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The Splendor Of San Diego's Gems
May 20, 2010 11:08 a.m.
San Diego's history as a gem mining and gem producing center is one of the county's best-kept secrets. The new exhibit called ALL THAT GLITTERS at the San Diego Natural History museum uncovers those sparkling secrets. We'll speak with the exhibit's curator and the owner of a present-day gem mine in San Diego. | <urn:uuid:a860cbea-6fb0-42d8-a11a-a130c0c9adc6> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://www.kpbs.org/audioclips/9272/ | 2018-04-26T12:17:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125948126.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20180426105552-20180426125552-00340.warc.gz | en | 0.929136 | 89 |
Sony has announced that their first model of Blu-Ray player will release in August
, not later this month as originally announced. The BDP-SP1, retailing for $1000, will now ship on or about August 15th. Bad news for fans of the new format, and even worse news for the PS3
. Since Sony's lackluster E3 showing, a string of bad news has seemed to conspire against the company's next-gen console. From the Gamers with Jobs article: "With the PS3's high-end model coming it at a whopping $400.00 less than a stand-alone Blu-Ray player, Sony needs to release these players as soon as possible. If they wait too long, the PS3 will begin looming on the horizon, causing even devout early adopters to question the intelligence of buying a stand-alone Blu-Ray unit. Sony also needs the largest possible installed base, come launch-time for the PS3. For the Blu-Ray player to be the PS3's version of the PS2's DVD player, casual technophiles need to be able to see the virtues of the Blu-Ray format. If there are few players, and few titles, this might not happen." | <urn:uuid:1a6ceb6b-b9e5-4afc-9cac-533e9608a3b5> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://slashdot.org/users2.pl?uid=946716&view=userhomepage&fhfilter=%22home%3Asakielnorn%22&startdate=2009 | 2017-07-25T22:57:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549425407.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170725222357-20170726002357-00390.warc.gz | en | 0.9589 | 254 |
Isn't it funny how without make up we feel naked?
It's almost like we're hiding behind a mask.
For the month of November, a couple of my roommates and I are participating in,
"No Make-up November"
It's been a little bit of a struggle for me.
I'm just not use to my natural face.
I feel uncomfortable.
But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right?
I don't want to continue to think that make-up is the only thing that can make me beautiful.
I am beautiful without it and I need to gain confidence in myself.
Make-up does not make me beautiful.
But my actions and words do.
So, make-up, I'll see you in December. | <urn:uuid:8e4cdb60-b9f8-43bc-8369-74b8373d88c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://thriftedthings.blogspot.com/2011/11/no-make-up-november.html | 2022-10-01T15:13:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030336674.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001132802-20221001162802-00733.warc.gz | en | 0.953669 | 168 |
MASTERPLAN will be in the next 70000TONS OF METAL™, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise! 60 Bands, 4 Days, 1 Cruise Ship, and only 3000 Tickets. http://70000tons.com/
Roland Grapow has called up his band mates to re-record old songs from his Helloween era, giving them a new glow. With “PumpKings” they now present us with pleasure the result! Release date 30th June 2017
Masterplan – Keep Your Dream aLive – DVD/CD DVD version: http://shop.afm-records.de/en/masterplan-keep-your-dream-alive-cd-dvd-en.html Blu-ray version: http://shop.afm-records.de/en/masterplan-keep-your-dream-alive-cd-blu-ray-en.html In 2002 More...
Here are all the dates from our Keep Your Dream Alive Latin Tour 2015 ! | <urn:uuid:637d82c2-f392-4eb2-b1f8-b71775485aa6> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://www.masterplan-theband.com/ | 2020-01-19T05:25:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250594209.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20200119035851-20200119063851-00321.warc.gz | en | 0.850887 | 221 |
CCSP SND Quick Reference (Digital Short Cut)
Brandon James Carroll
As a final exam preparation tool, the CCSP SND Quick Reference provides a concise review of all objectives on the new CCSP SND exam (642-552). This digital Short Cut provides you with detailed, graphical-based information, highlighting only the key topics in cram-style format.
With this document as your guide, you will review topics on securing network routers and switches with Cisco IOS features available through the CLI and web-based GUIs. These fact-filled Quick Reference Sheets allow you to get all-important information at a glance, helping you focus your study on areas of weakness and to enhance memory retention of essential exam concepts.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to Network Security Policies
Chapter 2 Securing the Perimeter
Chapter 3 Securing LAN and WLAN Devices
Chapter 4 Cisco IOS Firewall Configuration
Chapter 5 Securing Networks with Cisco IOS IPS
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Project Type: Bi-Fold Doors
Project Name: Love's Landing
Project Location: Lady Lake, FL
- (1) 42'-6" x 16'-6" Bi-Fold Hangar Door
Loves Landing, one of Florida's premeir fly in communities has several Well Bilt Industries, Bifold Hangar doors. With origins dating back to the 80's Well Bilt has been designing and manufacturing the Bifold Hangar Door. The project at lady lake was a detached aircraft hangar that was designed to store the owners two fixed wing aircraft. The owner was concerned about which BiFold Hangar Door to purchase.so both he and his wife flew over to Williston to visist the factory, One of the major concerns was what was the installation cost and was it practical for him to install it? Well we explained how our door is fully assembled in our shop and tested prior to shipping and the rest they say is history. The end result was the Owner got a excellent door system that was pre assembled and ready for installation.
When your next project calls for a Bilfold Hangar Door, wether it is for a commercial or residential use as well as high end bifold crane doors, call on Well Bilt, a trusted name for 3 decades. | <urn:uuid:507e1787-93e3-4234-b3e3-d3cbee507339> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.wellbiltdoors.com/our-projects/bifold-hangar-door-in-lake-florida | 2021-10-17T09:12:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585171.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20211017082600-20211017112600-00310.warc.gz | en | 0.972137 | 265 |
Apart from travel directions, our Car Directory provides car listings infor on car rental in Singapore, car financing Singapore, Singapore car insurance, new car dealer & used car dealers in Singapore. The quickest way to get from Kampong Pasir Ris to Changi Village is to taxi which costs $9 - … If you are planning to buy a Car or need Car Information, visit Singapore Auto Guide. From Tanah Merah MRT: Change to bus 2 or 9 From Simei MRT: Change to bus 9 From Tampines MRT: Change to bus 19 From Tampines East MRT: Change to bus 9, 59 From Pasir Ris MRT: Change to bus 89. I was waiting at bus stop B20 LOYANG AVG towards PASIR RIS. Fishermen in the kelongs located in the Serangoon Harbour offshore also use this jetty as a drop off point to come onto mainland. The hotel offers a continental breakfast … These Bus lines stop near Changi Village Hawker Centre: 109, 2, 59. BUS ENQUIRY. Alight at bus stop 99021 ‘Bef Cranwell Rd’. 89.7 is located on Changi Village Road and is almost opposite the bus terminus. Hi, im a frequent commuter for service 89. Visitors who do not have a pass are to alight and re-board the bus after it returns from completing its loop within the Airfreight Centre (at a separate bus stop opposite Police Pass Office). At just 15 minutes away from Changi Airport, it’s no wonder Village Hotel Changi is a favourite for nature lovers and transit passengers on a quick stopover. From Pasir Ris MRT: Take buses 89 or 109 towards Changi Village Terminal and alight at bus stop 99021 ‘Bef Cranwell Rd’. 2 at Tanah Merah Station Exit B Bus stop (85091) to Changi Village. Bus Services: Take buses 2, 59, 109 to the Changi Village Bus Terminal (it’s located next to the Changi Village Hawkers Centre) MRT: Tampines MRT Station (EW2), board Bus No. Changi Village Bus Terminal Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal: Go-Ahead Singapore Loyang 2A Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal: Tanah Merah MRT station: 3 ... 89 Hougang Central Bus Interchange: Changi Airfreight Centre SBS Transit Sengkang - Hougang 89A Pasir Ris Drive 1 89e: Hougang Central Bus … Service 2 is a trunk service plying between Changi Village and Buona Vista, passing through Upper Changi Road North, Simpang Bedok, Sims Avenue/ Geylang Road, Bugis, Chinatown and ABC Brickworks Market. The cheapest way to get from Kampong Pasir Ris to Changi Village is to line 89 bus which costs $1 - $3 and takes 18 min. For a blast from the past, visit historical site like Old Changi Hospital and World War II remains like Changi Chapel & Museum and Changi Prison. Streetdirectory.com Changi Village Bus Terminal is located in Changi District, Singapore. Frequented mainly by residents and military men from the nearby camps, this food-laden enclave is without a doubt, a must-visit—even for those who do not reside in the East. Moovit helps you find the best way to get to Changi Village with step-by-step directions from the nearest public transit station. 99009 (Alight at Changi Village Bus Terminal) MRT. Changi Village was my favourite supper go-to and where most of our post book-out celebrations were held, the sheer variety often left me spoilt for choice. The Changi Village Bus Terminal is located adjacent to the hawker centre and has bus services 2, 29, 59 and 109 operating from it. 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The ambulance service is now working to meet new response times, being introduced across the country.
When you dial 999, the ambulance operators are now given more time to talk with you and decide the most appropriate response. The average times for a response have been changed and they differ depending on how serious the emergency is. The ambulance service will always try to get to those people who are in most need and the new standards will help them dedicate the right resource for the right outcome.
You can read more in this pdf infographic (589 KB) .
Remember - our ambulance service is really busy. Please only dial 999 if it is a genuine emergency. If it is urgent but not an emergency then call 111. | <urn:uuid:05eb69fa-ee64-4f02-b77b-0c04c7cd0353> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | https://www.norwichccg.nhs.uk/news-news-events/333-ambulance-response-times | 2018-07-20T18:27:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591719.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720174340-20180720194340-00575.warc.gz | en | 0.945861 | 142 |
John L Vifian
jongleur at liripipe.com
Thu Jul 23 17:59:46 UTC 2009
On Thursday 23 July 2009 10:44:37 am Steven Vollom wrote:
> When I downloaded them, they suggested choosing the .gz files for Linux
> instead of zip. I googles Blocklist to locate them and selected pretty
> much all of them, but they are gz files.
So presumably you haven't uncompressed them (the gz files) yet? You can use
Ark to do that, and then presumably you could open them in Kate, although I'm
not sure why you want to do that. :-)
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked
into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
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1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. 2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri, 3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: 4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: 5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath. 6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee. 7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; 9 From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; 10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon; 11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; 12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out. 13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day. 14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them. 15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families. 16 And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba; 17 Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon, 18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, 19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley, 20 And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth, 21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country. 22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them. 23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof. 24 And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families. 25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah; 26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir; 27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward. 28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages. 29 And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families. 30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities: 31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families. 32 These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward. 33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. 2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. 5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land. 6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. 7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. 8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. 10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. 11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. 12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said. 13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. 14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. 15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. 2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward: 3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: 4 From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast. 5 And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan: 6 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben: 7 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel: 8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward: 9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim: 10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah: 11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. 12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families. 13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron. 14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. 15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher. 16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. 18 And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? 19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs. 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. 21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, 22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, 23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, 24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, 25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor, 26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, 27 And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet, 28 And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah, 29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem, 30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah, 31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, 32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages: 33 And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah, 34 And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam, 35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah, 36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages: 37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad, 38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel, 39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, 40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish, 41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages: 42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan, 43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib, 44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages: 45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages: 46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages: 47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof: 48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh, 49 And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir, 50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim, 51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages: 52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean, 53 And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah, 54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages: 55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah, 56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, 57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages: 58 Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor, 59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages: 60 Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages: 61 In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah, 62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages. 63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day. | <urn:uuid:895b18d4-6f1d-4a81-8beb-ef92005bea9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.biblecloud.com/kjv/joshua/14 | 2016-07-25T20:05:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257824345.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071024-00276-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959286 | 3,545 |
Revised civil service pay scales on forsa.ie
by Róisín McKane
Civil service pay scales have been updated on the Fórsa website, reflecting the first income adjustment under the Building Momentum public service agreement negotiated by Fórsa and other unions, and overwhelmingly accepted in a ballot of Fórsa members early in 2021.
The 1% adjustment came into effect on 1st October and applies across the civil and public service.
Next year will bring further average increases totalling 2%. A ‘sectoral bargaining fund’ will award the equivalent of a 1% increase from 1st February 2022. Most grades will get a straight 1% increase, though a small number are using the available funds to address outstanding claims or awards.
Then, a second general round increase of 1% of gross pay or €500 a year, whichever is the greater, kicks in in October 2022.
Fórsa's civil service division represents over 30,000 civil service workers including clerical, administrative, technical and professional staff and service officers.
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My daughter said something to me the other day that really made me pause.
“My entire senior year is going to happen in a single week,” Anna Kate told me.
She proceeded to rattle off about six days in a row in which some significant event was going happen. Prom one day, Senior night soccer game another night. Chorus banquet another night. And the list just kept rolling off her tongue.
Of course her wild week in May will come for her as it has for countless others before her and many more after she’s finished with high school.
Her comment made even more sense to me Tuesday night as I sat down to write this.
The day was a blur. After a staff meeting first thing in the morning, there was a quick errand to run at the church.
There I ran into 89-year-old Clayton Whitley, who is about as interesting a man as I’ve ever met. We chatted for a few minutes as he recalled his work with N.C. State where he served 23 years as a stadium usher after a long career in sales that occurred followed a stint in the military during World War II.
After the quick visit with Mr. Clayton, as many in our church refer to him, it was off to a Rotary meeting at Wendell Country Club, where I took care of a little bit of Rotary business, then wolfed down some exceptional chicken and dumplings.
I picked up Anna Kate for a trip to visit a financial aid office to figure out how I can get my child educated for free. The short version of that story is this: It ain’t happening. I’ll be pulling out the checkbook over and over for the next few years.
After that disappointment, I rushed back to the office in time to take a photo of Gerry and Pat Reid who have opened a new business, Amsoil, in Zebulon. The Reids, it turns out, were recently inducted into the Amsoil Hall of Fame after a quarter century working in wholesale for the company. Now the Reids have opened a retail dealership of their own and it was fun watching Gerry Reid as he talked about his new business and his excitement over the product his company sells.
I learned long ago that selling anything is hard work and without a passion for it, you won’t get very far. The Reids have that passion. You can just tell when you’re around them.
After a quick trip home to verify that I could not fix a broken cell phone, it was off to the Garner area, where Wake County commissioner Phil Matthews was speaking to the McCuller’s Ruritan Club. After Matthews made his remarks, the floor was opened for questions. The Ruritans peppered Matthews with questions about several topics before club president Jim Sears moved on to some other club business.
Matthews was comfortable in his own skin, promoting the good works of Wake County government. When the questions turned to dealing with the school system, Matthews’ tone took a harder edge. It was interesting to watch. To his credit, Matthews didn’t shy away from the questions, though his answers often put the responsibility for problems at the feet of the school board.
When I got home Tuesday night, I found my youngest daughter, Pitt, trying to finish a to-do list before leaving Wednesday night for a school field trip to Disney. Her list of essential non-clothes items filed nearly two columns on a sheet of notebook paper. For a second I thought she was moving down there permanently.
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The respiratory system includes your lungs, trachea, bronchi and diaphragm, which all work together to allow you to breathe. As you inhale, you take in oxygen, which is then delivered throughout your body. As you exhale, your respiratory system gets rid of carbon dioxide. Certain types of exercise challenge the respiratory system because they force it to work harder. With consistent training over time, your respiratory system becomes more efficient.
As you exercise, your breathing rate increases. Your respiratory system is forced to deliver more oxygen to your working muscular tissues that need an increased flow to function. The amount of carbon dioxide, which is a byproduct of cellular respiration, also increases. As your breathing rate increases, you take in more oxygen and you exhale more carbon dioxide. Your tidal volume, which is the amount of air you breathe in or out in one single breath, also increases.
This increased workload that your respiratory system has to handle during exercise results in long-term positive effects. Your diaphragm and intercostal muscles, which run along your ribs, become stronger. This increase in strength allows you to forcibly exhale a greater amount of air. Your alveoli, which are little cavities in your lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged, increase in number. As a result, you’re able to deliver more oxygen to and remove more carbon dioxide from your body.
Exercises that challenge the respiratory system include cardio or aerobic activities. These types of activities require the use of the largest muscles in your body and are done for prolonged durations. Exercises like jogging, swimming, climbing stairs, jumping rope, riding an elliptical machine, rowing, biking and cross-country skiing are considered cardio exercises because they increase the amount of oxygen needed by the working tissues. To effectively develop the respiratory system, workouts should last at least 20 minutes and should be completed on a consistent basis.
To measure the efficiency and strength of your respiratory system, you can calculate your VO2 max, which is the amount of oxygen you’re able to consume during maximum intensity exercise. Most fitness facilities offer VO2 max tests, which use a computer and involve you breathing into a tube while running all out on a treadmill. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, you can estimate your VO2 max by running at your top speed for 15 minutes. Round off the distance you ran during that time to the nearest 25 meters and then divide that value by 15. Subtract 133 from that value, and then multiply the total by 0.172. Finally, add 33.3 to get your estimated VO2 max. Elite athletes have VO2 max levels that are above 80, but for the general population, an excellent score would land between 50 and 80.
Kim Nunley has been screenwriting and working as an online health and fitness writer since 2005. She’s had multiple short screenplays produced and her feature scripts have placed at the Austin Film Festival. Prior to writing full-time, she worked as a strength coach, athletic coach and college instructor. She holds a master's degree in kinesiology from California State University, Fullerton.
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Commercial Roofers awards scholarship
Commercial Roofers Inc., Las Vegas, has awarded its annual scholarship to Marshall R. Cowan, a student currently enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
For 10 years, Commercial Roofers has agreed to provide a $1,500 scholarship every year to a deserving architectural studies student. Students are asked to design a building with emphasis on the roof system. The designs are judged by a class instructor and two additional UNLV professors. In addition to the scholarship, Commercial Roofers' owners, Scott Howard and Dennis Conway, give a presentation to the class about the importance of proper and workable roof system designs.
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MEXICO CITY.- Arturo Javier Ortega Olive, with impressive year-over-year growth for 2015 now in the books, Aerolineas Ejecutivas, Latin America’s leading business aviation company, has just taken deliveryof three brand-new Learjet 75 aircraft. Boasting best-in-class range and cutting-edge avionics systems that empower pilots, the new Learjet 75 aircraft are now available as part of the company’s MexJet executive flight program. Having now been delivered to the Aerolineas Ejecutivas main hangar at Toluca International Airport, the new jets are capable of cruising at up to 51,000 feet, climbing more quickly to flight altitude than any comparable craft and cutting down significantly on travel times.
“With the data now in, we can say that 2015 was an amazing year for Aerolineas Ejecutivas and the Mexican business aviation industry,” company President Arturo Javier Ortega Olive said, “2016 is shaping up to be an even more important one for us, and we’re proud to report that Aerolineas Ejecutivas approaches its semi-centennial in stronger shape than ever. With the addition of three sleek new Learjet 75 craft to the fleet, our MexJet fractional flight program will become even more attractive to business leaders and others throughout the Americas.”
The Learjet 75 is the latest product of Canadian manufacturer Bombardier’s long-running efforts to stay abreast of the international business cycle. The development program that resulted in the Learjet 75 was kicked off as it became clear that the lingering effects of the last global recession were beginning to dissipate, leaving the company with a new product to unveil just as the world’s top companies once again began looking to upgrade their executive transportation arrangements.
As Latin America’s leading business aviation company for over 47 years, Aerolineas Ejecutivas has made an especially suitable buyer for the new Learjet. The company’s MexJet fractional jet ownership program has become an enormous success under the stewardship of Arturo Javier Ortega, giving clients the flexibility to spend their share-hours on a variety of always-available travel arrangements over five years of ownership.
In addition to being a top direct provider of business aviation services, including maintenance and ground support, Aerolineas Ejecutivas is also Mexico’s leading aircraft broker. As the only member from outside of the United States of the demanding, highly respected National Aircraft Resale Association, Aerolineas Ejecutivas engages in continuous, organization-wide training, staying up to date with the latest best practices and adhering to the strictest of ethical standards. With strong results throughout the Mexican aviation industry for 2015, Aerolineas Ejecutivas leader Arturo Ortega Olive predicts that 2016 will be an even more momentous year both for his company and throughout Latin America.
About Aerolineas Ejecutivas:
As Latin America’s only full-service business aviation company, NARA member Aerolineas Ejecutivas has provided the best in executive flights, aircraft maintenance, ground support, and sales for over 47 years.
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As the saying goes, there are some things you’re better off not knowing. Like how sausage is made, if you really like sausage. Still, if anyone’s curious (didn’t say you were. said “if”), here’s where the title of my third story collection came from:
In 1905, Lafcadio Hearn published a collection of pieces on Japanese legend called “The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Stories.” Including therein were several tanka written on the legend of the Weaver and Herdsman (also called the Romance of the Milky Way) from an 8th Century Japanese poetry volume, the Manyoushou. Here’s Hearn’s translation of one:
Kimi kimasu nari
[He is coming, my long-desired lord, whom I have been waiting to meet here, on the banks of the River of Heaven…. The moment of loosening my girdle is nigh!]
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Nutritional Psychiatry’s Growing Importance in the Treatment of Mood Disorders
One of the most important power-players in mental health and wellbeing is the neurotransmitter serotonin. It allows the body and mind to manage mood, regulate sleep, appetite and even reduces physical pain.
What might come as a surprise to anyone that’s not a nutritional psychiatrist, though, is that 95 percent of the body’s serotonin is produced not in the brain, but in the gastrointestinal tract.
More and more research is linking a healthy digestive system directly to an individual’s mental health. Now, dietary interventions for the treatment of common mental disorders, like anxiety and depression, are gaining momentum.
“Today, fortunately, the burgeoning field of Nutritional Psychiatry is finding there are many consequences and correlations between not only what you eat, how you feel and ultimately behave, but also the kinds of bacteria that live in your gut,” writes Dr. Eva Selhub, a contributing editor at Harvard Health Publishing.
The Relationship of Food to Mental Health
Advances in this relatively new field treatment are important considering the stigma surrounding issues of mental health, despite how common these problems are. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) illustrate the latter point:
- Around 50 percent of all Americans will be diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in their lifetime
- Among 18 to 44 year olds, mental illness is the third most common cause for hospitalization in the country
- Adults with serious mental illness live, on average, 25 years less than people with stable mental health
Selhub cites studies about probiotics – supplements to boost “good” bacteria in the gut – that show an improvement in people’s sensitivity to stress, anxiety levels and overall mental outlook when taken on a regular basis.
She also compares research about cultural diets, such as the Mediterranean Diet and the Japanese diet, which are rich in fish, seafood, fruits and vegetables, to the typical “Western” diet that’s high in refined sugars and processed grains.
People in these parts of the world or that live on these diets are less prone to depression by up to 30 percent.
The Goals of Nutritional Psychiatry
Here are some of the goals of this dietary discipline, outlined by the Center for Nutritional Psychology:
- Develop evidence-based knowledge about how nutrients affect inflammation in the body, sleep, energy, cognition, medication needs and behavioral dysfunction
- Educate people and patients on the positive and negative roles diet plays in overall mental health and wellbeing
- To consider a patient’s nutritional needs and deficiencies in the context of their mental health treatment
- Using nutritional psychology in integrative health endeavors by treating patients conditions as a whole and not just as a set of separate symptoms
How to Eat For Gut-Brain Health
The question of what foods to get and how to implement a healthier, mood-lifting diet is likely rattling around in people’s brains right now.
“Start paying attention to how eating different foods makes you feel – not just in the moment, but the next day,” writes Dr. Selhub.
She suggests eliminating processed foods and sugars for two to three weeks and replacing them with natural probiotic foods, such as sauerkraut, pickles, miso and kombucha. “Then, slowly introduce foods back into your diet, one by one, and see how you feel.”
As with most medical care, information is key and, sadly, not everyone shares the same access, for any number of reasons. Growing up in a family with a poor diet can often mean a poor nutritional education, regardless of socio-economic status.
Even with the right information, shopping for organic and unprocessed foods is often more expensive or not available in some communities.
Perhaps in the distant future, the science behind nutritional psychiatry and the role of nutrients in overall mental health and wellbeing will transform access.
In the meantime, public awareness and education about gut-brain connection continues to expand.
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Heidelberg Reports It's on Track to Meet Medium-Term Financial Targets
WIESLOCH/WALLDROF, Germany - June 12, 2018 - Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) made significant progress with the Group’s targeted digital transformation in financial year 2017/2018 (April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018). By the beginning of June, several customers had already opted for the new subscription model that offers Heidelberg products and services as part of a usage-based all-in contract running over several years. The total of over 30 contracts being targeted for the new financial year 2018/2019 looks set to generate business worth some €150 million over the standard five-year term of these models. However, as the number of contracts concluded is just starting to pick up, this will only be reflected in the company’s figures to any significant extent from financial year 2019/2020 onward, when it will also help stabilize Group sales.
In addition, the series production of digital presses for packaging and label printing (Primefire and Labelfire), which also started in financial year 2017/2018, will have an increasingly positive impact on sales. The aim for the coming years is to deliver at least one digital press per month to customers. As the number of systems installed increases, stable, recurring sales of consumables will also continue growing and exceed machine-only business. Further positive impetus is anticipated from additional sales of consumables, increased levels of e-commerce business thanks primarily to our newly founded Heidelberg Digital Unit, and the ramp-up of Digital Platforms.
The recently agreed sale of the research and development building in Heidelberg marks the successful conclusion of the planned infrastructure projects at the Heidelberg and Wiesloch-Walldorf sites. Another important step as part of efforts to improve operational performance – among other things by reducing process and structural costs under the “Operational Excellence” initiative – has thus been completed.
Heidelberg can thus confirm the medium-term targets communicated in the summer of 2017. These include an increase in Group sales to around €3 billion, an operating result (EBITDA) of €250 to 300 million, and a net result after taxes of over €100 million.
