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In 1993 the Catholic religious Order of Friars Minor of the Province of St. Barbara (Franciscans) formed the Independent Board of Inquiry regarding St. Anthony's seminary in Santa Barbara, CA. This was an independent board of professionals charged with investigating allegations of sexual abuse that took place at the seminary from the 1960's through the 1980's.
In 1994 the Province formed the Independent Response Team (IRT) to continue the work begun by the Independent Board of Inquiry. The IRT's function was to receive complaints of sexual misconduct, offer assistance to those who had suffered abuse, and to monitor treatment and placement of offenders. At the time, there were no other models in place nationally for offering assistance to victims/survivors.
In 2002, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops approved the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,",pledging to assure the safety of all children in the Catholic dioceses. They established a national lay board that created national criteria for compliance to the Charter.
Shortly thereafter, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM), an organization that serves the leadership of the Catholic orders and congregations of religious priests and brothers of the United States, of which the Franciscans of the Province of St. Barbara are members, issued a parallel document, "Improving Pastoral Care and Accountability In Response to the Tragedy of Sexual Abuse."
In conjunction with Praesidium Inc., a risk management consultancy, CMSM created national standards of compliance regarding the receipt of complaints and response to victims, the education of members and the supervision of its offenders and how review boards should work, including contracting with qualified individuals for pastoral outreach. CMSM then issued guidelines to all its members for best practices for establishing lay review boards and for the job of victim assistance coordinator.
After a lengthy certification review, the Franciscan Province of St. Barbara was granted accreditation in 2005 with a recommendation that it institute changes in the IRT that were more directly in line with CMSM best practices. The Franciscans have followed Praesidium's advice, complied with CMSM guidelines and instituted those changes.
Like the IBOI before it, the IRT has given way to a Province Review Board, a volunteer lay review committee aided by an investigative team, a consultant who monitors the Aftercare program for offenders, and an office of Pastoral Outreach headed by a Pastoral Outreach Coordinator (POC).
Under this new structure the work of the IRT has been divided into separate functions. The POC receives calls regarding complaints of sexual misconduct, manages ongoing care and support for the victims/survivors, and works with families, parishes, communities, etc., that have been affected by sexual misconduct. The investigative team looks into complaints as they come in; the review board examines cases and, in consultation with the POC and the investigators, makes recommendations to the Province.


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I completely missed this top quality one hit wonder back in the 80s, but after recently listening to it for what seems like the first time, this kind of sophisticated, Jazz/funk music would have been too much for my undeveloped brain to take in back then!
Garden Party was an instrumental and I adore this style of music. Sadly, not many instrumental pieces ever make it into the charts, but when they do they're usually awesome.
Mezzoforte are an Icelandic band who are still performing today, albeit with a different line-up. The band had one hit album in the UK during 1982. Entitled Surprise, Surprise it reached #23 in the album charts and also included the track Garden Party which reached #17 in 1983. However, the follow-up single Rockall only managed #75.
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Archive for November, 2011
Continual Service Improvement – How to Provide Value On An Ongoing Basis
On Wednesday November 2nd, 2011, Ken Hayes, Dir of Continual Service Improvement for Technisource presented at Yahoo Inc for HDI NYC.
This session explored CSI with an objective of increasing First Call Resolution (FCR) and using a "shift left" approach to justify additional investments in your operations; gaining cooperation across the entire IT organization by calculating the support cost and business productivity savings; and tips and techniques to instill CSI in what you and your teams do every day.
Ken Hayes
Ken has over 30 years of experience in the support services industry, ranging from a Service Desk Analyst to National Director of Delivery. He is currently the Director of Continual Service Improvement for the Technology Support Services practice at Technisource, where he is responsible for developing and implementing programs to increase the effectiveness and efficiencies of their Service Desks. Ken is a member of HDI and itSMF and has spoken on support industry topics at local and national events. Ken's article entitled Continual Service Improvement: The Next Step in the Service Desk's Evolution recently featured in the Sept/Oct edition of HDI SupportWorld magazine.
Technisource has a longstanding relationship with HDI, and has participated extensively in associated industry forums and standards committees. Their National Practice Director for Support Services has served on the HDIs Strategic Advisory Board, and their subject matter experts are frequent guest speakers at national and local Support Industry conferences such as the HDI Annual Conference and Expo. Technisource's Mechanicsburg, PA Help Desk Service Center was recently awarded the 2011 Team Excellence Award for External Support, which evaluated all aspects Help Desk capabilities, processes and customer service results. In 2008, a Technisource Help Desk Agent was awarded the HDI Help Desk Analyst of the year award.


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craft show, deviant decor, etsy, Etsyrain, hammer and paper, handmade perfume, hasenpfeffer, holiday gift guide, indie artists, rebel and mercury, small business saturday, stasiab, sweet anthem, Sweet Tea Apothecary
This weekend I participated in my second EtsyRain Handmade Holiday Show. I learned a lot last year and felt my display this year was much tighter, more professional…and pretty! I got so many great compliments on my display and on all my perfumes. The big sellers this year were Dead Writers (of course), Dharma Bum (I knew it would because it's one of my best), Lenore, Boleyn, Clara, and Pamplemousse. Pamplemousse and Clara were last year's favorites so I'm happy to see the newbies doing so well, means I'm evolving yay! Here's the display:
Now for my favorite vendors at the show! Please be sure to check out their shops, they are amazingly high quality and perfect for gifts…or for yourself.
This shop was right next to me and all weekend, delighted children (and adults!) would literally run up and grab the toys off their ladder shelf and hug them. They make gorgeous, intricate dolls and other toys that are unique and interesting. There was one toy in particular that I loved and wanted for my baby but wasn't sure if I should splurge on it or not ($70). Every time someone picked this little guy up my heart would sink. I had to have him for my baby girl and I'm really glad I did. We named it Strawberry because it has little strawberries on it's handkerchief. Baby girl loves it!
Hammer and Paper
I really wanted a gorgeous clock necklace from this shop, but it's the holidays so I didn't want to buy for myself. I'm definitely going to be back.
Deviant Decor
This booth was across from me and she had all her pieces on a wall display. I'm going to order a custom one with a typewriter on it for my future booths…fits perfectly with Dead Writers.
I just love Stasia B! She is an adorable, creative, and all around nice person. I traded some Dead Writers perfume for one of her t-shirts last year. I didn't get a chance to buy from her this year, but I'm going to purchase some of her art work for my baby girl's room. This in particular:
On to the perfumes!
Sweet Anthem
Not only is Meredith the nicest person ever who routinely helps me with all sort of business topics, her perfumes are just amazing. When someone comes to my shop and doesn't find what they're looking for, I send them her way. This year her Fox perfume caught my eye (notice a trend?). This is from her familiars collection and it has black tea and beeswax…no wonder I liked it.
Rebel and Mercury
This shop makes 100% all natural perfumes and they are lovely. She also had a line of candles which looked so pretty on her display.
There you have it! My favorite Etsy shops that presented this year. I'm going to be at Renegade LA and SF so I'll do posts for the shops I find there as well. Enjoy!


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Archive for November, 2014
Charlotte REIA Meets on Dec 4th, 2014Posted on November 25, 2014 by
at Crowne Plaza Charlotte Executive Park
Guests Pay $15 Online or $20 at the Door. RSVP Now!
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." ~ Eric Hoffer
The above quote by Eric Hoffer is a profound one. If you're not changing with the changing times, you'll disappear like the dinosaurs of the past. It's no secret that Real Estate is bouncing back quite strong in many areas of the country and if you'd like to get back into it or if you're an active Real Estate investor now, we'd like to invite you to find out how the game has changed. Without this knowledge you'll become Real Estate Dinosaurs.
Join us at the Charlotte REIA Main Monthly Meeting on Thursday, December 4th at 6PM at the Crowne Plaza Charlotte Executive Park located at 5700 Westpark Dr in Charlotte, NC (map) with our special guest, Roger Salam, who is a real estate investor, mentor, international speaker & best-selling author. Roger will not only show you how the real estate game has changed, he'll also give you the new rules of the game. Roger says, "Not only the paradigm of Real Estate investing has shifted, but the entire paradigm on success has changed." Perhaps you've noticed, but don't know how to adapt and change with the new shift and the new game.
Join us December 4th and Roger will show you:
- The single most important philosophical change that will make immediate and the biggest difference in your Real Estate investing business
- 5 New paradigms of success not only in Real Estate investing, but in life
- How To Make Your First $5k In Two Weeks
- The Biggest Mistakes New Investors Make That Get Them Sued
- Automating Techniques That Will Reduce Your Actual Work By 80%
- How market research before you begin can make or break you in this business
- How to buy wholesale properties at 50% or below market value (his exclusive list)
- How to get owner financing for your deals (He'll owner finance!)
- All this and much, much more!
December is a very special month and most people are pretty much wrapping up the year and getting ready for the New Year. Roger will also give you some very special tips for making 2015 your best year ever!
Join us for our last meeting of the year. We saved the best for last, but you be the judge. Bring a friend and they'll thank you!
SPECIAL BONUS JUST FOR ATTENDING: Roger will be giving away his "Real Estate Success Secrets" DVD along with the PowerPoint Slides to follow along. Supplies are limited and will be given away on a first come, first serve basis. Arrive to the meeting early to network with other like-minded investors, vendors and other real estate professionals.
