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The Special Collections and Archives department has welcomed three notable accessions written by women to their collections in November.
Mont Blanc, and other poems by Mary Ann Browne, who is the sister of the more well know Liverpool poet Felicia Hemans, has been catalogued and added to the SCA collections. As SCA had acquired a portion of Hemans’ correspondence and archive previously, this new item makes an excellent accompaniment to this collection.
As well as containing the poems of fifteen-year-old Mary, the item has an interesting provenance history including a poem tipped into the beginning of the volume which begins “I know, my love, thou art false to me …”, a manuscript copy of the poem which appears on page 119. The book also bears the inscription of Mary Hiles, which has been cut away from the title-page, and a cut-out and handcoloured floral image pasted to the upper paste-down.
Poems by one of the authors of “Poems for youth, by a family circle” is written by Jane Roscoe (later Hornblower), the daughter of Liverpool luminary William Roscoe, who wrote “Butterfly’s Ball” for his family.
This handsome 1821 volume is bound in blind stamped pink calfskin and is one of only four reported copies in the UK. The Liverpool connection makes this edition a fine complement to the collections here which already boasts many items by or related to the Roscoe family.
Fabulous histories by the Suffolk author and educationalist Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810) uses stories from the animal kingdom to further children’s moral education and to teach about cruelty to animals. This 1786 copy is bound in 18th century sheepskin and is one of only 8 reported copies in the world. Many other works authored by the prolific Mrs Trimmer can be found in our children’s book collection, making this volume an excellent addition to the collections.
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A cheetah, upright, its lean muscles and black spots gloriously evident, stares straight at the camera. You might think it’s standing on grass or catching some rays outside. Instead, it’s posing in front of a fancy white car, collar around its neck, ears back.
The photo is on Instagram, where it’s easy to find images of wealthy cheetah owners, mostly in the Gulf states, showing off their exotic pet cats. The owners pose with cheetahs in their homes, luxury cars, even on speedboats.
But this passion to own the world's fastest land animal comes at a cost. Almost all the cheetahs are bought illegally, often as cubs, for upwards of $10,000.
Evidence suggests that the trade of wild cheetah cubs is happening on a large scale, National Geographic reported in 2012, to say nothing of the trade in captive-bred cheetahs. Their numbers in the wild are now estimated at fewer than 7,000—about a 93 percent population loss since 1900.
As a result, last year the International Union for Conservation of Nature upgraded the cheetah’s status to vulnerable, with the illegal trade cited as one of the threats it faces.
The plight of cheetahs has caught the attention of the world’s top wildlife body, the 181-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). In a session today at the Standing Committee meetings taking place this week in Geneva, it approved a series of recommendations intended to curb illegal trade and ameliorate the situation.
Pressured by several African countries to address the problem, two years ago a CITES working group issued a report that, among other things, called out the Gulf states for not doing enough to tackle the trade. The report led to a workshop on the issue in November 2015 in Kuwait that brought together 13 states where cheetahs live and there’s demand for them as pets.
The new CITES proposal calls for strengthening and enforcing existing wildlife legislation among all parties and for launching public campaigns to raise awareness about the illegal trade in cheetahs and the risk of prosecution for those engaged in it, especially in the Gulf states.
“It’s alarming,” Patricia Tricorache, who has been investigating the illegal trade for the Namibia-based Cheetah Conservation Fund. Cheetahs that end up in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman are captured in East Africa and trafficked through war-torn and impoverished Yemen and unstable Somaliland, Tricorache told National Geographic.
“The numbers seem to be mind blowing,” she said, adding that she has documented 250 cases involving 1,000 illegally traded cheetahs since 2005. “I was told that in the last two weeks there were two sets of 30 cheetah cubs in Yemen ready to be shipped to the Gulf states.”
Susan Lieberman, vice president of international policy for the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, said the cheetah trade stands out because it’s not being driven by demand in China—as ivory, rhino horns, and tigers parts are—and is part of the luxury pet trade in the Gulf. There, lions, tigers, baboons, and other exotic animals are seen as a status symbol.
Recognizing the role social media sites such as Instagram play in fueling the trade, the 2014 CITES report also calls for the Secretariat to engage with “relevant social media platforms, search engines, and e-commerce platforms to address illegal international trade in cheetah through these platforms, and raise awareness of the conservation plight of cheetahs.”
Nick Mitchell, the East Africa coordinator for a range-wide conservation program for cheetahs and African wild dogs—a joint project of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London—said the “embarrassment factor” could motivate countries to act.
“I’m impressed how CITES does have an impact. Countries don’t like to be highlighted so they begin to get their houses in order,” Mitchell said. “But it can be a slow process.”
Shereefa al-Salem, a Kuwaiti who chairs the CITES Standing Committee Working Group On Illegal Trade In Cheetahs, said she believes authorities in Gulf countries understand the seriousness of the problem and are ready to act.
“We’re trying to increase efforts in enforcement as well as public awareness and social media,” al-Salem told National Geographic, adding that Kuwait has stepped up prosecutions. “We’re now aware this is a problem, and we would like to decrease the trade and resolve this problem.”
But Tricorache, of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, who attended last year’s Kuwait workshop, said Gulf countries are still “reluctant to admit a problem” and that there remains “a lot of finger pointing” over who’s to blame. She’s pleased that cheetahs are finally getting attention at CITES but worried that action might come too late.
“My biggest fear is that we’re going to run out of cheetahs in the Horn of Africa, and then who knows where they’re going to try and source them,” she said.
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Montclair High students getting more resources for mental health
By AMANDA VALENTOVIC
For Montclair Local
Montclair High School students will soon have more places to turn to for mental health support, due to a partnership between local organizations and a national foundation that works with schools on strengthening their resources.
The Jed Foundation’s high school program is a good match for the Montclair organizations, which have been spending the last few years working to erase the stigma of talking about mental health, Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence Director Masiel Rodriquez-Vars said. The MFEE and the nonprofit Jared’s Fund partnered with the Jed Foundation to bring it to Montclair.
“We met with them a couple years ago and really wanted to bring it to the high school, even then,” Rodriquez-Vars said. “Especially after COVID hit, and all of what our young people are dealing with became urgent and paramount.”
Jed works with high schools to evaluate and strengthen their mental health resources, giving students more avenues for help and educators more training to recognize the need for it.
According to Rodriquez-Vars, new Principal Jeffrey Freeman and his administration have been responsive to making changes.
“They don’t come in and say, ‘Here’s the program and the guidebook, here you go,’” Rodriquez-Vars said about the Jed Foundation. “They’re cultivating the people to do the work. Then you sow that into the broader campus, and it’s not dependent on one principal. It’s everyone that can own the work, and it’s sustainable.”
The program can also help students talk about where mental health intersects with other issues, racial and social justice among them.
Current MHS senior Elias Benchekroun was a host of “Unmute: We Don’t Need to Keep Silent About Our Mental Health,” a video discussion that introduced the partnership in late March. Students were able to share their own stories.
Benchekroun was also a 2020 fellow of Jared’s Fund, which has been working to encourage students to talk about their mental health more openly since it launched a few years ago. Named after Jared Zimmerman, a Montclair native and MHS graduate who died in 2016 after struggling with his own mental illness, the organization sponsors summer fellowships for high school students to work with mental health-related nonprofits or take on projects of their own design, in addition to supporting other mental health initiatives.
Benchekroun, along with Jack Rodriquez-Vars and Genesis Whitlock, created the “Rehumanize Podcast,” where they interviewed students and professionals who were Black, Indigenous or other people of color.
“Especially with being stuck inside and everything that happened with George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, a lot of people didn’t know how to feel,” Benchekroun said, referencing the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020 and the protests that erupted nationwide afterward. “We realized that mental health just isn’t discussed. There’s this generational trauma that’s passed down to us.”
Benchekroun said he was heartened to see adults in the community listening during the kickoff event.
“We often feel stuck and not able to approach them,” he said. “For so long, it’s been unaddressed. You go to school, you play your sport, you get good grades, and then there’s no time to say, ‘Hey, I don’t feel good.’”
The pandemic became an added obstacle: Stuck at home and relegated to online learning, students weren’t able to walk into classrooms or offices to ask their teachers for help. Email became the primary way to communicate, but there was no guarantee a message would be read or responded to right away.
Still, Benchekroun is optimistic. As senior class president, he was included in the search for the new principal before Freeman was hired.
“I have seen a shift at MHS,” he said. “He’s serious about it and wants to recognize the struggles with mental health, and the mental health of students of color.”
Benchekroun isn’t the only one who’s noticed the change, no matter how slowly it’s come and how far there still is to go. Gabe Zimmerman — Jared’s brother — isn’t a student at MHS anymore, and as a second-year law student he isn’t around town as often as he used to be. But he does see the applications of students applying for the Jared’s Fund fellowship, which numbered in the 50s last year.
“I was surprised by how many responses there were and how open they were in their applications,” Gabe Zimmerman said. “I never felt that comfortable. It makes me wish my brother had that, because he could have talked about it. I hope it has a downstream effect.”
The Jed program’s work builds on existing efforts, like those of Jared’s Fund.
“They’re not just creating new programs, but talking about what needs to be done to support mental health,” Ken Zimmerman, one of the founders of Jared’s Fund and Jared’s father, said. “How do you start talking about it? We felt Montclair High was very well-positioned for it and really understood the need.”
Jared’s family never got a firm diagnosis for the mental illness that he began to struggle with when he was a junior in high school, but it was likely schizophrenia, his family has said. At the time, he didn’t have supports in place to give him the help he needed.
“His friends, who were wonderful kids, just didn’t know how to deal with it,” said Jackie Baillargeon, Jared’s mother and another founder of the fund. “Their parents and the school just had no idea. No one did.”
Gabe Zimmerman compared mental illness to physical illness: It should be treated the same way. Also an MHS alum, he doesn’t have many memories of talking about it when he was a student there.
“I don’t remember ever going over mental health in health class,” he said. “I didn’t really know much until my brother went through it. That’s not to say anything bad about the school, but it was never an open conversation. It’s so simple, yet so complicated. Even if you’re just having a bad day, being able to talk to a friend about it feels like a weight being lifted.”
Baillargeon compared it to the conversation around a cancer diagnosis in the 1960s.
“It was this scary thing that no one wanted to talk about,” she said. “Look at how that’s changed now. We’re thrilled to see it finally take root. Folks are much more attuned to these issues than they were a few years ago. We don’t want a family to have to go through what we went through. We don’t want someone to go through what Jared went through.” | <urn:uuid:25f4e471-9b3b-45de-bcbe-e4285189fd73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://montclairlocal.news/montclair-high-students-getting-more-resources-for-mental-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.979485 | 1,589 | 1.875 | 2 |
Jerry Schwartz heard the crying before he saw the tears.
“What’s wrong?” the 8-year-old boy asked the kid living next door to him on Blake Avenue in Brooklyn, across the street from Public School 175.
It was early February, 1943, and the Western Union boy was peddling his bike out of the neighborhood as fast as he could. Like a posse was chasing him.
Nobody wanted to see that uniformed, delivery boy riding his bike down their street. World War II was at its peak, and he was making minimum wage — 40 cents an hour — delivering horrible news to people.
A young “Grim Reaper” riding a bike, they called him.
Schwartz thinks it was the Gross family that got the bad news that day 71 years ago. There were other families living on his block who got that knock on the door, too.
The woman living in the ground floor flat opened her front door, and saw the Western Union kid standing on her stoop holding a telegram that had ripped the hearts out of thousands of mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers in this country.
“The Navy Department deeply regrets to inform you,” it began.
Her son had been one of 672 soldiers and sailors who died when the USAT Dorchester, an Army transport, sunk off the coast of Greenland after being torpedoed by a German submarine.
She dropped the telegram and let out a wail. Her son was gone. There would be no Norman Rockwell homecoming for him.
“Within minutes, the whole neighborhood was talking about it,” said Schwartz, who went on to serve three years combat duty during the Korean War. “You saw mothers crying up and down the block.”
They all saw their son’s and brother’s name on that telegram.
It was only later Schwartz, who lives in Santa Clarita, learned about the four Army chaplains who also lost their lives on the Dorchester that day — how they became memorialized forever in U.S. military history.
In 1988, Congress declared Feb. 3 “Four Chaplains Day,” but it slipped by earlier this week with hardly a mention in the news, and that’s been bothering Jerry Schwartz.
“Why not even a little mention in the local paper?” he asks.
Because. Well, because, Jerry, I don’t know. Nobody cares anymore? It was 71 years ago. Let it go?
No, don’t let it go, Schwartz is telling me. Shut up, pay respect, and remember. So we do because he’s right.
A war-weary country gave the four chaplains their own day in history. It gave them a U.S. postage stamp in their honor, and stained glass windows in the halls of power and respect.
Their story is too important and poignant to be passed over. It needs to be delivered, and not by Western Union. The more the years slip by, the more we tend to forget. The other guys could have won.
The military history books tell us it was an icy dawn that February morning when the Dorchester — an old ship hastily pressed into service as a troop transport — was battling angry, North Atlantic seas with 902 American servicemen bound for Greenland.
Only 230 would make it, and they weren’t in any condition to fight.
A Nazi submarine had been stalking the ship, and now, with the Dorchester in sight of land and her protective convoy gone, it struck — sending a torpedo into the old ship’s flank.
It exploded in the boiler room, killing the kid living on Blake Avenue, and a lot of his buddies.
Panic spread through the ship as everyone desperately tried to reach the deck to see how bad it was. The four chaplains were already there trying to calm everyone down.
George Fox was a Methodist minister, John Washington, a Catholic priest. Alexander Goode was a Jewish rabbi, and Clark Poling, a Dutch Reformed minister. They moved about the sinking ship handing out life jackets and helping injured soldiers toward the life boats.
When the order came to abandon ship, they had already exhausted the supply of life jackets available, and there were still four sailors left who needed one. The four chaplains took off theirs, and gave them to the young men.
Then, they locked arms, bowed their heads in prayer, and went down with the ship together. A Hollywood movie, right? No, the real thing.
They never asked the men they gave their life jackets to if they were Jewish, Protestant, or Catholic. It didn’t matter. And that’s at the heart of the story of the four chaplains.
When the end came for these brave men of different faiths they never asked. They just locked arms and prayed. They knew they were all going to the same place.
The chaplains were awarded the Purple Heart and Distinguished Cross medals in 1944, and later a Medal of Valor and Special Medal for Heroism by the U.S. Congress.
A postage stamp honoring them was issued in 1948, and stained glass windows depicting their faces were installed at the Pentagon, West Point, and the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. There is a local display in their honor aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
And thanks to Jerry Schwartz — we may be a few days late — but we remember the Four Chaplains, the kid from Brooklyn, and all the others aboard the USS Dorchester who died that day.
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Written by Brett Rudy
May 3, 2019
Are you looking to calculate annual turnover rate for your company? It’s easier than you think once you know the annual turnover rate formula.
In the article, the follow questions will be answered:
According to the Salary.com 2018 Turnover Report, company turnover has been on a steady rise, peaking at 19.3% this past year. This is illustrative of a hot job market.
If you want to determine how turnover in your organization compares to average turnover rates in your industry and region, first you need to know how to calculate it.
Calculate your annual turnover rate by dividing the number of employees who left your company this year by the total number of employees you had at the beginning of the year. Then show the number as a percentage.
Here is an example of how to calculate total turnover rate:
Considering the average turnover is 19.3%, in this example you would have had turnover 3.3 points, or 17.1% lower than average (3.3 points divided by 19.3 average turnover).
Using the same math as above, you can calculate annual turnover rate for:
Voluntary turnover rate plus involuntary turnover rate will always equal total turnover rate.
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To understand this topic, please take a look at the article and calculator about the area moment of inertia.
Principal axes are the axes that product moment of inertia of different beams is zero. So, the area moment of inertia about these principal axes is called the principal moment of inertia.
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The unit of the whole inputs is the fourth power of length units such as millimeters and inches. Use the consistent units to obtain correct results.
How To Calculate Principal Moment Of Inertia?
There is a strict similarity between principal stresses with the principal moment of inertia. The numerical calculations of them are the same in principle.
Here is the numeric equation that you can use for calculation of the principal moment of inertias;
Like principal stresses, one of the principal moment of inertia values is the minimum moment of inertia and the other one is the maximum principal moment of inertia.
In this equation;
I1 and I2 are the minimum and maximum principal moments of inertia values.
Ix and Iy are the area moment of inertia values of the given shape or plane.
Ixy is the product of inertia.
Here, θp is the angle of orientation of principal axes. The second principal axis is oriented with the first one in 90 degrees.
So the logic of the principal moment of inertia is like this.
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Herbs For The Heart
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The National Center for Health Statistics estimated that over 68 million people in the U.S. alone suffer from one or more forms of cardiovascular disease. Being that this is the number one killer in the country today, various remedies and preventive measures to heart disease deserve urgent attention.
Some herbs are thought to be beneficial for fighting heart disease due to their naturally occurring alkaloids and terpenoids. Further research must be done before this understanding can be considered conclusive; however, we have compiled a list of herbs and natural foods for which encouraging results have been found. Please note that this article, (as always on this site), is not medical advice nor a recommendation to self-medicate. Please consult your physician before using herbs, especially if you are already using medication or have a heart condition.
10 Herbs For The Heart
Many studies have already demonstrated how a clove of garlic a day can lower unwanted cholesterol while raising the good kind. Small clinical trials have found garlic to be capable of regulating blood pressure, improving circulation and inhibiting platelet aggregation that can result in strokes. Another study concluded that garlic extract exhibited cardioprotective effects against cardiac and mitochondrial dysfunction.
Cacao aids the heart through its natural source of theobromine, and epicatechin (a flavonol that boosts the healthy functioning of blood vessels). In one randomized controlled trial in Switzerland, flavanol-rich chocolate was shown to benefit vascular and platelet function among patients with congestive heart failure on a long and short term basis by increasing nitric oxide bioavailability and decreasing oxidative stress. This effect was sustained through daily cacao consumption over a 4-week period.
Evidence links hawthorn to the dilation of blood vessels, strengthening of the heart and the lowering of blood pressure, cholesterol and fatty deposits. This is due to its active phytochemicals including bioflavinoids which possess antioxidant properties that gobble up free radicals. Likewise, hawthorn has been found to help distribute and use vitamin C to fortify capillaries. However, some studies have found that hawthorn has no significant effect on those suffering from heart failure.
This herb is traditionally used to alleviate a racing heart resulting from nervous tension, but with long term usage, this herb has also been found to reduce blood clot formation, cholesterol, triglycerides and to strengthen the heart muscles. Compounds like phenylpropanoids, flavonoids and phenolic acids, as well as volatile oils, sterols and tannins, have been identified in motherwort. Pharmacological studies also confirm its antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity as well as its sedative and hypotensive properties.
Bilberry is commonly known to improve microcirculatory health, strengthen vascular walls and stimulate the formation of new capillaries. Thus, a study in 2011 found that there are potential protective effects of bilberry extract against cardiotoxicity due to its antioxidant properties.
While the roots of ginseng have been used to treat various other disorders, more and more studies are discovering this herb's clinical value in treating heart disease. Though more studies are needed to further investigate the complex mechanisms by which ginseng protects the heart, multiple trials have displayed promising results for ginseng's role in fighting coronary artery disease, cardiac hypertrophy, heart failure, cardiac energy metabolism, cardiac contractility, and arrhythmia. This medicinal properties are due to the herb's anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, antioxidative, antidiabetic and antihypertensive activities.
Leaf extracts of ginkgo have been demonstrated in numerous studies to cause dilation and increase blood flow through arteries, capillaries and veins. Moreover, they also inhibit platelet aggregation, blood clotting and work using anti-oxidants to protect vascular walls from free-radicals.
While herbs are definitely not meant to substitute a good diet, exercise and healthy lifestyle, they can, with proper usage and appropriate expert advice, boost the effects of these in protecting your heart.
Noted for its ability to prevent heart attacks, cayenne is a potent herb packed with over 26 healthy nutrients such as calcium, magnesium, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, selenium, zinc and dietary fiber. Research shows that this herb contains powerful compounds that play a vital role in optimizing heart health. It is thought to work by removing plaque from arteries, providing nourishment to the heart, improving circulation, emulsifying triglycerides, removing harmful toxins from the bloodstream, re-building blood cells and lowering cholesterol levels. One study found that not only does cayenne prevent blood clots, but this herb can work as a pain reducer.
Butcher's broom is a wonderful lesser-known herb that is thought to help reduce one's risk for cardiovascular diseases. Its main components, which include sterols and fatty acids are considered to be beneficial for improving blood vessel health as well as reducing one's susceptibility to atherosclerosis.
Keep in mind that unlike many herbs that are considered to be good for the heart, butcher's broom is only advised to people diagnosed with low blood pressure or hypotension. It helps to increase diastolic blood pressure, therefore, people with hypertension should avoid it.
The regular consumption of grapes is thought to be beneficial for the heart. Research shows that grapes are good sources of flavonoids that help fight high blood pressure and reduce risk for cardiovascular disease and heart muscle damage.
In a study conducted at the University of Michigan Health System, it was found that grapes contain high levels of antioxidants that improve the diastolic pressure of the heart, and reduce the occurrence of fibrosis, heart muscle enlargement and hypertensive heart failure.
Herbs For Heart - References:
Active phytochemicals from Chinese herbs as therapeutic agents for the heart. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22632138
Cardiovascular effects of flavanol-rich chocolate in patients with heart failure. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22173910
Leonurus cardiaca L. (Motherwort): A Review of its Phytochemistry and Pharmacology. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23042598
Protective effect of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) against doxorubicin-induced oxidative cardiotoxicity in rats. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21455099
Roles and mechanisms of ginseng in protecting heart. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22772919
Article researched and created by Cathy Ongking and Elfe Cabanas, © herbs-info.com 2013
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Local authorities are searching for a new habitat for the critically endangered Indochinese silver langur (or Trachypithecus germaini), to save the species from extinction.
Deputy director of Hon Dat Forest Management Board in southern Kien Giang Province Phan Van Hung said the excavation for raw materials for cement production in Khoe La mountain was destroying Bai Voi mountain, the home of more than 70 langurs.
He said the board was working with the Tropical Biology Institute to conduct a study on Hon Chong mountain in Kien Luong District's Binh An Commune to assess how easy it would be for the langurs to adapt to this environment.
Hon Chong mountain is within the Kien Giang Biosphere Reserve, which was recognised by UNESCO in 2006.
Listed in Viet Nam Red Book as "extremely threatened," Indochinese silver langurs have blackish grey faces and long light grey ‘whiskers'.
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IAgrE in partnership with BAGMA and the AEA produces a Careers Guide "World of Opportunity - Landbased Engineering" which is available to read here. This explains some of the opportunities available to get you started, you may download a copy of the brochure here. Also see our web pages on Landbased Engineering as a Career .
The University Interview Guide guide showcases some of the most common questions asked during an interview, as well as tips on how students can best answer them. It also shares advice on how to present oneself to make a good impression; such as being assertive (but not overbearing), using strong and confident body language, type of clothes to wear, and plenty of other practical and useful information.
Throughout your working life, you will need to continually plan how you wish to see your career develop. Planning and recording your achievements is a vital part of this development. This process is known as continuing personal/professional development (CPD) and IAgrE membership can and should be part of this process.
Our mentoring scheme pairs members who are looking for guidance and advice with experienced professionals to help them progress with their career or move towards professional registration. Our member logged in area provides an area dedicated to mentoring for both the mentor and mentee with practical advice, workbooks and questionnaires. Members log in now.
IAgrE especially encourages those younger colleagues who are interested in landbased engineering. Working with the younger generation is a high priority for IAgrE and we have a number of initiatives aimed at this group. One activity sponsored by IAgrE was the making of a careers video by students at Harper Adams University for students (at school) to help those at school make subject study choices that will assist them in selecting a career in engineering.
IAgrE also promotes and runs a Young Engineers Competition aimed at students in both Secondary School and Further Education colleges. The Douglas Bomford Trust, a charity whose primary remit is supporting agricultural engineering, works closely with IAgrE, and supports our student recruitment programme. | <urn:uuid:83337639-40ef-4bda-a686-aec0606e936a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iagre.org/developcareer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.960178 | 417 | 1.789063 | 2 |
One year ago, on March 23, 2010, Arizona rancher Rob Krentz was murdered by an illegal intruder on his own property 15 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. His family, friends and neighbors are still waiting for justice to be served, as are thousands of other victims of the escalating cross-border violence.
Rob Krentz’s widow, Susie Krentz, continues to work the family’s Cochise County ranch despite the obvious dangers. Like many border residents, she wonders openly about the disproportionate investment of resources in investigating and prosecuting the shooter in the Gabrielle Giffords attack in Tucson while the investigation of hundreds of other border-region crimes is neglected. Yes, a congresswoman was shot and a federal judge killed in the highly publicized Tucson shooting, but the shooter was tackled and captured on the spot. Meanwhile, there has been no arrest in the murder of her husband a full year later, and none of the four young “Mexican migrants” apprehended in the December 2010 shooting of Border Patrol officer Brian Terry have been charged with the crime.
Local law enforcement all across Arizona and Texas proclaim that a third to one-half of local crime is related to the human trafficking and drug smuggling from Mexico, yet federal officials will not admit there is any deficiency in border security. Thirty percent of all felony convictions in Maricopa County are illegal aliens; five Phoenix police officers have been killed by criminal aliens; and Phoenix is now the kidnapping capital of the United States. Arizona ranks second in auto thefts nationally. Yet, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, can tell a congressional committee that “the southwest border is as secure as it has ever been.”
Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., recently tallied the rise in crime since 2007 traceable to cross-border traffic. Marijuana seizures are up 80 percent; highway pursuits are up 300 percent, and calls to the Border Patrol have doubled. The desert region of his rural area in south-central Arizona has from 75 to 100 sites occupied by “scouts” for the Mexican drug cartels – permanent lookout stations manned and supplied not from Mexico but from permanent bases in Arizona.
Shortly after the murder of rancher Rob Krentz a year ago, the Arizona Cattle Growers Association proposed an 18-point plan for improving border security. One proposal was for expansion of military-style “Forward Operating Bases” to establish a Border Patrol presence on the border 24 hours daily. Thus far, the Border Patrol bureaucracy has not found the resources to implement the idea.
A year ago in April, Arizona’s Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain – who was being challenged in a heated primary contest – unveiled a “10-point plan to better secure the U.S.-Mexico border.” A year later, their proposals have yet to be implemented by the Department of Homeland Security. We have not seen 700 miles of new fencing, nor new forward operating bases. There is no federal reimbursement for local government costs in prosecuting criminals who come across the border, and there are no additional checkpoints on state highways.
Worse than these lapses, the specific weakness in our southwest border security that allowed the Rob Krentz killer to enter the country and flee so easily has not been addressed. On the day Rob Krentz’s body was found, the killer’s tracks were followed southward to the San Bernardino Wildlife Area, a long valley bordering Mexico used regularly by smugglers because the Border Patrol is prohibited from doing routine patrols there. Nothing has been done to change that federal policy, which favors the protection of wildlife over the safety of human beings, and the smuggling through that corridor continues unabated.
Susie Krentz can’t get her questions answered. The local sheriff is stymied because although his office is the lead agency in the murder investigation, he cannot pursue investigative leads into Mexico. The Border Patrol defers all inquiries to the FBI. Meanwhile, the illegal traffic across the Krentz ranch and neighboring lands continues.
The lack of progress in the Krentz case is symbolic of the lack of progress on border security as a whole. Secretary Napolitano promises improved security through new technology while she reduces the Border Patrol’s Arizona manpower and stonewalls on other improvements requested by local law enforcement and ranchers.
Some day soon, the citizens of Arizona are going to conclude that even expanded Border Patrol activities will not be sufficient to bring the escalating border-region violence under control. The logical conclusion is the one reached back in 1914 when President Wilson sent Gen. Jack Pershing to the border with a full regiment of the U.S. Army at his command. | <urn:uuid:8d14d886-4c57-48c4-9b76-2da97ca6c8ab> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wnd.com/2011/03/276829/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00538-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957101 | 971 | 1.75 | 2 |
YUM, Hyewon. Lion Needs a Haircut. illus. by Hyewon Yum. 40p. Abrams. May 2020. Tr $16.99. ISBN 9781419742248.
PreS-Gr 1–Little Lion is looking rather unkempt. The cub’s overgrown, rust-colored mane hangs in his face, gets in his food, and hampers his reading, but he has plenty of excuses for why a haircut is unnecessary. Though Dad assumes he understands why his son doesn’t want to go to Goatee’s Barber Shop, he is surprised upon learning the real reason: His son wants to look look him. When Dad finds his son has turned the tables on him, there is only one simple solution to end the impasse, which ends up satisfying them both. The childlike hand-lettered text is printed in gray with the son’s words in a paler shade than his father’s. The colored pencil illustrations in pastel hues complement this universal tale of a common childhood situation. The lions’ town is made up of a variety of animal species, such as goats, dogs, buffalo, pigs, and bears. VERDICT An enjoyable tale about a common childhood issue. A recommended purchase. | <urn:uuid:f3aae8af-f8a2-4753-bd8e-1ae217d94abd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.hyewonbook.com/2020/03/lion-needs-haircut-review-from-slj.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.960601 | 271 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Cultural assimilation. We don’t hear much about it any more, because it has become something of a dated, even dirty word, uneasily associated with Norman Tebbit’s famous cricket test as a barometer of whether you were “British” enough to be allowed to live in this country.
It’s still going strong in France, of course. If you live in France, or one of its many overseas departments, you have to behave as a Frenchman, or woman. Or child. You must speak French in the playground, sing the national anthem and accept your ancestors were Gauls. And you can’t wear the veil.
Over here, this sort of thinking is seen at best as a bit suspect and at worst as downright racist. We pride ourselves on our tolerant, multicultural society in which local customs are appreciated. We welcome the world’s communities here, don’t we? Even if some local habits contradict what we consider not just decent, but legal. Such as hitting a child.
This is the astonishing ruling from Mrs Justice Pauffley, a High Court judge, who has urged that “cultural context” must be taken into account when considering behaviour by new migrants to the UK. Her remarks refer to a case in which a man, who had recently arrived from India with his wife and child, was arrested on suspicion of assault.
His wife claimed she had been attacked. His seven-year-old son told investigators his father had hit him on his back and leg. Not at all, said the dad. However he did admit to the habit of punishing his son from time to time with “a slap or a tap”. Mrs Justice Pauffley said this was alright, in her view, as “within many communities newly arrived in this country, children are slapped and hit for misbehaviour... proper allowance must be made for what is, almost certainly, a different cultural context”.
What weasel words, and what a dangerous precedent this will set. Under the shameful excuse of “cultural context”, one can do all sorts of things. Take female genital mutilation. In a “cultural context”, other societies do it, so should we turn a blind eye to women turning up at hospital having had their clitorises cut off and their vaginas sewn up? Take female illiteracy. Millions of girls are regularly withheld from school across the world, so if they come to live in the UK, we should we ignore such practices here? Is “cultural context” really more important than health, education and the right to live without being hit by your parent?
I live a hundred yards from a street on which there are Ethiopian, Polish, Georgian, Chinese and Turkish speciality shops. My children are all at schools with a huge cultural mix; my youngest son’s best friend is Kosovan. By and large, Britain is rightfully heralded as a place of cultural tolerance and acceptance, but using that to turn a blind eye to the hitting of a child is wrong. We have cultural contexts too, you know. It is not acceptable in the UK to hit a child. Ever. By anyone. Slapping or ‘tapping’ may be legal, but it is not right. Times have moved on, and everyone knows it.
To allow an Indian child to be hit because he is Indian is not accepting of different cultures. It is double standards, and it is shameful. Being struck with is an outrage no matter what culture you come from. It is a medieval punishment and, just because it might happen in India, doesn’t make it acceptable.
Every detail of this case is heartbreaking. When asked how he felt when he was beaten, this small boy said “I feel sad... but I am brave.” Using the spurious notion of “cultural context”, because, well, in India, things are different there and children are beaten all the time, makes a mockery of the very notion of legal protection for children and tinges the entire judgement with hideously racist overtones. If Mrs Justice Pauffley’s views were logically followed – I pray they are not – we will start having protection only for those born and bred in the UK, where a “cultural context” does not include being hit by your parent.
I am afraid the whole case reminds me too much of Victoria Climbie, a child whose fear and timidness in the presence of her future murderers was idiotically put down to some sort of notion of “parental respect” ingrained in African children. And the horror of Rotherham, in which “cultural context” was used as an explanation as to why male gangs of abusers were not properly investigated, charged and imprisoned for their horrendous treatment of vulnerable girls.
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Fund for girls' education launched
Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, on Thursday launched the Fund for Girls’ Education in Mozambique, budgeted at six million pounds sterling (about 9.3 million US dollars) provided by the British government’s Department for International Development (DFID).
The project seeks to assist about a million girls living in poverty to have the opportunity to improve their lives through education.
Clegg, who was accompanied by the Minister for International Development, Lynn Featherstone, said that such projects have proved to be successful in keeping girls in good quality education, and are vital for helping African women emerge from poverty, disease and domestic violence.
“African women should drive economic growth in Africa, and should not be led into poverty and dependence”, he said. “From what I see today, I am convinced that providing girls with a good education is the most effective thing we can do to break the cycle of poverty”.
Mozambique’s Deputy Education Minister, Arlindo Chilundo, declared that the British government’s gesture will have a significant impact on the fight against poverty.
“This project will help in terms of resources, and also in making communities aware that girls must attend school, and not be constrained by society”, he said,
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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)—The National Association of School Nurses has created Voices of Meningitis as a national educational campaign for parents and young people about how to prevent the rare, but deadly disease.
Officially known as meningococcal meningitis, the bacterial infection is difficult to recognize especially in its early stages, because it mimics common viral diseases according to Linda Davis-Alldritt, president of the National Association of School Nurses and a state school nurse consultant here in California.
KCBS’ Melissa Culross Reports:
Davis-Alldritt added that teens and pre-teens are most at-risk for the disease.
“We’ve provided information to school nurses around the country so that they can go into their communities and share this information so they can be spokes[people],” she said.
A Facebook page and website— Voices of Meningitis—has more information.
The school nurse said that 11-year-olds should get the meningitis vaccine which is available and that the Centers for Disease Control recommends.
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Huzoor based today’s Friday sermon on the significance and excellence of the Holy Qur’an. Huzoor started by reciting the following Quranic verse:
‘The month of Ramadan is that in which the Qur’an was sent down as a guidance for mankind with clear proofs of guidance and discrimination. Therefore, whosoever of you is present at home in this month, let him fast therein. But whoso is sick or is on a journey, shall fast the same number of other days. Allah desires to give you facility and He desires not hardship for you, and that you may complete the number, and that you may exalt Allah for His having guided you and that you may be grateful.’ (2:186)
Huzoor said: Allah the Exalted has explained to us in the Holy Qur’an the significance and status of the Holy Qur’an, the need to put it in practice, how to put it in practice, for whom is the Qur’an a life-giving source, what effects it has on human life and many other countless matters. This is so that not only we may put this great law-bearing Book in practice to facilitate our spiritual, religious and moral development, but also our worldly progress. In the verse that I have just recited, the blessings of the month of Ramadan have been linked to the Holy Qur’an and thus a connection has been established. By connecting Ramadan to the Holy Qur’an the significance of Ramadan has been further highlighted.
The statement; ‘The month of Ramadan is that in which the Qur’an was sent down…’ informs us that this last law-bearing and perfect Book is connected to Ramadan. A person wishing to progress in faith, who wishes to disseminate this last and complete Book and Law in the world and for the world to know it, who wishes to try and take himself back to the time of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) to gain nearness of Allah the Exalted and hear the sound of: ‘…I am near…’ (2:187), should pay the dues of Ramadan and the Holy Qur’an and understand their mutual connection. These distances which seem very far-off in other days and months are gathered close-by in this month. Thus, a true believer should try and derive as much beneficence from this month as possible.
Commentators have written that there is such great significance of fasting in Ramadan described in this verse or the significance is in part of the verse that the Holy Qur’an has cited special commandments about it. The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) has also said that ‘The month of Ramadan is that in which the Qur’an was sent down…’ is a phrase which informs of the magnitude of Ramadan. He also said that due to this magnitude, the reward of fasting is also very high and great. However, this is for those who also pay the dues of the correlation between fasting and the Holy Qur’an and those dues are to read the Holy Qur’an while fasting, to reflect over it, to listen to or read its commentaries. As far as I know and I have assessed that there are many even among us, quite a substantial number, who do not try to pay the dues of the Holy Qur’an even during Ramadan. They do not read it properly, meaning they do not read it as it should be read with due care and attention. If the read it, they read a little and nonchalantly. Anyway attention needs to be paid to this.
One meaning of: ‘The month of Ramadan is that in which the Qur’an was sent down…’ is that the revelation of the Holy Qur’an started in this month. Hazrat ‘Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) has related that each year in Ramadan Jibraeel used to revise with the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) however much Qur’an had been revealed until then and in the year of his passing away, the Qur’an was revised twice. Thus the blessed model of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him), owing to the distinct will of Allah the Exalted, draws our attention to at least try and finish one reading of the Holy Qur’an during Ramadan and as I said earlier, also reflect over it. Then alone will we be able to practice the words of Allah the Exalted that it is: ‘…a guidance for mankind…’. If we ponder over it, read it and understand that it is ‘a guidance’ for people. It is ‘a guidance’ for those people who wish to seek guidance from it and indeed guidance cannot be sought without reading and understanding.
Thus, reading it and understanding it is important because Allah the Exalted states that this guidance comes with reasoning and has not been simply given to be read, rather, each set of guidance has been given with reasoning. It should be read, understood and put in practice because something which is understood by means of reasoning is practiced from the depth of heart, in the true sense and while understanding the spirit behind the guidance. The reasoning of course is given with clear proofs. This facilitates taking this guidance to others and to explain it to them and thus the commandment of Jihad of Tabligh through the Holy Qur’an is fulfilled. [The verse] also declares that it contains ‘discrimination’; solid reasoning with clear proofs which distinguish between true and false. A person who practices upon the Holy Qur’an appears different from the rest; indeed whoever practices the teaching of the Holy Qur’an will appear different from the rest. His practice, his spiritual condition and his faith will be of a distinctly higher level than others.
When we discuss the Holy Qur’an with others and use its reasoning, no other book or religion can stand up to the Holy Qur’an. This is because it contains such teachings and such historic facts and such reasoning compared to other faiths that they prove its superiority as clear as day. The Holy Qur’an declares that it is from God Almighty from the start till the end and is safeguarded in its original form; indeed the Holy Qur’an announces that it will be safeguarded forever. Allah the Exalted states that during the month of Ramadan, along with fasting, which is a spiritual endeavour, also try and read and understand this treasure of knowledge and discernment. Make its teachings a part of your life and reflect over its commandments and implement them in your life. Repeat and remind yourself of [any] forgotten parts of it, ruminate its blessings during this month and self-reflect to see as to how much you practice the Holy Qur’an. This is what Allah the Exalted states to us because this is what adorns our life and our ending.