“As announced at the last Annual Accounts Press Conference, Heidelberg is well on the way to achieving its goal of once again becoming the lighthouse of the industry. Our digital transformation will continue systematically in financial year 2018/2019. Both our new subscription model and the new digital presses remain in high demand. Given that this will have a substantial impact on our sales and result from 2019/2020 onward, we can confirm our medium-term targets,” commented CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer.
Presentation of annual financial statements for 2017/2018 underlines specified targets
Based on the audited figures from the annual financial statements, Heidelberg has achieved the targets it set itself with Group sales of €2,420 million. The difference compared with the previous year’s figure of €2,524 million is mainly the result of negative currency effects and the deliberate avoidance of risky remarketed equipment business amounting in total to over €100 million. Despite the negative currency effects in the period under review, incoming orders were at a very encouraging level for a post-drupa year at €2,588 million (previous year: €2,593 million). The demand in the final quarter of the year was substantially up on the figure for the same quarter of the previous year – €676 million compared with €604 million – among other things due to the full order volume of subscription contracts now being taken into account. This contributed to a significant increase in the order backlog at the end of the financial year and also to a visible improvement in sales in the first quarter compared with the previous year.
EBITDA excluding the effects of restructuring totaled €172 million in the reporting period (previous year: €179 million). This meant the resulting EBITDA margin of 7.1 percent (previous year: 7.1 percent) was within the expected range. At around €–16 million, the effects of restructuring in financial year 2017/2018 were similar to the previous year’s level of €–18 million. Lower interest costs resulted in a further significant improvement in the financial result to €–48 million (previous year: €–56 million). The pre-tax result increased to € 39 million in the reporting year (previous year: € 34 million). Driven by the US tax reform, the net result after taxes was negatively impacted by deferred tax expenses of some € 25 million reported by the US tax group. The non-cash write-down of deferred tax assets reflects the cut in the US federal corporate income tax. The net result after taxes was therefore € 14 million in the financial year 2017/2018 after € 36 million in the previous year. Adjusted for this effect, the net result after taxes would have risen moderately as forecast.
Cash flow was clearly positive and on a par with the previous year’s level at € 104 million. Due to acquisitions and investments associated with the construction of the new innovation center in Wiesloch, as expected, the free cash flow was slightly negative at €–8 million (previous year: €24 million). The net financial debt fell to €236 million in the reporting period (March 31, 2017: €252 million) and leverage at 1.4 remained well below the target value of 2.
“Our growth initiatives are accompanied by a new financing framework that also enables us to further accelerate the digital transformation through targeted acquisitions,” said CFO Dirk Kaliebe. “In the future, too, we will make a point of leveraging the resulting growth potential with acquisitions throughout the entire value-added chain,” he added.
Outlook: moderate growth in sales and net result after taxes expected in financial year 2018/2019
Based on the progress in the targeted digital transformation, the Company is forecasting moderate sales growth for 2018/2019. The solid order backlog at the beginning of the financial year supports this forecast. The first half of the year is again expected to be impacted by negative currency effects, first and foremost on account of the US dollar/euro exchange rate and out of Asia as well. As in previous years, Heidelberg is currently intensively examining several options for external growth, but the probability of such transactions cannot be reliably quantified at this time.
The moderate growth in sales, combined with efficiency enhancement measures, including initial savings from the recently initiated operational excellence program, should allow an EBITDA margin excluding restructuring result in the range of 7 to 7.5 percent in the 2018/2019 financial year. The additional staff costs resulting from the new collective bargaining agreement have been taken into account.
As a result of the forthcoming transformation activities and the optimization of processes and structures in the context of operational excellence, Heidelberg is assuming restructuring expenses of around € 20 million in the new financial year.
Interest expenses are to be reduced to around € 20 million in the medium term as a result of the ongoing optimization of our credit facilities. However, the anticipated positive effects will initially be outweighed by the negative impact of the planned early partial repayment of the existing high-yield bond (8 percent) in 2018/2019. However, this move will reduce interest expenses in subsequent years.
In the financial year 2018/2019, while Heidelberg is also forecasting higher tax expenses at foreign Group subsidiaries, the company still expects a moderate increase in earnings after taxes compared to the previous year (including a non-recurring tax effect in 2017/2018), which is set to rise further in subsequent years.
The scheduled publication date for the financial statements for the first quarter of financial year 2018/2019 is August 7, 2018.
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Watch as victorious Kolkata Knight Riders players Robin Uthappa, Jacques Kallis and Ryan ten Doeschate celebrate reaching the final of the Indian Premier League 2014.
The Knight Riders, winners in 2012, earned their place in Sunday's showpiece by beating the Kings XI Punjab by 28 runs at Eden Gardens.
They will play either the Kings XI or the Chennai Super Kings, who meet on Friday.
Here, players, team members and mentors - including Wasim Akram and Mike Horn - give their thoughts on a fine win and what now lies in store for the Kolkata side.
The victory was their eighth win in a row.
Video courtesy of Kolkata Knight Riders / YouTube
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When the Fourth Street biolab went up, I didn't think of Casey right away. I was working in the far side of the complex, which meant I was one of about four hundred people who got to see the entire dome rise up off its foundations, rotate counterclockwise ninety degrees, and shoot up into the sky. My immediate reaction followed the same pattern as everyone else: first What the hell, then, just before a needle of light vaporized the biolab, Are those people up there?
I could hazard a guess at the second question; I'd gotten that far into the shadow organizations, even then. I knew enough to guess at the identities of some of the blurry shapes darting through the smoke, shapes that official press releases would call confabulation and that the conspiracists would call aliens or Muslims or Freemason-built androids. The shadow orgs had been sloppy that time; usually they didn't like to be seen at their work, but there'd been so little warning that they'd had no choice but to break out the big guns. Literally, in this case.
But that wasn't what came to mind as I stared up into the sky, the glare of that solar blast fading bit by bit from my retinas, my nethead links relating the intensity of that blast, the projected knock-on effects on the rest of the Niobe web, the first stirrings among the dataminers. Instead, I just thought Casey would love this. I kept coming back to that thought over the next few weeks, even after word got out about the low-rent terrorists who'd gotten so close to taking over the biolab that vaporizing the whole place was the only alternative. Even after the arrests started.
I still think it's true.
Today marks the first time I've been allowed into the Albuquerque facility. My credentials have been checked and re-checked so many times that they could probably tell you the weight and density of my last three bowel movements. Even so, they've been cutting corners on security, just so they can get me in here.
I fully expect that within twenty years, someone will have figured out a way to install nethead technology in anyone regardless of individual brain structure. But until they do, I'm pretty much guaranteed work wherever I go. And there's even fewer of us netheads with the proper security clearances to get into the Madison facility, let alone Albuquerque. I'm a valuable commodity.
The facility isn't much to look at: any decent biolab would have more apparent security. My nethead links are telling me otherwise, though; streams and warnings buzz against my skull so hard I can almost feel my teeth rattle. It unnerves me in a way that Madison didn't, and Madison's where they keep the host site for the Niobe satellite web. Enough solar power to — well, to blow up a biolab, for instance — focused onto the energy collectors for five dozen countries, and it's still less well protected than this place.
It's cool and dark inside the guard shack, and the back of my neck prickles after the blazing heat outside. The guard's got a laser sight wired into his left eye; the silver tracery of it fades into his pale complexion much more smoothly than the similar patterns on my own skin. He gestures to the marks while the machines verify my ID. "Looks nice."
"Thanks." It's striking, or so the nethead PR department says. They claim that's why they want my image for their publicity stills, not just to provide the illusion of diversity. Some days I think they even believe it.
"Been here before?" The guard knows I haven't — a glance at the screens could tell him as much and more — but sometimes courtesy trumps efficiency.
I shake my head. "I've been to Madison."
"Madison, pfft." He grins. "That's nothing to what we got —" He stops and turns red, as if he can't quite believe what he's saying. I used to have that reaction, way back when I was sharing what I knew with Casey, when I tried to tell her that the comics we'd read were — well, not true, not close to true, but had some basis in reality.
"Got what?" I ask, as the computers spit out my ID and agree that yes, my fingers and retinas appear to be my own.
"Well, you know. Them." He opens up the doors, and the flickering readouts in my periphery flare and scramble into new configurations. "The heroes."
The official story of Casey and me is that we were kids together, grew apart, came back together, screwed around, and then split up for good once I realized how crazy she was. Both times it was the heroes that brought us together, the first time through the comics that had come out in the wake of Maxentius sightings and the rumors about the Sixth Seal group. We read them all, regardless of quality, lying on our backs in the vacant lot behind her house, ink on our fingers and intent discussions of whether Mistress Fivepoint could beat Jack o'the Green or if they'd just team up against Memetek. The second time it was because in my first months as a full nethead I learned so much about the shadow organizations, the reality behind all those rumors, and I could only think of one person I wanted to share that with — Casey, who could rattle off the Liberty League's oath or Red Knight's transformation mantra as easily as the Pledge of Allegiance.
Both times it was her head, or what was wrong with it, that split us up.
It's a useful official version. But one thing you learn when you start getting involved in the shadow orgs is that the official version means very little. After all, none of them show up in any official version, except in the records of what didn't happen, the plots that failed, the disasters averted.
Or, sometimes, in the lists of people who've disappeared.
The transport behind those metal doors takes me maybe eight floors down, with that bone-twitching stutter you only get from passing through negation fields. I don't notice it; I'm too busy dealing with the sudden silence in my head. I can handle it — mental stability is one of the most important factors that they test for in determining nethead fitness — but that doesn't mean I enjoy it. Particularly because the one link that does remain is the one that got implanted when I started working for the shadow orgs. For insurance, they told me. The Niobe GPS link.
I remember the Fourth Street biolab, and the back of my neck goes abruptly hot again.
When the doors open again, though, all thoughts of the world outside vanish. The visual input's bad enough: between the scream of light on my right from what might be a laboratory and the dizzying drop twenty feet ahead of me, I can barely register mundane details like the polished-glass sheen of the floor, the central spindle of memory staves, the man waiting for me just to the side.
But all that's nothing compared to the chatter of computers on every side, the information in patterns I've never seen before. It's like being picked up from one set of rapids and dropped into another, and it takes all of my concentration not to drown.
The biggest difference is that there's not much trace of nethead work. It's tradition to leave our marks on the usernodes, stegans encoded into the streams of data like graffiti in a canal, but here there's only two: Klaatu Barada Nikto! from the designer of the Niobe web, and Welcome to Olympus (plus a handy map) from a woman who's now on permanent detail with the Secret Service. If this were a normal job, I'd be tempted to add my own mark to the tabulae, but right now I don't trust what I'd leave.
A permanent link unscrolls with the boxy look of official work. IN RESIDENCE: Kazemusha/Lady Nettle/Oculus/Matthew Glendower/Maxentius . . . The list goes on, code names and real names (not that it matters which is which, this far in) and designations I've only seen in the most hidden records. Names to conjure with.
And finally I recognize the man who's been standing just to the side of the entrance. They've sent the shining face of the org to meet me.
He's just like Casey and I always imagined, resplendent in ivory and gold, and while he doesn't have the red cape the comics gave him, I get the sense he'd like one. Barrel chest, brilliant smile, voice with enough bonhomie for a tri-state area. "Bit overwhelming, eh?" Maxentius says.
"A bit," I agree weakly.
"It does that to me too, sometimes." No it doesn't, I think, but he's not talking about the information overload. He gestures to the vista behind him: dozens of circular floors leading off a central shaft, lifts and elevators between for those who can't just fly. "This sight — when I tire of it, then I'll know the skein of my days has run out. Good to meet you, Seth." He clasps my hand and shakes it vigorously.
"Good to meet you." I've read papers on how much force that hand can exert, how many diamonds it can crush into powder.
"And you're here to see Glendower. Splendid." He turns and strides forward across the gleaming floor. I follow, and if it looks like I'm not gawking, that's because I'm only doing so in my head. Of the levels I can see, some are sterile white and glassed in; some hold weapons and implements I can only guess at; a few look inhabited, homes for those who can't or won't stay outside in the world they claim to protect. A blur on the next floor up, across from us, resolves into a sparring match between two figures I've only heard rumors of, and even then I have to slow the visual down by a factor of ten to get a glimpse.
At the far end of the walkway, Maxentius glances over his shoulder. "Come along, lad! Mustn't keep him waiting!"
Of all the members of the shadow organizations, Maxentius has read too much of his own press. He really does talk like a comic book; 'lad' is nothing to worry about.
Still, it bothers me, and not just because I can remember one too many cops calling my father 'boy' on one too many late-night drives.
There are some things I know for sure about Casey: she loved superhero comics; she didn't keep in touch with her family after graduating; she wrote pamphlets for the Oakland Anti-Gnosis society; she couldn't keep a job for more than six months at a time; she could make fantastic biscuits out of damn near any ingredients she had at hand. When her parents moved away the first time, when we were in school, it was because the first round of mandatory testing had come through. I was on the track to being a fully-functional nethead; Casey had tested positive for a number of dysfunctions, including predisposition to schizophrenia.
There are things I wonder about — whether the chemical imbalances in her brain were caused by her father's exposure to some of the nastier weapons of the Second Chinese War, whether she knew what a risk I was taking associating with her, whether we should have gone ahead and slept together after all.
There are things I've been told about her in the wake of Fourth Street, about her mental state and the company she kept. These are things I will never believe about her.
Maxentius leads me around one side of the silo shaft, through what looks like a trophy room (it's not, according to the nethead stegans). He's rapidly figured out that I'm not listening to him, but that doesn't stop him; in fact, I think he's taken it as license to ramble on.
I catch a glimpse of someone I think is Pale Rider down one hallway. If it is him, that means this particular shadow organization has gone global. Most of them have; a few nationalists cling to their identity in places like Turkmenistan and France, and somehow I'd always assumed the U.S. shadow orgs would be the same way.
Of course, they have the Niobe web. That automatically makes them global; I've got the reminder in my skull if I ever forget that.
We walk past cases holding remnants of past work, plots unraveled, events that were hushed up and now only remain as a footnote to history. Still talking, Maxentius gestures vaguely at what looks like a giant pair of shears. ". . . didn't tell us that the phase shift had affected only half of her, and the other half was stuck in another dimension entirely!" He chuckles, and I remember to smile. "Down this way. Glendower, are you there?"
A gray-haired man in a white shirt and bow tie — there's even a tweed jacket, the kind with the elbow patches, tossed over a chair — waves back without looking. He's talking to a woman I don't recognize. I wouldn't know her if we met on the street; I'd only know her if she wore her mask. She folds up her clipboard, nods to Maxentius, and fades into invisibility with a faint scent of calla lilies.
Glendower's in his late fifties but looks older. He walks with a cane, and while he doesn't have the same build as Maxentius, he's not a small man either. His gray hair is still thick, but there are autofocusing spectacles perched on his nose, and when he pulls a chair over and sinks into it, it's clear that standing for so long was a strain for him. He's the one who pushed through my security clearance, since the virus affected the orgs' datalogs and he's the one who has to work with them. Bookkeeper to the gods. "Well, Mr. Carson, what do you think of our little home?"
"It's amazing," I say, truthfully, and then a touch of the perverse prompts me to add, "if a little rough on visitors."
To my surprise, it's not Glendower who answers, but Maxentius. "The price of our work," he says with a regretful sigh. Maxentius doesn't hide his feelings much; the man's all surface, glossy and deep as a four-color page spread. "These days, to defend the innocent requires one to have a home of which all are innocent." He sees my expression and shakes his head. "I assure you, lad, we're all on the same side here. We are protectors of the world we love, sworn to defend it."
He's entirely serious, and of all the members of the shadow orgs, he embodies those values the most. And yet I can't help myself. "'To protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the indignities, wrongs and outrages of the lawless, the violent and the brutal,'" I quote. Glendower shoots me a sharp look.
Maxentius, though, hasn't noticed. "Yes! Exactly." He shakes my hand a second time, beaming, and nods to Glendower. "I must be off. Good luck — I hope we'll see you here again."
I watch him go. He rescues kittens; that much is a matter of record. It's part of why there's now a cleanup detail assigned solely to him. The shadow orgs may prize their secrecy, but Maxentius does make a useful distraction. And, after all, they are all on the same side.
I shouldn't have made fun of him. It's not his fault he's an innocent.
Glendower's watching me, but unless he's a nethead — and I know he's not — he can't see everything I'm doing. "I've set up a contact terminal for you," he says. "We'd been meaning to change out our security, but good netheads with clearance are few and far between, and I'm afraid we were caught with our trousers down. The virus doesn't seem to be actively hostile, but my projections show it stopping work outright if it overloads any more of our systems. At the moment it's benign, just irritating."
"I can imagine." Twenty years ago, we'd have been fine with a microsecond lag; forty years, and a five-second lag was nothing. But technology spoils us — I should know, I've got a few dozen terabytes' worth of it in my head. I switch from wireless to node work, and put my hands on either side of the contact terminal, relying on the points wired into my fingertips to carry me in. "I can upgrade some of your security while I'm here, but it'll just be a patch-up job till I can come back, and I don't yet have clearance for a second visit. You sure you couldn't fix it yourself?"
Glendower shakes his head. "It's rapidshift. I just don't have the speed to keep it from mutating as I'm working on it. That's nethead work."
Of course it is; I created the damn virus. My consciousness is already split between the terminals that dot the base; I damp wireless input to make up for it and start searching.
Glendower waits for a response from me, then shakes his head and laboriously gets up from the chair. He's got a pacemaker; I can sense the pulse of it like a cricket in the room. "It's rare to have a nethead down here," he says, opening a cabinet and pouring a glass of tonic water. "I had to argue just to get the first few working on our security."
"You've got failsafes in place, though." Those failsafes gave me nightmares for weeks, after I first found out that the Niobe web wasn't just for solar energy.
"True." He pours a second glass and sets it on the shelf next to me. I nod my thanks but don't take it. We're both silent a moment; realtime maybe ten seconds, wiretime much longer, long enough for me to cordon off my virus and distinguish the main archives from what I'm looking for. They don't let these out to the general public; they don't even have access through the Madison facility. The Oculus records.
"You didn't need to tease Max like that," Glendower says quietly.
"Probably not." I'm sorting through records, searching by time, date, subject, even setting aside a part of my brain to flash through random stills, looking for Casey. Oculus' uploads take up entire spindles; I've heard that no one knows why it records everything it sees, but they don't want to upset it by asking. "It just bothered me."
"When he finds out you quoted the mission statement of the Klan at him, he'll be a mess. Max doesn't work well when he has a crisis of conscience." He settles back into his chair with a grunt, and tonic water splashes over the back of his hand.
"Then he'll only be saving the world eighty percent of the time. I'm sure the rest of you can cover the remaining twenty percent." Something about the virus cordon is bothering me, but I'm so close — and there she is, Casey's face blurring by, the brief video record categorized with about four hundred others, each no more than a couple of minutes.
"Would you be willing to help out with that twenty percent?"
I stop, sliding Casey's record into my personal memory like a shoplifter sliding a necklace into his pocket, and turn to face him, keeping one hand on the contact terminal. "Sorry?"
Glendower smiles and thumps his cane on the floor. He needs that cane, I know; an accident when this place was being built wrecked his right foot, and he hasn't had it replaced. "If nothing else, this incident highlights our need to have a nethead on the team. You're the best, you've got the offline intelligence we need, and you've shown great discretion in your work for us here and in Madison."
Discretion. Right. Which is why I'm now fixing a problem I created. It's tempting, though — I can imagine Casey saying Who wouldn't jump at a chance to be a superhero? Or is it only that I want her to say that?
I unpack Casey's record for later viewing, thinking of the smell of hot dirt in the vacant lot and four-color ink smudged across my fingers. "Let me think about it."
"Well." Glendower sighs, then leans over and sets his glass down on the far terminal. "I understand, you've got doubts. After all —" the screen behind him lights up, "— I think I know why you're here."
Casey stares down at me from Glendower's screen, twenty times larger than life, and I finally recognize what the virus report is telling me: someone, probably Glendower himself, got to it first. I stare at Casey's image on the screens — an ID photo, not a mug shot. They'd only had mug shots for the ones who'd gotten arrested, and Casey didn't even make it that far.
Glendower nods. "She was important to you."
"She was." I open the video record that I went through so much to find. It's only about twenty seconds' worth of Oculus' point-of-view, showing a door bursting open. Casey crouches at the far end of the room, frizzy hair tied up in a bright red cloth, eyes wide and dark.
She's just as I remember her.
The record shows her turning and reaching for something — a gun? a phone? a vial that could be her medicine and could be something else entirely? All of them are on the same table. She never even touches it before a flash of light from the door cuts her down.
I close my eyes, then open them to face Glendower, and behind him, Casey. "You knew?"
"We're everywhere, Mr. Carson. We knew." He looks over his shoulder, at the image of a smiling dead girl. "She'd been part of the Fourth Street terrorist cell. We got to the lab first, but when we came to apprehend her —"
"Don't." I can see what happened. I take another look back into the Oculus records; someone's lumped all of the recorded deaths together, whether criminal or civilian or just plain dumb luck. Glendower's assembled them for his own penance, I guess. He doesn't let himself forget either.
It's not enough.
"My offer still stands." He props his hands on his cane and gazes at me. Casey does the same, over his shoulder. "You wouldn't be the first to forsake vengeance and turn your considerable talents toward a good cause. Or —" he sits back a little "— you can take that vengeance on me. I won't stop you."
My breathing slows, and the hand that isn't on the terminal curls into a fist. I could do it. I could kill him in any number of ways — stop the pulse of his pacemaker, use the autofocus in his spectacles as a link into his optical nerve and burn his skull from the inside out, scramble his neurons till he's a drooling vegetable — and walk away. I might even get out of here unscathed, depending how what method I chose.
But kill him, and there'll be another just as certain that they're justified in their actions. Because it's their job to save the world. They're everywhere already, and so many of them wear masks. They say it's to protect their identities, but it's also so that we're never sure who's one of them, who's watching. They're always anonymous again in daylight.
Who was that masked man? I don't know, but there's twenty more of them outside.
Or join them. That's the logical ending for a nethead; most of us find one big project and stick with it, and this would be in a good cause. If the terrorists had gotten their hands on the Fourth Street biolab, the result could have killed thousands. How many lives could I save that way, how many Caseys could I save . . .
I snip the virus out of the system with an absent thought and take my hands from the terminal, switching back to wireless. "Let me think about it," I say again, and this time I'm not stalling, I'm pleading.
Glendower nods. "I'm sorry," he says, bowing his head. "About your friend's death — I'm sorry."
And that decides it. Not I'm sorry we killed her, but I'm sorry about her death. Sidestepping the responsibility. Making it an act of God.
I take a few steps toward the exit, hesitant and unsteady. It's not acting; I have to retract some of my motor skills to handle the download, the massive quantity of Oculus records pouring into my head. But Glendower sees it as the agony of indecision, and he lets me pass. He's a good man; he wouldn't deliberately hurt someone like me.
I find my way to the exit unhindered — I think Maxentius, or maybe one of his cleanup crew, waves to me as I go by. As the doors close, I wonder with the portion of my brain that isn't unpacking records if I'll make it out of here at all. If the shadow orgs wanted, they could kill me right here, and I couldn't do a thing about it.
But these are the good guys.
In the silence of the transport I have time to craft the message that will go out with each clip. It's not much, just a few lines for each record, an autovoice that's recognizably my own. And links, archives, paths to data that isn't shared or acknowledged, not even by netheads. Even crafting this, having a message like this unsent in my skull, is punishable by federal law.
The guard waves me through, and I step out into blinding sunlight. The world of data flows around me again — and this time I leap into it, sending out into all nodes, the conspiracists and the news media and the archives. The Niobe GPS activates, and above me the satellite web moves, shifts, focuses.
It's not enough to stop me.
These people have died because of the shadow organizations, I say over each clip, each death, each victim of the shadow orgs. The desert sunlight shifts, shading from yellow-white to blazing, bright enough to hurt my eyes. They were deemed guilty and executed without trial. The guard is yelling, first running after me and then, as he realizes what's happening, back to the shade and safety of his bunker.
They were unlawfully executed. And links, lists, the shadow orgs and all their work, thrown open to the world they claim to protect. If they can't take the scrutiny, they don't deserve to last.
I turn my face to the incandescent sky and smile, racing to meet the sunlight.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Margaret Ronald is the author of Spiral Hunt, Wild Hunt, and Soul Hunt, as well as a number of short stories. Originally from rural Indiana, she now lives outside Boston.
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Sarah Bessey’s new book, Out of Sorts, released last week. She is doing a synchroblog with a writing prompt about how and why we have evolved in our beliefs over the years. I’m all about a writing prompt, even if it takes 3 days to write. Ha!
I think so differently about so many things now, I don’t even know where to begin.
I always felt torn between 2 extremes. I either felt so utterly broken that I was beyond hope, or I felt like I had all the answers and was in the fast lane with the saints on the stairway to heaven. I think the self-righteous arrogance was a coping mechanism to deal with the massive inferiority I felt. I would find people whom I was “better than” in order to feel better about myself. Of course that was only when I was sober.
Truly, underneath any bravado I put up, I always felt less than. Not good enough. As I wrote about not too long ago, “If I couldn’t ever measure up to my dad’s standards with my behavior, how could I ever hope to measure up to God’s standard of absolute holy perfection?”
I thought I knew who God was, but I really never saw Him for who He really is.
For many years I did not consistently have someone in my life speaking truth to me about the character and nature of God. That means I definitely did not have someone reminding me of the Good News – the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I forgot that I couldn’t earn my way to God.
I had neither a dramatic falling away, nor did I have a dramatic return. I had a gradual descent into a breakdown where something had to give. Things started to change from the time I realized I was having a breakdown.
I changed when I realized I needed help.
