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Civil Law Career TalkAshish Chakravarty | Advocate and Consultant | District Court, Dehradun
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Civil Law Explained
What is Civil Law?
You may be curious about a Career in Civil Law. One should first understand What a Career in Civil Law entails before investing time and effort to figure out How to start a Career in Civil Law. The internet is a great source of information on Civil Law, but it is second best to learning about the same from a real professional.
Advocate and Consultant Ashish Chakravarty has worked in Civil Law for 11 years. Advocate and Consultant Ashish Chakravarty outlines Civil Law as:
Civil Law is the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs.
How Advocate and Consultant Ashish Chakravarty got into Civil Law?
After completing LLM from Kurukshetra University, I started practicing at District Court, Dehradun since 2006.
Advocate and Consultant Ashish Chakravarty's Talk on Civil Law
|Starts with what is:
|Civil Law
|Next, it covers Education. It is easy to Google information about what Qualifications are needed to enter Civil Law, this Talk went a step ahead to talk about the body of knowledge one needs to develop to excel at Civil Law. It details these topics within Education for Civil Law:
|Procedural & Substantive Laws
|Land Laws
|Hindu Laws
|Matrimonial Laws
|Other Laws
|Behavioural Psychology
|Then, the Talk focuses on the most important component that is Skills. Civil Law demands specific Skills which only an experienced professional can lay out. It defines Skills in terms of following items for Civil Law:
|Quick Witted
|Command over Language
|Persistence and Resilience
|Civil Law has an interesting list of Positives. The Talk goes through this list of Positives of Civil Law:
|Intellectually Stimulating
|Battle of wits
|Public Interaction
|Financially Rewarding
|After a discussion on Positives, Challenges complete the caricature of Civil Law:
|Hard work
|Continuous Updates
|Gestation Period
|In the final section of the Talk, Ashish Chakravarty talks about How a day goes in a Career in:
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Posted: 01 May 2005 at 10:33am
www.zawiyah.org or e-mial [email protected] for more information on the tareeqah or the course of self purification
1. It is a well-known reality that everyone has to taste death. Allah Ta'ala says in the Holy Quran: "Every soul shall have the taste of death". (3:185)
2. The time of death is fixed for everyone. Every single person's age is fixed. It cannot increase from its fixed time nor can it decrease. Nothing can save one from death. Wherever you are, death will find you out, even if you are in towers built up high. When the time of death comes, nothing can delay it.
3. When a person�s life is ending, Hazrat Izraeel (alaihis salaam) comes to extract the dying person's soul.
4. The person dying looks to his left and right and sees Angels everywhere. The Angels of Mercy come to a Muslim and for the Kaafirs, the Angels of Punishment appear. At this time, even the Kaafirs believe the truth about Islam, but their faith at this time is not counted. This is because faith is the name of believing the Message of Allah Ta'ala and his beloved Messenger (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) without seeing proof. At this time one sees the Angels and then believes and this is therefore, not accepted as a Muslim.
5. A Muslim's soul is taken out with ease and is then taken with respect by the Angels of Mercy.
6. A Kaafir's soul is taken out with great pain and the Angels of Punishment take it with disgrace.
7. After death, the soul does not go into another body and is then reborn, but it stays in the world of "Barzakh" till the Day of Judgement. "Barzakh" means the interval between death and resurrection.
8. To believe in reincarnation - that the soul goes into another human body, or into an animal's body, or into trees or plants, etc. is wrong and is Kufr.
1. Death is when the soul comes out of the body.
2. According to the faith and deeds performed by that person, a different place is fixed for the soul to remain. It stays in that place until the Day of Resurrection. Some stay underneath the "Arsh" (above the skies), some remain at "Aala Illiyyeen" (the highest point), some remain at the well of Zam Zam, and some remain in their grave.
3. The souls of infidels are imprisoned. Some are imprisoned in the well of "Barhoot", some in "Sajeen" (the lowest point in Earth), and some at their place of cremation or burial.
1. In any situation, the soul does not die nor does it disintegrate but it remains unchanged. Whatever it's position and whatever it's state is, it always remains connected to the body.
2. Those who believe that the soul can die and disintegrate are a "Bud Mazhab" (from a deviated sect).
3. If the body experiences pain, the soul also feels the pain. If the body is relaxed, then the soul is also relaxed.
4. When someone visits the grave, the soul sees the person, recognises him or her and listens to what they are saying.
5. In relation to the Muslim's soul, it is stated in the Hadith Shareef that when a Muslim dies, the soul�s path is opened and it can go wherever it pleases.
6. The dead also speaks. Animals, etc. except for normal humans and Jinn hear its voice.
1. After burial, the grave tightens up and presses the dead.
2. It presses the Muslim like a mother holds a child. It presses the Kaafir (infidel) to the extent of crushing them, like the left side bones end up on the right side.
