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St. Paul Lutheran Church dissolves over power issues; fight over money ensues
Now in question is money left in a trust to the former St. Paul Lutheran Church. Some former members blame the pastor hired in 2007; he says their allegations are 'baseless.'
York, PA -
Winterstown Road splits the site of the original St. Paul Lutheran Church and the brick building that went up in the 1920s.
The church sits on a rise in the road, with the St. Paul cemetery at the original site. When the sun rises above the church, it looks like a setting for a Norman Rockwell painting.
This area of North Hopewell Township is dotted with families who have lived for generations in and around the small village of Rinely. The Millers. The Brennemans. The Bushes. And the Hesses.
In 1925, David Hess deeded a
The Rev. Howard Edmondson in 2010. (YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS - PAUL KUEHNEL)
parcel of land for the new church for 1 cent. For decades, the little Lutheran congregation worshipped inside the brick building.St. Paul was the kind of country church found across York County, where locals attend from birth, where they get married and baptize their babies and where, when they die, they are buried in the church cemetery.
Today, the building is all that remains -- filled on Sundays by a local Baptist congregation that recently bought the church after renting it for months.
St. Paul is no more, torn apart by a five-year feud that reads like a movie script.
An associate pastor was cited for grabbing a congregant by the arm. The church banned decades-long members from the property. A quiet struggle continues over money, including payments from a $2.8 million trust fund bequeathed to St. Paul by a Hess family member.
Nearly 40 former St. Paul members gathered recently to catch up over a lunch. Many express regret over hiring the Rev. Howard Edmondson in 2007. Many blame him for irreparably damaging their country, churchgoing way of life.
Under Edmondson, the church was renamed Family of God Community Church and it moved to Red Lion. According to former members, only a handful
Former state Sen. Ralph Hess of Manchester Township looks over legal paperwork related to a charitable trust set up by his late uncle Norman Hess. The senator is the executor of the trust fund, which sent money each year to St. Paul Lutheran Church. Now that St. Paul was renamed and moved to Red Lion, he is trying to have the new church removed from the trust. ( YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS - PAUL KUEHNEL)
of St. Paul members followed him.In a statement emailed through his attorney, Edmondson called all the allegations by former St. Paul members "baseless." He added the newspaper is not the forum to air what he called "personal disagreements." (Read the full statement)
Former state Sen. Ralph Hess is trying to remove Edmondson's current Red Lion church as a beneficiary of the trust fund, which gives the church $25,000 to $30,000 every year.
Norman Hess, who bequeathed the trust before his death in 1998, would not be happy with how his money is being used, said Ralph Hess, his nephew.
"That was supposed to be for his family church," Hess said. "I'm sure we could find something that in my
Part of the charitable trust Norman Hess set up to send money annually to St. Paul Lutheran Church, which has dissolved. (YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS - PAUL KUEHNEL)
heart I know he would approve of. I know he wouldn't approve of this."Wanted: Pastor
Former members trace St. Paul's downfall to the 2004 departure of the Rev. LaDonna Thomas, who took over St. David's Lutheran Church in Hanover. Per protocol, St. Paul's turned to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America for help finding a new pastor.
The search stretched on for more than a year with no viable candidates. The interim pastor could not preach one Sunday per month because of another obligation.
Enter Edmondson, then serving as St. Paul's music director. Unbeknownst to the congregation, said Karen Snook, a former church council member, Edmondson had preaching experience.
He offered to fill in, and the
Friendship Baptist Church today, seen in a photo when it was St. Paul Lutheran Church. ( YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS - PAUL KUEHNEL)
congregation accepted. His fiery, passionate, personable style was an immediate hit."I will give Howard credit where credit is due," Snook said. "He knew how to bring people in."
The congregation, which averaged a steady 60 worshippers on Sundays during Thomas' time, had declined while the church searched for a new pastor. Church council members took note of Edmondson's charisma and popularity.
"He came into the congregation, and from the time he came in, he was basically Mr. Nice Guy," said Richard Smith, 71, a St. Paul member for about 55 years. "People loved him."
Edmondson applied to be full-time pastor, but there was one problem: He lacked the seminary credentials required by the ELCA.
"When he put
The Rev. Howard Edmondson was made full-time pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church in January 2007 with nearly unanimous votes by the congregation. Now, though, some former members say he led to the demise of their church. He denies the accusations. (Submitted)
his name in, he offered to do training through the Lutheran Church," said Karen Clever, great-granddaughter of David Hess. "That never materialized."The council decided to leave the ELCA and rename the church St. Paul Community Church. Edmondson was made full-time pastor in January 2007.
The full congregational votes on both issues were nearly unanimous.
"Everybody thought, 'This will work. This is what we need,'" Clever recalled.
Simple man
Norman Hess was a simple man, said Ralph Hess, a state senator who represented the 28th District from 1970 to 1991. One of seven brothers, Norman married Pauline and settled in to country life around Stewartstown.
Norman was a World War II veteran of the Army Air Force and a prosperous banker. He worked at banks in Stewartstown for 40 years, retiring from the Stewartstown branch of the former Hamilton Bank, where he was manager.
Pauline was a teacher for 20 years. The couple had no children and didn't take many vacations, Ralph Hess said.
"Their money kept compounding because they didn't spend any," Hess said.
At one time, Norman belonged to St. Paul Lutheran Church. Pauline was a member of Centre Presbyterian Church in Fawn Township. In addition to prospering, they lived long -- Norman died at 92 in 1998, Pauline at 91 in 2008.
