consecration, on and off since 1985. You were kind enough to elect me to represent you in 2004 in a by-election, and again in 2005. Synodical structures in the Church of England are creaking – and are probably not fit for purpose – but we need to ensure that they serve the mission of God and can reflect our concerns as bishops and leaders in that mission.
Here are some matters to which I would want to give attention if elected:
· Mission is top of my agenda. I have no desire to serve as a bishop in a dying institution, and will work for all that will help the Church of England to flourish in re-evangelising England and continuing to serve every community in pastoral and social care. To that end, I believe that we need to take radical steps to renew ordained and lay ministry (and undo the damage that has been done in that area by the bureaucratisation of ministerial training through the Hind Report); to revitalise inherited church and plant new missional communities; and to ensure that the National Church Institutions serve the dioceses and parishes through the legislation and policy that General Synod devises.
· I'm absolutely committed to the consecration of women as Bishops, and hope to see it happen during the next quinquennium. Having sat on the Revision Committee, I know that what we have produced thus far does not meet the expressed concerns of those opposed, and believe that we have more work to do together as we devise a Code of Practice to see whether we can better provide for them while not trammelling the episcopal leadership of women.
· If elected, I will work hard on your behalf to press the case for a better theology and practice of episcopacy. The role of suffragan bishops is one which is still not clearly understood, even by some of our diocesan colleagues! If our collegiality in the College and in the House is to make sense, we have to find better ways of working together, both in Dioceses and at a National level.
· The Anglican Communion will continue to exercise us. We should give maximum support to Rowan in his attempts to hold things together, but this may well entail reinventing the ways in which we relate to Anglicans in other parts of the world. The instruments of communion are looking pretty threadbare! What is most important to sustain is our solidarity with those Churches in the two thirds world who are under the greatest pressure from poverty, persecution and political structures.
· We shall have to work together as Bishops on the way in which we express our role in the nation in the face of increasing demands for the UK to become a more secular post-Christendom country. This will entail ensuring that Synod understands the context in which we, as Bishops, operate. I'm privileged to be bishop in the most multi-faith and multi-cultural areas of the country (Willesden and currently Acting Bishop of Stepney). Articulating the importance of faith to Government, national and local, and engaging critically with the Coalition agendas such as the "Big Society" and education and housing reform will form a major part of our concerns both as a House and as a Synod. We will also have to help Government better understand the distinctiveness of the major world faiths and our role in the public sphere.
· There are great challenges to be faced in relation to clergy "recruitment" and deployment; the number and shape of dioceses; and a realistic appraisal of our church buildings and whether we can continue to sustain them. I want to encourage episcopal colleagues to become much less risk-averse, more entrepreneurial, and to take the radical decisions that will ensure that, ten years hence, there is still a Church of England serving the whole country. The situation is probably more serious than the House of Bishops and the NCIs have yet acknowledged, and we cannot continue to sleepwalk into the future.
· There will be some major questions to be faced in relation to those groups of conservative catholics and evangelicals who feel disenfranchised in the current Church of England (not merely in relation to the ordination of women to the episcopate). I have been working with other episcopal colleagues on how we might make provision for them going forward – I'd like to think that they can continue to have a life in the CofE, rather than seceding from the Church to which they have always belonged. This may make for some uncomfortable ecclesiological reshaping and necessitate some robust debate between us as to what might be possible.
Previous Form (which can be held against me!)
General Synod (Proctor in Convocation, London) 1985 – 2001
General Synod (Southern Suffragans) 2004 – date
Chair, Vacancy in See Committees Regulation Working Party 1991 – 1993
General Synod Standing Committee 1992 – 1998
General Synod Appointments Sub Committee 1992 – 1995
Member of Archbishops' Advisory Group 1993 – 1998
Chair, General Synod Business Sub Committee 1996 – 1998
Chair, General Synod Elections Review Group 1996 – 2000
Steering Committee for National Institutions Measure 1997
Member of Archbishops' Council 1999 – 2000
Chair, Business Committee 1999 – 2000
In the rest of life, I serve on the Urban Bishops Panel, and have just finished as Chair of St John's College Nottingham Council. I'm also a Trustee of the Church Urban Fund. One major sign of hope that I enjoy being involved with is Spring Harvest, where I chair the Board of Management which organises our annual Easter event (attended by 35,000 Christians, 40% of whom are Anglicans), and our other work to equip the Church.
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Dissident capability has 'reached a new level'
Lethal bomb trap for police that could well have led to a massacre of the innocents
Fears the capability of the dissident republican terrorist group behind the major bomb alert in north Belfast has grown to a "worrying new level" were voiced yesterday..
Major concern was expressed by MLA and SDLP spokesman for Justice Alban Maginness who said the ability of dissident organisations has now reached a new level that could end in a massacre.
Oglaigh na hEireann claimed it was within seconds of detonating the bomb in north Belfast at the weekend — but stopped the attack because of the presence of a civilian.
According to a source it was similar to devices previously used by the IRA.
A command wire led to a firing point not far away from the bomb.
Mr Maginness said the device, had it exploded, could have resulted in a "massacre".
"The device was not designed to destroy the building it was designed to injure and kill people individually. It was a very nasty, very lethal device," he said.
"This had the potential to be a massacre."
Mr Maginness said it signalled a rise in ability by dissidents.
"One thing that I have noticed over the past year is their increased capacity in terms of engineering," he said.
"I do think it has reached a higher grade and that is a matter of deep concern for all of us.
"That gives them an additional experience in explosive devices. It is at a higher level, they are much more lethal and could be much more effective in inflicting damage, injury and even death. It could have been a massacre of people, whether ordinary civillians or policemen.
"It was clearly intended for the police initially. They were the target."
Police were drawn into the area on Sunday evening, and the terrorists came within seconds of exploding the bomb — only stopping when the woman arrived on the scene.
There has been a major security operation in the area for days as the PSNI tried to pinpoint the bomb and make it safe.
A number of telephone warnings made after the device was abandoned were said to be vague, but this is disputed by the terror group.
A leadership source said calls were made to the Samaritans and to a number of newsrooms.
A source who spoke to this newspaper said the bomb could not have exploded after being abandoned, because the firing pack had been "unhooked".
This newspaper understands that information was passed to the police through a so-called "back-channel", by a source involved in the secret contacts linking facilitators, dissident republican leaders and the British and Irish governments.
Hundreds of people are believed to have walked past the viable device — which police said was "designed to kill" — since it was left at the XtraVision store on the Antrim Road.
Up to 100 homes and businesses were yesterday while two major retail stores near the scene were forced to close.
District Commander Mark Hamilton said the bombers had put many people's lives at risk.
"This was an anti-personnel device which was designed to send shrapnel over a wide area and kill people," he said. The alert began after a series of calls from the dissident republican group.
Police said the first call was received on Monday, but initial warnings were too vague and the road was not closed until 4pm the next day.
Brian Rowan: An old tactic from yesterday's war
Try to visualise that scene in north Belfast on Sunday — see it in the picture of information that has emerged over the past 24 hours.
There is a bomb packed with shrapnel and a command wire leading to a firing point.
It is an old play — a tactic borrowed from one of yesterday's wars.
As a police car arrives the bombers are watching. They are part of the group calling itself Oglaigh na hEireann. From their vantage point they can see everything — three police officers getting out of the vehicle, another inside the car.
And this then becomes that split-second moment of decision — to explode the bomb or not to explode the bomb.
This is an ambush and the officers are the targets.
But then a woman approaches the police, and the bombers are forced to pause. This is how close it gets, that finest of lines between life and death.
The police are often criticised for the time it takes them to respond, but in this incident we see why those approaches have to be thought through.
In their investigation they will now look to see if Oglaigh na hEireann created an incident in north Belfast on Sunday knowing that it would prompt a police response.
We now know this was a come-on.
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"When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called my son." — Hosea 11:1
The year 2018 is important for Israel and the Jewish people as we celebrate the modern State of Israel's 70th Birthday. You can be part of this momentous milestone with Rabbi Eckstein's 70 devotions offered now through April 19th, Israel's Independence Day. These devotions are tied to our Keys to Israel – six fundamental principles underlying God's covenantal relationship with His chosen people and His Holy Land using the acrostic I.S.R.A.E.L.
This devotion is part of ten devotions focusing on the letter "I" — Important to God — and will explore Israel's importance to God as expressed through His promise to Abraham more than 3,000 years ago.
While the modern State of Israel may still be in its childhood, the nation of Israel is one of the oldest nations in the world. When the prophet Hosea referred to Israel's childhood, he wasn't referring to the last 70 years. He was referring to the nation's true beginning, thousands of years ago, when the children of Israel where taken out of Egypt.
