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Werewolf Mystery Solving Game in Samurai World
〜The Shinsengumi captain cannot be a traitor〜
Any Shinsengumi Fan?✋
Another exciting event of Toei Kyoto Studio Park is here!
Enjoy night activities for a new sense of historical drama at Toei Kyoto Studio Park!
November 7th(Sun)
Start: 16:30
Target & Capacity
150 Foreigners living in Japan
Participation Fee
(Entrance to the park is also Free)
Application Form
※All participants are required to fill up the survey.
Toei Kyoto Studio Park
About the Game
Search the venue, find and solve the mystery, and use the answer to find out who the traitor is. An experience-based game with random elements where dificulty level and results change depending on the actions and reasoning power of the participants; with murder mysteries and immersive theatrical elements as its axis, this game is based on both mystery solving games and the werewolf game.
This event, based on the board game "The Werewolf", popular for enjoying conversation and reasoning, is inspired by the popular Shinsengumi(police force) movies and anime called the "Wolf of Mibu". The open film set of the Studio Park where the event is set, recalls Kyoto at the end of the turbulent Edo period, and was remade as an authentic three-dimensional version that you can experience as a soldier of that time.Story
Turmoils increase in Kyoto at the end of the Edo era. Satsuma, Choshu and other clans, the Fallen sect and the Samurai sect, everyone's thoughts are swirling around the city. The police force(Shinsengumi) which gained fame in the Ikedaya incident is in the midst of that. Vice commander Toshizo Hijikata is recruiting and training new soldiers to strengthen his military power to counter the rapidly expanding group of enemies. One day, it is announced that soldiers with particularly excellent results in battle will gather and report to their captains.Rookie soldiers are quite nervous in front of the four captains. Deputy Hijikata appears with shocking information. "Among the four captains there seems to be a traitor who is connected to the enemy!" Captains and soldiers deny it, but cannot hide their true emotions. "Because all of them have denied, we have no other choice but to reveal the traitor!" Hijikata then orders the soldiers to explore the city and find evidence about the traitor. Once he obtains as much information as possible he sets out on a night exploration of the city to finally smoke out the traitor.
①Deputy Director: Toshizo Hijikata
The Devil Vice Commander. He is willing to give up any forgiveness to keep the discipline of the Police force(Shinsengumi).
②First Captain: Hajime Okikura
The best sword wielder in the Police force(Shinsengumi). Kondo and Hijikata have been his comrades since they were in Tama.
③Second Captain: Tadasuke Hara
In the past, Hijikata has reproached him for problems with women.
④Third Captain: Sasaburo Budo
He formed the Goryo Guardians and mediated the police force(Shinsengumi) with Kashitaro Ito, who later left the corp.
⑤Fourth Captain: Genryusai Suzuta
Police force(Shinsengumi) tactician. Recently, he feels frustrated thinking that his military studies might be outdated.
Toei Kyoto Studio Park measures against COVID-19 infections
In order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the entire facility has been coated with "Kino Shield", a solution with antiviral and antibacterial effects.
Approximately 1,300 items, including the entirety of the 20,000 square meters of the Studio Park, as well as the kimono and costumes worn by the actors, are coated, for our guests to enjoy their experience in the Studio Park with an easy mind.
*This event is not hosted by jimomin
Application Form
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text: Shuttle's heat shield checked for space debris hits BY WILLIAM HARWOOD STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION Posted: March 22, 2008 The Endeavour astronauts carried out a final heat shield inspection Friday and prepared for a final spacewalk Saturday night to mount the shuttle's inspection boom on the space station's solar power truss for use by the next station assembly crew. Shuttle crews normally carry out so-called "late inspections" after undocking from the station. But the next assembly mission, scheduled for launch in late May, will deliver Japan's huge Kibo laboratory module to the station and there's not enough room in the shuttle Discovery's cargo bay for the module and an inspection boom. So Endeavour' boom will be mounted on the station during a fifth and final spacewalk Saturday and left behind for Discovery's crew to use and bring home. "We had an absolutely fantastic day today," said lead shuttle Flight Director Mike Moses. "This is something we've been working on for a very long time, a lot of people on the ground spent a lot of time getting this docked late inspection ready to go. The crew executed perfectly. They actually went faster than we thought. "The starboard wing (inspection) was a brand new procedure and we literally started by scanning up on top of it and then pulling the arm the whole way out, underneath the orbiter, sticking it under the belly and scanning the bottom half. So that was a very complicated set of maneuvers and to sequence all that together went fantastic." The data collected during the inspection will be analyzed on the ground to make sure Endeavour's critical nose cap and wing leading edge panels have not been struck by orbital debris since a similar inspection the day after launch. Assuming no problems are found, 50-foot-long inspection boom will be mounted on the station's solar power truss. "That sensor boom is going to be left on station because the following mission is going to deliver the next portion of the Japanese laboratory," said spacewalker Robert Behnken in a NASA interview. "That module is a very large module and there's actually not room in the shuttle payload bay to launch both that module and this sensor boom on the same shuttle flight. "So to provide the inspection capability to allow that next shuttle mission to be able to inspect their thermal protection system before they come back for re-entry, they're going to need to have a sensor boom. They can't bring their own and so our flight is going to do an inspection late in the mission and then we'll stow the boom during our EVA 5 on the ISS and hook up the power to it and it'll be all ready for those guys when they actually arrive and install the Japanese module." Behnken and his crewmates were awakened today by a recording of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" radioed up from mission control. "Good morning Endeavour. And good morning to you, Dr. Bob," astronaut Al Drew called from Houston. "Good morning, Alvin. I hope everything's going great down there," Behnken replied. "Thanks for that great wakeup music and I'd like to thank my fiance for choosing that for me. I just want to tell her I miss her and I can't wait to get back and see her here in a couple of days." "Thanks for the good words, Bob. The music has got us awake down here, I'm sure that shook you out of bed as well." "It did, Al. Thanks!" Along with carrying out the late heat shield inspection, the astronauts also plan to move an experiment rack from the U.S. Destiny laboratory to the European Space Agency's new Columbus research lab. The work will take about four hours to complete. "Four hours seems like a long time to move a rack from one location to another," said station