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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Listen to my interview with Robert Kellemen!
Last week I had the privilege of interviewing Robert Kellemen, co-author of Sacred Friendships: Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith on my blog talk show.
Robert Kellemen served for over a decade as founding Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship (MACCD) Department at Capital Bible Seminary. He is now professor of large at that department and the founder of RPM Ministries.
What I enjoyed about the interview, and what I'm sure many will enjoy about the book, is that Kellemen addresses the issue of female Christian heroes in a way that transcends the traditional egalitarian/complementarian divide. Although it seems to me that Kellemen is a complementarian (meaning he sees prescribed gender roles in the family and church) what is also clear from the interview is that Kellemen also feels that women have been wrongfully silenced due to poor theology and a patriarchal culture.
The subject of women in ministry is of no passing interest to me. When I attended Christ for the Nations Institute, I sat under the teaching of Dr. Eddie Hyatt, a preacher and teacher on revival and women's issues. In Hyatt's writings (along with that of his wife Susan Hyatt), he makes a compelling argument that in every genuine revival in church history, the status of women is always elevated. Eddie and his wife are some of the chief proponents of egalitarianism (which rejects the notion of prescribed roles for women) today. Due to Eddie Hyatt's influence (and not to mention the plethora of women preachers in historic pentecostalism), my theology over the years has tended to flow in the direction of egalitarianism and I've tended to–wrongfully I think–equate the complementarian view with sexism.
Robert Kellemen has effectively shattered that stereotype for me! Judging by the book and the interview, it's clear to me that Robert Kellemen makes essentially the same argument that Eddie and Susan Hyatt write about in their books–that women are a crucial key to any genuine move of God–and they need not be silenced! Wait till you hear Kellemen's response to when I asked him tongue and cheek "Are you trying to emasculate us men?" Kellemen's reply was very revealing.
And for that, you'll have to listen to the interview.
And when you finish with the interview, don't forget to pick up the book.
Regardless of what side of the egalitarian/complementarian divide you find yourself on, I think you'll find the profiles of women Christian heroes throughout history fascinating!
Hope this brightens your day
I thought the blog could use a little something light-hearted. Perhaps we can learn something from these squirrels?
When you thought I wasn't looking
My mom forwarded this to me this morning. It reminds me of the time when I was a young boy and my dad used to have a computer portrait stand at the flea market on the weekends. There was a young girl that hung out at the flea market every week, and she just loved to visit my dad's stand. My dad could tell that she was poor by the way that she dressed, so one day he bought her a new pair of shoes and told her that every time she looks at her shoes, she should remember that Jesus loved her. I was watching!
I'm getting ready to be a parent, so this is a good reminder.
A message every adult should read because children are watching
what you are doing as you do, not as you say.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you hang my
first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately
wanted to paint another one.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you feed a
stray cat, and I learned that it was good to be kind
to animals.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you make my
favorite cake for me, and I learned that the little
things can be the special things in life.
When you thought I wasn't looking I heard you say a
prayer, and I knew that there is a God I could always
talk to, and I learned to trust in Him.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you make a
meal an d take it to a friend who was sick, and I
learned that we all have to help take care of each
When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you give of
your time and money to help people who had nothing,
and I learned that those who have something should
give to those who don't.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you take care
of our house and everyone in it, and I learned we have
to take care of what we are given.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw how you
handled your responsibilities, even when you didn't
feel good, and I learned that I would have to be
responsible when I grow up.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw tears come
from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes things
hurt, but it's all right to cry.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw that you
cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could be.
When you thought I wasn't looking I learned most of
life's lessons that I need to know to be a good and
productive person when I grow up.
When you thought I wasn't looking I looked at you and
wanted to say, 'Thanks for all the things I saw when
you thought I wasn't looking.'
Each of us (parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher, friend)
influences the life of a child.
How will you touch the life of someone today? Just by
sending this to someone else, you will probably make them at least think about their influence on others.
Pass this along!
Verse of the Day. 2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Is CPT the new face of global missions?
I'm trembling as I write this one. Not because I don't feel strongly about what I'm about to write, but because I'm already isolated within my own faith community (Pentecostalism) for my unorthodox views on war and peace; and I know that what I'm about to write may put me at odds with a lot of people in the progressive evangelical community—a community I'm just getting used to. In addition, there's always the fear of being misunderstood, so regardless of whether you agree or not with what I'm about to write, know that at least it's my aim to speak the truth in love. So here goes.
I love Christian Peacemaker Teams. I especially love their motto, "What would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self-sacrifice to non-violent peacemaking that armies devote to war?" I wish every Christian on the planet would ask themselves that question. I have nothing but admiration and respect for full and part-time CPT workers that live out that motto every day. When I went on a delegation with CPT in October 2007 to the West Bank, it radically changed my life.
So why am I conflicted about CPT? It's not that I don't believe in the organization. I do. Nor is it because I necessarily disagree with their anti-proselytizing policy. I understand that every organization has it's own purpose and mandate. The reason why I'm conflicted is because I'm concerned about the implications of progressive evangelicals continuing to promote CPT as a new face of global missions.
As a long time evangelical missionary and a recent convert to non-violence, I find myself caught between two worlds. On the one hand, I move freely in circles that "pray through the window" and map "unreached people groups" (ethnic groups that have yet to embrace Christianity). On the other hand my devotion to peace and non-violence cause me to move in peace circles—many of which are comprised of theologically liberal Christians.
Never was this more obvious than when I was on the CPT delegation. It took all of about two hours for everyone in the group to realize that I was the "evangelical" in the group. When I was asked to describe myself, I shared with the group honestly about what I had been doing over the past several years—traveling the world and sharing the gospel. For the most part, the group was respectful, but there was the occasional anti-missionary remark that reminded me of my minority status within the group.
Throughout the week, I had many discussions with individuals in the group about why I believe that Jesus is God and why I don't believe that all religions are equal paths to the same truth. Because I was the odd man out in the group, I left that week thinking that Mennonites were mostly theologically liberal. It wasn't until much later that I befriended some Mennonites and discovered that Mennonites are mostly theologically conservative—which is one of the reasons why I'm so concerned. If a Biblically orthodox denomination continues to send its young people to CPT to experience a "new face of global missions", how many of these young people will eventually jettison their Biblical orthodoxy?
My concern isn't just about conservative Mennonites and their ongoing relationship with CPT, but with the progressive evangelical movement at large. I wonder if in our sincere efforts to promote peace and tolerance between people of different faiths, we're becoming more "progressive" than "evangelical?" I wonder if our zeal to be good stewards of God's creation has dampened our zeal to evangelize the lost—as if Jesus would have approved of a carbon footprint exception clause to "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." I wonder if we've gone too far in laboring to share physical bread with the masses that we've neglected to share the "Living Bread" with the masses.
Maybe peacenik evangelical missionaries like myself need an alternative to CPT. Then again, maybe not. I think it's at least an option that should be looked into, and I'm willing to dialogue with anybody even remotely interested in pursuing the matter further. Either way, I pray that we in the progressive evangelical community will never forget that despite all of our efforts to save the world, that the "form of this world is passing away." May we labor "not for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life."
Somalia Christian killed for possessing Bibles
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (Worthy News)– Islamic militants have shot and killed a long-time underground Christian in Somalia after finding Bibles in his possession, BosNewsLife learned Sunday, September 20.
Well-informed Christian news agency Compass Direct News said 69-year-old Omar Khalafe was killed by al-Shabab fighters Tuesday, September 15, at a check-point near the port city of Merca, 70 kilometers (45 miles) from the capital Mogadishu.
Shalafe carried 25 Somali Bibles he hoped to deliver to an underground congregation, Christians said. "By 10:30 a.m. he had arrived at the checkpoint controlled by al Shabab, a rebel group linked with al Qaeda that has taken over large parts of the war-torn country," said Compass Direct News, which has close contacts with Christians in the region.
The news agency cited a source as saying that "the passengers were ordered to disembark from the bus for inspection."
"The Islamic militants found 25 Somali Bibles in one of the passengers' bags; when they asked to whom the Bibles belonged, the passengers responded with a chilled silence. The militants found several photos in the bag and saw that the elderly Khalafe resembled a face in one of them," source was quoted as saying, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.
"They asked Khalafe if he was the owner of the Bibles; he kept quiet. They shot him to death," the source said.
Al-Shabab, has campaigned to establish Sharia, or Islamic law, throughout Somalia and to topple the government. Shalafe's was the latest in a series of incidents against the Christian minority in the lawless nation, Worthy News and its partner agency BosNewsLife established.
