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Many of us are aware of the increasing frequency of love on the planet as light energies are sent our way from other regions of space and other dimensions. As our planet is bathed in these energies, new potentialities open up for us and new knowledge is born. I'd like to talk about one of those new potentialities – collective compassion.
We're aware of some of the milestones in the growth of collective consciousness on our planet. In the late nineteenth century, sociologist Emile Durckheim crystallized the notion for us.
"The term has specifically been used by social theorists/psychoanalysts like Durkheim, Althusser, and Jung to explicate how an autonomous individual comes to identify with a larger group/structure. … We can surmise that the phrase collective consciousness implies an internal knowing known by all, or a consciousness shared by a plurality of persons." (1)
Later Karl Jung introduced the notion of a collective unconscious, which he described in the following manner:
"In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents." (2)
Archangel Michael has recently brought forth a notion of "collective compassion" as a new potentiality and I'd like to allow him the opportunity to explain it to us. We had our first brief discussion of it in a reading in early March 2012 but I asked him to go into the subject in more detail in a reading on March 28. He said:
Archangel Michael: Collective consciousness, which is a given, is a series of belief systems and, hopefully as you evolve, truths that you come to know.
But compassion is the expression of collective love, collective understanding for the situation that you find not only each other in but as a collective. You find yourself in a situation right now for example of massive change.
And what that calls forth beyond the consciousness is the compassion, the understanding that you are in this process together and that you are not judging it, that you are understanding it, that you are supporting each other in various ways but that you are doing so not to fix it for somebody else but to support them in their journey of addressing whatever it is.
So the entire collective has need to address this wonderful possibility of ascending together but that requires the collective coming together compassionately – in compassion, in love. Not just for this group or that group or this understanding or that understanding but for the totality. (3)
This conversation had come about because I was feeling exhausted and asked him what was causing this. He said that it was due to the fact that I was connecting with collective compassion but did not know how to work with it. In this later reading, I asked him what should be done to avoid becoming exhausted.
Steve: So how should we work [with collective compassion] so that we don't become drained?
AAM: How you work with collective compassion is very much the way you work with individual compassion only on a much larger scale obviously. And it is to not assume the burdens, the issues, the journey of the collective.
Now we have talked about this. Let me give you a very concrete example. If we were having this conversation about the collective, say, oh, a decade ago, I would say to you, dear heart, clear your own issues, your own burdens, your own debris, your own vasanas, but do not assume that you are clearing for the collective for it was not time to do that.
In the past three to four years, there has been a great deal of joint, or conjoint collective clearing. And you have seen this as you have seen issues emerge at the same time all over your planet, such as the demand for freedom or financial equality. And those issues have come to the forefront for clearing and many of the collective have been clearing together.
But when you are in collective compassion you do not go and start assuming any of the burdens. We want to bring that to a close. You may look at some of the issues or what is occurring with compassion. But do not assume it is yours to take on.
S: Don't go that far?
AAM: That is correct. (4)
I then asked him what might be done to bring the notion of collective compassion to public attention.
S: Alright. Now what are the best ways for people to come into contact with collective compassion. A planetary meditation, or a day of discussion, or a march?
AAM: Planetary meditation is wonderful. A planetary day. We have had such days you and I together.
S: When was that, Lord?
AAM: When we brought to the forefront the Declaration of Human Freedom. (5) Such a declaration of collective compassion [might involve] a day when people can consciously enter into the energy because they decide to. It is that simple, you know. To be in their hearts and to feel the empathy, the understanding, the love, but not the assumption [of burden] because we do not advise for any of the collective to be assuming anything more. (6)
Just as we have a longing for liberation, so we also have a longing for reunification with the group, Archangel Michael tells us through Ronna Herman, which grows with evolution.
"The Soul has a natural inclination toward group-consciousness. It is the Soul which seeks reunification, not the ego personality. Advancement on the path increases Soul consciousness and group awareness." (7)
I predict that we'll come to see four processes as linked: (A) the expansion of individual consciousness, (B) the rise of group consciousness, (C) the increase of our desire for unification, and (D) the rise of collective compassion. Archangel Michael seems to suggest as much in these remarks again through Ronna:
"The call of reunification is beginning for many of you, whereby your refined Soul Song is reaching various members of your God Self. As you refine your vibrational patterns and your Energetic Signature reaches a certain level of harmony, your Soul Song will begin to reverberate out into and through the fourth, into the fifth and for some of you, possibly even into the sixth dimensions, and very gradually into the auric fields of some of the Soul Fragments of your Higher Self.
"Slowly, as these blessed facets of your Self become aware of you, they will begin the process of moving into alignment with you. Those whose resonance is lower than yours will fall into line below you, and those who are on the Path ahead of you will slowly move into the column of Light above you. You will also be moving laterally, as well as higher, into the refined realms as all of the fragments of your I AM Presence gradually begin the process of moving closer and closer to your central column of Divine Light." (8)
I find support for this prediction in studies of the afterlife where we're told that the higher one rises in consciousness, the more the attraction to the soul group grows. Here's Frederic Myers, onetime President of the Psychical Research Society, on that development. While he doesn't mention collective compassion directly, he does say that souls are "becoming one in experience and in mind," which sounds close to me.
"The higher the ego climbs on the ladder of consciousness, the nearer it draws to other kindred souls. I have already told you that there may be a thousand, a hundred, or merely twenty souls all fed by one spirit. Their consciousness of comrade-souls increases on the higher levels of existence. In time they are able to enter into the other souls' memories, perceive their experiences and be sensible of them as if they were theirs. Mind becomes communal in the last stages, for the spirit, the unifying principle, is tending all the time to produce greater harmony, and therefore greater unity. These various individuals are merging more and more, becoming one in experience and in mind, and thus attaining to undreamt-of levels of intellectual power. (9)
Thus the higher we evolve, the more we desire to join and later merge with the soul group. The rise of collective compassion is attendant upon our expansion of consciousness, which is itself occurring because of the Earth's bombardment with increasing energies of light and love.
It's interesting that, at the same time that Archangel Michael was addressing this matter, a group called the Star Elders was also discussing it in a channeled message from Aluna Joy. They may use slightly different language and refer to the matter from a little different standpoint, but the development they describe comes down to about the same thing, I think.
"Another large wave we see that you might experience profoundly is the June 6th [2012] Venus transit. For the last 8 years, your collective consciousness has been building a model for a unified, universal heart. This process began on the last Venus transit on June 8th, 2004. This new unified, universal heart model will be downloaded into the new operating system. The collective unified heart will be anchored. Any place where there is not love expressed, it will be shaken to its core.
"This will cover everything including your personal relationships all the way to global governmental systems. This new down load will make selfish acts nearly impossible to achieve. In other words, we will begin to think, act and live in the knowing that there is no separation and all life is connected. We will not be able to make a choice without considering the whole and future generations.
"This new heart model will take several weeks before it is fully anchored. The universe is loving and kind and will allow this heart transformation download slowly so you can readjust with each daily heart pulse. Breathe . . . surround yourself with loving, positive, like-minded souls. This will make your heart transformation a joyful experience instead of a painful one.
"But we see that this will be somewhat uncomfortable for everyone to a certain extent, as this new heart program has never been experienced in a human form before. This program has been long awaited by so many of you that already consider your actions and the future reproductions of these actions. Thank you for holding this space open for this program to down load. You are and will be successful." (10)
In summary, as we move away from duality and polarity toward unity, the desire to join and later merge with the soul group arises and, with it, collective compassion.
As we feel collective compassion for the first time, we must learn how to work with it so that we don't end up drained.
Nevertheless, it's humanity's future to move deeper and deeper into unitive consciousness and with it ever more inclusive levels of collective compassion. Expanded consciousness, the desire to meet and merge with the soul group, the desire for ever more unified levels of existence, and collective compassion all appear linked and seem to expand and increase together.
(1) University of Chicago Keywords Glosssary at https://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/collectiveconsciousness.htm .
(2) C. G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (London 1996) p. 43
(3) Reading with Archangel Michael through Linda Dillon, March 28, 2012.
(4) Loc. cit.
(5) Archangel Michael is actually the author of the Declaration of Human Freedom. I am not. But we agreed that we would not discuss the matter until there was a receptivity to the idea. I know he is the author because he promised to bring it through me on the day it came forth and because, in writing it, I knew the energy was not my own.