Flight Director Ginger Kerrick. "This is a special rack, it has an active rack (vibration) isolation system and there are a lot of individual pieces of hardware that the crew is going to have to remove in order to (move) that rack. A standard rack relocation, you would power down the rack, you would remove all the electrical connectors, you'd remove all the thermal connectors, the vacuum system connectors. But this rack has all those additional pieces of hardware that are designed to isolate the experiments inside from the effects of any (vibration) that may be going on in the space station, for example, running on the treadmill or using the exercise bike." In one other bit of news, Kerrick said engineers are still looking into a glitch involving the Canadian Space Agency's Dextre maintenance robot. During testing after the robot's assembly, one of its joints did not operate as expected. "We positioned arm 2 of the SPDM (special purpose dexterous manipulator) in a good location that would provide the EVA crew access to remove the thermal cover on (the hand of) arm number two," Kerrick said. "After we repositioned the arm, we sent the crew to bed and the ground team proceeded with performing some checkouts that were not performed when we originally relocated SPDM to the lab. And that check out was to test out an alternate power path through the PDGF (lab power and data grapple fixture). We have a primary path and an alternate. We had powered up on the primary and just wanted to make sure the alternate power path worked. "Well, the alternate power path did work. But when we repowered up the SPDM, the shoulder roll joint on its arm number two did not know what position it was in. And this was the exact same joint we had just repositioned for the EVA. We power cycled again and were not able to talk to it. The software gave us the message 'unknown position.' We have some diagnostic tests we can run to help us figure out where inside that roll joint the problem is occurring. But we can't run the diagnostics test until we clear that message. So our CSA counterparts are off investigating whether or not we can uplink a software patch that will clear that message for us so we can run the appropriate diagnostics test. "But for right now, we had no other planned use of the arm. It was in a good config for the EVA. ... So still more work to be done on that, but no impact to the mission." Here is an updated timeline of today's activity (in EDT and mission elapsed time; includes revision I of the NASA television schedule): EDT........DD...HH...MM...EVENT 03/21/08 01:28 PM...10...11...00...Crew wakeup 04:03 PM...10...13...35...Heat shield sensor boom (OBSS) starboard wing survey 04:43 PM...10...14...15...Logistics transfers resume 05:23 PM...10...14...55...Experiment rack 3 transfer 06:33 PM...10...16...05...OBSS laser scan downlink 07:43 PM...10...17...15...OBSS nose cap survey 07:43 PM...10...17...15...OBSS mounting bracket assembly 09:08 PM...10...18...40...Crew meals begin 09:13 PM...10...18...45...OBSS port wing survey 10:23 PM...10...19...55...EVA-5: Tool config 11:00 PM...10...20...32...Mission status briefing on NASA TV 11:18 PM...10...20...50...Airlock prep 03/22/08 12:18 AM...10...21...50...OBSS laser scan downlink 12:58 AM...10...22...30...EVA-5: Procedures review 02:43 AM...11...00...15...EVA-5: Mask pre-breathe/tool config 03:33 AM...11...01...05...EVA-5: Airlock depress to 10.2 psi 03:58 AM...11...01...30...ISS crew sleep begins 04:28 AM...11...02...00...STS crew sleep begins 05:00 AM...11...02...32...Daily video highlights reel on NASA TV 09:30 AM...11...07...02...Flight director update on NASA TV 12:28 PM...11...10...00...Crew wakeup

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Dish: The Gregory's Cast Iron Banana Bread Pudding
Bread pudding is south Louisiana's quintessential dessert, but the downtown Watermark Hotel's stylish restaurant, The Gregory, prepares a standout version. Chef Chad Galiano uses French bread from Wayne's Bakery on Plank Road, a local purveyor that's been around for decades. Chunks of bread are blended with beaten eggs and cream along with a secret ingredient—mashed banana or butternut squash—to add depth of flavor. This time of year, it's banana. "We let them get really ripe, then we peel them and pop them in the freezer," says Galiano. "When you thaw them out, they're really sweet and syrupy." Each bread pudding is baked to order in an individual cast-iron pan in the restaurant's wood-fired oven, and finished with house-made caramel sauce. Galiano recommends pairing the timeless dessert with a cup of coffee or a shot of rum from The Gregory's ample bar.
The Gregory
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A former Los Angeles Rams head coach will be making his USFL debut this weekend - Jeff Fisher, now head coach of the Michigan Panthers.
Fisher coached the Rams for four and a half seasons from 2012 to 2016, and he helped orchestrate the team's relocation from St. Louis to Los Angeles. Interestingly enough, Fisher is the only head coach to assist in multiple NFL franchise relocations - he also helped the Houston Oilers move to Tennessee in 1997.
The former Rams coach notched a 31-45-1 record during his time with the team, but at the time of his departure from Los Angeles he tied Dan Reeves for the most career losses by a head coach in NFL history (165). Reeves coached 18 more games than Fisher over the course of his career, which represents more than a full season in today's NFL.
But things weren't all bad in Fisher's time with the Rams. The long-time NFL head coach took over a historically bad team in 2012, and while they never made it over the hump and became a legitimate contender, Fisher at least made them relevant.
Former number one overall draft selection Sam Bradford was a big draw when Fisher was deciding whether to join the Rams or the Miami Dolphins, but ultimately Fisher's time with the team was marred by multiple season-ending injuries to the franchise quarterback and the inability to find a replacement.
LA traded up to the number one overall selection in 2016 in order to select quarterback Jared Goff from California, but Goff struggled to find his footing on an already struggling offense. Fisher was fired in December of the 2016 campaign after signing a two-year contract extension just weeks before.
USFL Schedule
The USFL schedule kicks off on Saturday, April 16th with the New Jersey Generals taking on the Birmingham Stallions. The game is at 4:30pm PT.
The three games on Easter Sunday include:
- Houston Gamblers and Michigan Panthers - 9am PT
- Philadelphia Stars and New Orleans Breakers - 1pm PT
- Tampa Bay Bandits and Pittsburgh Maulers - 5pm PT
— USFL (@USFL) April 11, 2022
RT if you can't wait for kickoff this weekend pic.twitter.com/YUIKq6rtf7
Fisher's team - the Panthers - had the first selection in the USFL draft and they selected quarterback Shea Patterson from Michigan. Patterson will go head to head with Clayton Thorson of Northwestern (selected fifth overall). Thorson was drafted in the fifth round of the 2019 NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, though he never saw action during a regular season contest.
The USFL season is slated to be 10-weeks long with a post-season and championship game.
Yes, with only ten games it does make it mathematically impossible for Fisher's Panthers to finish 7-9 - though he could find a way to surprise us all.
Will you be watching the USFL opening games this weekend? Let us know in the comments below.


