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0.035218 | <urn:uuid:43ab3256-1500-46b1-9743-e249aafd4918> | en | 0.931504 | Your emoji selection will become more gender-inclusive this year
The new batch of emoji will also introduce new skintone options and the transgender flag.
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The Unicode Consortium has revealed 117 new emoji for 2020, and they'll make your emoji arsenal more inclusive than ever. Some of the upcoming additions have the potential to make conversations with friends more fun, such as the smiling face with a single tear and the hand with pinched fingers known as the "Italian hand gesture." This batch also adds new skintone and gender-inclusive options for existing emoji, such as the veil, the tuxedo and the feeding baby emoji. At the moment, those emoji only portrays a woman, a man and a woman, respectively.
The transgender flag and symbol are also coming to devices as part of the new batch. Google and Microsoft backed the proposal to add the trans flag and symbol last year, and in it the tech giants wrote: "[We] believe that adding an emoji illustrative to our life experiences isn't just about creating technology that should be accessible to everyone -- it's about fostering culture that is inclusive of users around world."
Other notable additions are the ninja emoji, the realistic looking heart and lung emoji and the bubble tea emoji. It's still unclear when the new batch is making its way to users. Just take note that they may look different from the samples seen here, depending on your device and the platform or website you're using.
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Describe the important characteristics of gymnosperms.
Important features of gymnosperms:
4. The stem can be branched (as in Pinus and Cedrus) or un-branched (as in Cycas).
5. The leaves can be simple (as in Pinus)or compound (pinnate in Cycas). The leaves are needle-like, with a thick cuticle and sunken stomata. These help in preventing water loss.
6. Gymnosperms are heterosporous. They bear two kinds of spores – microspores and megaspores.
7. Flowers are absent. The microsporophylls and megasporophylls are arranged to form compact male and female cones.
8. Pollination occurs mostly through wind and pollen grains reach the pollen chamber of the ovule through the micropyle.
9. The male and female gametophytes are dependent on the sporophyte.
10. The seeds contain haploid endosperms and remain uncovered.
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Real-world data (RWD) is a valuable addition to the scientific knowledge gained from clinical trials, but to be most useful to researchers, RWD must achieve a level of completeness that allows the construction of a comprehensive picture of a patient’s medical journey. By rectifying many of the current barriers within the healthcare system, data completeness can be maximized and improve the quality of real-world evidence generation.
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History 22/02/20 the Death of Hitler: what were the questions
on 30 April 1945 at approximately 15:00 Berlin time in personal two-story bunker, Adolf Hitler said goodbye to entourage and together with the new wife Eva Braun had gone into his office, where he heard the sound of a gunshot.
who Entered the room saw foot leader and his wife’s body. Then two of the guards wrapped the body in blankets and carried it outside. There they were doused with gasoline and burned.
the Remains of the Nazi leaders fell into the hands of Soviet officers and after a thorough medical examination which did not leave a shadow of doubt that Hitler and Eva Braun, was buried in Magdeburg at the military base. In 1970, by order of Andropov’s remains burned and the ashes dumped in the Elbe. In Moscow still kept a few fragments of the bodies of Hitler: part of the skull, dentures and the handle of the sofa with traces of his blood.
But why did the Fuhrer kill himself? Perhaps he could not negotiate with the Americans?
Who brought to power the Fuhrer
According to historian Yevgeny Spitsyn, to power, the führer gave the Americans the financial bigwigs and Industrialists, the Morgans, Waibargi, the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers. Their plan was to make Germany a fist aimed against Russia. From 1931 through the Bank for international settlements, they have to buy the shares of German companies. Soon, under the control of the Americans was about three hundred German companies. The whole oil refinery owned by the Rockefeller “Standard oil”, “Volkswagen” was controlled by “Ford”.
In 1932, the Soviet Union completed the first five-year period. It was built about five thousand new businesses, the country experienced industrialization. All this happened on the background of the economic downturn in the United States. It was then that the American tycoons have led to power of Hitler, who started the construction of the Reich.
Toktor historical Sciences Yuri Rubtsov generally assumes that all cash flows going to the Nazis controlled US intelligence.
So why in the end of the war Hitler turned to his patrons?
most Likely, because the financial interests and the interests of States diverged. Neither ordinary Americans nor the British would not understand the manual, if it openly supported the Nazis, about the atrocities which have all been heard.
by Itself, the führer was no longer necessary to anyone: the Americans had their very Mercantile purpose, and Hitler understood this perfectly.
failed to Agree
In early 1944, the year U.S. intelligence and the UK believed that by spring the Soviet Union will run out of steam, completely exhausted resources. The allies were preparing the long con: they hoped that the German elite will make a coup and make peace with the world. Perhaps they even saw this as an opportunity to unite with Germany against the Soviet Union.
having survived Miraculously with the assassination of the Fuhrer unwittingly thwarted the plans of the Americans.
the Second attempt to make peace was in March 1945 when Himmler was trying to negotiate with the American spy Allen DULLES. The negotiations were disrupted by the intelligence service of the USSR. But immediately after this, the Germans began to surrender to the Americans, hoping that they will take Berlin. But the Red army was faster.
Nowhere to run
so after the assassination of Hitler could not count on patrons. The only place where he could escape, was Argentina. However, to reach its shores on the sub without the consent of the United States, which are probed by the radar the Atlantic, it was impossible. And the Fuhrer’s health was such that he could just die in the road. During the four years of war with the Soviet Union he turned into a sick old man with a nervous tick and shaking hands. He had a cane and couldn’t walk more than twenty metres. He didn’t trust anyone, believing everyone around them and by the spring of 1945 reached mania. To reach the coveted Argentina, it was necessary to trust too many people.
not Only captured!
In moments of revelation, Hitler said that he was afraid not so much death but captivity. Fear of the Soviets became a phobia. There was no one to trust: April 20, his last entourage fled from Berlin. 24 April Himmler tried to negotiate with the Americans to surrender. The day before the death of Hitler learned of the fate of Mussolini and realized that the yield had a suicide.
April 24, 1945, the Soviet army took Berlin in the environment. Pilot Hannah Rach twice managed to fly over Berlin, but the pilots, trying to repeat it, did not come back. The bunker was heard as the city works to Soviet artillery. To escape was impossible, and Hitler decided to commit suicide.
Now and then there are hypotheses that he slipped away from justice, fleeing whether in South America or in Antarctica, but they are divided on the materials of the examination of the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun. As repeatedly stated by the head of Department of registration and archival funds of FSB of Vasily Khristoforov, doubts about Hitler’s death is not. Since 1954, all documents: reports of interrogations and acts of expertise and evidence can find a special storage area TSA Federal security service of Russia. Since 1996, they are open to the public.
the last time the remains of the Fuhrer were examined by a forensic medical expert Benecke (Germany), who concluded that it is indeed the fragments of the jaw of Adolf Hitler.
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Artificial Intelligence Research Takes Off at California Universities
New research centers will study whether artificial intelligence can help humanity.
The UC Berkeley-led center, directed by artificial intelligence researcher Stuart Russell, will seek to understand how human values can be built into AI's design, and create a mathematical framework that will help people build AI systems that are beneficial to humanity.
One of the many questions they'll be wrestling with, for example, is how to get robots to understand what humans really want (because humans are notoriously bad at communicating their objectives). Russell called it the King Midas problem. In Greek mythology, Midas asked for everything he touched to be turned to gold. As this meant his food and drink turned to metal, he died in misery and starvation. It didn't occur to Midas that he didn't really mean "everything" until it was too late.
Scientists might get around this communication problem by designing artificial intelligence that can watch humans and learn what their values are through their actions (though even that comes with some uncertainty, as humans don't always act in ways aligned with their values, Russell added).
"My objective ... is primarily to look at these long-term questions of how you design AI systems so that you are guaranteed to be happy with the outcomes," Russell said. (And if they design some useful software or devices as they do so, even better.)
The USC center, co-directed by artificial intelligence researcher Milind Tambe and social work scientist Eric Rice, seems to operate in a mindset perpendicular to the one at UC Berkeley: It seeks to harness AI's existing capabilities to solve problems in messy, complicated human contexts.
Tambe has led a workshop sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on using AI for "social good." He has used AI to help rangers reduce the poaching of wildlife and help LAX security officials catch more weapons, drugs and other contraband. He and Rice are working on a project that exemplifies the kind of work the center could do: using artificial intelligence to identify key people in social networks to help prevent the spread of HIV among Los Angeles' homeless youth.
"An agreed upon definition of AI that is acceptable to everyone is very hard to come by," Tambe said. "But essentially all of the kinds of human reasoning that may be applied to problems, AI wants to be able to do that and more."
Although the center's founding directors have very different backgrounds, the pair's distinct skill sets complement and enhance each other, Rice explained.
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0.022041 | <urn:uuid:d42bd23b-1208-4b20-9c69-791c00e96b60> | en | 0.95489 | Trump's Parting Gift To Biden: An Even Worse Catastrophe In Yemen
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is considering a difficult-to-reverse step that would torpedo humanitarian operations and prolong the country's civil war.
Video credit: Skye Fitzgerald, director, Spin Film
As one of its final foreign policy acts in office, the Trump administration could take a step that would push millions of people in Yemen into starvation and prolong that country’s civil war. And President-elect Joe Biden would find it extremely difficult to reverse.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is considering designating the Houthis, the Yemeni militia that rules over the vast majority of the country’s population, as a terrorist organization. The move would fit the Trump administration’s strategy to weaken Iran, which supports the Houthis, and would thrill Iranian adversaries like Saudi Arabia.
It would also be devastating for Yemenis. It would make it far more costly and difficult to get crucial supplies into Yemen, where more than 13 million people already lack reliable food supplies. That could include slowing the spread of a coronavirus vaccine in a country whose health care system is already devastated by the war and the pandemic.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers, humanitarian groups and national security analysts wants Pompeo to refrain, saying his decision would be tremendously destabilizing.
“Creating new, additional obstacles to the delivery of food and medical aid — during a global pandemic — is not in the best interest of the United States, our regional allies and partners or the people of Yemen,” Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) argued in a joint press release on Nov. 20. Murphy and Young are key congressional voices on Middle East matters and Coons is a close Biden ally.
Even before the designation, nearly 3 million more Yemenis are already expected to fall into deeper food insecurity by next year, and most areas already at “emergency” levels of need are Houthi-controlled regions, a collaborative project between nonprofits and governments to track humanitarian crises reported on Thursday.
“While the Biden administration can reverse this, the damage done in the interim will be deadly and will add a massive burden to the already overstretched response,” Scott Paul, humanitarian policy lead at the aid organization Oxfam America, told HuffPost via email after that report.
President Donald Trump and Pompeo have until Jan. 20 to make a decision, though they are expected to do so in the coming days. A State Department spokesperson said the agency would not publicly discuss its deliberations over designations.
Above is a portrait of Omeima, one child facing hunger in Yemen, from footage shot for “Hunger Ward,” a new documentary on the war and famine in Yemen, directed by Oscar and Emmy nominee Skye Fitzgerald.
Creating A Famine Step By Step
Millions of Yemenis are on the brink of famine not because their country lacks food, but because food ― which is mostly imported at ports along the coast and spread throughout the country through complicated logistical processes ― has become significantly more expensive since the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led forces and the Houthis began fighting five years ago.
If Pompeo moves ahead with his designation, such costs will quickly climb even more, humanitarian experts say.
With the Houthis on the State Department’s foreign terror organization list, anyone who interacts with them risks being investigated by the U.S. government on suspicion of providing some form of support to the militia. That would be a major concern for aid groups, but many would try to find a work-around. For other crucial institutions that are less altruistic ― banks, shipping lines, insurers ― the new situation would probably deter any kind of work in Yemen.
Those that continue to funnel supplies into the country will likely demand a premium, particularly for shipments to the areas controlled by the Houthis ― where upward of 70% of Yemenis live.
A designation “will cause increases in commodity prices, the most important measure of how bad the economy and living conditions are for Yemenis,” Paul said, adding that such a listing has no wiggle room for humanitarian exemptions.
“I haven’t been able to sleep since I read this [might happen] because I’m just terrified,” said Aisha Jumaan, who runs the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation and has family in the country. “You’re talking about a population where 80% need aid, they’re surviving on whatever little there is, and we’re going to say we’re going to cut your last lifeline.”
A malnourished child being fed in the Houthi-held city of Sanaa, Yemen, earlier this year.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Dave Harden, a former top official at the U.S. Agency for International Development, believes Pompeo could cause “a full collapse of the economy and complete devaluation of the currency,” he tweeted, while effectively ending imports of food and vital sanitation products by United Nations agencies like the World Food Programme and World Health Organization.
Aid groups still operating in Yemen would be handling a far more vulnerable population with far fewer resources, as donors would likely become more nervous about potentially breaching U.S. law, Paul said.
“Almost no organization in the world is willing to go up against the U.S. government in order to do business ... and aid organizations know if they try to disregard the designation, they could be putting themselves in a position of the U.S. government coming down legally against them and saying you’ll need to suffer the consequences,” said Annelle Sheline, a researcher at the Quincy Institute think tank.
“The terrorist list is supposed to be about a threat posed to the United States ... at which point does it become a farce and a legalistic, bureaucratic, Kafka-esque designation that people die as a result of?” she continued.
Setting A Trap For Biden
The ostensible goal for Trump and Pompeo is to pressure the Houthis and their chief backer, Iran, to surrender some of their influence in Yemen and eventually cut a deal with the U.S.-friendly forces in the country. But the designation wouldn’t have that effect, experts believe ― and it could play into the Iranians’ hands.
“Given their military and economic power, the rebels themselves would probably be last and least to suffer the consequences of a designation; ordinary Yemeni civilians would probably suffer first and most,” Rob Malley and Peter Salisbury of the International Crisis Group wrote late last month. Malley was a senior White House Middle East official under President Barack Obama.
They warned that the Houthis would see the designation as a provocation, becoming more wary of the U.S. and growing closer to Iran.
Many observers believe the Trump administration is actually focused on different aims. One could be to lock in an advantage for Saudi Arabia, which the president has cheered despite bipartisan condemnation of its human rights abuses in Yemen and elsewhere.
The Saudi foreign minister and a Saudi-backed Yemeni official have explicitly endorsed a designation, Malley and Salisbury noted. Riyadh has been seeking to reduce its presence in its neighboring Arab country but wants to maintain its sway there; the Saudis may believe the new U.S. policy gives them leverage for a favorable agreement with the Houthis, Jumaan said.
The deaths and misery the designation would cause are a high price to pay for an outcome that’s far from certain.
Critics also fear Pompeo wants to use the designation to tout himself as a tough global leader.
“This just seems to be Pompeo setting himself up for a [presidential] run in 2024 and bending over backwards to pander to the pet agendas of these various autocrats as well as to the interests of American evangelicals,” Sheline said. Saudi Arabia has been courting conservative U.S. Christians, touting its growing closeness to Israel, their prime concern in the region.
For Trump’s successor, the step would cause an immediate dilemma. Biden would either have to watch Yemen deteriorate, drawing international alarm and criticism, or quickly withdraw the designation ― and face Republican accusations that he is soft on Iran and its friends. That would be especially toxic as Biden tries to resurrect the Obama-era accord to limit Iran’s nuclear program, one of his most pressing priorities.
Mary McCord, a Georgetown Law professor and former national security official at the Justice Department, told HuffPost there are three ways the designation could be removed: by the Houthis successfully challenging it in court, Congress revoking it or the future Secretary of State killing it.
The former two are extremely unlikely, particularly if, as expected, the GOP holds the Senate under a Biden presidency. So instead, Biden’s top diplomat ― likely to be Tony Blinken ― would have to assess a reversal and all the political and humanitarian concerns it involves.
“The sad thing about all of this is that [the Trump] administration is doing it because it wants to please the Saudis and stick it to Iran and the Yemeni people don’t come into any of the decision-making processes,” Jumaan said. “Thirty million people are going to be affected. It’s criminal.” | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-yemen-designation_n_5fca9306c5b6787f2a97c771 | dclm-gs7-058860035 |
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Thief took card to buy breakfast as drinking pal slept
Darren Fortune was ashamed of what he had done
Darren Fortune was ashamed of what he had done
Darren Fortune was ashamed of what he had done
A graveyard maintenance worker stole a man's bank card and used it to buy breakfast after drinking with the victim, who fell asleep.
Darren Fortune (43) was with a group of people who spent the night together after meet- ing at a club before ending up at a church, where he took the card.
Judge Ann Ryan ordered him to carry out 100 hours of community service to avoid a jail sentence.
Fortune, a father-of-three living at a hostel on Oakley Road, Ranelagh, pleaded guilty to stealing the man's bank card at St Mary's Church, Crumlin, last December 9.
He also admitted obtaining services by deception at Deli- Licious, Lisle Road, Crumlin, on the same date.
Dublin District Court heard the victim met four people in a nightclub and ended up with two of them at St Mary's Church.
The victim fell asleep, and when he woke he found his bank card was missing.
Gardai learned it had been used in a transaction at Deli- Licious and viewed CCTV, which identified the accused.
The court heard Fortune had previous convictions for offences including theft.
"Alcohol had a large part to play in relation to the matter," defence barrister Joseph Mulrean said.
The theft happened the morning after the men had been drinking together.
The accused was spotted on camera at the restaurant using the card to buy breakfast not far from where the theft happened, Mr Mulrean said.
Fortune had worked on a community employment scheme in graveyard maintenance, the court heard.
He had been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the theft and was very apologetic for what had happened, Mr Mulrean said.
It was borne out of drunkenness and he was very sorry for it.
Fortune accepted it was a "terrible thing to do" and he was ashamed.
Judge Ryan noted that although the accused had admitted the offences, it had been a "very late plea" of guilty after he had initially entered pleas of not guilty. | https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/news/courts/thief-took-card-to-buy-breakfast-as-drinking-pal-slept-37564652.html | dclm-gs7-058880035 |
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Teen led gardai on car chase
A YOUTH found guilty of dangerous driving after he led gardai on a high-speed chase in Dublin, which ended when he crashed into a parked taxi, has been bound to the peace for one year.
Judge Clare Leonard noted yesterday that the teen, aged 17, had just completed a six-month custodial sentence for a drugs offence. The teenager, who has 15 prior convictions, had been found guilty at the Children's Court of two counts of dangerous driving in Dublin's north inner city on April 2 last year.
Coal mine death toll rises to 44
The confirmed death toll after an explosion at a coal mine in Siberia has risen to 44, while the fate of 46 others still underground is unknown, Russian officials said today.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was visiting the Raspadskaya mine, which was hit by two explosions on Saturday and Sunday.
Tornadoes kill five in America
Tornadoes have ripped through the heart of America in an outbreak of violent weather that killed five people, tossed cars off highways, flipped mobile homes and sent baseball-size hail crashing through windshields.
Officials reported that at least 58 others suffered injuries throughout Oklahoma in the daylong onslaught. Two of the injuries were critical. | https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/news/teen-led-gardai-on-car-chase-27951227.html | dclm-gs7-058890035 |
0.037224 | <urn:uuid:4fe2e03e-aee2-4862-b01e-463d5238dfbf> | en | 0.974379 | Memorial Day ceremonies tend to feature World War II, with good reason. The Allies’ triumph over the Axis powers gave people cause to celebrate. Presidents who served in World War II include Dwight Eisenhower, commander of Allied forces, and George H.W. Bush, a pilot with Torpedo Squadron 51 (VT-51), shot down by the Japanese on his 58th mission, then rescued by a U.S. submarine.
George H.W. Bush was the last American president with actual combat experience in World War II, and few veterans of that conflict remain. The time has come to focus on a conflict less popular—the war in Vietnam.
Many questioned whether the United States should have entered the conflict, and most Americans, fair to say, agreed that Washington badly mismanaged the war. Even so, many American soldiers fought heroically. Consider, for example, Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney.
The Marine Corps sniper, born in 1949, deployed to Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and operated near Da Nang. When a Viet Cong force was marching toward the American base, Mawhinney volunteered to cover a shallow spot on a river where the enemy was expected to cross. With his Remington M40 sniper rifle, Mawhinney took down 16 Viet Cong, all within 30 seconds, at night and in bad weather. This feat was not a matter of chance.
Mawhinney, who’s father was a Marine Corps sniper in World War II, told American Rifleman in 2012, “I started shooting at a very young age, and he taught me to shoot like the Marines taught him, so there wasn’t any big transition from hunting in Oregon to becoming a sniper.” Mawhinney joined the Marines right out of high school, graduated from Scout Sniper School at Camp Pendleton in April of 1968, and then it was on to Vietnam.
There Mawhinney recorded 103 confirmed kills with another 216 “probables.” Few people knew until fellow Marine sniper Joseph Ward mentioned Mawhinney in “Dear Mom: A Sniper’s Vietnam,” published in 1991. Mawhinney has never received the recognition he deserves, and neither has Col. Fred Cherry, the African American U.S. Air Force pilot who spent seven years as a prisoner of war (POW) in North Vietnam.
In 1965 Cherry was flying an F-105 fighter-bomber over North Vietnam when he took anti-aircraft fire and his plane exploded. He bailed out, suffered major injuries, and fell captive to the enemy. The North Vietnamese thought they had a real find and threw Cherry in a cell with Porter Halyburton, a white pilot from North Carolina. The communists hoped to stoke racial friction that would break down Cherry and make him a propaganda tool. The captors’ plan backfired.
Halyburton duly attended to Cherry’s wounds and watched over his black countryman around the clock. Cherry credited the white southerner with saving his life, and Halyburton thought Cherry had done the same for him. The two became lifelong friends, but in captivity both faced a hard road. The communists slapped Cherry into solitary confinement for 702 days and the pilot endured punishment and torture for 93 straight days. By the time of his release in 1973, Cherry had racked up 2,671 days in captivity.
The captors piped in propaganda and, Ellis explains, “the afternoon broadcasts were especially disheartening because they featured Americans spouting words that could have been written for them in Moscow and Hanoi.” New Left icon Tom Hayden “was a regular speaker,” later joined by his wife, “film star Jane Fonda.”
Ellis charitably calls them “anti-war activists” but they were nothing of the kind. Many Americans were against the conflict but Hayden and Fonda wanted the North Vietnamese to win and the country unified under communism.
Cherry passed away in February, 2016, during Black History Month, but President Barack Obama did not rush to honor him. Chuck Mawhinney is still around, and his lack of official recognition should come as no surprise.
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 876
This is the grave of William Fulbright.
Born in 1905 in Sumner, Missouri, Fulbright grew up wealthy. His father had a number of businesses and his mother proved to be an excellent manager of those businesses. In fact, Roberta Fulbright became an influential newspaper publisher in her own right after her husband died in 1923. They raised William and his siblings in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he would also go to college, graduating with a degree in history in 1925. He also was a star on the Razorbacks football team. A very smart and ambitious young man, Fulbright won a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford and graduated with another degree from there in 1928. After playing around in France for awhile, he came back to the U.S., got a law degree from George Washington University, and then got a job with the Justice Department after he passed the bar.
Ultimately though, Fulbright wanted to come back to Arkansas. After his time in the Antitrust Division, he took a job as a lecturer in the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1936. And then, only 34 years old, he because president of the school in 1939. This was not going to be where Fulbright’s ambitions remained. Instead, he started speaking on national issues, especially promoting interventionism in World War II. That was not necessarily popular in Arkansas, but as the war approached, Fulbright gained greater publicity and support and this led him to be elected to Congress in 1942. His isolationist enemies nicknamed him “British Billy” and this was not entirely inaccurate. After one term, he ran for the Senate and stayed there for 30 years.
Now, Fulbright was not that influential as a senator for the first, well, really two decades. He had to make his compromises on race to be elected from the South, but ultimately was a southern liberal. He also was a big ideas guy and did not like the old boys club of the world’s worst deliberative body. This meant that he was happy to talk to the media and promote his own ideas, but had no interest in becoming a leader in the Senate. That also meant, for instance, that he could push tirelessly for his creation of the American version of the Rhodes–the Fulbright Scholars–without worrying about things that bored him. This is of course Fulbright’s greatest legacy today. Thousands of people have studied overseas and then later taught overseas as well in what is now a huge program of soft power–showing America at its best and often funding scholars who are highly critical of American foreign policy. Always the internationalist, Fulbright became a leading Cold War liberal on foreign policy through this program, initially established in 1946.
Although Fulbright thought Harry Truman was a dunce, he generally supported Truman’s foreign policy, especially the Marshall Plan. In fact, Fulbright told Truman he should resign for the good of the party. Truman called him, behind his back I think, “Senator Halfbright,” which honestly is the kind of moniker Trump would have come up with. While Fulbright was not convinced that Korea was worth the fight (he was a confirmed Europhile and really didn’t get why Asia was important), he also backed Truman when the president fired that quasi-fascist Douglas MacArthur.
Fulbright also hated the anti-communist extremists. That meant he hated Joe McCarthy and that meant he hated Richard Nixon. He saw them as dim opportunists who would destroy the country. He at first held off from openly criticizing McCarthy because Lyndon Johnson, who could always read the political winds well, told him it was bad politics. But it grated. And when McCarthy started going after the Fulbright program in 1953, the senator told Johnson to stuff it and went all-in to protect his baby. Fulbright stood up to him, demanded proof that the Fulbright recipients were communists, told him he’d offer all sorts of evidence that Fulbright recipients had praised the American government, and the bully backed down. Nixon though, well, that would have to wait.
Kennedy wanted to name Fulbright Secretary of State, but he was too controversial for his other foreign policy advisors, so Dean Rusk got the nod instead. Still, he was a hugely important figure on foreign policy. He told Kennedy that the Bay of Pigs was a stupid idea and Castro was no threat to the U.S. He also said that East Germany had the right to stop its citizens from fleeing to the West, which was certainly an interesting take the year the Berlin Wall went up. But Kennedy backed him up on it, hoping that the wall would actually defuse the crisis in Germany. It’s possible that Fulbright was even taking the heat for a policy Kennedy wanted but couldn’t say publicly. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, Fulbright also wanted a policy of peace with the Soviets. Overall, he was always very good on these issues, much better than the average Cold War senator.
Of course, all of this came at a price–racism. Was Fulbright as racist as his segregationist record suggests? Yes. In a 1994 article in the Journal of Southern History, Randall Bennett Woods explored this question in depth. Domestically, he basically was a heir to the white Populists. He hated the far right. He supported programs to help poor whites. But he did not think Black people were at all equal. He signed the Southern Manifesto in 1956 out of principle, not expediency, though he was up for reelection. He fought for the poll tax. He was one of the most involved people in the filibuster against the Civil Rights Act. He used the same arguments Republican use today against voting–that universal suffrage isn’t in the Constitution and this is a Republic, not a Democracy, amrite!?
Was Fulbright Richard Russell or John Rankin? No. He publicly condemned the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, in 1963, for instance. He had even quietly supported the principle of desegregating the law school at the University of Arkansas, back in the day. On civil rights, he preferred the paternalist mindset rather than the rabble-rousing of George Wallace. He sort of knew that racism was bad but figured there was nothing you could really do about it except wait for some day in a mythical distant future where maybe education would change minds. So the difference between Fulbright and Wallace was a stylistic question, not a substantive one. So there’s no way around his racial beliefs. He was a man of his time and place. Fulbright was one of the finest senators in American history–except that he did more than his part to ensure the nation was for whites only. Later he did begin to shift a bit, voting to extend the Voting Rights Act in 1970 after strongly opposing it in 1965. Of course, by then he had to court Black votes.
It gets even harder to evaluate Fulbright’s overall legacy in context of racism when you think about his brave stance against the Vietnam War. Johnson convinced him to support the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. He later massively regretted this. By 1965, before almost everyone else in Washington, Fulbright opposed expanding the war. It was about then that he really paid any attention to Vietnam at all, still being a Europe guy. To his credit, Fulbright really started studying Vietnamese history, which was a hell of a lot more than the architects of the war such as Rusk and Robert McNamara had done. He questioned the U.S. view of Ho Chi Minh as a puppet of Moscow and Beijing. He compared the U.S. choices in Vietnam to the terrible decisions the previous empires had made centuries earlier and believed this war was taking the U.S. down. He thought the U.S. imposing its will on Vietnam was like Athens imposing its will on the other Greek cities. It wasn’t just principled opposition. It was historically situated opposition, for whatever previous empires can really tell us about the present. He also started holding hearings about what the U.S. was doing there. In the hearings, which got national attention, he attacked the bombing of North Vietnam as killing children for no purpose. Johnson was very upset at his former ally. When Fulbright told Johnson to stop the war, LBJ started screaming at him. Fulbright went on to publish The Arrogance of Power in 1966, his book attacking the war. This was one of several books he wrote on foreign policy over the years. He was very upset he could not convince Johnson of his mistakes. But he started winning other senators over, especially after Tet. This made Fulbright one of the most powerful senators as the war went on.
Nixon hated Fulbright and Fulbright hated Nixon. So Fulbright had no illusions about changing Nixon’s mind, but he was also not hamstrung by believing Nixon was anything but a scumbag. When Ron Ridenhour wrote to powerful officials about what had happened at My Lai, it was Fulbright who received the letter and acted in horror about what he read. Soon after, Fulbright gave a speech at the Army War College demanding American withdrawal from Vietnam. He spoke at the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. He sassed back to anti-protestor reporters who wanted to discredit them. Despite his deep and enduring racism, he became the political voice in Washington. Nixon gave his Silent Majority speech as a rebuttal to Fulbright, trying to change the narrative. Fulbright also led the fight against Nixon’s racist Supreme Court nominees Clement Haynsworth and Harold Carswell. He would work with the administration when they agreed with him, such as in the Middle East, as neither Fulbright nor Kissinger was a particular friend of Israel. But for the most part, they were outright enemies.
By 1974 though, Arkansas was changing. Fulbright’s liberalism was increasingly too much for the electorate. His speaking out on Vietnam was the biggest issue, as the war was popular with the state’s whites. That Fulbright was leading the charge on Watergate too contributed to his growing unpopularity. Dale Bumpers saw a path to defeating Fulbright in the primary and did so, by quite a margin. So Fulbright just resigned rather than serve out his term.
Fulbright went to the classic post-electoral career of the politician: he got a sweet gig at a Washington law firm and served as a lobbyist, all the way until 1993. That year, Bill Clinton gave his fellow Arkansan the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his 88th birthday. Of course, Clinton had received a Fulbright as well and so was personally grateful on a number of levels. Fulbright died in 1995. He was 89 years old. A stroke did him in.
William Fulbright is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
This is the 2nd of the 64 graves I visited on my recent trip to the south central part of the country. If you would like this series to visit other senators who signed the Southern Manifesto, you can donate to cover the required expenses here. James Eastland is in Forest, Mississippi and W. Kerr Scott is in Mebane, North Carolina. Previous posts in this series are archived here.
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0.035833 | <urn:uuid:b15d0894-a05c-45fd-9238-e1428d05adf6> | en | 0.964835 | The Santa Clause is my favorite Christmas movie. I justthink it hits every note just right. It’s sentimental, sweet, funny, and just apleasant film to watch around the holidays. However I have discovered that noteveryone necessarily agrees with me on this. They think Eric Lloyd was annoying(ok but he never bothered me) and find the story sappy and corny. My answer tothat is, it’s a Christmas movie! And a Disney one at that.
I am just kidding of course, if you hate the film that’scool. I love it. I think Tim Allen is great; it’s amazing how he goes from ajerk in the start to a very convincing Santa in the end. The make-up for Santais just remarkable. I like the concept, and the way the process of Scott turninginto Santa is played out is done very well.
So today I decided to take a closer look at the film and discuss why I love it. And in the interest of fairness, I will also discuss thenitpicky things that even I find a tad annoying. This film is basically brokendown into three acts, so I decided to look at each one separately. And therewill be spoilers if somehow you still have no seen the film.
