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Ouarzazate in Moroco is all concerning the motion pictures – in the event you can domesticate the proper look to play the last word evil villain or his sidekick, there could be work in it.
Loads of work – in actual fact greater than half of the folks residing on this desert metropolis are concerned within the film enterprise.
Western filmmakers and TV producers come right here on the look out for gorgeous places – you are spoilt for alternative – and a prepared provide of extras.
If you do not get an element as a bearded terrorist or man in road market, the probabilities are, you would be working as a set builder, or in movie hospitality.
The movie industry is flourishing
To get to our Moroccan film mecca, we drove for six hours from Marrakesh, throughout the imposing Atlas mountains, or Tibet as Martin Scorsese would have us imagine – his 1997 movie Kundun, concerning the 14th Dalai Lama, was filmed, not in Tibet, however proper right here.
The snow capped mountain vary overlooks the desert, and filming right here was cheaper and logistically simpler. Tibet, Baghdad, Tehran – this area has stood in for all of them on display.
It was David Lean who began the cinematic gold rush right here. A go to to Morocco resulted in 1962's epic Laurence of Arabia.
I had tea with Ouarzazate's aged statesman Nasa. He was an additional in David Lean's movie, his spouse was too, and now his daughter will get works each time a biblical/ Center Japanese themed epic involves city.
They usually do of their lots of. Jesus of Nazareth, Ben Hur, The Man Who Can be King, Babel, The Final Temptation of Christ..
You need weeping girls within the crowd? I met a number of who've perfected the artwork of crying on cue. Bearded males? Right here they develop facial hair in readiness for the massive display.
Kingdom of Heaven
The massive deal proper now could be Yousef. Or Ouarzazate's Brad Pitt as he is identified in these components. When Ridley Scott arrived to make Kingdom of Heaven in 2005, with Ouarzazate enjoying Jerusalem, he wanted robust males to play the locals preventing the invading Christians.
Yousef Marchouki made the grade, and from his on display debut preventing on the ramparts – the fort constructed for the movie nonetheless stands within the desert – he educated as a stunt man and the roles rolled in.
He took out his cellphone to replay for me his proudest second – as a guard within the hit collection Recreation of Thrones, Khaleesi by his aspect. The Huge Time. Filmed right here.
Salmon Fishing within the Yemen? Filmed in in Ouarzazate. Homeland? Filmed right here. Jail Break? Ditto.
Is not it insulting to have your North African nation used because the generic stand for the Center East, I ask the vacationer boss? As if all nations within the Japanese hemisphere look the identical to the Western eye?
Safety for filmmakers
He is matter of reality. For filmmakers, it is too harmful to movie in Iraq or Afghanistan he says, Morocco has thus far prevented the political turmoil and violence that has struck a few of its Neighbors.
And the federal government right here is aware of a very good factor – it gives beneficiant tax breaks to movie crews. That, and a plentiful and prepared provide of labour lure the producers, and the , many hundreds of thousands of them, roll in.
I walked the streets the place Gladiator was filmed, strolled handed the fighter airplane used when Jewel Within the Nile was made right here, by means of Egyptian tombs used numerous instances on TV and movie, at each flip it was extra Hollywood than Hollywood!
And on each road nook, the Bin Laden lookalikes, and the biblical extras have been ready for his or her massive display second.
I tried my very own, a camel journey, in a few of the most stunning surroundings I've each encountered. Nicely, if it is ok for Laurence of Arabia!


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"The president delivers his single most accomplished rhetorical performance, and it's one you should watch rather than read."
Read the Atlantic, Obama's Grace.
Monday, June 29, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015
More Unbelievable Palin Family Hypocrisy
UPDATE: "Bristol Palin . . . is too busy giving lectures to hear yours."
So read Slate, A Short History Of Bristol Palin's Lectures.
Remember Bristol Palin, a high school drop out, unwed mother, and paid 'abstinence ambassador.'
(The abstinence 'charity' (a term used loosely as you will see) "took in about $1.7 million in donations and only gave $35,000 to groups trying to lower teen pregnancy rates.
Forty-six percent of Candie's total expenses — $573,000 — went to Palin.
Only 6 percent went to anti-teen pregnancy programs.About $165,000 was paid to ABC for TV advertising."
Even for the Palins, this con strikes me as immoral.)
Well guess what.
"Bristol Palin, the eldest daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, announced today that she is pregnant for the second time, less than a month after calling off her marriage to Marine veteran Dakota Meyer."
Read the Daily Mail, Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol announces she's pregnant again just a month after cancelling wedding to Marine veteran.
The article notes that "Bristol did not say who the father of the child is in her statement."
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Labels: Palin, Republi-Cons
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Which Political Party Do the Racist Support?
UPDATE: Working-class whites "vote against their own interests by the right's exploitation of cultural issues. But Mr. Bartels showed that the working-class turn against Democrats wasn't a national phenomenon — it was entirely restricted to the South, where whites turned overwhelmingly Republican after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Richard Nixon's adoption of the so-called Southern strategy.
And this party-switching, in turn, was what drove the rightward swing of American politics after 1980. Race made Reaganism possible. And to this day Southern whites overwhelmingly vote Republican, to the tune of 85 or even 90 percent in the deep South. . .
[Most recently, this is reflected in support for Obamacare, AKA the Affordable Care Act,"a plan drafted by the conservative Heritage Foundation, on whose board Bush once served".]
For those who haven't been following this issue, in 2012 the Supreme Court gave individual states the option, if they so chose, of blocking the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid, a key part of the plan to provide health insurance to lower-income Americans. But why would any state choose to exercise that option? After all, states were being offered a federally-funded program that would provide major benefits to millions of their citizens, pour billions into their economies, and help support their health-care providers. Who would turn down such an offer?
The answer is, 22 states at this point, although some may eventually change their minds. And what do these states have in common? Mainly, a history of slaveholding: Only one former member of the Confederacy has expanded Medicaid, and while a few Northern states are also part of the movement, more than 80 percent of the population in Medicaid-refusing America lives in states that practiced slavery before the Civil War.
And it's not just health reform: a history of slavery is a strong predictor of everything from gun control (or rather its absence), to low minimum wages and hostility to unions, to tax policy."
Read The New York Times, Slavery's Long Shadow.
"The leader of a rightwing group that Dylann Roof allegedly credits with helping to radicalise him against black people before the Charleston church massacre has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republicans such as presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Rick Santorum."
Read the Guardian, Leader of group cited in 'Dylann Roof manifesto' donated to top Republicans.