About this stage the prophet says, "When Israel was a child, I loved him." But the Jewish sages teach us another way to understand the verse: "Israel is a child, therefore I love him." Even today, say the sages, Israel is like a child. And that is something that God loves.
One of the profound differences between children and the elderly is the ability to recover. If a child falls down and hurts his knee, he gets up pretty quickly. Even if he sheds a few tears, he is off and running again just a few minutes later. But for someone in their older years, a simple fall can result in broken bones and irreversible damage. Older people have weaker bones and need more time to heal. Children are simply more resilient.
No nation on the face of the Earth has experienced the traumas that the nation of Israel has had to deal with, repeatedly, over thousands of years. Expelled from its homeland twice, and subjected to inquisitions, pogroms, holocausts, and all kinds of hostility, the nation of Israel reacts with the resilience of a child.
Though deeply bruised and beaten, Israel cannot be broken. Injuries heal quickly, and she is back on her feet. Israel continues to build and rebuild though her enemies seek to destroy her every single day. This is what the prophet means when he calls Israel a child. The nation may be old, but her spirit is young.
The lessons we can glean from Hosea's words and from the nation of Israel's experience are timeless — no matter what life throws our way, we can respond with the wisdom that comes with age, but also with the resiliency of a child as we trust and depend upon the One who loves us like a Father.
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This whimsical birthday cake will be a hit at your favorite little engineer's special party.
- 2 boxes any flavor cake mix (For example devils food for the engine and butter cake for the other cars).
- Eggs (as required by cake mix instructions)
- Vegetable oil (as required for cake mix instructions)
- Food coloring (at least 1 green and rest colors of your choice.)
- Cooking spray
- 1 can chocolate fudge icing
- 4 cans cream cheese or vanilla icing
- 16 chocolate cookies with cream filling
- 1 large package chocolate Twizzlers (for rails)
- 4 Kit Kat chocolate bars or 8 Twix chocolate (for the crossties—for a total 16 individual bars when you break down the Kit Kat into its sections)
- 1 small package flaked coconut
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup sugar
1Spray small foil loaf pans, cupcake liners, potato pans or cupcake pan with cooking spray.
2Prepare batter as per instructions on cake mixes.
3Pour into prepared pans and bake per instructions on cake mix boxes. You will need to check the small loaf pans for doneness at about the cupcake baking time, because the small loaf pans cook more quickly than the regular loaf pans. Cool cakes completely.
4Prepare simple syrup by boiling 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup sugar until the sugar is completely dissolved. Do not stir.
5Color the coconut green for the grass around the railroad track.
6Paint a thin layer on the bottom of the jelly roll pan or flat cookie sheet with the syrup and sprinkle on the coconut to cover. The syrup works like a sugar glue.
7Create the railroad tracks by first laying the railroad ties—the Kit Kats or the Twix—evenly spaced, in a curving pattern on your prepared pan.
8Push a toothpick into one end of a chocolate Twizzler, attach another Twizzler and continue until you have enough railing to cover your ties. Secure your Twizzler track to the chocolate railroad ties with the sugar glue. Let dry.
9Cut each sloped end off of the loaf you will be using for your caboose. This will be attached at the top for the raised roof.
10Leaving a little extra space for the engine (for the cow-catcher) place your loaf-cars evenly along the track leaving the shorter, trimmed loaf for the caboose at the end. Arrange the loaves closely enough that you can pipe chocolate icing from loaf to loaf for the connectors, or you could use a cut up Twizzler as well.
11Start with the engine. Ice regular loaf with chocolate icing. Place one cupcake at the back for the tall portion of the engine. Ice cupcake with chocolate icing. Cut off the bottom of one of the other cupcakes for the smaller nose of the engine and press into the icing directly in front of the larger cupcake on top. Ice cupcake. Using either the loaf baked in the potato pan or a cupcake cut in half (horizontal to the prep surface) create the cowcatcher. Arrange with the larger portion toward the track and the narrower portion toward the top of the loaf. Ice with chocolate icing, filling in the gaps if you are using a sliced in half cupcake.
12Color one can of cream cheese or vanilla frosting red for the caboose. Color each other can whichever colors you choose. Leave one can of frosting white to trim the engine and caboose.
13Frost the remaining cars whatever colors you prefer.
14Frost the trimmed caboose car with red frosting. Stack one of the trimmed ends centered on the top of the loaf. Ice with red frosting. Stack the other trimmed end on top of that and ice with red frosting.
15Split chocolate cream filled cookies so that all of the filling stays on one cookie only. You can eat the failures ;^). These are the wheels. Place two on each side of the loaves as shown.
16Now the icing should have dried enough for you to pipe the edges, doors and cow-catcher.
17Cut the very tip off of one bottom corner of a zippered top storage bag. Place bottom of frosting tip connector inside bag and through hole. Place frosting tip of choice in connector and secure with connector ring placed on the outside of the bag. Fill with white frosting. Pipe trim on the engine and caboose as shown.
18Using the same process with the storage bags, connectors and tips, fill each bag with your chosen colors for the edges and doors of the cars. Trim cars as shown.
19Add birthday message on blank portion of grass and appropriate candles wherever you prefer, either on the cars or on piped blobs of icing in the grass.
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- Some of the leftover cookies can be crumbled up and scattered around the edges and the track as "dirt".
- You can buy cans of frosting with the various tips if you don't have your own piping kit. It will save a lot of time—but it costs more.
- Do NOT try to use a cake board, will not hold up to the weight of this cake.
Things You'll Need
- A large jelly roll pan or flat cookie sheet.
- As many small foil loaf pans as you want cars on the train.
- Aluminum foil potato shell pan (for twice-baked potatoes) or you can make an extra cupcake.
- Toothpicks
- Pastry brush
- 2 foil cupcake liners or 1 small cupcake pan (you will only be making two cupcakes).
- Piping tips
- Piping tip connectors
- Zip top plastic storage bags
- Scissors
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Marsha Walden, President and CEO of Destination BC, made the following statement to highlight Tourism Week 2016:
"From May 30 to June 4, Tourism organisations, businesses and associations around the province are celebrating Tourism Week — a time to recognize an industry that not only supports the socio-cultural fabric of our lives but also provides important economic benefits for all British Columbians.
Tourism is a key economic driver across our province. The value of our visitor economy benefits nearly every community. According to 2014 figures, Tourism employed over 127,500 British Columbians and generated $14.6 billion in revenue, a 5.1% increase over 2013.
Tourism is on the verge of even greater growth. The prospects for the global Tourism economy are excellent. World-wide, Tourism is forecast to grow by 5% a year, doubling over the next 20 years. It's a booming worldwide industry and, while BC may have a small global share, we are well positioned to catch this wave and grab more than our fair share of that growth.
Tourism supports well-paying and interesting jobs. BC's Tourism industry offers incredibly good job opportunities for people from every imaginable background. From that first job in high school — it's a great source of jobs for youth as more than a third of employees are under 25 — to well-paying jobs in management, technical and professional services such as international sales people, highly-trained outdoor guides, helicopter pilots, wellness experts, chefs, wine aficionados, and so many more. In BC, Tourism employment exceeds the transportation, high-tech, forestry, mining, and agriculture sectors.
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Indonesia's Riau Ega Agatha, shoots during his match against South Korea's Kim Woo-jin in an elimination round of the individual archery competition at the Sambadrome venue during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — They were both at a loss for words: the 33rd-seeded archer for what he just did. The top-seeded competitor and world-record holder for losing any chance at what looked to be a surefire Olympic medal.
This shock was quite a tournament changer.
Indonesian archer Riau Ega Agatha stunned Kim Woojin of South Korea 6-2 during the round of 16 in the men's tournament Monday at the Rio de Janeiro Games. It was one of several surprises on a windy day at the Sambadrome.
Kim was a heavy favorite, especially after setting a world record in qualifying. That's why he had such a dazed look after walking off the field, his tournament over. Ega Agatha was just as taken aback.
"I am a little surprised," said Ega Agatha, who entered the Olympics ranked 29th in the world. "I beat the No. 1. Things are good. I did it."
Very few thought he could. Very few thought anyone would beat Kim, who shot a score of 700 to set a recurve record only three days ago.
Some betting sites — yep, you can wager on archery — had Kim as a huge 4-5 favorite. The next closest was his teammate, Ku Bonchan, at 5-2. Brady Ellison of the United States is listed at 7-1.
The upset was certainly a stunner to the second-seeded Ellison.
"As well as he's been shooting? He's been phenomenal all week," said Ellison, who begins his first match Tuesday. "But (Kim) got out there and couldn't hit a 10. I've been out there in the same situation. It happens to all of us."
Kim helped the South Koreans to a gold medal in the men's team competition Saturday by placing five of his six arrows in the top ring. Against the 24-year-old Ega Agatha, he put only four of his 12 arrows inside the 10 range.