With no direct heirs, they created a $2.8 million trust fund to distribute their wealth. The eight benefactors were headed by St. Paul Lutheran and Centre Presbyterian, each of which receive 22.5 percent of the trust's annual earnings. An additional percentage is designated for cemetery upkeep.
Others receiving 9 percent each are Red Cross, Mason Dixon Public Library, Salvation Army, American Cancer Society and Habitat for Humanity International.
Set up through Fulton Bank, the trust has paid out earnings annually since Pauline died in 2008. Ralph Hess said Family of God gets between $25,000 and $30,000 every year.
Problems
For a while, things proceeded smoothly for St. Paul under Edmondson. The changes came gradually and were not really noticeable to the casual Sunday worshipper, Clever said.
Only those really tuned in to the services, and to council debate, would have noticed, she said.
"You would see changes in the services," she said. "He removed any Lutheran aspect to it and changed it to pretty much what he wanted to do."
Smith served on church council for much of his time as a member of St. Paul, starting as a "junior" council member at 16. He recalled Edmondson agreeing to weave his Baptist background with the Lutheran theology favored by the congregation.
"That was what he promised to council," Smith said. "I started seeing things that I didn't especially like. ... He wasn't there only a month and he ended the Lutheran theology."
Then the church council began changing the church's bylaws and its constitution, Snook said. She said the changes were suggested by Edmondson. Both Snook and Smith served on council while the changes were discussed.
The changes were minor at first. Then the council proposed limiting who could vote on church business, which Snook, Clever and Smith say was a change pushed by Edmondson.
"It's all about control with him," Snook said. "He didn't want anybody higher than him."
According to the church constitution, any member "in good standing for one year" could be considered for a council seat by a vote of the full council. A key proposed change gave council the authority to deny voting rights to any member it determined to be not in good standing.
The changes were made after Edmondson influenced the council to appoint his supporters, Smith and Snook said.
"Instead of having a council of church members, he had like three or four pastors on there," Smith said. "He kept saying they were associate pastors to help out."
A 2010 mission trip to Biloxi, Miss., resulted in a memorable dispute, Snook said. Edmondson attempted to stop the trip, Snook said.
According to a letter from church council, signed by Snook and other council members, the church explained that it could not support the Mississippi trip because the mission organizer had not attended St. Paul in the previous two months. The letter explained that she was not responding to phone calls and emails.
"We cannot in good faith assume any financial or legal responsibility in her leadership of the upcoming trip," the letter reads.
Several members ended up taking the Biloxi trip anyway.
Behind the scenes, several former members say, they believe Edmondson held a grudge against anyone who opposed him. Some said they were reprimanded, or barred from speaking, as a penalty for slighting the church.
Smith, for example, said he was asked to resign in September 2011 after he voiced some opposition because he felt council was merely "a rubber stamp" for actions Edmondson wanted done.
Edmondson "said I was slandering the church and I know that's slandering God and I would never do that," Richard Smith said.
Richard Smith was "trying to bring the two sides back together," said Gloria Smith, his wife. "If someone told him they were ready to leave, he tried to talk them into staying, telling them that things would get better."
Things came to a head in April 2012, when certified letters were mailed to about 10 worshippers, including Snook, informing them that they were no longer welcome at St. Paul and that they could be charged with trespassing if they returned.
The letters cited "recent disruptive and unwelcome behavior," and warned recipients they were "not permitted to attend any function of the St. Paul" church at any location.
The letters were not signed by Edmondson or anyone from the church. They were signed by the church's attorney and mailed on her law office letterhead.
Accusations disputed
In May, the church's attorney agreed to pass on written questions to him. The questions covered former church members' allegations about the church and about Edmondson's role in events after he became pastor in 2007.
Edmondson and the church declined requests for interviews and did not respond to the specific questions or the specific allegations. Instead, his attorney emailed a statement on behalf of Edmondson and the church.
"The accusations as suggested are simply inaccurate and both (Pastor) Howard and the Family of God Community Church deny the allegations without qualification," the statement reads.
Email and phone messages for three families who followed Edmondson to Family of God were not returned. A reporter visiting the church was not able to talk with Edmondson. A secretary said he was teaching a Bible study class.
Ex-council member 'livid'
By late 2011, Snook was no longer attending St. Paul. But she continued to receive church emails, including one that advertised a December meeting to discuss the church's 2012 budget.
Snook said she was "livid" that the budget included increased compensation for Edmondson.
"My heart told me I needed to go to that meeting and ask questions," she said.
So she did. And that's when things took an ugly turn.
After a heated exchange over the budget, Snook turned to leave the church. As she made her way through the crowd to the door, the Rev. Robert LaForce, an associate pastor brought aboard by Edmondson, ran to cut her off, Snook said.
A brief altercation ensued and the police were later called. According to the citation filed by North Hopewell Township Police Officer Timothy Quinan, LaForce, then 60, "grabbed the victim's arms with force and threatened to slap" her.
LaForce was found guilty of harassment, and he was fined $110, according to court documents. LaForce did not return messages seeking comment.
Early this year, Edmondson moved his congregation to Red Lion, and Friendship Baptist Church began renting the former St. Paul brick church. Friendship later purchased the church from Family of God Community Church for $200,000, according to York County property records.