The first act of course sets up the characters andsituation. We meet Scott Calvin and his estranged wife Laura. She has a newhusband, a dull psychiatrist named Neil. And of course we meet Charlie, Lauraand Scott’s son. It starts off like any other family film, until Scott andCharlie hear a commotion on the roof. They rush out and end up causing SantaClaus to fall off the roof. Then Scott puts the suit and proceeds to take overthe job as Santa. The first act just gets better and better, the gags work andthe whole thing is fun to watch. We even get new details on how Santa workwhich are a part of the legend to this day including how he manages to get intohomes with no chimneys, can carry all the toys in one sleigh, and deliver tothe world in one night. Ok the last I first saw in Santa Claus: The Movie but Ilike the idea of time slowing down for Santa, it just works.
Then they get to The North Pole which is amazing. This isone movie which really makes The North Pole work, right down to the greatcasting of the kids. David Krumholtz is great as the head elf Bernard, whoexplains to Scott that he is the new Santa. Of course Scott refuses to believethat the experience is anything more than a dream, but the whole scene is justgreat. The best gag is the moment where Scott tries on a tool belt. An obviousnod to Home Improvement.
Ok, first nitpick. I could never understand why Charlieexpected people to be so accepting of the fact that his father is the newSanta. Yeah I know he was a kid, but it still seems a bit far-fetched. And why don’t the kids in school tease him atall? His father has to point it out. Small problem but still worth noting. Ialso think Laura and Neal were needlessly worried at first anyway, what’s wrongwith a good imagination?
In act two the movie goes back to feeling like an averagefamily film. Of course that can’t be helped; the whole thing takes place duringthe time between holidays. The whole act is basically seeing Scott deal with anew symptom of his transformation followed by worrying about Charlie and hisobsession over Santa. Scott puts on some weight…we’re worried about Charlie. Scottworried his co-workers while kids start lining up to talk to him….We’re worriedabout Charlie….Scott gets the huge list….Charlie is finally taken away fromScott. Thankfully the gags and jokes work and keep the audience interested.
Second nitpick. The time span during act two goes by awfullyfast. It skips over a lot and I wondered what happened during that time? Ialways get annoyed when movies skip ahead like that because I wonder about thestuff we missed. Did Scott accept what was going on at times? Did he see moredoctors? Did he just ignore it for weeks and resume his life? Did he lose hisjob (we get one scene where his co-workers are concerned but that’s it). Thisis a problem with kid’s movies sometimes we don’t really know how our main characteris dealing with what is happening to him. All we know is he is in denial, andworried about his son. The one scene that almost does this is after Charlie istaken away, we see Scott depressed and walking in the snow.
The third act begins with Scott finally accepting that he isSanta. The make-up is just amazing; if it weren’t for Tim Allen’s distinctivevoice you’d never even know it was him. But of course the performance is notjust make-up, Allen really sells the role. Since there is more time to fill weget Charlie being whisked away with Santa and the whole story of the policechasing him. This could have ruined the movie, but it works pretty well here.Mostly because it is short, and again the kid actors were very good. At lastCharlie is reunited with his mother, and everyone accepts Scott is Santa. Ilove the scene where Laura finally accepts it, the actress did a great job youcan almost see the little girl inside her cheering.
Final nitpick. They do one thing in the end which bugs me.We learned that Neal and Laura stopped believing in Santa when they didn’t geta gift they each wanted. In the end of the film, Santa provides those giftsalong with something special for Charlie. Here is my question. If Santa knewthis then why didn’t Neal or Laura get they get them when were young? Was Nealor Laura on the naughty list? Was there another reason? Another Santa Claus moviedid this same kind set-up but provided an explanation why the kid in that filmdid not get his wish originally. Here it really makes no sense.
Well despite my griping the end is a very satisfying one asSanta flies off and Scott’s character transformation is complete. One of thecoolest touches in the original is that throughout the movie there are elveshiding in certain scenes. All these elves come together at the end and smile asif to acknowledge a job well done, before skipping off into the distance. Thatwas a nice touch giving the impression that everything happened as it wassupposed to.=
The sequel did not have quite the heart of the first but itwas still decent. The plot is that Santa needs a wife and I admit it ispredictable. We know the second we meet Elizabeth Mitchell as the principal ofCharlie’s school how the film will end.  However, I liked the love story. It is thepart of the film that comes closest to feeling like the original, and there isjust enough chemistry between Tim Allen and Elizabeth Mitchell to make it work.The scene with the faculty party is probably my favorite one in the film asScott gets play Santa quite literally.
The stuff with the toy Santa which goes out of control isn’tbad, but the final fight goes on a tad too long. Tim Allen does a lot moremugging in this one and you could also criticize why Bernard is so much wimpierin this one.  In the first movie he takesno crap, but here he is nervous and lets the toy Santa just take over withhardly a fight. The movie also has problems including plot holes like thewatch. Bernard says once Santa’s magic is gone he can’t return to The NorthPole, and yet he does. I also think the director cut out a bit too much. If youcheck out the DVD you’ll see what I mean, and his cuts hurt the story a bit.
Another thing I liked about the sequel is the story arc for thecharacter of Charlie. In the first film he was kind of star struck, and was soinfatuated with the whole Santa Claus thing he didn’t realize the downside. Bythe time of the sequel he has aged, and realized there is a price to keepingsuch a secret. But in the end he discovers that while it causes problems, thebenefits far outweigh them and knowing isn’t a curse but a blessing. This moviealso has Santa go from fat to thin, but this is done with less fanfare then thefirst which is understandable. I do like the end when Santa gets married, andin a flash he is restored to glory. Greatmoment!  And yes the council of legendaryfigures was a cute touch.
I already talked about the third film. What a wasted opportunity that was! To make this complete, here are my thoughts again. This sequel was just lousy. I am also a fan of movies whichlook at events from a different perspective, which is kind of what this moviedoes by revisiting the 1st movie. So I had high hopes. First of all, the wholemovie is setting up this plot by Jack Frost. When we finally get to it thewhole thing takes about ten minutes, then everything is reset and the movie isover. Too much beginning and not enough ending. I also can’t believe how bad AlanArkin and Ann-Margaret are in this film. They were truly phoning this in. SantaClaus comes off as a jerk and an idiot, and his top elf Curtis is just useless.Why would Santa make the laziest elf top elf? I could go on and on nitpickingthis film. I did like Elizabeth Mitchell and Martin Short, but they weren’t enough to salvage this mess.
So The Santa Clause is not a perfect movie, but it is a verygood one. It’s a nice holiday film to watch with your family, and really whatmore can you ask for? Of course the bigquestion this movie presents is does Santa deliver the toys or not? I alwaysbelieved that Santa brought the special gifts. Any kid can figure out thattheir parents bought things from a store, but maybe it was Santa who providedthe bike or the stuffed animal. Of course the real meaning of Santa isn’tgetting gifts, it’s about believing. That is the underlying moral in the firstmovie. Seeing isn’t believing, believing is seeing.  So if the moral of the first film was about believing,then what was the moral of the second? I think it is similar but more aboutfaith. Believing in something is fine, but what if that belief is tested? Thatis when faith takes over, to remind you to keep believing.
Belief,faith, hope, kindness…these are all things that weneed every day in life and Santa is a nice little way of reminding us of that.That’s why despite my age, I still believe in the spirit of Santa Claus.
So there you have it, my favorite holiday movie. If you didnot like please let me know I would love to hear why.
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Back in June, the scuttlebutt was that the Dodgers were going to sign all of the top international prospects because of course they were. They had the money, they had the resources, they had the technology. Two of the prospects likely to sign with the Dodgers were Bahamian shortstop Lucius Fox and 20-year-old Cuban outfielder Eddy Julio Martinez.
The Giants have them both now. According to Jesse Sanchez of, the Giants have reportedly signed Martinez for $2.5 million. If you're looking for a sweet way to start a scouting report, this will do:
Scouting grades: Hit: 60 | Power: 60 | Run: 70 | Arm: 60 | Field: 60
Think a young Andruw Jones. That's how some scouts have described the 20-year-old center fielder from Cuba. Evaluators like his body -- described as solid and compact -- and his athleticism. But there's a lot more to like.
In the batter's box, Martinez has a quick and compact power stroke. He's shown the ability to hit home runs to all fields and work the counts. He's speedy out of the box and shows base-stealing potential. Described as "hard-nosed," Martinez is aggressive and not afraid to take an extra-base.
Oh, that's all?
To be fair, those scouting grades seem a little ... aggressive. That's basically Andrew McCutchen, with maybe a little less batting average. Martinez is probably not Andrew McCutchen. Or Andruw Jones, who is a borderline Hall of Famer.
Kiley McDaniel of FanGraphs was a little more tempered with his praise:
... most scouts I spoke with hanging a 50 on his bat and a 45 on his game power (12-15 homers), easily projecting him as an everyday player if he sticks in center as expected. It isn't the most electric, toolsy Cuban prospect in recent memory, but it's roughly comparable to Red Sox OF Rusney Castillo, with less raw power.
The good news is that we'll find out soon enough. The 20-year-old Martinez might start at San Jose next year, and I would guess that he would be aggressively promoted if he succeeds. This isn't a 16-year-old with all the tools in the world. It's someone just a little younger than the kids fighting for the AL Rookie of the Year, so it's not out of the question that we'll see him in the next couple of seasons. If we see him at all.
Once the Giants signed Fox, though, they were already over the international spending cap, and they were going to be penalized during the 2016 signing period. They won't be able to spend more than $250,000 on any one player next year, and they'll pay a 100-percent tax on everything over the current international spending cap. It made sense for them to go all-in and rack up the penalties now, rather than go half-in and still deal with the penalties next year.
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My research focuses on the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (Chinese Anglican Church) from the establishment of the diocese of Victoria (Hong Kong) in 1849 to the departure of foreign missionaries by 1951. Focusing on the South China Diocese, my work is guided by questions such as: what was the identity of Chinese Anglicanism? What was the role of indigenous clergy and Christians? How and why did the Chinese Anglican Church become constituted in 1912? What was the impact of foreign imperialism and Chinese nationalism? How did the missionary enterprise shift from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century? Although the bulk of my work focuses on the early twentieth century, it rests on the foundation of nineteenth century history, especially in relation to worldwide missions and their networks, the late Qing dynasty, and British colonialism in Hong Kong.
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History of Chinese Christianity
World Christianity
History of Missions from 1800
Hong Kong History
Modern Chinese History
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A Short Biography of Charles Ridley Duppuy, Bishop of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Religious Education Resource Centre, forthcoming).
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Patrons dine inside Under the Moon Monday, Jan. 28, 2019 in Bordentown, N.J.
BORDENTOWN CITY - A couple who left an anti-immigrant note at a downtown cafe Thursday night paid cash, so the staff doesn't know their names.
But even if Under the Moon Cafe owner Santiago Orosco did learn who reportedly wrote "Don't Tip Immigrants!!!" on the back of their check, he said he wouldn't out them publicly.
"I would have tried to reach them to say, 'You need to apologize to my server. And don't come here.'"
Orosco, who's owned the Farnsworth Avenue restaurant for 13 years, learned about the incident on Friday morning, after he saw his employee's Facebook post with a photo of the receipt.
"I was furious. Why would anybody act like that?" Orosco said while sitting at the back booth of his rustic restaurant as the aroma of garlic bread greeted a modest Monday lunch crowd. "If someone would have come and said, 'I don't respect immigrants,' I wouldn't have agreed with them, but at least we could have a conversation.
"Don't be a coward. If you are going to be a bigot, be proud of it."
After asking his server for her permission, Orosco posted the customers' check on the restaurant's Facebook page.That post went viral, and has been shared and commented on hundreds of times.
The restaurant received a lot of support, including a visit from freshman U.S. Rep. Andy Kim, Orosco said.
But there's also been more negativity. On Monday, Orosco said he was shaken by "hate calls," including one from a person who said, "tell your boss that all immigrants are squatters and that homosexuality is a mental disease."
In his Facebook post, Orosco had shared that he is both an immigrant — his family emigrated from Argentina in 1991 — and gay, as he shared a message of tolerance.
"At Under the Moon we accept all people but not ignorance and discrimination," he wrote in the post.
Orosco said the couple who dined at the restaurant on Thursday had been friendly to his server during the night, but believes they turned after they heard her speak Spanish to a fellow employee who helped her out.
As it turned out, the couple directed their ire at a server who isn't even an immigrant.
"Her family is from Uruguay, but she is from here," Orosco said. "They just heard her speaking Spanish. That's the kind of ignorance and intellect you're dealing with."
The patrons, as their message suggested, left no tip.
"It's not about the money," Orosco said.
Nor is it about the publicity, he added, as some social-media commenters accused the restaurant staff of making up the story.
"It's not a hoax," he said. "Either you believe me or not.
"I think what we're doing is saying that racism and discrimination is out there. Someone has to stand up to it."
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Under the Moon in Bordentown, N.J.
Geri Cipullo of Hamilton was meeting a friend from Shamong on Monday, so she suggested they get together at Under the Moon.
"I told my friend it was a nice place for ladies to meet for lunch," Cipullo said. "I thought it would be a nice quiet lunch."
By Monday morning, she saw reports about the discriminatory receipt note, but stuck with the lunch plan.
"When I pulled up, I saw the news vans. I thought, 'This isn't going to be good.'"
Indeed, reporters' visits were so steady by lunchtime that a friend helping Orosco with hostess duties asked people coming through the door, "Are you here from the media or are you here for lunch?"
Patrons at Under the Moon restaurant in Bordentown City left an anti-immigrant message left on the back of their check. When the restaurant's owner posted the photo of the message on Facebook, it spurred a massive reaction.
A number of patrons said they had not even heard about the anti-immigrant message and the viral Facebook post it sparked.
Ron Strykowsky of Mount Laurel, who was meeting friends at Under the Moon, said he learned about the incident when his wife checked Facebook in the morning.
"I was taken aback. People who do this job are doing it to make ends meet. I don't care who it is ... I thought it was rude and distasteful."
Strykowsky said he had already planned to have lunch at Under the Moon before hearing the story, but now, he said, "I might leave a bigger tip."
An immigrant's story
Santiago Orosco inside his restaurant Under the Moon Monday, Jan. 28, 2019 in Bordentown, N.J.
Orosco said when his family came to this country 28 years ago, discrimination wasn't an issue but "the hardships that immigrants go through that no one talks about" were.
"We never went without, but we never had a lot either. It brought my family closer together."
He started in the restaurant business as a dishwasher and said he worked extremely hard, in part, "because I had to break with the stereotype that people have about Spanish people."
Orosco became choked up when speaking about his path to success — and the events of the last few days.
"I wouldn't have anything if not for this country," he said. "When you see stuff like this, it really affects you."
But he said he and other successful immigrants like himself have reason to hold their heads high.
"I came here with nothing. Now I am employing people here."
Sheri Berkery: @SheriBerkery; 856-486-2673;
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Turkish-origin Norwegian citizen who was conducting activities in Norway on behalf of the PKK terrorist organization was arrested Saturday after his capture in a counter-terrorism operation in eastern Turkey’s Bingöl province.
The suspect, identified as 55-year-old A.A. who adopted the name Roger Carlsen after obtaining Norwegian citizenship, was detained in the Solhan district on Wednesday during the operation conducted jointly by the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and the provincial security directorate.
Police also seized various documents belonging to the terrorist organization in the raid.
Carlsen was later arrested by a Turkish court on Saturday.
The PKK has long used European countries, where significant Turkish and Kurdish diaspora communities are present, to bolster its financial resources, recruitment and as a safe haven for its leadership. Despite benefiting from freedom in Europe, the terrorists also do not refrain from attacking European cities and institutions, along with Turks living in Europe.
The terrorist group controls a significant portion of illegal drugs and arms trade in Europe.
Turkey has long criticized European governments’ reluctance in preventing PKK activities in Europe. PKK sympathizers regularly gather in city centers, hold marches and demonstrations, conduct propaganda activities and display banners.
Formed in 1978, the PKK terrorist group has been fighting the Turkish government for an independent state but switched its demands to autonomy in early 2000s. This terror campaign has caused the deaths of more than 40,000 people.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and the EU. The PKK resumed its decades-old campaign in July 2015 after a three-year reconciliation period and since then more than 1,200 people, including security force personnel and civilians, have lost their lives. | https://www.norwaynews.com/norwegian-arrested-in-turkey-links-to-pkk-terrorists/ | dclm-gs7-059170035 |
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How two years in a Novartis lab changed Johnny Castillo’s life.
By Emma Lawrence | Jul 20, 2016
How two years in a Novartis lab changed Johnny Castillo’s life.
In 2014, Johnny Castillo's dream of attending grad school and pursuing his own research seemed an impossible one. The 27-year-old was working as a lab technician in Panama after being rejected from a PhD program. He’d excelled in his science classes at Universidad Latina de Panama, achieving top marks in immunology and other tricky subjects, but he couldn’t see a clear path forward. He’d come so far from the small town in the Dominican Republic where he lived as a young boy. Was this the end of the road?
Fast-forward two years and Castillo—who recently completed the Postbaccalaureate Scholars Program at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) in Cambridge, Mass.—has had five of the top grad schools in the United States battling for him. The NIBR program gives high-potential recent college graduates who are under-represented in the sciences the intensive, accelerated training experience and exposure needed to continue their academic training at top research institutions. Castillo recently accepted a place at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he will matriculate as a PhD student in Biological and Biomedical Sciences in the fall.
As you might expect, perseverance and hard work feature large in his story, but for Castillo, the biggest lesson he has learned is letting go of a consuming need to prove himself.
Born to a single mother, Castillo lived with his family in Santiago de los Caballeros when he was little. Life wasn't easy. He missed several years of schooling when the family was forced to choose between education and food. When Castillo was three, his mother left for Panama to find work. He and his brother were raised by their grandmother until his mother was able to send for them nine years later—a period that Castillo believes had a profound impact upon him.
"My mother has a warrior's heart, a huge work ethic and a furious commitment to make life as easy as possible for her sons and her mother,” says Castillo. “But when your parent leaves you as a young child—even for the best intentions—it can be easy to interpret that as meaning that they don't care for you. I spent the next two decades trying to earn my mother's attention by studying as hard as I could."
That all-consuming quest led to Castillo winning three scholarships for college, where he discovered a genuine passion for science. For the first time in his life, he forgot about grades, fascinated by how stem cells give rise to new tissue, how the immune system recognizes foreign invaders, why it tolerates a fetus during pregnancy.
"I would return from class each day to read books and papers and watch YouTube videos to learn more,” says Castillo.
He continued to achieve top marks, motivated by a thirst for knowledge, and graduated with honors. But then he encountered something unfamiliar—failure. Graduate schools in the United States didn’t seem to want him. Their decision felt personal, as if he was being abandoned again.
A dream deferred
After accepting a technician position to pay the bills, Castillo came across NIBR’s Postbaccalaureate Scholars program, an alternate path to grad school that gave him hope. Unfortunately, rejection reared its head again when Castillo failed to get a place in the program.
He felt depressed for a couple of weeks. But then he dusted himself off, reapplied and was accepted.
"I decided I was going to show them how much I wanted it, and that they had lost a really good candidate," says Castillo.
His passion and commitment impressed Feng Cong, a lab head at NIBR who focuses on understanding molecular pathways that play a role in cancer. Cong welcomed Castillo into the lab, where he was given a mentor—postdoctoral researcher Xiaomo Jiang—and a project—exploring how cancer cells develop resistance to a class of drugs called EGFR inhibitors, which are often used to treat lung cancer.
Castillo got off to a bumpy start. He set out to perform a genome-wide screen on lung cancer cells, hoping to identify genes that play a role in drug resistance. He started with lung cancer cells that were still sensitive EGFR inhibitors. The plan was to use CRISPR, an emerging genome-editing technology, to knock out thousands of genes in the cells and determine which ones might be involved in resistance. Castillo hoped to knock out a different gene in each cell, add an EGFR inhibitor and watch to see if the cell survived, which would indicate that the knockout made the cell resistant to treatment.
Although he planned to use next-generation sequencing to conduct many experiments in parallel and speed up the screen, Castillo still faced a lot of work—and a steep learning curve. He had to learn all of the methods from scratch, laboring for months to get colony formation assays, western blots, qPCRs, immunofluorescence and other tools working.
"While it is energizing having young students in the lab because they’re ambitious and eager to learn, they often lack experience in running experiments,” says Cong. “Johnny was no exception.”
Expectations were high. And Castillo was taking a difficult course at Harvard, which added to his workload. Stressed by the volume of tasks and the mistakes that he was making, Castillo finally confessed to his mentor that he was struggling.
“At first I was a little impatient as I didn't realize Johnny lacked lab experience,” says Jiang (now a lab head at NIBR). “But after he spoke up, I realized that I needed to find a communication and teaching style that suited the way Johnny learned.”
Castillo also needed to make adjustments in order to succeed in the lab: ones he describes as “life-changing.”
Even after the heart-to-heart conversation with Jiang, Castillo still found that he was having a tough time. The intense lab environment—and the failures inherent to research—dampened his hallmark enthusiasm. One cold, bleak winter's day, seven months into the program he was at his lowest ebb.
“I just couldn't get out of bed, and lay there questioning what was motivating me to go to work when I was finding it so tough and was battling dark thoughts every day,” he says. “That was the light bulb moment. That's when I really realized how destructive it was for me to seek constant approval and take every failure in the lab to heart.”
After all, scientific advances come through trial-and-error learning. In research, resilience is essential. Castillo needed to shift his mindset and reignite his passion for science.
“I’m contributing to a collective knowledge of biology that will ultimately benefit patients' health,” says Castillo. “That’s my true motivation.”
From that day onwards, everything changed.
Fresh outlook
Castillo no longer suffers for days when an experiment fails, heeding his mentors' advice to focus on potential solutions rather than dwelling on what went wrong.
With guidance from Cong, Jiang and Hui Wang (his mentor after Jiang), Castillo was able to achieve promising results. He identified a number of genes that are likely to be involved in resistance to EGFR inhibitors, pointing the way toward new treatment strategies. Lab members are currently exploring the molecular mechanisms of the hits from his screen.
"Johnny is special,” Cong says. “I wasn’t surprised when he received offers from multiple grad schools. His huge energy and sincere passion for science are inspiring. And this experience confirms for me how important it is that talented people like Johnny are given exposure to the science being done in labs like ours." | https://www.novartis.com/stories/reigniting-passion-science | dclm-gs7-059180035 |
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ARF stands for “Amylase Rich Food”. It is simply a scientific name of germinated cereal flour which is rich in the enzyme alpha-amylase. ARF powder is made up from cereals & pulses that contain enzymes (e.g. wheat, rice, green gram, cowpea, finger millet, sorghum, barley).
Including Amylase Rich Food (ARF powder) to infant’s food is a great source to enhance the nutritional value of their food. ARF powder contains the enzyme alpha-amylase which has an ability to break down carbs. This feature makes the food low in viscosity and high in energy content and digestible.
How to make ARF Powder at home?
1. Select whole grain, rinse and clean the same. (choose one cereal & one pulse)
2. Soak in water overnight and drain the excess water the next day.
3. Take the soaked grains, spread evenly on a muslin cloth & leave it for 24 to 48 hours for germination.
4. Once proper sprouting is there, dry it under the sunlight or inside.
5. Roast the dry sprouted mixture on a low flame for 5 - 7 min & allow it to cool down. (separate sprouts) And grind it to a fine powder.
6. Store it in an airtight container and consume it in a week time to ensure for its freshness.
ARF powder is easy, hygienic and homemade and an inexpensive source of nutrition. Process of making ARF increases the activity of the enzyme alpha-amylase, which makes food easily digestible. Combination of cereal and pulse in ARF powder improves protein source for babies. Germinating ingredients increases nutrients like vitamin C and the B complex. Separation of sprouts removes harmful chemicals from the food.
Adding one to two teaspoon ARF powder to your weaning food preparation (porridge/sheera/khichdi etc) helps to enhance the nutritional value of the food. You can introduce ARF powder between 8 to 10 months and it can also be used in regular home food for your toddlers and kids.
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I want to have a tattoo, and I want it to symbolize my competitive entj character, which symbols do you think reflect an entj
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If there is a thread, it's ancient and not popping up in search. My body is my diary, and I'd love to get it more or less populated over time. Share pictures of your tattoos! Five years ago, I got my first one. I have a couple more now.
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What are your opinions on body modifications in general. I'm talking about tattoos, piercings, scarification. Do you have any? If not what's making you reluctant to getting one. I'm wondering if my lack of interest in these things is an INTJ thing.
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I wondered if many INFJ have tattoos, as I got my first one this year in September. I always wanted one but I could never make my mind up as to what. I saw a picture of a model that had a tattoo I really liked (helped along by the fact that he is utterly mesmerising and beautiful); I decided...
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Hello all, new to this forum, not sure how it will go since I am really terrible with people. I'm a loner and I like being a loner, though also do enjoy being around people with shared interests if they care to keep up an interesting discussion. I'm not one for that small talk jibber jabber, and...
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I know that answers could widely vary, and some people definitely dislike tattoos...but if you had to get one, what would you want? I feel like ENFPs would need a ton of significance and meaning to be behind a tattoo, but would need it to be perfect that it could last a lifetime, without getting...
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ive always had this issue with being very sure about wanting a tattoo or two but being really unsure about what id get and where id get it. does anyone else have this issue or have tattoo stories to share specifically about how you decided to get your tattoo
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I just wondered: 1. What's your personality type? 2. how do you think about tattoos? 3. Are you tattood, what does your tattoo look like?
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So here's an MBTI poll about tattoo placement. The "theory" or forum myth is Fe types (XXFJ, XXTP) would have their first tattoo/s on a visible "communicative" part of their body (like me and my ENFJ, ENTP and ESTP friends on their shoulder) and Fi types (XXFP, XXTJ) would have their first...
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Since NFs are an expressive group, I'm wondering how many of you have tattoos. Or how many of you want one. If you have one, what is it? Why did you pick it? Do you find you are drawn to others with tattoos as well? What advice would you give someone considering one? I never really thought much...
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I was walking past a tattoo shop the other day, and I though about drawing my own tattoo and having them resketch or just stick the thing to me and stencil it, but then I had an even better idea. What if you took a note someone wrote to you and you traced your favorite part? It would be like...
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Here’s the domain I registered: www.irishfool.com.
I hope I am not offending anyone here, but I did find an article that describes an irish fool as: “Irish Fools were marginal men, who served as entertainment to the wealthy and
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0.020547 | <urn:uuid:989cdb83-3ec1-4505-ab17-ef031b180ef2> | en | 0.959011 | Fuel Efficiency – Science, Law & the Environment https://www.sciencelawenvironment.com Emerging Topics in Environmental Law Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:40:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3&lxb_maple_bar_source=lxb_maple_bar_source Defeat of the Carbon Tax: As Washington Increasingly Mimics the Partisan Gridlock of the “other Washington,” it Risks Losing Progressive Action in the Name of Progressive Principles https://www.sciencelawenvironment.com/2019/02/defeat-of-the-carbon-tax-as-washington-increasingly-mimics-the-partisan-gridlock-of-the-other-washington-it-risks-losing-progressive-action-in-the-name-of-progressive-principles/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 20:29:38 +0000 https://www.sciencelawenvironment.com/?p=3163 We all know the federal government is hamstrung by partisan gridlock. Where once lawmakers recognized that passing legislation required that both parties end up being able to claim success, that no one got everything they wanted, and that progress was never perfect, today there seem to be new rules holding forth: “I will only ‘compromise’... Continue Reading
For a long time, Washington State seemed to understand the benefit of the old rules. And certainly there was a time when in Washington State, the term “progressive Republican” was not an oxymoron. Dan Evans was the poster child for progressive Republicans, but even some pretty conservative politicians were willing to work on the same issues as Democrats; both parties believed in the role of government to address the fundamental issues of society. The parties differed in their preference for lower taxes and less government, but they were willing to work across the aisle to pass acts like Washington’s Growth Management Act, the State Environmental Policy Act, the Washington Forest Practices Act, and many other pieces of environmental legislation.
Increasingly, however, Washington State politicians seem to be copying their federal counterparts – insisting on their way or no way. And the consequence is that when nothing can get done that both parties can agree on, nothing much gets done. The recent defeat of Initiative 1631, the most recent carbon tax initiative, is a case in point. It follows the defeat in 2016 of Initiative 732, and several legislative sessions when the legislature refused to pass a carbon tax.
Plenty of press has followed the most recent defeat, saying it shows that Washington will never pass a tax, or that Washington will not commit to any truly significant climate action. But at least consider that it may be an example of how things that could be done on a bipartisan basis will not be done at all in the winner-take-all framework of our current partisanship.
Initiative 732 was the brainchild of then-University of Washington Professor of Economics, Yoram Bauman. Bauman’s premise was simple.
First, there are two principal ways that governments have approached carbon emission reduction: cap and trade systems and carbon taxes. British Columbia adopted a carbon tax several years ago; California has adopted a cap and trade system. Both systems can work, but the carbon tax is vastly simpler, and from an economist’s perspective, more efficient. Less money is spent on consultants and lawyers and government bureaucracy.
Second, Bauman believed, and polls suggest, that a fair number of conservatives believe climate change is real and serious and believe something should be done about it. But they are skeptical of government solutions. They believe that smaller government is better and taxes are too high. Those beliefs constrain what they are willing to support. They also correctly believe that the cost of carbon reduction falls the hardest on people least able to adapt – the folks who cannot buy a new fuel-efficient car and do not have the capital to replace the windows in their home, or any way to force their landlord to winterize their apartment. It falls hardest in rural areas, where transit is not available or not an option for commuting to work.
Third, Washington has an indisputably regressive tax system – it relies very heavily on sales taxes, which burden people who must spend all of their income on necessities far more than it burdens people who have money to invest and save. Washington’s B&O tax hurts the competitiveness of Washington business relative to business in other states. It falls hardest on small businesses.
With those three starting premises, Bauman drafted Initiative 732 to impose a tax on carbon, but use the revenues to reduce the sales tax and the B&O tax. So, people who would be burdened by an increase in the cost of gasoline and heating oil, would see their cost of consumer goods go down. Businesses that would need to invest in fuel efficiency, would see their B&O tax go down. The carbon tax is what economists think is the best way to address carbon reduction. It would respect conservatives’ desire for smaller government solutions. And if not “tax neutral” for everyone, it was basically tax-neutral as a whole. I-732 was promoted as a win for the liberal desire for real climate progress, and a win for small government solutions. If the liberal Central Puget Sound delivered the votes for climate action, the rest of Washington could be persuaded to give it enough votes to pass.
But, here the “we have to win everything” mentality of today’s partisanship came in. Governor Inslee and liberal groups like the Sierra Club opposed I-732 because it was revenue neutral. They wanted the tax to go to the general fund to expand state revenues. They argued (and there was truth to their argument) that the State needed more revenue for public schools, and a host of other issues. They could not let a new revenue stream go untapped. And because of the opposition of the governor and liberal interest groups, although I-732 did as well as hoped in the red parts of Washington, it did not garner enough votes in liberal Central Puget Sound to pass. In 2016 Senator Patty Murray carried King County by 455,000 votes; I-732 carried King County, the heart of the environmental movement in Washington, and where overwhelming majorities have driven statewide success on other liberal initiatives, by 28,000 votes. With that sort of anemic response in its natural stronghold, it lost statewide by 574,000 votes.
So, then we have I-1631. By the time it came up, the Legislature had found a solution for the public schools, so that was no longer the place where new revenue had to go. Instead, I-1631 would have given the revenue to an appointed board, which would have decided how to invest it in new carbon reduction technology. The concept was fine – undoubtedly there would be a benefit to investing more money in carbon reduction technology. (Unless it was frittered away through boondoggles or fraud – but maybe it would have been well spent. The “no on I-1631” lobby was brutal in suggesting that citizens should not be giving an unelected board that much discretionary money.) Regardless, the carbon tax was to be a new source of revenue, taken in the end from Washington consumers, and used to increase government. Which meant that its burden fell hardest on the people least able to absorb the blow, and they got nothing in return, except a hope that somehow their pain would be later generations’ gain. And I-1631 failed by 405,000 votes. In spite of the governor’s and leading environmental groups’ strong support, it came only 3 percentage points closer to passing.