Last month, the group killed 41-year-old Ahmed Matan in the Bulahawa area, near the Somali border with Kenya, for converting from Islam to Christianity, several Christian sources told Worthy News earlier.
In July al-Shabab militants beheaded four Christian aid workers for refusing to renounce their faith in Christ.
Fatima Sultan, Ali Ma'ow, Sheik Mohammed Abdi and Maaddey Diil after kidnapping them on July 27 near in Merca, Christian advocacy groups said.
It has become increasingly difficult for international peacekeepers to prevent these attacks.
On Thursday, September 17, at least 21 African Union troops, including the mission's deputy commander, were reportedly killed in suicide bombings at military headquarters at Mogadishu airport.
Al Shabab said it had carried out the attack "to avenge the death" of one of its leaders.
The rebel Islamic group has also threatened neighboring Djibouti that a similar fate awaits its troops should they be sent to Somalia.
The country has been without an effective central government since President Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991.
Years of fighting between rival warlords and an inability to deal with famine and disease in Somalia are believed to have led to the deaths of up to one million people.
Persecution in Pakistan continues
Below is an e-mail I received this morning from one of our contacts in Pakistan:
The call to hunt Christian launched at local mosques after the Friday prayers on September 11, 2009. The mob stormed and set fire to the church, ransacked two houses. Muslims accuse a young Christian Robert Danish had desecrated the Quran.
A church burnt by a mob of angry Muslims, who attacked Christians for a new- alleged- case of blasphemy. This is what happened in a village Jaithikey, around 20 kilometers from Sialkot, Punjab, where the Christian community has targeted by Islamic extremists. The extremists were protesting against the desecration of the Quran by a young Christian around 12:30 local time, a Muslim mob gathered and damaged the buildings then set it on fire. The extremists also looted two houses adjoining the church.
The young man was accused of teasing the girl and "throwing away the Quran had in her hands". No one can agree with the idea that Muslim women might fall in love with a Christian man. It's clear that utterances against the Quran are just lame excuses to attack Christians. Christians are increasingly persecuted by Islamic fundamentalist.
Robert Danish was arrested under section 295 B on September 11, 2009, Vide FIR # 1176/207/09 on Sambarial police station on complaint of Mohmmad Asghar Ali resident of village Jaithikey. He accused that Robert Masih to push her daughter Hina Ali who was coming home after Quran recitation and he took Quran Supare from his daughter and threw it in drain. In that village 40 Christian families are living with Muslims over a century with harmony and peace.
He was produced before the local magistrate and sent to judicial custody in Sialkot central jail where he was killed. According to his family and relatives they don't believe the fabricated story of Jail authorities about committing suicide. He was torture so badly, there were cuts on his forehead, wrist, legs and neck. He wasn't coward as he himself present to police. His father refuse to have funeral inSialkot, they strike against the police officials along many Christians and they were baton by police and gas shelling being used to scatter the Christian mob. Finally they were not allowed to burry him in the village.
This incident was plotted by a local Muslim Cleric who hangs banners during Gojra incident to "Kill the blasphemers". Such people are funded by foreign Jihads organizations. In fact Taliban has already threat to strike Punjab's main cities. As whole world know that these fundamental organizations were involved in the Anti- Christian attacks in Gojra in the beginning of August where several people were killed.
Increasing violence against Christian under blasphemy has created fear among 20 million Christian in Pakistan. With 18 Christians accused of blasphemy and seven towns had been attacked this year so far. Muslims are misusing the blasphemy law to torture Christians without fear of any punishment after the violence in Korian and Gojra, there is a real risk of a new massacre against the Christian community in the name of blasphemy law. There was great weave of anger and grief among Christian of Pakistan after the accessnation of Robert Danish. BEM have strongly condemned killing of innocent Christian and demanded to arrest the killers.
More then 35 Christian families are still compelled to live out side the village as Muslims usurp their homes. No Christian is allowed in the village even visitors. There are reports that some Christian being torture by Muslims who went to see the burnt homes and Church. Please pray for these Christian people who became homeless. Their children are missing classes which is unbearable loss of their lives. They have to get admissions in new schools and get new books and uniforms, which is pile on the agony.
Please remember Christian of Pakistan in your personal prayers especially victim of Jaithikay. They deserve your moral and spiritual support in this difficult time, as they face the frustration of Muslims regarding 9/11 on the same day. May God bless you abundantly as you bless them with your prayers.
Let's get the facts!
In the current partisan debacle over health care reform, there's been a lot of misinformation on both sides of the political aisle. As a Christian, I believe that facts matter, and that no matter how devoted one is to his or her political ideology, ideology should never trump truth. And neither should Christians distort facts to fit their prejudices.
For this reason, I'd like to recommend the website www.factcheck.org. I've monitored this site over the past year and I can truly say that this is the only website that I know of that holds both parties accountable.
Here's to hoping that this post will introduce some sanity in this debate.
No, Obama is not a black nationalist that wants to kill your white grandmother
No, Republicans do not want to privatize medicare.
Both sides need to be held accountable to the facts.
Check it out!
Who makes the race cards?–Paul Alexander
Below is reposted from PCPJ's blog.
I'm going to tell just one little story that happened last year, of dozens I could tell from my personal experience, that reveal just a little of who keeps stirring race up and how race keeps getting stirred up. This is a true story:
A Christian woman I know very well had a house for rent next door to her own home, so she put up a sign. A black woman with a small child knocked on her front door and asked if she could apply to rent the house. The Christian woman told her that it had already been rented, the young woman said, "thank you," and walked away. The owner came back in and said, "I don't ever rent to blacks or Mexicans. I don't trust them."
The Christian woman who owned the rent house, whom I know very well, dealt that young black woman a race card. The ~owner~ played the race card in this transaction. So now the young black woman, unfortunately and through no fault of her own, can't rent the home and of course wonders if the house is really rented. This happens repeatedly, even though it is illegal (thankfully), and in my experience it is common knowledge in African-American, Latino, and other minority communities. It is also common knowledge among those who rent homes; at least it was in Texas where I often heard it from landlords (and realtors) who didn't know me very well.
So I cordially ask, as a male of European descent, where are all those thousands of race cards coming from? Who dealt the race cards in the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s when only land owning white males could vote and pass on inheritance? Who dealt the race cards in the 1900s when the KKK lynched African-Americans by the hundreds and it took colossal efforts just to pass voting rights acts and try to limit and end discrimination in housing and employment? Millions of race cards have been dealt by those of us who were experts in making and printing them – white people have been in power in this country for centuries and we have manufactured race cards by the millions. The race card game is ~our~ game.
Then, when a person of color dares to suggest that perhaps they were discriminated against because of race I hear of chorus of white people saying, "How dare they play a race card!" Well, sisters and brothers, they have stacks and stacks and stacks of them that they've been given. They just store most of them in the closets, garages, and attics of their souls and we white folks never hear a word about them. But every once in a while the wrong colored hand puts the card on the table and it makes those of us who thought we had a monopoly on the cards, a corner on the market, squirm with discomfort.
It is possible that a person of color might think they're discriminated against when they aren't – this just seems to be an obvious possibility to the non-Anglo friends that I've talked to – but that's another deeply destructive aspect of the race card game where so many white folks have handed out so many race cards over the years. How is that young black woman to know whether she really got a race card handed to her from that landlord or whether she's being overly skeptical? If she thought, "I'm just too skeptical," she was wrong.
-Paul Alexander
Mo Stegall interviews Aaron on his nationwide broadcast
I just finished an interview with Mo Stegall on his nation wide podcast. There were several people that called in with questions, which was a new experience for me. You can listen to the interview here:


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Last week The Missionary Boy celebrated his 20th birthday. He has left his teen years behind;)
(That is a direct quote from his last letter!)
His birthday was filled with special celebrations! One member who he has grown very close to, invited he and a few other missionaries to their home for a dinner, complete with a birthday cake.
The dinner was then followed by a Musical Missionary Fireside, which he sang in... and then a surprise song of "Happy Birthday" led by Pres. Millar...his mission president.
He said it was one of his best birthday's ever!
This gift was made by a dear member in a previous area... who for other reasons made a trip to his area...and was sure to stop by and leave a gift she had made for him. I am so grateful to the wonderful people of England who have loved and cared for my Missionary Boy!! He left us a boy...and will return a man...what an amazing transformation in a short amount of time!
His Missionary Grandpa said..."he is returning, a man of God..." and that touched my Mother Heart.
Happy Birthday to The Missionary Boy...
who we should probably call The Missionary Man...now!