(6) Reading with Archangel Michael through Linda Dillon, March 28, 2012.
(7) Archangel Michael, "A Clarion Call for World Servers," May 2010, through Ronna Herman, at https://www.ronnastar.com/
(8) Archangel Michael, "Walking into the Light of Your Future," Apr. 1, 2010, through Ronna Herman, at https://www.ronnastar.com/
(9) Frederic W.H. Myers through Geraldine Cummins, medium. The Road to Immortality. Being a description of the after-life purporting to be communicated by the late F. W. H. Myers [Frederic William Henry Myers, 1843-1901], n.p. Located at https://www.trans4mind.com/spiritual/cummins/cummins1.html. For more on the afterlife and the soul group, see "Reuniting with the Greater Self and the Group" at https://www.angelfire.com/space2/light11/nmh/first1.html#group
(10) "Aluna Joy: Star Elders 2012 – Rebooting The System," Feb. 29, 2012, at https://www.alunajoy.com/2012-feb29.html.


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How do I design my own business cards?
Because business cards can be relatively simple to design, there are many ways you can do it yourself online. And an added bonus: there are plenty of free business card makers out there if you're on a tight budget.
Before you jump into designing your card though, consider the context. Where will you be handing it out? Who is going to receive it? What do you ultimately want the person receiving it to do? The answers to these questions will guide what you include and prioritize in the design.
Based on this information, you can create a shortlist of what you want to include on your business card. Remember, space is limited—you're not writing a whole bio. Anything longer than a tagline is probably best used elsewhere.
Some business cards list a website URL, while others use a QR code to take consumers directly to an ecommerce site, landing page, or product page. Some do both or neither. Solopreneurs and employees might display their name, job title, email, phone number, and maybe even a headshot.
Once you have your list of elements, you need to figure out where to place them on the card. Typically, business cards are 3.5 inches by 2 inches. Traditional cards use a landscape format, but some businesses use a portrait layout. Your business card could be one sided or double sided.
After you've placed all your elements on the business card, work on design touches like fonts, colors, logos, and other visual aesthetics. Everything should be cohesive with your company's overarching visual branding.
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PsPrint is a highly customizable online business card maker. It takes longer to create a business card with this tool, but you can add text, images, objects, borders, shading, and just about anything else you can think of.
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With Jukebox, you can create your own free business card design from scratch or choose from a variety of templates. You can modify each one to include your name and contact information, as well as your brand colors.
4. Business Card Star
Business Card Star is one of the best business card makers, and it offers a large collection of business card layouts to choose from. All the layouts are categorized by style, such as ""corporate" or "ornate," and can be customized with your branding and contact information.
5. DeGraeve.com
DeGraeve.com offers a simple, one-page business card maker. You can choose which lines of text to bold or enlarge, and you'll be able to preview the design as you edit.
6. Canva
Canva, which is often used to create social media images, can also make business cards. Choose from one of the suggested layouts or build your own from scratch. Business cards take longer to make with this tool, but they can be completely customized.
7. FreeLogoServices
FreeLogoServices offers both a logo maker and a variety of business card templates. Templates can be customized, and they're sorted by industry to help you find the best layout for your business. Each element on a business card can be changed or moved around.
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Business Card Land has a simple business card maker with only a few steps involved. First, choose your layout Next, fill in a form with all your contact information. And finally, customize the colors on your template to match your brand.
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Design Mantic offers a collection of modern templates for you to choose from. Once you've picked a design, you can add your personal information, upload your logo, and change the font or text color before printing.
10. Business Card Maker
Business Card Maker offers a collection of free colorful business card layouts. Each one can be edited with a few simple clicks. You can upload your logo and move the text boxes around before saving your file.
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Ever work so hard on a digital creation only to lose it due to some technological glitch? Auto save doesn't always come to the rescue. When creating your design, you can also turn it into a free business card template for future use. When you need to order more, make a change, or make cards for your staff, it's easier and more cost effective to return to your original template instead of starting over.
To create your template, save it in the program you're working in and export it to your computer. Extract the vector graphic from the file so you can open it in an Adobe program for future edits.
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Templates are especially helpful when you're in a bind and need to whip up a design on a tight deadline. Here are some options to check out:
No matter which business card maker you choose, consistency is key. Your brand needs to be cohesive and that includes the look and feel of your business card. In many cases, this is your chance to make a first impression.
Treat your business card template with similar principles to a t-shirt mockup: easy to repeat and scalable while aging gracefully with your business.
Business card best practices
Keep the design simple
A business card has one purpose: to help people contact you. If your design is too complex, it will be harder for the person holding your card to find the information they need. They should be able to quickly glance at your card and learn everything they need to know to contact you.
Use a single image
In most cases, a simple design means sticking to one image, typically your logo. The image you choose should quickly and clearly convey your brand. Anything else is just a distraction.
Remember important information
Your business card need to have a clear design, but the content it contains is just as important. Make sure that any important information, such as your name and contact information, is included and easy to find.
Choose an easy-to-read font
In the name of clear communication, your font choice should be simple. While you can use a more elaborate font for your logo, information like your name, phone number, and email address should be easy to read—even for people with slight vision problems.
Invest in high-quality
Finally, your business card is like a mini version of your business. If your business card is low quality, people will assume your business is low quality too. No matter what, make sure you work with a good printer and use a high-resolution version of your logo. And use the best card stock you can afford!
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Fighting off nasal cold symptoms in newborns isn't an easy task. As parents, we can't stand to see our babies dealing with sniffles, and all the other unpleasant symptoms of a cold. Yet, at the same time, we're cautioned against using pretty much all of the traditional medicines that we'd reach for to soothe our older children.
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4 Simple Cold Symptom Solutions for Parents of Newborns
As always, please remember that this is not meant to be taken as medical advice. Always talk to your pediatrician about the best ways to care for your newborn.
Add humidity to the air 1,2
Adding a bit of moisture to the air is one thing you can do to help soothe your newborn's cold symptoms. Use a cool-mist humidifier in your nursery. Just make sure you clean it out every day.
Use a nasal spray designed for newborns
A nasal spray will be your best friend to clear out those little noses. It's important to choose something designed for newborns, though, as sprays for older kids and adults may not be suitable to give to your baby.
hydraSense® Ultra-Gentle Mist, made by the #1 nasal care brand in Canada for children3 is an option because it's 100% natural sourced and contains no medications or preservatives. It comes in three different forms: hydraSense® Ultra-Gentle Mist, Easydose® vials and a Nasal Aspirator. The Ultra-Gentle Mist is made with a safety neck specially designed for baby's nostrils. It may be used up to 6 times a day.
I used hydraSense® for nasal congestion on my son when he was little. He was a winter baby, born right in the height of cold season. Within the first month, he had his first case of the sniffles. hydraSense® Ultra-Gentle Mist helped clear him right up.
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When my son was tiny, he caught a cold that gave him a horrible cough. A trip to his pediatrician determined that he just had the common cold. My son's doctor recommended spending more time in the bathroom as the warm moisture in the air could help ease congestion due to a cold.4
A warm bath can go a long way to soothing discomfort, while steam from the shower can help loosen up mucus in the chest. Remember, you're not getting into the boiling hot shower with your baby! Just run the water and let the steam fill up the room, kind of like a sauna, but keep a safe distance. As an added bonus, if you're also suffering from a cold, the steam will help loosen up your congestion as well.
Make sure your baby has plenty of fluids
We all know that fluids help when we have a cold, so it makes sense that your newborn will need more, too. Since babies this young are drinking breastmilk or formula exclusively, that may mean increasing the number of feedings throughout the cold. Babies under 6 months of age shouldn't be given water or other fluids unless your doctor gives the okay.
While there is still no cure for the common cold, following these tips along with your pediatrician's recommendations will help your newborn get through the worst of the symptoms. I highly recommend preparing in advance for cold season. You don't want to find yourself standing next to your crying baby's crib at 2AM and realize that you have nothing on hand to soothe a stuffy nose. Get your humidifier ready ahead of time and stock up on hydraSense® Baby Nasal Care. It's available at your local mass food and drug retailer or online at Amazon.ca.
Do you have any favorite ways to relieve cold symptoms in newborns? Share in the comments!
- 1 http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-cold/in-depth/humidifiers/art-20048021
- 2 http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-cold/expert-answers/cool-mist-humidifiers/faq-20058199
- 3 Nielsen, National. 52 weeks ending Aug 20th, 2016. Based on combined sales of hydraSense Ultra-Gentle Mist, Easydose and Congestion Relief Kids.