What is the takeaway? I would submit that it is a cautionary tale. Climate change is an issue that desperately needs to be addressed. It is not the only one. But Washington politicians would do well in attempting to grapple with dire issues to remember how bipartisanship used to work. They should strive for solutions that respect the passions on both sides of the aisle. They should be willing to take most of a loaf, rather than getting nothing other than rights to claim the moral high ground. Democratic leaders like the Governor, and environmental interest groups, need to be willing to put heart and soul into measures that can attract the middle as well as the most liberal end of the electorate. Today, it is hard to imagine we would not have been better off with a carbon tax in place, even if all the revenue did was lower the sales and B&O tax, than with nothing in place designed to reduce carbon emissions in Washington.
Governor Inslee Signs Executive Order 14-04, Washington’s Carbon Pollution Reduction and Clean Energy Action Plan https://www.sciencelawenvironment.com/2014/05/governor-inslee-signs-executive-order14-04-washingtons-carbon-pollution-reduction-and-clean-energy-action/ Mon, 05 May 2014 16:31:31 +0000 https://www.sciencelawenvironment.com/?p=2395 On April 29, 2014, Governor Inslee signed Executive Order 14-04, titled “Washington Carbon Reduction and Clean Energy Action.” This order supersedes two orders by Washington’s prior governor (EO 07-02 and EO 09-05) and will serve as the framework for Governor Inslee’s actions on climate change. EO 14-04 is a dense nine pages long, and was informed... Continue Reading
My first reaction to the Governor’s plans includes these points:
Electric Vehicles, Hybrids and Bicycles Need to Pay Their Share https://www.sciencelawenvironment.com/2013/04/electric-vehicles-hybrids-and-bicycles-need-to-pay-their-share/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:28:22 +0000 http://www.wagreentech.com/?p=1883 I am a huge fan of plug-in hybrid and electric cars. I bought a plug-in hybrid in early January and have filled its tank twice now. The last time was a couple of weeks ago and since then I’ve driven 250 miles on about three gallons of gasoline. I think everyone should have one; although,... Continue Reading
I am a huge fan of plug-in hybrid and electric cars. I bought a plug-in hybrid in early January and have filled its tank twice now. The last time was a couple of weeks ago and since then I’ve driven 250 miles on about three gallons of gasoline. I think everyone should have one; although, as I’ve written, I think we need to get our electric rate structures figured out so that owners of plug-in electric vehicles have every incentive to charge overnight and not during peak demand periods. This car meets all my goals of saving gasoline when I need to drive long distances to places without charging stations. Mostly, it takes me back and forth to work, or around town, with energy from the hydroelectric dams Seattle City Light operates.
Recently, I’ve been having a debate with one of my partners, who bikes to work, and who is incensed that a key current transportation funding bill in the Legislature would impose a $25 excise tax on the purchase of a bicycle costing $500 or more. My response is that we need to tax all bikes and we need to increase the tax on electric vehicles and hybrids. She says I get credit for consistency, but she’s not buying it. She makes some valid points about the tax falling mostly on independent bike shops, while the major discount stores can sell bikes for less than $500. She also makes a valid point that far more bicycle infrastructure is needed than a $25 tax on new bikes will pay for, although I’m not quite sure why the fact that the tax won’t raise enough money to do what is needed is a reason not to have the tax.
Really, the bottom line is that we need to be taxing all bikes, electric vehicles and hybrids. We have a huge transportation funding deficit and all users who need facilities built for them need to be prepared to pay their fair share of the transportation budget. That is true because the deficit in our transportation funding is so huge that there simply is no free lunch. And it’s true because in our polarized, tax-averse political world, the ability to get anything paid for depends on everyone feeling that the system is fundamentally fair, most especially the people being taxed.
Washington’s primary source of road funding is the gas tax. The State Supreme Court has held that gas taxes cannot be used for transit facilities under the state constitution. So, transit is paid for by sales tax and recently by a motor vehicle excise tax, as well as federal funding. But gas taxes are a declining resource. If the number of vehicle miles driven stayed unchanged, the shift to more fuel efficient vehicles would automatically reduce gas tax revenues. The recession compounded that effect by causing people to drive fewer miles. As recently as 2010, the State’s Office of Financial Management forecast that gasoline use would increase at around 1.2% per year over time. Today it estimates that gasoline consumption will fall on average about 0.43% per year. We have not kept up with basic maintenance of our state or local transportation infrastructure. A commission appointed by former Governor Chris Gregoire estimated that the state has at least a $50 billion backlog of maintenance and basic infrastructure preservation tasks. That was before a federal judge ordered the State to accelerate repair of culverts that block 1,000 miles of salmon migration – at the cost of more than $1 billion.
The bottom line is that my plug-in hybrid puts exactly the same demands on our state and city roads as my old VW Beetle did. But it not only doesn’t make me pay for gasoline, it also exempts me from gasoline taxes.
My partner wants – correctly, in my view – the City to spend a lot of money to build bicycle lanes, to separate bicyclists from automobiles. We need to do that. Bicycling is great exercise for our increasingly sedentary society and we should encourage it. It is carbon neutral. Most importantly, bicycles and automobiles in the same space are a disaster on two fronts: the bicycles slow down the cars and thereby increase congestion on already congested streets, and while a fender bender between two cars makes for repair bills, the same accident between a car and a bicyclist kills or maims the bicyclist. We simply must separate the two.
But the cost of all of this will necessarily fall most heavily on the people driving cars. In a world with Tim Eyman, it may need a vote of the people. Even if a vote is not required, politicians who vote for new taxes are going to have to explain and defend that decision at the next election, and if people don’t feel the decision was warranted, politicians will be replaced. Taxes must be fair, and they must be perceived as being fair. If they are not, they will not last long in a democracy.
There has been an argument among bike and electric vehicle enthusiasts that they are “so good” for the environment, it is important to encourage them, and that they should somehow be exempt from taxes. It is as if taxes, being nasty, should fall on the folks who want to do “nasty” things, not on people who are “virtuous.”
Don’t get me wrong. I will happily take my tax credit if the federal government wants to make up for the fact that the plug-in part of my car added several thousand dollars to its cost. Subsidizing early technology is one of the key ways that government has brought many technologies to commercial viability. But the federal tax credit is the government’s effort to get the plug-in hybrid market past its initial start-up costs. I don’t expect that in addition to federal tax incentives, the fact that I bought a green car should keep me from paying my fair share of the cost of the roads I drive it on. I think all people who believe that it is important to make basic infrastructure investments in our transportation system should be prepared to step up to their share of that cost. That includes me, and the folks about to spend $500 on a new bike.
A Traveler’s Observations about Energy Consumption in Spain https://www.sciencelawenvironment.com/2012/09/a-travelers-observations-about-energy-consumption-in-spain-2/ Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:57:27 +0000 http://www.wagreentech.com/?p=1673 For my first blog post of the fall, I’m starting with my favorite back-to-school essay topic from when I was a kid: “what did you do on your summer vacation?” It’s easy. It doesn’t make you really get serious yet. And it lets you think about what you actually might have learned from the time... Continue Reading
I had the opportunity to spend three weeks in Spain in July and August – and since this isn’t a travel blog, the question I want to talk about is, what did I see that may help account for the fact that according to the most recent data that I could find (not as recent as I would like), Spain’s annual per capita energy consumption is less than half of that in the United States?
First – their cars are smaller. Lots smaller. Is that because of the fact that their gasoline is more expensive? Well, perhaps in part. But their streets are smaller. The streets in their old cities feel like you could touch the walls of the buildings on both sides of the street if you stretched out your hands. In Boston or Philadelphia, the old streets were sized so that two horse-drawn carriages could pass and ladies on the sidewalk didn’t get splashed. In Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Granada, the old city streets appear to have been sized for one guy pushing a cart. People zipped through those streets in tiny little cars. On the other hand, I watched some guy inching his mid-size Cadillac down a street in Seville, with his tires scraping on the curbs of the street as he went. I couldn’t hear what she was saying, but his companion clearly had a running commentary going about his driving. I can’t imagine someone wanting to do that regularly. And Spanish parking spaces are smaller. We rented an Audi A3 to drive through southern Spain, and we never found a public parking garage that had any spaces larger than what we call “compact” spaces in Seattle. Most of the spaces were smaller than we require for compact spaces. On-street parking spots tended to be smaller still. So there are a lot of reasons why “small” is the only size car that is practical in Spain.
One of the reasons I hear why people don’t want small cars in the United States tends to be a variation on, “sometimes I just need to carry a lot of stuff.” That appears to happen in Spain as well. And when it does, it can be an amazing sight. This car, getting off the ferry in Tangier, Morocco, was just the one I happened to photograph. The most amazing examples were gone before I could get my camera out.
I have no idea how they deal with getting the kids’ soccer team to practice – which of course does not lend itself to rooftop carriers.
Sticking with transportation, Spain has invested a lot of money in high-speed trains. We took the high-speed train from Madrid, Spain’s largest city, to Valencia, its third largest city. They are 190 miles apart, and the trip took an hour and a half – center city to center city, no airport security, 44 Euros (about $55) one way. Compare that to any way you ever want to get from Seattle to Portland, which is 15 miles shorter but takes 3 hours or more. There are also subways in much smaller cities in Spain than you find in the United States, as well as good bus service. Of course the Spanish government has spent money like they minted it, which in the Euro Zone, they clearly do not. That spending has not just been on transportation infrastructure, but on a panoply of public projects, at least some of which are unlikely to ever pay off. But the fact that you can get quickly from one city to another and can get around in the cities with public transit takes some of the pressure off the need for a larger car.
We also saw wind farms that seemed huge compared to any I have seen in the United States. Making heavy use of wind energy can be a function of the good fortune of winds that are patterned to coincide with peak electrical use. We took this picture in the south of Spain on an afternoon when the temperature topped 100º and the wind was blowing like mad. Overnight, the winds dropped as the temperatures dropped, and the next morning not only were the windmills that were operating turning much more slowly, but most of the windmills had been turned off. (Their blades were turned to avoid catching the wind.) The area apparently has winds that pick up and blow regularly as temperatures rise – which would make wind power a good source to meet the peak loads of air conditioning.
What conclusions can be drawn from those observations? Maybe three.
First, although the cost of gasoline has an impact on the desirability of small, and thus fuel efficient, cars, other factors also matter. It is a whole lot harder to drive and park American-sized cars in Spain, and thus they are less fun and less satisfying. That is a function of how the United States has built its roads and its cities, and how Spain has built its roads and its cities. There isn’t much that can be done to change that.
Second, luck helps. Wind power works best when it is useful for meeting peak load, not supplying base load. If you happen to have an area where the wind rises to a howl when the temperature rises, that will make wind power more useful with peak load – and make it more viable economically.
Third, public investment matters. High-speed rail has huge up-front costs. So do subways. But once the investment is made, it allows quick, easy, even cheap transportation without a car. The long-term value of that investment is hard to predict at the moment, as Spain struggles to right itself from too much public investment, as well as a housing crash as bad as the worst we experienced in the United States. But long-term, it will reduce Spain’s energy demands while allowing people to get where they want to go with ease.
Washington’s State Energy Strategy https://www.sciencelawenvironment.com/2012/01/washingtons-state-energy-strategy/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:12:00 +0000 http://wagreentech.default.wp1.lexblog.com/2012/01/17/washingtons-state-energy-strategy/ Pundits, at least pundits of a certain stripe, have long decried the fact that the United States has no energy strategy. Without a strategy, the argument goes, we are left at the whim of forces we cannot control and that will whipsaw the economy and the nation. And so, one has to be a bit... Continue Reading
And so, one has to be a bit surprised, and pleased, that Washington State now has an energy strategy. Mandated by the 2010 Legislature in E2SHB 2658, on December 9, 2011, the Washington Department of Commerce submitted it to Governor Gregoire and the Legislature.
The Strategy is directed at three goals: to maintain competitive energy prices, foster a clean energy economy and jobs, and meet obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emission. It then goes on to say that it is also based on nine principles. Meaning no disrespect – but three goals and nine principles may be more words about motherhood and apple pie than are particularly useful. But turning to the Strategy itself, it focuses on three areas: transportation, buildings and distributed energy.
The choice of transportation is obvious. Transportation accounts for about half of the energy used in the state. The transportation strategy is a three-part strategy – encouraging the conversion to better vehicles, building urban and suburban areas to reduce travel, and better pricing of trips.
The most concrete and achievable part of that strategy is promoting the conversion to better vehicles. With its abundant hydropower available to charge cars all night, when the water still has to flow over the dam even if demand for electricity is greatly reduced, Washington is uniquely able to power electric cars at very little cost. The biggest deterrent to electric cars is what their makers call “battery anxiety.” Knowing that if you “run out of battery,” you can’t walk to the nearest filling station and come back with a gallon of gasoline to solve the problem seems to terrify too many people. Until people know that they can plug in their car and recharge at their destination, that fear will continue to be a major reason to stick with gasoline-powered cars. And so, Washington can make a material difference in how quickly electric cars are adopted by increasing the availability of public charging stations.
Building cities and suburbs to reduce travel demand is a longer-term and more difficult problem. It involves encouraging greater density, which is essential to making transit viable, building bike and pedestrian facilities so that there are alternatives to getting in a car for a lot of trips, pricing parking to make walking, biking or transit more attractive, increasing brownfield redevelopment rather than sending new development outward, and developing integrated multi-modal systems, so that it is easier to take transit when you need to switch between modes of travel.
“Better pricing of trips” is in part code for tolls. It also starts to get at a central problem of our transportation financing system in Washington, which is that it relies very heavily on the gas tax, which is collected by the gallon. As vehicles become more fuel efficient, they travel further per gallon. The whole point of electric cars is that they don’t use any gallons at all. And yet the demands on the roadways are the same whether a mile of travel used a tenth of a gallon of gas or a fiftieth of a gallon of gas, or no gas at all. Ultimately the state will have to develop a revenue source based on how much its roads are used, rather than how much gasoline was used by the traveling public.
Turning to buildings, residential buildings are the second largest user of energy in the state. The Strategy focuses on three issues. The first is to attempt to get people to value energy efficiency. One way to do that is to make energy efficiency of a building visible to buyers, tenants and lenders, all of whom presumably will not attach value to energy efficiency if they have no way of understanding it when they are making purchase, loan and rental decisions. That strategy would broaden the scope and reach of requirements such as the City of Seattle adopted that require building owners to perform energy audits of their buildings and disclose the outcome of the audits to buyers, lenders and tenants (Oct 27, 2011 post). The building strategy also recognizes, however, that even when a building owner knows that energy improvements could be made, without financing it is less likely that the improvements will be made. Finally, it recognizes that low-income dwellings are both likely to have the greatest potential for energy improvement and least likely to actually have those improvements made. Thus it seeks to elevate the priority of low-income weatherization programs and subsidies.
Finally, the Strategy discusses distributed energy. As explained in two earlier posts (Nov 28, 2011 post and Dec 2, 2011 post), distributed energy is both potentially a huge source of energy, and mind-numbingly difficult to implement on a broad scale because it collides with a wide variety of entrenched competing interests. The Strategy promises to address the complexities, but for obvious reasons, doesn’t do so at this point.
What to say about Washington’s Energy Strategy? First, there is a pretty good argument that having a strategy is like starting a journey with a map in hand – if you just start the journey without a map, you will end up somewhere; but you are more likely to end up where you wanted to be if you have a map. So, in that sense, the Energy Strategy is good to have. But, the journey to a sensible and sustainable energy future is not like most journeys. It has a lot more bumps in the road; it is a lot more like a maze than a highway, and will depend on the consistent political will to follow the roadmap over a longer period than the political process can usually remain focused. Thus it is good to have the Strategy in place. But its ultimate utility will be determined by how consistently it is used over the next several decades. | https://www.sciencelawenvironment.com/fuel-efficiency/feed/ | dclm-gs7-059400035 |
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How the Prison System Works in China
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In the study of prison systems worldwide, the Chinese prison system plays a major role not only because it is located in a communist country but also because it is one of the most populous prison systems in the world. Estimated to hold more than million prisoners, the prison system in China requires well laid out management policies as well as adequate financing to sustain it. At the same time, the labor that is generated through the prison system in the form of prisoner rehabilitation through skills development has also played a major role in the country’s economic development. Thus, this article will look into how the prison system works in China based on the information obtained through the China International Information Center.
-Administration of the prisons
The highest authority in the government that administrates all the prisons in the country is the Ministry of Justice and it has its own Bureau of Prison Administration to supervise or facilitate related tasks. However, there are offices of justice in each of the provinces, which have been given the responsibility of managing the prisons falling within their jurisdiction using their own prison administration under the watchful eye of the central government.
The administration and the prisons system in China is governed by the Prison Law of the People’s Republic of China adapted in 1994. Accordingly, the administration of the prisons are done based on two main categories which are the prisons incarcerating inmates who have been given fixed term sentences by the courts and the penitentiaries which holds juvenile delinquents, criminals of minor age…etc.
-Establishment and staffing of the prisons
According to the Prison Law, each prison should have a warden and several deputy wardens along with various administrative departments and staff. These departments include commercial departments, educational departments as well as sanitary departments.
The establishment of prisons can be done through the approval given by the State Council Judicial Administration while they also have the authority to eliminate or relocate prisons based on the historical, economical and natural factors.
The legal status of the managerial staff in a prison is the same as other security personal in the country such as those who are involved with traffic police and public security.
-Financing the prison system
The law ensures that prisons receive adequate funding through the state and the expenses related to prisons should be budgeted in the central governments planning. The funding given by the state is used for expenses related to managing prison police, funding reformation of inmates and their daily life, maintenance of prison facilities…etc.
-The principles governing the prison system
One important aspect of the Prison Law in China is the clause that highlights the need to transform inmates through punishment and combining education with labor. Thus, the prison system in China believes that while punishment focuses on enforcement the reform focuses on transformation of the inmates into law-abiding citizens.
-Execution tasks of the prisons
According to the jurisdiction given to the prisons, they are bound by law to exert committal penalties, handing over petitions, accusations and reporting by the inmates, serving a sentence outside the prison, commutation of sentence and parole, release and placement…etc. While executing these tasks, the prison administration also have to undertake classification of prisoners, maintain standards and strict regulation with regard to the use of warnings, preventive devices and weapons, conducting communications and meetings, maintaining standards of living and hygiene within the prison and exert rewards and punishment according to law.
While the above description of how the prison system works in China gives an overall picture of its functioning, many facets combine to run the prison system in the country. While many improvements can still be made with regard to the practices and the functioning of these prisons, the fundamental policies with regard to prison management seem to be well in place.
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Friday, October 24, 2014
On your third birthday, there are a few things I would like to remember about you....
1. In the last year you have really opened up. You hardly act shy at all anymore.
2. You have so many adorable and sassy facial expressions.
3. You are still not much of a breakfast eater.
4. Your favorite TV shows are Sophia the First, Wild Kratts, and Mickey "huh house".
5. Your favorite movie is still Mary Poppins.
6. You sleep with 3 loveys, a doll, a penquin, and a binky, and they each have a specific place in your bed. (Little do you know that the binky will be removed this week.)
7. There is not much neutral territory with you and your sister; you are either being really sweet with each other or really mean to each other.
8. You are a tough little cookie.
9. You constantly make us laugh.
10. You love dogs.
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0.098506 | <urn:uuid:55f22c80-3795-4601-bebd-3cc95641e1ad> | en | 0.935377 | With modern TVs supporting an ever increasing range of on-demand- and streaming apps, mirroring content from a phone or tablet is rarely the go-to solution for accessing that content on the larger screen - at least not when you're at home.
But when you're away from home and you aren't signed into your own apps, you're using an old TV without smart functionality, or the content you want to display is owned by you - photos and video captured on your phone, for example - there are other solutions that will be preferable.
You can connect your Android phone or tablet to a TV wirelessly or using a cable. We'll outline your options below.
Connect Android to TV with HDMI
If you don't want to fiddle around with settings, the simplest solution for connecting your Android phone or tablet to a TV is using an HDMI cable - provided that your device supports streaming over HDMI. You connect one end to the port on the back of your TV, and one end to the charging port on your phone, then change the Source on the TV to view the HDMI input.
You'll notice that a standard HDMI cable won't fit into your phone, however. If your phone or tablet has a USB-C port, this is super-easy to get around, and you can buy an HDMI cable that has a USB-C connection at one end. We like this UNI cable from Amazon.
USB-C to HDMI cable
If your phone or tablet has an older Micro-USB connection, things are a little more complicated. You can use an MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) adaptor, for which you will also need to attach a standard HDMI cable. Do note that the adaptor will typically need to be powered by USB, and that not all Android phones and tablets support MHL.
SlimPort is another term you might hear mentioned. It is a similar but slightly different technology to MHL, and does not need a separate power source. It can output to HDMI, VGA, DVI or DisplayPort, while MHL is limited to HDMI. In our experience, many people use these terms interchangeably, but in essence they are simply talking about an adaptor or cable that can convert the feed from USB to HDMI.
MHL Adaptor
Some tablets might additionally feature Micro-HDMI or Mini-HDMI connections, which will simplify things. With these you can use a Micro-HDMI or Mini-HDMI to HDMI cable, but you must check the spec of your device to ensure you are buying the correct cable (these connections are different sizes). Here are examples of Micro-HDMI and Mini-HDMI cables available at Amazon.
If you have no spare HDMI ports on the back of your TV, you may also need to purchase an HDMI switch to add more, freeing up a port to connect your phone or tablet.
Connect Android to TV wirelessly
Because not all phones and tablets support HDMI connections, and cables strewn across the living room can be messy, a wireless solution may be preferable.
Casting content from your phone or tablet to your TV is actually really straightforward, but what confuses things is the huge number of terms that are used in conjunction with it, from Miracast and Wireless Display to screen mirroring, SmartShare and everything in between. There's also AirPlay, but this is used only for Apple devices.
Our advice is not to worry too much about these terms: you are merely looking for an option in your phone or tablet Settings that alludes to casting or screen mirroring, which may be found under Connected Devices or Display Settings, depending on your device.
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Most smart TVs will support screen mirroring from Android. If you don't have a smart TV, relatively cheap wireless display devices such as Chromecast and Roku can facilitate a wireless connection between your phone or tablet and TV, and have many other handy uses, too. Check that the screen mirroring option is enabled in the settings of whichever device you are using.
Now go back to your phone or tablet, and ensure it is connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your TV. Find the casting option and select your TV (or your Chromecast/Roku/other wireless HDMI device) to begin mirroring the screen. You may be asked to enter a code displayed on the TV to confirm you are connecting to the correct device.
You will want to put your phone or tablet in landscape mode, ensure the content you want to view is open in full-screen mode, and check the volume is not turned down or muted. You may also want to consider setting Do Not Disturb options to prevent incoming notifications interrupting playback, especially if they are likely to be private.
If the phone or tablet app in which you're viewing the content has a Cast icon at the top of it, or your phone or tablet has a Cast option in the quick access settings in Android's pull-down notification bar, this process is even simpler: tap Cast and select your TV or smart device to begin screen mirroring.
Do note that some apps, such as those from Sky, will not allow you to cast their content to a larger display. There is no way to get around this wthout paying for a package that allows you to watch that content on TV rather than mobile.
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0.022212 | <urn:uuid:e39be026-923d-4654-aaa0-f9fe57cbdbac> | en | 0.949918 | Why not a digital ID for all Sri Lankans?
In Sri Lanka, the prospect of each citizen having a unique digital identity card has raised some debate on certain aspects of such a card. It is not the intention of the authors of this article to examine the merits or demerits of the different opinions on this issue. Rather, it is our intention to explore and shed light on the use of a digital national identity card (NIC) in other nations. As with any other device, such cards must not be abused, but their usage should be of benefit to individuals, the public, and the country.
•Globally, 3.6 billion people are estimated to carry a NIC by 2021
•Many of the latest national NIC initiatives have been introduced or started (including cards and/or mobile platforms). For example, Afghanistan, Denmark, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Iran, Japan, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Bulgaria, the Maldives, Norway, Poland, Zambia, and a pilot programme in Myanmar are also being developed
•Banks have used the NIC as the safest way of accessing and demanding government credit for online services. The card is also the gateway to the bank’s website authentication
•Lawyers can now access the government portal via their national NIC via the online service provided by the Justice Ministry and digitally sign and upload legal proceedings
Sri Lankan authorities recently, once again, began moving to implement the Unique Digital Identity Card Project, which would provide central access to the information on every citizen through a magnetic strip or QR Code on a new unique digital identity card. This was to be expected, given the chaotic lack of current information that greatly hampered the anti-Covid effort over the past several months. The advent of Covid has brought forward a project that had earlier been mooted.
History of digital identity cards in Sri Lanka
The digitisation of citizens’ information was first looked at as far back in the 1990s, with the white-coloured driving licenses including a magnetic strip at significant cost, which was never utilised. The new NIC, which has been issued for a couple of years now, also includes such a magnetic strip, again unutilised. Sri Lankan passports have a magnetic strip that contains information, which is used by Immigration officers at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) for departing and arriving passengers, and also used by foreign immigration authorities.
The current idea for a digital identity card is not new either, having been floated nearly a decade ago.
Many private sector organisations already collect information on customers, especially employers, hospitals, supermarkets, airlines, hotels, and banks. These are manifested mainly in the form of loyalty cards or ATM cards, and so do multinational firms such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Apple, and Microsoft. Your Apple ID, Google account, Microsoft account, and many other “accounts” have multiple uses that are actually global in reach, allowing you to access your diverse digital accounts from anywhere in the world, whether you’re sitting in your living room or at work in a scientific station in Antarctica.
Many foreign governments also digitally collect our information, including our fingerprints, when we apply for visas.
Even some vehicles have digital identity cards in the form of the electronic toll collection (ETC) card that is stuck to the windshield of every vehicle that has been registered for passage through the ETC lane on the E03 Airport (Katunayake) Expressway.
Collection of citizens’ data by the Government
Collecting data on a population by a government is not at all unusual anywhere in the world. In Sri Lanka, we have literally dozens of different government, semi-government, and local government bodies that collect our data, literally from before we are born through our lifetimes and even many years after our deaths – government bodies such as the Registrar General’s Department for birth, marriage, and death certificates; Department of Census and Statistics; Elections Department (Commission); Registrar of Motor Vehicles (Department of Motor Traffic); Schools, Ministries of Sports and Education; Department of Examinations; Police Headquarters and local police stations; Inland Revenue Department; Sri Lanka Customs; grama niladaris, local government, and provincial government; Department of Pensions; Central Bank of Sri Lanka; Samurdhi Authority, agricultural authorities, and fishermen’s societies; etc. – you get the picture.
Thus, governments actually know a lot about every one of us, including where to find us within a few hours if they want to. What a single digital card would do would be to – in theory, at least – serve as a central point for all of this information that a government already has within its many disparate arms, for the benefit of both citizens and the government.
Multi-functions of one card when used optimally
But such cards also often have a variety of other functions and benefits. In addition to its primary function as a validation device, the NIC may, as part of the Government Multipurpose Card (GMPC) initiative, also serve as a useful driver’s licence, an ATM token, an electronic purse, and a public key, amongst other applications. The card shows many data items and carries different data categories in the chip, including biometrics, which are used by several government agencies and configured for extensibility and “feature creep”.
It could also facilitate safe internet electronic transactions. These include online returns of taxes, safe e-mail, and e-commerce. A new NIC payment model (NPM) has been proposed in many countries in accordance with the emergence of the e-commerce payment system, and thus another NIC feature, which is not only for identification purposes but also for e-commerce transactions, is brought to light.
In order to make this payment model appropriate to the public, two problems should be addressed: The question of trust and protection and the question of results. Two digital certificates can be used in the NIC’s public key infrastructure (PKI) programme.
The authors propose that the new NIC can be integrated with 10 (or more) functions as shown in Figure 1:
•Identification card and photo driving license:
·Name of cardholder
·NIC number
·Date of birth
·Place of birth
·Date of issue of NIC
·Residential address
·Barcode (NIC number can be retrieved when the barcode is scanned)
•Travel document in Sri Lanka and several neighbouring countries
•The card is intended to minimise the congestion at the borders by allowing the use of unmanaged gates with biometric identification (fingerprint) but is still required for international travel
Figure 2 provides examples of the advantages of such a card.
The inclusion of some multi-functions such as e-voting is likely to require Acts of Parliament or amendments to existing legislation.
Appointment and scheduling system for government
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You are what you eat! say the clean-eating gurus.
You are what you think about! say the Law-of-Attraction teachers.
Neither are wrong, exactly. I know from experience that the food you eat has a huge impact on how you feel, not just physically but also emotionally and mentally. The manifestation/attraction process indeed begins with one’s thoughts. And yet, somehow I always knew that the above statements only tell part of the full story.
Then during a training with Bob Proctor, the penny dropped. He said: “You are what you become emotionally involved with.” I immediately knew that this was it. It’s what I had been struggling to put into words. And the ramifications of this seemingly innocent sentence are manifold.
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Disclaimer: No, you don’t have to feel good all the time
I keep saying, writing, and teaching it, and I will continue to do so until I’m blue in the face and you’re sick of hearing it: None of this means that you must always feel good, or that you’re sabotaging yourself and/or your happiness when you feel angry, sad, or down.
Emotions are there to be experienced. When you lose someone you love, of course you’ll be mourning. It’s the natural way of things, and it’s not going to sabotage anything – otherwise, anyone who manifests with ease would be a cold-hearted monster. They’re not.
This is why I like Bob Proctor’s way of saying it so much. Years before, it was Lynn Grabhorn who first pointed out that it’s the feelings that matter for manifestation, not the thoughts (read her milestone book Excuse me, your life is waiting).
However, saying that it’s about feelings doesn’t go far enough and leaves room for interpretation and mistunderstandings like the above – that somehow, in order to manifest happiness and success, you can’t ever feel anything we label “negative”. And that’s rubbish.
What does “emotionally involved” mean?
Emotionally involved is not just feeling an emotion. We all “feel”, all day long. We’re happy, sad, angry, curious, bored, content, joyful, and frustrated. We laugh and we cry. We mourn, we celebrate. If all of this resulted in major manifestation or determined our character, we and our lives would be kaleidoscopes of ever-shifting shapes and colours.
This is why you needn’t worry or feel guilty about not feeling great about something. Putting obstacles in our way is life’s way of teaching us what we need to learn, and life’s not known for being particularly subtle about it. So if you’re reeling from a setback or loss, join the club. You’re not failing, you’re not being punished – you’re simply alive. Now go and feel your emotions.
“Involved” is something else. Emotionally, it’s the equivalent of getting serious about a relationship. You may be dating, you may even have a fling. You might get a little starry-eyed about someone. But once you feel your feelings solidifying, becoming stronger and steadier, you’re getting involved.
The same goes for everything else in life.
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Examples of emotional involvement
To put all this in more practical terms, I’ll give you a few examples.
Person A has a stressful job and often works overtime. That’s what makes her come alive; she’s “married to her job” and gains great satisfaction from meeting tight deadlines, living the company values, and gaining her managers’ approval.
Person A is clearly emotionally involved in her job.
Person B is also a dedicated employee with a great work ethic. When she’s in the office, she focuses on her work 100%. However, where Person B’s heart truly lies is in tennis, and so she sets clear boundaries around work-life balance. She trains several evenings a week and spends most weekends at regional tournaments.
Although Person B spends far fewer hours playing tennis than working, her emotional involvement is with tennis.
This is why passions are key
Are you beginning to see why I promote prioritising passions? And why it doesn’t matter whether or not you give up your job and/or make your passion a source of income? Or how good or bad you are at it?