"I prepared a lot," Kim said through a translator. "I really regret that I didn't do well."
Ega Agatha took up archery when he was 10 after his mom got upset with him for constantly staying out late. She wanted a place where he could go and not get in trouble.
Archery provided the solution.
"All Indonesians will be shocked," said Raja Oktohari, the Chef de Mission of Indonesia. "Of course we still have another (match) that we have to prepare. Our athlete in Rio has to focus. This glory only lasts for an hour. After that, that's it. We have to prepare again."
Ega Agatha will face Mauro Nespoli of Italy in the next round. Beyond that, he won't let his mind wander.
"A very big surprise for me. But I have to stay focused," Ega Agatha said.
Another upset occurred on the women's side when 51stt-seeded San Yu Htwe of Myanmar knocked off 19th-seeded Mackenzie Brown of the United States. Brown said she simply ran into a shooter who couldn't miss.
"I shot really well, did what I wanted to do at my first Olympic Games," Brown said. "I'll come back even stronger for 2020."
A crazy day at archery, which also included No. 41 seed Witthaya Thamwong of Thailand advancing.
Asked if things opened up in the men's competition with the upsets, Ellison shook his head.
"Did you see what just happened to (Kim)? It can happen to happen to any of us," Ellison said. "There are certain people everyone wants to beat. They know it's going to be a hard match so they really don't expect to beat you. They relax and shoot — and shoot good."


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Who dwells in the house of the holiest Lord?
The man who is blameless and lives out His word,
And we, His elect, from our sinning restored,
Are given the right of a place in His court.
And we, seven lamp stands, will shine out His light,
Within His dear presence and always in sight.
Our greatest of gifts unto God we ignite,
To show all the nations the goodness of Christ.
And we have the show-bread – the best of our food,
Is Him who has given His body and blood,
And He who was tortured as our substitute,
To mediate and to prepare us a room.
Our bread and our light now in Jesus we see,
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Unbelievable is the fifth studio album released by country music group Diamond Rio. Its title track and "You're Gone" were both Top 5 hits on the country charts in 1998-1999, while "I Know How the River Feels" (originally cut by Ty Herndon on his Living in a Moment album) was a minor Top 40, and was later a #69 for the group McAlyster in 2000.
Unbelievable (simplified Chinese: 不可思议; traditional Chinese: 不可思議; pinyin: búkěsīyì) is the 9th album of the Taiwanese R&B artist and composer, Leehom Wang, and was released on October 15, 2003.
The album was awarded one of the Top 10 Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year at the 2004 IFPI Hong Kong Album Sales Awards, presented by the Hong Kong branch of IFPI.
After the success of Leehom Wang's last Mandarin album, The One and Only, Wang decided to head toward a different road of music. Although keeping his usual R&B grove, Wang decided to move away from his previous rock image and focus on hip-hop. Wang's new style was quickly accepted by his fans and gained much more new fans. Copies of the album sold past 1,300,000 in Asia, defeating his last successful album, The One and Only by quite a feat.
Wang's first world tour was also called, Unbelievable. However the tour began one year before the release of this album. During the world tours, Wang had hinted that he was approaching to a new style of music in his new album by incorporating hip-hop beats in some of his rock songs.


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The new Pinault Contemporary Art Center at the Punta della Dogana opens on June 6th 2009.
The location: it is one of the most prominent places in Venice, the merging point of the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal meters away from the memorial church of santa Maria della Salute.
In the days when Venice was a major commercial centre, the sea custom house controlled access to the Grand Canal and the San Marco docks.
The first sea custom house was built between 1313 and 1340, it was a triangular shaped structure made of eight parallel warehouses ending in a watch tower.
The area underwent a complete rebuilding in 17th century as a result of the construction of the memorial church of la Salute and the seminary.
The most noticeable feature is the golden globe supported by two figures of Atlas topped by the statue of fortune.
A new museum: in July 2006 the City of Venice calls a competition for a new contemporary art center to be hosted in the ancient custom house which is in a bad condition and needs major restoration. Two groups face each other to win the competition, the François Pinault Foundation, that already has the Palazzo Grassi, and the Guggenheim Foundation which owns the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice.
In 2007 the committee in charge for deciding which will be the winning group, says that both projects (Tadao Ando for Pinault and Zaha Hadid for Guggenheim) are equally good bringing the competition to stalemate. Still the Pinault Foundation wins because has presented a detailed list of 141 artworks that will be steadily housed in the new museum while the Guggenheim failed to do so.
P inault has engaged then Japanese minimalist architect Tadao Ando to renovate the unused, 37,000-square-foot customs house.
Tadao Ando says, The Punta della Dogana building is characterised by a simple, rational structure. The volume creates a triangle, a direct reference to the shape of the tip of the island of Dorsoduro, while the interiors are divided into long rectangles, with a series of parallel walls.
The Japanese architect also said, when presenting the project in 2007: This building has been floating on the water since the 15th century, and my intention is to see it float into the future; it is a very old building and it was very difficult to study its history so as to preserve its original structure and innovate toward the future. I will use a 20th century material, reinforced concrete, fitting it into this 15th century structure..
The first exhibit is called Mapping the Studio and will include works from Jeff Koons, Sigmar Polke, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Cy Twombly, Takashi Murakami, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Matthew Day Jackson, Adel Abdessemed, Wilhelm Sasnal, Richard Hughes, Nate Lowman, Mark Bradford, Kai Althoff.
Plus information: www.palazzograssi.it/


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Opposition Mounts to Bill That Would Strip FCC Authority on Spectrum
The spectrum issue is taking center stage again in Washington, D.C. this week, with smaller carriers and members of Congress today criticizing a provision in a pending jobs bill that would strip the FCC of some of its authority regarding spectrum auctions.
Tucked into a larger jobs bill, H.R. 3630, is a section that would allow the FCC to auction off spectrum currently owned but not used by TV broadcasters. But it would prevent the FCC from imposing certain conditions on those purchases; specifically, the FCC could not require spectrum buyers to abide by net neutrality rules or sell access to their network on a wholesale basis.
Opponents of the provision argue that the move will result in companies like Verizon and AT&T snapping up everything, while smaller firms are left in the dust. Supporters - like AT&T - argue that the market can take care of itself.
In a Wednesday letter to members of Congress, eight carriers - including T-Mobile and Sprint - pushed for the provision's removal.
"The proposed provision would substantially limit the FCC's ability to promote competition and a competitive wireless marketplace for consumers throughout America," they wrote. "It would facilitate spectrum warehousing, inefficient use of scarce spectrum resources, and reduce spectrum auction revenues to the U.S. Treasury."
The carriers - which also included C Spire, RCA, and Leap - argued that the FCC uses its auction authority "cautiously and wisely."
"It has adopted auction eligibility restrictions only when needed to promote competition and avoid excessive spectrum concentration in the hands of a few carriers," they said.
Jim Cicconi, AT&T's senior vice president of external and legislative affairs, disagreed.
"Auctions should be open, not closed. Any qualified carrier, including those on [the carrier] letter, should have a chance to bid on any spectrum available in an auction," he said in a statement. "This group, however, wants the FCC to stack the deck in its favor. Congress is right to resist this notion. In fact, what this group proposes could not be called an auction with a straight face. These companies should be prepared to compete in a fair and open auction, and should stop seeking a rigged spectrum auction that would harm consumers and cost the Treasury billions."
Some members of Congress, however, are not behind Section 4105.
Today, for example, Sen. Herb Kohl, chairman of the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, penned a letter to the members handling H.R. 3630 to say that "taking away the authority to structure auctions in a way that will promote competition is a serious threat to consumers and the future of wireless competition in this country."
"It will be impossible for the FCC to design auctions to avoid excessive concentration of licenses if it doesn't have the ability to limit eligibility beyond technical qualifications," Kohl wrote.
As for the FCC, Chairman Julius Genachowski touched on the topic during a presentation at last month's Consumer Electronics Show.
"Allocating spectrum by statute is problematic not only because it prejudges the future in an essentially irreversible way," he said in prepared remarks. "It's a mistake because it preempts an expert agency process that's fact-based, data-driven and informed by a broad range of economists, technologists and stakeholders on an open record. The proposals on the table to restrict the FCC's flexibility in its area of technical expertise would be a significant departure from precedent."
Another issue, meanwhile, is that of unlicensed spectrum, over which technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth operate. As The Hill notes, the pending bill bans the FCC from holding on to any of the spectrum it gets from broadcasters and designating it for unlicensed use. But again, some members of Congress are not on board.
Four of Kohl's Senate colleagues - Sens. John Kerry, Mark Warner, Olympia Snowe, and Jerry Moran - wrote to the Senate majority and minority leaders to argue that unlicensed spectrum "is the 'public parks' of our nation's airwaves."