- 4 https://www.uihealthcare.org/ADAM/Pediatric%20Center/1/003049.htm


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From the Fedora Wiki, under "Forbidden Items":
There are serious concerns about Moonlight, due to Microsoft and Novell's public statements around its inclusion in their "covenant". In addition to that Groklaw has [posted] a FAQ from Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) on the issues with this patent "covenant". Accordingly, this technology (with, or without codecs), is considered too risky, and is not acceptable for inclusion in Fedora.
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Homejoy, the at-home cleaning service that's one of a new breed of startups serving as a broker of on-demand services, is shutting down, as companies in that category face legal challenges aimed at forcing them to classify freelancers as employees.
In an announcement on Homejoy's site on Friday, CEO and co-founder Adora Cheung cited "unresolved challenges in the home services space."
She did not specifically call out the worker classification issue. But a report in Re/code says the company was having difficulties raising additional funding amidst the concerns. Homejoy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Those challenges threaten not just Homejoy but a number of on-demand startups, including Uber and delivery service Postmates, which rely on workers who are not treated as full employees to provide service to their customers. Workers for Homejoy, Postmates, Uber and Lyft have sued the companies, seeking to be reclassified as employees rather than freelancers.
If the workers are found to be employees, companies would be required to provide benefits like health care and unemployment insurance, and reimbursements for workers' expenses. Providing those benefits would add significant overhead expenses, cutting into profits or translating into higher costs for users.
The issue has already surfaced on the presidential campaign trail, eliciting contrasting viewpoints from Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul and Jeb Bush on workers' rights and the future of technology.
But some element of Homejoy's service might live on, in a future Google product. Following Homejoy's announcement, Re/code reported that Google was hiring some of Homejoy's employees in the areas of engineering and product development. The employees would help develop a new home services booking feature at Google, the report said. Google's new service might let users, for instance, search for a plumber and hire that person directly from the search results page.
Homejoy's engineers could hasten Google's entrance into the area of at-home services, which could spell the end for smaller home booking services with fewer resources to compete.
Google confirmed it had hired a portion of Homejoy's technical team but declined to comment on specific plans.
Homejoy's site will be shuttered on July 31, after which users will no longer have access to their accounts. The company is not taking any more bookings.
Homejoy, launched in 2012, let customers hire contractors for home services customized to the user's needs, be it house-cleaning, laundry, or washing walls. The company had grown considerably in three years, launching its service beyond its home market of San Francisco to more than 30 other cities in the U.S. and Canada, and in European countries including Germany and France. It had raised at least US$40 million from prominent Silicon Valley investors.
The company competed with rivals like Handy and TaskRabbit. For a time, its workers provided cleaning services for Airbnb hosts who wanted it.
Recently, Homejoy was said to be looking to be acquired by Handy, which had more funding to support future growth. Those talks apparently broke down.
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Transformation of BPMN/BPEL to SCA models for STP
This page is intended as a follow-up of this GSoC project. Below you will find the abstract and project proposal, as well as details on current work, to-do's and future work.
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The mission of the SOA Tools Platform (STP) project is to build frameworks and exemplary extensible tools that enable the design, configuration, assembly, deployment, monitoring, and management of software designed around a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The project is guided by the values of transparency, extensibility, vendor neutrality, community collaboration, agile development, and standards-based innovation. STP is a natural complement to other Eclipse projects, such as the Web Tools Platform and Data Tools Platform, and reuses, as appropriate, components from these projects.
The projects' current components portray implementations for different standard modeling notations an expert could use to model and build an SOA system. Some of these are BPMN (business process modeling notation), BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) , SCA (service component architecture) and EID (Enterprise Integration Design). Having model mappings between these notations would enable the user to model a business process and transform it to obtain an executable process model and an architecture of service components that supports that process. As a bridge between these modeling notations and its editors, the STP Intermediate Model was created. In this way, we're accomplishing the basic three tenets described in the "MDA Manifesto" [Booch, Brown & Rumbaugh, 2004]:
-Direct Representation: The business analyst gets empowered to model his problem in his own language, business processes. -Automation: This model doesn't become just plain old documentation, but instead it's the artifact that forms the basis for the construction of the software application, which is automated by tools such as the one to be built in this project. -Open Standards: We're working with several standards such as BPEL, BPMN and SCA, owned respectively by Oasis, OMG and Open SOA, all of which are well-recognized industry standards organizations.
The goal of this project is to leverage and extend the existing STP Intermediate Model (STP-IM) in order to provide better support for transformations between process editors (BPMN and BPEL) and architecture editors (SCA in particular, potentially EID as well). The contribution would be of great importance to SOA developers and would therefore be an important incentive for the community adoption of the Eclipse STP.
Beyond the common marketing buzzword, SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) as a strategy to develop enterprise information systems has a promise of value that can't be ignored in any circle around the IT industry, including open source communities. As such, the Eclipse members went on to assure the leadership of the community in software engineering, and created the STP (SOA Tools Platform) project, a platform whose primary goal is to provide a starting place for the development of tools and frameworks to support the complete lifecycle of SOA solutions (design, configuration, assembly, deployment, monitoring, and management). The project is divided in several components, each covering a specific stage of the SOA lifecycle. One of them is the STP-BPMN editor, a GMF-based graphical model editor where the user (typically, a business analyst) can model his/her business processes as a starting point for an SOA solution. After that, the user can build an architecture of service components with the SCA (Service Component Architecture) Composite editor, another GMF-based graphical model editor. They can also make their business processes executable, by creating a BPEL model/document that runs on a BPEL engine. In order to make this possible, the STP team has created the STP Intermediate Model, to provide seamless integration between these components. Personal Motivation My senior project degree is an idea which a convergence of several disciplines that I like, such as BPM (Business Process Modeling/Management), SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and MDSD (Model-Driven Software Development). These emerging approaches with its supporting technologies are a big appeal to me, and I think it adds special value to the IT industry at the service of Enterprise Information Systems. Besides that, open source software development has always attracted me, and I'd be honored to have this opportunity to join a community of a big name such as Eclipse.
General Goal
To improve the integration of the several modeling notations supported in STP in order to increase its usability, effectiveness and the value it adds to its users.
Specific Goals
- Extend the current STP Intermediate Metamodel (STP-IM) to increase the completeness of a SOA design across the several editors.
- Write model transformations from STP-IM to the other modeling notations and vice-versa to achieve seamless, automatic integration.
- Create tests and sample scenarios to prove the effectiveness of the current implementation of STP-IM and its ongoing improvements.
STP Intermediate Model
The project will start with a concept analysis of the current definition of the metamodel and the elements already identified on it, as well as the code generated for the project committed on the Eclipse repository (mostly EMF-generated APIs), at the same time that the existing documentation is revised. After this, design and propose ways to improve it adding new elements or modifying current ones creatively as it becomes necessary.
Transformations from and to STP-IM
Current work is undergoing for the following transformations:
- BPMN –> IM (Engineering)
- IM –> BPEL (Engineering)
- IM –> JBI (Engineering)
- IM –> Database (Engineering)
These transformations are being developed using the Java EMF-generated APIs. Collaborating with other team members, they will be studied and tested, especially the first three, and they will be improved and any bugs or missing mappings that they might have will be fixed. New transformations to the EID (Enterprise Integration Designer) modeling notation will be included, time permitting.
Tests and Sample Scenarios
Several real life cases will be implemented to test the project components, both for documentation purposes and as a showcase for STP and the possibilities brought by the STP Intermediate Model. In the BPMN editor, we will model some businesses process from sources such as MIT's business process handbook. This will also suggest a context to create SCA models of composite applications supporting these processes, first manually and then as the result of the transformation. We will test the resulting SCA models with SCA runtimes such as Apache Tuscany and others determined by the STP team. Also, we will test the resulting BPEL models with BPEL engines such as Apache ODE. The same goes for transformations from and to EID modeling notation. Full-featured demonstrations will be created to help spread the word on the project, suitable for events such as EclipseCON and Eclipse Summit.
Extend the Eclipse wiki (Eclipsepedia – http://wiki.eclipse.org) technical documentation on STP-IM involving the supported transformations and uses cases. The main target of this documentation is the STP team, both from IM and other components, so they can realize the integration possibilities the model brings.