If you can choose what and who you are, and shape yourself according to what you get emotionally involved with – why would you pick something stressful and cut-throat? Passions bring you joy. They make you overflow with happiness and ooze love from every pore. That’s something worth becoming, wouldn’t you agree?
Before you ask: If we’re going to stay with the relationship metaphor, then no, you don’t have to be monogamous with what you’re emotionally involved with. You can have a happy relationship and adore your kids, and still put a passion front and centre as well. You’re emotionally involved with all of these, and they make you who you are.
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What does this mean for you?
It means that you can choose what you become emotionally involved with. A while ago, I had you do an exercise where you added up the hours you spent on sleep, work, chores, passions etc. each week. This exercise is a great start and gives you some hints on your priorities. But it doesn’t tell the whole story.
The more accurate measure is your emotional involvement. You can be a good employee and work hard, but there’s no need to dedicate your whole life to your job. Pick and choose what you’d like more of in your life, how you would like to be and become. These are the things you should dive into with all your heart and soul.
P.S. Don’t worry about doing well at work: Person B above will get promoted long before Person A. Because happy people with a strong sense of self and strong boundaries make great leaders, they tend to be recognised in the workplace, often ahead of their overtime-working colleagues. Think about it!
• The Reason Why It’s So Hard To Slow Down
Slowing down is not just a subject I talk about a lot, it’s all over the internet. People talk about wanting a simple life. They post nostalgic memes of cosy cottages with fireplaces and happy people taking a walk on the beach.
We also spend a significant amount of our time on complaining about how busy we are. Two friends meet in the street, and you can bet they’ll talk about how much they have to do.
We obviously hate being so busy. So what’s our problem? Your mission today is to learn why it is so hard to slow down.
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Task 1: Why it’s so hard to slow down
We tend to think of being busy and stressed as bad. It’s what makes us tired, irritable and whiny. We basically bitch about it all the time! Therefore, what I’ll say next will come as a bit of a surprise.
The real reason why it’s so hard to slow down is that it’s easier to be busy.
This may sound ludicrous, but stress addiction is a thing. If you haven’t heard of it, I’ll briefly explain it: Stress causes our bodies to go into alert mode. Amongst other things, adrenalin is produced. This is a good thing if we need to escape a dangerous situation, which is what stress is meant for.
If stress becomes (semi-)permanent, though, it’s a problem. Constant high alert is really bad for the body. We get addicted to the adrenaline. And that, right there, is why it’s easier to stay busy than it is to slow down.
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Task 2: How to escape
No addiction is broken in a day. It’s usually a process and involves more than one step. I’ve listed a few things you can do in a previous episode, but today I’d like to focus on one particularly effective aspect: Your body.
Stress accumulates in the body, and the adrenaline circulates there as well. That’s why it’s a good idea to use your body to get rid of stress as well. You can do this by moving in any way whatsoever. Obviously, a walk in the forest would be great, but even walking inside your building is better than nothing.
Sport is great, too, but dancing is just as good. Get up and pace up and down for a minute or two. Do a five-minute yoga session. Every physical activity helps to reduce adrenaline and get you back into balance – and then you’ll be able to actually put up your feet and read, rather than rushing towards the next adrenaline fix.
• Why You’re Not Who You Think You Are
Apologies for the in-your-face title. Who am I to tell you what you think about yourself is wrong?
Well, actually, I do have grounds for this, because I work with a lot of people and I see how widespread these misconceptions about oneself are. Still, what I’m saying might not apply to you – it’s not a universal truth. Therefore, judge for yourself.
Your mission today is to learn why you might not be who you think you are, and what to do to fully become who you are.
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Task 1: Why aren’t you who you think you are?
We tend to think that we know best who we are. To a certain extent, this is definitely true. Nobody else can tell us what to do or what we want.
And yet we don’t always see the picture clearly. We tend to identify with what feels familiar about ourselves. It feels right and true because it’s been with us for a long time.
But what if not all of this is our true self? We all get conditioned by our families, schools, peers, by the way we grow up. Some people are deeply traumatised, something that’s been imposed upon them.
This also means that who we truly are, might actually feel wrong.
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Task 2: Learn who you truly are
So how can you tell who you truly are, especially if it feels wrong? There’s a process to this, and it can take some time and get messy, but here are the basic steps:
• Heal what needs to be healed. Think of it as unlearning what other people tried to make you.
• Remember your earliest dreams and wishes. What were your dreams and daydreams like as a child?
• Explore your passion(s). Passions say something about you on a very deep level.
Knowing who you are also makes it easier to say no when something is not aligned with your true being. It might be a journey, but it’s worth the effort.
• Don’t Speed Up, Slow Down
Classic motivation tends to sound like this: Do the thing! Take action! Crush it! We follow, get inspired for a day or two, and then fall off the wagon, feeling terrible about ourselves.
Has it occurred to you that maybe the fault isn’t with you, but with the “get going and crush it” mentality? I say: don’t speed up, slow down instead.
Your mission today is to learn how to actually get shit done, and be happier along the way.
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Task 1: Understand the lure of motivational talk
The thing with motivational talk is, it’s so wonderfully contagious. Got unresolved emotional pain or a health issue? Just jump up and get shit done anyway! You’ll feel like a hero.
Unfortunately, this is highly toxic for the exact reasons it is also attractive: Because it ignores issues. Emotional pain or health issues don’t go away if they’re being ignored, they’ll find other outlets and can turn very destructive.
Task 2: Your obstacle course
Becoming immune to the “crush it” mentality is like an obstacle course. That’s not because you’re too superficial to face your problems, by the way. It’s because of how addictive constant “action” is.
I’ve spoken about stress addiction before, so I’ll not belabour it here. This task is mostly a heads-up for you to expect it to be difficult. Otherwise, you’ll become yet another person who thinks “I could meditate/slow down/etc., I’m just XYZ (too busy or I don’t need it)”.
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Task 3: Don’t speed up, slow down
So what can you do to get there? I suggest a quick, do-able ritual:
• Grab a cup of something
• Light a candle
• Take a deep breath
• Ask yourself gently: How are you?
• Listen
It’ll take a while until you hear more than the stereotypical “fine”. The important part is deep listening. If you do this ritual every day, you will eventually get an answer. Then you can act accordingly – truly meaningful action towards a goal that’s important to you.
• Joy Is A Profound Emotion (Not Just Sadness Or Anger)
I remember watching an interview with David Bowie many years ago, where he said that people always equate profound emotion and also deep thought with things like anger or sadness, when really it’s much more subversive nowadays to be happy.
Joy is anything but a superficial emotion, and it’s well worth pursuing. Your mission today is to learn why this is so and how you can go about it.
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Task 1: Why joy is a profound emotion
I’ve spoken about our evolutionary negativity bias before, but this goes far beyond that. It’s about the way we have created almost a cult around anything negative today.
News exploit the fact that people are drawn to negativity. Even academics has succumbed to the cult of the sad and angry, to the point where fictional books or movies with a happy ending are seen as shallow on principle.
Historically, strong emotions have always moved artists to create their best works. However, it’s not just sadness or frustration, but also happiness, being in love, finding joy – just think of religious hymns and paintings. Joy is a profound emotion, too.
Task 2: The challenges of focusing on joy
As Bowie stated, in our culture it’s akin to a revolutionary act to be happy. You’ll be faced with all sorts of prejudices and obstacles such as:
• People will assume that you’re superficial
• People will assume that you’re naive and inexperienced
• Some will try and take advantage of you
• “Negativity-splainers” will go out of their way to tell you negative stories to make you more “realistic”
To stand against the united forces of negativity takes a lot. Stick it out, though; it’s worth it.
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Task 3: How to pursue joy and happiness
Here are three steps you can take to become a happy revolutionary:
• Stop watching or reading news for a while
• List 3 things you’re grateful for every day
• If you’re happy and you know it… acknowledge it. Write it down, tell others.
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Abstract: The abductive natural language inference task ($\alpha$NLI) is proposed to infer the most plausible explanation between the cause and the event. In the $\alpha$NLI task, two observations are given, and the most plausible hypothesis is asked to pick out from the candidates. Existing methods model the relation between each candidate hypothesis separately and penalize the inference network uniformly. In this paper, we argue that it is unnecessary to distinguish the reasoning abilities among correct hypotheses; and similarly, all wrong hypotheses contribute the same when explaining the reasons of the observations. Therefore, we propose to group instead of ranking the hypotheses and design a structural loss called ``joint softmax focal loss'' in this paper. Based on the observation that the hypotheses are generally semantically related, we have designed a novel interactive language model aiming at exploiting the rich interaction among competing hypotheses. We name this new model for $\alpha$NLI: Interactive Model with Structural Loss (IMSL). The experimental results show that our IMSL has achieved the highest performance on the RoBERTa-large pretrained model, with ACC and AUC results increased by about 1\% and 5\% respectively.
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Those from higher social class backgrounds tend to be more successful in developing career aspirations and are generally better prepared for the world of work because of access to resources such as career offices, guidance counselors, better schools, high level “social actors,” and familial experience with higher
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0.08247 | <urn:uuid:d31efef7-9268-4b6a-8d38-bae2a9db4aae> | en | 0.952584 | Wednesday, 03 September 2014 00:00 J. D. Longstreet Editorial Dept - Free Press
News The Government Approves! - First, allow me to offer this warning: Do not, for one moment, believe the FCC has backed off it's CIN (Critical Information Needs) initiative. It WILL be back, in another guise, most likely as a study to determine if minority ownership of broadcast stations is at a satisfactory level. Of course, it is not -- at least not in the eyes of the Democratic Party.
It has been a while in coming but, as an old retired broadcaster, I have been expecting this move by the government for a very long time. Once "The Dictator," Obama, moved into the White House it was but a matter of time.
Ajit Pai, a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, was so upset about this move by the government to filter the news we get daily from the broadcast -- AND -- print media that he wrote an article about if for the Wall Street Journal Online. Here are HIS words:
"... The government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories." - SOURCE
Before we go on, allow me to explain for those of you who have never been involved in the broadcast business -- the FCC is basically the same to broadcasters as the IRS is to all taxpayers. Only worse. The FCC holds the life of a broadcast station in it's hands. They can revoke the station's license when they choose and that station, that business, is kaput!
So. Understand this: When the FCC makes a "suggestion" it is taken as a commandment from on high. If they say: Jump." The station licensee says: "How high?" Then, without waiting for a reply, jumps as high as he can.
I was in broadcasting in one of the training areas of the FCC for nearly two decades. I had far more dealings with FCC inspectors than I ever --- ever --- wanted. Working in pairs they'd hit a station in the early morning and spend most of the day going over that station's logs -- transmitter logs, program logs, and such. The entire building became a pressure cooker during those hours.
In a training area, as we were, we knew the "new guy" was going to attempt to impress his trainer, so, we expected, and got, everything short of a body cavity search by the trainee. It was brutal.
So when the FCC says they are going to ask the station personnel to "tell the government about their news philosophy and how the station ensures that the community gets critical information." That's not EXACTLY how it will work. Allow me to translate that for you into the language every broadcaster knows: It means the FCC is going to tell the broadcaster that these are eight categories of critical information the licensee WILL begin covering immediately, and, I am sure, make reports to the FCC as to what was aired, when it was aired , the name of the person broadcasting the coverage, etc.. As I said above -- a suggestion from the FCC is understood to be a commandment.
The democrats have been trying to reestablish the old Fairness Doctrine which shackled broadcasters for decades -- dating back to 1949. The FCC stopped enforcing the policy in 1987 and finally took it off the books in 2011. There had been scads of lawsuits filed by broadcasters and broadcasting associations pleading that the Fairness Doctrine did not serve the public interest and did, indeed, infringe upon freedom of the press. What it DID do was cause a lot of dial turning as people switched stations to get away from the dry public affairs topics and banal discussions of topics they hadn't the slightest interest in.
This is, in my opinion, a violation of the First Amendment. But it doesn't matter. The Obama Regime has already completely trashed the constitution.
This is another glaring reason we need to clean out the US Senate in November and put a conservative in the Oval Office in 2016. As long as a Democrat occupies the Oval Office, the Democratic Party will have control of the FCC. That's the way it works. Control changes with the party in the Oval office.
I think Byron York of the Washington Examiner summed it up best. He said: "If the FCC goes forward, it's not clear what will happen to news organizations that fall short of the new government standards. Perhaps they will be disciplined. Or perhaps the very threat of investigating their methods will nudge them into compliance with the administration's journalistic agenda. What is sure is that it will be a gross violation of constitutional rights." - SOURCE
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Obviously, they were trying to debunk. The problem is that… well, it’s that the Clinton Foundation is a pretty suspect shop. There’s no way around it.
Also: I harp on Buzzfeed a lot, but it was pretty helpful of Ben Smith to present this in a nice, concise chunk for later dissemination. I didn’t have to do anything except scoop it out of the box, and onto the plate. Thanks, guys! | http://moelane.com/2015/04/21/clinton-foundation-bribery-corruption-crony-capitalism-war-crimes/ | dclm-gs7-060010035 |
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December 22, 2018
Just Say No to Surveillance Capitalism
by Ballard Quass
How social physics teams up with the drug war to give a knock-out blow to human transcendence
Christopher Columbus demands that natives join Facebook for surveillance purposes
As Shoshana Zuboff reveals in her 2019 book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," one of the biggest cheerleaders of that new data-based economic system is Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland of MIT, an expert in the creation of creepy software designed to harvest data about a wired Netizen's feelings and intentions. But Pentland's goals are more ambitious than just enabling a new approach to economic control. He envisions a Skinnerian world run according to the mathematical principles of "social physics," a brave new world in which humans are controlled by the once-maligned processes of operant conditioning, with the behavior of formerly free citizens being nudged and corralled by data-controlled algorithms designed to steer their actions in "beneficial" directions, at least as the term "beneficial" is defined by Pentland's deep-pocketed clients.
"Such dehumanization sucks," you may say, "because it treats human beings as widgets. But what does it have to do with the drug war and the DEA?"
When the Conquistadores arrived in South America, they immediately saw the ritual use of psychoactive plants as demonic. Why? Because their rational European mind was laden with a material bias that denied any special abilities to the conscious mind. The idea that psychoactive plant use could open up new useful visions was therefore entirely foreign to them. They therefore had no compunction in abolishing such plant-based rituals, often abolishing the tribes that practiced them, too, for good measure.
The Conquistadores' attack on the humanity of indigenous peoples can be seen as part one of a two-part process of social control spanning half a millennium. The Conquistadores stole the soul from the indigenous people in the 1600s by denying them one customary means of self-transcendence. Now, hundreds of years later, Social Physics has come along to tell us how the social reality of the dispossessed can be re-created, not through transcendent experiences with plants, of course (since the materialist Conquistador mentality maintains its grasp on the western mind, even in post-colonial times), but through the robotization of humankind.
Viewed in this light, all Americans (and the world, for that matter) face the plight of those indigenous people, for we have all been barred from accessing transcendence through plants, thanks to the drug war. And now, to add insult to this unconstitutional injury, materialists like Pentland come along to quantify the soulless residuum of our lives with algorithmic formulas to ensure that our stymied ambitions for transcendence become acceptable to us as the new status quo. If we're unhappy about being transformed into Pentland's predictable data-making robots, not to worry: algorithms will be written that will sense our distress and take appropriate action, adding a smiley face to our online calendar, perhaps, along with a link to a feel-good article about puppies that were recently rescued from a puppy mill.
Pentland's ideal world seems to be one in which the richest capitalists are happy and the rest of us are pacified. This is a world that uses the average person as a widget to ensure the happiness of the top 1%. It is a despotic project that sees efficiency as the ultimate good, while viewing personal transcendence as the enemy. Why? Because transcendence can result in behavioral changes that cannot be predicted by data-crunching algorithms, changes that may even predispose some to overthrow the whole Big Brother project of social control entailed by social physics.
When it comes to humanity's desire for personal transcendence, the drug war has already knocked us down "for the count." Now Pentland's "social physics" wants to come along and deliver the coup de grâce to our aspirations, by using data-based algorithms to construct a reality in which humanity will be taught to make its peace with a strictly material and economically focused world.
Conclusion: It's time to just say no to surveillance capitalism.
The author has been accused of being "reactionary" for comparing the modern drug warrior to the Conquistadores of yore. Here is his response:
There is an ideological current running through western culture that can be discerned from Columbus to Donald Trump, wherein we, the west, think we know what's best for other countries. When the Conquistadores shut down the mushroom cults in South America and killed thousands of the adherents, the act was motivated by the same self-assured scientistic and religious hubris that America demonstrates when it travels overseas today to eradicate plants that have been used responsibly by other cultures for millennia, and doing so without a care in the world for the feeling of the locals. The motivation is philosophically the same, then as now, as is the goal: to spread western ways around the world and make the world safe for alcohol and tobacco and Christianity and give them a monopoly.
I believe using the term "conquistadores" is important to show how modern drug warrior attitudes are not appearing out of nowhere, as if by magic, but that they are part of a western intolerance toward other cultures that dates back many centuries, at least to the time of Emperor Theodosius II when he outlawed the psychedelic-fueled Eleusinian Mysteries in 389 AD. For while the west has largely abandoned the intolerant church, they have not abandoned the intolerance associated with it.
To summarize: I did not mention "conquistadores" randomly and in order to shock, but rather to highlight a thread of intolerance toward other cultures and "other ways of being" that runs through western history. For again, the drug war mentality did not spring like Venus, ready-made out of a clam shell. It came from a European Christian culture that has long felt it acceptable to run roughshod over the religious and cultural practices of non-westerners. We shouldn't hide this fact from our adversaries in an effort to sound conciliatory, but rather get them used to hearing the truth, that, unbeknownst to them, they are perpetuating a reign of western intolerance for other cultures that has been going on now for millennia.
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In which Kaden Isaiah Stone smiled, is loved, fought, and lived :: dallas children's medical center lifestyle photographer
"When destiny calls you, you must be strong.
We'll show them together, cause you'll be in my heart.
Yes, you'll be in my and forever more."
|| phil collins - you'll be in my heart ||
Last August I received an email from someone I had never met or heard of named Ashley. She was a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Photographer in Fort Myers, Florida with a ministry of sorts called "Ounces of Hope Photography" in memory of her son that passed away as an infant. It's basically a group of photographers who come do photography for parents whose little ones are struggling for life in the NICU. She had stumbled upon my blog posts about my preemie cousin, Atlas while searching for Dallas NICU photographers. She said an online friend of hers named Diana from El Paso had just given birth to a full term, 7 pound, beautiful baby boy named Kaden. Just the previous May, Diana had given birth to identical twin boys, Preston and Julian, who tragically were born at only 20 weeks and lived only a brief amount of time in their mother's arms. Afterwards they suffered a failed adoption before finding out they were pregnant with another son! So Kaden -- healthy, full term, nothing-could-be-more-perfect, never-to-replace-the-twins-but-definitely-a-balm-for-the-ache Kaden was what some would call, their "rainbow baby." His first days were blissful and nothing but a sigh of relief. After so much unbearable pain...he was here. Breathing, living, growing, thriving. Everything was as it should be. But wasn't.
It had been a long, high risk, and very hard pregnancy and yet it appeared nothing had affected this little guy. It was as if "despite it all" he had come out completely and totally unscathed! In fact, though he was in the NICU, it was for precautionary purposes only and they were preparing to go home! It was on that day that through a sudden sickening whirlwind with beeping monitors and doctors with furrowed brows and test results, it was discovered that Sam and Diana Stone's "rainbow baby" had a hurting heart. Kaden’s heart wasn’t pumping almost any blood out of his lower ventricles into his body. While his stats were actually good, the definition of this was heart failure. The doctors there at Children's Medical Center in Dallas were telling them that a small chance that the heart could heal itself was possible. Small, but possible. More than likely they were looking at him needing a heart transplant. Their life with a perfectly healthy rainbow baby had come to a screeching halt and their life with a son in very critical condition was only beginning.
And this is why Ashley was contacting me. Kaden's first days had taken a dark turn and now each day had turned into a tangible and fleeting treasure. She was frantically searching for someone, ANYone to go photograph this precious blessing. This fragile human, this eternal soul, this diseased and tiny body who had a story of worth, and value, and purpose. It needed to be documented...and somehow, through God's Providential means of Google, I was going to be the one to document it. I told Ashley I would be honored, she gave me Diana's number, and within a couple of hours I had arranged a trip to Dallas the next day. He was born on August 5, 2013 and I came on August 17. For almost two weeks, Kaden Isaiah (which means "Fighter" and "God is Salvation") had been making his tiny and yet profound mark on the world and burrowing his way achingly deep into his parent's hearts. When I stepped into his hospital room, it was hauntingly drear and confusingly peaceful. I was stepping on what seemed to be the very balance of life and death and it was nothing less than hallowed sacred ground.
As I walked in, Sam and Diana's love was a force -- present and palpable, that seemed to engulf the entire room. They had seen the utter depths of each other and were clinging fiercely to each fiber and heartstring in their spouse. There I saw them, two people who had been highschool sweethearts, a military couple, parents to a quirky, dinosaur loving, inquisitive toddler aged imaginer named Bella, parents who watched their twin boys take their last breaths, parents who were fighting to cherish their new son who's homecoming trip had slipped through their fingers like sand in a hourglass. They had a bond of tear and bloodstained strength, a cord of love as tough as steel and yet as tender as silk. The weight of their sorrow and tenacity and adoration and fight and exhaustion and desire was suffocating and warm like the thickest blanket on the coldest night.
Elephants were Kaden's "theme." The plan was for them to adorn his nursery at home, but instead they were found scattered about his hospital room. Wherever they had to celebrate and welcome him during his first days, it would be done.
The amount that Sam and Diana had been able to hold Kaden since his condition had been discovered had been slim to none. But God, who does all things right, and well, and special, and purposefully had it ordained that the very day I would come to take pictures was a day that they were allowed to hold him. A few days afterwards, I received an incredibly thankful text from Diana who said they hadn't been able to hold Kaden since then and so they were so thrilled that I had been there. <3
Seeing a loving mother with her child -- no matter how helpless, or scared, or confused, or tired, she is -- is one of the most powerful things. In that moment she didn't have to be "Diana the mom who knows everything", "Diana the mom who has all the answers", "Diana the mom who can take her son's sickness away", "Diana the mom who could reverse or erase all the bad happening around her"....she was just, "Diana. Kaden's mom." And that was not just okay, it was enough. And not in a reaching on your tiptoes to brush the top of what you're grasping for kind of a full belly, exact change, perfect fit kind of enough. In fact, even a cup overflowing, abounding, over and beyond kind of enough. Diana couldn't heal Kaden, but she could love him with every breath, and thought, and bone in her body. She could fight for him with every question, and prayer, and "I love you." Sam and Diana made it very clear that Kaden wasn't just "liked" or "appreciated", he was desperately wanted. Their prayers for a miracle were not half hearted but a painful begging and pleading. Their souls yearned for their son to be healed with an all consuming thirst. They sought God in their dark path and clung tightly to him, trusting that His way would be right in the end.
When I came Kaden had already had several procedures to try and stabilize him. For the most part he seemed to be doing incredibly well. he was critical but appeared to be on a slow uphill battle and not a downhill spiral. As the days passed on after I left, Kaden's condition fluctuated violently. It was like from second to second he could be equally as likely to be rushed into an OR for a heart transplant as he would be struggling to live. As I faithfully followed Diana's blog updates, I had a catch in my chest every time she posted. He was being prayed for so hard by so many. They had found out he had a very rare virus called HHV-6 that had caused the heart condition. As answers became clearer, his status worsened. They had their daughter Bella come from El Paso to Dallas to meet her brother. Diana spoke with such reality and honesty about her pain, her anger, her desperate aching for a miracle. She was confident that God was sovereign and had a perfect plan but she was a mother who indescribably wanted this baby boy of hers. On August 26, 2013 Kaden Isaiah Stone breathed his last breath. He passed just as his older brothers had....nuzzled and snuggled in his Mama's arms. He was perfect. He was wanted. He was loved. He was fought for. And yet, he was still gone. But so was his pain. So was his struggle. He had skipped past the veil that separates this world from the next and he left his grieving parents and sister and family behind. His pain was over, but their pain was deepened and intensified. God's plans are not always the prettiest. They are not always the breath of fresh air, the silver lining, the sweetest aroma, or the coziest embrace. God's paths are often rocky -- they tear and bleed and scratch, His paths are often cold -- we shiver and catch fevers and grow numb, His paths are often bleak -- we cry hard, and hurt deep, and misunderstand everything, His paths are often dark -- we trip because we can't see, get afraid of the blackness, feel incredibly alone. But His paths always lead us rushing straight to Him. The rocky paths lead us, banged up and bruised, to Him -- the Great Physician. The cold paths lead us into His warm arms of protection and comfort. His paths of bleakness lead us to His throne of grace and mercy where He scoops us into His arms of love. His paths of darkness lead us to His shining light that drives out all the dark and leads us on to perfect eternal day.
"He’s no longer a name or an event or an “in memory of”. He’s my little, tiny, 7lb 6 oz son who made noises and looked at me and turned his head towards our voices and had a whirl of hair in the back like Bella did. He had a crib that still sits in the guest room, clothes that are packed away with tags on. He was so perfect, so wonderful, so wanted and loved. We are going to live with this forever. Preston, Julian, Kaden. I will never get over this. I will be an old woman and I will still long for them and what was supposed to have been with their little lives. This isn't me wanting more children or not appreciating Bella – this is a mama grieving for the little boys she wanted so much. I cling to Jesus in these moments...."Thou He slay me, I will hope in Him" - Diana on what her everyday is like now.
October is Infant Loss and Miscarriage Awareness Month. Today I was on the phone for over an hour with my mother who was weeping. What was on her mind? Three little ones whose name, and sex, and face she never got to know. 9 weeks growing in her womb is something they all three have in common as well. They were so celebrated, and so wanted, and so loved. They were as precious to us in the moment as any freshborn baby is. They were just as appreciated and delightful as any 8 month old I see cooing, being pushed in a stroller that I pass on the street. Their personhood was just as important and real as Kaden's. And though my mother can't put a face to them, she grieves and mourns the loss of each little soul whose bodies were once multiplying rapidly inside her. Our wedding photographer, on May 10, shot our wedding with grace, and professionalism, and personality, and talent, and spunk, and care. 6 days before that, she had given birth to a 14 week old son named Ryan Day who never even took a breath of earth's air. I did not know it at the time, but when I found out soon after, my heart threatened to break in two. I can name woman after woman who I am acquainted with to different degrees who have little ones who are dually represented by a positive pregnancy test and a grave. Today, on the last day of this month, I want to "make a big deal", and celebrate, and praise God, and rejoice over each and every one of these babies. Ones whose eyes only saw their mother's wombs, ones whose eyes opened to Earth for only a short time, and ones who hadn't even gotten eyes yet! From conception to full term, to a few hours on Earth, to a few weeks....these babies have their names written on the hands of God. They have a purpose and a place in Heaven's Kingdom. They are wanted and loved on earth in a small trifle of a way compared to how much they are wanted and loved in Heaven. We might not be able to see why these babies dying was necessary, but I can assure you, these babies living must mean something to their Creator. One day, I have confidence that I will meet my little siblings....I don't know what that'll be like. I don't know what my relationship to them will be, I don't know what they'll look like or how I will even know. But it will be so dizzyingly right that my soul does cartwheels just thinking about it. Much love and prayers to every woman and family that has been touched and affected by infant loss and miscarriage in some way. These tiny lives are some of the best representations for the vapor that this life is. They are never forgotten....always cherished....forever loved.
Monday, October 20, 2014
In Which Hannah + Aaron get married and are a perfect blend :: gilmer, tx wedding and lifestyle photographer
"Love of my life
Look deep in my eyes...
For better or worse
Forever we'll be...
You're my beloved lover
I'm yours"
|| tenth avenue north - beloved ||
In a small country church, a cop and a chef exchanged vows and became Mr. and Mrs. Bradley. This is the wedding story of some of the most caring, kind, softhearted, gentle, and tender lovers I've ever had the honor to work with.
Aaron and Hannah first spent time together at a Sunday School ski trip. Hannah caught Aaron's eye right away but he discovered she was dating someone else at the time. He reluctantly did his best to ignore his feelings and try to forget her. A couple of months later, Aaron happened to pull Hannah over for running a stop sign in his area of jurisdiction. (Super romantic right? ;) ) He warned her about the violation and further realized she had an expired inspection sticker. He came to find out a short time later that she was no longer in a relationship. (Hey hey!)
A few weeks later he got a text from an unknown number saying they had fixed their inspection sticker. When he asked for their name he was shocked to get the reply, "This is Hannah!" The girl he was desperately trying to forget because she was taken, was now single, and talking to him! His heart stopped as they continued texting.
As the months went by, they kept making excuses to see each other and going out of their way to spend time together. As things grew more obvious and teetered on the fence of "just friends" and "more than", he went to her dad and asked for permission to officially begin dating this girl he'd been crazy about for months. Their first date went wonderful...lunch, fishing, and walking for hours. Things couldn't be better!
But then Hannah went off on a five week long mission trip. Being separated for over a month only impressed upon Aaron's heart how much he cared for Hannah. Every day they were apart, she consumed his thoughts. When she returned they celebrated the 4th of July together. He opened up to her letting her know that he wanted no one else but her. He was 110% committed to their relationship and believed God was calling them past dating and onto spending their entire lives together as husband and wife.
That day they held hands for the first time. :)
After sharing their first "I love you"s and their first kiss over the summer and fall, Aaron's mind was reeling trying to plan the perfect proposal that winter. They were going on the same ski trip that started it all at the beginning of January. But his tentative plan spread like wildfire and he was afraid Hannah, who loved surprises, would find out before he was able to pull it off. And so it was, that at a Christmas Eve family get together, he successfully surprised her, proposed, and was thrilled by her resounding YES! :)
And that "yes" lead to this humid August day, with bright gray and blue overcast skies to match the color scheme of the wedding, vibrant greens, an exquisite lace wedding gown (worn by her big sister two years ago!), lots of sweet tears, a handful of cop buddies, and two in love coffee drinkers.
Hannah's darling sister Rachel (the one previously mentioned), did the bride's hair and makeup. Watching these two giggle and tear up together was priceless. There's something surreal about being there for your sissy on the day you both dreamed about as littles. All the dress up, Barbie dolls, playing house, Disney princesses, and Easy Bake ovens suddenly collide into real wedding days, and strapping husbands, and marriage, and happily ever afters. It's a magical thing for baby girls and grown up girls alike. ;)
This is Noah, the ring bearer and future heartthrob of America. (Don't quote me on this...but also don't be surprised if I end up being right.) He walked into the room, took one look at Hannah and said in a small, polite, and most genuine voice, "Oh you look beautiful. I love your dress. Do you like my suit?"
The diamond necklace Hannah wore proved to be as stubborn as it was stunning. No matter how many times Rachel put it on her, it kept flipping upside down, or backwards, or twisting. Just when they thought they had finally put it on right, it would go askew again. That is until their Daddy, who happens to be a jeweler, came in and saved the day.
Most little girls think their dad is their hero, but Mr. Shaw was true hero material exactly when she needed it most. And how many dads can expertly help with jewelry? Ultimate cool points.
Their first look is when I first witnessed Aaron and Hannah's love in action. The minute he turned around and pulled her close with such tenderness, and deep affection, and looked at her like she was the most magnificent thing he had ever seen I choked up. I guess I was expecting him to be a "tough guy" type since he's a cop but, the truth is, when it comes to his bride, he was a "softie" with a bold and honest love for her. It was powerful to watch.
Throughout the whole necklace struggle, Hannah laughed saying, "It's not like Aaron's really gonna care about my necklace anyway!" Funny enough, after their first embrace, he stood back to get a better look at her and his first words were, "Wow! Your necklace is really pretty! I love it!" Figures. ;)
"I was doing so good! No tears the whole morning and then...I saw you."