The money trail
As executor of the Hess trust, Ralph Hess wants the document rewritten to exclude Family of God. The church's attorneys are fighting that effort, Hess said.
Hess wants to see a copy of Family of God's 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. The terms of the trust fund require beneficiaries to be registered nonprofits.
"Time after time after time, we keep telling the attorney that 'you must be a 501(c)(3),'" Hess said.
Churches are not required to register for 501(c)3 status. In letters to the trust attorney, Family of God claims it remains eligible for the annual distribution. The church added that it intends to secure 501(c)3 status.
Hess said the church continues to stall. He plans to meet with the trust attorney in August to contemplate further action, he added.
At one point, the attorney for Family of God raised a hypothetical scenario: if disaffected former St. Paul members formed a new church, could they be named beneficiaries of the trust?
"I met with them down there and we talked about it," Hess said. "But they were all over the place and they had formed relationships with different churches throughout the southern York County area. We just couldn't pull it together."
As of the end of 2011, St. Paul members had contributed $189,000 toward a new church that had been planned for years, according to church documents provided by Snook. Thomas recalled the congregation identifying several parcels within three miles of the church during her final year at St. Paul.
At the time she left, Thomas said, "the vision for relocation remained, and the pursuit of suitable property continued."
As far as former St. Paul members know, no parcel was ever purchased and the building fund money is held by a church they are no longer permitted to attend.
The church fight cost friendships and damaged faith. Former members scattered to other churches in the area, said Clever, who has been attending Living Word Community Church in York Township.
Thomas laments the loss of St. Paul but commends many families for finding new churches.
"Their faith is not tied to a building, or a family plot of land, or a leader," she said. "It is tied to Jesus Christ."
Then there's Snook, former three-year St. Paul council member who was among those who voted to leave the ELCA. She also voted to hire Edmondson.
"It made me question religion and churches," she said of the experience. "I don't think I need church anymore."
Edmondson's full response
The following is the text of an email from the Rev. Howard Edmondson sent by his attorney in response to a set of questions about former members' allegations concerning what happened at St. Paul. The response was not edited.
"It is clear from the questions asked of Pastor Howard Edmondson and Family of God Community Church that this article is not a historical piece on the Rinley Church, but its purpose is to sensationalize the divergent paths that the Family of God Community Church and some of its former members have taken.
"We strongly feel the paper is not an appropriate forum to carry out personal disagreements. However, to be very clear, the accusations being lodged against Pastor Howard Edmondson and the Family of God Community Church are baseless.
"The accusations as suggested are simply inaccurate and both Past Howard and the Family of God Community Church deny the allegations without qualification."
Ex-pastor: Oversight needed
The Rev. LaDonna Thomas served St. Paul Lutheran Church from 1997 to 2004. Having a significant Lutheran presence in southeastern York County, she said, the congregation enthusiastically sought to grow.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was eager to assist, Thomas said, providing a three-year grant to fund outreach ministries. That money funded a part-time staff position, which enabled St. Paul to begin a contemporary worship service.
That was the good side of the congregation's "entrepreneurial spirit," Thomas said. The downside came when new lay leaders felt so empowered, they opted to sever ties with the ELCA and become an independent church, she said.
"Once the congregation made that move and chose its next pastor, that began the road to their demise," said Thomas, now the pastor at St. David's Lutheran Church in Hanover. "Without any judicatory to provide oversight, support and help, a power struggle and division was inevitable."
Several other local congregations also chose to leave the ELCA after its 2009 decision to permit the ordination of gay pastors and lay leaders, but most of those churches quickly aligned with new organizations such as the North America Lutheran Church.
When churches established around "interrelatedness" go independent, it invites a wide range of problems, Thomas said.
"Unfortunately, I think many of the families of St. Paul thought they could become an independent church and not have any of the ways of 'being church' change," she said.
The center of power is what changed at St. Paul, Thomas said. Instead of power being shared between the pastor and the people, the move away from the ELCA concentrated the power in the new pastor.
"That works so long as the people agree with the pastor," she said. "In the case of St. Paul, when some lay people questioned or resisted the pastoral leadership, they were banned."
The controversy surrounding St. Paul serves as a cautionary tale for any church enamored with the idea of independence, Thomas said.
"There is danger in walking away from those kinds of partnerships," she said.
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
How To Improve Your Time Management Skills Using 5 Simple Tips ...
If you always find yourself late for work, school or an appointment ? or you often fail to finish your tasks ? then you need to learn how to improve your time management skills.
It?s not that hard, although it might seem that way at first. Habits can be tough to break; but if you stick to your regimen for at least 21 days, then you have a good chance of developing a new habit: one that makes sure you?re always on time.
Learn how to manage your time better using these 5 simple tips below:
Tip # 1: Schedule Your Day.
If you want to learn how to improve your time management skills, then you need to have a concrete schedule for the day. Don?t get out of bed thinking that you?ll just wing it, because it often leads to a lot of time wastage.
It would be best to schedule and plan your tasks the night before, because your subconscious mind will help process their fulfillment while you?re sleeping.
Tip # 2: Create A Check List.
If you have deadlines coming up, then you need to create a list arranged according to priority. This helps keep you on track and even encourages you to do more as fast as possible. There?s nothing like a list to keep you motivated and pressured to do your job.
Tip # 3: Do Everything Faster.
I know this sounds like something your irrational boss would say, but doing things faster is quite a legitimate solution to manage your time effectively.
