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I don't agree that we evolved a fear of losing the self. Our interpretation of self, our selfplex, is an aspect of culture. Technology is already changing our sense of self. Marshfall McLuhan said that technology is an extension of the senses. The car is an extension of the foot. clothing is an extension of the skin. A microscope, telescope, X-ray machine, or STM is an extension of the eyes. The computer is an extension of the nervous system. We integrate these new "powers" into our perception of ourselves. We can even perceive a mannequin as our body under the right circumstances.
I had a brief experience of shared consciousness, at least that's what it felt like to both of us. All it took was total mutual trust, meditating, breathing together, and dropping all self-censorship. Just by saying what came to us immediately, as we embraced and breathed together, we perceived ourselves to be one. It wasn't planned, it just happened. Our self boundaries are a lot more fluid than contemporary culture holds. The boundaries of self can also evaporate during orgies, when participants are very intimate, caring, and using drugs, I've read.
Thanks Sophia,
It's been an interesting journey. I'm now thinking about the possibility of doing vipassana meditation after reading Sam Harris' blog on the topic. I've always had a bad association with meditation due to my past supernatural experiences with it. But I'm wondering if it might be a good idea, and if I can find a secular version of meditation such as vipassana with others who are secular in their views and practice it is an attractive option. At the moment with 3 young children who I have with me full time, 24/7 I don't get the time, but I can see as they get older that I will have time to pursue such interests.
My definition of spirituality is simply, my connection with the natural world. The splendor of the night sky, the beauty I see in flowers, the grandeur of mountains, and the diversity of life that surrounds me, inspire a deep sense of awe and wonder. I also find comfort in nature. Sitting under a tree and just "being" is a great stress reliever for me. As well as, listening to my kitties purr, watching my ferrets play (always hysterical!), or just watching them sleep. I suppose I should included talking and hanging out with my awesome family and friends. Us humans are a part of nature, too=)
As afar as epiphanies go, deep thinking, intelligent discussions, and talking with my daughter, are always great source of learning and growing experiences for me. Especially talking with my kid! She is smart as a whip and she can really make me think.
Reality is filled with the extraordinary! Heck, watching ants is always an interesting way to pass my time;)
So spirituality as bio-chemical highs when with nature or enjoying life.
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Traditionally, many religions have regarded spirituality as an integral aspect of religious experience. Among other factors, declining membership of organized religions and the growth of secularism in the western world have given rise to a broader view of spirituality.[5] The term "spiritual" is now frequently used in contexts in which the term "religious" was formally employed; compare James' 1902 lectures on the "Varieties of Religious Experience".[6][7]
Secular spirituality emphasizes humanistic qualities such as love, compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, responsibility, harmony, and a concern for others[8]:22, aspects of life and human experience which go beyond a purely materialist view of the world, without necessarily accepting belief in a supernatural reality or divine being. Spiritual practices such as mindfulness and meditation can be experienced as beneficial or even necessary for human fulfillment without any supernatural interpretation or explanation. Spirituality in this context may be a matter of nurturing thoughts, emotions, words and actions that are in harmony with a belief that everything in the universe is mutually dependent; this stance has much in common with some versions of Buddhist spirituality.[citation needed]
Yes, and the Wiki summed it pretty well.
I think that the religious terms, spirit and soul, are really just other terms for our emotional selves. I think it is our emotions that make us all unique. How we act or react in any given situation, or just our general view of life, are all influenced by our emotions. So, I think that when we nurture and"feed" our emotional selves, we are able to find our bliss and/or our sense of purpose. Perhaps that is all the so called "religious experience" really is? Hope that makes some sense=)
It's interesting that you seem to be reclaiming the words spirit and soul in a secular sense. Is this doable? Can we adjust the meaning and use them in a different context and meaning but maintain the character? We are then open to misleading others as to what we are talking about. I like the words, but I don't use them due to the their supernatural connotations. Could it be a slippery slop using these sorts of words?
It's a similar problem with the idea of belief and facts and reason and belief in evolution being equal to belief in creationism - do we avoid the word belief because it might be misleading?
Well, yes and no. Spirit already has several secular meanings: http://bit.ly/jgKxR1 As does soul: http://bit.ly/iIAdoT Christians' and other religious folks interpret it as an entity in and of itself, the secular definitions refer to spirit/soul being one's emotional nature. The most common secular uses I can think of is team spirit, or raising someones spirits: Cheering them up.
Ah, context is everything! You want your reader/listener to grasp the true meaning of what you are writing/saying. That is where context comes into play. How something is worded/said can dramatically change the meaning. If you try to convey an idea and use the wrong context, their will most likely be misunderstandings. So, say what you mean ( I know, so cliche) is good advice.
Your last questions are excellent and rather difficult ones=) My stab at them: I don't say I believe Evolution, why? Well, I can see evidence of it. I have some really cool, ancient fossils. And the way bacteria can become immune to antibiotics. And I don't think I have ever heard anybody say that they believe the sun sets in the west. We usually just make that statement. Facts are just that and require no belief. Evidence is enough. Belief is to think something is true without evidence of it being true. Law takes this in to account with the presumption (belief) of innocence, until proven guilty by the evidence and facts.
I hope I was able to answer your questions. I am off to do some more joyous chores;)
Hi Alice:
I think that the fulfillment that religious people get out of practicing their beliefs comes from feeling that they are good or would like to be. Christianity especially allows them to feel that they are good even if they fall short of moral perfection. As such, I think their fulfillment is self-esteem generated by the belief that they want to be good. They do not realize that worship is not good in that nothing good would truly wish to be worshiped in the first place and would have the free will to change its mind about being good while others held it to be god. The question then is how, without worshiping, to get the self-esteem that comes with wanting to be good. The answer is to find the personal conscience and attempt to obey it. This is consistent with secularism and can be more so called 'spiritually' fulfilling than any religious practice. One need only look at the ruthlessness in nature to realize there is nothing good behind it. Your fulfillment must come from within you not from the external uncaringness that applies natural selection. In attempting to obey my personal conscience I often have to remind myself to not count how many times I fall but how many times I get up.
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- If Toys Could Talk said...
Thanks for the wonderful tutorial, Solanah! I couldn't resist pinning it: http://pinterest.com/pin/151574343678521851/
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Thank you for this wonderful hat and hatpin series! I'm just loving every bit of it!
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Great tutorial! They look so cute...
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- Charlotte said...
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- Mich said...
Im just starting to finally get into hats. Been put off for the longest time due to my giant head (lol), but now Im starting to build a collection. What a fabulous way to add some variety and sparkle to them :) Thanks for sharing the idea!
