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McGladrey and golf pro Natalie Gulbis announce essay contest
RSM McGladrey has launched a "Who's Behind Your Success?" nationwide essay contest, featuring LPGA star and Team McGladrey member Natalie Gulbis.
Jul 10 2008
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Wisconsin-based Vrakas/Blum launches new Web site
Vrakas/Blum Computer Consulting, Inc. recently announced the launch of its new Web site. Vrakas/Blum Computer Consulting, Inc. is the technology practice of the local CPA and advisory firm of Vrakas/Blum, S.C., specializing in providing analysis, implementation and maintenance of software solutions for manufacturing and distribution companies."Developing this Web site will help strengthen our commitment to our existing and prospective clients and provide them with resources not previously available to them," said Joe Jenders, shareholder and leader of Vrakas/Blum Computer Consulting, Inc.
Jul 10 2008
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Maryland CPA receives award
Allen DeLeon, CPA and Founding Partner of Gaithersburg, MD-based DeLeon & Stang, CPAs and Advisors, was honored by the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants last month at its annual meeting. DeLeon received the Max Teichman Outstanding Chair Award for his work as Chairman of the MACPA's Legislative Executive Committee for 2007-2008.DeLeon said "It is an honor and privilege to be given the opportunity to serve the MACPA and my fellow CPAs as Chair of the Legislative Executive Committee.
Jul 10 2008
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Marcum & Kliegman introduces new partners
Marcum & Kliegman LLP, Certified Public Accountants and Consultants, is pleased to introduce new Partners Matthew Pinto and Robert Weiner, who will join the Firm's Real Estate Financial Services Group. "Matthew and Robert bring a highly-successful track record to M&K," states Managing Partner Jeffrey M. Weiner.
Jul 10 2008
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Baltimore area firms merge
Gorfine, Schiller & Gardyn PA, an Owings Mills, MD-based certified public accounting firm, has announced a merger with the accounting division of Smart and Associates in Towson, MD, the firm formerly known as Grabush, Newman & Co. PA.The Baltimore Sun reports that Gorfine, Schiller & Gardyn gained about 20 people in the transaction, expanding the firm to more than 75 employees. It will retain its name and location at the corporate campus in Owings Mills. No employees will be laid off, said W.
Jul 8 2008
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Ohio CPA firm acquires Florida firm
Cohen & Company, a Cleveland-based full-service CPA and consulting firm, has announced the opening of their second office in Florida through an acquisition of Mercurio & Bridgford P.A., an accounting firm based in Sarasota. "Once we made a commitment to the Florida market, it did not take long for other firms to seek us out," said Randy Myeroff, President & CEO. "We will be able to provide our clients and community with additional services and depth of expertise beyond what we have been doing for the pat 30 years," said John Mercurio, co-founder of Mercurio & Bridgford.
Jul 8 2008
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Deloitte is building new learning campus
Deloitte LLP has announced that it will invest approximately $300 million in the creation of a state-of-the-art learning and leadership development center in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area in Westlake, TX. Construction on the new facility will begin in 2009 and the center is expected to open in 2011.The facility will serve as a central destination for all of Deloitte's talent, including everyone from new hires to senior leadership to partners, principals, and directors. The 750,000-square-foot campus will have 800 guest rooms.
Jul 7 2008
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National CPA firm opens new office in Oregon
Adding to its growing national presence, Novogradac & Company LLP will open an office in Portland, Oregon on July 1, 2008 and has appointed Nicolo Pinoli, CPA, to lead the firm's operations in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. The move brings to 12 the number of offices the San Francisco-based national certified public accounting firm has nationwide.Novogradac & Company is a nationally recognized certified public accounting and consulting firm that serves clients in a broad range of industries, with a particular emphasis in real estate and the not-for-profit and service sectors.
Jul 3 2008
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Accountants teach financial skills to elementary school students
For the second year, Beers + Cutler is lending its support to Westlawn Elementary School through the firm's participation in Junior Achievement's "JA in a Day" initiative -- a unique program that allows volunteers to teach all seven units of Junior Achievement's (JA) elementary school programs in an intensive one-day experience.More than 100 Beers + Cutler partners, staff and interns spent June 11th at Westlawn introducing students to the fundamentals of financial literacy including saving, budgeting and banking.
Jul 3 2008
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Financial Executive Magazine announces management changes
Financial Executive, the publication for senior financial executives published by Financial Executives International (FEI), has announced that it has appointed current Executive Editor Ellen M. Heffes to editor-in-chief, succeeding long time Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Marshall, who will retire effective June 30th. In Heffes' current role as executive editor of Financial Executive, she has collaborated with the editor-in-chief to produce the award-winning magazine.
Jul 2 2008
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Accounting recruiter receives chapter's Cecil M. Baugh Award
Mary Ann Markowitz, president of Mary Ann Markowitz & Associates, a Dallas executive recruiting firm for accounting and finance professionals, received the Cecil M. Baugh Award from the Dallas chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants as the past president with the most outstanding service. The award was presented May 15, at the final meeting of the chapter year."We present this award every year to a Past President of the Dallas Chapter of IMA who has significantly contributed his or her time and service," said Jimmie Smith, CPA, chapter president.
Jul 1 2008
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KPMG partner makes Top 25 Consultants list
Mark A. Goodburn, KPMG LLP's Vice Chairman and Head of Advisory, has been named to Consulting magazine's list of the Top 25 Consultants for 2008, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm has announced.The magazine cited Goodburn's vision in defining a new strategy for the Advisory practice after assuming its leadership. "This dramatic strategic shift is the central piece to Goodburn's vision of KPMG's advisory practice, which he took over in 2004," the magazine noted.
Jul 1 2008
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Clifton Gunderson names new partners
Clifton Gunderson, ranked as one of the nation"s largest certified public accounting and consulting firms, has announced the approval of 12 new partners for admission to the firm."People are our most valued asset at Clifton Gunderson, and that's especially true as we celebrate the admission of our newest partners," said Carl George, CEO. "To reach this career milestone, our Clifton Gunderson employees must have the vision and drive to succeed.
Jul 1 2008
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Virginia CPA firm launches new brand identity
Argy, Wiltse & Robinson, P.C. (Argy), a McLean, VA-based certified public accounting and business advisory firm, has announced that it has launched a new brand identity, which includes a refreshed logo, updated messaging, and revised collateral material. "It was time for our brand image to reflect the much larger and dynamic firm we are and the industry leader we aspire to be," said Paul Argy, the firm's President & CEO. "Argy is so much more than a collection of accountants. Our clients look to us as trusted business advisors.
Jul 1 2008
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New Jersey CPAs donate $200,000 to childrens' charities
The J.H. Cohn LLP 17th Annual Charity Golf Invitational donated $200,000 to The Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation, two of the accounting and consulting firm's Cohn for Kids affiliated charities. This marks the second consecutive year that The Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation benefited from J.H. Cohn's golf invitational, bringing the total raised for these two charities to $400,000. Over the years, the J.H.
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Enron's Global Crusade
The mandarins of corporate capital continued to preach the gospel of free markets and economic globalization at the World Economic Forum in New York, but a more traditional preacher reminded them that the burgeoning Enron scandal ought to give the shapers of the new world economic order pause. "There's a big question mark over capitalism today," the Rev. George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, informed the assembled CEOs and political hangers-on. "It's one word and it's 'Enron.' And what is that challenge? Capitalism has to act within boundaries."
Much of the US media and all but a few members of Congress continue to fixate on the domestic debacles--from lost pensions to lax regulations--that the collapse of Enron has exposed. But the Archbishop's invocation served as a reminder that the Enron scandal is not merely an American affair. The rise and fall of Enron is very much the story of a model global corporation gone awry. It is also an apt illustration of the consequences of the rush to embrace a corporate-sponsored template for economic liberalization: from multilateral free-trade pacts that supersede domestic regulations to privatization, deregulation, International Monetary Fund-ordered "structural adjustments" of national economies and the corrupting interplay of corporate campaign contributions and policy-making that is no longer just a US phenomenon.