3. When the people leave after burial, the dead hears the footsteps.
4. At that time, two Angels called Munkar and Nakeer come ripping through the earth. Their faces look very fearful and scary. Their bodies are black in colour. They have green and black eyes, which are very large in size popping out, like the Jinn's eyes and they are made of fire. Their hair is very scary and long from head to toe. Their teeth are very long with which they rip through the earth. They wake up the dead shaking and rattling them.
5. With great strength with a deep voice, they ask these three questions:
a. "MAN RABBUKA" meaning "Who is your Lord?"
b. "MAA DEENUKA" meaning "What is your religion?"
c. "MAA KUNTA TAQUL FEE HAJAR RAJL" meaning "What did you use to say about this person?"
If the dead person is a Muslim, he will reply as follows:
a. "RABBALLAH" � "My Lord is Allah."
b. "DEENIL ISLAM" � "My Religion is Islam."
c. "HUWA RASOOLULLAHE SALLALHO ALAIHI WASSALLAM" � "This is Allah's Messenger, He has been embraced with Allah Ta'ala's Mercy, greetings to him."
6. Now, a Voice from the skies will be heard saying: "My servant has said the truth. Lay the tablecloth of
7. For the sinful, there will be punishment according to their sins.
8. This punishment will continue for a time. Then from the prayers of the pious or from "Esaale Sawaab" (good acts performed by people for the dead's forgiveness) or from prayers for their forgiveness or simply from the Mercy of Allah Ta'ala, this punishment will stop. Then, there will be relaxation.
9. If the dead is a Kaafir, then he will not be able to answer the questions and will say "HAA HAA LADRI" meaning "Shame for I know nothing'". Now a caller will shout: "He is a liar, lay the table-cloth of fire for him, and give him clothes of fire to wear and open the doors of Hell (Dozakh) for him, from which the heat of Hell will reach him." There will be two Angels allocated to him to give him punishment and will hit him with great big hammers. Big scorpions and snakes will also bite him. All different kinds of punishment will continue until the Day of Resurrection.
1. The Prophets will not be asked questions in their graves nor will their graves tighten.
2. Many followers will also not be asked the questions, like those Muslims who die on a Friday or in the month of Ramadaan.
3. The situation of relaxation and punishment in the grave is a fact. This punishment or reward is for both the body and the soul.
4. Whether the body disintegrates or burns or mixes in the soil, it's original parts remains until the Day of Resurrection. It will receive reward or punishment. On the Day of Judgement it will be reformed back to a body. These original parts are actually situated in the spine and cannot be seen by humans. It also cannot be eaten by the soil nor can they be burned. These are the seeds of the body and from these Allah Ta'ala joins the rest of the parts of the body, which have been spread by either being turned into ashes or soil and are reformed into the original body.
5. The soul then comes back into that body and is presented in the field of Resurrection. This day is known as "Hashr".
6. The questions will be asked at that place at which a person has been buried or has been left to rot. Punishment will also occur there. For example, if a tiger has eaten a person, the questions will be asked inside the tiger's stomach, and the punishment and reward will also happen there.
7. A person who rejects the fact of the punishment and reward of the grave is a misguided person.
1. The Prophets, the Awliya (Friends of Allah Ta'ala), the Shuhada (Martyrs), a Hafiz of the Quran who also acts upon the instructions of the Holy Quran, a person who has never committed a sin and those who pray the Durood Shareef at all times, their bodies are not eaten by the soil.
2. Those who say that the Prophet's bodies "have died and eaten by the soil" is a misguided person, from the wrong sect, or an evil and an insulting person.
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Thank you very much fanaofallah...
But I did not understand the part of Angels coming and asking about religion etc.
Can you please explain?
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A small correction, just because a person is muslim he cannot enter heaven instead it is based on his deeds. If the person is a muslim and he has not performed his farz and sunnahs properly there will be great pain when his soul is pulled out.
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Allah has mentioned in the Quran that those who turn to Him in repentance and ask for forgiveness, they will find Allah turning to them in Mercy and will forgive them their shortcomings.
However, One sin Allah has said not to forgive is if one dies in the state of denying Him and worshipping someone/something other than Him. That person will not recieve His forgiveness if he /she dies in that state of denial.
Edited by honeto - 04 June 2009 at 6:51pm
39:64 Proclaim: Is it some one other than God that you order me to worship, O you ignorant ones?"
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"When the people leave after burial, the dead hears the footsteps.
4. At that time, two Angels called Munkar and Nakeer come ripping through the earth."Posted by fanaofallah
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Nice posti've learnt something. Very informative.
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Actualy 1st u need to learn more about Islam here is some info about Quran ...
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We have revealed for you (O men!) a book in which is a Message for you: will ye not then understand? (Quran 21:10).
Almost all sources, classical and modern, agree that the Quran encourages the acquisition of science and scientific knowledge.