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) explains ‘…a guidance for mankind with clear proofs of guidance and discrimination…’:
‘This means that: The Holy Qur’an has three qualities. First, it guides people to the knowledge of the faith that had disappeared. Secondly, it sets forth the details of such knowledge as had been briefly stated. Thirdly, it sets forth the decisive word concerning matters over which differences had arisen and thus distinguishes between truth and falsehood.’ (Brahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 1, pp. 223-227, footnote 11 – Essence of Islam, Vol. 1, p. 482)
This it is a comprehensive and complete Book which is matchless and in which everything has been stated completely. It points out the errors of the earlier faiths and makes up for their deficiencies. It is a favour of Allah the Exalted that He has given us birth in this age and has also enabled us to accept the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). By thus enabling us, He also facilitated us to understand the significance and knowledge of the Holy Qur’an through him. The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) presented the treasures of the knowledge and discernment of the Holy Qur’an to us. True insight in this is gained by reading his books, indeed, it can be gained by reading them. Anyhow, right now I will present a few extracts of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) about the Holy Qur’an which elucidate the significance and status of the Holy Qur’an. They also draw our attention to our responsibilities in this regard so that we may keep these matters in view to read the Holy Qur’an, to teach it to others and to put it in practice. I have only explained part of the verse that I recited earlier. I shall now present some extracts of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace).
He says: ‘The expression Khatam-un-Nabiyyin which has been applied to the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] demands that the Book that was revealed to him, should be the most perfect of all books and should comprise all excellences; and indeed so it is. The rule is that whatever degree of spiritual power and inner perfection is possessed by the person upon whom the word of God descends, the same degree of power and majesty is possessed by that word. As the spiritual power and inner perfection of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] were of the highest degree, which no one exceeded or will exceed, therefore the Holy Qur’an occupies that high station and rank which has not been reached by any of the previous books or scriptures. The capacity and spiritual power of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] were the highest of all, and all excellences had reached their climax in him.
Therefore, the Holy Qur’an that was revealed to him is also perfect and as the excellences of Prophethood reached their climax in him, the excellences of the miracle of the word reached their climax in the Holy Qur’an. Thus he was the Khatam-un-Nabiyyin and his Book was the Khatam-ul-Kutub. From the point of view of every aspect of a miraculous word, the Holy Qur’an is at the highest stage. The perfection of the Holy Qur’an is seen and its miraculous character is proved from every point of view, that is to say, from the points of view of excellence of composition, of the sequence of its subjects, of its teaching and its perfection and of the fruits of its teaching. That is why the Holy Qur’an has not demanded its match from any particular point of view, but has issued a general challenge demanding a match from any point of view. From whichever point of view it is looked at, it is a miracle. (Malfuzat, Vol. III, pp. 36-37 – Essence of Islam, Vol. I, p 356- 357)
Explaining the significance of the Holy Qur’an and drawing our attention to it the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) says: ‘If we did not have the Holy Qur’an and only had collections of Ahadith as eminent sources of faith we would have been embarrassed to face other people. I have reflected over the word Qur’an and it was disclosed to me that this blessed word contains a great prophecy which is that this alone is the Qur’an, that is, a book worthy of reading. A time will come when more than ever it alone will be the Book worthy of reading when other books will also be read along with it. At that time this alone will be the Book worthy of reading in order to protect the honour of Islam and to eradicate falseness and other books would certainly be worthy of being discarded. This is what ‘Furqan’ means: that is, this Book alone will distinguish between truth and falseness and no book of Hadith or any other book will be of the status. Therefore leave all the books and only read Book of Allah night and day. Extremely faithless is the person who does not show regard to the Holy Qur’an and is inclined to other books all the time. Our Jama’at should try and be occupied with the Holy Qur’an and ponder over it wholeheartedly and give up being inclined to Ahadith. It is of great regret that the Holy Qur’an is not deliberated over as Ahadith are! Take the weapon of the Holy Qur’an in hand to triumph at this hour. No darkness will be able to withstand this light!’ (Malfuzat, Vol. I, p. 386)
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) once said the following about sources of reformation:
‘How can change and reformation be brought about? The answer is with Salat alone, which is real Prayer. Reflect over the Holy Qur’an for it contains everything; detail of virtues and vices and news of times to come.’
The foremost thing is to be drawn to Salat, especially these days attention should be given to congregational Salat, special arrangements should be made. As the Holy Qur’an is connected to Ramadan, if habit is formed during these days to read it, reflect over it and practice its teachings in our lives, it will avail in future.
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said:
‘Know very well that it presents the religion on which no objection can be raised because its blessings and its fruits can be found afresh. Religion was not perfectly presented in the Gospel. Its teaching may have been suitable for that time, but it is not suitable for all times and all situations. It is the distinction of the Holy Qur’an alone that Allah the Exalted has given the antidote of every ailment in it and has explained the training of all faculties. Removal of any evil that is mentioned is also given. Therefore, continue to recite the Holy Qur’an and continue to pray and try and keep your conduct in line with its teaching.’
Hazrat Khalifatul Masih III (may Allah have mercy on him) used to say that a Pakistani minister went on a tour of China in the days of Mao Tse-tung. He asked Mao why he brought about a revolution in his nation. Mao replied why do you ask me, go and observe the model of your Prophet and read your Qur’an and practice it and you will find everything! Thus even others who have understanding, whether they accept it or not, see a light in the Holy Qur’an.
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) wrote about the revolutionary change brought about by practicing Quranic teaching and its miracles:
‘The second miracle of the Holy Quran, which we can perceive and witness in our own time, is the marvellous transformation of the Companions of the Holy Prophetsa, through their submission to the Holy Quran and under the influence of the Holy Prophet’ssa companionship. When we look at the kind of people they were and how they behaved before they accepted Islam, and how they were transformed by the company of the Holy Prophetsa and by submission to the Holy Quran, and how, in respect of their morals, their beliefs, their behaviour, their demeanour, their conduct, and all their practices, they rid themselves of their evil condition and entered into a pure and immaculate state; and when we look at the wonderful influence which brought a strange light and radiance to their rusty beings, we have to concede that this change was indeed miraculous and it was brought about specially by the Hand of God…’ (Three Questions by a Christian, p. 33)
The Promised Messiah had explained the reasons behind this earlier on as keeping company of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and practicing the teachings of the Holy Qur’an.
He also said:
‘It is evident to every fair-minded person how much the very same ignorant, wild, vain and wicked-natured people changed after coming into Islam and accepting the Qur’an. This was because of the effects of the Word of God and the company of the pure Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) which instantly so transformed their hearts in a very short time that after ignorance they were endowed with religious knowledge and discernment. Forsaking love of the world, they were so absorbed in Divine love that they willingly abandoned their homelands, wealth, dear ones, honour and creature comforts to attain the pleasure of Allah the Exalted. Both these phases of their earlier life and new life which they attained after Islam are so clearly recorded in the Holy Qur’an that a pious person is spontaneously moved to tears when reading them. What was it that so rapidly attracted them from one world to another world! There were only two reasons; one was that the pure Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) was tremendously effective in his power of holiness, the like of which there never was and there never will be! Secondly, it was the tremendous and wondrous effects of the pure Word of the Omnipotent, the Living, the Self-Subsisting and All-Sustaining God. They brought a large number of people out of immense darkness into light. Without doubt the Quranic effects are extraordinary because no one can give an example in the world of another book having such effect! Who can give proof that another book brought about as amazing a change and reformation as the Holy Qur’an did!...It is the experience of hundreds of thousands of holy people that after following the Holy Qur’an Divine blessings descend on heart and one develops an amazing graft with Noble Lord. Light and revelation of God Almighty are revealed to their hearts and they are granted a strong sense of trust in God as soon as they utter words and points of knowledge. They are given resolute sense of belief and a delicious love of God, borne of the pleasure of union, is placed in their hearts. If their beings were to be pounded in severe misfortunes and were wrung through tough clamps, their sap extracted would be nothing but Divine love.’ (Surma Chashm Ariya, Ruhani Khazain, Vol. 2, pp. 77-79)
No matter how much they are ground down, as one grinds in a grinder, or are wrung through tough clamps, if ever there was a device to obtain human sap, what would be the final outcome of people who ponder over the teaching of the Holy Qur’an and who adore the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him)? Only the sap of Divine love would be extracted out and nothing else.
‘The world is unaware of them and they are very distant and higher than worldliness. God’s treatment of them is extraordinary and God’s existence is proved to them. It is disclosed to them that there is One Who listens when they pray. Who responds when they call out and when they seek refuge He runs to them. His love for them is greater than fathers’ love and He showers blessings on their abodes. They can thus be identified through God’s apparent, hidden and spiritual help and succour. He helps them in every field because they are His and He is theirs. These matters are not without proof.’ (Surma Chashm Ariya, Ruhani Khazain, Vol. 2, p. 79)
The secret of success today remains to practice teachings of the Holy Qur’an; merely accepting it is not sufficient. The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) says:
‘The reality is that as long as Muslims are not fully observant and adherent of what Allah the Exalted has taught in the Holy Qur’an they cannot attain any kind of success. The further they go from the Holy Qur’an the further they become from degrees and paths of success. Practicing the Holy Qur’an alone is the source of progress and guidance.’
He advised his Jama’at, as I just read:
‘Be alert all the time and do not take a single step contrary to Divine teaching and the guidance of the Qur’an. I tell you truly that anyone who evades the least one of the 700 commandments of the Qur’an, shuts upon himself the door of salvation. The ways of true and perfect salvation have been opened by the Qur’an and all the rest is its reflection. Therefore, study the Qur’an with care and hold it very dear with a love that you have not for anything else. As God has said to me: ‘All good is contained in the Qur’an’. This is wholly true. Those people are to be pitied who prefer anything else to it. The fountainhead of all your prosperity and salvation is the Holy Qur’an. There is no religious need of yours which is not filled by the Qur’an. On the Day of Judgement, the Qur’an will confirm or deny your faith’.
It alone will corroborate or deny the state of one’s faith.
‘There is no other book under heaven beside the Qur’an which can furnish you with salvation. God has been very Beneficent towards you that He has bestowed a Book like the Qur’an upon you. I tell you truly that if the Book that is recited to you had been recited to the Christians, they would not have perished. If this bounty of guidance which has been bestowed upon you had been bestowed upon the Jews in place of the Torah, some of their sects would not have denied the Day of Judgement. Then value this favour that has been bestowed upon you. It is a very dear favour; it is great wealth. If the Qur’an had not been revealed the whole world would have been left like a dirty lump of flesh. The Qur’an is the Book in contrast with which all other guidance amounts to nothing. (Kashti Nuh, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 19, pp. 26-27 – Essence of Islam, Vol. 1 pp. 400-401)
Stating its significance, the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said:
‘The Holy Qur’an is a pure Book which came in the world at a time when immense disorder had spread and many wrong creeds and erroneous practices had become customary and almost all people were embroiled in immoral practices and creeds. Allah the Exalted indicates to this in the Holy Qur’an: ‘Corruption has appeared on land and sea…’ (30:42) That is, all people, be it people of the Book or be it others, all of them were embroiled in immoral creeds and great disorder was perpetrated in the world. Thus, Allah the Exalted sent a perfect Book like the Holy Qur’an for guidance and to refute all false creeds. It has the refutation of all false religions especially in Surah Al Fatihah, which is read five times a day in every unit of every Salat, complete guidance is indicated.’
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said:
‘The promises of success which God Almighty gave by the Glory of His Divinity in opposition to all opponents, all enemies, all deniers, all the wealthy, all powerful rulers, all philosophers, all followers of other religions, to that humble, weak, poor, unlearned, untrained one, and which were fulfilled at their time and continue to be fulfilled, could not be the work of any human being, nor can any honest seeker after truth have any doubt concerning them.’ (Brahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 1 pp. 266-267, footnote 11 - Essence of Islam, Vol, 1, p. 283)
Someone asked a question about how the Holy Qur’an should be recited and the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) answered:
‘The Holy Qur’an should be read carefully and should be reflected on. Hadith relates that there are many reciters of the Holy Qur’an who are cursed by the Holy Qur’an. A person who reads the Qur’an but does not practice it is cursed by the Holy Qur’an. When reciting the Holy Qur’an one comes to a verse about blessing, blessing should sought from God Almighty and when chastisement of a people is mentioned, refuge should be sought from God Almighty from God Almighty’s chastisement. The Qur’an should be read with due care and attention and it should be practiced on.’ (Malfuzat, Vol. 5, p. 157)
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) explains how to fulfil the object of recitation of the Holy Qur’an:
‘People read the Holy Qur’an in a parrot-like fashion without understanding it, just like the rapid chanting of a pundit who neither understands what he is saying nor do the listeners. Similarly the recitation of the Holy Qur’an has been reduced to simply reading a couple of Parts without understanding what has been read. At the very most it is read melodiously and letters of ع (ain) and ق (qaf) are pronounced properly. It is good to read the Holy Qur’an in a fine and melodious manner.’
Hadith also relate that it should be recited well.
‘However, the true objective of recitation of the Holy Qur’an is to be informed of its truths and knowledge so that man can bring about a change in him! Remember that the Holy Qur’an has an amazing philosophy in it. There is a system to it which is not valued. Unless the system of the Holy Qur’an and its sequence is not kept in view and it is not fully reflected over, the objectives of its recitation are not fulfilled.’
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said that recitation of the Word of God creates Divine love:
‘The root of worship is in recitation of the Holy Qur’an because if the words of the Beloved are read or listened to, they certainly stir love in a true lover and exhilarate ardour.’ (Surma Chashm Ariya, Ruhani Khazain, Vol. 2, p. 283)
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said that the Holy Qur’an has the antidote to harshness of hearts:
‘Man should read the Holy Qur’an abundantly and when reading it he comes across a prayer, he should also pray and seek the same from God which is sought in the prayer. If he comes across citation of chastisement, he should seek refuge from it and should avoid those bad practices owing to which the people [in the citation] were ruined. If there is harshness in heart, the way to soften is to repeatedly read the Holy Qur’an. Wherever prayer is cited, a believer also wants to experience the same blessing. The Holy Qur’an can be likened to a garden. Man picks a certain kind of flower from one place and further ahead picks another kind of flower. He should garner benefit according to the situation.’
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said that there is no need for any other revealed book after the Holy Qur’an which is a perfect and complete Book:
‘The Holy Qur’an was revealed at a time when all possible needs had become apparent and all moral and doctrinal and verbal matters and human conduct had been corrupted, and all kinds of excesses and vices had reached their limit. Therefore, the teaching of the Holy Qur’an was all comprehensive. It is in this sense that the law revealed in the Qur’an is perfect and final, and previous revealed laws are incomplete, as the evils for the reform of which previous revealed Books had come, had not arrived at their climax, but at the time of the revelation of the Holy Qur’an they had reached their maximum. Now the distinction between the Holy Qur’an and other revealed Books is that even if those Books had been safeguarded in every way, their teaching being incomplete, a perfect teaching, that is to say, the Holy Qur’an would have been needed to be revealed; but no other Book is needed after the Holy Qur’an as there can be nothing beyond perfection.
If it was to be supposed that the true principles of the Holy Qur’an would be perverted like the Vedas and the Bible and associates would be set up with God Almighty, and the teaching of the Unity of God would be altered and perverted, and that the millions of Muslims who are established on the Unity of God would fall into shirk and worship of creatures, then in such case another law would have to be revealed and another Messenger would arrive, but all this supposition is out of the question. The perversion of the teaching of the Holy Qur’an is not possible…’ (Brahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 1, pp. 101-102, footnote 9 – Essence of Islam, Vol. 1, p. 478)
‘Remember, the Holy Qur’an is the fountainhead of true blessings and is a true source of salvation. Those who do not practice the Holy Qur’an are themselves to be blamed. Among those who not practice it, one group is of those who not believe in it and they do not consider it to be Word of God Almighty. These people are very distant and remote. However, how astonishing and regrettable it is when those who believe that it is the Word of God and is a healing formula for salvation also do not practice it. Many among these have not even read it in their entire lives. The example of such people who are so negligent and careless about Word of God is like a person who knows of a clear, sweet and cool water spring with water that is elixir and healing for many illnesses and he has this knowledge for certain. Yet, in spite of knowing this and in spite of being thirsty and suffering from many ailments he does not go to it. How unfortunate and ignorant of him! He should have put his mouth on the spring and satiated himself and derived pleasure from its delicious and healing water. However, in spite of having knowledge, he is as distant from it as someone who has no knowledge of it and he remains distant from it until death overtakes him. The condition of this person is most cautionary. The state of Muslims is also similar these days. They know that the Holy Qur’an is the key to all advancement and all success which they should practice. But, no! it is not at all cared about. A person who calls to it with great compassion and good intent and not only sympathetically but also owing to the commandment of God Almighty is labelled a liar and Dajjal. How more pitiable can the condition of these people get!
Muslims should have had, and it is also necessary for them now, to consider this water spring a magnificent blessing and value it. Valuing it is in practicing it and then observe how God Almighty alleviates their problems and troubles. If only Muslims would understand and think that Allah the Exalted has created a pious way for them to avail by treading on it.’ (Malfuzat, Vol. 4, pp. 140-141)
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said:
‘It is true that most Muslims have abandoned the Holy Qur’an yet the lights and blessings of the Holy Qur’an and its effect are ever living and fresh. I have been sent at this time as a proof of this and Allah the Exalted has always sent His people to corroborate and support it because He had promised: ‘Verily, We Ourselves have sent down this Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian.’ (15:10) The promise to safeguard the Qur’an by Allah the Exalted was not made for Torah or any other book. Therefore human interpolation worked its way in these books. It is a great source of safeguard of the holy Qur’an that proof of its effects is also found afresh. Since the Jews abandoned the Torah, they do not have any strength or effect remaining which indicates their ruination.’
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) advises with great compassion:
‘Do not abandon the Holy Qur’an like something forsaken for therein is your life. Those who will honour the Holy Qur’an will be honoured in the heavens and those who will give precedence to the Holy Qur’an over every Hadith and every other discourse will be given precedence in the heavens. There is no other book on the face of the earth for mankind but the Holy Qur’an and for the entire human race there is no other Prophet and intercessor but the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him).’ (Kashti Nuh, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 19, p. 13)
These few extracts have been read to draw attention to the significance of the Holy Qur’an and to its recitation so that each one of us is drawn to it and we derive beneficence from this significant treasure in the month of Ramadan. As it was said in the beginning, read it and ponder over it and the parts that you have forgotten, some people forget verses they had memorised, repeat them and memorise them once again. Try and practice the commandments which have not been in your view. May Allah the Exalted enable all of us to do so!
I will lead two funeral Prayers after Salat, one of them is present. Our Kaleem Wassem Sahib, who was a MTA worker, passed away on 6 July of a heart attack at the age of 54. Inna lillahe wa inna illaihi raji’oon. He was the paternal grandson of Hazrat Haji Muhammad Din Sahib, Dervish of Qadian and was the maternal grandson of Syed Sadiq Ali Sahib of Saharanpur and the son-in-law of Mubarak Saqi Sahib who was a missionary here and was also additional Wakilul Tabsheer.
Kaleem Sahib was an active member of Jama’at from childhood. During his time in Karachi he was a member of the local and district amila and in Abu Dhabi, he served as Naib Sadr of Jama’at. He immigrated to the UK in 1989 and served as qaid majlis of London region. He also served in finance and Khidmat e Khalq departments and also served during Jalsa Salana. With the inception of MTA in 1997 he was one of its early workers and worked in maintenance and technical fields and also served in other departments. He was currently in-charge of translation and thus served in MTA till his last breath. He was also one of the early MTA news readers and presenters. He had great love for Khilafat and worked with honesty and had a very affectionate relationship with his staff and respected them.
His elderly mother is living. He has left behind his wife, Sarah Waseem Sahiba, two sons and one daughter. His mother says that he had great regard and respect for his parents and was very caring towards them and served them very well. He was very caring towards his siblings. His wife says that she observed that her husband had a real spirit to serve and was ever ready to serve the religion of God Almighty. Whatever task was entrusted to him by Khilafat he would try to undertake it with great passion, enthusiasm and cheerfulness. He had perfect belief that Allah the Exalted provides for everyone and also assured others to trust in Allah when doing something or pray to Him. Hospitality was his great attribute and he was most hospitable towards guests at home, in fact he would invite people over. His sister has written that he did not have even a hint of pretence and one of his qualities was that he read books of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) as she had often observed.
One of his workers Asim Shehzad writes that he worked with Kaleem Sahiob for eleven years at MTA and found him honest and sincere and a true devotee of Khilafat. In his capacity as a senior worker he never let the junior workers feel his seniority and dealt with them with warmth and affection as he trained them for work. Once he saw Kaleem Sahib cleaning the MTA complex at Baitul Futuh and asked him why he was cleaning himself, he should get others to do it. Kaleem Sahib told him very proudly that when the complex was inaugurated, one of the advice I gave to the workers , the advice of the Khalifa of the time, was a particular advice about cleaning and when I was giving this advice I was looking towards him, therefore he understood the instruction to be foremost for him and did the cleaning himself.
Once he was viewing old MTA clips of slides of extracts of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) and the Khulafa which purported that MTA is an organisation which is playing a large role in furthering the mission of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). While watching these clips he started weeping uncontrollably and said how fortunate is Kaleem to be enabled by Allah the Exalted to be working at MTA.
Once his leave was due and he applied for leave but Ata ul Mujeeb Rashed Sahib said to him not to take leave at that time as there was a lot of work load. He promptly took back his application for leave and tore it up. Ata ul Mujeeb Rashed Sahib has also written to me that he tore up the application most cheerfully and not in annoyance. Imam Sahib also writes that MashaAllah he was enabled to serve with love and sincerity and also gave precedence to Jama’at work to personal interests. He was an expert in his field and worked with great penchant.
Khalid Sahib has also written that whenever during the time of Ravil Sahib who was available at odd hours Kaleem Sahib was approached, he always said that it did not matter, whenever Ravil Sahib was free to come he should come, whether it was night or day. He only asked to be informed in advance so that he could make the preparations. He was ever ready to serve.
I have also observed that whenever he came for mulaqat with his children, he would sit his children in the front and took the back seat himself. Perhaps to ensure the children spoke directly to me and the connection that he had with Khilafat would pass onto their children. May Allah ever fulfil his desire and his children remain connected to Khilafat. Both the mother and father have brought up their children in a very fine way, MashaAllah. May Allah always keep the children as useful members of Jama’at and be their Helper and may He grant patience and steadfastness to his wife and also his mother.
The other funeral is of Al Haaj Asim Zaki Bashir ud Din Sahib of USA which will be in absentia; the first funeral will be present. He passed away on 22 June 2014 after suffering from cancer for a few years during which time he did not ever show any sign of despondency. He fought his battle with illness with great courage and patience. He was born to a Christian family on 26 May 1929 and was drawn to religion from childhood. He was introduced to Ahmadiyyat through personal study and interest and with the grace of Allah the Exalted accepted Ahmadiyyat at the age of 19 or 20. He had resolute belief in the existence of God Almighty and had very strong faith. He was a very patient and grateful person; an embodiment of a true believer. He met many elders of the Jama’at and it was in 1940 when he first met Chaudhry Zafrulla Khan Sahib. He had the honour to meet Hazrat Khalifatul Masih III (may Allah have mercy on him). Asim Sahib said during his first mulaqat with Hazrat Khalifatul Masih III (may Allah have mercy on him) he felt as if he had a halo of light around him; he said he could still picture it.
He was enabled to serve in the national amila of USA and was also a local Sadr as well as Tabligh secretary and also served as Zaim Ansarullah. He worked at the port in Seattle, USA for which he had to be away from home for two to three months. His job was well paid but once Jalsa fell during his working days and he left work to attend Jalsa. He always participated in Jama’at programmes. Once he was speeding as he drove to some Jama’at work and police stopped him. He had his prayer cap on so the police asked him if he was going to church, meaning the mosque as he wore a Muslim prayer cap. He said yes he was. The police officer happened to be a good person he told him that he could go but asked him to donate the penalty that he was going to charge him to the mosque. As soon as he reached the mosque he very honestly paid $85, the penalty amount, as chanda. When the Seattle mosque was built he was the highest contributor towards it. This was in 1970 and it was said that his donation amount could have bought a new car at the time. He was very fond of Tabligh and always kept a folding table, some books and flyers in his car. Wherever he went he would set up stall and do Tabligh and distribute literature. He had Jama’at publications and flyer placed in the public library in Seattle. He was concerned about the progress of Jama’at till his last breath. He had great love for the Jama’at and for Khilafat and always advised people to serve the Jama’at. He leaves behind his wife and four children. May Allah the Exalted elevate his station and also enable his children to stay firm on piety. | <urn:uuid:da27640a-3ee8-499b-80a2-b2e3526715d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alislam.org/friday-sermon/2014-07-11.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.980062 | 8,901 | 2.21875 | 2 |
(The Daily Dish) Dr. Liz Joy, Senior Medical Director, Wellness and Nutrition with Intermountain Healthcare joined Surae on The Daily Dish today to talk about the importance of The “pillars of lifestyle medicine” for kids and raising healthy children. She also reminded us about the importance of medical coverage and the options on how we can make sure we obtain it.
Below we have covered the “Pillars of lifestyle medicine:”
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans recommend that kids achieve 60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity that includes aerobic activity, muscle strengthening, bone loading, and age-appropriate skills training.
Key nutritional recommendations are that kids are getting a variety of foods, with a focus on whole foods, and less processed foods. Dairy is an important source of calcium for bone health. Adolescence is a time of great bone mineral acquisition. In fact, by age 19, we have 95% of our adult bone density.
It’s recommended that kids of all ages avoid sugar-sweetened beverages. There is NO redeeming value to sugar-sweetened soda.
Sleep is an underrated lifestyle behavior! Kids who get insufficient sleep are more likely to experience unhealthy weight gain, are more likely to struggle with depression, and have poorer academic performance.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the following:
- Ages 4-12 months: 12-16 hours (including naps)
- Ages 1-2 years: 11-14 hours (including naps)
- Ages 3-5 years: 10-13 hours (including naps)
- Age 6-12 years: 9-12 hours.
- Age 13-18 years: 8-10 hours.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant stress for kids of all ages, and especially for adolescents who are biologically driven to seek friendship and companionship with peers – and couldn’t due to school closures, and lack of after-school activities and school sports.
Recognizing the signs and symptoms of depression and connecting kids with their primary care provider for assessment, treatment, and referral to mental health resources is important.
Substances: Thankfully, we are seeing an overall decline in substance use among youth in Utah
Environmental Health: In Utah, environmental concerns include our air pollution – largely particulate pollution in the winter months, and ozone and fire smoke in the summer – and sun/heat safety. Skin cancer rates in Utah are increasing, and much of that damage occurs in childhood! Sunscreen, hats, and sunglasses are a must for kids of all ages. The Skin Cancer Foundation recommends waiting until the baby is 6 months old before introducing sunscreen. The best ways to keep infant’s sun safe are with shade and clothing.
Social Connectedness: This would include not only peer-to-peer relationships but also remaining connected as a family. Family meals are an important time to connect with kids. Drive time to and from school is an opportunity to learn what’s going on in their daily life at school.
Kids these days are surgically connected to their phones, iPad, etc. Setting age-appropriate ground rules on screen time and access to content are both reasonable and important.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends:
- Age 2 and under: avoid media use (except video chatting).
- Preschoolers: No more than one hour of high-quality programming per day.
- Grade-schoolers/Teens: Don’t let media displace other important activities such as quality sleep, regular exercise, family meals, and “unplugged” downtime.
- All ages: Be a media mentor. Co-view media with your kids.
In addition, parents should be making sure they have medical coverage. Summer brings a lot of activities and recreation that kids enjoy. It’s important to have them be outside and active. Unfortunately, accidents and injuries are unpredictable, especially with children!
One thing to remember also is that when children have health insurance, parents can have peace of mind knowing that they have access to medical care when the unexpected happens. Medicaid and CHIP offer Free or low-cost health insurance for kids and teens. It is comforting to know that these programs are available to help those who find themselves in challenging situations or economic hardship.
For more information or to apply, you can call (888) 222-2542 or you can apply online.
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Elizabeth Catlett, an African American Artist at the height of the Cold War, chose to leave possible persecution in the United States. With this decision in mind, she settled in Mexico to work with a group of artists with common beliefs. The themes that she centered her art around were not only significant to her as an individual, but they also brought light to issues around race and gender that opposed the reputation that the United States was trying to build for itself.
The Cold War is often spoken of as a political race between first-and-second-world countries. There is rarely any mention of the impact the Cold War had on the rest of the globe or the realms outside of politics that were affected. However, it is dismissive to choose to ignore how the Cold War touched all corners of the world and all realms of life. To truly gain an understanding of the Cold War, one must look at areas that have been largely ignored. For example, through learning about the life and legacy of Elizabeth Catlett, an artist living in Mexico at the height of the Cold War, one can better understand both Mexico’s influence on the Cold War as well as her influence on art and culture during that time. One must consider Elizabeth Catlett and what led her to Mexico, why she stayed, how her location affected her art, and how her art has been perceived by others when considering the Cold War.
Born in Washington D.C. in 1915, Elizabeth Catlett was an American citizen who grew up in the United States and attended college there as well. A product of Howard University and then the University of Iowa, Catlett took her love for art and turned it into a career. As the first person to graduate with a master’s degree in Fine Arts, Catlett went on to teach at places such as Dillard University and George Washington Carver People’s School. During her time at George Washington Carver, Catlett’s work with the working-class of Harlem solidified her desire to portray the hardships of the poor and working class in her art. Elizabeth Catlett decided that her next steps would be to join the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP) in Mexico City. With the help of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Fellowship, Catlett traveled to Mexico to work with the graphic arts workshop dedicated to making inexpensive, accessible prints that supported populist and political causes. Eventually, Catlett became a permanent resident of Mexico City and she chose to continue working with TGP. Catlett understood that perfecting her craft would happen among the influence of Mexican artists and the Taller de Gráfica Popular. It was within this group that Elizabeth Catlett focused on themes that would have caused her some trouble back in the United States. These themes included topics such as African Americans and more specifically, African American women.
Elizabeth Catlett’s choice to remain in Mexico derived from multiple vantage points. As a progressive artist focused on bringing light to topics that the United States would have rather ignored, Catlett remained in Mexico to avoid government attacks on artists and activists such as herself. She could have faced government attacks because she was not silent on her political stance. Although she could not claim a political party in Mexico until she gained citizenship, Catlett was vocal about her stance on the American government’s treatment of African Americans. Due to the multiple political situations that the United States was facing (both the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement), disruptions in either area called for intervention by the United States government. Since Elizabeth Catlett was vocal on both fronts, her leftist ideologies made her a threat to the nation at the time and put her on the radar of top officials in the United States. After moving to Mexico, the United States declared Elizabeth Catlett as an “undesirable alien,” which barred her from the country until 1971. Which prohibited Catlett from attending events and exhibits in the United States. However, she was able to use her platform as an artist and a former African American citizen to speak on her beliefs and influenced others to do the same.
Living and working in Mexico had a major impact on Elizabeth Catlett’s career. Catlett’s work was influenced by the unity of all members of Taller de Gráfica through her membership and partnerships. Aligning with her personal beliefs, she understood that the group was a collective unit. Once Elizabeth Catlett became a Mexican citizen in 1962, she used her platform to focus on issues that were very specific to African Americans. Throughout the 1960s, Elizabeth’s work dove into political themes such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement. More specifically, Catlett chose to focus on the role of women in these movements. These themes are still notable in her work, especially when looking at her pieces from the 1960s.
Although Elizabeth Catlett passed away in 2012, her work remains notable and influential not only to artists but to the rest of society as well. In 1998, American Art Curator, Lowery Stokes Sims, stated that “While other artists organized over risks of being stereotyped or pigeonholed by their race…the relationship between Catlett's life and work demonstrates directly how the black experience predicates a specific perspective, a choice of subject matter.” Aside from her influence among art and artists, Catlett left a political mark on what it means to be an African American woman. In 2008, Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, Dr. Rebecca M. Schreiber, wrote that “Her efforts to depict the experiences of African Americans in the United States through Mexican-derived cultural forms and techniques produced a deliberately transnational artistic practice in opposition to the style of art promoted abroad by the U.S. State Department as quintessentially American.” Elizabeth Catlett’s work not only had an impact on the world of art but on activism and social justice for African Americans and women in particular. Elizabeth Catlett’s work was significant because she chose to add personal aspects of her life and her surroundings to her work. The two bled together and through that, Catlett used her voice to advocate for her beliefs.
The art that Elizabeth Catlett created was only possible through her move and integration into Mexican society. Elizabeth Catlett was able to focus on her work and use it to advocate for African Americans and specifically African American women by trading her American citizenship for a permanent residence in Mexico at a time when she and other were scrutinized by the United States government for their beliefs. While creating sculptures and images, Catlett was able to focus on themes that inspired her and helped her advocate on behalf of those that may not have been able to use their voice back in the United States. one can better understand the impact that Elizabeth Catlett’s art had on society during the Cold War and even today through considering the life of Elizabeth Catlett and how she arrived in Mexico, why she stayed, and how her art was impacted and perceived by this decision. | <urn:uuid:ff7d9a75-c49a-4305-95fe-55b1b91183bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://historicalmx.org/items/show/180 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.980284 | 1,455 | 3.375 | 3 |
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After the acquisition of Sardinia, the political history of the dynasty became that of the kingdom of Sardinia (see Sardinia, kingdom of) and of Italy. Victor Amadeus II was succeeded by Charles Emmanuel III (reigned 1730–73), Victor Amadeus III (reigned 1773–96), and Charles Emmanuel IV, who lost all but the island of Sardinia to Napoleon I and abdicated (1802) in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel I. Restored to his possessions in 1814, Victor Emmanuel I abdicated in 1821, after the outbreak of a revolution in Piedmont. His brother and successor, Charles Felix, died without issue in 1831, and the cadet line of Savoy-Carignano, descended from a younger son of Charles Emmanuel I, came to the throne in the person of Charles Albert.
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A federal judge has preliminarily blocked the Trump administration’s ban on TikTok, which has been scheduled to take effect Nov. 12.
The case was brought by three TikTok creators, who argued that President Trump’s executive order directing a complete U.S. ban on the Chinese-owned short-form video app infringed their First Amendment rights to free expression. The White House has claimed TikTok, because of its ties to China, represents a national security threat.
In the ruling Friday granting a preliminary injunction to halt the Nov. 12 ban, District Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania wrote that the plaintiffs “have demonstrated a clear likelihood of irreparable harm.” She also found that the U.S. government’s “own descriptions of the national security threat posed by the TikTok app are phrased in the hypothetical” and therefore she could not find that “the risk presented by the government outweighs the public interest in enjoining” the ban.
The decision comes after a separate Sept. 28 ruling by a federal judge blocking the White House’s ban on TikTok downloads in the U.S. — just hours before that was to go into effect. In that case, which was brought by TikTok, the judge ruled that the Trump administration “likely exceeded the lawful bounds” of the powers afforded to the president under the the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The DOJ has appealed that decision.
The three TikTok creators in the Pennsylvania case — Douglas Marland, Cosette Rinab and Alec Chambers — filed suit against Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Sept. 18. They argued that because of the Nov. 12 ban, they would suffer irreparable harm based on the deprivation of their First Amendment rights.
TikTok is used by over 100 million users in the U.S. alone and 50 million use it daily, according to the lawsuit. The ban would eliminate the creators’ ability to earn money through TikTok, they argued: Rinab said she creates videos for fashion brands and other companies and earns between $5,000 and $10,000 per video, while Chambers earned $12,000 for promoting the Extra gum brand in a TikTok video.
The Commerce Department previously issued the ban barring American companies from doing business with TikTok, which is owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, as of Nov. 12. That would be rescinded if ByteDance is able to close a deal to transfer control of TikTok to American owners, including Oracle and Walmart. There’s been no update on the status of that initial agreement, which must be approved by both U.S. and Chinese governments.
In a statement about Friday’s ruling, TikTok’s interim global head Vanessa Pappas said, “We are deeply moved by the outpouring of support from our creators, who have worked to protect their rights to expression, their careers and to help small businesses, particularly during the pandemic. We stand behind our community as they share their voices, and we are committed to continuing to provide a home for them to do so.”
Ambika Kumar Doran of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, who is lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said, “We are pleased that the judge has halted this ban, which exceeds the President’s authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, namely portions of the Act that reflect our nation’s deep commitment to free speech.”
In mid-September, ByteDance, Oracle, Walmart and ByteDance’s investors reached a tentative pact for the creation of TikTok Global — reportedly valuing the app company at up to $60 billion — that the parties believed would satisfy both American and Chinese authorities. The new U.S.-based TikTok Global would “pay more than $5 billion in new tax dollars to the U.S. Treasury,” according to a joint statement from Oracle and Walmart. The company’s security and user data would be overseen by Oracle and the app would run on its cloud infrastructure. That preliminary agreement received Trump “blessing” but as of now the deal is not yet officially done. | <urn:uuid:1a3c3f0d-6aaa-413e-bf6f-9ca9e2540593> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://variety.com/2020/politics/news/trump-tiktok-ban-blocked-judge-ruling-1234820182/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.966177 | 883 | 1.625 | 2 |
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Written by Daniel Hazard
Sunday, April 1
Sixth Sunday in Lent (Passion Sunday)
Crucified and Risen One, by your passion you sustain us when we fall knee-bent into the radical emptiness of bone-wasting despair. Teach us to sustain the weary and awaken us to attend to those who suffer. Amen.
It was two days before the Passover and the festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him; for they said, "Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people."
While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head. But some were there who said to one another in anger, "Why was the ointment wasted in this way? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor." And they scolded her. But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me. She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial. Truly I tell you, wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her."
Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. When they heard it, they were greatly pleased, and promised to give him money. So he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.
On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, his disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?" So he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him, and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks, Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there." So the disciples set out and went to the city, and found everything as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover meal.
When it was evening, he came with the twelve. And when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me." They began to be distressed and to say to him one after another, "Surely, not I?" He said to them, "It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the bowl with me. For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born."
While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body." Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, and all of them drank from it. He said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. Truly I tell you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."
When they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. And Jesus said to them, "You will all become deserters; for it is written,
'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'
But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee." Peter said to him, "Even though all become deserters, I will not." Jesus said to him, "Truly I tell you, this day, this very night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times." But he said vehemently, "Even though I must die with you, I will not deny you." And all of them said the same.
