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Fed up top cattle breeder set to quit UK for move to Canada
By Isabel Davies
A LEADING Hants cattle breeder is selling up and preparing for a new life in Canada with his family.
Michael Faulkner of Norton Farm at Selborne will sell all 260 of his prize-winning Holstein dairy herd in two sales later this month before making the move to farm abroad.
The collapse in milk prices, increasing production costs and red tape have been the final prompt for Mr Faulkner to take himself, his wife Jane and their son Barney on the 3500 mile journey to Ontario, where they hope to buy a farm.
"The move to Canada is something I have always wanted to do but there is no doubt that the economic climate in the UK at the moment makes now seem the right time.
"The main reason for going is because my ability and interest lies in the breeding of quality Holsteins. And the beef ban in this country prevents us from exporting live cattle or embryos abroad which is what I am trying to market," said Mr Faulkner.
He said it would be easier to farm in Canada because more people were involved in rural activities and so had more of an understanding of agriculture. In addition, compared to the UK, the milk price is higher and the costs of production and living both lower.
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With over 4,000 craft breweries in the United States and more popping up every year, it's no surprise Tennessee is showing its face in the brewing arena! After all, these folks are already known for their outstanding spirits and we can easily see how they would excel in the craft brewing industry too! Just the thought of this connection gives way to dreams of delicious bourbon barrel aged brews and more. We couldn't resist these fantasies and had to find out for ourselves exactly what these Tennessee breweries had in store for the world.
While we didn't get to bounce all over the state as we really like to do, we did get to visit three breweries that really impressed us. We started in Knoxville, Tennessee at Saw Works Brewing Company and we were disappointed. The tour of the site was outstanding. We have to point that out right away because these folks really do care about their historical places and they showed us a great time. We learned about the history of the place, as well as getting a free pint of our favorite brew afterward. To top it off, the tour didn't cost much and the beer was great! Our personal favorite was Baby Got Black IPA. Yes, we realize the name is a bit cheesy, but how many craft beers don't have a cheesy name? Exactly, not very many.
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Today, we had our longest day on the road in the entire trip --13hrs. We packed a lunch this morning so that we wouldn't have to stop. It was crazy long.
We crossed the border into Kenya by 8am. To pass the time, we played a quiz game. It was the Smurfettes vs. the people at the back of the truck.
The last stretch of road going into Lake Naivasha was insane. It was Africa's bumpy roads at its worst!!! These were not potholes, they were craters. Everyone was in a hurry of course, and the side of the roads dropped off into oblivion. At one point, there were 3 trucks side by side heading down the road in one direction, a bike with 2 people on it, and bus heading straight for all of them. Needless to say, it was better not to look, and best not to sit at the back of the truck, where you literally got launched in the air each time we hit a bump (it's fun for all of 2 minutes, then it's just painful).
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Book review: Edgar and Lucy by Victor Lodato
Review by Lucy Atkins
The Sunday Times
There has been a trend recently for American writers to produce Donna Tartt-style "supersized" novels, perhaps as a mark of seriousness. Recent offerings by Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Safran Foer and Hanya Yanagihara, for instance, are all heavy on the word count, with finely crafted sentences stacking up in a bid for greatness.
If size is a marker of literary intent then Victor Lodato, a successful playwright and poet who was shortlisted for last year's Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, is serious: Edgar and Lucy, his second outing, sits squarely in the Tartt camp.
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When word filtered through that Cavan had drawn with Kerry at half time in this encounter, the permutations and combinations of results that would be needed for Mayo to stay up in division one if they couldn't come home from Omagh with win under their belts were being worked out by the supporters. But come full time in this one Mayo had put their destiny back in their own hands, thanks to Kevin McLoughlin's brilliant winning score.
Any sort of positive result against Donegal next Sunday and Mayo will be safe in the top flight for another year no matter what happens elsewhere. This was one hard hitting encounter, with three black cards being dished out and numerous other hard hits fair and not so fair being given out.
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There were only eight points registered in the second half, four from each side but it was an absorbing, enthralling and frustrating encounter. With Mayo forcing Tyrone to shoot from distance putting numerous efforts wide and dropping three into David Clarke's area, which the Ballina man dealt with ease.
The opening exchanges in the first half saw both sides go score for score over the opening 19 minutes, with Paddy Durcan, Shane Nally, Kevin McLoughlin and Cillian O'Connor all finding their range for Mayo with Darren McCurry, Mark Bradley, Niall Sludden and Kieran McGeary all hitting points for Mickey Harte's men.
Tyrone saw Sludden go to the stand for an early shower on 15 minutes for a black card after he fouled Lee Keegan and seven minutes later the Westport man also joined him there after he fouled Ronan McNabb. The vital score in the game came seven minutes from the interval when Tom Parsons finished off a brilliant move involving Fergal Boland, Cillian O'Connor and Andy Moran - driving the ball to the back of the net past Naill Moragn to put Mayo into a 1-4 to 0-6 lead, after Tyrone had edged two points clear thanks to points from McCurry and Sean Cavanagh.
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Mayo tagged on two more points before the turn around with O'Connor and Durcan raising the white flag, with Tyrone also kicking two more majors before the interval from the boots of Cavanagh and Bradley.
Nine minutes had gone by in the second half before the first score arrived through Kieran McGeary, Cillian O'Connor responded from a 45' to keep Mayo's noses in front. With 20 minutes to go Danny Kirby was shown Mayo's second black card and Niall Morgan stroked over the resulting free to leave the score level at 1-7 to 0-10. Tiernan McCann edged his team back in front shortly after, but two pointed frees from O'Connor left Mayo leading by one again with 15 minutes to go.
Tyrone had it all square for the final time 13 minutes from the end thanks to a Bradley point, as the game reached it's boiling point. Mayo introduced both Aidan O'Shea and Diarmuid O'Connor from the bench in the last quarter as they went looking for victory and 90 seconds into injury time they hit the winning score. McLoughlin broke at pace out from his full forward position and turned and fired over a great strike to send the Mayo crowed who made the long trip to Omagh home happy and looking forward to next weekends meeting with Donegal.
Mayo: C O'Connor 0-5 (3fs, 1 45 ), T Parsons 1-0, K McLoughlin, P Durcan 0-2 each, S Nally 0-1.
Tyrone: M Bradley 0-3, S Cavanagh, P Harte, K McGeary all 0-2 each, N Sludden, N Morgan (f ), T McCann all 0-1 each.
Mayo: D Clarke; C Barrett, B Harrison, K Higgins; P Durcan, L Keegan, C Boyle; T Parsons, D Kirby; F Boland, S Nally, D Drake; K McLoughlin, A Moran, C O'Connor. Subs: S Coen for Keegan BC, D O'Connor for Boland (44 ), D Vaughan for Kirby BC (53 ), A O'Shea for Moran (54 ), J Doherty for Drake (63 ), C O'Shea for Nally (65 ).
Tyrone: N Morgan; P Hampsey, C McCarron, R McNamee; A McRory, R McNabb, T McCann; C Cavanagh, M Donnelly; P Harte, N Sludden, K McGeary; D McCurry, S Cavanagh, M Bradley. Subs: C Meyler for Sludden BC (17 ), C McShane for McNamee (52 ), H Loughran for McNabb (55 ), J Monroe for McRory (69 ).
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2020 Grass River Shiver
5k/10k Snowshoe Race Fundraiser
Saturday January 11, 2020 - 10:00 am
$25 preregistration, $30 on race day
Put on your snowshoes and run through the beautiful snow-covered Grass River Natural Area as a fundraiser for our programs! This snowshoe race in northern Michigan is only a short distance from Traverse City. A prize is awarded to overall male and female 5K/10K winners. Registration at 9:00 and race at 10:00. 10k runners do two loops of the course. Walkers are welcome, too!
$25 Registration includes:
- a one-of-a-kind race on beautiful trails through wetlands and woods
- a soup voucher for a free soup lunch at Short's Brewery on race day
- after-race snacks and refreshments
- 1st place prize is awarded to one overall male and female for the 5K and 10k
Race fee is $25 in advance or a $30 race fee on race day
Weather history: of January 11
The temperature typically varies from 21°F to 28°F and is rarely below 7°F or above 37°F.
On average, the sky is mostly cloudy or overcast 73% of the time.
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Wind speed of 5 mph (light breeze) on average.
Event Schedule
Saturday, January 11:
9:00 a.m. - Grass River Center opens for parking and registration. The Center is heated with restrooms.
10:00am - 5k/10k snowshoe race begins outside Center.
10:30am - After race snacks and refreshments.
11:00am - Awards, snacks, and then head to Short's brewery if you'd like a soup lunch and beer! (free Short's soup vouchers for racers!)
Stick around with the family for our WinterFest at Noon!
Register Here
Online registration is closed. You may register the morning of the race from 9am to 10am at the Grass River Center. Race starts at 10am.
9th Annual Shiver
Thank You for your support!
Thank you to all the snowshoers and volunteers that participate. Your support will help Grass River Natural Area, Inc. continue to meet its mission in 2020! GRNA, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that manages the Grass River Natural Area, conserves and protects its watershed and provides opportunities that increase knowledge, appreciation and community-wide stewardship of the natural environment.


