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An article about Occupy written before the eviction on 28 February 2012.
Take me to your leader," are the first words of any colonising power. No wonder Occupy is so frustrating to those who would negotiate it into some sort of containable or controllable shape. Outside St Paul's, decisions are made by a consensus of the twice-daily general assembly, basically a gathering of whoever turns up. It is, as it were, politics without the politicians. Direct democracy rather than representative democracy.
For those who think in terms of traditional protest movements, this can be seen at best as well-meaning chaos, and at worst as the sort of chaos that can be readily manipulated by charismatic individuals who refuse all the responsibility of leadership while continually shaping the outcome of the decision-making process. At least with traditional models of political leadership, those who are appointed or elected can be called upon to give an account of themselves.
A related criticism is that this radically inclusive process is not well suited to the production of practical proposals. Some think the issue is bankers' pay; some the transparency of the City of London Corporation; some the very existence of capitalism. Those who would dismiss Occupy's significance point out that agreement seems impossible to come by. What can you expect from a bunch of anarchists, after all?
But all this completely misses the point. For it is precisely because Occupy is self-consciously leaderless and maddeningly amorphous that it has so much potential to regenerate the public conversation. Writing about the rise of leaderless organisations, the Stanford MBAs Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom have coined a useful distinction between the starfish and the spider. The great survival advantage of the starfish is that is has a decentralised nervous system. If you cut off the spider's head, it dies. Even if you cut off its leg, it's done for. In contrast, cut a leg off the starfish and it regenerates; indeed, the severed limb can grow a new body. Like the starfish, the power of Occupy is that is has no centralised nervous system.
All of which is a bit of a nightmare for those who would seek to build a relationship with or get any sort of agreement from protest movements like Occupy and UK Uncut. There is no one to phone up or cut a friendly deal with – the traditional modus operandi of the establishment. Similarly there is no recognisable face for the media to use as a spokesperson, and thus no opportunity of equating a leader with a movement, or attacking those in leadership as a means of attacking the movement itself.
Which is why Occupy does not conform to many expectations of what a protest movement ought to look like, particularly concerning leadership. It's a bit like comparing the Encyclopedia Britannica with Wikipedia. Ideas generated from many of the more active members of the St Paul's camp are often pushed away, almost disowned. This is a self-emptying model of political action that is acutely aware that the generation of activity – concerts, lectures, discussions – can create a centrifugal force round a set of individuals, turning them into de facto leaders.
Occupy will survive as long as these people keep refusing leadership. For while mainstream politics continues to be dominated by a narrowing discussion of personalities, and overly centralised on the office of a particular political leader, Occupy points in the other direction. It is ideas based, driven along by a deeply felt conviction that most people have been badly served by the current construction of global capitalism.
Policy wonks and political anoraks will tear their hair out at the non-specific vagueness of all this. But Occupy does not have a specific agenda for change. It does not march under a single banner. Rather, it begins further back: with the idea that lasting change is only possible if more people are sucked into the conversation, more of us educate each other as to the workings and effects of a dysfunctional economy. This is now happening in 95 cities all over the world.
To use the language of Brafman and Beckstrom, Occupy functions as a "catalyst". Those who want leaders to deal with are going to be frustrated. It's all about the issues. Remember the total non-event that was Tony Blair's Big Conversation? Well, this is how you do it properly.
Also: 'The protesters removed from the steps of St Paul's could have helped the cathedral find a compelling new narrative' - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/31/occupy-eviction-st-p...
(c) Giles Fraser is a former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral. He is currently helping out on the leader writer's desk at the Guardian newspaper. This article is adapted from one first published on 12 December 2011, and is reproduced with acknowledgments and thanks. http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/gilesfraser


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Absence & Hope in the valley of the shadow of this life
Ian Mobsby, one of the founders of the moot community explores the need for hope as the foundation of faith to live in the complex world of today. In this way, with a basis in the love of God, we can be a community of hope reflecting the vision of the Church gathered in a City in Revelation 22:
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OBAMA NOT ONLY USES TAX DOLLARS TO FUND THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA, HE OPERATES IT OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE (google CECELIA MUNOZ).
OBAMA'S DEPT of JUSTICE DOES NOTHING ABOUT OBAMA'S CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS, BUT FINDS PLENTY OF TIME TO SUE AMERICAN STATES ON BEHALF OF OBAMA'S LA RAZA AGENDA, TO SABOTAGE E-VERIFY TO EASE ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS (OBAMA'S SEC. OF LABOR IS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS), AND NOW IS FIGHTING WITH STATES THAT WISH TO CURB ILLEGALS VOTING BY REQUIRING VOTERS TO HAVE NON-FRAUDULENT I.D.S!
OBAMA'S DHS IS NOW THE Department of Homeland Security = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP and ENDLESS DREAM ACTS, ALONG WITH OUR JOBS!
"Still more aliens have been granted immigrant visas and work visas who committed fraud in order to game the system. This not only impacts national security but costs American workers jobs, especially in the high-tech fields."
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March 19, 2012
Just when you think you've heard it all involving the Obama Administration's disastrous Mexican gun-running experiment, new details surface to illustrate a new level of negligence and incompetence on the part of federal authorities orchestrating the scandalous program.
Known as Fast and Furious, the federal experiment allowed Mexican drug traffickers to obtain U.S.-sold weapons so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. Instead federal law enforcement officers lost track of more than 1,700 guns which are believed to have been used in an unknown number of crimes.
DHS Border Patrol Arrest Statistics Underestimate Illegal Immigration
Written By Michael Cutler
Published March 18, 2012
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Recently published reports have focused on a letter submitted on March 1st by Congressman Darrel Issa to Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. Issa is the Californian Republican who chairs the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. His letter demanded Napolitano address claims that the Border Patrol has been "cooking the books"--distorting the true number of undocumented immigrants who are apprehended along our nation's southwest border. Issa's letter to Napolitano was predicated on information that insiders at the DHS have purportedly provided to Issa's office.
These statistics are extremely important because they have not only been used by the administration to reflect on how secure our border is, but also used to support the contention that because arrests along the border are down, that the number of undocumented immigrants present in the United States is also down.
This claim has a number of potential benefits for the administration, especially as the upcoming election looms closer on the horizon.
It used to be said that Social Security was the "Third Rail" of politics. Today you could say that immigration and border security constitutes the so-called "Third Rail," and this third rail has lots of political juice running through it.
Some Liberals have tried to demonize anyone who seeks to enforce the immigration laws and secure our borders while Republicans like to portray themselves as being tough on law violators and want to be perceived as being in favor of the "Rule of law."
In order to win the upcoming election, current administration would like to be able to say that the immigration problem is correcting itself, thereby placating voters on both sides of the issue. By touting reduced arrest statistics, the administration could lay claim to securing our nation's borders and convincing everyone that immigration is no longer a problem. This would enable the president to be in two places at one time.
