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Summer is winding down and I just wanted to share a few of my favorite images from this summer so far:)
Back in July, I attended the PUSH conference in Indiana through Senior Style Guide. It was such a great week of classes, engagement, learning, collaboration, and friendship. I loved meeting other senior photographers and learning from some of the top of the industry!
This image below was style by the amazing Brooke Daniels, the same photog who styled the Destination Shoot I went to in June in the Isle of Palms.
This image is also from the PUSH conference, and was styled by Devon J Imagery.
This image is probably my fave from the PUSH conference, and was taken during my rotation with Dan Brouilette. I love the movement and the editorial vibe.
Kelsey is a junior model on my Model Crew. I LOVED working with her at the sunflower field! She's a junior at Gretna High and a very talented young lady!
Erin is also from Gretna, and one of my 2017 seniors. Her family loves this photo just as much as I do!
Working with 2 seniors at the same time was new for me, and sisters at that! Courtney and Carly currently hold the record for hottest session to date...it was brutal but they fought through it with me and we got some great images!
Lindsey is a 2017 senior from Carlisle. She was actually blessed with one of the coolest days of the summer...78* during her session in August!! Crazy! We thoroughly enjoyed it though:)
2017 seniors, if you haven't booked your session with me yet, get on it! I still have some availability for this fall, so contact me ASAP to secure your spot:) I can't wait to work with you and plan your custom senior experience!! Use the Contact tab at the top of the page. | {
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78336 Real Estate Listings
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78336 Real Estate market currently has 207 homes for sale, with the majority of these homes priced between $100K - $200K. With the median list price for the
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Guinness World Records
a book, published every year, which gives all the records achieved in a very wide range of fields and activities. For example, the names of the oldest, tallest, richest and fastest people in the world are all given. The book was first published in 1955 as The Guinness Book of Records and is now so popular that it is available in many different languages. People sometimes talk of doing something that has never been done before just to 'get into' (= have their names mentioned in) the book. | {
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Daft Punk – Technologic (F.O.O.L Remix)
Anytime I see a Daft Punk remix I get excited, and this one by F.O.O.L (Fuck Our Ordinary Lives) is the strawberry jam. It has an tantalizing intro which has the hints of epic electro goodness which seamlessly transitions into fantastic bass line, swirling synths and that iconic “Technologic” voice we’re all familiar with, to create an aggressive pulse pounding masterpiece. This one definitely gets my stamp of approval. | {
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I recently had a literary agent ask for a synopsis of my latest novel, Code Name: Fountain of Youth. I shuttered! This is not an easy task. For starters, my manuscript contains 389 pages. How in the heck can I summarize this puppy into one or two…Continue
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Caroline Greene, Abigail to Lady Eleanor, is not the sort of young woman to engage in lies and subterfuge. However, Caroline never expected to have a chance to better herself by posing as a distant member of her employers' family. Bowing to Lady…Continue
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Knoxville Falls To Oskaloosa In 5 Sets
The Knoxville Volleyball Squad fell in a five set marathon match last night. The Indians took games one, three, and five while the Panthers were victorious is games two and four. Knoxville appeared to have all the momentum on its side after winning game four, however Oskaloosa jumped on top four/nothing to start game five and never allowed Knoxville closer than three points the rest of the winning ultimately winning 15-9. Coach Eric Fee said the start in game five the was the key, but he was pleased with the effort. Chambray Daugherty had 16 kills, while Meredith Cunningham came in with 29 assists, Jamie Rinehart was 16-/16 serving and Cheyenne Jones had 18 digs. Knoxville is now 5-8 on the season and 0-2 in the Little Hawkeye Conference. | {
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There’s an ongoing contest at and review turnaround for ThemeForest theme exceeds 35 days. Is that a joke? I am the author here at TF for over 4 years and I never seen anything alike. What’s going on ( http://quality.market.envato.com/themeforest11 ) | {
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sons and daughters will be trafficked tonight:
bought, sold, abused, and enslaved.
we’re on a mission to find and free them.
the exodus road
There are 45 million slaves in the world today. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. Here’s how we’re fighting human trafficking.
here’s how we fight human trafficking
1
Prevention
We educate thousands through targeted campaigns, both online and at public and private events, and train national leaders. Traffickwatch and Online Abolitionists are the main programs.
2
Rescue
Intervention is our main focus. Working with local police partners, we provide investigative resources and technology for rescue missions and the arrests of traffickers. We also equip national leaders for sustainable impact.
3
Survivor Care
We provide support services to survivors with qualified partners. We also employ local social workers to advocate for survivors during and following raids.
Because of you
We have supported rescue operations with police for over 900 children, men and women, along with the arrests of nearly 400 offenders. We’ve trained over 600 nationals to recognize and combat human trafficking, and we utilize technology to make rescues more effective. We work primarily in SE Asia, India, and the Americas. | {
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Two Local Brothers Climb Trees to Rescue Stuck Kitties
It's one of my favorite stories in some time. Canopy Cat Rescue is two brothers who have made a side business out of rescuing cats from trees. Day or night, they will travel far and wide to rescue kitties. | {
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Care and Treatment of Neuromuscular Disorders
Expertise
Clinical neuromuscular evaluations are combined with sophisticated testing, including autonomic, genetic, electrophysiological, imaging, biopsy and serological tests, not available in most neurology clinics.
Our specialists are nationally recognized experts in the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders, and are actively investigating neuromuscular disorders to find new, more effective treatments.
Representatives from Stanford's Neuromuscular Clinic, Neurosciences Department, Rehabilitation, Integrative Medicine, and the new Neuroscience building construction crew all participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are research studies that evaluate a new medical approach, device, drug, or other treatment. As a Stanford Health Care patient, you may have access to the latest, advanced clinical trials.
Open trials refer to studies currently accepting participants. Closed trials are not currently enrolling, but may open in the future.
Call us to make an appointment
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Unfortunately, it is not possible for us to see all patients who are referred to us. We screen all referrals to select those who will benefit the most from a consultation. Also, most of our clinics have a significant waiting period for new consultations. Please provide as much clinical information as possible so our staff may triage the referral to the appropriate sub-specialty clinic.
We recognize that some patients may need consultation sooner than routine scheduling permits. Our doctors are happy to speak with you to facilitate urgent visits on a case-by-case basis.
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Phone: 1-800-800-1551, 24 hours - 7 days a week
Stanford Health Care (formerly Stanford Hospital & Clinics) provides comprehensive services to refer and track patients, as well as provides the latest information and news for physicians and office staff. For help with all referral needs and questions visit Referring Physicians.
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To refer a patient, call our New Patient Coordinator at 650-723-6469 or fax the following information to 650-320-9443: | {
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About PoemToday
PoemToday is a simple Rails web app that statistically generates a poem based on its users' profile and behavior. Each of the 6,000 poems on the site actually has a link wrapped around every word in every poem. When a user clicks one of the words, the site initiates a search of its database for the best-matching poem and redirects the user to the top result, alongside with the top image from the Flickr API for that word.
Behind the scenes, PoemToday is storing information about all of the words the user has clicked and the poems the user has visited in a temporary session. When the session has enough data, it statistically generates a completely unique "ephemeral" poem with a statistical process known as a Markov chain.
A Markov chain (discrete-time Markov chain or DTMC[1]) named after Andrey Markov, is a mathematical system that undergoes transitions from one state to another on a state space. It is a random process usually characterized as memoryless: the next state depends only on the current state and not on the sequence of events that preceded it. This specific kind of "memorylessness" is called the Markov property. Markov chains have many applications as statistical models of real-world processes.
A generator can make more interesting text by making each letter a random function of its predecessor. We could, therefore, read a sample text and count how many times every letter follows an A, how many times they follow a B, and so on for each letter of the alphabet. When we write the random text, we produce the next letter as a random function of the current letter... We can extend this idea to longer sequences of letters [and whole words and poems].
Markov Chains are known for their simplicity, as well as their ability to produce remarkably "real" results. The Markov poems generated by PoemToday sound uncanny, like they were written by humans. Lifelike results from Markov Chains can be generated from any sufficiently large dataset, whether text or other input, and have many useful applications. For example, Google's world-changing PageRank algorithm uses a Markov Chain at its core to traverse and score pages across the web. Another fun application of Markov Chains: Garfield. Programmer Josh Millard has created a fascinating app which generates a Garfield strip with Markov dialogue in real-time.
Markov Chains operate without memory of their previous states or matches. Matches are chosen randomly, as if by roll of the dice, based on the inputted data, every time. This is unusual for matching algorithms, which often rely on their historical matches as a factor in determining future ones. In the spirit of the memorylessness of Markov Chains, randomly-generated poems on PoemToday aren't stored. When you leave or reload poemtoday.com/ephemeral, the session is cleared and your Markov poem is gone.
Daily Email Algorithm
PoemToday also features a daily email option. The app will email you a poem every morning, along with information about why that poem was matched to you on that day. The daily email matching is based on whatever inputs you share with PoemToday. Currently available inputs are first name, birthday, location and Twitter handle. So, for example, if you tell PoemToday your location, it will look up your weather forecast and match words in your location's forecast summary with poems in its database.
Special occasions, like holidays, and New York Times' Most Emailed articles for that day also serve as inputs across all users. See the algorithm Gist below (you may need to refresh your browser).
When matching users' keyword sources with poems every morning, PoemToday takes into account where in the poem the keywords were found, as well as the frequency of the word's occurence in English language usage, which is provided via the Wordnik API. Extremely high frequency words, such as articles and prepositions, are automatically removed with a high cut-off score. Frequency is like a golf score, the lower the better. Thus more points are assigned to rare words by subtracting all keyword frequencies from 1000. When applicable, the word "birthday", first names and holiday names are treated as keywords and given a score of 0, so they automatically trump other keyword and sources.
Daily Email matches are saved on the user's homepage, with details about the match, including links to original keyword source where applicable (eg, with Tweets or New York Times articles). Future development plans include additional user feedback mechanisms for the matching algorithms and a/b testing a Natural Language Generation (NLG) engine against the Markov chain. | {
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Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition to mark 25 years
February 7, 2012
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Winners of this year's Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition at Purdue University will claim more than the top prize in the $100,000 event. They will win a competition that is marking its milestone 25th anniversary.
Finalists will be announced next week for the competition, which is scheduled for Feb. 21 in Discovery Park's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121. The event will feature five finalists each in the undergraduate and open divisions. The public is invited to watch the business-plan presentations.
"The Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition is always an exciting event and this, the 25th anniversary, promises to be no exception," said Richard Cosier, the Avrum and Joyce Gray Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and Purdue's Leeds Professor of Management. "Innovative products and services with significant potential impacts on major markets will be presented. The key to taking home the first-place prizes, however, will be well-conceived and clearly presented business plans."
Teams composed of undergraduate students will compete in the Black Division, and teams made up primarily of graduate students and faculty will compete in the Gold Division. Top prize in the Black Division is $20,000, while the winner of the Gold Division receives $30,000.
"Burt Morgan was a loyal Purdue alumnus and, with his degree in mechanical engineering, he became a successful self-taught entrepreneur," said Deb Hoover, president and chief executive officer of The Burton D. Morgan Foundation. "Decades before entrepreneurship had a presence on college campuses, he had a vision that the entrepreneurial experience should play a meaningful role in higher education. Purdue provided the ideal proving ground for his ideas."
Hoover, who has led The Burton D. Morgan Foundation since 2007, will deliver the keynote address at the awards dinner, which will be at 6 p.m. Feb. 21 in the Burton D. Morgan Center's Venture Café.
Hoover joined the organization in 1999 as a program officer and was elected executive vice president and treasurer in 2004. She was instrumental in establishing the foundation's Northeast Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program, a Kauffman Campuses Initiative, to spread entrepreneurship across five liberal arts campuses.
She is a vice chair of the Fund for Our Economic Future and serves as co-chair of the fund's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Action Team. She also is a member of the Commercialization Task Force for the Ohio Board of Regents and is chair of the Advisory Board for The Foundation Center-Cleveland. In addition, Hoover serves on the Board of Trustees of Western Reserve Academy and is a member of the National Council for The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.
She earned a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in art history from Williams College, completed a master's degree at the University of Chicago and continued graduate studies at George Washington University National Law Center where she earned a law degree and was a member of the Law Review. She is a member of the bar in the District of Columbia, New Hampshire and Ohio.
The late Burton D. Morgan started more than 50 companies, six of which have become major corporations, including Morgan Adhesives, one of the world's largest makers of pressure-sensitive adhesives. He also was president of Basic Search Co., an idea-development firm, and wrote several books on entrepreneurship.
The Burton D. Morgan Foundation established the competition in 1987 with an endowment gift to Purdue, making it the nation's third longest-running business plan competition. The Burton D. Morgan Foundation also funded the $7 million, 31,000-square-foot Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, the first building to open in Discovery Park in 2004.
The center leads Purdue's Kauffman Campuses Initiative, which is focused on making entrepreneurship education available across the university's main and regional campuses, enabling any student, regardless of field of study, access to entrepreneurial training.
Glytrix won the $30,000 top prize in the Gold Division of the most recent competition for its effort to develop a platform technology for tissue healing and regeneration that also minimizes scarring. TerraSolutions LLC, which is developing a biodegradable, corklike material for flooring, insulation and other uses from the waste and byproducts of ethanol production, was last year's winner in the Black Division. | {
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Location
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Psychic Switch Event will be held on Tues 29th Aug 2017 at The Bentley Hotel & Spa, Newark Rd, Sth Hykeham, Lincoln, LN6 9NH. Book in from 6.45pm and you must be seated by 7.30pm.
Here's how it works: there are large round tables with 1 Psychic/Medium per table at any one time. The Psychics/Mediums spend 30mins per table giving messages, they then 'switch' to the next table, the next Psychic/Medium that comes on to your table spends another 30mins giving messages, then they 'switch' again, so every table receives messages from 3 different Psychics/Mediums.
Ticket Only Event - £15 per person
Once the table messages have finished the Psychics/Mediums will be offering 20min private readings for an additional discounted fee to anyone who would like one.
Please Note: All seats are allocated. If you are booking all tickets under 1 name you will automatically be seated on the same table. If you are booking under separate names and would like to be seated together, please contact us once you have made your booking.
All our Psychic Switch events are for entertainment purposes only, we hold no liability or guarantees that you will connect with any of our Psychics' messages or readings. | {
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Highlights of PSDP (2017-18)
ISLAMABAD, May 26 (APP): The government on Friday
unveiled Rs 2.113 trillion Public Sector Development Programme
(PSDP) for the fiscal year 2017-18.
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5 Creepy Classical Pieces
Posted on October 29, 2015
As Halloween approaches, what better time to explore the darker side of classical music?
Great music can bring about many emotions – joy, reflection, melancholy, fear. Composers, like many artists, have always been fascinated with the subjects of death and the supernatural. Below are 5 creepy classical music pieces sure to get you in the Halloween spirit.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
One of the most famous pieces associated with Halloween, villains and classic horror films like The Black Cat, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and even in Dr. Who. This organ composition fits in with a spooky atmosphere as it seems to warn curious onlookers about creaking boards and ghosts.
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz uses a range of orchestral effects to create the scene of a gathering of witches–violins using the backs of their bows to create bubbling cauldron sounds, the sound of a funeral bell and outbursts of musical laughter.
Modest Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain
Beginning life as a tone poem called St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain, Mussorgsky’s most famous work was made more famous by its revision from Rimsky-Korsakov, and then its inclusion on the big screen. The image of brooding, winged ghouls wreaking havoc on a mountain village under cover of night has terrified generations of young children in Walt Disney’s Fantasia.
Saint-Saëns: Danse MacabreAs the title suggests, this dark little dance has everything required to be included in a list of creepy compositions. It’s name, Danse Macabre, means “dance of death.” The piece tells the story of Death (a violinist, naturally) who made the dead rise from their graves on Halloween to dance to his sinister tune.
Heinrich August Marschner: Der Vampyr
The vampires in film and teen novels today have nothing on the 19th-century European variety. This 1828 opera, which had some popularity in its time, is a story about Lord Ruthven, a vampire causing havoc in England. Marschner’s sinister chromatic writing and chorus of witches and ghosts is enough to put Twilight to shame. | {
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What do people get when they call a coffee retailer, confused, and ask for a good blend, something to introduce them to the world of specialty coffee?
We called, and this February’s coffee reviews describe what we got: a dozen interesting and rather different blends from twelve roaster-retailers. In all cases, the blend we tasted was the one recommended by the person who took the order.
The reviews record my personal assessment of the twelve coffees that came through the mail. They make up a rather impressive array, with blends ranging from the crisp, dry taste of traditional East-Coast medium-roast blends to dark-roast, heavy-toned, pungent West-Coast blends from Starbucks and Peet’s. The only outright dud in the collection came from a firm known for products other than coffee.
Throughout my twenty-five years of coffee writing I have preached a sort of relative relativity when it comes to taste in coffee. I’ve argued that good and bad are relative, but not absolutely relative. They are relative to category.
For example, to compare a drip coffee to a demitasse of espresso, or a Costa Rican washed coffee to a Yemen natural coffee, may be silly. But to compare two cups of drip coffee to one another, or two Costa Rican washed coffees to one another … well, that might make sense, at least as a beginning point for discussion.
I still preach relative relativity. However, I have been convinced that the time has come to start assigning numerical rankings to cuppings as my counterparts have been doing for some time with wines, beers and cigars. These rankings are expressed as a number from 0 to 100 under the OVERALL RATING heading of each review.
Nevertheless, despite this bow to the power of wine magazine precedent, I urge readers of this material to take a moment to read the entire flavor profile rather than jumping to conclusions on the basis of a single number. I also hope that they will keep the following in mind:
Rating coffee is a much more conditional business than rating wines or beers. Refer to the section titled “Coffee Rating Caveats” for elaboration on this point.
The judgments in this column, though they do reflect almost thirty years of mindful coffee tasting and talking, obviously come from me and are not dictated by some coffee angel fresh from the celestial cupping room. In the interest of good communication, and at the risk of appearing self-absorbed, I list what appear to be my personal predispositions under “Prejudices and Methods.”
Finally, I have tried to reintroduce relativity into the rankings in a couple of ways: First, I’ve contributed a little section on each coffee titled Who should drink it. Although obviously intended to entertain, these little riffs are also serious efforts to identify the kinds of brewing styles (drip, French press, espresso) and drinking styles (black, with milk, and so on) that might suit the particular coffees involved, regardless of ranking. Second, I’ve broken these rankings out by roast style, following the categories worked out by the Specialty Coffee Association of America: light-medium, medium, medium-dark, and dark. Comparing two coffees at the far ends of that roast spectrum is a little like comparing white wines to red. My ultimate personal preferences should be clear from the overall rankings, but those who already know the roast taste they enjoy should be assisted in reaching their own conclusions.
If you want to know more about roast and its impact on flavor, consult “Reading the Reviews” below.
Prejudices and Methods
Although trotting out my personal prejudices may appear evidence of a bad case of narcissism, browsers of this column deserve to know what preferences lurk between my tongue and synapses, and how I came up with the numbers and conclusions recorded in the coffee reviews.
However, I do harbor a preference for two kinds of virtues in medium-roast coffees. I particularly like grace notes — those little fruity or floral or herbal tones that grace the top notes of some coffees. And maybe paradoxically, I admire coffees with a big, deep-bottomed, resonant body. In darker-roasted coffees I flat out dislike coffees with a burned or charcoal character, particularly if the charcoal tones are so intense that they mask other qualities of the coffee and thin the body.
However, I admire dark-roasted coffees with body and complexity, particularly coffees that develop the peculiar, mouth-filling combination of pungency and caramel sweetness that can be gotten with good dark roasting. If the pungent sweetness is achieved while preserving a little acidity or varietal grace notes, so much the better. In other words, in dark roasts pungent fullness yes, thin burned notes no.
As for methods: I cup coffees blind. Someone else prepares the samples for me, and identifies them by number. While I’m tasting I see only the anonymous numbers, not the names on the bags. I find out whose coffee I’ve tasted only later, after rating the coffees and drafting my blind assessments.
I cup the coffees roughly in order of degree of roast, from light to dark, and then back again from dark to light. The reason: A good medium-roasted coffee can prejudice the palate against darker roasted coffees, and visa-versa.
I use standard American cupping practice. This procedure involves brewing samples identical in weight and grind in matching glasses, then assessing the coffee in three stages:
Sampling the aroma by “breaking the crust,” or breaking and stirring the layer of ground coffee that forms at the surface of the cup while sniffing it vigorously;
Tasting the coffee warm and assessing its body, acidity and taste, including its finish and aftertaste;
Tasting the coffee at room temperature to correct or confirm earlier impressions, and to reassess acidity, which reads with particular clarity when the coffee has cooled.
Those who are interested in doing their own cupping are invited to consult “Cupping Coffees at Home”, excerpted from my book Home Coffee Roasting: Romance & Revival.
Reading the Reviews
Aroma, acidity, body and taste are the standard descriptive categories used by American professionals when assessing coffee. At The Coffee Review we use a rating system of 1 to 10 for each of these four categories. Ratings reflect both quantity (how much) and quality (how good).
AROMA. How intense and pleasurable is the aroma when the nose first descends over the cup and is enveloped by fragrance? Aroma also provides a subtle introduction to various nuances of acidity and taste: carbon tones, fruit, flower or herbal notes, and the like.
ACIDITY. Acidity is the bright, dry sensation that enlivens the taste of coffee. Without acidity coffee is dull and lifeless. It is not a sour sensation, which is a defect, nor should it be astringent, though it sometimes is. At best it is a tart, often rich vibrancy that lifts the coffee and pleasurably stretches its range and dimension. Acidity can be overpoweringly clear and wine-like, as in most Kenyas, sweet and delicate as in many Perus, low-toned and vibrant as in many Sumatras. The darker a coffee is roasted, the less overt acidity it will display.
BODY. Body is the sensation of weight that gives power and persistence to taste. Body can be light and delicate, heavy and resonant, thin and disappointing. Body tends to increase with darkness of roast until it peaks at about a medium-dark roast, then begins to thin again in even darker styles.
TASTE. Taste includes everything not suitably described under the categories aroma, acidity and body. An assessment of taste may invoke general terms like balanced, complex, deep, clean, rough or flat; it may identify specific defects like grassy or fermented; or it may praise positive nuances like winey, fruity or herbal. Taste incorporates sub-categories like finish (how taste characteristics grow, diminish or change as the coffee remains in contact with the palate) and aftertaste (sensations that linger after the coffee has been swallowed or spit out).
OVERALL RATING. The numbers for this heading run from 0 to 100, and are based on systems used for wines, beers and cigars. Their meaning:
95-100: An exceptional specialty coffee
90-94: An outstanding specialty coffee
80-89: A very good to excellent specialty coffee
70-79: An average to good specialty coffee
0-70: A poor to below average specialty coffee
ROAST. Degree or darkness of roast dramatically affects a coffee’s flavor profile, as does how the coffee has been brought to a given roast: quickly with high temperatures, slowly with low, and so on. Overly light roasts may taste bready, baked or grain like; overly dark roasts charred and thin. But aside from these extremes, no single degree of roast is necessarily better than another. Preferences in roast vary widely, influenced by tradition (New Englanders generally prefer lighter roasts, West-Coasters darker), brewing style (coffee intended for drip brewing is usually best roasted lighter than coffee intended for espresso or French-press brewing) and drinking style (people who take their coffee with milk often prefer darker roasts to lighter).
Degree of roast can be measured with some precision through the use of a specially modified spectrophotometer popularly called an Agtron after the name of the best-known manufacturer of these devices. Agtron numbers, as the readings provided by these machines are usually called, represent a measurement of certain near-infrared wavelengths not visible to the human eye. These wavelengths are a good indicator of degree or darkness of roast. The smaller the Agtron number the darker the roast. The lightest palatable roast measures 95; the darkest 25.
In our coffee reviews, the Agtron number preceding the slash indicates the darkness of the coffee in whole-bean form; the number following the slash indicates the darkness of the coffee in ground form. The larger the difference between the two numbers the more likely the coffee embodies a wide range of roast taste.
The descriptive terms that follow the Agtron numbers under the Roast heading of the reviews (medium, medium dark, and so on) represent the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s language for various degrees of roast. These deliberately simple terms avoid the glamour of more popular roast terms like French, Viennese, Espresso, Italian and the like, which can be confusing because their use varies so widely. A Starbucks regular roast may be considerably darker than many espresso roasts, for example, while a Viennese roast can mean almost anything depending on who’s doing the roasting and the labeling.
Coffees brought to light-through-medium roasts often display tell-tale flavor traits that coffee professionals call varietal characteristics: the wine-tones of Kenya, for example, the floral tones of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, the full-bodied earthiness of Yemen Mocha. In darker roasts, varietal characteristics become muted, and other, more general taste complexes associated with advanced degree of roast emerge: first a combination of pungency and sweetness, then carbon or charcoal tones. Flavor categories may transform under the impact of roast. Coffees that are very acidy when brought to a light roast often develop sharp, pungent notes in a dark style, for example, whereas low-acid coffees may become sweeter when brought to a darker roast.
Coffee Rating Caveats
We need this section because evaluating coffees has very different implications from evaluating wines, beers or cigars.
The reason: Coffee is a continually changing collaboration rather than a fait accompli in a bottle or box. Good wines get put in bottles in the winery, usually by the same people who grow the grapes and produce the wine. Although wine changes while inside the bottle, that change is reasonably predictable. On the consuming end, all that needs to be done to enjoy a wine is to properly store the bottle, open it, pour the wine (in some cases after a proper interval), taste it, then carry on about what you’re tasting.
Coffee, on the other hand, is subject to a globe-spanning sequence of operations by a succession of people stretching from grower to consumer-brewer, people who live in different parts of the world and don’t even know one another’s name, much less work at the same winery.
The whole thing is kicked off by someone who grows and picks the coffee fruit. A second party (usually) buys the fruit and removes the soft, fruity parts from the seeds, then dries the seeds (now called beans), two steps together known as processing and both crucial to the ultimate quality and character of the coffee.
The processor usually sells the dried beans to a third party, the exporter. The exporter may blend beans from different processing mills before bagging and shipping them. He even may do exotic things to the beans, like aging or monsooning them.
A fourth party imports the coffee into the consuming country, though in most cases he spares it any further manipulation, confining himself to passing judgment on it and selling it to a roaster.
At this point the coffee is subjected to perhaps the single most influential act of all: roasting. The roaster also may blend beans from a variety of crops and regions.
The retailer (by my count we’re now on our fifth active collaborator) performs a simple but very significant service: handling the coffee sensibly and selling it before it gets stale.
Finally, the consumer (the sixth actor in the coffee drama) buys the coffee, grinds it (usually), and finally produces an actual beverage. But we’re not even finished here, because the friend the consumer/coffee brewer just invited in to share this meticulously grown, processed, roasted, blended, and brewed coffee may be moved to dump an ounce or two of white liquid into it, not to mention a spoonful of one of seven or eight different possible sweeteners, all with differing effects on the final beverage …
Thus, by the time it is drunk, a coffee has been subject to at least seven momentous processes carried out by seven potentially unrelated parties resident in anywhere from two to four parts of the world.
Coffee is not bottled or boxed. It’s not just bought, opened and drunk. It’s a multicultural, transoceanic, culinary work-in-progress.
Which is why I like writing about coffee, a beverage that lives and changes and lets everyone from grower to consumer to step up and take a creative whack at it.
But beware of buying coffee simply by name instead of taste. Because next year’s Clever-Name-Coffee Company’s house blend may be radically different from this year’s blend, despite bearing the same name and label. The particularly skillful coffee buyer or roaster who helped create the coffee you and I liked so much may have gotten hired elsewhere. Rain may have spoiled the crop of a key coffee in the blend. The exporter or importer of that key coffee may have gone out of business or gotten careless. And even if everyone (plus the weather) did exactly the same thing they (and it) did the year before, the retailer this time around may have spoiled everything by letting the coffee go stale before you got to it. Or you may have messed things up this year by keeping the coffee around too long, brewing it carelessly, or allowing a friend to pour hazelnut syrup into it.
Everything that appears on this site is merely a starting point for experiment and dialogue, no more.
Cupping Coffee at Home
Obviously the most reliable long-term way to evaluate coffee is to drink it the way you usually drink it, but mindfully.
But if you’re after a knowledge of coffee in its larger complexity and variety may want to approach tasting more systematically.
The professional cupping ritual has a relatively long history. It appears to have been well established in its present form by the mid-19th century. Variations of it are used today by coffee growers, agricultural boards and graders, exporters and importers, and roasters and blenders as a way of evaluating coffee and what we do to it.
Traditional cupping is redolent with a sort of mahogany-toned, 19th-century romance. The gestures are arcane yet functional, and the trappings — sample roasters, water kettles, silver spoons and spittoons — as solid yet mythic as the fittings of an old ship or country store.
Although turning a part of your house into a permanent cupping facility is not a practical alternative even for coffee fanatics, a simple, portable adaptation of the professional cupping ritual is.
Setting Up for Cupping
You will need identical or almost identical cups or heat-proof glasses, one for each coffee you plan to taste, and a round metal soup spoon. Cups or glasses that flare out a bit at the top are best.
