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Bangalore's citizens will Run For Their City on Sunday, May 19, 2013 in the TCS World 10K Bangalore
In the relatively short period of five years, the World 10K Bangalore, the World's Premier 10K Run, has added to the Garden City's reputation as a 'Global Running Destination'. It has not only enticed some of the world's leading distance and track and field athletes to come and race, but has mobilised the health and fitness conscious citizenry of Bangalore City to come together and run as one.
TCS World 10K Bangalore 2013 World's Premier 10K Run with Total prize money in excess of US $ 170,000 8 Races on D-Day: World 10K Elite for Men and Women Nation's Challenge Open 10K 10K Challenge: For Corporate Teams & College/University Teams Majja Run (5.7 km) Senior Citizens' Run (4km) Champions With Disability Event (4km) |
A strategic tie-up with one of the world's leading elite athlete management agencies, race categories to encourage the serious runners from the corporate world as well as colleges and universities, course record bonuses and many novel initiatives to enhance the running experience of every participant will herald the TCS World 10K Bangalore 2013.
The world's leading track and long distance athletes will once again descend into the Garden City, where they will be joined by India's best running talent and thousands from the running fraternity to help Bangalore live up to its reputation as the host city of a major international running event.
Continuing to give a further fillip to the event will be Superstar Puneet Rajkumar as the 'Face of the Event', who has committed all his support and efforts to help promote the event and propagate the running movement across the length and breadth of Karnataka state.
TCS World 10K Bangalore Top performances over the years Men Overall 2008: Tadese Zersenay (Eritrea) 0:27.51 2009: Deriba Merga (Ethiopia) 0:28.13 2010: Titus Mbieshei (Kenya) 0:27.54 2011: Philomen Limo (Kenya) 0:28:01 2012: Geoffrey Kipsang (Kenya) 0:28:00 Women Overall 2008: Elvan Abeylegesse (Turkey) 0:32.02 2009: Asselefech Mergia (Ethiopia) 0:32.08 2010: Yimer Wude (Ethiopia) 0:31.58 2011: Dire Tune (Ethiopia) 0:33.19 2012: Helah Kiprop (Kenya) 0:33.22 Indian Men 2008: Kashinath Asawale 0:29.59 2009: Sandeep Kumar 0:30.02 2010: Sunil Kumar 0:30.47 2011: Suresh Kumar 0:30.17 2012: Rahul Kumar Pal 0:30.15 Indian Women 2008: Preethi L Rao 0:36.01 2009: Kavita Raut 0:34.32 2010: Preeti L Rao 0:37.47 2011: Kavita Raut 00:35:09 2012: Monika Athre 00:36:46 |
Mr. N Chandrasekaran, CEO & MD of Tata Consultancy Services, who could not be present at the launch of the event due to prior commitments, had this to say, "It is great to see that the TCS World 10K Bangalore continues to grow in popularity and stature as the city's premier athletic event. With the citizens embracing this event as their own, we hope to see more people and their families participating in large numbers in the third edition of the race this year to spread the message about healthy living and wellness in their communities. As an organisation whose philosophy entails promoting an active, healthy lifestyle among our young employee base and the communities we operate in, we are delighted to support this wellness initiative every year in the city."
The city of Bangalore first experienced the magic of running in 2008 when its citizens welcomed the inaugural edition of the World 10K with great enthusiasm. Since then the number of participants has swelled to around 24,000 amid serious efforts from promoters Procam International, along with support from the partners to the event, to convert fun runners into serious fitness and running enthusiasts and has led to around 9,000 amateurs attempting the full distance in the Open 10K category.
Now, six years down the road, the event has also carved a niche for itself in the realm of distance running with some superlative performances from the elite runners from all over the world.
New Course record on the cards: A 10K road race demands a high octane combination of endurance and speed and the TCS World 10K Bangalore, 2013 is once again expected to attract the world's best long distance runners and track & field stars. With Procam International enlisting the services of Global Sports Communication (GSC) as the new Elite Athlete Coordinators, the focus will also be on lowering the existing course records
GSC, led by Jos Hermens, one of the world's leading elite athlete management companies, proved their mettle in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2013, putting together a super-fast field for the race that culminated in new course records being set by the men and women. Bangalore is also set for a scorching race on May 19 and an incentive bonus of USD 7,500 is on offer for new course records, if set. The Indian athletes too have an incentive bonus of Rs 1 lakh if they lower the existing Indian course records.
The overall men's course record stands at 27.51, set by Eritrean Zersenay Tadesse in 2008, while the women's course record of 31.58 was set by Ethiopian Yimer Wude in 2010. The Indian men's course record stands at 29.59, set by Kashinath Asawale in 2008, while for Indian women it is 34.32, set by Kavita Raut in 2009.
The 10K Challenge: This category will comprise the DHL Corporate Challenge and the Nike College Faceoff, open to Corporate teams and Colleges/Universities of Bangalore respectively.
To make the running experience more fulfilling and competitive for the serious corporate runner, prize money was introduced last year for the top five finishers in the Corporate Challenge category. The response was tremendous and also saw some commendable times being clocked by the teams. To acknowledge their efforts and encourage them to strive harder, this year sees an increase in their gratification. The winning team will now take home Rs 1,00,000, with the runner-up team winning Rs 75,000. The next three finishers will stand to gain Rs 50,000; Rs 36,000 and Rs 30,000 respectively.
The three-member team will need to have two men and one woman, with each member needing to complete the full distance of 10 km. The average of the net finish timings of all three runners will decide the finish positions in this category.
Bangalore City is also renowned for its colleges and universities, which attract students from all over the country. The Nike College Face Off will now give these students an international platform to perform, and run in the footsteps of some of the world's leading male and female athletes and India's best for financial gratification, besides pride and glory.
The top three finishers among the boys and girls teams stand to win Rs 50,000, Rs 30,000 and Rs 20,000 respectively.
Showcasing Bangalore's giving side: The charity drive associated with the TCS World 10K Bangalore, spearheaded by Bangalore Cares, the Charity Partner to the event, is poised for a quantum leap this year.