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BOSTON – At the 2018 AGA Tech Summit, this year's Shark Tank line up included an automated system for video capture of endoscopy, a feeding tube that prevents aspiration in intubated patients, a tool to accurately measure polyps captured on colonoscopy, a device that targets gastrointestinal cancers with electrical pulses, and a new method for real-time stool testing of infectious pathogens.
In each case, the presenting entrepreneur vowed to the Shark Tank panel of experts that their innovation is addressing an important clinical need. In announcing the winner, V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, who is the chair of the AGA Center for GI Innovation and Technology (CGIT) and director of interventional endoscopy and general GI endoscopy, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, said, "We have rarely had such a strong group of candidates."
New for 2018, both the Sharks and AGA Tech Summit attendees voted on a winner. The unanimous winner was Chang-Hee Kim, PhD, who presented a new rapid test for identifying infectious pathogens in stool. The sharks were looking for 1. Novelty/immediate patient impact, 2. Business plan, and 3. Pitch. While all of the participants were close, the immediate patient impact for Dr. Kim's innovation gave him a leg up on his competitors.
New device permits real-time stool sample analysis
A new tool for rapid analysis of stool for pathogens may be revolutionary in that it can provide results within 15 minutes rather than the days normally required when stool samples are sent to a laboratory, according to Dr. Chang-Hee Kim, chief executive officer of GoDx, Inc. The patent-pending methodology developed at Dr. Kim's company permits real-time analysis "at the point of need and without the need for a lab." In addition to the efficiency, the paper-based test, which Dr. Kim compared to a pregnancy test in that there is a color change with positive results, has the potential to improve outcomes.
Real-time testing "will decrease the loss of patients to follow-up and accelerate the time to treatment," Dr. Kim asserted. "The test is also likely to reduce the spread of nosocomial pathogens if rapid infection control reduces spread."
The test, which Dr. Kim expected to be made available at a cost of $100, will also be substantially cheaper than current laboratory analyses. In experimental studies, the accuracy has been at least as accurate as polymerase-chain reaction (PCR) testing, according to Dr. Kim. He sees applications not only in hospitals but at sites where ordering laboratory studies are not normally available, such as on cruise ships, in nursing homes, or in the military.


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Advancing the Soul of MSU
$1.5 million gift names Murray Hall and the Murray Family Terrace.
Craig Murray grew up with a passion for band, and his wife, Lisa, is a singer who comes from a family of jazz musicians. They are longtime supporters of the Michigan State University College of Music who have now taken their appreciation of the college to a new level.
The Murrays have established a generous major gift allocating a total of $2.1M for the Billman Music Pavilion, Athletics and the College of Communication Arts and Sciences through a charitable lead annuity trust. In recognition of their contribution, the College of Music will name the Performance and Rehearsal Hall for the principal use of jazz as well as the Pavilion Terrace in their honor.
"As a charter member of the College of Music National Leadership Council, Craig Murray has brought a passion, urgency and creative energy to his work with MSU and the College of Music," said College of Music Dean James Forger. "In fact, the sparks that he has ignited have caught fire in very positive ways. We are grateful for the leadership Billman Music Pavilion gift Craig and Lisa have made. It will be a game changer for the many thousands of individuals – students, faculty, staff, and the general public – who will benefit from their generosity."
With a charitable lead annuity trust, the Murrays are able to benefit from tax savings that result from supporting MSU without giving up assets that they would like other beneficiaries to receive someday. Through the trust, a fixed amount is given to MSU each year for a set number of years which the donors choose, and the remaining assets return to the donor or others they designate when the term is up.
"Walk through the current music building while classes are in session and the urgent necessity to expand capacity and modernize becomes crystal clear," Craig said. "The building is bursting at the seams yet what comes out of it are wonderful, world-class performances and students who graduate and go on to become prominent artists, teachers and professionals. Because of that, this gift and the method we chose to give it just made sense to us."
Craig, a 1976 MSU alumnus in Advertising, built a successful career in entertainment advertising. He and Lisa live in Burbank, California but travel to MSU often in part due to Craig's role on the National Leadership Council (NLC). While Craig was a student manager for the MSU football team and had a brief stint in the Spartan Marching Band – one week, to be exact – the relationship with the college blossomed over ten years ago when he worked with other prominent MSU alumni on the West Coast to bring to life a one-time performance called "MSU at Disney Hall."
"That experience forever altered my perception – and the audience's perception – of the quality of musical talent at Michigan State," Craig said. "The performances that afternoon weren't just good, they were exceptional. I came to understand that the then-School of Music was a virtually unknown treasure at MSU."
Craig joined the NLC shortly thereafter and became more inspired by "its roster of incredibly passionate and knowledgeable Spartan music lovers and musicians." His appreciation of music at MSU continued to deepen.
"Music plays a role in nearly every event at MSU," he said, "which is another reason why investing in this program is important. But even more important are the examples we see of disadvantaged students who succeed on campus or with the help of our Community Music School in Detroit, and you realize that music is part of MSU's Land Grant heritage. It is part of our soul and part of the university's tapestry."
The Billman Music Pavilion includes a 37,000 square foot expansion and the strategic renovation of 8,700 square feet that will provide future generations of students an education of the highest quality. These functional changes will create a highly utilized new music facility with excellent sound isolation, infrastructure and equipment to support 21st century music performance, recording, rehearsal and teaching. The added features and accommodations will continue to grow the national and international reputation of the college by attracting exceptionally talented and creative faculty and students.
The Murrays are impressed with the powerhouse jazz studies program built under the direction and visionary work of Rodney Whitaker, University Distinguished Professor of Jazz Bass and Director of the Jazz Studies Program. Craig and Lisa also believe the Murray Family Terrace will be an important new space for faculty and student engagement.
"The ability to integrate outdoor space is something that is vitally important to the creative process," Craig said. "A terrace is more than a place to get some fresh air. It's where students and faculty can meet, interact and recharge their batteries outside of the formality of classrooms and studios. Our hope is that it can be both a relaxing and inspirational gathering spot."
And about that one week stint in the Spartan Marching Band?
"I love band, but, in high school, I had actually only marched once. Still, I auditioned for the SMB, and suddenly there I was at the pre-season SMB training camp – lugging the then-brand-new fiberglass sousaphone while trying to learn 8-to-5 and complicated patterns and attempting to perform 'Baby Tuba Walk' at the same time. Not a pretty sight. It was then I realized that me being in the band probably wasn't meant to be," Craig explained. "After one grueling week, I sheepishly turned in my uniform and became a student manager for the MSU football program."
In the end, it was a change that benefitted everyone.
"I guess it all turned out pretty well," he said. "I was able to build a career that has put me in a position to, well, finally pay back the College of Music for quitting band 47 years ago."
MSU and the College of Music are forever thankful.
If you would like information on how you can support the MSU Music Pavilion, contact Senior Director of Development Rebecca Surian at firstname.lastname@example.com or (517) 353-9872.