Ideally you also need a feed-through, burr-style grinder, one that has settings from fine to coarse, so you can be certain that you are grinding each sample exactly like the others. However, since burr grinders are relatively expensive ($50 and up) you may end up using a blade grinder, one that whacks the coffee apart like a blender. If you do use a blade grinder make sure to time yourself, so that you produce an approximately similar grind for each sample coffee.
You also should have two glasses of water, one to sip from to clear your palate and one in which to rinse the spoon between samples. Finally, you will need a bowl or large mug in which to dispose of mouthfuls of coffee and floating grounds scooped off the surface of the brewed coffee.
Make sure to have paper and pencil at hand to take notes.
If you wish to compare coffees you obtain green, you will need to buy a copy of my HOME COFFEE ROASTING: ROMANCE & REVIVAL for instructions on home roasting. But most readers will be comparing coffees they have purchased already roasted.
Cupping Procedure
Grind small samples of each of the coffees you plan to cup. The grind or degree of granulation should be as uniform as possible from one sample to the next. About a medium grind is best. Without getting obsessive about it, try not to mix coffees from your various samples while grinding. Sometimes coffee will cake up in various spots in a grinder receptacle. In this case, try to knock out the caked portions of one sample before grinding the next.
Place the same volume of ground coffee in each cup or glass. Use about two level tablespoons or one standard coffee measure per six-ounce cup. Meticulous professional cuppers weigh out 1/4 ounces (seven grams) of coffee per five ounces (150 milliliters) of hot water. Such precision is not important in general cupping, but consistency among samples is.
When all of your samples are prepared, fill each cup with identical volumes of water heated to brewing temperature (a little short of boiling). As you pour the water over the coffee make certain you wet all of the grounds. Fill the cups to about a half-inch below the lip.
Allow the coffee to brew for about three minutes before beginning the cupping.
The cupping itself is in three parts.
Breaking the crust and sampling the AROMA. A layer of saturated grounds will cover the surface of the coffee. Bend over the cup with your nose almost touching the coffee, and gently break this crust with your spoon. As you do so sniff. Sniff deeply and repeatedly, while lightly agitating the surface of the coffee with your spoon. Make mental and perhaps written note of the characteristics and intensity of the aroma of each sample. Be active; move back and forth between samples, breaking the surface of each coffee again to refresh the aroma.
Tasting the coffees warm. Breaking the crust and agitating the surface to provoke the aroma usually provides sufficient activity to sink most of the grounds floating on the surface of the coffee to the bottom of the cup. However, you may need to remove some of the more stubbornly buoyant fragments of ground coffee with your spoon before tasting, particularly if you used a blade grinder.
The professional cupper lifts a spoonful of the warm coffee and, in a quick, explosive slurp, sprays the coffee across the entire range of membrane in the oral cavity. This is not an easy act to master, particularly given the training most of us receive in how to behave at table. Nevertheless, give it a try. The idea is to get a quick, comprehensive jolt of simultaneous taste and aroma. Note acidity, nuances of acidity, and taste; if the roast is a dark one note the balance of pungent, sweet, and acidy notes. Don’t swallow the coffee. Instead, roll it around in your mouth, chew it, wiggle your tongue in it. Get a sense of its weight or body, and the depth and complexity of its taste. Observe how the various sensations develop as the coffee remains in your mouth; some coffees may grow in power and resonance while others may peak and fade.
Now once again you need to defy table manners and spit out the coffee. Professional cuppers use three-foot high spittoons for this purpose. Obviously you don’t need a spittoon; a bowl or mug will do.
As you did when sampling aroma, taste repeatedly. Rinse the spoon between samples, and occasionally take a sip of water to clear your palate. Record your observations before moving on to the final part of the cupping.
Tasting the coffees at room temperature. Certain taste characteristics, particularly acidity, emerge most clearly at lukewarm or even room temperatures. Let the coffees sit for a few minutes, then return to repeat the cupping, refining and confirming your earlier observations.
Cupping Experiments
You can amuse yourself plus establish a few general sensory reference points for cupping by conducting a few simple exercises.
Cupping roast styles. For this very revealing exercise you need to buy samples of the same green coffee that has been brought to two or three different degrees or colors of roast, then line them up and taste them. Such an exercise will give you some genuine experience to attach to generalizations concerning the impact of ROAST on coffee flavor.
Cupping unblended or varietal coffees. As a palate-training exercise, I suggest you start with a selection of coffees with contrasting flavor profiles. A good assortment might be a Sumatra, a Kenya, a Brazilian Santos, and a Costa Rica Tarrazu. Taste for the full body and low-toned, rich acidity of the Sumatra, the medium body and high-toned, powerful, wine-like acidity of the Kenya, the softer profile and medium body and acidity of the Santos, and finally the full body and clean, classic taste of the Costa Rica.
Then perhaps explore within coffees from geographical areas with related taste characteristics. You might assemble a collection of East African and Yemen coffees, for example. Cup a Yemeni Mocha, an Ethiopian Harar, a Zimbabwe, and a Kenya. Learn to distinguish the lighter body of the Harar, the earthy notes of the Mocha and the Harar, the heavier body of the Kenya and Mocha, and the subtle differences among the often high-toned, winey acidity they share in common.
For more on the flavor characteristics of various coffees and the nuances of coffee taste, see my COFFEE: A GUIDE TO BUYING, BREWING & ENJOYING (KENNETH DAVIDS, Cole Group, ISBN 1-56426-555-2).
Cupping blends. Of course you can simply cup to find out whose blend you like the best. However, once you master some of the basic taste characteristics of unblended coffees you also can take a first crack at understanding and analyzing blends in terms of their constituent coffees.
Cupping straight coffees and blends roasted for the espresso cuisine. The only way to properly evaluate coffee designed for espresso is to taste it as espresso. I suggest you first prepare identical 1/2-ounce samples (short pulls) using your espresso machine, taste them without sugar or frothed milk, then press another series of samples and taste them the way you normally drink your espresso. For detailed information on espresso brewing and cuisine, see my book ESPRESSO: ULTIMATE COFFEE (KENNETH DAVIDS, Cole Group, ISBN 1-56426-557-9).Cupping with Ken Davids — 12/30/96 — page 10
Kenneth Davids is a coffee expert, author and co-founder of Coffee Review. He has been involved with coffee since the early 1970s and has published three books on coffee, including the influential Home Roasting: Romance and Revival, now in its second edition, and Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying, which has sold nearly 250,000 copies over five editions. His workshops and seminars on coffee sourcing, evaluation and communication have been featured at professional coffee meetings on six continents. | {
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Number of reps down 10% since 2007, says study
Job security for pharma sales reps is looking bleak, going by the results of a ZS Associates study. The survey found that the number of US reps has plummeted 10% since 2007 to 92,000, and the management consultancy projects a further decline, to 75,000 by 2012.
The data, first reported in the AMA's American Medical News, reflects industry efforts to cut costs as more doctors close their doors to drug reps.
According to TNS Healthcare, for every 100 reps who visit a physician's office, only 37 leave their company's product with the doc, while only 20 actually have a face-to-face encounter with the doctor. PriceWaterhouseCoopers reports that profit per drug rep visit dropped 23% from 2004 to 2005.
SK&A Information Services said about a quarter of physicians work in practices that prohibit visits with drug reps. Of those physicians who do see reps, 40% will meet with reps only with scheduled appointments.
Changes of recent years, including increasing time constraints on physicians, the curtailing of gifts to physicians by reps and emerging online communication channels, have contributed to the decline in face-to-face interaction. | {
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With the announcement of the Apple Watch, Apple has entered the new market of wearable technology. This is a market that companies like Samsung, Sony, Intel, Motorola, and even Google, with its Google Glass, have already entered. Wearable technology includes things like glasses, watches and even gloves. Apple’s new watch can monitor your heart rate, tracking the wearer’s movement and activity. However, wearable technology has struggled to go mainstream with people citing its bulky and impractical design. Apple’s entry into this market may invigorate the wearable technology industry. | {
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Leicester play emotional first match after owners' death
In delivering a 1-0 win away at Cardiff City, the team had the prefect tribute for the beloved Thai billionaire, who brought the club its first-ever top-flight league championship in its 134-year history.
Srivaddhanaprabha, 60, was one of five people on board the aircraft when it burst into flames after crashing in a parking lot next to the club’s King Power Stadium around an hour after the club’s 1-1 draw with West Ham last Saturday. No one on board survived.
His helicopter was a familiar sight at the Leicester stadium, landing in the middle of the pitch to ferry its owner to and from home games.
Witnesses said the helicopter had barely cleared the 25 meter (82 foot) high stadium walls before making a loud noise, crashing to the ground and igniting in a large fireball.
Minute of silence
Ahead of Saturday’s match in the Welsh capital the stadium played a short tribute to the club’s owner and CEO with a minute’s silence.
Standing in black tracksuits the entire squad and backroom staff stood in a semi circle around the center circle, facing the matchday squad in its famous all-blue kit.
Staff and players alike stood with heads bowed, trying to rein in their emotions — with stars like Danish goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel barely holding back tears, a testament to how much Srivaddhanaprabha meant to the Foxes family.
Rob Tanner, Chief Football Writer for the Leicester Mercury, told CNN’s Patrick Snell that the minute’s silence was a moving tribute.
“The whole of the backroom team, all the squad members who weren’t playing today, they all came onto the field, which I haven’t seen before,” Tanner said, adding that it is usually just the starting 11 that take part in on-field tributes.
“They were unified in their decision (to play the game Saturday), that it was important to them to pay respect to Vichai, by playing today and they’ve certainly made him proud in that sense.”
Tribute to ‘the boss’
In the pre-match warmup the players wore white T-shirts bearing an image of Srivaddhanaprabha, below the words “the boss.”
Demarai Gray scored the only goal of the game, removing his shirt to reveal his own tribute — “for Khun Vichai,” using the Thai honorific.
Unfortunately the gesture saw him cautioned — a player removing a shirt leads to a yellow card under the game’s laws.
“Demarai Gray was booked for taking his shirt off… which really took the gloss off it a little but it was very poignant, very emotional,” Tanner said. “At the final whistle they all went to the corner (of the Cardiff stadium) where the away fans were and all of them stood and applauded them. They must have been stood there for 10-15 minutes.”
“I think it was a day that they really needed to get out the way now,” Tanner said. “It’s the first step in the healing process.”
The billionaire’s funeral is taking place over seven days in his native Thailand and the Leicester City squad were scheduled to fly to Asia after the match to pay their respects.
Upon return from Asia they’ll play their first home game since the tragedy, against Burnley next Saturday, at the King Power Stadium. The club’s home ground has become a sprawling tribute of flowers, scarves and Leicester replica kits since last week’s accident.
“There’s 3,000 fans who traveled to Cardiff and they’ve done the club proud with their support but there will be 32,000 at the King Power Stadium next week so it’ll be even more emotional,” Tanner said.
Srivaddhanaprabha bought the club for $57 million in 2010 and it was promoted to the Premier League in 2014. In 2016, the club achieved the once-unthinkable feat of winning the premiership.
It went into the 2015-2016 season with odds of 5,000-1 to win but stunned fans, and bookmakers, by taking the title.
The club’s extraordinary run of success played out under Srivaddhanaprabha’s ownership. Along with handing fans their first top-flight title in the club’s history, the businessman won over fans by handing out free beer, water and cupcakes, as well as scarves in cold weather, in the stands.
The Thai was No. 388 on the Forbes’ billionaires list, with a net worth of $4.9 billion. He made his fortune through the creation of the King Power chain of duty-free stores, Thailand’s largest. Srivaddhanaprabha’s company sponsors the team’s stadium.
Elsewhere in the Premier League Saturday, players stood in silence ahead of their matches as a mark of respect for the Leicester City owner and ahead of Britain’s annual Remembrance Day, while some teams wore t-shirts proclaiming solidarity with the grief-stricken Midlands club.
Arsenal came back to secure a 1-1 draw against league leader Liverpool in the day’s marquee match, while Manchester United managed a 2-1 win over Bournemouth to draw level on points with the south coast side.
Newcastle United celebrated a welcome — and rare — 1-0 victory over Watford, Everton won 3-1 against Brighton and West Ham showed poise in an assured 4-2 win over Burnley. | {
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The outside role a small number of extremely wealthy donors is playing in the run up to the 2012 elections is highlighted by the first early finance reports of the new campaign cycle filed late last week by two so-called "super PACs " — political groups that can raise unlimited amounts from individuals, corporations and labor unions.
American Crossroads, the super PAC spearheaded by Karl Rove, is vowing a massive attack ad campaign aimed at defeating President Barack Obama next year. The group reported it had raised $3.8 million during the first six months of 2011.
The group proclaims on its website that its mission is to empower "America's citizens" to "take back control of their government." But the new report suggests American Crossroads is anything but a grassroots funded organization.
More than 90 percent of its money this year came from just three billionaire donors: Jerry Perenchio, the former Hollywood talent agent and ex-chairman of the Spanish language television network Univision, whose trust contributed $2 million; Dallas area hotel magnate Robert Rowling, who gave $1 million; and Texas homebuilder Bob Perry, who donated $500,000.
All three have given generously to Republican and conservative causes in the past. Perry, who bankrolled tort reform efforts to limit lawsuits, was American Crossroads' biggest single donor last year, giving the group $7 million.
"It’s the Willie Sutton syndrome—they’re going to where the money is," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy One, a group that advocates for campaign finance reform. "These groups are not looking for small donors to participate in the political process."
Nor is this merely a Republican phenomenon. The House Majority PAC, a newly formed group that recently announced an attack ad campaign targeting freshman Republicans backing GOP Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposals, reported it had raised $800,000 during the same time period.
Of that, 50 percent came from just a handful of wealthy donors and corporations. The most notable name on the list: billionaire financier George Soros, who kicked in $75,000. The contribution may be a sign that Soros, who in the past has donated tens of millions of dollars to Democratic causes, but largely sat out the 2010 congressional races, will be back in the business of helping Democrats win elections next year.
Others who helped bankroll House Majority PAC, according to the reports, included S. Donald Sussman, a billionaire hedge fund mogul, who contributed $150,000 and Fred Eychaner, a Chicago media magnate, who contributed $100,000. Sussman, another longtime Democrat donor, has more than a passing interest in boosting the prospects of House Democrats in next year’s election. He just last week married one of them: Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine.
Other hefty donations included $25,000 a piece from Scott Nathan, the managing director of a Boston based investment firm called the Baupost Group, Integrated Archives Systems, a Palo Alto data firm, and Paul Egerman, a software entrepreneur. A group of labor unions which includes the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, the Communication Workers of America and the Service Employees International Union contributed another $300,000.
The big contributions to the two super PACs illustrate the two-tiered system of political fundraising that is now thriving, thanks in part to a series of controversial Supreme Court rulings.
The campaign committees of political candidates — including those now running for president — are limited to so-called "hard money," or contributions of no more than $2,500 each per election from individuals and $5,000 from political action committees, all of which must be publicly disclosed. (The various GOP presidential candidates may disclose their initial hard money fundraising totals as early as this week, when they must report their totals to the Federal Election Commission.)
But thanks to the Supreme Court, the new super PACs can raise as much money as they can from anybody they want — including private corporations and labor unions — and spend it on ads promoting or attacking any political candidates they want. A separate category of groups — non-profit advocacy groups that are often closely linked to the super PACs — can do the same thing, and not even disclose where their money is coming from.
A spokesman for American Crossroads says the outside role of billionaire donors in funding groups like his is the result of the 2002 McCain-Feingold law, which banned large money contributions to the political parties. In the past, said Jonathan Collegio, big money donations would have gone to the political parties. Now, he said in an email, they go to "groups like Crossroads or the left leaning non-party groups. The money is the same; the groups getting the large donations just aren't parties any more."
But Mike Duncan, the chairman of American Crossroads, told a group of reporters the group's goals pale in comparison with the $2 billion he expects President Obama and various Democrat super PACs will end up raising. (To be sure, Duncan didn't give figures for what he expected the Republican candidate for president and other GOP super PACs and affiliates will spend.)
"We're going to have $2 billion spent in the suspension of reality," said Duncan. | {
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During harvest festivals in Rome, maidens passed out bowls of nuts as symbols of fertility... many traditions have sprung from this, including the distribution of candied almonds as wedding favors in the mediterranean. To help promote fertility.
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As an aside, I chanced randomly upon your gallery. I adore your work.. it reminded me of that first spark of love toward art that I had as a child when stumbling across a discarded postcard with one of Dali's paintings on its face. ( So yes, I was particularly tickled by the homage given him. ) Please, continue to paint. And, for purely selfish motivations, please continue to share. | {
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I’m sure by now, like the rest of us, you have been inundated with commercials touting David Blaine’s latest feat of idiocy. What is the deal with this guy. Now headlines blare that he will be “Drowned Alive”. Oooohhh.
Correct me if I’m wrong here, but isn’t it true that the only way to drown in the first place is if you’re alive? There is no way to drown a dead guy, right? So, I guess that pretty much makes that headline redundant again one more time.
Well, keeping that in mind, I have just one question for Mr. Blaine regarding his attempt to hold his breath underwater for 9 minutes (aka suicide attempt, on live TV, in livingrooms everywhere). Here’s my question…You guys ready for this?…You sure?….Okay, here goes… | {
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Every award ceremony has this kind of multiple winner shot … okay, maybe not Crufts. That would be tricky (photo: event Facebook page)
June 7th, 2017 8:05 pm| by Aaron Hathaway
Some 150 local and international graphic novelists came together in Copenhagen over the weekend for the 2017 Pingprisen awards, an annual event acknowledging achievements in comic arts.
The weekend’s ceremony was the latest in a modern renaissance of the Pingprisen awards, which began in 1986 but received limited attention and folded a decade later.
Storm P alive in spirt
However, Pingprisen was resurrected in 2012 thanks to the combined efforts of organisations such as Danish comics magazine Number 9 as well as the Storm P Museet in Frederiksberg.
The late Storm P, perhaps Denmark’s best-known cartoonist, served in part as inspiration for the Pingprisen awards.
Sonny from Singapore
This year’s international prize went to Singapore’s Sonny Liew, whose book ‘The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye’ was ranked by the New York Times and the Washington Post as one of the best graphic novels of the year.
Liew wrote on his Facebook page: “Looking forward to seeing that bowler-hatted bird statuette’s arrival in Singapore, where he may find himself occasionally being fondly used as a paperweight.” | {
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J. Kings owner says plant project must get started soon — or else
The owner of a Long Island-based wholesale food company looking to set up a processing plant in Baiting Hollow said Friday the project could fall apart rapidly if plans get held up into the summer.
J. Kings Food Service Professionals is looking to set up shop in the vacant Blackman Plumbing warehouse on Sound Avenue, where the company would process and store products from local farms and vineyards.
“If we can’t get on the June 14 ZBA meeting, I’ll probably have to give up the building,” owner John King told the News-Review. “I’ll miss a year.
“You don’t grow in December and January.”
Mr. King, whose company is in contract to buy the building, said he was “shocked” a state Supreme Court judge on Thursday granted a partial temporary restraining order against his project.
Mr. King said he was late to learn about the request, and that the judge ruled without ever hearing his side of the story.
Austin Warner, whose family built the Blackman building in the 1960s and who owns Warner Nursery next door, went to court to challenge the town’s issuing of a building permit to Mr. King, on the grounds that agricultural processing is not a permitted use in the Agricultural Protection Zone.
Mr. Warner went to court to prevent the plant from operating prior to going before the town Zoning Board of Appeals for a ruling on whether it is a permitted use in the APZ. Mr. Warner also sought the temporary injunction from the courts, preventing Mr. King from moving forward prior to the ZBA ruling
The injunction granted Thursday is pending that ZBA hearing, and says Mr. King is “temporarily enjoined from specifically gaining any vested property rights.”
Mr. Warner’s attorney, Stephen Angel, said in an interview that court rulings in the past have shown that “if you know that someone has a questionable permit and you allow them to do construction and spend money…You may lose the right to stop them from doing it.”
The temporary restraining order granted Thursday doesn’t prevent Mr. King from moving forward on the project, but he’ll have to at his own risk, Mr Angel said.
He added that the injunction is unusual, in that “it doesn’t stop someone from action, it stops the result of action.”
Mr. King called many of accusations in the request for an injunction “insane.”
For instance, he doesn’t plan to operate the Baiting Hollow plant 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as the request asserts. If the plant gets up and running, it would begin as early as 5 a.m. and run until 4 p.m. or 5 p.m., and after that, there would be about three people cleaning, he said.
It also will not be a distribution center. Mr. King said he was a distribution center in Holtsville, and it would make no sense to have that type of plant in Baiting Hollow.
The Baiting Hollow facility is envisioned as an agricultural processing plant, that will store wine and cases of produce, Mr. King said. This is done in a plant in Bay Shore now, and he is seeking to move it out to Baiting Hollow to be closer to the farms.
In addition, Mr. King said, it’s not correct that he obtained the building permit on the same day he applied for it, as the town documents show and the News-Review has reported.
“I picked up the application on April 25, completed it and sent it back, got it notarized on May 4th and paid a $100 fee on May 15,” the same day he got the permit approval, he said.
He said he’s been working on the Baiting Hollow site for seven months and has had meetings at Cornell Cooperative Extension with farmers to show what he plans there.
In addition, Mr. King said, he has established a website called grapesandgreens.com which has a section that shows videos of what will be done at the facility under the heading “processing.”
This is the same video he showed farmers at Cornell, he said.
The unused portions of produce that would be cut at his facility would be collected in a dumpster and given to farmers to feed their animals, he said.
As for the claim that there will be additional trucks on the road because of the facility, Mr. King said he already has trucks delivering to businesses on the North Fork, and those same trucks will stop at farms after their initial deliveries and pick up the produce that will be brought to the Baiting Hollow plant.
He said he was surprised at the opposition to the plant.
“We didn’t have a clue until 2 p.m. on Tuesday,” he said. “I was going to closing on the building next week.”
“I’m a neighbor, I’ve got a house in Shelter Island,” he continued. “Why would I want to do something to hurt the community?”
He added that he also is involved in many charitable causes, and gives out out culinary scholarships to students at Suffolk Community College’s culinary school in Riverhead, and also donated a truck for use in this weekend’s Tall Ships festival in Greenport. | {
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Marauders give up unlikely goals to Ilion
ILION – An unlikely set of defensive mistakes broke a scoreless tie and led Ilion to a win over Sherburne-Earlville Thursday.
A clear attempt by the Marauders’ defense led to an own goal with just 15 minutes remaining in the game. Not much later, Ilion benefited from another own goal when a header by an S-E defender in front of the goal skimmed backward into the net.
Ilion’s lone credited tally came on Corey Rowland’s bending cornerkick late in the game. “We were the aggressor, we just had some mental lapses,” said S-E coach Mike Rodriguez. “We changed our defensive alignment, so the shot statistics were deceiving. We packed it in, and a lot of the shots came from well outside the 18-yard box. With as athletic as Caleb (Brown) is in goal, we’ll take those any day.” | {
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This post is in partnership with Inc., which offers useful advice, resources, and insights to entrepreneurs and business owners. The article below was originally published at Inc.com.
Recently I connected with Jonathan Borge, an email expert who has mastered the art of getting emails answered. Through an email conversation, (how else would you communicate with an email expert, right?), he shared with me seven great tips on how you can ensure that your emails will get noticed.
1. Subject lines: Remember that only 20 percent to 40 percent of your emails will actually get opened, though most of your subject lines will be seen. To boost your open rates, think of short, catchy, and informative subject lines. You should try to dangle compelling information (“The future of sales emails”), and you can even try adding some mystery (“Strange question”). We also recommend personalized subject lines, if possible (“Hunter Sullivan suggested I contact you”).]
2. Your tone: Portray yourself as someone that other people can connect to. You’ll want to show your recipients that you care about hearing back from them… so you can’t simply sound like you’re just sending another mass email. Never use “Dear sir or Madam,” and stay away from overly formal language.
3.Email content: Make your emails short, simple, and easy to quickly digest. Your leads are busy people with jobs, too, so you need to maintain their interest. Do your research and find out what resonates for your prospects. Try to get an introduction to them or, if that’s not possible, figure out in more detail what they or their company do. Tell them why you’re emailing them, specifically. Talk about how you can solve a problem for them.
4. Your sign-off: End your emails with a definitive, clear call to action. Make it dead simple for your recipients to say yes—whether it’s to a meeting, phone call, or product demo. Don’t ask them for permission. If you want a phone call, then say “Call me right now at X for more details.”
5. Your timing: Reach out to your leads when they’re not too busy. Make sure you avoid heavy traffic times like Monday mornings. Based on our tracking data, we recommend the middle of the week, mid-day, as the best time to send emails.
6.Your image: First impressions are important both in person and online. The tone and formatting of your email is all your recipients have to judge you by. Make sure you are being professional, clear, and easy to understand. Stay away from over-formatted emails that look gimmicky, but don’t hesitate to call out important information in bold or bullet points.
7.Your homework: Send yourself a sales email. Put yourself in your leads’ shoes. If you were them, would you open this email? Would you spend more than two seconds reading it? If so, what would you do next?
The first time you read this list, you’ll probably think “I already knew all that.” But, do what I did. Go look at the last 10 emails you sent to prospects or new contacts and read them with a critical eye to see if you followed all seven tips. I scored four or five on all of mine, but not a seven on any one of them. | {
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When the Barack Obama World Tour arrived in Baghdad last month, the candidate, wearing shades and a cool suit, smiled and waved before descending the stairs from the plane. Later the Senator toured the city, and sat for interview with reporters. In shirt-sleeves, he gamely sunk a basketball shot from far out at the three-point line before grabbing a mike to address troops who assembled to cheer him on, and applauded wildly. (His shot caught only the net, no rim or backboard. Truly the man has a light shining upon him.)
What we did NOT ever see was the candidate wearing a flak jacket, because during his time there he never needed to put one on.
For American viewers this lack of flak jacket, a Holmesian "dog that didn't bark," may have come as a surprise since over the last two years they had repeatedly been told, by the major network news programs, by the New York Times and The New Yorker, and by the Democratic leaders in Congress, that "the war" was being lost, or indeed had been lost. As it happens, last month US casualties reached their lowest level since the '03 invasion. In his remarks during the tour, Mr. Obama recognized the change made "recently," and underscored that such success had come as a surprise to him, as it had as well, he suggested, to President Bush and Senator McCain.
In fact, the inevitability of such success could clearly be seen a year ago, and was explicitly noted then by Mr. Bush. With his trademark eloquence, the President added, "We're kicking al Qaeda's ass in Anbar," referring to the so-called "Wild West" region, the restive province encompassing Fallujah, Tikrit, and that had largely fallen into the control of insurgents and al Qaeda, irrevocably it had been said. Despite such salty language, and the prospect of a new "Mission Accomplished" petard on which Bush might be hoisting himself, the President's declaration was left off the front pages. At the same time, in-theater commander General Petraeus, appearing before Congress, vastly underplayed the change of which he was well aware, yet nonetheless was shamefully hectored and labeled an administration mouthpiece.
The seeds of this success actually took root not one, but two years ago, were planted by a young adaptable Army Captain, and until recently went largely unreported in the US. It is this success that will soon allow a draw-down of forces, or redeployment, always planned, that has been kicked around like a football on a muddy field by politicians from all quarters.
Curiously, the British left-leaning media, who had been so critical of Prime Minister Blair for his support of the 2003 invasion and for his stalwart alliance with "the hated Bush," was quicker to note these changes than the supposedly-impartial New York Times. With Mr. Blair out of office, it was perhaps easier for UK journalists and reporters to recognize that an unstable state situated at the heart of the Middle East was really in no one's interest. The NYT editorial page, in contrast, this winter called for an immediate withdrawal, even at the price, which they deemed not unlikely, of population displacement and division of the country-a description that sounded to many like "a managed ethnic cleansing" with the prospect of genocide.
The "change" you are talking about did not begin in Ramadi. The events you describe were indeed important in turning the Anbar tribes against al Qeada, but events in Husaybah had already shown the tribal leaders that the US Marines could protect them. Operation Steel Curtain, followed by newly implemented COIN strategies, in particularly staging marines with Iraqi troops throughout the town in Battle Positions, had stabilized Husaybah and forced al Qeada out of the area.
Without operation Steel Curtain and the successful COIN strategies used in Husaybah the tribes would have had no reason to believe the US military could protect them.
None of this takes anything away from what Capt. Patriquin did. He was successful in persuading the sheiks and deserves credit for that. But credit for beginning the "change" in Anbar belongs to the US Marines in Husaybah.
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E26 | Robert Egger: L.A. Kitchen
For Episode 26 of The Founder Hour, Pat & Posh sit down with Robert Egger - a nonprofit leader, author, activist and visionary.
Robert talks about managing nightclubs in DC early on in his career and then founding DC Central Kitchen - the country’s first “community kitchen,” where food donated by hospitality businesses and farms is used to fuel its nationally recognized culinary arts job training program.
Since opening, DC Central Kitchen has produced over 35 million meals and helped 1,500 men and women gain full-time employment. 24 years later, Robert left DC and started LA Kitchen.
Pat & Posh had an opportunity to chat with Robert about Anthony Bourdain and his legacy, Jose Andres’ work with Robert, nonprofits and the social issues of the present and future.