It began with a medical doctor appointment where I walked out with an antidepressant and a couple of recommendations/referrals for therapists. Then I not only picked a therapist, but started attending Al-Anon. While I was largely silent in Al-Anon for a while, I sat in that first session with my therapist and verbally vomited on her. I told her things that I had never ever said out loud. To anyone.
I learned first in my therapist’s office to be honest about both my present and my past. To talk about what happened, what was happening, and how I felt. And nothing would ever be the same, especially once one of my close friends told me I needed to quit drinking. And that’s when I had to get really honest.
When you grow up in a fundamentalist culture with an abusive father, you learn things about God that just aren’t true. Sure, I believed Jesus saved me, but I didn’t fully believe I could be and was forgiven. I had to revisit everything I thought I knew about God, and tear down a lot of false teaching of legalism. I had to work through a lot of resentment not just with the religion of my youth, but with God himself.
I used to think that God was just waiting for people to do the wrong thing in order to enact a swift and thorough punishment for the least little infraction. Therefore, I had to be on guard all the time to not mess up, and when I did (because we all do), I lived in bondage to shame and fear. For many years, my only relief came from a bottle.
But having been delivered from the compulsion to self-medicate, I now know that God is kind and loving and merciful. I now know without a doubt that Jesus is enough, and because of Him, I don’t have to try to earn my way into the Father’s good graces. I am fully known and fully loved. The Holy Spirit wasn’t the one filling me with fear and shame. Oh, no. It’s the Holy Spirit that reminds me who I really am – a beloved daughter of the Father.
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As chief financial officer of Blue Ocean Global Wealth, Mr. Somal spends about two weeks a month on the road, meeting with advisers to discuss and develop exit strategies aimed at maximizing value for their heirs and establishing a legacy.
Industry-wide, more than half of advisers don't have a succession plan, and most don't even know the value of their business, according to Mr. Somal.
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The CFO makes the case for succession planning in adviser presentations around the country, a plea Blue Ocean outlined in a white paper last year. Some advisers say his talk has spurred them to action — no easy feat, given the depths of this industry's conundrum.
Blue Ocean, a registered investment adviser Mr. Somal co-founded with former Ameriprise Financial adviser Marguerita Cheng in November, has the atypical mission of helping other financial advisers. In the spirit of "Blue Ocean Strategy," (Harvard Business Review Press, 2005), which encourages entrepreneurs to target novel business models, the firm provides innovative solutions to help families, corporations, institutions and financial advisers with financial guidance and investment strategies.
Mr. Somal, who built two businesses while earning his bachelor's degree in finance and accounting from Georgetown University, was an adviser for Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, as well as an investment analyst for the Bank of Nova Scotia.
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Some time-tested plays are like old friends to those of us who love the theatre. Artios of Greenville welcomes back one of those beloved friends—Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Flying children and a host of whimsical characters will adorn this theatrical production.You will not want to miss a delightful afternoon with the Darlings. J.M. Barrie’s classic tale, adapted by John Caird and Trevor Nunn, will not disappoint. Make this a family affair and join us as we excitedly travel to Never Land.
Produced by Artios Academies in partnership with Bob Jones University.
The Family Ticket allows yourself and your immediate family entry into the performance for one $5 ticket (grandparents can bring grand-kids).
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I was drawn to this piece by the simplicity of it. To me, it told a story, and one that I wanted to paint. The chair is old and rusty, and looks like it has weathered many storms. The wood in the railings looks as if it has seen better days. The composition of this piece was so simple, but it wasn’t boring. The color scheme was appropriate- red and green. The green in the trees contrasted with the reds and purples in the chair, and the wood has a reddish tint to it. The lights and darks filtering in through the trees creates many layers in the woods, generating a sense of depth.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
This picture I found on the Internet, although I had just visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and this was a corner that I had wanted to do. Unfortunately when I was there, there were too many people to take a decent picture of this corner. I was particularly attracted to this corner because of the bright colors and the layout of the stairs. All the different colored candy that was in jars, boxes, and other containers helped fuel my excitement to paint this picture. All the different colored candy that was in jars, boxes, and other containers helped fuel my excitement to paint this picture. The composition of the candy containers and the stairs make the picture interesting, and the jars of different colored candy makes the picture fun and exciting.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
This picture is the seventh edition in my concentration. I chose this picture because the values in the colors and the composition. The perspective of the room and the one beyond really intrigued me, and I wanted to create a feeling of emptiness and mystery. The repetition of lines creates a feeling of peace and calm. I liked the light coming in from the window, and how it affected the colors on the objects in the rooms. The shades of the colors help make the picture interesting, and the repetition of shapes creates rhythm within the two rooms in the painting. | <urn:uuid:7676c25d-bdb2-4067-9f84-a73dec936fea> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://paintsmc.blogspot.com/2012/01/ | 2018-01-21T12:46:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084890582.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20180121120038-20180121140038-00388.warc.gz | en | 0.976948 | 412 |
weekly workout schedule template, weekly college schedule template, blank weekly schedule template. Organization especially in an organization dealing in numerous activities at the same time takes the foremost importance. Such goals can be achieved through the development of elaborate, inclusive and accurate weekly hourly schedule template that indicate what is to be done at what time, the persons to effect it along with the place to be effected amongst other important details.
Such schedules may take the form of timetables or other postings that cover the whole week and a return to the first day is done once the end of the schedule has been reached. Here are a few ways one can use to develop such schedules.
This is the simplest method of developing such plans. One has to collect all the details of the activities that need to be accomplished along with the subjects and other particulars then compile them into a tabular list. Such lists will usually feature time on one side and another headline on the next side.
A major downside of this method is that it is less efficient and less accurate especially for large organizations. If minute details need to be included then it is highly possible that it will take time to develop and errors may spring up from time to time.
This involves running through the numerous free options available online and picking on one that best resembles what you need. You can choose to download the free weekly work schedule template or buy some that are of higher standards then customize them to indicate the details that you need.
This method relies on a number of available scheduling software on the market. The application is fed with raw data along with the defining parameters then it generates a schedule on your behalf. | <urn:uuid:97e359fb-043e-4e4f-bbd5-27e2cdc10732> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://www.template.net/business/letters/weekly-schedule-template/ | 2018-08-16T21:16:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221211185.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20180816211126-20180816231126-00633.warc.gz | en | 0.922516 | 326 |
About a month ago I wrote a post on ‘‘on artists making a living and artistic directors that could make a difference but don’t.’ I had a significant number of comments (relative to other posts on my blog) including several from actors (thanks, all). One of the most inspiring posts came from Ron Russell of Epic Theatre in NYC.
Epic (founded in 2001) has operating expenses of approximately $1.7 million (according to its 2010 990 filing on Guidestar) and recently renegotiated its contract with Actors Equity Association (AEA) to enable it to (among other things) (1) put an ensemble of actors on a 20-week off-Broadway contract that includes teaching responsibilities and (2) to pay each actor a weekly salary of $900 per week (which, according to Ron, is ‘higher than the highest non-commercial minimum of any contract in NYC’). This 20-week contract also allows actors to get a year of health insurance at the end of the period. You can read about the specifics of the contract in a post on Ron’s own blog (evidently the first in a series).
Ron writes that, for years, Epic had an unspoken rule of thumb that the weekly salary of its actors would be equivalent to 1% of its total operating budget. The ratio began with its first show, which paid actors $200 per week (at the time its budget was $200,000 per year). But Ron remarks in his post that in recent years the ratio was not maintained. It was out of concern for this trend and a strong feeling that artists are critical to a thriving theater company that Epic condensed its production schedule, thereby enabling it to offer an ‘ensemble’ of actors nearly half a year’s work and a salary increase. He mentions in the post that AEA was cooperative when Epic approached the union to discuss its ideas.
In my post this was exactly the sort of thinking and action I was encouraging – however, I wasn’t aiming my comments at smaller theaters like Epic (which are often lightly institutionalized). I was directing my post to larger theaters.
If you’ve browsed the comments you’ll note that the response to the post was mixed. While most artists and many running theaters agreed that it’s an important issue and should be addressed, some theater staffers were quick to point out that theaters are barely getting by as is and that, in the most recent recession, it was administrators that took cuts to their salaries even while the weekly salaries of actors working at their theaters increased. (I feel compelled to point out that, while trimming administrative costs, many theaters also reduced the number of shows in their season, or their productions weeks, or the size of their casts, or all three–changes which would seem to negatively impact the total wages paid to artists even if their weekly rates were increased.)
More than a few people asked, “Where’s the money going to come from to pay for this?” Looking at Epic as an example, I would suggest that the short (and admittedly rather glib) answer is from other areas of the budget–as a result of restructuring and getting priorities straightened out.
While there were several comments that were quite moving, I was perhaps most struck by a comment from Zak Berkman (also from Epic) who wrote:
Reading your post and response to Carl reminded me of my experience reading OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE – and something Zelda F told us co-founders of Epic Theatre Ensemble ten years ago. I’m paraphrasing but it was essentially this: “when we started the regional movement, somewhere along the way the playwright fell off the truck and we never turned around to pick them back up.” I think as the economics and cultural dynamics of the regional theater evolved with various larger theatres disbanding or diminishing their rep/resident companies it does seem like even more artists are tumbling from the truck… And in the process the image of the artist as someone outside of the institution, outside of the community, is more and more perpetuated: not just by the public or by funders, but even by the artists themselves.
I read Zak’s comment and imagined a jalopy filled with artists lumbering across the US and all along the route a hand reaching out and hauling arts administrators onto the flatbed while quietly giving artists a gentle shove over the side. When the vehicle arrives at its destination it is filled with a bureaucracy of administrators, who have traded in their dilapidated wheels for something spiffier that they can proudly park at the Country Club when they meet with donors.
I recently listened for the 3rd or 4th time to a terrific 2005 TED talk on ‘institutions vs. collaboration’ by Clay Shirky, in which he discusses the ways that technology and the shrinking costs of communications have enabled systems to be designed that allow groups to coordinate their activities without institutional models (this is the theme that he addresses at length in his terrific book Here Comes Everybody). In his talk, Shirky describes four side effects of institutions: (1) institutions don’t simply require employees, they require managers to oversee employees; (2) institutions require structures, which bring costs; (3) institutions are exclusionary (they can’t hire everyone); and (4) as a result of this exclusion institutions end up with a ‘professional class’.
Shirky posits that there is a tension between institution as ‘enabler’ and institution as ‘obstacle’ and elaborates on this point saying:
Institutions hate being told they’re obstacles. One of the first things that happens when you institutionalize a problem is that […] the first goal of the institution immediately shifts from whatever the nominal goal was to self preservation.
He goes on to say that when institutions are told they are obstacles they go “through something like the Kubler-Ross stages of reaction to being told you have a fatal illness.”
For decades the goal of the nonprofit arts sector was institution building. We celebrated each time an organization could beef up its administrative staff and increase its budget and survive a leadership transition. Today, many arts institutions are increasingly perceived to be obstacles rather than enablers. And as Shirky and others might predict, their impulse to this threat is to self-preserve: to say, “No matter what, I think we’d all agree, that this institution must exist; the only question is, how do we sustain it?”
Instead, as difficult as it seems, I think the impulse needs to be to ask ourselves quite seriously whether the institution (as we currently conceive of it) needs to be sustained in order for great art to be created, presented, distributed and preserved. We’ve spent decades building exclusionary, professional, hierarchical institutions; perhaps it’s time to start moving to a cooperative infrastructure model (as Shirky suggests) and releasing control of at least parts of our major institutions to artists, community members, and other stakeholders.
It’s time to get not only artists back on the truck (as Epic has done) but the ‘communities-at-large’ that presumably ‘own’ our nonprofit institutions. | <urn:uuid:3997ab8a-2813-4766-bd9a-327fcd8da662> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.artsjournal.com/jumper/2011/12/on-artists-being-tossed-off-the-truck/ | 2019-06-25T12:37:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999838.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20190625112522-20190625134522-00037.warc.gz | en | 0.980157 | 1,523 |
Work hard and play hard when you reserve your stay at Fairfield Inn & Suites Pittsburgh Downtown. Each room and suite at our hotel comes equipped with cotton-rich linens and a comfortable pillow top mattress. Check your email or your newsfeed with our ergonomic workspaces featuring free high-speed Wi-Fi. Built for your convenience, this hotel is situated close to many popular attractions including Heinz Field, PNC Park, PPG Arena, and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Warm up to our hot breakfast menu. Omelets, bacon and mini waffles have joined our long list of morning favorites including fresh fruit, Chobani® Greek yogurt and sweet breads. It's just what you need for a delicious start to your day. Workout routines are maintained in the fitness center featuring modern cardio equipment and free weights. We are also within walking distance of a variety of popular Downtown dining and shopping locales. Travel in style as you mix business and leisure at our river front hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. | <urn:uuid:4d48fd8f-7a82-45da-8cd7-f1836cd09e0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://downtownpittsburgh.com/business-details/?ID=1243 | 2022-05-22T16:17:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662545875.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220522160113-20220522190113-00043.warc.gz | en | 0.935327 | 207 |
SHANGHAI, Oct 2 (Reuters) China opened the 2007 Special Olympics today with a star-studded ceremony that put the country at the forefront of the global movement to aid mentally disabled people -- and also served domestic political goals.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor Colin Farrell and film star Jackie Chan were among dignitaries at the opening for the 2007 World Summer Games in Shanghai.
Over 7,000 mentally disabled athletes from some 160 nations are taking part in the games, making them the largest Special Olympics ever -- a public relations coup for China as it seeks to soften its image as an emerging economic superpower.
''We hope the Special Olympics will help foreign visitors better understand the host country,'' state television quoted President Hu Jintao, who attended the ceremony at a futuristic 80,000-seat stadium in China's top commercial city, as saying.
Mental health care has until recently received little attention in China, so Shanghai's hosting of the games was seen as an important step for the Special Olympics movement, which uses sports training and athletic competition as therapy.
It is only the second time the Special Olympics have been held outside the United States, and the first time in Asia. More than 1,000 of the athletes at the games are from China.
Schwarzenegger, whose mother-in-law Eunice Kennedy Shriver laid the foundation for the movement in 1962, focused on China's growing role in a speech at the ceremony.
''I used to play in action movies, as an action hero. But that was absolutely nothing compared to the action in this stadium,'' he said.
In addition to burnishing China's international image, the Special Olympics fits closely with Hu's domestic political goal of creating a ''harmonious society'', in which he hopes to ease the tensions caused by breakneck economic growth by promoting social solidarity and concern for the disadvantaged.
Hu's meetings with Special Olympics athletes have received heavy coverage by state media in recent days. Posters plastered around Shanghai exhort citizens to ''build a civilised society'' in the spirit of the games.
A successful Special Olympics could help rehabilitate Shanghai on the national political stage after a huge corruption scandal last year reduced the city's influence. Beijing views the games as something of a dry run for its hosting of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- With so many looking for work, many of us find ourselves literally hitting the pavement more often in the hunt for a new job! The last thing job applicants want on their mind - or showing on their face - during an interview is foot pain. "Plenty of dress shoes are hard on the feet," says Dr. George Tsatsos, of AnkleNFootCenter.com. "And dress shoes are the worst, particularly for women," adds Dr. Svetlana Zats, Dr. Tsatsos' associate. Dr. Zats is no stranger to the sometimes torturous footwear high fashion can ask of working women. "Higher heels are in once again in the office - but that can be hard on our feet, and no matter what, don't wear shoes you've never worn before to an interview!" warns Dr. Zats. "The last place to discover you can't walk in your new heels comfortably is when you walk across the room to shake hands with your prospective new boss," adds Dr. Tsatsos.
Interviews often involve long walks from parking or transportation - and several interviews in one day can mean all the more walking. Ditto the callback interviews that have you trekking from one office to another to meet and greet. Wear comfortable, worn shoes or gym shoes and change before you walk in. If you already suffer from painful foot conditions like corns, calluses or bunions, make sure to at least use over-the-counter inserts or pads for these problems the day of the interview - but for a temporary fix only. Chronic or progressive sufferers should at least get a consult with a visit to their friendly podiatrist - to prevent future problems. "The sad thing is a lot of painful foot problems can be treated effectively in the office or outpatient setting," laments Dr Tsatsos.
Wear comfortable, worn shoes in transit
Change shoes at the last moment
Use over-the-counter pads or inserts for minor problems
See a foot care pro in advance for chronic problems
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Economy Watch: Pimco Predicts Stormy Times Ahead for CRE
- Jun 21, 2016
CRE’s had a good run for some years, but now it’s time for predictions of worse times to come. According to Pacific Investment Management Co., commercial real estate prices may fall as much as 5 percent in the next 12 months. A number of factors are coming together to drive the market that way, the company said: tightened regulations, a surge of debt maturities and property sales by publicly traded landlords.
Pimco’s predictions are contained within the company’s aptly titled report, “U.S. Real Estate: A Storm Is Brewing,” which was released on Monday. The company buttresses its argument by noting that improving fundamentals haven’t been the primary driver of higher CRE prices in recent years: “Consider this: Since the fourth quarter of 2009, overall office prices have doubled (as have general CRE prices), yet national office rents have risen only about 15 percent. The primary price driver for U.S. CRE assets instead has been capital flows.”
Now capital flows are growing unstable, Pimco says. A number of factors are vexing the flinty hearts of moneymen: fears over interest rate hikes, political and economic uncertainty in China, and most recently, Brexit. “While this instability began in the public CRE markets, it has blown in to private CRE as well, particularly in non-major markets,” asserts the report.
Another factor in the storm is regulation: CRE liquidity has declined in recent years, driven by post-financial crisis regulations such as Dodd-Frank and the Federal Reserve’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, Pimco says. “This has intensified volatility for the sector during periods of broader public market sell-offs… Regulation will remain a headwind for CMBS and CRE for the foreseeable future.” | <urn:uuid:9c057a07-37f4-4435-a887-5abfc79ea6b2> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/economy-watch-pimco-predicts-stormy-times-ahead-for-cre/ | 2018-01-20T09:08:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084889542.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20180120083038-20180120103038-00539.warc.gz | en | 0.956801 | 399 |
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park. One of his most famous photographs was Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California.
With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs and the work of those to whom he taught the system. Adams primarily used large-format cameras, despite their size, weight, setup time, and film cost, because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images.
Adams founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, which in turn created the Museum of Modern Art's department of photography. Adams's timeless and visually stunning photographs are reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books, making his photographs widely recognizable. | <urn:uuid:909e3877-ebfa-4447-84de-1af8a84055e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://artkabinett.com/index.php?q=kabpedia/anselm-adams | 2017-04-26T19:43:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121644.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00219-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965374 | 199 |
This site is a Django application with a Flash interface (done by Jer Thorp who used to work at SFU). I created the alternative HTML interface. This was a fun project in that my spec doc was in fact an was existing Flash application. The html interface does not have a lot of bells and whistles but it is very functional.
I have worked with NGO's, artists, businesses and First Nations organizations.
A good part of my work has been for environmental campaigns and businesses with a green agenda. I try to do my part. | <urn:uuid:017135f8-3462-4351-975b-a6dbfd221b10> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.dadderley-interactive.com/project/%C2%A1hola-canada | 2015-01-30T12:22:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115855561.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161055-00180-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966968 | 111 |
The British Superbike championship arrives at the famous Cadwell Park circuit in Lincolnshire for round eight of the season. It will be the penultimate round before the Showdown starts so big points and finishing are the key. It’s Shane Byrne in form after a double at Brands Hatch, with Leon Haslam chasing hard after taking being winless since Knockhill. The Cadwell Park track is spectacular for fans, as it is the point in the season where both wheels are off the ground (intentionally) at the famous Mountain.
Shane “Shakey” Byrne is leading the championship after an incredible double at Brands. He has won three out of the last four races this year, and I wouldn’t bet against him extending that run this weekend. Shakey comes into the Cadwell circuit having had a total disaster at the track last season. Unbelievably, Byrne hasn’t won at the track since 2003, when he won his first title! Personally, I find that incredible! Don’t put it past him to end that run.
Leon Haslam returns to the Cadwell Park track for the first time since his HM Plant Honda days back in 2008, where he did the double. He comes into the round with a 25-point deficit to Shane Byrne and desperately needs to reclaim some of them points by taking wins, giving him an advantage going into the showdown with his podium credits. He finished 2nd to Byrne in both races last time out, so he has what it takes to run with the leader, but can he beat him? Only time will tell.
3rd in the championship is home to Jason O’Halloran, who has shown his skills in the 2016 season. The Australian who has fought back from horrific leg injuries after a Thruxton crash last year, has been something of a revelation this year, but this is the first time he would have been to the track on a BSB Factory Honda. His most recent result at the circuit is a 2nd to Danny Buchan in the Stock 1000 series, meaning the Aussie has the pace to go on to take another BSB win this weekend. Can he do it? The Honda rider will be looking to make it a special day for Honda, who are based in Louth, just down the road from the track.
In an upside down year that has seen him drop in and out of the top six in the title as well as the top 10 in races, Michael Laverty is 4th as it stands. The Tyco BMW rider and former GP star took his latest win in race two at Thruxton after Byrne’s early departure. Laverty won at Cadwell Park back in 2011 on the Swan Yamaha, which he later followed up with a 2nd place. If the Ulsterman can find the form he had five years ago, he is sure to be up there come MONDAY (Bank Holiday race day, don’t forget)!
Dan Linfoot is still waiting on his first BSB race win. After a mistake at Snetterton on the final corner whilst leading and a red flag whilst challenging Shakey in race two, Linfoot hasn’t finished in the top six, let alone step on the podium to gain podium credits, should he get through to the showdown. Cadwell doesn’t seem the track to see him recapture his form either, as recent results show his best finish has been a 7th. If anyone can turn it around though, then Linfoot is your man!
Richard Cooper has been a little bit off the boil recently with a podium drought currently sweeping into his side of the Buildbase BMW garage. The Buildbase BMW rider got another podium in race two at Brands Hatch Indy, but needs wins if he is to be there at the end of the season. The rider from Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, will be looking to make a return to the podium at Cadwell Park, after his 8th and 7th last season. Cooperman is without doubt capable of making a fist of things, but he is just three points ahead of in-form Luke Mossey, who occupies 7th in the standings.
The battle for the showdown is boiling up nicely, with 57 points being the gap from 12th to 6th, with five races left until the top six are locked in. It will be a dogfight, as returning riders like John Hopkins get back to the front, recovering from injuries and Danny Buchan getting back on a Kawasaki he enjoyed so much success with. These two aren’t really in the hunt for the showdown so they could really be decisive in who gets through. BSB is ridiculously close this season, and even riders like Laverty and Linfoot aren’t safe yet. Keep your eyes on Luke Mossey, James Eliison, Christian Iddon and the in-form Glenn Irwin to launch a big attack on the top six.
The BSB riders have also had a game of musical chairs during the three-week break. Howie Mainwaring-Smart left the Smith’s BMW to join the vacant seat at ePayMe Yamaha. Stuart Easton, who left the team earlier on in the season, joins Moto Rapido Ducati, who parted company with former Stock 1000 champion Danny Buchan. Buchan re-joins forces with MSS Tsingtao Kawasaki Racing, the team he rode for in 2014 on his way to Stock success. Ryuichi Kiyonari has also left the Halsall Bennett’s Suzuki team, who are yet to replace him.
You can find out what will happen on Sunday. As well as joining us for our live text commentary by Kiko Giles, you too can also watch it live, free to air on Quest! You can follow @PitCrew_Online for the live text commentary and also @MotoGPKiko for all things bikes and boring. If you are on Instagram, then you can follow ‘crewontwo’ for all the bike racing pics from across numerous series!
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The U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights protects us against suspicionless searches and seizures. It guarantees due process to individuals who are accused of crimes and humane treatment to those who are incarcerated. However, all too often the rights of those involved in the criminal justice system are compromised or ignored.
The ACLU of Minnesota works to reform the criminal justice system and make the promise of fair treatment a reality for all people. Through litigation and legislative efforts, we work to ensure that our criminal justice system upholds these constitutional protections. | <urn:uuid:c8a79f24-4385-489f-a54b-53f49dbcc181> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://www.aclu-mn.org/en/issues/criminal-justice | 2021-05-12T18:08:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989766.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20210512162538-20210512192538-00097.warc.gz | en | 0.945444 | 105 |
Canada gets its first and only Counter Strike map and now the developer, Diego Liatis has been threatened with a $50 000 dollar fine plus court costs. What did he do to get everyone so flustered? The map is a virtual copy of the Montreal Berri-UQAM subway station and apparently the Montreal city transit authorities feel that Diego’s map would cause immense panic among commuters as a result of the fact that terrorists might use the map to learn the layout of the structure. It also seems that for some reason, this public building is now “copy-righted” and cannot be replicated in any form.
Dubious reasoning? Just a little if you ask me.
Liatas applied for permission to recreate the building January, which was denied. But legalities aside, the people involved in building the map said “meh” to all threats and have built the carried on building the map anyway as they feel that they can’t legally be prevented from re-creating a public building. And because it’s still up on Youtube for the time being, if you’re a terrorist you should probably take this chance to check it out and learn the ins and outs of Berri-UQAM because actually going there and riding around on the trains is obviously a waste of time. Playing CS:GO to learn about the subway is far more efficient (and entertaining).
Check out a preview of the map here:
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It has been 100 days since South Korea's Ban Ki-moon took over as secretary-general of the United Nations. In the Korean tradition, 100 days is a significant milestone, and aides say Mr. Ban permitted himself a small celebration of the day. VOA's Peter Heinlein reviews the accomplishments, and the stumbles, of those first three-plus months.
In some ways, Ban Ki-moon has a tough act to follow. His predecessor, Kofi Annan, achieved "rock star" status during 10 years at the helm of the world body. Though his record of accomplishment may have been spotty, millions viewed Mr. Annan as a beacon of hope in an uncertain world.
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Several critics also expressed disappointment at his low-key style in tackling challenges on which Mr. Annan had been outspoken, such as the refusal by Sudan's President Omar (Hassan) al-Bashir to allow U.N. peacekeepers into Darfur. Moreover, he was viewed by some as being too close to powerful countries, especially the United States.
