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Artist and Journalist Killed on Bike
The vehicle that collided with the woman on the bike was a five-ton truck with the D.C. National Guard.
"It was moving forward to block as a procession was coming through," said Major Gen. Errol Schwartz of the D.C. Guard.
Deadly Collision Near Nuclear Summit
A woman was killed Monday night when her bicycle collided with a motorcade doing security for the Nuclear Summit in D.C. (Published Tuesday, Apr 13, 2010)
The woman has been identified as Constance Holden, 68, of the Mount Pleasant neighborhood in Northwest. Holden, known to friends and colleagues as "Tancy," had just left the American Association for the Advancement of Science headquarters when the incident happened.
According to AAAS, Holden had been on the staff of Science magazine since 1970. An award-winning reporter, Holden was highly regarded for her comprehensive coverage of the biological and genetic bases for human behavior, according to AAAS, and edited the journal’s weekly “Random Samples” page, a compendium of newsworthy scientific developments.
“(She) was held in very high esteem and with great affection by both those people with whom she worked and our readers," said Alan I. Leshner, chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science. "This is a terrible loss both personally and professionally for so many on our staff who knew her well.”
Holden also was an painter. Her work can be found at the Web site HoldenPortraits.com. Her colleagues said she was planning a show of her paintings at her home on Sunday.
It’s not clear yet who was at fault in Monday's incident, according to the chief commander of the D.C. Guard.
“We will look at the video to make sure the pedestrian didn’t roll into the path of the truck as it was moving,” Schwartz said.
The National Guard truck had a human escort walking alongside the vehicle to guide it through crowds.
Although the driver of the vehicle was assigned to a motorcade security route for dignitaries attending the Nuclear Security Summit, police said he was not actively part of a motorcade at the time of the collision. | {
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UK Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake will take two Raspberry Pi computers on his next space mission, in the hope that UK pupils will create their own app or experiment that can be deployed on the International Space Station.
UK Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake will take two Raspberry Pi computers on his next space mission, in the hope that UK pupils will create their own app or experiment that can be deployed on the International Space Station.
Peake will fly two "Astro Pi" maker-boards, which have been kitted with sensors, to the space station when he begins his six-month mission.
Primary and secondary school children will compete to develop an idea for an application, which if successful, will be developed with the help of the Astro Pi, CGI and Raspberry Pi Foundation, who will code their idea.
Peake will then load up the winning code whilst in orbit, set them running, collect the data generated and then download this to Earth where it will be distributed to the winning teams.
Business Secretary Vince Cable highlighted the importance of inspiring pupils to get involved with data science. He said: "So much technology relies on big data but not enough people are being trained in this field. This challenge helps the next generation to have fun whilst learning the skills that industry need."
Peake added: "I'm really excited about this project, born out of the cooperation among UK industries and institutions. There is huge scope for fun science and useful data gathering using the Astro Pi sensors on board the International Space Station."
ESERO-UK and Raspberry Pi are developing teaching resources to link to the curriculum and assist teachers of STEM subjects in engaging their students in the competition.
As well as explaining how to use and write code for the Astro Pi and its sensors, the resources will provide a context for the Astro Pi in the curriculum and link to teaching subjects and areas. | {
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
On April 23, Dean Charney announced the launch of the dynamic new research web portal for the School. Developed as part of the Research Administration Reengineering initiative, it is designed to respond to the needs of our investigators, research staff, and trainees. These key stakeholders and many others actively participated in the successful implementation of this project. The new research web portal guides users to information and tools for starting a research protocol, finding funding opportunities, submitting and managing grants, obtaining approvals, developing technology, and accessing training resources in an intuitive, easy to navigate, and sleekly designed interface. The new “How do I?” section puts all of this information at researchers’ fingertips.
The research web portal is an important milestone in the ongoing effort to enhance the School of Medicine’s web presence. An overhaul of the entire School of Medicine website is currently under way, with the first redesigned section of the new site scheduled to be launched at the end of May. Subsequent sections will be launched in successive phases throughout the remainder of the year.
As Web Marketing and school leadership continue to enhance the research section of the School of Medicine’s website, you may be contacted for information regarding our centers, laboratories, and programs.
The Grants Review Resource (G2R) provides initial comments on research grant proposals from the Mount Sinai research community. The G2R team is currently accepting applications for the July 5th and 16th NIH deadlines. For more information please contact Ravi Iyengar or Karen Johnson by e-mail, or visit the G2R web page to get started.
The use of the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) biographical sketch format is required for all applications due on or after May 25, 2015 per NOT-OD-15-024. A Biographical Sketch, or Biosketch, is required for all key personnel included in NIH grant applications. Applications may be rejected by the NIH if the old biosketch format is used. Creating the new biosketch takes time, so it is important that key personnel start early!
The revised format increases the page limit for the biosketch from four to five pages and includes a new section for researchers to describe up to five of their most important contributions to science. The new biosketch gives the researcher the ability to describe in their own words what makes them a qualified individual for the proposed project. One of the main goals is to focus on actual individual accomplishments and not publication metrics. Reviewers will be able to see and understand immediately the quality of the applicant, instead of inferring capabilities based on a list of citations. That is not to say publications are not important, and they are still included in the new biosketch format. A researcher may include up to four publications for each of the contributions to science.
While creating the new biosketch may be somewhat time consuming, it is important that it be crafted well. Researchers should not worry so much about the number of contributions listed, but should focus on communicating the quality of the work accomplished. Do not be afraid to sell yourself! This is a chance to let reviewers know that you are a qualified, dedicated researcher with all of the skills necessary to carry out the proposed project.
To help researchers make the transition to the new biosketch format, the NIH National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) designed a system – the Science Experts Network or SciENcv – that allows researchers to easily maintain and create biosketches in multiple formats. SciENcv interacts with other electronic systems, eRA Commons and ORCID, to pull information already existing in those databases into a central location. NCBI also already houses a list of publication citations for each investigator via the Bibliography in the MyNCBI portal. This allows the SciENcv system to automatically pull in information and publication citations without the researcher having to type in everything or worry about formatting! The system does it for you!
If you need hands-on assistance with using the SciENcv system or have questions about the biosketch and publications, contact Amanda Norton, Senior Grants Specialist, Grants and Contracts Office at [email protected].
The GCO is building its training and education programs by offering GCO 101 classes aimed at newcomers to the submission process and revamping its training and education webpage. “I am pleased to announce the launch of the GCO 101 classes and the new and improved training and education webpage,” says Jessica Moise, Senior Associate Dean for Sponsored Programs. “We are always striving to provide better service and an easy to understand process in a complex regulatory world. These two initiatives should go a long way in helping to achieve that goal.”
GCO 101
GCO 101 participants learn the basics of the sponsored project and research application submission process at Mount Sinai, including key terms and definitions used in sponsored project administration and best practices for a successful submission. These 1 ¼ hour sessions are generally held the 1st Monday at 3:00 pm and the 3rd Thursday at 9:15 am of each month. The Monday classes are held at the uptown east side Mount Sinai campus, which is a convenient location for many faculty and staff. The Thursday sessions held at the Mount Sinai 150 East 42nd Street campus, GCO headquarters, gives attendees the opportunity to meet GCO staff after the class. “(It’s a) relaxed setting away from campus,” commented one of the participants. Please see the “Upcoming Events” section for session dates and registration information.
GCO’s Training and Education Webpage
The GCO has overhauled its training and education webpage so that it truly reflects the opportunities provided by Mount Sinai, the NIH and other professional organizations dedicated to sponsored projects administration. One highlight is that the site includes the latest training resources that the NIH provides on grants, funding and the peer review process. “NIH’s training material on the grants and funding process is scattered among many different websites across the NIH, CSR, and YouTube and it’s hard to tease out which are the most important or fundamental classes, especially for new applicants to the process,” says Allison Gottlieb, Director of Sponsored Programs Education at the GCO. “Grant Application Basics, for example, is a must for the newcomer. The introductory series includes two NIH videos running only about 20 minutes and much important supplemental information.”
“We would like to say goodbye to applications with errors and delays that can be avoided and make the application submission process as turbulance free as possible,” continues Allison Gottlieb. “And of course we are aiming for more successful and awarded applications. The new, basic GCO 101 submission class coupled with a more robust training and education webpage on the submission process will help us reach these goals.”
Beginning with the implementation of the new Ideate system for IACUC submissions, the IACUC office no longer manages personnel requests via email. Investigators should use the online form at http://osticket.mssm.edu/support/open.php and select the help topic “Ideate/New Personnel Request.” This will ensure that requests are routed as efficiently as possible. If you have any questions or need additional information about IACUC processes and procedures, please contact the IACUC office at [email protected] or 212-241-0153.
In a continued effort to streamline communications between researchers and the IACUC Office, the following IACUC facilitator list has been updated. Department leaders and personnel can refer to this list for their assigned contact within the IACUC office. It is available for download here: IACUC Facilitator Department Assignments.
After more than a year of analysis, research, and planning, the Program for the Protection of Human Subjects (PPHS), in cooperation with Research Information Technology (IT) and the Research Administration Reengineering Program, began implementation of a new electronic submission process for human subject protocols using a software program called Ideate, which will ultimately replace current research submission processes, including InfoEd. Currently, only the IACUC office uses Ideate for reviewing and approving protocols, but eventually all of the research administration offices (including PPHS) will use it and review a single application. Ideate has been customized for the School’s research administrative offices to be an integrated, user-friendly online form that will significantly improve the protocol submission process for investigators and research personnel.
Research Information Technology plans to roll out this exciting system gradually to ensure the system has adequate performance and functionality for every department. It is being implemented in stages for human subject protocols according to this schedule, which was distributed to the research community in May. Exempt applications began migrating to Ideate, effective May 1, 2015, and their migration will be completed by early June 2015. Expedited projects will be submitted through Ideate by August 2015. Finally, Full Board projects will be the last stage of the Ideate rollout for human subjects research, with an anticipated completion in November 2015.
Research personnel and investigators should refer to the Rollout Schedule for their departments’ listings and plan accordingly based on the kind of project they and their research staff will be submitting. The PPHS and Research IT are committed to working closely with research teams, department by department, to provide additional details and assistance as their rollout dates approach.
The PPHS team encourages your feedback over the next several months, as they make this system robust and fix the emerging issues, and thank you in advance for your support during the rollout process. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the PPHS office at [email protected] or call (212) 824-8200.
As of Friday, May 1, 2015, the Program for the Protection of Human Subjects (PPHS) began requiring the use of new consent templates, version date 4/1/2015, for IRB submissions. Version date 4/1/2015 templates highlight the ongoing efforts of the PPHS team to implement the usage of Mount Sinai Health System documents, replacing different site specific boilerplate language with a unified template. In addition, the HIPAA section of the templates has been revised to incorporate all hospitals within the Health System and eliminates the need for stand-alone HIPAA documents for each hospital engaged in the research.
The updated consent forms are now mandatory for the following submissions:
initial submissions to the PPHS,
continuation submissions still active to future enrollment (Note, the currently approved consent document must be transferred over to the latest version even if there are no other changes being requested.), and
modification submissions affecting the consent template.
Research teams can obtain the latest document templates on the PPHS website, in the Forms and Documents Kiosk under “Consent Templates.” For a detailed account of the changes made to these documents, the PPHS has made “tracked changes” versions of the documents available at the top of the page, along with a PDF history of changes, entitled “PPHS Forms and Documents Version Revision History.”
For more information about PPHS templates, procedures, and policies, or if you have questions about these changes, contact the PPHS Office at [email protected] or 212-824-8200.
For over 50 years the Clinical Research Unit (CRU) had been supported by NIH funding. Established in 1963 as a General Clinical Research Center, the current CRU was partially funded by a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). However, changes in the funding strategies of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, which funds the CTSA, resulted in withdrawal of support for CRUs nationwide. With support from the Office of the Dean, as of April 2015, the Mount Sinai CRU continues to provide space and personnel to assist ongoing and new studies, but with elimination of CRU-hosted pilot study funding and reductions of ancillary services compared to those offered in past years.
Beginning April 1st, a new fee schedule has been implemented. For non-industry studies, including NIH, MSSM and foundation-sponsored studies as well Investigator Initiated pharma supported projects, the fee is $65 per hour. Industry initiated studies have a fee of $110 per hour.
The center is located on the 2nd floor of 1184 5th Avenue and provides space and personnel to facilitate clinical research studies. The clinical staff includes nurse practitioners, medical assistants, and a dietitian. The CRU offers resources to conduct physical examinations, phlebotomy, drug infusion, ECG, participant monitoring, specimen processing, and other services. There is space for study staff to work while tending to research participants. The unit is in operation 8:00am to 5:30pm, Monday through Friday.
The CRU would like to thank the research community for their patience during the recent transition and looks forward to continuing to provide high quality services to facilitate Mount Sinai clinical research. For applications and for any questions, please contact Christine Hannigan, Clinical Research Manager, 212-241-6045, [email protected]. | {
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This Paratha or roti Recipe is Specially for Diabetes, Cholesterol and Protein. Chapati,Phulki, Phulka, Chappati, Poli, Rotli, Roti,Parantha or Indian flat bread, call it by any name. But in Indian cuisine it is one of the most important ingredient of everyday meal. Adding Tofu makes it even more tasty, nutritious and healthy. Enjoy these soft and delicious chapaties. Here is the quick,easy Indian Recipe to make fulka: see below):
Ingredients:
Tofu: ½ cup,
Whole wheat flour: 1 cup,
Salt: To taste,
Oil: 1 tsp,
Water: To knead the dough
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Ivanka Trump, the daughter of US President Donald Trump, has posted a picture of her family celebrating the first night of Hanukkah.
She is seen with her husband, Jared Kushner, and their three children next to a lit Hanukkah menorah.
Trump on Tuesday issued a message for Jews around the world for the holiday. “Hanukkah is a time for Jewish families around the world to come together around the lighting of the menorah and celebrate the miracles of the past and promises of the future,” he said.
“On this holiday, we are proud to stand with the Jewish people who shine as a light to all nations. We also stand with the people of Israel, the Jewish State, which has itself a miraculous history of overcoming the tallest of odds,” Trump added. “We hope that those observing the holiday here, in Israel, and around the world have a wonderful holiday.” | {
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Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Z Is For: Z Ball
"Our big moment has finally arrived," said Beast, making a short welcome speech to the guests during cocktail hour."I'm glad we decided to keep a Z Ball to celebrate the Challenges of April. Everyone worked hard this month and deserve to have a bit of fun to unwind," Beauty added. Everyone cheered. Beast held Beauty's hand and they walked down the red carpet steps of Cinderella's Country Cottage to mingle with their friends.
The valets were kept busy parking cars and security was rigid, as the Queen of Hearts discovered when she couldn't present an invitation. This was one party she could not crash. Newz Mewz from The Honey Buzz and Warts de Hagg from Witches Weekly were the reporters covering the event.
Cinderella's Country Cottage Gardens
"The gardens are beautiful," Snow White commented, taking a glass of bubbly Charmier from a waiter. Charmier was produced by Prince Charming on his estate.
"Cinderella works hard ensuring they are," replied Lil Red, who owned The Blooming Florist. Her floral arrangements for the occasion were impressive.
The Fairy Rock Band enhanced the pleasant atmosphere with their lively music. Dinner was a lavish affair, and no-one hesitated to dine on the sumptuous dishes. One of the desserts were the popular Fairy Cakes, which was only made at the Fairy Rock Cafe.The laughter flowed as freely as the glasses of Charmier.
The Ballroom Dance
Everyone went to the ballroom after dinner. Beauty and the Beast took to the floor with the first dance of the evening. The ladies looked beautiful in their gowns, and the men added balance wearing their tuxedos. Soon the dance floor was crowded as the band played a selection of catchy tunes. Happy was never short for partners as he was an excellent dancer.
Beast got his request to have Joker games at the function. A few ladies played Bridge, but the Ballroom saw most of the activity.
"The Z Ball is awesome," said Doc as he danced away with Alice. The Seven Dwarfs didn't go out a lot, but when they did, they made sure to have a swinging time. Newz Mewz and Warts de Hagg snapped away with their cameras, as Beauty and her Beast requested group photos with their friends.
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"Beauty and I want to thank you for coming to our Z Ball," said the Beast. "Your support and friendship means so much to us."
It was a spectacular event to remember as fireworks flew to mark the ending of the long and challenging month of April!
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If you told me I’d be playing a brand new Dreamcast game in 2014, back when the system saw its demise in 2002, I’d probably have said you were crazy.
It was at that point that Sega moved on to become a software-only developer in most of the world. But as it turns out, they actually continued to support the system in their home country for an additional five years, primarily with quick and easy ports from arcade games built on the NAOMI board (the Dreamcast’s arcade counterpart). Titles such as Puyo Puyo Fever and Trigger Heart Exelica kept the system relevant, for the arcade aficionado at least. But even Sega eventually left their fabled console past behind.
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Introducing 'Fungal Ecology'
CHICAGO - The question of how much mold remediation should be enough to hold up in court has been a deep one for all trades involved ever since the lawsuits started. Is "no measurable mold" a reasonable goal? (No.) Should indoor levels be comparable to outdoor levels? What if you live in South Carolina, Florida, or Hawaii?
Standard S520, the Mold Remediation Standard, has been developed by the Institute for Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) in order to address these questions, as well as to provide a "standard of care" for the many industries involved in mold and moisture remediation, including HVAC contractors. It uses the term "fungal ecology" to describe the mold content of a particular area.
Acknowledging that we live in - and have always lived in - a fungal ecology, the standard describes varying degrees of the ecology and provides input on fungal ecologies that may or must re-quire remediation. In short, it uses common sense.
In addition to IICRC, the standard is being created and reviewed by committee members from the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA), the National Air Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA), and the Indoor Environmental Institute (IEI). According to IAQA president Tom Yacobellis, "It's going to be the international mold remediation standard ... it's going to be the standard of care." The association reviewed the document at its annual convention.
"You know when people pay attention to a standard?" Yacobellis asked. "When the job's over and it wasn't done correctly. The time to study it is way, way before you need it."
Author Carl Grimes discusses S520 with a participant at the IAQA National Convention.
Drawing Lines
In addition to references, definitions, principles of remediation, contractor qualifications, safety and health, and structural and HVAC remediation, the standard will provide information on inspections and preliminary determinations. This is a particularly sticky area that leaves many contractors debating, "Where do we draw the line?" said Yacobellis.
"What do we say? We at IAQA also are working on a mold remediation manual."
Carl Grimes, author of Starting Points for a Healthy Habitat and president of Healthy Habitats in Denver, described the standard as a living document. "It will go out to the industry for comments and review. We want to know what works in real life."
The peer review process, Grimes said, led to a shift away from quantifiable levels. "S520 is not intended for establishing procedures," he said. Therefore, it does not establish limits based on quantifying visible levels of mold growth alone.
Establishing a standard of care for the industries involved in all aspects of mold remediation was of critical importance to the standards team. "The standard of practice is so broad, and [often] so unethical and wrong, we don't want to do that," said Grimes. "We also don't want a ‘best practices' standard."
What they wanted was a standard of care: practices common to reasonably prudent members of the trade, who are recognized in the industry as being competent. (If the definition sounds like legal jargon, that's because it is often used in negligence cases.)
It will apply to professionals involved with the mechanical systems, building envelope, substructures, content cleaning procedures, and post-remediation verification.
Levels Of Contamination
By offering a standard of care, Grimes said, this will make it easier for the standard to be incorporated into legislation and written into future specs. "You may be specifying it," he commented.
The urgency of remediation actions is described at three different levels:
Must - Mandatory due to natural law or regulatory requirements.
Highly recommended - Not required by law, but part of the standard of care. (May as well be "must," Grimes indicated.)
Recommended - Advised or suggested.
Levels of contamination are also ranked in three levels:
Condition I - Normal fungal ecology; may have traces of fungal or mold growth.
Condition III - The fungal ecology shows traces of actual growth; there is growing mold, most likely visible; however, it can be either visible or hidden and still be at Condition III.
"Each building is unique in its own regard," Grimes said. "Each fungal ecology is different from region to region, zone to zone, and climate to climate."
Types Of Growth
The standard also describes various types of fungal/mold growth:
Surface mold - If it's on the surface, on the condensation level, and it's not into matrixes, it usually can be cleaned through regular maintenance, Grimes said. This is a Condition I situation.
Limited mold growth - This could show settled spores and trace growth. Professional judgment is advised.
Extensive mold growth - No two ways about it; it is highly recommended to call in an Indoor Environmental Professional (IEP), Grimes said.
What is an IEP? A person who can verify Condition I, II, or III, and also can verify a return to Condition I. (Note: "IEP" is not a trademarked term; there is no intention of developing an IEP designation, Grimes said.)
The document also sets forth "Five Principles of Remediation," which may be multi-disciplinary:
1. Provide for the health and safety of occupants and workers, including the use of engineering controls and personal protective and respiratory protective gear to protect workers. (In short, meet OSHA regulations.)
2. Document conditions and work processes throughout the project, not just at the beginning and the end.
3. Control the contaminant at its source.
4. Physically reduce contamination to Condition I status.
5. Correct the moisture problem to prevent recontamination.
In addition, a reference guide covers the following topics:
Chapter 1 - Fungal Ecology of the Indoor Environment.
Chapter 2 - Principles of Mold Remediation.
Chapter 3 - Health Effects Associated With Contamination.
Chapter 4 - Administration, Processing, and Insurance.
Chapter 5 - Limitations, Complexities, Complications, and Conflicts.
Chapter 6 - Inspections.
Chapter 7 - Structural Remediation.
Chapter 8 - HVAC Remediation.
Chapter 9 - Contents Remediation.
Chapter 10 - Tools, Equipment, Materials.
Chapter 11 - Safety and Health.
Chapter 12 - Indoor Environmental Professional (IEP) Assessment.
Getting Others Involved
Many new pieces of state legislation are requiring that the companies assessing mold cases cannot perform the remediation. This is not a huge hardship for many HVAC contractors, who do not want to perform mold remediation work (although they may be called in to perform system repairs related to moisture control).
The standard, however, gives them better guidelines for their technicians on what to do when they perceive that there may be a problem.
Once it is determined that there is a problem (that is, a situation that looks like it could involve Condition II or Condition III mold contamination), Grimes said, ask yourself if it is out of your level of expertise. "If so, you need to recommend someone else," he said.
"The preliminary determination also dictates the need for further assessment by an IEP or other appropriate professionals."
There are still questions. For instance, how do you determine what types of respirators workers should wear without knowing specific mold levels? There is an appendix on respiratory protection, Grimes said.
For more information on the standard, visit www.iaqa.org or www.iicrc.org.
Publication date: 11/03/2003
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The Singapore Armed Forces (abbreviated: SAF) is the most powerful military organization in the world because it has never lost a single war [3]. The SAF relies largely on conscripted soldiers and comprises three branches: the Branch That Blows Up Things On Land, the Branch That Blows Up Things In The Air, and the Branch That Blows Up Things In The Sea. The number of active personnel in the SAF is estimated at 60,000,000,000, the most important of which being over 10,000 malingeringchao keng kia PES E soldiers who ensure that Generals get their coffee on time and piping hot. It is further estimated that another 100,000 or so soldiers are actually full-time ‘Winning Eleven’ Professionals – with evidence of numerous competitions held within the various divisions (3rd, 6th, 9th). | {
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, It’s Super Hero Sunday with a super 2-4-1 tickets offer at Flamingo Land to celebrate the fourth anniversary of its Hero rollercoaster ride on July 23.
Back in 2013, Flamingo Land launched the thrilling new Hero ride, with its swooping turns and inversions.
To celebrate the ride's fourth birthday bosses have organised a Hero theme day with a fantastic 2-4-1 offer special entry offer.
One free entry is available with one full paying adult...as long as at least one guest is dressed in a full super hero fancy dress costume.
This offer is only available for on-the-day admission.
Simply turn up at the entrance in costume to qualify for tqo people entering for £38 - which applies to both adults and children, who are four years of age and above (three-year-olds and under go free).
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On Super Hero Sunday - July 23 - visit the Riverside One outdoor stage at 12pm, 2pm and 4pm to see Flamingo Land’s own Super Heroes perform with fun party dances and enjoy some fantastic photo opportunities.
There will also be a face-painter at Riverside One between 12pm and 4pm to give guests their own Super Hero face - at no additional cost.