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BRIEF-Energy Fuels gives operations update, uranium output guidance
* Expects to maintain production at reduced levels or lower, including 950,000 pounds of u(3)o(8) in 2016; 800,000 pounds of u(3)o(8) in 2017
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On November 1, 1897, the Republic of Biak-na-Bato was established in the cave of Biak-na-Bato, San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan. A special election was called for the new Supreme Council to oversee the newly established government on November 2, 1897 in the Philippines.
The convention aim to establish a revolutionary government to replace the Katipunan and settle the dispute between the two concils of Katipunan. Andres Bonifacio, the Supremo of the Katipunan, presided the over the election. He secured the unanimous pledge of the assembly to abide by the majority decision, However. Daniel Tirona contested and argued that a lawyer should handle the position for the Secretary of the Interior. Tirona recommended Jose del Rosario for the position. Bonifacio felt insulted and declared the convention null and void and leave the convention together with his supporters
Aguinaldo was elected in absentia. He was later notified by Col. Vicente Riego de Dios and told him that he won the election for the newly established government, Aguinaldo later left the battle to his brother Crisipulo to confirm the result of the election.
On December 14, 1897, the Pact of Biak-na-Bato was signed. Under the pact, Aguinaldo agreed to end hostilities and to exile himself and the revolutionary leadership, in exchange for amnesty and cash 'indemnities' in the amount of 800,000 pesos.[3] Aguinaldo took the money offered and, along with 34 other leaders of the rebellion, exiled himself in Hong Kong. The following were the officers of the Supreme Council that oversaw the pact. Emilio Aguinaldo was President and Mariano Trias, the Vice President. Other officials included Antonio Montenegro for Foreign Affairs, Isabelo Artacho for the Interior, Baldomero Aguinaldo for the Treasury, and Emiliano Riego de Dios for War.
However, thousands of other Katipuneros continued to fight the Revolution against Spain for a sovereign nation. Unlike Aguinaldo who came from a privileged background, the bulk of these fighters were peasants and workers who were not willing to settle for 'indemnities.' | {
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Recently, our family watched one of my favorite movies, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.’ I’m drawn to the Narnia series because of the powerful and allegorical ways in which the author, C. S. Lewis, depicts spiritual realities. For example, his depiction of the Creator and Savior of the world as Aslan the Lion is, in my opinion, a tremendously helpful way to understand the nature of our God. Perhaps the most familiar quote about Aslan comes from this story. “Who said anything about [Aslan being] safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
Right now, we find ourselves in a season in which we celebrate the moment in human history when the Most High King came to dwell with us.
However, Lewis also went to great lengths to describe the personification of evil as depicted in Jadis, the White Witch. Her backstory comes from Lewis’ first book in the Narnia series entitled ‘The Magician’s Nephew.’ In short, Jadis was a sorceress in another world who feuded against her own sister. In a final effort towards victory, she spoke a word that, when uttered, destroyed everything…except the person who spoke it. She succeed and eventually made her way into Narnia. Upon arrival, Jadis began to impose her will in this new world by crippling the creatures with fear and threatening to turn them into stone. She also brought about a season which was “always winter but never Christmas.”
Now, our world is not ruled by an embittered sorceress. It’s actually worse than that. Satan, the imposter who temporary rules this world as the “prince of the power of the air” and the “father of lies,” has successfully enticed humans into disobedient and lustful living (see Ephesians 2:2-3, John 8:44 and 12:31). He convinces people to become ‘great’ at the expense of others and seeks to eliminate all possibilities for hope and lasting joy. Satan aims for a winter upon the human soul - devoid of life, purpose and hope.
Perhaps you know of co-workers, friends or family members who communicate, in a variety of ways, that they only see a bleak landscape before them and live in this kind of perpetual, spiritual ‘winter.’ Indeed, the enemy of God has many held captive.
Now, Narnia’s inhabitants had all but giving up hope until strange human visitors arrived and the beloved Father Christmas returned after being absent for 100 years. From these signs, they could tell that “Aslan was on the move again.”
I love how Lewis depicts Christmas as a sign that the curse is fading away. Each year, when we sing ‘Joy To The World,’ we celebrate this reality! Remember the lyrics from the third verse of Isaac Watts’ most famous hymn: “No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground. He comes to make his blessings flow, far as the curse is found…” Because of Jesus, the power of sin and Satan is broken. Spiritual winters can fade and new life can flourish.
As we continue in this season of Advent, I encourage you to pray for those who are stuck in spiritual winters and enslaved to the ‘prince of the air.’ The Lord often uses this time of the year to stir hearts towards him again – or even for the first time. As we light the advent candles and sing the Christmas hymns, we celebrate the reality that our God, the King, is on the move and the curse is fading away! | {
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Broadcasting Services Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2012
Summary
Amends the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 to provide earlier access, in particular circumstances, to the digital commercial satellite television service known as the Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) by: enabling VAST licensees to provide their digital commercial satellite television services to specified external territories; enabling third party digital retransmission services to be taken into account for administering the conditional access scheme for VAST services; requiring licensees in certain licence areas to nominate multiple places against which their time based broadcasting obligations will be assessed; and enabling the minister to vary the date for digital switchover in a licence area or when that area becomes a digital only local market area.
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An electronic version of this Act is available on the Federal Register of Legislation (www.legislation.gov.au)
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First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament
Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
As passed by both houses: Final text of bill agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate which is presented to the Governor-General for assent.
Explanatory memoranda
Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.
Proposed amendments
Circulated by members and senators when they propose to make changes to the bill. For details about the outcome of proposed amendments please refer to either the Votes and Proceedings (House of Representatives) or the Journals (Senate).
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"We'll see if it happens," Morneau said of taking a day. "I feel pretty good ... but at the same time it's tough to take a day off any time. I'm not really going to want to do it. I have one of the best hitters in the league in front of me [Joe Mauer] and he takes a lot of pitches."
Matt Guerrier (1-1) pitched two scoreless innings for the win. Jon Rauch pitched the 11th for his 14th save in 16 chances.
Twins starter Scott Baker went 7 1/3 innings, allowing four runs on six hits. He walked one and struck out three.
Young also drove in a run in the sixth. Kubel added an RBI single for the Twins, who ended their season-high three-game losing streak.
"Moreany has been big all year long," Gardenhire said. "That's why people are pushing him for the All-Star Game. It was another great night for him."
Morneau, who has hit safely in seven straight, hit his 13th home run of the season, a two-run shot with two outs in the first that traveled well up into the right field bleachers.
"I just wish Mauer took Morneau to Cabo with him and left him there, on a fishing boat," Braden said. "What are you going to do? Those guys are fairly good hitters."
After Suzuki's infield single scored a run for the A's in the fourth, the Twins added a pair of runs in the sixth to make it 4-1. Kubel singled home a run and Young doubled home another.
Kouzmanoff, who hit a home run for the third consecutive game, a career best, made it 4-3 with his two-run shot off the facing of the second deck in left field.
Davis' second home run of the season just cleared the fence near the left-field line in the eighth to tie the game and end Baker's night.
Davis owns a .324 batting average (22 for 68) over his last 19 games. He's a lifetime .328 hitter against the Twins.
Game notes
Twins INF Danny Valencia, who made his major league debut Thursday, recorded his first career stolen base, swiping second in the second. It was the first successful steal against Braden since Nick Punto did it for the Twins on Aug. 20, 2008. ... A's 1B Daric Barton doubled in the fourth to extend his hitting streak to 11 games. ... Young has hit safely in seven of his last eight games. ... A's INF Adam Rosales made his third start at shortstop. ... A's LHP Craig Breslow struck out a career-high four batters in 1 2/3 innings. ... Morneau matched Chuck Knoblauch for eighth in Twins' history with his 210th double. ... Mauer is 50-for-150 lifetime against the A's. | {
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Collaborations
I have always loved working with other musicians, and, especially, meeting those from different musical worlds. Over the last ten years I have had the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting jazz pianists in the UK: Julian Joseph (we toured a project for 27 concerts around the world in 2001 and recorded Through The Looking Glass together with Viktoria Mullova for Decca, as well as duo recitals), Django Bates and Nikki Yeoh, who wrote a set of pieces for me that we toured with solo Bach suites in Europe in 2000. Recently I have bumped into the world music scene a lot, principally through my collaborations with Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, who is the most revered living and working sarod player, and one of the most respected north Indian musicians touring today. We first met in 1999 when I had a 24 hour stopover in Delhi on the way back from Australia to meet and discuss a proposal for a London concert, and we ended up playing the whole day, and loving it! Our first concert was in London at a sold-out Royal Festival Hall – it was a very exciting occasion, and my baptism by fire into the Indian music scene. We have worked quite a lot together since, in the UK, India, France, and the WOMAD festivals in Australia and New Zealand, and are both looking forward to more projects, discussing recordings and tours and a double concerto for sarod and cello and string orchestra. Our first recording has just come out – Strings Attached, on Navras.
At the WOMAD festivals, I worked with many musicians, like the amazing Californian slide-guitarist Bob Brozman; Ernest Ranglin, the legendary Jamaican guitarist and one-time mentor of Bob Marley, and Andy Smith – very talented Irish songwriter and poet. A highlight of WOMAD was organizing the All-Star gala finale for the festivals when they happened in Adelaide and New Zealand, where I wrote a new song with Cara Dillon (a new star on the scene from Ireland), and fabulous singer/songwriter from Benin, Julien Jacob, and also got to work with the wonderful Temple of Sound.
I have just enormously enjoyed some concerts in Cyprus with multi-instrumentalist Ross Daly, where we worked on songs from the Balkans in impossible time signatures like 22/8 and 18/8
Over the years, I have also taken part in other projects with Talvin Singh, and the extraordinary singer, Grace Nono from the Philippines; jazz singer Ian Shaw, African composer and kora player Tunde Jegede, folk/rock band The Hothouse Flowers, and the Genhoken School for traditional instruments in Tokyo, Japan. | {
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Kashima Antlers
Kashima Antlers (鹿島アントラーズ, Kashima Antorāzu) are a Japanese professional association football club playing in the J1 League with financial backing from the Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal.https://en.wikipedi…iki/Kashima_Antlers
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Leo Silva and Serginho scored second-half goals on Saturday as Kashima Antlers beat Iran's Persepolis 2-0 in the first leg of the Asian Champions League final. Silva played a neat one-two with Shoma Doi on the edge of the Persepolis penalty area and ...
KASHIMA, Ibaraki Prefecture--Leo Silva and Serginho scored second half goals on Saturday as Kashima Antlers beat Iran's Persepolis 2-0 in the first leg of the Asian Champions League final. Silva opened the scoring on a left-footed shot from the top of ...
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Feeding the Beast During SHTF – Soups & Substitutions
Sometimes we may feel pigeonholed or daunted by the storage foods we can afford, or overwhelmed by how we’re going to use those storage foods without the endless repetition taking a toll. Here are some formulas and ideas for turning common storage foods into actual meals, increasing the variety of meals we can make with a few standard ingredients, and some substitutions that can lower our costs or improve the serving size, nutrition, and flavor of our cooking.
I’m not a big baker and I don’t thrill to the stove top – only the dinner table. Given the amount of work a lot of us are going to be doing just hauling water where it’s needed, plus the labor of gardens and any animals, rearing our children, cooking from scratch, cleaning without a dishwasher and washer-dryer, I’m planning to go simple with a lot of my cooking. So even if you’re not a big cook, there are ideas here that can help, ideas that can be made even with off-grid cooking methods.
Replacements
While I’ll get into some specifics in a minute or two, one thing to consider in our disaster cooking is simple substitutions.
Wheat is commonly pushed for home storage due to the price and condensed calories, and then people feel obligated to buy a grinder, and then they feel like slackers for not practicing their home-ground wheat flour bread options. I do think we should practice what we plan to use, but I don’t think everybody with buckets of wheat actually has to view it as only a future bread dough.
Wheat can be boiled and served with the same seasonings as every side dish, from herbed buttered noodles to fried rice.
Whole wheat berries & fruit in cream
Wheat berry & white bean soup
It can also be boiled to be part of or replace oatmeal and cream of wheat (soaking it overnight will make it boil faster in the morning).
If there’s a soup that calls for barley, couscous, or rice, wheat will work there, too, and cooks in about the same amount of time as barley, maybe a hair longer if it’s stored oxygen free and is older than 2-3 years (45-60 minutes usually, without a pre-soak).
Having an alternative use for the first 50-300# (or more) of wheat can buy us a little more time before we get pushed into buying not only a good grain mill, but then all the replacements for it.
Point in fact, most of our grains, from starchy dent corn to barley, wheat to quinoa, and amaranth to rice are fairly interchangeable. They take different times to cook in some cases, they definitely have their own flavors, but there’s little that can’t be made to work for any of them.
Likewise, spaghetti can be very easily used in place of an Oriental noodle, especially whole-grain spaghetti or angel hair pasta. That’s pretty handy, since even the good stuff is pretty cheap, and two pounds of spaghetti stores in about the same space than two packages of ramen.
Those substitutions exist all over.
And once we do get our grain mill, don’t neglect the other things in the pantry.
We can grind dry oats – even rolled oats – to replace part of our flour as well.
Old dry beans that don’t want to soften can be turned into flour to replace a quarter or a third of a recipe, either bread or fry batter or even for gravies.
Until recent times, we used flours from barley and maize as often as we did wheat, and a lot of the world still uses them – just as often or as a partial replacement for flavoring. So can boiled or roasted acorns. We can grind dry oats – even rolled oats – to replace part of our flour as well. Doing so can sometimes to often improve the protein components of our foods, decrease the glycemic index, and help us use something that’s not really moving in our pantries.
That inexpensive oatmeal can also be turned into homemade granola bars, muffins, and griddle cakes, decreasing the amount of flour we need to use and providing a fork or finger-food in a world of spoons.
Recipes
When seeking out recipes specifically for preppers, a fair number use a lot of ingredients or require a fair bit of prep. Call me lazy, but I’m just not there, even in today’s world. Camping and backpacking recipes regularly seem to call for things we might not have on hand anymore, too, and a lot of perishable foods these days.
One, a lot of the no-fire, no-gas cooking methods really lend themselves to such. Two, the less ingredients and effort, the more time reading with kids, playing a game, or sitting with my eyes closed listening. I kind of like those options better.
Pioneer Soup
If you’ve heard of 3-5-7 can soups, you’re familiar with this. It’s basically just a rule of thumb to help check the boxes on the main “eating” components:
Filling/satiety
Fast-access energy
Slow-access energy
Proteins
Vitamins
The general concept is to pull 1-2 items from each category to make sure the body is getting all the nutrients it needs, which is increased by consuming a rainbow. That said, even I don’t make broth with just one seasoning. Still, the lists from the guidelines can help.
The breakdowns are nice as more than a check-box guide to make sure nutritional needs are being met.
Sometimes soup get pigeonholed, which is a shame, because from a creamy red bean and rice soup to veggie to chicken-noodle to some of the Oriental soups and things like borsch and solyanka, we have a ton of options available to us. Even working off of simple, cheap, condensed-calorie prepper staples and garden veggies or wild edibles, we can present a huge variety.
Alternating what we combine and even how we serve it can help avoid appetite fatigue, which is another aspect where limiting ourselves to 1-2 items from each category can help.
How we present soups can make a big difference as well, creating significantly different feels to meals even with the exact same ingredients, or very minor twitches.
That applies whether we use the 5-F method, or one of the other guides.
One of those other common formulas for pioneer soup breaks it into three fuel categories – the primary fats, proteins, starches – and then three filler (belly filling, short on calories) and flavor components:
Soup Alternates
Part of what makes soup an economy food is that the broth helps us feel full and increases the satisfaction from the meal.
That said, we can break apart our general standard for pioneer or 7-can soup and still get the benefits of economical belly filling balance and variety.
A pasta salad can easily be made from storage foods and fresh garden or foraged goodies, especially if we plan ahead for something like powdered Parmesan cheese that can be a pick-me-up. Three or four roasted autumn veggies on a pile of fresh or wilted leafy greens creates another fork-ready meal.
We can turn our protein component into a creamed soup or just serve a broth beside either of them to get some of the belly filling aspects back, or incorporate dried beans or cut-up dry sausage (or Slim Jims).
Shrimp Tacos
Likewise, we can turn simple ash cakes or thinned-down Bisquick into tortillas or crepes, mix up a cabbage slaw, and bust open a can of small shrimp to sear in fajita spices as a pick me up. Just a few shrimp and a couple of tacos can provide the mental boost of a non-spoon meal, even served with a pile of rice on the side and-or a cup of spicy black bean puree soup.
Instant Potatoes
Potato buds that say they’re ready to eat and just need water are telling bald-faced lies. That said, instant mashed potatoes are in a lot of kits and come pretty inexpensively on their own. Even without extra seasonings and evaporated milk for them, instant potatoes have a lot of value, especially in conjunction with our pioneer soups.
One, little says I love you like a wedge of shepherd’s pie. We can use those general basic flavorings to make a brothier version to make it stretch further, or increase the veggies beyond the usual ratios.
We can also indulge in things like a broth-heavy roasted marrow meal or just serve our Bear Creek or homemade beef or veggie soup with a happy mound of potatoes to the side or right in the middle. The seasonings from the soups will (hopefully) help mask the bland flavor, and it creates a different presentation – which is good for the mental aspects of eating, especially if a lot of our diet is rice and beans and boiled wheat.
Two, instant potatoes can be turned into goodies like potato pancakes. Or, we can mix them as directed (even in cold water; they’ll absorb it in a minute) and then bake them off to create a pseudo-dumpling or biscuit with little effort and little clean-up.
Instant potatoes can be turned into goodies like potato pancakes.
Instant potatoes also make a great thickener for our soups. We can use them to create a gravy-like broth or to imitate a creamed soup or chowder. They can also make a nice, easy flavor and calorie base for standard potato chowder without taking as much time as potatoes would to cook and mash.
Assortment of foodstuffs with a high fiber content, including various fruits and vegetables, wholemeal bread and baked beans.
Emergency Foods
While things like soup and the common basics for food storage focus around economy, it doesn’t mean we have to break the bank to jazz it up one way or another. We can avoid falling into ruts – now and later – by figuring out new ways to use the items we already have.
We can apply a little creativity and still get meals that offer variety by adding in a few things like a variety of pasta and some feel-good seasonings like powdered parm and fajita spices. Spices and sauces like soy, Dale’s, Old Bay (or the generic) and Adobo powder pack a lot of bang for the buck. We can make use of things like hot radishes, sprouts, microgreens, and wild edibles to season and bulk up our serving sizes.
We can also ease our workloads by harkening back to pottage with soups, casseroles, and one-pot meals.
In some cases, examining where we stand on our preparedness arc and how balanced our preparedness health wheels are invaluable, because it can help us decide if we need something expensive like a good grinder or a wood stove, or if our storage is at a point where a smaller set of fixes makes more sense – at least for now. Being able to buy inexpensive foods like grains, pasta and dry beans, and still create filling, varied, satisfying meals out of them, can help open up the budget for those items.
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Yum. Great tips as usual. When is that book coming out… I have a lot of tins of ham which would be a Christmas thing in shtf being vegan now and mainly vegan after the civilization ends. That and sage stuffing combined with fall vege and potatoes will mean Christmas gets its due even in the bunker. We are heavily using a spiroliza (spelling is off) and making faux spaghetti from zucchini. Venturing into raw food a bit (not entirely) but only to jazz up our meals. I am reluctant to buy the heavy duty grain mill but I read… Read more »
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Thanks, H! I suspect I sent Pat a pre-edit version. Like, I started scanning with one eye squeezed closed and my palm on my head. Bless his heart for not sending it back going “are you sure it’s this one”? I have one of those twisty things you can do the noodles and ribbons with for squashes, carrots, radishes and small turnips and things. It ends up getting used more for the cutesy aspect, because I’m a spaghetti squash fan and my cheap mini mandolin is right there by the sink easy to clean, so I end up just fine… Read more »
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Hi RA,
I’m a fat vegan, beer, wine, and bread are my only foods.
No a Spiralizer.
For zuccini., etc use it and add 50:50 noodles. Stretches pasta stores and makes for a different experience at the table.
We don’t use spir. the algie. Fads we don’t follow much.
Having a blizzard today in south central Ontario. Dogs very, very unhappy.
Happy Eatin!
Hups
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The Deplorable Cruella DeVille
Good article as usual! One other possibility I’m exploring is soy bean. The farmers grow literally tons of it around here, and while walking one of my get home routes this weekend I happened upon a 500 acre field of soy bean that had been left to dry in the field before harvesting. I also noted that even following the harvest, there was a significant amount of intact crop still in the field. Doing some quick research it seems that the dried bean requires lots of water and boiling to process to edibility. Has anyone else run across this? It… Read more »
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Hi Cruella, I grew some this Summer and just ate them raw. Interesting taste and texture. Not bad as an add on to a salad but wouldn’t eat a lot that way. Crop yield was not great either. Careful about GMO soya. No point in eating pesticides. Russia developed this in World War Two. I’ve not read up on how to alter raw beans into ‘milk’ and bricks. On the To Do List. I’d suggest trying to sprout some of those beans and see what happens. If they sprout easily then processing should be like regular dried beans which need… Read more »
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I’ve ground some of the dry beans for coarse flour, but I haven’t tried to cook them.
See if a few sprout. There’s a method for making grains and beans more digestible where you sprout them to just teeny-tiny tails. They also cook faster when sprouted. It changes flavors some, and it’s the only way I actually like soy beans.
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Cheers!
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Maybe google tofu making,,,
From the fermented suybean theres all sorts of good stuff, one thing i was reading is that your body has a hard time processing soybeans and that fermented is the best way and easiest on your system,,
Im going to do some downloading myself now, ya got me thinking
Something i love and dont get tired of is rustic home made tortillas with a filling of a rough salsa, tomato, onion, hot peppers, maybe put some lettuce and pork or chicken if you have, or can all just come from the garden, try making your own flour and using, bean, rice, barley and oat flour mixed for the tortillas, good stuff
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Very cool! Thank you!
I went back to that field, (now harvested, and replanted in winter wheat), earlier this AM – in 10 minutes I was able to scrounge a burlap sack full of mixed husks/beans – maybe 5% of the field. About 50 pounds. It took 20 minutes to separate down to ~40 pounds of dried beans. “If” the nutritional value is as high as rumored, it has real potential. I’m also going to see what percentage will actually sprout with an eye toward a staple crop.
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Hi, from what i have found, almost all varieties of soybeans can be harvested while pods are still green and beans are soft but full, then can boil/salt to eat as edamame, some better than others but pretty much all can be used like that too
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I think in a SHTF situation soups and stews are going to be much more predominant. You can throw just about anything you want into them including veggies,beans ,rice and whatever meat or other seasoning you have or are able to acquire. This along with bread of some sort has been the staple for thousands of years and will be again if the balloon goes up.
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Corporate deals win Kenyan law firms top ratings
Kenya’s emerging law firms took on their established rivals to bag mega corporate deals and win top ranking in the list of the world’s leading attorneys.
Newly released ranking of law firms by London-based Legal 500 magazine has placed three Kenyan law firms, Iseme, Kamau and Maema Advocates (IKM), Oraro & Company Advocates, and TripleOKlaw Advocates, in Tier One category of attorneys.
The Tier One category has traditionally been the preserve of a small clique of elite law firms that have been in existence since independence, have the financial depth to attract and retain top talent as well as expertise in specialised areas.
Legal 500 magazine reckons that despite a slowdown in mergers and acquisitions in Kenya, corporate lawyers cashed in on Nairobi’s position as a regional commercial hub to rake in fees from other areas such as construction and energy.
“Project development and project finance continue to be important areas for firms as Kenya further develops its infrastructure and pushes forward cornerstone energy projects. Mixed-use urban developments have also driven the real estate scene,” said Jonathan Armstrong, editor in charge of Africa at Legal 500.
“Kenya’s legal market is regarded as being one of the most sophisticated in Africa,” said the magazine, which published the rankings on April 12.
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Investors searching for advice in foreign jurisdictions where they do not have knowledge of local legal environment use the ranking of law firms by entities such as Legal 500 and Chambers Global as a guide, making them critical in the battle for clients.
George Oraro, a senior partner at Oraro & Company Advocates, made it to the Legal 500 top tier ranking in the field of dispute resolution for representing Telkom Kenya in a protracted labour row with more than 2,000 sacked employees.
A consent to settle the dispute out of court was entered in December 2015 and saw the retrenched employees walk away with a Sh1.8 billion compensation.
Fred Ojiambo, a senior partner at Kaplan & Stratton, and Aisha Abdallah of Anjarwalla & Khanna have been recognised as Kenya’s star lawyers on litigation and dispute resolution.
TripleOKlaw Advocates and Oraro & Co made it to Tier One ranking in the employment category alongside Hamilton Harrison & Mathews, and Coulson Harney.
Legal 500 cited John Ohaga and James Oduol, partners at TripleOKlaw, as top litigators in employment matters — singling them out for successfully defending the troubled Kenya Airways #ticker:KQ against a redundancy claim from 447 employees laid off by the national carrier.
Fred Ojiambo (left) - a senior partner at Kaplan & Stratton and John Ohaga (right) of TripleOKlaw were recognised by Legal 500 as some of Kenya’s star lawyers. PHOTOS | FILE | NMG
Chacha Odera, a managing partner at Oraro & Co, is named as having “a strong record in employment disputes” for successfully representing Telkom Kenya in a high-stakes labour dispute.
IKM managing partner James Kamau and lawyer Beatrice Nyabira were the legal brains behind a consortium of banks that financed the $2 billion Lamu coal plant.
The controversial project is bankrolled by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ($1.2 billion) and South Africa’s Standard Bank ($300 million).
Hamilton Harrison & Mathews advised Gulf Energy, which jointly owns the Lamu coal project with Centum, to feature in the Legal 500 premier league under the projects and energy category.
Karim Anjarwalla, Amyn Mussa and Mona Doshi were feted for acting as legal counsel in Two Rivers, the largest shopping mall in Kenya.
Alex Njage is noted for his ‘wide-ranging legal knowledge,’ while Kaplan & Stratton Advocates are recognised for their role in helping AAR Insurance acquire two properties on Kiambu Road for a hospital project. | {
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It was launched by Aneurin Bevan in 1948 and now 70 years later the NHS is celebrating a landmark anniversary.
File photo of the NHS logo as the National Health Service (NHS) prepares to celebrate its 70th anniversary. Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Much has changed as the health service has evolved to reach its platinum year, but the core values of meeting the needs of everyone, being free at the point of delivery, and being based on clinical need, not the ability to pay.
In 1948 Mr Bevan, then health minister, dubbed the NHS the “biggest single experiment in social service that the world has ever seen undertaken”.
The next year, in 1949, the health service was given the power to charge for prescriptions and by 1952 the NHS could charge one shilling (5p) for a prescription and a flat rate of £1 for dental treatment.
Up until 1954 parents of children in hospital had only been allowed to visit them for an hour on Saturdays and Sundays but paediatricians Sir James Spence in Newcastle and Alan Moncriff at Great Ormond Street Hospital changed this and introduced daily visiting.
File photo of health secretary Jeremy Hunt. Photo: Neil Hall/PA Wire
By 1959 polio and diphtheria vaccines were introduced for children under 15 and led to a dramatic drop in cases.
It was also an important decade for mental illness, as the Mental Health Act prioritised community care over asylums and aimed to make mental illness as important as physical illness.
At the turn of the decade, the first UK kidney transplant took place at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and the next year, in 1961, there was a revolution when the contraceptive pill was made widely available.
It was also the year of Enoch Powell’s water tower speech, considered one of the biggest milestones of the revolution in mental health treatment.
The same arguments that rage in the health service today were also present in 1962 as the medical profession warred over the separation of the NHS into three parts - hospitals, GPs, and health authorities.
By 1967 abortion was legalised, while in 1968 Britain saw its first heart transplant and the birth of sextuplets after fertility treatment.
CT scanners, now commonplace, revolutionised the way doctors examined the body in 1972.
And in 1978 the world’s first test-tube baby Louise Brown was born, on July 25. More than one million children worldwide have since been conceived by IVF.
Stock photo of a CT scanner. Photo: NNUH
More technological advances in the 1980s prompted MRI scanners to be introduced.
The decade is also known for the shock AIDS health campaign, after a number of high-profile deaths.
The NHS as we know it today first started to form in 1990, when health trusts were created as providers of care.
The 90s also played host to the setting up of the organ donation register, in 1994. It followed a five-year campaign by John and Rosemary Cox from the West Midlands. In 1989, their 24-year-old son Peter died of a brain tumour. He had asked for his organs to be used to help others.
Into the new millennium walk-in centres were introduced and the NHS Plan brought about the biggest changes to healthcare since 1948.
The much referenced A&E targets, where patients are not supposed to spend more than four hours in A&E were launched in 2002.
In 2007 smoking was banned in public places in England, and a revolutionary robotic arm was used at St Mary’s Hospital, London, to treat patients for fast or irregular heartbeats.
By 2008 patients were allowed to choose any hospital or clinic which meets NHS standards to receive their care in.
In the same year Lord Darzi launched his Next Stage Review, the biggest consultation process in the history of the NHS which involved more than 60,000 staff and members of the public.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) was launched in April 2009 as a new regulator for health, mental health and adult social care. And also in 2009 patients were told they should not wait more than 18 weeks for treatment.
