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Senate President Therese Murray on Monday said she had not yet made a decision on her political future, indicating that she is undecided on running for re-election in 2014 and declining to rule out a run for governor.
Murray, first elected in 1992, has led the Senate since being chosen by her peers in 2007, but term limits imposed through Senate rules will force her to relinquish her title in early 2015 if she does not give it up sooner.
Murray has previously said her expiring time as Senate president would not preclude her from running for reelection to a twelfth term next fall. In an interview, she told the News Service that "many people" have encouraged her to consider entering the wide open Democratic field for governor.
"I haven't made that decision yet," Murray said when asked whether she would run for re-election.
During an interview about her newly released welfare reform plan, Murray laughed when asked whether her options might include a bid for governor given the state of the Democratic field, but did not rule it out.
"There have been many people who asked me too, but I haven't made any decisions yet," the Plymouth Democrat said.
Under the Senate rules, if the Senate president or Minority leader declares their candidacy for any other state or federal elective office, they would be required to relinquish their leadership post.
While the election is still almost a year-and-a-half away, the potential field of candidates has been slow to take shape with the focus on a handful of possible contenders in addition to the few who have already declared.
Donald Berwick, a pediatrician and former Obama administration health care official, formally announced on Monday that he will run for governor in 2014. Berwick has spent months beginning to raise money and meeting with voters and donors to explore his chances.
Other Democrats mulling potential campaigns include Treasurer Steven Grossman, who has said he is leaning strongly toward a run for governor, and Congressman Michael Capuano.
Former Wellesley Selectman and health care executive Joseph Avellone has already announced his campaign for governor, and Evan Falchuk, an attorney who works for Best Doctors, is running as an independent.
On the Republican side, all the attention has been on 2010 runner-up Charlie Baker and former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.
If she ran, Murray would enter a heavily male-dominated field with the plans of some popular female mayors like Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll still unknown. Murray has spent much of her career trying to promote women candidates to enter politics, and could draw from a wide network of support for a female candidate.
Already the first woman to become Senate president, Murray could be enticed by the opportunity to become the first woman elected governor in the history of Massachusetts. Attorney General Martha Coakley has indicated that she plans to seek re-election in 2014, but has left the door slightly ajar to change her mind and run for governor.
Thomas Birmingham was the last Senate president to attempt to make the leap from the Legislature across the hall to executive office, launching an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2002 after seven years as president of the Senate. Like Birmingham, Murray served as Senate budget chief before being elevated to the top leadership post.
A UMass-Amherst poll released last week of six potential candidates for governor showed Brown and former Democratic Congressman Joseph Kennedy to be the leading Republican and Democratic candidates should they decide to run, though their level of interest remains unclear.
Baker told the News Service last week he anticipated making a decision later this summer, while Grossman has said he will wait until sometime after the June 25 special U.S. Senate election to make his intentions known.
[Michael Deehan contributed reporting]


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We all know what happens when great composers, writers and artists die: Their work lives on. But what about groundbreaking choreographers — say, Martha Graham, José Limon, Merce Cunningham, Antony Tudor, Alvin Ailey,George Balanchine — those creators whose inspiration floats on a flashing moment, an instant image, a looming structure, perhaps never to be recaptured?
A question of survival follows. Because, unlike music (written in scores), art (hanging on museum walls) and books (housed in libraries), dance is lost without person-to-person transmission from the designate to the next-generation dancer who is learning a part.
Fortunately, though, there are keepers of the flame who can pass on those masterworks. John Pennington and British-born Yolande Yorke-Edgell are such guardians. Alums of the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company, they've staged a number of the modern dance choreographer's classics and are joining to present "Across Connections," an homage to their beloved mentor.
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Verses of the Quran concerning Tabligh (Ayat 01)
"And whose words can be better than his, who calls (people) towards Allah, and performs good deeds, and says: 'I am one of those who submit to Allah!'"
Certain commentators have written that whoever invites people to Allah through any means deserves the honour mentioned in the above verse. For instance, the prophets call people to Allah by means of miracles. and supernatural actions, the scholars invite them by preaching and arguments, the Muslim warriors (mujahids) call them by means of the sword: and the muazzins call them 'by means of the azaan. In short, whoever invites people to good deeds deserves this reward, whether he calls them to the formal observances of Islam or to the internal improvements of the spirit, like the mystics who stress the purification of the heart and the realization of Allah's attributes.
In the concluding verse quoted above some commentators say such a person should also be proud of the honour bestowed on him by Allah, of being categorised as a Muslim, and he should proclaim this honour in words.
Some other commentators interpret that he should not be proud of being a preacher, but should consider himself as an ordinary Muslim.


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On Saturday, 6th July, 2013, the Observer Research Foundation held a conference titled, "Marathi Journalism in the Internet Age." The conference was attended by around 30 journalists from various Marathi publications, and Satish Lalit, the Public Relations Officer of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Dr. Sudheendra Kulkarni, Chairman of ORF welcomed the participants and said that when he was advisor to Prime Minister AB Vajpayee, Vajpayee used to say that IT was "India's Tomorrow." However, those who speak Indian languages have no role to play in India's Tomorrow. This was leading to a new secessionist movement with people moving away from their mother tongues. He added that the grossly inadequate development of Indian languages on the Net was one of the biggest barriers to inclusive development. He said that what is important to India's development cannot be left to the private sector and that the government must actively support Indian languages online. In particular, he proposed that advertising support to online Marathi publications should be stepped up dramatically.
Anant Goenka, Head of New Media for the Indian Express Group Internet penetration in India is very low and nothing that people need to use the net in Indian languages is easily available. He said that a Flipkart in Hindi or Marathi would be a wonderful idea. He claimed that when Loksatta, the Marathi newspaper of the Indian Express group launched their Android app, they got 10,000 downloads within a week, most of them from expensive Samsung Galaxy phones, proving that the Marathi language audience had purchasing power.
Lalitesh Katragadda, Head of the Emerging Markets team of Google joined this meeting over a conference call and gave an overview of Google's work in Indian languages and the road ahead. One of the points he made about Indian language computing being taught in schools was taken up by the Chief Minister's PRO, who said that he agreed with this demand and would place it in front of the CM. Incidentally, Prithviraj Chavan, the Maharashtra CM had started a company developing fonts and other Indian language technologies after completing his MS from UC, Berkeley.
This was followed by an interactive session that was jointly moderated by Vinayak Parab, Editor of Lokprabha and myself, where the participants spoke on the challenges facing Marathi online journali
sts. Vinayak said that journalists had a huge role to play in establishing Marathi language on the Internet. He said that he was part of a group of 25 journalists who had met the Maharashtra CM and successfully petitioned the Maharashtra government to use Unicode.
I mentioned that Wikipedia, Red Hat and Google have come together to create the Indic Computing Consortium. I made the point that while Indic scripts are complicated, may other scripts like are far greater in terms of complexity and yet have a significant presence on the Internet. India has all the technical capabilities required to solve the problem but lacked thew will to do so. If we worked in a focused manner to build the tool set for Indian language computing, we can solve this problem, once and for all.