The project will rely on the constant communication of the main developer (me) with his mentor, Adrian Mos from INRIA (France), as well as other committers from the STP project. There will be active participation on the project's mailing lists and newsgroups.
The phase of getting familiar to the current implementation of the STP-IM and the related components (analysis and design) will be carried out along the "Community Bonding Period" (April 14th to May 26th). Actual coding (implementation and testing) will be carried out in the official program dates (May 26th to August 11th).
The resulting code of the project will be committed to the STP project module of the Eclipse repository, in the IM component, and released under the Eclipse Public License once the IP process is cleared out.
Future Work
Time permitting, this project will also feature transformations from and to the EID modeling notation. If not, it will be an advised future work task. Other plug-ins from the STP project are expected to take advantage of the integration possibilities of STP-IM. The most common case, and probably the first integration exercise, would be the feature of adding Service Bindings to activities in a BPMN diagram, which would aggregate completeness to the model for later development stages of SOA solutions. Other integration scenarios include the SCA Composite Designer, with a feature to create a Composite model from a STP-IM instance; as well as adding round-trip engineering to reflect changes on said instance. Later work could include bringing the model transformation efforts to later stages of development, and thus extending the integration and automation capabilities to other components of STP such as STP Service Creation (STP-SC) and the runtime environments the team uses/recommends. In this way, we could fill the gaps and thus fulfill the MDA promise of going from a computation-independent model (a BPMN diagram) towards SOA-based deployable applications.
About the Participants
My name is Juan Cadavid and I'm from Medellín, Colombia, South America. I'm 23 years old and I'm senior Computer Science student at EAFIT University here in Medellín. The main areas of interest are enterprise information systems, business process management, software engineering and architecture, model engineering, service-oriented architecture and web technologies. My senior degree project, which is almost finished, is entitled "A Proposal for a Model Mapping from a Computation Independent Model (CIM) to a Platform Independent Model (PIM)", building a model transformation from a BPMN model to a SCA model using a model transformation engine called Operational QVT, part of the Eclipse M2M sub-project.
Performed Activities
First involvements
A first issue to be solved was to give an up-close look to STP-IM, the current plug-ins and the functionality provided to an end-user. Documentation about these two topics was written in the Eclipse wiki.
Developed Transformations
There were some existing transformations, but they were implemented using an imperative approach, using the EMF-generated Java interfaces. This is very straightforward for the transformation developer; however future changes and additional upcoming transformations would make all of the work to become hard to mantain; therefore a declarative approach to model transformations was needed. Using ATL as an engine for this, we're also ensuring standards compliance (OMG's MOF Query/Views/Transformations).
STP Use Cases
An unique STP-IM instance as the core for every STP project
Current work
Future Work
Here are some links to the written documentation.
- STP Intermediate Model wiki page
- Documentation of the existing IM model transformations
- Usage scenarios identified for the STP project. They will provide the integration opportunities for future IM work.
Getting the source
It has been stipulated between the student and the mentor to provide the source as bugzilla patches. The first contribution can be found at:


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by Ali Mattu, Ph.D | Originally posted at Brain Knows Better
Note: No big spoilers here, at least nothing beyond what's shown in the trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and what occurs in the first 15 minutes of the film.
The essential psychology of the Star Wars saga is mindfulness. "Using the force" is all about embracing the present moment. That's what Yoda taught Luke and it's something Anakin never picked up from Obi-Wan.
Mindfulness continues to be a part of J.J. Abrams's Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I can't get into specifics because things would get spoilery, but it's safe to say the climax of the film is a moment of mindfulness. We also see new characters develop meaning in their lives, just like Han Solo did in the original trilogy. The way The Force Awakens honors the past mythology (and psychology) of Star Wars while also refreshing it for a new generation is a big reason why I'm a fan of the film.
My favorite thing about The Force Awakens is how it approaches good and evil. Star Wars has always been a fairy tale about people being tempted by the dark side. What's new in this film is seeing people being tempted by the light side. That's why John Boyega's Finn is a compelling addition to the Star Wars universe — he's a Stormtrooper who disobeys an order to kill innocent civilians. In doing so, Finn teaches us that we don't need supernatural powers to become a hero.
Could this happen in real life — an average person standing up against an evil organization, risking their life, all to help innocent people? Yes, absolutely! Here's how.
The First Order and the Psychology of Evil
Before we look at Finn's heroism, we have to understand why his actions are so heroic.
The First Order, and the Galactic Empire before it, are basically space Nazis. Like real Nazis, the villains in The Force Awakens use everything we know about social psychology to create an organization that is built on following orders and making it easy to hurt others.
How does The First Order do this? By manipulating one of the most basic human desires — our need to fit in. In the classic Stanley Milgram experiment on obedience to authority (and a recent follow up), most everyday Americans followed orders even if it meant hurting someone else. Like the Nazis during the Nuremberg trials, Americans in this experiment didn't feel responsible for their actions because they were "just doing what they were told." The stronger the authority, and the less interaction there is with the victim, the more likely we are to follow commands that harm someone else. The First Order carries out a strong obedience to authority through Captain Phasma, the woman who commands all Stormtroopers.
The First Order combines obedience with conformity and anonymity. This is very dangerous and "greases the slippery slope of evil" according to psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. When we're in unfamiliar situations, we look to others to see what to do. Again, we want to fit in. If everyone is doing something that's wrong, it becomes extremely difficult to do what's right. People are also more likely to kill, torture, or mutilate if they feel anonymous. Stormtrooper armor makes conformity easy and eliminates anything that could identify who's wearing the helmet.
This is what you need to remember — people aren't born good or evil, everyone is capable of doing good and evil. Situations can pull us in one direction or another.
Finn and the Psychology of Heroism
This is why Finn's actions are such a big deal — he was "raised to do one thing," follow the First Order. After a lifetime of obedience, he disobeys Captain Phasma's order to destroy a village of innocent civilians. By putting himself at great risk to save lives, Finn transforms from an ordinary person to an extraordinary hero.
We've never seen a character like this in Star Wars. Sure, Luke has a traditional hero's journey and Anakin's story is a tragic fall to the Dark Side, but we've never seen a bad guy turn into a good guy. Finn, more than any other Star Wars character, brings to life the psychology of good and evil.
What is it about Finn that helps him resist the First Order? We don't know yet. The Force Awakens doesn't reveal much about who he is. Similarly, we don't know too much about the psychology of heroes. A lot of heroes end up dying, which makes them difficult to study. But we do know some basics:
- Heroes are impulsive — they act first, think later.
- Heroes are more likely to tolerate danger and aren't afraid of conflict with other people.
- Heroes have thought about what they might do in dangerous situations.
Each of these elements of heroism fight off the psychology of evil. Acting on impulse gets around worries about fitting in. Being comfortable with conflict makes it easier to stand up to authority. Having imagined what you would do in a dangerous situation reduces bystander apathy and diffusion of responsibility — two of the biggest barriers to helping others. We see some of these qualities in Finn and more will be revealed in Episode VIII and IX.
A Hero's Journey for the Rest of Us
Hollywood is full of superheroes. But you and I can't fly or lift objects with our mind.
That's why Finn's story is so important. It shows us that heroism is normal, something any of us can do. Like Joe Darby, the U.S. Army Reservist who exposed the torture occurring at Abu Ghraib despite being embedded in a "First Order" like environment. Or Wesley Autrey, a New Yorker who jumped onto subway tracks to save a stranger. Whistleblowers Cynthia Cooper, Sherron Watkins, and Colleen Rowley who exposed fraud and incompetence at WorldCom, Enron, and the FBI. And Satwant Singh Kaleka, a Sikh temple president who died protecting his congregation from a skinhead gunman.
Can a Stormtrooper become a hero? Absolutely! This Stormtrooper might even help others become real-life heroes. Preliminary data suggests you can increase heroism by teaching people that situations are powerful, we can grow our ability to resist social pressures, and acting when others are passive can turn you into a hero. With Finn, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has the potential to help all of us begin our own hero's journey.
For some spoiler thoughts on Finn and Rey, check out my reaction to The Force Awakens. I like AV Club's criticisms of the film. Vox has a harsher critique and Mashable's got a nice defense. Nerds of Color also has a breakdown of why Finn is so awesome.