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Solanah, I think you would love Princess Lasertron. She makes felt-and-button flower bouquets and brooches and such. They're absolutely adorable and whimsical. I haven't checked out her blog in a while, but I think she was starting up her own line of dresses as well.
Anyway, your hatpins made me think of her work, it's very similar. ^_^
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These are lovely! Great idea.
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Greaaat ideaaa!!! I always wanted a gray felt hat with a matching flower pin (ever since one of the characters in a Nancy Drew novel I read had it!)
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A week before Sunday's crucial presidential elections in Mexico, CPJ participated on a panel with filmmaker Bernardo Ruíz and Mexican journalist Sergio Haro about the perilous conditions for journalists in that country, where CPJ research shows 48 journalists have been murdered or disappeared since outgoing President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006.
The occasion was the screening of Ruiz's new documentary, "Reportero," at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center in New York. "Reportero," which will be shown in the United States on PBS this fall, tells the remarkable story of the Tijuana-based weekly magazine Zeta, one of the only publications to regularly publish investigations on organized crime, drug trafficking, and corruption in Mexico's northern states since its founding in 1980. Zeta's staff has born a particularly bloody toll for its reporting over the decades: Héctor Félix Miranda, co-founder of the magazine, was assassinated in 1988, and co-editor Francisco Ortiz Franco was murdered in 2004. The magazine's other founder, J. Jesús Blancornelas, survived an assassination attempt in 1997. The attempt failed only because the lead assassin was killed by one of his own gunmen when a bullet ricocheted and struck him in the eye.
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Henry and Carlin play Larry and Lynn Tyne, the parents of a teenage daughter who may have run away for good — or maybe just wandered off to take part in an open audition for a record label. This segment of the film features an endless parade of wannabes (suggesting a proto-version of "American Idol's" audition process) that seems to last forever, getting funnier as it goes.
At one point the camera focuses on a young woman with a shag haircut and a guitar, singing a lovely folk song, and you think: "She looks an awful lot like a young Kathy Bates." Oh hey, it is Kathy Bates. The role is little more than a cameo, but it marks her first appearance in a feature film. (She's credited, charmingly, as "Bobo Bates.") Carly Simon shows up in yet another cameo. So does Tina Turner.
Meanwhile, back at the homestead, Larry and Lynn are trying to solve the mystery of their daughter's disappearance. Another couple has dropped by to help. "Did you check her room?" one of them asks. What follows is a hilarious series of wordless reaction shots that amount to silent variations on, "Wait, did we?"
The film picks up steam when Henry and Carlin hook up with the Society for Parents of Fugitive Children, a non-existent support group for out-of-touch wealthy types whom Forman envisions in their natural habitat: the black-tie society function.
Dressed in tuxedos and evening gowns, a select group attend an after-party where they light up joints at the urging of their host: "For you to understand your youngster and what he's going through, you really have to have a similar experience."
And then, the character actor Vincent Schiavelli (who would appear in later Forman films such as "Man on the Moon" and "The People vs. Larry Flynt," but whom I always remember best as the addled, droopy-eyed biology teacher from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High") begins the instruction.
"This is a joint," he tells the assembled crowd. "After you inhale, you take the joint and you pass it to the person sitting next to you. Do not — repeat — do not hold onto the joint. This is called bogarting the joint and is very rude."
"I think we all had drinks with dinner," one participant says. "Uh, dope and alcohol — do they mix?"
"Oh, they'll mix," says Schiavelli's character.
Later, Larry and Lynn bring another couple back to their home, and it's as if the film has suddenly turned into loopy version of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," complete with a game of strip poker. (Carlin's can't-stop-laughing stoned-drunkness is frankly adorable.)
The film was part of an unofficial series from Universal, according to Antos. "They were funding these middle-budget films, under a million dollars, that were made by independent filmmakers."
The sheer number of faces and half-conversations Forman captures with his camera is an exercise in people-watching. The movie critic Vadim Rizov offered some insight on this in a 2008 write-up for the Village Voice.
"When Milos Forman set out to make his first American movie, he moved into a house on Leroy Street for more than a year," Rizov wrote. "The door was always open, and Forman spent most of his time talking to anyone who stopped by.
"Ivan Passer — collaborator, fellow Czech New Waver, and roommate — called it 'amateur sociological research.'"
"Taking Off" screens 7:30 p.m. at the Patio Theater. Go to northwestchicagofilmsociety.org.
Across the pond
The EU Film Festival continues at the Siskel Film Center with screenings of the British film "Everyday" from director Michael Winterbottom ("Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story"). The story revolves around a family (the children are played by four real-life siblings) over a period of five years in rural England. Winterbottom filmed the movie over the five years, capturing the actors as they aged. Plays at 6 p.m. Friday and 3:15 p.m. Saturday. Go to siskelfilmcenter.org/everyday.
Chicago indie
A 2013 drama about a lonely college student and the fractured family she encounters over Christmas break, "The Cold and the Quiet" (from local filmmaker Colleen Griffen) is the featured selection Tuesday from the Midwest Independent Film Festival. Evanston's Joe Chappelle (a producer on "Chicago Fire") is the executive producer, and he will be at Tuesday's screening with the cast and crew. Go to midwestfilm.com/nowshowing.
Antiques Roadshow
The PBS series comes to Chicago this summer for an "all-day appraisal event" July 26 (a Saturday) that will be able to accommodate 6,000 people (two items each). Tickets are required, and the deadline for applications is April 7; tickets will be awarded by random drawing. Go to pbs.org/roadshow/tickets.


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A circle of white candles brushed against the steps to Walnut High School Monday night as classmates of a slain Irvine basketball coach huddled together, sharing memories and tears.
Jaemy Oda made her best friend, Monica Quan, a poster with Michael Jordan outlined in the background — a mutual hero for basketball players who were close for more than two decades.
"She was like my big sister," the West Covina resident said as she stood wrapped in a blue blanket at the memorial.
About 40 friends and classmates met at the school's main entrance holding candles, as Irvine police continued to investigate the slaying of Quan and her fiance Keith Lawrence, whom a passerby discovered slumped over in Lawrence's white Kia Sunday night.
Authorities say results from autopsies on the two won't be ready until Wednesday. They were each shot dead, and authorities said they have tentatively ruled out robbery and murder-suicide.
The couple recently moved into the condominium complex adjacent to UC Irvine at 2100 Scholarship, according to police, which neighbors described as secure with cameras and key codes needed to enter the parking area. The top level where authorities discovered Lawrence and Quan's bodies was reserved for guests and residents who needed extra parking, residents said.
Lawrence worked at a campus officer at USC, while Quan coached women's basketball as an assistant at Cal State Fullerton. Lawrence was a standout basketball player from Moorpark High School, and Quan still held Walnut High's record for three-pointers. The two began dating about four years ago after meeting at Concordia University, where they both played basketball and earned their degrees, according to Quan's aunt Nicki Lew.