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Labels: Health Care, Republi-Cons
Friday, June 19, 2015
The Cult of Carl, Was He a FL Law Enforcement Officer?
UPDATE VI: There has been little talk of the shooter's specific comment that "you're taking over our country" as he shoots black people.
How did he develop such an attitude and belief? Talk radio perhaps??
UPDATE V: Now we see why the Pastor is no longer in law enforcement.
The site of the murders was a Charleston church, "a historic symbol of black resistance to slavery and racism".
The shooter was just an everyday racist, who shouted "You rape our women, and you're taking over our country, and you have to go." He posted pictures online "wearing a jacket bearing flags from apartheid-era South Africa and what was once white-rule Rhodesia". He also drove a car with a bumper proudly displaying "a novelty plate in celebration of the slave-holding Confederate states".
Read the Daily Mail, The suspected race-hate gunman, 21, who got a gun for his birthday and proudly wears clothing with the flags of apartheid.
Of course, the Pastor's ignorance would come as no surprise to anyone who has heard his birther comments, often followed by claims to be 'a former Florida law enforcement officer', as he tries to to bolster his credibility on legal issues.
As noted below, there is no proof that The Cult of Carl was ever a law enforcement officer.
And his hideous, bitter radio sermons that promote fear, anger and hatred make it clear he is no Christian that Jesus would understand.
UPDATE IV: The Pastor and Satan were in their usual good form this morning, twisting the little known facts after a church shooting (eerily like the The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963) to advance their favorite topic -- hate.
Among other things, the Pastor speculated that the man might have thought he was black, so that he could comment on stories about Bruce Jenner and Rachel Dolezal.
Let's see how well the Pastor's finely tuned law-enforcement instincts are.
UPDATE III: The cult that is Carl admitted this morning (06/11/15) that he works with Satan when he hunts.
He apparently uses the demonic influence of bait to gain an advantage while hunting deer. He seems to believe that the deer deserves what happens for sinfully partaking of the bait corn 'it thinks it miraculously found' in the forest, but that deer thought is just the Devil at work.
I'd call to ask him to explain, but he refuses to take my calls, so I'll just have to accept him at his word, Pastor Carl and Satan are huntin' buddies.
(BTW, link updated 06/2015, still no Pastor in the LEO database.)
P.S. Pastor Carl and Satan are also talkshow buddies. His comments regarding sexual orientation are clear false. "Evidence points toward the existence of a complex interaction between genes and environment, which are responsible for the heritable nature of sexual orientation. . .
[And a]lthough homosexuality can be inherited, this does not occur according to the rules of classical genetics. Rather, it occurs through another mechanism, known as epigenetics.
Epigenetics relates to the influence of environmental factors on genes, either in the uterus or after birth. . .
The academy found that a multitude of scientific studies have shown sexual orientation is biologically determined. There is not a single gene or environmental factor that is responsible for this—but rather a set of complex interactions between the two that determines one's sexual orientation."
Read Slate, Here's What We Know About the Science of Sexual Orientation.
Pastor Carl may have a hard time understanding the science (the article was written by the director of the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of Pretoria in South Africa and another).
Whereas, anyone who has listen to him knows, Pastor Carl's beliefs and pseudo-knowledge are based on myths and voices he hears in his head (in his case it seems to be Satan).
UPDATE II: The database now has 214,306 names, still no Pastor.
UPDATE: Stay tuned, I hear this is a developing story.
In an attempt to bolster his credibility on legal issues, the cult that is Carl likes to says frequently on his radio shows that he is 'a former Florida law enforcement officer.'
Did you know that the Herald-Tribune has compiled a database of 210,348 past and present Florida law enforcement officers.
Let me know if you find his name. (Here is the current page where you would expect his name to be listed.) (Link updated 06/2013, still no Pastor.)
BTW, the database is pretty comprehensive and does include former law enforcement officers. Our current congressman was a Florida law enforcement officer, and his name is listed.
In the meantime, based upon the Pastor's self professed 10-year law enforcement background and experience, I'm waiting for the arrests that he claims are imminent.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
The Answer Is: Zero, No One, LOL
UPDATE IV: AIG "was made a political scapegoat by Fed and Treasury officials and a backdoor vehicle for bailing out the world's biggest banks, whose bailout came with much sweeter terms."
Read the Washington Post, Court tells government it was wrong to seize AIG, but awards no money to billionaire ex-CEO.
You may remember, the bank's were paid 100 cents on the dollar for worthless CDOs (collateralized debt obligations), resulting in a $14 billion payment to the Treasury Secretary's former company.
The worthless CDOs were then dumped in a special fund named Maiden Lane III, an inside joke on the American people. ("The name Maiden Lane was taken from a street which runs beside New York Federal Reserve in Manhattan.") (The NY Federal reserve keeps a backdoor that opens on the street, "through which it can sneak people" into and out of the fed building.)
UPDATE III: "Instead of embracing the orthodoxy of bank bailouts, austerity, and low inflation, Iceland did just the opposite. And even though its economy was hammered by the banking crisis perhaps harder than any other in the world, its labor didn't deteriorate all that much, and it had a great recovery. . .
[C]ompare it with the United States:
How did Iceland pull it off?
Let the banks go bust . . .
Executives of the country's most important bank were prosecuted as criminals. . .
Reject austerity . . .
Devalue and accept inflation . . .
Impose temporary capital controls . . ."
Read Vox, Iceland put bankers in jail rather than bailing them out — and it worked.
While in the U.S., we bailed out the Banksters, and now they are suing us.
"Americans were angry when Wall Street's greedy and risky behavior triggered a global financial crisis in 2008. They were angrier still when the government had to borrow and spend hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest banks and the insurance company AIG. They were outraged when they found out that executives at those enterprises were continuing to receive big salaries and bonuses.
So just imagine how outrageous it would be if some Wall Street sharpies went to court to argue that they didn't benefit enough from the bailouts and that taxpayers should pay them tens of billions of dollars more.
In fact, they did. And, according to legal observers, they just might prevail."
Read the Washington Post, We bailed you out, and now you want what!?!
UPDATE II: In 2006, securities lawyer warned JPMorgan Chase of "'massive criminal securities fraud' in the bank's mortgage operations. . .
[Since then, the bank and the U.S. government have tried to silence her. She has been prevented from talking] "by asleep-on-the-job regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission, by a court system that allowed Chase to use its billions to bury her evidence, and, finally, by officials like outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, the chief architect of the crazily elaborate government policy of surrender, secrecy and cover-up."
Read Rolling Stone, The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare.
