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Today marks the 34th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case of Berkemer v. McCarty[1]. The Berkemer[2] guaranteed the protections afforded by "Miranda Warnings" for all offenses, from the most serious felonies, to the most minor traffic offenses.
The Case
The case behind Berkemer demonstrates why a Supreme Court ruling on this issue was sorely needed. On March 31st, 1980, Ohio State Highway patrol pulled over Mr. Richard McCarty. Mr. McCarty has been observed weaving between lanes down IH 270. The patrol officer asked Mr. McCarty to exit the vehicle, and the officer observed Mr. McCarty struggling to stand. At that time, the officer decided he would arrest Mr. McCarty for his traffic offense. The officer asked Mr. McCarty if he had anything to drink, and Mr. McCarty responded he had drank two beers and smoked several marijuana joints prior to driving. The officer then asked Mr. McCarty to perform a balancing test, a forerunner of today's Field Sobriety Test. Mr. McCarty failed the test, and was arrested.
At the police station, Mr. McCarty was subjected to a breathalyzer which revealed he had no alcohol in his system. The officer than Asked Mr. McCarty is he was under the influence of alcohol, which Mr. McCarty responded, "I guess barley". At no point during his arrest was Mr. McCarty given his "Miranda Warning"
Mr. McCarty was charged with DWI, and faced a fine and up to six months in jail. Mr. McCarty sought to have his pre, and post arrest statements excluded from evidence on the basis that he had not been informed of his "Miranda Warning". The trial court denied his motion to suppress, and Mr. McCarty plead nolo contendere to the charge. On appeal, Mr. McCarty once again argued his statements should be suppressed for want of a "Miranda Warning". The appeals court denied his appeal relying on an Ohio Supreme Court ruling that held "Miranda Warnings" do not need to be given for misdemeanor offenses. Mr. McCarty once again appealed his case to the Ohio Supreme Court who denied his appeal without a hearing for failing to raise a substantial constitutional question.
After exhausting all of his state appeals, Mr. McCarty applied for a writ of habeas corpus to The District Court for the Southern District of Ohio who dismissed his writ. However, Mr. McCarty appealed again and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed his conviction holding that the Trial court had misapplied the ruling in Miranda[3] by failing to give warnings for all offenses. The State of Ohio appealed the Appeals Court Decision, and sought a writ of certiorari from the Supreme Court who granted cert in early 1984. At the time, many State Supreme Courts had made exceptions to Miranda[4] for misdemeanor offenses.
The Argument
The Supreme Court heard arguments on February 28th, 1984, and focused arguments on two primary questions. First, the Supreme Court wanted to address if the officer had violated Miranda by failing to give a "Miranda Warning" at the beginning of the traffic stop before the incriminating statements were made. The second issue was whether the officer violated Miranda by failing to give a "Miranda Warning" before the incriminating statements were given at the station house.
Mr. McCarty argued that the officer's failure to provide a "Miranda Warning" at the beginning of the traffic stop should lead to all of his statements being suppressed. Mr. McCarty further argued that custodial interrogation, the key to when "Miranda Warnings" are triggered, began as soon as he was stopped for a traffic offense. Finally, Mr. McCarty argued that his statements at the station house were clearly made during custodial interrogation, and because Miranda did not create an exception for the level of offense, his statements at the station must be suppressed regardless of the level of the offense.
The State argued that there should be an exception to the "Miranda Warning" requirement for minor traffic offenses. The State also argued that a traffic stop is not a custodial interrogation for the purpose of "Miranda Warnings".
The Decision
On July 2nd, 1984, the Supreme Court rendered its judgment. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court addressed both of the issues raised. Led by Justice Thurgood Marshall[5], the opinion rejected the states argument for an exception to Miranda for misdemeanor offenses. The Court reasoned the officers often do not know whether a person has committed a felony or a misdemeanor, and as such an exception to Miranda for misdemeanors would undermine the holding of Miranda.
The Court went on to distinguish between the Statements made by Mr. McCarty at the traffic stop, and the station house. The Court agreed that Mr. McCarty's statements made in the station house ought to be suppressed as he was clearly under custodial interrogation. However, The Court disagreed that Mr. McCarty was under custodial interrogation at the time of the traffic stop. Thus, The Supreme Court held that suspects are not entitled to a "Miranda Warning" during a traffic stop, only after a formal arrest or its functional equivalent had occurred. Finally, the Supreme Court affirmed the 6th Circuits reversal of Mr. McCarty's conviction.
Ironically, the opinion of the Supreme Court was authored by Justice Thurgood Marshall who, had argued against the adoption of the "Miranda Warning" as Solicitor General just 18 years earlier in Miranda v. Arizona.
The Conclusion
The holding in Berkemer created two important rules of criminal law. First, you are not entitled to a "Miranda Warning" during a traffic stop until you are under formal arrest or its functional equivalent. Second, you are entitled to a "Miranda Warning" for all offense once you have been formally arrested. Experienced Legal Representation can help you guarantee that your rights guaranteed in the "Miranda Warning" are protected.
Written By Hunter White
[1] Berkemer v. McCarty, 468 U.S. 420, 104 S. Ct. 3138 (1984)
[2] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/468/420/case.html
[3] Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602 (1966)
[4] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/384/436/


text: THE sudden death of R&B singer ** Aaliyah ** in a Bahamas plane crash last weekend was not only a loss to the music industry. The 22-year-old Grammy nominee and her friend ** Kidada Jones ** , one-time Hilfiger model and daughter of music guru Quincy Jones, were planning to launch their own clothing collection, starting with a line of shirts this autumn. Aaliyah, who has also appeared in adverts for Tommy Hilfiger, was thought to have been collaborating with Jones, who had worked closely with the US designer to create his streetwear line Tommy Jeans in the Nineties. The Jones-Aaliyah venture was set to debut later in the year, with the financial backing Scream Cary Woods, who mugged up on his fashion expertise during his marriage to J. Crew president Emily Cinader Woods. Though the future of the line has now been thrown into doubt, insiders suggest that Jones' indisputable talent will not go to waste.