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In a seminal 1973 article in the Harvard Educational Review, Hillary Rodham Clinton, at the time a lawyer with the Children's Defense Fund, called children's rights a "slogan in search of a definition." Sixteen years later, the term was not only defined, it was codified in the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified international human rights treaty aiming to protect all children, in all countries and cultures, at all times, regardless of race, gender or class. In the years since the treaty was drafted, further progress has been made regarding children's rights, on both domestic and international levels.
Does society evolve in response to legal reforms, or do legal reforms merely reflect, and adapt to, societal changes? When accepting pro bono projects, we look for work which seems capable of creating conditions for genuine reform.
Ian Forrester, Retired Partner, former Global Pro Bono Practice Leader
The CRC does not take precedence in most countries over domestic law, yet its existence has inspired change at the national level. South Africa has implemented changes such as the prohibition of corporal punishment and the development of a separate legal system. Morocco has established a National Institute to Monitor Children Rights. Numerous countries have adopted new codes on intercountry adoption, sexual exploitation and juvenile justice, overturning previous laws that are incompatible with the treaty's principles.
But challenges remain. "The most obvious issue is incorporation, bringing international law into national law," said Leo Ratledge, Research and Policy Officer at the Child Rights International Network (CRIN).
A global database on children's rights
CRIN called on White & Case to create a database profiling the legal framework for children's rights in each country and its relationship to the CRC. More than 200 lawyers and legal staff across our network researched the legal regimes in 172 countries.
As the first comprehensive collection of its kind, the database focuses on access to justice for children and looks at different ways in which national legal systems have used international instruments to enforce rights. Each country profile includes information on whether the CRC can be enforced directly in that system's courts, as well as information on a child's access to venues, legal aid, representatives, evidence, resolutions, appeals and more.
Reflecting on the value of the database, CRIN's Leo Ratledge notes, "I think the two most important sides of the project are putting together information on access to justice for children around the world—because there is such a lack of comprehensive information now—and providing a tool that individuals and nongovernmental organizations can use to bring more countries into alignment with the principles of the CRC. We want to pick out good examples from around the world to find ways that national legal systems can provide children with access to justice. Ultimately it is about highlighting gaps where reform is needed. The next challenge for us and our partners, once we have identified those gaps, will be to pursue reform." Leo adds, "There's no ideal country. For example, in some states the CRC is directly enforceable but legal aid provision is patchy, and in other states the opposite is true."
Read "Implications of the USAID Partner Vetting System and State Department Risk Analysis and Management System under European Union and United Kingdom Data Protection and Privacy Law" by our lawyers Neal Cohen, Robert Hasty and Ashley Winton about our work on behalf of Save the Children Intl.
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Global law firms and the international legal community can play a role in addressing many of these issues. Ian Forrester, a retired partner and the Firm's former Global Pro Bono Practice Leader, reflects on our approach: "Over the years, we have acted for children facing a range of problems, including the threat of deportation, inadequate education, even accusations of being the child of a witch. At the same time, we have an interest in pro bono projects that might offer the chance of changing the legal environment for children and their families. Does society evolve in response to legal reforms, or do legal reforms merely reflect, and adapt to, societal changes? When accepting pro bono projects, we look for work which seems capable of creating conditions for genuine reform." We do thousands of hours of pro bono work and volunteering each year dedicated to protecting vulnerable children. The situation is often dire, but progress is being made. Our work has brought the following examples to the fore.
Juvenile justice
It is against international law to execute a person who committed a crime before the age of 18. Child execution is one of the most brutal problems in the treatment of children who come into conflict with the law, but it is not the most prevalent.
Lack of access to legal assistance, the right to privacy, the right to protection through the CRC, and unfair treatment in juvenile detention are far more common challenges faced by a child who comes into contact with the law, whether by committing, witnessing or being victimized by a crime.
CRIN has launched a campaign against inhumane sentencing that aims to end the death penalty, life imprisonment, corporal punishment and other such violations of children's rights. CRIN's Leo Ratledge notes that there are a range of forms of life imprisonment, from the direct sentence of life imprisonment without parole, used only in the United States, to many less overt forms with the same result. "This is one of the areas that's very poorly understood and hasn't really been addressed properly at the international level," he said.
Some countries have introduced programs to support imprisoned children. In Argentina, the 2005 national Law for the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents calls for institutionalized children to be integrated back into society and protects them from abuse and exploitation. In Austria, the sentencing judge meets with detained children once a month and drafts follow-up reports.
Estimated percentage of trafficked victims who are children
Children without parents
The number of children deprived of parental care is on the rise in many countries. According to a report issued by UNICEF's Monitoring Eastern Europe Project, no country in Eastern Europe shows a declining rate. There are millions of orphans who live in institutions or on the streets and are at risk for disease, exploitation, trafficking, malnutrition and death. In many cases, legal help and other services to parents in times of short-term hardship can prevent overly hasty decisions to place children in orphanages and foster care.
Human trafficking
An estimated 20 percent of trafficking victims are children. Whether forced into criminal behaviors, labor, begging or the sex industry, children are trafficked in virtually every country in the world, yet there are few consequences for traffickers.
Governments are faced with several obstacles to prosecution. Among them is the difficulty identifying a victim—many do not even know they are being trafficked—which can result in inadvertent deportation. Enforcement is also a key issue. For example, the government of Zimbabwe created the Children's Protection and Adoption Act, which ensures the safety of children under 16 years of age, but the state admits it lacks the resources required to enforce it.
Sex industry
In the latest twist of an age-old scourge, digital technology has made it harder to protect victims because there is no longer the option to destroy the negative. "People will be trading and looking at these images forever," said Carol Smolenski, Executive Director of the US chapter of the End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT) network. In a recent report, ECPAT International emphasized the importance of recognizing "the role of the sexual exploiter as sometimes being separate from that of the sexual abuser," as it would "possibly mean legislating more firmly against some exploitative practices."
This issue was recently tested before the US Supreme Court in Doyle Randall Paroline v. Amy Unknown, which will decide the extent of the harm for which the viewer of the pornography is responsible. White & Case submitted an amicus brief on behalf of ECPAT International in support of the respondent. "The fact is, lots can be done and lots has been done," said Carol. "It is important for me to say, because some people think the problem is so awful, such a big thing, that nothing can be done."
The fact is, lots can be done and lots has been done. It is important for me to say, because some people think the problem is so awful, such a big thing, that nothing can be done.
Carol Smolenski, Executive Director, End Child Prostitution and Trafficking-USA
In an era marked by globalization and an expanding array of treaties and customary norms that seek to regulate prior national legislation, incorporation remains at the forefront of the challenge. By conducting research that sheds light on these issues, providing pro bono legal representation and helping draft legislation or promoting prosecution, global law firms have many opportunities to help ensure a better future for the world's children.
Helping Children
Here are a few examples of our work with some of the world's leading non-governmental organizations on behalf of children around the world.
- Center for Reproductive Rights
A survey of legal approaches countries have taken to adolescents' ability to consent to marriage or sexual conduct, as well as access to health services for adolescents.
- Child Rights International Network
More than 200 lawyers and legal staff researched the rights of children in 172 countries.
- Family Academy Center
Corporate advice to this NGO, which seeks to improve the child rights infrastructure and the quality of family- and child-oriented social services in Kazakhstan.
- Seeds of Peace
Corporate and employment advice to this international NGO, which runs a camp for youth from areas of conflict and offers leadership development programs globally.
- SOS Children's Villages
Advice to a growing number of Villages, including those in the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, which provide long-term care for orphans and children in need.
- Worldwide Orphans Foundation
Corporate advice to this international NGO, which seeks to enrich the lives of children living in orphanages around the world.
White & Case earned a "Highly Commended" rating from the Financial Times in its 2013 US Innovative Lawyers report for our partnership with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest to convince the City of New York to remove aging light fixtures containing toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from the
city's public schools by 2016, five years earlier than the previous deadline of 2021. As described by the Financial Times, the Firm "used a novel interpretation of environmental law to argue for the removal of lights containing a harmful chemical from New York schools."
In the United States, White & Case lawyers handle numerous adoptions, guardianships and guardian ad litem matters, as well as work on foster care system reform and access to education for special needs children.
