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The Index Steering Committee reviews the components of the CAC 40 every third Friday of March, June, September, and December. During these review dates, the Index Steering Committee limits the weights of each stock at 15%. The top 100 companies in terms of 12-month free-float market capitalization and share turnover are determined every quarter. From these 100 companies, the 40 most significant components are selected to make up the CAC 40.
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"The Butler" is on its way to making a tidy profit for the Weinstein Co.
Starring Forest Whitaker as a White House employee who served eight presidents, "Butler" got off to a robust start last weekend, debuting at No. 1 with $24.6 million. The Lee Daniels-directed picture should secure the top spot again during its second weekend in theaters, collecting at least $12 million, according to those who have seen pre-release audience surveys.
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"The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," a teen-aimed fantasy flick based on a popular young adult novel, opened Wednesday in an effort to generate positive buzz before the weekend. It doesn't appear that move will pay off, though. The film grossed $3 million on its first day in release and is expected to make a lackluster total of $14 million through Sunday evening.
That means "Mortal Instruments" will likely gross between $8 million and $10 million between Friday and Sunday -- the same amount the British comedy "The World's End" and the horror film "You're Next" are expected to start off with.
In other words: It'll be a tight race for the runner-up position.
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If "Mortal Instruments" does not exceed industry projections this weekend, its German financial backer Constantin Film may be particularly disappointed. The company, which spent $60 million to produce the film and another $60 million to market it abroad, is already in pre-production on a sequel set to shoot this fall. Sony Pictures' Screen Gems label, which is distributing the first film in the U.S. this weekend, paid to advertise the movie stateside.
Written by Cassandra Clare, the five-book "Mortal Instruments" series has sold 24 million copies worldwide. But in the wake of the massive success of the "Twilight" franchise, several movies adapted from young adult novels have failed to connect with moviegoers. Though "The Hunger Games" series is a hit, "Beautiful Creatures" and "The Host" tanked at the box office this year.
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The $20 million-budgeted "World's End" launched in four foreign markets in July and has since collected about $16 million. Not surprisingly, the film has so far made most of its money in the U.K. Directed by Wright, who co-wrote it with Pegg, the movie stars Pegg and Frost in a film about a group of old high school buddies who embark on an ambitious pub crawl as the apocalypse looms.
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TFN Review: Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse by Troy Denning
Doug Bragg's take
Apocalypse is the aptly titled final book in the Fate of the Jedi series. The series began with putting Luke on a quest to determine what happened to Jacen Solo to cause him to become a Sith in the Legacy of the Force series. The series also sought to explore what happens when an Imperial Admiral becomes head of a democracy, and explores the political and legal consequences to the Jedi and members of the Jedi Order based upon the events of the Legacy of the Jedi series. In other words, a lot of this series is about tying up loose ends from the Legacy series. The Fate of the Jedi series does add two more threats to the Galaxy a planet full of previously unknown Sith and a strange being known as Abeloth. By the end of Apocalypse, we have some pretty major devastation, and at least a couple of the main storylines get some semblance of resolution.
The Fate of the Jedi series, like Legacy of the Force before it, is a near-constant journey into darkness in the Galaxy Far, Far Away. While Star Wars has always had its dark moments (deaths of Owen and Beru, the loss of Alderaan, Obi-wan and Biggs deaths) those moments tended to be brief and were generally mixed in with a good dose of action and humor (Lukes moment of silence for Obi-wan was followed almost immediately by him laughing and carrying on with Han as they fought through a small group of TIE Fighters, for example). The Fate of the Jedi series, and Apocalypse in particular, felt like it abandoned the humor and fun of Star Wars.
Apocalypse also seems to show that while Luke has grown much since he started on Tatooine, he hasnt grown in some important ways. As a military leader and a big part of Apocalypse is Luke and the Jedi implementing Lukes plan to defeat the Sith threat and Abeloth Luke still prefers the high risk/high reward plan (i.e. marching into the detention block with no plan to get out, or rescuing Han Solo by first having nearly his entire team captured by Jabba the Hutt) over the safer alternatives. In Apocalypse, Luke develops a risky plan, which seemed reasonable as I read the book, but upon further reflection just didnt seem worth the risk. Admittedly, the plan Luke and the Jedi implement makes better reading than the alternatives. However I had to wonder about an Order that seems to take a very utilitarian philosophy on things to send so many beings into impossible odds for the possibility of saving only a few.
Setting aside the logic of the plan, the implementation as told by Denning was action packed from the outset, and Jaina Solo certainly shows why she is the Sword of the Jedi. I also enjoyed the connections to the rest of the larger Star Wars Universe. I also enjoyed how Denning handled the politics that seemed to be over-done in this series and his approach to answering questions about Abeloth.
On the topic of Abeloth: while she is certainly one of the more strange and threatening villains in the Star Wars Universe, it felt like the authors of this series did not really have a handle on her for most of the series. It felt like her abilities changed over the course of the novels which could simply be attributed to her growing in power over the course of the books. However, from her discovery, the Jedi knew basically that they knew nothing about this strange being. It was therefore odd that they waited until the last book of the series to investigate who or what Abeloth was. Im glad that Denning chose to spend time on that in this book, and while the investigation felt rushed (due to the fact it was condensed into a portion of one book), the resolution had an interesting tie into the Mortis episodes from The Clone Wars cartoon. The way that the heroes learned about that connection had me wondering about the consistencies of how much of the Jedi archives survived the Emperors reign. Luke spent years trying to learn about his mother, and the Jedi and travelled the Galaxy to do so. Yet in Apocalypse, hes able to simply tap into the Jedi Archives and pull up logs from Obi-wan Kenobi and Yoda relating to the Clone Wars. I understand, given the limitations of doing this in one book, that this could not be expanded into a longer investigation.