UPDATE: "Have you heard the latest about how bad the richest of the rich have it these days? It is reason to fear the wrath of the .01 percent!"
Read The New York Times, Plutocrats Feeling Persecuted, which discusses "the rise of a small but powerful group of what can only be called sociopaths."
The question: How many Banksters were prosecuted?
Read the Washington Post, This is a complete list of Wall Street CEOs prosecuted for their role in the financial crisis.
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Labels: Bailout, Corporations
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Test Your News Knowledge
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When you finish, you will be able to compare your News IQ with the average American and compare responses across demographic groups."
Take The News IQ Quiz by the Pew Research Center.
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Take The News IQ Quiz by the Pew Research Center.
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The Republi-CON 'Creationism' Myth
UPDATE: For "a striking example of Darwinian evolution in humans", read the Washington Post, How a history of eating human brains protected this tribe from brain disease.
It is also interesting if you have any interest in religion and societal development.
UPDATE: A new video from science advocates Stated Clearly provides an 11-minute examination of the evidence behind the theory of evolution that should come in handy for anyone debating the issue with creationists.
"Thousands of observable facts from completely independent fields of study have come together to tell us the exact same story: all living things on Earth are related," the group's founder, Jon Perry, states.
Read Raw Story, Next time your creationist friends reject evolution, show them this video:
"Evolution is nothing more than a fairly simple way of understanding what is unquestionably happening. You don't believe in it — you either understand it or you don't. But pretending evolution is a matter of faith can be a clever way to hijack the conversation, and pit it in a false duality against religion. And that's how we end up with people decrying evolution, even as they eat their strawberries and pet their dogs, because they've been led to believe faith can only be held in one or the other.
But there's no reason for people of faith to reject the mountains of data and the evidence of their own senses. Reconciling is easy: Believe, if you want to, that God set up the rules of evolution among His wonders, along with the laws of physics, and probability, and everything else we can see and measure for ourselves. But don't deny evolution itself, or gravity, or the roundness of Earth. That's just covering your eyes and ears. And only monkeys would do that."
Read The Week, Why you should stop believing in evolution.
Read also National Geographic, Was Darwin Wrong?
For less technical detail, read George Johnson, The Evidence for Evolution.
For more technical detail, read The TalkOrigins Archive, 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution, The Scientific Case for Common Descent.
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Labels: Religion, Republi-Con Myth Buster, Science
Republi-CON Family Values, All In the Family Edition
UPDATE VI: "[J]ust before he ascended in 1999 to the most powerful position in the lower house of Congress, Hastert pushed hard for a law [saying} . . .
'This bill sends a strong message to the most heinous of criminals who prey upon our children – you will be punished to the fullest extent of the law'".
Read the Daily Mail, Hypocrite Hastert called for tough action against pedophiles, kept a file called 'homosexuals' and was praised by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
UPDATE V: There is no comparing Lena "Dunham's 'admission' of non-incidents of non-abuse to Josh Duggar's conduct, to begin with, he was twice her age. But it highlight's the nature of Republi-con celebrity.
"Duggars are essentially famous for the same reason the Kardashians are: their sex lives.
Conservatives take their celebrities where they can get them. Sure, there are actors and country music stars, snatched up quickly for pro-troop specials and benefits, but the Duggars are the rare example of a true conservative folk hero crossovers, individuals whose fame is not dependent on a celebrity-generating skill (acting, singing) but on a set of beliefs. They share that slim slice of Venn diagram (general popular recognition and genuine conservative activism) with the Duck Dynasty clan and a smattering of lesser lights: Joe the Plumber, the owners of Memories Pizza, Cliven Bundy, and Pam Geller. Military heroes are adopted quickly, and territorially. Ben Carson was raised up immediately after his one-sided "confrontation" with the president. . .
Conservatives might argue—and they have a point—that liberals don't need a separate celebrity culture. Liberal media darlings are, pretty much, media darlings. Their path to celebrity isn't political because it doesn't need to be political. Lena Dunham isn't famous because she's the victim of a right-wing pile-on, she's the victim of right-wing pile-on because she's famous.
The Left doesn't have anything quite like the conservative folk hero, people who are neither politicians nor activists nor professional performers but simply famous for being liberals. Sandra Fluke, perhaps. Cindy Sheehan (Remember her?) And when they do pop up, the liberal political ecosystem doesn't have the same network of conferences, straw polls and candidate cattle-calls that prop up the Duggars and their brethren.
Even more than the conferences, however, conservative folk heroes find their credibility increases not via leadership but through victimhood. All criticism by mainstream voices becomes proof of worthiness—and the case of Josh Duggar exposes just how self-defeating the raising up these folk heroes via victimhood can be.
Not that the Palins would realize this. What does Sarah Palin's own fame stand on now these days, anyway? A caps-lock key and a sense of grievance. It's not much, but these days, it's all any conservative celebrity needs. Ironically, it's their grievance that makes them worthy of attention from the mainstream media as well. The Duggars' and Palins' off-the-map political and world views are what draw attention. Outsiders want to stare at the spectacle.
Maybe the cruelest trick that liberal elites ever pulled was luring so many camera-starved conservatives into the limelight—and out of the reality distortion field of their own devising."
Read The Daily Beast, Sarah Palin's Bitter Cry for Attention.
UPDATE IV: What goes around comes around, continued.
"Should the former House speaker be prosecuted? The Dennis Hastert who impeached President Clinton thinks so."
Read Slate, Hastert's Hypocrisy.
UPDATE III: Gotta love that Republi-con hypocrisy.
Read Salon, Candidate Jim Bob Duggar in 2002: Those who commit incest should be executed.
UPDATE II: Are the Duggars part of a 'fundamentalist' Christian sex abuse ring?
"Doug Phillips of the far-right group Vision Forum was forced to step down after admitting to 'a lengthy, inappropriate relationship with a woman.' The woman in question, Lourdes Torres-Manteufel, claims it was more than "inappropriate," noting that they met when she was 15 and that he "methodically groomed" by moving her into the house as a nanny and becoming "the pastor of her church, her boss, her landlord, and the controller of all aspects of her life" before pushing for sex. The Duggars were tight with Phillips and Vision Forum, which promoted a lot of Duggar-related material.
Another hardcore fundamentalist leader who had a mentorship relationship with the Duggars, Bill Gothard, was also caught up in a sex abuse scandal last year. Gothard was the leader of Institute in Basic Life Principles, an organization that promotes the 'quiverfull' philosophy—particularly its emphasis on forsaking contraception and having as many children as possible. Gothard resigned after more than 30 women accused him of sexual harassment and abuse. Prior to this, Wire reports, the Duggars were "devotees of Gothard's Advanced Training Institute seminars. Until recently, the Duggars' official website called Gothard's Embassy Institute (which he also founded) their '#1 recommended resource' for families (that page now displays as blank)."