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14 Years Ago Today, Pat Tillman Was Killed and Gov't Covered Up the Truth to His Death to Sell W• thefreethoughtproject.com By Jack Burns
Seventh-round NFL draft pick Pat Tillman wasted no time in setting records for tackles on the football field for the Arizona Cardinals. But in the Spring of 2002, after marrying his childhood sweetheart, Tillman walked away from his multi-million-dollar NFL salary and joined the Army with his brother.
Tillman's departure from the NFL was widely publicized, as was his death on the battlefield of Afghanistan in 2004. The Pentagon, President George W. Bush, and what seemed like all of America, celebrated Tillman's heroic death. However, Tillman's death was not heroic by any means. He was shot and killed by his fellow U.S. soldiers. But once the deception about his story was propagandized, little could be done to undo how the military and the White House had capitalized on his death.
In 2006, The Guardian published a story, titled, "The footballer who became a war hero who became a scandal," in which author Lawrence Donegan revealed the dastardly actions the government took to rewrite Tillman's history. Donegan described how all was going well for the Bush Administration's "War on Terror" when Tillman decided to enlist. He wrote:
"For the Bush administration, recently embarked on its 'war on terror,' Tillman's story was an enormous PR boost. Professional athlete eschews fortune for patriotic duty—not even a White House well versed in spinning self-serving propaganda could have dreamed up such a perfect recruitment story. Tillman finished his basic training in time to be sent to Iraq as part of the US invasion force, before he was sent to Afghanistan in early 2004."


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Every week, the AFC Wimbledon Foundation gives more than 150 women and girls the chance to play football through their Premier League Girls programme.
As part of FA Girls' Football Week, the Dons hosted a special tournament at Tooting & Mitcham FC that brought together Year 9 and 10 footballers from six London clubs, and Sky Sports News went along to find out more.
"These girls don't have the chance to play in tournaments like this as there's a lot of focus on younger age groups," said Foundation inclusion officer Emma O'Connor.
"This is the one opportunity of the year where they get to play with other girls, the same age across the whole of London."
The PL Girls Football programme is delivered by 88 Premier League and Football League clubs, and since it began in September 2013 more than 51,000 people have taken part.


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I recorded these bird sounds California in Orange County!
Driving for about 20 minutes outside of our apartment in Costa Mesa you will find yourself in a truly hidden gem! The Red Rock Canyon! It is not so easy to find this place but if you come here there are two access points where you can park and start! Get your sound equipment and follow the road from, Portola Pkwy or Santiago Canyon. Besides birds, you can find in this wilderness other animals from a snake to a mountain Lyon!
But for now, I present you two different bird sounds! I drove around the Red Rock Canyon and honestly, it was so hard to find a quiet spot and if you find something then you have an airplane or the freeway sound in the background!
I know these are not my best recordings but I still like to share it with all of you and who knows maybe somebody can still use it!
I combine two recordings in one wave file! In the first two minutes, you can hear the birds and two dogs barking in the background! These dogs stopping at the same point and you have the birds and a little bit of traffic noise in the next part.
If you curious where I did this recording, here is the exact spot!
After this, I drove down to the Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary what was already closed! I walked along the way and did some field recording but nothing is usable! They have some really cool woodpeckers but somebody decided to clean his car and the woodpeckers stopped picking!
At the South Coast Plaza Mall!
The second bird sound was not on purpose! I always carry my Zoom with me because you never know what could happen! We stopped at the South Coast Plaza to get some Yoga Pants at Lulu Lemon! Anyway, all that I was interested in was this bird sound and first I didn't know where to look because I couldn't see the birds until I stand right next to them! They have a huge nest right in the Parking Lot Area and they didn't stop talking! I made a six-minute recording only on the Zoom H6!
The exact location is here!
"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach".
Henry Beston
…and now I invite you to download two bird sounds from California! One more month and we heading back to Iowa and Vietnam! I promise to get some better bird sounds from there! If you have friends and you feel like they could benefit from this sound as well, please share this post!
Bird Sounds California at Red Rock Canyon
Bird sounds California at South Coast Plaza


