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(SAN JOSE, Calif.) — Cybersecurity is expected to top the agenda when President Obama sits down for two days of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California on Friday, as Obama looks for indications that his counterpart is ready to address high-tech attacks that China reportedly is launching to steal sensitive information from the U.S. government and the private sector.
While the Chinese have denied such spying, these meetings give Obama an opportunity to outline his case in person and to see if Xi is willing to tackle the reported hackings, which the White House believes threaten the U.S. economy and national security.
"We expect this to become a standing issue in the U.S.-China relationship, given the importance of cybersecurity to the global economy," a senior administration official told reporters on a conference call this week. "The message that the president will send is that there's an expectation that all of us are working together to protect the infrastructure of the global economy against cyber intrusion and that countries need to meet their responsibilities."
The two countries have already established a working group and agreed to hold regular discussions on the issue.
"Xi seems to be someone who is fast on his feet, who is open to engagement," the official said. "There is reason to hope that President Obama and President Xi can, beginning from a high starting point, have a substantive, candid and productive conversation."
The "getting to know you" meetings are also aimed at forging a personal connection between the two leaders as the superpowers chart a new relationship.
The somewhat casual setting, the luxury 200-acre "Sunnylands" estate in Palm Springs, Calif., once owned by Walter Annenberg, was chosen, in part, to lessen the pressure that comes along with high-profile meetings in Washington.
"A venue like Sunnylands allows for a more informal set of discussions than we've had with China to date in the sense that it's a less scripted, less formal, less rigid agenda but, rather, there is some space for the two leaders to interact and have more open-ended discussions about the issues that underlie the U.S.-China relationship," the official said.
While the setting may be informal, the meetings will be long and the subjects of discussion serious.
In addition to cybersecurity, the leaders also likely will discuss economic cooperation between the world's two largest economies and the U.S. military's expanding role in the region, Obama's so-called "Asia pivot."
Human rights concerns, Syria, and North Korea are also on the agenda.
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One of the most consistent messages I offer here is about interactions with law enforcement, and can be expressed in two words — shut up — although "oh you dumb son of a bitch will you for the love of God shut up" might capture the flavor better.
In brief, the reasons to shut up are these: cops are not looking out for your best interests. Cops are looking to make, or close, a case, which they seek to do according to their cultural preconceptions. If you answer their questions, cops' evaluation of your words will be colored by their habitual assumption that you are lying. That assumption may be premised on their culture, their simmering mood disorders, their pathological tendency to associate you (whoever you are) with the very worst people they encounter on the job, and their evaluation of evidence they may or may not have understood. If you talk to them, it is somewhere between possible and likely that you will incriminate yourself, whether or not you have done anything. If you talk to them, it is possible that some types of cops will turn around and have you charged with a crime based on the talking itself, upon a thoroughly transparent theory that you "obstructed" them. Your instinct is to talk your way out of the situation, but that is an instinct born of prior interactions with reasonable people of good faith, and inapplicable to this interaction with people (1) who have mostly unchecked power over your and (2) who are, at the most optimistic, indifferent to how the interaction will turn out for you, and (3) who are perfectly capable of lying about what you said (or getting it wrong because they didn't understand it) and having their word presumed true by the criminal justice system.
So, I say, don't talk to the cops. Ask to speak with an attorney, and get competent advice before you answer the cops' questions. Are there mundane situations in which you might rationally decide to talk to the cops — say, if a neighbor's house is burglarized, and they come to ask if you saw anything? Sure. But you should view each interaction with the cops with an extreme caution bordering on paranoia, as you would handle a dangerous wild animal. When you talk to a cop, you are talking to someone who is often privileged to kill you with complete impunity, someone whose claims about what you said during your interaction — however fantastical — will likely be accepted uncritically by the system even if the particular cop is a proven serial liar. Even the most mundane interaction carries the potential for life-altering disaster.
People ask commonly ask if this advice might lead police to suspect them of wrongdoing, or if it might even lead to their detention or arrest. Yes, it might. Life carries difficult choices and risk assessments. One of those risk assessments is whether, in an interaction with police, it is more dangerous to talk, or more dangerous to shut up. My point, in advocating shutting up, is to suggest that people's risk assessment is often misguided: distorted by the cultural message that cops are the thin blue line of heroes we should trust, colored by our misplaced faith in our ability to talk our way out of situations, and incorrectly premised on the belief that cops asking questions will react fairly or in good faith to the answers. People substantially underestimate the negative risks of interactions with law enforcement, and substantially overestimate the upside of such interactions. Moreover, people underestimate not only the amount of risk of bad consequences, but the extremity of those consequences if they occur. That's why I suggest that the risks of shutting up and asking to talk to a lawyer (which might include increased law enforcement suspicion of you, temporary detention, arrest, or even violence) are often outweighed by the downside risk of incriminating yourself or making a statement that cops will lie about or otherwise use against you.
Today I wanted to note that I recognize that my weighing of risks is colored by privilege.
"Privilege" is a term that's overused and misused in modern political discourse. Too often it's used like a crass "shut up, I win" button in an argument. But "privilege" is sometimes an apt descriptive term of a human phenomenon: a person's evaluation of a situation (like interaction with law enforcement) is colored by his or her own experiences, and those experiences are usually circumscribed by that person's cultural identity and wealth. Any criminal defense attorney who has served affluent clients is familiar with this: such clients often conclude that they are a victim of a conspiracy, or of a "rogue cop" or "loose cannon prosecutor," because their life experiences lead them to assume that the system can't possibly treat all people the way they are being treated. By contrast, clients who have lived in poverty (or clients who are African-American or Latino) tend to recognize outrageous conduct in their case as the system working the way the system typically works — business as usual. In my post about the prosecution and death of Aaron Swartz, I argued that Swartz' community showed such privilege in its reaction to his prosecution, seeing some sort of singular conspiracy where others saw the banal grinding of the system's unfeeling wheels.
My advice to shut up is colored, in part, by privilege. I was reminded of this yesterday when Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies searched Justin Bieber's house. I praised Bieber for shutting up and declining to talk to the cops, and joked that criminal defense attorneys could shame clients into better practices by asking why they aren't smarter than Justin Bieber.