Enron's business model, which until recently was taught in business schools around the world, did not respect boundaries. Its global reach, powered by as much as $2.4 billion in loans backed by US taxpayers and aided by barrier-breaking "reforms" pushed by the World Trade Organization, made the Houston-based corporation not merely the seventh-largest in the United States but the sixteenth-largest in the world. Before its empire began to unravel last fall, Enron was regularly featured on Global Finance magazine's annual list of the "world's best global companies." Enron was a globalizer on a grand scale, its grubby big hands stretching from Houston to London to Bombay to Maputo to La Paz. Forget about trying to chart the maze of Enron's 874 "offshore partnerships"; the corporation bragged quite openly about "business units" (Enron Americas, Enron Europe, Enron Australia, Enron South America, Enron Japan, to name but a few) that traded in the world's natural gas, crude oil, metals, plastics, fertilizers, forest products, lumber, steel and, ominously, the weather. The shorthand description of Enron in most US media reports continues to refer to the corporation as a "Texas energy giant." But that does not begin to describe the conglomerate that, in addition to being the planet's largest energy trader, had a hand in virtually every economic sector--in every country--that a corporate jet could reach. If, as Global Reach authors Richard Barnet and Ronald Muller predicted a quarter-century ago, "the men who run the global corporations are the first in history with the organization, technology, money and ideology to make a credible try at managing the world as an integrated unit," then Enron throughout the 1990s tried harder. However, the company was not always credible--let alone credit-worthy.
"Enron is the model for globalization, a model for how the whole neoliberal ideology forms a business model. Here is a company that is huge in America, huge in Canada, it's all over Europe, all over India, all over South America, all over the world," says Darren Puscas, a researcher with Canada's Polaris Institute, which began last year to study the company's campaign to promote privatization and deregulation of public services in developing countries. "Enron is a scandal in the United States now. But it has been a scandal in other countries for a long time."
Even for serious readers of the US financial press, it may come as a surprise that Fortune's "most innovative company in America" is one of the most controversial companies in the world. Only in reports on human rights and environmental abuses produced by groups like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, CorpWatch, Multinational Monitor and Friends of the Earth could Americans get a hint until recently that Global Finance's "best company" award winner did not achieve that honor for being a good corporate citizen.
In Geneva, where the WTO is headquartered, Enron is known as a sharp-elbowed advocate for liberalizing rules governing the trade in "services," a move that anticorporate campaigners say is designed to open the way for the privatization and deregulation of health, education, energy, water, welfare and postal services. In India Enron is known as a partner in the decade-long, still incomplete development of a $2.9 billion power plant project so controversial that it spawned a nationwide protest movement and upset the balance of political power in the region surrounding the facility [see Arundhati Roy, "Shall We Leave It to the Experts?" February 18]. In Britain Enron lobbied successfully for energy-policy shifts and, with approvals from Tony Blair's Labour government, recently took ownership of a huge privatized water utility, Wessex Water--moves that are now under intense scrutiny by that country's media and political opposition. In Germany Enron swept in with schemes to corner newly deregulated electricity markets. In Mozambique, with the aid of a friendly US ambassador, Enron grabbed control of an oil pipeline project from a government under pressure from the International Monetary Fund to forge public-private partnerships. In Argentina it brought high-level political pressure down on successive governments until, finally, Enron was granted approval to construct a natural gas pipeline from that country to Chile. The pressure included a 1988 call to a Cabinet minister from George W. Bush, the son of the then-Vice President of the United States [see David Corn, "Enron and the Bushes," February 4].
The lines of connection between the Bush family, the Bush campaign and Enron may explain why the White House's spin machine is struggling to wedge the Enron collapse story into a "business scandal" box that would conveniently exempt the political class from the stain. True, Enron is a business story: How could the biggest bankruptcy in US business history be otherwise? But it's also a political story: Enron gave $6 million in political contributions over a decade, and its CEO, the largest career contributor to George W. Bush's campaigns, has been exposed as having exploited his connections to name Bush Administration regulators, to shape its energy policies and to block moves to regulate the offshore tax havens Enron exploited.
And Enron's domestic activities are only a part of the story. To limit discussion of Enron to them is to miss the most dramatic lessons of this burgeoning scandal. "If you want to know where economic globalization along the lines cheered on by the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, George W. Bush and Tony Blair is headed, look at Enron. Globalization has created an international no man's land where businesses survive by engaging in financial practices that no responsible nation-state would permit," says Tony Benn, Britain's former minister of industry. "When you allow corporations to write their own rules in the global marketplace, which is what has essentially been the case in recent years, you will see unimaginable abuses."
Enron was big on writing the rules. Before its collapse, it held a place on the board of the National Foreign Trade Council, which worked with the WTO to forge trade policy. It sponsored the 1999 World Services Congress in Atlanta, where, Polaris Institute researchers say, the services industry set its agenda for a new round of WTO negotiations. Along with its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, Enron was at the center of the shadowy US Coalition of Service Industries' campaign to negotiate General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) schemes that remove restrictions on international commerce involving services. The GATS negotiations, which have been going on for two years under the aegis of the WTO, were described at the World Economic Forum by former Clinton Administration Treasury Department official Stuart Eizenstat as a move to "allow [Arthur] Andersen to export its accounting services to the world."
Eizenstat's attempt at humor was actually a blunt statement of reality. The first rules for a profession developed by the WTO as part of the GATS negotiations were for the accounting sector--and the rules were indeed shaped with a big assist from Arthur Andersen. So what might appropriately be dubbed "Enron accounting" is already in the process of going global.
The loosening of rules governing sectors of the global economy in which Enron was involved was a long-term corporate priority. During the go-go years of business expansion in the 1990s, the company scoured the planet in search of opportunities in countries that were embracing--sometimes willingly, often under pressure from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund--"market-oriented reforms." These public-policy shifts allowed multinational corporations to buy formerly public utilities and capitalize on the lifting of traditional regulations--moves that opened the door to aggressive global corporations like Enron. Forged in the last years of Ronald Reagan's presidency by an ambitious former Pentagon economist named Ken Lay, Enron was a corporation designed to shape and then master the new economy of the post-cold war era. Lay preached what Britain's Independent newspaper described as a "deregulation-happy philosophy" with such passion that The Economist would eventually describe Enron as "an evangelical cult" in which Lay was the messiah.
Enron's crusading globalism extended the corporation's operations into virtually every sector of every economy worth owning a piece of, using all the tricks in the corporate globalizer's handbook. "The thing that you have to understand about Enron is this: They have taken advantage of every opportunity globalization has presented them. They have been in the forefront of pushing deregulation and privatization, pushing for access to markets around the world, using pressure from the US government to open trade," says the Polaris Institute's Puscas.
Once borders opened, once privatized industries were put up for sale and once sectors of economies were deregulated, Enron moved aggressively to gain advantage. Business Week explained that for companies like Enron, "the approach to globalization then was brutally simple: get in fast, strike megadeals with top officials, and watch the profits roll in." Initially, it seemed, the model was working. Enron was often credited with putting new technologies to work in the service of its rapid expansion. But as much as the corporation benefited from the rise of the Internet, a case can be made that its bottom line gained at least as much from the opening of markets around the planet to swashbuckling corporate adventurers, who brought Texas-style business practice to Australia, Brazil and Croatia. Between 1998 and 2001 Enron's foreign revenues increased from 7 percent to 23 percent of the company's total revenues--adding $22.9 billion in 2001 to the coffers of a company that, it turns out, needed every cent it could get its hands on. Enron executives embraced the gospel of globalization with a fervor that portrayed free trade, deregulation, privatization and other planks in the neoliberal platform as the necessary and inevitable face of progress. "We are on the side of the angels," declared former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling. "People want to have open, competitive markets."
That is a debatable point. When officials in the Indian state of Maharashtra took advantage of a recent relaxation of India's restrictions on foreign investment to invite a joint venture led by Enron to build a power plant south of Bombay, nearby villagers were certainly not clamoring for the "open, competitive markets" Enron was offering. They worried that the Dabhol power-plant project would destroy their livelihoods and their environment. When they launched a movement to stop it, leading activists were dragged from their homes and beaten by Enron-paid "police" in what Human Rights Watch describes as "serious, sometimes brutal human rights violations carried out on behalf of the state's and the company's interests." "Enron is now being widely accused of arrogance and lack of transparency, but the people of Dabhol have known that all along," says Arvind Ganesan, who directs the group's business and human rights program. "Enron was complicit in human rights abuse in India for several years."
Enron's tough line with the locals caused complaints from Brazil to Mozambique. And despite the near-euphoric reporting on Enron in the US press during the 1990s, its projects drew skeptical responses from an institution not famous for saying no to multinational corporations: the World Bank. Enron came to the bank for financing of its Indian project, only to be told it was "not economically viable." That would have stopped the unpopular initiative were it not for Enron's connections with two deep-pockets lenders: the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Export-Import Bank. The taxpayer-funded OPIC granted a $100 million loan guarantee for the Dabhol project early on; and at a critical stage in the plant's troubled construction, the taxpayer-funded Ex-Im Bank provided Enron with almost $300 million in loan guarantees for the project.