Ali Mattu is a geek and has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. If he could get a Ph.D. in science fiction, he probably would have one of those too. He also likes photography. Biking is cool too. He hopes his website, Brain Knows Better, will help other sci-fi geeks develop a love for the brain and behavioral sciences, just like Star Trek did for him.


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All the family under one roof
The multi-generational family is making a comeback.
As a new widower, Tim Spatola faced a crucial decision: where to live. His house was too big; a retirement community held little appeal and was also expensive. So when his daughter and son-in-law invited him to move in with them and their six children, he gratefully accepted. He paid for an addition to their house and joined them in June.
"I'm very, very happy with it," says Mr. Spatola of Milton, Mass. "We have an excellent arrangement."
His daughter, Mary McCourt, adds, "He's very independent. It's working well."
Move over, adult children. The multi-generation household is making a comeback as Mom, Dad, kids, and grandparents live under one roof. The number of parents age 65 and older moving in with adult children increased by 62 percent between 2000 and 2007, the Census Bureau reports. Those under 65 who did so grew by 75 percent.
For some families, like Spatola's, the arrangement is a matter of choice. Others are driven together by high housing costs and economic need. In still other cases, caregiving is the motivating factor. Whatever the circumstances, the dynamics can be complex.
"Families have to think very carefully when they're considering an intergenerational household," says Allen Hager, president of Right at Home in Omaha, Neb., a network of agencies providing in-home assistance to seniors. "I've seen a lot of conflict in families. Women are taking on [most] of the household, child-rearing, and senior care."
He urges adult children and their spouses to talk about money, space, time management, and the role of family members. "A lot of times, finances aren't discussed," Mr. Hager says. "That can be sticky. What is [the parent's] financial situation and what will they contribute to the budget? What if they need paid care?"
For the McCourts, Spatola's presence offers mutual benefits. "Since he moved in, he seems to have a little kick in his step and a purpose," Mrs. McCourt says. "He picks up the kids at school and does some food shopping." He also cooks spaghetti and meatballs weekly for the family's dinner.
Spatola adds, "Being here is a plus for the grandchildren. I exert a lot of influence on them."
Giving children time with a grandparent is one reason Nikki Maxwell and her husband encouraged her divorced father to move from Seattle to their house in Los Angeles. A computer programmer in his early 60s, he works from home. "He saw that we needed help – help with the children, help with the finances," Mrs. Maxwell says. "He wanted to get closer to his three grandchildren. He's out there on the bike with them, and he plays with techie toys. I'm indoors cleaning and cooking, and they're at the park. We really value that."
Even so, challenges arise. "It's awkward when you are trying to redefine your relationship with your parent," she says. "We have a lot of control issues. Especially with the financial issues, it's hard to tell where there are strings and where there aren't. He won't lend us money, but he'll give it."
They also face in-law issues. "My dad and my husband buck heads in the kitchen," Maxwell says. "For my husband, it's been a lot of compromise."
Sundi Hayes of suburban Kansas City, Mo., finds similar challenges in sharing a home with her 62-year-old father. "When my husband is frustrated with him and comes to me, I walk a fine line between the two relationships," she says.
Yet she appreciates her father's help with their three children: "We both work outside the home, and Dad is there to care for them before and after school. He also does small things around the house if I ask him to." Still, she adds, "I'm hoping it's not permanent. I would prefer that he live on his own."
Some temporary arrangements do become permanent. When Holly Hansen's mother-in-law needed care, she went to the Hansens' home in Sebastopol, Calif. After her recovery, they invited her to stay.
"This was not a decision made lightly," Mrs. Hansen says. "Mostly, we have not regretted the decision."
Referring to "a few rough patches," she says, "It has probably been the most difficult for Millie. She had to leave her home of 50 years and friends behind to start over in a new community at 92."
Yet rewards abound, too: "Millie and our daughter have a very close relationship," Hansen says. "Millie has made new friends. I never would have thought that this situation would work out, and for many people it may not be the answer, but for us it has been a wonderful experience."
Sometimes even grandchildren become caregivers. For the past five years, Tricia Goyer's grandmother has lived with the Goyers and their three teenagers in Kalispell, Mont. She joined them when she could no longer care for her mobile home.
The couple took out a loan to add on to their house. They pay all the grandmother's expenses beyond the $200 a month she contributes. They also rearranged their schedules to accommodate her. In addition to working full time at home, Mrs. Goyer says, "I care for my teens and my grandmother, which includes doctor's appointments, hair appointments, and lunch out so she doesn't feel she's cooped up all the time. We feel it is our place to care for her."
Whatever multi-generation arrangements a family works out, keeping other relatives informed can be important.
"Distant siblings often have guilt pangs about not being there for Mom and/or Dad," says Kevin Drendel of Batavia, Ill., an attorney who does estate planning. "On the other hand, the siblings who are local often find themselves alone in caring for an elderly parent. Communication is the key."
For McCourt, keeping a busy three-generation household running smoothly involves pragmatism. She says, "You just have to let some things slide, pick your battles, and hope you're doing the right thing."


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Muddy Roots Europe 2014
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The First World War ended on 11 November 1918. To mark the end of the conflict Tate Britain has been hosting an extensive exhibition devoted to the aftermath of the war as it affected the art of the three main nations of Western Europe – Britain, France and Germany.
Thus there is nothing by artists from, say, Russia, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Serbia, Bulgaria, nor from the white colonies, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, nor from America which entered the war in 1917. It is a Western European show of Western European art.
The show includes a staggering number of masterpieces from the era, interspersed with fascinating works by much less-well-known artists.
For example, room one contains the Rock Drill by Jacob Epstein, possibly my favourite work of art anywhere, by anyone. For me this hard brooding metallic figure contains the secret of the 20th century, and of our technological age.
The exhibition is in eight rooms which take you in broad chronological order:
- Images of battlefields and ruins, early movies, and memorabilia (helmets, medals, cigarette cases)
- The official War memorials of the three featured nations (statues, designs and paintings by conventional artists such as William Orpen and the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger)
- A room devoted to images of disfigured and maimed soldiers
- Dada and Surrealism i.e. the extreme irrationalist response to the war of Swiss, German and French artists – including signature works by George Grosz, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters
- A room of black and white prints showcasing series of lithographs and woodcuts made by Max Beckman, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Dix and Georges Rouault
- The 'return to order' in a revival of nostalgic landscapes in works by Paul Nash and George Clausen, sculptures of sleek femininity by Eric Gill and Aristide Maillol, neo-classical portraiture by Meredith Frampton, and the revival of a strange post-war type of Christian faith in the work of Stanley Spencer and Winifred Knights
- Politics and pass-times – divided between gritty depictions of a newly politicised working class by socialist and communist artists, such as The International by Otto Griebel, and a rare opportunity to see an original 'portfolio' or pamphlet of lithographs by George Grosz – and on the other hand, depictions of the newly fashionable night-life, the craze for jazz dancing depicted in The Dance Club 1923 by William Patrick Roberts, cabaret clubs of the Weimar Republic, or the Folies Bergère as painted by English artist, Edward Burra
- The exhibition ends with brave new world visions of technology, machinery, skyscrapers, Russian constructivist images by El Lissitsky, the geometric paintings of Fernand Leger, and the sleek new design and architecture of the German Bauhaus school
1. Images of the battlefield
First impressionistic indications of the appalling nature of the war. A display case contains an original infantry helmet from each of the three featured nations, one French, one German and one British. Oil paintings of corpses in trenches or hanging on barbed wire. A rare black-and-white-film shot from an airship shows the devastation
2. Memorials
In terms of memorials I don't think you can do better than Edwin Lutyens's Cenotaph in Whitehall, arresting in its monolithic abstraction. But the show includes three large memorial sculptures by Charles Sergeant Jagger.
3. The disfigured
The room of disfigured servicemen is hard to stay in. The grotesques of Otto Dix and Gorge Grosz are bearable because they have a cartoon savagery and exaggeration which defuses the horror. But the realistic depictions of men with their jaws shot away, half their faces missing, skin folding over where their eyes should be, and so on by artists like Heinrich Hoerle and Conrad Felixmuller, are almost impossible to look at.
4. Dada and Surrealism
The exhibition takes on a completely different tone when you enter the room of works by Dada and Surrealist artists – although the grotesques of the previous room make you realise how so much of Dada's strategy of cutting up and collage, of rearranging anodyne images (especially from glossy optimistic magazines and adverts), to create incongruous and grotesque new images, is actually a very reasonable response to the grotesqueness of war and its dismemberments.