Lew described Quan as an energetic and caring person, who looked forward to planning her wedding next year.
"Monica is like the daughter we never had," Lew said.
She recalled receiving the news of Quan's engagement Jan. 26. The two played phone tag all day, although she instantly guessed the good news, blurting out, "You're getting married!" before Quan could even utter the words.
Lew said anytime she saw something red and black — Quan's favorite colors — or basketball-themed she would buy it for her niece. On Monday Lew spotted basketball-shaped chocolates she bought for Quan sitting on the dryer in her home.
"I went, 'Oh my gosh. I won't be able to give her these,'" she thought.
Oda said she most recently saw Quan and Lawrence after Christmas, and said they seemed happy.
"They were great," Oda said. "They were happy."
Police ask that anyone with information call a tip line established at (949) 724-7192.
— Los Angeles Times reporters Kate Mather and Nicole Santa Cruz contributed to this report.
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Well, the Jets never skip an opportunity to entertain.
Coach Rex Ryan was, as you might imagine, upset by this morning's report that he'd rather be fired than accept the status quo.
That's leading to a press conference that will go down among the most memorable in a season full of them for the Jets, as Ryan declared himself "mad as a hornet," about the report he called "totally untrue." He said he talked to his team about the report earlier today, and insisted to them he would not quit.
It was a passionate response from Ryan, including at one point saying he talked to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News, denying the story that he'd rather be fired than come back without significant changes to the offense, and saying that Mehta didn't include his denial in the story.
But while it makes for good theater, there are a few immediate problems.
One, Mehta didn't suggest that Ryan would quit, more suggesting that Ryan wanted to see changes.
Two, the size and scope of Ryan's reaction creates a baseline for responses to future reports. If he's this fired up about something that seems reasonable on its face (changes clearly needed to be made), he'll need to be equally passionate in the future about reports which he considers untrue. If he doesn't, it becomes a tacit admission they are.
As Florio mentioned moments ago, this thing is far from over, and far from boring.


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Juan Mata is hoping to complete the "perfect summer" with a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics, but the Spain forward knows that, contrary to some expectations, it is not going to be easy.
Mata heads to the London Games having already tasted success in three competitions this year, winning the Champions League and FA Cup with Chelsea before helping Spain retain their European Championship title earlier this month.
It has been an unforgettable time for the 24-year-old but there is another trophy up for grabs as Spain seek to claim the Olympic football title they last won on home soil at Barcelona in 1992.
Luis Milla's squad, which includes the likes of Jordi Alba, Javi Martínez, David de Gea and Iker Muniain, are highly fancied to do well in London, but Mata is refusing to get carried away.
"It seems that we must win the gold without even playing first, and that's not the case," Mata said. "There are other very strong teams, who have squads that can challenge for the title. We have to be isolated from these expectations about winning.
"We want to do as well as possible, but we know that it will be difficult."
Mata, who was also part of the Spain squad that won the 2010 World Cup, added: "Spain have won in recent years because behind the success there is sacrifice and a lot of hard work, and this is a good path to follow.
"Personally I've had a fantastic season, and if we win, it would be a perfect summer and a first season in England in which I couldn't have asked for more."


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New London faces big jump in insurance costs
New London - The city will see a 10 percent increase in the cost of its liability and auto insurance policy and an increase in its deductible for that policy to $500,000, the city's finance director said Friday.
"This effectively leaves the city uninsured except for catastrophic losses," Finance Director Jeff Smith wrote in a memo to the mayor and members of the City Council dated March 5.
The changes come as a result of poor experience, or a high number of claims with potential losses, over the last three years, Smith said. He likened the rise to an increase in car insurance after a series of crashes.
"Insurance is experience-rated. If you have bad experience, your insurance policies are going to go up," Smith said Friday. "Insurance companies are not in business to lose money."
The premium for the city's liability and auto insurance policy, which is provided by the Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency (CIRMA), will go up about 10 percent, and the city's deductible for that policy will increase from $0 or $50,000 - depending on the line of insurance - to half a million dollars.
The city had budgeted $688,554 for premiums in the current city budget.
According to the CIRMA website, a liability and auto policy "protects your entity against financial loss resulting from claims of injury or damage caused by your employees and volunteers."
According to Smith, three incidents in particular - the August 2011 police-involved shooting that left the driver of a stolen ice truck paralyzed, the July 2013 drowning of a 6-year-old boy at a municipal beach on Pequot Avenue and the Jan. 30 death of a man who apparently fell into the trash compactor at the city's transfer station - likely contributed to the premium and deductible increase.
"I don't think there is any thing the city necessarily did wrong here. When you look at these, these are tragedies for the most part," Smith said, noting that the Jan. 30 incident remains under investigation. "So you end up with three tragedies, plus the fact that you're insured for these, and the insurance company looks at you and says, 'you're a lousy risk.'"
Though Smith mentioned three incidents in particular, they are not the only claims that could have had an impact on insurance costs for the city.
Aside from the financial implications of the higher premium, the $500,000 deductible puts the city at "a pretty significant risk," Smith said.
In the event of another incident that the city could be found liable for, the city would have to pay the first $500,000 of the claim, which Smith said the city would likely have to go to bond for due to its precarious financial condition.
"Unfortunately, because we have been so strapped for money that we have not been able to build up reserves, it is sort of a double whammy," he said. "Now our insurance has gotten even worse and we have no reserves."
Smith said he will be looking into how else the city can deal with this problem so "we can put ourselves in a better position."
"There isn't an easy answer to this, but I'll do what I can to see how I can reduce this potential risk to the city," he said.
In 2011, CIRMA gave the city a risk management achievement award for "establishing risk management as an organizational priority," The Day reported. The risk manager position had been established in the finance department in 2010 but is currently vacant.
Last month, Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio said the city is close to hiring someone to fill the position of personnel coordinator and risk management, which would combine two positions that have been vacant for about a year.
The city's premiums could go back down, if it can manage its risk "and not have these types of things happen," Smith said.
"The longer you go without these terrible things happening, the cheaper your insurance is going to be," he said.
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Congratulations to cheese1227, whose Salted Pumpkin Caramels won this week's contest for Your Best Halloween Treat -- earning her a $200 gift card from Williams-Sonoma, plus big prizes from Viking and OXO, and a spot in the next food52 cookbook!
Q&A with cheese1227
Describe an early food experience that has influenced the way you think about food and/or cooking.
I grew up understanding that relatives and friends could pop in for a cup of coffee or a meal at any time, so both having a full larder and an ability to work with what you've got is a key skill for a great home cook.