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Achoccha—Cyclanthera pedata L.1
Achoccha is also called wild cucumber, caihua, and korila. However, it is unlike the viny plant known as wild cucumber in Florida, a weed pest in lawns and around the home with miniature cucumber-like leaves and fruits.
Description and Use
Achoccha, which is rarely grown in Florida, does produce a trailing vine, but the leaves are segmented, usually with five further segmented lobes. The vine is stringy, quite long (up to 40 feet), and equipped with tendrils for climbing. The leaves are 4–5 inches wide and divided into several lobes, some of which are further divided into mini-lobes. Fruits produced in Mexico and the Caribbean resemble hollow cucumbers. They are elongated, 4–6 inches long, 2–3 inches wide, and hollow. The spongy pulp contains black seeds attached to the placenta in a manner similar to pepper. In fact, the fruits are eaten much like pepper pods, often stuffed and cooked, but also eaten raw.
Propagation is by seeds, and the vines are often trellised. Similar soil preparation and fertilization practices as for cucurbits should be used.
This author has not observed it to produce fruit in Florida when seeded in September and maturing in short days of a warm fall.


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With the resurgence of the song "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)", which was featured the fourth season of Stranger Things, the BBC released a 1985 Whistle Test interview with musician Kate Bush. Bush spoke with Richard Skinner about making the album Hounds of Love, which includes the song.
Kate Bush joins Whistle Test's Richard Skinner to discuss the making of her fifth album Hounds of Love, which features singles Running Up That Hill, The Big Sky and Cloudbusting.
They also released an earlier interview Bush did with Michael Aspel in 1978.


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The plant monitoring can be activated in WLAN mode over the module integrated in all hybrid inverters. Additional possibilities do appear by inserting the respective module into the dongle port on three-phase inverters. If you are not in the coverage area of a WLAN hotspot, the connection can be established directly to the 4G network by integrating the optional GPRS 4G module. In the presence of a LAN network, the connection is made over the special option module for the wired connection. In any case, a remote connection can be established by activating the most suitable interface for the user.
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Welcome to our 2018-19 annual report. On the cusp of concluding our divisional strategic plan entitled Reaching Vision 2020, the division refreshed its strategic focus areas to reflect organizational changes since 2015 when the plan was first authored. In that process, we realized the tremendous momentum towards accomplishing our goals and objectives. Since 2015, Reaching Vision 2020 has provided us with focus and accountability, creating opportunities and possibilities for our division while ensuring we keep our eye on our contributions to GSU's Vision 2020. As we near the end of our plan's implementation, we also focus on the future, and most notably, build on our momentum as we prepare for Strategy 2025.
While there was progress in the development and continuous improvement of our programs and services, GSU like most institutions in Illinois continues to experience enrollment declines. In our fifth year as a comprehensive institution, GSU enrolled 4,857 students, a decrease of 6.6% from 2017-18 largely due to significant declines in graduate and international students. We welcomed 203 students to our fifth freshmen class, retained 106 sophomores (53.3%) and maintained a near-capacity occupancy rate (96%) in Prairie Place – 267 students – for the fourth consecutive year.
A highlight of 2018-2019 was the completion of our second Kresge Foundation grant which focused on the dissemination of our nationally recognized Dual Degree Program, expansion of our Male Success Initiative – both on campus and at our community college partners − and establishment college-bound programs at high schools in our service region. Over the course of the three years, there were nearly a dozen presentations at peer-reviewed conferences and GSU hosted its second summer institute with 51 participants from 17 institutions. At GSU, the Male Success Initiative (MSI) recorded 50 participants in Fall 2018 with an impressive 97% persistence rate for Spring 2019. Additionally, GSU signed Memorandums of Understanding with Prairie State College, Moraine Valley Community College and South Suburban College to expand MSI programming at these key community college partners. Lastly, the College Pathways Program expanded its programming at Crete-Monee High School and signed Memorandums of Understanding with 3 Seeds Mentoring and the Gloria J. Taylor Foundation, community-based TRiO pro-grams. The College Pathways Program also launched its inaugural S2S Conference, a student-driven and student-led effort with both high school and college students helping to plan logistics and deliver the presentations.
Successful completion of the Kresge Foundation grant is just one of the many divisional highlights of the 2018-2019 academic year. This annual report provides information about the breadth of programs and services sponsored by our team of dedicated and talented student affairs educators and enrollment management professionals. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or com-ments about this report, or if you are interested in partnering with Student Affairs in creating or expanding programs and services for the Governors State University community.
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Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, "Annual Report 2018-2019" (2019). Student Affairs Reports. 5.


text: Chung, Kai Lai Reminiscences of some of Paul Lévy's ideas in Brownian motion and in Markov chains. (English) Zbl 0677.60002 Stochastic processes, Proc. 8th Semin., Gainesville/Florida 1988, Prog. Probab. 17, 99-107 (1989). [For the entire collection see Zbl 0659.00010.] This historical and mathematical essay is based not only on Lévy's works, but also on the author's corresponding previous activities. The following problems are considered: The paths in a general Markov chain, an example of a Markov chain with only stable states and no jumps at all, discontinuities being of the second kind, excursions of a Brownian motion, a resemblance of the Brownian motion to a Markov chain with a single sticky recurrent boundary, the Brownian motion recovered as a Poisson point process run by the local clock ("mesure du voisinage", local time). The polemic against the criticism of the lecture being the basis of this paper is added. Reviewer: P.Froněk MSC: 60-03 History of probability theory 01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century 60G05 Foundations of stochastic processes Keywords:excursions of a Brownian motion; sticky recurrent boundary Citations:Zbl 0659.00010 PDFBibTeX XML


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IRAQ: Violence continues across the country as Iraqi National assembly approves line-up of unity government
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IRAQ: Violence continues across the country as Iraqi National assembly approves line-up of unity government
- Title: IRAQ: Violence continues across the country as Iraqi National assembly approves line-up of unity government
- Date: 20th May 2006
- Summary: (BN04) SADR CITY BAGHDAD , IRAQ ( MAY 20 , 2006) ( REUTERS) PEOPLE GATHERED AT THE SITE OF THE BLAST DAMAGE AT THE SITE BLOOD PEOPLE AT THE SITE VICTIM SHOES MAN CRYING AND HUGGING HIS DEAD RELATIVE VARIOUS OF COVERED BODIES MAN CRYING COVERED BODIES
- Embargoed: 4th June 2006 13:00
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- Location: Iraq
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- Country: Iraq
- Topics: Defence / Military
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- Story Text: Violence continued across Iraq as Iraqi national assembly was approving a line-up of unity government .