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Emma and I established Conscious Autoimmunity to support the ongoing management of living a lifestyle using The Autoimmune Protocol as a template. We recognise that we each have unique histories, genetics, environments, and patterns of responding. That's why we believe in AIP as a template, and also why standardized approaches to our health issues can, at Read More
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Healing Green Broth Challenge – A Review
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises." – Pedro Calderon de la Barca I'm more than a little in love with Stephanie A. Meyer's Healing Green Broth (HGB). In fact, I love this simple little healing drink so much that I might have a little girl-crush on Stephanie Read More
A Nemesis That is Sugar
If, 20 years ago they had told me that my favorite comfort food was a health risk to me, I would replied, with my feisty 'Britishness', that they were 200% wrong. If they had told me as a kid, that the comfort my Nan brought to me with her "Sweetie Tin" would harm me, I Read More
June: A Few of Our Favorite Things
"It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none." – Snoop Dogg We're with Snoop. As health coaches, both Emma and Jo often come across new (and existing) products and services that enhance this AIP lifestyle we're living in some way. Since we reckon we should take some time to share the love, this is the second in Read More
May: A Few of Our Favorite Things
"It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none." – Snoop Dogg We're with Snoop. As health coaches, both Emma and Jo often come across new (and existing) products and services that enhance this AIP lifestyle we're living in some way. We reckon we should take some time to share the love. So, we're starting a new Read More
The Reintroduction Process: Planning and Preparation
"In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route." ― Suzy Kassem We have some bad news: There are no short cuts with the reintroduction process. Just as planning and preparation increases your chances of success on the elimination phase of Autoimmune Protocol, the same is true of the reintroduction phase. Read More
The Reintroduction Process: Creating Your Baseline
We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next. ― Sharon Weil Today's post is short and sweet. But, it is a very important step in your personal AIP experience, not least because of all the effort you have given to your elimination phase of the protocol. Today we discuss the importance of establishing Read More
The Reintroduction Process: Balancing Life Style Factors
For those of us with an autoimmune disease, the profound effect that other factors have on our lives – such as work-life balance, stress management, relationships, our state of mind – all have on our health can often be more powerful than diet changes. Balancing Life Style Factors are essential to your overall health. Removing Read More
The Reintroduction Process: Food and Mood Diary
"Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out." ― Kurt Cobain Have you been keeping a food and mood diary during the course of your elimination phase? If your answer was 'no' – this post is for you! A little background There are several factors which influence the make-up of your Read More
Top tips for Winter Blues
Before I decided to call Chicago my home, I hated the dull winter mornings in England, going to work in the dark, coming home in the dark, being in a building working all day with little to no sunlight and when I officially chose Chicago as my home, my hate of winter amplified. In fact, Read More


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One day you fall.
It was late summer and autumn was right around the corner. The air crackled in your lungs and the sun shone through your closed eyelids. You squinted up at the sunset, let your head fall forward, and fell in love.
It was not catastrophic, it was not magical, blinding, amazing, spectacular, or perfect. It just was. You could not describe it. You could not name it. It was the glowing ember in your chest, the bright copper penny on the street. You had loved them far longer than you had known, and you were sure that they loved you too.
Their hair spilled out over your knees, their head was pillowed in your lap. Their eyelashes were gilded with golden sunlight and their hand twined around yours. You breath out. Slowly. The morning dew had soaked through the seats of your pants and ruined the sleeves of your sweater. The wind combs its fingers through your hair and you close your eyes against its chill. It pulls leaves from the boughs to fall softly around you, falling snow in the heart of a blizzard.
Their eyes crinkle around the edges and your free hand meets the soft curve of their cheek.
You tease them with a soft murmur, "Sleep well?" They huff in response and turn away from your embrace, rolling onto the ground and sending up debris.
They sit up and face you, blocking out the setting sun. The sky is a mere backdrop for them, the sun faint in the face of their light. They shine brighter than any star, than any sun. They are the light of your life, the scorching day to your cool night.
They lean forwards and rest their forehead against your chest. "What are you thinking about?" They wonder, pressing you gently backwards and lowering you to the earth. Your back hits the soil and their arms wrap around you. The sky above beckons you and you turn your head to the side, watching dust motes spiral to the ground in a beam of light.
"You." You answer truthfully. You have no need to lie to them, not about this.
Their only answer is a delighted giggle and a quiet "Me too."
And that, that was how you fell in love. Sitting at the top of a mountain in the late afternoon, watching as the moon chased the sun from the sky. You had found your happiness, your reason to live and keep striving forwards. And you never wanted to let it go.


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State Shuts Door on Criminals' Comp
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CN) – State lawmakers want to make sure they've seen the last of conscious-shocking workers' compensation claims, such as the one from a former state trooper who killed two teenage sisters while speeding, texting and e-mailing. By 113-0 vote, the Illinois House approved a bill that would deny worker's compensation to people injured while committing a crime.
The measure, already passed by the state Senate, has been sent to Gov. Pat Quinn.
Lawmakers championed the bill after Matt Mitchell, at the time a state trooper, lost control of his squad car while going more than 126 mph and using his cell phone to talk, text and e-mail. His vehicle crossed the highway median and crashed head-on into another car, killing sisters Kelli and Jessica Uhl, who were 13 and 18 years old, respectively.
After Mitchell pleaded guilty to two counts of reckless homicide and resigned, he filed a workers' compensation claim for injuries he sustained in the accident.
An arbitrator denied the claim, and Mitchell is now appealing that decision.
The new law would prevent cases such as Mitchell's from being filed in the first place.


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RIP Gil Scott-Heron (New Office Chart) 5-28-2011
There was a new Office Chart posted today. It is titled "RIP Gil Scott-Heron" who passed away yesterday. Here is the list: (You can now click on these to listen to them.)
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3. Albert Anstam
4. AllaYali Abdel Halim Hafez
5. Ibitsu Boris
6. After all Duke Ellington
7. Sun (Altrice's Only What You Gave me mx) Caribou
8. Ur Soul and Mine Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX
9. Memory Implant Instra:mental
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I like food but I'm not greedy. What most people devour usually don't appeal to me except of course for things that are sweet. I have already discussed my sugar addiction in a previous article but did I ever tell you guys about my mango affliction?
What men need to be happy
So recently I saw a joke about what men need to be happy and there were just two things on the list and the two things were rather superficial and funny so I had a good laugh. But then it led me to think of what they really do say they need in order to have a great life with no cares or worries. The following is a compilation of things guys say they want to be like Pharell said …happy. Continue reading…
Things that are (sometimes) better than sex!
Yeah yeah! I know I'm gonna cop a lot of flack for saying this but at times don't you honestly feel that some things are better than sex? Assuming of course that you know what really good, mind blowing intercourse is.
Some activities may not burn as much calories as quickly, or leave you with a smile on your face, or make your skin glow or release those happy endorphins but on some level can be just as if not more satisfying without all the sweat and hair messing.
Cheesecake! I'm not talking the cheap, readi–mix stuff. I'm talking the melt in your mouth quality that makes you close your eyes and moan out loud when it hit the right part of your palate that makes your tongue do the 'running man' in your mouth.
A games nite with friends. Sometimes I don't think we value friendship enough but a games night with people who know you like the back of their hands, who will putting up with your complaining, whining, belching self and have absolutely no judgement, is priceless
A massage. I know I don't need to say much more. Whether it's a deep tissue back massage or a foot massage at the end of a gruelling work day, nothing feels quite like it.
A dish of salt mackerel rundown with green bananas, yellow yam and mix flour dumpling! Yes there is a reoccurring theme of food going on, but what can I say, food makes me happy.
A good book. Unless you are an avid reader like myself, you will never appreciate just how wonderful it is to get lost in a mystery, adventure, auto biography or an historical romance. Reading is my passion. If I could I would sit all day reading as it opens your mind to new ideas and lifestyles.
An ice cold glass of lemonade. The kind that have real lime juice that you squeeze plus brown sugar, not the bleached, granulated nasty stuff! Pon a hot day or at the end of a long work week when you pour that, you're sipping on heaven.
A cold Julie or East Indian Mango. It kinda no matter if it's room temperature or cold, just that me prefer dem cold. Feel smoother going down. hehehe
A girls' nite out. If baby sitting is not an issue, your pocket is lined with cash, your outfit is popping, your make-up flawless and de company good, you know that we will be making more good memories to last another lifetime.
A complete spa day. Soft, plush robes, cozy slippers, cucumbers on the eyes, relaxing facials, manicure, pedicure, herbal teas, aromatic candles and someone cater to your every need. Yep, sign me up!
Stewed peas with pigs tail. Yes, we back on food, as while I don't live to eat, it sure makes life more interesting…not to mention flavourful.
Ice cream! Whatever your favourite flavour! A good scoop of ice cream is like a mini orgasm in your mouth (wait…that don't sound right- oh well)
A drive out to the country. What can be better than fresh country air, scenic views and friendly rural folk who just want to show you some Jamaican warm hospitality. Me definitely deh pond at train!