American IRA – The American IRA mission is to provide the highest level of customer service in the self-directed retirement industry.
Lima One Capital, LLC – A fully capitalized, direct lender for residential real estate investors and home builders. We are fully capitalized and our team prides itself on closing loans quickly for our clients.
- World Ventures Travel
- Legal Shield
*Please Note: Meeting agenda is subject to change.
Roger SalamPosted on November 25, 2014 by
W. "Roger" Salam is an award winning inspirational speaker, best-selling author of several books on sales & marketing and Real Estate investing courses. He's been listed in America's Premiere Experts and the recipient of "Thought Leader of The Year" award by the National Academy of Best-Selling Authors.
Roger is the chairman and founder of The Winner's Circle, the largest and most respected invitation-only Mastermind Forum for top level business leaders and highly successful entrepreneurs.
Roger is also an active Real Estate Investor and presented his own seminars all over the US on the topic of Real Estate investing – "How to buy houses with no money and credit." He and his partner owned over 500 investment properties in the greater Tampa Bay area.
In 1990, he joined the team of world-renowned author and motivational speaker Anthony Robbins and became the number one speaker & trainer. He has delivered over 4700 professional talks to various corporations, non-profit organizations and educational institutions in North America, Europe and Asia. Read More→
Island REIA Winter Retreat: Jan 18–24, 2015Posted on November 4, 2014 by
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Be part of the first ever Island REIA Winter Retreat on January 18th – 24th, 2015 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. There will be 7 days of luxury accommodations, fun and exciting excursions and advanced real estate investor training you won't get anywhere else on the planet from experts like Russ Hiner, Rock Shukoor, Linda Dana, Dustin Griffin, Chris Littleton, Donna Littleton, Jim Hitt, Duncan Wierman, Gordan Catts, Leslie Mathis, Don DeRosa and many others!
Contact Dave Biddison at 801-550-9042
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The Hard Rock Hotel & Casio Punta Cana is situated on a perfect 30 mile stretch of palm lined coastline and is famous for its stunning beaches that rank among the world's very best. The Hard Rock offers a mind blowing all-inclusive experience with thrilling gaming action in one of the biggest and best casinos in the Caribbean featuring exhilarating nightlife, tantalizing culinary options, state-of-the-art meeting facilities and luxurious rooms worth tweeting about, all infused with a legendary rock and roll vibe.
The Hard Rock has 13 pools, 9 restaurants, a Nicklaus designed golf course, and an astonishing Spa all surrounded by the most pristine beaches in the Caribbean. This is the perfect setting for our first retreat. Come see what it really means to get away from it all with a group of your favorite real estate investors and friends at a world class, all-inclusive luxury resort in paradise!
Come join us at the Island REIA Winter Retreat and learn real estate investing topics you won't hear anywhere else from some of the best minds in the business. It's going to be a full week of fun, sun, great food, good times, educational opportunities, social gatherings and exciting excursions with other like-minded investors and much more!
*Membership has its advantages. January is peak travel season for the Caribbean and the Hard Rock normally charges at least $547.44/night or $3,284.64/week based on double occupancy in the Caribbean Suite with King or Double Beds. This amount includes taxes and fees, but does not include airfare or transfer to and from the resort. However, Our Special Price via World Ventures is only $350/night or $2100/week based on double occupancy, a savings of over $1,280! You can join us for Only $1050/person! Our special price includes your all-inclusive visit, taxes, fees and transport to and from the resort, as well as $1500 resort credits per room that can be spent at the resort on spa visits, golf, excursions, etc. Airfare is NOT included. Certain terms and conditions do apply. Also, you can bring your kids under 17 year old for only $219/each for the week!
Because January is peak travel season and we have a very limited number of rooms available, get your passport and reserve your room now before all the rooms are booked!
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Allahabad High Court Judgement
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JUDGEMENT HEADLINE : Property Of Churches Of India Vest For Purposes Of Church Of England And Is Subject To The Rules.
JUDGEMENT TITLE : State Of U.P. & Others Vs. Indian Christian Trusties On 26/09/2007 By Allahabad High Court
CORAM : Hon'ble Yatindra Singh,J. And Hon'ble Vijay Kumar Verma,J.
Court No. 10
First Appeal No. 556 Of 1985
State Of UP Through Collector, Gorakhpur And Others ... Defendant-appellants
Indian Christian Trustees Calcutta
through Its General Attorney ... Plaintiff-Respondent
(Delivered By Hon'ble Yatindra Singh, J.)
1. Who Manages The Churches Of India (affiliated To The Church Of England)? What Are Their Rights Over The Property? Are They Absolute Or Limited? This Is The Main Focus Of This Appeal.
2. The Plaintiff-respondent Filed The Suit No. 121 Of 1981 In The Court Of Civil Judge, Gorakhpur In Respect Of Plot No. 4 (3.80 Acre), 6 (3.98 Acre), And 7 (14.48 Acre) Situate In Village Daudpur, Pargana Haveli, Tehsil Sadar, District Gorakhpur. It Is An Urban Property Situate Within The Municipal Limits Of Gorakhpur. The Relief Claimed For Is, That The Plaintiff Be Owner Of The Property In Dispute And A Mandatory (it Should Have Been Permanent Prohibitory) Injunction Be Granted Restraining The Defendant From Interfering With Their Possession.
3. The Plaint Allegations Are That:
The Property In Dispute Was Acquired By The Church Missionary Trust Association Ltd., 6 Salisbury Square Fleet Street London (also Called Church Missionary Society) More Than 100 Years Ago From The Zamindar;
Over The Property, The Christ Church (belonging To Church Of England) With Residence Of The Priest Was Constructed;
Later On, St. Andrew's School, College And The Principals' Residence , Students Hostel Were Also Constructed;
After Enactment Of The Indian Christian Church Act, 1927 (the Act), The Property Was Transferred To The Plaintiff, Who Became Its Owner.
Rt. Reveren Bishop Din Dayal Chairman Lucknow Diocesan Trust Association Is Managing Its Affairs On Behalf Of The Plaintiff;
The Cause Of Action Arose On 15.12.1980 When The Employees Of The Government Threatened To Interfere With Plaintiff's Possession Over The Property In Dispute.
4. The Defendants Filed Their Separate Written Statements And Denied The Plaint Allegation. It Is Accepted That The Property In Dispute Is Urban Property Within The Municipal Limits Of Gorakhpur, However, Their Case Is That:
The Property In Dispute Is Recorded In The Name Of The Central Government In The Revenue Records And The State Of UP Is Managing It Through Nagar Palika Gorakhpur;
The Plaintiff Is Not Owner Of The Property In Dispute;
The Indian Christian Church Act, 1927 Is Not Applicable.
5. The Suit Has Been Decreed On 11.1.1984 For Declaration As Well As Permanent Injunction. Hence The Present Appeal.
6. We Have Heard Standing Counsel For The Appellant And Sri BN Asthana And Sri PK Asthana For The Plaintiff-respondent. The Following Points Arise For Determination:
(i)Whether The Civil Court Has Jurisdiction To Try The Suit.
(ii)Whether There Is Pleading Regarding Ownership Of The Plaintiff.
(iii)Whether The Property In Dispute Has Vested In The Plaintiff.
(iv)In Case It Is Vested With The Plaintiff Then Is The Vesting Absolute Or Limited?
1st POINT: APPELLANT NOT ENTITLED TO RAISE THE PLEA OF JURISDICTION
7. The Standing Counsel Cited The Decision Reported In Guru Granthji Vs. Bachha Krishna Das (1988 All. LJ 934) And Submitted That The Property In Dispute Is Governed By The UP Tenancy Act And As Such Civil Court Has No Jurisdiction To Try The Suit.
8. The Counsel For The Plaintiff Respondent Has Brought To Our Notice;
The Decisions Reported In State Of UP Vs. Jagdish Sharan Singhal 1982 ALJ 1302 (Paragraph 17);
The Definition Of The Word 'Land' {Sec. 3(10)}, 'holding' {Sec. 3(7)} And Preamble Of The UP Tenancy Act;
The Definition Of The Word 'Urban Area', {section 3(15)} And Section 84 Of The UP Urban Areas Zamindari Abolitions And Land Reforms Act Repealing The UP Tenancy Act In Respect Of Urban Area.
9. In View Of The Above, The Counsel For The Plaintiff Submitted That:
The UP Tenancy Act Only Governs The Agricultural Area And Not The Urban Area;
It Is Admitted That The Property In Dispute Is In Urban Area Over Which No Agriculture Is Done;
UP Tenancy Act Is Not Applicable;
In Any Case In View Of Section 84 Of Section 3(15) Of The UP Urban Areas Zamindari Abolitions And Land Reforms Act, UP Tenancy Act Stands Repealed In Respect Of Urban Area.
The Decision Cited By The Standing Counsel Has Not Considered This Aspect And Is Not Rightly Decided.
10. It Is Not Necessary For Us To Decide Whether The UP Tenancy Act Is Applicable Or Not. Admittedly, No Issue Was Framed On The Question Of Jurisdiction. This Question Is Not Raised In The Grounds Of Appeal. It Is Being Raised For The First Time At The Hearing Of The Appeal. No Prejudice Has Been Caused To The Defendant-appellants. We See No Justification To Permit The Defendant Appellants To Raise This Plea At This Stage.