A mortar landed in a Sunni mosque in western Baghdad on Saturday ( May 20 ) killing two and wounding three others , police and witnesses said .
The mortar hit Fakhri Ibrahim Shanshal mosque in Hay al Jihad district in western Baghdad while worshipper were leaving the mosque after the prayer .
A bomb exploded on British military vehicle in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Saturday (May 20) destroying the vehicle. Two British soldiers were injured in the bombing according to Iraqi police.
People in the district of Al Kzayazah gathered at the site after the blast and set the vehicle on fire. British troops rushed to the area.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed that the British-led multinational force troops in Basra, southern Iraq, had been involved in "an incident" at 12.18pm local time (9.18am British time). He could not say whether any British troops had been injured.
On Thursday (May 18) British Defence Secretary Des Browne met troops in Basra.
Meanwhile a bomb killed 19 people in east Baghdad among a crowd of Shi'ite labourers gathered to look for work on Saturday, hours before Iraq's parliament confirmed a new, national unity government in office.
Police said 58 others were wounded in the attack in the poor Sadr City district. It was typical of bombings by minority Sunni Islamist groups like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq.
Witnesses and police said the bomb appeared to have been planted in a spot where the attackers knew large crowds of men would gather shortly after dawn, hoping to be hired for a day's casual labour. Such spots have been targeted in the past.
A man beat his face with his hands as he hugged his dead brother lying on the floor. Survivors rushed the wounded to hospital. A dozen bodies, their faces covered with cardboard, lay on the hospital garden.
In the town of Mussayib, 40 miles south of Baghdad, fifteen bodies were found, on Friday ( May 19) the Iraqi police said .
It was unclear when the 15 men, with bullet holes and signs of being tortured, had been killed .
Resident of Mussayib buried their dead on Saturday ( May 20).
Sectarian violence has jumped dramatically since the bombing of a major Shi'ite Muslim shrine in February. The U.S. military estimates attacks on civilians have doubled since the bombing.
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The Abnormal marketing team has an immediate opening for a Field and Channel Marketing Manager who is dynamic, energetic, and organized. Marketing specialties should include: Field Marketing, Channel Marketing, Marketing Programs & Campaigns, Demand Generation, and Marketing Project Management.
The Field & Channel Marketing Manager (FCMM) is responsible for creating and delivering regional and channel marketing plans and programs that may include trade shows, industry conferences, seminars, lunch-n-learns, exec dinners, user groups, 3rd party media sponsorships, webinars and ABM. Working closely with the sales organization, this role ensures that Marketing and Sales are aligned on the key activities needed to deliver regional sales and business targets.
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- Bachelor's Degree in Marketing or equivalent experience
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The economic incompetence of Republican presidents
One hears many strange things nowadays, not least because "they" (a complicated term) are flooding the zone with misinformation. Without a shared set of facts upon which to base ethical and policy debates, democracy inevitably breaks down. The system's virtue lies in its unique ability to elevate and consider a broad range of ideas emanating from society. Ideally, through a good-faith exchange of arguments and a weighing of the alternatives, a majority of voters converges on the best course of action.
But we have lost one of the most basic conditions for this process to work properly: a reality-based public sphere. While there were always deep, even intractable, disagreements in the past, people at least were talking about the same thing. One could watch the Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates and decide which figure was more trustworthy and convincing without being buffeted by a wave of informational manipulation and distortion.
One increasingly prevalent piece of misinformation holds that the United States will face a monumental trade-off on Election Day. On one hand, electing a Democrat as president will mean that America no longer has a government that abducts children and permanently breaks up families just because it can. On the other hand, putting Democrats in power is supposedly risky for the economy, because the GOP is the party of business.
The Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan recently framed the election this way, before complaining that Joe Biden "shouldn't be seated in a handsome chair waiting for the crown to be passed, or going out for ice cream in a mask like John Dillinger on the lam." After seeing Democratic vice presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, dancing onstage at a campaign rally, Noonan concludes that, "It was embarrassing … If you can't imitate gravity, could you at least try for seriousness?"
But it is a false choice. No one has been more embarrassing to the US than President Donald Trump, and the GOP has no claim on sound economic management. As economists Alan S. Blinder and Mark W. Watson showed in a 2015 paper:
"The superiority of economic performance under Democrats rather than Republicans is nearly ubiquitous; it holds almost regardless of how you define success. By many measures, the performance gap is startlingly large – so large, in fact, that it strains credulity."
In terms of annualized real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth, for example, Blinder and Watson find that Democrats outperform Republicans by "1.8 percentage points in postwar data covering 16 complete presidential terms – from [Harry] Truman through [Barack] Obama." Were this analysis to be extended back through the eras of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the gap would grow to about three percentage points per year. But it is also worth noting that, prior to the COVID-19 crisis, Trump presided over unusually strong growth (that is, for a Republican administration) during his first three years, when the US economy matched the average 2.4% annual growth rate achieved during Obama's second term.
Blinder and Watson are flummoxed as to where this performance gap comes from. They consider the roles played by stronger fixed investment, greater consumer optimism (and thus higher spending on durables), fewer unfavorable oil shocks, and faster growth abroad. But these factors explain less than half of the gap. And no, the answer is not that Democrats, unlike Republicans, tend to pursue over-inflationary policies that borrow growth from future generations.
When I first encountered Blinder and Watson's paper, I suspected that the oil factor was the critical issue. The Republican administrations of George H.W. Bush and then George W. Bush – as well as those of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, with Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State – were deeply confused about whether a high or a low oil price would be better for US real income growth. By contrast, other administrations had not hesitated to keep oil prices low when they could.
In any case, US history over the past century strongly suggests that Republicans simply have no idea which economic policies are likely to work at any given time. In the 2000s, for example, it seems never to have occurred to Bush or his advisers that under-regulation could produce a catastrophic financial crisis.
Moreover, in the 1980s, it seems never to have occurred to Ronald Reagan and his advisers that creating massive federal budget deficits would lead either to a collapse in investment or a commensurate increase in external borrowing. This was when the US started importing much higher volumes of manufactured goods, thus turning the Midwest industrial base into the Rust Belt. Finally, it seems never to have occurred to Nixon and his advisers that low interest rates combined with wage and price controls could keep both inflation and unemployment low.