Some of the key takeaways were:
1) Fonts render very differently on different platforms, and this is a big problem for publishers.
2) Most of the hits that Marathi newspapers are getting nowadays are from links they post on their Facebook pages. This is because search in Marathi is used by very few users because keyboards and input methods are significant barriers to entry.
3) Many newspaper have e-paper versions that do not show up in search results. These papers should move to Unicode.
4) Some Marathi sites are now beginning to leverage YouTube to generate more viewership. During the recent Uttarakhand tragedy, one Marathi newspaper posted videos from Uttarakhand which were in Marathi. However, by translating the videos and captioning them in English, they generated many more hits.
5) There was a strong pitch from the journalists that Google AdSense and Google News should support Marathi. The web sites of Marathi newspapers are seen as a cost center and are therefore resource starved. I got the clear sense that the online journalists were itching to break out of this rut and were keen on seeing their online editions bring in revenues. Some journalists also asked if we could build tablet/smartphone tools that could convert Marathi handwriting into documents.
6) Satish Lalit, the PRO to the Maharashtra CM said that the government was creating a new advertising policy and invited the online journalists to sen in their representation demanding support for online publications. He said that the Inscript keyboard had been made compulsory across the Maharashtra government. He said that all Maharashtra government press releases are being sent out in Unicode and a PDF copy of the same is also attached. The CM's Facebook page was recently launched and a blog set up. He said that in his travels across Maharashtra, he has found people in remote districts like Gadchiroli access Marathi news over the Internet because the printed papers would take time reaching the districts. In his role, he said that he used to scan 20 newsp0aers every day at 7AM in order to prepare a daily news digest for the CM. That job has become much easier nowadays due to online publications. He also said that he uses Whatsapp extensively to keep in touch with people.
7) It was suggested that the number of glyphs in fonts should also be standardized.
Some of the action items that were identified were:
1) Create a forum for Marathi online journalists
so that online journalism is recognized as a distinct skill. Since mostMarathi online journalists have received very little training, the group has decided to create a handbook for Marathi onlinejournalists. ORF promised all the support needed for setting up this group.
2) The group will petition the Maharashtra CM and ask the Maharashtra Government to create tools like dictionaries etc and make them available for free, in order to promote Marathi computing. It was suggested that the Maharashtra Government could make a one-time payment to CDAC and acquire their fonts and other Marathi language technologies and release them as open source.
3) Dr. Kulkarni said that he will also reach out to the newly appointed NASSCOM president, R Chandrashekar, who was former IT Secretary of India, and request him to support this initiative.
Credit goes to Dr. Kulkarni who has taken up this cause with a lot of passion. The organizing committee consisted of Anay Joglekar of ORF, Nilesh Bane of Maharashtra Times, Vinayak Parab of Lokprabha and myself. This event convinces me that online journalists can be a powerful support group for us in making Indian language computing popular, over the next few years.


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After a last-minute scramble to find a venue, Baltimore Fashion Week has found a home. Since January, Baltimore Fashion Week founder Sharan Nixon has been operating under the assumption that she would hold her four-day event in Harbor East. Nixon announced last week that she was not able to secure a lease with H&S Properties Development Corp., the group responsible for developing the Harbor East area. Monday, Nixon signed a contract to hold her event at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Baltimore. "Luckily we were able to find a venue in enough time to accommodate the guests, designers, models, production team while keeping the same level of professionalism for the event," Nixon says. "It's very nostalgic and convenient." Attend Baltimore Fashion Week Aug. 18-21 at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Baltimore, 3800 North Charles Street. Doors open at 7 p.m. The show starts at 7:45 p.m. Tickets may be purchased in advance at baltimoresfashionweek.com or at the door by credit card only.
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Born in New York City in 1950, Arthur Sze is a second-generation Chinese American. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, Sze is the author of numerous poetry collections, including most recently Sight Lines (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). He is also a celebrated translator, and released The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (Copper Canyon Press) in 2001.
About his work, Jackson Mac Low has said, "The word 'compassion' is much overused—'clarity' less so—but Arthur Sze is truly a poet of clarity and compassion."
Speaking about Sze's contributions to the art of poetry Naomi Shihab Nye has said, "Arthur Sze's work has long been a nourishing tonic for the mind—presences of the natural world, wide consciousness, and time, combine in exquisitely shaped and weighted lines and stanzas to create a poetry of deep attunement and lyrical precision. Sze's ongoing generous exchange with Asian poets and devotion to translation in collections such as The Silk Dragon, enriches the canon of world poetry immeasurably."
His honors include an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Western States Book Award for Translation, three grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, and fellowships from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2013, he was awarded the Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers magazine.
He has served as Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University, a Doenges Visiting Artist at Mary Baldwin College and has conducted residencies at Brown University, Bard College, and Naropa University. Sze was elected to the American Academy of Arts And Sciences in 2017 and served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2012 to 2017. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives.
Selected Bibliography
Sight Lines (Copper Canyon Press, 2019)
Compass Rose (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)
The Ginkgo Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2009)
Quipu (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 (Copper Canyon Press, 1998)
Archipelago (Copper Canyon Press, 1995)
River River (Lost Roads Publishers, 1987)
Dazzled (Floating Island Publications, 1982)
Two Ravens (Tooth of Time Books, 1976; revised, 1984)
The Willow Wind (Tooth of Time Books, 1972; revised, 1981)


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BOSTON — Come January 2006, the $1,000 contract price cap for health club services will be lifted in California, opening a path for higher membership fees for those in the high-end market.
"I don't know of another industry that is told how much they can charge," said Kevin F. Buckley, deputy director of government relations at the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), which lobbied for lifting the cap. "The market takes care of that."
In early October, the California legislature passed a law that would raise the price cap to $3,000 in January and $4,400 in 2010. The law no longer considers optional services to be part of the contract, does not place limits on month-to-month contracts and extends the cooling off period from three to five days, according to an IHRSA memorandum on the new law.
Contracts must be written allowing 20 days to cancel for consumers with contracts for more than $1,500. Consumers with contracts in the range of $2,000 to $2,500 now have 30 days to cancel while those with contracts above $2,500 have 45 days to cancel. All consumers who cancel are to be granted pro rata refunds.
Club One has 12 clubs in northern California and six fitness locations in southern California and is pleased with the new legislation.
"We think the new law makes good sense as the previous limits were very outdated based on the pricing structure of most high-end, quality clubs," said Bill McBride, vice president of Club One Inc. "While we don't do very many pre-paid memberships, the new limits allow for more flexibility with members that wish to pay for their club memberships in advance."
Not all California clubs are excited though. California Family Fitness has 13 locations in California and offers pay-as-you-go monthly contracts. Because of this setup, Kelly Tan, general sales manager of one of the California Family Fitness clubs in Sacramento, said the new law could pose some risks when it comes to refunds.