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In today's job market, vacancies are advertised online and hundreds of applications pour in for a single opening. You may apply, wait, receive no response, and repeat the process until you feel there is nothing more you can do to find a job. Before giving up hope, take charge of these four areas to see if some basic changes could turn your employment search into a successful career: (more…)
In the business environment, having the ability to negotiate efficiently is vital. If you want to succeed and help your company thrive, there's no way you can avoid negotiations. In recent years, an upsetting trend has been materializing among female negotiators. Young women in particular who have recently graduated from business school don't bargain. It's not that they can't, they just don't want to do it. Avoiding negotiations may impact their future careers, so the question is – why are women graduates so terrified of negotiating? (more…)
Studies have shown that millennials are completely changing the way that cars are purchased. Often overwhelmed with student loans and other debt, today's younger car shoppers are looking for a different type of vehicle than other generations did at their age. With that being said, millennials are projected to account for as much as 40 percent of car purchases by 2020. Therefore, it is important for this generation to take the car buying process seriously. In many ways, it should be taken as seriously as looking for a job. In this vein, here are a few tips to consider when purchasing a new vehicle. (more…)
Negotiating is tough at the best of times, but when it's your first job offer it's even harder. It's tempting not to negotiate at all, but this won't get you anywhere! After all, it's better to ask and get turned down than to not even try at all. One of the hardest things to conquer is the feelings of fear and anxiety you'll inevitably face. Here are our tips on how to avoid them becoming an issue. (more…)
Whether you are in the process of graduating, or still have a ways to go; there is no doubt you are thinking about your job prospects. You may be searching for entry-level jobs in your chosen field, or you could be in the midst of a promising internship. Another option is to start your own business using the skills and experience that you have gained in your years of study.
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Are you an active job seeker or a passive job seeker? If you are the latter, then you probably are not the most attractive candidate to an employer. Learn why in the following post.
In professional recruiting circles, a lot of attention is paid to so-called passive candidates. In theory, these are people who only get jobs when recruiters reach out and ask them. Happily employed and fully engaged in their current job, they are supposedly prized precisely because they aren't looking.
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Discover fascinating facts about the Algarve's traditional dance
See original article in Enjoy the Algarve – magazine August 2016
- Portugal's rich folklore includes many traditional dances; in fact, each region has its own. Vira is danced in the Minho region, fandango in the Ribatejo region and chamarita on the Azores. In the Algarve, it's the corridinho.
- Even though the corridinho isn't as well-known a dance as Fado is a type of music, it is known internationally. Apart from the south of Portugal, it's also danced in former Portuguese colonies such as Goa and Macau.
Accordion + polka
- Story goes that the corridinho originated from Eastern Europe and was brought to the Algarve by a Spaniard, Lorenzo Alvarez Garcia. This Lorenzo wanted to impress a Portuguese girl, Maria da Conceição from Loulé, with his moves and introduced a type of polka.
- Add to this fast dance an accordion, which was often played at folk dances at the time, being the instrument of choice in Portugal in the early twentieth century, and the corridinho was born.
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- The corridinho is danced in a circle. Couples embrace with women forming the inside of the circle and men the outside.
- The basic corridinho consists of seven steps forward, followed by three steps to the right and then three steps to the left. After that it's time to turn so the woman is on the outside and the man on the inside. However, over time this simple sequence has evolved into a complicated choreography with extra twists and movements.
Dress code
- Within the corridinho-circle, there are opportunities for each couple to show off special moves in a single performance.
- Although there isn't a specific corridinho dress code, women usually wear long skirts or dresses, whereas men are mostly in suit with a hat. When the corridinho is demonstrated in regional festivals, dancers normally wear traditional costumes.
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Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) has invited applications for the Combined Competitive Preliminary Exam. There are totally 70 vacancies and interested candidates can apply online now for the government exam. The maximum salary for selected candidates in this job will be INR 40000. Apply between June 1 and June 30, 2018!
TNPSC Recruitment 2018 For 805 Horticulture Officers
JKPSC Recruitment 2018 Vacancy Details
|Name Of The Departments
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|Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC)
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Family appeal to find stolen dog believed to be in the Midlands
Family appeal to find stolen dog believed to be in the Midlands
A distraught family are trying desperately to find their beloved dog Lola.
Although Lola was believed to have been taken from a farm in Ardee, Co Louth last weekend, the family have reason to believe she is now in the Midlands.
The beloved pooch was taken by a dark jeep with a KK registration on Saturday evening last, June 8, according to the family.
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How does Online Casino help the country?
There is an argument that discussing about whether gambling brings benefits to a country or not. No matter Online Casino or Landed casino, they will bring some advantages to the country itself. In this article, I will make both online casino and landed casino into one and discuss the advantages. Gambling will increase the job opportunity and reduce the unemployment rate, enhancing the tourism, tax revenue and currency of the money could rise. If gambling market is shut down in a country, nobody can imagine how many people will lose their jobs and thus the country will not safe anymore with increasing of criminal incidents. So, it can be concluded that, gambling improved a country economics.
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Super PAC created to boost Bobby Jindal presidential bid
BATON ROUGE – Republican supporters of Gov. Bobby Jindal have created a super PAC to back a possible 2016 presidential campaign by the Louisiana governor.