In light of these failures, Trump has played true to type. After calling the North American Free Trade Agreement the worst trade deal in American history and the Trans-Pacific Partnership the second-worst, his administration has merely added various TPP provisions to NAFTA, given the agreement a new name, and pronounced America "great again." Trump has also launched a full-bore trade war against China, promising that it would be "good, and easy to win."
What have these policies achieved? There has been no improvement in US manufacturing employment, the manufacturing trade deficit has widened, and US consumers' real incomes have fallen now that they are bearing the costs of import tariffs. Clearly, neither Trump nor his trade advisers have any clue how to conduct a trade war.
This should surprise no one. Republican administrations have been failing at economic policymaking at least since the 1920s. The only choice this Election Day is between a return to sound economic management and a continuation of glaring incompetence.
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Funding is essential for the growth and sustainability of church ministries and projects. While traditional fundraising methods have their place, exploring creative and innovative approaches can inspire generosity and engage your congregation more effectively. In this article, we will explore various creative ways to raise funds for your church ministries and projects, strengthening your community's ability to make a positive impact.
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Organize themed fundraising events that resonate with your congregation. Whether it's a Hawaiian luau, a retro dance party, or a costume gala, themed events can generate excitement and engagement. Charge admission fees or sell tickets to raise funds while providing a memorable experience for attendees.
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Implement a monthly subscription donation model, where congregation members commit to regular monthly contributions. This steady source of income can provide stability for ongoing church ministries and projects. Offer different subscription levels with varying benefits to incentivize participation.
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Move beyond traditional auctions and introduce unique elements. Consider silent auctions, where participants place bids secretly, or reverse auctions, where the lowest unique bid wins. Auction off experiences, such as a dinner with the pastor or a church tour, to add excitement.
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Embrace digital engagement tools, such as text-to-give platforms, mobile apps, or online giving portals. Make it easy for congregants to donate directly from their smartphones or computers, even during services or events.
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Super Bowl: Manning will be the key today
Published 12:00 am Saturday, February 3, 2007
By Dave Goldberg
Associated Press
MIAMI — Forget the perception that the Chicago Bears are mere patsies for Peyton Manning.
They have a decent chance at winning today's Super Bowl against the Colts. Really.
Maybe these guys aren't quite the Monsters of the Midway — under today's rules, Brian Urlacher might get flagged just for breathing on Manning. But their defense can still be pretty scary.
"The Bears have a way of turning first-and-10 into second-and-15 into third-and-20," Tony Dungy said this week.
Yes, the Colts are seven-point favorites despite the Bears' 13-3 regular-season record, second best in the NFL to San Diego's 14-2. There's a simple reason: It's not the Bears who are the underdogs; it's the NFC, which was as bad this season as the AFC was good. Its final four of Indy, New England, San Diego and Baltimore likely would be favored over any of the NFC semifinalists.
Beyond that, these Colts are following a path similar to one taken by a team Manning wants to emulate: the 1997 Denver Broncos.
Those Broncos were eliminated in their first game in 1996 after clinching home field with a month to go. And like this year's Colts, who lost four of its last seven games, those Broncos struggled a bit, making the postseason as a wild-card team before sweeping through the playoffs and beating Green Bay 31-24 in the Super Bowl.
Last winter, Manning made a point of talking to the two leaders of that team: John Elway and coach Mike Shanahan. Last summer, he suggested that it might not be a bad thing if the Colts had a lower profile for the 2006 season than they had in 2005, when they won their first 13 games.
"You've got a team that's a little ticked off," Manning said, referring to last year's playoff failure. "There are guys who will play that way. I think you need that to rebound from last season."
There's one more thing the Colts need to do to emulate those Broncos.
No, Manning is unlikely to do a spinorama for a first down, as Elway did in the signature play of that game.
But his gestures and waves at the line of scrimmage, often a ruse, may not be this time — he'll point at the holes in the Chicago defense at safety and defensive tackle, vacated by the injured Mike Brown and Tommie Harris.
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A remarkable book has been published in Colombia, the country of perplexing and endless fratricidal violence. First available in local bookstores nationwide for the 2001–2002 Christmas season and now in its eleventh printing, it is the "as told to" autobiography of Carlos Castaño, the man responsible for organizing, executing, or inspiring a good part of the twenty thousand or so politically motivated murders that have taken place in Colombia over the last ten years.
In 1994, following the death of his older brother Fidel, Carlos Castaño took over a small regional death squad. The older Castaño had founded the death squad in 1981 to avenge the kidnapping and alleged murder of their father, Jesús Castaño, by guerrillas of the FARC, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia. The Castaño family patriarch owned a prosperous ranch with about six hundred head of cattle in the hill country of Antioquia, a sort of Wild West where mining, violence, cattle ranching, gambling, and heavy drinking are inter-connected activities to this day. The family had friendly relations with the local FARC militants, who were often farmers or miners themselves; a couple of the Castaño boys even considered themselves leftist sympathizers and read publications like China Reconstructs admiringly.
Nevertheless, when the guerrillas decided to ambush Castaño Sr. at his ranch one night in 1979, they kicked him and called him a "sonofabitch oligarch," according to the ranch hands who witnessed the abduction. Carlos Castaño writes that the kidnappers initially demanded 50 million pesos in ransom money from Fidel. When Fidel, who ran the local bar in the town of Segovia and was a notably skillful cardsharp and smuggler, among other things, came up with the sum, the guerrillas demanded 50 million more. Then the father either died or was killed in captivity.
Although all dates and numbers involving the Castaño brothers are approximate, it seems that Fidel was thirty-one years old and Carlos fourteen when this traumatic event took place. By the time Fidel died in a guerrilla ambush, the organization he created to avenge his father's death had grown to some several hundred men. It was based primarily in the contiguous agricultural regions of Córdoba and Urabá but also in the Castaños' native departamento of Antioquia, where drugs are a notoriously big business (its capital is Medellín). From the beginning, the death squad found support among some parts of the military and the forces of public order. Credible rumor has it that in Córdoba Fidel Castaño was so popular among the troops that he used to land his helicopter on the roof of the local police garrisons. Notorious from its inception, the organization is always referred to in the press and even by its supporters as los paramilitares, or paras, but Carlos does not use the term in his book. He prefers autodefensas (self-defenders), as in Autodefensas Campesinas de Córdoba y Urabá, or ACCU, which became the nucleus of the coalition organization put together by Carlos Castaño some three years after he took over from Fidel.