They went to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." He took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be distressed and agitated. And said to them, "I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and keep awake." And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. He said, "Abba, Father, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me; yet, not what I want, but what you want." He came and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep awake one hour? Keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. And once more he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know what to say to him. He came a third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Enough! The hour has come; the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up, let us be going. See, my betrayer is at hand."
Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived; and with him there was a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I will kiss is the man; arrest him and lead him away under guard." So when he came, he went up to him at once and said, "Rabbi!" and kissed him. Then they laid hands on him and arrested him. But one of those who stood near drew his sword and struck the slave of the high priest, cutting off his ear. Then Jesus said to them, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as though I were a bandit? Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not arrest me. But let the scriptures be fulfilled." All of them deserted him and fled.
A certain young man was following him, wearing nothing but a linen cloth. They caught hold of him, but he left the linen cloth and ran off naked.
They took Jesus to the high priest; and all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes were assembled. Peter had followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest; and he was sitting with the guards, warming himself at the fire. Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for testimony against Jesus to put him to death; but they found none. For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony did not agree. Some stood up and gave false testimony against him, saying, "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.'" But even on this point their testimony did not agree. Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it that they testify against you?" But he was silent and did not answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?" Jesus said, "I am; and
'you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power,' and 'coming with the clouds of heaven.'"
Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, "Why do we still need witnesses? You have heard his blasphemy! What is your decision?" All of them condemned him as deserving death. Some began to spit on him, to blindfold him, and to strike him, saying to him, "Prophesy!" The guards also took him over and beat him.
While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came by. When she saw Peter warming himself, she stared at him and said, "You also were with Jesus, the man from Nazareth." But he denied it, saying, "I do not know or understand what you are talking about." And he went out into the forecourt. Then the cock crowed. And the servant-girl, on seeing him, began again to say to the bystanders, "This man is one of them." But again he denied it. Then after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, "Certainly you are one of them; for you are a Galilean." But he began to curse, and he swore an oath, "I do not know this man you are talking about." At that moment the cock crowed for the second time. Then Peter remembered that Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times." And he broke down and wept.
As soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. They bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "You say so." Then the chief priests accused him of many things. Pilate asked him again, "Have you no answer? See how many charges they bring against you." But Jesus made no further reply, so that Pilate was amazed.
Now at the festival he used to release a prisoner for them, anyone for whom they asked. Now a man called Barabbas was in prison with the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection. So the crowd came and began to ask Pilate to do for them according to his custom. Then he answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?" For he realized that it was out of jealousy that the chief priests had handed him over. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas for them instead. Pilate spoke to them again, "Then what do you wish me to do with the man you call the King of the Jews?" They shouted back, "Crucify him!" Pilate asked them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him!" So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified.
Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard of the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters); and they called together the whole cohort. And they clothed him in a purple cloak; and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on him. And they began saluting him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" They struck his head with a reed, spat upon him, and knelt down in homage to him. After mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
They compelled a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross; it was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus. Then they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull). And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh; but he did not take it. And they crucified him, and divided his clothes among them, casting lots to decide what each should take.
It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him. The inscription of the charge against him read, "The King of the Jews." And with him they crucified two bandits, one on his right and one on his left. Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself, and come down from the cross!" In the same way the chief priests, along with the scribes, were also mocking him among themselves and saying, "He saved others; he cannot save himself. Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also taunted him.
When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, "Listen, he is calling for Elijah." And someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down." Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. Now when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was God's Son!"
There were also women looking on from a distance; among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. These used to follow him and provided for him when he was in Galilee; and there were many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.
When evening had come, and since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for some time. When he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph. Then Joseph bought a linen cloth, and taking down the body, wrapped it in the linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock. He then rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body was laid.
All Readings For This Sunday
1. What are everyday, "normal" powers in our world, in society and in the church, that oppress people? How have we learned to live with them?
2. What is your response to these systems, especially when they use religion as a justification?
3. When has someone "from the margins" taught you about faithful response to God?
4. Where has your Lenten journey taken you in reflecting on the meaning of the death of Jesus?
5. Have you ever felt like the unnamed woman who anointed Jesus, who wanted to "do something" in the face of overwhelming tragedy, to do what's possible in the face of the impossible?
by Kate Huey
Perhaps the most haunting song sung during Holy Week is the African American spiritual, "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?" As we listen to this long and powerful account of the Passion and death of Jesus, we focus on one or more of the figures in this story, consider what might be going on inside their heart and mind, and then try to place ourselves there, too, right alongside them. We may not identify (or want to identify) with Pilate or the religious authorities, but we probably recognize ourselves either in the crowd or in the disciples around Jesus. In fact, we hear this story as disciples, or would-be disciples who struggle with grasping the true significance of the things Jesus said and did, let alone the meaning of who he was. We may be reluctant to admit how often we're just as clueless as those followers of Jesus long ago.
The crowd may have been fickle and dangerous, the religious authorities anxious and scheming, the imperial representatives cold-blooded and ruthless, and the disciples perplexed and weak-willed, but Jesus is surrounded by them throughout the story. Except, that is, when figures emerge from the shadows of the story, from the margins of their society, and stand out as shining examples of faithful and passionate love for Jesus. In this particular story, it's the women who make quiet yet compelling statements of faith by their actions and their presence at the very end. Alas, the men don't do so well, as they begin the passage with their plotting to kill Jesus, feeling, no doubt, justified in their plan to rid themselves of this troublemaker. The men do all the talking, so we don't have any words from the women; we don't even know most of their names, including the one who, Jesus promises, will always be remembered for what she did.
In their book, The Last Week, Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan contrast this woman who anoints Jesus at the beginning of this reading with Judas, who i mediately leaves this scene in order to betray Jesus. Borg and Crossan call the woman "the first Christian," the first to believe Jesus when he spoke of his coming suffering and death, and the first to take it so seriously that she went into action. That's why she anointed his body, while the disciples were still consumed with power plays and questions. According to Borg and Crossan, the "stunningly extraordinary accolade" Jesus bestows on her ("Wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her") contrasts her "perfect" model of leadership with that of Judas, "the worst one possible."
Seeing to the heart of things
Megan McKenna provides a wonderful meditation on this unnamed woman and her actions, and on her heart as well, as she offers Jesus tender and loving attention and lavish generosity in her gift of ointment worth a year's wages. The same people who fail to offer these things are the first to criticize her for doing so, when the money presumably could have been better spent on the poor. Most of us who are familiar with this episode remember the argument that ensues more than the beauty (and deep truth) of the woman's gesture. McKenna says that the men in the house miss the point: "Jesus is the poor," she writes; "he is the poorest man in that house." He is an innocent man facing a brutal execution, like so many impoverished people today, and his friends will (mostly) abandon him. McKenna turns the argument in the text around, saying, "Jesus is saying that what they want to do for him, they should do for the poor. Mercy is their sign of devotion."
When have we ever lavished mercy and justice and healing on those in need? When have we given an extravagant amount of money to the poor? The followers of Jesus whose names we do know missed the point throughout the time they traveled with him, while this anonymous woman emerged from the shadows to be remembered, if not by name, for her solidarity with Jesus, McKenna says. She also observes that the Hebrew meaning of "remember" is closer to restoration: it "means to 'put back together as it was originally.'" In this dramatic scene, the contrast is striking: "while Judas, the disciple, is handing Jesus over for money, the woman, also a disciple, is 'wasting' a year's wages on perfumed oil to anoint him." How will each one of us be remembered, as followers of Jesus? Were we extravagant, and were we true? Did our actions say something important about what we believed, deep down?
Where would we have been, and what would we have done?
In the garden, Judas betrayed Jesus into the hands of those who plotted against him, an "'extraordinary rendition' at the kiss of a colleague," as David Schlafer describes it. However, Judas was not the only one who failed Jesus that last week, but simply the worst of those who failed him badly. The other disciples fled, too, and Peter denied him three times, after all of them had sworn to be faithful. If they couldn't even stay awake in the garden while Jesus prayed, how in the world could they be faithful in the face of what was to come? Were we there, in the garden, struggling to stay awake, struggling to be faithful? And those crowds that welcomed Jesus as he entered Jerusalem, spreading their cloaks and shouting hosannas: where did they go? Did at least some of them join the mob that cried, "Crucify him"? Were we there, in either crowd, or both?
As we tell and hear this story about religious authorities and crowds, we remember the irony and profound tragedy of Christians using the Holy Week texts as justification for anti-Semitism and even for killing the Jews. Fortunately, many scholars and leaders have written and spoken against this great sin, including Stephen J. Patterson, who reminds us that it was the Roman Empire, and not the Jewish people (Jesus' own people), who killed him. Like Borg and Crossan, Patterson sees power at the core of this tragic story, and "the struggle between those who have power and those who do not; between those who enjoy easy access to food, clothing, housing, and various of life's pleasures and those who must make do without almost everything; between those who live at the center of things and those who exist at the margins." Jesus, Patterson writes, had something to say in the face of this warped system, "a word of criticism, shot like an arrow from outside the city wall into the heart of his culture. His word hit home, and it stung. For that he was killed." In most ages, this is the truth many of us would rather avoid, and instead prefer to focus on personally comforting phrases like, "Jesus died for me," or "Jesus died for my sins."
The Empire and the Kingdom of God
In fact, it is much bigger than that: Borg and Crossan put the final days of Jesus in the context of the clash between the power of empire and the kingdom of God, beginning with two processions into Jerusalem, one a peasant gathering to welcome Jesus and the other an imperial, military procession that brought Pilate to the city where trouble was always expected at the Feast of Passover. It was the "domination system" that Jesus had criticized, in the end, that killed him.
Perhaps we run the risk of thinking that empires and their brutality are things of the past, and we're much more civilized now. However, Borg and Crossan challenge us to understand that "empires" of one kind or another are a reality in every age, including our own: "We have no reason to think that the temple authorities were wicked people. Moreover, as empires go, Rome was better than most. There was nothing exceptional or abnormal about it; this is simply the way domination systems behave." Borg and Crossan even call this system of domination "the normalcy of civilization," and it clashed profoundly with the passionate love of Jesus.
Swept up in events beyond our control
In every age, there are great forces at work, most of them experienced as impersonal and overpowering. The benefit of putting ourselves back there and then is the reminder that the forces and powers are hard to resist, and we are no better than our ancestors in faith. David Schlafer writes that Jesus' disciples, like many of us at one time or another, "find themselves in circumstances beyond their control," but what matters in this swirling drama is not how each one reacts but how each one "deliberately responds." And not just Jesus' disciples, but outsiders responded as well: the centurion, a Gentile, was there when they crucified our Lord, and he responded with the faith proclamation, "Truly this man was God's Son!" A Gentile, in this context, was another person from the margins, and his response was not without risk. Perhaps that is the question, after we ask, "Were you there?" Perhaps the next question is, "How would you have responded"?
This passage might be titled, "Between Two Anointings." As it opened, an unnamed woman anoints Jesus (unwittingly) for his burial, and as it closes, the faithful women who held out to the end, among the few who "deliberately respond," are watching and waiting for their chance to do the same. They had little or no power, so a man with status, Joseph of Arimathea, had to "deliberately respond" by asking Pilate for the body of Jesus. Of course, we know that women, from the very beginning of the Gospels, are present with Jesus, tending to his needs and embracing his teaching. As Megan McKenna writes observes, the male disciples have not been as faithful or attentive, but Joseph of Arimathea emerges here as a disciple who understands the importance of the corporal works of mercy and has the courage to perform them. The courage of this action in the face of a brutal Pilate is there, between the lines of the account, and we have to believe that Joseph put himself at risk to provide Jesus with this last gesture of mercy. As Schlafer writes, Joseph and the women were "facing what's impossible, doing what's possible." We are told the names of some of these women, and just as Borg and Crossan call the unnamed woman with the jar of ointment "the first Christian," so Mary Magdalene has been called "the first apostle," because of her distinctive role as witness to the Resurrection.
What does it all mean?
Here on the edge of Holy Week, we will undoubtedly hear many words about the meaning of Jesus' death, much of it troubling. Mark doesn't avoid the reality of the agonizing death of Jesus and the abandonment he experiences at the end, and we realize that Jesus is with us in our every moment of abandonment, our every moment of suffering and loss. Mark Vitalis Hoffman writes beautifully about the meaning of this text: "the message is not how Jesus defeated death but how he refused to avoid it. Jesus' cry of forsakenness from the cross should not be tempered with the prospects of the resurrection victory to come. It is a true cry of desperation that echoes the truth of the pains we experience in our lives. Jesus reflects real life." And in our own real lives, when we face pain and loss, we can draw on the gentle strength of Jesus, who suffered without striking back, and held firm to the deepest truths that sustained him.
This is not a story about something that happened once, long ago and never again. Jesus is with those who suffer and understands our human experience because he has shared it. The deliberate response of true faithfulness, we learn in the Gospels, is not violent retribution and revenge: "God has clearly proclaimed to humankind that the killing must stop," Megan McKenna writes, "and any rituals that involve death, violence, humiliation, or the diminishment of human beings must be discarded forever." Going even deeper into the meaning of the cross, Margaret Farley writes that our faith, is one of "resistance and hope. The point of the cross is not finally suffering and death; it is, rather, that a relationship holds. There is a love stronger than deathÖ.The God of Christians is not an arbitrary ruler who demands the price of suffering and death, but a God who makes possible all of our loves, as well as our resistance to evil." How then will we, as people of faith, respond?
For Further Reflection
Blood-stained kindergarten leaflet with the day's prayer when 4 girls were killed in church bombing in Atlanta in 1963
Dear God, we are sorry for the times we were so unkind.
Verna J. Dozier, 20th century
The important question to ask is not, "What do you believe?" but "What difference does it make that you believe?" Does the world come nearer to the dream of God because of what you believe?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 20th century
The only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy that recognizes the dignity and worth of all God's children.
Woody Allen, 20th century
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love.
G.K. Chesterton, 20th century
The Christian faith has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried.
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Taking care of yourself is the best gift you can give your staff and students.
- Do I have a physical or mental condition that requires professional attention?
- Am I getting adequate rest including plenty of sleep at night?
- Am I maintaining a healthy diet and staying adequately hydrated?
- Have I engaged in mind-body activities and taken mental/physical breaks? (i.e., quiet times for reflection and reading, yoga, exercise, dancing, outdoor walks, breaks from electronics and social media, setting an end time to my workday)
- Have I stayed connected to family and close friends?
- Have I stayed connected to colleagues who I can turn to for support, encouragement, and accountability?
- Do I have a system that helps me effectively manage my time and tasks including following up on inquiries and/or assistance requests I receive from others?
- Do I regularly review what I can delegate to others?
- Am I intentionally scheduling time to check in with staff to see how they are doing, determine their needs, watch a lesson, and offer some encouragement? If my staff is large, have I ensured my leadership team has the entire staff covered? Have I communicated with my leadership team to be sure to report to me staff members who may need my individual attention?
- Am I offering adequate support to my team during this time including consistency, compassion, communication, and coaching?
Without community, nothing else matters.
- How are you? How are your family, close friends, pets, etc.? Have you been taking time for yourself, family and/or friends?
- What are you grateful for today?
- Does your diet fuel your body? Are you drinking enough water to stay hydrated?
- Are you getting adequate rest?
- Are you concerned with any physical or mental issues that may require professional attention?
- Are you engaged in mind-body activities and taking mental/physical breaks? (i.e., quiet times for reflection and reading, yoga, exercise, dancing, outdoor walks, breaks from electronics and social media, setting an end time to my workday)
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Is a belief in God essential to morality?
THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER:
Many online articles carry that above headline, so Mary’s question is a classic, one seen in this little incident: A traditional Nativity scene is being moved away from Nebraska’s state capitol for Christmas week 2015 to make way for atheists’ “Reason This Season” display. A sponsor explained the purpose: “It’s meant to communicate that atheists are not bad people; we can be good without God.”
Some might hold a simplistic view that religionists think they and only they are or could be moral, and that all non-believers fall short.
Such assertions are nonsense, of course, and no serious religious figure would claim them. An individual atheist can lead an exemplary life, and a believer can be a scoundrel. British scholar C.S. Lewis observed that the fair comparison isn’t between problematic Christian X and virtuous non-believer Y, but rather what X would be like if he didn’t believe.
The actual question here is not virtues and vices of some individual but whether morality in general prospers if believers predominate, and whether society’s well-being suffers if many spurn faith in God. Does widespread respect for religious teachings, or fear of divine judgment, help people behave? Do supernatural ideals improve society’s over-all moral texture?
And the flip side. What is life like when foes of religion control society? The moral evidence from blood-drenched 20th and 21st Century Communist regimes certainly gives one pause. Robert P. George of Princeton University’s Program in America Ideals and Institutions posed a variation on the theme in a November posting with the dramatic title “Could America Survive Without Religion?” More on that below.
But let’s start with prominent non-believers. Jerry Coyne, a University of Chicago specialist in biological evolution, contended in USA Today that much of morality “seems intuitive and inborn.” (Christians like the aforementioned Professor Lewis have agreed and, in fact, see humanity’s otherwise inexplicable and nearly universal sense of right and wrong as a reason to believe God exists.) Coyne said even for the religiously faithful “God cannot be the source of morality but at best a transmitter of some human-generated morality” because he sees no deity to give commandments. With the supernatural ruled out by definition, he finds the sources of morality in “evolution and secular reasoning.”
Coyne further argues that the God portrayed in the Bible sanctioned immoral deeds, specifically slavery (actually, Old Testament law didn’t advocate this system but accommodated it as a universal aspect of ancient economies) and genocide. That second issue is too complex to treat here but defenders of biblical religion answer it in, for instance, “Holy War in the Bible” (InterVarsity Press, 2013). Skeptics, of course, also cite one current Muslim faction’s horrific terrorism alleged to be in the service of God.
Note that Coyne believes in moral absolutes -- no slavery, no genocide. Yet he criticizes religious morality because it’s absolutist.
Likewise, President Ronald Lindsay of the freethikers’ Center for Inquiry contends at www.secularhumanism.org that “humanist ethics is far superior to religious ethics,” in part because it’s flexible rather than absolute and therefore subject to revision. Examples he cites are recent switches to favor same-sex marriage and the “right to die.” Of course, those two stands are also absolutist in their own way. Although religion, yes, upholds firm moral principles, theologians say applications vary, especially when two goods or two evils are in conflict.
Switching sides, an atheist-turned-Catholic, University of Texas philosopher J. Budziszewski, contends that denial of the goodness of God and related sense of right and wrong means “suppressing what we really know. ... We lie to ourselves,” he thinks, because “we have a vested interest in doing so.”
Can people do what’s good without following God? He contends the answer is “yes and no, but mostly no.” Catholic seminary President Robert Barron recommends wariness about assumptions that “morality can endure apart from God. Much truer is Dostoyevsky’s observation that once God is removed anything is possible.”
Atheism’s moral flexibility is precisely the problem for philosopher William Lane Craig, who presents a typical evangelical case at his www.reasonablefaith.org. He asks whether values are merely social or personal preferences. “If morality is just a human convention, then why act morally, especially when it conflicts with self-interest. Or are we in some way held accountable?”
If “morality is wholly subjective and non-binding” without foundation, “objective moral values do not exist” so “why think that we have any moral obligations to do anything?
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News story originally written on September 22, 1997
"Mars Global Surveyor has been in orbit for only a few days, yet it already has returned an important discovery about the Red Planet," said Vice President Al Gore. You see, scientists have confirmed the existence of a magnetic field surrounding Mars using the magnetometer aboard the Mars Surveyor probe. The magnetic field was found on September 15th, just 4 days after Surveyor plunged into Martian orbit.
Mars Global Surveyor's magnetometer discovered the outermost boundary of the Martian magnetic field -- known as the bow shock (see the image to the left). The polarity of the magnetic field seems to be similar to that of Earth, though the field strength is only 1/800 the strength of the Earth's magnetic field.
All previous Martian missions had left inconclusive evidence regarding the presence of a magnetic field. Such definitive measurements, taken so early on in Surveyor's mission, are certainly a success. All systems onboard the spacecraft continue to function nominally.
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The majority of their giving had been organized to sidestep surprise and inheritance taxation using techniques tax specialists defined on days as incorrect or perhaps unlawful. Although Fred Trump became wealthy with help from national construction subsidies, he insisted it was manifestly unjust for your national to tax his lot of money because passed to his kids. When he was a student in his eighties and starting to slip into dementia, evading present and estate taxation turned a family group event, with Donald Trump playing a vital role, interviews and newly received documentation showcase.
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HOUSTON - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given the green light for the Port of Houston Authority to begin construction on the Bayport and Barbours Cut channel.
The improvement project at the Port Authority's two container terminals will deepen the channels from 40 feet to 45 feet, making it match the depth of the Houston Ship Channel. The Port of Houston Authority said the project will also widen or realign the channels by up to 100 feet to better accommodate larger ships.
"We are investing in the future of our port. The project demonstrates our commitment to facilitating commerce," said Port Commission Chairman Janiece Longoria through a press release.
The Port of Houston Authority plans to award the $68 million construction contract to Orion Constructions with dredging is expected to begin at the end of May.
The Port Authority is funding the projects at its sole cost to ensure the channels improvements are available as soon as possible to better accommodate larger container ships in preparation of the opening of the expanded Panama Canal in 2016.
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All too often, official inquiries are conducted by the very people who should themselves be under investigation. In this respect, Britain’s Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war bears a distressing similarity to the 9/11 Commission. In a remarkable symmetry, both inquiries involve a Jewish Zionist historian, who not only advised his country’s leader to go to war against Iraq, but actually provided the ideological justification for that unnecessary war.
Perhaps Philip Zelikow was one of the few people who was not surprised by his appointment as executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission. After all, the Professor of History at the University of Virginia had shown uncanny prescience in foreseeing an event such as 9/11 itself. In 1998, as project director of the Catastrophic Terrorism Group, Zelikow had written:
“An act of catastrophic terrorism that killed thousands or tens of thousands of people … would be a watershed event in America’s history.… Like Pearl Harbor, such an event would divide our past and future into a ‘before’ and ‘after.’”
Yet despite his awareness of an imminent threat of “catastrophic terrorism” against the United States, in the Bush administration Zelikow was instrumental in downgrading the status of the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Richard Clarke. Effectively cutting off his direct access to the President, this prevented Clarke from discussing al-Qaeda with George W. Bush before September 11.
In an even clearer conflict of interest, as a member of Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Zelikow had authored the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States. Dubbed the “Bush Doctrine” by the Washington Post’s hawkishly pro-Israeli columnist Charles Krauthammer, it advocated the necessity of “preemptive war.” Based on a policy first mooted in 1992 by two other Jewish neoconservatives, Paul Wolfowitz and Lewis Libby, the Zelikow Doctrine provided the justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
While Bush probably believed he was “ridding the world of evil,” Zelikow knew exactly why Iraq was being targeted. In a rare moment of candour, he told an audience at the University of Virginia on September 10, 2002:
“Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I’ll tell you what I think the real threat (is) and actually has been since 1990—it’s the threat against Israel. And this is the threat that dare not speak its name, because the Europeans don’t care deeply about that threat, I will tell you frankly. And the American government doesn’t want to lean too hard on it rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell.”
Nevertheless, as executive director of the 9/11 Commission Zelikow did his very best to “sell” the Iraq war to the American people. The first expert witness he called had “no special expertise on the events of September 11,” but that didn’t seem to matter too much. Instead of discussing 9/11, Abraham Sofaer, a board member of the pro-Israeli Koret Foundation, made an impassioned speech in support of the “preemptive war” against Iraq.
An even more controversial “expert” witness called was Laurie Mylroie. Known as the “neocons’ favourite conspiracy theorist,” the American Enterprise Institute scholar had made a career out of seeing the hand of Saddam Hussein behind every anti-American terrorist attack during the previous decade. Her 2000 book, Study of Revenge, in which she laid out her flimsy case against Saddam, acknowledged the assistance of Wolfowitz and Libby, and was blurbed by Richard Perle as “splendid and wholly convincing.”
Exercising a scepticism toward Mylroie’s “batty” theories lacking in much of the media coverage, one of the 9/11 widows lambasted Zelikow for this transparent “sales pitch for the Iraq war.”
Zelikow’s persistent efforts to rewrite the Commission staff’s reports to give the impression of a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq “horrified” some of his staff, many of whom considered him a “White House mole.” Little did they suspect, however, that Zelikow’s loyalties might lie much further afield.
If British Prime Minister Gordon Brown were genuinely interested in finding out why his predecessor followed George Bush into the Iraq quagmire, his appointment of Sir Lawrence Freedman to the five-member Chilcot Inquiry was an odd choice. As the political editor of the BBC’s Newsnight programme, Michael Crick, pointed out, “Critics of the war might argue Sir Lawrence was himself one of the causes of the war!”
Crick was referring to a Freedman memo which formed the basis of Tony Blair’s 1999 Chicago speech, “The Doctrine of the International Community.” In what became known as the “Blair Doctrine,” Freedman had offered an answer to the specious question: “When was military action justified for liberal, humanitarian reasons?”
In addition to the Freedman Doctrine’s justification of military intervention in “rogue states” such as Iraq, Freedman has admitted that he “instigated” a pre-war seminar for the British Prime Minister, because he was “aware of misgivings among some specialists in Iraq about the direction of policy.” Clearly, Freedman has no such “misgivings” himself about the illegal invasion of Iraq. It was, he claims, motivated by “rather noble criteria.”
In his recent book, A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East, Freedman is dismissive of those who suspect less “noble” motives for the war.
“Another popular theory,” he writes, “is that U.S. foreign policy was effectively hijacked by a group of neoconservatives with a grand design to reshape the Middle East. A conspiratorial version of this theory argues that the aim was to help Israel, by removing a leading rejectionist state from the scene.”
Presumably, the consistency of the prescriptions that runs from Oded Yinon’s “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s,” through Perle, Feith and Wurmser’s “A Clean Break,” to the so-called “Bush Doctrine” is merely coincidental. Evidently, the learned Professor of War Studies needs to read “The Israeli Origins of the Middle East War Agenda” in Stephen Sniegoski’s The Transparent Cabal.
Perhaps it is also “conspiratorial,” or worse, to wonder about the media’s hyping a book which obscures why America “confronts” Israel’s enemies in the Middle East, while one which exposes the Zionist agenda gets the silent treatment. But it certainly is cause for concern when Freedman’s book, which also opts for the euphemism of a “security fence” to describe Israel’s Apartheid Wall, and repeatedly refers to the illegally occupied West Bank as Judea and Samaria, is given such credence.
Just as the Zelikow-directed 9/11 Commission suppressed evidence that the main motive for the September 11 attacks was American support for Israel, Freedman’s presence on the Chilcot Inquiry is a clear indication that there will be no inquiry into the role of Zionist insiders in taking Britain to war against Iraq—a country that posed a threat not to British interests but to Israel’s regional hegemony. | <urn:uuid:aacaa565-57da-4e33-be75-7b98d5aba155> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://maidhcocathail.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/the-chilcot-inquiry-britain%E2%80%99s-911-commission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00408-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963763 | 1,666 | 2.0625 | 2 |
“I have arthritis in my neck through wear and tear. Can this give me headache, as I'm suffering from them all of the time?”
Dr Sarah Jarvis says: “Osteoarthritis – the most common cause of arthritis – most commonly affects your neck as well as your lower spine, hands, knees and hips. Arthritis of the neck – otherwise known as cervical spondylosis – is a common cause of neck pain, which tends to come and go. It’s caused by a combination of wear and tear on the small bones in the neck (the vertebrae) through which the nerves of the spinal cord travel, and the squashy intervertebral discs which separate them.
This pain can spread to your shoulders and, if the nerves of the spinal cord are pressed on, it can cause unpleasant shooting pains which go down your arms into your hands. However, the pain can also travel to the back of your neck and sometimes up over the back of your head as far as your forehead. Of course, there are lots of causes of headaches, and your doctor will be able to advise whether this is the most likely cause, on the basis of your symptoms and he/she has examined you.
There is another way in which arthritis, including arthritis of the neck, can cause headaches. A major cause of headaches in the UK, which affects several million people, is medication-induced headache. If you take painkillers very regularly (for at least three months, twice or more a week for combination painkillers or three times a week for simple painkillers), a headache can actually be triggered as the levels of painkiller in your body drop. This results in another headache, for which you take more painkillers; as the level drops again, you get another one and so on. If you have been taking painkillers this often, speak to your doctor about whether this might be the cause.”
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This is the ninth post in an article series about MIT's lecture course "Introduction to Algorithms." In this post I will review lectures thirteen and fourteen. They are on theoretical topics of Amortized Analysis, Competitive Analysis and Self-Organizing Lists.
Amortized analysis is a tool for analyzing algorithms that perform a sequence of similar operations. It can be used to show that the average cost of an operation is small, if one averages over a sequence of operations, even though a single operation within the sequence might be expensive. Amortized analysis differs from average-case analysis in that probability is not involved; an amortized analysis guarantees the average performance of each operation in the worst case.
Lecture thirteen looks at three most common techniques used in amortized analysis - Aggregate Analysis, Accounting Method (also known as Taxation Method) and Potential Method.
Competitive analysis is a method that is used to show how an Online Algorithm compares to an Offline Algorithm. An algorithm is said to be online if it does not know the data it will be executing on beforehand. An offline algorithm may see all of the data in advance.
A self-organizing list is a list that reorders its elements based on some self-organizing heuristic to improve average access time.
Lecture fourteen gives a precise definition of what it means for an algorithm to be competitive and shows a heuristic for a self-organizing list that makes it 4-competitive.
Lecture 13: Amortized Algorithms
Lecture thirteen starts with a question - "How large should a hash table be?" Well, we could make it as large as possible to minimize the search time, but then it might take too much space. We could then try to make it as small as possible, but what if we don't know the number of elements that will be hashed into it? The solution is to use a dynamic hash table that grows whenever it is about to overflow.
This creates a problem that at the moment of overflow the table must be grown and growing it might take a lot of time. Thus, we need a way to analyze the running time in a long run.
Lecture continues with three methods for this analysis, called amortized arguments - aggregate method, accounting method, and potential method.
In aggregate analysis, we determine an upper bound T(n) on the total cost of a sequence of n operations. The average cost per operation is then T(n)/n. We take the average cost as the amortized cost of each operation, so that all operations have the same amortized cost.
In accounting method we determine an amortized cost of each operation. When there is more than one type of operation, each type of operation may have a different amortized cost. The accounting method overcharges some operations early in the sequence, storing the overcharge as "prepaid credit" on specific objects in the data structure. The credit is used later in the sequence to pay for operations that are charged less than they actually cost.
Potential method is like the accounting method in that we determine the amortized cost of each operation and may overcharge operations early on to compensate for undercharges later. The potential method maintains the credit as the "potential energy" of the data structure as a whole instead of associating the credit with individual objects within the data structure.
Each method is applied to dynamic tables to show that average cost per insert is O(1).
You're welcome to watch lecture thirteen:
Topics covered in lecture thirteen:
- [01:05] How large should a hash table be?
- [04:45] Dynamic tables.
- [06:15] Algorithm of dynamic hash tables.
- [07:10] Example of inserting elements in a dynamic array.
- [09:35] Wrong analysis of time needed for n insert operations.
- [12:15] Correct analysis of n insert operations using aggregate analysis method.
- [19:10] Definition of amortized analysis.
- [21:20] Types of amortized arguments.
- [23:55] Accounting method (taxation method) amortized analysis.
- [29:00] Dynamic table analysis with accounting (taxation) method.
- [40:45] Potential method amortized analysis.
- [54:15] Table doubling analysis with potential method.
- [01:13:10] Conclusions about amortized costs, methods and bounds.
Lecture thirteen notes:
Lecture 14: Competitive Analysis and Self-Organizing Lists
Lecture fourteen starts with the notion of self-organizing lists. A self-organizing list is a list that reorders itself to improve the average access time. The goal is to find a reordering that minimizes the total access time.
At this point the lecture steps away from this problem for a moment and defines online algorithms and offline algorithms: Given a sequence S of operations that algorithm must execute, an online algorithm must execute each operation immediately but an offline algorithm may see all of S in advance.
Now the lecture returns to the self-organizing list problem and looks at two heuristics how the list might reorganize itself to minimize the access time. The first way is to keep a count of the number of times each element in the list is accessed and reorder list in the order of decreasing count. The other is move-to-front heuristic (MTF) - after accessing the element, move it to the front of the list.
Next the lecture defines what it means for an algorithm to be competitive. It is said that an online algorithm is α-competitive if there is a constant k such that for any sequence of operations the (running time cost of online algorithm) <= α·(running time cost of an optimal offline algorithm (also called "God's algorithm")) + k.
Lecture continues with a theorem that move-to-front is 4-competitive for self-organizing lists. The proof of this theorem takes almost an hour!
Topics covered in lecture fourteen:
- [01:00] Definition of self-organizing lists.
- [03:00] Example of a self-organizing list (illustrates transpose cost and access cost).
- [05:00] Definition of on-line and off-line algorithms.
- [08:45] Worst case analysis of self-organizing lists.
- [11:40] Average case analysis of selforganizing lists.
- [17:05] Move-to-front heuristic.
- [20:35] Definition of competitive analysis.
- [23:35] Theorem: MTF is 4-competitive.
- [25:50] Proof of this theorem.
Lecture fourteen notes:
Have fun with amortized and competitive analysis! The next post will be about dynamic programming!
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Explorers cousin to finish Pole run
Published: 31 August 2003
IRISH explorer Tom Crean was only 170 miles from the South Pole when he was ordered to turn back. Now a descendant plans to finish the famous journey almost 100 years later.
Anthony Crean, a barrister from Stratford-upon-Avon who bears a remarkable resemblance to the explorer who was his great-grandfather’s cousin, will make his expedition in November 2004 with two British mountaineers. He is also looking for two Irish men to take part in the 20-day journey.
Tom Crean trekked more than 700 miles in horrendous conditions during the Terra Nova expedition with Captain Scott in 1912 before being told to return because of a lack of supplies.
The Kerry farmer made three trips to the Antarctic but never reached the South Pole.
Crean, 41, said he was fascinated by stories of the explorer during his childhood. “Tom’s always been a figure of myth in my family. The whole story | <urn:uuid:1c09e197-461f-4efe-8546-82cebadc73f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article51805.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00442-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981104 | 208 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Bugatti Type 35
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The Type 35 was the most successful of the Bugatti racing models. Its version of the Bugatti arch-shaped radiator that had evolved from the more architectural one of the Bugatti Type 13 Brescia, was to become the one that the marque is most known for though even in the ranks of the various Type 35s there were variations on the theme.
The Type 35 was phenomenally successful, winning over 1,000 races in its time. It took the Grand Prix World Championship in 1926 after winning 351 races and setting 47 records in the two prior years. At its height, Type 35s averaged 14 race wins per week. Bugatti won the Targa Florio for five consecutive years, from 1925 through 1929, with the Type 35.
The original model, introduced at the Grand Prix of Lyon on August 3, 1924, used an evolution of the 3-valve 2.0 L (1991 cc/121 in³) overhead cam straight-8 engine first seen on the Type 29. Bore was 60 mm and stroke was 88 mm as on many previous Bugatti models. Ninety-six examples were produced.
This new powerplant featured five main bearings with an unusual ball bearing system. This allowed the engine to rev to 6000 rpm, and 90 hp (67 kW) was reliably produced. Solid axles with leaf springs were used front and rear, and drum brakes at the back, operated by cables, were specified. Alloy wheels were a novelty, as was the hollow front axle for reduced unsprung weight. A second feature of the Type 35 that was to become a Bugatti trademark was passing the springs through the front axle rather than simply U-bolting them together as was done on their earlier cars.
A rare version was de-bored (to 52 mm) for a total displacement of 1.5 L (1494 cc/91 in³). There are two of these rare cars in New Zealand.
- Length: 3680 mm (144.9 in)
- Width: 1320 mm (52 in)
- Wheelbase: 2400 mm (94.5 in)
- Track: 1200 mm (47.2 in)
- Weight: 750 kg (1650 lb)
A less expensive version of the Type 35 appeared in May, 1925. The factory's "Type 35A" name was ignored by the public, who nicknamed it "Tecla" after a famous maker of imitation jewelry. The Tecla's engine used three plain bearings, smaller valves, and coil ignition like the Type 30. While this decreased maintenance requirements, it also reduced output. One-hundred thirty nine of the Type 35As were sold.
The Type 35C featured a Roots supercharger, despite Ettore Bugatti's disdain for forced induction. Output was nearly 128 hp (95 kW) with a single Zenith carburettor. Type 35Cs won the French Grand Prix at Saint-Gaudens in 1928, and at Pau in 1930. Fifty examples left the factory.
For 1926, Bugatti introduced a special model for the Targa Florio race. Called the "Type 35T" officially, it soon became known as the "Targa Florio". Engine displacement was up to 2.3 L (2262 cc/138 in³) with a longer 100 mm stroke. Grand Prix rule changes limiting capacity to 2.0 L limited the appeal of this model at the time with just thirteen produced.
The final version of the Type 35 series was the Type 35B of 1927. Originally named "Type 35TC", it shared the 2.3 L engine of the Type 35T but added a large supercharger like the Type 35C. Output was 138 hp (102 kW), and 45 examples were made. A British racing green Type 35B driven by William Grover-Williams won the 1929 French Grand Prix at Le Mans.
The Type 35 chassis and body were reused on the Type 37 sports car. Fitted with a new 1.5 L (1496 cc/91 in³) straight-4 engine, 290 Type 37s were built. This engine was an SOHC three-valve design and produced 60 hp (44 kW). The same engine went on to be used in the Type 40.
The supercharged Type 37A accounted for 67 of the Type 37's production slots. Engine output was up to 60–67 kW (80–90 bhp). It also had larger shrouded brake drums.
The Type 39 was basically identical to the Type 35C except for its engine. This was modified to be smaller at 1.5 L (1493 cc/91 in³) with a shorter-stroked crankshaft. This brought stroke down from 88 mm to 66 mm, and a mix of regular and ball bearings were used. Ten examples were produced.
