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UPS Checks?
Discussion in 'Real Life Stories' started by BigDomeDSM, Feb 23, 2009.
1. Hey ya'll. I got a international money order today. Basically, it's 1 check for $756! I'm scared to cash because I don't know why it was sent to ME! I'm going to guess this is a scam however 756 is a LOT of money. Need advice grasscity! Thanks!
2. Who is it written to? It was probably a ups cod check, and they sent it to the wrong address. Was it sent to your address and name?
3. who is the check from? is it someone you have recently done business with?
if you were not expecting any money do not cash it. it might be a ploy to get your bank info so they can use your identity or steal your money. i personally would not cash it unless I was 100% sure.
4. My thoughts exactly.
Read the check carefully man, and be cautious, it would suck to get your account drained and have to go through the process of filing a fraud report and potentially not even getting your money back.
5. Cash it at a check cashing store!
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Mom to Rob, Gordie Jr., Chris, Dan and Glenn Gronkowski enjoys looking back, living in SW Florida
Craig Handel, The News-Press
Diane Gronkowski-Walters ran one of the best teams in the country.
Her five sons.
And her sons' friends. And even her sons' friends' friends.
Walters, who lives in a Fort Myers gated community, often toiled in obscurity, but the last name of the boys she raised has become famous.
Gordie Jr., Dan, Chris, Rob and Glenn. The Gronkowskis. They literally were a handful. They played baseball, football, basketball and hockey, but they also skied, had paper routes, fought like bear cubs and ate like them, too.
'When you see someone raising one kid, you wonder, how could you possibly raise five animals?,' Chris said. 'She had no help. No one wanted to watch us. We had one baby sitter, a couple times. Then she was out. Then another. It was like a revolving door until we ran out of them.
'It took a lot of patience and love.'
Glenn said, 'It had to be absolutely insane.'
Rob, the New England Patriots star tight end who is a social media and Internet magnet, was born on Mother's Day 1989. He'll spend Mother's Day this year with her in Southwest Florida.
'Growing up as a kid, you really don't know all the stuff that moms put up with,' Rob said. 'But we definitely drove her crazy. But how we were, keeping her busy, it had to be an awesome ride. What wasn't enjoyable was all our fighting and yelling. If we could've knocked that off, it would've been 100 percent good.'
Thanks to Walters' loving, nurturing, chauffeuring, caring, feeding and scheduling, each son became a pro athlete. With Glenn signing a free-agent contract with his hometown Buffalo Bills last weekend, the boys are 5-for-5 — four football players and Gordie, who played baseball. All of the brothers were present to celebrate Glenn's signing.
Rob and Glenn are the sole active athletes still competing.
When Walters had three of her sons playing in the NFL, a researcher from Yale put the odds at one in 31 million.
'Their success is my success,' Walters said. 'Having one (in the pros) is way out there. Five boys in pro sports. I guess I should've won the lottery like 40 times by now.
'But I guess, you gotta play, right?'
Mother's Day, mother's way
Sunday is Mother's Day. From child psychologists and psychiatrists to fathers who stay home when mothers are gone for a few hours, they'll all tell you that it's the toughest job on earth.
Walters is a champion of stay-at-home mothers. She feels they don't get enough praise and that women have to be professionals in the workplace to earn that respect.
'We don't get a paycheck,' she said. 'But I also shoveled snow, cut the grass, did the flower beds, did the bills, cooked and helped with their homework. There's so many moms who do all this stuff.'
While she often got four hours of sleep at night, Walters and her boys accumulated some jaw-dropping stats.
Over 20 years, Walters:
Took her sons and neighbor kids to about 18,000 practices and games in a conversion van. Because her boys played three or four sports, she often made three trips a day or more. 'And she always had food in the car,' Rob said. 'PB&J and fruit were ready to go.'
Oversaw her sons playing on as many as 13 house, travel, tournament and all-star baseball teams during some summers. 'The fields were set up pretty well so I'd pick out a spot where I could see all of them batting,' she said.
Had a couple of her sons' friends live with the family. Other friends were often regular dinner visitors. 'We all had a buddy who lived with us for a while,' Chris said. 'One guy we adopted we said we gotta give him a Polish name. So we called him Doboski.'
Bought about $312,000 in food for her sons and their buddies while they grew from tykes to teens. She had two freezers and two refrigerators. Rarely did she buy pizza or fast food. 'It was a treat to go out to eat,' Chris said. 'Denny's had a $1.99 special where you could eat out of your mind. But we'd often get in a fight and the car would turn around. If we did make it, she'd put us in a corner booth. We'd steal each other's food and orange juice.'
Baked pies and cookies, made her own jam and cooked almost all of the boys' meals. 'People sometimes asked me if I was shopping for a group home,' she said.
Sometimes wished she had bought a small ranch. She bought the equivalent of about 30 heads of cattle. 'I'd buy half a cow about every nine months,' she said.
Got a lot of help from Holstein cows. She figures they drank about 18,200 gallons of milk. 'It doesn't surprise me,' Rob said. That's about 2½ gallons a day. 'They'd just sit there, eat and drink glass after glass,' Walters said.
Recently, Walters combined the birth weight of her five sons. It came to 39 pounds, 14 ounces.
Now, she calculates they're a combined 1,271 pounds. 'Chris used to ask me why he's so short,' Walters said. 'But he's 6-foot-3.'
As they grew, Chris and Rob remember testing their mother's temper regularly.
'She had a plastic spoon. It was rock hard and she used to spank us with it,' Chris said. 'As Rob got older, he laughed when he got spanked. He loved pain. Then he'd reach back, grab her hands and drive her crazy.
'One day the spoon disappeared. When we moved to a new house, it was hidden in the basement with all the old stuff. It finally reappeared after 10 years.'
Rob remembers his mom chasing Chris with a hockey stick when she got him mad. 'She couldn't catch Chris so she grabbed the hockey stick and Chris took off and she chased him into the house,' he said. 'That was so funny. That was a hockey classic.'
On Christmas Eve, when they lived in Williamsville, New York, a suburb of Buffalo, the boys were playing stick hockey when Glenn, then 4, got checked.
'I got in the way. They ran into me and I went flying,' he recalled. 'They had carpet, but I landed on the one piece of cement.'
The check split Glenn's chin wide open, which his mom saw. Off to the hospital. No church. Dinner delayed.
Tough and smart
The boys had brains as well as brawn. Dan could've been a Rhodes Scholar. Chris could've gone to Harvard. Rob plays for a coach — Bill Belichick — who won't tolerate mental mistakes. Glenn has two degrees from Kansas State and had a 3.8 grade-point average.
'All the focus is on the fun we like to have,' Glenn said. 'But work comes before fun. When the work is done, we do like to celebrate.'
Walters likes that they've gotten their degrees and are good citizens.
'They haven't gotten in trouble with the law, not that I know of,' she said. 'They don't have tattoos or piercings.
'And people tell me, 'They are so respectful.''
Like their mom, the sons are organized and prompt. And they watch their money. They cut coupons, wait for the buy-one-get-one-free deals. In his book, Rob said he never has used his NFL contract money. He lives off his endorsements and TV commercials.
'Everyone thinks I have a busy schedule, but I'm not that busy if I'm organized,' Rob said. 'My mom always had that calendar in the kitchen that listed where everyone had to go. She's so well organized. She was always on top of it. And I have a calendar. It's definitely a trait I learned. If you're organized and on time, you always know what's going on.'
With son Rob, Walters has seen the good and bad of the NFL's best tight end who has become one of the country's favorite pitch men. In Naples this spring, he did a Dunkin' Donuts commercial with Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz.
Fans mystify Walters. First it was that thousands of fans would come to watch Rob play or that they'd buy replicas of his jersey.
Now, it's that Buffalo fans booed Rob, despite the fact he took part in a celebrity home-run derby to raise money for charity.
'I sat there and thought, 'You blanks,'' Walters said. 'He was born and raised in Buffalo. … You boo him because the Bills didn't draft him. They had a chance to pick him.'
Walters was such a good caretaker that even the pet goldfish lived 11 years.
With the boys on their own, Walters goes to games or visits. Half her weekends are on the road.
The boys like her visits, partly because she restocks their fridges.
This weekend, Rob is visiting. 'I don't know what we'll do, but I like to go on the fly,' he said. 'I'll think of something.'
Not surprising, Walters' first grandchild was a boy. When she isn't traveling, Walters and husband Mike run a local company called Home Watch MD. He's also a handyman. Walters and the boys' father, Gordy, divorced in 2008.
Looking back, those days with the boys growing up went so quickly.
'Where did the time go? It seems like yesterday or last week,' she said. 'One year slipped into the next. It's hard to remember some of this stuff. Sometimes, I couldn't remember if I took a shower in the morning. I had about two minutes. We were always running out the door. I tried to stay a step ahead.'
Regrets? She has none.
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The FDA is now requiring stronger label warnings about the risk of heart attack and stroke with non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use.
One of the most concerning findings that the FDA described is “the risk of heart attack or stroke that can occur in the first weeks of using NSAID” therapy.
NSAIDs are effective because they inhibit cyclooxygenase (COX)-1 and -2 in the arachidonic acid cascade to various extents. The COX-1 pathway produces prostaglandin E2, thromboxane A2, and prostacyclin, which causes changes in the stomach, intestines, kidneys, platelets, and endothelium. COX-2 is present at inflamed sites and works by creating inflammatory prostaglandins, proteases, and radical oxygen species causing inflammation.1 Therefore, COX-1 is needed in order to maintain daily function of various organs, and it is intuitively better to avoid blocking COX-1, while preferentially blocking COX-2 in order to address pain, inflammation, and fever.
By taking a COX-2-specific inhibitor, patients should obtain relief from pain and inflammation with a decreased risk of gastrointestinal and cardiovascular problems. But experience shows that when you upset nature, there may be other inherent risks.
In this case, by selectively inhibiting COX-2, the cascade is skewed towards thromboxane A2 in the COX-1 pathway, which in a negative feedback loop increases prostacyclin that encourages clotting and elevates the risk of thromboembolism.2
Irrespective of their route of administration, all NSAIDs now require a templated FDA warning about the risks of heart attack, stroke, and renal damage. Interestingly, topical steroids do not carry this warning.
Is there a need to strengthen the labeling of topical NSAIDs that clearly lack systemic therapeutic or toxic levels? There are many formulations, such as nasal solutions, optic solutions, gels, creams, and patches, that are designed to release the drug locally, but not systemically.
So, how localized is it? How much of the drug reaches the systemic circulation? Is there even enough in the circulation to support current warnings or harsher warnings, particularly when there already seems to be a massive migration away from opioids?
Diclofenac is a great example to consider because it has multiple vehicles of administration, including ophthalmic solution (Voltaren Ophthalmic Solution), topical solution (Pennsaid), 1% gel (Voltaren Gel), 3% gel (Solaraze), topical patch (Flector), and tablets. It is also the most commonly prescribed NSAID worldwide.3
Diclofenac is fairly COX-2 selective compared to other “traditional” NSAIDs. For example, the drugs available on the US market in respective order of COX-2 specificity are etodolac, meloxicam, celecoxib, and diclofenac.
When diclofenac 1% sodium gel was approved by the FDA in 2007, it became the first topical NSAID to hit the market (other than topical salicylates and derivatives), followed by diclofenac sodium 1.5% topical solution in 45.5% dimethyl sulfoxide in 2009.4
Topically applied medications can be designed to either act locally at the application site or be absorbed through the dermal layers with a desired systemic effect. Topical treatments are for local application and include patches, creams, gels, ointments, and solutions. Transdermal administration is designed to achieve systemic therapeutic concentrations similar to injectable or orally administered drugs.5
The diclofenac patch (Flector) is approved for minor sprains, strains, and contusions. According to the Flector package insert, after 10 to 20 hours, the plasma concentration is 0.7 ng/mL to 6 ng/mL, and after 5 days with twice-daily dosing, it is 1.3 ng/mL to 8.8 ng/mL. The systemic exposure on day 4 is less than 1% of “a single oral 50-mg diclofenac sodium tablet.”
Exercise was also tested to see whether sweat would affect absorption, but “no clinically relevant differences in systemic absorption were observed.” Even if some of the diclofenac reaches the blood, it has greater than 99% affinity for albumin, which essentially renders it unavailable for activity.
Diclofenac is primarily metabolized by CYP2C9 and has a half-life of approximately 12 hours, meaning it is fundamentally out of the body in about 60 hours (5 half-lives), with about 65% of the metabolites being excreted in the urine and about 35% in the bile. Each patch contains 180 mg of diclofenac epolamine.6
Pennsaid is diclofenac topical solution that is used for osteoarthritis of the knee. It has a maximal dosing of 40 drops (~1.2mL) to each knee. Considering the package insert data for normal adults aged 18 to 55 years taking 4 doses daily for 7 days, the area under the curve (AUC0-t) is 965.4 ± 348.9 ng hr/mL, AUC0-inf is 745.2 ± 374.7 ng hr/mL, maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) is 19.4±9.3 ng/mL, time when Cmax is observed (Tmax) in hours (hr) is 4.0±6.5, and plasma half-life (t1/2) (hr) is 79.0± 0.004.
The point of all these nice numbers is that the topical solution Cmax (say 19.4±9.3)=28.7 ng/mL compared to 50-mg tablets 3 times daily with Cmax of 2270 ng/mL is that the solution has only ~1.26% of the Cmax of the tablets. The AUC of the topical solution at (745.2±374.7) 1119.9 ng hr/mL vs tablet at (3890±1710) 2180 ng hr/mL is 51.4%.
The package insert states that Pennsaid given 4 times daily for 1 week has approximately one-third of the systemic exposure as diclofenac sodium 3% gel (Solaraze) given twice daily for 4 weeks. Pennsaid did not affect platelet aggregation after 7 days at the maximum dose.7
Diclofenac sodium ophthalmic solution 0.1% (Voltaren Opthamic) can be used in cataract surgery with 1 drop given 4 times daily for 2 weeks after surgery or for corneal refractive surgery with 1 to 2 drops given 4 times daily for 3 days. Pharmacokinetic data is lacking because, after instilling 2 drops in each eye over a period of 4 hours, it was below the measurable limit of 10 ng/mL. This indicates that even if the medication is absorbed through the eye vasculature, the systemically absorbed amount is so low that it is unmeasurable.8
Diclofenac sodium 1% gel (Voltaren) was given to healthy volunteers over the course of 7 days at 48 g/day (480 mg diclofenac). Usually, 50-mg tablets are used 3 times daily for osteoarthritis (150 mg/day). When given 48 g/day, the highest Cmax for the gel was 53.8 ± 32 ng/mL at Tmax of 10 hr with an AUC0-24 of 807± 478 ng hr/mL The diclofenac tablet had a Cmax of 2270 ng/mL at Tmax of 6.5 hr and AUC0-24 of 3890±1710 ng hr/mL.
Thus, the gel only had a Cmax of 2.2% [1.9-2.6 confidence interval (CI)] and an AUC of 19.7% (17-22.8 CI) compared with the tablet. The above data is reflective of an overzealous, non-compliant patient applying way too much, as the recommended daily limit is 32 g/day. For a patient who is using 4 g and dosing 4 times daily to 1 knee, the systemic exposure is 17 times lower than taking a 50-mg tablet 3 times daily.
The key takeaway is that “the average peak plasma concentration with recommended use of Voltaren gel (4 x 4 g per day applied to 1 knee) is 158 times lower than with the oral treatment.”9
Diclofenac sodium 3% gel (Solaraze) is approved for lesions due to actinic keratosis (AK) and superficial thrombophlebitis, and it can be placed on scalp, forehead, face, forearm or hand. Even if the patient had issues with skin integrity, such as atopic dermatitis, only 10% of the applied dose of Solaraze (2g over 100 cm2) is absorbed systemically after 7 days with 4 times daily application.
Tests indicate an AUC0-t 9±19 ng hr/ml with Cmax of 4±5 ng/mL and Tmax of 4.5±8 hr after 2 g is applied to the calf 3 times daily for 6 days on healthy subjects. For reference, taking 1 dose of 75-mg diclofenac tablet yields AUC of 1600 ng/hr/ml; Solarize has only ((9+19)/1600=) 1.75% the AUC! Trials on patients with AK lesions indicate that giving 0.5 g twice daily for up to 105 days yields levels averaging at or below 20 ng/mL.10
Keep in mind that Voltaren is roughly 320 mg diclofenac daily, whereas Solaraze is only 15 mg per half gram, so there would need to be ~10 lesions each measuring 25 cm2. You may be confused about this, but remember the data for Voltaren gel describe when it is being used at 1.5 times the recommended quantity, which is 32 g/day, and Solarize is recommended at only 0.5 g of gel for each 5x5 cm area.
For a side-by-side comparison, see the Diclofenac Dosage Form Table below.
Diclofenac Dosage Forms
Brand Name Form Strength Dose Cmax (ng/mL) Tmax (hr) AUC (ng hr/mL)
(Voltaren, Cataflam, generic) 9
Tablets 50 mg TID 2270 ± 778 6.5 3890 ± 1710
Voltaren 9 Gel 1% 48 g/day* 53.8 ± 32 10 807 ± 478
Solaraze 10 Gel 3% 2 g TID x 6 days 5±5 4.5±8 9±19
Flector 6 Patch 1.3% BID x 5 days 1.3 - 8.8 120 96
Pennsaid 7 Topical Solution 1.5% w/w QID x 7 days 19.4 ± 9.3 4.0 ± 6.5 745.2 ± 374.7
Voltaren Ophthamic 8 Ophthalmic Drops 0.1% 2 drops over 4 hrs <10 NA NA
* This is above the maximum daily dose recommended
In other words, all topical vehicles of diclofenac delivery result in only a small fraction of the diclofenac that actually reaches the systemic circulation compared with the oral route. With such a low percentage, do you think the FDA is correct in requiring these delivery mechanisms to have the same warning as the oral tablets?
The easiest way to answer that is pointing out the ophthalmic drops, which cannot even be measured in the plasma. The FDA admitted that “newer information is not sufficient for us to determine that the risk of any particular NSAID is definitely higher or lower than that of any other particular NSAID,” which is why it stated that NSAIDs may have an “increased risk range from 10% to 50% or more.”
Pehaps the FDA should require all NSAIDs to warn that there is no evidence to support topical products carrying the same risks as orally administered ones. Maybe the agency should ensure that all topical NSAIDs, plus salicylates and topical steroids, are treated fairly and equal. After all, it would seem that the 2 latter options are far more toxic, but they lack the warning required of all NSAIDs regardless of administration route.
Adding such warnings, especially on topical products, may curtail clinicians from treating any pain problems, since opioids and acetaminophen also have inherent risks. Clinicians may need to use common sense, stay practical, and keep repeating the old adage, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
This article was collaboratively written with Phillip Boglisch, a 2016 PharmD candidate at the Western New England University (WNEU) College of Pharmacy in Springfield, MA, and an MBA candidate with expected conferment, fall semester 2015 at WNEU College of Business. He completed his undergraduate degree at Clark University in Worcester, MA, where he obtained a BA in Chemistry in 2012. He is interested completing a PGY1 and possibly a PGY2 residency, and he is currently under the mentorship of Dr. Fudin studying pain management.
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2. Schafer AI. Effects of Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs on Platelet Function and Systemic Hemostasis. J Clin Pharmacol. 1995 35: 209-219.
3. Atkinson TJ, Fudin J, Pandula A, Mirza M. Medication Management in the Elderly: Unique and Underutilized Treatment options. Clinical Therapeutics. 2013 Nov. Vol. 34, Pages 1669-1689.
4. Balmaceda: Evolving guidelines in the use of topical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of osteoarthritis. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2014 15:27.
5. McPherson, ML. Topical NSAID Formulations. Pain Med. 2013; 14: S35-S39.
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This Is Not 1979, And Donald Trump Is Not Jimmy Carter
Thursday, January 2, 2020
By Paul Martin
by Michael Snyder
January 1, 2020
Iran has just made a tragic mistake. When Iranian proxies directly attacked the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, it sent shockwaves across the entire planet. Of course it immediately reminded many of us of the Iranian hostage crisis, and that episode turned out great for the Iranians. In November 1979, a group of Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, and they took 52 American citizens hostage. For the next 444 days, the United States was absolutely humiliated by the Iranians. President Jimmy Carter looked like a pathetic weakling in the eyes of the rest of the world, and his inability to get the hostages back helped to pave the way for the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Perhaps the Iranians were attempting to recapture that magic by having their proxies storm the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, but it is not 1979 anymore, and Donald Trump is not Jimmy Carter.
The Iranians appear to think that they can intimidate Trump the same way that they have intimidated other U.S. presidents, and they also seem to believe that if they put enough pressure on him that the U.S. will eventually relent and leave the region.
But anyone that knows Trump understands that he never backs down.
Throughout his life, he has had a personal rule that when someone hits him, he hits back even harder.
And even though Iran is attempting to claim that they had nothing to do with the embassy attack, everyone knows that their proxies never do anything like this without permission from Tehran, and President Trump is promising that the Iranians “will be held fully responsible”…
In a subsequent tweet, Trump declared that Iran will pay a “very big price” for what they have done…
So what does that mean?
It means that we should soon expect U.S. military action, and it will most likely target Iran directly.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper ordered 750 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division to immediately deploy to the Middle East…
Esper said that at President Trump’s direction, “I have authorized the deployment of an infantry battalion from the Immediate Response Force (IRF) of the 82nd Airborne Division to the U.S. Central Command area of operations in response to recent events in Iraq. Approximately 750 soldiers will deploy to the region immediately, and additional forces from the IRF are prepared to deploy over the next several days. This deployment is an appropriate and precautionary action taken in response to increased threat levels against U.S. personnel and facilities, such as we witnessed in Baghdad today. The United States will protect our people and interests anywhere they are found around the world.”
And it is being reported that the total number of paratroopers being deployed from that unit could soon reach 4,000.
Of course we already have tens of thousands of troops in the region. In fact, Fox News says that there are already “roughly 60,000 U.S. troops” deployed in the Middle East…
There are roughly 5,000 U.S. troops currently deployed to Iraq now, among the roughly 60,000 U.S. troops currently deployed to the region. According to the Pentagon, 14,000 have been added since May as the threat from Iran increased.
The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has been in the Gulf of Oman, its strike group armed with hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles in addition to the dozens of strike aircraft aboard Truman.
But those troops will not be used against Iran right away.
Instead, I would expect to see airstrikes or cruise missiles used to send a message to Tehran.
Ultimately, I don’t think that President Trump wants a war with Iran. A war could seriously mess up his chances of winning again in 2020, and Trump is deeply obsessed with winning next November.
But the whole world has now seen images of Shiite militants smashing their way into the U.S. embassy, vandalizing U.S. property, and setting a reception area on fire.
Trump cannot let that go without a response, because if he allows the Iranians and their proxies to get away with this, they will just be emboldened to conduct more attacks.
So Trump is going to hit Iran, and then the Iranians and their proxies will almost certainly retaliate. And unless one side decides to back down, a series of escalations could very easily lead us into a cataclysmic war that would not benefit anyone.
This is a very tough test for Trump.
If he does nothing, he will look weak, indecisive, and the comparisons to Jimmy Carter will begin.
But if he hits Iran too hard, we could literally find ourselves in the middle of World War 3.
2020 was shaping up to be a chaotic year anyway, but this crisis threatens to start it with a real bang.
To most people, life in America seems pretty stable right now, but things are about to start changing in a major way. Global events are already starting to accelerate significantly, and many believe that they will start to reach a crescendo during the coming year.
Let us hope and pray that a war with Iran can be avoided. Because if the U.S. and Iran go to war, a whole bunch of others will be dragged into the conflict as well, and that includes Israel.
For the Iranians and their allies, the conflict would literally be a matter of life or death, and they would throw everything they have at us.
But how are we going to avoid such a war?
Iranian proxies invaded U.S. soil on Tuesday and they set our embassy on fire. Are we supposed to just do nothing and allow them to intimidate us like that?
I don’t know what the solution is, but what I do know is that President Trump is fuming right now.
And Iran should not want to mess with a pissed off Trump.
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Interview with Amanda Baker (English)
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Amanda Baker is Media and Web officer and in charge of PR at the Vegan Society, UK.
I would like to say hello to all Fuente Vegana readers, thank you very much for this chance to 'speak' to you, and thank you for your interest in plant-based living.
1) Since when have you been vegan and why did you go vegan?
I decided to choose a vegan lifestyle several years ago now. I always thought of myself as an 'animal lover', but I was raised in a meat-eating family and culture. I lived on my grandparents’ smallholding until I was 8, which means that I have always known that meat is a name for parts of dead animals. But it took me many years to realise that I could choose not to eat meat, and I could have a healthy and fulfilling life without taking things from animals. It was actually the huge environmental impact of animal farming which finally gave me the kick I needed to commit to a vegan life.
2) The Vegan Society was founded in 1944. Could you tell us something about the Vegan Society? How many members does it have, what does the Vegan Society do and how did it grow from a handful of people to what it is today?
The Vegan Society is a registered UK charity and also a membership supported organisation. We have around 4000 members, in the UK and around the world. We offer free information to anyone about the benefits of plant-based living for people, animals and the planet. We do have some particular projects too. Our Vegan Catering for All project focuses on professional caterers, to help them put good vegan meals on to their menus. Our Global Food Security project is reaching out to farmers and growers, to politicians and decision-makers, and to international development workers, to help them understand the damaging links between animal farming, hunger and global climate change. Our Vegan Pledge offers personal coaching to people who are curious to try eating a vegan diet for a week or more with the help of an 'email mentor'. Our numbers grow mostly thanks to our members, who support our work, and tell others about it.
3) Many vegans outside of the UK (and North America) think of England as a kind of vegan fairytale land with big vegan festivals, many vegan products and restaurants, and many vegan owned all-vegan companies. I think this is because veganism comes from England and has been around there for longer than in many other places. Do you think the UK is more vegan-friendly than other countries? And could you tell us if there are any statistics on how many vegans there are in England and the UK?
We believe that there are at least 150,000 vegans in the UK. It may be true that the UK is at the forefront now. There are indeed dozens of vegan restaurants in the UK, and many more vegan-friendly restaurants - many in London and other English cities, but also in the other parts of the UK: Scotland (particularly Glasgow), Wales and Northern Ireland. But I hope that the UK, and all other countries, can co-operate to each become increasingly vegan-friendly!
4) More and more vegans are now aware of the need to get vitamin B12 from supplements or fortified foods. Is the B12 added to fortified foods always vegan? And apart from vitamin D3 (made from fish or wool), are there any other vitamins to watch out for that might not be vegan, e.g. when we buy a supplement or a box of fortified cornflakes?
To enjoy the benefits of a well-planned vegan diet, vegans should do one of the following:
* eat fortified foods two or three times a day to get at least three micrograms (
μg or mcg) of B12 a day or
* take one B12 supplement daily providing at least 10 micrograms or
* take a weekly B12 supplement providing at least 2000 micrograms.
All vitamin B12 is made by micro-organisms, and to the best of our knowledge, the vast majority of vitamin B12 used to fortify foods is suitable for vegans. But if you have any doubts, it is always worthwhile contacting companies directly and finding out the details of their manufacturing processes. Companies are often happier to speak to customers than to The Vegan Society, so please do let us know to
info[at] if you find out about any vitamin B12 fortification which is not suitable for vegans. The same is true for other vitamins (apart from Vitamin D3, as you rightly say).
5) Can you think of any mistakes made by the vegan movement in the UK (or anywhere) in the past, mistakes that others could avoid making?
Even in the UK, vegans have to face negative stereotypes - that we are unhealthy, or aggressive, or that we spend all our time arguing amongst ourselves. We try hard to provide the best advice on healthy vegan lifestyles, summarised in our Plant-Based Nutrition booklet, and we urge all vegans to study, share and follow this advice to show off the best of vegan lifestyles. As for aggression, of course we all feel very passionately about cruelty to animals. But I believe that, if we are to persuade and convince people to change their lives and adopt veganism, we need to cultivate patience and compassion for those people. Most vegans were meat-eaters for many years - that should help us to have empathy for all the people who are still on their journey toward becoming vegan.
6) Could you tell us about VEG 1? Are many people buying it? I know it's available in Germany and Austria as well. Is it available in any other countries and is it possible for other people to import it to their own countries?
VEG 1 is a supplement suitable for vegans of all ages, designed as an 'insurance policy' for vegans who feel they need a little extra help in achieving a fully balanced diet. As far as we know, it is possible for anyone with web access to order VEG 1 through our website. We welcome enquiries from anyone interested in selling VEG 1 in any country, but we would just supply the VEG 1 and could not check the legal requirements of that country - you must do that.
7) The Vegan Society has a "why vegan" film called Truth or Dairy, from 1994. Do you know if it is available with subtitles in other languages? And are there any plans by the Vegan Society to make other films?
We are not aware of any subtitled versions of Truth or Dairy, and we do not currently have a transcript available. However, we are open to making a new film. [There is a new film now called Making The Connection]
8) Do you have any tips or ideas for promoting veganism in the 21st century?
Listen to non-vegans, to learn how to communicate with them. Seek common ground, as a place from which to start working. Remember that plant-based lifestyles can answer very many modern concerns. Learn about the evidence for the benefits of vegan lifestyles, so you can share it confidently but compassionately.
For example: A well-planned plant-based diet can help us to follow healthy eating advice, for example on fats, fruits and vegetables. In the UK, we can feed ourselves using just one third the fresh water, fertile land and energy on a well-planned vegan diet compared to the typical UK diet. The United Nations have shown that the food energy wasted by feeding grain to farmed animals could meet the needs of 3.5 billion more people - and human population is likely to reach 9 billion by 2050. The animal farming industry worldwide is in the top three causes of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions - and climate change is already causing hunger.
If all else fails, keep your sense of humour! - And learn to bake fabulous vegan chocolate cake to share with non-vegans!
9) What do you think are the most common reasons for people to stop being vegan? And do you think that overall the vegan movement has been growing and is growing?
We don't know for sure, but the pressures of living in a non-vegan world can be very hard for some to bear. But overall, yes - we think that the vegan movement is healthily growing!
10) Often people want to include other ideas into the definition of veganism, e.g. "veganism means pacifism" or "veganism should also mean eating healthfully". People from all different kinds of backgrounds are vegans, and the definition of veganism is already there. What is your opinion? And could you give us the "official" Vegan Society definition of veganism.
It is helpful to agree upon one basic definition of vegan lifestyles. We offer: "Vegan lifestyles are ways of living that seek to exclude - as far as is possible and practical - all forms of exploitation of animals for food, clothing or any other purpose". It also helps to remember that the purpose of being vegan is to help the animals. You do not have to be a perfect person to be vegan!
Please get in touch - info[at] - with any questions, comments, information or other responses!
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How to clicker train your dog
The first thing you need to is charge the clicker. Charging the clicker is simply teaching your dog that the ‘click’ noise always precedes a wonderful treat. Simply take 10 treats and occasionally click the clicker and give your dog a treat. Mix it up so he does not do one behavior or just sit in front of you waiting for the next treat. If he does this, walk away from him and take a little break. When you get to the point where your dog is looking away from you and quickly turns around upon hearing the ‘click’ then you can say the clicker is “charged”.
Now that your dog associates the clicker with something wonderful, you can use it as a teaching tool. The great thing about the clicker is that it marks a behavior very clearly so a dog knows exactly what the right answer is. Here is an exercise that you can do with your dog. I want you to think of the clicker as taking a picture of a behavior that you like. This is really good with young, overexcited puppies.
As we discussed, you can use a clicker to teach a dog that his behavior dictates whether he gets rewarded.
So, you can do something called shaping. Don’t ask your dog to do anything, just click and treat when you like what he is doing, and ignore when he does something inappropriate. Good examples include sitting, lying down or following you. Behaviors that you want to ignore might be jumping on you or barking. Read this post about shaping behaviors, and this post about getting rid of problem behaviors using shaping.
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What is dog clicker training?
Clicker training is a positive reinforcement tool that can be used to train dogs. It can also be used to train dolphins, whales, lions, and people! Like many tools in our world it can seem confusing at first, but allow me to help break it down into bite-sized chunks so you can understand how to use one of the coolest things on the planet.
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Online data room ~ adaptive functionality of your business inside a gadget
Potential buyers want to get relevant information quickly and easily, the vendor wants to complete the transaction immediately, and the data room services enables the wishes of both parties. Some people wonder so why other consultants are in the office every day and don’t have to go out to follow up due diligence. It turns out that the data room allows him to complete all projects without leaving home. When most people still check in the point company’s office for several days and nights, utilizing the virtual data rooms, he can get all the files he needs with a click of the mouse.
What is a secure virtual data room?
Even as we mentioned before, the vdr provider is a professional system. The information required by the custodian during the due diligence process on its mainframe. After the user is authorized, sign in to the system and read the files according to their permissions. This evolution completely frees users from the actual data room.
What are the advantages of the virtual data rooms?
For most sellers, the cabability to provide multiple users with surfing due diligence services is the biggest good thing about a data room providers. In the traditional actual physical data room period, sellers really need to add a few weeks to the transaction period of time to collect information. Although the seller could set up several virtual data rooms for mergers and acquisitions at the same time, it costs a lot of time and material costs. Eventually, typically the secure data room emergence has accelerated the pace of seller bidding while attracting more buyers’ interest until the right buyers.
Many vendors have not noticed that the more complete the purchaser understands the relevant information, the more stable the transaction will be. Buyers with sufficient time to understand and assess the relevant information usually do not care about the negotiations; they prefer to facilitate typically the transaction as soon as possible. Buyers who are pleased with the process of the adjustment process often times have a small number of reservations on the initial concern price, but they are willing to give the owner less pressure and more relaxed situations and are more flexible when discussing the protection clause.
Inside the era of the physical data room, the buyer must be accompanied by the seller’s personnel to stay in the to read the materials, and the problem of using the virtual data rooms can be preserved. The seller does not need to set up a server by himself, and the professional data room providers provider is very professional.
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Utilizing a vdr provider helps the company save on job by providing the seller detailed data concerning the room, recording user actions within the . Through the use of the record by the user, the seller can understand fully which users viewed the information, to help the seller better understand their strengths and establish a better relationship with the buyer using this information.
Information security
The seller can control the particular rights to print or duplicate by the actual situation of the numerous participants so that the seller can keep the kind of information until he decides which it can be published. Similarly, if the vendor wants to stop working with a specific consumer, simply revoke his access to the particular secure virtual data room. It is also important to note that the particular Virtual Information Room can provide information concerning the disclosure of information, which is very helpful in cases of litigation or when the vendor must prove that the relevant information is definitely voluminous or associated with the misuse of confidential information.
Improve efficiency
For the customer, a electronic data room available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week can make the entire purchase process smoother. They can get the facts they need when they need it, and function easier. Imagine that in the absence of a new data room, the purchasing company will send a team of consultants, legal representatives, financial commissioners, etc . to another company to collect information. In a few weeks, it will require several months.
The data room eliminates this problem, and all members from the investment group can log in to check on the relevant content in their area of responsibility, and not interfere with each other. After the job is completed, you only need to send a steering group for a short-term trip. There is a search function in the online info center that allows users to find appropriate information by searching by keywords. It is much more convenient to manually examine the necessary information in the mountain file.
Due diligence is the main of a merger and acquisition and even restructuring project that determines typically the success or failure of a project. The vast majority of defeated cases are caused by a lack of attention to homework. With the development of global integration, typically the borders between countries are becoming a lot more blurred, so the provides efficient services for both parties.
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What is 3D Coat? (How It Works & What It’s Used For)
3D Coat is a sculpting and texturing package often likened to ZBrush or Mudbox. Though it is similar to these programs, it also has a lot of unique features, like it’s UV unwrapping tools.
The big difference that separates 3D Coat from other sculpting programs is that instead of using polygonal meshes it uses voxels.
Voxels are like a 3D equivalent of pixels.
It produces a virtual grid in 3D space and the mesh then occupies sections of this grid to form its shape. The word voxel come from combining the term pixel with volume. Low resolution voxels are a common art style in video games, for example Minecraft or Roblox.
While voxels are based on cubes, the high resolution of the grids means smooth curves are still possible. Similar to how polygonal meshes are flat planes that can make smooth curves by having a high number of polygons and using smoothing groups.
Since the mesh in 3D Coat uses voxels, you do not need to subdivide polygons which can give you better performance on some PC setups. The other benefit is that your 3D object is solid and isn’t just a shell like a polygonal mesh. This makes some sculpting and deformation techniques easier, both computationally and creatively for the artist.
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What is 3D Coat Used For?
3D Coat primarily markets itself as a texturing and sculpting program.
Its sculpting tools behave similarly to other programs, however there are no topology restraints in 3D Coat that you may face in other programs. This is due to its voxel based workflow.
It comes with dozens of brushes built-in to aid all of your 3D projects, all with the ability to add more brushes based on whatever you need. There’s a nice long list of brushes on their website to check out.
When you’ve finished your sculpt in 3D Coat you then have the option to export it directly for 3D printing using their wizard. This makes 3D Coat an excellent choice for aspiring 3D printers.
Due to voxels making a solid model similar to that in CAD software it’s much easier to convert it to a format 3D printers understand. It’s a useful feature if you want to print off small models of your sculpts.
3D Coat also allows you to texture your mesh. You can create textures up to 16k resolution using their large selection of pre-set brushes and materials. It also uses a PBR material workflow which means it’s compatible with most other 3D programs and game engines.
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Similar to Substance Painter, with 3D Coat you can calculate and bake ambient occlusion and curvature maps from your mesh and then use this with smart materials. These materials can do things like add areas of worn paint and rust onto corners of you model where those signs of wear are more common.
It will do this automatically, but you can then use its mask and layer options to add and remove little areas to suit your fancy.
UV unwrapping is where most artists agree this package really shines.
UV mapping can be a tedious task, but the tools in 3D coat make it much easier. It uses a “Global Uniform” algorithm to give you clean spread UV maps.
You can target individual parts of the model and edit them separately if they haven’t quite gone as planned. I strongly recommend looking into this portion of the software since it can really speed up your workflow as you can import models from other programs like 3ds Max or Maya.
Also note that 3D Coat also has powerful tools for retopology. It has an automatic retopologising tool that uses edge loops that you define to generate the poly mesh.
If you’ve made a low poly mesh in a modelling program before moving it to 3D Coat for sculpting and texturing, you can then import that low poly model. From there the geometry of that low poly model will be used as a base for the retopology of the voxel mesh. Pretty cool!
By using Applinks you can quickly and easily move your models and textures between different programs. Applinks need to be downloaded separately and they’re all on the 3D Coat site.
Downsides of 3D Coat?
This is a very good piece of 3D software, but it has a couple of downsides that are worth mentioning.
Firstly its tools for modelling are very limiting. You are much better using a dedicated polygonal modelling program for this task, like 3ds Max or Blender.
Its shaders are also bare bones. This is where software like Substance Painter can work better, especially for more complicated materials that react dynamically to the environment.
3D character render in sunlight
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It also has no options for baking lighting into your textures, which is something you usually do not want from a PBR workflow anyway. If that is something you’re looking for you can use Marmoset Toolbag or the light baking options in a real-time engine like Unity or Unreal Engine.
The last thing to mention in this section is it’s not as widely recognized by the industry as something like ZBrush. This means that only learning 3D Coat may limit your job prospects. Also the community support is smaller compared to other sculpting tools.
However they have a lot of useful tutorials created by the company itself to get you started. We also published our own list of the best 3D Coat tutorials to help newbies get a jumpstart.
But all that said, this program does have the major benefit of a very low retail price. If you are only using it for personal projects the price is only $99, then moving up to $379 for professional projects.
The licence is permanent and only charges a one-time fee unlike many modern subscription models. Also it can be upgraded from the amateur to the professional package for only $280 so it’s really a great choice for newer 3D artists looking for a cheap-yet-powerful sculpting tool.
Who Uses 3D Coat?
3D Coat isn’t as big in the industry as a lot of the big 3D programs we all know & love. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t found a place in some prominent companies.
The UK based company Jagex who are most known for their MMORPG Runescape use 3D Coat in their workflow.
Another user is the US company Zenimax Media, parent company of Bethesda who makes the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games. So you will find a few large game developers who rely on 3D Coat in their workflows(which means it’s not just a tool for personal projects!)
It is a very useful tool to have in your toolbox, and really a great tool for any 3D artist to study even a little bit.
I use it personally for its UV unwrapping tools. Highly recommend checking it out; a free 30 day demo is available if you want to give it a go.
Author: Thomas Denham
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Idiocy And Airlines In Venezuela
November 4, 2014
What is it about airlines that brings out the most idiotic logic out of Venezuelans? I have found the subject the most difficult to talk about even with people that understand markets and are fairly logical and intelligent. In the eyes of many, it was the airlines that became the bad guys in the escalation of ticket prices, later in abandoning Venezuela, as if Government policy (idiotic before and after Chavismo) had nothing to do with it. How many times did I hear the argument that a flight to Aruba costs half as much as a flight to Caracas? Duh!!! The Aruban (or Colombian) Government barely regulates how many flights can land in their airports, they don’t ask for reciprocity or try to regulate fares. You want to come to Aruba or Colombia, you have a good reputation? Come on down!
By the time airlines began leaving Venezuela, reducing flights and dollarizing airfares, at least some (not all!) people understood that airlines were not making a mint in Venezuela like they thought, since they could not repatriate their Bolivars. It was Monopoly money.
But somehow, the idiocy over airline policy continues. This week, the institute in charge of air travel, the INAC, started by stopping airlines like Aserca, which flies within Venezuela and nearby destinations, from selling new tickets until they would improve their online performance. (It also stopped Government woned airline Conviasa) Now, the first question I would ask the guy from INAC is: Where were you and your 2,000 “agents” for the last sixteen years? Creating their Facebook page? I mean, I have swore like three times in the last decade that a particular wedding in Margarita island was the last one I would attend, because flights to that island were regularly delayed at least two hours. And I reported my travails last summer when I was forced to go to Venezuela via Aruba for the simple reason that there was no other way to get there. So, where has INAC been all these years?
But more importantly, how does banning the sale of tickets “protect the users” or improve the on time arrival of planes? Obviously, the fewer passengers that fly, the easier the airlines can fill and empty airplanes and improve their on time record, but is that the point? And how are you protecting passengers when you ban the sale of tickets? When you do that, you limit the already severely hampered accessibility of flights, inconvenience people and really accomplish very little.
But as I was wondering over these issues, today INAC suspended the sale of tickets for five international airlines, who they are is irrelevant. What is relevant, and even more puzzling, is that the ban on the sales of tickets is only for Maiquetia airport…
Say what?
You are banning the sale of tickets to those that show up at the airport to buy a last minute ticket? Given how few empty seats they are, these are probably the neediest and the people most desperate to get somewhere. How are you protecting or helping them?
And last I heard, most airlines have websites, which allow you to reserve and buy tickets even with your telephone. So, what exactly is INAC accomplishing with this idiotic policy and ban on the sale of tickets?
I have no clue. (And please, get rid of those red vests on INAC personnel)
But if it is hard to understand these Government officials and where they have been for sixteen years, it is even harder to understand a certain Roberto Leon Parilli, President of ANAUCO, which is a private organization that is supposed to defend consumers. What Mr. Parilli did, was to ask the Government to intervene because airlines are selling airline tickets in foreign currency, which is illegal in Venezuela.He wants the Government to stop this practice.
Well, airlines are not selling tickets in dollars in Venezuela. Airlines are selling tickets to those that have a credit card in foreign currency and use it to buy a ticket online or via a travel agency (which place the order abroad). And if this path were blocked, the consumers that you are supposed to protect Mr. Parilli, would not be able to fly out of Venezuela. Because, Mr. Parilli, the Venezuelan Government has no money to pay its debt with the airlines, unless it devalues all exchange rates to around Bs. 70 per US$.
Got it? I doubt it!
In fact, the black market, which you are correct in denouncing Mr Parilli, would flourish if the Government somehow (I don’t see how it can do it, other than banning airlines from coming to the country) managed to stop the sale of tickets in foreign currency. Venezuelans would simply be trapped. Thank you Roberto!
In fact, if you want tickets to be cheap and readily available (in any currency) what your would need to do is to ask the Government to invite all major international airlines to add an unlimited number of flights without any restriction, including in which currency people can pay, eliminating reciprocity, quotas and the harassment of foreign airlines at Maiquetia airport.
The rest is simply being idiotic and clueless about what the consumer wants and how the market for airline tickets operates in the world.
58 Responses to “Idiocy And Airlines In Venezuela”
1. miren este link ……………http://asercaairlinesrobaclientes.blogspot.com/ verán todas las irregularidades de @asercaairlines hagan sus conclusiones.
2. Roy Says:
They do not want normal Venezuelans to travel. According to the rules, if you can get a ticket to somewhere, the government has to give you your “cupo” in dollars. The less availability of tickets there is, the fewer dollars they need to issue to Venezuelans. But, of course, they still want the airlines to function, in case they want to go somewhere.