This new, nationwide group, the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, or AUC, is currently said to be around ten thousand strong, extremely well equipped and well trained, and highly motivated. Both the AUC and the organization it was born to extinguish, the FARC, are amply financed by profits from the drug trade, which is entrenched in territories where the two enemy groups hold sway. In less than ten years, by means of terror, the AUC has effectively wrested control from the FARC in many parts of the country where the guerrillas used to be strong. Castaño's organization has proved immeasurably more efficient at this task than the Colombian army, under whose indifferent eye the FARC grew at a steady rate for decades.
The kidnapping and death of Jesús Castaño is the leitmotif threading together the account provided now by his son of his own remarkable life. Unlike his sworn enemy Manuel Marulanda, the elderly, laconic founder and surviving leader of the forty-year-old FARC, Carlos Castaño is anything but inscrutable. Not yet forty, voluble, volatile, self-obsessed, self-important, self- questioning, and remarkably shrewd, Castaño has turned into the author, and hero, of what is already one of Colombia's all-time best sellers. Because so many copies of the book are pirate editions, particularly those hawked on street corners, there is no way of knowing whether Castaño has outsold the living national monument, Gabriel García Márquez, or Deepak Chopra; if he hasn't done so yet, it may be only a question of time. Castaño's omnipresence on the Colombian political scene is unquestionable, and he is not likely to go away soon. Also, he is popular.
There is virtually no aspect of his book, as object or text, that is not fascinating. I have in my hands a copy of the first edition, which is a hardcover, a rarity in Latin America, where the market for books is small. It's an expensive edition, too, with a four-color, high-quality photo of the author on the dust jacket. And what a photo! A strong-jawed, determined man stares forthrightly out from the cover. He is wearing a camouflage uniform and a ranger hat; the national colors appear on the armband stitched on his sleeve. Standing against the backdrop of a breathtaking waterfall, his figure is framed by the enclosing jungle. When I showed the book to a young acquaintance of mine whose eyes sparkle whenever he hears the word "guerrilla," he became immediately star-struck. He took the news hard that the glamorous figure in the picture was actually the man who has made it his business in life to kill as many guerrillas as possible before he gets killed himself.
The canniest aspect of the book's presentation may be the title: Mi confesión. Whether Castaño or his writer, Mauricio Aranguren Molina, came up with it, it is a seductive and accurate description of the contents, for although Castaño tells a sordid story, in many chapters he appears to do so straightforwardly. He recounts his first murder in gruesome detail, and gives a step-by-step account of how in 1990 he set up the assassination of Colombia's leading left-wing presidential candidate, Carlos Pizarro, in a "true patriotic action." People generally write a confessional book when they are undergoing some sort of spiritual torment. It can be a way of coming to terms with oneself and the world, often in the face of approaching death, and one is tempted to feel sorry for Castaño that his present effort is so characteristically determined, and ultimately so unsuccessful.
How does a man who has with his own hands carried out the execution of possibly hundreds of what he calls "individual" or "multiple" "military objectives" console himself when his conscience keeps him awake at night, as it seems to do rather often? "You can't fool your conscience, which is the mirror of the soul," he says. "The exam I submit myself to isn't easy. But I still find relief when I conclude that the fault isn't mine; the blame belongs to those who kidnapped Dad." How does he see the principal differences between himself and his older, more impulsive, more pleasure-loving and adventurous brother? "I don't carry a grudge."
The book is full of similar assertions. He likes to sing, but prefers to recite poetry, particularly the idealistic left-wing verses of Mario Benedetti. He refers to "my intellectuals," who provide him with advice and reading lists. He objects to reporters and human rights investigators who accuse his troops of hacking their victims to death or dismembering them with a chainsaw: his men have always respected the fundamental human right to die in a dignified manner, with a bullet. Whether "there are some bodies which are cut in two or are mutilated in their extremities as a result of a volley of machine gun fire" is another matter.
Of his brother, Fidel, he says, "The war allowed him to do the two things he wanted most: attack the guerrillas and become a rich man." A fierce admirer of Israel, where he received military training, he says, "Golda Meir and my mother are for me, without any doubt, the women who represent the maximum in excellence of their sex." He takes issue with the cliché-ridden writing of tabloid journalists: "five minutes were enough to do away with the criminal" is what they always say, he complains, but "no, no, no! It took whole days of work and synchronization" to carry out a crime—in this case, the airport murder of a drug king who got on Castaño's bad side.
And yet one resists the impulse to laugh or shrug in disgust and toss the book aside, because along with the self-aggrandizing and twisted moral vision comes a good chunk of the secret history of Colombia, in which men like Castaño have always played a part, meeting in elegant hideaways with the country's most prominent businessmen and politicians, putting together deals or even hit lists with them; trading information and weapons with a guerrilla group and then turning on its leaders, or on one's former allies; engaging in drinking bouts with high-ranking military officials; working out the details of a joint operation in which left-wing activists or impoverished peasant supporters of the guerrillas will be eliminated, with information provided by the army and acted on by the paramilitaries, or vice versa.
In this shadow history, readers of Castaño's book learn that the M-19 guerrilla group, now disbanded, had friendly relations with the legendary cocaine exporter Pablo Escobar. In 1985 they mounted an assault on the Palacio de Justicia, or Justice Ministry, in which over one hundred people burned to death, including twenty-eight guerrilla commandos and twelve Supreme Court judges. The assault would prove their undoing; in its wake the organization was morally shattered (following a general amnesty in 1989, some of the survivors are active in parliamentary politics). The attack was financed by Escobar, with some weapons provided by Fidel Castaño. Or so says Carlos, who claims to have been present at the meeting where the assault was decided on.
Castaño also says that in the early days of the death squad, the brothers gained experience and prestige when they were called upon by a "Group of Six," half a dozen eminent and prosperous Colombians who discreetly provided the killers with a list of useful targets. Carlos describes back-room meetings in which a series of important politicians invited him to participate in a coup against then president Ernesto Samper, whom Castaño claims to despise on account of "his decision to accept money from the drug trade to finance his campaign."