This is in keeping with the trend witnessed over the last five editions of the event, which is a healthy indication that Bangalore has a strong giving side. The amounts raised for charity through the World's Premier 10K Run had increased from Rs 41.35 lacs in the first year, to Rs 1.31 crores in the second year, Rs 1.41 crores in 2010 and to Rs 1.85 crores in 2011. The last edition saw Rs 3.06 crores being raised in clearly tracked figures and going by the trend, this edition should see a substantial increase.
In the last five years the World 10K Bangalore has helped generate over Rs 8 crore towards charity, propelling this event to amongst the largest charity raising events in the state of Karnataka.
The TCS World 10K Bangalore, an event certified by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) is being held under the aegis of the Athletics Federation of India and is supported by the Karnataka Athletics Association. Around 24,000 people are expected to be a part of this momentous event on May 19, participating in the eight events of the day.
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Iowa's Republican governor and an Iowa Democratic congressman have made it clear this week that they are upset about wrestling being dropped from the 2020 Olympics, and are going to do something about it.
Iowa's David Loebsack introduced a resolution (H.Res. 71) with fellow U.S. congressmen Jim Jordan of Ohio and Tim Walz of Minnesota expressing opposition to the International Olympic Committee's decision to eliminate wrestling. In a press release, Loebsack said he "will continue to work with his colleagues in Congress and those in the wrestling community to push to overturn this misguided decision."
Given that the IOC is out of the jurisdiction of the U.S. government, I'm not sure that's going to be effective.
This afternoon, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad held a media event at the Iowa high school wrestling tournament to launch a campaign to save Olympic wrestling. He had Dan Gable, Northern Iowa head coach Doug Schwab and Iowa assistant coach Terry Brands at his side. To his credit, Gable will leave no stone unturned, be it substantial or symbolic.
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The campaign's new website has a petition form that's been signed by more than 2,000 people as of Friday afternoon.
Forgive me for being pessimistic, but wrestling isn't going to be voted back into the Olympics this September because of any grassroots movement, although Gable disagrees.
"Every little effort will be consumed by the national and international effort," Gable said Friday.
This is all a nice little deal for the politicians, who get to curry favor with a percentage of their constituents by getting behind something that few Iowans would reject. Some would call it grandstanding, but why be harsh?
Petitions and rallies and resolutions are fine and all, but the IOC has heard it all before when it's cut sports. If elected officials really want to save wrestling, they should try to figure out how to influence the heads of top-level Olympic sponsors.
Those include Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Panasonic, GE, Visa, Procter & Gamble and Samsung.
The IOC would listen to a persuasive argument from a CEO of one of those corporations before it would pay heed to a governor or a few congresspersons, let alone a president.
What it would take to get one or more of those companies to listen to wrestling and then support the sport in its dialogues with the IOC, I have no idea. But like everything else in the world it claims it brings together, the Olympics are run by cash money. If I were a devoted wrestling fan who watched the IOC drop that sport, I might be less persuaded to do business with Olympic sponsors.
You've got to follow the money. As corporate kingpin Arthur Jensen told crazed television anchorman Howard Beale in the movie "Network" in the 1970s:
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.
I'm just trying to be practical here.
I've never been a wrestling fan, but if they insist on continuing the charade they call the Olympics, then it MUST include wrestling. It seems the ancient Olympics were built on two sports: track and wrestling.
The US, Russia, and China should tell the IOC either wrestling is retained, or the big 3 won't be attending. Coke or no Coke. I mean, what if they gave an Olympics, and only Argentina showed up?
Mike, I respectfully disagree. It would definitely make the most profound impact if McDonalds, NBC, Coke, etc. became involved in the effort to keep wrestling in the Olympics, but that does not discount the efforts made at the grass roots level, through FB, Twitter, government, and more. Who's to say these efforts won't help to capture the attention of the big wigs and provide a more solid argument for them to get involved? It certainly says a lot when a Governor and other top officials create a campaign, when over 80,000 support a cause through FB, and when hundreds of thousands of people worldwide rally together toward one goal. Hopefully these efforts will pay off and corporations will listen and get behind them as well.
The IOC doesn't have a direct relationship to advertisers; it has a direct relationship to networks. The IOC's largest single revenue stream is the 4.4 billion dollars that NBC paid for exclusive rights to broadcast the next four Olympic games in the US. The IOC is unlikely to be swayed by hundreds of thousands of Facebook likes, or even US politicians. However, the IOC has 4.4 billion reasons to listen carefully to what NBC has to say. If NBC asked the IOC to reconsider their decision, the IOC would certainly sit up and take notice. So forget Coca-Cola, the company that the public needs to lobby is NBC. Here's a petition that does just that: http://www.change.org/petitions/nbc-comcast-pressure-the-ioc-to-reinstate-wrestling-as-an-olympic-sport
But these aren't just advertisers, they're Olympic top-level sponsors. I think there are 11 of them, all global corporations. They do have a direct relationship to the Olympics. … As for NBC, I don't think it cares a bit how this turns out. Wrestling's TV ratings are puny in the Olympics compared to most other sports.


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b) "Cochiti Father and Child." Pueblo man carrying a baby on his back wrapped in a blanket, and minding an older daughter, ca. 1905. A wagon, an adobe structure and pole corrals are seen in the background.Unlike other Indian cultures in which child care was strictly a female occupation, Pueblo men shared baby-sitting duties when their wives were busy with other important tasks, such as pottery making.
c) "Woman of Tewa" Pueblo, carrying her baby in the folds of a Pendleton wool blanket, ca. 1900.
The locations for this series of Pueblo, Navajo, Mescalero Apache and Ute portraits were several of the New Mexico pueblos near Santa Fe: Cochiti, Taos and perhaps others. The title given in quotation marks for each image appears as a pencil inscription, verso, by the unknown photographer. There was an ancient trade among Pueblo, Navajo and other Apache groups like the Jicarilla and Mescalero, with visits several times a year. The craft of weaving blankets from wool yarn, for which the Navajo are world-renowned, was learned by them from Pueblo artisans. Feathered headdresses of the Plains style, as well as certain types of dances, were adopted by Pueblo groups from the Apache and Comanche.