In all, according to research compiled by Friends of the Earth, OPIC and the Ex-Im Bank loaned Enron $2.4 billion for its international projects. Even after twenty-five members of Congress signed a letter asking OPIC not to finance an Enron pipeline that cut through tropical forests in Brazil, the corporation still got the loan guarantees. Now that Enron is bankrupt, US taxpayers could find themselves swallowing the debt. With its joint-venture partners, General Electric and Bechtel, Enron has filed claims for $200 million in compensation for losses in India. OPIC officials say the energy giant's bankruptcy could leave US taxpayers liable for as much as $1 billion.
"The Enron scandal exposes the reality that both the Ex-Im Bank and OPIC are financing precisely the wrong sort of corporate behavior at home and abroad," says Representative Bernie Sanders. "They are providing corporate welfare to companies that harm workers in the United States and harm communities and the environment overseas--as the Indian power-plant case illustrates. This really is one of the most distressing examples of how our government promotes the sort of globalization that does no one any good."
No matter what sort of globalization is being debated, Enron has for a decade sought to bend the discourse to its advantage. The company was a leading corporate advocate for Congressional ratification of NAFTA in 1993 and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1994, as well as proposals to normalize trade relations with China and to grant Presidents Clinton and Bush fast-track authority to secretly negotiate a Free Trade Area of the Americas. When Houston-area House member Craig Washington rejected the corporate pressure and voted against NAFTA, Enron chief Ken Lay helped recruit a 1994 Democratic primary foe, Sheila Jackson Lee, led Enron employees in contributing $24,000 to Jackson Lee's campaign and helped her collect $600,000 from Houston's business community and other givers. Jackson Lee's spending overwhelmed Washington, who was defeated.
Enron's determination to tip the balance within the Democratic Party on trade issues extended to its generous funding of the New Democrat Network, which advances the pro-free trade line of Senator Joe Lieberman, a key Enron investigator on Capitol Hill. While Enron's contributions to 186 House members and 71 senators increased its influence in Congress, the company is broadly seen as having gotten the biggest bang for its campaign bucks in presidential races. Close ties to the George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations--with their parallel ideologies on global trade and economic issues--proved a tremendous boon for Enron as the corporation went global. Former President Bush's close personal connections to former Argentine President Carlos Menem are cited in that country as the explanation for why the Enron pipeline project was approved by Menem in 1989, before economic feasibility studies were completed. The Clinton Administration threatened to cancel development aid to Mozambique if the country did not accept the plan to have Enron construct a pipeline to South Africa. "Their diplomats, especially [US embassy deputy chief] Mike McKinley, pressured me to sign a deal that was not good for Mozambique," says former natural resources minister John Kachamila. "[McKinley] was not a neutral diplomat. It was as if he was working for Enron."
The description of that obscure US diplomat in Maputo could easily be applied to the current Vice President of the United States. The Bush Administration is doing everything in its power to cloak details of Dick Cheney's meetings with Enron executives. But there is no question that the energy task force chaired by Cheney altered its report to recommend that "the President direct the Secretaries of State and Energy to work with India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to help India maximize its domestic oil and gas production." Americans might question what Indian natural gas production has to do with US energy policy. Noting that Enron is seeking to force the Maharashtra State Electricity Board to pay it $64 million as part of a buyout deal, Representative Henry Waxman explains that the recommendation "benefited Enron by formally enlisting two Cabinet secretaries in Enron's conflict with the Indian government." It wasn't the only benefit Enron got. An e-mail sent by a National Security Council aide indicates that Cheney raised the issue of the Enron dispute in a meeting last June with Sonia Gandhi, widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and leader of India's opposition Congress Party. Additional e-mails obtained by the New York Daily News indicate that the State and Treasury departments pushed Enron's agenda with their Indian counterparts, as did successive ambassadors to India.
Enron didn't merely use the US government as an agent for its global ambitions; it invested directly. Ralf Schaefer, spokesman for a German competitor, RWE Trading, says that in its international dealings Enron often prevailed because it "knew what to do on the political side and what to do on the economic side." It spent $51,000 sponsoring events for Britain's Labour Party, including a dinner attended by Prime Minister Blair--whose government angered traditional constituencies in Britain's coal-mining regions by backing Enron's request to lift a moratorium on new gas-fired power stations. Blair aides denied a "cash for access" deal but were undermined when former Enron Europe chair Ralph Hodge said it was "custom and practice" to sponsor events to cozy up to political leaders. Elsewhere Enron's behavior was more blatant; it acknowledges spending $20 million on "educational gifts" in India.
If such behavior now has Enron squirming, Bernie Sanders thinks this one corporation's crisis could bring an end to the use of US-backed loan guarantees to finance the sort of corporate globalization that harms US and foreign workers. He is preparing a letter to the chairman of the monetary policy and trade subcommittee, on which he sits, calling for a hearing on the Ex-Im Bank's dealings with Enron. "The Enron debacle gives us a chance to shed light on a whole host of policy failures," says Sanders. "Clearly, Enron is not the only company that should not have received loans backed by US tax dollars. These were difficult issues to get people to pay attention to before, but now there's an opening."
Noting that US law bars foreign corporations and their domestic subsidiaries from contributing to US political campaigns, Colgate University sociology professor Adam Weinberg, a co-founder of the reform group Democracy Matters, asks, "At what point does a firm like Enron cease to be a US firm?" Weinberg contends that the inability to regulate donations by corporations with substantial international interests provides an important new argument for campaign finance reforms more sweeping than those contained in the proposed McCain-Feingold bill.
Surely, these responses to the scandal are welcome. But it's not enough to see Enron, or even its political patrons, called to account here and abroad. The billion-dollar question is whether the lessons of the Enron debacle will lead to a rethinking of the wild ride into the uncharted territory of the global economy, where the rules are written not by regulators but by the corporations that profit from deregulation. "There has to be a concerted effort to understand Enron not as an example of one company that has gone bad but as an example of what happens in a bad system," says Tony Benn. "Globalization as it is being implemented by the corporations provides no protection against future Enrons. It is a recipe for more Enrons, more scandals, more sleaze."


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One Cornerstone University professor will be packing his bags for Japan to attend the "Nuclear Weapons and Our Globalizing Century" seminar this summer.
Michael Van Dyke, associate professor of humanities at CU, will hear lectures from public officials and have opportunities to meet with church leaders, educators and citizens who survived the World War II bombings. The seminar will address how Christians should approach conversation about the nuclear age in which we live.
A group of 20 professional educators were selected from across the whole CCCU (Council for Christian Colleges and Universities) to attend the seminar. To be selected, Van Dyke applied and submitted a plan to share the knowledge he attains with CU's campus. Upon returning, he plans to educate colleagues at a faculty meeting and host a panel discussion for the student body.
As global resources become less scarce and more countries gain access to materials of nuclear weapons, the imminent threat of nuclear warfare becomes nearer to reality.
"It's scary," Van Dyke said. "And there is really no discussion about this in American Christian academia."
Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, people have the tendency to write off nuclear weapons as a thing of the past. Even though countries with political tensions, such as India and Pakistan, have nuclear weapons, and North Korea continues to threaten neighboring countries with their nuclear technology.
During the 10-day seminar, he will visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where atomic bombs were first employed.
Those two Japanese cities are the birthplace of atomic warfare, said Van Dyke.
"I think it's symbolically appropriate," he said.


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BOISE An Ada County Deputy Prosecutor says victims of domestic abuse, sexual abuse and child abuse now have a better chance of having their case resolved.
The reason, Boise Police moved its Special Victims Unit and Ada County moved a prosecutor to the FACES Family Justice Center. BPD's SVU and the Ada County prosecutor have worked with FACES since it opened in 2006, but now they're all under the same roof. This will now expedite cases and streamline information for victims.
FACES is meant to be a safe haven for victims, a place where they can get the help they need.
Victims in need of help can call (208) 577-4400
You can click here to contact the FACESorganization.
The co-location helps us really integrate the work we do for child abuse, sexual assault and domestic violence, said Angela Curtis, FACES Executive Director.
Since 2006, 11 organizations have worked together to help victims, but up until the last few days, Boise Police and the Ada County Prosecutor's Office weren't under the same roof.
The organizations include:
- Boise Police Department
- Ada County Prosecutor's Office
- St. Luke's Children's Hospital - CARES
- St. Luke's Capital City Family Medicine
- Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
- St. Luke's Health System
- Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
- Women's and Children's Alliance
- Idaho Legal Aid Services
- Boise City Attorney's Office
- FACES staff
Now all of these organizations, with their main offices all over Boise, are represented in the FACES building.