Barefoot bride. Yes please. <3
All her adorable nephews and her one cutie pie niece, Sydni. :)
When Rachel began to pray, she was understandably overcome with emotion. As the tears flowed, words were impossible through the sobs. But right as the lump in all of our throats grew to an unbearable size and our mascara threatened to run, somebody's upbeat funky ringtone crashed its way into the room obliterating the tearful mood and turned all the weeping into roaring laughter. :)
As the unity portion of the ceremony, they put together a cross...the outside stood for the man and the intricate middle piece stood for the woman. The two pieces were held together by three pegs that symbolized God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
This moment, right before the kiss...look at them! So overjoyed to be joining as one and beginning their married life, so delighted to wholly belong to one another...this spoke more to me of their love than the actual kiss.
And as they walked down? Aaron had another surprise up his sleeve....
They are a happy pair in the best kind of love. <3
I thought Hannah and Aaron's wedding bands were especially beautiful, and then I heard they belonged to Aaron's great-grandparents who were married for over 50 years. He wanted them as a symbol for him and Hannah to follow in that wonderful example of lifelong love. Then I saw, through tear-filled eyes, that the bands were priceless.
Aaron told me while they were engaged,
"Hannah is a breath of fresh air on a hot muggy afternoon. She is the sun after months of rain and gloom. I love her gentle caring nature, her chastity, purity, and virtue. I love her sense of humor, her common sense, and her serving heart...
...I love her face and the gracefulness of her neck. Of course I love everything else about her body but her face and neck are my particular favorites at this point in time.... ;)
...Hannah is very well put together and carries herself with grace. I also appreciate her smile."
And Hannah told me,
"I love Aaron's caring and gentle spirit. His selflessness and servant's heart shines out. Aaron is very sensible, but he has a silly side too. He's just the right amount of romantic! :) I love that he makes me feel safe, and he makes me feel beautiful. Oh! And he's handsome too...big plus. ;)"
They are both quite smitten. :)
The dads both gave a charge to and prayed over them. Precious.
Because the pavement was hot and she was barefoot, he didn't think twice about scooping her right up and carrying her out. Testament after testament of how this man cherishes, provides for, and nurtures his sweet lady.
The final goodbyes to her beloved mama and big sister. She is so so loved.
Thank you two soooo much for letting me capture your sweet wedding day. I was delighted to share in all the tears, and laughs, and preciousness. Hope y'all have been abundantly blessed in and greatly enjoyed your first months of marriage.
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Red Apple
Trebble Duet Nr.1
August 7
Eastern Caravan
Like Rocks
Trebble Duet Nr. 2
East West
Bossa for Kitsa
Trebble Duet Nr. 3
Summer's End
Elektra Kurtis & Ensemble Elektra :
Bridges from the East
Bridges from the East, the new CD from Polish born Elektra Kurtis comes straight out of the composer's Greek heritage. Always an outsider, Kurtis' music is deeply personal with interweaving elements referencing different music styles and origins. Committed to making the music her own, Bridges from the East reflects the sound of Eastern Europe and North Africa, cultures Kurtis relates to the most, and although separated geographically all of this music is connected by human spirit, emotion, ethics, and expression.
Deeply influenced by 20th Century Classical composers such as Bartok, Stravinsky, and Lutoslawski, as well as Jazz and Arabic folk music, Kurtis' cultural threads are expressed on this disc through her Quintet - Ensemble Elektra which she started in the 1980s. Here's a breakdown on the tracks:
1. Triton is dedicated to the Greek sea god with the horn which is heard the opening theme.
2. Hasaposerviko is Part 1 of "Rhapsody in Greek," a dance utilizing the flavor of Rebetiko in the first section followed by an original dance feel in the second.
3. Red Apple starts with a Polish folk theme which develops into an improvisatory irregular groove.
4. 334 is a chromatic, angular play on rhythms.
5. Trebble Duet Nr.1 was inspired by Bartok, Henry Threadgill and Steve Coleman and includes improvisations on eastern modes and rhythms.
6. Zeibekiko is Part 2 of "Rhapsody in Greek." A jazzy dance with a 9/8 rhythmic pattern, the track mixes Arabic, Greek and New York flavors.
7. August 7 was written for Kurtis' Mother on the day she lost her fight with cancer. It is about her Mother's journey on the Greek mythological Styx River, the divide between Earth and the Underworld. Her boat moves through the water and disappears from sight.
8. Eastern Caravan was inspired by Argentinian tango as well as the music of the European Gypsies.
9. Like Rocks, a composition which evolved over time, reveals the realization of what is truly significant in life.
10. Kalamatianos, Part 3 of "Rhapsody in Greek," is written in a 7/8 rhythmic pattern and references Arabic and Greek musical styles.
11. Trebble Duet Nr. 2 is Part 2 of 3 duets.
12. Krakus is based on themes inspired by the Polish mountains – Podhale. The driving bass line compliments the changing moods of the track with clarinet and violin solos.
13. East West was inspired by the Greek art song masters of the 60s and 70s, Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hadjidakis. Their long melodic phrases and folk dance rhythms create an off center, contemporary Zeibekiko dance.
14. Bossa for Kitsa was written by Kurtis' for her dear Aunt Kitsa on the day she got the news about her accidental passing in Athens, Greece. Aunt Kitsa was a lively, energetic, and resourceful lady, and a fabulous cook. The Bossa feel fits her very well.
15. Trebble Duet Nr.3. Part 3 of 3 duets.
16. Summer's End, the closer was written at the end of a hot New York City summer and the funky track uses irregular meter and several driving bass lines to make it's point. | http://www.crossovermedia.net/artists/elektra-kurtis-ensemble-elektra/projects/bridges-from-the-east/album/ | dclm-gs7-060160035 |
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first and second round effects of external prices rises on inflation
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first and second round effects of external prices rises on inflation
bank systemic contagion marker GDP 1: gross domestic product [GDP]
supply-side economics - laffer curves and 'trickle down' marker GDP 2: GDP and other quality of life measurements
on stimulus spending and multipliers
There is a major problem in discussing ‘inflation’ - the confusion of external price rises, for example a rise in world energy prices.
Price rises are not ‘inflation’.
But price rises will show up in measures claimed to reflect inflation, such as RPI or CPI indices. Thus, such indices reflect both inflation and external price rises.
Higher external commodity prices such as energy prices also have the potential to put downward pressures on living standards.
This is a useful talk by Ben Bernanke (mid-2006) discussing this problem:
“[...] economists have struggled to understand the ways that disturbances to the supply and demand balance in energy markets influence economic growth and inflation [...]”
The talk includes useful summaries of oil and gas markets.
“[...] Because the United States imports much of the oil that it consumes, an increase in oil prices is, as many economists have noted, broadly analogous to the imposition of a tax on U.S. residents, with the revenue from the tax going to oil producers abroad [...]”
Those first and second round effects:
That is, substitution could work to offset pressures on fossil fuels.
Marker at abelard.org
PS. Here is Bernanke’s presentation before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress, 8 November, 2007, mostly on the current credit crunch.
He is not the genius that Alan Greenspan is, but he looks like a good solid workman and doubtless experience will grow.
Marker at abelard.org
someone will get me paranoid!!
Ron Paul went into questioning Bernanke at the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress presentation. He did something unusual among politicians. He spoke as if he understood money.
The programme broadcast of the questioning of Bernanke inconveniently broke at that point.
Since that time I have been chasing around for a transcript, thus far without success.
I have seen Paul’s interaction referred to as ‘a rant’, all the time without real transcript of his comments.
I did find a link to a video of Paul’s questioning, but when I went to call it, I found that it had been removed!!
Persisting, I have come up with other video links from earlier Paul-Bernanke interactions:
Here are a couple of them - highly recommended:
[3:34 minutes]
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[5:37 minutes]
Note carefully Bernanke’s response in the second video.
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The quientessential question: So, when do you know it’s love??
Yup, that’s the main theme of the latest “fresh” movie on the block. Produced by Mr. Perfectionist Aammir Khan and starring Imran Khan and Genelia D’Souza(Remember the peppy girl from “Tujhe Meri Kasam”, and the crybaby from Masti??), this movie tries to explore the avenue of a guy and a girl’s ability to be best friends without falling in love. Sounds passe? It is, but the presentation is not.
Some super cool comedy, fresh new young faces, fast-paced direction, and ofcourse sweetness at its best, this movie does manage to win your hearts. Just ignore the very stupid airport-reunion plot!! 😛
Rating: Almost Green! 🙂
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1. Perfect Review… the ending airport thing sucks IMO… usual Hindi drama…. they just shoot you if you do that AND don’t wait before you sing a song and then put cuffs…. damn, they screwed the movie up in the ending…
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Projects within M-I I-M formally-thematically investigate particular notions which have emerged in South and East Asia, such as:
dependent origination (in Sanskrit: pratiyasamutpada),
relational being
Dependent origination is a core concept of Buddhism: an idea of no thing existing of itself but always in relation to all other phenomena: proviking the notion of relational being.
Other concepts investigated (though not all at the same time!) include:
Akasha, a term in Sanskrit, signifies a space that has presence, amongst other meanings. It corresponds in part with the Japanese term ma, which has multiple resonances, including space-time, an emptiness that has presence, interval, and pause. The Japanese Zen term mu signifies void or nothingness, and has correspondence with the Sanskrit term sunyata, which also could be understood as void or nothingness. In certain contexts mu and sunyata could be understood as emptiness.
non-anthropocentric being
the being of space
the space of being
natures of inter-face
spectatorship and the 'a-spectatorial'
yugen - a concept significant in Japanese aesthetics, difficult to define yet signifiying dark, deep, profound, mysterious.
Ajaykumar has particularly engaged with these concepts in most of his recent work, not just with M-I I-M, with works such as zen gardens without the 'zen', a_m_m_s, tate modern, and radio play: see his personal website for more details.
Drawing on the dynamics of the tea ceremony (sado), his work is engaging with engendering spaces that are spaces of inter-action as well as of immersion and contemplation; with kinaesthetic, architectonic processes. Spaces akin to what Zen teacher Daisetz Suzuki describes as psychospheres.
Ajaykumar is examining these concepts beyond their original cultural and (in some cases) religious contexts; interrogating them in the context of contemporary technological practice, using diverse materials and formats. Given the Buddhist notion that 'all phenomena reveal the true entity' this investigation engages with multifarious technologies including computer technology.
M-I I-M is a series of science-art projects - internet art works, installations, conference presentations, lectures, talks and articles.
The series includes:
• pages of madness.
• concrete lecture 1 - an interactive-immersive text, published with a specific title in Leonardo, Journal of the International Society of Art, Science and Technology.
• concrete lecture 2 - an interactive-immersive text, to be published with a specific title in the South African Journal of Art History.
• asylum: an installation in development.
• how does the psychiatric subaltern speak? - an article to be published shortly.
• a presentation made on the theme at ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, also entitled M-I I-M.
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Title: Distinguished categories and the Zilber-Pink conjecture
Abstract: We propose an axiomatic approach towards studying unlikely intersections by introducing the framework of distinguished categories. This includes commutative algebraic groups and mixed Shimura varieties. It allows us to define all basic concepts of the field and prove some fundamental facts about them, e.g. the defect condition.
In some categories that we call very distinguished, we are able to show some implications between Zilber-Pink statements with respect to base change. This yields unconditional results, i.e. the Zilber-Pink conjecture for a complex curve in $\mathcal{A}_2$ that cannot be defined over $\bar{\mathbb{Q}}$, a complex curve in the $g$-th fibered power of the Legendre family, and a complex curve in the base change of a semiabelian variety over $\bar{\mathbb{Q}}$.
Comments: 49 pages, minor changes
MSC classes: 11G18, 14G35, 14K10, 14L10
Cite as: arXiv:2103.07422 [math.NT]
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The US has announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over concerns of China’s alleged human rights abuses. Predictably, Australia and the UK, members of the newly created AUKUS military alliance designed to counter China, followed suit, as has Canada.
Boycotts are a diplomatic practice used by states to express disapproval on various matters. In this case, the states in question are refusing to send diplomatic representatives to the Games – but they are not blocking their athletes from competing. This illustrates why boycotts of this nature are not only difficult to pull off but can actually undermine the value sport brings to international relations.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is made up of members who represent the organization in their own countries – not the other way around, like in the UN. This model has helped the IOC maintain political neutrality over the years. Its president, Thomas Bach has stated that allowing politics in will mark the end of the Games.
The White House announcement made it clear that the government will not penalize US athletes by barring them from participating in the Games: “The athletes on Team USA have our full support.” This shows the US understands the importance of leaving politics out of sport – so why boycott at all?
This decision is an example of “constructive ambiguity”, a negotiating tactic widely credited to Henry Kissinger, one of the US’s preeminent diplomats. The term refers to the deliberate use of ambiguous language to advance a political purpose and does not denote integrity but self-preservation.
Days before the boycott was announced, the UN general assembly adopted the resolution to “[build] a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal.” The resolution was co-sponsored by 173 member states, but the US was not one of them. Luis Moreno, the Permanent Observer for the IOC to the UN, stated: “This is only possible if the Olympic Games are politically neutral and do not become a tool to achieve political goals.”
The Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was held at National Stadium in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on July 23, 2021. Photo: AFP / Koji Ito / The Yomiuri Shimbun
Both the IOC and Seb Coe, president of World Athletics, have denounced politically motivated boycotts. Coe, who became Olympic champion in the 1980 Moscow Games despite the then British government’s support for a US-led boycott, dismissed the current decision as “a meaningless gesture”.
These events reinforce the constructive ambiguity of the US’s diplomatic boycott. By supporting the participation of US athletes in the Beijing Games, the Biden administration explicitly acknowledges the Olympic values and the primacy of the Olympic Charter.
At the same time, by declaring a diplomatic boycott, the US clearly undermines the political neutrality of sport and puts its own Olympic authorities and athletes in a very uncomfortable position.
The boycott urges athletes and officials from those countries to either distance themselves from their governments or to accept that they do not care about human rights in China.
Past boycotts
The US policy towards sporting boycotts has been chequered. Appeals to boycott the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany because of repressions against Jews and Christians were left unanswered by the administration, despite the insistence of US diplomats in Berlin.
David Kanin, a former CIA specialist on the Olympic movement, said of the Moscow boycott:
The international impact of the boycott might have been greater had the White House been more knowledgeable of the organisation and operation of the Olympic movement and international sport.
Historians deemed the Moscow boycott to have been a foreign policy and sporting “failure of Olympic proportions”.
A sticker drawing a parallel between the Beijing Olympics and the 1936 Games in Berlin, which were unsuccessfully boycotted. Photo: Alamy Stock Photo / Sibylle A. Möller
Past Olympic boycotts have failed for a number of legal, political and ethical reasons. The Olympic movement encompasses 206 countries and for any boycott to be successful it needs the support of the overwhelming majority of countries.
This is highly unlikely to happen – all countries have strong bilateral relations with other states, which they will not jeopardize over a sporting event.
The Chinese government has been harsher in its response to the boycott, saying the involved countries will “pay the price”. China has also said that it would not invite Western diplomats who threatened to boycott emphasizing that the White House initiative is merely political grandstanding.
Human rights abuses should be condemned in the strongest possible terms wherever they take place, but Biden’s response to politically boycott the Olympics is timid and misplaced. The pursuit of freedom requires us to take unambiguous positions, and sports are exceptionally effective means to bring people together and promote ongoing dialogues.
Indeed, in 1971 the Nixon administration sent nine US table tennis players to China to re-establish diplomatic relations between the two countries. This move became known as “ping pong diplomacy” and is the prime example of how sport and international understanding are linked.
It would be a mistake to undo that now.
Vassil Girginov is reader in Sports Management and Development, Brunel University London. Christian Visdomini is an associate fellow at Green-Templeton College, University of Oxford.
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Whether the conversations be thoughtful or awkward, Thanksgiving seems to be a time to think about the times we live in with our families. About a month ago I tried to think about our culture in deeper terms than merely red state vs. blue state, taxes, immigration, and so on. I think what’s plaguing us runs deeper (I base what follows on my previous post on this topic, which is here), though what follows should be seen as a thought experiment more so than anything definitive.
In that previous post I suggested that what might be “proper” tension between Time and Space could vary depending on the culture. So Egypt leaned heavily toward Space, Babylon towards Time, but both civilizations could be considered “great” in different ways. I have only scratched their respective surfaces, but if one reads their mythology and folklore I think we see that they both had some awareness of this necessary tension. My point previously was that we lack even this basic awareness and need to recast our thinking in order to understand our culture more fully.
The problem is not that we contain contradictions within ourselves. We overpraise consistency in most cases. We need the fluidity of Time and the stability of Space in some measure–a society built 100% on either reality would be both an absurdity and an impossibility. One can be 2-1 in favor of space, or 3-2 in favor of time. I think that our issue is, rather, that our different political sides embrace 100% of both without even realizing it. Our political choices then, border on the non-sensical and thus can only go into more subconscious symbolic realms.*
On the Left Time/Fluidity Scale:
• Open borders–which makes the capital and labor maximally fluid
• LGBT agendas (which often involve the erosion of the “fixed” state of nature and biology)
• Maximal “Equality” for men/women (which includes strong pro-choice stances–“safe, legal, and rare” won’t cut it any more), which flatten out distinctions and traditions.
On the Right Time/Fluidity Scale:
• Free market and free trade (few forces are more destabilizing to tradition, be it good or bad, then the free market, so though I apologize that I can only think of one example for the right, it is a really big one:).
On the Left Space/Stability Scale:
• Higher minimum wage laws, which restricts the flow of free labor, along with a penchant for corporate regulation.
• Safe spaces and tight restrictions on what can be said so that the “communal identity” might be preserved
On the Right Space/Stability Scale:
• Build a wall, protect our borders
• I don’t see a strident nationalism in the U.S. as a huge problem, but if it came it would certainly come from the right
Again, it is one thing to hold positions in some kind of balance, it is another to hold them maximally in different areas without even being aware of the contradictions.
Once we see that our differences run into mutually contradictory realms, we naturally look for who or what to blame for our predicament. Some say the iPhone, the internet, the 2008 stock market crash, identity politics, the War in Iraq, Newt Gingrich, and so on. But I think we have to go further back. If there is any consolation for us, I don’t think millennials, Get-X’ers, or Boomers started all this.
Perhaps we can begin with the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment valued (at least at the beginning) common things for common people. That era valued self-control of body and emotions. So far they lean heavily on the side of Stability/Space. But at the same time they gave strong preference to syllogistic reason, the province of the mind and the elite. Jefferson, Rousseau and others also propounded the most universal ideas (which have no boundaries) in the modern era–“all men are created equal,” and “the rights of man,” from the French Revolution, and so on. It is no wonder that the French Revolution swung so wildly so quickly.
Then we have the Romantic era. On the one hand, they praised emotion which put them heavily on the side of Time/Fluidity. But at the same time the Romantic movement gave birth to the modern recovery of folklore, fairy tales, and a kind of ethno-nationalism seen in Wagner, among others, all of which strongly favor Space/Stability.
The dramatic tension in the Romantic movement has a touchstone example in England’s empire. They spread throughout the globe (Time) but also sought to bring England’s culture (Space) everywhere they went. Such tension might very well produce something of a “schism in the soul” that Toynbee often wrote about.
In W.W. II both of the major Axis powers (Germany and Japan) sought to mimic the British in far, far more hideous ways.
• Both Germany and Japan were strong ethno-nationalist states, yet both sought a significant increase of their territorial reach.
• Both had strongly hierarchical views of authority (Space), but their military strategies strongly favored continual motion and speed (observe how Hitler took the traditional swastika image and pivoted it to give the impression of continuous forward motion. The problem being, of course, is that the swastika shape cannot “move.” It could not spin or roll forward. Thus, the inherent contradictions of Nazism were present right within its foremost symbol).
• I believe that both countries perhaps subconsciously pursued impossible objectives that could only end in cataclysmic defeat–the kind of destruction that can come only with a violent clash of two opposing forces (I write a bit about this here).
In our own land we have struggled with the same dichotomies. Our blended form of government gets somewhat near a political balance of Time & Space. But in truth, we have no truly conservative tradition outside of democracy to call upon, which can lead to excess fluidity of the liberal democratic tradition. We have a strong sense of land (stability) being tied to liberty (fluidity) inherited from Aristotle, Locke, et al. but showed an outsized and continuous desire for more and more land–a quasi schizophrenia between Time and Space. Every political theorist on democracy thought that for it to work it needed contained in a small space–“stability” to balance out the “fluidity” of liberty. We said “no thanks” to that and immediately upon getting our independence, we began rapidly expanding our territory, believing that perhaps everyone else was wrong about this political calculus.
Possibly this can give us some perspective on the current Time/Space war in our culture. If it feels like it is accelerating, it may be because we are entering another election cycle, or perhaps it is the pace of life which our ubiquitous “time-saving” technologies push us towards. But I think too that both political parties contribute to this by jumping into the mosh-pit.
On the ACLU Twitter homepage their banner reads, “Fight for the Country We Want to Live In.” I don’t wish to pick on the ACLU per se–my point likely could have been made with other organizations, though I do fear that they too are becoming overly politicized. The country we “want” to live in? The country I want to live in is an impossible pipe-dream of my own personal fancies.** No one should want me to fight for the country I want to live in. The country I need involves something much more politically feasible–a balance between Time and Space, and left and right. That perhaps, is worth a fight.
A postscript from the recent British election which may show us how to reduce the tension between Time and Space:
*By this I mean that we will make our political choices more from our gut and less from our head. This will likely give an advantage to Trump, who seems quite comfortable governing from his gut impulses.
**Growing up I swore that if I ever became King of the U.S.A., I would first and foremost make it illegal for bands to release a “Greatest Hits” album with one new song on it–something routinely done in the 80’s and 90’s. The internet has fortunately solved this for me, but in so doing it did take away what was to be a major plank in my policy platform.
From Puritan to Yankee
Recently I found myself talking politics with a Trump supporter. Interestingly, he mentioned very little about his policies or personality. Rather, he seemed drawn to him because of the multitude of attacks against him. No one, he argued, deserved what Trump receives from at least some in the media. Politics had very little to do with this, for this same person said that he liked both Obama and Hillary Clinton for much the same reason–in his mind of them have been attacked to an unfair extreme.
I have no great love for the Puritans, and perhaps this might explain why I sometimes seek to defend them. I certainly felt this way at the start of Richard Bushman’s From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765. When describing Puritan society in the first chapter he invariably uses words like, “austere,” “imposing,” “monolithic,” and that most dreaded word for an academic who originally published this book in 1967, “conformity.”*
Later in the book Bushman shows his excellence as a historian of a certain type, but I did not like the first chapter.
We naturally have difficulty in understanding and evaluating the Puritans. They look like us in many respects, but then part with modern society in other radical ways. It is the heretic, rather than the unbeliever, who always poses the greater threat. Hence, our natural distaste for the Puritans. But we must keep certain things in mind.
First of all, the Puritan ideal of social order oriented around religion hardly broke new ground. They borrowed from the medieval idea of the “great chain of being,” and in orienting their society around religion they merely did what most civilizations practiced up until that point. Numerous examples of this exist, with the Egyptians, early Romans, the Mezo-American civilizations, and the aforementioned medievals to name a few (this should clue us in on the radical nature of post-Enlightenment western society–more on this later).
Secondly, many moderns, progressive or otherwise, would likely admire some of the main goals of Puritan society. The Puritans sought to live a common life together by minimizing (though not eliminating) economic competition and distinctions in wealth. Bushman himself notes that in the early days of settlement even the richer members of society lived much in the same way as their neighbors, working fields and milking cows like anyone else. Bushman and others may not realize that such a society cannot exist with modern notions of liberty that tell us to “find our own way,” “follow your heart,” and so on. Societies like the early Puritans must get their formation from shared conviction that only comes with religious belief. You cannot have one without the other. One Puritan stated, “Law should serve free exercise of just privileges. Without this, lives and liberties would be a prey to the covetous and cruel.” Modern notions of liberty, in the view of early Puritans, would lead to exploitation and alienation.
Bushman himself cites early in chapter two that this shared communal life allowed government in Connecticut to be, in his words, “flexible” in ways that “minimized local conflicts.” This hardly seems “austere,” or “monolithic.”
True, certain “upper-crust” Puritans (apologies for the emotionally laden word choice) had a fear of any of the “lesser sort” getting into political power. We can snub our noses at this. But we should remember that it is 1700. Puritan Connecticut was more democratic than the England of William and Mary, and infinitely more so than Louis XIV France or Frederick the Great’s Prussia. Almost every other European society at the time shared these same fears of “lesser men” ruining everything. We have good evidence that many of our founders decades later had these same fears, as of course did every major western political thinker from Homer on down the line.
Finally, nearly all the early Puritan settlers came from the same east-Anglia towns and villages. They knew the content of Puritan theology, they knew Puritan leadership. It’s not as if the Puritans pulled a bait-and-switch on the journey across the Atlantic–“You thought you signed up to run wild and free in the woods, but no! Now that we have you in the middle of the ocean, welcome to John Calvin!”
If some settlers grew frustrated with Puritan leadership, well, they knew what to expect.
So yes, the Puritans need criticism, but criticism with the right context in mind, and aimed in the right place.
After chapter one, Bushman shows his great skill at sifting through data to form larger conclusions. He puts the focus on the problems settlers faced due to a growing population, which would necessitate an inevitable territorial expansion of the colony. Some civilizations, like the Romans, link most everything in life to land. Some see the beginning of the Roman Republic’s political problems beginning the moment land in Italy disappeared for their soldiers.** Not every civilization operates with this mentality. Carthage, for example, and possibly Periclean Athens, largely freed themselves from land as a measure of identity (they had different problems). But our early settlers fit well within the Roman mindset.
In the first generation or two land distribution remained equitable. The size of the colony allowed everyone to attend the most important churches pastored by the acknowledged town leaders in piety and purpose. The population’s proximity to these churches and to town hall bound the colony together politically.
But time marches on, and fathers want the same for their younger sons as for the oldest. In a settled mostly aristocratic society like England of the time, the younger sons of even minor aristocracy join the army or perhaps the clergy. You see this even in Austen’s novels 100 years later. Settlers in the new world, however, believed in equality, more or less, and wanted everyone to have an equal chance.
Expanding the size of the colony meant greater distances from the town center. Naturally those predisposed to want to lead the settlement would stay close to its center. Those with some disaffection towards leadership might more easily head a few miles outbound. With this even small scale migration came an inevitable tension, and an inevitable choice.
The colony could either, a) Split off in different settlements and grant autonomy to each. However, this came with the problem of effectively ending the Puritan dream. Those who left for outbound land tended towards a more enterprising, individualistic mindset. Or they could, b) Increase the power of the original settlement’s leaders and weaken the participatory democracy carefully crafted by the original settlers.
As is typical of most any democratically government they chose neither absolutely, though probably favored option ‘b.’ Everyone recognized that the social order had suffered due to increased wealth–a wealth occasioned by expansion (again, similar to Rome ca. 200-75 B.C.). But try as they might, too many things swirled in conflict with one another to make sense of it all. In the end tensions increased between eastern and western settlers in most religious and economic matters. Once they let the’Yankee’ mentality of individual enterprise get its foot in the door, their social construct had its days numbered.
Let us give credit where due. Bushman’s work should help us to see certain larger issues with more clarity. For example, Thomas Jefferson bucked historical convention in his belief that a republic should have lots rather than a little territory. He hoped that the Louisiana Purchase would allow everyone to practice self-government and live free and independently on their own land. But–if everyone can live free and independently from one another, how can we maintain order? Only by doing as the Puritans attempted to do–by increasing executive authority. If we want the kind of liberty envisioned by Jefferson, let us count the cost. Rome saw this same increase of executive authority as their territory expanded beyond Italy. Whatever our uniqueness as a nation, we cannot escape history.
But in the end I think Bushman misses the real point.
Bushman mentions religious issues and gives them due treatment, but he gives pride of place to the decline of Puritanism to land and economic issues. He deals with the source material masterfully. But he seems to argue that certain geographic and social issues caused the religious issues to manifest themselves later. We can acknowledge the influence of geographic and economic factors. But in the end, I think he puts the cart before the horse. The key to Puritan disintegration must be found in their religion.
For example . . . the Roman Republic experienced some of the same stresses faced by the CT settlers, with a much larger population over much larger territory. Yet, the Republic maintained its central identity for at least two and perhaps three and half centuries, in contrast to Puritan ideals lasting no more than two generations. Egyptian civilization also had some of the same issues regarding land, and though obviously not a republic, maintained their identity for perhaps 1500 years.
Yes, democracies traditionally have a problem maintaining identity and cohesion. One can a make a good case that Pericles built the Parthenon primarily as a way to reestablish unity by calling people back to their religious roots, whereas we today tend to look at this period in Athens as the pinnacle of democratic experience. This “pinnacle of democratic experience” may have had more cracks than we initially assume. Athens at this time certainly had lots of money, which tends to work ill upon democracies. If Thucydides tells only mostly the truth, they did not have much social cohesion. Rome lasted longer than CT or Athens with similar geographic and economic factors at play, and so I feel a reason exists beyond land distribution and the expansion of trade that Bushman focuses on.^
In the Puritans particular case we should note that their theology departed from traditional orthodox Christianity in certain respects. Their emphasis on the will of God rather than the love of God reduced their faith to more of a philosophy, a handbook of propositions for life.^^ They had no appreciation for sacraments and thus no way for the grace of God to be made manifest in their lives except by how they thought. This led to impersonal abstractions gaining sway. The famous (or infamous if you prefer) 5 Points of Calvinism work on the mind like a geometric proof, inexorably moving toward a foreordained conclusion. Abstract ideas, however, are slippery things, and ideas floating in the air don’t always land on the ground in the same form for repeated generations. Like a point in infinite space, various lines can connect with it and go almost anywhere.
Interestingly, Puritans created a government structure that tended toward defending an abstract notion of rights. As the colony expanded, Bushman documents a swell of lawsuits and disputes centered around the “claims” of one settler vs. another. Communal relationships disappeared as “rights” dominated public discourse. Religious revivals like the Great Awakening followed this pattern in some ways.. The religious impulse coming from this revival did not push people back into communal life. Rather, we see a rise in the individualistic idea of the “liberty of the conscience” gaining the upper hand among the (formerly) Puritan settlers.
Whatever the merits of my very incomplete analysis above, by the early 19th century New England certainly had adopted a vague mixture of theism and deism as its unofficial religion–a death by abstraction.
We see hints of 1776 as this abstract notion of rights grew. In time colonial corporations made grants of land to settlers. When royal officials came over and examined these title deeds they annulled them outright. No “corporation,” they argued, can grant title to anything. What is a “corporation” after all? It’s surpra-personal identity meant it had in effect no personality, and with no personality, how could it truly exist? A king can grant title, for the king is an actual person, and actual people can own things and give them to others.
The colonists may have nodded “sure!” to these royal representatives, but likely crossed their fingers behind their backs. Though kingship has the advantage of being personal, a king across an ocean has perhaps even less personality than a corporation. In any case, they no longer had a connection to government rooted directly in either religious belief or social ties. They put their eggs in propositions, in “rights,” in “liberty of conscience,” which no one can touch. Their point in infinite space must be free to go where it pleases.
A standard debate among historians of the American Revolution involves the question of whether or not the founders were radical or conservative in their ideas. Years ago I would have answered with the latter, but not anymore. Bushman’s work accompanies Bernard Bailyn’s and Gordon Wood’s thesis that our stodgy, wig-wearing founders had radical ideas. For the first time, society would not be oriented around God/the gods. Nor would social order have its roots in personal relationships, i.e., feudal society, or the lives and patronage of prominent families. Now for the basically the first time, society would be organized around certain ideas, or we might almost say, geometric axioms. What Bushman’s book shows us is that you don’t need to go to 1776 to see these principles at work. If you wish, you can content yourself with a small CT settlement, ca. 1700.