But Justin Bieber and I — and many of my clients — share a crucial quality: we're affluent and fortunate. This privilege makes us better able to endure the potential downside risks of shutting up. If we get arrested on a petty or bogus charge by a pissed-off cop, we can make bail. We won't spend weeks or months in custody on that bogus charge because we can't scrape together a few thousand dollars. Maybe we'll spend the weekend in jail, because cops love to arrest you Friday afternoon, but we'll get out in a few days at most, and in the meantime we won't lose our jobs. Because we have families and support systems, if we do get thrown in jail on a bogus job by an angry cop, the Department of Child and Family Services won't take away our children, plunging us into another broken system we have neither the money nor the knowledge to navigate. If the cops tow or impound our car, we can afford to pay the few hundred to few thousand dollars to get it out, and we won't lose our jobs for lack of transportation. Even if we do lose our jobs because of a bogus and retaliatory arrest, we have savings, and families with savings, and we won't swiftly lose our homes. If the police choose to retaliate against our silence with petty tickets and infractions and fines rather than arrest, we can fight them or absorb them.
That's a privilege. Poor people don't have it. Poor people live on the razor's edge, and a bogus retaliatory arrest can destroy them. Retaliatory and capricious enforcement of petty crimes and infractions can destroy them financially. Police wield disproportionate power over them, and the criminal justice system and its agendas (like the War on Drugs) disproportionately impacts them. Police are more likely to use force against poor people and for the most part can do so without any significant risk of discipline.
When you and I weigh the downside risks of shutting up against the downside risks of talking, our downside risks are milder, and can be endured. People without our resources face a must starker choice: talk, and incriminate themselves, or shut up, and face an array of consequences they may not be equipped to survive.
I maintain my advice to shut up. But I acknowledge it's easier and safer for me — and for most of the people reading this blog — than it is for the people who most frequently encounter the police.
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An egg custard tart is a dessert widely coveted by Earth Kingdom citizens.[1] As the name implies, the tart is a baked pastry filled with egg custard.
While traversing the Great Divide together with the Zhangs and the Gan Jins, Aang discovered both tribes had smuggled food in defiance of the canyon guide's warnings. His outrage at this discovery dissipated, however, when he noticed that the Zhang tribe had brought at least one egg custard tart with them, the glimpse reminding him of how hungry he was. After successfully escaping the canyon, he asked where that custard tart was, stating he was "starving".[2]
The egg tart was introduced into China in the 20th century from Portuguese cuisine via Macau. It is an adaptation of the Pastel de Nata; its round crust is filled with egg custard and baked.
- The egg custard tart was Aang's favorite food.[3]
- The egg custard tart featured in "The Great Divide" was four weeks old.[3]
- ↑ From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com (link). No longer updated.
- ↑ O'Bryan, John (writer) & Volpe, Giancarlo (director). (May 20, 2005). "The Great Divide". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 1. Episode 11. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Avatar Extras for "The Great Divide" on Nicktoons Network.


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"There is no greater gift than the gift of your time and there is no one more deserving than the children"
A fun filled motorcycle ride through McKean, Potter, and Cameron Counties. This 110-mile ride will take you through an area that is so beautiful it has been labeled "God's Country" & "Land of the Endless Mountains". Snacks will be made available during the run and a meal will be provided after the run. Prize presentations and auction will be at the Emporium VETS club following the run. Sponsored by the Allegany Chapter of the Nam Knights. All street legal vehicles are permitted this event will be held rain or shine. You are also permitted to participate in the auction without goin on the ride.
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Ok...after much adieu, it's working! (famous last words). Thanks for the link the other thread. Too many IP addresses!...speednet showed me one, my router showed me another and Calibre showed me another one (not cluing me into the fact that this is only local). However, this is the only IP address presented by Calibre as the way to access your library anywhere in the world. So this cryptic journey has not been a welcome one, eating up way too much time.
To continue...I tried every one of the IPs above and nothing worked. I forwarded the port, and when my router rebooted it showed yet another IP, which was like the one speedtest showed, but again it didn't work. I changed a port forwarding setting, rebooted, used the new IP and now it works!! I don't get why it didn't work when I forwarded the port...but who cares, it's working. So, a password has been safely applied, and working.
I think it would be a good idea to use a static IP, as was suggested.
To all, thanks for all the help and ideas, I hope others will benefit by this thread.
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Pinellas Countys watersheds are everyones responsibility
By SUZETTE PORTER
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This shot of the downtown Clearwater area shows how much of the Pinellas Countys lifestyle depends on the health of the watershed.
CLEARWATER Little things count big when everyone works together to improve water quality in Pinellas County, so say the nine panelists who participated in a Nov. 28 e-TownHall: Watershed, where we live, work and play.
Moderated by Communications Department specialist Len Ciecieznski, panelists included Dale Armstrong, horticulture Extension agent and Jane Morse, commercial horticulture Extension agent, who fielded questions about ways homeowners, gardeners and professional landscapers can help protect the countys watersheds.
Kelli Levy, Department of Environmental Infrastructure Watershed Division manager, and Nanette OHara, outreach coordinator for Tampa Bay Estuary Program, talked about the bigger picture in terms of responsibility for maintaining local watersheds and water quality.
David Downing, assistant director for the St. Petersburg-Clearwater Convention Visitors Bureau, and Mike Miedel, director of the countys Economic Development, outlined the many ways that watersheds, water quality and the environment goes hand in hand with the countys economic opportunities.
Terry Tomalin, Outdoors and Fitness editor for the Tampa Bay Times, talked about the importance of water quality for water recreation. Liz Drayer, county resident and mother of two teenagers, gave the publics perspective on the issue.
So, what is the issue? What is the connection between people and water quality?
Levy explained the concept. A watershed is an area of land through which rainfall travels on its way to the nearest body of water, i.e. Tampa Bay, Gulf of Mexico, Lake Tarpon or Lake Seminole.
Every square foot of Pinellas County is a watershed, she said.
Rain falls and is absorbed into the ground until it cant hold more. The excess runs off into driveways and on into the road as it makes its way to the nearest drain sometimes traveling for miles through a series of pipes or ditches, Levy said.