Clearly if the arrest statistics being reported are false, then all suppositions based on those doctored statistics would be false. As the folks in the computer field would say, "Garbage in – Garbage out!"
However, as a former INS Special Agent, I have been more than a bit skeptical about the validity of using Border Patrol arrest statistics to determine how many undocumented immigrants are actually present in the United States. There is lots more to the immigration system than the Mexican border.
On December 21st I was a guest on Neil Cavuto's program on the Fox Business Network. Neil noted that it is believed that because of the economic situation in the United States that fewer undocumented immigrants were seeking to come to the United States to seek employment. I commented that "Attempting to determine how many illegal aliens are present in the United States by simply looking at arrest statistics were a bit like taking attendance and asking those not present to raise their hands."
There is no definitive means of determining what percentage of undocumented immigrants are actually arrested and what percentage evade the Border Patrol. Additionally, undocumented immigrants do not only enter the United States by running our nation's border, that is supposed to separate the United States from Mexico.
Our nation also has a border that separates the United States from Canada that is nearly twice as long as the U.S.-Mexican border.
Additionally, our nation has some 95,000 miles of coastline and seaports and marinas to be found all along that huge coastline.
While the extreme porosity of the U.S. borders creates a huge problem for the United States in terms of national security, crime and other factors to be associated with the lack of border security, it is estimated that some 40 percent of all undocumented immigrants in the United States did not run our nation's borders at all, but entered the United States through the inspections process and then, in one way or another, violated the terms of their admission into the United States.
Still more aliens have been granted immigrant visas and work visas who committed fraud in order to game the system. This not only impacts national security but costs American workers jobs, especially in the high-tech fields.
On March 6, 2012 the Washington Post published an article entitled: "Illegal immigrants with long-expired visas remain tough to track 10 years after 9/11 attacks." That report addressed how a would-be terrorist, Amine El Khalifi had been living illegally in the United States for more than a decade, an issue that became the basis for a hearing conducted by the House Homeland Security Committee.
"The criminal case against Amine El Khalifi, 29, of Alexandria, Va., has renewed the debate about how the U.S. government — a decade after the terror attacks of 2001 — routinely fails to track millions of foreign visitors who remain in the country longer than they are allowed," the article reads.
"A House Homeland Security subcommittee is conducting an oversight hearing Tuesday. The panel's chairwoman, Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., said El Khalifi 'follows a long line of terrorists, including several of the 9/11 hijackers, who overstayed their visa and went on to conduct terror attacks.' His tourist visa expired the same year he arrived from his native Morocco as a teenager in 1999," the piece continues.
This is not a newly discovered problem. Nearly six years ago, on May 11, 2006, I testified before a Congressional hearing entitled "Visa Overstays: Can We Bar the Terrorist Door?" that was conducted by the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on International Relations.
Finally, while so many politicians talk about the need to create jobs, just about no one talks about the need to liberate jobs by effectively enforcing our nation's immigration laws from within the United States.
The point is that by attempting to keep everyone's attention focused on the Mexican border, many of the other components of the immigration system are being ignored.
It is important and commendable that Rep. Issa continues to demand accountability where the DHS is concerned, but neither he nor anyone else should lose sight of the fact that where immigration is concerned, we are dealing with a system with many moving parts, and all are critically important.
Simply stated, our immigration laws are intended to save American lives and American jobs and no politician from either side of the aisle should lose sight of those two incredibly vital goals.
Michael Cutler is a retired Senior Special Agent with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/03/18/dhs-border-patrol-arrest-statistics-underestimate-illegal-immigration/##ixzz1pzD01us5
OBAMA HAS PROMISED HIS LA RAZA "THE RACE" PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS AMNESTY, NO E-VERIFY, NO I.D. FOR REQUIRED OF ILLEGALS VOTING… OR AT LEAST CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT!
The Obama administration has also cut worksite enforcement efforts by 70%, allowing illegal immigrants to continue working in jobs that rightfully belong to citizens and legal workers.
"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws."
The truth about the DREAM Act
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The DREAM Act has become a rallying cry for President Obama, members of his administration, and liberal Democrats everywhere. President Obama has vowed to "keep fighting for the DREAM Act," which would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
It's true when listeners or those polled don't know the facts that the DREAM Act has some appeal. After all, we are all naturally sympathetic when children are involved.
But the descriptions of the DREAM Act voiced by President Obama and his cohorts are not accurate. And the consequences are never told.
DREAM Act supporters claim that only children would benefit from such a bill, but the facts tell another story. Under most DREAM Act proposals, amnesty would be given to individuals up to the age of 30—not exactly children. And some other proposals don't even have an age limit.
These supporters also maintain that illegal immigrants can't go college without the DREAM Act. But the truth is that illegal immigrants can already go to college in most states.
And ultimately, most versions of the DREAM Act actually don't even force illegal immigrants to comply with all the requirements in the bill, such as going to college or joining the military. The administration can waive requirements because of "hardship"at its complete discretion.
DREAM Act proposals are also a magnet for fraud. Many illegal immigrants will fraudulently claim they came here as children or that they are under 30. And the federal government has no way to check whether their claims are true or not.
Such massive fraud occurred after the 1986 amnesty for illegal immigrants who claimed they were agricultural workers. Studies found two-thirds of all applications for the 1986 amnesty were fraudulent.
And this amnesty did nothing to stop illegal immigration. In 1986, there were about three million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. Today, there are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and about seven million of them work here, unfairly taking jobs from unemployed Americans.
While DREAM Act supporters claim that it would only benefit children, they skip over the fact that it actually rewards the very illegal immigrant parents who knowingly violated our laws. Once their children become U.S. citizens, they can petition for their illegal immigrant parents and adult siblings to be legalized, who will then bring in others in an endless chain.
This kind of chain migration only encourages more illegal immigration, as parents will bring their children to the U.S. in hopes of receiving citizenship.
President Obama tried to get the DREAM Act passed during a lame duck session about a year ago but it faced bipartisan opposition in Congress. This hasn't stopped the administration from passing its agenda. The Obama administration does everything it can to let illegal immigrants stay here, which compounds the problem.
Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security recently issued new deportation guidelines that amount to backdoor amnesty and strike another blow at millions of unemployed U.S. workers.
Under the administration's new deportation policy, DHS officials review all incoming and most pending cases before an immigration court to determine if the illegal immigrant can remain in the U.S. Since the administration has made clear that many illegal immigrants are not considered priorities for removal, including potential DREAM Act beneficiaries, this could open the door to allow millions of illegal immigrants to live and work in the U.S. without a vote of Congress.
The Obama administration has also cut worksite enforcement efforts by 70%, allowing illegal immigrants to continue working in jobs that rightfully belong to citizens and legal workers. And the list goes on and on – this administration has a pattern of ignoring the laws and intent of Congress.
The United States is based on the rule of law but the Obama administration already has dirty hands by abusing administrative authority to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. The DREAM Act doesn't stop illegal immigration—it only encourages more of it by rewarding lawbreakers.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
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The joke had long been that if Donald Trump won the presidency, the White House would be reappointed with the gold-plated kitsch so prevalent in his real-estate holdings. A better choice, it seems, would be wicker, for if there ever was a basket of deplorables, it's taking shape in the West Wing.
Most notable among them is Stephen K. Bannon, the former Breitbart News chief executive who will serve as Trump's chief strategist. As Breitbart's head honcho, Bannon told journalist Sarah Posner that he fashioned the website as "the platform for the alt-right," the once-fringy movement that encompasses white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and hate-mongering conspiracy theorists. Bannon's appointment won applause, according to The Washington Post's David Weigel, from white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, who is convening a conference in Washington, D.C., this weekend at the Ronald Reagan building. But Bannon is but one of a number of appointees, advisers, and potential cabinet members who have been tagged by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate-mongers.
Friday morning brought word of Trump's appointment for attorney general: Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who, during the campaign, said that he didn't think the act described by Trump as his right in that leaked Access Hollywood video—the nonconsensual grabbing of women's genitals—amounted to sexual assault. Sessions was denied Senate confirmation for a federal judgeship in 1986 because of allegations that he addressed a black attorney as "boy," and said he was OK with the Ku Klux Klan except for the fact that its members smoked marijuana.
In response to the election of Donald Trump to the White House, one of the largest chapters of the Ku Klux Klan announced it would have a victory parade in North Carolina. And Trump was famously endorsed by David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
The night before the Sessions appointment was announced, Trump appointed retired General Michael Flynn to be his national security adviser, a post that does not require confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Flynn, according to The New York Times, has advanced the false narrative that Sharia law—a religious code adhered to by Muslims—is being written into U.S. law. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes Flynn as an adviser to ACT for America, an anti-Islam group that SPLC describes as convening and annual "racist gathering."
In February, Flynn tweeted, "Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL." The new national security adviser is said to be considering a plan that would require all Muslims in the United States to register with the government—an idea also pushed by Trump adviser Kris Kobach, who currently serves as the Kansas secretary of state. (On Thursday, Carl Higbie, who runs a pro-Trump super PAC, told Megyn Kelly of Fox News that the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II provided legal precedent for such a registry.) It was Kobach who fashioned the language used by Trump during the campaign for building a wall on the southern border, and making Mexico pay for it. Kobach was also the mastermind of Arizona's S.B. 1070, the law that empowers police to demand proof of citizenship from anyone, anytime.
As the point person for domestic policy on his transition team, Trump chose Ken Blackwell, the senior fellow for human rights and constitutional governance at the Family Research Council, which is designated by SPLC as an anti-LGBT hate group.
And let's not forget Trump's own anti-Semitic coding about alleged secret meetings between rival Hillary Clinton and "international banks" and "global financial powers" to plot "the destruction of U.S. sovereignty."
The FBI just released its annual compendium of hate-crime incidents for the year 2015, finding a marked uptick—a 67 percent increase—in hate crimes against Muslims. While not all are attributable to the environment created by the Republican presidential campaign, Trump and the people around him have been loudly banging the war drums against Muslims and non-white immigrants for years. And just since the election, SPLC has collected anecdotes of some 400 incidents of hate directed against people for some aspect of their identity, be it religion, race, gender, or sexual orientation.
On November 12 in East Windsor, Connecticut, Trump acolytes gathered around a bonfire, joined by a man dressed in the white robes of the KKK, according to police. The next day, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, anonymously authored flyers titled "Why White Women Shouldn't Date Black Men" were distributed on campus. Two days later, the university condemned the screed—which said that black men were more likely to abuse women, give them sexually transmitted diseases and produce stupid children—and its appearance on campus. Then there was my own Election Day experience in Manhattan, when a normal-looking young man, accusing me of stepping in front of him as I walked to a cab as directed by a taxi-line dispatcher, called me a c**t and screamed he hoped Trump would win. Looks like he got his wish.


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As we gear up for the holidays, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and under stress. After all, there's so much to do, and so many details - major and minor - to organize and oversee: There are presents to buy (and wrap!); a home to decorate; food to prepare; relatives to appease (think: mother-in-law!). The list feels endless.
Yet, with a myriad of tasks and only 24 hours in a day to get them done, how is it possible not to let pre-holiday stress rear its ugly head and get you stressed out? After all, stress is inevitable... right?
Well, maybe not. You can have a stress-free yule if you have the right tools, and the right mindset. Here, 8 ways to enjoy your holidays - without stressing out over them.
1. Watch your pennies.
Picture this: Your kids have been begging for the latest Nintendo Wii; your sister's been hinting for a Prada tote; your husband would love a new set of golf clubs... The "gimme" factor has taken hold, and the list of I-gotta-have-its goes on and on.
Sure, it feels good to spend your hard-earned cash on those you love. But when the Visa bill appears in your mailbox, the feel-good factor fades to that darker, uglier fear of: "How the heck am I supposed to PAY for all this?"
The secret - which is really not secret at all - is to pace yourself financially; to not blow your wad all at once. To stay within your budget, not beyond your means. Not being able to splurge on the latest or greatest is tough, and disappointing your friends and family is the last thing you want to do. But staying awake at night, worrying about how you're going to finance your holiday spending spree is far worse.
The stress-free solution: While store-bought gifts are surely the easy way out, the allure of homemade presents never goes out of style. And the feel-good giving factor? Priceless. (For crafty inspiration, go to http://www.Michaels.com).
2. Walk away from the buffet!
Eating and drinking at holiday get-togethers may seem as natural as snow in December. But overindulging comes with a high price tag: weight gain.
To avoid extra padding this holiday season (and we're not talking about the down comforter on your king-size bed), avoid overindulgence like the plague. That doesn't mean you have to abstain from all yummy holiday fare. No way! Just don't use the holidays as an excuse to go nuts! The key? Moderation; moderation; moderation.
The stress-free solution: Have a small but satisfying pre-party snack - a container of fat-free yogurt; a 100-calorie packet of microwave popcorn or oatmeal; 10 almonds; a cheese stick - to keep you from attacking the dessert table. (For more food-related tips and charts - including a daily fitness and calorie-intake/nutrition counter -
go to: http://www.fitday.com.)
3. Plan ahead.
If you, like most Americans, buy the majority of your holiday gifts at the last minute, you're not doing yourself any favors. Not only does split-second shopping add up to sack-loads of stress - not to mention poor decision-making - it ends up costing you more money than if you'd planned ahead and done your holiday shopping pre-Labor Day.
Turning back the clock isn't an option (who really thinks of buying snowshoes in September, anyway?), but that doesn't mean you can't plan ahead for next year. As soon as your tinsel has been tossed and your lights unstrung, hit the post-holiday
sales and squirrel away your bargains for upcoming events all year long - birthdays, anniversaries, bridal and baby showers, holiday gifts, and so on. You'll be glad you did.
The stress-free solution: Shop online! Although you may not score any serious bargains, worry not: the savings you'll get in sanity are well worth the price. (For no-fuss shopping solutions, organized by occasion, go to http://www.gifts.com)
4. Shop off-peak.
If you must hit the mall on December 24 - and don't say you haven't been warned - do yourself a mitvah and go at off-peak hours. According to my cousin Sara, who can sniff a bargain at 300 yards, the best time to go for a mall crawl is from the hours of 4.30pm to 6.30pm - dinnertime! I tried it (on Black Friday, no less) and discovered that, while not exactly a ghost town, the pre-dinnertime mall was pretty darn quiet.
The stress-free solution: Use your noodle to think outside the box (or the mall, as the case may be).
5. Keep expectations realistic.
For many of us, the holidays can be an emotionally nerve-racking time, with so much emphasis placed on being cheery, jolly and gay (the happy kind, not the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy kind). But not everybody feels like dancing around the yule log during the holiday season, especially if there's been a sad event, tragedy or loss in the family (a death; a divorce; a separation; etc).
The stress-free solution: If you can keep your eye on the prize - gratitude for health; a home; a fulfilling job; a supportive family and friends - you're less likely to feel "less than" because your life isn't all roses, sunshine and smiley faces (which are all overrated anyway).
6. Live in harmony (or at least fake it).
Holidays tend to bring families together - which is not always a good thing, especially if your family is more Osbourne than Osmond. But that's OK. No family is perfect, and yours doesn't have to be either.
At the same time, the holidays are not the time for overwrought emotional confrontations, ugly family feuds, or airing dirty linen. If you're mad at your Aunt Blanche for ____ (pick a transgression), there's no rule saying that you can't keep it to yourself. Your living room is not a Jerry Springer soundstage. In other words, back off!
The stress-free solution: Avoid emotional family confrontations - at least until the mistletoe's been taken down.
7. Delegate tasks.
Sure, everyone thinks you're Superwoman - and in many ways you are. But that doesn't mean you need to do the holiday shopping, wrap the gifts, clean the house, cook, serve and clean up the dinner, and stay in a cheery holiday mood, all at the same time. You deserve some help!
Asking is one way to get help. But telling those around you what you expect from them - what you need - is often the most effective way to get things done.
The stress-free solution: "Don't ask, don't tell" doesn't work in the military, and it won't work for you during the holiday season either. So, ask. Tell!
8. Add a dash of fun.
Running around like a headless chicken doesn't serve any purpose, other than making you feel like... a headless chicken. Besides, there's got to be a better way of preparing for the holidays. How about trying to actually enjoy them for a change?
Of course, putting your feet up and enjoying the sleigh ride is easier said than done, especially when your to-do list rivals Santa's. But there is a way: Try to enjoy the process of holiday prep.
For instance, instead of robotically plowing through your holiday-card list, put on some festive music (my pick: James Taylor at Christmas), grab a hot toddy and a pretty pen, and start writing. Before you know it, your list will be complete and you'll have actually enjoyed the process. What a concept!
The stress-free solution: Channel your inner Mary Poppins and think: "In every job that must be done/There is an element of fun/You find the fun and snap!/The job's a game!" Hey, if it worked for Mary...
Melissa Roske, founder of Wheels in Motion Coaching [http://www.WheelsinMotionCoaching.com]http://www.WheelsinMotionCoaching.com, is a New York University-trained Life and Personal Coach, committed to helping women realize their potential and to successfuly attain their goals. Certified by the International Coach Federation (ICF), Melissa is also an internationally published author, advice columnist and relationships adviser.
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Power and empowerment (PLA 43)
Lisa Veneklasen, Valerie Miller
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Although power is obviously an extremely important aspect of interaction, it is also very dynamic and subtle, and found in three different forms- invisible, hidden, and visible. The authors argue that through better understanding of these different forms, the process of empowerment can be better managed.
This article was published in PLA 43: Advocacy and Citizen Participation. Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action approaches and methods. PLA publishes articles on participation aimed at practitioners, researchers, academics, students and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board. See: www.planotes.org
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Museum acquisitions July-August 2009
Leeds: Martin Boyce
Leeds Art Gallery in the UK has acquired an Eames-inspired piece by Scottish artist Martin Boyce. Phantom and Fall, a hanging sculpture that references the work of US designers Ray and Charles Eames as well as the US artist Alexander Calder, was purchased by the Henry Moore Institute on behalf of the Leeds gallery. £8,000 was donated towards the acquisition by independent charity the Art Fund, with additional funding from MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and Leeds City Council. Boyce, who graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1990, represents Scotland at this year's Venice Biennale.
Yorkshire: Jeremy Deller
British artist and Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller's The Uses of Literacy has been acquired by the Arts Council Collection, and was on display at the Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, in June. The 1997 installation, which was purchased with help from a £20,000 Art Fund grant, focuses on Welsh rockers The Manic Street Preachers, with paintings, collages, books, drawings, poetry and other objects donated by fans of the band.
Yale: Hopper drawings
Yale University Art Gallery has acquired preparatory drawings by the US artist Edward Hopper for two paintings in its collection, Rooms by the Sea, 1951, and Western Motel, 1957. The works were purchased from the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and join a number of other preparatory studies by Hopper in Yale's collection. The drawings are particularly important in understanding the artist's work because he rarely made changes on canvas, and in the case of these two works, many of the details in the studies were subsequently stripped away to create the characteristically pared-down scenes in the paintings.
This piece was published in The Art Newspaper, July-August 2009, p18. To view it in context, click on the PDF link below.


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When my best friend, Kristina, asked me if I could make a custom xbox for her boyfriends birthday, I was like "Uuum... have you seen my Deceptacon xbox? What do you want?". "Los Angeles Dogers, I'll give you $150". "When do you need it?". "Day After Tomorrow..." All I needed to buy for this project was paint, primer and sand paper... I had everything else ready to go.
I started with a regular old, run of the mill softmodded console. She didn't want Media Center, or anything else... Just emulators and roms, so I went with UnleashX.
Since this xbox was in excellent condition, I did not need to sand before priming. I did, however, need to give it a good wipe-down with isoprophyl alcohol to get all of the grease and dirt off.
I primed all of the pieces that needed to be painted, inside and out. I wanted this thing to look like it was actually made by Micro$oft.
I painted the lid, base and button guard blue. I painted the faceplate and DVD bezel white.
This shot is with the shielding, fan and controller ports in place. The contrast of the blue against the chrome is brilliant. Better that that dingy old blackish green.
I masked off the faceplate and DVD bezel, then I gave it a quick shot of blue. While I was at it, I shot the button assembly with white. So far, so good... Then I put the faceplate back together.
Next up was to cut out the "LA" logo from the lid...
I printed out the logo to the apropriate size...
Then I masked the fins and taped the logo down where I thought would be nothing less than perfect.
I cut the logo out, pushing the x-acto knife into the lid a little harder that I normally would to sort of "trace" or "etch" the logo into the lid.
Then I took my novelty, battery powered, Dremel (do not buy one of these, they absolutely suck) and drilled a series of holes around the inside perimeter of the logo on the low setting. After that was complete I kicked it up to the high setting and drug the bit from hole to hole, making sure to keep track of the inside of the "A".
Then I used nail files (dollar store) and my x-acto knife to clean up the edges and make the corners sharp.
After I was satisfied, I took the lid out back to be sprayed with 3 thin coats of white, letting it dry for about 15 minutes between each coat.
I let the final coat dry for about 2 hours. Long enough for me to change the P/E (power / eject) lights from green to blue and wire up all of the indicator lights. (network connected, network activity and HDD (hard drive) activity. I was also able to test the machine to make sure everything was perfect.
After the paint was completely dry, I removed the masking.
Then I cut a piece of "frosted" Lexan (plexi-glass) to back the "LA" logo. I simply hot glued it in place on the under-side of the lid. I attached the inner piece of the "A", again, with hot glue.
Originally I had planned to clear the jewel and light it up with blue LED's. Kristina came by to see where I was at in the project and asked me how long that would take. She needed it sooner than later, so we opted to just paint the jewel blue to match the rest. And the Dodger Xbox was born.
Kristina took Brad to a Dodgers game the next day and brought the xbox with them. When they were getting their coats out of the trunk of the car she asked him to get something from "that box". He opened the box, saw the xbox and, from what I was told, almost fainted. He loved it.
My work here is done...


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There's been a lot of hype around virtual reality over the past few years, starting with the Oculus Rift and taking off from there. VR startups are a dime a dozen, and most of them don't stand out– VR video games, VR movies, VR sports, whatever, just put "virtual reality" in front of literally any activity and there's a bunch of dudes in Silicon Valley who have already dropped out of Harvard to make it happen.
Over the weekend, a project from a few years back really caught our eyes. It's called Second Livestock, a spin on that game you all used to play called Second Life, except it's a little different: The only players are chickens. Literally, like, living breathing clucking and cockadoodledooing chickens. They get to put on little helmets and walk on a treadmill all day, pretending they are outside, freerange chickens when they're really confined to a very small space. The idea is to raise their standard of living without actually using more space to raise them as livestocks.
Check out Second Livestock's mission statement: "Animal Husbandry has entered the Digital Age. Second Livestock rethinks the agricultural experience from the ground up leading to gains for the producer, consumer, and livestock." Every word is out of the tech company branding playbook. From now on I'm only buying eggs labeled "Hormone-Free and Virtually-Free."
Does it sound a little tongue-in-cheek? It totally is. The creator of the project, Austin Stewart, was assistant professor at Iowa State in 2014 when he came up with the idea. As he said in an interview with Vox, "We live in boxes, just like the chickens we eat." Sounds like someone has been watching the Matrix. Peck the blue pill, and you live your life until you become a chicken nugget. Peck the red pill, and he'll show you how long this chicken run really lasts.


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French Corner: Apple pie from Normandy
Welcome to the "French Corner", the Consulate's new monthly rendez-vous dedicated to the promotion of France's culture and patrimony, in video! Every month we will showcase a French region and introduce you to its highlights and secrets, we will appeal to your palate and culinary talents with our local recipe and finally we will spotlight France's scientific and educational competitiveness with the presentation of local universities!
This month, discover an apple pie from Normandy, by Etienne Jaulin, chef at the Residence of France in Boston.
La Tarte aux Pommes Normande (Norman Apple Tart)
Ingredients?: shell and filling
??????? 6 Granny Smith apples
??????? 1 Bourbon vanilla pod
??????? ? cup sugar
??????? ? cup butter
??????? 100% real butter puff pastry
Whipped cream?:
??????? 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar (mix a vanilla pod with sugar, you can also use the scraped-out pods).
??????? 4 fl. oz. whipping cream
1)Peel and core the apples
2) Start making the caramel?: heat the sugar in a saucepan over high heat (watch the mix closely)
3) Cut each apple into eight slices
4) Cut open the vanilla pod, scrape the vanilla seeds and disperse them on the apples.
NB?: you can use the scraped pods to make vanilla sugar)
5) Once the sugar starts melting into a thick brown, amber colored liquid, add the apples.
6) Stir the butter into the caramel and allow it to cook over medium/low heat for about 10 minutes
7) Preheat the oven to 400 F
8) In the meantime, roll out the pastry dough on a sheet of wax paper and use an upturned plate or a large cooking ring as your guide to draw the circle where you will lay the apple slices
9) Let the apples cook until they are tender and start taking on a caramel color, then turn the heat off (Do not cook the apples completely)
10) Arrange the apples in an overlapping spiral pattern
11) Fold?the?dough?under itself onto the flat rim of the?pie?plate and crimp the edges of the pastry to make it look pretty
12) Place in the oven and bake for 25 minutes
13) Serve warm with homemade whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla or caramel ice cream.
Whipped cream?:
Place the whipping cream and vanilla sugar into a mixing bowl. Whisk until the cream thickens or reaches stiff peaks. Store in the fridge for up to 10 hours.


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10 Cases of Men Falsely Accused and Convicted of Rape
Hello, boys and gores. Today, I bring to you ten instances of false rape accusations and convictions which had ruined the lives of all the men involved. The video is from the Amazing Atheist. He has a channel on YouTube which is definitely worth checking out, lots of interesting shit. Now, rape is no laughing … Continue reading "10 Cases of Men Falsely Accused and Convicted of Rape"
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Defamation (Hashmatsa) – Documentary About ADL and Anti-Semitism by Israeli Jew Yoav Shamir
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We Need to Talk About Sandy Hook – Watch Full Documentary Here
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It Is Better to Die Like a Wolf, Than Live Like a Dog – Trailer by Pravy Sektor
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Recovery of Incinerated Corpses from Bus Hit by Bomb in Eastern Ukraine
This video expends on the video from yesterday, which showed a residential area in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine shortly after it was shelled by suspected Porosheno forces. Filmed a few hours later, it depicts the recovery of incinerated corpses from the attacked bus after the firefighters put out the fire. I suspect identification of anyone who … Continue reading "Recovery of Incinerated Corpses from Bus Hit by Bomb in Eastern Ukraine"
Ukrainian Government Continues to Shell Residential Areas in Donetsk Despite Ceasefire
The government of war criminal Petro Poroshenko continues to shell residential areas in Donetsk despite ceasefire. True to his Jewish background, Poroshenko acts much in the same vein his Israeli compadres do. This video appears to show several vehicles on fire and a number of dead people scattered across the ground. Blood flows down the … Continue reading "Ukrainian Government Continues to Shell Residential Areas in Donetsk Despite Ceasefire"
Donbass: Chronicle of Genocide – Documentary About Conflict in Ukraine
You will not see this documentary on CNN, Fox or BBC. They don't want you to know the truth. Instead they want you to believe Russia is a monster so you continue to live in fear and support more bloodshed. Titled "Donbass: Chronicle of Genocide", the one and a half hour long video documents the … Continue reading "Donbass: Chronicle of Genocide – Documentary About Conflict in Ukraine"
Miko Peled – Israeli Jew, Son of Israeli Army General Exposes Truth About Israel
Miko Peled is an Israeli Jew living in the USA. He was born in Jerusalem in 1961 to a Zionist family. His father was Matti Peled, a decorated Israeli army general. His grandfather was Dr. Avraham Katsnelson, a Zionist leader and one of the signers of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Miko Peled is also … Continue reading "Miko Peled – Israeli Jew, Son of Israeli Army General Exposes Truth About Israel"


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce on Friday that he will step down, according to an FCC official, leaving the agency after a four-year term that focused heavily on improving Internet access across the country.
Genachowski told FCC staff on Thursday of his plans to make the Friday announcement, the official and an industry source said. He has been widely expected to exit in coming weeks. His term expires in June.
A spokesman in Genachowski's office declined to comment.
The news comes in the same week that Robert McDowell, senior Republican commissioner on the five-member panel, said he will leave in a few weeks. The FCC oversees TV, radio, cable, satellite and Internet industries.
Rules governing FCC appointments mean President Barack Obama will nominate a new Republican commissioner and a Democratic chair in coming days and the two will likely go through their Senate confirmations at the same hearing.
Several people are considered likely candidates to head the FCC. One is Tom Wheeler, venture capitalist and an Obama ally and fundraiser who is a known figure in Washington telecom circles thanks to his lobbying history at the National Cable Television Association and the wireless industry group CTIA.
Other possible candidates are Lawrence Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Karen Kornbluh, most recently ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and Blair Levin, a former FCC staff member and now industry analyst.
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Battle of Peonnum
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The Battle of Peonnum was fought about AD 660 between the West Saxons under Cenwalh and the Britons of what is now Somerset in England.[1] It was a decisive victory for the Saxons, who gained control of Somerset as far west as the River Parrett. The location of the battle is uncertain.
Saxon conquest[edit]
The border between the West Saxons and the Britons of Somerset had been set at the Wansdyke along the ridge of the Mendip Hills following the Battle of Deorham and the Saxon occupation of Bath in 577.[2] Then, in 652, Cenwalh broke through at the Battle of Bradford on Avon.[2]
Relief for the Britons came when Cenwalh was exiled to East Anglia after a squabble with Penda of Mercia.[3] Some time after his return he renewed the attack on the British tribes and in 658 his army met the Britons for a climactic battle at Peonnum. The Saxons were victorious, and Cenwalh advanced west through the Polden Hills to the River Parrett, annexing eastern and central Somerset. The territory gained was modest in size; Geoffrey Ashe suggests that Cenwalh's ultimate goal may have been gaining control over the valuable Glastonbury Abbey within it.[4]
The border remained at the Parrett until 681–685, when Centwine of Wessex defeated King Cadwaladr of Gwynedd and his local allies, allowing them to occupy the rest of Somerset west and north to the Bristol Channel.[5] West Saxon rule was consolidated and extended into Devon by King Ina.[6]
The battle is said to have happened æt peonnum, which means "at the penns". Penn is the Brittonic Celtic word for "head" or "top",[7] which here is likely used for "hill" or "peak". Suggested locations include Penselwood (Pen Selwood), near Wincanton which is called Penna in the Domesday Book,[8] Pinhoe or Pen Beacon in Devon, and Penn (near Yeovil).[9] Note that one of the highest points of the Mendip Hills is named Pen Hill.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Allowing again for the slight chronological inaccuracy of the Chronicle across these years, this event may he dated c. 660. The annal implies that by this date Cenwealh dominated the Saxons of Wiltshire and beyond." Kirby, D. B. The Earliest English Kings Routledge; Revised Edition (30 April 2000) ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 p.47
- ^ a b Major, p. 44.
- ^ Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Book III, chapter 7.
- ^ Ashe, p. 279
- ^ "War Tourist". British Battles. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
- ^ The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, Vol 1 (1906)
- ^ "The Head of Annwfn". The Mabinogion and the Mabinogi. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
- ^ Major, p. 45
- ^ Yorke, p. 53
- Ashe, Geoffrey, From Caesar to Arthur, University of Michigan, 1960.
- Major, Albany F., Early Wars of Wessex, Cassell Press, 1978
- Yorke, Barbara Wessex in the Early Middle Ages Leicester University Press (31 Aug 1995) ISBN 978-0-7185-1856-1


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Michael Hansen was little more than an entry-level salesman when he started pushing his employer to do more for veterans.
He had been a decorated Marine in the Iraq War before embarking on a rocky, tumultuous transition into the business world at the height of the recession. After failing to find a national security job and completing a few semesters of graduate school, he found himself in Greenbelt, Maryland, at the bottom of a corporate hierarchy in which every decision had to be tied to profitability.
His job at Power Home Remodeling, a national home-improvement firm that made $520 million last year, was to meet customers at their homes and sell them remodeling services. He noticed that Power had only a few veterans among its sales force – but the ones it did have posted outstanding numbers. He was certain that the company would benefit greatly if it employed more veterans.
So he pitched his managers on a novel idea: Set up an independent department within Power responsible for helping veterans build careers after the military, with its own budget dedicated to integrating them into the company's core business operations.
Hansen says his goal was to help fellow veterans "redefine the sense of purpose that we had in the military" by creating communities for them in the civilian world.
"When you get out of the military, you may be competent and capable, but it's the application of your skill sets that can determine how effective you can be," Hansen says. "Transitioning that to the corporate sector is doable, but it depends on how fast you can build up your support network."
After at first getting little traction, he went directly to the top, approaching chief executive Asher Raphael at a company dinner. Hansen phrased it not as a charitable undertaking but as a business deal that would boost sales companywide. If Power did more to support veterans, he contended, they would return the favor by bringing in more business.
To back up his theory, Hansen showed Raphael data that he'd analyzed demonstrating that the average veteran at Power sold more and stayed longer at the company than their civilian colleagues. And the remodeling jobs they oversaw tended to be "cleaner," with fewer customer complaints.
"We found that the military vets we did have were not just successful, but they were disproportionately successful," he says.
Raphael approved Hansen's idea to establish the Power Home Remodeling Department of Military Affairs and put him in charge of it. Today, the company allocates between $2.25 million and $2.5 million annually for staffing and support.
Such investments in workers' ideas and success are part of why employees give Power high marks. Citing the support they get from management to grow and succeed in their careers, employees in The Washington Post's Top Workplaces survey ranked Power No. 3 among midsize firms.
Skilled or well-connected veterans have long had a unique place in the Washington area's business community, where some of the biggest employers are government contractors serving U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.
A few such companies made the 2018 Top Workplaces listing: Columbia, Maryland-based government contractor IntelliGenesis, for example, holds employment workshops for people transitioning out of the military. Procentrix, a Herndon, Virginia-based software company, solicits résumés through the Wounded Warrior Project, a charity that serves veterans.
But Power Home Remodeling is different in that it has no government or defense ties. Thus, it's often a challenge for Hansen to convince managers – many of whom have no connection to the military – that people like him are a worthy investment.
"We want to highlight that vets are a success," Hansen says. "They vote more. They serve communities more. They build successful businesses."
Hansen's transition to civilian life didn't go as smoothly as he had hoped.
He had joined the Marine Corps in the early years of the U.S. war in Iraq, also known as Operation Iraqi Freedom. His service over the course of four deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan earned him a promotion to the rank of sergeant as well as a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.
He left the service for the first time at age 22 and immediately landed a high-paying job at an insurance company. Then when the recession struck, his company went under, and he was laid off without a paycheck. His family lost their house and his marriage fell apart.
He ended up returning for another tour of duty before making his way to Washington, where he had hoped to leverage his military background for a career in government or defense contracting. He spent three years there, sleeping on a friend's couch, working as a bartender and pursuing a master's degree in the evenings.
Then another friend from the military helped him get a sales job at Power, and he was surprised to find that the work suited him. It tapped into his interpersonal "soft skills" that he had honed working in military intelligence.
"I had developed a career that essentially was successful in the military because I got good at navigating people," Hansen says, "and that was a skill that I was able to transition into the commercial sector."
From there he swiftly moved up the ranks, netting two promotions in his first year there. After 18 months he became a "million-dollar rep," joining an elite group whose members had single-handedly closed $1 million in home-improvement sales in a single fiscal year.
But he never lost sight of his ties to the military, and he kept lobbying his managers to set up a military affairs department.
Today, from his perch in the firm's corporate headquarters in Chester, Pennsylvania, Hansen finds himself in a position to influence a serious hiring machine with national reach: Power employs close to 2,300 people in the United States, including about 270 in the Washington area.
At Hansen's suggestion, Power offers each veteran a $3,000 bonus after 90 days on the job. Veterans' spouses can get bonuses, too, something that is intended to recognize the burden they carry when deployed family members' lives are at risk overseas.
The company hired regional managers with military backgrounds to find promising recruits, and it set up an array of in-company programs designed to form a support network.
A veterans group in Atlanta recently took a paintball outing paid for by the company, for example. Another regional group embarked on a hiking trip to Valley Forge National Historical Park in Pennsylvania. Hansen often travels to the company's regional offices to lead exercise classes. Every military veteran who joins the company is assigned a mentor, another veteran at the company who can help them adapt to civilian life and teach them the tricks of excelling at the company.
With Hansen's help, Power boosted its veteran workforce to 8 percent this year from 2 percent in 2016, or to 225 from 35 employees. And it reports that so far about 14 percent of new hires in 2018 have been veterans, suggesting the number is poised to climb even higher.
Newer hires say the support means a lot.
Josh Barkley, a Marine Corps veteran who joined the company last year after transitioning out of the military in 2014, says that for years he had bounced around his home state of Indiana, unable to find a suitable full-time job.
Like Hansen, Barkley had a family he needed to support. So when a friend from the Marines referred him to a job at Power, he jumped at the chance.
"For the life of me I could not find a job. But I knew someone at Power and I drove from Indiana to Maryland specifically for the interview," Barkley says.
Since then, Barkley has become a force in the Greenbelt office. He attends job fairs on behalf of the company and helps manage relationships with military bases in the area alongside his day job as a remodeling consultant team leader.
The $3,000 veteran's bonus came in handy when his family was adjusting to their new home in Maryland.
"For me, this was a make or break time in my life," he says.
Hansen, for his part, refers to Power Home Remodeling as a "leadership development company."
He says he hopes other companies will follow suit.
Source: http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/features/perspective/can-investing-in-veterans-be-profitable-marine-wants-to-prove/article_a33378d7-2374-5c85-aca0-8b66b8616574.html


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Enabling Smart Security
What happens when you take security devices that are currently only used in stand-alone systems and connect them up via open standards-based protocols to be integrated into a much larger, all-encompassing technology grid? In short, they become smarter. Moving away from closed systems with proprietary standards, opening up and connecting devices to form smart technology grids, the Internet of Things (IoT) is reshaping security. This allows you to manage multiple and previously separate systems more effectively via a single pane of glass management console: be that surveillance cameras, door access controllers or loudspeakers.
Let's take a look on how this can work out in real life.
Scenario #1: Unauthorized Card Trigger at an Office Building
It's after hours, almost everyone has left for the day, and someone uses an unauthorized or blocked access card at a door of your office building. This "unauthorized card" event triggers a preset of a PTZ camera, which at once swings automatically to the corresponding door, zooming in. A pop-up window alarms the night watchman, who can respond without leaving his chair, by simply connecting to a phone at the door to talk to the person outside. Depending on the outcome, the watchman can decide to grant access or not.
Scenario #2: Protecting Remote Premises
At a chemical factory site, someone tries to enter the premises through the fence. The IP thermal camera detects it and signals a perimeter violation. This alarm-image can then be transferred either to the remote control center or to a remote security company. Without being physically at the site, the responsible operator can see and check what is happening. He can connect via SIP to the nearest IP horn loudspeaker and address the trespasser. In more than 80% of all cases, directly addressing and thus interrupting the intruder makes him take flight.
Scenario #3: Remote, 24/7 Warehouse Access Control
After the close of the business day at the warehouse, a supplier's truck arrives at the gate. In order to gain access the driver connects with the warehouse manager via an IP station. After business hours, all calls from the station are automatically forwarded to the mobile phone of the on-call warehouse manager via the company's telephone system. Via an app the system can also establish visual contact with the driver so that the warehouse manager can visually check if the driver is known. In this case, the warehouse manager can transmit a code via DTMF (Dual-tone multi-frequency), authorizing the IP station to open the gate. Remotely, the warehouse manager can now initiate all necessary further steps to grant access to the driver. Furthermore he can monitor what is going on afterwards via the IP cameras installed on the premises and in the warehouse.
These are just a few, relatively simple scenarios which are very much achievable today. As the lines between physical and digital security continue to blur, the opportunity to not only use the IoT to create operational efficiencies, but to increase the effectiveness of security, will grow even further.


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Karoliina supported Digital Frontrunners, Nesta's programme for future skills.