Whether or not the younger Castaño brother was in fact present at these meetings, or even if they never took place, Carlos has an uncommonly good ear for dialogue. His actual credibility is of course the central question. Castaño fails to mention a large number of civilian massacres with which the family name or his organization has been linked. He denies participation in those he does mention, although in many cases survivors and eyewitnesses have implicated him, his brother, or his associates. However, when he describes incidents that I have any knowledge of, his information seems sound—if partial, or misleadingly interpreted. For example, Castaño accuses the young woman who was mayor of Segovia in 1989 of being a guerrilla collaborator, and of preventing him from transporting the family cattle across state lines and selling it without prior vaccination. I heard this story in the frightening town of Segovia from the mayor herself, when she was in the middle of the dispute with Castaño. Rita Tobón was a young and very beautiful woman. If she was not a guerrilla, she was certainly a sympathizer: she had run for office and been elected on the ticket of the FARC's official legal front, the Unión Patriótica.
Sitting in a greasy restaurant, flanked by armed bodyguards, picking at her barbecued chicken and understandably jumpy, she told me that Castaño would move his livestock out of Segovia over her dead body. Like many others I talked to then, she blamed the Castaños for one of the largest mass killings in Colombia's recent history, in which forty-five men, women, and children had been mowed down the previous year by a carful of masked men. (One of her bodyguards said that he was the survivor of an earlier Castaño-sponsored mass killing, presumably carried out as revenge against the entire territory in which the family patriarch had once been held in captivity.) Castaño denies any part in either of these atrocities in his book, but his curiously frank portrait of his older brother's early career as a small-time hoodlum coincides with what I learned about him in Segovia back then.
He also recalls in some detail the evening when his car overturned and he fractured his arm. He was in the company of a young woman who is the sister of an important FARC regional leader. She was at the time Castaño's kidnap victim but, as Castaño willingly admits, the two were having an affair. When I first heard this story from someone well acquainted with the inner workings of the autodefensas, it was more elaborate. All the details of the car accident were the same, with one important difference: in a sort of mutual Stockholm syndrome Castaño had, according to my source, fallen hopelessly in love with his kidnap victim, and the two had decided to run away together. The car accident, which could conceivably have been engineered by subordinates who got wind of Castaño's plan, my source said, convinced the leader to return to his true destiny.
Significantly, a number of the leading characters of recent Colombian history mentioned by name in Mi confesión have not yet challenged the author's version of events. For example, Castaño describes how Gabriel García Márquez recruited the former Spanish prime minister Felipe González to help the former outgoing president, Andrés Pastrana, put together a peace plan that had Carlos Castaño's approval. (The plan fell apart when the FARC rejected it.) García Márquez has denied neither the general story nor its particulars, as he took pains to do when a dreadful poem attributed to him circulated on the Web last year.
Similarly, Pablo Escobar's backing for the assault on the Palace of Justice has been convincingly reported before, notably by the Colombian journalist Ramón Jimeno. (Whether the raging fire in which so many perished was started by the army or the guerrillas has long been debated. No one will ever know the answer, but both Jimeno and Castaño argue that Escobar took an interest in the attack on the Supreme Court because its organizers in the M-19 promised to destroy the records of drug lords wanted for extradition in the United States.)* One of the more fascinating sections of the book describes in detail what has long been known: that Escobar died when Carlos Castaño finally had enough of his one-time business associate and devoted his full attention to the manhunt for Colombia's leading criminal. An ad hoc group he created, Los Pepes (short for Perseguidos por Pablo Escobar), led the chase, while Castaño himself, he states, regularly informed the police high command on what he could find out about Escobar's whereabouts.
In July, the US Congress acted to ease restrictions on the use of nearly $1.7 billion in drug-combat funds for Colombia, in order to make them available for anti-guerrilla and anti-military operations. Additional small amounts have also been approved to "protect US investment," like the pipeline transporting oil to its export point in the Caribbean, which guerrillas have enjoyed blowing up for years. Mostly, the recent legislation means that seventy brand-new helicopters can now be used to transport armed personnel to take part in combat and in surveillance operations. From Carlos Castaño's point of view, however, the most important recent change in policy is the decision of the Justice and State Departments to file requests for extradition to the US of both guerrillas and paramilitary leaders involved in drug trafficking. The first requests from Washington name a prominent FARC regional leader as well as one of Castaño's associates in the AUC. So far, nothing has been said about the extradition of Castaño himself, but one assumes this is not for lack of interest.
Castaño's book is thus, among other things, an ambitious attempt to fend off extradition by portraying himself as a politically motivated, morally concerned, patriotic freedom fighter who can also expound thoughtfully on the realities of the anti-insurgency struggle in Colombia. Yes, he says repeatedly, he and his organization financed their operations with money from coca grown and sold to traffickers in territory under the autodefensas' control. But look, there's a war on, and he's the only one who's really been fighting it.
Castaño has recently been engaged in a showdown with his regional commanders over issues of principle and leadership. During the last few months, he has been using the AUC's fancy Web site to reveal the tensions and disagreements among the different regional organizations. Having resigned last year from the national leadership in favor of a collegial high command, he used his remaining power to push for an official AUC commitment to human rights. He set up a complaints section on the national Web site, and forswore civilian murders and "nonpolitical" kidnappings, i.e., for ransom.
At first, there were those who thought that Carlos Castaño was polishing his image because he was considering running for president, but the realities of the new anti-terrorist policy of the Bush administration have squelched whatever political ambitions the AUC leader may have had one year ago. Now he merely seems to be repositioning himself. In mid-July, Castaño and his military commander in chief, Salvatore Mancuso, announced that their local autodefensa was separating from the national umbrella organization Castaño created in 1997, the AUC. The split has since been mended but one of its causes, he declared repeatedly, was that "a few" of the AUC regional forces were "feudalized" by the drug trade (one detects here the hand of Castaño's intellectuals). He now understands, he says, that this was very wrong. Just as it was wrong for the police forces on both sides of the Venezuelan border to take part in an AUC-sponsored kidnapping of a rich Venezuelan businessman. With such comments, Castaño is plainly trying to confer some legitimacy on himself and his organization. He wants to negotiate with the government, just as the FARC did until last year. He wants the United Nations to have a part in those negotiations. He wants combatant status.
But above all, he wants to dictate the terms in which he will go down in Colombian history books. For a B-movie avenger like Carlos Castaño, the only fate worse than death would be serving out a life sentence in a dungeon somewhere in the United States, or not getting to die like a hero, which amounts to pretty much the same thing. He made his case in a rambling editorial on the AUC Web site:
Today, more than ever, [the autodefensas'] continued existence is vital. Our achievements in political and military matters against the guerrillas cannot be denied; they will negotiate with the government sooner rather than later, fundamentally as a result of the pressure…[of our] irregular organization….