"In terms of commissions it benefits me, but unless I can provide that business well [enough that a customer doesn't want a refund], then providing a dues credit or a refund is a dangerous position to put yourself in, especially if you're a little club," Tan said. "Can you imagine giving a $3,000 refund to someone?"
Tan also said the legislation should be focused on more than just finances.
"Instead of talking about money and contracts, let's focus on the real things, like building our industry and creating health benefit packages for group exercise instructors and personal trainers and contractors."
Illinois and New York are the only other states with a price cap. Illinois has a $2,500 cap on health club services, and although the state's Senate passed a bill to exclude optional services and clarify that the bill is per person, the Illinois governor vetoed certain sections of the bill in mid-August. IHRSA is lobbying to override the veto, Buckley said. New York has a $3,600 cap on health club membership contacts. IHRSA plans to reintroduce legislation in 2006 to eliminate the cap in New York, Buckley said.


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Pity the poor franchise developer. They've unloaded a fat sack of cash for the right to make a game that's based on a movie that they pray to all of the nearby gods will be a hit. If so, then no matter what they do the movie will then pull their game along to the land of success. It's the American dream and Robots follows that beautiful dream to the franchise land. It would've been nice if there was a real game that was included, though. Really nice.
Robots has been given a special problem of being based on a movie and is able to use many of the art assets of the regular movie, but only a tiny fraction of footage and absolutely none of the cinematic voiceovers. The result is a game that is only worth the cash if you've seen the movie, absolutely loved it, and happen to be under the age of 12. All other gamers need not apply for what's going on here.
The Robots experience can be summed up in just a few sentences. You're in a place where someone wants to make something, but all 16 parts have been scattered around the area. After collecting them by jumping on several platforms and running around, the main character Rodney Copperbottom will be able to move onto the next challenge. A silent clip from the movie plays while a narrator spouts out a two line summary of what's happened and then it's onto the next area to collect 16 more widgets. Occasionally, Rodney will have to roll around in a metal ball through the city highway and be extra careful not to bump anything.
What hurts about the action is that it's apparent that the developers put some thought into creating a few unique challenges in the game. Some puzzles should be learned from and used elsewhere, but the rest of it is pretty much generic platform jumping that is best avoided if you've done anything remotely similar before. See Rodney double jump. See Rodney climb boxes. See Rodney bonk his head and fall into the abyss. Wait a second...
If you want to enjoy some very careful maneuvering of Rodney in a world where getting on a platform can sometimes be a technical feat to be treasured in and of itself this is the spot to be. The camera contributes in its own little way by being in the wrong place at the right time here and there, but it's the wide array of overhangs and invisibly individual ledges that contribute to the most frustration. There are some platforms that Rodney can scramble up on and others that look identical that he can't catch hold of and he'll dutifully fall down into a vat of acid. Even when he does catch on and is holding on the same button will sometimes make him climb up and sometimes just drop him down. Trial and error is king here.
When not clambering around, Rodney will fight some bad guys and this is all pretty simple to pull off. Shooting pieces of scrap and swinging a wrench is awkward, yet effective against the simple creatures that attack. If any of this fails, don't worry since the game is generous with its invisible checkpoints, restarting Rodney just a few paces back from where he bit it and in full health.
It's apparent that the developers love their own material because they have no problem putting it to use in a few different ways. Several of the missions inolve a lot of backtracking that's intentional and plenty more that's unintentional if you happen to miss one crucial item along the way. There's also the outdoor "freeway" that is one looped piece of curving half-pipe where all of the robots in Robot City go to get around. Rodney goes here to go to a new place in the game as well as to race and again later to pick up more scattered pieces for another thing that does something or other to get to the next place to find more scattered objects.
After playing for even just a little bit it's clear that the game was made solely for the purpose of appealing to fans who want to play as Rodney and do errands that are one tiny evolutionary step beyond buying some groceries from a sketchy corner store. Albeit a corner store that keeps all of its items on fantastically high racks with jump pads and rotating platforms between them.
At the very least the game has managed to be continuous with the movie in terms of style and the models look similar to those in the cut-scenes. The graphics are also good enough, smooth and clean if not visually spectacular. It's really the audio where it hurts the most since Rodney has some typically crap phrases to speak and every single clip from the movie is utterly quiet except for some music in the background. If anything, this game is missing a huge chunk of exposition and reasoning and anything story-related that the movie itself can complete.
The Verdict
If you want the Robots experience at home just wait for the DVD. If a young'un absolutely insists, then this is a graphically decent enough title in the same universe. If you really want some cool robots and platforming, go with one of the Ratchet and Clank titles. If you want to see some Rodney, get a Rodney Mullen DVD. That guy can skate like nobody's business.


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For the second part of our Non-League Videos Of The Week, we have two matches from the Blue Square Bet Premier Division. At the top of the table, Wrexham are continuing to hold Fleetwood Town at bay and, while Fleetwood had a Lancashire derby match at home against third placed Southport on Boxing Day, Wrexham, who are now owned by their supporters, made the relatively short trip to Shropshire to play another supporter-owned team, AFC Telford United, and over four thousand people turned out at New Bucks Head for the match. Our second match comes from the other end of the division. Ebbsfleet United recently announced that they need to find £50,000 to plug a gap in their finances. They are just above the relegation places at present and can sure up their position with three points from a home match against Hayes & Yeading United. Our thanks go to those that take the time to record, edit and upload these videos.
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New Delhi: After minting money at the Indian box-office, director duo Abbas-Mustan`s 'Race 2' has got an overwhelming response in the overseas market too. The film has already collected $3.5 million.
The movie is a sequel to 2008 film 'Race'.
Made at Rs.60 crore, the film released Jan 25 across 3,200 screens. The action thriller earned Rs.51.35 crore in its opening weekend at Indian box-office.
In its weekend, the movie collected $1 million in the Gulf market and $1 million in the US and Britain.
"`Race 2` has seen an incredible response by the audiences across international markets! People have braved the weather conditions in UK and on the East Coast in the US and come to watch the movie in theatres," said Amrita Pandey, executive director - syndication, international distribution & Disney media distribution, Studios, Disney UTV.
"The box office in markets like Australia, UK, North America has seen a significant jump on Saturday and Sunday," Pandey added.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It may rank as the craziest weekend in recent Southeastern Conference history.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It may rank as the craziest weekend in recent Southeastern Conference history.
Five conference teams in the Top 25 lost in league play Saturday, including three defeated by unranked opponents. The stunning results represented the latest indication this isn't a typical season for the league that has produced the last seven national champions.
While top-ranked Alabama remained steady in its pursuit of a third straight national championship, the rest of the SEC struggled.
"I think the fans and media are surprised, but I'm never surprised," Mississippi coach Hugh Freeze said. "Never surprised. And I don't think any of the coaches in our league are ever surprised at what happens on Saturday."