A fancy-dress competition - for a chance to win a three-night break in the luxurious Holiday Village - will also be held at the Riverside One stage, at 5pm.
"We are delighted to bring you a fabulous 2-for-1 day admission offer," said a spokeswoman.
Flamingo Land, recently named as one of the UK's top paid-for attractions, is right on our doorstep in Kirby Misperton, in North Yorkshire - just a short drive between Scarborough and York. It's handy for repeat visits from all over the region, or for days out to and from the coast. | {
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“Just five more minutes,” “One more chapter,” “I guess I can stay a little longer.” The temptation to stretch out an enjoyable activity just a little bit more is one to which we can all relate.
After a month of reveling in God’s closeness, culminating with the Festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles), the Jewish people felt the same way. In response, God granted them an extra holy day, Simhat Torah, that begins as Sukkot ebbs away (starting this year Wednesday night, Oct. 11). Literally translated as “The Joy of the Torah,” it is on this day that we conclude and begin anew the annual cycle of reading the Five Books of Moses.
That makes this week a particularly apt time to highlight the idea that the first time in Genesis that a specific letter is used to start a word, that word provides a key to the inner meaning of that initial letter.
When I was nine, I saved up every penny to fulfill my yearning for an electric train. Finally, I ran to the hobby store. Arriving home, I set up the circular track. My little engine, pulling two coaches and a caboose, circled endlessly, repeatedly passing the same wooden station and plastic trees I set up beside my track.
I dreamed of laying out one long straight run so that my train could explore new landscapes. But one long track would quickly take the train out of my sight. Neither straight line nor circle was ideal.
What a metaphor for life! Making each year merely a dreary replica of last year is as dissatisfying as constantly seeking the new and novel.
Sunday night, Oct. 23, starts the final holy day of this Jewish month that is chock-full of festivals. It seems a special gift from God this year, to take extra breaks from listening to the news and views out there. If you’re not Jewish or perhaps you are Jewish but don’t observe these holy days, why not challenge yourself to shut your computer, turn off your radio and talk only to yourself and to those you meet in person for one day a week? You will most likely find that your level of discourse and thought rises immeasurably. | {
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The rules have virtually never been more favorable for quarterbacks and wide receivers, for instance, and as such there are probably a dozen greats from each position that would be worth seeing compete in 2015’s NFL. By the same token, the bruising backs and powerful linemen that were once so essential now seem curiously out of place. The best lines in football are now as athletic as they are mammoth and even the most durable, oft-used runners have acceleration and agility that would leave their predecessors in the dust.
The point is that, all things being equal, the offensive side of the ball has evolved more than the defense. Run stuffing tackles like Vince Wilfork are still commodities, edge rushers who can get after the quarterback are worth their weight in gold, and a tremendous secondary such as Seattle’s is the difference between a good and truly great defensive unit. Oh, and if he came back Ray Lewis would definitely still be Ray Lewis.
Still, some things have changed. By and large, defensive greats of even the recent past might have trouble navigating the rules that prevent them from being as physical at every level and unlike offensive players – where the argument could be far-fetched but tangentially possible – there’s virtually no way a defensive retiree older than 35 could come back after a hiatus and be a meaningful contributor in today’s game.
So, with that caveat acknowledged, here are five defensive players we’d hypothetically love to see take the field once again:
DE: Michael Strahan
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You can’t say the telegenic Strahan hasn’t kept himself busy since going out a Super Bowl champion after 2007. And when he hasn’t been appearing as an NFL commentator, or on commercials to sell any number of products, he’s been the guy your grandparents watch in the morning opposite Kelly Ripa ever since Regis Philbin decided to give it a rest.
Strahan’s celebrity and off-field charm actually may overshadow just what an outstanding and dominant pass rusher he was during his 15-year career with the New York Giants. The all-time single season sack leader with 22.5 in the 2001 campaign, Strahan also ranks 5th all time in sacks behind Bruce Smith, Reggie White, Kevin Greene and Chris Doleman with 141.5. What’s worth noting is that the 2014 Hall of Fame inductee’s total actually outpaces another great Giants DE: Lawrence Taylor.
One thing’s for sure: the Giants’ pass rush sure could use Strahan nowadays.
DT: Warren Sapp
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He’s been in the news recently for some off-field issues, but in his playing days Sapp had as much personality as game. A seven-time Pro Bowl performer and a 2013 Hall of Famer, Sapp was the leader of several great Buccaneer defenses, which reached their peak during the 2002 season when they would ultimately win the Super Bowl.
Featuring a unique ability to both stuff the run as a DT should, but also generate a high number of sacks from the position (96.5 for his career), he was never one to back down on or off the field. Sapp told it like it is, which means the now-sorry Buccaneers defense should probably cover their collective ears if things don’t pickup in a hurry this season — unless he’s willing to get back out there.
LB: Tedy Bruschi
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A kind of constant presence on ESPN’s NFL coverage, Bruschi was once the leader of the consistently underrated Patriots defenses that helped win the franchise’s first three Super Bowls. Although he was only a one-time Pro Bowl and two-time All-Pro selection, Bruschi epitomized toughness.
That was no more evident than during his 2005 comeback from an offseason stroke. The grit and courage he displayed that year won him a share of the Comeback Player of the Year award and was emblematic of his entire 13-year career.
He may never be an NFL Hall of Famer and he has stated in the past that he’d rather not see his number retired by the Patriots, but fans who have watched Brady and Belichick take this team to the top of the game over the past 15 years are unlikely to ever forget the instrumental role that Bruschi also played in that rise.
S: Ed Reed
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A very recent retiree and one of the last bastions of the great Baltimore Ravens defenses that wreaked havoc on the AFC for well over a decade Reed, Ray Lewis, and company may have officially passed the torch upon their Super Bowl victory at the end of the 2012 season. If that title year was the end of the era, though, the ball hawking and fierce hitting Reed might well go down as not just the best safety of his time, but of all-time as well.
The owner of several NFL records including most career interception return yards (1590), the longest interception return of all-time (108 yards), and tied for the highest number of postseason interceptions (9), the nine-time Pro Bowl performer is also the Ravens’ all time leader in interceptions with 61.
And unlike his contemporaries on this list, we’re not so sure he couldn’t return and start. Until then, however, Reed can look forward to being a no-doubt first ballot Hall of Famer the very first year he’s eligible.
CB: Champ Bailey
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Champ Bailey played 15 seasons and was selected to an astounding 12 Pro Bowls, which is tops all-time among cornerbacks. The greatest disappointment of his career, by far, has to be that Super Bowl loss the Broncos suffered against the Seahawks, which concluded their soaring 2013 campaign with a thud.
To be fair, however, the Broncos best chance may have been lost during the previous season’s playoffs, when Bailey was widely criticized in the aftermath of their stunning divisional round loss to the Ravens. Be that as it may, Bailey could probably return to the field and still contribute as a backup of some sort, even just serving as a mentor to younger players on a given team’s secondary.
He, more than the rest, seems like a guy who deserves one last shot, because unlike the others on this list, Champ left the game while still lacking a ring. | {
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Russia’s Progress MS-03 freighter to undock from ISS next week
he Progress MS-03 blasted off from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan last year on July 17
MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. Russia’s Progress MS-03 cargo spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) next week on January 31, a spokesman for Russia’s Mission Control told TASS on Friday.
"The operation to undock the spacecraft from the station is slated to begin on January 31 at 5:23 p.m. Moscow time (14:23 GMT)," the spokesman said adding that the cargo spacecraft would be later deorbited and its remains would be sunk about four hours later in the Pacific Ocean.
The Progress MS-03 blasted off from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan last year on July 17 and the space freighter docked with the ISS on July 19 delivering over two metric tonnes of cargo, including fuel, oxygen and foodstuffs as well as personal packages for the station’s crew members.
After fulfilling their missions to the ISS, space freighters are usually deorbited and burnt in the atmosphere on their way to the Earth. The spacecraft’s remains, which did not burn, are usually buried in the remote area of the Pacific Ocean.
The non-navigation area in question is also referred to as the "spaceship cemetery" and is located not far from Christmas Island. This is a designated area, where numerous spacecraft, including the defunct Soviet space station Mir, were sunk. | {
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This morning CQ Pressreleased its annual crime rankings comparing cities across the nation on incidences of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft. According to the survey, St.
Louis had the highest crime rate in 2009 with 2,070.1 violent crimes per 100,000 population, compared with a national average of 429.4.
Ranking just below St. Louis was last year's winner, Camden, New Jersey, followed by Detroit; Flint, Michigan; and Oakland, California.
CQ Press, meanwhile, defends its rankings as an important tool for allowing residents to compare their communities to others and hold police and city leaders accountable. "[C]rime rankings often
are deemed 'simplistic' or 'incomplete.' However, this criticism is largely based on the fact that
there are reasons for the differences in crime rates, not that the rates are incompatible," CQ Press said in a statement.
In 2006, the publishers of this data told a St. Louis reporter that even they would be "stunned if there is a criminologist out there who will support this."
The FBI, the American Society of Criminology and the Criminal Justice Journalists Organization all agree that these rankings are bogus and the FBI feels so strongly about it that the first thing you see when you visit their crime statistics website is a message denouncing using the data in exactly the way this company did.
One of the many major problems with these rankings is the fact that in spite of the FBI's request, cities don't all report crime in the same way. We're doing things exactly as the FBI asks us to do, unlike some other cities. New York doesn't count thefts of items worth less than $1000. We report every theft. Cities in Tennessee used a different reporting system. We use the one the FBI asks us to use. Some cities, like Chicago, aren't even included in these rankings because they didn't meet the FBI criteria for reporting their crimes. We met the criteria.
While St. Louis, like many urban cities, has its challenges, crime has decreased in this city every year since 2007. So far in 2010, violent crime is down 17% this year as compared to last year and overall crime is down nearly 9%. We are a city whose population is growing. That is something that certainly would not be happening unless people felt safe here.
The fact of the matter is that these rankings are not at all about providing useful information to the public. These rankings are about the publishers selling a $70 book, while hoping that citizens won't realize that they can get the same statistical data online for free. You can view our crime statistics at http://www.slmpd.org/crime_stats.html and view every other city that reported to the FBI at http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2009. | {
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The left parties in the state today expressed that the government will not expose the 26 Government Orders which are in controversy. Adding that, those GOs will expose the lapses of the government hence the reluctance. The Left also was frustrated over the stalling of the houses and said valuable people’s money was misused. The house is not discussing any of the people’s growing issues but is just whiling away the time. They also felt that the expenses incurred must be reimbursed by the concerned parties.
Another interesting allegation made by the Left is that parties like AIM and Lok Satta try to divert the attention by bringing unwanted topics in the house. In a way these parties also support the government and through indirect methods save the ruling party, from embarrassment.
It may be noted last week a Supreme Court Bench issued the notices to six Ministers and 8 IAS officers. The notices sought their stands on the petition filed by an advocate hailing from Nellore district, P. Sudhakar Reddy, who alleged that 26 Government Orders were issued by them in violation of the law. The Ministers are P. Sabitha Indra Reddy, J. Geetha Reddy, Dharmana Prasada Rao, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Kanna Lakshminarayana and Mopidevi Venkataramana, all of whom held important portfolios even in the erstwhile Cabinet of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy when the controversial orders were issued. The eight IAS officers in the dock are: S.V. Prasad (now retired), C.V.S.K. Sarma, M. Samuel, Y. Srilakshmi, Adityanath Das, K. Ratna Prabha, B. Sam Bob and Manmohan Singh, who headed the Revenue, Municipal Administration, Infrastructure & Investments, Industries & Commerce and Irrigation Departments. (With inputs from internet- AarKay) | {
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It’s six a.m.; the alarm goes off and the nausea sets in. My day has started and my constant companion, anxiety, is already present.
Anxiety is something that many people struggle with and it’s different for everyone who experiences it, but this is my personal experience.
Once I’ve gotten on the bus, there is still anxiety lingering below the surface, but unless I have a test or a large assignment due that day, there’s no feelings of a looming panic attack.
Walking through the hallways can be a stressful experience, because it feels like people are watching and judging me as I move along. I can feel their eyes on me. It used to lead me to keeping my head down, staring at the floor, trying not to trip, focused on moving from point A to point B.
Recently, thanks to therapy and the school’s anxiety group, I’ve gained the ability to look up and appreciate posters on the walls and think. I allow my mind to wander to the things I plan on doing later. I deliberately think about the positives in order to keep my mind off of the negatives.
First period is my favorite class of the day, so I enjoy that it’s the first class. It’s what I’m good at; having confidence in this ability builds my confidence in the day.
Onto second period, which is mildly anxiety inducing. This class has two people in it now, and the other person is Editor Adam Steiner. As most of you probably know, he is assertive, confident, and maintains eye contact. These things are very intimidating to me; I’m not like this, so when I’m around someone who is, it’s kind of… scary.
I’ve since warmed up to him through having gotten to know him better, which makes it easier to carry conversation, and I no longer feel threatened by him. A quick note, threatened, for me, means judgmental. I was afraid that he would judge my personality, looks, or how I carry myself. And I can’t quite explain why I’m afraid of that, but I want to be accepted like everyone else.
The next two periods of the day go generally well, unless the teacher offers vague instructions for point-heavy projects. Because I’m a perfectionist, I need everything to be perfect, and not knowing exactly what my teacher wants from me makes it very difficult to have a point-perfect project.
It’s important to note that, even if classes are going well, making eye contact during conversations with the teacher or other students is especially hard for me. Making and maintaining eye contact is a much more assertive action than most people think, and it is difficult for me to do.
The next part of my day is lunch. A loud and crowded room full of teenagers is a huge source of anxiety for me. It’s like the hallways, where I feel like everyone is looking at me. Back to the fear of judgment in this situation. It’s definitely a feeling where people believe “she’s stupid, she’s loud, and I hate her.” My response to these fears is usually to listen to music, or I’ll focus on the conversations with my friends.
The cafeteria is a place where I often experience something called sensory overload.
My classes that follow lunch are the most challenging part of my day, because I don’t do well with teachers who tease students, especially when I’m the one being teased. In these situations, I usually just shrink into myself to try and get out of the class without crying.
That’s my goal of the day most days, I try to get through my entire day without crying. Usually, me crying isn’t because of sadness but because I’m overwhelmed. If I get really angry, I’ll cry. When I’m uncomfortable, I’ll cry.
By now, the day is almost over. There is one period left, and it’s not a hard class for me. I get to enjoy a good class with friends and a fun teacher.
Once I get home, I’m exhausted from everything that happened that day. Usually, I’ll do homework then take a nap. There have been days where I sleep straight through dinner and wake up at 2 a.m. Those days suck. Sometimes, it’s just a ten minute nap, and I’ll wake up and work on my personal art work, which helps me forget what a disaster the day was.
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Published: Monday, May 5, 2014 at 12:58 PM.
Near the end of Wolf Swamp on the north side of Jacksonville, former Navy “Devil Doc” Phillip O’hara and his small team of brewers have erected Jacksonville’s newest distillery.
Diablo Distilleries was established on farmland just outside of the city in 2012. O’hara’s mission? Brew the best corn whiskey moonshine in the state.
“Right now we are in every ABC store in Onslow County, as well as in 14 other counties,” O’hara said. “In two years, we hope to cover North Carolina.”
As a child, O’hara grew up around construction and coal mining in the small city of Jellico, Tenn. He later joined the Navy and served as a doctor to Marines in Operation Desert Storm.
After retiring from the military, O’hara decided to pursue his passion for home-brewing. With the help of a few friends, O’hara was able to construct an elaborate distillation center, complete with a hand-crafted 234-gallon still made from 1,100 pounds of copper.
In March, Diablo Distilleries sold its first bottle of Hell Hound Whiskey, a name derived from Marine Corp “devil dog” lore.
“Our goal was to make a whiskey that women would want to drink,” O’hara said. “We knew if we could make it smooth enough for them to enjoy, then the husband is going to go out and buy some.”
Near the end of Wolf Swamp on the north side of Jacksonville, former Navy “Devil Doc” Phillip O’hara and his small team of brewers have erected Jacksonville’s newest distillery.
Diablo Distilleries was established on farmland just outside of the city in 2012. O’hara’s mission? Brew the best corn whiskey moonshine in the state.
“Right now we are in every ABC store in Onslow County, as well as in 14 other counties,” O’hara said. “In two years, we hope to cover North Carolina.”
As a child, O’hara grew up around construction and coal mining in the small city of Jellico, Tenn. He later joined the Navy and served as a doctor to Marines in Operation Desert Storm.
After retiring from the military, O’hara decided to pursue his passion for home-brewing. With the help of a few friends, O’hara was able to construct an elaborate distillation center, complete with a hand-crafted 234-gallon still made from 1,100 pounds of copper.
In March, Diablo Distilleries sold its first bottle of Hell Hound Whiskey, a name derived from Marine Corp “devil dog” lore.
“Our goal was to make a whiskey that women would want to drink,” O’hara said. “We knew if we could make it smooth enough for them to enjoy, then the husband is going to go out and buy some.”
Helping O’hara brew “shine” in the distillery is Shelby Heckle and O’hara’s future son-in-law, William Felker. The trio combine their talents to produce a very potent product.
“The first thing we do is basically make fermented mash from traditional yellow corn and barley,” Felker said. “We transfer that over to the still and strip the beer for the first distillation. For the second distillation, we toss all the alcohol in and we run it again through the still. That will come out at a higher proof, 150 or 160, then we cut it back down to 80 proof with water.”
The average time to make around 600 bottles takes roughly three weeks with the current equipment. While that is fast enough to turn a profit, O’hara would like to ramp up production with the creation of a new 1,000 gallon still.
More Hell Hound whiskey on the stores shelves would be a welcome sight for Mitzi Williams, who had her first taste of the “shine” only a few weeks ago.
“I saw the bottle in the store with its bright red label and decided to give it a whirl,” Williams said. “I normally am not a fan of really strong-tasting liquors that burn your throat, so I wasn’t sure about it at first. It was amazing once I tried it, though. It’s very smooth and doesn’t make you feel bad the next day.”
A bottle of Hell Hound costs $29.95 and is bottled and labeled by hand. The entire product, including the corks, glass and labels, are all made in America.
In the near future, O’hara plans to release new flavors and varieties, and possibly open the distillery once a week for tours and taste testings. | {
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The reason for light blogging on Samizdata.net tonight
The reason that there has been relatively little output this evening is that many of the Samizdatistas were at Samizdata HQ rather than at their keyboards, celebrating the start of new business ventures by two of our number…
The above two comments lead inevitably to the Following Immutable Law of History: For not-hot guys to meet hot-hot chicks, they must espouse Libertarianisn.
Worked for me 20 years ago
I guess it doesn’t work Stateside. All my libertarianism has ever gotten me is the solitude that seems to go along with individualism (I settled for an accountant like myself but for whom politics and philosophy are avoided topics). I guess the ‘other half’ here in the US are too conditioned toward liberalism or religion. I haven’t met many women, or know of many, in the US that I could categorize as right libertarian. They always seem indoctrinated into one meddling agenda or another (I would almost say that it is genetic if I didn’t notice right libertarianism in women abroad). The libertarian faction of the Young Republicans whilst I was in college was distinctly female-free. Perhaps living in Wisconsin is the problem – too liberal.
Um what do some of the blokes look so bloody miserable? We are libertarians we are not supposed to look so damn miserable. Here is one not looking so grumpy. Mr Tyke another libertarian minded-soul, blogger and band member, is not in the shot because he is taking the shot.
There are libertarian “chicks” in the US but they tend not to call themselves such due to the poor reputation of our Large-L libertarian party and some of its (and fellow traveller group’s) tin-foil hat minions. E.G. we have a public access television station here in NM where these so-called libertarians get on (replete with Gadsden flag) and yell and scream about how the gubmint’s gonna grab all the guns and other conspiracies… They do not come across as quite sane.
I have found that libertarian minded US females are either: former Republicans (“Goldwater” Republicans) who bailed on the party when the moralist scolds took over (and the focus went from economic freedom to the battle against abortion and gays) or Former self-styled Anarchists who though their bias is to champion “leftist” causes, they hold the state in deep distrust.
Okay, identification. From left to right, the first photograph is Antoine Clarke, Brian Micklethwait, myself, and Adriana Cronin. The second bottom photograph shows Perry de Havilland. The person on the left in the sixth photograph is David Carr. The other people do not write for Samizdata.
This kind of goes against my normal types of postings, I will say that most libertarian ladies are quite beautiful, well rounded on their knowledge of the world as well as being more so being able to pick up the undercurrents of what is going on the around them. The above are no exception from what I’ve been able to gather, most ladies who comment on the men will say that they are either handsome, or dignified and respectful. Now I can’t say if that holds true or not as a whole who knows but that sticks as it is in my own neck of the woods…that holds in both respects.
Unfortunatly, in Canada the number of libertarian ladies is rather thin but when you do find them they are worth getting to know in every respect.
Aside from that, I am very interested in knowing what this new business venture is…ofcourse handing out trade secrets like this is probably going to equal pain of death. heh
Okey, okey… the business venture that occassioned this party and that some people ask about is that we are now going full throttle with the Big Blog Company, whose blog-site you can find here. The content is in the process of updating since we have expanded our strategy considerably. We believe that blogs are here to stay and intend to put them to some interesting uses…
Adriana, let me with luck be the first to say thanks for posting that. I’d be inclined to agree all-be-it a fast changing area, it will be one that is going to stick around. With Samizdat already proving to be a leader in information gathering in various areas, it’s going to be interesting to see where and how this spreads.
Your comment about libertarian women is interesting, I can not tell by photos i have tried politics and was involved in libertarians but no longer believe politics useful change is made in our souls governments and other non-entities cannot affect is severely if we refuse to recognize them.
I have found that libertarians are unwilling or too uninformed to challenge social normalcies in sexual relationships and still stuck on old tired values, reason being that we try to challenge in a corrupt paradigm of those that believe in the existence of government and other obsolete social orders.
We need to work in a framework of those who understand that reality comes from within one’s own personal beliefs and people willing to consider spiritual methods to banish coercion and even war (which I will wait for in future life) by meditaition, prayer, chanting, and/or acts of loving kindness, and an otherstanding that it is unimportant what others say, think about you or do to you, what matters is only what you believe and how you do to others, unimportant if you keep credit good or vote or own nice vehicles. sayonara
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Any convert may pursue and discern a vocation to the priesthood.
But the church generally asks a convert to wait a year, in case they are confusing the call to priesthood with a call to holiness where they are.
CatholicGirl15:
Someone told me that if an infant is baptized Catholic, but is raised Protestant, and then converts back to Catholicism as an adult, he can’t become a priest. Is this true?
Someone told me that if an infant is baptized Catholic, but is raised Protestant, and then converts back to Catholicism as an adult, he can’t become a priest. Is this true?
It probably comes from this canon law, however a heresy must be imputable to be a delict. This requires an act of will. The person may not have learned the Catholic faith, although baptized so this is significant. In any case, there would be an investigation upon application for seminary.
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Can. 1041 The following are irregular for receiving orders:
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2/ a person who has committed the delict of apostasy, heresy, or schism;
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IRREGULARITIES AND SIMPLE IM PEDIMENTS IN THE NEW CODE OF CANON LAW BY THE JEV. JOHN J. RICKEY, S.T.B., J.C.L. (MARCH 18, 1920.)
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“Heresy is a species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its dogmas.” 7 “The heretical tenets may be adhered to from involuntary causes: inculpable ignorance of the true creed, erroneous judgment, imperfect apprehension and comprehension of dogmas. In none of these does the will play an appreciable part, wherefore one of the necessary conditions of sinfulness free choice is wanting and such heresy is merely objective, or material. On the other hand, the will may freely incline the intellect to adhere to tenets declared false by the divine teaching authority of the Church. The impelling motives are many: intellectual pride or exaggerated reliance on ones own in sight, the illusions of religious zeal, the allurements of political or ecclesiastical power, the ties of material interests and personal status ; and perhaps others more dishonorable. Heresy thus willed is imputable to the subject and carries with it various degrees of guilt; it is called formal because to the material error it adds the informative element of freely willed. Pertinacity, that is, obstinate adhesion to a particular tenet, is required to make heresy formal.” 8 The Code does not specify any particular species, hence one who is heretical in any sense, must contract this irregularity.