[The national autodefensas] were a stage in the search for our essence, the discovery of our destiny…. Today we know that the time has come to strengthen, not disband them…. We are still searching for our essence, but today, thank God, we know that neither the drug trade nor terrorism will be a part of this meeting with our destiny.
There are, of course, several problems with such magnificent intentions. One is that, absent a drug income, the $3 million a month Castaño claims is necessary to finance his organization will be hard to come by. Another is that many of his colleagues could fail to be moved by his new moral purity. Castaño may yet find death as he helped death to find Pablo Escobar—through betrayal by all but his most intimate associates.
In May, Álvaro Uribe Vélez was elected to the presidency by one of the largest margins in Colombian history. Uribe is only the eighth consecutive freely elected Colombian president since a singular agreement to rotate power between the Liberal and Conservative parties came to an end in 1974. This agreement was the formula devised by the political elite to stop the twenty-year cycle of near civil war known as La Violencia, which lasted between, roughly, 1945 and 1965.
The last twenty-five years of unrestricted electoral political life has coincided with the steepest rise in ideologically motivated violence since the 1950s, at the height of La Violencia. In 2001 alone, two thousand Colombians died fighting or, as with most of them, were murdered in politically dictated events. Uribe's predecessor, Andrés Pastrana, left office in near disgrace: his three-year effort to bring peace to the country led only to the bizarre interregnum in which the FARC guerrillas enjoyed free rein in a no-fire, no-flyover zone twice the size of El Salvador. In February Pastrana suspended the no-fire zone and ordered the army to resume military operations against the FARC. Since then guerrilla territorial control has for all practical purposes remained what it was before and during the Pastrana years.
Given the Colombian government's extreme weakness, a first question is whether the new president can rein in the FARC, the now fragmented and chaotic paramilitary organizations, and the rogue sectors of the military by force or persuasion, no matter how much aid from the United States he might receive. There is little hope that Uribe will be able to negotiate successfully with the FARC, which managed to sabotage Pastrana's three-year negotiating effort. But if the new president decides to open another front in the war and take on the AUC, can he persuade the army and former police forces to point their weapons in its direction?
Uribe is a maverick Liberal Party politician with avowed conservative leanings and an obsession with autoridad. Having understood the depth of Colombians' disgust with traditional politics, he resigned from the party last year and became the country's first independent candidate to be elected president. Throughout his election campaign Uribe faced insistent charges that he himself has favored or even sponsored Castaño's autodefensas, although no evidence has come up to support these accusations. During his campaign he stated his commitment to fighting "los violentos on both sides." One of his first acts in the presidency was to request the good offices of the United Nations in seeking dialogue with the guerrillas. But in his first days in office he has also made some risky decisions that could well end up fueling, if not the autodefensas directly, a type of vigilantism that may prove even harder to control.
Uribe's inauguration on August 7 was marked by the FARC's inept and bloody attempt to sabotage it. Guerrilla commandos launched poorly aimed explosives in the direction of the Palacio de Nariño, or government house. One volley damaged the grounds of the Palacio, including the building itself. Others hit wide of the mark and landed in a pathetic slum five or six blocks west. All in all, twenty men, women, and children were killed, mostly among the street people from the slum. This was a repeat of the brutal event at an impoverished backwater village last May, in which guerrilla troops, in hot pursuit of the autodefensas, lobbed explosives at a church in which the local population had taken refuge, with a death toll of 119, including 47 children. These attacks only increased support for Uribe's initiative, announced the day after his swearing-in, to create a nationwide network of one million informers who are supposed to feed the army and security forces with information about los violentos, to use Uribe's catch-all term. Some informers are supposed to receive weapons for self-defense, and the prospect of arming civilian populations in regions of Colombia already on the verge of civil war has generated alarm among human rights activists, as well as many former government officials involved in earlier attempts to bring peace to Colombia.
Uribe has said repeatedly that he chose to run for the unenviable office of the presidency out of strong feelings of patriotic duty, and it has to be said that if any country ever needed a savior, Colombia would seem to fit the bill. But the FARC and Carlos Castaño too feel compelled to do their patriotic duty by Colombia, as do certain sectors of the police and military forces who have often been accused in court or in human rights reports of collaborating with the AUC. Whether Colombians can survive such fervor is a real question. For the moment, it does not seem likely that Álvaro Uribe will be able to convince either the FARC leadership or the author of Colombia's best-selling autobiography that patriotism requires the warriors to let the country find its way without them.
—September 11, 2002
This Issue
October 10, 2002
Ramón Jimeno, Noche de lobos (Bogotá: Editorial Presencia Ltda., 1989). Jimeno points out that one of the M-19's demands following the kidnapping was to destroy the files of drug traffickers wanted for extradition in Washington. ↩


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Paper Bag Bunny
Paper bag bunnies are a popular craft for kids and adults alike. If you're looking for a fun and festive way to deck the halls this year, a paper bag bunny is the perfect choice. Instead of boxing yourself in with traditional bunting, paper bag bunnies are perfect for filling your home with holiday cheer and adding an extra special touch to your decor. These cute little bunnies are perfect for the whole family, and they are sure to make your holiday decorations extra special this year.
Materials needed:
- paper lunch bags in kraft or white
- ribbon or twine
- a marker like a Sharpie
- paper shred or easter basket filler grass
- buttons
- scissors and glue


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National Assembly adopts law on public-private partnership investment
VGP – The National Assembly (NA) passed the law on public-private partnership (PPP) investment and the law on amendments and supplements to some articles of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Normative Documents during its ongoing ninth session on June 18.
Legislators at the June 18 sitting, part of the National Assembly's ninth session in Ha Noi |
Comprising 11 chapters with 101 articles, the law regulates investment activities and private investment attraction in some important and essential infrastructure areas under the PPP model.
Chairman of the NA Committee for Economic Affairs Vu Hong Thanh said the law aims to create a sufficiently strong legal corridor for relevant parties to fulfill their obligations in PPP contracts.
It also demonstrates the State's legal commitment to domestic and foreign investors, thus encouraging investors to join the State in PPP projects, he added.
The law focuses on five essential areas: transport; power grid and plants; irrigation, clean water supply, water drainage, and wastewater and waste treatment; healthcare and education – training; and information technology infrastructure.
Legislators also passed a resolution approving the 2018 State budget balance on the same day.
Earlier on the same day, the legislature passed the law on amendments and supplements to some articles of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Normative Documents, with 92.96% approval.
By Vien Nhu