Vision Forum, the Institute in Basic Life Principles, and the Duggar family are arguably the three most influential groups promoting the 'Christian patriarchy' movement, which promotes homeschooling, wifely submission, extreme pre-martial chastity (no hand-hugging or kissing), no contraception, and the idea that women's only real role in life is as wives and mothers. Having all your major leadership eaten up by sex abuse scandals is no small thing."
Read Slate, Duggar Revelations Are Just the Latest Sex Abuse Scandal to Rock Far-Right Fundamentalism.
UPDATE: "The Duggars have previously promoted the teachings of Bill Gothard and the Institute in Basic Life Principles, a conservative organization that was once popular among the Christian homeschooling movement. Gothard resigned from the institute he founded in 2014, after allegations of sexual harassment, molestation and failing to report child abuse."
Read he Washington Post, Josh Duggar apologizes amid molestation allegations, quits Family Research Council.
"The police report of Josh Duggar's alleged molestation reveals that incidents happened multiple times between the then teenager and several girls, almost always while the minors were sleeping. . .
'Josh Duggar was investigated for multiple sex offenses, including forcible fondling, against five minors. Some of the alleged offenses investigated were felonies.'
According to the police report, in March 2002, Jim Bob was told by a female minor that his son, then 14, had been 'touching her breasts and genitals while she slept' on numerous occasions.
Josh allegedly admitted to this according to the report, and Jim Bob says he was 'disciplined.'
He was accused again however in March 2003 of allegedly touching the breasts and genitals of 'several woman,' both while they were sleeping and even when they were awake.
The police report says the alleged victims 'live with their parents Jim Bob and Michelle.'
At that point Jim Bob reportedly informed the elders at his church of the situation, but no one notified law enforcement.
The family did send Josh to a 'program [that] consisted of hard physical work and counseling' according to the police report for four months. . .
After he returned home from his program, Jim Bob did take his son to Arkansas State Trooper Jim Hutchens, a family friend.
Hutchens had a stern talk with Josh, but did not take any official action.
He is now serving 60 years in prison after he being caught with child pornography shortly after being released from prison on a previous child pornography charge. . .
Josh currently works for the Family Research Council, and frequently posts photos of himself with [Republi-con] politicians."
Read the Daily Mail, Unsealed police report reveals 'Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar covered up after eldest son Josh confessed to repeatedly fondling girls when he was a teen - and case only went to police in 2006 because of Oprah concerns'.
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Labels: Republi-Cons, Right-Wing Media
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
In 2016, It's Either Sound Like Obama, or Sound Crazy
"The moment a GOP 2016 contender stops sounding like an uber-hawk on foreign policy, they sound very much like Barack Obama."
Read the Washington Post, The trouble with Jeb Bush not sounding crazy on foreign policy.
No one proves this better than the Donald.
And it's not just true on foreign policy, think healthcare.
Read the Washington Post, The trouble with Jeb Bush not sounding crazy on foreign policy.
No one proves this better than the Donald.
And it's not just true on foreign policy, think healthcare.
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Labels: 2016 Election, Foreign Affairs, Obama
Monday, June 8, 2015
A Supreme Court Decision Gutting Obamacare Subsidies Will Highlight Republi-CON Hypocrisy
UPDATE: "Republican leaders in Congress have been promising to craft a detailed Affordable Care Act alternative ever since President Barack Obama signed the law in March 2010. But while Republicans have found time to vote on repealing the health care law more than 50 times -- and have worked hard, as they did on Tuesday, to pass modifications that would benefit powerful special interests like the medical device industry -- they've yet to move a single Obamacare alternative through committee and to the floor. Nor has any committee with relevant jurisdiction held even a single hearing on how to handle the aftermath of a potential Supreme Court ruling that wipes out tax credits in two-thirds of the states. . .
Republicans' history of promising and then not delivering comprehensive health care legislation -- a history, after all, that goes back decades -- hints at a deep, fundamental disagreement with the entire idea. Republicans will talk up the importance of helping people with pre-existing conditions or providing financial assistance to people for whom insurance is too expensive. But creating a truly universal coverage system -- in which everybody has access, regardless of income or health -- requires taking steps that many conservatives simply can't abide.
Specifically, universal coverage requires some combination of regulation, taxes and redistribution (from healthy to sick, and from rich to poor) that Republicans tend to find economically destructive, morally noxious or both. That's true of wholly nationalized, single-payer systems like you find in France or Taiwan. It's true of universal schemes of regulated private insurance, like they have in the Netherlands, Singapore and Switzerland. It's even true of programs in the U.S. that have existed for a long time -- not just Medicare but also, to some extent, employer-sponsored insurance."
Read The Huffington Post, The Real Reason Republicans Don't Have A Contingency Plan For Obamacare.
"Prepare to be shocked, shocked, shocked! It's increasingly looking like Republicans won't have any contingency plan in place if the Supreme Court guts subsidies for millions in three dozen federal exchange states. . .
Some 6.4 million people are now at risk of losing subsidies nationally. . .
It shows that the greatest numbers of people who stand to lose subsidies live in states that are key presidential battlegrounds and home to some of the most contested Senate races of the [2016 election] cycle".
Read the Washington Post, The stakes in Obamacare lawsuit just got a whole lot higher.
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Norman residents should push their state lawmakers to approve legislation that would classify domestic assault and battery a violent crime, two experts said Wednesday.
Currently, domestic assault and battery is regarded as a non-violent offense with punishments that range from one to three years in prison. State Sen. Rob Standridge, R-Norman, has proposed Senate Bill 1104 which would make the crime a violent crime and carry with it a punishment of up to 10 years in prison. The measure also strikes a punishment alternative of one year in the county jail.
SB 1104 would also require defendants convicted of domestic assault and battery and domestic assault and battery of a pregnant woman to serve 85% of their prison sentence.
Candida Manion, executive director of the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Awareness, talked to women at a forum hosted by Women in Action for All. The event was held at St. Stephens United Methodist Church in Norman. Manion was joined by her colleague, Mackenzie Masilon, the coalition's public policy and communications director.
The two women believe that type of legislation will help the domestic violence cause and place the issue at the forefront of public discussions. About 800 to 1,000 domestic abuse victims in Oklahoma call for help every day, Manion said.
"They're calling about a variety of issues," she said.