In the last eight years one of the most controversial changes to the NHS was Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Act, which put clinicians at the centre of commissioning.
The NHS was celebrated in the London Olympic Games opening ceremony in 2012. More than 600 nurses and other healthcare workers joined Danny Boyle’s army of volunteers during the extravaganza.
Now, as the NHS moves forward, there is to be more reform. But one thing is for certain , the NHS is loved across the country and held dear by many. | {
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NY-19: Rhodes Plans RV Tour
Democratic congressional candidate Gareth Rhodes on Tuesday is kicking of an RV tour — a “Rhodes Trip” he’s dubbed it — of the sprawling 19th congressional district in the Hudson Valley.
Rhodes is among the crowded field of Democratic candidates in the House district seeking to take on Republican Rep. John Faso next year in what is expected to be a battleground race.
Rhodes plans to travel to all 163 towns and cities in the district in a 1999 Ford Winnebago RV.
“I believe anyone who wants to represent this community in Congress owes the respect to look every person here in NY-19 in the eye,” Rhodes said. “Listen to your hopes and concerns. Earn your trust and answer the tough questions,” Gareth Rhodes said. “So I’m hitting the road and am going to all 163 towns and cities in NY-19 to do what our current member of Congress refuses to: have the respect to show up and listen to your hopes, your concerns, your ideas, and share my vision for the future of this community.”
He’s not the first candidate for office to go with the RV approach. Rhdoes’s former boss, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, traveled in an RV to tour upstate New York during his campaign for governor in 2010.
“Between now and Election Day, I’ll be coming to you,” Rhodes said. “And unlike John Faso and the typical politicians that only show up in your mailbox or on your TV, I’ll be there in person. At your door, your local diner, your farm, your firehouse, talking about why I’m so hopeful for our future. And this “Rhodes Trip” isn’t just a one-time effort. Once elected to Congress, I pledge to travel to all 163 towns and cities in NY-19 every year.”
And in a district that has seen its share of Democratic candidates with tenuous ties to the area, Democratic political observer Bruce Gyory said Rhodes’s trip is a good idea.
“The last two cycles Democrats were hurt by the carpetbagger charges effectively leveled by the GOP against Eldridge and Teachout,” Gyory said. “Rhodes grew up in the district and this tour underscores those roots. What may be dismissed as a stunt by some may appear to voters as a marker for hard work and a dogged campaign style. The enduring impact of the tour will likely be driven by what comes after it is over.” | {
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Friday, October 10, 2008
The Gathered Church
The Gathered ChurchColossians 3:12-17 Part Two
Scripture Introduction:
Are you struggling in your walk with Christ? Perhaps you are lacking passion. You find it hard to read Scripture. Prayer seems dry. Evangelism is not even an option with your spiritual dryness. If you were to describe your spiritual walk it would be like a man stumbling through the desert trying to find a drop of water. Over your head you see buzzards swarming ready for your final fall so that they can have a little lunch. You feel spiritually barren; a wasteland. Numb to spiritual things. The world is looking more appealing every day. You do not want to live this way but you cannot seem to help it. What are you going to do to get back on track? I think I can help you give some advice—we give better advice to others than ourselves. Rather than this being you in a spiritual wasteland, let us pretend it’s your friend. What would advice would you give for this person to get back on track? Think about it for a moment.
Now, let’s change our story a bit. Here you have a man. A few feet apart from him in a mason jar you have his ex-hand. You get an exclusive interview with the hand. (Did I fail to mention that as we are imagining this—that body parts can talk?). The hand tells you about how he used to feel blood flowing through his veins. He felt so alive, so connected. It was rough sometimes. Occasionally the head would get mad because the hand did not quite cooperate. Occasionally the hand would get hurt because the other hand could not effectively use a hammer. But life was good. You felt alive. Now the hand begins to describe his life like a man stumbling through the desert, desperate for a drop of water. But he says that his case may be even worse—rather than stumbling through the desert he’s just laying there getting picked apart by buzzards without much hope.
So, what caused the wasteland experience of the hand? It was disconnected from the body its life source. Might I submit to you that the very same thing is true of you? In your list of advice for your spiritually dry friend did you mention that they ought to be vitally connected to the body of Christ. They ought to do more than just attend church—they ought to be active within the church. Did you mention that the only way for believers to grow is through being connected with other believers? I believe I have said it before and I will say it again: you will not effectively grow in your walk with Christ apart from the body of Christ. A hand severed from the body does not grow.
Tonight we will be looking at Colossians 3:12-17 and focusing on verse 15-17. As you are turning there remember the context. Paul has been encouraging the church at Colossae and reminding them that fullness if found in Jesus Christ alone. He warns them against the teaching of those in Colossae that are discouraging them and attempting to lead them away from the gospel towards legalism. In Chapter 2 Paul drops the gauntlet and reminds the Colossians of what Christ has done in the life of the believer. In Chapter 3 Paul says, “now that you have been raised with Christ” and “now that your life is hidden with Christ in God” live like it. Essentially what he is saying is you have been placed into a new community and transferred from the old one. Now change your clothes. Throw off the dead, dying, and dung covered clothes from the old world and put on the new. That is where we are tonight—putting on the new:
READ COLOSSIANS 3:12-17
Sermon Introduction:
If it is very important for us to be an active part of this new community—the church, then we probably ought to define for a moment what the church actually is. Church is not a building. Church is an assembly or gathering of the “called out ones”. “Church” can happen whenever a group of girls that are believers meet with my wife at our house. “Church” can happen whenever a group of believing teenagers gathers in the youth chapel. “Church” however finds a more full expression in the local gathered assembly of believers. In Hebrews when it says not to forsake the assembly it is speaking of the gathering of the local assembly of believers. This is why you need to be in attendance in more than just youth group. You need to not only be actively in fellowship with your peers but biblically you need to be actively involved within the local body of believers—adults, children, etc. Finally, “Church” will find its most full expression in heaven when the universal church, “people from every tribe, tongue, nation, and language, will come to worship before the Lord”.
Tonight, when we talk about church I do not want you to primarily think of church as a small group of believers gathering for a worship service or Bible Study. I also do not want you to primarily think of church as our gathering of teenagers on Wednesday evenings. I want you to think about the local assembly of believers within the local body of Christ. Not necessarily Sunday mornings or Sunday night but the gathered congregation as a whole. This is the Church that we are talking about. Hopefully through the introduction to this sermon and sermons in the past your have gathered the importance of gathering with a group of believers. But, this begs a question—what should happen whenever the local congregation gathers? What should the church “do” at these gathered assemblies? Before I launch into the answers I know that you have your own. You have your own preferences about church. There are probably some things about attending these gathered assemblies that you do not like.
What type of messages would you prefer the preacher to preach? Topical—where he picks a topic and tells you about it. Would you prefer “How to” messages? Do you want the pastor to go through one book at a time? Do you want him to slowly unfold the message of the Bible and make it relevant for your life? Should the preacher be energetic? Do you want visual aids like power point? Do you even want a preacher to preach—would you prefer an open discussion? What should the church building look like? What type of carpet? What color should the walls be? Should we have a Cross somewhere? If so, where? Should the baptistery be elevated so everybody can see the baptisms? Should we use such modern technology as power point? What about the sound—should we have state of the art sound equipment or get by with what is necessary? Should we build on to accommodate more people? At the beginning of the service should the pastor acknowledge the visitors some how? What about at the end? Should we give an altar call at the end of the service? Should we put the number of baptisms on a board? Should we display our tithes and offerings and attendance? How should we do tithes and offerings? Should we pass the plate or do it later? How often should we partake of the Lord’s Supper? When we do how should it be done? And let us not forget the music. Should it be traditional? Should it be high-churchy with all the organs and candles and all that stuff? Should it be only hymns? Only contemporary? Should we use drama? What type of music should be sang? How should it be sung? Should we use musical instruments? How many? Should we try to blend all of these together so that we have a little bit of traditional and a little bit of contemporary? Some hymns and some praise and worship choruses. Should the choir sing? Should we have a choir? When should they sing? Where should they sing?
Now, these are only a few of the questions that a church has to face when they gather. There have been others throughout the centuries. Should we use icons—like statues of the Apostle Paul? Some of those have been resolved. Others, like the music and preaching questions, are forever being changed and rethought. These, and many others, are what have split churches. Many of these questions may not have one right biblical answer—like the carpet question. But in this text in Colossians 3 I think Paul gives us three principles for answering such questions. What should we do in Church? Or you can even ask it like this, when I go to choose a church what three things should I look for?
One last thing before we discuss these three things. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ and you are saying, “I don’t really care” to these questions—even though that may seem really holy let me submit to you that it is not. These questions are essential, and you are answering them even by your refusal to seek an answer. What I mean is this. The church is inundated (overflowing) with pew potatoes; people who sit on their rear within the gathering of the local body and throughout the overall life and ministry of the church. “I do not really care what the church does so long as I get fed”. That is the attitude and it is wrong. We must be very much concerned about the life of the Church and whether we as part of the Church are biblical. So, now lets look at three things a church ought to do in their gatherings.
I. A gathered church ought to be a peaceful church
In verse 15, Paul says, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful”. The idea of thankfulness is one that you will find in every verse—we will come back to thankfulness in the end. For now we will focus on the peace of Christ.
Peace is something that we all long for, is it not? Peace is something that we would love to see in our world. Peace is something that we would love to have in our own hearts. You know what peace means but it is kind of hard to define. It’s one of those emotions like love that you just know what it is but words escape you when you try to express it. The word here for peace is a word that means joining together two things that are separate. When two parties are at war (separate) then they sign a peace treaty, they are joined together. Whenever there are contrary feelings in our souls and they are brought together we experience peace. Whenever we are separated and alienated from God and draws us to Himself and brings us into fellowship with Him we have peace. That is the peace that is being spoken of in this text; the peace of Christ--the peace that Christ provides and the peace of soul that Christ imparts to believers.
Essentially peace is reconciliation. This is what God has done through transferring us into this new community. He has reconciled us to Himself, “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”. Or as Paul said in Colossians, “And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind…he has now reconciled…” But it is not only reconciliation to God that has happened. He has also reconciled us to one another and brought us into unity in one body. We have been reconciled racially, culturally, and socially. This is the essential point of Ephesians 2:11-22 that the elemental dividing wall of the people of Israel and the Gentiles has been torn down. As Ephesians 2:14 says of Christ, “For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility”. This is the same thing that Paul is saying in Colossians 2:11, “Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.”
This is the peace of Christ, but what are we to do with it? What is the implication of this peace? This text says that we are to let it rule in our hearts. I want to bring a couple of things out from this phrase. First, notice that hearts is plural. So, you have all of these hearts with our opinions, our passions, and our drives, put together into this one assembly. Here at FBC New London we have some 200 hearts (depending on how you figure the numbers it could even be said to be 600) that are joined together into one body but we all are made differently. One person likes green carpet another likes hardwood floors. One person likes traditional music with a piano and an organ, another thinks the organ should be burnt and we should set up some drums and play contemporary music.
The picture is that all of these hearts are coming together into one setting. Now, what should take place with all of these hearts? How do we decide on green carpet or hardwood floors? We are to let the “peace of Christ” rule our hearts. The word for “rule” is the only time it is used in the New Testament. What it refers to is an Olympic judge; the guy that would award a medal or disqualify an athlete from his prize. This guy was the umpire. You can argue all you want but the umpire is the one that gets to make the call.
What this verse is saying is that when the church gathers it ought to gather in peace. Jim should not be ticked off with Jan. The young folk should not harbor bitterness to the old and the older folk should not harbor resentment of the young. There should be unity of peace. This verse is not saying that you should make individual decisions based upon whether or not you have “peace in your heart”. Perhaps you could find verses to support that theology but this is not one of them. This is speaking corporately. It is saying that we have been called into one body not 200, so with every decision, relationship, and gathering the peace of Christ ought to rule. As Sam Storms says, “A decisive factor in how you should conduct yourselves in relation one to another is whether or not the peace that Christ died to achieve and impart is preserved and promoted. When you are faced with tensions and potentially divisive decisions in the community of faith, give strong consideration to what will most effectively sustain the ‘peace of Christ’.”
This means that if you are not at peace with somebody in the body then you need to be reconciled with that person. Listen to what Jesus says in Matthew 5:23-24, “So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift”. If you are not reconciled with one another then our worship as a body will be hindered. We are to function as one body not 200.
II. A gathered church ought to be centered on Christ and His Word
In verse 16 Paul gives the second thing that should define the gathered church: we should be centered on Christ and His Word. If anyone has a KJV verse 16 probably reads the “Word of God”. This is really interesting the way that we come up with our Bible translations. Why does the King James say Word of God and the ESV and other modern translations say, “Word of Christ”? The modern translations use something other than the Greek manuscripts that the KJV editors used. The King James uses what is called the Textus Receptus. To make a long story short they use a manuscript that compiles Greek and Latin manuscripts from a somewhat later date than what the modern translators use. In other words the ESV uses manuscripts that have been found since 1611 to translate their text, while the KJV uses only the manuscripts that were available at that time. In translating if you have what is called a textual variant the one that is older usually gets the props. In our particular case the older manuscripts read that which is translated as “word of Christ”. The newer manuscripts used by the KJV read “word of God”. How do we know what is right?
One of the principles for translating is that the one that makes the least sense is probably the original. At first that does not seem like it makes sense, but when you understand why we have these textual variants it makes sense. Textual variants sometimes happened whenever the copyists would make notes out to the side and then whoever copied the copy would put the note in as part of the original. So, the logic goes, why would somebody replace something that made sense with something that does not make as much sense? All of that to say more than likely this should be translated word of Christ. What does that even mean? It means simply the word about Christ—in other words the Gospel. That which Paul said in 1:5, “of this you heard in the word of the truth, the gospel”. So, then what Paul is saying in verse 16 is that the gospel (and really all of Scripture relates to the gospel because it is all about Christ) ought to dwell in them richly. Again, this is not individual but corporate. This is speaking of the gathering of believers—the word of God ought to dwell—make its home in—the believers in abundance.
Now, we can take the second part of this verse in two ways. Is Paul saying that teaching and admonishing is something separate from the singing psalms? Or is Paul saying that the way teaching and admonishing happens by the means of singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs? Certainly it would be biblical to say the first one. We know that preaching was essential to the gathering of believers in the first century. We know from such places as 1 Timothy that the elder or pastor was supposed to “preach the word”. However, in this particular context I think Paul is actually saying the second—that the teaching and admonishing happens through the singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.
This is crucial for us to understand in all of our discussion about what music ought to be played in the church. According to this passage if it is not centered upon God in Christ and if it is not used for teaching and admonishing then it probably should not be played. I turn again to what Sam Storms says about this passage:
“At the core of our individual and corporate experience as God’s people must be the person and work of Jesus. The importance of this for today is easily seen with a quick glance at the predominant themes in our pulpits and on our platforms. Christ is largely absent! That’s not an overstatement. Obsessive preoccupation with self has usurped the place of Jesus in the life and ministry of countless churches. “
This is reiterated when we understand what Paul means by psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. The psalms are more than likely the Psalms of the OT—but could also be referring to that which uses musical instruments. The hymns are songs meant to honor God. As Augustine said that if it is a hymn then: It must be sung; it must be praise; it must be to God. The spiritual songs could perhaps have been impromptu songs that are motivated by the Spirit of God that testify of His Greatness. Remember in the early church they would not have had a hymnal, or power point or anything like that. More than likely these spiritual songs are spur of the moment songs that are motivated by the Spirit and exalting to Christ. And they were done for the edification of the body and would have been done in an orderly and united fashion. Perhaps we could even say that this is where some of our modern worship songs would come into play.
One thing that ties all these three together is that they are to be centered upon the word of Christ. No matter how nice and precious the song makes you feel if it’s more about you and less about God then it’s probably not to be part of our gathering. Furthermore, if they are not done in a spirit of thanksgiving then it’s not true worship either. Notice that for it to be true worship then it must be sung, “to God”, “with thanksgiving”, “in our hearts”. Mindless and heartless singing is detestable to God and is not worship no matter what style of music you choose.
So, how is your worship? Is it passionate? Is it to God? Is it biblical? Is it centered on the word of Christ? Is your worship Christ-centered?
III. The gathered church is to be for the glory of God
I think I am going to preach on this text next week, so let me say this in passing before next time. The church is not about man. It is not about what you want, what you desire, what your opinions are. It is about you being fed. It is about you growing. It is about you enjoying God. But this happens not by focusing on you and making church about you…this happens by being swallowed up in a vision that is so much greater than yourself—the glory of God. Church is about reaching people. Church is about teaching people. Church is about ministering to our needs. Church is about you. But more than anything Church is about God and for His glory. That is the way to answer all of your questions.
So what are three things that define a biblical church—1) It is united. 2) It is Christ-Centered 3) It is glory of God focused.
In closing I want to return to the thread that runs through each of these verses—thankfulness to God. Why is it that God says be thankful, in one way or another, all throughout this text? I think that it is because we ought to be thankful because each of these blessings is a blood-bought purchase of Jesus Christ. How do we have unity in the church? How are we reconciled to God? How are we reconciled to one another? Because of the Gospel! What makes us Christ-centered? How do we even have an understanding of the word of Christ? How is it to dwell in us richly? Because of the Gospel! What will make us glory of God focused? The Gospel! We are to be thankful in all of these areas because they are purchased by Christ.
This is why if you are here tonight and separated from Christ you might attend the gathering of believers but you cannot rightly worship. You cannot rightly worship first of all because you have not been reconciled yet to God. You are not Christ-centered because you are focused on your self and not Christ. You are not glory of God focused. Until you come to know Jesus Christ you cannot right be a part of the gathering of believers. Church will be strange and boring to you. You need Jesus. | {
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Yasi, can you be more specific? Generally the only difference between canned dog food and canned cat food is taurine that is added for kitties. Some dog food has taurine in it but you have to read the labels. I don't suggest giving dry dog food and I certainly wouldn't feed a cat rice. Carbs and grains are not good for cats. They are obligate carnivores and can not process or get nutritional value from things like vegetables and rice.
Whooo! Don't do it unless you have to and only for a very limited time.
There is a big difference between protein requiremenbts for cats versus dogs. Cats need a higher protein load. A few nibbles of dog food won't hurt but don't make it a regular thing. Cats are obligate carnivores, dogs are like people - omnivores. They can eat things a cats cannot digest - non plants, veggies, etc. Feed a cat dog food long enough and it will bring about some severe health issues. A cat could literally go blind and develop cardiac issues.
I agree with Daigon: I would never feed food formulated for dogs to a cat exclusively.
In addition to not having enough taurine or protein for cats:
Dog foods often use beta carotene as a source of vitamin A and tryptophan as a source of niacin. Cats, unlike dogs and humans, can't convert beta carotene and tryptophan into vitamin A and niacin.
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Cats also need an amino acid called cysteine, which is not usually added to dog food.
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And [on account of] their saying: "We
killed the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Messenger of Allah." They
did not kill him and they did not crucify him, but it was made to seem
so to them. Those who argue about him are in doubt about it. They have
no real knowledge of it, just conjecture. But they certainly did not
kill him.
(Qur'an, 4:157)
OTHER EVIDENCE THAT THE PROPHET JESUS
(PBUH) IS NOT DEAD
n this chapter,
we will look at other evidence that Jesus (pbuh) is not dead and that
he will return to Earth.
Allah refers in the Qur'an about the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) miraculous birth, his message to and struggle against his unbelieving society, his miracles by His' grace, and his disciples. Allah also reveals that he will return to Earth near the Day of Judgment. We have already looked in some detail at Surah Al 'Imran:55 and Surat an-Nisa' :157-158, which indicate, according to their lexical meanings and the interpretations of the vast majority of Islamic scholars and commentators, that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) did not die. This evidence can be listed, as follows:
1. The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was neither killed nor crucified.
2. The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was raised to Allah's Presence.
3. The unbelievers were shown someone resembling him.
4. The unbelievers' ideas on this subject consist of conjecture and speculation.
5. He is a sign of the Day of Judgment.
6. . Allah taught him the Book – in other words, the Qur'an – in addition to the Torah and the Gospel.
7. The People of the Book will obey him when he returns.
8. Those who follow him will be made superior to the unbelievers until
the Day of Judgment.
9. He will return to Earth as an adult and will speak to people.
10. He will die after he comes again.
The Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) return to Earth, one of the most important and greatest events in world history, is revealed in the Qur'an. Such good news will both increase the enthusiasm of those believers awaiting his second coming with joy and excitement, and will also cause them to accelerate their preparations for this event. On the other hand, this evidence will also remind those who have not really thought about this event and, hopefully, will cause them to raise their awareness of the issue.
The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) Is a "Sign of the Hour"
In addition to revealing that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is still alive, Allah reveals in the Qur'an that he will return:
When an example is made of the son of Maryam, your people laugh uproariously. They retort: "Who is better, then, our deities or him?" They only say this to you for argument's sake. They are indeed a disputatious people. He is only a servant upon whom We bestowed Our blessing and whom We made an example for the Children of Israel. If We willed, We could appoint angels in exchange for you to succeed you on Earth. (Surat az-Zukhruf: 57-60)
Allah states in the next verse that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is a sign of the Day of Judgment:
He [Jesus] is a Sign of the Hour. Have no doubt about it, but follow Me. This is a straight path. (Surat az-Zukhruf:61)
The first meaning of this verse is that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is a sign or a precondition of the Day of Judgment. We can confidently say that this verse indicates his return, because he lived six centuries before the Qur'an's revelation. Therefore, we cannot consider his first life as a sign of the Day of Judgment. Allah indicates in the verse that he will return toward the End Times or, in other words, right before the Day of Judgment. In that context, his return is a sign of the Hour's imminent arrival.
Some say that the pronoun hu (he/it) in this expression refers to the Qur'an. However, when one looks at other verses, it appears that whenever hu stands for the Qur'an, the Book is inevitably referred to in either the preceding or following verse. Alternatively, other expressions show that the Qur'an is the subject. Some of these verses are as follows:
When they are told: "Believe in what Allah has sent down," they say: "Our faith is in what was sent down to us," and they reject anything beyond that, even though it [the Qur'an] is the truth, confirming what they have. Say: "Why then, if you believe, did you previously kill the prophets of Allah?" (Surat al-Baqara:91)
They are the ones whom Allah has guided, so be guided by their guidance. Say: "I do not ask you for any wage for it. It [the Qur'an] is simply a reminder to all beings." (Surat al-An'am:90)
We have sent it [the Qur'an] down with truth, and with truth it has come down. We only sent you to bring good news and to warn. We have divided up the Qur'an, so that you can recite it to humanity at intervals, and We have sent it down little by little. Say: "Believe in it or do not believe in it." Certainly, when it is recited to them, those who were given knowledge before it fall on their faces in prostration. (Surat al-Isra’:105-107)
It [the Qur'an] is certainly a reminder to you and
to your people, and you will be questioned. (Surat az-Zukhruf:44)
My signs were recited to you, and you turned on your heels, arrogant toward it, talking arrant nonsense all night long. Do they not ponder these words [the Qur'an]? Has anything come to them that did not come to their ancestors, the previous peoples? (Surat al-Muminun:66-68)
When one looks at the verses in Surat az-Zukhruf, one can see that the Qur'an is not being referred to in either the verses immediately preceding or following the reference to "a Sign of the Hour." The verses are referring to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). Therefore, the pronoun in question also refers to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). In fact, based on both the verses and on reliable hadith, great Islamic scholars state that in this case, hu does refer to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). Abu Hurayra, Ibn `Abbas, Qatada, Malik ibn Dinar, Thabit ibn al-Dahhak, Abu Razin, Abu `Ali `Abd al-Rahman, Humayd, and Ibn al-Muhaysin say that the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming is a sign of the Day of Judgment..63
The appearance of Jesus (pbuh) is a sign of the approach of the Day of Judgment because his appearance is a sign of the Last Day. His descent to Earth is proof that the end of the world has come, and of the beginning of the Hereafter.64
Allah has sent down the Book with truth and with the Just Balance. What will make you realize [this truth]? Perhaps the Hour is close. (Surat ash-Shura:17)
In his interpretation of the verse, Imam al-Tabari also used Ibn Kathir's explanation as evidence. Ibn Kathir said: "There are reliable hadith of our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will descend to Earth before the Day of Judgment as a just head of state and just ruler," thus depicting the verse as evidence for the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming. In his commentary, Hamdi Yazir of Elmali wrote:
It is certain that he represents knowledge of that hour, evidence, and a sign of the Day of Judgment when the dead will be resurrected. That is because Jesus' (pbuh) appearance, his miracle of resurrecting the dead, and his giving news of the rising of the dead are evidence of the approach of the Day of Judgment and probable signs of the Hour according to the hadith.65
Among contemporary Islamic scholars, Sayyid Qutb drew attention to the important evidence concerning the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming. As we read in his commentary:
Many hadith regard Jesus' (pbuh) descent to Earth prior to the Day of Judgment. Indeed, the verse, "He is a sign of the Hour" also indicates this. In other words, Jesus (pbuh) will descend to Earth at a time close to the Day of Judgment. In a second style of reading, the verse reads "wa innahu la 'ilmun li al-saa'ati." In other words, his descent is a sign, a sign of the Day of Judgment. Both styles of reading express the same meaning. His descent from the skies is a news of the Unseen World, spoken of by the right-speaking and trustworthy Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) and indicated in the glorious Qur'an. Apart from the information from these two sources, which will remain unchanged until the Day of Judgment, nobody can say anything else about the subject.66
Al-Kawthari stated that even in the oldest doctrinal texts, this verse was used as evidence of the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) return67Omer Nasuhi Bilmen explained the verse in these terms:
It gives news, in an indubitable manner, that Jesus
(pbuh) is a sign of the approach of the Day of Judgment and that the
Day of Judgment will certainly come His appearance on Earth is regarded
as a law of the Last Day 68
In fact, this title is unique to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), for although the Qur'an describes the lives of Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), the Prophets Abraham, Noah , Moses , Solomon , Joseph, David, and Jacob (peace be upon them all), and a great many other prophets, this title is applied to none of them. This fact is yet another indication that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) possesses a special feature that the other prophets do not: He will return to Earth after having been raised to Allah's Presence. (Allah knows the truth.)
The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) Was Taught the Book, the Torah, and the Gospel
In the Qur'an Allah mentions that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was taught the Torah, the Gospel, and the Book:
When the angels said: "Maryam, your Lord gives you good news of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near. He will speak to people in the cradle and also when fully grown, and will be one of the righteous,' she exclaimed: "My Lord! How can I have a son when no man has ever touched me?" He said: "It will be so. Allah creates whatever He wills. When He decides on something, He just says to it 'Be!,' and it is. He will teach him the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah, and the Gospel." (Surah Al 'Imran:45-48)
The identity of this "Book" is of the greatest importance. The same expression
also appears in another verse:
Remember when Allah said: "Jesus, son of Maryam, remember My blessing to you and to your mother when I reinforced you with the Purest Spirit so that you could speak to people in the cradle and when you were fully grown; and when I taught you the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel..." (Surat al-Ma'ida:110)
An analysis of the Qur'an shows that the expression the Book in both
verses refers to the Qur'an, as well as to the Torah and the Gospel. Consider
the following verses:
Allah, there is no deity but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. He has sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming what was there before it. And He sent down the Torah and the Gospel. (Surah Al 'Imran:2-3)
And We have sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming and conserving the previous Books… (Surat al-Ma'ida:48)
In other verses, the Book refers to the Qur'an:
For this We sent a messenger to you from among yourselves to recite Our signs to you, purify you, and teach you the Book and Wisdom and things you did not know before. (Surat al-Baqara:151)
"Am I to desire someone other than Allah as a judge, when it is He Who has sent down the Book to you clarifying everything?" Those to whom We have given the Book know that it has been sent down from your Lord with truth, so on no account be among the doubters. (Surat al-An'am:114)
We have only sent down the Book to you so that you can make clear to them the things about which they differ, and as a guidance and a mercy to people who believe. (Surat an-Nahl:64)
You did not expect to be given the Book. It is nothing but a mercy from your Lord. So, do not lend support to the unbelievers. (Surat al-Qasas:86)
Is it not enough for them that We have sent down to you the Book that is recited to them? There is certainly a mercy and reminder in that for people who believe. (Surat al 'Ankabut:51)
We have sent down the Book to you with the truth so that you can judge between people according to what Allah has shown to you. But do not be an advocate for the treacherous. (Surat an-Nisa':105)
Clearly, the third "Book" to be taught to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is the Qur'an. But this can only happen if he returns to Earth in the End Times, since he lived some 600 years before the Qur'an was revealed. In addition, many hadith say that when the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) returns to Earth, the Qur'an, and not the Bible, will rule: "He will lead you according to the Book of your Lord and the Sunnah of your Apostle."69
Another important piece of information is that the term revealed for the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was not revealed for any other prophet. For example, Allah reveals in the Qur'an that the Torah was given to Moses (pbuh), that Pages were given to Abraham (pbuh), and that the Book of Psalms was given to David (pbuh). If there were books revealed before the prophets' own time, Allah states in the Qur'an that they knew them. However, only in the case of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) does Allah state in the Qur'an that a prophet will be taught a book that was revealed after his own time. This is one of the indications that he will return to Earth and that when he does so, he will rule with the book revealed after his lifetime: the Qur'an.
The Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) Followers Will Be Superior to the Unbelievers
In addition to revealing that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) did not die, Surah Al 'Imran:55 also says that he will come to Earth again:
When Allah said: "Jesus, I will take you back and raise you up to Me, and purify you of those who do not believe. And I will place the people who follow you above those who do not believe until the Day of Resurrection. Then you will all return to Me, and I will judge between you regarding the things about which you differed." (Surah Al 'Imran:55)
IIn this verse, Allah reveals the existence of a group of people who will sincerely follow the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and who will be superior to the unbelievers until the Day of Resurrection. The number of his followers during his lifetime was very small, and the message that he brought underwent a rapid degeneration after his ascension to Allah. Throughout the next two centuries, his followers, who came to be known as Christians, were subjected to severe persecution and had no political power. Therefore, it is out of the question to say that the Christians living at the time were superior to the unbelievers and that they are the ones being referred to in this verse.
Over the intervening centuries, Christianity moved away from its essence and turned into a different religion. Christians adopted two mistaken beliefs: the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was the son of Allah (Allah is surely beyond that.) and the trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [or Holy Spirit]). Given this, we cannot regard present-day Christians as those who will follow the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) in the End Times, because Allah reveals in several verses that those who believe in the trinity are actually unbelievers:
Those who say that Allah is the third of three are unbelievers. There is no deity but the One Allah. (Surat al-Ma'ida:73)
That being the case, the expression "I will place the people who follow you above those who do not believe until the Day of Resurrection" has a very clear meaning: There needs to be a community that will follow the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and exist until the Day of Resurrection. Such a community will emerge when the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) returns. At that time, his followers will be made superior to the unbelievers until the Day of Resurrection. Another verse that supports this reads:
O you who believe! Be helpers of Allah, as Jesus son of Maryam said to the Disciples: "Who will be my helpers to Allah?" The Disciples said: "We will be the helpers of Allah." One faction of the Children of Israel believed and the other did not. So, We supported those who believed against their enemy, and they became victorious. (Surat as-Saff:14)
It appears from the above verse that during Jesus' (pbuh) lifetime, some people did not have faith. The last part of the verse; " so We supported those who believed against their enemy, and they became victorious," gives news of a time when those who believe in the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will be superior. In all likelihood, this period is the time of the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming. During this time, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will make the true religious moral values prevail and the believers will be superior to the unbelievers by Allah's leave.
The Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) Adult Ministry
Another piece of evidence for the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) return is the word kahlaan, which is used in the following verses:
Remember when Allah said: "Jesus, son of Mary, remember
My blessing to you and to your mother when I reinforced you with the
Purest Spirit so that you could speak to people in the cradle [mahd]
and when you were fully grown [kahlaan] " (Surat al-Maida:110)
He will speak to people in the cradle and also when
fully grown [kahlaan], and will be one of the righteous. (Surah Al 'Imran:46)
Kahlaan, which appears only in these two verses, only in reference to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), and only to express the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) adulthood, is used for someone between the age of 30 and 50, someone who is no longer young, someone who has reached the perfect age. Islamic scholars agree that it denotes the age of 35 or above, based upon a hadith reported by Ibn 'Abbas that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was raised up to Allah's Presence in his early 30s and that he will live for 40 more years when he comes again. Given that he can reach old age only by coming again, he must come again.70
Although all of the prophets spoke with their people, invited them to
the true religion, and communicated their message at a mature age, the
Qur'an does not use such expressions when talking about them. Rather,
they are used only to voice a miraculous situation, because the expressions
in the cradle and when fully grown, when used one after
the other, refer to two miraculous events. The Egyptian Islamic scholar
Khalil Herras drew attention to this:
The word kahl in the verse is directed toward the word mahd, which precedes it and is an adverb of place. In the absence of a special clue, it continues to carry the same meaning of the word before it. Therefore, in the same way that Jesus' (pbuh) speaking immediately after his birth is a miracle, so the same miracle needs to take place in his adulthood. Otherwise, there is nothing miraculous in a person speaking in adulthood and the wisdom of its revelation in the verse could not be understood. However, if Jesus (pbuh) speaks after appearing on Earth, that would be a miracle 71
The famous Islamic scholar al-Ghumari stated that one piece of wisdom here is that the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) speaking in the cradle and then in adulthood show that he has a miraculous life. He wrote that just as the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) speaking as an infant is a miracle from Allah, there has to be a miraculous aspect to his speaking as an adult to people:
It is for a Divine purpose that our attention is drawn to Jesus' (pbuh) speaking in the cradle and in adulthood. At the same time, this indicates an extraordinary phenomenon. Jesus (pbuh) was raised to the heavens (at a young age). He disappeared for hundreds of years. He was transported to a world in which the laws of corporeal change do not apply. It is something extraordinary for such a person to descend and speak to people.72
Imam al-Suyuti drew attention to kahlaan in Surat al-Ma'ida:110 when he stated: "This word expresses the fact that he (Jesus [pbuh]) will descend from the heavens before the Day of Judgment, because he was raised to the skies before attaining old age."73 In his Commentary, Imam al-Tabari gave the following explanation of these verses:
These statements [Surat al-Ma'ida:110] indicate that in order to complete his lifespan and speak to people when fully grown, Jesus (pbuh) will come down from the heavens, because he was raised to the heavens when still young ... In this verse [Surah Al Imran:46], there is evidence that Jesus (pbuh) is living. The Ahl al-Sunnah share that view, because this verse states that he will speak to people when fully grown. He will be able to grow fully only when he returns to Earth from the heavens.74
In his commentary on Surah Al 'Imran:46, Omer Nasuhi says that this verse is a piece of evidence that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will return:
This verse indicates that after the raising up of Jesus (pbuh), he will descend again and speak to people, because he will have entered the age of maturity after being raised up.75
As we have seen, Islamic scholars interpret kahlaan as indicating that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will come again. (Allah knows the truth.) All of this evidence reveals that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will return in the End Times.
All People of the Book Will Believe in the Prophet Jesus
(pbuh)
Among the verses that Allah gives the glad tidings of the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) return is:
There is not one of the People of the Book who will
not believe in him before his death; and on the Day of Resurrection
he will be a witness against them. (Surat an-Nisa':159)
The great majority of commentators and scholars agree that the pronoun his in the term qabla mawtihi (before his death), points to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). Arabic linguistics also agree with this view. The plural suffix hum is used in all the Qur'anic verses concerning the People of the Book (e.g., Surat al-Bayyina:1 and 6, and Surat al-Hashr:2). In this verse, however, the singular suffix hu is used. This means that the People of the Book will believe in the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) before his biological death after he returns to Earth.76
The phrase "and on the Day of Resurrection he will be a witness against them," is one of the proofs that the verse does refer to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). That being the case, the verse should be interpreted in these terms: "When Jesus (pbuh) comes, all People of the Book will believe in him." This indicates that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will return and that true religious moral values will rule Earth under his leadership.
Allah also reveals that all the prophets and messengers will bear witness
for their communities on the Last Day:
when the messengers' time is appointed. (Surat al-Mursalat:11)
Our Lord reveals that Prophet Muhammad (may God bless him and grant him
peace) bore witness for his own community:
How will it be when We bring a witness from every nation
and bring you as a witness against them? (Surat an-Nisa':41)
However, Allah reveals in the Qur'an that "There is not one of the People of the Book who will not believe in him before his death" only in the case of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). Moreover, Allah does not use such an expression in the Qur'an for any prophet who came before the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and in whom the People of the Book believed. No similar account is offered with regard to the Prophets Abraham, Solomon, David, Moses, Joseph, or Jacob (peace be upon them all).
If every member of the People of the Book were to believe in the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) before his or her own death, then a similar case would have been revealed with regard to the other prophets who were sent to them. However, this expression is employed only in relation to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). Therefore, it is another important proof that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) differs from other prophets.
As we have seen, the his in the expression before hisdeath is evidently Jesus (pbuh). It is impossible to interpret
the verse, as some people have, in a way that indicates that "Each member
of the People of the Book will believe in Jesus (pbuh) before they die."
The Jews, a People of the Book, tried to kill Jesus (pbuh) because they
did not believe in him. They later continued in their unbelief and believed
that they had killed him.
In the light of all this, we can understand the following from this verse: the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will return to Earth and, like every other human being, will live and die. When he returns, all of the People of the Book will see and know him, and will obey him while he lives. The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will bear witness to this in the Hereafter. (Allah knows the truth.) The great majority of Islamic scholars share this view. Abu Hurayrah and Ibn `Abbas, both of whom were Companions of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), also stated that this verse indicates his second coming. Al-Qurtubi interprets the verse in the following terms:
When the signs of the Day of Judgment draw near, when Jesus (pbuh) returns alive from the sky to Earth, all members of the People of the Book who are alive will believe in him. All there will be is the Islamic nation.77
Al-Tabari interprets the verse thus in his Commentary:
When he returns to Earth to eliminate the antichrist [make him ineffective], every one of the People of the Book will believe in Jesus (pbuh) before his death. At that time, all nations will become a single nation under the name of Islam.78
In his account, Khalil Herras stated that al-Tabari's interpretation is accurate and that Surat an-Nisa':159 is evidence of his second coming:
The pronoun he in the verse refers to Jesus (pbuh). When he returns, every living member of the People of the Book will believe in him, affirm him, and only Islam will be accepted from them as their religion The People of the Book will believe in Jesus (pbuh) when he returns to Earth 79
The Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) Death Will Occur after
His Second Coming
Another verse that points to the second coming is Surah Maryam:33. The phrase the day I die provides very important information. This is revealed in: "Peace be upon me the day I was born, the day I die, and the day I am raised up again alive." (Surah Maryam:33)
The Arabic original for the day I die is amootu, which stems from the word mawt, which is used elsewhere in the Qur'an in the sense of biological death. In other verses referring to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), tawaffaa, and not mawt, is used for his death. The meaning of tawaffaa is not biological death, but the taking of the soul in a kind of sleep. Meanwhile, mawt expresses death in the familiar sense. Therefore, in contrast to the other verses, this verse indicates that the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) death will take place after his second coming.
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Paul Craig Roberts: Trump’s Declaration of War
Trump’s Declaration of War
By: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
President Trump’s brief inaugural speech was a declaration of war against the entirety of the American Ruling Establishment. All of it.
Trump made it abundantly clear that Americans’ enemies are right here at home: globalists, neoliberal economists, neoconservatives and other unilateralists accustomed to imposing the US on the world and involving us in endless and expensive wars, politicians who serve the Ruling Establishment rather than the American people, indeed, the entire canopy of private interests that have run America into the ground while getting rich in the process.
If truth can be said, President Trump has declared a war far more dangerous to himself than if he had declared war against Russia or China.
The interest groups designated by Trump as The Enemy are well entrenched and accustomed to being in charge. Their powerful networks are still in place. Although there are Republican majorities in the House and Senate, most of those in Congress are answerable to the ruling interest groups that provide their campaign funds and not to the American people or to the President. The military/security complex, offshoring corporations, Wall Street and the banks are not going to roll over for Trump. And neither is the presstitute media, which is owned by the interest groups whose power Trump challenges.
Trump made it clear that he stands for every American, black, brown, and white. Little doubt his declaration of inclusiveness will be ignored by the haters on the left who will continue to call him a racist just as the $50 per hour paid protesters are doing as I write.
Indeed, black leadership, for example, is enculturated into the victimization role from which it would be hard for them to escape. How do you pull together people who all their lives have been taught that whites are racists and that they are the victims of racists?
Can it be done? I was just on a program briefly with Press TV in which we were supposed to provide analysis of Trump’s inaugural speech. The other commentator was a black American in Washington, DC. Trump’s inclusiveness speech made no impression on him, and the show host was only interested in showing the hired protesters as a way of discrediting America. So many people have an economic interest in speaking in behalf of victims that inclusiveness puts them out of jobs and causes.
So along with the globalists, the CIA, the offshoring corporations, the armaments industries, the NATO establishment in Europe, and foreign politicians accustomed to being well paid for supporting Washington’s interventionist foreign policy, Trump will have arrayed against him the leaders of the victimized peoples, the blacks, the hispanics, the feminists, the illegals, the homosexuals and transgendered. This long list, of course, includes the white liberals as well, as they are convinced that flyover America is the habitat of white racists, misogynists, homophobes, and gun nuts. As far as they are concerned, this 84% of geographical US should be quarantined or interred.
Black and hispanic leaders need victimization, because it is what elevates them to power and income. They will turn a jaundiced eye toward Trump’s inclusiveness. Inclusiveness is good for blacks and hispanics, but not for their leaders.
The executives and shareholders of global corporations are enriched by the offshored jobs that Trump says he will bring home. If the jobs come home, their profits, performance bonuses, and capital gains will go away. But the economic security of the American population will return.
The military/security complex has a 1,000 billion annual budget dependent on “the Russian threat” that Trump says he is going to replace with normalized relations. Trump’s assassination cannot be ruled out.
Many Europeans owe their prestige, power, and incomes to the NATO that Trump has called into question.
The financial sector’s profits almost entirely flow from putting Americans into debt bondage and from looting their private and public pensions. The financial sector with their agent, the Federal Reserve, can overwhelm Trump with financial crisis. The New York Federal Reserve Bank has a complete trading desk. It can send any market into turmoil. Or support any market, because there is no limit on its ability to create US dollars.
The entire political ediface in the US has insulated itself from the will, desires, and needs of the people. Now Trump says the politicians will be accountable to the people. This, of course, would mean a big drop in their security in office and in their income and wealth.
There are a large number of groups, funded by we-know-not-who. For example, RootsAction has responded today to Trump’s forceful commitment to stand for all of the people against the Ruling Establishment with a request to “ask Congress to direct the House Judiciary Committee to open an impeachment investigation” and to send money for Trump’s impeachment.
Another hate group, human rights first, attacks Trump’s defense of our borders as closing “a refuge of hope for those fleeing persecution.” Think about this for a minute. According to the liberal-progressive-left and the racial interest group organizations, the US is a racist society and President Trump is a racist. Yet, people subject to American racism are fleeing from persecution to America where they will be racially persecuted? It doesn’t make sense. The illegals come here for work. Ask the construction companies. Ask the chicken and animal slaughter houses. Ask the vacation area cleaning services.
This list of those on whom Trump has declared war is long enough, although there are more that can be added.
We should ask ourselves why a 70 year old billionaire with flourishing businesses, a beautiful wife, and intelligent children is willing to give his final years to the extraordinary stress of being President with the stressful agenda of putting the government back in the hands of the American people. There is no doubt that Trump has made himself a target of assassination. The CIA is not going to give up and go away. Why would a person take on the grand restoration of America that Trump has declared when he could instead spend his remaining years enjoying himself immensely?
Whatever the reason, we should be grateful for it, and if he is sincere we must support him. If he is assassinated, we need to take up our weapons, burn Langley to the ground and kill every one of them.
If he succeeds, he deserves the designation: Trump the Great!
Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and any other country on the CIA’s hit list should undersand that Trump’s rise is insufficient protection. The CIA is a worldwide organization. Its profitable businesses provide income independent of the US budget. The organization is capable of undertaking operations independently of the President or even of its own Director.
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JJ Hanrahan Munster return confirmed
Munster have confirmed that JJ Hanrahan will return to the province next season.
Kerry-man, Hanrahan returns to the province after two seasons with Northampton Saints.
The 24-year-old has played on 30 occasions for the English club, lining out in the centre and at out-half.
He's signed a two year IRFU contract.
Meanwhile, Munster have also announced that Dave Kilcoyne, Niall Scannell, Rory Scannell, Tyler Bleyendaal, Duncan Williams and Darren Sweetnam have all signed contract extensions, while Chris Farrell and James Hart will join the province next season.
The incoming Irish duo of Chris Farrell and James Hart have signed two-year contracts with the province.
They will make the move from their respective Top 14 sides, Grenoble and Racing 92.
Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that Tomás O’Leary, who joined Top 14 side Montpellier on a short-term loan in October, will not be returning to the province.
The 33-year-old scrumhalf made 145 appearances in the red jersey scoring 10 tries.
Commenting on the new signings Director of Rugby Rassie Erasmus said:
"I’ve always indicated our intention to recruit Irish qualified players where and when possible so to secure the young trio of Farrell, Hanrahan and Hart is great for the province and Irish rugby in general.
"In addition to being hugely talented they bring a wealth of knowledge with their combined experiences from playing abroad and this will help with our overall squad development.
Referring to the contract extensions Erasmus added
"I’ve talked about maximising our potential time and time again.
"Retaining players such as Killer (Dave Kilcoyne), Niall, Rory, Tyler, Duncan and Sweets (Darren Sweetnam) is key to our long-term plans and they have all played an integral role in our success so far this season.
"Developing home-grown players is at the core of everything we do and it’s rewarding to see five players who have advanced from the Munster pathway commit their future to the club, while also recognising the efforts of Tyler who has overcome long-term injury to make his mark in the squad this season." | {
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How can we build LoRa systems that are provably secure against cyber-attack? In March MWR will be releasing guidance to help
We already have GSM, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE), 6LowPAN, WiFi and Zigbee. So why introduce yet more wireless technology into this flooded market? There's actually a gap, and it's one that is under some fierce competition to fill.
If we want range, then there are already long range radio protocols, but these draw a lot of power so are not suitable for smaller, remote devices. We also have low power solutions like ZigBee or BTLE, but these are limited in range to tens of meters. Many markets now require a long range solution that only sends occasional, small amounts of data and could run off a battery for years.
LoRa and its primary protocol LoRaWAN, are capable of filling this gap in the wireless communications market. Transmitting over many kilometres (depending on environment) and powered by a battery that can last for years. With such promises, several sectors are now picking up this technology to take advantage of these features.
Smart cities are one such field. The goal of a smart city is to use metrics taken from across the city to reduce waste and increase efficiency. The city of Santander is a test bed for a range of smart city technology. One such example is that it measures current levels in dumpsters to decide which need to be collected and produce the most efficient routes to take for the day. It seems minor, but through dozens of such schemes the city claims to have reduced energy usage by as much as 25%.
Security in such scenarios can seem a little silly. Why do we care if someone can read how much trash is in a dumpster?
Obviously we don't. But we do care about the systems gathering this information, and we certainly care when these same protocols start being used for more important tasks, such as controlling level crossings, or sending signals from burglar alarms. There is a risk with any technology or protocol of scope creep. Where at the beginning we did not care about security due to the context, because of its success and relative maturity it creeps in to new sectors without review.
LoRaWAN has been designed with several very effective security features, but simply stating that a technology "uses AES-128 encryption" does not mean that solutions using this technology are therefore secure. So how can we build systems that are provably secure against cyber-attack?
To address this, MWR will be releasing guidance on LoRa, which will be published during Syscan 360 in Singapore.
MWR InfoSecurity provide specialist advice and solutions in all areas of cyber security, from professional and managed services, through to developing commercial and open source security tools. More about MWR. | {
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Shake Shack's rise from burger stand to billions
It started as a way to raise money for a public park. When the Madison Square Park Conservancy debuted its first art installation “I ? Taxi,” two restaurateurs from Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park decided to open the hot dog stand that would become Shake Shack.
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Everything about the psychology of bisexual
Bisexuality - is one of the variants of sexual orientation, when a person experiences an emotional, romantic, erotic or platonic attraction to her as well as the opposite sex. Many of this definition does not dry enough information to understand who are bisexual, they become so, and what do they want from life.
Psychological bisexuality even Sigmund Freud described in his writings. After initially a little child is inherent in both male and female. Nobody requires year-old boy did not cry, because he is a man, and light green unitard with an elephant suit both boy and girl. For a child there is no male and female - have only one. And his love is directed, first of all, himself. And then the child begins to internalize norms of behavior and interests inherent in his biological sex. Many of these standards are not fully digested. Hence, the obtained energetic girl, sophisticated guys and the variety of characters that exist in society. All of this - a manifestation of psychological bisexuality.
Psychologically - sexy bisexuality - this is the case when a person attracted to people of both sexes as a sexual object. Scientists for decades investigating this issue and recently, for example, concluded that male bisexuality does not exist. To install this fact, they sat bisexual men view heterosexual and gay porn and recorded their degree of arousal. According to the study, each man gave a clear preference to any floor. But the women, according to these scientists, bisexual by nature and may have the same desire as his, and the opposite sex.
Bisexuality can manifest itself in different ways. Very rarely, when a person is simultaneously like both men and women. Most often in different periods of life has different preferences. Bisexual people can cover up their homosexuality, hiding from condemnation. In the end, the person may be in search of himself, his sexuality and his love. The main thing - remember that everyone is different, and that they are amazing, and every person is worthy of respect, regardless of their orientation. | {
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Kick-off meeting Norther
17.01.2018
Thursday January 11th, 2018 the secretaries Coast Guard were present at a kick-off meeting regarding the Norther offshore windpark, together with various coast guard partners. The meeting was presided by Captain Gyssens of the Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centre (MRCC) of our coast guard partner Shipping Assistance Division. In the spring of this year, construction of the wind farm will begin so as to be operational in 2019. After completion, the wind farm will have an installed power of 350 Megawatts and will be the biggest offshore project in Belgium. It will be built at approximately 22 kilometres from the Belgian coast, within a zone southeast of the Thornton Bank, alongside the border with the Netherlands and will provide sustainable energy for about 350 000 households. | {
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Nah don't do that. You have to delete this from a registry file. What tvers do is, go some registry files and search the word hack, and if there are positives you will be classified as a hacker. I'm not sure how you get rid of those tho.
Nah don't do that. You have to delete this from a registry file. What tvers do is, go some registry files and search the word hack, and if there are positives you will be classified as a hacker. I'm not sure how you get rid of those tho. | {
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Extreme Encounters: How It Feels to Be Drowned in Quicksand, Shredded by Piranhas, Swept Up in a Tornado, and Dozens of Other Unpleasant E (Paperback)
Description
Brace yourself. If you re the squeamish type, turn back now. If you re afraid of a little blood, read no further. But if you ve ever wondered what it's like to be struck by lightning, swallowed by quicksand, or stung by a jellyfish, then fasten your seatbelt and get ready for a wild ride. "Extreme Encounters "offers blow-by-blow accounts of life's most dangerous experiences in thrilling you-are-there second person so "you "chill to the numbing effects of frostbite, "you "hear the ear-splitting roar of a tornado, and "you "feel the stomach-lurching drop of an elevator freefall. Full of harrowing adventure and surprising scientific insights, "Extreme Encounters "is a journey you ll never forget.
About the Author
Greg Emmanuel has written for MTV, VH1, "GQ," "ESPN the Magazine," "Time Out New York," "Stuff," and "Maxim." He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and tries his darnedest to avoid anything remotely resembling an extreme encounter. | {
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Ignite
We’re excited to announce that this year we will be featuring a few sessions for young adults and college students at Teen Revolution. We will be calling those sessions “IGNITE”. We understand the need that there is for young adults to be spiritually fed especially with people around the same stage of life that they are in, and we want to be aware of that and serve you in that capacity as well. The Young Adult/College sessions will be during breakout session time in the mornings at 9am. They will still be part of the main services and will be able to listen to the same amazing speakers! We will also have some activities available for them one of the nights of the Teen Revolution. Please encourage your young adults to come to Teen Rev and be encouraged by being around people that are in the same stage of life, are struggling with similar things and want to grow in their walk with the Lord. We look forward to serving you at Teen Revolution!
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Description:
Vertical stripes in varying sizes and colors.
Fabric Width: 54”
Fabric Content: 100% Cotton
Fabric color can vary from one dye lot to another. To ensure that all materials are from the same dye lot, please order all items at the same time.
Cleaning: To clean the shade fabric, use a feather duster or vacuum lightly using the soft brush or upholstery attachment. Fore more extensive cleaning, please locate a professional drapery cleaning service.
Warranty: All of Steve’s Exclusive Collection Products are backed with a limited lifetime warranty which does not cover normal wear and tear, improper installation, abuse, or other items outside of the manufacturer’s control. Freight and packaging to and from the manufacturer is not covered under the warranty and is the customer’s responsibility..
Description:
Offers exceptional insulation and sound absorption. Provides total interior darkness on even the sunniest of days! Perfect for any room where complete privacy and light control is desired. Dependable color-coordinated cord is used to raise or lower shade; safety cord cleat prevents cord from twisting and becoming a hazard. Sleek compact aluminum headrail offers years of durable, trouble-free operation. Optional Upgrades: Continuous Cord Loop (cord never changes length to hold even the largest and heaviest shades securely at any height; tension device prevents cord from twisting), Cordless Lift (provides the safest solution for homes with children and pers, as well as a sleek appearance), Top Down/Bottom Up (lower shade from the top of raise it from the bottom), Top Down/Bottom Up Cordless (shade lowers from top or raises from bottom without the use of exterior cords for both safey and a sleek appearance), Top Down Only (shade lowers from top only), Sun Up/Sun Down (movable center rail separates fabrics and may be positioned at any height with either one or both fabrics showing) and Motorization (raise or lower your shades with a remote). .
Description:
This is the most popular slat size for wood blinds. Levolor has provided several exclusive options and upgrades to this collection for added style, enhanced privacy, and ease of use.
This is the most complete stain collection available in the marketplace. The specially selected stains and wood grains of this collection are designed to harmonize with any furnishings, any space, or any style. From maple to cherry to pecan tones, this collection has it all!
Plus, Levolor’s Premium Paint colors are designed to complement finishes in your home from crown molding to window frames. They painstakingly prepare each slat with multiple coats of the highest quality paints to ensure the blind resists scratching and keeps its new look.
Resistance to Slat Warpage: Better
Performance in High Humidity: Good
Resistance to UV Fading: Best
Lift Weight* (36” x 60”): Best (5 lbs)
*Weight of slats and bottomrail only. This weight does not include valance, headrail or conponentry weight as these are stationary when the blind is raised/lowered.
Cleaning
You can keep your Levolor blinds looking their best by periodically wiping them with a soft cloth, a dusting mitt, or the brush attachment on your vacuum cleaner. You can clean the blind hanging in place or you can take it down. By tilting the slats down, but not closed, you will be able to clean most of the top surface of each slat. Do not use water, solvents, or abrasive solutions as it will cause damage to the blind not covered under warranty.
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Description:
One look and you'll see why Designer Textures is considered among our premier fabrics. This woven fabric, exclusive to Levolor, retains its visually appealing texture and rich colors even with sun exposure. Designer Textures features crisper pleats that hold their edge so the fabric keeps looking new, longer.
Exclusive woven fabrics retain their rich color and texture even with sun exposure
Available with Energy Shield for maximum energy efficiency
Single cell construction adds insulation and is appropriate for most windows and mounting depths
Available in 30 fashionable colors
Fabric Type: Woven
Privacy Level: Medium
Energy Efficiency (R-Value)*: 2.9
Sunlight Protection (UPF Rating)**: 50
*The r-value is the window’s resistance to air flow. The higher the r-value number, the more effective the window is in reducing cooling and heating costs. Cellular shades also add insulation and can increase the r-value of a window. Cellular shades trap air within the honeycomb pockets of the shade therefore, less air escapes through the glass and window frame when cellular shades are used as window treatments. Remember, the type of glass, fame and window sash can affect the r-value of the overall window.
**The Ultraviolet Protection Factor shows how well a fabric protects the solar UV rays. Levolor cellular fabrics have UPF rating to help you gauge the best solution for protecting your furnishings, floor coverings, and artwork from fading. UPF ratings range from 15 to 50, with 15-20 as good and UV blockage from 93-96%. UPF ratings of 25-35 are very good with UV blockage from 96-98%. UPF ratings of 40-50 are considered excellent and provide UV blockage from 98-99%.
Cleaning and Care: Use a brush-type vacuum attachment or feather duster for dusting. Stroke lightly over the shade. To clean with water, use a lukewarm damp sponge and lightly dab. Avoid contact with window cleaning products.
Please Note: Color lot variations may occur due to the process of color application and cellularization. For the best color match, order all shades for a room at the same time. Pattern availability and color lot match between orders cannot be assured. Any variation in color is in accordance with industry standards.
Levolor Lifetime-Limited Warrant*: Levolor® Window Fashions proudly extends a lifetime-limited warrant on the enclosed product to the original residential retail purchaser as long as the product remains in the original window.
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Description:
All patterns are made from unique, durable, polyester fabrics which repel dirt, resist stains and clean easily. Superior insulation and sound absorption. Sound absorption helps reduce outside noise as well as interior reflecting noise. Superior insulation helps, reduce heating and air conditioning bills. All cords and end caps are color coordinated for a uniform look. We use the top of the line hardware systems.
Blackout
Completely blocks out light (except light that may enter on the sides of the shade) for maximum privacy and darkness.
Pattern
# of Cells
Winter R-Values
Summer Shading
3/4" Splendor Blackout
Single
2.56
0.36
Winter R-Values: R-Value measures resistance to heat loss. The higher the R-Value, the more insulation the product provides. In winter, higher insulation means less heat loss and a warmer room.
Summer Solar Heat: Summer Solar Heat Gain Coefficient measures the products ability to reduce heat gain from the sun. The lower the number, the less solar energy it transmits. In summer, less heat transmitted means a cooler room.