The intent of the public education campaign, which kicked off with the e-TownHall, is to get everyone to understand the impact of personal pollutants on local watersheds.
Ciecieznski asked Levy if there was one thing the public could do that would have the biggest effect on water quality. Without hesitation, she said, the most beneficial would be management of grass clippings.
You see landscapers blowing them everywhere, she said. Grass eats nitrogen and phosphorous to grow. Turn it (blower) around and blow the clippings back on your yard. Let them feed your lawn.
OHara said if people leave grass clippings on their lawn, they would get one free feeding a year.
Phosphorous is not the problem. It occurs everywhere naturally in the soil, she said. Nitrogen is public enemy No. 1 in Tampa Bay.
Levy said following instructions when applying fertilizers and never fertilizing before a rain would help reduce nitrogen pollution.
Pet owners can help reduce the bacteria moving through the watershed by picking up after their animals.
There are more bacteria in pet waste than a cow or human beings, Levy said.
The public was able to ask the panelists questions using the countys blog site, Twitter or by phone. A blogger asked why pet waste was a problem since it was a natural product.
OHara agreed that it was; however, she pointed out that pet waste was an artificially driven problem due to the concentration of so many pets in a small area.
We all love our dogs, she said.
An estimated half million live in the Tampa Bay watershed, which ups the potential for high bacteria and water quality problems.
OHara talked about the work done to clean up the mess left from development done in the 50s and 60s. She credited the success to a collaborative effort between government, private organizations and citizens.
Water quality in Tampa Bay is as good as it was in the 1950s, she said, which is quite a feat considering the growth in Pinellas County.
Weve made tremendous progress together, she said. But theres still a lot of work to do.
Tomalin, who spends time fishing, surfing and paddling local waterways, agreed that water clarity had improved as evidenced by a lack of ear infections after spending time engaging in water sports.
Levy said it was likely that pet waste was responsible for Tomalins ear infections and his improved health could be attributed to work done to improve water quality.
While water quality is improving in Tampa Bay, the Nov. 28 meeting focused on watersheds the area between where we live, work and play and area water bodies.
Another blogger asked if money was available to pay to educate the public on the issue. Levy said while money was available, it was much reduced. The Extension Service offers a number of programs that are educating people about best practices for gardening and landscaping in Pinellas.
Armstrong is in charge of the Florida Friendly Landscape program where residents can learn how to design and maintain their yards. Morse handles the commercial side of the program and teaches classes required for certification of professional landscapers. Extension also has a help desk open to residents with questions.
Miedel talked about the challenges for business and industry to ensure they follow environmental regulations.
Theres not a lot of empty land for offices and factories, he said.
Much of the industrial sites were developed prior to existing environmental standards and dont meet requirements. Miedels staff works with potential developers to help them design compliant facilities that will give them the best return on their investment and protect the local environment.
Downing said Pinellas Countys beaches and waterways are a big draw for tourism. A clean environment is essential to the health of the $6 billion industry.
Were a peninsula on a peninsula. Water sells the destination with all its water-based activities, he said.
He talked about the work being done by hotels on the beach to become friendlier to the environment. He said they were even recycling soap and that 1 million bars had been recycled thus far.
Drayer said her teenagers had good environmentally-friendly habits.
Ive been badgering them since they were little on what they need to do, she said.
But she said her neighbors werent as well versed. She said too many people want a square, green yard and maintain it with too much fertilizer and pesticides.
She said more could be done by the government and schools to educate the public.
Tomalin advocated empowering kid ocean warriors, which is how he describes his children. Oftentimes kids get adults to do the right thing, he said.
Tomalin pointed out something he said was a big problem.
A lot of people drive across the Bay every day and they look at it, but they dont get in it, he said. Get out there in the water. Enjoy. Its the reason people come here. Once you get fishing, paddling or surfing, youll become an advocate for it. Youll want to protect it.
Its all interconnected: the rain from the sky to the beaches and bays, Ciecieznski said. We have an opportunity to do harm or do good. Making better choices mean a better environment for us all.
Nothing but rain down the drain, Levy said.
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No. 21 Wisconsin at No. 1 Ohio State
There are going to be many great one-on-one matchups in this game as the Buckeyes try to remain undefeated. Badgers CB Jack Ikegwuonu (6-foot-1, 200 lbs.) did a great job last week on Indiana WR James Hardy (6-7, 220), holding him to just four receptions. Ikegwuonu likely will draw Ohio State's leading receiver, Brian Robiskie, who is averaging almost 20 yards a catch. A matchup in the trenches worth watching will be Wisconsin's Matt Shaughnessy (6-5, 245) -- a rangy and underrated defensive end -- against Ohio State right tackle Kirk Barton (6-6, 300). Shaughnessy moves around a lot, but expect him to line up at left end most of the day.


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Mr. Speaker, many things are said across the aisle in the heat of a debate, and if it hasn't been said yet, maybe the reason is it has been said by everybody.
I believe that the ranking member is an honorable person. I believe my chairman is. *.*.* Even the President of the Vietnam Veterans of America said this is shameless.
* * * It's not right. Tell the truth and then let the chips fall where it may. It is utterly *.*.* to suggest, Mr. Chairman, that we are seeking to deny any soldier the health care they deserve and the benefits that nearly all Republicans and Democrats have spent our careers in Congress working to protect and prove.
Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I ask the gentleman's words be taken down for the false statements that he made about this conference to me as an Army veteran among others in the Chamber.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey will be seated.
The Clerk will report the words.
Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to remove any word or words that were taken as offensive.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from New Jersey?
Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky. I accept the gentleman's apology.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the words will be stricken.
There was no objection.
Mr. PASCRELL. Don't push me.
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Decent set of games again this week. Plot begins to thicken.
I went 1 - 3 on predictions for the week so factor that with my musings.
I picked the Argos but good on BC to step up and even their record. Maybe the best catch of the entire weekend by Manny on one of the first plays BC ran. Followed that with another monster reception 2 plays later. Tone for the game was set right there. Argos could afford to lose as they were not going undefeated and can be happy at 1 and 1 in the east.