Paperwork setting up the political action committee, called Believe Again PAC, was filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission, according to Brad Todd. Todd is a consultant for the new committee and co-founder of Jindal's political advisers OnMessage Inc.
The super PAC will be able to raise unlimited amounts of money to help Jindal, but won't be able to coordinate with him directly.
Former Louisiana U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston is PAC chairman. Rolfe McCollister, a Baton Rouge publisher who spearheaded other pro-Jindal efforts, is serving as treasurer.
Jindal's second term as Louisiana's governor ends next year. He can't run for re-election because of term limits.
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Friday, July 27, 2018
Inspiration - D Mart Founder, Radhakishan Damani – The personality who made himself.
Famously acknowledged as Mr. White and White; Radhakishan Damani is a stock exchange shareholder, dealer, broker and the originator & promoter of Dmart!
Radhakishan Damani's retail chain accounts for 91 stores crosswise the nation and is the third largest in the business.
Much before Dmart came into existence; Radhakishan Damani was acknowledged to be a well-known shareholder in the securities market just like Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.
Because of his Midas touch, Damani has fruitfully got the status of being one of the country's finest value shareholders, and as a matter of reality, he was an adviser to Rakesh Jhunjhunwala himself.
Damani is someone who goes on to acquire tremendously cheap scrips that although hold prospective up till now, nobody wishes to purchase and possess them for a very long run.
As per Forbes list of the wealthiest, Damani boasts $1.1 Billion.
He is broadly recognized for maintaining a low side view in media, and factually, very little is recognized by the man. He prefers to permit his work talk for itself, and it certainly speaks volumes.
He had started his profession as a broker in ball bearings, with no plans to make an entry in the stock market. But destiny had decided something else. After his father's demise, he was forced to shut down that firm and had to become part of his brother's stockbroking business that got inherited from their dad.
He was 32 at that time. He had completely no familiarity about that end of the globe, or how that market worked. So he started as an investor in the securities market. within no time, he came to know that watching was not the most excellent method to make or produce capital, and for this reason, taking motivation from the renowned value investor Chandrakant Sampat, he began playing for the long run.
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Yesterday we celebrated the funeral of Mary Bayes, a delightful member of our parish who died suddenly. Mary was very active in community and neighbourhood associations, so despite the fact that it was Election Day a number of local political figures attended the funeral Mass.
Afterwards I chatted with a very pleasant woman who complimented me on the homily and the liturgy as she left the church. But a few minutes later she came back in the door and said "I should have mentioned that my husband is running for council and we would really appreciate your vote. I'm sorry to approach you like this, but I can tell you he's a very fine man."
"Sorry?" I replied. "You wouldn't be much of a political spouse if you hadn't. And now your husband has one of my votes."
And indeed he did—though he lost anyway!
The encounter got me thinking about World Mission Sunday, which we celebrate today, and about mission in general. One Pope after another has told us that the Church is missionary by her very nature, yet few of us have the zeal of that politician's wife.
The parish staff, the parish council, and the parish finance council are all reading Father James Mallon's book Divine Renovation. In this remarkable manifesto, Father Mallon argues that many in the Church suffer from spiritual amnesia—we have forgotten what the Church is for.
As anyone who has a family member facing the challenges of Alzheimer's disease knows all too well, the loss of memory is painful. It leads to confusion and to consequences like leaving a pot on the stove and so on.
It's the same in the Church. When we forget the true purpose of the Church—making disciples of Jesus—we become confused about why we're Catholics and what we're supposed to do.
Father Mallon writes that many in our pews are wearing "invisible suits of armour." When Christ's message is preached with full force of—and it isn't always—it just bounces off.
We will talk more in the weeks and months ahead about the message of Divine Renovation, but on this Mission Sunday I want to quote just one sentence. It boils down the message that we are called to share with our neighbours, our family, our friends, and the farthest corners of the world.
Here's the key sentence: "We can speak of the truth that we are never alone, that God desires to dwell in us, to consume us, and to have us consume him, but in the end it is possible to simplify the message into one word: Jesus."
This is the message of our second reading at Mass today, from the Letter to the Hebrews. Jesus himself is the good news of our faith; Jesus makes a difference in our lives; and Jesus understands everything about us.
Who wouldn't want to know someone who knows and sympathizes with them so completely?
The letter states clearly that Jesus is the Son of God, interceding for us before the throne of the Father. That alone should inspire confidence. But at the same time, he is fully human—one of us, who has been tempted like us, though without sin.
It's so easy to dismiss the importance of Christ's temptations. After all, he was God; how hard can the testing have been for him? Yet his temptations were far harder than ours, since "human experience shows that giving in to temptation, even a little, lessens its intensity (even though giving in will lead to further temptations in the long run). Jesus' temptations were all the more intense precisely because he did not yield to them in the least. [Mary Healy, "Hebrews," Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, p. 98]
And there's still more to unpack from the brief description of our great high priest in Hebrews. "Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness," the letter says.
Look at three words in that sentence. "Therefore" relates to what we've just been talking about—the fact that Jesus sympathizes with our weakness, and understands our temptations.
And the invitation to "approach" suggests that God is nothing less than approachable. I took the trouble to look up the word. The dictionary definition is "capable of being approached, accessible; and, specifically, easy to meet or deal with."
Finally, that word "boldness." Hebrews says that we know more than enough about Jesus to be fully confident in approaching the throne of grace—not just for mercy, but for all the help we need in every circumstance.
What a positive message for weary, wounded, and wondering folks! What good news to share by every possible means, from inviting people to Alpha to supporting the crucial World Mission Sunday collection.
But if the missionary spirit is really to revive in the Church—if we are to share Jesus with our neighbours and to make disciples of all nations, if we are to share the joy that "we are never alone, that God desires to dwell in us, to consume us, and to have us consume him," then we must know him ourselves.