I will give Denning credit in that he managed to tie the Abeloth backstory investigation and Mortis storyline in a way that helped explain Abeloth. He did so in a way that didnt necessarily require the reader to be familiar with those episodes which I find to be a plus. The book also answers a question that has been eating away at me since Betrayal the first of the Legacy of the Force series who was the cloaked figure that set Lumiya on an intercept course with Jacen? We still dont have an answer, at least not an explicit one, but I think we are given a pretty good hint in Apocalypse.
In reading the Legacy of the Force novels, at the end, I felt that there were significant loose ends left open relating to the beings that gave Jacen that final push. Fate of the Jedi picked up on the thread of explaining Jacens actions in Legacy of the Force and brings us closer to learning about this bigger threat. It also leaves us with larger problems for Coruscant and the Galaxy that are unresolved and barely contained. It certainly feels like Fate of the Jedi as a series is The Empire Strikes Backof a larger series (with Legacy of the Force being the A New Hope entry. It certainly left me wondering just how much of these threads will ultimately get wrapped up in Crucible.
New to Star Wars Literature: This isnt the book for you. In fact, I wouldnt recommend starting with the Fate of the Jedi series, or even Legacy of the Force. The events of these series build from the New Jedi Order series and the events of the Swarm War.
Beyond the Pages: It was interesting to see the Jedi launch an assault on the Jedi Temple on Coruscant the inverse of Anakin and the Clone assault from Revenge of the Sith. I will also say that it appears that the Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi series are trying to build the connective tissue between the novels and the Legacy comic series from Dark Horse.
Say Again?: It was a bit interesting to see that the defenses to the Jedi Temple improved dramatically when under Sith control rather than when under Jedi control. It was also interesting to see the ease with which Luke could access the Jedi Archives that, in prior books, where non-existent or could not be found.
Fast and Furious Thoughts: A dark, action packed entry in the Star Wars literature, but leaves too many loose ends for the end of a series.
Rating: 6/10 Lightsabers
Adam Throne's take
If theres one thing Star Wars does well, it draws on the interconnected elements of its mythic universe, much as the Force draws on the interconnectedness of all living things. Conversely, just as the Force can get thrown out of balance, the Star Wars Expanded Universe sometimes tips its contents like an overflowing barrel that leaves a mess for the next writer to clean up. Troy Dennings Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse is like that just when you think the balance of storytelling has been restored to the Star Wars galaxy, the barrel tips and sometimes a few Dianogas slip out along with the ideas. However, there are far fewer Dianogas to contain in this spillage than in the previous post-Return of the Jedi EU series, and the action and character interactions are on a much granderand yet paradoxicallyintimate scale.
Denning, a fan favorite whose Fate of the Jedi: Vortex had me hooked thanks to the character interactions and shocking events (including a lightsaber duel between Saba Sebatyne and Kenth Hamner, whose animosity with each others leadership has been brewing in previous chapters), now has the unenviable task of following up to the series penultimate novel, Christie Goldens Ascension. That novel, like Goldens Omen and Allies, blended a more personal story for the characters with strong characterization and vivid description, and opened at the end to reveal Abeloths takeover of Coruscant. Ascension featured one of the strongest cliffhangers in the EU (featuring powerful twists for both Vestara and Abeloth/Rokari Kem), and is a tough act to follow; unfortunately, despite the initial urgency of events at the start of Apocalypse in its first few chapters, the flipping back and forth to the Solos evacuation of Jedi on Ossus, while important, seems to stall the pacing of the main action on Coruscant.
Once the initial story of Luke and the Jedis battle with Abeloth unfolds, much of the book focuses on the Jedis research into the history of Abeloth (nine books into the series, theyre only just starting to delve into the archives), and the resulting information not only results in the aforementioned spillage of the EU barrel, but the inclusion of the proverbial kitchen sink: the emergence of Abeloth (who, in fairness, is a remarkably powerful and original --if sometimes nebulous -- villain in a universe populated by ex-Grand Moffs and would-be Dark Side warlords) is related to past events concerning the Maw (which was established early on in the Fate series), but also the Killicks, Centerpoint station, and the Force wielding family seen in the Clone Wars TV show "Mortis" trilogy.
These are neat ideas to tie into EU stories in and of themselves, but all together become too much of a coincidental series of name checks (something the Star Wars universe is notorious for often doing), and prove unnecessary. The "Mortis" plot, while a neat tie in to the prequClone Wars cartoon series, was clearly shoehorned in at a late stage; as a result, it doesnt feel organic to the story that was unfolding. The resulting mission of Lukes Jedi at the end of the novel does propose an interesting angle on future adventures that could tie back to the Clone Wars, and the Mortis story in particular. However, the multiple references that are infodumped from the Jedi archives detract from the uniqueness and mystique of Abeloth, who is a strong enough presence to sustain a backstory that carries no baggage from previous sources.