3. W Says:
the Conviasa owned Airbus A340-200 tail number YV1004 (the aircraft that was stranded in Bordeaux for unpaid maintenance bills) has retuned from Jordan with 116 Palestine “students”. Regarding the aircraft, it should return to scheduled service but if not, then there may be lingering issues that where not addressed during its stay in Bordeaux (Sabena-Technics maintenance, repair and overhaul facility). The other Airbus A340-300 is a wet-lease meaning it includes pilots and crews. In this picture, you can see the Conviasa stewards are criollo and the stewardresses are Asian:
The regime was forced to wet-lease the A340-300 because their A340-200 was out of service. There may be other issues that see them preferring wet-lease over self-owned and operated. Obviously it’s a lot easier for them to outsource everything as they have proven very incompetent on their own.
I would keep an eye out for the A340-200…does it return to service or do they park it?
On another note, a criollo airline was shut down. Does this pave the way for new regime-friendly Navion Airlines? Will Navion buy the assets of the shuttered airline?
On another other note, the regime is buying a lot of small business jets from North America for its internal use. The deal is getting scrutinized up here because it’s too close for comfort for some. There is a US Dept of Defense embargo against Venezuela and these aircraft, their use, and their crews (which have to be trained up here), need to be vetted first.
• W Says:
Wanna add that the A340-200 could also have been at Sogerma instead of Sabena. Both are located in Merignac, Bordeaux. The A340-200 had engines overhauled last summer:
YV1004 A340-200 Conviasa
That the picture shows Sogerma in the background does not mean they did the work.
The photographer Guillaume Carré helped me last summer to find the presidential Airbus in Bordeaux. Guillaume has friends at Sabena and was able to provide lots of info!
• Ira Says:
It’s probably easier for those Palestinians to get basic goods in Gaza than in Caracas.
4. Island Canuck Says:
The airline Estelar has been closed by the government.
The company has announced a plan to reimburse the cost of tickets.
This is going to aggravate an already desperate problem of flights to Isla Margarita.
They’ve been reporting for days that all were sold out for the Christmas / New Year’s vacation period
The country is rapidly swirling towards the drain..
5. Autobot Says:
The idiocy is called “populism”.
6. If the airlines have stranded profits I imagine Chevron, Total, Schlumberger, Halliburton, Wood Group and other large oil related corporations have been hiding billions in stranded profits. I’d love to audit their books and check how much they have written off and buried way down in their SEC filings. Or are they still pretending they make real money?
• Caracas Canadian Says:
An interesting study would be to review the books of most foreign publically traded companies dealing with Venezuela who have bolivar denominated earnings trapped in Venezuela. I would hazard a guess that at best these companies have written the earnings down to the SICAD I level. Maybe, if they have external auditors who are somewhat familiar with the Bolivarian farce they have been forced to write their earnings down to the SICAD II level when the reality is they should be writing them down to the dolartoday rate, or best, writing them off completely.
I would be curious what advice Venezuelan accounting firms are giving to foreign auditors in the USA, Canada and Europe about writing down or writing off any bolivar denominated earnings. I would suspect that the Venezuelan accountants are probably being very economic with the truth while demanding to be paid only in dollars to give their opinion.
I believe Air Canada for one has yet to write down their bolivars beyond SICAD I even though it will be a frosty day in hell before they see one dollar any of their bolivars….as a result they flew every Venezuelan who boarded their flight for free between 2012 and 2014.
• moctavio Says:
As long as the Government does not say it will not give it to them, they force them to register at 6.3 per $. The company could reserve it though. I believe if it is dividends, the Government already said it would not give them at 6.3 but it has not held a Sicad 1 auction for repatriation. Thus, companies have gone to Sicad 2 rate. You can not use the parallel rate, it is illegal.
7. Vixtor Says:
The government is as stupid as the people that support it. Unfortunately, Venezuelans deserve the government they have….
• WET Says:
Vixtor, you got something new and original to say? Venezuelans do not deserve that government. If you think pueblo is propping up the regime you are wrong. Firepower and money props the regime. Pueblo can come down from the cerros and march to Miraflores setting the stage for the military to take over but that scenario not in the cards because this regime will mow down anyone who dares get in the way.
8. WET Says:
The regime is increasing it’s widebody capacity. Conviasa now has two Airbus A340’s in service. One is theirs and the other is wet-leased. The A340-200 belonging to Conviasa returned to Venezuela a few weeks ago after a very long stay at Sabena-Technics MRO in Bordeaux. The reason for the extended stay was unpaid bills. This is the same reason the presidential Airbus A319-CJ was missing in Bordeaux for six months last year: unpaid bills. The A319-CJ was taken offline due to high operating costs and operational security concerns (bugs, secure comms) including pilot crews that require training and certification abroad (Miami). However, they replaced her with a VIP bird from Embraer. There is also a new airline called Navion. This project is closely tied to Andres Izarra and is leasing Boeing 767. Navion should start service very soon.
• moctavio Says:
Yeah, with 2 airplanes sreving Bogota, Miami, Madrid and who knows where else….
• FrankPintor Says:
Would it be a big deal for you to share more information about Navion?
From http://eleconomista.com.mx one reads: “La empresa tiene apenas unas semanas de haberse constituido y en su portal web se informa que Navion iniciará operaciones el próximo mes y ofrecerá vuelos hacia los destinos de Cancún (México), Quito (Ecuador), La Habana (Cuba), Fort Lauderdale (EU) y Madrid (España), desde el Aeropuerto Internacional Simón Bolívar de Maiquetía, Venezuela”.
What portal, webpage, when, how…?
• WET Says:
Frank, if you want to investigate Navion, I suggest you start with their website and their Facebook account. Pay attention to who owns the domain and who operates the Facebook account. He’s also their spokesperson. Look at the Facebook pictures and you tell me.
• WET Says:
Btw, the regime is known to close, modify and sterilize Facebooks accounts once the cat is out. In this case, they may want to take some of the images and content off the Facebook Navion site. Nothing major but not very professional.
• WET Says:
Frank, the airline has been in the works for over a year based on Internet trails. This means the project has been around for longer. The owners are not known. I see links to Andres Izarra. The chap who is the face of the airline comes from the lower classes and is probably a former soldier or officer. I would even dare say he was a paracaidista. If you look at his brothers and family through their facebook comments (the whole family is posting to the Navion facebook account), it seems the family comes from lower economic background (de barrio) and is now middle class. The whole thing is very unprofessional.
• FrankPintor Says:
OK, I found it, navionairlines.com, it turns up eventually on the 5th page of a google search for Nation and Venezuela… I didn’t bother with a Facebook search, even though Venezuelan companies seem to prefer to present themselves online that way now, rather that with actual websites. They sure don’t know much about establishing a web presence, and the only thing of interest on their webpage is an apology for getting everyone excited about possible flights.
• WET Says:
The lease/wet-lease aircraft (and crews) from other airlines/companies. This works for them. Let others take care of the details. Navion is a testaferro airline IMO. I guess they figure with demand outstripping capacity, cheap fuel and home-turf advantage, why not get into the airline business. Besides, you want to have your own fleet to move people and goods around and that is way too important for this regime that built itself on its ability to span the globe using aircraft whether it be cocaine, arms, cash, valuables or people.
• Miguel Octavio Says:
The one they own, is not doing well, it has been back for repairs a few times. It finally arrived in Caracas but has yet to log a single commercial flight.
9. Roger Says:
In the past I always wondered why a ticket to Venezuela was so much cheaper than other places. My theory was cheap fuel when filling up in Venezuela? Of course at the same time, Avensa, Viasa and others went in and out of business on a regular basis due to their management skills. At some point the government decided to gouge the airlines with landing fees and fuel costs at MIA prices in USD. While most Venezuelans can’t even afford to even look at an airliner much less fly on one. There are some who are doing the corrupt revolution and have to pay into the corrupt economy to go to Miami and there are many who will spend their last Bolivar to escape what ever the cost. Many Cubans tell the story of having everything taken from them as they left for Miami and getting there with just the clothes on their back. The Fat Cats (Gato Gordos) don’t care. They fly private, PDVSA or government planes.
• FrankPintor Says:
“In the past I always wondered why a ticket to Venezuela was so much cheaper than other places”.
Where do you shop?
• Roger Says:
Early 90’s it cost 100USD from MIA or JFK and 300 plus from Denver.
• Caracas Canadian Says:
Even as recently as 2008 I was paying about $ 700 round trip from Toronto to Caracas via Houston (Continental at the time) and about same via Miami (American) or Atlanta (Delta).
• Ira Says:
Roger, you have to be mistaken. It was never that cheap:
In 88, when I started going, RT between JFK and Caracas was around $350 the lowest.
• Ira Says:
I won’t swear by this, now that I think about it!
The ad agency I worked for had the Pan Am account, and I got 40% off the normal $350 RT between NYC and Maquetia. (Spelling?)
However, I still usually flew Avensa, so even with my discount, Avensa must have been cheaper, or at least the same. (It’s horrible getting old and forgetting things.)
Does anyone remember those great slippers that Avensa gave you to keep?
10. Yuzhou Lin Says:
I heard that the shortage of basic goods in Venezuela is getting better because many cheap Chinese goods are imported. I am very curious that since Chinese government already warn Chinese exporters that it is not a good idea to do business with Venezuela, how Venezuela get those cheap goods? do the government has enough dollars to pay for those goods?
• FrankPintor Says:
Good question, I’m also interested in this. I didn’t know that the Chinese Government had issued a warning like that. There is a currency exchange agreement in place between Venezuela and China, I believe, which makes bilateral business easier, and that trade agreement should have done away with the need for Dollars. And yes, there is lots of Chinese produce here, also lots of Chinese businesses, the most visible are restaurants and shoops, stocked with Chinese goods. They deal with the safety problems as best they can.
• Yuzhou Lin Says:
those warning usually are issued by government officers in local business meeting, so they are not real official warnings. if there exists a currency exchange agreement, i have to say the leaders of china are stupid.
• Yuzhou Lin Says:
i did some search. it seems there is no currency exchange agreement between china and Venezuela. and many Chinese businessmen complain that they can not get the payment for goods. and they only receive dollars as the payment.
• FrankPintor Says:
I’m not sure why we can’t find this currency exchange agreement, there was a lot of hype about it in Venezuela in 2012. China has signed quite a few currency swap agreements with Latin American countries.
• Yuzhou Lin Says:
Chinese central bank records show that china has currency exchange agreements with only two countries in south America, Brazil and Argentina. the leaders of Chinese government are not clever but not stupid. the only thing China can get from Venezuela is oil ,which we can buy it with US dollars. it is no needs for Chinese bank to hold Bolivars since even the prostitutes in Venezuela only receive US dollars, not mention the ridiculous inflation rate in Venezuela. I think either your government lie about the exchange agreement to people or there were only good wishes.
• Halfempty Says:
Thanks for your sluthing Yuzhou Lin, as you say, I think the alleged currency was only held out as a happy thought or perhaps a hope, during one of the high level visits.
• Boludo Tejano Says:
Here is an example of what you have pointed out. Daniel Duquenal, who blogs at Venezuela News and Views, recently made a business trip to Europe, and reported on his .
Venezuela News and Views: Hyperinflation as a gateway to dollarization (or eurozization if you wish):
But that was not the worst thing. Every one I approached did not want to do further business with Venezuela. Sure, they would sell me anything if I paid in advance which is impossible. Though understandable. But in one case there was that Chinese company who sent me packing. That is right, some in commie China do not want to deal with Venezuela EVEN if you pay in advance. It is not worth the bother between permits and assorted headaches from paper work. My investment talk were simply heard of with a lot of sympathy, the kind you use when your poor relatives try to convince you with a business proposal, before declining your participation in it.
It is not only Chinese exporters who have decided it is not a good idea to do business with Venezuela.
11. Eddie B Says:
The ridiculously high ticket prices happened for two main reasons. The airlines weren’t stupid. They knew that their Venezuelan customers were willing to pay tens of thousands of bolivares to be able to travel to other countries and use their CADIVI dollars. Also, they knew that if they ever were able to trade Venezuelan currency into dollars, they would never be able to do it at the 6.3 rate, and the government would place all types of restrictions on the amount of dollars they could obtain. In the end, they may still take a big loss. The only real winners in this situation were the “raspacupos”.
12. Paul Says:
Venezuela would be hard pressed to actively seek out more incompetent people running government agencies. Is there any training in economics at all in Vzla? Even 18 year old college kids in the “Imperio” are a million times better versed in basic economic principles.God forbid Ebola ever makes its way there with total morons running things.
13. daniel Says:
The problem Miguel, is that the regime has an irrepressible desire to control all. there is no solution to that but their departure.
14. moctavio Says:
Sorry Frank, if they have not been given any dollars, it is monopoly money, it does not exist, it is not profits. They were getting paid with dealys, until they were not.
Do you pray before you fly Conviasa?
• FrankPintor Says:
Of course, and that’s the point. The delays go way back, until 2012 if I’m correct? So, since then it’s always been monopoly money, you, I and everyone else with a clue knew that. Just the airlines made like Lord Nelson with the bad eye and the telescope, and instead of having things out in the open, screwed the Dollar-paying customers so they could keep the connections profitable and the Venezuelans flying for free (in real money). I mean, Avianca are selling Bogotá – Caracas for $800…
Oh, and I pray before I fly Aeropostal, at least Conviasa has new-ish aircraft.
• Wanley Says:
Now it’s monopoly money. They were betting that it would be real money. They lost the bet and are making it up now. How does the government allow them to charge in dollars for flights originating in Venezuela? Is there a deal to allow them to gouge us in dollars in exchange for previous debt?
• moctavio Says:
They will never get paid the full amount, maybe 15-20%. The Government does not allow the, they dont sell tickets in Venezuela, period. I dont think they were betting. They thought they were going to get paid with delays. When they stopped believing that, they reduced flights and jacked up prices in dollars. They are no different than other companies that brought stuff at Bs. 4.3 and got paid at Bs. 6.3 (if they did). Airlines raise all sorts of emotions because people are affected directly. by what happened. Nobody complains about wine or scotch prices and they are dolarized too. To me it shows that Venezuelans have bought the Kool Aid of Government control so that they can benefit, not that things run the right way. It has become ingrained by now. Hopeless.
• Wanley Says:
True, everybody expects a free lunch. Plane tickets are not dollarized, they are gouging us. Government or airlines fault, we are being gouged. Triple and quadruple international prices? Are you kidding? Are the inefficiencies and distortions that big? You could make that argument when they were charging in bolivars and the prices were sky high in dollars depending on the exchange rates used, but hard currency? No way.
15. FrankPintor Says:
Well, I for one am pretty pissed off at the airlines for expecting me (paying in USD) to subsidise Venezuelans paying in worthless Bolivars. They certainly weren’t losing money on this, they are bad guys: they could have dollarized the whole thing a long time ago, but they chose to book a ridiculous exchange rate for accounting purposes and milk until now the customers who actually pay with money. And they allowed the “raspa-cupos” to fill their seats. Just to rub it in, all the airlines I know of actually exclude flights to Venezuela from redemption with frequent flyer miles.
For the other airlines’ disloyalty to their money-paying customers I now fly Conviasa, those guys are so desperate for Dollars their prices are actually reasonable compared with the rest.
16. Jose Says:
Another good article Miguel, which reflects the poor judgment of this Gov. or perhaps more precise their lack of brain…
What is shocking is that now the airlines are the bad guys!!! And the “people” buy that in a second without any memory of just the RECENT past.
I think is extremely difficult for the average Venezuelan Joe to even imagine the very simple solutions that you mentioned, that’s not in the Vzlan DNA (including most of the opposition which seems to be just a different degree of people from the populist/left)
BTW the article also reflects your frustration with what is happening in our country, you are not alone but hang in there, your articles are very well appreciated
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I'm learning Japanese and I just finished learning Hiragana and Katakana and now I'm moving to Kanji. In my studies I found that 午前8時 means 8 a.m Ok, that's cool but I would like to know how to pronunciate it.
Should I just combine the sounds? I mean 午 is ご, 前 is まえ and 時とき so 午前8時 would be ごまえ8とき?
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• Thank you! These rules are kinda confusing for me yet. In this case we have 4 words right? ご+ぜん+はち+じ – Cute cat Sep 4 '13 at 2:26
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The latest saga clearly demonstrates the unsettling reality about how the election law and rules have been re-written and twisted to facilitate this government's formation and give small parties power they don't deserve.
Nine of the 10 parties yesterday said they will not withdraw from the coalition. The ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), the political machine carved out from Gen Prayut's former military junta, said the cabinet will next week mull their proposals for political positions.
Only the Thai Civilized Party has left the government, with its controversial leader Mongkolkit Suksintaranont declaring it will be an independent opposition party.
But these 10 small parties should not have got into parliament in the first place.
When unofficial results of the March general election were made known to the public, the media and political observers came up with a list of potential 150 party-list MPs based on the calculation method specified in the constitution and the election law. None of the 10 parties were included in the list because it was obvious their popular vote failed to meet the minimum threshold required.
And it was pretty clear the PPRP lost the election because, under the poll law, the seven anti-junta parties should have had a slight majority in the Lower House. But then along came a white knight in shining armour for the PPRP in the form of the Election Commission (EC), whose bosses were selected by the junta-appointed National Legislative Assembly. The EC devised a new formula for the calculation of party-list seats, which contradicted both the constitution and the election law.
The EC formula resulted in a handful of seats which should have gone to the anti-junta political camp being awarded to the 10 small parties who had made their support for the junta known.
It is true Gen Prayut would have won the prime ministerial vote in parliament anyway even if he hadn't have a majority in the Lower House. The junta-sponsored charter gives unprecedented power to 250 senators, who were handpicked by Gen Prayut, to join the vote with the Lower House and they all proceeded unsurprisingly to pick the candidate who gave them their jobs.
However, as a government with a minority in the Lower House, Gen Prayut would not have managed to get anything done. Therefore, the EC's invention with a rather odd formula came to the rescue.
Even if the anti-junta camp managed to form a government, they would also have had a thin majority. This is a result of the new election system, designed by the junta-appointed lawmakers to reduce the chances of large parties winning a landslide victory.
It is clear the new election system has done more harm than good when it comes to the stability of this and future governments.
The constitution and the election law that resulted in the government's narrow majority need to be rewritten, otherwise Thailand will not enjoy the kind of political stability that is vital for economic development.
The country also needs to do away with the EC's calculation formula which will continue to reward small parties with MPs in the House and power they don't deserve.
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Introduction to Esther
The Book of Esther is entitled by the Jews, "the volume of Esther," or simply "the volume." In ancient times, it was always written on a separate roll, which was read entirely at the Feast of Purim. The Greek translators retained only "Esther," which thus became the ordinary title among Christians.
1. There is much controversy concerning the date of "Esther." The extreme minuteness of the details and vividness of the portraits in "Esther" certainly suggest the hand of a contemporary far more decidedly than any occasional expressions suggest a composer who lived long after the events commemorated. And the tone of the book is in accord with the history which it narrates, and is not unlike that of Zechariah. Therefore, on the whole, there is no sufficient ground for placing the composition of Esther later than that of Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, or the time of Artaxerxes Longimanus. On the other hand, there is no ground for regarding Esther as earlier than the other post-captivity historical books - much less for placing it in the reign of Xerxes. Assuming Ahasuerus to be Xerxes (see point number 3 below), it may be said that both the opening sentence and the conclusion of the work indicate that the reign of Xerxes was over. Consequently, the earliest date that can reasonably be assigned to the book is 464 BC; and it is, on the whole, most probable that it was composed 20 or 30 years later (444-434 BC).
2. There are no means of determining who was the author of "Esther." He was not Ezra. He may have been Mordecai, or, more probably, a younger contemporary of Mordecai' s.
The author, whoever he was, almost certainly wrote in Persia, where he had access to the royal archives, which contained an account, more or less full, of the transactions he was desirous of recording. Much also must have been derived from personal observation, and from communications with Mordecai and (perhaps) Esther. The book is more of a purely historical book than any other book in Scripture. Its main scope is simply to give an account of the circumstances under which the Feast of Purim was instituted. The absence of the name of God, and the slightness of the religious and didactic elements are marked characteristics. The author' s Persian breeding, together probably with other circumstances, has prevented his sharing the ordinary Jewish spirit of local attachment, while at the same time, it has taught him a reticence with respect to the doctrines of his religion very unusual with his countrymen.
The narrative is striking and graphic; the style remarkably chaste and simple; and the sentences clear and unambiguous. The vocabulary, on the contrary, is, as might have been expected, not altogether pure, a certain number of Persian words being employed, and also a few terms characteristic of the later Hebrew or "Chaldee" dialect.
3. The authenticity of the history of Esther has been inpugned; but the main circumstances of the narrative, which at first sight appear improbable, are not so if the especially extravagant and capricious character of the Persian monarch be taken into account. Etymologically, the name Ahasuerus is identical with the Persian "Khshayarsha" and the Greek "Xerxes" ; and it is to this particular Persian monarch that the portrait of Ahasuerus exhibits a striking similarity. The chronological notices in the work also exactly fit this monarch' s history; and the entire representation of the court and kingdom is suitable to his time and character. That we have no direct profane confirmation of the narrative of Esther must be admitted, for the identity of Mordecai with Matacas (see Esther 2:5) is too doubtful to be relied upon; but that we have none, is sufficiently accounted for by the fact that the accounts of the reign of Xerxes after his 6th year, and more particularly, of his domestic life, are scanty in the extreme, the native records being silent, and the Greek writers concerning themselves almost entirely with those public events which bore upon the history of Greece. "Esther" is, in fact, the sole authority for the period and circumstances of which it treats; if untrue, it might have easily been proved to be untrue at the time when it was published, by reference to the extant "book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia," which it quotes Esther 2:23; Esther 10:2. It has, moreover, always been regarded by the Jews as an authentic account of the great deliverance which they celebrate annually by the feast of Purim.
4. In the Septuagint version occur "additions" to Esther consisting of five principal passages.
Their unauthentencity is very evident. They contradict the original document, and are quite different in tone and style from the rest of the book.
The principal intention of the "additions" is clear enough. They aim at giving a thoroughly religious character to a work in which, as originally written, the religious element was latent or only just perceptible. On the whole we may conclude that the Greek book of Esther, as we have it, was composed in the following way:
1. First, a translation was made of the Hebrew text, honest for the most part, but with a few very short additions and omissions;
2. Then, the markedly religious portions were added, the opening passage, the prayers of Mordecai and Esther, the exordium to Esther 5:1-14, the religious touches in Esther 6:1, Esther 6:13; and the concluding verses of Esther 10:1-3.
3. Finally, the "letters of Ahasuerus" were composed by a writer more familiar than most Hellenists with the true spirit of the Greek tongue, and these, being accepted as genuine, were inserted in Esther 3:1-15 and Est. 8.
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Why the hell would you want to have molasses with yeast infection or even mix it with something like sodium bicarbonate, baking soda? It’s not really a good idea. People have got this weird idea that if they neutralize the acidity in the body, if they adjust the pH with things like bicarbonate, for example, that they can eradicate Candida. It’s pretty dumb. It doesn’t really work. It’s not going to work at all.
The only way you’re going to eradicate Candida properly is by a multi-stage approach, which I’ve talked about many times on my videos. Lifestyle, diet, looking at stresses in your life, taking an antifungal kind of an approach, to both diet and a supplement, and then just being persistent and persistent long enough. Looking at how you live and all these sorts of things need adjusting. Just with swallowing a drink with a concoction or something is not going to work. These are silver bullets and magic cures that people seem to think are going to work. It’s almost as crazy as thinking you can cure Candida in 12 hours. Weird.
Definitely don’t take molasses, bicarbonate or baking soda. I take it the person is meaning bicarbonate soda, we can use sometimes for neutralizing things in the body like over acidity in the gut, but I would use bicarbonate of soda to clean out the source. But if there’s a bit of burn in there – my wife does that. She’ll put some water in there, a bit of bicarbonate and then heat that up. I wouldn’t use bicarbonate for other reasons. Some people claim it even cures cancer.
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Pop star loses IPSO complaint against regional daily over murder case story
JameliaA regional daily was justified in mentioning a pop star in a story about her stepbrother’s murder conviction, the press watchdog has ruled.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation has rejected a complaint by Jamelia, left, against the Southern Daily Echo over the article which appeared on its website.
The Southampton-based daily reported that the man, referred to as her stepbrother, had been convicted in a story headlined ‘Pop singer’s stepbrother convicted of Birmingham gun murder’.
Jamelia, who scored a number of top 10 hits in the early 2000s, told IPSO she was estranged from the convicted man, and had no ongoing connection to him, but the watchdog found in the Echo’s favour because she had been mentioned in the defendant’s application for a reporting restriction to be placed on proceedings.
Complaining to IPSO under Clause 9 (Reporting of Crime) of the Editors’ Code of Practice, Jamelia said that reporting this familial connection, which she said had not been reported accurately, had had a significantly damaging effect on her wellbeing and livelihood.
She added that although she had discussed her family previously, she had never mentioned the man who had now been convicted.
Jamelia noted that there was historic coverage in the public domain which linked her to this individual, but said that she had not consented to this, and believed these articles were also unjustified.
However denying a breach of Code, the Echo said the defendant had made an application at the beginning of his trial to use an alias due of the large number of media reports about him “because he was a close relation of Jamelia”.
After the defendant’s conviction, this restriction was lifted and the press were able to report the fact that the use of a pseudonym was granted in this case, and the reasons why.
The Echo said that there was a strong public interest in reporting on the fact that this reporting restriction had been granted, and the reasons why, he was only the second defendant in England and Wales ever to stand trial under a pseudonym.
It also pointed to the fact that the connection between Jamelia and the man was already in the public domain, and provided an example of court report from 2005 which referred to the familial connection between them.
IPSO acknowledged Jamelia’s position that she was estranged from the defendant in this case, and recognised that she had been distressed by the publication of the articles, but found she had been named specifically in the defendant’s application for a reporting restriction.
Where Jamelia had been identified during legal proceedings, it found she was genuinely relevant to the story.
• May 17, 2019 at 9:51 am
That seems like a very odd outcome to me. The very reason she was mentioned was in relation to the application for a reporting restriction – how does it make sense to lift that and have it reported and approved for report because she had been mentioned…in that context? In all other matters I assume the trial was unconnected to her. So the defendant gets anonymity and she does not? The world’s gone mad.
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I haven’t been following this case closely, but I would assume the anonymity was granted to prevent prejudice, so the jurors were less likely to Google him and find previous reports that might influence them. Once he’s been convicted, however, I see no reason for him to stay anonymous (not to say such reasons don’t exist).
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The Commercial Lease: Force Majeure and COVID-19
The current pandemic has forced many commercial lawyers to dust off their law books in the search of guiding principles to help their clients deal with the impact of the COVID-19 virus. Principles such as force majeure, usually never seriously contemplated by either the landlord or the tenant at commercial lease negotiations, have taken center stage during this crisis. However, if lawyers and their clients rarely took stock of this clause, it seems that the courts were even more oblivious to its existence, as there is very little case law on this concept to help guide us.
In simple terms, the concept of force measure may apply in circumstances when a contract can no longer be fully complied with or adhere to because of the occurrence of an extraordinary or extreme event, commonly referred to in commercial leases as an “act of God”. In theory, this would absolve the relying party of any liability for non-compliance or breach of the terms of the commercial lease.
The following are simple questions that you can ask yourself to help you determine whether you can rely on the force majeure clause given your particular set of circumstances.
Is COVID-19 an “act of God”? In other words, is COVID-19 a triggering event that would allow for the reliance upon the force measure clause? It seems that courts will allow for the use of the force majeure clause if the clause includes wording such as “public health emergency”, “pandemic”, “epidemic” or similar words or phrases. Although the inclusion of the phrase “act of God” may be sufficient, it is thought that it is more likely that a court would allow for the reliance on a force majeure clause if it includes wording that more accurately applies to the current pandemic.
Did COVID-19 have a direct and clearly identifiable impact on your business? To rely on the force majeure clause, COVID-19 must have negatively impacted on your ability to perform your obligations under the commercial lease. In other words, there must be a clear loss and a provable inability on your part to comply with the terms of the commercial lease. To better explain this, let’s use the example of nonpayment of rent. In other words, it is incumbent on you to show that COVID-19 reduced your revenues and that despite concrete efforts to find other sources of income, you are simply incapable of paying the rent. You must be able to clearly prove this – conjecture will not suffice.
How do I invoke the force majeure clause? If you believe that the force measure clause applies to your particular situation, then it is good practice to give notice of your intention to rely on this clause as soon as possible. As mentioned above, be ready to explain how your situation (and in line with our example above, how your financial situation) has made it impossible for you to comply with the terms of the commercial lease agreement.
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Hosts Shaun T and Julia Dennison talk to Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss, bioethicist Dr. Robert Klitzman, and Meredith president and chief digital officer Catherine Levene about building families through in vitro fertilization and surrogacy.
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August 11, 2020
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We Are Family is all about celebrating the diversity of families today and that's why, in Episode 10, hosts Shaun T and Julia Dennison explore two different ways to create a family: in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy. Shaun opened up about his journey to use a surrogate with his husband back in Episode 3, but this week bioethicist Robert Klitzman, Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss, M.D., and Meredith president and chief digital officer Catherine Levene share their own experiences.
To start, Dr. Klitzman, professor at Columbia University and author of Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children, explains that "more than 20 percent of the U.S. population is having infertility problems." And though families may opt for IVF or surrogacy for reasons other than infertility, Dr. Klitzman says that medical intervention is simply necessary in some cases.
And that's where Kandi comes in. Already a mom of two—one through IVF—she and her husband used a surrogate for their youngest, Blaze. Originally on the fence about the entire process, which felt scary and intimidating, Kandi says that it was meant to be. "How can you trust somebody with your most precious possession, your most precious gift, you know, as somebody that you barely know," she said. "But, now that it's all said and done, I wouldn't change a thing. It was the best decision that we could have made."
For Catherine Levene, Meredith president and chief digital officer, the surrogacy journey is still going on. Married at 40, Catherine and her husband decided to have a baby through a surrogate in Missouri. As stressful as the process can be, COVID-19 threw a wrench into the pregnancy as Catherine has had to rely on FaceTime and text to get updates since she can't visit in person. Despite all that, she's found a way to ease her anxiety and is eagerly awaiting her baby girl this September.
There's a lot we don't get into this episode—everything from finances to legal agreements, and more—but you can find more resources on IVF here and surrogacy here. As Shaun T puts it: "If you’re going through IVF or surrogacy right now, we are here for you and we’re rooting for you."
Upcoming episodes and topics this season include:
• Parenting with disabilities
• Multicultural parenting
• The family you didn't know you had
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Kandi Burruss: We didn't really have a lot of friends who had done it, and we were, you know, is this the move? Like how can you trust somebody with your most precious possession, your most precious gift, you know, as somebody that you barely know. But, now that it's all said and done, I wouldn't change a thing. It was the best decision that we could have made.
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Julia: Hi, I’m Julia Dennison
Shaun: And I’m Shaun T.
Julia: And this is We Are Family, a podcast from Parents magazine. In this show we celebrate all the different ways there are to build and be a family.
Shaun: Today we’re going to talk about something that’s close to me: IVF and surrogacy. If you listened to our earlier episode about how my husband Scott and I built our family, you know that we used an egg donor and a surrogate to bring our twins into the world. And it wasn’t easy—it took a lot of trying, a lot of difficult emotions, and a lot of money to make it happen.
Julia: If you missed it, you can go back to Episode 3 to hear Shaun and Scott’s story and meet their surrogate, Ashley. You can also hear my colleague Adrienne share her story of using IVF to become a single mom by choice in Episode 8.
Shaun: But we wanted to bring you some more stories about IVF and surrogacy. When you’re going through the process, it may feel scary, intimidating, or isolating. And it shouldn’t be, because you are definitely not alone.
Julia: We have three great guests for you today: Kandi Burruss, who stars on the Real Housewives of Atlanta, Dr. Robert Klitzman, a bioethicist who’s studied reproductive technology, and Catherine Levene, the president and chief digital officer at Meredith, which is Parents’ parent company, who is expecting a baby via surrogate right now.
They each bring a different perspective to the conversation about IVF and surrogacy.
Shaun: Julia, I may be dating myself here but when we do Kandi’s bio, you can’t forget her days in the ‘90s R&B group Xscape.
Julia: Oh, for sure! She’s also a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who wrote hits for TLC and Destiny’s Child, like “No Scrubs” and “Bills, Bills, Bills.”
Shaun: Kandi is part of a big blended family—she’s a bio mom to three kids, including an infant, a toddler, and a teenager, and stepmom to another daughter who’s in her 20s. She met her husband Todd Tucker on the set of Real Housewives, where he was a producer. They conceived Ace, who’s now 3, via IVF, and welcomed new baby Blaze through a surrogate.
Julia: Shaun, have you seen Blaze on Instagram? She is SO CUTE. Ace is too.
Shaun: Oh my God, I have! I saw this video where they’re holding hands, it’s absolutely adorable. But before we talk to Kandi about bringing those two kids into the world, we want to set the stage a little about infertility in general. So we asked Dr. Klitzman, who’s a professor at Columbia University and the author of a book called Designing Babies, to give us some background.
Dr. Robert Klitzman: So 10 percent of women, for biological reasons, cannot get pregnant. There is something wrong with the ovaries or the uterus. About 10 percent of men are infertile. They don't produce enough sperm.
Shaun: I do want to clarify, especially because we’re a show that focuses on diverse families, that not everyone who produces eggs is a woman, and not everyone who produces sperm is a man.
Julia: Right, so while he’s using these gendered terms, let’s remember that a transgender man can get pregnant, for example, and a transgender woman can get someone pregnant. Anyway, Dr. Klitzman says there are more people who are infertile today than there were in the past.
Dr. Robert Klitzman: And this is probably due to something in the environment, toxins. Various things out there, pollution, we don't really know. In addition, you have women who, when they were in their twenties or thirties or early thirties could have children, but a lot of women today are delaying having children in order to first pursue their career or education, and they're waiting until they're in their late thirties. And it's harder to get pregnant. More than 20 percent of the U.S. population is having infertility problems. And of course I should tell you also have gay and lesbian individuals and couples. You have single mothers by choice, single fathers by choice. So a lot of people would like to get pregnant or have children, but need some medical intervention.
Julia: Twenty percent! Given that statistic, it seems crazy that as a society, we don’t talk more openly about infertility.
Shaun: Exactly. So we asked Dr. Klitzman to walk us through some of the options to treat it.
Dr. Robert Klitzman: We have different medicines that could help a woman produce more eggs. Maybe that will help her get pregnant. And that helps a number of women, but not everyone.
And so we've also developed techniques of, in vitro fertilization or IVF. We take sperm from a man. We take eggs from a woman, we stick a little pipette up and extract eggs. And then basically in a Petri dish, we mix the eggs and the sperm to produce embryos, that are one big cell. And that embryo then splits and becomes two cells and four then eight and 16 and 32 and eventually becomes a human being.
And all of us started out as an embryo of one cell. And what we do is when the embryo is a bunch of cells—maybe 32, 64 cells, something like that—we then can implant and transfer into the womb. And, hopefully the woman, the pregnancy will take, and she'll deliver a child.
Julia: Right. Dr. Klitzman says this process works about 40 percent of the time — but the success rate drops as the person with the uterus gets into their late 30s and older.
Shaun: Those aren’t the only options—because, of course, not every couple or individual who wants to have a baby has a uterus. Or if they do, they might be unable to carry a pregnancy.
Which brings us back to Kandi’s experience with surrogacy. We caught up with her recently to hear her story.
Shaun T: I will admittedly say that I'm fanboying while I'm recording this.
Kandi Burruss: Thank you. Thank you so much.
Shaun T: Yeah. We are so, so happy to have you here.
Kandi Burruss: Well, that's dope. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. ]
Shaun T: You've shared your fertility struggles on Real Housewives—from conceiving your son Ace through IVF and your difficult pregnancy with him. So your recent surrogacy journey to bring your beautiful daughter Blaze into the world, can you tell us more about that journey?
Kandi Burruss: That was a really tough decision for us in the beginning because we were just trying to figure out like, OK, should we do this? Like how can you trust somebody with your most precious possession, your most precious gift, you know, as somebody that you barely know. But, now that it's all said and done, I wouldn't change a thing. It was the best decision that we could have made.
Shadina, who is our surrogate, had been a surrogate for a family before. So she was really kind of teaching us a lot of things, where we were kind of unsure of. Are we supposed to talk to her on a regular basis? Do we not talk to her? You know, some people say, "Oh, you're never supposed to talk to your surrogate. Oh, you shouldn't invite them to your baby shower. Oh, you don't do this, you don't do that." So we were like, so confused on how, you know, this process should go. And she really was so, so helpful. And we had a beautiful, healthy baby as a result of all of it. So we're super happy.
Shaun T: We early on decided that we wanted to have a really strong relationship with whomever was carrying our child or children because we just feel like the less stressed they were, the more at ease they were in their emotional connections to us, the more they would, you know, care about the process. What were some of the things that you were nervous about and what are some of the things that she actually eased your nervousness about?
Kandi Burruss: In the beginning we just didn't really know about how much communication we should have. I mean, we had to do counseling prior to, you know, actually doing the process of putting the embryo in her. So we had that talk, but it just kinda like, you know, once you're in it, it's just kinda like, "OK, do we call her?"
I don't want to seem annoying, you know? But she always made us feel at ease. She always, let us know that we never called too much. She never seemed annoyed. She never was bothered by us reaching out. She always volunteered information, you know, she's like, "Oh, I'm feeling a bump today, or oh, this, you know, this happened."
Julia Dennison: [00:11:31] As somebody who has not used a surrogate here, I would love to hear what are some of the comments that people made along the way?
I know Kandi, you've talked about feeling judged for choosing to have Blaze through a surrogate. What are things that people can do better when it comes to supporting people who are having children through surrogacy?
Kandi Burruss: In the very beginning, I had a family member who I love dearly, and I don't think she was trying to purposely hurt me, but when she found out that we were going to have a baby with a surrogate, she texted me and was like, I mean, why would you want to do that? You know, you're not concerned if you're going to have a bond with your child? Because that's the time when you're really supposed to bond with your baby. I think she might've asked like, why did we choose somebody who wasn't a family member or something like that. You know, it really hurt my feelings because it's just kind of like, you already know it's a hard decision to make to go through a surrogate. But then, you know, you're making me feel bad because you're saying that I'm not even going to have a bond with my baby because, being a woman who has birthed my, you know, previous children, automatically was a concern of mine. Like, will me and Blaze have the same connection? So I didn't need somebody else chiming in saying that, you know? Surrogacy is still very new to a lot of people. And so those are the first thoughts they come to people's minds is, was like, "Ooh, you're going to have a baby. You're not physically going to carry a baby. Like, how are you gonna bond?"
But what I will say is when Blaze got here, I didn't feel any less of a connection than I have, you know, with my previous children. I still feel super bonded when I come in the room. Blaze lights up, like her smile is so huge when I walk in there, and so it's still this same love, the same connection.
Shaun T: We're happy Blaze is here and we're happy your connection is really strong with her.
Kandi pointed out that being public about surrogacy was different for her than for same-sex couples like me and Scott. In our case, there’s no other way we could have biological children. But Kandi and Todd made their decision based on her pregnancy with Ace, which was already high risk. She had uterine fibroids that could affect her ability to carry another baby.
Kandi Burruss: If you are, you know, a woman who is having physical issues, you may or may not share those with everyone. People don't really know what you're going through. So they automatically think, "Oh, she just doesn't want to have it for vain reasons." "Oh, she just doesn't want to carry it because she's, you know, she doesn't want to lose her shape, or she doesn't want to stop working or she doesn't..." you know, they come up with all these things to say why you needed a surrogate. You get what I'm saying?
Julia: Totally.
Kandi Burruss: It's a difference.
Julia: I feel like as women, it's like you're an open target for anybody to comment about your body, especially during pregnancy, and anything to do with having children. And then I can only imagine on top of that going through having a surrogate and having to listen to people talk about it. Having already gone through pregnancy, and, you know, you talk about the stages, like waiting for the baby to kick, how did the two processes compare to each other? What were things that you liked about having a surrogate versus actually being pregnant, and what are things that you liked about being pregnant versus having a surrogate?
Kandi Burruss: Oh my goodness. OK. So I think at the beginning of the pregnancy I was dealing with a lot more guilt. You know what I mean? But then as we got into, really got into the pregnancy I'd say like, yeah, a good six months and you know, five to six months when physically the woman starts to show that she's pregnant. You know what I mean? Six months in, seven months, and that's when I was really starting to appreciate my surrogate, because I'm like all this stuff that she's going to be like, woo. She can't breathe.
Oh, this is the one thing that I really appreciated not having to do it. Well, I had heartburn, horrible heartburn when I was pregnant with Ace. And I told her, I was like, I don't know. You know, because you know, obviously, you know, they're from the same batch of embryos, Ace and Blaze. I don't know if you're going to experience this, but with Ace, I experienced some really, really bad heartburn.
And so she was like, "Oh, I'm OK," and I swear to you, it was like the next day or two, she's like, "Oh my God. It's starting, you're right." And then from that point on, she had horrible heartburn for the rest of the pregnancy
Julia: Oh my God, you're like, I know. I know.
Kandi Burruss: Right. But the things that I did miss was like, you know, you do miss seeing the baby move for the first time, you know, in your belly or, you know, doing the pregnancy photoshoots, simple things, simple things like that, you know, that you miss out on. But, I think because I have experienced that already, it wasn't as bad. Once I got comfortable, then I started really appreciating the fact that she was doing the heavy lifting.
Julia: Fair enough.
Shaun: Finding the right person to do that heavy lifting can be challenging. We’ll hear more from Kandi on how Shadina came into her life after a quick break.
Shaun: Welcome back to We Are Family. We’re talking to Kandi Burruss, from the Real Housewives of Atlanta, about her experience having children through IVF and surrogacy. She and her husband Todd used IVF to conceive their son Ace. After Kandi gave birth to him, they wanted to have another baby, but continued to have issues trying to get pregnant. Ultimately they decided to use the remaining embryos from their IVF process and a surrogate named Shadina to have their daughter Blaze.
Shaun T: I love how you talk about Shadina and you can tell you’re smiling. It shows the appreciation, which is so incredibly amazing. I want to kind of step back a little bit. What was the process like to find this surrogate? ‘Cause I remember going on all of these different websites and trying to figure out, it was kind of like It was like the craziest thing. How did you and Todd find Shadina?
Kandi Burruss: Well, we had been talking about it, but then I reached out to Dr. Jackie who's on Married to Medicine. She's also my gynecologist. And she said that she had actually delivered a baby via surrogate I guess a year prior, two years prior, and she was like, I can introduce you to her and you can ask her questions.
So when we had our first meeting, it was on camera and she was so nice, so cool, and I just asked her, would you be open to doing it again? And she was like, well, I wasn't really planning to do it again, but possibly. And so from there, you know, we just, you know, continue to talk to her and then we started the process. But, I feel like it was like really such a blessing because a lot of people don't even get to have a surrogate that could live in the same state with them. A lot of times people end up having to get a surrogate that lives elsewhere, I guess, like you did.
Shaun T: Yeah.
Kandi Burruss: It takes a long time to meet the right person. So, yeah, that's why I always tell people now, if you are even considering it in the least bit, start doing your research on agencies and different things.
Julia: So Shaun and I have talked a lot about the strain on relationships when you're going through infertility and surrogacy and everything else. How did your relationship with Todd, how did you kind of navigate that, and what advice would you have for people in relationships?
Kandi Burruss: Well, when we first started out dating or whatever, you know, we were having, making love, or whatever you want to say. After a while, obviously we weren't really using protection. I'm just going to be honest. And nothing was happening. I mean, I wasn't getting pregnant or anything, so I was just like, OK, just not supposed to happen right now.
And then we got married and it still hadn't happened. So I was just kind of curious like, well, how is it that, you know, some years have passed now and nothing, not even a scare? And so my doctor Jackie, once again, she suggested that we go get the tests when they shoot the little fluid up in you to see if anything is blocked or anything like that. Now, I assumed that he was going to be the problem because, you know, I'm like, "OK, well, I have a daughter. You know, I'm good."
Julia: That’s Riley, Kandi’s teenage daughter from a previous relationship.
Kandi Burruss: Little did I realize, like, I did have a serious fibroid surgery like some years prior, and I guess it left scar tissue.
Julia: Kandi’s doctor referred her to a fertility clinic in Atlanta. Todd was supportive, but things got a little rocky when Kandi had to give herself hormone shots to produce more eggs.