Freeze's Rebels won 27-24 over No. 6 LSU. No. 7 Texas A&M lost 45-41 to No. 24 Auburn. No. 11 South Carolina fell 23-21 to Tennessee. Vanderbilt defeated No. 15 Georgia 31-27. In each of these games, the loser was favored by at least seven points.
Even No. 14 Missouri's 36-17 victory over No. 22 Florida qualified as an upset. The Gators were favored by three points.
The flurry of upsets caused a shake-up in the Top 25 released Sunday. Missouri soared to No. 5, and Auburn rose to No. 11. LSU tumbled to No. 13, Texas A&M fell to No. 14 and South Carolina slipped to No. 20. Georgia and Florida dropped out of the rankings entirely.
It's unclear whether five ranked SEC teams had lost on the same day before, but it hadn't happened in the last 20 years, according to STATS. Four ranked SEC teams fell the week of Oct. 20, 2007. This marked the first time Florida, LSU and Georgia all lost on the same day since Sept. 20, 1986.
Vanderbilt beat a ranked foe for the first time since 2008. Tennessee ended a 19-game losing streak against Top 25 opponents. Missouri beat ranked teams in back-to-back weeks for the first time since 1973.
The rise of Missouri and Auburn exemplified how much things have changed in the SEC.
One year after going 3-9 and failing to win any conference games, Auburn is 6-1 under new coach Gus Malzahn. Missouri has gone from 5-7 in 2012 to 7-0 this season. Missouri has a commanding lead in the Eastern Division, where every other team has at least two conference losses.
"I thought we were going to have a good football team," Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said. "I don't know why everybody else thought we weren't going to have a good football team."
Injuries have shaken up the Eastern Division.
Florida lost quarterback Jeff Driskel and star defensive tackle Dominique Easley for the season. Georgia is dealing with season-ending injuries to running back Keith Marshall and wide receivers Malcolm Mitchell and Justin Scott-Wesley. The Bulldogs have played their last three games without star running back Todd Gurley.
That takes a toll, particularly when a team is on the road. Of the five ranked teams that fell this week, only Texas A&M was at home. It's worth noting that injuries to their starting quarterbacks didn't prevent Missouri and Vanderbilt from winning.
"I don't care who you are, you can get beat any Saturday," Freeze said. "That's especially true with any of the home crowds in the SEC. If you're on the road, the home crowd can pick up a team and carry them. Then you throw in the injuries. Everybody in this league has injuries, and the injuries change everything you do and what your opponent can do. "
Alabama has remained immune to upsets. After edging Texas A&M 49-42 on Sept. 14, Alabama has won its last five games by a combined 201-16, including Saturday's 52-0 blowout of Arkansas.
Next up for Alabama is Tennessee, which would love to pull off the biggest stunner of all in this season of SEC surprises.
"Alabama, they put on their shoes the same way we put on our shoes," Tennessee offensive tackle Antonio "Tiny" Richardson said. "We've just got to go in there with confidence, execute in practice — that's the biggest thing — and believe that we can win. It's all about belief at this point."


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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said Moscow was ready to take cooperation with the U.S. government as far as Washington was willing to go.
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"We will continue to work with this administration," Lavrov was quoted as saying by RIA news agency in an interview with a Russian newspaper. "We are ready, on the basis of mutual equality, mutual profit and mutual respect ... to go as far as the U.S. administration is willing to go."
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SIOUX FALLS - Fourteen South Dakota National Guard soldiers who served nine months overseas are back on U.S. soil.
The soldiers with the Sioux Falls-based 927th Engineer Detachment arrived at Fort Bliss in Texas on Monday night. They will return to South Dakota after going through the demobilization process, which takes about a week.
The soldiers helped with engineering projects in Kuwait and Afghanistan.
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A few of the subjects I explore in my work have inspired an unusual amount of controversy. Some of this results from real differences of opinion or honest confusion, but much of it is due to the fact that certain of my detractors deliberately misrepresent my views. The purpose of this article is to address the most consequential of these distortions.
A general point about the mechanics of defamation: It is impossible to effectively defend oneself against unethical critics. If nothing else, the law of entropy is on their side, because it will always be easier to make a mess than to clean it up. It is, for instance, easier to call a person a "racist," a "bigot," a "misogynist," etc. than it is for one's target to prove that he isn't any of these things. In fact, the very act of defending himself against such accusations quickly becomes debasing. Whether or not the original charges can be made to stick, the victim immediately seems thin-skinned and overly concerned about his reputation. And, rebutted or not, the original charges will be repeated in blogs and comment threads, and many readers will assume that where there's smoke, there must be fire.
Such defamation is made all the easier if one writes and speaks on extremely controversial topics and with a philosopher's penchant for describing the corner cases—the ticking time bomb, the perfect weapon, the magic wand, the mind-reading machine, etc.—in search of conceptual clarity. It literally becomes child's play to find quotations that make the author look morally suspect, even depraved.
Whenever I respond to unscrupulous attacks on my work, I inevitably hear from hundreds of smart, supportive readers who say that I needn't have bothered. In fact, many write to say that any response is counterproductive, because it only draws more attention to the original attack and sullies me by association. These readers think that I should be above caring about, or even noticing, treatment of this kind. Perhaps. I actually do take this line, sometimes for months or years, if for no other reason than that it allows me to get on with more interesting work. But there are now whole websites—Salon, The Guardian, Alternet, etc.—that seem to have made it a policy to maliciously distort my views. I have commented before on the general futility of responding to attacks of this kind. Nevertheless, the purpose of this article is to address the most important misunderstandings of my work. (Parts of these responses have been previously published.) I encourage readers to direct people to this page whenever these issues surface in blog posts and comment threads. And if you come across any charge that you think I really must answer, feel free to let me know through the contact form on this website.
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Problem with Harris and any of his defenses of his islamophobia is his utter ignoring of the, by far, most violent, sexist and bigoted of the three Egyptian desert religions. He constantly cites the Quran for savage beliefs but even a casual comparison between it and the Torah, or old testament, reveals that the Judaic traditions are several times worse than Muslim. Whilst repeatedly pummeling Muslims for misdeeds, and even sometimes Christianity as well, Harris conveniently omits any mention of the root cause for violence in the Middle East. Zionism is an ethno-centric ideology driven by exclusiveness, exceptionalism, racial supremacy and a deep, inherent inclination towards segregation. Harris utterly ignores this fact in all of his writings & lectures.
When the political and religious leader of Israel, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, preaches, on national Israeli TV, that the sole reason for the existence of gentiles is to "perform menial services for Jews: after that, their usefulness is at an end" and that gentiles are merely "snakes, monkeys, and other lesser creations" - and is applauded - you got a serious racial supremacy problem there, Sammy-boy. And it's much worse than any Muslim one.
Finally, I would LUVs me to see Harris take a look at this recent video & respond:
Soccer fans, arguably the most fanatic in all sports, boo and walk out on a winning goal because of a player's culture?
Counsel rests.
will check out that video - thanks
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Do any specific recent acts of violence exist that you can prove were fueled by Judaism or "Zionism"? While I'm sure that throughout history you can find examples, contemporary dangers are far less present.