Just watching EWTN and reading a few books on the priesthood, I have observed the following:
Guys who leave the Catholic Church and return, spend their lives as atheists and convert later in life, have been alcoholics and drug addicts, are over 40 when they hear the call, are married and later divorced, have handicaps such as deafness or speech impediments or have had nervous breakdowns, may all be admitted into seminary and ultimately ordained to the priesthood. In other words, it is case-by-case.
Apparently, the only thing that ends any talk of discernment immediately with no allowance for further discussion is when a man (in the Latin Rite) who is currently married believes he may be called.
Latin Canon Law (CIC)Can. 1040 Those affected by any impediment, whether perpetual, which is called an irregularity, or simple, are prevented from receiving orders. The only impediments incurred, however, are those contained in the following canons.
Can. 1041 The following are irregular for receiving orders:[INDENT]1/ a person who labors under some form of amentia or other psychic illness due to which, after experts have been consulted, he is judged unqualified to fulfill the ministry properly;
2/ a person who has committed the delict of apostasy, heresy, or schism;
3/ a person who has attempted marriage, even only civilly, while either impeded personally from entering marriage by a matrimonial bond, sacred orders, or a public perpetual vow of chastity, or with a woman bound by a valid marriage or restricted by the same type of vow;
4/ a person who has committed voluntary homicide or procured a completed abortion and all those who positively cooperated in either;
5/ a person who has mutilated himself or another gravely and maliciously or who has attempted suicide;
6/ a person who has placed an act of orders reserved to those in the order of episcopate or presbyterate while either lacking that order or prohibited from its exercise by some declared or imposed canonical penalty.
Can. 1042 The following are simply impeded from receiving orders:1/ a man who has a wife, unless he is legitimately destined to the permanent diaconate;
2/ a person who exercises an office or administration forbidden to clerics according to the norm of cann. ⇒ 285 and ⇒ 286 for which he must render an account, until he becomes free by having relinquished the office or administration and rendered the account;
3/ a neophyte unless he has been proven sufficiently in the judgment of the ordinary.
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The world sort of ends in Seattle when it snows. People get incredibly antsy, because they need to be at this place or that place, and they hop in their cars and crash into other cars and buildings and people and trees ... Some people park their cars on the freeway and vanish -- you never see them in their business suits jogging down the express lanes. I've always wondered what happens to them?! This is all normal winter behavior for Seattle-and-suburbs -- the white fluffy stuff falling from the sky throws us into apocalypse mode.
It's been rather nice at my house -- which worries me to say, because it feels like I'm daring God to throw a tree at me or something. But we've really had a wonderful week here. The transportation department closed the road to Jerod's job site -- he's stuck here -- and Lily's school district gave the kids a snow week.
It's like someone answered my wish that time would stand still. I've had five writing days in a row -- tomorrow will be my sixth WRITING DAY. I've worked on my book the whole time -- minus some blogging and a few adventures in the snow with the husband and children -- that's all I've done.
I'm in such a good mood right now; I don't recognize myself, and that's kind of disconcerting, but oh well. I'm HAPPY -- I'm WRITING, and no one is bothering me.
I'm HAPPY -- I'm waiting for the sky to fall or the ground open its jaws and eat me. YAY!
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After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, one of Adolf Hitler's most overt and audacious moves was to establish the Wehrmacht, a modern armed force fully capable of offensive use. Fulfilling the Nazi regime's long-term goals of regaining lost territory and dominating its neighbours required the reinstatement of conscription and massive investment and spending on the armaments industry.[6] In December 1941, Hitler designated himself as commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht.[7]
The Wehrmacht formed the heart of Germany's politico-military power. In the early part of World War II, Hitler's generals employed the Wehrmacht through innovative combined arms tactics (close cover air-support, mechanized armor, and infantry) to devastating effect in what was called a Blitzkrieg (lightning war). The Wehrmacht's new military structure, unique combat techniques, newly developed weapons, and unprecedented speed and brutality crushed their opponents.[8]
Closely cooperating with the SS (especially on the Eastern Front), the German armed forces committed numerous war crimes and atrocities, despite later denials.[9] By the time the war ended in Europe in May 1945, the Wehrmacht had lost approximately 11,300,000 men,[10] about half of whom were missing or killed during the war. Only a few of the Wehrmacht's upper leadership were tried for war crimes, despite evidence suggesting that more were involved in illegal actions.[11]
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The German term Wehrmacht generically describes any nation's armed forces; for example, Britische Wehrmacht means "British Armed Forces." The Frankfurt Constitution of 1848 designated all German military forces as the "German Wehrmacht", consisting of the Seemacht (sea force) and the Landmacht (land force).[12] In 1919, the term Wehrmacht also appears in Article 47 of the Weimar Constitution, establishing that: "The Reich's President holds supreme command of all armed forces [i.e. the Wehrmacht] of the Reich". From 1919, Germany's national defense force was known as the Reichswehr, a name that was dropped in favor of Wehrmacht on 21 May 1935.[13]
The blond-haired, blue-eyed Werner Goldberg (1919–2004) was used in Wehrmacht recruitment posters as the "ideal German soldier". He was later "dismissed" after it became known that he was a "Mischling ersten Grades" as defined by the Nuremberg Laws, having half Jewish ancestry.
In January 1919, after World War I ended with the signing of the armistice of 11 November 1918, the armed forces were dubbed Friedensheer (peace army).[14] In March 1919, the national assembly passed a law founding a 420,000-strong preliminary army, the Vorläufige Reichswehr. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles were announced in May, and in June, Germany signed the treaty that, among other terms, imposed severe constraints on the size of Germany's armed forces. The army was limited to one hundred thousand men with an additional fifteen thousand in the navy. The fleet was to consist of at most six battleships, six cruisers, and twelve destroyers. Submarines, tanks and heavy artillery were forbidden and the air-force was dissolved. A new post-war military, the Reichswehr, was established on 23 March 1921. General conscription was abolished under another mandate of the Versailles treaty.[15]
The Reichswehr was limited to 115,000 men, and thus the armed forces, under the leadership of Hans von Seeckt, retained only the most capable officers. The American historians Alan Millet and Williamson Murray wrote "In reducing the officers corps, Seeckt chose the new leadership from the best men of the general staff with ruthless disregard for other constituencies, such as war heroes and the nobility".[16] Seeckt's determination that the Reichswehr be an elite cadre force that would serve as the nucleus of an expanded military when the chance for restoring conscription came essentially led to the creation of a new army, based upon, but very different from, the army that existed in World War I.[16] In the 1920s, Seeckt and his officers developed new doctrines that emphasized speed, aggression, combined arms and initiative on the part of lower officers to take advantage of momentary opportunities.[16] Though Seeckt retired in 1926, the army that went to war in 1939 was largely his creation.[17]
Germany was forbidden to have an air-force by the Versailles treaty; nonetheless, Seeckt created a clandestine cadre of air-force officers in the early 1920s. These officers saw the role of an air-force as winning air-superiority, tactical and strategic bombing and providing ground support. That the Luftwaffe did not develop a strategic bombing force in the 1930s was not due to a lack of interest, but because of economic limitations.[18] The leadership of the Navy led by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, a close protégé of Alfred von Tirpitz, was dedicated to the idea of reviving Tirpitz's High Seas Fleet. Officers who believed in submarine warfare led by Admiral Karl Dönitz were in a minority before 1939.[19]
By 1922, Germany had begun covertly circumventing the conditions of the Versailles Treaty. A secret collaboration with the Soviet Union began after the treaty of Rapallo.[20] Major-General Otto Hasse traveled to Moscow in 1923 to further negotiate the terms. Germany helped the Soviet Union with industrialization and Soviet officers were to be trained in Germany. German tank and air-force specialists could exercise in the Soviet Union and German chemical weapons research and manufacture would be carried out there along with other projects.[21] In 1924 a training base was established at Lipetsk in central Russia, where several hundred German air force personnel received instruction in operational maintenance, navigation, and aerial combat training over the next decade until the Germans finally left in September 1933.[22]
After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg on 2 August 1934, Adolf Hitler assumed the office of President of Germany, and thus became commander in chief. In February 1934, the Defence Minister Werner von Blomberg, acting on his own initiative, had all of the Jews serving in the Reichswehr given an automatic and immediate dishonorable discharge.[23] Again, on his own initiative Blomberg had the armed forces adopt Nazi symbols into their uniforms in May 1934.[24] In August of the same year, on Blomberg's initiative and that of the Ministeramt chief General Walther von Reichenau, the entire military took the Hitler oath, an oath of personal loyalty to Hitler. Hitler was most surprised at the offer; the popular view that Hitler imposed the oath on the military is false.[25] The oath read: "I swear by God this sacred oath that to the Leader of the German empire and people, Adolf Hitler, supreme commander of the armed forces, I shall render unconditional obedience and that as a brave soldier I shall at all times be prepared to give my life for this oath".[26]
By 1935, Germany was openly flouting the military restrictions set forth in the Versailles Treaty: German re-armament was announced on 16 March as was the reintroduction of conscription.[27] While the size of the standing army was to remain at about the 100,000-man mark decreed by the treaty, a new group of conscripts equal to this size would receive training each year. The conscription law introduced the name Wehrmacht; the Reichswehr was officially renamed the Wehrmacht on 21 May 1935.[28] Hitler's proclamation of the Wehrmacht's existence included a total of no less than 36 divisions in its original projection, contravening the Treaty of Versailles in grandiose fashion. In December 1935, General Ludwig Beck added 48 tank battalions to the planned rearmament program.[29]
Wehrmacht's armaments received a large boost as a consequence of occupation of Czechoslovakia. In a speech delivered in the Reichstag, Hitler stressed that by occupying Czechoslovakia, Germany gained 2,175 field cannons, 469 tanks, 500 anti-aircraft artillery pieces, 43,000 machine guns, 1,090,000 military rifles, 114,000 pistols, about a billion rounds of ammunition and three million anti-aircraft rounds. This amount of weaponry would be sufficient to arm about half of the then Wehrmacht.[30]
The total number of soldiers who served in the Wehrmacht during its existence from 1935 to 1945 is believed to have approached 18.2 million.[31] The Wehrmacht lost about 10,000,000 soldiers during the period from 1939–1945, a combination of about 2,000,000 KIA, 3,000,000 MIA, and 5,000,000 WIA.[32] Recruitment for the Wehrmacht was accomplished through voluntary enlistment (1933–45) and conscription (1935–45). As World War II intensified, Kriegsmarine (navy) and Luftwaffe (air force) personnel were increasingly transferred to the Heer (army), and "voluntary" enlistments in the SS were stepped up as well. Following the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, fitness standards for Wehrmacht recruits were drastically lowered, with the regime going so far as to create "special diet" battalions for men with severe stomach ailments. Rear-echelon personnel were sent to front-line duty wherever possible, especially during the last two years of the war.[32]
Prior to World War II, the Wehrmacht strove to remain a purely German force; as such, minorities, such as the Czechs in annexed Czechoslovakia, were exempted from military service after Hitler's takeover in 1938. Foreign volunteers were generally not accepted in the German armed forces prior to 1941. With the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the government's positions changed. German propagandists wanted to present the war not as a purely German concern, but as a multi-national crusade against the so-called Jewish Bolshevism. Hence, the Wehrmacht and SS began to seek out recruits from occupied and neutral countries across Europe: the Germanic populations of the Netherlands and Norway were recruited largely into the SS, while "non-Germanic" people were recruited into the Wehrmacht. The "voluntary" nature of such recruitment was often dubious, especially in the later years of the war, when even Poles living in the Polish Corridor were declared "ethnic Germans" and drafted.[32]
Legally, the Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht was Adolf Hitler in his capacity as Germany's head of state, a position he gained after the death of President Paul von Hindenburg in August 1934. In the reshuffle in 1938, Hitler became the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and retained that position until his suicide on 30 April 1945.[34] Administration and military authority initially lay with the war ministry under Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg. After Blomberg resigned in the course of the 1938 Blomberg-Fritsch Affair, the ministry was dissolved and the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der'Wehrmacht or OKW) under Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was put in its place.[35] Army work was also coordinated by the German General Staff.
The OKW coordinated all military activities but Keitel's sway over the three branches of service (army, air force, and navy) was limited. Each had its own High Command, known as Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH, army), Oberkommando der Marine (OKM, navy), and Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OKL, air force). Each of these high commands had its own general staff. In practice the OKW had operational authority over the Western Front whereas the Eastern Front was under the operational authority of the OKH.
Flag for the Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces (1935–1938).
The OKW was also given the task of central economic planning and procurement, but the authority and influence of the OKW's war economy office was challenged by the procurement offices of the single branches of service as well as by the Ministry for Armament and Munitions, into which it was merged after the ministry was taken over by Albert Speer in early 1942.
The German Army furthered concepts pioneered during World War I, combining ground (Heer) and air force (Luftwaffe) assets into combined arms teams.[39] Coupled with traditional war fighting methods such as encirclements and the "battle of annihilation", the German military managed many lightning quick victories in the first year of World War II, prompting foreign journalists to create a new word for what they witnessed: Blitzkrieg. Germany's immediate military success on the field at the start of the Second World War coincides the favorable beginning they achieved during the First World War, a fact which some attribute to their superior officer corps.[40]
After Hitler declared war on the United States in December 1941, the Axis powers found themselves engaged in campaigns against several major industrial powers while Germany was still in transition to a war economy. German units were then overextended, undersupplied, outmaneuvered, outnumbered and defeated by its enemies in decisive battles during 1941, 1942, and 1943 at Battle of Moscow, Siege of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Tunis in North Africa, and Battle of Kursk.
A tank destroyer battalion, part of the 21 Panzer Division of the Afrika Korps.
The Germans' army military was managed through mission-based tactics (rather than order-based tactics) which was intended to give commanders greater freedom to act on events and exploit opportunities. In public opinion, the German Army was, and sometimes still is, seen as a high-tech army. However, such modern equipment, while featured much in propaganda, was often only available in relatively small numbers. This was primarily because the country was not run as a war economy until 1942–1943. Only 40% to 60% of all units in the Eastern Front were motorized, baggage trains often relied on horse-drawn trailers due to poor roads and weather conditions in the Soviet Union, and for the same reasons many soldiers marched on foot or used bicycles as bicycle infantry. As the fortunes of war turned against them, the Germans were in constant retreat from 1943 and onward. Other Axis powers fought with them, especially Hungary and Romania, as well as many volunteers from other nations.
The Panzer divisions were vital to the German army's early success. In Hitler's "Blitzkrieg", the German army used tactics that combined close support from the air force and the ground forces to quickly sweep through Europe. During his time in World War I, Hitler had spent a large portion of the war fighting on a relatively static battleground where both sides gained and lost very little ground. However, in the strategies of the Blitzkrieg, the Wehrmacht combined the mobility of light tanks with airborne assault to quickly progress through weak enemy lines, enabling the German army to quickly and brutally take over Poland and France.[41] These tanks were used to break through enemy lines, isolating regiments from the main force so that the infantry behind the tanks could quickly kill or capture the enemy troops.[42] The effectiveness of the German tank divisions can also be attributed to the training of the tank crews which lasted about 12–16 weeks of basic training as compared to the 8 and 6 weeks that the Soviet, British and American tank crews were trained for.[citation needed]
The planes cooperated closely with the ground forces. Overwhelming numbers of fighters assured air-supremacy, and the bombers would attack command- and supply-lines, depots, and other support targets close to the front. As the war progressed, Germany's opponents drastically increased their aircraft production and quality, improved pilot training, and gradually gained air-superiority. The Western Allies' strategic bombing campaign against German industrial targets, particularly the round the clock Combined Bomber Offensive, deliberately forced the Luftwaffe into a war of attrition. With German fighter force destroyed the Western Allies had air supremacy over the battlefield, denying support to German forces on the ground and using its own fighter-bombers to attack and disrupt.
The Kriegsmarine (navy) played a major role in World War II as control over the commerce routes in the Atlantic was crucial for Germany, Britain and later the Soviet Union. In the Battle of the Atlantic, the initially successful German U-boat fleet arm was eventually defeated due to Allied technological innovations like sonar, radar, and the breaking of the Enigma code. Large surface vessels were few in number due to construction limitations by international treaties prior to 1935. The "pocket battleships" Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer were important as commerce raiders only in the opening year of the war. No aircraft carrier was operational, as German leadership lost interest in the Graf Zeppelin which had been launched in 1938. Following the loss of the German battleship Bismarck in 1941, with Allied air-superiority threatening the remaining battlecruisers in French Atlantic harbors, the ships were ordered to make the Channel Dash back to German ports. Operating from fjords along the coast of Norway, which had been occupied in 1940, convoys from North America to the Soviet port of Murmansk could be intercepted though the Tirpitz spent most of her career as fleet in being. After the appointment of Karl Dönitz as Grand Admiral of the Kriegsmarine (in the aftermath of the Battle of the Barents Sea), Germany stopped constructing battleships and cruisers in favor of U-boats.[44]
U-boats were one of Germany's greatest weapon against the Allies at sea which were employed to strike at Allied Convoys. The German naval strategy was to attack the convoys in an attempt to starve Britain of supplies which would disable the ability of the British army to continue fighting the war. Karl Doenitz, the U-Boat Chief, began unrestricted submarine warfare which cost the Allies 22,898 men and 1,315 ships.[45] The U-boat war remained costly for the Allies until early spring of 1943 when the Allies began to use countermeasures against U-Boats such as the use of Hunter-Killer groups, airborne radar, torpedoes and mines like the FIDO.[46] The submarine war cost the navy 793 U-boats, 28,000 U-boat crewmen killed and a further 8,000 captured.[citation needed]
The [Waffen-SS]], the combat branch of the SS (the Nazi Party's paramilitary organization), became a significant fighting force of Nazi Germany as it expanded from three regiments to 38 divisions by 1945. Although the SS was autonomous and existed in parallel to the Wehrmacht, the Waffen-SS field units were placed under the operational control of the Supreme High Command of the Armed Forces (the OKW) or the Supreme High Command of the Army (the OKH). Interservice rivalry hampered organization in the German armed forces, as the OKW, OKH, OKL and the Waffen-SS often worked concurrently and not as a joint command.
The Wehrmacht directed combat operations during World War II (from 1 September 1939 – 8 May 1945) as the German Reich's Armed Forces umbrella command organization. After 1941 the OKH became the de facto Eastern Theatre higher echelon command organization for the Wehrmacht, excluding [Waffen-SS]] except for operational and tactical combat purposes. The OKW conducted operations in the Western Theatre. The operations by the Kriegsmarine in the North and Mid-Atlantic can also be considered as separate theatres considering the size of the area of operations and their remoteness from other theatres.
Wehrmacht fought on other fronts, sometimes three simultaneously; redeploying troops from the intensifying theatre in the East to the West after D-Day created tensions between the General Staff of both the OKW and the OKH as Germany lacked sufficient materiel and manpower for a two-front war of such magnitude.[47]
Part of the Eastern Front involved anti-partisan operations against Soviet partisan units and counter-insurgency operations – largely carried out by security divisions of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS units in the occupied territories behind Axis front lines.
More than 6,000,000 soldiers were wounded during the conflict, while more than 11,000,000 became prisoners. In all, approximately 5,318,000 soldiers from Germany and other nationalities fighting for the German armed forces—including the Waffen-SS—are estimated to have been killed in action, died of wounds, died in custody or gone missing in World War II. Included in this number are 215,000 Soviet citizens conscripted by Germany.[48]
According to Frank Biess,
German casualties took a sudden jump with the defeat of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad in January 1943, when 180,310 soldiers were killed in one month. Among the 5.3 million Wehrmacht casualties during the Second World War, more than 80 percent died during the last two years of the war. Approximately three-quarters of these losses occurred on the Eastern front (2.7 million) and during the final stages of the war between January and May 1945 (1.2 million).[49]
Whereas German deaths between 1941 and 1943 on the western front had not exceeded 3 percent of the total from all fronts, in 1944 the figure jumped to about 14 percent. Yet even in the months following D-day, about 68.5 percent of all German battlefield deaths occurred on the eastern front, as a Soviet blitzkrieg in response devastated the retreating Wehrmacht.[50]
The Army's Chief of Staff General Franz Halder in a directive declared that in the event of guerrilla attacks, German troops were to impose "collective measures of force" by massacring entire villages.[53] Cooperation between the SS Einsatzgruppen and the Wehrmacht involved supplying the killing squads with weapons, ammunition, equipment, transport, and even housing. Partisan fighters, Jews, and Communists became synonymous enemies of the Nazi regime and were hunted down and exterminated by the Einsatzgruppen and Wehrmacht alike, something revealed in numerous field journal entries from German soldiers.[54] Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Soviet civilians died from starvation as the Germans requisitioned food for their armies and fodder for their draft horses.[55] According to Thomas Kühne, "An estimated 300,000–500,000 people were killed during the Wehrmacht'santi-partisan war in the Soviet Union."[56]
While secretly listening to conversations of captured German generals, British officials became aware that the German army had taken part in the atrocities and mass killing of Jews and were guilty of war crimes.[57] American officials learned of Wehrmacht atrocities in much the same way. Taped conversations of soldiers detained as POWs revealed how some of them voluntarily participated in mass executions.[58]
The Kragujevac massacre was the mass murder of 2,778–2,794 mostly Serb men and boys in the city of Kragujevac by German soldiers on 21 October 1941. It occurred in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II, and came in reprisal for insurgent attacks in the Gornji Milanovac district that resulted in the deaths of 10 German soldiers and the wounding of 26 others. The number of hostages to be shot was calculated based on a ratio of 100 hostages executed for every German soldier killed and 50 hostages executed for every German soldier wounded. After a punitive operation was conducted in the surrounding villages, during which 422 males were shot and four villages burned down, another 70 male Jews and communists who had been arrested in Kragujevac were shot. Simultaneously, males between the ages of 16 and 60, including high school students, were assembled by German troops and local collaborators, and the victims were selected from amongst them. The selected males were then marched to fields outside the city, shot with heavy machine guns, and their bodies buried in mass graves.
While the Wehrmacht's prisoner-of-war camps for inmates from the west generally satisfied the humanitarian requirement prescribed by international law, prisoners from Poland (which never capitulated) and the USSR were incarcerated under significantly worse conditions. Between the launching of Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941 and the following spring, 2.8 million of the 3.2 million Soviet prisoners taken died while in German hands.[59]
The Nuremberg Trials of the major war criminals at the end of World War II found that the Wehrmacht was not an inherently criminal organization, but that it had committed crimes in the course of the war. Several high-ranked members of the Wehrmacht like Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl were convicted for their involvement in war crimes. Among German historians, the view that the Wehrmacht had participated in war time atrocities, particularly on the Eastern Front, grew in the late 1970s and the 1980s. In the 1990s, public conception in Germany was influenced by controversial reactions and debates about the exhibition of war crime issues.[60]
More recently, the judgement of Nuremberg has come under question. The Israeli historian Omer Bartov, a leading expert on the Wehrmacht[61] wrote in 2003 that the Wehrmacht was a willing instrument of genocide, and that it is untrue that the Wehrmacht was an apolitical, professional fighting force that had only a few "bad apples".[62] Bartov argues that far from being the "untarnished shield", as successive German apologists stated after the war, the Wehrmacht was a criminal organization.[63] Likewise, the British historian Richard J. Evans, a leading expert on modern German history, wrote that the Wehrmacht was a genocidal organization.[51] Historian Ben Shepherd writes that "There is now clear agreement amongst historians that the German Wehrmacht ... identified strongly with National Socialism and embroiled itself in the criminality of the Third Reich."[64] British historian Ian Kershaw concludes that the Wehrmacht's duty was to ensure that the people who met Hitler's requirements of being part of the AryanHerrenvolk ("Aryan master race") had living space. He wrote that:
The Nazi revolution was broader than just the Holocaust. Its second goal was to eliminate Slavs from central and eastern Europe and to create a Lebensraum for Aryans. ... As Bartov (The Eastern Front; Hitler's Army) shows, it barbarised the German armies on the eastern front. Most of their three million men, from generals to ordinary soldiers, helped exterminate captured Slav soldiers and civilians. This was sometimes cold and deliberate murder of individuals (as with Jews), sometimes generalised brutality and neglect. ... German soldiers' letters and memoirs reveal their terrible reasoning: Slavs were 'the Asiatic-Bolshevik' horde, an inferior but threatening race. Only a minority of officers and men were Nazi members.[65]
Some members of the Wehrmacht did save Jews and non-Jews from the concentration camps and/or mass-executions. Anton Schmid —a sergeant in the army— helped 250 Jewish men, women, and children escape from the Vilnius ghetto and provided them with forged passports so that they could get to safety. He was court-martialed and executed as a consequence. Albert Battel, a reserve officer stationed near the Przemysl ghetto, blocked an SS detachment from entering it. He then evacuated up to 100 Jews and their families to the barracks of the local military command, and placed them under his protection. Wilm Hosenfeld—an army captain in Warsaw—helped, hid, or rescued several Poles, including Jews, in occupied Poland. He helped the Polish Jewish composer Władysław Szpilman, who was hiding among the city's ruins, by supplying him with food and water.[citation needed]
Reichsmarschall: The post of the Reichsmarschall was the highest military ranking that a German soldier could reach. The post was held solely by Hermann Göring (9 July 1940), the most powerful Nazi leader in Germany next to Hitler, who designated him as his successor on 29 June 1941.[67] Göring also served as the head of the Luftwaffe and was responsible for handling Germany's war economy.[68]
Generaloberst: The rank of Generaloberst, usually translated as "colonel general", was equivalent to a four-star rank of the US rank system.