But veteran U.N. watcher and Columbia University professor Edward Luck dismisses those early missteps as a normal part of the learning process. Luck gives Mr. Ban high marks for his initial efforts in his new position as the world's diplomat-in-chief.
"He's hardly been simply a behind the scenes actor," said Edward Luck. "He's been quite straightforward, he goes down to Washington in his first trip and tells President Bush he's very concerned about climate change, and it has to be a top priority. That clearly was not the first message that the president wanted to hear. He meets with President al-Bashir when he goes to Addis early on, tells him that the genocide in Darfur is completely unacceptable. He tells the Iranian leadership that denial of the Holocaust is unacceptable; he is willing to go to the Middle East, and as far as he can, butt heads together and gets the Arab League and the Islamic Conference to get energized in trying to do something about Darfur. So I think people sometimes get fooled by the style and ignore the fact that the substance is usually quite assertive, and at points even bold."
To be sure, Mr. Ban is soft-spoken. In a recent conversation with VOA, he laughed when reminded of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, whose motto was "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
The secretary-general acknowledges the international community's frustration at the slow progress on issues such as deploying U.N. peacekeeping troops in Darfur. But he said he would insist that President Bashir allow blue-helmeted U.N. troops to participate in a so-called "hybrid force" that would be strong enough to restore calm to Darfur.
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Mr. Ban has also been outspoken in criticizing Iran for its defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions demanding a halt to uranium enrichment. Speaking to VOA, he said it is "regrettable" that Iran's leaders have not met the Council's deadlines.
"Even at this time, I would urge that the Iranian authorities engage in a serious negotiation to resolve this issue to the expectation of the international community," he said. "And on the part of Iran, as a responsible member of the United Nations and the international community, they must comply fully with all the resolutions of the Security Council."
Mr. Ban noted that, as secretary-general, he no longer plays an active role in the six-party talks on North Korea, as he did in his previous job as South Korea's foreign minister. But he expressed satisfaction at Pyongyang's apparent willingness to abandon its nuclear weapons program in return for fuel and diplomatic incentives. He told VOA he is continuing to play a backstage role in the negotiations.
"I will try my best effort to facilitate at this time this ongoing process, so that the Korean people and the international community will be able to see the realization of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," said Mr. Ban.
Columbia University's Professor Luck argues that despite Mr. Ban's low-key image, he has displayed more energy and willingness to tackle big issues than any other secretary-general at this point in their tenure.
"In terms of his ability to articulate a very clear strategy, people compare him in his early days with Kofi Annan after 10 years in the job, which is not fair," he said. "I think he's every bit as articulate as Kofi Annan was in his early days, and certainly is much more willing to speak out on issues than a number of his predecessors have before that time. People forget that Kofi Annan's fame for being a global spokesperson set him apart from many of his predecessors. He really was unusual in that regard, and Ban is in many ways moving in the same direction."
As for the criticism that Mr. Ban is too close to the United States, Professor Luck notes that Kofi Annan was also perceived as being pro-U.S. in his early days in office. In later years, Mr. Annan was sharply critical of U.S. policies, and openly clashed with the former U.S. Ambassador John Bolton.
While Mr. Ban observed his 100 days in office as a milestone, in keeping with South Korean tradition, most U.N. diplomats say it is still too early to tell what impact he will have on world affairs. As one member of Mr. Ban's team explained, "the secretary-general can't define the world. The world really defines the secretary-general."
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The Vesuvius cherry tomatoes is a tomato variety cultivated only in this area. It has an oval shape and a small goatee end. The Vesuvius cherry tomatoes having a thick skin, which acts as a wrapper for a compact pulp, can be canned for a long time . They are traditionally picked in clusters and hanged off the balconies, taking for this reason the name of “piennolo” (pendulum). The soils in which this variety grows, are the result of lava millennia stratification and are difficult to reach because they are at an high altitude. For this reason they are also called “mountain production”.
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Tonight, I want to start with some broad and frank observations about three things— first, the state of the LGBT movement overall, and the state of racial justice, racial equity and racial privilege within the mainstream of that movement. Second, I want to consider why mainstream LGBT politics remains so absent on racial justice— what makes it so difficult for the LGBT movement to face race? Third, I’d like to suggest some principles that could orient a new and more productive course in addressing racial equity within and outside our communities.
State of the Movement
As the mid-term elections came and went, I found myself thinking of the memorable opening paragraph from A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
This passage describes the perplexing dualism of the present moment—an age of remarkable technological change and human possibility, in which more wealth exists than ever before yet objectives like ending hunger and poverty seem unreachable. We live in an “epoch of belief”—millions upon millions of people fervently embrace their faith traditions filled with absolute certainty that they are on the Right path; yet at the same time, we live in an “epoch of incredulity” in which millions of others are so disillusioned and alienated by corruption or fear that they are apathetic. So, in the recent elections white Protestant and Catholic voters increased their turnout and voted overwhelmingly for Republicans; yet overall only 42% of eligible voters came to the polls. And voter turnout among young people 18-24 was 20.4% in 2010, down from 23.5% in 2006.It seemed we had everything before us in 2008 when President Obama won. I remember feeling that way in 1992 with Clinton as well, or even in 1968 (when I was 10 years old), only to watch that hope turn sour, as it did in 1994, or in 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was killed.
The merry-go-round of political promises keeps us bobbing up and down with excitement at each revolution, but our enjoyment and engagement in the process leaves us sad at the end of the ride, awake to the fact that we have only gone around in a circle. A similar dualism—of growth and inertia, progress and stagnation, optimism and frustration—exists today in the LGBT movement. The scale and size of the overall LGBT movement is enormous. This year, the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), a national think tank on the LGBT movement, analyzed the most recent returns of all LGBT identified nonprofit organizations found on the Guidestar (www.guidestar. org) database. MAP tallied data from 553 LGBT advocacy, issue, social, cultural, legal, health and human service oriented, research and educational organizations whose 2009 expenses totaled $563.2 million dollars! MAP’s more detailed annual survey of the top 39 national LGBT advocacy, legal, issue based and research focused groups documented revenues by these 29 groups alone of more than $161 million dollars. These 39 organizations employed 808 people and had 689 board members. Our movement is a large infrastructure indeed. Yet, the LGBT political agenda at the national level, especially before Congress, is stalled. The largest LGBT advocacy organization, HRC (which had a 2010 budget of $37.3 million and a staff of more than 200 people)has managed to secure full passage and implementation of one LGBT rights bill in the past 17 years—the Shepard/Byrd Hate Crime Act, passed in October of 2009. The second largest national LGBT political organization, NGLTF (with a 2010 budget of $8.3 million and a staff of more than 50) seems great at process (managing coalitions, producing trainings and conferences, conducting research and policy analysis) but unable to turn those into muscular leadership for results. The legal movement, still our most successful strategy, remains an island onto itself—making its own decisions in small conclaves, rarely consulting in a meaningful way with grassroots activists, and rarely coordinating its efforts so that a powerful media, educational and organizing push could be made alongside each major new direction in litigation (exceptions include LLDEF’s work in New Jersey). Because of the inability of the existing larger infrastructures to represent the diverse constituencies and issues that LGBT people face, the movement has spawned a number of even more specialized, single issue-focused organizations at the national level over the past ten years, each focused on a particular subject or constituency (freedom to marry, health, immigration, military, transgender, family policy, youth, community centers, and even two Republican organizations— because the first was deemed too liberal by the second). Repeal of the military ban failed in the Senate in 2010 and will likely fail again in the lameduck session. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act is not moving, leading some to assert that it will magically move if gender identity is removed. It will not—because that transobstacle is simply a pretext for the lack of support for LGBT equality. Immigration equality is stalled, and with the election of an anti-immigrant Tea Party minority the chances of comprehensive immigration reform are minimal. As basic a measure of progress as the appointment of talented, openly LGBT leaders to key positions in a friendly Administration is a goal stymied by hostile and vigorous opposition. The only gains made during the Obama years have come as they did in the Reagan and Bush years, a time when the national LGBT movement was considerably smaller, through the efforts of a coalition of groups lobbying behind the scenes within the Executive branch—making quiet and significant changes in agency issued regulations at places like the State Department and the HHS. It could be argued that there are at least two movements fighting for LGBT equality and freedom today—one explicitly anti-racist and the other doggedly single issue. One consists of locally based, grassroots advocacy, organizing and service-oriented groups (like Queers for Economic Justice, Audre Lorde Project, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Southerners On New Ground , the Community Centers, the HIV AIDS organizations, the youth groups, and key foundations like Astraea), and the other consists of larger, more national organizations (like HRC, NGLTF, ACLU, LLDEF, GLAAD and others). Both movements share history, they share institutions, they overlap, they coexist, they cooperate, and at times they compete. But they are not coterminous: their endpoint differs dramatically. It is my contention, however, that neither of these movements has yet meaningfully tackled structural racism and racial privilege. Neither has made more than a superficial dent in the way racial separation exists in our communities. Neither has convinced the majority of LGBT people who are active in the movement that race is and must be “our” issue. Indeed, advocates of racial justice in the LGBT movement still find ourselves having to make the case again and again, year after year, about why race matters to the achievement of LGBT equality. Here, for example, is a summary of the “What Can Brown Do For You?” speech, which I have given for two decades. The LGBT movement should work on racial justice, I’ve argued, because it is a matter of justice and we are about a fairer society; because we need to reciprocate—so when we ask communities of color to support us around sexuality, we need to show up on issues of race; because there are LGBT people of color in our communities and racism affects us, so our movement must deal with it; and because dealing with race is in our own self-interest, and brown will help us win at the ballot box. Not only am I tired of having to make this speech, what saddens me is that most of the audiences to whom I have made this presentation have no problem hearing the argument framed as “what can Brown do for LGBT people” but they always resist the reverse proposition that the LGBT movement needs to work on racial justice issues that affect Brown and Black people too. The existence of LGBT people of color is simply not really considered, nor deemed significant enough to justify engagement with racial justice—something that most white gay people see as a “diversion” of the LGBT agenda to address race. As a result, race in our movement is seen primarily as an issue of diversity or outreach, not as an issue of equity or fundamental justice that it is our business as a movement to achieve. The key structural reason why neither branch of the LGBT movements has operationalized its stated intersectional politics, is quite simple: the default definition for what “Gay” means has been set by, and remains dominated by, the ideas and experiences of those in our communities who are white and this really has not changed in more than fifty years. Issues, identities, problems that are not “purely” gay—read as affecting white gay men and women—are always defined as not the concern of “our” LGBT movement—they are dismissed as “non-gay” issues, as divisive, as the issues that some ‘other movement’ is more suited to champion. We have our hands full we are told. We need to single-mindedly focus on one thing. This is an argument that many LGBT liberationists and gay-equality focused activists have made to each other and bought wholesale for decade—without malice, without prejudice—just because there has been an unquestioned assumption that this narrow focus works, that we are getting results because we are making a “gay rights” argument, that this is smart and successful political strategy. My contention is that it is exactly this narrow and limited focus that is not only causing us to stall in our progress towards formal equality, it is leading us to abandon or ignore large parts of our own communities, with the consequence of making us a weaker movement. The gayrights focus was historically needed but is a vestigial burden we need to shed. It leads to an unsuccessful political strategy where we try to win on one issue at a time, it narrows our imagination and vision, it does not serve large numbers of our own people, and it feeds the perception that we are generally privileged and powerful, and not in need of civil equality. Single issue-gay-rights-politics, rooted in the interest group approach, was adopted by most US social movements after the 1950’s. It has provided coherence, helped us build infrastructure and visibility, and certainly helped us achieve progress; but it has done so at the expense of people of color, transgender people, the working class, youth, and those who are less empowered in our communities. And its success has reached a limit. Single issue politics leads to singular issue results. So, we created HIV specific remedies in the 1980’s that did not help other people with life threatening illnesses facing the same mismanaged health care system. Or we are working on school bullying as if gay kids are the primary targets, when its a much larger and more pervasive problem of in-groups and out-groups, gender performance by insecure young people, or prejudice stoked by structures of religion-based ostracism of the other. A holistic policy response is needed, not merely single-issue solutions. From a broad liberationist agenda, in which LGBT groups marched to end US intervention in El Salvador, in which lesbians led the peace movements and the antinuke movement, in which lesbians and gay men spoke out passionately in support of black civil rights, and against racist drug and sentencing laws—in which we demanded that government save our lives and that we get our fair share from it—we have become an ever narrower, individual rights movement, where the “freedom” to assert our individual right to marry is argued by some to be the most radical thing we could ever seek. Issues of challenging the patriarchal nuclear family, support for working families, ending violence against women, prison reform, poverty, redistribution—all once critical parts of our LGBT liberation movement’s agenda have disappeared in the national LGBT movement discourse. As these issues have receded in our movement, we have lost our past alliance with the feminist movement, with peace movement, with anti-poverty movements, with the environmental movement and even with the labor movement. We never had much of an alliance with the civil rights movement. Because we cannot win on our own, weak alliances are a critical obstacle to our movement’s ability to enact pro-LGBT policies at every level of government. The absence of racial justice, economic justice and gender justice from our national movement’s objectives results in our being wrongly seen, even by our allies and certainly by most straight people, as a relatively small, very narrowly focused, largely white mostly male and deeply selfinterested group of people. Frankly, the LGBT movement rarely if ever expends political or financial capital to support so-called “non-gay” issues—we don’t do anything but a token press release or appearance at a rally. As a result, we are not functioning as valuable partners to our allies in any coalition that we join; we offer them very little positive help, and we generate powerful anti-gay opposition to boot. It is a measure of their principles that key LGBT allies have not abandoned us despite our weakness, and despite the pressure they sometimes face from constituencies they serve. So, for example, in the late 1980’s the Hate Crime Coalition working for passage of the Hate Crime Statistics Act was repeatedly pressured by members of Congress to dump the gay community and move a Statistics Bill that did not include data collection on sexual orientation. The coalition resisted and the statistics Bill passed in 1989. In the past year, the immigrant rights coalition working on Comprehensive Immigration Reform has resisted strong pressure from the Catholic Church to exclude the LGBT permanent partners bill from the CIR agenda. Across the country, LGBT rights initiatives have failed precisely because we have not organized to forthrightly case for justice effectively to working mothers of all colors. We lost Proposition 8 in California in part BECAUSE we took the POC vote for granted and did not mount any effective organizing campaign in black and brown communities. We also lost Prop 8 because we did not organize seriously within progressive religious communities. We lost the judicial election in Iowa because we mounted no defense of the notion of an independent and nonpoliticized judiciary, a broad principle bigger than the pro-marriage equality votes of these judges. It is in this broad context of national LGBT movement’s ineffectiveness, and the larger increase in racial and economic disparities overall, that we need to look more closely at the LGBT movement’s difficulties with claiming racial justice as a central and core issue. What are obstacles to LGBT movement adopting race? What challenges does the movement confront in addressing race? While I want to focus on resistance to the inclusion of racial equity as a core mainstream LGBT movement demand, and the impact this resistance has on our movement, it is important to acknowledge that there are parts of our movement that are working for racial justice. These efforts are primarily being initiated by the queer people of color groups I’ve mentioned already and non-gay progressive groups (like Applied Research Center, Astraea Foundation, Center for Community Change, Highlander Center). Groundbreaking work is being done by grassroots progressive groups in arenas like the criminal justice and prison systems, welfare organizing, homelessness, housing, youth development and leadership, immigrant rights, detention of immigrants, and schools. Creative work is also underway to strengthen investment in LGBT POC organizations (Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues’ Campaign for Racial Equity) and to build POC leadership (The Pipeline Project). Fascinating potential exists in the global LGBT movement for linkages across national boundaries, linkages that might illuminate ways that the US movement’s framing of identity is more limited than that of activists say in Nepal or Africa. The Applied Research Center’s newly released report (Better Together) on the relationship between racial justice organizations and LGBT communities throws more doubt on the notion of the allegedly unsurpassable homophobia in communities of color, when it details that the majority of groups and leaders it surveyed the racial justice movement, reported working in support of LGBT rights. The report identifies three key obstacles identified by racial justice organizations in their work on LGBT issues. The biggest barrier identified by ARC was a perception pervasive in racial justice organizations—that most LGBT people are white and that our movement is not interested in race. Low visibility and weakness of LGBT people of color leaders, and the limited agendas of our LGBT organizations fuels this perception and informs remedial actions that ARC recommends to funders: a call for a greater investment in POC organizations working on both sexuality and race, an increased investment in the development of LGBT POC leaders, and an increased investment in media and other outlets that can engage people in communities of color. A second barrier identified by ARC is a lack of understanding about how to apply a sexuality lens to racial justice issues. We need to make clear how LGBT people are affected in particular ways by issues seen primarily through a racial lens (e.g. police violence, homelessness, immigration, prison and incarceration, schools and harassment to name a few). A third barrier identified was the fear of community resistance (both actual and perceived). Interviewees cited fear of religious organizations’ reaction to working on LGBT issues, fear of causing internal divisions in racial communities, lack of demand for work on LGBT rights from communities of color. All of the above-named challenges reveal additional and possible work for the LGBT movement to do, but there is a threshold question that this data begs: what explains the resistance of the mainstream movement to a deeper incorporation of racial justice into the LGBT agenda? When I was appointed head of NGLTF in 1989, a prominent donor called the Task Force offices and said to a development director there, that he could not believe the Task Force board had hired that radical woman who was “practically a nigger.” More than once, I have had people, primarily white gay activists question my claim of being a person of color, as one colleague noted, I was “practically white.” Brown is an intermediate state that occupies a different place in the American racial consciousness, but after 9/11 and the past decade of anti-immigrant bashing, brown and black are both more stigmatized than I imagined they would be twenty years ago. Over the years, I have experienced viscerally the awkwardness and discomfort of some male donors with me because I am a woman; an awkwardness that increases when I do anything that reminds them I am also not white. My girlfriend, for example, always loves me to wear kurta pajamas or saris to LGBT formal dress events, but my experience in them is uncomfortable—not just because I am more used to wearing jeans, but also because I already feel so highly conspicuous in the largely white and largely male gatherings I attend regularly, and wearing Indian clothes makes me feel even more so. My discomfort has been confirmed on more than one occasion, where well-meaning colleagues have joked that I am “going native” or “putting out the Kinte cloth” on occasions when I have worn Indian clothes. Throughout my time in the movement, I have raised issues of racism (and sexism), economic equality and privilege—with very mixed response. Sometimes I have succeeded in creating innovative new programs to impact racial disparities in our communities, at other times, I have had my suggestions ignored, and ideas marginalized. Some doors were opened to me because I was a woman of color and the movement wanted “representation,” others were not opened far enough, or simply never pointed out. Yet, I have succeeded in large measure because of the class privilege that my over-education gives me, and the social capital that I have cultivated and that also comes from being successful, and being backed by people with money and resources. But I never deluded myself into believing that my success proved anything more than the exception to the general experience of most of my colleagues— which is that because so many major donors are most comfortable giving to people like themselves, that women and POC have a hard time raising funds in our community of donors, that any honest Executive Director or Board Chair will tell you that they try to hire at least one cute white guy to help out with their development departments, that making people in the middle, upper middle and wealthy class in the LGBT movement comfortable is critical to one’s success as a leader. The funder community will need to take a good look at itself, and will need significant education if we are to re-orient the LGBT movement towards new issues and leadership. In an excellent two-part series on the racism of liberals and progressives, author and anti-racist activist Tim Wise discusses several mechanisms he believes allow liberals and progressives to avoid taking up racial justice and allow them to “reinforce the notion that persons of color are less important, their concerns less central to the larger justice cause, and that ultimately they are to be viewed as inferior junior partners in the movement for social change.” Each of these mechanisms of avoidance are ones I have had experience with in my work in the LGBT movement. They are: 1) colorblindness; 2) color muteness; 3) white privilege. Wise also identifies something he calls Class Reductionism—or the notion that its economics more than racism that need to be addressed. In the LGBT movement, this operates primarily as Class Denial—we act as if all of our people are upper middle class.
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Adding internal Static route
I have a question, I need to create an internal static route to access to remote server via internal server, but not how.
In my old firewall was easy. I just create a internal route all trafic to 10.6.0.X/24 >> 192.168.160.9
Can anyone help?
This is my LAN map:
VPN client site to site
Def Gateway 192.168.160.1
(Gateway to 10.6.0.X)
I have attached a grafic diagram
Create a new gateway of 192.168.160.9, then create a new route to direct all traffic destined to 10.6.0.0/24 to that gateway. | <urn:uuid:86d70bc3-e2d8-4034-b57e-e73ae7ad179f> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://forum.netgate.com/topic/73500/adding-internal-static-route/1?lang=en-US | 2021-02-28T22:51:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178361776.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20210228205741-20210228235741-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.751417 | 155 |
Appeal goes out to save Poohsticks BridgeAugust 14, 1999
The East Sussex County Council are appealing to U.S. film makers Disney to help save Winnie the Pooh's favorite bridge. Crowds of Pooh fans from all over the world have worn out the old wooden bridge in Ashdown Forest.
County Council spokeswoman Jan Wright said: "It is now 20 years old and we would be looking at replacing it with the same design and it is estimated costs could be between £30,000-£40,000". She added that it was thought to be better to replace the whole structure rather than repair the bridge in piecemeal fashion but as yet there is no time-scale to plans or budget provision and the Council was looking at ways of trying to get hold of the money for the work.
The council had so far written to Disney and to the Countryside Agency asking for financial help and is waiting for a response. But Mrs Wright gave assurances the bridge is in no danger of collapse and is safe for people to use.
A spokesman said that at the moment no-one from Disney was available to comment.
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Some stock market pundits have been saying that one
of the primary reasons that the stock market has been behaving so rottenly
lately is the fear among investors that Barack Obama will be elected president.
These commentators cite Obama’s liberal economic policies that include a modest
increase in the capital gains tax. For
my part, I think this is nonsense. For
starters, it’s a fact that the stock market performs better when a Democrat is
in the White House. But perhaps more
importantly, I believe that investors will welcome a competent leader in which
there is trust and confidence. Clearly,
that is Obama who just judging him by the excellent campaign that he has run
can bring a new level of competence to the government. This will in my opinion lead to an era of
good feeling that will enable the stock market to rally significantly before
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- Research article
- Open Access
“If there are no female nurses to attend to me, I will just go and deliver at home”: a qualitative study in Garissa, Kenya
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth volume 19, Article number: 332 (2019)
The North Eastern region in Kenya experiences challenges in the utilization of maternal and newborn health services. In this region, culture and religion play a major role in influencing healthcare seeking behaviour of the community. This study was conducted to (i) understand key inherent barriers to health facility delivery in the Somali community of North Eastern Kenya and (ii) inform interventions on specific needs of this community.
The study was conducted among community members of Garissa sub-County as part of a baseline assessment before the implementation of an intervention package aimed at creating demand and increasing utilization of maternal and newborn services. Focus group discussions and key informant interviews were conducted with clan leaders, Imams, health managers, member of the county assembly, and service users (women and men) in three locations of Garissa sub-County. Data were analysed through content analysis, by coding recurrent themes and pre-established themes.
Using health facility for delivery was widely acceptable and most respondents acknowledged the advantages and benefits of skilled birth delivery. However, a commonly cited barrier in using health facility delivery was the issue of male nurses and doctors attending to women in labour. According to participants, it is against their culture and thus a key disincentive to using maternity services. Living far from the health facility and lack of a proper and reliable means of transportation was also highlighted as a reason for home delivery. At the health facility level, respondents complained about the poor attitude of health care providers, especially female nurses being disrespectful; and the limited availability of healthcare workers, equipment and supplies. Lack of awareness and information on the importance of skilled birth attendance was also noted.
To increase health facility delivery, interventions need to offer services that take into consideration the sociocultural aspect of the recipients. Culturally acceptable and sensitive services, and awareness on the benefits of skilled birth attendance among the community members are likely to attract more women to use maternity services and thus reduce adverse maternal and newborn health outcomes.
Globally, maternal and child survivals had significantly improved over the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era in 2015, with global trends showing marked improvements in maternal and child health indicators . Despite this progress, maternal and neonatal deaths are still high in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South East Asia. In SSA, some countries have registered increasing proportions of skilled birth assistance and downward trends in maternal and neonatal deaths . Child survival has also markedly improved as well as child health service indicators such as measles vaccination [1, 2]. However, these gains have not been homogenous with some countries performing much better than others and observed variations within countries . Efforts for better performance under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era have to target and bring on board vulnerable subpopulations who face unique challenges in accessing and using health services .
Maternal mortality in Kenya is still high despite the government commitment to address the issue. Although there may be no reliable data, available estimates indicate that the trends over the last 15 years show no significant decline. The recalculated estimates for Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) in 2003, 2008/9 and 2014 were respectively 505, 520 and 362 maternal deaths per 1000 live births . The greatest challenge in reducing maternal and neonatal deaths in Kenya lies in counties where access to maternity services is low. In fact, improvements in access to and utilization of maternity services in these counties are not well sustained .
Garissa is part of the larger North Eastern part of Kenya, semi-arid with the majority of its local residents nomadic. The MMR in Garissa is still high with 646 deaths per 100,000 live births . Compared to many other parts of Kenya, North Eastern Kenya is far less endowed with social amenities including health facilities and face high levels of poverty due to limited economic opportunities. Generally, girls are married at a younger age -in line with the Somali culture- and some undergo female genital mutilation . According to the Kenya Demographic Health Survey report of 2014, in North Eastern Kenya, estimates show that about 43% of pregnant women attend antenatal care (ANC) clinics at least four times [4, 7] and only 32.4% of deliveries are attended to by skilled health personnel [4, 8]. The government’s efforts in removing fees in most health facilities have so far not resulted to marked improvement in uptake of skilled birth attendance (SBA) in Garissa County .
