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At a juncture in American history when the sitting president has revealed himself in obvious and undeniable ways to be an avowed Marxist with a belly filled with fiery ambitions of a would-be world-dictator, hell-bent on transforming the republican form of government that for nearly 240 years has well-served this, the greatest nation on Earth, into a totalitarian socialistic nanny state, the matter of legitimate versus illegitimate authority is being speedily forced to the top of public discourse. A plethora of political as well as social science experts and pundits agree that the United States of America at this hour stands at the threshold of collapse and utter ruin. It can hardly be mere coincidence that every segment of American society, from political to economical to ecclesiastical, is inundated with people driven by what Augustine called libido dominandi—lust for rule or dominion.
The scope of this two-part article series is primarily leadership in the ecclesiastical realm. However, much, if not all, of the principles regarding legitimate and illegitimate authority—i.e., abuse of authority—addressed herein can also with some adaptation be applied to authority in any realm of society and human interaction.
The main focus of the initial installment of our discussion was the matter of hyper-authoritarianism in general and how easy it is for the most principled spiritual leaders to cross over the "thin line of leadership" between leading and lording, discipling and dominating, coaching and coercing, to operate in "foul ground" without even realizing it. In this part, we begin turning our attention to some of the whys and wherefores of ecclesiastical predominance.
Of course, as was pointed out in Part 1, there is nothing new about authoritarian abuse by spiritual leaders. In any age, there is no shortage of unscrupulous religious dictators bent on self-aggrandizement facilitated through personal kingdom-building purportedly "in the name of the Lord." Nevertheless, while it is not indigenous exclusively to our time, due perhaps to the move toward organizational ecumenicism commonly referred to today as "networking," there is little doubt that it is more widespread than ever before, to the point that sadly the term, "ubiquitous," now applies. Unfortunately, today there is little difference between the ecclesiastical and the secular realm with respect to corruption. And, after no small number of years of studying this phenomenon, I have concluded that the primary cause is nothing more sophisticated than base greed fueled by the oldest and most powerful human propensity which God Himself testifies is the ROOT of ALL evil — "the love of money."
Moreover, whatever the premise and psychology behind it, the sad historical record is that few of the corrupt and covetousness-crazed ecclesiastical autocrats alluded to herein are ever heedful of the criticisms or pleas of their fellows to turn back from such blatantly aberrant behavior, thus we will not engage here in the futility of attempting to convince them to do so. What is written here, is primarily for those sincere, honest, earnest, upstanding, and conscientious leaders who may realize from the reasonings offered herein that unwittingly and unintentionally from time to time they have transgressed the invisible line between leading and lording. The majority of that ilk, we are persuaded, will follow the leading of the Spirit to discontinue any unscriptural and improper leadership techniques, methods, and methodologies.
Most reasonable ministry professionals, if forthright, would agree that ecclesiastical predominance and authoritarian abuse exists in nearly every branch of the Church — denominations, modern proto-denominational associations and "networks," as well as among independents — and in far too great a quantity. Regardless of the "checks" against such errancy supposedly inherent in an "established" ecclesiastical hierarchy, every honest minister knows there exists — between the sequestered and secluded air-conditioned offices of organizational headquarters and the salt mines of the local church — a cavernous void rife for subtile selfish-ambition, self-aggrandizement, and corruption by unscrupulous church-leaders.
As earnest as organizational officials may be about their role of "overseeing," it has limitations. A local church-leader so disposed can construct a partition around the affairs of that local operation, buttressed by servile and intensely loyal church cronies, that is quite difficult to "see over." Despite genuinely believed, eloquently articulated, and convincing pontifications describing the purported fail-safe system of accountability in place between the senior church leader and headquarter officials, the unsavory reality is that a leader could be a drunkard, womanizer, wife-beater, child-molester, swindler, and egregious authority-abuser, without anyone at headquarters ever knowing until a cataclysmic public eruption occurs. Indeed, the increasing public scandals of this sort involving high-profile ministers lading the news-media these days is testimony of that reality. Impersonal hierarchical governance will never be a safeguard against these potentialities. Only down-to-earth, real relationships with real mutual accountability based on a balance between "the God-kind of love" and the standard of "God-kind of living" among equals having different functions and responsibilities can ensure against inappropriate behavior and improper practices by church leadership.
The stark truth remains, even in these days of supposed increased human knowledge, political systems by their very nature, whether secular or ecclesiastical, are fertile breeding grounds for corruption. As long as the Church insists on mimicking the world's way of star-worship and undue exaltation of its leaders, and coronating them with inordinate, undue political and monetary deference and "power" attributed to royalty, we will continue to subject ourselves to such ecclesiastical corruption and public chagrin. For, as Lord Acton so aptly observed, "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." By no means are the hallowed halls of the Ecclesia safe-haven from that adage.
Maybe it's our European lineage, or maybe it's just a basic human propensity, but the American Church seems to have this inexorable need for a de facto ecclesiastical aristocracy from which it is not willing to repent. Like Israel in the day of Samuel and Saul, we clamor for our kings and our queens after the manner of the other nations of the world. We are even willing to render unto our Caesars a superabundance of our personal resources in order to have royalty through whom to vicariously live a life of opulence, ease, and privilege.
Like the nations of the world, we just plain want our kings. They need not even subjugate or conquer us to gain aristocratic ascendancy, for we freely and wantonly bestow it upon them. Speaking about the need for a single world leader who would have the political cunning and charisma to preside over a one world order, a senior United Nations official quipped to reporters some two decades ago now, "Give us a super-leader, be he devil or Divine, and the world will follow!" Likewise, this seems to be the collective clamor for Christendom as well. And, the worldwide, ever-expanding move toward the false unity of ecclesiastical ecumenicism taking place in the institutional churches is certainly further evidence of that religion-related proclivity.