The wife of that unsuccessful candidate persuaded me to vote for her husband in two different ways. I've already mentioned that I was impressed by her boldness. But I was equally convinced by her simple testimony: "I know him," she said, "and I really think he'd make a great member of council."
There's a good model for how we'll all share our faith with others once we rediscover the true purpose of the Church and "the essential identity of all the baptized to be missionary disciples, called to know Jesus and make him known."


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SLMC-BBS conflict stage-managed for provincial polls – Kabir HashimTuesday, March 25th, 2014
by Zacki Jabbar
The SLMC had in recent weeks launched scathing attacks on extremist forces in the government to impress the Muslim community in the run-up to the Western and Southern Provincial Council Elections, the UNP charged yesterday.
Chairman of the UNP Kabir Hashim MP, addressing a press conference in Colombo, said that if the SLMC had been convinced that organisations such as the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) were behind the destruction of minority religious places of worship including Mosques, it should have quit the ruling alliance.
The ongoing battle between the SLMC and the BBS was staged managed with the script being written by the President's Office, Hashim said, adding that they were playing to the gallery with a view to fooling their respective electorates.
The MP pointed out that the SLMC became vociferous only during elections. "They have let down the Muslims including those who had cast their votes for the UNP, since it was with their assistance that the SLMC candidates got elected to Parliament."
The soap opera presented by the Rajapaksa regime with the SLMC and BBS as actors was aimed at stalling the rapidly increasing support for the UNP. That was in addition to violent attacks including the killing of a UNP activist in Gampaha last week, Hashim said, observing that government goon squads were geared for more attacks on its rivals, knowing very well that its voter base was dwindling by the day.
SLMC Gen. Sec. says -'Muslims want us to join the TNA'Friday, March 21st, 2014
By Niranjala Ariyawansha
General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), Hasan Ali, stated that even though the SLMC has been with the government for so long the issues faced by Muslims are yet to be resolved. It is therefore the hope of the Muslim community that the SLMC joins with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).
He added that though five years have elapsed since the war ended, the government had failed to address the issues of the Muslims.Hasan Ali told Ceylon Today: "In the Ampara District alone in the Eastern Province, there are unsolved issues pertaining to 3,000 acres of land of farmers. The ordinary farmers are facing numerous issues with the Departments of Forest Conservation and Wildlife Conservation in connection with irrigating their land. Though the Ministers have provided solutions, the officials are not implementing them, no matter howmuch we tell them.' Meanwhile, the ordinary Muslims living in the coastal areas of the Eastern Province are unable to speak Sinhala. Therefore the Sinhala speaking officers are unable to resolve their issues, Hasan Ali pointed out.
"In the coastal areas of the Eastern Province, 74% of the population speaks Tamil. To surmount the language problem, we proposed a long time ago to appoint a group of Tamil speaking officers under a Tamil speaking additional district secretary in the Ampara District Secretariat. But none of these proposals were heeded," he lamented.
BBS agitated by Hakeem's reportTuesday, March 18th, 2014
While condemning a report submitted to the UNHRC on alleged religious disharmony in the country by Minister Rauf Hakeem, the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Organisation today charged that the contents of the report were false and the Minister should immediately rectify his actions.
"Justice Minister Rauf Hakeem has mentioned that there is no religious freedom in Sri Lanka in his report submitted to the UNHRC. Allegations in this report are baseless and traitorous. The way these allegations have been made is not ethical. The Minister should rectify his actions unless we too can complain to the UNHRC," BBS General Secretary Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera told a news conference.
The Thera said the 50-page-long report had also accused the BBS of creating religious disharmony in the country and harassing minorities.
"We completely reject the allegation made against the BBS. We challenge the Minister to prove if we had harassed any minority. We raised our voice against Buddhists consuming Halaal-certified foods; we had nothing against Muslims or Muslims consuming Halaal-certified foods,' he said.
The Thera also said Minister Hakeem had complained about a book written by Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka on Al Qaeda, using the freedom of expression against the country.
The Thera said Sri Lanka was one of the few courtiers that had religious harmony and said Minister Hakeem's report would tarnish the image of Sri Lanka in the eyes of the world. (Lahiru Pothmulla)
Vasu defends HakeemTuesday, March 18th, 2014
By Niranjala Ariyawansha
Minister of National Languages and Social Integration, Vasudeva Nanayakkara, on Saturday defended Justice Minister Rauff Hakeem, saying he is a vital part of the government in the process of social reconciliation, and that he should be allowed to continue in the government.
Nanayakkara said he did not accept that Hakeem had made an anti-government statement. He was responding to a question from this newspaper on the crisis in the government, following Hakeem making a statement to United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, Navi Pillay, on the grievances of the Muslim community.
Nanayakkara said: "I have no issue with regard to Hakeem's behaviour. What he has effectively spoken of, in that letter to the UN, are the injustices meted out to the Muslim community and whatever obligations that have not been met by the government."
He also debunked the statements made by former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, that there was no religious tolerance and co-habitation.
"There is no other country in Asia that has religious tolerance similar to Sri Lanka. It is true there were some threats levelled at some religious venues, but, I don't think there was a problem in relation to religious issues, even if there is some heat in that direction," he said.
BBS, Ravana Balaya have spun out of control, says HakeemTuesday, March 18th, 2014
By Lal Gunasekera
SLMC Leader and Justice Minister Rauff Hakeem said yesterday that extremist groups like the Bodu Bala Sena, Ravana Balaya and Sinhala Ravaya had spun out of control and they should be kept on a tight leash by the government.