However, about 100 people a day are being turned away because of a lack of resources, especially in rural Oklahoma where women's shelters are almost non-existent.
Another legislative proposal introduced by Rep. Ross Ford would enhance the punishment for people convicted of domestic assault and battery by strangulation or attempted strangulation. The measure would increase the maximum prison sentence to 10 years for the first offense. A second and subsequent conviction would raise the maximum prison term to 20 years.
Manion and Masilon also urged the forum attendees to exercise caution when considering their vote on State Question 805, a proposed constitutional amendment that would prohibit enhanced prison terms for people convicted of repeat non-violent crimes.
"Watch out for the unintended consequences of 805," Masilon said. "Our goal is victim safety. Be careful what you vote for."
However, victim safety is at risk if domestic violence crimes are not classified as violent offenses, Manion said.
"I don't care what your reasoning is. It's not OK to punch another human being," she said. "The dynamics need to change not only for the victims of today, but for people in the future."
Tim Farley


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We know that a fraction can be part of a whole number or part of a group of objects. Fractions are important to understand when dividing objects or shapes into parts. So far Room 12 has learned about halves, quarters and thirds. Recently we learned about fifths with Mrs Young. Tricky!
Mrs Young started by drawing a flower on the whiteboard with five petals on it. She showed us that the ⅕ symbol means the same as 'one out of five'. She coloured in one of the petals and we knew straight away that ⅕ of the petals were coloured. Then she coloured in three of the petals and we knew that was the same as ⅗.
Mrs Young then gave a fraction and challenged some students to colour in the right number of petals.
Fletcher can make ⅗
Caleb can make ⅖
Danielle can make ⅘
We then chose our own fractions and coloured in the right number of petals on a flower template.
Lyla coloured ⅕ of her petals red and ⅘ green
Richard coloured ⅗ of his petals blue and ⅖ green
Alex coloured ⅖ of his petals red and ⅗ black
Paige coloured ⅖ of her petals yellow and ⅗ red
Bianca coloured ⅖ of her petals red and ⅗ pink
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The writings of early European and American explorers and travelers in the American West are offered here. With inked gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and firm. Volume is faintly curled from improper storage. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 397 pages
Title: Into The Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West 1500-1805
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
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Not very well and my winter is probably your summer.ReplyDelete
Rabbit drips? My rabbit produces hard little cocoa puff type turds -your wild ones drip?
This post is not the same. This post is strong, filled with strong writing for strong feelings. I can see the product of months of work beginning to emerge.ReplyDelete
I hear you. January is always such a long month by the end of it. I told Sweet Husband just the other day, "Doesn't it feel like it's been January for a long time?" He, wisely refrained from pointing out the obvious--30 days just like any other month.ReplyDelete
Ah yes, Andrea. I'm feeling so much the same way, but all I've got are dirty icy city streets around me. It will be spring, eventually. Can you escape to a cozy cafe and write with a glass of wine in your hand? I'd love to join you!ReplyDelete
maybe start some paperwhites indoors? i started using a sun lamp. i love that zebra-looking photo of the snow.ReplyDelete
LSM--It's an old family joke. When I was very small, I went on a nature walk and misheard/misrepeated the ranger's "rabbit droppings" as "rabbit drips." It's stuck ever since.ReplyDelete
Rachel--Thanks! I hope it's true.
Meryl--And I don't even want to think about how long February is going to be.
Kate--Thank you for the reminder to be grateful for my walk and my river. And yes, a glass of wine in a cafe sounds divine. Let's do it!
Kendra--Oh, yes! Good idea. I'm going to search for bulbs this week. Thanks...snow and ice can be amazingly beautiful.
i had the winter sads until we got a dog a few years ago. somehow walking two or three times a day year-round regardless of weather changed things up. i don't know if it's the extra vitamin D or fresh air or exercise or what, but i really enjoy winter now. in fact, i just told my son that i used to really dislike the monotone days of jan/feb. somehow i feel differently now. dog magic? ;o)ReplyDelete
I love this. It's so reflective of winter in general. We have more mud season than sub-zero season here, but the gray skies and deep fog get so old. Thank goodness for ski season, which is what gets us outside and active and happy.ReplyDelete


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I have been using OnlyOffice for a few days and I realise that OnlyOffice cant open .xlsx and .docx files from a USB drive.
yesterday I got my thumb drive plugged into the USB 3 port and try to read an excel file but Onlyoffice keep flashing something like "the file cant be open"
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Just off Main Street in downtown Bethlehem, near the Historic Hotel Bethlehem, there's a flight of steps that can take you back in time.
The steps lead to the Colonial Industrial Quarter, a collection of buildings that date to the earliest days of the city. There, Moravians set up the country's first industrial park, making almost all of what they'd need. The buildings are a must-see for anyone who wants to know more about the Lehigh Valley.
The Lehigh Valley is full of places like the Colonial Industrial Quarter that are worth a visit at least once.
We asked readers about places, festivals and more that everyone in the Valley should experience at least once. We were flooded with great ideas.
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S.3313 - Victims of Polygamy Assistance Act of 2008110th Congress (2007-2008)
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Victims of Polygamy Assistance Act of 2008 - Establishes within the Department of Justice a Federal Polygamy Task Force to strengthen federal law enforcement activities and provide state and local law enforcement officials the assistance they need to address the illegal activity of one or more polygamist organizations.
Requires the Federal Polygamy Task Force to: (1) formulate effective responses to the unique set of crimes committed by polygamist organizations; (2) establish partnerships with state and local law enforcement agencies to share relevant information and strengthen state and federal efforts to combat crimes perpetrated by polygamist organizations; (3) assist states by providing strategies and support for the protection of witnesses; (4) track the criminal behavior of polygamist organizations that cross state and international borders; and (5) ensure that local officials charged with protecting the public are not corrupted because of financial, family, or membership ties to a polygamist organization.
Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to authorize the Director of the Office for Victims of Crime to make grants to specified entities to develop, establish, and maintain programs for the enforcement of rights and provision of social services for an individual exploited or otherwise victimized by practitioners of polygamy.
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for discretionary grants by the Attorney General to states and local governments to investigate and prosecute polygamist organizations that violate federal, state, or local laws.


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April's SMC Gives series event—Badges & Brews—is a networking social with beer, BBQ, and live music!