The truth about Jacens descent to the Dark Side, sorely lacking from the previous Legacy of the Force series, is long overdue, and makes sense in a context that parallels Jacens grandfather in his quest to protect those he loves from the outcomes seen in his own terrible visions. The plot point of the Jedi children hidden in the Maw, a point which has an unwitting and horrifying link to Abeloth, is a positive use of the interconnectedness of things in this universe. Theres good use of the characters of Jaina Solo, Jagged Fel, Tahiri, and Wynn Dorvinn, as each of them steps up to a higher calling. The slaying of Abeloth by the Jedi is powerful, even if her initial attempts to take over the Coruscant computers is too bad sci fi to take.
Vestara, who has become a figure of major importance in this series, has plenty of action and scheming to do, and her battle within is portrayed well, but much of the emotion between her and Ben Skywalker, felt strongly in previous books, is lost, not only due to the conflict between the two of them causing a divide, but by the heavy focus on action. Vestaras final musings of loss for Ben, which she channels into power to fuel her dark side, are told to Ship rather than shown, so the emotional impact is never as strong as it could be, even if the bond she shares with the Sith sphere proves intriguing. Its great to have Jaina and Jag finally agree to tie the knot, and while many of the other threads of this (and previous) series are wrapped up, many more are left dangling: the fate of Vestara and Ship, the Jedi quest for the Monolith of Mortis, the fate of the Alliance under Wynn Dorvan, among others.
New to Star Wars Literature: It's possible to enjoy the Fate of the Jedi series without having read previous series, but it's definitely a challenge and ultimately not as fulfilling. If you must start with this series, though, go back to Aaron Allston's Outcast and enjoy the slow burn as events unfold through all nine books in the series.
Beyond the Pages: The beyond shadows realm is one of the most fascinating concepts of the Fate of the Jedi series. The haunting ideas at its core follow logically from the cryptic Dagobah cave scenes in The Empire Strikes Back, and beg returning to, not necessarily for cameos from old friends long gone, but for the further exploration of the nuances and eeriness of the Force. It is within Lukes isolated loneliness of his meditation to get to the realm, his conversations with the deceased, and his quest to understand how the actions of himself, his father, and their Jedi forefathers have had universal ramifications, that the compelling importance of true comprehension of the Force finally seems to be fulfilled in the EU.
Say Again?: In the final battle, there is an unnamed warrior, a Sith, who fights with Luke against Abeloth, when no one else in the realm beyond shadows (including Mara and Jacen) can assist him. The non-naming of this stranger is infuriating, and while those familiar with the Legacy comics may go out on a tractor beam ledge to guess, its too good a point -- and a potentially personal one at that for Luke -- to not have developed and named here for payoff. As a result, it's less cliffhanger than a move to appeal to crossover fans (ala Dark Horses Vector series).
Fast and Furious Thoughts: As overstuffed with tie-in exposition as it is, the series finale doesnt feel unfulfilled in the way the Legacy of the Jedi series did. In the end, though, as welcome as a serious exploration of the abuses and powers of the Force proves to be, the book could do with more certainties and a little more uplift than what were left with. Knowing what we know from the Legacy comicand the mystery cameowhere the galaxy is headed, it will be interesting to see how this part of the spirit Star Wars will continue.
Rating: 7.5/10 lightsabers
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How, exactly, does this differ from Amazon's Unbox service? Unbox, which Amazon didn't reference in its announcement at all, is a lot more like the iTunes Store. Both Unbox and the iTunes Store both require purchases to be made online and (rather large) files to be downloaded to the computer before viewing can begin. Although Unbox got off to kind of a rocky start, Amazon managed to partner with TiVo last year to move the service off the computer and onto the TV.
Unbox's (and iTunes') models differed from the new hotness offered by services like Netflix and Hulu, however. These new offerings took a page from YouTube's playbook and streamed TV and movies—no large, annoying, and (usually) proprietary files need to be downloaded at all. No muss, no fuss. Although Fox and NBC appear to be content with keeping Hulu on the computer screen (for now), Netflix has been somewhat aggressive in its attempt to make its way onto the TV. In May, the company introduced its own set-top box to the tune of $99, and earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Netflix would begin offering downloadable content to Xbox 360 owners.
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When we think of human rights violations today, Latin America is not the first region of the world that comes to mind. We might think first of Burma and North Korea, Sudan, Congo and Zimbabwe, but not the countries to our south. In the first half of the 20th century, however, Latin America bristled with human rights abuses.
Long-lasting dictatorships had taken hold in several countries: the Somozas in Nicaragua, the Duvaliers in Haiti, Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay, Rojas Pinilla in Colombia, Batista in Cuba, Perón in Argentina, Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela. Democracy was still an alien concept in some of these countries, and dissidents were treated harshly. But these were not yet identified as "torture states," and at that time the church did not routinely invoke the evolving tradition of human rights or the social encyclicals to protest the actions of the reigning caudillos. Several bishops, however, did issue harsh pastoral letters that hastened the downfall of Perón, Pérez Jiménez and Rojas Pinilla.
More recently, Latin dictatorships have taken the form of the "authoritarian" military regimes once favored by Jeane Kirkpatrick, as opposed to the "totalitarian" model. The authoritarian model began with the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954, a left-leaning but democratically elected president overthrown by the combined forces of the United Fruit Company and the C.I.A. This ushered in a series of repressive regimes that culminated decades later in the genocidal rule of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt (1982-83). In 1954, however, the Guatemalan church was minimally engaged in the nation's political struggle.
Three events were to change all that: the Cuban revolution (1959), the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and the Medellín Conference of Latin American bishops (1968). Castro embodied the new challenge; Vatican II and Medellín called on the church to respond to that challenge by defending the dignity and rights of the human person.
The first South American dictatorship to gain popular notoriety was in Brazil in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It had become a classic "national security state," in José Comblin's phrase, a country prepared to use all means necessary to eliminate its perceived enemies, even when these were its own citizens. The enemy within was presumed to be tied to the enemy without: since January 1959, Communist Cuba and its Soviet puppeteer.
The contemporary human rights tradition can trace its origins to the violent overthrow of President Salvador Allende in Chile on Sept. 11, 1973, and the extraordinary response of the Chilean church to that crisis, but these events were presaged by the state's indiscriminate violence and the church's courageous response in neighboring Brazil. In 1973, before the Chile coup, bishops in at least three regions in Brazil issued powerful pastoral letters denouncing the oppression and torture that had become the norm in that country. The year 1973 was also the 25th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a date whose symbolism was not lost on leaders in the Latin American churches.
State censorship in Brazil at that time was as stringent as anywhere else in the hemisphere. Newspapers routinely appeared with huge sections of white space where offending articles had been excised. The Archbishop of Recife, Dom Hélder Câmara, was declared a non-person and could not be mentioned in the press. His pastoral letters could not be published and had to be passed about from hand to hand. The church then decided to observe the declaration's anniversary by printing a broadsheet with the entire text. After each of the 30 articles in the declaration, the bishops added quotations from Scripture and citations of Catholic and Protestant statements. The text was then posted on church bulletin boards all over the country, a silent cry of protest against the world's worst "torture state" and a clearly subversive act that the military censors found difficult to suppress.
After the 1973 coup in Chile, the churches there responded by forming an ecumenical Committee of Cooperation for Peace in Chile (Copachi). The committee, under the leadership of the Archbishop of Santiago, Raúl Silva Henríquez, S.D.B., and headed initially by Fernando Salas, S.J., devoted itself first to providing sanctuary for the hundreds of political dissidents who had fled their native Brazil, Uruguay or Argentina for the safety of Chile under Allende. The committee helped many to find asylum elsewhere. It set up "common pots," neighborhood kitchens that offered food to the many families whose breadwinners had been summarily fired, imprisoned or "disappeared." In the words of the Chilean Truth Commission's Rettig Report of 1991, Copachi was "the only institution carrying out the important function of aiding the victims, with the risks and limitations deriving from the situation at that time." The Rettig Report noted that from the beginning, "the only significant reaction to this pattern of human rights violations came from the churches, since they had the means and the willingness to act."
By the end of 1975, however, Copachi had become too active for the government to ignore. Several highly respected Chilean Jesuits and Holy Cross fathers were arrested, some of whom were expelled; and Sheila Cassidy, M.D., was held incommunicado and brutally tortured, leading the British government to sever relations with Chile. This was too much for General Pinochet, who demanded that Cardinal Silva shut down this obstreperous church agency.
The Vicariate of Solidarity
But what Cardinal Silva did in response was more extraordinary than is commonly recognized. On Dec. 31, 1975, he dissolved the Peace Committee, and on Jan. 1, 1976, he created, not another human rights organization under the auspices of the archdiocese, but a church vicariate called Vicaría de la Solidaridad. It was a Roman Catholic vicariate headed by the Rev. Cristián Precht. While this might be seen as an attempt to give ecclesial standing and protection to a human rights agency in a traditionally Catholic country, the Vicariate of Solidarity will ever stand as a powerful witness to the defense of human rights as integral to the preaching of the Gospel. Defense of human rights, in other words, was recognized with the establishment of the vicariate as an essential dimension of the church's mission in the world. Among the many publications it issued before it was converted in 1992 to the archdiocesan Pastoral Social, was the Spanish translation of the Brazilian 1973 broadsheet of the Universal Declaration, which found its way onto those parish bulletin boards throughout Brazil.
Along with the historic statement that defending human rights was an inherent dimension of the church's mission, the vicariate's most lasting contribution to the human rights movement worldwide was its systematic recording in great detail of all data dealing with arrests, killings and disappearances. Its bulging files contain sworn testimony of witnesses, photographs and other forensic information that provided the basis for reports later published by both the United Nations and the Organization of American States human rights commissions and the later Truth Commission. It was, someone said, the collective memory of the fragmented history of a nation.
The church in Brazil and even more in Chile provided the inspiration and template for the promotion of human rights elsewhere in the hemisphere. Diocesan vicariates of solidarity sprang up in Peru and Panama. Paraguay established a Committee for Emergency Aid, Bolivia a Permanent Assembly for Human Rights and Argentina an Ecumenical Committee for Human Rights. No fewer than five human rights groups with ties to dioceses or religious orders can still be found in Mexico.
El Salvador
After Brazil and Chile, the two most important and best-known church human rights agencies in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s were those in El Salvador and Guatemala. Each had distinctly unique origins. El Salvador's Socorro Jurídico (Legal Aid) was initially begun by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the Jesuits in 1975. After Oscar Romero was installed as archbishop in 1977, he made the group an official archdiocesan entity, with the dynamic young lawyer Roberto Cuéllar as director.
After Archbishop Romero's assassination in March 1980, the office came under increasing attack from the Salvadoran government and the U.S. State Department. Human rights lawyers insist that governments can commit human rights violations, as well as insurgents or guerrilla groups. Cuéllar maintained that Romero's mandate for the group was to report on violations committed by government entities, and to be the voice of those who had no voice, the poor and persecuted peasants. It was not his function to record the killings attributed to the F.M.L.N. insurgency.
Not only was the Salvadoran government unhappy with Socorro; the State Department under President Reagan mounted attacks against it, accusing it of biased reporting. So in 1982, the acting archbishop, Arturo Rivera Damas, sensitive to his unique role in pressing for a negotiated settlement to the conflict, decided to reorganize the social ministries of the archdiocese, creating a new human rights office. Led by another close collaborator of Romero, María Julia Hernández, Tutela Legal was charged with reporting abuses on both sides. Hernández performed heroically in this role until her death in March 2007, despite continuing hostility from the U.S. State Department. Beto Cuéllar renamed the group he had headed for seven years as Socorro Jurídico Cristiano and affiliated it once more with the Jesuits.
Neighboring Guatemala suffered even more ruthless devastation than El Salvador. A series of military governments had fought what they perceived as the scourge of world Communism since the C.I.A.-led overthrow of President Arbenz in 1954, and they did so with a brutality unmatched elsewhere. There was civil war almost continuously from 1960 to 1996. Bishop Juan Gerardi of Santa Cruz del Quiché was forced to close down his diocese in 1980 after repeated attempts on his life and that of his clergy and religious. Thousands of Mayans were slaughtered during the rule of Efraín Ríos Montt (1982-83), which earned the country its reputation as a genocidal state.
With the installation in 1983 of Próspero Penados del Barrio as archbishop of Guatemala, the church began to denounce the violence forcefully. The Guatemalan church had an undeserved reputation for being timid and conservative. The reality was quite different, as numerous strong pastoral letters from the country's bishops, without the signature of the cardinal archbishop, testify. While there was no Romero, the hierarchy as a whole was far more progressive than the Salvadorans next door.
Archbishop Penados at least twice publicly announced plans to form a church human rights office, but its opening never took place. When asked why, he noted sadly that any persons he would name to the task would be in very grave personal danger, and he could not ask that of young lawyers with families. With the 1985 election of the Christian Democrat Vinicio Cerezo as the first civilian president since 1970, the situation seemed more favorable for the church to set up a human rights office. At the time, I asked Bishop Gerardi, who had finally been let back into the country and was now auxiliary to Archbishop Penados, if the time had come to establish such an office.
The problem, Gerardi replied, was that the new president estimated that his control over the government was very limited, not even 25 percent. Since a church human rights agency would chronicle the violations committed by the government, this could only further weaken President Cerezo's tenuous hand. By 1991 Cerezo was able to hand off the presidency to another elected civilian, Jorge Serrano Elías, who was an evangelical Christian but not a fanatic, committed to the peace process. In 1993 he shut down Congress and the Supreme Court, and the resulting furor led him to flee the country. He was succeeded by civilian presidents.
The following year Bishop Gerardi and Ronalth Ochaeta co-founded the Archdiocesan Human Rights Office. They conceived of a project such as had never been attempted in any of the other countries experiencing years of brutal repression. They would compile a tally of as many of the specific crimes and violations of human rights as possible, drawn from the testimony of thousands of survivors and witnesses. The project, Recovery of Historical Memory, called Rehmi, began in 1995, and produced in 1998 a four-volume report, Nunca Mas, that provided information on some 50,000 Guatemalans killed outright and another 50,000 "disappeared," with 93 percent of the cases attributed to government forces. Just days after he presented Nunca Mas on April 24, 1998, Bishop Gerardi was bludgeoned to death, the final martyr of Guatemala's genocidal chapter.
The Declaration: A Final Word
As we observe the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dec. 10, a word should be said about the contribution of Latin America to the declaration. At the 1945 signing of the U.N. Charter, some 20 Latin American countries were members of the United Nations. Their combined numbers made them the largest regional bloc, and the decisive influence exercised by the delegations of Chile, Cuba, Argentina and Panama made them the leaders in pressing for a human rights charter. But numbers aside, real power lay with the Big Three—the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. The United States was decidedly cool to the idea, and the Soviet Union opposed it.
After some 80 fruitless meetings of the Commission on Human Rights seeking consensus for a proposed "international bill of rights," the Haitian rapporteur to the Commission proposed that the declaration recently adopted by a Latin American conference held in Bogotá be considered the basis for a U.N. statement. Finally this was accepted. Thus the American (meaning Latin American) Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man became the basis for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. While Eleanor Roosevelt and René Cassin are often cited as the main architects, in fact, no one may have been more important than the Cuban Catholic Guy Pérez-Cisneros and his Latin American colleagues.
The bravery of Catholic clergy in many of these countries in the past three decades is probably the single strongest factor in bringing me back to my faith and inspiring me to a closer relationship with my church. May God rest their souls....


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Rebekka Geitner a historian at the Ballinstadt Emigration Museum in Hamburg, Germany will be in the Twin Cities area giving three presentations at three locations during the period of 22, 23, 24 October 2011. She will then travel to St. Louis, Missouri to be a presenter at the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International's - Genealogical / Cultural Conference to be held from 26-29 October 2011.
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Date / Time: Sunday, 23 October 2011 12:30 pm - 5 pm (includes a break and ends with a social hour).
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From funds appropriated under section 6302(e)(1) of this title for any fiscal year, the Secretary may, directly or through grants or contracts, work in partnership with State educational agencies, local educational agencies, other public agencies, and nonprofit organizations to disseminate and use the highest quality research and knowledge about effective practices to improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools assisted under this subchapter.
A prior section 6492, Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1502, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3604, related to demonstrations of innovative practices, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 107–110.
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And then Michelle and Jen B had to jump in all reasonable and mature, explaining that they'd take this natural curl, as lame as it is, over the straight iron look of LipGloss BlenderLegs MoistFace Zac Efron and, yeah, I couldn't disagree.
Don't you hate when your friends are right?
I'll be seeing the Vaggie Virgins this weekend at the MMVAs. Will let you know what that hair is like up close.
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Cited numerous times for debris and unregistered vehicles, fined and ordered to clean things up by Municipal Court Justice Joel Gerstenblatt at a July 2011 court appearance, Marilyn Soscia of 49 Union Ave. is scheduled to come before the judge again on Nov. 29 at 6 p.m. at municipal court in City Council Chambers. "It got better for a while and then it just gets worse," said a member of the city's minimum housing division. She said the city "has tried to work with her" to no avail. Depending on Soscia's plea and the judge's ruling, there could be a trial and she could face additional fines and even imprisonment. Efforts to reach Socia and her attorney were unsuccessful. (Warwick Beacon photos)
Thank you for calling attention to this scrouge. Evidently, Marilyn has a sympathetic lawyer, and others who think she deserves a break due to her having an untreatable mental illness of hoarding.
It is obvious that she will do no more than the bare minimum, on rare occasion (e.g. when it's convenient and the weather is just right, rare in RI), and that the city lacks both the desire and capability to deal with her.
FYI, she bought the house from another hoarder, who was just as bad, and was evidently a personal friend.
In addition to the unsightliness, neighbors have seen animals feeding on her mess (including rodents) when trying to barbecue, etc. Fortunately, the surrounding homes are much nicer than what you see above.
It's amazing that people have not taken this into their own hands, which could have a very unfortunate outcome (legally or other).
As for the City of Warwick- I understand this goes beyond the pay grade of those so appointed, but taxes are being paid for these types of occasional, needed services. My request would be for the city to continue to clean the property, putting a lien on her house once again, as needed. Eventually the city should be able to recover and sell the house, hopefully a tear-down.
Any efforts to punish or treat or continually postpone hearings will be a continued waste of time and resources. The homeowner is too sick, it's not the fault of those living around her, and the property presents safety hazards to the surroundings.


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- Nov 18:
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- Nov 14:
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- Nov 6:
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- Oct 15:
- Boulder County homeowner haunted by mysterious concrete block
- Oct 5:
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- Boulder Reservoir draws 300 volunteers for flood clean-up, repairs
- Oct 4:
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- Sep 25:
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- Sep 22:
- Boulder County flood victims facing housing crunch
- Sep 21:
- Boulder ceremony honors memory of couple lost in flood
- Boulder begins inspections of flood-damaged properties Monday
- Sep 18:
- Collection for flood relief at final Art Night Out on Friday in Lafayette
- Sep 15:
- 'Camp Erie' to provide activities for kids during flood-related school closure next week
- Sep 14:
- 234 people remain unaccounted as rescuers gain ground
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- Road closures in Boulder, east county and surrounding area
- Closings, cancellations and re-openings post flood
- Boulder area canyons remain isolated
- Boulder County's major reservoirs holding steady, despite week's deluge
- Fifth-graders stranded at Cal-Wood near Jamestown return to Louisville
- Officials: Extensive road damage still being assessed
- Boulder County to provide community dumpsters for flood cleanup
- 234 remain 'unaccounted for', rescuers slowly gain ground
- Boulder remains under flash flood watch through Sunday afternoon
- Sep 13:
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- St. Vrain schools closed until Thursday, BVSD officials still deciding when to reopen
- In the mouth of Boulder Canyon: The aftermath of a 100-year flood
- Football: No make-up date yet as CU postpones game against Fresno State because of flood
- East Boulder County emerges from a tough night of evacs, road closures
- Boulder to see some relief, but more rain in forecast
- U.S. 36 reopened in both directions between Denver and Boulder
- 181 'unaccounted for,' at least 3 dead in Boulder County
- Flood-related closures in Boulder County for Friday, Sept. 13
- List of Boulder County road closures due to flooding
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- Evacuations ordered for 4,000 residents along Boulder Creek
- Flooding claims at least 2 lives in Boulder, Jamestown
- RTD suspends numerous bus routes in Boulder
- 2nd Boulder flooding fatality was recent Centaurus grad Wesley Quinlan, friends say
- 100-year-flood: Boulder rainfall records swamped in dueling weather systems
- Louisville, Lafayette open shelters as creeks swell; downtown Superior under evac order
- Flooding prompts evacuations near Erie; community center to serve as shelter
- BVSD: Students at Jamestown's CalWood Education Center are safe
- Closures: Host of area roads closed, as well as CU, Naropa, Boulder Valley, St. Vrain schools
- Firefighter trapped by 'wall of water' rescued, suffers severe injuries
- Boulder registers wettest 24-hour period, and month, on record
- Sheriff asks Boulder County residents to stay home today, keep roads clear
- 500-year flood nearly cuts Longmont in two, forces evacuations
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Homeless people were turned away from emergency shelters Thursday morning despite assurances in recent months to homeless service providers that their clients would be treated the same as other Boulder residents in a citywide emergency such as widespread flooding, Bridge House Executive Director Isabel McDevitt said.
A spokeswoman for the Red Cross said people were turned away, but that was against Red Cross policy and will not happen again.
"Our policy is not to turn people away in life-safety emergencies," Patricia Billinger said. "Someone -- we're not sure who -- did turn people away, but we have corrected that. The shelter manager and people who make decisions about this stuff would never do that."
More than 80 people crowded Thursday morning into the 1,200-square-foot carriage house behind First Congregational Church in downtown Boulder that houses Bridge House's main offices to seek shelter from the rain and high water.
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McDevitt said Bridge House and BOHO, which operates emergency warming shelters with church and synagogue partners in Boulder, have been working with city and county emergency management for about six months to develop an emergency response system to protect the city's homeless population. In fact, a meeting was scheduled for Thursday to finalize those plans.
Throughout those meetings, McDevitt said she was told that homeless people would be treated the same as other residents in case of flooding. However, when Bridge House sent clients to the Red Cross shelter at the YMCA at 28th Street and Mapleton Avenue, they were turned away because they were not previously housed.
McDevitt said she called both city and county officials, who told her that was "totally unacceptable."
McDevitt said that the situation developed very quickly Wednesday night. If Bridge House staff had realized at 3 p.m. how bad the flooding would be or even how much rain would fall, they would have stayed open later and maintained better contact with clients.
There is simply no way to know if everyone is safe, she said.
"It's very scary," McDevitt said. "It's quite possible that people were exposed to conditions that will make them very sick, or God forbid, someone drowned. We don't know what's happened in the mountains."
Many homeless people camp in the canyons west of Boulder.
McDevitt said this time of year, homeless people and service providers worry more about early cold, not flooding, which is seen as a summer problem.
Emergency shelters
BOHO did open emergency shelters in two churches Wednesday night, but with very short notice, not many people knew about them.
And one of those churches flooded and had to be evacuated.
"It's been rugged," said BOHO board member Bill Sweeney. "A lot of people who thought they could tough it out found themselves lying in water in the middle of the night."
BOHO planned to open Thursday at Congregation Har Hashem on Baseline Road, but had to move to St. Aiden's Episcopal Church, near Folsom Field, because of flooding on Baseline.
The Boulder Shelter for the Homeless is not usually open this time of year, except for people in the transitional program, and did not open Wednesday night. However, the shelter opened 50 beds Thursday night for people who are sober. Executive Director Greg Harms said the shelter does not have sufficient staff this time of year to open its entire facility.
McDevitt said service providers to the homeless have plans in place for emergencies that primarily affect their clients, such as extreme heat or cold, but widespread flooding is beyond their capacity to handle alone.
"It would be different if this were an emergency just for our clients," she said. "We're just trying to use our resources to the maximum capacity to help people, but this is an emergency way beyond the capacity of the nonprofit community."
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GROTON -- With an-end-of-the-month deadline fast approaching, members of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Working Group worked quickly to identify stakeholders and familiarize themselves with a permitting schedule that would need to be followed if a private corporation intends on building a gas pipeline through town.
"It's clear we have a problem," said Dennis Eklof. "The question is how to solve it."
Eklof told group members it was unlikely the pipeline project could be stopped but definitely within the realm of possibility was keeping it along established rights of way rather than cutting cross country, perhaps even through sensitive conservation land.
"That may be our best strategy," Eklof concluded.
At issue for the group are plans by Kinder-Morgan Energy Partners to construct a new 36-inch, high-pressure main from Dracut through Groton and beyond to supply area towns and other communities in Central Massachusetts with natural gas.
In Groton, the proposed pipeline would run across portions of land owned by the Conservation Commission, Conservation Trust, beneath the Nashua River, over numerous private parcels, and the Groton-Dunstable Regional High School.
Fearful of the project, residents have appointed ad hoc committees, formed regional alliances, and collected petition signatures for presentation to state officials.
Part of Groton's response to the pipeline challenge has been to appoint the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Working Group and charging it with coming up with recommendations for the Board of Selectmen on how to address the project by the end of the month.
At its second meeting held Monday, the group began its work by identifying stakeholders, or any persons or groups with an interest in the pipeline project including local energy distribution entities, such as Groton's own Electric Light Department; energy industry actors concerned with buying, selling, and distribution of gas, elected officials, local property owners whose land the pipeline is designed to cross, the Conservation Commission, the industrial sector that needs power fueled by gas, and homeowners who stands to benefit from the availability of gas.
Noting the range of interests connected with the pipeline, Chairman John Giger suggested the group recommend that the town concentrate on those who could be influenced by its arguments.
But even as the group begins its work, Kinder-Morgan has not been idle, lining up customers for the gas it proposes to deliver to the region along its pipeline. Local distributors, including National Grid, are expected to use the energy mostly for home heating.
"The only way to make sure there are no blackouts is to get more gas," acknowledged Eklof, warning group members that Massachusetts had used far more of its capacity in the last year than was immediately available sending gas prices upward.
Eklof said that it was the responsibility of state and national energy planners to look at the big picture to make sure residents do not go without power or heat especially in the winter.