Best overall game of the week to me was Calgary / Ottawa. Seems Ottawa is pretty good. Trevor Harris can throw the ball with some zip and they have good receivers. Diontae Spencer looks good as a returner. Some weird thing where they can't get a running back through a game healthy but they have a few to pick from and they plug and play their Nationals very well. Might be that the RedBlacks are well coached. Calgary did what they do in their park.
Montreal did not have enough to get by the Evil Empire and the Esks are sitting pretty with 4 pts. Losing a star player per game is eventually going to catch up with them I would think. Surprised to not see Shakir Bell signed as yet. Sunderland less trigger happy than Hervey at bringing in guys for sure.
Big win for the big blue. Don't over analyze it. Probably relatively quiet in early morning coffee shops all over Sask as people wonder about Chris Jones. He should have wore the t shirt. Not sure what is up with the man in black deal.
Gonna say improved reffing for the week. Glad to see the call stand on O'Sheas challenge on Dresslers out of the play interference play. Just like they drew it up. Those are the ones they need to get rid of.


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Data on hypertension among minority populations were lacking prior to the workshop and databook publication. Several reasons why the data were lacking include the biological and cultural diversity of America's minorities, their wide dispersal across the country, and the fact that key data such as death certificate information have sometimes not been recorded.
The objective was accomplished in a two-phase approach as follows: Phase l. In June, 1994 a workshop was held in Washington, D.C. on the epidemiology of hypertension in minorities. The workshop, entitled "The Epidemiology of Hypertension in Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and Asian/Pacific Islander Americans" included as participants the investigators who had relevant datasets and were willing to participate in the effort. The investigators were requested to use common definitions of hypertension in their workshop presentations when feasible. In addition, in preparation for a databook publication, each study was asked to provide summary data, using common definitions and a common format, on the prevalence of hypertension in the study population. Data presentations and interpretations at the workshop enabled the investigators and consultants to identify further research needs, further feasible data analyses utilizing available data, and special target groups for demonstration research efforts to enhance the potential success of intervention efforts.
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The DA's planned march on the ANC headquarters is a misguided political ploy, that may cause hostility and spark violence in a tense atmosphere ahead of the elections, writes Zweli Mkhize.
Johannesburg - When we first heard from the secretary-general of the ANC that the DA intends to march on Luthuli House and present a memorandum of grievances, we laughed and thought it was the funniest joke around.
Comrade Gwede Mantashe had reported about his discussion with Mike Moriarty of the DA Office in Gauteng that this was in response to the ANC manifesto reflecting that the ANC intends to create 6 million job opportunities, targeting the youth among whom unemployment has become intolerably high.
While addressing the 40 000-strong rally in KwaZulu-Natal during the provincial launch of the manifesto of the ANC, Comrade Mantashe mentioned the intention of the DA.
There was booing and signs of disapproval from the crowd. Their anger was unmistakable. However, he proceeded and indicated that he had responded by suggesting that the ANC should rather march to the DA office to collect the memorandum and save the DA the trouble by giving all responses on the spot.
The crowd cheered, whistled, ululated and waved their fists and screamed in huge excitement. We have been in this spot before. While the statement was largely made in jest, there was a clear and unmistakable reminder.
Those emotions alerted us to the risks and challenges of containing the anger of such marchers to an office of the opposition party whose daily occupation is to issue unflattering statements to the ruling party and expect them to be disciplined in the excitement of a tense moment.
The National Working Committee of the ANC received the report about the DA march and reflected on its implications. In their wisdom, the NWC decided that the ANC cannot embark on a march against the DA, jocular as the suggestion was. The NWC further directed that the secretary-general communicate with the DA that it may be unwise to proceed with a march that may generate huge hostility, degenerate into violence and create a tense atmosphere ahead of the elections.
The ANC also believes that it is incorrect for the political parties to march against one another as a principle. The ANC would, however, be ready to engage in a bilateral meeting with the DA to discuss their concerns and find a way to address their grievances.
The ANC has in the past held meetings to resolve many serious matters that affected the country despite the fact that it had many points of disagreement with those parties.
To end apartheid and usher the democracy we enjoy today, the ANC took an incredible risk of meeting the notorious Nationalist Party and led the negotiation process through extreme aggression that saw many massacres conducted by enemy forces including the assassination of many leaders of the ANC and tripartite alliance.
The ANC had held discussions and negotiations with Inkatha Freedom Party that resulted in the end of the violence that claimed thousands of lives among the oppressed people over decades. Clearly the DA would understand that a negotiated approach is preferable to a street fight even though it may not have this depth of experience that the ANC had in negotiating under more serious circumstances and had emerged with outcomes that were positive for South Africa.
The ANC was relieved to learn that reasoning had prevailed on the management committee of the DA which agreed with the ANC that it was not correct for the political parties to march on each other.
Imagine our shock when Steve Morelli called back to inform the ANC that the leader of the DA had overruled them and insisted that the march against the ANC should proceed.
The DA will descend on Luthuli House with 6 000 DA supporters shouting abuse at the ANC.
What sin did the ANC commit?
The ANC has presented a manifesto that outlines clearly the plans of the ruling party, responding to a huge crisis of unemployment (overwhelmingly affecting the youth), poverty and inequality. The ANC manifesto has outlined the significant achievements of our country in the past 20 years even though the global economic crisis has negatively affected our economy.
The ANC has prioritised various sectors of the economy for massive investments through public and private partnerships such as the aggressive programme of energy generation, massive infrastructure building worth trillions of rand, investment in technology roll-out, among others. The ANC prioritises education and massive skills development to eliminate the skills shortage, and many skills development centres, FET colleges and tertiary institutions have massively increased the youth intake.
Despite the earlier disagreements within the ANC alliance, the youth employment incentive scheme will be implemented while the concerns of the labour are addressed. The current involvement of government in mining negotiations shows that the ANC is serious about stabilising the mining sector. Service delivery and social infrastructure development have been outlined with concrete plans that will be monitored in a manner not seen before.
The government will embark on procurement reforms to eliminate corruption and promote local procurement that supports the creation and protection of more jobs.
But the DA leader is not happy. She must lead an army of marchers chanting abuse against the ANC.
What on Earth has the ANC done to incur the wrath of a leader who is supposed to be a democrat concerned about unemployment and has to ensure that the ruling party does things right?