Rights matter: Highlights of our human rights work
A global scourge: Our anti-human trafficking work


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Pumpkin Moonshine
Tasha Tudor
Simon & Schuster, 2015 (2000)
Hardcover, Softcover, e-Book
Reviewed by Bob Walch
ot all Halloween stories have to be scary to be enjoyable, as you'll see when you share this Tasha Tudor classic with your child. Halloween is fast approaching and little Sylvie Ann is looking for the biggest, fattest pumpkin in the patch. But before she and her grandfather can carve it, Sylvie Ann must somehow get it home.
he little girl decides the best course of action is to roll the large pumpkin and that works until she finds a hill in her way. Before you can say
, the pumpkin rolls down the slope scaring the farm animals and upending a man carrying a bucket of whitewash.
fter she apologizes for the mayhem the runaway pumpkin causes, Sylvie Ann gets on with the task of carving the pumpkin and setting it out for the neighbors to see. And, when Halloween is over the cute little girl collects the pumpkin's seeds to plant the following year.
gentle story with attractive illustrations,
Pumpkin Moonshine
will be a book you'll want to share each year with family members. This sturdy board book
edition will stand the test of time and heavy use.
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The stunning Fusion Table is a centrepiece with a feature base consisting of metal rings on a solid circular base. The metal rings and top are available in a wide range of finishes and provide the option to customise to create your desired interior look. The Fusion table is available in a variety of table top finishes, including Wood, Glass, Natural Marble, Super Marble and Super Ceramic depending on the size. The table is available in oval, rectangular and two extendable sizes. All base and top finishes can be shopped at our London-based showroom where we have a selection of Bontempi products on display.
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This is an InterClub Open Challenge — members from Clubs across Ontario will be taking the opportunity to compete in this diverse category competition. There is an entry fee of $2.00 per digital or print entry to a maximum of $20. per entrant
- Each maker can submit up to a maximum of 12 images.
- No entrant shall submit more than 12 entries regardless of the number of clubs to which the entrant belongs. Should a maker exceed the 12 images they will be disqualified for the current year.
- Maker is not required to enter in multiple categories unless they are competing for the Diversity Photographer of The Year Award.


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It feels awesome to be able to try out new makeup stuff again since my recovery from TERRIBLE acnes! Yeah, I had cystic acnes in mid 2013 to the beginning of 2014. But I'm not writing about my acne experience today, but rather the new product that I tried recently: Bobbi Brown BB Cream.
This stuff belongs to my sister in law, so I don't know how much the exact price is. But from the website, it should cost around US$ 44 for 40ml tube. I believe this is an OK price for a brand like Bobbi Brown.
The texture of the cream is pretty light, which makes it feel more like a tinted moisturizer or CC cream. It evens out easily and blends well with my skin tone. It doesn't leave white cast, which makes it look really natural on skin. However, it still does a good job covering up redness and uneven skin tone. But I'm quite sure it won't cover up severe acne marks since it is really thin.
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This BB cream creates a dewy look which best suits normal to dry skin. It neither oxidizes nor gets oily after long hours. I set this BB cream with my Clinique Loose Powder and they work well together, keeping my face fresh all day :)
Another plus point of this BB cream is that it has SPF 35 and PA+++. So it is very capable to protect your face from UVA (maximum protection with PA+++) and UVB (sufficient protection with SPF above 15). I can't smell any floral fragrance, but it smells like cosmetic cream.
This BB cream has made me fall in love and now I am interested to try more products from this brand, and other American/European cosmetic brands. I used to believe that Korean makes the best BB creams but now I've changed my mind and will probably try BB or CC creams from American/European brands (been thinking about Clinique, Estee Lauder and of course Bobbi Brown). But don't get me wrong, I have been using and loving my Dr. Jart Silver Label BB cream, only I haven't reviewed yet. I'm just saying that I want to try lots of new stuff :p
The last but not least, this BB cream doesn't cause any breakouts (I have worn it a few times). Thus, I'm giving this BB cream 4.5 out of 5 stars for its texture, coverage (light coverage but just enough for me), price, staying power and finish look.


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New York – For the few privileged folks who gain both fame and fortune, the question is: If you've got them, do you flaunt them?
If you're Elizabeth Taylor, the answer is yes. If you're Giorgio Armani, not so much.
Prized possessions of stars of arts and entertainment, sports, politics and business, including Taylor, Armani, President Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Elvis Presley, Malcolm S. Forbes and Estee Lauder, are among those featured in "Treasures of the Titans: 1950-Present."
The exhibit staged by the National Jewelry Institute at the Forbes Galleries is a follow-up to a display last year of baubles from the movers and shakers of the first half of the 20th century.
Taylor's Faberge-egg scent flacon made of gold, diamonds, moonstone and enamel, given to her by the Forbes family, is on display, as is a snake necklace with emerald eyes specially made by Cartier for Mexican movie star Maria Felix.
The story goes that Felix walked into Cartier with her pet snake, says Judith Price, president of the jewelry institute. Felix said she wanted a "companion" for her snake. "That 'companion' is about the equivalent of 180 carats of diamonds. Isn't that outrageous?" Price says, noting that it's one of her favorite pieces in the exhibit along with a gold and diamond necklace and earrings set by Bulgari for Sophia Loren that are decorated with a series of glittering spheres.
Cartier made miniature replicas of the Apollo 11 lunar module in 1969 that the French newspaper Le Figaro gave to astronauts Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins.
"We're the jeweler that wants to celebrate the times," says Frederic de Narp, president and CEO of Cartier North America.
"You see that panther?" he asks, pointing to a platinum, gold, sapphire and diamond brooch made in 1949 for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. "You know it's Cartier. It's got that look. … We're wild, creative and passionate."
Some titans go for an understated look, but that doesn't mean inexpensive. Armani's 1934 Panerai gold-and-leather wristwatch surely is a collector's item, and Lauder made her mark in the business world with the help of a 19th-century brass and marble inkwell.
Princess Grace had a watch hidden inside a gold and ruby bracelet with a nautical theme. One of her favorite "treasures" was a pair of diamond and platinum earrings from Van Cleef & Arpels given to her by her husband, Prince Rainier.
Warhol treasured a vintage chunky bracelet made of gold, diamonds and rubies with two spheres at the clasp by Seaman Schepps.
President Kennedy's cufflink collection included engraved rocking chairs and a pair in the colors of the U.S. and Mexican flags, a gift from the Mexican president in 1962.
President Reagan embraced his cowboy image: He had a leather-and-silver bolo tie made for him by Sunset Trails, along with a sterling silver "RR" belt buckle and silver and gold "RR" collar tips.
Designer Ralph Lauren also likes the Western look: His belt collection includes a silver, turquoise and leather version.
The British royal family has more than a few precious baubles. Prince Charles' investiture crown, designed by Louis Osman in 1969, features gold, diamonds and emeralds over a cap of velvet and ermine. Princess Diana had a Dunhill silver-plated lighter from 1981 that featured her portrait with Charles on their wedding day.
Earlier in the century, people had the patience to create their own "treasures" and then wait for them to be produced, Price explains. John D. Rockefeller, for example, designed his own hairbrush set because he wanted it to be beautiful since he'd have to look at it each morning.
In more recent times, people sought out things they could wear right out of the store, Price says. To make those pieces "special," they'd put their initials on it or have the back engraved. She thinks the pendulum will swing again, though.
"There always will be the rock star who wants instant gratification right now, but as more people become educated about what the world used to be like, you'll see more custom-made or haute jewelry," Price predicts.
The exhibit runs in New York through July 22 and there are plans for it to travel to the Field Museum in Chicago in the winter.


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Classification: Hill Trigpoint, P30 Tump.
OS Grid Ref: SO048269 (10 figure Grid Ref: SO0483926909).
The original GR data for this hill was only accurate to a 6 figure grid reference (c.a 100m).
We have used additional user / trigpoint data to bring it up to 10 figures.
UK Area: 32 - Llandovery to Monmouth (OS Maps 1:50k 160. 1:25k OL12E.)
Latitude: 51.9325336, Longitude: -3.3854709, Height: 293 metres (961 feet)
Prominence: 30 metres (98 feet)
Unique Waypoint POI Name: 0293.- (DoBIH Hill ID: 15720)
Associated Parent Hill:
Pen y Fan (886m, p672)
Associated Trigpoint:
TP1341 'Cefn Cantref' Grid Ref: SO0483926909 Separation: 40m from Hill grid ref.
External Links for Cefn Cantref:
-GeoHack link... -OS Map Bing link... -Google Map link... -Geograph link... -Cefn Cantref on hill-bagging.co.uk... -Cefn Cantref on trigpointinguk.com...
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Start 6.30pm
Edinburgh International Conference Centre
The SPF annual black-tie dinner is a major calendar event for the Scottish real estate industry. This year's dinner will feature a high-profile guest speaker from the world of politics. We are delighted to announce our guest speaker for 2019 is former FT leader-writer, New Labour economic architect, and UK Treasury Minister Ed Balls.