The Kinder-Morgan plan, concluded Eklof, was "relatively cost effective."
Also reported was news that Kinder-Morgan planned to pre-file for permitting with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as early as September, predicting a start date for construction of the pipeline in November of 2018.
Before that, however, the company plans to hold a number of public hearings on the project in November and December with FERC conducting its own "scoping" sessions at which officials will identify issues related to the project's environmental impact and alternative solutions to the energy distribution question.
In the meantime, town officials moved to deny use of town roadways by Kinder-Morgan surveying teams which, in a letter addressed to Board of Selectmen Chairman Joshua Degen, insisted that Groton had no legal right to prevent its use of the public ways.
Responding to the corporation's plan to ignore the selectmen's edict, Town Manager Mark Haddad said that the board intended on picking up the subject at its meeting of Aug. 11.
With scheduling and stakeholders identified, the group planned to identify ways in which it could contribute to the FERC's draft environmental and economic analysis of the pipeline project, something that was said to be critical in catching officials' attention during the permitting process.
The group also determined to identify who the "players" are in the project scenario and how to contact them for information or to relay the town's concerns.
The group is expected to have its initial recommendations prepared for selectmen by Aug. 31.


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MULTIMODALITY, CONTEXT AND CONTINUOUS DYNAMICS FOR RECOGNITION AND ANALYSIS OF EMOTIONAL STATES, AND APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE by Angeliki Metallinou A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Ful llment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) August 2013 Copyright 2013 Angeliki Metallinou
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Josh Brolin may be signing up to police alien "intergalactic keggers" on Earth, by joining up for the next installment in the Men In Black franchise. So who will he play, and more important, is Frank still alive?
The LA Times is claiming that actor Brolin readying for his next role as a man in black. But this new film may not take place in the here and now. In fact, this new MIB film may be a K origins story, as origins stories seem to be all the rage today.
His exact part is a matter of discussion, but in recent days there's been chatter in Hollywood development circles of a few possibilities: He could play a new single-monikered government agent, with Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K passing the baton to Brolin's character. Or he could play Agent K as a young man. Or something else entirely.
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Wandalene Louise (Rinehart) Moore, (Wanda Moore), age 82 of Sweetwater, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, at Nolan Nursing and Rehab. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, at Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home Chapel with Ron Chamberlain officiating. Burial will follow at Garden of Memories. Arrangements are under the direction of Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home. She was born Oct. 22, 1928, in Rochester, Texas. She married Coy Lee (Red) Moore on April 20, 1951, in Stamford, Texas and they lived in Longworth for many years. She worked in Sweetwater as a waitress at Mrs. Star's and Frailey's Restaurants and later in life at The New Beginning Bridal Shop and Tea Room. She was a loving wife, mother and devoted grandmother. She enjoyed traveling, as she accompanied her husband Coy to many foreign countries during his career in the oil business. She was an avid stamp and coin collector. She is survived by one daughter, Patrisha Walker and husband Dewell of Buras, Louisiana; two grandsons, Daniel Walker and wife Amanda and Joshua Walker, all of New Orleans, La; two great-granddaughters, Chloe and Katie Walker of New Orleans; one sister, Geraldene (Jerry) Josselet of Haskell, Texas; one brother, Walter Rinehart of Lubbock, Tx; sisters-in-law, Willie Moore of Snyder, Pearl Rinehart of Rule and Ola Robb of New Windsor, Illinois; and one brother-in-law, Horace (Buzz) Moore of Houston; along with many nieces, nephews and a multitude of family and friends both near and far. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Coy Lee Moore; her parents, Walter and Lorene Rinehart; and brother, Clifton Rinehart. Family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011.


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I learned the Palmer Method of handwriting in elementary school, if memory serves – though I was pretty bad at it and remain so. Some of today's adults wrestled with D'Nealian or Peterson Handwriting. Others learned Zaner-Bloser Script (to get a sense of how challenging that can be, just try writing "Zaner-Bloser" in cursive).
But your school-aged kids and grandkids probably won't be learning any of these methods—because, as the Wall Street Journal's Valerie Bauerlein reports, mandatory cursive writing instruction is going "the way of the quill pen." The move away from penmanship and into the digital age has been underway for a while now, of course, but Bauerlein depicts the growing acceptance of the new Common Core State Standards school curriculum as a decisive coffin-nail for cursive. Those standards, which have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, make no mention of cursive and require instead that students be proficient in "keyboarding" by 4th grade.
Though few adults under 50 have especially good handwriting these days, some teachers say they'll be sorry to see cursive go. Advocates of handwriting argue that it does more than typing to help brain development, and one recent study by a researcher at Florida International University suggests a correlation between good penmanship and academic performance among kids of the post-Palmer era. Some states are also pushing back: California and Georgia are adding handwriting requirements to the Common Core curriculum, Bauerlein reports, and legislators are advancing similar initiatives in Hawaii, Indiana and Idaho.
One question unaddressed here: What might be the benefits of combining writing and a digital medium – say, by writing on a tablet computer? Generally speaking, the tech world has struggled to figure out how to make handwritten text look good onscreen, but various companies are still trying for a breakthrough. (The Journal's Katherine Boehret reviews one recent effort here.) And tablets are showing considerable cross-generational appeal—so perhaps someday you and a grandchild can take turns scrawling "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" on your touchscreen.


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