And God has created every living creature from water. (Quran 24:45)
Do we know that cytoplasm; the basic substance of the cell is made up of 80% water modern research has also revealed that most organisms consist of 50% to 90% water & that every living entity requires water for its existence.
� Do they not see how We come to the land eroding it from its extremities?� (Qur'an, 21:44)
Dear EarthTalk: I�ve noticed a lot of beach erosion along the eastern U.S. coast. Beaches are virtually nonexistent in places. Is this a usual cycle that will self-correct, or are these beaches permanently gone from sea level rise or other environmental causes? -- Jan Jesse, Morristown, TN.
Apart from the miraculous characteristics of the Qur'an which we have looked into so far, it also contains what we can term "mathematical miracles." There are many examples of this fascinating Qur'anic aspect. One example of this is the number of repetitions of certain words in the Qur'an. Some related words are surprisingly repeated the same number of times. Below are few examples of such words and the number of repetitions in the Qur'an.
Day (yawm)" is repeated 365 times in singular form, while its plural and dual forms "days (ayyam and yawmayn)" together are repeated 30 times. The number of repetitions of the word "month" (shahar) is 12.
The word "salaat" appear five times in the Qur'an, and Allah has commanded man to perform the prayer (salat / Namaz) five times a day.
The miracle of the number 19 in the Quran proves that the Quran is beyond of human being to make it other than the Supreme Being!
O MANKIND! Be conscious of your Sustainer, who has created you out of one living entity(Equal), and out of it created its mate, and out of the two spread abroad a multitude of men and women.(Quran 4.1)
The words "man" and "woman" are also employed equally: 23 times.
Therefore woe be unto those who write the Scripture with their hands and then say, "This is from Allah," that they may purchase a small gain therewith. Woe unto them for that their hands have written, and woe unto them for that they earn thereby. (Quran 2.79)
Everyone is aware that there are contradictions in the Bible:-
God creates animals and then man - Gen 1:25-26 vs. God creates man and then the animals - Gen 2:18-19
God commands killing - Ex 32:27 vs. God forbids killing - Ex 20:13
God forsakes Jesus - Mark 15:34 vs. Jesus is inseparable from God - John 10:30, 14:10, 16:32
And so on..!
Will they not ponder the Qur�an? If it had been from other than Allah, they would have found many inconsistencies in it. (Qur�an, 4:82).
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Strangeloop necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 99 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
We are a dynamic tech company that, while small, is emerging as a thought leader in the web acceleration industry. We develop and sell solutions that are designed to make websites faster.
We recently launched Site Optimizer, a family of solutions that are designed to make websites dramatically faster. Site Optimizer has already been implemented by some high-profile companies, and we're getting a lot of attention in the mainstream tech media. This is the time for us to brand our solutions and hit the ground running.
We sell to other businesses. Our audience is largely made up of business executives, marketing people, developers and IT pros.
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- file must be submitted in Photoshop, Ilustrator, or InDesign
- must have logo on front and back (attached)
- back of card must have 75% free space (white preferably, or a light colour). This is so people have room to make notes on the card if they need to.
- predominant colours: blue (C=52 M=33 Y=0 K=0) and gray (C=68 M=49 Y=61 K=31)
- horizontal card 3.5" x 2"
- front of card must have the following (I've included placeholder text for you to use in your design. Depending on the design, the content in square brackets does not need to be included. Use your discretion):
- [first and last name] Stephanie Hawkins
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- [phone number] 604-555-1744 ext. 2714
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The warm, raspy voice of Italian-born Filippo Bonamici, 26 (pictured on the left), combines well with the soulful strumming of German guitarist Felix A. Remm, also 26. Starting at the end of the month, the folk pop duo and their band will be touring Europe with Beautiful Sadness, their impressive debut album. Lufthansa Magazin took a peek at their luggage at Tegel Airport in Berlin.
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I did consider setting a comp up on OzTips, but the site only allows for predictions of win, lose or draw &, as a lot of the games in the early stages are bound to be mismatches, I thought it'd be more interesting if we did in tipping in-thread.
My proposal is this: we tip the winners and the margin of victory, with more points awarded depending on the closeness of the prediction to the actual result.
As an example, the first game is France v Argentina. You predict: France by 10 points or however many you think they (or Argentina) will win by.
Points awarded thusly:
Spot-on prediction: 10 points
1-7 points out: 5 points
8-14 points out: 3 points
Correct outcome: 1 point
NB: no points for incorrect tip, regardless of narrowness of result.
So blindling simple even a league fan could understand it. Fixtures for the first week:
7 September:
France v Argentina
8 September:
England v USA
Australia v Japan
New Zealand v Italy
9 September:
Ireland v Namibia
Wales v Canada
South Africa v Samoa
Scotland v Portugal
11 September:
Argentina v Georgia
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Wetlands & deserts
These two landscape types are total opposites: wetlands are the most nutrient-rich, biologically active sites on Earth while deserts are regions with extremely low levels of biomass production and soil reproduction.