Deputy Prosecutor Jean Fisher says the move is monumental.
We know now that we can expedite cases. We have health and welfare risk assessment workers, and we have the ability now to get cases and really have eyes on them right away, said Fisher.
Sergeant Kip Higby supervises the Boise Police Department's Special Victims Unit.
The biggest difference is time. My detectives now can speak to the prosecutor immediately, they just have to walk down the hall, we can speak to CARES, Health and Welfare, some of the other agencies right away about a case, said Higby.
While the move helps those providing the services, it will be a bigger help for the victims.
I think most people would be surprised how often child abuse, sexual assault and domestic violence occur in our community. More people will actually experience domestic violence and sexual assault than breast cancer, said Curtis.
In 2013, FACES helped around 500 adults and 1,000 children.
It gets those resources to the victim much faster, and two, the victim no longer has a big bureaucracy to get through in order to get those services, said Higby.
The Boise Police Department handles about half of these kinds of cases in Ada County. Higby says they are only seeing a small number of the actual crimes.
The hope is that having all the services in one place, a safe place, will encourage more people to come forward.
Here is a list of services offered at FACES:
- Forensic assessments and interviews
- Acute and follow-up medical care
- Civil legal services
- Victim advocacy
- Safety planning
- Protection order assistance
- Domestic violence education
- Meetings with prosecutors and law enforcement
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In Christmas tradition, Gulf Coast birds counted
GRAND ISLE, La. As dawn breaks on the Gulf of Mexico, Hans Holbrook and Chris Brantley stomp onto the beach in rubber boots, telescopes and tripods slung over their shoulders, alert for signs of birds.
Grand Isle's annual Christmas bird count has begun - early, as always.
This year the National Audubon Society's bird count on the Gulf Coast is especially important: It comes eight months after the BP oil spill set off panic in the hearts of ornithologists and bird lovers across the nation. The counts will be used by scientists tracking the health of the Gulf's bird populations.
Holbrook and Brantley are among 60,000 bird watchers across the Western Hemisphere who count birds during the winter holidays and submit checklists for the Audubon Society's Christmastime bird tally. The society began doing the annual count 110 years ago. Bird count records go back to 1949 for Grand Isle.
The two birders pitch their tripods in the sand and start looking. They start early so they can do as much birding possible while the birds are active.
"A black-bellied plover," Holbrook, a birder since age 8, says, leaning into his telescope.
"I got a herring gull down here and there were some other gulls, which could have been ring-billeds, I think," says Brantley, the Grand Isle count's group leader.
"Yeah, I saw a few ring-billed gulls, a few herring gulls go by, a Caspian tern, a Forster's tern; I saw three black skimmers out there."
"I had a dozen brown pelicans go by."
Brantley, who has been counting birds on Grand Isle for 15 years, is upbeat about what he saw Wednesday. It's his first time down here since the oil spill.
"It looks about the same to me," he says.
Louisiana is one of the nation's richest and most important bird habitats and the oil spill jeopardized this national treasure.
The Audubon Society plans to study this winter's 65 bird counts along the Gulf of Mexico for clues about the oil spill and its effects on bird populations. Ten Gulf Coast bird count locations were oiled, said Greg Butcher, the society's conservation director.
In the wooded back side of Grand Isle, surrounded by bird sounds, another group of birders is scouting the bushes, tree tops and underbrush.
"Louisiana is a place that is right in the middle of bird migration," explains Phil Stouffer, a bird expert and professor at Louisiana State University.
In a patch of live oaks and palmetto, his group finds an array of chirping migrants staying for the winter.
"It would be really complicated for these birds to be directly affected (by the spill)," Stouffer says. "They would have to be eating something out of the marsh that was contaminated."
He quickly adds: "But I don't think we really know to what extent birds are getting exposure at sub-lethal levels. I don't think you should say we dodged a bullet just because you don't see dead birds laying all over the place."


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Have you seen missing Jessica?
Police are trying to trace a 15-year-old schoolgirl who has been missing since Tuesday 25 November.
Jessica Buttigieg, from Locking near Weston-super-Mare, failed to return home after school.
Officers say she was last seen between 3 and 4pm on Tuesday. She was getting off a school bus in Locking Village, by the Post Office and Manor Stores.
Micky Bell leaves Weston-super-Mare FC
Weston-super-Mare manager Micky Bell has left the club by mutual consent.
A statement on the club's website said: "We would like to thank Micky for his efforts on behalf of the Club."
The Seagulls are currently second from bottom and four points from safety in the Conference South.
Weston had been due to face Whitehawk at the Woodspring Stadium this afternoon but the game was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
Bell's last game was on Tuesday - a 4-1 defeat against League One side Doncaster in the FA Cup.
Weston-super-Mare's rescheduled FA cup match will go ahead
Weston-super-Mare have confirmed that their FA cup match tonight against Doncaster Rovers will go ahead.
There has been no rain over night and none is forecast for today, so no pitch inspection will be required before the match can go ahead. Three divisions separate non-league Weston and their League One opponents.
The match had to be rescheduled after referee Tim Robinson called off the game nine days ago after deciding parts of the pitch waterlogged. A team of groundsmen and volunteers have been working to ensure tonight's match can go ahead.
Fans fury as Weston's FA Cup tie is called off
There were angry scenes at Weston-super-Mare's Woodspring Stadium this afternoon after their FA Cup First Round match against Doncaster Rovers was postponed because of a waterlogged pitch.
Referee Tim Robinson called the game off just 20 minutes before kick-off. The decision was met with fury from visiting supporters who had made the long journey down to the West Country.
No date has been set for the re-arranged fixture.
It is with great regret that we have to inform you that the officials have made a decision and called the game off.
Weston carnival to go ahead as usual
The route of tomorrow's carnival procession in Weston-super-Mare will remain the same.
There were fears it might have to change because of the predicted high tide.
Instead, the promenade will be closed between Cove West cafe and the Grand Pier from 6pm to 8pm.
Once the tide has turned, the barriers will be lifted to allow spectators to watch the procession when it arrives at about 8pm.
RNLI team save elderly lady with broken hip
A north Somerset life boat crew has helped save an elderly lady after she collapsed with a broken hip neat their station. The RNLI volunteers were scrambled yesterday as a yacht got into difficulties in the Bristol Channel. But after preparing to launch in Weston-Super-Mare they were told to stand down and return their lifeboat to the station. As they prepared the vessel for its next task they spotted an 83 year-old woman lying on the promenade nearby.
The crew went to her rescue and tended her for two hours until an ambulance arrived. The team, including lifeboat medical officer, Dr Mike Pimm, comforted the woman, who was in shock, in extreme pain and very distressed and kept her warm.
If the crew had not been there it is very likely that there would have been a real danger to the lady's survival.
She was in such a poor condition that a member of the public might not have been able to provide the necessary warmth and comfort.
I am very proud of the crew. A broken hip is a very serious problem at her age.
The actions of the crew, as well as making her feel better, have given her a much better chance of a favourable outcome.
Falklands veteran gets war medal 32 years on
32 years after fighting in the Falklands, a war veteran from Weston-super-Mare has been presented with a South Atlantic Medal by the Prime Minister. It follows an extension of the qualifying criteria.
Previously only those who served before July 1982 were awarded the medal.
Clive Smith and 19 other veterans are the first to receive the medal since the eligibility was extended.
The South Atlantic Medal was given to nearly 30,000 soldiers.
Sand sculptures may leave Weston-super-Mare
There's a question mark over the future of one of Weston-super-Mare's biggest seaside events, the Sand Sculpture Festival.
Organiser Nicola Wood says they may not return next year because of the costs of setting up, and it will be heartbreaking to leave the town:
Weston's Sand Sculpture festival is under threat
Weston-super-Mare's popular Sand Sculpture festival may not return to the seafront next year unless it gets sponsorship.
Organisers say it costs around £30,000 to set the event up. They are also looking to improve security and even to include an education centre on site.
The annual festival - which brings in sculptors from across the world - is a big attraction for the seaside town.
Books of condolence for girl found dead in woodland
Books of condolence will be opened at the school of a teenager who was found dead in Weston-super-Mare.
15-year-old Josie Herniman's body was found in woodland on Monday. Police are not treating the death as suspicious.
The headteacher of Broadoak College says a memorial service is also being planned.