Kandi Burruss: That is a painful process to have to give yourself, you know, injections every day. You know what I mean? And I didn't feel like he was being as supportive as he should. So there were times during that period of time—cause they want you to do it like at the same time every day or whatever—and I felt like, you know, he wasn't making sure he was at home at the time that he was supposed to be every day. And I started getting a little pissed. But that was just minor in the whole journey of it. You know after that, he was great during the first pregnancy with Ace. He was always massaging my feet, doing all those things.
Shaun T: What advice would you have for anyone out there considering IVF or surrogacy?
Kandi Burruss: I would definitely say go forward. The research is the main thing. And then you just gotta trust and believe and just go for it.
Shaun T: Oh, do you know that trust and believe are the tattoos on my arm?
Kandi Burruss: Oh, no.
Julia: I love that.
Shaun T: Yes and I'm so happy you said that. My doctor said, "The human or humans that are supposed to come into this world are going to be the ones that come into this world. They were meant to be here." And during that time, you know, we had had a miscarriage and Julia obviously has experienced that. And so it makes you feel better in a sense of just opening up your mind to like, what is really happening here is you're bringing a human into the world. And it was really tough. But after our kids were born, you know, you sit back and you say, wow, like, I can't see them being anyone else. So if anyone out there is going through these journeys and it's tough, just know that, you know, some people say, God, people say in the universe, there's a plan out there and the human that is supposed to come into this world, you know, will be coming into this world.
Kandi Burruss: Yup. Yup.
Shaun T: Thank you, Kandi. So nice to meet you.
Kandi Burruss: Thanks.
Julia: So great to talk to you.
Kandi Burruss: That was really nice. You too. It was great talking to y'all and I guess, hope to see you soon.
Julia: I love Kandi. She’s so open about what she’s been through, and I think showing that on a major TV show is really important. Because when we see someone go through a process like IVF or surrogacy in the public eye, it normalizes it.
Shaun: Exactly. That’s one reason that I share my story—to normalize being a dad through surrogacy, being a dad in a same-sex relationship and an interracial relationship. To show people, hey your family might look different than the families you grew up around, but it’s no less beautiful or worthy in any way.
Julia: Right, and of course that’s the whole point of this podcast. So next we’re going to check in with someone who’s going through the surrogacy process right now, who also happens to be in the Parents family. Catherine Levene is the president and chief digital officer at Meredith, our parent company.
Shaun: Catherine, we wanted to get you on the podcast, obviously because you are a part of the Parents family, but also because we recently heard you were expecting a baby via surrogacy. Congratulations.
Catherine: Thank you.
Shaun: So I'll tell you this, having gone through the surrogacy process with my husband—we got our twins via surrogacy—I'm really curious to hear how the journey has gone for you so far.
And if you could tell Julia and I a little bit about your experience.
Catherine: Wow, well, you said the word, which is journey. Um, and for us, it's been a long journey. So I got, I got married late, I was 40. Um, and of course my husband has two kids and we always thought we were going to have a child together, but being, being 40, um, it [00:15:00] was very, you know, very difficult.
And I have to say, I had even frozen my eggs years earlier. So even, um, going through the thawing process and trying to do IVF. Yeah. Um. My frozen eggs were very difficult. And that, that actually, ultimately, um, didn't work. And we tried a number of different facilities and finally decided to go the surrogacy route.
And I will tell you, I have a number of friends who, like you, have gone through the process of surrogacy. And they always said to me, once you're there psychologically, it's a really beautiful process. But getting there psychologically is, uh, a personal journey. For me, I'd always thought that I would be carrying the child.
And, you know, I kept trying and kept trying, but it just didn't work. And so we were just ultimately forced to say, OK, either we're not going to have a child or we're going to go the surrogacy route. Um, and of course there's always adoption too. And that's also another amazing option. Um, we decided to go the surrogacy route.
We found, uh, a, an agent or a, a service that helps match you with the surrogate. Our surrogate is in Missouri and she is wonderful. It's just a beautiful gift that our surrogate is giving us, and she is so positive and so excited for us and so connected to us. It's just, um, it's a really beautiful thing.
Shaun: I love to hear that. My husband and I had multiple surrogates because we had to try a few times.
Catherine: Yeah.
Shaun: So it was a journey, but, um, there's something really great about connecting with each of them, even though we've only, we only had one successful pregnancy. It was something really great about connecting with the surrogates because like you said, they are giving you this incredible gift and it's so selfless.
Catherine: Right.
Shaun: So do you, you, your husband and your surrogate or their family, do you, how do you communicate? What is your daily, you know, connection, process to stay, you know, so you and your husband can stay connected to the journey as well?
Catherine: Sure. So we ended up doing the transfer in December. So we were lucky in that we did it prior to this whole COVID situation.
So we were able to meet with her multiple times and meet her husband in person and get to know them, which was amazing. And then we were with her during the transfer, and then very quickly, you know, COVID became um, you know, an impediment to our being able to see each other, at least in person. Um, so we text almost every day.
We FaceTime all the time. I go to her appointments with her via FaceTime. Um, normally I would have just gone on a plane and gotten there, you know, gone from New York to Missouri to, to see her and be her, be with her, but it's just not possible given the COVID restrictions.
She sends us these beautiful little cards that she and her kids make. She's got three young kids, um, all below the age of 6. And uh, the little ones kind of draw on a little card for us and she sticks the images in there, and she tells us what week it is. And she's just a beautiful, lovely, lovely, generous person and so positive and so full of energy.
I just wish I could be there with her in person, at least for part of this. But we're waiting for the time when that can happen.
Julia: And, uh, when are you due? And do you know if you're having a boy or a girl?
Catherine: September 1, more or less. And it's a girl. I love Virgos.
Shaun: Utilizing the surrogacy process can create lots of anxieties. And you know, a lot of people go into it looking like it's a barrier because maybe they couldn't have the child on their own, or for me and my husband, Scott, it was, you know, battling between adoption and surrogacy.
And what would you say to anyone out there who is considering surrogacy and they are having some sort of anxiety or struggles or trying to decide if it's a route that they should go?
Catherine: I would say, take long, deep breaths and continue continually do it until that momentary anxiety subsides. And then the other thing I would say is that, at least I find in life, anxiety is always worse leading up to the actual event, whatever that event could be. Right? Once you're doing that thing, the anxiety typically fades away. And I'm using that almost as a metaphor for the surrogacy process because the anxiety that we had was all leading up to the process.
Who are we going to find? What's it going to be like? Are we going to feel connected to this person? Are we going to feel connected to the baby afterwards? All of that anxiety is about the unknown and as you move through it, more and more uh, becomes known to you. It sort of reveals itself through the process.
And through that process, at least I found my anxiety has subsided. And it's become more excitement. It took us a long time to get there. So don't be hard on yourself. Everybody has their own process for going through the journey and for getting to the point of surrogacy. But what can I say is that I wish I'd done it years ago.
Julia: Catherine, thank you so much for talking to us.
Catherine: Thank you so much.
Shaun: Julia, I feel like I could have talked to each of our guests for hours, because the topic of IVF and surrogacy is personal for me, and I always want to hear everyone’s story and all the details.
Julia: Yes, and of course there’s a lot that goes into these processes that we didn’t get into, in terms of finances, legal agreements, and more. If you’re considering IVF or surrogacy, head to for some good resources in our show notes.
Shaun: As Dr. Klitzman says, it’s important to go into IVF or surrogacy with an understanding of what your success rate may be like, and to find a reputable clinic and a doctor that makes you feel comfortable and supported. And as Kandi mentioned, do your research. And I have to say: If you’re going through IVF or surrogacy right now, we are here for you and we’re rooting for you.
Julia: That’s all for this episode. You can find Kandi @kandi on Instagram and see pictures of her beautiful family there. Dr. Klitzman’s book is called Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children. And thanks again to Catherine Levene at Meredith for supporting our podcast and joining us today. Thanks for listening, and we’ll catch you next time on We Are Family.
Thanks to our production team at Pod People: Rachael King, Eliza Lambert, Susie Armitage, and Lene Bech Sillisen. This show was recorded in New York and Arizona, edited in New York City, and can be found wherever you get your podcasts. You can find out more at You can find Parents on Instagram at @Parents. And you can follow Shaun at @ShaunT, and Julia at @juliadennison.
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Friday, May 1, 2020
The Blood Brothers: Capitalism & Communism
Capitalism and communism are blood brothers; both were born in the heart of the western civilization, in the years following the American and the French Revolutions of the eighteenth century. Since their birth, the two blood brothers have coexisted; they have marched hand in hand and transformed the culture and politics of several nations. There has never been a capitalist nation that is not rocked by communist movements; there has never been a communist nation where a section of the population is not rooting for capitalism; all democratic governments are a compromise between capitalist and communist tendencies. The rise of capitalism is linked to the Industrial Revolution; the rise of communism is an outcome of the intellectual work and political activism of Marx and Engels, and their followers. Since the eighteenth century, the regulatory system in all nations has kept pace with the industrialization—when the first industrialist was building his industry, the first bureaucrat was writing his regulations, and the first communist revolutionary was arousing the working class.
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The Daily Ping
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April 11th, 2010
TV show DVDs
TV show DVDs are usually pretty barebones. The menu options tend to be “Play Episode” and “Play All.”
My question is this: has anyone every chosen “play all”? Are there people that will sit and watch 22 episodes straight of “Cagney & Lacey” (or as many episodes will fit on a disc, probably more like 6 or 7)? Why not just show the episodes right on the main screen? Any professional DVD authorers out there than can answer this for me?
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Aanen April 12, 2010, 5:01 pm
I’ve done play all for M*A*S*H before.
You mean “that” can answer right?
Dave Walls April 19, 2010, 2:15 pm
M*A*S*H is the exception to the rule. Not many TV shows I’d really want to watch 22 episodes of in a row.
Now, when “Double Dare: Season 1” hits DVD….call me.
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Why Tom Brady Might End Up Being An LA CHARGER
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Google sued in $5 billion class action lawsuit for tracking 'private' internet use
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A $ billion class action lawsuit has been filed, that alleges Google has been tracking users' browsing habits despite engaging Chrome's Incognito mode.
The lawsuit is seeking a minimum of five billion dollars, and would likely include "millions" of Google Chrome users. The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in San Jose, California, covers users who have used Incognito mode since June 1, 2016.
According to the complaint, Google gathers data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, and other Applications and plug-ins, including smartphone apps.
The complaint, which was seen by Reuters, claimed that Google is capable of learning about users' friends, hobbies, shopping habits, and the "most intimate and potentially embarrassing things" a user searches for.
The complaint states that Google "cannot continue to engage in the covert and unauthorized data collection from virtually every American with a computer or phone."
The lawsuit is hoping to receive $5,000 in damages per user for violating federal wiretapping and California privacy laws.
A Google spokesperson has pushed back against the lawsuit, claiming that the company discloses such risks.
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Legal Maxim
Home » Actionable Per Se
Literal Meaning
The very action is punishable, no proof of damage is required.
Australian Law
Actions that do not require the allegations or proof of additional facts to constitute a cause of action. Such a tort is actionable simply because it happened. In such actions, the plaintiff does not have to prove that he suffered any damages in order to have a cause of action. Tort claims normally require proof of damages. If you haven’t suffered any loss, you have no claim. A tort that is actionable per se does not require proof of damages to be actionable; such a tort is actionable simply because it happened. Of course, if you are unable to show that you have suffered any loss, the damages you recover are unlikely to be significant. Defamation and trespass are two class examples of torts that are actionable per se.
In cases of assault, battery, false imprisonment, libel or trespass on land, the mere wrongful act is actionable and it is immaterial that the plaintiff has not suffered any damage as a result of it. Words are actionable per se if they are obviously insulting and injurious to one’s reputation. In lawsuits for libel or slander, words that impute the commission of a crime, a loathsome disease, or unchastity, or remarks that affect the plaintiff’s business, trade, profession, calling, or office may be actionable per se. No special proof of actual harm done by the words is necessary to win monetary damages when words are actionable per se.
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In Ashby Vs. White, the defendant, a returning officer, wrongfully refused to register a properly tendered vote of the plaintiff who was a legally qualified voter. In spite of this, the candidate for whom the vote was tendered was elected and no loss was suffered by the rejection of the vote. It was held that the defendant was liable because he deprived the plaintiff of his legal right of registering his vote. Thus, the court referred to the maxim, actionable per se.
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Limbo DH2
Harry Potter's interpretation of limbo
"He lay in a bright mist, though it was not like mist he had ever experienced before. His surroundings were not hidden by cloudy vapour; rather the cloudy vapour had not yet formed into surroundings. The floor on which he lay seemed to be white, neither warm nor cold, but simply there, a flat, blank something on which to be."
Limbo was a state of being that existed between life and death. Limbo came to being inside a person's mind making it both real and unreal. Its appearance was different for each person who visited it. Some Limbo experiences involved loved ones or acquaintances.[1]
— Harry Potter's time spent in limbo[src]
On 2 May, 1998, Harry Potter allowed himself to be struck by a Killing Curse cast by Lord Voldemort in an attempt to protect his friends and loved ones and to destroy the piece of Voldemort's soul that resided within him. What neither he nor Voldemort realised, however, was that when Voldemort used Harry's blood in his resurrection in 1995, he unsuspectingly took Lily Potter's magical protection of Harry into himself as well, thereby tethering Harry's life to his own.[2]
Harry and Dumbledore in limbo
Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter in Limbo
Harry awoke in Limbo to find himself lying naked in a formless mist. As he adjusted to his surroundings, he wished to himself that he were clothed. This wish came true, a short ways away a pile of clean fresh clothes appeared. After putting the clothes on, the mist began to take shape into a copy of King's Cross Station. Harry then saw a stunted whimpering child-like form lying on the ground, for which he felt both pity and revulsion. He also saw the deceased Albus Dumbledore, and the two had a long talk in which Dumbledore answered many of Harry's questions and told him that he was not actually dead. As a soul that was whole and complete, Harry was given the choice to return to the world of the living to finally stop Voldemort, or to metaphorically board a train and go on. He chose to live, instead of "boarding a train" to the afterlife.[2]
When he had returned and stood against Voldemort in Hogwarts's Great Hall, Harry warned him that he had seen what fate awaited Riddle when he finally died, unless he were to attempt to mend his broken soul through remorse. Voldemort, being ignorant of such a fate along with the importance of his soul's well-being, as well as arrogantly believing that he would not die, ignored the warning and proceeded to attack.[2]
Voldemort's mutilated soul
With the destruction of all of his Horcruxes, when Voldemort's Killing Curse rebounded and finally ended his life once and for all, his broken and mangled soul[3] was forced to exist in the stunted form Harry saw in King's Cross. He was unable to move on or return as a ghost, nor having any chance of repairing itself any further or being helped by anyone in any way.[4] This was a consequence of violating the nature of life and death. In the end, Lord Voldemort, who was extremely afraid of death, received a fate far worse than it.
Behind the scenes
• It is possible that Limbo is the place at which a recently–deceased person can make the decision whether to move on or return to the mortal world as a ghost, assuming they have not eroded their souls via creating Horcruxes. Indeed, Harry was offered a choice to either return to the world of the living or board a train, to go "on".
• In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Voldemort's soul in Limbo greatly resembles the rudimentary body that Voldemort used during the film version of Goblet of Fire. Whether this is a coincidence or intentional on the filmmakers' part is unknown. Although, based on the description in the fourth and seventh novels, the appearance of Voldemort's stunted form does match.
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1. Thanks. Am calling his office. Am so afraid he will tell me that there is nothing he can do. How do you treat someone that can only take expired medicine. I never saw this coming. Always worried about losing my brand because it was the only one I can tolerate. Thanks again for your advice. Have been feeling so alone in this and scared.
2. Thanks. He doesn't know. Sadly my old doctor retired and my new one isn't the greatest. Too sick to look for another doctor. Don't know if I'm reacting to the increased strength or another change. Am last September acting on the new doctor's advice to cut my prednisone ended up having a five weeks crohns flare of fever and joint pain which he was afraid to prescribe anything for. Will talk to him though. Am feeling so desperate.
3. Thanks Pistol, Am so stressed and scared. The lorazepam helped me today. Am so panicked about my prednisone that when feeling horrible can't tell how much is anxiety and how much is reaction. Am taking 1/4 mg lorazepam and not taking it every day. The doctor who prescribed it said not to take it more than every other day but said that even taking it every other day can cause dependence in some people. .
4. Am going through a really hard time now trying to get on a newer prescription of prednisone after using an expired one. It's making me frighteningly sick and can't stop it because am steroid dependent and need it to live. Am very sensitive to meds. Am having unbearable anxiety due to my situation. My doctor prescribed lorazepam but told me not to take it every day because it is so addictive. If you're on an anxiety medicine what do you take?
5. Thanks. Think I am reacting to the difference possibly in strength between the expired and the new prednisone because both are from the same manufacturer. Am so sensitive. Feeling so sick trying to slowly add the new prednisone. Can't stop because I'm steroid dependent and need it to live. Am so scared of how sick it's making me.
6. I am dependent on prednisone for many years for crohns. Can only tolerate one brand. Have recently tried to switch from older prednisone which I didn't realize was pretty expired to a new prescription. The new one is the same brand as the old. Am reacting to the new. It is making me so sick. Can't bear the endless adrenaline surge. Have tried adding it little by little and that's not working. Any helpful hints on how to deal with the adrenaline surges would be so appreciated.
7. Thanks targs66 for me I think the medication sensitivities are the worst part of my pots. I can only tolerate 7 mgs of prednisone which I've been on for years and only from one manufacturer. If ever I couldn't get that one I'd be in trouble because it can't be stopped suddenly. That's why I'm considering surgeryso to possibly get off it. I can't tolerate most vitamins as well. Folic acid made me so sick.
8. Thanks Pistol. I haven't met with the surgeon yet so am notcompletely sure of if the stitches would in fact be disslovable. Don't think I can have staples because am I can'tolerate even wear titanium earrings in my ears. Have had the earring sensitivity long before I had pots. My GI doc doesn't understand the med sensitivities and gets frustrated and angry.
9. Thanks. You've made me feel better. Having so much anxiety today worrying about developing chronic constipation a d not tolerating any laxative or being able to eat fiber due to a stricture from crohns. And then possible impending surgery for crohns. Thanks again it means a lot to know I'm not alone.
10. It seems like I have a reaction to every medication. : (
11. JaneEyre9 Thanks so much for replying. We're your stiches internal? This past weekend was made so sick by a reaction to an over the counter medicine and thenot started thinking about the stitches.
12. I am extremely sensitive to meds. Am worried about how I would react to internal stitches from surgery as they are ultimately absorbed by the body . Has anyone who is very med sensitive done been okay with them?
13. I've heard that apple cider vinegar helps acid reflux. It seems like it would make it worse. Wonder if it would help with bile reflux. I have been following a diet of no spice, no fried foods, very limited veggies, for years for crohns disease which I have in addition to pots. The only culprits left in my diet are caffiene, margarine and mayo. I've cut down on my caffeine but am having a hard time giving it up completely. It makes me feel better potswise. Never knew I'd miss margerine and mayo so much : )
14. Jackmxoxo is carafat an over the counter med? Thanks
15. I'very been on Nexium for a few years for acid reflux and it works well for it. The Dr said there wasn't any acid present when she performed the endoscopy. There was a lot of bile. Have been taking Gavison which helps temporarily. My doc suggested I see a doc that performs surgery for reflux but I think I would like to try more meds before that. So far my esophagus is undamaged. The surgery for bile reflux is actually gastric bypass, the weight loss surgery. Don't even know if I would be a candidate for that. Am not overweight. Well I'd like to lose about 20 lbs but from what I've hear
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I’ve got something I need to get off my chest. I’ve never played a single second of DOTA 2. It’s always looked too daunting for me to dare try. I missed the original boat and soon people had racked up thousands of hours. I didn’t want to be the newbie heading in and trying to figure what the heck it was all about.
So, I didn’t. I sat around for years playing Rocket League and Rainbow Six Siege instead. While the latter can arguably be quite complex, I was playing Siege from the beta right through to now and so was intimately aware of its nuances. Rocket League, on the other hand, is the polar opposite. Nigh-on perfect multiplayer design means Rocket League can be understood in milliseconds, yet it takes thousands of hours to master. Use your car, hit the ball, score goals. It’s delightfully simple, and the only thing between you and success is how good you are at driving your little rocket-powered car.
But DOTA 2? That’s a whole different beast. I’d heard tales of war-ravaged people that had lost their lives to this thing. I heard there were well over 100 characters to attempt to master or counter. That thousands and thousands crammed into arenas to which this stuff live. That DOTA 2 was one of the deepest games in existence.
There’s no denying as these GaaS experiences live on, they become ever more imposing and complex. How Valve still brings in new players to DOTA 2 I’ll never know, but it’s a game that’s been layered with complexity after complexity for five years. Things about lanes, towers, mobs, shops, something about junglers which I’ve still never quite figured out. With every update, it becomes tougher for a new player to join the fray. And you can’t help but absorb the snippets through osmosis, and trick yourself into thinking you know what’s what.
So I thought I’d see exactly how tough. I downloaded DOTA 2 and I filmed my first ever attempt at playing it. Just how confusing could it possibly be for a new DOTA 2 player? Very, as it turns. Prepare for what I’m going to assume is the worse DOTA 2 gameplay footage you’ve ever seen. This is basically the scenario through which every new player has ever been through.
I’ll admit, after 10 minutes I got a bit bored and shut it down. I think I got zero kills and a couple of assists. I had zero idea what was going on with these special abilities and coins, or what the different places on the map did. And yes, I’m painfully aware there five tutorials to play through before going online, but I’m honestly not sitting through five tutorials to play a multiplayer game. That may be my total lack of patience at work, but in any other game, I can just head straight in and at least have a vague idea of what I’m doing. DOTA 2 is undeniably a complex game and for its fanbase, it’s probably part of the charm. For new players though, it feels as if there’s a heck of a mountain to climb.
That said, I understand Rainbow Six Siege could be the exact same situation for new players these days, and I wouldn’t want Ubisoft messing around with simplifying the concept. There is just this awkward dichotomy between attracting a long-term playerbase while trying to draw in new players that is a tightrope act for any ongoing service. For some, like DOTA 2, it clearly works, but it feels as if it’s the old-school players that are keeping it afloat rather than anything particularly enticing for new players.
But, enough rambling, I'll try and pull this thing back on track. I think what I'm trying to say is some multiplayer games, particularly GaaS titles, can end up ludicrously complex as a result of their constant support. At some point, this puts off new players more than it encourages them, which would become the natural 'beginning of the end' for any online game. I'm not entirely sure what the solution is, but I do think that the simpler a game, or the simpler the concept (at least in terms of the basics that need to be grasped), the more chance it has at continually inviting new players. It's part of what makes football such a universally appealing sport. All you need is a ball, a handful of people to play with, and a makeshift goal. The ultimate party trick is to marry a simple concept with incredible depth.
So what are your thoughts on this rambling topic - can games become too complex as they're continually updated? Do you like your multiplayer games to be complex or do you prefer simpler mechanics and rules?
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The Grand Coalition: Hiding in Plain Sight
The Democrats have a chance to shift our political arena from the course driven by far-right extremism, but how will they do it?
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren meets with Mayor of Lawrence, Mass. Dan Rivera after gas explosions in September (Photo: Twitter/@SenWarren).
The nation is not lost to the Democrats, but the coalition necessary to take it back will take substantial political effort. Democrats must look to those who have been forgotten by both parties, yet mobilized by xenophobic demagoguery; the disappointed class. Balancing short and long term goals is tricky, and as the midterms close in, we are left with this question: will we even make it to long-term?
La Voce has been in the vanguard of newspapers analyzing the politics of the Trump circus. While others have poured rivers of ink over judicial, economic, diplomatic and other arenas of the current Grand Guignol, this paper, with a sense of European history in its quiver and a sharp eye for some of the parallel tracks being followed in current Italian politics, has faced directly the threat to American and Western political norms.
A recent survey, in these pages, of what light the social sciences can shine on today’s malaise led friends and readers to ask the logical what-is-to-be-done question. The findings of the recent work of the major social sciences were clear: the American Right wing is engaged in a brutal trampling of the political rules and practices once considered inviolable, while proving the feeble inadequacy of the factors intended as safeguards against precisely what they are doing.
So what is to be done? Since a sign of the ill health of the political corpus is the increasing use of normally-non-political tools (the courtroom, executive orders instead of legislation, etc.) the clear answer must be the use of mainstream political action – voting and electioneering. The answer is correct, but it is that of a high school civics class (in itself a dying species). It is too simple, too shapeless. This is a brief attempt to give shape to the targeting and, thereby, the shape of the strategy that can change the numbers enough to change the outcome.
The basic diagnostic fact is that today’s ugly politics, with its brutal selfishness, did not start with Donald Trump. The last two Democratic presidents have contributed to the mis-use and over-use of executive orders when they were frustrated by the Congress. The American Left has frequently turned to the courts in the pursuit of social objectives lacking enough Congressional support. Most important of all, the pivotal change in American elections, that which opened the doors to big money, even at the local level, and to bizarre candidates who would never have come out of the infamous smoke-filled rooms, were the “McGovern reforms”, the disastrous result of good intentions.
However, most of today’s political savagery has been cooking in the kitchen of a wing of the Republican party since the early 1960s; even today it has a Gingrich odor. The success of that wing is shown by the fact that it is no longer a wing: the moderates are now just a wing of the snarling main body. The extremists have planned and built, especially at the state and local levels, in order to rule over the long haul.
2009 Tea Party protest at the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Connecticut (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Sage Ross).
As a consequence, the Democrats cannot just focus on a single election, even granting the probably-historic importance of next month’s voting. They must envision a root-and-branch transformation of the two-party system over that same long haul, digging even deeper than the gerrymandering and voter suppression games that were the focus of the GOP effort. It means nothing less than an examination of the social and economic class (Yanks hate that word) structure of today’s United States. This will be raw, perhaps painful, but necessary.
To start at the top….
The Democrats can forget about the moneyed upper one percent, probably most of the upper five percent. With some heroic exceptions, the Warren Buffetts and a few other mavericks-of-conscience, the wealthy will vote their selfish interests, alerted by their teams of advisors against anything bearing the aroma of wealth distribution. The failure of the super-rich to recognize how much they have to lose through climate change and civil unrest, to see that the Mexican wall will make it more expensive to get their swimming pool cleaned, has thus far been lost on many of them, as well as the current failure (or willful ignoring) by their armies of financial advisors and other consultants. Most of the super-rich will continue to finance the politicians who agree that global warming is a fantasy, that blood-spattered tyrants can be terrific friends and allies, and that affordable medical care is the reason why Sweden and Canada no longer exist as nations.
At the next level, the focus on the upper-middle class in the Democrats’ day-to-day campaigning makes perfect sense. Many of these citizens are still open to arguments based on justice and social compassion, and can calculate intelligently about their own self interest and some version of the good of society. They do go to the polls and they are permitted to vote. But they are not enough. A major achievement of the Republican party has been to render these voters insufficient for long-term electoral success.
Without relying on the term “proletariat” it is important to calculate correctly the size and shape of America’s bottom and lower rungs. For the political calculus, this sector is far larger today, for the political calculus, than just the number of those below the poverty line. In terms of potential political behavior, it goes far beyond the unemployed and those on welfare. It must, today, include those who do not work full time and are, even when they do, seriously underpaid and those whose buying power has not gone up over the last few years (a very large segment of whom have seen their wages, in real terms, actually go down). It thus includes much of the “lower middle class”. This enormous bloc is properly labeled the disappointed. They are not where they thought they would be after years of striving. And the old American belief that their children would prosper, would lead better lives than they themselves have had —this part of the American dream has vanished.
And some, especially the young, the dark-skinned, the newly arrived, have never even gotten a toe-hold on the ladder to that dream.
The great strategic achievement of the Republican Right has been to divide this disappointed class, to make it a battlefield in an artificial civil war. Well, maybe not entirely artificial: a part of the disappointed class is in the embrace, fueled by the language and postures we associate with Donald Trump, of a growling atavistic racism, unrelated to their own economic and other interests. They read the Trump slogan in translation: Make America White Again. They have, effectively, dropped out of modern America. (Some few, when they discover the extent of the lies they have been told, may actually scramble back aboard.)
Donald Trump (by Antonio Giambanco/VNY).
Despite the powerful poisons of lies and their fathers’ hatreds and phobias (often the same thing), these points of neuralgia will not be enough in the long, or middle, term, to mask a crucial fact: the very large main body of the disappointed have such strikingly common interests that they constitute a great unrecognized, unrealized, unborn coalition, of a size that wins elections.
Let’s put to rest the one fabrication that would cast a shadow on the birth of this game-changing new coalition. This is the myth the white part of this mass (mostly rural, mostly in the American heartland) rarely, very rarely, is in direct competition with the darker part (blacks, Latinos, immigrants from many places) for the same jobs.
The truth is that they all absolutely share an interest in wages, working conditions, health care, education, social welfare, environmental pollution, climate change, justice, policing, fair progressive taxation, extreme economic inequality…all the buzz issues that naturally unite them.
Donald Trump and his posse have made a strenuous political effort to dig the current gulf between these two quasi-proletariats, in order to cast them as natural enemies. The effort has paid off. They managed, especially during the primary season, to expand and weaponize the race factor. (In the election itself, geography, urban vs. rural, had the most consistent match to voting behavior.) But the coalition we anticipate is starting in ideal territory: the comprehensive American National Election pre- and post-election survey of over 4,000 respondents found that the voters most likely to base their vote on economic factors were the independents. As a coalition starter, they are there for the taking.
The conservative author Max Boot, author of The Corrosion of Conservatism, a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and senior foreign policy advisor to Mitt Romney and John McCain, writes that “there are more independents now than there are either Democrats and Republicans… There is the potential for the Democratic Party to seize a lot of the dissatisfaction that’s been fed by Donald Trump… There are a lot of people who are potentially open to a new political identity, and if the Democratic Party can seize the moment I think it has the chance to do a generational realignment of the kind that occurred during the New Deal.”
The mention of the New Deal is apt. Does the coalition we are imagining, a coalition so great as to make of the GOP a permanent minority until it returns to the path of dialogue rather than killer warfare, seem at all possible? Those who find it unlikely should examine the composition of the coalition that produced the great Democratic victories of the mid-twentieth century. Grouped into this politically-effective alliance were minorities and immigrants, Southern racists, organized labor, much of the farm community, urban intellectuals (and, of course, several big-city political machines). Now they had some truly competing interests. Compared with that Democratic coalition, the joining of hands of today’s disappointed should be easy.
Where should one begin? Not with empty “Trump must go” sloganeering, nor the dauntingly difficult approaches to impeachment or removal via the 25th Amendment, which, in the unlikely case of success, would deliver to us the prize of… Mike Pence, and all of which would leave the Republican Right entrenched in much of the country’s state and local government. Our political malady can have nothing but a political cure.
This essay is not a cheering section for any particular candidate or faction within the Democratic party. The Democrats who might lead a groundswell have probably not yet emerged nationally. But it is not early in the 2020 game: Trump has signaled that the campaign is already under way. The first round will be fought next month. The Democrat who has put herself at the forefront of the issues that hold the key to a new coalition is obviously Senator Elizabeth Warren, the voice most heard today on the subject of our extreme, and worsening, economic inequality. There will surely be others. Some accuse Warren of being a one-issue candidate. And there are, in fact, other attractive possibilities that are emerging, although without the current name-recognition of Warren. Another senator, Kamala Harris, is a strong progressive voice on a series of crucial social issues. These issues are those about which urban Democrats care most but are exactly the issues that have brought defeat in the heartland. (The best analyses of the 2016 election show that neither gender nor race were the most salient dividing factor of our current political gulf. It was whether the voter was urban or rural. In many states, Trump did very well with white women voters. Exit polls showed they were voting other issues. )
John J. Raskob tells the Democratic party that big business is not afraid of them anymore (Cartoon: U.S. National Archives/Berryman Political Cartoon Collection).
The issue with which Warren is identified, however, is the over-arching, make-or-break issue that can shape the great coalition of the disappointed and signal the true end of the divisive and cruel politics of the Trump Moment. It is the issue that can unite the disappointed, giving birth to the great coalition that is lying in wait.
There are probably three time frames at work here. We have discussed what we believe to be the reality of the long term, which is, if the republic can be salvaged, the shorter-long-term. If the electoral furniture can be re-arranged sufficiently to pull us out of the current desperate survival mode, then we will have a chance to educate our young to the spirit and norms of a liberal democracy, to interdependence and underuse of available power, rather than the murderous zero-sum game they see today on television.
Will we even get the opportunity to act on our long-term interests? Has the system been fatally captured so that “normal” political functioning is a hopeless enterprise? That is the question posed by next month’s crucial mid-term election and, after that, by the ability of Democrats at the state and local level to engage in the political grunt work at which Gingrich Republicans excelled, but which also brought us John Kennedy and Barack Obama.
Here is the central political fact of this historic moment: in the most recent voting for the White House and for each of the two houses of Congress, the Democrats have garnered more popular votes than the Republicans. Yet the Republicans now control all three. They are hard at work to keep it that way.
The Founding Fathers laid the cornerstone with the electoral college. Egregious gerrymandering has now stacked the odds to make change almost impossible. When incumbents draw the lines they need only be insecure if they have botched it. And now the voter-suppression effort in some states has become, to use the word one scholar used to characterize Georgia’s assault on black votes, massive. By latest count, election officials in that state are refusing to process 53,000 registration applications and have, since 2012, purged more than twenty percent of the state’s registered voters from the rolls. The 1.4 million victims are mostly black or are found in precincts showing dangerous liberal tendencies. Georgia is only one state among many where the fundamental act of our democracy is under siege. When he was trailing in the polls, candidate Trump declared that the system was rigged. The facts haven’t changed, only the look on his face, or so we can imagine, when he says it.
The long-term solution for a return to political health is there, not just waiting to emerge, but perhaps even inevitable. But will we be allowed to get to the long term? November may hold the answer to that.
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One of the most frustrating things that every runner goes through is not getting the form right, despite being highly committed to your routine. You may be putting in the same hours as your running buddies; and yet, when it comes to finishing times, you find yourself lagging behind the rest of the group. Quite naturally, this can lead to lower confidence and motivation, and make you question if, perhaps, running isn’t your thing after all. To make things easier, here’s a head-to-toe guide on perfecting your running form for a easy and efficient run:
Head’s Up
How you hold your head defines your overall posture and determines how efficiently you run. Start by concentrating on your gaze and scanning the horizon instead of looking down at your feet. Keep you chin up without bending your neck, such that you back and neck are straightened out and perfectly aligned.
Shoulders are the anchor that hold your form together by keeping the upper body relaxed. The shoulders need to be low and loose and not high and tight. When we are tired, shoulders have a way of creeping up towards our ears. Shake them out to release any built up tension. Both the shoulders should be on the same level and not dip from one side to the other with each stride.
Arms usually bear the brunt of just hanging around. But when it comes to running, your arms aren’t just along for the ride but they define it, to an extent. Your hands control the upper-body tension, while your arm swing works in association with your leg stride to propel you forward. Don’t clench your fist but let your fingers lightly touch your palms without crushing it. The movement of your arms should be forward and back, and not across your body. The elbows should be bent at a 90-degree angle. When the run gets strenuous and you feel yourself clenching your fists, drop your arms to the sides and shake them out to release the tension.
Getting the perfect form when it comes to distance running is a matter of proper alignment between the upper and the lower body
When you run with your head straight and your shoulders low and loose, your torso and back naturally straighten out to allow you to run in an upright position. This optimizes your lungs to function at their full capacity and also lengthens your stride. Keep the “running tall” stature in mind with your entire torso stretched to your full height and back comfortably straight. If you find yourself slouching, take a deep breath to straighten up. Maintain the upright position even as you exhale.
The position of the hips is defined by the torso. If your back and torso are comfortably aligned, your hips will naturally fall into place -pointing you straight ahead. If you hunch forward during a run or lean too far behind, your pelvis will tilt as well, which can put pressure on your lower back and throw the rest of your lower body out of alignment.
Legs & Stride
Since we are looking at distance running, exaggerated knee movement are not required to achieve maximum leg power. Unlike sprinters who lift their knees high to boost efficiency, when it comes to distance running this sort of intense movement is simply too hard to sustain for the long duration of time What you need is a slight knee lift, a quick leg turnover and short strides. In efficient endurance running, this technique will facilitate fluid forward movement instead of deflecting any energy. Your run should be such that, your feet should land directly underneath your body with every stride you take. As your foot strikes down, your knee should be slightly flexed so that it can bend naturally on impact. If the lower leg is extending out in front of your body, then you need to shorten your stride.
Feet & Ankles
Your feet help you to push off the ground with maximum force. With every step you take, your foot should land on the ground lightly- touching your heel and midfoot to the running surface. When you turnover to the next leg, your ankle should be flexed to create more force for the next push-off. As you roll onto your toes, try to spring off the ground. Your calf muscles should contract and expand, propelling you forward. Good running is springy and quiet and doesn’t involve your feet loudly slapping the floor.
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Floating Deed of Trust - How to get a deed of Trust
As you'll have seen from our article about Deeds of Trust, joint owners often look to only protect their money used to buy the property in a declaration of trust; either with a fixed beneficial interest or by returning the original deposits and sharing any net proceeds thereafter equally.
Both of these are fine if the relationship remains static and both joint owners pay their share of the costs of the property, but what happens if they don't? Who pays the mortgage if one of the joint owners moves out? Does this increase your beneficial interest? Read on for a detailed review of how to draft a deed of trust that allows for a commensurate share of the beneficial interest based on what you invest into the property and we answer below some of the most asked questions from our clients.
It is important to note that you cannot hold a property on trust in unequal or floating shares using a deed if you a registered as joint tenants. You must be tenants in common. Read more on How to change from Joint Tenants to Tenants in Common and How to confirm if you are joint tenants or tenants in common.
What money increases your floating share?
Unlike a basic declaration of trust that simply states a fixed beneficial interest, a floating deed can take into account a variety of costs linked to the property that add value and can increase your beneficial interest. Here are the top 5, however the final one is not always included:
Floating Deed of Trust
Purchase Deposit
The joint owner's individual contribution toward the deposit to purchase the property is reflected in the deed. The larger the deposit the greater your beneficial interest will be at the start.
Commensurate Share Deed
Mortgage Repayments
The joint owners can agree to share the mortgage repayments in unequal shares to allow a person paying more per month than the other to grow a greater beneficial interest in the property. It is often the case that one of the joint owners will pay more of the mortgage based on their financial position. By doing so, with a fixed share deed, the joint owner would be paying more and not getting a benefit for doing so, however with a floating deed they can see a return on their additional payments. Unlike the purchase deposits, mortgage repayments will be made on a monthly basis over a number of years so it is advisable to log the mortgage repayments so you have this to calculate you beneficial interest on sale.
Floating Deed of Trust
Contributions to renovations or repairs that add value to the property can increase your individual financial stake in the property.These payments can be considerable - building an extension isn't cheap - so logging who paid for what is essential and within the deed this can be used to then increase a joint owner's beneficial interest. Not all renovations add value and as such don't increase your beneficial interest so read more about what renovation works add value to your home.
Floating Deed of Trust
Cost of Purchase and Sale
The costs of buying and selling the property run into thousands of pounds. You can log who paid for the stamp duty, legal fees, estate agent costs and so on in order to reflect an increase in their beneficial interest.
Floating Deed of Trust
Household bills
It is often noted within a floating deed the share by which the household bills are going to be split however it is rarely used in the calculation for beneficial ownership. This cost is seen as maintenance or upkeep, rather than increasing value. It is also hard to definitively say what costs fall into this category and who should pay for them because of the benefit they provide; broadband? insurance? food? mobile phone? Who is using these more and increasing the cost? Whilst it's important to document who pays for the household costs and in what shares, these then aren't used for calculating an increase in beneficial interest.
How is the floating share calculated?
There is a formula used within the deed that a solicitor will use to distribute the net proceeds of sale or the share transfer price. You will need to provide to the solicitor the evidence for the payments made toward the property - not all of the above are always included so you agree with the solicitor who drafts the deed for you which of the above you want to take into consideration.
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Floating deed of trust Vs Fixed Share
Floating Deed of Trust
Fixed Share Deed of Trust
• More reflective beneficial interest based on your contribution
• Flexible to allow for changes in relationship
• Deed of Trust costs more
• Can over complicate your relationship with your joint owner/s leading to disagreements
• Can be complicated to work out your beneficial interest
• Requires a specialist solicitor to draft
• Simplified so less confusion
• Costs less to draft
• Guarantees a fixed share on sale or transfer
• Doesn't account for changes to relationship
• Doesn't account for changes to payments. A joint owner could be left paying the mortgage and unable to get any of the money back from the other joint owner/s.
The greatest risk for joint owners who have a fixed beneficial interest is of something actually happening which wasn't pre-agreed in the deed. The deed will state that regardless of what actually happens, the joint owners are to benefit from the net sale proceeds in a fixed share. Let's have a look at a real life example:
Dave and Jane buy a house together worth £250,000. They have invested an equal share of the 10% deposit of £25,000 (so £12,500 each). They aren't married but have been going out for 2 years so agree to only draft a very basic deed of trust. The deed states that Dave and Jane are to share the beneficial interest equally (50/50).
After moving in together Dave and Jane start arguing and Dave moves out. Dave stops paying any of the mortgage repayments and tells Jane that he can't afford to pay for the mortgage and pay for his rent. Jane is forced to pay all of the mortgage repayments. 5 years later Dave and Jane agree to sell the property. Dave is still due an equal share of the net sale proceeds as per the deed of trust, even though he stopped paying toward the mortgage. If Dave and Jane had drafted a floating deed of trust then by Dave stopping paying the mortgage repayments, Jane would have grown a greater beneficial interest by paying Dave's share.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cost of a deed of trust?
A floating deed of trust costs more than a basic deed of trust due to the complex formula to calculate the beneficial interest. The solicitor drafting the deed will also need to explain how it works in more detail.
The cost of our floating deed of trust starts from £399 INC VAT however we can help with more complex agreements than add in additional clauses in relation to the cohabitation and for these bespoke deeds we provide a fixed fee quote based on your individual circumstances. Call our specialists now to get a free no obligation quote for your deed - 0333 344 3234 (local call charges apply)
Can you get a floating deed of trust if you have a basic deed of trust?
You can only have one deed of trust per property so if you have a basic or fixed share deed of trust and want to change it to a more commensurate share deed like a floating deed then our solicitor can help. We will need to revoke he original deed ensuring the parties to it agree and that the terms of the deed are adhered to and then draft the new deed and this will be signed and witnessed by the joint owners.
Can I get a deed of trust with a mortgage?
Yes you can; in some situations you might have to consult your mortgage lender about what your plans are but your solicitor will advise you should this be the case.
What happens if a joint owner stops paying the mortgage?
Regardless of what your deed states, every party whose name is on the mortgage deed is jointly and severally liable for the mortgage debt. You can agree to share the mortgage in unequal shares, however if any of the joint owners doesn't pay their share then the other joint owners must pay it for them. Failing to pay your mortgage will adversely affect all of the joint owners' credit ratings and your home may be repossessed by your mortgage lender.
Whilst this is an unfortunate situation to be in and it may cause you to be financially worse off covering the joint owner's share of the mortgage, it does mean that with a floating deed your beneficial interest increases. A greater beneficial interest means that you will get more of any profit on sale.
Can you force a sale?
This depends on how the deed is drafted, however most deeds have an exit clause for the joint owners to exercise in the event of one of the parties wanting to sell. Included within the exit clause will be a right of first refusal for the joint owner/s of the property to buy out each other's shares. If the joint owners can't afford to pay for the share or choose they don't want to then the property will be sold on the open market for the highest price achievable in an arm's length transaction - i.e. not sold undervalue.
Can anyone draft a deed of trust?
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Is it "poor taste" to include type information in function definitions?
I had wondered:
Is it “poor taste” to include type information in function definitions?
It seems like very nice documentation, but then again, maybe it is nicer rely on the inferencing engine to reduce the amount of code?
In theory you write short, easy to understand functions; in practice it isn’t always this simple though.
People kindly replied:
When you can avoid it, it is better to NOT include type information. Using a tool like “ocamldoc” will render the function and its inferred types in a real documentation format (e.g. HTML).
There are cases where you need to include type information, but they are corner cases.
Interface files (.mli) are usually the main place for documentation. Within the .ml files, you can explain your algorithms but it’s usually just plain comments, not so much type annotations.
As to the matter of “taste”, note that this practice is not idiomatic in Ocaml, in contrast to Haskell where it seems current. I’m not sure if that’s your case, but people coming to Ocaml from Haskell may at first tend to exaggerate on this aspect…
2 thoughts on “Is it "poor taste" to include type information in function definitions?”
1. It is poor taste to use type information instead of good variable names. I once read in an ant simulation program : “let move (x : ant) (p : position) = …”.