Personally I cannot compare the Bible and the Quran (or other Islamic texts) because I haven't fully read the Quran, though I am reading it now and hope to finish it soon. You may well be right in your claims regarding the comparison of the Torah and the Quran. But as Harris says early in his article, "My criticism of faith-based religion focuses on what I consider to be bad ideas, held for bad reasons, leading to bad behavior." Even if your comparison is accurate, the Torah doesn't lead to "bad behavior" to the degree that the Quran does. I'm not saying that the Torah wouldn't lead to horrific behavior if followed directly and fully: I'm saying it doesn't have that effect on its followers today, and it hasn't for quite some time.
While perhaps Harris would ethically have more problems with the Torah than the Quran (or perhaps he wouldn't), Judaism-motivated terrorists, suicide bombers, and public death threats are virtually (entirely?) nonexistent, while Islam has by far the largest worldwide presence in each of those arenas. While Harris doubtless opposes Judaism, the practical threat from it -- not from Israel to other Middle East countries, but from Judaism specifically -- is practically nil, so actively opposing and deconstructing it yields few benefits for most people, which is not true of Islam. He's fighting where the current stakes are highest, where the current need is greatest.
Yes, Judaism leads to suppression of women's rights, free speech, and many other tremendously important human rights. This must be opposed and corrected whenever possible. But Islam is leading to worse. The fact that Harris focuses on Islam over Judaism is probably because its influence is felt in far more lives and locations than Judaism, and its influence is typically worse than the influence of Judaism. It's a question of helping where help is needed most. Even if the religious ideas behind Judaism are worse than those behind Islam, they're not being carried out in that manner now. They're not leading to suicide bombings, oppressive regimes, and the unforgivable murder of children. Islam is causing that, even now, as you read this sentence.
If you think I'm wrong or have misunderstood, please correct me. I don't agree with Sam Harris on everything, but I think his focus on contemporary dangers from Islam rather than from other religions is entirely justified.
Do any specific recent acts of violence exist that you can prove were fueled by Judaism or "Zionism"?
Well ... let's see. How about starting with the 1967 6-Day war. A sneak-attack, not, repeat NOT, in response to ANY aggression by the Arab countries in spite of the lies Israel broadcast at the time. Proof? How about Prime Minister of the country at the time Levi Eshkol's admission (on national Israeli radio) of that - that the war was unprovoked and was an opportunity for Israelis to steal land & water.
See U.N. Security Council Resolution 262:
Then you have the El Arish massacre of Egyptian POWs and the USS Liberty massacre in which 34 American sailors were murdered and 172 wounded in international waters.
Then there is the Lavon affair, the Gaza slaughters, Lebanon ... the list of Israeli terrorist massacres & atrocities of innocent people is long and horrible. I suggest you take off your American Zionist blinders and just do a tiny little bit of research. The murder-ratio of Israeli atrocities & terrorist acts to Arab ones is probably about 400-to-1, in favor of Israel. But you actually have to do a little more research than watching American TV & reading the NY Times where Israeli atrocities are never, ever reported.
If you'd like an unvarnished history here's a good start, Stephen Green's "Taking Sides":
The root cause of our current terrorism started on July 22, 1946 with Israel and the King David Hotel bombing and the assassination, by a terrorist named David Ben-Gurion, of the American Consul General at the time, Thomas Wasson (shot in-the-back, BTW):
Of course an American Consul General is murdered, on the street, during the day, in cold blood and NOTHING was done about it. Nothing. It was swept under-the-rug by by the zionist media, just like the atrocities I listed above (especially the USS Liberty).
And please - think. The Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, creating an apartheid state where Arabs are without human rights has been going on since 1967. That's 46-years of continuous apartheid terrorism & violence. How can you say there have been no recent acts of violence fueled by Judaism or "Zionism"? Can you see what an absolutely ridiculous statement that is?
Would you like a recent example of Judaic terrorism? How 'bout this:
Israeli settlers pump raw sewage into Palestinian farmlands, ruin crops and destroy the land. Palestinians endure rocks smashing their windows, midnight arrests, tear gas, rubber bullets, and daily Israeli military aggression. And what can they do about it? Nothing. Mr. Skaggs, please, ask yourself this question: if your life consisted of daily attacks and indignities - all designed to make your life miserable - and you could not report this behavior to the police or, if you did, the police did nothing or, even worse, they arrested YOU for 'troublemaking'; if this behavior was constant and unrelenting with the sole purpose being so that you would abandon your home so that it could be grabbed by "the government" and handed over to the people who were constantly intimidating you - Mr. Skaggs, how would you feel about that?
Sam Harris has not ever, and will not ever, acknowledge Judaic terrorism even though it is much more constant, relentless and horrific than Arab terrorism. But just try to ask Sam Harris about THAT. Why wouldn't he answer? Perhaps his publisher and agent have something to do with that? Hmmmm?
Great article! Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed hearing from Harris on these points.
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The Department of Dance will present its final performance of the Spring Student Dance Showcase tonight at 8 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The bi-annual showcase of student choreography is designed to highlight the creativity, ingenuity and vibrancy of the student dance artists at Hope. The concerts are student-choreographed, student-performed, and student-run.
The program for each of the concert venues will be different, with the pieces matched to the setting that best suits them. Works selected for the Dow "white box" space will have the benefit of a more open, intimate and personal environment with a white floor and backdrop, while the pieces for the Knickerbocker will have the benefit of a traditional "black box" theater with additional technical capacities.
Every year student choreographers who contribute works participate in a mentoring and adjudication process. Faculty co-producers Steven Iannacone and Matthew Farmer meet with each student choreographer several times to give feedback through the student's creative process. The final aspect of the presenting process consists of the Department of Dance inviting a professional choreographer to Hope's campus to adjudicate the students' works, teach several master classes, as well as hold auditions for his/her dance company.
This year's guest adjudicator is Claire Porter. Porter has performed "PORTABLES" around the country and in Germany, Holland, England, Latvia and Korea. She has received several National Endowment for the Arts and New Jersey State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellowships, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Awards and commissions from DTW's First Light Project, The 92nd St. Y Harkness Dance festival, Domino's Pizza Company and University Dance Companies. Porter set a solo on the Kansas City Ballet, performed in Mikhail Baryshnikov's GALA 09, and is currently performing "Namely, Muscles" in festivals, conferences, medical schools and universities.
She has taught Laban Movement Analysis and/or choreography for NYU Dance Ed., Columbia Teachers College, Connecticut College, Manhattanville College and Hope. She teaches "Claire's Workout" in New Jersey and serves on the Board of Dance in New Jersey.
Porter has a Master of Arts degree in dance from Ohio State and a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics; is a Laban Movement Analyst; and is represented by PENTACLE/Dance Works/NYC.