The event is hosted by the Giving Network and the SMC Partners and will take place on Tuesday, April 23 from 5:30–7:00 PM at Southbound Brewing Company at 107 E. Lathrop Ave, Savannah, GA 31415. The event is a fundraiser for the 200 Club of the Coastal Empire, and attendees are kindly asked to make a minimum $10 cash donation to the organization. Guests who donate $10 (click here to make your donation in advance) will receive a drink ticket for one pint of Southbound's delicious craft beer and will enjoy appetizers by Skeeter's Southern BBQ, desserts by Wicked Cakes, photography by Shot by Somi Studios, and live music by Johnny Banks.
"Philanthropy is relational: the more you know, the more likely you are to give. Savannah Master Calendar brings businesses and nonprofits together where they're able to learn more about each other. It was through SMC that we discovered the work of the 200 Club, and we're thankful to play a small part in the incredible work they do for the families of the men and women who've done so much for all of our families," said Jeff Walker of the Giving Network.
"Thank you to the Savannah Master Calendar corporate partners and Southbound Brewing Company for their generous support of the 200 Club," said Mark Dana, President, 200 Club of the Coastal Empire.
The SMC Team looks forward to seeing you on April 23rd for this latest SMC Gives event! 🙂


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The latest book from our Club Historian John Clarke is due to hit the shelves in time for our next home game, against Melksham Town.
The book takes you on a journey reliving the Championship years of 1950, 1953, 1980, 1994 and 2015.
Lifting the Devon Professional Cup in 1953.
Four appearances in the F.A. Cup First Round Proper – 1951, 1954, 1959, and 1972.
Barnstaple Town's greatest team is revealed.
AND, as an added bonus, an introduction to the teams that made up the title 'Brylcreem & Overalls' ?
There is also a wide selection of archive photos from team and players to souvenirs and programmes.
The 60 page book is priced at £11 + £1.60 pp (cheques made payable to J.Clarke)
Profits made from the sale of the book will be shared equally between Everything Ellie Charity No.1164084 and Barnstaple Town FC Ground Improvement Fund (Extension to existing Dressing Rooms required to accommodate female officials)
Copies obtainable from : John Clarke, 42, Chaddiford Lane, Barnstaple EX31 1RE – Tel.No. 0172 374055 email – email@example.com
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Illinois House passes bill to increase access to epinephrine in schools
ALTON — The Illinois House of Representatives recently took a big step toward increasing safety for school-aged children having allergic reactions.
House Bill 5892 was passed by a 97-0 vote on April 10 to increase access to emergency epinephrine for school employees. Epinephrine is a drug used to treat severe allergic reactions in emergencies. The drug is most commonly administered through an auto-injector called an epi pen.
Currently, school nurses are allowed to administer emergency epinephrine to students without known allergies who appear to be in anaphylactic shock. The Illinois Emergency Epinephrine Act, which was implemented in 2011, also allows schools to keep emergency auto-injectors for students who are authorized to self-administer the dosage during a reaction. The act also allows for any school personnel to administer the auto-injector for students who have a medical plan in place.
Under the new bill, the law would be expanded to allow any trained school employee or volunteer to administer the drug for any person with an unknown allergy believed to be in anaphylactic shock. According to Attorney General Lisa Madigan, studies show that 25 percent of first-time allergic reactions among children occur at school, just one of the reasons the bill is beneficial.
"Increasing access to epi pens in schools is a simple yet critical safety measure we can take to address the growing number of children living with potentially life-threatening food allergies," Madigan said.
School districts without a nurse in every school building stand to benefit most from the law change. That includes Alton School District, where several of the district's nurses attend to more than one building over the course of a day. Director of Special Education Mark Lambert, who also oversees the nurses in the district, said the ability for a trained employee to administer the drug when no nurse is present is a potentially life-saving move.
"In the Alton School District, we have epi pens in each of our buildings for emergency use by our school nurses only," Lambert said. "The new bill allows us to train other school staff to utilize an epi pen in an emergency situation. Since several of our school nurses have more than one building, this will be helpful in providing better care for our students in the event of an allergic reaction."
Illinois will join 37 other states that already allow trained personnel, not just nurses, to administer the drug for a student with an unknown allergy. According to Food Allergy Research and Education, Inc. (FARE), approximately 20-25 percent of epinephrine administrations in schools involve individuals whose allergy was unknown at the time of the reaction. Rep. Michelle Mussman, who sponsored the bill in the House, said the growing number of food allergies makes the bill an important step in the direction of safety.
"I am very proud to be working with the Attorney General's office and all concerned parties to clarify and improve the Emergency Epinephrine Act," Mussman said. "Food allergies are on the rise and it is vital that children and adults in our school buildings have timely access to this life-saving medication."
The bill would also extend liability protection to advanced practice nurses and physicians assistants who provide standing protocols and prescriptions for emergency epinephrine, further enabling schools to obtain prescriptions to keep auto-injectors on hand in the event a person suffers an allergic reaction. The bill also requires schools to report every administration of emergency epinephrine to the Illinois State Board of Education to allow educators and medical professionals to better plan for emergencies.
Upon approval, the bill was sent to the Illinois Senate. It is currently under a committee review.
Nathan Grimm may be reached at 618-463-2515 or on Twitter @GrimmTelegraph.


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Monday, February 14, 2011
Was There Ever A Better Steeler Than John Nisby?
Obituaries indicate that John Nisby was one of the best men to wear a Steelers uniform.
He was a first-team all-pro guard, too.
(Odd that nfl.com has withdrawn the Nisby story it published earlier today.)
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After watching an episode of "Curious George" with Trevor in which George designs a car wash for his toy cars I was inspired to set up a Car Wash for Trevor. George's Car Wash was pretty elaborate, but I decided to go simple. I filled a plastic under the bed storage container with water and dish soap, then added in a sponge, a cup, and Trevor's plastic trucks. He had a blast playing with his Car Wash and it couldn't have been an easier project for this tired pregnant mama to assemble. The Car Wash is a great way to work on pretend play skills, do some fine motor work (pouring water, squeezing the sponge, etc.) as well as to do some sensory exploration with the water and bubbles.
Checking out the Car Wash:
Squeezing the sponge:
Washing a truck (Trevor does so much better at pretend play when he has a concrete idea in his head. We watched George wash cars, then he was able to do it too):
Rinsing another truck:
He washed his cars a few times, but mostly he enjoyed putting the trucks in and out of the Car Wash. He loves to move his toys around:
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Enjoying taking them back out again:
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Nestled in a quaint part of the Palakkad district, Kairali comes across as a nature haven for those seeking a holistic wellness experience combining both spiritual and physical well being.
Take A Break And Pamper Yourself At This Spa Resort In Tropical Kerala
What Is It?