"Congress should defer to the FCC to make the proper determination of optimizing the allocation of spectrum given the dynamic nature of the industry and wireless technologies," the senators wrote.
Several dozen members in the House, led by Reps. Anns Eshoo and Darrell Issa, had similar concerns.
"Collectively, unlicensed devices help generate an estimated $16-37 billion per year for the U.S. economy," they wrote in a letter today. "Even our nation's largest wireless service providers use unlicensed spectrum to reduce congestion on their network, with experts suggesting that more than one-third of their data traffic today is off-loaded onto Wi-Fi networks."
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Cravendale Muppets Makeover
Cravendale sponsorship of the upcoming The Muppets movie, due for UK release on 10th February 2012 is being promoted in Cravendale Muppets Makeover, an advertising campaign centred around a social giveaway of hundreds of thousands of unique, limited edition Muppets stickers designed specifically for two-litre Cravendale bottles. Cravendale consumers and Muppets fans will be able to collect the entire set of the stickers, with one character released each week from 9th January, beginning with Kermit the Frog. Anyone interested in taking part can visit a dedicated Muppets page on the Cravendale website, TheMilkMatters.co.uk, and register for the limited edition stickers (while stocks last!).
Once fans receive their stickers they can upload a photo of their new creation to a dedicated Facebook app, The Muppets Makeover, which creates a short, personalised film that captures different Muppets characters interacting with the submitted photo. Each photo submitted to the Muppet Makeover will automatically be entered into a prize draw to win a VIP screening of the Muppets movie for 4 friends.
The Cravendale Muppets Makeover campaign was announced to the loyal Cravendale community on 6th January alongside dedicated PPC, influencer outreach and Facebook ads. All promotional activity aims to drive users to enter the Cravendale community and engage with fans through the Muppet Makeover Booth, spot polls, further Muppet sticker characters and goodie bags. Facebook is being used as the campaign's primary platform because it provides access to nostalgic parents who want to share Muppet memories with their children.
The Muppets Cravendale stickers campaign will last for four weeks before a national on-pack promotion invivtes consumers to accumulate on-pack voucher codes to redeem against a Kermit the Frog back-pack.
Click on the image below to play the Cravendale – The Muppets video.
Cravendale Muppets Credits
The Cravendale Muppets campaign was developed at Outside Line, London.
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The death of Mr. Kennedy, who had been battling brain
"Edward M. Kennedy — the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply — died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port," the statement said. "We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever."
"His ideas and ideals are stamped on scores of laws and reflected in millions of lives — in seniors who know new dignity, in families that know new opportunity, in children who know education's promise, and in all who can pursue their dream in an America that is more equal and more just — including myself," he said. Mr. Obama is scheduled to speak at a funeral Mass for Mr. Kennedy on Saturday morning in
Mr. Kennedy had been in precarious health since he suffered a
As he underwent cancer treatment, Mr. Kennedy was little seen in Washington, appearing most recently at the White House in April as Mr. Obama signed a national service bill that bears the Kennedy name. In a letter last week, Mr. Kennedy urged Massachusetts lawmakers to change state law and let Gov.
While Mr. Kennedy was physically absent from the capital in recent months, his presence was deeply felt as Congress weighed the most sweeping revisions to America's health care system in decades, an effort Mr. Kennedy called "the cause of my life."
On July 15, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which Mr. Kennedy headed, passed health care legislation, and the battle over the proposed overhaul is now consuming Capitol Hill.
Mr. Kennedy was the last surviving brother of a generation of Kennedys that dominated American politics in the 1960s and that came to embody glamour, political idealism and untimely death. The Kennedy mystique — some call it the Kennedy myth — has held the imagination of the world for decades, and it came to rest on the sometimes too-narrow shoulders of the brother known as Teddy.
Mr. Kennedy, who served 46 years as the most well-known Democrat in the Senate, longer than all but two other senators, was the only one of those brothers to reach old age. President
Mr. Kennedy spent much of the last year in treatment and recuperation, broken by occasional public appearances and a dramatic return to the Capitol last summer to cast a decisive vote on a
He electrified the opening night of the
His gait was halting, but his voice was strong. "My fellow Democrats, my fellow Americans, it is so wonderful to be here, and nothing is going to keep me away from this special gathering tonight," Mr. Kennedy said. "I have come here tonight to stand with you to change America, to restore its future, to rise to our best ideals and to elect
Senator Kennedy was at or near the center of much of American history in the latter part of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. For much of his adult life, he veered from victory to catastrophe, winning every Senate election he entered but failing in his only bid for the presidency; living through the sudden deaths of his brothers and three of his nephews; being responsible for the drowning death on Chappaquiddick Island of a young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, a former aide to his brother Robert. One of the nephews,
Mr. Kennedy himself was almost killed in 1964, in a plane crash that left him with permanent back and neck problems.
He was a Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock of white hair, his florid, oversize face, his booming Boston brogue, his powerful but pained stride. He was a celebrity, sometimes a self-parody, a hearty friend, an implacable foe, a man of large faith and large flaws, a melancholy character who persevered, drank deeply and sang loudly. He was a Kennedy.
Mr. Byrd is one of only two senators to have served longer in the chamber than Mr. Kennedy; the other was
More Than a Legislator
Born to one of the wealthiest American families, Mr. Kennedy spoke for the downtrodden in his public life while living the heedless private life of a playboy and a rake for many of his years. Dismissed early in his career as a lightweight and an unworthy successor to his revered brothers, he grew in stature over time by sheer longevity and by hewing to liberal principles while often crossing the partisan aisle to enact legislation. A man of unbridled appetites at times, he nevertheless brought a discipline to his public work that resulted in an impressive catalog of legislative achievement across a broad landscape of social policy.
Mr. Kennedy left his mark on legislation concerning civil rights, health care, education, voting rights and labor. He was chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions at his death. But he was more than a legislator. He was a living legend whose presence ensured a crowd and whose hovering figure haunted many a president.
Although he was a leading spokesman for liberal issues and a favorite target of conservative fund-raising appeals, the hallmark of his legislative success was his ability to find Republican allies to get bills passed. Perhaps the last notable example was his work with President
Mr. Kennedy had less impact on foreign policy than on domestic concerns, but when he spoke, his voice was influential. He led the Congressional effort to impose sanctions on
At a pivotal moment in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, Mr. Kennedy endorsed Mr. Obama, then an
"He will be a president who refuses to be trapped in the patterns of the past," Mr. Kennedy said at an Obama rally in Washington on Jan. 28, 2008. "He is a leader who sees the world clearly, without being cynical. He is a fighter who cares passionately about the causes he believes in without demonizing those who hold a different view."
This month, Mr. Obama awarded Mr. Kennedy the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which his daughter, Kara, accepted on his behalf.
Mr. Kennedy struggled for much of his life with his weight, with alcohol and with persistent tales of womanizing. In an Easter break episode in 1991 in
Mr. Kennedy's personal life stabilized in 1992 with his marriage to Victoria Anne Reggie, a Washington lawyer. His first marriage, to
Senator Kennedy served as a surrogate father to his brothers' children and worked to keep the Kennedy flame alive through the Kennedy Library in Boston, the
In December, Harvard granted Mr. Kennedy a special honorary degree. He referred to Mr. Obama's election as "not just a culmination, but a new beginning."
He then spoke of his own life, and perhaps his legacy.
"We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make," he said. "I have lived a blessed time."
Kennedy family courtiers and many other Democrats believed he would eventually win the White House and redeem the promise of his older brothers. In 1980, he took on the president of his own party,
But as that race ended in August at the Democratic National Convention in New York, Mr. Kennedy delivered his most memorable words, wrapping his dedication to party principles in the gauzy cloak of Camelot.
"For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end," Mr. Kennedy said in the coda to a speech before a rapt audience at
A Family Steeped in Politics
Born Feb. 22, 1932, in Boston, Edward Moore Kennedy grew up in a family of shrewd politicians. Both his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, and his mother, the former Rose Fitzgerald, came from prominent Irish-Catholic families with long involvement in the hurly-burly of Democratic politics in Boston and Massachusetts. His father, who made a fortune in real estate, movies and banking, served in President
There were nine Kennedy children, four boys and five girls, with Edward the youngest. They grew up talking politics, power and influence because those were the things that preoccupied the mind of
When Edward was born, President
It was understood among the children that Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., the oldest boy, would someday run for Congress and, his father hoped, the White House. When Joseph Jr. was killed in World War II, it fell to the next oldest son, John, to run. As John said at one point in 1959 while serving in the Senate: "Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, our young brother, Ted, would take over for him."