Care:
1. Dusting with a feather, or synthetic, non-abrasive, material duster is recommended for all cellular shade surfaces which are lightly soiled.
2. Wiping with a soft, damp sponge or cloth, of non-abrasive material, with lukewarm water is recommended for all cellular shade surfaces which need spot cleaning.
3. Vacuuming with a soft bristle vacuum cleaner brush attachment is recommended for all cellular shade surfaces which are heavily soiled.
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Description:
Bali vinyl horizontal blinds are a classic window treatment with up-to-date colors, textures and patterns that feature privacy, light control, durability, and ease of operation.
Slat Material: Non-leaded vinyl formulation slats
The slat material formulation offer room darkening and superior privacy. The SureTight slim profile steel headrail has premium light-blocking features. All components are color-coordinated. The vinyl bottomrail is white in color to match the backside of the slats.
Cleaning: Occasional light vacuuming with a brush attachment should keep blinds clean. More severe soiling can be removed by using a soft cloth and a mild detergent and water solution.
BALIWARRANTY
Type of Warrant: Limited Lifetime warranty on headrail and components. There is a 3-year warranty on the 2” Vinyl Material.
What is Covered: These blind products are warranted against original defects in materials or workmanship for the time period specified that:
· The product was properly installed in a residential dwelling
· The product was made or assembled exclusively from Bali materials and components
· The Bali recommendations were followed with regard to limitations and specifications
Who is Covered: This warranty extends only to you as the original purchaser of the stated blind.
Obligations to the Consumer: The obligations of Bali are limited to the repair or replacement of parts or products found to be defective. Bali is not responsible for shipping costs or labor costs for measuring and taking the blind down or reinstalling the product. If repairs are made under this warranty, the repairs will be made with like or similar parts.
What the Warranty Does Not Cover: This warranty does not cover conditions or damages caused by accidents, alterations, misuse, or failure to follow instructions for measurement, installations, cleaning or maintenance. In addition, normal wear and tear are not covered by the warranty.
All materials can lose original intensity after long exposure to the sun. When left for extended periods in direct sunlight, plastics tend to yellow or crack. All cords will eventually wear out. Bal considers these things normal wear and tear and are not covered under warranty.
THIS WARRANTY IS EXCLUSIVE AND IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER WRITTEN OR ORAL WARRANTIES OR OBILIGATIONS AND LIABILITIES. No person is authorized to extend or alter this warranty. Bali should have no liability whatsoever for incidental or consequential damages. Warranty claims must be accompanied by the original sales receipt as well as details regarding the nature of the problem, location of the blind, etc.
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Description:
Crafted from North American hardwoods. This particular collection offers a bamboo finish for any decor. Bamboo may have visual inconsistencies in color and grain. These unique characteristics are inherent in this natural material and are not considered defects. Exact color matches cannot be guaranteed. For more design flexibility, traditional 2" slat size includes extensive collection of beautiful stains, paints and decorative options..
Description:
Room Darkening: Allows a small amount of light to enter the room for a greater sense of privacy, as inside objects appear as shadows. Rich, vibrant colors in a semi-opaque fabric that offers high energy effeciency. Backed in white to face the streetside. Available in widths up to 120". Enhance the view or provide privacy while adding style and color to any room..
Description:
Bali vertical blinds is the answer to a new look for your home. With a variety of colors and textures to choose from, there are more options than ever.
Vane Material Content: 100% Vinyl
Flame Resistant: Yes
Privacy Level: Room Darkening: Block light to provide maximum room darkening and privacy.
Vane Information: Durable and easy to maintain and they stand up great to constant use.
*Due to the nature of vane materials, colors may vary slightly from dye lot to dye lot. Exact matches cannot be guaranteed. If blinds will be in the same room, it is recommended that you place your order for all blinds at one time.
Cleaning Instructions: Dust or vacuum with an upholstery attachment. For soil removal, sponge with a mild detergent and warm water solution and blot dry. Vanes may be removed and immersed in water. Also, if a thin film of mild detergent is left on blinds, it will eliminate static electricity.
Bali’s Warranty
Headrail Warranty – Limited Lifetime
Vane Warranty – Three Years
Stay-Clear™ Channel Panel & Valance Warranty
What is Covered: The above listed products are warranted against original defects in materials or workmanship for as long as the original purchaser owns the product provided that:
The product was properly installed in a residential dwelling
the product was made or assembled exclusively from Bali materials and components
Bali’s recommendations were followed with regard to limitations and specifications
Who is Covered: This warranty extends only to you as the original purchaser.
Obligations to the Consumer: The obligations of Bali Window Fashions are limited to the repair or replacement of parts or product found to be defective. Bali is not responsible for shipping costs or labor costs for measuring and taking the blind down or reinstalling the product. If repairs are made under this warranty, the repairs will be made with like or similar parts.
What the Warranty does Not cover: This warranty does not cover conditions or damages caused by accidents, alterations, misuse, or failure to follow instructions for measurement, installation, cleaning or maintenance. In addition, normal wear and tear are not covered by this warranty. All fabrics can lose original intensity after long exposure to the sun. Bali considers this normal wear and tear and is not covered by this warranty.
This warranty is exclusive and in lieu of all other written or oral warranties or obligations and liabilities. No person is authorized to extend or alter this warranty. .
Description:
Rich, vibrant colors in a semi-opaque fabric that offers high energy effeciency. Backed in white to face the streetside. Enhance the view or provide privacy while adding style and color to any room..
Description:
Openness Factor: 10% Click Here to View Our Solar Screen Openness Guide.
UV Blockage*: 90%
Fabric Composition: 75% Vinyl on Polyester; 25% Polyester
*UV Blockage is the inverse of a fabric’s openness factor
Solar Shades are Ideal For:
· Maintaining an outward view
o Filter and diffuse light while maintaining an outward view
o The higher the openness factor and darker the fabric, the clearer the view
· Managing Glare
o Minimize glare on televisions and home office computers
o The darker the fabric color, the better the glare control and visibility
· Blocking Damaging UV rays
o The amount of UV ray blockage is the inverse of a fabric’s openness factor (ie: a fabric with 10% openness blocks 90% of UV rays.
o Protect your furniture, carpets, artwork, etc. from fading due to harmful UV rays
· Temperature Control
o Solar fabric reduce heat transmittance, keeping rooms cooler and increasing the comfort level in your home
o The lighter the fabric, the better the temperature control
Note: Solar shades do not offer nighttime privacy as lighted interiors allow inward visibility. If complete privacy is desired, a secondary treatment is necessary.
Cleaning and Care Information:
· Roller Shade Fabrics: virtually maintenance free. If the shade is dusty, simply vacuum over it using an upholstery attachment. A feather duster can also be used to gently remove dust. Shades may also be gently wiped with a clean damp cloth. Allow the shade to dry completely before raising. Do not completely immerse.
· Solar Shade Fabrics: Virtually maintenance free. Only periodic vacuuming and an occasional cleaning using a mild detergent, soft brushing and thorough rinsing is required. Allow the shade to dry completely before raising. Do not completely immerse.
Fabric Disclaimers: To ensure color consistency and avoid dye lot variation, please order all shades for the same room at the same time. Due to the nature of the weaving process, some imperfection in the weave is normal.
Pattern Alignment: Due to the random design of some solar and roller fabric weaves, exact alignment of the pattern across shades or fabric-wrapped cornices used on multiple windows is not possible, nor is centering of patterns across the width of single shades or height of fabric-wrapped cornices.
Bali’s Limited Lifetime Warranty
What is Covered: Bali roller and solar shades are warranted against original defects in materials or workmanship for as long as the original purchaser owns the product provided that:
· The product was properly installed in a residential dwelling
· The product was made or assembled exclusively from Bali Window Fashions’ materials and components
· Bali’s recommendations were followed with regard to limitations and specifications
Who Is Covered: This warranty extends only to the original purchaser of the roller and solar shades.
Obligations to the Consumer: The obligations of Bali Window Fashions are limited to the repair or replacement of parts or product found to be defective. Bali is not responsible for shipping costs or labor costs for measuring and taking the shade down or reinstalling the product. If repairs are made under this warranty, the repairs will be made with like or similar parts.
Motorization: Components and accessories have a 5 year limited warranty, excluding the battery wand.
What the Warranty does not Cover: This warranty does not cover conditions or damages caused by accidents, inclement weather, alterations, misuse, or failure to follow instruction for measurement, installation, cleaning or maintenance. In addition, normal wear and tear are not covered by the warranty. All fabrics can lose original intensity after long exposure to the sun. When left for extended periods in direct sunlight, plastics tend to yellow or crack. All cords will eventually wear out. Bali considers these things normal wear and tear and are not covered by this warranty.
*This warranty is exclusive and in lieu of all other written or oral warranties or obligations and liabilities. No person is authorized to extend or alter this warranty. Bali Window Fashions shall have no liability whatsoever for incidental or consequential damages.
Warranty claims must be accompanied by the original sales receipt as well as details regarding the nature of the problem, location of the shade, etc.
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Description:
Envision Panel Track shades offer a wide variety of fabrics, patterns and textures to match practically any decorating taste. Ideal for large windows and patio doors, these shades are available in light filtering or blackout capabilities depending on your specific needs. This collection is made of a polyester and polypropylene-mix material. Available in 7 colors which shows the same color front to back..
Description:
Indulges your love for color with uninterrupted spans of fabric perfect for wider windows. Dependable color-coordinated cord is used to raise or lower shade; safety cord cleat prevents cord from twisting and becoming a hazard. Sleek compact aluminum headrail offers years of durable, trouble-free operation. Optional Upgrades: Continuous Cord Loop (cord never changes length to hold even the largest and heaviest shades securely at any height; tension device prevents cord from twisting), Cordless Lift (provides the safest solution for homes with children and pers, as well as a sleek appearance), Top Down/Bottom Up (lower shade from the top of raise it from the bottom), Top Down/Bottom Up Cordless (shade lowers from top or raises from bottom without the use of exterior cords for both safey and a sleek appearance), Top Down Only (shade lowers from top only), Sun Up/Sun Down (movable center rail separates fabrics and may be positioned at any height with either one or both fabrics showing) and Motorization (raise or lower your shades with a remote). .
Description:
Vertical stripes in varying sizes and colors.
Fabric Width: 54”
Fabric Content: 100% Cotton
Fabric color can vary from one dye lot to another. To ensure that all materials are from the same dye lot, please order all items at the same time.
Cleaning: To clean the shade fabric, use a feather duster or vacuum lightly using the soft brush or upholstery attachment. Fore more extensive cleaning, please locate a professional drapery cleaning service.
Warranty: All of Steve’s Exclusive Collection Products are backed with a limited lifetime warranty which does not cover normal wear and tear, improper installation, abuse, or other items outside of the manufacturer’s control. Freight and packaging to and from the manufacturer is not covered under the warranty and is the customer’s responsibility..
Description:
This is the most popular slat size for wood blinds. Levolor has provided several exclusive options and upgrades to this collection for added style, enhanced privacy, and ease of use.
This is the most complete stain collection available in the marketplace. The specially selected stains and wood grains of this collection are designed to harmonize with any furnishings, any space, or any style. From maple to cherry to pecan tones, this collection has it all!
Plus, Levolor’s Premium Paint colors are designed to complement finishes in your home from crown molding to window frames. They painstakingly prepare each slat with multiple coats of the highest quality paints to ensure the blind resists scratching and keeps its new look.
Resistance to Slat Warpage: Better
Performance in High Humidity: Good
Resistance to UV Fading: Best
Lift Weight* (36” x 60”): Best (5 lbs)
*Weight of slats and bottomrail only. This weight does not include valance, headrail or conponentry weight as these are stationary when the blind is raised/lowered.
Cleaning
You can keep your Levolor blinds looking their best by periodically wiping them with a soft cloth, a dusting mitt, or the brush attachment on your vacuum cleaner. You can clean the blind hanging in place or you can take it down. By tilting the slats down, but not closed, you will be able to clean most of the top surface of each slat. Do not use water, solvents, or abrasive solutions as it will cause damage to the blind not covered under warranty.
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Description:
This is the most popular slat size for wood blinds. Levolor has provided several exclusive options and upgrades to this collection for added style, enhanced privacy, and ease of use.
This is the most complete stain collection available in the marketplace. The specially selected stains and wood grains of this collection are designed to harmonize with any furnishings, any space, or any style. From maple to cherry to pecan tones, this collection has it all!
Plus, Levolor’s Premium Paint colors are designed to complement finishes in your home from crown molding to window frames. They painstakingly prepare each slat with multiple coats of the highest quality paints to ensure the blind resists scratching and keeps its new look.
Resistance to Slat Warpage: Better
Performance in High Humidity: Good
Resistance to UV Fading: Best
Lift Weight* (36” x 60”): Best (5 lbs)
*Weight of slats and bottomrail only. This weight does not include valance, headrail or conponentry weight as these are stationary when the blind is raised/lowered.
Cleaning
You can keep your Levolor blinds looking their best by periodically wiping them with a soft cloth, a dusting mitt, or the brush attachment on your vacuum cleaner. You can clean the blind hanging in place or you can take it down. By tilting the slats down, but not closed, you will be able to clean most of the top surface of each slat. Do not use water, solvents, or abrasive solutions as it will cause damage to the blind not covered under warranty.
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Description:
Bali vertical blinds is the answer to a new look for your home. With a variety of colors and textures to choose from, there are more options than ever.
Vane Material Content: 100% Vinyl S-Shaped
Flame Resistant: Yes
Privacy Level: Room Darkening: Block light to provide maximum room darkening and privacy.
Vane Information: Durable and easy to maintain and they stand up great to constant use.
*Due to the nature of vane materials, colors may vary slightly from dye lot to dye lot. Exact matches cannot be guaranteed. If blinds will be in the same room, it is recommended that you place your order for all blinds at one time.
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Description:
Vibrant colors and relaxed hues enhance the soft glow of natural light for a playful show that only Mother Nature can perform. Energy efficient fabrics are perfect for any room. A wide color selection of semi-opaque fabrics will add style to any room.. | {
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Popular For Tax Pros
Topic Number 307 - Backup Withholding
When it applies, backup withholding requires a payer to withhold tax from payments not otherwise subject to withholding. You may be subject to backup withholding if you fail to provide a correct taxpayer identification number (TIN) when required or if you fail to report interest, dividend, or patronage dividend income.
Banks or other businesses that make certain types of payments to you must file an information return with the IRS on Form 1099 showing payments that you received during the year. A Form 1099 includes your name and TIN such as a social security number (SSN), employer identification number (EIN), or individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN). The Form 1099 will also report any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules.
Payments subject to backup withholding: Backup withholding can apply to most kinds of payments reported on Form 1099, including:
Backup withholding also may apply to gambling winnings (Form W-2G.pdf) on winnings that aren't subject to regular gambling withholding.
Withholding rules: When you open a new account, make an investment, or begin to receive payments reportable on Form 1099, you must provide your TIN. For certain types of payments, you must provide the TIN in writing and certify under penalties of perjury that it's correct. In those cases, the bank or business will give you Form W-9.pdf, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification, or a similar form. If your account or investment will earn interest or dividends, you must also certify that you're not subject to backup withholding due to previous underreporting of interest and dividends.
You may be subject to backup withholding and the payer must withhold at a flat 24% rate when:
You don't give the payer your TIN in the required manner.
The IRS notifies the payer that the TIN you gave is incorrect.
The IRS notifies the payer to start withholding on interest or dividends because you have underreported interest or dividends on your income tax return. The IRS will do this only after it has mailed you four notices over at least a 120-day period.
You fail to certify that you're not subject to backup withholding for underreporting of interest and dividends.
How to prevent or stop backup withholding: To stop backup withholding, you'll need to correct the reason you became subject to backup withholding in the first place. This can include providing the correct TIN to the payer, resolving the underreported income and paying the amount owed, or filing the missing return(s), as appropriate.
If you receive a notice from a payer notifying you that the TIN you gave is incorrect, you can usually prevent backup withholding from starting or stop it once it has begun by giving the payer your correct name and TIN and certifying that the TIN you give is correct. If you receive a second notice from that payer, you'll need to provide them with a copy of your social security card that shows your correct name and SSN.
Credit for backup withholding: If your 1099 shows an amount withheld under the backup withholding rules, report the amount as Federal income tax withheld on your income tax return for the year you received the income.
If you operate as a partnership or subchapter S corporation, any backup withholding can only be claimed by the partners and shareholders. Partners and shareholders should report their respective shares of the withheld amounts on their individual income tax returns. The amounts aren't refundable to the partnership or subchapter S corporation.
Additional Information
You can find more detailed information on backup withholding in Publication 1281.pdf, Backup Withholding for Missing and Incorrect Name/TIN(s), including the procedures for payers, and in Publication 505, Tax Withholding and Estimated Tax. | {
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Kevin Ramaekers celebrated his Hall of Fame induction with wife Heidi and sons Cole and Joshua.
Photo by Scott Bruhn/Nebraska Communications
Ramaekers Had to Conquer Academic Fears, Surrender His Ego
By NU Athletic Communications
| 07/20/2009
Randy York’s N-Sider
To "Respond to Randy" click on the link below and choose "Randy York's N-Sider" under "Area of Interest" on the new screen. Please include your name and hometown and share your thoughts on Kevin Ramaekers' road to academic improvement in his Cornhusker career. Your comments may be published on "Randy York's N-Sider" page on Huskers.com.
Forget all the honors – being a first-team All-Big Eight defensive tackle, a Blackshirt who started in a national championship game and a gifted athlete who is already in the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame.
On the surface, Kevin Ramaekers projected this image of a strong, confident, machine-like man. “But on the inside, I was embarrassed and frail,” he said. “I came to Nebraska a complete academic failure.”
Because he didn’t apply himself at Norfolk Catholic High School and didn’t meet the minimum freshman eligibility standards for all NCAA student-athletes, Ramaekers was a “Proposition 48” casualty. That means he had a scholarship, but he did not meet the NCAA’s pre-scholastic aptitude requirement for the American College Testing (ACT) Program.
The Nebraska State High School Athlete of the Year, Ramaekers came to Lincoln in 1988 anyway. He sat out a year, got a job and worked diligently to improve his ACT score. In 1989, he re-earned his scholarship and started at defensive tackle for Coach Shane Thorell’s junior varsity team.
A year later, he was redshirting and working on life lesson No. 1 – realizing he had to conquer his academic fears.
“I knew I had academic problems and used athletics to hide my insecurities,” he said. “I also knew that if I could conquer my fears and failures academically, there was nothing that could stop me from achieving my athletic goals.”
Let the record show that the light that went on in Ramaekers’ head had a double switch. “Dennis Leblanc and Keith Zimmer are responsible for pushing me academically and monitoring my daily behavior,” Ramaekers said of Leblanc, Nebraska’s senior associate athletic director for academics and Zimmer, associate athletic director for life skills.
Leblanc took Ramaekers under his wing and remembers the big all-state tackle, state champion wrestler and state champion shot putter telling him he wasn’t worried about being able to “handle” football in college. It was the academics that “scared the daylights” out of him.
A Connection Between Academic Rigor and Athletic Achievement
Nebraska’s administrators helped Ramaekers understand the direct connection between academic rigor and athletic achievement. They encouraged and persuaded him to tackle his challenges in the classroom with the same fervor that drove him on the field.
It was a daily struggle and a humbling experience.
“It was embarrassing as the process unfolded,” Ramaekers said. “I realized immediately how far I was behind academically. It was like I had to start all over again.”
Every night, from 7 to 9, he would work with different tutors. “Almost instantly, I could tell my efforts were paying off,” he said. “I started enjoying going to class. For the first time in my life, I was participating and actually raising my hand in class answering questions.”
The difference in approach was dramatic. Before he committed himself to academic improvement, Ramaekers would spend Sundays eating lunch with his fellow teammates, heading to the local gym for two hours and then watching NFL games the rest of the day.
After Leblanc and Zimmer worked their motivational magic, Ramaekers found himself riding his bike to the library to study on Sundays. During his time off, he gravitated naturally to his tutors and started consistently focusing on his upcoming week’s exams.
He found structure to be a much better partner than self-absorbed recreation. “My behavior totally changed,” he said. “I didn’t ‘have’ to study. I wanted to study. I enjoyed what I was learning, and I developed a passion for academic success.”
His on-field success paralleled his academic accomplishments. He earned his first Blackshirt in 1991, and the memory of that honor is as fresh today as it was then.
“I approached my locker, and it was nicely folded up on the top shelf,” he recalled. “I pulled it from my locker and went to the nearest restroom stall and cried like a baby. I was living my childhood dream . . . finally.”
Life Lesson No. 2 – Too Much Ego – Almost Ended His Career
Unfortunately, life lesson No. 2 – an overload of individual ego – thwarted his progress and almost ended his career. After his sophomore season, Ramaekers had an “altercation” with some guys at a party in Lincoln and was faced with some serious circumstances. Tom Osborne, his head coach and now Nebraska’s athletic director, called his parents that evening and by 8 o’clock Sunday morning, they were sitting in Coach Osborne’s office with their son, who now needed a life makeover to match his academic transformation.
“When Coach told my parents and me that my scholarship was being taken away, I was absolutely crushed,” Ramaekers recalled.
Osborne looked at Ramaekers and told him, “I have failed you as a coach.” Then Osborne looked at his parents and said, “I promise you this. Kevin may not play, but he will graduate from the University of Nebraska, and he will become an asset to our community.”
Ramaekers sat there with tears in his eyes. He couldn’t even look at his head coach, especially when he said, “Young man, do you understand that you may never play another snap here at Nebraska? But you will graduate and become an asset to the community, do you understand?”
A remorseful defensive tackle said he understood and that he was sorry. As soon as he left Osborne’s office, Ramaekers called Leblanc and Zimmer. The next morning he met “those two saviors” in Leblanc’s office. He told them what had happened. Leblanc was every bit as upset and direct as Osborne had been. He told Ramaekers he had “blown a great opportunity,” and it was time to “grow up.”
“I was starting as a sophomore, had the academic part down and thought I owned the world,” Ramaekers said. “We went to three Orange Bowls in the three years I was a starter, and the incident that almost cost me my career happened after the first bowl.”
It would have cost Ramaekers his career if he hadn’t surrendered everything, including his own ego.
“A weight finally lifted off my shoulders,” he said. “I had conquered my academic failures, but it was time to put more into things that weren’t just about me. It was my fault I had failed in the past, academically and behaviorally. Only through the help and guidance of the coaching staff and Dennis and Keith could I turn my life around and finally reach the goals I never thought were possible.”
The Journey from ‘Prop 48’ Student to Academic All-Big Eight
The one-time “Prop 48” student, who had dreamed the impossible dream, made the “unmake-able” team – academic All-Big Eight – as both a junior and a senior. His academic turnaround was pivotal in Nebraska’s nominating Ramaekers as its 1993 Male Student-Athlete of the Year for Big Eight Conference consideration.
Ramaekers pushed himself so hard that he graduated with his bachelor’s degree the same month he started his senior season – Aug. 14, 1993. “Walking up on the stage of the Bob Devaney Sports Center and receiving my diploma was my most memorable moment in college,” he said. “Of all the honors, awards and accomplishments, this one was the most rewarding. I had accomplished something no one thought I would ever achieve . . . not even me!”
Three months later, he played his last game at Memorial Stadium.
“It was very emotional,” he said. “I met Coach Osborne at the end of the tunnel, told him I loved him and thanked him for everything he’d done for me and my family. We ended up beating Oklahoma that day and took an unbeaten record and No. 1 rating into the Orange Bowl.”
Florida State ruined that national championship dream with a last-minute field goal that beat the Huskers, 18-16.
Ramaekers was disappointed, but not even a loss like that could bring down the one-time boy who had matured into a man. “Kevin came to Nebraska as a great athlete who had no confidence in his intellectual capabilities,” Leblanc said. “Once he applied the same kind of passion to academics that he had for athletics, he showed how bright he really was. He came here as a well-known jock and left as a young professional. I love the way he buckled up and turned his life around.”
Raemakers used his degree in human development to become a national account manager for Aramark Uniform Services in Atlanta. He and his wife, former NU tennis player Heidi Junius, have two sons – 11-year-old Cole and 6-year-old Joshua.
“We’re blessed,” Raemakers said. “If it hadn’t been for football, I never would have gone to college, and if Dennis Leblanc hadn’t pushed the heck out of me when I got there, I never would have graduated, let alone excelled academically.
“Fear of failure can ruin you if you don’t face the facts. In high school, I let my teachers down and my family down. At Nebraska, I let my coaches down and my teammates down. I needed help, but my ego wouldn’t let me admit that I was an academic failure. Then my ego made me feel much bigger than I really was. When I lied to myself, I feel I lied to everyone else.
“I hope my candor can benefit others in the same position. People need to know I was a ‘Prop 48’ recruit. I was ineligible, too stupid to play football. The staff at Norfolk Catholic warned me and pushed me academically, but I ignored them and didn’t take care of business.
“Recruits and parents understand I’m more the norm than most people think. I will, however, promise all Nebraska recruits and their parents one thing – if they will allow the university to mold you into this program, and if your son or daughter plays by the university’s rules, you will graduate . . . and you will become an asset to your community.
“I think I’m pretty much proof of that.”
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GE unveils supersonic Affinity engine for Aerion AS2 business jet
General Electric Aviation says that the initial design phase for its new supersonic Affinity engine has been completed, with its first flight slated for 2023.
GE says the twin-fan has the highest bypass ratio of any supersonic engine
Based on technology already well established in existing civil aircraft, the Affinity engine has been developed specifically for the Aerion AS2, a supersonic business jet designed to reach speeds of Mach 1.4. While Aerion had initially partnered with Airbus on the AS2 project, the European company was replaced by Lockheed Martin almost a year ago. Lockheed’s Skunk Works team has since been working on the airframe, while GE has been finalising the design of the first supersonic civil engine since the retirement of Concorde.
According to GE, Affinity is a twin-shaft, twin-fan turbofan controlled by a Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) system. It is optimised for supersonic flight over water and subsonic flight over land, and designed to meet Stage 5 subsonic noise requirements as well as current emissions standards. GE claims Affinity will have an operational ceiling of 60,000 feet and the highest bypass ratio of any supersonic engine. Its combustor features advanced coatings for sustained high-speed operation, while additive manufacturing has been employed to optimise weight.
“In the last 50 years, business aircraft speeds have increased by less than 10 per cent,” said Brad Mottier, GE vice president and general manager for Business and General Aviation & Integrated Services.
“Instead of going faster, cabins have increased in size and become more comfortable – and range has become longer. With large, comfortable cabin, long range aircraft in the marketplace, the next step is speed . . . made possible with GE’s Affinity.”
Following a two-year preliminary study, GE and Aerion began the initial design phase for the engine in May 2017. The next design review is targeted for 2020, marking the start of detailed design and testing. Aerion partners GE and Lockheed were joined earlier this year by Honeywell, which is working on advanced cockpit systems for the AS2. Although business travel is the current goal, Aerion believes its supersonic technology will be rolled out across the wider civil aviation market over time.
“Our mission is to enhance global mobility with supersonic speed, starting with business aviation, and following with successively faster and larger designs for business and commercial aviation,” said Aerion CEO Tom Vice. “GE Aviation is making this new efficient, sustainable supersonic era possible through its pioneering work on the Affinity engine.”
Well if we were governed by a Trump/Putin type, who wanted a national symbol & was willing to invest bigtime, then the UK could put a modernised Concorde back into production. Boeing still makes the 737 & 747 that date from the time of Concorde, yet modern 737/747 have the latest engines/avionics & revised wings. They also use lighter, up to date materials.
Apply that thinking to a new Concorde. Ditch the noisy, thirsty Olympus turbojets, replace with GE Affinity turbofans (GE says the affinity design can be scaled). That adds extra range, so more city pairs can be linked.
Then reshape the belly, like the prototype F-5E, over a decade ago. That could fly at mach 1.37 with a much reduced sonic boom.
The old 3 man clock & dial cockpit would be swapped for a flatscreen two man cockpit with enhanced vision.
The old Concorde had a two cabin layout. Anyone important always wanted to be in the front cabin. So give the front cabin seats more legroom for first class. Make the rear cabin premium economy. VIP’s travel with flunkies, that why luxury only airlines fail, as the boss likes to fly in the front cabin while the assistant/kids is/are put in the back. I fear the proposed small 18-55 supersonic airliners will fail, as the oligarchs will not have a rear cabin to put their juniors into.
Finally, this new fantasy Concorde would probably limited to Mach 1.4 rather than the Mach 2 of the old Concorde. However, the new version would be quieter, cleaner, more economical & with much greater range to link a greater number of cities together than the old Concorde ever could.
The Concorde engines were massive gas guzzlers , these have a high bypass ratio comparatively so they should be more fuel efficient.The markets of these planes are also very different,for a business jet traveler ,Time is everything, whilst the concorde was geared towards business travelers,it was quite uncomfortable and expensive to fly,Pair that with with the high fuel prices at the time and the high operation costs(due to maintenance) it was destined to fail.This should be much more efficient and have better operation costs but who knows.Im not an expert, im a chemical engineer but i love this stuff | {
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Report on PowerBI service not loading
I do have a number of reports at the powerbi service that is based on import of data into the service. The data was updated according to schedule but when running the report, then nothing happens. It stops loading and shows a screen saying "Almost done".