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Ventura County seniors are invited to take a break from the hustle and bustle of the holidays to enjoy video game bowling at the SCAN Senior Resource Center at 1001 Partridge Dr., Suite 200, in Ventura. Holiday Wii Bowling will be offered December 27, 28 and 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Participation is available on a first-come, first-bowl basis. There is no cost for seniors to play. Call 658-0365 for directions and more information. Hot beverages and popcorn will be served.
"Wii bowling has become very popular among seniors as it provides them a chance to engage in an activity that they might otherwise not be able to do," said Steve Lehman, manager of the SCAN Senior Resource Center in Ventura. "It's a great form of fun and easy exercise."
The Wii has become the best-selling game machine of the current generation, selling more than 70 million worldwide. The Wii uses a motion-sensored controller that allows players to mimic the movement involved in bowling and other activities. The light exercise, without having to roll a heavy ball, has made it popular among seniors.
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Nothing if not consistent, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre director Jared Hess once again presents adolescence as a depressive, outsider experience; makes light of the working class for being, well, poor; and nearly bests the Brothers Coen when it comes to drawing all of his characters from the shallow end of the gene pool. There are moments in Hess's third self-conscious cult film, Gentlemen Broncos, that exude a fetishistic, low-fi splendor, as Hess envisions the Buck Rogers–meets-Barbarella fantasy world of an introverted Utah teenager (Michael Angarano) writing a pulp science-fiction opus. But both Yeast Lords: The Bronco Years and the life of its author are subject to so much projectile vomit, animal flatulence, and innumerable plays on the word "anus" that even first-graders may find their tolerance tested. "You took my nads!" and "Eat the corn out of my crap" vie for their place in the catchphrase canon, and an animatronic deer fires missiles out of its ass, though it's Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement who handily steals the show as a bestselling fanboy scribe sky-high on his own pomposity. Hess deserves credit, I suppose, for so effectively channeling his inner seven-year-old. Personally, I preferred spending two hours in the company of Spike Jonze's.
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Enter Southern Oregon University's conference residence, Cox Hall, through the sliding doors off the parking lot. At registration you'll meet your Group Leader, who will be your expert guide for the week, and the Conference Assistant, who will give you your room keys. At registration, you'll receive a packet of information to prepare you for the week, including a detailed schedule of events and important information about the week.
ORIENTATION: At 4:30pm, meet back in the registration room to get to know your fellow Road Scholars and program staff during an informative overview of the program. Learn about the in-depth classes and the extraordinary plays you'll be experiencing this week.Dinner: Enjoy a delicious catered dinner and conversation with your fellow Road Scholars in our private meeting room.Evening: INTRODUCTION TO THE OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: Get an insider's perspective of the Festival from the associate producer of stage management at the festival, Kimberley Barry. Learn how the country's largest rotating repertory theatre produces 11 plays on 3 very different stages, most of which are in production at the same time.Lodging: Cox HallMeals Included: Dinner
THEATRE REFLECTIONS: These core classes of the program will be taught daily by an Oregon Shakespeare Festival actor who will be your guide for the week's performances, lead review discussions, and introduce you to several actors straight off the OSF stages.Lunch: Enjoy a variety of lunch options in the Cascade Dining Hall.Afternoon: AFTERNOON FREE TIME:Explore the wonders of Southern Oregon or take in another show on your own at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Stroll through the beautiful parks of Ashland, visit the many galleries and shops downtown, sample your way through a handful of the 88 wineries in this up-and-coming wine region, or indulge in the sweets offered at Dagoba Chocolate in Ashland and Harry & David in Medford. Spend an afternoon in neighboring Jacksonville to enjoy the charming character of this old gold-rush mining town registered as a National Historic Landmark.Dinner: Relax after this afternoon's excitement with an enjoyable dinner in the Cascade Food Court. The new food service, A'viands, uses fresh recipes in its delicious dinner entrees, ethnic cuisine selections, soups, salads, and assorted desserts.Evening: PERFORMANCE: Formerly the New Theatre, renamed this year after the late OSF Development Director Peter D. Thomas, this theatre offers an intimacy and versatility in seating arrangements unique to each show. Tonight you will be seeing King Lear, a contemporary staging of this riveting tragedy that is considered by many to be Shakespeare's greatest play. NOTE: Contains some violence and sexuality.Lodging: Cox HallMeals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
THEATRE REFLECTIONS: After a coffee break, return to the classroom for today's discussion of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival plays. Each year, almost 400,000 theatre patrons travel to Ashland to watch these award-winning shows. In this intimate class setting, review yesterday's performance, meet yet another special guest, and get ready for today's production with your OSF guide.Lunch: Head over again to Cascade Dining Hall for a refreshing lunch before the afternoon's activities.Afternoon: THE BARD AND HIS LANGUAGE:William Shakespeare, though a glover's son and educated with "little Latin and less Greek", wrote in the poetry of his day: Iambic Pentameter; and the prose of his day: Pub Talk 1599. He wrote in these forms better than any English-speaking playwright before him or since. And though we don't have to identify what "anaphora" and "chiasmas" are doing in his language to appreciate his stories we identify the pre-Freud psychology of his majestic characters all the more through his wit and wordplay.
After a brief break you'll meet with another instructor from OSF to learn more about the intricacies of theatre.Dinner: Gather for your last dinner together as a group over a pleasant, catered meal in our private meeting room. Share your thoughts about this week's program with your new Road Scholar friends and highlight your favorite experiences.Evening: PERFORMANCE: Named after the OSF founder Angus Bowmer, this theatre opened in 1970 to extend the OSF season by offering an indoor venue. By design, you'll find there's no bad seat in the house. Tonight you will be seeing The Tenth Muse. Set in the 1700s, Tanya Saracho, an emerging Mexican playwright, pungently portrays a forgotten moment in history and the intricate bonds of sisterhood in this world premiere performance. NOTE: Still in development; may contain some sexuality.Lodging: Cox HallMeals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
With an average snowfall of 44 feet, not all entrances are open year round. Roads can close from October to July. Rim Drive is typically open by the beginning of July. This 33 mile drive has spectacular viewpoints.
For the latest road, weather, and trail information please call (541)594-3000. Current conditions at the park, including web cams, road and facility status can be found on the "Current Conditions" page of their website.For additional information, visit: www.nps.gov/crla
For decades Jacksonville, which had become the county seat, flourished as the commercial and cultural center of Southern Oregon. It wasn't until 1884, when the railroad was routed through the neighboring town of Medford, did the prestige of Jacksonville begin to wane. As residents and businesses moved away to those communities along the rail lines, Jacksonville settled into a new role-that of an agricultural center.
The combination of the County Seat being moved to Medford in 1927, the Great Depression and World War II had serious economic impact on Jacksonville. But never a community to give in, residents and business leaders sought to preserve the heritage of Southern Oregon's first town. Although no longer a boom town, Jacksonville discovered a new way to lure those with the pioneer spirit, capturing it's colorful past and inviting a new generation of explorers to experience it.
The Britt Festival in Jacksonville is a must see when visiting this unique town. The festival began in 1963 with its first summer outdoor concert. Britt exclusively offered classical music until 1978 when they started to incorporate other world-class artists. With an array of performances, including the Classical Festival in the beginning of August, you won't want to miss these wonderful outdoor concerts.
In 1966, Jacksonville was designated a National Historic Landmark. Over 100 buildings in Jacksonville are on the National Register of Historic Places.
The information provided above is from www.jacksonvilleor.us. Call 541-899-1231 or visit the website for additional information.For additional information, visit: www.jacksonvilleor.us
The development of today's park began in 1914 with the hiring of John McLaren (also designer of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park) as landscape architect. Lithia Park embodies the distinctive characteristics of park design in the tradition of Frederick Law Olmsted. McLaren's landscape plan for Lithia Park was organic in layout, following the natural canyon of the water course. The plantings were naturalistic to the extent that native alders, oaks, conifers and madrones were incorporated, but other plants, such as willows, maples, sycamores, and numerous ornamental varieties were introduced and selected for hardiness, form and color. Once within the Park, the visitor can walk along the trail on the east side of Ashland Creek to the Park headquarters and obtain a map showing the location of both historic and more modern park features including a trail guide to the most significant trees throughout the Park.
Lithia Park is located at 59 Winburn Way in downtown Ashland and is open to the public. Trail guides and other booklets about the park can be obtained from the park office of Ashland Parks and Rec. Dept., open Monday-Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.For additional information, visit: www.nps.gov/nr/travel/ashland/lit.htm
The Rogue Valley Region of Southern Oregon has three distinct subregions for grapes: the Rogue River subregion along Interstate 5 from Ashland to Grants Pass, the growing area of the state with the steepest elevation; the westernmost Illinois Valley, at a high elevation and more heavily influenced by the marine climate of the Pacific Ocean; the smaller Applegate Valley, locus for part of the Southern route of the Oregon Trail, further inland and sheltered from Pacific marine air.