Although surrounded by the trappings of wealth — stately houses, servants and expensive cars — young Teddy did not enjoy a settled childhood. He bounced among the family homes in Boston, New York,
After graduating from Milton in 1950, where he showed a penchant for debating and sports but was otherwise an undistinguished student, Mr. Kennedy enrolled in Harvard, as had his father and brothers.
It was at Harvard, in his freshman year, that he ran into the first of several personal troubles that were to dog him for the rest of his life: He persuaded another student to take his
Suddenly draft-eligible during the Korean War, Mr. Kennedy enlisted in the Army and served two years, securing, with his father's help, a post at
Re-enrolling in Harvard, he became a more serious student, majoring in government, excelling in public speaking and playing first-string end on the football team. He graduated in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, then enrolled in the
Mr. Kennedy's first foray into politics came in 1958, while still a law student, when he managed John's Senate re-election campaign. There was never any real doubt that Massachusetts voters would return John Kennedy to Washington, but it was a useful internship for his youngest brother.
That same year, Mr. Kennedy married
John Kennedy's election to the White House left vacant a Senate seat that the family considered its property. Robert Kennedy was next in line, but chose the post of attorney general instead (an act of nepotism that has since been outlawed). Edward was only 28, two years shy of the minimum age for Senate service.
So the Kennedys installed Benjamin A. Smith II, a family friend, as a seat-warmer until 1962, when a special election would be held and Edward would have turned 30. Edward used the time to travel the world and work as an assistant district attorney in Boston, waiving the $5,000 salary and serving instead for $1 a year.
As James Sterling Young, the director of a Kennedy Oral History Project at the University of Virginia, said the catchphrase of that era was: "Most people grow up and go into politics. The Kennedys go into politics and then they grow up."
Less than a month after turning 30 in 1962, Mr. Kennedy declared his candidacy for the remaining two years of his brother's Senate term. He entered the race with a tailwind of family money and political prominence. Nevertheless, Edward J. McCormack Jr., the state's attorney general and a nephew of John W. McCormack, then speaker of the
It was a bitter fight, with a public rehash of the Harvard cheating episode and with Mr. McCormack charging in a televised "Teddy-Eddie" debate that Mr. Kennedy lacked maturity of judgment because he had "never worked for a living" and had never held elective office. "If your name was simply Edward Moore instead of Edward Moore Kennedy," Mr. McCormack added, "your candidacy would be a joke."
But the Kennedys had ushered in an era of celebrity politics, which trumped qualifications in this case. Mr. Kennedy won the primary by a two-to-one ratio, then went on to easy victory in November against the Republican candidate,
When Mr. Kennedy entered the Senate in 1962, he was aware that he might be seen as an upstart, with one brother in the White House and another in the cabinet. He sought guidance on the very first day from one of the Senate's most respected elders, Richard Russell of
Mr. Kennedy took things slowly, especially that first year. He did his homework, was seen more than he was heard and was deferential to veteran legislators.
On Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, he was presiding over the Senate when a wire service ticker in the lobby brought the news of John Kennedy's shooting in
Edward was sent to Hyannis Port to break the news to his father, who had been disabled by a stroke. He returned to Washington for the televised funeral and burial, the first many Americans had seen of him. He and Robert had planned to read excerpts from John's speeches at the Arlington burial service. At the last moment they chose not to.
A friend described him as "shattered — calm but shattered."
A Deadly Plane Crash
Robert moved into the breach and was immediately discussed as a presidential prospect. Edward became a more prominent family spokesman.
The next year, he was up for re-election. A heavy favorite from the start, he was on his way to the state convention that was to renominate him when his light plane crashed in a storm near Westfield, Mass. The pilot and a Kennedy aide were killed, and Mr. Kennedy's back and several ribs were broken. Senator Birch Bayh of
The senator was hospitalized for the next six months, suspended immobile in a frame that resembled a waffle iron. His wife, Joan, carried on his campaign, mainly by advising voters that he was steadily recovering. He won easily over a little-known Republican, Howard Whitmore Jr.
During his convalescence, Mr. Kennedy devoted himself to his legislative work. He was briefed by a parade of Harvard professors and began to develop his positions on immigration, health care and civil rights.
"I never thought the time was lost," he said later. "I had a lot of hours to think about what was important and what was not and about what I wanted to do with my life."
He returned to the Senate in 1965, joining his brother Robert, who had won a seat from New York. Edward promptly entered a major fight, his first. President
Mr. Kennedy was slow to oppose the war in
Robert Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968, as he celebrated his victory in the
Frank Mankiewicz, Robert's press secretary, saw Edward "leaning over the sink with the most awful expression on his face."
"Much more than agony, more than anguish — I don't know if there's a word for it," Mr. Mankiewicz said, recalling the encounter in "Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography," by Adam Clymer (William Morrow, 1999).
Robert's death draped Edward in the Kennedy mantle long before he was ready for it and forced him to confront his own mortality. But he summoned himself to deliver an eloquent eulogy at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
"My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it," Mr. Kennedy said, his voice faltering. "Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday come to pass for all the world."
A New Role as
After the funeral, Edward Kennedy withdrew from public life and spent several months brooding, much of it while sailing off the
Near the end of the summer of 1968, he emerged from seclusion, the sole survivor of Joseph Kennedy's boys, ready to take over as family patriarch and substitute father to John's and Robert's
"There is no safety in hiding," he declared in August in a speech at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. "Like my brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard. Sustained by the memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, excellence and courage that distinguished their lives."
There was some talk of his running for president at that point. But he ultimately endorsed
Mr. Kennedy focused more on bringing the war in Vietnam to an end and on building his Senate career. Although only 36, he challenged Senator Russell B. Long of
He plunged into the new job with Kennedy enthusiasm. But fate, and the Kennedy recklessness, intervened on July 18, 1969. Mr. Kennedy was at a party with several women who had been aides to Robert. The party, a
Mr. Kennedy did not report the accident to the authorities for almost 10 hours, explaining later that he had been so banged about by the crash that he had suffered a
But that was far from the end of the episode. Questions lingered in the minds of the Massachusetts authorities and of the general public. Why was the car on an isolated road? Had he been drinking? (Mr. Kennedy testified at an inquest that he had had two drinks.) What sort of relationship did Mr. Kennedy and Miss Kopechne have? Could she have been saved if he had sought help immediately? Why did the senator tell his political advisers about the accident before reporting it to the police?
The controversy became so intense that Mr. Kennedy went on television to ask Massachusetts voters whether he should resign from office. He conceded that his actions after the crash had been "indefensible." But he steadfastly denied any intentional wrongdoing.
His constituents sent word that he should remain in the Senate. And little more than a year later, he easily won re-election to a second full term, defeating a little-known Republican, Josiah A. Spaulding, by a three-to-two ratio. But his heart did not seem to be in his work any longer. He was sometimes absent from Senate sessions and neglected his whip duties. Senator Byrd, of West Virginia, took the job away from him by putting together a coalition of Southern and border-state Democrats to vote him out.
That loss shook Mr. Kennedy out of his
Turmoil at Home
In the next decade, Mr. Kennedy expanded on his national reputation, first pushing to end the war in Vietnam, then concentrating on his favorite legislative issues, especially civil rights, health, taxes, criminal laws and deregulation of the airline and trucking industries. He traveled the country, making speeches that kept him in the public eye.
But when he was mentioned as a possible candidate for president in 1972, he demurred; and when the Democratic nominee,
In 1973, his son Edward M. Kennedy Jr., then 12, developed a bone cancer that cost him a leg. The next year, Mr. Kennedy took himself out of the 1976 presidential race. Instead, he easily won a third full term in the Senate, and Jimmy Carter, a former one-term governor of Georgia, moved into the White House.
In early 1978, Mr. Kennedy's wife, Joan, moved out of their sprawling contemporary house overlooking the Potomac River near McLean, Va., a Washington suburb. She took up residence in an apartment of her own in Boston, saying she wanted to "explore options other than being a housewife and mother." But she also acknowledged a problem with alcohol, and conceded that she was increasingly uncomfortable with the pressure-cooker life that went with membership in the Kennedy clan. She began studying
The separation posed not only personal but also political problems for the senator. After Mrs. Kennedy left for Boston, there were rumors that linked the senator with other women. He maintained that he still loved his wife and indicated that the main reason for the separation was Mrs. Kennedy's desire to work out her alcohol problem. She subsequently campaigned for him in the 1980 race, but there was never any real reconciliation, and they eventually entered divorce proceedings.
Although Mr. Kennedy supported Mr. Carter in 1976, by late 1978 he was disenchanted. Polls indicated that the senator was becoming popular while the president was losing support. In December, at a midterm Democratic convention in
"Sometimes a party must sail against the wind," he declared, referring to Mr. Carter's economic belt-tightening and political caution. "We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs."