I do also have reports running on directs query mode and they work fine.
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Well, this is really worrying, it is not working all day. In last year, problems with access to Power BI reports happened almoust every month. Is this occuring only in EU region, or the other regions have also so common problems?
I know, work for Power BI team is not easy. But I think, for company like Microsoft this is not acceptable. Are there no any backup servers? Many important meetings and presentations today failed because of reports drop down. Imagine the embarrassment of presentator in front of a crowd of people who wanted to see the wonders of Power BI reports.
We talk to our (potential) clients, how Power BI is better than other platforms. They could answer: Yeah, great stuff, but Tableau just work.
Two most important thing Microsoft should do:
Reduce drop dows, reports should be avalible 24/7 (in term of PRO license capacity of course). Drop down every month is really... ah
If there is drop down, talk to us - we would better accept failure if we would know, why this is happening. Not just, Engineers are working. We know, they are working really hard. We want to know, what is the reason and how Microsoft will prevent, that this will not happened again in the future. Transparency is the key ladies and gentlemen. Clients are asking, what went wrong, and all we can say: we don't know, they are fixing something. This point is as important as first one. Providers and users should coloborate
As users, what can we do? How can we convince Power BI team at least to talk to us?
Edit:
As i wrote this comment, status of Power BI Service is: No known issues: Power BI is running smoothly
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Congratulations to Tahquamenon Falls State Park for winning the 2016 March Madness Poll. It’s one of my favorite places in Michigan. Thank you to everyone that voted. I love the state parks in Michigan they have so much to offer and affordable to visit.
After thousands of votes cast, we are down to the final round with the last two parks going head to head to determine this years champion. I had thought one of these would have won the first time I did the March Madness Poll, but that was Ludington and last year it was Tawas. I love both the Island and the T-Falls and both wonderful parks for different reasons.
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Now we are down to the Top 8 State Parks. and there are some really fantastic parks that made it to this round. We lost some equally wonderful parks. Last years winner, Tawas Point State Park, knocked off 2014 winner Ludington State Park in their head to head matchup. Vote for your favorite in this week matchups to see who gets to move on to the final four.
Now its time for the Sweet 16 round and there are a lot of wonderful State Parks on the list. It will be really hard to chose between them, but it will be fun to see which ones get to move onto the next round Sunday March 13th.
Time for my annual Michigan State Parks March Madness Poll to see what your favorite State Park in Michigan is. I took the list of Parks and Recreational Areas and sorted the list randomly using Random.org. I then broke them up into 16 groups. Pic your favorite from each group and then next week the winners from this round will be paired up and the winners of each poll will move on until we are down to the final pair of parks to determine which is your favorite. Last year Tawas Point State Park took the top honors, and the year before that it was Ludington State Park. Who will win it all this year? you can see the previous years polls HERE
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What’s your favorite State Park, Forest or Scenic Site maybe The Porkies, Belle Isle or Rifle River Recreation Area? There are about a 150 places in Michigan you can camp or visit with your Recreation Passport and I had fun doing this last year, so here we go again for this March. Ludington State park won the tournament in 2014, which park will it be this year? you can see the polls from last year HERE
I broke up the list into 16 random groups. Pick your favorite from each group and we will work it down tournament bracket style to determine the final champion and Michigan’s favorite Park.
Each round will end on Sundays and the winners will be paired up in the next round starting Sunday evening.
Pick one favorite park from each group, the winners will go onto next weeks polls you will view the Current results after you vote.
This round will end Sunday March 8th
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CONCAVE STEPS IN TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE
Despite all the multi-million pound signings that were made before the end of the September transfer window, for Concave, the most significant was a deal that was completed yesterday for no money at all.
Following Danny Webber’s move from Sheffield United to Portsmouth, a deal that was allowed to be completed outside of the transfer window due to Webber’s free-agent status, it now means that Concave will have their first ambassador playing in the English Premier League.
The 27 year old had talks with a number of Championship clubs including Crystal Palace and Middlesbrough but Webber secured his move to the EPL after Pompey boss offered the forward a two-year deal at Fratton Park.
Webber debuted the Concave PT+ at the back end of last season when he came on as a second half substitute for United against Swansea City.
Concave’s success in reaching the highest echelon of English football follows that of another breakthrough brand, Under Armour, who have Danny Murphy and Bobby Zamora playing in the Dominate Pro at Fulham.
Jim Grimes, CEO and President of Concave Holdings Inc said:
Having now had the pleasure of working with Danny under the Concave brand, to see this move for him is wonderful. Danny is an extremely talented player who has now hit his stride and fully deserves to play at the EPL level.
We at Concave are extremely excited for Danny, who began wearing our boots last season. Our great hope is that our boots, coupled with his enormous talent and unbelievable work ethic, have helped Danny reach this new plateau in his career.' That would further confirm' that we do indeed have a world class product, as a growing number of professional players are attesting.
Our passion from the outset of this company has been to improve the game. In doing so, our mission is to provide a boot that helps improve the player.
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Leadership in a Two-Speed Economy
Juggling on a Tightrope
Currently, most global companies are operating in a two-speed world, yet this scenario was not on the drawing board when today’s leaders were rising through the ranks. The length of the economic malaise in mature markets and the sustained growth of emerging markets have jumbled the deck for them. Emerging markets are no longer satellites circling far away from the center. Leaders now must figure out how to fold their emerging-market businesses into the core of their companies and generate predictable returns from their still sizable mature-market businesses.
Ultimately, today’s chief executives will be judged on how well they manage this balancing act of leading in a two-speed world. Half of the global GDP growth in this decade is expected to come from Asia. Brazil will deliver greater growth than Germany, France, or the U.K. And it is not just the speed of emerging markets that is different. Culture, talent, business models, and the role of the state all play out differently in these economies. The emerging markets are also producing global challengers, companies that rival traditional multinationals for industry leadership.
To understand how companies are navigating these two worlds—and the new competitive order—we have spoken with seven chief executives, who shared their perspectives in interviews
The gaze and orientation of these chief executives are shifting increasingly overseas, especially toward emerging markets. Across all the interviews, the leaders highlighted the same four critical capabilities, specifically the need to excel at:
Leading from the global field
Feeding two beasts
Managing the new rules of culture and engagement
Creating a global talent pool
Leading from the Global Field
CEMEX, Daimler, Maersk, Schneider Electric, and Siemens each do business in more than 100 countries and have manufacturing operations in dozens of them. Starbucks has stores in 60 countries. Samsung Engineering is managing projects in more than 20 nations. So even if these companies’ chief executives were able to manage businesses from headquarters, they could not lead their people in the outer reaches of their empires from afar.
Leadership is a contact sport. People want to know their leaders. “We are a company that benefits from physical meetings and being in close touch with our people,” Schultz said.
The flip side, of course, is that leaders need to know their people and the businesses that they run. “When you meet the frontline, you get the truth,” Andersen said. “If you just stay at your desk, you lose relevance.”
Leaders of large businesses have always been on the road; this is not a new development. But now the stakes are higher. With so many key overseas markets demanding attention, it is more difficult to check the pulse of the people, to gauge the effectiveness of local leaders, and to know when to intervene.
Based in Hong Kong, Tricoire is on the road about 80 percent of the time. As he puts it, “Reality does not happen in corporate. Reality happens in the field, with customers and with employees.” Zetsche also is a frequent flier. “Even five years ago, most of my entry stamps in my passport would have been from the Western Hemisphere. Today, most of them are from Asia,” he said.
Tricoire frequently travels alone. “When I arrive at Schneider in another country, I am with the people of the country. There is no barrier or no interpreter in between the teams and myself. After a few days together without any protection, I hope that people dare to tell me the good, the bad, and the ugly,” Tricoire said. “My job is to deal with the bad and the ugly, and to support them to do the good.”
Russwurm uses customer visits as an opportunity to become familiar with local staff. “I see how they interact with the customer, how well they understand the customer’s needs, and how well they argue the Siemens value proposition to specific customers,” he said. “That is a wonderful source of insight.”
The Siemens managing board frequently meets in emerging markets, but it does not simply sit in a conference room. Following a presentation by the local leadership team, the ten board members fan out into the field and visit with customers and government officials.
“After two days, we reconvene and try to consolidate typically 200 touch-points to see if they mesh with the descriptions that our local team has given us and to reach conclusions. What are the investments that Siemens should make in these regions?” said Russwurm.
This approach neither replaces nor undercuts the delegation that executives are taught is necessary to run large, complex, multimarket enterprises. But it does remind us that while management requires delegating, leadership demands getting dirty.
Feeding Two Beasts
For all the promise and potential of emerging markets, the center of gravity for Western based-companies is still located in mature markets. The developed world generates most of the revenues, employs most of the people, and houses most of the assets. Also, a company’s culture is generally formed in its home country. Against the backdrop of these realities, nurturing small but fast-growth markets can be tricky; they risk being smothered by the institutional inertia and a history of operating in mature economies.
Alternatively, senior executives might become overly-enamored of emerging markets and lose sight of the challenges of operating in mature markets. “You have to be very aware that the slow-growth markets need a lot of attention precisely because they have to do many things well in order to survive in a highly competitive environment,” Zambrano said.
One of the hardest things to do is directing resources where they are needed most—and that may be away from the mature markets. “In slow-growing or no-growth areas of the world, you have to be very firm. As much as they would like to keep the funds they generate, they do not need the money,” Zambrano said. “So it has to go to where you actually get a better financial return.”
Emerging markets frequently require specific products and services tailored to their income levels, infrastructure, traditions, and habits. Maersk, for example, would not be able to enter the shallow ports in many emerging markets if it hadn’t added special ships. And yet, if every market is free to do its own thing, the advantages of scale, brand, and consistency fall away.
One way in which Starbucks has managed that tradeoff is by reorganizing around three regions—the Americas; Asia Pacific; and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa—rather than functions. The Americas region is disproportionately larger than the other two, but what the new structure lacks in symmetry it gains in agility by pushing decision-making closer to the customer. The regional presidents effectively operate as the “CEOs of their own businesses,” Schultz said.
“If the stewards of any consumer brand believe that they can create local relevance sitting in a white tower somewhere in the U.S.—and dictating the ways in which consumers will react all over the world—they are on a collision course with time,” said Schultz. “The challenge that we have to understand and overcome is creating the balance between the Starbucks experience that customers all over the world expect and desire and a healthy dose of local relevancy that demonstrates respect to the local customer.”
Siemens and Maersk are both organized around vertical business units, rather than regions. To ensure that attention is paid to emerging markets, Siemens has implemented mechanisms and formal structures that foster its vertical businesses.
Maersk divided responsibility for 15 fast-growing, high-priority markets among its six-member executive team. “We are responsible for determining whether there are new activities or synergies that we can take advantage of in terms of cross-selling in these countries,” Andersen said.
Forty percent of Schneider Electric’s revenues are generated in what Tricoire calls “new economies,” so the company is accustomed to meeting the specific needs of these markets. “Our culture is a culture of local empowerment and decentralization,” Tricoire says. “One of the assets that we have benefited from in new economies has been our capability to trust our local employees and local teams and give them the capability to adapt our approaches and business model.”
Managing the New Rules of Culture and Engagement
Culture is the glue that unifies disparate businesses into an organization greater than the sum of its parts. But global organizations will not capture the true value of emerging markets if the glue does not allow for local wiggle room.
The energy and vitality of emerging markets are part of what makes them special. “An important thing we can learn from developing markets is their enthusiasm. The willingness to go after growth and seize opportunities is refreshing,” said Andersen.
At the same time, however, letting a thousand flowers bloom could lead to mild forms of corporate anarchy. There needs to be a common culture, built around broad principles and values, that both celebrates local nuance and corrals it. “We are responsible, excellent, and innovative. That is true wherever Siemens operates,” Russwurm said.
Samsung Engineering global focuses on its corporate values but also remains sensitive to local custom and convention. But, as Park explained, “We also aim to be a local company within each market we serve, respecting cultural or religious differences and diversity. We adjust our working styles, for example, to accommodate daily prayers. We call this balance between integration and localization glocalization.”
At Schneider Electric, new employees frequently tell Tricoire that his company has a strong culture. “But that does not mean that the people of Schneider China operate the same way as the people of Schneider U.S. do. They operate with different soft skills, but they share the same values,” Tricoire said. “Our values are what keep us together. Straightforward dialogue is one of the important values that we carry together.”
In China, Starbucks recently held two meetings, one in Beijing and one in Shanghai, for the parents of employees. The meeting served as a way to express the company’s understanding of the importance of family in China. “It was as locally relevant as anything we have ever done,” Schultz said. “And yet it was part of the culture and fabric of our 40-year history.” While Schultz recognized that this “annual meeting of parents” may not work globally, he said he believes that it shows the new ways that today’s leaders and their teams engage with employees.
Social media has also changed the nature of the relationship between companies and the market and their employees. The instant communication of fact and fiction raises the stakes for leaders. “You have to be authentic,” Zetsche said. “Once you accept that, it becomes a tremendous opportunity.”
Creating a Global Talent Pool
The seven leaders spotlighted here all run businesses that boast strong employer brands. But even as employers of choice, both in their home markets and abroad, these companies face stiff competition and challenges in developing a global pool of talent—employees who can move seamlessly across emerging and developing markets.
“The typical board of a German company is male, white, 60, and German,” Zetsche said. “When you want to ‘conquer the world,’ it is certainly not a recipe for success for the future.” Over time, Zetsche explained, Daimler will promote non-German executives so that the board is “ultimately representing the markets that we are doing business in.”
Starbucks, for example, has tended to rely on expatriates to run businesses in emerging markets, in order to ensure that the Starbucks culture is properly incubated. Starbucks, in the words of Schultz, has always sought to be “a different type of company that would balance profitability and benevolence.” It is therefore difficult, he explained, to build “an organization with people who are not imprinted with the history of Starbucks.” Relying on expatriates is an expensive approach, so Starbucks is working to develop local leaders who can rise through the ranks.
Maersk has a rich and long history of global talent mobility. More than 70 nationalities are represented in its headquarters, and mid-level executives frequently rotate between mature and emerging markets. Yet mobility slows as executives move up the ranks. It is far easier to move from an emerging to mature market as a sales manager than as a country manager. “We are increasing our recruiting activities for top talent in the developing world and trying to diversify the skills and cultural background in the group. But it is a work in progress,” Andersen said.
Schneider Electric has actively sought to encourage that type of movement through programs such as Marco Polo, which allows recent graduates to work outside their country of origin for their first two years of employment. “If you are like me, a gypsy—and ready to go to one place and to the other one, to bring your know-how, and to mingle with other communities—this is a very exciting place to be,” Tricoire said. “We believe that mobility and diversity are big sources of innovation and creativity.”
Mobility is a good thing so long as all the moving occurs within and not beyond the organization. As Zambrano said, “Even in areas of the world where unemployment is high, unemployment for very talented individuals does not exist.”
Samsung Engineering engages in talent exchange among markets as a way to reduce the gap in talent between mature and emerging markets and overcome cultural differences. “Our engineers in Korea are conducting projects with engineers from the U.S. and India. We are planning to continuously expand labor exchanges between our main engineering hubs in these three locations,” Park said.
Because these companies are desirable employers and have reputations for offering strong training programs, their employees are recruited frequently and aggressively, especially in emerging markets. “To keep the best and the brightest is an interesting challenge that we increasingly have around the globe,” Russwurm said. “We make quite the effort to ensure that those people stay with us.”
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KH 420 – The first midfield monitor from Neumann
Los Angeles, October 11, 2014: Neumann is expanding the successful KH line with its first midfield monitor: the KH 420. The active 3-way system (10"+3"+1") is ideal for larger 5.1 and 7.1 configurations and listening distances of up to 11 meters.
With a corner frequency of 52 Hz, the KH 120 nearfield monitor set new standards in its class for low frequency performance. Neumann engineers have succeeded in raising the bar with the KH 420; its 26 Hz corner frequency is not only lower than other comparable midfield monitors, but a whole octave lower than the KH 120. Anyone requiring even lower bass reproduction for surround systems with a dedicated LFE channel can add the KH 870 woofer to extend the response down to 18 Hz.
Computer-optimized drivers, the Mathematically Modeled Dispersion Waveguide (MMD™), acoustical controls for matching the speakers to the listening room, a highly flexible input section, and a wide range of mounting hardware make the KH 420 a versatile monitoring tool for the audio professional. The KH 420 has been designed to provide optimum dispersion regardless of the orientation of the cabinet. This is possible thanks to the rotatable waveguide section which contains both the high frequency and midrange drivers.
An optional Digital Input Module (DIM 1) will be available for the KH 420, which provides the monitor with digital AES3 and S/P-DIF inputs and a delay function. This feature, which is available on both the digital and analog inputs, may be used for audio/video lip synchronization and to compensate for non-equidistant speaker placement. Maximum delay time is 409.5 ms with a minimum resolution of 0.1 ms.
"The KH 420 delivers an accurate picture of the tonal nuances of the original recording," says Wolfgang Fraissinet, President of Neumann.Berlin. "In order to deliver a perfect stereo image, the KH 420 pushes the boundaries of what is possible in terms of linearity, performance and close production tolerances. It reflects the quality-driven approach that Neumann.Berlin has been committed to for many decades".
One of the most compact 3-way monitors in its class, the KH 310 is the perfect choice for situations where space is limited. In addition to extra digital inputs, this brand new digital version comes with all the delay features of the DIM 1 module described above.
With the KH 120 D, the KH 310 D and the KH 420 with optional DIM 1 module, Neumann now offers monitors in three distinct size classes to support a completely digital workflow.
Both the KH 420 and the KH 310 D are expected to ship in late October 2014. The KH 420 will be priced at $4,899.95, while the KH 310 D will be priced at $2,749.95. Additionally, KH 120 D digital monitor (previewed at NAB) is now available in the U.S. and priced at $1,249.95.
About Neumann:
Georg Neumann GmbH, with its headquarters in Berlin, Germany, is well-known as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of microphones. The company, which was established in 1928, has a long track record of world-leading product designs and has been recognized with a string of international awards for its technology innovations. From 2010, Neumann offers this expertise in electro-acoustic transducer technologies to the studio monitoring market, and will provide optimum solutions to its customers in the areas of TV and radio broadcasting, recording, and audio productions. Neumann is now the perfect partner for both the input and the output of the audio signal path. Neumann has manufacturing facilities in Germany (microphones) and Ireland (loudspeakers), and is represented in over 50 countries worldwide by Sennheiser subsidiaries, as well as by long-term trading partners. Georg Neumann GmbH is a Sennheiser Group company.
About Sennheiser:
Sennheiser is a world-leading manufacturer of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems. Established in 1945 in Wedemark, Germany, Sennheiser is now a global brand represented in 60 countries around the world with U.S. headquarters in Old Lyme, Conn. Sennheiser's pioneering excellence in technology has rewarded the company with numerous awards and accolades including an Emmy, a Grammy, and the Scientific and Engineering Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. | {
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Eddie Cibrian & LeAnn Rimes: Cheering Squad
Seven-year-old Mason had a cheering squad on the sidelines of his soccer game in Calabasas, California yesterday in the form of his dad Eddie Cibrian, little brother Jake, 3, and Eddie’s girlfriend LeAnn Rimes (October 9).
The country crooner and her beau seemed happy as ever, taking time out for a little PDA. After the game LeAnn treated the whole gang to ice cream.
LeAnn took to Twitter to give updates on the game, writing, “I think I’m gonna lose my voice from screaming!!! Lol”
And then, later: “I got a coach Rick reward today! Must have been cause of my cheering! Lol!”
They look like a cute happy couple, glad the kids get a balanced life with both parents!!!
Anonymous
They are both disgusting cheating pigs!
AnnieMouse
The whole world is full of cheaters! Just because you can’t maintain a relationship with another adult, doesn’t say anything about your ability to be a good parent. I think it’s good to see her with his children having fun.
Anonymous
Having fun? Nope more like trying to taunt Brandi Glanville. And of course she is trying to make it look like they are a happy family, last time this year Eddie Cibrian was CHEATING on Leann. It is said that Leann would use this kids to fuel her agenda. BTW, except for last year when Eddie was trying to make people think that he was a goo day, we have NEVER seen these kids at the soccer game. So how odd that we them NOW. When Leann has a concert and this just so happens to be the anniversary that EC cheated on LR with. This is gross and heting out of control. The said thing is that these photos are just a recreation of those photos of EC, BG, and BG parents from last year. If she wanted to show how much she loved those kids, she should not have called the paps and then tweeted about them.
A little Nuts-o Fruitcake?!
Wow…take it personally, why don’t you…just an observation. Chill out!
Anonymous
do they really need to make out at a soccer game? Does she really need to wear those short shorts at the game? this woman needs to start thinking about other people besides herself…I think she will live if she doesn’t kiss her cheater of a bf for an hour or so
Cindy
when the pockets stick out from underneath, it means the shorts are too short….and surely you can make it through a children’s soccer game without making out
Anonymous
It’s funny how Eddie’s children are a lot darker than he is the boys look a lot more Cuban.
Anonymous
LR claims that she didn’t know that the paps are out there taking pics, and yet, she’s smiling right at them in one of the pictures. this website didn’t include the pics of her ass, as she claims that she was picking up a cookie on the ground. Would it kill her if she bend down on her knees instead of bending down to show her a**? Look up classless in the dictionary–you will see a picture of LR
Anonymous
She knew that the paps were there.
This kid has had now many soccer games and not once have the paps been there?
So we have to ask, what are EC and LR trying to promote?
Because they only show in public with those kids when they are using them to promote their careers or trying to make us think that all is well.
I find it funny that she is making out with EC at the kids game. The focus is not on the kids, but on how she can make her farce with EC seem more real because everyone is pointing out how he cheated last year.
Anonymous
They are both pathetic! Making out at a soccer game! CHEATERS!
Anonymous
He disgusts me even MORE because he lied when the media first speculated something between them saying all the stories were ‘fabricated’. Scumbag.
Anonymous
Oh come on, when have we ever seen them at that kid’s game. We saw photos ONE TIME last year, so this was a set up. Leann is sick and then she just can’t understand why things are going well for her.
BTW, didn’t EC say that it disturbs him to see his kids faces in the tabs? Yeap, so what can we conclude? That as long as Leann pays him well he will pimp his kids out?
Now how will EC and WEWE ever do the right thing when sites like this are always patting them on the back?
This is gross.
Anonymous
Leann smile all you can now, he cheated on his wife with you and he will cheat on you with another and she will be the one smiling. Shauna Sands called and said your shorts are too short.
Anonymous
I cant stand these two, specially LR. She looks like a dude, shes a homewrecker and keeps taunting the kids mom, shes a JOKE. Paps please stop taking pics of em. And of course she knew paps were them, she even smiled at them!!! She is a liar too I guess.
Anonymous
If they’ll do it with you,they’ll do it to you.I’m so glad EC is not on CSI Miami anymore!
Ick
these 2 become scummier by the day. she wanted to show he was all hers bc eddie has tried to screw half the moms at that game
Anonymous
that is totally what it seems like.
Anonymous
This kinda works against Leann. If the paps can find Leann and “HER FAMILY” so easily( like Leann keeps claiming), then image how easy it is for a pedophile or even a crazy “fan” of Leann to find and locate those kids. So this is even more reason why Leann should not be tweeting about those kids. And why she should not be rewareded when she tweets about those kids.
Anonymous
Just remember, he was making out with his wife when he was trying to convince people that he wasn’t cheating with LR. LR established in her Shape interview that she engages in excessive pdas to compensate for her bad relationships. So the best thing to come from this photo-op is that EC is CHEATING on LR. If they were not sincere when they were making out with their spouses, then why do sites like this expect us to believe that all is well now that EC and LR are together? Did either one of them fix that thing that made them cheat? The man still hasn’t kept a promise to his kids, so why do you want us to believe that he loves LR when he can’t even abide by his whole “it is not child-focused to expose kids to the media and paps” while his mistress tweets about his kids and posts photos of them on her twitter page? | {
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The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer Debuting Next Week!
And so the Spidey mania begins! Sure “The Amazing Spider-Man” won’t be hitting theaters until next year, but that doesn’t stop the studio from getting started on all the hype and promo stuff early. That’s why next week, the teaser trailer for Marc Webb’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” will be hitting the web (no pun intended) next week! The trailer will also be shown during some of the “Captain America: The First Avenger” screenings.
According to SHH, the trailer will come in at 2 minutes and 30 seconds. 2 minutes and 30 seconds of glory if you ask me. From what I’ve seen set pics wise and with the cast members that are apart of the new Spider-Man reboot, it doesn’t look like it’ll disappoint and I hope it doesn’t. Along with the announcement, EW has debuted their latest issue with Andrew Garfield on the cover in his Spider-Man suit. EW has even confirmed that the Lizard is in fact the film’s villain. Here’s some stuff from the issue:
EW can also exclusively confirm that Rhys Ifans will be playing Doc Conners, who, in an experiment gone wrong, transforms into one of Spider-Man’s most formidable foes ever, the Lizard.
Four years after Spider-Man 3, starring Tobey Maguire, “The Amazing Spider-Man” promises to be a “more contemporary,” “more gritty,” and “more character-driven” look at the comic book hero. He’s a hero the 27-year-old Garfield knows well. Growing up, “I related to Peter Parker [Spidey’s alter ego] so much because I felt like someone else inside,” he says. “I loved the comic books and the animated TV series and I even dressed up as Spider-Man as a kid.”
Adds Webb: “Ultimately what this movie is about is a kid who grows up looking for his father and finds himself. And that’s a Spider-Man story we haven’t seen before.”
Along with the hi-res EW cover, ComingSoon posted some hi-res pictures from the issue: | {
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China purchases gold mining assets
For a period of 7 years, the two main Asian countries in the gold market, China and India, have imported around 15 000 tons of the yellow metal. According to the “Ed Steer's Gold & Silver Daily” precious metal portal, this volume is almost equal to the world's one for the same period of time. The average of the world's weekly gold production is 60 tons of gold.
For a long period of time, several unofficial sources have been sharing information about the Chinese gold mining companies plan to start buying gold mining assets. Analysts assume that this could be a stable investment for Chinese investors.
Despite some opinions in the market about gold losing its market appeal, China's position is fundamentally opposite. Gold has always been used for maintaining the economic stability and backing national currencies. The strategy of the political figures of China aims at replenishing gold reserves and stimulating gold investment by private investors to strengthen the economy and protect it from both internal and external factors.
Moreover, some experts assume that the Asian giant does not give the full information about the demand for gold to conceal the shortage of supply on the Chinese gold market. In 2013 the official demand for gold was around 2000 tons as reported by independent sources. | {
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5 Simple Self-Defense Skills To Know When Traveling
Traveling can frazzle your brain. Between trying to remember if you locked up the house or put your ID back into your wallet, thinking about personal safety in airport parking lots is the last thing on most people’s minds. However, poorly lit parking garages, arms full of luggage, confusing parking signs, forgetting where you parked and keys buried in the bottom of an overflowing purse can make people easy targets for predators. To help people stay safe while traveling, Krav Maga Worldwide, the industry leader in self-defense and fitness, has put together a list five essential self-defense moves to know.
1. Straight Punch
The basic movement behind a straight punch is to rotate your hips and shoulders and extend your arm as if you were reaching to grab something that is just out of reach in front of you. It’s this movement through your hips, shoulders, and arms that sends the punch out and generates power. Your fist is what delivers the punch. When delivering a straight punch it’s ideal to punch with the “top two” knuckles of the fist, which are the pointer and middle finger. Hips and shoulders rotate forward explosively, use the “top two” knuckles to make contact with the to the soft targets of the attacker’s face.
2. Front Kick to the Groin
The front kick to the groin travels on a vertical plane up the “A frame” form of an attackers legs and lower body. To deliver the kick drive your hips forward with your knee bent so your heel is back. Let your knee and leg extend and, with your foot flat (shoelaces up and toes forward gives the most striking surface), kick up and through the attacker’s groin. Imagine that your kick will travel through the attacker’s groin and out the top of their head, as if you were going to split them in two from the groin up. Recoil your leg back to it’s original position. Drive your hips forward with the knee bent, extend the leg and kick up and through the groin with the foot flat (shoelaces up).
3. Knees
Knee strikes are very useful for creating damage at close range. If the attacker is close enough to grab you, that means you can grab that attacker and start making damage to them using your knees. Grab as much skin, muscle (and whatever fabric the attacker is wearing) at the attacker’s trapezius (that’s the spot between the neck and shoulder). Keep the elbow of the arm grabbing the trap pointed down so you can brace yourself if the elbow of the arm grabbing the trap pointed down so you can brace yourself if the attacker comes forward. Use your other hand to wrap behind the elbow on the same side of the body you are already grabbing. This grip on the trap and elbow will help you maintain a position from which to knee…we don’t have to completely control the person we are fighting back against wejust want to be able to maintain the position from which we will do damage. Drive your hips forward with your heel back (so your leg makes a triangle in profile view) and imagine that you are going to punch your knee straight through the attacker in front of you. Think about using more of the kneecap surface of your knee as the striking surface in order to deliver the knee going forward. We aren’t using the top of the knee, closer to the thigh. We aren’t kneeing up toward the ceiling unless that person has already lowered their head in front of us…mainly we think about kneeing forward, through the groin or midsection of the attacker. Recoil your knee by bringing your foot back to the ground, and continue to deliver knees until you can get away safe. Some force can be added to the knee by using our grip to give the attacker a pull toward the knee as we are delivering it. Establish your grip and position (if in close enough) drive the hips forward and strike the attacker in the groin or knee, with the knee traveling forward, recoil and continue as needed.