Cooking breakfast, for example, can be done a lot faster if you?ve prepared the meal the night before. Getting to work might also be done faster if you stopped to refill the fuel in your tank on your way home from work.
Tip # 4: Stop Wasting Time.
Spacing out for even just five minutes is a waste of time. Not taking a shortcut is also a waste of time. If you want to learn how to improve your time management skills, then you need to cut down on the activities that aren?t related to work.
Chatting with your co-workers is fine; but perhaps you need to cut down on that too, especially if you have a deadline to meet.
Tip # 5: Learn To Multi-task.
Multi-tasking is not always advisable, especially if the tasks you?re doing need your full concentration. In smaller tasks, however, I?m sure you can do more than one thing at a time. Want some examples?
How about reading a book while waiting for the food you?re cooking to boil? Cleaning your room while talking to your parents is another way you can multi-task. And perhaps one of the best multi-tasking activities you can do is listening to motivational CDs while driving your car.
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The Future of Ecommerce With Web 3.0 | SiliconANGLE
Developers who once waited for trends are now creating internet technologies instead. The enormous customer base created by social media has been realized and now the next evolutionary phase of internet, Web 3.0, is just on the horizon and is already creating exciting new internet retail strategies and technologies that will push ecommerce to great new levels.
Ecommerce and the Web: The Beginning
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Since its first arrival, retail business has been seeking out every opportunity to capitalize on the power and potential of the internet. In its earliest form, the internet was no more than a means to bring static photo and pages of readable text to those who surfed the web. While this was little more than an on-line catalog per se, it was the first step in reaching out to curious new web browsers with a hit and miss chance of capturing a new customer along the way. Ecommerce was born in what was later labeled Web 1.0 or the ?readable? web.
The internet was quick to evolve and it was not long before the technology to interact via World Wide Web arrived. Social networking hit the scene and completely re-wrote the book on how people looked at and used the internet. No longer just a large library of static informational pages of text and photos, the internet was now dynamic and quickly became a part of people?s everyday lives. Web 2.0 brought us the ?writable? internet and with more and more people engaging with the social media trend, marketing technology took advantage of great opportunity such as targeted advertising technologies that monitored the web search requests.
This brought users relevant and even localized product advertisement. Ecommerce was truly developing, but still had not really come into its own as, from a marketing perspective, it was still chasing technology, but that is going to change all too soon.
Web 3.0: The Future
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Today, internet marketers are no longer waiting to adapt to the next great breakthrough the internet offers them, instead they are taking a proactive approach in creating the next internet evolution, Web 3.0, the Transcendent Web!
In a Web 3.0 scenario targeted advertisements may result in non-traditional wedding dresses for plus size, middle aged women, better fitting the profile of an individual and making these advertisements far more useful and likely for a sales conversion. Another example might be searching for a movie to watch.
Where the last generation of movie advertisement might bring listings of local cinemas, a Web 3.0 era search might result in horror movies only playing after 10 pm at two specific cinemas, all based on historical information that has been captured and analyzed through the collection social networking and internet browsing data.
Even sentence structure and behavioral data patterns of an individual that can be compared to others and yield insight.
For this revolution in functionality to take place, the web in general will need to grow more accustomed to non-conventional data streams and the sharing of data across multiple applications. Most services attempt to collect information in a bubble, offering some value in return for the exchange of data, yet they are entirely dependent on user submissions and often reliant on if the user has to log into a service before visiting them.
Web 3.0: Predictions
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Where I?d like to see 3.0 go is an internet that can come to terms with the value that shared data brings, without harming their sense of privacy. This is idealistic, as privacy is surely important, and the value and security must be proven before the pitchforks will be put down. Does the convenience of an entire home page (not landing page) of clothing tailored for me outweigh the loss I suffer for them know my gender and build?
Realistically, the first steps will be about realizing the lines of communication we already have in place. The Semantic Web, a collaborative, international movement, will have a large role to play in building Web 3.0. Lead by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C,) the idea is to better structure the internet at large. Standardization is a large part of that, but one less invasive way of understanding your consumers is to better know where they?ve been.
Visitors to a brand have to come from somewhere, and it?s not that current marketers don?t know where they come from, there?s just no easy way for your system to know, realistically, tell that site apart from the web at large. If standardized language can let brands know, seamlessly, what kinds of site they came from (male clothing store, vintage record seller, home improvement outlet,) the process of serving them topical content can become more feasible, without worrying about customer profiles and logins.
Of course, this isn?t to discount the unbridled potential of social profiles. Through the integration of social profiles, the Semantic Web, the technology that will allow the storing of vast amounts of data and the use of artificial intelligence to interpret and filter data, Web 3.0 will be the next great revelation to ecommerce. Web 3.0 is still very much in its infancy stage but it is coming so get prepared!
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Iran gets new president, vows 'constructive' foreign relations
By Yeganeh Torbati
DUBAI (Reuters) - Hassan Rouhani took office as Iran's president on Saturday promising "constructive interaction with the world" after eight years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked by diplomatic confrontation and damaging sanctions.
The politically moderate 64-year-old cleric's resounding victory at June's election raised hopes of a negotiated end to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program and an easing of the sanctions that have hit the OPEC country's oil exports.
That could avert a possible new war in the Middle East. Both the United States and Israel have said all options - including military action - are open to stop Iran getting nuclear arms.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed Rouhani's election win in a statement read out to political, religious and military grandees assembled at a Tehran religious site.