2nd POINT: THERE IS PLADING OF OWNERSHIP
11. The Plaintiff In The Present Suit Is, India Church Trustee Calcutta Through General Attorney Rt. Rev. Din Dayal Bishop Of Lucknow And Chairman Diocesan Trust Association, 25 MG Marg, Allahabad. We Have Already Mentioned The Plaint Allegation In Paragraph 3 Of This Judgement. These Allegations Are Sufficient Pleading To Indicate The Ownership And Right To Sue On Behalf Of The Plaintiff. The Evidence Adduced By The Plaintiff Can Not Be Ignored Merely On The Ground That There Is Insufficient Pleading.
12. Apart From It, The Plaintiff-respondent Is Relying Upon The Act, The Rules Framed Under It, And The Gazette Notifications, For Which The Court Is Bound To Take Judicial Notice.
3rd POINT: THE PROPERTY HAS VESTED WITH THE PLAINTIFF
Evidence Produced
13. The Plaintiff-respondent, Has Filed Revenue Records, Different Orders, Letters Sent By The Central Government And The State Government. The Statement Of Sri E. Larace, Secretary, Lucknow Diocesan Trust Association (PW-1) And Sri Anil Kumar Basu, Manager Of The Plaintiff (PW-2) Has Also Been Recorded On Its Behalf.
14. The Defendant Appellants Have Filed Khatauni Of 1381-1383 Fasli, Letter Dated 13.7.1968 And Have Produced Sri Lalji Singh, Tax Superintendent, Nagar Mahapalika, Gorakhpur As (DW-1).
Property Was Of The Church Missionary Society
15. In 1322 F Khatauni (Ex-11), The Plots Are Recorded In Patti Of Government; Hata Girjaghar And Hata Padri Saheb Is Recorded In Zaman 12 In The Cultivator's Column. This Entry Was Corrected By Record Officer By The Order Dated 27.2.1919 (Ex-16). He Has Held:
'This Is An Objection To The Entry Of Plots No. 1 To 7 As The Property Of Government. In The Khatauni Of Last Settlement Plots 1 And 5 Are Entered As Qadim In The Khatwat Of The Sarkar Bahadur, Plots 4, 6 And 7 Are Entered As The Compound Of The Padri Sahib In Khewat Of The Sarkar Bahadur... At First Sheikh Farasat Hussain Claimed That All The Numbers Are His Property And That They Are Held By The Church Missionary Society On A Permanent Lease. He Has Withdrawn His Claim In Regard To Nos. 1, 2, 3 And 5. I Have Examined The Nazul Register And Find That Nos. 4, 6 And 7 Are Not Entered In It. Sheikh Farasat Hussain States That He Receives An Annual Rent Of Rs. 32/13/19 On Account Of These Numbers From The Church Missionary Society And On Behalf Of The Society The Reverend AC Pelly Confirms This Statement. The Collector Is Represented By The Supervisor Qanungo And By The Naib Registrar Qanungo, Who Likewise Make No Claim. I Am Satisfied That The Entry Is An Erroneous One And I Order That Nos. 4, 6 And 7 Be Entered As The Zamindari Of Qazi Farasat Husain Perpetually Leased To The Church Missionary Society At An Annual Rent Of Rs. 32/13/19.'
16. This Order Was Never Set Aside And Later Revenue Records, Khatauni From 1353 To 1363 F (Ex.32), Show That Plots No. 4, 6 And 7 Were Recorded In The Patti Of Farasat Hussain And The Name Of Hata Girjaghar Jere Ihatmam [under The Management Of] Padri Sahab Is Mentioned In The Zaman 8 (ie As Hereditary Tenant).
17 In 1364 F And 1365 F (Ex-32), The Entries Are Hata Girijaghar, Lucknow Diocesan Trust Association, Allahabad Jrer Ihatman Sri PN Ghose Mukhatare Aam, Vsarasatpur Is Recorded And Lucknow Diocesan Trust Association, Allahabad Jere Ihatman Shri PN Ghose, Mukhatare Aam Vasratpur Respectively.
18. A Correction Application Was Filed. It Was Supported By The Government Of India. It Was Allowed On 21.5.1968 (Ex.14). The Relevant Part Of The Order Is As Follows:
'This Is An Application For Correction Of Papers Filed By The Secretary, LDTA For Correction Of Entries Over The Plots No. 4, 6 And 7 Area 22 Acres 26 Decimal In All, Existing In The Name Of The Lucknow Diccesan Trust Association Zer Intizamd Sri PN Ghose, Mukhtar-s-Am, Situate In Village Daudpur, Tappa And Pargana Haveli, Tehsil Sadar, District Gorakhpur. The Entries Are Incorrect In The Column Of Ownership As The Mukhtar-e-Am Shri PN Ghose Is No Longer The Local Agent And In Any Case The Owner Should Have Been Shown As Indian Church Trustees, Calcutta, Through The Lucknow Diocesan Trust Association, Allahabad As General Attorney. The Application Has Not Been Contested By Any One. Sri PN Ghose Has Filed An Admission Accepting The Claim Of The ICT [Plaintiff]. The Application Has Been Supported By Govt. Of India, Ministry Of Defence No. Eccl 472/D-2(b) Dated 23..3.1968 Transferring The Church To The ICT. The Land Is The Property Of The ICT And Not Of The Govt. And They Are Also In Its Possession Through The LDTA. I Therefore Find That The Existing Entry Is Incorrect And May Be Corrected. Let The Name Of The Indian Church Trustees, Calcutta Zer-i-Intizam Lucknow Diocesan Trust Association Be Entered In Place Of The Existing Entry'.
19. The Only Revenue Record, Where Contrary Entry Is Recorded, Is Khatauni Of 1380-1381 F (Ex-ka-1). Here The Government Of India Is Recorded As Sirdar. There Is Nothing On The Record To Show As To How The Name Of Government Of India Came To Be Recorded Over The Property In Dispute As Sirdar.
20. The Documentary Evidence On Record Establishes That
The Property In Dispute Was In The Patti Of Farat Hussain Who Was The Zamindar And It Was Perpetually Leased Out To The Church Missionary Society.
The Christ Church Was Constructed. Girjaghar And Ahata Padiri Sahab Is Recorded Over The Property In Dispute.
The Property Was Later On Recorded In The Name Of The Indian Church Trustee (plaintiff).
The Property Vests In The Indian Church Trustee
21. The Indian Church Measure Act 1927 Was Enacted For Dissolution Of The Legal Union Between The Church Of England And The Church Of India. Thereafter The Indian Church Act, 1927 (the Act) Was Enacted, Providing Incidental And Consequential Matters. Section 6 Of The Act (see Appendix-1) Envisages Incorporation Of The Indian Church Trustee (Plaintiff). This Was Done By Issuance Of The Notification On 20.7.1929.
22. A Reading Of Sections, 4 And 6(1) And 6(3)(a) Of The Act Show That Most Of The Churches Along With Their Property Vested In The Crown And Over Some, Only Management Rights Were Given To The Plaintiff. The Churches That Vested In The Crown Are Mentioned In The Part-I Of The Second Schedule Of The Act. Part-II Of The Same Schedule Contains Names Of Those Churches That Did Not Vest In The Crown And Only Management Was Handed To The Plaintiff. The Christ Church, Gorakhpur (Church Is Dispute) Is In Part-I. This Church Along With Its Property (namely Plots No. 4, 6 And 7) Vested In The Crown In View Of The Section 4 Of The Act (see Appendix-1).
23. Section 5 Of The Act (see Appendix-1) Empowers The Governor General Of India In Council To Make Rules. Initially Indian Church Statutory Rules, 1929 (the 1929 Rules) Were Framed. These Rules Were Superceded By The Indian Church (India) Statutory Rules, 1940 (the 1940 Rules). The Relevant Part Of The 1940 Rules Is Appendix-2. Rule 12 Empowers The Removal Of Any Church From Part-I Of The Second Schedule Of The Act And Rule 15 Empowers The Vesting Of The Same With The Plaintiff.
24. The Government Of India Was Looking After Churches Under Ecclesiastical Affairs. Later On, It Was Decided To Wind Up These Affairs And Transfer The Churches And Properties To Different Authorities. A Letter Dated 23.3.1948 (Appendix-3 To The Judgement) Was Sent And Notification Dated 27.3.1948 (Appendix-4 To This Judgement) To This Effect Was Published.
25. The Management Of The Churches And Their Property Was Vested With The Authorities Mentioned In The Letter Dated 23.3.1948. The Christ Church Is A Church Of India And Was Vested With The Plaintiff. This Is How The Plaintiff Became Owner Of The Christ Church And Its Property: However, This Vesting Is Not Absolute: It Is Limited. This Is Dealt In Discussion Under The Next Point: VESTING IS LIMITED.
26. It Is No Body's Case That The Christ Church Is Situate In The Cantonment Area. The Indian Church Trustee Has Become Its Owner Is Also Proved By The Following Admissions Of The Defendant-appellants:
The Letter Dated 24.12.1949 From The Defence Ministry Government Of India;
The Letter Dated 18.12.1956 Written By The Chief Secretary Of Uttar Pradesh;
The Order Dated 21.5.1968 Where The Central Government Had Supported The Case Of The Plaintiff.