With the popularity of western travel magazines such as Sunset and Westways, and encouraged by advertising of the Fred Harvey Hotel Company and the Santa Fe Railway beginning in the early-1890s, streams of White tourists descended on the New Mexico Pueblos during excursions to and from the Grand Canyon. Amateur photography was then becoming a wide-spread hobby, with the availability of Eastman-Kodak films. This remarkable archive of images, assembled over a period of several years, ca. 1895-1910, was made by one such traveler. Evidence is discussed that the photographer may have been a woman. All these matte gelatin silver prints are unique photographs, which then were hand-colored, another skill being touted by photo journals of the period.
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This week we were shooting our upcoming 2014 Special for McCall's Quilting, called Scrap Quilts. I love doing our specials because often they can be shot in any seasonal setting, allowing us to be able to use the beautiful green grass and flowers available to us now in Colorado.
I knew I would need several bouquets of flowers for our shots on Wednesday but hated to spend too much money. Magazine props can get expensive. So I went to the grocery store and bought a spring bouquet for $9.99 and brought it home to see how I might be able to stretch this and fill five vases. Here's how it went.
I have a very small yard but have some terrific shrubs that have various colors of green which look pretty in arrangements. I went out to my yard and took clippings from some of these shrubs and laid them out on my kitchen island. When gathering the cuttings, I realized that those shrubs needed to be pruned in the worst way……maybe next weekend!
Now the fun begins! I grab a collection of vases (most of which were found at garage and thrift sales) and fill them all with nice cool water. I start the arrangements by adding the "background" greenery first. I try to get some of the variegated shrub in each container.After a few more trips to the yard for more greenery, here's what I came up with. Five vases of beautiful flowers for my Photo shoot tomorrow!Having beautiful arrangements in your home doesn't have to be expensive. You can have a fun vase filled with only greenery, herbs, or even tree branches. Work with your season and make the most of the beauty which surrounds you.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A poll commissioned by the campaign of U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall shows the incumbent Democrat with a substantial lead over his Republican challenger.
Rahall leads former state Supreme Court justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard 59 percent to 34 percent, according to a poll taken last week by Anzalone Liszt, a pollster with offices in Washington and Birmingham, Ala.
"Maynard's high unfavorable rating makes it very difficult for him to expand his vote," according to a statement released by Anzalone Liszt Research on Monday.
The firm found that 40 percent of all voters polled held an unfavorable opinion of Maynard, while 30 percent held a favorable opinion. The firm did not release favorable and unfavorable ratings for Rahall.
"The fundamentally Democratic nature of this district also works in Rahall's favor and limits Maynard's ability to benefit from national political trends," the firm said.
Maynard campaign spokesman Mik Carpenter would not comment on the poll.
"I won't comment on anything sent out by the Democratic Party," he said Monday.
The 3rd Congressional District spreads from Huntington, through the southern coalfields, east to Pocahontas County.
Two previous polls also showed Rahall leading by significant margins:
| On Aug. 16, a poll from the conservative American Action Forum showed Rahall was leading Maynard, 53 percent to 37 percent. That poll was conducted in late July and early August.
| Last week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reported a Global Strategy Group poll it financed showed Rahall was leading Maynard, 55 percent to 37 percent. Conducted between Sept. 23 and Sept. 26, that poll surveyed 411 likely voters.


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November 19, 2007
The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) that allows FDA to formally recognize the Association's list of feed ingredients and defines the role FDA can play in deciding on the suitability of feed ingredients offered for addition to the list.
"This is a significant step forward in FDA's effort to enhance the safety of feed. And it allows FDA to formally recognize the valuable contribution AAFCO makes in determining suitability of feed ingredients," said Dr. Dan McChesney, Director of CVM's Office of Surveillance and Compliance.
AAFCO is a voluntary organization comprised largely of regulatory officials who have responsibility for enforcing their state's laws and regulations concerning the safety of animal feeds. Its membership is comprised of representatives from each state in the United States, as well as representatives from Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Canada, the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"FDA and AAFCO have had a long and successful working relationship," said Dr. Sharon Benz, Director of CVM's Division of Animal Feeds. "This agreement allows AAFCO and FDA to leverage that relationship in a way that will improve feed safety."
A basic goal of AAFCO is to provide the means for ensuring the development and implementation of equitable laws, regulations, standards, definitions, and enforcement policies for regulating animal feed. AAFCO has no enforcement authority.
AAFCO publishes an annual Official Publication (OP) that includes a list of all ingredients AAFCO has reviewed and found suitable for use in animal feeds. The OP also provides a list of ingredient definitions and common or usual ingredient names. FDA has informally cited the OP's ingredient list and has acted as AAFCO's scientific advisor in reviewing petitions for the addition of ingredients to the list or for changes in the ingredient definitions. However, the OP list does not have the force of law.
FDA's formal recognition of the AAFCO list is one of the specific recommendations made in a "Framework Document" drafted by FDA's Animal Feed Safety System (AFSS) Team. FDA created the ad hoc AFSS Team four years ago to develop ways to modernize the feed safety system in the United States. The Team has identified "gaps" in the current animal feed regulatory structure (including the fact that FDA has no formal list of suitable ingredients) and offers recommendations for closing the gaps.
AAFCO uses a "New and Modified Feed Ingredient Definitions Process" to determine the suitability of feed ingredients and to establish standard ingredient names, which FDA considers the common or usual name, used on feed labels as required by state and federal law. This memorandum allows FDA to recognize formally the AAFCO process and to have a clearly defined role in reviewing ingredients for the list.
Under the memorandum, CVM assigns scientists to work with AAFCO in reviewing petitions for new feed ingredients or for modifications to existing ingredient definitions. In addition, before it adopts a new feed ingredient definition or amends an existing one, AAFCO will ask CVM for advice and a letter of concurrence. The memorandum also requires AAFCO to remove a definition from its OP if FDA provides convincing scientific evidence that the ingredient is no longer suitable for its intended purpose.