The difference between them comes down to the presence or absence of one crucial life-giving liquid: wetlands are landscapes dominated by the presence of water near or above the surface, while deserts are arid lands with dry degraded topsoil rendered vulnerable to wind erosion.
The spread of deserts
And while the world is estimated to have lost half of all its wetlands during the course of the last century, deserts already cover one fifth of the planet's surface and keep on growing – a development threatening to reduce the planet's capacity to support a fast-growing human population.
Human activities have played a major role in driving this shift – many wetlands have been drained to enable agriculture or urban growth while over-exploitation of semi-arid dryland ecosystems can rapidly transform them into desert. Large-scale climate change may also be implicated.
Earth observation enables researchers to analyse changes between terrain types on a variety of different scales, from local and regional mapping up to a global characterisation.
Land-use change
Satellites can track land-use changes that often drive desertification – such as over-cultivation, ill-managed irrigation and deforestation – or threaten the integrity of wetland areas. Earth Observation can also record the density of biomass across both wetland and dryland regions.
The high land reflectivity or albedo characteristic of desert areas shows up very well from space. And radar satellites such as ESA's ERS or Envisat spacecraft can not only differentiate between flooded and dry land, but also tell damp and arid soil apart, even deriving the moisture content of vegetation within wetlands or desert margins.


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Originalism is "hard" when grounded on reasons that purport to render it (in some sense) inescapably true; it is "soft" when predicated on contingent and contestable weighings of its costs and benefits relative to other interpretive approaches. That is, hard arguments seek to show that originalism reflects some sort of conceptual truth or follows logically from premises the interlocutor already can be expected to accept; soft arguments aim to persuade others to revise their judgments of value or their empirical or predictive assessments. The most common hard arguments contend that originalism is entailed either by intentionalism or by binding constitutionalism. Soft arguments claim that originalist interpretation best serves diverse values like democracy and the rule of law. I seek to show that the hard arguments for originalism are false and that the soft arguments are implausible.
The upshot is not that constitutional interpretation should disregard framers' intentions, ratifiers' understandings, or original public meanings. Of course we should care about these things. But originalism is a demanding thesis. We can take the original character of the Constitution seriously without treating it as dispositive. That original intents and meanings matter is not enough to render originalism true.
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Originalism is the ONLY proper way to interpret a constitutional document where laws are made by a democratically elected legislative body. The judges who interpret the law and who are neither responsible for making the law nor accountable to the public are in no position to interpret the law outside of the bounds set by its framers. To do ortherwise is to usurp both the democratic and lawmaking process.
I realise that some people think it "intelligent" even "intellectual" for judges to extrapolate on existing law, but simply put judges are not seized of the duty to do so.
Judges MUST interpret ALL laws as they see themin their original form, intent included as that is the word of the people through their democratically elected representatives. Any and all changes must come by the people through their democratically elected representatives as a response to the effects of the law as interpreted in original form bu the court and enforced by the government.
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Reality mom Michelle Duggar learned Thursday she'd suffered a miscarriage, People magazine reported.
The "19 Kids and Counting" star went for a routine check-up to learn the sex of baby no. 20, but her doctor was unable to find a heartbeat. Duggar's doctor said the 45-year-old had miscarried in the second trimester, People reported.
Duggar told the mag she and hubby Jim Bob later went home to break the news to their kids.
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The family plans to hold a funeral after learning their unborn baby's sex and choosing a name, Michelle Duggar told People.
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From the Middle English ransoun, from the Old French raençon, from stem of Latin redemptio; doublet of redemption. Entered English ca. the 13th century.
ransom (usually uncountable, plural ransoms)
- Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
- They were held for two million dollars ransom.
- They were held to ransom.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII:
- Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir J. Davies and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty.
- 2010, Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad:
- As rich as was the ransom Priam paid for Hektor, Hermes says, his remaining sons at Troy "'would give three times as much ransom / for you, who are alive, were Atreus' son Agamemnon / to recognize you.'"
- The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
- prisoners hopeless of ransom
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (historical, law, Britain) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
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money paid for the freeing of a hostage
ransom (third-person singular simple present ransoms, present participle ransoming, simple past and past participle ransomed)
- (14th century) To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.
- To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.
- to ransom prisoners from an enemy
- To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
- Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year. — Berners.
to pay a price to set someone free
to exact a ransom for, or a payment on
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In front of a crowd of more than fifty people in Hays Hall, national columnist Dr. Mike Adams spoke about free speech on college campuses. Adams, a one-time liberal, discussed his own battles with university administrators for about an hour. Questions and a book-signing followed the event. The Wabash Commentary, the conservative journal at Wabash, sponsored Adams' appearance.
Senior Mark Novakovich was favorably impressed. "I thought it was very well done. Dr. Adams is very well spoken," Novakovich said.