So it is not only base lusts of crazed charlatans that leads to authoritarian abuse, but rather it exists and even flourishes also because of the unredeemed fleshly desires of those who are willing to be subjugated by charismatic beguilers spewing forth utopian promises of grandeur. Let's face it, somewhere in the human psyche is the desire for Oz, a new Garden of Eden, heaven on earth — call it what you will — we long for it, even Christians, who theologically should know better. Little wonder then that even the "elect" can be so easily deceived by New Age "New World" philosophies and vain promises. Unredeemed humanity and unenlightened Christianity alike crave utopia now, in this life, in this present world-system — never mind that it is antichrist-ruled — rather than have to endure the temporary stresses and duresses requisite to the manifestation of Christ's Kingdom on earth.
Besides having a general dislike for learning, mankind, as a whole, is intellectually and spiritually lazy. The majority of people don't want to have to study, to read, to seek, to investigate, to ruminate, to mentally assimilate, to pray — we want someone else to do all that for us, because it requires too much effort and cuts into the time we allot to leisure, pleasure, and entertainment. Thus, what most people are looking for is not merely a spiritual shepherd — someone to teach and guide them in the ways of God — but a guru, a dalai, a priest — someone to do all the "spiritual stuff" for us, and then just tell us what we should believe and do.
The fact of the matter is, especially in a free society, there would be no authoritarian subjugation if there were no one willing to be subjugated by self-aggrandizing despots. Without question, in the case of many, their tacit acquiescence to predominance is purely a matter of intellectual and spiritual laziness, coupled with general apathy. However, in those cases where a very defined and definitive system of deliberate domination and control has been instituted, there is another dynamic at work — selfish ambition.
Indeed, at bottom, it is selfish ambition, both on the part of the subjugator, and, ironically, the subjugated as well, that drives hyper-authoritarianism. The subjugator is bent on building a private kingdom wherein he or she is exalted and exulted as lord, master, and supreme-ruler. And, the "subjugatees" are enticed into becoming a participant in the grandeur through promises of shared ascendancy and personal aggrandizement, which appeals to and appeases their own selfish lusts for superiority.
Where it is employed today, the nuts and bolts of ecclesiastical group-predominance, virtually without exception is a kind of multi-level, pyramid authority structure, or polity. It is identical to the M-L-M (multi-level marketing) schema so popular today in the business sector, wherein each participant recruits other participants, all of whom formulate their "downline." Supposedly, each participant's downline is his/her personal pipeline of income reaped from the efforts of his recruits as well as each of theirs, and so on down the line. The basic hypothesis is that this pyramid-shaped structure intrinsically produces exponential and near effortless synergism equating ultimately to perpetual residual income. Essentially, it's the modern, sophisticated version of the old chain-letter.
Two things that should alert thinking observers to the impropriety of these types of structures apparently escapes the notice of many. One is the fact that pyramid schemes, though most M-L-M have found crafty ways to circumvent the definition of a pyramid scheme (primarily by ensuring that there is a "product" of real value that is offered in the program), have been deemed by every state in the U.S. to be illegal, essentially because the postulation of synergism is fraudulent except in the case of those in the first few levels at the apex of the pyramid. The second is that the pyramid, as evidenced by the pyramids of occult-rife Egyptian heritage, is the very signature and icon of the occult and its ultimate author, Satan.
Notwithstanding, there are a plethora of hybrids of this system being used very effectively in churches in America and around the world to expand their membership, from mainline denominations to independents, though all those employing it would adamantly and vociferously deny it. Nevertheless, it can hardly be denied that a staple of modern church "development" methodologies is the "small group" concept, which virtually all churches employ in some degree and form. In some churches they are called "cell groups." Others call them "care groups," or various other appellations. Whatever they are called, they are essentially small groups of only a few to fifty or a little more, who meet usually in someone's house, usually the leader's, for the supposed purpose of fellowship, prayer, and exhortation.
In itself, of course, there is nothing wrong with that concept, and indeed it is quite Scriptural, useful, and effectual in terms of practical ministry. In fact, it is in the small group setting, away from the ecclesiastical formality of the sanctuary where people can be real that real ministry takes place. After all, real fellowship and ministry cannot be achieved with the back of someone's head, or in the hour or two of a church-service. Moreover, there is certainly much more to real fellowship and ministry than mere handshakes, chit-chat, and congregational prayer.
The main problem comes in the leadership of those small groups, and the status given those who host or "lead" them. Indeed, the essence of the problem is in whether the people in charge of these meetings are considered merely "hosts" or spiritual "leaders." In many churches, those who host these meetings are considered and even called "leaders." Sometimes the term is prefaced by the prefix "lay-", nonetheless, they are given a status of being a "leader" of some echelon in the church polity, as well as varying degrees and forms of deference commonly attributed to that nomenclature.
Now the concept of deploying the laity of a local church in constructive and effectual roles of real and substantive function according to their God-given giftings and talents is an altogether proper, needed, even necessary, and certainly Scriptural concept (Rom. 12:3-13; 1 Pet. 4:10,11; et al.). However, where that concept goes awry in application is when untrained, ungifted, unanointed, untried laymen are all of a sudden dubbed "leaders," and congregants look to them for counsel, Biblical answers, and direction for the diverse range of problems and needs believers typically encounter in their Christian pilgrimage.