This smacks of opportunism and a desperate search for publicity. Perhaps an ego trip that may satisfy individuals and put lives at risks.
Is the madam perhaps upset that with such a comprehensive election manifesto combined with the visible determination of the ruling party to fix the challenges that South Africa faces, the ANC cannot be matched? The anger to take to the streets in response to a well researched, well documented and well presented plan that was received overwhelmingly by South Africans suggests political bankruptcy.
The public rightfully expects an intellectually sound and logically compelling alternative view from the leader of the opposition party of South Africa, not an aggressive stamping of the feet down the streets of Johannesburg.
Come on Madam Zille you can do better than that!
However, the decision is more serious and has very negative implications for the politics of South Africa. In the 1980s and 1990s, direct confrontation between opposing political parties led to extreme violence.
Confrontation was always the result of political intolerance that arose when there were no legitimate platforms for expression of different views. It took us many years to make our people learn to respect each other, tolerate opposing views and respect each individual and each party's private space. There were inter-party forums that would call leaders and admonish them to refrain from inflammatory language that sparked conflict among members on the ground.
It was not uncommon for the abrasive or just opposing statements uttered in a public meeting or within legislative precincts to result in a fight among members of the different parties far away from where the venue in which disagreements occurred. Now Madam Zille is taking us back there.
We have to make a distinction between freedom of association and freedom of expression on the one hand and the outer limits of intolerance expressed overtly or covertly to score political points on the other. The DA cannot be allowed to take the country back to the days of political confrontation while claiming to be exercising its freedom of expression.
The ANC understands the constitution and, unlike the DA, the ANC was one of the main architects of the constitution long before the DA existed. Like all individuals and all parties, it is not difficult to discern when one is being despised or is treated with disdain; nor is it difficult to appreciate when one is being treated with respect and courtesy.
The ANC has been at pains to teach its members to treat others with respect and respect their constitutional rights. Many may argue that the DA marching on Luthuli House is an indication of extreme intolerance and an act of aggression to provoke the ANC and its supporters, though the DA may believe it is a show of strength of a fearless DA that will put the ANC in its place. Whether it is curiosity, excitement, anger or provocation, the emotions are not right in this march.
All of these will see many more people being attracted to this event which will unnecessarily stress the police.
Judging from the recent protests, there have been unacceptably high levels of violence from both the protesters and the police. We do not need any more. How can a leader defy all advice and insist on taking the country to such levels of tension? It is now evident that the new- found aggression and militancy of the DA lacks the institutional memory of lessons from past intolerance mainly because the DA did not exist then and many current leaders were either not born or were too young to lead.
The ANC has had long experience to advise the DA that such a move is not appropriate as it may attract many unknown elements, who may misbehave in unexpected ways and undermine the best effort to conduct a peaceful march. The DA can never guarantee that after marching in the sun, sweating and chanting anti-ANC vulgarity, none of its members may become provocative when they ultimately see the black, green and gold flag flying on top of Luthuli House.
The ANC believes that multi-party democracy means that parties will differ on many issues and debate is healthy for democracy. As such, no amount of differences will motivate the ANC to march and confront any party. The ANC has learnt many lessons. There are legitimate and appropriate platforms open for the DA to debate and disagree, such as in Parliament, public and party meetings, printed and electronic media, especially Twitter and all manner of new technology.
As much as it is not in our interest for anyone to march against our government, that is more understandable than marching against a political party that has no obligation to listen to,let alone agree with the views of another party. It is our people, the voters that must listen and make a choice under free and fair conditions.
Why the DA prefers not to march to the Union Buildings, different government buildings, Parliament or any space that represents the authority of the land, is completely unreasonable and beyond any logic.
I don't like the sense of déjà vu. On the eve before Madam Zille marched to Nkandla, I gave her a call and gave friendly advice. I indicated to her that out of a sense of social decency it is disrespectful to march to a private home of a party leader; it is distasteful and is perceived as an infringement of dignity and privacy.
The local DA leaders in KwaZulu-Natal, who have a better sense of local sensitivities, understood and were later harassed for not joining in the adventure. The outcome of Zille's march was nasty. There was confrontation and police had to intervene. That the ANC condemned both Zille and those community members, which included ANC supporters, involved in the saga is besides the point. The march had succeeded in igniting tension, which was unwarranted. The march against Cosatu was the same, a predictable disaster that no experienced leader should lead her supporters on.
Writing to the media at the time, I called it "an ill-advised gamble". We did not need blood on our streets. We all still carry with us the scars of the Shell House debacle that everyone wishes had never happened.
I have seen insinuations from the DA leader in the media that the ANC is threatening violence. That is disingenuous. That the stakes are high in this election and that the DA is desperate to present itself as the match to the ANC, is not an excuse to do stupid things. Nor will it help to try and depict the ANC members as aggressive by nature. While that would be completely untrue, so will be the claim that all DA are completely peaceful and incapable of provoking opponents.
Such piety has not been experienced in abundance in the recent memory of our democracy. The DA may be imagining glowing breaking headline news on CNN and BBC with blue shirts marching to break the back of the mighty ANC.
The reality of street politics may prove otherwise. Publicity stunts have a tendency to backfire.
Madiba once warned: "In any conflict, there comes a time where neither party is completely right or completely wrong." I would hate to think that DA may never have learnt much from such wise words.
I would have thought Marikana has taught us how fragile our emotions still are and how sensitively we should handle each other as South Africans.
The ANC is prepared to hold bilateral meetings to discuss the concerns of the DA and debate their concerns in our election manifesto. We are prepared to debate in all platforms. We plead that even if the DA may despise the ANC and its leaders, they should respect the private space of the ANC and stick to platforms created by the constitution. The ANC has done its part, there will be no ANC march on this matter. We are, however, afraid that the ANC may not be able to prevail to its 1.2 million members and millions of its supporters not to march against the DA in all provinces, since the DA would have created the precedent.
This is our plea: Dear Madam, please don't do it!
* Mkhize is treasurer-general of the ANC
** The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of Independent Newspapers
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I never liked the term "Cheek Weld" because it seems to give the impression that it's a heavy pressure applied by the face. IMHO, "cheek weld" doesn't have to be heavy pressure, but a very consistent feel that positions the eye perfectly behind the sights for each shot.
Cheek pressure applies transverse force to the bore and heavy pressure can cause strain in the neck muscles, resulting in variations in pressure.
I'm not a 3-P competition shooter and rarely use slings for support. That said, my shooting position philosophy is that positions should be as comfortable as possible and that most force applied to the rifle, (except for countering the forend weight) should be straight back to the shoulder. The stock comb should be configured to aid repeatable eye alignment.
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NEW YORK (Sep. 1)
In early August, representatives of the Young Israel and religious Zionist movements met here with a delegation of leaders from a West Coast-based group of evangelical Christians, Tay (the Hebrew word for "good"), which has expressed strong support for Israel, it was reported here today by Young Israel.
The group has organized support within the fundamentalist Christian community for Israel's actions in Lebanon, and, last year, the group sponsored a major campaign on the West Coast in opposition to the sale of AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia, according to Young Israel.
The meeting with the religious Jewish groups was arranged at the request of the evangelicals, who expressed many shared attitudes, with Orthodox Jews. These include a belief that the Jews remain the "Chosen People of God," that "the Holy Land is the inalienable possession of the Jewish people" as a result of "the promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob," and that "Jerusalem is the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish state."
These and other statements in support of Israel and the Jewish people were published by the group in June of this year as the "Evangelical Christian Declaration of Support for Israel and the Jewish American Community." The evangelical declaration also claims to "abhor anti-Semitism; mourn the Holocaust; and repent of the Church's silence."
One of Tav's earliest projects was to expose a PLO-sponsored trip by five Christian clergymen from the Seattle area to Lebanon to meet with Yasir Arafat early this year. Tay immediately set out to counteract the anti-Israel propaganda arising from the trip.
In their position papers, the Tav evangelicals assert that they are not intent upon missionizing Jews; that they respect the legitimacy of the Jewish religion, recognize the need for a Jewish state of Israel, and share many religious principles in common with Orthodox Jews, especially the "authority of scripture."
At the same time, the evangelicals claim that the "Liberal-Rationalism" to which they object in non-fundamentalist churches is also a threat to Israel and a cause of anti-Semitism. They therefore urge religious Jews to join with them against what they perceive as a common enemy in the secular humanism which is dominant in both the non-fundamentalist Christian-and non-Orthodox Jewish communities.
Representing the Tav group were Doug Krieger, its West Coast representative, Doug Shearer, its president and Randi Saeger, its pastor. Orthodox groups represented at the meeting included the National Council of Young Israel, Emunah Women of America and Mizrachi-Religious Zionists of America.
Dr. Harold Jacobs, president of the National Council of Young Israel, said more meetings with Tav and other pro-Israel fundamentalist Christian groups were expected to take place in the near future, solely to coordinate activities in support of Israel.


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Strategies for growing your retirement dollars are the same for dairy producers as they are for other independent business operators. Consider the following tips:
1. Develop a good source of investment advice and information. Investing is not an art; it is a science born of considerable research and historical trends analyzed over a long period of time. The brokerage firms that do their homework consistently have the best long-term performance records.
2. Determine your risk tolerance. Only when you identify how comfortable you are with taking investment risks, can you make smart, informed decisions about your portfolio.
The article, "Take this risk quiz," on page 78 of this month's issue will give you a place to start. Talk to your financial adviser to help you find investments that match your risk personality.
3. Diversify your holdings. Dairy producers are often tempted to re-invest in their dairy operations, but that's not always wise. By diversifying your assets among several types of investments, rather than just one or two, you reduce your risk.
4. Set reasonable expectations for the return on your investments. An investment may earn 10 percent to 12 percent a year, but that's not always possible. Beware of claims that promise returns of 20 percent or more on a long-term basis.
5. Invest in quality securities. Just as quality feeds produce quality milk, you should stay with solid companies that have stood the test of time. These companies generally do well during periods of market strength, and recover more quickly after periods of market weakness.
6. Never let a low price per share be your only reason for buying a particular stock. The one or two low-priced stocks that jumped 40 percent in a year are overwhelming exceptions.
7. Before investing, designate funds for short-term or long-term use. Don't invest money you need to keep liquid; otherwise, you may be forced to sell out of an interim dip in the market. Most financial advisers recommend keeping three to six months of your monthly income in an easily-accessible savings or money market account to take care of unforeseen expenses or family emergencies. Remember, investing is a long-term process. Real money is made over years, not months.
8. Allow dividends to compound over time. The income you earn from stock dividends can add up to enormous profits over the years. Brokerage firms often offer free dividend reinvestment programs that use a company's dividends to purchase more shares of the underlying stocks. Ask your financial consultant about how you can participate.
9. Learn all you can about the companies in which you invest. Read the annual reports and earnings summaries that you should receive as a stockholder. And, ask your financial consultant about current company research.
10. Live within your means. Studies show that Americans save less and less — and spend more. Keep your spending habits within the limits of your income, not your savings account. And, invest wisely for the future by maximizing your retirement plan at work.
David Chlus is a first vice president of investments with Smith Barney, Inc., in Utica, N.Y. and partner in a 90-cow dairy.
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First Look: Matthew Broderick Guest Stars on NBC's 30 ROCK Tonight, 10/11
Matthew Broderick made his stage debut at 17 in Horton Foote's On Valentine's Day opposite his father, James Broderick. Off-Broadway: TORCH SONG TRILOGY (OCC, Villager Award), THE WIDOW CLAIRE. Broadway: BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (Tony®, OCC, Theatre World awards), BILOXI BLUES, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS... (Tony®, DD, OCC awards), NIGHT MUST FALL, TALLER THAN A DWARF, THE PRODUCERS (Tony®, DD, OCC nominations), Roundabout's THE FOREIGNER and THE PHILANTHROPIST.
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Catherine O'Hara, Brian Cranston
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Matt Taibbi - The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
RiverRun Bookstore
Friday, May 2, 2014 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
RiverRun Bookstore is incredibly excited to announce a reading and signing with former Rolling Stone contributing editor and best-selling author Matt Taibbi, co-sponsored by Seacoast Local as part of the "Making the Connection" speaker series.