An odd 1.1 L (1092 cc/66 in³) version was also created by reducing the bore of the engine to 51.3 mm.
|1925||Targa Florio||Bartolomeo Costantini||Type 35|
|1926||French Grand Prix||Jules Goux||Type 39 A|
|Italian Grand Prix||Louis Charavel||Type 39 A|
|Spanish Grand Prix||Bartolomeo Costantini|
|Targa Florio||Bartolomeo Costantini||Type 35 T|
|1927||Targa Florio||Emilio Materassi||Type 35 C|
|1928||French Grand Prix||William Grover-Williams||Type 35 C|
|Italian Grand Prix||Louis Chiron||Type 37 A|
|Spanish Grand Prix||Louis Chiron|
|Targa Florio||Albert Divo||Type 35 B|
|1929||French Grand Prix||William Grover-Williams||Type 35 B|
|German Grand Prix||Louis Chiron||Type 35 C|
|Spanish Grand Prix||Louis Chiron|
|Monaco Grand Prix||William Grover-Williams||Type 35 B|
|Targa Florio||Albert Divo||Type 35 C|
|1930||Belgian Grand Prix||Louis Chiron||Type 35 C|
|Czechoslovakian Grand Prix||Heinrich-Joachim von Morgen and Hermann zu Leiningen||Type 35 B|
|French Grand Prix||Philippe Étancelin||Type 35 C|
|Monaco Grand Prix||René Dreyfus||Type 35 B|
|1931||Australian Grand Prix||Carl Junker||Type 39|
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|Owner||Ettore Bugatti/Roland Bugatti||Defunct|
|Automobiles Ettore Bugatti||Automobiles Ettore Bugatti||Defunct|
|Type 30 / Type 49||Type 57|
|Limousine||Type 41 Royale|
|Roadster||Type 13 / Brescia Tourer||Type 55|
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K-12 TEACHER TRAINING BLOSSOMS AT SMC
But that is changing – nationally and at Santa Monica College – as the country struggles with a teacher shortage, particularly in the areas of science, math and special education.
“For too long, we’ve forgotten about a population of students – community college students – that we could be educating to become our future teachers,” says Dr. Al Solano, project manager with SMC’s major teacher training initiatives.
Fueled by federal Title V grant money and a passionate and energetic team of professors, counselors and administrators, SMC has become in just two years a fertile training ground for future teachers. In fact, an independent evaluator recently called the joint SMC-El Camino College teacher education programs as “national models for management and organization.”
Since fall 1994, SMC, through its Teacher Academy, has taken several major steps in its campaign to enlist future elementary and high school teachers, get them excited about the field, and give them a jump start in their training before transferring to a four-year university. These moves, according to Dr. Sarita Santos, Teacher Academy project manager and instructor, include:
The results of these and other moves have been tangible. Of the 417 students in the SMC Teacher Academy, 76 percent want to teach at the elementary and high school levels. This, in a department that just three years ago focused almost exclusively on training pre-school teachers and child-care workers.
In addition, many SMC students majoring in other disciplines are being sought after as future teachers – particularly in science and math, disciplines in which the teacher shortage is notably acute.
“It’s extremely difficult to attract science and math students to the education profession,” Solano says. “SMC students who excel in math and science are typically not looking to become teachers.
“For example,” he says, “there are misconceptions about low salaries in teaching, so we let them know that they can earn, depending on the school district, a starting annual salary of $40,000 to $50,000 with a bachelor’s degree and credential – with summers off!”
The other challenge, he says, is that many science and math majors are focused on getting into medical school. But Solano points out that only a small minority of students – an average of less than 5 percent – is accepted into medical school, and that it’s wise for these students to explore the teaching profession.
Solano says The Copernicus Project has gone a long way in stirring excitement among these students.
“Copernicus was an amazing experience,” said SMC math major Scott Ingwersen. “We thought about how we would incorporate a research-based strategy into our own lesson plans. I was constantly thinking about how each seminar could be related to a math lesson, so the diversity of topics was not only stimulating but also served to remind me that all the sciences are interrelated.”
Interestingly, SMC is not just looking at academic achievers as candidates for future teachers. They are also targeting students whose school performance is not particularly stellar.
“Some people say, ‘Why help these students if they don’t do well academically? How can they teach?,’” Solano says. “The irony is that many students who become great teachers are the ones who struggled in school. They understand firsthand what it means to struggle so they come up with creative lesson plans and approaches to helping students learn.”
Solano says the Teacher Academy provides a number of special services to help these students perform better academically.
Not all the SMC students who are recruited as potential future teachers end up going into the field. But Solano says that is actually a good thing.
“Sometimes students get their bachelor’s degrees and teaching credentials only to discover they do not like teaching,” he says. “The program at SMC allows our students to find out early on whether this is a career they want to pursue.”
The Teacher Academy team continues to build on its early success to foster a growing pool of future educators.
“What we’re really excited about is our interdisciplinary ‘apple courses,’ which we introduced this semester,” Santos says. “In addition to regular content, these apple courses also infuse pedagogy, that is, how to teach the content.”
Apple courses currently
being offered are in science, math, geography, speech, psychology and
it’s very important for community colleges to define their piece
of training our future educators,” Cue says. “We’re
all very excited about the future prospects. It’s an exciting program
and it can be even more exciting.”
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Rolling Stone: The Student Loan Crusader: How Elizabeth Warren Wants to Reduce Debt
AUG 20, 2014
As a first-term senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren is advancing her fight for middle-class families with a legislative agenda focused on college affordability and student debt. "Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency," she says. "Forty million people are dealing with $1.2 trillion in outstanding student debt. It's stopping young people from buying homes, from buying cars and from starting small businesses. We need to take action."
Warren's bills range from pie-in-the-sky progressive - she called for college loans to be issued at the same, nearly free, interest rates that Wall Street banks receive from the Fed - to soberly bipartisan. Her proposal to refinance outstanding student-loan debt at less than four percent interest (financed by a new minimum tax on America's top earners) nearly cleared the Senate in June, and will return to the Senate floor for a new vote this fall. "This country invests in tax loopholes for billionaires," she says. "And forces college students to pay for them through higher interest rates on their loans. That makes no sense at all."
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1930 Ford Model A Sedan
Article and photos by Larry Crain
Old skool style rods have always been cool even back when they were first being built just as hot rods to cruise or race in. As a gearhead I love almost all things that have four wheels and burn fossil fuel but traditional style hot rods really catch my eye. This particular rod was on display at the 2017 Wild Wheels held in the New Orleans Superdome and it just screamed “Look at me! I am the history of hot rodding!”
This 1930 Ford Model A sedan is owned by Brion & Michelle Rose of Kenner, Louisiana. The project started in 2009 when Brion was given the body, and two years later, with a good bit of the work done by Brion, you see the end result of a home built rod!
The old Ford sedan has been chopped a total of four inches, channeled six inches over the frame, the doors are suicide and flush fitted to the body. All of the original wood inner structure has been replaced with steel and a new custom floor pan installed. Staying true to the old hot rod look, the tail lights are frenched Cadillac pieces, but a nod to safety is a flush mounted third brake light. All of the bodywork including blasting, welding and base paint was done by Brion at his home shop. Well-known painter Kal Smith was brought in to handle the lettering and clear coating of this black beauty.
The interior of this Model A hot rod is just as traditional with white tuck & roll on the bucket seats, door panels and dash. The covered dash is also home to a standard looking gauge insert that has a set of Dolphin gauges. Being a true hot rod there aren’t many upgrades to the interior except for the chrome steering column and a Lokar floor shifter.
The way-cool looking body sits on a custom chassis built by Brion in his home shop. The construction of the chassis is very unique with the front rails being constructed from ¼ inch plate that has been punched out to accommodate six different sizes of tubing that go into the rails. This set up is perfect for the suicide front axle. The custom rear half of the chassis is made up of 2x3 tubing that is under slung to carry a posi rear end and a four link suspension equipped with air bags. This chassis set up may be hot rod, but it is very safe with disc brakes on all four corners. Completing the chassis are the Radir wheels mounted with 10 inch Firestone whitewall cheater slicks on the rear and 4 inch Firestone whitewalls on the front.
The heavy duty custom chassis is home for an equally heavy duty motor that just gets in your face in a hurry. The attention getting motor is a 350 pumping out 680 horsepower built by Greg Hekimian Racing Engines. The Dart block is equipped with steel crank, forged pistons, aluminum heads, roller cam and roller rockers. The “in your face” part is the polished blower from The Blower Shop that is topped off with a pair of Demon 650cfm carbs and a polished air cleaner housing. The killer blown 350 motor is paired up with a GM Turbo 350 transmission that has been beefed up with a shift kit and a 2200 stall converter.
This awesome rod has now been around for almost six years and can still turn heads no matter where it goes because the look it has is almost timeless. I have to tip my cap to Brion Rose for building such a great looking car and for sharing it with the public so the traditional look might inspire others.
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Ottawa County Parks is pleased to announce the Grand Ravines Suspension Bridge is open to the public as of this morning.
Until recently, a suspension bridge in the Ottawa County Parks system seemed like a pipe dream. “When the master plan was created for Grand Ravines, those beautiful, deep ravines made it challenging to design a viable hiking trail system. We were fortunate to get a permanent trail easement donated by neighboring landowners, which helped in navigating the steep terrain. For a full loop, crossing a major ravine with a trail was unavoidable and a suspension bridge was added into the plan, knowing it was an amenity that may never be financially feasible,” said David VanGinhoven, President of the Parks Commission.
Thanks to a generous individual, with great interest in the Parks’ “pie in the sky” idea, that dream has become reality. “Beatrice Aldrink Idema, known by most as Bea, has very generously donated the funds needed to construct a suspension bridge, allowing a trail connection between the north and south sides of the park,” said VanGinhoven at an event this spring.
Bea was in attendance at a small unveiling event on September 14 and was the first person to cross the officially completed bridge. She will be honored at the Grand Ravines Dedication Event on October 5, 2017 (see below for details).
The Grand Ravines Suspension Bridge is 275′ feet long and 70′ in the air; it’s believed to be the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in Michigan, and, the greater midwest region. It is fully ADA accessible, with paved, accessible paths leading to the bridge on both sides (both segments of pathway that connect to the bridge were covered by yet another donor).
The bridge was constructed by Anlaan Corporation, based out of Grand Haven. “We were incredibly impressed with their work and their timeline. They completed the bridge in three months, right on schedule. It will be a great spot to see fall color,” said Parks Director, John Scholtz. “Grand Ravines is already such a beautiful place and this bridge makes it a true Michigan destination. We are confident that this bridge, and the Grand River Explorers Trail that will run through the park, will bring visitors from near and far, eager to enjoy everything this area of the county has to offer.”
The Parks Commission has received many donations, both large and small, from the community throughout the years. Many parties are to thank for making Grand Ravines the special park it is today. The ravine overlook was built with a gift from the Aldrink family. The dog park has received support from park users, Chow Hound Pet Supplies, the Hudsonville-Jenison Community Foundation, local veterinarians and businesses, most recently WorkSmart Database Masters, LLC and many others.
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Fall is approaching fast and, as one of the last summer fruits, plums are hitting the market stands. My favorite kind of plums are the dark, small ones, also called Italian plums. In Germany they are called Zwetschgen. They are more tart then the normal yellow or red plums and their flesh is usually firm. These qualities make them perfect for baking. The Zwetschgenkuchen is a traditional fall cake in Germany. You will find it in any bakery and family gathering at this time of year.
Plum cakes are traditionally made with either a shortcrust or a yeast dough, often with streusel on top. The following recipe is a very easy one, using a basic shortcrust, which is also used for the streusel. I made a smaller cake as in the recipe and just froze the leftover dough. Leftover dough is great to have for making up something fast. For example I often use it to make some small fruit tartlets.
enough for a 10 inch Ø (26cm) springform
300g all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 pounds (about 1kg) Italian plums
2 tablespoons sliced almonds
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 Celsius).
Line the springform pan with parchment paper.
In a mixer or by hand mix the ingredients for the dough and knead into a ball.
Save some dough for the streusel. Roll out the rest and line it in the springform, including the side walls. If the dough is to soft, cool it for about half an hour before rolling.
Cut the plums in half and remove the pits. Lay the plums on the dough in circles.
Sprinkle the rest of the dough on top of the plums, followed by sliced almonds.
Put in the oven and bake for about 50-60 minutes.
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Rolling contact fatigue in rolling element bearing (REB) is a common surface degradation and failure mechanism. Limited experimental studies were reported on fatigue degradation, in particular, in grease lubricated conditions. This project examines the evolution of the fatigue degradation process through collecting, imaging and characterisation of the damaged surface to further understand the tribological changes in the process. Ball bearings with a seeded, irregular-shaped dent on the outer race were tested in a grease lubricated condition and on a bearing test rig. Moulding technique was used to replicate the damaged surface during the fatigue test. Also, 4 different shapes of initial defects and round-shaped dents in 3 sizes were introduced onto the outer raceway of test bearings to study effects of the shapes and sizes of initial defects on the fatigue degradation process as they are considered significant factors in fatigue propagation. This study has confirmed that the fatigue damage propagated on both the trailing and leading edges of the initial defect. The quantitative analysis reported that the wear depth on the trailing edge was measured more than that on the leading edge by over 100 μm, indicating different stresses distribution on the two edges of the seeded defect. In addition, the leading-edge damage surface was observed ‘self-healing’ or smoothening phenomenon. The shape study suggested similarities with propagating behaviour among the tested shapes of the initial defects. The initial shapes of defects mainly affected the fatigue propagation at the early stage where the first spall was initiated and fatigue progression on the leading-edge side of damaged surface in terms of the length of defected surface and the features of the damaged surface. The size influence study demonstrated that increasing size of the defect enlarged the effect of impact by rolling elements, evidenced by generating rougher surface, and thus shortened fatigue life. The study provides insights in the fatigue process of rolling bearings through monitoring the evolution of the tribological features of the degraded surface. The obtained information can be useful in fatigue model validation and development of effective online techniques for monitoring and prediction of the fatigue progress of REBs. | <urn:uuid:d28a58b1-4795-466a-9679-5f287d09b072> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/handle/1959.4/70902 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.949223 | 413 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Medical Student Saving Lives with Baking Soda in Haiti
Posted in GUMC Stories
Imagine the dangers of cooking inside your home on a charcoal stove while your young children play at your feet. That’s the deadly reality of many living in Haiti where kitchen fires quickly get out of hand leading devastating burns that leave many, especially children, maimed and in excruciating pain. It’s a situation that future doctor David Weiner (M’14) witnessed during a medical mission trip to Haiti in 2011. What he saw spurred him to start what he came to call “The Baking Soda Project.”
As stated on its website, “The Baking Soda Project is dedicated to providing elegant, affordable and sustainable solutions to combat fires, burns and disease in underserved countries.” The idea is simple: in the absence of fire extinguishers, baking soda can provide an effective way to extinguish a small grease fire before it can spread. But Weiner knew it would take more than just a box of baking soda to make a change.
This summer, we checked in with the third-year medical student to find out about the progress of The Baking Soda Project, a year after its start.
How did The Baking Soda Project come about?
The project started last summer when I was on a medical mission trip to the CRUDEM Foundation’s Hôpital Sacré Coeur led by Washington, D.C.-area plastic surgeon Dr. Al Fleury (M’74, R’80), breast cancer surgeon Dr. Colette Magnant (R’86) and local internist Dr. Andrew Umhau (R’88). While there, I worked with Dr. David Milzman (M’86) associate professor of emergency medicine at Georgetown.
We were struck by the number of severe burn victims that were being admitted. Dr. Milzman explained how in past years, many of the patients Dr. Fleury had cared for were burn patients, especially children. In fact, he and Dr. Magnant had recieved a grant in 2010 to purchase a skin grafting device for use in the hospital.
It was Dr. Milzman who suggested we look into the cause of the burn injuries more closely. (Dr. Milzman is also director of student research at the School of Medicine and director of emergency medicine research at Washington Hospital Center). We found that most burns were caused by indoor cooking fires that would spread and cause fully involved house fires resulting in severe and fatal burns. After returning home, I contacted CRUDEM about sending over baking soda boxes to be used as makeshift fire extinguishers to protect the families and their homes. They loved the idea and since then it has taken off.
The Baking Soda Project is fairly straight forward. Can you explain?
Boxes of baking soda can be purchased for under $1 each in bulk. We label the boxes with special instructions written in Haitian Creole and with easy-to-understand graphics explaining how and when to use the baking soda. The boxes are sent to the hospital where we volunteered on shipments containing medical supplies, and are then distributed out of the hospital free of charge. Additionally, we have volunteers take the boxes to less accessible houses in the mountains so that families who do not travel near the hospital regularly also receive them.
There’s more to this effort than just sending baking soda. Tell us what else you’re working on.
The Baking Soda Project is not just about passing out fire extinguishers, it is about combating a leading cause of human injury and illness in Haiti by promoting the ability of a strong community to collectively say, “enough” and protecting themselves and each other through education and preventative measures.
Education and community involvement are necessary for the adoption of safer cooking practices. Although many know are aware of the high rates of burns and fires from cooking stoves, there is no plan in place to make a change. It is one of our objectives to both implement and support education and awareness throughout the community. We have teamed up with the Burn Advocates Network (a nonprofit organization that supports burn survivors in several countries, including Haiti) to help establish a grade school education program and poster campaign promoting safe cooking practices. It is our hope that by educating young children about the dangers of fire and unsafe cooking practices, we can reduce the number of injuries in this over represented group of victims.
Why are kitchen fires seemingly more common in Haiti?
Most people cook on charcoal stoves located inside the homes in Haiti. Excess fuel, someone accidentally knocking the stoves over, or leaving the stove unattended are just a few of the ways that fires become out of control and cause injury or death.
How did you come up with this idea?
I spent many years as a volunteer firefighter before medical school in Abington, Pennsylvania. During my training, we were taught about the beneficial effect that baking soda has on grease/cooking fires. This is where the idea to use the baking soda came from and why I took such an interest in these burn victims to begin with.
What has The Baking Soda Project achieved in its first year and what are your future goals?
So far we have successfully sent over 1000 pounds of baking soda. With the help of Dr. Milzman and graduate student Chris Fleury, we have initiated a study within the community to assess the level of fire safety awareness, how the residents believe the incidents occur, and the willingness to accept intervention. Preliminary results are encouraging, and we believe that there is a real opportunity to make a quantifiable difference in the rates of injury and death that are caused by these fires.
How can people help?
People can visit our website, www.bakingsodaproject.org and make a donation or just spread the word about the project!
What’s next for you?
I just started my third year at the School of Medicine and started on the internal medicine rotation at Virginia Hospital Center. I am very excited for the opportunity to participate in patient care. I have truly enjoyed the transition from lecturers and classrooms to having the patient as my teacher and the clinic as my classroom. I hope to pursue a career in trauma surgery.
By Karen Mallet, GUMC Communications
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The Oxygen Pressure Switch is designed for use in Oxygen Systems where the pressure is controlled in the range of 60-90 PSIG. If system pressure drops to 45-50 PSIG the switch sends a signal to an annunciator or EICAS computer, warning of low system pressure. The unit may be mounted “In-Line” in the system distribution tubing, saving weight, space, and leak points. The Oxygen Pressure Switch comes provided with mounting holes for bulkhead or panel mounting. Standard units provided with silver contacts capable of 2 AMP switching loads at 28 VDC. Also available on special order, gold plated bifurcated contacts for low level switching. | <urn:uuid:9a656d15-79cf-49dd-a94d-e4ce1c5b68f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ppp.aero/ptv-35.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00129-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.867481 | 142 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant were safe from the worst waves an earthquake could muster based on a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago.
In the Dec. 19, 2001, document — one double-sized page obtained by The Associated Press under Japan’s public records law — Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) rules out the possibility of a tsunami large enough to knock the plant offline and gives scant details to justify this conclusion, which proved to be wildly optimistic.
Regulators at the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), had asked plant operators for assessments of their earthquake and tsunami preparedness. They did not mind the brevity of TEPCO’s response, and apparently made no moves to verify its calculations or ask for supporting documents.
“This is all we saw,” said Masaru Kobayashi, who now heads NISA’s quake-safety section. “We did not look into the validity of the content.”
The memo has Japanese text, boxes and numbers. It also has a tiny map of Japan indicating where historical earthquakes are believed to have struck. TEPCO considered five quakes, ranging from magnitude 8.0 to 8.6, in northeastern Japan, and a magnitude 9.5 earthquake across the Pacific near Chile, as examples of possible tsunami-causing temblors.
In the next nine years, despite advances in earthquake and tsunami science, the document gathered dust and was never updated.
When TEPCO finally did revisit tsunami preparedness last year, it was the most cursory of checks, and the conclusion was the same: The facility would remain dry under every scenario the utility envisioned.
“There was an attitude of disrespecting nature,” said Kobe University professor emeritus Katsuhiko Ishibashi, who has sat on government nuclear safety advisory panels.
The towering waves unleashed by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11 destroyed backup generators for several reactors’ cooling systems, and nuclear fuel in three reactors melted in the worst such crisis since Chernobyl. Workers have yet to bring the plant under control more than two months later.
Ishibashi said the problem with the plant’s tsunami preparedness did not lie with the limitations of science back in 2001. The problem was that TEPCO and regulators did not look at risk factors more carefully.
“It is critical to be prepared for what might happen even if the possibilities are small,” he said.
NISA’s request for tsunami risk assessments did not have the force of law and thus the operators’ responses technically were voluntary, but in Japan’s often-informal regulatory structure, regulators would expect such a request to be obeyed.
TEPCO’s memo was titled “The Assessment of Effects Related to the Japan Society of Civil Engineers’ ‘Guidelines on Tsunami Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants’ — Fukushima Dai-ichi and Dai-ni Nuclear Power Plants.”
The company said it used measures for expected earthquakes and other “parameters” to calculate that water would not surpass 5.7m at Fukushima Dai-ichi.
The waters set off by the March tsunami reached 14m above sea level, according to TEPCO.
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Peter, is there an ADY chart similar to the one Craig created for live yeast? To help figure out amount of ADY required depending on fermentation period.
I am not aware of any such chart. I think the reason is that there so many different dough formulations that can use ADY (and in different ways) and they can have many different fermentation protocols that can include room temperature fermentations, cold (refrigerator/cooler) fermentations, controlled-temperature fermentations and even mixtures of fermentation protocols. Also, dough formulations that use ADY (or any other commercial yeast) can often include ingredients beyond the basic ingredients of flour, water, yeast and salt--for example, sugar and oil just to name just a couple.
The above said, I am aware of one method that can be used with a given dough formulation that allows one to adjust the amount of ADY (or any other commercial yeast) to adapt the dough formulation to a different fermentation protocol (based on temperatures and times). That method is described in Reply 6 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,5028.msg42572.html#msg42572
and elsewhere in the same thread. However, to use that method, one has to create a Reference Rate (Rf
). That Reference Rate is based on achieving a particular condition of the dough, such as a doubling in volume (although it can be more or less than a doubling). But to come up with the Reference Rate, you have to measure all of the applicable temperatures and times including, in the case of temperatures, the finished dough temperature and the fermentation temperature (or several fermentation temperatures if more than one is used such as in the example in Reply 6 referenced above). In a home setting, temperatures can be a problem sometimes because of variations in room temperatures and, in the case of cold fermentations, refrigerator temperatures. However, with some tweaking of the yeast quantity and/or finished dough temperature, I suspect that these variations can be smoothed out.
I think you can see why few people beyond a couple of crazies like Craig and me play around with these sorts of methods. But, in reality, if the changes for a particular dough formulation are simple, such as changing the fermentation temperature or the fermentation time, the math actually becomes quite simple and manageable. November's example in Reply 6 referenced above becomes much simpler and all you need is a simple online scientific calculator such as the one shown at http://www.eeweb.com/toolbox/calculator
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Overview of Disability
Disability Back Pay
Requirements for Disability
Applications for disability
Tips and Advice for Disability Claims
How long does Disability take?
Winning Disability Benefits
Common Mistakes after a Denial
Mental Disability Benefits
Denials for Disability
Appeals for denied claims
Disability Benefits from SSA
Child Disability Benefits
Qualifications and How to Qualify
Working and Disability
Disability Awards and Notices
Disability Lawyers, Hiring Attorneys
Social Security List of Conditions
What Social Security considers disabling
Medical Evidence and Disability
Filing for Disability Benefits
Eligibility for Disability Benefits
SSD SSI Definitions
SSDRC authored by Tim Moore
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Hiring a Qualified Disability Lawyer in Alabama
Claimants with representation in Alabama tend to be approved in higher percentages, have a need for fewer appeals, and more favorable "dates of onset" (the date the disability is proven to have begun) which can result in higher back pay benefits.
A qualified representative will have a knowledge of Social Security administrative law and procedures, especially with regard to how claims are approved through the Social Security listings and the medical vocational grid rules.
A qualified and competent representative or lawyer will also be skilled in the ability to obtain the most relevant case evidence, analyze it correctly, and incorporate it as part of a winning strategy for a claim.
This, of course, is where unrepresented claimants may have their greatest disadvantage. Medical records, even when they are submitted in great quantity, will not, in and of themselves, win a disability claim.
Instead, the evidence that is presented must either A) demonstrate that a claimant has what SSA refers to as a listing-level impairment, or B) the records that are obtained must prove the existence of functional limitations that rule out the claimant's past work activity, as well as rule out their vocational capacity to switch to new and other types of work.
A qualified and experience disability representative or attorney will know which information in a claimant's cumulative medical records is actually relevant and helpful toward winning a claim for disability.
Representation for SSD or SSI benefits in Alabama may be provided through a disability lawyer or a specialized non-attorney disability representative. Many non-attorney representatives are former Social Security Administration Claims Specialists and Disability Examiners who have many years of experience both reviewing and deciding claims.
Should there be a preference for one type of representative versus the other? In actuality, no. But since the Social Security system is fairly complex and intricate, the representative a claimant chooses should be one that specializes in Social Security cases only. For example, an att
1. When can you get a disability attorney or representative in Alabama? - A person filing for disability may obtain representation at any point in their claim. Many claimants will seek representation after the claim has been initially denied (which, in most states, will mean that the next step will involve requesting a reconsideration appeal).
At the very least, however, a claimant should be represented by the time their case gets to the hearing level. Going to a hearing unrepresented is nearly always ill-advised and many judges will advise claimants who appear by themselves at a hearing that they may have their hearing rescheduled so that a disability attorney or non-attorney disability representative may be obtained.
2. Should you get early representation on a disability claim? - Some claimants will choose to get representation after their initial claim has been denied. This is usually very helpful because, from that point forward, it ensures that all appeals will be filed in a timely manner and that the case will be monitored by a third party. Many individuals, however, will benefit from representation at the very beginning of the process. In many instances, this may mean a claimant being assisted in the filing of their claim and this
3. Will a disability attorney speed up a claim and help you get a decision faster? - At certain points in a claim, a representative may be able to introduce evidence that results in a decision being made faster than it would be made otherwise. At the hearing level, an attorney may request an on-the-record decision if they feel the evidence of the case is particularly strong. However, even at the application and reconsideration appeal levels, an attorney may be able to provide enough information to an examiner to facilitate an approval being made.
To learn about fees for representation, see: "How do disability lawyers get paid?"
If you are filing for Social Security (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability in Alabama, your chances of being approved for disability benefits are very slim. Only 28.6% of disability applicants are approved for disability in Alabama compared to a national average of 31.5%. More than two thirds of the people who file a disability claim in Alabama are denied.
Does this mean you have no chance of winning disability benefits? Not necessarily, it just means the Social Security disability process can be long and difficult.
If your initial Social Security claim is denied, you can appeal the decision with a reconsideration appeal. And this can be done with or without a disability attorney or a disability representative. Unfortunately, those who file their reconsideration are even less likely to win their disability benefits. About 83% of the disability claimants who file reconsideration appeals in Alabama are denied.
Denial rates for initial disability claims and reconsideration appeals are so high that many disability claimants across the nation assume they must be denied at least one time, perhaps two times, before they are approved for disability.
If your reconsideration appeal has been denied, you can appeal this denial by requesting a hearing with an administrative law judge. If you are an Alabama resident, your disability claim has a better than average chance of being approved for disability at your disability hearing. The Alabama disability hearing approval rate is 63.8% compared to the national average of 55.9%.
Since this is the best opportunity to win your disability case, you should consider obtaining the services of a disability attorney or non-attorney Social Security Representative who is familiar with Social Security disability vocational and medical guidelines.
As an average claimant, it is unlikely that you would know what kind of medical or vocational information you need for your disability case, or how to interpret the basis for prior decisions, let alone how the medical-vocational grid rules were used to deny your claim at the disability application or reconsideration appeal levels.
Note: It does not matter if a claimant’s representative is a non-attorney disability representative or a disability attorney. Many non-attorney disability representatives are former employees of SSA, or are former disability examiners such as the author of SSDRC.com, Tim Moore.
The most two important characteristics of a representative is that they be knowledgeable about the Social Security disability (and SSI) system, and that they specialize in handling SSD and SSI claims. Many attorneys handles a variety of cases (traffic, malpractice, workman’s comp, personal injury) and, thus, do not develop an expert knowledge of Social Security claims.
By contrast, non-attorney representatives, many of whom formerly worked in the system themselves, do only one thing: focus on title II Social Security Disability and title 16 SSI disability claims. The basic point, of course, is this: always choose a specialist, not a generalist, because the disability system is complex and encompasses regulations, administrative procedure, and court rulings. Attorneys who do not specialize often fail to have an adequate understanding of SSD and SSI even after years of practice.
At a hearing, the burden of being knowledgeable about the Social Security Administrative law system is even stronger since a disability lawyer or non-attorney disability representative will need to be cognizant of SSA regulations (from the code of federal regulations), be knowledgeable about prior Social Security court rulings, and will often be required to respond to expert testimony provided by a medical or vocational witness brought in by the judge.
It is for this reason that Social Security disability judges routinely advise disability claimants who attend their hearing without representation of their right to representation.
In Alabama or any other state, a disability lawyer can be helpful not matter what level of the disability process your claim is at. If your initial disability claim is denied, they will file your reconsideration appeal for you and if your reconsideration appeal is denied they will file your disability hearing appeal for you. They prepare your disability case by obtaining necessary medical records, physician statements, or the services of a vocational or medical expert to help substantiate the facts of your disability claim.
Additionally, they will present your disability case to the judge in a way that is most favorable to you being approved for disability benefits. The services of a competent representative could make the difference between winning a losing your disability claim. It takes a long time to get a disability hearing and if you do not win your case, you will have to start this long process all over.
Return to: Social Security Disability Resource Center, or read answers to Questions
Information on the following topics can be found here: Social Security Disability Questions and in these subsections:
Frequently asked questions about getting Denied for Disability Benefits | FAQ on Disability Claim Representation | Info about Social Security Disability Approvals and Being Approved | FAQ on Social Security Disability SSI decisions | The SSD SSI Decision Process and what gets taken into consideration | Disability hearings before Judges | Medical exams for disability claims | Applying for Disability in various states | Selecting and hiring Disability Lawyers | Applying for Disability in North Carolina | Recent articles and answers to questions about SSD and SSI
These pages answer some of the most basic questions for individuals who are considering filing a claim.
Filing for disability - How to file for SSD or SSI and the Information that is needed by Social Security
How to Apply for Disability - What medical conditions can you apply and qualify for?
Applying for Disability - How long does it take to get Social Security Disability or SSI benefits?
What happens if I file a disability application and it is denied by a disability examiner or Judge?
How to Prove you are disabled and qualify to win disability benefits
How do you prove your disability case if you have a mental condition or impairment?
Social Security Disability Back pay and How Long it Takes to Qualify for it and receive it
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3 September 2015
Savvy spending on a student budget
It’s that time of year when thousands of students will be gearing up to their first term at university. After receiving your A Level results, next on the agenda will be securing halls of residence, buying all the homeware essentials and most importantly getting your finances in shape before leaving home.
While it may be tempting to let your parents do all the organising, there are plenty of ways to get a quick handle on your money and plan your own budgets, building those all-important budgeting skills in the process.
We’ve got some essential tips for the few weeks leading up to university, and once you’ve arrived and settled in.
Choose the right bank account for you
The best accounts are those that understand the student situation, particularly the constant fluctuation of money going in and out. Many banks will try and draw students in with ‘freebies’, but it’s important to look beyond this initial incentive and concentrate on the account’s key functions.
Whilst it would always be best to complete University with no overdraft, as you will have to pay it off after, we understand that a number of students will need one at some time. If this is something that you will need or feel you may need then aim to get the biggest and longest guaranteed 0% overdraft. Once you have your overdraft in place, its crucial you don’t go over the limit or you could end up facing huge charges. You should also seek to clear your overdraft as soon as possible to maintain a healthy credit record.
Expect the unexpected
Knowing what your monthly outgoings will be, and when they will leave your account, is a great way of staying on top of your finances. But undoubtedly there will be costs you didn’t necessarily account for. Whether it’s joining a sports team, buying university books or travelling to visit friends or back home, it’s important to bear these unexpected costs in mind every month. Forward planning as much as you can will help you account for these costs that might crop up, but it’s worth being prepared for the unforeseen outgoings.
Give yourself a monthly allowance and stick to it
It’s important to have a monthly allowance to keep on top of your finances. But the size of your allowance will depend on a number of things, for instance; the costs of your student accommodation, essential outgoings like your phone bill or TV licence, and also the city you live in. Universities in London will massively differ in expenses compared to Plymouth, for instance. No matter what the allowance, the important thing is to do your sums properly and budget for all likely costs (with a little leftover for the unexpected).
Remember, university is a hugely enriching experience, and you don’t want to be a hermit for three, four or five years while studying. Allow for socialising in your allowance too.
Credit card: should you apply?
The decision to have a credit card should not be taken lightly as you will still need to have money coming in to pay off your bill. The balance outstanding should be cleared where possible and you should be paying more than the minimum amount each month. Using an interest free overdraft should also be a first port of call before a credit card.
But there may be times when you really do need a credit card over a debit card and if used correctly, you could get yourself a good credit rating in the long run. Some banks will offer a credit card as part of their current account package. The key with a credit card is management of the debt and knowing your limit.
Equally important is never using your credit card to withdraw money, as you will be charged a withdrawal fee. There are some (even now) that are only too willing to help people get into debt. Make a considered decision before jumping into applying for a credit card, and remember it all has to be paid back.
Make the most of the discounts
As a student, you’ll be privy to plenty of discounts, so make the most of these where suitable for your needs. For instance, a student rail card will give you a third off the standard price of most rail tickets – if you know you’ll be travelling a lot through university, either home or to visit friends, this is a very worthwhile investment with big potential savings over the course of a year.
Elsewhere, an NUS ‘Extra’ card, at £12 per year, will give you a discount on shopping, eating out and some tech. Whereas dedicated websites, like StudentBeans, will offer e-vouchers for anything from stationary to food.
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Despair, in due course, eventually dulls. Stains the soul. Like marbled eggs. Their hard white flesh stained with tea. Before love. The emptiness was incongruous. The ache was still there. Treading lightly. The day after, however, the crushing act of leaving keeps you silent.
Water rushes past a bridge. The footpath wet with autumn leaves. You hold your water bottle. Since there is no one to hold your hand. The chill marks the beginning. You wrap your shawl tightly around your body. And make your way, alone, to the museum.
In times of stress, the body aches for touch. Every cell throbs for skin. You try to hold yourself but realize that your skin still aches. Throbs. Dull. You try to find a friend, to wash the pain into the river. But they are all busy. You miss human touch.
"The skin, the skin needs to be touched."
Freedom isn't free. I think someone told me that once. Before they left for war. Not in a desert, or savage land. You can remember mangoes hanging of the tree.
"Meet me on the Green."
The day will come when you no longer wait for me to walk in. Prepare vegetables for dinner. Make a salad with chickpeas and onions.
I regret the loss of us. The final marker of failure. Our tongues trip on words that have long since been lost. Our bodies separate and eventually fade. A distant shimmer. A haunting melody. A fragmented memory. Stars shine on potential, they speak the thoughts that could have been. Mangoes, heavy with juice, eventually fall. Splitting open.
"I couldn't find you..."
One day. In the afternoon. In October. It was raining. You make a cup of tea. And forget about it. Returning hours later, it is cold. The bitterness on your tongue gives you something else to remember. Something else to think about. Standing, you compose a poem. Somewhere, in another city, someone is staring at a blank canvas. | <urn:uuid:a2a07fab-b1d2-4e50-b198-3e341c31b7b6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.naropa.edu/academics/jks/publications/notenoughnight/spring-10/after-love-the-day-after.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00273-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95166 | 435 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Stranger Things Happen is being released as a Free Download under Creative Commons license on July 1, 2005, to celebrate the publication of Kelly Link’s second collection, Magic for Beginners. If all goes as planned Magic for Beginners will be released on September 15, 2005 (when all the rights have reverted to the author). This book is governed by Creative Commons licenses that permit its unlimited noncommercial redistribution,
The line at Starbucks. The movies. The Internet. Even the dry cleaners... there are dozens of opportunites to seize the date, but millions of lonely singles pass them by!
David Wygant shows readers just how easy it can be to overcome fear and meet new people in their daily routines. David explains the three simple steps to getting a date with ease: being prepared, being aware, and making contact.
Everyday English Australia gồm 26 bài Tiếng Anh ở Úc. Các bài học này sẽ tập trung vào các sử dụng các tình huống tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất của người Úc như: Chào hỏi, làm quen, đề nghị, cách hỏi giờ, hỏi đường... Và sau đây là nội dung chi tiết của bài 2 Talking to a stranger.
EVERYDAY ENGLISH FROM AUSTRALIA – Series 1 TIẾNG ANH THÔNG DỤNG Ở AUSTRALIA – Loạt 1
Bài 2: talking to a stranger (bắt chuyện với một người lạ)
Part 1 - THE DIALOGUE (đối thoại) Cũng giống như ở Bài 1, bây
Nhu cầu bảo mật thông tin có những thay đổi lớn trong thời gian gần đây
“We use computers for everything from banking and investing to shopping and
communicating with others through email or chat programs. Although you may not
consider your communications "top secret," you probably do not want strangers
reading your email, using your computer to attack other systems, sending forged
email from your computer, or examining personal information stored on your
computer (such as financial statements).”...
As students you want to feel confident in real-life situations when you are speaking English. Through this series you will hear what real English speakers say in everyday situations, such as meeting strangers or planning a celebration, and learn to understand the words they use.
Grammar: Chapter 9 - Modals and Phrases of Request, permission, desire, and preference. Use CAN, COULD, WILL, and WOULD to make requests. CAN and WILL are less
formal than COULD and WOULD. We usually use CAN and WILL in informal
conversations with friends and family. We use COULD and WOULD to make
polite requests in formal situations when we speak to strangers or to people in
The distance that two people who are kissing keep their hips apart can tell you something about the relationship that exists between them. Lovers press their torsos hard against each other and move within each other’s close intimate zones. This differs from the kiss received from a stranger on New Year’s Eve or from your best friend’s spouse, both of whom keep their pelvic area at least 15 centimetres away from yours. One of the exceptions to the distance/ intimacy rule occurs where the spatial distance is based on the person’s social standing.