General: This three-star rank was formally linked to the branch of the army or air-force, in which the officer served, such as General of the Infantry, General of the Artillery and General of Armoured Troops (Panzertruppe).
Generalleutnant: The German Generalleutnant two-star rank was usually a division commander.
Generalmajor: The German "Generalmajor" one-star rank was usually a brigade commander.
Following the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht, which went into effect on 8 May 1945, some Wehrmacht units remained active, either independently (e.g. in Norway), or under Allied command as police forces.[69] The last Wehrmacht unit to come under Allied control was an isolated weather station in Svalbard, which formally surrendered to a Norwegian relief ship on 4 September.[70]
On 20 September 1945, with Proclamation No. 2 of the Allied Control Council (ACC), "[a]ll German land, naval and air forces, the S.S., S.A., S.D. and Gestapo, with all their organizations, staffs and institution, including the General Staff, the Officers' corps, the Reserve Corps, military schools, war veterans' organizations, and all other military and quasi-military organizations, together with all clubs and associations which serve to keep alive the military tradition in Germany, shall be completely and finally abolished in accordance with the methods and procedures to be laid down by the Allied Representatives."[71] The Wehrmacht was officially dissolved by the ACC Law 34 on 20 August 1946,[72] which proclaimed the OKW, OKH, the Ministry of Aviation and the OKM to be "disbanded, completely liquidated and declared illegal".[73]
In the mid-1950s, tensions of the Cold War led to the creation of separate military forces in the Federal Republic of Germany and the socialist German Democratic Republic. The West German military, officially created on 5 May 1955, took the name Bundeswehr, meaning Federal Defence Forces. Its East German counterpart—created on 1 March 1956—took the name National People's Army (Nationale Volksarmee). Both organizations employed many former Wehrmacht members, particularly in their formative years, though neither organization considered themselves to be successors to the Wehrmacht.
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Courthouse tests face-recognition system to ID individuals thought to be threats
Angry litigants and criminal defendants can pose serious or even lethal threats to lawyers and judges.
So it isn’t surprising that a group of retired police officers in St. Louis thought of the downtown Carnahan Courthouse when they developed a system to identify individuals considered to be threats through facial recognition technology and alert those they might be targeting. The courthouse is one of three sites that will be testing the Blue Line Security Solutions system, for free, as a pilot project, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Judges for the St. Louis Circuit Court approved the idea in December. It will input only photographs of individuals who might be a problem; at other sites, such as businesses, it might be appropriate for the system to recognize everyone who is authorized to enter.
A representative of the Missouri affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union expressed concern about singling out individuals for scrutiny and wondered about the process used to determine who might be threats.
However, a spokesman for the St. Louis City sheriff said the system is not all that different from standard security cameras, except that it notifies law enforcement officers of potentially problematic individuals, the newspaper recounts. “We are not screening everybody who walks in to see if they have any unpaid parking tickets or anything like that,” spokesman Mike Guzy said.
While such technology is innovative right now, it won’t be long before it’s commonplace, predicted Maj. Joseph Spiess of the St. Louis police, one of the founders of the Blue Line Security Solutions.
“I think facial recognition will be everywhere in five years, and honestly, it’s a race to get there,” he said. | {
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I'm a storyteller, writer, dream reader, and teacher with a wide variety of artistic and social interests. I love the use of juxtaposition of images and words to shake loose creative energy. I work to make my neighborhood safe for pollinators, I photograph the beautiful world I live in, and tell stories to children and adults.
I also edit and publish non-fiction and poetry, and I offer Juxtaprise Writing Classes and dream interpretation (one-on-one and groups).
I’m a fan of Leonard’s columns, and in this one he celebrates the large numbers of women running for state and national offices. And he includes the statement, “One also wonders what took them so long.” That same day, I wrote an honest, respectful reply, shared it on Twitter, and heard nothing in response. One doesn’t really expect busy columnists to read all the replies to their work, but I had had hoped this time would be different. But no, women’s voices still don’t seem to matter when the discourse is about women’s experience.
This is what I wrote:
I can’t speak for all sisters, but let me just womansplain this to you from the perspective of a historian who’s been navigating her way through the patriarchy for nearly six decades.
Though you champion women in your column, your question makes it sound like it’s an easy thing, shrugging off the yoke of a deeply entrenched, world-wide, eons-old patriarchy, enforced with physical punishment. Surely you, of all people, have not forgotten that women won the right to vote in the USA in 1920. For women to rise in a mere hundred years as a tidal flood, aspiring in large numbers to occupy the halls of state and national power, seems to me a sea change when you consider how long the outgoing pattern has been entrenched. I challenge you to honestly claim that we could have done this any faster without a lot more chaos in the world, and chaos is one of the forces women tend to struggle against. This tide has risen as it must, in every way it can, through the cracks in patriarchal systems.
You wonder why it took so long? Because the work women do to overturn toxic social systems is largely invisible to many men, just like a lot of the work we do in the world: for example, the subtle work of private influence, the emotional work of nurturing family, and processing all of the emotions except anger. (Patriarchy damages us all by isolating anger as the acceptable “male” emotion, and we pay the price in endless wars.)
What took us so long? We were busy working for no pay, or in underpaid jobs at wages a fraction of what was paid men. We were breaking glass ceilings in homes, and schools, and businesses. We were raising a generation of citizens who could fuel this political tide and help us be woke. We were grabbing opportunities to advocate for our own and others’ children, cooking meals for those who grieved or were ill, serving on committees, and organizing communities of support around schools and churches and neighborhoods to pick up the pieces when official government agencies weren’t adequate to the task.
We’ve been doing the lion’s share of the housework for a long time and even before men began pitching in on that, we took on other tasks, like earning money, creating art, and volunteering our service in a thousand different ways. The tidal wave of women entering politics shows that we are pissed off enough at how badly men have screwed up and screwed us over that we will even take on the official task of governing, one that still-entrenched sexism makes triply harder for women than men.
We are seeing this as the first historical moment in this country when we might stand a chance of washing away the toxic stink that masculine greed has made of our nation’s seat of power. What took us so long? We’ve never had large numbers of men on our side like we do now, due to the shadow side of patriarchy playing large on the national stage. We know that if we’re going to build something more equitable out of the trash heap of patriarchy, we women will need the participation of good and thoughtful men. I think the ignition was last year’s Women’s March, when we saw women and men all over the world marching for the things we women have always worked for—peace, equality, love, and getting our voices heard. The march gave us the fortitude to face down the system once again.
Be careful with your question, for it can be read as a belittlement of the bravery of the women stepping up to endure grueling campaigns and the ugly backlash from some ugly men in the halls of power. We needed strength from images of people on every continent gathering (even where public gathering is forbidden) to stand on the side of decency and peace. Social media’s instant transmission of photos and videos from the Women’s March gave us tangible emotional support of the kind that we haven’t historically had from men, because emotional support was by and large women’s work.
Do not ask what took us so long. Instead, recognize that sisters have been doing it for us all since always, in ways men haven’t even noticed.
One of the first picture book manuscripts I ever sent out was called The Diffendaffer Taffy Cafe. From 1986-1998 I got a number of lovely, encouraging rejections from various editors (that was back when you could still widely submit directly to editors who published children’s books). I told the story of that journey, and its abrupt end, at Truth Be Told in Boulder in June of 2017:
As part of the process of developing the story for Truth Be Told, I pulled out the file of rejection letters as well as the original manuscript. I’d been telling stories as a Spellbinders volunteer for nine months at that point, and had immersed myself in folk tales, fairy tales, and tall tales. When I read my old manuscript, I saw that what I’d written was a tall tale. With just a little tweaking, I knew it would work as a spoken story. And though, as a writer, I’d always had vivid pictures in my head when I imagined it and hoped to see it illustrated as a picture book, now I saw it through a storyteller’s eyes, where the magic lies in the hearer imagining their own version of the story I tell.
Then, thanks to the generosity of Rachel Ann Harding of Stories With Spirit and Story Story Podcast, I had the opportunity to record some stories in her studio. I’m extra lucky in my friendships, and so I didn’t have to search far for advice on what sound editing program to use (Audacity was the unanimous winner on my informal Facebook poll). Even better, Janet Fogg agreed to take on the job of creating the design for the CD cover and on-CD print and did a beautiful job.
The whole process, from initial recording to the product arriving on my doorstep, took less than a month, but what a month it was. Working with the sound files, especially seeing the graphic representation of my voice on the Audacity screen, gave me a new appreciation for the universality of vibration in our physical world. Many of the patterns reminded me of my other visual love–clouds. Since so much of my life journey has been about finding my voice, the visual representation of it felt validating.Screenshot of the words “I’m going to open the Diffendaffer Taffy Cafe”
But none of that compares to the joy in having the story finally find its way into the world. The Diffendaffer Taffy Cafe has been dear to my heart for a very long time, and now, at last, it found its voice.
The Diffendaffer Taffy Cafe is available through CD Baby as a digital download or a CD, or email me at laurakdeal at gmail.com for a CD with a personal note. | {
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The March 27 episode, titled "Do You Know," will be all about Cristina Yang, TVLine reports.
The Cristina-centric episode will find Meredith's person imagining the different routes her life could take "via a 'Sliding Doors' concept." Hmm -- sounds like we're in for a dream sequence or two, possibly leading the star doc to make some decisions about her future that will take her away from the ABC medical drama.
"Do You Know" will likely give fans the proper Cristina send-off before Oh leaves the series for good, although it is still unknown how the doc will leave Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital onscreen. Will Cristina move away again? Will she quit life as a doctor? Doubtful. Will she ... gasp, die?
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Photographer Matthieu Bühler Captures The Streets Of Tokyo At Night
We’re still in our colorful “Blade-Runner-esque” bash here. Let’s investigate the streets of Tokyo, Japan with Matthieu Bühler who’s a graphic designer & photographer. The photo series is entitled: Neon Dreams we take a little glimpse? It is a style of editing that is getting more and more popular with the launch of their Blade Runner 2049.
I have said it before and I’ll say it again. It is not simply because of the latest and greatest in photography equipment, however. Its towns are full of personality that make them different, memorable, and certainly picture-perfect. Tokyo-based graphic designer and photographer Matthieu Bühler shows us how the funds alone makes for a dreamy street photography location in his beautiful set called Neon Dreams.
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B-Side Entertainment, based in Austin, has announced the first film to be released through its distribution arm. Brett Gaylor’s copyright and content creation law doc “RiP: A Remix Manifesto,” which will screen at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, has been acquired by B-Side. They will handle the US theatrical release while Disinformation will release on DVD. The doc’s producers, Eye Steele Productions. and the National Film Board of Canada, will additionally partner with B-Side on the release.
“This film, and the way we are distributing it, is about important issues that affect arts and culture worldwide,” commented NFB Commissioner Tom Perlmutter, in a statement. “At the NFB we see documentary film as a platform to break through all types of issues; we want RiP! to foster growth and discussion for all artists and creators across the digital universe and are quite enthusiastic to make RiP! the most accessible film ever.”
The film essentially explores the legal and artistic ramifications of the mash-up. “I wanted to document and explore the war of ideas between those who want to share ideas – the Copyleft – and those who want to lock up ideas – the copyright,” Gaylor said in an interview with indieWIRE upon the film’s world premiere at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal last November.
Using mash-up artist Girl Talk as an entry point into his film, Gaylor cohesively and emotionally discusses the sweeping topics of intellectual property and remix culture. “We made the film in collaboration with the Open Source Cinema community,” Gaylor said in November. “[It’s] a remix website launched so that peers could remix and contribute to the film. We posted our raw footage under a Creative Commons license, and asked people to remix it around key themes. The resulting work was then included in the film – the goal is for these stages of remixing to continue throughout our festival release, and then once the film moves from “beta” to 1.0 – that we release it to the web.”
The promise will be kept through “RiP”‘s deal with B-Side, as it will additionally be streamed via www.opensourcecinema.org and www.nfb.ca, where viewers can watch the film or remix it.
“We want RiP! to be an evolving conversation about intellectual property in the digital age and to that end we’re making the film remix able to ensure that the ‘audience’ is now an active part in the creation of the film,” Gaylor said in a statement yesterday. “RiP! is an attempt to move beyond the traditional relationship of producer and consumer – we want to recognize that this passive era is over.”
In addition to the U.S. distribution partners, the film has multiple international multi-platform distribution deals in place. In Canada, Kinosmith is the distributor for the theatrical and DVD sales. The broadcast partners are the Documentary Channel and Canal D in Canada. International broadcasters on this project include, YLE in Finland; SBS in Australia, TV3 Catalunya in Spain and Yes- DBS Satellite Service (1998) in Israel – who all have plans to put a version of the film online as well as broadcast it in their own language.
In regard to B-Side, this deal comes two months after Paola Freccero left her post at the Tribeca Film Festival to join head the company’s newly launched distribution division. The unit planned to distribute independent films nationally to what it describes as “a wide variety of outlets including theatrical and non-theatrical venues, via online and on-demand platforms, television networks and on DVD with low-cost, high-impact marketing campaigns.” The company’s CEO and founder Chris Hyams said that the initiative will be financed through a $4.25 million investment led by Valhalla Partners.
B-Side’s acquisition of “RiP” marks another SXSW-related deal with unique distribution plans. A few weeks ago, it was announced that the world premiere of co-directors Clark Lyda and Jesse Lyda’s documentary “The Least of These” will take place simultaneously at the upcoming SXSW Film Festival and online. SXSW and distribution partners SnagFilms, IndiePix, and Cinema Guild announced their plan to have the film simultaneously premiere online on March 16 via SnagFilms and be presented at SXSW, followed by online, physical and semi-theatrical distribution by IndiePix and Cinema Guild.
In January, IFC Films unveiled a plan to simultaneously release Joe Swanberg’s new film, “Alexander The Last,” on VOD simultaneous with its world premiere at SXSW. Four other SXSW ‘09 titles will also screen on-demand via IFC Festival Direct, concurrent with the fest. | {
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37 Alternatives to Yelling at Your Kids
Whether it's a carelessly broken vase in the living room or a blatant refusal to acknowledge parental authority, children have the capacity to make our blood boil. And when we're at our breaking point — as is often the case when raising kids — screaming and yelling feels good.
But as parents, we have to remember that we're the adults, and that yelling at our children does little to help them grow into the people we want them to be. Next time you're tempted to scream, think of the big picture, and try one of these 37 alternatives to yelling instead.
1. Breathe. Deep, slow breathing helps to diffuse tension in stressful situations. Take several deep breaths to help you feel calmer, and hopefully the urge to scream will subside.
2. Count to 10. Sing the ABCs. Recite the periodic table. Whatever it takes to give you a few minutes to cool off before responding.
3. Talk it out. Call a good friend and discuss the situation. Talk about what's making you angry.
4. Take a time-out.Time-out is usually thought of as a punishment for a child, but if you're about to explode, you're the one who needs to remove yourself from the situation and regain your composure.
5. Change the scenery. If you're at home, load everyone up in the car and head somewhere else. If you're out in public, go home.
6. Write it down. Instead of directing harsh words towards your kids, write down what you wish you could say. Express your feelings of frustration and anger on paper, then rip it up and throw it away.
7. Ask a question. The response your child gives may surprise you.
8. Walk away.
9. Remember your long-term goals. Think about the values you hope to instill in your children. Will yelling help teach them?
10. Model the conflict resolution you want your children to learn. What you do is always more important than what you say.
11. Go for a walk.
12. Call for reinforcements. Ask your partner or spouse to come home early, or call a babysitter.
I have yet to meet a parent who never yells, and some experts suggest that a fair amount of yelling at home actually prepares children for the moments of emotional conflict they will inevitably encounter throughout their lives. Still, all it takes is a single tear rolling down the cheek of one of my kids to make me instantly regret a moment when I've lost my cool. | {
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At Last, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
“Linux vendor Red Hat today released the first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, giving observers a look at what’s to come in the next version of its flagship operating system platform. The new release takes advantage of a long list of new Linux kernel improvements for performance and scalability while also providing new technologies for security, management, and virtualization.”
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This is great news. Red hat is THE corporate standard for Linux based OSes and it’s awesome to see them nearing another release.
As great as the community has been in driving more bugfixes in the more visible portions of the Linux ecosystem, without corporate sponsors like Red Hat, we wouldn’t have the great multipurpose full featured OS that Linux based systems have become. It takes a business like Red Hat to do the non-glamorous coding work that needs to be done to ensure a stable and viable system that corporate environments require.
For that and for sponsoring the Fedora project (running Fedora 13 Beta) I salute them.
I don’t think it will. This is a public beta. Companies will be using it as reference platform for software development. There will be bug fixes and minor updates, but there are never big changes after a beta is released.
There’s nothing really sexy or exciting about a mature company releasing their scheduled mature product when they have a bleeding edge product that better captures the internet of most of this audience.
As someone who used to use Fedora, switching to RHEL was a bit of a downgrade. As we moved past FC6 to F12 & 13, only more so. (Can anyone confirm that we finally get modern Firefox? One with positive integer after 3.? How about a new-ish gnuplot or LaTeX?)
I do have to say, though, that I am impressed that Red Hat managed to out-slow Debian. In the old days, I always used to joke about the long release cycle of Debian stable, but now it’s positively bleeding edge compared to Red Hat.
Yes, yes. I do understand the need for an LTS stable version for enterprise use. I just wish they’d upgrade the usability bits more often. New Firefox, new Thunderbird, new utilities rather than hunting for EPEL versions with odd names (gnuplot42, say, so it doesn’t conflict) or building yourself.
Its not a a good idea, but not for that reason. IF any insane person designed an intranet app for firefox specifically and not just for web standards, my hat is off to them for shooting themselves in the foot with a thermonuclear warhead and surviving.
For the non criminally insane, there are a lot of dependencies in linux distros. upgrading one part may cause a chain reaction of necessary updates. So including one newer version of an app, isn’t that easy. What you find more typically with redhat, is that they will take features from newer versions and back port them to older versions in such a way that it doesn’t require any new dependencies. | {
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Forecast
Warriors hope for boost in energy, enthusiasm
When Warriors head coach Mark Jackson woke up Friday morning, an image on his TV screen provided a clue to what might get his team off its recent teeter-totter between good and bad outings.
Before he could even rub the sleep from his eyes, Jackson saw Draymond Green catch a pass from Stephen Curry, pivot toward the lane, cock the ball behind his head and force in a one-handed dunk over elite defensive center Joakim Noah.
"Then I see (Green) running off the screen on SportsCenter with his mouth wide open, like he just made the play of the century," Jackson said. "You could just tell how his spirit, his approach, his mentality and his competitive nature gives us a chance every night."
After Green made the highlight reel play, he let out a wide-eyed yawp that might still be echoing - if the reaction hadn't given way to his infectious smile when he was greeted by his teammates.
And that's what Jackson is after. He wants his team to get back to playing freely and having fun - the characteristics that allowed the Warriors to overachieve last season.
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"We're pressing, we're worrying about this and worrying about that, but we're at our best when we're just having fun," Green said. "Of course, any time expectations rise, you're human. You're going to know it, and you're going to react to it. But no one expects more out of us than we expect out of us."
Before Thursday's comeback victory over Chicago, the Warriors had lost five of their past seven home games and were closer to missing the playoffs than hosting a first-round series.
They were pressing and playing tentatively when things weren't going right, and plodding along as though it was a given when things were going right.
"You don't have to showboat or taunt the other team, but you can enjoy yourself," Curry said. "My wife doesn't know much about basketball, but she's watched the past three games at home, and when I came home the other night (after losing to Charlotte), she was like, 'Are y'all all right?' When you looked at our faces, we were just down - at all points of the game. For her to say that, it was kind of telling. We've got to turn that around with our body language and our energy.
"For us, we've got to get back to having fun, man, enjoying the small victories. We've put so much pressure on ourselves and press so much when we're not performing the way we want to. We're not going to be front-runners, but we've got to enjoy the moment and have fun. When good things happen on the court, you smile, jump around and get that spunk back."
Injury update: Jackson said big men Andrew Bogut (shoulder inflammation), David Lee (sprained shoulder) and Jermaine O'Neal (wrist surgery) missed Friday's practice, but all are expected to travel with the team for Saturday's game. Lee has been ruled out, Bogut is questionable and O'Neal probable.
Long-range miss: Curry was selected to participate in the three-point contest during All-Star weekend, but shooting guard Klay Thompson was left out of the field, which includes Orlando's Arron Afflalo, Washington's Bradley Beal, San Antonio's Marco Belinelli, Brooklyn's Joe Johnson, Cleveland's Kyrie Irving, Portland's Damian Lillard and Minnesota's Kevin Love.
Thompson is second in the league with 147 made three-pointers and is shooting 41.2 percent from distance, which is tied for 18th in the NBA.
"I don't know who makes the decisions, but Klay Thompson is an incredible shooter - not just today, but all time," Jackson said. "Pick anybody on that list - except for Steph - and I'm taking Klay. I'll meet them in any alley, at any playground, on any court, and I'll bring Klay with me. I'm confident that he'll leave as the winner."
Saturday's game
Who: Warriors (30-20) at Suns (29-20)
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Of note: The Warriors have won seven of their past eight meetings with Phoenix, but they've lost 29 of their past 35 games in the desert. ... The surprise team in the Western Conference, the Suns have lost two in a row after a five-game winning streak and have fallen a half-game behind the Warriors for sixth place. ... Phoenix leads the league in fastbreak points (18.6 per game), is tied for second in three-point makes (9.3) and is tied for fourth in bench scoring (37.7). ... Point guard Goran Dragic has scored at least 20 points in a career-best six straight games and is averaging 25.7 points on 60.7 percent field-goal shooting and 56.5 percent three-point shooting during the stretch. | {
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This week I'm offering a 1:12 American style Chinese takeout set on eBay. My coworkers have been sending me requests for certain items to be made, and my friend and coworker, Megan, asked that I make a Chinese food set. My husband is a huge fan of our local takeaway, and although I'm not quite foodie enough to really enjoy the same dishes he likes, I do love noodles and have always liked steamed rice.
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Miami-Dade Republicans reelect party chairman
Nelson Diaz, a Southern Strategy Group lobbyist and former state House legislative aide to Marco Rubio, was reelected Thursday night as chairman of the Republican Party of Miami-Dade County.
Nelson was retained by the local party’s executive committee to serve a third term as chairman during an election at the Renaissance Ballrooms in West Miami. A possible challenge was expected from the Trump wing of the party, but Diaz ran without opposition.
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Alrighty guys, I know you are passionate about your country, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but this is an English speaking forum, so make sure to post in English or at least provide a translation like SuperRyuga. :)
18th January 2014, 08:16 PM
Mietepiet
And please read forum rules about quoting.
@DDD:
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Originally Posted by AlisGelida
CompÓ incontriamoci! QUALE ONORE ! Ryuga risponde a 'sto topic! Dio!
Nice to meet you! What A honor! Ryuga answerred on my topic
@my fellow Italians: My mother is Italian. I'm very proud of that and of my mother!