The event will be held at The South Church. Tickets are $7 each, which can be used toward the purchase of a copy of The Divide (one ticket per book, please) or $25 each, and include a copy of The Divide.
If you'd like to avoid the fees, tickets may also be purchased at RiverRun in person or over the phone.
About The Divide:
Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:
Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail.
In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends—growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration—come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime—but it's impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side.
In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice—the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks; and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs. On the other side of the Divide, Taibbi takes us to the front lines of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep inside the stop-and-frisk world, where standing in front of your own home has become an arrestable offense. As he narrates these incredible stories, he draws out and analyzes their common source: a perverse new standard of justice, based on a radical, disturbing new vision of civil rights.
Through astonishing—and enraging—accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide's punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all.
Matt Taibbi has been a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and the author of five previous books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Great Derangement and Griftopia. He lives in New Jersey.
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Friday, May 2, 2014 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
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Dell's Vostro 430 Desktop Gets Core i5/i7 And $699 Starting Tag
Granted, we're not entirely sure we'd agree with Dell's assertion that the Vostro 430 is "future proof"--we wouldn't even call a $4000 Alienware "future proof"--but it is powerful enough to handle Windows 7 and shouldn't break the bank along the way. In an unusual move for Dell, it has decided to equip the Vostro 430 with a Core i5 or Core i7 processor, dedicated GPU options from NVIDIA/ATI, up to 16GB of DDR3 SDRAM and up to 1TB of extra storage. It's available to customize and order today starting at $699, and while it probably won't play Crysis at its maximum resolution, it'll more than handle those pesky Spreadsheets and the occasional gaming spree.
Vostro 430: Expandability, Productivity and Connectivity
- Expandability options with the ability to add memory, PCI/PCIe cards and HDD, future-proofing IT investment;
- Increased internal storage capacity with one terabyte hard drives offering up to 2 terabytes of internal storage;
- Dual-display capability, and more expandability and flexibility with 10 external USB ports and four total PCI/PCIe expansion slots for more network, sound or graphics cards.
- Optional Blu-Ray DiskTM drives for data storage and video playback;
- PS/2 and serial ports to enable use of older devices; and
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Wonderwall is reporting that Beyonce is missing an "IV" tattoo that had once been on her finger. The tattoo has been removed. Is there marriage in trouble?
Where there is smoke, there is fire. Or maybe not. Maybe it means nothing. Maybe it's not even true.
But there is something up that's for sure. I can feel it.
Of course, Jay Z and Beyoncé' are going to be under the microscope now that we've seen the leaked elevator footage of the fight between Beyoncé's sister and Jay Z. I think one of the strangest parts of the video was how it seemed Beyoncé' ignored the fight as it was happening.
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Crist offers fiscal fixes | Nov. 25, story
All should pay, not just smokers
I am fed up with hearing year after year about budget shortfalls. Billions have been generated from the lottery, sales taxes, tourist taxes and every other kind of tax, yet our state legislators cry poor every fiscal year.
I don't even want to hear about a 50-cent tax increase on a pack of cigarettes. Why should only one commodity not used by everyone be taxed to supplement the budget?
If people want to smoke, that is their business. And don't give me this song and dance again about the cost to treat smoking-related illnesses. The ludicrous tobacco lawsuits did nothing to drive down the cost of care or deter new smokers, but it sure drove up the price on a pack of cigarettes. Leave the smokers alone!
If an increase of any kind of tax is necessary, then raise the sales tax by a penny so that everyone can contribute to this budget shortfall since it is the responsibility of everyone who resides in this state. If our legislators can ever manage the state budget, then the penny increase can be withdrawn.
In any case, Gov. Charlie Crist and the rest of our elected representatives should do what is fair to all in bailing the state out of this budget crisis.
Jack Burlakos, Kenneth City
Go for higher tax
The article mentions that Gov. Charlie Crist is exploring options to increase the state's revenue, including a cigarette tax increase of 50 cents a pack. While I'm glad that the governor is open to considering this, it's important to stress that the cigarette tax increase should be at least $1 to have its intended effect.
Raising the cigarette tax by $1 will generate nearly $1-billion according to the state's own economists and can help address our state's budget shortfall. But perhaps the greatest outcome of this tax increase is that it is a proven method to reduce smoking among children.
The dangers of smoking and its toll on lives are not new, but 4,000 kids try their first cigarette every day. Studies show that every 10 percent increase in the price of cigarettes reduces youth smoking by about 7 percent. It's time for our state to recommit to fighting tobacco use, especially among teens.
The $1-billion raised by the increased tobacco tax is also a simple way to offset the annual cost of treating sick smokers and a highly effective way to reduce the number of kids who start.
Hiram Green, Tampa
A fiscal fable takes a new twist
Corporate bailouts, the banking crisis, an economy in the toilet: This is the news that daily greets the St. Petersburg Times reader. The water cooler chatter resounds with the hows and the whys. Groping, we want to point our chubby little fingers and say there's the problem. Well we don't have to look far for the reason and less far for the solution.
There's the tale of the industrious ant who toiled all summer to put something away while the grasshopper fiddled his days away and had nothing come winter. For years we watched as one side of the political aisle pandered to the likes of the unions while the other side sidled up to the CEOs.
Magic money fell from the sky as we borrowed against the smoke-and-mirror home equity. Buy now, pay later. And the list goes on.
Despite all our angst about global warming, winter is coming. Unlike the fate of the poor grasshopper, many who fiddled away the summer won't learn that same harsh lesson. Here's where today's version of the fable takes a morbid twist. The industrious ants, i.e., those of us who worked and saved and put a little away for winter, will be forced to dig into our coffers to save those who fiddle theirs away.
If this were the lesson Aesop had told, those fables would have been lost in time, kind of like our money.
Mark Campbell, St. Petersburg
Same-sex benefits targeted | Nov. 21, story
We were warned
Amendment 2 sought to define marriage as "the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife," and that "no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized."
The "Yes on 2" leaders promised they were only trying to protect marriage and no one would risk losing health benefits. The opponents of Amendment 2 said domestic partner benefits would be at risk if it passed. The proponents said this statement was a scare tactic.