Bài 2: talking to a stranger (bắt chuyện với một người lạ).
Part 1 - THE DIALOGUE (đối thoại):Cũng giống như ở Bài 1, bây giờ xin mời các bạn nghe một số đoạn đối thoại ngắn. Trong khi nghe, các bạn cố gắng theo dõi và không nhìn vào sách. Tại bến ô tô một người đàn ông đang hỏi thăm giờ ô tô chạy. Dialogue 1: MAN: WOMAN: Ah… excuse me, can you tell me when the next bus is due, please? Ah, it's due in 5 minutes. ...
The Art of Public Speaking an apposite anecdote has saved many a speech from failure. "There is no finer opportunity for the display of tact than in the introduction of witty or humorous stories into a discourse. Wit is keen and like a rapier, piercing deeply, sometimes even to the heart. Humor is good−natured, and does not wound. Wit is founded upon the sudden discovery of an unsuspected relation existing between two ideas. Humor deals with things out of relation−−with the incongruous. It was wit in Douglass Jerrold to retort upon the scowl of a stranger whose shoulder he had...
The aim of this book, announced in the first edition, is to give a bird’seye
view of undergraduate mathematics and a glimpse of wider horizons.
The second edition aimed to broaden this view by including new chapters
on number theory and algebra, and to engage readers better by including
many more exercises. This third (and possibly last) edition aims to increase
breadth and depth, but also cohesion, by connecting topics that were previously
strangers to each other, such as projective geometry and finite groups,
and analysis and combinatorics....
Chapter 10.Communications and Presentations. Presentations can range from a short talk before a small group of acquaintances or colleagues to a lengthy speech to a group of strangers. No matter the audience or the setting, formal or informal, small or large, the best presentations leave the audience informed and interested.
"Computer, draw a robot!" said my young cousin to the first computer he had ever seen. (Since I
had instructed it not to listen to strangers, the computer wasn't receptive to this command.) If
you're like me, your first thought would be "how silly" or "how funny"—but this is a mistake. Our
educated and modeled brains have learned how to work with computers to a certain degree. People
are being educated to accommodate computers, to compensate for the lack of ability of computers
to understand humans.
Những con chuột! Nó bắt đầu tuyệt vời như vậy. Buổi nói chuyện nhỏ được thoải mái. Quarry của bạn đang mỉm cười và nghiêng trong, và cô ấy dường như dễ tiếp thu. Nhưng khi nó đến thời gian để có được những thứ nhàm chán và nhiều chủ đề thú vị, bạn có gắn lưỡi. Dưới đây là một bài kiểm tra. Trong cuộc nói chuyện nhỏ ở trên, có một nở thoát, một anh đào. Bà hấp dẫn Stranger nói một từ mà bạn...
Ebook Child safety coloring & activity book features information on "stranger danger," staying safe at home, at school, and on the internet. It also features information on bike safety, gun safety, the dangers of drugs and alcohol and much more. We encourage you to read through this activity book with your child/student.
One Sunday morning, about the year 1661, a group of Indians was gathered around a noble-looking man,
listening to a story he was reading. It was summer and the day was beautiful, and the little Indian children
who sat listening were so interested that not even the thought of their favorite haunts by brookside or meadow
could tempt them from the spot. The story was about the life of Christ and his mission to the world, and the
children had heard it many times, but to-day it seemed new to them because it was read in their own language,
which had never been printed before....
A lot should be written as two words. Although a lot is used informally to mean "a large number" or "many," avoid using a lot in formal writing. Example: "The crook had many (not a lot of) chances to rob the stranger."
Less than twenty years ago photolithography and medicine were total strangers to one
another. They had not yet met, and not even looking each other up in the classifieds. And
then, nucleic acid chips, microfluidics and microarrays entered the scene, and rapidly these
strangers became indispensable partners in biomedicine.
As recently as ten years ago the notion of applying nanotechnology to the fight against disease
was dominantly the province of the fiction writers.
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Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma in Prior Asbestos Workers
|Study Design:||Observational Model: Case Control|
|Official Title:||Early Diagnosis of Mesothelioma and Lung Cancer Following Asbestos Exposure Using Low-dose Computed Tomography|
|Study Start Date:||March 2005|
|Estimated Study Completion Date:||March 2017|
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:||March 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)|
prior occupational exposure at least 20 years ago to ASBESTOS and / or documented pleural plaques on a chest x-ray Must be 30 years of age or older. NO prior cancers, except non-melanic skin cancers
Background and Purpose:
Asbestos exposure may result in several different diseases to the lung and to the lining of the lung, the so-called pleura. Mostly they are benign, but there are two common malignant diseases in people with prior asbestos exposure, the so-called mesothelioma - which originates from the pleura - and cancer of the lung. Symptoms of any of these malignant diseases generally do not appear for 10-35 years after the first asbestos exposure, and include shortness of breath, chronic or new cough, coughing of blood, chest pain or weight loss. Unfortunately, these symptoms are most often causes by very advanced diseases, when patients can no longer be cured. Currently there is no accepted tool for the early diagnosis of mesothelioma or lung cancer in asbestos-exposed subjects available. Standard of care includes regular chest radiographs, which are not sufficient to show mesothelioma or lung cancer in an early stage.
A screening CT examination, also called CAT scan, of the lungs will be performed without intravenous contrast. The CT examination as such is not an experimental procedure, CAT scans are performed routinely since decades. However, in this particular case, this albeit standard examination is performed for the purposes of research only, it is not part of standard of care. The screening CT examination of the lungs takes less than 10-20 minutes to perform.
If no abnormalities are found on the initial examinations, you will be examined with one repeat screening CT of the chest after one year.
If pleural plaques or a nodule in the lungs is seen on your baseline CT, this will lead to further testing. Quite likely (approximately 1 in 3 chance), you will be invited for a follow-up CT 3 or 6 months. Further investigations will be chosen according to standard of care and will be explained to you at the time. These will be coordinated by your physician with Dr. Marc de Perrot, Department of Thoracic Surgery.
Secondly, there is evidence in other types of cancers such as cancers of the prostate and ovary, that analysis of blood may reveal protein markers that indicate the presence of cancer in the body. A companion blood analysis study is being undertaken in an effort to discover such markers for lung cancer and mesothelioma, so that the accuracy of CT-scan diagnosis for lung cancer may be further improved.
Both at the time of your baseline screening CT and at your annual follow-up screening CT, you will be asked to provide 5 ml (approximately 2 teaspoons full) blood sample through a needle stick. A blood-taking technician employed by the University Health Network or a certified nurse will carry out this procedure. Purpose of this study is to search in the blood for so-called "markers", substances in the blood which indicate that there is a cancer in the lungs or pleura.
Most of these markers are still in development, thus your blood will be stored and analyzed at a future date.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00188890
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What is Chai anyway?
Chai is from India, and its people have been drinking chai tea for centuries. One of the first things you notice within our tea blog is no matter what region any organic tea comes from; whether China or India, the point is they have been drinking it for thousands of years because it’s healthy.
In today’s society, more so within the late 20th and early 21st century, we are constantly bombarded with information on what’s not good for us. More and more each day, we are constantly fed disturbing information about particular foods and drinks that can ultimately hurt us in the long run.
But, when it comes to organic tea, teas like chai or masala chai tea, rest assured you will never hear anything bad pertaining to health. After all, as mentioned in our introduction, these types of herb teas have been long standing traditions across old civilizations, and in India they continue to reap the benefits of drinking chai tea.
And here’s why:
Chai tea from India is made using different types of formulas’; this actually depends on which region chai tea is being made. However, there is a standard set of ingredients widely used, which includes ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, fennel, black pepper, clove and black tea. One common blend becoming increasing popular throughout the world is Chai spiced milk tea; this is made up of rich black tea, heavy milk, a blend of the above ingredients already mentioned and sweetener.
Chai Tea Health Benefits
Chai tea and masala chai tea are packed full of healthy goodness. In fact the more we learn about chai tea, the more the health benefits keep popping up. What we know now is chai tea significantly improves digestion, enhances the immune system, has antioxidant properties and helps fight inflammation. Some studies have shown that chai also has antibacterial effects, and helps prevent certain types of cancers.
Probably the most amazing things about chai’s incredible benefits is that each ingredient tends to form what almost seems like a power-ball of health benefits when combined, yet each separate component has its own powerful elements as well.
Although Chai tea takes some getting used to in taste, you can’t ignore the enormity of its powerful health components. Remember, if you want to buy chai tea, make sure you are getting the very best, plus the very natural.
You won’t be disappointed.
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When marrying your better half, you hope to remain so until death separates you. However, things do not turn out as expected for many, and they end up divorcing. For some, the stress of dissolving a marriage can take a significant toll on them. As a result, emotions run high, and the marriage dissolution proceedings get marred with angry scenes.
No matter how hard a divorce can be on you, it is best to remain civil, especially for the sake of your children. Being civil does not mean you are not emotional; rather, it means you are polite and courteous despite the anger you might have. In addition to maintaining a positive image, remaining civil during marriage dissolution has its added advantages.
Here are tips on how to stay civil during your marriage annulment proceedings.
Know What Led to the Demise of your Marriage
Shifting blame and getting even is common when couples are going through disunion. Instead of blaming your spouse for the death of your marriage, take the high road and get to know where things when wrong. Doing so requires a high level of maturity and self-knowledge.
Understanding where things went wrong will help you avoid pointing fingers and let you end things with your ex peacefully.
Accept Responsibility for Your Actions
After a mature talk with your spouse, all reasons for the demise of your marriage might point at you. This does not mean you are a bad husband or wife.
However, to keep the judicial separation peaceful and civil, it is best to take responsibility for your actions. Use the time to think of how you could have been a loving spouse and learn the foundations of sustaining a fulfilling marriage.
Keep Your Cool
As earlier said, emotions often run high during marriage termination, especially if kids and considerable assets are involved. Keeping your cool and not letting emotions win is essential. Keeping your cool means not communicating with anger, avoiding physical, verbal attacks, and any illegal activities such as stalking, property destruction and making threats.
Such actions can have a negative effect on the outcome of the proceedings. If you have children, you should think of them and avoid any drama that might affect them.
Focus on Your Well-being
No matter how hard you try to act civilly, emotions of anger, resentment, sadness, guilt, and embarrassment might bottle up inside you. Allowing emotions to bottle up can lead to psychological problems. That is why it is better to talk to some you trust to help you through and beyond the trying times.
You can also spend some time with your other family members and friends and enjoy a shared experience with them. Doing so will work wonders on your mental well-being. Other things you can do to take your mind off the proceedings are meditation, exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, and making some time for fun and enjoyable activities.
Get an Exceptional Attorney
The attorney you choose to handle your marriage dissolution can determine if your marriage will be civil or not. It is best to inform your advocate you intend to act civilly with your proceeding early on.
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INFOGRAHICS ON HIV AND AIDS
ANSWERS ON QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT HIV & AIDS
Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a disease caused by a virus known as Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV). The illness changes the immune system by making it easier for you to get sick. HIV is the virus that causes HIV infection. AIDS is the most advanced stage of HIV infection.
The only way to know for sure whether you have HIV is to get tested. Knowing your status is important because it helps you make healthy decisions to prevent getting or transmitting HIV.
HIV-positive people may not have symptoms of HIV. They will start showing signs and symptoms as they progress towards AIDS. Without treatment, HIV will eventually beat your immune system. This will lead to you being diagnosed with AIDS.
Some people may experience a flu-like illness within 2 to 4 weeks after infection (Stage 1 HIV infection). But some people may not feel sick during this stage. Flu-like symptoms include fever, chills, rash, night sweats, muscle aches, sore throat, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, or mouth ulcers. These symptoms can last anywhere from a few days to several weeks. During this time, HIV infection may not show up on an HIV test, but people who have it are highly infectious and can spread the infection to others.
If you have these symptoms, that doesn't mean you have HIV. Each of these symptoms can be caused by other illnesses. But if you have these symptoms after a potential exposure to HIV, see a health care provider and tell them about your risk.
When people get HIV and don't receive treatment, they will typically progress through three stages of disease. Medicine to treat HIV, known as antiretroviral therapy (ART), helps people at all stages of the disease if taken the right way, every day. Treatment can slow or prevent progression from one stage to the next. It can also dramatically reduce the chance of transmitting HIV to someone else.
HIV infection typically follows 3 cycles:
Testing is a good idea if you’ve had unprotected sex or if your partner tests positive for HIV. You should also get tested if you are diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea or syphillis and also if you’ve shared needles with anybody (for injections, piercings, tattoos, etc.). If you’re pregnant, get tested for HIV at your first prenatal visit. Your blood would also be automatically screened for HIV if you donate blood.
Luckily, HIV testing is pretty easy and painless. The best part about getting tested for HIV? Once you get it over with, it can really put your mind at ease. And if you DO have HIV, it’s best to find out right away so you can take medication to help you stay healthy and lower your chances of spreading HIV to others.
After you get tested, it's important to find out the result of your test so you can talk to your health care provider about treatment options if you're HIV-positive or learn ways to prevent getting HIV if you're HIV-negative.
To find places near you that offer HIV testing,
You can get confidential HIV testing at all Government Health Centres or Pusat Kesihatan and many private clinics including JPMC
No effective cure currently exists for HIV. But with proper medical care, HIV can be controlled. Treatment for HIV is called antiretroviral therapy or ART. If taken the right way, every day, ART can dramatically prolong the lives of many people infected with HIV, keep them healthy, and greatly lower their chance of infecting others. Before the introduction of ART in the mid-1990s, people with HIV could progress to AIDS (the last stage of HIV infection) in a few years. Today, someone diagnosed with HIV and treated before the disease is far advanced can live nearly as long as someone who does not have HIV. | <urn:uuid:91ca92de-afb3-4f7a-b57f-4282c44b4f2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.bdaidscouncil.org/resources.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.957019 | 826 | 3.703125 | 4 |
KIGALI - The 56 members of the Commonwealth made broad commitments to addressing climate change and boosting trade on Saturday as they concluded a summit aimed at shoring up the relevance of a group that evolved from the British empire.
The club, which covers some 2.5 billion people or about one-third of the world's population, presents itself as a network for cooperation with shared goals, but critics say it needs to take concrete actions and be more than a talking shop.
The week-long summit in Rwanda's capital Kigali included comments from Britain's Prince Charles on Friday expressing sorrow for his country's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the first time the Commonwealth has publicly addressed the subject.
Some members urged the organisation to go further by discussing reparations to countries affected by the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
There was no mention of the topic in the final communique or news conference, which instead focused on declarations regarding sustainable development, health care and gender equality.
A "Living Lands Charter" charter stated that Commonwealth countries would work to implement previously-signed international agreements like the Paris climate agreement.
"We know that we are at code red when it comes to climate change and that the small member states are facing a crisis that could be existential," Patricia Scotland, re-elected during the summit as Commonwealth secretary-general, told reporters.
Scotland also touted rising trade between Commonwealth members, which she said she expected to hit $2 trillion per year by 2030 after collapsing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gabon and Togo were newly accepted into the Commonwealth, part of a trend of former French colonies in Africa seeking new alliances beyond Paris' old networks of influence.
"If the Commonwealth wasn't alive and vibrant and constructive, why would countries such as Gabon ... and Togo join?" Michael Moussa Adamo, Gabon's foreign minister, told Reuters.
Mostly absent from the summit's public discussions were awkward issues concerning the host country.
Many human rights groups consider Rwanda among Africa's most repressive countries. The U.S. State Department has cited credible reports of arbitrary killings by the government, including politically motivated reprisal killings abroad.
Neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo accuses Rwanda of supporting rebels waging a major offensive in eastern Congo.
Rwanda denies all of these charges. At the news conference, Rwandan President Paul Kagame defended Rwanda's human rights record and accused Western governments of hypocrisy.
"There is nobody that is in prison in Rwanda that should not be there," he said. "Actually there are people who are not in prison who should be there."
Also in the spotlight has been Britain's controversial policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, described as "appalling" by Prince Charles, according to British media. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Kagame have both defended it.
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Poinsettia Applique Crochet Pattern
Poinsettia, a native of Mexico and Central America, is very enticing, most of all it signifies something in the air, when their color change to flaming red, cream, pink, white or marbled, it is Christmas!
What is the association of this beautiful plant to Christmas? Well, the tale has it that a very poor young girl, unable to afford any gift for the celebration of baby Jesus Christ’s birthday, pulled some weeds on the roadside and placed these in the altar, the next day, crimson blossoms sprouted from the weeds and became beautiful Poinsettia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_pulcherrima.
I have 5 large pots of Poinsettias, I felt sad that they died in the harsh Winter, I took care of them so well in the Spring until Fall, I saw a leaf started to turn red, but one day temperature plummeted to below freezing and they wilted, dried and died, and so was my few bucks too. So, when Fall was rolling from the horizon, and a little of hues are appearing, I thought of my Poinsettias again, but buying them means throwing away money,why don’t I crochet them? and arrange into perfect and wonderful floral arrangement? Yeah! so, off my hook went a milling!
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From March 29th through March 31st you will have the chance to participate in something truly exciting. Inspired by President Obama’s “New Beginnings” speech to Cairo University, the U.S. Government is hosting Global Pulse 2010, an innovative, online brainstorming discussion.
During this unique event, individuals throughout the world will have a chance to participate in and influence a global conversation centered on 10 hot-button social issues facing the global community within the fields of science and technology, entrepreneurship, and human development.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
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Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional teams and their players have become agents of globalization while at the same time fostering deep-seated and antagonistic local allegiances and spawning new forms of cultural conflict and prejudice. Andrei Markovits and Lars Rensmann take readers into the exciting global sports scene, showing how soccer, football, baseball, basketball, and hockey have given rise to a collective identity among millions of predominantly male fans in the United States, Europe, and around the rest of the world. They trace how these global--and globalizing--sports emerged from local pastimes in America, Britain, and Canada over the course of the twentieth century, and how regionalism continues to exert its divisive influence in new and potentially explosive ways. Markovits and Rensmann explore the complex interplay between the global and the local in sports today, demonstrating how sports have opened new avenues for dialogue and shared interest internationally even as they reinforce old antagonisms and create new ones. Gaming the World reveals the pervasive influence of sports on our daily lives, making all of us citizens of an increasingly cosmopolitan world while affirming our local, regional, and national identities.This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional teams and their players have become agents of globalization while at the same time fostering deep-seated and antagonistic local allegiances and ...
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The health effects of sugar are summed up by South Park’s Mr. Mackey:
Sugar’s bad, m’kay?
It increases your levels of insulin, hunger, and makes you fat. Not good at all.
However, the general word on artificial sweeteners is more ambiguous. They’ve been approved by almost all regulatory health agencies for years and are heavily tested for safety. But you always see stuff circulating on the internet about how saccharin causes cancer or aspartame promotes neural disorders and other creepy stuff.
So is there any bite to the bark? Are we all helpless neophytes ignorantly sucking on the teet of Big Ag and the FDA?
By and large no. Artificial sweeteners are safe and definitely better than using sugar. They’re not particularly healthful, and can be irritants to a very small minority of people, but are definitely harmless for the vast majority. If you look hard it’s very difficult to find a piece on the dangers of artificial sweeteners that isn’t poorly written or from a dubious source. (And no, the DailyMail is not reputable).
For a very good piece by a source that is reputable I’d recommend this very informative article by the American Cancer Society.
I myself was a bit surprised by this, since I always assumed something so purely synthetic must be detrimental to human health, but in hindsight I suffered from the fallacy of mood affiliation. A bias very present in health food writers.
There are a few caveats worth mentioning with regularly consuming artificial sweeteners, and they’re not a complete free lunch, but I’ll get to those in a bit.
But first, let’s start with the basics.
What They Are, How They’re Made
In the US there are five legal artificial sweeteners: aspartame, sucralose, saccharin, neotame, and acesulfame K.
Aspartame is the most popular, followed by sucralose, then saccharin.
Here’s a brief synopsis of how they work:
- Aspartame: the amino acids aspartic acid and phenylalanine linked together. Popular in diet sodas. Branded as Equal and NutraSweet.
- Sucralose. A sucrose molecule with chlorine atoms attached. Branded as Splenda. Popular with baked goods since it’s not temperature sensitive.
- Saccharin. Synthetically derived molecule that stores well but tastes bitter to some people. Often mixed with aspartame since it doesn’t store well. Branded as Sweet n’ Low.
- Acesulfame K. Similar to saccharin, made by NutraSweet.
- Neotame: Similar to aspartame, but 3-5 times as sweet. Most recently approved.
Aspartame, sucralose, and saccharin are the most studied and I’m going to refer to them specifically and not Acesulfame K and Neotame since I’m less familiar with their mechanics. But from what I understand the issues are fairly similar for all five.
Collectively sucralose, saccharin, and aspartame are some of the most extensively studied compounds on the planet. Despite occasional rumours about links to cancer and metabolic diseases, nothing reputable has verified these claims.
On the other hand, every regulatory agency in every developed country has deemed them as safe, and the maximum amount that’s allowed to be put into foods is 100 times less than the threshold for what might be considered harmful.
You’d have to consistently drink more than 21 cans per day to approach a level that’d be deemed “dangerous.”
The Good and Bad
Here are the good parts about artificial sweeteners:
- They don’t have calories
- They don’t cause your body to produce insulin and put your body in “fat-storing” mode the same way glucose and fructose do
- People who substitute sugar for artificial sweeteners usually end up consuming less calories and are more likely to lose weight
- Contrary to false beliefs, they don’t seem to promote any long-term health problems, unless you have a genetic disorder that prevents you from metabolizing phenylalanine (for aspartame). This is at least true compared to sugar.
So that’s all pretty good, right? Yep.
So why all the fear?!
Among the complaints about artificial sweeteners it’s important to separate the bogus from non-bogus.
Here’s how I’d classify them:
- They’re linked to cancer. This was especially true of aspartame, but the media attention spawned from a handful of studies from one research group in Italy that were discredited later on. Everything else since then suggests it’s benign. (After all, it is just two amino acids linked together, nothing more).
- They’re linked to behavioral disorders. The idea here was that artificial sweeteners may be “excitatory molecules” that could negatively effect neural synapses if consumed early in life that might affect brain development in young children. However, it’s been shown that the compounds in artificial sweeteners either pass through your intestine entirely or are digested completely and thus don’t “swim upstream” in your body and wreak havoc. Some people might be exceptions to this rule.
- They cause obesity. This claim mostly comes from some epidemiology studies that show a correlation between diet soda use and weight gain over time. This is a valid point, but the mechanistic analysis of how these sweeteners work in your body suggests that it’s not the soda itself that’s causing the weight gain. And there are lots of others showing the exact opposite. Here you have one type of study (epidemiology) that contradicts other types of studies (animal experiments, human clinical trials, etc), but epidemiology studies are notorious for their inability to prove causality.
If Aspartame and Splenda Are so Safe Then What’s the Problem?
So where does the trouble actually lie?
Mostly from the problems with sweetness itself.
They come from two directions:
1). The sweetness sensation activates an endocrine response regardless of the nutritive value of whatever’s providing the taste.
2). Sweet sensations activate pleasure systems in your brain and foment food cravings and hunger regardless of their nutrition.
Practically all living creatures are primed to desire sweet food. But when it comes to sugar, how much of its problems are from its structural composition and how much of it from the taste sensation it elicits?
It’s mostly due to its composition, but not entirely.
Glucose is the lifeblood of all living things, and therefore many of your body’s metabolic switches are turned on and off by changes in the way it’s oxidized. This accounts for most of the physiological damage from eating too much sugar.
However, the sensation of sweetness elicits certain physiological responses regardless of where it’s coming from. There are two main taste receptors for the sweet sensation, named T1R2 and T1R3. When they’re activated they up regulate enzymes that stimulate the dopamine system in the brain, which is your body’s primary sensor for pleasure. The pleasure button gets turned on from sweetness regardless of its source.
A part of hunger is pavlovian, so it’s likely that consistently eating low calorie sweeteners like aspartame can cause your brain to trigger pangs of hunger and trigger food addictions similar to sugar-rich foods. However, it doesn’t do this anymore than caloric sweeteners, and probably does it a lot less since the presence of glucose itself plays a role in activating/de-activating pleasure signals in the brain. And you’ll still be eating less calories.
But the effect is still there.
When it comes to your body’s hormonal response to artificial sweeteners things are also a little murky. Artificial sweeteners do not cause insulin spikes and the cascade of hormonal switches that come along with it. That’s a big deal.
However, the taste receptors for sweetness in your mouth are also located in your gut, and their activation can cause your body to secrete two chemicals called GLP-1 and GIP, which make your body want to eat more.
It’s been shown that in animals artificial sweeteners cause the body to secrete these two chemicals, which can lead to more eating and changed glucose regulation. But these same types of studies do not create the same result when performed on humans. In humans it doesn’t have an effect on any of that stuff.
So far at least, in humans artificial sweeteners don’t cause a hormonal response in the body that’s similar to sugar….but it’s hard to know for sure. So there’s a caveat emptor.
Definitely Not Dangerous, Not Healthy, Can Be Used in Moderation
Like I said before, many of the sensationalistic claims about the dangers of artificial sweeteners are BS. They’re very benign and don’t pose a potential risk for much of anything.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying go out and use them! Just pointing out that they’re probably nutritionally inert. If you’re not a strict paleo (non-primal) or vegan (some animal by-products used in manufacturing) then you’d be wise to use them in place of sugar.
Pregnant women and children should use them with caution.
The safest thing is to avoid excessively sweet sensations entirely, but for the vast majority of people this is not possible or even desirable.
So use some Stevia or Splenda if you want to bake something, and don’t feel so damn guilty when you drink your Diet Coke!
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Anderson, Harvey G, et. al. “The Use of Low-Calorie Sweeteners by Adults: Impact on Weight Management”
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On October 15, 2012, Estonian TV news reporter Neeme Raud visited the Hoover Institution Archives to learn more about the Estonian collections in the archives. A group of local and visiting Estonians accompanied him. They were given a presentation by archival specialist David Jacobs that highlighted some of the HIA's important documents pertaining to Estonian history, including photographs of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1939 that led to the Soviet annexation of the Baltic States one year later.
The presentation also featured materials from the collection of Kaarel Pusta, who served as Estonian foreign minister in the 1920s, when Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were all independent states.
In the interview that followed the presentation, Mr. Raud learned about the continuing efforts of the archives to collect materials on Estonia, and how recently digital files of records from the Estonian branch of the Soviet KGB have been made available to researchers using the archives.
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studied this problem in the early 20th century
, eventually devising the method of staged, gradual decompression, whereby the pressure on the diver is released slowly enough that the nitrogen comes gradually out of solution without forming bubbles.
Because helium has a far lower solubility in water, deep-sea divers nowadays breathe heliox (helium/oxygen mix).
An alternative name is caisson disease; this name comes from the 19th century, when large engineering excavations (bridges, tunnels) required the work to be done in "caissons" under pressure to keep water from flooding the excavations.
Other ill effects experienced by divers are nitrogen narcosis and oxygen toxicity[?].
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When you think of Christian persecution & suffering, what do you think of? Do you think suffering for Christ is when someone calls you a religious fanatic? Do think suffering for Christ is getting up to go to church? Or perhaps you think of persecutions as something that happened in Paul's day; you know, being beaten, thrown in jail, or perhaps being feed to the lions.
Well, the following statistics may come as a surprise to you. The number of Christian martyrs, those who have died for their faith in Christ, in the last century alone is greater then all the other centuries combined. Every year some 156,000 Christians are killed because of their faith. Also, nearly two thirds of the world's population lives under governments which persecute Christians for their faith in Christ. We should realize that while being a Christian in the United States is not a life threatening thing, for the majority of the worlds Christians, it is.
In our text this morning Paul talks about his suffering for Christ. Before we look at our text, let's review for a second to get the context. In verses 17 and following of chapter 1, Paul has unfolded something of the greatness of the work of God in reconciliation through Jesus Christ, who is the sovereign Creator and Lord of everything. He created everything. All things hold together in Him. In Him, as a human being, all the fullness of deity dwelt in bodily form. And this One is the One who came and suffered and died that He might reconcile all things to God. We saw last week that this reconciliation gives the reconciled the responsibility of living lives set apart to God:
Colossians 1:22 (NKJV) in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight;
This practical holiness is based on the believers continuance in the faith, they are to be grounded and settled and not moved away from the hope the gospel brings:
Colossians 1:23 (NKJV) if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Paul says it is this gospel "...of which I, Paul, became a minister." That word translated minister is from the Greek word diakonos, the word from which we get the English word deacon. Paul is saying, "I was made a deacon; I was made a servant." That is what the word basically means. A deacon is a servant. I was made a servant of this gospel, a minister in the sense of a servant. Paul mentions this a number of times in his letters. This causes him to elaborate about his ministry as an apostle and preacher of the word of God. This isn't just a digression so that we get to know something more about Paul. But it is foundational with what he has to deal with in chapter 2 when he comes to the false teachers and their teaching. Where does Paul get the authority to condemn these teachers? Where does Paul get the authority to condemn what they are teaching and to declare it a heresy? He gets his authority from God. He has been placed in this position by God. He has been entrusted with a message by God, and it is a message that can not be altered or changed, added to or taken away from. As such, it will be the standard which will be imposed on the teaching that the false teachers are bringing.
This discussion of Paul's personal ministry begins with verse 24 in chapter 1 and goes down through chapter 2, verse 5. These verses seem to naturally fall into two sections. The first dealing with Paul's unique ministry worldwide (Col 1:24-29) before he goes on to show how it relates directly into the lives of the recipients of his letter (Col 2:1-5).
Colossians 1:24 (NKJV) I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,
Does anything in this verse seem strange to you? I think that most would say, "Paul sounds like he's saying that there were things lacking from the afflictions of Christ?" That is a troubling thought, and we'll get to that here shortly, but what is really strange is what Paul says about suffering. Look at what he says, "I now rejoice in my sufferings." Does that seem strange to any of you? It really shouldn't if you are familiar with the New Testament. But from a practical sense that seems very strange. This verse has something relevant to say to the Church about suffering.
Paul says, "I now rejoice in my sufferings for you." Whatever Paul's circumstances, he never lost his joy. If a Christian loses their joy, it's not because of bad circumstances, but bad connections. You do not lose your joy unless your communion with Christ breaks down.
Joy is generated by humility. People lose their joy when they become self-centered, thinking they deserve better circumstances or treatment than they are getting. That was never a problem for Paul. Like all of God's great servants, he was conscious of his unworthiness. Because of this he always seemed to have joy. Facing the possibility of martyrdom, he wrote:
Philippians 2:17 (NKJV) Yes, and if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
Beaten and imprisoned in Philippi, he sang hymns of praise to God (Acts 16:25). Because he believed he deserved nothing, no circumstance could shake his joyous confidence that God was in control of his life.
In several passages Paul writes with the assumption that suffering and affliction are a necessary part of an apostolic ministry. But in other passages Paul does not limit suffering and affliction to apostolic ministries. He assumes that it is an essential part of the ministry of the word of God. This is the consistent emphasis of Scripture - that inseparably joined to a faithful ministry of the word of God are hardship, trial and difficulty, conflict and pain.
As the first converts came to know Jesus as the liberator of their bondage and demonic influence,
it seems natural that they would surely look to Him to deliver them out of everything which
hindered them and would expect him to cause His followers to pursue victory after victory as
they followed after the will of God for their lives.
The God who created all things, was in control of all things, and who worked in all things to bring about the purpose of His will, could hardly have been logically expected to allow His servants to participate in any measure of suffering seeing as all that was needed for their salvation had been taken upon Himself on the cross by Jesus.
But suffering was exactly what the believers experienced in nearly every location in which they found themselves. And, interestingly enough, they had the same attitude as Paul did:
Romans 5:3-4 (NKJV) And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Notice what Paul says here about suffering, "We also glory in tribulation." The NIV says, "But we also rejoice in our sufferings." The word "glory" is from the Greek word kauchaomai, which means: "to vaunt (in a good or a bad sense), boast, glory, joy, rejoice." And the word "tribulations" is from the Greek thlipsis, which means: "pressure (literally or figuratively), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble." This is a strong term and does not refer to minor inconveniences, but to real hardships. It was used in reference to squeezing olives for the oil, or squeezing grapes for the wine.
So, Paul is saying, "We rejoice in the problems and pressures of life." Does that sound strange to you? Before we go any further, we must ask, "Who is the 'we'?" Paul says, "We also glory in tribulation." Let's back up a few verses:
Romans 5:1-2 (NKJV) Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Who is the first "we"? It's all those who have been justified by faith - all believers! Who is the "we" that has access by faith into grace? Again, it is all believers. So, who is the "we" in verse 3? Take a guess? Yes, you're right, it's all Christians. We could translate it this way: "Christians rejoice in suffering." How does that sound? Is it true of you?
Some have tried to interpret this, "We rejoice in the midst of suffering." That is, we rejoice in spite of our suffering. But it does not mean that we rejoice in spite of our suffering. Paul is saying, "We rejoice because of our suffering." Look at:
Romans 5:11 (NKJV) And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Does this mean that we rejoice in spite of God? This construction in the Greek is the same as verse 3. Paul rejoiced because of God, and he also rejoiced because of suffering, and he assumed that other believers participated with him in this rejoicing.
If this seems a little strange to you, let's remind ourselves that in the New Testament, suffering was the normal experience of a Christian and was viewed as a cause for rejoicing.
We see in this text an entirely different attitude from that which we see in the church today. We pity ourselves, and we pity others who are suffering. We moan, murmur, and complain when we suffer. This wasn't the case with Paul and the first century Christians. Their Master had taught them to rejoice in persecution:
Matthew 5:10-12 (NKJV) Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 "Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
The persecuted are blessed, not cursed. Jesus taught them to rejoice in persecution! There is a connection in the New Testament between suffering and joy. That may seem like a contradiction, but that is what the Scriptures teach. Notice what the basis of rejoicing is; it is our reward in heaven. When we are persecuted, we are to rejoice.
So Jesus taught His disciples to rejoice is persecution and they did:
Acts 5:40 (NKJV) And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
When you are trying to share the gospel, and someone slams the door on you or makes fun of you, how do you feel? Do you get your feelings hurt, or get discouraged? These men were physically beaten. Please notice their response:
Acts 5:41-42 (NKJV) So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
They rejoiced! And they kept on preaching. Their suffering caused them to rejoice. They didn't get hurt feelings or get depressed or mad at God, they rejoiced.
1 Peter 4:12-14 (NKJV) Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.
Again we see the idea of suffering and rejoicing. I'm sure you've probably had enough, but let me give you one more:
Hebrews 10:32-34 (NKJV) But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33 partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; 34 for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.
Not only did they have compassion on those in prison, but they also "joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods". I would very much like to tell you that this is a textual error, but it's not! This is very convicting. This is the concrete action of the tribulation mentioned in verse 33. Their property was being confiscated because of their stand for Christ. The word "plundering" is from the Greek harpage, which most likely points to mob violence, the unjust seizer of their property - "They took it joyfully."
I don't think you could find a greater contrast between the American church of the 21st century and the church of the 1st century then in the area of suffering. As we study the New Testament and examine the attitude and perspective which New Testament believers took toward suffering and persecution, we should be ashamed. I am! We often hear today the attitude that suffering and persecution is not something that God wants for his people. Success and prosperity are the name of the game today, not only out there in the world, but inside the church as well.
"I now rejoice in my sufferings for you." Now Paul had not personally visited the city of Colossea, but he realized his imprisonment in Rome, the trials he went through, and all the persecution he suffered were for the benefit of the Body of Christ, which included the Colossian Christians. They actually were benefitting from his ministry, because he even wrote a letter to them from the prison at Rome. We're benefitting from that ministry as well, because we're studying the message that God gave to Paul while he was imprisoned at Rome. His suffering was, indeed, on behalf of others.
God told Paul from the very beginning that he was going to suffer for him.
Acts 9:15-16 (NKJV) But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. 16 "For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name's sake."
The majority of Paul's sufferings occurred because he had brought the gospel to the Gentiles, and a good illustration of this can be seen in:
Acts 13:44-46 (NKJV) On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God. 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul. 46 Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:50 (NKJV) But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.
Acts 14:1-2 (NKJV) Now it happened in Iconium that they went together to the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of the Jews and of the Greeks believed. 2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren.
Acts 14:19 (NKJV) Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.
When Paul was arrested in Jerusalem on false charges, the Jews listened to his defense until he used the word "Gentiles". It was that word that infuriated them and drove them to ask for his execution:
Acts 22:21-22 (NKJV) "Then He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.'" 22 And they listened to him until this word, and then they raised their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he is not fit to live!"
The message that this apostle to the Gentiles preached declared that both Jew and Gentile would be co-equal heirs in the body of Christ through faith apart from works of the law; together Jew and Gentile believers would constitute one new man in Christ . It was this message of grace and co-equality that stirred up the Jews and angered them to relentlessly persecute the apostle and his co-workers.
Paul goes on to elaborate: "...and fill up in my flesh..." - his physical body - "...for the sake of His body, which is the church,..." Paul is indicating that the physical pain he endures at the hands of Christ-hating persecutors is the result of what he does to benefit and build the church. It was not his personality that offended and brought hostile injury to him, but his ministry for the Body of Christ.
In verse 18 of chapter 1, reference was made that He, Christ, is head of the body, the church. So we're talking about the spiritual body of Christ. Those who have come to know Christ have been brought into His family and are now spiritually identified with Him. He is the head over the body of which they are a part. Paul's sufferings were on behalf of the body of Christ, which is the church. Paul's ministry of the gospel to the world was within the framework of salvation for the elect. He wrote to Timothy and said:
2 Timothy 2:10 (NKJV) Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Paul's life was consumed with a focus on the body of Christ. His joy came in seeing others by God's grace become part of that body through faith in Christ and then being nurtured and nourished to maturity as God's people.
In Colossians 1:24, Paul says, "...and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ..." When you first read that statement, it sort of jars you, doesn't it? This phrase has been the subject of much controversy. A statement like this, if taken without the context of the New Testament, could be employed to yield some strange teachings, which would undermine the all sufficiency of the work of Jesus Christ. Catholics have taken this to mean that there is a treasury, a reservoir of the merits of the saints, that we can draw upon to make us more acceptable to God.
The Roman Catholic church taught that Jesus Christ's merit covered sin in a certain sense, but there also was a penalty that you must pay, and God punished you either in this life or in purgatory.