Kairali – The Ayurvedic Healing Village is retreat in Kerala perfect to get away from the fast-paced city life and reset your clocks. If you're interested in holistic healing, then they have plenty on offer for you. But if you want to just relax and chill out, then that's fine too!
Who Is It For?
Highly recommend for everyone who is looking for a little break to detox and reboot their lifestyle. Go with your friends, family, partner or even solo!
How Was Your Experience?
A short two night, three day stay introduced me to a healthier way of living at this residential retreat. From morning yoga classes and specialised Ayurveda treatments to a fully functional swimming pool and tennis court, guests here have a range of activities to suit their needs. And, if you are want an extra dose of the quiet, you can opt for a short walking tour of the curated Ayurveda herb garden. However, the treatments and food, both inspired by Ayurveda take the prize, for being the highlight of the entire experience.
Must Try
The Sadhya, a typical Kerala thali which is served once a week, that includes local dishes served on a banana leaf-true to authentic Malabar experience. And, its freshly prepared form scratch by their in-house chef.
If you do visit Palakkad, take a quick trip to the village to pack some banana and jackfruit chips for your journey back home!


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Shopping for a used smartphone can save you some money, but it surely obviously entails a few risks'"like making sure it is in good condition (and that it is not stolen). We don't know what will be the first Xiaomi phones to come back to the UK, however its current launches of the Mi 8 Lite and Pro , which now join the rising Mi 8 household, and the Mi Combine 3 are nearly actually going to be standard decisions. As are the Android One-powered A2 and A2 Lite.
We know we can't live without our smartphones. However life is full of surprising mishaps. We drop them and their screens crack. They go for an unintentional swim in the pool. They get stolen. Like the bigger Samsung Galaxy J7, the Galaxy J3 lacks a fingerprint sensor. You'll be able to lock the phone with a pin code, a password, or a sample.
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The Galaxy S8 seems to be a lot like its successor.
Whenever you need to use a brand new smartphone, all it's important to do is create a permission for your new machine, as should you had been a brand new consumer. On Thursday, Amazon unleashed a veritable barrage of latest gadgetry , all powered by, or integrated with, its Alexa virtual assistant. The reveals ranged from routine updates to its Echo Dot and Echo Present audio system, all the way in which to oddities like a $60 microwave, a $25 good plug, and a $50 Echo speaker for mounting on automotive dashboards.
Fox on Tech: Simply in time for the vacations, Google takes the wraps off its newest gadgets. The unique triple camera design with sixty eight megapixels value of capturing energy should make it easier to take some incredible photographs with a low light mode that beats out all the opposite smartphones obtainable right now. Maxboost's Tempered Glass is the best display screen protector for iPhone X, thanks to easy set up and as a lot protection as fashions that value 10 times as a lot.
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Right here in the summertime of 2018 there's a lull in technological advancements in smartphones. Our new favourite headphones for operating are the Jaybird RUN (£one hundred seventy) , a pair of wi-fi earbuds that tick nearly every box. Each earbud weighs just 15g, so you may barely discover you're sporting them. 4 hours of battery life is enough for many distances and a charging case stores sufficient energy for another 4 hours of use.
Fantastically designed. Certainly one of last yr's underdogs was the Razer Cellphone, and the corporate lately confirmed a second generation Now, we know that the Razer Cellphone 2 is set to reach less than a year after the original on October tenth. The new system is predicted to mostly arrive as a spec improve, retaining the identical basic design and the 120Hz show.
And things are set to change much more as we enter 2019. The 3-inch LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY display features split display viewing and the auto document operate means the digicam will work from the time you set off to the end of your journey. Amazon held a surprise Alexa event to shut out the quarter, on Sept.


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Westinghouse dominance under threat
- Release Date: November 24, 2016
Due to the ongoing fiascos of the first AP1000 in China, frequent changes of the management, and the financial troubles of the parent company-Toshiba, Westinghouse gradually lost its ground in the Chinese nuclear market. On the verge of the nuclear renaissance in the "13th Five-year Plan", Westinghouse needs to re-design its strategy in Chinese nuclear market.
Even if Westinghouse could finish the fuel loading for Sanmen Unit 1 Project by the end of this year, it still faces lots of dilemma: China North Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd has already mastered the skills to fabricate AP1000 fuel assembly with the success of the qualification appraisal of the AP1000 fuel production line. CNNF started the first-round negotiation of the supply contract with Sanmen, Haiyang, Lufeng and the Demonstration project etc. According the AP1000 technology transfer agreement between China and US, the first batch of AP1000 fuel will be fabricated in US Columbia Nuclear Fuel Plant, while the others will be supplied by China's company exclusively. CNNC Baotou Nuclear Fuel plant is the first domestic that can manufacture the qualified AP1000 fuel, weakening the position of Westinghouse.
The US has no nuclear for almost 30 years in its mainland, which led to the loss of the nuclear professional talents in Westinghouse. The reality of contiuous loss of the joint ventures in China in successive years has indeed made Westinghouse experience the hardest time.
Westinghouse is still aggressive in China in other sectors such as major equipment, refurbishment, nuclear grade Zirconium and nuclear service.


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On behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, I am pleased to have the opportunity to introduce the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Bill 2019. I have worked closely with the Minister to bring this Bill before the Oireachtas and I look forward to our discussion of its provisions here today.
The principal objective of this Bill is to provide further protections for homeowners in mortgage arrears who are facing the prospect of repossession proceedings. It does so by broadening the range of matters that a court must take into account when deciding whether to grant a possession order to a lending institution in respect of a borrower's principal private residence. For this purpose, the Bill proposes to insert a new section in the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2013. This Bill, which has its genesis in a Private Members' Bill I initiated prior to my appointment as Minister of State, will, I believe, prove to be an important addition to the suite of Government measures to protect those who find themselves in mortgage arrears and are facing the prospect of court proceedings for repossession of their homes. I am sure everyone in this House will agree with me that repossession of a borrower's principal private residence should be a last resort when all other possible remedies have failed.
This Government remains committed to helping borrowers in mortgage arrears to remain in their homes wherever possible. Moving to the main provisions of this Bill, I want to stress that the Government's objective is to broaden the range of matters that a court must take into account when deciding whether to grant a possession order to a lending institution in respect of a borrower's principal private residence. The court may also take this broader range of matters into account where, for whatever reason, efforts to secure a personal insolvency arrangement, PIA, have failed or where, despite the borrower's participation in a scheme designed to enable borrowers with mortgage arrears to remain in their home, the court repossession proceedings have continued.