Mr. Kennedy did not then declare his candidacy. But draft-Kennedy groups began to form in early 1979, and some Democrats up for re-election in 1980 began to cast about for coattails that were longer than Mr. Carter's.
After consulting advisers and family members over the summer of 1979, Mr. Kennedy began speaking openly of challenging the president, and on Nov. 7, 1979, he announced officially that he would run. "Our leaders have resigned themselves to defeat," he said.
The campaign was a disaster, badly organized and appearing to lack a political or policy premise. His speeches were clumsy, and his delivery was frequently stumbling and bombastic. And in the background, Chappaquiddick always loomed. He won the New York and California primaries, but the victories were too little and came too late to unseat Mr. Carter. At the party's nominating convention in New York, however, he stole the show with his "dream shall never die" speech.
With the approach of the 1984 election, there was the inevitable speculation that Mr. Kennedy, who had easily won re-election to the Senate in 1982, would again seek the presidency. He prepared and planned a campaign. But in the end he chose not to run, saying he wanted to spare his family a repeat of the ordeal they went through in 1980. Skeptics said he also knew he could not fight the undertow of Chappaquiddick.
A Full-On Senate Focus
Freed at last of the expectation that he should and would seek the White House, Mr. Kennedy devoted himself fully to his day job in the Senate, where he had already led the fight for the 18-year-old vote, the abolition of the draft, deregulation of the airline and trucking industries, and the post-Watergate campaign finance legislation. He was deeply involved in renewals of the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing law of 1968. He helped establish the
When Republicans took over the Senate in 1981, Mr. Kennedy requested the ranking minority position on the Labor and Public Welfare Committee, asserting that the issues before the labor and welfare panel would be more important during the Reagan years.
In the years after his failed White House bid, Mr. Kennedy also established himself as someone who made "lawmaker" mean more than a word used in headlines to describe any member of Congress. Though his personal life was a mess until his remarriage in the early 1990s, he never failed to show up prepared for a committee hearing or a floor debate.
His most notable focus was civil rights, "still the unfinished business of America," he often said. In 1982, he led a successful fight to defeat the Reagan administration's effort to weaken the Voting Rights Act.
In one of those bipartisan alliances that were hallmarks of his legislative successes, Mr. Kennedy worked with Senator
Perhaps his greatest success on civil rights came in 1990 with passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which required employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accommodation" for the disabled.
When the bill was finally passed, Mr. Kennedy and others told how their views on the bill had been shaped by having relatives with disabilities. Mr. Kennedy cited his mentally disabled sister, Rosemary, and his son who had lost a leg to cancer.
Mr. Kennedy was one of Bill and
But he kept pushing incremental reforms, and in 1997, teaming with Senator Hatch, Mr. Kennedy helped enact a landmark health care program for children in low-income families, a program now known as the
He led efforts to increase aid for higher education and win passage of Mr. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act. He pushed for increases in the federal minimum wage. He helped win enactment of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, one of the largest expansions of government health aid.
He was a forceful and successful opponent of the confirmation of
Mr. Bork's "extremist view of the Constitution," Mr. Kennedy said, meant that "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, and schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of Americans."Some of Mr. Kennedy's success as a legislator can be traced to the quality and loyalty of his staff, considered by his colleagues and outsiders alike to be the best on Capitol Hill.
"He has one of the most distinguished alumni associations of any U.S. senator," said Ross K. Baker, a political scientist at
Those who have worked for Mr. Kennedy include
A Place in History
Mr. Kennedy "deserves recognition not just as the leading senator of his time, but as one of the greats in its history, wise in the workings of this singular institution, especially its demand to be more than partisan to accomplish much," Mr. Clymer wrote in his biography.
"The deaths and tragedies around him would have led others to withdraw. He never quits, but sails against the wind."
Mr. Kennedy is survived by his wife, known as Vicki; two sons, Edward M. Kennedy Jr. of Branford, Conn., and Representative
Mr. Kennedy is also survived by a sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, of New York. On Aug. 11, his sister
Their little brother Teddy was the youngest, the little bear whom everyone cuddled, whom no one took seriously and from whom little was expected.
He reluctantly and at times awkwardly carried the Kennedy standard, with all it implied and all it required. And yet, some scholars contend, he may have proved himself the most worthy.
"He was a quintessential Kennedy, in the sense that he had all the
"If his father, Joe, had surveyed, from an early age up to the time of his death, all of his children, his sons in particular, and asked to rank them on talents, effectiveness, likelihood to have an impact on the world, Ted would have been a very poor fourth. Joe, John, Bobby ... Ted.
"He was the survivor," Mr. Ornstein continued. "He was not a shining star that burned brightly and faded away. He had a long, steady glow. When you survey the impact of the Kennedys on American life and politics and policy, he will end up by far being the most significant."
A picture caption on Thursday with the continuation of the obituary of Senator Edward M. Kennedy misidentified two of his sisters and omitted a third in some editions. Shown in the picture, of the Kennedy clan in 1934, were front row, from left: Patricia, Rose, Joe (holding 2-year-old Edward), Rosemary, Eunice and Kathleen. (In some editions, Eunice's name was omitted, and in some editions Rosemary and Kathleen were reversed.)
An article last Sunday about the death of Edward M. Kennedy in August misstated the length of his tenure in the Senate. He served 47 years, not 46 years. (The error appeared in Mr. Kennedy's obituary and another article, about memories of the Senator, on Aug. 27, and also in an editorial that day. The error was repeated in an article on Aug. 28 about how the Senate had changed during the time he served.) The article also referred incorrectly to the assassination of his brother President John F. Kennedy. The president was assassinated in 1963, the year after Edward Kennedy was elected to the Senate — not the same year.
An article on Dec. 27 about the death of Edward M. Kennedy in August referred incorrectly to the assassination of his brother President John F. Kennedy, and a correction in this space last Sunday erroneously corrected the length of his tenure in the Senate. The president was assassinated in 1963, the year after Edward Kennedy was elected to the Senate — not the same year. And as the article correctly reported, Senator Kennedy served 46 years — not 47 as the correction said. (The correction also erred in stating that the length of tenure was incorrect in Mr. Kennedy's obituary, in two other articles on Aug. 27 and Aug. 28 and in an editorial on Aug. 28. All four correctly reported the tenure as 46 years.)


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Commercial whaling is a very controversial. The question whether or not to whale is an issue with many factors. Commercial whaling is the focus of a debate between pro-whaling nations such as Japan and Norway and anti-whaling nations like Australia, United States and the UK. Both sides present justifiable arguments both for and against commercial whaling
Arguments for whaling
Countries such as Japan, Greenland, Iceland and Norway claim they are reliant on whaling for economic and cultural reasons.Whale meat provides a key source of protein in the diet and the sale of whale meat and products made from whales provides an economic foundation for these communities. These societies are centred on a cultural tradition of whaling. This small-scale coastal whaling is prohibited by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Some argue this is causing continuing social and economic hardship for people whose traditional customs and lifestyle directly relate to the whaling culture.
Japan claims that small-scale exploitation of whales pose no threat to whale populations yet is critical to the survival of their society.
Japan along with many nations have a long history and tradition of whaling and it is part of their culture. Anti-whaling countries such as Australia, the UK and the United States are accused of cultural ignorance in their ongoing opposition to commercial whaling. Japan argues that this cultural bias is based on Western societies norms and political prejudice against whaling. The projection of the Western world's anti-whaling beliefs onto traditional whaling nations is seen to infringe on the rights of those nations.
Some argue that whaling is an ecologically sustainable industry, which uses a plentiful marine resource to support a growing human population. Whaling nations say it causes minimal environmental damage when compared to the land based agricultural industries of westernised nations like the United...


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Below are some possible scenarios and locations of sexual harassment at the workplace. However, every employee's experience is unique. If you feel you have been or are being sexually harassed, contact the Los Angeles employee lawyers at our office.
Sexual Harassment of Employees at a Dentist's or Doctor's Office: Many dental and doctor's offices are small, somewhat intimate workplaces headed up by one or two dentist or doctors or doctors and staffed by one or two support staff members who may perform multiple roles, such as receptionist, biller, medical assistant, and dental assistant. The dentist or doctor or doctor may work closely with the employees over a full day, and, over time, can develop inappropriate interests in and take increased liberties with the staff, beginning with what may seem like casual conversations about their personal lives, in order to get an idea about who may be least resistant to potential sexual advances and ultimately manipulation to engage in conversations about the assistant's own sexual experiences and sex life at home. The dentist or doctor can claim experience education about sexuality and human relationships, and to pretend to have the assistant's interests at heart. The dentist or doctor can talk about personal sexual issues as a way to appear more "normal" in an attempt to open a door to make these inappropriate conversations about sex seem acceptable, since everyone is equal and has personal problems.