Type information is often used when debugging : if your code doesn’t compile because of a type error, it is sometimes difficult to understand the exact cause of the type conflict. Adding explicit type annotations provides you guarantee that “if that function checks, then I’m sure that at this point, the type is …”, wich are useful to track down the exact source of the error.
After the type problem have been fixed, most programmers guiltily remove such type annotations, like you would remove an inelegant (prerr_endline “it’s all fine here”). Some don’t.
It is also sometimes useful to restrict a type to be less general than the one inferred. If the general type is more polymorphic that what you know you’ll need, it can be useful to restrict it.
For example, the simplest way to code List.iter is inferred type ((‘a -> ‘b) -> ‘a list -> unit), and it’s usually better if the compiler stops you to use it with a function that doesn’t return unit.
Of course, even in that case, it is better to put such restrictions in the .mli file (here, it would be in the .mli file of the List library), but sometimes it’s about auxiliary functions wich are local to the module.
Lastly, beware that “let f (x : ‘a -> ‘b) = ..” doesn’t actually enforce polymorphism : any inferred type that is less general than (‘a -> ‘b) will be accepted for x (eg. “let f (x : ‘a -> ‘b) = x 1”). Only module signatures, such that .mli declarations, enforce polymorphism.
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September 16, 2020
The Mystery Of Modern Media
There was a time, not that long ago, when advertisers could reach just about everyone pretty easily. All it took was a lot of money and a simple media buy on a handful of TV, radio, and print outlets. Back then, harnessing the power of mass media was not a guarantee of success, but it was almost always a key component.
It helped create enormous brands like McDonald's, Coke, Pepsi, Nike, Apple, Ford, Chevy, AT&T, Tide, Crest, Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, Toyota, Tylenol, Kleenex, Budweiser... OK, I'll stop.
Things are a lot more complicated these days. Media has fractionalized into much smaller entities while media consumption has increased significantly. It is not nearly as easy as it once was to reach mass audiences. While you once only had to choose among 3 or 4 video (TV) options, today you have hundreds. While you once had a few dozen print options to analyze, today there are literally millions of websites serving a similar function. A media strategist's job is far more daunting.
One of the results of this change in media reality has been a change in media strategy. Whereas brand builders once believed that wide reach was essential to building a dominant brand, this belief has gone out of fashion. It has been replaced by the belief that the most effective use of media is one-to-one, personalized messages.
I would like to offer, for your consideration, an alternative point of view.
It is beyond question that it is much harder for brand builders to reach mass audiences these days. But I would like to question the presumption that because reaching mass audiences has become more difficult, pivoting to a personalized, one-to-one media strategy is the correct response.
In other words, have we recognized the disease but prescribed the wrong medication? The fact that online media technology now allows us to tailor messages to individuals, doesn't necessarily mean it's a better idea. The fact that it's more convenient doesn't necessarily make it more suited to the job of building brands.
And the fact that mass reach is much harder to achieve does not mean that it is a bad strategy. It just means that it takes more work and perhaps it takes a more sophisticated strategy - and more sophisticated strategists - to execute properly.
Sadly, we have taken media strategy in the opposite direction. Despite the extraordinary complexity of the digital media ecosystem we have substantially tethered our media strategists to the most crude and unsophisticated aspirations -- high click rates and low CPMs. You can sit in media meetings for months listening to highfalutin' jargon, you can suffer endless data analyses, you can scrutinize this-ographics and that-ographics, but in the end when the reports come in and the chips are on the table, most likely it's going to come down to the crudest, least sophisticated and least challenging of outcomes -- clicks and CPMs.
This is evidence that the principles of brand building have been subsumed by the practices of the direct marketing industry.
The fact that brands that were built in advertising's era of wide reach like the aforementioned McDonald's, Coke, Pepsi, Nike, Apple, Ford, Chevy, AT&T, Tide, Crest, Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, Toyota, Tylenol, Kleenex, Budweiser...still dominate their categories a couple of decades after digital personalization became a "thing," ought to at least give us pause to consider that perhaps we have misdiagnosed the situation.
There is also evidence outside advertising that mass reach is an essential ingredient to brand dominance. Newer mega-brands like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Tesla, who were launched without huge advertising budgets, have profited from widespread media attention. They've achieved wide public recognition through PR, news stories worth billions, the shenanigans of ceo's, and the actions of investors and business commentators. Although not necessarily tied to advertising, their successes are also evidence of the power of mass attention in media.
One of the key ingredients in creating a dominant brand is fame. As I suggested in Advertising For Skeptics...
"There are several ways for brands to achieve fame. Some do it by being clearly superior and generating exceptional word of mouth. This is obviously the best way to become famous. Some get lucky. They’re good copy. In their formative years these brands spent very little on marketing but (it was) hard to open the business section without finding references to them.
Others become famous through imaginative PR initiatives, clever stunts, the charismatic personalities of their leaders, or a combination of these things. There are many ways to achieve fame. Sadly, positive word of mouth is wonderful, but rarely manageable. The likelihood of the press falling in love with you is one tick above zero. Imaginative PR is invaluable but very hard to come by. And charismatic leaders are one in a thousand and, let’s be honest, usually assholes. The most expensive way to become famous is through advertising. It is the most expensive, but also the most reliable. It is the only avenue to fame that you can buy your way into."
It may be that mass reach is still the key to building a dominant brand, but we need more sophisticated marketers and more sophisticated media strategists to show us how to achieve wide reach economically in an era of media fragmentation.
What we have a hard time finding are huge dominant brands who have achieved their stature through one-to-one, personalized media.
Instead of giving up on mass media because it is expensive and difficult to achieve, and defaulting to a problematic and largely unproven theory of personalized media, perhaps we need some smart people to create a better model of what mass reach in the modern advertising world looks like.
The essence of building a dominant brand has not changed -- because human nature has not changed. We are still far more likely to purchase products we are familiar with and we believe are socially acceptable.
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Raising Honey Bees In Washington Spokane 99208
Beekeeping can be an exciting avocation and a business opportunity that is profitable. The interest in honey is improving daily. In the U.S, the average honey consumption in annually is more than 300 million pounds. The most inspiring aspect of beekeeping is that anyone may do it, irrespective of age, gender and educational qualification. It doesn’t require a significant investment either. However, you do need to invest a little effort to be able to earn a healthy income. It is best to get a firm grasp of the fundamentals of beekeeping to help you get started if you’re a beginner.
Vital beekeeping supplies:
Queens and the bees are the beekeeping supplies that are crucial. You can purchase packaged bees and queens that are medicated for mites. There are beginner’s kits available that contain everything you need for the first period of beekeeping. You are able to choose either unassembled kits or assembled kits. Assembled kits come with supers and the hive bodies, frame that are assembled and ready to use. Some reliable firms offer a long-lasting plastic helmet and veil along with the kits. Additionally they provide a hive top feeder for feeding your bees and for supplying insulating material to the bees during wintertime. A smoker made of stainless steel, the ventilated leather gloves, hive tool, and tracking tray are another crucial supplies that have the beginner’s kits.
Beekeeping equipment like a telescoping outer cover is crucial to protect your bees from bad weather. This cover features a durable, top that is galvanized to provide enhanced protection to your bees. When your bees are exposed to extreme weather hive wrapping insulation is useful in covering your hives. This insulation features bunches of little holes for proper ventilation.
A pollen snare featuring anatomic frame design lets you lift your own pollen. You’ll be able to thus harvest clean pollen. Queen excluders are yet another critical equipment in beekeeping. The queen bees that are bigger in size are excluded, although they can be used above the brood chamber whereby worker bees can pass. The commercial beekeepers favor alloy queen excluders. Nonetheless, plastic queen excluders work as well for beginners, and they may be very simple to clean.
Picking gear and Bee escapes eases the process of beekeeping. The triangle getaway board enables you to remove your bees from a super easily. You simply need to place the plank in between the supers and the brood chamber. The bees leaving the supers cannot return in, in order to empty your super quickly. A bee brush is useful equipment that helps to pick a small quantity of honey. You simply need certainly to brush the bees off the framework.
A honey extractor is crucial equipment used in the honey harvest. It really is accessible with hand crank or motor. A good honey extractor prevents smashing pollen and young bees and additionally, it helps to avoid indiscriminate lack of honey. You are able to use an extractor heating tape to warm the extractor and increase the rate of the honey flow. You may also use a small device called refractometer to measure the moisture content of your honey. A honey color grader is, in addition, significant gear that’s used to identify the actual colour of the honey.
With a little effort, and the correct equipment anyone can get started beekeeping. It is sometimes a profitable company, or an enjoyable avocation.
Some people who are interested in honey bee farming get their training from raising honey bees classes in Spokane Washington but it may be very expensive. Fortunately there are cheaper ways to master the art of successful beekeeping in WA.
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Seeking for seeds. The akan weighing system, part four
Sur la piste des graines. Le système pondéral akan, quatrième partie
• Jean-Jacques Crappier
Résumé Plan Texte Bibliographie Notes Auteurs Citation PDF
Résumé / Abstract
A study was conducted to test the hypothesis that the akan weight system was based not on two seed units, ba and taku, as usually considered, but on four, each of which was used under two varieties, a heavy and a light one. The ba is reputed to be two seeds of damma, aka Abrus precatorius, a forest liana. Examination of a 250 g batch originating from Côte d'Ivoire proves that there are two varieties, one of 74 mg and the other of 84 mg, presumably depending on whether they are harvested, dry season or wet season, which corresponds to the predicted 146 mg and 166 mg ba. Research on taku, the exact nature of which was unknown, leads to the Parkia biglobosa seed, the African carob tree, whose seed weighs 250 mg with its cuticle, and 220 mg when it is shed, that corresponds to the two taku values predicted by the calculation. These data support, but do not prove, the hypothesis of the duality of seeds that emerges from the study of akan weight lists collected over centuries by European observers.
Keywords: akan - ashanti - baule - gold weight (goldweight, goldgewitch) - Ghana - Côte d'Ivoire - Gold Coast - dualistic system - ethnomathematics - taku - ba - mitqal - proto-currency - seeds
Une étude a été menée afin de tester l'hypothèse que le système pondéral akan ait reposé non pas sur deux unités semencières, le ba et le taku, comme habituellement considéré, mais sur quatre, chacune d'entre elles ayant été utilisée sous deux variétés, une lourde et une légère. Le ba est réputé valoir deux graines de damma, alias Abrus precatorius, une liane forestière. L'examen d'un lot de 250 g originaire de Côte d'Ivoire tend à prouver qu'il en existe bien deux variétés, l'une de 74 mg, l'autre de 84 mg, vraisemblablement selon qu'elles sont récoltées en saison sèche ou en saison humide, ce qui correspond aux ba de 146 mg et de 166 mg prédits par le calcul. Les recherches sur le taku, dont la nature exacte était inconnue, conduisent vers la graine de Parkia biglobosa, le caroubier africain, appelé localement néré, dont la graine pèse 250 mg avec sa cuticule, et 220 mg quand elle en est débarrassée, ce qui, là encore, correspond aux deux valeurs du taku prédites par le calcul. Ces données confortent, sans toutefois la prouver, l'hypothèse de la dualité des graines qui ressort de l'étude des listes de poids akan colligées au cours des siècles par les observateurs européens.
Mots clés : akan - ashanti - baoulé - poids à peser l'or - Ghana - Côte d'Ivoire - Gold Coast - système dualiste - ethno-mathématiques - taku - ba - mitqal - proto-monnaie - graines
Texte intégral / Full text
In the first part of this investigation, it was brought to light, by the study of the weight lists established between the 17th and the 20th centuries by various explorers, traders and ethnologists that the weight system used by the Akan peoples of the Gulf of Guinea was based on a certain number of seeds whose African names are known and whose mass has been theoretically estimated.
According to all the authors, who differ only on their role, two seeds were mainly used by the Akan, one of which is identified as the seed of Abrus precatorius, locally called damma. The other, the taku, has remained unidentified to this day. We only know of her its black color and its hardness, as well as her ratio of 1 to 3 damma. A third important unit could also correspond to a seed, the ake, in a ratio of 1 to 8 taku, but this data is very little documented. It could however correspond to the seed of Blighia sapida, a tree known locally as aki. Other seeds could also be used, which do not enter into the weight calculation, except the grain of rice, called pesewa and evaluated at ½ damma. The damma was counted by two under the name of ba. Finally, each of the three units, ba, taku and ake would have been used, as we have shown in our princeps publication, according to two different systems, one light (B, T, A), so called female, the other heavy, so called male (B*, T*, A*) in a ratio of 8 to 7 such as:
B = 0.146 g T = 0.22 g A = 1.76 g
B* = 0.166 g T* = 0.25 g A* = 1.98 g
At this stage, the only data verified by weighing is the mass of damma, 0.074 mg, which gives a ba of 0.146 g 1. The objective of this second study is therefore to verify the duality of the ba, to identify the taku, and to learn more about the aki seed.
As regards the taku, a priori unknown, it is an empirical research on the internet with the keywords, “carat”, “carob tree”, chosen on the basis of a quasi equivalence of weight and function, which led to the African carob tree, alias nere, alias Parkia biglobosa which proved to be a plausible candidate. The scientific names of the three seeds being known, the working method was, in the absence of personal botanical knowledge, to search for documentation on databases such as SID (2), the database of the Royal Botanic Gardens of KEW, and by a new empirical internet research on the names of plants.
This documentary research was supplemented by weighing seeds of Abrus precatorius and Parkia biglobosa from West Africa. From Ivory Coast for the former, from Benin for the latter. A mg sensitive electronic scale was used for this purpose.
In Search of heavy damma
Damma, a small red seed with a black dot that is still found in the family dja 3 of Ivory Coast and the futuo 4 of Ghana has been reported since the 16th century and its average mass is usually given as 74 mg, while calculations according to Binger's report in Agni country give it a mass of 83 mg. A search on the SID database gives them an average mass of 77 mg, but with a dispersion of 63.5 to 91.6 mg. Abel (1952) for his part attests a mass of 74 mg in the dry season, and 84 mg in the rainy season, on an electronic scale from the 1950s.
We checked it on a batch of 250 g of seeds from Ivory Coast, without any notion of season, acquired from a diviner who used them for his practice. Their average mass, evaluated on a 100 g sample, is 0.08 g, but careful examination with the naked eye shows a significant disparity between them.
100 g of seeds has been selected and sorted by hand to gradually separate the larger from the smaller. The sorting was carried out to the end, leaving no seed indeterminate. Deformed and blackened seeds were removed. Ten of each type were measured in length and width with a caliper. The approximate dimensions are 5.8 mm by 4 mm and 6.3 mm by 4.5 mm. About 40% of the seeds of the first type and 60% of the second are obtained. The scrap is less than 1%. 100 seeds of each type taken at random were weighed. The result is in line with Abel's measurements, that’s to say a mean mass of 0.0736 mg for some and 0.0839 mg for others.
In search of taku
Nere is the Bambara name for Parkia biglobosa, a tree from the African savannah, which in West Africa grows between 7° and 12° north latitude. Its seed, peeled after boiling, is used to make a sauce with high nutritional value, particularly appreciated by Ivorians under the name of soumbala and by Ghanaians under that of dawa-dawa. Its fruits are pods very similar to that of Ceratonia siliqua, the Mediterranean carob tree whose seed, with a mass of 0.20 g, has been used since antiquity to weigh gold and jewels. Those of the nere are black under an adherent beige cuticle.
Further research on these seeds leads to an article published in a Beninese agronomic journal (Ahouansou et al., 2006), which specifies that a thousand peeled seeds weighs 222 g, which is exactly the mass calculated for light taku by Abel. As for the mass of raw seeds, it is provided to us by the Burkina Faso seeds catalog (CNSF, 2015) which indicates 4,000 seeds per kg, that’s to say 0.25 g each. Another Burkinabe source (Millogo, 2014), relating to seeds collected in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Benin and Cameroon, however reveals a strong regional disparity with a west-east mass gradient of 0.21 g to western Ivory Coast, up to 0.28 g in Cameroon, and north-south, from 0.22 g per 10.36° north latitude to 0.26 g per 7.25° latitude North.
Rainfall is another decisive factor, explaining the paradoxically high mass of seeds from Guinea (0.26 g) even though this state is the most northerly and the most westerly of the four countries studied, but by far the most watered. Having focused on 20-year-old seed collection, this study also shows their stability over time. We check it on a sample of 100 seeds originating in Benin, from a 1 kg lot, eliminating the largest and the smallest, and found a mass of 24.9 g. Brought to the boil for 2 minutes to get rid of their cuticle by friction then dried, it is effectively only 22 g.
The uncertainties of ake
There is no mention in the published literature of a seed corresponding to this weight value, which is a multiple by 8 of the taku and therefore of a mass of 1.76 or 1.98 g depending on the system of reference. This word is not considered as akan, but as a deformation by Europeans of the radical agira, agiraotwe-fa being the weight to which it corresponds (Bowdich, 1819).
Our hypothesis refers to the number 8, which is said aquiay in Brong Ahafo, a state bordering on Ashanti, where a very pure language was spoken. Term which is declined according to the same source in the other akan dialects in otwe, or awotwe, and which one still finds in the form oque in the relation made by de Marees of Gold Coast in 1605 (De Marees, 1605).
Only one author (Ott, 1968) mentions its possible relationship to the seed Blighia sapida, a tree whose African name is aki. This is a tree whose fruit is edible under certain conditions, and whose seed of around 1 cm x 2 cm could be a good candidate, but, according to SID, its average mass is 2.9 g, so too high. A well-documented study (Olufunke et al., 2016) confirms this mass at picking and shows that it is very sensitive to desiccation so that its mass after 28 days of storage is only 2.24 g.
Weighing of 100 seeds of nere (Parkia biglobosa) from Benin.
Top, unshelled seeds, mean weight 0.25 g (theoretical weight 0.25 g).
Bottom, peeled seeds, mean weight 0.222 g (theoretical weight 0.222 g)
Weighing of 100 seeds of damma (Abrus precatorius) from Ivory Coast.
Top, 100 heavy seeds, average weight 0.084 g (theoretical weight 0.083 g).
Bottom, 100 light seeds, average weight 0.074 g (theoretical weight 0.073 g).
Why are nere seeds not found in the futuo and dja that have been transmitted?
If we admit that the taku was the basis of the Eastern AWS, how is it that we no longer find its seeds in the futuo that have been preserved, while we find that of damma ? The answer may be very simple. The seed of Abrus precatorius is poisonous. It contains abrin, a deadly poison in low doses. However, its cuticle is sufficiently resistant to digestive juices to make absorption safe. The nere seed is a sweet treat, which is eaten raw by children who chew it. It is understandable that after the demonetization of gold dust and weights by the colonial powers, they had disappeared from the dja.
What mass should be retained for the nere seed?
The variability in seed weight casts doubt on the nere hypothesis. Those of Ghana are not documented, but, if we take into account the geographic data and rainfall (L'Hôte & Mahé, 1996), we see that the north of the Akan states is found in average for all these determinants of the weight. It is therefore logical to think that the same is true for seeds. If we also admit that the initiation of the goldsmiths taught them the correct provenance of the seeds, and that they knew how to select by eye those of the right weight, we can reasonably attribute to the unshelled nere seed used by the Akan a value approaching 0.25 g.
Why would the Akan, people of the forest, have used a seed from the savannah?
While the damma is the seed of a forest liana, the nere is a savannah tree. It is therefore surprising that the Akan, people of the forest, adopted it as the basis of their weight system. This can be seen as a confirmation of their claimed link with Wagadou, the Ghanaian empire that flourished in the Middle Ages on the banks of the Niger. We can also see the influence of the Dioula, the Mande merchants who according to Garrard would have initiated the Akan in the use of weights and their lost wax casting, or simply north-south trade including the nere, although not reported by Europeans (who had no reason to be interested in this commodity), could be part. We can also refer to the history of the Ashanti, who would not have learned the use of weights until the beginning of the 18th century, after their conquest of Brong Ahafo, located on their northern border, at the edge of the savannah. Another possible explanation is the use of the seed of Parkia bicolor, which is a forest variety that grows further south than biglobosa and therefore in Akan territory. No information has been found on this seed that allows further discussion of this hypothesis.
What is the real mass of damma?
Kew's data are not consistent with the results of this study, but the origin of the seeds should be known, as there seems to be a great disparity from one region of the globe to another. Thus the average mass of a batch from Madagascar is 0.09 g and that of a batch from China 0.10 g. These seeds are known to be very resistant, in particular to desiccation, which has been verified by leaving them for a month on a radiator. The difference in mass observed therefore does not come from progressive dehydration. Abrus precatorius is a liana from the equatorial forest which fruits several times a year. We can think that the volume of seeds is dependent on annual variations in rainfall.
We do not know the harvest period of the Ivorian lot that was tested. It seems quite old as evidenced by the number of blackened seeds and could have been formed gradually, which explains the coexistence of the two types of seeds. We can therefore, subject to confirmation, admit that there were damma of 74 mg and 84 mg corresponding to B and B*.
Does ake match the aki seed?
For a seed to serve as a standard, its mass must remain stable and resist over time. Based on the available data, this is not the case with aki. Unless it stabilizes around 2 g beyond the 28 days that the Nigerian experience lasted, which remains to be demonstrated. As appealing as the homonymy is, it is so far a coincidence.
In conclusion, the data from the literature and from the experiment do not oppose the hypothesis of a duality of ba and taku, and show that the masses calculated by the theory are consistent with reality, but do not allow not to determine if these two systems were independent of each other, or integrated into a single system in the form of male and female weights. The Akan bequeathed us millions of weights, many of which are preserved in European collections. The study of their weight distribution, even their decoding if it is possible, should logically teach us more on this point.
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De Marees P., 1605. Description et récit historial du riche royaume d'or de Gunea (sic), aultrement nommé, la coste d'or de Mina, gisante en certain endroict d'Africque. Amsterdam, chez Cornille Claesson, 100 p. [Les éditions, 2017]
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Millogo A.M.D., 2014. Etudes des caractéristiques morphologiques et de la viabilité des semences de Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R. Br. ex G. Don. - Germoplasme de conservation à long terme à 4°C. Mémoire de master. Bobo-Dioulasso, université polytechnique, i-xi, 45 p.
Olufunke O., Olayode T., Osuji S., 2016. Emergence of Blighia sapida seeds subjected to different lengths of storage and pretreatments, Journal of Agriculture and Ecology Research International, 6(1): 1-9.
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1. These two values are given to us by Abel, who had obtained the first by weighing, the second by calculation. This difference has no practical consequences.
2. Seed information database. Accessed online February 23, 2017.s.
3. A name which in Western Akan countries refers to the treasure in which weights, weighing instruments and gold dust are kept.
4. The dja for Eastern Akan people.
Jean-Jacques Crappier
M.D., Collector, Le Mans, France
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Recovery of Data from Erroneous Magnetic Media
The disk imaging tool coupled with the analyser has proven to be a very powerful technology. One of its great benefits is that we have been able to read disks that are no longer readable by normal means.
Sources of Error
There are three different sources of errors on magnetic disks:
• Physical damage - cannot be generally be recovered, at least not without very expensive processes and systems, and probably not even then.
• Alien particles - bits of dust or dirt on the disk surface that prevents the drive head from getting a good read of the data.
• Reading problems - there are lots of reasons why there can be problems reading a disk. In very basic terms the data and the system trying to read it are not idealy suited for reading. This can be further complicated by the age of both system and media.
• Bit Rot - disks succumbing to bitrot are likely to start off looking like reading problems - up until the time when they can not longer be read at all.
The point is that many games can still be preserved even if they no longer appear to work. Whether a disk has real errors or just has reading problems is not evident until we succeed in getting a good disk image. Often we will not even notice that the game had problems loading in your system, because it was imaged correctly the first time.
If we did not get a good image of a disk it will be immediately apparent in the analyser and a redump will be requested. No disk images with errors can be preserved.
If this happens we gently urge you to use the Spin and Blow Technique as described below. This will hopefully remove any alien particles from the media. We also urge you to try imaging the disk on a different system or at best, a different drive to help negate any reading problems that may have occured.
Spin and Blow Technique
Here is a little tip that seems to be about 50% successful in getting a good read of disks that initially look to be damaged. Obviously it is at your own risk, but we think it is quite safe - we have not yet made a disk any worse - and we have done it to hundreds of disks.
Ideally, you will need to get a can of compressed air though it is possible to do without. You can blow with your mouth instead but you should be careful not to spit, and also be aware that you are basically putting water vapour on the disk surface. It is extremely unlikey you will do any damage to the disk this way, but it is obviously your own responsibility. Certainly you should make sure that the disk is completely dry before you put it into your disk drive!
What you need to do is open the metal shutter of the disk (perhaps you can even see dust or dirt on the disk surface) and blow the air inside the disk while turning the magnetic part around 360 degrees. Then do it again for the other side. You really need three hands for this, so you might want to get somebody to help you.
Sometimes this is just not enough to shift alien matter from the disk surface. So sometimes we use some cotten buds dipped in alchohol to clean it. If a disk has an error, then we might as well since the disk is otherwise useless for our purposes.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Nick Lachey on 'Dancing with the Stars': I'm not a dancer
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Nick Lachey was joined with his wife Vanessa and a small entourage at Harrah's The Pool After Dark. He chatted with about everything from family life to his professional endeavors. Check it out: Welcome to Atlantic City, how does it feel to host The Pool After Dark?
Lachey: It's great, it's my first time, I'm very excited, I've heard a lot about it, and I'm excited to be here. We are going to have a great time.
What have you done so far while you were here?
Lachey: I just ate at Dos Caminos, played a little bit on the tables earlier, hung out at the sports bar, watched NBA Basketball, so we made a full day of it today.
Talk to us about your VH1 show. What's going on with that and what can we look forward to in your future?
Lachey: Well every day from 10-11am in Times Square, we do 'Big Morning Buzz' live on VH1. It's been a lot of fun. A chance to do live TV which is a rush to say the least. So yea we are enjoying it. Great people, great guests every day. Live music every day. It's a lot of fun, so expect more great shows for the rest of the spring and hopefully next fall.
Can't wait! Now what about Dancing with The Stars, would you want to do that like your brother?
Lachey: Oh no no no. No Dancing with the Stars for me. I'm not a dancer, my brother is the dancer of the family, and in fact I don't even like dancing to be honest with you, so I'm going to leave all that to him. And he won, so I mean I can't possibly beat him, all I can do is tie him, so it's a no win situation [laughs] for me.
Definitely. Now you just recently linked up with Lindt Chocolate for Autism Speaks, can you talk to us about that?
Lachey: Yes, my brother Zac has Aspergers, so Autism is something that my family has dealt with for a long long time. So the chance to partner with Lindt and bring some more awareness to Autism and partner with Autism speaks, it;s just one of those things where the numbers continue to increase and we don't have enough answers to the vast number of questions that there about Autism, what causes it? Why does it effect only certain people? So I think the more awareness and more funding we can bring to it, the closer we'll get to having more answers to those questions. I was very happy and honored to be a part of that.
Well, we appreciate it. You are a family person and you recently said that you would want to just move your family back to Ohio are you still into that?
Lachey: Yeah, I mean, Ohio is home; it's where my brother is and my niece and nephew and parents, so it will always be home. We are trying to gradually make our way back there. We are slowly making our way back there.
When you did the tour with New Kids on the Block and Boyz II Men, what was one of the most embarrassing or fun moment behind the scenes that nobody really knows about?
Lachey: Man, well the after parties are pretty epic. Not everyone got to see those, but those were a pretty good time. The highlight of the tour for me was singing with Boyz II Men in Cincinnati, we did a little a capella thing "In the Still of the Night", it was kind of a one time only thing for our hometown. And for me that was probably the most special moment of the entire tour. | <urn:uuid:cd9a6584-909e-459a-99ce-c0dcebdbf4f1> | http://stilllovin98degrees.blogspot.com/2014/05/nick-lachey-on-dancing-with-stars-im.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive1&action=toggle&dir=open&toggle=MONTHLY-1262322000000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1398916800000 | en | 0.984502 | 0.06729 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Euro Cup no longer to be considered an official competition Published on: 07-11-2012
The Malta Football Association announced that the Euro Cup will no longer be considered as an official competition. This was revealed during a meeting of the Council which was held on Monday. This decision was taken mainly due to the fact that clubs used to complain that players, who had bans carried forward from the previous season, used to serve these bans during this competition and then would be eligible to play in league matches.
Meanwhile following changes in Competition Rules and the Regulations for the Control of Misconduct and all Kinds of Incidents during Football Matches, if a club has a number of points deducted as a result of disciplinary measures, those points which could not be deducted during the same season shall be recorded as deficit points in the starting table of the competition in the following season, even if the club is relegated. This means that clubs no longer risk ending with a negative number of points. | <urn:uuid:0a087959-53b4-4cc4-a07e-1066949c0bcc> | http://vallettafc.net/news/euro-cup-no-longer-to-be-considered-an-official-competition | en | 0.986568 | 0.052841 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Monday, August 15, 2011
My Pen And Paper!
I hate to say this..but today, I feel a little bit stressful and melancholic. I just wish I wouldn't feel this way for the rest of the week.Once in a while, I'm being attacked by sadness. When it hits me, I tend to lose my mood with everything! Glad that at the end of the day, I'm still able to grab my pen and paper and start to write down my negative thoughts until I feel relaxed. My pen, paper and laptop are my best friends now. Whenever I feel sad, I would always write down what were the sources of my bad day and how I actually felt about it. Later, I will find myself relieved a bit. Well...writing is my outlet and blogging has been my passion. Through this, I'm able to find ways to communicate my thoughts without necessarily disturbing any person in particular.
I know someone out there would listen! It doesn't matter who....
After I park my pen tonight, I'm sure my paper and pen will absorb all the pressures and stress by the time I'm sleeping.... and give me a renewed feeling when I wake up tommorow as I begin to face another day....
1. Negative aspect of life bring the best in us. Hope you feel better.
2. @ chubskulit! Hi Sis! Thanks for that words of wisdom and concern. I appreciate your time commenting here.... :) God Bless!
3. Hi Reese! Thank u so much for always being there to listen...even we're miles apart! Hahaha! As always, I value your time coming here to my site... :)
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September 18, 2020
Czech and Slovak extremists do their best to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, attacking the EU and public broadcast media
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From left to right: Václav Klaus, Jr, Tomio Okamura and Marián Kotleba (Collage:
For a moment it appeared to be the case that the shock from the scale and speed of the preventive measures adopted by the Czech Government against the dissemination of the novel coronavirus were attenuating the customary populist, superficial ejaculations online featuring key words such as "Brussels", "nation" or "sovereignty". A couple of days later, however, the old rhetoric is back.
The "enemy" is, once again, EU bureaucrats and the public broadcast media. A good example is the boss of the "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD) movement, Tomio Okamura, who is using his Facebook profile to lard his "statesmanlike" calls for cohesion and considerateness with well-worn excerpts from his party's program.
"The situation around the coronavirus has demonstrated that the Czech Republic was not prepared for a crisis situation. There is a lack of basic equipment like face masks and respirators. The EU position on the coronavirus pandemic documents that the EU is harming us and the EU must come to an end!" is one example of how Okamura mixed Brussels into one of his "domestic political" status updates this week.
"This is not the time or place for any political gamesmanship," he posted in the same breath. That very trick was also attempted by the chair of the Tricolor movement, Václav Klaus, Jr, in a speech that apparently was meant to be a substitute for Czech President Zeman, who so far has been silent during the pandemic.
"These days I am very much missing an appearance from a statesman (such as the President) about this situation - words of calm, of encouragement, of hope and strength," Klaus, Jr said in his video appearance. "So I'm going to give it a shot myself."
"Everybody knows how to criticize others or stress them out. To calm others, support them, or cheer them up is more difficult," Klaus, Jr's video message began, which was apparently filmed while he is in home quarantine.
From calls for cohesion and a mention of Libuše's prophecy that the "Czech nation will never die out", Klaus Jr then arrived at another of his traditional subjects. "We also see a positive. The European Union is in a coma. The chattering and challenges from the Brussels eurocrats are no longer being taken seriously by anybody. Everybody is seeing they did nothing when they came face to face with this threat. All the responsibility lies with the national governments, which are behaving absolutely 'nationally' - the Czechs are protecting the Czechs, the Poles are protecting the Poles, [...] the EU is in a coma - let's not allow any zombie resurrection," said Klaus, Jr.
We'd better talk about Czech Television...
Even during a time of pandemic another longtime conflict has yet to go quiet, and that is the fight to politically control the public broadcast media in the Czech Republic - demonstrated, for example, by the case of Xaver Veselý, the moderator of the online television channel XTV, who is also a candidate for a seat on the Board of Czech Television. Veselý's thousands of fans will also find a call for caution and calm on his Facebook profile during this time of pandemic.
In an interview with commentator Petr Holc on XTV, however, in addition to the coronavirus, Veselý extensively analyzed the amount of remuneration paid to Czech Television management. "This man is just laughing at all the people here," Veselý commented during that broadcast while referring to a photograph of Czech Television's General Director Petr Dvořák.
"It is as if he is saying to us between the lines: 'Send us money every month, next year I'll be needing 50 million crowns for myself and a couple of my buddies'," Veselý opined. Information about the remuneration for the Czech Television management was published in February, but the second round of voting for the public broadcaster's board members is coming up in the lower house, and it is exactly Veselý who has advanced as a candidate.
Was there HIV during socialism?
The pandemic is agitating extremists in the Czech Republic, who are searching for a purely conspiratorial explanation for the novel coronavirus - for example, the National Democracy movement chaired by Adam B. Bartoš (whose antisemitism led him to become a convicted felon) has also called, in association with the pandemic, for the Czech Republic to leave the EU. As for the novel coronavirus itself, National Democracy has written the following: "National Democracy does not naively believe the dissemination of this virus is an accident (according to the fairy tales about the transmission of infection to humans from bats, etc.). We do not know who is behind this disgusting crime, but it is apparent that the new virus is a biological weapon that is either being tested now or that a sample of it was released through error."
Marián Kotleba, the chair of the ultra-right "People's Party Our Slovakia", has gone even further. "Do you recall any corona during socialism?" he asks in a video filmed inside a car, to which he adds a traditional dose of anti-Brussels arguments.
"Was there any AIDS or HIV during socialism? We must comprehend from this experience with coronavirus that the European Union is absolutely no advantage, it's a relic," Kotleba tells his followers.
So, what should one do until one's country actually leaves the EU, according to him? "Study the facts, study alternative websites, study the subject of the New World Order and you will comprehend what the game is here with this corona," recommends Kotleba, who a couple of years back also recommended that Slovaks read "an interesting book, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" - which is an antisemitic, forged text from the early 20th century purporting to document an alleged worldwide conspiracy among Jewish people.
This article was originally written for the Institute for Independent Journalism in the Czech Republic, an independent, nonprofit organization and registered institute involved in publishing information, journalism and news reporting. Its analyses, articles and data outputs are offered to all equally for use under certain conditions.
Vojtěch Berger, Hlí, translated by Gwendolyn Albert
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30 June 2020
Why Ireland’s new PM could be good news for the Union
The Irish republic finally has a new prime minister, after Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Green Party agreed last week to form a coalition government. following months of negotiations to thrash out a shared policy platform, Fianna Fail’s leader, Micháel Martin, was appointed taoiseach on Saturday.
The Republic’s general election took place way back on February 8th, before Covid-19 shook up the lives of everyone on these islands. Mr Martin’s party took most seats at that poll, but Sinn Fein narrowly won the popular vote, so its representatives argue that they have been unfairly deprived of a role in forming the new administration. From its inception, they will provide a shrill opposition to the coalition – recalcitrant, populist and virulently nationalist.
Under the unusual ‘rotating taoiseach’ deal that his party has reached with its traditional rival, Fine Gael, Micháel Martin’s predecessor, Leo Varadkar, will succeed him again in two and a half years’ time. During Mr Varadkar’s spell as prime minister, he adopted a confrontational approach to Brexit and meddled in Northern Ireland’s affairs, almost as if he believed his government enjoyed joint authority over the province.
Mr Martin’s party is considered more republican than Fine Gael, but he’s already shown signs that he wants to become a less hostile partner to the UK and Ulster unionists. As the incoming Taoiseach, he was entitled to nominate eleven senators to the Irish parliament’s upper house, the Seanad, and the Fianna Fail leader decided not to choose any representatives from Northern Ireland. The decision to avoid provocative and tokenistic appointments, rather than use the nomination process to burnish his all-Ireland credentials, will be welcomed by most unionists.
In contrast, backed by Sinn Fein, Varadkar nominated a fiercely pro-EU farmer from Northern Ireland, Ian Marshall, to the senate, back in 2018. Marshall described himself as a representative of the ‘unionist community’, but he was exactly the kind of disgruntled ‘remainer’ who encouraged nationalists to believe that Brexit would hasten Northern Ireland’s absorption by the Republic.
He lost his seat earlier this year, after he was required to fight a multi-party election with an electorate made up of 1,169 voters who represent agriculture and fisheries. Despite gaining just 11 votes in that contest, Mr Marshall clearly thought that he should be reinstated to the senate as quickly as possible, as one of the new taoiseach’s appointments. He reacted furiously to his perceived omission, accusing the coalition government of rendering “any talk of a shared island … a farce” and claiming “the entire unionist community feels let down and left behind.”
The idea that unionists in Northern Ireland either want or need a voice in the Republic’s senate, much less direct involvement in its government, is transparently ludicrous. Nonetheless, his comments were reported widely without a serious challenge or counterview.
Actually, most unionists will be positively cheered by indications that the new prime minister in Dublin will respect the constitutional boundaries of his jurisdiction more strictly than his predecessor. Leo Varadkar and his officials dropped into Northern Ireland without formality and acted like their remit extended to this part of the island.
Before the Stormont Assembly was rebooted earlier this year, the then taoiseach and his deputy PM, Simon Coveney, railed against the possibility that Westminster might restore direct-rule over the province, demanding that decision-making for matters devolved to the province should instead be handled by British-Irish intergovernmental bodies. That stipulation was in direct contravention of the Belfast Agreement, which explicitly rules out the Republic’s involvement in Northern Ireland’s internal affairs.
Varadkar publicly supported a campaign fronted by Emma DeSouza, another northerner who was touted as a possible senator, to change citizenship law in Northern Ireland so that automatic British citizenship would no longer apply in this part of the UK. It wasn’t his administration’s only attempt to intervene in the British justice system. Coveney challenged the detention of a dissident republican terrorist, Tony Taylor, and commented frequently on historical cases from the Troubles.
The idea has somehow flourished that economic barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland are an inevitable result of Brexit. In fact, the Northern Ireland protocol and its direct ancestor, the so-called ‘backstop’, resulted from a hostile campaign by Varadkar and Coveney to make sure that nationalists’ anxieties about extra infrastructure at the Irish land border were prioritised over unionists’ worries that Ulster would be cut off from its biggest market in Great Britain.
Ironically, the Republic of Ireland is also far more dependent on east-west trade with mainland GB than exporting goods to Northern Ireland. Its politicians expended so much energy mollifying nationalists by focussing on the land border, that they neglected the much greater threat of disruption to business across the Irish Sea. As a consequence, their economy is still uniquely vulnerable if the EU fails to agree a trade deal with the UK.
Under Micháel Martin, the new government will not drop its all-Ireland agenda completely. The coalition deal involves establishing a new unit in the prime minister’s office aimed at working toward a “consensus on a shared island”. However, its title is notably more ambiguous than the explicitly ‘United Ireland’ group that was floated earlier in negotiations.
Some commentators believed that Leo Varadkar played to Irish voters’ nationalist and anti-English sentiments precisely because Fine Gael is considered less republican than its rivals. By this way of thinking, Martin has less to prove, as Fianna Fail’s credentials are not in question, and he can afford to be more sympathetic to Britain and the sensibilities of unionists.
The Belfast Agreement amended Articles 2 & 3 of the Republic of Ireland’s constitution, which laid claim to Northern Ireland as part of Irish ‘national territory’, in order to check Dublin’s irredentism. It also set out the limits of ‘north-south’ powers, which were prescribed to a few specific policy areas where the two jurisdictions shared clear common interests.
The new taoiseach can best respect unionism in Northern Ireland and become a friendly partner to the UK by recognising these restraints rather than constantly pushing against them. He should reject Leo Varadkar’s approach, which involved delivering persistent slights to British sovereignty in Northern Ireland, attacking Britain viciously over Brexit and appointing representatives who put all-Ireland words into unionists’ mouths.
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Bob O’Hara: The Rise of the Ecological Modeller
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Non-scientists still often think of ecologists as field workers in cargo shorts, running around a grassland with a notebook and a tape measure. Whilst I’d be remiss to say this wasn’t a percentage of us, the last two decades has seen the rise of ecological modelling, which has resulted in a new breed of ecologist. One who is capable of working almost exclusively with data, producing species distribution maps and population fluctuation graphs without leaving the office.
At the forefront of this group is Bob O’Hara, who has long claimed he plans to retire the moment he figures out whether he’s a biologist or statistician. Bob currently works at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, spending his time with the Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics and the Departments of Mathematical Sciences. I spoke to Bob about the history of ecological modelling, its integration into the wider field, and problems with modern ecological modelling.
Sam Perrin (SP): Ecological modelling seems to be a relatively recent phenomena, but it’s been around for much longer, correct?
Professor Bob O’Hara, Department of Mathematical Sciences (BO): It’s gained traction recently, true, but we’ve been using modelling for hundreds of years. Fibonacci is a famous example, but even going back before then, there were Islamic scholars doing basic ecological modelling. There have been more recent landmarks of course. Macarthur and Wilson’s Theory of Island Biogeography was a landmark. People read it and realised that they can create models with are quite simple models but tell us quite a lot about ecological processes. It changed ecological perspective from just collection to a more theoretical field.
SP: Modelling these days is a facet of mainstream science. Yet 40-50 years ago you didn’t need any modelling to be an ecologist. Do you there was was a point at which modelling tipped over into the mainstream?
BO: It’s a difficult question. MacArthur and Wilson are seen as being when it all changed, but whether that is actually true I don’t know. There are important models which go back further. Lotka-Volterra modelled relationships between prey and predators back in the early 1900s. Before then, Preston and Fisher did some ecological modelling. But there have been big changes along the way, a lot of that is in line with changes in methods or technology. That’s what Macarthur and Wilson was about. And then with computers nowadays, models got a lot more complicated.
SP: The advent of new technology, and big data, has it been well integrated?
BO: I have this theory of how technology is used in science. Not just in ecology, also other things, molecular biology being another example. Someone finds this new amazing method, and everybody leap in and starts to use it. Then after a couple of years, people people put their hand up and say, “hang on, maybe we’re not using this new tech the right way”.
So MRI is one example. People were looking at brains, and seeing which areas lit up during certain activities. It was very exciting, but then people started to see cracks in the method, there were theoretical papers about false probabilities. Finally someone put a dead salmon in an MRI machine and it lit up. So then people realised they were doing something wrong with this new technology and they sat down and thought about how they should be using it. I think with any new technology this is what happens. People are in a rush to use it and at some point, someone goes “hang on a moment, this isn’t right”. And then you get the second phase where people start to think more seriously about what they should be doing.
SP: What are some of the main problems with ecological modelling today?
BO: My rather rude response is that it’s done by people who aren’t competent mathematically. I really feel that you should have some understanding of the mathematics. You don’t need to be professors in mathematics, but people should be able to get a reasonable grasp of the mathematics behind the models. A lot of it is the use of computers. They make it very easy to do very complicated things. And you get to the point where you don’t really understand how your model works. And what’s the point of having a model if you don’t understand what’s going on in it.
That’s the problem. It’s just become too easy for people to do things badly. Take species distribution models for example. The problem is that you just grab the data from GBIF, you put it into a modelling package like MaxEnt, you get some pretty graphs. But there’s lots of problems with GBIF data. You need to do some careful thinking through about what the data is, which of it to use, how to use it. And MaxEnt itself requires an understanding of the ecological processes behind your data. These aren’t just black boxes.
SP: You’ve just written an enormous review of statistical modelling with a number of prominent ecological modellers, among them people like Carsten Dormann, Miguel Araujo, Carsten Rahbek. What was the aim of the paper?
BO: That project was started by a group of people having similar frustrations as I’ve just expressed. That second stage of having new technology, where people sit back and think more deeply about how to use it, this review will hopefully kick this off. I was pulled in after the process had started, and we essentially had to put together a list of things to think about when doing ecological modelling. So that when you start a project, you can sit down with this list and make sure you’re considering your models correctly.
There was a paper in the journal Surgery, and the researchers showed that using checklists was saving lives. Just with lists of things you had to remember, cleaning your scalpel, that sort of thing. Just by going through that checklist, the number of errors people were making was being reduced. So producing a checklist for modelling was the same idea. By going through this checklist, maybe human lives won’t be saved, but other species will be.