The Nov. 21 story reports that David Caton of the Florida Family Association is seeking to block domestic partner benefits to Hillsborough County employees. Caton felt passage of Amendment 2 means he has to take this action.
So, who turns out to be the group you can trust? Those who favored Amendment 2 who said they were not attacking domestic partner benefits but now are attacking these same benefits, or the opponents who warned you it could happen?
Counties and cities will face expensive legal battles to retain domestic partner benefits for their employees as groups seek to repeal the benefits when many cities and counties face strained budgets.
John Lomas, Sarasota
Let's Talk Turkey caption contest winner Nov. 23
It's not funny
The winning caption to your "Let's Talk Turkey" contest was insensitive and insulting. The cartoon with a photo of an obese man and a turkey on a bench doesn't have even the remotest connection with the passage of Amendment 2 in Florida.
That mean-spirited and denigrating amendment was anything but amusing for thousands of Florida citizens. The St. Petersburg Times obviously doesn't have a heart, but it certainly sees the need to sell papers by rubbing our noses in this tragic affair so that others may laugh. Happy Thanksgiving.
Ray Dabkowski, Dunedin
Florida economy: from bad to worse Nov. 23, editorial
Cut double-dippers
As Florida faces the most serious financial crisis in decades, it is time for the members of our Legislature to close the ridiculous self-serving loophole that permits 8,000-plus state employees to collect full "retirement" pensions and benefits as well as their full-time salaries. This last minute, late-at-night addition to a bill nearly eight years ago, intended to help some of their own, costs the taxpayers $300-million a year. Any attempts to change the law have lost traction because so many in the Legislature are feeding at the same trough or intend to do so.
I think that state legislators would be embarrassed watching vital services being threatened and cut and at the same time lining their own pockets with undeserved taxpayer money. Is there any stewardship in Tallahassee or is it all self-service?
Dave Loeffert, Dunedin
House Speaker Ray Sansom
What about ethics?
In his response to receiving a $100,000 job at a state college as a result of obtaining for the school a $200,000 grant, Speaker Ray Sansom claims, "We have jobs, we have careers."
He should also have ethics! He should give up his day job or step down as speaker. Don't give us any public-service tripe. No one asked him to run for office or twisted his arm. Just another phony politician.
Peter Brock, Sun City Center


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The controversy surrounding Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of Saltillo, Mexico has intensified after comments he made in support of the decriminalization of abortion.
The website LifeSiteNews.com published a report on Aug. 3 revealing that the bishop heads two human rights organizations that openly promote the reversal of pro-life legislation enacted in a majority of Mexican states.
In explaining his leadership role in the two organizations that support the decriminalization of abortion, Bishop Vera said, "What is debated here in Mexico is the penalization or depenalization of abortion. That's another thing. The penalization (of abortion) is the persecution of people who have abortions."
Since January 28, 2011, Bishop Vera has been president of the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Center for Human Rights in the Mexican state of Chiapas, where several years ago he served as coadjutor bishop for the late Bishop Samuel Ruiz. He is also the founder of the Fray Juan de Larios Diocesan Center for Human Rights, located in the Diocese of Saltillo.
Both groups belong to a network of organizations that uphold abortion as a fundamental human right. The network openly supported the legalization of abortion in Mexico City in 2007.
The two groups led by Bishop Vera are also signers of a document published in June 2008 opposing constitutional reform in the state of Jalisco that enshrined the right to life from the moment of conception. The Jalisco State Congress adopted the reform in July 2009.
In 2011, the Fray Juan de Larios Diocesan Center also signed a report prepared by the U.N. Human Rights High Commissioner on "access to justice for women who are victims of violence, female killings, sexual violence, disappearances and the sex trade." It also condemned the lack of access to legal abortion in cases of rape in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
Bishop Vera told LifeSiteNews.com that abortion "is the murder of a child in the womb of his mother," but that in his opinion to support depenalization is not the same as being pro-abortion.
CNA attempted to confirm the bishop's statements to LifeSiteNews.com, but Maria Eugenia Arriaga, the director of communications for the Diocese of Saltillo, said they would not give any interviews "to people who distort our information."
Asked whether Bishop Vera directed her to refuse any requests for interviews, Arriaga said she made the decision herself in consultation with her staff. She made no mention of whether or not she consulted the bishop.
Bishop Vera has previously refused interview requests by CNA regarding his support of the same-sex ministry, the San Elredo Community. He recently accused the news agency of "distorting" his words and his pastoral work.
The community has come under fire for promoting events that are in opposition to the Church's teachings on homosexuality.
CNA contacted Jorge Gomez, the director of communication for the Fray Bartolome de la Casas Center for Human Rights, who said, "Our stance is that we are against the criminalization (penalization) of women who make this difficult decision (to have an abortion)."
Asked whether the center supports abortion, Gomez responded: "That's not what this discussion is about for us. For us the issue isn't whether we are for or against abortion, because we don't get involved in that discussion."
Gomez went on to state that until recently the center was under the direction of Bishop Samuel Ruiz, the late bishop emeritus of San Cristobal de las Casas and the emblematic leader of "Indian liberation theology."
He said the center is a "lay" organization that defends social and political rights, "especially of the indigenous," and that Bishop Raul Vera is the current director.
CNA also contacted the Fran Juan de Larios Center for Human Rights in the Diocese of Saltillo but its spokesperson refused to grant an interview.
Problems in the Diocese of Saltillo
The first time the Diocese of Saltillo refused to speak with CNA was in March of this year, after the agency reported that Bishop Raul Vera Lopez promoted the 4th Forum on Sexual, Family and Religious Diversity, which was organized by the San Elredo Community.
The forum publicly promoted gay activism, sexual activity between homosexuals and adoption by homosexual couples. Bishop Vera presided at the event's opening ceremony.
In an interview with CNA the spiritual director of San Elredo, Father Roberto Coogan, who is also a member of the diocesan pastoral council, highlighted Bishop Vera's support for the community and questioned the teachings of the Church on homosexuality.
"The only response the Catechism offers (to homosexuals) is to tell them to be celibate," but "that is not sufficient," Coogan said.
CNA also published comments from various pro-family groups in Saltillo expressing their concern about the activities of the San Elredo Community that are in opposition to the teachings of the Church.


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