Khamenei praised the "selection of a worthy individual who has more than three decades of service to the system of the Islamic Republic ... and who from the time of the revolutionary struggle ... has resisted the enemies of the Islamic Revolution."
Symbolizing the handover of power, Khamenei took the presidential mandate from Ahmadinejad and handed the document to Rouhani.
Khamenei then kissed Rouhani on the cheek and the new president kissed the leader on his shoulder, a sign of supplication.
The start of Rouhani's presidency puts an end to the Ahmadinejad era during which Iran grew more isolated and came under wide-ranging United Nations, U.S. and European Union sanctions over its nuclear program.
Rouhani faces enormous challenges, including inflation he put last month at 42 percent, unemployment, and political divisions between conservative, moderate and reformist factions.
"Moderation does not mean deviating from principles and it is not conservatism in the face of change and development. Moderation ... is an active and patient approach in society in order to be distant from the abyss of extremism," Rouhani said in a short speech after becoming president.
"In the international arena we will also take new steps to promote the Iranian nation towards securing national interests and removing sanctions. Although there are many limitations, the future is bright and promising," he said.
"The orientation of the government is Iran's economic salvation, constructive interaction with the world, and a restoration of morality."
Rouhani's first test is persuading parliament to approve his list of proposed ministers, which he is expected to present on Sunday after he takes his oath of office in parliament.
"Rouhani will certainly appoint more competent men and women to key economic ministries and institutions. He will also follow saner economic policies," said Shaul Bakhash, an Iran historian at George Mason University in Virginia.
"But the economic problems are staggering ... Above all, without a serious easing of sanctions, it is difficult to see how Rouhani can get the economy moving again."
CLEAN HANDS
Ahmadinejad defended his time in office, telling state television late on Friday his administration was the least corrupt in history, and blaming sanctions for economic problems.
"We promised to have clean hands; I say with confidence that this government is the cleanest government," Ahmadinejad said, according to the Mehr news agency.
"The enemy has introduced heavy sanctions and the nation has faced problems. We have made our utmost effort but we couldn't resolve all the pressures. This issue has been very difficult for us."
Rouhani has said he will appoint ministers from all political factions, based on their ability, but hardliners have demanded the conservative-dominated parliament reject nominees associated with the "sedition", their term for the months of protests that followed Ahmadinejad's disputed 2009 re-election.
Parliament's confirmation of such candidates would be "a betrayal of the people and the system," Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of the influential hardline daily Kayhan, wrote in an editorial this week.
A source close to Rouhani confirmed to Reuters that he will nominate Mohammad Javad Zarif, a U.S.-educated former ambassador to the United Nations, as his foreign minister.
Another likely pick is Ali Jannati for culture minister, an influential post which oversees domestic and foreign press in Iran and vets cinema, theatre, literature and other arts. Jannati has served as ambassador to Kuwait and his father is Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a hardline cleric.
During Ahmadinejad's presidency, press freedoms were curtailed, newspapers shut down, and this year about a dozen journalists were arrested in a crackdown on the press.
In an interview with the reformist Bahar newspaper this week, Jannati sought to distance himself from his father's views and indicated he would support more freedom for artists.
"Intellectual matters are not hereditary," Jannati said, according to Bahar. "I am hopeful that given my views on the fields of music, art, and film, the cultural and artistic atmosphere in the country will soften so that artists can breathe more easily."
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(08/01) World's Best Travel to Oceanside for ASP 6-Star Ford Supergirl Pro
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The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) 6-Star Ford Supergirl Pro will see 12 of the Women's ASP Top 17 travel to Oceanside, California for the largest qualifying event of 2013. 96 competitors will battle it out from August 2 through 4 at Oceanside Pier for the valuable rankings points towards qualification for next year's ASP World Championship Tour (WCT).
The Ford Supergirl Pro represents the third of five Women's ASP 6-Star events on the 2013 calendar, attracting both ASP WCT competitors and the finest talent of the next generation.
Carissa Moore (HAW), 20, current ASP Women's World No. 1, will lead the crop of World Championship Tour talent to Oceanside and is looking to keep her competitive skills sharp at the Ford Supergirl Pro before heading to Europe to chase her World Title campaign.
"I am really looking forward to competing in the Supergirl contest at Oceanside," Moore said. "I think it will be a great opportunity for me to stay competitive in this long stretch before Europe and not allow me to get complacent. I'm not going to put too much pressure on myself in this event and try to just enjoy myself and have fun."
Sage Erickson (USA), 22, defending Ford Supergirl Pro Champion, was unstoppable at last year's event, and is hungry to back up her efforts in 2012 with another standout result this weekend.
"Coming into this event I'm feeling really motivated and excited," Erickson said. "Last year this was a statement result for me and as a defending champ I'm looking to get back up on that podium and solidifying a spot on the 2014 World Tour. Competing in my home state is always so much fun, the crowds and cheers make a difference for me!"
Erickson, current No. 16 on the ASP Women's WCT, steamrolled through the Qualifying Series last year following her 2012 victory in Oceanside to rejoin the elite ranks. This season, the Californian hopes a strong result at the Ford Supergirl Pro will vault her within the qualification safety zone for the 2014 ASP WCT.
"This event is huge in respect to standings and points and to be honest I don't know what place I'm in on the QS," Erickson said. "I'm just focusing on the here and now of the event! My priority is to be on that World Tour next year and I'm ready to do whatever it takes to make that happen, heat-by-heat!"