Catholic theology says, "By my deeds I can not only earn merit for myself, but if I earn more merit than I need to get into heaven, my extra merit goes into the treasury of merit to be applied to somebody else to get them out of purgatory." What that says is, "Not only can I by my merit earn my own salvation, but I can over earn it and apply what is left to someone else's salvation." This is salvation by grace plus works, and this is denying the sufficiency of Christ's work. Reconciliation was fully accomplished and provided for in Jesus Christ. That is a finished, completed work:
Hebrews 9:12 (NKJV) Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
It's the statement that it occurred "once for all" which demonstrates clearly that such an experience won't be repeated again - and that this special suffering of the Messiah, now that the work for man's salvation has occurred and been completed, cannot take place in a similar manner to that which has already transpired.
After all, if there was anything lacking in the provision of the cross, there might be a need for believers who come after Jesus to suffer as He also suffered in order that they might be made perfect through their tribulations and to perform some sort of self-redemption which makes up the lack.
It's clear, therefore, that the sufferings of the Messiah are meant to be an event in time and space which satisfied the demands of God the Father to secure a once and for all time salvation for the people of God. On the cross, sin has been dealt with forever and no suffering is able to pay that price - full payment is only to be found in Jesus so that no other person's suffering can be counted as expiatory.
In what sense were Paul's sufferings filling up that which is lacking in Christ's afflictions? In that Paul was receiving the persecution that was intended for Christ. Jesus, having ascended to heaven, was out of their reach. But because His enemies had not filled up all the injuries they wanted to inflict on Him, they turned their hatred onto those who preached the gospel. It was in that sense that Paul filled up what was lacking in Christ's afflictions.
The simplest and most logical explanation stems from the mystical union that exists between Christ and that of His people in the body of Christ, the church. When believers suffer, Christ suffers with them. Christ's substitutionary sufferings are finished, complete, but His sufferings in and through His people continue. Paul saw the sufferings that he was bearing as the sufferings that were directed toward Christ. Jesus said to His disciples:
John 15:18 (NKJV) "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
That's the point. The hatred of the world toward the followers of Christ is because of the hatred of the world toward Christ. His followers are just experiencing what comes from being identified with Him.
John 15:19 (NKJV) "If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Now we get confused, "Oh, we must be doing something wrong. We must be too dogmatic; we must be too aggressive, we must be. . ." No! It is because we are identified with Christ. That is why the world hates us.
John 15:20 (NKJV) "Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
See the connection? Those who have rejected Christ will reject His followers. Those who have received Christ will receive His followers.
John 15:23 (NKJV) "He who hates Me hates My Father also.
There is an inseparable link between Christ and His Father and between Christ and His followers.
So Paul readily took on the afflictions that were directed towards Christ. Remember when Christ confronted Paul on the Damascus road as Paul was in the process of persecuting the church? Did Christ say, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting the church?" No. He said, "...Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"Because the church is the body of Christ, Saul - who became the Apostle Paul - was persecuting Christ while he was persecuting the church. There is an inseparable link.
2 Corinthians 1:5 (NKJV) For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.
Paul didn't get mired down in the idea that his sufferings must be the result of his personality or his preaching. No. He said it is because of the attitude of unbelievers toward truth, toward Christ.
So Paul saw his afflictions, his sufferings, as those that were directed toward Jesus Christ. Let's face it. If Paul hadn't been identified with Jesus Christ and the preaching of the gospel, he wouldn't be imprisoned in Rome, would he? He wouldn't have been beaten times without number. He wouldn't have been stoned. This all had to do with the fact that he was identified with Christ, and the truth that Christ had entrusted to him.
Galatians 6:17 (NKJV) From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Would you like to complain about your suffering in the company of Paul? We could say, "We have suffered, too, Paul." He'd say, "You have? Let's compare scars."Oh, well, I mean, my friends left and I felt bad about that." "Okay," he'd say, "Go on." "Some of my family don't speak to me." He'd look at us and say, "Well, go on." Really? You want us to tell you more?" "Yeah," he'd say, "I mean that is just preliminary. Those are sufferings, but I'm talking about when it really gets bad. How many times have you been in prison for preaching?" "Well, none." "How many times have you been beaten?" "Oh, none." "Well, uh, we have a different concept of suffering." The danger is we have become acclimated to a comfortable Christianity. But that is a Christianity devoid of the power of God.
I want to give you a word of encouragement. If we are faithful to Christ, our suffering can only get worse. You say, "I have lost friends because I come to this church. I have family members who don't speak to me." Praise God. Do you not count it a badge of honor to be identified with Jesus Christ, to suffer in the context of Him and His truth?
In our text in Colossians, Paul is talking about suffering because of his relationship with Christ. This is suffering for righteousness sake. There are other reasons why Christians suffer, but no matter what the reason, there is a purpose in it. I think that if we understand the purpose of suffering, we will be able to rejoice in it. There are all kinds of lessons to be learned from our suffering. Let's look at a few:
1. Suffering can be because of sin.
1 Corinthians 11:29-30 (NKJV) For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.
Many of the Corinthians were sick and dying because of their sinfulness.
Romans 13:2 (NKJV) Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.
Suffering can come as a result of breaking the law, which is sin.
Caution: We must be careful here not to conclude that we can measure the sinfulness of a person by the degree of his or her suffering. All suffering is a result of sin; had Adam not sinned, there would not be suffering in the world, but not all suffering is a result of personal sinfulness.
2. Suffering matures us in our practical Christian lives.
We suffer because it is a training tool. God lovingly and faithfully uses suffering to develop personal righteousness, maturity, and our walk with Him:
Hebrews 12:5-6 (NKJV) And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; 6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives."
The word "chastening" is the Greek word paideia, which means: "tutorage; education or training; by implication disciplinary correction." God uses suffering and pain in our lives to train us.
Under this heading of maturing us, we can put several ways that suffering helps us to mature:
A. We suffer to develop our capacity and sympathy in comforting others:
2 Corinthians 1:3-5 (NKJV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.
Often God sends suffering to give us an opportunity to minister to one another. How can I help those in need, unless God causes someone to be in need? In the midst of the suffering of others, we must see an opportunity to minister in His name.
B. We suffer to keep down pride:
2 Corinthians 12:7 (NKJV) And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.
The Apostle Paul saw his thorn in the flesh as an instrument of God to help him maintain a spirit of humility and dependence on the Lord, because of the special revelations he had seen as one who had been caught up to the third heaven.
C. Suffering weans us from self-reliance:
2 Corinthians 1:9 (NKJV) Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,
Many men and women have testified that God taught them this lesson; that they are dependant upon him by taking away all the things they had mistakenly depended on . We suffer to bring about continued dependence on the grace and power of God. Suffering is designed to cause us to walk by God's ability, power, and provision, rather than by our own. It causes us to turn from our resources to His resources.
In the western world, suffering has almost been ignored as a logical necessity for a group of believers who are moving in the power and provision of Jesus Christ, but the early believers were assured that if God was real in them and through them out into the world, the consequence was that they would be rejected in the same way as Jesus had been.
2 Timothy 3:12-13 (NKJV) Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
The inference here appears to be that godliness is not compatible with the ways of the world and will, therefore, reap its rewards from a society that's set upon achieving their own ends at any cost. In light of this verse, could we say that if you are not suffering persecution, you are not living godly? It's something to think about. If you are suffering persecution, are you rejoicing in it? Are you like the 1st century disciples rejoicing that you are counted worthy to suffer shame for His name?
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For the past hundred years of marketing that’s what we’ve been doing; we’re looking backwards, trying to piece together an incomplete view of how markets and consumers behave to better understand and better serve their needs. We use a plethora of discrete and disconnected data points, from surveys and focus groups to demographics and buying patterns to understand consumer behavior. But, for the most part, we’re still guessing.
That guessing game is evident in the difficulty large incumbent organizations have in innovating. After all, if incumbents knew their markets well enough they would always have the upper hand. Yet, we know that’s not the way innovation works. If it did, Sony would own the iPod, and Motorola the iPhone. But innovation is about to change from a guessing game to a science.
Are you a Loyal Brand?
Digital Anthropology is the science of filling in the blanks by using our digital footprints to chart the most detailed, intimate, and real-time aspects of our behaviors.
Companies who are doing this well aren’t limited to the tech social media giants such as Facebook and Google, but also include companies such as Lowes, GM (through OnStar), Apple through its iPhone, Bloomingdale’s and Brookstone.
The end game for these companies is to create a “Loyal Brand” that understands you in ways that you do not even fully understand yourself–allowing them to predict your buying behaviors and personal interests with uncanny precision.
From understanding consumer to understanding the relationship
I think brands should always be trying to answer this question: “what service is the user/consumer hiring my company/brand for?” This is a significant jump from the belief that “the user/consumer buys our products or services because we have the best or the most value for the money” to “ I serve my consumers for the purpose they hired me for.”
So, as Vision Mobile mentions in the picture below:
We see that competition barriers or industries are cannibalized because of the new relationship consumers have with technology. In our times, technology and the relationship we have with it is 100% redefined and re-established.
We hire a brand for completely different reasons most of the time–not always for reasons relevant to specs or impressive numbers, but also based on the brand personality and how well it connects to our beliefs and values, and fulfills our expectations.
So to answer the question “what service is the user/consumer hiring my company/brand for,” you need not numbers or specs but logical answers to each element of the brand experience, and to know how this fulfills the consumer’s expectations and needs.
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Practicing courage, compassion “ and connection in our daily lives is how we cultivate worthiness. The key word is practice.” This book is a practical guide to implementing practices that change the way we see and feel and share experiences, by living The Gifts of Imperfection. For those of us recovering from perfectionism, it’s a challenge, a look in the mirror and a helping hand.
The Gifts of Imperfection, Letting Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are, by Brene Brown Ph.D., L.M.S.W., came out in a 10th Anniversary Edition last year. Along with the 10th Anniversary Edition of the book, online resources, a podcast and webinars support The Gifts of Imperfection community.
Brene Brown celebrated 25 years of sobriety in May of 2021. A self-described shame researcher and storyteller, Brene has earned the trust, the following and the first name status of Oprah. She is widely known and well trusted and is wildly popular. While her sobriety isn’t what made Brene famous, all that fame was made possible first and foremost by the fact that she is sober, as she shares with her trademark directness in interviews and in her books. For many, she gives us permission, encouragement and an example of how to turn what has been hardest in life into our greatest gift to the world.
A short book with a long subtitle, The Gifts of Imperfection is organized into ten guideposts for cultivating Wholehearted Living by Letting Go of what gets in the way. For each guidepost, the practice or perspective to cultivate and the one to let go are paired.
Guidepost #1: Cultivating Authenticity, Letting Go of What People Think
Challenges us to see authenticity— ours and everyone else’s—as a practice we chose every day, with the courage to be imperfect. It sounds so simple! It also sounds messy, bumpy, and lots of other not-so-perfect words and scenarios come to mind. But by seeing this as a practice, rather than a completed task, check-box ticked, once and for all, I remember that the point is to keep trying, remembering that others are practicing, too. Brene encourages us, “Don’t shrink. Don’t puff up. Stand on your sacred ground.”
Guidepost #4: Cultivating Gratitude and Joy
Encourages readers to go beyond just an attitude of gratitude, by practicing gratitude daily. Gratitude lists, shared daily with others, a gratitude jar filled with gratitudes throughout the day and a gratitude share at the evening meal reinforce gratitude and create joy. For many in recovery, finding gratitude in the everyday can be a new and simple practice that keeps us in the moment and present with what is good in our lives today.
My partner and I share a daily gratitude practice. We end each day by looking at one another, taking turns telling each other what we are grateful for that the other did or said. Often these are small, sometimes funny, and always appreciated acts—a smile, a meal, a small kindness—and they remind us that our life together is good, today, and filled with opportunities to experience joy.
Guidepost #10: Cultivating Laughter, Song and Dance
Encourages us to let go of being cool and always in control. Wow. Talk about a tall order. I remember as a teen wanting nothing more than to be seen as cool. This included several dangerous habits and some very questionable hairdos. In adult life, Brene says this can look like covering up our goofy, passionate or heartfelt expressions of self for the sake of being accepted, and in turn betraying ourselves. When I think of the ways and times I betrayed myself over the years, it’s no surprise that the cool activity of drinking turned into a coping mechanism for numbing pain. Brene suggests we sing, dance and laugh instead. Maybe you loved Hip-hop in the 90’s or you’ve downloaded TikTok to watch the funny cat videos? Go for it!
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This Mini-MBA includes ethics and values, corporate social responsibility, compliance, crisis communication and how to create and sustain an ethical culture.
Newark, NJ (PRWEB) July 31, 2014
The Institute for Ethical Leadership (IEL), located at Rutgers Business School, is offering a new Mini-MBA in Ethical Leadership. The executive education program, being held the week of September 22-26 at Rutgers Business School in Newark, features learning experiences and case studies on ethical challenges and opportunities for business, nonprofit and government professionals to help them lead ethically and effectively. “This program provides tools for tackling the toughest challenges, those without easy answers,” says Ann K. Buchholtz, PhD, Rutgers Professor of Leadership and Ethics and Research Director at IEL.
According to IEL Executive Director, Judy Young, “This Mini-MBA includes ethics and values, corporate social responsibility, compliance, crisis communication and how to create and sustain an ethical culture. Participants will gain knowledge and experience in ethical leadership and critical decision-making skills.” Participants are able to directly relate to the content and material, allowing them to immediately apply their learning to their current work place. It is designed to empower, challenge and provide additional tools that will enable leaders to review their typical responses to ethical challenges, identify different options, and create and execute an ethical culture. To this end, ethical breaches may be avoided and reputations sustained and enhanced.
This Mini-MBA is designed for experienced or high potential executives and managers as they focus on developing and sustaining an ethical culture, and values-based leadership in day-to-day operations, challenges, and dilemmas. Participants will hear from professors and expert practitioners about their journey as leaders and the challenges and opportunities they have faced. Upon completion of the program, participants will receive a Certificate in Ethical Leadership. The program runs from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, September 22 – 26, 2014 at Rutgers Business School in Newark, NJ.
For more information, please call 973-353-1135, e-mail leadership(at)business.rutgers(dot)edu, or visit http://bit.ly/1s6RnkI.
About the Institute for Ethical Leadership
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This post examines how to communicate the business value of CSR to the stakeholders those important external groups that are linked with and can have large impacts on a company. The post goes on to point out various ways effective CSR initiatives can have a positive effect on the business and how it is becoming increasingly important for corporations to embrace sustainability and make it work for them.
by Barb Brown, Principal and Co-owner of BrownFlynn, an award-winning corporate responsibility and sustainability consulting firm. Follow Barb on Twitter @BrownFlynn; read her blog; connect with Barb on Facebook.
Amid increasing economic, social and environmental demands in today’s business landscape, you may wonder how your company can not only benefit from corporate social responsibility initiatives, but also convey the importance of those efforts to its external audiences. Communicating the business value of CSR to your stakeholders will keep your company competitive and on the forefront of the ever-changing regulatory landscape. As C.B. Bhattacharya, co-author of What Board Members Should Know About Communicating CSR has said, “The business returns to CSR are contingent on the stakeholders’ awareness of what a company actually does in this field.”
See our related post: “Four CSR Trends to Watch in 2011“, to read more on current developments in CSR.
Justifying the need for a new business project, marketing idea or new training program is no different than making the case for sustainability. Selling an idea to your stakeholders requires thoughtful planning and effective communication. Targeting the right audiences with the best supporting stories and rationale will ensure the buy-in and success of your organization’s CSR initiatives.
So who are the appropriate groups to communicate to about the business value of your CSR efforts, and how do you engage them?
For a long time, most companies’ main audience was the shareholder, but recently, this focus has shifted to the stakeholder, which includes large external groups such as company suppliers, investors, advocacy groups, customers, NGOs, and government entities. At its most basic level, the term “stakeholder” refers to any individual or group with an interest or stake in an organization’s operations and impact. By engaging these stakeholders through focus groups, interviews, satisfaction surveys, road shows, open houses or philanthropic activities, companies can clearly determine how they are affected by the decisions of their various stakeholders.
Engaging successfully with stakeholders about CSR requires that an organization listen to its stakeholders’ concerns while recognizing both pressing and future CSR issues facing its industry. The proliferation of regulatory pressures, sustainability rankings, shareholder activists, supply-chain influences, consumer demands, and the rising mainstream awareness of environmental and social issues is probably already affecting the way you do business. These developments are also likely to elevate your stakeholders’ concerns and expectations of greater transparency and increased responsibility.
Once your target audiences are listening, keep in mind both the short- and long-term benefits of your CSR efforts. Communicating the value of your sustainability initiatives emphasizes to your stakeholders why CSR should be an integral part of every business. An organization’s reasons for adopting CSR practices may include the following:
- Accelerating market entry or capturing new market share
- Leveraging the competitive advantages of sustainability, such as increasing employee engagement, building strong relations with the community and capturing new market share
- Attracting new investors
- Enhancing brand reputation
- Driving innovation of new products and services
- Growing top- and bottom-line value
- Ensuring the long-term viability and safety of your business
- Going above and beyond compliance and mitigating risks
- Building goodwill in the community
- Staying competitive and being recognized on top CSR and business lists and exchanges, such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Newsweek Green Rankings, Bloomberg, FTSE4Good and CR’s Best Corporate Citizen
- Enhancing customer and employee loyalty. For example, maybe your organization is seeking a license to operate in a local neighborhood. Its residents will likely want to become familiar with your philanthropic initiatives and their benefit to the greater community. Your organization needs to make the case for being a strong community partner. Similarly, customers want to know the benefits of your new environmentally-friendly product or service.
A recent A.T. Kearney study shows that organizations committed to corporate sustainability practices have excelled in the financial markets throughout the recent economic downturn. In 89 percent of industries examined, companies identified as “sustainability-driven” performed better than their industry peers over both three- and six-month periods. Sustainability efforts truly afford your organization sustained results.
Once you have made the case for CSR and your organization realizes the lucrative, triple-bottom-line results, how do you continue to push for a more responsible agenda? Many companies coined as “sustainability-driven” disclose the value of their sustainability initiatives via websites or sustainability reports. According to the Sustainable Investment Research Analyst Network, in 2010, 93 percent of the top 100 U.S. companies released sustainability reports that emphasized environmental, social and governance performance.
Sustainability efforts are increasingly attracting the interest of the Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) community. According to the Social Investment Forum (SIF), professionally managed SRI assets have grown 380 percent since 1995 versus 260 percent for all assets, and have gone from less than 1 percent of total assets in 1995 to 12.2 percent in 2010. CalSTRS, one of the most influential pension funds and a member of the SRI community, stated in 2010 that, “As a long-term investor, CalSTRS wants to invest in well-managed companies that can address the physical risks of climate change and adapt to the changing regulatory and market realities of a carbon-constrained economy.”
Whether your organization is tackling climate change or implementing small, yet calculated responsibility initiatives, communicating a well-thought-out sustainability strategy with clearly linked benefits puts your company ahead of the game and strengthens your business case for adopting CSR. Engaging your external audience will help develop a pool of advocates who support your company’s environmentally and socially responsible practices. Communicating transparently and achieving buy-in from your stakeholders is essential to driving sustainable long-term returns on the road to good corporate citizenship.
Our related post: “Poking Holes in the Corporate Responsibility Curriculum“, examines the state of Corporate Responsibility (CR) curriculum with a constructive criticism viewpoint.
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Federal and state laws should prohibit maximum hiring ages and mandatory retirement ages for all workers. This should include public-safety employees.
Businesses that bid on federal, state, and local contracts should be required to report any complaints and determinations of unlawful and unfair practices.
Governments should avoid enacting laws that are inconsistent with U.S. Supreme Court precedent on takings.
State and local governments should expand and strengthen consumer protections, as well as consumer outreach and education programs.
Higher education institutions should set tuition and fees in a manner that ensures affordability and increases educational opportunities for all, including by establishing innovat
A variety of criteria should be used when evaluating proposals to stimulate the economy:
Policymakers should create or extend programs that would address reverse mortgage foreclosures.
Relief packages for people facing hardships due to economic downturns should be temporary and well-targeted.
Proceeds from reverse mortgages should not affect homeowners’ eligibility for public benefit programs.
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Julia Augusti: The Emperor's Daughter (Women of the Ancient World)
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This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society. Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty. Studying the abundant historical evidence available, this biography studies each stage of Julia's life in remarkable detail: * her childhood - taken from her divorced mother to become part of a complex and unstable family structure * her youth - set against the brilliant social and cultural life of the new Augustan Rome * her marriages - as tools for Augustus' plans for succession * Julia's violation of her father's moral regime, and the betrayal of her absent husband. Reflecting new attitudes, and casting fresh light on their social reality, this outstanding biography will delight, entertain and inform anyone interested in this engaging Classical figure.
Introduction. Julia's Birth and Family. Julia's Girlhood. Marriage to Agrippa. Julia's Boys. The Grass Widow and Her Humiliation. Julia's Daughters. The Death of Augustus, and Ruin of the Julian Branch
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After the decision was announced Wednesday, attendees at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia shared their views on what Mosby’s move could mean for the case going forward.
Cornell W. Brooks, President and CEO of the NAACP, told NewsOne Now, “The prosecutor’s decision to drop these charges does not let the police department off the hook. It does not let the administration off the hook. In fact, it increases the degree of responsibility to provide administrative relief.”
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) said, “I think that people should be very positive about the fact that there was an arrest, there was a trial, and there was a decision. That doesn’t usually happen.”
Ben Jealous, former President and CEO of the NAACP, told NewsOne Now, “All there is left to charge is the van.”
“The reality is that we got to fix this,” Jealous added. “We’ve got to look at what policies need to be passed, we certainly need to follow up and make sure that officers who were involved in putting a man in a van and pulling him out as a corpse get fired.”
Civil rights leader Benjamin Chavis believes Mosby “did everything she could.” He also blamed the system for “leaning, tilting towards always exonerating police officers.”
But Bob Johnson, founder of BET, said, “When a prosecutor has that many cases dropped all at one time, there must have been something wrong in the way she handled the prosecution.”
Watch NewsOne Now’s coverage of the reaction to Mosby’s decision to drop all charges against the remaining three officers in the Freddie Gray case in the video clip above.
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查拉(Carl Chiara)是美国利惠公司(Levi Strauss & Co.)品牌理念及特别项目主管。越来越多爱穿牛仔裤的人认为，牛仔裤应该尽可能少洗，查拉就是其中一员。
Carl Chiara, director of brand concepts and special projects for Levi Strauss & Co., is among the growing number of jeans enthusiasts who believe in washing them as little as possible.
Mr. Chiara, who says he wears jeans every day in both work and social situations, believes that 'the less people wash their jeans, the better their jeans become. Denim really does shape to people's bodies, and when you wash a jean you lose some of that shape.'
He doesn't like to put his jeans in a washing machine because agitating the denim makes the fibers on the cotton fabric swell and 'bloom.' That in turn causes the yarns to tense up and actually get shorter, shrinking the jeans. This also mars the 'open' look of the denim, Mr. Chiara says. The color may fade or change as well.
He also avoids heat-using hot water on his jeans or throwing them in a dryer-to protect the quality of the jean, he says.
So does he dry clean his jeans? No, because he doesn't like them coming back stiff-and perhaps with a center crease if they get pressed like trousers. 'The jeans should take on your personal day-to-day life and look like you,' he says. For example, his own jeans bear the weathered marks of his keys, which he keeps in his front pocket, and his bag, which tends to rub against his upper thigh.
This is not to say that Mr. Chiara doesn't ever clean the 15 pairs of jeans that he owns. He gently spot-cleans spills with a damp sponge and 'whatever is under the kitchen sink-usually Windex or 409.'
At the end of each day, he hangs his jeans on a hook in his bathroom. When he takes a shower, the steam 'freshens [the jeans] up a little bit,' he says. He prefers hanging jeans by a belt loop to preserve their shape.
一条牛仔裤穿了六个月后，查拉会做一次彻底的清洗。那些经常清洗牛仔裤的人也可以借鉴这种清洗方式。通常而言，他会在浴缸里放上半缸常温的水，加入两勺布朗博士魔力洗衣液(Dr. Bronner's Magic Liquid Soap)，因为他喜欢这种洗衣液的柔和。然后，他把裤子浸入浴缸，平展铺开。
After six months of wearing a pair of jeans, Mr. Chiara does a comprehensive cleaning; his method could also be used by those who like to wash their jeans more often. Usually, he fills a bathtub to about six inches with room-temperature water and adds two tablespoons of Dr. Bronner's Magic Liquid Soap, which he likes because it is mild. Then, he immerses the jeans in the tub, laying them flat.
Sometimes, with dark jeans, he'll add 1/8 cup of white vinegar to the water. 'The vinegar sets the indigo and keeps it from fading,' he says.
Mr. Chiara is careful not to scrub the jeans or move them around vigorously. He just lets them soak for 20 minutes before hanging them by the belt loops to drip dry. While letting the jeans air-dry, he may slip a 'woodsy' scented sachet of potpourri into the jeans as he lays them flat.
If it's sunny out, Mr. Chiara sometimes likes to wear the jeans when they're 'almost completely dry' and sit in the sun. 'This final phase of drying them out on my body helps the jeans take on my shape,' he says.
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NCAA Governing Board Allows College Athletes to Receive Compensation
On October 29, the NCAA Board of Governors voted to allow Divisions 1, 2 and 3 to permit athletes to receive compensation for their personal brand or celebrity, while not also becoming employees of their university. The three divisions must change their bylaws by January 2021 and with those changes, ensure that athletes will not be classified as professionals. This change of NCAA policy is likely in response to bills like California’s Fair Pay for Play Act, which mandates that athletes receive fair compensation for their work and will take effect in 2023.
The NCAA has been under siege for years. As the governing body for college sports, it has reaped the rewards of sponsorship contracts for broadcasting rights and shared little with the athletes performing on the field, court, track, diamond, course, or arena. Universities belonging to the Big 5 athletic conferences are additional beneficiaries, awarding multi-million dollar contracts to successful coaches and few benefits beyond college scholarships to their athletes. The NCAA’s dual role as regulator and enforcer is arguably influenced by the value of those big network contracts as evidenced by the verdict of no punishment for the University of North Carolina’s athletic program for steering athletes into “paper classes.” On the surface, one can only assume that the NCAA ordered its attorneys to find a loophole to avoid punishing one of college basketball’s perennially strongest programs.
“The wind of change is blowing” is the opening phrase from a speech that UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gave to South Africa’s Parliament in 1960, referencing its policy of apartheid. Apartheid formally ended in April of 1994. There have been several player compensation lawsuits against the NCAA, the most famous of which may be the O’Bannon v. NCAA anti-trust case initially won by O’Bannon and his fellow plaintiffs at the District Court level in August 2014. That verdict was partially affirmed and partially reversed at the Appeals Court level in September 2015 and appealed to the Supreme Court, who voted not to hear the case.
ESPN analyst and former Duke basketball star Jay Bilas said the NCAA had plenty of opportunities to be proactive instead of reactive but instead failed to take the initiative a long time ago, noting that “…This has been coming for a long time. The state government just sped it all up…”
The O’Bannon case is not the major “wind of change is blowing” date for the NCAA, and I’m not sure what event and date might deserve that tag. Given the level of attention that the NCAA’s policy of no pay for athletes is receiving at the state and federal legislative level, I predict extremely turbulent waters for the next few years, particularly as California’s law goes into effect along with other states considering similar legislation. | <urn:uuid:131509de-c20c-482a-96c8-62ad4f8859d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wallyboston.com/ncaa-board-college-athletes-compensation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.968086 | 584 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Tuntau is an enormous, low-density terrestrial planet, with a thick atmosphere of methane and helium. Despite being nearly 20 AU from Phoenix, the star's great heat and the insulating thickness of the atmosphere make the surface surprisingly temperate.
The crust is mainly composed of sodium and silicon dioxide with deposits of various light metals. While Tuntau is not habitable, the relative pleasantness of the surface conditions make it a popular location for small ships traveling through the Argos Rho cluster to land for drive discharge.
- Note: The Mako can land here. There are deposits of mercury and lithium here. There is a pirate base here for Wrex: Family Armor. One of Matriarch Dilinaga's writings can be found here. A crashed probe can also be salvaged here. | <urn:uuid:d4e81b0d-1c8f-48ae-a7a2-38ddadb852c0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Tuntau | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00405-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924046 | 164 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Russia is capable of repelling any kind of aggression thanks to its arsenal of nuclear and conventional defense weapons which are continuously upgraded, according to Viktor Murakhovsky, a journalist and chief editor of the Russian magazine Arsenal Otechestva (Armory of the Motherland). Russia is now stronger than any potential aggressor, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday at an expanded Defense Ministry board meeting.
“We can say with confidence that we are now stronger than any potential aggressor,” Putin said.
Moreover, Russia has broad capabilities in using high-precision weapons, for example, sea- and aerial-based cruise missiles,” the expert pointed out. Murakhovsky underscored that Russia’s current military capabilities are adequate to deter possible threats in all strategic directions. “In theory, Russia can repel any possible type of aggression. As for strategic nuclear forces, we have parity with the United States, which gives a guarantee of mutual destruction,” the analyst said.
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Students enrolled in two Cape Carousel Program courses during the first session of the year have had the opportunity to take multiple field trips to expand their learning.
Those enrolled in Feathers, Fins and Scales have gotten up close and personal with some of the fascinating creatures that inhabit the Delaware coast. As part of the curriculum, the class traveled to Cape Henlopen State Park in October, where students perused the bay beach and surrounding wooded areas in search of critters and received instruction on the habitat there by Cape Carousel instructor Suzanne Thurman, executive director of the Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute.
In addition to learning ship speak, knot tying, navigation, survival, swordsmanship and other essential pirate skills, students enrolled in the Pirates of the Delaware Bay class went on two field trips accompanied by their instructor Shawn Heacock, a historian and naturalist for Delaware State Parks. The Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes stayed open late and put together a presentation on the wide array of artifacts and interactive displays it houses, as well as how its collection relates to the pirate population of old.
For their second trip, students visited the Indian River Life-Saving Station Museum at Delaware Seashore State Park. There they learned about the heroic surfmen who lived and worked at the station in the late 1800s through the dark and cold of winter to be on hand for saving lives when ships wrecked off the Delaware coast.
An after-school enrichment program sponsored by the Cape Henlopen School District, the Cape Carousel Program continues to thrive in its 15th year with more than 160 fourth- through eighth-grade students enrolled in 14 Session One courses. Registration for Session Two is currently in progress and will feature 13 classes including cake decorating, ball sports, improv and musical theater, scrapbooking and crafts, comfort food prep, mixed media art, cartooning, voice and piano workshop, tennis, Chinese cooking and Science Olympiad.
A Community Night celebration for Session One, where student work will be showcased, is scheduled for 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 19, in the Lewes School auditorium. For more information on the Cape Carousel Program call 302-644-7917 or go to http://www.teachers.cape.k12.de.us/~ccphome. | <urn:uuid:f0b0058f-95a9-4319-b6ed-17081907624f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.capegazette.com/node/37416 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00045-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945542 | 477 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The majority of cells in the nervous system are not neurons. They are glia. There are several subtypes of glia, one of which is astrocytes. Glia means glue. In general, people think of glia in their support role in the nervous system. Holding it together, disposing of waste and other menial tasks.
This little commentary here (pdf) in the current Cell describes a change in thinking that is occuring with regard to glia. They are stepping into a more active role. In this case, they modulate the ability of hypothalamic synapses to undergo plasticity. Compared to lactating rats, virgin rats have closer astrocyte encasement of synapses. The astrocytes release a chemical called D-serine into synapses that binds to a co-agonist site on NMDA receptors. NMDA receptor activation is considered the first checkpoint for increases in synaptic strength. More D-serine = more effective NMDA receptor activation.
In the study described, virgin rats have a lower threshold for LTP induction than do lactating rats. This is nicely illustrated below the fold.
So better glia encapsulation of synapses = more D-serine in synapses = more NMDAR activation = easier to undergo synaptic enhancement. This is in the hypothalamus mind you, not usually a major locus for memory studies. I’d like to see what’s going on during these states in the hippocampus. For those of you interested in intelligence and Ashkenazis and all that business, you might note that the major abnormality of Einstein’s brain was an greater glia to neuron ratio. I don’t know what that means either. | <urn:uuid:0fced520-769f-4b80-8fa1-9eab6455aaa2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.gnxp.com/new/2006/05/28/super-glue/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00466-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934719 | 356 | 2.921875 | 3 |
How to design sustainability into your cuppa
If you’re reading this over morning coffee or afternoon tea, chances are you’ll have put the kettle on. Putting aside the sustainability impacts of coffee, tea, milk or sugar sourcing, which an eco-literate audience will likely know, or the social value, conviviality and cultural importance of these rituals, the humble kettle itself encapsulates many of the central sustainability challenges around behaviour change and consumer engagement.
In this article, I want to use the kettle to unpack an important area of sustainability and design: creating sustainable behaviour.
The kettle is estimated to account for 4% of UK household carbon emissions and simple changes to its design could have a potentially huge impact on this figure.
Almost all the energy consumed by a kettle (95%) comes from boiling water. This is made worse by inefficient behaviours like over-filling and allowing hard water to fur the element. In addition, people actually boil their kettle on average 2.4 times for a single cup, switching on then getting distracted by EastEnders, the footie or a phone call. They then reboil as they think the water is not hot enough.
Amazingly, studies show that the single biggest innovation to tackle inefficient use and behaviour would be the good-old whistle. Removing whistles in the move from gas hob to electric counter-top instantly eliminated the need for an audible prompt that it was time for tea. The main variables that influence a kettle’s impacts are therefore behavioural, not technical.
Moving beyond the message
Most of the written word on sustainable behaviour, seen extensively on the pages of major media platforms, is characterised by what I call a communications-driven approach. This uses education, awareness-raising, campaigns – essentially messaging – to change minds, capture hearts and shift behaviour via tools like advertising, PR and social media. So how about a ‘turn off the switch’ campaign for our case study above? I’m not entirely convinced we can communicate our way out of this one.
This approach relies heavily on getting the message right, about which I have two concerns. First, this can be tricky given that messages will compete with the estimated 3000+ ‘buy-more, use-me, new-and-improved, limited edition’ mainstream marketing messages North Americans are said to receive daily. Second, many people are simply too busy to succumb to even the most sophisticated sustainability messages, and there are already calls to move beyond clever slogans. “I seriously doubt consumer’s ability to choose their way out of trouble,” says green guru Jonathon Porritt.
I’m convinced we can really ‘help’ consumer’s by using design for more sustainable behaviours, building behaviour change into the solutions themselves.
Like their marketing and communications cousins, designers are particularly skilled at influencing behaviour through creating better experiences or selling more of a particular product. We must now turn all those powers of design persuasion to sustainable behaviours.
Designing for more sustainable behaviour
The impact of kettles and many other products can be changed, reduced or even eliminated by smart design. The common problem of over-filling for a single cup, can and is being tackled through betterwater-level indicators or windows. Integrated filters can purify water when filling, to avoid element furring. Adding a temperature gauge light to tackle the problem of reboiling (water only needs to be 90C, not 100C for tea or coffee) indicates water is still hot enough to use. There is a growing and positive trend for adding whistles in modern kettle design, hopefully for both style and sustainability reasons.
So you could ask people to switch off, but a far better option is to build-in the behaviour change and consumers will do it naturally.
Look around and there are almost no limits to the areas which sustainable behaviour influenced by design can be applied, including battery ‘powercheck’ testing strips that indicate the charge and which can extend battery life by up to 40% and avoid their unnecessary, and potentially toxic, disposal. Pavement-less street design around South Kensington’s museums counter-intuitively slows traffic and increases pedestrian safety. Or indeed the infamous fly-tattooed urinals in Schipol Airport that nudge male users to reduce spillage by 80%. Roca’s intelligent plug design which feeds back the litres of water draining out of your sink. These examples show how design provides people with solutions or behaviours that are simply better, not just greener.
If you’re thinking, ‘oh that’s just product design’, I’ve already argued how products contribute to UK consumer’s carbon emissions. We ignore them at our peril. Adding behaviour change by design to our sustainability toolkit would therefore make sustainable behaviour not just easier and more automatic, but ultimately more exciting and aspirational for consumers too. | <urn:uuid:a918c027-ca32-42e3-bf2f-252bb80b6dd0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://greenallianceblog.org.uk/2012/11/23/how-to-design-sustainability-into-your-cuppa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00235-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931689 | 1,020 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Chief among Joseph Biden’s plans to reverse President Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policy initiatives is undoing the transgender military ban, but with at least two military service chiefs on the record as being hesitant — if not outright opposed — to the change, that may require a more substantial effort than expected.
Reversing the transgender military ban, which was implemented administratively under Trump, could be done easily with another administrative change. After all, the policy of open service initiated by former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter under former President Obama could simply be duplicated.
However, if the military service chiefs resist, a change that could in theory be done on Day One during a Biden administration may be prolonged.
Douglas Wilson, who served as Pentagon chief of public affairs under Obama and was the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate for a senior defense role, predicted in an email to the Washington Blade “there would likely be some pushback,” but said it wouldn’t be impenetrable.
“Before the Trump ban, there had been general overall acceptance of the Ash Carter policy, which — while initially internally controversial — was essentially accepted over time,” Wilson said. “[I’m] not sure in these times if this would be the issue on which chiefs would fall on their swords in opposition to Biden’s change. I would think they would be expecting it if Biden wins.”
Unlike other presidential appointments, who customarily resign their positions at the end of a presidential administration, the service chiefs under Trump would continue serving in their roles if Biden wins the election and stay in place after he takes the White House.
A look at the confirmation hearings for the military service chiefs reveals their mixed views on transgender service. The Army chief of staff is on the record in opposition to transgender service and the Marine Corps commandant has expressed hesitation. Meanwhile, the uniform leaders for the Navy and Coast Guard have signaled they’d welcome transgender service. In between is Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, who has chosen his words very carefully.
The service chief most clear about objecting to transgender military service is Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville. In a May 2019 questionnaire prepared by the Senate Armed Services Committee, McConville responded in the negative when asked if transgender military service in the Obama years had impact on unit cohesion or morale.
“In my experience, a service member with a medical condition who has been non-deployable for multiple periods of significant duration could negatively impact readiness – especially in a high-demand, low-density [military occupational specialty],” McConville said. “Non-deployable soldiers can negatively impact a unit’s force readiness, especially smaller units or in highly specialized areas with a very small population.”
Those remarks — generalized and based on a hypothetical framework — fly in the face of comments before that time from service chiefs, who each affirmed to the Senate Armed Services Committee that transgender service didn’t impair unit cohesion.
Hesitant about transgender military service in his confirmation hearing was Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger, who in April 2019 hedged by denying any negative impact on unit cohesion, but expressing concern about “gender dysphoria,” often a defining characteristic of being transgender.
“I am not aware of any specific impacts,” Berger said. “Gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition. Treatment of any medical condition can impact readiness.”
Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley chose his words carefully during his confirmation hearing in July 2019 under questioning about transgender service from Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii).