The Rogue Valley is the most elevated, warm and dry wine growing region in Oregon. Chardonnay, Riesling, Gewürztraminer, and Pinot Gris are grown in all parts of the Rogue. The inland subregions of the Rogue, including the Applegate Valley, have a dry and warm climate suitable for production of the best Bordelaise varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Semillon and Cabernet franc. The Illinois subregion is noted for its high quality Burgundian varieties Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Merlot and Chardonnay.For additional information, visit: www.winesoforegon.com/rogue-valley-wineries-vineyards.htm
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In some parts of the country, a recovering local economy means the special asset (or problem loan) groups are reducing staff, as loan production groups come back to life. Leaving the special asset group under-staffed could be a mistake if the staff is not able to properly complete basic foreclosure tasks. One basic task is inspecting the property prior to taking title to the property (whether through foreclosure or a deed in lieu of foreclosure [FAQ series for information on deeds in lieu]). Here's a decision tree that might help you in deciding if an inspection "really" is needed, and a recent example that should energize you to look before you leap (into ownership of the collateral).
Decision tree: verify that your mortgage loan documents give you the right to enter the property, then
Still not convinced that an inspection should be a top-shelf priority item?
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The phone rings and you're called to meet with City officials at the police precinct office near your "new" apartment project (shortly after you foreclosed on what seemed like just another project).
At the meeting, you're introduced to the Chief of Police and representatives from the Mayor's office, the zoning department, the City health department and a lawyer from the local District Attorney's office. They vaporize you with a list of alarming health and safety issues at the apartments.
The bottom-line message was simple: you have 30 days to show some "progress" on the issues or the City would take enforcement actions.
As always, it is the basic stuff that jumps up to bite you. (And gets the immediate attention of your insurance group.)
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GREAT MOSQUE ULU CAM T.C. BURSA VALL Ulu Cami Osmanli mimarisinin aheserlerinden olan ve slam d�nyasinin en �nemli 5 mabedinden biri olarak g�sterilen Ulu Cami, Bursa'nin en b�y�k ve en g�rkemli yapisidir. Atat�rk Caddesi'nde Hanlar B�lgesi'ne komu olan Ulu Cami, gerek mimarisi gerekse i�ilii ile d�neminin de en �nemli eserlerinden biridir. Bursa'da ina edilen padiah camilerinin (selatin) d�rd�nc�s�d�r. Sultan Yildirim Bayezid, Bulgaristan'i alarak Tuna kiyilarina ulami, Alanya ve Tokat'i alarak ticaret yollarina hakim olmutur. Bu genileme Bursa'yi ipek ve kadife ticareti merkezi ile baharat antreposu haline getirmitir. Bu zenginlik Ulu Cami'nin, Kapali�ari'nin (Bedesten) ve Yildirim Dar�ifasi'nin (hamam ve kervansaray) inasini salamitir. 1396 -1399 yillari arasinda yaptirilan bu esiz eser, kapali ibadet alaninin boyutlari bakimindan T�rk tarihinde yapilan en b�y�k camidir. Mimari Ali Neccar olan bu esiz eserin yapiminda d�nemin en iyi ustalari ve sanat�ilari g�rev almitir. Y�ksek iki minaresi ve benzer boyutlarda yirmi kubbesi olan Ulu Cami, �ok ayakli cami emasinin klasik ve abidevi bir �rneidir. Caminin �� cephesinde d�rt kapi bulunmaktadir. Great Mosque (Ulu Cami) Great Mosque is one of the masterpieces of Ottoman architecture and is considered as one of the five most important sanctuaries of the Islamic world and is also the biggest and most glorious building in Bursa. Great Mosque, which is near the Caravanserai area in Atat�rk Street is the most influential building of its time, both from the viewpoint of the workmanship and the architecture. It is the fourth mosque built by Sultans in Bursa. Sultan Yildirim Bayezid conquered Bulgaria and reached Danuble River and also conquered Alanya and Tokat and dominated the commerce routes. This expansion turned Bursa into a silk and velvet commerce center and a warehouse of spices. This richness made it possible to construct the Grand Bazaar (Bedesten) and Yildirim Hospital (bathhouse and caravanserai). The unique mosque which was built between the years of 1396-1399 is the largest mosque in the Turkish history with its inner service area. The architect of this building was Ali Neccar and the best masters and artists were involved in its construction at that time. Great Mosque has two high minarets and twenty domes similar in size. It is a classical and monumental example of mosques with multiple columns. There are four portals at three sides of the mosque. The portal near the place of Dou tarafinda "H�nkar Mahfili"nin yaninda yer alan kapi g�n�m�zde kullanilmamaktadir. Dier �� kapi ise devamli a�iktir. Duvar kalinlii yer yer iki metreyi aan Ulu Cami, zengin ve ferah mekani ile yaklaik be bin cemaat kapasitesine sahiptir. Ulu Cami, her biri d�rder kubbeli be b�l�mden oluur. Hemen hemen eit b�y�kl�kteki yirmi kubbesinin ortasindaki kubbe balangi�ta a�ik olarak yapilmiti. Telle �rt�l� bu orta kubbeden giren yamur damlalari altindaki havuzda toplanir, iik ise camiyi aydinlatirdi. G�n�m�zde kubbe camekanla kapli olduunda yamur suyu toplama ilevine deil ama aydinlatma g�revine devam etmektedir. Ortadaki bu kubbenin altinda bulunan havuzlu, 18 k�eli adirvan yapiya bambaka bir g�r�n�m katmaktadir. Abdest alinabilen bu adirvan t�r�n�n tek �rneidir. adirvanin �st�n�n camla kapli olmasi binanin i�ine doal bir aydinlik verir. Ulu Cami'nin en g�zel k�esi olan adirvanin yapilma nedeni �yle rivayet edilir: Cami yapimi i�in arazi istimlak edilirken, adirvanin bulunduu yerdeki toprak par�asinin sahibi olan yali hanim, arazisini satmak istememi ve uzun s�ren israrlar karisinda ve g�rd�� bir r�yadan sonra arazisini vermeye razi olmu. Ancak daha sonra, bu ekilde alinan bir yerde namaz the sultan at the east is not used today. The other three doors are open at all times. The walls of the mosque are thicker than two meters at some parts and it has a roomy and spacious serving area for five thousand people. Great mosque has five segments and each segment has four domes. All domes were approximately similar in size but the center dome was constructed hypaethral. The rain, which through this wire fenced dome, fell in the pool underneath and the light from the dome illuminated the mosque. Today the dome is covered with glass and cannot be used to collect rain water however it is still illuminating the mosque. The water tank with a fountain right underneath this dome has eighteen corners and gives a special ambience to the mosque. The pool can be used for ritual ablution and is one of its kinds. The pool is covered with glass and this feature illuminates the mosque with natural light. The reason, which is rumored for the construction of the pool, is as follows: During the land was purchased for the mosque an old lady, who was the owner of the land, refused to sell it. Strong claims and a dream, she had, convinced her to sell her land. After the land was purchased, it was decided that one cannot pray on a land purchased from a women who wasn't willing to sell her land in the first place. So a water tank with a fountain was built there. kilinmaz d��ncesiyle buraya adirvan yapildii s�ylenir. T�rk-slam d�nyasinin en eski camilerinden olan Ulu Cami d�zg�n kesme talarla ina edilmitir. Kalin beden duvarlarinin masif etkisini hafifletmek i�in cephelerde her kubbe sirasi hizasina gelmek �zere sair sivri kemerler yapilmitir. Her kemerin i�inde iki sira halinde ikier pencere yer alir. Bunlarin gerek bi�imleri gerek boyutlari her cephede farklidir. Son cemaat yeri bulunmayan yapinin kuzey cephesinde k�elerde iki minare vardir. Minarelerin ikisi de beden duvarina oturmaz, yerden balar. Sekizgen bi�imli k�rs�s� b�t�n�yle mermerden, g�vdesi tuladandir. Sultan �elebi Mehmet'in yaptirdii s�ylenen dou k�esindeki kare k�rs�l� minare, caminin beden duvarindan bir metre kadar ayriktir. erefeler her iki minarede de ayni olup tulali mukarnaslarla bezelidir. Kurun kapli k�lahlar 1889'daki yanginda ortadan kalkinca, bug�nk� boumlu ta k�lahlar yapilmitir. 