When it comes to such spiritual input into the lives of God's sheep who were purchased with the precious cost of the shed blood of Jesus, it is vital that it be: firstly, correct and Biblically-based; secondly, God-inspired; thirdly, prudent and pragmatic; fourthly, timely according to God's timetable; and fifthly, presented in a constructive rather than destructive way. All of that requires experience and expertise. Summarily, the matter of speaking unto God's sheep on His behalf is a fearful thing that should not be taken lightly. Nor, because of its extensive potential ramifications, should it be delegated to undeveloped, inexperienced, Sunday-morning spiritual "dabblers," or spiritual "weekend warriors," especially those steeped in self-absorption and a super-inflated sense of self-importance, seeking status, recognition, and ascendancy over others.
The problem with the multi-level downline or small group system instituted within the ecclesiastical mini-society also known as local churches is that by nature that system is fertile ground for such spiritual sophomorism and thus attracts the very people who engage in it. The very unfortunate result is two-fold. One, what in essence, to put it bluntly, is a bastardization of the ministry. True ministry is devalued, degraded, debased, and debauched, which is precisely what has happened on a large scale in many sectors of the Church today. Two, the sheep of those flocks are being subjected to a debauched, defiled, and, in some cases, a desecrated counterfeit of genuine ministry, depriving them of the benefit they could have derived from true God-ordained and -anointed ministry.
Almost without exception, where hyper-authoritarianism is occurring, such a small group system with lay-leadership is employed, supposedly to promote "church growth," which invariably refers to growth in terms of size rather than spirituality. And, in these multi-level downlines the under-leaders are indoctrinated by the ultimate leader with certain patent hyper-authoritarian precepts and practices by which to "govern" the affairs and functions of their particular downlines. The under-leaders in turn pass those dogmas and doctrines onto the group they lead. The result is an entire church of participants in an infrastructure of unauthorized domination and control over its members that to them seems wholly proper and good because they were spiritually reared and trained in it, in some cases from the very beginning of their new life in Christ.
This is a dire development in our churches today that sorely needs wholesale correction, but it is only one of the many factors leading to authoritarian abuse and psychological enslavement in church-groups.###
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15 May 2004
The Election Commission wants to make voting compulsory. Wake up early morning, or stand in queues in the burning sun, or in the rain and cold, when it comes to the hills, to press the almighty button.
I met Tirtha Tamang, a 62-year-old local woman at Pashupati. This is the border town which was raided recently by the Maoist guerrillas, of course on the Nepal side.
On the Indian side there are only a few houses – they all possess a middle-of-nowhere look. Tamang had walked nearly two hours through the forest path in the morning to get to her booth. She complains of the long trek, but what makes her take all the trouble?
"Well, they say one must exercise the right to vote." But to what purpose? Tamang fumbles for an answer; she has none. In the windswept cold Simana, not too far from the Pashupati, men reeking of liquor huddle in the fog, looking for their names in the voters' list. The party men helping them also stink of cheap alcohol. Gun totting SSB men squat on the roadside in boredom.
At Sukhiapokhri, always grey with fog, a crowd has gathered in front of the police station. CPI-M men are complaining they have been beaten up by the GNLF in Chamong. Their local leader, face burnt by over consumption of alcohol, jaundiced eyes, and wearing a blue beret(possibly inspired by Che?), calls out. A frail looking, fine complexioned man, comes shakily out of the crowd. Blood has dried around his nostrils.
Another young man, still a boy, actually, around 17 perhaps, also comes to the centre of the crowd and starts turning round, and round. He is displaying blood marks on his second-hand, imitation Nike jacket.
At the edge of the assembly, a senior party leader sits inside a maruti van. He is writing the FIR. He tells reporters that his party will win if the turn out in the hills is under 50 per cent. "More than that and it will be very difficult for us," he says without irony.
As the day progressed, the Congress candidate expressed happiness at the proceedings. Reason, according to him, 55 per cent had polled in the hills. "That's a good figure. It means I will get at least 2 lakh votes from the hills." That figure should be able to secure his victory.
We enter a picture postcard Patabong tea estate, just outside Darjeeling. My
colleague is apprehensive. Young men from here are regarded with fear in the town; they are held to be a murderous variety. In a public meeting the local councilor had warned any party, besides his own, from campaigning in this area. He has fantasies of wearing out doctors with autopsies. People at the booth in the tea garden stand quietly in queue; their faces reminiscent of that of the masked students in the Pink Floyd video "Another Brick in the Wall." Not a single smiling relaxed face is to be seen.
The landscape of the area is movingly beautiful. Last year, couple of cable cars of the Darjeeling Ropeway had dropped on it. At North Point school, it looks like an invasion. Thousands of officials and hundreds of vehicles swarm about –to ensure that the biggest democracy remains the biggest democracy, no matter the quality of that democracy.
A friend – possibly the best computer wizard of the town - calls up. He has voted for the elephant symbol, wants to know to which party it belongs. "I don't think many would vote for it. I felt for sorry for the candidate," he explains his act. Later repolling was held at two booths where the EVMs were supposed to have malfunctioned. There were reports that the polling personnel who were manning those
booths were tipsy.
In a push of a button will all these things change? Do we need to spend couple of hours, walk maybe for two hours through the forest, just to say – none of the
above? The fact that half the population does not vote screams out the same fact. Let the EC, if it dares, rather make sure that only good men and women are allowed to contest. The recent ruling of the Patna High Court would be a good place to start the process from.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Police and the FDNY responded to a report of debris falling from the Bayonne Bridge around noon on Monday, but the substance turned out to be water used in the Raise the Roadway Project.