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M is a 1931 film directed by Fritz Lang. The movie is set in a Berlin terrorized by a child murderer. It has been months since the cops have been on the hunt for this man, but they have failed to find him. As a result, people in the city are constantly afraid for the safety of their children. Not only that, the police's crackdown is so extreme that organised crime in the city is unable to operate properly. So, the criminals decide to take matters into their own hands and start a search for the killer.
The killer is revealed early on in the film to us, the audience. It is Hans Beckert, played by Peter Lorre. Are his killings premeditated, or does he act out of compulsion? If so, what is justice for such a man?
For the most part, I found M a very nicely done movie. Peter Lorre's acting was very good as Beckert. The story kept one's attention, and some of the elements (the killer writing to the press, how the crime syndicate actually implements their search) reminded me of later movies. The scene with the cops deciding to intensify their search and the crime syndicate discussing their plans to apprehend the killer is intercut in an interesting way.
The movie has some nicely designed, very artistic shots. As is common for older movies, most of the shots are deep focus ones (I think the practice of using shots with a shallow depth of field started much, much later).
There were certain parts in the film that tended to drag and some of it was over-dramatized (one scene in the beginning where the crowd panics and almost lynches an old man). Does every lawman in Berlin smoke cigars constantly? The ending I thought was a bit abrupt.
I guess when one watches an older movie in the present day, one tends to approach it with a jaded mind, having already seen elements from it in later movies. I couldn't avoid this bias. Still, the movie holds up very well and does pose some interesting questions.
The aforementioned scene in which the killer sends a note to the press reminded me of David Fincher's Zodiac. Also, Hans Beckert whistles the tune of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg, which Fincher used in The Social Network. This made me think, what would it be like if there was a remake of M directed by David Fincher, with music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross? Or a moody remake by Nicolas Winding Refn. If there was an Indian remake, I guess Anurag Kashyap would be a good fit to the material, and he'd do it in a gritty style like his That Girl in Yellow Boots.
Rating: 7/10
More info on the IMDb page and the Wikipedia article.
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You can watch the film below:
The above video is available in HD (720p) and a great way to enjoy the movie. It appears to be ripped from a BluRay source (I guess the uploader could do this, since the movie is in the Public Domain). It's a 110 min restored version in German with English subtitles.
If you use Mozilla Firefox, you can download the video if you have a plugin called DownloadHelper. Apparently, on Google Chrome there's a YouTube downloader in built. Alternatively, you can use an online downloader like SaveYouTube (where you copy the YouTube URL and just replace the youtube.com part with saveyoutube.com). That'll give you some other options, like downloading the WebM encoded version (which at 1.69 GB is smaller in size than the MP4 file).
While you may be able to get the video using any of the above methods, you'll still need to download the subtitles. You can search online for subtitles that match this video, or you could use a program called Google2SRT to get the subtitles. This is a very handy program to have, since it'll allow you to rip subtitles from any YouTube video.


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Real interior silence, not just the absence of noise, is a foundational spiritual discipline. So why are we so resistant to enter into it?
If we read 1 Peter's message to immigrants, exiles, and foreigners only as a metaphor, we risk missing the point.
This pledge, which draws on one used by Mahatma Gandhi's independence campaign in India, was used in the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and '60s.
Today many people identify as "spiritual but not religious." Before it was trendy, Oswald Chambers, the man behind My Utmost for His Highest, did too.
Jim Balmer is an antiwar activist whose commitment to nonviolence has made him an advocate for a consistent ethic of life. Interview by Elizabeth Palmberg.
Anti-labor laws undermine unions in the Midwest. Will faith communities rise to the challenge?
A young immigration activist goes behind bars--on purpose--to shed light on Obama's deportation policies.
'If Not Us, Who?'
Abortion rates have dropped, and many people of faith are very interested in the reasons why.
It's more human to deny the evidence, attack the messengers, and try to delay any response.
Who speaks for God? Must be this guy...
The way to stop is to stop.
You should expect some side effects.
"You shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt."
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Chasing Gideon. The New Press.
Restless Fires: Young John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf in 1867-68. Mercer University Press.
Faith, Doubt, and Other Lines I've Crossed: Walking with the Unknown God. Jericho Books.
The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church's Response. Fortress Press.
We shouldn't really expect the Oscars to grasp the point of history, though this year the films nominated for Best Picture are a fascinating snapshot of what ails—and could heal—us.
Leonard Cohen as irreverent master of prayer.
Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda
Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things by Ken Wytsma / Girl Rising / Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African by Lamin Sanneh / Old Monk by Mary Lou Kownacki
As Jim Wallis pointed out in his January 2013 editorial "It's Time to End the Death Penalty," capital punishment is an affront to a "consistent ethic of life," which is usually understood as extending from
Hemorrhaging from the concertina / crown, brass knuckles, scourging, cigarette burns, / lurching the last meter of Golgotha
Thank you for the January 2013 issue's strong emphasis on abolishing the death penalty ("Who Would Jesus Execute?" interview of Richard Viguerie by Jim Wallis;
I was struck by not only the wisdom but also the timeliness of Rev. James E. Atwood's "9mm Golden Calves" (January 2013). Americans are still reeling from the horror of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings.
Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle C
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Modern passages from Oswald Chambers' classic devotional reader My Utmost for His Highest.
An extended interview with addiction-recovery worker Jim Balmer.
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PER: Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad
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PER vol.14 no.7 Potchefstroom ene. 2011
Access to education and training: pathway to decent work for women*
Dikgang Moseneke
Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
1 Introduction and salutations
Madam Justice BC Mocumie, President of the South African Chapter: International Association of Women Judges, fellow judges and other distinguished guests; it is a remarkable privilege to be part of this annual general conference of the South African Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges. I would like to thank you for your kind invitation to me to share this occasion with everybody here present.
It is not fortuitous that this conference is taking place during the National Women's Month. It is right and proper that we all pause to consider what women are in our private lives, in communities and within our nation. They are truly special. We owe to them our very lives, our up-bringing and all the wonderful values that make life worth living. The female sense of survival is indeed legendary. Our mothers and sisters have an amazing ability to soak up a lot of pain and to merge the other side as worthy human beings.
Those who know me will tell you that my hero of all times is my mother. I am thankful that she is alive and this very month she will be turning 86 years of age. I am grateful that her brain is still as clear as a bell. She taught me all manners I have. A firm respect for others. She spared no moment to remind me that my life is in my hands and my dignity is my responsibility. I had to wash my underwear, clean my bedroom, wash dirty dishes and she still expected me to produce A grades at school.
When everything else fails, I retreat to her modest home in Mabopane and she always knows what to say to restore my challenged if not shattered world. On every year of the ten years on Robben Island, she strained every sinew in her body and every emotion in her soul in order to pay me a visit. She kept hope alive. She was a source of strength in the darkest hour. The rest is history and here am I - a proud product of a gender activist.