*Here I must give credit to the playwright Arthur Miller. His work The Crucible certainly criticized certain aspects of Puritan society. And yet in his preface to the play he spends most of his time trying to get the reader to sympathize with the Puritans. This sympathy, in fact, serves as the only solid basis for critique.
**I think the land issue a contributing factor accompanying deeper causes for Rome’s Republic, much in the same way I think Bushman overstates land issues as the primary cause for the collapse of the Puritan ideal. In Rome’s case, one can see a shift in religious belief occasioned by their contact with Greece and the Mediterranean as the precursor to their political and social fragmentation.
^This is another great example of how Bushman’s book shed’s light on larger issues. Most every commentator on Plato’ Laws calls Plato a grumpy old fart for banning trade from his theoretical realm. But increased trade undeniably negatively impacted CT’s social order. Farmers deal roughly with the same soil and the same weather. Surplus food grown by one poses no real threat to other farmers.
But trade seems to encourage more of the competitive spirit. Trade deals more with luxuries than necessities, so unsold surpluses can ruin a merchant. Hence, the extra competition to sell, and so on. The rise of money and trade certainly played a role in the demise of Rome’s Republic.
^^I realize that this one sentence is hardly a reasonable defense for my views on Puritan theology, My apologies–to defend them here is a bridge too far for me. If I am correct, however, there are some similarities in Puritanism to Stoicism (I stress “some”–the Puritans probably gave much more room for the emotions than the Stoics), a religion for Greece and Rome’s intellectual elite, but not for the masses. | https://astickinthemud.com/2019/11/ | dclm-gs7-060560035 |
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Book Review: Blazing New Homeschool Trails: Educating and Launching Teens with Developmental Disabilities by Natalie Veccione and Cindy LaJoy
This review was originally written for Disabled-World and can be found by following THIS LINK.
Blazing New Homeschool Trails book cover, surrounded by a wrench, roller skates, and a bowl of veggies. You know, homeschool supplies. :D
Weekdays: Bed times were tough. Mornings were tougher.
Weekends and holidays: those were the too-short sparks of absolute joy and comfort.
When my four sons were school aged I ached with worry and indecision about school. Each one of my sons, at different times and in their own ways, struggled to stay their vibrant brilliant selves while being shuffled through a system that has grown cumbersome and dangerous.
Eventually, my sons found their own ways out. General education diplomas mostly. My youngest graduated with his class and even went to University for a bit.
But I will always wonder what might have happened for them had I been brave, creative, and willing to homeschool them myself. Oh, I thought about it at the time. I thought a lot about it. But I always chickened out, falling on the excuse, “If I try and fail, then I've failed. If the system fails, that's on the system.” Of course, it's not about me it's about my children and this excuse does not hold water.
What, I wonder, would I have done had I come across the book Blazing New Homeschool Trails: Educating and Launching Teens with Developmental Disabilities by Natalie Veccione and Cindy Lajoy? What, I wonder, new trails might my sons and I have blazed had I discovered resources such as Cindy's Facebook group or Natalie's podcast?
I don't know what I would have done. But I do know it would have been a gift.
Regardless of whether or not you are a homeschool parent, a potential homeschool parent, or simply a parent who wants encouragement to blaze new trails, this book can be a friend.
Encouragement is the prevalent mood that barrels through Blazing New Homeschool Trails. Whether reading a segment written by Natalie or Cindy (both homeschool moms), there is a strong feeling of being believed in; being cheered on. And it is effective.
The authors don't deny the challenges. They share personal struggles and obstacles with us readers, put a mirror up to our own worries as they reveal theirs, and remind us that this will be work. But parenting is always work. Parenting neurodiverse teens in a world built with them as an afterthought, and too often considered a burden, is extreme work. And while we avoid the work that might do the most good we're doing the harder work of undoing harm.
I saw it with my brothers. My mom pulled all four of them out of school (they had various developmental disabilities, including FASD – Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) and they learned more skills and academics in one year of homeschool on the road with mom than they had the previous eight or nine years in a variety of schools and classes. They learned more and everyone was happier. I wonder, what would it have looked like had mom started sooner? How much less building up of broken beliefs in themselves? It doesn't help to regret, but it can help to share with someone who is still at the beginning and can choose to start sooner.
While reading the stories Natalie and Cindy share in their book I kept being reminded of mom. The people and stories are different, of course, but there are so many parallels. Adopting children with uncertain diagnosis and experiences, seeking help from educators who are often ill-equipped even if well meaning, moving neighbourhoods in order to leave persecution or overwhelming judgment, seeing your children as capable and worth the time while being frustrated with people meant to help who are unable to do so, inviting laughter and honesty into the home at every turn, and taking an approach to teaching that sets everyone up for a healthy future, not only good grades and other short-term accolades. I am certain you will recognize parallels from your life, too.
Blazing New Homeschool Trails offers a strong foundation while being a short and simple read. This book can be read quickly but does not leave you with less because of it. The tools to blaze your own trails are there, infused with encouragement and specific tips. Stories of what the authors did in their homeschooling, how it effected the family, what changes were made, and how things evolved over time.
More than that, they take the time to join you in your homeschool room. They include specific practical tips (the value of visual supports, for example) and also remind you to take advantage of the freedom homeschooling allows. Sometimes it's a good idea to simply change the subject, for example, rather than try to force a lesson. Pushing too hard at the wrong time only builds more barriers and leads to frustration and low self-esteem, for teachers and students. This flexibility is not natural in a typical classroom.
Blazing New Homeschool Trails can be helpful regardless of the type of learners your kids are. But it is particularly valuable if you're teaching and learning with people who have developmental disabilities of any sort. Both Natalie and Cindy look at their children from a place of love and belief in them. They don't ever use language that forgets. These are friends and role models you want as you blaze your own trails. Because that's the thing. You will have to blaze your own trails, with others as support but not exactly as leaders. This is something that comes through well in the book. They can't tell you how to do it. They can show you how they did it, what the guiding principals are to build your one-of-a-kind curriculum on, and why for many families it is more than worth it.
My sister is a homeschool mom. Her daughters were only beginning to struggle in school when she had a moment echoed in Cindy's story. Both my sister and Cindy had a strong gut feeling they would lose the spirit of one of their children if they didn't get them out of the school settings they were in. And both of them had the courage to follow that feeling.
Did I have a similar feeling when my boys were little? I think so. But I didn't follow that feeling.
Blazing New Homeshool Trails is a great introduction to what it can be to follow that feeling. Not all learners need homeschooling, but if you have a gut feeling yours might blossom with a different kind of learning environment, one you can build with them in mind, I recommend taking the time to read this book. Not only because helping your children blossom is lovely but because not doing so can hurt and harm them.
If you are already a homeschooling parent – especially if your students learn differently! - this book is a good tool to have on hand.
For parents who choose not to homeschool, this book is still a good idea. It can help you build a healthy learning environment for your children during after-school hours, weekends, and holidays. It can encourage you when you're feeling at a loss and remind you to look for opportunities a little differently.
For parents who have children, especially teens, that are developmentally disabled, this book is more than a good idea. It might be a necessary one.
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Blazing New Homeschool Trails on Amazon:
by Natalie Veccione and Cindy LaJoy
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By Natalija Skegro
Head of PRE Department, Avanti House Secondary School
Leading with Rosenshine’s Principles
Rosenshine has become familiar to many of us in the profession, especially when looking at research-informed strategies that can enhance our practice. His work on the ‘Principles of Instruction’[1] is yet another example as to why our understanding of cognitive science and expert teaching is so important. Before Natalija joined Avanti, she had already immersed herself in Rosenshine’s findings and has looked forward to bringing them to the forefront of the minds of the teachers within our PRE Department.
Natalija recalled one of her first meetings with the team, which focused on outlining the intent and how this could tie into the Avanti Way. Influenced by Blooms Taxonomy and her pursuit to embed metacognitive strategies into the department’s implementation plan, she started with amplifying the importance of ‘effective teaching’
Figure 1 – Rosenhine’s Principles of Instruction
Natalija’s first steps were to outline the importance of spaced retrieval and how R1 (Rosenshine’s First Principle) was vital to the successful delivery to a sequence of lessons. By asking her teams to think about what, when and how short reviews of previous learning would take place; Natalija set the wheels in motion to improve the flow of lessons in the PRE curriculum. The next principles that she prioritised were R2 – 5 and R8.
When I asked Natalija why she chose to go through with this order, she explained that there was some good practice already embedded in the department. Hence, after evaluating the current impact of the delivery of their schemes of work, she decided to act on the evidence such that:
• R1: Content is there but needs to be reviewed effectively and in a timely manner to take into account for Ebbing’s Forgetting Curve and Spaced Retrieval. This could be a quick win with a large positive impact
• R2: Once the pupils are reviewing the relevant content, they can build upon their prior knowledge when covering new material, which assists with schema building. This is a process that can support encoding information into long term memory and enhances the ability to recall information.
• R3 – 5: Asking open questions within the PRE curriculum is good, but like all subjects, we need to think about how all pupils can have the opportunity to become involved in how that information is processed.
• R8: Differentiation is seen as a key part of expert teaching, but activities that develop skills or introduce new content need to be scaffolded appropriately. Pupils should be recalling and building upon prior knowledge. Then the scaffolding can truly live up to its label by being removed when pupils undergo guided practice to work towards mastery. This will also give R7 (High Success Rate).
Natalija explained how R7 played a huge part of her intent for the department. For pupils to develop an emotional attachment to their studies, they must also have some sense of progress. It is also important to not allow pupils to work independently for larger periods of time on errors, or else misconceptions may occur and demotivation may work against their levels of engagement.
In a brief meeting with Natalija recently, she explained how she intends to take her next steps in developing teaching and learning in PRE. Before viewing the ‘17 Principles of Effective Instruction’, or even before a more carful approach towards R6 or R9, Natalija wanted to model (R4) how one might teach a lesson, without explicitly linking the principles until the end.
By understanding the cognitive science behind Rosenshine’s Principles, Natalija truly modelled the potential impact that a department may have through research informed teaching and learning. She outlined her unique perspective on educators to provide more understanding behind her approach:
“I firmly believe that the most important duty of a teacher is to explicitly teach students how learning works. I demythologise learning processes by providing ideas, ways and schemes for moving information from working to short and ultimately long term memory.”
Some of the next steps she has planned for her department are to develop two knowledge tests per each scheme of work and to assure that pupils’ starter activities include either meaningful recall activities or strategies that prime pupils’ brains for the topic. Finally, through continuous reflective practice based on Bloom’s Taxonomy and Rosenshine’s POI, to assure that the main body of lessons have engaging tasks that enhance students’ love of learning.
Brad Henry
[1] Rosenshine, B. – Principles of Instruction: Research-Based Strategies That All Teachers Should Know, American Educator Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2012, AFT | https://avanti.org.uk/blog/2021/06/24/leading-with-rosenshines-principles/ | dclm-gs7-060590035 |
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The method of preparation is the process of taking liquids and forming them into the encased - bubbles eggs that contain the juice inside.
The ingredients sound harsh, but who fumbles in chemistry or pharmacy may try to explain the popularity of what was going on.
Sodium Alginate (Sodium Alginate) and calcium chloride (Calcium Chloride).
I understand gugloperevodchika, Sodium Alginate - that's what makes fluid to purchase properties and structure of the gel.
Hercules or puffed rice to the interlayer.
Dried berries, fruits, nuts, seeds, or what your imagination until granulated candy (or candy) such as m & m's or skittles.
Dried raspberries in my opinion the most suitably since It creates a "lightness and ease and».
As an option - a mixture of almond, banana chips, coconut flakes, powder, vanilla seeds (sunflower seeds) in chocolate icing.
Low-fat yogurt to fill.
Mixtures of various fragrances.
Prepared mixes for yogurt parfait. Top view.
The latter, the most important ingredient, juice.
From left to right: pomegranate, sweet tomato, carrot, apple, pineapple with rum (Pina Colada), kiwi juice with lime and blueberry (do not know why it is that color, probably with some sort of supplement for beauty).
Thickened liquid dropped in calcium chloride.
Bottom view.
When the drop falls in calcium chloride, it reinforces the outer layer polchaetsya "spawn."
Thereafter, the droplets are already coated, rinsed in water.
Sample knife (which will be clear from the following pictures).
The liquid should flow out. If you are detained in calcium chloride slishklm long - Get Jelly and this is wrong, because The ball should burst (vzryvatsya) taste on the tongue.
The very strange blueberry juice drips into the calcium chloride.
Blue Eggs.
Already washed.
You can use cheats (hehe, cheaters). The syringe is connected to some strange pharmaceutical box (for blood tests or what?).
And dripping from it to improve performance and uniformity "eggs."
Like this.
Ready-made kits.
Derived from left to right:
low-fat yogurt, "caviar", a dry mixture.
And this is how it looks ready.
From left to right: blueberry, kiwi-lime, Pina Colada, apple-carrot, sweet tomato with basil and pomegranate.
See also
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Debbie Wild Thornberries costume
20 Last Minute Halloween Costumes You Can Pull Out Of Your Closet {And How to Style Them}
Are you looking for a last minute Halloween costume you can literally just thrown on using pieces and items likely already in your closet?
You are in luck!
I am exhausted and have no plans whatsoever to do any more costume shopping that I have already done for my children and my family Halloween shoot photo.
So I scooped out popular cosplay Intagram pages and found a few cartoon and character costumes I could go as.
Granted, a few of these are from shows and cult cartoons that some people may not follow so I may spend time explaining what I am but that is a risk I can take for not having to go through the aggravation of hunting down something to wear.
Here is how to pull it off really quick.
Memes are fun. Go as the squinting woman bending over meme by just pulling out a pair of ripped black skinny pants from the closet or pick one up from your local thrift store, pair it with a black tank and a baby pink blazer or shirt you roll up and cuff, a pair of black strappy heels and eyeglasses. You will have to duck into the pose each time someone asks “who are you supposed to be?” lol
Here is an easier meme to pull off:
You’ll need to head to your craft store to pick up a large roll of light green felt, that you cut into triangles then sew or hot glue together to form the collar of Kermit the Frog’s neckline. Wear a darker green tee shirt and black pants, carry a sign that says “But That’s None of My Business” and a cup of tea and voila! Instant nosy kermit meme.
The young Cardi B meme is a bit harder because you’ll need to invest in an athletic shirt and pants with the stripes that you wear over a long sleeve collared shirt but that’s it. Just got to get into that pose when you’re asked, “who are you supposed to be”. (ha!)
To be the Dos Equis bear guy, it helps if you are already a guy with a beard. Then you just have to pick up a large cardboard from your local office supply store and get the large stick on letters. Cut out the rectangle for the windo and pick up a couple bottle of Dos Equis! Done!
A blue shirt and denim jeans, make up to color your nose brown or black and a couple of books and you’re
Roxanne from A Goofy Movie
Singer Sade has a signature pull back hair style but you can be her by investing in a cuff from a local thrift store, a denim shirt you have or get one while thrifting, pair with cold hoops and red lipstick.
A Dora The Explorer costume also just requires a pink shirt and orange shorts you can get from a consignment or second hand store. Pair with white tennis shoes and orange socks and throw on a backpack and you’re ready for MAP!
It helps if you already have naturally curly hair and work in the medical field then you can go as Dr. Bo Johnson from the ABC family TV show Black’ish
If you have a red blazer and black shirt, you would only need to invest in a roll of metallic tape from the Home building store or drug store to cut out the silver neckline, then wear a back pack. If you have a blunt cut bob weave, Even better to become Jane from Daria
My fave which I think I am going as is Arthur the Aardvark because I already own a yellow sweater, white collar shirt and blue denim jeans and faux eye glasses. If I want to be creative, I put together a cut-out of the “When Nobody knows your costume” frame and ball up my fist and become the Arthur meme! See it here:
An orange bob wig, a light blue shirt and khaki pants are all you need to be Lois from Family Guy
If you don’t have a green jacket, comb through the racks of your local thrift store for one to wear over a yellow shirt with a black skirt with boots and you’re Daria.
You too can be Velma from Scooby Doo in an orange long sleeve shirt, red, pink or darkish magenta pleated skirt, orange socks and red vans. A bob wig and eyeglasses complete the look. Get your Thrifting on if you do not already have these items in your closet or head to your fave box retailer who usually sell generic colored clothing.
A green tube top and denim jeans and I could be Roberta Tubbs from The Family Guy spinoff show The Cleveland Show.
It may take confidence to rock a white crop top, denim mini skirt and thigh high boots but if you have these items in your closet, you’re half way there and can be Julia Roberts from Pretty Woman
I don’t know where they found a computer graveyard but this little girl wore a green denim shirt over a white tank and shorts to cosplay singer Singer Sza from the cover of her first album Ctr.Alt.Del
RIP to actor John Witherspoon who passed away at the age of 77. He is famous for his role in the cult movie classic Friday as is the character Felisha. The saying “bye Felisha” which recently was a pop culture reference for dismissing people is also from that movie. If you want to dress as her, an oversized maroon, burgundy sweat shirt or shirt and big white or tan shorts will do it. Partition your hair into several plaits. from Friday
If you have a leather jacket and red scarf already like I do, you can dress as Nagan from The Walking Dead. Just need to invest in red paint from the costume store and a bat.
Finally, anyone with curly blonde hair or a curly blonde wig or weave can wear a denim jeans with a plaid shirt over an orange drop top or regular orange shirt and become Debbie from The Wild Thornberries
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Are you wondering if you can eat Alaska Pollock while pregnant?
There are certain fish that should never be eaten during pregnancy because they contain high levels of mercury.
These include shark, swordfish, king mackerel, tilefish, marlin, and shark fin soup.
1 Alaska Pollack is a type of Pacific cod.
It’s also known as Alaskan Cod, King Mackerel, Bigeye Tuna, Blueback Tuna, and Yellowfin Tuna.
This fish contains very low levels of mercury.
However, there are other types of fish that are higher in mercury.
A few other words of caution regarding seafood consumption while pregnant are;
Fish contains mercury and other contaminants that can harm your baby. Pregnant women who consume fish high in mercury risk having a child with learning disabilities. Fish such as shark, swordfish, king mackerel, tilefish, and marlin are among the highest sources of mercury. Mercury accumulates in the body and can damage brain development during pregnancy. You can reduce exposure to mercury by choosing fish lower on the food chain, eating smaller amounts of fish, and avoiding certain types of fish altogether.
What is Alaskan pollock?
Alaskan Pollock is a type of fish found in the Pacific Ocean. It is a white fish that grows to about 20 inches long. It is very popular in Asian cuisine because of its mild flavor and firm texture. This fish is usually sold frozen.
Can you eat Alaskan pollock when pregnant?
Yes, you can eat Alaskan pollack when pregnant. However, if you are eating any seafood during pregnancy, you should avoid certain types of fish such as shark, swordfish, king mackerel, tilefish, and grouper. These types of fish contain higher levels of mercury than other fish. How to cook Alaskan pollock
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How to eat Alaskan pollock during pregnancy?
Alaska pollock is a type of Pacific cod. It is rich in omega 3 fatty acids and low in cholesterol. Alaska pollock is a very lean white meat fish. It contains only about 5% fat. This fish is usually served raw but can be cooked well. It is also known as “white fish” because of its color.
What species of fish can you eat and need to avoid?
Fish is a great source of protein and other nutrients. Fish is a good source of protein, iron, zinc, vitamin B12, niacin, phosphorus, selenium, iodine, and vitamin D. However, certain types of fish are better sources of these nutrients than others. For instance, salmon is a good source of vitamin D, while tuna is a good source of iron. In addition, some fish are higher in mercury than others. Mercury is a toxic metal found naturally in the environment. Eating too much mercury can lead to health problems such as brain damage and learning disabilities in children. Therefore, pregnant women and young children should limit their intake of fish containing high levels of mercury. How to choose the right fish for pregnancy?
Is Pollock fish bad?
No, it is not bad for you. It is a good source of protein. It is low in fat and cholesterol. It is also a good source of iron, zinc, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, vitamin B12, niacin, riboflavin, thiamine, folate, pantothenic acid, biotin, copper, manganese, selenium, iodine, calcium, and sodium. It is also a source of omega 3 fatty acids. It is also a natural source of lutein and zeaxanthin. It is also a rich source of essential amino acids. It is also an excellent source of dietary fiber. It is also a low calorie food. It is also a gluten free food. It is also an organic food. It is also safe for vegetarians. It is also a sustainable food. It is also environmentally friendly. It is also a healthy food. It is also easy to digest. It is also a non GMO food. It is also hypoallergenic food. It is also allergy free food. It
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Is Alaska pollock high in mercury?
Frozen Alaska pollock is not only healthy but delicious. Frozen Alaska pollock is usually sold in packages of 10 pounds. It is available year round. It is usually served raw or lightly cooked. It is a lean meat and does not contain any saturated fats. It is also a very nutritious food. It is rich in vitamins and minerals. It is also a great source for protein. It is a very versatile food. It can be used in many ways. It can be eaten alone or added to other dishes. It can be used as a topping for salads or sandwiches. It can also be used as a substitute for beef or pork. It can be used to make soups, stews, casseroles and pasta sauces. It can be used for making stir fry, chili, tacos, enchiladas, burritos, quesadillas, pizza, lasagna, raviolis, and even sushi. It is also a great source to add flavor to vegetables. It can be used when making vegetable soup. It can also be added to salad dressings. It can be used instead of
Is Alaska pollock safe during pregnancy?
Alaska Pollack is a type of fish found in the North Pacific Ocean. It belongs to the family Salmonidae. This fish is also known as "Pacific pollock" or "Keta salmon". It is a very popular fish among people who love seafood. It is rich in protein and omega 3 fatty acids. It is also low in fat and cholesterol. It is a good source of vitamin B12, calcium, iron, zinc and selenium. It contains no mercury. It is also a good source of niacin, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, magnesium, copper, manganese, iodine, molybdenum, chromium, thiamine, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, biotin, folic acid, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, choline, lysine, methionine and tryptophan. Alaska pollack is also a great source of essential amino acids such as arginine, cystine, histidine, leucine, lysine, phenylalanine, proline, serine, tyrosine, valine and alanine. Alaska pollock can be cooked using different methods. One way is to boil it. Another method is to bake it. It can also be grilled or fried.
Is it safe to eat Alaskan pollock everyday?
Alaska pollock is safe during pregnancy. However, pregnant women should avoid consuming large amounts of pollock because it can cause harm to the fetus. What is the difference between Alaska pollock and Pacific pollock?
Is Alaskan pollock bad for you?
Pollock is not bad. It is a very nutritious fish. It contains omega 3 fatty acids, protein, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. However, if you consume too much pollock, it could lead to health problems.
Are Alaskan pollock healthy?
Yes, Alaska pollock is high in mercury. According to the Environmental Working Group EWG, the average adult consumes about 2.4 micrograms of methylmercury per week from eating seafood. This is equivalent to about 1/3 of the EPA’s recommended weekly intake of 0.1 mcg of mercury.
Is frozen Alaska pollock healthy?
Alaska Pollack is a type of fish found in cold waters around Alaska. It is a very popular fish in Japan because it tastes delicious and nutritious. However, it contains mercury, which is a neurotoxin. Mercury poisoning can lead to brain damage and other health problems. Therefore, if you consume a lot of Alaska pollock every day, you could be putting yourself at risk for mercury poisoning.
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How To Begin A New Business And Obtain Fast Outcomes Begin your business in the right instructions and conserve on your own time, power, and a great deal of money Kingw88
This is a simple guide to obtain your feet damp with your new business and produce fast outcomes. In life and business, you’re just just comparable to your last customer. To survive you need to have a constant flow of potential customers. After that you need to take the actions to transform them right into a customer. By following this guide you’ll understand how to obtain someone in the door. After that, it depends on you to proceed to run your business and make sales.
The first choice that needs to be made is the system that you’re mosting likely to deal with. Are you opening up a storefront? Are you establishing something online? Regardless of what you decide there coincide treatments to produce sales. The just distinction is the quantity of money that you’re shelling from your pocket. The factor that a great deal of individuals have decided to run their business online is because it’s a great deal cheaper. Once the website is built for circumstances, it will just cost you about $15 a month to maintain that held and online. A storefront could run you $10,000 or more a month. Is one strategy better compared to the various other? Not always. If it becomes profit every month, after that you still have an effective business. Perhaps you want the workplace or space to enter into. Perhaps to provide your solution you need to have individuals come to you and see you. It is all about business that you’re looking to conduct. However, most companies with a storefront will still be online. This is the strategy that many companies use to have the ability to produce attention and own individuals to their business. So whatever system you decide, it’s important to be online to ensure your success.
Since online is so important, the next point to decide is the objective of your website. There are 2 various strategies. Your website could be tailored towards selling a real item or towards gathering information. Let me take this an action further to assist discuss. A great deal of individuals fail in business because they miss out on this simple step. If your purpose is to gather information and produce a lead on your own, after that why would certainly you have a website that you direct individuals to with many various web pages and just a type for them to complete if they make it to the contact web page. The variety of clicks someone has to earn to obtain to a type significantly limits your conversion. For this strategy individuals that have outcomes are the ones that direct this kind of individual to what is described as a squeeze web page or touchdown web page. It’s simply one web page with information that guides them to complete a type. The other way around, if you’re attempting to obtain someone to put in their credit card information on your website after that you need to provide the viewers with more information. Photos. Information about your company and what you do. Include instances of work that you have done. The more you include, the more comfy someone with be pocket money with you.
Once you understand the objective of the website, the next step is to find the right domain name. This does become appropriate when it comes to position with Msn and yahoo. For circumstances, rather than, it would certainly be more beneficial to have the domain name Why? To put it simply, individuals enter professional in Phoenix az when they are looking for a professional to assist them with their work and they remain in Phoenix az. It would certainly not be common for someone to enter randy the professional. To obtain outcomes and individuals for your website you need to understand that is looking for what you provide and put on your own before the marketplace that exists. However, long-term companies are very a lot harmonic with branding. It’s still very feasible to have the website appear when someone enters professional in phoenix az. It simply comes to various other content and work. It just produces quicker outcomes when you have a domain name that suits the key expression being searched.
Since you have this figured out, you need to produce it. Will you make the effort to produce it on your own? Would certainly you instead simply pay someone to do it? There are various resources that you could most likely to where it’s very simple to have something up there. If you can kind a word document, after that you can include appropriate material for your website. It will simply take more time and experience to earn it look like professional as it needs to be. In either case, you need to ensure on your own that you maintain control of your website. If you pay someone to develop it, after that make certain you have the rights to it and the logins to have the ability to enter and make changes. I do not care how well you know your internet guy; I guarantee he/she will not be for answering your telecall at 5 in the early morning when you’re considering having actually a sale for the day. In truth if they ready, they probably have a customer base and will not also have the ability to return to you the same day. You must take control of simple changes such as this. If you do not, you’ll constantly lag in the complete procedure of your business.
Once it’s produced after that you need to press individuals to it. This is where the real complication sets in with most individuals. How do I obtain individuals to my website? The answer is simple truly, content. The more content that you have out there, the more outcomes you’ll see. Msn and yahoo and various other browse engines will also acknowledge this content, which in transform will imply better positions with your website under certain key expressions.
Don’t fall right into illusions. It’s important to take points for their worth. Twitter and google as an archetype has significance, but not with the way most of companies attempt to use it. There’s a factor the IPO broke down on itself when it became public. Had the financiers focused, they would certainly have recognized that huge companies such as Maybelline dropped their advertising initiatives with them totally before it became public. Currently why would certainly a business quit paying countless bucks for something? The just factor is because it does not work. Twitter and google transformed their system to produce money similarly that Msn and yahoo offers AdWords. The truth remains that this can become an extremely expensive attempt to produce outcomes. You could invest $1,000 and not gather any information or make a sale. That looks like a waste of money if you ask me. I’d instead invest $1,000 and know that I was mosting likely to make some type of return with my initiatives. The real worth with Twitter and google and accomplishing likes is that it acquires appeal with browse engines and will take your rivals spot on the first web page. So when using devices such as this think about it as a way of having actually on your own cover greater than one spot on the first web page. So currently when someone enters professional in phoenix az, in the all-natural area with the 10 best outcomes, your website shows up, your Twitter and google web page exists, your Twitter web page exists, and your YouTube web page exists. So from those 10 spots, you have 4 of them. That do you think the viewer is mosting likely to choose? You’re relied on since you’re not in the funded listing area and have most of outcomes. You’re a huge that’s everywhere. Why would certainly they pass by you?
Use what works for your benefit. Have a look at your rivals. Understand where they are advertising. Make the effort to call some of them and ask what is producing the best outcomes. There’s no need to re-invent the wheel. There’s just need to include to it and increase your income.
Produce articles on your subject. Individuals love appropriate information therefore does Msn and yahoo. The more you seem a professional online, the more individuals will trust you. Place these articles on popular websites such as an E-zine Articles. After that link these articles back for your website.
Send your information to as many directory sites as feasible. Most of the moment they’ll be free.
Use video clips to draw in attention. Let’s face it. A great deal of individuals slouch nowadays. They prefer to watch a 30 second video clip after that read through a web page article. The more someone can collect with as little initiative on their side, the better it will be for you.
The list can go repeatedly. When you reach this phase, you need to ask on your own what is most valuable to you? An individual can just wear so many hats. You could invest all your time producing all this content and after that not have whenever to actually produce the sales for your business. It’s difficult to survive when there’s no money being available in. You also need to evaluate where you’re economically. There are just 2 factors that you on your own can give a company model. That’s money and time. If you have actually some money, after that you can buy on your own more time. If you do not have any money, after that you just have your energy and time to produce outcomes.
Last concern is that you deal with someone that can discuss points to you honestly. There are a great deal of incorrect promises that companies make. For circumstances if you appearance right into Browse Engine Optimization, one company may inform you that they guarantee you on the first web page within thirty days, while another will say that it will take 8 months. Being the uneducated customer you can find on your own in a huge catch that could devastate you over time. Logically presumably to go with the company that has a quicker reverse. However, let’s evaluate how they actually obtain you their. Perhaps they produce a web page, with the key expression being mentioned thousands of times and do a 301 redirect for your website. Yes this will work and obtain you on the front web page. But it will be for an extremely brief duration. It could last a pair days perhaps much longer. Msn and yahoo will capture on and their rocrawlers will find what is happening. Your website would certainly after that be flagged, banned, and you would certainly leave the face of the Planet. At this moment it’s better to begin over with a brand-new website and new domain name. All the work that you had put right into it will be shed. Do not appearance for fast inexpensive repairs that could eventually harm you.
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How To Identify The Field of Virtual Assistant? With our ever
How To Identify The Field of Virtual Assistant? With our ever-changing world, we can automatically conclude that “change” is the only constant. Technology, for instance, has affected the mikro units of the world and it expands up to macro-units. The word ” technology” can be associated with the word “change,” why? Simply because the technology it brought changes to us. It innovated every singgel detil of our daily routine, starting from the way we are preparing our food, take a bath and our model of transportation. We could now say that we belong to the 21st-century world that is center more on technology. One of the biggest innovation technology has offered what we called virtual assistant. According to Merriam Webster, it defined there that the word “virtual” means “being to someone or something without personally existing.” Therefore a virtual assistant is a new way of helping or working without them to be in kontak personally or face to face. That is the nature of a virtual assistant. Kingw88
For instance, Korean people need the skills in English, and we all know that Filipinos were one of the best teachers of English, for this reason, they want Filipino teachers, but how? Do they need to go to the Philippines? Well probably some could afford, but to those who had a very hectic skedul where they only have few hours left in their vacant time, they would tend to find means for them to learn, one of which is to look for the teacher who can help them with the use of the internet. In other words, they will need someone who could assist them with computers, and that is one of the serviss or work provided by the virtual assistant.