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Malaysia is one of Asia's biggest employers of foreign labour. But recently, cases of deaths, abuse and forced labour have come to light. What is going on? Who is protecting these migrant workers?
"We will report this to the UN Human Rights Council as soon as possible.
So far there isn't any action from the Indonesian government," the
Migrant Care policy's analyst, Wahyu Susilo told Tempo yesterday (1/10).

In addition, said Wahyu, the Rela members will be reported to the UN special
envoy for migrants' human rights. A similar measure can be made directly
by EW. "The party that should file the lawsuit is the Indonesian government.
This is because the rape perpetrators are members of Rela, which was officially
established by Malaysian government."

According to the National Police HQ Senior Liaison Officer at the Indonesian
Embassy in Kuala Lumpur Setyo Wasisto, a member of the low-rank Malaysian Police
(PDRM) was the mastermind of the brutal action that involved 12 people. The
police have also assaulted Mujib, EW's husband, and robbed the victim of
his belongings and passport. "The perpetrator has been arrested along with
nine other persons," he said.

On September 7, Mujib and EW were approached by two uniformed men introducing
themselves as Selangor police officers. Reasoning that EW did not have a work
permit, EW was then brought to Muar—150 kilometers from Selangor.

EW was then brought to Hotel R in Muar, and under a gun, she was raped by several
persons. On September 8, EW was brought out of the hotel and sold to two Malayans
for 400 Ringgit. ." She was raped again by the two persons," said

Currently EW is under the protection of the Indonesian Consulate General in
Johor Baru. According to Setyo, EW's psychological condition is very frail.
"Moreover now EW is two and a half months pregnant."

The RI Consulate in Johor, according to Setyo, will charge the perpetrators
according to criminal or civil claim.

NININ DAMAYANTI

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John's Gospel views the world as a place in which darkness and evil currently have the upper hand, but envisions a coming age in which God's Kingdom will become reality and goodness will win. John calls on people to look to Jesus as the salvation from darkness and evil to an eternal life that begins here and now.
An eternal life is one that embodies heaven on earth - a way of living that demonstrates God's goodness and new creation. We need not wait until death for eternal life to begin because Jesus has already come as the light of the world, and was raised
John writes that those who love the darkness are judged because of their evil. However, in the electric world of the 21st century, many of us love the light because it's easier that way. We don't love the light of Christ that illuminates evil, but we love a
If we want to trust Jesus as our salvation, or we want to live a life that brings God's kingdom, we have to first give our attention to the darkness in our own hearts and in our society. We are created in the image of God, and we have the capacity for good and evil. Our society is full of good people, and we also see dark evils that bring violence and death to people.
This lent, we turn our attention to the darkness so that we become self-aware of the need for salvation. We then can look to Jesus and be saved.


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App Store: Apple's new policy against collecting contact information
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In de Last week, Apple announced new guidelines for the App Store. These prevent apps from cryptomining and finally give developers the opportunity to offer paid apps as trial versions. According to Bloomberg, Apple has also made changes elsewhere to improve privacy. The new guidelines in Section 5.1.2 are designed to prevent app developers from obtaining user data from contacts, photos, or other APIs to create a targeted user profile for potential advertising. At the same time, it aims to prevent contact data from being used to build up extensive contact databases that can be used to contact users without the installed app.
Updating the App Store Guidelines highlights Apple's privacy policy. If one reads the changes exactly, then one notes that Apple addresses now also the secret data collecting more explicit and forbids. Previously, it was much easier to extract data from contacts that could include phone numbers, email addresses, and much more.
Compared to Bloomberg a developer said that the data were previously easily accessible and could be collected easily without Apple's knowledge. Among other things, he stated that it is very easy to transfer all contact data to another server or to upload it to Dropbox, for example. This can happen at the exact moment a user gives his "okay" for contact access. According to the developer, Apple should not check this and also do not know where the data has been sent.
You can read the full App Store guidelines on Apple's website. However, these are only available in English.