The owner of an auto body shop under the span complained that an unknown material was landing on the property from the bridge, said Joseph Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The emergency response, which resulted in no injuries or summons, began around 11:45 a.m. and lasted about a half hour, Pentangelo said. The FDNY was called to the scene at 11:59 a.m., a spokesman said.
Authorities determined that the water was being used for grout in the construction project, Pentangelo said.


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UCD student Jack hailed a hero for saving life of Clodagh (21) in balcony collapse
A business student has been hailed a hero after he saved the life of an Irish woman when they fell from a balcony and he caught and broke her fall.
UCD's Jack Halpin (21) suffered serious back injuries and two broken legs in the horrifying incident in California on Tuesday.
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The brother of Clodagh Cogley (21), a student at Trinity, paid tribute to Jack on his sister's behalf. Darragh Cogley said his sister was doing "really well" after an operation on her spine, knee and shoulder.
READ MORE: 'It hit us like a tsunami' ... community unites for vigil
"She is awake, somehow upbeat and doing really well. [We] can't believe how lucky she and the rest of the survivors were and Clodagh wanted to say particular thanks to Jack Halpin for grabbing her and breaking her fall," he said on Facebook.
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Jack, from Rathmines, is a past pupil of St Mary's College, and worked for the Omniplex cinema chain. He took the summer off so he could travel with friends to the US. Operations director at Omniplex Mark Anderson said Jack is a hero.
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Clodagh Cogley from Milltown, Dublin, injured in the Berkeley balcony fall.
READ MORE: Berkeley tragedy fund raises over $30k in less than a day
Berkeley Tragedy Victims' Fund
The Irish Immigration Pastoral Centre in San Francisco has set up an online account to raise funds for the students affected by this tragedy and to assist the immediate needs of their families.
"We were all horrified and shocked to hear about the terrible events in Berkeley, especially when we found out that a staff member, Jack Halpin, was involved," Mr Anderson said.
READ MORE: Grieving relatives arrive after six students die on horror balcony crash
"We are relieved that he is safe and our thoughts are with him, his family, and the other people involved.
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"We have (heard) that he may have helped save the life of one of the girls involved. This is the ultimate of act bravery and selflessness that would be typical of a guy like Jack.
Jack Halpin
"We wish him well in his recovery and if we can be of any assistance or can help in anyway possible, we are happy to do so," Mr Anderson added.
READ MORE: Tears, shock and devastation as students and locals unite in grief
A popular footballer with St Jude's GAA in Dublin, Jack is among the seven Irish students still in various hospitals with serious injuries. Families of the victims were coming to terms with the tragedy and some relations have travelled to the US.
READ MORE: Response: 'A balcony is broke, at least 10 fell' - 911 call
Dublin students Nick Schuster, Lorcan Miller, Eimear Walsh, Olivia Burke, Eoghan Culligan – all aged 21 - and Irish-American Ashley Donohoe (22) died. Olivia and Ashley were cousins. Seven students – including Jack Halpin and Clodagh Cogley – remain in hospitals in the Bay area.
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Hannah Waters (21), from Deerpark, Castleknock, was in a critical condition last night.
READ MORE: 'It was just like a big earthquake', says witness on panic and terror at scene
The DCU student's parents, Martin and Una, rushed to the US to be at her bedside.
"They left straight away of course," a neighbour said.
Aoife Beary
Aoife Beary is from Blackrock and it was her 21st that was being celebrated in the apartment where she lived. She is believed to be seriously injured.
The family of DIT student Conor Flynn (22), from Mount Merrion in Dublin, are hopeful he will recover from injuries he suffered. His father, Alan, said he did not feel up to commenting yesterday, but confirmed his wife had travelled to Berkeley to be at her son's side.
Sean Fahey (21) from Rathmines, went to St Mary's College and family members are also in the US. Niall Murray (21) was recovering last night from his injuries. According to his Facebook page he is studying at National University of Ireland Galway. His aunt Mary O'Keefe last night posted in the UCD book of condolences.
READ MORE: Student's view: We work hard and party but news of tragedy so close to us was shocking
"I pray for the recovery of my wonderful nephew Niall Murray who was injured in this tragic accident. My deepest sympathy goes out to the families of the beautiful young men and women who lost their lives and those who were injured. No words can express how deeply I feel for all of those involved," she wrote.
In Berkeley, Greystar, the management company of the Library Gardens Apartment complex, has assigned representative to liaise with students who were based in the building.
A company representative was meeting groups of Irish students and helping them with alternative arrangements in a hotel near Kittredge Street.
None of the students wished to make any comment, but did confirm they are no longer staying in the apartments. Visitors and tributes continue at the site. The tragedy has devastated Irish people, but its effects have been felt by other nationalities.
Yuri Vaughn, a native of Japan who lives in El Cerrito, seven miles north of Berkeley, was visibly emotional.
"My children are just grown and they are finished their education and are focusing on settling into their life.
"These people came here so young and so full of dreams and it's just terribly sad," she said.
American student Sari Kosdon (25) lives on the opposite side of the apartments.
"I see these kids all the time, and they're just so happy to respond to this country and to the opportunity, and they're here two weeks or three weeks. I feel as a country we failed them and that's really sad," she said.
Additional reporting by Ryan Nugent, Conor Feehan and Paul Healy
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Turkmenistan's Door to Hell
Turkmenistan is a country in Asia that borders with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Iran. Most of the country is covered by the Karakum (Black Sand) Desert, and underneath there is one of the largest reserves of natural gas resources in the world. But Turkmenistan also has one other thing. If you are looking for a way to get to hell, you should visit the 350-person village of Derweze on Karakum Desert, where you can find the Door to Hell.