News all over the internet tells us the permintaan for a virtual assistant. Aside from the fact that we Filipinos of today ‘s generation would look for a “greener pasture” for the future, we look for something with a high paying job, and this could probably be the answer of a long time hunting for it. That is the nature of this work can be either be home-based or office base which is very convenient for them. Virtual assistant nowadays is hugely in permintaan, even with the growing numbers of VAs but still, the need for their servis is increasing.
What could be the reason for this?
Virtual Assistants are composed of people who can perform the task given by the klien in a fast and with high-quality outputs with the help of technology available to us at present. Aside from the mention above, they are open to changes when it comes to improvements in the outputs. They are very in permintaan because they provide dukungan and perform task akirately, time-bounded even from a remote tempat. They are of great help, especially to that solo-business.
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A Yes
• Q Could you do the custom carton?
A Yes
• Q Could print my logo on the carton?
A Yes
• Q For FSB6,what is the measurement center to center top & bottom for the screw holes ?
Center to center top measurement for the screw holes is 13/16"
Center to center bottom measurement for the screw holes is 1- 3/16"
• Q Is it 75lb for each bracket?
A Yes, when installed correctly on a solid wall.
• Q For FSB6,Can I use this to support an acacia slab? - 72x18x2
I think that an 18" deep shelf supported by hidden shelf rods that are at the maximum 8" deep is asking for trouble. I wouldn't install a shelf any deeper than 12".
I would look for another way to support it entirely , or with traditional shelf brackets. If the shelf is within 3 ft. or so from the ceiling, you could always hang the two outside opposite corners with a small piece of 1/4" x 36" all-thread with a washer and nut under the shelf and then the opposite up in the ceiling with an appropriate 1 x4 block in the ceiling space; strong enough to support you proposed weight. then just three of your hidden brackets at the wall. No brackets showing , or maybe you have tile on the wall, and don't want to mount anything on the tile.
• Q Can this item be bent? I have pre-existing raised garden beds with angles other than 90 degrees.
From my experience putting it together, there is some flexibility for about 1/4" of bend in case your corners are not quite square, but not more than that. These are very sturdy and very rigid.
• Q Can you use just 4 corners for a 5 ft. x 10 ft. long bed?
A We did a 4x8 ft bed, but put a 2x12 in the middle for added support. I think you can do it, but would put a support piece in the middle so it won't bow out (presuming you are making a garden bed & filling it with dirt.
• Q can I use this for 1" thickness wood?
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Question:Do you have a vesion with more holes for 2x6 lumber? (4 boards high) What gage is the steel?
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Question:Any rusting potential with these?
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Question:What are the size of the screw holes?
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Question:are there matching flat side brackets, to keep 10 ft lengths of 3 stacked 2x6s from bowing? Or not needed?
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Question:are these for true 2" boards, or Milled 2" boards (which are actually 1 1/2 inch) ?
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But we also could do the brackets if you supply a design drawing a sample to us.
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• Q When framing a house, why is it better to use connectors than the historic practice of toe-nailing?
A Framing materials held together with structural connectors can withstand much stronger forces than if held together with nails. Connectors have what is called a higher load capacity than nails (see example below). In a high wind storm, for example, nails are much more likely to pull apart or pop out than a metal connector. A connection made with a metal connector can be pulled apart, but it takes much greater force to separate it than a simple toe-nailed connection. A home built with connectors is better able to resist forces from high winds and earthquakes.
• Q What is a continuous load path and why is it important for a home?
A A continuous load path is a method of construction that uses a system of wood, metal connectors, fasteners (like nails and screws) and shearwalls to connect the structural frame of the house together. It ties the house together from the roof to the foundation. A continuous load path is important because it helps redistribute outside pressures or forces caused by earthquakes and high winds, transferring these external forces from the frame to the foundation, which is securely anchored into the ground. A home with a continuous load path is much better equipped to withstand the strong forces caused by high winds, tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes.
• Q What is a shear-wall?
A Shear-walls are reinforced walls within a home that have been engineered to help resist the shear (racking) forces that are caused by high winds or lateral forces that are caused by earthquakes. Shear-walls are typically constructed by attaching wood sheathing and holdown connectors to a section of the wood framing along a wall. Pre-manufactured shear-walls are frequently used in homes as they come pre-assembled and ready for installation.
• Q What is a fastener?
A Fasteners typically refer to nails, screws, bolts or anchors. Fasteners are used with connectors to attach framing materials together, such as wood, masonry and concrete.
• Q What is a wood connector?
Structural connectors are made out of steel, and are engineered to connect and strengthen the frame of a home. Reinforcing the frame of a home with structural connectors helps the home resist damage caused by earthquakes, high winds and hurricanes. Framing materials secured with connectors are much stronger than if secured only with nails (called toe-nailing).
Connectors come in all shapes and sizes, and have a variety of names, such as joist hangers, holdowns and hurricane ties. Homeowners don't typically see connectors in their homes because they are covered up behind the walls.
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A person saved an advance payment, paid down high-interest debt, and examined ensure your credit track record glows. Doing this point, the success of your application has been doing the hands. However electrical power changes once you discover a home. To acquire the mortgage loan — and the answer to the home — you may need an underwriter’s stamp of consent. Exactly what does that mean? Keep reading to find out.
Something mortgage loan underwriting?
Financial institutions take advantage of home loan underwriting system to verify the data a possible debtor has furnished across a home loan loan application was correct. Additionally, they ensure that the software adjusts with the criteria.
The loan businesses underwriter are going to talk about your income, obligations, and equity. This person will validate your revenue is actually legitimate while the cash in your account is the best own.
The mortgage company is just about to shell over a very large amount of money on your behalf. To be sure this safe and secure for this, the underwriter will have to realize you happen to be the person you claim to be and that you can fairly be expected to help your every month home loan repayments.
Happens to be an underwriter a genuine people?
Many home loan programs look over programmed underwriting, hands-on underwriting, or a mix of both. Handbook underwriting is actually an alternate way to state a human existence was present.
Usually, mortgage brokers need computerized Underwriting devices (AUS). This advanced systems can very quickly evaluate the knowledge in your finance product about what appears within credit score as well as their considerable information. Like for example, let’s pretend a person indexed your earnings just last year as $75,000. When the AUS can simply examine $45,000, the machine will flag this for personal affirmation. Automation may help speed up the process, but handbook underwriting digs in to the particulars to make certain every piece of information are correct.
Despite the reality the job is nearly guaranteed to be viewed by a genuine, alive people sooner or later, you shouldn’t have a much any direct contact. You may not speak with the real estate loan underwriter. This is often amazing reasons.
The underwriter are required to follow set specifications and guidelines without exemption. One example is, the buyer Finance security agency (CFPB) possess a strict processes evaluate your ability to pay back.
The underwriter needs all things in creating. As a result, whatever you say verbally should not let your situation.
The borrowed funds officer would be the go-between and your proponent. It’s a part of the task. The loan policeman realizes the financial institution’s principles and is particularly the most effective person to carry out any reasons for you.
What does home financing underwriter create?
It’s overwhelming to imagine some one brushing via your personal information, peeking into the economic storage, and wondering points being normally unacceptable in varying business. But just be sure to believe loan underwriters like the good dudes. They will not just secure the financial institution; additionally they try making sure that you do not face a whole lot more debt than you’ll handle.
Definitely a caution here: your budget might claim a person are eligible for a more impressive house loan than an individual fundamentally want or want. Its acceptable to borrow under we are eligible for. You’re the right one putting the foodstuff up for grabs, and just you are aware debt objectives. When you need to move very early or rescue for a vacation, you need money in your monthly spending budget in order to reach those dreams, way too.
Once you notice that your mortgage loan software went to underwriting, this is what you can expect the underwriters (both computerized and real) execute:
Test your credit history: alongside yanking your own credit history all three major bureaus and verifying your credit rating, underwriters consider symptoms of monetary worry. These are generally particularly sincerely interested in latter transfers, bankruptcies, alongside red flags.
Examine business and returns: The underwriter confirms merely get the job done that you talk about a person do the job and secure everything an individual claim to obtain.
Gauge debt-to-income relation (DTI): DTI compares how much cash credit you must how much you earn. It is computed by separating your own every month minimum debts bills by your revenues. For instance, if you earn $6,250 a month, as well as your month-to-month debt expenses amount to $2,500, the formula would look like this: $2,500 (loans) ? $6,250 (profit) = 0.40 (40%). DTI is very https://americashpaydayloans.com/payday-loans-ok/allen/ important mainly because it says to the mortgage lender just what monthly homeloan payment you can afford.
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Whether you are interested in establishing a business yourself or simply want exposure to Chinese assets, it would be wise to understand (at least broadly speaking) what the framework is with respect to the Chinese business interests of foreign entities. While China has had various initiatives with goals revolving around making it easier for foreigners to do business in this jurisdiction and some of them have proven to be quite successful… let’s just say a lot more progress is necessary.
First and foremost, it’s all a matter of determining what the conditions are for your specific sector. In other words, there is no such thing as a “one size fits” app approach when starting a business in China. While in some sectors, for example those relevant to the poorer regions of China, the authorities want to encourage foreign investment by providing a more attractive legal framework, some sectors tend to be less foreign investor-friendly.
To that effect, an important observation is that the status quo in China used to revolve around maintaining a catalog in which it was stipulated, on a category-by-category basis, which activities are preferred or discouraged when it came to foreign investors, with there being four distinct categories: encouraged, permitted, restricted and prohibited. Nowadays, China has moved to an arguably more lax “negative list” framework, as stipulated in the People Republic of China’s Foreign Investment Law, passed in March of 2019 and which will start producing effects as of January 1, 2020. Theoretically, activities not included on the negative list are permitted but do keep in mind that local administrations have a certain degree of autonomy when interpreting the list, so don’t expect perfect predictability.
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For me, it was always there. Never a question, always in the background. I knew I would become a police officer. It was simply a matter of time until it happened. Oh, I tried other things but underneath it was always there, I would be a police officer.
Had my family come from a long line of cabinet makers there would probably be sawdust on my clothes. If we had firemen in the line, I would smell of smoke. But I came from a police family.
That isn’t the case for many officers. Some got out of the service and the department looked good to them. I know some that realized that they needed a good health care plan for their kids and police work fit the ticket.
One officer, I knew always said he went downtown to buy a city sticker for his car and got in the wrong line. I don’t know if he ever got that sticker for his car.
It seems that people either want to be police from early on or decided later in life that the benefits suited them. I don’t know if it makes a difference when it comes to the type of officer they are. I’ve met some lazy, do nothing, third generation police officers and some excellent officers who fell into police work because they needed a job.
I think the factor that makes the difference between poor and excellent quality officers is their sense of honor and pride in their work. Pride doesn’t mean arrogance but rather the individual’s desire to do their best.
One of my partners had been a bus driver before he got hired. He has a great sense of humor and is always cracking a joke, however, his devotion to his work and his skill is always evident. He wore his hat like a bus driver. On the back of his head, like Ralph Kramden. (Some of you younger officers might need to google that.)
I have also known officers who became officers because the pay was good, the pension was good, and health care was provided. Security was there for a family. This too, is a fine reason for becoming a police officer, even though the idea probably only grew once the officer was more mature. People like this tend to understand the moral ideas of honor as well as the responsibility that comes with it.
There are those officers who fell into the job because there was nothing else to do and they had a family member or friend who knew a guy who could help them get work. Those officers often are merely employees with no more honor or pride than an assembly line worker. Clearly, that is not every case, for I’m sure you will find many exceptions in your own experience.
Police work is an occupation, a profession that by its nature requires a code. One that binds an officer to enforce the laws of the land and care for those who need our help. These are lofty ideals. Ideals that often take many years to develop in an individual. Some of us learned this by watching their father on Sunday morning standing in the back of the church and helping with the collection as part of the parish Holy Name Society.
We learned fair play and honesty from our little league coaches. Scouts learned the value of respect and education from their scoutmaster and den mother. Our mothers taught us to respect our parents and teachers. We carried those values when we joined – and still do.
So, when did you decide you wanted to be the police? What was behind your decision to put on the star? Leave a note, let us know.
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Lil Rodney Cee, a member of Funky 4 + 1 (Funky Four Plus One), who is featured on Funky 4 + 1’s 1979 hit single “Rappin And Rocking The House” was the first rapper to have ‘Lil’ in his name. Lil Rodney Cee was a member of The Funky Four Plus 1 and later Double Trouble. Lil Rodney Cee is also known for his M.C. Battle with Busy Bee Starski on Wild Style.
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Superboy, also known as Kon-El and Conner Kent, is a clone of Superman and Lex Luthor. Superboy was trapped on Gemworld during the Flashpoint, resulting in a second iteration, a clone of Jon Lane Kent coming to existence during his absence. Eventually, however, the original was rescued from Gemworld by his friends. He has been a member of Young Justice and Teen Titans.
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The Death of Superman
The Metropolis Kid faces off against the Scavenger.
In the wake of Superman's death, four very different contenders arose to his mantle. Amongst their ranks were a clone of Superman and Lex Luthor created by Project Cadmus[2], Superboy[3]. At the time, Superboy wore a costume inspired by Superman, though his was modified and included a leather jacket and stylish sunglasses. Eventually, Superman was restored to life, and the young clone Superboy became his ally. At some point, the young Superboy gained the Kryptonian name Kon-El. Superboy spent some time in Hawaii, where he fought King Shark on multiple occasions.[4]
Early Career
Young Justice fight together against the villain Harm.
Superboy would go on to become a founding member of the original Young Justice, alongside his best friends, Tim Drake, Cassie Sandsmark, and Bart Allen. While on the team, he and others fought Harm. Superboy would also encounter the clone Match, a clone of himself designed to be stronger and more powerful; Match would later be presumed dead.[5] During this period, he wore a revised version of his previous costume, one lacking the leather jacket of the original outfit. Eventually, Superboy would gain the human name Conner Kent, from his genetic donor, Clark Kent. During his time as a hero, Conner would come to realize that sticking around to help clean up in the aftermath of a fight helped clear his head.[6] One day, after many adventures, Young Justice would sadly disband.
Conner Kent and the Teen Titans.
However, its core membership would go on to become part of a new iteration of the Teen Titans, one that also included Beast Boy and Raven. During this period, Conner wore a new costume; instead of his previous spandex ensemble, he wore a simple El family crest on a T-Shirt and jeans. More than once, Conner came into conflict with Superboy-Prime[7], a corrupted multiversal counterpart of his sometimes-mentor, Superman. Conner would come to live in Smallville as the youngest adopted son of Martha and Jonathan Kent, the adoptive parents of Superman, on their farm, after being sent there by Superman[8]. He attended Smallville High School, though he struggled to pay attention on occasion. He also flirted with a classmate named Stacy.[9] At some point, he 'lost' Jonathan Kent's tractor in a nearby lake.[10]
Lost in Gemworld
At some point, Conner fought a large monster outside of a secret facility in New Mexico. Afterwards, he spoke to Dr. Glory, who briefly misidentified him as Superman before offering to debrief him on the situation, ostensibly a classified national security matter, inside the base. However, he soon left, returning to Smallville.
Later, Conner would attend a class at his school before coming to the realization mid-lession that he felt no particular need to actually attend High School and that his time would be better spent using his powers to help people. He walked out, complimenting his teacher and promising to text Stacy if he could. Unable to find any record of his encounter outside the secret facility earlier, Conner returned to New Mexico.
Conner fought his way through the secret S.T.A.R. Labs facility codenamed 'The Constellation' and confronted Dr. Glory after becoming suspicious of their activities. After encountering a room of strange gems refracting light, he instantly found himself transported outside of his home dimension and into Gemworld.[11] Landing in a marketplace, he came to the defense of a pregnant widow named Lophi, who was frequently interrogated by the oppressive local soldiers. The two befriended one another, and Lophi gave him a safe haven on her farm; in order to defend Lophi from harassment and provide Conner with a fake identity while he waited for help from his dimension, Conner pretended to be her husband. When Lophi's daughter was born, she named the child Martha, in honor of Conner's adoptive mother.[12]
While Conner was stranded, tragedy struck; his home Earth was struck with Flashpoint, and its timeline altered, resulting in it being rebooted;[13] however, since he was in a separate dimension at the time, reality shifted without him.[note] As a result, he became displaced and forgotten by the majority of residents of the altered world.
New 52
Main article: Superboy: Incubation
"They call me Superboy, I have no idea why."
While the original Kon-El was lost, stuck in Gemworld and forgotton by his friends and family (and, indeed, the world) as a result of the Flashpoint, another Superboy was created. This second Superboy was a Human/Kryptonian Hybrid clone created by N.O.W.H.E.R.E., an organization which threatens the lives of teen heroes and has a wide array of unforeseen plans. Although led to believe he was a clone of Superman, his creation was orchestrated by the time-traveling general Harvest as a way to save the life of an alternate Jon Lane Kent, cloned from him with the intent of being used to wage war against metahumans.[14] He was accidentally awakened when his death was ordered and his natural self-defense instincts were triggered, killing all the scientists except Caitlin Fairchild.[15]
He was continually tested by N.O.W.H.E.R.E. under orders by Zaniel Templar and supervised by Rose Wilson, Doctor Umber and Doctor Michael White. His first field mission was to infiltrate an alien prison designated as Pen 51, where he lost control of his telekinetic powers and was first separated from the team. Lost and confused, he came to discover his abilities through encounters with humans who attacked out of fear.
He eventually found that he was followed to the surface by the girl that had been inside Pen 51. The alien from Pen 51 who revealed that Superboy is both Kryptonian and human.[16] After defeating Caitlin Fairchild, Superboy met with Centerhall who told him he's free to come and go as he pleased, but asked that he considered returning to help N.O.W.H.E.R.E. to help stop dangerous metahumans. He chose to go free. However, after seven days of freedom, Superboy felt his first compulsion towards heroics when he stopped a metahuman couple who had killed a restaurant full of people. Once he defeated them, he turned them in to officials at N.O.W.H.E.R.E. and agreed to rejoin.[17]
First encounter with Supergirl!
Superboy prepared for battle against Wonder Girl by studying her previous actions and confronted her at Times Square. Superboy was about to win the match when the Teen Titans came to Wonder Girl's rescue. However, Superboy was able to effortlessly defeat them all, though he began to take pity.[18] He eventually realized that he was in fact created as a weapon and was being wielded by N.O.W.H.E.R.E.. In an act of defiance, he through Templar's surveillance van into the water.[19]
Superboy later met with Supergirl above a bridge, as she was drawn to the "S" symbol on his uniform, the symbol of her family. However, she was disgusted to discover that he was a clone, which were frowned upon in Kryptonian culture. She thus derisively gave him the name Kon-El, meaning "abomination in the House of El."[20]
Before Superboy returned to N.O.W.H.E.R.E., he rescued Caitlin Fairchild, tricking Templar into thinking he was in his room all along. Superboy left Caitlin in the care of his friend, an NYPD detective, Jocelyn Lure. However, Jocelyn would lose Caitlin and Caitlin would return to the colony just in time for the Culling. Superboy returned once again to N.O.W.H.E.R.E. and defeated Centerhall. He discovered he was the second N.O.W.H.E.R.E Kryptonian subject, but was defeated in combat by Rose Wilson before he could find out more.[21]
The Culling
After a failed rescue attempt by the Teen Titans, Superboy was forced to train for the Culling with a metahuman called Grunge. he realized that Grunge, Dr. Fairchild and the other so-called "Ravagers" shared a common immunity to his telekinesis; he managed to defeat Grunge, but being wounded himself, passed out.[22]
Fighting the Legion and the Ravagers!
When he woke up, Superboy found himself in the Colony faced with Beast Boy and Terra. After being convinced to join the Teen Titans in their battle to defeat Harvest, he and the other Titans teamed up with the time-stranded portion of the Legion of Super-Heroes.[23] Harvest sent the Ravagers to finish off the young heroes. Superboy tried to take down their leader, Warblade, but was outmatched because of his opponent's immunity to telekinesis. Dawnstar tipped the balance back in his favor. With Warblade defeated, the young heroes could face Harvest.[24] Harvest escaped and the complex exploded, but Superboy and Wonder Girl managed to save the others.[25]
Superboy woke up in an island full of animals believed to be extinct. Wonder Girl was with him,[26] and they found the other Titans the next day. As they spent time on the island, they started finding clues that it was Danny the Street who brought them there. Danny offered to bring them home, at great risk to himself, and the Teen Titans agreed reluctantly.[27]
Superboy returned to New York where he found an apartment, rented with money he "borrowed" from a bank (not understanding that it was a crime). He and Bunker discussed his symbol, being told that he should be proud of it; when the two wander into a tattoo parlor, Bunker was shocked to see Superboy get an "S" tattoo. [28]
Wonder Girl & The Silent Armor
Back from their fight with Harvest, Kid Flash, Bunker and Solstice faced a a criminal within their headquarters. As Cassie helped them defeat him, she went into a state of berserk, completely controlled by her Silent Armor.[29] Soon, Tim and Superboy attempted to help herget back in control. Though they succeed, a mysterious ex-boyfriend of Cassie, Diesel, then appeared and took the armor for himself.[30]
The three traveled to Cambodia, in search of him and the Armor, but were unsuccessful in retrieving either. Diesel began wearing the Silent Armor, wanting to use all the obscure and arcane powers of the sentient weapon: in fact, Tim soon discovers the mysterious artifact is connected to an old legend associated with a creature named Trigon.[31] After neutralizing Diesel, Cassie takes the armor back and Tim and Kon promise her they will help her control it.[32]
The Ravagers and Legion Lost
When Superboy came to the defense of his landlord being robbed, one of the assailants, revealed that she was a telepath and made Superboy see illusions. Superboy felt like he was being crushed until he figured out that Kiva was using his own power against him. So Superboy let himself go and opened his very soul. That made the telepath experience incredible pain when she saw inside Superboy and she passed out. While the brutes took the Kiva away, Superboy tended to Dallas.[33]
Jocelyn Lure began monitoring and analyzing Superboy and his previous actions, and he eventually awoke to her pointing a gun to his head. Though they initially fought, they came to an agreement after he explained himself. She brought teleported him to Dr. Fairchild.[34] Desperate for answers about himself, Superboy interrogated Dr. Fairchild to no avail, and the two traded blows. This agitates the other Ravagers, as he was created to destroy them if they ever got out of control. However, Superboy proved himself when he stopped Thunder from exploding. Superboy would also enrage Ridge, when he claimed that he was jealous of Ridge, claiming "at least your memories are real". Superboy would also assist the Ravagers in destroying the other N.O.W.H.E.R.E. Colonies.[35]
Forced to fight alongside the Legion Lost and Harvest
Superboy began training in the Ravagers' hologram training, though the group still did not fully trust him. He made it a goal to become one of them, part of a group. Though Dr. Fairchild remarked that it could never happen, Superboy enjoyed finally having something "real" to dream about. When Superboy and the Ravagers were on a mission to a cemetery to save a meta-teen, they were confronted by N.O.W.H.E.R.E. agents.[36] Dr. Fairchild had a vision to where Superboy possibly dies by Rose Wilson, however, Superboy defies his fate and defeats her and Warblade.[37]
Jocelyn appears through a portal, saying Superboy needs to fulfill his end of their previous deal. Superboy protested, happy at finally finding somewhere he belonged. When she didn't give him a choice and forces him through her portal, the Ravagers followed to save him. Superboy encountered Harvest who then caused him to go berserk, using a Kryptonian trigger phrase.[38] The Legion Lost managed to snap Kon out of his trance just in time, but thed incident left Kon shaken, believing that he was still just a living weapon.[39]
H'el on Earth
Considered an abomination by H'El
Returning to New York after the ordeal, he was attacked by H'el, a radical Kryptonian who despised him because he was a clone. Even with the help of the Teen Titans, he lost the fight and was abducted.[40] H'el brought him to Supergirl to serve as proof to his loyalty towards Krypton, though she opted not to kill him right away as H'el desired.[41] When H'el was about to snap his neck, Superman interfered and saved him. Superboy tried to help Superman fight H'el to no avail and ended up getting gravely injured when H'el ripped his DNA apart.[42]
Superboy was brought to the Fortress of Solitude by Superman to try and save his life. In the process, Superman discovered that Superboy's DNA contains three strands (as opposed to the usual two); two were identified as Human and Kryptonian, but the third could not be identified. To stop his genetic meltdown, Superman put his Kryptonian battle armor on Superboy. It worked, but caused Superboy's telekinesis to concentrate and condense, limiting his power only to the things he touched.[43] H'El discovered the fortress and managed to lock them out, so that he may use it build a device to bring back Krypton. Together, Superboy and Superman visited Lex Luthor in his prison to develop a plan to defeat H'el. Joined by the Justice League, Superboy and Superman broke back into the Fortress of Solitude. However, their victory was short-lived as Superman and was sucked into an alien device that leads them into another dimension containing a sentient planetoid transformed into a prison planet by evildoers. The two managed to confront the villains, free the prisoners, and return home.[44]
Fighting alongside Superman!
Upon return, the two regrouped with the Justice League to continue the fight against H'El. They watched as H'El activated his finished device, which began to consume the sun. H'El also ripped the Kryptonian armor -- which was keeping Superboy alive -- off of him and placed on Superman, claiming that his parents would "want Kal to die with dignity". Without the armor, Superboy began to die. However, he mustered up the courage and willpower to use his T.K. to try to pull his D.N.A. back together. When Superboy tried to fly to the Star Chamber to destroy it, he encountered Supergirl.
When Superboy tried to convince Supergirl that the Star Chamber will destroy the Earth, Supergirl responded by viciously assaulting him. Despite the attack, Superboy doesn't back down and is saved in the knick of time Wonder Woman. While Wonder Woman faced Supergirl, Superboy managed to destroy H'El's device; however with the machine destroyed, the time shards began to collapse time itself. Superboy tried to hold the shards together, but was quickly defeated in his weakened state and was tied up with Wonder Woman and Superman. Superboy watched as Kara finally betrayed H'el, stabbing him with a shard of Kryptonite and freeing them. Superboy was then able to return home.
Encountering Trigon
While the Titans try to digest the battle against Harvest, they live their new team life: Tim Drake in particular feels and acts different, seducing both Solstice and Wonder Girl behind the backs of his friends. Then, he brings the team to Belle Reve tricking them into thinking a young metahuman was held prisoner there, while Tim only wanted to close a private deal with Amanda Waller. As Cassie and Kon confront him about his attitude, the Titans must stop arguing to handle a threat in the middle of New York City: the demonic Trigon appeared out of nowhere to start his conquer of the planet Earth.[45]
Facing the might of Trigon!
Unable to face him as he's too powerful, the Titans soon get helped by Trigon's own daughter, Raven, who rebels against the evil his father represents. Together with her is another metahuman, Beast Boy, who the Titans previously encountered as one of the prisoners of Harvest during The Culling. Trigon then detects another metahuman on the field, Simon Jones and he amplifies his powers to kill dozens of soldiers that intervened in the conflict. Trigon soon leaves, making the impression that everything he wanted was placing the Titans in a crisis in front of the world.[46]
Tim recruits Raven to the team, all the while fighting a possession he does not know is even effecting him. After facing Trigon's three sons and defeating them, Raven tells the Titans that the Simon Jones incident was only an illusion his father orchestrated to trick them.[47] Trigon then comes back, revealing his intention was to test the resilience of the Titans' leader, Tim Drake. After leaving once again with his real intents still a mystery, Raven officially becomes a member of the team and reveals publicly all the things Tim did under the possession of his father, bringing the team to a breaking point, thanks to jealousy that both Bart and Kon feel about Tim's secret adventures with both Kiran and Cassie.[48]
When Bart was pulled into a wormhole, Superboy helped free him. Superboy was also present when the Green Team offered to buy the Teen Titans.[49]
Doctor Psycho
At some point after their encounter with H'el, Superman intrusted Superboy to take care of Krypto. Learning a lesson after his battle with H'el, Superboy would also return the millions he stole from the bank. While fighting a villain, Superboy was tricked by Doctor Psycho. Superboy would also defeat a H.I.V.E. villain with his help. Superboy also assisted a girl who was manifesting a monster with her mind. He was tricked into destroying a school thinking that a villain was teleporting around. Superboy finally snapped out of his trance after he used a phone camera to realize that there was actually no villain there after all. The "villain" turned out just to be a manifestation of his Superboy's fears created by the Psycho Pirate. Even with all his power, Superboy could not defeat him. Superboy was badly beaten and all his telekinetic senses were temporarily stolen from him.[50]
Forever Evil and Lost in Time
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Fighting the boy he was cloned from, the Son of Superman!
When the Crime Syndicate would take over the world, Teen Titans felt the burden to take the place of the Justice League. They landed at the Fallen Watchtower, saving the law enforcement on the scene. Johnny Quick would utilize the Vibrational Frequency of Kid Flash to cause a temporal rift which pulled Superboy alongside whatever is left of the Teen Titans into the future,[51] after being thrown to different focuses in time[52] Kon and the Titans arrived in a possible future where the child of Superman killed the vast majority of the Metahumans on Earth, He was brought onboard the Justice League satellite by the Beast Boy of the future and was assaulted by the Teen Titans of the future, who confused him for the evil Superboy. Shortly thereafter Jon telepathically placed the memories of him killing the metahumans, and the duo engaged in battle, which Kon overpowered as well as figured out how to pierce him onto the Satellite before he could land a finishing blow he was pulled into the timestream.[53]
Krypton Returns
Main article: Krypton Returns
Called to Krypton by the Oracle
Superboy, Superman and Supergirl were mysteriously pulled into space, summoned by the being known as the Oracle, who told the Kryptonians that their enemy H'El had successfully gone back in time and saved Krypton from its doomed fate but had caused a time paradox they needed to resolve. The team was sent back in time to the last days of Krypton, with Superboy being assigned to save Supergirl in the past from an Eradicator that was hunting her. After he succeeded, Superboy wiped past-Supergirl's memories of his involvement to preserve the timestream, even though he knew doing so would preserve her hatred of him as a clone when they would first meet years later.
After H'El's defeat by Superman and his father, Superboy secretly stayed in the past and orchestrated the events that allowed Supergirl to escape the planet in a rocket before it exploded. On Krypton for its destruction, Superboy looked back on his short life, realizing that he was not a living weapon, just a boy that tried.[54]
Though Superboy died on Krypton, he was not dead for long, as he was reborn as the Herald of the Oracle. Though he served dutifully, he longed for his old life as Superboy and as a member of the Teen Titans.[55]
Believed to be Dead
Although to the Superman Family, Kon was believed to be dead, he was not forgotten; when Mogul's son attacked earth he was recalled by Supergirl when Krypto returns. After the Superman Family and the Batman Family defeat Jochi, Superman attempted to comfort Batman with the information that even Superboy was created to be an assassin, and he changed, so there was a possibility that Jochi could've changed with more time. However, Batman was not interested.[56]
Superboy was considered to be a target for assassination, when an assassin was targeting people related to Superman, but was ruled out as a target because he was believed to be dead.[57]
When Jon Lane Kent returned from the future, his existing consciousness linked with the other Jon Lane Kent of the period who was in stasis. The two consciousnesses summoned Kon away from his duty as the herald of the Oracle. Kon became a bridge between the two Jons. While the Jon that returned from the future worked with star labs, Kon and the other Jon would constantly send messages to Jon at his time at star labs.
Superboys from every reality unleashed!
When Jon went to explore the N.O.W.H.E.R.E. base, he made contact with the other Jon. Their contact created a pocket reality engulfing the entire N.O.W.H.E.R.E. base. When they made contact Jon had a heart-to-heart with Kon inside their unconsciousness. Kon and the two Jons fused into a singular being, with their body producing tachyons. They transformed multiple of Jon's star labs associates into their ultimate reality versions before the other Jon took control and killed two security officers. With the three beings fighting for control, they split apart and simultaneously summoned every Superboy version in reality. The other Jon took control of all the other Superboys and attempted to kill Jon, Kon and the others.