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Karoliina is currently completing her MA in Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins, London. Her dissertation centered on the future of work, implications of AI in the workplace and employee experience. Before joining Nesta, Karoliina worked for many years as a producer for the multidisciplinary festival, Helsinki Design Week, where she produced and curated events promoting innovative interior design, architecture and urban planning.
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UVA Architecture School hosts Woltz Symposium on "Adaptive Infrastructure"
The University of Virginia School of Architecture hosts this year's Woltz Symposium, a multi-day exploration of "Adaptive Infrastructure," featuring a slew of international urban planners and architects. The symposium opens with a lecture by William Hudnut III on October 8. Campbell Hall. 924-3715.
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Gaff, Eagles miles away as three Vic clubs circle
ANDREW Gaff held contract talks over West Coast's bye weekend.
But the 25 year old restricted free agent is no closer to reaching an agreement with the Eagles.
In fact, there's a significant difference in what the Eagles are offering and what's coming from a clutch of Victorian clubs including Carlton, St Kilda and North Melbourne.
There's a real chance Gaff could leave the club. Sources have said Gaff would prefer to stay but would be an amazing person if he did given the money he'd be sacrificing at this point.
West Coast's offer has been reported to be around 750k a year for four years, but there's a squeeze on there.
Nic Naitanui's contract expires next year and so does Josh Kennedy's. Both are on around seven figures.
Luke Shuey and Elliott Yeo last year signed lucrative deals, Jack Darling last year signed for three years.
Jeremy McGovern won't - and shouldn't - come cheap.
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Russian seafood looking for markets
Markets for Russian seafood become more diverse.
Russian fishing industry is growing – last year Russian fisheries produced more frozen Alaska pollock both for exports and domestic consumption than a year before.
Compared to the 2010, volumes of unprocessed Alaska pollock production decreased, while exports of frozen fillets in blocks have grown from 25 thousand metric tons (appr. USD 67 million) to 33 thousand metric tons (appr. USD 87 million).
In one of previous posts I've noted that in 2011 China and South Korea were main importers of frozen pollock from Russia.
However, I must say that over the past few years situation with Alaska pollock imports has changed. In 2008 the Alaska pollock market depended on a single buyer since more than two-thirds of imports went to China. But now I see this monopoly diminishing, and Russian fisheries increase supplies to different foreign markets and at once increase sales in Russia itself. I can just confirm this trend with my own experience.
As for Pacific herring, in 2011 volumes of its exports reached USD 111 million, which is 55% more compared to 2010.
Unfortunately, due to higher transportation costs the Pacific herring is becoming less competitive against imported Atlantic herring.
My forecast is following: after reduction of import duties on herring (these are the conditions for entry into the WTO) competition on the herring market will become even more tight.
Comments are welcome!


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Praying Kerala is a virtual platform for family prayer. People can pray together for themselves and for others through Praying Kerala, though we live in different parts of the world. Praying Kerala ministry team goes out into different places to meet family members and pray for them.
Thiruvalla- Believers Church Youth Centre (09:30am to 06:00pm)
Trivandrum- Sathyan memorial hall (06:00am to 05:00pm)
Pathanamthitta- Aban Auditorium (10:00am to 02:00pm)
Ernakulam- YMCA, Chittoor Road (11:00am to 06:00pm)
Maramon P.K Prayer room- Nedumprayar Junction (04:00pm to 06:00pm)
Kattapana- Town Hall (02:00pm to 05:00pm)
Kollam- YMCA, Chinnakada (01:00pm to 06:00pm)
Kottayam- Trade Center (10:00am to 02:00pm)
Chengannur YWCA (10:00am to 01:00pm)
Mavelikkara- YWCA, Puthiyakavu (10:00am to 02:00pm)
Ranny- YMCA PAZHAVANGADI (10:00am to 02:00pm)
Thrissur- Balabhavan (01:00pm to 05:00pm)
Calicut- Town Hall (10:00am to 02:00pm)
Kannur- Shikshak sadanam (09:00am to 11:00am)
Kazargod -Vyapara Bhavan (03:00pm to 05:00pm)
Wayanadu- Sulthan Bathery Mint Flower (11:00am to 02:00pm)
Kothamangalam- Near Vimalagiri School YMCA (10:00am to 02:00pm)
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10: Stewardship and the Environment – Thought Starters
"Then God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish or the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'" Genesis 1:28 NKJV
[Thought questions for Stewardship and the Environment March 6, 2013]
1. The environment. Is caring for the environment a Seventh-day Adventist objective? If not, why not? If yes, how good a job are we doing? Do professional environmentalists sometimes rub us the wrong way? Have you or someone you know ever had your property devalued because it was on or near land needed by certain wild creatures? What happens to the quality of life in regions of the earth where the environment is left to its own devisings? Is that God's plan?
2. Responsible since creation. Weren't the creatures and plant life created the first week able to survive on their own? Why did God ask Adam to rule over the natural world even before sin? What was included in Adam's work of stewardship? Did Adam consider this assignment a heavy load of work at first? What did it involve? How has the job of environmental caretaker changed in the centuries since Adam and Eve had to leave the garden?
3. Animals. What do you consider to be the most significant difference between animals and man? Is your favorite pet as intelligent as you are? Does your canary or wolfhound show love and affection to you? In what way is that love limited? Does a loving kitten or obedient puppy understand God's love? Where I live it's common for people who decide they don't want to keep a dog any longer to drive up in the hills, dump the dog by the wayside and take off at a high speed. What does that say about the person who abandons a pet like that?
4. Sabbath. What does the Sabbath have to do with the environment? Explain the difference between these two extremes: (1) loving nature so much that we ignore other aspects of life and (2) exploiting nature whether we're damaging it or not. Is it possible to worship nature even in these modern times? In what ways is the Sabbath a perpetual observance of Creation week? In what ways can we appreciate creation and the beauty of nature we can still see on the Sabbath day?
5. Health. How do we know that God wants us to take good care of our bodies? Or is His wish mainly for us to enjoy life and do what we feel is right? How does the health of our bodies and brains affect our life with God from day to day? Why is it so easy to give in to habits that are dangerous to our health? Are drinking and smoking the only enemies of our health we need to oppose? What are some others? What about mental health? Are there specific actions we can take to increase our happiness as well as our good health? How long should we wait to put them to work?
6. Stewardship. What used to be the responsibility of the church's stewardship secretary? When you hear, "stewardship report," what do you expect to learn? Do you ever pray for God's guidance to lead you to be a better steward of the gifts and blessings he has entrusted to you? If not, why not? Are there ways that your local church could encourage its members to give more of their talents to the work of the church? What does your church do to involve new members in the church's ministry?
7. In conclusion. What can you or your Sabbath school class do as a special project for your local environment? Might such a project present opportunities to make friends with Christians from other churches? What about participating in clean-up, fix-up, and make-beautiful projects in your community? Or should we be careful about making friends with people not in our church? Think about it.