Laura Enever (AUS), 21, who enters the Ford Supergirl Pro fresh off of a fifth place result at the US Open of Surfing, is another ASP Top 17 competitor looking to back up her requalification hopes with a big result in Oceanside.
"My goal is to finish in the Top 10 on the World Tour but just incase, I'm really trying to better my position on the QS to better my requalification campaign," Enever said. "A good result at the Supergirl Pro will only help. I found a bit of momentum at the US Open, so I want to keep that going through the next few events!"
Additional standouts in this year's Ford Supergirl Pro draw include Pauline Ado (FRA), 22, Lakey Peterson (USA), 19, Malia Manuel (HAW), 19, Bianca Buitendag (ZAF), 19, Silvana Lima (BRA), 28, Coco Ho (HAW), 22, and last year's runner-up Paige Hareb (NZL), 23, among others.
The Ford Supergirl Pro will run from August 2 through 4, 2013. For event information log on to www.supergirljam.com.
For additional ASP Information log on to www.aspworldtour.com or www.aspnorthamerica.org
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Friday, August 2, 2013
L.A. Galaxy vs. Real Madrid 2013 Prompts International Champions Cup
ST LOUIS (LALATE) ? L.A. Galaxy vs. Real Madrid 2013 (en vivo live score results below) prompts an International Champions Cup soccer game tonight from the University of Phoenix Stadium. This soccer game from Glendale, Arizona is the second of two round one aka quarterfinals matches being played this evening.
L.A. Galaxy vs. Real Madrid 2013 (start time 7:30 PM PST) features two teams coming off of inconsistent recent records. Real Madrid has not won two consecutive matches in months. The team previously beat PSG earlier last month. But the game before that ended in a draw. In May through June it did the same, beating Osasuna, drawing against Real Sociedad and loosing to Atletico Madrid.
After today?s game, Real Madrid will head into the Primera Division this August. It will face Real Betis on the 16th, then Granada followed by Athletic Club and Villareal.
LA Galaxy has been inconsistent as well. The team won two MLS games in July, beating Columbus Crew and Dallas. But then they were beat by the Portland Timbers. Later that month, the Galaxy beat the Whitecaps but lost to the Colorado Rapids. The Galaxy faces Dallas, Real Salt Lake and Cartagines later this month as well.
The winner of tonight?s game faces Everton. The loser will face Juventus. For live score results tonight click HERE.
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Reference Librarian ? Rivier University (Nashua, NH) | The Catholic ...
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REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
Education: University/College, PT Employee
Rivier University (Nashua, NH)
REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
REGINA LIBRARY
(7.5 hours per week, 52 weeks per year)
OVERVIEW
Provide library reference service to students, faculty, staff, and other library patrons. In the absence of the Circulation Staff, oversee circulation desk activity and supervise student workers. Occasionally assist with other tasks within the User Services Department.
This is a year-round position, excluding certain breaks and holidays. Hours are Monday 4:00pm ? 8:30pm (9:00pm during the summer) and every other Saturday 10:00am ? 6:00pm.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
?Provide reference service to students, faculty, staff, and other library patrons in person as well as using e-mail, online chat and texting.
?Assist patrons as needed in the basic use of computers, printers, photocopiers, scanners, etc.
?Provide drop-in library instruction sessions for patrons in general library use, research methods, and the like.
?May assist in preparing LibGuides and other appropriate materials.
?May assist with other department functions, including circulation, interlibrary loan, and reserves.
?Assist in training and supervising student assistants.
?Assist with other library projects and programming as needed.
QUALIFICATIONS
?Required: MLS degree or MLS degree candidate (or a combination of education and experience). Experience working in a library, academic library experience preferred. Excellent customer service and interpersonal communication skills. Experience with conducting reference interviews and searching research databases. Familiarity with Microsoft Office products and basic technical troubleshooting.
?Preferred: Experience with providing library circulation services. Supervisory experience is desirable.
?The ability and willingness to support the mission of the University, in all daily activities.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Submit letter of intent, resume and the contact information for three professional references to: Human Resources, Rivier University, 420 South Main St., Nashua, NH 03060 Attn: REFERENCE LIBRARIAN, PART TIME or e-mail to [email?protected] No agencies please. EOE Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Priority given to those candidates who apply by Monday, August 12, 2013. (7)
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Arctic Monkeys producer James Ford on 'AM': 'All bets are off'
August 1, 2013 16:46
The band wanted to "push things on and do something different" on this album, he says
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Arctic Monkeys producer James Ford has said that "all bets were off" when the band recorded their latest album 'AM'.
Ford, who is also one half of Simian Mobile Disco, has recorded all of the band's material since 2006, as well as The Last Shadow Puppets' album and Alex Turner's soundtrack to the film Submarine. He co-produced the band's fifth studio album at LA's Sage & Sound Studios with Ross Orton and it will be released on September 9.
When asked if he had a brief for this album, Ford replied: "There was no brief other than to make an interesting album. Obviously I'd seen the songs as they were demos, and I think that around the time of 'R U Mine?' they struck upon this riffy, slow and heavy thing. But then with this slightly strange hip-hop, slightly R&B sense to some of the melodies and structures. There was a bit of that in there. Really, they just wanted to push it on and do something different, and keep moving forward. My job is to really to try and help bring their ideas out and distil and crystallise what they want it to be, and help them achieve that. There's a Sabbath-y thing in there too, but obviously it's all filtered through Alex's songwriting and the band's playing."