Existing literature shows that most of the barriers to health facility delivery are rooted in the local cultural norms and practices [10,11,12,13]. Women in North Eastern Kenya encounter significant challenges in accessing general health care including reproductive health services as well as reliable information . In most Sub-Saharan African cultures, women are generally subordinate to men, have limited autonomy and depend on their husband/partner for decision-making in most matters including health care seeking [11, 13]. In North Eastern Kenya, while some cultural practices promote both prenatal and maternal health, some are detrimental and discriminatory against the health of the mother . Some women feel that the services offered at the health facilities are not aligned with their religious and cultural norms such as the choice of the birth position, and the gender of the health provider .
Recognizing that in North Eastern Kenya, culture and religion influence health services utilization, it is reasonable to assume that part of the solution of the problem lies there [14, 15]. The clan (Reer) and the Somali customary law (Heer) are traditional institutions that have been used in mobilizing communities for emergency relief and political representation [14, 15]. These however have not been well utilized in the health sector. In order to increase skilled delivery in Garissa, it is critical to engage cultural institutions and other social influencers, while understanding and addressing key inherent health system barriers through the provision of culturally sensitive services at healthcare facilities. Understanding this is critical in designing interventions that are context specific and responsive to the local needs and socio-cultural dynamics of the population.
This paper was part of a baseline assessment conducted prior to the implementation of a package of interventions aimed at improving the utilization maternal and newborn services. The aim of this paper is to provide an in-depth understanding of what the barriers to health facility delivery are from various stakeholders. The information will ultimately feed into enhancing the provision of current and future interventions aimed at improving maternal and newborn health.
Study site and participants
The study was conducted in three locations within Garissa sub-County. Iftin and Township were selected as intervention sites while Madinah was the control site. In each of the three locations, there are community units (CUs) overseen and served by Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) who in turn report to the respective designated health facilities. CUs in the interventions groups were purposively selected based on discussions with the sub-county community strategy coordinator for the Garissa sub-county. The CUs of the control group on the other hand were chosen based on discussion with the Garissa county health management team (CHMT). Iftin location is served by Iftin sub-County Hospital, Township is served by Sister Maternity Home (SIMAHO) and Madinah area is served by Madinah Health Centre.
As part of the preparatory activities before the intervention implementation, we conducted a social mapping exercise to identify all key resources and social influencers in the communities. We identified clan elders, Imams, health managers, political leaders and others opinion leaders. We used purposive sampling to select participants as the population is not nomadic in that part of the country. Participants were selected based on different criteria. Using the quantitative data, we identified women of reproductive age (WRA) (15–49 years old) who had been pregnant in the last five (5) years and who had or had not used specific MNH services. They were approached by trained research assistants and asked to participate in focus group discussions (FGDs). In addition to WRA identified through the quantitative data, the target population included social influencers (religious, cultural, political) -based on their position in the community and their role in the projects- male champions (married men) and service providers.
We developed and tested interview guides to obtain information principally on: (i) views on women giving birth in health facilities; (ii) barriers in accessing and using MNH services at the community and health facility level, (iii) suggestions on how to increase MNH services demand; and (iv) quality improvement at health facilities (Additional files 1 and 2). All field interviewers were trained on the study rationale, the objectives, the study approach and the data collection procedures. Interviews were conducted in Somali by trained research assistants Somali native. A note taker worked alongside with the interviewer taking notes. In both key informant interviews (KIIs) and FGDs, after asking a question, the research assistant let the participant(s) respond and then probe if necessary, to obtain further information before moving to the next topic.
FGDs and KIIs were used to explore the views of community members regarding MNH services offered in Garissa. We conducted two FGDs with mothers who had given birth in the last 5 years in each location. One for women aged 15–29 years and the other among women aged 30 years and above. Similarly, we conducted two FGDs with married men, one with men aged 15–29 years and the other with older men (30 years and above) in each location. One KII was conducted with the political leadership Members of County Assembly (MCA) of Garissa sub-County in Iftin. We also conducted KIIs among the clan leaders (Imam and clan elders) and health services managers in each of the three study sites.
The study was approved by APHRC’s internal ethical review committee and by the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), an external ethical review committee.
Audio files were transcribed in English by native Somali speakers. The transcripts were analysed using content analysis, by reading through the transcripts to code important information. This allow for complete analysis of the transcripts and not focusing on pre-established codes or themes. Two members of the research team reviewed and coded the transcripts. After coding the transcripts, the two members of the research team identified patterns from the data coded and made connections to recurrent themes and pre-established themes from the quantitative survey such as views on health facility delivery, reasons for home delivery. Due to the fact that the target population share the same culture and views, data saturation occurred at the analysis stage. Themes were re-appearing in most transcripts, relying the same information.
Data were coded using QSR International’s NVivo 12 software.
Table 1 represents the type, distribution, and content of the interviews conducted. Six (6) themes were identified to understand the key inherent barriers to utilization of maternal health services: gender of service provider, availability of service provider, autonomy and decision-making regarding health care seeking, awareness of the importance of using maternity service and knowledge of availability of service, attitude of service provider, and distance/cost to health facility. To elaborate on the findings, anonymous quotations were used bearing the participant’s position in the community and the type of interview.
Gender of service provider
Preference of female over male service providers came out strongly as a key barrier in using maternity services which are often provided by male nurses and doctors. This was in spite of the fact that most participants expressed support of women giving birth at health facilities due to the perceived importance of medical support available to them in case of complications or medical emergencies. To some, the preference of female providers was more than a cultural concern. The presence of male nurses during delivery is something they perceived to go against their religious belief. Therefore, Imams and others strongly discouraged women to give birth at health facilities if they were to be assisted by male nurses/doctors.
“We and other religious leaders are against the use of male doctors during delivery. It is better to get a female doctor. It is not permitted religiously to use male doctors. It is not good for men to breach women’s privacy. In our opinion we suggest female doctors. Every woman will come to the hospital then. This has caused many women to stay and deliver at home … ” (KII clan Imam 4)
“ … It is important for them [women] to use the hospitals but if the hospital only has male doctors even if women are present with her, she should deliver outside but if the female doctors are available and equipment and medication are there, she should use the hospital. I would choose she delivers out of hospital if the doctor is male” (KII clan Imam 1)
When the respondents were asked their point of view concerning male nurses attending to women during delivery, among those who were directly asked the question, beside Imams who were all against male nurses (3/3), several clan elders (2/3), women (8/18) and men (7/19) were outspoken in stating their preference about the gender of the health care provider. It is important to note that a significant number of men and women did not speak on the issue -maybe because they agreed with another respondent’s idea. Many suggested that the health facilities should allocate male nurses to other duties at the hospital rather than attending women in labour.
“If there are no female nurses to attend to me, I will just go home and deliver at home” (FGD participant [Women group 15–29 years], Iftin)
“A woman should be assisted by another female. It is not right for a man to help a mother deliver. When my wife was delivering, I went into the delivery and she was being assisted by a man and to be honest I didn’t like it … ” (KII clan leader 2)
The desire to have female nurses seems so entrenched that despite knowing the benefits of health facility delivery and the awareness of the possible complications linked to home delivery, people perceived the presence of male nurses at deliveries as something that will continue keeping women away from such facilities even at the risk of suffering obstetric complications.
“ … Culture and religion will lead women to avoid delivery in the hospitals where males attend to them. Even though she knows the risks of giving birth at home, she’d rather risk them than have a male attend to her in delivery” (FGD participant [ Men group 30+ years], Iftin)
Among those who posited that breach of religious teaching and culture norm was a major concern, some believed that women are just shy, and do not want to be attended by male nurses because they are not comfortable with men -other than their husband or partner- looking at their private parts.
“The good thing about giving birth at home is that no one is going to see your private part (male nurses) … ” (FGD participant [Women group 30+ years], SIMAHO)
“I went to the hospital and I found that it was a male nurse- I went back home and my husband brought me back and talked to one of the female nurses. So that’s how I delivered in the hospital assisted by a female nurse. As a mother I don’t want to deliver at the hospital assisted by a male nurse, it is better I deliver at home” (FGD participant [Women group 30+ years], SIMAHO)
Availability of service providers
It was mentioned by most interviewees including service providers that shortage of staff in the health facilities was a major challenge in women accessing maternal health services. In some facilities, the number of staff available to attend to women varied greatly between day and night and to the extent of not being available at all to attend to the women in labour.
“Currently we have four nurses. Three during the day and one during the night due to human resources availability” (KII Health manager 3)
Lived or shared experiences with regard to service quality often inform of the perceptions which permeate communities, and these impressions to a large extent affect service use. The limited hours of service especially in government facilities is often talked about as a quality issue and indeed results show that women preferred to deliver at home than going to a poorly staffed facility at night as one informant stated:
“During the day they cover well, but for maternity services the delivery occurs at night. If we do not have night staff, then mothers will opt to deliver at home” (KII Health manager 2)
Still with regard to quality and staffing levels specifically, a critical view that emerged from the key informant interviews is that staff shortage pushed service providers to offer different services at the same time thereby limiting the quality and number of women they could attend to.
“The only challenge is the shortage of staff because we have one nurse at the ANC and at the same time they conduct deliveries” (KII Health manager 4)
From these experiences, for some women specifically, knowing the time they are likely to receive services from the health facilities made them selective with regard to the period of the day they go to seek maternal health services despite their vulnerable condition at the time.
“At night there are no services we get from here, if you go into labour there will be no doctor to assist you. From 6pm there are no doctors, especially the ones for delivery” (FGD participant [Women group 15–29 years], Madinah)
“I once came here at 2am and the hospital was open, but I was told that the nurse wasn’t there, I came back at 3am and I was informed that the nurse wasn’t in yet. I came back at 6 in morning, the nurse was around, and I delivered” (FGD participant [Women group 30+ years], SIMAHO)
Autonomy and decision-making regarding health care seeking
Quick decision-making is at the center of efforts geared towards preventing adverse maternal and newborn health events as conceptualized in the three delays model. Women’s autonomy and decision-making came up in the discussions painting a picture of men generally being in charge of decision-making in matters related to health care seeking. Health managers perceived it as a cultural barrier in using health facilities. According to them, men have a great influence on the service their wives get at the health facility and especially on the issue of the service provider’s gender. This point of view was supported by only one clan elder stating that males are the one mainly against male nurses during delivery.
“We have had instances where the men dictate that it [family planning] should not be given” (KII health manager 4)
“Most mothers are not supported by their husbands during delivery and when they are there, they don’t allow male nurses and ask for female health workers” (KII health manager 5)
“Most of the time it’s a preference of the husband that makes decisions. Mothers might be okay with male providers” (KII health manager 5)
“Religion does not prohibit [male nurses] but there are men who are concerned about male doctors who perform deliveries. They are scared in term of religion” (KII clan leader)
Awareness of the importance of using maternity service and knowledge of availability of service
It was reassuring to note that almost all study participants seemed to be aware of the importance of health facility deliveries. It is an important first step in efforts geared towards a change in health care seeking behaviour.
“It’s good if expectant mothers got to the hospital during the time from pregnancy through childbirth. It’s good for them to stop using traditional midwives” (FGD participant [Men group 30+ years], SIMAHO)
“It’s a good idea for women to give birth in the hospital because there are things she may not get if she delivers at home. For example, if she delivers here and complications arise, she will be referred to the general hospital by ambulance.” (FGD participant [Men group 30+ years], Iftin)
“When a woman becomes pregnant there are so many services she needs from the hospital. She needs to see a doctor who will have her records and follows her up on the progress.” (FGD participant [Men group 30+ years], Iftin)
Several respondents felt that there were still some community members who did not understand the importance and benefits of health facility deliveries. Some believed that was due to a lack of information, wrong perception of the health facility delivery, while others mentioned that people are just stubborn.
“Issue of awareness, perception where mothers perceive delivery at the hospital as bureaucracy, is tedious and costly” (MCA Iftin)
“Before people didn’t know much, they preferred to give birth at home and the mother believed she would get more care … ” (FGD participant [Women group 30+ years], Iftin)
“Lack of knowledge, they do not know the importance of hospital” (FGD participants [Women group 15-29 years], Madinah)
Most clan leaders blame this lack of knowledge being a barrier to health facility deliveries on the absence of linkage and cooperation between them and the health facility and/or the Ministry of Health. According to them, a partnership will help create awareness in the community and help them understand the importance of health facility deliveries and the availability of services offered to them.
“The elders should be united with the health workers. There should be proof of female doctors carrying out deliveries. This can change the situation” (KII Clan leader)
“The important thing is to first talk to the imams and make them aware. There are different imams in this area for the different mosques. They are the ones who can communicate these issues-they have the microphone and a large congregation to communicate to. They can do it in religious ways” (KII clan leader 2)
“This is the work of the ministry of health. They should initiate such a program. They do not invite us for discussion to create awareness by making use of the elders” (KII clan leader 3)
Attitude of service providers
The attitudes of service providers offering maternity services in this study were multidimensional. First, it was noted that most female nurses were inactive and lacked enthusiasm towards attending to pregnant women. The respondents reported that clients felt that the midwives were being disturbed when asked to attend to their needs, which otherwise should be their primary responsibility. A man who accompanied his wife to the health facility explained:
“My wife gave birth through caesarean section and she went through difficulties. We found her fainting (losing conscious) and when you go to the nurses they will tell you ‘we are coming’ and if you call them more than once they will take it bad and think you are pushing them and they become rude” (FGD participant [Men group 30+ years], Iftin)
Most of the time, this attitude from the nurses affects women’s confidence in utilizing maternity services as it makes them feel like a burden on the health facility while in reality the health facility should ensure that the needs of these women are met. Secondly, while the discomfort around male provider was very apparent, few women mentioned that male nurses showed more empathy to their plight and were more caring and available compared to their female counterparts.
“Yes, that is the biggest reason-but when it comes to compassion the male nurses are better than the female nurses. The female nurses tell you to walk around when your baby is coming, they don’t show concern” (FGD participant [Women group 30+ years], SIMAHO)
For women living far from the health facility, distance and availability of transport was noted as a great determinant in accessing health services in a timely manner. The availability of ambulances to transport women to the hospitals was said to be limited to some areas leaving some women to opt for other means of transport such as taxi which was expressed as being very expensive, or donkey cart which was regarded as slow and could possibly delay receiving the services. In addition, the poor economic situation of many women deters them from accessing health services. Some women experienced circumstances where there is money available that can be used to pay for transportation to the health facility, however, they are forced to prioritize on what seems important to them, such as food for the family. This is in the context of prevalent poverty and lack of access to other basic needs such as food, shelter and clean water.
“If there’s a free car that takes mothers to the hospital, it will help women give birth in the hospital. They cannot afford taxi to go to the hospital … A taxi costs Ksh 300 and that is a lot for some people who can’t afford the three meals, so if you cannot afford the transport you will have to give birth at home” (FGD participant [Women group 15–29 years], SIMAHO)
“That’s what we are talking about. A mother who has Ksh 300 cannot take a taxi when she needs money for milk and sugar. So, she will just call her neighbour to help her with the delivery” (FGD participant [Women group 15-29 years], SIMAHO)
Overall, it was found that men and women were not opposed to skilled birth deliveries. Culture was identified as a key barrier to MNH services utilization, which gives room for a behaviour change to improve MNH health outcomes in Garissa. In such setting, creating and sustaining awareness and collaborating with community leaders who have a strong influence in the community is most likely to achieve the goals.
Overall, there is a strong support for women to use health facility for delivery in order to reduce obstetric complications and deaths. However, various factors influence a woman’s decision for the place of delivery including husbands/partners, mothers or the mothers in-law . Our findings are consistent with previous studies analysing barriers in utilizing health facility deliveries concerning woman’s limited autonomy in decision-making and health care seeking [11,12,13]. In many settings women rely on their husbands regarding health care seeking for themselves and their unborn child . Many women mentioned that the choice of the place of delivery was mainly their husbands/partners’ decision, while husbands on the other hand argue that the wife is the final decision-maker concerning the place of delivery . Moreover, the decision of having a health facility delivery or skilled birth attendance is often made at the onset of labour, unless the woman had previous health issue requiring a pre-established birth preparedness plan .
For many, it is unacceptable for a male other than the husband to be present during delivery and this is the key barrier in using health facility for delivery [10, 12, 13]. The main reason being that women do not want to expose their private parts for anyone to see, especially by the opposite gender and or someone younger than them . Unfortunately, in many instances women in labour do not always have the preferred choice of the health provider at a given health facility, and thus to avoid being attended to by a male provider, many prefer a home delivery with a traditional birth attendant (TBA) . Although some believe that the gender of the health care provider is not a major barrier to health facility delivery, few openly opposed that idea in front of their peers.
The choice to deliver at home -with or without a TBA support- ensures for some women that their privacy will not be violated but also more comfort as they will be helped by someone they are familiar with and trust because they share the same culture and tradition .
Many women including those using health facility for delivery believe TBAs have more skills and patience than nurses when attending pregnant women. There is a wide range of complaints about the attitude of some health providers being rude, disrespectful and using abusive words toward mothers [11, 13, 16]. Extremes include being physically assaulted and maltreated while being attended to by the nurses [12, 16]. These perceptions and experiences have resulted in a lack of confidence in health care workers and this discourages mothers from seeking care at health facility due to the poor quality of the services they expect to receive [16, 17].
In addition to the poor attitude and doubting skills of health care providers, respondents also complained about the lack of necessary drugs, equipment and other supplies in health facilities as well as a limited number of healthcare workers [11, 13, 17]. In many of such instances patients are asked to purchase the basic supplies needed in order to be attended to . Health care managers and policy-makers acknowledged that staff shortage and the inadequate competency and training of health care workers are critical barriers at the health facility level in providing quality health service to clients . Staff shortage affects the effectiveness and efficiency of health care workers who then have to attend to many mothers at the same time, thus affecting the quality of care provided . Shortage of staff also affects the service hours resulting in some pregnant women not being able to be attended to .
Previous studies indicate distance as another key barrier in using health facility for delivery [10, 11, 13]. The lack of a reliable means of transportation forces some people to rely on taxi or a donkey carts, which are very likely to delay them in reaching the health facility in a timely manner. In addition to the poor state of roads, most health facilities cannot provide emergency transportation to the community they serve, and this result in clients spending a large amount of money for private transport . Despite delivery fees being waived by the government or significantly reduced in many health facilities, for many poor households, transport cost is an additional out-of-pocket expenditure which may influence the choice of place of delivery . In fact, previous studies have shown that pregnant women with money set aside are about four times more likely to deliver at health facility with a skilled attendant .
Culturally, in many SSA countries, home delivery is seen as a normal and natural process for any strong woman while health facility delivery is suitable for a woman with pre-existing complications [16, 18]. The lack of knowledge and poor communication between the service providers and the community to address such misconceptions has also been a barrier in the utilization of maternity services [10, 16]. Effective strategies to influence social norms that affect MNH services utilization need to be implemented. Evidence from middle income countries have proven that culturally appropriate approaches increases utilization of health services [20, 21]. Improving community’s knowledge on the benefit of health facility delivery as well as equipping health facilities with functional supplies/equipment, emergency transportation, trained, competent and empathic health care workers are key potential solutions to increase health facility delivery and improve maternal and child wellbeing. Beside creating awareness, women empowerment -financial and educational- can be a critical factor in increasing health facility delivery. Indeed, studies have shown that educated and financial independent women are more likely to be involved in the health care seeking decision-making and six times more likely to deliver in health facilities compared to their uneducated and financially dependent peers .
While we took steps to ensure a good representation of the various community strata, we acknowledge the findings in this study may not be applicable to the entire Garissa county population. The study was conducted in a small urban/peri-urban setting, with a predominantly Somali and Muslim community. The urban/semi-urban population in Garissa town may have totally different attitudes, information and practices compared to their rural peers. However, we believe that the rural perceptions and experiences can only be more entrenched as some of the cultural and religious issues tend to have a firmer grip on the lives of rural than urban residents. It is possible that some respondents could have given socially desirable responses and as such misrepresenting the true picture at population level.
This study being a mixed method study, greater impact would have been made by including the results of the quantitative survey to complement the result of the qualitative survey. However, because this study was derived from the baseline results, we believed it would have been better to compared both baseline and end line quantitative survey rather than the qualitative survey.
The study showed that socio-cultural factors are critical barriers to health facility deliveries in Garissa. Lack of autonomy and decision-making regarding health care seeking by women, service provider gender preference, service providers’ attitude, in addition to transport cost and availability are identified barriers that can be addressed. Strategies that work hand-in-hand with the community stakeholders as well as improving the birthing experiences at health facilities have potential to increase health care seeking and utilization in such settings.
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We are deeply indebted to the study participants whose kind involvement contributed to rich a dataset on which this paper is based. The professional support provided by the field research team who were involved in data collection is highly appreciated. Lastly, we recognize and appreciate the support we received from the leadership of Garissa sub-County and County health department which made our research activities move smoothly.
This project was funded by the United Kingdom (UK) Department for International Development (DFID) under the County Innovation Challenge Fund (CICF) for Kenya. www.mnhcicf.org
The funder’s role in the project was limited to making input on our monitoring and evaluation (M&E) indicators in terms of how they were to be measured. The funder had no further inputs in the study design, the implementation and analysis of the project data as well as in the decision to write and publish this manuscript.
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The research protocol was approved by the African Population and Health Research Center internal ethics review Committee as well as the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Ethics Review Committee (AMREF-ESRC P435/2018). The study was also approved by the National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI/P/18/33893/23290).
Informed written consent was obtained from all participants in this study. The consent informed participants that all interviews would be recorded for better data quality. In Kenya, the legal age for consent is 18 years old, so participants of that age were legally able to consent without parental consent. If one is minor aged 15–17 years and had given birth before (as per our inclusion criteria), such a person is considered an emancipated/mature minor, thus were also able to consent for themselves. For people who could not read/write, the ICF content was read out to them and used thumb print with a literate witness signing as well.
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N’Gbichi, C., Ziraba, A.K., Wambui, D.W. et al. “If there are no female nurses to attend to me, I will just go and deliver at home”: a qualitative study in Garissa, Kenya. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 19, 332 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-019-2477-2
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When the deal came over the transaction wire, nobody could have guessed its vast impact on the Flames and the city of Calgary.
It was Nov. 16, 2003, and Flames GM/head coach Darryl Sutter needed to find a goaltender with starter Roman Turek on the shelf for a prolonged spell and backup Jamie McLennan perceived incapable of carrying the load.
So Sutter made what turned out to be his most significant move as Calgary's GM, acquiring San Jose third-stringer Miikka Kiprusoff for a second-round draft choice.
Kiprusoff made his Calgary debut in the 18th game of the 2003-04 season, a 2-1 win over the visiting Montreal Canadiens.
On the eve of the Flames' 18th game of the current season, tonight against the Coyotes in Phoenix (7 p.m., Sportsnet), Sutter revealed Kiprusoff wasn't his only option.
"We made a list of seven or eight guys and I didn't like five or six of them, so I made my own list and there were two," Sutter recalled. "One was making about eight times more than (Kiprusoff), so that narrowed it down to one. That's the truth.
"I won't say who he is but the other guy has done really well. He's an older goalie and makes a lot of money."
That other candidate was likely Curtis Joseph, then of the Detroit Red Wings, but hindsight confirms Sutter made the right choice.
Asked to guess his team's record since Kipper's debut, winger Shean Donovan answered: "I know it's pretty good. It's probably over-shooting but I'd guess 50-30," Donovan said.
Told the answer -- 43-29-10 with ties and extra-time losses combined -- Donovan replied: "Yeah, not bad, eh?"
Not bad at all.
Kiprusoff's personal record comes with an even better winning percentage, 32-15-7.
When the deal came down, Donovan contacted close ties in the Sharks organization and was optimistic about what Kiprusoff would do for the Flames.
Still, even he couldn't have imagined what was forthcoming.
"It's hard to believe a guy like that was hiding," said Donovan, a former Shark. "I know San Jose has great goaltending with Evgeni Nabokov and Vesa Toskala, so it was hard for (Kiprusoff) to show himself but they knew he was a good goalie.
"Thank God we got him."
Kiprusoff's all-time Flames marks include seven shutouts, a 1.89 goals-against average and .930 save percentage.
And who can forget his stellar playoff performance (a 15-11 record, 1.85 GAA with five shutouts) that backstopped the Flames to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup final?
Darren McCarty sure can't, being part of the Detroit Red Wings squad the Flames eliminated thanks to Kiprusoff's heroics, which included back-to-back shutouts to close it out.
"A lot of times playing against that Detroit team, young guys found it intimidating. A lot of guys have fallen to it but with him you wonder if he has a pulse sometimes because he doesn't show emotion," McCarty said.
"He could let in five goals or six goals and he's the same all the time. He lets in a goal, the helmet goes up and the water goes down because he's got a great mentality."
That even-keel mentality paid dividends early in the season when thing were going poorly for Kiprusoff. Going into this year, there were plenty of people wondering if he was a one-year wonder and, when his goals-against average hit 4.95 after the opening road trip, those detractors had plenty of ammunition.
Now Kiprusoff is among the league leaders in wins, average and shutouts.
Donovan is not surprised.
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While the average asking price for property nationally fell in the region of 3.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011 the drop experienced in Co Leitrim was more than double that according to the latest property statistics from daft.ie.
The average asking price for property in the county is in the region of w134,875 down nearly 48 percent from the highs seen in 2007. More worrying for those selling in the county is the fact that the average asking price for a five bedroom home in the county is now just w160,000 that’s over w20,000 less than the average asking price for a four-bedroom home.
The daft.ie report also showed that average asking prices have fallen by a massive 16.1 percent form this time last year.
The siutation is even more dire in Co Roscommon where the average asking price is now w131,097, down 47.9% from the peak of 2007. Year on year figures show that the property market has slumped in the last 12 months in Co Roscommon with prices down 17.5 percent. This is also the second consecutive quarter in which prices have continued to fall for our neighbours with drops of 7.8 percent in the last three months alone.