Well this sentimental introduction is meant to point to something very fundamental. The gendered relations in this and virtually all other societies has been a matter of remarkable inequity and unfairness. For reasons that are despicable, various societies have dealt a very unfair hand to women. This has happened notwithstanding the obvious human worth and right to equality with, if not superiority over men. We men, personally or institutionally find ways to exclude women from private and public power. These exclusionary arrangements result in the least training and experience. We create false dependence through the unequal distribution of skills and economic goods. Patriarchy is indeed more entrenched and much more wide-spread, perhaps much more debilitating than colonial racism.
This exclusion and inequality is worsened by the violent indignity, of endemic rape, domestic violence, human trafficking and religious or cultural repression of women.
It is so that no society can truly advance and claim to be free whilst at least half of it is a victim debilitating patriarchy. This brings me to what I really want to share with you in line with the theme of this annual general conference which is "Access to education and training as a pathway to decent work for women."
My remarks will be focussed on the seminal importance of judicial education and training as an important part of validating all judges, but in particular, women judges.
Every significant stakeholder in the judicial process and the administration of justice in this country seem to accept that systematic, well-resourced and effective judicial education for the entire judiciary is as necessary as it is overdue. This realisation is neither new nor exclusive to our country. Virtually every democracy in the world, which has entrenched the rule of law and separation of powers and strives for judicial independence and social justice, has found it proper, within the context of its national objectives and specific priorities, to fashion an institution suited to train further its judiciary.
Our search for context and national objectives starts with the Constitution. It is the supreme law of our land and establishes an open society based on democratic principles, social justice and fundamental human rights. This it does in order to heal the divisions of our troubled past, to afford every citizen equal protection by the law and in the end to improve the quality of life of all citizens.
Our new constitutional enterprise carves out a new and substantially enhanced role for our courts. The Constitution itself requires courts of suitable jurisdiction to review the exercise of all public power and to exact compliance by all with constitutional dictates. Courts must when deciding a constitutional matter declare any law or conduct that is inconsistent with the Constitution invalid to the extent of its inconsistency. Again, competent courts must enforce rights conferred by the Bill of Rights and in doing so must consider international law and may consider foreign law. Even when interpreting the common law, customary and legislation courts must do so through the lenses of the Constitution and its normative value grid.
In most jurisdictions courts do not enforce socio-economic rights. However, our Constitution, in recognition of the persisting social injustice spawned by our unequal past and the indivisibility of rights, makes a different choice. Our notion of fundamental rights carries the novel and salutary feature that it extends to socioeconomic rights. Our Constitution commits to pursue social equity. For these reasons the government has a duty to fulfill, protect and uphold these rights and courts are commanded to give effect to these rights
It is no exaggeration to say that the role of the courts is now as expansive as the Constitution is ubiquitous. This enhanced public duty has important implication for the judicial function, which now occurs within an articulated normative plain and a society in transition. The judiciary is duty bound to give effect to the transformative design of the Constitution. It must discard the worst of our jurisprudential past whilst preserving those parts well-suited to our new societal ideals. However, important as it is, social context sensitivity is not in itself sufficient. It is not an adequate substitute for the quintessential attributes of a good judicial officer. Beyond integrity, fairness and impartiality judges must be competent, must be efficient and must be effective. They need not be nor are they infallible. But as a bare minimum, judges must possess the tools to dispense justice.
It may be argued that in a diverse society in transition the judicial task requires an even more nuanced and competent response. However, our Constitution does not specify the level of competence or practical experience required for an appointment to judicial office. Section 174 of the Constitution requires only that an appropriately qualified woman or man who is a fit and proper person may be appointed as a judicial officer. In practice the burden of quality assurance rests on the Judicial Services Commission on whose advice judges are appointed.
A further relevant consideration is that the Constitution highlights the need for the judiciary to reflect broadly the racial and gender composition of South Africa. The inventible consequence of this implied appointment yardstick is that appointments are no longer drawn only from the ranks of silks practicing at the bar. In these circumstances systematic and customized judicial instruction is indicated and would be of great benefit to the bench and society alike.
Access to justice is bound to be illusionary without judicial probity and competence and effectiveness. Powerful constitutional and social imperatives permit no debate on whether or not judicial education is necessary. It is a crucial means towards equal justice for all. Whatever suited the past, in this country and other jurisdictions, today it is well settled that a judiciary worthy of the name cannot execute its task properly without a conscious, well-planned and well-resourced judicial education programme which offers lifelong learning for those charged with so important a public task. In conclusion, it bears repetition that our transition to constitutional democracy has raised sharp legitimacy, competence and effectiveness questions, which render judicial education not only desirable but urgent.
2 The objectives of judicial education
But what is judicial education? A precise definition would diminish the inherently wide scope of what judges and magistrates, once appointed to judicial office, may or ought to learn about the society they serve and the nature of judicial function. Even away from definitions, the traditional preoccupation of judicial training tend to reinforce first impartiality; and integrity; which would include aspects of judicial independence, ethics, judging skill, bias, even-handedness; second competence; which emphasizes judgment writing and delivery, conducting a hearing, evidence and procedure, interpretation of legislative instruments, special or new areas of the law or legislation, fact finding and the exercise of discretion; third; efficiency; which would include computer skills, electronic and manual research skills, case flow management, delay reduction, court administration, documentation and archiving and fourth effectiveness; which implies judicial industry and preparedness at hearing, timely judgment delivery, proper formulation of court orders and adaptability.
We learn more about the nature of judicial education by looking at its objectives. That is so because judicial training is a means to an end. Its intermediate purpose is to foster a high standard of judicial performance and its ultimate objective is to ensure a fair and efficient administration of justice. Put simply its end object is to provide justice for all.
2.1 Background
Since the inception of our Constitution there has been several important debates on and research into appropriate judicial education for our country. I record only the very recent background. During his term, Chief Justice Chaskalson assisted by Justice Kriegler and other stakeholders formulated an impressive and comprehensive judicial education proposal. The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJ) did not support the proposal. Even so during the terms of Mahomed CJ and Chaskalson CJ much was achieved on the induction and orientation of newly appointed judges. These training programmes were usually funded by external donors and were possible only when donor funds were availed.
On the other hand magistrates were trained at the Justice College funded and managed by the DOJ.
In early 2006, leaders of the judiciary and the executive had a discussion on the principle, which should underpin judicial education and the fate of the Justice College in Pretoria. The discussion assumed a significant form when in October 2005, in a letter to the Chief Justice, the Minister, adopted the following stance:
"The faculty for the training of the whole of the judiciary will be independent. This means that this faculty shall be separated from the structure in which the other faculties are allocated and shall be managed independently in all material aspects. The location thereof shall also be decided by the judiciary.
The separation of the faculty of judicial training from the faculty for the training of civil servants requires also that the budget be allocated accordingly to either faculty. This will require that a mechanism be found for the accounting of the budget allocated to be done in terms of the Public Finance Management Act.
These changes will necessitate that I revisit the Justice College, its structure and its operations and transform it into an institution that will enable the Department to provide the training necessary for prosecutors, civil servants and the staff of the Master's office and the office of the State Attorney".