These sexual topics of conversation will likely make an assistant feel uncomfortable, but because the dentist or doctor tries to sell it as only conversation and taking a clinical interest in the assistant's well-being, the assistant may find a way to rationalize the potentially harassing behavior and not bother to complain about it at first. In fact, there may be no one to complain to, no human resources department, and no office manager. Or if there is an office manager, that person might not see things as the assistant does and ultimately do nothing about the harassment.
Another result of the dentist or doctor's office's close quarters is the increased potential for inadvertent physical contact, both around the dentist's chair or doctor's examination table and in the small office spaces and narrow halls. This can be used as an excuse for the dentist or doctor to "accidentally" bump into or brush up against an assistant, first seemingly innocently and with contact only between non-sexual parts of the body, such as the bumping of shoulders together or the touching of the assistant's arm with an elbow, just to see what the reaction will be. Later, the doctor or dentist can explain away any further contact with other body parts as more of the same. This contact can escalate and ultimately lead to flagrant groping and explicit requests or even demands for sexual favors, especially if the dentist or doctor feels protected from any retaliation for this behavior.
In fact, an assistant who decides at some point that these unwanted comments and touching will no longer be tolerated and tells the dentist or doctor to stop may be fired for some made-up reason in retaliation for refusing to accept the advances. Each case of sexual harassment is different. If you feel that you have been sexually harassed during your work at a dentist's or doctor's office, contact the Los Angeles employment law firm, for a free consultation.
Sexual Harassment of Employees at a Bar or Restaurant: Part of working in a restaurant or bar as a server or bartender often includes a struggle for hours. Most servers work part time for at or barely above minimum wage and rely on customers' tips to make up for the limited available hours and low pay rate. This makes a scheduling manager or supervisor a person with a potentially powerful position who can make life financially difficult for a server with a stroke of a pen on a calendar. In such situations, a manager or supervisor might imply an increased willingness to provide more hours to the server or bartender in exchange for a date. Or, in an equally insidious manner, the manager could take advantage of the power imbalance and make inappropriate physical contact with the server's body, brushing up against or groping in passing. This contact can escalate to flagrant grabbing of body parts or reaching and groping under the clothing, as the manager or supervisor or owner feels able to get away with just about anything due to the server's dependence on getting enough work hours to make a living, and the feeling that there are few work opportunities outside the present job, so quitting is not an option.
Often stories are passed around in a workplace about servers who complain about sexual harassment by a manager or supervisor and wind up being fired as a result, and that leaves the server in a vulnerable position that must be tolerated. If you are in such a situation and have anticipated quitting the job because you are unable to handle how you have been treated on the job, or if you have quit, we invite you to give us a call. Our office has years of experience pursuing sexual harassment cases.
As a work environment, many restaurants, especially large ones with many line cooks, prep cooks, dishwashers, table bussers, servers, hosts, and cashiers, tend to be rowdy. Like a college campus, a work place where a large group of employees working together is a breeding ground for inappropriate talk and behavior. These employees find that the line between slightly off-color joking around, inappropriate topics of conversation and improperly intimate questions blurs during the course of a shift, especially in the down time between meal time rushes. Some employees may joke among themselves about their sexual prowess or discuss the size of their body parts. They may also make no secret of their sexual interest in one or more of their coworkers, or comment on the size and shape of their body parts. They may feel that as long as it's "just talk," employees who hear this talk have no place complaining about it, as no one making a direct come-on. However, such talk may become vulgar and frequent enough to make the other coworkers uncomfortable enough to complain to their direct supervisors. Sometimes, though, these direct supervisors may also take part in the inappropriate behavior and therefore either do nothing about it; or they may argue that, since no one has touched anyone inappropriately or made direct comments about anyone directly, the coworkers need to just accept things as they are or quit. An argument might be made that all coworkers are perceived as part of a team and should understand and accept that people will talk this way just to make the work place more tolerable. A large restaurant may conduct an official investigation if someone complains about sexual harassment to a corporate office or Human Resources, but with no concrete response due to what they consider lack of concrete evidence or lack of willingness of some of the other coworkers to complain about the behavior out of fear of losing hours – and the behavior may continue. If you find yourself in a situation where you have nowhere to turn for help within your employer and you think the only way to escape this environment is to quit, contact the Los Angeles sexual harassment lawyer as you have rights.
A restaurant's kitchen, food prep areas and dishwashing station also tend to have limited space for the number of employees working in them, so working in those areas can lead to various types of incidental contact as workers move among the various work stations. Harassers can exploit the close proximity to "accidentally" grope a coworker in ways that they can try to argue was not deliberate. The harasser may grab the coworker's hips to claim to prevent an accident from occurring. However, repeated contact makes it clear that there is inappropriate intent behind it. Yet the employee may feel that proving the sexual harassment and therefore may not complain until the touching escalates to the groping or squeezing of body parts. In some situations, this conduct is provable, such as when there are surveillance cameras recording these incidents. This is often not the case, however. Habitual harassers know how to keep their actions unobserved and therefore difficult to prove, and this can make it seem like complaining about the harassment will cause more trouble and not result in any improvement in the situation. If you are being harassed , contact the Los Angeles employee lawyers for a free consultation.
Sexual Harassment of Employees on the Factory or Assembly Line: Another problem arises in workspaces such as factories and assembly lines, where an aggressive environment develops over time among not only the coworkers but also among the ranks of the supervisors. Current employees or supervisors will find a victim, perhaps a new employee whom they perceive as weaker or less aggressive, to harass as a way to assert dominance. They will make mock sexual advances toward their target, take pictures of the coworker's body from behind with their cell phones, grab their own groin areas and leer and smile, or even grab the targeted coworker's body parts and laugh. If the coworker reacts aggressively by shoving or even hitting one of the others, that could lead to termination for allegedly causing the altercation. In response to complaints about this treatment, management might just tell the complaining employee to "deal with it" or "take it," suggesting or stating outright that they all are just joking around, that they are not actually participating in sexual harassment because there is no sexual intent behind their actions. It may be seen as a sort of hazing of the relatively new employee, a way of indoctrination into a certain way of interacting with the crew.
Management might even imply that the reason the employee is complaining just a problem of not being a "good fit" with this particular employer and that the employee would be happier working elsewhere. Management may find it an inconvenience to deal with the inappropriate behavior of a group of employees, so it is easier for managers to discipline or terminate the one who complains. If you have considered complaining about your situation on the job, or if you have complained about the harassment and have been terminated, contact the Los Angeles employment lawyer.
Sexual Harassment of Employees in a Warehouse: A warehouse is often a huge, maze-like workspace with areas where workers can find themselves quite isolated at times while performing inventory or some other task that requires minimal staff in the far-reaching sections of the warehouse. During this time, an employee may be propositioned by a coworker or direct supervisor to meet outside of the workplace. Rejection of the initial proposal sometimes does not mean an end to that type of interaction. In fact, the harassment can escalate to physical contact, such as attempts by the supervisor to hug the employee or stroking the employee's hair and body despite all protests.
During conversations, workers, leads and supervisors in a warehouse may participate in rough, often vulgar conversation. This creates an environment that makes some of their coworkers feel uncomfortable or even unsafe, especially in the more remote, isolated corners of the warehouse, where more aggressive, invasive forms of sexual harassment can occur.
The challenge in this kind of job is that there is at times pressure for employees to try to create personas for themselves as "just another one of the team," in the hopes that if they are seen this way and therefore respected, they will be protected from potential harm when they are in a position to be groped, aggressively propositioned, or otherwise sexually harassed by other coworkers when they feel they can do so without observation. They may also be threatened that, should they complain about the harassment, the harasser can take advantage of connections with management to create some false reason to fire anyone who complains.
In some cases some employees and supervisors and management can create bonds that may take precedence over a company's sexual harassment policy. Supervisors and managers may find it easy for them to disbelieve someone who complains about being sexually harassed. The most they may do is rearrange the staffing so that the complaining employee no longer works in close quarters with the harasser, yet continues to be forced to interact with that person at other times in the day. Such a position may lead an employee to want to quit the job. If you are in this position, or if you have already quit or been fired, contact the Los Angeles employee lawyer. Workers in Los Angeles have the right not to be sexually harassed at work.
Sexual Harassment of Employees During Business Outings: Many employers will have a number of their employees participate in group corporate outings, retreats, or conventions out of town, and the company will arrange for staff accommodations in a common hotel at or near where the events are scheduled to take place. These occasions frequently involve work-related activities during the day and socializing / networking events in the evenings. The combination of alcohol, the distance from home, and a kind of concentrated, loosened socialization outside the company's corporate structure can cause people to behave in a manner that is significantly different from that at the office. A tension develops between acknowledging the power differences between management and staff and enjoying the less formal social flow of a social gathering with an open bar.