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- What is the most common reason for check engine light?
- Will check engine light reset itself?
- What FUSE do I need to remove check engine light?
- How do you reset your check engine light?
- How many miles can you drive with check engine light on?
- Why is my car shaking and check engine light on?
- Can low oil cause misfire?
- How urgent is a check engine light?
- Is it safe to drive your car with the check engine light on?
- Who will check engine light for free?
- How long does it take for check engine light to go off after replacing gas cap?
- What could check engine light mean?
- Can low oil cause the check engine light to come on?
- How do I clear my check engine light after repair?
What is the most common reason for check engine light?
Common causes of a check engine light Gas cap is loose: Tighten the gas cap.
If you’ve lost it, replace it with a new one.
Oxygen sensor is bad: You’ll need a new sensor — but identify which one is bad first.
Spark plugs may be fouled or failing: Replace the spark plugs..
Will check engine light reset itself?
A check engine light will shut itself off if the condition that caused it is remedied. So, if your converter is marginal, and you did a lot of stop-and-go driving, which creates high demand for the converter, that may have turned on the check engine light.
What FUSE do I need to remove check engine light?
The fuse that reins the check engine light is akin to the small yellow box-like item situated on the lower-left corner, with two 10mm fuses. It’s a double fuse on the fuse box beneath the dash and reads ROOM/PLAFON.
How do you reset your check engine light?
Another simple approach to get rid of the check engine light is to turn on and off the car three times. Insert the key in the ignition, turn the car on for a second, and turn it off for another second. Repeat this process three times.
How many miles can you drive with check engine light on?
So why is the light still on? Here’s something you probably don’t know: after clearing the car’s computer you will need to drive for about 50 to 100 miles. As you drive your car the computer will monitor all the sensors and register the results.
Why is my car shaking and check engine light on?
If your check engine light is accompanied by your car shaking, there is cause for serious concern. The shaking feeling can be caused by misfires, poor fuel pressure, faulty spark plugs, or a broken engine mount.
Can low oil cause misfire?
You can’t drive a misfiring engine very long without causing additional damage. … If the low oil pressure warning light came on, too, there could be a connection simply because running the engine too low on oil will cause mechanical damage and thence malfunctions of all kinds.
How urgent is a check engine light?
Unlike a Temperature or Oil Pressure light, a Check Engine light is usually not an urgent, “Stop right now or you may cause permanent damage!” type of situation, unless it is flashing. … If your gas cap is loose or the seal is not tight, the vapor leakage can cause your fuel system to trigger the check engine light.
Is it safe to drive your car with the check engine light on?
If the check engine light comes on while you’re driving, it can be unnerving. … The check engine light means there’s a problem somewhere in your emissions system. Regardless, you’re safe to drive for now as long as the car isn’t performing strangely. Just have the check engine light checked and the problem repaired.
Who will check engine light for free?
FREE Check Engine Light Help is one of several free services offered by O’Reilly Auto Parts. Here are some others: FREE Battery Testing.
How long does it take for check engine light to go off after replacing gas cap?
Then tighten the gas cap with your hand until you hear the cap click in place. If it does not click in place or is loose after clicking into place the cap needs to be replaced. The check engine light should go off after you drive for several minutes if the light was caused by a loose gas cap.
What could check engine light mean?
You’re driving along in your car or truck and suddenly a yellow light illuminates on your dash telling you to check or service your engine. … Call it the most misunderstood indicator on your dashboard: The check engine light can mean many different things, from a loose gas cap to a seriously misfiring engine.
Can low oil cause the check engine light to come on?
Low oil pressure is a common cause of a check engine light turning on, and it can seriously interfere with your car’s performance. Usually, if this is the case, your oil light will also appear. … In any case, low enough oil pressure will disable your vehicle, so get this repaired immediately.
How do I clear my check engine light after repair?
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This is my first time to setup a office network and I'm having some problems, I hope this is the correct place to post this.
Here is my situation, we have two servers one is dedicated to our souce files and local user files which has our Active Directory, IIS, DNS running Windows Server 2008. This server's sole purpose is just to test our webstie on and to store local user files.
The second server is running Windows Server 2008 on it and has SQL Server 2008 and its sole purpose is to just run our test database.
So here are my questions when it comes to setting up SQL Server and Source Safe, I have not been able to find anythnig about setting up source safe. Does anyone have any insight that they could send my direction. Also when it comes to setting up SQL Server
which is on a seperate server, I have created the DB under the administrator of that Server but when I want to create new uesrs for that DB how can I just use the users that are on our domain? I hope I'm writing out the correct questions, thanks for any and
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UFI welcomes Author Lisa Shearin. Thanks for Joining us!!
What can you tell my readers about yourself that they might not know from looking on your bio or reading in another interview?
I adore funky, non-precious gemstone, or ethnic jewelry. My husband probably believes I need to be on a 12-step program. I also have an addiction to purses and briefcases. I really shouldn’t be turned loose in the purse section at TJ Maxx without a chaperone—who should also have my charge card—and the ability to keep me from taking it from them by force.
What do you enjoy doing on your downtime?
Downtime? What’s downtime? Well, I do have this thing called “forced downtime,” in which I make time for those pesky life things that get in the way of writing: husband, family, friends, dogs, reading, and sleep. Eating isn’t included since I can do that while writing. In fact, I’m doing it right now.
What is your Favorite part of writing?
Unlike many writers, I prefer the rewriting/editing part of writing a book. For me, the first draft is the necessary evil that I have to get through to reach the part I really enjoy. Once I have the entire story down in rough draft form, that’s when I can start to play and have fun; because at that point, I’ve got something to work with.
Do you have any certain routines you must follow as you write?
I write all of my first drafts in longhand, with a fountain pen (bottle fed, not ink cartridges), in journals. My routine is to write at least 1500 words a day, which will give me the rough draft equivalent of two chapters a week. On the weekends is when I type what I’ve written into my computer, making edits as I go. I’ve found that I can’t compose on a computer. My creative brain responds better to the feel of a pen on paper. I’m also a rabid fountain pen collector, both modern and vintage. Needless to say, I love me some eBay, flea markets, and antique shops—which is also another favorite downtime activity.
What are some of your Favorite books or Authors in the Urban Fantasy/ Paranormal Genres?
I cut my novel-writing teeth in the 80s on the books of David Eddings, Raymond Feist, and Terry Brooks. My favorite UF authors now are Jim Butcher, Rob Thurman, and Ilona Andrews. I love reading thrillers that have a hint of the paranormal: The Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, the Event Group books by David Golemon, and everything by James Rollins or Jeremy Robinson. My TBR stack is insanely big. Actually, it’s a TBR bookcase.
How would you pitch The Grendel Affair to someone who has not heard of it before?
What would happen if Stephanie Plum went to work for the Men in Black?
Can you tell us a little bit about the world that The SPI Files Series is set in?
Since SPI is a worldwide organization, it seemed natural for me to put their global headquarters in New York. And if supernatural creatures wanted to be among humans, but concealed in the crowds, New York seemed to me to be the perfect choice. But why did supernatural beings come to our world/dimension in the first place? They want the same things as the rest of us: a good job, nice house, 2.5 kids/spawn, and a dog. The others? Well, their powers are stronger here, their greed is bigger, and any treaties or bindings that might have made them behave back home don’t mean squat here. They don’t just want their slice of the American Dream; they want the whole freaking pie, and they don’t care what they have to do, who they have to kill, or how many city blocks they have to level to get what they want.
That’s why we’re here.
Someone has to even the odds.
We’re Supernatural Protection & Investigations.
Do you have a favorite scene in The Grendel Affair?
There’s a scene set in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery where Mac is on a tractor/snowplow pursuing an elderly hired assassin who looks like the queen of England and is driving a Buick.
Which character was your favorite to write about? What about the hardest to write about?
As with my Raine Benares books, some of my favorite characters have been members of the “supporting cast.” Two of my favs from The Grendel Affair are Yasha Kazakov and Kenji Hayashi. Here’s the intro copy for them from the book from Mac’s POV:
Yasha was one of SPI’s drivers and trackers. In a city where at any given time there were more upernatural baddies than available parking spaces, having a reliable drop-off and pick-up guy was a necessity. Even better was one who had no problem with turning a rampaging monster into a hood ornament. And should a simple collar turn into a cluster, Yasha was always more than happy to take the fight beyond the driver’s seat— especially during the full moon.
Yasha Kazakov was a werewolf.
Kenji Hayashi was SPI’s resident tech geek. He was also an elf. I didn’t know if he was half elf/ half Japanese human or all Japanese elf. Heck, I didn’t even know Japan had elves, and I didn’t know Kenji well enough yet to ask. Some supernaturals could be even more sensitive and PC about those things than humans. Multi-cultural was one thing. But multi-species? Not sticking my foot in my mouth would be next to impossible, so I had kept it shut on that topic.
What I knew for sure was that if information was buried deeper than a politician’s past or encrypted six ways from Sunday, Kenji was the go-to guy to dig it out and make it sing. During his in-office hours, he was surrounded by computer screens directing teams of monster-hunting agents. He did exactly the same thing in his off-duty time, only then it was called gaming. Not being a gaming, anime, or comic aficionado, I didn’t recognize most of the figures and toys on every exposed surface in Kenji’s workspace, but there were two that I did—a foot-tall Godzilla complete with glowing red eyes, gripping a headless Jar Jar Binks action figure. The head was in Godzilla’s mouth. It was my favorite.
I really enjoyed the Raine Benares Series. How was writing about Makenna different than writing about Raine?
Growing up in a family of pirates, Raine was a trained fighter both hand-to-hand and with various weapons. Makenna Fraser is a small-town girl from the North Carolina mountains who is now living and working in New York. While one of her 16th birthday presents was a shotgun (the other was a muscle car), she’s used to hunting things that she intends to eat—not defending herself against things that intend to eat her.
What Other Projects can we look forward to reading from you?
A lot of my readers have told me that they miss Tam from my Raine Benares books. I miss Tam, too. Once I put the second SPI Files book to bed (The Dragon Conspiracy, which I’m writing now), I intend to write an e-novella of events that were hinted at in Magic Lost, Trouble Found, but never explored—how exactly did Raine and Tam meet, and what happened when they did? And bear in mind that this story happens pre-Mychael—so anything goes. ; )
Lisa is the national bestselling author of The Raine Benares novels, a series of six comedic fantasy adventures. Her next series—The SPI Files—is an urban fantasy that’s been described as Stephanie Plum meets Men in Black. It will debut on December 31, 2013.
Lisa is a voracious collector of fountain pens both vintage and modern. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, two spoiled-rotten retired racing greyhounds, and a Jack Russell Terrier who rules them all.
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The Grendel Affair
SPI Files #1
We’re Supernatural Protection & Investigations, known as SPI. Things that go bump in the night, the monsters you thought didn’t exist? We battle them and keep you safe. But some supernatural baddies are just too big to contain, even for us
When I moved to New York to become a world famous journalist, I never imagined that snagging a job at a seedy tabloid would change my career path from trashy reporter to undercover agent. I’m Makenna Fraser, a Seer for SPI. I can see through any disguise, shield, or spell that a paranormal pest can come up with. I track down creatures and my partner, Ian Byrne, takes them out—usually saving my skin in the process.
Our cases are generally pretty routine, but a sickle-wielding serial killer has been prowling the city’s subway tunnels. And the murderer’s not human. The fiend in question, a descendant of Grendel—yes, that Grendel—shares his ancestor’s hatred of parties, revelry, and drunkards. And with New Year’s Eve in Times Square only two days away, we need to bag him quickly. Because if we don’t find him—and the organization behind him—by midnight, our secret’s out and everyone’s time is up. | <urn:uuid:fbe29f9c-c399-406a-b2d8-4bf820fdc090> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://urbanfantasyinvestigations.blogspot.com/2014/01/interview-giveaway-grendel-affair-by.html | 2017-10-22T00:59:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824931.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022003552-20171022023552-00195.warc.gz | en | 0.962971 | 2,095 |
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Over the past year, companies such as Nokia and Samsung have started launching smartphones whose most compelling features are their cameras—the latest offering from Samsung, the Galaxy S4 Zoom, which launches on 15 July for Rs.29,900, is mostly a Galaxy S4 Mini with a 16 MP camera.
Globally, this has hurt camera manufacturers, with the compact camera being replaced by the all-purpose smartphone. Yet Hiroshi Takashina, managing director, Nikon India, says DSLRs are picking up in popularity, and India at least still has a market for entry-level digital cameras.
In the last two months, both Nikon and Canon have released over a dozen new models, and certain features in these releases give us an inkling of what to expect from the digital cameras to come.
For one thing, we should expect cameras to move away from digital zoom, and support greater amounts of optical zoom at lower prices. This will lead to better image quality for close-ups, something smarpthones (which still rely mostly on digital zoom) can’t compete on. That’s why most new digital cameras have more optical zoom, even at lower prices.
Canon’s new PowerShot A2600 has a 16 MP sensor, and 5x optical zoom. This is better even than the cameras on high-end phones costing over Rs.40,000; the A2600 is available for Rs.8,995. The PowerShot A2600 has a sleek design that is only a little bigger than most phones, but if you don’t mind something bulkier, then there’s the Nikon Coolpix L820.
Available for Rs.12,537, this camera won’t fit in your pocket, but it’s still a basic point-and-shoot that’s easy to use and comes at an entry-level price. What really sets it apart is the large lens, with an up to 30x optical zoom, perfect for nature photography where you can’t always get close to your subject.
Smartphones are pushing digital camera makers to drastically improve their products. “What’s really happened is that the consumption of photography as an activity has changed,” says Alok Bharadwaj, executive vice-president, Canon India. This is because people are increasingly sharing photographs on social networks.
“Smartphones let you capture a moment for sharing, not for yourself. A digital camera is required for when you want to enjoy the process of taking the photograph,” he adds. New digital cameras, however, are also adding the ability to share pictures.
Canon’s PowerShot A3500 IS comes with Wi-Fi support, so you can take a printout or send a picture to your phone or laptop for sharing when you’re on the same Wi-Fi network, instead of having to take the memory card out of the camera and then save the images manually. The A3500 IS also has a 16 MP sensor, and is available for Rs.9,995.
The Nikon Coolpix S6500 is another good option—at Rs.11,950, you get a nice-looking camera with 12x optical zoom and a 16 MP sensor. The camera performs well in low light as well, and also allows you to touch up pictures on the camera before sharing them using the Wi-Fi feature.
The Coolpix AW110, meanwhile, is waterproof, shockproof and dust-resistant. The camera comes with a built-in altimeter, GPS and hydro-barometer. If you’re likely to get off the beaten track, then this is a good camera to pick, and the Wi-Fi feature makes it easy to share those moments with friends as well.
“With social being the buzzword, all cameras should possess capabilities and features that enable users to transfer and upload images instantly,” says Takashina.
“Not only do cameras give better image quality, but they are becoming lighter and more pocketable. Smartphone cameras helped the segment grow by getting customers interested in photography, people who want a better experience upgrade to a camera,” adds Takashina.
Bharadwaj agrees, adding that while compact camera sales for Canon in India have dropped by 30%, models with high optical zoom, good low-light performance and good video recording have shown rising sales figures. “DSLRs have really grown, up from 220,000 units last year to a predicted 250,000 units this year,” he says. “We have a camera with 50x zoom which used to be a niche but today it’s extremely in demand. Another area that is making people prefer digital cameras is the speed of the camera—how quickly it is able to focus.”
Companies like Sony and Samsung too are making waves with new cameras. Samsung, for example, launched a compact camera with 26x optical zoom last week in the US. The Samsung WB110 has a 20.2MP sensor as well. Tadato Kimura, head, marketing, Sony India, says there has been a progressive movement to the DSLR market, and Sony plans to focus more on this category.
Over the next couple of years, digital cameras will become lighter, easier to carry, focus faster, and zoom further than anything we’re seeing right now—all part of an attempt to stay relevant in a quickly changing market. One of the first new products to meet these criteria is the Nikon Coolpix A.
"The next wave of digital cameras will focus faster, zoom further, be lighter and more pocketable too"
The Coolpix A looks like an ordinary point-and-shoot camera, not much bigger than your phone—until you switch it on. The lens extends to give you the equivalent of a 28mm lens in the 35mm format, and the DX-format 16.2 MP CMOS sensor used is the same as the one Nikon uses in its DSLRs. So you’re able to take high-quality pictures, and slip it into your pocket when you’re done. At Rs.54,950, it’s still a very expensive camera but in time, say camera manufacturers, these features will become the norm.
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Parents’ Guide to Minecraft Story Mode
Here’s out guide to Minecraft Story Mode. This week compiled by journalist Jordan Erica Webber.
Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic adventure game in five parts.
It tells a story based in the well-known world of Minecraft. As a female or male character called Jesse, players solve puzzles, fight zombies, and talk to other characters to progress the story. Conversations involve choosing from multiple potential responses that each have consequences for the story and relationships in the game. Action is played out with quick-time events.
While Minecraft: Story Mode is visually similar to Minecraft itself, it plays more like other episodic adventure games from the developer, Telltale Games, like The Walking Dead.
The story revolves around Jesse and their group of friends, who want to find a group of four adventurers called The Order of the Stone, who have slayed an Ender Dragon, in order to save the world from oblivion. Each member of the Order is the best at what they do, and represents a different kind of Minecraft player: Warrior, Redstone Engineer, Grief-er, and Architect.
Developer Telltale Games is known for these episodic adventure games, like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones games. Minecraft: Story Mode is more family-friendly, like their Back to the Future game.
Minecraft: Story Mode is available for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360, and iOS and Android. It will also be coming to Wii U in the near future. A Vita version is likely but unconfirmed.
Although unconfirmed this is likely to cost around £4/$5 per episode or £20/$25 for the whole season. There will also be a retail season pass disc for consoles that is scheduled to be released on the launch day of episode 1 for £24/$30.
5. Duration and Difficulty
Each episode tells a self-contained story as part of the larger whole of the series, and each is a couple of hours long.
Although the focus is on narrative, some decisions and action moments have time limits that may leave younger players unable to choose a response in time, in which case a “no response” action is triggered.
6. PEGI Rating
In the UK and Europe, PEGI rates Minecraft: Story Mode as only appropriate for those aged 12 and older for “mild bad language”.
The GRA expands on its PEGI rating by explaining that the game has “frequent use of mild language” including words like “ass”, “crap”, and “piss”.
Although Minecraft itself is aimed at younger players PEGI 7+ the Story Mode adventure looks to engage an older audience with its controversial PEGI 12+ rating. Although the rating is mainly from language in the game, it also includes suspense moments and jump scares that may unsettle younger players. Zombies and spiders attack characters including a helpless friendly pig.
Positively, Minecraft Story Mode engages with themes of friendship, survival and creativity. With professional voice acting and musical score there is considerable substance to the experience.
8. Why people play
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for todays inspiration we bring you good ol' American pride with our 4th of July Challenge.
I have been playing around with the print and cut portion of my CAMEO and I gotta say that I LOVE IT!! I had use it a bit but was very intimidated by it, but I finally decided to sit down and tackle it! And I am glad that I did because it is an AWESOME feauture, this is the reason I bought my cameo and I can't believe I hadn't really sat down and played with it.
Well here is what I came up with:
-Cameo Silhoutte for the bear (print and cut function), and basic shapes for circle and stars
-Treasure Box Designs for the bear - Patriotic Collection
- Brand new Maraschino and Midnight Blue Twine from The Twinery
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Clear Creek coroner: Loveland Ski Area ski patrol mishandled dead skier’s body
March 29, 2017
There wasn't much to see by the time a Clear Creek County sheriff's deputy arrived on the scene of a skier death at Loveland Ski Area on the morning of March 24.
Earlier that day, however, snowboarder Mary Radke witnessed a sight that shook her to the core.
Radke was one of the first to come upon the body of 35-year-old Cole Barker, of Silver Plume, near the bottom of a run off the Lift 8 chair. He had collided with a tree, which appeared to have broken his neck, she said. Radke also said ski patrol arrived about 10 minutes later, which contradicts the account of a speedy response offered in a Loveland news release. By then, it was too late for any life-saving measures for Barker, who according to his father, was a part-time snowcat operator at Loveland.
At 10:38 a.m., ski patrol called the sheriff's office. At 10:54 a.m., a ski patroller pronounced Barker dead. Then — before investigators had arrived on the scene and without even closing down the run — ski patrollers shuttled Barker's body down the hill and began cleaning up the gruesome scene.
“Maybe it was a safety issue. Ski patrol would have to offer more insight into why they felt the need to move the body.”Paul OsckelClear Creek sheriff’s deputy
"They started dragging him away, and began taking snow and throwing it on the trees to cover up the blood," said Radke, who lives in Denver. "It was just really crazy. It was like it never happened 20 minutes later."
Colorado law prohibits moving a dead body from the scene of the accident without the authority of the coroner. But when the deputy arrived, the area had been cleared of evidence that significantly contributes to a death investigation. That's according to Clear Creek County Coroner Chris Hegmann.
"There wasn't much of a scene by the time we got there," explained Hegmann, who was disturbed that the body had not been kept at the site of the accident. "The body is not supposed to be moved. It is in the statute."
Hegmann, who served as deputy coroner for 15 years before taking the top spot in January, said he's never before experienced such a spoiled environment for a death investigation. Rather than preserving the scene and analyzing all potential factors that led to the death, he and the sheriff's office were then forced to rely on photographs and information from ski patrol, which conducts its own separate investigation.
"It's the first time it's happened," he said. "I'll definitely be discussing protocols with their ski patrol director."
A spokesman for the sheriff's office also stated he was unclear on why ski patrol had relocated Barker's remains to another location.
"I don't know why," said Clear Creek sheriff's deputy Paul Osckel, acknowledging the importance of leaving a scene untouched in the course of an investigation. "Maybe it was a safety issue. Ski patrol would have to offer more insight into why they felt the need to move the body."
Barker's wife, Allison, was notified Friday morning that her husband had been in a bad skiing accident and to get to the ski area. Barker's father, Ron Barker, said he's yet to receive a call from Loveland Ski Area beyond an initial discussion with a ski patroller the day of the incident.
"I called the ski patrol and whomever I talked to, they said, 'Well, we don't know of any accidents that have taken place on the mountain,'" said the Mount Vernon, Texas, resident. "Of course they did. Later when I talked to the coroner, he was really upset. He was thinking, 'This isn't right.'"
Contacted by the Daily, a Loveland representative would neither confirm nor deny the ski patrol's treatment of Barker's body, or its final resting place.
"We are fully cooperating with the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office and their investigation," spokesman John Sellers wrote by email. "Our sympathies go out to the family and friends of the young man."
When a person suffers a critical ski-related injury at a resort, it is permissible and common practice for ski patrol to transport the individual down to higher-level medical care at the base. However, moving the body once the person has been pronounced dead is forbidden under law without direction from the coroner.
Fifth Judicial District Attorney Bruce Brown, who oversees Clear Creek, Summit and three other counties, was still in the process of sifting through the facts Wednesday evening. He said the sheriff's office had reached out to a deputy from his office and that there is an open investigation into the incident. The results of an autopsy are due Thursday.
"I know Cole was a perfect skier and had a helmet on," said Ron Barker, who was in the midst of writing his son's eulogy. "He was a mountain man. And he was a good kid, a damn good kid."
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Grant helps take glass recycling to the people
Revelers at festivals and events around the Waikato will have little excuse not to recycle their glass bottles this coming summer after a grant doubled Xtreme Zero Waste’s ability to collect glass.
The grant, of $25,000 from the Glass Packaging Forum (GPF), has enabled the Raglan-based community enterprise to buy a new purpose-built trailer, which will be used to collect glass bottles at events around the region. General Manager Relationships and Finance Rick Thorpe says Xtreme Zero Waste services events around the Waikato, which are attended by tens of thousands of people each year.
“Over the last couple of years, we have been contracted to manage waste for the Soundsplash music festival, Waikato Home & Garden Show, World Sevens Rugby Tournament, Raglan Creative Market, Waikato Rocks Festival, surf events and around 30 private events each year. Many of these events are annual and we have been providing recycling solutions for up to 12 years in a row.”
Glass Packaging Forum scheme manager Dominic Salmon says Xtreme Zero Waste have been doing an exemplary job of diverting waste from landfill, and the GPF is more than happy to help them increase their reach.
“Improving the amount of colour-sorted glass going back to the furnace is the primary aim of the GPF and this trailer will absolutely achieve this,” Dominic says.
The trailer is a replica of one they have owned and used for some years as part of their events contracts and kerbside recycling collections. It features aluminum bins designed to be removed with a forklift and put directly onto a hook bin for delivery by truck to New Zealand’s only glass bottle and jar manufacturer, O-I NZ in Auckland, Rick says.
The new trailer will not only double their mobile capacity but address health and safety risks, he says. “This trailer will stay onsite at the events and be used to colour-sort the glass directly into the bins and transport it back to the centre when full. This will reduce the double handling we currently do, with the added health and safety risks associated with this extra handling.”
Xtreme Zero Waste has been collecting glass through kerbside collections, their Resource Recovery Centre, from local businesses, rural drop offs and events for the last 20 years. “Our volume of glass has more than tripled since we began,” Rick says.
Glass is the most sustainable packaging material in New Zealand, he says. “It is infinitely recyclable and is recycled right here in New Zealand. The average recycled glass content for new bottles and jars manufactured by O-I NZ is 67 percent.”
Using cullet in production reduces the need for virgin material – in fact, 1kg of recycled glass replaces 1.2kg of virgin materials. It also means the furnaces can run at a lower temperature so there are less emissions, Dominic says. According to the latest information from O-I NZ, every 10% of recycled glass content reduces emissions by 5% and generates energy savings of approximately 3%.
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July 2, 2021
On Friday 9th October, Beeston Primary School will be supporting YoungMinds and World Mental Health Day.
For a suggested donation of 50p, the children are allowed to come to school in non-uniform and wear something yellow!
This could be anything from a yellow bowtie, yellow socks or even a yellow hat or hair– in fact anything yellow, the brighter the better!
During the school day the children will take part in fun activities linked to supporting emotional well-being . We will be learning about the importance of talking about how we are feeling and how we can take care of one another. | <urn:uuid:e3b46f89-7082-4d73-bf17-a45494852cbc> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://www.beestonprimaryschool.co.uk/news/1501/ | 2021-09-23T15:51:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057424.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923135058-20210923165058-00088.warc.gz | en | 0.945851 | 130 |
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This week we went to see Evita at The Bristol Hippodrome
EVITA is based on the life story of Eva Peron, who became wife of former Argentine dictator Juan Peron. Eva was the youngest child born into a family of five children, all abandoned by their father. The story follows Eva’s ascent from a childhood of poverty to the extraordinary wealth and power her position as ‘first lady‘ of Argentina afforded her. Before her premature death from illness she was heralded as the ‘spiritual leader of the nation’ by the Argentine people.
The other key character is Che, who both narrates the story and interacts with Eva throughout.
I’ve seen a previous version of the show with my husband, back in the olden days, before we had children. To be honest I wasn’t certain whether this would be suitable entertainment for my usual 9 and 7 year old theatre companions. The fact that we were going to the Monday night performance helped convince me that this wouldn’t suit my 7 year old. I decided to split the difference and only take 9 year old Trainboy who can just about manage to keep going through a show which finishes after 10pm, without falling asleep at school the following day! This photo was taken after the show and I’ve just noticed how his eyes look like they’re being held open with matchsticks – poor boy!
At the performance we attended on Monday, Eva and Peron were not the headline principals. Eva was played by Hannah Grover and Juan Peron by Joe Maxwell. Che was played by Marty Pellow (of Wet, Wet, Wet fame).
The show starts with the announcement of Eva’s death, closely followed by the nation’s mass mourning for her. The sombre atmosphere is reinforced by the visual effectiveness of the cathedral set, in which long columns descend effortlessly from above and beautiful lighting shines through high windows.
The scene changes throughout the performance are cleverly and subtly executed with staging wheeled back and forth, amidst the action. I was amused at one point by Che, completely in character, elegantly propelling Eva’s chaise longue off the stage with just his finger tip.
The story throughout is told by Che, who represents the voice of the people. He and the people of Argentina are initially enthused by Eva’s promises when she appears to be one of them, but Che’s attitude towards her turns to disappointment and anger as she becomes more interested in her own fame and wealth than in the descamisados, the ordinary shirtless people.
I enjoyed Marty Pellow’s performance. His role as the rather mysterious narrator was charming and easy to believe. Unfortunately the sound levels on that first night meant that we had some problems hearing his dialogue. This is a fairly complex story which is difficult to follow without sufficient understanding of the political context.
My favorite song in the show is the emotional ‘Another suitcase in Another Hall’, sung by Peron’s shunned mistress. The beautiful rendition by Sarah McNicholas’ was one of the show’s highlights for me.
The elegant choreography and combined voices of the Ensemble were also spectacular.
Personally, I think I made a bit of a boob by not brushing up on my history first. Trainboy left the theatre with lots of questions about the plot which, at the time I couldn’t answer. I’ve been doing my homework since, but I think we would both have got more out of the show with a better understanding of the political context.
If you’re after a laugh a minute story then Evita may not be the show for you. There’s death, illness, a military coup and an earthquake which wipes out most of the city of San Juan!
On the other hand there’s oodles of glamour, mainly in the transformation of Eva’s outfits from struggling actress garb to chic designer gear and bejewelled princess’s gowns. And there’s some beautiful music including catchy favorites such as ‘Buenos Aires’ and iconic classics ‘Another Suitcase in Another Hall’ and of course ‘Don’t Cry for me Argentina’.
To read any of my show reviews, please click the titles below
Bill Kenwright by special arrangement with the Really Useful Group presents EVITA
Lyrics by TIM RICE
Music by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
The Bristol Hippodrome Monday 7th – Saturday 12th October 2013
Evenings at 7.30 pm Matinees on Wed & Sat at 2.30 pm
Tickets: £10.00 – £37.50 Concessions available at certain performances
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Former Texas Tech HC Kliff Kingsbury is interviewing today with the Arizona Cardinals for their HC job, per league source.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 8, 2019
From 2013 to 2018, Kingsbury is known for being the Texas Tech's Head Coach, which gave him the opportunity to coach current NFL quarters such as Patrick Mahomes, Davis Webb, Case Keenum, and Baker Mayfield.
The league searches for the next Sean McVay as NFL continues to shift towards severe passing offenses. Hence, Kingsbury can be the right guy for the job.
A lot of people in the NFL think he gets this job. If he wants it. https://t.co/EvjA0ksSXs
— Matt Miller (@nfldraftscout) January 8, 2019
While Kingsbury is entering the picture, without confidence, it sounds like he'd grab an opening.
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I am hoping someone in this feed will have the answer to this question. Mark? Holly?
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Thank you in advance.
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Curtis is a life coach, author, and
location independent entrepreneur. She started as a corporate American, turned
professional skydiver, turned life coach, fear consultant, and
mobile-entrepreneur expert. Her 10,000 jumps out of a plane were
not interesting enough so she decided to stop that and start her
own consulting business while doing a world tour.
In this episode we talk
about her transfer from being a famous professional skydiver into a
life coaching business. After having started this for some years
she decided to quit the skydiving and then do a many month world
tour. During this time she was able to run her business as well as
gain the wisdom from being abroad. We also talk about what it means
to be a life coach as well as what they do. We discuss her
qualifications and how she got accredited in this field. We
then do a bit of a life coaching session to discuss my issues with
my fear of speaking German.
Can travel be more than just a fun thing to do? Could it also provide some benefit and learning experiences later in life? I have always thought this and this is why I have relentlessly travelled the world and now have been to over 80 countries. I have always thought that I was planting the seeds of wisdom while in faraway lands. Through experiences with foreign people, cultures, concepts, and ways of doing things I learned much more than anything I could've done while at home. I interview amazing guests, bestselling authors, scientists, successful business people, dating experts, travel junkies, polyglots (people who speak more than 3 languages), and anybody who I think is interesting for the growth of our listeners and I as people. I think by doing this we can plant the seeds of wisdom which will ultimately lead to our success in career, business, money, relationships, self-worth, and generally being a more well-rounded person. But it requires you to be active making this happen. What do you think? | <urn:uuid:51467b7c-5de6-4935-a3ba-2b87069e564d> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | http://travelwisdompodcast.com/melanie-curtis-on-life-coaching-and-her-switch-from-professional-skydiving | 2018-10-23T22:22:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583517495.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20181023220444-20181024001944-00187.warc.gz | en | 0.978228 | 416 |
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2009 Rainbow List selection
"Uncle Bobby's Wedding is a charming delight. Brad joins me in appreciation of your wonderful contribution to equality in marriage."
"What a joy! Being an actual 'Uncle Bobby' myself, I'm thrilled that Sarah Brannen's beautiful and moving tale has arrived just in time for the young, twenty-first century reader."
"This is SUCH a lovely, charming book. It's about time."
“I love it. It's a beautiful book that needs no explaining. The illustrations rock and Sarah does such a great job of showing us Chloe to be like so many girls in the world who are and just keep wanting to be their favorite person's favorite person.”
"Chloe and her family are guinea pigs, and within the clothed-animal genre they remind me of Lobel's Frog and Toad: not in style, but in the way their clothing and expressions establish personality--anthropomorphized but still guinea-piggish... A simple, gentle story (the hardest kind to write, imho), with lovely art that matches perfectly."
Articles and media
"Gay Uncles Face Off"
"What the Buck" Michael Buckley reads Uncle Bobby's Wedding aloud on his live show; starts about 22 minutes into the video.
Interview with Ashley Byrne
"The Tale of the Wise Librarian"
"How To Explain Gay Marriage to Your Kids"
"Librarian defends local author's gay-themed children's book"
"Colo. librarian defends gay-marriage storybook"
"Where Are Heather's Two Mommies?"
"Storm anticipated after children's book takes on 'gay marriage'"
"A gentle and loving yet realistic look at the complex feelings and emotions children may experience when a loved one gets married. The guinea pig characters are sweetly gentle and appealing, and while it is clear that Uncles Bobby and Jamie are gay, this is not the issue, making this an especially good choice for school units on feelings and families and celebrations. Highly Recommended.
"My favorite among these is probably Uncle Bobby's Wedding, the story of a little girl guinea pig who becomes jealous when her favorite guinea pig uncle decides to marry his gay guinea pig boyfriend. I liked the book's incidental treatment of the uncles' sexuality — the fact that the two rodents are homosexual is not mentioned or problematized, but simply accepted as the premise.
"But mostly I loved the book for its fashion. The gay Guinea Pigs have a sort of College Professor meets French Navy vibe to their daily style. Their longhaired male relatives rock a Walt Whitman look. And if my b.f. and I ever do decide to tie the knot, I'd want to don the exact nuptial outfits worn by Uncles Bobby and Jamie: tuxedo shirts, bow ties, tailed jackets, and no pants."
"What's most notable, though, is the book's approach. 'That the couple is gay is entirely matter-of-fact,' says Brannen. 'No one in the story bats an eyelid when Bobby announces he's marrying his boyfriend. It's not an 'issue' book; it's a story about a wedding.'"
"Here’s a timely picture book that adds to ever-growing diversity in today’s children literature... Well-told and charmingly illustrated with guinea pig characters, Brannen’s story will resonate with children. It’s a true gem for youngsters who have a gay member of the family. Books for children younger than 8 rarely include same-sex couples in a natural easy way. When children pick up a book and see a family that reflects theirs, it’s got to be comforting. And when the book doesn’t make a big deal about what can make them feel so different, it’s even better."
"Cute guinea pigs stand in for humans in this sensitive story in which Chloe is not concerned that her favorite uncle is marrying another male, only about how it will affect her close relationship with Uncle Bobby. When he assures her that they can still have fun together, she relaxes and gets into her role as flower girl. Sarah S. Brannen takes a calm, straightforward approach to this hot-button issue."
Uncle Bobby’s Wedding... is more than just a good LGBT-inclusive children’s book; it is a good children’s book, period. [It] deftly expresses a young child’s concerns about family relationships and change. It stresses the power of love to encompass both old and new. Brannen’s rich watercolor drawings match the tranquil but sometimes playful tone of the text. The book’s great strength is that Jamie’s gender is a non-issue throughout."
"Sarah Brannen's charming and delightfully drawn book is not about gay marriage... indeed, the words "gay" or "homosexual" do not appear once in the story. Instead, Uncle Bobby's Wedding is about a little girl (or rather, a guinea pig) coming to understand that people have the capacity to love more than one person, and highlights a family's joy as a beloved member pledges his life to another."
" I love this book. It's a sweet story, with realistic kid emotions, adorable illustrations, and a palpable absence of schlock... In case you can't tell from the cover, the reason it's been challenged is that, by the way, Uncle Bobby is marrying another male guinea pig. The book's been cited as "about gay marriage," which fascinates me, because it's not. It's about jealousy and change and the very real kid fear of losing adults' love. The character just happens to be gay... Which is really the best part."
"... a beautiful story about gay marriage and the precious bond between a little girl (who just so happens to be a guinea pig) and her beloved uncle. This wonderful new picture book not only celebrates the institution of family (in ways both familiar and new), but also honors diversity, tolerance, and love. Author Sarah Brannen’s illustrations are charming and beautiful. Readers will surely pore over the details that Brannen painstakingly illustrates: the beauty of nature, the tranquility of home, the spectrum of emotions, the joy of a wedding."
"...the sweet, double-page spreads in watercolor and graphite show the idyllic bond between the child and her uncle, as they walk together in the woods, row on the river, and more. The climax is the joyful, exciting wedding – the couple in tuxedos, Chloe as the flower girl, and the big, extended family all together, smiling and teary. A celebration of same-sex marriage, this is about family happiness."
"Though the story makes an easy springboard for adult-child dialogue, the issue of same-sex marriage is incidental to the plot, which straightforwardly addresses the fear of being replaced when a loved one marries. Featuring a sunny palette, Brannen’s delicately outlined watercolors convey the characters’ varied emotion ... and the mutual affection of the heroine and her uncle. The final scene, which depicts Chloe between her uncles in the light of a full moon, underscores Brannen’s reassuring message."
"A modest, affable look at jealousy and reassurance… Humor comes secondary to Chloe’s fear of displacement, but the fact of two men marrying is a refreshing nonissue here. At the festive wedding, Chloe declares, “I planned it all from the beginning,” as she realizes that she isn’t losing an uncle, she’s gaining one."
"Have I got a book for you... the beauty of the tale is that it isn't about gay marriage. It is about the way Chloe feels about her favorite uncle getting married. This is a sweetly illustrated, well-written book that tells an actualy story involving gay characters. What a concept."
"Imagine if Beatrix Potter had penned The Tale of Two Gay Guinea Pigs... thoroughly lovely and understated, but in a revolutionary way."
"This charming children's book is less an apologia for gay marriage than a tale about a little girl... once she realizes that she now has two doting uncles, all is well. As it should be."
"There’s been a buzz about this new picture book for several months, which must be an indication of just how hungry we are for queer books for younger kids... The cast is sweet, furry, and non-threatening... I can’t imagine a more innocuous picture book about family diversity and yet this one is likely to raise the ire of would-be censors, even more so, perhaps, because of the story’s over-all sweetness and lack of conflict."
"Without a fuss, Sarah Brannen's charming watercolor pages show the gay wedding of a pair of well-dressed guinea pigs, little Chloe's Uncle Bobby and his friend Jamie. The story and pictures are gentle and serene rather than controversial."
"This gentle, adorable new children's picture book arrives just in time for the summer wedding season, and it boasts three great strengths... it offers a simple, kid's-eye view of weddings... the book gives attention to a relationship that may be new ground even for some adults... third, "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" is filled with charming painted illustrations that strongly recall the animal pictures of Beatrix Potter."
"Uncle Bobby's Wedding is a treat. What could be more joyous than two people celebrating their love with a wedding? The fact that it is two guys is as incidental as the fact that it is two guinea pigs. This is a book about love, commitiment and family; and a celebration of all three."
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Oh, the princess does love her pink. There are days when we wonder if this little fashionista really thought things through before choosing her signature color. (Her closet looks like a Barbie convention.) But how can you deny how fantastic this famous princess pug looks in pink? And so she sniffs at us, and lifts her eyes delicately to the ceiling, as though to tell us that she really does know best.
Divas. And you thought dealing with the ones in Hollywood was a lot of work! :)
The princess, being the maven for pink that she is, was doubly delighted to receive our latest package from Mrs. Bones, the brilliant company behind some of Merry's favorite collars.
In this package: a Carnaby Dog Collar & Leash, and a Couture Logo Shirt for Dogs in pink.
The Couture Logo Shirt is actually a form-fitting tank with just enough stretch in it to really mold to your dog's curves. We'll tell you a secret, too. About half of the tees and tanks you see on the market are made by the same two or three manufacturers. Which means you can get sick of a style awfully easily. But these tanks are brand new, custom-made for Mrs. Bones and they're cut expertly.
The tank is made from a thicker, frankly more expensive material than you see with a lot of doggie tees. One touch and you can feel the quality in the work. The Couture Logo, screened onto this shirt in green, was glossy and high-quality. No scrimping or cutting corners here. The shirts are also available in black with a silver logo. Merry's already added it to her letter to Santa for this year.
And as you can see, it fits the princess like it was made just for her. (OK, we told her it actually was. But look at how regally she posed in it as a result!)
The Carnaby Dog Collar & Leash is full of the kind of quality and fun that we already associate with Mrs. Bones collars. Incredibly well made, with excellent materials and workmanship. The white background and funky retro pink and green flowers were a hoot, and it's quickly become one of her favorite sets.
The company's trademark gold-toned findings are as solid as ever, though we do wish that companies could find a supplier who makes white quick-release buckles of sufficient quality. It's not hideous, but the black definitely stands out against the white of the collar. (However, we will say that the ease of use gained by quick-release buckles make up for it!)
As always, we were thrilled to bits with the new items from Mrs. Bones. Both items are of the highest possible quality, and would make a more than welcome addition to any little diva's wardrobe. Four paws up!
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حساسیت به مجازات و پاداش در بی اشتهایی عصبی
|کد مقاله||سال انتشار||مقاله انگلیسی||ترجمه فارسی||تعداد کلمات|
|33800||2014||6 صفحه PDF||سفارش دهید||5746 کلمه|
Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Appetite, Volume 75, 1 April 2014, Pages 97–102
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate reinforcement sensitivity in anorexia nervosa (AN). It was tested whether self-reported punishment (PS) and reward sensitivity (RS) differed between adolescents with AN and healthy controls, and/or between AN-subtypes. In addition, the predictive validity of PS and RS was examined for AN symptoms one year later. Method: In total, 165 female adolescents admitted for treatment of AN or eating disorder not otherwise specified resembling AN and 72 controls participated in the study. Participants completed measurements for eating disorder severity and the Sensitivity to Punishment/Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire (SPSRQ). Percentage of underweight and severity of AN symptoms were measured again after one year in individuals with AN. Results: Individuals with AN scored higher on PS and RS than controls. In addition, the AN purging type showed higher PS than the AN restrictive type, whereas there were no differences in RS between AN-subtypes. Regression analyses indicated that PS and RS were independently associated with the degree of eating disorder symptoms, whereas only PS was related to percentage underweight. Yet, neither RS nor PS were related to percentage of underweight and AN symptoms after one year. Discussion: Although the present study clearly demonstrated that heightened punishment and reward sensitivity are both linked to AN, there was no evidence that these characteristics are also involved in the course of AN symptoms.
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder with the highest mortality rate among all psychiatric disorders (Sullivan, 1995). Unfortunately, the underlying processes that cause and maintain AN are still largely unknown. One of the puzzling features of AN is that patients succeed in restricting their food intake, while they actually are in a state of starvation. By nature, food has a high reward value, even more for people that have been deprived of food (e.g., Stroebe, Papies, & Aarts, 2008). So how do individuals with AN overcome their biological drive to eat? One explanation might be provided by the sensitivity of AN patients to environmental cues signaling reward or punishment. According to the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (e.g., Gray, 1987) individuals’ behaviors are guided by different brain systems. The behavioral inhibition system reacts to aversive/punishing stimuli and is thought to lead to avoidance behaviors. The behavioral activation system is sensitive to rewarding stimuli and assumed to guide approach behaviors. Heightened punishment sensitivity might be a risk factor for developing AN, because it could ‘help’ individuals to abstain from eating. For individuals who are high in punishment sensitivity and who base their self-esteem largely, or even exclusively, on their body shape and weight (Fairburn, 2008), the idea of gaining weight can become very threatening. As a consequence, they could start to avoid expected punishment (i.e. weight gain) through avoidance behaviors such as restriction of food intake, or excessive exercise, increasing the risk for developing AN. Prior findings suggest that patients with AN indeed show heightened punishment sensitivity supporting the hypothesis that heightened punishment sensitivity is a risk factor for developing AN (Beck et al., 2009, Claes et al., 2006, Harrison et al., 2010 and Jappe et al., 2011). However, up to now, studies mainly relied on adult samples. Yet, the impact/relevance of reward and punishment sensitivity may be different for younger, adolescent samples (e.g., adolescents generally seem to be more sensitive to appetitive stimuli: Spear and Varlinskaya, 2010 and Van Leijenhorst et al., 2010). In addition, and most critical for the present context, the first onset of AN often takes place during early adolescence and the heightened punishment sensitivity found in adults with AN might be the consequence of protracted AN rather than a premorbid risk factor. Therefore, the first goal of the present study is to examine whether punishment sensitivity is already heightened in young adolescents with AN. This would further support the idea that heightened punishment sensitivity might indeed be a risk factor for developing AN. In addition, an alternative explanation for the striking ability of AN patients to resist (or overcome) their drive to eat could be that they differ from healthy controls in their sensitivity to reward. Perhaps lowered reward sensitivity leads to a lower approach motivation to food cues, which increases the risk of developing AN. Results in this respect are still mixed. Some studies showed that individuals with AN of the restrictive type (AN-R) indeed displayed lower levels of reward sensitivity than controls, while individuals with AN of the purging/binging type (AN-P) showed higher levels of reward sensitivity than individuals with AN-R and/or controls (Beck et al., 2009, Claes et al., 2006 and Harrison et al., 2010). The latter could help explain why individuals with AN-P sometimes show episodes of binge eating. However, recently, Jappe and colleagues (2011) showed the opposite, namely that both types of women with AN displayed higher sensitivity to reward than healthy controls. They did not find differences in reward sensitivity between AN-R and AN-P. Consequently, the second goal of the present study is to examine reward sensitivity in a large group of AN patients, since in prior studies especially subgroups of AN-P were usually small. Because prior findings with respect to reward sensitivity in AN were mixed, we do not have a clear hypothesis. Although prior studies suggest that reward and punishment sensitivity generally are independent constructs (see e.g., Franken and Muris, 2006 and O’Connor et al., 2004), it is still unknown whether these constructs are also independently involved in AN, or whether they should be seen as overlapping risk factors. Furthermore, we explore whether perhaps the relationship between reward sensitivity and the onset of AN is moderated by punishment sensitivity, or vice versa (see e.g., Corr, 2002). Consequently, the third goal of this study is to test whether punishment and reward sensitivity as well as their interaction are independently related to severity of eating disorder symptoms. Our hypothesis is that both factors are independently linked to severity of AN. Finally, reward and punishment sensitivity might not only be risk factors for the onset of AN, but perhaps they also play a role in the persistence of AN over time. Therefore, the last goal is to examine whether in individuals with AN, punishment sensitivity, reward sensitivity, and/or their interaction predict AN symptoms later in time. 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When Paul says that women should cover their heads, is he subjugating them or liberating them?
The interpretation in this post borrows heavily from M. D. Hooker’s 1964 article in New Testament Studies titled “Authority on Her Head: An Examination of 1 Cor 11:10.” As far as I call tell, the article isn’t available online, but should be in most university libraries. I’ve reproduced the passage in bold print, with comments (again, closely following Hooker’s reading) following.
1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Paul introduces here the main point of the passage: that some relationships can be paralleled to other relationships and that what we know about one relationship, we can apply to its parallel.
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
Mormons should remember that ‘brethren’ here doesn’t mean church leaders; it is simply the plural of ‘brother’ and may very well include women. Note, again, the idea of parallel relationships–this time tied to the notion to ordinances.
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
This is a verse that will give most feminists the willies. But note that the parallel relationships here (Christ:God::woman:man [SAT flashbacks?]) connote several things:
(a) Women are paralleled with Christ. This is worthy of more pondering by feminist thinkers.
(b) The relationship of woman to man–as paralleled to Christ and God–is not eternal. Else, the parallel would collapse unless you think that Christ is Heavenly Mother. This is an important point to me: I think that many LDS feminists don’t make a distinction between sex differences that are part of our fallen world and things that are eternal. I’d challenge those who struggle with the story of the Creation and the Fall to pay close attention to which differences between Adam and Eve are present before the Fall (hint: none, or, virtually none) and which only come into play once they are fallen. And since Christ ultimately inherits all that the Father has, it implies that the heirarchical aspect of the male-female relationship is temporary.
(c) Because unity charactizes the relationship between God and Christ, unity should be the goal of the marriage relationship.
(d) This leads us to a difference worth mentioning, or a point at which the comparision between the relationships breaks down. We’d probably be safe in assuming that God and Christ don’t disagree on anything and I would imagine that there is no mechanism in their relationship for resolving disagreements. This is, obviously, not the case in the marriage relationship (would that it were!). Our Church leaders have taught repeatedly that men cannot use their status in the relationship to have ‘the last word’ or ‘the final say’ or ‘the ultimate decision-making authority.’ We’ve been taught that in the case of disagreements in a marriage, the partners must continue to talk and pray until an accord is reached.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
The physical head–and whether it is covered–reflects one’s attitude toward the metaphorical head. Hence, for a man to cover his head is to, in a sense, deny that Christ is his head. So, when a man prays, his head must be uncovered.
5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
When a woman prays with her head uncovered, it is as if she is praying to (or needs the mediation of) man. This is not OK with Paul. But when she covers her head, it is as if man is no longer her head. Notice also that the unquestioned assumption of this verse is that women will be praying and prophesying in public.
6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
At this point, Paul resorts to making an argument from nature/culture: women have long hair ‘naturally,’ which teaches us that their heads should be covered. Most readers today will not find this a persuasive argument.
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
This basically restates or re-explains the arguments about physical and metaphorical heads.
8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
Here’s another willie-inducer. But before you curse Paul, at least read verse 11, which suggests that there is no distinction (of the kind that we are discussing, anyway) between men and women when they are ‘in the Lord,’ but that this verse applies to mortality (specifically, the second creation narrative, where Eve is created after the animals are shown not to be companions suitable for Adam). In other words, I see v8-9 as describing not an eternal reality (because then they would contradict with v11), but rather the state of fallen humanity.
10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
This is a very important point. Why do women wear the veil? They do it as a symbol of power or authority. We would normally, when thinking of fallen humanity, think of power and authority resting with the male. However, when the woman veils her head (and I believe the suggestion is that she is doing this herself; she isn’t being forced to do it nor is someone doing it for her), she is literally ‘covering up’ (or denying) the idea that man is her head. When the woman chooses to veil, she is choosing to exercise power or control over her head–physical and metaphorical. In the context of praying or prophesying, a veiled woman is one in a direct relationship with God–man is no longer her head. Further, remember that the veiling is not done all the time, but only while engaging in prayer or prophecy. This is important: it points out that, particularly while in that relationship, the woman has direct access to God and, as her physical head is covered, so her metaphorical head (i.e., man) is covered or denied. While some have interpreted Muslim (and other uses of the veil) as oppressive to women, this is a gross misreading of this particular text, where the veil is a symbol of women’s liberation from man’s headship.