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Thanks for the public translation ^^ :D
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A Drone Carrier, is by all means the newest designed vessel in the Commonwealth, up to date and designed not by the UCSN designers but by Inops Splicers for the purpose of mostly being able to deploy a rapid amount of drones, survive in solo engagements and indeed electronic warfare elements in the event of an actual attack. And thus, the IOBF hunter’s keel was laid down at Leinos-4 during 68 ACW and was finished a year later, a Dreadnought in it’s own right and the flagship for the Intelligence Operations Branch and currently it was within the system of Bane’s silence with the rest of Inop’s fleet (that were scattered across the area)
Standing in the centre, looking over the tactical readout of the central Command map was Admiral Pi, the leader of the Intelligance Operations Branch. She was to put it fairly simply a Lamansci in her middle ages, her own deep bronze skin and indeed signs of age only seemed to add an air of... ‘don’t mess with me’ to the other officers on the deck as her palms lay flat against the table, her eyes staring at the system, various markings showing the status of her own fleet and a number of triangles with a single line ending at a circle (and a timer saying ETA: 13.02 CST) showing the point where the Pirate base for the entire sector was located. A small shake of her head was all that broke the silence as a holographic AI projection of a Inop’s Telian officer (Model #13) stood there waiting for it’s orders. The officer’s own hands firmly behind it’s back as finally Pi asked “And you're sure that there are no signs of any activity in the system?” as the Admiral stared at the marked area as the AI responded “The readings from the Probes show that there are no pirate patrols in the entire star system, however the location of the base and indeed the Debris field it is located at make readings harder to detect. Admiral, my recommendation is to proceed with caution.”
Another long silence as Pi stared at the map again, as she finally said “Order to Black fleet: Ghost task groups, 5. Jamming fields to level 4.” admittedly, her orders weren’t long, she wasn’t one for the long speeches that some admirals did, but she knew what she was doing as all of a sudden where each Black Fleet marker was in the system it seemed (through a clever means of sensor readouts and indeed messing with the transmission’s so it seemed like there was an actual task group there, indeed giving off heat signatures and transmissions) before finally from the main drone carrier the sounds of electronic warfare drones leaving the drone carrier to move into position around it for the jamming field.
Jamming in space, was, as Inops found hard. They had to increase the transmission by a huge amount and indeed space to block out transmissions... so they had actually found the way around by the speed of Warpnet transmitters and indeed the idea of creating a number of small drones that were capable of extending the jamming signal. In a way creating a portable Jamming device that could be deployed whenever the UCSN were planning a major operation and as the map showed the increasing ‘bubble’ of the signal engulfing the pirate base there was a curious response from the AI “Admiral... If the readings I have collated over the last few standard minutes are correct, there are no transmissions being broadcast from that base... my scanner is also saying, there are increased amounts of unlogged debris around the base from the last time the Inops probes were here.” The Inops Admiral, for probably one of the first times let out a small laugh as if completely bemused that the AI had said that as a number of the inops officers nearby looked at each other she finally said “Transmission to White Fleet ‘Proceed with caution, no signs of Red Forces.”13.05 CSTLocation: ‘Bane’s flotilla’
Bane’s flotilla was a location which made even the most combat hardened Veteran of the Commonwealth Navy shiver, it was said that when the pirate war began this giant flotilla which served as a main base for the Warlord which Inops had marked ‘The black prince’ (along with a pretty large bounty, just in case anybody felt foolish enough to join him, which was withdrawn with the dawn of Operation Nightfall) indeed the sheer amount of debris and wielded together Capital ships made the whole site a headache for any military genius with the first, second and third Battle of Banes Flotilla ending in tactical disasters for Commonwealth tacticians. This time, however... the UCAF had worked out different tactics.
And indeed as White fleet arrived as all of the ships began to return to normal time at the lead in the attack being spearheaded by the Angel Class Flagship ‘Righteous Fury’ a Dreadnought of around 6 km Length and had been retrofitted for this entire operation as it’s own fleet started to surround it which were as followed:-
As various ships began to break off to sort out the support Sections and indeed the patrols, various scouts were already undocking from the Bishops and fanning out to explore the area, avoiding the massive junkyard and holding just by it’s edge Gravpoint edge (A naval term for space stations, derelicts and other Anomalies which appears to have a gravitational pull) as the fleet’s continued to sort themselves, get organised and into various formations there was an air amongst the crews of... high morale but quiet dread that this battle might not go as well as planned. Afterall, they'd failed the last three times why should this be any different?
The Horizon, led by Commander Dewitt Croyle, seemed to be the bottom of the barrel for Concordat authorities.
This was a busy time for the Concordat. Scarcely had the Shield of Light returned from her breaktaking adventure of a survey than she had set nearly ever other Fleet titan in motion.
The Excalibur quickly thereafter dispatched an enemy fleet in the Nereax system, thought to be seeking revenge for the bombardment of HD-15934.
The Dauntless and Arkata had been pulled off shore leave, still celebrating their victory over the Brigands in an out-system chase the Admiralty had been quick to make classified. The good ship Big D had made for the recent Old Empire colony discovered in Epsilon Circini. Nobles and serfs alike were rushing to the spaceports for a chance at wealth and land -precious land- on the new world. Bloody Ark had been moved on maneuvers immediately, taking up her mantle as Dwemer's Defender yet again.
The Centaur and Nova, logistics and missile titan respectively, clung close to Seraph Charity and the power of the capital. The Fleet was spreading itself thin, but not that thin.
The Phalanx stuck fast to her orders in defending Phidia Prime - and possibly defending against whatever failed experiments came off the world.
The Pegasus, military courier, was expected to leave any day now to attempt some kind of diplomacy with the aliens that had attacked them. She could handle herself.
The Shield of Light herself was undergoing repairs. Concordat engineers were finding it hard to gather enough metal of sufficient strength to patch her holes. They could hardly be accused of doing patchwork on the new hero of the fleet.
It was with this frantic Fleet situation that the CCS Horizon, the Fleet Command titan, set out on a follow-up mission to the Shield of Light's survey.
With no fleet to command, Croyle mused, better us than nobody.
The Horizon's goal was perhaps the largest find of the entire historic expedition, albeit one that never reached public eyes. On one of her farthest jumps, the Shield of Light had detected evidence of another titan drifting or jumping out-system - a hull fragment, so obviously titan-built that the Yeoman who discovered it had feared that the Shield of Light was losing hull fragments.
A small debris field which was drifting out-system from Victor Martius gave the Horizon a trajectory, and along that trajectory was a single star - HD-155906. It was farther than any Concordat titan had ever jumped - but if it meant uncovering another titan, it was far worth the distance.
The initial sensor reports were of low resolution - they would keep building as more light and information was taken in by the sensor packages. A debris field seemed to start resolving itself in their immediate vicinity. There was a sole rocky world around the star, but that scarcely concerned them at the moment. In the meantime, Croyle intended to take a more hands-on approach.
"Yeoman Aryle," he said to the operations officer, "unseal and launch a mono survey detachment. Set them to curiosity and let's see what we come up with."
Curiosity mode on a monoardor was really three parts curiosity and two parts playfulness. The twenty K67 monoardor corvettes moved near unto the debris field, poking around with their sensors as a dog might sniff every nook and cranny. Something much more interesting soon caught their eyes, however - the tight, orderly formations holding outside the debris field. They dropped their orders and headed lazily for the formations, hoping to learn as much as they possibly could.
"The monos are wandering, sir," Aryle warned.
"Let them be for a moment, Yeoman," Croyle said. "Let's see what they've found."
“Admiral... Sensor Array is picking up a spike in... no wait...” came one of the inops splicer officers as they tapped on their screen, the Admiral now looking at them with a piercing hawk like stare as she calmly waited for the officer to finally give her his news. The splicer seemed to be staring at the screen in disbelief as he finally reported in a composed tone “Sensor Array must be playing tricks... but it’s saying that a Twenty Kilometre vessel has just appeared in system and is on a trajectory towards Bane’s Flotilla.” “PANDORA, Confirm.” The AI telian officer seemed to, in a cheesily animated style, put a finger to an earpiece and merely respond with “Confirming results...pinpoint Directional scan commencing... scan concluded. There is indeed a Behemoth sized Vessel or indeed anomaly moving towards the Coordinates of ‘Bane’s Flotilla’ Judging from previous radar cycle, this object was not there previously. Updating Main map now.”
A silence fell onto the command deck of the hunter, The Admiral staring at the table as an icon appeared of the now confirmed Unknown Spacial Vessel, her eyes distinctly narrowed, she had just lost a bet with her predecessor on ending a campaign and her rear was not going to be flamed by the Marshals. Not today. Ss she finally looked up “White fleet, urgent level 1 communication.” came her order as a screen opened up on the opposite end of the table and the
***Establishing communication, please standby***
White Fleet,Righteous Fury, Command Section.
“Admiral, incoming transmission from Hunter, Level 1 urgency.” Came the Comms officer, looking up at the Admiral’s sub-deck of the command section, the admiral calmly standing with his arms behind his back. As the leader of White Fleet stared out at the various screens and merely went “Direct it up here.”
Angel Class Flagships, due to size and indeed strategic design did not have a conventional bridge, instead due to the sheer size of the vessel, it had a dedicated Command section deep within the vessel and well protected. Although there were sub-commands and indeed a Helmsman section, alot of the day to day ship running was done by an Admiral and High Captain from this room, which was to put it simply two levels, the ground level was in short a hive where the Dreadnought’s operations took place, the top floor overlooked this hive, it had a number of fleet operation screens and a number of consoles where the Admiral had near instant updates of the situation as one of the screens changed to an uplink with the Face of Admiral Pi, the face of Admiral Perios, the man in charge of righteous Fury turned, he was an elderly Telian with a number of scars from various Pirate Boarding attacks as his hands remained clasped behind his back and nodded. “Admiral, to what do I owe the... pleasure.” he seemed to say that with some venom as the Lamansci in front of him merely responded in a cold tone of voice which seemed to make a number of operations officers “We’re picking up a rather large Behemoth sized Anomaly moving towards your location currently in system grid D15, Requesting that your sensors do a confirmation scan for me.” It got a small blink from Perios as he turned back to the overlook and asked
“High Captain, are we picking up any Behemoth Sized Anomalies near us, more importantly at D15?”
It got a small blink from the High Captain who had been staring at the Dreadnoughts current status as he quickly moved over to the Sensor’s specialist and started to rapidly talk to him in hushed tones as they seemed to be looking over at the console for a few moments and then finally the High Captain looked back up and said “Confirmed, Pretty large and in scout F-range... We’re picking up, yeah, shorter range radar is picking up movement in the Debris Field. Could be just debris... but with that thing nearby...” he reported up to the Admiral as Perios listened and looked back at Pi. His purple skinned hand moving up and stroking his gray beard as he finally replied back “Alright, so both fleets can see a Behemoth Vessel, do you think it was the unknowns that attacked 12-KJ?” there was a small blink as the Lamansci stared at him for a few moments “There is no G-ray anomalies that run along it’s trajectory... as of this moment,I understand it is your operation, but as the head of Inops I suggest we put UCSN First contact Protocols in effect.”
The Admiral let out a sigh and responded “Alright, Lift the J-sig we’ll handle this.” as he pressed a button and looked towards his Vice Admiral, a Cxami avatar of around 2 Avatar Cycles who was sitting at one of the consoles, Perios walking over along the overlook before leaning against the chair and looking over at the fleet readout before saying “We have a couple of those new Nomad’s right?” There were a few taps on the screen as they were singled out on the fleet loadout and the Admiral merely staring at them calmly before nodding “Alright, send the most capable... actually, send the Lone Wanderer as an element on an investigation trajectory. UCSN First Contact needs to be applied, so don’t fire what isn’t identified as pirate markings.”
Space,
In space and behind in one of the reserve sections of the fleet, a single Nomad Battlecruiser emblazoned on it’s front armour the words ‘UCSNV Lone Wanderer’ began to break off from formation, it’s own Fusion engines firing up as it started to navigate past various Carriers, battleships, battlecruisers, cruisers and frigates that were formed up and began to orbit around the edge debris field, heading towards the Large Behemoth sized anomaly. Admittedly for a ship that’s length was about 1.5 km... going to do a first contact against a 20km anomaly was going to be... interesting.
"Mono data is coming back, sir," Yeoman Aryle reported. "Hell of a lot of radar contacts out there. They look to be closing on the debris. Weird...almost like there's something in there. And...wait. One of them is moving towards the Horizon. "
"RADAX, OPS, give me detail."
"1565 meters keel, hi-fusion drive flare, at least some EM data. She's very much alive and at least at our technological level."
"General quarters, Yeoman, and hold steady. Launch the rest of the monos and hold them tight in our battlespace. And for God's sake, disable sensor-to-server communication. We don't want another control attack like the Shield of Light had."
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“Anomaly is... ETA: 20 minutes out. Engineering are reporting that all engines are at full hydro-fusion capabilities.” came the Helmsman’s report from the front of the lone Wanderer’s small bridge. Indeed nomad’s bridges were exceptionally small for a ship it’s size, roughly taking up a small portion of the ships overall size and indeed built into the structure on the Upper section of the vessel (well protected and armoured mind) with the main bridge itself being a place with four consoles (Helmsman, Communications, Operations and Weapons control) and the captain’s seat. Across the front of this pod was a number of glass screens which projected the outside of the ship for the entire crew to see what was going on and currently these screens were showing the vector towards the Anomaly.
In some ironic sense, the first person to do First contact was not a Telian, Cxami or Lamansci... but a human hailing from the Free Traders Coalition Quarter on Abriel, a tight knit and very independant group of humans that were the first settlers of the Terran world there and indeed the creators of the bustling trade hub and Industrial world of the Commonwealth. And it was one of these humans, a Captain Richard De’roit that was now sitting in the UCSNV Lone Wanderer’s captain’s chair. A man in his 30’s with short, shaven hair and indeed at peak physical build, De’roit was definitely a captain who had risen up the ranks despite the odds (and indeed stigma that a free trader wished to protect the cluster, despite having a reputation for travel) and as he stared at the distance between him and this ship there was a small sigh “How long until we’re in Ship Visual Communications Range?” “About Five minutes...”
“I don’t like this... All stations to alert, but keep weapons on safeties.” as the bridge lights seemed to dim and various alerts were issued across the ship the captain still staring out before asking “Ops, what is the anomaly giving out?” A number of screens changed as the commander at the operations console seemed to be bringing it up “Heat signatures... heavily armoured, EM readings are there... she’s definitely alive and no doubt with a crew. AURA’s trying to find a radio signal from which we can open a linguistics exchange with their computers.” The captain leant forward staring at the marker on the main screens carefully and saying “Alright, send a data exchange request to the unknown ship on all frequencies with the language packet for Commonwealth Standard Language with a request for their language.” he ordered as the communications officer nodded as she tapped and sent out the request, the bridge waiting with bated breath for the response as the Lone Wanderer continued to close in on this huge ship.
A low klaxon sounded, and the bridge was bathed in red from the emergency lights. The bridge was as tense as the Shield of Light's had been on that fateful day of first contact. Machine ran the data through an intrusion analysis algorithm to detect similarities to assembly-level commands that could be used to hijack titan systems. Aryle breathed in after a long moment to speak.
"Machine returned intrusion analysis. No assembly commands."
All at once the bridge broke out into a cheer. These xenos weren't trying to assault them, they were trying to talk to them. They were, at least nominally, friendly.
"Have the monos remain in tight formation, Yeoman," said Captain Aryle, "and get more in-depth analysis on that data burst. Send it down to Data Analytics and Counterintelligence on the computing deck. In the meantime, repeat the signal back to them, same frequencies, to let them know we've received. Aide Theron, fetch the sealed contact protocols from my quarters' safe."
"Aye aye, sir," said Yeoman Aryle.
"On my way, sir," said Aide Theron, already sprinting off the bridge.
The Horizon broadcast the same signal back on as many frequencies as its limited communications package could muster, effectively able to say nothing but We receive, we receive you. Now the titan and its Commonwealth attendant faced each other in the silence, no longer tense but comforted by mutual intelligence. | {
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Amnesty for illegals can’t be defended
I am totally perplexed by Republicans who advocate amnesty for those who entered the U.S. illegally. We Republicans are supposed to be the party of law and order, a party that stands on clearly defined principles. Let’s cut through the pompous rhetoric: The issue of amnesty is only about cheap labor. All the other arguments are merely background noise.
With the national unemployment rate just under 8 percent, how can you argue that illegals are doing jobs that Americans refuse to do? With all the unemployed engineers (partly because of the shutdown of NASA’s Space Shuttle program), how do you justify increasing the number of H-1B visas?
The special visa allows companies to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations for up to six years. How can six years still be considered temporary?
How do you explain to a kid in Virginia that he or she has to pay out-of-state tuition to attend the University of Maryland while but a student in the country illegally is allowed to pay in-state tuition? Why should someone in the country illegally be able to obtain a benefit that even an American citizen can’t have? Aren’t these Republicans supporting discrimination against American citizens in their lust of the Hispanic voter?
Inner city deprived
Linking amnesty to winning the Hispanic vote is not a winning or sensible strategy. One has nothing to do with the other. There is no unanimity within the Hispanic community on the issue of amnesty, therefore why are some operatives linking this issue to the future of the Republican Party? As if this weren’t bad enough, can someone please explain to me the logic of any Black person supporting amnesty when the Black unemployment rate is in double digits?
We can have honest disagreements on the issue of amnesty; but please don’t give me the perverted reasoning supporters of amnesty have been using: “it’s an act of love,” “they are only looking for a better life,” “it’s not their fault.”
But these same proponents who want to justify ignoring the law based on some irrational, emotional tick refuse to apply the same empathy towards “Pookie” and “LaQueesha,” who represent inner city America.
When “Pookie” gets arrested for carrying a recreational amount of crack and is sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 20 years for a first time, non-violent offense, where are these Republican thespians advocating for an empathetic approach to law enforcement? When a Black woman in Florida fires a warning shot in the air to stop an abusive former husband from beating her and gets 20 years mandatory minimum, where are the Republican voices of empathy?
If we are going to claim to be a nation of laws, then we can’t allow emotion to cause the unequal distribution of justice to continue. If your basis for giving amnesty to illegals is “their intent”—they only want to make a better life; then how can you not apply the same logic to “Pookie” and “LaQueesha?”
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Too many children in the United States lack health insurance and organizations in Indiana are working hard to make sure local residents eligible for Medicaid coverage know it. According to The News Dispatch in Michigan City, Indiana, Covering Kids and Families (CKF) is the driving force behind this movement in Indiana. Lois Tomaszewski details this information in the article “Health organizations discuss children’s health insurance.” Health organizations, medical providers, and school representatives met this week to talk about ways they can get La Porte County children covered by Hoosier Healthwise. This is Indiana’s Medicaid program, which covers health insurance costs for eligible children and families.
CKF works all over the state of Indiana to offer health insurance information and other resources that will help families enroll in this health care assistance. They seek out potential applicants through scouring the demographic and try to help them through the application process and match them with health care providers. On a more intimate level, the La Porte County Coalition works more locally doing the same work as the state organization. Families with inadequate or no health insurance have few choices when trying to care for their children. Some recent examples in the article include a child with a peanut allergy who couldn’t afford a life saving epi-pen to carry with him and a child who couldn’t get an arm cast removed because his family’s health insurance was null and void after moving from another state to Indiana.
State health insurance programs cover things like epi-pens or inhalers for kids with asthma. The Michigan City Area Schools organization looks for potential applicants to the state’s Medicaid program through other assistance programs like those who receive free lunches. 97,000 kids in Indiana are without health insurance, while there are more than 800,000 getting free or reduced lunches. One of the most important steps in getting families to meet with these helpful organizations is to work with them on a meeting place and time that is convenient. Once families are aware of the Medicaid insurance available to them and how it can help their kids, they are grateful for the help. MDWise is the Indiana Medicaid program that is non-profit; there are two other programs in the state. This problem is unlikely to go away, so helping to get more children insured will remain of utmost importance.
If you or a family member have ever suffered from an eating disorder, you probably know how difficult it can be to get your health insurance company to pay for treatment. Kaiser Health News discusses this in an article by Shefail S. Kulkarni entitled “Patients Often Find Getting Coverage for Eating Disorders is Tough.” They talk about a 44-year old woman who has been fighting binge eating disorder for two decades. Since eating disorders like this, anorexia, and bulimia are mental health conditions; coverage is very individualized and hard to classify.
Unfortunately, many people don’t get consistent treatment because their health insurance either doesn’t cover eating disorder treatment or only covers partial or short-term treatment. As with most mental health disorders, treatment can take a long time, sometimes the rest of one’s life. It takes comprehensive care from a primary doctor, nutritionist, therapist, and psychiatrist to treat most eating disorders. Patients say that insurance companies are less than generous with their coverage in these areas compared to insurance coverage for physical ailments. The Eating Disorder Coalition fought hard to get eating disorders classified as “essential health benefits” that must be covered per the Affordable Care Act. They were not successful.
Fourteen million people are suffering from eating disorders right now. But because health insurance companies are suffering with soaring health care costs, eating disorder coverage is often one of the first things to get dropped from insurance. While insurers don’t think this coverage is essential, almost 100% of eating disorder specialists say that denial of coverage for people battling anorexia puts them in a life-threatening situation. Insurance companies argue that since there is not a clear cut treatment program for eating disorders, it is more difficult to provide blanket coverage. Parents of autistic children have run into the same kinds of problems when it comes to coverage of their children’s treatment. After fighting insurers, coverage for autism treatment is now mandated in 31 states.
Eating disorder treatment ranges from nutritionist appointments, group therapy, and antidepressants to hospitalization and admittance to mental health facilities. Once such facility’s worker said that insurance companies are much more likely to pay for treatment for mood disorders than they are for eating disorders. Insurers also are quicker to authorize longer stays when it comes to mood disorder treatment. Patients believe a lot of the problem is with the stigma attached to eating disorders. It seems to many outsiders that someone should just eat something or stop eating, but the mental health issue is far beyond allowing patients to do that. There is definitely spotty coverage when it comes to eating disorders, so check with your personal insurer to see what services you can receive if you need eating disorder treatment.
In the wake of the second Presidential debate last night, it’s as good a time as any to discuss the differences between President Obama and Mitt Romney when it comes to health care. Insurance News Net’s “Report: Romney Vs. Obama’s Health Plans” summarizes a recent report from the Commonwealth Fund. This report, “Healthcare in the 2012 Presidential Election: How the Obama and Romney Plans Stack Up,” says that Romney’s plans would leave 72 million people without health insurance by 2022. I’m not sure Governor Romney would agree with this number, but the Commonwealth Fund’s report took into account the proposals of each Presidential candidate to fix the problems in our healthcare system. They then estimated the amount of Americans who would be uninsured under both plans, divided up by age and income.
Economist Johnathan Gruber performed an analysis of the Affordable Care Act, along with an analysis of two Romney proposals in order to determine the number of uninsured Americans there would be under each plan. Romney’s plans include providing states Medicaid block grants and offering tax incentives for Americans who buy their own individual coverage of health insurance. When you look at Americans 19 and under, 6 million would be uninsured under Obama’s Affordable Care Act compared to 17.9 million under Romney’s plans. The Affordable Care Act would leave 3.3 million middle-class families uninsured, while 17.7 million would be uninsured under Romney’s plans. Families of at least 4 making less than $32,000 a year would be the hardest hit. Obama’s plans leave 17.2 million of them uninsured and Romney’s will leave 38.7 million without health insurance.
Under the Affordable Care Act, those purchasing health insurance through exchanges or individual companies like Aultcare are estimated to spend around 9.1% of their income on their health care costs. Under Governor Romney’s health plans that repeal the Affordable Care Act, individuals are estimated to spend either 14.1% or 18.1% (depending on potential tax breaks) on their health care costs. This economic report doesn’t take other changes that could be made by either President into account, so job growth and Medicare changes could effect these statistics differently. But it is interesting to see the comparison between the two potential outcomes taking only their health care plans into account.
According to Fox News’ “Is your boss watching your cholesterol?,” many companies are offering not only discounts for employees who stay healthy. In some cases, they are also penalizing those who have poor health habits like smoking. Some recent examples include receiving a $50 bonus if you go to a health screening, having your health insurance premiums lowered if you stop smoking, and receiving contributions to an HSA if you lower your weight or cholesterol. If you work at Wal-Mart, you could be charged $10 every pay period for being a smoker. Many may question the validity of these practices, but with health insurance costs through the roof, every little thing to keep employees healthier and deter unhealthy behavior adds up to savings on health care costs.