1402`de Osmanlilar ile Moollar arasinda yapilan Ankara Savai'nda, �nce Timur'un sonra Karamanolu'nun verdii zararlardan sonra Ulu Cami'nin onarimini, Yildirim Bayezid'in olu Sultan �elebi Mehmet ger�ekletirir ve cami 1421 yilinda tekrar ibadete a�ilir. 1855 Bursa depreminde zarar g�ren caminin kubbeleri de 1862 yilinda onarilir. Great Mosque, which is one of the oldest mosques of the Turkish Islamic world, was constructed with smooth cutting stones. To reduce the massive effect of the thick walls pointed arches have been constructed for all domes at the fa�ades. Every arch has got double lined two windows inside. The forms and sizes of all these windows are different at all fa�ades. The mosque which has two minarets at the corners of the north fa�ade does not have a final prayer area. Both of the minarets does not touch the walls and are risen from the ground. The pedestal is octagonal and made from marble and the body is made from brick. The minaret at the eastern corner which is believed got to be constructed by �elebi Mehmet is one meter far from the main outer wall and has a square pedestal. Minaret balconies are the same in each one and are ornamented brick muqarnas. When the lead caps were destroyed in the fire in 1889 stone caps were built that still exist today. During the Ankara War between the Ottomans and the Mongols the mosque was damaged first by Timur and then by Karamanolu. �elebi Mehmet the son of Yildirim Bayezid got the mosque repaired and the mosque was opened to service once again in 1421. The domes of the mosque were damaged during the earthquake of 1855 and were repaired in 1862. Cami i�indeki hazineler Mimarisiyle abide bir yapi olan Ulu Cami, olaan�st� g�zellikteki minberi, duvarlarindaki el yazmalari, ortasindaki abdest alinabilen havuzlu adirvani, gizemli ha� ile Yahudi yildizi ve i�erisindeki kendine �zg� harika �zellikleri ile de T�rk ve slam sanati i�in son derece �nemli bir eserdir. Treasures in the Mosque Great Mosque which is a monumental building has an extraordinary beautiful mimbar, hand written scriptures on the walls, a pool with a sprinkler in the middle where it is possible to perform ablution, mysterious cross and a Star of David and magnificent beauties unique to Great Mosque. All these features Ulu Cami'nin Devakli Abd�laziz olu Mehmet tarafindan ceviz aacindan, hi� �ivi kullanilmadan i� i�e ge�irme y�ntemi ile yapilmi minberindeki aa� i�ilii bir aheserdir. Minber, kainati temsil eder. �zerine g�ne sistemi kabartma bir formla ilenmitir. Gezegenler, her biri y�r�nge hareketleriyle birlikte k�resel kabartma motifler halinde G�ne'e olan uzaklik ve aralarindaki b�y�kl�k karilatirmalari da verilerek olmasi gereken yerlere nakedilmitir. D�nyanin yuvarlak olup olmadiinin bile tartiildii bir devirde bir ahap ustasinin o d�nemde bilinen t�m gezegenleri rastgele bir yildiz olarak deil, g�ne sistemimizdeki birer gezegen olarak ilemesi dikkat �ekici bir ekilde bug�nk� bilimsel bulgularla �rt�mektedir. Minberin giri kapisinin �zerindeki kitabede altin yaldizla Osmanlica olarak, `Yildirim Bayezid Han tarafindan Hicri 804 yilinda make Great Mosque a very important work for the Turkish and Islamic Art. The minber, produced by Mehmet the son of Devakli Abd�laziz, is composed of interlocking wooden pieces fitted together without nails; the woodwork is a masterpiece. The minber represents the universe. The solar system is carved into the wood. The planets are carved into the wood taking into account their distance from the sun and their proportional sizes. During the era, in which discussions occurred if the world was round or flat, a woodworker carving figures not simply as stars but as planets in the solar system remarkably corresponds to scientific knowledge of our time. Above the entrance of the minber it is written in Ottoman in golden letters "Built by Yildirim Bayezid Han in 804 Hijri Calendar". At one side of the banister of the minber it is written with s�l�s calligraphy style "the work of Mehmet the son of Devakli Abd�laziz". The signature of the artist has been noticed recently. At the eastern part of the minber there is a cabinet system that supports the minber composed of a narrow rectangle, a larger triangle and a striped cabinet. The carvings of the solar system on the rectangle and triangle parts still amaze visitors. There are 15 ornaments at the base of the minber (both at the east and west directions). Three of them are rectangular and their meaning are, "start, exit and first". The remaining 24 are the same with their macro form but have different details. Close columns with dark colors represent brothers and sisters. In the patters ��oklar represents 12 Turkish Clans and Bozoklar represents another 12 Turkish Clans. There are 24 Turkish yaptirilmitir' ibaresi yer alir. Sarmaik motifleriyle s�sl� olan tirabzanlarin sadaki ikinci �iki kolonu �zerinde s�sleme motifine uygun s�l�s tarzda yazilmi, `'Devakli Abd�laziz olu Mehmet ii'' ibaresi dikkat �eker. Sanatkarin bu imzasi son yillarda fark edilmitir. Minberin dou cephesinde, biri dar dikd�rtgen, dieri alani daha geni ��gen bi�iminde, bir dieri en altta erit halinde uzanan taiyici dolap serisi bir kompozisyon oluturur. ��gen ve d�rtgen y�z� kaplayan g�ne sisteminin kabartma form ilemeleri bug�n bile g�renleri hayrete d��rmektedir. Minberin alt kaide kisminda (hem dou hem bati y�n�nde) 15'er motifi vardir. Bunlarin ��er tanesi dikd�rtgen "balangi�, �iki ve ilk" anlamlarini tair. Geriye kalan 24 �zde ayni, detayda farklidir. Yakin s�tunlar koyu motiflerle kardeleri temsil eder. Motiflerle, ��oklar 12 T�rk boyunu; Bozoklar ise dier 12 T�rk boyunu simgeler. B�ylece minberde 24 T�rk boyu yer alir. G�ney duvarinda asili olan Kabe �rt�s� de gizemini korumaktadir. �rt�n�n caminin ilk kapi �rt�lerinden biri olduu tahmin edilmektedir. Yavuz Sultan Selim, Misir seferini kazanip hilafeti ve kutsal emanetleri teslim aldiinda ayni zamanda Mekke'nin onarimini da clans represented on the minber. The cloth from Kaaba hung on the southern wall is a mystery. It is believed that the cloth is used as the first door cover of the mosque. When Yavuz Sultan Selim has won the Misir campaign and returned as the caliph with holy relics he also started the repairs of Mecca. The covers of Kaaba were replaced during the repairs. During this, the former cover was sent to Istanbul and the door cover of the Kaaba was sent to Great Mosque as a gift. Yavuz Sultan Selim has personally brought the cover and hung it to the wall of the Great Mosque. The cloth which originally had embroideries of verses of the Koran made with pure gold threads were readable. However today these verses have faded and are only readable under bright light. The mahfil of the muezzin made from hard walnut tree is located on eight columns. The mahfil was built in 1549. The stone pedestal made in 1815 is another unique work of art in the mosque. The upper and lower parts are carved from a single marble block. The verses of the Koran located at the top and sides of the mihrab, which was finished in 1571, was written by calligraphy masters. The Great Mosque can be called a calligraphy museum with its forty-five plates and eighty-seven inscriptions on the walls which were completed by twenty-one calligraphists. There are nine different calligraphy characters and every inscription has a different story. For example it is believed that Hizir Aleyhisselam prays in front of the "Vav" letter in the direction of the kiblah and when one happens to pray with him his wishes will come true. At the same wall there is an image of the Kaaba and irrespective of the viewing angle the door of the Kaaba is always looking at the observer. There are two more water tanks with fountains at the yaptirmaya koyulmutu. Yeniden imar edilen Kabe'nin �rt�leri de deitirildi. Bu sirada eski �rt� stanbul'a yollanirken Kabe'nin kapisinin �rt�s� ise Bursa Ulu Cami'ye hediye edilmiti. �rt�y� bizzat Yavuz Sultan Selim kendi elleriyle taiyip camiye asmitir. Aslinda Bursa'ya geldiinde �zerinde saf altin iplikle dokunmu �eitli ayetler �ok rahat bir ekilde g�r�n�rken bug�n �zerindeki ilemeleri ancak parlak iik altinda se�ebilmek m�mk�nd�r. Sert ceviz aacindan imal edilen m�ezzin mahfili 8 s�tun �zerinde durmaktadir. Mahfil 1549 tarihini taimaktadir. Yine 1815 yilinda yapilan ta k�rs� de camideki bir baka �zg�n eserdir. Alt ve �st kismi tek par�a mermerden oyulmutur. Caminin 1571 tarihinde tamamlandii bilinen mihrabinin �st�ndeki ve yanlarindaki ayetler hat ustalari tarafindan ilenmitir. Ulu Cami'nin duvarlari 21 hattat tarafindan yapilmi 45 levha ve 87 duvar yazisiyla da adeta bir hat m�zesidir. 