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AgreeYa's Upgrade on Microsoft SharePoint Renders Higher ROI
FOLSOM, CA: AgreeYa, a provider of software, solutions and services has recently come up with powerful upgrades, customization and implementation services for Microsoft SharePoint. The upgrades to the web application platform designed to reinforce business intelligence, collaboration and productivity will enable companies to create next-generation competitive advantages for its clients.
AgreeYa's software line of products include SocialXtend, VDIXtend, Onvelop, Edvelop, Cogent and QuickApps. SocialXtend is an intranet and enterprise social collaboration delivered out-of-the-box while VDIXtend is an easy-to-use cloud-Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD) solution. Onvelop and Edvelop are unified, single window enterprise collaboration and communication solutions for mobile; while the latter specifically focuses on 21st century learning on mobile.
Cogent is a comprehensive end-to-end case management solution for collection agencies and law firms whereas QuickApps is part of AgreeYa's suite of SharePoint web parts and pre-built templates. Apart from these, AgreeYa also offers advanced solutions such as hybrid deployment, heightened security, and smarter performance capabilities. Through these solutions, it helps organizations achieve increased Return-On-Investment (ROI) that takes collaboration to a different level employing a simplified approach.
AgreeYa strengthens functionality with essential multi-platform and multi-device support, an unparalleled user interface, and robust security. AgreeYa upgrades empower Microsoft SharePoint software to streamline and simplify content management, increase the efficiency of search and context-sensitive analytics, as well as enable organizations to gain productivity.
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In the fall of 1979 the Energy Study Committee received its charge: "Moving Toward an Energy Efficient Jacksonville- how should Jacksonville approach this problem?" This report examines the energy situation to ascertain whether crisis conditions really exist. In the broadest terms, this means a close look at two things: supplies and consumption. The report is limited to the examination of the availability and consumption of oil in both the nation and Jacksonville in the short term (the next 5 years), and in the long term (the next 20 years), for the fueling of the transportation system and for the generation of electricity to support land use patterns and the built environment. The report concentrates on Jacksonville's transportation sector, primarily automobile travel and the residential sector, because these sectors are Jacksonville's largest energy consumers. But supplies, systems, and buildings are only part of the energy story. Individuals in their homes, cars and workplaces are the true consumers. While this report attempts to provide some insight into how people cope with and respond to the energy crisis, it does not examine the sociological consequences caused by the crisis. The report makes recommendations as to how Jacksonville should respond to the crisis and encourages strong conservation measures. PALMM
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Viruses: Molecular Biology, Host Interactions, and Applications to Biotechnology provides an up-to-date introduction to human, animal and plant viruses within the context of recent advances in high-throughput sequencing that have demonstrated that viruses are vastly greater and more diverse than previously recognized. It covers discoveries such as the Mimivirus and its virophage which have stimulated new discussions on the definition of viruses, their place in the current view, and their inherent and derived 'interactomics' as defined by the molecules and the processes by which virus gene products interact with themselves and their host's cellular gene products.
Further, the book includes perspectives on basic aspects of virology, including the structure of viruses, the organization of their genomes, and basic strategies in replication and expression, emphasizing the diversity and versatility of viruses, how they cause disease and how their hosts react to such disease, and exploring developments in the field of host-microbe interactions in recent years. The book is likely to appeal, and be useful, to a wide audience that includes students, academics and researchers studying the molecular biology and applications of viruses
- Provides key insights into recent technological advances, including high-throughput sequencing
- Presents viruses not only as formidable foes, but also as entities that can be beneficial to their hosts and humankind that are helping to shape the tree of life
- Features exposition on the diversity and versatility of viruses, how they cause disease, and an exploration of virus-host interactions
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1. Introduction: A Short History of Virology 2. Virion Structure, Genome Organization and Taxonomy of Viruses 3. Replication and Expression Strategies of Viruses 4. Origins and Evolution of Viruses 5. Host Range, Host-Virus Interactions and Virus Transmission 6. Viruses as Pathogens: Plant Viruses 7. Viruses as Pathogens: Animal Viruses, with Emphasis on Human Viruses 8. Viruses as Pathogens: Animal Viruses Affecting Wild and Domesticated Species 9. Viruses of Prokaryotes, Protozoa, Fungi and Chromista 10. Host-Virus Interactions: Battles Between Viruses and Their Hosts 11. Beneficial Interactions with Viruses 12. Viruses as Tools of Biotechnology: Therapeutic Agents, Carriers of Therapeutic Agents and Genes, Nanomaterials, and More 13. Viruses as Targets for Biotechnology: Diagnosis and Detection, Transgenesis and Rnai- and CRISPR/Cas Engineered Resistance 14. Concluding Thoughts: It's A Viral World
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Two-time Paralympian Kevin Paul grabbed headlights with a world record on Friday as the national swimming championships celebrated their penultimate day of competition in Durban.
Former Port Elizabeth resident, Paul, smashed his world record in the 200-metre breaststroke with a time of 2min 22:27sec.
'Last year I moved from PE to Durban to join SA national coach Graham Hill and I have been really happy with how well my times have improved,' Paul said.
'My goal was to achieve my QT for Para Commonwealth Games in Glasgow later this year in July which I did.
'Now my goal is to keep improving my training and be ready for Rio 2016.'
Notwithstanding Paul's perfromance, the star of the championships is undoubtedly Myles Brown who won his fourth title on Friday.
Brown won the 100m freestyle final after he won the 200m and 400m earlier this week – the latter two in new national-record times.
He clocked 49.95 seconds, missing the World Championships qualifying time by under a second, followed by Clayton Jimmie in 50.45 seconds and Caydon Muller bagging bronze in a time of 50.66.
'I was feeling really good in the heats and it's always nice to win all full sets of my events,' Brown said. 'It's my first time to win this race.' The 22-year-old boasts with three qualifying times for the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia in August.
World record holder Cameron van der Burgh was set to complete a golden trio in the breaststroke. On Friday he attained the qualifying standard in the 200 metre breaststroke in a time of 2:11.37 to add to that of the 100m breaststroke.
He has so far claimed the 50m and 100m titles and will be looking to complete the golden treble in Saturday's 200m final.
Although Van der Burgh said he felt slightly out of his depth in the 200m breaststroke, he demonstrated that he could make the leap to the longer distance.
Meanwhile, Chad le Clos qualified for his third individual event by winning the 200m Individual Medley in a time of 1:58.97.
He was followed by Michael Meyer in 2:02.33 and Jarryd Baxter with 2:05.39.
This was Le Clos' third medal at the championships after winning the 200m butterfly and silver in the 200m freestyle.
Veteran Gerhard Zandberg won the men's 50m backstroke in a time of 25.39 seconds with Ricky Ellis and Michael Andrew following in times of 25.86 and 26.04 respectively.
In the women's 50m backstroke final Mariella Venter was crowned champion as she touched first in 29.08 seconds with Jessica Ashley-Cooper finishing second in 29.38 seconds and Region 5 Games star Rita Naude third with 30.07 sec.
Former world junior open water champion Michelle Weber beat Caitlin Kat to the wall in the 800m freestyle in a time of 8:53.35.
Kat was short on her heels clocking 8:53.88 with Charlise Oberholzer in third in 8:58.14.
The women's 200m butterfly belonged to Rene Warnes posting a time of 2:14.49 with Tarryn Els touching in second place 2:17.76 and Carmen Le Roux in third with 2:19.27.
In the women's 200m backstroke it was Central Gauteng swimmer Nathania van Niekerk to bag the gold medal clocking 2:12.95 to beat Northern Tigers swimmer Karin Prinsloo who took the silver medal in 2:13.12 and bagging the bronze medal was Zanre Oberholzer clocking 2:17.90.
After five days of competition just four swimmers (all of them male) have achieved the World Championships qualification standards.
They are:
Myles Brown – 200m, 400m amp 800m freestyle
Cameron van der Burgh – 100m amp 200m breaststroke
Chad le Clos – 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly amp 200m Individual Medley
Sebastien Rousseau – 200m butterfly
2015 IPC World Championships Qualifiers (Glasgow, Scotland 13-19 July 2015)
Beth Nothling
Emily Gray
Adri Visser
Alani Ferreira
Hendri Herbst
Kevin Paul
Johann van Heerden
Hendrik van der Merwe
Charlis Wright
Achmat Hassiem
Source : South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee


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October 2012 – Zacharias Ridt, 1586, Poznan, Poland
Copyright: Jon Bayliss
The brass to Zacharias Ridt is a reminder of an era of Polish history when the reformed religion of the sixteenth-
The Ridt family was well-
When Zacharias died in on 1 September 1586, Paul Gericius of the Augsburg Confession at Poznań preached at his funeral, calling Zacharias father of the congregation. Gericius had his funeral sermon published at Frankfurt-
The arms of Zacharias Ridt feature a wolf with a bone both as the charge and as the crest. Christof Ridt's arms, dated 1580, are the same but have a motto added: Christus redemptio peccatorum.
R. Prümers, 'Eine Posener Wappensage', Historische Monatsblätter für die Provinz Posen, No 3 (March 1907)
L. Merzbach, Posen: Kurz gefasste Geschichte und Beschreibung der Stadt Posen (1866)
For a recent account of Poland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, see:
Jeannie Labno, Commemorating the Polish Renaissance Child: Funeral Monuments and Their European Context (2011)
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Virtue Signaling
Robert Burns wrote
"O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!"[1]
Today I want to turn our attention on liberals, a category in which I would put myself as would many of you. I want to explore a couple of terms used about liberals which are not considered complimentary. One is "virtue signaling."
"Virtue signaling" is the practice of advertising ones own righteousness. I'll use myself as an example.
When hybrid cars first started to appear on the market, I realized that if I had one it would reduce my own personal carbon footprint, which is what I think we all should be doing to avert climate change. It was many years before I could afford one, but I finally managed to buy a Prius with 125,000 miles on it, and I drove it to 240,000. I am now on my third Prius.
I drive it to get from point A to point B every day, but my driving it also has a moral dimension. Without saying a word to anyone, I have some satisfaction from knowing that I have lightened the load of carbon my driving generates into the atmosphere. And I have a choice of how much signaling I do about my virtue. I can keep quiet about the car I drive and since driving hybrids is hardly unusual these days, most people in this area would not notice that I was driving one. Someone asked me the other day how I liked my Prius, but it was the first time in years. But if I wanted to be a complete jackass about it, I could bring up in every conversation the great mileage I'm getting and how much I'm contributing to solving climate change. I could wear Prius sweatshirts and get a vanity plate which reads MYPRIUS.
There was a joke a few years ago which asked what do you call the atmospheric condition represented by a parking lot full of Priuses? Smug alert.
Of course, hybrid technology is now passe. I have a neighbor in Brewster who drives a Tesla, which is all-electric. I haven't ridden in it yet, but just seeing it in his driveway makes me all consumed with virtue envy. Someday.
The phrase Virtue Signaling has been kicking around for more than a decade, but it seems to have gotten a boost from a 2015 article in The Spectator, a British journal, by a writer named James Bartholomew.[2] The article was entitled "The Awful Rise of Virtue Signaling," and the first example he uses is that of Whole Foods, the American grocery chin, now owned by Amazon, which had just started appearing in Britain when the article was written. It started this way:
"Go to a branch of Whole Foods, the American-owned grocery shop, and you will see huge posters advertising Whole Foods, of course, but — more precisely — advertising how virtuous Whole Foods is. A big sign in the window shows a mother with a little child on her shoulders (aaaah!) and declares: 'values matter.'
This strikes a chord with me. I have been bothered by the corporate image projected by Whole Foods for years. It seems to me so phony, such a blatant attempt to dress up a business corporation as the emblem of progressive values. Bartholomew continues:
"The poster goes on to assert: 'We are part of a growing consciousness that is bigger than food — one that champions what's good.' This a particularly blatant example of the increasingly common phenomenon of what might be called 'virtue signalling' — indicating that you are kind, decent and virtuous."
Bartholomew didn't refer to it, but another example of the irritating breast-beating by a corporate titan is the phrase which was Google's motto until very recently, "don't be evil." Volumes of religion and philosophy and literature have been devoted to the question of what evil is, and Google's motto insults the intelligence of all those who have wrestled with evil by implying that it is enough to have a code of conduct which can be reduced to these three highly abstract words.
But back to Bartholomew; he notes that one type of virtue signaling depends on anger:
"'I hate 4x4s!' you declare. This is an assertion that, unlike others, you care about the environment."
I think the 4x4s to which this refers are four-wheel drive vehicles, which can go off-road into remote wilderness areas. Bartholomew explains why the phrase "I hate 4x4s" is virtue signaling:
"It's noticeable how often virtue signalling consists of saying you hate things. It is camouflage. The emphasis on hate distracts from the fact you are really saying how good you are. If you were frank and said, 'I care about the environment more than most people do' or 'I care about the poor more than others', your vanity and self-aggrandisement would be obvious, as it is with Whole Foods. Anger and outrage disguise your boastfulness."
Now the idea that when you do good, you ought not boast of it, is ancient. It is front and center in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount in the passages I just read (Matthew 6:1-6). Don't show off your piety, says Jesus. Don't brag about your generosity. Pray in secret. When you give alms, don't let the right hand know what the left hand is doing.
At bottom, Jesus's ethic of modesty and humility is based on the notion that the only one who needs to be impressed with your righteousness is God. No one else need know.
In Bartholomoew's original article, he makes the point that virtue signaling crosses political lines. But since that article, most of the use of the term in cultural criticism is to critique progressive people or forces.
For example, a site named funnyjunk ran a meme, a photo circulating on social media which showed several affluent college-age women holding up a hand-drawn multicolored sign at an airport saying "Welcome Refugees." Over this image was superimposed lettering which said "Virtue Signalling: the very public act of showing how humanitarian you are at the expense of common sense, personal safety and national security."
This was clearly a posting from someone who did not approve of the sentiments the women were expressing, and we might assume, did not believe in liberal immigration as a policy. But I followed the comments on that meme to an "analysis" of sorts by someone who was further to the right than the creator of the meme, and that commentator did not see anything funny about it. The analysis was sprinkled with four-letter words, and a peculiar abbreviation started popping up: SJW. I was scratching my head, and finally had to consult a dictionary to find out that SJW was short for social justice warrior.
Think about that for a second. Social justice warriors, a put-down term for people. If you asked the women in that picture holding that sign in the airport, they might say that they were part of a group meeting some refugees and wanted to be as welcoming as possible. Or they might be taking part in a political demonstration relevant to some aspect of immigration policy. They would be likely to say that the sign reflects their deeply held values. They might even welcome the term social justice warriors.
But doesn't this illustrate how any little verbal plaything can get weaponized in the culture wars? The original use of "virtue signaling" was not to cast aspersions on the progressive values themselves which were being communicated, but rather the shallow or hypocritical or boastful way they were being used. But now the term has become a separate indictment against the values themselves and those who hold them, and the term Social Justice Warriors reinforces this.
Former President Obama weighed in on a related issue this week.[3] Speaking to an audience of young activists at the Obama Foundation, he said "This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're always politically 'woke' and all that stuff, ... you should get over that quickly."
"The world is messy; there are ambiguities," he continued. "People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids, and share certain things with you."
He said it's easy to be judgmental, and to criticize people over social media, but at the end of the day that doesn't create change. He talked about conversations he's had with his daughter Malia, who is a student at Harvard...
He said, "I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of: 'The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people,'" he said, "and that's enough."
In a way, Obama's criticisms echo the original criticisms of virtue signaling in Bartholomew's article. Simple pronouncing yourself allied with one position or another does not make change happen. And if you are hypocritical about it or call attention to your own righteousness, you're not going to make much headway.