Last year, 54% of companies were offering some type of financial incentive for good health. By this year, that number has climbed to 61% of employers offering some type of a plan. One-fifth of companies are giving penalties for poor health decisions, a slight increase of 1% from last year. One of the most shocking increases is for the amount of employers using actual statistics to measure employee health and offer their discounts. Last year. only 4% were looking at statistics like BMI and blood pressure. Twenty-five percent of companies are now using these biometric measurements, also for cholesterol and weight numbers. While it’s in the best interest of everyone involved for employees to improve their health and lower health insurance costs for employers and insurance companies, some wonder if this is too much control over our lives. There could be legal issues based on who is running the program and how well they keep it confidential.
Smoking is the biggest health issue being tackled by employers with their employees. Thirty-five percent of companies offer discounts to non-smokers or free programs to help their employees stop smoking. While most companies work on the honor system, it is simple to test employees for nicotine if they so desire. Health insurance costs per employee average $11,664 each year in 2012. That is up from $10,982 last year, but is expected to increase an average of 7% next year as well. Wal-Mart contends that non-smokers’ health care costs are 25% less than those of smokers, so employers have a vested interest in employees’ health. By encouraging employees to be healthier, you also can reduce the rate of absences and even increase productivity. Companies are legally allowed to reward or penalize employees for up to a 20% difference in their health insurance premiums. | {
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CineGLAAD , a program of GLAAD that amplifies the voices of filmmakers who highlight the LGBT experience is heading to Salt Lake City for its 7th annual LGBT film festival. "Damn: These Heels: LGBT Film Festival" is presented by the Salt Lake City Film Center
and the Salt Lake Film Society, begins this Thursday, June 10th at 7:00pm. CineGLAAD is spreading the word of this important festival which features 16 unreleased and world premiere films and four shorts that highlight LGBT stories. The festival includes an opening night screening of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, followed by a gala celebration, as well as screenings of 8: The Mormon Proposition and Howl.
For those who are interested in attending the festival which celebrates LGBT stories, tickets can be purchased at the box office or at the film festival’s website . For LGBT film buffs, the GRIZZLY VIP pass is a must-buy, but quantities are limited! Bring a date, because with the purchase of one GRIZZLY VIP pass, buyers will get another pass free! Tickets can be purchased here or by calling 801.746.7000. The GRIZZLY VIP pass is $50 and the perks include an all-access to Opening Night Celebrations and the Gala following the screening of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, as well as guaranteed seating in the screenings of LGBT must-sees, 8: The Mormon Proposition and Howl.
Among the highlights of the festival are:
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (84 min.)
Screening: Thursday, June 10 at 7:00 pm
Directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg, A Piece of Work follows the life and career of comedienne Joan Rivers as she celebrates her 75th birthday. The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and was also screened at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
Among the featured screenings is 8: The Mormon Proposition.
8: The Mormon Proposition (80 min.)
Screening: Friday, June 11 at 7:30 pm
Directed by Reed Cowan, 8: The Mormon Proposition documents the battle for marriage equality waged between thousands of LGBT Americans and the Mormon Church’s group, The National Organization for Marriage. This group has been coordinating, financing, and leading the efforts to halt marriage equality for over 30 years. The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film festival and is scheduled to screen at the 2010 FRAMELINE Film Festival .
Howl (90 min)
Screening: Saturday, June 12 at 7:00 pm
Directed by famed LGBT filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Howl is centered around the obscenity trial of gay poet Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) that he faced after the publication of his poem, Howl. The film recounts the event by interweaving the story of Ginsberg’s tumultuous life, the reaction of society, and outlandish animation that illustrates the originality of the poem under fire. The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and will be screening at the 2010 FRAMELINE Film Festival and Outfest.
Purchase your tickets today to support “Damn These Heels” and enjoy the LGBT-inclusive lineup! To learn more about these films and others in this year’s lineup, go tohttp://www.damntheseheels.org/
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March 11, 2010
Greetings, they varmints. In case you were beginning to think that NYC women couldn’t throw down like our comrades in Cali, here are some friends’ response to the recent shit-storm that’s erupted around the events of March 4th. They call out the way that the language of race and gender has been used to mask reactionary politics and erase active participants from militant struggle, while making clear that there is no excuse for the use of misogynistic language by friend or by foe.
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Pushed by the Violence of Our Desires: A Statement Regarding March 4
Over the past few days, dozens of communiqués, letters, and statements have been circulating regarding issues of race, gender, and disrespect on M4. We have no intentions of addressing or disputing particular accusations or narratives regarding M4 in this statement; these things will inevitably be argued about elsewhere. Here, we attempt to discuss the language and politics that have been used in framing these issues.
As queer women of color, we feel as if we are trapped in the middle of all of this talk about identities. We have had, for some time, our own frustrations with and critiques of a number of white men with whom we have worked. At the same time, we are uncomfortable with the way in which the identities of “people of color” and “women” are being used to critique and condemn the events of M4, because we – as queer women of color – don’t agree with how these critiques and condemnations are being framed. In fact, we’re not just uncomfortable; we’re actually really angry about the way a small group of people, purporting to speak for the entire population of CUNY, has hijacked this rhetoric of talking about privilege and identity and deployed it in a fashion entirely too simplistic, generalized, and essentialist. Issues of privilege and identity are incredibly important to us and we wholeheartedly agree that they should be talked about. But as it stands now, identities like “person of color” and “woman” are being invoked in order to mask reactionary politics, and furthermore, are being employed in ways that contribute to the erasure of our identities as active participants in militant struggle.
Our political position is not one that comes from a platform. It is not even really a position so much as complete contempt for the system that forces us into the positions of “queer” “women” “of color” and everything that these socio-structural locations imply. White supremacy and patriarchy do not simply function by awarding some (white males) with privilege while denying it to others (women of color). Rather, the same mechanisms that create and maintain the identities of “women,” “queer,” and “people of color” also inflict their damage upon straight white men. And furthermore, we are all fucked over by capital and the commodity form indiscriminately. Liberal feminisms and anti-racisms taught us that we just want what rich white men have – but we have since come to realize that we do not want that either. Our socio-structural positions mean we are even more fucked over under capitalism than any rich straight white dude, and because of this, our need to destroy this world is infinitely more urgent.
One of the major lines of discourse over the past few days has been about how a group of “outside agitators” attempted to get wild without the consent of the Hunter student body. We do not need the “consent of the people” – and when you sound like the fucking Constitution, it’s difficult to believe you really understand the material conditions of being a queer woman of color under capitalism. We cannot sit on our hands until “the masses” decide to act.
Of course, increasing capacity is crucial to building a critical mass of individuals who have the ability to shut down the system: a clandestine vanguard is not the answer. In a situation like M4, people are becoming aware of their collective anger and their collective desire to do something more than stand around and chant. This anger can be facilitated by working to stoke the fire or, alternatively, can be slowed when radicals prematurely throw logs onto the flames before people are in the moment. This is not to suggest that folks are not already angry or that they need to talk about their feelings to come to the realization that they’re against the system; rather, it’s to point out that there are better and worse ways to increase our revolutionary capacity. This is a conversation about tactics, one with important ramifications for “oppressed identities” most affected by capitalism and ineffective action against it – but it has been framed as though the privileged want action, while the oppressed want peace. We oppose this dichotomy wholesale: we assert that it is in fact the most privileged who have the luxury not to contemplate these issues in terms of effectiveness and totality.
The Hunter walk-out was called in response to a national statement from California demanding a general strike. The group who organized at Hunter in the weeks leading up to M4 included many of those denounced as “outside agitators” – individuals who were from the beginning interested in a day of direct action. A vote for having an indoor demo was passed by a coalition of (mostly) Hunter students. There was a framework in place for militant action to occur – if anyone hijacked anything, it was the people who colluded with campus security, the Hunter administration, and the police (these are all synonymous) by herding folks outside. This effectively crushed the radical potential of the indoor demo, and reduced the action to a PR event for the Left.
Some have claimed that the speakers at the rally were composed of women and people of color, and that interrupting them was misogynist and racist. We disagree with this employment of critiques of privilege. We are not against “straight white boys”; rather, we are against the processes that create and maintain these identities of “women of color” and “straight white boys.” Whether or not the speaker at a rally is a woman or a person of color or queer is irrelevant in this moment: when she is speaking AT the crowd, when she is colluding with the State to crush militant potential, when she is maintaining the systems that oppress us, she is a politician. She is our enemy. To assume that a woman of color has our interests at heart, simply because she is a woman of color, is essentialist: fuck Condoleezza Rice.
We realize that some are put at risk by introducing arrestability to situations. We cannot dispute this. Some of us have been relegated to solitary confinement when arrested with a group of white people for no other reason than being brown, we have been sexually harassed in jail, we get slapped with more charges than our white friends. We are fully cognizant of the fact that some people are exponentially more susceptible to arrest, brutality, and sexual assault for no reason other than their skin color and/or gender. That said, these are also vulnerabilities we face walking down the street. Being arrested in a political situation means we are more likely to be protected to a certain extent from these possibilities. Our politics demand solidarity: we do jail support to keep tabs on those in custody, we know how to sweet-talk the bailiff to speed up the process, and we know how to get hooked up with lawyers – all of which mitigate the dangers that follow being arrested. Blaming the escalation of tactics for our vulnerability completely denies the fact that it is the cops who are doing the arresting, the state that presses charges, and white supremacy that puts us more at risk for arrest.
Finally, it bears mention that the reactionary use of politics based on race and gender obscures much more important conversations about racism and misogyny. It is crucial that we address the sexism of a dude using the word “cunt” as an insult, and more importantly, of furthering shame and stigma around STIs – which is problematic in and of itself, but also hampers the disclosure of STI status that is necessary for informed consent. More generally, “playing the race/gender card” to talk about strategic and political disagreements – for example, using the term “anarcho-imperialist” to create a narrative about “white downtown anarchists” rolling into the “POC” CUNY campus uninvited with intentions to colonize– makes it even more difficult to call out legitimate instances of racism and misogyny.
Perhaps some tactical missteps were made in the course of the events on M4. This is another conversation, one that should – and will – be had. Nevertheless, we are of the opinion that something is always better than nothing: everyone is already complacent, already alienated. California said March Fo(u)rth – not stand around.
March 9, 2010
In California, they face the same shit. Critiques of the so-called “white anarchist male outside agitator” emerge and simultaneously erase all the power and agency of the inside agitators, of all the nonwhite nonmale nonanarchists who know how to fight and don’t play by the activist rulebook. In solidarity with our comrades in Cali, we post the following three letters below, letters which take such critiques to task. Enjoy!
March 7, 2010
Following Thursday, March 4th’s Berkeley to Oakland march and rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza for the statewide strike and day of action against budget cuts, layoffs and furloughs to public education, a second march commenced. 200-250 students, educators, and activists marched from the close of the rally to the exterior of Mark Yudof’s office for a street dance party. The group then made their way toward the I-880 freeway, where 150-200 elected to enter on foot to shut down traffic.
All traffic slowed to a stop, and no individuals were in in any danger of being struck by automobiles. The riot police pursued them as they hopped over barriers in an attempt to make their way to the Jackson street off-ramp. As police closed in, most of the group sat down in anticipation of being arrested.
The police were violent with many of the protesters, using excessive force with their riot batons. None of the arrested were reported to be carrying weapons of any kind, and none were attempting to attack any of the officers. The police shut down the freeway in both directions, handcuffed and escorted the marchers to the Jackson street offramp where police busses slowly arrived to take the prisoners to North County and Sana Rita Jail facilities.
155 individuals were reported to have been arrested, in addition to some minors who were released into the custody of their parents. Francois Zimany was taken to the hospital after either falling, jumping, or being pushed by police off of the freeway, and is now at home with his family. The group was held over night, and released periodically throughout the day on Friday.
You can learn more by visiting indybay.org. All photos were taken by BLR DJ Paisley Cuttlefish who was among those arrested. She sustained a bad fracture to her elbow after being hit with a police baton.
February 20, 2010
The parting words of After the Fall– at once both a summation and a call– present the occupations in the past 6 months as a “vulgar and beautiful” destabilizing force within a larger arena of forces, at times nomadic and imperceptible, at other times spectacularly, with declarations and attitude.
Still, the finale of welfare state social services, the numbing terror of disaster, displacement, the colonial politics, the social death of civic life, the logic of representation, the endless reproduction of modern misery, the absent future, the crises of capital, the Afghan offensive, the government in a box– none of this deserves the elegance of any of the words we printed in this publication. They deserve a swift, merciless street fight. | {
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Manpower realities: Beyond the numbers
The recently released data on our population statistics showed that our foreign workforce numbers continue to grow, and some Singaporeans have expressed concern. This is understandable.
On the other hand, companies also remain concerned that the Government is over tightening our foreign manpower policies. Earlier this month in Parliament, we discussed the Work Permit (WP) and S-Pass stock. I explained that while the rate of rejections had increased, foreign-labour numbers were actually still rising, albeit at a slower rate.
I said that it could be seen as a "happy problem" because businesses were doing well enough to demand for more labour, in spite of the tightening.
Two of our Nominated Members of Parliament, both of whom are businessmen, came to speak to me at tea break. Like most of the businessmen we have been speaking to, they were surprised that the stock of S Passes and WP was still increasing. Many of them have been appealing for more foreign workers and feel that we are unreasonably making it difficult for businesses, even though the macro numbers and trends show otherwise.
Our tightening has certainly had an impact and is being felt by companies, but businesses are still expanding or being set up. This demand for foreign manpower is very considerable and many businesses remain prepared to pay the higher costs involved.
GROWTH HAS SLOWED
Let us take a closer look at the present numbers, and see the trend over the last few years. Our WP stock (excluding foreign domestic workers) grew by 20,600 in the first half of this year. Much of the inflow in the past few months was due to foreign construction workers.
The Housing and Development Board, for example, will need about 30,000 construction workers to meet this year's building programme. The cumulative requirement of construction workers could rise to 50,000 within the next few years.
Our Employment Pass (EP) stock contracted marginally (-700), the first half-yearly reduction since 2009 when the recession hit us. I think our adjustments are beginning to be felt at the Professional-Managerial-Executive (PME) level. However, S Passes registered strong growth of 14,200 in the first half of this year. Because of the tightened EP requirements from January, it is likely that companies are using S Passes to bring in the more junior level PMEs. We are taking a close look at this group.
Overall, the growth in foreign manpower (excluding foreign domestic workers) in the first half of this year has slowed to 34,100, which is lower than that of 36,800 in the first half of last year. The slowdown in growth of foreign manpower in sectors other than construction is more obvious: 18,600 in the first half of this year - about 40 per cent lower than the 31,200 in the first half of last year.
We are on the right track in our efforts to reduce dependency on our foreign labour but this will take time.
How much time exactly will depend on many factors, particularly the extent of our tightening measures and how fast companies restructure and improve productivity. And as you can imagine, this will definitely not be overnight.
THE REALITIES
Singapore cannot grow our foreign workforce without limits, given our land, infrastructure and social constraints. But to shrink our foreign workforce altogether will also be quite dire as many of our companies may close, relocate and with that a sharp rise in retrenchments and possibly higher unemployment amongst Singaporeans.
We must therefore rein in the pace of foreign workforce growth, but at a pace that businesses can adjust.
Our productivity effort must continue aggressively. We have often said this, and for good measure. Our rate of job creation outstripped gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the last three quarters (from the fourth quarter of last year to the second quarter of this year), resulting in negative productivity growth over the same period. Without good consistent productivity growth, the competitiveness of our companies, and hence wages will be affected.
Productivity growth must be a key driver for sustainable wage growth. One reason for negative productivity is the availability of low-cost foreign labour - which would explain why the number of foreign workers continues to grow rapidly. Low labour costs make it less urgent for companies to invest in technology and innovation.
This is simply not sustainable. I know that we cannot mechanise everything; some jobs do require the human touch. But I am not aware of any country with high productivity levels which has easy access to low-cost labour.
BEYOND THE NUMBERS
Focusing on numbers tend to gloss over more fundamental concerns. What kind of society do we want? And what would be the look and feel of the economy be to support that? We all agree that there is more to life than GDP growth. It must be so.
However, there are still practical needs to meet. Let me share my top-line objectives and concerns. Firstly, we need to generate enough jobs for Singaporeans - not just the number of jobs, but also quality of jobs, in line with increasing education and expectations. So how do we keep Singapore dynamic enough that we offer a range of possibilities for our people?
Secondly, we need to generate sufficient income to fund the various Government expenditures for Singaporeans. We need to look at what levels of economic growth and what type of growth will help meet these objectives.
As our resident labour force is slowing, we will have to rely more on productivity growth (rather than labour force growth) to fund higher Government expenditures. What percentage of labour and productivity growth do we need to factor in? This underscores why productivity is so important. The higher our productivity, the greater space it affords us to depend less on additional labour inputs.
We are in the process of relooking the structure of our economy and the quality of growth. For example, manufacturing contributes more than 20 per cent of Singapore's GDP, and has led the economy out of recent downturns. It also provides good-skilled jobs for Singaporeans.
As Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong rightly pointed out over the weekend, this is one sector where businesses can do more to beef up the industry, particularly on the productivity front. So for this sector and the economy as a whole, how can we generate sufficient good jobs to meet the job needs of locals, while keeping Singapore vibrant and avoiding excessive job creation which would have to be filled by foreigners, which in turn will add stresses to our infrastructure and social fabric? This is tricky because the economy is not simply shaped by dials which we can set.
On the Government's part, the National Productivity and Continuing Education Council has developed sector-specific productivity improvement strategies to help 16 priority sectors embark on productivity improvements and provide productivity-related schemes and funding. We have also just launched a new initiative to boost productivity: The Job Flexibility for Productivity (JFP) initiative for the hotel sector.
Local employees will get more opportunities to work across different functions, gain skills and enjoy higher wages. Foreign work-permit holders will be allowed to perform different job functions. Currently, they can only perform the specific job on their work-permit card. With the JFP, hotels can now do more with their current workforce, instead of having to hire additional foreign workers. The industry can then share the productivity gains with workers as well.
Such measures will be useful, but we cannot stop there. I think the balance of driving forces favours recalibration towards even more moderate foreign workforce inflow, to encourage companies to pursue higher productivity business models and processes and away from labour-intensive growth. We will monitor closely over the next few months and take further measures down the road, if needed.
LOOKING AFTER Singapore and Singaporeans
It is important to again emphasise that our priority is to look after the interests of Singaporeans and Singapore, not just for the present but on a sustained basis for our future.
Creating good job opportunities for Singaporeans does not come automatically because companies will come and go based on opportunities available globally. We need to arm local workers with the right skills so that they can enjoy inclusive growth in Singapore with rising real wages and a better quality of life.
At the same time, I am fully aware of the concerns of too large a foreign workforce. We will increase our infrastructural support to ease the congestion, even as we continue to find the right balance for the labour market. If needed, we will tighten foreign workforce controls further. Companies must do their part and transform.
Let us think hard and discuss this constructively with fellow Singaporeans, employers and workers alike - on how we can navigate this path where we can best provide for our people and society, while calibrating our foreign manpower framework in a complementary manner.
It is not just about numbers, it is about finding that delicate balance that will deliver sustainable wage growth for Singaporeans, growth prospects for businesses, and a societal composition that we can accept.
Tan Chuan-Jin is Singapore's Acting Minister for Manpower. This first appeared as a blog post at momsingapore.blogspot.sg yesterday.
The number of WP holders grew by 20,600 in the first half due to the rising number of construction workers. BLOOMBERG
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Seven year old, Tan Woon Yong at the touchpool at the Tropical Marine Science Institute St John's Island marine lab first ever open-house where children and adults alike can get a feel of the marine wildlife that are found in Singapore waters. -- ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
A marine research station at St John's Island is Singapore's version of Woods Hole, the famed oceanographic institute. The Tropical Marine Science Institute celebrates its 10th year this year and has done work on land reclamation, anti-fouling paints, and even dolphins in Singapore waters.
All container port activities to operate at Tuas in long term
Published on Oct 01, 2012
Containers at PSA. Singapore will be consolidating all its container port activities at Tuas over the long term. The first berths will start operating in 10 years' time at the end of the completion of the first phase, Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew said on Monday. -- ST PHOTO: NURIA LING
By Alvin Foo
Singapore will be consolidating all its container port activities at Tuas over the long term. The first berths will start operating in 10 years' time at the end of the completion of the first phase, Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew said on Monday.
This will free up prime land occupied by the terminals in the city area for redevelopment and result in more efficient port operations, he added.
Mr Lui's announcement came at the launch ceremony in which PSA Singapore Terminals said it is investing $3.5 billion to develop Phases 3 and 4 of its Pasir Panjang Terminal.
This will be spent on leading infrastructure and the latest port technology, such as an automated container yard and unmanned cranes powered by electricity.
Top guns at Singapore International Photography Festival
Published on Oct 01, 2012
British photographer Stuart Franklin, 56, is best known for his shots of a Chinese protester facing down tanks in Beijing in 1989. -- PHOTO: MAGNUM PHOTOS
By Akshita Nanda
Singapore plays host to internationally celebrated photographers this month, including Stuart Franklin, the British photographer who captured a Chinese protester facing down tanks during the 1989 crackdown in Beijing and Beijing-based Wang Qingsong, who provokes the authorities with 40m-long photos.
These top lensmen will showcase their recent work and give workshops during the 3rd Singapore International Photography Festival from Friday to Nov 17.
Festival highlights include an Open Call Showcase of 414 photos from 50 shutterbugs around the world and a mobile darkroom where enthusiasts can get their hands dirty printing film.
Franklin, who shot the celebrated 1989 picture of a man defying a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square, is flying in from Oct 9 to 13, as part of the Magnum Mentorship Singapore, a new partnership between SIPF and elite collective Magnum Photos.
Next month is shaping up to be Design October, with four major events on the architecture and design scene here taking place in close succession.
The biggie is the World Architecture Festival, considered the “Oscars” of the architecture world, which kicks off on Wednesday. It is a coup for Singapore to land the role of host.
This is followed by the one-day Saturday in Design, then 100% Design Singapore and Archifest. The first three shows are mostly for industry types such as architects, designers and product buyers, while the annual, ever-popular Archifest - a local month-long festival which looks at architecture here - has several events for the public.
The World Architecture Festival, which hands out awards in categories including housing, shopping malls and transport, is in its fifth year. This is the first time it has been held outside its regular stomping ground of Barcelona, Spain.
Elderly issues must be considered in National Conversation: Heng Chee How
by Saifulbahri Ismail
Updated 06:02 PM Oct 01, 2012
SINGAPORE - Senior Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Heng Chee How said the National Conversation that the country is embarking on is very relevant to the elderly.
The National Conversation is an effort by the Government to engage Singaporeans to shape the country's future for the next 20 years.
Mr Heng who is part of the Ministerial Committee on Ageing, is concerned that elderly issues may be forgotten as citizens and residents think about the future.
He made these points during an event at the Council for Third Age where a new logo was launched to represent infinite possibilities for seniors.
Mr Heng described the period when one grows old as an 'age of possibilities', not just something to look back and be thankful for.
They also occupy a central piece of the Government's attention.
Turning to the issue of plans for more nursing homes being built in the heartlands, Mr Heng said it is in society's self-interest to support this effort.
He believes that majority of residents are supportive, and urge them to speak up more to say that the building of nursing homes are not for selfish aims.
Mr Heng said: "If you look at our senior population, it is a growing segment of the population. So if something is a growing segment of the population, then clearly the views and aspirations and the building of the consensus must involve this group and it's a very important source of inputs and consensus building."
Average age of working adults pursuing part-time degrees at UniSIM falls
by Monica Kotwani
Updated 09:04 PM Oct 01, 2012
SINGAPORE - Working adults opting to undertake SIM University's (UniSIM) part time degrees are getting younger, according to the university.
The average age of UniSIM's students has gone down from 31 in 2007, to 28 last year.
About 70 per cent of its total applications are from those between the ages of 21 and 30.
UniSIM attributed this to the availability of more Government fee subsidies, and a higher number of polytechnic students pursuing degrees straight after graduating.
President of UniSIM Professor Cheong Hee Kiat explained: "Previously they had to work longer and save up money before they can contemplate coming back to university. But now with fee subsidies, it's become much more affordable, and they can come in much more early.
"As we get students who are a bit younger, those who are 21, 22 and so on, we might have to get them a bit more acclimatised to work conditions, but by and large, most of them come in at about 26 to 28, and I think there's enough there."