9 ayri yazi karakteri g�r�l�r ve her hattin ayri bir hikayesi vardir. Mesela Kible duvarinda bulunan "Vav'' harfi �n�nde Hizir Aleyhisselamin bazi vakitler namaz kildii ve onunla beraber namaz kilmaya denk gelindiinde edilen dualarin kabul olunacaina inanilir. Ayni duvarda Kabe resmi bulunur ve siz hangi istikametten ona bakarsaniz, kapisi size doru d�n�k gibi g�z�k�r. Caminin bah�esinde kuzey avluda iki adirvan daha yer almaktadir. Bu iki adirvan 1958 kapali �ari yangininda tahrip olmutur. Dou avlusunda ise �inili �eme bulunur. Dier abdest alma yerleri ise yakin tarihlerde yapilmitir. Ulu Cami'nin hen�z gizemi ��z�lemeyen bir baka sirri ise kuzeye bakan Ta� Kapi'nin ikinci sol �st�ndeki pencerenin �st kemerindeki s�slemelerdir. Bu pencereye bakildiinda haca ve yildiza benzeyen iaretler g�r�l�r. Bunlar esnaf loncalari ile ilikilendirilir. Ayni ekilde kuzey kapisinin solundaki minarenin yaninda bulunan pencerenin parmakliklari dierlerinden farkli olarak Ha� eklindedir. Rivayete g�re deprem sonrasi caminin onariminda g�rev alan gayrim�slim ustalar, bu deseni ilemilerdir. northern courtyard. These two fountains were damaged during the fire in 1958. There is a drinking fountain covered with tiles at the eastern courtyard. Other fountains were built recently. Another mystery that hasn't been solved yet is the ornaments above the second window at the top of Crown portal. Similarly the window beside the minaret at the left from the northern portal has bars shaped as crosses differing from other bars. Some say that these symbols were made by non Muslim masters who worked during the repairs after the earthquake. They have been spotted after the repairs and have not been taken out and reached until today. Kubbelerin sirri Macar Kralinin 1396'da dier Avrupa devletlerinin de desteini alarak Nibolu Kalesi'ni kuatmasinin ardindan Kale Komutani Doan Bey acil yardim ister. Bunun �zerine Sultan Yildirim Bayezid, ordusuyla harekete ge�meden �nce savain kazanilmasi durumunda Bursa'ya 20 cami yaptirmayi vaat eder. Daha sonra adina yakian bir hizla Nibolu'ya yetien Sultan Yildirim Bayezid ordusuyla b�y�k bir zafer kazanir. Bu zaferin sonucunda Abbasi Halifesi ; Yildirim Bayezid'a ''Sultan-i klimi Rum'' yani Anadolu'nun Sultani �nvanini verir ve bundan sonra Osmanli padiahlarina Sultan denmesi adet haline gelir. Bursa'ya d�n��nde ise verdii s�z� unutmayan Sultan Yildirim Bayezid damadi Emir Sultan'in tavsiyesi �zerine yirmi k���k Cami yerine yirmi kubbeli b�y�k bir Cami; Ulu Cami'yi yaptirir. Ulu Cami'deki her kubbe bir k���k camiye bedeldir. Cami 1399 yilinda, Osmanli mparatorluunun 100. kurulu yild�n�m�nde a�ilir. Bursa erenlerinden, Haci Bayram Veli'nin hocasi, a�ili g�n� Ulu Cami'nin �� kapisinda ayni anda g�r�ld�� ve sirri a�ia �iktii i�in Bursa'yi terkettii s�ylenen Somuncu Baba, ilk hutbeyi okur. lk cemaatinde; Emir Sultan Hazretleri, Sultan Yildirim Bayezid, Osmanlinin ilk eyh�lislami Molla Fenari ve Bursa'nin b�y�k ahsiyetleri hazir bulunmaktadir. lk imami mevl�d� kaleme alan ve hayatinin sonuna kadar Ulu Cami'de imamlik yapacak olan S�leyman �elebi, ilk m�ezzini ise Aziz Mahmut H�dai'nin hocasi �ftade Hazretleridir. The Secret of the Domes After the King of Hungary with the support of other European states besieged Nibolu Castle the commander of the castle Doan Bey asked for help. Before deployment Sultan Yildirim Bayezid promised to construct twenty mosques if they win the war. Yildirim Bayezid reached Nibolu very fast and he gained a great victory with his army. After the victory the Abbasid Khalif gave the title "Sultan-I klimi Rum" to Yildirim Bayezid which means the Sultan of Anatolia and there after it fell into a habit to call Ottoman emperors as Sultans. After Sultan Yildirim Bayezid returned to Bursa he remembered his promise. However Emir Sultan recommended that there should be one mosque with twenty domes instead of twenty mosques and therefore Sultan Yildirim Bayezid got Great Mosque constructed. Every dome in the Great Mosque is considered to be a single mosque. The mosque was opened in 1399 during the 100th year of the foundation of the Ottoman Empire. Somuncu Baba, who was the teacher of one of the saints of Bursa Hajji Bayram Veli and had offered the first sermon, was seen at three of the portals of the mosque at the same time. He had to leave Bursa because his secret was uncovered. Emir Sultan, Sultan Yildirim Bayezid and the first shaykh al-islam of the Ottoman Empire Molla Fenari attended the first prayer in the mosque. The first imam of the mosque was S�leyman �elebi, who remained as the imam of the mosque, until his death. S�leyman �elebi was also the author of the Mawlid, the first muezzin was his Excellency �ftade, who was the teacher of Aziz Mahmut H�dai. Ulu Cami'nin bir �zellii de dini manada ulatii y�ksek mertebedir. slam'da en y�ksek mertebeli ibadethane Mekke'deki Mescid-i Haram'dir (Kabe). Burayi Mescid-i Nebevi (Medine), Mescid-i Aksa (Kud�s) ve Mescid-i Emeviye (am) izler. Bu d�rt caminin ardindan mertebe bakimindan 5. sirada Bursa Ulu Cami yer alir. Ulu Cami Bursa'nin sahip olduu aheserlerdendir. Deeri bilinmeli ve gelecek kuaklara aktarilmalidir. Another feature of the Great Mosque is the highly important religious level attained. The most important religious place is the Masjid al-Haram (Kaaba) in Mekke. The other important ones in the order of their importance are Prophet's Mosque (Mescid-i Nebevi) (Medine), Golden Dome Mosque (Mescid-i Aksa) (Jarusalem) and Umayyad Mosque (Mescid-i Emeviye) (Damascus). After these four mosques the fifth most important mosque is the Grand Mosque of Bursa. The Grand Mosque is a magnificent masterpiece in Bursa. It should be valued and protected for future generations. w w w . b u r s a . g o v. t r www.kiraziletisim.com


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The decision of the Mayawati government on Wednesday night to ban the release of Prakash Jha's controversial Hindi film 'Aarakshan'(Reservation) in Uttar Pradesh for two months on the grounds of law and order followed a recommendation by a high-level official committee set up by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government.
The film was due to hit the screens on Friday in the State.
The committee comprising Principal Secretaries of the Finance, Information, Higher Education and Rural Development Departments and an official of the Entertainment Tax Committee had watched the Amitabh Bachchan-Saif Ali Khan starrer and submitted their report to the State government in the evening.
Hours before the State government imposed the ban, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) asked the Censor Board to make necessary changes in the film before its release, objecting to the "derogatory way" the backward community had been featured in it.
The move by the Commission came after its members watched a special screening in Delhi.
Objectionable: Punia
"The main theme of the movie is about commercialisation of education followed by several objectionable dialogues against people from backward communities. There is no discussion on reservation in its second half. We have asked the Censor Board to make necessary changes in it," NCSC Chairman P.L. Punia told PTI in Delhi.
Senior Maharashtra Minister and OBC leader Chaggan Bhujbal also voiced objections to certain scenes and dialogues in the film.
"Some scenes and dialogues in the film are objectionable and the film can be released after deleting them," Mr. Bhujbal said after a special screening of the film was arranged by Mr. Jha in Mumbai.
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