6.30pm Pre-dinner drinks - Strathblane Hall
7.25pm Dinner served
9.15pm Ed Balls
10.00pm Raffle prize drawn
10.10pm Bar opens
Table prices:
Table of 8 = £1,040 (+VAT)
Table of 10 = £1,300 (+VAT)
Table of 12 = £1,560 (+VAT) - limited availability
Further details will be announced in due course. To stay up to date on #spfdin19, please follow us on @scotpropfed
Those companies already confirmed:
Addleshaw Goddard, Anderson Strathern, Atelier Ten Ltd, Bank of Scotland, Brodies LLP, Buccleuch Property, Burges Salmon LLP, Burness Paull LLP, Cala Homes (East) Ltd, CBRE, Clyde Gateway, CMS Cameron McKena Nabarro Oslwang LLP, Cooper Cromar, Cruden Group, Dalmatian Projects Ltd, Davidson Chalmers Stewart, DB Group, DLA Piper, Gardiner & Theobald, Gerald Eve, Graham + Sibbald, Grant Thornton, Halliday Fraser Munro, Harper Macleod LLP, JLL, KD Media, MacRoberts LLP, Michael Laird Architects, Miller Samuel Hill Brown LLP, Pinsent Masons LLP, Places for People, Playfair Scotland, Qmile Group, Robertson, Ross Development & Renewables Ltd, Royal Bank of Scotland, RSM, Ryden LLP, Scarlett Land and Development, SDI, Shepherd and Wedderburn LL, Shoosmith LLP, TFT, Turley, Weightmans LLP, Winchburgh Developments and Womble Bond Dickinson
All sponsorship enquiries for this event should be directed to Gail Hume, Business & Events Manager, email or call 0131 357 8667.
View photos from our 2018 Dinner here.
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Feedlot Cowboy (Grand View, ID)
The J.R. Simplot Company is a diverse, privately held organization, with roots firmly planted in agriculture and agriculture-related businesses.
These endeavors have been around for centuries and will continue to be a vital part of the global economy.
We currently have a position available at Simplot Livestock in Grand View, ID. Grand View is an agricultural community on the Snake River, near the C.J. Strike Reservoir. SUMMARYAssists in the care and treatment of feedlot cattle by performing the following duties. RESPONSIBILITIESMonitors cattle by riding the feedlot pens on horseback in order to identify sick, injured, or stressed animals; removes the sick or injured cattle from pens in order to be medically treated.Assists with the receiving, unloading, sorting, and processing of cattle as assigned by the Feedlot and/or Cattle Manager. Assists in the medical treatment of sick or injured cattle by following an established medical-treatment plan provided by the Staff Veterinarian.Moves cattle from pen to pen as instructed by the Cattle Manager and/or Lead Cowboy in order to rotate cattle according to production schedules.Trains, shoes, feeds, and medically treats horses in order to provide healthy, productive animals Disclaimer – The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification.
They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.Combination of education, training and/or experience will be considered for this position.Hourly Pay:
DOE HOW TO APPLYInternal Simplot Candidates:Please apply via Employee Space to Job ID# 7535External Candidates:Visit www.simplot.com/careersSelect Job SearchSelect Current OpportunitiesSelect All Open PositionsApply to Job ID# 7535
Please prepare a cover letter outlining your interest and qualifications and submit with your resume via our online application process described above.
For best results, please upload your resume as a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF document.
This process includes additional job-relevant questions, so plan on at least 20 minutes when you apply. When a position is in the interview stage or has been filled, it will no longer appear on our Simplot Careers website.
If you experience any technical difficulties when applying through our online system, please contact our JRS Talent and Culture department for assistance at firstname.lastname@example.com. **The J.R. Simplot Company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other protected status.**


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Following the success of our practical skills course in 2013, we've launched practical skills courses at three different centres. These give members across the UK an opportunity to learn traditional Scouting skills such as navigation and using axes and saws.
This year there are a variety of exciting courses running at our centres. Here are just a selection:
We've also got two brand new events planned for 2014. Fundays, a fantastic event for Beavers and Cubs, will be taking place in June at Woodhouse Park in Gloucestershire as well as Gilwell Park. And Scarefest, a spooktacular experience for Scouts and Explorers, comes to Gilwell Park in November.
There are open days across our centres in 2014, or contact us to arrange an informal visit. For more information, check out the Scout Activity Centres website.
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Registration requirements for the competition:Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
There will is a 30 competitor waitlist. To be added to the waitlist, competitors must register as normal, including paying the registration fee.
If a competitor drops out, we will email the next competitor on the wait list. If you do not make it off the waitlist by November 23, your registration fee will be refunded.
If you are currently registered and cannot compete, feel free to send us an email so that we can let another competitor on the list. We want to allow as many people to compete as possible.


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Having nephews who appreciate street art & body adornments,
this post is dedicated to street art!
this post is dedicated to street art!
(ALL art was found in Istanbul)
bold & thin line lettering!
lettering = AMAZING!
Roger Rabbit & his motorcycle...
Mr. Spray Can...
building art near Galatasaray High School!
art in the alley way!
Spider Man & a modern woman...
(Bosphorus Strait)
Artist name? or musical instrument?
(at the bottom of the Galata Tower)
street art requires skill & talent... I can barely manage a paintbrush,
SO, I know using a spray can to create art must be a lot more difficult!!


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10 Questions for Dana Alsamsam
- By Abby MacGregor
With grapefruits & apricots. Without a cat or a dog.
With my father who wanted a son. With my mother who wanted
nothing but closed lips, nothing but nothing. With my father's head
shaking slightly. With photographs sealed in boxes in the closet.
—from "Self Portrait With & Without", Spring 2019 (Vol. 60, Issue 1)
Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
I don't remember when my writing turned into "pieces" per say—but I used to write a lot about trains and bridges.
What writer(s) or works have influenced the way you write now?
My literary lineage has given me so much; particularly queer folx, Muslims, and immigrants or children of immigrants. Some of the most influential of that lineage are Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, Ada Limon, Ocean Vuong, Chen Chen, Zeina Hashem Beck, & Kaveh Akbar.
What other professions have you worked in?
I work in multiple professions every day! I work in literary publishing as a Senior Editorial Assistant at Ploughshares Literary Journal and Editor-in-Chief of Redivider. I also teach college writing to freshmen at Emerson College. When I'm not working on poems as an MFA candidate at Emerson, I also dance professionally in modern and contemporary styles. Until about six months ago, I was working full time in the specialty coffee industry.
What inspired you to write this piece?
The piece was very directly inspired by Chen Chen's poem of the same title. I was very taken by the incredible skill implemented in his poem to capture such a wide swath of subject matter and timeline. I had been itching to write a "big piece" for some time—something that would address everything I had been going through and everything I had become because of it. I was specifically thinking about family, ancestry, and how I had lost so much and built so much at the same time. The litany of repeating the words "with" and "without" provided an apt structure to make this largeness meaningful. I am much indebted to Chen Chen and this form for allowing me to say something I hadn't been able to before, and to take up space.
Is there a city or place, real or imagined, that influences your writing?
Yes, I think the concept of home and homeland influence my work quite a bit. For me, those terms are incredibly complex but they are in my writing constantly. Some of these are cities—Damascus, Abu Dhabi, Paris, Chicago, Boston. And some of these are less concrete, like people or smaller places—my little sister, my father, my grandparents, the coffee shops I've worked at, my father's house, certain Chicago neighborhoods, my soul mate's arms.
Is there any specific music that aids you through the writing or editing process?
Not in particular, but I like to listen to old punk music, or whatever is playing in the coffee shop.
Do you have any rituals or traditions that you do in order to write?
No, in fact I think this poem was produced on Post-It notes while at work! I'm not sure what I would do with actual free time to develop rituals and traditions associated with my writing.
Who typically gets the first read of your work?
My soul mate, Zackarya, and then my MFA workshop.
If you could work in another art form what would it be?
I do work in another art form as a choreographer and dancer of modern and contemporary dance! If I had to choose another one, though, I think makeup artists and costume designers are wonderfully talented.
What are you working on currently?
Right now I'm not working on a defined project as I'm trying to use my time in the MFA to be very generative. My work has been focusing a lot on Syria, the war in Syria, and my heritage. In the past year or so, I've fleshed out my own experience and identity as a queer, Syrian-American woman and child of an immigrant quite a bit so I find myself writing through my experience into the world and about the world back into my experience. I'm writing for immigrants and children of immigrants that don't quite fit the picture of what their parents dreamed for their new lives.
DANA ALSAMSAM is the author of a chapbook, (in)habit, and her poems are published or forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, Gigantic Sequins, North American Review, Tinderbox Poetry, Fugue, The Boiler Journal, Salamander, BOOTH, and others. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow in the 2018 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. A Chicago native, she is currently an MFA candidate and a teacher at Emerson College.


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Glass Artists
With consistent growth each year, The Emerald Cup has continued to mirror the ever expanding landscape of the cannabis community. With a strong connection to the community and the culture that surrounds it, The Emerald Cup has maintained its position as the most prestigious cannabis event each year. A large part of this is the partnership we share with the glass community. Once seen as taboo or an underground culture has now become in some ways the epicenter that drives much of the movement into the light and out of the darkness. We all remember the first glass pipe we saw, and how there were "pipe makers" and then "glass artists" like Dale Chihuly…and now some of the most notable glass sculptors make pipes. This movement with the glass world has so much energy surrounding it today it truly is incredible. The role glass art plays in this community is precisely why The Emerald Cup collaborates with artists each year to create unique and special trophies to be given to the winners of the competition. We strive to bring some of the most talented visionary artists together to make all of our trophies each year, and this one is no different. We are so excited with what these artists are putting together; brand new designs being shown for the first time, unique collaborations, and attention to detail for each category to make this competition one to remember.
Such a remarkable set of awards are being put together for all of this years competitors that we will have the trophies on display for all attendees to appreciate before our heroes claim them during the awards ceremony.
Born in Michigan in 1976, Banjo experienced both rural and urban environments through childhood. He focused on art history, photography and sculpture while at college. Here he would learn how to craft guitars and banjos before dropping out to avoid the rigidity of a fine art education and career. For over two decades now, Banjo has been consistently pushing the limits of functional glass art. Known for his incredibly well sculpted pieces as well as their functionality, it would seem his skill set is limitless. Blending his fine art knowledge with his beautiful spirituality, Banjo continually shows us what many believe was out of reach for a once taboo art form. Being well known for his interdimensional biomechanical goddesses and deities, he represents the balance between the technological and spiritually visionary energies around us. Having been in shows displaying works alongside such visionary fine artists as Alex Grey and Luke Brown furthers this proof that there is no end to the path of glass art, just more beginnings. Always finding himself near the center of the art and cannabis cultures it's no surprise that he was one of the first artists ever to work on awards for The Emerald Cup. The masterpieces he creates have always been awards or trophies to the collectors that eagerly wait to see what direction he decides to go next. #Banjoglass
Claire Lipton
One of the best drawers (and surfers) in the game it's always a warm feeling to see Claire's work. She makes technical work that shows the skill at hand while still keeping it laid back and fun, something very hard to accomplish. That fun spirit comes through in all her work and collaborations. We are very excited to see what she has in store in the near future. @clairelipton
Leisure Glass
Luke Wilson – Known in the pipe making community as one of the best at producing high quality scientific glass pieces, Luke has
been on the torch for the greater part of two decades in the great state of California. Whether you are talking about his solo work or collaborative work you can always feel the Socal counter culture influences in his art. We are more than excited to see what Luke has in store for us this year for the awards show and for the demo he will put on for the public. @leisureglass
2BA possesses a rare never ending desire to push the limits. Pushing the limits on his work as well as the entire industry's, Alex's use of color, light and shape have inspired many over the years. His newest limit-pushing work, the living light sculptures are sure to splash the art community with a much needed injection of energy. We really can't wait to see what the future has in store for 2ba and his work, the progress is sure to always keep us watching along the journey. @alexubatuba
Shurlok Holm
With an ever growing skill set for putting images and drawings to life with glass we will be seeing more and more of Shurlok in the years to come. His ability to instill nostalgia while keeping it current with his heady teddy pieces is perfect. Pieces of art that connect you to more than just the excitement of a pipe, but he excitement of Christmas morning, opening a present, or just the comfort of a familiar face before bed. His work ethic in preparation for the collaborative awards he and Darby put together is something special. The graveyard of flips that didn't make the cut should inspire any artist to give it your all no matter what. We can't wait to see what else is in store for him in the future.
Darby Holm
Hailing out of Southern Oregon is one of the glass pipe cultures most treasured artists, Darby Holm. Drawing and painting on anything and making shirts is truly the past of an artist who will not stop until they find their medium, and glass is definitely his. Known for his easily identifiable cactus color pulls and spiritual desert inspirations, you know when it's his work in a piece of glass. There is a special feeling when you see dychroic work on a piece of glass, then there is the feeling when you see it done by Darby. His work is unmistakable and has always been a favorite within the culture. Unmistakable and never ceasing, his creations can be seen in almost every major collectors' collections. His talent, versatility and creativity have made him one of the more sought after collaborators. He is a great example of the adaptation and determination needed for a career spanning over twenty years. It is a dream come true to be able to work with him again as The Emerald Cup celebrates its 15th year. #Darbyholmglass
Erin Bourgornin
This year we don't have just one of the best drawing glass blowers, we have two of the best. Hailing out of the PNW Erin's style is unique and recognizable on any shelf, table or chain you'll come across. You can't say it lightly and you can't mince words, Erin B's ability to draw with glass makes it look easy. Her effortless style disguises the amount of skill and talent that goes into each piece. The smooth lines and well balanced symmetry make it hard to believe sometimes it was made by hand with glass. Pay close attention to this artist over the next few years as she stays pushing and progressing her art. @erin.bourguignon
Ravi Das
Ravi Das – A true artist at everything, whether its surfing, glass, or any form of creation he really shows his love and appreciation in
anything he gives his energy to. His use of primary colors and rainbow stacked lines shows his focus and unique ability to make any piece special with the smallest details. You can notice Ravi's work across any session room or glass pipe event with his signature arrangement of vibrant colors. His ability to invoke positive energy into those who appreciate and collect his work is undeniable. @RaviDasglass
With around 20 years working on glass, his career has spanned multiple eras within the borosilicate culture. Going to the torch straight out of high school, Lord wasted no time perfecting his craft. Using some of the cleanest lines and shaping in the artform, many of his pieces can seem almost machine made. Leaning heavily towards a raw industrial feel, Lord's work always finds that balance between the rough and refined.
Dwreck is an artist that is very good at using glass as a medium. You wouldn't think to just call him a glassblower. His creations and imagery show on canvas just as well and that comes through in the glass art. His sandblasting/engraving work is some of the best in the game. Combining energy from music and other cultures bending genres and putting that into your art is an accomplish that he has achieved time and time again. We are extremely excited for the work and energy he brings to The Emerald Cup.


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Movie Review – Oz the Great and Powerful
We know little about the man called Oz. We see him for a short time in The Wizard of Oz both in Kansas as a wizard/fortune teller and in Oz as a cowardly man who uses Dorothy and her friends to carry out his wishes. But what is he really like?
Oz The Great and Powerful is a prequel to the movie we all know and love. It starts by taking up back to Kansas. Oscar (James Franco), known as Oz to his friends is the magician in a traveling circus. He's lecherous, cowardly, and all around not really a good guy. He treats his only friend Frank played by Zach Braff has the help and doesn't seem to care about anything. He's still oddly self-aware of his own shortcomings. While he ends up in Oz this is went you are dazzled by the view. The transition from Black & white to color is more subtle than it is in WoW but its just as vivid, vibrant and dramatic. The world of OZ is amazing to look at and we get a nice long time to drink it all in. Surviving a tornado and coming to a magical place isn't going to change Oz overnight, when he meets Theodora (Mila Kunis) She is shy, naïve and gullible. He sees this and pounces on her. She sees him as the great savior of the prophecy but he sees her as someone beautiful to charm and bed which he does. Along the way to Oz we meet a flying monkey Finley voiced by Zach Braff who Oz saves. Now that he has someone to boss around and do his dirty work Oz is thinking life here might be pretty good.
There are only 3 witches in this version. Theodora, Evanora (Rachel Wiesz) her sister and the Royal Advisor for the previous king before he was poisoned by her. Evanora is bad, she controls the flying monkeys although Theodora is oblivious to all this. She knows there is a wicked witch but she has been led to believe its Glinda (Michelle Williams) the daughter of the former King. When Evanora convinces Oz to kill Glinda to fulfill the prophecy she entices him with more gold then he could every believe. She plays right into his greed because she wants the throne for herself. Without giving it away, 1 of these 3 becomes the green Wicked Witch of the West thanks to a spell. The other becomes the Wicked Witch of the East until her date with Dorothy's house.
When Oz sets out on his mission he ends up in China Town and helps a young china doll (Joey King). Her village was destroyed by the flying monkeys. Oz being kind and being reminded of a girl at his previous show, uses his 'magic' glue to fix her broken legs. She rounds out the trio as they set forth to defeat Glinda.
Glinda sees right thru Oz. She calls him on his shit and tells him that its not really important. All they need to do is make the people believe that he is the Wizard and the prophecy will restore the land to order. There is an odd lack of singing in this movie. I know its not a musical but there's 1 musical number and the rest of the score is all the magic of Danny Elfman. By the time we get to the end of Oz the Great and Powerful we have the Oz we all know, they man behind the curtain. He's not the man he was when he landed in Oz and we all know it.
I loved this movie. Its visually stunning and the story is pretty good. I was disappointed with the ended, Even though I know that the events take place some time before Dorothy makes it to Oz, seeing it end with either the creation of the Ruby Slippers or even a second tornado bringing Dorothy in would have tied them together better. That shouldn't stop you for seeing it. The movie is not about the witches its about Oz and him changing as a person more than any witch changes who she is.
My Rating: Full Price
Director: Sam Raimi
Studio: Walt Disney Studios
MPAA Rating: PG
Run Time: 2 hours 7 minutes
Recommended ages: 8 and up
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Back in December and January, I borrowed Pat Yough's Fuji X-T1 and exposed a few photos.
Quite a few in truth, and often more than I was expecting because I'd set the motor drive to its highest setting (I call this 'turbo-flutter') and every time my shutter finger drifted anywhere near the shutter release I'd record bursts of images.
Despite this haphazard approach, I managed to make a few reasonable images, some of which I've presented here on Tracking the Light, and rapidly convinced myself that I really needed a Fuji X-T1.
Actually, I'd previously experimented with Pat's Fuji X-E2 and was quite convinced I wanted one of those as well.
So after weeks on contemplation and pondering, I finally ordered the camera. Now comes the hard part; learning to use it efficiently.
Based on past experience, I figure it will take me about six months to really get in-tune with this new equipment.
When I'm out making photos, I want my manipulation of a camera to be second nature. If I'm fumbling for the correct settings, or wasting time consulting camera manuals, I can't really make the best possible images.
Also, every type of equipment has its strengths and weaknesses. Finding those and exploiting this camera to best advantages will take time.
In the meantime, I've turned the motor drive setting down a few notches and experimented with the camera's capabilities. I'm still trying to figure out the focusing options . . .
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Be a Graceful Applicant: How to Drop Out of a Job Interview
Given the state of today's tight competition for job, there is a common opinion among job seekers that "getting accepted in a job you don't like is better than being jobless, so applying for random jobs is okay". Unfortunately, such perception is not necessarily true.
Sending your job applications to companies you don't really know is just like buying a lottery: you never know what you will get. Most job seekers usually realise about this when they receive calls from the hiring manager that invite them for a job interview. Only then they will immediately search for detailed information about the job and later find out that it is not the kind of company or the job they actually want. Upon learning deeper about the company, you might believe that you will not belong in the environment, culture, or the tasks of the job. Rather than wasting your time to go to half-hearted interview, you are considering to not show up at all. Is it okay if you drop out of the job interview, then?
The answer is surely yes – but you need to do it the right way. Even if you are not interested in the job, you cannot just miss the interview without informing the recruiter as this will leave bad impression on the company. It is crucial to always stay polite and behave professionals even to company you don't really like. Here are some tips to help you drop out of a job interview without being seen as a rude applicant:
Reconsider your decision
Once you drop out of the interview, you should be ready for the consequence it follows: it is possible that the same chance never comes twice. Before regretting the decision to leave such opportunity, it would better for you to find more references about the company and the job. If you are unable to obtain enough information to convince yourself, then maybe you can find it out directly from the company through the interview session. You can change your mind and try to come to the interview while prepare several questions about the organisation to the interviewee. All you should keep in mind is that this is only interview, not an employment contract. So you should not think that you are in the process which immediately binds you.
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When you have decided that you will not proceed the interview session, it is important to inform the recruiter exactly after you make fixed decision. Letting the hiring managers about your withdrawal a few hours after receiving the invitation will be the best, as you give them more time to call other candidates to replace you. By informing as soon as possible, the company will value you as a responsible person too.
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It is obvious that you cannot say that you are pulling out from the interview simply because you don't like the company. However, it doesn't mean you should make up an excuse such as lying that you have signed another contract while you actually haven't. You just need to say that you decide to go for the different direction at the time. Additionally, you should complete your notification with showing gratitude and offering apology. You can make a call or send an email to inform about the withdrawal.
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The Trump administration is walking back a rule on fair housing that requires communities to show how they're working to undo long-established patterns of racial segregation. In its place, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing an updated rule that bears little resemblance to the standard set by the Obama administration. Advocates for housing are crying out that the White House is operating in bad faith.
Known by its mantra-like moniker, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) is a mandate established by the Fair Housing Act of 1968. While this charge to desegregate is decades old, only within the last decade has the federal government sought to actively enforce the standard. In 2015, under then-Housing Secretary Julián Castro, HUD issued a "final rule" clarifying the federal government's fair housing policies. This rule proved to be short lived: The Trump administration hit the brakes in 2018 by suspending a deadline for compliance with the rule, before anyone could fulfill its obligations. Then, on Tuesday, the department issued a new rule to replace the Obama standard altogether.
Officials in New York City, however, are standing by the original rule, which requires jurisdictions that receive federal housing dollars to produce a comprehensive fair housing assessment. While the city was no longer on the hook for the report after HUD paused the process two years ago, the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio finished the assessment anyway—then built an entire policy platform around the results.
"If you don't look hard at where you are and how you got there, you're never going to do a good job of getting to a better place," says Vicki Been, New York City's deputy mayor for housing and economic development. "We're not going to stick our heads in the sand the way that this administration is doing."
The "Where We Live NYC" report is a blueprint for addressing fair housing challenges in America's largest city—an effort rooted in the work that federal housing officials are now abandoning. The draft document offers a detailed look at racial discrimination, segregation, and other obstacles to fair housing, plus a draft plan for policies to address these barriers. The report establishes a baseline for understanding the experiences that families face in different parts of the city. A lengthy portion is devoted to the history of New York City's growth and patterns of racial segregation since 1900. At more than 200 pages, "Where We Live NYC" shows the very real challenges the city faces to address discrimination by landlords, lenders, and leaders.
"What we've tried to do here is really lay out what we've got to solve for," Been says. "It's the result of 400 years [of discrimination]. It's going to take a number of administrations to solve this." The report, she says, "makes it harder for New Yorkers to walk away from that."
The draft report outlines six goals that the city hopes to implement over the next five years. Those goals—policy proposals described at length—include devoting resources to combating discrimination by landlords, preserving naturally occurring affordable housing, enabling households with rental assistance to find homes in wealthier neighborhoods, and other strategies to shore up fairer living circumstances for renters and homeowners alike.
For example, the New York City Commission on Human Rights conducts so-called paired-testing exercises to suss out discrimination in the housing market. In these experiments, the agency sends out pairs of trained actors with different characteristics to test whether a broker or landlord is discriminating against potential buyers or tenants. One pair of would-be renters might have a traditional income stream, whereas the other might be using a housing voucher; others might have different immigration statuses. The report recommends expanding the work by the office in order to prevent differential treatment based on source of income, race, sex, disability, and other characteristics.
The research that led to the Where We Live report is a product of the AFFH push from HUD in 2015. The federal law hasn't changed over this time at all: Desegregation is still an explicit mandate under the landmark Civil Rights-era legislation that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. But federal enforcement of this provision has been lax or confused at best over the 50 years since the passage of the Fair Housing Act.
"We know from past experience that without oversight, local governments often follow the path of least resistance, which time and time again has been shown to perpetuate structural barriers to equality and integration," says Thomas Silverstein, counsel for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
HUD's solution under Castro was to require every jurisdiction to perform an assessment of fair housing—mandatory documentation designed to be both exhaustive and standardized. The new rule proposed under Housing Secretary Ben Carson doesn't require an assessment of fair housing. Little of the 2015 rule survived the review process.
"If you look at the definition [of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing] that's in the current rule, it includes concepts like ensuring access to opportunity, replacing segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns, and transforming racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity," says Sasha Samberg-Champion, who practices civil rights law as counsel with Relman Colfax. "That's all been taken out."
He adds, "HUD is taking the fair housing out of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing."
Instead, the new rule from HUD prioritizes access to affordable housing, with an emphasis on the supply and location of low-cost options for living. Many housing advocates argue that Carson aims to move the goal posts for Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing from a mandate about race to one about class. The existing rule is not universally beloved, though, and some of its critics cheered the pivot by HUD.
Emily Hamilton and Salim Further, research fellows with George Mason University's Mercatus Center, described the Obama-era rule as "bureaucratic symbolism." While the rule requires state and local officials to draft lengthy reports, all that work comes to nothing if elected officials never act on (or read) their recommendations. The proposal to focus on easing restrictive zoning will serve all renters and buyers better, they say. "Instead, the new rule uses quantifiable statistics to identify jurisdictions that are succeeding–or failing–in allowing housing markets to serve residents (or prospective residents) of every color, class, and creed," they write in a recent commentary.
Howard Husock, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writes in City Journal that the move by HUD to lower regulatory barriers is a positive good in and of itself. Husock describes the 2015 rule as "social engineering"—much as Carson himself has done—and compares AFFH to busing. He welcomes the government's proposal to decouple the provision of housing dollars from work on desegregation. "HUD itself will highlight—but not mandate—good approaches," Husock writes.
By the same token, Carson's critics argue that the new rule weakens the government's options for enforcing the fair housing mandate. The rule may allow HUD to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions that maintain barriers to new housing—a boon for affordable housing, potentially, but a tangent to fair housing. The department is giving up a policy stick for attacking segregation and (maybe) taking up a different one.
"In the past, Carson has suggested he would use the [Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing] rule to loosen and lessen restrictive zoning that inhibits housing production, an important goal given the deep racial disparities created by some local zoning laws," says Diane Yentel, president and CEO for the National Low Income Housing Coalition. "But even here he fails, choosing to instead let localities off the hook by explicitly stating there will be no consequences if they keep their restrictive zoning laws."
As the new rule from HUD notes, assessments submitted under the prior AFFH rule averaged 204 pages. If the new draft rule is made final, jurisdictions will need to do far less to demonstrate their compliance under the law. HUD estimates that each jurisdiction will spend about 10 hours total complying with the new rule. "That's one day's work for one person and call it a day, each year," Samberg-Champion says.
The new rule also establishes a rational basis review as the legal standard for challenges under the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing standard, a legal term of art related to the level of scrutiny that courts must apply in judicial review of a law. In short, courts won't need to spend too much time looking at complaints brought forward on fair housing grounds. "It's extremely rare for any policy to be struck down on the basis of rational basis review," Silverstein says. "With that standard, you're sending a very strong signal that the bar is set as low as it possibly could be."
The government's new posture on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing is the latest signal that HUD, under Carson, is rethinking fair housing law. Last year, the department proposed a rule change on disparate impact, the legal theory that has guided housing law for more than half a century. That proposed rule would make it more burdensome for parties to bring forward fair housing complaints under the law. This latest rule change would curb the role of the federal government in steering jurisdictions away from discrimination in local policies.
New York City officials say that they'll take the other road, and their Where We Live report—detailed briefs on policies and strategies for tackling citywide discrimination—follows the path paved by the Obama administration.
"It's the first serious attempt to enforce the obligations of the Fair Housing Act since the Fair Housing Act was passed," says Vicki Been, New York City's deputy mayor for housing and economic development. "That was a long time ago. We need to make progress."
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ZACH MOFFETT '20 | STAFF WRITER • The Wabash indoor track and field team traveled to two events this past weekend. Their first event was the conference championship hosted at Denison University, while the other event they participated in was the
Fred Wilt Invitational hosted at Anderson University. Wabash
only participated in certain events during the NCAC Tournament at Denison and will continue the rest of the tournament this week as it is hosted here at Wabash.
At the conference tournament, the big story was the heptathlon event where Wabash had three tough competitors. Angus Edmundson '21, Hunter Baehl '20, and Ballard Suiter '20 all three competed in this event this past weekend. Edmundson finished sixth overall with his highest finish was in the 60-meter hurdles where he recorded an 8.95 second time to gain 757 points in the event. He had a total of 3,752 total points after the weekend. Baehl followed close behind as he took an eighth place finish with his top event being the 60-meter dash that he finished in 7.42 seconds, recording 739 points in that event. He finished with a total of 3,693 points and Suiter brought in some more points as he took 11th, finishing with 3,319 total points.
The other portion of the team competed in the Fred Wilt Invitational in Anderson, which was non-scoring. PJ Mays '19 and PJ Shafer '18 both finished in the top three in Saturday's event in the high jump. Shafer tied for first with a height of 6 feet, 1.25 inches, and Mays finished third with a top height of 5 feet 9.25 inches. Soon following this performance, Pete Trotter '21 placed third in weight throw with his best throw of 54 feet, 2.5 inches. Josh Wiggins '21 and RaShawn Jones '20 displayed a very competitive race when they finished with a hair difference of .01 second. Wiggins took the first spot with a time of 8.47 and Jones merely behind with a time of 8.48. Also to add Joe Deiser '21 took fourth place in the 800-meter race, Drew Lukens '20 placed fifth in the 5,000-meter race, and finally Austin Ellingwood '18 finished fifth in the 400-meter dash.
The Little Giants will gear up for the final part of the conference championship. Wabash will be hosting the event on March 2nd to March 3rd. There will be live coverage of the meet covered by the NCAC.


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Malaysia: Export growth contracts sharply in October
December 7, 2016
Malaysian exports in USD terms dropped a massive 10.4% annually in October, which contrasted September's 1.0% expansion and marked a five-month low. While growth in exports to China was strong in October, it was offset by declines in export sales to Singapore, the European Union and other countries in the ASEAN region.
According to the National Statistical Institute, October's contraction mainly reflected a sharp decline in both oil exports and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Meanwhile, sales of palm oil and electronic products grew mildly. Imports also declined in October, which contrasted September's 4.1% rise.
The trade balance widened from a USD 1.8 billion surplus in September to a USD 2.3 billion surplus in October, which marked a seven-month high. The 12-month moving sum of the trade surplus edged down from USD 21.8 billion in September to USD 21.2 billion in October.
Author: Luis Lopez Vivas, Economist


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ELLWOOD CITY - Activities at the Ellwood City Area Public Library include the following:
"Just for Girls'"
3 p.m. Wednesday, at the old library on Crescent Avenue: "Just for Girls" book discussion group for students in sixth grade and up.
Otherwise, the library is closed for now.
The library will reopen on March 8 at its new location at 415 Lawrence Ave.
Memorial contributions can still be made during this period by calling the library or by mailing in the donation.
Any books that are due between now and March 8 may be returned after that date at the new library, and all fines will be waived.
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For information, call the library at (724) 758-6458.
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In memory of Mother Alexandra from Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Teolis.
In memory of Frank M. Barsotti from Dr. and Mrs. Richard Barnes and family; Martha Boschini; Patricia Cairns; Jane and Gerry Crowley; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cucunato; Joan Farrier; Mr. and Mrs. Gus Fornataro; Liz Gillespie; Josephine Ionta; Tina Loccisano; David and Beth Lordi, Patrick and Susan Lordi and Dan Lordi; Kevin and Debra McElwain; Jim and Gina McKenna; Connie Manzo and Frank Manzo; John Marshall; Al and Diane Morini; Veronica Pacella; Edith Pacella; Christal and Mike Rossi; Rose Marie and Tony Rossi; Elizabeth Sabo; Paula Schmidt; Ann and Gene Tillia; Rose Venditti; Mike and Gina Vignovich; Norma L. Weller; and the Wilson Insurance Group.
In memory of Dr. Charles D. Bisceglia from Mr. and Mrs. John Emerick.
In memory of Virginia I. Wiley Boots from Joyce, Todd and Dawn, and from Mike and Aaron Sofelkanich.
In memory of Dolores Jean "Dolly" Reese Burcik from Mr. and Mrs. Jim McKenna.
In memory of Mary Cello from Catherine Chappelle; Randall and Francine Hunter; Marie and Dave Kelly; John and Betty Pavuk; and Dorothy Powell and family.
In memory of James Don Clark from Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bartley; Joe, Angela and Gina Cearfoss; Marie Conway; Gerald and Jane Crowley; Anthony "Lefty" and Joann DeCarbo; Charlotte Gebhardt; Carole Kinney; Mike and Janice Loccisano and family; Beverly McDevitt; Donald and Barbara Mount; Tim and Phyllis Mulhollen; Veronica Pacella; Liz Pratt; Frank and Joan Ritorto; the Samuel Teolis Funeral Home Inc.; Ann Worrell; and Norma L. Weller.
In honor of the 90th birthday of Ann Conti from Paul and Phyllis Maochi.