Addressing a rally in Matara, Minister Hakeem said that the law should apply to all and sundry and containing those extremist groups would help stop attacks on places of religious worship.
Minister Hakeem said that the SLMC was a democratic party and that the Muslim community expected it to stand up for their rights.
The party was attempting to reform the government from within and it had a responsibility towards their community. President Mahinda Rajapaksa should put a stop to those extremist elements who were backed by some government allies, he said.
The Justice Minister said that the SLMC was not attempting to destabilise the government and it was not a puppet of the international community or NGOs, contrary to claims made in some quarters. He said that he had not conspired against the President or the government and that his conscience was clear on that matter.
The government should protect all sections of the populace and that would make the government stronger than ever, Minister Hakeem said.
He said that though the SLMC had been left out of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on the ethnic issue, it had chosen to remain in the government while the main opposition parties like the UNP, TNA and JVP were boycotting it.
Hakeem has betrayed the nation – Faiszer MusthaphaThursday, March 13th, 2014
By Ruwan Laknath Jayakody
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) must conduct itself appropriately if it wants to stay in the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Government, Deputy Minister of Investment Promotion, Faiszer Musthapha, said on Wednesday (12. He added that, nothing could distance or alienate the local and international Muslim community from Sri Lanka.
Referring to the report sent by the SLMC to the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, Musthapha said: "He has betrayed the nation, the people and politics. Here is a person, who while being in government, had helped other parties during elections and had done everything to skin the hide of the government, and had then come back without any shred of decency to claim a ministerial post. However, the redeemable fact and saving grace are that most of the persons in his Party and the representatives of the Party, who are in the Pradeshiya Sabhas, work for the welfare of the masses."
Speaking further, he said: "The United National Party (UNP), whose stronghold was once Colombo, is now trying to distort the perception of the general public in Colombo as they now wallow in despair. Although they may try to orphan the public, the masses will not allow that to happen. We will win Colombo, resoundingly. We also implemented a new housing programme for over 80,000 households who were living under dire, impoverished circumstances, in squalor and without any dignity, in places that are derisively and derogatorily termed as 'koreas' and 'somalias.'"
Report presented by SLMC to HC Navi Pillay: Religious Violence in Sri Lanka Jan 2013 – Dec 2013Monday, March 10th, 2014
An update of "Muslims' Concerns" presented by the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, August 2013
Key Information
1. Over the 12 month period between January and December 2013 there were at least 241 anti-Muslim attacks andat least 69 anti-Christian attacks in Sri Lanka. 51 of the anti-Muslim incidents were violent, involving either physical violence against individuals or destruction of property. 15attacks against Christians were violent. There were no significant attacks against Buddhists and Hindus. […]
To access the report Annex 1 – Religious Violence 2013
Hakeem's report not adverse on the Govt. – RajithaThursday, March 6th, 2014
The report sent to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanetham Pillay, by Justice Minister, Rauff Hakeem, is not an adverse report on the government, the Minister of Fisheries, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said.
Speaking to the media at the SLFP Headquarters yesterday (5), he further said that Minister Hakeem had only mentioned the recent attacks on places of Muslim religious worship, and the inaction by the government in this regard.
"When HR Commissioner, Pillay, had visited the country on an earlier occasion, she had met with Minister Hakeem and other Sri Lanka Muslim Congress stalwarts. We believe he has a right to meet her. We also know that he had not included anything detrimental about the government in his report to the HR Commissioner," Minister Senaratne reiterated. […]
SLMC is a mere dead weight – JHU-Urges Govt. to break tiesThursday, March 6th, 2014
By Ruwan Laknath Jayakody
Declaring that the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) was mere dead weight, the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), urged the President who was responsible for getting the SLMC on board the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Government, to take immediate action to cut off ties.
Referring to statements made by the SLMC to the effect that they had not been asked to leave the UPFA Government, the National Organizer, JHU, Nishantha Sri Warnasinghe, said: "By stating that there is no religious freedom for the Muslims to practice Islam, in view of the certain issues attributed to Buddhists and various Buddhist organizations, the SLMC is blackmailing the government. This is a very dangerous situation. They know that we are in a difficult situation, internationally, in relation to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, and we are in need of the support of other Muslim countries to support us. Hence, we won't get such support due to the SLMC tarnishing our reputation."
SLMC will quit government if President so requestsWednesday, March 5th, 2014
By Ruwan Laknath Jayakody
If the President officially asks us to leave the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Government, we would do so, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) said."No such move has however been made from either end," SLMC General Secretary, Hasan Ali added.
Although the Media Secretary to the Ministry of Justice, Dr. A.R.A. Hafeez, declined to comment, and SLMC Leader, Rauff Hakeem, was unavailable for comment, the National Organizer, SLMC, Shafeek Rajabdeen, when contacted told Ceylon Today, "We are a greater constituent partner of the government, and thus the President won't ask us to call it a day with his outfit (the UPFA) by bringing an end to this fruitful, mutually beneficial partnership. He just won't do it as it is not in his best interests to do so."
Meanwhile, Ali said that a completely flawed view of the SLMC was being formed as a result of provocations from certain racist political parties representing the UPFA Government.
He said the SLMC had given a report to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, outlining injustices faced by the Muslims living in the country. Information contained in the report was freely available on the World Wide Web, he said. […]


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Summer Festival Preview: Amherstburg Uncommon Festival
Wednesday August 1st, 2018
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Expect the uncommon in Amherstburg this weekend, as the region's most unusual and uncommon festival of the year takes over the town.
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Windsor ComiCon will host a "steampunk or Harry Potter inspired" costume contest to add to the ambiance. For those who want to travel back in time, the WFCU Big Top will feature Dr. Von Houligan's Carnival of Calamities!