In 1971, Soviet engineers conducted drillings on a substantial oil field site. They found the gas resources and started to store it, but the ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed into a wide crater and swallowed up all the equipment.
The large crateer started to emit poisonous methane in quite large quantities. In order to neutralize it, the engineers decided to burn the gas off.
They thought it would be safer and cheaper to burn the gas than to extract it through expensive methods.
They expected that the gas would burn out within a few weeks and they go back to explore the area once again to find the oil.
But the calculations were wrong. It's been over 40 years and the methane is still burning. And no one knows when it finally burns out.
In April 2010, the president of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, visited the site and ordered that the hole should be closed, but to this day nothing happened.
Source: Wikipedia, NMK Photography, Stefan Schinning


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The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected petition by Essar Teleholdings Ltd and its promoters, for a joint trial in the 2G Spectrum case, at a lower court.
Essar Teleholdings Ltd and its promoters – Ravi and Anshuman Ruia – had tested the uncommon CBI court's jurisdiction to hold trial against them for the situation emerging out of the probe in the 2G spectrum scam. However, the CBI had affirmed them of attempting to leave the trial that was in a propelled stage, as the firm and Ruias tested the magisterial court's jurisdiction saying they have not been charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA). The CBI likewise restricted their second request to "assimilate" the trial of previous telecom serve A. Raja, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) individual from parliament K. Kanimozhi and others, and the one against itself, which would require the trial to start once more.
Essar forwarded the summit court against the rejection of its request for a joint trial by the uncommon 2G court. The lower court released the request in September 2014.
A bench, containing Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justices A K Sikri and R Nariman, rejected their petitions for a joint trial with the principle denounced Andimuthu Raja, previous information transfers priest, and Kanimozhi, another charged for the situation. The judges likewise rejected the organization and its promoter's supplication requesting that the apex court move the trial to an magistrate court, as they were not charged for hostile to debasement, while the Special court is accountable for listening to cases identified with defilement accusations for the case.
Raja and Kanimozhi are confronting charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery, faking documents, mishandling authority position, criminal unfortunate behaviour by open worker and taking influences—offences which are secured by the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code.


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Those who have no problem flying can choose many places in the world to go to when they want to travel; it's completely up to them where their destination takes them. One great way to travel the world is by going on a cruise. Did you know that there are certain cruises that go for several months at a time and travels all over the world? Although these cruises can cost a lifetime worth of money, those who can afford it can go from one country to another across the globe, and they'll stay on a cruise ship the entire time eating, drinking and meeting new people. Those who can't afford such luxuries can still enjoy themselves by taking a cruise to certain places around the world.
There are cruises that are in different parts of the world, and it's possible to fly to the location where the cruise docks to take the cruise for 3-10 days or more, depending on how long the cruise ship is out to sea. Since there are so many cruises around the world, it's possible to see all types of places that are new and interesting. Another way to go about traveling is by taking airplanes to certain destinations. Those who truly want to travel to many parts of the world may consider getting a private jet to take them from one place to another within a short period of time.
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Nicholas Laue focuses his practice on commercial disputes, receivership actions, and bankruptcy litigation. Before joining Keller and Almassian PLC, Nicholas was a pre-hearing attorney at the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Nicholas is a graduate of Central Michigan University and received his law degree from the University of Toledo College of Law, graduating magna cum laude. He is admitted to practice in Michigan state courts and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
While in law school, he served as a Note and Comment editor for the Law Review of the University of Toledo College of Law, and he received certificates of concentration in the area of intellectual property law and criminal law. Nicholas is currently a member of the Grand Rapids Bar Association.
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America, My Backyard
Pierre Tristam
My trip across the continent was over. So was the century (please, no more hairsplitting blah blah blah about 2001 being the new century). The question was how to bring both to a close without contamination from Peter Jennings' version of how The End ought to be.
The answer: A friend and I packed a tent, a ham, and a bottle of Veuve Cliquot, the brand of champagne Humphrey Bogart served globe-trotting exiles in " Casablanca," and headed for the desert.
We took to the back country at Joshua Tree National Park in California, got mugged by a band of cacti called, for good reason, Jumping Chollo, found a desolate little spot at the foot of a hill of granite and next to those Joshua trees blooming with porcupines, and pitched our party tent at nightfall. If the end was near, we couldn't feel it, so we must have been in the right place.
With the temperature well below freezing and midnight too many hours away, we started drinking to the new millennium on Eastern Standard Time (I'm still a Floridian) and made our way west over the next three hours, forgetting our own midnight.
A few coyotes sniffed around the tent for our ham. We thought we heard voices. And we saw the blinking lights of planes hanging on to the sky, like the stars, instead of falling out of it.
That's how the great event came and went, as did the night. That the sun actually rose in the morning had to be somewhat of a letdown. Dramatically speaking, witnessing the end of the world would have lent the perfect ending to my trip and my fraction of the American Century. But so it goes with arbitrary ends: they don't mean anything. Neither, really, does the end of a spectacular journey across the country.
Still, big ends compel some sort of summing up, of best-of lists, of final thoughts, and that's just what I'm having a hard time with right now.
Top 10 Best States of the Union? Montana and New Hampshire and Georgia aren't like cuts of meat that can be compared for their tenderness and texture. The reasons I might have found being in one place more pleasant than another were usually purely subjective, although it's difficult to make a case for relativism between, say, natural beauty in New Jersey, which is endangered, and natural beauty in Montana, which is relentless.
Top 10 Worst Experiences? Too petty to worry about, even if I'll never forget that creepy hotel clerk in Minneapolis who thought I was a most-wanted bandit.