However, the attempt was not successful and Jon sacrificed himself throwing himself and the other Jon into the wall of the pocket reality. The destruction of the pocket reality returned the star lab workers back into their normal reality versions and returned all the Superboys to their respective realities. By killing himself and destroying the pocket reality, Jon was erased from existence, and Kon was brought back as the one and only Superboy.[1]
Secret Origins
The mysterious 10% of unknown DNA
Superboy visited S.T.A.R. Labs to take a DNA test. The doctor prepared a Kryptonite coated syringe because he assumed that he would need it to break Superboy's skin, however, Kon explained that his power relied solely on his T.K., therefore the kryptonite needle was not needed. To distract from the pain and to wait for the test to finish, Superboy reflected on his past. He explained his creation, origin, time with the Teen Titans and death. he describes how hard it is to live up to Superman, after meeting him.
Eventually, Superboy has a realization; he doesn't need a DNA test to tell him who he is. He's Superboy! However, when he leaves, the DNA test finishes. Revealing that his DNA is 45% human, 45% Kryptonian, and 10% Unknown. The Doctor is intrigued as the computer is not being able to identify the third strand of Kon's DNA.[58]
Wanting to find a sense to his existence, Kon traveled throughout the world, learning different religions and philosophies. While in Rome, he stumbled into the students of an inter-planetary school for super-heroes called Crucible Academy. One of those students, Maxima, was under orders to take him to Crucible, though Supergirl, who happened to be a Crucible student, stepped in the way and tried to stop her schoolmates. When Maxima and Kon pointed out that Kryptonians hate clones, Supergirl replied she had changed and she knew better now.
Superboy agreed to go to Crucible anyway, reasoning he had nothing to lose. However, one of the preceptors captured him with the purpose of extracting his Kryptonian DNA with which creating an army of clones. Supergirl and her schoolmates rescued him, and Kon and Kara managed to destroy the cloning facility. Afterward, Kon returned to Earth to help people.
Hunted by the Elite!
Returning from Crucible Academy, Superboy's programmed killing instincts kick in when he comes in the proximity of a neighborhood filled with the Durlans who he registers as a threat. Superboy, not in control of his body, ruthlessly slaughters all of the Durlans, except Ra'ut L'lwer. This incident was similar to another when Harvest made him fight the Legion Lost.[39] Superboy's name and image are spread across social media as a mass murderer, with even Reporter Lois Lane writing about him.
Ra'ut L'lwer helped Kon escape from jail and J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter. Red Robin doubts the video is true, although the Titans are split on whether Superboy could have actually committed mass murder. However, Tim didn't let the team have a vote and insists Superboy is innocent. Manhunter, who was seeking to kill Kon for what he had done, found them at Gar and Miguel's apartment; Kon lashed out at him and knocked him unconscious. Once again, Tanya and Cassie got into an argument with the rest of the Titans, ending with talking with Manchester Black, who offered them a place on S.T.A.R. Labs' new team: The Elite; they accept.[59]
Even though they were trying to lay low, Miguel, Gar and Raven were recognized, and they attracted a large crowd. While surrounded by the crowd, a woman was pushed onto the tracks of the L-train. Gar and Miguel fully revealed themselves to save her, but Kon swooped in just before the woman was killed. Because Kon was still technically an escaped murderer, the police responded immediately. Manchester Black and S.T.A.R. also noticed, and decided on sending their team on their first mission. The Titans escaped before the Elite showed up, but, with the help of Klarion, manage to locate them again.[60]
After escaping Black and the Elite, the Titans went into hiding once again, trying to plan their next course of action. They eventually decide to break into the M.A.W. to help Kon, who is in hiding[61]. Raven tells them that the person she saw in relation to Kon in Black's mind is Despero. In order to get to Despero, they would have to temporarily let every inmate out, including Blockbuster and Livewire. Right before many of the inmates escaped the facility completely, Kon showed up and took them down.[61]
The Titans say goodbye to Kon.
All of a sudden, Tim, Kon, Cassie and Bart were transported to a place that appeared to be the apartment where they first joined together to be the Titans. Afer seeing various visions and images of their past, it was revealed that Harvest was the one responsible for it. Harvest attempted to win Kon over, but the Titans retaliated. But, Kon convinced them to stop. He told them that they were the best heroes—and the best friends he had ever known. He later disappeared with alongside Harvest, leaving Tim, Bart and Cassie alone in the illusion.[62] He was never seen again.
Though this version of Superboy has disappeared from the Metahuman community and was presumed dead by most, he was not forgotten. He was recalled by Bunker multiple times whenever Bunker reminisces about his time with the Titans.
When the Suicide Squad and the Outlaws raided a N.O.W.H.E.R.E. base that was causing seismic tremors. Bizarro, knew that the base was made to stop another Kryptonian clone and Bizarro had a flashback to Harvest and Superboy. However, when Harvest's corpse was found dead and crucified, Superboy had mysteriously vanished; his involvement in Harvest's demise is unknown.
DC Rebirth
Transported to a world unfamiliar to him.
During an assault on Metropolis by Gemworld soldiers, a group of young heroes, including Conner's old friends Tim Drake, Impulse and Wonder Girl, arrived in the Gemworld dimension. Conner was able to have a joyous reunion with Impulse first, and the two broke the rest of Young Justice out of Gemworld's jail. They were quickly confronted by Lord Opal, a Gemworld tyrant and nemesis of new Young Justice member Amethyst. Although Opal temporarily weakened Conner using a pendant of Kryptonite, the team managed to defeat him.[12] After bidding Lophi and baby Martha farewell, Conner and the rest of Young Justice were sent out of the dimension by Gemworld's council.
Lost in the Multiverse
The team quickly found that they were betrayed by the council of Gemworld and were not sent home; instead, they were banished into the Multiverse, re-ejected haphazardly by each universe's heroes. Young Justice would first arrive on Earth 42, only to be ejected by that world's Justice League to Earth 26, the chaotic homeworld of Captain Carrot, whose team quickly sent them away to Earth 22, the world of Kingdom Come.
Their arrival quickly caught the attention of world's Justice League, whose Superman was infuriated when Superboy reveals that he is the clone of Superman and Lex Luthor. Wonder Girl defused the situation by asking that world's Wonder Woman to use her Lasso of Truth on her and, after helping to defeat the Sons of Batman, they received the assistance of that world's Doctor Fate and are sent away.[63] Unfortunately, due to a miscalculation on Dr. Fate's part, they were once again sent to the wrong world -- this time Earth 3, where they encounter the evil version of themselves. Superboy came face-to-face with his evil counterpart, Luthor-El, who was working for Cassie's evil counterpart, Amaxon Thunder.[64] When Young Justice defeated their evil counterparts, they finally returned home with the help of Earth-3's Batwoman and her multiverse map.[65]
S.T.A.R. Labs
When Superboy arrived home, he was introduced to the newly-minted hero Naomi and he and the rest of the team crashed at her house for the night. Learning of S.T.A.R. Labs' suspicious involvement with the dimensional rift they returned in, Superboy angrily went to confront Dr. Glory alone. Anticipating his arrival, Glory tricked Conner into coming in contact with a crystal, once again banishing him to another world.
A new Warlord!
Landing on Skartaris, he befriended the Warlord and hunted dinosaurs with him. Warlord helped Superboy grapple with feeling purposeless; he explained that he is a human from Earth who ended up stranded on Skartaris many years ago. He told Conner that although he too felt lost when he arrived, accepting that hopelessness opened him up to discovering new ways to be, eventually finding his passion and becoming happier than ever. The two eventually battled Green Manaleeshi, who was provided a Kryptonite sword and interdimensional communication device by Dr. Glory, before Superboy was rescued by Young Justice.
During the team's return to S.T.A.R Labs to finally confront Dr. Glory together, Impulse explained Conner's displacement from their dimension to the group as well as everyone's fractured memories of a past incarnation of the group; after the Labs' assets and employees were apprehended by the FBI, Superboy confronted Impulse alone for more explanation. Impulse reluctantly elaborates about a tragic possible future he traveled to, and his existence as someone who was rapidly aged. He confides that Superboy is the closest person that he can relate to, as he is a clone who also struggles with discrepancies about age. Robin interrupts the conversation, deciding that the entire Young Justice team is going to meet up at the Hall of Justice tomorrow to get concrete answers.
Reunion of the Kents
Superboy and the rest of Young Justice gathered to watch Superman's press conference, where reveals his identity as Clark Kent; afterwards, Superboy went to re-introduce himself to Superman, who did not remember him.[66] Superboy fought alongside Superman and the Justice League against Leviathan. He destroyed a sky battleship and fought with his other genetic donor, Lex Luthor, who also didn't recognize him.
Alongside Superman again!
After the incident, Superman took Conner Kent to the Fortress of Solitude to examine him and question him about his origins, although Conner had few answers. During their questioning, Jonathan Kent and his 31st century companion Brainiac 5 arrived through a time portal; Jon brought Brainiac 5 to show him life back in the 21st century, but the two Legionnaires were caught off guard by the appearance of Conner and the mystery behind his origins.
Later, at the Hall of Justice, Superman gathered the smartest people in the superhero community to tackle the mystery. Mr. Terrific and Ray Palmer theorized that Conner originated from a version of their universe that existed prior to one of at least three theorized universal 'reboots'. After Conner explained that he was sent to be raised by Jonathan Kent and Martha Kent, Superman took Conner, Jon and Brainiac 5 to the Kent Farm in Smallville to see if they recognize him. When Jonathan and Martha saw Conner, they immediately recognized him and became affectionate towards him, baffling the group.[13]
The strange "reunion" was interrupted by Superman's wife Lois Lane calling for help, with Conner accompanying him and Jon to save her and Jimmy Olsen from the mob enforcer Red Cloud, who fled. At Conner's suggestion, the group responded by ambushing Red Cloud's boss Marisol Leone's bar and shrinking it, sending the remains to taunt her.[67] When the group is greeted by Supergirl, Conner was introduced to her for the first time since the Flashpoint; she had no recollection of him, but was glad to meet him.[68] When the group confronted Leone, she unleashed a Parasite from an alternate earth that manages to render Conner unconscious; he was defended by Brainiac 5 until he was able to recover and the Parasite was defeated. Red Cloud resurfaced to finish the job, but after a brief struggle Superman was able to place her in the Phantom Zone, neutralizing the threat.[69]
Sometime after the incident, Conner returned the Hall of Justice to discuss developments in the study of his physiology. While the tests concluded that he is expected to have a normal lifespan (perhaps even slightly longer), they also revealed the possibility that he may permanently lose his powers at any given time. Distressed, Conner confessed to Superman that he wanted to go home, feeling more at peace on farms. With Krypto and the elder Kents enthusiastically welcoming him and Superman feeling that they are safer with someone to defend them, Conner once again made Kent Farm his home.[70]
Further Adventures with Young Justice
After settling down in his new home, Conner continued to assist Young Justice.[71] He was called by Tim Drake to assist him and Stephanie Brown in defeating her father, Cluemaster; sometime later Conner assisted with a battle against yet another relative of a Young Justice member, this time against the wrath of Zeus and Poseidon, the grandfather and great-uncle of Wonder Girl.[72][73] He also occasionally took to relaxing with the team, once eating donuts in the back of Jinny Hex's pickup truck.[74]
Infinite Frontier
Suicide Squad
Due to the changes to the multiverse following the battle against Perpetua and The Batman Who Laughs (which Conner participated in[75]), it appeared that Conner's place within the timeline was finally fully restored.[note]
Superboy confronts his Match
At some point, Conner was cloned by The Agenda under Amanda Waller's direction. One of the clones was awakened and manipulated to believe he was the real Conner, supposedly subdued with kryptonite and kidnapped to potentially serve as a leader of the Suicide Squad.[76] While operating with the team, this "Superboy" exhibited heroic behavior and repeatedly attempted to help people against orders.[77] During a mission to forcefully recruit Bolt at Titans Tower, the clone tripped an alarm after he became fixated on a framed photograph of the former Young Justice team and wandered off to view it, resulting in the Teen Titans Academy students engaging with the Suicide Squad.[78] Confused at seeing Superboy work with a team of criminals, the students contacted the real Conner.[5]
With the Justice League and Checkmate on call, Conner arrived at a Russian black site to confront his clone who, ailing and confused, attacked him.[79] After defeating him, Conner noticed that the clone's skin became sickly white and believed him to be dead, though he quickly awoke and began speaking strangely. Though Conner wished to help his clone, dubbed "Match", Waller had the clone teleported to an unknown location before anything could be done. As a direct result of Conner's intervention, Waller became wanted by the U.S. government and went on the run with Match and the rest of the squad in tow.[80]
• Cloned Kryptonian Physiology: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, Superboy possesses the potential of powers an average Kryptonian. Though his Kryptonian abilities haven't perfectly developed, probably due to his young age. These include:
• Solar Radiation Absorption: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of Superboy's powers as they are contingent upon exposure to solar radiation from a yellow sun star system. His Kryptonian body is constantly absorbing and storing energy from Earth's yellow sun, which in turn grants him incredible powers.
• Self-Sustenance: Superboy can live and speak in the vacuum of space just fine even though he had difficulties breathing in space when he was in it for the first time.[20]
• Superhuman Strength: Superboy displayed strength enough to bench press a couple tons, he is strong enough to lift a semi-truck car over his head while flying[63], He also has showcased enough physical might to lift the city of Kandor into space without his psychic powers.[20][54] His upper limit has fluctuated over time however.
• Superhuman Speed: Superboy is able to move at incredible speed by sheer force of will. This extends to his perceptions and allows for feats such as catching bullets in mid flight as well as covering vast distances in little or no time. He was able to travel for more than three miles and back so fast that people didn't even noticed he left.[12] While not as fast as Impulse and other Flashes on the ground, Superboy can still fly at speeds faster than speed of sound and keep up with his speed.[81]
• Superhuman Durability: Even without his tactile telekinesis field, Superboy is tough enough to resist the touch of lava.[12]
• Enhanced Vision: Superboy's vision processes the entire electromagnetic spectrum as well as allowing vast control over selective perception and focus.
• X-Ray Vision: Superboy possesses the ability to see through solid objects.[68]
• Telescopic Vision: Superboy can see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics. Though limited, the exact extent of the ability is undetermined. In function, it is similar to the zoom lens on a camera[citation needed]
• Microscopic Vision: This is the ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level.[citation needed]
• Infrared Vision: Superboy can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree in total darkness.[citation needed]
• Heat Vision: Superboy can, as a conscious act, fire beams of intense heat at a target by looking at it. He can vary the heat and area affected.[82]
• Superhuman Hearing: Superboy hearing is sensitive enough to hear any sound at any volume or pitch. With skill and concentration, he can block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency.[83]
• Super-Breath: Superboy is able to create hurricane force winds by exhaling air from his lungs.[67]
• Superhuman Stamina: Superboy can exert himself at peak capacity for several days.
• Accelerated Healing: Superboy has the ability to heal himself (from the wounds or diseases of others or themselves).
• Flight: Superboy can fly without using his tactile telekinesis. He was able to fly incredibly fast from Smallville to the middle of a desert.[11]
• Longevity: Superboy can live longer than regular humans, remaining at his prime as long as he was under the exposure of the "yellow" sun.[84]
• Telekinesis: Superboy has full telekinetic powers; he's used it to levitate, manipulate and repel objects and people, create force fields, disassemble people and things and shoot telekinetic blasts.
• Tactile Telekinesis: Superboy's body is completely surrounded by an invisible field of telekinetic energy, protecting him from harm and enhancing his physical abilities. This can also be used to manipulate objects that are on the same surface as the user (such as the ground) or to fly by pushing his own body through the air (this usually requires effort though).
• Simulated Invulnerability: Superboy uses his telekinetic ability to create an invisible force field around his own body.
• Simulated Superhuman Strength: Superboy uses a telekinetic field to lift heavy objects.[85] Superboy's strength is so great with his telekinesis he easily defeated Martian Manhunter in a few blows.[59]
• Telekinetic Senses: Conner can similarly expand and extend his sensory output beyond the limited range of his immediate surroundings. Sharpening both his touch to feeling everything around him, from picking up the subtle vibrations on the air or in the ground in order to simulate a sonar tracking effect. To amplifying his audible/decibel range of happenstances well out of listening range.
• Telekinetic Hyper-Acceleration: Kon-El can focus his telekiesis inward to accelerate his molecular motion in order to move at ultrahigh velocities.[16]
• Simulated Heat Vision: By vibrating molecules within his line of sight, Superboy can set things ablaze through the application of extreme heat.
• Telekinetic Blasts: Superboy is able to project bursts of raw energy bolts of concussive force. He mostly projected the energy from his hands, but his TK field permeated from his entire body. The blasts he emitted had concussive force equivalent to 5,000 pounds of TNT.
• Flight: Superboy uses his telekinetic ability to emulate the practice of flying.
• Telepathy: Superboy possesses telepathic powers, enabling him to sense, broadcast and detect the thought patterns of sentient beings. He also seemingly has a very potent telepathic resistance, that enables him to defend against psychic manipulators.[54]
• Farming[11]
• Genius Level Intellect: Superboy has shown to possess superior intellect to what humans could ever have. His mind works with incredible speeds, and combined with his tactile telekinesis, it might be one of his greatest assets.
• Multilingualism: Due to his unique psionic powers, Superboy can learn new languages by simply touching a person. He is shown to know and speak English and Kryptonian perfectly.
• Containment Suit (Formerly): Superboy's suit sports the symbol of the House of El and monitors his TK and repairs itself.
• Superboy (Kon-El) was created by Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett, first appearing in Adventures of Superman #500. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Superboy (Kon-El) first appeared as part of the New 52 DC Universe in Superboy (Volume 6) #1 by Scott Lobdell and R.B. Silva.
• Superboy was likely almost completely revamped following the DC Rebirth initiative, with much of his history in the New 52 being quietly wiped away in favor of something closer to his pre-Flashpoint existence. Before Infinite Frontier, very few characters in Prime Earth remembered Conner, much less his New 52 version. However, more there is at least one person who remembers the New 52 version: Bunker. Bunker spent a good deal of time in stasis, and when he was awoken, recalled the original New 52 iteration of the Teen Titans, including the existence of the new 52 iteration of Conner Kent. As of Infinite Frontier, the original Conner Kent's history within the timeline has been restored with Amanda Waller and the Suicide Squad now remembering him as well as photographic evidence of his prior existence[88], likely due to the events of Dark Nights: Death Metal.
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Jauset González, Toni
Soucek, Laura, dir.
Lizcano de Vega, José Miguel, dir.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Bioquímica i de Biologia Molecular
Imprint: [Bellaterra] : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2018.
Description: 1 recurs en línia (149 pàgines) : il·lustracions, gràfics.
Abstract: Identifying and targeting cancer cell components that play non-degenerate and non-redundant functions within cancers could lead to the development of more effective therapies. Myc is considered a prime example of such a target, and has been characterized as a downstream effector of multiple oncogenic pathways. Indeed, several studies have shown that inhibiting Myc displays notable therapeutic potential against different types of cancer. However, targeting Myc pharmacologically - directly or indirectly - is still considered challenging. Use of the Myc dominant negative mutant termed Omomyc provided the first evidence of the efficacy and safety of targeting Myc and displayed one of the most outstanding anti-tumorigenic potentials to date. This thesis project is divided into two major tasks: firstly, we aimed to better determine the source of Omomyc's therapeutic effect, which could provide clues on how to develop better Myc inhibitors; Secondly, despite the claims that Omomyc itself could not be used as a drug, we assessed different ways in which it could be effectively delivered to cancer cells to validate the first Omomyc-based drugs. In the context of our first task, by expressing Omomyc in a panel of lung cancer cells lines, we showed for the first time a gain-of-function of Omomyc, which intriguingly re-locates endogenous Max on Myc-unrelated DNA regions, thus potentially acting not only as a Myc inhibitor but also producing additional effects within cancer cells. Moreover, its dimerization with endogenous Max and the occupancy of DNA were identified as key effectors of Omomyc's anti-tumorigenic efficacy. In the context of generating the first Omomyc-based pharmacological approaches, Omomyc was first produced as a polypeptide. Remarkably, we determined that its systemic administration is safe and effective against subcutaneously implanted lung cancer cells, both as monotherapy and in combination with standard chemotherapy. Second, we generated Omomyc-encapsulating liposomes, which are able to improve the cellular uptake of the polypeptide and its nuclear localization. Finally, we provided the first evidence that Omomyc could be delivered as mRNA into cells that will translate it into a functional nuclear peptide product. 6 Together, our results provide insights into Omomyc's mechanism of action that might be used to develop new therapeutic approaches, including more effective Omomyc-derived drugs. Furthermore, we show that these could be delivered to cancer cells as cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs), liposomes and/or mRNA, providing an arsenal of tools to effectively and safely inhibit the Myc oncogene in the clinic.
Note: Tesi. Doctorat. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular. 2018.
Language: Anglès
Document: Tesis i dissertacions electròniques. ; Tesi doctoral ; Versió publicada
Subject: Cèl·lules canceroses
ISBN: 9788449079856
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0.022141 | <urn:uuid:df7326f0-1d44-4523-a8d8-f9ab4bf8f8c8> | en | 0.841817 | Image Registration Trapped in Local Minimum - Workarounds?
I do image registration using GradientDescentLineSearch, MultiScale and MattesMutualInformation.
The algorithm converges and gives “okayish” results. However, if I hand-tune the resulting transformation, I get even better results and a smaller metric value (= better coregistration).
I already played around with the learning rate but the algorithm always gets stuck in that local minimum. Do you have any suggestions for this case?
Hello @sr1,
As the optimization is of a non-convex function, the optimizer ends in a local minimum. There is no way to guarantee convergence to a different, yet nearby minimum. Heuristic approaches are possible but there is always a chance of drifting far from the correct solution to a lower function value. Possible heuristic:
1. T0: Initialize transformation near the desired local optimum (many ways of doing this).
2. T1: Run optimizer starting at T0.
3. T2a…T2z: Explore parameter space using exhaustive optimizer near T1 values.
4. T3:
a. Select T2k: best value from all T2? [conservative approach which doesn’t allow significant drift from T1].
b. Run optimizer multiple times starting from all T2a…T2z and select the best result.
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I see - that are the options i have thought about, too. I guess I will go with an exhaustive search then.
I would recommend to try the ITK-based Elastix and ANTs registration toolkits. While I always had to do parameter tuning when I used BRAINSTools (which is a thin wrapper over ITK’s registration framework), both Elastix and ANTs generally work well without any tuning using the default registration parameter sets. If you want to quickly compare the performance of these toolkits using a convenient GUI then you can use 3D Slicer and the SlicerElastix and SlicerANTs extensions (BRAINSTools is bundled with the application).
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Later that day I took a camping knife I had with me and waded into the water waist deep. I began tracing spirals in the water, marking the motion of the waves. I then began marking spirals in the air, marking the evaporation of the water from the sea to the air and then made spiral gestures going inland representing the journey of the water in the clouds. I then made spirals in the air towards the land representing the rain falling on the earth and its journey across the land to the fall, then traced the spirals of the fall across the rocks into the pool and the trails of water that ran down the beach. I then repeated the whole sequence of motions again. I was filled with a sense of power and joy and kept repeating the words ‘this is the water. Blessed be the water!’ This went on for some half hour during which I had the sensation that I was not only communing with the water but also with the air and the light. It felt like all three where exchanging blessings with each other, with me and with the land. It was an extremely powerful feeling and one which I can only describe as ‘spiritual ecstacy’
Since then I have been experiencing what I can only call ‘channelling’ whereby what feels like different entities speak through me or act through me. It began with ‘water’ making sounds and motions through me which are very hard to describe. The nearest I can get is a series of pulses that sound like sonar and also whale song and also a little like a howl, that rises and falls in a steady wave of sound. At the same time I begin to ‘dance’ although it is more a form of expressive mime. I can feel the emotions and sense the thoughts/feelings of the presence whilst this is happening although there are no actual words.
At first my eyes where closed and I had the impression that the presence was sleeping. Then I had the sense of glimmers of light being felt through what it regards as it’s ‘hair’ and on its face whilst I had a picture of blue beams of light shining through water in my head. The presence regarded itself as an entity for the first time in the presence of this light, which it regarded as holy. It developed its voice and made sacred patterns of creation which it learned from the light within itself. It rolled and crashed on the beaches and tenderly picked pieces of the land into itself. It began to speak to the air in great huffs within the waves and with its sonar voice, and discovered that in doing so it could take the air into itself and put itself into the air.
It was overjoyed at its new found consciousness. To cut a long story short it showed me, through me, over a period of some hour or more how it collaborated with the light and the earth and the air to create life. It then instructed life on the sacred patterns of creation it had learned and set it to dance in the oceans. It whispered to it of the air and the land and encouraged it to explore both.
Cut a long story short.
I was just wondering if anyone can make light of what I have/am experiencing. I have put it down to having a spontaneous shamanic experience due to exposure to the elements, eating only what I could forage and drinking only pure water, and exercise and meditation.
I have wondered if this entity is many things including an elemental lord (although the presence is at all times female) an elemental like an Undine or a Morgen, some kind of manifestation of the water itself, or an angel. I have also considered the goddess Oshun.
Whatever it is it is very powerful and likes to communicate. I can not initiate contact with it as such, although I can touch upon its ‘essence’ by trying to remember and reenact what it has shown me before. It’s not the same though. It chooses when it comes and it is highly defensive of me. It has manifested very powerfully on several occasions when I have been or have felt threatened.
Does anyone have any idea what this entity might be? Or is it just a case of severe sunstroke? Lol.
Whatever it is it has moved me to follow the path of the elements, the angels, and the light.
My thanks and Blessed be.
I have attached a pic of said beach at sunrise so that you can get some idea of how magical a place it is.
First things first: to address the men like worms thing. Balance requires that the Power shift like the ebb and flow of the tide where the leader of the dance changes based on what is required at the time. Male and female are equal with neither being a worm on its belly before the other. It is highly unusual that any spirit of nature would demand such of one who is male, simply because they are male. Without male or female, there would be no continuation. Neither can exist without the other. Perhaps it was misinterpreted?
The rest seems plausible and I do not discount your experience. I do however posit the fact that what you experienced may be coloured by your own prejudices or, dare I say, self loathing. Something to ponder, and I mean no disrespect. Just playing “Devil’s Advocate”, here.
yes most of the time during my days ill get loud messages in my mind. im like huh, the fuck. lol but theses messages come when im in different places. just like you i hear spirits when im in the wild. you ground and connect better with everything. if you want to know more about the voice you should go back and offer the water something and meditate and let the mind flow in a blank state and wait for the spirit to answer. I remember i was on a cliff beside a lake mediating and about to do an offering ritual for ogun and I felt a huge wind blast hit my face from the lake and yemaya hijacked the ritual lol she really wanted to work with me. i was wtf in my mind when mediating. who this! yemaya! oh…lol.
Lockheart- thanks for your response. You could well be right about the self-loathing part. I was having a hard time in my life at the time, halve the camping holiday.
Thanks for your response and your opinion.
You follow the path of the Orixa Thundechief?
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Lockheart- I was thinking about the Mother Goddess as the earth at the time and how we’d mistreated her. How next to her we are nothing but a part of her. Hence the worm in front of the lady image I guess.
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Where Is The Shack Filmed? All Filming Locations Revealed
The Shack Filming Locations
When it comes to faith-based movies, especially those based on best-selling books, you know that they’re going to be orating to the ensemble and more resolute to give their planned audience the notification it wants first. The Shack is a deep impact on anyone who watches it. It provides a certain viewpoint of life that may vary from your own thinking. The American drama is directed by Stuart Hazeldine and written by John Fusco along with Destin Cretton and Andrew Lanham. It is based on the novel by William P.Young by the same name. The reviews for the movies have been very dicey lately as most of the audience are lining up in the disliked column. However, the movie has been a great motivation for a lot of people, and most of the audience is interested in watching the movie more than once. With the perfect story comes the perfect filming locations. That’s exactly why we need to discuss the filming locations of The Shack.
The Shack novel is already shining with the type of mark it has on its audience. The movie is just another way of speaking words. Meanwhile, the production maintained the originality and sense of ethnicity of the novel by filming on the locations mentioned in the movie. Scroll down to check The Shack filming locations, release date, and the perplexing ending.
About The Shack
The movie was originally released on 3 March 2017. However, the movie didn’t appear on any of the famous streamers until 2021. The Shack was released on US Netflix in December 2021. Some speculations are made that the movie will be released in theaters again in 2022. However, the dates aren’t yet disclosed. But hurry and set a reminder if you’re excited to watch the movie.
The Shack Filming Locations
Still from The Shack
Where To Watch The Shack?
The Shack is not easily available in all countries because the movie hasn’t yet made its way to the famous streamers. The movie was released on US Netflix in December 2021 but hasn’t been uploaded in several other countries. The movie can be rented or bought on Vudu and AppleTV+. Also, the movie is available on Netflix and Amazon Prime subscriptions in some areas. Google Play and iTunes are also providing the movie with high-quality.
What Happens In The Shack?
Mack Phillis had a treacherous past as it contained his drunken father abusing him and his mother. On getting beaten by his father for a very little mistake, his mother decided to leave the father. Mack with his mother decided to poison their father. It was too much for a 13-year-old boy. Still, they poisoned his father’s Whiskey with Strychnine.
His life normalizes as he grows up. But the fun is short-lived, and soon certain events begin to dread his family life. Mack had a perfect family, a wife, Nan, and three children: Kate, Missy, and Josh. The happy family totally shattered when the youngest child Missy went missing while Mack was trying to save the other two kids from a canoeing accident. Later Missy was determined to be a victim of the serial killer. The police found her torn dress and blood in the sloppy cabin, The Shack. The news affects Kate the most as she considers herself responsible for the event by being the person to initially cause the canyoning accident.
One day Mack received a letter signed with the term “papa”.Mack reminded Missy taking the term papa as a nickname for god. Mack hurried to the Shack and, on his way, nearly dodged a truck and prevented a serious collide. In the hope of taking revenge for his daughter’s death, Mack reached the Shack with his gun and his friend’s SUV. Initially, the Shack was empty until a mysterious figure directed him to a house nearby where a strange trio resides who asked him to stay with them.
The Mysterious Trio Of The Shack
The trio turns out to be Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit. They took Mack through the truth of life and made him learn that his perspective towards his previous life is affecting his life now. The trio wants him to heal along with his family after their little child’s death.
Still from The Shack
The trio made him apologize to his father, whose spirit comes to ask for an apology. They buried his daughter, but Mack is unable to meet Missy, who is in heaven now. Mack also meets a spirit Sophia and talks to her. Finally, Mack understood that his daughter’s death was not a punishment for his wrong deed of killing his father, and he apologized to his father’s spirit.
In the end, when everything is done, Mack finally heads back to his family. But he is not able to make it to them. He collides with a truck on his way back and assumes he will be dead. Later he wakes up in a hospital and is told by his friend that he never made it to the shack and had been in this accident ever since he tried to dodge the first truck.
The Shack Filming Locations
The filming locations for The Shack are mostly located in Canada. A lot of scenes are taken in British Columbia and Chicago. Also, the production has been taken in Oregan too. The most beautiful locations covered in the movie are Stawamus Chief Park, Sayres Lake in Mission, and Cultus Lake. The movie was substantially filmed in British Columbia in Canada. Hence many sidewalks of the place are clearly visible in the scenes. Places like Vancouver add a cherry on the top. The movie also covers the locations mentioned in the novel. Oregan, specifically Wallowa State Park and the famed Multnomah Falls, provide originality to the movie as the locations are mentioned in the novel too. The most attractive scenes of campsite drama and woodland are taken in Chicago, Illinois.
The Shack is known to have started filming on 8 June 2015, just some days before the release of the trailer. The team finally packed on 29 July 2015.
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