11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
The RSV translates v11-12 thus:
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.
Note that at this point in his argument, Paul feels the need to reassure the reader that a woman’s veiling does not make the woman completely independent of man. This is a nonsensical argument if the veil subjugates the woman; it is only necessary if the veil liberates her.
13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Again, Paul is making an argument from nature/culture that probably won’t persuade many modern readers. (If you live in a place where it is not considered disgraceful for a woman to cut her hair, then the argument has lost its point.)
16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
This verse makes it sound as if Paul is throwing in the towel on his insistence that women cover their heads. (Which, of course, doesn’t make much sense, because they clearly do have ‘such custom’ or he wouldn’t have been writing about it!) The translation is difficult here but I like the RSV: “If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other practice, nor do the churches of God.” In other words, even when some hothead gets contentious, we aren’t backing down from our practice!
(1) As is usual for Paul (at least the way that I read him), we find a mix of deep doctrinal insight and cultural baggage. It is intertwined in this passage, as he alternates making his argument via cultural prediliction and doctrine.
(2) A theme in the interpretation of this passage and the stories of the Creation and the Fall is the difference between sex differences that are eternal (if any) and those that are a result of our fallen condition. One might rightly ask why those differences should be a part of the fallen state. I like how Hugh Nibley explains the nature of the fallen relationship between Adam and Eve:
There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the Garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him only insofar as he obeys their Father—and who decides that? She must keep check on him as much as he does on her. It is, if you will, a system of checks and balances in which each party is as distinct and independent in its sphere as are the departments of government under the Constitution—and just as dependent on each other. (Hugh Nibley, “Patriarchy and Matriarchy,� Old Testament and Related Studies, page 92f.)
In other words, while we often emphasize the fact that Adam presides, until recently cultural prejudices have prevented us from spending much time on the idea that Eve judges. Now, this isn’t new doctrine (when Brigham Young stated that he never counseled a woman to follow her husband to the devil, he is implicitly acknowledging that Eve will judge Adam’s counsel as she decides whether to follow him), but its emphasis in the ‘equal partners’ language is new. Two things that I like about this interpretation are:
(a) Instead of Adam and Eve’s relationship being designed to OPPRESS and SUBJUGATE her, it suggests that it was designed so that Adam and Eve would help each other return to the Lord’s presence by each taking a role in strengthening and correcting each other.
(b) It makes coherent what some see as the conflict between the ‘equal partners’ and the ‘preside’ language.
And, finally, let me say this: this is a blog. It is the appropriate place for speculation, exploration, and interpretation. Let me make clear that large swaths of the above are exactly the kind of thing that you would NOT hear if you attended a Gospel Doctrine or Institute class taught by me. I happily admit that, in some cases, I go beyond the established doctrine of the Church in what I have written above. But I still think I’m right.
[I’ve decided to close comments. I originally explained my reasons for doing so in language that could be misinterpreted, so I’ll try again: This subject raises a number of concerns, and could lead to conversations that I don’t think belong on a blog. I don’t have the time to closely monitor comments right now, so I’m closing them for this post. You are welcome to email me if you would like.] | <urn:uuid:46699e22-85ae-48ee-82a3-553a6bfc0bf2> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://www.timesandseasons.org/harchive/2006/01/authority-on-her-head/ | 2019-03-18T20:23:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912201672.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20190318191656-20190318213656-00378.warc.gz | en | 0.966978 | 2,585 |
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- PHILLIPS Bus warrior.
Our transportation system is essential to the economic vitality and quality of life in our region, and King County Metro is a critical part of that. Cutting 74 routes and reducing over 100 more at a time of record ridership is simply not an option.
That’s why the entire King County Council—regardless of party affiliation or geographic district—voted to place an emergency measure, Proposition 1, before voters on April 22. The measure would raise sales tax by .1 percent for ten years and establish a $60 car-tab fee, and then distribute the estimated $130 million in annual revenue to Metro (60 percent) and cities for road or transit projects (40 percent).
And it’s not just the county council members who agree on this measure; Prop 1’s coalition of supporters is broad and diverse. It includes labor, business, environmental and social justice groups, and leaders across every part of this county. The Sound Cities Association, a coalition of 36 suburban cities, is a partner. Nineteen mayors from cities in King County have already endorsed. And here’s just a sample of our 115 community endorsements: Puget Sound Sage, OneAmerica, King County Conservation Voters, King County Labor Council, Amazon, and Climate Solutions.
But recently, the Seattle Times covered a meeting of the single organization in the county that has officially opposed Prop 1. The Eastside Transportation Association, an unabashedly pro-highway group, claims that King County Metro could solve its problems by cutting costs, rather than raising more revenue.
This is simply a false choice.
For the last six years, as we’ve worked with the state to find a more sustainable funding source for Metro, the agency’s finances have been under a microscope. Metro has undergone a whole host of cost-cutting measures that continues to save us around $130 million each year. Those measures include implementing audit findings and reducing operating costs, eliminating staff positions, reducing labor costs, doubling adult fares, cutting capital projects, and using reserves. The county’s sound fiscal management is the reason that we haven’t had to drastically cut our bus service yet—unlike our neighbors in Snohomish County who’ve seen 35 percent of their bus service eliminated, or our neighbors to the south in Pierce County whose bus system cut 43 percent of its service and is now a smaller agency than when it was first created.
There is no more fat to trim. The choice now is to pass Prop 1 or cut service.
We can’t afford 30,000 more cars on our already crowded roads. We can’t afford to leave our students, our elderly and disabled neighbors, and working families stranded. We can’t afford longer walks and waits to get on our overcrowded remaining routes.
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ZARA PHILLIPS PREGNANT WITH FIRST CHILD
Monday, July 08, 2013 - British royal Zara Phillips is pregnant with her first child.
Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter is expecting a baby with her rugby player husband Mike Tindall next year .
The monarch's press secretary says, "Mr and Mrs Mike Tindall are very pleased to announce that Zara Tindall is expecting a baby in the new year... Members of both families are delighted with the news.
"This baby will be the first child for Mike and Zara and the third grandchild for the Princess Royal."
Phillips' mother is Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Anne, Princess Royal.
The couple wed in Scotland in 2011.
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Welcome to Holistic Therapy at Archers Brook SEMH Residential School.
Holistic Therapy treatments are available for all interested students free of charge at Archers Brook SEMH Residential School.
Holistic Therapy sessions at Archers Brook aim to provide quiet, relaxing and calming time away from the school enviroment to receive relaxation treatments to help de-stress and fulfil a positive sense of well being.
Students receive one Holistic Therapy appointment a week. The session lasts 45 minutes, this includes 30 minutes treatment time, 10 minutes for the student to relax and have refreshments and 5 minutes to travel to and from classes.
Holistic Therapy hours
Holistic therapy Treatments available:
- Indian head massage (with pressure point massage on the face,scalp and shoulders)
- Upper back ,neck and shoulder massage (light or medium pressure. Firm and Deep Tissue are not offered)
- Aromatherapy (massage oil and also by Aromatherapy diffuser in the room)
- Warm Stone Therapy
Please be aware that oil from the treatments may get on to the school uniform. If you would like to avoid this we recommend the student bringing an old top with them on the day of their treatments which they can get changed into in the therapy room in privacy before and after their treatments. The spare top doesnt have to be a school top it can be any loose fitting top.
Students must come into school in normal school uniform on the day of their treatments.
At Archers Brook the main aims of providing a Holistic Therapy service to the students include:
- Providing a safe, relaxing and calming enviroment for the student to relax
- Providing treatments that may help ease any physical stress (Migraines, Headaches, muscular tension , muscular aches and pains, Eczema, Psoriasis)
- Providing treatments that may help ease non physical stress (Depression,anxiety,fatigue,anger, stress
- Providing a positive client and therapist proffesional repport
- Helping anxious or nervous students that may have social difficulties become relaxed and at ease with recieving therapeutic touch
Students are welcomed to meet myself to ask any questions about Holistic Therapy treatments and to have a look around and become familar with the therapy area before they start attending treatments reguarly.
All treatments are discussed with the student and are tailor made to ensure the student feels relaxed and comfortable during treatments.
Treatments are carried out in a calm and quiet enviroment away from school on a one on one basis in the therapy area of the school. The therapy area has a shared kitchen that offers the choice of refreshments before or after therapy sessions.
Holistic Therapy treatments can be carried out with most medical/health conditons, however there are a few conditons that would make Holistic therapy unsuitable for a student to receive. Please contact the school or see the 'Contra Indications' section on this webpage for further information.
All students must have a completed and signed permission slip by a Parent/Guardian/Carer returned to the school before any Holistic treatments can take place.
We encourage Parents/Guardians/Carers to return the permission forms as soon as they can to avoid disapointment as places fill up very quickly and are offered on a first come basis.
Throughtout the school year it will be reviewed if Holistic Therapy sessions are still suitable for the student, if we feel it is not suitable for the student it is possible that the student may have a short break from recieving treatments or stop having access to the Holistic Therapy service completely.
The feedback the Holistic Therapy service receives from the students is very positive and is an excellent service for the students to enjoy and access in school which works positively and successfully alongside other addiotional support services.
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Swiss architecture firm kit has developed an innovative proposal for the primary school and kindergarten in Rafz Switzerland. The award winning project “Learn-scape” is an open learning environment conceived as a porous space structure which enables strong connections between classrooms, circulation and game spaces, exercise rooms, gymnasiums and outdoor areas. The project can be viewed as a prototype for the new pedagogical forms proposed by Swiss school authorities, which aim at blurring the boundaries between classes of various levels.
The existing compound of the School is clearly structured by a series of Volumes that are organized in three program strands. One for sports, one for the school functions and a third that acts as a connecting and mixing zone. This organizing principal is extended and internalized to shape a simple but programmatically loaded volume. The centerpiece is a multifunctional zone, which serves as a space of encounter and orientation allowing for interesting relationships between several floors and uses. Views into classrooms, gyms or courtyard spaces create a connecting atmosphere with curtains controlling insights. Multiple areas with distinct spatial qualities define this zone, which can be reconfigured and used as an extended learning and play area or in combination with the gyms for larger sports and community events.
Herein a strategy of extreme compactness is pursued. Surfaces are minimized, flows and processes are optimized and synergies between different users are maximized. Therefore the new building not only fulfills ecological and economic needs, but also propagates a denser, more sustainable urban growth in the beautiful landscape of the Swiss midlands, where the past decades have been dominated by sprawl.
Architects: kit Location: Rafz, Switzerland Design Team: Andreas Schelling, Roman Loretan, Gianet Traxler Landscape Design: Schweingruber Zulauf Landschaftsarchitekten Structural Engineering: WGG Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure AG Environmental Engeneering: Waldhauser Haustechnik AG Fire Protection Consulting: Makiol+Wiederkehr Renderings: Courtesy of kit | <urn:uuid:34f9e643-1af0-4c60-9277-16532ce44502> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.archdaily.com/100302/primary-school-in-rafz-kit | 2018-05-20T16:03:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863626.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20180520151124-20180520171124-00113.warc.gz | en | 0.931714 | 422 |
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Hutch says():OK WE ARE GOING TO DO AS WE DID ON OUR MONDAY NIGHT CALL AND BRING IN THE TOPICS OF WHAT WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT ON THE CALL. PLEASE HAVE YOUR QUESTIONS READY,.....
WE WILL ALSO COVER SOMETHINGS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT INTO THE ROOM THAT HAVE MISLEAD SOME HERE AND WILL TRY AND HELP THOSE GET CLARITY.... WE HOPE.
Hutch says():OK HERE ARE TONIGHTS TOPICS
Author: Yasser incumbent vv03/08/2016 0:00 Received a seminar « the introduction of the electronic currency trading and cash deal» the economic importance of direct and semantic interest group of business and finance experts and economists and interacted with the event organized by the progress of policy development institute
and as usual in the selection of sensitive topics related to seek the requirements of economic reform efforts by the Central Bank of Iraq on the path of preparation to announce the date of implementation of this advanced program in the world for the daily market transactions where the Governor of the Central Bank announced the date of the implementation of the program during 2017.
Central Bank for its part in full readiness, what the expected challenges facing this ambitious program?
it is useful to note that the success of implementation depends on the arms of the main in Alo'hai banks and financial companies implementation, how many are willing Central subsidy to the success of his ambition?
eight this exact system which envisaged the central bank in dealing with the risks of relying on international companies working advanced international standards, how much time you need beneficiaries of government departments and institutions to respond to and interact with this program should lead to the implementation to the fullest.
as this system has the property of not less important than its predecessors and related leave dealing Balmachi or instruments and carry cash and risks of theft and damage to the large use also allow the citizen Banhaz dealings with all the comfort and pleasure without Reviews and grim Mngsh hustle and the expiration of the time things routine.
This only benefits deserve attention certainly so I said in the vertical Introduction The seminar drew the attention of the elites and specialists, what is required to ensure the success of this program?
Starting to be deepening the culture of dealing electronic currency and the central bank and the ministries the task of civil society organizations of an economic issue, especially the Association of Banks.,
Said the biggest economic task borne by media devices via deepen this culture either pens or Alvdhayah programs and all media outlets believe in the importance of rescuing the economy as well as the lack of adoption of the statements that are trying to put a spoke in the wheel except that there is no possibility of implementation thanks to the efforts of the good.
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Hutch says():NUMBER 2
Hutch says():Dinar on raising the money supply in the size of banks
Author: Yasser incumbent 03/08/2016 0:00 BAGHDAD Shokran Fatlawi invited experts and interested in the financial and economic affairs to the need to speed up the issuance of e - dinar and the application of modern systems in the business dealings because of its positive effects on the overall economic life and development of the reality of the banking sector in particular it provides pre - financial sources of the state by increasing the money supply falling in the banking system.
This came during a seminar organized by the progress of the development policies of the Institute and attended the »morning» under the title « the introduction of the electronic currency trading and cash deal: economic importance and implications of direct» presence of the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq d.
On the Keywords and head of the Iraqi National Business Council David Abdul Zayer and general manager of the Rafidain Bank Khawla al - Asadi and a large number of businessmen and the economy.
Electronic system initiated the seminar with a speech by Director of the Institute d. Mehdi al - Hafez between which the importance of subjecting the currency to the electronic system, because of its great economic goals of serving the country 's economy,
pointing out that the talk about a banking reform exists without reaching concrete results , adding that the country today desperately need to hold the development of the banking sector from either the government or the Ahli according means and mechanisms reform , a subject the currency to the electronic system.
For his part , Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq d. On the Keywords, the importance of the payments system it represents a pillar of the banking and financial sector, indicating that the system consists of the first two phases related to the large total transactions between banks and companies, while the second phase of the payment system consisting retail pointing out that the role of the central bank carry out surveillance and supervision.
He Keywords that the application of electronic transactions requires work to provide the infrastructure required, including the legal and regulatory structure governing the banking services to all the details of the system, noting that the central bank has to conduct a comprehensive review of the laws of banking and regulations in force and drafting an initial required enacted in this area of legislation , let alone complete issuing electronic payment system and controls subscribe to the infrastructure of the payment system retail.
cash trading at the same level between the Keywords that the percentage of beneficiaries and users in the country does not exceed 10 percent and 8 percent of them are simple operations such as receiving salary in what constitutes only 2 percent of those who use smart cards, a percentage low , he said,
pointing out that trends in will help expand financial inclusion through the entry of more citizens to these systems and thus benefit from the monetary mass in their possession, which amounts to 77 percent outside the system , as well as get rid of the cash circulation problems.
paperwork system promised chairman of the board National business Iraqi David Abdul Zayer followed the banking system from the old systems, which work out over 100 years ago , a paper - based system at a time when the world arrived in style Allankadi indicating that the e - dinar trading would provide prior financial sources for the government as it encourages the Aledjarobzlk money chunky turn into dinars electronic enjoying high flexibility in handling or selling.
He pointed to the existence of a rate of 77 percent of the national currency outside the banking system and the presence of 23 percent only, moves within the system of government deposits Mastday need for the introduction of the electronic currency trading bank.
Currency market and called on the central bank to the registration of the Iraqi dinar in the foreign exchange market, although the country It has backed federally giant infrastructure to would block the project handle mail,
calling to the importance of benefiting from the Kuwaiti experience in this area after it was forming a joint stock company for the management of electronic trading and issuing smart cards file, stressing the need for the local currency replace, especially the category of (25) thousand dinars result smuggled out to ensure its return and subdue their dealers to the new standards.
Hutch says():Private banks are working with capitals slim
Author: Yasser incumbent bb03/08/2016 0:00 BAGHDAD - Imad emirate between economic academic d. Awad Fadhil Ismail, said the failure of commercial banks to attract financial surpluses of the private sector explains the preference of savers government depository institutions on those special and this can be given to two reasons : the lack of protection for depositors in private banks in exchange warranty on deposits in state banks.
He stressed in an interview for »Sabah »the need for legislative action to establish a foundation or fund meant to guarantee private deposits at private banks to achieve parity with government - owned banks and equal ability to compete in terms of modern private commercial banks and the lack of public adopt to deal with it.
He said that the predominance of savings deposits with government banks do not reflect excellence the innovative quality of the banking transaction that provided to its customers as much as reflecting a sense of psychological and financial services may not be entirely justified, embodied by the fear of the loss of the money deposited with the Aadaih institutions do not provide a system to hedge against the loss of savings in case the integrity of its financial position to market and operational risks.
He the most prominent reasons for the control of government banks on more than 88 percent of the deposits of the commercial banking system to the restrictions imposed by the government and its ministries and public institutions on their operations with private banks.
He said Ismail said economic activity overall mainly depends on government business fueled by oil resource, the financing of these business leads, through the channel of the state budget, to the accumulation of government funds with its banks,
which means that the change in government revenue is reflected mostly in the central bank 's balance sheet liabilities of First in State - owned banks budget liabilities when the government financed its administrative expenses and operational development, more than from bank deposits
which in turn raises their liquidity, and as long as the cash position of a strong government because of its reliance on huge oil revenues, the effects of internal financing government spending must be hurt in the end are cash deposits to the state of the banking system.
He continued, marked by savings deposits in the structure of the banking mediation devices phenomena first rule of a clear government banks on the overall savings deposits in terms of the total deposits, savings and fixed deposits in state banks amounted to 42 trillion dinars in 2010 at a rate of 88 percent of the total volume of deposits in savings and then rose to 53 percent trillion dinars in 2012 at a rate of 86 percent compared to that share of private commercial banks was only 11 percent of all savings deposits in the commercial banking system in 2010 and 2012 respectively
Parliamentary Finance adopts a new law to organize the work of government banks
Parliamentary Finance Committee unveiled on Thursday a new law to regulate the work of government banks, is done within the Commission. As it pointed out that this law will cancel all previous laws on banks.
The committee member said Ahmed Sarhan, L / balance News /, that "there is a special law the government banks, and that this law is under study and discussion in the Finance Committee."
Ahmed said, "This law will cancel all previous laws on banks, and will have a uniform law of this law."
He continued, "The Committee began the first reading of the law until now has not been completed, being composed of 22 illegal substance was writing several observations around."
He pointed to a committee member, that "We asked the managers of banks to provide their comments on the law," noting that "the Commission is working on a new version out by law and legal texts serve the banking of movement for citizens and the government."
Ahmed stressed that "next week, will also be addressed with this law within the Commission, for the purpose of accelerating done," .anthy | <urn:uuid:eb48a8c0-3210-465d-a22d-db2f4995d9ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dinarrecaps.com/our-blog/rcookie-mr-white-news-time-8-5-16-part-1-of-2 | 2017-01-18T16:15:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280308.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00150-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940873 | 2,273 |
It's funny, in an Orwellian way, that in Europe there are now militant groups with such cutesy names as Sharia4Belgium and Sharia4Holland. Less funny, but perhaps more Orwellian, is this: Last month, the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) held an event in Amsterdam featuring two speakers who favor liberalizing Islam. More than 20 members of these pro-sharia groups pushed their way in shouting "Allahu akbar!" They demanded the event be stopped, called the speakers apostates, spat on them, threw eggs at them, and threatened to kill them. Proud of these actions and apparently not overly concerned with legal consequences, they even made a YouTube video of their "protest."
Now here's the least funny and most Orwellian part: Very few Europeans — very few journalists, politicians, members of the self-proclaimed Human Rights community, or Muslim organizations claiming to be moderate — have expressed outrage over this boot-stomping suppression of free speech in a city, country, and continent that claim to value freedom and tolerance. Imagine if the situation had been slightly different — if, say, a Muslim Brotherhood event had been violently disrupted by spitting, egg-throwing, death-threatening Christians or Jews.
Roberta Bonazzi, EFD's Italian-born executive director — a friend and colleague of mine — bravely vowed not to be silenced. "We are united and will continue to support inspirational Muslim reformers across Europe," she said. The speakers she had attempted to feature also kept a stiff upper lip. Irshad Manji, Canadian author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith, said that she and Dutch parliamentarian Tofik Dibi had "refused to leave, even when police asked. We wouldn't play on jihadi terms." Dibi, of the Green-Left party (and of Moroccan descent), said "the disruption shows that even in the Netherlands it is necessary to continue the debate on reforming Islam."
Necessary, yes; safe, no. In Europe, increasingly, free speech ends where Islam, Islamism, and even Islamic terrorism begin. Two months ago, the Paris offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo were firebombed and its staff targeted with death threats after publication of an issue "edited" by the prophet Mohammad.
In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered on an Amsterdam street: He had directed a film about the treatment of women in Islamic societies. The film's author, Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, also was subjected to death threats. She subsequently fled to America.
In 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a dozen cartoons satirizing terrorism in the name of Islam. That led to protests, riots, death threats, an assassination plot, and the bombing of the Danish embassy in Pakistan.
All of this continues a trend begun more than a generation ago: In 1989, Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered any Muslim willing and able to murder British author Salman Rushdie, whose novel The Satanic Verses Khomeini deemed blasphemous. Rushdie has required body guards ever since.
Had he been resident in any of the more than 50 states that hold membership in the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (formerly called the Organization of the Islamic Conference but the new name is so much friendlier), that probably would not have saved him. Last year, Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, defended a Christian woman sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy law for having said something some Muslims found offensive. One of Taseer's own bodyguards shot him 27 times with an MP5 sub-machine gun. Many Pakistani clerics and religious scholars praised the killer and prohibited praying at Taseer's funeral.
Not a single OIC member state seriously guarantees freedom of speech. Some, notably Saudi Arabia, also actively prohibit freedom of worship. Nevertheless, in association with the OIC, the U.S. State Department last month hosted, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended, a three-day, closed-door international conference in Washington on combating religious "intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization."
Behind those closed doors, the conference reinforced the OIC tenet that all religions are equal — though one is more equal than others. OIC members are concerned only about the "defamation" of Islam and, evidently, they do not view militant Muslims attacking reformist Muslims as defaming their faith.
Nina Shea, who serves on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, was able to attend parts of the conference. She argued that the Obama administration "erred" in portraying it as "as a meeting of minds between the OIC and America on freedoms of religion and speech." On the contrary, the conference "immediately reignited OIC demands for the West to punish anti-Islamic speech" as Saudi clerics and Iranian mullahs interpret that term.
Shea noted, too, that speakers at the conference "gave a sweeping overview of American founding principles on religious freedom and how they have been breached time and again in American history by attacks against a broad variety of religious minority groups — including now against Muslims." The audience was reassured that "the Obama administration is working diligently to prosecute American Islamophobes and is transforming the U.S. Justice Department into the conscience of the nation, though it could no doubt learn a thing or two from the assembled delegates."
From which delegates exactly? The Saudis whose school textbooks describe Jews as apes and Christians as swine? Or those of the European Union, which, in response to the violence incited over the Danish cartoons, has mandated religious hate-speech codes that shield Islamic militants from criticism but, as the attack against EFD's speakers illustrates, do little to protect the rights of liberal Muslims, much less of non-Muslims?
Will the day come when Europeans and Americans again stand up on their hind legs and defend their freedoms, values, and traditions? Or have we effectively given up the fight in an attempt to appease such groups as the OIC and Sharia4Belgium? If only Orwell were still with us: I bet he'd have some pungent answers to these questions. | <urn:uuid:4f26089d-34bf-4b70-8afe-20e7ae7cca69> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | http://www.cliffordmay.org/11011/muslims-attacked | 2021-05-08T11:04:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988858.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20210508091446-20210508121446-00258.warc.gz | en | 0.960877 | 1,296 |
Jon is suddenly unexcited about going to the vet. Perhaps he realized he hasn't time to grow a mustache, or that it's pointless to fret over what to wear when you only have one shirt. This lack of enthusiasm is a strange, unexplained twist, but at least it makes the formality of his phrasing "we must go to the vet" even funnier.
Garfield is just trying to voice his hatred of getting shots, I know, but his grumpy complaint seems to imply: A) Dr. Liz thinks hypodermic needles - probably several - should be stored in pincushions, or B) when Liz gives cats a shot she simply jabs the needle in and leaves it there.
The "camera" tilt-up to accommodate the thought bubble of standing Garfield in panel three is distracting, but not as distracting as watching Garfield's hind legs go from thick and blobby to scrawny. The pincushion is ready to have confusing anatomy when you are! It is cute that Garfield is still excited about cat treats, when he can eat entire cakes, pies, and platters of cookies at home all the time. | <urn:uuid:abae47df-3983-453b-88d0-e0f8830f02ed> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://permanent-monday.blogspot.com/2006/06/hot-shots-part-mew.html | 2014-07-30T02:56:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510268533.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011748-00378-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979192 | 238 |
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BEAR GRASS AT GLACIER
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ON THE TRAIL TO LAKE McDONALD AT GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
I Liked this when I took it and now I like it even more.
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DYNAMIC MONTANA SKY
The view from our campsite at Many Glacier, Glacier National Park.
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I WAS AWAY FROM HOME FOR AWHILE
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