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Pixie Truffle is the bad trip Barbie of British Burlesque. Unashamedly queer she is just as comfortable galavanting as a gallant gentleman, gyrating on the stage with gentle grace or exploding with fierce femininity; a potent and authoritative femme-queer neo-burlesque innovator. She very much identifies as a queer female boylesque performer. Taking the fierce and highly charged elements of masculine burlesque and investing her drag king burlesque characters with those idiosyncrasies.
She is just as at home in the world of drag king performance as burlesque, and cannot help but blur the boundaries of the two genre. As her Dixie Shuffle routine shows when 'his' devious dexterousness and pugilistic prowess comes to be his undoing after he takes his masculinity too far and his glamorous assistant reveals Dixie's erstwhile identity.
But Dixie is merely one of Pixie Truffle's drag king personalities. Each character more bizarre than the next, you might find yourself in the presence of Maurice Moss, Jesse Rose the rehab eighties hair rocker or even Lemmy Kilmister. She is working on a drag king hairy bikers character and will be debuting her Rasputin routine shortly.
Pixie is perhaps best known for being the founder of the largest burlesque troupe in the United Kingdom, Lesburlesque; currently the only lesbian burlesque troupe in the country. Boasting 30 plus members who share her passion for providing tease tailored to the female psyche, Lesburlesque is helping to bring traditional lesbian entertainment forms to mainstream audiences as well as introducing burlesque to the queer crowd. Lesburlesque have a Wikipedia page, here.
In the last year Pixie has mostly performed at her own shows but has been featured heavily in the media. She courted controversy by taking her troupe to perform at a former church and recently been described as "spearheading a thriving scene of colourful male impersonators in Manchester, fast emerging as the UK's drag king capital.," by the Guardian. See the "In the Press" link for more details.
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In Memoriam: Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.
With the Society of Jesus and the Boston College community, we mourn the passing of Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. who, at the age of 73, lost his battle with cancer on February 7, 2014. An active member of CBA since 1970, Dan served as the CBA President (1985-86) and more recently as the Chair of the CBA Board of Trustees (2009-2013).
CBA member Frank J. Matera offered his reflections on Dan's life and work in America magazine. [Click here for the article]
Dan entered the Society of Jesus in 1958. While in the juniorate, he was encouraged to study Scripture and was tutored in Hebrew by Fr. John J. Collins, S.J., then editor of New Testament Abstracts.
While studying Ancient Near Eastern languages at Harvard, Dan worked with Professor John Strugnell. Dan was ordained in 1971. The following year he joined the faculty of Weston Jesuit School of Theology (currently Boston College School of Theology and Ministry) and became editor of New Testament Abstracts, a role he held until his death. The author of over 60 books, Dan also wrote "The Word" column for America magazine for three years.
In November 2013, Dan announced that 2013-14 was to be his final year of teaching. Rev. James Martin, SJ, in a tribute, presented Dan as "Clear, patient, kind. Generous, friendly, mild. Prayerful, faithful, hardworking. The model Jesuit, to my mind."
May Dan rest in peace and rise in glory with the saints at the coming of our Lord.
[CREDITS: The above article was adapted from the Province News of the Jesuits' New England Province, http://news.sjnen.org/2014/02/fr-daniel-j-harrington-s-j-memoriam/, and a tribute in America magazine.
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Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, O.P. - Nov. 11, 2013
Please pray for the repose of Rev. Dr. Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, O.P., who died in Jerusalem on Nov. 11, 2013 at the age of 78.
A CBA member since 1966, Fr. Jerome served on the Editorial Board of Catholic Biblical Quarterly from 1997 to 2004 and wrote several articles for the journal. He was a leading authority on St. Paul, a Professor of New Testament at the École Biblique in Jerusalem, and a cousin to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.
Born on 10 April 1935 to Kerry Murphy-O'Connor and Mary McCrohan, Fr. Jerome was the eldest of four children. He attended the Christian Brothers College in Cork, going on to study at the Vincentian-run Castleknock College in Dublin. He entered the Dominican Novitiate in Cork in September 1953, giving up his baptismal name 'James' and to take a new name in religion, 'Jerome', a symbol of his commitment to his faith. Bearing in mind his future career, this was an apt choice, as Jerome is the patron saint of biblical studies.
Fr. Jerome was ordained priest in July 1960. At the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, the core of his scholarly life emerged. His first serious study as a lecturer was on the theme of Preaching in St. Paul, which he later developed into a doctoral thesis under the direction of the Dominican biblical scholar, Ceslas Spicq. He received his Doctorate in 1962, and studied in Rome in 1963. He also researched the Dead Sea Scrolls at the University of Heidelberg, and New Testament theology at the University of Tübingen. From there he went to the École Biblique in Jerusalem, which was to become his religious, scholarly, and personal home for the next 40 years.
The École Biblique, founded in 1890 by French Dominican scholars, was an internationally renowned centre for Biblical studies and Biblical archaeology. Fr. Jerome was appointed Professor of New Testament there in 1967. Oxford University Press invited him to write an archaeological guide to the Holy Land which was published in 1980. This was translated into several languages with a revised edition in 1986, and has become the standard guide-book. Murphy-O'Connor lectured around the world and made numerous television appearances.
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A Spanish-English lectio divina manual is being developed by the Vatican Publishing House in collaboration with the American Bible Society and the vicar general of the Diocese of Mar del Plata, Argentina.
For more information, see the 10/31/13 CNS News Brief.
In Memoriam: Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J.
Italian Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini died on August 31, 2012, at the age of 85 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
Cardinal Martini was a renowned biblical scholar, a prolific author, former professor and rector of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and former archbishop of Milan, Italy.
He made church teachings accessible to the public through his frequent columns in an Italian newspaper and in Sunday afternoon dialogues with young people at the cathedral in Milan.
A writer and biblical scholar known for his warm, pastoral style, Cardinal Martini was long considered a papal candidate in the last conclave.
In a telegram to Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan, Pope Benedict praised Cardinal Martini's generous service to the Gospel and the church and his "intense apostolic work" as a Jesuit, a professor and "authoritative biblicist."
As archbishop of Milan, the pope said, Cardinal Martini helped open for the church community "the treasures of the sacred Scriptures."
Read more: In Memoriam: Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J.Encomium on the CBA's 75th Anniversary
CBA Encomium – by Prof. Amy-Jill Levine – July 29, 2012
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John Clabeaux has asked me to address the topic, "what is great and worthwhile about the CBA?" Were all the excellent things this organization does to be recorded, "I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written." But John, that is, Clabeaux, not the other one, allotted me 15 minutes.
I am tasked with preparing an encomium, which is, inter alia, the eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series. Of course, the idea of anything pro-gym or dealing with exercise is antithetical to me – I get my exercise by schlepping my laptop to my office, running down sources, and making leaps of faith. The only vault I find of interest is the unopened one in the basement of the Catholic University building that houses the CBA office. But, I shall take the "when in Rome…" approach and adapt this talk to the encomium form.
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Pakistan envoy lauds Mamata for 'transforming Bengal'
Kolkata, Dec 30 : Heaping lavish praise on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for "transforming" the lives of ordinary people, Pakistani envoy Salman Bashir Monday called for enhancing his country's ties with the eastern state.
"I must compliment the leadership here, particularly the chief minister, for the wonderful work in transforming the lives of ordinary people.
"We have followed the story of Bengal and we appreciate and applaud the great progress the state has made," the outgoing Pakistani high commissioner to India told mediapersons after a hour-long meeting with Banerjee.
Applauding the state leadership, Bashir acknowledged Banerjee's commitment towards enhancing India's ties with Pakistan.
"I am touched and impressed by her commitment for working towards greater interaction and better relations between India and Pakistan," he said.
Bashir invited the chief minister to visit Pakistan.
"She has never been to Pakistan and expressed her desire to visit the country and I welcome her and hope we will have more exchanges in various fields which will enhance the relations between West Bengal and Pakistan," he said.
Banerjee later said Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has invited her to visit his country.
In a post on her Facebook page, she said Bashir "has conveyed to me the invitation of the prime minister of Pakistan to visit their country at a convenient time".
Describing Bengal as "special to Pakistan and its people", Bashir asserted that his country's government and people have a deep desire to bond with the state.
"Pakistan and Bengal have a lot of shared history, culture affinities that make us so closely bonded. We have similar challenges and opportunities and can learn from our mutual experiences," he said.
Affirming his country's intent to strengthen ties with India both at the federal and the state level, Bashir said Pakistan will persist and pursue reaching out to Bengal and called for exchange programmes in various fields including industry, agriculture and education.
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When i import it in Navisworks, it also mirrors it in Y axis direction.
In free IFC viewer DDS-CAD all is OK, both part are just mirrored on X axis.
Never use mirror command if i want to import IFC to NW?
P.s. IFC made from allplan, this metal parametric parts = alplan's smartparts.
And if i export it to DWG, all is ok, just problem with IFC.
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July 13, 2005
Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, Director
NYU School of Law, Professor of Clinical Law
Fairness, Reliability and Federal Habeas Corpus Procedures
Honorable Members of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee:
I'm pleased to appear before this committee to discuss the importance of fair and reliable administration of criminal justice and the crucial role of federal habeas corpus in the American system. There has been a tremendous increase in the number of American citizens being sent to jail or prison in the last 30 years. In 1972, there were 200,000 people in jails and prisons; today there are over 2.1 million people incarcerated. During this same time period, thousands of people have been sentenced to death in America. Some three and a half thousand people currently face execution and close to a thousand prisoners have already been executed.
The large number of incarcerated people and criminal prosecutions threatening long-term confinement or death has overwhelmed many state criminal justice systems. Many states have been unable to fund adequate indigent defense systems or provide resources for sufficient oversight, training and management of cases to ensure fair, constitutional and reliable convictions and sentences. In my state of Alabama we have no public defender system. With the exception of a few counties, indigent defendants in Alabama receive appointed lawyers from the private bar. The total compensation a lawyer may receive is limited by statute to $1500 to $3500 per case. This includes serious cases where the accused faces life imprisonment. There have even been caps on compensation in death penalty cases. Of the 190 people currently on Alabama's death row, 72% percent were represented by appointed lawyers whose compensation for preparing the case was capped at $1000 by state statute.
There are hundreds of people on death row in Texas who were defended by attorneys who had investigative and expert expenses capped at $500. In some rural areas in Texas, lawyers have received no more than $800 to handle a capital case. A study in Virginia found that, after taking into account an attorney's overhead expenses, the effective hourly rate paid to counsel representing a capital defendant was $13. In non-capital cases, courts have upheld rates as low as $845 for representation of an accused facing life in prison and $318 for people facing less than 20 years in prison. Similar restrictions can be found in many states, especially in states where the death penalty is frequently imposed.
In Pennsylvania there are death row prisoners who were sentenced to death in Philadelphia in the 1980's and 1990's when 80% of the capital cases were handled by appointed lawyers who received a flat fee of $1700 plus $400 for each day in court.
Underfunded indigent defense has predictably caused flawed representation in many cases with corresponding doubts about the reliability and fairness of the verdict and sentence. Even in capital cases, indigent accused facing execution have been represented by sleeping attorneys, drunk attorneys, attorneys almost completely unfamiliar with trial advocacy, criminal defense generally, or the death penalty law and procedure in particular, and attorneys who otherwise cannot provide the assurance of reliability or fairness in their client's conviction and death sentence.
While small steps have been made to confront the problems of inadequate funding for indigent defense at trial, the reality is that there are thousands of people who have been wrongly convicted and sentenced as a result of unreliable and underfunded legal assistance. There are obviously other problems contributing to wrongful convictions but it is clear that it is only through postconviction proceedings and federal habeas corpus review in particular that we can protect many innocent people and others who have been illegally and unfairly convicted and sentenced.
State Postconviction is Not Reliable in Many States
Deficiencies in state systems result in wrongful convictions and unreliable verdicts and sentences that must be corrected and addressed in postconviction proceedings. However, state postconviction in many states is simply non-responsive to these problems and even less reliable than the state trial process. My state does nothing to provide death row prisoners, or any other incarcerated person, counsel for postconviction review. If a condemned prisoner can get a petition timely filed within the statute of limitations, the court has the discretion to appoint a lawyer but the lawyer's compensation is limited to $1000 for the entire case. Lawyers do not want, and generally will not accept, those appointments.
Despite the fact that Alabama now has the fastest-growing death row population in the United States, it has no postconviction public defender office. Alabama appoints no lawyers to represent death-sentenced inmates at the conclusion of an unsuccessful direct appeal. It furnishes no paralegal or other aid at the prisons to enable death-sentenced inmates to collect the factual information and draft the pleadings necessary to obtain judicial consideration of constitutional claims based on facts outside the trial record. It maintains no central agency to monitor the progress of capital postconviction cases, assist in recruiting volunteer counsel, or give volunteer counsel needed technical support. More than fifty death cases are currently pending in state postconviction proceedings in Alabama, but the State did not assist the inmates in any of these cases to obtain timely, effective assistance of counsel or any other kind of legal aid.
Alabama's failure to provide any legal assistance to death-row inmates forces those inmates who cannot find volunteer lawyers to file state postconviction petitions pro se. Inadequate legal assistance is especially problematic because the Alabama postconviction process, which is governed by Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure, is marked by strict pleading requirements, inflexible filing deadlines, elaborate preclusion doctrines, and other technical pitfalls that cannot practicably be navigated without highly-skilled counsel. The Alabama Attorney General's Office routinely moves to dismiss claims in petitions filed by death-row prisoners on procedural grounds such as lack of specificity, lack of factual development and failure to comply with complex procedural rules that are not well understood. Lacking the ability to interview witnesses, gather records, or investigate factual questions before filing - let alone the legal skill to understand what form of allegations will make a pleading "sufficiently specific" to satisfy Rule 32.6(b) [requiring "a clear and specific statement of the grounds upon which relief is sought, including full disclosure of the factual basis of those grounds"] - prisoners without skilled counsel are at risk of summary dismissal.
Moreover, death-row prisoners cannot typically obtain independent judicial factfinding or decisionmaking in State postconviction proceedings without the assiduous efforts of competent and dedicated counsel. Many prisoners executed by Alabama have had constitutional claims that were barred from federal review because they could not obtain adequate legal assistance in state postconviction proceedings.
Finding volunteer counsel for all death-row prisoners in Alabama has always been difficult. With the rapid growth of the death-row population and AEDPA's 1996 enactment of a 1-year statute of limitations for filing federal habeas corpus petitions (28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)), it has become almost impossible.
S.B. 1088 Will Create More Unreliability and Delay and Should Be Rejected
Federal habeas corpus law has become an extremely complex and procedurally demanding area. While review of substantive constitutional issues can sometimes be challenging for state and federal judges to resolve, there is no question that practitioners, judges, law clerks and reviewing courts spend most of their time trying to untangle complex procedural issues, rules and concepts in habeas corpus litigation. Years of litigation are devoted to a variety of procedural questions that dominate case opinions and the litigation process. S.B. 1088, the "Streamlined Procedures Act" (SPA), will unnecessarily add to this complexity and ironically create dozens of procedural questions that may delay cases for years just as many aspects of the AEDPA are now becoming clear after its passage in 1996.
More importantly, S.B. 1088 will result in less reliable, fair and accurate administration of criminal justice. This is especially true in death penalty cases where the legislation will unacceptably increase the risk of executing the wrongly convicted and innocent. An examination of various aspects of the Act make it clear that this bill will undermine fair and reliable administration of criminal justice and contribute to delay and time-consuming litigation.
Section 2 - Exhaustion
Under current law there are stringent and clear requirements for "exhaustion" of claims that require a petitioner to present all legal theories, material facts and arguments to state courts before seeking redress in federal court. When state court process is unavailable or otherwise denied a prisoner, exhaustion rules permit federal review. This is a crucial protection.
Anthony Ray Hinton is an innocent death row inmate who has spent 19 years on Alabama's death row for crimes he did not commit. His case has been pending at the state postconviction trial court for 15 years. He has had no federal habeas corpus review. At trial the State conceded that there is no connection between Mr. Hinton and the murders he is accused of other than a weapon match between recovered bullets and a gun belonging to Mr. Hinton's mother. The State has repeatedly acknowledged that without a weapon match, Mr. Hinton should be released.
At a state postconviction hearing in 2002, three of the country's best toolmark examiners and firearm identification experts testified that the recovered crime bullets from this case cannot be linked to the gun recovered from Mr. Hinton's mother. They further concluded that the Hinton weapon was mechanically incapable of producing some of the recovered crime bullets. This unrebutted new evidence exonerates Mr. Hinton and mandates his release. Yet, exhaustion rules require him to languish on death row.
We have begged state courts to rule in Mr. Hinton's case for the last three years and anticipate that federal habeas corpus review of his unexhausted claims may be required. This bill would preclude such review and extend the wrongful imprisonment and condemnation of Mr. Hinton.
Anthony Tyson is a death row prisoner in Alabama who like many death row prisoners in Alabama could not find a lawyer for state court litigation before his federal statute of limitations was about to expire. He filed a pro se petition in May of 2002 and asked the state court to appoint him an attorney. The state court judge did nothing for eleven months. Relying on language in the AEDPA that this bill would eliminate, Mr. Tyson then filed a federal habeas corpus petition claiming that his issues could not be exhausted because of the state court's refusal to appoint counsel and state inaction. It was only when a federal appeals court was prepared to review Mr. Tyson's case that state prosecutors forced the state court judge to take action and facilitate review of Mr. Tyson's case.
Ths SPA would trap many wrongly convicted and innocent people in state court litigation indefinitely with no mechanism for permitting federal court review of clear violations of constitutional rights. Moreover, by adding to the pleading requirements imposed on state court prisoners, section 2 of the SPA will cause more procedural defaults and unfairly bar prisoners without counsel or adequate representation from ever receiving review of their claims.
Section 603 and 605 - Amended Petitions and Tolling of the Statute of Limitations
The combination of inadequate counsel in state court proceedings and the AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations means that many federal habeas corpus petitions have to be filed by recently appointed counsel who have no time to review the record or investigate the case before a petition must be docketed. Statutes of limitation frequently require rushed filings to beat a deadline that is often created by the failure of individual states to provide lawyers to prisoners at the completion of direct appeal.
In the last seven years, ninety-five indigent Alabama death-row inmates have filed state postconviction appeals. In ninety-four of these cases, the State made no lawyer available to the condemned inmate before the filing deadline expired. In some cases volunteers are found by our private, non-profit organization or through an American Bar Association project set up to help the poor. However, many death row prisoners cannot obtain volunteer assistance and are forced to file pro se petitions.
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1) as enacted by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a federal habeas corpus petition must be filed within one year of the end of an inmate's direct-review proceedings. Since this one-year statute of limitations is tolled during the pendency of State postconviction proceedings - but only for the period between the filing of a State postconviction petition and its final disposition - the federal statute creates a de facto outside deadline of one year; and the federal statute also puts a condemned inmate at grave risk of losing any opportunity for federal habeas corpus review unless the State postconviction petition is filed long enough before the one-year deadline so that there will be time, if and after State postconviction relief is denied, for the inmate to learn about the denial, prepare a federal habeas corpus petition, and get it filed in federal court, still within one year. Wrongly convicted prisoners for whom volunteer counsel can be recruited only after a large part of their one-year federal statute-of-limitations period has elapsed are caught between the dangers of rushed filing of an inadequately developed State postconviction petition and the risks of leaving so little time remaining in their federal limitations period that a moment's inadvertence or absence on the part of counsel at the exact time of denial of State postconviction relief will literally kill the prisoner, with no chance of federal habeas corpus review.
Under current conditions in Alabama, because of the State's failure to provide condemned inmates with any sort of legal assistance in preparing State postconviction petitions, most such inmates are in fact forced to suffer both the harm of rushed drafting of their State postconviction petitions and the peril of losing federal habeas corpus review through any minor mishap after the conclusion of the State postconviction proceeding. Available data on the latest cohort of death-row inmates who filed State postconviction petitions prior to 2002 shows that in twenty-one cases the inmates have less than a week remaining before their federal limitations period expires, and ten of the inmates have less than two days.
Section 605 of the SPA contemplates shortening the statute of limitations for short time periods while the appeal of state court judgments is being prepared. This would contribute nothing to the postconviction process apart from more traps for unsuspecting lawyers and pro se litigants. It would also undermine state court review of issues by forcing prisoners to file pleadings that are not crafted to facilitate appropriate, timely state court review but instead are governed by federal rules that effectively alter state court procedures and timelines.
SPA's restrictions on amendments to federal habeas corpus petitions are similarly misguided. In the 1990's, I represented George Daniel, a man who led a hard-working, law-abiding life until a car accident caused brain damage that went untreated. He became psychotic and delusional. After a couple of weeks he abruptly left his family and boarded a bus to Alabama. He arrived in a strange town and after wandering the streets for a couple of days and engaging in bizarre behavior, he got into a scuffle with a police officer and shot the officer with the officer's gun. Mr. Daniel's lawyers told the court that he was "crazy," irrational, and not competent to stand trial. He could not recognize family members, was eating his own excrement in the jail and was completely incapable of assisting in his defense. He was nevertheless convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. At his sentencing hearing, the state called an "expert" from the state mental hospital who purported to be a clinical psychologist. That man testified that Mr. Daniel was not mentally impaired, but rather, was merely malingering.
Mr. Daniel exhausted his state court remedies with an attorney who could not investigate the case. He was scheduled for execution and received a stay after filing a federal habeas corpus petition. Months later it was discovered that the "expert" who testified against him was a fraud - a high school dropout with no college degree, training or credentials who had been masquerading as a clinical psychologist for years. Mr. Daniel's petition was amended months after it was filed and relief that would not be available if this bill became law was granted. So compelling was the claim that Judge Ed Carnes of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, who then headed the Alabama Attorney General's capital litigation division, chose not to appeal the court's grant of relief.
The ability to amend a petition is something that should be left to the sound discretion of federal judges and appealed by either party when that discretion is abused. It should not be abolished so that condemned prisoners like George Daniel can have their constitutional rights violated with no recourse for relief.
Section 604 - Procedurally Barred Claims
Perhaps no section of this bill would create greater confusion, unfairness and unintended outcomes than the section that would shield wrongful convictions and unconstitutional conduct by allowing state courts to simply assert that the claims are procedurally barred.
As a practical matter, in many states there is no independent review of constitutional claims. Rulings in state postconviction proceedings are prepared by the prosecutor and simply signed by the judge wholesale without any changes. In Alabama, the state with the highest number of death row prisoners per capita in the country and in Texas, which has the second largest death row population in the United States and by far the most executions in the modern era, state court rulings that are written by prosecutors is the norm.
Circuit judges routinely abdicate their responsibility to be fair, independent, and impartial factfinders by simply adopting wholesale the detailed factfindings and legal judgments of the Attorney General's Office.
The absence of any independent analysis or factfindings in state postconviction death penalty cases has become so widespread in Alabama that it is the exceptional case in which a condemned prisoner obtains any impartial or judicial determination of the issues and facts that govern whether he will live or die. While virtually every court that has addressed the issue has condemned this practice, tolerance of this ongoing problem has deprived most Alabama death row prisoners of meaningful review of important constitutional issues and factual questions.
In fact, a review of published decisions suggests that in nearly every case reviewed by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals in the last five years, the order dismissing or denying the petitioner's State postconviction petition was prepared by the State and adopted verbatim or almost verbatim by the trial court. Similarly, in Texas, in 180 (88%) of the 204 state habeas corpus proceedings in which the state and trial court findings of fact and the Court of Criminal Appeals order were available, the Court of Criminal Appeals adopted findings that were exactly or virtually identical to the proposed findings issued by the prosecutor. These orders typically are over eighty pages long and contain detailed findings of fact and conclusions of law. Many were adopted over the petitioner's specific objection. Most were adopted verbatim. In some cases, the trial judge did not even remove the word "Proposed" from the title of the order and instead simply signed the exact order submitted by the State.
The federal courts should not be forced to withdraw from the obligation to protect constitutional rights simply because the state asserts that a claim is procedurally barred. Many claims that are core to the integrity of the criminal justice system are frequently deemed procedurally barred. For example, claims of racial bias have frequently been deemed procedurally barred. In Alabama, we have won reversals in close to 25 death penalty cases after proving that prosecutors illegally excluded African Americans from jury service in violation of the Constitution. In many of these cases, the state courts had improperly asserted that claims of racial bias were procedurally barred.
When I was a young attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights, our office represented Tony Amadeo in the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Amadeo's conviction and death sentence had been obtained after a Georgia prosecutor had prepared a memo detailing for the clerk how to exclude black people from jury service. The prosecutor instructed the clerk how to underrepresent racial minorities and shield this bigotry from legal challenge through manipulation of the data. When this was discovered by Mr. Amadeo's attorney after the trial, the claim was presented to state courts but the issue was deemed procedurally barred. In federal habeas corpus litigation, a unanimous United States Supreme Court reversed Mr. Amadeo's conviction. The Rehnquist Court concluded that the effort by county officials to conceal the prosecutor's rigging of the jury lists constituted "cause" for the procedural default and thus required federal review of the claim. Mr. Amadeo's conviction was reversed and he was retried by a properly selected jury and received a life sentence. S.B. 1088 would shield this kind of racially discriminatory conduct from review.
James Cochran was convicted of capital murder and spent over 17 years on death row after a Birmingham prosecutor illegally excluded African Americans from jury service. Mr. Cochran's claim of racial bias was deemed procedurally barred by Alabama state courts even though Mr. Cochran had objected to the state's conduct. In federal habeas corpus litigation, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that Alabama's invocation of a procedural default rule was unfounded and a new trial was ordered. Mr. Cochran was tried by a fairly selected jury and found not guilty. His exoneration simply would not have been possible under this proposed bill and intolerable racial bias along with a wrongful execution would have resulted.
Section 606 - Harmless error in sentencing
Current habeas law requires federal courts to defer to state court findings of fact and legal conclusions, including findings of harmless error. Under current law, a federal court may not grant relief simply because the state-court's application of federal law was incorrect; rather, that application must also be "unreasonable." 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1); see also Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, 411-12 (2000).
SPA's section 6 would take away federal court jurisdiction to review constitutional errors in sentencing that the state court has deemed "harmless." Under this provision, federal courts would have no jurisdiction to review wrongful sentences. For example, federal courts could not review egregious prosecutorial misconduct if the misconduct affected a prisoner's sentence, rather than his conviction. For example, federal courts could not have reviewed the death sentence of Delma Banks who challenged his death sentence after learning that the prosecutor hid evidence that its central sentencing phase witness was paid for his role in setting Banks up.
Federal courts would have no jurisdiction to review the death sentence of prisoners whose counsel were grossly ineffective. Given the serious deficiencies that characterize legal assistance for many capital defendants, this would be grossly unfair. Federal courts would have no jurisdiction to review Terry Williams' death sentence. Mr. Williams' appointed counsel failed to prepare for sentencing until a week beforehand and failed to uncover extensive records documenting Mr. Williams' "nightmarish" childhood and mental impairments. The United States Supreme Court found that the Virginia Supreme Court's decision affirming Mr. Williams' death sentence was unreasonable because it relied on inapplicable Supreme Court precedent instead of the governing legal standards of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984). This critical federal oversight is essential if our system is going to be reliable, fair, and just.
There are other aspects of this bill that would undermine the reliability and fairness of criminal justice administration in this country that I don't address in these remarks but that present serious problems I hope this Committee will recognize.
Section 9 of the SPA intimates that courts can't objectively evaluate whether states meet the "opt-in" provisions detailed in the AEDPA because their dockets are implicated in the timelines created by opt-in status. The legislation attempts to resolve this by empowering the chief prosecutor in the United States, the Attorney General, to make these decisions. Giving federal prosecutors control over even part of the federal judiciary's docket and decisionmaking authority would have serious implications for the separation of powers necessary for fair administration of criminal justice. Abolishing federal habeas corpus review for all constitutional issues except narrowly defined innocence claims would also pose very serious constitutional problems.
There is an understandable desire to have finality in all criminal cases. That finality should not come at the cost of fairness. We all have an interest in making sure that our system does not convict the innocent or wrongly punish the poor. Federal habeas corpus plays an import role in making sure that tragic errors in criminal cases are not insulated from correction required by the United States Constitution. That role should not be altered without care and a great deal of thought about the implications of restricting access to justice for some of our society's least protected.
I appreciate this Committee's time and attention to these very important matters.


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Following a divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership your ex spouse/civil partner may be entitled to part of your pension. If a pension sharing order is put in place, the pension will be retained by the Cornwall Pension Fund(CPF), until your ex spouse/civil partner reaches their normal pension age.
If you divorce, your ex spouse or ex civil partner will cease to be entitled to a widow's, widower's or civil partners pension. However children's pensions will not be affected by divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership.
If you have previously nominated your spouse or civil partner to receive a death grant, this nomination will remain on your pension record until you change it. We strongly suggest that after divorce you complete a new expression of wish for lump sum death benefits form.
Your solicitor will require a cash equivalent transfer value (CETV). A CETV will provide specific information about your pension, the court will take this value into account in your settlement.
Requests for CETVs must be made in writing to the Pensions Section using the contact details on the right. It is important that you state the reason you require a CETV is for divorce purposes and you should also specify the full address that you require the details to be sent to. You should allow up to 6 weeks for the CETV to be supplied.
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