Twenty-seven-year-old Khairul Rusydi Khamaruddin is among the 1,800, who will be graduating with a UniSIM degree over the next three days.
He worked for a year with the Ministry of Education as a corporate support officer, teaching secondary school students basic aircraft knowledge-gleaned from his diploma in aeronautical engineering.
In 2008, he decided to further his studies and enrolled in UniSIM's Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Systems.
Khairul now works at a local company that specialises in unmanned aerial vehicles.
"If I had worked for four or five years before getting my degree, I would probably be either a technician or an engineer on an aircraft, and my career progression path will just be there. There is not much of an other path that I can choose.
"Whereas with a degree, I actually have other options in areas like civilian unmanned aerial vehicles. I gained a lot of knowledge through UniSIM during this period of my studies," he said.
UniSIM is slated to become Singapore's sixth publicly funded university, and will offer both part-time and full-time degree programmes.
New S$15-million grant for research into communicable diseases
04:45 AM Oct 02, 2012
SINGAPORE - The Government is pumping S$15 million into a research grant on communicable diseases over the next five years, to encourage researchers to study topics related to such diseases with major public health impact for Singapore.
The grant, called the Communicable Diseases-Public Health Research Grant (CD-PHRG), was announced by Minister of State (Health) Amy Khor at the opening of the first Singapore International Public Health Conference yesterday.
Dr Khor said the new grant will help fund research to support public health preparedness and response to major disease outbreaks or crises. It will focus on evidence-based public health risk assessment, intervention and policy formulation for communicable disease control.
The Ministry of Health will also work with the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore to build and develop research capability to support Singapore's public health policymaking. This includes strengthening the country's infectious diseases capability for outbreak prevention and management, and mitigating the impact of chronic non-communicable diseases on the economy and society.
There are plans to also develop the school as a key hub for training public health leaders in Asia.
Since the school was launched in October last year, it has embarked on public health research in collaboration with well-known international and local medical professionals, clinicians and academic researchers. CHANNEL NEWSASIA
New SMRT chief takes train on first day of work
SINGAPORE - Riding the train with commuters on his first day of work, SMRT's new President and Chief Executive Desmond Kuek yesterday outlined his key priorities for the company.
"What is certain is that we are first and foremost a public transport operator. This is the core business that we are responsible for and must excel in," said Mr Kuek, 49, who took over from Ms Saw Phaik Hwa, who resigned in the wake of the two major train disruptions last December.
In a media statement yesterday, Mr Kuek said his "emphasis" going forward is to "strengthen our operations, engineering and maintenance capabilities; build up our capacity for organisational growth; and instil a strong customer service and safety culture in all our people".
Acknowledging that SMRT faces challenges such as an ageing rail infrastructure, increasing ridership and staff morale that has been hurt by the past year's difficulties, Mr Kuek, a former Chief of Defence Force, said the company will work closely with stakeholders, including the Land Transport Authority and commuters, to ensure a "reliable, efficient and safe transport system".
Mr Desmond Kuek, the new President and CEO of SMRT, said the company will work closely with stakeholders to ensure a reliable, efficient and safe transport system. PHOTO COURTESY SMRT
UniSIM to set up a dedicated office for work-study programme
Published on Oct 02, 2012
Professor Cheong Hee Kiat, President of SIM University (UniSIM). He said SIM University which will roll out its full-time degree courses over the next few years and will set up a dedicated internship office that will prepare students for work attachments and source opportunities for them. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
By Sandra Davie
SIM University which will roll out its full-time degree courses over the next few years, will set up a dedicated internship office that will prepare students for work attachments and source opportunities for them.
But the office will not simply match the students with work attachment opportunities.
"The students will have to compete for them, the way they compete for jobs in the real world. We will put up the list of positions available and they will have to apply for them and go for interviews," said UniSIM president Cheong Hee Kiat on Tuesday when he gave out more details of its work-study programme that will be part of the degree courses it will run.
The government had announced in August that UniSIM along with the Singapore Institute of Technology will expand its programmes and offer more university places, enabling one in four Singaporeans of an age group to head for university.
MP Grace Fu chats with elderly in 1st dialect community dialogue
Published on Oct 03, 2012
Ms Fu (in green blouse) chatting with some of the Yuhua residents who attended the community dialogue conducted in Hokkien at the Jurong East Street 24 market and food centre on Tuesday. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
By Toh Yong Chuan
Some 150 elderly aunties and uncles had coffee at the Yuhua hawker centre with their Member of Parliament Grace Fu on Tuesday afternoon.
It was the first community dialogue linked to the Singapore Conversation to be conducted mostly in the Hokkien dialect. It involved residents of Yuhua ward, an ageing Housing Board estate in Jurong East of mostly three- and four-room flats.
They sat with their friends in small groups at the hawker centre and poured out their worries to Ms Fu, who is also a Minister in the Prime Minister's Office. She went from table to table to, as she put it in Mandarin, "eavesdrop".
Among the participants was housewife Lim Ang Muay, 76. Madam Lim said in Teochew: "I am not a talkative person and I won't attend official dialogues, but I don't mind having others listening in to my chats with friends, if it helps the Government better understand us."
More mixed unions, remarriages based on latest marriage data
Mr Carlito Evangelista Cinco and wife Gerlen registered their marriage in Singapore in 2010 and later held their wedding celebrations in the Philippines. -- PHOTO: CARLITO EVANGELISTA CINCO
By Theresa Tan
Love conquers all, even formidable obstacles such as racial differences and previous failed unions. This picture emerges from Singapore's latest marriage data, released in July.
The trends suggest that Singaporeans are becoming more liberal in their choice of mates, with more marrying outside their ethnic groups or tying the knot with divorcees.
Academics and counsellors expect some of these trends to continue, promising more diverse families.
Take, for example, mixed marriages with partners of different ethnic groups. Last year, one in five marriages (19.8 per cent) was an inter-ethnic union, up from one in eight (12.6 per cent) in 2001. There were 5,388 such marriages last year, almost double the 2,814 in 2001.
This sharp rise was largely driven by Singaporeans marrying foreigners rather than Singaporeans of a different race - and these numbers are likely to keep rising with globalisation.
And if parents object? Well, most now have less say in whom their children marry.
Mr Leng Chin Fai, director of Fei Yue Community Services, said: "Parents may discourage their children from finding a partner of another race, but they seldom object to their child's choice. Parents do respect their children's wishes now, unlike in the past."
Another phenomenon likely to stay is the growing number of re-marriages.
One in four marriages (25.5 per cent) last year involved at least one partner remarrying. This is up from one in five marriages (19.7 per cent) a decade ago. There were 6,943 such marriages last year, an almost 60 per cent jump from the 4,385 in 2001.
Counsellors say the stigma of divorce has also weakened considerably, and with many divorcees still only in their 30s and 40s, more are taking the plunge again.
The statistics also show that the trend of Singaporeans delaying marriage has persisted.
Last year, the median age for first marriages was 30.1 years for grooms and 28 for brides. This is more than a year older than the 28.8 for men and 26.2 for women in 2001.
Accountant Chloe Hong, 34, is representative of this trend. After "five or six" failed relationships, she wondered if she would go through life alone. But she did not want to marry for the sake of it.
About three years ago, she met the man she would marry, a 36-year-old auditor, through a dating website. The pair wed in July after a two-year courtship.
"I feel very comfortable with him as he accepts me for who I am and he has a very good temper," she said.
"When he proposed, I felt he was someone I could rely on and live with for the rest of my life."
Last year set a record for marriages, with 27,258 unions, the largest number registered since independence in 1965, a Sunday Times check found.
But hold the champagne. The marriage boom has been fuelled largely by nuptials between foreigners, who are also the reason Singapore's population has shot past 5million over the past decade, academics say.
Last year, there were 1,914 marriages where both bride and groom were not Singapore citizens or permanent residents. That was more than double the 790 a decade ago.
Meanwhile, the general marriage rate for Singaporeans and permanent residents has dipped in the past decade, as more residents are remaining single.
For every 1,000 unmarried male residents aged between 15 and 44, there were 43.7 men who married last year, down from 47 in 2001. And for every 1,000 unmarried female residents in the same age group, 41.4 women married last year, down from 46.3 in 2001.
Among foreigners who wed here were Mr Carlito Evangelista Cinco, 29, and his wife Gerlen, 27, from the Philippines. They met while they were working in a Manila hotel.
He came here in search of better career opportunities five years ago. She joined him after finding a job as a management supervisor in a restaurant.
Mr Cinco, a hotel assistant manager, said: "My pay here is two or three times what I can earn in the Philippines."
The employment pass holders married in 2010 and hope to apply for permanent residency.
A small number of foreigners who hold their weddings here do not even live or work here. They choose Singapore for convenience, said marriage solemnisers.
One was an Indian national whose Indian bride lived in Australia. Her parents were unable to get visas to Australia, so the wedding was held here.
Academics say that with more couples marrying at a later age, they are likely to have fewer or no children - dismal news for a baby-starved Singapore.
Other aspects of the marriage picture indicate that more families will deal with issues of step-children, step-parents and "blended" families where couples with children from previous marriages go on to have children of their own. Family ties will get more complicated.
As Institute of Policy Studies demographer Yap Mui Teng described it: "The family of the future is evolving and it's going to be more diverse."
A generation of the post-boom years
by Tay Ek Kiat
04:45 AM Oct 03, 2012
Two weeks ago, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam shared research findings suggesting that young adults working here will be able to retire comfortably.
As a young adult, I found this interesting and significant, and it called to mind a recent article with a provocative title: "Generation Screwed", by American sociologist Dr Joel Kotkin, which appeared in the July 23-30 issue of Newsweek.
Dr Kotkin was referring to the "millenials" - those aged 18-35 - in the United States, and employed a suite of social indicators to show that they face increasing unemployment and indebtedness in spite of higher education; deterioration of family life; downward social mobility; and even perhaps the emergence of an underclass among young-age households.
His sombre message was that American millenials might have to lower their expectations and accept "the new normal" of muted growth, high unemployment and a future less bright than the boomers before them.
What about here in Singapore? How do our youths fare in comparison?
IN A BETTER POSITION, FOR NOW
In contrast to the US, Singapore does not have a large national debt to repay. The Government's careful fiscal management has made that possible. Savings rates are high here in comparison to the US and Europe, even if some of it is forced savings in the form of the Central Provident Fund.
At the individual level, however, debt among youths has been rising due to consumption habits and, some say, school loans. This is a trend to watch - we are on secure footing at the national level but must manage the situation at the level of the individual.
Job data released by the Ministry of Manpower indicates that the unemployment rate for youths aged 15-29 stands at approximately half the global average and long-term unemployment for youths is similarly low.
At a time when many other developed countries are facing high youth unemployment, this statistic has attracted significant attention; the BBC even ran a feature in December 2011 using Singapore as a positive case study.
Higher education here still correlates with increased salaries; job prospects for youths will continue to be bright, assuming that growth remains healthy in the context of a mature economy.
In terms of families, too, Singapore compares favourably with the US. Dr Kotkin used illegitimate births and lower marriage rates as indicators of the deterioration of family life. Here, divorce rates are rising and marriage rates falling, but this may not yet be a definitive sign that the family unit is crumbling.
In fact, the National Family Council's 2011 State of the Family Report found that over nine in 10 Singaporeans still regarded family as the most important aspect of their lives.
My sense is that many young Singaporeans feel that their families are stable, and have a strong desire to form their own and have children. They are simply arguing for more help to do so.
FUTURE PRESSURES AND BURDENS
Singaporean youths may be doing well now, but what about the future?
It is worth noting that Mr Tharman's comments on a comfortable retirement were predicated on, in his words, "individual responsibility and good jobs". In this context, there is a great deal of pressure on youths to be gainfully employed and contribute to the economy when they graduate. There is no room for slack.
With the increasingly competitive nature of the global economy and rising aspirations, this pressure is unlikely to abate. A discussion is needed on how we can find jobs and build businesses good enough to meet our higher aspirations.
Is it possible to emulate the baby boomers' achievements when we no longer possess the demographic bonus and excess productive capacity that was in abundance in the 1970s and 1980s?
As evidence of this diminished spare productive capacity, costs of living have risen. An ageing population also suggests that the younger generation will have to bear a greater financial burden both within their families and nationally, in the years to come.
Asset prices have been on a steady climb since the early 1990s, meaning that settling down has become more expensive for young couples. What fat will young people have to live off and support their parents on, 20 years from now? Will this deter them from having children?
DEGREE INFLATION?
The issue of jobs and aspirations is also related to education. Increasing rates of higher education attainment adds to the pressure to create good jobs.
Warning signs have appeared in the US and other East Asian countries that higher education does not always lead to better pay or job prospects - many graduates have reported difficulty in finding jobs after completing their education. Education will inflate aspirations without actually raising our standard of living, if degree inflation takes place here.
With the Prime Minister's announcement of the opening of the fifth and sixth local universities, having more people gain more knowledge can only be a good thing for our economy and society in the long run. However, it also means that the courses made available, as well as students' selection of courses, will have to be strategic so that each offers unique and relevant skills and knowledge for the upcoming decades.
ADJUSTING EXPECTATIONS
The current situation of youths in Singapore is by no means dire or desperate, especially in comparison with the US. Still, there is concern about the future.
Dr Kotkin's "new normal" has partial resonance here: Singapore's millenials are unlikely to enjoy the same rates of economic growth that our parents did, and settling down and starting a family may become more difficult over the years if costs and housing prices continue to rise.
Like our American counterparts, we need to remember that the boom years are over and adjust our expectations appropriately.
At the same time, it is important to have in place a system of indicators tracking unemployment and wage levels among youth here, as well as barometers of general sense of well-being that can capture the more intangible anxieties which lurk beneath the surface of hard data.
Tay Ek Kiat graduated from the Singapore Management University this year and is currently an intern at the Institute of Policy Studies.
Healthcare, cost of living top concerns of elderly
SINGAPORE - Cost of living and healthcare were the top two issues on the minds of elderly Singaporeans at a dialogue in Yuhua this afternoon.
Over a hundred senior citizens came together to discuss the future of Singapore in dialect.
Participants were asked to vote on the issues on the top of their minds and the highest number of votes went to cost of living and healthcare.
"Medicine (and) things are getting more expensive. We'll just have to eat less expensive items. We don't want to trouble others," a participant lamented in Hokkien.
There were also requests for more elder-friendly infrastructure in town.
Some asked for more exercise equipment, and for pedestrian traffic lights to stay green longer to accommodate seniors who walk at a slower pace.
The community event was jointly organised by Yuhua Member of Parliament Grace Fu and the Our Singapore Conversation committee, which is driving a national discussion on the future of Singapore.
Ms Fu said, "Some of the local issues, we will definitely follow up because that's something within our control. But for some of the issues, like medical fees, we'll have to submit it through the Our Singapore Conversation secretariat."
The event started with a skit in the middle of a hawker centre.
Actors played out the issues on the agenda: cost of living, healthcare, social connectedness, education and new immigrants.
The participants, mainly residents from the neighbourhood, were broken up into small groups for discussion. At the coffeeshop dialogue, a variety of languages could be heard - Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, some English and Mandarin.
"This is an important group that's probably not so comfortable (with conversing in) our official language(s) Mandarin or English," said Ms Fu.
"And allowing them to use the language they're most comfortable with, and also doing it slightly differently in a skit, allows them to identify, and perhaps tell us if they agree with the views being expressed. It's giving us a convenient way of collecting their feedback."
"Dialects are what the elderly can hear and understand. Even Mandarin, some seniors can't understand it," a participant commented in Mandarin.
Organisers are not ruling out more dialogues in dialect in future, but there are no plans for now.
A step closer to SEA Games dream
by Deborah Ong
04:45 AM Oct 04, 2012
SINGAPORE - National University of Singapore undergraduate Soh Rui Yong got his first taste of winning at an international level when he won a gold medal in the 2,000m steeplechase at the 2009 ASEAN Schools Games.
"As I stood on the podium and heard the national anthem play, I thought it would be great if I could repeat this on a more advanced level," said the 21-year-old.
Little did he expect then that, in just three years, he would represent Singapore at the World Half Marathon Championships in Kavarna, Bulgaria.
Organised by the International Association of Athletics Federation, the annual event offers a top prize of US$30,000 (S$37,000) and features professional athletes from all over the globe. But it is unlikely that Soh will be in contention for the top prize.
Although he won the Army Half Marathon 2012 in a personal best time of 1hr 12min 26sec, Soh's timing was still two minutes above that stipulated by the Singapore Sports Council for World Championships qualification.
"I appealed to them to consider my application and it was successful," recalled Soh.
His trip to Bulgaria is the latest milestone in a long running journey that began when he joined his school's track and field team in Secondary 1. Since then, he has taken part in many school competitions.
But it was not until he was in Raffles Junior College that he aspired to represent his country.
"That's when I started watching the SEA Games and Olympic Games," said Soh. "I saw the pride and happiness the athletes had while standing on the podium. I thought if I trained hard enough, I could be there one day. That is my dream."
For now, his goal in Bulgaria is to set a new personal best.
"There will be a lot of challenges when competing in a foreign country. It may be difficult to adapt to a new time zone and climate," he said.
Thankfully for Soh, pre-race jitters, which used to affect him in the past, are no longer an issue today.
He is looking forward to learning from the world class athletes present at the World Championships.
That, he stressed, would be his "greatest takeaway" before he embarks on his next target - qualifying for the 5,000m and 10,000m at next year's SEA Games.
"I would have to break the national record of 14min 51sec for the 5,000m by Mok Ying Ren to qualify," he said. "My ultimate dream would be to compete in a full marathon, perhaps at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. But of course, a lot of work has to be done to get there."
Soh Rui Yong aims to set a new personal best during the race in Bulgaria. Photo by DEBORAH ONG
NTU and NUS improve on world university rankings
SINGAPORE - The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have moved up in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
NTU jumped 83 places to place 86th, while the NUS climbed 11 spots to 29th place this year.
The World University Rankings uses 13 performance indicators to reflect a university's strengths in five areas - teaching, research, citation, industry income and international outlook.
NTU improved in scores for all five categories. Its score for citations increased by 20 points to 54.5, while its research score went up by 19.1 points to 66.9.
It also improved its teaching score by 4.3 points to 45.7 points. These three indicators are each worth 30 per cent of the overall score.
NUS said it did better in almost all the categories but did not reveal its scores. It placed in the top 50 for all subject areas, including 12th place for Engineering & Technology and 33rd for Life Sciences. | {
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Since I figure most everyone else is out and about doing their holiday* things, I'm just going to give you a quick peek into a typical Christmas at the House o' Cate.
First, we sleep in. Which for me might mean all of 8am this year if I'm lucky. Then we shower, dress, hair and make-up (for me, Joe's beauty is more au naturel), and then head downstairs.
Next, time for special Christmas breakfast. I consider this part of my gift to Joe because I'm not a huge eater of the breakfast but he absolutely loves it. This year, we'll be having Cranberry French Toast with Cranberry Syrup. Also, coffee and turkey bacon.
Then, finally it will be time for gifts. It could be as late as 11am by now. Which also is about the time my parents will call. At this point they've been up for hours, opened all of their gifts, had breakfast, and they're within an hour or so of putting their big Christmas meal on the table. Me, I haven't even opened their gifts yet. Sorry, I'll call back later!
NOW we'll open our gifts. We take our time, one for Joe, one for me. Sometimes, one for kitties. This year, they have four gifts: a bag of fishy treats, a ball with a feathery thing in it, a scratchy mat, and a solar-powered crystal that spins in the window when the sun shines on it which is really more for me but sometimes the cats also like to chase it. We also spend a lot of time throwing bows and ribbons and papers at the cats.
Later, we throw dinner in the oven. Today, prime rib roast w/ red wine gravy, mashed potatoes, rolls, yams, deviled eggs, and my French onion soup. Yeah, for two people. For dessert, Joe picked out eggnog cupcakes which Beth cursed just because she doesn't like eggnog so while they're tasty, the frosting never really stiffened up.
Eventually we resort to getting the cats high on catnip while we drink too much wine or bourbon or whatever else is around before falling asleep midway through a movie.
Isn't Christmas exciting with no children and a family who lives not nearly far enough far away?
I hope you all have a fabulous December 25th, whatever it is you are doing.
*I'm so politically correct I could totally barf all over my "registered independent" voter registration.
Sounds entirely wonderful and filled with many blessings. My mom always says if she believed in reincarnation she would want to come back as one of her own cats. I am thinking you might be a Mecca for reincarnated souls as well. Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year.
It soundslike a perfect way to spend Christmas . One adult today acted like a child because there was too much tape on the package. Actually threw a tantrum. Another adult acted like an ass because no one laughed at his not-funny jokes. I think next year I will go somewhere by myself.My cats a immune to cat nip. Are they strange or what?
I want family traditions and Christmas in my own house to be perfectly honest. I'm hoping the move to NY state will help with that, because my family will be far enough away that a drive down will be a big trip at that point. I love my mom and sisters but sheesh, I wish I had holidays to myself and in the same breath am thankful for the ones I have spent with them
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Saturday, 3 November 2012
Airtel announces post-paid tariff plans for iPhone 5
On the day of official launch of iPhone 5 by Apple in India, Airtel has also today announced four attractive voice and data post-paid tariff plans staring from Rs 300.
In the Rs 300 plan, Airtel's post-paid subscriber will get 200 MB of 3G data, 500 local calling minutes and 300 local and national SMSes free per month. The actual cost of this tariff plan is Rs 600.
Another plan that costs Rs 500 will give 500 MB of 3G data, 900 local calling minutes and 400 local and national SMSes free per month. The actual cost of this tariff plan is Rs 1,000.
For moderate voice and data service users, Airtel has announced an Rs 800 plan where in users will get 1.2 GB 3G data along with 1,400 local calling minutes and 500 local and national SMSes per month.
The last plan announced by Airtel is for heavy data and voice service users in which users have to pay Rs 1,000 to get 3 GB 3G data, 1,500 local calling minutes and 600 local and national SMSes per month.
If the user exceeds his voice call or data usage limits, he will be charged 60 paise per minute for outgoing calls to mobiles, 90 paise per minute for calls to landline and 40 paise for local and national SMSes. On data front, users will have to shell out 3 paise for usage of 30 KB of data beyond data limit. | {
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Language Evolution, 201346:59
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The year in language. Cronut. Vape. Twerk. Sharknado. We’ll look at the language that went large in 2013.
Miley Cyrus performs on NBC's "Today" show on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 in New York. The pop star's dance moves lead to one of 2013's most widely-discussed words, "twerk." (AP)
Language is carved in stone of course, all over the place, but it never stays there. In the world, in our mouths, in our conversations that now move from text to speech to text again, it changes all the time. The language of 2013 had all-new formulations — sharknado — and grand, ancient words reassigned — @pontifex is now the Pope's Twitter handle. We've had heavy rotation for "vape" and "twerk" and "Molly" and "deep state" and "haha" and "ROTFL." "Lean in." "Cronut." And a new hybridizing of speech and text. #NewTerrain. This hour On Point: linguist John McWhorter on the year in language, 2013.-- Tom Ashbrook
From Tom's Reading List
The New Republic: This American Dictionary Is Full of Words You've Never Heard Before — "We moderns process American English differently than women who wore slips, or the men who were warning them about their expsosure. These days, there is plenty of interest in non-standard language—but today, America slangs together more. Americanisms—geographically promiscuous items such as veggie, twerk, selfie, and 'My bad!'—interest us more than regionalisms such as that people call smoking marijuana smoking out on the west coast but smoking up on the east."
The Wall Street Journal: The Most Memorable Words of 2013 — "What's the political word of the year? For months journalists couldn't settle on how to describe the rollout of ObamaCare. 'Failed,' 'disastrous,' 'unsuccessful.' In the past few weeks they've settled on 'botched.' References to the botched rollout have appeared in this paper, The Hill, NBC, Fox, NPR, the New Republic, the Washington Post and other media outlets."
The Boston Globe: Words of the Year: Where are they now? — "Word of the Year is more than a linguistic parlor game: It’s a snapshot of a year in the culture. And this is the perfect time of year to reflect on how good those snapshots turned out to be. A successful WOTY looks great in hindsight—the beginning of something big, or at least a resonant moment in our shared history. A failed one is more like an embarrassing Christmas photo with perm and reindeer sweater." | {
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Shot-first mentality key to Kane's evolution
Scott Powers is the Blackhawks beat reporter for ESPNChicago.com. He is an award-winning journalist and has been reporting on preps, colleges and pros for publications throughout the Midwest since 1997.