Whilst new technology can make it easy to rush off and construct population models for species like these House sparrows, Bob urges caution, and a greater understanding of the mathematics behind the models
Whilst new technology can make it easy to rush off and construct population models for species like these House sparrows, Bob urges caution, and a greater understanding of the mathematics behind the models (Image Credit: hedera.baltica, CC BY-SA 2.0)
SP: You’ve mentioned that people often lack an understanding of the mathematics behind the models. Yet some of these models give very practical and useful outputs. Does everyone putting these models to use need a mathematical background?
BO: I think it’s making sure that maybe not the people using those maps, but that the people who are producing those maps understand what’s going on. If that’s decision makers then yes, they should understand the process. If it’s someone else then they should be able to explain the basic concepts to the decision makers.
SP: Is there a large lag between the advent of new technology and our rush to use it?
BO: Well mathematicians came up with the foundations of modelling ideas in the 30s and 40s. It was basically just logistic regression. The main thing is happening today is that rather than just a straight line they fit a complicated straight line. The technology to make the line you’re fitting a bit more wiggly is the new thing, but the basic underline is just a generalised linear model. So that’s a big lag. But I think it’s a product of the questions ecologists have been asking. And also the technological shift was in being able to collect the data.
BO: Do you think this reliance on plugging into models has detracted from the need to understand biology and the need to understand the biological processes behind a model?
BO: I suspect so. But I think that the rise of interdisciplinarity has filled that gap. When you’re doing macroecology and taking such a broad view of things, you can’t think too deeply about each individual species. But there are others out there who can. In my department we has some really good natural historians. So if you need to discuss sparrows, you know who to go to to discuss sparrows. That knowledge doesn’t need to be crammed into one head.
During my PhD I was working on plant pathology. One of the field technicians in the group, he was the guy to go to to discuss field trials, he just knew everything the sort of things you don’t learn if you do modelling. And this is what’s great about interdisciplinarity. In a sense, lacking one knowledge base doesn’t matter as long as you know who to talk to. So when I did my field trials, I would talk to our field technician. If I was going to do and molecular work I’d talk to the lab technician because she knew all that sort of stuff. So you do lose a bit of natural history if you do modelling. What’s important is to learn to be aware of what you don’t know.
You can read a full list of Bob O’Hara’s publications here.
• I personally think that the rise of the modeller with little mathematical background has largely been at the expense of people with good taxononomic and organismal knowledge, just at the time when we are starting to realise that a lot of modelling in the service of biodiversity conservation is actually not very good, largely for the reasons that Bob outlines or implies. I spend an awful lot of my time constructively criticising modelling exercises from the point of view of data selection and processing, not only because modellers may have little taxonomic background (note that this is not just about identifying species in the field, but also about understanding the taxonomic process, and the related, but subtly different, process of databasing occurrence records), but also because they do not understand the observation processes that have created the datasets that they would like to use. For example, in the UK, even a database such as that of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, with around 45 million observations, has a lot of historic quirks that need to be understood when using the data for any particular application at any particular scale. See, e.g.,
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I have a ball in a scene that when I add a rigidbody or a kinematicbody the ball won't fall. I don't understand why because the default gravity is 980 and the object has some mass. I am trying to follow this but it seems outdated. If you now a better tutorial that can help teach me the basics I will greatly appreciate that.
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asked Dec 26, 2019 in Projects by cooldudue (12 points)
Is the rigidbody node the parent? If the structure is
- Rigidbody
The rigidbody will fall away from the mesh node.
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A rigid body will fall by default as soon as you add it. I'm assuming you're in 2D, since you mention the default gravity value. Add a rigid body, attach a sprite for appearance and a CollisionShape2D for shape and you should be good.
Once you have the body, adjusting bounce, mass, etc. is done via the body's properties, in particular the physics_material.
You might find the following links helpful in learning how to use rigid bodies:
Godot Docs: Physics introduction: RigidBody2D
KidsCanCode: Using Rigid Bodies
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Goals, Motivational, self Care
During the holiday season, the word joy seems to find it’s way to me often. Last night I was teaching my five year old son how to spell it, and then trying to explain the meaning of the word when he asked. How do you explain the word joy to a five year old?
Especially when you are a grown up that hasn’t felt pure joy in seemingly forever?
I felt like I should be turning that question back to him. I don’t remember buddy- can you remind me what joy feels like?
But then I remembered that happiness and joy are all about perspective. Only comparison is the theif of joy, and if I keep letting myself compare my life to those around me, or to what I see on social media, or to anything else in the world, then I will never feel joy again.
Happiness and joy can be found everywhere, we just need to know where to look.
In January, my husband and I had both made a goal to get healthier this year. We took up running to get our bodies moving and in shape, and signed up for our first 5k race in April as a goal to work towards. Along the course of the year we purchased a treadmil, running shoes, new workout gear, water bottles, heaphones, and all kinds of fancy things to help us reach our goal.
My husband did amazing. This year he has run several 5k’s, a 10k, and even a half marathon.
I, on the other hand, am currently waiting on x-ray results of my knee. Back before that very first 5k of the year, I almost fell off of the tradmill one day when my knee decided it just didn’t want to work. Then came the head aches. Then my arms had some issues, the other leg had it’s own agenda… you get the idea. I am not a runner.
Going through all of this, while watching my husband excel and pursue his dream was really hard. Comparing myself to him during this process had me feeling really depressed, and rather than feeling the joy and happiness for him acheiving his goals, I was mad at myself for failing to reach mine.
While sitting in a coffee shop on the morning of his half marathon race, I was writing away in my journal when I had a realization. Even though I was not able to be running alongside my husband like I had originally planned, I could still be proud of his accomplishments. I could still feel happiness for him. I could still be happy for other things in my life that were not related to this goal. I needed to stop comparing myself and my dreams to his, and realize that we are not the same, and our timelines are not going to be the same.
Maybe I will never be a runner. Maybe that was just never meant to be for me. And that is ok. My dreams needed to change and be re-evaluated to align to what was right for me, and not to someone else. Sure, it would have been great if running with my husband could have been something we could do together, but maybe we can stick to walks for now. Or maybe I can talk him into something else more my speed- like crochet!
So after my fourth cup of coffee, I packed up my journal, and got in my 10,000 steps before 10 am while I walked up and down the beautiful street that held the finish line of the half marathon. I cheered on the finishers of the race as they crossed. I was amazed watching these athletes- how incredibly hard they must train, and how disiplined they must be to train their bodies to run like they do. When my husband texted me along his route when he hit a rough patch, I immediated wrote back words of encouragement.
Keep going!
You can do this!
Don’t stop moving. You are doing an amazing job!!
And then he turned a corner and was running toward the finish line. I can’t even explain the joy I felt as I watched him cross that finish line. I was so darn proud of him for not giving up, and for sticking with it, even when things got hard.
copy of when you stop comparing your life and your goals to others and focus on how far you have come from where you used to be you realize there is joy in your journey.
When you stop comparing your life and your goals to others, and focus on how far you have come from where you used to be, you realize that there is joy in your journey.
If you focus on the good things in your life, you are more likely to see the good around you on a regular basis. It’s just like when you buy a new car. You don’t realize how many people drive the type of car you just bought until you bring it home. Once you start driving around town, you notice your same car all over! You were never looking for the type of car you are driving now before you owned it, so you never noticed how many were on the roads until you had one of your own.
Happiness and gratitude work the same way. The more you practice it, the more see you see it and look for it in your life, the more it shows up.
This holiday season, I urge anyone that reads this to focus on finding five things they are grateful for every single day. Write them down, think about them, say them outloud at the dinner table, and encourage your loved ones to do the same. Spark conversation with others about what they are grateful for.
And every single day, find something that makes you happy. Each day, we can find something that brings joy into our lives. The more we go looking for joy, the more we will find it surrounding us on a daily basis. Remeber what brought you joy and happiness as a child. This time of year is the perfect time to recall those moments, find ways to relive them again, and find ways to bring that joy to others as well.
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write about Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles D’Avignon art work.
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write about Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles D’Avignon art work.
paper must include:
1. A formal analysis is an examination of the art work?s properties (composition, shapes, colors, textures, lines, light and dark, patterns, use of space, for example), what the artwork represents (subject matter) and how the forms and subject matter combine to create meaning. The formal analysis is based on an exhaustive description of a work of art based on your own careful observation of it (see the guide to a basic formal analysis on Blackboard).
– The formal analysis tries to answer the question: how does the work create meaning? Therefore, it is more than an inventory or list of things
2. Your reflection on the work?s cultural meaning tries to answer the following questions: What does the work express? What meanings and cultural values does it convey? What does the work express about its socio-historical context of production? In other words, how is the artwork related to its culture, to a period? This reflection requires connecting: the subject matter (content), the material and form, with the sociohistoric context of the work.
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The Insolvency and Banking Code was brought in as a law in May 2016 to resolve cases of unpaid debts by companies. It allows creditors to initiate insolvency proceedings against defaulting companies so as to recover their money. The code was thought necessary because existing systems of dealing with insolvent companies had failed to deliver, with cases dragging on for years without result.
The code sets up an Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India to lay down the rules and regulations for two tribunals to oversee the proceedings. These tribunals – the National Company Law Tribunal and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal – oversee the resolution of cases between creditors and debtors by insolvency professionals.
But a year after the board and the tribunals started functioning, some experts have grown wary. The resolution process is being carried out in secret even though, at times, it involves recovering vast sums of public money that banks have lent to private companies.
The Finance Research Group at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, has been trying to monitor insolvency proceedings for a year. Its research shows the tribunals sometimes work outside the remit of the law and that there is no regulation for mandatory disclosure or transparency norms to govern the tribunals or the resolution process.
Bhargavi Zaveri, senior research associate at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, explains to the rationale behind the code, and talks about his institute’s research and the importance of transparency.
Excerpts from the interview:
When you say you need data to monitor how the tribunals are living up to the original idea they were formed with, what you are really saying is we need transparency in how insolvency proceedings are being carried out?
Yes. We need transparency right from when a petition is filed before the National Company Law Tribunal to trigger the bankruptcy case up to the stage of resolution, so that one is able to figure out the recovery rates. If the company is liquidated, then we should be able to find out the liquidation value. This information is good for everyone in the economy. Basically, you need transparency of filing in courts and what is going on in the creditors’ committee meetings. In India, we have seen repeatedly that some class of creditor is preferred over others. The Amtek Auto bond default case was one such case that came out in the media. When the bond default happened, some bond holders were paid preferentially over other bond holders.
The idea is that there should be no back-door dealings. The debtor, the person who proposes the resolution plan, the people supposed to vote on it, the people who are affected by it but have not been given a voting right, all of them should know what is happening.
The last set of people is too disaggregated to be on the committee to decide a resolution and they generally do not have the wherewithal to decide how to restructure the company’s debt. For example, employees, vendors and contractors who are owed money by a company. It is important what is happening in the creditors’ committee is known to them. It is important especially in the case of a listed company that it is known to shareholders as well.
That transparency does not exist as of now?
Right now the creditors’ committee meetings are a bit of a black box.
You mean we do not know what is happening in these meetings and how companies’ debts are being restructured under these resolution plans?
We do not know. We do not have the minutes of these creditors’ committee meetings.
Are these meetings not being recorded or are the records not being made public?
They are not being made public. It is only when the National Company Law Tribunal asks for the minutes, then the public might get to see them. There is no statutory obligation in the law for these resolution plans to be made public or even to disclose the date of the meetings.
Bhargavi Zaveri.
But would that not militate against the need to maintain privacy regarding a company’s records?
There is a case to be made that the minutes would have information that is commercially sensitive and we should be able to balance the need to keep that bit confidential. Definitely. We can think of a solution that after the resolution process is over and a plan for restructuring the debt has been approved, the details are brought out. I cannot see a reason why a lot of it should not be made public.
What was the thought process of a creditors’ committee in choosing one resolution plan over three others? You can choose to redact the name of the parties, depending on what the commercially sensitive information is, and the insolvency professional can be tasked to make the call. There are ways to do so.
But the point is, every creditor should know what is happening. The operational creditors do not have a seat on the committee. How will they know what is happening to their money? Similarly, shareholders of listed companies must know what is happening to their value.
How important is transparency for the new regime to work well for everyone?
We need to see data about how a law is performing on an aggregate level. We cannot be making changes to laws on the basis of a one-off case. We need to see trends. For that, transparency from the courts and from the resolution process is absolutely essential. We can debate the level of transparency, depending on the commercial considerations, but if we all agree on the principle then those debates get easier.
Insolvency databases are regularly maintained in the United States and the United Kingdom. They are easily searchable and you can find out what happened at the beginning of the case and what happened through the process or at the end – you will get all that data. It is amenable to research.
Transparency is essential for citizens to trust and understand what is happening. Research and analysis of the raw data, if made available, would help the public trust and understand the insolvency regime.
Your research shows there are more operational creditors such as vendors and employees and fewer financial creditors such as banks and other financial institutions taking companies to insolvency proceedings to recover their money, right?
If I am an operational creditor and someone defaults on my debt, what are my options? I can file for winding up of the company. For which, then, a High Court will serve a notice on the debtor and on all stakeholders and creditors to come and object – it is a long process. Research done by Aparna Ravi in 2015 showed that in 45 cases of companies being wound up, about 40% took five years to 10 years to wind up. So, operational creditors had no chance. The second option is arbitration, which can be expensive. The third option is to file a civil suit but slow court processes do not make this a good proposition. That is why the bankruptcy code, which threatens promoters with immediate dispossession of their company, is possibly becoming a recovery tool for operational creditors.
The big debate is that the code was not supposed to be a recovery tool. It was meant to allow companies to restructure their liabilities so that they come out as going concerns if the stress was temporary.
In time, we will hopefully see that before the application is made to the National Company Law Tribunal to trigger the bankruptcy code, companies will start settling their debts. In the first five months of this year, we saw two to three companies out of 110 settling their debts.
After insolvency proceedings began?
No, right after the petition was filed. There are 14 days for the National Company Law Tribunal to accept the petition. It is during this period that they negotiate and the guy pays up and they settle outside. By August-end, 25% of the cases were being settled in this manner in the 14-day window by debtors paying up and the petitions being withdrawn. Another 27% of the cases were also withdrawn, but I cannot tell you why because the court orders do not reflect the reasons for the withdrawal of the petition. Right now, there is a steady increase in operational creditors getting paid when they trigger bankruptcy proceedings.
Is it also that financial creditors such as banks are more compromised than operational creditors?
I think one reason could be that banks are typically secured creditors. If you are sitting on a security against the loan, you are more relaxed. It is easier for a bank to enforce the security under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act instead of getting every other creditor to the table and negotiating a restructuring.
Another reason is that until the ordinance amending the Banking Act was introduced in May, banks were hesitant to trigger the code. The bank management that decides on taking the defaulting debtor through the process would be held responsible for the haircut [the percentage of dues the bank forgives to recover a loan] should the outcome be challenged.
Could you explain how the ordinance made a difference?
The ordinance basically says that the Reserve Bank of India may direct banks to refer some defaulted loans to insolvency proceedings. These powers were there with the Reserve Bank but the ordinance spelt it out explicitly. The Reserve Bank has general powers to issue all kinds of directions to banks. This could arguably have been done under its existing powers. But the ordinance explicitly states that the powers include the power to trigger the bankruptcy code.
But isn’t that odd? The Reserve Bank, with its auditing and regulatory powers over banks, was to make sure banks do not see such large bad debts. In a sense, the regulator first failed to do its duty. Then the regulator took over the role of the executive to tell banks to clean up some accounts. In a way, it absolves the entire banking sector in cases where bad debts happened because debtors connived with the banks to flout due processes? There is no chance now that the banks and the Reserve Bank would be held accountable for their failure and malfeasance in cases that get referred for insolvency proceedings?
It is like the referee at a football match telling the players how to play.
The question is, how does the Reserve Bank settle on a criterion to take some debtors to bankruptcy proceedings and not others? This is the Reserve Bank taking a call after it has failed in exercising its auditing powers over the banks that have brought us to this place. The bankruptcy process lays no blame nor detects possible malfeasance, it ideally just wants to keep a company as a going concern, right?
I am not sure of the thought process underlying the directive.
Right, but there will be a certain number of cases where loans were given in violation of rules and regulations.
Yes, but I think that is a slightly separate point. We start touching upon wilful defaulters, where the banks decide which of the loan defaulters are wilful and which are not. That is a bit like being the judge of your own cause. It also creates opportunities for rent-seeking. But we do not want to go there. I think the Reserve Bank ordinance was just done so that the decisions are not left to the risk-averseness of bank managements. There is a lot of dilemma around this.
Your research shows the National Company Law Tribunal is taking decisions that go beyond its powers, like by dismissing cases at the application stage for reasons not permitted by the law.
The law allows the insolvency petition to be admitted the moment the creditor is able to show undisputed default and if the petition is complete. The law allows a petition to be dismissed only if it is not an operational creditor or a financial creditor, or the petition is incomplete or the default is genuinely disputed. But what we see is that the National Company Law Tribunal has some inherent powers as a quasi-judicial tribunal. We see that sometimes the National Company Law Tribunal has gone into the debtor’s balance sheet to evaluate whether the company can or cannot repay.
We saw a very odd ruling where the National Company Law Tribunal told a petitioner that the debtor has other receivables that it can recover money from and easily repay you, so why do you want to file a petition? We have orders of this kind. We have decisions where petitions have been allowed to be withdrawn even after the proceedings have been triggered.
Which is not allowed under the law? There were two cases where the Supreme Court said we are allowing the petition to be withdrawn, but these are exceptional cases and this cannot be used as a precedent.
Yes, that is right.
Yet, in some cases the National Company Law Tribunal has referenced these judgements of the Supreme Court to allow withdrawal of petitions after the proceedings have started?
Yes. But I must say in the first case, the National Company Law Tribunal got it right. When the petitioner asked for withdrawing the case after triggering insolvency proceedings, the National Company Law Tribunal said it had no power to allow it. Then the petitioner went to the appellate tribunal and it said the same thing. The petitioner went to the Supreme Court, which used its extraordinary powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to allow withdrawal of the case. The court said well, the debtor and the creditor are here before us and they want to settle, why should anyone have a problem with that?
What volume of debt has come in to the National Company Law Tribunal so far? And is there a pattern to the size of creditors coming to bankruptcy proceedings?
The threshold to file a petition is Rs 1 lakh and we have seen people with debt amounting to Rs 1.04 lakh also triggering it. So it is not skewed against small or big sized debt. With time, as we figure out the costs associated with resolution and the recovery rates, we may be able to quantify the size of debt for which it makes sense to take the pain to trigger insolvency proceedings instead of taking recourse to other recovery mechanisms. People have tried to trigger insolvency proceedings even with a Rs 35,000 debt being owed and have been rejected.
There have been reports about how some creditors had to take more than 90% haircuts on the money they were owed. Is the lack of transparency creating more scare about how the system is operating and also creating a chance of arbitrage and malfeasance within the bankruptcy processes?
I completely agree. How do you know that the bank has taken the haircut? For example, the Synergy Dooray case. It was before the Hyderabad bench of the National Company Law Tribunal. The case was pending before the Board for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction since 2005. In 2012, the board said the creditors will recover about 27% of their dues. Exim Bank, which was one of the creditors, said they were not happy with that. We are in 2017 today and the creditors have recovered 6% from it. The allegation is that the promoter indulged in wrongdoing to influence the decision and that the haircut was 94% and that is the best this process can do.
I think it is important to highlight how old the debt is. It is possible that the large proportion of the claims coming in the initial days of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code are actually debts that have been unpaid for a long time – or non-performing assets for a long time – so the recovery rates cannot be expected to be any better. What is the option? You go into liquidation and you find the recovery rate is even lower. Whenever I see this 6%, I ask myself how we know it is 6%.
The resolution plan deciding this is not public. No resolution plans are made public. It is just a claim.
Does the National Company Law Tribunal order not provide details of the resolution plans?
No. It can just pass an order saying the resolution plan has been accepted.
Is this a systematic weakness that there is no clear format for giving decisions, there are no mandatory disclosures along all the steps that are undertaken?
Yes. There are two ways of fixing it. I would like such things to be in the primary law but the other way is that the National Company Law Tribunal gets proactive and understands the importance of aggregate level data and the authorities dictate to the benches that when you pass orders, at least include these minimum details. In my opinion, a sanctioned resolution plan should be public. I am not sure what the big anxiety is about not making the resolution plans public.
Was it also contemplated that a high level of transparency should be maintained, it should be open and records should be put out through the proceedings?
Yes. Very implicitly but it was. For example, how will someone challenge the actions of an insolvency professional? One would have to file minutes of the meetings to show what went wrong. Otherwise, how will you prove one way or the other that a resolution plan went through due process? The minutes of the meetings will tell if 75% of the creditors – as required by law – voted in favour of a plan or not. Ideally, I would want details of the discussions that happened at the meeting. | <urn:uuid:9fabfaa2-3ddb-4be0-a148-e0016ef4fe3d> | https://scroll.in/article/861386/interview-insolvency-process-must-be-more-transparent-says-researcher | en | 0.970549 | 0.090399 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Notes, 2018
“Je voyais tout en noir avant les élections, je vois tout en noir depuis.” [I saw everything black before the elections, I see everything black since.] —Ernst Renan, quoted by Henry James in a letter to William James, 14 March 1876
I dreamed there were two new hobo symbols, one for “You already know everything I need for you to know” and one for “Felonies.”
“I sat without stirring and gazed, gazed with effort and perplexity, as though I saw all my life before me, as though scales had fallen from my eyes. Oh, what have I done! my lips involuntarily murmured in a bitter whisper.” —Turgenev, “A Tour in the Forest”
“Is treatment, particular bad treatment, ever given to a person?
“No. It is always meted out.
“Is anything else ever meted out?
“No. The only thing that is ever meted out is treatment.” —Myles na Gopaleen, The Best of Myles
“I heard Émile Zola characterize his [Droz’s] manner sometime since as merde à la vanille [vanilla shit].” —Henry James, reporting Zola’s diss of Gustave Droz in a letter to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 2 May 1876
What could Bitcoin possibly be good for other than money laundering and tax evasion? There’s an op-ed in the NYT today that maintains that it will help the poor with their banking and help the Federal Reserve manage the money supply. Surely these are the last things on earth that it would ever do—the things that it is least likely ever to do even accidentally. Governments refuse to allow gift cards that are dischargeable in multiple currencies, so it is inconceivable that they will not eventually be obliged to criminalize cryptocurrencies.
“To fear being ridiculous—is not to love truth.” —Turgenev, “A Correspondence”
equipollent (adj.): possessing equal power, identical in meaning
The two narratives are not equipollent.
—Gareth Dale, Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market
“It appears that my stuff has been over the heads of the readers. Imagine their stature!” —Henry James to Arthur George Sedgwick, 29 September 1876
“I believe fully, in spite of sneers, in interpreting the French Revolution by anecdotes, though not every diner out can do it.” —Emerson, journal, August 1849
“Eizenstat famously rebuked [Alfred Kahn] for publicly suggesting that rising inflation could result in a ‘very serious depression.’ Kahn responded by continuing to issue warnings of inflation-induced depression, but with the word ‘depression’ replaced with ‘banana.'” —Stephanie Mudge, Leftism Reinvented
At first depression seems to make one’s vision of the world sharpen. After all, narrowing the aperture for light increases the depth of field.
punnet (n.): small, light basket for strawberries, mushrooms, etc.
But there is a much more overwhelming sense of the strange beauty of tiny moments, such as [Oliver] Sacks’s response when Hayes dropped a punnet of cherry tomatoes on the kitchen floor (“How pretty! Do it again!”).
—Alex Clark, reviewing Bill Hayes’s Insomniac City in the TLS, 16 March 2018
semibreve: a whole note (under this terminology, a half-note is a minim, a quarter note is a crotchet, and an eighth note is a quaver)
The vaults and arches seem really to swing above you in great semibreves of rhythm.
—A. S. G. Butler, Recording Ruin
rani (n.): a Hindu queen, a rajah’s wife or widow
She had been there, unrememberingly, before, when she was small enough to ride in a backpack, little ranee on a jogging elephant, her view of the paintings relieved by the back of her father’s neck.
—Alan Hollinghurst, The Sparsholt Affair
“I don’t want to do so difficult a thing as dying without any chance of applause after having done it.” —Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley, quoted in Edna Longley, ed., Annotated Collected Poems
“The high, thin nose was a little lonely, a little sad, but the bud of her lips opened and closed smoothly, like a beautiful little circle of leeches.” —Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country, trans. E. G. Seidensticker
shaw (n.): a thicket; the strip of trees or bushes forming the border of a field
. . . a law
Which was of old when one, like me, dreamed how
A thousand years might dust lie on his brow
Yet thus would birds do between hedge and shaw.
—Edward Thomas, “February Afternoon”
stook (n.): a shock; a group of twelve sheaves placed upright to support each other as the grain dries and ripens
The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields.
—Iris Murdoch, The Bell
“You make me want to bound about you and about the idea of you like an excited dog.” —Iris Murdoch to Michael Oakeshott, 4 November 1958
“One more step, and he would bid the dying gladiator be comforted by the stanzas of Childe Harold.” —Edward Thomas, critiquing the aestheticized “spectatorial attitude” of Walter Pater, quoted in Edna Longley, ed., Annotated Collected Poems
cagoule (n.): a thin waterproof hoodie
Both were swaddled in layers of fat, shiny nylon—what Alan now thought of as engorged cagoules.
—James Wood, Upstate
Believing in the Kool-Aid does not make it a good idea to drink it.
“Compared with a true artist’s conscience, Tamerlane is tenderhearted.” —Walter de la Mare, foreword to Edward Thomas’s Collected Poems (1920)
Butterflies must sometimes wish they could go back to being caterpillars.
thrawn (adj.): perverse, contrary, cross-grained, ill-tempered
He had some bread and cheese in his pocket, and this he began furtively to toss to the dogs, singling out for his favors those that seemed most thrawn in appearance.
—Gavin Maxwell, The Rocks Remain
“Inside the hall, the faces of the students and the lecturer were equally indistinct, which made everything somehow mystical, like eating a bean jam bun in the dark.” —Natsume Soseki, Sanshiro
What does it say about me that when I play fetch with the dog indoors, instead of saying, “Fetch,” I say, “Bring me the head of John the Baptist.”
Philosophy is a representation in language of what it is like and what it means to be in the world. Therefore it will always be impossible finally to distinguish it from literature and it will never be finished.
daedal (adj.): inventive, ingenious; rich, variously adorned; complex
. . . all the living things
that dwell within the daedal earth.
—Shelley, “Mont Blanc”
“And my relatives, moreover, were beginning to feel that this oldness in him was abnormal, excessive, shameful, and the sort of thing bachelors deserve, as do all those of whom it seems that the great day that has no day after is longer than it is for others because for them it’s empty, the moments in it adding up, from morning onward, without ever having to be divided later with children.” —Proust, Du côté de chez Swann
Listening to Nina Simone, I realize that I miss hearing people ask God to damn something.
How far away is Joan Didion from the character in Play It as It Lays who talks about “third-string faggots”?
Oh, ’tis a joy divine on summer days
When not a breeze is stirring, not a cloud,
To sit within some solitary wood,
Far in some lonely wood, and hear no sound
Which the heart does not make, or else so fit
To its own temper that in external things
No longer seem internal difference.
All melts away, and things that are without
Live in our minds as in their native home.
—Wordsworth, fragment 3 from the Christabel notebook
solatium (n.): a sum of money given to make up for loss, inconvenience, or injured feelings
The master in Osaka (Okubata’s older brother) had given him a modest solatium upon his being disinherited, and he had been eating into his capital ever since.
—Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters
To revisit the past is to say good-bye to it again, which is unbearable.
“Is it possible that any editor should endure any inconvenience without meditating an article?” —Trollope, Phineas Redux
A friend’s counsel to Phineas Finn, after he is slimed by Quintus Slide, the 19th-century version of an internet troll: “I don’t see what you can do. You have encountered a chimney sweeper, and of course you get some of the soot.”
Humans vs. AI: Our disadvantage is that we’re all essentially programmed the same, but we’re building many different AIs. There’s only one kind of “us” to be figured out, but every day someone puts together a new kind of “them.”
Arthur Russell sings in the key of heterosexuality with the same acceptance of generic constraint that ABBA sings in the language of English. One’s appreciation is in both cases heightened by the awareness that it isn’t natural.
“In a world where we are all transparent—unable to deceive each other—it might be rational to deceive ourselves about rationality.” —Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons
“She began crying and laughing. This conflict of tears and laughter always reminds me of the flickering and spluttering of a brightly burning candle when one sprinkles it with water.” —Chekhov, “The Privy Councillor”
“It feels ominous to drive through West Texas with a clean windshield. Road trips always used to be accompanied by the incessant splatter of death. . . . The absence of insects seems to be part of a general diminution of life.” —Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas
clout (adj.): cloth, rag
But whenever did a pan or a clout—when kept clean and tidy—refuse to do its duty, or rebel against its lady?”
—T. F. Powys, Unclay
Music continued for a decade or two after it ended, but unless you already knew the provenance of one of these later songs, you couldn’t figure out when it had been recorded. You couldn’t even write an algorithm that could figure it out. The songs were already outside of music’s history.
After one has learned to manage the isolation and poverty, there is still the challenge of writing itself.
slane, or slean (adj.): a long-handled spade, with a wing or two wings on the blade, used for cutting peat
The men-folk were going to the turf-bogs with their sleans on their shoulders.
—Patrick Kavanagh, The Green Fool
barm (vi.): mix with yeast or leaven; rise in froth or fermentation
The porter was beginning to barm in bellies.
—Kavanagh, Green Fool
creel (n.): large wicker basket
The pot of potatoes was turned out on a creel.
—Kavanagh, Green Fool
Bassani captures perfectly the way that the mere visibility of a victim or former victim spurs in a fascist (or a fascist-leaning bystander) the impression of being unfairly attacked.
The word “mother” is always to some extent in the vocative.
The sonorous, etymologically spurious second “o” in the word “reportorial” is the reason one likes to say it so often.
“Be nice,” the man growled to his dog.
limber (n.): detachable, two-wheeled forepart of a gun-carriage, used for transporting ammunition
“And also, your honour, Artemyev got drunk yesterday, and the lieutenant ordered him to be put in the limber of a spare gun-carriage.”
—Chekhov, “The Kiss”
“And certainly this doesn’t mean that M. Legrandin was insincere when he thundered against snobs. He was incapable of knowing—on his own, at least—that he was one, because we only ever know the passions of other people, and insofar as we manage to know of our own, it’s only from others that we’re able to learn it. On us the passions only act in a secondary way, through the imagination, which substitutes for primary motives intermediate ones that are more decent. Legrandin’s snobbery never advised him to go see a duchess frequently. It charged his imagination with making this duchess appear to be arrayed with all the graces.” —Proust, Du côté de chez Swann; the passage also seems to describe the operation of unconscious racism
“The ferocity of the financial crisis in 2008 was met with a mobilization of state action without precedent in the history of capitalism. Never before outside wartime had states intervened on such a scale and with such speed. It was a devastating blow to the complacent belief in the great moderation, a shocking overturning of prevailing laissez-faire ideology. To mobilize trillions of dollars on the credit of the taxpayer to save banks from the consequences of their own folly and greed violated maxims of fairness and good government. But given the risk of contagion, how could states not act? Having done so, however, how could they ever go back to the idea that markets were efficient, self-regulating and best left to their own devices? It was a profound challenge to the basic idea that had guided economic government since the 1970s. It was all the more significant for the fact that the challenge came not from the outside. It was not motivated by some radical ideological turn to the Left or the Right. There was precious little time for thought or wider consideration. Intervention was driven by the financial system’s own malfunctioning and the impossibility of separating individual business failure from its wider systemic repercussions. Martin Wolf, the Financial Times‘s esteemed chief economic commentator, dubbed March 14, 2008, ‘the day the dream of global free-market capitalism died.'” —Adam Tooze, Crashed
“I once heard a filmmaker say that in order to be truly creative a person must be in possession of four things: irony, melancholy, a sense of competition, and boredom.” —Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry
“He who undertakes anything, thinking he is doing it out of a sense of duty, is deceiving himself and will ruin everything he touches.” —Auden, The Prolific and the Devourer
There is a charm in solitude that cheers,
A feeling that the world knows nothing of;
A green delight the wounded mind endears
After the hustling world is broken off,
Whose whole delight was crime—at good to scoff.
Green solitude, his prison, pleasure yields,
The bitch fox heeds him not; birds seem to laugh.
He lives the Crusoe of his lonely field
Whose dark green oaks his noontide leisure shield.
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Viral Days
“Never Was History So Interesting”
Reading, Writing, and Confinement in 1900
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom | July 25, 2020
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Ah! The Siege of Pekin! What oceans of ink! What acres of copying ribbon have been expended by reason of you!
Edwin L. Sabin, “The Siege of Pekin,” Puck, February 6, 1901
People of many nationalities were living in confinement. As weeks of uncertainty passed, they recorded their experiences. They did this to pass the time and for posterity’s sake. For they had a sense that this year—a Metal Rat Year according to the Chinese numerological scheme that pairs each year with one of the animals of the Zodiac and one of the five natural elements—would be remembered as being of historical significance. Some felt that the crisis they were living through was completely novel. Others insisted it was a repetition with variations on an event that had occurred decades before. It was clear early on that many books would be written about this headline-grabbing crisis, and the first instant history of it appeared while the confinement was still underway.
No, I am not thinking about the current Metal Rat Year, 2020, but an earlier one that fell in the same place in the 60-year cycles so important to traditional Chinese numerology. I have in mind the 1900 crisis that began, not with the spread of a virus, but with an uprising by anti-Christian militants who referred to themselves as the “Righteous and Harmonious Militia” or the “Fists of Righteous Harmony” and whom Westerners dubbed the “Boxers.” Unlike the current pandemic, this crisis had international dimensions but played itself out exclusively in China. The many nationalities living in confinement included diplomats and other foreigners trapped in two sieges that year: the still-famous 55-day siege of Beijing and a less frequently remembered shorter one of nearby Tianjin.
In that earlier Metal Rat Year, as in this one, many people turned to historical analogies to make sense of events that were in some ways unprecedented. In the United States, some likened the Boxers to Native American participants in the 1890 Ghost Dance rising, because members of both groups believed they could call spirit soldiers down to fight beside them and make their bodies invulnerable to bullets. In China, the leading newspaper, Shen Bao (Shanghai Reports), was filled with articles about how the Boxers were like participants in Chinese religious uprisings of the past. The White Lotus Rebellion of the late 18th century was one common referent point.
For the sieges then, however, as for the pandemic now (with its comparisons to the 1918-19 flu), one analogy became especially widespread in the West. In 1900, references to the 1857 siege of the British Residency in the Indian city of Lucknow showed up often in newspaper reports, especially those published across the British Empire. In that siege, too, Britons had been imperiled by participants in an uprising. And in Beijing, as Robert Bickers notes in his introduction to The Boxers, China, and the World (2007), the captives of the 1900 siege not only read histories of the Lucknow siege and talked about it, they also put on a play about it. And a diarist described a friend declaiming lines from the poem “The Defence of Lucknow,” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, while the two were among the more than 1,000 foreigners confined in the Legation Quarter of China’s capital. As Mary Gamewell, quoted in Susanna Hoe’s Women at the Siege, Peking 1900, put it, “Never was history so interesting.”
The sieges of Beijing and Tianjin were laid jointly by two groups. One contingent was the Boxers: poor villagers who were convinced that their local gods, displeased by the polluting presence of Protestants and Catholics on the land, had withheld the rain and caused a devastating drought. The other contingent consisted of troops of the Qing Dynasty. This Manchu ruling family, which took control of the empire in 1644, initially viewed the Boxers as troublemakers to be suppressed. Late in the spring of 1900, though, the family made the fateful decision to switch to backing this group. They treated the Boxers as a renegade loyalist militia that could push back against foreign powers who for decades had beaten the Qing in wars and then taken pieces of the empire as victor’s prizes.
An Allied Army of soldiers from Japan, Britain, the United States, and five other countries lifted the sieges. This international force took control of Tianjin in July and Beijing in mid-August, driving the Qing rulers out of their palaces and into exile in the far western city of Xi’an. After the sieges were over, foreign soldiers and civilians looted the imperial palaces and in the following months contingents of the Allied Army carried out brutal retaliatory raids across the countryside near Beijing, killing many thousands of people. The capital and other parts of North China remained under military control until 1901 when, in order to be allowed to return to their palaces, the Qing agreed to pay an enormous indemnity to a host of foreign powers for loss of life and property.
The sieges were the most important episodes in what is now remembered in the West as the Boxer Rebellion—a misleading term, since rebels and rulers tend to oppose each other, but the Qing and the Boxers worked together. In China, the crisis is known by many names, including “Chaos of the Metal Rat Year.” To associate the crisis with a year rather than a rebellion suggests the difference in how China and the West saw it. The term Boxer Rebellion suggests that the crisis ended in August, when Beijing fell and foreign lives were no longer in danger, whereas referring to the Metal Rat Year also flags the harsh military occupation that followed.
Other Metal Rat Years have often been marked by suffering: 1840, the Metal Rat Year before the time of the Boxers, fell midway through the Opium War, and the Metal Rat Year 1960 fell in the midst of the horrific famine caused by Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward drive. There are myriad differences between the events of this Metal Rat Year and the last two, but to place 1900, 1960, and 2020 side by side is as natural in a Chinese context as it is in a Western one to group together events that took place a century or two apart, such as looking for parallels in how Europe changed in 1789 and 1989.
The earliest historical account of the siege, at least among English language works, seems to be Baltimore Sun reporter Allen Sinclair Will’s World-Crisis in China, 1900. Its preface is dated July 26, 1900, and the first copies of it shipped two weeks later. Thus it reached its first readers right around the time the Allied Army reached Beijing, defeated the combined forces of Boxer and Qing troops, and freed the captives of the sieges, a group that included diplomats from around the world.
It’s not clear when Will began working on his book, but he might well have gotten the idea for it early in 1900, when newspapers outside China first ran articles on the Boxers. Chinese and English language periodicals on the China coast had carried reports about the group killing Chinese Christians months before, but these were treated as events of only regional interest. Things changed when a band of Boxers pulled a young Anglican missionary named Sidney Brooks from atop the donkey he was riding along a North China road, decapitated him, and left his head and body in a ditch.
This gruesome killing took place on either December 30 or 31, 1899—Brooks had been making his way home after spending the Christmas holidays with a sister and her husband. News of the murder soon reached Beijing and then sped around the world via telegraph or undersea cables. By January 6, newspapers from California to Calcutta had carried articles on the young preacher’s death. This coverage started the Boxers on the road to being globally infamous. What completed the process were reports during the next few months of the group carrying out raids on missionary stations and taking more foreign lives.
During the weeks preceding the sieges, events in China garnered headlines, but often fewer than the Second Boer War and the Philippine-American War, both ongoing. When the sieges began, though, the Boxer crisis became the biggest story in the world. The British magazine Black and White published an article on July 21 claiming that “all other interests pale into puny insignificance” compared to the siege in Beijing. When Mark Twain arrived in London for a visit early in August, he wrote to a friend: “It is all China, now.” Henry Adams, living in Paris at the time, later wrote in his autobiography that the “weird doings at Peking” captivated the attention of the public, and readers followed news about the siege “much as though it were a novel of Alexander Dumas.”
The preface of Will’s World-Crisis in China speaks to the intensity of American concern with the siege of Beijing in ways that resonate with the need to keep up with developments in Wuhan during the first stage of this year’s pandemic. “‘What is the news from China?’ is the question that everybody is asking,” Will writes. “The newspapers are full of dispatches telling the story of a startling succession of events that seem destined to shake the world.” The lines foreshadow both the title of a memorable book about East Asia from the 1940s, Jack Belden’s China Shakes the World, and the subtitle of the iconoclastic Marxist Slavoj Zizek’s 2020 book: Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World.
When historical parallels come up in discussions of contemporary crises, people often hope that the past will help them prepare for what will happen next. This rarely works. History simply does not repeat itself in a precise enough manner to give us clear forecasting clues. In the case of Covid-19, so many variables are in play that no single past event can provide us with a blueprint for the future—and the year of the Boxers, so different in so many ways from 2020, definitely cannot do this
But enough parallels in the coverage of the Boxer crisis and the current pandemic exist to warrant speculation: how the sieges of 1900 were written about both as they took place and afterward can help us think about how the quarantines of 2020 are likely to be covered in the future. Looking back two Metal Rat Years into the past with an eye on stories and storytellers suggests that the dramatic occurrences of 2020 and their aftermath will provide future historians with an archive to work with that has at least these three features: comments about the pandemic by many different notable writers; efforts to distribute blame that are problematic; and life stories that take surprising post-pandemic turns.
In 1900 and 1901, everyone from Rabindranath Tagore and Leo Tolstoy to Émile Zola and Banjo Paterson, the Australian poet who wrote the lyrics to “Waltzing Matilda,” wrote about the Boxer crisis. Some did so directly, others obliquely, some in prose, others in verse. The major Western literary figure who had the most to say about the crisis was Mark Twain. He claimed, provocatively, that since the Boxers simply wanted to regain control of their country, he might have been one himself if he had been born Chinese. In many of his commentaries, though, he focused less on the anti-Christian militants than on the foreign actions of the final months of the Metal Rat Year. The last important text he wrote in 1900 was a searing “Salutation from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth,” in which he described Christendom as carrying out despicable “pirate raids” in not just South Africa and the Philippines but in China as well.
In China itself, major writers also expressed their views on the Boxer crisis. One was Huang Zunxian, a retired Qing diplomat with strongly reformist views. After the end of the siege of Beijing, he wrote a poem that dismissed the “bare-knuckled brawling” of the Boxers out of hand and mocked the cowardice of the Qing forces, saying the Allied Army generals would gain no glory from winning such an easy victory. “Black clouds crush our city,” this poem begins (in J. D. Schmidt’s translation), striking a sorrowful note as he thinks about the capital falling under foreign control, and conjures up the image of a ghastly setting where the air is filled with the hoots of “demonic owls” and a “chorus of loud hisses wells up from the soil.”
Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” turned to poetry, too, when the siege of Beijing ended. She struck a very different tone, though, than Huang, and her views also contrasted dramatically with those of Twain, who was an outlier among Americans in his readiness to see good in the Boxers. Howe’s poem treats the Boxers as a “spirit-band unseen,” who were defeated by brave foreign troops she likened to Moses in that they delivered believers from harm.
The diaries, letters, newspaper and magazine articles, and instant histories of the siege written during it were followed by plays, novels, memoirs, and document collections, with the first contribution to each of these genres appearing before 1900 ended. Several short silent films about the Boxers were shot within months of the Allied Army’s taking of Beijing. And in the spring of 1901, reenactments of Boxer crisis battles were staged at both Earls Court and Madison Square Garden, where Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show had Native American actors who had previously performed as participants in the Ghost Dance rising don Chinese clothing to play Boxers. The next year, the poet Li Baojia finished work on The National Disturbances of the Metal Rat Year, a book-length ballad in Chinese about the crisis.
Although terrible deeds were done and major mistakes made by many groups in 1900, often only some of the deeds and mistakes get attention when the story of the Boxer crisis is told. In the West, the focus has often been solely on the violent actions of the Boxers and the massive mistake that the Qing Dynasty made in backing the group, with little room given to the punitive campaigns during which foreign troops violated most of the rules on civilized warfare that the Hague Convention had come up with just a year earlier. In China, in particular during periods of intense nationalism, such as the present one, the reverse has been true. The emphasis is put on the brutality of the Allied Army, while the murderous raids that the Boxers carried out are downplayed. Too often forgotten is that the Boxer crisis offers plenty of blame to spread around.
What then of post-pandemic surprises? These are sure to take many forms, just as post-Boxer crisis ones did, at the personal, national, and global level. One true story from that time that reads like fiction tells of two children whose families were affected very differently by the Boxer crisis, and who crossed decades later as adults.
There was a girl from America whose idyllic childhood in the Chinese countryside was turned upside down when the Boxers began killing missionary families such as hers. She had been used to playing with Chinese children, but she could no longer do this, and soon she was whisked away to the safety of Shanghai’s international enclaves, which were free from Boxer threats. Her father, who returned to their home after taking the girl, her infant sister, and her mother to Shanghai, was almost killed by the Boxers. When he told her about his experiences preaching the gospel in this dangerous time, he presented the Boxers as fiends.
There was also an infant boy in Beijing, born into a Manchu family. His father worked as a Palace Guard for the Qing. When the Allied Army stormed into the capital to lift the siege, his father was killed in the fighting. He later remarked that when his mother told him fairy tales, she claimed that she did not have to refer to imaginary ogres, for real life monsters had done such terrible things to their family.
