Rev. Seine Bolks, President, and E. B. E. Janssen, Clerk, of the Classis of Wisconsin, Reported to the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

Rev. Seine Bolks, president, and E. B. E. Janssen, clerk, of the Classis of Wisconsin, reported to the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church that the Reformed churches in the state have banded together to form a Classis. The classis now seeks recognition from the synod. Rev. Martin A. Ypma and Elder G. Brand were elected as delegates to the meeting of the General Synod.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1850s/1285/thumbnail.jp

Opening statement Uruguay Round Mid-term Review Montreal, Canada

Mr. Chairman, fellow delegates. It has been two years since we met in Punta del Este, two years since leaders from around the world -- representing nations in all stages of economic development -- agreed to launch the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations. since then, our negotiators have been hard at work. They deserve not only credit, but also continuing encouragement. For what came out of the meeting in Punta del Este in September of 1986 was the most comprehensive and ambitious negotiating agenda ever put before the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Ethical Problems in Connection with The Delivery of Legal Services

When the Code of Professional Responsibility was presented to the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association at its 1969 annual meeting by the Special Committee on the Evaluation of Ethical Standards, the only exception taken to any of its provisions was to that dealing with cooperation by a lawyer with an organization engaged in facilitating the delivery of legal services to the public. The Code, as drafted by the Committee, and as ultimately adopted at that time by the House of Delegates, provides that a lawyer shall not knowingly assist a person or organization that recommends, furnishes or pays for legal services to promote the use of his services or those of his partners or associates. To this, certain exceptions are made: e.g., a lawyer may cooperate in a dignified manner with legal service activities of a legal aid office, a military legal assistance office, a lawyer referral service, or a bar association representative of the general bar of the geographical area. A fifth exception, however, is the one which precipitated the controversy

The Lutheran World Federation

In the years immediately after World War I, tentative attempts were made to establish contact for purposes of fellowship and understanding between European, North American, Asian, and other Lutheran bodies in the world. The first real meeting of representatives of Lutheran churches throughout the world took place in 1923 at Eisenach, Germany. Here 160 delegates from twenty-two nations met August 19-24, 1923, in order to explore and express their unity of faith and spiritual kinship. The way for this gathering and all that followed from it was prepared by the General Evangelical Lutheran Conference, which, although at first confined to Germany, was even before 1900 extended to Scandinavia. The Eisenach delegates decided there was need for a world organization and created the Lutheran World Convention. In Eisenach in 1923 an organization was effected under the name of the Lutheran World Convention, uniting Lutherans on the doctrinal basis of the Holy Scriptures, the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, and Luther\u27s Shorter Catechism. They accepted the doctrinal statement which is now paragraph one in the constitution of the Lutheran World Federation

We war-gamed an escalation of the Ukraine-Russia crisis - here's what it taught us about the real world

First paragraph: It is 9am on a chilly March morning. Delegates from across the world have assembled for an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Council, NATO’s main decision-making body. The main item on the agenda: an update from the Supreme Allied Commander Europe on Russian escalations in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe, to determine NATO’s response. No one doubts the gravity of the situation. Russian forces are moving west to occupy parts of Ukraine beyond the Donbas region and the Crimea. There have also been severe Russian cyber attacks on German infrastructure, while Vladimir Putin has threatened to invade Estonia. NATO’s secretary general has asked one of his predecessors, Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, to join the meeting and share advice. Do not adjust your set: this meeting took place, but it was a simulation – set in a very near future in which the Ukraine has joined NATO and the UK has left the EU.https://theconversation.com/we-war-gamed-an-escalation-of-the-ukraine-russia-crisis-heres-what-it-taught-us-about-the-real-world-11380

The 1979 Ottawa Conference and It\u27s Inscriptions: Recovering a Canadian Moment in American Rhetoric and Composition

[First Paragraph] In May 1979, Aviva Freedman and Ian Pringle hosted an international conference on Learning to Write at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, featuring a concentrated assemblage of eminent scholars as speakers and respondents. Those present sensed immediately that they were part of a momentous and historic event. Janet Emig, who delivered her famous Tacit Tradition speech at the conference, remembered it later as the single most electric professional meeting I ever participated in (Emig 1983, n.p.). Many delegates saw it as the rightful successor to the landmark Dartmouth Conference of 1966, and when Anthony Adams, the closing speaker, suggested it might even eclipse Dartmouth as the most important conference ever held on English education, there was a general murmur of assent (Oster 1979, 24)

第10回ユネスコ総会における所感(所感と報告)

I attended the 10th General Assembly of Unesco held November 4 through December 5, 1958 at Paris as one of the delegates from the Japanese Government. This is a report on my impressions of the meeting. 1. The address of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Vice-president of India, gave us the deepest impression among the speeches delivered at the meeting. 2. At the general meeting hot debates were made regarding the representation and voting privilege of the Nationalist China. The most serious consideration must be given to this issue by the Japanese who are in critical relationships with both Communist China and Nationalist China. 3. We discussed about the propagation and effectivation of elementary education in i) Latin American countries ii) African countries iii) Arab countries iv) Asian countries I renewed porfound gratitude the Japanese pioneers in elementary education in this country since Meiji era. 4. The problem of mutual understanding between the Western and Eastern Cultures, the Unesco project since 1956, was reviewed in relation to the natinalistic education of many Asian countries. 5. In view of the language barriers at the meeting, I felt the necessity of reconsidering the modern language education. 6. Also on the agenda was the promotion of A-V Education. 7. A kind of dissatisfaction I felt at the meeting was that modifications and amendments recommended by the delegates on the draft were rather ignored because of the time limit. I hope due consideration will be given to them when drawing up the final draft

Gift of Life: The Lawyer\u27s Role in Organ and Tissue Donation

At its 1992 Midyear Meeting, the ABA House of Delegates approved a resolution recommending that individual lawyers and the organized bar play an active role in efforts to relieve the current shortage of donated organs and tissue. When fully implemented, these efforts will involve not only lawyers, but also their clients, health care professionals and the general public. The resolution\u27s most ambitious goal is to make organ and tissue donation part of everyday law practice. Lawyers, as a matter of course, should raise the subject of organ and tissue donation when counselling clients on personal planning. But to educate their clients, lawyers must first educate themselves. There is a general lack of knowledge about organ and tissue donation among practicing lawyers, a deficiency that can and should be remedied. The resolution recommends that individual lawyers and the organized bar participate in efforts to inform the public. Although difficult to organize and usually lacking in immediate visible results, these efforts eventually bear fruit