Most remarkable people? Too many to mention.
In short, America can't be summed up any more than a millennium can. The best summing up would be to do the trip all over again, more intelligently, and maybe with a few fewer hardships (Exxon coffee and a couple of personal losses come to mind).
That won't be possible, but staying away from America is going to take work. All I have to do is watch The Weather Channel to be reminded of how hard it'll be.
For every Fahrenheit reading flashing on the national map somewhere in the country, I can think of a landmark, a memory, a connection of some sort—Ron Martin, the grandfatherly gun-lover and gun show organizer in Georgia; Feliciano Garcia, the 29-year-old ex-illegal alien from Mexico and now third-term mayor of Rio Bravo on the Texas-Mexico border; the underrated beauty of the Nebraska Sand Hills; the Hill City, Kan., Rotary Club singing "Home on the Range" for me; becoming a commune's family member for Thanksgiving day in Oregon; and even tripping over my roots in Santa Monica, where meeting a Lebanese movie director turned into an unlikely rediscovery.
In most cases, what made the memory—what registered that marker on the map—wasn't planned so much as stumbled into as a result of a suggestion, a question asked here and there, a breakfast conversation with a stranger, or just taking an exit on a whim. Those coincidental discoveries taught me the most about this country. They had nothing in common with the suggestions of guidebooks, which I now find to be the surest ways to dead-end—and deadening—travel.
Driving the van back to Florida a few days ago I stopped in Butte, Mont., for breakfast at a little family restaurant in the worn downtown.
The place was called Darlene's or Doreen's, or something like that from the Great Depression's Greatest Names, with a menu the back cover of which has a poem about Butte and why miners from all over the world came here to mine and stay and love Butte, and a bathroom down wooden steps so steep the waitress has to warn you and then give you directions through the basement's discards to the end of the store, "toward the street," where you then go up another brief set of steep stairs, open a wooden door that winces, and step into a stall with a green toilet seat and air that smells, and looks, yellow.
Everything in Butte is hued a dusk-like yellow. It's a town of copper. The radio station is Copper 94. The streets are called Aluminum Street and other metallic markers from the periodic table. The buildings, and people's skins, are rust-colored, bronzed by decades of exposure to their life-giver at the edge of town—a copper mine so big and once so productive that the continent and much of the world depended on it.
The mine at the outskirts of town is an enormous gash against a mountain that's part of the Great Divide. Stripped, the mountain looks divided against its will, but not against America's. The Hill, as locals call the mountain, produced 13 billion pounds of copper from the end of the 19 th century to the middle of the 20 th or a third of all the copper used in the United States during those decades of industrial transformation.
Butte, in other words, wired America with its copper, lighting it up.
The mine has produced a few more billion pounds of copper since, but nothing so glorious or crucial as before the 1950s. It has produced something else since 1982: One of the biggest man-made toxic lakes in the world -- 30 billion gallons of water run-off in a 600-acre lake.
It could have been a nice new recreation area for the moribund town. But the bedrock is full of sulfur. When it mixes with water, it creates sulfuric acid. Copper, cadmium and arsenic also are part of the stew. Drop any metal in there, and sooner or later it'll dissolve. Migrating geese occasionally mistake the lake for a temporary haven. They die by the hundreds, their insides corroded from drinking the water.
Breakfast was good. It always is in those musty dives where the seat cushions are reddish and springy and the tables not quite cleaned up of a few generations of Aunt Jemima's.
When I got ready to leave, I went up to the counter to ask the lone waitress where, as I put it, the big toxic dump was. She looked at me as if I was in the Vatican and she was a nun of wrinkles and I had called the Sistine Chapel Lucifer's den of whores. "It's not toxic," she shot—and I mean shot, her eyes a double-barreled Winchester—back. "It's just water run-off from the mine."
A woman sitting across the counter and smoking her seven millionth cigarette said: "It's just full of metals that you need in your system to live—iron, copper, gold." She also was incensed, and the two women looked at each other in what must have been a practiced maneuver of repelling toxic strangers. Used to it in summer, they must have been surprised to have to circle the wagons on a winter morning.
"My grandfather worked at the mine all his life. He lived to be 94," she said. I felt bad. And then I didn't. I asked again where the dump was, excluding the word toxic, and the wrinkled waitress-nun said it was at the end of the avenue out front. I drove out there and saw the mine, but not the pit. Only the " Berkeley Pit Visitor Center."
I didn't know the pit had been christened, or that it had become a tourist attraction (dying towns will turn to anything to make money). But it was closed for the winter, and the pit was hidden behind a minimum-security-prison-like fence topped with a ridge of barbed wire and a levee.
I took a couple of pictures and left, thinking how places don't have to be cute or quaint, let alone particularly healthy, to be fascinating. Here, after all, was an example of what had literally built the country, and what it had become in the post-industrial age. But it is not, strictly speaking, an attractive place. It hasn't been sanitized by the requisite number of antique shops, bed-and-breakfast joints and coffee houses to make it appealing. So it's mostly bypassed or ignored, because it seems like just a pit. But it isn't. "Like Concord, Gettysburg, and Wounded Knee," the writer Edwin Dobb wrote four years ago, " Butte is one of the places America came from."
The country is full of Buttes.
This month's National Geographic features a story by a British writer who became American many years ago and a Polish photographer who still lives in Warsaw but who first crossed the United States on assignment for the Geographic in 1987. The magazine sent them both across the country again for a piece called "Rediscovering America." They came back with the usual observations of how kind Americans are, how helpful, how trusting, how inventive, and so on.