Here there are works by Kurt Schwitters, pioneer of cut up and paste art, as well as the stunning painting Celebes by early Surrealist Max Ernst.
Seeing a number of examples of post-war collage – works by Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, the English Surrealist Edward Burra and their peers like Hannah Hoch and Rudolf Schlichter all together – brings out the superiority of George Grosz.
It's probably because I'm a longstanding fan but he seems to me to combine the best eye for design and caricature, with the best feel for how to create a collage of elements cut out from newspapers and magazines.
As well as a good selection of his biting political satires, there is an opportunity to see a reconstruction of the Dada-mannequin he created for the 1920 Berlin Dada exhibition.
Why be sensible? How could you be sensible and take any of the standards and values of the old order seriously? After what they had seen in the trenches? After that old order had brought about Armageddon?
5. Prints, lithographs, woodcuts
In the print portfolio room it is interesting to compare the style of the four featured artists: Max Beckman was too scratchy and scrappy and cluttered for my taste. The Georges Rouault images are harsh but use shading to create an eerie, gloomy depth, as if done with charcoal.
By contrast Käthe Kollwitz's series War is made from harsh, stark, pagan woodcuts, which exude a really primeval force. This set is a masterpiece. You can see the continuity from the harsh emotional extremism of pre-war German Expressionism, but here a widely used technique has found its perfect subject. Kollwitz is a great artist. Her images may be the most profound in the show.
6. The return to order
After the physical and metaphysical gloom of the print room, room six is large, well lit and full of images of sweetness and delight. In all kinds of ways the European art world experience a post-war 'return to order', a revival of neo-classical technique, in music as much as in painting. It had quite a few distinct strands.
One strand was a return to painting idyllic landscapes, represented here by a haycart trundling down a lane by the pre-war artist George Clausen, and a similarly idyllic but more modern treatments of landscape by the brothers Paul and John Nash.
After the disfigurements of the war and the parade of grotesques in the previous galleries, this one contains a number of images of complete, undisfigured bodies, particularly female bodies, used as celebrations of beauty, fertility, of life. These include the big, primeval statue Humanity by Eric Gill, alongside a more realistic depiction of a naked woman, Venus with a Necklace by Aristide Maillol. After such horror, why not? Why not unashamed celebrations of peace, whole-bodiedness, beauty, youth, fertility – a new hope?
Interestingly, this room contains three or four works by Picasso, portraits of women or a family on a beach, done in a kind of revival of his rose period, with the figures now more full and rounded.
Neue Sachlichkeit
Another strand was the particularly German style known as 'New Objectivity' which I've written about extensively elsewhere, not least because it was itself sub-divided into a number of strands and styles.
- The New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic 1918 to 1933 edited by Stephanie Barron and Sabine Eckmann (2015)
- The New Objectivity
It's represented here by a signature work from the era, Christian Schad's half-realistic, half-cartoonish, and wholly haunting self-portrait of 1927.
Amazingly, after such a cataclysmic disaster, many artists retained their Christian faith, although it emerged in sometimes strange and eccentric new visions.
These are exemplified by the English artists Stanley Spencer, who is represented by one of the many paintings he made setting Christian stories in his native home town of Cookham. And also by the strange and eerie vision of Winifred Knights, here represented by her unsettling vision of the Flood.
Not so long ago I saw a whole load of Knights' paintings at a retrospective at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Seeing it here makes you realise the link to the stark geometric modernism of someone like Paul Nash. But also to the deliberately naive style of Spencer. It is a kind of Christianity by floodlights.
Separate from these varieties of self-conscious modernism was an entire strand of neo-classical portraiture. A style which had observed and absorbed the entire Modernist revolution from Cezanne onwards, and then reverted to painting exquisitely demure neo-classical portraits, generally of demure and self-contained young women. Exemplified here by Meredith Frampton's still, posed portrait of Margaret Kelsey.
Is this a portrait of refinement and sensibility? Or is there an eerie absence in it, a sense of vacuum? Does it have all the careful self-control of someone recovering from a nervous breakdown?
7. Politics and pastimes
Room seven juxtaposes images of The People, The International and the proletariat – with images of jazz bands and people getting drunk in nightclubs. Which is the real world? The International by the German communist painter Otto Griebel faces off against William Roberts modernist depiction of a jazz nightclub (heavily influenced, I'd have thought, by Wyndham Lewis's pre-war Vorticism).
By now it felt as if the exhibition was turning into an overview of artistic trends of the 1920s. A number of the works were painted 10 or 12 years after the end of the war. When does an aftermath stop being an aftermath?
8. Brave new worlds
The last room is devoted to technocratic visions of the machine age. Russian constructivists, French futurists, some of the old Vorticists, all the Bauhaus artists, looked to a future of skyscrapers, chucking out Victorian ideas of design and taste and creating a new, fully twentieth century art, architecture and design.
Fernand Leger perfected a post-cubist style based on brightly coloured geometric shapes suggesting a new machine civilisation, and the exhibition includes footage from the experimental film he made, Ballet Mechanique with music by the fashionably machine-age composer George Antheil. The Russian constructivist El Lissitsky devised an entirely new visual language based on lines and fractured circles. Bauhaus teacher Oskar Schlemmer is represented by an abstract figurine. Oskar Nerlinger evolved from pencil sketches of the war to developing a distinctive style of constructivist illustration featuring stylised views of up to the minute architecture.
Now I like this kind of thing very much indeed but I feel we had wandered quite a long way from the First World War. Much of this last room struck me as having next to nothing to do with the war, or any war, instead being the confident new visual language of the hyper-modern 20s and 30s.
Wandering back through the rooms I realised the exhibition splits into two parts: rooms one to five are unambiguously about war, the horrors of war, trenches and barbed wire and corpses, moving onto war memorials and horrible images of mutilated soldiers, how those disfigurements were taken up into the distortions and fantasies of Dada and Surrealism and then extracted into a kind of quintessence of bleakness in the woodcuts of Kollwitz.
And then part two of the show, rooms 6, 7 and 8 show the extraordinary diversity of forms and style and approaches of post-war art, from nostalgic or semi-modernist landscape, through neo-classical if unnerving portraiture, Christianity by floodlight, from bitterly angry socialist realism to the frivolities of jazz bands and strip clubs, and then onto the Bauhaus and Constructivist embrace of new technologies (radio, fast cars, cruise liners) and new design and photographic languages.
Whether these latter rooms and their contents can be strictly speaking described as the 'aftermath' of the Great War is something you can happily spend the rest of the day debating with friends and family.
But there is no doubting that the exhibition brings together a ravishing selection of masterpieces, well-known and less well-known, to create a fascinating overview of the art of the Great War, of the immediate post-war period, and then the explosion of diverse visual styles which took place in the 1920s.
From the po-faced solemnity of:
to the compelling crankiness of:
From the earnest political commitment of:
to the vision of an all-metal brave new technocratic future:
The promotional video
Related links
- Aftermath continues at Tate Britain until 24 September 2018
- Complete text of the exhibiton wall labels (without illustrations)
Other blog posts about the Great War and its aftermath
Politics and soldiers
- The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End 1917 to 1923 by Robert Gerwarth (2016)
- Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (2010)
- Warsaw 1920 by Adam Zamoyski (2008)
- Forgotten Victory: the First World War Myths and Realities by Gary Sheffield (2001)
- The Great War (BBC TV series)
- Elgar's Great War music
- Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon (1936)
- The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme And Ancre, 1916 by Frederic Manning (1929)
- Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1929)
- Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel (1926)
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (1925)
- Under Fire by Henri Barbusse (1917)
Art and design
- The Great War in Portraits @ National Portrait Gallery
- Frank Brangwyn and the First World War @ William Morris Gallery
- Winifred Knights @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
- The New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic 1918 to 1933 edited by Stephanie Barron and Sabine Eckmann (2015)
- The New Objectivity
- George Grosz: The Berlin Years by Ralph Jentsch (1997)
- From Weimar to Wall Street 1918 to 1929 (1993)
- Art Deco by Alastair Duncan (1988)
- Bauhaus by Frank Whitford (1984)
- The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short by John Willett (1984)
- The New Sobriety: Art and Politics in the Weimar Period 1917 to 1933 by John Willett (1978)
- Weimar: A Cultural History 1918 to 1933 by Walter Laqueur (1974)
- Weimar Culture by Peter Gay (1968)
- A Small Yes and a Big No by George Grosz (1946)


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I started writing a post. It is not ready for the public. It may never be. I really don't know what is going on with this not writing and it is starting to scare me a little bit. I trust that God has a plan though and in the meantime I am still here, even though not exactly here. Not here writing. Hopefully soon.
While we are waiting for the words to come, I thought I'd share some pictures of my lately. Just Random shots of recent snows, a small depression glass dish I found to fit a lid I already had, and supermarket flowers I arranged.
In addition to snapping pictures and arranging supermarket flowers I have been watching a lot of 7th Heaven. We started from the beginning and are now in season 3. I loved that show when it was on originally and it seemed a good fit for me right now. I think watching it has been some kind of therapy for me and I'm still working through the why.
Grace is good,


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In his book "The Courage to Be Catholic," author George Weigel surprised readers by insisting that the very secular and liberal Boston Globe and The New York Times had done the Lord's work in rooting out the story of child sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Church.
Weigel is correct, and never mind that the newsies at the Globe and The Times were relishing making the Church cringe. But these secular liberal media outlets will not tell the story when the American bishops allow the donations of Catholics to be diverted to fund abortion-rights activism, even if most Catholics view abortion as the most horrific form of child abuse. The media almost unanimously celebrate abortion as the summit of women's "liberation," and so the treatment is just the opposite. The press is refusing to cover this scandal.
The American Life League and the Bellarmine Veritas Ministry have been demanding reform of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, a project of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. They charge that no less than 50 organizations (one-fifth of all CCHD grantees from 2009) are in some capacity engaged in pro-abortion or pro-gay causes.
There is meat on this bone. Now they've discovered that a top USCCB executive for "human development" simultaneously served as an executive for a radical-left group called the Center for Community Change (CCC).
John Carr is the executive director of the USCCB's Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development. He has been employed by the bishops' conference since 1987. Carr's relationship with the CCC goes back at least to 1983, serving in leadership roles from 1999 to 2006 -- including as chairman of the board. In 2001, while Carr served as both a USCCB executive and a CCC leader, the bishops' conference funneled $150,000 to the CCC.
The explanation Carr gave a reporter from Our Sunday Visitor newspaper is simply not believable. He claimed he knew nothing: "I had no involvement in or knowledge of the actions alleged in the press release. My experience with CCC was that it focused on poverty, housing and immigration and had no involvement in issues involving abortion and homosexuality."
It's true that CCC wasn't primarily an abortion-rights advocacy group during that time. But Carr certainly had to know that CCC was a thoroughly leftist group, on all the issues. He served simultaneously on the CCC board with Sara Gould, the head of the Ms. Foundation. The CCC gave a "Community Change Champion" award in 2005 to Sen. Barack Obama. In the summer of 2005, the CCC signed a statement asking President Bush to name a "consensus" (read: "pro-choice") nominee to replace Sandra O'Connor at the Supreme Court.
And it's being funded by Catholics, giving at the instructions of their own bishops.
In a 2005 speech decrying both parties -- and imploring Democrats to recognize the rights of the unborn -- Carr declared, "I remember being told on a board meeting for the Center for Community Change. One of the Kerry strategists, who shall remain nameless, (said) that the strategy was to go after singles, seculars and gays. And my reaction was, that's a great way to carry Berkeley and midtown Manhattan. It's not a way to win Ohio."
So why support it with Catholic money?
Carr knew there was a grave conflict between Catholic teaching and CCC advocacy, but allied the bishops with anti-Catholic campaigns anyway. The pattern continues today. In 2007, CCC launched an offshoot called the Campaign for Community Values, which more explicitly advocates leftist social positions. It recently issued an activist "toolkit" that lamented that "conservative strategy also fostered hostility toward those struggling for equal opportunity -- people of color, women, immigrants, gays and lesbians, and poor people."
The CCC has also been a partner in the Stop Stupak coalition to strip pro-life language out of the health-nationalization bill. On Dec. 2, 2009, CCC's Marvin Randolph spoke at the Stop Stupak Day of Action: "Anti-choice activists have seized on the general controversy around the reform and found an opportunity to further restrict women's access to reproductive health care by tying their cause to the general campaign of hate and misinformation that bombards the country's airwaves."
Randolph must be laughing at the Catholic bishops. Wouldn't you, if you were trashing their "anti-choice" position while being funded by unsuspecting Catholics?
Our pro-abortion media will find no scandal here. They won't ask the hard questions they posed during the sex-abuse scandal. Did the bishops know that the donations of faithful Catholics were being diverted to libertine-left lobbying coalitions? If they didn't know, why didn't they pay more attention? Once they were told, why did they do nothing? Clergy and laity alike should demand an independent investigation to determine how this moral corruption has happened.
And Catholics must stop funding the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.


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Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. – (Colossians 3:13, NIV)
Don't be angry with each other, but forgive each other. If you feel someone has wronged you, forgive them. Forgive others because the Lord forgave you. – (Colossians 3:13, ERV)
Be gentle and ready to forgive; never hold grudges. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. – (Colossians 3:13, TLB)
Fault-finding, blame, grudges and the like, do nothing but keep heaviness in the heart of the holder. Though there are some situations where wisdom will lead us to walk away, it does not mean that we are to hold unforgiveness in our heart. Forgiveness looks different in every situation, but the one thing that is constant is that it is a choice of will, and a decision that has to be made over and over again. There are days that forgiveness comes easily, and we find ourselves in a good space, recognizing that because we have been forgiven much, we too, can forgive much. However, there are times when whispers of previous offenses rise up, and so too does the anger. It is in these moments that we have to choose again to forgive. May we fix our eyes on the Lord who has forgiven us for all that we have done, so that we may go forth and forgive in the same way.
We've been forgiven,
For everything;
All our transgressions,
And harm that we bring.
Because of this love,
We're called to the same;
To forgive others,
Let go, remove blame.
Often the process,
Of choosing release;
Hurt brought by others,
As God's grace increased.
May we choose to rise,
Forgive in His Name;
Love as we are loved,
Let grace be our aim.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You that You call us to forgive as we have been forgiven by You. Thank You that as we choose again and again to forgive, You refine and change our hearts to be more like Yours. Forgive us for the times that we have held onto hurts or allowed old injury to rise up and renew our anger toward another when we have chosen to forgive. Teach us to trust You more, so that we would seek Your strength to forgive again and again, each time a hurt or offense comes our way. Show us how to love and forgive others, just as You love and forgive each of us. May many come into a lasting relationship with You. Be glorified O God, as we turn to You to be our strength and our example for forgiveness so that we may go forth and do the same. Amen.
© Shannon Elizabeth Moreno and Revelations in Writing, May 2011 – present
Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. – Proverbs 17:9


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Once upon a time I was heading out to study for my final university exams with friends when my father called me back.
"Nwunye," he shouted after going through the names of the other twelve of my siblings.
"Sah?" I answered, because I am a good child.
"Where do you think you are going at this time of night?"
"I am going to Ogo's house, sah." I looked at my watch. It was 5 pm.
"Which Ogo?"
"Ogo my friend, sah. You have met her sah."
"I have?"
"Yes sah. She has big…brains sah."
"Ah, the big-brained Ogo. So what are you doing in her house at this time of the night eh?"
"We are studying sah. Me and Ogo and Chiamaka and Ifeoma."
My father grunted, picking vegetables from his teeth with a toothpick. When he finished, he popped the teeth back into his mouth. "Okay. But this one you are always going to study with those girls…" He fidgeted.
"Sah?" I bristled, thinking he was calling their character into question. Did he not remember who they were?
"Just know I don't want any daughters-in-law. I want sons. Sons-in-law."
I caught many flies in my mouth on the okada to Ogo's house that day.
Yes. This really happened. I remember relaying the story to my study group when I got to Ogo's house. (And for those who are wondering, yes, I did attend university from home. If you've only known me as an adult, you've just had an 'Ah-ha' moment because shit just made sense.) My friends thought it was funny. Me, I was just dazed that my square to the power of infinity dad knew about lesbianism. I didn't dwell too much on this though because I would have started to wonder what else he knew and my imagination cannot handle things like that. Every generation likes to think they invented sex after all.