Now I said that the term "virtue signaling" had become weaponized in the battles between left and right in the culture wars. You might think that Obama in criticizing the "call-out" culture and judgmentalism is positioning himself somewhere to the right of his audience. But the significant divide is generational. Obama is a late Baby Boomer, as I am an earlier one. Though he is multiracial and I am white and we have different perspectives because of these social locations, we both have a sense of how much has changed in the United States in race relations in our lifetimes. People in college now know that only through history books and documentaries. They did not live it.
And they are just as impatient with the lingering injustices of this age as my generation was in the 1960s. I'm not saying that they are wrong; we have a lot of injustice that my generation did not take care of and which they will have to. But it comforts me to hear President Obama telling them that the world is full of ambiguities and people are full of flaws.
But let's put the weapons back in their sheaths for a moment. I am interested in the notion of virtue signaling. One branch of ethics is called virtue ethics, and it was practiced by the Greeks and the Romans and the Chinese. Virtue ethics says the way to the good is not to make detailed rules but to train people in virtue.
When we stand outside on Main Street holding a sign protesting the latest act of gun violence, are we not having a conversation with the community? Are we not saying "we ought to be able to do better than this"? Are we not trying to reinforce values, to make sure they are not lost or forgotten?
Back in March of this year, two psychologists published an opinion piece in the Sunday New York Times titled "Are You 'Virtue Signaling'? Probably. But that doesn't mean your outrage is inauthentic."[4] They wanted to test whether people behaved differently on moral tests if they thought someone would know about it as compared to when they thought they were being anonymous.
They said that "virtue signaling" arose when a person was displaying moral outrage not because they were genuinely angry but to impress others.
"So it may seem reasonable to ask, whenever someone is expressing indignation, "Is she genuinely outraged or just virtue signaling?" But in many cases this question is misguided, for the answer is often 'both.'"
This is so because the either/or premise of the question is based on a model of the human mind which has been disproven in experimental situations. The authors, Jillian Jordan and David Rand at Northwestern and MIT, respectively, summarize what they are about to publish this way:
"Psychological studies reveal that a person's authentically experienced outrage is inherently interwoven with subconscious concerns about her reputation. In other words, even genuine outrage can be strategic.
"In a paper forthcoming in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, we show that even when people are unobserved — and thus have no incentive to signal their virtue — their sense of moral outrage is influenced by their desire to be seen positively by others."
The end result of their investigation is this:
"What our findings show is that asking whether outrage is "pure" is the wrong question... [O]ur findings ... suggest that if an individual is motivated by a desire to signal her virtue, that does not necessarily mean she is faking her outrage. Of course, people do sometimes fake or exaggerate their outrage to look good. Our point is that the presence of strategic motives does not itself make a moral reaction inauthentic."
I think this is profound. We are capable of acting morally whether anyone is watching or not.
I have been thinking a lot lately about the people to whom I looked for approval in my life, the people who shaped my sense of right and wrong. Most of them are dead now. Later this month, I will gather with my four siblings for a reunion we have every two years. I find that when I spend just a few days with them their voices echo in my head for weeks afterwards, because they were so common in my life for its first twenty years.
Who do we act for? Who is the audience of our lives? If we are practicing virtue, who are we signaling to let them know we are practicing? Have the people whose opinion used to count with us been replaced by a new set of people who share the values we have now? Have we left the tribe of our childhood and created a new tribe who are outraged by the same things we are?
Jesus said do your good deeds in secret, so only God will know. But that's no way to organize a movement for social change.
Remember that the same Jesus in the same Sermon on the Mount also said (Matthew 5:14-16),
14 "You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. 15 No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven."
So we have these two terms, Virtue Signaling and Social Justice Warriors, which are being used in public discourse in a snarky way against progressives, suggesting hypocrisy, insincerity or group think. As we try to bear witness to our values, to let our light shine, we can try to avoid these labels. We should take Robert Burns' advice and try to see ourselves as other see us, ask how any action would be perceived in the rumor mill.
But if you have done that homework and the injustice is still burning in your gut, go out there and signal with all your heart. Embrace the put-down. Yes we are virtue signaling.
Back in the early nineteenth century, when the orthodox ministers in New England Congregationalism wanted to put down the liberals among them, they called them the worst name they could think of: Unitarians. It took years before the liberals realized that their best response was to embrace the name.
Let's face it, in the present culture wars there is plenty of outrage to go around both on the left and on the right. Outrage is a staple of right-wing talk radio and television, and it has made many media personalities rich and elected many politicians. Outrage speaks to levels in the brain below that of conscious thought. If someone else is worked up about an injustice which you don't see, you will tend to see their emotion as phony or boastful. In this sense we all do virtue signaling, for we all try to build consensus around whatever is outraging us.
The phrase virtue signaling as a put-down turns out to be shallow and self-defeating. A recent post making the rounds on social media asks a pertinent question with which I'll leave you: what if constantly accusing people of virtue signaling is the real virtue signaling?
Reading for Virtue Signaling Matthew 6
1 "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2 "So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
5 "And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 6 But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you."
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Vail Oktoberfest returns with activities and, of course, beer
Don't be fooled: this weekend may look like Lionshead has transformed into Munich, but it's just Oktoberfest, a celebration of beer, music and autumn.
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Keg Bowling is back, offering participants the chance to hurl a keg shell on wheels down the lane at a pyramid of keg shells with the intention of bringing down the pile. The top competitors from the first round of the competition move on the final round of Keg Bowling, where the champion of the day will be crowned and prizes will be awarded.
Those with strong stomachs can enter the Klement's Bratwurst Eating Contests to see who can scarf the most brats in three minutes. The competitor who wolfs down the most brats in the allotted time wins a prize package from Vail Oktoberfest including an official Oktoberfest stein and tokens.
The Bavarian Costume Contests reward those festival participants who are prepared and show up for the day in full Bavarian flare or in another Oktoberfest related costume. Festively dressed guests can participate in the Oktoberfest Costume Contests at 2 p.m. on Saturday. All ages are invited to participate and the winner will be determined by crowd response and will take home a Vail Oktoberfest stein and token package.
The Stein Lifting Competitions will test the arm strength and stamina of competitors. Competitors hold a full stein of beer out from their body at shoulder level and the last person standing with arms outstretched will take home an Oktoberfest prize package.
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Firefighters Say They Were Stiffed in Iraq
WASHINGTON (CN) – In a federal class action, 28 firefighters say Wackenhut, KBR and Halliburton forced them to work around the clock in Afghanistan and Iraq but paid them for only half their time, and responded to requests for fair pay with "shorthand threats to fire" them, such as "'chicken or beef,' which referred to the dining choices one had on the flight home from Iraq."
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The firefighters claim that KBR, Wackenhut and Halliburton were paid by the government for their extra work, but "defendants refuse to pay plaintiffs, but instead pocket the money."
They seek class certification and compensatory and punitive damages of $100 million for fraud, breach of contract, conspiracy and failure to pay overtime.
The class is represented by the former head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch.