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During the 2010 event, Peter Scott and Scott Jankowski were speaking with passers-by and handing out Christian literature in what observers said was a non-disruptive manner, when they were approached by a police officer who asked them to leave the area. According to the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), the conservative legal advocacy group that filed a First Amendment lawsuit on behalf of the men, when the two returned at a later time, several officials with the event began to harass them for their beliefs. As Scott began sharing his faith in Christ, one of the officials responded with the threat, "If you don't back down, we will help you meet him quicker."
As Scott tried to explain his First Amendment-guaranteed right to free speech, the official responded, "Well, it's my freedom of speech as well to tell you that you are imposing on other people's beliefs. They don't want to hear religious proselytizing; they don't want to hear religious crap."
The harassment the men received prompted them to call the police, but before the conflict over their rights to speak freely could be resolved, the event ended.
Later, however, according to ADF, the city of Duluth claimed that it had a right to enforce the decisions of the private, non-profit "Tour of Lights" organizers to ban whatever free speech viewpoints the event officials object to — even though the event is open to the public and held in a public park.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "M. Alison Lutterman, a deputy city attorney, argued that the city's contract with the Bentleyville organizers implicitly granted them exclusive control over the event. As such, she said, they had a common-law right to enforce their own rules. If people violate the rules, she said, city police have little choice but to respond and enforce the trespassing laws."
But the federal court ruled otherwise. In a temporary injunction based upon the recommendations of a magistrate judge, the U.S. District Court for Minnesota prohibited the city from banning free speech, explaining that "the agreement between the City and the non-profit expressly required the non-profit to keep the park free and open to members of the public." The court also noted that the U.S. Supreme Court "has indicated that a municipality may not destroy the 'public forum' status of streets and parks."
Referencing a 2010 federal court decision in favor of groups like the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, which try to disrupt the funerals of American soldiers killed in the Middle East, the court wrote that if "the governmental efforts to protect funeral attendees from inflammatory picketers cannot survive intermediate scrutiny, it is unlikely that the City could justify restricting the Plaintiffs' activities, which by all accounts, are peaceful and respectful."
While the Christmas event includes some religious symbolism in its light display, the list of rules on the event website includes a ban on "political campaigning, religious preaching, or public attempts to convert other's beliefs."
ADF Staff Counsel Jonathan Scruggs conceded that the two men were in violation of the event rules in "presenting a gospel message that people need to believe in Jesus and that Jesus saves people from their sins," he told the Christian Post. "That was the general message. They were doing that in conversation and in handing out literature, religious tracts about that message."
He explained, however, that their key argument "was that the city cannot just by whim change a public park from being a public park. It can't ban the First Amendment in a public park just because event officials don't like the message of the person that is sharing the message." He added that the "irony of it all is that in the midst of all these Christian symbols that event organizers were attempting to silence a Christian message…."
Duluth City Attorney Gunnar Johnson said the city would accept the temporary injunction served by the court. "The judge has issued a well-reasoned, thoughtful order, and the city is going to comply with it," he told the Duluth News Tribune. "For the next six days while Bentleyville is open we will be doing our best to comply with the judge's order. As for next year, we may have to revisit the contract."
Scruggs applauded the ruling, saying that "the court made the right decision in suspending the ban so that people can share their faith in a non-disruptive manner at this year's event." He added that Scott and Jankowski planned on sharing their gospel message at the event, which was scheduled to conclude on December 26.
Asked about the possibility that the city might try to modify its contract with the private group in order to bypass the injunction and reinstate the free speech restrictions at future events, Scruggs told the Star Tribune that he and the ADF "would then evaluate that" contingency, adding, "We take them as they come."


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Desiccation Cracks and their Effect on Permeability in Clays, U.S. National Science Foundation # 0324543
Péron H., Hu L.B., Hueckel, T. & Laloui L. 2007. The influence of the pore fluid on desiccation of a deformable porous material. Second International Conference of Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils. Weimar, Germany, accepted (pdf file)
Péron H., Hu L.B., Hueckel T. & Laloui L. 2007. Numerical and experimental investigation of desiccation of soil. Third Asian Conference on Unsaturated Soils. Nanjing, China, accepted (pdf file)
Péron H., Hueckel T. & Laloui L. 2007. An Improved Volume Measurement for Determining Soil Water Retention Curves. Geotechnical Testing Journal. vol 30 (1). (pdf file)
Hu L.B., Péron H., Hueckel, T. & Laloui L. 2007. Drying shrinkage of deformable porous media: mechanisms induced by the fluid removal. In H.W. Olsen (ed.), Geo-Denver 2007, New Peaks in Geotechnics. ASCE. 10 pages, CD-ROM (pdf file)
Hu L.B., Péron H., Hueckel, T. & Laloui L. 2006. Numerical and phenomenological study of desiccation of soil. In N. Lu, L.R. Hoyos and L. Reddi (eds.), ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication: Advances in Unsaturated Soil, Seepage, and Environmental Geotechnics, 166-177
Péron H., Laloui L., Hueckel, T. & Hu L.B. 2006. Experimental study of desiccation of soil. In G.A. Miller, C.E. Zapata, S.L. Houston and D.G. Fredlund (eds.), ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication: Unsaturated Soils 2006, 1073-1084
Hu L.B. & Hueckel T. Coupled chemo-mechanics of intergranular contacts: toward a three-scale model . Computers and Geotechnics, special issue, 34(4): 306-327 (pdf file)
Hu L.B. & Hueckel T. Creep of saturated materials as a chemically enhanced rate dependent damage process. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 31: 1537-1565 (pdf file)
Zhao Y., Hu L.B, Cui P. & Hueckel T. 2007. Evolution of shear strength in a landslide due to acid rain: a case study in the area of Three Gorges, China. First North American Landslide Conference, Landslides and Society: Integrated Science, Engineering, Management, and Mitigation. Vail, Colorado, USA, CD-ROM (pdf file)
Hu L.B. & Hueckel T. 2006. Creep of geomaterials due to coupled damage and spontaneous mineral dissolution. In C.A. Mota Soares, J.A.C. Martins, H.C. Rodrigues and J.A.C. Ambrósio (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Computational Mechanics. Lisbon, Portugal, 15 pages, CD-ROM (pdf file)
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Trauma Follows Children to School
Did you know? A history of trauma can impact a child's language, memory, attention and sequencing skills. The effects of traumatic stress on children have been well-documented and as a result health, social service and education practitioners have developed many effective strategies for addressing the needs of trauma-effected youth. Despite the evidence and resources available, schools are not regularly implementing the strategies or policies necessary to address these negative effects.
The Impact of Trauma on Learning and Development Conference, a collaboration between The Children's Aid Society and New York Foundling, will be held on Friday, November 1 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the National Training Center for Community Schools in Morningside Heights. This day long conference will give education and social services students and professionals an in-depth look at this critical issue. Leading researchers and practitioners will present on a range of topics, including: current research on the impact of trauma and abuse on learning and memory; organizing support services in a community school setting; and effective therapeutic and teaching models and strategies.
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The geography of American innovation over the last decade.
Ever since the economic crisis of 2008, and perhaps even before, a growing chorus of economists have argued that the pace of American innovation has slowed.
Tyler Cowen of George Mason University contends that America and other advanced nations are entering a prolonged "great stagnation," in which obvious technological ideas have been largely exhausted and the rate of innovation and economic growth have slowed. In a much-cited paper, "Is US Economic Growth Over?" the economist Robert J. Gordon of Northwestern University concurs, providing empirical evidence that recent epochs of technological advance pale in comparison the great boom of the Industrial Revolution a century ago.
Others counter that a new period of innovation is emerging. The late economist Christopher Freeman, invoking Joseph Schumpeter, long ago argued that economic crises set the stage for great bursts of innovation and technological advance.
The graph below by Deborah Strumsky, a leading expert on patents and innovations at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, takes an empirical look, charting the pattern of innovation measured by patent applications from 2001 to 2011. Strumsky used patent applications, as not enough time has elapsed to document accepted patents (the two are highly correlated). Despite their limitations, economists use patents as the standard measure of innovation.
The pace of innovation was clearly slowed by the onset of the crisis. Patent applications were literally cut in half from a pre-crisis peak of 155,802 in 2007 to a low of 75,060 in 2010. The good news is patent applications have bumped up since then, reaching 106,711 in 2011.
But the geography of innovation is substantially uneven, clustered and spiky; It concentrates much more in some places than others. As background for my recent feature for The Atlantic, I asked Strumsky to chart the changing geography of innovation – measured by patent applications – across America's more than 350 metros. She divvied up patenting activity into three time periods: pre-crisis (2001-2007), crisis (2008-2010) and post-crisis (2011). My Martin Prosperity Institute colleague Zara Matheson mapped the data.
The first map shows the absolute number of patent applications by metro area for the post-crisis year, 2011. The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California, metro area is far and away the country's largest center for innovation. In 2011, this Silicon Valley region produced 8,551 applications, beating out next-best San Francisco by over 2,000 (the San Francisco-Oakland metro accounted for 6,260 applications). At its peak in 2007, the San Jose region produced more than 10,000 patent applications, accounting for 7 percent of the nationwide total. Other leading patenting centers include: New York (6,181 applications), Los Angeles (4,766), Seattle (4,302), and Boston-Cambridge (4,089). While these are all large metros, the pattern does not follow population size precisely. In 2011, the two leading metros in terms of patenting, San Jose and San Francisco, ranked 11th and 34th in terms of population, ahead of the nation's two largest metros New York and Los Angeles, which ranked third and fourth on patenting. The nation's third and fourth largest metros, Chicago and Dallas, ranked 8th and 12th on patenting.
The chart above shows the trend for the five leading patenting metros – San Jose, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston – from 2001 to 2011. Together, these five metros accounted for 30.2 percent of patent applications over the course of this decade. All five mimic the national trend with a substantial dip from 2008 to 2010 and then an uptick in 2011. But, the graph also shows San Jose increasing its lead over the others. San Francisco also experienced a more dramatic recovery than New York, L.A. or Boston-Cambridge, as shown by the steeper final segment of its line between 2010 and 2011.
To better compare the geography of innovation in the pre- and post-crisis periods, Strumksy used a metric called a Location Quotient, or LQ. An LQ is conventional urban metric that charts how the level of activity in a city or metro compares to its expected share of the national economy. An LQ of greater than one indicates that the metro produced proportionally above the national average, based on the size of the local economy, while an LQ of less than one shows the opposite. She calculated LQ for the pre-crisis period 2001 to 2007, the crisis period 2008 to 2010, and the post-crisis period of 2011.
The above map shows the LQ for patent applications across all U.S. metros for the pre-crisis period. San Jose takes the first spot by a wide margin. Corvallis, Oregon – which includes the campus of Oregon State University – and Rochester, Minnesota – home to both the Mayo Clinic and a large IBM campus – come in the next two slots. Two other large college towns – Boulder, Colorado, and Burlington, Vermont – come next. Rounding out the top ten are Austin, Texas; Fort Collins, Colorado; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Rochester, New York; and San Francisco, California.
This map charts the same metric for the crisis period. Again San Jose takes the top spot. Rochester, Minnesota, moves up from third to second. Boulder moves up from fourth to third. Corvallis falls from second to fourth. Ann Arbor moves up from 8th to 5th. Burlington, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Austin, and San Diego round out ten top ten. Rochester, New York, just misses the top ten during this period, and Fort Collins, Colorado fell significantly, from 7th to 19th. Santa Cruz and San Diego, both in California, climbed into the top ten.
The last map charts the pattern for the post-crisis period. Again San Jose takes the top spot by a large margin. Boulder overtakes Rochester, Minnesota, for second. The remainder of the top ten includes the smaller college towns of Ann Arbor, Corvallis, Burlington, Ithaca and well-known tech hubs like San Francisco, Seattle, Austin and the North Carolina Research Triangle. The only change in the top ten is the reappearance of Rochester, New York, displacing Austin.
Strumsky then compared the change in patenting before and after the crisis. To do so, she simply calculated the change in the LQ over the course of these two periods. The San Jose metro saw the biggest gain, as its LQ increased from 10.3 to 12.5. Several other leading knowledge centers and tech hubs also saw considerable gains, including Santa Cruz, Seattle, Ann Arbor, San Francisco, and San Diego. Among larger metros, Louisville, Detroit, Albany, Charlotte and Houston saw considerable gains. A number of smaller metros that are not known as tech centers also saw substantial gains, such as Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, South Carolina; Dubuque, Iowa; Peoria, Illinois; Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan; Elmira, New York; and Rockford, Illinois.
On the flip side, the metros that saw the biggest declines in patenting activity (measured by the change in their LQs) were mainly smaller college towns. Corvallis, Oregon, home to Oregon State University, saw the biggest overall decline, as its LQ dropped from 9.3 to 3.7. Other metros that experienced big declines include Fort Collins, Colorado; Boise City, Idaho; Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin and Appleton, Wisconsin. Among large metros, Austin saw its LQ for patenting activity slip considerably, from 3.9 to 2.7
Though the nationwide pace of innovation has fluctuated overall, the specific geography of innovation has remained fairly stable over the course of the crisis and recovery. The Bay Area – and especially Silicon Valley – remains the nation's unquestioned leader, with innovation strongly concentrated in these knowledge centers. And when looked at on a relative basis (in terms of location quotients), leading college towns like Boulder and Ann Arbor stand out as similar high-performers.
Innovation in America remains spiky. Across the decade from 2001 to 2011, the top 20 patent-producing metros accounted for more than 60 percent (63.7 percent) of all patent applications, the top 10 generated more than 40 percent of the entire nation's innovative output, and the Bay Area alone produced 13.6 percent of the country's innovative output. Innovation is a main driver of economic growth, so this trend may only serve to reinforce the increasingly uneven development of the U.S. economy in coming years.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian rancher was sentenced to 30 years for ordering the murder of US nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang, making him the only "mastermind'' behind any of the hundreds of activists killed in the past two decades currently in jail.
After 15 hours of deliberation, jurors in the jungle city of Belem found late Monday that Vitalmiro Moura engineered the killing of Stang, 73, in 2005 because she blocked him and another rancher from taking over land the government gave to farmers. Moura denied any involvement in the killing and said he didn't know the victim.
The case was viewed as a test of Brazil's ability to battle the nearly absolute impunity that reigns in the Amazon, whether it be the murder of activists or illegal deforestation.
More than 1,200 people have been killed in the past two decades in land conflicts across Brazil, mostly in the Amazon, according to Catholic Land Pastoral, a watchdog group.
Yet while 80 gunmen — who were paid by powerful ranchers to kill activists, landless farmers, and others defending the rights of the poor — are behind bars, none of the so-called masterminds of the crimes, aside from Moura, is in jail, Catholic Land Pastoral said.
The sentence was celebrated by Stang's relatives, supporters, and activists, who had camped and prayed outside the court during the deliberations.
"Justice has been made. My sister would be very happy,'' David Stang said from Belem. "She believed in the Brazilian judicial system.''
A native of Dayton, Ohio, and a naturalized Brazilian citizen, Dorothy Stang worked for three decades to preserve the rain forest and defend land rights.
Moura was previously convicted of Stang's murder and then acquitted in an automatic retrial. That decision was overturned last year on a technicality.


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The demand for a Reserve bank had been loud from the Western states particularly subject with dismaying frequency to the monetary control of the Easter Money Center Banks. Farmers were regularly busted out by their mortgages being called by banks subject to demands of the East. Plus, the deflation almost always associated with the gold standard crushed those borrowing money.
There is no real alternative to a Central Bank in a modern economy, superstition aside.
So you think the endless boom-bust cycles (including the Great Depression) and the inflation slavery of the Federal Reserve system is preferable to a little deflation now and then.
There is no real alternative to a Central Bank in a modern economy, superstition aside.
It looks to me like there are five issues that the people need a debt-based society for (things they have to borrow for or want the government to provide a safety net for).
Personal transportation
College/Retraining/Unemployment Insurance
Health care
I think a system could be set up where the consumer would not have to borrow for these things thus making banks for the average consumer not needed. It would work by establishing an account when a person is born, dividing into these five categories, and letting the accounts grow by investing in the nation's businesses, and then having a schedule set up where the investment returns are distributed to each citizen for life's needs (upgrade to homes every ten years, upgrade personal transportation every 5 years, etc). Each citizen would be free to add into the system to have better-than-average upgrades, etc.
All fiat currencies fail and when our dollar fails it'll be much worse than a little deflation. Our enemies will use the occasion of our currency failure to enslave us even worse than the Federal Reserve has since the Wilson administration. It's part of the grand plan.


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Police boost patrols to watch New Year's Eve celebrations
Police are warning New Year's Eve revellers more uniformed and plain clothed police will be among crowds on the Hobart waterfront tonight.
They are predicting up to 10,000 people will watch the fireworks, with a chance to see the Sydney to Hobart yachts, or eat at the Taste of Tasmania as they welcome 2014.
More than 50 extra police will be on the beat in Hobart tonight.
Police have set up a base within the Taste enclosure, and boaties will be breath tested.
Inspector Glen Woolley says the strategies are aimed at keeping people safe.
"We've got 31 extra police walking around the waterfront area, which will provide a high visibility around the area to ensure there's no anti-social or misbehaviour around the waterfront and people and families can enjoy the event, enjoy the festivities around the Taste and also the fireworks," he said.
Inspector Woolley says security officers will also be watching over the two taxi ranks at Salamanca, and there are special buses running until about 2am.
He says police will not tolerate anti-social behaviour, and the message to revellers is simple.
"To make sure you look after your mates, to make sure you have a plan about where you're going to, how you're going to get home but also not to drink to such an extent that you're not able to care of yourself so for the public the message is, be prepared," he said.
Launceston celebrations
Launceston residents will be able to celebrate tonight with two fireworks displays on the Tamar River.
The organisers of Festivale have put together a program of live music and children's entertainment at Royal Park on the banks of the river.
There will be food, wine and beer stalls at the park, but no BYO alcohol.
Festivale chairwoman, Lou Clarke, says an early fireworks display is intended to cater for families.
"Mum and Dad can stay for the fireworks and then take the kids home if they've exhausted themselves by then, and then at midnight obviously a fireworks show to welcome in the new year, and this year we're actually setting off the fireworks from a barge in middle of the Tamar river, so I think that'll be really spectacular," she said.
Ms Clark says a highlight will be a tribute to local musician Phil Crowthers, who died unexpectedly in July.
"Nelson Tabe, who played in the Picasso Brothers with Phil Crowthers, has put together a group made up of local musicians who all performed with Phil throughout his career and they're doing a tribute to the fabulous Picasso Brothers, so I think that will be a really special part of the evening."
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While loading Lookout 6.6 Run Time onto a Windows XP Pro x64 Edition machine, I get a pop up Error window that says,
"The 'NI OPC Servers 2011' installation has failed with the following error:
Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'OpcRcw.Ae, Version="184.108.40.206", Culture="neutral", PublicKeyToken="9A4OE993CBFACE53", ProcessorArchitecture="MSIL". Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x8002802F. Continue? Yes or No"
If I click yes, when I restart the machine, I get a pop up immediately after booting up that says "the niupdateserver.exe failed to initiate"
Can anyone help me understand what this means and why it is acting this way. I have never seen this on any Lookout installation before.
Thanks in advance.
I never saw this error before. It's about an OPC core component install. This dll is for OPC AE communication.
You can try to repair the Lookout.
These OPC core component we install are 32-bit. Maybe the problem is related to the 32bit install on 64bit, but it should work.


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LOCAL fishermen call it Yoohoo Creek for the orange-brown clay that has muddied its waters for four years and driven away trout. But the Esopus Creek used to be one of the best trout-fishing streams in the Catskills.
Most of the mud comes from the Shandaken Tunnel, an 18-mile tube, which is operated by New York City and flows into the Esopus from the Schoharie Reservoir to help maintain the city's water supply.
In 1998 the Catskill chapter of Trout Unlimited and several other groups teamed up with Riverkeeper, the environmental group, to take their concerns to the city's Department of Environmental Protection.
They hired experts to help make their case: the muddy water flowing into the Esopus was damaging the trout habitat and killing the aquatic insects they feed on. Since the city owned the reservoir that was creating the problem, it had a responsibility to do something about it.
The state's Attorney General's office helped mediate discussions between the fly-fishermen and the city. But after almost a year and a half, the city refused to budge, and the fishermen filed suit in federal court.Continue reading the main story
''The essence of the case is that under the Clean Water Act you cannot discharge a pollutant from a point source without a permit,'' said Karl Coplan, the Riverkeeper's lawyer, who is representing the fishermen. ''It's clear under the law that suspended solids are a pollutant.''
The city has moved to dismiss the suit. Geoffrey Ryan, a spokesman for the city, said, ''The allegations in the complaint are without basis in law or fact.''
But William W. Buzbee, a professor of environmental law at Emory University in Atlanta, said some legal precedents suggest that the law may be on the fishermen's side. In several earlier cases, polluted water being channeled from one body of water to another was found to be a violation of the Clean Water Act.
The Shandaken Tunnel was built by the city early in the 1900's to take water from the Schoharie Reservoir to the Esopus, where it flows southward to the Ashokan Reservoir and on through aqueducts to faucets in Manhattan.
Water first began flowing through it in 1924, and muddy water, known as turbidity, has been an occasional problem in the Esopus ever since.
But it only became a serious threat to trout in 1996, when a major storm damaged the clay stream banks in the Schoharie and the streams that feed it, turning the water reddish brown for months on end.
Since then, the Esopus has often been crystal clear above the Shandaken Tunnel outlet and reddish brown below it, said Burt Darrow, who runs a fly-fishing guide service and has lived in the area all his life.
If it gets bad enough, the mud can be a threat to the city water supply, because turbidity carries with it bacteria, metals and other dangerous pollutants and can interfere with the effectiveness of chlorination.
The water, however, is generally cleaner in the Catskill watershed than east of the Hudson. And if turbidity becomes a serious problem, the city can use chemical treatments to help clarify the water.
That is no comfort to the fishermen.
''The stream is literally dying,'' Mr. Darrow said. ''This used to be the center of fishing in the Catskills. Now there are weekends when you don't see a single fisherman on the river.'' His own business as a guide has dropped significantly since the mud became a problem, he added.
Ronald Urban, the president of the Catkskill chapter of Trout Unlimited, a party to the suit, said, ''It's had a real impact on the guides and on bed and breakfasts and motels up here.''
There are several things the city could do to remedy the situation, Mr. Coplan said. The intake of the Shandaken Tunnel is on the bottom of the Schoharie Reservoir, where it is muddiest. The city could build a multilevel intake, which would minimize the mud flowing into the tunnel. It could also dredge the reservoir. And it could restore stream banks in the Schoharie basin.Continue reading the main story


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Stamford industrial manufacturer Crane Co. posted record first-quarter profits on strong sales.
Crane also declared dividends of 26 cents a share to be paid June 8 to common stockholders on record by May 31.
For three months ended March 31, Crane netted $51.8 million, or 88 cents a fully diluted share, up from $48.5 million, or 81 cents a share, netted the same quarter in 2011.
First-quarter sales were $657.9 million vs. $611 million a year ago.
CEO Eric C. Fast said Crane's aerospace & electronics and fluid-handling businesses drove first-quarter profitability.
Fast also said Crane is on track for its previous estimate of fully-year earnings of $3.75 to $3.95 a share and free cash flow in the range of $160 million to $190 million.
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Arbaaz Khan with father Salim Khan at a promotional event
Arbaaz Khan was spotted along with his father Salim Khan at a promotional event organized by Gillette at Andheri Sports complex, Mumbai.
Hosted by Mandira Bedi, the event also witnessed the presence of Rahul Dravid and Ravichandran Ashwin. The stars were also seen demonstrating a shave at the do.


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The new website features downloadable home staging tips and advice, and even includes a new RE:STYLE Rewards program that provides discounts, incentives, and resources for homeowners and realtors. The site also features video clips of RE:STYLEs work on NBCs Today Show, HGTVs National Open House, Fox 2 Newss Live at 11, and WLNS TV 6 News.
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TORONTO, March 12, 2014 /CNW/ - BG Capital Group Chairman Bobby Genovese took to the airwaves last weekend inviting listeners to join him in the Muskokas on Saturday, July 19, 2014 for the charity boat rally that he is once again chairing to raise money for The Hospital for Sick Children - Canada's leading centre dedicated to pediatric cancer research and treatment.
Last year's two-day event raised $680,000.
"We are honoured to play a role in helping publicize this important charity event," says Jake Thomas, producer/director of TheRealEstateTalkShow. "It is our honor and duty to help such a worthy cause and assist in its success."
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McGeady, who joined Spartak from Celtic in August 2010, is out of contract next summer, and does not plan to renew his deal.
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31/08/13: In his threat to JEM hunger strikers in Khartoum Kober Prison, General Abu Ubaida Suleiman, Governor General of Sudan Prisons barked:
βÄ€We (rulers of Sudan) have power, authority, decision-making, money, airplanes and military vehicles and we can do anything we like. You (Darfurians) cannot twist our arms. I give you a final warning: stop this chaos (strike) or I will personally show you something you have never seen in your lives. The whole of Sudan is ours, we do in it whatever we like and we do not want anybody else in it. I want you to know one thing: I can kill all of you and nobody dares to ask me about itβÄù.
The wording of the threat is textbook on the very spirit and mentality that have destroyed the country, a point I will return to later in the article. To begin with, the hunger strikers should not have been in Kober prison in the first place. The core group of them are Prisoners of War (POWs). They are protected by international conventions but have still been tried in Kangaroo courts and sentenced to death. Much more, President Al-Bashir pardoned some of them, in accordance with GoS-JEM God Will Agreement.
The hunger strike is prompted by brutal treatment of the prisoners that includes solitary confinement, shackling, prevention of visits of relatives and lawyers and verbal and physical abuse. Few days ago (August 26th, 13), a dozen or so in Khartoum prison went into a hunger strike protesting their ill treatment. Other JEM prisoners across the nation joined in solidarity and the total number grew to nearly 60.
Let us return to General SuleimanβÄôs threat, or rather its style and phrasing. The threat of βÄ€physical liquidationβÄù is of course real. Thousands and thousands of Darfur and other marginalised people in Sudan have perished under extra-judicial killings and massacre of few more will not bring the public to the street. This is appalling but it is a reality we should not overlook. In that sense, general Suleiman can indeed massacre all JEM prisoners and still remains a respectable man in the streets of the capital, Khartoum. If in doubt, think about General Al Dabi, Vice President Taha, Abdel Rahim Hussein, Salah Gosh and many others including Al-Bashir himself. These are all criminals responsible for massacring their own people and yet remain admired and respected.
The use of βÄ€WEβÄù and βÄ€YOUβÄù in the threat quoted above is quite revealing. While the latter word βÄ€YOUβÄù is easy to decipher, meaning Darfurians and other marginalised people including the Nubians of the far north, the Beja of the east, Nuba of Kordofan and southerners who are long gone. The term βÄ€WEβÄù is too rich to apprehend. The sentence βÄ€We have the authority, the power..βÄù refers to the government and beyond. In so far it denotes the government of Sudan, it is not inclusive of all senior officials of the regime. Of course not! What is meant here is the government within the government; a handful of people who wield the real authority within the system. Minsters coming from Marginalised parts of the Sudan like Darfur have little power, to say the least. The marginalised people remain marginalised whether they are ministers or office cleaners.
The sentence βÄ€the whole of Sudan is ours and we can do in it whatever we likeβÄù lends the term βÄ€WeβÄù its real meaning. The term refers here to a certain sector of the elite ethnic groups that rule the country. These ethnic groups are drawn from the Northern Region of Sudan and operate under its clandestine organisation, the Northern Entity or in Arabic Kayan Al-Shimal. Needless to say, not every member of these elite ethnic groups shares the same racist vision and many of them have paid dearly for their dissent. However, those who abide by the vision of Kayan Al-Shimal see themselves as more Arabs than other Arabised parts of the country but they also believe in having a divine legitimacy to rule the country to the exclusion of others. Surprisingly, the alleged right to rule Sudan does not come with corresponding responsibilities. Thus, General SuleimanβÄôs statement βÄ€we can do in it whatever we likeβÄù is dead accurate. Under their rule, the beloved south is gone and rest of the country is enmeshed in civil wars, poverty and chaos.
The sentence βÄ€we do not want anybody else in it [
Sudan]βÄù gives a further insight into the mentality of the βÄ€WEβÄù group. Sadly speaking, the marginalised people are not even accorded the right of belonging to the Sudan. The fighters who were used by Imam Al-Mahdi in his botched coup in the 1970s were simply referred to as mercenaries, meaning non-Sudanese. General SuleimanβÄôs statement is well in line with his fellow senior members of the government. When some activists protested possible re-settlement of 5 million Egyptians in the Nubian land, at Kajabar area, Minister for Defence Abdel Rahim Hussein responded:
βÄ€For the sake of debate, let us assume that the government is intending to resettle 5 million southern Egyptians (Saaida) in the northern Region of Sudan. So what? There are now 8 million people in Darfur, all of them are Africans and coming from abroad. Would it be better for you to have those coming into you from Egypt or those who are coming from West Africa?βÄù
General SuleimanβÄôs warning that he can kill all the prisoners without being asked about is not an empty threat. He has already started the process. As he ordered, the prisoners are put under solitary confinement for 23 hours and 45 minutes a day. In any decent country, no senior government personnel would remain in office following such a horrific statement. Not so in the Sudan. General SuleimanβÄôs post is safe for the simple reason that the President shares his lunatic vision as well. Al-Bashir harbours the same sense of ethnic arrogance and superiority, coupled with deep hatred of the people of Darfur. Here is what Al-Bashir said in defence of raping Darfur women:
"He [
Bashir] told us, [
if] this Gharbawia [Darfuri woman], when a JaβÄôali [man from the JaβÄôal tribe] man humps her, is this an honor or rape?βÄù (ST, March 20,2010).
We the Sudanese people, all of us irrespective of creed, region or ethnic group have an inalienable duty to our nation and our people. We must not allow the lunatic mentality that underlies General SuleimanβÄôs statement ruin our country. The Sudan is large enough for all of us including those who are now in the Republic of South Sudan. We have no choice but to join hands and save the nation.
Abdullahi Osman El-Tom is Head of Strategic Planning of JEM
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Both of my oldest children have expressed a desire to take some classes at our local public school. They are 4th and 6th grade. The school has an "arts rotation" with classes in Art, Music, Gym, Media/Tech and Spanish; 1 each day of the week. They want to take all the classes, however I anticipate there will be some issues with at least Spanish.
They are not at "grade level" for reading and writing. It's not been an integral thing so far. They can read well enough to get by in the things they love to do, and that's all the interest they have had until now.
So, I mentioned that they would need to be better at reading and writing, and that the best way to get the practice they need, and therefore the skill level, is to read books. I also suggested that they copy 1 page per day from the book they are reading for penmanship practice, and to reinforce spelling concepts. So far they are wholeheartedly embracing this, and have been reading several pages a day, and writing their one page. They are learning more about the purpose of punctuation, how to anticipate if the word will fit on the line or have to go to the next line, etc. Things other kids are learning in 2nd grade. They do not, however, know cursive.
They begin at the end of January. They are working hard, so far (it's been 3 days) but what happens if they've not "caught up" in time? I'm worried about them being so embarrassed that they don't want to go back, or that they are hopelessly teased, etc. Should I just also ask the school for additional help in getting them up to speed, in addition to the arts classes? I would feel like I were admitting failure in that case... I'm just not sure how this will go...
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I think so much depends on their personalities. If they are confident and eager, they will probably enjoy the experience. It is okay to be somewhat "behind"--after all, not everyone excels in public school either.
If they become embarrassed, that might be a good lesson in itself, though a tough one for sure, for the parent too. In your estimate, will embarrassment result in their desire to catch up, or in shutting down?
If you feel they are really behind, can you suggest re-evaluating by the end of December and possibly not doing the school this year? How do they react to the possibility of being "behind"? DH, for example, never cared how he compared to other kids. He did well in the subjects that he liked, and barely passed the rest. I, on the other hand, really cared about grades.
Let them know they don't have to do the entire semester if the experience doesn't fit their expectations. And that any kids who would tease are not worth paying attention too--they are probably insecure themselves. You might find out that many will be really welcoming and friendly.
Don't worry about cursive, most children don't learn cursive in school.
FWIW, my 10 yo "caught up" in handwriting in 30 days of daily writing, 6-7 sentences a day. She is not super fast, but she is confident and it doesn't look like she's just learned. She's probably just below average, compared to PS kids.
I can really relate to your post. My 10 year old doesn't want to go to school, but if she wanted to, I'd have exactly the same concerns. She is not very confident and tends to care what others think about her. If she wanted to go, I'd be discouraging her for now, as not doing well wouldn't be a stimulus for improvement for her.
Good luck with this.
Hmm... I didn't really think about whether or not they care what other kids think about them, or if they do well. I just assumed. Don't all kids care about doing well and what other kids think of them? I guess not! Maybe I'd better figure that out, huh?
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How old are they?
11 and 9
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My 10 yo cares a lot, but the 8 yo doesn't.
You might want to check the school's requirements. At my children's ps, after 3rd grade all written assignments were expected to be in cursive.
I agree it's worth checking, but I think the approach in your area is somewhat unusual in this respect. Some schools no longer teach cursive, and most no longer require it to be used: legibility is the only requirement.
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I wouldn't worry too much. The fact is that most kids in public school aren't at grade level either. My son is taking courses at our high school and has some nerve damage to his right hand, so his hand writing is what one would expect from about a 4th grader. We were worried it would be an issue, but at parent teacher conferences I was consistantly told his writing was average or even above average. I can't even always read it! While some kids penmanship is actually at "grade level", it's more of a goal than an expectation. ;)
On the flip side, dd wanted to do some classes at the jr high. She's 6th grade age, but doing high school work at home. (she discovered earning your diploma exempts you from mandatory attendance laws, a lot of child labor laws, daytime curfews, etc. and is part of a self paced, accredited school so she can earn a "normal" diploma and be done with the legal hoops. lol) They told me she is so far below the 6th grade level that they consider her "high risk". =/ Different staff, with different biases. The kid is doing algebra and reading Shakespeare for fun, but is drastically below their expectations for a 6th grader??? Whatever.
Frankly, any judgements people make about your homeschooling will be because they want to judge you for homeschooling. If they have an issue with it, they will insist your kids are below their peers in some way, no matter what....if they don't have an issue with it, they will just offer help to support your kids within the educational choices you've chosen.
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The UNRWA Nuzha Preparatory Girls School in Jordan celebrated Human Rights Day on 10 December with several fun activities to highlight this year's theme of diversity. Teachers and students organized a dynamic programme to demonstrate how important it is to accept others and appreciate their contributions to communities. Donor representatives and local community members participated in various activities such as human rights bingo, raise your hand for diversity and others.
The school parliament gave a presentation on human rights and talked about their experience in becoming young parliamentarians which enables them to can speak up, think for themselves, and support their schools and communities as active citizens.
HRCRT animated videos were also screened throughout the day. The videos target the local community and are broadcast on UNRWA satellite TV. They tackle issues such as gender inequality, bullying and the environment while demonstrating the educational approach of the human rights education programme.
All activities are based on the US-funded Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (HRCRT) Toolkit which acts as a practical guide for teachers to promote diversity, tolerance and respect for human rights while integrating these concepts into all subjects taught.
H.E. Mr. Shuichi Sakurai , Ambassador of Japan: "My participation in the Human Rights event at UNRWA's school in Amman New camp was very informative and fruitful. At the same time, I enjoyed the lessons by the students and their teachers very much." © 2015 UNRWA Photo by Jacopo Intini
H.E. Mr. Francisco C. S. Luz, Ambassador of Brazil, with his wife Ivana Luz: "We were very inspired by the amazing work UNRWA is doing in the schools in Jordan. A work that deserves everybody's support."© 2015 UNRWA Photo by Jacopo Intini
Ambassador of Brazil H.E. Mr. Francisco C. S. Luz and his wife Ivana Luz participating in the "Write it up" activity based on the HRCRT Toolkit. © 2015 UNRWA Photo by Abu Haweleh
Mrs. Ivana Luz, wife of the Brazilian Ambassador, plants a word of love in the "Garden of Diversity."© 2015 UNRWA Photo by Jacopo Intini
Timothy W. Swett (first from left) Regional Refugee Coordinator, U.S. Embassy in Amman: "The United States is extremely proud of our work with UNRWA to support its program on human rights, conflict resolution, and tolerance education. The education these students receive in UNRWA schools will provide them the opportunity to learn and grow in safety and security." © 2015 UNRWA Photo by Jacopo Intini
Guillaume Henry, Second Counsellor, French Embassy in Jordan, participating in the human rights activities held at UNRWA's school in Nuzha on 10 December 2015. Mr. Henry plants a flower in the "Garden of Diversity." © 2015 UNRWA Photo by Ahmad Abu Haweleh
Simon Mustard (second from left), Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy in Amman: "Supporting students establish their own school parliaments is one way for raising awareness on Human Rights. It was very inspiring to see many women and girls involved. I wish them all the very best! © 2015 UNRWA Photo by Jacopo Intini
Josefine Hellgren (third from left), Deputy Head of Mission, Swedish Embassy, participating in the human rights activities held at UNRWA's school in Nuzha on 10 December 2015. © 2015 UNRWA Photo by Ahmad Abu Haweleh
Students and their parents work together to showcase human rights as part of the "Raise your Hand for Diversity" activity from the HRCRT Toolkit. © 2015 UNRWA Photo by Jacopo Intini
Parents share with their children what they learned from the human rights education programme.© 2015 UNRWA Photo by Jacopo Intini
Donor representatives, local community members, students and UNRWA staff celebrating Human Rights. © 2015 UNRWA Photo by Jacopo Intini
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"Human rights and conflict resolution education goes beyond school walls. It is a culture for peace and prosperity. Today, donors' representatives, students and their parents, local community members, UNRWA staff gathered to say the world is rich because it is diverse. Thanks for the US government for funding the HRCR education at UNRWA, which vision is to provide human rights education that empowers Palestine refugee students to enjoy and exercise their rights, uphold human rights values, be proud of their Palestinian identity and contribute positively to their community"
"We are building a new city" activity from the HRCRT Toolkit. Students and their teacher agreed that a city of one profession is not going to work out. They built a new city where every one and every profession has a place. © 2015 UNRWA Photo by Ahmad Abu Haweleh
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You've probably heard the word resilience, perhaps used to describe someone's ability to recover from an illness or bounce back after an injury. It turns out that resilience also has a scientific meaning that is similar to the one you're familiar with. Ecological resilience refers to an ecosystem's ability to cope with or absorb change.
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LONDON, England - Sabine Lisicki was just nine years old when her compatriot Steffi Graf finished runner-up in the 1999 Wimbledon final. On Saturday afternoon, Lisicki will become the first German to appear in a Grand Slam final since then, when she takes on fellow surprise package Marion Bartoli.
Saturday, Final
Centre Court
[15] Marion Bartoli (FRA #15) vs. [23] Sabine Lisicki (GER #24)
Head-to-head: Lisicki leads 3-1
There is something about the well-manicured lawns of the All-England Club that brings out the best in Sabine Lisicki.
On her past three visits to south-west London before this year, the German has lasted well into the second week, beating a who's who of the women's game in the process. However, as impressive as wins over Maria Sharapova, Li Na, Caroline Wozniacki and Svetlana Kuznetsova were, Monday's dethroning of Centre Court queen Serena Williams ranks as her crowning glory.
Unlike many other great giant killers from down the years, she has followed up this memorable performance, outclassing and outlasting Kaia Kanepi and Agnieszka Radwanska, respectively, to reach her maiden major final.
Here she will face fellow surprise finalist Marion Bartoli. The Frenchwoman has been on inspired form this fortnight, improving with each passing round and winning all six matches in straight sets. The best was reserved for her semifinal foe, Kirsten Flipkens, who she dismissed in an hour-long grass court masterclass.
While Bartoli may have the edge in terms of experience - she finished runner-up at the All-England Club in 2007 - past encounters suggest defusing Lisicki's considerable arsenal will be no easy task; Lisicki has won their last three matches, including the 2011 Wimbledon quarterfinal, and, as evidenced by her numbers this tournament, she is serving (39 aces) and returning (28 breaks) better than ever.
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Bartoli: "The last time I played the final here I was so young. I was the underdog every time coming out on the court, which this time it was totally the opposite. I was this time the highest ranked player and I needed to put out a great performance in order to go through. I think I've been able to deal with the pressure really well and keep improving throughout the Championships and keep playing better. Especially in the semifinals, I think I played a great match."
Lisicki: "I think it's still hard to really realize that I'm in the final! When I arrived here at the tournament, I just thought that anything's possible. That's what I believed; I still do. I came to win every match that I walk on the court on, and that's what I've done so far. So I'll do the same on Saturday and I'm looking forward to it."
Road To The Final
Marion Bartoli
First Round: d. Elina Svitolina, 63 75 (1:23)
Second Round: d. Christina McHale, 75 64 (1:56)
Third Round: d. Camila Giorgi, 64 75 (1:31)
Fourth Round: d. Karin Knapp, 62 63 (1:12)
Quarterfinals: d. Sloane Stephens, 64 75 (1:41)
Semifinals: d. Kirsten Flipkens, 61 62 (1:02)
Sabine Lisicki
First Round: d. Francesca Schiavone, 61 62 (1:04)
Second Round: d. Elena Vesnina, 63 61 (1:01)
Third Round: d. Samantha Stosur, 46 62 61 (1:40)
Fourth Round: d. Serena Williams, 62 16 64 (2:04)
Quarterfinals: d. Kaia Kanepi, 63 63 (1:05)
Semifinals: d. Agnieszka Radwanska, 64 26 97 (2:18)
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Punishing air strikes and fierce shelling from forces loyal to embattled Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi have roused the Arab League to speak up in favor of a no-fly zone to put the deadly warplanes out of commission.
Arab states must intervene in Libya or risk unwanted foreign intervention, Oman's foreign minister told an Arab League meeting.
"What is needed now is Arab intervention using mechanisms of the Arab League and at the same time in accordance with international law," Omani Foreign Minister Youssef bin Alawi bin Abdullah said in his opening remarks to an Arab League meeting.
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, a candidate for the Egyptian presidency, called for a no-fly zone to help the Libyan people "in their struggle for freedom against an increasingly inhuman regime."
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CHARGES: First Degree Statutory Sex Offense x2
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BOND: $200,000 Secured
Arnold Delamar was arrested on July 14, 2014, for 2 counts of Statutory Sex Offenses against a Child, and 2 counts of Indecent Liberties with a Child. Arrestee Delamar was incarcerated in the Onslow County Jail under a $200,000 bond.
This case involves a 6 year old and her younger sister 3 years old. On May 31, 2014, the two children were taken to the N.C. Aquarium in Pine Knoll Shores by 67 year old Arnold Delamar, who is a long time friend of the family. On the ride home from the aquarium, Delamar took the children to an area off Rocky Run Road where he sexually assaulted both of the children.


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The online versions of the SU Catalog are available on the Registrar's website, southwestern.edu/academic/registrar/. The catalogs go back to the 2000-2001 edition. Thanks, Bob Paver!
Every degree awarded to an SU student is tied to a catalog. For example, the 2004-2005 Catalog contains the default set of degree requirements for students entering SU in 2004-5. However, these requirements expire after four and one half years, and students graduating after that must do so under a later catalog. Students may elect to switch to any later catalog in use while they are enrolled, subject to the 4.5 year limit. This change is accomplished by filling out a REQUEST for DEGREE PLAN card.
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(1) Changed General Education Requirements as follows:
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NEW YORK (Dec. 6)
A group of 46 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen assailed Soviet anti-Semitism in a cable today to Soviet Premier Khrushchev, and urged the Russian Government to lift its official policy of oppression against its Jewish citizens.
The religious leaders sharply criticized the "blanket restraints" against all religions in the Soviet Union, and emphasized that Judaism was placed outside even "the narrow framework of permissible religious practice" allowed in Russia. The cable will be published tomorrow as an advertisement in four metropolitan newspapers as a cooperative under baking by the religious signatories and the American Jewish Committee. The religious leaders signed in their individual capacities.
The cable, delivered to the Soviet Embassy in New York for transmission to Premier Khrushchev, charged that, while most other faiths are permitted "bare necessities" for religious practice, the almost 3,000,000 Russian Jews were "denied minimal rights conceded to adherents of other faiths." The statement asserted that legally constituted Jewish congregations were isolated from one another, forbidden to organize a central body, and denied any contact "with Jewish religious groups in other countries. Their leaders are singled out for abuse."
"Since June 1961, synagogue presidents in six cities have been arbitrarily removed from office," the statement added. "Jewish communal leaders in Leningrad and Moscow have been sentenced to prison for the alleged crime of meeting with foreign visitors to their synagogues. Scores of synagogues have been closed by the state. The few that remain are served by rabbis who were ordained more than 40 years ago. For more than a generation, Jewish theological summaries have been banned, except for a lone yeshiva in Moscow, opened in 1956. Its enrollment, never permitted to exceed 20, was reduced to four in April 1962."
The statement also asserted that no Jewish Bible had been printed in 40 years, that no articles for Jewish ritual can be produced in Russia and that this year, "for the first time in Soviet history, even the sale of unleavened bread, essential to observance of the Pass over, was banned. The prayers of Judaism are said in Hebrew, yet the teaching of that language is forbidden."
The religious leaders also stated that, while 500,000 Jews declared Yiddish as their mother tongue in the 1959 Soviet census, "their hundreds of schools, their once flourishing theatres have been stamped out. Much smaller ethnic or linguistic groups have schools, theaters, books and newspapers in their own languages."
"These conditions revive memories of the anti-Semitic Stalin regime" which, the statement stressed, Premier Khrushchev had denounced. The cable urged the Soviet Union to implement its frequently repeated claim that it was "a champion of human dignity and equality" and a "defender of minority rights" by lifting these repressive measures. It called on the Soviet Government to change its behavior to conform "to its own professed principles" and to the standards of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to the constitutions of enlightened countries which affirm that "freedom of conscience and expression is vested unconditionally in every human being."
The religious leaders added that, unless the Soviet Union takes steps to guarantee complete freedom of religious practice, "it forfeits the confidence of all peoples. By deeds alone can your Government confirm that the Soviet Union in truth upholds the rights of minorities and the equal dignity of man," the cable emphasized.
The signatories of the cable to Khrushchev included Dr. John C. Bennett, dean of faculty of the Union Theological Seminary; Dr. Harold E. Fey, editor of the Christian Century; Dr. Alvin Rogness, president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary; Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle, of Washington, D. C.; Dr. Norman Gerstenfeld, of the Washington Hebrew Congregation; Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion; Rabbi Julius Mark, president of the Synagogue Council of America; and Archbishop Iskovos, of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America.