To read the full interview with James Ford, click here.
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Arctic Monkeys Tickets
| Date/Time | Venue | Town/City | Seetickets | Viagogo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2013 | Newcastle Metro Radio Arena | Newcastle | ||
| Oct 22, 2013 | Metro Radio Arena | Newcastle | Tickets not currently available. | |
| Oct 23, 2013 | Manchester Arena | Manchester | ||
| Oct 25, 2013 | Earl's Court | London | ||
| Oct 26, 2013 | Earl's Court | London | ||
| Oct 28, 2013 | Liverpool Echo Arena | Liverpool | ||
| Oct 28, 2013 | Echo Arena | Liverpool | Tickets not currently available. | |
| Oct 29, 2013 | Motorpoint Arena Cardiff | Cardiff | ||
| Oct 31, 2013 | Lg Arena, The Nec | Birmingham | ||
| Oct 31, 2013 | Lg Arena | Birmingham | Tickets not currently available. | |
| Nov 01, 2013 | The Hydro | Glasgow | ||
| Nov 01, 2013 | Hydro | Glasgow | Tickets not currently available. | |
| Nov 02, 2013 | Motorpoint Arena | Sheffield | ||
| Nov 02, 2013 | Motorpoint Arena Sheffield | Sheffield | Tickets not currently available. |
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Barking and Dagenham College?s Paris connection
Anna Dubuis
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
3:15 PM
One talented photography student from Barking and Dagenham College will get the chance to spend two months in Paris? most prestigious studios every year.
Le Rouchon is used for photo and video professionals in the fashion and advertising industry and is famous worldwide.
The college has taken photography students over to visit the studio for many years, but this scholarship is the result of a new partnership between the two, and every year one BA (Hons) student will complete a two-month internship in Paris.
David Bennett, the college?s photography course leader, said: ?To be affiliated with such a high calibre studio is fantastic and really puts the college on the map as one of the best places to study photography in Europe.
?It will allow us to further align our educational programmes with what the industry requires, something which is important as part of our philosophy of helping students into the world of work.?
Source: http://www.barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk/barking_and_dagenham_college_s_paris_connection_1_2309173
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
PECHANGA: Isaak bringing the 'Sun' with him on current tour
Chris Isaak will perform songs from his new record, ?Beyond the Sun,? at his Aug. 11 concert at Pechanga Resort & Casino. COURTESY OF SCOTT NEWTON
Chris Isaak knows what he is.
?I put a lot of value on being a performer and entertainer, and some people go, ?I?m an artist,? the rest of us, we?re singers and entertainers,? Isaak said from the road in Phoenix, Ariz. ?To me, I am proud of the fact that everyone is out there having a good time. Not everyone out there came to see me in concert, I know that. And the biggest compliment I get is people saying, ?I didn?t know who you were, but I had a great time, I?m coming back.??
Isaak is being modest, a lot of people know exactly who he is. All you have to do is harken back to the ultra sexy music video for the 1989 single, ?Wicked Game,? featuring Helena Christensen. He?s been featured in movie roles, had a TV show and has been all over the music business.
The ladies love Isaak, and he has to be well aware of that sex appeal when you see him on stage. But, in speaking with him, its less about being sexy and exclusively about putting on a show.
?We dress up like James Brown?s Famous flames and we dance on stage and do moves ? nobody does moves together as a band anymore,? he said. ?We get people up on stage and dance around, get out into the crowd, and we keep changing it up. It is important you know, when I go see a band and they just sing a song and then sing the next song, to me, that gets really old pretty quick.?
His ?Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing? was featured in Stanley Kubrick?s final film, ?Eyes Wide Shut,? and singles ?Life Will Go On? and ?Two Hearts? were also featured in films, and certainly, if you come to his Aug. 11 show at Pechanga Resort & Casino, you will hear some of those famous tunes. In addition, he will be cranking out tunes from his latest record, ?Beyond the Sun,? a tribute to the glory days of Sun Records, featuring songs by Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and more.
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?That music really is the music that pushed me over that threshold that maybe that?s what I do want to do for a living,? Isaak said. ?When I started off, I was living in a small town, my dad was driving a forklift, mom working in a potato chip factory. Being in the music business just seemed like a fantasy. But that music was so good and moved me so much, even though I had no idea how to get there, there were no maps to buy, I said, ?I?m going.??
More than catapulting him toward the music business, it was an essential part of his life growing up and his relationship with his family.
?My dad had all those records growing up, we had a box of records in our house and we just wore them out,? Isaak said. ?When I made this record, my dad was real sick and he?s since passed away two years now, but I?m glad he heard it before he passed away. He listened to it and when he got done, and my dad always only talked to my mom and she would translate, he said to her, ?That?s the way I would have sung it.? For me, it was a really good feeling. And for him, it had to be, ?Here?s my kid listening to my music.? He knew he had an influence on me.?
Now 57 years old, Isaak is looking toward the future, and it includes performing music as long as he?s allowed.
?I was just talking to my bass player and my drummer, we?ve had the band for 30 years, I said, ?We gotta keep healthy because I?d like to keep playing until I just fall over,?? he said. ?It is the most fun I have and it is something I?m good at, and as long as people want see it, I want to keep doing it.
?If you have ever been in a band with people you like, you don?t want to give it up. One time I was helping to induct Bob Wills into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and he had bought a bunch of property and he told his band, ?Hey, we can all build houses right next to each other, that way when we retire, we can all play music together.? I just love that about him and I can relate.?
