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Welcome to the modern Labour party, where it appears that, after less than 18 months of penitence, an anti-Semitic comment can be forgiven. Then, er, unforgiven shortly after, once the story’s been published by Guido Fawkes.
The story: Sepember 2014, Kirby is suspended from the party after offensive comments comparing Israelis to Hitler. Not to mention a tweet from her Twitter account regarding Jews and big noses, as Tom Harris, sometime of this parish, noted in the Telegraph.
March 2016: It is discovered that Kirby has been reinstated. When this appears in the media, she is suspended again.
While we might be glad that, in the end, the unpleasant Ms Kirby will be prevented from spreading hatred around her fellow activists, the whole episode shows that existing membership controls have become a shambles.
Right now, control sensibly exercised by the party machine is clearly being overridden by the NEC; but that may just be the opening salvo in a war over the party’s “border controls”.
What happens next? The situation will, by definition, continue until either (a) the NEC stops reinstating suspect members – requiring a change in the balance of power between left and right on the NEC itself, and possibly a conference rule change – or (b) the Head Office executive powers to suspend them in the first place are relaxed.
Given that Head Office changes are easy for the party leadership to make and changes at the NEC level are hard, it is easy to see that the most likely outcome is (b), that the Compliance Unit at Labour HQ will be weakened or even removed, as John McDonnell proposed two weeks ago. Along with such a move would go all the party’s defences against people like Kirby rejoining.
When the Chancellor sits down after delivering tomorrow’s Budget, ambitious Labour MPs will have three choices if they want to wrestle the keys to Number 10 away from Cameron’s successor. First, they could drink the kool aid and hope against hope that Jeremy Corbyn has stumbled upon a new way of winning elections. More realistically, they will have to choose between options two and three – quietly rebelling or carefully splitting.
The rebellion option will be embodied by Rachel Reeves, Dan Jarvis, et al, who will set out their own response to the Budget, coming from a dramatically different position to Labour’s frontbench. In contrast, the splitting option has already been demonstrated by David Lammy and Andrew Adonis, who have been willing to give Corbyn a few more days’ bad headlines in return for the promise of actually getting stuff done.
Given that Andrew Adonis’s recommendations from National Infrastructure Commission will get great big lumps of real hard cash thrown behind them tomorrow, the understated rebels are going to have to do something special to persuade colleagues that they can offer a viable alternative.
Either way, the reaction to tomorrow’s statement will give us a clear sense of which Labour MPs know that you don’t have to be a Tory to want to be in Government.
The EU referendum is not really a Left-Right issue; it instead seems to separate groups of people on their age and level of education.
But membership of the EU does accord with one of the core beliefs of the Labour movement: that we achieve more by working together than we do alone. Indeed the Labour Party rule book explicitly states that Labour is committed to co-operating in European institutions as well as the UN, the Commonwealth and other international bodies to secure peace, freedom, democracy, economic security and environmental protection for all. These are things that can only be achieved by international co-operation.
However, the Labour Party rule book (2013) also states that Labour works for “an open democracy, in which government is held to account by the people; decision are taken as far as practicable by the communities they affect; and where fundamental human rights are guaranteed”. The current European Parliament does not correlate with these expectations. I can therefore understand why some Labour supporters may also wish to leave the EU.
David Cameron’s negotiations, although largely insignificant, had one major outcome: that the UK would not be obliged to be a part of “ever closer union”. But for me this misses the fundamental choice that faces not just the citizens of the UK but all of the peoples of Europe.
Do we truly want a common market across Europe, or do we want to remain as independent nations. Because to normalise both access to the market and quality of goods and services across Europe then we will need a common approach to much more than just fishing quotas and standard paper sizes. In my opinion we should either accept that a truly successful European Union would look like a United States of Europe, or we accept that it is flawed and make the best of a bad thing. Which is why I think that Cameron’s negotations were a failure. They didn’t just achieve nothing of use, they focused the purpose of the referendum on immigration.
In the first of a new series, Lucy Ashton gauges the views of people outside of the political bubble, on the EU referendum. This week, its school mums.
The young children in this Sheffield gymnastics class are blissfully unconcerned with politics as they flip over bars and cartwheel along crash mats.
But their mums are starting to give the referendum some thought, although they feel there’s not enough information out there yet.
“I am moving towards voting for us to stay in Europe because it’s a fear of the unknown,” says Dawn, as she watches her daughter handstand in the sports hall.
Her view on the referendum will resonate with those who campaigned for devolution in the UK.
“My concern is that the politicians are very focused on London and the impact that remaining with or leaving Europe will have on the City,” she adds, glancing at her tumbling daughter.
“The politicians all talk about it from the point of view of the City, they don’t look at how it would impact on me as a teacher in Sheffield, or a coal miner in Wales or a small businessman in Scunthorpe.
Her friend and fellow mum Sharon takes a different view.
“I want us to come out of Europe as I don’t believe people in Brussels should be deciding what we are doing in Britain,” she says, sitting crossed leg on the sports hall floor.
With divided views such as this, the politicians will have to jump through a few hoops of their own between now and June.
Maybe I left my Yorkshire tea bag in too long, but on Thursday morning I had a vision. There I was at the kitchen table with the radio on, listening to Labour MPs cheering the defeat of the government on Sunday trading. Fair enough you might think, we’re winning less than Manchester United at the moment.
Of course it’s right that Labour opposes legislation like this that harms working people. Angela Eagle has done a fantastic job to win the vote. But you don’t have to be a genius to work out the Conservatives will fight the election on security.
If Labour are going to win we need to do two things. First, deal with our weaknesses. That means stop banging on about Trident, or admitting people with dubious backgrounds. These only give credence to Tory charges against us. As we found in 2015, if people see us or our leader as weak then tactics like the ‘tartan scare’ will work.
A few years ago I had an interesting lunch at the East India Club in Pall Mall.
I was a guest of then-Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom and was joined by Janice Atkinson, before she was an MEP.
It was an enjoyable meal and they were both good company.
But look at us now. Bloom was kicked out of UKIP just days later when he hit Channel 4’s Michael Crick over the head and called a room of women sluts.
Atkinson became an MEP but was expelled for expenses irregularities. She had also insulted a Thai constituent as a “ting tong”. She later apologised.
And me? A forlorn Blairite journalist in the era of hard left Corbynite dominance. All of us disgraced within our own parties!
Politically, I couldn’t be further from Atkinson and Bloom but they are not always wrong.
For example, at the said lunch Bloom told me that UKIP should support Scottish independence as so much of the SNP’s arguments resembled Ukip’s anti-EU points.
At the very least, Bloom opposed UKIP campaigning forcefully to keep the UK together.
He pointed out how easy it would be to brand them hypocrites when big business opposed an EU exit in the same way they opposed Scottish independence.
Godfrey, we don’t agree on much but you were right.
For the ‘sensible establishment’ supporters of Labour’s pre-Corbyn core comes a new standard to which the rest of Labour’s membership must be held: time on the doorstep.
A Red Wedge-style series of fund- and awareness-raising gigs with high profile names is dismissed as meaningless in electoral terms. Unless enough doors have been knocked on.
Social media may be an echo chamber, but its connections and volume still matters.
It’s where people are — but crucially most see no substantive delineation between platforms, between local and national issues, nor between ‘real life’ and the real people they communicate with online*.
That’s why Tom Watson’s digital project, and what it comes out with is so important: we do need to be able to understand how the psychology of people plays out as a whole. That includes conversations around unity in the media, and on the web. And it includes targeted digital interactions.
2015 was a disaster for the centre-left.
The Liberal Democrats lost a swathe of seats to the Tories. Moderate Labour members lost their party to the far left. Some are in despair, and are considering withdrawal from politics, perhaps to return once a viable moderate opposition to the Tories is re-established.
However, under first-past-the-post, such an opposition isn’t inevitable. Post-war Japan was run by a single right-wing party, almost continuously for fifty years. Nothing is forever, but, if we wait for change, we may wait a very long time.
Do we want to see the Conservatives in power for decades? If that happens, step by step they will shrink the state and cut taxes for the rich. They will edge the country ever closer to a dog-eat-dog capitalism where the rich enjoy fabulous wealth, but the poor endure desperate insecurity. It would not happen overnight, but it could happen.
The far left believe if they control the opposition, it is inevitable that they will eventually take power.
In a perfect storm, with a recession, and if Tories have an unpopular leader and are divided over a controversial policy, it might be possible, but I think it is very unlikely. Even in 1992, when the country was in recession after thirteen years of Tory rule, the Conservatives still won.
However, even if the far left are right about eventually winning power, it would be a disaster. Having raised unrealistic expectations, they would be hit by the harsh reality of our need to trade in a competitive world, and they would damage our economic and our finances by trying to square the impossible. Perhaps worse, their attitude to the USA and NATO would undermine our alliances, just at a time when new powers are emerging which have no respect for the principles of liberal democracy. They would then be decisively defeated, to be followed by another lengthy period of Tory hegemony.
So it’s Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump.
The question now is how can Hillary beat the absurdist rise of the Donald?
The answer is simple: attack him, attack him hard and do it again & again.
Trash his character, his business record, his views on women, his lack of policies, his temperament and his bigotry and racism. Earlier today, Mitt Romney of all people showed the way.
Negative campaigning works. It works because the public are more willing to believe the worst in politicians than the best. They will tacitly agree when a politician’s flaws are being highlighted but act like cynics when politicians convey positive messages.
Every successful modern campaign goes negative and stays negative.
Labour did it in 1997 by attacking Tories on the NHS and pensions.
Obama did it in 2008 on Hillary over her support for the Iraq war.
The Tories hit Ed Miliband’s leadership & economic competence for four years to bear the fruits of victory last May. Miliband ran a positive campaign.
Obama went negative again even more successfully against Mitt Romney in 2012.
Romney was attacked remorselessly in negative ads on his business record at Bain Capital, the private equity manager.
And so it was that, last Thursday, we learned that John McDonnell MP wanted to abolish Labour’s Compliance Unit (£), which deals with constitutional and disciplinary issues.
Not exactly front-page news, of course. Dull, internal workings of the party machine.
But it turns out it is rather important. And it is only the most recent in a number of such events.
The basic point is this: McDonnell wants to make it harder to expel people from the party and, by extension, easier for others – and clearly here he means previously expelled or suspended people –to re-enter.
Now why, one wonders, might anyone want to do that? Is it because the Compliance Unit is a group of over-zealous thought police, imposing a rigid discipline and barring entry to all but the most blind followers of the faith?
If only it were resourced up to be even close to that. It is a handful of people who try to keep the party in roughly sensible shape, by dealing with those whose presence is actually harmful to its body politic. Those who actually belong to another party, for example, or campaign for one. The actual number of cases dealt with is small and expulsions are pretty rare occurrences.
| 2019-04-22T04:15:26 |
http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2016/03/page/2/
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This prize is to recognize an important book pertaining to Chinese Canadian history published in the calendar year or previous year of the annual prize presentation. The prize will be decided annually, with the possibility of more than one book being recognized in a given year.
The Dr. Edgar Wickberg Book Prize for the Best Book on Chinese Canadian History is administered and adjudicated by a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC. Chaired by a CCHSBC board member, the committee is responsible for determining which nominees will be recognized with a prize. The prize may not necessarily be awarded every year.
This award is named after Dr. Edgar Wickberg, Founding President of CCHSBC, and the most important historian in helping develop Chinese Canadian history in British Columbia. As the Founder of CCHSBC, Dr. Wickberg brought together scholars, community researchers, educators, and a broad array of people interested in promoting research and education, as well as creating and protecting historical collections, about Chinese Canadian history and heritage. As a professor of history at the University of British Columbia from 1969 to 1992, Dr. Wickberg also taught and mentored generations of students and researchers who helped build the field of Chinese Canadian historical studies, generously and selflessly supporting their work.
In recognition of the important role Dr. Wickberg played in the hsaping and building of the field of Chinese Canadian studies, the Prize for the Best Book on Chinese Canadian history has been named in honour of Dr. Edgar Wickberg.
Nominations may be made by publishers, members of the public, or any member of CCHSBC.
Do I need to send a copy of the book?
Yes. Nominations are to be accompanied by three copies of the book for the use of the adjudication committee. These reading copies may be in electronic form, and may be publication proofs accompanied by evidence of a firm future publication date.
Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton, introduced by Mary Chapman - When her 1912 story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance, was rescued from obscurity in the 1990s, scholars were quick to celebrate Sui Sin Far as a pioneering chronicler of Asian American Chinatowns. Newly discovered works, however, reveal that Edith Eaton (1865-1914) published on a wide variety of subjects - and under numerous pseudonyms - in Canada and Jamaica for a decade before she began writing Chinatown fiction signed “Sui Sin Far” for US magazines. Born in England to a Chinese mother and a British father, and raised in Montreal, Edith Eaton is a complex transnational writer whose expanded oeuvre demands reconsideration.
Becoming Sui Sin Far collects and contextualizes seventy of Eaton’s early works, most of which have not been republished since they first appeared in turn-of-the-century periodicals. These works of fiction and journalism, in diverse styles and from a variety of perspectives, document Eaton’s early career as a short story writer, “stunt-girl” journalist, ethnographer, political commentator, and travel writer. Showcasing her playful humour, savage wit, and deep sympathy, the texts included in this volume assert a significant place for Eaton in North American literary history. Mary Chapman’s introduction provides an insightful and readable overview of Eaton’s transnational career. The volume also includes an expanded bibliography that lists over two hundred and sixty works attributed to Eaton, a detailed biographical timeline, and a newly discovered interview with Eaton from the year in which she first adopted the orientalist pseudonym for which she is best known. Becoming Sui Sin Far significantly expands our understanding of the themes and topics that defined Eaton’s oeuvre and will interest scholars and students of Canadian, American, Asian North American, and ethnic literatures and history.
| 2019-04-22T05:58:27 |
http://www.cchsbc.ca/dr-edgar-wickberg-book-prize.html
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I am currently working with an ASM who I am really struggling to get along with. We will call my ASM Jack.
Jack has a horrible attitude problem that I am not sure where it stems from. Throughout the rehearsal process, Jack has spent very little time in the rehearsal room despite having conversations about things I need Jack to accomplish. My director doesn't want anything to effect the energy of the rehearsal room and this particular company is big on the chain of command, so I took my complaints to the one who signs the paychecks.
Our manager said that everything needed to be in paper form (information, goals deadlines) or there was no real proof that Jack isn't doing his job. I did as our manager requested. Things were still turned in late and it was almost a fight trying to get a simple tracking sheet.
Finally, the other night. Jack was putting away props and told something could not go into prop storage because a fluorescent bulb had broken. Jack was told to store everything upstairs in the theatre. His response was that he was not going to the theatre. He was then told by the production manager that she would take care of things but to get the props out of storage because of the broken bulb.
I was working a special effects scene requiring a lot of props while this was happening. I was informed by the production manager that all the special effect props also needed to go upstairs because of the bulb. I asked my ASM to help me put away props.
Jack, already having a bad attitude because he didn't want to go up to the theatre in the first place, starting shoving props around. We loaded the elevator to get things upstairs and he proceeded to shove things out the elevators and toss things into the theatre. (these special effect props are already very delicate and can't really handle this type of manhandling) In the process, he broke several of the props.
I told him to calm down, he needed to not throw things, take a breather etc. He did not listen and just made sure everything was out of the elevator and then left without out asking me if that was it for the evening or anything else needed to happen, etc.
I called the production manager after I left the theatre. I was quite fed up by this point with Jack's attitude, it has been a constant problem for me throughout rehearsal and this was my breaking point. My production manager just blew it off and said that Jack isn't normally like that.
I'm at a loss. I'm not sure if I can work with someone who has no respect for authority or the show itself. Jack is typically an SM and not ASM and struggling not being in that position of power according to my production manager. Jack, however, was also fired from a show over the summer that he was SMing. This particular show is cue heavy, prop heavy, quick change heavy, I need an ASM who is on top of it that I can trust. This one I can't even have a conversation with without knowing if I am being lied to or not.
Any advice on what to do, who to talk to, how to handle a situation like this? I go into tech on Sunday and I'm not sure I have the patience to deal with Jack's antics anymore.
Sounds like you have tried a couple of different tactics to manage Jack. Have you had the "come to Jesus" talk?
My view on management is that your actions are calculated and taken out of a position of support for the production/company. Sometimes this results in the termination of an employee; this is not done out of a position of punishment to that employee, but rather a position of support for the production.
You're in the situation, you're living it - what action can you take to best support the production? The choices aren't always easy.
That is a sticky situation. You have an ASM who breaks props when angry and what sounds like a production manager that isn't doing anything.
I agree with the "come to Jesus" talk. I also think you should have one more conversation with the production manager. Not knowing your comfort level, you may have to go above the PM's head if this doesn't improve.
At this point it might be best to document everything the ASM is doing if you haven't done that already.
Good luck and let us know how it all ends.
It's always hard to give a solution to a long term issue that has been festering . . . but it does seem like a major conversation needs to happen, and maybe not with just you, but the next layer of management.
ditto on the 'come to jesus' talk. Sometimes people don't realize how much their bad attitude is affecting things and they need that wake-up call.
But in the long run if it isn't working out with 'Jack' then let him go. No need to prolong a bad situation.
Wish I could just let Jack go. However, I am not allowed to make those decisions.
I have spoken to the PM, but she is friends with Jack and that makes this even more complicated. She is just giving me one off answers and excuses for why Jack isn't completing his job appropriately.
Just tonight, we had a production meeting. Jack sat there and played a game on his phone the entire time. Then I asked him about a piece of paperwork that I had given him today as a deadline for. He said it would be done tonight...it is now 12:45 and I still have no paper work. I'm about to go to bed since we have tech tomorrow.
I also specifically requested for him not to include a list of special effects props in the prop tracking sheet he made as they are in one scene and have their own track sheet since they need to be handled carefully. He made the sheet the way he wanted to and included them, even after I said not to.
Any words on how to talk to the PM maybe? Even though she is friends with Jack? Doesn't seem like the "come to Jesus" talk worked with him.
End of the day, you are going to work with ASMs you just don't like or get along with - and it's our job as SM's to figure out how to make it work as a team. But you are going to run into people who have little or no business being in stage management that somehow end up being on your team, and you have to figure it all out.
Letting someone go is often not a possibility.
I am worried that perhaps there were so lines blurred, and some of this is personal and petty - I would love to hear his side of the story.
It you can't figure out how to work with him, and you can't let him go, then it's not time to figure out how to work around him.
My hopes are now with the added responsibility of tech, he will rise to the occasion.
Yeah, it's manipulative as all get-out, but with someone like this, it can put them on your team, and if they think they are teaching you, are more likely to do their job and let you do yours. It takes vigilance - and you have to keep your truth close to the chest AND you still have to do whatever isn't being done as well as your job, but sometimes this can turn a person who resents your presence into a fan.
More issues with my ASM.
Jack has a lot on his plate, this is a very tech heavy show and he is the only crew as well as ASM. Most of the scene changes are done by actors, he does have a few that he is strickly responsible for because of the fly system in place.
There are also almost 20 quick changes. 2 of these quick changes happen in the lobby and not backstage. Jack could potentially run around, but it doesn't quite give the change enough time and then the actor is late on stage. As it was tech adn this is the time to work through these issues, he wanted to practice. We worked it several times and he was still unable to get those last few seconds in to make the difference up. We enlisted the help of an actor who would already be there, as that was his exit, to do the change so Jack only had to focus on the scene change and not both.
Jack did not like me making this decision. He wanted to do all of it himself. It just wasn't possible. Even practicing it multiple times, the timing wasn't getting better. He left the space, very unhappy and this is how the night started.
We took a break between acts, cleaned the stage. the director was getting antsy because we has already started the run half an hour late do to technical difficulties. I went backstage to see what I could to to help hurry along the preset for act two. Jack had two things that needed to happen. An actor needed help getting into costume and a set piece needed to be moved. Respecting that backstage is essentially "his domain" for the run of the show, I asked if I could move the set piece. He said no, and moved it himself. So I stepped in to help snap the actor into his costume. Jack came back while I was finishing the costume about to tie the last section in and snapped, "I got it." and took the ties of the costume out of my hands.
I do not appreciate being walked all over. I am doing my job of making tech go as smoothly as possible. I am still at a loss of what Jack's problem is at this point. He isn't making this easy.
I had an outsider who hasn't been in the rehearsal process at all ask me tonight if Jack and I had problems because he was, as this person put it "shoot daggers out of his eyes every time I spoke" and went as far to say that any time I would say or ask something, Jack jumps in to tell me and the rest of the staff why things can't be done the way I am suggesting.
The frustration that is running through my body is ridiculous. I have worked on 40+ shows as a stage manager and 10+ as a production manager and have never run into these problems before!
I am going to be the jerk here.
You said " I am doing my job of making tech go as smoothly as possible", but you are not - obviously there is still a major issue.
You know, you may not appreciate being walked over, but you know what, as stage managers, that is what happens to us all the time.
4) You have to tech the show and open it up.
The fact that an outsider is seeing the problems is just proving the the situation is not being managed well; and that's sad. Management is our job, managing creative, quirky, technical people. I think it's impossible for one of us to offer advice on what you can do because at the end of the day, this job is about a personal style that you manage with - to give specific advice I would need to your style, observe your ASM, have some history, etc, etc.
We have all had bad assistants - assistants that have a different agenda, assistants that bad, assistants that are lazy, assistants that just don't know their job. We all have different techniques to either address the issues face out and solve the problem, or work around the issue.
I think at this point, you have to figure out how to do the show without him - which you already are - having actors help with quick changes, you may need to do the intermission shift, whatever.
Maybe he will go away on his own, if you can't fire him.
I wish you well, it's a bad situation that has just got worse.
Man that's a rough situation. I'd want to fire any ASM who broke props like that unless they apologized and had a major attitude change.
Then 'negotiate' from there... come up with a few tangible things you both agree on that will change in order for him to step up his actions and mood.
Depending on his attitude it might not be worth it, but in the past conversations like that with an open-ended 'how can I help you do this' question that also include a pointed 'while you're here, I need you to remember to be a positive member of the team we're all on' have helped me solve a number of issues.
| 2019-04-19T02:41:13 |
http://smnetwork.org/forum/the-green-room/how-to-deal-with-an-unruly-asm/
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Emha Ainun Nadjib said that there would be a shift in civilization, the super power countries would fall and be replaced by new super power. The Asia Pacific region will become a new super power, including Indonesia, unfortunately it does not belong to the Indonesian nation.
Is this statement a utopian idea? Couldn't the Nusantara Nation (Indonesia) be the world leader again?
In medieval age when Europe was still the third world, America was not born yet and Islamic civilization in the Arabian Peninsula, China, Andalusia and Nusantara dominated the subjects of world civilization, that's when the world was caliphed by the highest quality people, the philosophy of Negarakertagama (upholding values religion) applied.
The birth of quality humans cannot be separated from the education system. The philosophy, methods, systems, indicators and objectives of human education are clearly understood both in the realm of theory and application. Europe experienced a period of enlightenment after touching with Islamic education in various fields.
But after the birth of the industrial revolution with its materialism, values have also shifted. A value of revolution took place, and until now we have faced challenges brought about by the needs and demands of contemporary globalism in the modern world. The severity of the Indonesian Nation at this time is no longer be the subject of civilization as has been achieved before, but has become the object of sufferers.
Failure to solve these challenges comprehensively make Indonesia associated with backwardness and stagnation.
The world of education in Indonesia today cannot produce capable generations who facing the challenges of modern society. The world of education, especially Islamic education, loses its heart and mind. The world of education in Indonesia has been removed from its root and adopted a Western style of education.
We also face social problems, diseases associated with modernization: hedonism, cr1me, etc.
The commercialization and industrialization of education, the quality of teachers, the system of education and education that are systemically unclear, the ever-changing curriculum that is based on the government without regard to the needs of grass root class makes the people only become object of exploitation in education. Education is only for the rich people.
Inequity in educational equity also occurred, education in the village was increasingly worried with its incompleteness of the resources used for the implementation of education. The world of education is only an "order" to meet the industrial needs and greed of capitalism. Full day school, a method of past hermitage and boarding school, has also been replicated, but is the philosophy still in line with what has been applied in ancient times or has only become a new commercial commodity for the implementers of education?
The information and communication technology revolution also has a major impact on the current development of education and human resources in Indonesia. The fact is that more is washed away with this age and without any filter and criticism of it, even though the development of this technology can be a turning point for the expected big changes.
The world of education is a place for the formation of human quality, if the grinding machine is unable to work properly, the output of the product will not be good.
Seeing the history that this Nation was once the main subject of world civilization, with an education method whose philosophy is very distinctive to form a quality nation, it is not impossible if this nation is able to rise again with the condition of being able to rediscover its human resource processing machines.
The future of the Indonesia is in the seriousness of the current millennial generation to continue to search for and formulate solutions to the challenges of the times that are fundamentally in the realm of education.
What is the educational philosophy which compatible with Indonesia? What is the key performance indicator of success?
Is the constitutional mandate to educate the life of the nation a utopian thing, something that cannot be achieved by the world of education today?
Are there new breakthroughs to answer the challenges of the times in the world of education today?
| 2019-04-19T08:52:00 |
https://www.education.web.id/2019/01/critical-reflection-of-indonesian-education-from-caknun.html
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Plans to abandon public transportation to promote desegregational most universally are framed as ending "forced busing." This phrase is one of those curious word combinations - like "critical thinking" or "authentic assessment" or "school choice" - that carries a built-in opinion about the value of what is being described. "Forced busing" obviously is something bad, and its widespread use suggests satisfaction with the movement to end it. In addition, the phrase assumes an illegitimate use of government power - one that denies the freedom to attend neighborhood schools and coerces attendance elsewhere. Yet exactly who has been coerced is a question that often gets finessed. During the 1972 presidential campaign, the white voters attracted to George Wallace certainly knew the answer when he colorfully and consistently denounced busing as "social scheming" by "anthropologists, zoologists, and sociologists."2 The fundamental problem with mandatory busing was that it interfered with what many whites perceived as their right to separate schools - either by requiring them to bus out of their neighborhood schools or by permitting Blacks to bus in. Busing was not required by the Supreme Court until 16 years of experience beyond Brown v. Board of Education made it clear that white resistance to desegregation in many cities would perpetually confine African Americans to separate schools.
The notion that neighborhood schools are some how innocent of governmentpower is also patently false. In northern cities, school district authorities' willful gerrymandering of attendance areas produced segregation where the location of schools naturally would have yielded integration. Moreover, there was nothing "natural" about suburban schools like mine. They were shaped by federal decisions to build highways rather than urban infrastructure and to support racially homogenous enclaves through the mortgage policy of the Federal Housing Authority.
This is a far cry from the mid-1950s when African Americans in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and other southern towns risked their jobs - and lost them - for petitioning for desegregated schools.It is distant as well from the mid-1960s when massive demonstration sand boycotts hit Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and other cities to protest the failure of school districts to desegregate.The basic explanation for the lack of organized opposition tore segregation, of course, is that desegregation hardly has been an unqualified success for African Americans. Put simply, it has been implemented on terms favorable to whites, and even privileged treatment has not been sufficient to keep many whites from choosing private schools or from moving to the suburbs. For some African-American students, their disproportionate burden of busing has been compensated by access to resources and opportunities unavailable in neighborhood schools. For others, however, it has meant either busing to poor quality and nearly segregated schools far from home or traveling to schools internally segregated by tracking that provide challenging curricula almost exclusively to white students.
| 2019-04-19T02:43:47 |
https://www.rethinkingschools.org/articles/neighborhood-schools-deja-vu
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Last week I asked: What took place on April 19, 1775?
On a recent visit to Massachusetts, John and I planned to stay in Boston but there was a large convention going on so all the reasonable hotels were booked.
We ended up staying at the Sonesta Suites in nearby Burlington, Mass.
Several years ago we enjoyed our stay at the Sonesta Hotels in Peru.
Sonesta Suites turned out to be a great choice.
It was near Lexington and Concord, both places we wanted to visit.
One of the most momentous moments in American history happened on April 19, 1775 in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Today, Lexington Green is quiet, but early on the morning of April 19, 1775, Captain John Parker ordered his militia, the Minute Men, to move out onto the Green from Buckman’s Tavern.
We couldn’t visit the tavern because it is being restored but should open in a few weeks.
The men had gathered the night before having been warned by William Daws and Paul Revere on their “Midnight Ride” that the British troops were marching toward Lexington and Concord from Boston.
It was there on Lexington Green that the first shots of the American Revolution took place.
Who fired that first shot?
In 1860 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” forever immortalizing Revere, a silversmith who was a Son of Liberty.
Many think he made the ride alone and completed his mission but his fellow “rebel,” William Daws also set out from Boston to rouse the countyside.
Neither made it to Concord, but a third rider, Samuel Prescott did make it to warn the militia.
The militia and British fought skirmishes all the way to Concord Bridge and then back to Boston along what is now called Battle Road.
There is an historic 20-mile walking/biking trail that connects all the important stops along the way including the site where Paul Revere was captured by the British.
We visited Walden Pond (now Walden Pond State Reservation) where there is a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s extremely small house where he lived the “simple life” for a little more than two years.
I wonder if he suffered from cabin fever but he was only a short distance from Concord and not as remote as I had always envisioned.
Also nearby is Orchard House, the home of Louisa May Alcott of “Little Women” fame.
Her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, overshadowed by his daughter, was a leader of educational reform and the founder of one of the first adult education centers in the United States and held Chautauqua-style meetings in the building he had built next to the Alcott home.
The area must have great literary vibes because the homes of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson are nearby.
It was a great day, the weather was great and when we returned to the Sonesta Suites it was one of the nights when then serve a light dinner – chicken noodle soup and salad.
If I was going to visit Boston again I would stay at the Sonesta Suites.
There is free parking then I would drive into the city and park at the Commons Parking Garage and buy tickets on the Old Town Trolley Tour to get around.
Trivia Tease™: What is the capital of Laos?
| 2019-04-24T08:29:57 |
https://oswegocountytoday.com/sandra-scott-travels-experience-the-road-to-revolution/entertainment/sandra-scott-travels/
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All those T-shirts of losing teams? Off to Africa.
Major League Baseball is teaming up with World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian aid group, to save mislabeled clothing from the postseason for Ghanaians affected by recent flooding.
When the Boston Red Sox square off against the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night, Jeff Fields is hoping for a nail-biting seven-game World Series. It's not the adrenaline rush that he's after; it's the mislabeled T-shirts.
If the series goes down to the wire, licensed clothing manufactures will prepare T-shirts, hats, and other apparel announcing both the Sox and the Rockies as the 2007 champs. In years past, once the victors were decided, Major League Baseball (MLB) required the destruction of all the clothing declaring the losers as champions.
But this year Mr. Fields and his colleagues at World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian aid group, will save the erroneously labeled clothing from the incinerators and, instead, send them to impoverished Ghanaians affected by recent flooding.
It's an answer to a dilemma of a little-known corner of professional sports: what to do with all the unsalable paraphernalia of near-champs.
Since the mid-1990s, World Vision has worked with MLB to distribute counterfeit or mislabeled clothing to those in need rather than sending it to the big closet in the sky. It does the same with the National Football League (NFL). This year marks the first time that the MLB will contribute their postseason apparel to the group, not just fraudulently manufactured goods. Sporting-goods stores are also getting into the charity act.
"It's great to have the partnership, great to not see these types of things being destroyed and being utilized for good rather than having to end up in a landfill or an incinerator," says Fields, corporate relations officer for World Vision.
In the world of baseball, receiving championship apparel is seen as something of a ritual and thus worth the pre-production risks.
"The moment of a clinch, the teams celebrate. They pile on top of one another, they get all crazy, and part of that celebration is, in fact, them proclaiming their championship clinch with a T-shirt and a cap," explains Steve Armus, MLB's vice president of consumer products. "It's something that's traditional in baseball and some other sports, and for all the teams it's an important moment."
But to be prepared for each team's potential victory ceremony, the MLB prepares hats and T-shirts – 288 of each item for each team – before each playoff series has been decided. This year, when at least 12 teams were in hard-fought competition for eight playoff spots, league organizers printed apparel for every possible scenario. The result: Thousands of articles of clothing announcing the Padres', Mets', and other vanquished teams' seasonal victories are en route to Ghana. And "the clicker continues to click," adds Mr. Armus.
While the MLB is just beginning to expand its relationship with World Vision, the NFL has been working with the group to send its postseason gear to Africa for years.
"It would be a horrible waste of a fine piece of apparel to destroy it," says Brian McCarthy, an NFL spokesman. "Working with World Vision, we are able to provide those who are less fortunate with very nice pieces of apparel that may not mean that much to them in terms of who won and lost but does make a difference in their quality of life."
As part of its agreement with the NFL and MLB, World Vision must ship all of the clothing overseas, preferably to places where the items won't offend wounded sports fans and defeated players.
"If you were to see someone walking down the street wearing a Cleveland Indians World Series Championship shirt (the Indians lost their spot in the World Series to the Boston Red Sox on Sunday), obviously that would stand out as out of place," says Armus. "It might cause embarrassment to the team, and it might cause problems for our licensees in as much that it's [no longer an] authorized product."
"It's something the leagues don't want to have distributed," says Craig McCormick, buyer of licensed products for Sports Authority, a national sporting- goods store based in Denver. "It dilutes the whole meaning behind the T-shirts."
While the MLB and NFL need to print fewer than 300 shirts and caps for each potential victor, retailers often take bigger risks. Before the 2007 Super Bowl, Mr. McCormick and his colleagues at Sports Authority took a costly gamble. With the Chicago fan base a historically good market and encouraged by sales from the team's NFC Championship win, the outlet printed 15,000 to 20,000 T-shirts proclaiming the Chicago Bears as the Super Bowl champs long before the kickoff.
"The payoff is that you can open your doors right after the game, and you would have had products right there for the fans to come in and buy," says McCormick. "We'll normally sell through all of that product if we do open up right after the game."
Although the wager proved wrong, McCormick made the best of the situation. He had teamed up with World Vision prior to the Super Bowl, so he could donate the clothes rather than destroy them.
They were not the only vendor to bet wrong on the Bears for Super Bowl XLI. World Vision received its largest shipment ever from that game, collecting more than 100,000 shirts and hats worth at least $2.5 million, and distributed them to people in Zambia and other parts of Africa.
Not only does working with World Vision provide corporations like Sports Authority an alternative to destroying the clothes, it also allows them to recoup some of the loss by receiving a tax credit for the charitable donation, which is a major draw for many big companies, says Karen Kartes, media relations director for World Vision. Additionally, World Vision picks up the clothes from the retailers, further reducing the cost companies would have paid to destroy the items.
"For the most part, these folks we're serving really have no idea who the Chicago Bears or the Boston Red Sox are," says Fields. "They're just glad to get a new piece of clothing that has never been worn before and isn't a hand-me-down and doesn't have a hole in it."
| 2019-04-24T15:51:29 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1024/p01s07-ussc.html
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The exposed roots of Zionism in anti-Semitism are now a matter of factual evidence for the whole world to see.
What is the deadliest weapon at the disposal of the Israeli settler colony? No, it is not the 200-plus nuclear weapons that are all, according to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, aimed at Iran - nor is it whatever other weapons of mass destruction it can continue to procure over the next 10 years and beyond with the $38bn US taxpayers' dollars that Barack Obama took away from hungry children in the US and sent with a lovely Hallmark greetings card to Benjamin Netanyahu.
The deadliest weapon at the disposal of Israel is not a weapon of mass destruction, of which it has plenty. It is in fact a weapon of mass deception that has long been at its disposal: the charge of "anti-Semitism" that its legion of propaganda officers readily level against anyone daring to question the armed robbery of Palestine.
Anti-Semitism was and remains a quintessentially European and by extension US-based white supremacist disease, with horrid manifestations from pogroms through the Crusades down to the Holocaust.
No other people anywhere else in the world ever heard of this disease or perpetrated such heinous crimes against humanity as the Nazis did. But the Zionist propaganda machinery continues indiscriminately to throw this vile charge at anyone remotely critical of Israel.
Now, believe it or not, of all people, Donald Trump, even before taking office, has just taken that deadly weapon away from Israel. You may wonder how?
The appointment of Stephen Bannon by Trump as a chief adviser to his White House is a momentous development that for ever robs Israel of its deadliest ideological weapon: charging and seeking to silence its critics with the nasty stigma of "anti-Semitism".
As has been thoroughly documented, Bannon, a "white supremacist and anti-Semite" Zionist, the chief architect of a sensational "news" outlet for like-minded bigots and a loud and unconditional supporter of Israel, is now the chief strategist (propaganda officer) for Trump in his soon-to-be up-and-about White House.
Bannon is the mastermind behind a fringe but loud and pestiferous neo-Nazi outfit that calls itself "alt-right". Led by a young man named Richard Spencer, it is being groomed as the propaganda "Stormtroopers" of the next president of the United States, an organised gang of trolls set in motion with a quick tweet from their leader in the Oval Office.
As soon as the fully documented charges of anti-Semitism against Bannon became public knowledge, the Zionist cabal rose to defend him, arguing, as Robert Mackey has summarised in The Intercept, that he "cannot possibly be an anti-Semite, as his ex-wife told a court, since the site he ran until August strongly supports Israel and its far-right, nationalist government".
This assertion belied the fact that, again as Mackey put it, he had "made Breitbart a space for pro-Israel writers and anti-Semitic readers". If you think this a jarring phrase, you have been sold the lie that Zionism is against anti-Semitism. It is not. Quite to the contrary: It banks and thrives on it.
Put simply, the ZOA is defending anti-Semites against the expressed concerns of Jewish people, in order to safeguard the insatiable appetite of Zionism for land theft in Palestine.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) first condemned Bannon as anti-Semitic, but soon the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) countered ADL and pronounced Bannon and Breitbart innocent of any such charges, citing the strong Zionism of the accused as evidence. ADL backed down and downgraded Bannon's anti-Semitism.
The fact that this notorious Zionist has frightened the American Jewish community, however, and quite rightly so, is now fully documented.
When the ZOA endorsed Bannon, it was "flooded" with phone calls and faced an "enormous backlash for its enthusiastic defence of Bannon" by people objecting to this reckless act.
"We did not survive the Holocaust," people objected. "We did not found the State of Israel, just so that less than two generations later we could cozy up to neo-Nazis."
Responsible observers were of course crystal-clear about their assessments of Bannon's anti-Semitism: Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, for example, speaking for "The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism ... held Bannon responsible for running a platform for 'anti-Semitism, racism, misogyny and xenophobia'."
Jessica Rosenblum, vice president of communications at the NGO J-Street, also said it is "completely appropriate" to apply the term anti-Semite to people like Bannon who "routinely aid and stand with white supremacists in demonising Jews and other religious and ethnic minorities".
Even more to the point, Rabbi Jack Moline, President of Interfaith Alliance, told The Huffington Post: "A person can 'absolutely' be pro-Israel and anti-Semitic at the same time. Moline identifies as both a Jew and Zionist. But he cautioned that it was dangerous to conflate these two identities."
Meanwhile Naomi Zeveloff of Forward wrote a detailed piece with the title "How Bannon and Breitbart News Can Be Pro-Israel and Anti-Semitic at the Same Time". The article adds: "There is actually 'little correlation' between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, according to Steven M Cohen, a sociologist at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion … Many people who dislike Jews like Israel and many people who are critical towards Israel are affectionate towards Jews."
All these bold, responsible, principled, and clear pronouncements finally poured on to the streets of New York when "500 Jewish protesters", according to Haaretz, managed to "scare Bannon away from a pro-Israel Gala" held by ZOA.
The concerted efforts of Zionist Americans, led by ZOA, notwithstanding the traumatic impact of Trump's victory for the Jewish communities, are undeniable: "Trump's election triggers old nightmares for Holocaust survivors in America," as Haaretz wrote.
"The dramatic increase in anti-Semitism and hate crimes since election day is a horrifying flashback for veteran Jewish Americans. As one says, 'I lived through one Hitler, I don't want to live through another.'"
Trump, of course, did not have to wait to get elected to expose his pro-Israeli, anti-Semitic proclivities, evident in an infamous ad that "traffics in conspiracies of control and destruction identified with classical anti-Semitism", leading to the obvious admission that being "Pro-Israel is not incompatible with peddling negative Jewish stereotypes."
Even more empathically, as Ian Buruma put it in The New York Times, "The last ad of the Trump campaign attacked what Joseph Stalin used to call 'rootless cosmopolitans' in a particularly insidious manner. Incendiary references to a 'global power structure' that was robbing honest working people of their wealth were illustrated by pictures of George Soros, Janet Yellen and Lloyd Blankfein. Perhaps not every Trump supporter realised that all three are Jewish. But those who did cannot have missed the implications."
Any shadow of doubt about Trump actively partaking in anti-Semitic sentiments and tropes was cleared from the start. His campaign had staged his anti-Semitism chapter and verse, or as David Remnick put it succinctly in the New Yorker: "Trump began his campaign declaring Mexican immigrants to be 'rapists'; he closed it with an anti-Semitic ad evoking 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'."
As early as July 2016, Trump's use of anti-Semitic tropes signalling Hillary Clinton's support was fully on display "when he tweeted a graphic critical of Hillary Clinton that featured a six-pointed star, a pile of cash and the words 'most corrupt candidate ever'."
None of these facts had, however, dissuaded Sheldon Adelson, a staunch Zionist supporter of Israel, to write an opinion piece for The Washington Post enthusiastically endorsing Donald Trump, or contributing millions of dollars to his campaign. Nor indeed had any such incontrovertible fact of Trump freely trafficking in anti-Semitic sentiments prevented the chief Israeli lobby AIPAC members giving him repeated standing ovations and thunderous applause when he went to their gatherings to pledge allegiance to Israel.
The exposed roots of Zionism in anti-Semitism are now a matter of factual evidence for the whole world to see as it is liberating for an entire generation of principled and progressive Jewish activists who have now in full force joined other emancipatory movements around the US and indeed around the globe - to which they will lend an entire history of their noble struggles against racism, anti-Semitism, and bigotry, and from which they will learn the emerging terms of a defiant moral agency beyond any disabling identity politics.
| 2019-04-21T18:52:49 |
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/12/stephen-bannon-disarming-israel-161221121415851.html
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How can Emperor Palpatine have returned for Star Wars 9? The possibilities of how this might have been accomplished are nearly as mind-boggling as the revelation that the chief villain of the first six Star Wars films has returned for the final installment, The Rise Of Skywalker.
Fans were thrilled by the release of the first trailer for Star Wars 9 and the announcement of its official title - The Rise of Skywalker - at Star Wars Celebration 2019. Excitement gave way to confusion, and perhaps a small degree of terror, as the trailer approached its conclusion and Luke Skywalker said "No one is ever really gone," just before a familiar evil laugh was heard before the title was revealed. The implication was clear - Emperor Palpatine is back.
This begs the question: just how precisely has Darth Sidious survived? The lore of the first eight Star Wars films suggests several possibilities. There are even more options available when one considers the whole of the stories making up what is now known as Star Wars Legends.
Is Palpatine A Force Ghost Is Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker?
The most obvious answer is that Palpatine may have mastered the arts necessary to become a Force Ghost. A mainstay of the series since the very first Star Wars film, this power was later said to have been discovered by Qui-Gon Jinn in Revenge of the Sith. It was Qui-Gon who taught both Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi how to become Force Ghosts, rather than becoming one with the Force, as was typical for a Jedi upon their death.
Appearing as they did in life but surrounded by a milky blue light, Force Ghosts primarily use their new forms to offer counsel and comfort from beyond the grave. They were capable of manifesting anywhere in the galaxy, although would generally only appear directly to people with whom they shared a deep connection. Force Ghosts are largely incapable of interacting with the physical world but do maintain a limited ability to use the Force, such as when Yoda summoned a lightning bolt in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. While generally considered a feat that only Force users in touch with the Light Side of the Force could accomplish, Anakin Skywalker was able to become a Force Ghost in Return of the Jedi shortly after his redemption and death.
The Sith had a similar ability, known as Essence Transfer, which allowed them to take over another living being's body through sheer force of will or attach their souls to a physical object. Many Sith were able to survive for thousands of years in this manner, filling a wearable object like a necklace or ring with their essence and then waiting for some hapless fool to put it on and become their new host. While Sith and other Dark Jedi were apparently limited in how their ghostly forms could travel because of this bond, some were able to manipulate the physical environment around them, like poltergeists. It is entirely possible that Palpatine's dark spirit has been surviving in this fashion for decades.
Another possibility is that Palpatine managed to replicate the legendary feats of his master, the Sith Lord Darth Plagueis and developed a form of Force-based immortality. In Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine told a young Anakin Skywalker that Darth Plagueis had gained such fine control of the Force that he could create life and prevent death from touching those he cared about. It was this discussion that pushed Anakin onto the path to the dark side, his fear of his young wife dying leading him to start studying the ways of the Sith so that he could save her from the danger he foresaw coming.
There is a chance that Palpatine, who was even more paranoid and fearful of death than his master, may have found a way to use Darth Plagueis' teachings to defy death itself using the Force, albeit in a manner that required he take some time to heal from his apparent defeat in Return of the Jedi. This would make sense as it has been repeatedly shown throughout the Star Wars saga that it is much harder for Dark Jedi and Sith to use their connection to the Force for the purposes of healing. Logically, it is hard to maintain a connection to one's hate and fear once you have relieved yourself of pain and suffering.
| 2019-04-20T20:14:09 |
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-9-emperor-return-explained/
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Philadelphia City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson is again being sued in federal court by real estate developer Ori Feibush.
I sat in a federal courtroom 14 months ago, watching a judge and jury listen to the saga of City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson and real estate developer Ori Feibush.
After the verdict, I wrote that the jury probably thought that Johnson and Feibush deserved each other.
That was considered harsh by some. I had my reasons.
Johnson appeared evasive while testifying, saying 17 times that he could not recall details of why Feibush was turned away when he tried to buy city-owned vacant lots in his district, which stretches from Center City through South Philly to the airport.
Feibush was the opposite on the stand, so expansive and self-involved that he claimed the failure to buy two vacant lots "turned my life upside down."
It looks as if another federal jury is going to have the chance to mediate yet another squabble about the sale of more vacant lots in Johnson's district. Feibush has another lawsuit in the offing, accusing Johnson of again manipulating the sales process to stymie his efforts to buy then.
So who cares, right? These two have been going at each other since well before Feibush unsuccessfully challenged Johnson in the 2015 Democratic primary election.
If you pay taxes in this city, you should care.
It was reported when Feibush first filed his suit on July 17 that he won the last court battle with a judgment of $34,000. The true cost in that case is actually four times that much.
Both sides appealed the May 2016 verdict. That led to a settlement on May 30, which bumped up the $34,000 judgment to $127,114.
Attorneys from the city Law Department represented Johnson in the first case (and will again in the new lawsuit.) That cost $8,549. And it cost $505 to file the city's appeal.
Grand total: $136,168 for the spat.
For context, Johnson's Council pay is $129,632 per year.
We paid for all that. And apparently nobody learned a lesson from it.
Feibush, in his new lawsuit, accuses Johnson of continuing a "personal vendetta."
A spokesman for Johnson responded to the suit by accusing Feibush of waging "a one-sided personal and political vendetta."
Did somebody say they deserved each other? Harsh, I know.
But Feibush has a point about the controversial concept called councilmanic prerogative, a tradition that grants to the 10 Council members who represent districts in the city singular authority over any land development that requires legislative approval.
That was the heart of Feibush's first lawsuit. And it's back for an encore in the new claim.
Johnson, through a spokesman, said the city now has a "Land Bank," an independent agency making decisions about city-owned land without the need for a Council member's approval.
Any member of Council can veto the transfer of city property in their district to the Land Bank. And a City Council resolution is required to approve the sale of that property from the Land Bank.
So the councilmanic prerogative lives on. And we'll keep paying for it as long as it does.
| 2019-04-20T03:05:56 |
https://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris_brennan/philly-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-councilmanic-prerogative-20170731.html
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Why Study the Cold War?
2. Understand the role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War.
3. Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy.
4. List the effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa.
5. Analyze the role of the Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of the West in the Cold War.
CCSS.Literacy.RH.11-12. 2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
CCSS.Literacy.RH.11-12. 5. Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured, including how key sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text contribute to the whole.
CCSS.Literacy.RH.11-12. 7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media in order to address a question or solve a problem.
CCSS.Literacy.WHST.11-12. 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
CCSS.Literacy.WHST. 11-12. 9. Draw evidence from informational texts support analysis, reflection, and research.
1. The concepts of Capitalism and Communism.
2. The relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
3. U.S. strategies to combat against Communism.
4. Why the Soviet Union collapse and the aftermath of the Cold War.
1. Why was the United States more involved during the Cold War than the Soviet Union?
2. From Truman to Reagan, how did the U.S. changed their attitude towards Communism throughout the years?
3. What were the living standards of countries who follow Capitalism or Communism?
4. What were some of the most significant conflicts during the Cold War and what was the outcome?
5. Does the fall of Communism reveal that Capitalism was the economic system everyone should follow?
1. Students will write in their journals their interpretation of primary sources (both American and Soviet) and by making references of it.
2. Students will make a compare and contrast chart by pointing out the popularity and infamy of capitalism and communism.
3. Students will each write a short paper (no more than 3-5 pages) by picking a former U.S. president and discussing about the pros and cons of their foreign policies towards communism.
4. Students will work together in groups to come up with propaganda to convince the nations under Communist rule on why Capitalism is better than Communism and vice versa.
| 2019-04-22T02:22:18 |
http://proxywar.weebly.com/
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Factual error: The movie is set in the late 1950s, yet Ed's car has yellow-on-black California license plates that weren't issued until 1963. The plates on Ed's car should be black-on-yellow 1956 issue plates.
Audio problem: When Ed Wood meets Orson Welles, after Orson says his first line his cheeks keep moving, just as it does when he is speaking.
Audio problem: At the premiere of Bride of the Monster, someone can be heard shouting "Mr Landau," which of course is the real name of the actor playing Bela Lugosi.
Factual error: Ed Wood films Lugosi exiting his house, and grabbing a flower near the entrance, a scene to be shown in "Plan 9". However, in fact, the real scene of "Plan 9" shows Lugosi exiting his house, walking across a garage door (that doesn't exist in "Ed Wood") and grabbing a flower around there.
| 2019-04-18T12:25:10 |
https://www.moviemistakes.com/film400
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Is Fabolous taking his White Girl verse too far?
hiphop Is Fabolous taking his White Girl verse too far?
Brooklyn rapper Fabolous has stepped into the booth to lend controversial pop star Britney Spears a helping hand.Loso has laid some verses for Britney's forthcoming album in order to help her get her career back on track.Fabolous, who was disappointed he didn't get a chance to be in the studio with Spears, wishes her the best of luck in her recovery."I didn't get to kick it with (Spears), but the people from her record label was on top of that..." he tells MTV News."I don't know what condition Britney is in right now. Hopefully - more power to her - she'll get in a better space and position. Somebody needs to sit her down, let her know what the deal is" he continued. You can check out Loso's remix to Britney's Break The "that guy" here - http://www.defsounds.com/singles/Britney_s...k_the_ice_remixFabolous is currently working on a concept album based on an already released film. Though he would not disclose which one, he did say it's a classic that's "not too old."
Fabolous is currently working on a concept album based on an already released film. Though he would not disclose which one, he did say it's a classic that's "not too old."
The Princess Diaries, it's bait.
| 2019-04-21T04:30:42 |
https://www.vip2.co.uk/forum/topic/34651-is-fabolous-taking-his-white-girl-verse-too-far/
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Risk-reward points to cash exit being the most optimal route. Maintain NEUTRAL; share price target capped at the voluntary general offer (VGO) price of SGD2.06 for 0% upside, plus 5% FY19F yield.
M1 LIMITED (SGX:B2F)’s FY18 results were in line with consensus, albeit slightly ahead of our estimates on stronger-than-expected ARPU. We continue to see downside risks to the company’s earnings and dividends, as it is more predisposed to the price-sensitive/value segment coupled with the weaker bundling strategy vs its larger (more converged) peers.
The focus on enterprise/fixed services remains a key earnings catalyst in the medium to longer term. We expect deeper synergies for this segment via operational transformation post VGO.
SGD0.062 final DPS declared – with the interim DPS, M1’s FY18 DPS of SGD0.112 translates into a 77% payout.
Mobile revenue down for the second quarter in a row.
M1’s service revenue fell for the second consecutive quarter, down 1.3% q-o-q in 4Q18 on weaker mobile revenue (-2.1% q-o-q). This bucked the typical 4Q seasonality.
YTD mobile revenue grew 0.9%, with postpaid growth (+2.5% y-o-y) partially offsetting prepaid weakness (-12.2% y-o-y). Fixed services remained the bright spot, up 19% y-o-y in FY18 on stronger project billings.
Overall EBITDA fell 12.5% q-o-q in 4Q18 on higher handset sales and advertising expenses; EBITDA margin slid 4ppts to 36.3% (FY18: 39.7%).
TPG looks to be a mean challenger.
TPG Telecom (TPG) offers unlimited 4G data (capped at 2GB daily) bundled with free mobile calls (TPG numbers), 20 minutes fixed line voice and 20 SMS per month as part of its 12 months free trial for registered subs. Response to the initial go-to-market offer has been overwhelming, with the telco suspending further registrations in the interim.
We raise FY19F-21F core earnings by 12.7%, 14.1% and 7.7% mainly on housekeeping and after reviewing our revenue growth assumptions.
Key risks are stronger-than-expected competition and weaker-than-expected dividend payouts.
VGO closes on 18 Feb.
On 22 Jan, the offeror extended the VGO acceptance closing date to 18 Feb (from 4 Feb) and indicated that the VGO price of SGD2.06 per share will not be increased under any circumstances whatsoever. We think a competing bid from Axiata, which holds a 29.7% stake, appears increasingly unlikely at this juncture.
In our view, even in the event that Axiata does not acquiesce to the offer, the VGO looks to become unconditional, with major shareholders and friendly parties only needing an additional 16% shares.
| 2019-04-26T06:50:21 |
https://research.sginvestors.io/2019/01/m1-rhb-securities-research-2019-01-29.html
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) postponed until Thursday a planned vote on legislation (HR 3162) that would reduce payments to Medicare Advantage plans and increase the federal cigarette tax by 45 cents per pack to fund the reauthorization and expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program and make revisions to Medicare, CQ Today reports. The vote originally was scheduled for Wednesday.
Republicans were "angry that they had been given less than 24 hours to review" the bill and threatened to use procedural tactics to slow committee review, according to CQ Today .
Committee ranking member Joe Barton (R-Texas) accused Dingell of moving quickly on the bill as a way to avoid public scrutiny.
In addition, some Democrats "voiced unease" over the tobacco tax increase and the bill's broad scope, CQ Today reports (Wayne, CQ Today , 7/25).
A committee aide said, "Committee members on both sides of the aisle have asked for and have been granted additional time to review the legislation" (Johnson/Bourge, CongressDaily , 7/25).
The legislation, called the Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act, would increase SCHIP funding by $50 billion over five years.
Under the bill, a scheduled 10% cut in Medicare payments to physicians would be reversed and physicians would receive a 0.5% increase in fees for each of the next two years. The measure also would freeze reimbursement rate increases to skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies and long-term care hospitals, while increasing by 1% rates to inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
The bill would equalize payments between MA plans and traditional Medicare over five years, reducing federal reimbursements by nearly $50 billion over that time period. In addition, the bill would make revisions to the system that sets spending targets for Medicare outlays for physicians' care. SCHIP is set to expire on Sept. 30 ( California Healthline , 7/25).
House Democrats' SCHIP measure would cost $86.8 billion over five years and could cost $160 billion over 10 years, according to a preliminary Congressional Budget Office report released Wednesday. According to CBO, reversing scheduled Medicare reimbursement cuts for physicians would cost $100 billion over a decade, and total spending, including cuts made to private MA plans, would increase by $130 billion over 10 years.
In addition, cuts to MA plans would generate $50.2 billion over five years and $157.1 billion over 10 years, the CBO report states.
In a letter accompanying the report, CBO Director Peter Orszag wrote that House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Pete Stark (D-Calif.) is revising the legislation, which likely will change the cost and savings estimates.
The report is available online. Note: You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the document.
Meanwhile, Barton and other Republican lawmakers on Wednesday introduced their own SCHIP reauthorization legislation that would limit eligibility in the program to children in families with incomes up to 200% of the federal poverty level. States that provide coverage to 90% of children with incomes no more that twice the poverty level could expand eligibility to children in families with incomes up to 250% of the poverty level, according to the legislation.
Barton estimates the measure would cost an additional $5 billion to $10 billion over five years, which he said could be offset through cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Barton said, for example, beneficiaries and pharmacists could be required to use electronic prescriptions, which might save the programs $3 billion annually. The legislation also would bar states from allowing beneficiaries to exclude certain expenses, such as car payments, from their reported income to qualify for SCHIP.
In addition, the measure would cancel SCHIP coverage for adults beginning in fiscal year 2009 and prohibit the federal government from issuing waivers to states to expand coverage of adults ( CQ Today , 7/25).
While Democrats and many Republicans "agree with the underlying goal" of House and Senate versions of SCHIP legislation, "both chambers are bracing for a conference committee fight over a cigarette tax increase and cuts to private" MA plans, CongressDaily reports.
A proposed 45-cent-per-pack cigarette tax increase in the House has been met with resistance from both Republicans and some Democrats, making it "difficult for members to come to terms with" the Senate's proposed 61-cent-per-pack increase.
Some lawmakers feel that a 61-cent tax increase is too large and does not provide coverage for enough children, according to House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.).
In addition, a House provision that provides SCHIP funding by equalizing payments to MA plans likely will meet resistance in the Senate, as it does not have 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, according to Republican aides.
Even if a conference committee is able to reach an agreement on SCHIP legislation, it is unclear how Congress would proceed if President Bush vetoes the measure, according to Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) (Johnson/Bourge, CongressDaily , 7/26).
Some predict that SCHIP legislation "could be the first Bush veto to be overridden since he took office," according to the Los Angeles Times (Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angeles Times , 7/26). However, some Republicans "are not convinced that [Bush] will follow through" on his veto threat (Weisman, Washington Post , 7/26).
Health insurers "wasted no time" Wednesday denouncing the House version of SCHIP legislation for its proposed cuts to MA plans, CQ HealthBeat reports.
America's Health Insurance Plans President Karen Ignagni said that the House bill would cause "the end of the [MA] program," and BlueCross and BlueShield Association President Scott Serota warned that "millions will pay more and get less and not understand why they have lost this valuable option."
According to Serota, the "massive cuts" in the bill along with an "unprecedented level of government overregulation ... would make it impossible for private plans to continue their partnership with the federal government." AHIP will launch an advertising campaign against the cuts that features actual MA beneficiaries voicing concerns over the cuts. According to the ad, lawmakers who vote for MA cuts are "not too concerned about the millions ... who will be forced to pay more for health care and lose benefits we depend on every day" (Reichard, CQ HealthBeat , 7/25).
Reauthorization of SCHIP is the first step toward the goal of universal health coverage, Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern, Business Roundtable President John Castellani and AARP CEO Bill Novelli said on Wednesday at a rally on Capitol Hill, CongressDaily reports.
Stern, Castellani and Novelli appeared to promote the "Divided We Fail" campaign, which urges lawmakers and presidential candidates to advance universal health care proposals.
"It's a meaningful step toward universal coverage, and there is nothing more important than our children," Novelli said.
Castellani added, "Our joint message for our political leaders is this: the time for rhetoric is over. It's time to act" (Wegner, CongressDaily , 7/25).
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt in Utah on Wednesday said the debate between the Bush administration and Congress over SCHIP funding levels is about ideological differences on whether the government or private sector should run the health care system.
Leavitt said that the Bush administration supports SCHIP, but it does "not support ... a huge expansion of the program." Leavitt called House and Senate Democrats' proposals to expand the program "radical" and said Democrats were attempting to create a government-run health care system in the U.S. (Burr, Salt Lake Tribune , 7/26).
| 2019-04-25T22:17:04 |
https://californiahealthline.org/morning-breakout/house-panel-postpones-vote-on-kids-health-insurance-legislation/
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The company says it is unclear which posts were deleted. Facebook says the posts were mistakenly deleted a few years ago and the work required to restore them was extensive and might not have worked.The deleted posts were first reported by Business Insider. All posts from 2007 and 2008 have been deleted, according to the report.
In what appeared to be a slip of the tongue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson a "minister of war" on Saturday.
Australia #39;s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton described the 27 year old former rapper from Melbourne as "a very dangerous individual ". Through his father, Prakash had joint Australian and Fijian citizenship. Under Australian law, a dual national can be stripped of their citizenship if they are convicted or suspected of terror offences.He had featured in ISIS videos and has been linked to a failed Melbourne plot to behead a police officer and another attack in which two officers were stabbed outside a Melbourne police station, the SBS News reported, Prakash left Australia for Syria in 2013, taking the name Abu Khaled al Cambodi. He was mistakenly reported to have been killed in a US air strike in Mosul, Iraq, in 2015.
It's a familiar and intriguing story: A strange craft appears in the sky, performs seemingly otherworldly aerobatics, baffles onlookers, and then is gone as quickly as it appeared, leaving us to question our eyesight and sanity.But the reality is, many foreign things seen in the sky also known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs are revealed to be anything but extra terrestrial. Most of these sightings turn out to be experimental planes, atmospheric phenomena, or merely everyday objects that slip from our hands and head skyward.
”We have nothing to hide, ” the de facto Saudi leader, known by his initials MBS, said three days later. ”The premises are sovereign territory, but we will allow Turkish authorities to enter. ”On one thing at least, the Crown Prince was mistaken mdash; consulates and embassies are not, in fact, sovereign territory under international law.
Patients diagnosed with the condition, which is often mistaken for MI upon presentation, need to be counseled appropriately going forward, lead author Nathaniel Smilowitz, MD (New York University School of Medicine, NY), told TCTMD. The most important thing is at the bedside, he said. When reassuring patients that they didn't have myocardial infarction, that they don't have obstructive coronary disease and instead that they have Takotsubo syndrome, I think that reassurance has to be somewhat tempered with the recognition that these patients need to be very careful about progressive dyspnea, weight gain, and the risk for heart failure after their discharge, and to make sure . . . they're on the appropriate medications and that they have the adequate follow up to make sure that they don't progress to a state where they need to be readmitted.
The potential for a mistaken Michelle Williams moment has been out there as long as they've both been famous so, since about 1998 for both. Still, it's come up again not only because the actor is promoting a film, but because an eagle eyed Twitter user spotted that Google has not only confused the two Michelles, but planted itself firmly in the actor's camp. Twitter user @kaysiebeth grabbed a screenshot of Google results that prove the search engine thinks that she's been a part of Destiny's Child since the late '90s. The Academy Award nominated actor spoke with Huffington Post about the internet mistaking her for the other Michelle Williams, and based on her answers, it seems she'd been waiting to be asked about it for pretty much ever. Spoiler alert: She's not just cool with it; she's a fan.
A Saskatchewan family now say the dog they thought they had reconnected with isn t the dog they thought she was.
As we reported, scores of the legendary Cosmo centerfold were removed from users; tribute posts after they were flagged for violating the platform;s ;Community Standards.;Now, a rep for Facebook tells The Blast, The image in question was mistakenly removed., " adding, "We are restoring the image as it does not break our standards and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. "
| 2019-04-24T14:08:13 |
https://krayknot.com/searchhashtags.aspx?hashtag=mistaken
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The African Social Studies Programme: An Effort to Improve Curriculum and Instruction across 17 African Nations. ERIC Digest.
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education Bloomington IN.
As African nations achieved independence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, they sought ways to change inherited educational systems to make them more suitable to the needs of new nations. "No courses in the curriculum were viewed as more closely tied to national aspirations than those dealing with the country, its people, and the responsibilities of citizenship" (Dondo, Krystall and Thomas, 1974, p. 6).
By the late 1960s, new approaches to inherited history and geography courses became known in Africa as "social studies." Eleven nations founded the African Social Studies Programme (ASSP), and continue to monitor the development of social studies curriculum and instruction in the continent. This digest examines (1) the origins and goals of ASSP, (2) ASSP's organization and operation, and (3) ASSP's major achievements and current challenges.
WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS AND GOALS OF THE AFRICAN SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAMME?
The ASSP is a nonpolitical and nonprofit intergovernmental organization of 17 African nations that stimulates, promotes, and monitors innovative curriculum. In September 1967, concerned educators from 11 African countries (Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia) met at Queen's College, Oxford with representatives of the U.S. Education Development Center (EDC) and the English Centre for Curriculum Renewal and Educational Development Overseas (CREDO) to discuss needs and priorities in curriculum development in Africa. Social studies was one of these priorities.
The fledgling organization wanted to promote curriculum development, research, and the development of new materials (Muyanda-Mutebi, 1984). ASSP would provide a core secretariat as a clearinghouse of ideas and would assist member states to organize national seminar courses, workshops, and conferences with both African and non-African educators. In order to work together more closely, the participating nations agreed to meet the following year in Mombasa, Kenya.
Twenty-five African educators, seven British, and six American representatives met at the Mombasa Conference of August 1968. There they addressed questions such as these: (1) What is social studies? (2) What should be the objectives in social studies education? (3) What approach should be used in teaching social studies?
The conference concluded that a new approach based on integration of the traditional subjects (history, geography, and civics), and some elements from economics, sociology, and anthropology, was needed.
Teaching methods were also to change. Inherited methods were criticized as didactic, passive, discouraging "the development of initiative, interest, excitement and joy of learning," and focusing "the attention of the African on a few abstract ideas that are usually unrelated to the economic activities, social aspirations, and political goals of his own people" (Report on a Conference of African Educators, EDC and CREDO, 1968, p. 6).
In describing the role of social studies in a changing society, the Conference articulated three areas where social studies could make a contribution: "national integration," "problems of rapid economic development," and "the promotion of self-confidence and initiative based on an understanding of one's own worth and of the essential dignity of man" (1968, p. 9). An additional benefit of social studies was that children would become capable of coping with social change without despising traditional values and institutions.
The participants agreed that one person from each African country represented would join an "Exploratory Committee," and thought it was advisable to begin with a process for exchanging information and mutual assistance. One year later, the Exploratory Committee became the Coordinating Committee of the African Social Studies Programme, the organization that would take up where the Mombasa Conference left off, and lead the social studies movement in Africa.
HOW IS THE ASSP ORGANIZED AND OPERATED?
The ASSP is organized by a Coordinating Committee composed of one government-appointed representative from each member country. These national coordinators are usually national curriculum developers, national inspectors, or university professors. An Executive Committee of six members is set up by the Coordinating Committee. The Committee works with the Executive Director and makes decisions on behalf of the Coordinating Committee. The Executive Director is responsible for day-to-day operations through the ASSP Secretariat in Nairobi, Kenya. The present Executive Director, Dr. Peter Muyanda-Mutebi, took the office in February 1984.
The ASSP is funded by member states at the rate of $5,000 per annum in U.S. currency. Grants from private foundations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and other sources have provided critical monies for conferences, workshops, and publications.
WHAT ARE THE MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ASSP?
The major accomplishments of the ASSP center on its role in supporting national efforts within member nations to introduce, develop, and expand social studies education. Perhaps the most significant accomplishments of the ASSP have been its considerable efforts in bringing African nations together to define social studies and articulate goals, content, and methods for Africa. Member nations agree that the "Social Studies Approach," or "ASSP Approach" as it is often called, has certain outcomes and methods.
ASSP stresses the study of the local and immediate before the foreign and remote. This local emphasis is seen as a nation-building tool.
The skills and attitudes which develop through social studies teaching are those required by citizens in a free society. These skills are those of discovery (question-raising, observing, collecting, recording, classifying, and experimenting); critical thinking (analysis and inference); and problem-solving (planning, innovating, and decision-making). The attitudes expected of citizens are considered to be respect, appreciation, cooperation, and compassion.
ASSP stresses that these skills and attitudes can only be developed through participating in experiences which call for their use. Therefore, according to ASSP, social studies must be taught through inquiry, with students learning to ask and answer questions and solving their own problems.
ASSP also stresses that students need stimulation from a variety of media and the ability to express themselves through these media. Although ability to interpret and use the written word is important, it is also important to interpret interactions between people and the physical environment or the arrangement of a market or town.
The ASSP gives both educational legitimacy and hands-on technical aid to institutions and governments that are interested in social studies. The program has not only managed to bring together a cross-section of Africans to exchange ideas, materials, expertise, and personnel among participating member states, but it has also succeeded in the development of a common language in social studies across the African continent.
The ASSP has sponsored a number of international, subregional and in-country activities geared towards promoting the teaching of social studies. It also produces a variety of informative and useful teaching materials such as learning units on topics that cut across national boundaries in Africa.
As part of a review of ASSP effectiveness which was conducted during the March 1985 Seminar, the Coordinating Committee identified several ways in which the ASSP has influenced social studies in its respective countries. Thirteen coordinators presented evidence that ASSP has directly influenced national planning and policy with regard to social studies education. The methods most frequently mentioned were conferences, meetings, and seminars from which individuals carried back ideas and materials that affected policy and planning at the national level (ASSP 1985).
A variety of informative and useful teaching materials have been produced by the ASSP. Examples are (1) sourcebooks for each member state, as well as teacher's guides which go with each of the sourcebooks, (2) learning units on topics that cut across national boundaries in Africa, for example, "People are the Same" or "The Market," and (3) sourcebooks on "Population Education in Sub-Saharan Africa" (Muyanda-Mutebi, 1984.) The African Social Studies Forum is an ASSP publication which encourages a smooth flow of information among its member states.
ASSP has not been without its problems. Largely dependent upon contributions of its member nations, ASSP is constrained by scarcity of resources. Although ASSP wishes to remain an organization of African states, it is often forced to turn to international donor agencies and Western countries for funding for major seminars, conferences, and curriculum development efforts. The priorities of these donors have influenced the agenda of the ASSP.
Other problems stem from the innate sensitivity of the social studies subject matter. Education in citizenship, politics, and population, and even the teaching of a nation's history, have political implications and ramifications in contemporary Africa. A course on civics may become extremely controversial as leadership changes, a one-party state emerges, or coups d'etat refashion the government.
African Social Studies Programme. REPORT ON THE SEMINAR OF THE COORDINATNG COMMITTEE OF THE ASSP, Nairobi, Kenya, March 4-9, 1985.
Dondo, Joseph M.C., Abigail Krystall and Dorothy Thomas. REPORT OF AN EVALUATION OF THE AFRICAN SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAMME, 1974.
Howes, Hugh. CURRICULUM AND REALITY IN AFRICAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS. Essex, England: Longman Group Limited, 1979.
Merryfield, Merry M. SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SELECTED AFRICAN NATIONS. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, l985.
Merryfield, Merry M. TEACHING ABOUT AFRICA. ERIC Digest No. 36, Bloomington, IN: ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, 1986. ED 278 602.
Muyanda-Mutebi, Peter. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE ASSP. Nairobi: The African Social Studies Programme, 1984.
Osunde, Egerton. "A Global Perspective in Social Studies Curriculum in African Public Schools." SOCIAL STUDIES 75 (l984): l49-l52.
Quansah, Kofi B. BASIC TRAINING COURSE IN SYSTEMATIC CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT. COURSE ONE: GENERAL BACKGROUND TO CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA. Nairobi, Kenya, 1983. ED 237 476.
REPORT OF A CONFERENCE OF AFRICAN EDUCATORS, EDC AND CREDO ON SOCIAL STUDIES, Mombasa, Kenya, August 19-30, 1968.
Yoloye, E. Ayotunde. "Dependence and Interdependence in Education: Two Case Studies from Africa." PROSPECTS: QUARTERLY REVIEWS OF EDUCATION 15 (1985): 239. ED 324 507.
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https://www.ericdigests.org/pre-928/african.htm
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Places a hyperlink at the given position pointing to a file program which is being started when clicked on. The hyperlink's source position is a rectangle with its lower left corner at (llx, lly) and its upper right corner at (urx, ury). The rectangle has by default a thin blue border.
| 2019-04-20T21:09:30 |
https://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.ps-add-launchlink.html
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Q: Can government regulate/sanction Bitcoin Addresses?
Based on a recent press release (selected quoting) : Government-sanctioned bitcoin addresses and censorship resistance. ... Under government order, the U.S. Department of Treasury... announced they would put two bitcoin addresses under sanctions, because the people using those addresses... were recognized as Iranian ransomware hackers. ... They used international and U.S.-based crypto exchanges to launder money back to Iran... through the legacy banking system. ... The order states that 'all property and interests in property of the designated persons that are... in the possession or control of U.S. persons-' ... 'are prohibited from dealing with them. ... This order is prohibiting entities from sending or receiving funds from these two specific addresses.
How does this even work? Do miners need to drop transactions to these addresses from blocks? Does it mean that this is a censorship attack vector against Bitcoin? If these sanctions become a trend, would it be possible for anyone to try to enforce compliance... to these sanctions without having a majority of the hash rate? What does this mean for Bitcoin's censorship resistance?
First of all, let's understand the magnitude of this tremendous blacklist the U.S. Treasury has created. They blacklisted not one, but two bitcoin addresses, out of a total bitcoin address space of... 2^160, which means they have blocked two out of 1.461501637 x 10^48 possible addresses. That is 10 with 48 zeroes after it. I'm not that good at math, I had to pull out my calculator... in order to figure that one out, but I think that leaves a few addresses not on the blacklist.
By my calculation, 1.46 x 10^48 minus 2, there are still plenty of addresses left. Considering that your average wallet or laptop computer can probably generate a million address per second, that means 15 million addresses could have been generated just since I started that sentence. I could generate new addresses in order to have new places to receive funds.
This entire concept is ludicrous. It represents a fundamental misunderstanding. Or does it? This is the U.S. Treasury trying to apply its authority on this novel medium. They will start small, but this will clearly escalate. This game of whack-a-mole cannot be won by technical means, so they will try political means, by applying pressure to any regulated entities that dare to not enforce the blacklist. This demonstrates that, when you have a decentralized currency and no one is in control, but around the perimeter you have a number of centralized, regulated entities like exchanges, then this will create a significant conundrum. Those centralized regulated entities now must conform to this absurd regulatory scheme... of blacklisting these two addresses.
Now there is two; soon, there may be two-hundred thousand or a million. Maybe the list of blacklisted addresses will be updated every ten seconds through a live feed... and they must maintain real-time compliance. It is a ridiculous scheme because it completely fails to achieve any of the presumed goals, if you really believe the goals are to reduce money laundering or financing for terrorist activity.
On the other hand, you might have this crazy idea that the purpose of these regulations... is not to prevent terrorist financing -- because this scheme obviously fails at that goal -- but to further expand the power, control, and authority of various national governments over their citizens... and create a surveillance mechanism over a completely captured financial industry... that pervades the life of every person, thereby destroying democratic institutions, checks and balances. You would be right.
So what does this do? It furthers the goal of strengthening the surveillance system and financial controls, not for the purposes of actually controlling crime. We all know how sanction countries like these are funded: through banks. But it serves the role of extending authoritarian control over citizens. It will be completely ineffective, practically speaking, in Bitcoin. It will mostly affect the legitimate regulated entities which operate on the fringes of Bitcoin: centralized exchanges, merchant services, etc.
For private individuals and miners who are anonymous and physically distributed, it doesn't change much. It demonstrates the importance of maintaining decentralization and anonymity in the system. That is the latest news on censorship resistance in Bitcoin. Things may become very weird over the next few years as various entities around the world... try to grapple with this thing that doesn't fit any of their preconceived notions and regulatory schemes. They have banned a number! Well, in Australia, the laws of Australia apparently supercede the laws of mathematics, so why not? Why not ban a number just because it is pointless? To exercise power for the pursuit of power itself. The means are the goal.
| 2019-04-25T00:31:04 |
http://megafoo.com/article/bitcoin_regulations/big-brother-btc-address-sanction-attempt
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How do you ask the following questions in Italian?
How long have you been staying in this country?
Any nice places in the location?
Che cosa ti piace mangiare?
Quanto tempo è che vivi in questo Paese?
(Are there) Any nice places in the location?
(C'è) qualcosa di bello da vedere sul posto?
Quali sono i tuoi hobby/interessi?
| 2019-04-23T00:25:35 |
https://www.rocketlanguages.com/forum/conversation-in-italian/conversing-in-italian/
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Independence Day - A remake of The War of the Worlds?
A month from now the eagerly awaited sequel to 1996's sci-fi movie Independence Day will invade theaters worldwide with Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman returning to help save mankind from the resurgence of the alien invaders that attempted to eradicate mankind from the face of the Earth 20 years ago. Independence Day: Resurgence will also see returning cast members Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, and Brent Spiner joined by newcomers Liam Hemsworth, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward, Angelababy, Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Fichtner.
Directed by Roland Emmerich, who also co-wrote the movie with Producer Dean Devlin (and Nicholas Wright, James A. Woods, and James Vanderbilt) Independence Day: Resurgence sees the return of the filmmaking duo that defined sci-fi blockbuster cinema in the nineties and the noughties with movies such as Universal Soldier, Stargate, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. Critical opinion of Emmerich and Devlin's movies may range widely among science fiction fans, but there is no denying the duo's ability to produce and market epic cinematic set pieces destined to be, and best experienced on the big screen.
Many science fiction fans will look back with great nostalgia to the 1996 original which also starred Will Smith, Mary McDonnell, Margaret Colin, the unforgettable Randy Quaid and the late, great Robert Loggia. Yet even when watching this movie on opening night in my local theater, sat next to a duo of pizza devouring morons, I couldn't escape a strange, familiar feeling. Independence Day, while having its typical Hollywood brashness to it, was a more seminal movie than maybe critics and fans give it credit for. Take the opening scene to 2012's Prometheus, in which we are shown a primordial world. Before we are introduced to the Engineer that sacrifices his life, to ultimately create life, we see a series of shots showing the shadow of something large crawling across the landscape - the very same iconic imagery (pictured below) that was used throughout 1996's Independence Day, showing that even Ridley Scott was influenced by the movie. But the movie itself was influenced by another that had come before it, long before it.
Critics have been keen to point out that Independence Day is almost an amalgamation of every iconic science fiction film from the 1950's onwards, but while sitting dead center in the front row (the best seat in my opinion) of the theater back in 1996 I could only think of one movie that Independence Day kept reminding me of, 1953's The War of the Worlds. The air of familiarity was there throughout the movie, but it was when the alien invaders survived a nuclear attack unscathed that made me almost say out loud, "This is a remake of the War of the Worlds".
Throughout Independence Day, there are numerous scenes similar to those in the 1953 classic that starred Gene Barry and Ann Robinson - the deadly beam weapon, the disastrous attempt to make peace with the aliens, but after the nuclear attack scene, there was one more that literally made me roll my eyes in its blatancy - When Jeff Goldblum's character David Levinson is struck with the idea, courtesy of his father Julius played by Judd Hirsch, to use a virus to attack the aliens technology. The comparisons to how the Martians were defeated by the germs, bacteria and viruses of Earth are so blatant one wonders how Hollywood gets away with such writing. We are taking Batman v Superman's infamous 'Martha' scene levels of stupidity here.
Don't get me wrong I loved, and still love Independence Day - the way the opening credits interact with my surround sound, Will Smiths many awesome lines, Julius Levinson calling everyone 'Vultures', David's gravel-voiced boss, Randy Quaid's iconic performance. Independence Day is a guilty pleasure that I am not ashamed in admitting to enjoying, its just that part of me wishes that Emmerich and Devlin had had the professional decency to acknowledge, at least in the credits that at the end of the day it was a reimagining of, an adaptation of the 1953 version of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.
Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day: Resurgence's release date is June 24th, 2016.
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4 Fan responses to Independence Day - A remake of The War of the Worlds?
I'm not sure I'd say a remake. The movies owes just as much to the much less popular Earth vs The Flying Saucers, it seems like a blend of the two. It has a lot of similarities to both but I have to go with critics and say it was a blend pretty much every aliens attack plot that came before it.
I enjoyed the first ID, but it was so over the top, and if I remember correctly had a lot of symmetrical framing that really highlighted the collaged photography in an unpleasant way.
Definitely big time WotW parallels, and let's add to that a blatant rip off of the Alien creature as well. I can kinda forgive the first, WotW being the first and finest invasion story, and many forms of media borrowing heavily from it since.
The MORB parallels are less fogiveable. It cheapens the movie when some thought and creativity could have surely produced a more original creature. Now, this design has been referenced heavily too, but in a production as ambitious as ID they should have tried harder.
While I'm at it, I also enjoyed many aspects of Spielbergs WotW, with the biggest exception being the creatures. Lazy, boring design. Making things overly complicated seems to be the fashion now, you'd think Spielberg would have the good taste to sidestep that. He missed a huge opportunity, there.
George Pal's Martians were as creepy and inexplicable as anything ever, wouldn't you want to at least try to hit that note? And Wells' Martians were quite horrific too, as were the tripods and their behavior. I understand it's harder to be original now, but it's not impossible.
It's hard to call out Independence Day as the only film guilty of borrowing tremendously from films which came before it. They're all guilty. Only a select few really stand out as being something"fresh". ID4 is indeed a guilty pleasure for me as well, I love the characters, I love the dialogue and I actually really liked the Aliens. Sure it's a culmination of many sci-fi greats, but isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery? In today's Hollywood it's difficult to be original. Original ideas are generally shot down, under-funded and/or perform poorly at the box office. I think if we as an audience showed with our wallets that original ideas are more welcome, it would elicit the appropriate response from filmmakers and screenwriters alike.
Either way, I'm one who enjoys Independence Day for what it is - an event film, with large scale, big explosions and an entertaining cast. It's no ALIEN and certainly no WAR OF THE WORLDS, but it is enjoyable as its own property.
Well, guys, D&E actually SAID ID4 was supposed to a spiritual remake of War of the Worlds. So, it wasn't an accident.
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| 2019-04-22T03:29:28 |
https://www.scified.com/news/independence-day---a-remake-of-the-war-of-the-worlds
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Given a matrix whose each entry is either ‘^’ or ‘#’, find the sum of weights of all CPCs. A cell is CPC if it is filled with ‘^’, and there exists a prime P such that there are P or more consecutive '^'s on each of its four sides(i.e. left, right, top bottom). The weight of CPC is number of distinct primes P which satisfy the above property.
You need to evaulate each of L, R, T, B for all cells in the matrix. This can be done trivially in O(n+m) time per cell, or O(m * n * (m+n)) time overall.
However, the above approach would need approximately 500 * 500 * 1000 = 2.5 * 108, which will time out.
How do we proceed then ?
L can be at most i, R can be at most n-1-i, T can be at most j and B can be at most m-1-j. Therefore, min(L, R, T, B) ≤ min(i, j, m-1-j, n-1-i).
If min(L, R, T, B) = K, then K can be computed in O(K) time.
Complexity of this method is still O(n * m * (m+n)), but constants will be lower. To get an idea, for 500 x 500 grid, computing L, R, T, B separately for all cells will take upto 2.5 * 108(approx.) matrix lookups. However, the above method will need at most 8.3 * 107(approx.) matrix lookups, which is 3 times faster.
This approach is good enough to find out the value of K = min(L, R, T, B). To find no of primes upto K, we can compute offline and store all primes upto 500(actually upto 250) in an array, and then count the number of primes less than K.
K = compute(i, j) I = 0 while(sorted-array-of-primes* ≤ K) I ++; // I is the number of monsters cell i,j can accommodate.
We will confine ourselves to calculating L for all cells in O(n * m) time. R, T, B can be computed similarly.
We can compute L for a single cell in O(m) time.
Can we do better ? If we need to do this for a single cell, of course we cant do better because all relevant cells(that are O(m)) need to be checked.
So, is there some relation between the value of L for different cells, which can be used to compute L for all cells fast ?
The values of R, T and B can be computed for all cells similarly. The complexity of this method is clearly O(n * m).
Once K = min(L, R, T, B) has been computed, number of primes less than K can be read either from a precomputed lookup table, or by iterating through list of primes as in Method 1.
Whats wrong with my solution. Still ??
can any body comment on my algorithm…???
can anyone tell…where am i going wrong.
adjusting based on a # on a row or column.
Notice that number of #'s and good cells are inversly proportional.
Can you please help? My code is correct as far as I know but it still shows ‘Wrong Answer’ when I submit. My code for CAOS1 worked perfectly and showed AC too.
min should be 100. but it will actually be 44, because left will become 44.
I havent seen your solution, but if your solution is really of complexity you say it is, then it is too slow. Consider the case when the left half of grid is all ‘#’ and right half is all ‘^’. Then your code will take O(n^2 m^2) time.
But thanks for pointing the mistake. I have corrected it now.
@sanjam_kumar Consider your function : calcmin(char a, int x, int y).
You are not performing any checks on the bounds of the varibles i,j,k,l to check that they lie within the R*C grid. you should put checks to see that they are >=0 and less than R and C in their respective cases. Otherwise if one reaches the end of the grid, it will not see a ‘^’ and break from the loop. you are lucky you did not get a runtime error because of array index becoming negative.
@kcahdog I don’t think that’s the error.
I submitted the same exact code for CAOS1 with just the count++ implement of (z>=2). It worked fine there.
Guess you found the bug. always perform bounds checking in arrays.You were lucky your code got AC in CAOS 1!
@utkarsh_lath : I have made it integer to protect overflow, still it is wrong answer so is there any logical mistake i have made??
If yes, could you please provide me the test case?
@y07uc118 does your p array contain only zeros?
| 2019-04-24T17:59:31 |
https://discuss.codechef.com/t/caos2-editorial/3168
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Which of the following statements is/are correct in relation to the legislative procedure regarding Bills in the India parliament?
1. A Bill pending in the parliament shall not lapse by reason of prorogation of the Houses.
2. A Bill pending in the Council of States, Which has not been passed by the House of the people, shall not lapse on dissolution of the House of the people.
3. A Bill which is pending in the House of the people, or which having been passed by the House of the people is pending in the Council of States, Shall, Subject to the provisions of Article 108, lapse on dissolution of the House people.
1. No Members of the Parliament shall be liable to any proceedings in any court in respect of any vote given by him in any committee of the Parliament.
2. A House of the Parliament or State Legislature can try anyone or any case directly, as a Court of Justice.
1. A money bill is introduced only in the Lok Sabha.
2. Under article 249, resolution passed by Rajya Sabha in the national interest allows parliament to enact laws on only such items of state List which are specified in the said resolution.
1. If a person is elected to both the houses of the parliament, he must intimate within 10 days in which house he desires to serve else his seat in the Lok Sabha becomes vacant.
2. A sitting member of one house cannot be elected to another house.
3. If a person is elected to both state legislature and the parliament, his seat in the state legislature becomes vacant.
1. Money Bill can be introduced by any member of the lower house but only in Lok Sabha.
2. The defeat of Money Bill in the Lok Sabha leads to the resignation of the government.
1. it should state the reason for its adoption in the Lok Sabha.
2. it can be moved against the entire council of ministers only and not against an individual minister.
3. if it is passed in the lok Sabha, the council of ministers must resign from office.
business pending before the House.
(b) Prorogation is done by the president of India and it does not affect the bills or any other business pending before the House.
1. A money bill can be introduced only in the lower house on the recommendation of Speaker.
2. All financial bills are not Money Bills.
3. Money Bill can be introduced either by a minister or by a private member.
4. The Rajya Sabha can detain money Bill for a maximum period of 10 days.
5. Money Bill can be returned by the President for reconsideration.
Consider the following statements about the Parliamentary Question?
1. Starred Questions requires a written answer and hence, supplementary question cannot follow.
2. Unstarred Questions requires an oral answer and hence, supplementary question can follow.
3. Maximum 20 Questions are included in the list of Starred Questions for a particular day.
4. Minimum of 15 clear days notice is required for tabling Unstarred Questions.
5. Short Notice Questions requires written answers only.
| 2019-04-20T09:17:36 |
http://mentorstudypoint.in/quiz/?id=140
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Amaizeing composition! Crystal clear, consonant, captivating, combustible kernels!
[quote=gpsychosis]Amaizeing composition! Crystal clear, consonant, captivating, combustible kernels![/quote] [img]https://media0.giphy.com/media/Z4jHBtm382DXa/giphy.gif[/img] Corny compliment!
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But is it corny enough?
I think the answer to that question is always no!
[quote=Devieus]But is it corny enough?[/quote] [img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/55f0d86dc40b5a644dd19ea593572851/tumblr_omkkfvTSpP1rlu4c2o1_500.gif[/img] I think the answer to that question is always no!
| 2019-04-25T18:03:57 |
https://weeklybeats.com/ipaghost/music/insert-corn-to-corntinue
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SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea announced on Friday it was voiding non-aggression pacts with South Korea and severing a hotline with Seoul, hours after the UN Security Council adopted tough new sanctions on Pyongyang.
The announcement ramped up tensions on the Korean peninsula that have surged since the North staged a third nuclear test last month. On Thursday, the country threatened a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States.
Pyongyang is no stranger to bellicose rhetoric, but the tone has reached a frenzied pitch in recent days, fuelling concerns that it might trigger a border incident, with both North and South planning major military exercises next week.
North Korea "abrogates all agreements on non-aggression reached between the North and the South", the state-run Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) said in a statement.
The main bilateral non-aggression pact was signed in 1991, endorsing the peaceful settlement of disputes and the prevention of accidental military clashes.
"It also notifies the South side that it will immediately cut off the North-South hotline," said the statement, which was carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea has threatened to sever the phone link - installed in 1971 - many times, and has actually done so twice before, South Korea's Unification Ministry noted.
Pyongyang's latest announcement came hours after the UN Security Council beefed up existing sanctions on the communist state in response to its February 12 nuclear test.
The resolution adopted by the 15-member Council added new names to the UN sanctions blacklist and tightened restrictions on North Korea's financial dealings, notably its suspect "bulk cash" transfers.
Earlier resolutions gave states the right to inspect cargo suspected to contain weapons material. Those inspections will become mandatory.
The new sanctions will "bite hard", said the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice. "They increase North Korea's isolation and raise the cost to North Korea's leaders of defying the international community."
China wants "full implementation" of the resolution, said its UN envoy Li Baodong, while stressing that efforts must be made to bring North Korea back to negotiations and to defuse tensions.
Prior to the Security Council meeting, the North Korean Foreign Ministry had threatened a "pre-emptive nuclear attack" against the United States and all other "aggressors".
The United States responded by saying it was "fully capable" of defending itself and its allies - including South Korea - against any North Korean missile strike.
The CPRK statement condemned the UN resolution - drafted by the United States and the North's sole major ally, China - as proof that Washington and its "puppets" in Seoul were "hell bent" on confrontation.
"North-South relations have gone so far beyond the danger line that they are no longer repairable and an extremely dangerous situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula where a nuclear war may break out right now," it said.
The statement warned that the North Korean military would respond "mercilessly" to any intrusion - "even an inch" - into its land, sea or air space.
An annual US-South Korea exercise known as Foal Eagle began on March 1 and continues until April 30, involving more than 10,000 US troops along with a far greater number of South Korean personnel.
And a largely computer-simulated joint exercise called Key Resolve will be held from March 11 to March 21.
Meanwhile, South Korea's defence ministry said the North was gearing up for nationwide military manoeuvres of its own next week, involving all three wings of its armed forces.
In a separate report Friday, KCNA said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had visited a frontline military unit involved in a deadly skirmish with the South in 2010.
During his inspection on Thursday, Kim declared the North was ready for all-out war and that he would order attacks in all frontline areas in case of any provocation.
| 2019-04-23T05:02:50 |
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/n-korea-voids-pacts-with-south-as-sanctions-toughened
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A thick sparkling frost coated much of the UK today, leaving many places cold but with a winter wonderland look.
Rivers across the country had chunks of ice floating them as everywhere from Scarborough to Hampshire experienced bitterly cold conditions.
Scotland in particular suffered, as snow dusted the north of the country and residents had to wrap up warm against the plummeting temperatures.
But the festive appearance is about to melt away, as heavy rain and gale force winds are working their way from the Atlantic towards the UK.
The western weather front is expected to bring winds reaching speeds of up to 50mph tomorrow across the UK, with wet spells estimated to produce 20-25mm rain in the south-west of England and south wales.
A spokesman for the Met Office said: 'It's an area of low pressure that 's bringing the weather front from the west.
'Tomorrow will be much milder over the UK, with the temperature hitting highs of 7C to 11C. The south will see temperatures in double figures.
'It'll be a wet day for the south west of England.
'In eastern parts of Scotland, there is expected to be 20 to 40mm of rain.
'There will be gusts of up to 40pmh and 50pmh everywhere.
Today had been predicted to be the coldest day of the year, with temperatures last night dropping to -12C in Scotland.
There was a dusting of snow in the northern parts of Scotland, but most of the country only experienced a glittering frost and some fog last night and the early part of this morning.
But the Met Office revealed that it had been mild compared to the sub-zero conditions in February, where a temperature of -15C was recorded in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, making that that the coldest date of the year so far.
Today the thermometer will hover between 2C and 4C in most places - although cities including Liverpool and Birmingham will feel the chill as the temperature does not reach any higher than 1C.
But after the wet and windy conditions tomorrow, at least the weekend will bring a welcome rise in temperature, and even some sunny spells.
The spokesman said: 'The weather will be milder, there will just be showers around the country.
Yesterday freezing fog and ice brought beautiful scenes to the countryside but transport chaos in many cities yesterday as temperatures plummeted to -10C.
About 200 flights were cancelled as airports struggled to deal with the treacherous conditions, while major roads were jammed and rail users faced delays after the country woke to a thick blanket of frost and fog.
The River Thames froze at Wargrave, Berkshire, and canals iced over in London, Birmingham and Stockport.
| 2019-04-24T04:13:22 |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247450/UK-weather-Rivers-frozen-solid--theyll-running-weekend.html
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"First-Line Supervisors-Managers of Retail Sales Worker"
Skills Needed for: "First-Line Supervisors-Managers of Retail Sales Worker"
1) Management of Personnel Resources -- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
3) Service Orientation -- Actively looking for ways to help people.
6) Monitoring -- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
7) Reading Comprehension -- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
11) Speaking -- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Is being a "First-Line Supervisors-Managers of Retail Sales Worker" your very best career choice?
12) Mathematics -- Using mathematics to solve problems.
15) Troubleshooting -- Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
16) Equipment Maintenance -- Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
17) Learning Strategies -- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
21) Coordination -- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
See the Future Outlook and Educational Requirements for "First-Line Supervisors-Managers of Retail Sales Worker"
| 2019-04-23T04:55:52 |
https://job-descriptions.careerplanner.com/First-Line-Supervisors-Managers-of-Retail-Sales-Workers-3.cfm
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I update my apps quite frequently - every string update would require the update of all the localised languages which would slow-down the release process considerably. When some user offers to translate the app, he/she usually means translating the current version. However, what I would need is a continuous translation support for every future release. And nobody can promise he'll have time to translate the update of the app in 3 years in the second week of July.
To mitigate the problems from the above point, I could use some professional app translating service with guaranteed availability. The problem with these companies is that they employ translators who aren't IT experts and I'm worried that because the app is full of very technical terms, the result will be awful. And not knowing the language, I wouldn't be able to verify the quality of the translation.
The layout of the user interface is optimized for certain string sizes. Each translation would be of a different length so some texts could start to overflow in the user interface or be truncated.
I'm Czech so English isn't my native language. But I always prefer the English terminology when IT is involved. My operating system language is set to English and all applications are in English. The English terminology is the most established one and often I'm quite confused when I read Czech translations of some terms. And frankly, if you don't understand the words like "server", "network", "gateway", "IP", "DNS", "download", "upload", "history", "Start", "Stop", etc., the app isn't for you.
| 2019-04-20T10:38:15 |
https://support.sysstat.techet.net/article/48-will-you-localize-the-app-to-my-language
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Question: Whenever I start a book, I just give up on it and start a new one. If it is possible, how do I write a story without getting writer's block? Since I'm only eleven.
Answer: It takes a lot of self-discipline to write a novel--as you are discovering. In fact, very few people of any age have that level of discipline. So don't be frustrated with yourself. It will get easier with practice.
Some writers spend years writing short stories before they try a novel, because it is easier to hold an entire short story in your imagination as you work on it, and you can finish a short story much faster, while your inspiration is still fresh.
Because novels are bigger stories, they have a lot more elements (plotlines, subplots, characters, ideas, information about the setting, etc.) to keep track of. The inspiration and excitement you have when you write the first chapter can fade a little by the time you get to chapter five, or chapter ten. This is especially true if you discover that some of the choices you made in the early chapters are starting to contradict themselves or are getting in the way of what you want your characters to do. You may spend so much time trying to keep track of everything that you lose sight of the ideas and emotions that inspired you in the first place.
Also, you may discover that the path between the beginning of the story and the end is not as clear when you're writing the middle. Sometimes, the end of the story is like a mountain. At the start of the story, it's like you're standing on a plateau and you can see the mountain clearly in the distance, so you know where you're going. But between the plateau and the mountain is a dark forest. Once you get into that forest, you can't see the mountain any more. All the paths look the same. They twist and turn. And it's not easy to see which path will actually take you in the right direction. Some times you get an idea that's like a new path opening up, but it turns out to be a dead end and you're left in a place where you're not sure how to get back on track.
that every story goes wrong in the second act.
One thing that can help is to write an outline of the novel before you start. An outline is a summary of the entire novel from start to end, but is only a few pages long. It serves as a roadmap, so when you get stuck and you're not sure where the story should go, the outline can remind you what should happen next.
In fact, writing an outline is a great way to make sure your story makes sense and feels exciting before you start the actual writing.
You can revise the outline if you get new ideas, but you should make sure you always have an outline that tells the complete story from beginning to end in a way that makes sense and feels exciting.
The other advantage to having an outline is that you don't have to think about the entire story at once. You can just focus on one small part at a time and know that all the parts will fit together in the end because they are all described in the outline.
In fact, if you get stuck on one part of the story, you can skip ahead and work on a different part. Later, you can go back and fill in the missing part.
After you write down every idea you can think of, leave the project alone for a day. Then go back and read your ideas and see if you don't find a more exciting path for your story to take. Usually, the more excited you are about your story, the easier it is to write and the more exciting it will be for the reader.
I agree totally about the need for a novel outline! I am in the process of writing my second novel and my first with the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) project. I am up to 26,000 words of my 50,000 words in one month challenge. Without an outline, I would be stumbling and lost. Thank you for the tips on Writers Block.
Something I started doing was creating files on the computer that I use to type. I have a character list and short description, armor and weapon for the characters through each chapter (in case they drop or change), any unique words I have created and a timeline to keep track of how old each character.
When I need to remember what a character looks like that may be absent from the book for a period of time I can refer back to the character list. When I need to know what I named a river, that I made up, I have the important words file.
I like the part which you made mention, that of living the project after coming up with a certain idea and getting back on it the next day. More especially when facing writers block. The entire idea helps in freshening up the brain and coming up with new ideas all diverting the idea into a much better one. Thanks for the practical tips.
| 2019-04-19T15:18:45 |
https://www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/writers-block5.html
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After a time she (heard) a little pattering of feet in the distance.
Tara wanted to go ______ the movie.
My friend Amar will wrap the birthday present.
Mr. Gupta is the ____ person I ever met in my life.
This is probably the ____ dress in the store.
Binu and Juli ____ studying really hard for their exams this week.
They ____ a new car last month.
Fill in the blank with the correct pronoun.
Mom asked Manya and ___ to clean the kitchen.
| 2019-04-20T22:25:30 |
http://www.learnersplanet.com/online-english-grammar-practice-study-material
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A high-profile Senate committee investigating alleged campaign-finance abuses has subpoenaed records from the National Education Association and a raft of other nonprofit organizations.
The Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., is looking into possible illegal campaign expenditures by nonprofit organizations, according to a committee source who declined to be named, and the panel will hold a hearing on the issue.
The hearing will explore whether a group of nonprofit organizations, the Teamsters union, and the AFL-cio--an umbrella organization comprising many unions, including the American Federation of Teachers--illegally coordinated their expenditures for federal campaigns, the source said.
The hearing has not yet been scheduled, but will take place by the end of the year, the source added.
The 2.2 million-member NEA, the nation's largest teachers' union, was subpoenaed after news reports indicated that the group may have joined with other organizations to coordinate spending and campaign activities in partisan campaigns, which violates federal campaign laws, according to the committee source.
EA officials denied any illegal activities and said they would cooperate with the committee's requests.
"The committee is on a fishing expedition," said Robert Chanin, the general counsel for the NEA. "There is nothing that they have that suggests that NEA or any of the other organizations have engaged in illegal activities."
Under federal election law, the NEA is considered a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. Legally, it is allowed only to make campaign donations independently.
The NEA's political action committee gave about $2.3 million in contributions to congressional candidates during the 1995-96 campaign season, and 99 percent of those donations went to Democratic candidates, according to federal election records.
Mr. Chanin said that the committee had asked for a "immensely broad" array of campaign-related documents.
The process of collecting the material will be a burden, the union said.
"It's going to require us to do a lot of legwork and investigating," said Richard Wilcof, a staff lawyer for the NEA.
The committee had issued a total of 26 subpoenas in connection with the hearing as of late August.
Democrats on the committee sent subpoenas to 14 nonprofits with GOP and conservative ties, including the Heritage Foundation, the Christian Coalition, and the National Right to Life Committee. Committee Republicans subpoenaed groups traditionally linked with liberal causes or Democratic politics, including the Sierra Club, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Democratic Leadership Council.
Sen. Thompson's committee began hearings this summer focused primarily on allegations of illegal foreign contributions to the 1996 Democratic campaign. It is also looking at alleged Republican fund-raising violations.
See the National Education Association in our Organizations listing.
| 2019-04-22T12:08:54 |
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1997/09/03/01nea.h17.html
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"Please find enclosed papers that relate to a decision taken by the Home Secretary, to deprive your daughter, Shamima Begum, of her British citizenship", it read.
The family's lawyer Mohammed Tasnime Akunjee told Radio 4's The World This Weekend that the family were informed about the birth in a phone call from a translator at the camp and that they had mixed feelings about it.
The family's lawyer said 19-year-old Shamima Begum and the baby are in good health.
Shamima Begum's family put out a statement saying they were "very disappointed" with the Home Office's order and were "considering all legal avenues to challenge this decision".
Miss Begum, now nine months pregnant with her third child, told The Times in an interview that she has "no regrets" about joining the caliphate and described how seeing the severed head of a hostage dumped in a bin "didn't faze me at all".
The British government has the power to remove citizenship on national-security grounds, though not if it would make the individual stateless.
Ms Begum left east London, with two school friends, in February 2015, creating worldwide headlines.
"We must remember that those who left Britain to join Daesh were full of hate for our country".
The Home Office has declined to comment further on the letter.
The 19-year-old spoke to British reporters in Syria earlier in the week, where she made her plea for Britain to help her return home to have her child. "My message is clear-if you have supported terrorist organizations overseas I will not hesitate to prevent your return".
Meanwhile, Richard Barrett, a former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6, suggested it would be "unreasonable" to expect the Syrian Defence Force to look after her indefinitely.
Richard Barrett described Shamima as a "teenager who went badly off the rails", and said the British society should be strong enough to reabsorb her; despite Shamima's apparent lack of remorse.
"In recent days the Home Secretary has clearly stated that his priority is the safety and security of Britain and the people who live here", a spokesman said.
But authorities could prosecute her or issue a special security notice that would see her detained on arrival at a United Kingdom airport.
"I feel she needs a chance, maybe to explain what was going on and maybe we can understand a bit more how they got to her and how she thought it was the right move", he said.
This is a still taken from CCTV issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on February 23, 2015, of 15-year-old Amira Abase, left, Kadiza Sultana, 16, center, and Shamima Begum, 15, going through Gatwick airport, south of London, before they caught their flight to Turkey on Feb 17, 2015.
Casey's only hope was for Mickelson to make a mistake on the closing holes, and there was little chance of that. Mickelson won on American soil for the first time since the Phoenix Open in 2013.
| 2019-04-25T00:45:27 |
http://lafabricaportena.com/2019/02/shamima-begum-has-united-kingdom-citizenship-revoked-by/
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It's sometimes useful to be able to be able to read the name of a compound and understand what that means. The names of coordination compounds tend to be pretty long because of the number of pieces involved, but they usually follow a trend.
Coordination compounds often contain a "complex" ion, with ligands attached to the metal ion, as well as a counterion, to balance charge. If there is a cation and an anion, the cation is named first.
In the formula, you can always tell one ion from the other because the complex ion (metal plus ligands) is always enclosed in square brackets. Anything outside of brackets is the counterion or counterions.
Ligands are listed in front of the metal.
Note that anionic ligands generally end in "o" in the name of a coordination compound. Chloride becomes chloro. Acetate becomes acetato. Neutral ligands keep their regular names, but the two common molecules H2O and NH3 are called "aqua" and "ammine", respectively.
If two different ligands are found in the complex, they are listed alphabetically.
In the examples above, there were six waters, "hexaaqua", six ammines, "hexaammine", and five waters, "pentaaqua".
For example, [(Ph3P)4Pd] is tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0).
If you need to stress that only one ligand of a certain type is present, you could use the numbering adjective "mono". For example, if you are comparing a compound with two CO ligands to another that has only one, you might call them "the dicarbonyl compound" and "the monocarbonyl compound", respectively.
The metal is named following the ligands, and its charge or oxidation state is listed using Roman numerals.
However, if the complex ion containing the metal is an anion, the metal is given the suffix "-ate", sometimes replacing its normal ending.
If the complex ion is an anion and the element's symbol does not match its name in English, the Latin name of the metal is usually used rather than the English one. For example, an iron-containing anion would contain the term "ferrate" instead of "iron"; a copper-containing one would be called a "cuprate", one with gold would be called an "aurate" and so on.
There is no need to describe the number of counterions, because that information can be worked out given the charge on the metal and the charges on the ligands.
Na2[CuF4], sodium tetrachlorocuprate(II) (no need to say there are two sodium ions).
| 2019-04-19T10:48:35 |
http://employees.csbsju.edu/cschaller/Principles%20Chem/New_Folder/TMnames.htm
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So I loaned my friend $25,000 and just found out he is going to file bankruptcy. Now what???
Because he is my friend, he offered to settle and pay me outside of the bankruptcy and he agreed to not include my debt in the bankruptcy case. Can I do this?
No. Once a bankruptcy case is filed an automatic stay goes into effect, whether or not you have actual notice of the bankruptcy filing, which prevents you from taking any action to collect your debt, including negotiating a settlement. If you engage in negotiations to get paid outside of the bankruptcy case, you will not only violate the automatic stay, but you could subject yourself to an avoidance claim by the bankruptcy trustee if you get paid, which could result in your having to later turn over any payment(s) you received to the bankruptcy trustee.
My friend filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case. Do I need to file anything with the Bankruptcy Court regarding the debt he owes me?
Yes. You should at least file a Proof of Claim with the Court. Depending upon the case and the debtor's income and assets, a portion of your claim may be paid the through the Chapter 13 Plan. You should file the Proof of Claim, just in case. Forms for such claims are available on the Arizona Bankruptcy Court's website, or you can have an attorney assist you with the filing of the Claim.
What if his bankruptcy case converts to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case?
If a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case is filed, or if a case originally filed as a Chapter 13 case is converted to a Chapter 7 case, you should receive a notice from the bankruptcy court. The notice will either contain a deadline for filing claims, in which case you should file a timely claim, or it will state not to file a claim unless the Court issues a subsequent notice setting a deadline for claims to be filed. This will typically only occur if the bankruptcy trustee assigned to the case has acquired assets to liquidate and distribute to creditors. If a deadline for claims has been set you should definitely file a claim. If you fail to file a timely claim, you will likely not be able to participate in the distributions made to creditors.
When I made the loan to my friend he gave me a lien on his house to secure the loan. What does this mean in the bankruptcy case?
First, if a bankruptcy case was filed and you did not record a deed of trust / mortgage to perfect the lien on the real property before the bankruptcy case was filed, your claim will not be treated as a secured claim. Further, it would be a violation of the automatic stay if you recorded the deed of trust / mortgage after the bankruptcy case is filed.
Second, if a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case is filed, you will need to obtain relief from the automatic stay in order to exercise your remedies against the real property, such as foreclosure. An analysis should be performed to determine the value of the property and amount of liens with priority over your lien to determine if foreclosure on the property makes sense. While the underlying obligation / debt will likely be discharged in the bankruptcy case, the lien on the property will survive the bankruptcy, unless someone (i.e the debtor or bankruptcy trustee) takes some action to avoid the lien. If there was a lien recorded against the property ahead of your lien which was foreclosed before or during the bankruptcy, then your lien against the property was extinguished and your claim can and should be treated as an unsecured claim, in which case you should file an unsecured proof of claim.
If a chapter 13 bankruptcy case is filed, you should file a secured Proof of Claim in the case. You will need to review the Chapter 13 Plan proposed by the debtor to see how your claim is proposed to be treated. For example, the debtor could propose to pay the regular monthly payments owed to you directly, outside of the Plan, commencing with the first payment you are owed after the date the bankruptcy was filed, and then pay the past due payments / arrearages owed (payments not made prior to the bankruptcy filing) through the Chapter 13 Plan. If the loan is secured by real property which is not the debtor's principal residence, then the debtor can propose to "cram down" your claim and pay you only the current fair market value of the property, and not the full amount of your loan balance. If your loan was secured by a junior position lien against the debtor's principal residence, and the amount owed to the senior / first position lien holder is greater than the value of the real property, your loan may be considered to be wholly unsecured and treated as an unsecured claim, and the debtor will likely seek to avoid / release your lien, typically upon entry of the discharge order. Note you should never agree to the avoidance / release of your lien prior to either (a) the debtor's completion / full performance of the Chapter 13 Plan, or (b) the entry of the discharge order. That way, if the bankruptcy case is dismissed or converted to another Chapter your lien and status as a secured creditor will remain intact. Should you disagree with the proposed treatment of your claim in the debtor's Chapter 13 Plan, be sure to file a timely objection to the Chapter 13 Plan, to protect your rights. An attorney can assist you with this process.
I received notice that a bankruptcy case was filed, but never heard anything further.
You should monitor the bankruptcy case after it is filed. Many bankruptcy cases get dismissed, either voluntarily by the debtor or by a trustee or the court if the debtor fails to do certain things required for the type of case filed. If the case is dismissed and terminated / closed, your debt will not be discharged and you will be free to resume your remedies to collect your debt. However, as many dismissed cases are quickly reinstated by the debtor by taking certain action required by the court, i.e. paying a filing fee, I recommend waiting 30 days after a bankruptcy case is dismissed before resuming collection remedies, to make sure the bankruptcy case is not reinstated and the bankruptcy stay is not re-imposed.
I received notice that a discharge was entered. What does this mean?
In a Chapter 7 case, this means that the debts included and covered by the bankruptcy case are discharged and can no longer be collected. As set forth above, if your debt was secured by a lien on real or personal property, the lien may survive the bankruptcy allowing you to exercise remedies against such property / collateral only, but the underlying debt / obligation will be discharged.
In a chapter 13 case, the discharge is typically entered after the debtor has fully performed under and completed all required payments to creditors under the confirmed Chapter 13 Plan, which is typically a 5 year Plan in Arizona. Most debts covered by and paid through the Chapter 13 Plan will be discharged at this point, and no collection may be had on any balances which may remain unpaid on such debts.
About the author: Janessa Koenig is a partner at the Phoenix law firm of Jaburg Wilk. Her practice is concentrated on creditor's rights, foreclosure and bankruptcy.
| 2019-04-18T19:13:49 |
http://www.jaburgwilk.com/news-publications/so-i-loaned-my-friend-25-000-and-just-found-out-he-is-going-to-file-bankruptcy-now-what
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I'm making exceptions to the no-shopping experiment.
1. Coffee is necessary and is exempt.
2. I have a huge oversupply of tea. So it's not exempt, even though it can easily be moved.
3. Cat food is exempt, obviously. However, the cats will surely benefit when I cook those turkeys.
4. I've also declared a moratorium on buying bath stuff. I have enough for several years. Really. Certain stuff from Paula's Choice is necessary and exempt, however.
5. Chocolate is necessary and exempt. It is unlikely that I will be left with an oversupply, of course.
6. It will become necessary to buy some stuff to get rid of other stuff. However I won't buy the Costco size packages.
| 2019-04-26T02:36:54 |
http://chemistrecipegeek.blogspot.com/2010/02/no-shopping-experiment-exceptions.html
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QUESTION: Who were Charles Russell and Joseph Rutherford?
Charles Russell (1852-1916) is credited with founding the organization that is now known as the Jehovah's Witnesses. He spent his early childhood years in Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He worked with his father in the clothing business. By age 18, he was elected as the leader of a Bible class, but later had to resign to do doctrinal differences. He came to deny eternal punishment, the Trinity, and the deity of Jesus Christ.
In 1879, Russell co-founded (with N.H. Barbour) The Herald of the Morning, which is now called The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom. Russell also incorporated Zion's Watchtower Tract Society.
Russell married Maria Ackley and she helped him run the Watchtower. Maria left her husband in 1897 and later sued for separation.
The life of Charles Russell is ridden with legal issues and scandals. His life ended on October 31, 1916 and Joseph Franklin Rutherford became the President of Watch Tower Society.
Joseph Rutherford (1869-1942) was raised in Missouri as a Baptist. Following his schooling, he went into court reporting, then into law, and then became a substitute judge. He was also interested in the teachings of Charles Russell, especially Millennial Dawn. Following Russell's death, Rutherford was elected Watch Tower Society President in 1916.
Rutherford's writers became widely distributed through Watch Tower, both in the United States and abroad. It is said that he wrote over 100 books and pamphlets.
The organization became known as "The Jehovah's Witnesses" during his term of President in 1931. Rutherford died in 1942.
| 2019-04-20T12:36:06 |
https://www.allaboutcults.org/charles-russell-faq.htm
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The first task asked me to use the functions that we had created in Lab that were in our lsystem.py and interpreter.py files to make a simple picture with two figures. The second task asked us to make a block of nine trees, in which going from right to left the L-system trees had more iterations and going from top to bottom the angle for the trees increased from 22.5 to 45 to 60. And the final task asked us to make a simple outdoor scene that involved L-system trees and fractals, with at least one of those L-systems being new.
The picture of this task is attached and named picture1lab7.png .
2) The second task asked me to make the block of trees. To expedite the process I added in a "for" loop to make all of the nine trees with less iterations.
I added in the "if" and "elif" statements to make it so it would draw the trees with the correct angle as it went down a row. The picture of this task is attached and titled picture2lab7.png .
3) The final task was for me to make a outdoor scene that implemented L-systems. I made a scene of a forest and two people standing in awe of a crop circle that had appeared in their tiny corn field. The special part of this code was the use of the random function that made it so the forest looked dense.
By doing this, the trees will go to random locations and make brown trees that will have randomly chosen how many iterations and size for themselves. The picture for the final task is attached and named picture3lab7.png .
For this lab I did all three of the extensions.
Extension 1- The first extension that I completed fulfilled the extension that required me to make my very own L-system and make it. For this extension I made a weird shaped box. Here is the base and the rule that I used.
The picture is attached and labeled picture4lab7.png and in the bottom corner I also showed what the figure looks like after zero iterations.
Extension 3- For the third extension I completed the extension that required me to add berries and leaves to my L-system trees. I had to go back to my interpreter file to make this happen as well as changing my rule slightly. Here is the code in my interpreter file that allowed berries and leaves to be made.
By using this, my trees gained leaves and berries. The picture for this final extension is attached and labeled picture6lab7.png .
I feel like a have a logical mind and I like puzzles, so for this lab, I think the most interesting thing I learned had to do with L-system rules. To figure out how to make interesting pictures and shapes with rules was a fun thing to spend my time doing.
| 2019-04-18T12:15:36 |
http://wiki.colby.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=396831236
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0.999302 |
How to make money beyond teaching and get out of rat's race.
Discover how to earn extra income outside of teaching and learn how to get closer to your financial freedom goal.
Are you fed up teaching every day? Do you feel that you are being disrespected on daily basis? Finished up your cert and hoped for the best, but it turned out to be not so good as you have hoped for?
Did you dive into teaching to perhaps be a hero, but realized that it may not be for you? Did you dive into teaching field to have security blanket, but realized that such security blanket took a lot of effort to go through schooling, only in return to be less rewarded as all the other folks in other professions?
Do you feel that what you do on daily basis at your teaching job is not being appreciated?
Do you feel that perhaps there is something you can do but not sure what to get out of such nonsense and be respected for your time and your achievements and be more rewarded for your actions?
Do you feel that your advice that you provide to other students (the students that you teach) doesn't make much difference?
Do you feel disrespected by students/parents and by school administrators in anyway?
Do you feel that someone of your caliber with possibly masters or bachelors degree should be getting paid more then what you are currently getting paid?
Do you feel that you spend lots of time grading other students homework and doing work outside of school... when you could be doing something more for yourself?
Do you feel that you are not enjoying teaching in group basis in public schools.. but perhaps maybe still enjoy teaching on 1 on 1 basis?
Do you feel that the amount of salary that you are getting is simply not enough?
If the answer is yes... Then be prepared to to buckle up and sit tight in your chair... because you are about to be taken upon the wild journey.
Even if you are worried about money... there is a way you can get it... and there is a way you can place your mindset in the direction of not just being a zombie working teacher on day by day basis, but being able to get back your precious time doing what you already perhaps enjoy doing on some level (such as 1 on 1 tutorin on part time basis), while simultaneously injecting your mindset in the direction of the financial freedom goal.
In this article, what you will find is a description of my getting out of rat's race thoughts.. someone who is at similar caliber just like you.. certified teacher or perhaps even if you are not certified teacher just yet... what i am about to show you will still apply to you as well.
Learn what incomes will help you generate income on part time basis, when you do get out of the full time teaching job.
Learn how you can set yourself up ahead of time... before you pull the plug and fire your boss.
Other blogs out there.. only focuses on helping general population for how to get out of rat's race... while me Rome Wells focuses on yes... also general population, while keeping teachers in mind.
Read my advice/thoughts/strategies/tips/secrets/reviews and motivational content below for how you can get started in the world of commercial real estate without being super duper business person, but learn how to become one along the way with Rome Wells.
My focus in my journey is to ... help me get out of rat's race... but.. i don't mind sharing my thought process and secrets with you (my fellow teacher or future certified teacher... , besides it's a lot more fun going through the same journey together than on your own), simply becauseI didn't mind sharing my thought process to thousands of other folks in every other field that i have researched before i dived into commercial real estate in January 1st 2018.
Note what you will get from this article is the guided approach towards your financial freedom goal.
My goal here is to help you discover your own potenail and your level of comfort, and let you know that yes... you can do it.. regardless if you are a current school teacher or someone who is about to become a teacher... you can make huge huge huge huge progress towards your financial freedom goal by diving into commercial real estate, but doing so in a way that actually doesn't place you at huge risk, doing so in a way that can help you minimize risk and be able to see the math and numbers behind every deal.
All you have to do is simply take action and follow me on my facebook group... to see how blog about commercial real estate field and what I am trying to engineer behind the scenes to help folks get out of the rat's race. Other folks only talk about commercial real estate and don't really talk much about streams of income that you can leverage... to help you get out of rat's race..
Me on the other hand is like the rat that runs in the treadmill constantly trying to find way to get out... So why not listen to someone who is attempting to get out of rat's race... vs... actually listening to someone who already got out of rat's race... only?
So what I will show you is how to learn commercial real estate field and infuse your mind with higher level of comfort in taking action... My goal here is not to just give you confidence... but to push you to the level of believing in yourself... rather than being zombified by the overwhelming influence of others behind the scences who are pressing upon your every action in the direction of... doing what's good for big corporations... vs what's actually good for you!
Now what I am about to show you is the way out.. just remember... if you are going to read what's shown next... do consider.. taking action... advice/reviews/recommendations/tips and tricks and secrets that I provide are FREE. Sure there are some resources that are not free, which I also share with folks... however these resource act like the time saving mechanism... where you can minimize the amount of time you learn about... commercial real estate field dramatically. Remember doing everything yourself and learning yourself everything random is possible... however... it will take you a lot longer then studying structurally.
So what am I about to tell you next? Consider reading further below... then after reading below, consider visiting references to urls I provide... follow these references until you stumble upon my commercial real estate facebook group. However before you visit my group... read how to get started below.
So ready to get started (but before you do ... read this)?
Also note... I realize that many of you will want to see how to get out of rat's race using passive income, but what I will be providing as advice is the combination of suggestions for what you can do both passively and actively at least in the initial period of your journey. As I help you discover how to make money passively, what you will do with this information will either super charge you to continuously wanting to dive into the commercial real estate further, while also keeping one of your teaching feet on the ground.
One foot in commercial real estate investment and the other foot in making money actively on part time basis. What I will show you in this article are guided steps in the direction that can help you dive beyond teaching, because face it... making money teaching... salary wise... is no where near as good as other professions as crazy as it may sounds for someone like you the reader... someone who got most likely master's degree someone who wants to dive into american dream but gradually begin realizing that the expenses for anything you want to do outweight your desires and needs for wanting to travel to more vacactions, for wanting to not feel like you are being locked down to having to wake up early and giong to work every day.
About me and how I can help you get out of rat's race in 3 to 5 years or obtain your freedom back of being your own boss.
Hi, my name is Rome Wells. Certified Math Teacher for the state of CT and I figured I share with my fellow teachers secrets in how to add some additional income to your daily lives outside of your daily full time teaching job.
What i will show you is how to jump outside of your full time teaching job and reveal secret field that can help you get out of rat's race.
I will do that by first telling you a bit about my backgound and share with you some of the ways that can help you make part time income in the process of describing my journey... then I will show you what field I discovered 10 years later after helping folks like you... and how i reached the "aha" moment... in knowing what I want to do next in achieving financial freedom goal.. and how you can do it too.
I realize that you maybe attempting to get a teaching job or perhaps trying to get ceritifed, and I also realize that teaching income is not that much in comparison to other professions.
In fact what you are looking at is my very own search engine that i have created for myself and for other teachers whom I can trust to be part of my network.
The very same teachers who can make money on part time basis doing something like tutoring other students in math, english, science, you name it.
The reason why i am writing this article here is to show you what you can get yourself exposed to on part time basis outside of your teaching job, so this way you can make some extra money.
So in case if you are studying to become a teacher, remember if you are certified the more money you can get for tutoring other students... but also remember not too much money... and it strictly depends on how much... you can get... meaning it all depends on the market..
In case if you have already finished studying and already have prepared yourself for a teaching career and became a teacher, or perhaps realized that teaching is not for you after becoming a teacher... or perhaps realized that you want to do something beyond teaching... to supplement your income... then continue reading further.
I realize that working with students in school on daily basis is a very difficult task. I realize you may say to yourself that this your passion, but i also realize... that the fire of passion can some times stop burning.... or perhaps it can be burning less as the time moves on further and further.
It sometimes may feel that you are just waisting your time... correcting homework and being disrespected by students.
I know how it feels... it happened to me... I was being disrespected by students... and I just simply couldn't handle the world of teaching... I give lots of respect to teachers who are out there on the front lines fighting daily with their lives to bring bread on the table, which is precisely why... I Rome Wells, have decided to help teachers to bring more bread on the table.
The first thing I did was... I created search engine... that allows teachers to register free of charge and advertise their Tutoring Services, so other students can find such teachers and hire them (to essentialy help you the reader make more money teaching on 1 on1 basis either online or locally without paying agency recurring fees).
Most of the websites out there charge students outrageous agency recurring fees from every hour teacher tutors... Well that is just plain rediculous.
I felt like the entire world of business was carried on top of educators backs... where hard working class teachers would have to carry business enteurprenus on their backs and be contributing to bringing home less and less money from every tutoring hour... just because agencies out there eat up 35 to 70% fee leaving folks with chump change!
I felt that that this was no way to live the life. I felt that I had to do something for teachers to help them carry less weight on their backs... So I created TutoringServices.com search engine where I simply eradicated any agency recurring fees out of the picture.
Which is pretty much the fee that student/parent pays upfront for the first trial 1 hour lesson, and after paying that first $15 trial lesson the remaining of the lessons are done direct without any agency recurring fees.
So i stared thinking how to do that, and what I came up with is... with this site.. CallMyTutor.com If you visit this site you will see for example my tutoring profile, discount packages I offer, and subject i teach, practice test I offer to attract more students to my profile, video tutorials that can show my passion in particular subject and expertise, my teaching certificate that shows my level of education and brief info about why someone should even bother hiring me.
So what I decided to do.. next is ... simply offer something else to teachers... i decided to offer teachers flexibility to get out of rat's race and be able to quit their school teaching job in 3 to 5 years.
So i thought hard about this.. an in January 1 2018... i had a breakthrough, aha moment..I discovered something that I wish I discovered earlier.
Note it took me 10 years to discover the field, the 10 years before that since 2008 to 2018 i was wondering around doing other things... such as well... helping teachers... except... the thing is... while i was helping teachers.. i simply didn't get appreciated enough for all the things i have done for teachers... and i simply wanted to do something where i would get appreciated enough for my efforts... and the field that I discovered that can help me do that is.... you ready for this?
The secret field that every one knows about, but scared to dive into. This is the field that helped me get to my aha moment in January 1st 2018 is when I had the "aha" moment and realized that everything I was doing before was leading up to ... commercial real estate investment business.
Well if you are .. then congruatulations you are on the right track... except the only difference is... there are many tracks in real estate..... itself.... luckily given the circumstance that I am a teacher myself and enjoy tutoring... it became relatively simple for me to dive into this field of real estate and start sharing secrets for how to generate wealth with other teachers, laywers, project mangers, IT cyber security Engineers, doctors, accountants, UPS post officer workers, police officers, firefighters and beyond.
So now you may say... Rome Wells.. but wait.. what about... your search engines.. and why are you sharing all this info with teachers who are barely certified and far away from buying any type of multi-family properties... or not have money right now to do so... why are you sharing these secrets Rome Wells with honest hard working teachers?
This is coming from certified math teacher for the state of CT (the trusted figure... see my certificate in my tutoring profile), 21st century educational advocate, founder of Tutoring Services, LLC and someone who simply wants to see you put more bread on your table... and be more appreciated for your efforts vs being treated in a disrespectful way by your school students.
So now that you read to what I had to say... consider this... what if you were able to reach your financial freedom earlier, and get to quit your teaching job?
What if Rome Wells guided you in the direction for how to do that? What If Rome Wells motivated you to get closer to your financial freedom by doing something incredible... ?
What if Rome Wells helped you discover yourself for how to increase your income?
What if Rome Wells helped you perhaps not leave your job just yet.. and helped you figure out how to transition from your full time teaching job into the world of commercial real estate investment, while still using your teaching expertise... and making part time income on the side... while also making money from commercial real estate?
What is your biggest fear? Losing your teaching job? What If i showed you how to crush this fear and showed you small actionable steps that you can take to reach your financial freedom goal and get out of rat's race in 3 to 5 years...or at least be able to position yourself in less stressfull situation then where you are at now in terms of working all day and wasting many hours?
Now you may say Rome Wells.. all that is super interesting, but what about your search engines? Did you give up on all of the search engines that you created? What makes me think that you are not just going to jump to the next great thing after you realize that commercial real estate is not as good as it use to be or lose your passion?
Indeed these are very valid question... historically speaking my mindset is in the pivotal world.. where I Pivot in the direction of what makes most sense... but If i was to teach you the things.. that can help you develop that pivotal mindset as well in the world of real estate to help you get out of rat's race wouldn't that be something that you would want to learn?
Or perhaps you prefer to work until 65 years old as a teacher? Look I am going to be honest... I failed.. many times.. but I didn't give up trying.. and in fact... many search engines that I created.. i still leverage for expanding my influence in commercial real estate across multiple professions... it's just i realized that what I was doing with the search engines as I was trying to help out teachers..
Plus I can show you how to network with people, to expand your brain and mindset and capabilities in the direction of being able to reach your financial freedom goal.
Plus I will do that in such a way that will allow you to see what the real estate commercial investment is all about from 360 degrees view across multiple timelines... in such a way that will help you minimize risk... while helping you maximize your chances of making money... either using passive income... or... making money using... active income... in commercial real estate investment world.
Wouldn't it be nice to not teach every day in school and get passive income from commercial real estate rentals?
Wouldn't it be nice to perhaps tutor only on part time basis make some money to supplement your income with tutors you enjoy tutoring? 1 on 1 tutoring is heck of a lot different vs teaching in school ( i probably do not need to tell you that)... in my case 1 on 1 is extremely enjoyable..
Teaching 1 on 1 can be great since you can still supplement your commercial real estate investment business with... your teaching... or perhaps driving Uber on part time basis... but be able to do this.. without feel like you are being tied down to your full time job!
Now... i myself haven't quit my full time job... but I placed my self into planning mode in 2018... January 1st.. the financial freedom planning goal.. and started reverse engineering entire field.. from every standpoint... and started seeing patterns for how to dive out of rat's race.. the patterns that i simply haven't seen before!
The patterns that I only started seeing after planning to dive deep into commercial reale state.. while at the same time doing so in such manner that helps reduce risk.
You will see me really passionately working hard and explaining and teaching... and expanding the network and sharing lots of secrets with you... free of charge and also you will see me providing other references that are more structural in the form of online courses, coaches etc... the time saving mechanism that can pretty much propell you in the direction of rapidly expanding your mindset in the direction of increasing your learning effectiviness in real estate and minimizing risk.
Note... I may not be super duper real estate guru.. as you may want to think.. but at least I am close to the caliber level of your own self... and someone who is actively seeking and trying to reverse engineer ways for how to break out of rat's race... and if you are one of such folks... who also want to learn how to get out of rat's race.. then join me Rome Wells in my journey of discovering financial freedom by leveraging your already existing skills of teaching and getting out of rat's race in 3 to 5 years.
Note.. Just because I say 3 to 5 years.. doesn't mean that you will become free in 3 to 5 years.. it's just can either means major major major change in your life will happen that will result in you having a lot more free time... while shifting your mindset into doing something what you already good at on part time basis.
Or depending on what type of deals you dive into 3 to 5 years can literally means you stopping teaching completely and doing commercial real estate investment full time.
Either any of the following can and will happen if you take action and apply measurable risk analysis behind every deal that you analyze.
I will show in many of my references for how to analyze deals... and will reveal to you the secret tools that i have used myself the very same tools that helped me see the math behind the numbers and cath the "aha" moment and realization that getting out of rat's race is possible.
Plus the best part about me offering to you way to learn more about real estate and get out of rat's race is the very simple fact of it all that.. you can hire other real estate coaches... because face it after all.. who would want to hire Rome Wells to teach real estate 1 on 1... basis providing that Rome Wells himself was only exposed to commercial real estate for 1 month.... only since January 1 2018..
Remember the saying? These who can't do ... teach?
Read and see what I tell these folks... similarly like I am telling you secrets about commercial real estate, I also share the same secrets to other folks...but... only few out of many take actions... Be the one who does take action and visit this link to learn more about investing into commercial real estate.
(remember... i only started in January 1st 2018 diving into it, but also remember that the person who would teach you... is the 21st century educational advocate (commonly referred by many students as Mark Twain of modern 21st century educational advocacy).. who also spent past 10 years researching how process of learning works.. and can rapidly infuse information into your brain... something that no ordinary experienced folks can do..
that expertise of teaching and infusing information came from many years of failing... and finding angles for how to increase learning effectiviness of human brain, plus remember Rome Wells is a certified math teacher for the state of CT and the guy who is literally a networker..
when it comes to extremely compleax deal, I would refer you to obviously someone who is either very successfull or to an online group coaching sesion or to any other resource.
Commercial real estate investment is one field that you can actually learn! vs attempting to open up your own software business for example... trust me! I went through multiple timelines and multiple podcasts across different real estate gurus and went through researching multiple professions and realized... that commercial real estate investment is the the only field that truly makes sense from generating wealth... anything else is just secondary factor.
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http://studyguide.net/beyond-teaching
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Did Google "Sell Out" on Net Neutrality?
1) The proposal would give the FCC the ability to enforce broadband principles that insure access to all legal content on the web using any applications, services, and devices. US courts recently decided that the FCC currently did not have this kind of power.
2) The proposed laws would prohibit discriminatory IP practices that prioritize or slow down connections to lawful internet content. Broadband providers also can't favor particular internet traffic over other traffic (for example, paid prioritization).
3) Broadband providers would have to disclose understandable information about their services and capabilities. Application and content providers would also get information from the IPs.
4) The proposal spells out the potential role and authority of the FCC in the broadband space. They would enforce openness on a case-by-case basis, using a complaint-driven process. It could stop discriminatory practices quickly and impose penalties of up to $2 million on violators.
5) IPs would be allowed to offer differentiated online services in addition to internet access and video services. Examples could be a smart grid or new entertainment/gaming options. The proposal would ensure that these services are distinguishable from traditional internet access so that IPs don't try and circumvent the rules.
6) Because the mobile marketplace is still very competitive and changing rapidly, the proposal would not apply the net neutrality principles to mobile networks, except for the transparency requirement. The Government Accountability Office would be required to report annually to Congress on the developments in the mobile internet marketplace, and whether current policies are protecting customers.
7) Finally, the Federal Universal Service Fund would be focused on providing broadband in areas where it is still unavailable.
The 6th element is where the "sold out"/"deal with the devil" talk comes into play. Most of it was precipitated by an inaccurate New York Times article which suggested that this was mainly a business arrangement, when in fact, it hinges completely on the authority of the FCC. The proposal does however seem to favor mobile internet providers in any competition they might have with the wired broadband providers.
First, the wireless market is more competitive than the wireline market, given that consumers typically have more than just two providers to choose from. Second, because wireless networks employ airwaves, rather than wires, and share constrained capacity among many users, these carriers need to manage their networks more actively. Third, network and device openness is now beginning to take off as a significant business model in this space.
Their proposal indicates that Congress would be able to propose new regulations on the mobile internet based on the annual reports by the Government Accountability Office. Google also assured people that broadband providers could not "cannibalize" the public internet with its special offerings options because of the safeguards in the proposal. The services must be "distinguishable in purpose and scope" from basic internet access.
Finally, Google says this deal has nothing to do with Android and its relationship with Verizon. They want to be clear that this is not a business deal, and it is certainly not two corporations attempting to legislate the future of the internet on their own. Google hopes that all stakeholders will weigh in on the issue of Net Neutrality.
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https://dzone.com/articles/google_netneutrality
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The 't' in the middle is pronounced? hardly pronounced? not pronounced at all?
It's hardly pronounced, in my opinion. I can't hear a relevant difference between Montserrat and Monserrat. It seems to be pronounced because you have to put your tongue in your alveoli in order to utter this 's', but you don't pronounce it at all if the next consonant is a b, for instance: Montbau /mom'bau/.
Compastesc l'opinió i la percepció de Lurezko, aquesta te els valencians tampoc no la pronunciem mai: Montfort = momfort; Montserrat= monserrat: Àdhuc si foren dues paraules: mont serrat la pronunciem igual : mon serrat, sens la te. Únicament quan el segon mot comença per vocal, n'és quan la recuperem. Mont Aralat= Mon taralat. La pronúncia genuïna de la ciutat canadenca de Montreal és Mon-real, i no pas Mon-tre-al a la castellana.
Lurrezko: The reason for my question is a disagreement in our Wikipedia about the correct way to transcript it into our language.
but from the other hand you admit you cannot hear a relevant difference..
We don't use Latin letters, and thus we cannot just write it in the same way as in Catalan and let everybody to decide how to pronounce it, and we have to decide if to add our equivalent for the Latin T..
From your answer I guess you "feel" the T in your tongue and not in your ear, as it a lot of times happens in spoken languages, and my conclusion is that the T still should be written..
Elxenc: unfortunately I don't speak Catalan, though I guess it is about the tendency to omit the second of two consonants which are not followed by vowels.
Thank you very much for both of you.
In Catalonia we don't pronounce the T after an N, so Montserrat sounds like Monserrat and Montse sounds like Monse (pesant sounds pesan, cantant sounds like cantan, etc). I'm sure that Lurrezko didn't want to tell you to foget the T, because he wasn't sure of the pronunciation in Valencia or other places outside Catalonia.
But when it comes to Montse you must know that the most common pronunciation is Spanish not really Catalan. It's incorrect but a reality, because "Montse" is the Spanish nickname, the authentic Catalan nickname for Montserrat is Rat, but it is really rare nowadays. Another nick is Tona from "Montserratona" or even "Munsa" which reflects the central Catalan pronunciation for the first part of the name.
Fon.: munsərát (or.); monserát (occ., val.); monsərát (mall.).
So I think it's clear that you should not transcribe the ‹t›, but you will have to make some choices when transcribing the two unstressed vowels.
Thank you all very much for all the explanations.
| 2019-04-26T04:18:27 |
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/montserrat-pronunciation.2681180/
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- Over 260 million Pokemon video games have been purchased worldwide (as of 2014) .
- Over 21.5 billion Pokemon cards, in 10 languages, have been shipped to 74 countries .
- The Pokemon animated series has over 800 episodes .
- There are 17 Pokemon movie theater films .
- The Pokemon Go game became very popular (within a week of its release) and had up to 28.5 million uses in the United States, at its peak, before declining .
These numbers reveal just how popular Pokemon is. But, these numbers don't reveal why Pokemon has such enthusiastic fans worldwide. First, we will look at the basic story of Pokemon, which begins with a character called "Ash Ketchum" (a pun of the slogan "Gotta catch 'em all.").
Ash Ketchum (a 10 year old boy) wants to be a powerful Pokémon trainer. With his own Pokémon, "Pikachu," Ash joins some friends to help him obtain new Pokémon. At the same time, a group of rivals, called Team Rocket, and other "evil" organizations battle Ash and his friends. Members of Team Rocket want to take Pikachu for themselves. Also, throughout the series, Ash and his team compete in Pokémon championships .
This may seem "innocent," but we need to look at this closer, especially since your children might be playing with fire. Studies have shown that Pokemon and other video games and cartoon shows that portray violence have a negative effect on children . Violence in TV shows, whether it is cartoon or live action violence, is harmful to adults and children, but especially children. Studies have found that violent scenes in children's cartoon shows (such as Pokemon) affect children's thoughts, behaviors, and feelings in the same way that violent TV shows do .
The Pokemon cartoon series strongly promotes the Pokemon card game, which involves occultic and new age concepts and practices. For instance, in the Pokemon trading cards, there are cards with Pokemon characters that have "psychic" powers. These are "magical abilities" which allow unnatural things to happen, such as a "focus blast" to magically attack an opponent. The character focuses its mind on the enemy and "unleashes its power" .
One magical and occultic feature of many Pokemon trading cards is called a "hex move ." A hex move gives the Pokemon creature the ability to place a very harmful spell on its opponent.
The American Heritage College Dictionary dictionary defines a "hex" as "1. An evil spell; a curse ." Merriam-Webster defines a hex as: "to affect as if by an evil spell: jinx"; [or a] "spell, jinx"; [or] "a person who practices witchcraft" . Along with hexes are magical objects (talismans) such as "magic stones" and other occultic objects, which are used to fight off rival Pokemon creatures.
Interestingly, one episode of Pokemon was titled "Hocus Pokemon" . In that episode, a magic spell was cast to help humans "understand" the Pokemon creatures. The spell causes Ash Ketchum to turn into a Pikachu clone. A character named Lily calls herself a "Pokemon magician." Dressed with a black cape and a pointy, black witch's hat, she makes use of a magic spell book and appears as a main character in the episode .
Now, let's look at this from the lens of God's Word, the Bible. In the New Testament book of Acts, we read that people who had used curious arts (or magic / sorcery) burned their books.
Acts 19:19. "Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver."
Witchcraft and Sorcery are Forbidden in the Scripture.
They counted the cost of being a Christian, and decided it was worth to burn their occult books and follow Jesus. Deuteronomy 18 actually speaks about sorcery and magic.
God forbids witchcraft, sorcery, magic, so-called "psychic powers," astrology, communicating with "spirit guides" (familiar spirits), wizardry, divination, and all forms of occultic power. These are abominations to God. Sorcery and witchcraft are forbidden in the New Testament books too. Galatians 5 speaks of how those who practice witchcraft and idolatry "shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
If you have children that watch occultic cartoons (such as Pokemon, Ben 10, Superman, Marvel Comics characters, DC Comics "heros," Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, etc.) or occultic movies, or that play video games, or that read occultic books, remove these possessions and destroy them.
God will reward you for your obedience to His Word. You have everything to gain from doing so. But, before you do destroy them, it would be good to let your children know why you must destroy these things. Let them understand how God cannot stand these abominations, and how getting rid of them will be for the better.
Having a Close Walk with God is the Answer.
Children need to have a close walk with God, as do all of us, because God desires to have close fellowship with His children (kids and adults). Jeremiah 31:3 says: "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."
God breathed His Word for our edification and growth. Listen to what 1 John 1 says about fellowship with God and walking in the light.
"5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
I encourage you to seek God about what He wants you to know regarding the cartoon shows you let your kids watch, the books you read, the movies you see, etc. God's best will is always best. He desires for our joy to be full. It cannot be full if we are walking away from God's ways and God's Word.
"3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full."
May God bless you and lead you into the truth as you seek to know Him, or know Him better.
Siegal, Jacob. "Four out of five ‘Pokemon Go’ users have quit." bgr.com.
"Pokémon (TV Series 1997– ) - Plot Summary." imdb.com.
| 2019-04-26T06:01:22 |
http://thetruthfortoday.yolasite.com/Pokemon-Exposed.php
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Why is it that people often feel guilty when they take care of themselves? You book yourself a massage labelling it as a luxury, wondering if it is worth the expense just to treat yourself. Would the money be better spent on my children, spouse, bills? What gives me the right to be so selfish? If these thoughts are running through your mind then find out what makes massage a necessity rather than a luxury.
Although Massage therapy leaves you feeling amazing, it is more than treating yourself once or twice a year to some "me-time". It is more that a back rub with soothing music. A well trained registered massage therapist can add tons of benefits to your overall health routine. Here is a list of 5 reasons why you need to integrate massage therapy into your lifestyle.
Self-Awareness. If regular massage does anything, it creates a sense of self-awareness when it comes to posture, pain and productivity. Many clients come in saying "I feel great today, I just wanted to treat myself". Only a few minutes into the massage the dialogue changes, "Wow, I didn't realize I was so tight there!". We get so used to feeling pain and tension, it becomes our new normal. But it doesn't have to be that way! Coming in for regular massage will train your body and mind to recognize how good you are meant to feel and to notice what triggers your pain patterns. You will notice your posture improve while sitting at your desk at work, or catch yourself leaning consistently to one side while you're driving. You can often feel that nagging pain come on and you become able to stop it in its tracks by making the smallest of shifts. Even though you often leave your treatment with "massage-brain", it fades into mental clarity and renewed motivation to tackle your day. Being able to clear your thoughts and concentrate on your body will spill into the rest of your life, training your mind to focus and prioritize when necessary.
Improved Emotional State. Imagine yourself running around all day, putting everyone else's needs before your own, rarely hearing a thank you. Getting a massage will give you that opportunity to immerse yourself in a comfortable and emotionally supportive space where you can recharge. Being in the presence of another compassionate human being whose sole purpose is to make YOU feel better will remind you that you deserve to be treated with respect and gratitude. It will encourage you to create boundaries around how much you can give before it becomes a burden. And just watch, the people around you will THRIVE with these boundaries. They will begin to step in when help is needed and they will notice how much love and energy you contribute to their well-being.
Improved Sleep Patterns. Whether you are an insomniac because you are in chronic pain or because your mind just won't stop, regular massage can bring you back into balance and lead to a blissful nights sleep. Chronic pain does not disappear with a one stop fix, it has been brewing and building up over weeks, months and sometimes years. It will take regular and consistent treatments to break it down and make it a thing of the past. This is especially true if you are not changing any of your other lifestyle habits, which can include a repetitive job, not something you can give up on a moments notice. Racing mind is your problem? With physical touch we can decrease the levels of your stress hormone, cortisol. Not only does this help with depression, anxiety and pain, but massage can have a very therapeutic and meditative effect as well. Being given the opportunity to focus specifically and directly on your breathing and the sensations in different areas of your body can teach you to calm your mind and create space for your problems to simply drift by, stripping away their power.
Injury Prevention. With all this talk about improving body awareness, decreasing stress, and improving mental clarity, it only makes sense that you will ultimately reduce any potential injuries. My clients who come in on a regular basis are able to pinpoint precisely what they are experiencing. For example, they can tell me exactly when they started to feel their back pain threaten to return, what they had been doing to aggravate it and how they were able to prevent it. Without the burden of a racing mind and stress overload, they are able to clearly feel each sensation within their bodies utilizing their refined sense of self-awareness. Although this may seem limiting, it ultimately encourages you to push yourself to your limit when it comes to exercising and working without having to cross that boundary leading to unexpected pain and injury. Respecting your bodies unique limits is the most liberating path to reaching your full potential.
Education. A well trained registered massage therapist will continually educate you on how to best treat your body. You will leave your treatment armed with new tools on self-massage and home-care exercises. You will be given an explanation on the possible reasons for why you have certain aches and pains. You will feel confident in sharing the benefits with your family and friends so that they too can feel better than ever! Ultimately you will be empowered to take control of your health and wellness throughout all aspects of life!
There is a reason why more and more companies are including massage therapy in their healthcare benefits packages. Registered Massage Therapists belong to professional organizations and following years of schooling must maintain continuing education credits to keep up to date with the newest theories and modalities. This is no longer a weekend course just as a massage is no longer just a luxury. Incorporate regular massage into your daily lifestyle and see how good you feel.
| 2019-04-23T10:30:02 |
https://www.bloomtherapy.ca/blog-five/massage-is-more-than-a-luxury
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How did you get interested in researching the Antarctic?
My early research career (Masters and PhD) focused on the glaciation of Britain, but I have always been fascinated with Antarctica. After I finished my PhD, I got a short position at the British Antarctic Survey before starting a research position at Aberystwyth University, where I have attempted to unravel the complex history of glaciation across the Antarctic Peninsula. The romance of Antarctica, its huge relevance to society, its dramatic landscape and its rapidly changing environment are all draws for studying this enigmatic continent.
How are Antarctic glaciers different from glaciers elsewhere in the world?
Antarctica has an infinite variety of glaciers. They range from ancient, slow moving relicts with ice that is millions of years old, to the huge Pine Island Glacier, a fast-flowing ice stream with a base that is thousands of metres below sea level. The glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula are small mountain glaciers, fringed with ice shelves that influence and control the flow of inland ice. That is contrasted with the interior of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a huge arid wasteland, with ice thousands of metres thick that flows almost imperceptibly slowly.
What kinds of physical features can be seen on Antarctic glaciers?
We can observe glaciers using satellite images, and map crevasses (cracks in the ice), ridges that are parallel with the ice flow, surface lakes and streams, and icebergs as they calve from the front edge of the glacier. We can also use repeated satellite imagery to track the movement of these ice features, and use this to calculate the glacier's speed. We can also use satellite data to map changes in the ice elevation; this may be because the ice is thinning, or even because a lake at the base of the ice sheet, under thousands of metres of ice, has drained. Closer to, what may appear featureless often has subtle signs of life. Small round holes may pepper the glacier's surface; they are filled with a dark sandy material called 'cryoconite', which is dust bonded together with bacteria. The wind may sculpt snow on the ice surface, forming ridges called sastrugi (which are the devil to drive a skidoo over). If it is very humid, a cold night may result in the growth of millions of tiny, beautiful frost flowers all over the ice surface.
Why is it so important to understand Antarctic glaciers?
Antarctica has huge relevance to each one of us, through its ability to influence our atmosphere and oceans. Glaciers in Antarctica are changing rapidly, contributing to global sea level rise. We need to understand how these glaciers might melt in the future, if we are to provide policy makers with accurate sea level projections.
What kinds of changes are Antarctic glaciers experiencing?
The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly changing parts of Antarctica. Glaciers here are accelerating, thinning and receding, and are thus contributing water to sea level rise. Ice shelves that fringe the Antarctic Peninsula are collapsing. These ice shelves support the on-land glaciers; when they melt, they lose their buttressing power and the on-land glaciers accelerate and melt faster.
Further south, Pine Island Glacier is a huge ice stream in West Antarctica that is thinning, receding and accelerating. Pine Island Glacier has the potential to raise global sea levels by 1.5 m all by itself, so these changes are concerning. Even in the cold, dry East Antarctic Ice Sheet, outlet glaciers are shrinking back. The consistent picture of Antarctica as a whole is one of receding, shrinking outlet glaciers.
Can you explain a little about your research in Antarctica?
My research uses a combination of field work, where I go and map the former extent of glaciers, using satellite images to map their current behaviour, and using computer simulations to understand the relationship between glaciers and climate in Antarctica. My research aims to understand how glaciers in Antarctica responded to past climate change. I'm very interested in glacier behaviour before, during and after the Last Glacial Maximum, around 18,000 years ago, a time when the climate changed dramatically. I'm also interested in smaller glacier fluctuations during the last 10,000 years, and what this might tell us about glacier sensitivity to climate change. If we can understand how glaciers responded to large changes in climate in the past, we can put current change into context and better predict future behaviour.
For you, what are the most important things you have discovered while researching Antarctica?
So much of our exciting research is on-going, but so far one of our most significant findings has covered the birth, life and death of Prince Gustav Ice Stream around James Ross Island on the northern Antarctic Peninsula. This ice stream became active during the end of the last glaciation, around 12,000 years ago, and survived less than 6,000 years. It's one of the first studies to look at the initiation of an ice stream, and it provides important context for ice stream changes in West Antarctica today.
How do you go about researching such an extreme environment?
You have to be pretty resilient! You are very far from help and so need to be careful, as medical evacuation is challenging. But we are well looked after by a field assistant, who is a professional mountaineer and is responsible for our safety. We sleep in small tents and communicate with Rothera, the nearest British base, with radio every day. If we fail to call on the radio, they will send a plane to look for us!
It can also be pretty chilly, the coldest I've worked in is about -20°C. That's not too cold (people work in much colder environments in Antarctica), but it does mean that you have to take some special precautions! For example, drinking water must be melted from snow. Every day, you must dig fresh snow and melt it in your tent. In order to have enough water to eat and drink, the stove must be melting water pretty much the whole time you're in the tent. That does not leave much water left for washing yourself or your clothes, but fortunately nobody gets that smelly when it is so cold.
Are there any of your research methods that are particularly challenging?
They are all challenging! Each method has its own complexities and limitations. You need to be aware of these if you are to collect robust results. My computer simulations require lots of maths, which has never been a strong point of mine. Satellite image analysis requires endless hours processing data at your computer. I have always enjoyed fieldwork, but it does mean you have to put up with sharing a small tent with your colleagues for weeks on end! Used together though, these methods can provide you with exciting, original, important data.
Davies Dome! It is a small ice dome on James Ross Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. It is not named after me though - it's named after Gwion ("Taff") Davies (1917-2005), general assistant on Operation "Tabarin"; Port Lockroy, 1944-45, and Hope Bay, 1945-46. Find out more.
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A friend is trying to figure this out any help or ideas on how to tackle this would be great The time is NOW said Hugh Jackman: but was it: 6:00 am or 6:00 pm or was it 6:15 for all he knew it could have been 930, but probably closer to 6:15. Although, if it was 9:30, the 6:15 train would not arrive until 9:45 if it even came at all. The crazy 6:15 train would NOT arrive at 9:45! At 3:00 he noticed on the movie he was watching with Nicole Kidman, something about a witch casting a spell at a quarter to one. Or was it the Devil himself mister 666. That spell was cast as 12:45 the six stones were placed at the zero hour and Heath Ledger was trapped in a bubble. It took 1215 angels 645 hours to set him free! The Zero hour was the name of a play I directed with 6 wonderful actors. 3 of them were male and 9 of them were female. That does not add up. Sorry if I am confusing the issue, I am not sure if it was 6 after all. In the Zero hour 3 of the actors were male and 9 were female. I have done it again. Maybe there were more than 315 males .. there may have been 9 females though, yes of that I am certain!
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What's the politically correct word for the "special class"? Mentally handicapped?
I'm not sure, so sorry for any offence caused. Anyway, here are some fun games I've played with mine in the past.
Based off our regular Typhoon Game, this one uses a deck of cards with numbers (1-9), and some with a picture of a hurricane. Students take one at random, and another random card featuring a letter of the alphabet. If it's a number, that's how many points they get IF they can make a word starting with (or at least using) the letter.
9 points = one house (drawn on the board next to their name), as in the drawing below. If they get a hurricane card, they have to erase all their houses off the board.
If you've taught some vocab, here is a fun way to get them to practice. Have all students make a paper plane each. Then, position the cards around the room, on the board etc and tell them to throw their plane at that card. Fun and hilarity ensues.
Again, with vocab cards. Lay out your cards on a table/floor. Have kids turn away, then place a number of Good or Bad cards under each, for example, have little gremlins for "Bad" and little Pikachus for "Good". Students then turn around and take turns saying a vocab word and checking what is under it. You can make this harder, of course, with "I want..." or "I like...". Students take and keep the good cards. The winner is the student with the most at the end.
Any number works for this. 13 is good for groups of 2-4. Students can say 1, 2 or 3 numbers (in sequence), then it's the next kid's turn. Whoever ends up saying 13 is the loser. This also works well with months, and can be used with any vocab if you've arranged the items in some kind of order (on the board etc).
I've got a load of other games, activities and projects, so look out for part 2 soon.
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What was the conflict in the story? The little boy’s parents had to go away and he was to stay with his Grandma & Grandpa. The initial excitement soon gives away to sadness as he misses his parent but not before he embarks on a series of adventures that is worthy of Johnny Depp. In some ways, the little boy’s story was like Enchanted the movie by Disney.
Favorite scene …. When the Grandma tries to make the boy happy and “all the while, the little boy looked down at his feet” and he ran for the door crying for his mother. I really felt for him and could only imagine how his little heart was hurting. The author did a fantastic job at evoking emotions from readers.
Favorite quote … Made my heart melt - "there was a Grandma and a Grandpa, and they were precious from the first. They were precious to their daughter, who they loved and nurtured into a successful, loving young woman. They were precious to her husband, who they welcomed into their family as their own son. They were the help and the haven that allowed their daughter and her husband to set their lives to greater things than they could ever have dreamed. And perhaps most of all, in a special and altogether different sort of way, they were precious to a certain little boy…"
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The opposition Democratic Party is projected to regain control of the House of Representatives while the ruling Republican Party is all set to retain its majority in the Senate in the critical midterm elections held on Tuesday, according to projections made by major US media outlets.
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, 78, is expected to be re-elected as Speaker of 435-member House of Representatives, which is equivalent to Lok Sabha in Indian parliament. In the outgoing House, the Republicans had 235 seats while the Democrats 193. The new House would come into being next January. However, the ruling Republican Party led by President Donald Trump appeared to be all set to retain majority in the 100-member Senate where it currently has a razor thin majority of 51-49 seats.
The GOP is expected to increase its tally, as counting of votes were still going on when reports last came in. In his first tweet after election results started coming in Trump claimed success. "Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all!". Trump in campaign rallies had said that he was on the ballot and made it a referendum on his nearly two years rule. The US President who headlined an unprecedented 50 rallies - 30 in the last two months alone - and has campaigned for dozens of candidates at all levels of government, according to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, watched the results come in with friends and family in the White House residence.
"The President has energized a staggering number of Americans at packed arenas and in overflow crowds at rallies across the country," Sanders said. "Under Trump's leadership, the Republican National Committee has raised more than a quarter billion dollars, fuelling an extraordinary ground game geared toward defying midterm history and protecting the GOP's majorities," she said. In her victory speech in Washington DC, Pelosi said: "Tomorrow will be a new day in America".
The former House speaker said that the election result is about "restoring the system of checks and balances" in Trump administration thus indicating that the new Democratic party would play the role of a strong opponent in for the US President. In victory, The Washington Post said Democrats regained some of the confidence — although less of the power — they lost in 2016, when Trump won a surprise victory over Hillary Clinton. "In this election, they sought to energise groups that Clinton did not: young voters, Latinos, African Americans and infrequent voters," the daily said.
According to The New York Times, amid signs that the nation's deep political and cultural divisions that lifted Trump in 2016 may only be deepening, "rural voters were breaking sharply" with their counterparts in the suburban districts and metropolitan areas, as turnout soared in a midterm election that came to serve as a national referendum on the president. The Democrats also won some of the high-profile governor's race including Kansas, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota. The GOP retained its governorship in Florida. The elections also resulted in Rashida Tlaib becoming the first Muslim woman elected to the House of Representatives along with Somali-American Ilhan Omar.
| 2019-04-26T06:21:58 |
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Subtitle: This Unilateral Disengagement plan may be exactly the kind of scenario by which the Israeli government can discredit and persecute settlers -- most of whom are Religiously Observant Jews! Just as the 1991 Plan calls for.
Current news coming from Israel sounds like the nightmare scenario few people ever believed could possibly happen. After years of complaining about those terribly disliked Religiously Observant Jews, the Illuminist government of Israel may be about ready to deliver a body blow against them as they force them out of their settlements and off their land.
The trick to discredit the settlers as they resist being forcibly evacuated is to not kill a lot of them. If the Sharon government can avoid large numbers of bloody confrontations, they can make the settlers look terrible in the eyes of a secular population of Israel, who already despise the religious Jews.
Let us go back to the point in time when I first learned of the strong dislike of the Israeli authorities for Religiously Observant Jews. The time was August 18, 1991, when I was sneaked into a seminar for members only, at the Boston House of Theosophy. The New England Director had just returned from a 3-year stint in Jerusalem, working on a committee planning the transition to an Israel fully submitted to the global community, i.e., under the expected Jewish Messiah.
Listen to his words as he explains the particular part of the plan to discredit the religious Jews and permanently remove them from the corridors of power.
Notice that the Illuminati considers the "religious problem" to be so severe that they needed to individually address the issue, with all the power, skill and cunning of the Israeli government. Their plan is to cause the decline of the power and influence of the religious Jews through a long period of "general fear of war". Certainly, the steady stream of Palestinian terrorism has provided this "general fear of war", and now the Israeli government has the opportunity to wage indirect war against the religious settlers through Sharon's Unilateral Disengagement plan.
Current news tells us that this plan is now well under way. Listen as the Sharon government sets the legal framework.
"JERUSALEM -- The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon this week insisted Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip (Yesha) were under belligerent Israeli occupation as it worked to thwart a High Court petition by Jewish settlers, stating their rights were to be violated by the 'disengagement' plan. The Jews of Gaza and northern Samaria insists their basic human right to live where they choose without regard to religion or race would be violated when Sharon's government comes to forcibly uproot them this summer."
"But state representatives ... wrote that 'the areas of Judea and Samaria and the area of the Gaza Strip have been held by Israel since the Six Day War and until today, in belligerent occupation'. As such, the settlers have 'no grounds for claiming today that they thought they were going to live within the boundaries of the State of Israel when they took up residence in these areas, explained the two attorneys."
In effect, the government of Israel is saying that, since it has been governing this territory militarily under the state of "belligerent occupation", the Jewish settlers cannot claim their normal rights to live within Biblical Israel. Thus has the Sharon government set the legal stage to oust the Jewish settlers.
Now, let us review another story which has even greater implications for this struggle between Israeli authorities.
"Israeli prison initiates special 'Withdrawal Ward' that could house up to 900; reserved for people arrested during protests of Sharon's pullout plan. Protesters of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's pullout plan will have their own designated section in one of Israel's prisons should they participate in violent clashes with police, Israel Prison Service officials said ... Police "initiated" the ward in Maasiyahu prison in the town of Ramle, which they said would soon receive 42 right-wing activists who were arrested on Tuesday when they blocked several major roads with burning tires - a new tactic ... more than 900 beds have been moved inside to receive more protesters arrested for violence ahead of the pullout ... Jewish settlers, who view the West Bank and Gaza as their biblical birthright, have vowed to do everything to stop the withdrawal, with some threatening to use violence. The suspects’ lawyers, Cynia Mozes-Harizi and Adi Kader, said the arrests were made to silence the demonstrators and that attempts to increase steps against them would fail."
The idea that Jewish authorities would even contemplate fellow Jews for no other reason than because the settlers are protesting being thrown out of their communities and homes by a government who was encouraging the settlements just a very short time ago, is almost unthinkable. In light of the Nazi Holocaust, this possibility that a Jewish government could marginalize their own citizens and then send them to a prison camp, is almost unthinkable.
Is there a deeper reason the current Illuminist government of Ariel Sharon is interested in discrediting Orthodox, Observant Jews in this current time frame? Yes, there certainly is. When Antichrist arises, the Orthodox Jews will be leading the charge to insist that Israel not accept him immediately as the Messiah for whom they have long been awaiting, but to wait to see if he systematically "fulfills" all Old Testament Messianic prophecies and Talmudic expectations. In other words, Orthodox Jews could hold up the entire process of Messiah "confirming the covenant" with Israeli leaders, an act which the Bible says is the beginning of the Tribulation Period (Daniel 9:27) and which the Illuminati considers to be the first 7-year segment of their Christ's 1,000-year reign (Peter Lemesurier, "The Armageddon Script").
For this last reason, the Illuminati wants to decrease the power and influence of the Orthodox Jew as much as possible, so they will exercise the slightest restraint on their Masonic Christ when he finally appears East of Jerusalem, claiming to be the Jewish Messiah. Since we believe we are so very close to the time when the Final Birth Pangs war is to begin, we should not be surprised to see the Israeli government beginning a campaign to discredit Orthodox Jews, even if they have to resort to official lying, exaggerations, and hyperbole.
Ideally for Prime Minister Sharon, his controversial Unilateral Disengagement Plan seems tailor-made to discredit Orthodox Jews, because they were very angry at the prospect of being forcibly removed from their hard-won settlement outposts. Therefore, we have witnessed the emergence of a deliberate Israeli government scheme to discredit these observant Jews; most of the stories shared the same tell-tale sign that the report was bogus as has accompanied many of our fake terror alerts, i.e., "no specific intelligence exists".
The first warning occurred in early July.
"Right-wing activists are becoming more and more extreme, the head of the Shin Bet security services, Avi Dichter, warned the cabinet ... Dichter told the ministers that right-wing extremists recently attacked a lieutenant colonel as he walked through Jerusalem with his wife because he had helped dismantle the synagogue at the illegal ... Justice Minister Yosef Lapid said in response that the far-right currently feels as though it can do whatever it wants, after the police failed to arrest the former director of the prime minister's bureau, Uri Elitzur, who called on settlers to violently resist the evacuation of outposts and settlements ... The news led Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to call for a meeting in the coming days to discuss the policy of filing indictments on the issue of incitement to violence."
These charges are very serious, but the news report gave no specifics except for for the supposed attack on a "lieutenant colonel" who had helped dismantle a synagogue. However, no specific name of the "lieutenant colonel" was given, thus casting doubt on the veracity of the report. Remember the lessons the United States government has provided the world -- in instances such as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Waco, Oklahoma City, and 9/11 -- that it will create the very disaster which will then give it the public backing it needs to carry out the next step in their plan. Jewish journalist, Barry Chamish, demonstrated powerfully that the Israeli Shin Bet Security Service was the most likely suspect in the murder of Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin ("Who Killed Yitzak Rabin", book by Barry Chamish). Given the hyperbole which you are about to see over this "Right-Wing" threat, another staged assassination of a prime minister or other high aide might be in the offing; certainly, such a high-profile killing would give the government all the authority and public support it would need to forcibly and quickly effect Sharon's Gaza retreat plan.
On the next day after Avi Dichter of Shin Bet completed his incendiary remarks to the Cabinet, the leadership of the settlers struck back. As you read this article, however, note that, before the story gets to the denial by the Rabbis that the Far Right posed any problem, you are told how serious this problem was and how the government was taking steps to combat it. The former deputy head of Shin Bet even called the followers of the Far Right "insane" -- twice!
"Settlers and right-wing politicians attacked reports of a rise in extremism on the Far Right made this week to the cabinet by Shin Bet head Avi Dichter, as centrist and left-wing politicians called for immediate action to combat the trend. The Knesset will hold a special hearing Tuesday on the issue of 'incitement to violence'. Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz will also hold a special meeting on the issue this week. Minister-without-Portfolio Gideon Ezra (Likud), former deputy head of the Shin Bet, said Monday that immediate steps had to be taken against extremism. Ezra said that there were those on the right who were liable to misinterpret recent statements by rabbis and act in irresponsible and 'insane' ways. Ezra said that security forces should identify and act against potentially violent opponents of the disengagement plan and keep them from carrying out 'insane acts'."
Such words serve only to inflame the debate, on both sides. Of course, if the Sharon government really wanted to thoroughly discredit the Far Right Orthodox Jew, its officials would want to deliberately inflame the debate. Such fiery rhetoric will only serve to heighten public concern and consciousness, so that, if an assassination or an attempted assassination could occur, the public would immediately know whom to blame!
Now, finally, a spokesman for the rabbis gets his chance to speak.
When the citizenry blindly follows its leadership and accords its officials almost god-like status, then an official can step to the microphone to inform Cabinet officials of a "serious threat", even though he presents little to no evidence. We see this sad situation in America, do we not, when the Director of Homeland Security and/or the Attorney General stands repeatedly at the microphone, warning of dire, immediate threats to our national security -- but will admit when pressed that they have little to no intelligence upon which to base the false threat declaration.
Exactly! The Shin Bet statements were very vague, backed by no evidence, and painted every settler with the same broad brush! Of course, when a government agency wishes to move against an entire group, they will issue vague, broadly based statements. Adolf Hitler was a master of this tactic, using it well -- against the Jews of Germany and Europe.
In fact, the only real substance in this debate occurred last month when another Rabbi attempted to rhetorically strike out at the forced resettlement issue. This statement was probably the basis for the Israel government campaign to discredit the Far Right Wing.
Immediately, however, another Rabbi contradicted this statement, as settlers spoke out in their defense.
Therefore, the seemingly incendiary statement of one Rabbi is more than canceled out by the opinion of 14 Rabbis. Further, the settlers weighed in heavily on the issue.
On July 8, Jerusalem News Wire noted that efforts by the Sharon government to "demonize" the settlers was gaining momentum.
"Members of the Sharon government and leftist Israeli media have accelerated efforts to demonize the right-wing settler movement ahead of the prime minister's plan to forcibly uproot the Jews of Gaza. Recent reports abound with allegations that persons associated with that sector of society are planning to assassinate Sharon and start a civil war. Right-wing commentators responded ... by noting there was not one shred of evidence supporting the notion of violent extremism, and said the settlers were being unfairly indicted for trying to defend their homes and the right of Jews to live where they choose."
We could not have stated the key part of this media campaign more succinctly! In the area of propaganda, the BIG LIE reigns supreme. In fact, when the lie has no basis in actual evidence, rhetoric has to reach even higher, achieving even more shrill levels. An "unnamed" security source confirmed this assessment.
On the day after Shin Bet Security Chief Dichter told ministers of the "extreme threat", another Sharon government official actually used the word, "assassination".
Matters then simmered along for a couple of weeks while news headlines were dominated by Arafat's drive in the Gaza Strip to impose his own will and rule before the Israelis withdrew. But, on July 20, Shin Bet Security Director Dichter struck at the reputation of the settler's again.
"Dichter also told the MKs that the Shin Bet has a list of between 150 and 200 Jews who are hoping for the death of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ... most of these individuals live in West Bank settlements and a smaller number live in the Gaza Strip. He said some of those on the list are described as 'hilltop youth', young settlers who are extremist in their beliefs and actions."
For the first time, Dichter actually gave some specifics as to who these "dangerous extremists" were and where they lived. Surely, these specific details were added to increase the credibility of the government's accusations. However, when I was in training to be a Manufacturer's Representative, I was warned that, if I were to be truly credible when lying, provide no specific details. Liars love to provide details, and professional Retail Buyers know it; thus, a smart liar will avoid specifics at all costs!
By this criteria, Avi Dichter is not an accomplished liar, or he assumes his listeners will not be perceptive.
Later in this article, an MK took this discrediting campaign to a new and higher level.
"Yatom said he took Dichter's remarks very seriously but added that 'an anonymous, lone Jewish assassin is more dangerous than a violent group that is recognized and being followed' by the authorities. Yahad MK Avshalom Vilan called on Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to investigate and administratively detain, if necessary, any Jewish citizens who pose a risk to the prime minister."
Now, we are getting closer to a real-life crisis in the Jewish state. For the first time in this discussion, we have seen a call from a Minister of the Knesset to arrest ("administratively detain") any Jewish citizen who might pose a risk to the prime minister. The term, "administratively detain" is usually employed when authorities do not have enough evidence to press criminal charges; however, in too many times in history, "administrative detention" turns into longer and longer prison time.
MORE SERIOUS CHARGES - JEWISH EXTREMISTS ARE SAID TO BE PLANNING TO BLOW THE DOME OF THE ROCK!
Suddenly, this campaign to discredit the "extremist Right Wing" took on an unexpected turn. New stories began to appear warning that Jewish extremists might be planning to blow up the Muslim Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. Listen to this unbelievable smear campaign. This allegation was made by one of the Sharon officials whom we quoted earlier -- Internal Security Minister Tzahi Hanegbi -- warning about extremists who might try to assassinate a government official.
"A day after Internal Security Minister Tzahi Hanegbi warned that Jewish extremists could be planning an attack against Arabs on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem Police and Islamic Wakf officials on Sunday increased security checks at the site, and police considered whether to restrict an Israeli fringe group from entering it this Tuesday ... Despite the reopening of the Temple Mount to non-Muslims 11 months ago, the ultra-nationalist group has been repeatedly barred by police from entering the holy site in the wake of last-minute security considerations made by the police commander on site, group leader Gershon Solomon said ... Meanwhile, the uproar continued in Israel over warnings made by Hanegbi Saturday night that Jewish extremists could be planning an attack in the Temple Mount to torpedo Israel's planned unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip."
Notice the inflammatory words: "extremist and fanatic Jewish elements".
This admission is simply disgusting and reprehensible ! After savaging patriotic, law-abiding Far Right Jewish citizens for weeks as to the "extreme threat" they posed to the Jewish State and to its elected officials, the Interior Security Minister then admits he has no evidence -- absolutely not one shred of " intelligence information" which might identify who might be planning such an attack. For that matter, it is highly doubtful Hanegbi has credible evidence that any such attack is planned, period.
Three days later, on July 28, the Arab press picked up this mantra and warned that any attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque (Dome of the Rock) would bring all-out war against Israel. Now, we can see the situation has developed that, when something happens to the Dome of the Rock, Muslims will believe automatically that Jewish citizens carried out the attack, simply because the official Israeli government said such extremists were planning it.
Make no mistake about the fact that the Dome of the Rock is going to come crashing down. New World Order writer, Peter Lemesurier, noted that the Illuminati plan to produce Antichrist and to present him as the Jewish Messiah called for a destruction of the Dome of the Rock.
However, the Palestinians might be the ones who actually carry out the deed. In NEWS1429, we note that a young Arafat was blackmailed by the Russian KGB to become the leader of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1968, threatening to reveal his flaming homosexuality. This revelation means that Arafat was controlled by the Illuminati, even more tightly than Israel is controlled by the Western Illuminati.
Would you be surprised to learn that Arafat let it slip in early September, 2000, on CNN, that he was planning to blow up the Dome of the Rock? We report on this most interesting fact in NEWS1404. We encourage you to read this article thoroughly, for it reveals much of the plan to destroy the Dome of the Rock so that World War III will immediately erupt.
But, why should we be surprised, for we have been warning for over one year now that the overall plan in Iraq and throughout the Middle East seems to be along the line of the Illuminist doctrine known as "Blood In The Streets". According to this strategy, the inferior forces of the Muslims will be deliberately provoked to war against the admittedly superior Western forces, thus giving those Western forces the opportunity to annihilate both Muslim armies and Muslim populations.
This strategy is responsible for the awful torture and sexual degradation prison scandal in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay prisons, where each specific humiliation was aimed at a specific sensitivity produced by Muslim belief. We have deliberately provoked hundreds of millions of Muslims through this scandal; however, leaders of moderate Arab governments have been able to quell their restive Islamic people, knowing they would have no military chance of victory. However, if the Dome of the Rock blows up or otherwise falls to the ground, Israel will be blamed and no moderate Arab leader will be able to withstand the resulting popular tidal wave.
Jews will be blamed for the demise of the Dome of the Rock, no matter how it falls down. And, why shouldn't Jews be blamed, for the Sharon government has already pronounced them guilty in the court of world opinion!
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon seems more determined than ever to get strong public opinion behind him in his unilateral disengagement -- unilateral retreat -- from Gaza and some portions of the West Bank. However, powerful political and religious forces are mustering against him for bitter battle. Religious forces are especially powerful foes because they are implacable, as they base their opposition on the ancient Hebrew Scripture we Gentiles popularly call The Old Testament.
How can Sharon galvanize the great majority of Jewish citizens to support his retreat plan? All he has to do is to engineer a crisis, just as the 9/11 attacks served the Illuminati well in America. If he suffered an assassination or an assassination attempt, his plan could go forward with his successors at the helm. If one of his ministers were assassinated, he could go forward with his plan. And, if the Dome of the Rock were to be blown up, hit with an airplane, or simply fall to the ground, Jewish extremists would be blamed. Sharon could go forward with his withdrawal plans and begin to prepare Israel for the prophesied annihilation of the Palestinian people (Read NEWS1422, NEWS1620, and NEWS1625 for full details).
Truly, world events are propelling us ever closer to that planned "Final Birth Pangs War" of Matthew 24:6-8, that World War III which will "give birth" to Antichrist. Israel is the key. Are you spiritually ready? Is your family? Are you adequately protecting your loved ones? This is the reason for this ministry, to enable you to first understand the peril facing you, and then help you develop strategies to warn and protect your loved ones. Once you have been thoroughly trained, you can also use your knowledge as a means to open the door of discussion with an unsaved person. I have been able to use it many times, and have seen people come to Jesus Christ as a result. These perilous times are also a time when we can reach many souls for Jesus Christ, making an eternal difference.
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A high efficiency furnace is characterized as a heat generator that is effective at turning most of the fuel source into energy. The energy that is produced will then turn into heat within the furnace. The high efficiency factor is very appealing as it limits the amount of fuel wasted to as little as possible.
The standard furnace is only required to be 78% efficient. This is staggeringly low when compared to the high efficiency models, which provide a 90% efficiency or higher. The different in efficiency levels is extreme and the cost between the two will be easily noticed when calculated on a per annum basis.
Any homeowner that does not own a high efficiency furnace should consider upgrading to one. This is especially true if the heating costs tend to increase dramatically every single year. The improvement in efficiency will provide long-term savings that will be extremely noticeable in the following years.
What Makes a High Efficiency Furnace?
The efficiency level is the main factor in whether a furnace is classified as a high efficiency furnace or not. A lower efficiency will occur if the furnace cannot maintain all of the produced heat. This is caused by water vapor and heated gases causing a decrease to the heat in the furnace. Both the water vapor and heated gases will leave the furnace from the flue. The ultimate result of this is less heat being produced from the fuel source.
The high efficiency models will be designed to prevent or limit water vapor and heated gases. One technique that is used to do this would be the removal of heat from water vapor. With this method, the heat will turn into hot air for the household. The result of this will be a decrease in the amount of heat that is lost in the furnace as a result of water vapor.
There are a few other methods that can be used to increase the energy efficiency of a furnace. One method would be to implement an electric ignition system into the furnace. Another option would be to have sealed combustion with the furnace. The benefits from these two modifications will not be major but it will cause a decrease in the cost of electricity in the big picture.
There are many advantages and disadvantages to a high efficiency furnace. The two major advantages of owning a high efficiency furnace would be the decrease in electricity cost and the decrease in necessary fuel for the furnace. The only major disadvantage of a high efficiency furnace is that it can cost quite a bit more than other furnaces to buy. The high efficiency furnace will pay itself off within the next three to five years but this can still be a financial burden of an investment for some individuals.
Energy efficient products are becoming very popular as everybody wants to save electricity and money. The main issue with a lot of these products is that they tend to cost quite a bit to purchase. If the initial investment can be made, the savings could eventually pay off the cost of the initial investment though.
A high efficiency furnace can really save you quite a bit of electricity and money. It can even decrease the cost of electricity by up to 20% per year. This is a dramatic decrease that can easily add up to paying off the cost of the furnace in the years to come. With that being said, a high efficiency furnace is something that would be a smart and profitable investment for any individual that has the funds to do so.
This High Efficiency Furnace - Best Brand to Buy Review is Written/Updated on Jan 3rd, 2011 and filed under Home Appliances. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Jerusalem - Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Thursday of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), after he passed away suddenly on Wednesday night at 67.
Tributes poured in following the announcement of his death from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, ministers, rabbis and Evangelical Christian ministers who Eckstein had worked with such as Pat Robertson and Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, the pro-Israel lobbying organization.
Several dignitaries – including US Ambassador David Friedman, MKs and former Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat – were in attendance, along with Rabbi Berel Lazar, head of Chabad in Russia and one of the country’s chief rabbis.
Eckstein founded the IFCJ in 1983 and raised more than $1.6 billion, according to the organization – mostly from Evangelical Christians – to help hundreds of thousands of low-income Israelis, ailing and poor Holocaust survivors in Israel and the former Soviet Union, and low-income Israeli minorities, including Arabs, Bedouin and Druze.
Speaking at the funeral service, Lazar gave the first eulogy, speaking of how Eckstein dedicated his life to helping other Jews through the organization he established.
“Yechiel was like the sun that shines one the world, and he shone on all Jews everywhere,” said Lazar.
Eckstein’s brother Beryl also gave a eulogy, describing his closeness to his older brother, his admiration of him and his devotion to helping other Jews and building bridges between the Christian and Jewish worlds.
“Yechiel was a dreamer and a visionary, and all such people are controversial,” said Beryl Eckstein.
“Your lifetime of service to the Jewish people and to the State of Israel is now complete,” he continued, saying that this service had now merited him with the accompanying angels that bring tranquility. “May God bless you with peace,” he concluded.
Eckstein’s daughter Yael spoke emotionally about her father’s devotion to his family, as well as his work.
“Your life was dedicated to other people’s happiness… you dedicated your life to chessed [acts of kindess] and you will be praised for doing so,” she said.
The IFCJ has been widely praised for its work helping poor Jews and Israelis, as well as directly helping more than 17,000 Jews immigrate to Israel from 31 countries, Eckstein and the IFCJ did, however, generate controversy, with some expressing suspicion as to the motivation of Evangelical Christian donors to Jewish and Israeli causes.
Senior rabbis in the hardline wing of the national-religious community such as Rabbi Dov Lior also forbade accepting funds from IFCJ saying that it was forbidden to receive money from Christians.
Not all Orthodox groups agreed with this interpretation, such as the Chabad movement, which continued to work with and accept donations from IFCJ, as did many others.
Eckstein also fell out with the Jewish Agency in 2014 – to which the IFCJ donated tens of millions of dollars – over what he said were failures by the organization to react quickly enough to demand for immigration to Israel in Ukraine following the outbreak of that country’s conflict with Russia.
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Let's straight to the point with no useless chit-chat.
- What's the difference between these codes?
- Which code is more expensive in performance to run?
Surely that Lua now has int subtype (as in 5.3).
That's just for integer and floating-point numbers. But what about these kinds of changing values?
In first example, there is no difference. LÖVE uses LuaJIT which runs equivalent of Lua 5.1, so it doesn't have integers. Still, double precision floats can represent integers exactly, so it's hardly relevant.
In second example, first is assigning boolean (logical) true value to the variable, second creates a table containing boolean true as its first element and assigns that to the variable.
In third example, first creates a literal string containing text "1" and assigns it to the variable, second assigns number 1 to the variable.
Operations that work upon complex types (as opposed to primitive types such as nil, booleans and numbers) tend to create garbage, and by extension are more expensive. Tables also have the lookup operation overhead, for each level of lookup depth. Note that global variables go into global table and require a lookup from that table to reference one; local variables are allocated on stack and are accessed directly.
Ah, sorry for the less explanation about what I'm truly asking for.
raidho36, what I'm asking is that not in LuaJIT but Lua 5.3. I saw the source code of Lua, and lua_Number uses union, so both int and float require same memory space. Forget about the numbers. What about the the 3rd and 4th example? I don't know how Lua handles booleans, tables, and strings. I'm pretty sure that strings and booleans use char type, right? How fast are those examples could run? It's not like booleans and tables need the same memory space, tables are mutable so it needs more memory all the time.
Ortimh wrote: How fast are those examples could run?
O(1), which basically means they take the exact same (constant) time, as far as you should be concerned with creating one variable with them.
Changing them would be O(1) again for boolean, number, string (even if it uses a hash table, that's still a non-issue), and it'd be O(2) for tables because of one extra access... which is still constant, so O(1).
zorg, thanks! Could you give me the source of information you got from, or explain more perhaps?
Well LÖVE doesn't use Lua 5.3 so that's not quite relevant.
In 64 bit system, performance of any integer operations up to 64 bits in length is constant, since that's a size of one register and the processor would normally be optimized to handle the whole thing in one go, therefore there is no performance gain to be had from only using a fraction of it. X86 and derivatives usually have very fast floating point unit, simple float operations are usually as fast as simple integer operations. Complex operations performance may vary; it is always slower, however as far as practical evidence goes, complex floating point math is substantially faster than equivalent integer math. There is no difference between single and double precision computation performance, both are internally converted to at least 80 bits floating point numbers, possibly more depending on processor model. ARM processors is a bit different story, they suffer noticeably from using double precision numbers and their floating point unit is in general not as advanced. There is also cache hit rate to be considered, but in context of Lua that can not really be managed beyond using consecutive integer keys in the same array during data grinding.
Lua strings are byte arrays accompanied by length indicator variable. Whenever string needs to be created, pool of existing strings is checked and reference to existing string is returned if it's there, otherwise new byte string is created. String equality check is therefore O(1) and at that is extremely fast, but dynamic string management may have substantial overhead.
Lua tables are comprised of two parts: array part and hash part. All integer keyed values that the table deems worth resizing the array part for go into array part, everything else goes to hash part. Access complexity is always O(1) but keys from array part are indexed faster since there is no hash evaluation. Every time you use brackets construct a new table is created, if you let go of it e.g. by using it as a transient container, it becomes garbage and contributes to GC overhead. Same goes for temporarily existing strings.
Wow, raidho36! That really clears up my mind! Thanks. Also what I'm asking is Lua in general not Love2D's Lua. Thanks for the huge information again!
which allocates a new table and that is always slower.
If "variable" is global then you have "global assignment" which is slower compared to using locals.
Like raidho36 said, literal values are handled quite fast, as opposed to string operations (string., "..", or table.concat).
| 2019-04-21T00:32:58 |
https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=206689
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The major problem with "teams figured out FA is a bad investment" is that, meanwhile, the system by definition grossly underpays players before they hit free agency. If players aren't going to make up for it on the back end, then they need to push to overhaul things on the front end. The three years of team control piece, for example, is asinine, and the arbitration system is also just stupid.
If the players have any stones, they should push for a complete overhaul of that entire system. They won't and will settle for something far short of that. The question is just how far they'll push.
You've got the nail on the head. This is the inefficiency built right into the system. It took years and a boatload of data for ownership to figure that out but they did and now they know they're holding a stacked deck. The data has given them real insight into the actual value of players as they age, defensively and offensively. Now that they understand that, why would they ever change the arb system without a fight? That's their moneymaker since players are paid much less that their actual value.
Those of you who puke when you see wins discussed can just turn away. If we're going to talk economics we need a measure of player worth otherwise there's no discussion possible.
Take Betts as a prime example. The projection is that he'll end up at $17M to $18M after arb. That's maybe half of what he'd get on the market - maybe - and a quarter of his actual worth. For all we know he has another season like the past one in him before he reaches free agency. And that's just Betts.
That leaves the players. They're going to need to follow this logic or the pain will only get worse. They need another Marvin Miller who understood the value of impartial arbitration and who got it into the mix with the owners none the wiser back then. It only took them 30 years to figure out how to game it!
I don't know that the union understands the box they're in, the inefficiency that's being exploited now that it's been surfaced with all the aging data available for the full spectrum of baseball skills. The model needs to be turned on its head with a more accurate pay scale for young players as they blossom. You make a salient point: how far are they willing to go to staredown the owners? Because that's what it's going to take along with a clear understanding about what's at stake and where their real interests as a union lie.
Time for some leadership. Let's see who if anyone is up for that.
I do not care about the NFL, the NBA, or the NHL and how they pay their players - at all. What I do care about is the lessening share of MLB revenues that is and will be going to the players. If the Sox had payed Middlebrooks for his freshman season that would have been fine by me, though your numbers are out of whack. He might have gotten half of that based on his performance and the overhead the team rightly takes to run the club. The way players spend their money and what they've already made is entirely irrelevant to me as well, it's also irrelevant to this discussion - a red herring. What are they worth, that's the question.
You either believe the players should get some portion of the revenue or you don't. That 45% is down from what was half the revenues. As for how this can be done, the answer is easy. The same data that informs how teams now view aging players can be used to hammer home the inequity in the current system. Benitendi has been in the bigs a little over two years. He's made 2% of what he's been worth. We can go on like this if you want.
Hatfield is right, the system needs to be reworked. The old bargain - we pay you less than your worth for six years or so, and you get more than your worth after that - is dead. The new bargain - we pay you less than your worth for six years and then we squeeze you - isn't a fair one for a large class of players. That's what happens as the years go on, the dynamic changes. I believe it's time for a new deal.
If you wanted a complete meritocracy from day 1 then Will Middlebrooks would have received $10-15M for his 2013 season based on his 2012 performance.
Lotsa middle ground between $498K and $10 million.
Just quickly want to reiterate that the 45% average does not appear to include local TV revenue, which a number of baseball teams generate additional revenue from. The NBA's 50% number and the NFL's 47% does represent a percentage of all TV revenues, it was negotiated in their last CBA. The true cut for MLB players might be another degree lower than the other big sports.
I don't care at all about whether Harper or Machado get theirs, there are a ton of better ways to redistribute excess funds than the free agent market.
Well that's exactly what we're talking about so I'm not sure what you're opposed to.
That is 100% right. Nevermind those numbers are from 2017. The big issue is 2018, the first year in a decade when the players got less than the year before. If you look at the 2018 numbers you'll start to see the issue.
Local tv revenues do add to the the $$available for teams, but running an extensive minor league system is a real cost and, as stated elsewhere, one that could use an infusion of cash to better pay the players. NFL has none, colleges do the job for them, and the NBA has a minimal league that people don't stay in near as long as they do in baseball. Only hockey has tiers of affiliated teams and no one has talked about that's sports economic as yet.
I agree that there needs to be an overhaul of the system. But getting players more early does mean that they should get less later, let's see how that evolves.
While certainly not the same, players do play years and years in the G league. While checking out Cameron Oliver I noticed James Young still kicking around in the G league which would be like 5 years for him.
The post thread is the slow (free agent) offseason. I may have missed a couple points along the way, but the rhetoric around the last two offseasons has been about free agents and I don't think that's where the focus should be.
Yeah, I think we (thankfully) have moved past that.
They could double every minor league player's salary and it would be a drop in a bucket. It certainly shouldn't affect how much they got in the majors. You aren't going to pay Mookie Betts $15M instead of $20M because he got an extra $10K per year in the minors. $5 million could pay all the minor league players for an entire organization a lot more than they're getting now.
This won't even have anything to do with the next CBA because minor league players are not unionized and have zero say in negotiations.
At least G-league players are getting $35K per year minimum, which isn't great, but they can definitely survive on it. A lot of minor league baseball players dream of being so fortunate.
AHL players have it best. Their minimum is $47.5K, plus playoff bonuses, moving expenses before and after each season and $75 per day per diem. And they don't even have to pay to have their laundry done like in MiLB.
People keeping saying that because it looks great, that doesn't tell the full story as the two lower leagues get way less. Nevermind a team like the Red Sox have 8 minor league teams so many more players than a team like the Bruins.
The G League looks awesome, but there is less players in that league than just AAA in Baseball.
Just put an age on the sport like 21 like the NFL does. American players go to College for 3 years. International guys develop in their home Countries. The amount of minor league teams goes to 3 from 8 and they get paid more. Problem solved.
That will reduce the quality of the major league product just so that the owners can save the nominal amount of money it would take to pay everybody in the minors fairly. That's not something any fan should be supporting.
So here's a chart that might help with the 'Do players get paid fairly?' question.
For reference, NFL players are guaranteed 47% of revenue, NBA between 49-51%, and NHL 50%.
EDIT: It seems in reading the thread that these figures are only what was reported to MLB, meaning teams who own TV stations did not include profits there in these figures. So, if this is accurate, MLB players in 2017 received 44.8% of revenues not including local TV money.
Very... maybe they use the same accountant??
Paying 200 minor leaguers $30,000 each would cost a major league team $6 million. In other words, less than the Red Sox will pay Steve Pearce this year. Every MLB team could afford that without blinking. They pay like $14M each in MLB player benefits every year.
Volume is most certainly NOT the reason minor leaguers' pay is so abysmal, so you can let go of that argument. Nobody's saying to give them the MLB minimum or something.
Something is up with that as the Orioles and Diamondbacks have the same revenue and the Tigers and the Braves each have the same amount.
That list is pretty vague. It doesn't even account for debt or the difference in stadium deals and obviously not all of the television deals. Now I do believe that teams are making more money than ever before, but it's a lot more complicated than that list.
The conspiracy theorist in me says that the owners know there is going to be a CBA issue and don't want to hand out any bigger contracts than they have to before the day of reckoning, thereby thinking they will be saving themselves money after they get their clock cleaned.
More to the point, I am sure that has been broached in one, if not all, franchises front offices, but don't expect a written record of in any minutes handouts.
I agree with what you are saying here. I would add, though, the definition of value has changed to such a degree that it is easier for teams to conclude that players are worth less based on their own biases. Even a team's proprietary data could lead to players values being diminished.
Back in the day, it was determined that guys who had RBI's got big contracts. Well someone said that is a meaningless stat and should not be rewarded as such. Players values went down. Then someone said pitchers wins don't matter. Pitchers values went down. There has been a coordinated effort to deconstruct player valuations to the point now where....well....who the hell knows what metric means something. I think the teams are overthinking this stuff. And can't tell if they value intangibles at all.
I am sorry, when Bill James talked about players being replaceable, he was really saying they aren't worth what they think they are worth. There are a lot of like minded people making these decisions. It isn't helping the players situation.
Wait, who's contracts got smaller?
They used to say walks don't matter. Now the players who walk more get paid more. They used to say defense didn't matter. Now great defensive players get paid more. They used to say that relief pitchers who didn't get saves had little value. Now good relief pitchers get paid way more.
During the negotiations leading to the 2016 basic agreement that governs baseball, officials at MLB left bargaining stupefied almost on a daily basis. Something had changed at the MLBPA, and the league couldn’t help but beam at its good fortune: The core principle that for decades guided the union no longer seemed a priority.
“It was like they didn’t care about money anymore,” one league official said.
Though something of an oversimplification, there was more than a kernel of truth to it. Meaningful negotiating time was spent on issues the league happily accepted in exchange for stronger financial positions. The players wanted a chef in the clubhouse. The players wanted two seats apiece on spring training buses. The players wanted more off-days. Lifestyle and amenities took precedent more than ever.
I highly doubt the revenue sharing percentage has gone down because people don't value rbi's or pitching wins anymore. It's a lot more complicated than that.
Not sure what to make of the market overall, other than to repeat that the players really screwed themselves with the last CBA, especially with the luxury tax limits and compensation for free agents. I think the tax is moronic without a legit team wide player salary floor, at least from a labor perspective. As labor you want to reward ownership for spending more on salaries, and to make it more beneficial for teams to acquire FAs. I don't see why teams should get a comp pick for "losing" a free agent or get penalized a draft pick or slot money for acquiring one. You're not losing anything - the player has finished his contract for the work provided and you're making the decision not to re-sign the player at market value based on costs and projection. I also think if teams were allowed to trade draft picks (and their money) in the first 5 rounds or even all 10 rounds, it would greatly increase veteran mobility to better situations earlier in their careers, and perhaps improve ultimate compensation by allowing contending or near contending teams to acquire "win now" assets and having those assets maximize their value in the play-off race cauldron. Meanwhile struggling teams with high value players can accelerate their rebuilding, and a floor would at least make sure they don't completely tank (or at least not without blowing a ton of cash). I mean, especially with the competitive talent payments - again, more BS that some owners simply pocket - if an MLB team can't afford a minimum aggregate $80M salary payment to their 25 players they should be mandated to sell to an owner who will commit to that level or better of compensation.
ADDED: Meanwhile it seems crazy that NYY hasn't jumped on Harper. He'd hit 50+ HRs a year with that Little League RF and be able to transition to 1st - where they have need - or they could save his legs by playing him in RF and moving Judge to LF. Plus the merchandizing alone would probably pay for a contract year or three. Just odd and shows where this market is at.
| 2019-04-18T14:37:40 |
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What does Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz keep in his pockets? Two keys stand out. One unlocks the most lavish Starbucks store in the world: the 15,000-square-foot Roastery. Situated in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, it combines an upscale cafe with whirring conveyor belts that ferry packages of freshly roasted coffee before admiring customers. Let Nike have Niketown; Schultz has created a Willy Wonka-style celebration of coffee.
The other key reveals something deeper. It opens the shabby little store on the Seattle waterfront where Starbucks got its start. It's always 1971 there, with the same rough-hewn bins and counters that defined the brand in the days of the Vietnam War. Nobody has ever modernized the place. "I go there at 4:15 a.m. sometimes, just by myself," the 62-year-old Schultz tells me. "It's the right place whenever I need centering."
Centering? The last we checked, the willingness of billionaire CEOs to recenter themselves was hovering around zero. But that's Schultz: always the underdog, always blending the personal with the profitable. Since taking charge of Starbucks in the 1980s, he has turned a regional coffee company into one of the world's top brands. Sales topped $19 billion in 2015, thanks to Starbucks' ability to provide food and coffee along with a feel-good environment where friends meet, students do their homework and romances come of age. By delivering what he calls "performance through the lens of humanity," Schultz has amassed a fortune of nearly $3 billion. Yet in any sustained conversation, he keeps going back to when he was a nobody.
"I'm still this kid from Brooklyn who wanted to fight his way out," Schultz says. He grew up in the 1960s in subsidized housing, steeped in the anxieties of a father who suffered workplace injuries and couldn't hold a job. "I didn't go to an Ivy League school," Schultz reminds me. "I didn't go to business school." Instead of resenting those early deprivations, he treasures them. Schultz has discovered that America--and, in fact, the whole world--loves an up-from-hardship story. His candor about his beginnings in the gritty Canarsie section helps him strike a rapport with everyone from other chief executives to young black and Latino adults trying to find their first jobs. "Even though I don't have the same color of skin," Schultz explains, "I was one of those kids. I could have today been one of those kids."
It's a classic American story, one that forced Schultz to bat down rumors last year that he was going to run for President. But Schultz wasn't at all interested in the campaign, in part because, while the 2016 presidential contenders debase themselves during this circus-like primary, Schultz already has a bully pulpit from which to steer discourse. Thanks to Starbucks' stunning financial performance, he enjoys pretty much unbridled authority to use it.
More than anything, Schultz wants to become America's conciliator-in-chief. He's troubled by the angry tone in politics and everyday discourse, which makes him think that, as a country, we've " lost our conscience." Searching for inspiration, he's traveled everywhere from veterans' hospitals to an Indian ashram in the past year, asking people to share their stories and their beliefs. Now he wants Starbucks to be the place where people can get excited about voting again, where people can courteously discuss tough issues such as gun rights and race relations--and where "we can elevate citizenship and humanity."
It all sounds lovely, but last March Schultz's crusade blew up in his face. Everything started smoothly when the Starbucks boss began asking employees in late 2014 about America's race relations. He was jolted by the upheaval in Ferguson, Mo., after a white policeman was exonerated in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen. His employees were, too. Their private conversations were raw, heartfelt and cathartic. Baristas and store managers burst into tears, talking about ugly moments they had seen. People hugged. Everyone wished that America could overcome its past. Schultz was so moved that he decided to relaunch these conversations in 7,000 Starbucks stores. Baristas were encouraged to write "Race Together" on millions of patrons' coffee cups. Then, somehow, good things would result.
Undeterred, the Seattle coffee king's ambitions remain as big as ever, with Schultz targeting death-penalty injustices, chronic unemployment, veterans' needs and the college aspirations of his baristas. Watching Schultz's crusades in the wake of the race debacle is akin to seeing a sword-swallower at a carnival. Each project generates its own rush of excitement. Each is tinged by a thrilling, terrifying sense that it could all go horribly wrong in an instant.
A few weeks ago Schultz and I ended up at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in an empty theater, sipping Starbucks' Aged Sumatra from paper cups. Schultz was collecting his thoughts, minutes before going on stage to inspire 300 of his employees about his favorite topic: what's wrong in society and how his company could be a force for good. "We've got this big idea," he told me, in a voice that mixed eagerness and hesitation. "It's like a piece of clay, but it's not yet shaped. I'm going to ask people for their help."
BOUNDING ONTO THE BROOKLYN stage, Schultz began by ticking off issues that concerned him: death benefits for soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan; gun safety; and the 2016 presidential election. "We're not just here to raise the stock price," he declared. "What can we do to use our strength for social good?"
Over the next 90 minutes 34 store managers and baristas took the microphone to share their ideas and concerns. As with most voters, they were less interested in policy theories--save a few that talked about their own volunteer work in local schools--and much more into the gritty realities of their daily lives. We get a lot of homeless people in our stores. ... Can we get more security? ... Can we get more training for the baristas? ... Could there be a child-care option?
If Schultz was disappointed, he didn't let on. "That's a great idea," he told several questioners. "We're working on it," he reassured others. When one part-time employee wanted to know why he wasn't getting much paid vacation time, Schultz started to lob the question toward a human-relations specialist in the audience--and then caught himself in mid sentence. "You know what?" Schultz declared. "You've been here 16 years. You deserve a vacation. We're going to get you one." The room burst into applause. Schultz came over to give the barista a hug, and someone snapped a picture.
Watching Schultz work a crowd, you can see why he would have made a natural candidate. But the political bug has faded. A lifelong Democrat, Schultz says he no longer thinks government holds the answers to the issues that concern him most. He has little interest in visiting Washington, and hasn't made a presidential political contribution since supporting Barack Obama in 2008. Board member Mellody Hobson is even clearer: "Howard knows himself well enough to realize that a role in national politics isn't right for him."
Yet Schultz refuses to surrender his dream of fixing America. At the very least, he can make Starbucks itself a laboratory for developing a better society. In the past year Starbucks has set up 19 cafes on the edge of military bases, going out of its way to hire veterans and active-duty spouses to work there. Another initiative is a partnership with other big companies to convene giant job fairs in cities such as Phoenix, Chicago and Los Angeles, inviting out-of-work young adults for job interviews. A third program, started in 2014, provides baristas and other employees a chance to earn an online college degree from Arizona State University--with Starbucks absorbing all tuition costs.
At most companies, any CEO so immersed in social causes would risk a shareholder mutiny. Schultz can't ignore his investors; he owns just under 3% of the company. But Starbucks is a special case, says Chief Financial Officer Scott Maw, who joined the coffee company in 2011 after many years in the hard-nosed cultures of General Electric and JPMorgan Chase. When you're selling lattes instead of locomotives or loans, Maw observes, a $3.45 grande isn't just a beverage; it's a ticket into "a pleasant experience and an ethically sound way of doing things." Schultz's crusades have become part of the product, morphing Starbucks into one of the biggest social businesses on the planet.
"Howard Schultz has always wanted to do something bigger than selling caffeine," says Bryant Simon, a history professor at Temple University who wrote Everything but the Coffee, a 2009 book about Starbucks. Simon is the skeptic who won't surrender, contending that most of Schultz's initiatives are brilliantly positioned mirages. Take Ethos, the Starbucks owned house brand of bottled water. Customers may be excited that five cents of their purchase goes toward providing people access to clean water. In truth, when bottled water costs $1.80 a container, Starbucks keeps 97% of the purchase price.
Even the free-college initiative displeases Simon, who regards it as a public relations stunt, meant to convince Starbucks customers that baristas aren't trapped in a dead-end job. "We're supposed to believe that they're all working toward a better future, with their employer covering the tab," Simon remarks. "I wonder how many baristas will ever get a degree."
Schultz wonders, too. The free-college initiative with ASU started about two years ago--and 5,000 employees have already enrolled. To date 44 have earned degrees. Another 100-plus expect to graduate this spring. It's a struggle for baristas to get their old community-college credits transferred into the ASU system, to settle on a major and to meet all the deadlines for registration, term papers and the like. Since announcing the program, both Starbucks and ASU have stepped up their efforts to coach these online students through the full college process, rather than just handing them a student log-in code and hoping for the best. The graduation rate will likely keep climbing, but it could take another three or four years before the program's results are clear.
Most executives don't have that much time. Periodically, Schultz gets calls from younger executives who want to know how they, too, can advocate for social causes without running the risk of getting fired. Marvin Ellison, the CEO of J.C. Penney, has sought him out. So has John Zimmer, the president of Lyft, the San Francisco ride-sharing company. Schultz's blunt advice: "You have to earn the right." Spend years winning investors' trust by delivering strong results. Once you've done that, your degrees of freedom increase greatly. Get excited about non business goals too early, and the trapdoor of termination can open at any time.
If the big boss needs to ratify everything, though, decision making slows to a crawl. Mindful of his own limits, Schultz has beefed up Starbucks' management team in recent years with a wide range of proven leaders from outside. These include a chief operating officer with a Microsoft background (Kevin Johnson) and a chief strategist with a Disney pedigree (Matt Ryan.) "There's a lot more here than just The Howard Show," says J.C. Penney Chairman Myron Ullman, who has been a Starbucks director since 2003. "Leadership doesn't have to come from Howard on every topic."
The payoff: growth that never stops. Starbucks' stock surged 48% in 2015, and despite a choppy start to 2016, the company's market capitalization is approach ing $86 billion. While coffee remains the main event, food offerings keep expanding, with sales that have more than doubled in the past five years. (Why not pair that cappuccino with a chicken artichoke sandwich on ancient-grain flatbread?) Customer lines move faster, now that 16 million patrons are signed up for Starbucks' mobile payment app. Fewer people fumble for change, sales per hour increase and profitability inches higher. Starbucks' margins before interest and taxes run at 19.7%, double the likes of Chipotle or Panera.
More fun lies ahead, say Wall Street analysts, who expect Starbucks to keep expanding margins by one percentage point a year until at least 2018. Even controversies end up being good for business, as shown by a kerfuffle last November when Starbucks offered red cups that didn't include any reference to the Christmas holidays. A few evangelists got upset. Television stations rushed to cover the story, and the amped-up attention helped Starbucks ring up record sales.
Sometimes winning ideas happen in spite of Schultz, rather than because of him. In 2008 Schultz angrily insisted that Starbucks stop selling melted-cheese breakfast sandwiches, because the smell of toasted cheddar was overwhelming the gentler aroma of fresh-brewed coffee. Guess what? Melted cheese made a comeback. The new version is cooked at 500 degrees Fahrenheit instead of 1,100 and with smaller slices of medium cheddar instead of big slices of sharp cheddar. "Howard can always be convinced," says Luigi Bonini, Starbucks' head of product development.
Rather than try to do everything, Schultz lately has been gravitating toward Starbucks' newest, fastest-growing projects--which mesh well with his underdog mind-set. He has become Mr. China, making quarterly trips to Beijing and Shanghai as well as a host of inland cities where Starbucks has big ambitions. Right now those stores mostly sell tea, Frappuccinos and moon cakes in the afternoon. Before long, Schultz says with a smile, China may embrace "the morning ritual" of coffee, too.
Starbucks now has 2,000 stores in China, quadruple its total just five years ago. Shanghai (432) has overtaken Seoul and New York as the city with the most Starbucks cafes. Other companies' CEOs may stress about China's recent stumbles; not Schultz. He believes an unstoppable expansion of China's middle class will benefit his company, regardless. "One day," Schultz told analysts in January, China "could very well be larger than the U.S. business."
Schultz's other big project: defending the high end of the coffee market with aplomb. He's seen mass-market brands like Budweiser and Hershey lose allure as microbreweries and artisanal chocolate makers position themselves as the true champions of taste. Nobody will trap Starbucks that way, he vows. Yes, the coffee scene now includes ambitious upstarts like Philz, Blue Bottle, Intelligentsia and Stumptown that are turning heads with ultra fancy beans and serving styles. And, yes, the newcomers have raised the stakes by marketing, say, 12-ounce bags of Three Africans (a blend of Ethiopian and Congolese beans) for $15.75.
Schultz isn't fazed. He's jousting back with smaller packages of even pricier beans, packaged in distinctive bags as Starbucks Reserve. An 8.8-ounce pouch of pure Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Chelba goes for $17.50, perched among other upscale offerings in their own showcase in regular Starbucks stores, along with artful marketing promotion ("Exotic, rare, exquisite"). The fanciest coffees show beautifully in Seattle's ultra-elegant Roastery--and Schultz plans to make the most of that pairing, with plans to open more Roastery in the U.S. and Asia. Schultz keeps e-mailing board members his iPhone photos of the Roastery in action, day or night. "Howard's a fanatic," says Starbucks director Hobson.
Starbucks' directors retire at age 75, which is 13 years away for Schultz. He says he may step down as CEO before then. He kicked himself upstairs to the role of just chairman once before, from 2000 to 2007, so he could try other diversions such as owning the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team. Starbucks' performance faltered, and Schultz reinstated himself as CEO in a boardroom coup. He says he's pacing himself better this time around, listening more and showing more patience with other people. Running a big company "is a young man's game, in terms of the energy required, the stamina, the curiosity," Schultz concedes. Even so, he says he plans to stick around a while longer. His mission is not fully accomplished.
CEDRIC KING LOST BOTH HIS LEGS in 2012 when he stepped on an improvised bomb during combat in Afghanistan. About 19 months later his path crossed with Howard Schultz's at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. The wounded Army Ranger was stuck in a wheelchair, struggling to master a pair of prosthetic limbs in hopes of walking again. Schultz was collecting stories of courage and struggle for a book that he and a co-writer were developing about America's veterans. Everyone chatted for about an hour in the hospital's cafeteria. "It was a nice conversation," King recalls, "but I didn't think I'd ever see Howard Schultz again."
Not so. After Schultz and King swapped e-mails, in the summer of 2015 someone from Schultz's family foundation called King with an unusual proposition. The foundation was helping to organize a series of job fairs around the U.S., aimed at America's most unemployable young adults. The event could use some motivational speakers. King had been busy competing in marathons and triathlons. Would he be willing to come to Chicago, as a paid speaker? How about Phoenix? How about Los Angeles?
Take a close look at how Schultz spends his time, and it's startling how often he hurls himself into the emotional tornadoes of other people's troubles, hoping he can be a force for good. When former SuperSonics star Vin Baker ended up broke and struggling with the ravages of alcoholism, Schultz helped set him up in a Starbucks management program so he could learn to run stores. When death-row attorney Bryan Stevenson wrote Just Mercy, a book about his struggles to free wrongly convicted inmates, Schultz insisted that Starbucks cafes sell the work--even if it seemed like a crazy juxtaposition next to the cash register's usual fare of biscotti and almonds.
Reading Just Mercy wasn't enough. Schultz invited his way into Stevenson's offices and spent part of a morning with Anthony Ray Hinton, a man freed after nearly three decades in Alabama's prison system. "Mr. Hinton hadn't held a fork in 30 years," Schultz told me. "He had zero bitterness. He was just a calm, timid, elderly man. Meeting him was a life-changing experience." The Alabama lawyer's book graced Starbucks stores for months, becoming a New York Times bestseller. After such intense experiences, staying in the corner office and engaging in checkbook philanthropy "isn't fulfilling for me," Schultz says.
Remember Hurricane Katrina? Three years later, when Starbucks employees volunteered en masse to help New Orleans rebound, Schultz found himself at a home-rebuilding project. Spying a ladder and a bucket of paint on-site, Schultz announced that he wanted to help paint the house, too. "Howard had a bad back at the time," Starbucks executive Rodney Hines recalled. "We tried to stop him. But he wouldn't take no for an answer."
Remember Ferguson? Schultz last year paid a call to that troubled Missouri town, too. Instead of taking the short route to and from the St. Louis airport, he meandered through back streets, gawking at plywood-boarded windows and ruined homes marked for demolition. Partway through the drive, two companions recall, Schultz declared: "We need to have a store in this city. " Since then ground has been broken; a store is being built and 20 to 25 people are being hired. Opening day is set for this spring.
Spurring Schultz on are moody memories of the crises he didn't fix early in his career. In the mid-1980s, he recalls, he made his first business trip to Guatemala, checking up on bean suppliers. Growers whispered that only a fraction of Schultz's corporate payments made it into growers' pockets. Guatemala's payment system was rife with kickbacks and undisclosed "commissions." Schultz felt he was too new and puny to do anything about it; that inaction rankles him to this day.
An increasing number of Schultz's projects now are being conducted through the $100 million Schultz Family Foundation, which he and his wife, Sheri, oversee. The foundation currently holds only a thin slice of his wealth, but he says it will become much bigger in the years ahead. Its current priorities: helping veterans resettle into the U.S. economy and promoting job initiatives for people aged 16 to 24 who aren't in school and haven't found work.
At a recent foundation-sponsored jobs fair in Los Angeles, Starbucks was one of more than 30 employers seeking recruits. Even so, Schultz was everywhere: chatting with Latino and African-American attendees about their aspirations, apologizing for his navy-blue suit ("It's my armor")--and squeezing onto the convention center's main concrete floor to become part of the mosh-pit throng absorbing Army Master Sgt. King's talk.
Sweat dripping from his brow, the wounded soldier bellowed out his message to 6, 000 attendees. "The only thing that matters is your attitude!" he declared. "I don't have legs now, but this is what I've got to work with." Abruptly, King lifted a cuff of his pinstripe trousers, revealing a titanium rod where his shin used to be. People gasped. A moment later King delivered his payoff line: "You've got to find a way to take whatever you've got--and make it work for you."
Fifteen feet from the stage, surrounded by people one-third his age, the president of coffee nation was beaming. It was as if he were hearing King's story for the first time. Hope was sweeping through the hall. Schultz wanted to inhale this pheromone as deeply as possible.
| 2019-04-23T06:45:13 |
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'The luckiest man in America': Former bikini salesman-turned-lawyer who 'saved Casey's life', pulled off the biggest legal upset since O.J.
His dramatic post-court speech, in which he announced he had saved Casey Anthony's life, drew gasps almost as loud as those that came when the jury found his client not guilty of murdering her young daughter.
It was a rather bold statement to make by defence lawyer of the moment Jose Baez, who has been called 'the luckiest man in America' by one lawyer.
Baez was chosen by Casey Anthony to represent her 'at random', court tapes revealed, after she heard his name mentioned by other prison inmates.
It was a choice many questioned at the time - both among her family and in the legal profession.
In taking on the job of attempting to clear Anthony of murder charges related to the death of her two-year-old daughter Caylee, Baez went from being a small-time local lawyer to the defence attorney in the most high-profile case in America.
Jeff Ashton, one of the three prosecutors who led the case against Anthony, announced tonight that he will retire at the end of the week.
Mr Ashton, 53, has prosecuted for the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office for 30 years.
His reputation and experience was in stark contrast to that of Jose Baez, Anthony's lead defence attorney, who was admitted to the Florida Bar only three years ago.
In 2008, when the decision went public, Richard Hornsby, the president of the Central Florida Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers, was shocked.
Baez, 42, a Navy veteran, took almost a decade simply to start practising as a professional lawyer. Despite graduating from law school in 1997, he was was perennially denied entry to the Florida bar until 2005 - because he refused to pay child support to his former wife or secure life and health insurance for his teenage daughter.
He had previously declared himself bankrupt and defaulted on loans, according to an order by the Supreme Court of Florida.
'It kind of happened at random in booking.
The decision to hire Baez was also criticised by Anthony's family.
In jail house tapes from July 2008 played to the court, Lee Anthony, Casey's brother, warned her to switch attorneys.
Understand your rights in this... If at any point you want to change jockeys in this horse race, you can do it…it's as simple as you reaching out to anyone in the Corrections Department…and make it known on what you want to do,' he told his sister.
When Lee probed her on how she came to hire Baez, Casey explained: 'It kind of happened at random in booking.
In court, Baez faced much media criticism for what appeared to be a series of bold and dangerous moves, which could have scuppered his defence case.
He was slammed, in particular, almost daily by notorious host Nancy Grace for his choice of argument in court and for 'relishing in the spotlight' outside of it, supposedly using the case as an opportunity for fame.
In his opening statements, Baez stunned onlookers by claiming his client had lied all along about what had happened to her daughter.
She was no longer arguing that a nanny had taken her for a month before her disappearance was reported but that a tragic accident in her parents' swimming pool led to them attempting to cover up little Caylee's death.
Baez then told the court she had lied because of psychological problems that stemmed from Casey having been sexually abused by her father - a claim he completely denied.
Once the new story was established, Baez essentially backed himself into a corner, critics argued.
The only witness who could corroborate these bold claims was Casey herself and legal experts almost always warn against bringing one's client to the stand.
As it transpired, the claims were never backed up and Casey did not give evidence.
Baez was heavily criticised throughout the case by notorious host Nancy Grace and was labelled 'incompetent' on one of her shows.
Speaking with defence attorney Raymond Giudice about testimony instigated by Baez that Caylee's remains may have been tampered with by woodland animals, Grace said: 'You know what? Maybe it was a dingo dog or Sasquatch or Bigfoot or a martian!
Baez had been practising as a lawyer for just three years when he was booked by Anthony.
In his highest profile case before the Anthony trial, he defended a Nilton Diaz, a man accused of killing the granddaughter of a boxer.
After Diaz was convicted of manslaughter, the client filed a motion arguing that Baez was a defective attorney, although his motion was denied.
While he was waiting to be admitted to the bar he worked with two bikini businesses - Bon Bon Bikinis and Brazilian-Bikinis.com, which are both now inactive.
He also worked for not for profit organisations which fought to prevent domestic violence and child abuse.
While his profile has soared since the Anthony trial began, Baez's financial troubles have not ceased.
His home was in foreclosure last year, according to reports, and it is unclear how he was paid to represent Anthony, although money from sales of pictures and footage of Caylee are thought to have contributed.
'He's a guy with a colourful and complicated past and a very confusing present,' Robert Jarvis, a lawyer and professor at Nova Southeastern University Law Center told ABC News during the case.
'His courtroom demeanour leaves you with a sense that this is a guy who is in over his head.
Despite all the criticism, however, today's result is an undoubted milestone success for the attorney - which is perhaps why he so basked in the moment.
As the clerk of the court read the verdicts, Anthony hugged Baez and soon after began to cry.
Later, as the judge spoke to the jury, she could be seen mouthing 'thank you' to him, before the whole defence team hugged in tears like a victorious sports team as the session ended.
In a bizarre speech given after the case in both English and Spanish, Baez appeared shaken with emotion as he shamelessly declared that his defence had ‘saved a life’.
He told the media he was ‘very happy for Casey. I’m ecstatic for her and I want her to be able to grieve and grow and somehow get her life back together’ but spent much of the speech focussed on how the moment felt for him.
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1. Others advise it. Many people invest simply because someone else advised them to. They don't have any clear personal plans or goals with regard to their investments. According to God's Word, we are to seek good counsel, but we must weigh all counsel received against His Word. Listen, but seek God's direction before taking action.
2. Envy of others. Many people want to invest and accumulate wealth simply because they envy other people and their successes.
3. It is a game to them. Many people invest because they consider it to be a competitive game. As such, they often get so wrapped up in the contest that they sacrifice family, friends, or health in order to win the game. They have no particular attachment to the money; it's winning that's important to them.
4. Self-esteem and ego. Many want to accumulate wealth so that others will envy them. Those who are victims of this motive use their money in an attempt to buy esteem and bolster their pride and ego. "A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor" (Proverbs 29:23).
5. The love of money. Those who love money will not part with it for any reason. Their lives are characterized by hoarding and abasement. This is a type of idol worship, which separates us from God. First Timothy 6:10, Hebrews 13:5, and Luke 9:25 caution against the love of money.
6. Protection. Many people accumulate money for protection. This attitude places money as the object of trust and security rather than God.
7. Slothfulness. Often people don't plan well during the earlier years of their lives and, consequently, when faced with expenses in their middle or later years, they panic and try to generate in five years what they should have saved over the previous 20 years. A regular habit of spending less than you make and saving the difference is the proper investment plan.
8. A spiritual gift. There is only one reason why God would supply a surplus of wealth to a Christian: so the needs of others can be met. If Christians want God to entrust greater riches to them, they must be found faithful in the smaller amount first (Luke 16:10-11). God promises His blessings to all who freely give and promises His curse on those who hoard, steal, covet, or idolize.
What are the scripturally sound and unsound reasons for investing? There are three scripturally sound reasons for investing.
1. Multiply to give more. The parable of the talents recorded in Luke 19:12-26 tells us that God entrusts wealth to some of His stewards so that it will be available to Him at a later date. The management of the wealth requires that it be invested or multiplied.
2. Meet future family needs. The indication throughout God's Word is that the heads of families should provide for their own (1 Timothy 5:8). Good planning requires laying aside some of the surplus for future needs.
3. Further the Gospel and fund special needs. This type of giving is necessary to maintain and promote the Gospel. If the church is ever to break out of the borrowing habit, Christians who invest must maintain some surpluses and be willing to give to legitimate needs.
1. Greed. Greed is the desire to continually have more and demand only the best (1 Timothy 6:9).
2. Envy. Envy is the desire to achieve based on other people's successes (Psalm 73:3).
4. Ignorance. Ignorance is following the counsel of other misguided people because of lack of discernment (Proverbs 14:7).
| 2019-04-18T10:27:52 |
https://globalchristiancenter.com/families/family-finances/24443-why-invest
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Quantity: An average of 14 pounds is needed per canner load of 7 quarts; an average of 9 pounds is needed per canner load of 9 pints. A bushel weighs 30 pounds and yields 12 to 20 quarts - an average of 2 pounds per quart.
Quality: Select filled but tender, crisp pods. Remove and discard diseased and rusty pods.
Wash beans and trim ends. Leave whole or cut or snap into 1-inch pieces. Hot pack or raw pack according to instructions below.
1. Cover beans with boiling water; boil 5 minutes.
2. Fill jars loosely with beans, leaving 1-inch headspace.
3. Add 1 teaspoon of canning salt per quart to the jar, if desired.
4. Cover beans with hot cooking liquid, leaving 1-inch headspace. Remove air bubbles and adjust headspace if needed. Wipe rims of jars with a dampened clean paper towel; apply two-piece metal canning lids.
1. Fill jars tightly with raw beans, leaving 1-inch headspace.
2. Add 1 teaspoon of canning salt per quart to the jar, if desired.
3. Add boiling water to the jars, leaving 1-inch headspace. Remove air bubbles and adjust headspace if needed. Wipe rims of jars with a dampened clean paper towel; apply two-piece metal canning lids.
4. Adjust lids and process in a pressure canner according to the recommendations. Let cool, undisturbed, 12-24 hours and check for seals.
| 2019-04-22T22:06:09 |
http://seasonalandsimple.info/recipedetails.aspx?RecipeID=407
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A Report Card Template To Assist Teachers With Learning Skills Comments.
A Report Card Template Can Be a Very Valuable Teacher Tool!!
I'm sure you would agree that a report card template that provides teachers with a list of useful phrases, describing learning skills that are typically included as part of their report card comments, can be a very valuable tool to have.
So here are my suggested report template comments.
* Completes tasks and assignments on time and with care.
* Accepts responsibility for own behavior.
* Follows routines and instructions without supervision.
* Identifies and pursues learning goals and tasks independently.
* Responds and participates in a variety of learning activities.
* Selects learning materials, resources, and activities independently.
* Adheres to established time lines.
* Approaches new learning situations with confidence.
* Demonstrates a positive attitude towards learning.
* Seeks assistance when necessary.
* Seeks challenges and takes risks.
* Observes, questions and explores.
* Seeks additional and new information from library books, the internet, and other resources.
* Generates questions for further inquiry.
* Investigates and obtains information independently.
Homework is always an issue. Use some of the positive comments from this section of the report card template.
* Puts forth a consistent effort.
* Demonstrates interest in and enthusiasm for homework assignments.
* Begins work promptly and uses time efficiently.
* Follows direction and completes homework on time and with care.
* Shows attention to detail.
* Perseveres with complex projects that require sustained effort.
* Attends to the task at hand.
* Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability.
* Considers all information and alternatives before reaching a conclusion.
* Organizes information logically and creatively and manages it effectively.
* Uses information -retrieval technology effectively.
* Gathers information effectively, using a variety of techniques and sources.
* Shows regard for accuracy in analysing and evaluating information.
* Demonstrates creativity in assessing information and ideas and draws relevant conclusions.
* Asks questions to clarify meaning and ensure understanding.
* Recognizes when assignments and projects would benefit from additional information and identifies the type of information needed.
* Identifies specific steps or actions needed to reach goals or improve.
* Identifies and pursues goals independently.
* Uses others' comments to improve work and monitor learning.
* Evaluates own success in reaching goals.
* Identifies strengths and areas for improvement in own work.
* Perseveres to achieve goals.
* Revises goals or steps and strategies when necessary.
* Accepts comments on performance from others.
Bullying is such a hot topic these days. Hopefully you'll find the next four sections beneficial for your report card template to initiate a warm, caring, and supportive learning environment.
* Listens to, acknowledges and considers differing opinions.
* Respects the rights, property and opinions of others.
* Works and plays co-operatively with others.
* Willingly works with others and takes turns.
* Follows classroom and school rules and routines.
* Assumes responsibilities in groups, the classroom, and the school.
* Volunteers, always willing to help others.
* Considers both the immediate and long-term effects of his or her actions on others.
* Establishes positive relationships with peers and adults.
* Responds and is sensitive to the needs and welfare of others.
* Resolves conflicts in socially acceptable ways.
* Resolves conflicts when they occur and can do so independently.
* Mediates differences of opinion.
* Assists others to resolve conflicts appropriately.
* Listens to understand conflicts before acting or offering a resolution.
* Seeks positive solutions to conflicts.
* Helps the group to identify and use strategies for conflict resolution.
* Participates in class and group activities.
* Contributes to co-operative problem solving.
* Listens to teacher's instructions and others without interrupting.
* Accepts various roles within the class and group, including leadership roles.
* Accepts a share of the work to be done.
* Helps to motivate others and encourages others to participate.
* Contributes information and ideas to the class and group.
* Shows respect for the ideas of others in the class and group.
* Recognizes contributions of group members through encouragement, support or praise.
* Shares responsibility for difficulties encountered during an activity.
* Devises a plan to solve the problem.
* Applies successful strategies to new problems.
* Applies logic to solving problems.
* Carries out the plan - follows through.
* Evaluates the plan, solution, or result.
* Devises alternative solutions or ways of solving a problem.
* Develops original ideas and creative approaches to solve problems.
Good luck with writing your report card comments. I hope this report card template will assist you in composing your learning skills comments.
| 2019-04-25T08:47:04 |
https://www.priceless-teaching-strategies.com/report-card-template.html
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1. Clean off your chrome grille with rubbing alcohol.
2. Place the provided adhesive strips in this configuration. To make things easier on yourself, leave the easy to peel adhesive backing on the outside.
3. Peel the adhesive backing off.
4. Place black grille on chrome grille.
5. Apply pressure to black grille to ensure contact on all adhesive strips.
6. Enjoy your new distinctive grille!
| 2019-04-20T10:39:37 |
https://www.e46fanatics.com/howto/howtodetail.php?howto_id=13
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Has Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert started slipping in Israels election campaign? The latest poll indicates he is and the opposition parties and the opposition are now going for broke hoping they can turn it into a slippery slope before election-day on March 28th. Olmert and Kadima will have to counter and quickly. With time starting to run out, the opposition parties are stepping up their campaigns to try and catch Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmerts Kadima party. Labors Amir Peretz was off to meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who Foreign Minister Zippi Livni calls irrelevant after the Hamas victory in the Palestinian election. Peretz is taking a big gamble and will undoubtedly face a lot of flak over the visit. But his failure in the campaign leaves him no choice but to go for broke. The Likud's Bibi Netanyahu has gambled and won by forcing his party's central committee to relinquish its power to select the list of candidates.
Netanyahu declares: This move cannot be overestimated and will boost my chances for catching up with Olmert by election-day on March 28th. It could not have come at a better time for Netanyahu after the latest poll shows Kadima is slipping in the campaign - Kadima has dropped from 39 to 37 seats. Look for Kadima to start launching a tougher campaign against Netanyahu and Peretz as well as reacting with greater force to the mounting Palestinian terror attacks.
Rise Of Far Right: One surprise in this election campaign is the showing of two far right parties National Union and Yisrael Beitenu. Together the polls indicate they take 18 mandates, outnumbering the Likud itself. Yisrael Beitenu is lead by Avigdor Lieberman immigrated from the former Soviet Union who is a feisty campaigner who has garnered strong support from Russian Israeli voters for his tough talk rejecting the Roadmap and proposing that Israel jettison its Israeli Arabs in the Arab Triangle to the Palestinian Authority. The National Union, which has amalgamated with the National Religious Party, draws its strength from settlers in the territories and right-wingers who have been disillusioned with the Likud. At this stage the far right parties have been outflanking the Likud with their tougher stance. They blame the Likud for the Gaza withdrawal and contend that the Likud and Kadima are one and the same. In order to challenge centrist Kadima, the Likud has tried to portray itself as a right of center party with a Capital R and a small c - this, as opposed to Kadima with a Capital C and a small r. It has not worked; the Likud has been going nowhere fast with only 15 mandates to show. Party leader Bibi Netanyahu has gambled and now won with his bid to defang the Likud central committee, which acquired a notorious reputation. The powerful body of only 3,000 members exploited its power to select the party of Knesset members and kept the MKs at their mercy. (Former Likud cabinet minister Zachi Hanegbi may be indicted for handing out jobs to central committee members and MK Naomi Blumenthal has already been sentenced to nine months behind bars). Netanyahu has forced the central committee to relinquish its power to party primaries, which will undoubtedly improve the Likud's image.
Netanyahu now contends: The Likud will become the cleanest party in the country. However, a senior Likud official believes the step will garner only a couple of mandates in the polls. Netanyahu has argued that the Likud unsavory image has hampered his ability in the campaign and says he will now take off in the campaign. He does have a point when it comes to the poll on voter perception of the individual suitability of the party leaders to be prime minister. Although, Kadima leads the Likud by more than 2-1 this is not the case in the Olmert-Netanyahu match-up. Israel voters give Olmert a 30% rating, Netanyahu 25% with Labors Amir Peretz trailing with 15%. This is why the Likud still believes Kadima is vulnerable.
| 2019-04-18T22:33:27 |
http://www.isracast.com/article.aspx?ID=254&t=RISE-OF-ISRAELS-FAR-RIGHT
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The objective is to find the area of the region enclosed by the cardioids .
Find the limits by setting the equations equal to each other.
The above are the limits for the loop.
| 2019-04-21T06:09:49 |
https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/thomas-calculus-12th-edition-chapter-11.5-problem-12e-solution-9780321587992
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Does leaving the 4s on the charger over night weaken the battery? I don't want to overcharge but I take it off before I go to bed then when I wake up in the morning the phone is in the 70% range.
You can leave it plugged into the wall with no problems at all. The batteries in cell phones now don't have a memory like the older cell phones did. Some people suggest completely killing the battery on your phone once or twice a month and then charging rather than just topping off every night. I try to completely kill mine once every other week or so. I don't know if it actually helps or not, but neither does saying "rabbit, rabbit" on the first of the month bring me luck, but I still do it.
The idea of plugging into a surge protector is a great idea. Thanks for the tip.
I've charged every single one of my iPhones overnight, never a problem.
You're welcome. That tip comes from living in Dixie Alley. We get some monster storms here with hellacious lightning. In the past, I've lost a laptop to a power surge, so now all of my electronics get their very own power surge strip.
I leave mine charged over night..Its weird, there are days where after I unplug the phone, it will drop to 99% within a few minutes of using it, or stay at 100% for awhile.
No. Li cells are li cells. In other words the brand/model of the device does not matter despite how people seem to ask this specifically for every device out there. Check some reputable resources on the topic if you want more details.
Overcharging isn't an issue. Starting your day with a battery at 70% probably is.
Some people suggest completely killing the battery on your phone once or twice a month and then charging rather than just topping off every night.
Apple suggest this once a month (see bottom of Apple - Batteries - iPhone. IIRC it's to calibrate/update the battery stats, etc.
I'll be laying in bed after i wake up, play on my phone for like 10/20 min, check facebook, email, rage comics/reddit and my battery will drop from 99% to about 87% or so.
Then, some days once it hits about 85% it'll be much slower to drain, or some days it doesn't matter.
| 2019-04-24T12:16:51 |
https://forums.imore.com/iphone-4s/224233-overnight-charging-question-print.html
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Enter the fleet into the diagram, making sure that the given numbers outside the diagram equal the sum of the covered numbers in the corresponding row or column. Different ships cannot touch each other, not even diagonally.
Different from in normal Battleships puzzles, the numbers next to the diagram do not show the number of ship pieces in each row or column, but rather the total weight of the cargo on these ship pieces. A ship piece has as much cargo as the number in that cell indicates.
In this example, the top row has only a weight of 1. This means that the top left cell and the cell next to it cannot be ship pieces, since they would immediately weigh too much. Now, the leftmost column must have a total weight of 5, meaning that the remaining three cells (equalling 3+1+1=5) must all be ship pieces.
Now, the second column must be empty because of the adjacency rules, and the second and fourth row must be empty because of the weight restriction. In the third column, both remaining cells need to be used to get a weight of 3. In the last column, we cannot use the 1 because it weighs more than 0. However, we do need to use the 0 in the top right to get the right fleet. Puzzle solved!
This genre is a variation on the classical Battleships classic.
| 2019-04-19T02:36:12 |
http://puzzlepicnic.com/genre?id=69
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i) The vehicle moves in the direction of the arrow 'X' taking a left hand turn along the curve.
ii) The vehicle reverse at the same speed in the direction of arrow 'Y' along the same path.
iv) The engine speed at which the above value becomes zero.(10 marks) 5(a) What are the various types of gear boxes? Explain any one of them in details?(10 marks) 5(b) style="text-align: center;">style="text-align: center;">An epicyclic gear train as shown in fig.2 has wheel S with 15 teeth fixed toa motor shaft running at 1450 rpm. The planet has 45 teeth and it gears with fixed annular wheel A and rotates on a spindle carried by an arm which is fixed to the output shat, P also gear with S. Find the speed of the output shaft if the motor is transmitting 1.5 KW power. What is the torque exerted on the annular A.
| 2019-04-22T15:05:44 |
http://www.ques10.com/p/20164/theory-of-machines-2-question-paper-dec-2016-mec-2/
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Imag(in)ing Globalization. Or: How can something be made comprehensible, when there are contradictory images of it?
When "globalization critique" is mentioned today, an implicit agreement is usually presupposed, and it is presupposed in several respects: in reference to what is precisely meant by globalization and its critique; in reference to the point, where this critique is supposed to begin; and finally in reference to how a political movement could build on this critique (or has already started to do so). Yet, what is presupposed here is usually not only an overly hasty understanding of terms, but also a very specific visual code, through which globalization and its critique apparently "naturally" communicate.
Exactly this code and the exact nature of it are to be addressed in the following. The central question here is how a conceptual definitiveness may be achieved at the levels of communicating and understanding, given that "globalization" is communicated - for most critical subjects - primarily through very specific texts and media reports and images, although it is obviously also inscribed into the life of every individual in a very real way. In this respect, it may be succinctly stated that there should be a certain unanimity to the criticism and protests at least with regard to the targets, if not at the level of the issues of the criticism of globalization.
"Globalization", as far as this buzz word can even be used in a general sense, is visually expressed in a series of images, particularly media images, which seem highly incompatible at first glance. In all the roughly five years that this topos has been circulating in popular media, and in the at least ten years that this has been the case in the field of theory, there has yet to be a unanimous agreement reached on the definition of the term. On the contrary: glancing at the media landscape of recent months and years, one notices on one side the protests in Seattle, Washington, Prague, Göteborg, Genoa and so forth, largely quelled with violence, whose "power of infection" (Klaus Theweleit) is only surpassed by the images that the events of September 11, 2001 have left in the memory of the world public. Virtually diametrically opposed to these are views of the entertainment industry complex, which represent an equally contemporary expression of "globalization": theme parks, malls, fast food and franchise chains, megaplex cinemas, and so forth, which all arouse the seductive appearance of a "post-historical, eternal peace". Or to use a different example: the image of a Brazilian favela with a sparse infrastructural connection in contrast to a gated community that is linked to the outside world primarily through wireless telecommunication.
Contrasts of this kind are meanwhile circulating in the field of art as well: the painter Dierk Schmidt, for instance, picks up in his most recent works from a passage from Peter Weiss' "Aesthetics of Resistance" to speculate on the artistic furnishings of an (interior) ministerial salon in keeping with our times. In a series of three oil/acrylic paintings, he reinterprets Delacroix' painting "Liberty" and Gèricault's "The Raft of Medusa" for the global capitalist present: the well known Nike spot for the Soccer World Championship 1998 is superimposed on "Liberty", as the Brazilian team playfully overcomes the security checkpoints at an airport; "The Raft of Medusa", on the other hand, becomes a refugee boat shipwrecked off the coast of Australia, and the contemporary form of subjectification that comes into effect in this is literally shrunken to "bare life" (Giorgio Agamben). At least here - as Schmidt's portrayal option may be contrasted with Agamben - the damaged sovereignty of the stranded subjects is still recognizable as a shadowy outline. Although it is reduced to a minimum, it is still there.
All the images mentioned so far seem to express highly contradictory tendencies and, most of all, local effects of "globalization", but hardly a universal regularity. Auxiliary expressions are dominant and, not least of all, makeshift images everywhere you look: visual crutches like the Nike logo (or the subsequent "No Logo" demand), exploited workers in an Indonesian Nike factory (which are, in fact, hardly to be seen, but may be recalled mentally at any time), masked freedom fighters, the universal communication tool (the "hand-held communicator"), business class passengers and, to an ever greater extent, also economy class passengers, and not to be forgotten: the traveling intellectual or "experts flown in", as it was recently succinctly formulated. In fact, it seems that the immaterial labor of contemporary production conditions is much harder to grasp in vivid images than was the case with the majority of manual laborers in industrial capitalism. Or is there anyone, who does not immediately call to mind the countlessly reproduced photographs of a Lewis Hine, Walker Evans or August Sander at the mention of the key words "capitalist exploitation", "pauperization" or "poverty"?
Although there is no lack of impressive single emblems for "global capitalist exploitation", it seems that every single one only ever indicates partial or symbolic sides of what it is that makes up a greater and less easily portrayable conjunction. These are partial aspects that each have a certain significance by themselves, but which do not put us in a position to be able to comprehend the "reality-producing" processes that are in effect today in a larger context and, most of all, in their multi-dimensionality. With respect to all this, transnational flows of capital or even "flows of ideas" (so-called "idea-scapes") remain captive in a strange invisibility. Global "flows", which contribute substantially to the formation of the aforementioned contradictions, seem to persistently elude the conventional forms of visualization - whether in mass media or in art. What we can see are usually just the effects of something, for which no binding view exists.
Perhaps it would be good to focus on the constitutive lacunas in the concept of globalization itself - which are sometimes very concisely brought to a head in art projects: in an audio project by the group Global Dustbowl Ballads (consisting of Clemens Krümmel, Rupert Huber, vocals Alice Creischer), this kind of "necessary failing" is transposed into sound. Texts by Woodie Guthrie are first fed into an Internet translation engine, and the output - deformed machine-German that still has some traces of a utopian American working classes socialism - is newly sung to melodious minimalist techno loops. What results is exactly what one would expect in light of the principal problems of translation in relation to the most diverse concerns of globalization critique: "The man workin gamblin man is rich and is poor and I no house in this world will more receive." No house in this world more? How many migrants and displaced workers around the world could sing that song?
Perhaps then, it is precisely these kinds of cultural productions that are needed, for if there are no concepts, then they may produce images (visual, acoustic, etc.) of the processes that produce reality and contradictions, which are generally reduced to the formula "globalization". Perhaps this is even where a primary function of the artistic cultural field (and, of course, I only speak of a tiny portion and marginal area of this field) may be found today, specifically in imbuing these processes with a visibility that is not only a superficial one, namely as a precondition for even being able to imagine forms of "resistive networking", regardless of whether this is given a more cultural or more political emphasis. Just as "globalization from below" - in contrast to "corporate globalization" that is seemingly ordained from above - is becoming an increasingly explosive research subject, a globalization-critical visual culture would be encouraged to produce images of these contradictory currents and tendencies, particularly those "from below".
Attempts at this kind of visualization are meanwhile found in the most diverse artistic media, from film, video and video installation - for instance, there is Chantal Akerman's multiperspectival work on the American-Mexican border region ("From the Other Side", 2002), to photography - such as Allan Sekula's extensive series "Fish Story" (1990-95) and "Dead Letter Office" (1997) - all the way to multimedia cartographies of transnational economic and political conjunctions. The latter has been compiled, for instance, by the Strasbourg project group Bureau d'études, based on French corporations and their international branches. Another successful example was on display at Documenta 11 in the form of a multimedia installation "A Journey Through a Solid Sea" (2002) by the Milanese group Multiplicity, which attempted to portray the Mediterranean area as a migratory, economic, but also biological and criminological correlation. How the life of individuals at the lower end of the "globalization chain" is to be imagined today, is shown, for instance, in the reportages - also shown at Documenta 11 - by the Indian photographer Ravi Agarwal (laborers in South Gujarat in India) or in the photo essays by Olumuyiwa Olamide Osifuye from Nigeria on street life in Lagos, Nigeria. Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber address the architectonic and urban development dimension of this "chain" in their photo and video project "Live like this!" (2000), depicting a residential complex in Rio de Janeiro as a - slowly decaying - symbol of a globalized modernity. It is also the kind of theme that Florian Pumhösl presents in an exemplary and reflexive way in several video installation on individual "modernist ruins" in Madagascar, Uganda and Tanzania.
Graphically designed and politically interpreted "world maps" have been in existence partly since the early seventies, by such artists, for example, as Öyvind Fahlström or Aligieri e Boetti, who (literally) sewed a world map together from national flags in the shape of the countries they represent. This is supplemented today by an artistic hybrid form, which could be called neoliberalism sketches trimmed by the media, or graphical sculptural translations of what Patti Smith once sung of as the "WTO Blues". Apt examples of this are Andreas Siekmann's contribution to the exhibition "du bist die welt" (Künstlerhaus Vienna, 2001), where a DIY-self-assembly sculpture made of small plastic toy figures depicts a world economic summit somewhere in the Swiss Alps, or Thomas Hirschhorn's installation "Wirtschaftslandschaft Davos" ["Economic Landscape Davos"] (2001), pursuing a similar concern, just in larger and more plastic dimensions. Siekmann most recently put yet another log on the fire in his exhibition "Die Exklusive: Zur Politik des ausgeschlossenen Vierten" ["The Exclusive: On the Politics of the Excluded Fourth"] (Salzburger Kunstverein, 2002): the exhibition stages the drastic policies of exclusion and evacuation that are meanwhile employed by security forces around the world against demonstrations and assemblies at so-called "globalization summits". And finally Lisl Ponger's photo series "Sommer in Italien" (2001) - also presented at Documenta 11 - is devoted to the concrete security policy and police force notches carved into the urban landscape at the G7 summit in Genoa in July 2001.
Yet the question remains as to how adequately these visualizations can ever portray the aforementioned larger contexts; how comprehensive an overall cartography of "globalization" would have to be, in order to be able to portray not only partial effects - as drastic as these may be in individual cases - but rather the interweaving of causes and effects at very different levels. Back to what is visible at one glance and local, then? Or rather to the question of which dimensions an exemplary image of "globalization" would have to comprise, or would realistically be able to comprise. As we know, the scope ranges from the wholly concrete and local to that which is very broad-ranging and world-wide, and the crucial strategic trick probably consists of linking one extreme with the other in such a way that the numerous mediating steps or different "scales" in between still remain comprehensible. In this context, Alexander Kluge once remarked that "globalization" begins for him at the point where a German factory worker shows a Chinese factory worker how to screw a bolt into a metal part correctly. This ultimately brings us back to very concrete scenarios or sites of exchange, to which certain contradictions and countermovements inhere, which can in turn be read in a roundabout way as products of "globalization".
In fact, the scale of the local is often presumed as the determining framework of cultural, economic and social ways of production and reproduction. At the same time, a special expressiveness is attributed to this scale with respect to transregional, transnational, even transcontinental processes. And perhaps by meticulously covering every single one of these local constellations - which would, of course, imply a virtually endless task - it might actually be possible to gradually arrive at something like a "planetary view" or a "global consciousness". This is a fantasy that is echoed in constructions of the Internet as a dematerialized "Weltgeist" - "world spirit" - as well, but it is only a fantasy there, too.
In any case, a view of this kind, which would have a more mosaic-like than phantasmal composition, would have to evince a strong patchwork character. All the aforementioned visualizations would have to be included in it democratically, so that the actual conceptual extent of "globalization" could be revealed: images of Brazilian favelas along with those of Californian suburbias; McDonalds in Teheran along with the anonymous Persian grocery shop in some western city. This would have to be supplemented with the aforementioned "mappings", with the multimedia inclusion of flows of money, capital, labor and ideas (as difficult as this might be), and with film documentation of concrete living conditions under neoliberal economic and political conditions. And all of this would have to be related not only to the "typical" or well known sites of "globalization", but also to the most "untypical" and "hidden" ones - all the localities that are constantly being newly produced or newly "formatted" by the contrary processes of "globalization". In this way, it might be possible to slowly arrive at a multipart, heterogeneous and - in the positive sense - disparate "image of globalization", which could form the epistemic foundation for the political mobilizations that build on it.
Finally, single images of the local could only claim a certain "validity" or "expressiveness" to the extent that they participate in reflecting on the superordinated, often temporary spheres of influence and the forces that the places represented are exposed to. An example from a seemingly remote area: one of the most interesting and paradoxical aspects of recent electronic culture is that it appears to participate in producing new forms of localization, or even in establishing a strong tie to a certain location. The reason why this is paradoxical is that this culture - starting from techno, for instance, and its widely proliferating subgenres - was initially strongly associated with a very specific non-locatedness. Impelled by the "spirit" of utopian unboundedness or the overcoming of material (and thus also local) restrictions in the here and now with an orientation to the future, this music was sustained from the start by an ominous, amorphous global consciousness. This consciousness could be coded in a manner that was esoteric (in the form of a holistic world spirit), romantically inclusive (as a rejection of all ideas of exclusion) or simply pragmatic (as an accompanying sound to the unstoppable process of "globalization"). In comparison now, though, "recursive geographical ties" can be observed in this music in many places, even if only as attributions of certain "sound signatures". In short, the continuously expanding electronica culture is exposed to an inherently contrary process: on the one hand, the local differences, from which "global culture" substantially draws (at least at the level of consumption), play an increasingly important role, i.e. local differences entering into the so-called global; on the other hand, the economic gears behind the surface of this seemingly unified "global culture" are constantly producing new inequalities. In other words, the global is inescapably embodied in the local, too.
A more comprehensive view (and visualization) of "globalization" starting from the local thus has no choice but to expand the frequently cited site specificity and to see it as a more complex interplay of superordinated forces. Or in the words of the geographer David Harvey, to regard globalization as a "process of the production of dissimilar temporal and geographical development". The notorious images of a cage, trap or prison are not sufficient. A more adequate way of making "globalization" comprehensible - which would still be far removed from a more binding definition of the term - would consequently have to start from its productive, processual character and attempt to demonstrate this "productivity" on the basis of the many small asynchronicities and dissimilarities in the present fabric of society (regardless of where). As a differentiating - and specifically not homogenizing - force, "globalization" inscribes increasingly drastic differences into geographies and temporalities, such as the differences between "tourists" and "vagabonds", as Zygmunt Bauman has said; or the differences between asylum-seekers and a new "debating class", which is usually only marginally concerned with such commonplace but fundamental problems as residence rights; finally between (us) "free people" and the "evil-doers" somewhere out there, as we have been hearing lately. "Keep on rockin' in the free world," is what Neil Young sang in 1989, the year of change, only to state self-reflectively then in the same breath: "Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them." In 2002, Young has done a "patriotic" turnaround in light of the events, and it may be - in a longer-term perspective - that his words apply to no one better than to himself: "Let's roll for Freedom / Let's roll for Love / We're goin' after Satan / On the wings of a Dove."
In this last opposition, there is already a new visual and conceptual code at work - one in which "globalization" is given its most topical expression in the formula freedom vs. terror. This is a code that must be ceaselessly opposed, if we are to one day arrive at a more adequate image and perhaps even a suitable concept of "globalization".
Cf. David Harvey, Spaces of Hope, Berkeley/Los Angeles 2000, p. 133 ff.
"Illegal migration is globalisation from below" (McKenzie Wark, Globalisation from Below: Migration, Sovereignty<, Communication, nettime mailing list, January 16, 2002, http://www.nettime.org/).
Cf. Sebastian Lütgert, Die Nomaden des Kapitals, in: Starship, 5 (2002), p. 56.
According to Sergio Bologna, for instance, in conversation with Klaus Ronneberger and Georg Schöllhammer, in: springerin, 4 (2001), especially p. 22.
One of the most prominent forces/flows of globalization in Arjun Appadurai's theory; cf. his book Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Minneapolis/London 1996, p. 33 ff.; see also Appadurai, "Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination, in Public Culture, Vol. 12, Nr. 1 (Winter 2000), p. 1-19.
"Global Dustbowl Ballads", in the exhibition Die Gewalt ist der Rand aller Dinge, Generali Foundation, Vienna, January 16 to April 21, 2002, cf. the exhibition catalogue with the same title, Vienna/Cologne 2002, p. 87.
Gerald Raunig in the conference outline for Transversal; cf. the printed version in: Malmoe, 04 (2002), p. 18.
Cf. e.g. Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith, Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity, Cambridge, MA 2000, Maria Mies, Globalisierung von unten: Der Kampf gegen die Herrschaft der Konzerne, Hamburg 2001, and Arjun Appadurai, "Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics", in: Public Culture, Vol. 14, Nr. 1 (Winter 2002), p. 21-47.
Cf. Brian Holmes, "Kartografie des Exzesses, Suche nach Nutzung", in: springerin, 1 (2002), p. 18 ff.
All Documenta 11 references, see also: http://www.documenta.de/.
"Genius stalking in new shoes / Have you got WTO blues", from the song "Glitter in Their Eyes", on Gung Ho, Arista 2000.
Cf. Harvey, Spaces of Hope, p. 233 ff.
Audience discussion at the Austrian Film Museum, April 6, 2002; cf. also Oskar Negt & Alexander Kluge, Der unterschätzte Mensch, Vol. I, Frankfurt am Main 2001, p. 28 ff.
As representative for this discussion, cf. Appadurai, Modernity at Large, p. 178 ff.
Cf. ibid., p. 188 ff.
Cf. Christian Höller, "Around the World? Around the World! Global Electronica zwischen Differenzausbeutung und kultureller Demokratisierung", in: springerin, 2 (2001), p. 8-11; English version: http://www.springerin.at/en, >backlist, >issue 2/01, >net section; and Christian Höller, "Nicht-lokale Orte und lokale Nicht-Orte / Local Non-sites, Non-local Sites", in: Sharawadgi, Christian Meyer and Mathias Poledna (Ed.), Cologne 1999, p. 169-198.
Harvey, Spaces of Hope, p. 60; cf. also: "Geografie der Ungleichheit. Interview mit dem Postmoderne- und Globalisierungstheoretiker David Harvey", in springerin, 1 (2001), p. 18-22.
"Let's Roll", on: Are You Passionate? Reprise 2002.
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Why, then, do the overwhelming majority of philosophers seem content to let their own lives be ruled by these quite inexplicable values? You rarely(2) see a philosopher live according to a religious faith that he acknowledges has no basis in reality. And yet living by moral values, which are arguably just as unexplained and unproven as the most fabulous religion, seems to present no problem for these philosophers.(3) Please explain where the distinction lies.
They acknowledge there is some as-yet-unknown reason that morality is "true" and therefore binding?
They subscribe to one or more classical answers to Hume's question (e.g. Kant, Mill and Bentham) and proceed from there?
It is some sort of Pascal's Wager: "If they are true, then we really need to. If they are not, then it doesn't hurt."
They don't really feel it is right nor necessary to behave morally, but do so because there are subjective advantages?
They don't think it is necessary in general to "walk the walk" of their philosophical conclusions?
(1)Of course, many have suggested solutions to the is-ought problem; some, like Ayn Rand, have excused themselves entirely. I overwhelmingly sympathize, believing, for my own part, that the is-ought gap may be bridged by the naturalistic phenomenon of pain. But let us look for a minute at the many who think it is not so simple. (2) It seems there are interesting exceptions. (3) It could be that some philosophers, perhaps Nietzsche, aspired or did in fact live according to a prima facie rejection of moral values. Are there any others? (4) I realize there are many potential technical problems with what I have just written and I ask you to forgive me for not being an expert in this field, and to focus on the question you think I am aiming to ask rather than the question I have asked.
I don't think a philosophy site is the best place to explain the psychology of philosophers' practical stance(s) towards morality. But some response can be made.
If moral realism is right, then values and valuations are facts or factual, so that there is no logical bridge-crossing from [factual] 'is' to [factual] 'ought'. For whatever reason, a large number of philosophers subscribe to some version of moral realism. In which case there is no is/ ought gap or problem for them.
Reading (below) : DeLapp, Putnam.
Hume assumes a fact/ value distinction and responds that while logically we cannot derive an 'ought' from an 'is' (if there are no normative premises there can be no validly deduced normative conclusion), this is besides the point morally.
Hume observes that 'Morality ... is more properly felt than judg'd of' (A Treatise of Human Nature, III.1.2). We can continue to use the term 'moral judgement' as long as we realise that a moral judgement does not refer, despite appearances, to 'real' moral properties in a mind-independent world. Rather, a moral judgement expresses emotions (or 'sentiments'). Not just any emotions one happens to feel, however. Very far from it. It must express a moral emotion. And for a emotion to count as a moral emotion, there are two prerequisites or conditions.
Briefly put, moral judgement requires that we ascertain the empirical facts about a situation, distinguish them, see what they appear to imply, make sure that we are reflecting on the precise situation at hand and not on one merely deceptively similar to it, draw on relevant historical parallels : and so on. We need an accurate factual fix on the situation. Moral judgement is no flip emotional reaction; it needs to be factually informed.
But does Hume offer no criteria for just how much information, of what exact reliability, we need ? Partly, I think, he assumes that in many case we can use sociocultural standards to determine the degree of rigour and the extent of evidence required in making a moral judgement. Importantly, he doesn't leave us merely floating in this boat, however. In the Treatise of Human Nature, II.1.3 he lays down rules for the scrutiny of evidence, probability, and belief.
When these two conditions are met, we experience 'certain peculiar sentiments of pain and pleasure' - of approbation and disapprobation. Briefly, moral judgements express our sentiments - our emotional reactions - of approbation and disapprobation under these conditions. Moral judgement is causal through emotion, not cognitive through reason.
The whole picture rests on a picture of human nature as containing a capacity for sympathy which enables us (in Hume's language) to depart from our private and particular situations and take the standpoint of what Adam Smith would later call 'the impartial spectator' (Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, I.5). In this detached, third-person perspective, and factually informed, we experience the moral emotions which we express in moral judgements.
In view of all this, there is no logical bridge-crossing in Hume's ethical theory any more than there is, on very different grounds, for the moral realist.
Reading (below) : Hume online references, Cohon, Harrison, Mackie, Adam Smith online reference, Thomas.
If ethics is a theoretical discipline, a philosopher can quite properly scrutinise it philosophically without any practical requirement to act on it. I could study political philosophy without any political involvements and without seeing myself as having any practical commitment to engage in political action. The same holds for ethics. One may regard it as an outmoded way of thinking, and the moral life a mere curiosity, yet still do deep and intricate conceptual and logical work on both. Work on which one closes the door when one leaves one's study and walks away without walking the walk.
This leaves only your philosophers who 'don't really feel it is right nor necessary to behave morally, but do so because there are subjective advantages'. May they not be rational choosers (subscribers to Rational Choice Theory) who act morally, at least so far as concerns behaviour and without any sense of duty or obligation, because in any of a number of ways it 'pays' ? Their position is foreshadowed by Glaucon's account of morality (though not his own position) in Plato, Republic, Bk II.
David Hume, An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, 1751/ 1777 ed. : https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4320/4320-h/4320-h.htm.
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759 : https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/smith1759.pdf.
J. Baron, Morality and Rational Choice, SBN 10: 0792322762 / ISBN 13: 9780792322764. Published by Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publ., 1993.
R. Cohon, Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication, ISBN 10: 019959497X / ISBN 13: 9780199594979 Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2012.
Kevin DeLapp, Moral Realism, ISBN 10: 144116118X / ISBN 13: 9781441161185 Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
J. Harrison, Hume's Moral Epistemology, ISBN 10: 0198750374 / ISBN 13: 9780198750376 Published by Oxford University Press, 1976.
J.L. Mackie, Hume's Moral Theory, ISBN 10: 0710005253 / ISBN 13: 9780710005250 Published by Routledge, 1980.
H. Putnam, The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays, ISBN 10: 0674013808 / ISBN 13: 9780674013803 Published by Harvard University Press, 2004.
Geoffrey Thomas, An Introduction to Ethics, ISBN 10: 0715624318 / ISBN 13: 9780715624319 Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1997 : 53-8 [Hume].
I will answer this by some examples. These examples will be a challenge to a naive interpretation of is-ought problem. Then I will produce another interpretation consistent with explanations on given examples.
You ought to follow the law. Otherwise you will be punished.
Here is part is the one prescribing the punishment. It is interesting it is prescriptive being descriptive at the same time. The law-giver gives an ought to self making this claim. It stands as a foundation for the ought part.
You ought to follow the law. Nothing will happen to you if you do not, though.
This time it becomes arguable if this statement itself has any meaning. What's the point in making laws without a punishment? Putting "because" in the second sentence will result in non sequitur.
You ought to follow the law.
Since the second part is meaningless we get rid of it. The reaction of someone unfamiliar with a system of laws could be "Why?" if that person could speak English. This means ought seeks a justification. Ought cannot be justified by ought.
You ought to follow the law. Because everyone ought to follow the law.
A person might ask why is everyone ought to follow the law. No ought you produce will be a proper justification. You ought to use is for the justification.
I saw no successful normative theory having no justification. Ten commandments presuppose punishment, Kant has a pretty long explanation why CI should be followed, virtue ethicists use virtues for the justificiation. The list can be continued, but should it? One can produce an ought statement without justification. But I have not seen a successful one.
Now to your 4 points.
Sometimes, yes. People just have similar attitudes and behave in similar ways because they think in similar ways. But not all of them and we see it in the existence of different normative theories, challenging each others. This is an approach explained in Geoffrey's answer.
I am not aware of Kant's answer on is-ought. It is true, though, he didn't believe everyone would accept his Categorical Imperative, thus in some sense agreeing with Hume. Otherwise he would not think about theory of justice. Mill's solution uses oughts as solutions for desires, method capable of fulfilling them. But one does not need to be a consequentialist to think this way.
There are enough people who do not break laws (prescripting something more than a small fine) only because the do not want to be imprisoned or severely punished in any other way. But not only a punishment can be such force making those people behave in ways others want them to behave. There also is a reward. Anf those people, if reward is seen by them great enough, will gladly do what other want from them.
Again, any necessity follows from a reason. people do not "walk the walk" without a reason, but they can follow rules they have been taught just because they get used to it and it is more comfortable for them to behave the way they have been taught.
What exactly can is-ought problem stand for, then? I would in fact call this problem is-is problem, stating that different people can have different views on the world and thus when one person sees a justification, another may not. And it is common undestanding of this problem: "Why is someone ought to have any particular goal?", that's the common question and interpretation. Do we try to persuade serial killers what they do, the goals they have, is wrong? If they are serial killers, probably, it is too late and it does not work. Therefore we just imprison them, escaping ought. It is too late to speak in the terms of ought. Those people ignored empathy, common morals and not even a threat of punishment could stop them.
So, you can't use an explanation to justify your oughts universally, for everyone. An unsatisfactory justification problem (however, this can be extended beyond ethics). And this is how is-ought problem can be interpreted.
Keeping it very simple: some who are moral non-realists (such as myself) act in ways that could be called "morally" just out of personal preference. I greatly dislike causing harm or suffering to those that can feel it, and so I make a point to not do that, even if it means my inconvenience, though I'm not quite as I would like to be (I could always get better with my purchasing decisions, for example).
Maybe this is covered by your point about "subjective advantages"?
Why, then, do the overwhelming majority of philosophers seem content to let their own lives be ruled by these quite inexplicable values?
Because why not? The is-ought problem doesn't just apply to morality, but also to rational choices. So, if no action is more rational than another, why not follow a live by quite inexplicable values? It's no more or less rational than, say, hedonism, for example.
In particular, just as there is no binding force making people be moral, there is likewise no binding force making people be amoral.
If you accept that there are no rational choices and no binding forces, you are essentially accepting that your brain is governed by the laws of psychology (and indirectly, the laws of physics). So the question of "will I be a moral person" becomes a scientific problem, a problem whose answer is partially yes, because that's just how humans work, but also partially no, because that is also how humans work.
A phrase I've seen, which I like, is normative "authoritative reasons" (I've meant to read this book for years now; it discusses the phrase in relation to Mackie's skeptical argument from queerness).
without any authoritative norms at all (Bernard Williams says that desires etc. count but others disagree) I'm really sure how anything can have value.
it would be unspeakable to "walk the walk" and be wrong, so why risk it? Especially for your metaphysics.
The overall notion of social construction allows for a morally anti-realist position that still respects the current state of human decision making as a useful reference. Science does not know anything, absolutely, and yet it can predict how things work because it has made observations and continually adapted its expectations to meet them.
All other negotiated human decision-making systems similarly lack access to any ultimate reality, but have continually adapted to the observations of other humans. They are the overall consensus of a large composite intelligence that is likely to continually improve its ability to make useful decisions.
Observing that science works, and works well, without presupposing upon anything absolute, why is it hard to understand how most of us can accept a similar approach to morals?
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Moral judgments: practicality and objectivity. Two incompatible features?
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What's going on at the Bureau of Automotive Repair?
I've heard some rumors about goings on at the Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR). But first a caveat - I was employed by the BAR and the Department of Consumer Affairs. I also sat on the Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee for almost 9 years.
One rumor involves the STAR Certification program. This is how the BAR describes the program: “STAR stations are Smog Check stations that meet higher performance standards established by the Bureau of Automotive Repair. Some STAR stations are licensed to perform only tests, while others are licensed to perform both tests and repairs. The station is required to post a sign on the services it performs. State law requires that a percentage of vehicles have their Smog Check Inspections performed at a STAR station.” It has been controversial since its start.
Sounds like a good idea right? In principle maybe but in action it is very different. There have been many complaints about the system. Here's an example: A technician did not have his license posted as required by law. A BAR employee deletes the technician from the smog machine (in the "old days" we would have given the technician say 24 hours to post his license). A few days later the technician posted his license and was re-installed into the smog machine. Fine right? No; now the station is no longer STAR Certified because the technician is new and no longer has a history for the STAR program to analyze. Dumb; same technician as before and his history should be continued. But the STAR program doesn't recognize this.
This should be easy to correct but evidently it is not. The smog station must file a formal appeal, an appeal that will go before an Administrative Law Judge. Now here is where it gets strange, at least according to my sources who tell me the Attorney General's Office will not take the cases to hearing because they do not believe the BAR's STAR program is defensible. For almost two years the appeals have been building up but never going forward. My sources state that there are about 300 appeals sitting and waiting to be heard.
So what is the BAR going to do? Logically if your attorney, and the AG's Office is the BAR's attorney, doesn't think you have a defensible position shouldn't you drop all the cases and reinstate the Smog Stations' certifications? Not the BAR. My sources said that a limited-term Air Quality Representative has been hired specifically to defend the Star Program. Seems to me that if the AG's office cannot understand the program well enough to defend it then maybe - just maybe - the program is the problem. But that's just me.
On another front I heard that a former BAR employee, Albert Flores, Jr., won a lawsuit against the BAR for over $1.5 million. I hope to have more on this soon but for now here is a synopsis from the law firm that handled the case, Nearsham & Kramer LLP: "On August 28, 2014, following a 3 ½ week trial, a Sacramento Jury awarded NKLLP client Albert Flores, Jr. $1.565 Million in damages against his former employer, the California Dept. of Consumer Affairs Bureau of Automotive Repair. Mr. Flores was awarded damages for Disability Discrimination, Failure to Provide a Reasonable Accommodation and Failure to Prevent Discrimination."
I have to wonder what happened to the BAR employees (managers) who treated Mr. Flores so badly? But if the BAR follows past patterns absolutely nothing was done to punish them. Heck, maybe they were even promoted.
... where we have gathered to discuss various smog technician issues, including our almost universal dismay over the "condemn at a distance" policies of the STAR program. Feel free to drop by and comment. You don't even have to join to participate.
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Is it the end of a way of life or just sensible municipal risk management? Perhaps, in Canmore — a town "too big to be small" that's also "too small to be big" — the announcement of a ban on jumping off the Engine Bridge is both.
A new bylaw passed by Canmore council this month means that residents who participate in one of the town's longest standing traditions — jumping off the historic Engine Bridge into the Bow River on hot summer days — face the threat of a $500 fine.
It's a pedestrian bridge that was originally part of a railway spur line that served Canmore's coal mine a century ago.
Rocky Mountain Outlook editor Tanya Foubert, a longtime Canmore resident, spoke to the Calgary Eyeopener on Monday about how the bridge jumping ban is going over with residents.
Q: Tell me about this new rule, what you think about it.
A: It's an updated bylaw passed by council at the beginning of the month that replaces a previous bylaw. I do believe that within the perspective of the municipality, jumping from this bridge has been frowned upon or somewhat discouraged in the past. But with the new bylaw, it really sets it out in plain English: You can't jump from this bridge, and if you do, you could face a fine of up to $500.
So we are definitely seeing some reaction in the community about this change.
Q: Is it about the $500 fine or just the prohibition?
A: In Canmore, a lot of things have changed, even in the last 10 years, let alone the last 40.
Growing up here, for a lot of people, jumping from the Engine Bridge was one of those things you did as a kid. It was one of those rituals of childhood and summer. And with change, it feels as if our past is diminished or we're not allowed to do the same things we used to do — that the community isn't the same place that it used to be. It's just that feeling of nostalgia for the way things were and perhaps a simpler time, when you could jump from the bridge and into the nice cool water on a hot summer's day.
Q: It is not just the bridge that falls under this new rule, but is it your sense that it's really the bridge that the rule was about?
A: The way the wording is phrased, there wouldn't be any other town infrastructure you could jump or rappel from.
Q: Has anyone ever been hurt?
A: There is at least one instance in the past that I can think of, from covering the news here in town. But I think that that instance involved other layers of risk — risky behavior like alcohol and drugs and perhaps jumping into the river at night.
Q: You can understand why a community would want to err on the side of caution, right? Obviously this rule did did not come out of nowhere. There had to have been some discussion and presumably one would think some consensus?
A: Yeah, definitely they took a risk management approach. One of the things I've been saying about Canmore, in the last five years, is we're too big to be small and too small to be big.
We, as a municipality or administration, are growing. With the size of our community, you see additional resources being put into looking into perhaps unaddressed issues. Risk management around town on infrastructure and assets definitely could be one of those.
And it's not the only spot that's kind of one of those fun summer water jumping spots. There's also a cliff at Quarry Lake Park, which a lot of people jump into.
Obviously it's a former open pit mine, so you don't have to worry about how deep it is. But then again, if you don't know how to swim, you have to worry about how deep it is. So they've definitely gone after that as well. It's sort of been identifying things that they don't want people to do that could put them at risk and having them recognize that there is a liability.
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Separate security alerts in and around Paris have marred the final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday's French presidential election.
A suspected radical Islamist possessing weapons and a pledge of allegiance to IS was arrested north of the capital.
And Greenpeace activists scaled the Eiffel Tower to unfurl a banner, sparking an emergency police meeting.
Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron will take on far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, in Sunday's final round of the poll.
Various opinion polls have suggested a lead of 20 percentage points or more for Mr Macron.
Why is France's presidential election so important?
The man arrested in Evreux, west of Paris, was a convert to Islam who had been under close surveillance since 2014 because of radicalisation.
Le Monde says he is a 34-year-old former soldier and was detained near an airbase.
A USB stick with a pledge of allegiance to so-called Islamic State, a copy of the Koran and IS flags were found in his car, sources said.
Two revolvers, a shotgun and ammunition were later found hidden close to the base.
Three days before the first round of voting on 23 April, police officer Xavier Jugelé was killed by convicted criminal Karim Cheurfi while on duty on the Champs Elysées. IS claimed to be behind that attack.
France is still under a state of emergency brought in after the Paris attacks of November 2015.
Police were forced to admit flaws in procedures after the Greenpeace activists scaled the north face of the Eiffel Tower to unfurl a banner reading "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (Liberty, equality, fraternity). The hashtag "resist" was also written in opposition to Ms Le Pen.
"We wanted to say we are against the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism in France and in other countries," Greenpeace France's head, Jean-Francois Julliard, said.
After an emergency meeting, police prefect Michel Delpuech said: "Above and beyond the motives, this publicity stunt, in the current climate, exposes faults in the security arrangements at the Eiffel Tower."
About a dozen Greenpeace activists were arrested.
There was high security around Ms Le Pen too, as she campaigned in Reims, where she appeared to have to protect herself from missiles as she was driven away from the famous cathedral.
An angry tweet later accused her rival's supporters of a lack of dignity in a sacred place.
Image caption Marine Le Pen tweeted: "Monsieur Macron's supporters act with violence everywhere, even at Reims cathedral, a symbolic and sacred place. No dignity"
A day before, Ms Le Pen had been pelted with eggs in Brittany.
There were other violent protests against both candidates in Paris earlier this week and on Friday students blocked schools with rubbish bins and slogans saying: "Neither Le Pen nor Macron."
Mr Macron spent his final day of campaigning in Rodez, in the south.
"Madame Le Pen is the voice of nothing, she exploits anger and hatred," he told RTL radio.
The polling average line looks at the five most recent national polls and takes the median value, ie, the value between the two figures that are higher and two figures that are lower.
Mr Macron and Ms Le Pen came top of the 11 candidates in total who participated in the first round of voting.
While the outcome of Sunday's second round should be clear that evening, the results will be officially proclaimed by France's constitutional council on Thursday, 11 May.
Sunday, 14 May, marks the end of outgoing President François Hollande's term, and is the latest possible date for the inauguration and official transfer of power to his successor.
You can follow the French election on the BBC News website. Click here for all our latest coverage.
On the day of the election, we will be running a live page bringing together the latest news, video and analysis.
On TV, you can watch a BBC World News Election Special, from 18:30 BST (17:30 GMT / 19:30 local time in France) on Sunday, which will be broadcast on BBC News in the UK and on BBC World News internationally, with Christian Fraser presenting from Paris.
For radio, BBC World Service will broadcast a special extended edition of Newshour from Paris at 18:00 GMT on Sunday.
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【Objective】In the present study， the effects of low temperature on a cold-sensitive banana cultivar Williams（Musa acuminata AAA cv. Williams） and a cold-tolerant cultivar wild diploid banana（M. acuminata， AA group） were estimated to explore the physiological mechanisms of cold-tolerant banana plants. The results could provide references for genetic breeding programs aiming at the improvement of banana chilling injury resistance and banana production. 【Method】Leaf samples of the two banana cultivars were collected after 10， 5 and 2 ℃ low temperature stress for 24 h to determine different physiological and biochemical indexes of the two banana cultivars. The level of lipid peroxidation， expressed as equivalents of malondialdehyde（MDA）， proline， pigments contents， and the activities of superoxide dismutase（SOD）， catalase（CAT） and peroxidase（POD） were investigated. Plants of the two cultivars grew under normal growth conditions were used as control. 【Result】Under different low temperature treatments， an obvious increase in the contents of proline and pigments were found in wild diploid banana leaves， but MDA content decreased. In terms of Williams banana， high contents of proline and MDA were presented in leaves under low temperature condition， but no significant differences were found in contents of different pigments compared with control. The antioxidative enzymes in the two cultivars also presented different responses under low temperature condition. SOD activity in wild diploid banana leaves showed obvious decrease trend as compared to control， but CAT and POD activities kept high levels in wild diploid banana leaves under low temparuture. Whereas the activities of SOD， CAT and POD in leaves of Williams banana showed no significant differences between low temperature treatments and control. 【Conclusion】The strong cold-tolerance in wild diploid banana plants may be related to the changes of physiological and biochemical indexes； wild diploid banana has stronger cold resistance and could be used as middle material for screening banana cold-resistant germplasms.
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| 2019-04-23T16:36:41 |
http://mrblue.createdebate.com/browse/debates/all/mostheated/all/alltime/Entertainment
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The study found that it is middle managers who suffer most from a lack of social support in their professional and private lives.
As the economy recovers with its corresponding effect on workloads, a Deakin University academic has urged companies to make sure their middle managers have time for their friends.
Dr Melissa Parris, an expert on management and the day to day experiences of middle managers, said a lot of attention had been given to the impact of work on family roles.
"Less attention has been given to employees' relationships beyond their families, such as with friends and the wider community," she said.
"Yet these relationships provide people with much needed emotional and practical support and we need to pay attention to these as well."
Dr Parris' past research, has looked at the experiences of middle managers and the impact of work on their personal lives, particularly their friendships.
"Our research has shown friendships are very important to middle managers," Dr Parris said.
"Yet in dealing with the numerous demands on their time and energy it is their interaction with friends which often is the first part of their lives to be affected."
Dr Parris said friendships allowed middle managers to talk through some of their concerns, be it managing people in the workplace or projects they were working on. Such exchanges help to relieve the pressure they were feeling.
"Women especially, spoke about the emotional aspects of their lives and the benefits they gained from talking through these issues," she said.
"Men on the other hand spoke about the practical support they received from their friends as well as the security it gave them to try out ideas or approaches to problems."
Dr Parris said middle managers also reported a sense of loneliness in their organisation, lacking someone with whom they could discuss certain issues. As a result they particularly valued their friends who understood the middle management experience.
"However when these managers dealt with the various demands on their attention, eg work and family, time with their friends was being sacrificed," she said.
"Middle managers in the study were particularly frustrated at the lack of control over their work time – for example, cancelling meeting with friends at short notice to deal with a last minute workplace situation."
Dr Parris said while friendships for both men and women could be 'kept going' at a superficial level with coffee catch ups, meaningful interactions suffered.
"Close friendships develop over time and need contact to build closeness and familiarity," she said.
"The middle managers we spoke to were questioning whether the time and energy devoted to their career progression was worth the reduced depth of friendship."
Dr Parris said the findings had implications for businesses and the community.
"Middle managers in the study were able to meet the demands placed on them at work, while their lives outside work carried the strain," she said.
"However the impact on their personal lives will eventually impact their workplace performance."
Dr Parris said one solution may be for businesses to provide managers with a true ability to engage in activities and friendships which will aid them as they continued to work.
"Yet there are challenges in this," she said. "The nature of the workplace setting, with often competing loyalties to different people and groups, may inhibit the development of voluntary and reciprocal friendships.
"The strain that work demands place on middle managers' friendships also has implications for the wider community as it reduces the person's support networks.
"If individuals have smaller groups of friends, they may have limited ability to seek advice and receive support relying instead on more formal community groups and organisations to fill the void."
| 2019-04-20T10:38:52 |
https://www.medicalsearch.com.au/managers-report-feeling-isolated/f/5206
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Find out why the Creation Records boss doesn't see his "pal" Noel doing it.
Alan McGee has said he thinks Oasis won't get back together.
The Creation Records boss - who first signed the band in 1993 - has poured cold water on the recent rumours the band could reunite in 2017.
As the Scotsman reports, speaking at a special screening of the Oasis Supersonic documentary at Glasgow's Govanhill Baths, the music guru said: “I don’t think they’ll get back together."
“Not with Noel, anyway," added the 56-year-old. "He’s my pal, I know how he thinks, and he doesn’t need it. “The two of them don’t get on. It’s not an act."
However, McGee isn't ruling out the chances of Liam Gallagher and his remaining bandmates touring again in 10 years.
“I think it will get to a stage when Liam takes them back on the road, maybe in 10 years or something.
Meanwhile, the woman who inspired the Noel Gallagher-penned Oasis track, Talk Tonight, has been discovered.
Following the documentary where Noel described nearly quitting the band and booking a flight to see a girl in San Francisco, Melissa Lim has emerged to tell her side of the story.
“He was very upset”, she told the San Francisco Chronicle describing the fateful day Noel turned up at her apartment in Nob Hill.
Talking about the fact Noel Gallagher seems to not remember her face or name, Lim said: “Keith Richards can remember the name of his milkman from when he was 8 years old.
| 2019-04-22T21:02:49 |
https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/oasis/news/alan-mcgee-oasis-wont-reunite-with-noel-gallagher/
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The United States government is set to indict a top executive from Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant, in a move that could increase tensions between the two countries.
Canada on Saturday arrested Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's global chief financial officer and the daughter of the firm's founder, in Vancouver.
China’s embassy in Canada criticized Canada and the United States for the arrest. It also demanded Meng's immediate release.
Meng, who is one of the vice chairs on the Chinese technology company's board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested on Dec. 1 and a court hearing has been set for Friday, a Canadian Justice Department spokesman said, according to the Globe and Mail.
'Wanzhou Meng was arrested in Vancouver on December 1, a Canadian government spokesperson told The Globe and Mail.
'She is sought for extradition by the United States, and a bail hearing has been set for Friday.
'As there is a publication ban in effect, we cannot provide any further detail at this time.
American officials have talked to their counterparts in Germany, Italy, and Japan - countries where Huawei products are widely used.
Founded in China more than 30 years ago, Huawei's revenue in 2018 exceeded $100billion for the first time in its history, according to CNBC.
| 2019-04-24T07:04:38 |
https://www.practicalworldtruenewsmag.com/2018/12/business-fresh-tension-between-america.html
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EASTERN European nations are keenly watching how NATO handles the Sarajevo crisis for insights into the alliance's determination to maintain stability in Europe.
As the Bosnian government looks to NATO to impose a truce on the war-torn Balkan nation, many Eastern European nations view the Atlantic alliance as the best possible guarantor of stability in the region.
From Albania to Poland, the former Soviet satellites are eagerly signing up for NATO's Partnership for Peace, which aims to boost cooperation among participants and the Atlantic alliance. But despite the rush to join the Partnership, some Eastern Europeans have quietly expressed concern about NATO's ability to live up to their high expectations. Bosnia-Herzegovina is the test case. ``If they [NATO] do nothing, then they will have nothing to stand on,'' says a senior Eastern European diplomat with close ties to NATO.
NATO's Feb. 10 ultimatum - a threat to use airstrikes unless opposing forces remove heavy weapons from around besieged Sarajevo or place them under United Nations control, a message sent primarily to the Bosnian Serbs - has helped allay some concerns about NATO. In particular, an apparent rapprochement between the US and French foreign policy establishments may boost NATO's effectiveness in future crisis resolution efforts, diplomats say.
But several Eastern European diplomats add that NATO must not become complacent now that the Bosnian Serbs have apparently complied with their ultimatum. ``A weak and hesitant approach hasn't produced anything, except lots of dead people and the loss of face,'' the diplomat says.
As the deadline passed yesterday, President Clinton said airstrikes against Serb positions around Sarajevo were not imminent. But ``all parties should be aware that the ultimatum still stands,'' Mr. Clinton said. So far, the truce covers only Sarajevo.
Meanwhile, the German Foreign Ministry announced that officials from the US, Russia, France, Germany, and other European nations would gather in Bonn today to discuss the Sarajevo situation.
Some former Soviet satellites, such as Poland, worry about Russia's high-profile role in the Yugoslav peace process. Moscow was instrumental in convincing the Bosnian Serbs to respond to the NATO ultimatum. Russia announced it would deploy 400 of its soldiers in Sarajevo to help enforce a fragile cease-fire.
Senior diplomats of former Soviet satellite nations suggest the primary motivation for Russia's actions is not so much a desire to bring peace to Bosnia, but to keep NATO in check. Moscow has steadfastly opposed any expansion of NATO and has not indicated whether it will participate in Partnership for Peace. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev is touring Eastern European capitals this week to explain Moscow's stance on Bosnia.
But not every Eastern European state holds this view, or aspires to join NATO. Hungary, for example, is not eager for the alliance to become more deeply involved in the Sarajevo crisis.
The rump Yugoslav federation of Serbia and Montengro, dominated by Belgrade, contains a significant ethnic Hungarian minority. Hungary worries about increased border tension with Serbia in the event of NATO airstrikes around Sarajevo.
| 2019-04-24T03:50:49 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0222/22072.html
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Continuity mistake: In the episode we see the door to the boiler room (where Peggy's computer is) the door opens outwards into the hallway. Later in the episode she comes in to the room to check on some of her printings she was doing overnight. In this scene she opens it inwards. This wouldn't be possible as the door has a knob meaning it wouldn't be a two-way door.
Continuity mistake: As Peggy goes for her present and rips the wrapping paper to see it's a grandfather clock, it is set at 12:35. The following shot it's at 11:55. A little later on when Hank is about to varnish the clock, the time changes again before and after he closes the garage door where he is doing the varnishing.
Continuity mistake: Just before Hank uses the varnish on the grandfather clock you can see a quick shot of the power drill. This would have been impossible as we saw, and he told Bobby, he got rid of all his power tools the day before for some corn. Later in the scene when he wakes up the power tool has disappeared for good.
Continuity mistake: Before Peggy reads Luanne and Bobby her musing about "Noel", Bobby is to her right and the shot shows them all from behind. The next shot he is to the left of Peggy and right next to Luanne, despite Luanne having Peggy and Bobby between her at the start of the scene.
Continuity mistake: After taking some propane tanks from work, Hank comes home and starts telling Peggy to throw out her old computer. The clock in the background starts off at 10 o'clock. Hank then sees Dale knocking at the door and the time has changed to 1:50. After Dale comes in, it changes again to about 11:35.
| 2019-04-24T20:13:28 |
https://www.moviemistakes.com/tv3997/episode15366/continuity
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One of the questions that parents frequently ask our kid's dentist office is whether or not it is important for their children to start flossing. The answer to this question is yes. Flossing is one of those oral hygiene habits that parents need to start teaching their child as soon as possible. Flossing helps give the mouth a full cleaning, along with brushing. Children are especially prone to eating sticky and gummy products that can often get stuck between the teeth. This provides a perfect breeding ground for the oral bacteria in the mouth to grow and prosper in a way that will eventually lead to cavities.
Due to a lack of flossing among children, something that kid's dentists are actively focusing on, we have seen a rapid increase in the number of cavities across the United States. Think of a child's teeth in terms of nooks and crannies, that cannot easily be reached by a toothbrush. By teaching children to floss, or flossing for them, parents can help to remove some of the stuff that gets stuck between the teeth and can end up creating cavities. As a kid's dentist, we highly recommend that you floss your child's teeth at least once per night if they are not old enough to floss themselves.
It is not uncommon for a kid's dentist to be told by a child that they often do not feel any different when they finish flossing their teeth. This is something that they get from their parents, who also do not feel any different after flossing their teeth. This is because most people psychologically are comparing flossing to brushing their teeth, or rinsing them out with a minty mouthwash. The truth is that when you brush your teeth with a nice flavor toothpaste or rinse it with mouthwash, you are going to get a pleasant smell and that minty fresh feeling. However, with flossing you are actually going to be getting a far more comprehensive cleaning.
A popular analogy is that one does not wash a cup on the outside and then put the half dirty cup back into the cupboard. In a similar fashion, when one does not floss his or her teeth, it leaves them partially dirty. Food can get stuck between the teeth and lead to cavities, decay, or gum disease. For a kid's dentist, it is vital that parents understand the importance of flossing a child's teeth at night and that they pass on these good habits to their children. With proper flossing, a child will not have to visit a kid's dentist for emergency care, but regular checkups that are less serious and quick.
The great news is that kids can adapt to the routine of flossing very easily. Once they learn the habits, children are more likely to follow through with it for the rest of their lives. The second piece of good news is that once a child starts flossing, gum disease has virtually no opportunity to flourish. As long as you are also bringing your child in at least once every six months for a professional hygienist cleaning, your child will continue to avoid the worst oral health issues for a healthy mouth.
| 2019-04-19T21:22:37 |
http://www.drgrazioso.com/blog/post/a-kids-dentist-explains-the-importance-of-flossing.html
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What was the best part of the Wheaton Science Education Program?
"The Wheaton Education professors really want you to succeed. I transferred in from another college, and was playing varsity soccer. These professors really care about you. You can see their knowledge and it makes you want to learn more from them."
What excites you the most about being a science teacher?
"I am the most excited about having my own classroom and forming relationships with my students. I can't wait. It is going to be so fun to teach them science."
Any advice for incoming and younger students?
"Map out your four-year plan of courses. I didn't do this at first and honestly thought it was a huge pain. But honestly, it was the biggest help ever, especially because I was playing a sport. It makes things so much easier. Relax. Have fun. You can do this. You are going to be prepared to be a great teacher by the end."
What was the best part of the Wheaton Science Ed program?
Overall, I found the program to be exceptionally good at preparing me and others for our teaching careers. The courses were relevant, useful, and I believe that they taught me the skills I needed to be successful after leaving Wheaton College. I enjoyed the small class sizes which gave the program a more personal feel. Not only that, but the professors who taught the education classes are phenomenal teachers, mentors, and lifelong learners. Knowing that they were striving to put into practice what they were trying to teach us gave the program a genuine feel.
What excites you most about being a science teacher?
Undoubtedly, what I love most about teaching is the students. As I'm going through the early stages of my career, I'm learning that being a teacher requires an enormous about of time and moxie. There are times when it feels like it might be too much. Whenever I get to that point, I can always find the hope I need by looking to my students. We all remember the teachers that shaped us, pushed us to better ourselves, and believed in us when we didn't have belief in ourselves. Teachers sow the seeds, but they may never see the harvest and yet, I firmly believe that what I do in my classroom could be shaping their future and pushing them towards their calling in life and that is about the most exciting thing I could ever hope for.
What advice do you have for incoming and younger students?
Never stop learning. Good teachers are always looking for ways to improve and the best teachers understand that everyone has something to teach you. This means staying humble and learning from those who came before you and who are walking the path besides you. Learn from your mistakes, there will be plenty. But also learn from your good days, there will be plenty of those too. The highest compliment a student has ever said to me was, "Miss Davis never stops learning even though she's the teacher."
Betsy Leong is an alumna of the sciences at Wheaton, a teacher, and your advocate for navigating to teaching in a science classroom.
| 2019-04-20T16:18:21 |
https://www.wheaton.edu/graduate-school/degrees/ma-in-teaching/education/science-teacher-education/meet-a-science-teacher/
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Swatch 1: With smooth, worsted weight yarn, preferably wool, in a light color and appropriate size knitting needles, CO 20 sts. Work k1, p1 rib for 1". Slip stitches onto a holder with approximately 20 yds of yarn still attached.
Swatch 2: With smooth, worsted weight yarn, preferably wool, in a light color and appropriate size knitting needles, CO 24 sts. Work k1, p1 rib for 1". Slip sts onto a holder with approximately 20 yds of yarn still attached.
Swatch 3: With smooth, worsted weight yarn, preferably wool, in a light color and appropriate size knitting needles, CO 22 sts. Work k1, p1 rib for 1". Slip sts onto a holder with approximately 20 yds of yarn still attached.
Swatch 4: Same as Swatch 3.
Swatch 5: With smooth, worsted weight yarn, preferably wool, in a light color and appropriate size knitting needles, CO 25 sts. Work k1, p1 rib for 1". Slip sts onto a holder with approximately 20 yds of yarn still attached.
| 2019-04-26T05:59:35 |
http://www.knittinguniverse.com/expos/69/0/class_detail/7490/
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Arrested Person: Robert Keith Kibbler of Arnold, Missouri, W/M, DOB: 10-20-1980, was arrested on a warrant out of Arnold for larceny.
Arrested Person: Steven Earl Murphy of Bonne Terre, Missouri, W/M, DOB: 12-20-1969 was arrested on warrants out of St. Francois County for failing to appear on the charge driving while intoxicated and Bonne Terre for failing to appear on traffic violations.
The warrants had a total bond set at $5,650.00.
Arrested Person: Amanda Nicole Smith of Festus, Missouri, W/F, DOB: 07-21-1980 was arrested on a warrant out of Desloge for failing to appear on the charge possession of controlled substance.
The warrant had a bond set at $363.50.
Arrested Person: Roy Lee Rodgers of St. Mary, Missouri, W/M, DOB: 03-20-1977, was arrested on a warrant out of Ste. Genevieve County for failing to appear on a charge of exceeding the posted speed limit, RSMO 304.01, a Class C Misdemeanor.
The warrant was issued by the honorable Judge Timothy W. Inman with a bond set at $100.00.
Arrested Person: Steven Michael Arnold of Hillsboro, Missouri, W/M, DOB: 09-25-1979, was arrested on warrants out of DeSoto for failing to appear on the charge of faulty equipment and Jefferson County for failing to appear on the charges of domestic assault, harassment, and no headlights.
The warrants had a total bond set at $3,617.5.00 and a no bond.
Arrested Person: Jessica Kathleen Otte of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, W/F, DOB: 08-04-1988, was arrested on a warrant out of Randolph County, IL for failing to appear on the charge of traffic offense.
The warrant had a bond set at $2,000.00.
Arrested Person: Jessica Amber Marqua of Bloomsdale, Missouri, W/F, DOB: 08-05-1987, was arrested on a warrant out of Perry County for failing to appear on the charges of possession of controlled substance.
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| 2019-04-26T02:24:40 |
https://www.sgcso.com/press_view.php?id=101
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The British Royal Naval Division was made up of men from the Royal Navy and its reserve forces. These men, who were not needed at sea, fought on land alongside the Army during World War One.
The records cover more than 50,000 officers and ratings who joined the Royal Naval Division or who passed through Crystal Palace, London when it was used as an initial training centre during the First World War.
What can these records tell me about my ancestor?
Each record includes images of the original service records that The National Archives holds.
There will usually be two or three pages for each man, but many will have more.
The Royal Naval Division fought on land during WWI, seeing service at Antwerp in 1914, Gallipoli in 1915, Ancre in 1916 and Passchendaele in 1917.
The National Archives holds the Royal Naval Division Records of Service in the series ADM339.
The records do not cover officers who transferred to the Royal Naval Division from the Royal Marines.
| 2019-04-25T08:48:25 |
https://www.findmypast.com.au/articles/world-records/full-list-of-united-kingdom-records/armed-forces-and-conflict/royal-naval-division-service-records-1914-1920
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To ask the Scottish Government what the average cost is to the NHS of each A&E attendance.
The average cost to the NHS in Scotland of an attendance at an A&E outpatient consultant-led clinic in 2014-15 was £112. The average cost of an A&E attendance across NHS Lothian was £88 in 2014-15.
| 2019-04-25T00:27:42 |
https://beta.parliament.scot/parliamentary-debates-and-questions/questions/2016/s5w03157
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Egypt turmoil: Coup or no coup?
So when is a coup d'etat not a coup? Or to put it another way, is there such a thing as "a good coup", which means of course there must also be "a bad coup"?
And if so where does the Egyptian army's ousting of President Mohammed Morsi stand on this scale? Which one was it?
In one sense, of course, it is a doubly irrelevant question. Does it matter?
For one thing outside countries can do very little about it - even the United States with its much-vaunted ties to the Egyptian military.
And in a region as troubled as the Middle East, nobody has the luxury of holding Egypt at arms-length even if they wanted to.
Talk about Washington calling into question its financial support for Egypt - and particularly its military - is just that, talk.
So at one level the discussion of "a coup, or no coup" is - as one pundit I encountered going into a TV studio this morning rather disparagingly described it - a question for Western commentators to agonise over.
But in another important sense it does matter.
It has coloured the initial responses of key Western governments - like President Barack Obama, for example, speaking of the US being "deeply concerned" by the Egyptian armed forces' actions.
What foreign governments say will be remembered by the Egyptian people, and US policy in the run-up to the military's take-over has prompted strident criticism from both pro- and anti-Morsi camps.
This caution has been reflected in British statements too, though Foreign Secretary William Hague put his finger on the problem when he pointed to the dual nature of the events in Egypt.
This was, he said "a military intervention in a democratic system," but equally, he said, "it was a popular intervention".
So putting these two aspects together, does this then make it a "good coup"? The pragmatic view would be to look to see what emerges from it - and some hard-headed realism is probably in order.
The Egyptian military played a key role in politics before President Hosni Mubarak's departure; it stood centre-stage after the upheavals of the Arab Spring; and as this latest crisis demonstrates it has again emerged from its barracks to enforce what it sees as the national interest.
The military shadow over Egyptian politics is not going to disappear any time soon. Look how long it took for the Turkish military to be marginalised in Turkish politics.
A democratically elected president has certainly been removed from office by the military, and that by anyone's definition sounds like a coup.
But again, one set of elections, whatever the popular yearning for change, did not make Egypt a democracy.
It was, like so many other countries in the region, on a journey to democracy: establishing new roles for key institutions; creating the representative bodies of civil society; and above all creating the habits of democracy in both people and political leaders.
It was - say some analysts - precisely because he himself had not imbibed the democratic habit sufficiently that President Morsi found himself challenged on the streets.
By this reasoning this was an atypical coup in a very imperfect democracy.
Right or wrong is for the pundits and the historians. Governments in the region and diplomats in the wider world have to deal with the reality of the new Egypt.
Everything now depends upon the transition to a renewed democratic order.
Western leaders have made it clear that this needs to be speedy, transparent and inclusive.
How will the Muslim Brotherhood be represented in the new institutions? How much popular support will it have?
And, crucially, what message will its Egyptian experience send to similar groups around the region.
Will their conclusion be to better burnish their democratic credentials, or to decide that having won an election in Egypt they were simply robbed of power - thus calling into question their whole commitment to democratic politics.
| 2019-04-22T17:15:22 |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23180222
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(" .--(1) This section applies to a representation made, in accordance with arrangements made under section 7, by the Practitioner Panel or by the Consumer Panel.
(2) The Authority must consider the representation.
(3) If the Authority disagrees with a view expressed, or proposal made, in the representation, it must give the Panel a statement in writing of its reasons for disagreeing.").
The noble Lord said: My Lords, the two opposition parties tabled joint amendments on the first day of Report about representations made to the authority by the practitioner and consumer panels.
In response, my noble friend indicated some sympathy for certain of the points raised in debate and said that he believed that there was scope for improvements to be made to the arrangements under the Bill for giving feedback to the panels. Accordingly, he undertook to consider the matter further.
Having given the matter careful thought, we have tabled this new clause which requires the FSA to consider representations made to it by either panel in accordance with the arrangements under Clause 7 and, where the FSA disagrees with those representations, to make a written statement of its reasons for disagreeing.
We believe that this new clause adds, in a structured way, a great degree of transparency and therefore improves on the arrangements for the panels. I commend it to the House. I beg to move.
Lord Kingsland: My Lords, I think I can say that this is a rare moment for the connoisseur of the arts and mysteries of Her Majesty's Treasury to savour; because this is the second acceptance in a row of amendments tabled by the Opposition.
Perhaps I may say to your Lordships that this amendment is of even greater consequence than its predecessor because, as the Minister has said on frequent occasions, the authority has legislative powers. As a regulatory authority, its position is unique in that respect. It will make rules which it will not have to bring to your Lordships' House before they become binding. Therefore, it is right that the authority should be answerable to somebody and that somebody--or perhaps I should say, those somebodies--are the practitioner panel and the consumer panel.
I am delighted that, in circumstances where there is disagreement between the authority and those panels, the authority will have to give its reasons. I have just one question to put to the Minister. Can I be assured that, in circumstances where the authority gives such reasons, those reasons will be made public?
Lord Newby: My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, in thanking the Government for coming forward with an amendment which meets the concerns raised in our earlier amendments. Again, I express the hope that this new trend of flexibility which the Treasury has shown in relation to these two amendments may be a growing trend in the future.
Lord Bach: My Lords, the answer to the noble Lord's question is "yes". I am delighted if we have, on this occasion, managed to please the noble Lord. Perhaps in future he will look more kindly on the Treasury and not believe everything he reads about it in the quality newspapers.
(c) (subject to subsection (3)) give rise to any right of action for breach of statutory duty.
(3) In prescribed cases the contravention is actionable at the suit of a person who suffers loss as a result of the contravention, subject to the defences and other incidents applying to actions for breach of statutory duty.").
The noble Lord said: My Lords, in moving this amendment, I shall speak also to Amendments Nos. 7, 10, 12, 14, 17 to 19, 24, 61, 70, 71, 141 and 142, which is an opposition amendment to Amendment No. 141. The origin of this group of amendments goes back further than this House. On 20th July 1999, in another place, the Government undertook to reconsider the different provisions in the Bill dealing with rights of action where contraventions of requirements such as those that may be imposed under Parts IV, X and IX are concerned. Part IV is concerned with permission to carry out regulated activities, Part X with rules and guidance, and Part IX with incoming firms.
The broad aim is to reproduce the current pattern of rights of action as provided for under Sections 62 and 62A of the Financial Services Act 1986 as far as it is possible to do so given the different structure of the Bill.
Under those provisions, consumers enjoyed rights of action not only for breaches of rules, but also for breaches of requirements imposed using the intervention powers under the Act. Those types of requirement, both rules and interventions, will often correspond more correctly to permissions under Part IV and requirements imposed on incoming firms under Part IX than rules made under Part X.
The position is also complicated by the different circumstances in which rights of action may be enjoyed by non-private persons depending on the nature of a breach. That is a more complicated situation than is currently allowed for under either Clause 18, which confers no rights of action for permission breaches, and Clause 197, which confers rights of action by analogy with Clause 145 in Part X.
Our amendment to Clause 18 and the new clause after Clause 197 will therefore confer on the Treasury a power to prescribe the circumstances in which a person may have a right of action as a result of a breach of a requirement imposed under Parts IV or XIII respectively.
handling client money by SRO rules. Breach of those rules attracts rights of action. That ensures that there is a possible right of action where a person handles client money when they should not, as well as when a person who is entitled to handle client money fails to follow the applicable rules. In both cases, it is right that the consumer should have a right of action if they suffer loss.
However, it is not our intention to create rights of action in respect of requirements which are equivalent to financial resources rules; for example, individual capital ratios for banks, or premium income limits for insurance companies. The effect will therefore be to make it clear that breaches of these requirements do not attract rights of action.
Part X already contains a power for the FSA to specify whether a breach of a rule by an authorised person attracts rights of action for private persons, and to specify that some classes of rules attract rights for non-private persons. The amendment to Clause 145 ensures consistency within the Bill by aligning the power with the new provisions in Clauses 18 and 197.
The amendment therefore replaces the FSA's power with a power for the Treasury to prescribe circumstances in which a right of action that would be exercisable by a private person can be exercised by a non-private person. This would, for example, enable the Treasury to reproduce Regulation 3 of the Financial Services Act 1986 (Restriction of Right of Action) Regulations 1991, which ensures that a non-private person--for example, a solicitor, who is acting in a fiduciary capacity for a private person, for example, a minor--can exercise the same rights as a private person. We did not feel that it was sufficiently clear that the current wording would enable us properly to address this sort of situation.
The amendment to Clause 69(2) makes equivalent provision for contraventions under Part V.
I turn now to Clause 397. Reviews of past business are in effect a mechanism for redress when there has been a widespread or regular failure on the part of authorised persons to comply with rules and private persons have suffered losses in respect of which authorised persons are liable to make compensation payments.
As Clause 397 stands, it would not be possible to set up a review of past business which required authorised persons to compensate non-private persons. Our amendment will allow them to do so in circumstances and capacities to be prescribed by the Treasury. This group of amendments has been brought about as a result of the Government's careful consideration of points made on different occasions by Members of the Opposition. I am grateful to them for expressing their concerns. I hope they will support these changes. Perhaps I may respond to the opposition amendment when it has been spoken to. I beg to move.
are either those with which we have no problem or those which respond to concerns we raised in Committee and on Report.
Amendment No. 142 seeks to deal with the following problem. Government Amendment No. 141 seeks to allows a non-private person acting as an intermediary, typically a fiduciary such as a trustee or agent, to bring an action for compensation under Clause 397 for widespread or regular rule contraventions even though the intermediary is not a private person.
That seems fine in principle, but in our submission the clause, as drafted, allows the intermediary to bring an action on behalf of other non-private persons. We believe that that cannot be right. Our amendment to the government amendment is to restrict the right of an intermediary to bring an action to circumstances in which it is acting solely for private persons who could bring the action themselves if they were not using the intermediary.
That was the approach adopted in the 1991 Treasury regulations which restricted the right of action for contravention of FSA rules to private investors. We think that that approach is the proper one to adopt.
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So how does this relate when one's natal Uranus is retrograde?
Colleen, thanks for asking this excellent question. While the actual manifestation of Uranus Retrograde will be unique in the context of an individual's chart, here are some of the possibilities. The things Uranus rules (some examples: individuality, friendship, insights, genius, and surprises) may be more "introverted." For instance, a U-Rx person might not express his or her individuality as upfront as people with U-Direct and may "cook" their fully expressed self a long time before they let it out. What a surprise to everyone around them when they find out who's really "in there." That's an example of how they give delayed surprises, but they might also receive delayed surprises (and insights) because they are again mulling them subconsciously for a long period and have a slower reaction time to the aha. They might take their time to form friendships and feel simpatico with others, but again, when it finally takes there's a pleasant surprise.
Here are two things to check out and ponder. First, I happened to be on Astrologer Lynn Koiner's website recently. She has a great article on Uranus Retro, both natally and by transit. She's got a lot of other interesting info to add to the mix: http://www.lynnkoiner.com/astrology-articles/uranus-retrograde. Second, now's a great time to try an experiment with the current Uranus Retrograde. I've heard people with natal Mercury Retrograde say they feel they communicate best when Mercury is Retrograde by transit. Maybe the same holds true for Uranus. As Uranus is Rx now through December 21 (since July 22), it'd be a great time to contemplate how this half of the year differs for you as it parallels your natal Uranus Retro. Look for tips in Lynn's article. If you've got time, I'd love it if you'd come back and share your experience in the comments on this post.
Hmmm, now that I think of it, Comparing Jan-July with July to now, I think that she may be on to something. The problem is that I cannot deal with the Uranian energies and consider really terrible choices! (Thanks, Saturn. :P)Very much the 'raze the ground and start all over again' feelings and choices since July - want to give up being a musician (for the time being) and do medieval sword fighting (yes, that's a thing), want to move, want a new job, want another lover, want to stop being a mom (they're adults now, at least technically)...ai! I'm trying very hard to sit on my hands and not do anything without talking to others first - which is very difficult as I'm not comfortable doing so. So, yeah. I'll mark Dec 21 on my calendar! LOL!
Sounds like what Lynn was saying about the Rx transit bringing the Rx person to action on what has been brewing may be what's happening for you. Consider getting help from the most grounded Earth people you know!(Earth signs and/or earthy, whether Virgos, Tauruses or Caps--or not.) To me the most important thing about Uranian energy is the need to ground it. A person like that makes a great mentor to the Uranian at that time. Quite frankly, I'd be nuts if I weren't a Triple Earth. I have a different outer planet squaring the Big Three, and my Earth Signs are my salvation.
| 2019-04-24T10:21:12 |
https://www.radicalvirgo.com/2014/09/thrival-kits-for-punc-planets-uranus.html
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Los Angeles - Kevin Costner is set to star in a new space drama.
The 61-year-old actor has reportedly been cast as the head of the NASA space programme in the forthcoming film Hidden Figures alongside his former co-star Octavia Spencer and Taraji P Henson, according to Variety.
The movie will follow the story of a mathematician (Henson) who, along with her colleagues Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson, served as the masterminds behind the historic launch of astronaut John Glenn - the first American to orbit the Earth - into space in 1962.
The film - set in the 1960s - will be based on Margot Lee Shetterly's forthcoming book 'Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race', while Ted Melfi will produce the new project.
It's not yet known when the drama will go into production but, in the meantime, Costner can next be seen in the action-thriller Criminal, which hits cinemas on 15 April.
The legendary actor will portray Jericho Stewart, a dangerous criminal who is implanted with a dead CIA agent's memories to finish an assignment, alongside Gary Oldman, Ryan Reynolds and Tommy Lee Jones.
| 2019-04-26T14:52:20 |
https://www.channel24.co.za/Movies/News/kevin-costner-and-taraji-p-henson-to-star-in-space-drama-20160303
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| 2019-04-22T06:31:49 |
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Thanks to some very well-informed gamblers.
With the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle fast approaching, the question we're all wondering is, who will design Meghan's wedding dress?
Of course, there has been much speculation surrounding this topic, as insiders and royal enthusiasts alike have made their own educated guesses.
However, today it seems that the official dress designer may have been leaked, after bookies saw a very high influx of bets for one specific brand: Alexander McQueen.
According to Harper's BAZAAR US, the influx was so drastic, in fact, that British bookies have now suspended bets on Meghan Markle's wedding dress all together.
A spokesperson for betting company, Betfair, stated that the extremely high influx of bets for Alexander McQueen could indicate that there may have been a potential leak of confidential information.
Prior to this news, Ralph & Russo had been the top pick to design Markle's dress, and Erdem was a close second. For context, Ralph & Russo was the brand behind Markle's stunning engagement portrait dress, thus securing its place as the popular pick for wedding dress designer.
The choice to wear an Alexander McQueen wedding dress would not come as such a surprise, as it is a highly regarded British fashion house. In addition to that, Kate Middleton wore a dress by Sarah Burton—Alexander McQueen's creative director—on her wedding day in 2011.
| 2019-04-22T05:19:27 |
https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/bazaar-bride/meghan-markle-wedding-dress-alexander-mcqueen-bets-15808
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Does anyone know of a free college-level school in the Philippines offering at least an Associates degree?
I just remembered in the USA there is a program college students can enter if they do not have money to pay for college.
These were very easy jobs and without then I would not have been able to even start my education after high school.
But with this \'work-study\' they hinted that there is a potential to reshape the entire education system in the Philippines with THOUSANDS of students now able to attend free with a simple easy-work-exchange!
The president has already mentioned boosting education - and this is a way it can be done with MINIMAL out of pocket costs !
So now we need to find jobs \'on-campus\' that will not only give students on the job training but also allow them to learn at the same time !
Then again Rufus just pointed out that drunk driving will only now just become a crime in the year 2010 .... so maybe there are many things us \'westerners\' take for granted that can actually make a positive change in this country . . .
What should such a program be called? In USA it is \"COLLEGE WORK-STUDY\"
Should the name be localized to \"Trabaho at pag-Aaral\"
This Work=Stuidy program is not new to the Philippines at all. I attended Southwestern University in Cebu on the GI Bill in the late 90s up to 2000, MBA program (Retired Navy). I met several students who were working for the University parttime in exchange foir their tuition. Actually one of my Professors told me he was a working-student in the 60s as was his two daughters later on.
These students would do tasks such as, work in various offices on campus, clean class rooms, cut grass, etc. I\'m kind of surprised that the people you talked to at UP were not aware of this. My wife, who graduated from CIT in Cebu said the same program was in place there. She said the Work-Study program was designed for needy students and they had to keep their grades up to a certain level.
Sorry to high-jack your post but just filling you in to what I know.
the Work-Study program was designed for needy students and they had to keep their grades up to a certain level.
Yes, even LaSalle staff was not aware of a work-study type of program.
One form of free schooling is by private sponsorship, and this is sometimes done by politicians for getting votes by giving out free T-shirts to the pupils advertising the fact.
We have a distant relative who was given a scholarship to nursing college, don\'t know the details.
The University I went to, University of Santo Tomas, offers scholarships. A close college friend of mine was under the working student scholarship. She works in the university library everyday for 4 hours. All of her 3 other siblings also has gone through that scholarship. It only covers the tuition though. She still has to pay for her books. But nevertheless, it was a great help to their mom.
No doubt it was a big help to the parents. We helped our nieces and nephews by paying the tuitions for most of them. All other expenses were the responsibility of the parents and students. This way they learned to fend for themselves for the everyday expenses, giving them a sense of accomplishment and gain a partnership with the family. All of those we helped have graduated and all have good jobs, some in the Philippines, some in Dubai. They all send money home to help their parents. We all have a sense of team accomplishment as well as allowing the students to achieve personal goals. I feel good about helping them and have never thought of my money being wasted. I got lucky.
| 2019-04-26T02:04:32 |
http://www.livinginthephilippines.com/forum/index.php?amp;topic=34186.0
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Which 24 languages are officially spoken in two or more countries?
Bengali is only official at the state level in India, not the national level.
Tamazight/Berberic is an official language in both Algeria and Morocco as of very recently.
Catalan is not an official language of Spain at the national level, only at a regional level. This quiz is only asking about official languages at the national level (otherwise this quiz would be huge!).
I second the motion to add Quechua and Aymara, since these are designated official languages at the national level in Bolivia and Peru, as well as Guaraní, which is an official national language of Bolivia and Paraguay!
You should accept "Parsi" for Persian and also "Farsi" if you don't already.
Farsi is already accepted. :) However, Parsi is not an Persian alternative.
And you know this how? Do you live in a country where they speak this language?
The name for the language they speak in Malaysia and Indonesia is called Bahasa, please accept it.
Nope. I'm Indonesian and some of us will go ballistic when we hear comments like these. 'Bahasa' does not refer to the language spoken by Indonesians. 'Bahasa' just means 'language'. Russian is 'bahasa rusia'. Arabic is 'bahasa arab'. Portuguese is 'bahasa portugis'. Indonesian is 'bahasa indonesia'.
Bengali is spoken in India and Bangladesh and are official languages in both countries.
Quechua--official in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.
where is Catalan? Official in Andorra, Spain, France and Italy.
The quiz is about official languages of countries. And if Catalan is spoken is some regions or cities of these countries, it is not always an official language of the country itself. It is official in the regions of Catalonia, Balearic Island and Valancia but, such as Galician or Basque, not in Spain. It is official in the city of Alghero but not in Italy (Italian is the only official language, but 12 regional languages are official in some regions). And in France it isn't official in any region at all.
Got everything that was 3 and up, that was pretty easy. Some of the others were tough. Should have got Albanian, though.
breezed through it this time. Must have learned something last time.
could it be a Bengali/Bangla thing?
It's a central government thing that refuses to respect any other native language than Hindi.
I am a native Hindi speaker and only speak 2 languages. But I understood everything that was being spoken in a Fiji Hindi video I watched.
WOW, got Sotho, missed Korean.
I'd always thought (from my time in Lesotho and South Africa) that the language was called Sesotho.
But I just tried it again and Sesotho worked for Sotho. Thanks.
You missed Afrikaans. It is spoken in South Africa, Namibia and Patagonia in Argentina.
Could you accept Serbo Croat please?
Why not? I kept trying to put it in.
Even though the word 'Korea' is in both of the Korean-speaking countries?
Catalan is an official language in Andorra and Catalonia, but not the whole of Spain.
I am so embarrassed that I missed Tswana, Sotho and Swazi that I retook the quiz. I can't believe I missed them. Could Ndebele also be accepted? Zimbabwe and South Africa?
Got Sotho, Malay, and Albanian but forgot about Portuguese. Welp.
Read the comments above. Catalan is not an official language in Spain and Punjabi is a dialect. Guarani and Quechua should be added though.
Urdu and Punjabi are not same. As a native speaker of Urdu, I can say that they are different languages. They are like Portuguese and Spanish. Some words are same, but most vocabulary and some grammar and sentence structure is different.
Yeah, I forgot my own freaking language.
Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Curacao, Aruba and St. Maarten If you consider speaking the language the official language of the land, in which laws are written and school instruction is given. (I left our Bonaire, Saba and Statia (St. Eustatius because they are now considered part of mainland Netherlands, though geographically separated) Crazy system if you ask me.
Mexico doesn't have an official language.
Hindustani? official in (forms) in Pakistan, India and Fiji?
Neither Ethiopia or Eritrea have an official language.
Isn't Turkish an official language both in Turkey and Cyprus (along with Greek)?
Also, Urdu in Pakistan and India.
Got Tswana but forgot Russian go figure.
Aymara, Quechua, Guarani are official languages in two or more countries.
There is no such language as serbo-croatian. There is serbian and croatian.
Its actually Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin.
Serbo-Croatian as a language does not exist! Instead you should put Serbian in 3 countries (Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia) and Croatian in 2 countries (Croatia and Bosnia).
Albanian is not on this list even though kosovo, albania, and macedonia speak it.
esotho is what is given on the language quizes I have seen so far, so that is what I tried here. Have only learned the language here, so you'd expect the answer to be correct.
anyway i thought several of the african languages had part of their countryname cut of and a "e" put in front. But I guess it was "se"
Literally my first try. How did I win 97.6% of players?
There is no such a thing like a ''Serbo-Croatian'', there is Croatian and Serbian, in Bosnia are official languages Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian, in Croatia is official Croatian and in Serbia is official Serbian, in Kosovo are official Albanian and Serbian. I'm from Croatia and I should probably know that better than you.
They may be recognised differently but given that Serbian and Croatian are more similar than British and American English they are considered to be the same language for the purposes of Jetpunk quizzes.
Croatian is way more different than Serbian.
I forgot, in Montenegro official language is Montenegrin. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Albanian are co official languages.
According to Wikipedia, the official languages of the Indian government are Hindi and English. However, individual states in India are allowed to designate their own official languages. As a result, throughout the country there are 22 languages with some official status, including Tamil, Bengali (also official in Bangladesh), and Punjabi (also official in Pakistan).
Punjabi is not an official language in Pakistan. English and Urdu are official languages, and unlike India, Pakistan does not allow provinces to designate their own official languages.
Then the Wikipedia article is wrong. It indicates that Punjabi is the official language of the Pakistani province of Punjab.
Like a couple of other quizzes on this site, this quiz is wrong to say that English is the official language of the UK. The "official languages of the world" quiz does at least get it right, but I think there should be a consistent policy recognising that the UK doesn't have official languages.
Thanks, I'll look into it next time I edit the quiz.
17! Not bad for someone who can only speak English, Spanish, French and a bit of Polish.
In Finland and Sweden, they both have Finnish and Swedish as official languages. Maybe you could accept both?
Yes! Got them all with 1:55 remaining at 5:00:33 PM on March 15, 2019. I played a round without signing in so that I could find out what the four less obvious answers were, then I memorized them and played on my account.
I never see the clues on a phone. I mean they are there, I just never notice them because they don't come into view without scrolling down. So I guess away blindly.
There is no serbo-croatian. There is serbian, croatian, montenegrin, you should put Croatian in two countries (Croatia, Bosnia) and Serbian in three countries (Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia) and if you say that you won t put it because serbian and croatian are more similiar than american english and British, than you arre WRONG beacuse american english and british have practically the same grammar and vocabulary is a little different while croatian and serbian have whole grammar different and vocabulary is different, too. On english wikipedia it says that croatian is some kind of dialect in Serbo-Croatian, but on Croatian wikipedia there is nothing that says that there is any Serbo-Croatian or that Croatian is in it. If you don't believe me then type in ''Hrvatski jezik wikipedija'' and read it if you now croatian.
By the way, your Wikipedia example is based on writing systems. That's misleading. Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian are mutual intelligible. Norwegian has multiple writing systems. No one suggests that Bokmål and Nynorsk are separate languages.
I heard an apocryphal story where if a Serbian is being tried in court in Croatia (or vice versa, I'm not sure) that sometimes they demand a "translator", and pretend not to understand the proceedings. Then the "translator" basically repeats what was said verbatim.
I'm not a linguist. But if you want me to change this quiz, you need to post evidence from experts.
Because of similarity doesn't mean that it's all the same language.
Actually yes it does. If I can understand you and you can understand me than we are speaking the same language, even if there are differences in dialect.
In Croatian there are three dialects and in serbian there is only one. Thats one of the main differences.
Why no answer, i gave you the evidence.
| 2019-04-18T11:04:49 |
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/139806/official-languages-spoken-in-the-most-countries
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How much battery capacity do I need with an inverter?
As a rule of thumb, the minimum required battery capacity for a 12-volt system is around 20 % of the inverter capacity. For 24-volt inverters, it is 10 %. The battery capacity for a 12-volt Mass Sine 12/1200, for instance, is 240 Ah, while a 24-volt Mass Sine 24/1500 inverter would require at least 150 Ah. The indicated battery capacity is only for the inverter. The capacity required for other loads should be added to it.
How much power does an inverter consume?
Mastervolt sine wave inverters have an output efficiency of more than 92 %, which is the maximum that can be achieved with modern technology. If you connect an 850 W coffee maker to a Mass sine wave inverter, consumption will be 850 W divided by the onboard voltage of 12 volt, approx. 70 A. Of course, a coffee maker will only be in use for a short period of time, so the consumption measured in Ah will be relatively modest (76 x 5 min. = 6.5 Ah). As a rule of thumb you should divide the connected capacity by 10 for 12 volt and by 20 for 24 volt. This also includes all the power losses in the cables, fuses and the inverter.
Is there a stand-by switch on the inverter?
Definitely! Although the no-load consumption is extremely low, most Mastervolt inverters and Combis are even equipped with two energy saving solutions. Activating the Economy mode reduces battery consumption by an extra 10 %. This function requires an adjustment to the dipswitch/jumper settings, which can possibly be realised via the free downloadable software. The economy mode ensures that the output voltage drops slightly to 208 V, which also reduces the power consumption from the battery. Low-load devices like microwaves and DVD clocks function as normal at this lower voltage.With some inverter models it is even possible to activate a stand-by mode. In this mode the inverter sets a tiny pulse on the 230-volt installation, checking for any connected appliances. As soon as the pulse detects consumption, voltage returns to normal strength to power the connected equipment. The economy mode ensures that the power consumption of the inverter stays at virtually zero.
Can I power a computer with an inverter?
Yes, you can. All Mastervolt sine wave inverters can easily and safely supply a computer without the slightest problem or risk. In fact, the output voltage from an inverter is often better than that from the electricity grid or shore power. This is why Mastervolt inverters, combined with a battery charger and a battery set, are often used as a back-up system in places where the grid connection is unreliable. Laptops can also be powered by a Mastervolt inverter.
Can a microwave be powered with an inverter?
Any microwave model can be connected to a Mastervolt inverter. Bear in mind that an 800-watt microwave consumes about 1200 to 1300 watt from the 230-volt system, and that the capacity of the inverter and battery must be able to handle this. Apart from that, the total consumption of the microwave-inverter combination is moderate: Using the microwave for five minutes will use around 12 Ah on a 12-volt system and 6 Ah on a 24-volt system.
Are there any appliances that cannot be powered by an inverter?
You can connect almost any appliance to an inverter, with a few practical exceptions. In practice you must be careful with equipment that consumes a lot of power, such as electrical heaters or air conditioning. While the inverter itself has no problems with these loads, the battery capacity is often too limited for long-term usage of these loads.Appliances that are only used for a limited time period, such as washing machines, driers or a small hotplate, should be fine as long as the battery has sufficient capacity. In these cases it is advisable to use a power source such as an alternator, which also powers the battery. Keep in mind that heavy users such as engines, pumps, air conditioning and fridges have a starting current that is between 5 to 12 times higher than the nominal absorbed capacity. The inverter has to be able to supply accordingly. Mastervolt inverters are developed to provide high peak currents.
How much current will an inverter draw from my batteries?
This depends on the equipment connected to the inverter. There is a simple method to calculate how much power your inverter is using: For 12-volt inverters, divide the connected load by 10; for 24-volt inverters, divide by 20.
Example: How much does an inverter consume with a 400 W load connected? For a 12 V inverter such as a Mass Sine 12/1200, consumption will be 400/10 = approx. 40 amps. For a 24 V inverter, say a Mass 24/1500, the corresponding figure is 400/20 = approx. 20 amps. It is important to remember that this is only an approximation: The actual consumption will tend to be some 5 to 15 % less, depending on the load type.
How thick should my battery cables be?
Using the method described above, calculate how much power your inverter will be drawing at maximum capacity (120 amps in the case of a Mass Sine 12/1200, for example). Then count 3 amps per mm². In the above example this is 120 divided by 3 = 40 mm². The standard cable thickness closest to that is 35 mm². This rule applies to cables up to three metres in length. If the inverter is further away from the battery, choose the next size up (50 mm² for instance).
Does an inverter need a lot of ventilation?
An inverter needs very little ventilation - two approx. 60 cm² ventilation openings are usually enough. Larger inverters, from 1500 W upwards, need twice that size. Inverters used in high ambient temperatures, and those expected to be operating at full capacity for a long period, require openings that are four times as large.
Can an inverter be used in parallel with the generator or the grid?
No, stand-alone inverters cannot function in parallel with a generator or grid connection. A Mastervolt Mass Combi is the solution if you need more power than is available from the grid connection or the generator. These models can compensate for the lack of grid or generator power using the batteries. A Masterswitch or Systemswitch needs to be installed when grid or generator power is connected to the onboard grid simultaneously with an inverter. The main function of the Masterswitch is the automatic and safe switching between grid, generator and inverter power.
No-load is the amount of current used by the inverter when no loads are switched on, while the inverter is switched on.
An inverter uses a small amount of energy during the conversion process. The difference between the input power and the output power is expressed in percentages. The efficiency of modern inverters is more than 92 %. This means that a maximum of 8 % of the power consumption is used to convert battery voltage to 230V/50Hz. A connected load of 250 watt, for instance, requires less than 270 watt to be supplied by the batteries.
What are trapezoidal or square wave inverters?
Square wave and trapezium inverters are often available in DIY shops and supermarkets at low prices. These cheap inverters are not suitable for all loads, however, and therefore not safe to use. Modern inverters generate a sine wave-shaped output current similar to or even better than that of the public grid and perfectly suited to powering sensitive equipment. Trapezoidal inverters, also called modified sine wave, are the ancestors of the modern sine wave inverters. As the name suggests, they generate an output voltage in the shape of a trapezium. This type of voltage is inappropriate for sensitive equipment. The square wave inverter is the predecessor of the trapezoidal inverter and represents the first generation of inverters. It is also very unsuitable for delicate equipment.
Can I power an air conditioning system via the inverter?
It is perfectly possible to power a small air conditioning installation of, for instance, 4500-6000 BTU via an inverter. While it is important to remember not to leave the air conditioning running for too long, cooling down a cabin before going to sleep is fine as long as the battery bank and inverter are correctly sized. Also remember to pay attention to the start-up current, which can be up to eight or twelve times higher than nominal capacity. A 6000 BTU air conditioning uses approximately 700 watts. For a 230 V system this means a current consumption of approximately 35 amperes. Cooling down a cabin within two hours requires 70 Ah for a 24 V system and 140 Ah for a 12 V system. It is important to make sure that the inverter is large enough to provide the starting current for the air conditioning, and the battery also needs to be able to supply the required capacity within two hours as well.
Can I cook with electric appliances using an inverter?
Cooking is definitely possible with an inverter as long as the battery set is reasonably large and the inverter has a capacity of at least 2 kW. The preparation of a complete meal will, in general, require the generator to be activated or power to be plugged in. Switching on the generator to heat up a cup of soup or cook a steak or an egg is rather wasteful, since the generator will not even warm up properly before it is turned off again. This is bad for the generator and the environment. Instead, we recommend that you power only one or two of the hotplates via the inverter – a snack can then still be prepared or heated without needing to start the generator. After using the cooker, recharge the battery fully via the battery charger or alternator.
| 2019-04-21T00:26:24 |
https://www.mastervolt.com/frequently-asked-questions-about-inverters/
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Option 1. Continuing with my current employer and finding ways to grow there.
This option isn't really an option. I chose long ago to leave any company after five years. I've been with the same company for eight - although it's fundamentally changed during that time since it was bought out.
Option 2. Finding a new forty hour per week job as a Java developer.
This would be the most comfortable thing to do. I would continue to have health insurance and a predictable income.
On the plus side, I'm familiar with this kind of work. I could learn a new industry.
On the minus side, I'm still working for someone else. I won't have control over what I do. My income will be limited.
Option 3. Working for a contracting company.
This sounds like a good fit - if there was work to do. There could be months without work to work on other projects - or to go through my savings. It's more unstable - and possibly more competitive.
Pluses: I could work with technologies and maybe industries that I'm already familiar with. I could earn more money.
Minuses: I might not find work for a long time or I might not find work often enough to be able to grow my savings for retirement. I would - maybe - need to be self-insured.
Research: How do contractors insure themselves? Through their companies? Or self-insurance?
Option 4. Doing freelance work as a Java developer or with web technology.
This sounds like fun. It would give me alot of freedom to choose how to live, and I could take work in areas where I want to grow.
Pluses: Control. Great growth potential. Possible decent income.
Minuses: Self-insurance. Marketing required to find work. There would be a delay while I set up my work environment and familiarized myself with more technology. I might not find work. I might not earn enough to support myself or to save for retirement in the near future.
Option 5, Continuing working with the Rex Harley website and domain until it's profitable.
This wouldn't be feasible until it becomes profitable. Even if I develop much more time to this, it wouldn't mean an income that I could live on. This is something to grow over time.
Pluses: Complete control. Opportunity to grow and learn whatever I choose.
Minuses: No near term income. Possibly never enough to support grow a nest egg. Could require significant effort to make it a profitable business.
Option 6, Finding something I can sell on the Internet - a muse company.
I don't know how likely this is. Technically I already have a product called Rex Harley that I'm selling. Timothy Ferris wrote in "The 4-Hour Workweek" took a different approach, but this is his take on how he would do it if he had to do it over.
| 2019-04-26T04:51:15 |
http://blog.rexharley.com/2008/08/career-options.html
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"Grandfather cannot read the letters that I write."
Translation:Kakek tak bisa membaca huruf yang aku tulis.
I think it would help that if there are more than one options for a word to choose from (in this case "letters") that the correct answer should reflect the appropriate options. In this case: "Kakek tak bisa membaca huruf/surat-surat yang aku tulis". Not sure if a 'slah' (/) is the best way to present it - I will leave that to the experts.
| 2019-04-18T12:38:30 |
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/30562979/Grandfather-cannot-read-the-letters-that-I-write
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The University of the South is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Sewanee, Tennessee. It is owned by twenty-eight southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church and its School of Theology is an official seminary of the church. The university's School of Letters offers graduate degrees in literature and creative writing. Often known simply as Sewanee, the school has a strong academic reputation and recently ranked 40th in the annual US News & World Report list of liberal arts colleges. Sewanee has produced 25 Rhodes Scholars, garnering the distinction of the most Rhodes Scholars per capita of any school in the country. The campus (officially called "The Domain" or, affectionately, "The Mountain") consists of 13,000 acres (53 km2) of scenic mountain property atop the Cumberland Plateau in southeastern Tennessee, although the developed portion occupies only about 1,000 acres (4.0 km2). Through a recent acquisition, the University has added 3,000 acres (12 km2) of undeveloped land to the Domain. In 2006, enrollment consisted of 1,467 undergraduates, 92 students in the School of Theology, and about 25 students in the School of Letters. In addition to the University, the town of Sewanee includes the Community of St. Mary (a convent) and St. Mary's Non-Denominational Retreat Center (which uses the buildings formerly occupied by St. Mary's School). The asteroid 89264 Sewanee is named in its honor. Sewanee is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South.
The University of the South is an institution of the Episcopal Church dedicated to the increase of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, pursued in close community and in full freedom of inquiry, and enlightened by Christian faith in the Anglican tradition, to the end that students may be prepared to search for truth, seek justice for all, preserve liberty under law, and serve God and humanity.<p> The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of exceptional quality. Outstanding students work in close contact with distinguished faculty in a demanding course of humane and scientific study that prepares them for lives of high achievement. Providing rich opportunities for leadership and spiritual growth while grounding its community on a pledge of honor, Sewanee enables students to live with grace, integrity, and a reverent concern for the world.<p>The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in ordained and lay vocations. The School develops leaders who are learned, skilled, informed by the Word of God, and committed to the mission of Christs church, in the Anglican tradition of forming disciples through a common life of prayer, learning, and service. Sewanees seminary education and world-wide programs equip people for ministry through the gift of theological reflection in community.
Question and Answer about "Sewanee-The University of the South"
| 2019-04-22T08:04:26 |
http://www.careers.org/education/colleges/221519?city=sewanee&name=sewanee-the-university-of-the-south&state_or_country_name=tennessee
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Over a year ago, in a post entitled Yated Wars: Reactions to the New Charedim, I described the emerging battle between two factions in the Israeli Litvishe Charedi world. One faction is of extreme charedim, who believe that one should not support hospitals, only yeshivos, and that one should not educate one's children towards earning a living. And that's the more moderate group! The other faction is even more zealous in its opposition towards any sort of accommodation with wider Israeli society. The first group is under the banner of Rav Aharon Leib Steinman and Rav Chaim Kanievsky, and runs the Yated newspaper; the second group rallies behind Rav Shmuel Auerbach, and runs the HaPeles newspaper.
For those who are unaware, in the last few weeks the hostility between the two factions has reached epic proportions. This was related to the municipal elections, in which the two groups fielded different political parties, Degel haTorah and Bnei Torah (a.k.a. Etz). It made the Bet Shemesh electoral unpleasantness look like child's play by comparison.
People in many kollels were instructed to sign a loyalty oath (!), stating that they will follow Rav Steinman and Rav Kanievsky, and will not read HaPeles, or else they will be expelled. The invective from Rav Shmuel Auerbach's side was equally incendiary, to the point that a somewhat deranged young man physically assaulted Rav Steinman. And in the latest episode, Rav Chaim Kanievsky described the people in Rav Shmuel Auerbach's camp as "animals," and said that Rav Shmuel is a zaken mamre who is chayyav skilah (liable for death by stoning)!
To say that all this is causing a crisis in rabbinic authority is putting it mildly. While Rav Aharon Feldman considered the ban on my books to have caused the greatest crisis in rabbinic authority in recent memory, this may well supersede it, at least for some people. After all, the Torah-science ban just pitted Gedolim against Rishonim; this fight pits Gedolim against Gedolim.
Just think about the questions that have been raised. Someone asked Rav Chaim Kanievsky if a lifetime disciple of Rav Shmuel Auerbach is allowed to follow his direction, and Rav Chaim answered in the negative. What on earth does this mean? I'm certainly no fan of Rav Shmuel's approach, but I don't understand the conceptual model of rabbinic authority in which his followers are told by others that they are forbidden to listen to him.
Over at Cross-Currents, Rabbi Adlerstein presented a lecture by Rav Rubin, which attempts to provide an explanation of why it is forbidden for people to follow Rav Shmuel Auerbach, but it raises more problems than it solves. Why is unthinkable for there to be two different groups? After all, we already have Sefardim and Ashkenazim, Litvaks and Chassidim, Charedim and Dati-Leumi. Why is it forbidden for Litvishe Charedim to further sub-divide?
One person argued to me that for strategic political reasons, it's important for the Litvishe Charedim to be united around one voice. Well, obviously Rav Shmuel Auerbach has a different idea about strategies! Why is his view automatically disqualified?
And who says that Rav Steinman takes precedence over Rav Shmuel Auerbach? Some might say that the idea being presented here is that there is a Gadol HaDor, a single greatest Torah authority that everyone is deemed to follow, and that person is Rav Steinman. But this lacks any basis in halachah or tradition. Furthermore, it would mean that if Rav Steinman and Rav Kanievsky passed away, which would (in the charedi Litvishe mindset) leave Rav Shmuel as the greatest Torah authority, then everyone would have to follow him!
Another claim is that Rav Shmuel Auerbach is a zaken mamre (rebellious elder), because he is going against the majority. But last I checked, it takes a Sanhedrin to have a zaken mamre. Did Rav Ovadiah Yosef have to follow the Ashkenazi Gedolim, if they were in the majority?
Rav Rubin also claims that the level of aggression coming from the Rav Shmuel Auerbach camp demonstrates their illegitimacy. But no less aggression has come from Rav Steinman's camp, especially in light of Rav Chaim Kanievsky's recent statements.
Is there any good that can come out of all this? I believe so.
Consider the ban on my books. Contrary to Rav Feldman, I don't think that the ban on the rationalist Torah-science approach was a disaster for rabbinic authority. It was only a disaster for novel Charedi concepts of rabbinic authority, relating to "Gedolim" and Daas Torah. People gave up on following the Gedolim, and instead turned to their local rabbanim. The traditional type of rabbinic authority - a person's own community rabbi, who is of a similar background and understands him - was strengthened.
A similar phenomenon could occur here. As the charedi world, to put it in the words of Rabbi Eidensohn, "self-destructs," many people may realize how seriously problematic it is, especially with regard to its notions of charedi superiority, rabbinic authority, and Gedolim. Hopefully, they will return to a more traditional and healthier form of Judaism.
Once again you are unaware of the underlying issues at the heart of the dispute and in the same way that you learn every Sugya, you present only the superficial positions as characterized in the popular media.
Please, it would be most honest to let Charedim speak for themselves, and drop your never-ending quest for personal revenge.
That R' Adlerstein could post a piece as extreme and senseless as that should forever put to the lie that he's not as much in lockstep with the charedi world as his colleagues.
By the way, R Slifkin, on an unrelated, but more significant topic, I was wondering how you understand why Chazal instituted the blessing for Asher Yotzar upon utilizing the bathroom facilities. It seems to me (and to others) that the words "ASHER YOTZAR ES HA'ADAM B'CHACHMA" specifically in this instance - where man's kidneys performed their primary function of waste disposal - is indicative of the wisdom and cognitive faculties they attributed to the kidneys. Just wondering how you understand that! (Can you keep your answer to the point, and refrain from personal comments or implied insults? Thanks.
It goes without saying there are no answers to the questions you [and many commenters at Cross Currents] point out. The Charedi community is a perversion of authentic Judaism. Like the Midrash says, sometimes the yetzer hora disguises itself to dress like a talmid chacham. That world, and especially Americans here who support it, have to do a big cheshbon ha-nefesh, take a deep breath, and admit, if only to themselves, that they've made a huge mistake.
Shimon Ha-Missuni did it, retracting his entire life's methodology. Those enmeshed in the charedi avoda zara have to do the same.
> Why is it forbidden for Litvishe Charedim to further sub-divide?
One God = One Daas Torah = One opinion on any subject. Rav Auerbach's position proves that Daas Torah isn't divinely inspired but merely a political position taken by the person espousing it.
"Hopefully, they will return to a more traditional and healthier form of Judaism"
There's a long tradition of this stuff in Judaism. I'd even venture to say Jews have been hating other Jews from the very beginning.
For me, this is just another reminder than the whole Am Yisroel thing is an illusion.
Observer, feel free to enlighten us and actually impart information, rather than merely coming here to offer insults as usual.
He did say that he did not (entirely?) agree with the piece.
By the way, R Slifkin, on an unrelated, but more significant topic, I was wondering how you understand why Chazal instituted the blessing for Asher Yotzar upon utilizing the bathroom facilities.
I don't let comment threads go off-topic. Feel free to email me with your question.
One God = One Daas Torah = One opinion on any subject.
Yet they accept that Sefardim and Chasidim have different Daas Torah.
You may disagree with R. Adlerstein(and I sometimes do), but he has tremendous personal integrity, is willing to look at both sides(even if he doesnt agree)and does not makes things up. While he may frequently wind up on the rightward side of things, it is almost always a thought out and considered position. This is in contradistinction to others who do not seem to be able to recognize any position that isn't their own(R. Shafran, Menken, Rosenblum, Mrs. Katz, etc.).
"If a Gadol's thinking always reflects the truth, then how can there ever be any disagreement amongst the Gedolim? There aren't multiple truths! The Gedolim must agree, at the very least on the fundamental issues. This is absolutely crucial. "
There is a difference - R' Chaim, et. al., obviously views R'Shmuel's camp as completely indefensible and beyond the pale.
Normally, there is a mesora/cultural defense (chassidim and sefardim) for those who differ.
For others (Neturei Karta, Modern Orthodoxy/Mizrachi come to mind), I assume R' Chaim would also tell an adherent of those groups not to follow their own leadership if asked.
There is an underlying reason for the dispute that actually makes sense once you figure it out, which is not too hard. Any thinking person can recognize that the ostensible reasons proposed in the media do not seem too significant too warrant such a deep split, and it is hard to see why they couldn't just work it out quietly. Yet, they did not, which means that the proposed reasons are not the true basis for this split. It has nothing to do with 'different paths'- that is just the surface, but doesn't explain the reason for the split.
However, if R Steinman has chosen not to publicize his reasons, then I certainly will not do so.
Actually, the situation is a tragedy, and one that will have unfortunate circumstances. There are many Charedi people who are distraught over what has happened and concerned for the future. Biut, in your case, I think it is wrong for you to bring it up the way you do, and especially in this forum. It is akin to laughing at others' tragedies. Would it be right for some to laugh and cluck publicly at your own family because both your father and mother-in-law died tragically at a relatively young age?
Observer, I am totally appalled at you bringing R' Natans personal tragedies into this. He's not laughing at anyone, he is analysing the charedi condition as usual and making points that only someone in his position can. That is valuable to some of us, whereas your volatile invective is worthless at best.
"However if rav steinman has chosen not to publicize his reasons, then I certainly will not do so."
Wow, what a cop out. The translation of your statement is "I don't know the reasons beyond what was said in the media. But I take others to task for not divining these mysterious other reasons which I insist exist even though I don't know what they are."
if an implosion such as you expect does in fact take place who is to say that you will prefer the system which arises in its place? Merely letting a system collapse is no substitute for crafting a good substitute!
I recently learned that a Beit Din can make a decision and not disclose its protocols for a full 12 months.
Is R' Steinman right? Is this the correct way to handle whatever power struggle they are involed in? Only time will tell.
I hope, without too many casualties along the way.
But for those who think that the current system was an ideal, it's yet another reminder that Moshiach has not yet arrived.
Oh, and Observer? A Ben Torah would not write what you wrote about R' Slifkin's family. Not only is it a terrible thing to say, it is also faulty logic.
Observer - I am moche at your disgusting comments above. Get out of here.
RNS - you should delete his comments and block him permanently, and then delete this paragraph. I am sorry you had to see such lowliness.
Why do you assume that Daas Torah has to represent THE right answer to any questions? How is Daas Torah different from a psak halacha, where there can be variant valid decisions?
I think we have to be careful to let it self destruct. Attacks from the outside can cause more harm by forcing a rally around the leader effect.
I actually think that the current makeup of the ruling coalition in Israel will cause the Haredi society to last a bit longer than it would have had they been included. Then again, never underestimate the Haredi ability to destroy each other.
And to answer your question, yes in the 90s they attacked ROY for not listening to Rav Schach. And it's an issue of rov rather that all must listen to rov of Litvish Gedoilim because Moshe kibbel Toirah miSinia umesoroh leRav Schach... Rav Elyashiv.... to whoever wins this fight.
I agree wholeheartedly - it's low and disgusting. That was precisely my point.
I must strongly disagree with this. In Yoram Hazony's wonderful new book about the philosophy of the Hebrew Scriptures he discusses why the different prophets have differing views and his answer is that any human being is inherently limited in his perception of G-d's will, even through prophecy. Thus, the ABSOLUTE truth is with G-d, but any human can only attempt to approach the truth of G-d. Thus, it is inevitable that even great scholars are going to have disagreements and it should not be viewed as some sort of "weakness" in the system that these disagreements exist.
Jesus Christ was also a gadol at the time. Would you have a problem if the rabanim of the time got together and ousted his students from their kollels? This is much deeper than a split between gedolim. This is virtually all gedolim joining together to oust a cult and it's deranged leader. They are trying to prevent him from attracting more followers to his destructive cult. The gedolim should be commended.
To "Observer" - for someone who claims Talmudic expertise, you show an astonishing shallowness of thought. There is absolutely no comparison between gloating over tragic deaths that were caused by accident and disease, and discussing the effects and causes of aberrant behavior.
There is no aberrant behavior being discussed here by R Slifkin - it's just a tragedy, plain and simple. Just leave it be and worry about the health and happiness of your own families.
What do you mean? Car accidents and illnesses are tragedies that are inflicted by God. The incidents described in this post are the willful actions of people.
I would find this battle of the white beards more interesting if they could shoot lightening out of their fingertips or at least were the wielder of the flame of Anor. Isn't it just boring otherwise? Do they have any special powers at all?
I never said that. Please read the comments carefully, and do not confuse comments made by other people with comments made by me.
There is also a nasty fight fermenting amongst the Satmar / eida-hareidi camp (the camp that the fellows that scream and spit at little girls associate with). It apparently has something to do with Rabbi Moshe Shternbuch being accused of being too lenient about an issue with construction at a grave site. Rav Moshe's son Asher was accosted and beaten in Meah Shearim around this issue.
My theory is that zealotry inevitable caves in on itself.
R' Slifkin and YEA: Yes, R' Adlerstein is very good at being "cute" in that way. The whole tone of the post shows that he thinks it was a great speech.
Observer: Re: Asher Yatzar. Can you not understand Hebrew? It's *God* who used *his* chachma to create our amazing bodies.
imo this episode or split is a sign of the incredible success of the litvish, yeshiva world. they went from a post holocaust existence in which the number of full time learners numbered a few hundred (?) to a world in which tens of thousands learn full time. put aside all questions of the army and work and whatever, even according to THEIR standards, the yeshivot have succeeded. did the chazon ish forsee such a success?
just like when a chassidut gets too large (eg satmar, vizhnitz) the group splits. this isn't failure or a reason for mourning. yes the two groups will quarrel but trying to maintain such a huge edifice under one small limited leadership is simply impossible.
When Observer says "Please, it would be most honest to let Charedim speak for themselves", I envision him sitting near Moshe Rabbeinu when Yisro comes and gives his advice about how to judge the people. Observer pipes up and says to Yisro, "now you stay out of this."
No sir, it is not akin to laughing at other people's tragedies. Degel and B'nei Torah are political parties. Call the split tragic if you like, but political activity must be open to public scrutiny and discussion.
Don't conflate this with family deaths. That's really sick.
the problem is that they often take everyone with them.
I find it disingenuous that you state that there is a group of Chareidim who as a "shita" are against supporting hospitals, only Yeshivos based on an interview with a third party. Do the laws of Lashon Hara and Rechilos not apply to your posts?
He was interviewed as an official representative of Rav Steinman's camp, presenting Rav Steinman's views. It's not lashon hara/ rechilus to present a Rav's views.
No, he was not interviewed as an official representative of anything. He was interviewed as one of the founders and original editors of Yated. He was reminiscing.
Do you hold the same standerd to chariedim.
The lashin horah card is getting stale. Any time a chareidi or a chareidi sympathizer doesn't like the argument of people who differ. All of a sudden the lashin harah card is pulled. Why isnt that card pulled for the infighting amongst the "Litvish Gedolim"? Why is it tolerated???
Hmm, perhaps so. Evidently Observer is a "thinking person" and by this man's reckoning well on his way to discovering the cultural materialistic model. One sees that he wisely dismisses the gobbledygook emitted by the warring factions as insignificant twaddle, proposing instead actual "underlying reasons" entirely unrelated to the manifested claims of the battling Titans. Not very flattering to his idols...and Observer needs to take care not to be spotted and hauled back by the ear... but overall, very methodologically adventurous. A thinking man he is indeed and Temujin is proud of Observer's apparent efforts to curb most of his hisses and grunts and to switch his cognitive functions from the reptilian core of his brain to the more versatile, nuance-capables neocortex.
But, it will be a rough going indeed, as our chappie hasn't worked those underlying reasons out yet, and defaults to pretensions of special access to hidden truths in order to mask his total confusion and deep anxieties. But if he stays the course, soon enough he will begin looking at the ongoing events as garden-variety jockeying for power and money, a not-so-special, universal, cross-cultural human condition which afflicts all those who manage to scramble to the top of their local heap. Yes, Observer, thou naughty pet thou, it all may be as simple and inglorious as that: Big Men snarling over who gets most of the plump kneidlach and who gets stuck with sucking on the thin, parve broth.
One further notes that Observer has already been told by others what a wicked, potty-mouthed rascal he is for confounding observations and discussions on important gadolic melt-downs with imagined (suggested? wished for?) expressions of glee over family misfortunes. No need to lecture him further, as attention and a bad rep as the hood's rabble-rouser is what he seeks, but Temujin feels he should warn others about what a nasty little asp his pet is turning out to be. Keep the fellow in a well-built and secured sand and driftwood-decorated terrarium, and no tapping on the glass, please!
Another great comment from Temujin! Its worth trawling the comments just for your tasty morsels, but these longer blog length offerings are nothing short of cathartic, in much the same way a good Monty Python sketch is.
"Do you hold the same standerd to chariedim.
The lashin horah card is getting stale. Any time a chareidi or a chareidi sympathizer doesn't like the argument of people who differ. All of a sudden the lashin harah card is pulled."
You know nothing about me. You do not know if I'm a chareidi or chareidi sympathizer. Furthermore, I am not an apologist for the "Litvishe Gedolim".
R. Slifkin wrote that the Rav Shteinman camp teach to support Yeshivas and not hospitals based on an interview with someone who said this in the names of Rav Shteinman and Rav Shach. This person represents no one but himself. We cannot say that this is Rav Shteinman's view based on this interview.
It's poor investigative journalism and it's assur to boot. Not liking Chareidim is no excuse for it.
Since when is R Slifkin an investigative journalist???
In todays day even though their are so many forms of public lashan harah in the jewish community (especially in chareidi society).that you pick out R Slifkin in this instance would label you at the least a chareidi sympathizer.
Remember, just because you think in your mind this is black and white other people obviously view this differently.
I take issue with your comment about the future "self-destruction" of the chareidi world. Based on all the shtus, it *should* logically self-destruct, and there are plenty of problems within that system/society/culture including drop-outs, unsustainable lifestyle for more than 2 generations, etc etc.... but if you look at Israel today, you cannot deny that the chareidi camp is growing, partly due to large families and partly due to a huge number of Israeli BTs who when they become frum, join the chareidim and not the datim leumim. By sheer numbers alone, they are very far from self-destructing, and their presence in not only chareidi neighborhoods but also secular ones all around Israel is growing and growing and growing.
You would have been really good during the McCarthy era.
If you want to use the idea of the mcarthy era. It would fit better to compare the mccarthy era with Bnie Brak ChareidiStan(or similar places). Where intimidation is the rule of law. With the intention of protecting thier community from the outside influences whether or not they exist . Without worrying about the consequences!
No need to lecture him further, as attention and a bad rep as the hood's rabble-rouser is what he seeks, but Temujin feels he should warn others about what a nasty little asp his pet is turning out to be.
I want to join the masses in admiring Temujin's posts, whose style and content are both very welcome complements to Rabbi Slifkin's writing.
I also want to tentatively defend Observer, because he's in a position in which I once found myself.
Once upon a time, I was also supremely confident, both in the assumed unquestionable intelligence and integrity of my indoctrinators, and in my ability to use their arguments to demonstrate the incontestible wrongness against heathen detractors (in this case, religious Zionists).
It became apparent that, in fact, I was remarkably uninformed and painfully unconvincing, for my ideological opponents were actually quite well-versed in the traditional literature, and actually had reasonable basis on which to rest their arguments and opinions. Of course, the rank immaturity that motivated me in the first place morphed precisely into the sort of rage that Observer displays in the contorted logic underlying his very cleverly introduced attempts to hurt Rabbi Slifkin and his family.
On the other hand, eventually I grew up (more or less), and I was able to gain some appreciation for truth, at the welcome cost of my ignorant convictions.
None of this is to suggest that Observer (or anyone else) should be emulating yours truly. But I seem to remember going through the exact same process as he is, so perhaps there's hope.
Thank you for those good and wise words, Pookie Number 2. A pause in a "battle" to remind one that even with all that's going on, we're still on the same side...more or less. One should mention that one has also been where Pookie has and where Observer is. Long story.
A bashful Temujin is flattered, delighted and humbled by the praises he has received from Pookie and others. It's funny really, because intimidated by the high calibre of writing and thought here, it took him over a year to gather enough courage to post his first tentative comment and to this day, still shvitzes over every submission. This is because one is always aware of and cowed by the fact that big and important things are happening right here and that in the long scheme of things, words and ideas have...as a current adage goes...consequences.
Temujin would like to confess that if he has managed to amuse and entertain, it is all, all due to the energy, brilliance, wisdom, humour and Yiddischkeit generated by our incredible host and his inimitable guests. Really and truly; it's an incredible assembly, folks. With a nod of thanks, Temujin raises his tankard and salutes his host and his comrades. And now, group hug, you big lugs you!
| 2019-04-24T03:07:42 |
http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2013/11/gedolim-wars-episode-iv-new-hope.html
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Auditory object feature maps with a hierarchical network of independent components?
Auditory Object representation in the brain is still a controversial question [1, 2]. Kumar et al. discuss the hierarchical organization for auditory object perception and observe that the Planum Temporale (PT) area of the cortex encodes invariant representations of the spectral envelops of sounds. Many other studies find maps of representations elsewhere in the brain (Cochlear Nucleus, Inferior Nucleus, etc.). Sparse representations with minimum overlap could be considered, according to Barlow . Griffiths and Warren propose that auditory object representations might be segmented or segregated in the Planum Temporal (PT) by increasing the independence between the neural activities. We therefore explore the potential of a hierarchical neural assembly - with the use of a computer simulation - whose layers increase the feature independence during training, to represent auditory object parts. It is observed that learned features are organized into non-overlapping maps (Figure 1) and that redundancy of the representation is in fact reduced. Learning was done on three categories of sounds having distinct acoustical statistics: speech, music and natural sounds. We observed that the learned feature maps are very different from one sound category to another and might be, to some extend, comparable to receptive fields measured in the brain. We discuss of their potential similarity with receptive fields measured in the Inferior Colliculus of the Guinea Pig and how they might be part of a representation of auditory objects in the brain.
Learned representations illustrated for speech and natural sounds. FastICA training is first done on patches of 80ms x 32 cochlear channels of the envelopes coming from a 128 channels cochleagram (Level L0). Then, patches of 160ms x 64 cochlear channels are created at level L1 with a concatenation through time and space of the learned L0 features. FastICA is then performed on these larger patches to generate the new L1 representations. The same procedure is repeated for level L2.
| 2019-04-24T16:48:01 |
https://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2202-15-S1-P66
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Take binoculars (if you dare) to look at the state of the chimney (s) and roof-are there any slates or tiles missing? Is there a good rudge line' on the roof? Flat roofs can be a pain -if the drainage isn't good, pools of water can collect. Roofs that have 'valleys' between houses (often found with older semi-detached or terraced houses) can also be a nuisance -all the water will collect there and the likelihood of leaks is increased.
Many first-time buyers, buying a property in the inner suburbs of cities, are likely to hit upon a terraced house, maisonette or converted flat that has a slate roof. Slate was the most common roofing material used in late Victorian times when these areas were developed. If you have found such a property, the roof may well be the greatest 'risk' area.
Slate itself is a superb material -the danger lies in the fixing nails. These may have deteriorated over the last century, making the holes in the slates bigger.
Once this process begins, there is usually no satisfactory alternative to renewing the whole roof. According to one surveyor, if there are minor defects visible in a slate roof, building societies are beginning to stipulate that the whole roof be completely renewed.
These points are important, because there are vast tracts of suburbs which were developed in the 1870s and 1880s and, although this is obviously a sweeping generalisation, they are probably getting to the stage, 100 years later, where repairs will be necessary.
You might be lucky, of course: the slate roof of the first house I lived in had lasted for 130 years before it went. But, once the leaks started, minor 'patch-up' jobs had no effect -and a new roof was inescapable.
Look for bulges and cracks. Many houses have small settlement cracks which are not in themselves serious. Zigzag cracks around doors and windows can be evidence of subsidence which needn't be serious if they're old, but could be an indication of trouble if they are more recent. Look to see if any of the brickwork needs repointing.
In Scotland, the law on conveyancing is quite different: most of the websites below apply only to house purchase in England and Wales. If you live in Scotland Northern Ireland, for that matter -you're likely to find the DIY route a great deal harder.
The Woolwich estimates that under one in ten of its borrowers bothers to get a full structural survey done of the property they are' buying in 2009 They rely instead on the building society valuation and, if pressed, would probably answer along the lines 'If it's good enough for the building society, it's good enough for me', forgetting that the building society doesn't actually have to live in the place.
| 2019-04-19T17:11:42 |
http://commercialise.org.uk/do-it-yourself-points-to-watch-damp.php
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Should Patients have their own Choosing Wisely list?
I'm possibly Choosing Wisely's most keen fan. Both the American and Canadian campaigns have helped to kick-start the process of shared decision-making between patients and healthcare providers, particularly in the contexts of overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
Some have criticized the campaigns as going after "low-hanging fruit," i.e. targeting the interventions that are not at all controversial, the ones where most doctors have been for years following the Choosing Wisely recommendations. I don't disagree; I'm pleased to say I've been trying to do a lot of the Geriatric and Family Practice suggestions since I started practice. But going after the easy stuff is not a bad idea. We need to start somewhere, and Choosing Wisely's recommendation lists represent the first of many steps towards providing the Right Care. The campaign is about starting a dialogue between patients and providers, making explicit the need to discuss the balance of harms and benefits of particular tests and treatments.
My view is that the broader message, driving campaigns like Choosing Wisely, is about creating a partnership wherein patients are empowered to be responsible for their own health. Patients can ask questions and caregivers can provide expertise and recommendations. Just as a patient has expectations of their physiotherapist or nurse practitioner or specialist, healthcare providers have expectations of their patients too. Everyone involved wants common sense to be applied to the healthcare that's being delivered. There are certain things only doctors can do (ordering the right test, calling a specialist for help) and certain things only patients can do (taking medications as prescribed, exercising regularly). We can help each other out by talking about these things, but we can't actually act for the other person in the equation.
Chatting recently about the campaign to a colleague, and thinking about my own status as a patient, I began to wonder why patient advocacy groups have not yet created their own "Don't" lists. True, patient groups have been involved in the development of Physician Recommendations, however I think it's a bit of a missed opportunity: why not provide patients room for a list of their own?
I think patients are capable of clearly delineating some things that they can do (or not do!) to be healthier and to stimulate discussion with their physicians.
Here are some of my suggestions. Are they way off base? Do you have some of your own? Comment below!
1. Don’t under-value the importance of a healthy lifestyle: avoid smoking, maintain a healthy weight, and exercise regularly. Ask for help if you are having trouble with these things.
2. Don’t wait to seek help for emotional and mental health concerns.
3. Don’t forget to write an Advance Directive and discuss your wishes with your family so they'll know how to best respect them when you are ill or dying.
4. Don’t undertake any test or procedure unless you feel that you understand the potential benefits and harms adequately; remember that you can always refuse.
5. Don’t expect someone else to take ownership for your health but do expect partnership from health providers in helping you achieve your goals.
| 2019-04-20T17:23:18 |
http://www.lessismoremedicine.com/blog/tag/lists
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