“I don’t believe there’s anything inherent in anyone’s identity to prevent them from serving in the military,” Milley said. “It’s about standards, not an identity.”
Although Milley said he sees no problem with transgender troops, he also tempered that by saying service members need to meet the military standards, which currently bar transgender service.
“I think that, in my view, we’re a standards-based military, as you point out,” Milley said. “We’re concerned about the deployability and effectiveness of any of the service members.”
“So if you meet the medical, behavioral health, the conduct standards and physical standards, etc., then it’s my view that you should be welcomed in,” Milley added.
The Navy appears to have the service chief most amenable to transgender service. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday affirmed in August 2019 during his confirmation hearing he sees no problem in any capacity with allowing transgender people in the military.
“I am unaware of negative impacts on unit or overall Navy readiness as a result of transgender individuals serving in their preferred gender,” Gilday said.
Just last week, the Navy granted its first-ever waiver under the transgender ban to an officer facing discharge, allowing her to stay after she sued to remain in the service. The waiver, however, was granted by the acting secretary of the Navy, who would be expected to resign at the end of the Trump administration.
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz, who pledged last year a “dedicated campaign” to increase diversity in his service, in April 2018 also dismissed concerns about transgender service in his confirmation hearing.
“I am not aware of any disciplinary or unit cohesion issues resulting from the opening of the Coast Guard to transgender individuals,” Schultz said.
Although the Coast Guard technically isn’t a service because the Department of Homeland Security, not the Defense Department, has jurisdiction over it, it has a tradition of following the personnel policy set by the Pentagon, including on transgender service.
The incoming Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Charles Brown, is in the middle of his confirmation process and hasn’t yet publicly commented on transgender service. The service chief for the newly created Space Force, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond, wasn’t asked about the issue before his confirmation.
Will Biden put his money where his mouth is with his campaign pledge and lay down the law with the service chiefs?
Jamal Brown, national press secretary for the Biden campaign, reiterated the presumptive Democratic nominee’s commitment to the transgender community in response to the question from the Washington Blade.
“Joe Biden believes that ‘bigotry is bigotry, prejudice is prejudice, and hate is hate, no matter where we find it,'” Brown said. “Transgender Americans should have the right to serve the country they love and, in this time of a global pandemic, our nation should be tapping the talents and skills of every person who is willing to serve.”
Brown also affirmed Biden would direct the Pentagon to implement openly transgender service, but didn’t disclose anything about process or timing.
“As president, Biden has made clear that he will direct the U.S. Department of Defense to allow transgender service members to serve openly, receive needed medical treatment and be free from discrimination,” Brown said.
Tension between a U.S. president and the military service chiefs over LGBTQ military service has occurred before. In 2010, when legislative repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was moving through Congress, Obama left implementation to then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates broadly speaking, but on one occasion made his position clear with the service chiefs.
At the time, not all the service chiefs were on board with repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Marine Corps Commandant James Conway opposed allowing openly gay people in the military and warned gay and straight service members shouldn’t share housing.
But Obama delivered the service chiefs an ultimatum: Accept the change or resign.
As revealed in a 2014 report from BuzzFeed, then-Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp recalled Obama being unwilling to compromise with service leaders during a meeting in 2010 over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“We were called into the Oval Office and President Obama looked all five service chiefs in the eye and said, ‘This is what I want to do,’” Papp said. “I cannot divulge everything he said to us, that’s private communications within the Oval Office, but if we didn’t agree with it — if any of us didn’t agree with it — we all had the opportunity to resign our commissions and go do other things.”
There were no resignations. When “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was repealed and Obama, then-Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta certified the military was prepared, each of the services implemented openly gay service. Conway, still in charge of the Marine Corps, conceded afterwards there were no problems with the change.
Amanda Simpson, deputy assistant defense secretary for operational energy under Obama and the first openly transgender woman presidential appointee, told the Blade she doesn’t think implementing transgender service “would need to come down” to Biden giving service chiefs an ultimatum.
“I cannot speak to what a President Biden would enact, but I would encourage a first step to return to the policy that was in place and working at the end of the Obama-Biden administration allowing open transgender military service,” Simpson said.
Simpson added she thinks a President Biden would be a strong commander-in-chief and would direct the military staff accordingly.
Would the service chiefs keep to their views they expressed on transgender service during their confirmation hearings or would they agree to Biden’s plan to implement it? The Space Force didn’t respond to the Blade’s request to comment and spokesperson for the Navy and Air Force flat-out declined to comment.
Maj. Craig Thomas, a spokesperson for the Marine Corps, told the Washington Blade the service would implement any change directed under a new administration — but would provide its recommendation if asked by defense leadership.
“The simple answer is if the DOD changes the policy, the Marine Corps will abide by it,” Thomas said. “If the secretary of defense seeks input from the services, the Marine Corps would provide its recommendation. However, once a decision is made, we follow the guidance set forth by our civilian leadership.”
Asked a follow-up question on what the recommendation of the Marine Corps would be, Thomas declined to answer the hypothetical and said as of now “there is no recommendation or additional discussion.”
“Moreover, in my previous response I was speaking generically about DOD passing any new policy,” Thomas said. “Sometimes they ask for input and sometime it’s not needed. The key point is once a decision is made, the services carry it out to the best of their abilities.”
Lisa Novak, a Coast Guard spokesperson, said the service will follow the policy set by the Pentagon, but also praised transgender service members.
“The Coast Guard’s policy has always aligned with the Department of Defense’s policy concerning transgender military service,” Novak said. “There are many transgender service members serving today with honor and distinction. The Coast Guard will continue to treat all service members with the respect and dignity that they deserve.”
An Army spokesperson deferred entirely to the policy set by the Pentagon on the issue.
“The Army executes Department of Defense military personnel policy, including policy on military service by transgender persons,” the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon continues to enforce the transgender military ban as implemented by former Defense Secretary James Mattis. The Defense Department has insisted the transgender military ban is not a ban, but a medical-based policy applying to all service members, pointing out they’re free to identify as transgender and remain in the armed forces.
Nonetheless, current policy — which the Pentagon implemented after Trump tweeted in 2017 he’d ban transgender service members “in any capacity” — requires the discharge of any service member who’s diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a defining characteristic of being transgender, or seeks transition-related care. Individuals with a history of gender dysphoria can only enlist if they’re willing to serve in accordance with their sex designated at birth.
The policy has an exemption to allow transgender service members to continue serving if they came out when open service was instituted in 2016 under the Obama administration. Additionally, the policy allows senior defense officials to grant waivers to transgender individuals facing discharge wishing to enlist in the armed forces.
Jessica Maxwell, a Defense Department spokesperson, declined to comment on the speed with which it could reverse course and implement transgender service under a Biden administration.
“The department speculates on neither future election results nor potential changes from those results,” Maxwell said.
At the end of the day, if Biden is elected president, he would become commander-in-chief and the service chiefs would be bound to his orders. Any Biden order to lift the transgender military ban would supersede their objections.
Aaron Belkin, director of the San Francisco-based Palm Center, said the implementation of transgender military service — regardless of whether Biden or Trump is in charge — would be easy to accomplish.
“All of the service chiefs testified in 2018 that inclusive policy for transgender personnel worked, and the very good regulations spelling out that policy remain in effect, even though they have been superceded by Trump’s ban,” Belkin said. “Because inclusive policy remains in effect, the next administration can seamlessly and immediately end the Trump ban by canceling the regulation that contains it. Literally, this should take a day or two, and it doesn’t matter who’s running DOD.”
Former Ambassador Daniel Baer explains it all on Ukraine crisis
Expert downplays strategic thinking behind Putin’s move
Daniel Baer, who worked on LGBTQ human rights and transatlantic issues as one of several openly gay U.S. ambassadors during the Obama administration, answered questions from the Washington Blade on Ukraine as the international crisis continues to unfold.
Topics during the interview, which took place weeks ago on Jan. 27, included Putin’s motivation for Russian incursions, the risk of outright war, predictions for Russia after Putin and how the crisis would affect LGBTQ people in Ukraine.
Baer was deputy assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and U.S. ambassador to the Organization of Security & Cooperation in Europe.
The full interview follows:
Washington Blade: What’s your level of engagement with this affair? Are you doing any consulting work? Is the administration reaching out to you at all?
Daniel Baer: I actually think the White House is doing a pretty good job of recognizing that they need to not only have press conferences, but also talk to other people who are trying to figure out how to be constructive critics, idea generators from the outside.
Blade: OK, so you’re being solicited and engaging on this issue. My next question for you is why do you think Putin is doing this at this time?
Baer: So, I guess taking a step back from the whole thing, one of the things about a problem like this is that everybody is searching for the right answer assuming that there is a like comfortable or compelling or intellectually accurate answer, and I actually think we’re just in a really hard moment.
I don’t know why he’s doing it now. And in fact, I think that one of the puzzles that we haven’t solved yet is that all the things that he says are the reasons that he’s doing it — that he feels encirclement by NATO, … or that the situation in Ukraine is untenable — none of those things have changed. Setting aside the fact that they’re spurious, it’s not like there’s been some new move in the last 12 months that has precipitated [a reaction] on any of those fronts that you can say, “Oh, well, he’s responding to the recent meeting where Ukraine was offered membership in NATO, or he’s responding to a change in government in Ukraine that it’s clearly anti-Russia, or any other move that we’ve done.” The explanation just doesn’t hold water, and so I think we need to look for alternative ones.
The best I can come up with is actually just a broad — it doesn’t actually explain this particular moment, but I think you could look at the timing of his life. He has, I don’t know, 10 years left. And during those 10 years, it’s unlikely that Russia is going to grow more powerful; it’s much more likely that it’s going to become at least relatively and probably nominally less powerful. And so, if you’re unhappy with the status quo, and you feel like you’re a declining power, and you don’t have endless time, there’s no time like the present. And you’ll make up whatever reasons you need to in order to justify it.
I also think there’s a tendency on our part to attribute far more “strategery” to Putin than there necessarily is. I mean, he’s a bully and a thug. I think the whole Putin’s playing chess and we’re playing checkers is actually completely inverted. We’re in our own heads that there’s some kind of nuanced position that would mollify him. He’s just a gangster and he’s taking a punch because he has one. And I don’t think it gets much more complicated than that. And so, I guess the answer to why he’s doing this now, because the international conditions are such that he feels like the United States is focused domestically, the Ukrainians are not moving forward with succeeding to build — they’re kind of in stasis on building a European state— and he has, you know, he has the space to take a punch, so he’s contemplating doing it, or he’s already decided to do it. And he’s just extracting as much as possible before he takes it.
Blade: That leads me to my next question: What is your judgement of the risk of out and out war?
Baer: I don’t know because I have two hypotheses that cut both ways. One is that I think Putin is vastly underestimating the degree of resistance. On the other hand, I think that nothing short of domination is satisfactory. And so, I don’t know. I guess I think there’s a 90 percent chance that he does something, and I think there’s a 75 percent chance that what he does is not an all out invasion or ground invasion, at least not at first, but rather something that is aimed at confusing us. So some sort of hybrid or staged or false flag kind of attack in tandem with a political coup in Kiev, where he works to install a more Russia-loyal leader.
The thing with the ground invasion is that Russian soldiers’ moms are one of the only, like, powerful political forces in civil society in Russia. I just don’t see any way that a ground invasion doesn’t involve massive Russian casualties, even if they will be dominant. The people who are going to impose the consequences on him will be the Ukrainians, not the rest of us, and he should not invade, and if he does, we should, frankly, work hard to make it as painful and difficult for him as possible.
Blade: What will that look like?
Baer: I think we should at that point continue — we shouldn’t pause, we should continue to send the defensive equipment and backfill as much as possible their ability from an equipment basis to resist.
Blade: So if we were to look at a model for past U.S. engagements. I’m thinking Greece under President Truman, which was so successful that nobody really knows about it, I don’t think. Is there any model we should be looking toward, or not looking toward?
Baer: No, I guess. I’m not sure there’s any good historical model because obviously, any of them you can pick apart. I do think that one thing that has gotten lost in a lot of the analysis — and this goes back to Putin being a gangster thug, and not being such a genius — is there’s a moral difference between us. The reason why Putin gets to control the dialogue is because he’s willing to do things that we aren’t willing to do — as gangsters are, as hostage-takers are — and so yes, they get to set the terms of what we discussed, because we’re not holding hostages. We’re trying to get hostages released. And the hostage-taker has an upper hand and asymmetry because they are willing to do something that is wrong.
We shouldn’t lose the kind of moral difference there. Nor should we lose sight of the fact that Ukraine is being menaced. And I’m not saying it’s our obligation [to intervene militarily], certainly not our obligation. They aren’t a treaty ally. We have neither a political obligation nor a moral one to necessarily risk our own lives, our own soldiers in defense of Ukraine. But if Ukraine wants to defend themselves, there’s a strong moral case to be made that anything, short of risking our own lives, is something that is morally good. We generally believe that self-defense from lethal threat is a reasonable moral cause and assisting others in defending themselves is too — I think there’s a lot of back and forth that get glossed over whether that’s a provocation or whatever, and I want to say to people stand back, look at this: we’ve got one party that is attacking another. And the question is, does the other have a right to defend itself? Yes. And if they have a right to defend themselves, and they also have a right to have whatever assistance people will offer them in defending themselves.
That doesn’t mean that they get to demand that we show up and fight in the trenches with them, of course, and I don’t think there’s any serious people who are recommending that but it’s a good thing to help them. It’s not like a technical thing. It’s a good thing to help
Blade: Getting into that moral background, one thing I want to ask you was about the significance of what would happen in this concept of democracy versus autocracy. First of all, how much is Ukraine a functional democracy, in the sense that if we’re defending Ukraine, we are defending a democracy, and what signal do you think it would send if that Ukrainian government fell to Russian autocracy?
Baer: I think the institutions of government that the Ukrainian people have are not worthy of the Ukrainian people’s own demonstrated commitment …
They are not worthy of the Ukrainian people’s own demonstrated commitment to the idea of democratic institutions. So the answer is today’s Ukrainian government is a mixed bag and it’s very hard to build, on the rot of a Russian fiefdom, a functioning democracy, so I think it’s a mixed bag. I don’t want to sound like I’m minimizing [the changes], or that they’ve completely bungled an easy project. It was always going to be a hard project, and it was never going to be linear.
But I think that what we’ve seen from the Ukrainian people — by which I mean not Ukrainian people, but people of Ukraine — is that there is a broad part of society that a) does not want to live under a Russian thumb and b) sees its future in kind of European style democracy. And so I think that if there was, there’s no question that the Russian attack would be in part about subjugating the people of Ukraine and forcing them to live under some sort of new Russian satellite. And I think that there’s little space for serious argument that that’s something that the people of the country wish to have.
Blade: But I’m just kind of getting at — you’re kind of minimizing that this is a strategic move by Putin, but if he were to successfully dominant Ukraine it becomes a Russian satellite isn’t that saying like, “Well, ha ha West, you thought the Cold War was over and there’s going to be just be a unipolar world in the future but no, we’re gonna we have this we’re back and we’re gonna create a multipolar world for the future.”
Baer: Yeah, I mean, my answer to the Russians who always raise the multipolar world to me is, “Fine, it’s going to be a multipolar world. What makes you think that Russia is one of the poles?” Poles by definition draw people to them, they are compelling and a pole attracts, magnetically or otherwise, and there is nothing attractive about the model that Russia is pursuing. And if the only way that you can be a pole is by subjugating, to force your neighbors, you are proving that you are not one.
I think the benefits for Russia are far smaller than Putin thinks and I think the consequences for the rest of the world of allowing a violation of international order to go forward are much larger than many people recognize.
Blade: But that was their approach when they were the Soviet Union. They were subjugating the Eastern Bloc through Russian force. They did have, in theory, the concept of their worldview of you know, of socialism, or whatever you want to put it charitably, was going to be the right way to go. Is there really that much of a difference?
Baer: Yeah, however disingenuous it was, they did have an ideology . So you’re right, that was a key distinction. The other thing is that the Soviet Union in relative size — its economy and population etc. — was much larger than Russia is today. And Russia is shrinking, and its economy is less diverse than the Communist one was. I think it’s a delusion to think that they’re going to kind of rebuild an empire, even if yes, because of their willingness to do awful things, they could potentially for a time politically control through violence, their neighbors. I just don’t — in a multipolar world, I don’t see Russia being one of the poles, at least not on its current path.
Blade: How would you evaluate the U.S. diplomatic approach to this issue?
Baer: There’s been very clear over-the-top effort to include the Europeans at every step — meetings with them before each meeting and after each meeting, to force conversations into fora that are more inclusive and stuff like that. And I think that Secretary Blinken is rightly recognizing the need to kind of play a role of kind of keeping everybody on the side while we test whether diplomacy whether there’s anything to do, whether there’s any promise with diplomacy.
I think there’s kind of, sometimes kind of, two camps in U.S. foreign policy circles. One is like: We should give the Russians what they want because it just doesn’t matter that much. War is much worse than anything that we would give them. And another is that we can’t give them an inch and we have to punch them in the face whenever we can. And I think both of those are kind of knee-jerk positions that have become a bit religious for people and neither of them is paying attention to the practical challenge that’s in front of the administration, which is like this guy’s threatening to invade and we need to identify whether there’s any opportunity for a functional off ramp, and that doesn’t mean we do that in a vacuum and ignore the long-term consequences, but our problem is not a religious one, it’s a practical one. And I think they’re doing a pretty good job of threading the needle on that and being not too far forward and not too far back.
Blade: Do you see any significant daylight between the United States and Europe?
Baer: No, I mean, no more than the minimum that is possible. There’s a lot of talk about Germany these days. Look, I think some of the things they say are not particularly helpful, but I don’t actually think that in the long run, if Putin invaded, I don’t think that they would hold up sanctions or anything like that. So I think they’re on our side, even if they’re talking out of both sides, in some cases.
Blade: I am wise to the fact that this is a nuclear power. It might be a little old school, but could escalation get that far?
Baer: There can’t be war. There can’t be war between NATO and Russia. It should be avoided. Obviously, there can be, but it should be avoided.
Blade: How committed do you think President Biden is to protecting Ukraine?
Baer: Reasonably so. I think he’s enough of an old school trans-Atlantist that he understands that this isn’t just about Ukraine.
Blade: I was wondering because he had those comments from his press conference about “minor incursion” and I’m just wondering if you’re reading anything into that or not.
Baer: No, I think that was that was a — I think broadly speaking, everything he says is in line with the kind of view that you would expect. And of course, one sentence can catch [attention]. That wasn’t what he meant. What he meant was that he didn’t want to draw a “red line” that would prejudge policy in response to something short of the most extreme scenario.
I think it is a good caution to not obsess over a single sentence and to look at the broad considered policy statements.
Blade: What do you think if you were looking for developments, like what would you be looking out for is significant in terms of where we are going to be going in the near future? This is one thing to keep an eye out for but is there anything else that you are kind of looking out for in terms of the near future?
Baer: I guess I would look out for whether or not the United States joins meetings of the so-called Normandy Format, which is the France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia grouping, which has so far been unsuccessful, but I think can only be successful as the United States joins it, but the Russians, I think have misgivings with the idea of our joining it.
Blade: I’m not at all familiar with that. What makes this forum particularly so —
Baer: So it was started in the summer in like June of 2015, on the margins of some meeting between Merkel and Hollande. The French and the Germans are very committed to the idea that they might be able to mediate peace between Ukraine and Russia. It was supposed to implement the Minsk Agreement, and it just hasn’t been productive so far. I don’t think that the Russians will do anything — I don’t think the Ukrainians feel comfortable negotiating anything without the Americans at the table. And I don’t think the Russians feel like anything is guaranteed without the Americans at the table. So I just, I’m fine with France and Germany taking the lead, but I think the U.S. has to be there.
And there was a meeting of this group in Paris yesterday, and which the U.S. was supportive of, and so I’m watching to see whether or not the United States gets added in some ad hoc way, whether there are future meetings. I guess the reason I would watch it, if the U.S. were to join future meetings that would signal to me that it’s actually there’s some diplomacy happening there.
That’s meant to be focusing mainly on the existing Russian invasion, the occupation of the Donbas, so that’s not about the threat of the new invasion, but it would be interesting to me if there was forward movement on other parts of Ukraine. The announcement of the American ambassador is one. I think that last week movement of troops into Belarus was a game changer for the U.S., because there are all kinds of new implications if you’re using a third country as your launchpad for war, and so it complicates things and it also looks more serious if you’re starting to deploy to third countries and stuff like that. So I think that was that last week, you noticed a difference in the U.S. tone and tenor in response to that.
So things like that. But in general, like what I would do and I don’t think people always catch this is because there’s a boiling frog aspect to it. There are statements coming out from the White House or State Department. Almost every day on stuff related to this and like last week, there was a noticeable change in the tenor as the U.S. became less, I think more pessimistic about the prospects of diplomacy and those I don’t have anything better to look for in those statements as tea leaves, in terms of what the U.S. assessment is of the prospects of the escalation are, so it’s bad.
Blade: Right. That’s very sobering.
There’s a lot of talk, and I’ve just been seeing some like about in terms of, there’s like comparisons to Afghanistan and making sure that all Americans are able to get out of Ukraine. Is that comparing apples to oranges?
Blade: And could you unpack that a little bit? I mean, I can kind of guess the reasons why. How is that apples to oranges?
Blade: Well, the level of development in Ukraine in terms of infrastructure and transport and stuff like that is not comparable to Afghanistan. I think it would be– if there were a Russian invasion–you would definitely want to, obviously, for safety reasons, it’s not safe to be in a war zone, so you would want people to be able to evacuate and you’d have to plan for that.
A major concern [in Afghanistan] was also that there were tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of locals who had worked for the Americans. The Americans that are in Ukraine are not a departing occupying power. There’s just not the same footprint there — the Americans are in Ukraine or there as business people or young [people working on] democracy assistance or whatever. And it’s just it’s a different context.
Blade: Why do you think the Russians put up with Putin? I mean, this is a country that was a world power and I would think has some economic potential just given its sheer size, first of all, and they do have oil to offer people. So why aren’t the Russians like angry at him for obstructing their participation in the global order as opposed to just putting up with him for years and years and years.
Baer: Successful instrumentalisation of cynicism. The lack of a belief in an alternative will keep you from fighting for it.
Blade: That’s pretty succinct.
Baer: I mean, I don’t think there’s any question that the people of Russia could be better off or different in terms of kitchen table issues, and ease of navigating the world, prospects for their future for their children’s future. The amount of money that Putin has invested into military modernization that Russia can ill afford, while he’s cut pensions and social services and health care. It’s just it’s objectively true that the average Russian person would be better served by a different leader. But he’s done a very good job of effectively selling off the country for profit and persuading people through repression and propaganda that there is no alternative.
Blade: And Putin won’t be around forever. Once he finally goes, is an alternative going to emerge, or will it be the next guy in Putin’s mold?
Baer: I think it’s far from clear that what comes after Putin isn’t worse and bloody. Regimes like this don’t reliably have stable transitions.
Blade: Wow, okay.
Baer: Yeah, we shouldn’t… we should be careful about wishing… wishing for his demise.
Blade: That’s good to know. It’s kind of a frightful note for me to end my questions. But actually before I sign off, there’s one more thing too because I do kind of want to talk about the intersection about your old job in democracy and human rights and then a Venn diagram of that with your experience in Eastern Europe in particular. Do you have a sense of what’s at stake for LGBTQ people in Ukraine or if they’re in more danger right now than they would be otherwise?
Baer: That’s a good question. I mean, my knee jerk reaction is yes. That — as mixed of a picture as Ukraine has been in the last seven years, or eight years — there have been meaningful steps forward, and certainly, in terms of visibility.
I guess, in the sense that Ukraine is better than Russia today, if you’re gay, if Russia is going to occupy or control Ukraine we can expect that it will get worse because it will become more like Russia.
Trump ribbed Pence for thinking ‘it’s a crime to be gay,’ new book says
Former president openly wanted gay Fox News analyst for Supreme Court
Donald Trump, in the days before he took office after the 2016 election, openly contemplated naming an openly gay Fox News contributor to the U.S. Supreme Court amid concerns from social conservatives about his potential choices and ribbed former Vice President Mike Pence for thinking “it’s a crime to be gay,” according to the new book “Insurgency” detailing the former president’s path to the White House.
The key moment between Trump, Judge Andrew Napolitano and Pence took place during the transition period after the 2016 election when Trump invited the other two for a meeting at Trump Tower. That’s when Trump reportedly took the jab at Pence.
“During their meeting, for part of which Mike Pence was present, Trump ribbed Pence for his anti-gay rights views,” the book says. “Addressing Napolitano, Trump gestured toward the archconservative vice-president-elect and said, ‘You’d better be careful because this guy thinks it’s a crime to be gay. Right, Mike?’ When Pence didn’t answer, Trump repeated himself, ‘Right, Mike?’ Pence remained silent.”
The potential choice of Andrew Napolitano, who was fired last year from Fox News amid recently dropped allegations of sexual harassment from male co-workers, as well as other TV personalities Trump floated for the Supreme Court, as detailed in the book, were among the many reasons conservatives feared he wouldn’t be reliable upon taking the presidency. Ironically, Trump would have been responsible for making a historic choice for diversity if he chose a gay man like Napolitano for the Supreme Court, beating President Biden to the punch as the nation awaits his selection of the first-ever Black woman for the bench.
The new book — fully titled “Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted” and written by New York Times political reporter Jeremy Peters, who is also gay — identifies Trump’s potential picks for the judiciary as a source of significant concern for conservatives as the “Never Trump” movement was beginning to form and expectations were the next president would be able to name as many as four choices for the Supreme Court. Among the wide ranges of possible choices he floated during the campaign were often “not lawyers or judges he admired for their legal philosophies or interpretations of the Constitution,” but personalities he saw on TV.
Among this group of TV personalities, the books says, were people like Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, whom Trump “regularly watched and occasionally planned his flight schedule around, directing his personal pilot to adjust the route accordingly so the satellite signal wouldn’t fade.” Trump told friends Pirro “would make a fine justice,” the books says.
Trump potentially making good of his talk about naming Napolitano as one of his choices for the Supreme Court “would have been doubly unacceptable to many on the religious right,” the book says. Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge, was friendly with Maryanne Trump Barry, Trump’s sister and a federal judge with a reputation for liberal views, such as a ruling in favor of partial-birth abortion, and is also gay, both of which are identified in the book as potential concerns by the religious right.
Napolitano and Trump were close, the book claims. Napolitano, as the book describes, had a habit of telling a story to friends about Trump confiding to him the future president’s knowledge of the law was based on Napolitano’s TV appearances. Trump told Napolitano: “Everything I know about the Constitution I learned from you on Fox & Friends,” the book says.
The book says the meeting with Trump, Pence and Napolitano when the former president took a jab at Pence in and of itself suggested Trump “was indeed serious about giving the judge some kind of position in the government.” Napolitano, known for making outlandish claims as a Fox News contributor —such as the British government wiretapped Trump Tower — never took a post in the Trump administration.
The new book isn’t the only record of Trump ribbing Pence for his anti-LGBTQ reputation. A New Yorker profile in 2017 depicted a similar infamous meeting with Trump and Pence in which the former president joked about his No. 2’s conservative views. Per the New Yorker article: “When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, ‘Don’t ask that guy— he wants to hang them all!'”The incident described in “Insurgency” was similar to the meeting detailed in the New Yorker profile.
Trump ended up making a list of names he pledged he’d limit himself to in the event he was in the position to make a selection to the Supreme Court and made good on that promise based on his selection. By the end of his presidency, Trump made three picks to the bench who were each confirmed by the U.S. Senate: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
But Trump limiting his options to the list of potential plans was not a fool proof plan for conservatives. To the surprise of many, Gorsuch ended up in 2020 writing the majority opinion in the case of Bostock v. Clayton County, a major LGBTQ rights decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which determined anti-LGBTQ discrimination is a form of sex discrimination and illegal under federal civil rights law.
The Washington Blade has placed a request in with Trump’s office seeking comment on the meeting with Pence and Napolitano as described in “Insurgency.” Napolitano couldn’t be reached for comment.
Human Rights Campaign’s ex-president sues over termination, alleges racial discrimination
Alphonso David alleges he was terminated unfitly
Alphonso David, the former president of the Human Rights Campaign terminated by the board after he was ensnared in the Gov. Andrew Cuomo scandal, sued the nation’s leading LGBTQ group on Thursday, arguing he was fired as a result of racial discrimination “amid a deserved reputation for unequal treatment of its non-white employees” and was explicitly told he was paid less because he’s Black.
David, speaking with the Washington Blade on Thursday during a phone interview, said he came to the decision to file the lawsuit after practicing civil rights law for 20 years and “never thought that I would be a plaintiff.”
“But I’m in this chair, I was put in this position,” David said. “And as a civil rights lawyer, I couldn’t look the other way. It would be anathema to who I am and it would undermine my integrity and purpose for the work that I do. And so I have to go through and make a very, very difficult personal decision to file this lawsuit.”
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, accuses the Human Rights Campaign of violating new state and federal laws for terminating David, who was the organization’s first person of color and Black person to helm the LGBTQ group in its 40-year history. The lawsuit also contends the Human Rights Campaign contravened equal pay law in New York by paying David less than his predecessor, Chad Griffin.
After a public dispute with the board in September amid an independent investigation of his role in the Cuomo affair, the Human Rights Campaign boards unceremoniously fired David and shortly afterward announced a still ongoing search for a new president. David was named nearly a dozen times in the damning report by New York Attorney General Letitia James, suggesting David assisted in efforts by Cuomo’s staff to discredit a woman alleging sexual misconduct in Cuomo’s office. David has consistently denied wrongdoing.
But the lawsuit is broader than the termination and describes an environment at the Human Rights Campaign, which has faced criticism over the years for being geared toward white gay men, as a workplace where “non-white staffers were marginalized, tokenized, and denied advancement to high-level positions.” After a speech David gave on issues of race and indifference in the context of HRC’s mission, the lawsuit claims a board member complained about him referring too much to being Black, but faced no penalty from the organization.
Specifically named in the report is Chris Speron, Senior Vice President of Development, who expressed concern about “alienating” white donors and specifically “white gay men” after David issued a statement on the importance of Black Lives Matter after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. The lawsuit claims Speron pushed David to “stop mentioning in his public statements and remove from his bio the fact that he was HRC’s first Black President in its history.” Speron also was critical of hiring a Black-owned consulting firm and “criticized a Black staff member for attending a meeting with the consulting firm without a white person present,” the lawsuit claims. Speron couldn’t immediately be reached for comment to respond to the allegations.
In terms of equal pay, the lawsuit says HRC’s co-chairs informed David he was underpaid compared to his predecessor because he’s Black. But the lawsuit also acknowledges in 2021, just before news broke about the Cuomo report, the Human Rights Campaign in recognition of David’s work renewed his contract for five additional years and gave him a 30 percent raise.
David, speaking with the Blade, said he was in “shock” upon experiencing these alleged incidents of racism, maintaining he had kept quiet at the time out of concern for the greater good of the aims of the Human Rights Campaign.
Asked whether as president he considered implementing racial sensitivity trainings for his subordinates, David said “yes,” but added many trainings aren’t effective and said the power in organizations like the Human Rights Campaign is often spread out.
“There are people within the organization that have a fair amount of board support because they bring in the money because they are responsible for overseeing the money,” David added.
Joni Madison, interim president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement after the lawsuit was filed the organization is “disappointed that Alphonso David has chosen to take retaliatory action against the Human Rights Campaign for his termination which resulted from his own actions.”
“Mr. David’s complaint is riddled with untruths,” Madison said. “We are confident through the legal process that it will be apparent that Mr. David’s termination was based on clear violations of his contract and HRC’s mission, and as president of HRC, he was treated fairly and equally.”
Madison adds the individuals accused of racism in the lawsuit “are people of color and champions of racial equity and inclusion who provided support and guidance as Mr. David led the organization,” without naming any specific individual. The boards for the Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation who made the decision to terminate David, were comprised of seven independent directors, five of whom were Black.
The racist environment, the lawsuit says, culminated for David in September 2021 amid an independent investigation of his role in the Cuomo affair conducted by the law firm Sidley Austin LLP at the behest of the organization. According to the lawsuit, the board co-chairs contacted David late at night before Labor Day weekend to tell him to resign by 8 a.m. the next morning or be terminated for cause. When David asked whether the Sidley Austin investigation had made any findings against him, or if a report would be issued explaining what he was accused of doing wrong, the board co-chairs refused to say, the lawsuit says.
As is publicly known, David declined to resign and took to Twitter to complain about the board, which subsequently issued a statement disputing his claims. He was then fired “for cause” under his contract.
The termination, the lawsuit says, signified differential treatment of David because he is Black, taking note the Human Rights Campaign under his predecessor had “endured repeated, serious, scandals — many of which involved HRC’s mistreatment of Black and other marginalized individuals,” but Chad Griffin was never terminated “for cause.”
Both the Human Rights Campaign Foundation board and the Human Rights Campaign board voted to terminate David. A source familiar with the vote said no one voted “no” in either case. The campaign board vote was unanimous and there were two abstentions in the foundation board vote, the source said.
The source familiar with the vote said David never told the Human Rights Campaign he was helping Cuomo during his time as HRC president nor did he disclose he was talking to the New York attorney general. The first board members heard about it was when it hit the press, the source said.
Meanwhile, the lawsuit says David “performed extremely well as HRC president, by any measure,” navigating the organization through the coronavirus epidemic and boosting fundraising by 60 percent. (The Blade has not yet verified this claim.) It should be noted the Human Rights Campaign cited coronavirus as the reason it laid off 22 employees, as reported at the time by the Blade.
David, asked by the Blade how he sees the alleged racist culture at Human Rights Campaign infused in his termination, said “Black and Brown people are treated differently and have been for years in this organization,” citing a “Pipeline Report” leaked to the press in 2015 documenting an environment in which employees of color were unable to thrive.
“And so, the fact that I’m being treated differently now, in the fact that a different standard is being applied to me is just simply consistent with what they’ve always done,” David said. “You know, we go back to the Pipeline Report: Imagine if I was leading the organization at the time, and there was a report that was issued, that said that anti-Semitic remarks were being made within the organization, and that women were being discriminated against within the organization or some other marginalized group and that one of the senior vice presidents used a derogatory remark. Do you think I would still be at the organization or would they have fired me?”
David concluded: “There’s a different standard and a double standard that they’ve applied for decades, and I’ve just now been one casualty — another in a long series of casualties based on their systemic bias and discrimination.”
Among the requests in the prayer for relief in the complaint is a declaration the Human Rights Campaign’s actions violated the law; restoration of David to his position as president; an award of the compensation he would have received were he still on the job as well as punitive damages. Asked by the Blade whether any settlement talks have taken place, David said that wasn’t the case and pointed out the lawsuit was recently filed.
Legal experts who spoke to the Blade have doubted the validity of a review by Sidley Austin on the basis it was among the legal firms agreeing in 2019 to help with the Human Rights Campaign entering into litigation to advance LGBTQ rights, an agreement David spearheaded upon taking the helm of the organization.
David, in response to a question from the Blade, said the independent investigation into his role in the Cuomo affair “is a sham and I believe it was a sham,” citing the lack of transparency of findings.
“One of the first instances that caused me concern,” David said, “is I suggested to the organization that we conduct an independent review, and they came back to me and said, ‘Here’s our press release history,’ and the press release never mentioned that I actually suggested that they do this review. And when I challenged them on that, they told me that they thought it would be better for the press to review a complaint or receive a statement that showed that they were bringing this investigation as opposed to I’m recommending and push back even more. And then they said ‘Well, we will put in the statement that you are cooperating.’ So from the very beginning, they were not honest about what they were actually doing.”
Representing David in the lawsuit is the Chicago-based employment law firm Stowell & Friedman, Ltd. and and Chicago-based attorney Matt Singer. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Eric Vitaliano, a George W. Bush appointee, an informed source familiar with the case said.
The lawsuit was filed in New York as opposed to D.C. because David is a New York resident and much of the discriminatory behavior took place in New York, the source said. The pay disparity alleged in the lawsuit is expressed in percentages as oppose to hard numbers pursuant to rules for the judiciary in New York, the source added.
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Successfully addressing neglected tropical diseases requires nuanced understandings of pathogenic landscapes that incorporate situated, contexualized community knowledge. In the case of Buruli ulcer (BU), the role of social science is vital to investigate complex human-environment interactions and navigate different ways of knowing. We analyze a set of qualitative data from our interdisciplinary project on BU in Ghana, drawing from participatory mapping, focus group discussions, semi-structured interviews, and open-ended survey questions to explore how people in endemic and non-endemic areas see themselves embedded in changing environmental and social landscapes. We pay particular attention to landscape disturbance through logging and small-scale alluvial gold mining. The results from our participatory research underscore the holistic nature of BU emergence in landscapes, encapsulated in partial and incomplete local descriptions, the relevance of collective learning to distill complexity, and the potential of rich qualitative data to inform quantitative landscape-disease models. | <urn:uuid:eb545557-2437-4871-b8f3-e0c9df4bf64a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/situated-knowledge-of-pathogenic-landscapes-in-ghana-understandin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.880081 | 198 | 1.914063 | 2 |
By Gary Z McGee
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” ~Rumi
The Alchemical process of transformation has four distinct stages: Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas and Rubedo. These stages are the framework of Jung’s characterization of the four stages of character transformation: Confession, Illumination, Education, and Transformation, culminating in the completion of the magnum opus and the creation of the Philosopher’s Stone.
A robust character hinges on eight core virtues: courage, moderation, wisdom, justice, curiosity, honor, humility, and humor. These virtues will all be needed to navigate the four stages of transformation.
We enter Nigredo with curiosity and courage. We enter Albedo with moderation and justice. We enter Citrinitas with honor and wisdom. We enter Rubedo with humility and humor. One might ask, why enter at all? We enter into self-transformation to prevent getting stuck in self-preservation.
We challenge the lodestone to create steppingstones that will eventually lead to the self-actualization of the Philosopher’s Stone.
1.) Confession (Nigredo):
“When you see your matter going black, rejoice, for this is the beginning of the work.” ~Rosarium Philosophorum
The process of confession begins alchemically with the concept of the nigredo, also called “the blackening.” It’s a psychosymbolic death. This is the stage of revelation and catharsis. It’s where we burn away our psychological dross. It’s where the shadow gets integrated and then mined for hidden gold.
As Carl Jung said, “No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” Our shadow reaches all the way into hell. We climb into hell to integrate it. We climb into hell to animate our inner monster and bring it into sacred alignment with the whole self.