Vesting Can Be Limited
27. Before We Consider The Nature Of Vesting Of The Properties With The Plaintiff, Let's See Whether Vesting Is Only Of One Type Or Can It Be Of Different Types.
28. Vesting Is Not Always Absolute. It Takes Colour From The Content In Which It Is Used And It Is Not Necessarily The Same In Every Provision Or In Every Context. This Is So Held By The Supreme Court In Maharaj Singh Vs. State Of UP; AIR 1976 SC 2602 (paragraph 17) And M. Ismail Farauqui Vs. Union Of India AIR 1995 SC 605 (Paragraph 21, 44). Thus Vesting Can Be Absolute: It Can Be Limited.
Nature Of Vesting - Present Case
29. The Church Missionary Society Was Affiliated With The Church Of England. The Property Was Held For Its Purposes. The Christ Church Was Constructed And Consecrated: Services Were And Are Still Held Therein???it Is No Body's Case That The Christ Church Was Not Consecrated. Under Section 4(3) Of The Act, The Crown Held It In Trust For The Purposes Of The Church Of England. It Is This Right Which Has Been Vested With The Plaintiff And Is Further Qualified By The 1940 Rules. The Plaintiff Holds The Property In Trust For The Purposes Of The Church Of England And Is Subject To The 1940 Rules.
30. Rule 28 To 30 Of The 1940 Rules Provide Consequences Of The Breach Of The Rules. In Case The Property Is Utilised Otherwise Or Conditions In The 1940 Rules Are Violated, Then Suitable Action Can Be Taken. It Is In This Sense That Vesting Is Not Absolute But Is Limited. At This Stage, We Wish To Clarify That It Is No Body's Case That The Property Is Used Contrary To The Purposes Of The Church Of England Or Any Condition Of The 1940 Rules Has Been Violated.
31. The Defendant-appellants Have Filed A Letter Dated 18th July, 1968 Sent By The Secretary Of The UP Government (Ex-Ka-2). It States That:
The Government Has Re-examined The Matter In Light Of Section 5(iii) & 5 (v) Of The Act, And Rule 15 & 30 Of The 1929 Rules (it Should Be 1940 Rules);
The Vesting Is Of Right Of Possession, Control, And User Only;
The Vesting Does Not Extend To Vesting Of Full Proprietary Rights; And
The Earlier GOs Dated 18.7.1956 And 29.12.1956 Are Cancelled/amended.
32. In Our Opinion, The Correct Legal Position Is That The Christ Church And The Property Is Vested With The Plaintiff For The Purposes Of The Church Of England And Is Subject To The 1940 Rules: A Violation Of The Same May Render It Liable It For Suitable Action Under The Law And Property May Be Resumed.
33. The Christ Church And Residences For The Priests Were Already Constructed Before Enforcement Of The Act. At Present There Is A School, Degree College, Students Hostel, Residence Of Teachers Over The Property In Dispute. It Is Also Being Used For The Educational Purposes For More Than 50 Years Though It Is Not Clear As To When The School Was Constructed. There Is Neither Any Pleading Nor Any Suggestions That This Use Is Contrary To The Purposes Of The Church Of England Or Contrary To The 1940 Rules. Even If That Be So, It Has Been Condoned: The Appellants Have Acquiesced In The Same. We Clarify That Now No Action Can Be Taken Against The Plaintiff For Utilising A Part Of The Property In Dispute For Educational Purposes.
34. Our Conclusions Are As Follows:
(i)There Is No Justification In Permitting The Defendant-appellants To Raise The Plea Of Jurisdiction.
(ii)The Evidence Led By The Plaintiff Cannot Be Ignored On The Ground That There Is Insufficient Pleading.
(iii)The Christ Church And The Property Has Vested In The Indian Church Trustee (plaintiff- Respondent)
(iv)The Vesting Is Not Absolute But Is For The Purposes Of The Church Of England And Is Subject To The Conditions Mentioned In The Indian Church (India) Statutory Rules, 1940: A Violation Of The Same May Lead To Legal Action And Resumption Of The Property.
(v)The Use Of The Church Property For Educational Purposes Will Be Treated For The Purposes Of Church Of England And In Consonance With The 1940 Rules. Even If This Is Not So, No Action Can Be Taken As The Defendant-appellants Have Condoned It And Acquiesced In The Same.
35. The Appeal Is Partly Allowed. The Declaration Given By The Court Below Is Modified. It Is Declared That The Christ Church And The Property In Dispute Has Vested In The Plaintiff, However, It Is Not Absolute But Is For The Purposes Of The Church Of England And Is Subject To The Indian Church (Indian) Statutory Rules 1940. The Defendant Appellants Are Restrained From Interfering With The Possession Of The Plaintiff, Except In Accordance With Law.
36. With These Observations, The Appeal Is Partly Allowed. The Parties Will Bear Their Cost Throughout.
Date: 26.09.2007
Appendix - 1
The Relevant Part Of The Indian Church Act, 1927 Is As Follows:
Section 1. In This Act -
The Expression "Maintained Church" Means A Church Specified In The List Contained In The Second Schedule To This Act As Varied From Time To Time Under The Provisions Of The Act Or Of Rules Made Thereunder:
The Expression "property Subject To This Act" Means All Property Of Whatsoever Kind Held On Behalf Of Or For The Benefit Of The India Church Or Of Any Diocese Or Dioceses Or Other Part Or Parts Thereof Or Of Any Person Holding Office In The Said Church Or Any Diocese Thereof As Such Or For The Furtherance Of Any Religious, Educational Or Philanthropic Work In Connection Therewith;
Section 4. (1) If The Archbishop Of Canterbury Shall Certify By A Writing Under His Hand Sent To The Governor-General Of India In Council That The Indian Church Has Ceased To Be In Communion With The Church Of England, The Governor-General Of India In Council On Receipt Of Such Certificate Shall Cause The Same To Be Published In The Gazette Of India And Shall Forward A Certified Copy To The Bishop Of Calcutta And Thereupon Shall Be At Liberty To Resume Complete Control Of All Or Any Maintained Churches Or Burial Grounds, Whether Consecrated Or Not, And The Indian Church And The Officials And Members Thereof Respectively Shall Cease To Have Any Rights Therein.
(2) (i) Every Such Resumption Of Complete Control Shall Be Effected By Not Less Than Twelve Months Notice Sent To The Bishop Of Calcutta And Expiring At The End Of A Financial Year Of The Government Of India.
(ii) No Such Notice Shall Be Valid Unless Given Before The Expiration Of Two Years From The Date Of The Publication Of The Certificate Of The Archbishop Of Canterbury.
(3) Upon Such Resumption Of Complete Control Of A Church Or Burial Ground The Church Or Burial Ground Shall, If Not Already So Vested, By Virtue Of Such Notice And Without Any Conveyance Being Necessary Vest In The Crown Or Such Person Or Persons As The Governor-General Of India In Council Shall Appoint For An Absolute Estate In Possession, And If Duly Consecrated Shall Be Held In Trust For The Purposes Of The Church Of England, And Shall Be Freed From The Any Claim By The India Church Or Any Officials Or Members Thereof Connected Therewith.
Section 5. The Governor-General Of India In Council, With The Sanction Of The Secretary Of State In Council Of India, And, Save As By The Rules Expressly Provided, With The Concurrence Of The Bishop Of Calcutta, Make Rules-
(i) Regulating The Licensing, Discipline, Ministrations, Duties, And Supervision Of Chaplains;
(ii) Providing For Epicopal Ministrations And The Making Of Grants Out Of The Revenues Of India In Respect Thereof;
(iii) Regulating The Removal Of Churches From And The Addition Of Churches To The List Contained In The Second Schedule To This Act, And The Transfer Of Churches From One Part Or Sub-division Of A Part Of The List To Another Part Or Sub-division;
(iv) Making Provision For Vesting Any Maintained Churches, And The Goods And Ornaments Thereof, In The Indian Church Trustees, Or In Any Other Person Or Persons, Subject To Any Conditions That May Be Prescribed Regarding The Use Of The Churches While So Vested;
(v) Prescribing The Circumstances In Which And The Conditions On Which Any Maintained Churches And The Goods And Ornaments Thereof Shall Cease To Be So Vested, And The Disposal Of Them In That Event;
(vi) Making Provision For The Services Of The Church Of England And Of The Indian Church To Be Held In Maintained Churches, And The Hours At Which They Shall Be Held;
(vii) Making Provision For The Administration Of The Rules And Practice Of The India Church In Maintained Churches With Or Without Modification Thereof;
(viii) Providing For The Loan Of Maintained Churches To Other Denominations, According To The Practice Now Existing;
(ix) Providing For Any Special System Of Supervision Which May Be Found To Be Necessary Of Chaplains Engaged In Ministering To Troops;
(x) Making Provision For Referring To Arbitration Differences Regarding Or Arising Out Of The Rules, Including Any Difference Between The Governor- General Of India In Council And The Bishop Of Calcutta As To Any Amendment Or Variation Thereof, And In Such Case For Amending Or Varying The Rules In Accordance With The Award Of The Arbitrator Without The Concurrence Of The Bishop Of Calcutta;
(xi) Prescribing The Conditions On Which, The Circumstances In Which, The Extent To Which, The Procedure By Which And The Persons With Whose Assent, Concurrence, Sanction Or Approval The Arrangements Embodied In The Rules, Or Any Of Them, May From Time To Time Be Terminated, Modified Or Brought Into Being Again;
(xii) Providing For Any Matters Incidental To, Or Consequential Or, Any Of The Said Powers, And Making Any Supplemental Provisions Which May Appear Necessary Or Expedient For Giving Effect To Such Powers, Including Provisions For The Maintenance At The Government Expense Of Any Maintained Churches.