One of those bandmates is longtime drummer Kenney Dale Johnson who is battling Leukemia and someone Isaak misses greatly on the current tour.
?Leukemia, man, that?s a scary word when you hear it,? Isaak said. ?But we?re trying to get him out here and at least come out and play a little, and so far he?s doing great. I told him he has to come back, because I?m paying him.?
CHRIS ISAAK
7 p.m. Aug. 11
Pechanga Theater, Pechanga Resort & Casino, 45000 Pechanga Parkway, Temecula
$50-$70
877-711-2946 or pechanga.com
Source: http://blog.pe.com/2013/08/01/pechanga-isaak-bringing-the-sun-with-him-on-current-tour/
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MacBreak Weekly 361: The Mommy Slider
Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, and I discuss Bob Mansfield's new job, how Google's announcements might affect Apple, and more.
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To terminate or not: Cash-starved miners weigh their legal options ...
Mining companies ? big and small ? are grappling with weak commodity prices and high costs, while investors have turned off the financing tap. The result is a serious cash crunch. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and downsizing is one of the options.
?They?re facing what I?m calling a temporary financing freeze,? says Geoffrey Howard, a partner in the Vancouver office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP who specializes in employment and labour law. ?They?ve no alternative except to cut their staff cost.?
It?s difficult for miners to contemplate such cuts. Companies fight hard to recruit geologists and engineers. These are skilled individuals who are in long-term demand, yet who can be costly to keep during a short-term cash flow crunch. Yet it can be equally expensive to let some of them go. Mining executives tend to have rich termination provisions in their employment agreements.
?When we were in our last boom period, some of the employment contracts provided for astronomical severance packages,? says Andrea Raso Amer, an employment lawyer in the Vancouver office of Dentons Canada LLP.
There?s a lot more at stake than rich payouts. The global expanse of the mining industry and the size of some mining operations means a layoff can trigger a series of important legal consequences.
If a company is considering a layoff or a termination, the first issue is where the employee is situated, explains Rob Sider of Lawson Lundell LLP in Vancouver. If head office in Canada hired an employee here, then sent that person to work in another country, the company may need to observe the employment standards laws of multiple jurisdictions. ?In some of those jurisdictions it can be problematic,? Mr. Sider says. ?Try to find an employment lawyer in the Congo, for example.?
In Canada, workers will be entitled to the statutory minimums provided by provincial employment standards laws. These provisions promise employees a minimum amount of pay in-lieu of notice. The provincial laws can also promise extra payments in the event of a ?mass termination? or ?mass-layoff? as defined by the act. On the other hand, some acts provide relief to employers if it?s possible to argue the layoffs are not permanent, but the result of the ?seasonal nature? of the work.
Some unique case-by-case situations will also arise, says Norm Keith, a partner with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. The company needs to decide whether it is prepared to let an employee take any special knowledge and expertise to a potential competitor. The company then needs to determine whether that situation would be covered by any non-competition provision of the employment contract. The analysis will be complicated, because there may be common law duties that arise even in the absence of a specific provision in the contract. ?If the contract is silent on the non-competition issue, there are remaining legal obligations, known as fiduciary responsibilities, for senior, C-Suite vice president and maybe director-level employees,? Mr. Keith says.
These issues have companies looking for alternatives to layoffs. Many realize that a mass termination today can leave the company understaffed when things turn the corner down the road. ?They know how things can change so they are cautious and they think long and hard about the decisions that they make before they make them,? says Shelley-Mae Mitchell, a partner in the Vancouver office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. ?Instead of doing mass layoffs or mass terminations, they are more thoughtful in how they phase things in.?
Here are some of the things miners are looking at.
1. Negotiate lower pay
This isn?t always easy to do because it requires the consent of employees. Cutting anyone?s pay without consent raises a legal red flag: constructive dismissal. ?The good news is that in this sector, there are a fair number of people who understand the volatile nature of it and who will agree to that type of thing,? Mr. Howard says.
A popular alternative to cutting pay is to offer employees equity in lieu of cash. ?When things do get lean, it?s not a function of having to get rid of people. It?s a function of having to save money. So what you see some miners doing is shifting compensation schemes from cash to equity,? says Richard Press of Davis LLP in Vancouver.
2. Time off
Some companies are offering employees unpaid leave on attractive terms ? say, the chance to take every Friday off or to go on extended vacations. This is the same as a pay cut, so it requires employee consent or else it?s constructive dismissal.
?Let the employee go on safari in Africa or do something else,? says George Waggott, national co-chair of the employment and labour relations group at McMillan LLP. ?It?s a modified form of the temporary layoff because it?s by consent. You go on leave, you still have your job, you?re still accruing service, you still have your office when you come back.?
3. Work-Sharing
Canada?s Employment Insurance regime can provide income support for employees facing a temporarily reduced work week while their employer is trying to turn things around. This can be used to cover some of the lost pay that comes from employees agreeing to take time off, Mr. Howard says.
4. Consulting Arrangements
Some lawyers suggest clients consider getting their employees to become consultants on contract. ?For a major, one of the solutions is to contract out as much as you can,? Mr. Keith says. For the former employees, this can be a benefit in that it might enable them to work for more than one client. But employers need to be careful. These arrangements cannot be used to skirt around the statutory minimums required in employment standards laws.
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