On 31 October 2005, the Chief Justice convened a meeting of the Interim Advisory Committee on Judicial Education on which is represented several judges, the Judicial Service Commission, the Justice Ministry, the Director General of Justice, the General Council of the Bar, the Law Society of South Africa, the National Prosecuting Authority, the Magistrate's Commission, magistrates' organisations (JOASA, ARMSA and LCMC), the Justice College, Society of Law Deans of South Africa. The meeting welcomed the attitude of the Minister and appointed a steering committee chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Moseneke to formulate a plan of action towards the establishment of a judicial education body.
The steering committee met on 10 February 2006 and adopted several far-reaching proposals on the establishment of a judicial education body. The substance of the proposals is set out in what follows now.
2.2 Features of the judicial education body
The name. The judicial education body for South Africa is known as the South African Judicial Education Institute (SAJEI).
Legislative framework. The Institute has been brought into being by national legislation and not by ad hoc or administrative arrangements between the judiciary and the executive arm of government. Its mandate carries the force of national legislation consistent with our broader constitutional framework and other applicable law.
Target group and beneficiary. The target group and beneficiaries of the training offered by the Institute is judges, aspirant judges, military judges, magistrates and aspirant magistrates. The training makes provision for the orientation and training of newly appointed judicial officers and continuing judicial education for appropriate categories of judges in active service. Orientation training will be compulsory for all newly appointed judicial officers. Similarly, any judge or magistrate who is elevated to a higher court or a position requiring new or additional leadership skills should submit to compulsory training suited to the new appointment. In principle the education programme of the Institute should reach all judges on an elective or minimum attendance basis.
Whilst the main thrust of the Institute should be the domestic junior and senior judiciary, it should, subject to appropriate financial arrangements, have the power to train judicial officers of neighbouring territories and other countries on the African continent and elsewhere, at their request.
In most Commonwealth and other democracies the training task of their judicial education institutes or academies includes judicial support staff. That appears to be so because in those jurisdictions the judiciary itself appoints, manages and remunerates its staff out of the national budget allocation to the judiciary through the Chief Justice. However, in our case support staff to the courts is employed by the DOJ. It is therefore appropriate to explain that there are historical and practical reasons for excluding support staff from the target group of the new Institute. We have cause to believe that the Ministry has formulated comprehensive plans to train staff other than judicial officers.
Functional and curricula independence. The legislative framework creating the Institute provides for an independent body, controlled and managed by the judiciary in a manner that ensures functional and curricula independence, as well as direct budgetary accountability under the PFMA Act and other legislation regulating management of public funds. The reality, as you will realise in a moment, is a little different.
Source of funding. The primary duty of funding the activities of the Institute rests with Parliament. An annual budget of the Institute is voted for and allocated by Parliament and provision is made for an accounting officer of the institute who shall, as required by law, account to the national treasury. Ideally the Institute accounts to Parliament for the proper and lawful use of money allocated to it. The one wrinkle and the biggest challenge to the Institute is the statutory provision that appoints the Director-General as the accounting officer of the Institute. This means that the funds of the Institute, so voted by Parliament, are under the custody and control of the DG. The Institute is yet to succeed in accessing the voted funds in order to implement its project.
Location, corporate identity and culture. The Institute is required to choose its location, develop a campus appropriate to its public mandate and in time cultivate an identity as well as its own culture. That would be a culture best suited to advance the characteristics the Constitution envisages for the judiciary and the people it serves.
Composition and powers of governing council. The legislative framework provides for a governing council of the Institute, which consists of a majority of judges and magistrates. All other stakeholders appropriately are presented on the governing council. The council assumes the ultimate responsibility for the management of the Institute, which includes the power to appoint the Chief Executive Officer and the senior executive management of the Institute and all committees which are necessary, to achieve the authorised objectives of the Institute. The first chief executive stayed in office for a month only. That in itself is a long story.
Importantly, the governing council is vested with the power to appoint a faculty board, which shall have the competence and power to formulate and direct all education and training of the Institute. The faculty board must from time to time decide the mode, content and level of tuition. The faculty board shall appoint appropriately qualified persons or bodies, whether full time or ad hoc to conduct the training and education.
In conjunction with the faculty board, the governing council must create a research capability on matters relevant to the formulation of dynamic and customised judicial education programmes. When appropriate, the board must develop techniques or tools to receive feedback from users of the justice system and to measure the impact of judicial education the Institute offers.
Executive management. There shall be an executive management of the Institute made up of the Chief Executive Officer, senior management and staff on whom the day-to-day administration of the institute shall vest. The executive management shall be appointed by and be answerable to the governing council.
Centre of excellence. The Institute must strive to achieve the highest possible standard in judicial education subject to the values and broader objectives of our Constitution. To this end, the Institute must build close ties and cooperation with regional and international judicial education institutes and other related bodies in democratic jurisdictions.
It is crucial to emphasize that until the Institute is established and functional, external donor funds will remain helpful, however, the primary responsibility of providing financial support for training of newly appointed judges must squarely fall on the fiscus. It bears repetition that a task so important to the well being of our state and its people cannot be left to the uncertainty of donor funding.
Special programme to accelerate training of women. During the term of Minister B Mabandla a special programme to accelerate the training of women who seek to be eligible for the appointment as judges was established. She made it then known that her Ministry has secured the funding necessary for this programme. Judge President Ngoepe led the team, which was charged with the implementation of this programme. Once the Institute has been established, a programme such as this one will ordinarily be implemented in-house. It is however clear that there is no reason why the programme should not proceed. If anything, it should be supported and funded as currently planned.
3 Conclusion
As we have seen, the Institute has not commenced delivering live lectures. The Justice College continues to train magistrates until the Institute is in a position to integrate the College fully into its operations. A mechanism is yet to be found on how to resolve the dilemma of the DG being the accounting officer of the Institute, on the one hand, and the Institute being operationally independent and effective, on the other. Until we find a solution, our operations will stay stalled.
These birth pains, I am confident, we will overcome. An urgent indaba between the judiciary and the executive should resolve these matters soon. We can't wait any longer before we impart and receive effective continuing judicial education.
An indispensible part of our constitutional project is to empower and to liberate women. It remains true although trite that when you train a woman you train the nation. Within the judiciary there is a dire need for a far greater level of gender transformation. We sorely need more female judges and magistrates and more female judicial leaders. We must take urgent steps at all levels of entry and training to ensure a larger and more equitable representation of females in the judiciary.
The way we dispense justice must respond to the gendered nature of a variety of challenges in society. And the best source of validation and respect is competence which is an indispensible ingredient for a good judge. Access to justice, particularly by the marginalised, requires imaginative, sensitive, committed and competent judges. We need judges who are needs driven and who are determined to vindicate rights of aggrieved litigants impartially and without fear or favour. That deep instinct of fairness which seems to abound in women would be a great asset to our judiciary. We must continue to transform until there is a better life for all.
Thank you for listening and God Bless.
* Keynote address delivered at the Annual General Conference of the South African Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges on Friday 13 August 2011, Potchefstroom.


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