4. Bear Hug Defense
If you are grabbed in a bear hug, from the front or from behind, the key to getting out is to start fighting back right away. We cannot start fighting back unless we establish two things; base and space. When the attack comes on, lower your center of gravity and “base out” by bending your legs and widening your feet. You will immediately become more difficult to lift off of your feet…and just more difficult to move, in general. This is one of the afore mentioned instinctive movements that your body already knows how to make. Think about a child who is protesting going to bed or to school, they will drop their level/center of gravity and make themselves very heavy and difficult to move around. As soon as you’ve established a solid base, immediately begin striking at any open and vulnerable areas that the attacker presents. These will change depending on the direction the bear hug comes from and the position of your arms when grabbed. Krav Maga Worldwide students learn to target the groin and face whether the attack comes from the front or back. Continue to strike (headbutt, knees, kicks, punches, bites) until there is sufficient space for you to turn in (if attacked from behind) and get away, or to simply separate and run away. Base, space, fight back aggressively, get away.
5. Choke Defense
If a choke comes on from the front, back, or side and that choke happens “in place” (which is to say that we are being attacked but generally standing in the same place, not being shoved or pushed while the choke is on) Krav Maga Worldwide students are taught to “pluck” the choker’s hands away and immediately being to strike back. Your body (meaning your hands) will want to immediately go toward your neck if a choke is put on you and will most likely end up on top of the attacker’s hands as they are already on the neck. Instead of trying to pull the attacker’s hands off of the neck, which could be impossible if the defender is a much smaller person than the attacker, use your hands like meathooks (thumbs against pointer fingers, hands in a “C” shape) and explosively pluck at the attackers thumbs. The attacker cannot maintain a choke using their hands (it’s a different defense if the attacker is choking with their arm like a “rear naked choke” or similar) if their thumbs are plucked off of the defender’s neck. Immediately begin to strike back to vulnerable areas on the attackers body. Again, these targets will change depending on the direction the attack comes from. Krav Maga Worldwide students learn to identify these targets from any direction so as to maximize damage to the attacker when fighting back. Use the hands like meathooks to pluck the thumbs away, fight back aggressively, get away.
These five techniques are essential for women to know, master, and get into their self-defense tool box. Knowing how to strike with your arms, legs, and knees is fundamental to self- defense training as is dealing with common attacks like a bear hug or choke.
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These five techniques are essential for women to know, master, and get into their self-defense tool box. Knowing how to strike with your arms, legs, and knees is fundamental to self- defense training as is dealing with common attacks like a bear hug or choke. Training at Krav Maga Worldwide certified training centers will bring you to a high level of proficiency with this, and several other Level 1 Krav Maga techniques within the first three months of training with us. As I mentioned before, there’s no one self-defense technique that anyone can teach you that will guarantee your safety. Self- defense training should be done on a consistent basis to maximize the benefits. At Krav Maga Worldwide we recommend training in two or three one hour classes a week if possible. Training at Krav Maga Worldwide will not only make you better prepared to fight back and win in a self-defense situation but it will get you in amazing shape. You’ll be faster, leaner, stronger, and you will know how to fight back if something happens to you. | {
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In the July 10 issue, the article “Deadline for Survivorship Care Plan Compliance Being Rethought” notes that the Commission on Cancer (CoC) is “revisiting the [survivorship care plan] requirement since many institutions have been having trouble complying.” Respectfully, in loyal opposition, we say it’s about time the CoC is giving this standard second thought. The OT piece highlighted the feasibility question: is it even possible to meet the requirements of this standard? As we will review below, it was foreseeable from the outset that this was an unattainable standard. But more important than the question of “Can we?” is the question of “Should we?” That is, even putting aside the very real challenges this standard imposes on cancer programs, do treatment summaries and care plans actually offer any real value? The evidence challenges the assumption that if we could just find a way to implement this standard, it would improve care for survivors.
First, to the feasibility question: how does a cancer program go about providing a “comprehensive care summary and follow-up plan” to all cancer patients completing treatment? The simple answer is to hire someone (or several people, depending on the number of patients being treated) to complete these documents and then review them with cancer survivors. This is typically too time-consuming a task to ask existing staff to handle. To put this in perspective, at our program we have a very experienced Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse in the role of “survivorship nurse navigator,”and it takes her (DB) on average 45 minutes to an hour to just complete a treatment summary/care plan for one patient (not reimbursable). Then it takes another 30 minutes to review the summary/care plan with the patient.
If our survivorship navigator only completed and reviewed summaries/care plans with our survivors, never taking a day off or even a break, never offering any other survivorship service, she could reach about 1,400 survivors per year. Our cancer program sees over 3,000 new cancer cases per year. While we are very fortunate to have a full-time position devoted to survivorship issues, something many other community programs are not able to fund, we are certainly not in a position to hire multiple survivorship navigators.
To get around the time and labor issues, some have suggested that cancer programs can rely on software to prepopulate treatment summary fields with data from the tumor registry or the electronic health record (EHR).Unfortunately tumor registries are often several months behind. But even if the tumor registry was “real-time,” it tracks things like whether a patient received chemotherapy (yes or no) and not the specific types of chemotherapy a patient received, thus falling short of the CoC standard requirements. Using software to pull data from EHRs is also not as straightforward as it might seem. Most cancer care in this country is delivered in the community setting where there is often a hybrid model of employed and private physician offices, typically with multiple EHRs. It is unusual for EHRs to talk well with one another, and treatment summary software has yet to overcome most of these hurdles. Because the software either does not exist or the computer programming necessary to make it all work would be prohibitively expensive, for most sites, treatment summaries/care plans must be completed manually—hence the compliance concerns.
Next let’s turn to the question of whether we should attempt to meet this standard, feasibility issues aside. The theory goes that treatment summaries/care plans will help bridge the gap between oncology and primary care.Oncologists cannot follow their patients forever; at some point survivors need to transition back to their PCP. If survivors just had this document, with all the treatments they received, and handed it to their other physicians, no one would be “lost in transition” anymore, to borrow from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report.1
The flaw in this theory is that it sounds so intuitive no one really bothered to test it before mandating treatment summaries for all survivors. As it turns out, even with this document in hand, survey research has revealed that PCPs do not feel adequately trained to manage cancer survivors.2-4 The research also shows that medical oncologists don’t trust PCPs to follow their patients, which is why medical oncologists are so reluctant to discharge. And the survivors, too, say they would rather be followed by their medical oncologist.
A single document, no matter how comprehensive, does not make up for the fact that most PCPs did not receive training on survivorship care when they attended medical school. And to the concern that we don’t have enough medical oncologists to follow the ever-growing population of cancer survivors, we don’t have enough PCPs either.5 This is a serious problem, certainly, but not one that treatment summaries/care plans fix.
The other argument frequently offered in support of treatment summaries/care plans is that it “empowers” survivors. With treatment summaries, survivors will have more knowledge, and with knowledge comes power. In our practice, despite making it as pleasant as possible an experience for our survivors to review their treatment summary (we coordinate with other appointments, do not bill, and the survivorship navigator offers to discuss the treatment summary only after establishing a good rapport), two-thirds of our survivors decline the service.6
Far from feeling empowered, the feedback we typically receive is: “That’s too much right now,” “I have other worries,” “Can’t my doctors just talk about this with each other?” And to the point of having other worries, when we survey our survivors – and the research again supports our findings7,8 – they ask for help with things like returning to work, managing long-term side effects -- and perhaps most of all, managing their fear of recurrence. These are the very kinds of concerns our program seeks to address with our survivors, but our reach is limited by the time and resources we must devote to treatment summaries/care plans.
Somewhere along the way survivorship care became synonymous with treatment summaries/care plans. We find this unfortunate. And this is not what the IOM report recommended, by the way. Treatment summaries were but a small part of the overall approach to survivorship care the IOM report was advocating (and something that should be reimbursable at that, which currently is not).The other IOM recommendations included a greater focus on symptom and side-effect management and developing and testing new models of care for survivors.
The real harm is that by focusing exclusively on treatment summaries we divert precious resources away from the kinds of services survivors actually want and need so that we can complete a document that sounds good in theory.This is hardly evidence-based care. This is hardly survivor-centered care. And as people who consider themselves strong advocates for cancer survivors, we say it’s about time we rethought things. | {
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Monday, September 8, 2014
Russian Engineers Unveil Device to See Through Walls
Russian Engineers Unveil Device to See Through Walls
The Moscow Times
Sep. 01 2014 19:13
Russian military engineers have created a new device to allow emergency rescue workers to detect people buried in wreckage and rubble from several meters away, RIA Novosti reported Monday.
The device, called Pikor, uses ultra-short pulse radio waves to detect heartbeats and moving diaphragms behind walls and layers of other building materials such as brick, concrete, wood, plaster and glass. It has already been successfully tested by the Emergency Situations Ministry, the news agency said.
Alexander Kalinin, head of the Moscow-based Construction Bureau of Experimental Work's department that built the device, has hailed the new instrument as a turning point in rescue work.
"Such a device is crucial for rescue operations when it is necessary to find people within an hour or two," Kalinin was cited by RIA as saying.
In addition to the emergency services, Pikor is expected to be used by the military and various law enforcement agencies, which can use it in raids and other operations to determine how many suspects are in a given area.
The device can "see" a stationary person through a 40-centimeter brick wall from 2.5 meters away and through 90 centimeters of sand at a distance of 1.5 meters, the report said. It can also detect people under two meters of snow. If the person is moving, the device will detect them from six to eight meters away.
The device is relatively compact, measuring 41 by 27 centimeters, and weighs 1.8 kilograms.
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When Narcissists Use Religion to Control You
Are you dealing with religious abuse or spiritual abuse from a narcissist? If so, you’re not alone. Narcissists are infamous for using religion to manipulate, control and absolutely dominate you through fear of what will happen to you if you don’t do what they want.
In this video, Narcissists and Religious Abuse (AKA Spiritual Abuse): When Narcissists Use Religion to Control You, I’ll define religious abuse and outline how narcissists use it against you.
The official definition of religious/spiritual abuse: Religious abuse is abuse administered under the guise of religion, including harassment or humiliation, which may result in psychological trauma. Religious abuse may also include misuse of religion for selfish, secular, or ideological ends such as the abuse of a clerical position.
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I’d like to share information I learned during my workplace’s outbreak of an airborne infectious disease that can cause malignancies, precancerous conditions, rheumatic diseases, connective tissue diseases, autoimmune symptoms, inflammation in any organ/tissue, seizures, migraines, hallucinations, etc. and is often undiagnosed/misdiagnosed in immunocompetent people.
My coworkers and I, all immunocompetent, got Disseminated Histoplasmosis in Dallas-Fort Worth from roosting bats, the most numerous non-human mammal in the U.S., that shed the fungus in their feces. The doctors said we couldn’t possibly have it, since we all had intact immune systems. The doctors were wrong.
More than 100 outbreaks have occurred in the U.S. since 1938, and those are just the ones that were figured out, since people go to different doctors. One outbreak was over 100,000 victims in Indianapolis. 80-90+% of people in some areas have been infected. It can lay dormant for up to 40 years in the lungs and/or adrenals.
It at least “mimics” autoimmune diseases, cancer, mental illness, migraines, seizures, etc. It’s known to cause rheumatological conditions. It causes hematological malignancies, and some doctors claim their leukemia patients go into remission when given antifungal. My friend in another state who died from lupus lived across the street from a bat colony. An acquaintance with alopecia universalis and whose mother had degenerative brain disorder has bat houses on their property.
Apparently, even the CDC didn’t know bats CARRY it and shed it in their feces, although they knew it could grow in bird and bat feces. Researchers claim the subacute type is more common than believed. It is known to at least mimic autoimmune diseases and cancer, and known to give false-positives in PET scans. But no one diagnosed with an autoimmune disease or cancer is screened for it. In fact, at least one NIH paper states explicitly that all patients diagnosed with sarcoidosis be tested for it, but most, if not all, are not. Other doctors are claiming sarcoidosis IS disseminated histoplasmosis.
The fungus is an Oxygenale and therefore consumes collagen. It’s known to cause connective tissue diseases. Fungal hyphae carry an electrical charge and align under a current. It causes RNA/DNA damage. It’s known to cause delusions, wild mood swings, and hallucinations. It’s most potent in female lactating bats, because the fungus likes sugar (lactose) and nitrogen (amino acids, protein). What about female lactating humans…postpartum psychosis? The bats give birth late spring/summer, and I noticed suicide rates spike in late spring/early summer. A map of mental distress and some diseases appear to almost perfectly overlay a map of Histoplasmosis. Johns Hopkins linked autism to an immune response in the womb. Alzheimer’s was linked to hypoglycemia, which can be caused by chronic CNS histoplasmosis. The bats eat moths, which are attracted to blue and white city lights that simulate the moon the moths use to navigate. Bats feed up to 500 feet in the air and six miles in any direction from their roost.
I believe the “side effects” of Haldol (leukopenia and MS symptoms) might not always be side effects but just more symptoms of Disseminated Histoplasmosis, since it causes leukopenia and MS symptoms. What about the unknown reason why beta receptor blockers cause tardive dyskinesia? The tinnitus, photophobia, psychosis “caused” by Cipro? Hypersexuality and leukemia “caused” by Abilify? Humira linked to lymphoma, leukemia and melanoma in children? etc.
From my experience, I learned that NO doctor, at least in DFW, will suspect subacute and/or progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in immunocompetent people. Some doctors, at least the ones I went to, will even REFUSE to test for it, even when told someone and their coworkers have all the symptoms and spend a lot of time in a building with bats in the ceiling. Victims will be accused of hypochondriasis. In fact, the first doctor to diagnose me was a pulmonologist, and the only reason he examined me was to try to prove that I didn’t have it, when I really did. No doctor I went to realized bats carry the fungus. And NO doctor, at least none in DFW, even infectious disease “experts,” understand the DISSEMINATED form, just the pulmonary form, and the only test that will be done by many doctors before they diagnose people as NOT having it is an X-ray, even though at least 40-70% of victims will have NO sign of it on a lung X-ray. It OFTEN gives false-negatives in lab tests (some people are correctly diagnosed only during an autopsy after obtaining negative test results) and cultures may not show growth until after 12 weeks of incubation (but some labs report results after 2 weeks).
One disease of unknown cause that could be caused by Disseminated Histoplasmosis: I suspect, based on my and my coworker’s symptoms (during our “rare” infectious disease outbreak) and my research, that interstitial cystitis and its comorbid conditions can be caused by disseminated histoplasmosis, which causes inflammation throughout the body, causes “autoimmune” symptoms, and is not as rare as believed. I read that “interstitial cystitis (IC) is a chronic inflammatory condition of the submucosal and muscular layers of the bladder, and the cause is currently unknown. Some people with IC have been diagnosed with other conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, allergies, and Sjogren’s syndrome, which raises the possibility that interstitial cystitis may be caused by mechanisms that cause these other conditions. In addition, men with IC are frequently diagnosed as having chronic nonbacterial prostatitis, and there is an extensive overlap of symptoms and treatment between the two conditions, leading researchers to posit that the conditions may share the same etiology and pathology.” Sounds like Disseminated Histoplasmosis, doesn’t it?
My coworkers and I had GI problems, liver problems, weird rashes (erythema nodosum, erythema multiforme, etc.), plantar fasciitis, etc., and I had swollen lymph nodes, hives, lesions, abdominal aura, and started getting migraines and plantar fasciitis in the building, and haven’t had them since I left. It gave me temporary fecal incontinence, seizures, dark blood from my intestines, nystagmus, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, various aches and pains (some felt like pin pricks and pinches), tingling, tremors, and chronic spontaneous “orgasms”/convulsions. Suddenly I was allergic to pears (latex fruit allergy?). I had insomnia (presumably from the fungus acidifying the blood, releasing adrenaline) and parasomnias. I suddenly had symptoms of several inflammatory/autoimmune diseases, including Fibromyalgia, Sarcoidosis, ALS, MS, Sjogren’s syndrome, etc. that have disappeared since leaving the area and taking nothing but Itraconazole antifungal.
No one, including doctors, could figure out what was wrong with us, and I was being killed by my doctor, who mistakenly refused to believe I had it and gave me progressively higher and higher doses of Prednisone (at least 2 years after I already had Disseminated Histoplasmosis) after a positive ANA titer, until I miraculously remembered that a visiting man once told my elementary school class that bats CARRY histoplasmosis….so much of it that they evolved to deal with the photophobia and tinnitus it causes by hunting at night by echolocation. There’s a lot more. I wrote a book about my experience with Disseminated Histoplasmosis called “Batsh#t Crazy,” because bats shed the fungus in their feces and it causes delusions and hallucinations, I suspect by the sclerotia it can form emitting hallucinogens (like psilocybin and dimethyltryptamine) along with inflammation in the CNS. (Schizophrenics have 2X of a chemical associated with yeast, part of the fungal life cycle.)
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Imagine my surprise as Republicans here in the U.S. have contributed mightily to stem cell research recently.
Wait, what?
There is a perception that when it comes to stem cell research and particularly embryonic stem cell research that there is a political divide with Republicans opposed to it and Democrats for it.
Of course it is not that simple, but it sure seems like most Republican leaders (even if not necessarily ordinary Republicans) spew out a lot of anti-stem cell rhetoric and do extreme things like sign “personhood” pledges.
So it is indeed surprising that Republicans have recently made decisions that are almost certain to help embryonic stem cell research.
Really? you ask.
Yes, the Republicans have surprisingly helped us in the stem cell field by in effect painting themselves into a corner during their primaries, leaving them with two extremely weak presidential candidates.
The two remaining GOP candidates (for the moment assuming Mr. Paul and Santorum are effectively out of the running) are Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.
Seeing these two as the remaining fellows, one of whom who will have to go against Obama later this year, must make Obama feel like a kid in a candy store. His potential opponents are so bad, it must just be so hard for him to choose who he’d rather face. What a pickle!
Sorry to my Republican friends, but Gingrich and Romney are equally horrible candidates.
Republicans have done the stem cell field and America more generally a great service by leaving themselves with a pool of two nightmarish candidates. I believe neither can beat Obama barring some jolting development. Most Republicans realize this and now have a full on case of “the vapors”.
Gingrich is an ethically-challenged jerk hated by most establishment Republicans and Romney is an elitist, out-of-touch pseudo-Republican that most Republicans truthfully cannot stomach. Choose your poison, Republicans.
Romney just today released his tax forms for 2010 and 2011, earning more than $40 million and paying less tax on that than most Americans including the middle class. A sizable chunk of his money has gone to Swiss bank accounts (which Romney closed for political reasons) and the Cayman Islands. His work history is solidly founded on earning $10s of millions via Bain by getting hundreds if not thousands of ordinary Americans fired and bankrupting companies. This is the guy who said publicly that he likes to be a position to fire people. This is the guy who calls corporations “people” and seems like a grown up version of the comic character Richie Rich. If, as Romney asserts, corporations are indeed “people” then is not his killing of so many companies a violation of the pro-life agenda he now claims to espouse?
Gingrich has more enemies amongst Republicans than Democrats, which is quite an achievement. He is on his third wife and was cheating on an earlier wife while simultaneously rabidly pushing for Clinton’s impeachment for lying about cheating on his wife. Can you say “Hypocrite”? On TV, Gingrich comes across as a cross between a rabid pit bull and the Pillsbury dough boy. He has publicly stated that if he is President and the Supreme Court makes a ruling he does not like, he’ll simply ignore it. The idea of Newt as the GOP nominee this year is giving mainstream Republicans arrhythmias and fainting spells. They are near hysterical at his performance in S. California and the prospect that Gingrich could well win the Florida primary too.
Of course if Ron Paul runs as a third-party candidate, this is likely to siphon off more votes from whomever is the official Republican nominee as well.
So, thank you Republicans, for making it more and more likely that Obama, a friend to stem cell research, will remain in office, avoiding the stem cell perfect storm I posted about in December. | {
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It’s truly an amazing sight to behold! The 32 haat (hands) long chariot beautifully decorated, inside which resides the god of rain Rato Machhindranath in its small abode. And to see this huge chariot sometimes even towering over houses by the side of the road being pulled by hundreds of men is an awesome moment. Read more | {
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Kinect 1.5 Launches in May, Adds ’10-Joint Skeletal Tracking’
Microsoft’s Kinect motion-tracking sensor for Windows and Xbox 360 can today, out of the box, keep track of basic body parts like your arms and legs. It’s not very good at keeping track of rapid motion, and the lag can be application-breaking, but in a rudimentary sense, it gets the job done. Wouldn’t it be great if future versions could juggle more body parts (including joints) simultaneously?
Meet “Kinect 1.5,” the next version of Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows software development kit. Craig Eisler, general manager for the product, says it’ll be available in late May, around the same time the company rolls the SDK out to 19 additional countries, including Russia, Brazil, India, South Africa, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and several more in Europe.
Eisler says one of the “most exciting” additions to the 1.5 version is something called Kinect Studio, “an application that will allow developers to record, playback and debug clips of users engaging with their applications.” I’m assuming he means actual programmatic Kinect interaction sequences, captured and stored on a Windows computer for diagnostic replay and tweaking. I guess I’m surprised that wasn’t in the initial release. How else have developers been fine-tuning their programs’ features and capture parameters?
The other major addition will be what Eisler says the team’s calling “seated” and “10-joint” skeletal tracking, allowing you to keep tabs on a user’s head, neck and arms whether seated or standing (Eisler adds that it’ll work in either default or near mode). Note the term “skeletal tracking” doesn’t refer to your actual skeleton, but a virtual one assigned to your various body parts. Imagine a stick-person version of your body, where your forearm and upper arm are discrete lines and their interplay’s tracked at the elbow joint. I’m not sure how many “sticks” Kinect can track (Eisler doesn’t say, though he promises more details soon), but “10-joint” probably means just what it sounds like: the ability to create up to 10 discretely trackable joints along a single line.
Kinect 1.5 will also add French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish to the speech recognition mix, plus language packs capable of recognizing dialects in all of its officially supported locales. | {
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Effects of euthanasia on the bereaved family and friends: a cross sectional study
Effects of euthanasia on the bereaved family and friends: a cross sectional study
Journal article and commentary thereon
This article by Nikkie B Swarte of the Utrecht university medical centre, Netherlands, et al. appeared in the 26 July 2003 British Medical Journal. The commentary which follows is by Dr Greg Pike of the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute, Plympton, South Australia.
This paper has several difficulties. These are listed below.
Without knowing the questions asked, it is difficult to know
whether a bias has been introduced by the specific wording in some
questions, eg question on religiosity.
Partners, parents, children, siblings and friends of those who
died were all lumped together, even though one would expect them to
grieve very differently. It is a big assumption that the two groups
could be matched effectively given the complexity of confounders
involved in a grief response.
Relatives and friends of euthanasia patients were more likely to be described as 'other' (ie
cousins, in-laws & friends rather than partners, siblings or
children). This difference between the two groups was not discussed,
even though it would be expected that, since the respondents in the
control group (relatives and friends of those who died naturally) were
more closely related to the patient, they would grieve more. In their
analysis, the authors say they have compensated for this difference.
However, the means by which they did so are all important, and we are
not told.
Relatives and friends of euthanasia patients were less
religious - this was not discussed even though in their analysis, the
authors say they compensated for this factor. But if this factor was a
simple yes/no question on religiosity, then the two groups could still
have different belief systems but this would be undisclosed and hence
could not be taken into account.
Relatives and friends of euthanasia patients were more
educated - this was not discussed, even though it was compensated for.
Again, the means of compensation are all-important. Furthermore, it is
an interesting possibility that 'more educated' might mean more
inculcated into the ethos of a rationalized chosen death.
An attempt was made to assess personality differences among
participants by use of a test for neuroticism - however, this is
acknowledged by the authors to be limited, since there are many other
facets of personality.
The authors suggest that their results could be explained by
the "capacity of patients to acknowledge their prognosis", and that in
the group who died of natural causes, what was occurring was
"prognostic denial of deeply distressed patients." They suggest that
the families and friends may have colluded in this denial and therefore
experienced greater grief afterwards as a result. What the authors are
really saying is that patients who died of natural causes didn't face
up to their impending death and neither did their family or friends,
who were then not able to cope as well with their grief compared with
the family and friends of those who chose euthanasia. But there is no
evidence given for 'prognostic denial.' It is purely speculative.
The following is one of the concluding sentences: "There is a
need for open awareness of impending death and for careful and
thoughtful planning for where and how the death ought to occur." In the
context of what the authors conclude, this implies that a natural death
does not have as much "open awareness of impending death". But there is
no evidence given to suggest this. Moreover, to suggest that "there is
a need for ... careful and thoughtful planning for where and how the
death ought to occur" is an endorsement of euthanasia even though the
authors later say that "our results should not be interpreted as a plea
for euthanasia."
This study assumes that grief responses were accurately
stated and not influenced by the views of participants about the
legitimacy of euthanasia. If participants understated their grief, even
subconsciously, in order to support the decision of their loved one,
the results could become skewed if one group did so differently
compared to the other.
In their introduction the authors note that "lack of religion
or spiritual belief" has been identified as a "risk factor for
developing traumatic grief." Even though in this study the authors say
they have compensated for religiosity, there appears to be little
difference before and after such adjustment. Therefore, in this study
religiosity does not appear to protect against traumatic grief, and if
anything may exacerbate it. This discrepancy compared to other studies
remains a contradiction. | {
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Date published: 2014-01-02
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South Shore Quality Gone SouthThis was my second purchase of a entertainment unit from Kohls. The first unit quality was also extrememly poor, and was immediately returned. Unfortunately, the warped frame was not discovered until the last piece had to be installed. In addition to the skewed structure, the quality of materials was poor, and the unit style and color did not match the image on the Kohls web site.
The South Shore purchase was not any better, in fact, it was actually worse. Countless surfaces were damaged and some corners even crushed or gouged and visible when assembly was complete. In the end, the last piece to be installed proved the sructure to be warped. I really didnt want to go through another fully assembled unit return to Kohls, so I wrote off the purchase. I used Fun Foam cut into small sections to fill gaps caused by the uneven shelving, and to raise the front cabinet door enough to keep it from rubbing.
Needless to say, I will not purchase another piece of furniture from Kohls without seeing a final assembled floor unit first. The initial price before the sale price on both units was a price that would make quality a believable chanracteristic. I have actually experienced better quality from other well known named prefab furniture products, and much easier to assemble.
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India Plans For Massive Clean Energy Push
Since the Government announced planned renewables capacity growth in India, the sector’s potential to create millions of new jobs is back in the spotlight.
India’s Government [recently] revealed its revived US$7.9 billion plan to upgrade its electric grid to prepare for planned renewables growth, and with this announcement comes the promise of new clean energy jobs for the economy amid what is currently a gloomy outlook for jobseekers.
A recent report by the country’s leading business paper, The Economic Times, states: ‘India, the world’s second-most populous country and home to the world’s second largest workforce (469 million workers), has a problem. […] the ongoing economic slowdown and the accompanying woes — rising inflation and interest rates, a weakening rupee and stalled investments — will inevitably take its toll on jobs.’
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Indian Jobs Market
Naina Lal Kidwai, President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry told the newspaper in July, ‘”Layoffs of contractual staff have already started and this could soon move to permanent employees,” warning the government of “a grim employment scenario unless growth is revived urgently”.
Echoing these views, a recent study by HSBC India reports that the manufacturing sector in India is also suffering as new orders fall while ‘the rate of job creation remained slight’.
However, a special report by IPCC outlines the positive long-term effects of clean energy as an important contribution to job creation, especially in the manufacturing sector, which has been the backbone of many national green growth strategies.
Low Carbon Economy
According to Greenpeace, Global Wind Energy Council and European Renewable Energy Council’s joint 2012 report, approximately 2.4 million jobs can be created in India in 2020 from growth in the renewables market. Importantly, this report points out that renewable energy has the potential to significantly grow the labor market, as clean technologies are generally more labor-intensive and will consequently create more domestic jobs as the market grows.
Results of the expansion of the renewable energy sector are already visible. In the last three years over 50,000 new jobs have already been created, according to India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. The Ministry’s 2010 human resources report projects renewables employment to increase nine-fold to reach 20 million jobs by 2030, with biomass leading the growth at 59% of total capacity, followed by solar PV at 31%.
Subaskar Sitsabeshan, Programme Analyst, The Climate Group, comments: “Not only is clean energy stabilizing and expanding India’s power supply, it is also generating much-needed jobs for India. Beyond jobs, renewable energy also creates positive economic ‘ripple’ effects that provides long term economic growth perspectives for India. We must raise this evidence to the forefront of leader’s agendas.
“Government and business leaders should continue to work together in order to arrest the decline of renewable energy investments in India – which mirrors the recent global trend – and fully utilize the potential opportunity for renewable energy generation in India. This way we will achieve energy independence and creation of jobs for greater Indian prosperity.” | {
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