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JPM Chase Quietly Halts Suits Over Consumer Debts
Hmm…an expedient business decision? A change in tactics? Or a sign of the approaching sea change in the financial system?
Jeff Horwitz, American Banker, 01-10-2012
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has quietly ceased filing lawsuits to collect consumer debts around the nation, dismissing in-house attorneys and virtually shutting down a collections machine that as recently as nine months ago was racking up hundreds of millions of dollars in monthly judgments.
Agustín Álvarez (* 1857-1914) fue un sociólogo, moralista y educador argentino
Agustín Álvarez
Agustín Álvarez (* 1857-1914) fue un sociólogo, moralista y educador argentino que se destaca en la denominada generación del ochenta, en el siglo XIX.
Agustín Álvarez nace el 15 de julio de 1857 en la ciudad de Mendoza. En el terremoto de 1861 mueren sus padres y familiares directos y se salva junto a su hermano gemelo Jacinto.
En 1870 comienza sus estudios secundarios en el Colegio Nacional de Mendoza, institución que luego llevaría su nombre. En 1876 ingresa al Colegio Militar de la Nación ante la imposibilidad económica de realizar estudios de Medicina, que reconoce como su verdadera vocación.
En 1888 se recibe de abogado y se casa con Agustina Venzano, con quien tuvo seis hijos. En 1890 dicta clases de filosofía y nociones de derecho en el Colegio Nacional. Comienza a publicar artículos en El Debate, periódico de Mendoza. En 1892 es electo diputado nacional por la Provincia de Mendoza. Reside periódicamente en Buenos Aires en donde publica artículos en el Diario Tribuna.
Fallece en 1914 luego de padecer una parálisis cerebral. Sus restos se encuentran en el la bóveda de Agustín Verzano y familia, en el Cementerio de la Recoleta de Buenos Aires.
[editar] Obra literaria
Son sus obras principales: “South America” (1894), “Manual de patología política” (1899), “Ensayo sobre Educación” (1901), “¿Adónde vamos?” (1902), “La evolución del espíritu humano” (1905), “La transformación de las razas de América” (1908), “Historia de las Instituciones libres” (1909), “Breve Historia de la Provincia de Mendoza” (1910), “La creación del mundo moral” (1913). “La herencia moral de los pueblos hispanoamericanos” (1919) y numeroso folletos sobre problemas políticos, sociológicos y éticos.
Lillith
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This article is about the demoness Lilith. For other uses, see Lilith (disambiguation).
Lilith (1892) by John Collier in Southport Atkinson Art Gallery
Lilith (Hebrew: ??????; lilit, or lilith) is a character in Jewish mythology, found earliest in the Babylonian Talmud (completed between 500 and 700 AD/CE), who is generally thought to be related to a class of female demons L?l??u in Mesopotamian texts. However, Lowell K. Handy (1997) notes, "Very little information has been found relating to the Akkadian and Babylonian view of these demons. Two sources of information previously used to define Lilith are both suspect."[1] The two problematic sources are the Gilgamesh appendix and the Arslan Tash amulets, which are discussed below.[2]
In Jewish folklore, from the 8th–10th Century Alphabet of Ben Sira onwards Lilith becomes Adam’s first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same earth as Adam. This contrasts with Eve, who was created from one of Adam’s ribs. The legend was greatly developed during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadic midrashim, the Zohar and Jewish mysticism.[3] In the 13th Century writings of Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen, for example, Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael.[4] The resulting Lilith legend is still commonly used as source material in modern Western culture, literature, occultism, fantasy, and horror.
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Brian O’Leary NASA Astronaut – visionary
Brian O’Leary
Brian O’Leary
NASA Astronaut
Nationality American
Status Retired
Born January 27, 1940
Boston, Massachusetts
Died July 28, 2011 (aged 71)
Vilcabamba, Ecuador
Other occupation Scientist
Time in space None
Selection 1967 NASA Group
Missions None
Brian Todd O’Leary (January 27, 1940 – July 28, 2011) was an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut. He was a member of the sixth group of astronauts selected by NASA in August 1967. The members of this group of eleven were known as the scientist-astronauts, intended to train for the Apollo Applications Program – a follow-on to the Apollo Program, which was ultimately canceled. In later life he became an advocate of utilizing exotic energy sources to resolve humanity’s energy problems.
Check out his web pagee
The Unlikely Secret Agent
By Declan Kearney
It is1963, South Africa is in crisis and the white state is under siege. On 19th August, the dreaded Security Police swoop on the Griggs bookstore in downtown Durban and arrest Eleanor, the daughter of the manageress. They threaten to ‘break her or hang her’ if she does not lead them to her lover, ‘Red’ Ronnie Kasrils, who is wanted on suspicion of involvement in recent acts of sabotage, including the toppling of electricity pylons and explosions at a Security Police office in Durban.
Though she comes under intense pressure during interrogation, Eleanor has her own secret to conceal. She has been acting as a clandestine agent for the underground ANC and must protect her handlers and Ronnie at all costs. Astutely, she convinces the police that she is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and, still a prisoner, is sent off to a mental hospital in Pietermaritzburg for assessment. It is here that she plots her escape.
Ronnie Kasrils’s The Unlikely Secret Agent provides an insight to the earliest days of the armed struggle in South Africa and the workings of the embryonic African National Congress underground through four of the earlier years in the life of his wife, Eleanor.
Ronnie recounts in the preface how they spoke months prior to her sudden death in November 2009 about jointly writing the story of this period in their lives.
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