A manager or executive may take advantage of this situation. The manager or executive can invite "select" employees to enjoy a "private party" in the relatively plush offerings of the executive suite, compared to the sparer rooms occupied by – maybe even shared by – the subordinates. The manager may use the position to manipulate the situation to be alone with one of the employees, hoping that the uninhibited consumption of alcohol has lowered the employee's inhibitions and made the employee more receptive to manipulation and seduction by praising the employee's work and implying the possibility of a raise or promotion within the company. The manager may encourage the employee to talk about personal relationships as an indirect way to find out about the employee's sexual life and experiences, or to just get the topic out there. The manager may also act drunk during this early stage to use as an excuse for the later, more blatant sexual advances. The manager may even attempt to increase the level of emotional intimacy with talk about personal issues before attempting to make the interaction physical through requesting or attempting an "innocent" shoulder massage, an offer that the coworker sleep in the suite rather than return to the employee's room, and ultimately caressing the employee's body, in a way that the manager hopes can be argued are collegial or comforting in nature.
If the employee ultimately fights back against the groping and leaves the suite, the employee may fear retaliation at work if the harassment is made public, and there may be concerns about how the events will reflect on the employee's own behavior. There may also be a change in the how the employee is treated at the company in response to a complaint about the harassment. In some cases the employee may be terminated shortly after complaining. You have rights in this situation. Contact the L.A. sexual harassment attorney for a free consultation.
Sexual Harassment of Employees at a Construction Site: Because the working social environment at a construction site has developed over hundreds of years to become famed for the presence of rough, frank, and often inappropriate talk, management often finds it difficult – or even unnecessary – to change to adapt to the changing demographics. Construction workers are still famous for their unabashed, sometimes explicit "cat-calling" toward people walking by the sites. This same attitude certainly exists internally as well, and if a construction worker confronts this sort of inappropriate sexual talk on a daily basis and complains to management about this harassment, there could be a backlash. The complaining employee could be identified as a minority voice interfering with the daily routine of the majority of the workers on the site. Under such circumstances, if the employee does not just "go along to get along," the management could find some pretext, could make up some criticism of the worker's performance on the job, and have the complaining employee terminated in order to pull the "bad apple" from the bunch. If this sounds like something that has happened to you or is happening to you, you have rights, contact the Los Angeles Employment lawyer for a free consultation.
Sexual Harassment of a Personal Assistant: L.A. is a big city for personal assistants. Major film and television actors, producers, authors, studio heads, corporate and other executives will hire an individual to take care of a number of personal tasks, including driving, shopping, scheduling meetings and social events. Child care sometimes figures into the job as well. This kind of job can generate a different kind of relationship between the employer and the assistant that the employer may take advantage of. The employer can take advantage of having some amount of fame and media-generated charisma and give the impression that an actual emotional bond, such as a close friendship, is being formed over the course of the employment. The employer may begin to treat the assistant like a friend. Or an older employer may convince the assistant that assistance is needed at a more intimate level, such as with bathing or changing clothes, even though it's not actually necessary. Frequently the employer attempts to use the potential for greater opportunities in the future by way of exposing the assistant – who often has aspirations in the industry in which the employer is a major figure – to important, influential people, as leverage, regardless of whether the employer intends to actually provide the assistant with any such an opportunity.
Each situation is different, but they all have the common potential element of an employer exploiting the vulnerability of the assistant, the close quarters, and the lack of oversight for sexual gain. Fear of termination by the employer and the subsequent loss of opportunities puts the assistant in a position of choosing between allowing the harassment to continue or to lose a potential avenue for professional advancement. Personal assistants have rights, including the right not to be sexually exploited or harassed. If you have a similar situation you have rights. Contact the Los Angeles sex harassment lawyer for a free consultation.
Sexual Harassment of Employees at a Retail Store: Retail stores, including food markets and department stores and large box stores, cover large amounts of territory and employ many people in many different positions, such as cashier, sales associate, shelf stocker, loss prevention officer, food server, and maintenance worker. These places are like small communities. The large number of employees and wide diversity of roles means that the potential for sexual harassment is elevated. In one such situation, a supervisor who has access to the video surveillance room in the store can take advantage of the technology to "stalk" a subordinate on the floor by calling the station where the employee works and making sexual comments while observing the subordinate on the screen. The supervisor may feel that the physical distance between them protects the supervisor from getting in trouble for commenting on the employee's body, as are the supervisor's attempts to joke around in attempt to make the employee feel less victimized by the comments and the awareness of being watched. Before the harassment begins in earnest, the supervisor may just call to "be friendly," to talk about personal relationships and other non work-related matters, just to pass the time when things are slow on the floor. Casual conversation is used as a toe in the door to more detailed, and then explicit questions about the employee's personal relationships and sexual experiences. This "friendly" talk can often move from brief phone chats over the store's communication systems to text messages via mobile phone saying things like "I like the view from up here" to repeated requests to spend time together in the monitor booth during a break when they can be alone, or to meet somewhere outside work hours for drinks or dinner. The supervisor may have convinced the employee to some degree that the supervisor was led on, and may find it difficult to justify complaining about the supervisor's behavior to Human Resources or to a manager. Furthermore, a complaint about the supervisor may lead to questions about the employee's own behavior.
Like many other jobs, retail staff members are "as-needed" employees who work whatever hours the store needs them to work and are in a struggle to get the needed hours and at times of the day that suit their personal and family schedules – they also often have to take on a second job to make a living and need their work hours to be compatible. This means that they are incentivized not to "rock the boat" by complaining about sexual harassment at the risk of losing hours or having the work schedule changed in a way that won't fit their lives. Also, the harasser may be in a position of favor with the supervisors or managers, so even if an investigation occurs after the harassed employee complains, unless there is concrete proof of repeated harassment, management might decide in favor of the harasser and "punish" the complainer by reducing or changing the work hours with the pretext of limiting interaction with the harasser. Or, the employer may wait a while and then terminate the complaining employee for an incident, mistake, or write-up that occurred in the past. Employees who have experienced this type of harassment and retaliation for complaining have rights. You can contact the Los Angeles sexual harassment attorney for a free consultation.Contact Us
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When the Rev. Serge de Schoulipnikoff was stationed at the cathedral
he assembled the few Catholic colored people in the city and organized
them into a congregation. They were now numerous however nor
financially strong enough to bear the burden of a separate parish,
so they attended services at St. Joseph's Cathedral. After the
departure of Father Schoulipnikoff the bonds of this little colored
flock were dissolved, and they separated to attend different parishes
until the Rev. John D. Biden again united them in a corporate
body in 1913. He bought a large dwelling on Michigan Avenue and
converted it into a chapel for the colored Catholics of Buffalo.
They were attended for some years from the cathedral until 1919
when their numbers warranted the services of a pastor of their
own, and the Rev. Father Butsch was appointed first resident pastor
of St. Augustine's in 1919. Father Butsch was pastor for four
years when he was followed by Fathers Hannigan, Neary and Kelly.
The Rev. J. J. Lally came in 1924 and is kept busy with the increasing
numbers of his flock.
Back to Buffalo Parishes.
Holly Timm
Cheektowaga, New York


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The importance of public opinion in immigration reform
State lawmakers across the country apparently are spending more time attempting to close budget gaps than they are in passing laws that would make life more difficult for illegal immigrants.
A recent National Conference of State Legislatures study said the shift away from immigration laws also has been influenced by court decisions that cast doubt on states' ability to regulate immigration.
I have to wonder whether there is a substantive shift in public opinion under way as well.
For instance, a Bloomberg poll released Tuesday shows big support — particularly among Democrats and independents — for President Obama's move to hit the "pause" button on potential deportations of young illegal immigrants who came to this country as children.
Independents favor the policy change 65 to 26 percent, and a whopping 86 percent of Democrats are on board. Some 56 percent of Republicans opposed the move.
In addition, a Pew Research Center Survey showed a steep drop in the importance that Americans attach to the issue of illegal immigration in this presidential election.
In January of 2007, 55 percent of those surveyed by Pew counted illegal immigration as an important policy issue. This past January, that dropped to 39 percent.
Perhaps that's a reflection of the decrease in illegal immigration that has come about from increased enforcement by the Obama administration and economic conditions that have made it less attractive for illegal immigrants to come here. Could be.
But I also wonder if there is a shift under way among mainstream Americans that could build a base for Congressional action to normalize life for those illegal immigrants who live here, work here and raise families here.
It's hard to imagine federal lawmakers passing legislation favorable to illegal immigrants any time soon, to be sure. But certainly a change in public opinion will be the first step.