This is no easy task. It’s a dark time. Despair and disillusionment are all consuming. The ego is murdered by the Id. The blackening is a cocooning that cooks the corpse of the ego inside it. Annihilation becomes integration: the marriage of chaos and order, the coalescence of shadow and light, the union of summit and abyss. This gives way to the illumination of the Albedo.
2.) Illumination (Albedo):
“The encounter with the shadow is the ‘apprentice-piece’ in the individual’s development… that with the anima is the ‘masterpiece’.” ~Carl Jung
The process of illumination begins alchemically with the concept of the albedo, also called “the whitening.” This is the stage of awakening and insight. It’s where our new shadow perspective helps us deflate the ego and where unneeded, illusory, or false conceptualizations are shed. It’s where the anima/animus gets integrated and cultivated for maximal co-efficiency.
The personality becomes a masterpiece when the masculine integrates the anima and the feminine integrated the animus, and vice versa. The ashes leftover from the blackening are purified by the persona’s opposite. The black crow is transformed into a white raven. The heavyhearted coal is pressurized into the lighthearted diamond. The end of the lesser work is at hand and the beginning of the higher work becomes manifest.
Anima/animus integration is no simple task. But it is quite rewarding. As we begin to resolve the animus in every yin and the anima in every yang, we discover that there’s a lightside to every darkside, a softness buried within even the roughest patch. There’s even good luck hidden inside bad luck.
A man honoring his anima and a woman honoring her animus is truly a force to be reckoned with, what Nietzsche referred to as the “Primordial Unity.” For they are that much closer to achieving cosmic heroism. They have become a force of integrated nature first and individual human second. This leads to the sacred dawn of consciousness.
3.) Education (Citrinitas):
“Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring, compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage – the sage we all are, if only we could see.” ~Wayne Teasdale
The process of education begins alchemically with the concept of the citrinitas, also called “the yellowing.” This is the stage of absorption and wisdom. It’s where our integrated shadow and anima/animus wakes up to the solar dawn of the emerging soul. It’s where the inner student meets the inner master, where Courage meets Wisdom, where the animal shakes hands with the sage. It’s where the wise old man (or woman) archetype gets integrated into the whole.
The dawn of the soul is like the rising sun, golden, radiant, and enlightening. It gives color and shape to the once colorless black and white world. It’s the lovechild of shadow and animus: the rising “son” of our ego’s death. The emergence of Christ consciousness: From the blackening on the cross to the whitening between worlds to the yellowing into rebirth. Our inner sage grips the masterpiece.
As Aristotle stated, “What more accurate stand or measure of good things do we have than the Sage?” The sage leads us into the alchemical success of the magnum opus, the bleeding out into transformation itself.
4.) Transformation (Rubedo):
“Know, all you seekers after this Art, that unless you whiten, you cannot make red, because the two natures are nothing other than red and white. Whiten, therefore, the red, and redden the white.” ~Turba Philosophorum
The process of transformation begins with the concept of the rubedo, also called “the reddening.” This is the “final” stage of transpersonal self-overcoming. It’s where the alchemy of psychology becomes a fountainhead. It’s where the unity of opposites—shadow and light, anima and animus, beast and sage— becomes transcendent, provident, and mercurial. It’s where the Self archetype becomes the process of Integration itself.
The reddening is a bleeding into blackening. It’s the life-death-rebirth process lived through in real time, in each moment, with each new breath. It’s both a rising out of falling and a falling into rising, both a chaos creating order and an order creating chaos. Self-awareness is self-improvement is self-overcoming. There is no self-actualization without self-transformation. And so, the Self archetype is ever in the throes of overcoming itself.
In the end, there is no end. There is no remaining, there’s no settled state, there’s no final stage. The magnum opus eats itself or it doesn’t sing. The Philosopher’s Stone is always just ahead of the curve on the transformation continuum. The journey is always the thing or it is nothing. The sword is always sharpened dullness. The diamond of the self is always pressurized coal. As James Hillman said, “the pearl is also always grit, an irritation as well as a luster.”
About the Author:
Gary Z McGee, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide-awake view of the modern world.
This article (Jung’s Four Stages of Character Transformation) was originally created and published by Self-inflicted Philosophy and is printed here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Gary Z McGee and self-inflictedphilosophy.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this statement of copyright.
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If you would like to plant a garden, start off right with great soil. For both beginning and experienced gardeners, soil condition is one of the most integral elements of gardening success. Earthy, loamy, dark, rich-smelling, moist and fertile are adjectives landscape professionals use to describe ideal gardening soil. Whether to practice organic gardening methods or to rely upon chemical products is a major decision in soil management. Weighing the advantages and disadvantages of natural and chemical fertilizers will help you decide which method is appropriate for your garden. | <urn:uuid:777c82a8-7280-4366-97d5-5e22cc46d1a7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://brainly.in/question/247805 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00244-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919209 | 110 | 2.203125 | 2 |
California State University - Monterey Bay
California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) is located close to the shores of beautiful Monterey Bay. Monterey is on the central coast of California, just two hours south of San Francisco. The location conveniently provides students with the opportunity to experience the daily life of a small and diverse community, as well as visit other popular destinations in the region.
CSUMB offers a wide range of programs in a friendly and supportive campus environment. Students can participate in many campus clubs and activities, as well as special excursions designed to help international students get to know Monterey and the rest of California.
CSUMB was founded in 1994 on the site of former U.S. Army base Fort Ord. Additionally, the nearest beach is only 10 minutes away and perfect for watching sunsets or the whales as they pass through the bay!
The climate in Monterey encourages year-round outdoor activities, including golfing, mountain biking, kayaking, diving and horseback riding. Monterey County is the one of the largest wine growing regions in California. Outside classes, students can tour the different wineries, or visit wine tasting rooms on the waterfront of Cannery Row and downtown Monterey.
At CSUMB, international students will become part of a community mostly comprised of American students.
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Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Pulling from the MTA’s actual subway data, trains pluck at intersecting lines. The piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram. | <urn:uuid:f4ae2c2c-2dfe-45a8-9b0f-c77b8be5effd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://makezine.com/2011/01/31/play-the-new-your-subway-like-an-instrument/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.840914 | 102 | 1.625 | 2 |
Product Design Management (PDM) is one of the most important elements in the successful business of designing innovative products for production. Unfortunately, most companies do not really understand the importance of PDM or how to properly implement it. In this post, I will define what PDM is and distinguish it from Product Design.
In order to understand what PDM is, we first have to look at the history of product design and the evolution of the product designer. According to Wikipedia, “Product design is the process of creating a new product to be sold by a business to its customers.” That’s a pretty good definition. However, to understand the nature of today’s product designer, we have to go back to the origins of product design.
Early Product Designers
Let’s go back 2.5 million years to the prehistoric tool-maker, the ancestor of today’s product designer. Tool-making was a significant step in our evolution and it’s one of the main advantages that differentiate us, Homo Sapiens, from the animal kingdom. The caveman tool-maker made tools to extend his physical abilities – to improve his and his tribe’s abilities for fighting, hunting, eating, carrying and so forth. The sole effort and focus of the tool-maker’s work was on the product and the production process. There was nothing else to deal with.
The next step in the product design evolution was the artisan or craftsman. Artisans (such as blacksmith, carpenter and potter) were the dominant designers and producers of consumer products prior to the Industrial Revolution. In some respects, there were no significant differences between the artisan’s and the tool-maker’s ways of working. In both cases, design and production were integrated into a single process, carried out by the same individual. Hands-on skills were the “designer’s” most important capability, and each product was manually produced and controlled by the master himself. The product and the production process were the center of the “business” for the artisan, as well as for the tool-maker. | <urn:uuid:f25305e5-0e7d-41bb-9b41-12a050624938> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://productdesignmanagement.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00229-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97335 | 443 | 2.921875 | 3 |
There was a time when all the world’s military drone strikes were directed from a small base in Nevada. No more. In a first, the United Kingdom has carried out a strike in Afghanistan by pilots controlling the drone from within Britain.
The nature of the strike is unclear. The Ministry of Defence said it “does not discuss details of specific missions for operational security reasons,” according to a statement obtained by Flight, which reported the strike was carried out Tuesday by an armed Royal Air Force MQ-9 Reaper — most likely launched from Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan. The ministry merely confirmed that one of its Reaper drones, controlled by pilots from the Royal Air Force’s 13 Squadron at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire fired a weapon “supporting U.K. forces on the ground in Afghanistan.”
It was only a week after the RAF began to control its drones from home territory. Before, the RAF controlled its squadron of five Reaper drones — each armed with up to two 500-pound GBU-12 Paveway bombs and four AGM-114 Hellfire missiles — from Creech, a U.S. Air Force base in Nevada and a headquarters for Afghanistan’s remotely-operated drone war. According to Flight, Britain’s drones have used their weapons more than 380 times in Afghanistan since 2007 for a “combined total of 45,000 flight hours.” Those strikes were conducted remotely from Creech.
London reportedly finished its drone control center at Waddington sometime in late 2012, according to The Guardian. It includes three remote operating stations. “We aren’t flying any more operations than we were before, but with the time differences between the U.S., Afghanistan and the U.K., it is now possible for pilots at Waddington to work in relay with the those in the U.S.,” one source told the newspaper in late April.
The Ministry of Defence also reportedly “insists” that it only uses the drones in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, which is far narrower hunting ground than the one patrolled by the Pentagon and CIA’s killer machines. It’s also only a partial truth. British pilots have flown armed American drones over Libya as part of the exchange program at Creech. But it’s unclear if any of the 145+ drone strikes carried out by the Pentagon in Libya were controlled by the RAF.
In any case, the strike from Waddington is a sign that the ability to control advanced attack drones has moved further beyond the U.S. — while being first inculcated by the Pentagon. In recent years, Britain has spent more than three billion dollars on drone development, with plans to expand its drone arsenal from five Reapers, designed by defense contractor General Atomics, to 10 Reapers in 2013. The United Kingdom uses surveillance drones like the Desert Hawk, T-Hawk, the Black Hornet mini-drone, and is developing the WK450 Watchkeeper. Britain is also expected to add the joint French-British Telemos drone by the end of the decade. (It’s still being designed.) Word is still out whether the RAF will pick up BAE Systems’s stealthy Taranis to replace its aging bomber fleet, depending on whether the drone’s 2013 flight tests go well.
“There is a general expectation across defence, academia and industry that unmanned aircraft will become more prevalent, eventually taking over most or all of the tasks currently undertaken by manned systems,” noted a 2011 Ministry of Defence joint doctrine publication. (.pdf) “This view is strongly reflected in current government policy.” Provided it has the bases to launch its drones, London can now control them from home.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article. | <urn:uuid:a6fd4ff6-6593-4e1b-90e5-46b4ba3d3255> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.wired.com/2013/05/british-drone-strike/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00423-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96087 | 795 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Cat X-ray Pictures
Murphy, an 11-year old Ragdoll cat, went in for a dental last week – but the dental didn’t happen. He wasn’t breathing right under anesthesia so the vet decided to stop the dental to wake him back up. They did a chest x-ray to make sure his lungs were OK and they are (thank god). They think he responded unfavorably to the new sedation drug protocol they are using. It is supposed to be safer for the kitties, but he has never had it before. So when he goes back in, he will have the old drug he has done well on. It was an unfortunate situation that he didn’t get the dental, however, his life is more important…and we got cat x ray pictures to share.
The radiologist found this to be a normal cat chest x ray, i.e., no scary things. There was a benign or non-pathologic area in the left side of the lung field (atelectasis) and a shifting of the heart that coincides with laying on his left side under anesthesia. Other non-pathologic subtle changes in the chest can probably be attributed to the sedation/anesthesia. Overall, good news for this cat abdomen x ray!
I went to my parents’ house last night and picked up Murphy and said, “Beau, Beau! I saw your insides today!” He purred. And now, a lot more people get to see his insides. I love see the cat skeleton. I hope you enjoyed seeing them as much as I did. | <urn:uuid:bcb7f0e9-41c8-407f-9243-3cb6ad611a12> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.floppycats.com/cat-x-ray-pictures.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00328-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979306 | 337 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Cross-laminated timber panel buildings are gaining a growing interest of the scientific community due to significant technical advantages, such as the material sustainability, the high fire resistance and quick constructability. Nevertheless, it is well known that timber panels themselves are not able to dissipate a significant amount of energy during an earthquake. In fact, the design of a Cross-Lam building is carried out in order to dissipate the energy in the steel connections (hold-downs or angle brackets) which govern the seismic performance. The paper here presented proposes to substitute the classical hold-downs, which usually exhibit a limited dissipation capacity, with an innovative type of dissipative angle. The new connection, called XL-stubs, apply the concept usually adopted for designing the hysteretic metallic dampers ADAS (Added Damping and Stiffness). In particular, the hourglass shape allows a better spread of plasticization resulting in a high dissipation capacity. In order to characterize the force-displacement response under cyclic loads of XL-stubs an experimental campaign is carried out comparing the hysteretic behavior of the classical hold-down with that of the proposed dissipative angle. | <urn:uuid:f5cb7b41-7762-445c-93c0-78fb53a8db8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ingegneriasismica.org/innovative-connections-for-timber-panel-buildings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.944803 | 239 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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The fantastic video calling system has given everyone a private space to connect with their family. Therefore the technology is teaching the consumer’s mind and respect to see the world. Recently, there has been a new development in blockchain technology; however, the Technologies consider cryptocurrency. However, it is now contributing to collecting the developers’ content and converting them into simple NFT. So, if you are interested in trading NFT, you can visit nft revolution for a better trading experience.
Non Fungible Token
Everyone loves digital art, but the special Applause goes to the NFT, who has created awareness of the Digital Network by providing several forms of money-making options. The most popular NFTs available on the Internet and preferred by everyone are music, Doodles, tweets, and video clips. In case you have never heard about the conversion of the tweet into NFT and sale at an increasing price. It is essential to stick with the passage as much information about such remarkable developments.
The most integral aspect of the market is its characteristic of being non-fungible. The token created on the terms of fungibility can accommodate more than a single unit with interchangeable terms and distinguish participation. Where the acid coming in the form of non-fungible does not allow anybody to have the same Momentum as if one painting is describing the element it cannot be allowed to make it again. For instance, the Monalisa painting, which is very popular, has NFC, and there is no other creative person who can develop or replace the painting.
Of course, whenever somebody approaches the tokenized currency or participates in converting their physical fees into NFT, they have to own some special considerations and provide the ownership to a single individual.
Who Is Making The Largest Transaction On NFT?
Today the demand for NFT is increasing with increasing premium prices. As a result, there is a multi jaw-dropping list of NEFT transactions and the growing participation of celebrities.
The First Tweet – The first and most significant transaction in NFT was made by the co-founder of the popular online communication website Twitter. Jack Dorsey establishes the auction place for the first week’s sale on Twitter. According to the news reports, many people wanted to collect the NFT, and the tweet got sold at the whopping price of 2.9 million dollars.
Grimes Image – Trendy American singer and girlfriend of Elon Musk created her image as an NFT creator. She decided to jump into the market by selecting NFT gaming. Plans to create tokens and sell them at a high price. After working hard on the tokens, she left with the fantastic price of 4 lakhs dollars.
Lebron James – The famous American basketball player who has created history in his gaming, has also been a part of NFT. He created a wonderful attraction for the audience by converting the NFT basketball card into a sale process. As a result, he could make more than 2 lakh dollars from the sale of an NFT card.
People Artwork – Another famous and expensive NFT, sold at a very incredible price and remained in the market for more than week, was created by people’s artwork. Today, it is the most expensive NFT sold by auction, and everybody pops in there for the purchase. However, the last price sold was above 69 million dollars. The art portrays people who have dedicated their lives to creating the best art. It is the first digital art which has ever been into the auction house.
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David Is Anointed King Over Israel
1 All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood! 2 In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. The Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.’”
3 When all the leaders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord. They designated David as king over Israel. 4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned for forty years. 5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
David Occupies Jerusalem
6 Then the king and his men advanced to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who lived in the land. The Jebusites said to David, “You cannot invade this place! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back, saying, ‘David cannot invade this place!’”
7 But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the city of David). 8 David said on that day, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must approach the ‘lame’ and the ‘blind’ who are David’s enemies by going through the water tunnel.” For this reason it is said, “The blind and the lame cannot enter the palace.”
9 So David lived in the fortress and called it the City of David. David built all around it, from the terrace inwards. 10 David’s power grew steadily, for the Lord God who commands armies was with him.
11 King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace for David. 12 David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and that he had elevated his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel. 13 David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David. 14 These are the names of children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
Conflict with the Philistines
17 When the Philistines heard that David had been designated king over Israel, they all went up to search for David. When David heard about it, he went down to the fortress. 18 Now the Philistines had arrived and spread out in the valley of Rephaim. 19 So David asked the Lord, “Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The Lord said to David, “March up, for I will indeed hand the Philistines over to you.”
20 So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, “The Lord has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. 21 The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men picked them up.
22 The Philistines again came up and spread out in the valley of Rephaim. 23 So David asked the Lord what he should do. This time the Lord said to him, “Don’t march straight up. Instead, circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees. 24 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, act decisively. For at that moment the Lord is going before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.” 25 David did just as the Lord commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Gibeon all the way to Gezer.
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2 Samuel 5:17. But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David,
To thrust him down, and kill him if they could, and so put an end to his prosperous reign.
2 Samuel 5:17-20. And David heard of it, and went down to the hold. The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand. And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters.
As a flood breaks forth, and carries all before it.
2 Samuel 5:20-21. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim. And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
The Philistines brought their gods with them, in the hope of being thereby defended; but “David and his men burned them.” That was the very best thing to do with them. What a pity they did not save them for aesthetic purposes! Thus do men with fine old works of art, like pictures of the Virgin Mary. No, no, burn them; for that is the very best thing to do with anything that ever has been worshipped of mortal man. If they have ever been set up in the place of God, they are cursed from that moment, let them be burned, or dashed in pieces, or in some way destroyed. “There they left their images, and David and his men burned them.”
2 Samuel 5:22-24. And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself:
Or be sharp up, and go at them.
2 Samuel 5:24-25. For then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines. And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him:
I hope that may be said of you and me all our lives long.
2 Samuel 5:25. And smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
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Gluten and Melamine: NYT Update
The NY Times Business Section ran the following as its lead article today. You may find it of interest if you are interested in the topic.
Ever since pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical was traced to shipments of wheat flour from China, American officials have concentrated on cracking down on imports.
It turns out the problem was closer to home, too.
Yesterday, federal officials announced that a manufacturing plant in Ohio was using the same banned substance, melamine, to make binding agents that ended up in feed for farmed fish, shrimp and livestock.
The problem surfaced after a distributor, concerned about what was in its feed binders after the reports from China, sent the product to a private laboratory for testing.
The melamine was used by Tembec BTLSR, a Canadian forest products company with a small chemical plant in Toledo, to make binding agents that keep pellets of animal feed together, said Dr. David Acheson, assistant commissioner for food protection at the Food and Drug Administration.
Melamine is not permitted in food or pet food products. In the last few months, pet food contaminated with melamine, all traced back to China, sickened or killed thousands of pets in the United States.
Dr. Acheson said the levels of melamine and melamine-related compounds in Tembec’s products were far lower than that found in wheat flour from China that ended up killing the pets. Consequently, the authorities said that they thought the contamination did not appear to pose a risk to human health.
Nevertheless, the F.D.A. issued a voluntary recall of finished feed made with two binding agents: Aquabond and Aqua-Tec II, which are made by Tembec and used in fish and shrimp feed. A third product, Xtra-Bond, which is made by a Colorado firm called Uniscope using Tembec ingredients, was not recalled because the levels of melamine were low.
Uniscope is the distributor of all three products. Aquabond and Aqua-Tec II are sold mostly overseas; Xtra-Bond is sold domestically.
Agency officials are alerting the foreign governments that received the products, Dr. Acheson said.
The investigation began on May 18 when Uniscope alerted the agency that it had discovered melamine in the testing. Dr. Acheson said that the investigation was in its early stages and that some questions remained unanswered, like how long Tembec had used melamine in its products and the extent of the contamination.
“What Tembec knew, didn’t know, what their activities were, is part of the investigation,” Dr. Acheson said, at a news conference. Earlier, he said, “It’s hard to believe that a manufacturer of pet food would not know about this.”
Federal officials would not say whether they would pursue criminal charges in the Tembec case. They said that they had already been contacting domestic manufacturers to make sure they were aware of the sources of their ingredients.
John Valley, Tembec’s executive vice president for business development and corporate affairs, said his company thought that Uniscope was shipping the binders overseas for use as shrimp feed. Once the F.D.A. told it that the binders were being used domestically, Tembec stopped making them from melamine, Mr. Valley said.
Tembec makes resins and certain chemicals for industrial uses, including melamine. Mr. Valley said Uniscope was the only customer that used its products for animal feed.
Asked why it was all right to use melamine in feed for shrimp overseas but not in the United States, he said: “Melamine has just really had a focus that’s come upon it. A lot of companies and agencies are reviewing certain applications of melamine.”
The pet food scandal has led to increased scrutiny of all food imports, particularly those from China, and threatened trade relations. Some members of Congress have demanded tougher inspections of food imports from China.
“This recent incident goes to show that we apparently have some bad actors out there,” said Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia. “It can happen in the United States.”
But Mr. Doyle pointed out that the incidence of food illness remains relatively rare in the United States. The problem with the Tembec binders surfaced after Uniscope, a company based in Johnstown, Colo., decided to test the binders.
“They just asked themselves, ‘I wonder what’s in this stuff? I wonder if we have anything in here that shouldn’t be in here?’ ” said Charlie Russell, a company spokesman. “So they sent some samples to a lab.”
Tembec has been a supplier to Uniscope since January 2004, Mr. Russell said. Employees at Uniscope, which was founded in 1975 and is family owned, thought that they were buying a resin that was fit for animal consumption, Mr. Russell said.
Uniscope sells the binders to feed manufacturers that mix them with grain and other ingredients to make food pellets for livestock and fish, he said. The binders are sold both domestically and abroad, Mr. Russell said.
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F-100 Super Sabre drops Mk.82 bomb in dense forest during U.S. air strikes in Vietnam.
Vietnam Date:1968, September 25 Duration:10 sec Sound:Yes
U.S. air strikes in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. USAF (United States Air Force) F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter aircraft drops a Mark 82 (Mk.82) high-drag bomb. The bomb descends and explodes in dense forest 23 miles east of Saigon on 8th September. Smoke rises in sky due to explosion.
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There may finally be a reason to return to the ancient art of letter writing as the United Nations's post office has issued new stamps this week, which for the first time celebrate LGBT identity.
The stamps are designed by out artist Sergio Baradat as part of the U.N.'s "Free & Equal" campaign
, which promotes understanding and acceptance of LGBTQI people around the world. According to the Associated Press
, they were unveiled in a ceremony at the U.N. General Assembly featuring a performance by the New York Gay Men's Chorus.
Baradat, who is of Cuban ancestry, told U.N. Radio
that the style he chose for the stamps stems from his appreciation of French Art Deco and growing up in Miami. “One of the stamps represents someone who is transgender,” Baradat said. That stamp features a person with butterfly wings “becoming who they really are, blossoming,” he said.
The stamps include two in English, two in French, and two in German and are available for purchase online and at U.N. Headquarters in New York, Geneva and Vienna. The United Nations is using them to teach the world that LGBT rights are human rights. Homosexuality remains a crime in numerous countries, including 40 of the 53 nations that make up the British Commonwealth
and Baradat said he hoped the stamps could help fight discrimination.
“There are some countries in the world right now where not only are we not celebrated or respected, but we are beaten and killed," Baradat said, "And I thought that it would be a wonderful opportunity using art, to use postage stamps as a vehicle – using art to change hearts and minds."
Though the stamps may be mailed globally, to be honored, all mail must originate from a United Nations post office, likely making the beautiful designs most coveted as collectors items.
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MARQUETTE, Mich. (WJMN) – MooseWood Nature Center will be holding a goose feather pen event this weekend.
Kids will search for feathers that have been previously placed for them to find. Following the goose feather hunt, a quick demonstration will be held on the parts of a feather along with a short history of feathers used as a writing instrument. The children will make their very own ink and feather pen and have opportunities to draw letters or color pictures.
“We want to give the younger kids a chance to experience you know ‘I can write with a feather.’ It’s pretty cool I think, at least for them. And then we have what we call a secret formula where they can actually write secret messages and decode them with it too. That’s basically something you can do at home too. It’s non-toxic,” said Erik Johnson, a member of the center’s board of directors.
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Joseph E. Johnston, the “dean” of Confederate generals, who was jealous of his seniority, lost his hair from an illness, and wore a hat at table during the war, to the undisguised amusement of his servants.
Under the terms of Johnston’s surrender at Sherman near Durham, North Carolina, many more men were surrendered than Lee gave up at Appomattox.
In postwar years Johnston served as pallbearer for several prominent Union generals, including U.S. Grant. His last such service was for William T. Sherman, his conqueror. While paying his respects to Sherman in the cemetery on a raw winter day, Johnston contracted a severe cold which became pneumonia and caused his death. | <urn:uuid:c3ab6110-df09-4175-991e-2fa7be57727c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://gusmarsh.blogspot.com/2012/03/civil-war-oddities-30.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00074-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990377 | 150 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Thankfully, the youth part of “Talking to Youth and Parents about Life Online” had a whole lot of good news in it, because my heart sank when I read this first paragraph on parents’ views of online kids in this study from Canada’s premier digital and media literacy organization:
“The parents we spoke with were beleaguered by fear of danger and exhausted from the burden of constant vigilance. Although the exact nature of that danger is poorly defined, many parents told us that surveillance is now equated with good parenting, and that the days of trusting their children and providing them with space to explore the world and make mistakes are long gone.”
I asked MediaSmarts’s co-director, Jane Tallim, about that finding, and she emailed me that “this was consistent with almost all of the parents in our focus groups – we were actually surprised at the intensity of emotion many expressed in this regard – and as we know, this runs counter to the mutual trust, confidence and communication between parents and their kids that is so essential to helping them develop the skills they need for digital life.”
THIS is where Internet-safety messaging – amplified by the news media – has gotten us. Parents not only feeling beleaguered, fearful, and exhausted but, worse, feeling they can’t trust their children. Can the net result of that somehow increase our children’s safety?
Is it as clear to you as it is to me that we need to turn this Internet-safety ship around?! Our children deserve better – for one thing, more respect (tune in tomorrow for why!).
The curious thing is, researchers say…
* Parents and kids are closer than ever
* We’ve largely closed the generation gap so widely lamented 40 years ago
* “We could be celebrating the strong bonds between today’s young people and their parents rather than lamenting the foibles of the next generation” and
* “Technological and economic developments have contributed to this shift.”
Those points are from prominent sociologists Karen Fingerman and Frank Furstenberg in the New York Times. Tech developments have contributed to what keeps kids safer than anything: the self-respect and resilience that come from love, communication, and respect.
So we’ve moved from one kind of gap to another: the gap between reality – how our children are living their lives from day to day, including what’s reflected and expressed of them in social media – and more than 15 years of exaggerated claims and misrepresentations of Internet risk.
How to bridge this new gap? Two simple things for starters: Listen to our own kids more and look at the data. For example, just go to p. 6 of MediaSmarts’s executive summary about “What Young People Get Out of Networked Technologies.” Take scary commentaries and news reports we hear to our kids, analyze them together, and test the claims against our kids’ own practices and privacy settings. Fold those claims into the conversation and listen to our kids’ responses. If negative experiences emerge, develop strategies together for dealing with them – that calm, loving support from their parents is powerful! I truly believe we’ll not only find comfort and mutual respect in the process, we’ll feel a whole lot less reason to be scared, beleaguered and distrustful!
Next, Part 2 on MediaSmarts.ca’s research showing how smart our kids are!
* The PDF of MediaSmarts.ca’s full study is linked to here.
* “‘Juvenoia,’ Part 2: So why are we afraid?”
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Behind the Clock is a compilation render of a site-specific digital projection artwork first screened as part of Kickstart Arts’ Healing Ground project in 2017. This project explored the cultural, social and political tensions of a colonial trauma site – the Boys & Girls “Orphan Schools” and accompanying St John’s Anglican Church opened in New Town by Governor George Arthur in 1833.
The work was inspired by the strangeness of having this colonial church with its huge imposing clock at its centre built upon muwinina country by mostly white slaves (convicts) a mere few decades after the English arrived. The clock strikes loudly every half hour as if to define everything that surrounds it.
Richard Bladel began his film and digital art-making in Sydney in the mid-1980’s when he majored in film theory & production as part of a BA in Communications at the University of Technology. His film teachers were independent women filmmakers, and these artists had a huge impact on him in terms of developing an aesthetic sensibility.
Over the last 40 years Richard has worked professionally as an Artistic Director, playwright, dramaturg and film-maker with arts organisations from all over Tasmania. For the last 20 years with Kickstart Arts he has produced and been a community artist in at least 45 arts projects and events in many artforms and involving people of all ages from Flinders Island to Dover. | <urn:uuid:f68599d9-bc83-4aca-8563-90d5eb23f68d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.mediamixed.com/wp/photons/richard-bladel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.972944 | 287 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Employment law protects workers from discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and hostile work environments. Federal and state laws protect the rights of employees in the workplace. Listed below are the basics of employment law. These laws apply to employers and employees alike. In general, employers must comply with labor and human rights laws to ensure their employees’ safety and well-being. Employers also must adhere to federal and state labor standards. You can visit employment law for more information.
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Keeping up with the laws is an ongoing process. Keeping up with the latest changes in labor laws is an important part of running a business. Small businesses don’t have these resources, but that doesn’t mean they should ignore the law. As with any regulation, compliance with labor and employment laws is important for maintaining a positive reputation as a business owner.
Employees are protected from discrimination
Among the many rights employees enjoy under the Employment Act, they are the right to be treated equally and fairly by their employers. There are many specific categories of protected status that employers are prohibited from discriminating against, including race, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, and national origin. Employers are also prohibited from classifying employees or hiring people based on these protected status categories. The only exceptions are for reasons of racial, religious, or national origin.
In addition to race, religion, and national origin, employers may not discriminate against employees or applicants for a job for any other reason. Preferences related to gender, age, and national origin are permitted if they are justified by bona fide occupation qualifications. Similarly, employers must use non-discriminatory language in their advertisements and job descriptions. In addition, they may not discriminate based on sexual orientation.
While employers are allowed to implement bona fide employee benefit plans, they cannot use them as an excuse to discriminate against applicants for positions that do not meet their criteria. Additionally, they cannot discriminate on the basis of age, sex, height, and marital status. In addition, employers cannot use sexual orientation as a pretext to exclude employees who meet their sexual orientation. If you are considering a change in your workplace, contact an employment lawyer about the rights of the employees at your organization.
They are protected from retaliation
Employees who have reported wage violations or unsafe conditions are often protected from retaliation. Furthermore, they are protected from retaliation when they request time off under state leave laws. Employees who file complaints about workplace discrimination and harassment can also protect themselves from being fired. But if the employer decides to use negative references against former employees, they are still subject to retaliation.
Employees who enforce the Equal Pay Act are also protected. These employees can exercise their rights without fear of retaliation by discussing or disclosing their own wages, asking another employee about their wages, or encouraging other employees to exercise their rights. Employees must file a complaint of retaliation within a year after they have experienced the retaliatory act.
Retaliation against an employee who reports unethical conduct is prohibited under federal employment law. These employees are protected from discrimination or harassment by employers who decide to take action against unethical or illegal employment practices. It is illegal to fire an employee for reporting unethical practices, filing a workers’ compensation claim, or reporting a disability-related issue. If you believe that your employer is violating federal law, you should file a lawsuit.
In addition to the rights of employees under the Equal Pay Act, employees can also engage in concerted activities such as protesting against discrimination. However, to qualify for protection, employees must have a reasonable belief that something is illegal and use legal language when complaining. Nonetheless, engaging in EEO activities is not a guarantee of discipline. While employers are free to discipline or terminate employees for legitimate reasons, they cannot discourage employees from reporting discrimination or filing a complaint.
They are protected from hostile workplace environments
A hostile work environment may not necessarily be the result of a specific type of harassment, such as physical abuse, but it must be persistent and pervasive. The harassment must interfere with an employee’s ability to perform their job functions. A single incident, however, will not qualify as harassment. Therefore, employees should seek legal advice if they are facing a hostile workplace. In such cases, an attorney may be able to protect them under employment law.
Employers are also protected from discrimination in the workplace. This includes a hostile work environment where an employer engages in behavior that makes employees feel uncomfortable or intimidated. But a hostile work environment does not involve swearing or abusive behavior. Rather, the harassment must be persistent and detrimental to the employee’s performance in the workplace. If an employee is discriminated against, the harassment must involve specific legal criteria that must be met. | <urn:uuid:b2a8d1cb-289f-4243-9576-e2a44e4a9df4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.seehowcan.com/employment-law/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.96162 | 1,067 | 2.765625 | 3 |
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If TYCO's Alco Super 630 wasn't enough muscle for your layout, looks
like there may have been plans to add an even grander diesel to the company's roster of offerings.
A General Electric U50C has surfaced in a collection of TYCO prototype
pieces. Decorated for its prototypical owner Union Pacific and numbered 5002, the shell appears to have been created
using a pair of Athearn U-boat shells. Notice the slots cut into the shell to hold the trucks in place. This apparent
work-in-progress effort is missing a front pilot, if one was intended to be included.
Typical of TYCO prototypes found, this item includes a handwritten
identification on a generic TYCO brown box and a white tag on the bottom of the fuel tank labels the model's type.
Certainly a very curious and interesting find. Imagine what TYCO might have done with
respect to paint jobs on a beast such as this one!
The 40 production General Electric U50C's were construted between 1969 and 1971 and served
only the Union Pacific. The U50C is similar in appearance to the earlier U50 built between 1963 and 1965. The
major spotting differences between these two models is the U50 features a total of four B-trucks and has its radiator
section at the rear; while the U50C sports a pair of C-trucks and its radiator section is seated in the middle of the long
hood. All U50C's found themselves in the scarpyard by 1978.
To date, no plastic examples exist for the U50C in HO-scale. Con-Cor has included an
N-scale U50 in its line over the years.
Protoype information was taken from "The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide" by Jerry Pinkepank
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Learn from the Best
As an occasional short story writer, I often look to authors I admire for inspiration. As a creative writing facilitator, I always try to examine the craft of writing to see what I can learn from other authors. These are some lessons I’ve picked up from three favourite short story writers.
- For me, a love of short stories started with Dorothy Parker. If I’m feeling down, rereading The Standard of Living or I Live on Your Visits never fails to lift my spirits. What I can learn from this mistress of prose is that humour is a great way to show character. That laughter, instead of hiding pain, can bring it into sharper psychological focus. The glib tone may just be a clever disguise—as a writer, use it to trick the reader.
- Banana Yoshimoto is one of my much-loved short story writers. What this Japanese wunderkind gives me is a polished simplicity and honesty. She lives the Keep It Simple rule. The less frills—the more thrills. In the story Helix, she recounts a single event, a casual date with a girl, but manages to transform it into an archetypal love story. What I try to take from this storyteller is to show characters at that one crucial moment of change in their lives.
- The one writer I find myself turning to again and again is David Leavitt. Another master of minimalism, his short stories are often better than his novels. An early story, Territory, was published in the New Yorker and tells of a young man mapping out his own emotional and sexual territory on a trip back home. In Roads to Rome, he shows the chaotic creative ‘family’ surrounding an Italian matriarchal figure. For me, Leavitt shows me to be authentic—to write about what I know, feel, live. The lesson: a coolly observed detachment around an intimate or familiar theme can give it deeper resonance.
When you start your next short story, take a trip back to your favourite short story writers and jot down the lessons you could take away from their work—and use them in your own stories.
- The Secret To Writing a Great Short Story
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- How To Outline A Short Story For Beginners
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I have new activities to share today! The first one is my freebie! This activity is to help students practice measuring different objects to the nearest half inch. I gave my students the exact rulers they will use on the PASS test (our lovely state standardized test) to practice measuring with. Just click the image below to download.
I am just so proud of this next activity! I came up with a clever name and it fit with one of my adorable clip art sets! We practiced and played this today and they were loving it!
Click my TN shop button below to grab yourself a copy!
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(ReliableNews.org) – There’s been a lot of recent talk about revoking protections for online tech companies like Twitter. Donald Trump signed an executive order to prevent online censorship by limiting the use of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Joe Biden quietly revoked that order on May 14. However, a new court case could pave the way towards limiting the use of Section 230 protections which provide immunity from civil liabilities for information that service providers remove or restrict content from their services.
Federal District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf ordered a motion hearing for Thursday, May 20, in a lawsuit alleging that big tech companies operate as agents of the government. Dr. Shiva Ayyhadurai filed the complaint after having several tweets alleging election fraud censored by Twitter. Twitter later permanently suspended his account, and he filed a lawsuit against several state election officials.
On February 19, the court advised Dr. Ayyhadurai that he needed to add Twitter to the lawsuit in order to move forward with the case. The May 20 hearing will determine whether he can add Twitter to the matter as a defendant. The court also set aside May 21 for additional arguments on the motion if necessary.
We will update you on the results of the hearing as soon as the court published its findings.
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by Aaron Robinson
Wellin, among many other faculty and staff from Sonoma State University and other institutions, convened for the latest annual Tips and Trends in Service-Learning workshop. Merith Weisman, community engagement and social media coordinator at SSU, led the exciting two-hour workshop.
Through lively group discussions, the attendees learned about service-learning pedagogies, community relationship building, and current trends in academic planning.
One such discussion was about the importance of guided reflection activities. Guiding the students as they reflect on their work encourages them to make connections between the service experience and the academic and civic learning goals of the course.
Jeffrey Reeder from the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at SSU recalls an experience with a past college roommate who lacked the proper cognitive guidance, damaging his experience rather than helping him.
"By the second or third day, I discovered that he was probably one of the most bigoted and closed-minded people I had ever met," says Reeder. "And he had been exposed to the world."
When carefully implemented into a course, service-learning is powerfully transformative; inspiring students to a lifetime commitment to civic engagement, and establishing long-term reciprocal community partnerships.
"(As a student) you can be swept up by massive events that are so much larger than you," explains Margie Purser from the Department of Anthropology at SSU.
Missed the workshop but would like more information about service-learning? Check out the interactive Prezi presentation and the official video from the workshop below! While waiting for next year's workshop, browse our website or contact Merith Weisman for more information! Also, be sure to view the photo album from the event on our Google+ page. | <urn:uuid:086f364a-584b-4e6c-97fe-7da0bd4b7473> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.sonoma.edu/cce/blog/2013/11/tips-trends-in-service-learning-workshop-2013.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00466-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958881 | 355 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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