Using his Townhall.com column, Adams has spoken out on many issues, ranging from PETA to religious discrimination. He continued many of those themes in his new book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel: Confessions of a Conservative College Professor. The book is an indictment of the political correctness movement in academia, and its effects on free speech.
Adams first came to public attention in 2001, when his battle with University of North Carolina officials wanted to read his emails as part of a complaint. The event led to, in Adams' words, "public relations nuclear war." This event was Adams' "conservative coming-out day." It also led to his crusade for free speech on college campuses.
Seeking to "expand the marketplace of ideas," Adams promoted student-led activities to promote free speech. Such free speech is "an American thing," Adams said. Furthermore, Adams made it clear that students should be leading the charge for free speech on university campuses. "I don't think we should get in the business of treating students like children," Adams said.
Adams spent some time discussing strategies for students. Calling for a "three-pronged attack," he encouraged students to appeal to the courts of public opinion and law, and, if necessary, donors. However, he also discussed his view that a serious discussion should represent all viewpoints — liberal and conservative. He also stressed the importance of freedom and its fleeting nature. "Liberty is a precious thing," he said.
Despite the serious subject matter, Adams frequently used humor to make his points. But, in keeping with his radical past, there was also a tone of defiance. Referring to officials who actively seek to block free speech, "we want you to know you don't have an option anymore," Adams said.
In Photo: Adams, wearing a Wabash cap, signs books after his lecture.
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New York, N.Y. - In voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches, Farmingdale State College had three All-Conference women's volleyball selections. Junior outside Sarah Palladino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) was named to the First Team, while freshman middle blocker Maia Cadle-Hinton (Huntington, N.Y.) and sophomore setter Megan Pisciotta (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) earned Second Team honors.
Palladino, a junior team captain, is ranked sixth in the nation for service aces per set. In the Skyline, she ranked first in aces, fifth in points and sixth in kills. Palladino leads the team in kills and is second in both digs and assists.
Cadle-Hinton leads the team in total blocks and attack percentage and is second in kills. This year she set the Farmingdale State single-season school record for block assists. Cadle-Hinton leads the Skyline in blocks, is third in hitting percentage and 11th in points.
Pisciotta broke the Farmingdale State single-season record for assists this year. She leads the team and is ranked fifth in the Skyline for assists. Pisciotta is fourth on the Rams with 145 digs and added 41 service aces.
Joanie Cooney - Sage - Sr. - S - Ballston Lake, NY
Katelyn Drollette - Sage - Jr. - LIB - Cadyville, NY
Heather Ferchland - St. Joseph's-L.I. - So. - MH - Selden, NY
Alicia McCarthy - Purchase - Fr. - OH - Plano, Texas
Sarah Palladino - Farmingdale State - So. - OH - Lindenhurst, NY
Helen Putriment* - Sage - Jr. - OH - Troy, NY
Ashleigh Scozzari - Mount Saint Vincent - So. - MH - New Rochelle, NY
Julianne Tierney - St. Joseph's-L.I. - Jr. - S - Bethpage, NY
Maia Cadle-Hinton - Farmingdale State - Fr. - MB - Huntington, NY
Melissa Garibaldi - St. Joseph's-L.I. - Jr. - OPP - Seaford, NY
Jen Gries - Mount Saint Mary - So. - LIB - Hicksville, NY
Kayla Kurka - Mount Saint Mary - So. - MB - Islip, NY
Maria Leineweber - Mount Saint Vincent - Fr. - M/OH - Waimanalo, Hawaii
Megan Pisciotta - Farmingdale State - So. - S - Lindenhurst, NY
Claire Scully - Mount Saint Mary - Fr. - S - Bloomfield, NJ
*Player of the Year: Helen Putriment, Sage
Rookie of the Year: Alicia McCarthy, Purchase
Coach of the Year: Tobey Pantophlet, St. Joseph's-L.I.
To view the complete Skyline Conference press release, click HERE.


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Otranto: Italy's Combative Gem
As summer weather quickly approaches (finally!), it is only normal to begin daydreaming about the crystalline coasts of Puglia. Full of beautiful beachside towns on both the Adriatic and Ionian seas, an abundance of fresh local foods, and overly hospitable residents, Puglia is still the Italy o Details


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Afrocentric Social Work
Colita Nichols Fairfax
Afrocentric social work is a concept and praxis approach applicable in environmental and global settings where people of African descent are located. Using concept analysis as a methodology, this article explores Afrocentric social work theory and its applicability in the social sciences. Concept analysis is an examination of a thought or theory with the intent to create a more concise operational definition. Afrocentric social work not only is applicable to racial and social justice issues, it also is applicable to intellectual and philosophical discourses of social work, which has largely ignored Afrocentric social work as a viable theory and philosophical canon. The Walker and Avant method of concept analysis is employed in this article to provide a systemic discourse to define the attributes of Afrocentric social work, as well as its structural elements that scholars and practitioners utilize as a theory and praxis application.