As required by Articles 127(4) and 282(5) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the European Central Bank, ECB, has been consulted on the Bill's proposals. The ECB published its opinion of 18 February on its website. Section 1 contains a definition of the Act of 2013, which is required for technical reasons, while section 2 makes a number of technical, consequential amendments to section 2 of that Act. Section 3 is the key section of the Bill and inserts a new section 2A, containing nine subsections, into the Act of 2013. Subsection (1) defines the scope of this new section.
The Bill's provisions will not only apply to those cases in which the court has previously adjourned proceedings under section 2 of the 2013 Act in respect of the borrower's principal private residence. It will also apply in cases where, prior to or following commencement of the proceedings the borrower has already engaged the services of a personal insolvency practitioner, PIP, to assist in the resolution of his or her mortgage arrears, or the borrower has participated in good faith in a scheme designed to enable indebted borrowers to remain in their homes.
This means that section 2A will apply in the following: proceedings where the court had already adjourned the proceedings of its own motion under section 2(2)(a) of the 2013 Act but notwithstanding such adjournment there is no resulting PIA; where the court refused to adjourn proceedings in response to a request of one of the parties under section 2(2)(b) of the 2013 Act, or did adjourn them and notwithstanding such adjournment, there is no resulting PIA; and proceedings which have not been adjourned under section 2 of the 2013 Act but the borrower has, prior to the court hearing, participated in good faith in a scheme to assist borrowers in mortgage distress to remain in his or her home or engaged the services of a PIP to assist him or her to resolve his or her mortgage arrears difficulties and despite such engagement, there is no resulting PIA.
Subsection (2) provides that when considering whether to make, or refuse to make, an order for possession in repossession proceedings in respect of a borrower's principal private residence, a court must take account of the matters referred to in subsection (3). The court may also do so when considering whether to grant any other order it considers appropriate in the circumstances of the case, for example, in an adjournment, or further adjournment, of the proceedings. Subsection (3) specifies the matters that the court must take account of in considering whether to make or refuse to make a possession order. The court must take the following into account.
Subparagraph (a) provides that the court must consider whether the making of the possession order would be proportionate in all the circumstances of the case. In providing for this matter, the legislation recognises the essential role of the court in balancing the interests of both the borrower and the lender when considering whether to make or refuse to make an order for possession. Subparagraph (b) provides that the court must always take into account the circumstances of the borrower and any dependents. Subparagraph (c) provides that the court must take into account whether the lending institution has made a statement to the borrower of the terms on which it would be prepared to settle the arrears problem in such a way that the borrower and his or her dependents could remain in their home. Subparagraph (d) makes it clear that the court must consider the details of any proposal put forward by or on behalf of the borrower, whether prior to or following commencement of the proceedings, which would enable him or her, and any dependents, to remain in the home or, alternatively, to secure other accommodation.
The Minister for Justice and Equality has asked me to stress that consideration of proposals which would allow the borrower to remain in his or her home will include examination of any proposal for participation by the borrower in a scheme to assist persons in mortgage distress to remain in his or her principal private residence. Subparagraph (e) provides that the court must take into account the response, if any, of the lender to the borrower's proposal to remain in his or her home. This will place an onus on lenders to engage in a constructive manner with any proposals made by the borrower. Finally, subparagraph (f) relates to the conduct of the parties in any attempt to find a resolution to the borrower's mortgage arrears difficulties. The provision makes it clear that the court must take account of a lending institution's refusal or reluctance to engage in attempts to find a resolution of the mortgage arrears problem, and also of any borrower's refusal to engage in a meaningful and constructive manner with the lending institution in order to find such a resolution.
Subsection (4) specifies certain additional information that the court may take into account when considering whether the making of an order for possession would be proportionate in all the circumstances of the case. These include the overall amount of debt outstanding on the mortgage concerned, the level of arrears due on foot of the mortgage concerned and the advised market value of the principal private residence at the date on which the legal proceedings commenced. I should add that the Minister has provided a definition of "advised market value", AMV, in subsection (9). This definition, based on the corresponding definition in section 2 of the Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011, will ensure that the market value of the property is valued in a professional, objective manner. This AMV must be provided by the holder of a current licence issued by the Property Services Regulatory Authority, PSRA, under that Act. Subsection (5) has a technical purpose; it clarifies that the fact that there is no PIA in a case may arise because a proposal for a PIA has not been made, or such a proposal has been made but the procedure has ended without a successful outcome.
Subsection (6) identifies the circumstances in which, under the Insolvency Act 2012, the PIA procedure is considered to have ended. The procedure will be considered to have ended: where a PIP has prepared a proposal for a PIA and the debtor has consented to that proposal and the calling of a creditors' meeting, but that meeting does not take place before the expiry of the protective certificate as set out in section 106(3) of the 2012 Act; where, under section 108(8)(b), at the taking of a vote at a creditors' meeting regarding a PIA proposal, the proposal is not approved by a majority of creditors in accordance with section 110 or deemed to be approved, and the PIA procedure has terminated; and where, in a case under section 11A, there is only one creditor and the creditor does not approve the proposal under section 11A(8), or the personal insolvency practitioner fails to give the creditor a written notice of the proposal before the expiry of the protective certificate under section 11A(9).
It will also be considered to have ended where the court upholds an objection to the PIA under section 120 and the process is deemed to come to an end in accordance with section 114(3); where, under section 115A(9), the court refuses to make an order confirming the coming into effect of the proposed PIA following a court review under section 115A; or where the debtor is in arrears with his or her payments for a period of six months of the PIA and it is deemed to have failed under section 123.
Subsection (7) permits the Minister for Justice and Equality to designate a scheme for the purposes of subsection (1)(c)(i) and subsection (3)(d)(i). Any such scheme would have to comply with the following conditions: the objective of the designated scheme must be to provide those borrowers with mortgage arrears difficulties in respect of their homes with assistance that is reasonably likely to enable them to address these difficulties and facilitate, as far as possible, their remaining in their homes; and that it is reasonably likely that such assistance will, in fact, be provided under the scheme. Subsection (8) provides that an advised market value must be set out in a statement provided by the licensee under the Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011. Subsection (9) is a standard provision containing a number of relevant definitions for the purposes of this new section.
Finally, section 4 contains standard provisions relating to the Short Title, collective citation and commencement provisions.
On behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality, I wish to underline again the importance of this short Bill. When enacted, it will provide important additional protections for borrowers by broadening the range of matters that a court must take into account when deciding whether to grant a possession order to a lender in respect of a borrower's home. The position of the Government has been and continues to be that repossession of a borrower's principal private residence must always be a remedy of last resort. I commend the Bill to the House.


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