But this is what I do not understand. This is the same man that flogged the brown off my skin because I went on a date with a guy at seventeen. It wasn't even a date if I am honest. Okay, it kinda was. But I was in my second year of university and for chrissakes it wasn't like I lay down on the road and had sex with him. That came much later. I wouldn't recommend it by the way. Vehicles are a bloody nuisance and Nigerian grit gets into cracks like you cannot imagine. Sometimes when I sneeze, a little bit of sand and coal tar comes out.
A good Igbo girl is not supposed to think of guys other than as things to beat in school which is unsurprisingly easy. (Yeah, I said it. Heh heh!) Not even when the boys in question are your cousins. You get to a point when your breast buds appear and all male cousins suddenly become off limits.
You spend the next few decades learning that men are the enemy. You spit when they talk to you, your put-downs are legendary and if they touch you, it's hi-ya! and out pops their eyes. Your parents applaud you, chaste Virginia, you. At what point are you supposed to stop using them for target practice and start seeing them as potential mates? It was a wonder I even tried that first date on for size. (Such was the level of my inexperience with humans of the male persuasion that the first date became the start of a two-and-a-half-year stint.)
I know I have said all this before, but things keep happening that make my jaw drop. Some Igbo parents can really screw up their female kids.
At what point am I supposed to consider giving you (if I desire it) sons-in-law as opposed to daughters-in-law? After all the scare stories about the beastly nature of men, their dangerous phalluses and their fickle-mindedness in dealing with the consequences of their sexual actions (pregnancy, disease. Pregnancy.), when exactly am I supposed to think "Hmmm. I'd like to jump on that dangerous phallus and snare me a diseased baby or two?"
Cover up, close your legs, don't whistle, don't sit on a man's thighs, don't laugh with a man, he'll think you're cheap, don't whistle, don't wear rings on your fingers if you're not married, don't go anywhere once the sun sets, don't be arrogant, don't correct a man in public, don't raise your voice, don't argue and my personal favourite , don't drive – he'll think you're feeling too big, then who'll you marry?
No wonder some women cry at their weddings. Lucky me, I didn't. My dad did though. Huge, splashy, snotty tears and much hysterical sobbing. My mother looked as if she wanted to give him Snickers bar.
I guess he was just relieved I ended up with a dude.


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Ugh!! …if it doesn't scare you it should do.
### ODT Online Thu, 3 Aug 2017
US company microchips workers
A Wisconsin vending machine company is offering its employees a chance to have a microchip implanted in their hands that they could use to buy snacks, log in to computers or use the copy machine. About 50 employees at Three Square Market have agreed to the optional implant of the chips, which are the approximate size and shape of a grain of rice, said Tony Danna, vice president of international sales at the River Falls-based company. The company, which employs 85, said it was the first in the United States to offer staff the technology which is similar to that used by contactless credit cards and chips used to identify pets. The implants made by Sweden's BioHax International are part of a long-term test aimed to see if the radio-frequency identification chips could have broader commercial applications, Danna said.
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HANOVER, N.H. — Less than a year into his presidency at the Ivy League college from which he graduated, Dartmouth President Philip Hanlon didn't need to go into detail when he stood before an audience of students, faculty, trustees, staff and alumni this spring and declared, "Enough is enough."
By then, news that a male undergraduate had posted a vulgar "rape guide" in January on a popular student chat site had spread across campus and beyond. A federal investigation of the school's handling of sexual assault complaints had made national headlines. There's probably more to come: A book due this month will elaborate on "many of the factors driving the rape culture at Dartmouth," says author Andrew Lohse, a former student who has written about stomach-turning hazing rituals at his fraternity.
Hanlon, who graduated in 1977, a year before Animal House immortalized his alma mater's hard-partying image on screen, vowed in his speech in April to rid the campus of "extreme and harmful behaviors," including sexual assault.
Whether he succeeds remains to be seen, and some members of the Dartmouth community have their doubts.
It's no coincidence that administrators on campuses nationwide are making similar promises. Over the past three years, a network of advocates for victims of sexual assault has made the case that campus rape is far more prevalent than most colleges like to admit.
The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is investigating dozens of colleges over their handling of sexual assault claims, including Harvard, Florida State and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Schools found out of compliance could lose access to federal student aid.
A new federal law requires colleges to educate students and new employees about the prevention of dating violence, sexual assault and stalking and to ensure "prompt, fair and impartial" disciplinary proceedings.
Concerns about sexual violence on campus have grabbed the attention of America's most powerful bully pulpit, the White House.
"This is sort of the moment in time we've all been waiting for," Lynn Rosenthal, co-chair of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, told participants at a Dartmouth-sponsored summit on the issue in July.
Many victims have gone public with stories that focus less on the crime than on how poorly campus administrators often handle the follow-up. "The institutional betrayal that these students face is sometimes worse than the assault itself," says Annie Clark, co-founder of the non-profit End Rape on Campus, which advises students on how to lodge complaints against their institutions.
A 2000 Justice Department report estimated that less than 5% of victims of rape attending college report their attack. Yet college campuses reported nearly 5,000 forcible sex offenses in 2012, higher than the rate among peers who don't go to college, according to U.S. Education Department data cited by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. Last month, McCaskill co-sponsored legislation that would impose stiff penalties for schools that try to cover up the problem.
Accused men are fighting back, arguing that their rights were violated during disciplinary proceedings at their schools. At least 16 lawsuits are pending against universities, including the University of Michigan and Duke, according to a website called A Voice for Male Students. A group called Families Advocating for Campus Equality was founded this summer to raise awareness of the impact on victims of false accusations.
"I'm telling you, these young men are not able to finish their college education, and if their names are public, they are not employable," says President Sherry Warner Seefeld, whose son was accused and later cleared of a sexual assault charge while a student at the University of North Dakota. Regardless of the outcome, "the headlines of the media are incredible."
The growing backlash reflects the challenges and complexities faced by colleges, which are required by law to respond to sexual assault complaints — a felony in the U.S. legal system.
Colleges "aren't very good at investigating and adjudicating felonies," says Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, a Washington-based lobbying group for colleges and universities. Confusing and sometimes contradictory federal regulations — including proposals under review — don't make it any easier, he says.
"Colleges desperately want to do the right thing, but it's not always clear what the right thing to do is," he says.
Dartmouth's Summit on Sexual Assault this summer was designed to help universities figure that out. Administrators from more than 60 colleges gathered to hear from federal officials, consult with national experts and share strategies on how to improve their handling of cases on their campuses and to comply with a new federal law that requires colleges to educate students and employees about dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
It gave Dartmouth a chance to highlight its most recent efforts, including procedures for investigating complaints and a sexual assault prevention center, which is scheduled to open this fall. Also this fall, a steering committee will release a list of recommendations on next steps.
Through campus spokeswoman Amy Olson, Hanlon and other Dartmouth administrators declined comment for this story.
Skepticism remains about Dartmouth's administration making good on its promises. "Dartmouth seems always to be weighing every step, every proposal against what's in the best interest of the college rather than what's in the best interest of the victim," says theater professor and 1975 alumnus Peter Hackett.
Hackett, a member of the last all-male class admitted to the college, is a founding member of Dartmouth Change, a group of students, alumni, faculty and friends pressing the administration to examine how it has "allowed this culture to thrive on this campus," he says.
For example, he says, Dartmouth publishes campus sexual assault statistics in an annual report, as required by law, but does not post reports of sexual assaults online as they occur. Dartmouth Change keeps a more up-to-date tally on its website.
"We're attempting to keep pressure on the administration to make changes that don't constitute simply checking off compliance boxes," says member Alexandra Arnold, a 2010 graduate. "Unfortunately, although unsurprisingly, the smoke-and-mirrors department is operating in full force, so much of our energy is aimed at pushing back against the college's public relations machine."


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September 16, 2019 at 6pm to November 15, 2019 at 7pm – Université Paris Est Créteil Download full version of the Call for papers The conference seeks to address collaboration and the spectrum of collective working methods which have defined and keep informing some of the independen… Organized by Karine Chambefort-Kay and Mathilde Bertrand | Type: conference, 15-16, may, 2020
October 7, 2019 to October 17, 2019 – The Centre for Photographic Conservation Preventative Conservation of Photographic Materials (Theory). Ref: 100/2 An intensive five (5) days course covering the identification, causes of degradation, conservation treatment options, handling… Organized by Angela Moor | Type: training, courses
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