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For more information on this festival and other weekend fun, visit the Windsor-Essex Summer Festival Guide.


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Sunday, October 18, 2009
WANTED : a little hocus pocus
Good morning Blogland Neighbor-hood ! What we're needing around here is Samantha to wiggle her nose and work her magic because ....
..with "help" from Daisy, the MBIAJ Sewing Dept finished...
....this LONG overdue graduation quilt for niece Stephanie .... well, the quilt TOP is finally finished and now it has been added to.....
..this pile of quilt tops that need to be quilted .....which is why we placed a "Help Wanted Ad" in the "Witches Gazette" requesting an experienced witch to come and wiggle her nose and utter a magic spell to get these quilt tops quilted and on their way to their new homes. Obviously this is a busy time of year for witches and while we were hoping to get Samantha Stevens, look who we got instead .....
...Kitty in her Halloween costume ..... (sigh)
OK, back to the sewing machine ....
Be back soon.
Mary Anne (aka Mare)
5 comments:
- Pat said...
Maybe Miss Kitty will surprise you and will get those tops quilted. Maybe she can twitch her whiskers!!!
- October 18, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- Busy Little Quilter said...
I often wish I could twitch my nose, too.
My best friend has a long arm machine, and she does my machine quilting. I don't mind quilting, but I would rather her do it since it doesn't take her as long as it would take me. I'm not that great at machine quilting. I can't wait to see how yours turns out.
- October 18, 2009 at 2:35 PM
- Mona said...
Congratulations on completing your quilt top! It's adorable!!
Love Miss Kitty's costume. I'm sure she can twitch her whiskers and make a little hocus pocus...but, perhaps not with the results you are hoping for.
- October 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM
- jerseygirl said...
oooh oooh I see it, it's the second one from the top. do you go in order, or is it like an ipod shuffle and you grab randomly from the pile. because of you go in order i think i see the light at the end of the tunneL. I miss you and think of you every day!
- October 19, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Jan said...
Ahhhhh it's purty Mary Ann! Congratulations on finishing it :) Now get to quilting (LOL). I've got a HQ16 and I'm still behind! There just isn't enough "sewing time" in our lives. LOL at Miss Kitty! I just love that little thang :)
- October 21, 2009 at 8:07 AM


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The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffith
Publication: March 2019 (US)
Format: Library hardcover
Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Reason I Chose It: I love Griffith's Ruth Galloway mystery series, and two bloggers I follow loved it (FictionFan and Cleo.)
It's been a long time since I've read a book this engaging. I finished it in two days and felt like I really wanted to write about it while it was fresh. You may have noticed that I've been scarce around here for a little bit. I'm trying to figure out just exactly what I want my blog to look like. I feel like I need to shake things up. I'm really burned out on writing reviews. They're not fun for me anymore, they're more like homework that I want to avoid. I've got three finished books for the Classics Club that I'm going to try and write some mini-reviews for, but other than that I think my reviews are going on the back burner.
Anyway, back to the book. It's told from the perspectives of three characters: divorced mom and English teacher Clare Cassidy; DS Harbinder Kaur, a detective of Indian descent who still lives at home with her parents at age 35, and Clare's teenaged daughter Georgie, who loves books and writing but hides this talent from her mother. The setting is Talgarth High, a British high school with a so-so academic reputation and a haunted past. The novel opens with a story within the story, one that Clare teaches to her students regularly, "The Stranger," by R.M. Holland, who long ago lived in the building where Clare now teaches. It's a ghost story, a horror story, and it elicits chills from students year after year. Clare takes a break from discussing the story with some adult creative writing students to receive some awful news: her good friend and English department colleague Ella has been murdered. There's a chilling detail: a line from the Holland story is found on a post-it note near her body. As the police seek the killer and suspect someone connected to the school, Clare turns to writing in her diary for comfort. Only one day she sees that an unknown person has written a message to her in her diary: "Hallo Clare. You don't know me."
I loved the Gothic atmosphere of this contemporary standalone British mystery. The ghost story within the story is genuinely spooky, and R.M. Holland's life story adds another creepy element (his wife is said to have committed suicide in the building and supposedly haunts it.) The three main characters are strong and fully realized, each with secrets they keep from one another. Clare and Georgie's mother-daughter relationship is very realistic, fraught with tension but fiercely loving all the same. DS Kaur and Clare at first are very suspicious of one another but grow into a nice mutual admiration. There are red herrings everywhere, especially after another person connected to the school is murdered. I genuinely had no clue who the killer was until very late in the book. An unexpected treat was Clare and Georgie's sweet dog, Herbert. He plays a crucial role in the story and in their family, providing companionship and protection. This is also a book for book lovers: allusions to Harry Potter, Georgette Heyer, Shakespeare, and Wilkie Collins abound.
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Navy player named in England 7s squad
Cpl Greg Barden (RM Poole) has been named in Engalnd's initial 17-man training squad preparing to take part in the Rugby Sevens at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
The RFU released details of the squad and its build up to New Dehli. The squad will undergo an intensive 12-week training programme - based at the National Sports Centre at Bisham Abbey and the Lensbury Club in Teddington - which includes England's first ever appearance at the Middlesex Sevens playing as a Help For Heroes side on August 14.
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Greg Barden (Royal Navy)
Kevin Barrett (Saracens)
John Brake
Dan Caprice
Alex Cheesman (Oxford University)
Chris Cracknell
Isoa Damudamu (British Army)
Ben Gollings
Simon Hunt (Birmingham and Solihull)
Ollie Lindsay-Hague (Harlequins)*
Miles Mantella (Harlequins)
Dan Norton (Bristol Rugby)
Tom Powell
James Rodwell
Nick Royle
Mathew Turner
Christian Wade (London Wasps)
Commonwealth Games Rugby Sevens, October 11-12
Pool A: New Zealand, Scotland, Canada, Guyana
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Homeopathic medicines for prevention of influenza and acute respiratory tract infections in children: blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial.