What's your least favorite food?
My food52 name likely provides a clue: cheese1227
What is the best thing you've made so far this year?
The saffron semifreddo I found on this site. RAVE reviews from all 18 people at Easter dinner.
Describe your most spectacular kitchen disaster.
The BBQ pot roast I made when I was 12 that my brothers still allude to 30 years later. The BBQ sauce was a late addition as I attempted to cover up the charred beef I'd let sear too long because I was on the phone chatting about one of my best friend's first kiss.
What is your idea of comfort food?
My grandmother's macaroni and cheese, prepared for most family gatherings since her death by my Uncle Jack. I hope to be the standard bearer of that dish for my generation, but my uncle is not yet convinced I am worthy.
Apron or no apron?
No apron but I typically regret that decision.
What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie?
The dinner scene in the most recent Pride and Prejudice where the sisters take a hardy bite of something to stifle their giggles every time the socially inept Mr. Collins says something outrageous. Food as social cover, if you will.
If you could make a show-stopping dinner for one person, living or dead, who would it be?
My husband, Andy. He's earned it.
You prefer to cook: a. alone, b. with others, c. it depends on your mood
Alone, with others sitting in the kitchen keeping me company and reminding me which timer is for which pan.
When it comes to tidying up, you usually: a. clean as you cook, b. do all the dishes once you've finished cooking, c. leave the kitchen a shambles for your spouse/roommate/kids to clean.
Clean as I cook, a skill I've really only developed in the last 10 years.


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A few of the top girls cheer as the boys run by. The team began the season with a time trial that showed vast improvement over the times posted a year ago.
Alex Perney, 15, crosses the line with the support of the rest of the cross country team on Monday. The team is built around not just the talented older runners, but the possitive attitude and support of the entire team.
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Russ Hall and Jeff Switzer lead a stacked boys team into the new season. The Bobcats are the only team in their state division to return two all-state runners.
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Means By Which The Fund Is To Be Created
I have already established the principle, namely, that the earth, in itsnatural uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race; that in that state, every personwould have been born to property; and that the system of landed property,by its inseparable connection with cultivation, and with what is calledcivilized life, has absorbed the property of all those whom it dispossessed,without providing, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for thatloss.
The fault, however, is not in the present possessors. No complaint is tended,or ought to be alleged against them, unless they adopt the crime by opposingjustice. The fault is in the system, and it has stolen perceptibly uponthe world, aided afterwards by the agrarian law of the sword. But the faultcan be made to reform itself by successive generations; and without diminishingor deranging the property of any of present possessors, the operation ofthe fund can yet commence, and in full activity, the first year of its establishment,or soon after, as I shall show.
It is proposed that the payments, as already stated, be made to every person,rich or poor. It is best to make it so, to prevent invidious distinctions.It is also right it should be so, because it is in lieu of the natural inheritance,which, as a right, belongs to every man, over and above property he mayhave created, or inherited from those who did. Such persons as do not chooseto receive it can throw it into the common fund.
Taking it then for granted that no person ought to be in a worse conditionwhen born under what is called a state of civilization, than he would havebeen had he been born in a state of nature, and that civilization oughtto have made, and ought still to make, provision for that purpose, it canonly be done by subtracting from property a portion equal in value to thenatural inheritance it has absorbed.
Various methods may be proposed for this purpose, but that which appearsto be the best (not only because it will operate without deranging any presentpossessors, or without interfering with the collection of taxes or emprunts necessary for the purposes of government and the Revolution, but becauseit will be th e least troublesome and the most effectual,and also because the subtraction will be made at a time that best admitsit) is at the moment that property is passing by the death of one personto the possession of another. In this case, the bequeather gives nothing:the receiver pays nothing. The only matter to him is that the monopoly ofnatural inheritance, to which there never was a right, begins to cease inhis person. A generous man would not wish it to continue, and a just manwill rejoice to see it abolished.
My state of health prevents my making sufficient inquiries with respectto the doctrine of probabilities, whereon to found calculations with suchdegrees of certainty as they are capable of. What, therefore, I offer onthis head is more the result of observation and reflection than of receivedinformation; but I believe it will be found to agree sufficiently with fact.In the first place, taking twenty-one years as the epoch of maturity, allthe property of a nation, real and personal, is always in the possessionof persons above that age. It is then necessary to know, as a datum of calculation,the average of years which persons above that age will live. I take thisaverage to be about thirty years, for though many persons will live forty,fifty, or sixty years, after the age of twenty-one years, others will diemuch sooner, and some in every year of that time.
Taking, then, thirty years as the average of time, it will give, withoutany material variation one way or other, the average of time in which thewhole property or capital of a nation, or a sum equal thereto, will havepassed through one entire revolution in descent, that is, will have goneby deaths to new possessors; for though, in many instances, some parts ofthis capital will remain forty, fifty, or sixty years in the possessionof one person, other parts will have revolved two or three times beforethose thirty years expire, which will bring it to that average; for wereone-half the capital of a nation to revolve twice in thirty years, it wouldproduce the same fund as if the whole revolved once.
Taking, then, thirty years as the average of time in which the whole capitalof a nation, or a -sum equal thereto, will revolve once, the thirtieth partthereof will be the sum that will revolve every year, that is, will go bydeaths to new possessors; and this last sum being thus known, and the ratioper cent to be subtracted from It determined, it will give the annual amountor income of the proposed fund, to be applied as already mentioned.
In looking over the discourse of the English Minister, Pitt, in his openingof what is called in England the budget (the scheme of finance for the year1796), I find an estimate of the national capital of that unity. As thisestimate of a national capital is prepared ready to my hand, I take it asa datum to act upon. When a calculation is made upon the known capital ofany nation, combined with its population, it will serve as a scale for anyother nation, in proportion as its capital and population be more or less.
I am the more disposed to take this estimate of Mr. Pitt, for the purposeof showing to that minister, upon his own calculation, how much better moneymay be employed than in wasting it, as he has done, on the wild projectof setting up Bourbon kings. What, in the name of heaven, re Bourbon kingsto the people of England? It is better that the people have bread.
Mr. Pitt states the national capital of England, real and personal, to onethousand three hundred millions sterling, which is about one-fourth partof the national capital of France, including Belgia. The event of the lastharvest in each country proves that the soil of France more productive thanthat of England, and that it can better support twenty-four or twenty-fivemillions of inhabitants than that of England n seven or seven and a halfmillions.
The thirtieth part of this capital of Ł 1,300,000,000 is L 43,333,333 which the part that will revolve every year by deaths in thatcountry to new possessors; and the sum that will annually revolve in Francein the proportion of four to one, will be about one hundred and seventy-threemillions sterling. From this sum of Ł 43,333,333 annuallyrevolving, is be subtracted the value of the natural inheritance absorbedin it, which, perhaps, in fair justice, cannot be taken at less, and oughtnot be taken for more, than a tenth part.
It will always happen that of the property thus revolving by deaths everyyear a part will descend in a direct line to sons and daughters, and otherpart collaterally, and the proportion will be found to be about three toone; that is, about thirty millions of the above sum will descend to directheirs, and the remaining sum of Ł 413,333,333 to more distantrelations, and in part to strangers.
Considering, then, that man is always related to society, that relationshipwill become comparatively greater in proportion as the next of kin is moredistant; it is therefore consistent with civilization to say that wherethere are no direct heirs society shall be heir to a part over and abovethe tenth part due to society.
If this additional part be from five to ten or twelve per cent, in proportionas the next of kin be nearer or more remote, so as to average with the escheatsthat may fall, which ought always to go to society and not to the government(an addition of ten per cent more), the produce from the annual sum of L 43,333,333 will be:
From Ł 30,000,000 at ten per cent................... ............................................Ł 3,000,000
From Ł 13,333,333 at ten per cent with the addition of ten per cent more.... Ł 2,666,666
Having thus arrived at the annual amount of the proposed fund, I come, inthe next place, to speak of the population proportioned to this fund andto compare it with the uses to which the fund is to be applied.
The population (I mean that of England) does not exceed seven millions anda half, and the number of persons above the age of fifty will in that casebe about four hundred thousand. There would not, however, be more than thatnumber that would accept the proposed ten pounds sterling per annum, thoughthey would be entitled to it. I have no idea it would be accepted by manypersons who had a yearly income of two or three hundred pounds sterling.But as we often see instances of rich people falling into sudden poverty,even at the age of sixty, they would always have the right of drawing allthe arrears clue to them. Four millions, therefore, of the above annualsum of Ł 5,666,666 will be required for four hundred thousandaged persons, at ten pounds sterling each.
I come now to speak of the persons annually arriving at twenty-one yearsof age. If all the persons who died were above the age of twenty-one years,the number of persons annually arriving at that age must be equal to theannual number of deaths, to keep the population stationary. But the greaterpart die under the age of twenty-one, and therefore the number of personsannually arriving at twenty-ope will be less than half the number of deaths.
The whole number of deaths upon a population of seven millions and an halfwill be about 220,000 annually. The number arriving at twenty-one yearsof age will be about 100,000. The whole number of these will not receivethe proposed fifteen pounds, for the reasons already mentioned, though,as in the former case, they would be entitled to it. Admitting then thata tenth part declined receiving it, the amount would stand thus:
Fund Ł 5,666,666 To 400,000 aged persons at Ł 10 each ....................... Ł 4,000,000
To 90,000 persons of 21 yrs. Ł 15 each....................... Ł 1,350,000
Remains: Ł 316,666
There are, in every country, a number of blind and lame person totally incapableof earning a livelihood. But as it will always happen that the greater numberof blind persons will be among those who are above the age of fifty years,they will be provided for in that class. Th remaining sum of Ł 316,666 will provide for the lame and blind under that age, at the samerate of Ł 10 annually for each person.
Having now gone through all the necessary calculations, and stated the particulars of the plan, I shall conclude with some observations.It is not charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleadingfor. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. Itis absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary thata revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchednesscontinually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodieschained together. Though I care as little about riches as any man, I ama friend to riches because they are capable of good.
I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable inconsequence of it. But it is impossible to enjoy affluence with the felicityit is capable of being enjoyed, while so much misery is mingled in the scene.The sight of the misery, and the unpleasant sensations it suggests, which,though they may be suffocated cannot be extinguished, are a greater drawbackupon the felicity of affluence than the proposed ten percent upon property is worth. He that would not give the one to get rid ofthe other has no charity, even for himself.
There are, in every country, some magnificent charities established by individuals.It is, however, but little that any individual can do, when the whole extentof the misery to be relieved is considered. He may satisfy his conscience,but not his heart. He may give all that he has, and that all will relievebut little. It is only by organizing civilization upon such principles asto act like a system of pulleys, that the whole weight of misery can beremoved.
The plan here proposed will reach the whole. It will immediately relieveand take out of view three classes of wretchedness-the blind, the lame,and the aged poor; and it will furnish the rising generation with meansto prevent their becoming poor; and it will do this without deranging orinterfering with any national measures.
To show that this will be the case, it is sufficient to observe that theoperation and effect of the plan will, in all cases, be the same as if everyindividual were voluntarily to make his will and dispose of hisproperty in the manner here proposed.
But it is justice, and not charity, that is the principle of the plan. Inall great cases it is necessary to have a principle moreuniversally active than charity; and, with respect to justice, it oughtnot to be left to the choice of detached individuals whether they will dojustice or not. Considering, then, the plan on the ground of justice, itought to be the act of the whole growing spontaneously out of the principlesof the revolution, and the reputation of it ought to be national and notindividual.
A plan upon this principle would benefit the revolution by the energy thatsprings from the consciousness of justice. It would multiply also the nationalresources; for property, like vegetation, increases by offsets. When a youngcouple begin the world, the difference is exceedingly great whether theybegin with nothing or with fifteen pounds apiece. With this aid they couldbuy a cow, and implements to cultivate a few acres of land; and insteadof becoming burdens upon society, which is always the case where childrenare produced faster than they can be fed, would be put in the way of becominguseful and profitable citizens. The national domains also would sell thebetter if pecuniary aids were provided to cultivate them in small lots.
It is the practice of what has unjustly obtained the name of civilization(and the practice merits not to be called either charity or policy) to makesome provision for persons becoming poor and wretched only at the time theybecome so. Would it not, even as a matter of economy, befar better to adopt means to prevent their becoming poor? This can bestbe done by making every person when arrived at the age of twenty-one yearsan inheritor of something to begin with.
The rugged face of society, checkered with the extremes of affluence andwant, proves that some extraordinary violence has been committed upon it,and calls on justice for redress. The great mass of the poor in countriesare become an hereditary race, and it is next to impossible them to getout of that state of themselves. It ought also to be observed that thismass increases in all countries that are called civilized. re persons fallannually into it than get out of it.
Though in a plan of which justice and humanity are the foundation principles,interest ought not to be admitted into the calculation, yet it is alwaysof advantage to the establishment of any plan to show that it beneficialas a matter of interest. The success of any proposed plan submitted to publicconsideration must finally depend on the numbers interested in supportingit, united with the justice of its principles.
The plan here proposed will benefit all, without injuring any. It will consolidatethe interest of the republic with that of the individual. To the numerousclass dispossessed of their natural inheritance by the system of landedproperty it will be an act of national justice. To persons dying possessedof moderate fortunes it will operate as a tontine to their children, morebeneficial than the sum of money paid into the fund: and it will give tothe accumulation of riches a degree of security that none of old governmentsof Europe, now tottering on their foundations, can give.
I do not suppose that more than one family in ten, in any of the countriesof Europe, has, when the head of the family dies, a clear property of fivehundred pounds sterling. To all such the plan is advantageous. That propertywould pay fifty pounds into the fund, and if there were only two childrenunder age they would receive fifteen pounds each (thirty pounds), on comingof age, and be entitled to ten pounds a year after fifty.
It is from the overgrown acquisition of property that the fund will supportitself; and I know that the possessors of such property in England, thoughthey would eventually be benefitted by the protection of nine-tenths ofit, will exclaim against the plan. But without entering any inquiry howthey came by that property, let them recollect that they have been the advocatesof this war, and that Mr. Pitt has already laid on more new taxes to beraised annually upon the people of England, and that for supporting thedespotism of Austria and the Bourbons against the liberties of France, thanwould pay annually all the sums proposed in this plan.
I have made the calculations stated in this plan, upon what is called personal,as well as upon landed property. The reason for making it upon land is alreadyexplained; and the reason for taking personal property into the calculationis equally well founded though on a different principle. Land, as beforesaid, is the free gift of the Creator in common to the human race. Personalproperty is the effect of society; and it is as impossible foran individual to acquire personal property without the aid of society, asit is for him to make land originally.
Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continentto possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich.So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, thatwhere the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation,therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce,is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle ofjustice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulationback again to society from whence the whole came.
This is putting the matter on a general principle, and perhaps it is bestto do so; for if we examine the case minutely it will be found that theaccumulation of personal property is, in many instances, the effect of payingtoo little for the labor that produced it; the consequence of which is thatthe working hand perishes in old age, and the employer abounds in affluence.
It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to theprofits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice,that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not saveit against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim. Make, then,society the treasurer to guard it for him in a common fund; for it is noreason that, because he might not make a good use of it for himself, anothershould take it.
The state of civilization that has prevailed throughout Europe, is as unjustin its principle, as it is horrid in its effects; and it is the consciousnessof this, and the apprehension that such a state cannot continue when onceinvestigation begins in any country, that makes the possessors of propertydread every idea of a revolution. It is the hazard and not the principleof revolutions that retards their progress. This being the case, it is necessaryas well for the protection of property as for the sake of justice and humanity,to form a system that, while it preserves one part of society from wretchedness,shall secure the other from depreciation.
The superstitious awe, the enslaving reverence, that formerly Surroundedaffluence, is passing away in all countries, and leaving the possessor ofproperty to the convulsion of accidents. When wealth and splendor, insteadof fascinating the multitude, excite emotions of disgust; n, instead ofdrawing forth admiration, it is beheld as an insult on wretchedness; whenthe ostentatious appearance it makes serves call the right of it in question,the case of property becomes critical, and it is only ina system of justice that the possessor can contemplate security.
To remove the danger, it is necessary to remove the antipathies, and thiscan only be done by making property productive of a national bless, extendingto every individual. When the riches of one man above other shall increasethe national fund in the same proportion; when it shall be seen that theprosperity of that fund depends on the prosperity of individuals; when themore riches a man acquires, the better it shall for the general mass; itis then that antipathies will cease, and property be placed on the permanentbasis of national interest and protection.
I have no property in France to become subject to the plan I prose. WhatI have, which is not much, is in the United States of America. But I willpay one hundred pounds sterling toward this fund in France, the instantit shall be established; and I will pay the same sum England, whenever asimilar establishment shall take place in that country.
A revolution in the state of civilization is the necessary companion ofrevolutions in the system of government. If a revolution in any countrybe from bad to good, or from good to bad, the state of what is called civilizationin that country, must be made conformable thereto, to givethat revolution effect.
Despotic government supports itself by abject civilization, in which debasementof the human mind, and wretchedness in the mass of the people, are the chiefcriterions. Such governments consider man merely as an animal; that theexercise of intellectual faculty is not his privilege; that he has nothingto do with the laws but to obey them; and they politically depend moreupon breaking the spirit of the people by poverty, than they fear enragingit by desperation.
It is a revolution in the state of civilization that will give perfectionto Revolution of France. Already the conviction that government by representationis the true system of government is spreading itself fastin the world. The reasonableness of it can be seen by all. The justnessof it makes itself felt even by its opposers. But when a system of civilization,(growing out of that system of government) shall be so organized that not a man or woman born in the Republic but shall inherit some meansof beginning the world, and see before them the certainty of escaping themiseries that under other governments accompany old age, the Revolutionof France will have an advocate and an ally in the heartof all nations.
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot; itwill succeed where diplomatic management would fall: it is neither the Rhine,the Channel, nor the ocean that can arrest its progress: it will march onthe horizon of the world, and it will conquer.


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Rams Acquire CB Aqib Talib From Broncos
The Los Angeles Rams are staying busy on the trade market. They acquired cornerback Aqib Talib from the Denver Broncos on Thursday for a fifth-round pick. Talib will reunite with Rams defensive coordinator Wade Phillips, who held the same position in Denver in 2015 and 2016. This is the fourth trade for the Rams this off-season after dealing linebacker Alec Ogletree to the Giants, defensive end Robert Quinn to the Dolphins and acquiring Marcus Peters from the Chiefs. The Rams also signed free-agent cornerback Sam Shields on Thursday. He has played just one game over the past two seasons because of head injuries.
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UDOH to Host Outreach Meetings on Data Breach
Statewide tour kicks off July 26 in Salt Lake City
(Salt Lake City, UT) – The Utah Department of Health (UDOH) is preparing to launch its Data Breach Solution Center tour, a series of workshops throughout the state designed to provide personal, one-on-one help and information regarding the recent data breach.
The workshops will launch next Thursday, July 26, at the Salt Lake County Government Center in Salt Lake City. In all, the tour will make 12 stops at communities across Utah and will end on August 22 in St. George.
Utah's Data Security Ombudsman, Sheila Walsh-McDonald, and her staff will be at all 12 workshops providing individual case management, giving the public the opportunity to learn more about the data breach and protect themselves.
"We understand how upsetting the news of the data breach was for Utahns, and we apologize for the stress it has caused," said Walsh-McDonald, who was appointed by Governor Gary R. Herbert in response to the data breach. "We want to make sure we've done everything we can to reach out to those who were affected by the data breach and offer them a high level of assistance and personally counsel anyone in need."
The UDOH encourages anyone who has questions or feedback to attend one of the workshops. The tour is part of the Department's push to provide solutions to those whose personal information was compromised earlier this year when computer hackers broke into a Utah State government server.
Each workshop will take place from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (with the exception of St. George) on the following dates:
Thursday, July 26
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County Government Center, South Atrium
Monday, July 30
Salt Lake City
Palmer Court
Tuesday, July 31
Bear River Health Department
85 E. 1800 North
Wednesday, Aug. 1
Marshall White Community Center
Thursday, Aug. 2
North Davis Senior Activity Center
Wednesday, Aug. 8
Utah County Health Department
Tuesday, Aug. 14
Castleview Hospital
Tuesday, Aug. 21
Central Utah Health Department
Wednesday, Aug. 22
10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
St. George
Washington County Senior Center
A second Salt Lake County workshop, as well as events in Vernal and Moab, will be announced soon.
In addition to the workshops, the State of Utah has taken several significant steps to make sure victims of the data breach are protected, including offering free credit monitoring for victims and creating a 24-hour information hotline and web site with additional information on how to protect your credit, as well as direct access to the Data Security Ombudsman.
The UDOH and the Department of Technology Services have also completed internal reviews of data security policies, analyzed all state servers and conducted vulnerability assessments on them, and have increased employee training. Additionally, two independent firms have been hired to conduct investigations into the data breach and into the state's response.
For more information on the UDOH's Data Breach Solution Center tour visit or call the 24-hour hotline at 1-855-238-3339.
Posted by Administrator Steve Wright on Mon, 23 Jul 2012


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Jon Leifer wrote:Guess I 'll have to turn in my geek card and confess that I don't swirl water glasses either
Hang on to it, Jon. I think your credentials are still in good order. This Geek List isn't like the 10 commandments. You're not required to abide by all, or any.


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""Min lille fugl, hvor flyver du? (Min lille fugl, hvor flyver du)" [Danish title] is number 1938 in the Hans Christian Andersen Center's register of Andersen's literary works, i.e. no. 438 in the category poems (the range 1501 - 2900). BFN 446.
""Min lille fugl, hvor flyver du? (Min lille fugl, hvor flyver du)" [Danish title] was first published April 1844. Further information: Digterens danske Værker 1822-1875 number 446.
The work was published as a part of Digte af H. C. Andersen IV [Danish title]. (Number 2921. BFN 442. Category/genre: Separate publication).
Show this work in its context: all new Andersen publications from 1844.
The work was published later (26 December 1846) as a part of Digte, gamle og nye [Danish title]. (Number 1306. BFN 488. Category/genre: Collection of poems).
In modern Danish on p. 399 in Johan de Mylius (editor): H.C. Andersen. Samlede digte ('Collected poems', Copenhagen, 2000).


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|Phillips Exeter
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2013-14: Won a silver medal with the second varsity eight at the Ivy League Championships... Sat in the five seat in the second varsity eight that won the G P Jeffries Memorial Trophy at the Henley Women's Regatta... Recipient of the team's Nate Case Award.
2012-13: Sat in the second varsity eight that placed fifth in the grand final at the NCAA Championship.
2011-12: Won a gold medal with the second varsity four at the Ivy League Championship.
2010-11: Rowed in the No. 6 seat for the third varsity eight that finished fourth in the grand final at Eastern Sprints... Spare for the NCAA Championship.
Before Yale: Member of the 2009 USA Junior National High Performance Team that competed in Germany… Helped Exeter to the 2009 New England championship… Part of the 2008 Exeter 2V that went undefeated and won the New England championship.
Personal: Finished in the top eight in all of her events (500 free, 200 free and 4x50 relay) at the New England Prep School Swimming Championships… Helped Exeter to second-place finish.
Why Yale? "At the beginning all I really knew was that at Yale I would have a challenging peer group that would continually push me to do better, both in academics and athletics. Talking with the coaches, members of the team and going on my official visit proved that to me."


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United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Number 1
Volume VIII
Washington, D.C.
1. This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during January. Consular officers are required to report to the Department of State documentarily qualified applicants for numerically limited visas; the Immigration and Naturalization Service reports applicants for adjustment of status. Allocations were made, to the extent possible under the numerical limitations, for the demand received by December 8th in the chronological order of the reported priority dates. If the demand could not be satisfied within the statutory or regulatory limits, the category or foreign state in which demand was excessive was deemed oversubscribed. The cut-off date for an oversubscribed category is the priority date of the first applicant who could not be reached within the numerical limits. Only applicants who have a priority date earlier than the cut-off date may be allotted a number. Immediately that it becomes necessary during the monthly allocation process to retrogress a cut-off date, supplemental requests for numbers will be honored only if the priority date falls within the new cut-off date.
1. Section 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) sets an annual minimum family-sponsored preference limit of 226,000. The worldwide level for annual employment-based preference immigrants is at least 140,000. Section 202 prescribes that the per-country limit for preference immigrants is set at 7% of the total annual family-sponsored and employment-based preference limits, i.e., 25,620. The dependent area limit is set at 2%, or 7,320.
3. Section 203 of the INA prescribes preference classes for allotment of immigrant visas as follows:
First: Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Citizens: 23,400 plus any numbers not required for fourth preference.
Second: Spouses and Children, and Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Permanent Residents: 114,200, plus the number (if any) by which the worldwide family preference level exceeds 226,000, and any unused first preference numbers:
A. Spouses and Children: 77% of the overall second preference limitation, of which 75% are exempt from the per-country limit;
B. Unmarried Sons and Daughters (21 years of age or older): 23% of the overall second preference limitation.
Third: Married Sons and Daughters of Citizens: 23,400, plus any numbers not required by first and second preferences.
Fourth: Brothers and Sisters of Adult Citizens: 65,000, plus any numbers not required by first three preferences.
First: Priority Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference level, plus any numbers not required for fourth and fifth preferences.
Second: Members of the Professions Holding Advanced Degrees or Persons of Exceptional Ability: 28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference level, plus any numbers not required by first preference.
Third: Skilled Workers, Professionals, and Other Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide level, plus any numbers not required by first and second preferences, not more than 10,000 of which to "Other Workers."
Fourth: Certain Special Immigrants: 7.1% of the worldwide level.
Fifth: Employment Creation: 7.1% of the worldwide level, not less than 3,000 of which reserved for investors in a targeted rural or high-unemployment area, and 3,000 set aside for investors in regional centers by Sec. 610 of P.L. 102-395.
4. INA Section 203(e) provides that family-sponsored and employment-based preference visas be issued to eligible immigrants in the order in which a petition in behalf of each has been filed. Section 203(d) provides that spouses and children of preference immigrants are entitled to the same status, and the same order of consideration, if accompanying or following to join the principal. The visa prorating provisions of Section 202(e) apply to allocations for a foreign state or dependent area when visa demand exceeds the per-country limit. These provisions apply at present to the following oversubscribed chargeability areas: CHINA-mainland born, INDIA, MEXICO, and PHILIPPINES.
5. On the chart below, the listing of a date for any class indicates that the class is oversubscribed (see paragraph 1); "C" means current, i.e., numbers are available for all qualified applicants; and "U" means unavailable, i.e., no numbers are available. (NOTE: Numbers are available only for applicants whose priority date is earlier than the cut-off date listed below.)
All Charge- ability Areas CHINA- Except Those mainland Listed born INDIA MEXICO PHILIPPINES Family 1st 08SEP97 08SEP97 08SEP97 01AUG93 22APR87 2A* 15JUN94 15JUN94 15JUN94 01JUN93 15JUN94 2B 15MAR92 15MAR92 15MAR92 08JUL91 15MAR92 3rd 01JUN95 01JUN95 01JUN95 01MAY90 22MAR87 4th 08MAY88 08MAY88 22MAY86 01NOV87 15AUG78
*NOTE: For January, 2A numbers EXEMPT from per-country limit are available to applicants from all countries with priority dates earlier than 01JUN93. 2A numbers SUBJECT to per-country limit are available to applicants chargeable to all countries EXCEPT MEXICO with priority dates beginning 01JUN93 and earlier than 15JUN94. (All 2A numbers provided for MEXICO are exempt from the per-country limit; there are no 2A numbers for MEXICO subject to per-country limit.)
All Charge- ability Areas CHINA- Except Those mainland Listed born INDIA MEXICO PHILIPPINES Employment- Based 1st C 22NOV97 C C C 2nd C 22JUN96 22JUL97 C C 3rd C 08OCT94 15JAN96 C C Other 22MAR92 22MAR92 22MAR92 22MAR92 22MAR92 Workers 4th C C C C C Certain C C C C C Religious Workers 5th C 15NOV97 C C C Targeted Employ- C 15NOV97 C C C ment Areas/ Regional Centers
The Department of State has available a recorded message with visa availability information which can be heard at (202) 663-1541. This recording will be updated in the middle of each month with information on cut-off dates for the following month.
Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides 50,000 immigrant visas each fiscal year to permit immigration opportunities for persons from countries other than the principal sources of current immigration to the United States. DV visas are divided among six geographic regions. Not more than 3,500 visas (7% of the 50,000 visa limit) may be provided to immigrants from any one country.
For January, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to qualified DV-99 applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries as follows. When an allocation cut-off number is shown, visas are available only for applicants with DV regional lottery rank numbers BELOW the specified allocation cut-off number:
All DV Charge- ability Areas Except Those Region Listed Separately AFRICA AF 11,688 ASIA AS 3,272 EUROPE EU 8,694 EXCEPT: ALBANIA EU 6,622 NORTH AMERICA NA 24 (BAHAMAS) OCEANIA OC 330 SOUTH AMERICA, SA 1,442 CENTRAL AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN
Entitlement to immigrant status in the DV category lasts only through the end of the fiscal (visa) year for which the applicant is selected in the lottery. The year of entitlement for all applicants registered for the DV-99 program ends as of September 30, 1999. DV visas may not be issued to DV-99 applicants after that date. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-99 principals are only entitled to derivative DV status until September 30, 1999. DV visa availability through the very end of FY-1999 cannot be taken for granted. Numbers could be exhausted prior to September 30. Once all numbers provided by law for the DV-99 program have been used, no further issuances will be possible.
Effective December 14, the Department of State is implementing a new procedure to assist prospective immigrants to comply with the requirement to demonstrate that they are not likely to become a Public Charge to the U.S. Government. This is another example of the Department's effort to streamline immigrant visa processing, and to use its resources as efficiently as possible.
The State Department's National Visa Center (NVC), located in Portsmouth, N.H., will mail the affidavit of support form I-864 directly to the U.S. petitioner who is sponsoring the prospective immigrant's visa application. Under the old system, NVC sent the form to the applicant, who then had to forward it to the petitioner in the United States. In most cases, NVC will instruct the petitioner to send the completed affidavit of support form to the applicant for presentation to the Embassy or Consulate at the time of the visa interview.
However, beginning January 4, 1999, for the State Department's three largest immigrant visa processing posts (Ciudad Juarez, Manila, and Santo Domingo), NVC will instruct the petitioner to return the completed form to NVC for a technical review. NVC will verify that the form has been completed, signed and notarized and that the requisite tax returns are present. If it is determined that one or more of these steps has not been done, NVC will correspond with the petitioner to assist him or her in properly completing the form. NVC then forwards the file to the Embassy or Consulate where the interview takes place. The final decision as to the sufficiency of the affidavit is made by the interviewing consular officer.
By having NVC send the affidavit of support form directly to the petitioner, and by pre-screening the completed form for our three largest posts, we hope to reduce processing time and improve the likelihood that the form will be fully completed by the time of the visa interview. Using these steps, we can minimize the number of refusals due to incomplete documentation, and save the applicant from having to make unnecessary visits to our Embassies and Consulates.
Readers are reminded that an I-864 affidavit of support if required by:
* All Family-based immigrants, including adoptees (but self-petitioning widow/ers and battered spouses and children are exempt from this requirement); and
* Those Employment-based immigrants who are petitioned by a relative or by a business in which a relative has significant ownership interest.
Diversity visa (DV) cases do not require an I-864, and are not affected.
OBTAINING THE MONTHLY VISA BULLETIN: The Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs offers the monthly Visa Bulletin on the Internet's World Wide Web. The Internet Web address to access the Bulletin is:
From the home page, select the Visa section which contains the Visa Bulletin.
Individuals may also obtain the Visa Bulletin by fax. From a fax phone, dial (202) 647-3000. Follow the prompts and enter in the code 1038 to have each Bulletin faxed.
(The Department of State also has available a recorded message with visa cut-off dates which can be heard at (202) 663-1541. The recording is updated in the middle of each month with information on cut-off dates for the following month.)
To be placed on the Department of State's Visa Bulletin mailing list or to change an address, please write to:
Visa Bulletin
Visa Office
Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20522-0106
Only addresses within the U.S. postal system may be placed on the mailing list. Please include a recent mailing label when reporting changes or corrections of address; the Postal Service does NOT automatically notify the Visa Office of address changes. (Obtaining the Visa Bulletin by mail is a much slower option than any of the alternatives mentioned above.)
The Visa Bulletin can also be contacted by E-mail at the following address:
(The Visa Bulletin is not distributed by e-mail, however.)
Department of State Publication 9514
CA/VO:December 8, 1998