The piece was written with a bit of that gee-whiz element of surprise, as in "an America of morning sunshine, the dew barely off the unfenced lawns, of an egalitarian cheerfulness and a future as full of unbounded possibilities as the continent itself" and of how—get this—"people would turn out to be friendly." The observations might as well have been lifted from Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America," written 170 years ago.
In other words, nothing has changed. That writers traveling the country insist on being surprised by the good nature of its people (and its intentions) must be one of those attention-grabbing tricks of which I wasn't immune.
From far away—from Lebanon, in my case—and with the eyes of a child, America was most of all an empire of bigness. Everything about it seemed bigger than anywhere else. A child's perspective being what it is, bigger also meant better. Adult eyes and proximity don't change that perspective much.
Up close, America is still bigger than any child's imagination could picture, and blithering naysayers aside (me included on occasion), it is also, in more ways than any civilization has managed before it, better. As the naturalized ex-French journalist Ted Morgan put it, "This country is a success, in the same way that a Broadway show is a success. People are lined up at the box office for tickets of admission."
Once here, one of the ways we become American is by learning to take for granted what once amazed us, the size of things especially. Triple-decker burgers, triple-decker malls, canyons the size of some countries or freedoms scaled outside of any size become routine expectations.
Our threshold of surprise is raised so high that mere bigness isn't a big deal anymore. In that sense, I have become fully American. Bigness doesn't impress me anymore.
But I'm not taking anything for granted.
If a year spent crossing the 50 states by road has done one thing, it has made me think of the country as a neighborhood more than as a continent—as my neighborhood. Retreating to the desert has its place, but it doesn't beat diving back into the thick of America, sulfurous bedrock and all.


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So, there are many things I love: A hearty cup o' Joe if I have to get up before 10 on Saturday morning; local food; a delicious mimosa; and TACOS. I had no idea I would enjoy such things all together in one place, but thanks to Downtown Bentonville Inc.'s final Farm to Table event of the season, I was able to do this. AND HOW.
The event was held September 20 at Airship Coffee – which is actually a coffee wholesale producer! Yep, they process the beans right there. I was so happy to be told about how my cup of fair-trade coffee came from growers in places like Ethiopia, Brazil, Venezuela, Guatemala and El Salvador, and the process of how it ended up in my hands.
I was so excited to see Airship Coffee Owner Eric Bray, because I'd actually met him in my reporter days several years ago when he was a Benton County Extension Agent, just starting to work on the side with growers in other countries to produce and distribute fair-trade coffee. We had a small chat, got to catch up, and I truly am amazed that he's been able to transform his talents in working with and distributing from workers to a full-time career with a warehouse full of coffee beans and grounds from countries where growers need a sustainable income in order to survive and thrive.
Airship Coffee is sent to brewers across the country; and the only place where you can buy it locally is at the Bentonville Farmer's Market. Bray told me it was part of the company's aim to connect consumers with those who produce their food. Regardless, you only have a few weeks left to go and pick up some grounds!
In addition to the coffee, we had some AMAZING mimosas served to us (see the pic at the top of the page). The Trickdilly food truck was also there to serve up some amazing tacos. Trickdilly owner Troy Walker said they create gourmet tacos that are different than those you've conventionally heard of; they like to combine Arkansas tastes with the handy, portable food.
Check out these Watermelon and Brisket tacos. Now, I'm not a Watermelon person, but my friend Jasmine assured me that they were absolutely delicious. I do believe that's goat cheese in there. Yum!
But THESE were the tacos that made me want to get a megaphone and tell the entire region about: The Chicken n' Waffles tacos. I mean, I cannot begin to describe how incredibly tasty these things were. If you love home-cooked food and the sweet and savory combination of chicken and waffles, you will LOVE these.
Stare into the depths of the Taco. These were going fast, and I had to keep my eye on the table to see when the Trickdilly folks were going to bring them out next. I originally got this one one to split with Jasmine, but she lost by chatting with someone else and, well, I am a firm believer in No Taco Left Behind.
I'm really excited to see the exciting things that Downtown Bentonville Inc. is doing to bring the community with local businesses and local food. I have seen this area of the city completely transform since I moved here in 2005, and I'm sure in another ten years it will look completely different, and there will be much more to offer.
Be sure to like Downtown Bentonville Inc. on Facebook to see what they'll be cooking up in the future! Especially be on the lookout for the First Friday events.


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A few months ago, I found out that I'm gluten intolerant and I had to dramatically change my diet. Over the course of exploring my new eating program, I figured out that it's much more expensive to eat gluten-free, as well as much less convenient. As it turns out, many restaurants use flour in their sauces and even salads, not to mention, it's close to impossible to find a gluten-free sandwich. The adjustment to a new eating routine took me a little while, but the main challenge I faced was with… desserts.
I've had a sweet tooth my entire life, and sometimes I start planning my third course order even before I see the appetizers. Trust me, I might be a picky eater when it comes to veggies and protein, but I always have room for dessert. Hot lava cake, tiramisu, Pavlova, cannoli, Nutella-infused crepes–is just a short list of sweets that I enjoy… Well, it's fairer to say, "enjoyed," as all those sweet goodies are no longer an option for my gluten-free self…
Within a few months I turned from being a dessert foodie (it's a new term that I just invented to demonstrate that I can eat anything, but the only thing I really care about is dessert) into… an ice-cream girl. Don't get me wrong, I've always enjoyed ice-cream (especially Italian!), but it's just never been on the top of my dessert pyramid. I'd rather go for Ben's favorite crème brulee (it's not really my thing) or a boring carrot cake than have a scoop of sorbet or ice cream.