Siqueira CM1, Homsani F2, da Veiga VF3, Lyrio C4, Mattos H5, Passos SR6, Couceiro JN3, Quaresma CH7.
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The lawful basis for processing personal data
Outsourcing services
African Clinical research Limited collect and process personal data on the lawful basis of a contract to provide employment services through business process outsourcing.
Accounting services
African Clinical research Limited collect and process personal data on the lawful bases of contract and legal obligation to provide to provide accounting services including audit, PAYE, Tax and payroll services.
Umbrella services
African Clinical research Limited collect and process personal data on the lawful bases of contract and legal obligation to provide umbrella services.
Training services
African Clinical research Limited collect and process personal data on the lawful basis of a contract to provide training and knowledge acquisition services
Business management services
African Clinical research Limited collect and process personal data on the lawful basis of a contract to provide business management services including virtual office, meeting space, office space hire, company address, mailing, telephony and administrative services,
For Promotions and Communications
African Clinical research Limited collect and process personal data based on legitimate interest to provide promotional and general communications to our clients, customers, and suppliers.
How your personal information may be used
The amount of personal information that you are required to give is limited to only that which is necessary for the provision of the required services. In general, African Clinical research Limited will primarily use your personal information for the process of providing to you the information security consultancy services and information asset protection services which you have requested of African Clinical Research Limited, and/or throughout the lifecycle of your employment or business relationship with us. These uses may include but are not limited to, using your personal information for insurance or workplace claims, payroll, information security and data protection services, legal and regulatory requirements or providing your information to customers who are seeking to fill an employment position that matches your profile.
Due to the nature and scope of our services and obligations, African Clinical research Limited will usually collect personal information directly from you or third party companies who intend to employ you or you have selected to work with or to represent you. This collection could occur through conversations in person, in writing, over the phone, or through e-mail.
African Clinical research Limited may also collect information in other ways, such as working with third-party suppliers for example vetting organizations, security services, law enforcement, lawyers, Law firms, educational and research institutions, government departments or through your interaction with African Clinical research Limited websites, social sites, applications, or your use of third-party websites and applications that interact with African Clinical Research Limited.
Some African Clinical research Limited web pages may require you to provide personal information, such as when you create a profile and log in credentials. Instead of having to type in your personal information, some of these functionalities may allow you to use third-party authentication tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google to populate certain fields. By authenticating through one of the social media options, you allow us to receive your personal and other information that is accessible through these tools. This information may be incorporated into your profile. For the tool you chose to use, we encourage you to also review the tool provider's privacy policy and any terms and conditions.
We may use personal information to permit you to participate in live social media feeds. If you choose to participate, your public username may be displayed on the sites along with your post, including, but not limited to, comments, images, and video.
We may provide you with access to third-party functionality that allows you to post content to your social media account(s). Any information that you provide through use of this functionality is governed by the applicable third party's privacy policy, and not by this Privacy Statement.
We may use your contact information to send you e-mail messages about our company, or job postings that fit your profile. Only African Clinical research limited (or agents working on behalf of African Clinical Research Limited) will send you these direct mailings. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings via e-mail; see the Choice: Opt Out/Opt In the section below.
African Clinical research Limited may also collect anonymous demographic data (e.g. what percentage of our employees are college graduates) in order to improve our own internal processes, or in order provide reports to customers, marketing companies, or as required by law. If we do collect and report this demographic information, we remove any unique personally identifiable information (name, address, etc.) that would attach you to this demographic data, and combine it with other anonymous data in order to view it at an aggregated level.
African Clinical research Limited will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide you with our services, or as otherwise required by law. When it is no longer necessary to hold your personal information, it will be removed from our systems.
Cookies and Web beacons
African Clinical research Limited websites and pages use "cookies" to help personalize the online experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about that user. They also allow us to identify those computers when they return to a site. You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the option of whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do so, areas of some sites may not function properly. African Clinical research Limited uses both session ID and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie simply expires once the user closes the browser. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time. These can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions.
To help us provide better service, we may sometimes collect anonymous information from visits to our sites through the use of "web beacons." These do not access your personal information, but rather allow African Clinical research Limited to log users who have visited our websites. This anonymous information is sometimes known as "clickstream data." African Clinical research Limited or its vendors may use this data to analyze trends and statistics to help us provide better customer service. If you do not want your transaction details used in this manner, see the paragraph above on cookies.
We allow third-party companies to collect certain anonymous information when you visit our website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or a third-party web beacon to collect this information.
Links: For links to non-African Clinical research Limited organizations, African Clinical research Limited is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We recommend you review the terms and conditions of use and privacy policies in place on such websites.
With whom we may share your personal information
African Clinical research Limited holds its employees, agents, and suppliers accountable for maintaining the trust you place in us. African Clinical research Limited does not sell or trade personal information to third parties. We will disclose personal information when required by law.
African Clinical research Limited will not share your personal information with marketing companies.
In order to provide our services to you, we may share your personal with other African Clinical research Limited entities that are governed by the same African Clinical research Limited privacy principles and security practices.
Due to the financial scope of our operation, personal information may be transferred, stored, and processed in countries outside of your country of residence. African Clinical research Limited is committed to ensuring that proper measures to safeguard your information are in place, and where possible we shall give notice of such a transfer. African Clinical research Limited abides by the EU GDPR adequacy rules, local privacy rules and the U.S.-EU and U.S.-Swiss "Safe Harbor" Frameworks developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland.
African Clinical research Limited has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement.
Once a candidate signs up for our services, African Clinical research Limited may also engage a service provider to analyze classified security intelligence, curricula vitae (CVs) and resumes through automatic credit vetting tools and Internet search tool. The tools allow African Clinical research Limited to determine credit standing of subject/applicant and to search internal databases as well as affiliated recruitment sites on which subject matter experts and candidates have registered to parse CV details and information, and African Clinical research Limited will store this information as a part of your record.
We will send the personal information of our candidates, workforce suppliers, and temporary employees to African Clinical research Limited customers who are looking to procure our services or recruit, and also to our service providers or agents (processors) acting on our behalf to provide you data security and protection services, employment or project opportunities.
We will occasionally use third party service providers to assist African Clinical research Limited in areas such as job advertisements, suppliers, partners, joint ventures, managing résumé/CV data, IT platform management or support services, infrastructure and application services, marketing, data analytics, drug and background screening, payroll processing services, and health care benefits. In providing these services on behalf of African Clinical Research Limited, it may be necessary for African Clinical research Limited to provide these third parties access to personal information.
When these third parties are utilized, any such access will be governed by appropriate contractual requirements as stated by GDPR 679/2016 which mandate that the service provider (processor) secure all personal information and prohibit the use of any personal information for any purpose outside of the direction and service being provided to African Clinical Research Limited.
The personal information that is collected when registering through the job search and application function, as well as the application process itself, is hosted by a third-party vendor. This personal information is stored in a secure manner by this vendor and is accessible only through a secure connection by African Clinical research Limited recruiters who are working to connect you with relevant job opportunities.
Automatic decision making and profiling
Please note that some of the financial services we offer such as loans and credit services are subjected to processing and profiling using automatic tools belonging to processors we work with. The decision regarding applications is based on the result of the automatic processing and profiling. Subject has the right to refuse to be processed through automatic processing and profiling, African Clinical Research does not have any alternative to making decisions about loans and credits. We have put in place a process including human intervention, where a representative of our organization will contact the applicant (subject) regarding this method of processing and profiling and the result of the application. Subject has the right to refuse or accept results of automatic processing and profiling or withdraw their application.
Choice: opt-out/opt-in
The amount of personal information you are required to supply when requesting our services will be limited to that which is necessary to supply such services. We may periodically use your contact information to send you updates via e-mail in order to alert you to promotional opportunities or services relevant to your interactions with African Clinical Research Limited, such as services and jobs in our database that match your selected criteria. Each notification will provide instructions on how to opt out of receiving similar e-mails. At the point where we request personal information about you, our site also gives you the opportunity to decide which communications you wish to receive.
The database is automatically updated with your preferences when you opt out.
Note: where your interactions with African Clinical research Limited have resulted in your registering for multiple services or resources, opting out from messages from one service may not automatically remove you from another. It may be necessary to opt out of each service separately.
Your rights
African Clinical research Limited strives to keep your personally identifiable information accurate. You have right and ability to access, review and update the personal information you have provided. Because African Clinical research Limited offers a wide variety of different services, the personal information collected by each African Clinical research Limited operation may not all reside in a single location, such as when you submit your résumé/curriculum vitae (CV) to African Clinical research Limited operations.
Due to the diversity of applications used to support the various functions and services provided by African Clinical Research Limited, choices and modifications to your personal information in one platform may not be reflected across all platforms. You may, therefore, need to update your information on each platform separately.
(See the How to Contact Us section below.)
Where applicable under the GDPR, there may be a small fee associated with this access request in order to cover the costs of providing you with information.
Where our processing of personal information is based on legitimate interest, you have the right to object to processing at any time if you so wish, without any detriment. To object, see the 'How to Contact Us' section below.
You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authorities.
African Clinical research Limited takes care to secure your personal information. We regularly monitor industry standards for securing information and review our physical, technical, and organizational security practices in order to determine how best to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized access, destruction or disclosure of your personal information.
Updates to this privacy statement
African Clinical research Limited may update this Privacy Statement from time to time, so please review it frequently. If we change our Privacy Statement, we will post the revised version here, with an updated revision date. If we make significant changes to our Privacy Statement, we may also notify you by other means prior to the changes taking effect, such as, but not limited to, sending an e-mail or posting a notice on our website.
Processing data for minors and children under the age of 16
African Clinical research Limited will need the consent and participation as/ if required of the parent or guardian to process the data or respond to a request of direct or indirect customers below the age of sixteen. We reserve the right to refuse service, to verify age and of identification to clarify age of data subjects at any time as required by business and law.
How to contact us
African Clinical research Limited shall welcome any format of contact for requests but will prefer to have requests submitted in writing (hard copy or email) we have provided a process to respond to your privacy questions, access request, queries, and complaints. For those who are physically challenged we accept any form of contact as long as we can verify identity and validate authentication, as it applies to every subject. We assign ownership of our data privacy practices at both the International and U.K. world headquarters to provide open communication and dispute resolution to our customers, candidates, and employees. You can send email to firstname.lastname@example.com African Clinical research Limited abides by all relevant government and industry regulatory requirements, including but not limited to the European Commission GDPR 2016/679, "Safe Harbor" framework developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and more details are available on
At African Clinical research Limited we shall welcome any format of contact for requests but will prefer subject request to be made in writing, we are working hard to protect your privacy while delivering information asset security, data protection, secured financial services, and innovative career development and workforce solutions. Our privacy principles represent our commitment to ensuring that your personal information is safe and secure. If you believe that African Clinical research Limited has not adhered to these principles and practices or omitted any topic please contact us first at our office address or online through email@example.com and we will work diligently to promptly determine and remedy the problem.