Chaos Theory and Complexity Theory
Keith Warren
Chaos theory and complexity theory, collectively known as nonlinear dynamics or dynamical systems theory, provide a mathematical framework for thinking about change over time. Chaos theory seeks an understanding of simple systems that may change in a sudden, unexpected, or irregular way. Complexity theory focuses on complex systems involving numerous interacting parts, which often give rise to unexpected order. The framework that encompasses both theories is one of nonlinear interactions between variables that give rise to outcomes that are not easily predictable. This entry provides a nonmathematical introduction, discussion of current research, and references for further reading.
Community: Practice Interventions
Dorothy N. Gamble and Marie Weil
Major social changes resulting from globalization, the increase in multicultural societies, and growing concerns for human rights, especially for women and girls, will affect all community practice in this century. Community-practice processes—organizing, planning, sustainable development, and progressive social change—are challenged by these trends and the ethical dilemmas they pose. Eight distinct models of community-practice intervention are described with examples from around the globe. The values and ethics that ground community-practice interventions are drawn from international and national literature. Model applications are identified for work with groups, urban and rural communities, organizations and coalitions, and in advocacy and leadership for social justice and human rights.
Digital Technology in Social Work
Frederic G. Reamer
Digital, online, and other electronic technology has transformed the nature of social work practice and education. Contemporary social workers can provide services to clients by using online counseling, telephone counseling, video counseling, cybertherapy (avatar therapy), self-guided Web-based interventions, electronic social networks, e-mail, and text messages. In addition, increasing numbers of social work education programs are using distance education technology to teach students. The introduction of diverse digital, online, and other forms of electronic social services has created a wide range of complex ethical and related risk management issues. This article provides an overview of current technology used in social work; identifies compelling ethical issues; and explores risk-management issues. The author identifies relevant standards from the NASW Code of Ethics and other resources designed to guide practice.
David F. Gillespie
Disasters are a form of collective stress posing an unavoidable threat to people around the world. Disaster losses result from interactions among the natural, social, and built environments, which are becoming increasingly complex. The risk of disaster and people's susceptibility to damage or harm from disasters is represented with the concept of vulnerability. Data from the Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and genocide in Darfur, Sudan, show poor people suffer disproportionately from disasters. Disaster social work intervenes in the social and built environments to reduce vulnerability and prevent or reduce long-term social, health, and mental health problems from disasters.
Feminist Social Work Practice
Cheryl A. Hyde
Feminist social work practice is based on principles derived from the political and social analyses of the women's movement. As a practice approach, feminism emphasizes gendered analyses and solutions, democratized structures and processes, diversity and inclusivity, linking personal situations with political solutions, and transformation at all levels of intervention. Feminist practice is in concert with a multisystemic approach; it complements and extends strength-based social work. It requires of the practitioner, regardless of method, to be relational and open to other ways of knowing and understanding.
Tracy M. Soska
Housing, especially homeownership and affordable housing, remains essential to the American Dream but also among our most challenging social issues, particularly given the collapse of the housing market in the early 21st century. Housing and affordable housing are inextricably linked to both our national economic crisis and our wavering social policies. Housing is both symptomatic of and a catalyst for overarching social and economic issues, such as poverty, economic and educational inequality, and racial disparities, and it remains an unmet need for a significant portion of our population, such as the elderly, disabled, victims of abuse, those aging out of child welfare, veterans, ex-offenders, and others who encounter unique difficulties and lack of supportive services and service coordination. Advancing comprehensive and coordinated housing policies and programs remains important for social work and in the struggle for decent and affordable housing for all.
International Volunteer Service
Benjamin J. Lough
This entry provides a brief historical overview of international volunteer service, along with changes to traditional forms of international service. It presents a general typology for contemporary international-service programs and reviews how these forms differ in practice. Using the limited data available, it provides a demographic snapshot of the scale and prevalence of international volunteer service from the United States and globally. The entry then reviews critical intersections between international service and social work, and describes debates of particular concern to the social worker profession. Finally, the entry outlines important areas for future social work research and practice.
Life Span: Older Adulthood/Seniors (From Ages 60 to 75)
Nancy P. Kropf
Although the terms older adult and senior citizen are commonly defined as individuals 60 years and above, later adulthood contains various life-course phases and developmental periods. The "young-old," defined as individuals in the age range of 60–75 years, often experience various health, social, and economic transitions. Both the individual and family systems must negotiate some of the concomitant changes that accompany the journey into later life. Therefore, this first decade of older adulthood is one that can simultaneously be enjoyable, exciting, demanding, and stressful for aging persons and their family.
Management: Human Resources
Michàlle E. Mor Barak and Dnika Jones Travis
Social work organizations depend on a well-trained and responsive workforce to provide quality services. Human resource management (HRM) refers to the design of formal systems that ensure effective and efficient use of human talent, and serves as a vehicle to accomplish organizational goals. Effective HRM requires applying the same person-in-environment value orientation that guides client services to managing human resources. Considering the complexity of HRM, we have developed an organizing framework focused on employee development, organizational effectiveness, and cross-cutting HRM issues. In today's economic, legal, cultural and technological environment that emphasizes accountability, effective management of human talent is critical.
Men: Practice Interventions
Robert Blundo
A consistent theme for the majority of men in the United States remains the code of manhood. Men are expected by society to be stoic in the face of danger and to play out, in all aspects of life, the idea of the rugged individual going it alone, even in the face of a quickly changing world. Whereas social-work theorists and practitioners talk about male aggression, sexuality, intimacy, depression, anxiety, addiction, ageing, and work-related concerns, most men are less likely to view these as problems. If they do enter into counseling or treatment, they are less likely to remain for any length of time. Faced with these issues, practitioners are challenged to find ways of engaging men and forming successful collaboration and meaningful outcomes.
Joseph Walsh
Psychoeducation, which describes a range of direct interventions that are focused on participants' education, support, and coping skills development, has become extremely popular in social work practice since the 1970s. Such programs are delivered in many service settings and with many types of client populations. This article includes a definition of the term, a review of its origins in social work practice, its range of applications, the practice theories, and professional values from which it draws, and a review of the research evidence for its utility.
Social Media
Maria Rodriguez and Jama Shelton
Social media are defined as applications and websites that allow users to share content, usually of their own making. Social media users include individuals and organizations across a broad range of social strata. Key social work organizations, such as the National Association of Social Workers and the Association of Social Work Boards, have begun noting the proliferation of social media usage in education and practice and have begun developing guidelines to govern their use. The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, in their Grand Challenges of Social Work initiative, highlighted social media as an important area of growth for research and education. Despite the field's nascent enthusiasm, practical and ethical concerns persist. This article defines social media; discusses its usage in social work practice, research, and education; and discusses the ethical and practical considerations in each domain.
Task-Centered Practice
Michael S. Kelly
Task-centered practice is a social work technology designed to help clients and practitioners collaborate on specific, measurable, and achievable goals. It is designed to be brief (typically 8–12 sessions), and can be used with individuals, couples, families, and groups in a wide variety of social work practice contexts. With nearly 40 years of practice and research arguing for its effectiveness, task-centered practice can rightfully claim to be one of social work's original "evidence-based practices," though the relative paucity of research on its effectiveness in this decade suggests that the approach itself may have become increasingly integrated into other brief social work technologies.
Urban Practice
Melvin Delgado
Social work practice is best understood and practiced when taking into account the local context. The urban context of social work practice may share much with suburban and rural contexts but also brings with it unique problems and opportunities.


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KOffice 1.6 Beta 1 Released
KOffice, the KDE office suite, today released version 1.6 beta1. This release incorporates a number of new features, mainly from the Google Summer of Code projects, as well as a great number of bug fixes. It also signals the start of the feature freeze that always preceeds a release of a major new version, thus giving the developers exactly a month to fix outstanding bugs. We urge everybody that is interested in KOffice to install and test this version to make sure that the final
KOffice 1.6 is mainly a feature release for the fastest developing
The projects that were integrated into KOffice 1.6 were:
The other SoC projects were integrated into KOffice 2.0, which is
Other noteworthy but smaller things in 1.6 Beta1 are tools for
Bug reports
Of course testers are encouraged to report issues to bugs.kde.org.
By Jaroslaw Staniek at Sun, 2006/09/10 - 5:00am
Koffice is really getting interesting now.
By ale at Sun, 2006/09/10 - 5:00am
Does anybody know when (if ever) are kubuntu packages going to ship?
By shiny at Mon, 2006/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: packages
By anononymour at Mon, 2006/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: packages
By shiny at Mon, 2006/09/11 - 5:00am
I don't even know where to start to install this on Mandriva. Please help. :(
By ac at Mon, 2006/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: help
If Mandriva doesn't have pre-packaged binaries (rpm's), then you'll have to build it straight from the source code. Google might help, and asking around on the mandriva irc/forums may also help. goodluck.
By Vlad at Mon, 2006/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: help
If you are running Cooker, type into a root console:
]# urpmi koffice --auto --no-verify-rpm
If you are running an older release you should compile yourself or keep running updates until its released. Its best to wait for Mandriva rpm releases anyhow so you dont go accidentally breaking other things at the same time.
By Peter at Mon, 2006/09/11 - 5:00am
Kword tables?
Is there going to be some major work on Kword's table support? That is one think that I really think should be worked on for the next release...
By Scott at Mon, 2006/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: Kword tables?
Yes, version 2.0 will contain a totally new implementation of tables. 1.6 does not have any new stuff in KWord, only some bugfixes.
By Inge Wallin at Mon, 2006/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: Kword tables?
Phew... That's one think I find really annoying. I'm really glad it's goign to be majorly worked on/fixed in the 2.0 release...
By Scott at Fri, 2006/09/15 - 5:00am
Re: Kword tables?
That and linenumbers and KBibTex-integration :)
By Carsten Niehaus at Wed, 2006/09/13 - 5:00am
Are there going to be "Klik" packages of this release? I think Klik is the fastest and easiest way to temporarily install software without messing up my installation.
By ac at Mon, 2006/09/11 - 5:00am
From the changelgo
I was hoping there might be some Karbon changes list in the changelog but sadly not but I did notice something I hope can be added to all of Koffice:
What are the chances of this being done for all the Koffice applications?
By Alan at Tue, 2006/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: From the changelog
Hmm, generally it's not that difficult to build the applications standalone. You need the libs, so after configure, do:
cd lib
then if you just want one application, go into its directory and build it, like:
cd ../kspread (say)
If you also want the import/export filters, then you have to build them too:
cd ../filters/kspread
And that's it. Note, that for kchart, you also need to make install in interfaces/, and you might need to go into servicetypes/ and make install to get mime types installed.
By Inge Wallin at Tue, 2006/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: From the changelog
You might also need to make install in servicetypes/ and mimetypes/ other than libs/ as a general dependency.
By Bart Coppens at Tue, 2006/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: From the changelgo
Most koffice applications are independent, you can use the environnement variable DO_NOT_COMPILE="kword kspread k..." before calling the configure script to select applications you don't want to build. And there is nothing new in karbon in 1.6, because the authors are doing a massive rewrite of the application for 2.0.
By Cyrille Berger at Tue, 2006/09/12 - 5:00am
Krita is really looking very promising.
By Random dude at Thu, 2006/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Krita~
I don't know OpenCanvas, but natural drawing tools are exactly what I want to work on. Unfortunately, you need a whole infrastructure setup before you can do that sort of thing. We're getting there, though.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Thu, 2006/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Krita~
OpenCanvas is a very nice painting application (mostly with a japanes community from what I have gather), with a quiet unique feature, you can record the strokes and drawing operation, and then replay them on a different computer. But, unfortunately there is no demo of it :'(
By Cyrille Berger at Thu, 2006/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Krita~
Er, I just found a trial version of it. Doesn't run under wine, though.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Thu, 2006/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Krita~
Uh, got late to reply to this...ahem.
By (same) Random dude at Sat, 2006/09/16 - 5:00am
Kword sheet spaces
I was hoping that Kword could now save Document Structure list size right, after closing Kword. And Kword paper sheets could have space between them, like OpenOffice has.
Well... Still very nice beta :-)
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We continue with our countdown of the top 5 vote-getters in the NAPA Save of the Year voting.
Today's save has Real Salt Lake's Nick Rimando swatting away a dangerous floater from the Crew's Leandre Griffit. The stop helped preserve a 2-0 victory for the Claret-and-Cobalt.
NAPA Save of the Year final ranking
3. Nick Rimando
4. Eddie Gaven (Watch here)
5. Brad Knighton (Watch here)
The winner of the NAPA Save of the Year will be revealed on Wednesday, November 17.


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Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union will return for spring training at Deltona's Dewey O. Boster Sports Complex for two weeks starting Sunday, Feb. 10.
DELTONA — Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union will return for spring training at Dewey O. Boster Sports Complex for two weeks starting Sunday, Feb. 10.
The team is scheduled to play a scrimmage at 6 p.m. Feb. 20 against D.C. United, according to Aimee Cicero, the team's communications manager. The scrimmage will be free and open to the public.
The Union — who trained in Deltona last year as well — will conduct several youth soccer clinics in conjunction with the Deltona Soccer Club. Registration is through the local club, Cicero said.
Two clinics will be held each day on Feb. 10 and 18, giving young fans the opportunity to watch one hour of first-team practice, meet the players and then compete in an hour of skills competitions and drills.
A "Train with the Pros Day" is open to players 18 and older. Registration and cost for that event — which runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 14 — can be found on philadelphiaunion.com.
The Union will train at various times at Boster Park during the team's spring training, which concludes Feb. 23. Practices are closed to the public, Cicero said.
The Union will participate in the Disney Pro Soccer Classic at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Kissimmee, playing four matches over two weeks. They also will play an exhibition game against the Montreal Impact at Jacksonville's EverBank Field on Feb. 15.
Tickets for the game in Jacksonville start at $15, while tickets to the Disney tournament range from $20 for a doubleheader to $99 for all 16 matches. Tickets are available at ticketmaster.com.
The Union went 10-18-6 last season and finished eighth in the Eastern Conference. The team included Freddy Adu last year, but negotiations for the well-known player's return to the team ended this week with Union manager John Hackworth's announcement that Adu would not be on the team this season.
Adu, who had a base salary of more than $475,000 last year, was fourth on the team last season with five goals.


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