However, things have changed, and now I have no other option than to experiment with cold desserts. This weekend, we stopped by one of the Hamptons' cult ice-cream places, Carvel ice cream shop on the road from Bridgehampton and Water Mill. Since I'm no longer eligible for a waffle cone, we picked a flavor that suits both of us (dulce de leche) so I can work on the top (no gluten!) and Ben can finish the rest of this caramel deliciousness. I have to say, it was a super-delicious trip, so slowly and steadily, I'm becoming an ice-cream girl!
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The best time to begin searching for scholarships is before your senior year, in order to meet deadlines. Schools confirm that it is important to file financial aid forms such as the CSS Profile early in the school year. There are many sports scholarships that focus on less tangible qualities, such as the ability to lead a team, motivate others, and learn new skills rapidly. Take stock of your athletic abilities as you mature through high school. McMaster University football coaches may indicate that it's an option to delay college entrance by a year. An extra year in high school or prep school can allow players to mature mentally, bring grades and SAT test scores up, put on weight and gain strength. Beyond consideration for Rocky Mountain College football roster, you may think about The Cate School ACT code for complementary electives to your primary course of study.
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1.Say something about this cake.
2.How to celebrate a birthday party ?
Unit 4 Will you come to my birthday party?
Lesson 24
cake ice cream
ice cream
triangle cake
rectangle cake
round cake
square cake
light the candles and sing the birthday song
make a wish
blow out the candles
cut the cake
使用主语I, You, He/She, They 说句子
注意: 当主语是三单he/she时,谓语动词也要用 三单(即谓语动词加s /es)。
a cup of tea
a glass of juice
a cup of tea /coffee a glass of juice / water /milk ; a piece of cake / bread
a piece of cake
--Would you like a cup of tea?
--Yes, please. --No, thanks. I'd like a glass of juice.
注意1 : 如果要表达两杯茶,三杯果汁,五块蛋糕 等等,我们必须在量词 cup, glass , piece 等词的 后面加 s 或 es,后面的不可数名词不要加.
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C 1.Would you like ___ ?
A. a cup tea C. four cups of tea
B. four cups of teas D. four cup of tea
2.Would you like___ rice? B A. Any B. some C. to any D. to some
D 3.Would you like ___ football with me? A. to plays B. to playing C. play D. to play
注意2:Would you like some +名词?表 示"你想要……吗?" 这是征求对方意 见或希望得到对方肯定答复的句子,这时 候用some代替any 用于疑问句中.回答是 Yes ,please. / No, thanks. I'd like…. 注意3: would you like+ to do sth. 表示 "想要做某事"=want to do sth. =feel like doing sth.
回答是:Sure.I'd love/like to ./I'm sorry,but….
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My friend Frankie Fu and I , Buy some fruit and apple pie . These are nice birthday gifts, For our friends ,Freddy Fry
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Bloodred Corn Snakes
Bloodred Corn Snakes are missing the typical ventral checkered patterns. They carry an almost solid ground color. Hatchlings have a visible pattern that can fade as they mature into a solid orange red to ash red colored snake. The Albino Bloodred corns are much lighter in color than a regular bloodred. There is a lot of variation among bloodred corn snakes as well as many different mixes of morphs. Some common bloodred types include:
Hypomelanistic bloodred, Ultramel Bloodred, Ghost Bloodred, Snow bloodred ("avalanche"), Lavender Bloodred, Anerythristic Bloodred ("new granite"), Rosy, Pewter, Striped, Striped Albino Bloodred (striped fire), Striped Ghost, Striped Snow (striped avalanche), Striped Hypomelanistic, Pied-sided and on and on.
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I have a couple famly members wanting familiarization on MSFT/Access. They are force by their employers to work only with MSFT software. So, for the 95 bucks I scurried out to get the latest copy of MSFT/Access -- for their familiarization needs
to do it I was forced to accept a download. I could not find an offer to sell MSFT/Access 2013 as a DVD with an activation number
to get the download I had to create a MSFT Office account. this is the only way they will do the download.
the new product crows about their OneDrive and how you can access files from anyplace using any device. essentially forcing me to adopt their cloud
I did try running a sample table with the 'Net turned off and it worked OK indicating the data is stored on the local machine. someplace I think I noticed I have to intentionally store the file in their OneDrive if I want all their "Office" features ( access anyplace on any computer ) .
talk about a creepy feeling though: I have no idea what this software is actually doing.
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Jordan 11 Legend Blue
Upcoming Jordan 11 Legend Blue is set to release on December 20th for a retail price of $200. The sneaker resembles the Jordan 11 Columbia colorway, featuring your white all around patent leather with white mesh, white leather, the blue soles, blue jumpman on the ankles, the blue and black checkered carbon fiber plate, black meshed insides and black pull tab with the typical white 23 printed and blue soles. These sneakers will be general and be sold from nearly all authorized sneaker retailers. The appeal is good to many but not as high profile as the previous Jordan 11 colorways. These are still likely to sell out fast due to the Jordan 11 Christmas release tradition and popular model. Hype resell price would likely be around $320-350 but it will eventually die out to $260-300. Most stores or nearly all stores will use some type of ticket procedure so there likely won't be first come first serve.
Jordan 11 Legend Blue
White/Legend Blue-Black
Release Date: December 20th
Release Locations: nike, finishline, footlocker, champs, footaction, eastbay, ruvilla, shoepalace
Appeal: Good
Production: General
Sell-Out Chance Rate: 96%
Retail Value: $200
Predicted Hype Value via Resellers: $320-350+
Predicted True Steady Value Overtime After Hype: $260-300
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