It would be easy to imagine the girl growing up to be a woman who hated Chinese people, but she did not. It would be easy to imagine the boy growing up to be a man who hated Westerners, but he did not. They both did grow up to be authors. As a woman, the girl gained fame under the name Pearl Buck, writing books that portrayed ordinary Chinese people in an empathetic way. As a man, Lao She was thought of as one of China’s most cosmopolitan literary figures.
Some people will tell you that Buck criticized a novel called Rickshaw Boy by Lao She that focused on the life of a rickshaw puller. Buck claimed that even though she was an American, she had more of a sense than he did of what a poor Chinese person’s experiences were like, since she had grown up among such people and Lao She did not seem to have done so. In some books, that’s all that is told about the connection between the two.
Buck did indeed make that comment, but there is more to the story. The version of the novel about the rickshaw puller she criticized was a bowdlerized translation that had little to do with the one that Lao She had originally written. When Buck learned this, she worked hard to help him find a better translator and to gain better representation, so that he could get royalties he was owed.
Pearl Buck won a Nobel Prize for Literature. Lao She has been rumored to have just missed becoming the first Chinese writer to be named a Nobel laureate. In the 1940s, the two writers met in America. They became good friends.
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30 November 2017
On this side of the water, my prediction that Tillerson would be gone by end of year appears to be coming true.
Reports say Trump is going to throw Tillerson under the bus - like all his other supporters - and replace him with CIA's Mike Pompeo. Senator Cotter - a torture and drone advocate - will replace Pompeo at CIA.
So now we'll have a CIA head in charge at State. I'm totally sure that will improve US diplomacy with North Korea, Russia, China, etc...
Those people who kept saying Trump had some master plan to save us were right - it entails throwing out anyone NOT advocating war with most of the nuclear powers on the planet.
Zizi controlled US media, like the NYT and CNN really want Rex Tillerson out, they are paving the way for him to leave, and have decided who they like to replace him, both candidates for the state and CIA are supper neocon protectors of Zionism in US, and totally anti Iran.
This is the second, or perhaps third, report of Tillerson getting "thrown under the bus". I would say the borg are having thieir policy narrative systematicly destroyed by Trump and they are desperate to at least create, or at least maintain, an immage of turmoil in the exectutive branch.
Do you think that POTUS ordered CENTCOM to cut off arms supplies to the Kurds in order to start a war with nuclear powers? It seems to me this action does the complete opposite of that - it dramatically reduces the chance of war with Russia.
Patrick Armstrong
One of the great things about this site is that when someone makes a nonsense comment you don't have to do anything to refute it -- plenty of others will.
Agreed. And Reuters is also In the band.
It would be sad to see one of the last brains in the cabinet disappear.
And your are referring to.....which nonsense comment?
Charles Michael
Yes Sir,
I would add that here the ''silent majority'' don't have then to debuke nonsense but enjoy their fellow followers clearheaded reactions.
And many thanks for your reviews, have to dig on the links now.
Yeah, Right
"Those people who kept saying Trump had some master plan to save us were right"
Maybe not a master plan, but Trump may well be marching to a tune that you can not hear.
Take his refusal to certify the JCPOA as stipulated by Congress.
Q: Did he follow that up by tearing up the JCPOA?
A: No, he didn't. He threw the problem back to Congress, who look like a deer caught in some headlights.
He is also expected (either this time or the next) to refuse to sign the waiver regarding moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
Q: Will he then follow up by actually, you know, moving that embassy?
A: My guess is he won't, and he'll dare Congress to make something of it.
I really think that there is a pattern to his behaviour, and it isn't the behaviour of a slave to "the establishment".
It looks more like he is throwing that establishment off-balance by saying, in essence, that he isn't interested in playing their silly games, and by doing so he exposes those games as.... silly.
Certifying the JCPOA is a burden, and he simply shrugs it off.
Waiving the Embassy move is a burden, and he'll just shrug it off.
Every time he does so he exposes Congressional politicking that are an irrelevance - an instance of Congress sticking its nose where it doesn't belong - and that's no bad thing.
Just my take, but I really don't think Trump is who you think he is.
Peter AU
I shall have to start posting on how right I have always been. That will allow me to purchase extra large hat and condoms.
English Outsider
Thank you for your valuable summary. Another part of the Colonel's site that makes SST the place, I think the only place, where it's all put together.
On corruption in Russia - it seems to be very bad. Not as bad as Southern Europe maybe, but not pretty.
A difficult subject to examine. But I remember a while ago talking to a contractor who'd done work in Saudi. He said that working over there was a real breath of fresh air. You paid the money over - there seemed to be some sort of informal tariff - and that was it. You knew where you were.
Different here, he said. It was all back door and getting to know the right people to swap favours with. You could never tell whether you'd pressed the right buttons or not, not for certain. More work and no cheaper, when you looked at it in the round.
Corruption at the bottom level here is as far as I know non-existent, not for the man in the street. I've never heard of anyone getting off a motoring offence, for example, by making sure there is money for the policeman tucked into his documents before he sets off, though there are many places abroad where that's a sensible precaution. And bribing the professor to upgrade your degree would be unthinkable here, though not in Italy. I'd be very surprised too if there were suitcases full of cash floating around in more elevated circles. Not for us the breezy free-for-all in Ireland, where a businessman can give a Taoiseach a cheque for a million on the golf course and it's such an everyday transaction that the Taoiseach can say later that yes, it did happen, but he'd never really noticed.
It doesn't happen here because it doesn't need to happen. There are plenty of legal ways of getting money or favours across so a suitcase merchant would be regarded, I think, as a blundering amateur. The amateurs - the MP trying to cash in by taking money for asking questions in the House and such like - get regularly exposed in the press. The people who know what they're about, never. Nothing to expose. It's all legal.
In my view the fact that we've institutionalised our corruption doesn't entitle us to point the finger. It does seem that there is a deplorable amount of straight bribery and corruption in Russia. But we're not the pot that can call that kettle black.
Patrick Armstrong
Give this site a read and see what you think
Fred: It's assuming that the "professional diplomats" who gave us the Iraq War and the Maiden Demonstrations in Ukraine call Trump irresponsible!
I think Trump is doing a Gulfies. Besides the Mother of Arms Deals with the Kingdom of Horrors, he's just got Bahrain to buy another batch of F-16's they don't need.
Trump said he was going to make the Gulfies pay for our protection. And that is what he is doing.
Now if he could only make the Zionists pay.....
Patrick Armstrong
I agree "institutionalised corruption" is what we have a lot of in the West -- it's not illegal, but it sure looks like passing money to get something from someone in power or transforming public money into private money. I don't see anything like that in Russia (although there was a great deal of it in the 1990s and the perpetrators have been allowed to keep their loot. As long as they keep out of politics).
PA: Another great post.
Any idea how this media registration issue will play out? Will the Western media all start reporting from Riga (about Russia) like the Western correspondents report from Jerusalem (about the Arab World)?
"doing a bust-out on the Gulfies."
Patrick Armstrong
Report from Riga? oh har har: they already report from an imaginary planet far, far away from Russia.
They couldn't do it honestly and right when they were in Moscow and, literally, inside Russia's political kitchen, changing a venue wouldn't make any difference in propaganda output. Whitman Bassow left a rather excellent diagnosis of US media in late 1980s. It still stands. Here is a quote: "Thirty years ago as UP correspondent, I met a middle-aged Florida couple in Metropole dining room who were astonished that the average Russian seemed so well dressed. "Why," exclaimed the woman, "they even wear fur hats!" The American scolded me for not reporting such important news. I countered that I frequently wrote features on women's styles, clothes, and shopping in Moscow but that not a single editor on the thousands of newspapers served by the agency would print a story, if I did write one, that a quarter million Russians walked down Gorky Street today wearing shoes. Americans, I said, should have learned in high school, not from the pages of their local newspaper, that Russians wear coats and hats."
Beige Barbaria
Chirac had been for decades a very corrupt politician in France - in the illegal manner that you describe - but was completely acceptable to the Western Fortress.
The Olympians of the Western Fortress have taken excellent causes such as Human Rights, International Security, Representative Government, Rule-of-Law, and Good Government and turned them into wedges against their enemies; thus gutting them from all their moral purport.
None of that is any longer worth getting excited about except International Security as it touches upon continued existence of Human Life on this planet.
Beige Barbaria
In regards to JCPOA, in January of 2018, he will have to make a real decision and can no longer punt.
We shall see.
So far, he has not brought any jobs back into US although he has slowed down the hemorrhaging.
I would add to the latest Trump announcements but not actually doing it that statement immediately twisted by the Turks to mean that the US had just ordered a halt to arms shipments to the Kurds. Yeah, sure, in the midst of the stand-off with the SAA and wrap-up in Raqqa! Trump made a seemingly vague comment to Erdogan that could give the Turkish dictator "shade" of "face" but the Turks ruined it by exaggerating it, forcing the USG to clarify. Or more likely, the Turks did not twist anything, but the Administration was forced to do clean up work after Trump said something off the wall. POTUS will have even tougher time getting MATTIS&Co. out of the 13 bases in Syria they now supposedly occupy. These are supposedly meant to be a bargaining chip so that the US gets what it wants out of the Geneva process, whatever that may be at the time.
All this is happening as Erdogan is going crazy about the testimony being given by Zarrab in the New York trial about Iran sanctions evasions. His response so far has been that Turkey follows its own national interests and did not do anything illegal according to its own laws. If Flynn tells all, the proposed caper to kidnap Gulen from Pa. and ship him to Turkey and other, as yet unknown grand schemes, may come to light. Not that any of it will cause Erdogan to lose support among his true believers but could make it hard for him to repeat his fraudulent razer-thin majority in the 2019 presidential election that will add legality to his sultanic rule.
In the end, an internationally recognized Syria settlement will have to resolve the seemingly unbridgeable positions: the opposition says that Assad goes and will play no role in deciding the country's future or discussions about it and the reality that any "opposition" led government would likely deprive Russia of its only Mediterranean base, an intolerable loss. If it comes to elections, it is likely that all expat Syrian citizens who have not renounced their citizenship, refugee or otherwise will be allowed to voter, not just those now in surrounding countries. That means a couple of generations worth of families who fled at one time or another from the Baathist regime.
Do you recon that This would increase the chances of Assad getting reelected? This might feel counterintuitive to you but you should just look at the Iranian diaspora’s different generations and the successive waves of Cubans in Florida. Each of the generations down the line seem to be even more pragmatic and are more sympathetic to a rational approach as opposed to a Neo-Con line of defending Israel to the last Gentile.
send those jobless folks here to SW Florida, we desperately need help. I'm not joking - we are hurting for workers.
Another aspect of Corruption is that Day to Day Corruption (Say paying local DPS for a 'Immediate Fine') can be seen by many as a Humanising of Bureaucracy in some cases - looting Public Money for a Bridge or Hospital not so much...
I am not operating a Business myself so I do not encounter those hurdles Personally but each Year I pay about one 'Fee' we can say. This may be for some minor Traffic Infringement that may otherwise for a moments fault or at Times maybe zealous Policing... Encountering someone Face to Face however who may not be exactly well paid and has not always pleasant Job while you drive a new Car reminds me of the differences in Society, the feelings some will have of how unjust is Divisions Economically, Socially - there is a Human Face to much of this Day to Day Corruption and in honesty if I am not being shaken down I do not mind it so much as the rampant theft by Faceless Bureaucrats.
Whilst coming with Problems of its own some would thus argue on this Level Corruption *can* somewhat eliminate some of the Red Tape that one may Encounter making relatively innocent Problems into Nightmares. Of course however this can be slippery Slope and potentially only encourages more and more abuse of Power.
To the positive side of this - I notice this Issue less and less over the Years.. Indeed recent Police Reforms in Russia while not perfect have resulted in some serious Improvements overall. I notice less Apathy from Officers I encounter, more efforts at Public Relations and the last Traffic Infringement I had the Officer was happy to pose in a Picture with me as his first 'Happy Customer'
(He did everything by the Book and I paid my Fine)..
This of course is just one Anecdotal Perspective, but I do see positive Improvements in most all regards. Recent Firings/Charges have increased for Corruption and for ever decreasing Quantities of Money.... This to me is a fair Indication of how things have moved.
Yeah, Right
It seems a masterly statement of the very obvious.
The USA has been through a period of robber barons and institutionalized graft and corruption in the 19th century.
How did that end?
Was it a slow and steady cleanup, or do did someone who managed to gain a place of power just decide go to work with a big broom?
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Kitchen Knives
How to Dispose of Kitchen Knives
Often people want to know how to dispose of kitchen knives. The first thing to remember is that you need to take precautions to make sure that they aren’t able to cut anyone, especially children or sanitation workers. You have several different options when it is time to get rid of your knives, including recycling, donating, selling, or throwing them away.
Tips How to Dispose of Kitchen Knives
Recycling Your Old Knives
If you decide to reuse your old knives, you need to prepare them so that they cannot cut anyone. Start by gathering some newspaper or cardboard and some heavy-duty tape. Wrap the knives in the paper or cardboard, and use the tape to ensure that it stays in place. Then, it would help if you placed the knives into a box or container. Be sure to use a permanent marker to write “Sharp Objects” outside the container. You can put them in the recycling bin or drive them to the recycling center.
Donating Your Old Knives
You can give your old knives to thrift stores such as Goodwill. Knives are costly, so many people are happy to buy a used set. Start by cleaning them in warm water with soap, and dry them thoroughly. If you have a knife sharpener, you should sharpen your knives so that they are ready to be used by their new owner. Then, wrap them in old newspaper and place them in a box. Be sure to label the box “Sharp Kitchen Knives” so that the thrift store employees know to be careful when handling them. Then, you can drive them to the thrift store and drop them off.
Selling Your Old Knives
Selling Your Old Knives
Knives are expensive, and you can often sell an old set online if they are in good shape. You can try a third-party seller site such as or sell them in local groups on Facebook or the Nextdoor app. You need to check your local knife reselling laws first. This method will take more effort, but you will recover some of the money you spent on the knives.
You should wash the knives in warm water with soap and dry them. You can then take a white sheet or towel to use as a backdrop and photograph the knives. When you make your listing, you should include the brand, what the knives are made of (the handle and the blade), and a description. It is essential to have full disclosure because buyers want to know what they are getting. Make sure to include any blemishes or defects in the listing.
You can do a quick search to find out the going rate for your knives. One resource is to check eBay, but be sure to look at the sold listings. Then, you can set your price. Most people will make you an offer, and you need to decide what you are willing to take. You can either mail the knives out or meet in a public spot to do the exchange.
Throwing Away Your Old Knives
Some people throw away their old knives, and if you are unable to recycle and do not want to make an effort required to donate or sell them, this is what you will need to do. It would help if you still wrapped them in newspaper or cardboard. You can use an old cereal box if you have one available. Use heavy-duty tape such as duct tape to make sure that the knives will stay covered.
Once you wrap the knives, you can place them in a box and cover it with tape. It would help if you marked the box “Sharp Kitchen Knives” to make sure that anyone handling the table knows what is inside. Take them out and throw them away.
Reasons for Getting Rid of Old Kitchen Knives
Some knives are built to last and come with a lifetime warranty, and they will last as long as you have a use for them. Others are not made as well, and they will wear out. Whether your knives have worn out or simply no longer want them, you can choose how you want to dispose of them.
Often people get rid of old knives when they upgrade their knives. In this case, the old set might still have plenty of life left, and another person will love to have them. In addition to the methods above, you can give your old knives to friends or family members.
Also, in other cases, your old knives may be worn out or broken. In these cases, you need to recycle or throw them away. You should check with your local recycling center to make sure you can put them out in the recycling bin after you have covered them with newspaper or cardboard. Sometimes they do not allow it, and you will need to locate a transfer station or a recycling center. If you are throwing them away, you need to make sure that they are thoroughly covered so that nobody gets hurt. You can also drive them to the dump to dispose of them.
Signs That Your Kitchen Knives Need to Be Replaced
Signs That Your Kitchen Knives Need to Be Replaced
Although some knives come with a lifetime warranty, there are a few outward signs that tell you that it is time to replace your knives. Take a look at the following:
1. You See Chips in the Blade:
Over time, all knives will wind up with knicks and grooves. You can smooth over smaller ones with your sharpener, but if your blade has large chips or gashes, you need to replace them. At this point, you won’t be able to cut evenly or effectively, so the knives will no longer serve their purpose.
2. The Tip Is Bent or Broken:
Although many kitchen knives are strong and durable, the tip can be bent or broken. This usually happens when you drop the knife. You can get the knife fixed if it is a small spot, but, likely, your knife will not work correctly if the tip is bent or broken.
3. The Rivets Come Loose:
The rivets are the small metal pieces that keep the tang in place. If they come loose, the blade will not be secure. This will impact the balance and stability of the blade, and you will not be able to cut evenly. It would help if you replaced the knife.
4. The Handle Falls Off:
If your old knife is a lower quality knife, you may find that the handle comes off. This can happen after wear and tear on knives that are poorly designed. You will need a new knife after this happens.
5. Your Knife Is Uncomfortable:
If you were an inexperienced cook when you bought your knives, you might find that you outgrew them. As you gain experience, the blade may seem inadequate or too small. Although there is nothing wrong with the knife, you will want to replace it.
There are many reasons you might find that you need to replace your knives, and you must dispose of your old knives properly. The key is to make sure that you wrap the knives properly to ensure that nobody gets hurt.
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Marijuana Psychosis Symptoms
When marijuana use triggers psychosis, there may be several different symptoms, all characterized by a break with reality. Common marijuana psychosis symptoms are paranoid delusions, suspiciousness, and a sense of grandiosity. Other potential symptoms include hallucinations, dissociation or a feeling of detachment and unreality, disorganized and disturbed thoughts, inappropriate emotional responses, and unusual changes in behavior. In most cases symptoms resolve once drug use is stopped.
Psychotic symptoms are all characterized by a loss of touch with reality. While most people who use marijuana will never experience this, use of cannabis can trigger an episode of psychosis. It can cause symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, disordered thoughts, unusual behaviors and emotional responses, paranoia, suspicion, and others.
When cannabis triggers psychosis the episode is usually acute and resolves soon after the psychoactive substances in the drug have left the body. In some cases, though, there may be an underlying mental illness that made it more likely the drug would cause psychotic symptoms. In either case it is important to seek help from a mental health professional, for immediate treatment, for mental health screening, for substance abuse treatment, and, if necessary, for ongoing treatment for a mental illness or psychotic condition.
Psychosis Defined
Psychosis is not a mental illness; rather, it is a set of symptoms often caused by mental illness and that make a person feel detached from reality in some way. One of the most common types of psychotic conditions is schizophrenia, but many other mental illnesses may trigger psychosis. For instance, the manic phase of bipolar disorder can cause psychosis, as can severe episodes of major depression or postpartum depression.
Psychotic symptoms, regardless of their cause, are characterized by a break from reality. Two of the most characteristic symptoms of psychosis are hallucinations and delusions. To hallucinate is to hear, see, feel, or in other ways sense something that isn’t real. To be delusional means to have persistent false beliefs, even when there is evidence to contradict those beliefs. Psychosis can also cause chaotic thoughts, changes in emotional affect, feelings of detachment, and a sense that things or people aren’t real.
Cannabis-Induced Psychosis
While psychosis is most often associated with other mental illnesses, substances can also trigger it. Marijuana may trigger an episode of psychosis, although this reaction is not very common. In most cases when it does occur, the psychosis is acute. This means it begins suddenly and stops once the drug has left the individual’s system. Some people may need emergency treatment, as the symptoms can be very distressing. Treatment usually involves placing the person in a calm environment and administering antipsychotic medication.
While cannabis-induced psychosis is usually acute, for some people the psychotic episode may be more chronic. This is more likely in a person who has an underlying mental illness. There is a connection between marijuana use and psychotic conditions like schizophrenia. It is not known if marijuana use contributes to the development of schizophrenia, but evidence does suggest that it can trigger episodes in someone who has schizophrenia or it may cause the onset of the illness in someone predisposed to it. It is also well known that someone with a mental illness is more likely to use marijuana, probably as a way to self-medicate.
Pre-Psychosis Symptoms
When marijuana use triggers psychosis the symptoms often set in quickly and without much warning. But everyone’s experience is unique and there may be warning signs that someone is beginning to develop psychotic symptoms. This is called pre-psychosis or early psychosis. Some of the characteristics and early warning signs include:
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Withdrawal
• Paranoia
• Anger and agitation
• Inappropriately strong emotional reactions
• Lack of emotional response
• Difficulty thinking clearly or concentrating
• Speech that doesn’t make sense
Someone who is experiencing these signs while using marijuana could be vulnerable to experiencing a more severe psychotic episode. It is important to be aware of the possibility and to seek medical attention if necessary. Psychosis can be distressing and can in some cases cause someone to be at risk of harming themselves or others. If medical or mental health care can be given during an early stage of psychosis it may be possible to help the individual feel safe and secure in the event symptoms get worse.
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Marijuana Psychosis Symptoms
Cannabis-induced psychosis is a real mental health condition, although it is one that typically does not persist. It can be diagnosed using the criteria listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The diagnostic manual states that the condition causes psychotic symptoms either during use of marijuana, during withdrawal from it, or within one month after using it. The symptoms must be severe enough to cause impairment in a person’s ability to function, and they cannot be better explained by another mental illness, like schizophrenia. Symptoms that cannabis-induced psychosis causes include:
• Delusions. Delusions are beliefs that are false. A person who is delusional continues to have these beliefs even without any evidence they are true and even when there is clear evidence that they are false. With marijuana-induced psychosis, paranoia and suspicion of other people are common delusions. Another common delusion is one of grandiosity, that a person can do more or is capable of more than they really are.
• Hallucinations. Psychosis also often causes hallucinations, which are sensations that a person believes are real but don’t actually exist. These can be auditory, such as hearing voices, or they can be visual, causing images and scenes that aren’t really there. Hallucinations may also involve other senses, including touch and smell.
• Dissociation. Dissociation is a sense that one is not connected to the real world in some way. One type, depersonalization, makes a person feel they’re outside of their own body. De-realization occurs when a person believes the things and people around them aren’t real.
• Disorganized thoughts. Disordered and chaotic thought processes as well as persistent and disturbing thoughts are common characteristics of psychosis. It can become very difficult to think clearly or to focus on anything during a psychotic episode. To an observer, this psychosis symptom makes it seem as if a person is speaking nonsense. Speech can be garbled or jump around to so many different things that it is difficult to understand what they are saying.
• Affect and behavioral changes. Affect, or the experience of emotions, can be disturbed by psychosis. This can cause a person to react, behave, or express emotions in ways that seem inappropriate. The changes can be exaggerated, such as when a person becomes highly agitated, angry, or irritable. Psychosis can also cause affect to be less than it should. It can cause a person to be flat or unemotional and, in extreme cases, even catatonic.
Can Weed Psychosis Symptoms Be Dangerous?
By far, most people who experience weed psychosis symptoms are not dangerous. There is, however, always a possibility that someone who has lost touch with reality will exhibit behaviors that pose a risk to themselves or to those around them. Delusional thinking, for instance, may cause someone to firmly believe that their best friend is out to get them, and they may feel they need to protect themselves. Paranoia is one of the more common delusions triggered by marijuana use.
Another possibility is that a person may have delusions of grandiosity that lead them to engage in behaviors that are very risky and dangerous. This might include reckless driving, jumping from a height, or any other activity they would normally not attempt. In this way, psychosis can potentially cause harm to the person experiencing it. It is important to get help if someone has these symptoms and it seems as if they might cause harm or do something dangerous.
Treating the Cannabis Psychosis Symptoms
Not everyone who experiences marijuana psychosis symptoms will seek treatment. But, when the symptoms are severe, treatment can help calm the individual and keep them safe. Emergency treatment involves helping the person to an environment that is quiet and calm, with restraint if necessary. They may also be given an antipsychotic medication to relieve the symptoms.
This kind of treatment is a short-term solution. It helps an individual in the moment, but many people who have psychotic episodes can benefit from ongoing care. Treatment to help them stop using marijuana and other substances, and screening and treatment for any underlying mental illnesses, are important for long-term wellness.
Psychosis caused by marijuana may truly be a one-time incident, never to be repeated. But, in many instances, cannabis-induced psychosis is indicative of other mental illnesses, substance use disorders, or both. It is important to be evaluated by a mental health professional so that treatment can be planned to help with these issues and to minimize the risk of having another psychotic episode. | <urn:uuid:8e836754-7006-4376-8bd7-c196cf274eb2> | https://www.brightquest.com/cannabis-induced-psychosis/psychotic-symptoms-in-marijuana-smokers/ | en | 0.953793 | 0.13838 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
MacBeth is a hexagonal variant of Othello. What's different? For one thing, it looks better!
Othello or Reversi mode
The diagram gives the initial position in Othello mode. In Reversi mode play starts on an empty board and the players first take turns to fill up the central hexagon. Disregarding rotations and reflections, there are three possible outcomes to start the actual game from. The rules from that point on are the same as in Othello mode.
initial positionRules
• The players share 72 bi-colored stones - black one side, white the other.
Captured stones are reversed immediately.
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Note a peculiar difference with Othello, where a move may capture in no less than eight directions. Because MacBeth is hexagonal, its directions of capture are along straight lines only - not along diagonals. On top of that one main direction is excluded for every cell by the nature of the board. This makes MacBeth somewhat easier to handle: colors do not switch quite that dramatically.
The starting point of all reasoning is obviously the fact that there are six corners with the same feature that is makes them so popular in Othello: a man on it cannot be captured and becomes an anchor to capture along the edges. The fact that corners are strong makes the adjacent cells weak, so these should be avoided.
And so on: the basic reasoning is the same as in Othello, and 'minimal capture' - capturing as little as possible during the earlier stages, to reduce the opponent's options - also seems to apply.
The finer points of strategy are admittedly no less of a mystery to me than those of Othello.
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Closed captioning will be available in English and Japanese for all keynotes and RSAC track sessions.
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Juniper Networks cybersecurity strategist Nick Bilogorskiy will discuss how organizations can simplify operations, save time and speed time to remediation with predictive behavioral analytics. This session will help companies identify whether their organization could benefit from behavioral analytics and provide tips for incorporating these tools into the network.
Learning Objectives:
1: Explore why it’s necessary for machines to do the work previously left to humans.
2: Explore how security analytics can speed incident response and discuss the benefits.
3: Leave with tips on how to incorporate security analytics into their network.
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Some high rain totals came in a short time due to heavy thunderstorms on Tuesday evening. While it was attention grabbing, the flooding was not necessarily unexpected or unusual. Locations like I-110 at Governor’s Mansion and the Acadian Thruway underpass are common flooding culprits. Heavy rain is a daily possibility in summer storms but when it occurs over the urbanized Metro Area, more drainage issues are sure to occur. Additionally, when it occurs over a more populated area, more people will be affected and take notice. On Monday, similar amounts fell in part of our forecast area—rural Amite County and on the Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana Parish border. There were simply fewer infrastructure problems due to those areas being less populated. From a forecast standpoint, the storms themselves played out as expected but rain fell over a much larger portion of the 13 Parish, 3 County forecast area than anticipated. Approximately 80 percent of locations received rain when the call was for 40 percent coverage.
Today and Tonight: Scattered showers and thunderstorms will again pop during the late morning and early afternoon hours after a high temperature near 90 degrees. Gusty wind, downpours and frequent lightning will be possible. A few showers could hang overnight with a low temperature near 74 degrees.
Up Next: For the remainder of the week, afternoon action will continue to be scattered, but certainly not washout any part of the forecast area. Highs will be in the low 90s with lows in the low 70s. The upcoming weekend is trending wet but a minor tweak to the expected tropical moisture field could result in a much more favorable outcome for outdoor events. As of now though, we are expecting widespread rain and storms on Father’s Day. Needless to say, forecast confidence is still not high, so stay tuned.
The Tropics: A large unorganized area of showers and thunderstorms in the western Caribbean Sea will move northwestward over the Yucatan Peninsula through the remainder of the weak. The National Hurricane Center assigns this weak disturbance a low chance of development over the next five days as it emerges into the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. However, the associated moisture is likely to reach the western half of the Gulf Coast by the upcoming weekend, increasing rain chances and rain totals. However, there will be a sharp west to east cutoff in the moisture field so just a slight shift in this moisture would result in a drier forecast.
With an upper level weakness between two slight 500mb ridges, the central Gulf Coast will remain in an active afternoon shower and thunderstorm pattern. Through Wednesday, slightly drier mid level air will continue to support gusty winds from thunderstorms in addition to the usual downpours and frequent lightning. Due to the scattered nature of the precipitation, some locales will remain dry while others collect a quick inch or so of rain. The National Weather Service notes an area of showers and thunderstorms dropping south through Mississippi that could provide additional rain to the area overnight. By the weekend, forecast focus will turn to a plume of tropical moisture moving northwestward through the western Gulf of Mexico. Forecast models are showing moisture stretching from Mexico all the way to Louisiana with the local area on the fringe of this moisture. This will be crucial as to how the weather actually pans out as any westward shift in deep moisture would mean much lower rain chances and totals. At this time, including the increased rain chances in the local area, the Weather Prediction Center has a 7-day rain total of 2-3 inches for southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi. Sunday looks to be the wettest day.
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Coronavirus: US surpasses 5 million cases
Coronavirus: US surpasses 5 million cases
FILE - In this Monday, April 13, 2020, file photo, a patient arrives in an ambulance cared for by medical workers wearing personal protective equipment due to COVID-19 coronavirus concerns outside NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. America's failure so far to contain the spread of the coronavirus as it moves across the country has been met with astonishment and alarm on both sides of the Atlantic. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) (John Minchillo/AP)
The U.S. coronavirus caseload reached a grim milestone Sunday of 5 million confirmed cases, as the country seeks to try and contain the virus while leading the world in infections.
Of the more than 5 million cases, there have been 162,441 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins' tracking information.
The U.S. leads the world in cases. Brazil has more than 3 million cases and in India there are more than 2.1 million cases.
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Cases continue to rise in more than 20 states. Five states, California, Florida, Texas, New York and Georgia, make up more than 40% of U.S. infections, CNN reported.
New York, once a hot-bed of virus infections, has continued to decrease its caseload. Its positivity rate, the amount of people tested who are positive, is below 1%.
Health officials believe the number of U.S. infection is far greater. Given the limits of testing and large number of mild infections that have been unreported or unrecognized, officials believe the number of infections could be 10 times higher than reported.
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- A Solution To The Pharma Problem. Adnotated.
Sunday, 04 August, Year 11 d.Tr. | Author: Mircea Popescu
The problem so far is all arguments against Pharmai (prices too high; no interest in making meds people need; no interest in cures, only maintenance treatments, etc, etc) fail because they are ethical arguments.
The problem and solution require our reluctant acceptance that the problem is an economic one, and only economics will solve it.ii
Though I divide the solution into a "Doctor Side" and "Pharma Side," it is imperative that both solutions be executed simultaneously. Doing only one will absolutely fail.iii
Doctor side: Pharma does not make meds for patients, it makes them for doctors -- they represent the demand. Read that again, that's Axiom #1.iv
Doctors have no current incentive or pressure to consider the cost (effectiveness) of the meds.
But without the pressure, there is no incentive from Pharma to create products that are cost-worthy.v If doctors don't have to consider cost, then Pharma can effectively get doctors to add on, say Nexium. It works, so why not? If doctors must explicitly consider cost, then not only can't Pharma successfully market Nexium, it will not even bother to create it. Pharma will work on something that's really worth the money.
Consider also that unlike other consumer products, price has no relationship to relative value. Nexium and Lipitor are the same price, but (arguably) Lipitor is more
So doctors need to consider cost, which in turn will force Pharma to consider cost. So doctors -- not patients, President Bush -- must be given a healthcare budget, specifically a pharmacy budget. $20 per patient per day. Go.
That changes the market. If you do that, prices come down, especailly for "luxury goods" (e.g. Nexium.) And Pharma will create wonderful things (not that they haven't already.)vii
Pharma SideAxiom #1 is: Pharma makes meds for doctors, not patients.
Corollary: They don't need to make a drug that is useful, or is awesome; only a drug that doctors will prescribe. Sometimes the two are the same, but that isn't by design.
Pharma gets no points, no credit, for creating drugs that work, only drugs that sell. No one I know has hugged a Lilly repviii, thanking them for having a drug that works, even if imperfectly. Their only thanks is the money.
The single problem from the Pharma side is the blockbuster drug model.ix
The common criticism against the blockbuster model is that it entices other Pharma companies to invent "me too" drugs -- another SSRI, another statin, another Nexium.
But there is a much greater, critical, consequence of the blockbuster model: it makes doctors think that the mechanism of action of the blockbuster is the only, or most, important one -- it creates a paradigm that is hard to think outside of.x In other words, the blockbuster model confuses science. It may be that lowering cholesterol is itself a red herring, and that the actual benefit is something elsexi -- consider Vytorin lowered cholesterol more than simvastatin alone, yet was not better at preventing intima thickening. But because cholesterol drugs -- nay, HMG co-A reductase inhibitors specifically -- are the big drugs, that's all doctors think about.
From 1980-1998, SSRI were all psychiatrists thought about. So obsessed were they with SSRIs that they tried to explain nearly all psychic phenomena by serotonin. Depakote was such a blockbuster that people couldn't even comprehend a "mood stabilizer" that wasn't an antiepileptic.
You can't get a novel mechanism passed an NIH grant reviewer; Pharma isn't interested either. How is it that 6 atypical drugs all have prominent serotonergic activity, but no one investigated glutamate? You have a working paradigm, you have stuff that is well established, it's hard to abandon it and try something new. Not when you operate on the blockbuster model.xii
And meanwhile, Pharma loses out on new opportunities.xiii) Pharma may have already invented a novel mechanism drug that reduces heart attack risk -- but not only does it have to bring it to market, it has to retrain doctors that they trained to be statin obsessed -- that cholesterol, after all, isn't everything. Strattera and Cymbalta -- both invented at the same time as Prozac -- languished in Lilly's basement because the world (of doctors) was not ready to hear about drugs that weren't "selective" or serotonergic.xiv
But as long as doctors don't have to consider cost, blockbusters are the best way to make money. You want to make a drug that doctors will simply add on to everything -- and they will, if they're not paying.xv
The Incentive Model: Broadly, there are three categories of people working from different incentives.
1. For Pharma researchers, the incentive is to get FDA approval for an indication.
2. For reps, it is to get market share. Many reps compete against other reps in their own company. (e.g. if they come up with a great sales pitch, or have an awesome speaker, etc, they don't want to share them with other territories.)
3. For managers, it is indirectly market share, more directly certain rep based metrics (reps made growth targets, reps conducted the right number of programs, all expense reports were done on time, etc.)
4. For the company itself, the current incentive is to create what doctors will prescribe.
It's obvious that the incentives are different, and none are actually in alignment with the company's goal of increased revenue.
1. Bringing a drug to market should not be incentivized, even from the basic profit perspective. Just because it gets an indication, doesn't mean it will generate any money. But since researchers are incentivized precisely on that, you see a lot of obvious "me-too" drugs and indications. The fix here is to incentivize researchers based on the future success of the drug, not the indication. Coupled with a pharmacy budget for doctors, the incentive will be to invent a drug of value -- whether in a disease that has few treatments; or a significantly better/safer alternative. While more difficult, it will be more profitable to the researcher than another SSRI (which doctors won't want to spend their budget on.)xvi
2. Market share is also a bad metric, yet it's the one everyone uses. It does not matter at all that Seroquel has more market share than Zyprexa because they may not be used for the same things. It's not Coke vs. Pepsi. As an example, for Lilly, Zyprexa competes against Geodon, but not against Depakote -- because it doesn't share the same FDA indication -- even though in the treatment of bipolar, Depakote is a much bigger competitor than any antipsychotic. If Zyprexa wins all of Geodon's market share, it gains very little in real dollars. But convert all the Depakote to Zyprexa, and Lilly wins.
3. Managers. I am not really sure if there is any value to managers.xvii I am not being glib or insulting, and I'm open to information. But my read is that Pharma could easily cut the number of managers in half, reducing expenses but also freeing reps to focus on selling. Or, it could use a mentor model where good or senior reps are paid extra to mentor newer reps.xviii
4. Next, you have to incentivize Pharma to make valuable drugs; at least don't de-incentivize. There is a gigantic likelihood that any really useful drug will be commandeered by the NEJM's Marcia Angell and her band of merry socialists. Why would any company want to spend any money on a cure for HIV, when there is a real chance it will be stolen by the UN even before it gets approved? And we're supposed to accept that, because society "needs" it.xix "Sanction of the victim" is what Ayn Rand called it (and I'm confident I just lost readers by invoking her name. Bite me.) So instead, you know what Glaxo's next big drug is? Treximet: Imitrex + naprosyn. Commandeer that, Dr. Angell.
The Research Model: The current model is completely broken. Allowing "thought leaders" to peer review grant proposals is as good an idea as allowing senior Senators to choose your next President.xx Letting Pharma do it is like letting Coca-Cola decide your breakfast cereal.
I recognize that it can't be fixed all at once, so I propose an incremental solution.
Pharma puts money into a pot to fund independent research, no strings attached.xxi
They can still fund their own stuff, of course, but we need a pool of non-taxpayer capital that private research can use. I recognize this is an expense for Pharma -- but not huge, NIMH budget is $1.5B -- but it earns considerable respect, and will likely lead to new ideas and directions -- and someone at Pharma will ultimately benefit.xxii
The problem is who will manage this pot: putting it in the hands of "thought leaders" and academics is stupefyingly obviously a bad idea. You may as well let the Politburo decide. (Yeah, I said it.) Want to know what that would look like? The NIH.xxiii
The solution is a "Digg" style voting of research projects.xxiv Any doctor -- not just psychiatrist, because you need people with different mindsets to make good evaluations -- can vote up or down a research idea/protocol.xxv If you want to get fancy, they can also vote up the amount the study gets (as opposed to simply approving an amount.) It's possible that allowing other scientists to also vote could be of benefit, but there are some problems with it that I haven't worked out.xxvi
Again, Pharma and the NIH can continue the same biased, barely readable quasi-research they have always done, this is just another funding source.xxvii
1. "I think you're gonna find, when all this shit is over, I think you're gonna find yourself one smiling motherfucker. The thing is, Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it may be, ability don't last. And your days are just about over. Now that's a hard motherfuckin' fact of life, but that's a fact of life your ass is gonna have to get realistic about. See, this business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers. Motherfuckers who thought their ass would age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don't. Besides, Butch, how many fights do you think you got in you anyhow? Two? Boxers don't have an Old Timers Place. You came close but you never made it. And if you were gonna make it, you would have made it before now." (holds out the envelope of cash to Butch, but just out of his reach) "You're mine, dig?"
"It certainly appears so." (takes the envelope)
"I got no problem with that, Mr. Wallace."
"In the 5th, your ass goes down." (Butch nods silently) "Say it."
"In the 5th, my ass goes down."
Hey, remember back when the UStards still had the spunk to complain about the broken shards of their leftover scraps and shreds of industry scattered meaninglessly about ? Back when they'd protest perceived dysfunction rather than be overjoyously happy there's anything there at all, Argentina-like ? Well... those days are gone. Gone like the smoke, gone like that song, gone to be replaced with "nowadays".
And that nowadays... o boy howdy, lemme tell ya. Nowadays, the same sad, broken, dysfunctional "Pharma" is proudly denoted as "Industria Americana", with no further epithets, to signal the disinclination to discussion. They sit around, watching each other with panic in their eye, a dozen grown adults on a "farm" (so says the shingle). They're gathered about a single, solitary, poxy hen. They watch it shed feather after feather, they watch each other watching for an egg that ain't ever gonna come, not no more, and as they're watching they dare not bring up "pustule" while the days go by and by. []
2. This is what dead cultures say. It is literally homomorphic to "we are dead", when ethical arguments no longer prevail the elvis has left the building. It isn't a correct statement of fact, as it implicitly pretends itself to be. It isn't even incorrect. It's just a rattle, descriptive but contentless. It just happens to be called The Death Rattle, that's all. []
3. "In the first phase, only trucks will change to driving on the left side..." []
4. And the SOPS is not made for businessmen, it's made for lawyers. They "represent"... see the system yet ? []
5. But it is also impossible to create the pressure in economic terms, because incomes are not comparable. Consider the "brilliant DA" in Fracture. He boasts a "97% conviction rate". Do you know how he got it ? Let's see how he got it.
Have a seat.
Thank you.
William "no middle initial" Beachum. Wow, a 97% conviction rate. That's impressive.
Thank you, sir.
Course, you traded all your losing cases to other DDAs.
Well, uh... I took on two or three cases for every one I gave away. They just couldn't handle their caseloads... and I don't like to lose.
You won't always win working at Wooton Sims.
Ahem. Working at Wooton Sims sort of is winning. Isn't it?
Well, you'll need a middle initial.
Well, those guys all play squash and have middle names.
Ahh. Huh.
They go in for their mother's maiden name a lot.
Well, my mother doesn't have a maiden name.
I think you belong here, William.
Well, with all due respect, sir... I just didn't work this hard to stay where I belong.
Yeah, well...I didn't think so. Well, you have your litigation experience... your chops... and your, uh, juicy private sector job. Pretty soon you'll be courtside at Laker games. Anything else the City of Los Angeles can
do for ya?
No, sir. I think that'll be all.
The incomes aren't comparable, see. Something comes in, a district attorney's office, or a doctor's office, or any other bureaucrat's. You know them, they're the scar tissue that forms once ethical arguments no longer prevail ; you gotta talk simple economics with them, generally about how you'll have their head. Something comes in, and now it's a "case". In a "file". An item, see, an entry in a ledger, part and parcel of the great socialist delusion, that "everything is the same thing".
I say delusion, but they need it. It's unavoidable. They can't just give it up, it is fundamental to socialism because it is where the metaphisical problem with their system leaks if constrained under a particular rule set. This is the thing with essences, see ? They can never be pushed out of the world. And this is the thing with rulesets, see ? They can never be complete. It thus unyieldingly follows that any attempt to constrain reality by ruleset will produce some warts, like trying to squeeze a balloon in your hands, or stepping on the garden hose in cartoons. In the particular case of Roosevelt-socialism, the fundamental problem reforms as this particular delusion. It's inoperable.
Those "cases" in those "files", those items, ledger entries that are nominally, by necessary representational fiat, "the same thing", are just as necessarily factually different. This contrast, incidentally, creates the premier tension of "modern society" (by which term we denote the last surviving socialism, for very good reasons). The smarter agents in the bureaucracy will trade themselves into supremacy ; the rest will grumble passively.
So if, indeed, there were incentive for doctors to consider either the cost or the efficiency of medicine, that incentive would not result into what Ballas' inept societal model promises him ; they will result in some doctors, the better ones trading out leukemia to trade in apendicitis, and yes, they'd heal three apendectomies for every leukemia they trade out, and yes the grumbling Calibans will have "not been able to handle their caseload", being as they are the system-designated rug under which to hide the necessary dysfunction of an unfixably dysfunctional system. Would that be better medicine, where good doctors only treat things I can treat myself, and as soon as you get something actually dangerous you're up shit creek with Patel for a paddle ? (And fucking spare me the vomit about how "Indians can in principle make just as good doctors as anyone." In principle you can make just as good a slut as my sluts -- but do you ?!)
PS. Don't you find it remarkable how much more than him I have to say on the actually interesting topics ?
PPS. Did you get the "Spielen wir Liebe" reference implicit in that article title ? Oh, "which one", is it. Right. []
6. Actually, Lipitor is more damaging. []
7. This is possibly his lowest point. []
8. But if the reps are... sorta-hot, why not ? What sort of company does this man keep ? []
9. This isn't the problem "from the Pharma side". This is a fundamental, and unavoidable, problem of socialism : it can't finance itself. It has to draw the metaphysics into the monetary base somehow (no matter how!), because a confusion of causes with purposes results in the direct and strict impossibility of balancing the books. []
10. For "doctors", which is to say, for pointedly non-thinkers. Who cares about them ? Oh, I guess people who want a dental bridge built as fits in their mouth, rather than as the doctor felt it should go ? I guess we're fucked, then. []
11. What does the author want to believe ?
That there is a benefit, yes ? Review note i, I guess. []
12. It's unclear whether he's saying it's not hard to abandon paradigm and try something new when on the blackluster model, or something else. In any case, from my own experience (in a different field), the Hollywood model is relatively (when compared to the other approaches) rather promotive of alternative pathways. Certainly more likely to find something new than the faith-driven Afro-Indian imbecility, or the uppity-old-cunt-driven "farmer/artisan" system. In a word, I suspect he's dissing cars for being sluggish on the strength of his ignorance of wagon trains and lack of experience walking. []
13. Not like they're going anywhere -- the steam engine the Greeks had but wouldn't apply waited patiently (eighteen centuries!!!) for the English to apply instead. This is a misrepresentation transparently constructed so as to protect Ballas' psyche from the actual opportunities that come with actual expiration windows ; it's a good thing "pharma loses out on new opportunities" because this way Ballas doesn't have to think about losing out by not having showed us his tits in time. (Yes, that was ongoing just about the time he phf'd. []
14. Maybe the solution is simply to do away with the USG.FDA arm of nonsense, and simply let anyone prescribe anything ? No ?
Why not. []
15. Which provides one a fine heuristic in dealing with USG.bureaucrat "doctors", to go with the one we already have for dealing with USG.bureaucrat "lawyers" and the other one, for dealing with USG.bureaucrat "scientists" : never take any SWAG-drugs. If "everyone" is taking Lipitor, you don't take it, because "everyone" is just another name for organised and militant retards. It's a heuristic, which means it won't work perfectly -- but it's a good heuristic, which means it's guaranteed to statistically work better than the alternative. []
16. The result will be that... no, seriously, guess. What will be the result ?
"Researchers" still have to meet fixed periodic expenses, in the shape of rents, meals, weekly cocksuckers etcetera. They could of course self-insure, bridging the gap between certain present expense and uncertain future revenue out of their own, fat pockets. This will not happen, because, simply put, there's not enough slack in Inca lands to afford this kind of largesse, and should these "researchers" somehow have the fat pockets... why... they'd be dekulakized. Their owner, who isn't me and doesn't care, also has better uses and more pressing needs for that money.
So no, they won't self-insure. They'll buy insurance, which means, quite specifically, they'll hire someone to pay them fixed amounts each day in exchange for whatever future upside. In other words... exactly what's happening now ; because what's happening now isn't happening because no special cuntlet of Ballas' caliber yet crawled out of cunt, to tell us all how his 5yo inventions would go. Because this is how it works, if you make a "rule" to stop them from being stupid, they create an indirection layer to get around the rule (while explaining why the rule should be repealed in the first place).
That's the mechanism of rules, their lifecycle, you understand this, don't you ? Just as soon as the last horse fled the coop, "rules" are "created" to "cement public trust". To assure Joe Q Nobody that "no such thing could ever happen again". The rulepile is at this juncture entirely pointless, much like a reinforced door to an empty coop, and therefore everyone agrees it is both sound and needed.
Then, as the various pressures mount (in direct relation to the rule's efficacity), more and more "dissenting" voices are heard, explaining how the rule is "outdated", as if that means anything, and that "we only need doors for empty coops! what point does a door to a full coop serve besides keeping things from going in", thus therefore the rules being "anti-business" and so following. Because paralogism is the true and universal substance of human "thought", and the simple observation that "the more ants you shove into a matchbox, the less likely for another ant to go in through a crack, and the more likely for an ant to go out of a crack, should you open it a crack" is entirely foreign to everyone. Somehow, magically, it's how "the wisdom of crowds" goes.
So then the door's loosened, and the horses run off again, and there you have it, paroxistic behaviour as a fundamental human mode of existence. I expect you're plenty familiar with it, being exactly the way you've been training your asshole to give you up when we meet : right after you've fucked yourself in the ass, you come up with promises about how you won't do it again, and make up rules to ensure you won't, and so following. And they "work", too, in the limited sense that for as long as you're not fucking yourself in the ass, you're not fucking yourself in the ass ; but then... as the time comes for you to take it up there again... you do, don't you. When the time for it comes you do it again, and then make up some rules again, which are your companions for the downtime. You just don't remember them when it's time to take it up the ass again, that's all. Right ? When the time for them to be applied comes, the "rules" are just so much wet paper. At all other times they're cock-solid, though, of course, of course. Just not when they're about to be useful -- then, they're just in the way.
This is how "society" works because it's how you work. And this is also why it's not society, and you aren't anybody. []
17. Then again we knew all along he has no clue about how anything works. []
18. Or it could fire all psychiatrists, and just let the rep managers stamp the "prescriptions". After all, when hiring astrologers, hire the cheapest. []
19. Well, the niggers involved certainly do need it. []
20. Yet judging by all the butthurt over Trump getting in, it'd seem that's precisely what the aspies wanted in the first place. They're certainly letting Apple pick their breakfast cereal, at that. []
21. Keks.
Why is this always the go-to of the aspie, "large pot of money, and it's all for me, free of anything" ? []
22. I propose instead that everyone on Ballas' block puts up their daughters naked into a truck. It's not a big deal, their lives suck anyway ; it'll earn considerable respect and ultimately someone on Ballas' block will benefit.
The only difference between his insanity and my insanity is that mine's actually happening, as in, right now. His never will. []
23. Except everyone in socialism is "academics" aka the Gosplan. This is like proposing to pay the brothel janitor instead of the madam, "because it's more moral that way". What the cuck ?! []
24. O yeah, totally. Idea of the year, this.
By the way, whatever happened to digg ? Remember that thing, back in the day it was just as much a pretender to "this is everything" as retarddit was earlier this decade. What happened ? Did it buy Russia ? Or did it buy the barn, the same old barn all these glories've been buying like cockwork ? []
25. And they will, because... what ? Someone might be wrong on the internet ? []
26. Such as what, Perelman voting you all down to 0 ? For perfectly good reasons ? []
27. Just another imaginary "funding source". Homeboy's ready with a gameplan.
Then again... maybe medicine could just win the lottery ? []
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Braised baby bok choy and trumpet mushrooms
Braised baby bok choy and trumpet mushrooms
I just got back from a trip to Vegas. It is only an hour and a half away, but I don't get down there very often. When I do go down, it isn't to gamble. I go to shop at food stores we don't have in my little town. This last trip was amazing, because I found a new Korean market I didn't know was there. IT WAS HUGE, and I WAS IN HEAVEN. My poor son was bored out of his mind, because I was going so slow. I didn't want to miss anything.
One ingredient I found was some beautiful trumpet mushrooms. They don't sell them where I live. Any other exotic mushroom in my town cost's a mint. Well, these beautiful trumpet mushrooms were only $2.99 for a big pack. Of course I took advantage of them, also some beautiful baby bok choy. I picked up a bunch of other yummy ingredients and some nice, new metal chopsticks.
This recipe used amazing ingredients. I am posting pictures of two of them, so you can see what they look like in the store.
The first is fermented soybean paste. You can sub white miso if you cannot find the Korean version.
The other is hot pepper paste. This is so good. I use it for many things. If you cannot find this, you could use sambal oelek.
You can find the above two at any Asian market. I have also seen them at some regular grocery stores.
So lets move on to the easy recipe.
1 lb. baby bok choy, washed, stem cut off, and leaves separated. Do not dry.
1 lb. trumpet mushrooms, cleaned and cut thick. (if you cannot find trumpet mushrooms, you could use large white button mushrooms, or cleaned and gilled portobello mushrooms)
1/2 large yellow onion, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch chunks
3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped fine
2 stalks green onions, cleaned and sliced thin
1 tsp. sesame seeds (for garnish)
For the sauce
3 tablespoons fermented soy paste
1 tablespoon red pepper paste
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1 tsp. low sodium soy sauce
Mix together until smooth and set aside
In a large saute pan or wok, over medium high heat, saute the onions. Keep stirring until they start to turn translucent. If they start to brown to fast, add a little water, and take off the heat for a moment. After about 2 minutes, add the mushrooms and garlic. Saute for another 5 minutes. Stirring often. You want to cook until the mushrooms start to wilt and even take on some color.
Add the baby bok choy, and with tongs, stir around and move in pan. You want to saute for about 3 minutes, until they wilt and the white parts are starting to get tender.
Add the sauce and stir well. Be careful when stirring, so you don't break the mushrooms. You want to stir until all the sauce is covering the veggies. The bok choy will give off water from rinsing them off, and this will add to the sauce.
Take off heat and serve right away. Garnish with green onions and sesame seeds.
I served with rice, but you could just use as a side dish too.
Most of all, enjoy!!
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As a perpetual solo female traveler, one of the questions I frequently get asked is do I get lonely?
I mean, what a question! Of course, I get lonely when I travel solo but also sometimes when I am at home.
Traveling without a companion or partner can be completely daunting but I’ve found it to be one of the most rewarding and fulfilling styles of travel.
Like most types of travel, solo female travel has its ups and downs but at the end of the day, I heartily vouch that every person should try it at least once in their lives.
1. Stay in social accommodation
No, I don’t mean a hostel. If you’re a backpacker on a budget and looking for cheap accommodation, shared dorm rooms in hostels will certainly introduce you to people.
But I’m past those years of my life, though occasionally I still stay in hostels but in private rooms.
Nowadays there is a wide range of types of hostels you can stay in, some are categorized as “luxury” even. So when I’m traveling and looking to meet people oftentimes, I’ll book into a high-quality hostel in a private room and spend time in the common room or communal areas to meet people or participate in hostel group activities.
But most of the time I don’t like staying in hostels so I look for smaller, more intimate accommodation options, ones where you meet the owners and other guests easily, like small B&Bs or on AirBnB.
AirBnB and other similar accommodation rentals are a great way to meet the locals and get to see a different side of a destination. I’ve made friends with many AirBnB hosts over the years and it feels like I’m visiting a friend in the city or country where I’m visiting.
2. Hop on a guided tour
Depending on your trip, your travel style and where you are going you might consider hopping on a tour.
Usually, there are a range of tours that meet every type of need and interest. Day tours or multi-day tours, photography tours and budget tours even pub crawls, there are many types to choose from.
Usually, when I’m in a place like Europe, I prefer to travel around on my own, but when I want to get to places where I need a car, I’ll just hop on a day tour instead. It’s a great way to pack in a lot of sightseeing and meet new people.
At the end of every tour I’ve done I usually leave with a couple of new friends and sometimes we would meet up later on and either travel together or just grab coffee. After all, everyone is in the same boat as you.
If I’m traveling to a country where I’m either not comfortable traveling alone (rare now but still it happens) or I’m looking for a different kind or unique travel experience, I’ll book a multi-day tour.
For example, I just came home from a 3 week horseback riding trip through Mongolia with Zavkhan Trekking. Not even sure how I would even begin planning that on my own.
Last year for Christmas I joined in on a small-group local tour around New Zealand called Haka Tours, both of which fitted perfectly for what I wanted and almost everyone else on the tours were also solo travelers. Even if you travel by yourself, you’re rarely alone.
3. Participate in group activities
Aside from hopping on tours when you’re traveling around, another great way to stay social and meet people on the road is to join in on group activities.
I love having hands-on travel experiences, like eating, when I’m on the road so I tend to gravitate towards activities like cooking classes, food and market tours, and lots and lots of adventure activities, like bike tours, boat outings, and scenic flights.
Most of these activities book more than one person on them so you are guaranteed to meet people. There is nothing quite like making a new friend as you kayak through rapids or bake a local dish in a new city.
4. Make a travel buddy on the road
This usually works when you are traveling for extended periods of time and have a flexible schedule on the road, but also it can still work when your schedule is a bit limited.
Once I’ve met other solo travelers, if we’ve hung out a few times and have similar interests or want to go to the same place, sometimes it’s easy to just travel along together for a while.
This happens a lot on the well-trodden backpackers trails in Europe and Southeast Asia but also works in other parts of the world too.
5. Have a “Say Yes” policy when you’re feeling a bit lonely and be friendly
Maybe it’s just me but meeting people has never come easy to me. I am an introvert through and through, and it almost goes against my nature to intentionally be outgoing.
In the beginning, I had to force myself to talk to people. The easiest way is just to be really friendly. Depending on the country, I’ve found the majority of people love friendly solo travelers. It’s less intimidating than when you’re in groups and it just works.
On top of that when I’m traveling I try to have a “say yes” policy when people invite me to things.
Of course, I judge the situation and definitely say no if I feel unsafe or weird, but often times just putting yourself a little bit out of your comfort zone can be very rewarding.
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The purpose of the NFL protests, according to Colin Kaepernick, is to spread awareness of social injustices against African Americans. When the media began writing stories and producing segments on the issue, biases formed within different news sources, thereby influencing the people reading or viewing the information. When news sources cover stories involving a social justice component, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, protestors' voices are usually ignored or misrepresented. This is a form of oppression that the media seldom recognizes. Because of this, stories produced by "left" and "right" leaning news sources often do not provide accurate or complete reporting. To fight this oppression, action research can be used to help people find reliable sources of information that include the protestors' point of view. | <urn:uuid:0242f7f2-2297-4c66-8707-f201c322136c> | https://aar.pausd.org/projects-2019/how-media-impacts-opinions-palo-alto-high-school-students-regarding-nfl-protests | en | 0.933208 | 0.320099 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Can I disable the Word export functionality but still use PDF export functionality?
Hello again,
We want to enable the Export functionality but only want to let users print to PDF.
Is it possible to do this?
The Export permission allows both Word and PDF, but we do not want people to export to Word.
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Ah Confluence! Go to plugins and disable Export as Word (wordexport) from Page Operations plugin under System plugins and see if it helps!
It shouldn't cause any other issues. In the worst case, you can enable it back. It definitely wouldn't blow the wiki up.
Excellent, I've found it! Thanks for your patience.
Before I disable this, is it likely to have any consequences other than disabling the Word export functionality?
I'm assuming what happens is that the menu option will disappear from the whole of our wiki instance, but that it won't affect anything else.
This probably soudns a bit dumb, but I don't want to blow the wiki up. :)
I've just gone to do this and I get the following msg: Module cannot be modified.
This might be an admins thing, just in case anyone else needs to do it. I may not have enough permissions, so will see if anyone else can.
Just realised that there is a much simpler way..... You don't need to disable functionality, just take away the menu which allows users to exprt to word. All the code is still active but no user can export to word.
• Open up confluence admin
• Go to Custom HTML option & edit.
• Paste the following code into the HEADER section
<style type="text/css">
#action-export-word-link{ display: none}
What it does is that it over-rides the default CSS and make it disappear!
Yes, we've just been told that too, thanks. This is a msg that appears in Confluence:
"This library includes the page operations items which are core to Confluence. It should never be disabled"
We might go with the Custom HTML idea.
That's excellent. I created a user macro to do that and then added my macro wrapped in a show-to based on group. So, employees can export to word but customers cannot. Thanks
We need to do this as well but Custom HTML does not seem to honor macros. Can anyone provide a code example or a link to documentation on how to embed macros using the Admin/Custom HTML feature?
Hi Mathew,
I tried your custom HTML method and its not working on cloud version.
How can i hide the word export from the page menu list
Yes, you can do it. Go to Administration > Plugins and find the Issue View Plugin under System Plugins. Expand the module and you can then disable the Word (issue-word) module.
thanks for the info.
I've followed your instructions, and I can find Confluence PDF Export, but cannot find anything for Word. I've searched the page for Word and for MS, and niether are there.
I'm looking under System Plugins, which I opened from Plugins. I don't see anything that has the word 'issue' in it. Maybe that's why I'm not finding what I'm looking for. :)
It's the "Issue Views Plugin", there is a module called "Word (issue-word)"
If you've got an older version of Jira, there isn't a System Plugin section
Thanks, but I'm in Confluence.
There's only one instance of the word issue in the list and that's for Jira-connector.
When I expand that, there's nothing about Word in any of the options.
Thanks. :)
Hi, would it be possible to disable the download function of an attachment by this HTML method?
I know there is a solution for that that requires some coding, but it only works on stand-alone systems, but I use an on demand system. How would the code look like, if its possible and where does it have to be placed.
Hi, Christoph Maaß.
As for myself, I have seldom tried to export the files to Word or PDF. I wonder have you ever worked it out? Do I need another 3rd party manual toolkit? When it comes PDF conversion process, I have another question, I wonder have you ever tried to convert pdf to other image files before? As for myself, I am testing the related PDF to PNG converting , PDF to BMP converting , and PDF to JPG converting programs these days. Do you have experience about it? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Rowdyruff Boys are a group of transhuman boys who are the male counterparts of the Powerpuff Girls. They were created by Mojo Jojo with ingredients that are the opposite ones used to make the Powerpuff Girls, so they could beat them[1]. They were eventually destroyed at the end of the episode. At some point, they were resurrected by the Sky Police and Men In Black[2] and trained by Dr. Brisbaine and I.M. Weasel[3] for special assignements that require their transhuman abilities.
Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi[1]
After yet another defeat at the hands of the Powerpuff Girls, Mojo Jojo came with the idea to make a copy of the girls, clones that would match their strength but were their polar opposites. Being genius chemist, Mojo Jojo managed to device a formula on how to create his copies with the use of armpit hair, snails and dog tail as replacements for "sugar, spice and everything nice". The toilet in its cell appeared to be contaminated with Chemical X, enough for a reactions that led to the creation of the RowdyRuff Boys. During the first encounters with the Powerpuff Girls, the boys proved to be their physical superiors but with the help of Sarah Bellum, the girls managed to uncover the weakness of the boys, a kiss. When they kissed them however, the emotional shock seemed too strong and due to the impure chemical X used in their origin, they exploded.
ULTIMATE FATE EDIT After the Rowdyruff Boys' final appearance in the episode Custody Battle, it is unknown what happened to them afterwards. It could be possible that they were simply defeated by the Powerpuffs off-screen or they just left Townsville, and forgot all about destroying the girls, and never returned. However, it is highly unlikely that the girls would've defeated them because, in all of the boys' battle encounters with the girls, the girls were unable to defeat them. Plus the boys wouldn't likely rest until the girls are destroyed for good. The girls relied on other methods to "beat" them such as in The Rowdyruff Boys, when the girls flirted with them and kissed them on the cheek which destroyed the boys. Or in Boy Toys when the girls used Princess' plane, boat, and tank and the boys' natural love of violence against them, which resulted in the boys playing with and destroying Princess' mobile weapons. The boys had so much fun that they laughed to the point where they could not move anymore and so the girls had used their knowledge of the boys to "defeat them".
In The Boys Are Back In Town, the girls embarrassed them and threatened their masculinity which caused HIM to angrily come and fetch them. In all of these fights, the boys were never actually defeated by the girls. The flashback from The City of Clipsville is considered non-canon, as Buttercup pointed out how dumb the flashback was and how it turned out. It should also be noted that in all of their fights against the girls, they were never exhausted or worn out. However, it is possible that the girls found a way to defeat the boys for good if another episode was made, since they didn't appear in the specials or the series finale. This could mean the Rowdyruff Boys were reform by the girls if the original series continued.
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Brazilian Portuguese Speaking Customer Advisor
North Lanarkshire
15 Sep 2020
13 Oct 2020
Are you a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker with interest in gaming?
Do you want to play the latest PlayStation, Xbox and PC games before anyone else?
If so, a friendly and diverse company is seeking a passionate and committed Brazilian Portuguese speaker to join its team in Glasgow. The right candidate will be paid hourly at GBP8.72 and will be able to work from home or remotely on either a full time or part time basis.
This exciting company needs a talented translator who is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese and English. You'll need to ensure that the text and speech in the game you are testing has been correctly localised, both in terms of spelling and grammar and also from a cultural standpoint.
Your primary QA Language Tester tasks will include:
Testing games for any language errors and suggesting fixes
Making sure games are fully localised and adhere to any cultural differences
Writing reports on bugs and other issues you find
Ad hoc translation throughout the project
Ensure diversity is represented
What we're looking for:
To be successful for this role, you must have fluency in Brazilian Portuguese and English as well as a cultural understanding of the language and the nuances. The job requires someone with an excellent eye for detail and the ability to work quickly and without error. You may be working on repetitive tasks due to the nature of how testing works, so it's crucial that you can be self–motivated and proactive in your role. Having a general knowledge of the gaming landscape is a big plus, although not essential. Due to the current restrictions of COVID–19, the role would initially be done remotely. With that in mind, we would need any candidate to have a suitable home set up – broadband, computer, microphone, speakers and a quiet work environment.
In return, you will be joining a fun and diverse team where you will get to experience new video games months before their release. Interested? Apply today or call Sinead Quinn in the Glasgow Office for further information.
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Ogni Assunzione e Presunzione alle Mie parole e' solo Mio. Il mio unico intento e' quello di Comunicare in pace ed onore. Ogni altra interpretazione a quanto qui espresso, e' puramente personale e mai rispecchia le mie pacifiche volontà. Il linguaggio usato e' quello di senso comune, ovvero il volgare. Chiunque usa le qui presenti informazioni, lo fa' sotto la sua totale ed illimitata responsabilità. In nessuno modo e forma l'autore promuove comportamenti che possano mettere a repentaglio la pace, la sicurezza, la salute e la vita.
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Per tutti quelli che 3...
Per tutti quelli che credono che nel sistema legale c'e' qualche via di Uscita, consiglio di Ascoltare questo Audio di O'Collins:
"Page 13- Western-Roman Model has “no way out”
I am not saying this to make anyone reading or listening to this blog, to feel bad. As I have shown you each week for several weeks now, as exemplified in slide 13, the Western-Roman Model is actually designed so there is “no way out”.
It is not you. It is the way the system is designed and the more you think you and you alone are the one to prove the architects and designers of Mundi wrong, and that somehow you will be the first – ignoring all that has been done with Ucadia – then your ego is setting you up for a massive failure.
I don’t know how many times I have tried to talk people down from jumping off legal cliffs because their ego kept telling them they could fly through the maze and dungeons of this awful Mundi model, only to see them plunge to their doom. What could I say? Hundreds, even thousands have refused to listen. That is why I resolved to do this series so that once and for all I would take the three decades of research on law and distill it into slides so no rational or logical or sensible or reasonable man or woman could conclude otherwise. Is it working? Only you know the answer to that.
Page 4 – Remember what Ucadia is- a complete model
On slide 4, I have listed a quick slide as a reminder as to remembering what Ucadia is, being a complete model as an alternative to the decline of the Western-Roman Model. That is why it has taken nearly three full decades to design and complete.
As I have shown in the previous slide presentations, there is absolutely no relief or remedy within the Western-Roman System anymore, as it is so broken. Nor can anyone reasonably or sensibly wake up one day and decide they are going to go and create their own society from scratch and hope to accomplish this same kind of work.
The philosophical, legal, spiritual, financial, operational and functional design and structure of a complex society is an enormous undertaking if viewed seriously and not superficially like trying to start your own commune. Yes, it is entirely possible for a small group of people to choose to live in some completely isolated part of the world according to some simple rules like the 144 truths of law that I mentioned at the very beginning of this series on the Law Explained. I comprehend that and I honor the simplicity of that idea. But that is not the same as trying to run a city of two million or ten million people, much less a society of millions over a wider geographic area.
It is why I have extended the Olive Branch to those who previously, for whatever motivation or sense of ego, have sought to falsely portray Ucadia, or steal parts of Ucadia, or falsely claim pieces of Ucadia for their own ends, to stop the lies and recognize the opportunity of being acknowledged as an Advocate of the Golden Rule of Law; and help many people find real and lasting remedy and relief through this series; with their knowledge of the forms and registrations and rolls and trusts and estates and corporations we are discussing.
So if you still encounter people sitting on the sidelines trying to stop people from waking up, or finding lasting remedy and relief, I hope this particular slide reminds you of the power behind the information I continue to share through this series on the Law Explained.
Page 24 – Elements of Document: Bankruptcy Accounting
So when you look at slide 24, you see that the idea of credits coming in and debits going out, the credits of real assets coming in, became debits and the debits going out became credits. Why?
Because under bankruptcy, real assets are seized and frozen into trust. The only thing that can be traded is promises and pledges to pay. No actual assets ever get traded in bankruptcy, only various forms of IOU’s. You will see in a moment the significance of this revelation.
In any event, the modern accounting system is blatant and overwhelming proof that every country on the planet is considered not only a corporation, but a corporation under a controlled bankruptcy. If you want to find the head corporation of the bankruptcy, just look for a country holding such ridiculous amounts of debt that it could never be paid. That is the key to proving who controls the system of bankrupt countries.
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Lauren Cain-Baxter '17M Provides Telehealth Counseling, Advice for Self-Care
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“When working with clients, l integrate positive psychology as a way to counter the negative things like the grief and sense of loss that they, and many of us, are experiencing,” said Counseling Psychology alumna Lauren Cain-Baxter ‘17M. “But it’s important to recognize the things we have gained like renewed connections and maintain them.”
Cain-Baxter spent 10 years as an educator in the School District of Philadelphia before pursuing a career as a licensed professional counselor and behavior specialist. While identifying the psychological needs of middle school students, she decided to transition from teaching to counseling. As a graduate student at Arcadia, she participated in research opportunities and explored applied behavior analysis, eventually becoming a practicum supervisor within two years of graduation.
Arcadia faculty encouraged the rising clinician to start a private practice, Resilience Community Counseling, which opened its doors in 2018. The Elkins Park-based office provides treatment for mental health challenges. Cain-Baxter and her team of clinicians offer a neutral ground for individuals and families to heal and foster resilience in the face of adversity. Telehealth appointments and sessions conducted through online conferencing are important for many clients in need of accommodating therapy options. “The majority of our clients are women, and many of them are women of color who are working mothers and college students, so telehealth lends itself to flexibility,” explained Cain-Baxter.
The COVID-19 health crisis has created urgency in providing telemedicine, particularly for stress and anxiety, during government-issued social distancing and stay-at-home orders. Cain-Baxter, like her mental health care colleagues, offers counseling and recommendations for their clients who are struggling with maintaining work-life balance and gaining control over fears stemming from self-isolation. To address these challenges, Cain-Baxter has created a multi-faceted approach for mental health and well-being.
Work-life balance
“It all comes back to understanding, establishing, and maintaining boundaries,” Cain-Baxter said. “A lot of the work-life balance depends on whether you’re a segmentor or an integrator.”
While segmentors create rigid boundaries between their personal and work lives, integrators blur the lines between work and home, often switching back and forth between the two. When this happens, it’s difficult to decipher where work-life ends and personal-life begins.
Cain-Baxter advises clients to provide a cue, such as a white noise machine, which may minimize interruptions from household members during the workday. Creating a checklist of priorities each day helps manage time, as does a regular schedule for sleeping, eating, and taking physical breaks.
Elements of self-care
Many people think of self-care as an indulgence or a consumable product. Clinicians regard self-care as an essential part of well-being and good health.
“It involves multiple aspects of being: physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and professional self-care,” Cain-Baxter explained. “I recommend taking a self-care assessment to gauge needs and make sure someone is taking daily care of themselves in the ways they need.
Although some self-care activities are part of usual routines, there may be areas that require more attention. Recognizing individual needs, from spending time with loved ones to gaining new professional skills, is the first step to beginning a comprehensive self-care routine.
Stress relief and mindfulness
Cain-Baxter has seen an increase in clients who started to experience panic attacks for the first time in their lives. The onset is usually sudden and occurs at any time and place, often outside of someone’s comfort zone.
“My go-to exercise is diaphragmatic breathing,” she said. “Taking some time out of your day to practice, especially when you’re not stressed, is best. There are many apps and YouTube videos to guide deep breathing. This type of breathing slows the heartbeat and can lower or stabilize blood pressure.”
The benefits of diaphragmatic breathing include a trade of incoming oxygen for outgoing carbon dioxide. It can but also lead to greater mindfulness—a therapeutic technique related to calming awareness in the present moment. Cain-Baxter recommends breathing exercises several times a day for progressive muscle relaxation.
Eat, sleep, and be fit
When establishing schedules, Cain-Baxter suggests three things: eat regular meals, get enough sleep, and take time to exercise. With so many disruptions, it's easy to skip meals and make poor dietary choices. Rather than snack throughout the day, schedule meals—with interactive prep time—as much as possible. In addition to proper nutrition, getting enough sleep affects mood; not getting enough can become more taxing physically and psychologically.
As people practice social distancing, adding exercise to daily routines has become more creative. While traditional walks on Kelly Drive are not feasible at the moment, Cain-Baxter recommends taking 10-minute walks around the neighborhood. With gyms off-limits, design an exercise program from online resources or use household items like water bottles as weights.
Fitness is a family enterprise for Cain-Baxter. Her husband, Don Baxter, is president of Health Fitness Connection, a fitness and wellness company that provides nutrition and wellness services to businesses and individuals. Since 2015, Health Fitness Connection has partnered with Arcadia to deliver annual weight loss, fitness, and wellness challenges, as well as online nutrition counseling, demonstrations, and seminars to more than 150 University employees. The company regularly offers online programs, which makes fitness programming more accessible for users from home.
Along with making adjustments to stay well, Cain-Baxter recommends looking for new opportunities rather than dwelling on the negative.
“We lament the things that we’ve lost, but we’re not taking into account some of the positive things that we’ve gained,” she said. “The challenge is to maintain the positive things that we found and adjust again when we return to normal. We have to stay flexible.”
Recommended Resources
Psychology Today explores the importance of self-care with 12 ways to take better care of you.
Why Self-Care Matters
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Yoga Journal breaks down the basics of deep breathing and how to advance yoga practice through this technique.
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Replpedia Introduction
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rediar (332) totally unbiased Repldex entry of Replpedia
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@rediar hmm, replpedia is better
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@rediar repldex is biased because only some people can add it so they control the content.
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@PDanielY ("totally unbiased" was joke)
Also one problem with your thing is doesnt look like I can see all entries, adn I cant edit other people's entries, will could be a problem
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@rediar you can see all entries, there is a /wikis page. And only I can edit, delete and hide entries
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@PDanielY For example if someone wants to add mroe detail on an entry or correct a mistake.
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Daycare Workers Reveal The Most Surprising Family Secrets Kids Have Let Slip
The Special Video
When my son was 3 I bought my wife 'Titanic' on video - yes, it was a long time ago - for her birthday. He asked if he could watch it after nursery school. We said that it wasn't really a film for children, it was a film for grown ups, like mummy and daddy. When I picked him up later his nursery teacher was stifling her laughter as he had been telling everyone all day that it was his mummy's birthday that day and that daddy had bought mummy a special video that only mummies and daddies could watch....
Big Papa
I teach two year olds, and we were asking the kids what their parents' names were, just to see if they knew. I asked a little boy, "What's mommy's name?" He says, "Michelle." Then I asked "What's daddy's name?" And he looks confused, as if he's trying to figure out the answer, but can't. So I ask, "What does Mommy call Daddy?" Assuming he would say John, instead he looked up at me and says, "Big Papa." I couldn't help but bust out laughing.
Black Is A Gender?
Not really a shocking secret but it got a laugh out of me. I had my preschoolers rounded up for circle time. Going off their interests of the day I decided to ask who was a boy and who was a girl since that's what happened to be the one thing every 3 year old cared about that day. Through the sea of children I hear a couple responses: "I'm a boy!" "I'm a girl!" etc... Then out of nowhere all the way in the back I hear "I'm black!" He sure was. God I miss that class. Good times.
The Accident
One girl in particular had a meltdown one day when she had an accident in her underwear. Turned out that her mom would slap her when she "misbehaved," which included accidents. Needless to say we reported the mother to CPS and did a rush job washing the girls clothing so she could go home in the same clothes she wore to school, without her mom knowing about the accident.
Sleepy Juice
3 year old told me he had belly aches everyday because mommy gave him to much sleepy juice. I said what's what? He didn't know. I brought it up to her and she said like it was all normal and fine, even with a little laugh
*"Ah, yeah sometimes I give him a little bit to much NyQuil because the little s*** doesn't sleep" *
I explained that no child that age should have any NyQuil. It even says so on the bottle! She laughed it off and said
*"oh he's been getting it since he was a year old, nothing bad has happened." *
CPS was called.
Not Racism, Just Star Wars
We had a family from Texas move to the daycare I worked at in Illinois. The boy would try and tell us stories but we never could fully get all the details for it to make sense. It would usually go like this:
Boy: You know who's bad?
Me: Who is bad?
Boy: The black man.
Me: Who?
Boy: The black man is bad. He hurts people.
Me: What man? Why does he hurt people?
Boy: The black man. He's scary.
After a few weeks of this (the boy was the one to always bring the "black man" topic up) I finally was able to discover that "the black man" was Darth Vader. I had assumed that perhaps this southern family had a streak of racism but it just turned out I was prejudiced against Southerners...
There was a little girl and boy, about 3 and 1, they were in foster care and had great foster parents. They would get picked up about once a week by a social worker and taken to their parents for visits. When they came back from the first un-supervised visit, the little 1 year old started breathing really heavy and raspy and then all the sudden barley breathing at all. We think maybe it's an allergic reaction to something?
Obviously, we call an ambulance.
Then, not even 10 minuets after he's off to the hospital, it happens to the little 3 year old. She starts throwing up to and then not being able to breath. So we're all terrified wondering what could be going on?! The daycare owner goes to the hospital with the kids. We got a call later to let us know what happened.
It turns out the biological parents poisoned both of the kids during their unsupervised visit.
They turned out okay, the little boy had a lot more in his system and was in the hospital for a few months. But over all, everything went back to normal. Needless to say the parents went to prison. Their reason for doing it was because if they couldn't have them then no one else was raising them. Which made no sense because they were fairly close to getting them back.
Wooden Spoon
I used to work at a church during the summer and one time and little boy just up and told me as we were walking to chapel that his daddy spanks his mommy with a wooden spoon after they go to bed. Obviously nothing illegal here but it was a funny story and the parents were informed that their little angel knew of their shenanigans and to have a talk with him.
The French Fry Grudge
Our little one is aggressively willing to share when she's mad at us. She saw that Daddy and I left the room and without skipping a beat, took one wide-eyed and completely sincere look at Grandma and goes, completely unprompted:
**"Daddy's mean to me, he yells at me and I don't like him at all." **
Grandma gets to the bottom of it and it turns out it's because he told her to calm down after a tantrum about not getting McDonald's french fries 3 days ago. This four-year-old held a THREE DAY GRUDGE about french fries and tried to report Daddy to Grandma. I could not believe it. lol
The Epiphany
With a group of 3 year olds we were coloring paper ties for Father's Day and talking about what their dads liked to do. As the kids were calling out their dads' hobbies, one little girl had an epiphany. She gasped and shouted in excitement: "I have a dad!"
She had recently been adopted by her foster parents.
I once had CPS called on my parents because I told my daycare worker "there was nothing to eat and I was starving". True story was my mom hadn't had time to get groceries and asked my dad to go before I left for daycare, saying something like "could you pick up the groceries, I don't want her to starve for another day tomorrow". I actually had breakfast that morning but not the usual and refused to eat it all. I never saw my mom so embarrassed ever again.
The Balloon In Her Booby
My kindergarten class had parent volunteers come in sometimes to help with projects. My mom signed up and came one day, but the other mother who was supposed to also come in called out sick. At recess my mom saw the mother's son and said something like "Hi [kid name] I heard your mommy was sick and I hope she feels better. Is she okay?" The boy said "Yeah, she's okay but the balloon in her booby popped and she had to go to the doctor to get it fixed." Basically, she called out because her breast implant leaked or had some issue. Not really shocking, just kind of funny.
Needed Immediate Therapy
I taught the toddlers, but as the day wound down and the number of kids in the building dropped, they would slowly all trickle into one room for playtime and to basically wait to be picked up. I was the teacher in charge of the End of Day Playroom as well. There were two 11-year-old twins who were constantly happy, outgoing rays of sunshine. One day, they just weren't. I asked them if everything was okay. Apparently, over the weekend, their family had gone out to dinner and a movie - took about 3-4 hours. When they returned, their house was a bloodbath. Apparently their three dogs had gotten into a fight which resulted in one dog dying. The girls walked in on the two surviving dogs, covered in blood, eating the third dog. Apparently, their parents enrolled them in therapy almost immediately and it seemed to help a lot.
I dated a girl with 2 kids. I was watching them while she went to the doctor. She had a serious medical problem and she wanted the kids to not be there and see her all stressed out. Was watching toy story with her 3 year old daughter. I guess the daughter started understanding that her mom and i are more than friends. She said "would you hit momma?" I was shocked and i said "of course not! What put that idea in your head?" And she teared up and said "my daddy used to hit her." And she started crying. I just did my best. I explained to her that i would never hurt any of them and how people who love each other should behave and that her dad had a sickness that caused him to act strangely (he was an addict.) i got her a popsicle and she calmed down as buzz lightyear and woody were flying into the car. I was aware that their dad hit their mom, but i didnt know the daughter witnessed it or would even remember.
H/T: Reddit
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Before the age of supermarkets and 24-hour diners, seasons dictated our lives far more intimately than they do now and there was a time of the year that was crucial to human survival: the harvest.
Ever since our ancestors moved from being hunter-gatherers to farmers, the harvest has been an important element of the human experience. It was not only a celebration of the bounty each year, it foretold the future. At harvest, people would know whether they would be well fed through the winter and beyond.
To celebrate the harvest, festivals emerged. Ancient Romans paid homage to Ceres, the god of corn; Greeks to Demeter; and the Egyptians to Min, to name a few. Over the years, some festivals lost popularity, and in the age of round-the-clock and round-the-year food availability, many of us have lost touch with the rhythm of the harvest. Thanksgiving, once a time to give thanks for the bounty of harvest, is overshadowed in American culture by consumption. For instance, the day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year.
In the spirit of keeping traditions alive as well as celebrating cultural diversity, below is a sampling of harvest festivals from around the world. Some are ancient and some modern, but all are united by a focus on giving thanks for the fruit from the field and bringing communities together. Here's to a bountiful harvest!
1. Sukkot – The Jewish Festival of Harvest
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Also known as the Feast of Booths (Sukkot means “booth”), this week-long festival has a double significance: celebrating the harvest and commemorating the Israelite's 40 years wandering in the desert. Temporary dwellings known as Sukkahs are built and lived in for the duration of the festival and four types of plants, called the four species, are used in prayers and blessings throughout the festival. The Sukkahs' meaning is twofold: they imitate both the dwellings built by the Israelites and the dwellings built by farmers to protect the crops during harvest. Sukkot falls five days after Yom Kippur, and is celebrated all across the Jewish Diaspora, from Israel to San Diego and everywhere in between. Regardless of where it is celebrated, a rich heritage of tradition, culture, and feasting unites the festivities.
2. Mehregan – The Persian Festival of Autumn
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Mehregan originated in the ancient Persian city of Persepolis, where it served as both the day of harvest, and tax day. Visitors came from all over the Persian empire for the festivities, contributing to a lively day of gifting, feasting, and general merriment. As one of the two most ancient Persian festivals (the other is Nowruz, or the new year), it has stood the test of time and is still celebrated by Iranians worldwide. The October gathering also celebrates friendship and togetherness–the word “Mehr” in Persian means “kindness.” In the spirit of that, Mehregan is a time for families and communities to come together and gather, often around a table set with a colorful cloth and fruits, vegetables, and flowers. There are fewer taxes in the present-day festivities, but the rest of the festival lives on.
3. Mid-Autumn Festival – China's Harvest Moon Festival
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Second only to the Spring Festival in popularity, this September festival goes by a multitude of other names as well, such as the Moon Festival, Reunion Festival, and Mooncake Festival. These names highlight important aspects of the festival, which is near the time of the Harvest Moon and revolves largely around folklore about, and worship of, the moon. Offerings are made to various lunar deities and family members make and share mooncakes with one another, symbolizing their family unity. As the full moon was believed to be good for fertility and romance, the festival was also traditionally a time of courtship. The Mid-Autumn Festival is also celebrated in Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
4. Indonesian Rice Harvest Festival
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Since Indonesia is in the Southern Hemisphere, this festival actually happens in May, at the end of the rice harvest. Still, it's rich with tradition and color. Villages are decorated and painted, flags are hung, and small straw dolls are placed throughout the fields and villages as a tribute to the rice god, Dewi Sri. One of the most famous parts of the festival is the water buffalo racing, or Makepung, in which highly decorated bulls are pitted against one another on a race track. These races were introduced by Madurese migrants to celebrate the end of the rice harvest and, over time, have become a tradition all of their own.
5. Lammas and Lughnasa – The Pagan and Gaelic Harvest Festivals
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“Lammas” means “loaf mass,” and marks the day when farmers would harvest the first of their wheat in England and Scotland. The custom was to bring a loaf of bread to church on this day, and it's said that tenants would also present freshly harvested wheat to their landlords. Can you imagine if we still did that?
Lammas shares the date of August 1st with Lughnasa, the Irish festival said to have been started by the sun god Lugh in commemoration of his foster mother, Tailtean. Both festivals have Pagan beginnings and traditions, and both mark the beginning of the end of the long, hot summer days. Modern Lammas celebrations may include less bread and more music. The most famous of the modern celebrations is at Eastbourne Pier, in Sussex. If you make it there, you're sure to have a rousing good time.
6. Your Own Harvest Celebration
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Why not create your own harvest festival? You can start as small as harvesting some herbs or wild edibles from your backyard, or as big as reaching out to local farms and seeing if they have any plans. Alternately, you could see what is happening already in your locale as countless villages, towns, cities, and neighborhoods have harvest festivals at various times throughout the late summer and fall. Use the platform of the ancient tradition of the harvest to not only celebrate the bounty reaped from the fields, but also the bounty of community—of coming together, breaking bread, and sharing. In the age of constant access, it is no small act to bring awareness back to earthly rhythms and seasons, and openly sharing resources (and food) is a revolutionary act in any time. Go all out, have a feast, enjoy the sharing – and have fun!
What are your favorite harvest festivals or traditions? Tell us in comments below.
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Regrets & Reconciliation
Jun 12, 2019 - 8:42 am
I was arrested for DWI Friday morning around 12:30 (by Officer Andrew Upton).
Officer Upton, I sincerely apologize for my poor behavior towards you personally after I realized I was going to be arrested; let's just say my adrenal response has historically lended itself to the 'fight' reaction, and not 'flight'. I have replayed that night at least 50 times in my head and I cringe at my ignorance and lack of professionalism. Thank you for dealing with my sassy attitude as calmly as you did.
One of the women helping me through the booking process indicated I was fortunate that you were my arresting officer as you are prompt and efficient with paperwork and that makes everything involved a little easier. I appreciate that as I am working on finding a lawyer to help me through this court process, which I understand can take a while. Regardless, I have always been the type to believe that the universe wills things to happen the way they should, and this is no different. The consequences of my actions will be what they should be and I will deal with those shifting sands when it happens.
Seven or eight years ago, my mother was involved in a DWI accident that almost killed the man I was dating at the time. It was an extremely traumatic event and one that I will never forget witnessing. You would think that after navigating a situation like that with people so close to me, I would be better equipped to make better decisions in my own life. Yet, here I am... reckless and repeating self-destructive habits I have been working to overcome for over 10 years.
All that is to say that I am grateful you intervened in my path that night and I am grateful you were kind to me, even when I didn't reciprocate the same. I am certainly going to work on taking a page from your demeanor and patience books. Thank you.
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Go-karting is a thrilling activity to enjoy during a holiday in Elche. Go-karts have come a long way since the first soap box karts of decades ago. Although hilarious soap box derby's and wacky races still entertain the crowds, the advance in petrol karts is huge. Professional karts range from nippy little 50cc engines to whopping 500cc engines. They have two stroke and four stroke class karts with either automatic or manual gearboxes. However, go-karting for the general public is wisely limited in the speed the karts can achieve and usually only offer automatic gearboxes.
Due to its famous and ancient palm groves, much of Elche City's gardens and parks are declared protected areas. This does not bode well for anyone hoping to open a go-karting track in the city centre where the noise and fuel pollution would just not be acceptable. The palms are a proud natural heritage of the city dating back centuries, and the town planners intend to keep them as pristine as possible. Petrol heads don't despair, there is a go-karting track on the outskirts of the city and a further two go-karting tracks within 40 minutes drive from Elche.
Elche Karting Club
Located on Carrer Algorfa on the edge of the Poligono Industrial Estate, Elche Karting Club is just a short drive from the city centre. This is a well run operation with a challenging track featuring several really tight hairpin bends. They offer three types of karts covering most age groups. These include their SR BI-Kart Biplaza, SJ1-Kart Junior and the super fast 270cc SR3. Drivers can test their skills on the track individually or as part of a thrilling race. Facilities at the track are excellent with the capacity for groups, celebrations and corporate events. As part of these events, Elche Karting Club can offer a full restaurant service or arrange tasty BBQ's.
Go-Karting in San Fulgencio
Located on the N-332 coastal road between Guardamar and La Marina, Go-Karts San Fulgencio is less than 30 minutes from Elche. It is easily reached from Elche city centre via the CV-853. This place has stood the test of time. Unfortunately it seems like some of the karts have too! Yes it could do with a bit of upgrading and new digital track time displays, but it's still great fun. The centre have different power karts for children and adults. The pity is, there is only the one kart track. This means because of the dangers involved, kids cannot share the track with adults. So, a bit of a wait needs to be endured but, no worries grab a drink or snack and watch the action.
Go-Karting in Orihuela Costa
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[Note: a version of this ran in June after the rule changes were announced. It's been updated here as a refresher going into the new season.]
The NCAA rules committee voted to implement some changes to D-1 basketball for this coming year. You can read the article here (link) before continuing below.
The biggest change is to the 3-point line, moving the arc from 20'-9" to 22'-1 3/4", the FIBA international distance, which is what I want to discuss in depth.
A Closer Examination
In this news, I zeroed in on one quote:
"After gathering information over the last two seasons, we feel it's time to make the change," Colorado coach Tad Boyle, the committee chair, said when the proposal was made in early May. "Freedom of movement in the game remains important, and we feel this will open up the game. We believe this will remove some of the congestion on the way to the basket."
According to the committee, moving the 3-point line back will clear the lane for more drives to the rim, make 3-point shots more challenging and therefore less prevalent, and improve offensive spacing.
(*emphasis mine)
Two goals. (1) "clear the lane for more drives to the rim." (2) "make 3-point shots more challenging and therefore less prevalent."
Umm... there's a giant caveat to this that no one's talking about.
It benefits offensive spacing if and only if teams can actually make 3's from the longer distance. Otherwise these two goals undermine each other.
Put yourself in the mind of a coach scheming a defense; say, Tony Bennett. The NCAA powers-that-be want me to extend my defense out an extra 16", stretching out my Pack Line and opening up gaps for entry passes and dribble drives, while also providing extra space for traditional big men to operate on the blocks. Okay, as a defensive coach, why exactly should I comply with that request? Why should I change my spacing?
College shooters are, on the whole, pretty average. The D-1 average 3-point rate hovers generally between 34% and 35% over the last decade or so, no real trend in improvement. In moving back the line, it reasons that that percentage is only going to drop, maybe a point, so maybe next year's D-1 average is under 34%. Basically 1 point-per-shot.
Meanwhile the D-1 average on 2's is 50.1, so already 1 point-per-shot. But then you factor in fouls; 2's generate free throw attempts at a drastically higher rate than 3's do, so from an analytics perspective, shooting 2's now clearly becomes the statistically-preferably choice.
So let's return to the defensive coach's thought process. I can (a) stretch my defense to chase shooters who's average and impact are only going to decrease, or I can (b) keep my defense "home," keep that Pack Line right where it is, and honor the greater risk posed by teams attacking the rim.
Now, the contrarian says that means shooters may be left more open, because defenders are going to have an extra foot of distance to cover on close-outs. Well, yes, because they're shooting from a foot further away. But hey, if shooters (and by extension, their coaches) wanted to have that extra space, nothing says they couldn't have been doing that all along! There was never anything stopping shooters against UVA from spotting up at 25' and bombing from NBA range to provide themselves some extra cushion against a hard close out irregardless of the 3-point line.
You know why they didn't do that (I mean, except for Carsen Edwards!), and why instead they took their chances against better defense, against tighter closeouts, by choosing to spot up with their toes on the old 20'9" line instead? Because they're not as good shooting from further away. And they know it.
The Actual Impacts
So does the deeper 3-point line improve offensive spacing for offense in the paint? Not if you're not a good-shooting team it doesn't. In fact, it may make your offense worse, because now defenses are even less motivated to chase you around the perimeter as they were prior.
So who will benefit? The obvious answer is teams who can make shots from the new, deeper range at a still-dangerous rate (say, 36%+ as a team). The more consistent you are from deep, and even better the more diverse (i.e. - more than just one or two high-volume gunners to account for, and instead be able to deploy shooters at 3-4 positions at once), the more a defense is going to be forced to honor the new perimeter. Now a defensive coach has to change his team's positioning so that closeouts are still effective, and then and only then are the gaps going to open up and the help defense ends up further out of position.
What this ought to do is change how coaches prioritize shooting. Not that they don't already, obviously. But you look around college basketball at some of the top players and teams that simply don't shoot the 3-ball well, and you realize that not all coaches prioritize it equally. Maybe this is a wake up call for them. Maybe they find a way to get their better shooters on the floor more often, or get the ball in their hands for more shots. Maybe high school shooters get an incremental bump in their recruiting stock, being just a little more sought after relative to the athletic high flyers.
In many ways, this will be an equalizer against teams stocked with athletic dribble-drivers. I'm talking about the Kentucky's of the world and their many imitators, teams that have stocked themselves with 5-star ball handlers but 3-star shooting strokes. They're not going to see defenses open up for them, because defenses won't have to. They'll still be dribble-driving into the same paint-denial defenses Tony and others have implemented to slow that style of offense down. Instead, teams that may lack great athletes but have a bevy of shooters who are comfortable from the new range will see defenses stretch uncomfortably to counter them; I'm thinking of some of those better Mike Brey teams, or maybe the Davidson's (or, *cough*, UMBC's) of the world, who will still be able to put competent gunners on the floor at the 1-4 spots. They'll see defenses part like the Red Sea, and it'll make even their average athletes look good attacking the rim because the help defense is now going to be another half-second behind. If you can shoot, you won't need great athletes to get to the rim, because your 3-point threats are going to create the driving lanes for them.
It's also going to put a premium on first recruiting and then coaching up long/athletic defenders who can still be effective in a more spaced out floor. Guys who can still close out or recover to a help responsibility from a foot further away. It will also punish coaches who don't effectively instill help/recovery and close-out defenses because now those weaknesses can potentially be further exploited by better shooting teams.
In the short term, it's going to drive casual fans and media crazy, because it's going to make offenses worse over the next few years. Kids aren't magically going to have an extra foot on their range come November, and high school players are still going to arrive in college as wildly inconsistent from deep as they've always been, always thinking they're better shooters than in reality they really are. So for this upcoming season expect nearly the same rate of hero-ball step-back 3's only with a noticeably lower conversion rate and, by extension, lower scoring. I think Virginia fans will by and large be okay with that, but many others won't.
It'll also give hot-shooting mid-majors more of an advantage over the more athletic power conferences, so I'd expect some upsets both in the non-conference and in the NCAAT to be due to the HM defense struggling to chase the Cinderella all over the perimeter.
Teams that can't shoot are going to need to figure out a workaround, most likely doubling down on playing in transition so that they're less exposed in a half-court offense. This may mean more pressing, either full court or in the half, both of which mean *drumroll* more open offense for the disciplined teams playing them.
Long term, I envision shooters continuing to become as critical to the college game as they are to the NBA. Power programs will further prioritize recruiting it and coaches will further emphasize the development and deployment of shooters in their offenses. The reward is just too great not to, while the risk in not having guys competent from the new distance is too great to ignore. I'm just not ready to bet yet on how quickly or how thoroughly that will take effect, not when grassroots players and coaches are still so in love with highlight reel dunks.
Virginia, having a history of developing good shooters and getting them drafted and into the NBA, and having a historically great college/pro shooter in Tony at the helm, will hopefully continue to be at the forefront of this movement. We'll continue to appeal to great high school shooters like Carson McCorkle, we'll run an offense that gets them good looks, and ideally that will all translate to the new distance. Tony will continue to focus on shooting in his recruiting priorities, making hard choices when a priority target is unfortunately just going to be a potential liability from deep, and focus on floor-spacing via not only sharp shooting guards but also competent big men.
(The other big rule change, resetting the shot clock to 20 seconds on an offensive rebound as opposed to the full 30 seconds, I don't think will make much of a change. It makes our defense just a hair nastier, and frankly doesn't really change our offense since we walk the ball up court and effectively run ~20-second half-court sets most of the time anyways. I don't think that has much of a big picture change on game strategy across the sport, and instead just bumps up the shot/possession count a smidge.)
Summing Up The Big Picture
In summary, the moving 3-point line benefits teams that can still hit the 3 at a plus rate. But if a team can't hit the new 3, and I'm expecting that to be the case for more teams than the Committee foresees, then defenses simply don't have to honor the new distance. Any hoped-for benefits to spacing are lost, no matter how athletic or skilled those guys are at getting to the rim. And for those lucky teams that can continue to space the floor despite the new distance, they won't need 5-star talents to exploit the better spacing for better paint touches (though getting 5-star talents won't hurt, of course, so long as they can shoot too). I don't really expect it to improve scoring, not for many years until shooters hopefully catch up to the new range, and really could hurt it in the short term as mediocre-shooting clubs struggle to adapt.
So let's come full circle back to those two original goals of the Rules Committee: (1) open up the floor for the dribble-drive and (2) deemphasize the prevalence of the 3-ball.
It just baffles me that the NCAA doesn't see how these two goals are in diametric opposition to each other. In the NBA, the floor is well spaced for dribble-driving (and post play) primarily due to the prevalence of the 3-ball, which forces defenses to abandon paint-oriented help positions. You can't have an NBA-like open offense if you don't also embrace the NBA-like love affair with highly effective and relatively high volume 3-point shooting. The two are inextricably linked, but the NCAA seems to think quite differently. Time will tell if they're seeing something I'm not.
If they really want to open up the floor, they'd kill zone defenses by making defensive 3 seconds a violation, but that's a debate for another day.
How UVA Will Fare
UVA lost three great shooters to the NBA this past June, meaning there's a giant question mark as to whether UVA can exploit the new shooting distance or fall prey to it. If you asked me right now who I'd have confidence in to be a 35+% shooter, I'd probably limit myself to Huff and Woldetensae based on their career stats and maybe Diakite and Stattmann based on reputation and promise. Morsell and McKoy arrive known more as bulldogs on offense; not bad shooters, but not necessarily threats yet either. Key and Clark both have a ton to prove after uneven-at-best shooting performances last year. Of course big men Caffaro and Shedrick are paint-oriented 5's and non-factors here.
Defenses will dare UVA to beat them consistently from deep. With no one on the roster proven as a high-volume gunner, Bennett is going to have to roll the dice on this, and cold nights from deep could be an undoing on more than one occasion. At best the Hoos can probably hope to have two or maybe three above-average shooters on the floor at any given time, which hopefully will be enough.
More cavalry ostenibly arrives next summer, when transfer Sam Hauser and freshmen Jabri Abdur-Rahim and Carson McCorkle arrive with well-touted shooter's pedigrees. If any of the underclassmen on this year's roster like Clark, Morsell, or Stattmann can prove themselves as legit shooters as well, UVA will hopefully be able to deploy shooters at a variety of positions on the floor, maybe even the 5 if Huff returns for his redshirt senior year. That floor spacing could be lethal with Hauser at the 4 and Huff at the 5... opposing bigs being forced to defend those guys will open up the paint for everyone else.
Defensively, as we said earlier, it's only going to affect the pack line if opponents can make it from the new range. If they can, great, we're disciplined enough with help responsibilities to not get too damaged in the paint, especially with good rim protection on the floor. And if teams shoot over the Pack Line even more poorly than they have in the past? Well, sounds like Tony's going to be mighty comfortable. | <urn:uuid:b07f3795-6a62-41af-8a4b-5bf7f5337c76> | https://hoosplace.com/content.php?inc=2019102801 | en | 0.968945 | 0.057456 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Clergy, Faith and Mental Health, Recovering Humanity
Prayer For Anxiety, Fear, Loneliness, and Protection
This evening, I received a distressed message from a clergy friend. They are wrestling with anxiety surrounding COVID-19. Because they are of the “vulnerable” population, they are afraid of getting sick. Their anxiety has them not wanting to leave the house, but they work for a non-compassionate, insensitive boss who insists on forcing them to come to the office for meetings; even though, 90% of their job is done outside the actual workspace. Heightening their anxiety is the fact that not only are they single, but they live alone. So, social distancing for them means loneliness. The constant posts an updates about washing hands and sanitizing and sterilizing has their OCD kicked into high gear, and they need some relief.
They reached out to ask for prayer, and prayer is what they got. I usually type one out, but I felt they needed to hear the prayer, so I recorded it and sent it. But, after I was done, I realized I was still not done. Though the prayer was for a specific person, I do not believe they are the only one who is struggling and needs relief. So, I offer this prayer for anyone wrestling with anxiety, fear, loneliness, insensitive people, and need protection. This is for you too!
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Burning flame seeps inside my pink heart while black light invigorates my spine showing darkness onto the red beating bump telling me to keep walking while I keep lying searching for this burning flame.
Believing this burning flame will help me rise, will help me find the pink butterfly flying high in sky, help me create my own yellow pink sunshine seeping through green trees, believing in the fire that is seeping through my vein.
Letting go of these black monsters while my muscles keep tensing, while I stand up racing through this forest to find this burning flame, to light up my red beating bump to find that gold star.
Not letting this black spirit take over me, instead letting my pink butterfly lead me to find this burning flame, believing in the blue light shining through the silver moon while I run through the jungle hearing lions roar, gold guitars stream melody seeping inside my ears while the clock clicks by to find this blue light.
Not letting a black mask push me to ground, I run to find this burning flame seep through my veins while I rise up to catch my pink sunshine, I rise to find this fire create an everlasting energy seeping inside gold guitars playing telling me to not be afraid telling me to find this burning flame bringing back my red beating bump showing me the silver moonlight inside this flame lighting up in my heart. | <urn:uuid:e2a1bff6-f666-4e46-9cb4-1f82c19515a3> | https://racinghearts.blog/2017/09/09/burning-flame/ | en | 0.83593 | 0.050587 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Synonyms to old-time religion
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Singapore / Tropical Lab / Opening of the exhibition: LAND
Just returned back to the hotel from the opening of exhibition Tropical Lab: LAND, which is on display in the gallery of Institute of Contemporary Art in Singapore until 15th of August. I am exhibiting one of my recent works: FREEDOM 2.0. Beside me, there are also exhibiting young and talented artists from all over the world (Asia, Europe, USA…). Amazing exhibition which you have to see!
My video installation FREEDOM 2.0:
Process that I used for my video installation:
1. coming to Singapore = inspiration
2. inspiration = write a poem
3. poem = inspiration for filming
4. filming = storyboard
5. storyboard = editing video
6. editing video = wider story
7. wider story = exploring our freedom
8. exploring our freedom = barbed wire
9. barbed wire = security gates
10. security gates = installation
11. installation = wood + barbed wire + video + poetry
12. wood + barbed wire + video + poetry = FREEDOM 2.0
Some photos from the opening:
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We Need to Talk
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Movie Reviews
Reviewed by Aktham_Tashtush 8 / 10 / 10
Definitely one of the best Romantic Comedy movies i have watched in the last couple of years ..
So I don't usually watch Spanish movies but since i'm learning the language so i was like why not!! The movie is single-handedly one of the best Rom/Com i'v watched quite a time .. and definitely the best Spanish so far "since it's the first or second one I've ever watched"
Reviewed by bikaever 4 / 10 / 10
Genuinely funny, natural and true
Huge fan of Michelle and Hugo, and was excited to see them once again on the screen. Straight away in love with the entire cast. Tenemos que hablar is a beautiful film which is genuinely funny, natural and true in regards with life and relationships. A film you can see multiple times and never be tired of it.
Reviewed by leftbanker-1 4 / 10 / 10
Unlikeable Characters in Tedious Situations
Like most romantic comedies these days this film was neither romantic nor a comedy. The entire premise should insult the intelligence of any adult: Fatuous idiot Nuria has to talk with her estranged husband (Jorge) about finally getting a divorce after two years so that she can marry her new boyfriend but she doesn't want to hurt her ex's feelings, especially after he has an accident so she goes through a huge process of having a dinner with her parents—who her ex misses since he split with Nuria and doesn't know that the parents have also split. Does that sound tired and stupid enough as a plot? It gets worse. Ugh, comedy should have jokes and not just a string of uncomfortable (and stupid) situations. Falling out of a window definitely isn't funny at all
unless he would have died. That would have been hilarious because that is just the way humor works. How about bad jokes about auto-erotica asphyxiation? Actually, they weren't really jokes they just talked about the subject as if that in itself is humor so they could set up a later scene that was just completely stupid and predictable. I think that this movie started out on the wrong foot by imitating the worst of Hollywood in depicting such a bourgeois group of upper 1% people and money-obsessed cretins (her mother left her father because he was swindled out of all of their money through no fault of his own—what a freaking hag!). She buys a 500 jamón, champagne, and caviar to impress upon her ex-husband that her folks are doing fine since Jorge ruined them financially. She was going to return it all after the dinner uneaten and then the big joke is that the mother doesn't play along and they dig into it—a long way to go for nothing in the way of humor. All of the absurd situations the characters find themselves mixed up in were just painful to watch
and not a bit funny.
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Return of Mazdaspeed? Turbocharged Mazda 3 Teased
The latest Mazda teaser has us yearning for a little forced induction.
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The Mazda 3. You know it by now. It's a competent compact car that's handsome, well-appointed, and missing just one thing: Some legitimate speed. Or as Mazda's one to say, "zoom zoom." Luckily, that's all about to change. Mazda just dropped a 13-second teaser that hints at the next powertrain for its small car.
We won't have to wait that long, either. The video teases the date July 8, 2020, which surely marks the day Mazda plans to reveal the latest addition to the 3 family. The Mazda 3 hasn't had a turbocharger bolted to its engine since the 2013 model year—the final year of production for the Mazdaspeed 3. Since then the car's stuck to a naturally aspirated engine lineup in the United States.
Mazda has said on many occasions it has no intention of bringing the Mazdaspeed name back, so don't expect the new turbo 3 to appeal to performance junkies. Instead, we'll likely see the turbocharged 2.5-liter four-cylinder of other Mazda products plopped under the hood of the 3. There's no word on how much power it will make, but we speculate output will land somewhere between 230 and 250 hp. That's more than the upcoming Golf GTI's 241 hp and should really put a little pep in the Mazda 3's step.
We aren't sure if Mazda plans to pair a manual transmission to the 3's turbocharged engine. That said, we wouldn't bet on it. In fact, it's likely this engine will feature in an automatic-only, top-of-the-range Premium Plus trim.
We're excited by two things here: First, the 3 is finally getting a turbocharged powerplant after several years without one. Second, we're hopeful tuners will have the freedom to further up the Mazda 3's power output. With a few mods, consumers may just manage to build the Mazdaspeed 3 successor Mazda won't. | <urn:uuid:ae20cb5a-3a69-4201-82f3-d23ad67e25b5> | https://www.automobilemag.com/news/2021-mazda-3-turbo-teaser/ | en | 0.954613 | 0.119102 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Sleep Problems
What is Insomnia?
People with insomnia may have a hard time falling asleep, staying asleep, or may wake up too early. They also usually experience effects of poor sleep during the daytime, such as:
• Feeling tired
• Having low energy
• Trouble with attention, concentration, and memory
• Becoming easily irritated
• Having difficulty at work or school
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)?
CBT-I is a short-term psychological intervention that is based on proven scientific knowledge about sleep. CBT-I is based on the science of sleep to help you fall asleep, stay asleep, and improve your daytime functioning. You will learn how to develop better sleep habits, create a healthier sleep environment, and to understand how your thoughts, feelings, and expectations may negatively impact your sleep.
Do I need CBT-I?
CBT-I may be helpful if you find yourself experiencing problems such as:
• Canceling activities either because of being too tired or out of fear that such activities will interfere with sleep
• Not keeping regular bedtimes and/or wake times
• Spending large amounts of time awake in bed
• Becoming easily irritated
• Find yourself worrying about sleep, rather than sleeping
Does CBT for Insomnia work?
CBT-I is first-line treatment for insomnia and is more effective than sleep medicine in the long-term.1-2 It has been shown to be very effective in improving the quality of sleep and in helping people sleep longer.3 CBT-I can help to decrease symptoms of depression too!CBT-I is based on many years of research and has been shown to be very effective with many people.5 Research shows that CBT-I can be effectively delivered over the Internet.6 This means that you can get CBT-I treatment to improve your sleep at my office, at your home, at your work, or anywhere!
How long does CBT-I last?
Generally speaking, CBT for Insomnia usually requires only 6 sessions to be effective. In some cases, extra sessions may be needed, but your insomnia may also get better in fewer than 6 sessions.
Can I take sleep medication too?
You do not need to stop taking your sleep medications while you are participating in CBT-I. If you are taking sleep medications but want to reduce or discontinue use, you should seek help from your prescribing provider. Over time we will discuss how changes to your sleep medications may help to improve your long term sleep.
What do I need to do for CBT-I to work for me?
To get the most out of CBT-I you will need to describe your sleep problems to help Dr. Baughn understand what your insomnia is like, attend all sessions regularly, complete a simple sleep diary every morning, and practice all sleep recommendations at home.
What is Sleep Apnea?
Sleep apnea occurs when your upper airway becomes blocked repeatedly during sleep, reducing or completely stopping airflow. Breathing devices such as continuous positive air pressure (CPAP) machines and lifestyle changes are common sleep apnea treatments. Undiagnosed or untreated sleep apnea can lead to serious complications such as heart attack, glaucoma, diabetes, cancer, and cognitive and behavioral disorders.
How can Dr. Baughn help?
I use evidence-based psychological treatments such as Motivational Interviewing and Behavioral Desensitization to treat people who experience uncomfortable feelings while using CPAP or have difficulty finding the motivation to use their CPAP regularly.
How do I get started?
CLICK HERE to set up your free 20-minute consultation with Dr. Baughn to see if CBT-I is a good fit for your sleep problems.
1. Wilt TJ, MacDonald R, Brasure M, Olson CM, Carlyle M, Fuchs E, et al. Pharmacologic Treatment of Insomnia Disorder: An Evidence Report for a Clinical Practice Guideline by the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2016;165:103–112. DOI10.7326/M15-1781
2. Sateia MJ, Buysse DJ, Krystal AD, Neubauer DN, Heald JL. Clinical practice guideline for the pharmacologic treatment of chronic insomnia in adults: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine clinical practice guideline. J Clin Sleep Med. 2017;13(2):307–349. DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.6470
3. Trauer JM, Qian MY, Doyle JS, Rajaratnam SM, Cunnington D. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Insomnia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med. 2015;163:191–204. DOI: 10.7326/M14-2841
4. Gebara M, Siripong N, DiNapoli E, Maree R, Germain A, et al. Effect of insomnia treatments on depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Depression and Anxiety. 2018;35:717-731 DOI:10.1002/da.22776
5. Brasure M, Fuchs E, MacDonald R, Nelson VA, Koffel E, Olson CM, et al. Psychological and Behavioral Interventions for Managing Insomnia Disorder: An Evidence Report for a Clinical Practice Guideline by the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2016;165:113–124. DOI: 10.7326/M15-1782
6. Seyffert M, Lagisetty P, Landgraf J, Chopra V, Pfeiffer P, Conte M, et al. Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Treat Insomnia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE. 2016; 11(2): e0149139. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149139
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Commentary: Farming for a small planet
Industrial agriculture is a dead end. Agroecology is the only way to ensure that all people have access to sufficient, healthful food.
People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried.
They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for consumers, but, they assume, it would not be up to the task of providing all the food needed by our still-growing global population.
Contrary to such assumptions, there is ample evidence that an alternative approach—organic agriculture, or more broadly "agroecology"— is actually the only way to ensure that all people have access to sufficient, healthful food.
Inefficiency and ecological destruction are built into the industrial model. But, beyond that, our ability to meet the world's needs is only partially determined by what quantities are produced in fields, pastures, and waterways.
Wider societal rules and norms ultimately shape whether any given quantity of food produced is actually used to meet humanity's needs. In many ways, how we grow food determines who can eat and who cannot—no matter how much we produce. Solving our multiple food crises thus requires a systems approach in which citizens around the world remake our understanding and practice of democracy.
Today, the world produces—mostly from low-input, smallholder farms—more than enough food: 2,900 calories per person per day. Per capita food availability has continued to expand despite ongoing population growth. This ample supply of food, moreover, comprises only what is left over after about half of all grain is either fed to livestock or used for industrial purposes, such as agrofuels.
Despite this abundance, 800 million people worldwide suffer from long-term caloric deficiencies. One in four children younger than five is deemed stunted—a condition, often bringing lifelong health challenges, that results from poor nutrition and an inability to absorb nutrients.
Two billion people are deficient in at least one nutrient essential for health, with iron deficiency alone implicated in one in five maternal deaths.
The total supply of food alone actually says little about whether the world's people are able to meet their nutritional needs. We need to ask why the industrial model leaves so many behind, and then determine what questions we should be asking to lead us toward solutions to the global food crisis.
Vast, Hidden Inefficiencies
The industrial model of agriculture—defined here by its capital intensity and dependence on purchased inputs of seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides—creates multiple unappreciated sources of inefficiency.
Economic forces are a major contributor here: the industrial model operates within what are commonly called "free market economies," in which enterprise is driven by one central goal, namely, securing the highest immediate return to existing wealth. This leads inevitably to a greater concentration of wealth and, in turn, to greater concentration of the capacity to control market demand within the food system.
Moreover, economically and geographically concentrated production, requiring lengthy supply chains and involving the corporate culling of cosmetically blemished foods, leads to massive outright waste: more than 40 percent of food grown for human consumption in the U.S. never makes it into the mouths of its population.
The underlying reason industrial agriculture cannot meet humanity's food needs is that its system logic is one of disassociated parts, not interacting elements. It is thus unable to register its own self-destructive impacts on nature's regenerative processes.
Industrial agriculture, therefore, is a dead end.
Consider the current use of water in agriculture. About 40 percent of the world's food depends on irrigation, which draws largely from stores of underground water, called aquifers, which make up 30 percent of the world's freshwater.
Unfortunately, groundwater is being rapidly depleted worldwide. In the U.S., the Ogallala Aquifer—one of the world's largest underground bodies of water—spans eight states in the High Plains and supplies almost one third of the groundwater used for irrigation in the entire country.
Scientists warn that within the next 30 years, more than one-third of the southern High Plains region will be unable to support irrigation. If today's trends continue, about 70 percent of the Ogallala groundwater in the state of Kansas could be depleted by the year 2060.
Industrial agriculture also depends on massive phosphorus fertilizer application—another dead end on the horizon. Almost 75 percent of the world's reserve of phosphate rock, mined to supply industrial agriculture, is in an area of northern Africa centered in Morocco and Western Sahara. Since the mid-twentieth century, humanity has extracted this "fossil" resource, processed it using climate-harming fossil fuels, spread four times more of it on the soil than occurs naturally, and then failed to recycle the excess.
Much of this phosphate escapes from farm fields, ending up in ocean sediment where it remains unavailable to humans. Within this century, the industrial trajectory will lead to "peak phosphorus"—the point at which extraction costs are so high, and prices out of reach for so many farmers, that global phosphorus production begins to decline.
Beyond depletion of specific nutrients, the loss of soil itself is another looming crisis for agriculture. Worldwide, soil is eroding at a rate 10 to 40 times faster than it is being formed. To put this in visual terms, each year, enough soil is washed and blown from fields globally to fill roughly four pickup trucks for every human being on Earth.
The industrial model of farming is not a viable path to meeting humanity's food needs for yet another reason: it contributes nearly 20 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, even more than the transportation sector. The most significant emissions from agriculture are carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
Carbon dioxide is released in deforestation and subsequent burning, mostly in order to grow feed, as well as from decaying plants.
Methane is released by ruminant livestock, mainly via their flatulence and belching, as well as by manure and in rice paddy cultivation. Nitrous oxide is released largely by manure and manufactured fertilizers. Although carbon dioxide receives most of the attention, methane and nitrous oxide are also serious. Over a hundred-year period, methane is, molecule for molecule, 34 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas, and nitrous oxide about 300 times, than carbon dioxide.
Our food system also increasingly involves transportation, processing, packaging, refrigeration, storage, wholesale and retail operations, and waste management—all of which emit greenhouses gases. Accounting for these impacts, the total food system's contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, from land to landfill, could be as high as 29 percent.
Most startlingly, emissions from food and agriculture are growing so fast that, if they continue to increase at the current rate, they alone could use up the safe budget for all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
These dire drawbacks are mere symptoms. They flow from the internal logic of the model itself. The reason that industrial agriculture cannot meet the world's needs is that the structural forces driving it are misaligned with nature, including human nature.
Social history offers clear evidence that concentrated power tends to elicit the worst in human behavior. Whether for bullies in the playground or autocrats in government, concentrated power is associated with callousness and even brutality not in a few of us, but in most of us.
The system logic of industrial agriculture, which concentrates social power, is thus itself a huge risk for human well-being. At every stage, the big become bigger, and farmers become ever-more dependent on ever-fewer suppliers, losing power and the ability to direct their own lives.
The seed market, for example, has moved from a competitive arena of small, family-owned firms to an oligopoly in which just three companies—Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta—control more than half of the global proprietary seed market.
Worldwide, from 1996 to 2008, a handful of corporations absorbed more than 200 smaller independent companies, driving the price of seeds and other inputs higher to the point where their costs for poor farmers in southern India now make up almost half of production costs.
And the cost in real terms per acre for users of bio-engineered crops dominated by one corporation, Monsanto, tripled between 1996 and 2013.
Not only does the industrial model direct resources into inefficient and destructive uses, but it also feeds the very root of hunger itself: the concentration of social power. This results in the sad irony that small-scale farmers—those with fewer than five acres—control 84 percent of the world's farms and produce most of the food by value, yet control just 12 percent of the farmland and make up the majority of the world's hungry.
The industrial model also fails to address the relationship between food production and human nutrition. Driven to seek the highest possible immediate financial returns, farmers and agricultural companies are increasingly moving toward monocultures of low-nutrition crops such as corn—the dominant U.S. crop—that are often processed into empty-calorie "food products."
As a result, from 1990 to 2010, growth in unhealthy eating patterns outpaced dietary improvements in most parts of the world, including the poorer regions. Most of the key causes of non-communicable diseases are now diet-related, and by 2020, such diseases are predicted to account for nearly 75 percent of all deaths worldwide.
A better alternative
What model of farming can end nutritional deprivation while restoring and conserving food-growing resources for our progeny? The answer lies in the emergent model of agroecology, often called "organic" or ecological agriculture.
Hearing these terms, many people imagine simply a set of farming practices that forgo purchased inputs, relying instead on beneficial biological interactions among plants, microbes, and other organisms.
However, agroecology is much more than that.
The term as it is used here suggests a model of farming based on the assumption that within any dimension of life, the organization of relationships within the whole system determines the outcomes. The model reflects a shift from a disassociated to a relational way of thinking arising across many fields within both the physical and social sciences.
This approach to farming is coming to life in the ever-growing numbers of farmers and agricultural scientists worldwide who reject the narrow productivist view embodied in the industrial model.
Recent studies have dispelled the fear that an ecological alternative to the industrial model would fail to produce the volume of food for which the industrial model is prized. In 2006, a seminal study in the Global South compared yields in 198 projects in 55 countries and found that ecologically attuned farming increased crop yields by an average of almost 80 percent.
A 2007 University of Michigan global study concluded that organic farming could support the current human population, and expected increases without expanding farmed land.
Then, in 2009, came a striking endorsement of ecological farming by 59 governments and agencies, including the World Bank, in a report painstakingly prepared over four years by 400 scientists urging support for "biological substitutes for industrial chemicals or fossil fuels."
Such findings should ease concerns that ecologically aligned farming cannot produce sufficient food, especially given its potential productivity in the Global South, where such farming practices are most common.
Ecological agriculture, unlike the industrial model, does not inherently concentrate power. Instead, as an evolving practice of growing food within communities, it disperses and creates power, and can enhance the dignity, knowledge, and the capacities of all involved.
Agroecology can thereby address the powerlessness that lies at the root of hunger.
Applying such a systems approach to farming unites ecological science with time-tested traditional wisdom rooted in farmers' ongoing experiences. Agroecology also includes a social and politically engaged movement of farmers, growing from and rooted in distinct cultures worldwide.
As such, it cannot be reduced to a specific formula, but rather represents a range of integrated practices, adapted and developed in response to each farm's specific ecological niche. It weaves together traditional knowledge and ongoing scientific breakthroughs based on the integrative science of ecology.
By progressively eliminating all or most chemical fertilizers and pesticides, agroecological farmers free themselves—and, therefore, all of us—from reliance on climate-disrupting, finite fossil fuels, as well as from other purchased inputs that pose environmental and health hazards.
In another positive social ripple, agroecology is especially beneficial to women farmers. In many areas, particularly in Africa, nearly half or more of farmers are women, but too often they lack access to credit. Agroecology—which eliminates the need for credit to buy synthetic inputs—can make a significant difference for them.
Agroecological practices also enhance local economies, as profits on farmers' purchases no longer seep away to corporate centers elsewhere. After switching to practices that do not rely on purchased chemical inputs, farmers in the Global South commonly make natural pesticides using local ingredients—mixtures of neem tree extract, chili, and garlic in southern India, for example.
Local farmers purchase women's homemade alternatives and keep the money circulating within their community, benefiting all.
Besides these quantifiable gains, farmers' confidence and dignity are also enhanced through agroecology. Its practices rely on farmers' judgments based on their expanding knowledge of their land and its potential. Success depends on farmers' solving their own problems, not on following instructions from commercial fertilizer, pesticide, and seed companies.
Developing better farming methods via continual learning, farmers also discover the value of collaborative working relationships. Freed from dependency on purchased inputs, they are more apt to turn to neighbors—sharing seed varieties and experiences of what works and what does not for practices like composting or natural pest control.
These relationships encourage further experimentation for ongoing improvement. Sometimes, they foster collaboration beyond the fields as well—such as in launching marketing and processing cooperatives that keep more of the financial returns in the hands of farmers.
Going beyond such localized collaboration, agroecological farmers are also building a global movement.
La Via Campesina, whose member organizations represent 200 million farmers, fights for "food sovereignty," which its participants define as the "right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods."
This approach puts those who produce, distribute, and consume food—rather than markets and corporations—at the heart of food systems and policies, and defends the interests and inclusion of the next generation.
Once citizens come to appreciate that the industrial agriculture model is a dead end, the challenge becomes strengthening democratic accountability in order to shift public resources away from it. Today, those subsidies are huge: by one estimate, almost half a trillion tax dollars in OECD countries, plus Brazil, China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Russia, South Africa, and Ukraine.
Imagine the transformative impact if a significant share of those subsidies began helping farmers' transition to agroecological farming.
Any accurate appraisal of the viability of a more ecologically attuned agriculture must let go of the idea that the food system is already so globalized and corporate-dominated that it is too late to scale up a relational, power-dispersing model of farming.
As noted earlier, more than three-quarters of all food grown does not cross borders. Instead, in the Global South, the number of small farms is growing, and small farmers produce 80 percent of what is consumed in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The right path
When we address the question of how to feed the world, we need to think relationally—linking current modes of production with our future capacities to produce, and linking farm output with the ability of all people to meet their need to have nutritious food and to live in dignity.
Agroecology, understood as a set of farming practices aligned with nature and embedded in more balanced power relationships, from the village level upward, is thus superior to the industrial model. This emergent relational model offers the promise of an ample supply of nutritious food needed now and in the future, and more equitable access to it.
Reframing concerns about inadequate supply is only the first step toward necessary change. The essential questions about whether humanity can feed itself well are social—or, more precisely, political. Can we remake our understanding and practice of democracy so that citizens realize and assume their capacity for self-governance, beginning with the removal of the influence of concentrated wealth on our political systems?
Democratic governance—accountable to citizens, not to private wealth—makes possible the necessary public debate and rule-making to re-embed market mechanisms within democratic values and sound science. Only with this foundation can societies explore how best to protect food-producing resources—soil, nutrients, water—that the industrial model is now destroying.
Only then can societies decide how nutritious food, distributed largely as a market commodity, can also be protected as a basic human right.
Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of 19 books about world hunger, living democracy, and the environment. This story originally ran on Local Futures and is republished here with permission.
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This type of general, for-profit corporation is referred to as a “C” corporation (referring to Chapter C in the IRS code). “C Corporation” merely refers to a regular, state-formed corporation. A corporation is owned by shareholders and is managed and controlled by the board of directors who elect the president and are responsible for the management and policy decisions of the corporation.
Limited Liability Companies
There are several types of partnerships- general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships. A general partnership is a form of business entity in which two or more co-owners engage in business for profit. There is no limit on the number or type of partners (i.e., individuals, other partnerships or corporations) to form a partnership. Generally, the business assets and business debts are jointly owned by the partners. The individuals involved are personally responsible for all debts and legal obligations of the business, including those incurred by the other partners when doing business on behalf of the company.
Service Corporations
Most professional corporations qualify as personal service corporations (PSC) for federal tax purposes, provided that they also qualify under state law. To qualify as a PSC under Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules, a professional corporation must be organized under state law and then pass two federal tests: the function test and the ownership test. The function test requires that substantially all (95 percent) of the business activities of the professional corporation involve services within specific occupations in the fields of health, law, engineering, accounting, actuarial science, consulting, or performing arts. The ownership test requires that substantially all the professional corporation’s outstanding stock be held directly or indirectly by qualified people, either: 1) employees who are currently performing professional services for the corporation; 2) retired employees who did so prior to their retirement; 3) or their heirs or estates. If a professional corporation organized under state law does not qualify as a PSC, then it is treated as a general partnership for federal tax purposes.
S Corporation
An S corporation combines the limited liability of a corporation and the “pass-through” tax-treatment of a partnership. It is a business structure suited to small business owners who want the continuity and liability protection of a corporation but wish to be taxed as a sole proprietorship or partnership.
Business Transactions
Debtor-creditor law governs situations where one party is unable to pay a monetary debt to another. There are three types of creditors. First are those who acquire a lien through statute, agreement between the parties, or judicial proceedings against a particular piece of property. This property (or proceeds from its sale) must be used to satisfy the debt to the lien-creditor before it can be used to satisfy debts to other creditors. Once a lien has been created state statutory law governs how the lien is executed against the debtor’s property. The sale of property subject to a lien to satisfy the debt is also governed by state statutory law. The type of property that may be used to satisfy a debt is governed by state and federal legislation, such as the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Secondly, a creditor may have a priority interest. A priority arises through statutory law. If a creditor has a priority his debt must be paid ahead of other creditors when the debtor becomes insolvent. The third type of creditor is one who has neither a lien against the debtor’s property or holds a statutory priority.
Contract Disputes
Contracts are agreements that are legally enforceable. A contract may involve a duty to do or refrain from doing something, and the failure to perform such duty is called a breach of contract. The law provides remedies if a promise is breached- aiming to restore the person wronged to the position they would occupy if the contract had not been breached, rather than punish the breaching party.
The dissolution of a corporation is the termination of its existence as a legal entity. This might occur pursuant to a statute, the surrender or expiration of its charter, legal proceedings, or Bankruptcy.
The dissolution of a partnership is the end of the relationship that exists among the partners as a result of any partner discontinuing his or her involvement in the partnership, as distinguished from the winding up of the outstanding obligations of the business.
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A commercial lease is a detailed written agreement for the rental by a tenant of commercial property owned by the landlord. Commercial property differs from residential property in that the property’s primary or only use is commercial (business oriented), rather than serving as a residence. Commercial leases are often more complex than residential leases, have longer lease terms, and may provide for the rental price to be tied to the tenant business’s profitability or other factors, rather than a uniform monthly payment (though this is also quite ordinary in commercial leases). A “triple net” lease includes both taxes and insurance in the rent.
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Constipation in Children
Many of the same causes of adult constipation will lead to children having infrequent or painful bowel movements as well. However, the primary difference between the two groups is that it is much more common for emotional concerns to be the source of child constipation than is the case with adults.
One of the most trying and difficult rites of passage for a child is known as potty training. It is the first time that children are forced to wait to have bowel movements or urinate. The sudden attention paid to them for performing what used to be a perfectly natural function is sometimes stressful and embarrassing. Child constipation happens during potty training when the child withholds bowel movements due to stress and can cause a cycle that can lead to serious health consequences.
In addition to the standard causes of constipation like poor diet and lack of exercise, delaying bowel movements can lead to constipation as well. So, when a child withholds a bowel movement during potty training because of stress or some pressure to perform on command, constipation takes hold. Unfortunately, this may mean that even when the child is ready to have a bowel movement it is simply not possible. Confused by the sudden attention and problems with their bodies, children may develop even greater stigmas about potty training as a result of child constipation.
The other big emotional cause of child constipation is the school bathroom. If potty training had been difficult in the privacy and comfort of their own home, the added stress of a public bathroom can almost seem too much to bear for many children and the source of socialization problems. The mere presence of other children in the bathroom can be enough to cause a child to withhold a bowel movement until they get home. It may then be too late and either painful or impossible to pass stool—hence, the onset of child constipation begins and the cycle may not end without some sort of medication or parental intervention.
For children preschool aged up to 12, a stool softener is generally prescribed as the constipation remedy. Older children may be given the softener in tablet form or maybe a mild laxative. However, be sure to stay away from laxatives that use stimulants or other chemicals as they may be habit forming or cause harmful side effects. Licorice is a natural laxative that may be consumed during the day so that a natural bowel movement is possible later at night or the following morning. Prune juice is another natural means of eliminating constipation and a glass before bedtime should relieve mild cases by the following morning.
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Some people think that God wants us to be happy all the time. But, God never said that. God wants us to be more than happy.
Key Points:
• God never said we will always be happy.
• Chasing happiness can lead us down the wrong path.
• God wants you to be more than happy.
Memory Verse:
Psalms 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
See Also: Happiness
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2. If you could eat whatever you wanted all day, what would you choose? What are some potential consequences for eating too much of a good thing?
3. Does it surprise you to know that God never said you’ll always be happy? Explain.
4. What are some examples of things people do to find happiness that might not be the best for them?
5. What do you think “more than happy” means?
6. Read Philippians 4:11-13. What does it mean to be content? How does being content affect the way we look at life?
7. How will you apply this lesson to your life this week?
This is part of the God Never Said That series.
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Another way to use R in Excel for .NET programmer
As you know, RExcel give us a way to combine R with Excel.
But, It just bothering to install some COMs and maybe not be programming but excel manipulation!
If you are a .NET programmer, there is another way to call R from Excel.
I would like to show you simple example.
We need to two libraries to do that.
1. Excel-DNA
2. R.NET
First, you download ExcelDNA from here.
And, go to "Distribution" folder.
you just need only three files(ExcelDna.dna, ExcelDna.xll, ExcelDna.Integration.dll) in this folder.
(I assume that your OS is 32bit windows.)
Second, you download R.NET from here.
you can set(or copy) these files any folder as you like.
Next, you start up your IDE. I used VC# this time.
Of-course, you can use other .NET languages like a VB.NET.
Create new project, choice "Class library" as template and wrote program as below.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using ExcelDna.Integration;
using RDotNet;
namespace CSLib
public class CSLib
static REngine rengine = null;
static CSLib()
// Set the folder in which R.dll locates.
[ExcelFunction(Description = "get random numbers obey to normal distribution")]
public static double [] MyRnorm(int number)
return (rengine.EagerEvaluate("rnorm(" + number + ")").AsNumeric().ToArray());
In this case, I defined the function which generates random numbers obey standard normal distribution. If you use or install another version R, modify "SetDllDirectory" function call.
All source code and solution files are here(github).
Next, Add R.NET.dll and ExcelDna.Integration.dll to your project as reference.
Now, Everything is ready. Let's compile !
After compile, you have to modify your ExcelDna.dna file.
Edit this file with notepad like below.
(v4.0 means your version of .NET framework. modify this number if you need)
(If your DLL's relative-path is not "CSLib.dll" from ExcelDNA.xll, you have to correct this name)
(I deployed CSLib.dll, ExcelDna.xll, ExcelDna.dna in the same folder)
After that, double-click your ExcelDna.xll and create new Excel sheet.
As you'll see below, you can use your own function defined in C# language !
Enjoy !
3 件のコメント:
1. Thank you for this post - I've added a link back from the Excel-DNA page on CodePlex. I would suggest you rename ExcelDna.xll and ExcelDna.dna though, just to avoid confusion with other samples.
Regards, Govert
2. Oh, thx!
For simpilicity, I didn't change these names.
I will write new article about ExcelDNA tonight.
In that time, I will refer to your suggestion.
Best regards;
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Tuesday, 16 April 2019
What's wrong with the tomatoes???
I can't believe I've left it so long since I last posted...I've been very busy and I'm still on top of things but more about that in the next few posts...for now its a bit of a cry for help.
I went up the allotment yesterday and when I went in the greenhouse I was confronted with these sorry specimens...
Sorry they aren't great pictures but they were taken n my phone as it was the only thing I had handy but you can clearly see that they aren't looking there best. These were taken Monday...they were fine when I was at the allotment on Saturday so it happened in a couple of days....Any ideas??
The chilli and aubergine are looking a little the same bu everything else seem fine.
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Disney's Hollywood Studios Update: Exploring Galaxy's Edge (PART 2)
Thank you for joining us for the second part of this Disney's Hollywood Studios photo-report. Let's continue our tour of the park by exploring the park's newest land - Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge:
The attention to details is absolutely stunning:
Galaxy's Edge looks even better at night:
Let's take a quick look inside the Cantina:
1 comment:
1. Let's hope they go Empire vs Rebellion as soon as possible and quit this new crap.
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Remove a div / text using CSS
To remove a div or some text, I had used the display:none ;property.
Another option is using the visibility: hidden;
visibility: hidden will hide the element, but it will still take up space in the layout.
display: none removes the element completely from the document and will not take up any space, even though the HTML for it is still in the source code.
[sourcecode language=”css”]
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