Section 6. (1). At Any Time After The Commencement Of This Act, The General Council May By Resolution Appoint Such Number Of Persons As They Shall See Fit (not Being Less Than Three) To Represent The Indian Church And To Hold Property For Any Uses Or Purposes Thereof, And When It Is Shown To The Satisfaction Of His Majesty The King That The Said Council Has Appointed Such Persons His Majesty The King Is Council May By Charter Incorporate Them And Their Successors With Power To Hold Land Without Licence In Mortmain Under The Name Of The Indian Church Trustees.
(2) At Any Time After The Commencement Of This Act And Before The Date Of Severance, Any Corporation Or Corporations Sole Or Aggregate Which Will Be Dissolved Under Paragraph (iv) Of Section Two Of This Act May, By Declaration In Writing, Vest Any Property Subject To This Act Held By It Or Them, Severally Or Jointly, In Any Society Or Body Of Trustees Duly Registered Under The Societies Registration Act, 1860, Or The Indian Companies Act, 1913, And That Society Or Body Shall Hold Such Property On The Same Trusts Or For The Same Purpose On Or For Which The Corporation Or Corporations Held It.
(3) Subject To The Provisions Of This Act And Rules Made Thereunder, Upon The Date Of Severance All Property Subject To This Act Shall Vest In The Indian Church Trustees, Except The Following Viz:
(a) Churches For The Time Being Entered In Part-I Of The Second Schedule To This Act And The Goods And Ornaments Of Such Churches;
(b) Cemeteries Other Than Those Vested In Corporations Dissolved By This Act.
(c) Property Held By Societies Or Bodies Of Trustees Duly Registered Under The Societies Registration Act, 1860, Or The Indian Companies Act, 1913;
(d) Property Held By Or In Trust For Or On Behalf Of Any Missionary Or Religious Society Or Religious Community Of Which The Head Office, Headquarters, Governing Body, Mother House, Superior Or Head, As The Case May Be Is Situated Or Usually Resident Outside India, Whether Or Not Such Property Is Directly Controlled Or Administered By Such Head Office, Headquarters, Governing Body, Mother House, Superior Or Head;
(e)property Held By Trustees, Whether Corporate Or Unincorporate, In Respect Of Which The Trustees Or A Majority Thereof Before The Date Of Severance Shall Certify By A Writing Under Their Hands Sent To The Governor-General Of India In Council (who Shall Send A Copy Thereof To The Bishop Of Calcutta) That They Or Such Majority Of Them Object To Such Property Vesting In The Indian Church Trustees; And
(f) Property Exempted By The Governor-General Of India In Council From The Operation Of This Subsection By Notification In The Gazette Of India Before The Date Of Severance.
(4) The Churchyards Of Consecrated Churches Shall Vest In Those Persons Or Bodies In Whom Under The Provisions Of This Act, The Respective Churches Vest.
(5) At Any Time After The Incorporation Of The Indian Church Trustees Any Trustees, Whether Corporate Or Unincorporate, May By Declaration In Writing Vest Any Property Subject To This Act Held By Them In The Indian Church Trustees Or In Any Diocesan Society Or Body Of Trustees Duly Registered Under The Societies Registration Act, 1860, Or The Indian Companies Act, 1913, To Be Held By Them Or It On The Same Trusts, And The Indian Church Trustees May By Declaration In Writing Vest Any Pr0operty Subject To This Act Held By Them In Any Such Diocesan Society Or Body Of Trustees To Be Held By Them Or It On The Same Trusts:
Provided That No Such Property Shall Be So Vested In The Indian Church Trustees Or A Diocesan Society Or Other Body Of Trustees Without Their Consent.
Part I
Churches Vested In The Crown
Diocese Of Lucknow
Gorakhpur Christ Church
New Delhi, The 9th March, 1940,
No. 304: Exercise Of The Powers Conferred By Section 5 Of The Indian Church Act, 1927 (17 And 18 Geo. 5. Ch. 40) And In Suppression Of The Indian Church Statutory Rules, 1029, In Their Application To India The Governor General Of India In Council With The Sanction Of The Secretary Of State For India And With The Concurrence Of The Bishop Of Calcutta, Is Pleased To Make The Following Rules.
These Rules May Be Called The Indian Church (India) Statutory Rules, 1940.
Maintained Churches
11. The Churches Entered For The Time Being In The Second Schedule To The Indian Church Acts Shall Be Maintained And Repaired At Government Expense, Provided That Nothing In The Rule Shall Impose Any Liability On Government To Repair Any Church When Before The Passing Of The Act Such Church Was Not Repaired As Government Expense.
12. The Governor-General In Council May Remove Any Church From The List Contained In The Second Schedule To The Indian Church Act By Agreement With The Bishop Of Calcutta Or By 12 Months Notice Expiring With The End Of A Financial Years, Provided That Such Notice Shall Not Be Given Unless He Has Notified His Intention To Do So To The Bishop Of Calcutta And Allow Him A Reasonable Opportunity Of Showing Reason Against Such Removal.
13. The Governor General May With The Concurrence Of The Bishop Of Calcutta Add Any Church To The List, Transfer Any Church From Part I Of The List To Part II Thereof Or Vise Versa, Or From The Sub-division 'A--Military Churches Of Part I To The Sub Division 'B-- Civil Churches Thereof Or Vice Versa Or Replace On The List Any Church Which Has Been Removed In Accordance With Rule 12, And Such Addition Or Replacement Shall Take Effect From The Beginning Of A Financial Year.
14. The Governor General Shall, Before The End Of March In Each Year, Send To The Bishop Of Calcutta A Correct List Of Maintained Churches F Or The Ensuing Financial Year.
15. If The Governor General Removes A Church From The List For The Time Being Of Maintained Churches, Such Church If At That Time Vested In The Crown Shall Vest In The Indian Church Trustee, Provided That If The Governor General Shall So Require, The Indian Church Trustees Shall Hold It Upon The Trusts Following, Namely:-
(1) Upon Trust To Permit The Service Of The Church Of England As Contained In Any Book Of Comment Prayer From Time To Time Authorised By Law In England Or Any Of Them To Be Performed In That Church For Any Congregation Which Includes Members Of The Church Of England Domiciled In The British Isles (a) If A Majority Of The Members Of The Congregation So Domiciled Or A Majority Of The Members Of The Congregation Worshipping In That Church In The English Language Desire Such Services, And (b) If And So Long As The Congregation Is Willing To Contribute An Equitable Sum To The Determined By The Bishop Of The Diocese Towards The Cost Of Lsuch Services And Towards The Maintenance And Repair Of The Church;
(2) Upon Trust To Arrange For Such Services To Be Held At Such Times As Are Convenient To The Congregation:
Provided Further That If During A Period Of Seven Consecutive Years, Which Period May Include Any Period Previous To The Date Of Severance, No Service Has Been Held In Any Such Church, Such Church Shall Be Held Freed And Absolved From The Trusts (if Any) Above Specified.
Breaches Of Rules
28. If It Shall Appear To The Governor-General That Any Officer Of The Indian Church Has Committed A Breach Of These Rules, He Shall Bring The Matter To The Notice Of The Bishop Of Calcutta, Who Shall Take Such Steps As He Thinks Fit To Ensure Their Observance.
29 (i) If After Bringing Alleged Breaches Of These Rules To The Notice Of The Bishop Of Calcutta, The Governor General Shall Be Of Opinion That Such Breaches Continued To Be Committed, Whether With The Knowledge Of The Authorities Of The Indian Church Or Through Their Default Or Neglect, Or Otherwise, Or (ii) If He Shall Be Of Opinion That The Indian Church Is So Administered That The General Intention Of These Rules Is Frustrated And If, In Other Case, The Bishop Of Calcutta Differs From The Opinion Of The Governor-General, The Matter In Question Shall, With The Sanction Of The Secretary Of The State, Be Referred To Arbitration In The Manner Provided By Rule 27, And The Decision Of The Arbitrator Shall Be Final.
30. If The Arbitrator Shall Find That A Breach Of These Rules Has Been And Is Being Committed Or That The Indian Church Is So Administered That The General Intention Of These Rules Is Frustrated, And That The Default Is Such As To Justify The Secretary Of State In Taking Action As Specified In This Rule, Then The Secretary Of State May If He Thinks Fit Call Upon The Indian Church By Its Representative The Bishop Of Calcutta To Carry Out Any Suggestion Of The Arbitrators From Remedying Such Default And On The Refusal Or Failure Of The Indian Church To Carry Out Such Suggestion Or Without So Calling On The Indian Church May Declare That In All Or Any Of The Churches Entered At The Date Of The Declaration In Part-I Of The Second Schedule To The Act The Ecclesiastical Law Of Church Of England To Such Extent As The Archbishop Of Canterbury May Direct Shall Be Observed And Followed, And In Such Case The Governor-General May With The Sanction Of The Secretary Of State, And The Concurrence Of The Archbishop Of Canterbury, Amend Or Cancel Rules Made On Any Matter Specified In Paragraph (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix) And (xii) Of Section 5 Of The Act And/ Or Make New Rules In Substitution Therefore, Or In The Amplification Or Modification Thereof, And Secretary Of State May, At Any Time, After Making The Above Mentioned Declaration, Further Declare That All Or Any Of The Said Churches Shall, At The The Expiration Of 12 Months From The Date Of His Declaration, Vest In The Crown Or In Such Concern Or Persons As He May Appoint For An Absolute Estate In Possession, And Such Of Them As Are Duly Consecrated Shall Be Held In Trust For The Purpose Of Ministrations In Accordance With The Rites Of The Church Of England, And Shall Be Freed From Any Claim By The Indian Church Or Officials Or Members Thereof.
If The Secretary Of State Shall Make The First Above Mentioned Declaration Without Making The Second Declaration And The Archbishop Of Canterbury Shall Declare His Assent Thereto, The Secretary Of State May Require The Indian Church To Provide Episcopal Ministrations For The Churches Specified In The Said Declaration And Episcopal Supervision Of The Chaplains Serving Therein, And The Indian Church Shall Provide Such Episcopal Ministrations And Supervision So Long As The Chaplains Concerned Hold Licences From Bishop Of The Indian Church, And The Congregations Of The Said Churches Remain Congregations Of The Indian Church. If The Secretary Of State Make The Second Above Mentioned Declaration No Obligation Shall Rest On Any Bishop Of The Indian Church To Give Episcopal Supervision Or Ministrations In Churches To Which The Second Declaration Shall Apply.
No. Eccl. 472/D, 2(b) Government Of India
Ministry Of Defence
NEW DELHI, The 23rd March 1948.
Subject: Transfer Of Churches, Church Buildings Etc. To The Church Authorities Concerned On The Wind Up Of Ecclesiastical Affairs With Effect From 1st April 1948.
Most Rev. Sir
Revd. Sir (for 2 Only)
I Am Directed To Say That Accordance With The Wind Up Of All Ecclesiastical Affairs, It Has Been Decided That All Churches And Connected Buildings Attached Thereto, Which Have Hitherto Been Maintained At State Expense From Funds Provided Under "32-Ecclesiastical", Will Not Be Maintained By Them After The 31st March, 1948, And That All Such Churches And Connected Buildings Will Be Handed Over To The Church Authorities Concerned Who Will Be Responsible For Their Upkeep And Maintenance From The Ist. April, 1948. No Expenditure Shall Therefore Be Incurred By The Establishment Etc. From That Date. The Details Of The Churches, The Authorities To Whom They Will Be Transferred, And Other Particulars Are Given In The Succeeding Paragraphs And The Annexures To This Letter.
2. (a) Church Of India: All Anglican Churches Included In The List Of Maintained Churches Which Forms The Second Schedule To The Indian Church Act, 1927, Will Be Removed From The List From 1st April 1948, Which Will Have The Effect Of Vesting Them In The Indian Church Trustees From That Date. I Enclose A Copy Of The Notification That Will Be Published In The Gazettes Of India And Pakistan In This Connection.
There Are Certain Anglican Churches Which Are At Present Being Maintained At State Expense But Which Do Not Find A Place In The Second Schedule To The Indian Church Act, 1927. The Names Of These Churches Are Shown In Annexure- I To This Letter. As The Government Will Not Maintain These Churches After The Wind Up Of Ecclesiastical Affairs, They Will Also Be Transferred To The Indian Church Trustees With Effect From 1st April, 1948.
3. Along With The Churches Specified In The Annexures The Sites Of The Churches And Church Buildings, The Church Compound Proper, And Other Connected Buildings Situated Thereon, Which Have Hitherto Been Maintained By The Government Will Also Be Transferred To The Church Authorities Concerned. In The Case Of Those Churches And Church Buildings Situated In Cantonment Lands, The Sites Of The Buildings And The Church Compounds, When No Longer Required By The Church Authorities For The Purposes For Which They Are Intended, Will Revert To The Government Concerned.
(Part I- Sec. 3)
In Exercise Of The Powers Conferred By Rule 12 Of The Indian Church (India) Statutory Rules, 1940, The Governor General By Agreement With The Bishop Of Calcutta, Is Pleased To Remove With Effect From The 1st, April 1948 The Churches Specified Below From The List Contained In The Second Schedule To The India Church Act, 1927, Namely:-
List Of Maintained Churches
Part I
Churches Vested In The Crown.
B. Civil Churches
Diocese Of Lucknow
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While President Barack Obama likes to play fast and loose with truth and frequently makes up facts to fit his agenda—especially on the firearm issue—it was "facts" and "truth" that he focused on at his recent town hall meeting on guns.
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A splendid Sue Lyon shouts her defiant "cha cha cha" in a hilarious scene from Kubrick's Lolita. And that battle cry makes me ponder the curious 'Cuban connections' in Vladimir Nabokov's oeuvre, and how they have become surprisingly current, now that the island seems determined to reclaim the American side of its lost memory.
In Transparent Things, the main character describes in his diary a pair of travellers, mother and daughter, who "have visited Cuba and China, and such-like dreary, primitive spots, and speak with fond criticism of the many charming and odd people they made friends with there"). In Pnin there are several mentions of a Tristram W. Thomas ("Tom" to his friends"), a professor of Anthropology, who "had obtained ten thousand dollars from the Mandoville Foundation for a study of the eating habits of Cuban fisherman and palm climbers." In The Defense, Luzhin's former schoolmate insists on reminding him of their paradisiac, communal life as students and is proud of his visit to the island ("You know I've traveled the whole world… What women in Cuba!"), until his listener discovers that these boasts of travel are pure fantasy and his world of exotic temptations, nothing more than the string of whoppers of a blowhard who likes to read travel prospects.
Nabokov's penchant for chess led him to cross paths, as a young boy, with an illustrious Cuban: José Raúl Capablanca, who in 1914 played a renowned game versus Lasker in St. Petersburg before being awarded the title of Grand Master, granted by Tsar Nicholas II. Years later, in his book review of Evgueni Znosko-Borovski's Capablanca and Alékhine, a rather severe Nabokov deployed his objections to Cuban's game, which was too unorthodox for his taste.
In all of these "Cuban episodes" from Nabokov's vast body of work, we invariably encounter a negative or mocking tone, an estrangement. During the 1960s, Nabokov, whose anti-totalitarian stance is perfectly clear in works like Bend Sinister or Invitation to a Beheading, professed over the course of an intense academic and editorial career his visceral hatred of the Castro regime —a natural consequence of his animosity toward a Bolshevism that had robbed him of home, language, and family. In a famous interview granted to the BBC, Nabokov even alluded directly to "Dr. Castro" as one of the four heads of the hydra that triggered torrential bile in him (the others were Dr. Freud, Dr. Zhivago, and Dr. Schweitzer).
A little-known episode from his biography illustrates all too well his political convictions; Nabokov never minded running the risk of seeming too political or politically "incorrect". In late 1963 the French magazine L'Arc, run by the Micha brothers René and Ghislaine, offered to dedicate one of their prestigious monographic issues to Nabokov. He accepted with pleasure, but in autumn of that same year, having read a previous issue of L'Arc dedicated to Cuba, demanded that the editors include the following disclaimer in "his issue":
"It is not my custom to display my political credo. Nevertheless a certain sympathy for Castro that I believe I detected in the Cuba issue of L'Arc forces me in this issue to make a little clarification of my principles. I do not care a fig for politics as such. I despise all force which strikes at liberty of thought. I am against any dictatorship, right or left, terrestrial or celestial, white, grey or black, pink, red or purple, Ivan the Terrible or Hitler, Lenin, Stalin or Khrushchyev, Trujillo or Castro. I accept only governments that let the individual say what he likes." [Letter to René Micha, December 5, 1963, Vladimir Nabokov Archive, quoted in Bryan Boyd: Nabokov, The American Years, pp. 475-76].
The Micha brothers were quite peeved. At the time, the Cuban Revolution formed an essential part of the imagery of Saint Germain chic, and they believed they were making a strictly literary magazine, although beneath the cover featuring a drawing by Wifredo Lam and alongside short stories by Calvert Casey, Alejo Carpentier, and Virgilio Piñera or photos by Agnès Varda, lay a text by Fidel Castro on the Battle of Jigüe. (By the way, in the table of contents of the Cuban issue of L'Arc, a curious text by Guillermo Cabrera Infante appears that, in time, would merit his presiding over a hypothetical society of Cuban Nabokovites: Nabokov and Cabrera share, among other things, an admiration for Hitchcock and Lewis Carroll, chess as a form of mental gymnastics, disdain for Freud, and a particular sense of wordplay as humor… in addition to their anti-Castro position, Nabokov being the first to repudiate him).
The editors of the magazine wrote at length to Nabokov trying to convince him that L'Arc was an apolitical magazine, and that his letter would politicize it needlessly. Nabokov replied:
"You tell me that I put L'Arc in an impossible situation; but the situation in which the Cuban issue has placed me is no laughing matter either. You tell me that my publisher Gallimard has published authors of very diverse political views; agreed, but a publishing house is a grand hotel, Place de la Gare, where one doesn't worry about one's neighbor, whereas a review is a salon where everyone remembers yesterday's guest." [Letter from VN, December 11, 1963, quoted in idem, pag. 476].
By no means would Nabokov take a room neighboring that of a (bearded) communist. Finally, he suggested a mutual agreement just as the magazine was about to go to press. His note would be printed without the first two sentences: his anti-totalitarian credo was already clear enough. The Micha brothers agreed.
But the most interesting of Nabokov's "Cuban connections" is, perhaps, involuntary. It appears in Ada, or Ardor, a novel published in 1969 in which the author imagines a planet of sorts, Antiterra or Demonia, whose geography combines the traits of Russia and the United States. On Antiterra, everything happens at least fifty years earlier in comparison to Terra, a strange world the existence of which has not been altogether proven. The area we call Russia was conquered centuries ago by the Tartars, whereas America was colonized by the Russians, British, and French. In an astonished review [Commentary, August 1, 1969], Rober Adler described this mish-mash in the best possible way: "historical periods as well as cultural boundaries have been hybridized—the Daemonian 19th century combines the quiet country houses of Chekhov and Jane Austen with telephones, airplanes, skyscrapers; a mock-Maupassant figure is contemporaneous with the author of a Lolita-like novel masquerading (anagrammatically) as J. L. Borges".
It is generally understood that life is perfectly capable of imitating art. Circumstances that defy even the wildest powers of imagination caused the USSR to be invaded from 1960 to 1989 by an avalanche of Cuban students, the protagonists of a Cold War Bildungsroman without precedent. A great deal of the Cuban academic elite was trained in there during that period. Watching them cross Nevsky Prospect or Kalinin Avenue, shoulders hunched, wrapped up in their threadbare coats, was proof of the extent to which politics at times succeeds in violating geography. The result: adolescences grafted onto a strange medium that in the end would become, not unlike that territory invented by Nabokov, a combination of Russia and the United States.
A Cuban —such as myself, for example— who was sent off to some point within the vast Soviet geography in those years was obliged to implement a complex mental process in order to incorporate the memory of parents who had grown up in the fifties (baseball, the Mob, skyscrapers along the waterfront…) into communist utopian ideology (grim morality, five-year planning, a society reduced to the beekeeper model…). Capitalism and socialism were melded, thus, into a sort of tropical ideological amalgam, and our adolescent dreams were watered down by abundant kitsch-poshlost, secreted by glands on both sides of the political spectrum.
This mix still fascinates many tourists disguised as amateur anthropologists, hypnotized admirers of a museum-like society ("I have to go there before it's ruined!" they say), where old American cars are still running, educated people converse about Soviet filmography, and the political police have overly fond memories of the dystopia described in Invitation to a Beheading: there is hardly any need to oppress citizens, because except for a small number of dissidents, nearly everyone joyfully embraces the vulgar transparence of "Truth," while an executioner with an odd sense of humor requires that the beheading take place in "that atmosphere of warm camaraderie which, with the help of patience and kindness, is gradually created between the sentenced and the executor of the sentence."
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Status: Installed 06/14/07
Location Description: Prudhoe Bay lies offshore in the Beaufort Sea, east of Nuiqsut, in the northern waters of Alaska. The community lies at approximately 70.255280° North Latitude and -148.337220° (West) Longitude. (Sec. 08, T010N, R015E, Umiat Meridian.) Prudhoe Bay is located in the Barrow Recording District. The area encompasses 416.3 sq. miles of land and 141.8 sq. miles of water.
Climate: The climate of the North Slope is arctic. Temperatures range from -56 to 78. Precipitation is light, averaging 5 inches, with snowfall of 20 inches.
Roads: -Dalton Highway
Winter Trails:
Runway: -Deadhorse is 6'500' long by 150' wide, ARCO gravel strip is 5,000' by 100'
Closest Major River: Beaufort Sea
Demographics: The population of the community consists of 80% Alaska Native or part Native. As a work site, oil is the focus of the local culture. All residents are employees of oil drilling or oil-support companies, and work long consecutive shifts. Living quarters and food are provided to the workforce, and there are a number of recreational facilities. During the 2000 U.S. Census, total housing units numbered 1, and vacant housing units numbered 0. U.S. Census data for Year 2000 showed 2 residents as employed. The unemployment rate at that time was 0 percent, although 33.33 percent of all adults were not in the work force. The median household income was $90,957, per capita income was $19,880, and 0 percent of residents were living below the poverty level.
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Howard Series II
Very fine and very rare E. Howard Series II silver antique pocket watch circa 1860. Wonderful 15 jewel movement with bright gilding and dark blue screws. White enamel dial with black markings and blued steel Breguet hands. Heavy case with traces of the original engraving.
This is probably a later Howard case because there are marks from another case screw. The winding holes have been fitted with short bushings but there are no signs of any filled holes.
These early Howards are some of the most interesting and attractive early American watches.
Very Fine
Diameter 60 mm
Circa 1860
NOTE: The small circles or shadows in some of our photos are reflections of the camera lens. Since this watch is much smaller than in the enlarged photos, a tiny blemish or imperfection that you could not see when looking at the actual watch can appear very large in the photos.


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Authorized Automobile Dealers Association: Latvian car park - oldest in EU
New cars market and the industry in general saw the biggest drop in history. There is not a single other industry that shrank 90% in two crisis years, Andris Kulbergs, President of Latvian Authorized Automobile Dealers Association (LAADA) told in an interview to the news portal BNN.
He also stresses that Latvian car park is becoming the oldest in the European Union (EU), with the average age of a Latvian car that can pass a technical inspection accounting for 12.5 years. The average is 7 years in EU, 8.5 years in Estonia and as little as 2 years in Luxembourg.
What are the recent key events in your industry?
One of the most important trends is that there are more leasing deals in the total number of cars registered this year. Leasing companies financed 62% of the new car park in August, which brings us close to maximum hit in 2007 – 88%. It is a prerequisite for the new cars market to grow and the industry in general to show stability in future.
Another key event is joint fight voiced by car dealers who want that public institutions' tenders on vehicles supply meet all the principles of fair competition. They want tax payers money being used as efficiently as possible.
Do you lack qualified workforce?
Yes, indeed. We lack skilled mechanics, especially electricians, car diagnosis specialists and professional auto body painters. Many qualified workers have emigrated to other EU member states to seek for better income. This leads to serious workforce shortages in car trade and repair industry. Because of these circumstances, there are also inadequate claims for higher remuneration, which simply cannot be compensated with price corrections due to the poor purchasing power.
What changes would you like to see in the Latvian legislation?
What matters the most for the industry is the dramatic disproportion among the Baltics in terms of transport taxes and duties. Certain positions differ as much as 24 times. Three-year taxes and duties account for LVL 550 in Latvia, LVL 161 in Estonia and LVL 40 in Lithuania, which is 14 times less. Upon registering a vehicle for the first time, a car owner in Latvia pays LVL 360 in taxes and duties. The sum totals LVL 125 in Estonia and LVL 15 in Lithuania, which is again 24 times less. This disproportion is having a negative impact on Latvian competitiveness on the Baltic scale and even among the leading Latvia-based companies. It is much cheaper to register a car in other Baltic states, so Latvian State Treasury misses out on significant funds.
I would also like to see a clear and strategic tax policy directed towards restoring the public car park, which is about to become the oldest in the EU. The average age of a Latvian car that can pass a technical inspection is 12.5 years. The average is 7 years in EU, 8.5 years in Estonia and as little as 2 years in Luxembourg.
How did the crisis affect the industry?
New cars market and the industry in general saw the biggest drop in history. There is not a single other industry that shrank 90% in two crisis years. The sector shrank 41% in 2008 and 81% in 2009.
Sales dropped down to 1997 levels during the crisis. Now we are back to 2003 sales. To reach 2007 peak levels, we still need some 7-10 years of economic development.
Car industry kept posting losses also in 2010. Certain stabilization and first profit came only with 2011. Due to the consolidation, both jobs and salaries were cut significantly.
Total losses of the sector hit record high in 2009 – more than any profit profit posted by all LAADA members taken together. Losses occurred because of sales below cars prime costs, so that there would be funds to settle accounts with banks. It was completely impossible to cut spending as fast as the market drop.
If comparing to 2007 performance, Latvian new cars market shrank nine times in two years of the crisis. Many car dealers and importers had created stocks based on an upward market outlook. Ninefold drop meant extreme steps to get rid of inadequately huge stocks in face of the purchasing power that has still remained. Selling these stocks meant 20-40% losses per car. The second year of the crisis, 2009, was an extreme survival test for car dealers.
The financial crisis practically eliminated the middle-class, which no longer could afford anything additional, not to mention a new car. Consequently, small cars segment fell dramatically, while Premium class sales did not drop that significantly, because the wealthy could still afford a new car.
What is your opinion on the government's policy to boost the economic situation?
The most soaring issue in Latvia and car services in particular is the huge proportion of shadow economy, which hits as high as 90%. The leading insurers have switched to low-cost services, which are provided by companies that dodge taxes. So such businesses can ensure dumping prices what official dealers cannot.
There is no national-scale action directed towards fighting corruption and shadow economy, which is crippling the competition. Neither are public tenders oriented towards companies that are paying taxes decently. The state should ask for the State Revenue Service's issued document to see that the particular company has paid taxes for at lest a period of three years. Unfortunately, it is exactly tax-dodging "schema" companies that win in public tenders.


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EP, Independent / Self-released
March 2nd, 2009
Genre: Metalcore/Hardcore
Region: Canada
Gotta thank A389 Recordings for making me aware of this group. Vilipend come to you from the great white north known as Canada bringing a seething mass of chaotic and angry metalcore in the form of 5 tracks on Love Left To Rot.
Chaos and general pissed negativity are the focus here with a smattering of bouncy, gritty, sometimes angular, sometimes melodic riffs and bass lines with a few massive slams expertly placed for maximum force; cracking your skull wide open. Mangled frantic vocals are laid over top of this, furious in their lyrical utterance of distaste and bitterness, with precise percussive clattering sitting comfortably behind it all. Rare moments of quiet/clean riffing are careful interspersed between the high energy, scratchy and strident rhythms; sometimes just leaving the bass to rumble along.
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Flynn arrives in court to face charges in Russia probe
Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn arrived in court on Friday morning to face charges that he lied to the FBI. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT - NATURAL (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn was charged with lying to the FBI, according to court documents released on Friday, in an escalation of an investigation into alleged ties to Russia that has cast a cloud over President Donald Trump's administration. The Office of the Special Counsel said Flynn was charged with making false statements about his contacts with Russia's ambassador to the United States. The office, which is investigating accusations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and potential collusion by Trump's campaign, said a plea hearing for Flynn had been set for 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) on Friday. Flynn was expected to plead guilty. He had turned himself in to the FBI, two federal law enforcement officials told Reuters. Flynn, a retired Army general who was fired from his White House post in February for misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with the Russian ambassador, is a central figure in the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.


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The holiday season of 1609-10 was anything but a celebratory occasion in Virginia. At Jamestown, the colonists referred to the winter as the "Starving Time." According to George Percy, youngest son of the eighth Earl of Northumberland and a prominent member of the original band of Jamestown settlers, the men, women, and children resorted to eating their horses and other "beastes," then came the "doggs, Catts, ratts, and myce." Some starving colonists dug up corpses. Another man killed his pregnant wife, cut out the unborn child, and ate her. Hanged by his thumbs until he confessed, he was burned alive for the crime.
What could have caused such dire circumstances? A combination of poor planning, faction fighting, and dependence on England and the native Powhatan for supplies was largely responsible.
On 2 June 1609, nine ships sailed from England for Jamestown. In late July, a hurricane separated the Sea Venture from the rest of the fleet. The ship ran aground in Bermuda, carrying most of the colony's much needed supplies with it. The shipwrecked survivors arrived in Jamestown the following spring.
In the meantime, approximately 200 colonists were already at Jamestown and barely able to feed themselves. Suddenly, they were faced with 300 hungry newcomers. With the new Lieutenant Governor Sir Thomas Gates presumed lost at sea, factions ensued. John Smith was unwilling to relinquish his role as president, and the aristocracy thought it galling to take orders from a farmer's son.
Smith sent a number of the colonists up river to the Falls, near modern-day Richmond, to fend for themselves, as well as down river to Nansemond, before being wounded by an exploding bag of gunpowder. Severely injured, he was forced to depart for England in October 1609. Soon after, George Percy took charge and sent more colonists to Point Comfort to build a fort, leaving approximately 120 colonists at Jamestown. By May 1610, only sixty survived.
According to Percy in Trewe Relacyon "some" of the colonists robbed the stores and were executed for stealing food. "Many... weare Cutt off and slayne by the Salvages," and in what seems to be ironic under the circumstances, he goes on to state, "Many of our men [during] this starveinge Tyme did Runn away unto the Salvages whome we never heard of after."
Before Smith's departure, the relationship between the Powhatan and colonists had disintegrated, and many of those sent to the Falls and Nansemond were killed during engagements. Yet, the colonists at Point Comfort did not suffer from Powhatan attacks or starvation. So why did the colonists simply not join those who were thirty miles downriver at Point Comfort?
Many of the able-bodied men were already dead. About thirty "unruly youths" had sailed for England, and the same number of colonists were at Point Comfort. The weak, the sick, the old, the young, and the women were left in Jamestown. Many historians overlook this fact. Due to culture and circumstances of the time, women were unlikely to have had any hunting or soldiering skills. All but two would have been new to Virginia's harsh climate and way of life.
At this point in colonial history, Powhatan warriors spared women and children and adopted them into their tribes. There are no records of exactly how many women were at Jamestown, but quite likely they were a large percentage of survivors during the infamous Starving Time.
Kim Murphy
Saturday, 27 December 2008
The Starving Time
Posted by Kim Murphy
2 comments:
- Anita Davison said...
Fascinating post Kim. With the emphasis on the 'Mayflower Daughters' it makes me woner how many descendants there are of the Powhatan and settler women they adopted and saved from starvaion.
- 28 December 2008 at 18:12
- Kim Murphy said...
I'm hoping that some of the Powhatan descendants may have some of the answers in their oral histories. In any case, it's a subject that I've used in my book.
- 29 December 2008 at 13:38
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text: Mount Tai in eastern China has been a site of worship for over 3000 years. There are a number of Taoist and Confucian temples, and in ages past the emperor of China came to this site to make sacrifices to heaven and earth. Dongyue dadi is revered as the god of Mount Tai, and has a number of temples around China, including this one (by Lisqr) on the mountain itself.


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I always enjoy when bloggers post 'tours' of their homes!
Unfortunately I decided to do this about five minutes after I'd emptied the contents of my bag all over the floor to find a piece of paper with some notes scrawled on it. Always the way! So instead of a proper tour I thought I'd take some shots of random things so you could get a feel for the place.
|Keekee is always around.
|Amazing lamp from the 30s that my Grandma gave me.
|Two-headed duckling and Día de los Muertos skull.
|I love old mirrors. I have six in one room!
|Perfume, tacky religious things and another mirror.
|Christmas decoration from Paperchase hanging in the doorway.
|Both sides of my hallway are covered with framed prints.


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To set going by taking the first step; begin: initiated trade with developing nations. See Synonyms at begin.
- transitive v. To introduce to a new field, interest, skill, or activity.
- transitive v. To admit into membership, as with ceremonies or ritual.
- adj. Initiated or admitted, as to membership or a position of authority.
- adj. Instructed in esoteric knowledge.
- adj. Introduced to something new.
- n. One who is being or has been initiated.
- n. One who has been introduced to or has attained knowledge in a particular field.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A new member of an organization.
- n. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
- v. To begin; to start.
- v. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
- v. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Unpracticed; untried; new.
- adj. Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
- n. One who is, or is to be, initiated.
- intransitive v. To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.
- transitive v. To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.
- transitive v. To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
- transitive v. To introduce into a society or organization; to confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To begin or enter upon; make a beginning of; introduce; set going or on foot.
- To introduce by preliminary instruction or forms; guide primarily; admit formally; induct: as, to initiate a person into an art, or into a society.
- To do the first act; perform the first rite; take the initiative.
- Pertaining or incident to the beginning or introduction; initial or initiatory.
- Initiated; commencing; introduced to knowledge; prepared for instruction.
- n. One who is initiated; specifically, one who has been admitted to a knowledge of or participation in secret doctrines, mystic rites, or the like.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for
- v. bring up a topic for discussion
- v. accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite
- n. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
- n. someone new to a field or activity
- v. bring into being
- n. people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity
- v. take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Facinelli's latest initiate is Kat Dennings, who we revealed yesterday has just joined the cast of "Thor."
Kat Dennings Joins The Undead Ranks Of Peter Facinelli's Newborn Army In Today's Daily TwitPic » MTV Movies Blog
On Friday, all 41 Republican senators sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, asking that the current version of the legislation be set aside and that Democrats again initiate bipartisan negotiations with the Republicans.
McConnell: There's a bailout fund in current Wall St. reform bill
Maybe she thinks a third war for the US to initiate is a proper course of action?
Palin warns of 'Second Holocaust' if Iran gains nuclear weapons
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BUT .... the debate that Sunstein seems itching to initiate is whether there is a movement to rollback the constitutional viewpoint that has evolved since the New Deal.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is "The Constitution in Exile" A Myth?:
This post reminds me of the scene in Animal House where the fraternity initiate is being spanked repeatedly with a paddle and all he knows is to respond, "THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?!"
Train -- initiate, or early instruct. the way -- literally, "his way," that selected for him in which he should go; for early training secures habitual walking in it.
It has been 3-years in the making for Wal-Mart to simply get their pallets and master cases outfitted with RFID tags, and that initiate is still not complete, and won't be for at least another 2-5 years.
Occult, on the other hand, indicates something secret and available only to the so-called initiate—a totally different kind of understanding.
A trade that I am going to initiate is to buy more calls than puts.