Darryl Belfry, who is a skills analyst and development coach at Pro Playmakers, has trained Kane for much of his life and has witnessed Kane evolve to where he currently stands among the NHL’s top offensive players. But as far as Kane’s game has progressed, Belfry still believes there’s another sizeable step Kane can take, and he’s not that far from making it.
The next level for Kane is to become a more consistent scoring threat, which will not only benefit him but also his teammates. He got closer to that this season, hanging with Sidney Crosby at the top of the league in points through December, scoring 29 goals in 69 games and averaging a career-high 3.29 shots per game.
“He’s in the dual-threat role right now where he can navigate his way into home-plate ice, which is the most dangerous part of the ice,” Belfry said in a recent phone interview. “The issue now is decision-making in that area. What happens to this point is his thought process is to pass. He’s always viewing the position as better for someone else than himself. That mindset needs to change.”
Belfry’s problem with Kane having a pass-first mentality is everyone knows his intention as well. His teammates are preparing for him to pass. Opponents are preparing for him to pass. There’s little element of surprise, and it reduces Kane and his teammates’ offensive chances. Kane has still produced at a high rate despite that, but Belfry is confident his offense would increase if he altered his mindset.
“Thinking 'shot first,' if he doesn’t like what he sees, maybe there’s too much traffic or he sees someone out of the corner of his eye, he can use that position he’s in, a really good position, and he can pass to someone,” Belfry said. “Now when people are collapsing in that area, he’s giving teammates open nets to shoot on.
“If he goes into that area and doesn’t show himself as a shot threat, everyone is able to move in a timely fashion. Now if he beats defenders clean and has a mentality to shoot, when people are rotating to defend, you can make a play. If he does that, it’ll evolve his game to another level.”
Getting a player to do that can sometimes be a major hurdle for Belfry. First, the player needs to either recognize the issue himself or has to be convinced there’s one. Second, the player has to possess the shooting ability to be able to scare opponents.
Kane has made Belfry’s job easier in those two respects.
Kane spoke after the Blackhawks’ season of wanting to improve this offseason.
“One of the things I really want to work on this summer is my agility, the way I can cut,” Kane said. “Maybe beat defenders a little bit more than I was able to, especially with the injury I had at the end of the season. Work on that a little bit more.
“Obviously, try to work on your shot, get that better, especially as fast as the game is we play it’s tough to get scoring chances and the better your shot is, the better you’re going to have chances to score goals from farther out. So, skating, everything. Strength, everything.”
“The second thing is you have to develop the shot to be a threat. What he doesn’t realize is his shot is good enough. The issue is a mentality and what he’s trying to do with the shot. The shot is pretty good. He shoots it hard, can change angles, can shoots in stride. He’s three-quarters of the way there.”
The final quarter will be accomplished when Kane feels comfortable with the new approach. It’ll be what he and Belfry work on when they reunite on the ice later this summer.
“Patrick is like any really good top-end player; they feel it,” Belfry said. “You have to make the new pattern feel better than the old one. You just have to build the feel.” | {
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Monday, November 13, 2006
playing with aslan
This weekend we took the kids (along with another family from church) to see a community play. It was a production of “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”.
The cast consisted of teens and children. They did a really great job, and a few of the children were really impressive actors. However, there was one thing that just lept off the stage and grabbed me.
If you are familiar with the “Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, you know that the entire plot centers around one climactic event. Aslan, the Lion Christ figure, pays the price for the sins of young Edmund. He offers his own life as a sacrifice so that the guilty child can be forgiven and set free. The most gripping moment in the story is when Alsan surrenders himself unto death…followed by his glorious resurrection and ultimate defeat of the White Witch who had held the land of Narnia under her evil spell.
In this stage production, they had to edit many elements to keep the story short. But somehow the play writer felt justified in leaving the most important part of C.S. Lewis’s story on the cutting room floor.
One moment, the witch is trying to kill Edmund…and then before you know it, from behind the curtain pops out Aslan and his Narnian army. The battle is quickly won and the story is over.
I was struck by how often culture wants to do this same thing with the person of Jesus Christ. We want a clean story without any blood, without any penalty for sin, without any death, without any consequences. We want a Christ figure who will come and win our battles for us.
I know this was just a children’s theater adaptation, and I’m not upset because I’m sure the producers of the play didn’t know any better (or maybe they did). But in a microcosm, this weekend I saw a vivid illustration of how the average person views Jesus. We’re comfortable with a good teacher, a good leader, and perhaps even a warrior for social justice who battles oppression. But the substitutive death and resurrection of Christ is something that many would rather overlook.
Jesus is often viewed as our helper and our buddy to get us out of trouble when things get rough. But our human condition is in need of more than just assistance from a friendly humanitarian. We need a Savior. We need a deep down forgiveness and restoration that can only come from the cross of Christ. | {
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The Star Wars Angry Birds Strike Back Telepods Playset Wave 1 lets you build a galaxy... and then knock it down. Vehicle replicas, slingshots, and other elements from the games come to life and you can relive the fun in three dimensions! | {
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What’s the secret to a long and healthy life? All centenarians have their own habits and morning routines they swear by. From whiskey shots to daily naps to ice cream, here's what some very old people credit for their lengthy lifespan.
In 2011, Huffington Post interviewed a centenarian named Ruth. Since the age of 92, Ruth has committed to weekly Pilates classes. She also has a mean sense of style.
1. “Don’t look at the calendar. Just keep celebrating every day.”
2. “Invest in quality pieces, they never go out of style.”
3. “I make myself go out every day, even if it’s only to walk around the block. The key to staying young is to keep moving.”
44. “We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It’s best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.”
45. “For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk, and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.”
46. “There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65.”
47. “When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctors can’t cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery? I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.”
48. “To stay healthy always, take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.”
49. “My inspiration is Robert Browning’s poem 'Abt Vogler.' My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.”
50. “Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it.”
51. “Don’t be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: you don’t know when your number is up, and you can’t take it with you to the next place.”
52. “Science alone can’t help or cure people.”
53. “Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do.”
54. “It’s wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one’s family and to achieve one’s goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.”
66. “[Humor is] a life force, a way of surviving the difficulties of living.”
67. “When you laugh at yourself, you prevent others from laughing at you.”
68. “I think [people] have to be curious. They have to be interested in life outside their little aches and pains. They have to be excited about seeing new things, meeting new people, watching a new play—just passionate about life.”
On Reddit, a grandson created a thread where he allowed people to ask his 101-year-old grandmother for advice. This is what happened:
72. “Be honest. I’ve rarely lied. And when you are honest with people, it comes back to you, and they are honest with you. It’s too much work keeping up with a lie. You don’t need the extra stress.”
73. “Keep an open mind, and things seem less strange.”
74. “Always listen to the other person. You’ll learn something. Try to sit back, because you will learn a lot more listening to others than telling them what you know.”
75. “You have to love what you do. if you find a job you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.”
76. “Take naps every day.”
77. “You get one family, so stick with them. But it depends if these hardships are financial or emotional or other types. Stick it out. Some days are worse than others, and you have to be ok with that. The night is darkest before dawn.”
78. “I try to take the time to look at and appreciate the smaller things that make this life beautiful. When I do that, time slows.”
82. “I participate in lots of activities. I play Bingo, do meditation and crafts, and attend fitness classes, like Zumba Gold for seniors, chair yoga, and sittercise… I don’t miss happy hour either! I drop in three times a week.”
83. “Be lovable. I’ve lived a long life because there are so many people who love me.”
89. “Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.”
90. “Look inside your soul and find your tools. We all have tools and have to live with the help of them. I have two tools: my words and my images. I used my typewriter, computer, and my cameras to fight injustice. Whenever I see a possibility of helping people who are in danger, I want to help them.”
91. “Have a good appetite, lots of friends, and keep busy.”
92. “Have a good wife, two scotches a night, and be easygoing.”
93. “Never run out of responsibility; if you don’t have one, find one. Find a cause and knock yourself out for it. It will enhance your brainpower, interest in life, and keep you alive longer. I’m alert because I work. Virtue is its own reward.” | {
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Peloton Sued for Not Licensing Workout Music
There’s no denying that a killer song makes any workout better. Music is an integral part of most workouts — nobody prefers working out in silence. But, at what price? Peloton Interactive, leader of the upscale indoor cycling fad sweeping the nation is finding out that nothing in life is free, especially music. The biggest appeal of Peloton might be their large selection of online video classes that feature fabulous soundtracks. Too bad they (allegedly) aren’t paying for the music.
A few weeks ago, Peloton was hit with a huge lawsuit brought by the National Music Publishers Association, alleging that 1,000’s of songs used throughout their extensive library of workout videos have not been properly licensed. The lawsuit is seeking $150 million in damages, and includes the likes of Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Drake, and Bruno Mars. The list of violations even includes older bands such as Meat Loaf, Pat Benatar, Rush, and The Who. (Is it just me or is it slightly ironic to be working up a sweat while listening to Meat Loaf?)
Peloton can certainly afford to pay for the music they use. They’re selling their fitness bikes for over $2,200 and they require a monthly subscription of $39/month for access to the online video classes, either streaming live from studios in NYC or from the Peloton library.
Copyright law is quite clear. Music played live in a gym needs a standard performance license, but Peloton needed to seek synchronization rights to these individual songs — a separate licence that covers music that is combined and synchronized with video content.
What’s curious about the lawsuit is that Peloton did secure the sync licenses from the copyright holders for quite a few other songs used in their classes and videos, so they can’t claim that they didn’t understand the law. While the case is developing, Peloton has pulled down all videos containing songs that aren’t properly licensed.
In a statement, Peloton said, “Peloton has great respect for songwriters and artists. In fact, we have partnered with each of the major music publishers, record labels, and performing rights organizations, and many leading independents. We have also invested heavily to build a best-in-breed reporting and licensing system to support our partners and provide our members with a world-class fitness experience.”
Peloton knows the importance of a great soundtrack. They just rolled out a new feature called “Track Love” that lets users create their own playlist based on music heard in one of their online spin classes. "Music is what moves us. Whether you're powering through an interval on the Bike, charging up a hill on the Tread, or navigating your morning commute, music gives you that extra energy to get to where you're going." Great, as long as you pay for it.
My playlist is getting a little stale. What’s the song that absolutely, positively motivates you through your workout? For me, “Kashmir” when I’m climbing, “Welcome to the Jungle” or “Mr. Brightside” for cadence drills; songs that never fail to make me pick up the pace and push just a little more. Let me know in the comments what song is the one that gets you to pour out just a little more sweat, run a little faster, crank it up to a harder gear, or just enjoy your workout a little more. | {
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Steve Jobs once said that Java is a big heavyweight ball and chain. Good news: the ball is now optional! In this article, I share results we achieved after implementing a component deployment model, also known as JRE modularity, for the core of J2SE 5.0 and Java SE 6. The technology’s been in production use for more than two years and proved effective.
This is not a mere “Java gets smaller” message. Given that Project Jigsaw is emerging in JDK 7, I also offer some insights on the challenges that any implementation of modularity for the Java SE core may face, all derived from our practical experience.
“Divide and Conquer” Has Worked OutWe did not pioneer the idea that the monolithic Java SE platform needs to be split into components, it was in the air. We merely found a way of how to do that without breaking Java compatibility and implemented it in a compliant Java SE VM, Excelsior JET, back in 2007.
The goal was to let Java programmers bundle a light version of the Java Runtime with their applications leaving the unused components out so as to reduce the size of the installation package. Easier said than done, but we’ve got it made in a Java spec-compliant manner and called the technology Java Runtime Slim-Down (after Project Jigsaw appeared, it’s finally got to me that we should have to call it “Project Rock breaker” or the like).
It has been proved effective for many Java applications. For GUI applications, in particular, the size of a complete installation package with bundled Java Runtime starts from 5MB. In support of this assertion, I refer you to SWTPaint, a sample program taken from the latest Eclipse SDK.
The use of Java Runtime Slim-Down yields results you won’t get with any other Java deployment tool:
The size of the SWTPaint installer is 5.5MB (here is a direct download link).
The installed application need not the JRE to run and does not download any components from the Internet (so it won’t disturb your firewall).
Note that the GUI application in question is written in Java and uses Java SE 6. Oh, sorry! I had to mention that download size for Swing applications start from 8MB. Stirring the flame of Swing vs. SWT was by no means my intention. We prepared installation packages for a few sample applications, both Swing- and SWT-based, and you may download them from this page. If you are still in doubt, try the deployment technique yourself. This flash demo will help you get started.
There are good reasons for end users to love “all-inclusive” installation packages at reduced footprint rates, and it’s where a lightweight Java Runtime is of much help. At a larger scale, however, the lack of the JRE modularity impeded the evolution and adoption of the Java SE platform.
In Between a Rock and a Hard PlaceA bit of history. Remember JSR-83, a proposal on the “multiarray” package originated by IBM. Its implementation could have had a great impact on the number crunching performance in Java. Nevertheless, it was approved only as a Java Standard Extension, never appeared among the core packages and eventually was withdrawn. In the final ballot, Sun made a noticeable comment: “...The proposal requires at least 82 new classes, and this seems inappropriate for the J2SE core...”. Though I personally was disappointed with the outcome, the need to damp the Java core inflation down sounded reasonable
Other JSRs were more lucky and the Java Community Process kept Java SE moving forward over the years. In 2006, I attended the Java Licensee Day event. During the Q&A part of the session devoted to then new Java SE 6, one of the licensees sharply asked: “With each release the JRE gets bigger and bigger. Our customers do not need all those new APIs. When will it stop bloating?” I then found myself thinking I agreed with him but I would rather say “Not all our customers need all those new APIs...”.
The question is how many “useful” APIs have not been approved just not to make the JRE bigger? One may ask also how many “useless” APIs have been approved and did make the JRE bigger? It’s clear that requirements of different projects vary and there is no single answer to these questions, but splitting the JRE into components could resolve these issues gracefully.
Here’s a practical example from our support records. We have customers who previously got stuck with J2SE 1.4.2 simply because the footprint of later Java versions was unacceptable for their deployment requirements. Now, after switching to the component model, they are happy users of Java SE 6.
However, I would not like to discuss the Sun’s policy on modularizing Java SE here. There were many pros and cons to consider, both technical an legal, and I fully realized some of them only when working on the Java Runtime Slim-Down technology. No shooting (in the foot)
As often happens, once we had started the design, the scope of work suddenly increased. For the truth to be told, we would not reach the goal by simply splitting the Java SE API into components and enabling the user to drop some of them. The big question was how to make the technology usable and reliable? After all, we did not want to create a thing that does not work just because the programmer removed some components too aggressively. We decided to explore the limits of this approach by interviewing those enthusiasts who pursued us for this matter. The results confirmed our suspicion – programmers are not always aware of what parts of the Java SE API are actually used in their applications. A good illustration would be the following transcript written then:
Client: I do not use that “Baggage-To-Trim” API and no longer want to carry it with my app. As you are a JVM vendor, make me happy, please.
Support Engineer: We understand you concern. Are you sure you don’t use the “Baggage-To-Trim” API?
Client: Absolutely.
Support Engineer:. We kindly ask you to double check it. Please run your app with java –verbose:class and inspect the log.
Client: Oops.. You surprised me! It’s proved to be used. Frankly speaking, I did not write that code where it’s used. Let me think of it.
Needless to say that we also had to think of it. In addition, Java SE components may depend on each other implicitly, via the implementing classes, and most programmers not familiar with the internals could not play safe when removing the components.
We conducted some R&D and figured out that such a technology should come with tools that help the user not shoot himself in the foot and rules which, just in case, provide the fastest recovery.
Tools and RulesThe final solution included a dependency analyzer and “safety net”. The analyzer takes the application’s classes, infers what Java SE components are likely in use and advises to the user.
Under the covers, it’s not simply checking import dependencies as that would work poorly in terms of precision. For instance, such a simplistic analysis would not have revealed that the SWT-AWT bridge, which is part of the SWT package, is not used by the SWTPaint application mentioned above. As a result, the AWT component would be sucked in and the installation size would increase. That said, analyzer design and testing had engaged us for some time.
Does it guarantee that any deployed application will never miss the removed components? I would not bet money on it. After all, a programmer could detach some components by mistake or an application may load a plug-in that uses the Java SE API more extensively than the application itself. Here the following rule comes into play. All removed components are put into a detached package and the developer has to place it on a Web server at the URL s/he assigned when creating the installation. The Web server is considered a "safety net": should the deployed application attempt to use any of the removed components, the Java Runtime will pull the package down from the server and load the requested Java classes.
On the formal side of things, we run the Java Compatibility Kit (JCK) deployed in this mode with some and all Java SE components detached. Noteworthy is that all the tests pass.
However, it is unlikely that a download of a detached package will occur in practice, provided the developer listened to the word of wisdom from the analyzer. For example, these sample applications have been downloaded over a thousand of times since we published them in May 2007, but there was not a single download of a detached package so far.
The last note is about the splitting. We have managed to carve a kernel part of Java SE, about 4MB, that have to be bundled with any application. We could not get it smaller. We wanted to break down the whole thing into more components, each of a smaller size, but were unable to do that. In general, we could obtain better download size figures if the Java SE API implementation classes would not be so tightly coupled, full of cross-references, strongly connected, melted and fused together.
The Truth About Sun Java KernelInitially, Sun Java Kernel was supposed include a deployment technology for reducing the download size. But what appeared in Java 6 Update 10 under the name Java Kernel is still far from the solution. The Java Kernel contains the VM and some core classes like java.lang.*, java.io.* and meets the needs of HelloWorld of sorts only. Upon application launch, the Java Kernel inevitably starts downloading the remaining packages from a Sun web site and no means are provided to package the required bundles with the application. In essence, the end users "download a downloader" and all you can do with it is specify which missing bundles must be downloaded first. This short table highlights the key differences between Java Runtime Slim-Down and Java Kernel:
You may find more details in the Java Kernel FAQ. Probably, the Java Kernel is just a preliminary step toward a solution that may appear in the future.
Historical NotesThe first mention of the JRE modularity being found in the Annals relates to the times of JDK 1.2(!) The discussions lasted for years, the first implementation in the Sun JRE was planned for Java 1.5, then moved to Java 6. The Java Kernel appeared in Java 6 Update 10 proved to be far from the solution.
In parallel with the Java Kernel, Java Module System (JSR-277) was in the works, which, in particular, could address the JRE modularity problem but the deadlock between Sun and an OSGi lobby had it buried.
Finally, in the end of 2008, Project Jigsaw was announced and “Episode IV. The New Hope” commenced.
Four Challenges for JigsawI’m not with the Java SE core group at Sun but I’ve been working with the Java SE core for more than ten years. Below I share my opinion on the main challenges to the adoption of Jigsaw in the future.
World PeaceThe corporate battle around OSGi needs a break. None has won and the Java Community has lost because, time after time, JRE modularity solutions appear to disappear. To use or not to use OSGi now is less of an issue as compared with the next challenge.
Backward CompatibilityIn modular approach, each component should be sufficiently isolated and import relations should be declared statically. Besides that, import graph should be (close to) acyclic to minimize the number of indirectly used components.
The problem is that the reference implementation of the Java SE API was coded without having modularity in mind. Somewhat it was a side-effect of the Java’s lazy classloading which created an illusion that a use of any class in Java code costs nothing until it’s actually executed at run time. It’s proved to be a technical debt and now is the time to pay the interest.
In practice, it means that spaghetti-like dependencies between the implementing classes are omnipresent and breaking the ties without breaking backward compatibility with previous Java versions is double tough. The danger is to create something like Apache Harmony: everything is implemented with an elegant internal architecture, samples work, but existing Java apps have issues.
Profiles All Over Again?Some outlines of Jigsaw mention so called Java SE Profiles, e.g. Profile for headless apps, for basic RIA, for rich desktop apps, etc. A potential threat here is the repetition of the same old story of the monolithic JRE unless user-defined profiles will be allowed. One size does not fit all even if the presets are defined carefully.
Need for Total ModularizationThere is a risk to getting no benefits from the JRE modularity alone. Most real-world applications use third-party components (Java APIs), which are yet to be modularized. Typically, applications tend to use only a part of the functionality provided by an API. Without total modularization, chances are good that unnecessary parts of (modularized) JRE will be taken in due to use of a (monolithic) third-party component. And it’s no matter whether the import declarations will be written in OSGi bundle manifests or somewhere else.
ConclusionIn closing, I’d like to say that we implemented Java Runtime Slim-Down due to high demand from our clients. I strongly believe, however, that modularized JRE has to come with Java SE out-of-the-box, not just as a vendor solution. I wrote this article with a little hope that our past experience would be of some help for the future development of the Java platform.
P.S. One man said that Java is a big heavyweight ball and chain. Good news: the ball is now optional! You may detach it and use module Chain only.
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Vitaly Mikheev is the chief technology officer for Excelsior, LLC, a company focusing on design and development of optimizing compilers. Vitaly has been involved in software development since 1987 and focused on compiler construction technologies for the last decade. He started working with Java in 1998 as the architect of the Excelsior Java Virtual Machine. Before that, he worked on proprietary optimizing compilers for Nortel Networks. Vitaly is a member of ACM and a co-author of the patent on the garbage collector algorithm implemented in the Samsung's J2ME CDC virtual machine. He holds an MS in computer science from the Novosibirsk State University, Russia.
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Setting detention goals for immigrants is a waste of taxpayer dollars
March31,2015
THE Northwest Detention Center is a large, privately operated detention facility in the Tacoma Tideflats that has been in the news a lot this past year. Despite multiple hunger strikes, public protests and the introduction of federal legislation to address issues at the facility, immigration officials are set to sign another multimillion-dollar contract with the same private prison company that has run it for years.
Due in large part to a misguided federal policy called the “detention bed mandate,” large, for-profit prison corporations that have the resources to build and maintain detention centers are left in charge of operating these facilities at a high cost to taxpayers, detainees and families of those affected.
In the United States, GEO Group, the company that runs the detention center, and the Corrections Corporation of America are the only two corporations large enough to bid on a contract like the Tacoma facility. That leaves us with a detention policy that benefits them, but not society.
The detention bed mandate, which was passed by Congress in 2009, requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to fill 34,000 detention beds for immigrants at any given time. Rather than targeting enforcement toward individuals who pose risks to our community, this indiscriminate quota incentivizes the inhumane and arbitrary detention of thousands for whom we have no justifiable reason to detain.
Take Ramon Mendoza Pascual, for example. In September 2013, Ramon had a few beers at a bar in Auburn and walked to his car to go home. Realizing he shouldn’t risk driving, he called his wife, Veronica Noriega, for a ride home and waited in his car. When she arrived, he was gone. She was told later that Mendoza had been arrested on suspicion of DUI.
Despite the fact a judge had dropped the DUI charge, when Noriega went to court to pay her husband’s bail, she was told Mendoza could not be freed. ICE had placed a hold on his case and he was being transferred to the Tacoma detention facility.
Ramon was a carpenter, a volunteer for a local charity, a husband and a father of three young children. But on that day all that mattered to ICE was his immigration status. He is neither a flight risk nor a danger, but he’s now been detained at the facility for 18 months and can only see his family through a window.
Not only is this overuse of detention inhumane, it’s also expensive. Since the passage of the detention bed mandate, the use of detention has skyrocketed to around 450,000 people detained every year. At an estimated cost of $164 per day for each detainee, our government spends approximately $5.5 million a day and more than $2 billion a year on the detention of immigrants.
There are many less wasteful alternatives to detention that exist and offer a more fair, cost-effective and humane approach while still ensuring that more than 90 percent of individuals appear at immigration proceedings.
Community-based support programs are one such alternative that have proved successful. These are programs where nonprofits provide immigrants with legal services, case management, housing and more while they await immigration proceedings in their own homes, rather than in a detention center. A Baltimore-based immigration advocacy group, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, has piloted community-based programs in the past and has built coalitions with local service partners in Seattle and elsewhere that provide important support and services at fractions of the cost of detention.
Other alternatives include telephonic reporting and release on bond, enabling individuals to remain in their communities and with their families at costs averaging $5.16 per day, according to ICE. The stark contrast between $5.16 and the $164 per day it costs to detain an individual begs the question of why Congress requires ICE to detain 34,000 individuals each day.
There is no good answer. Despite being more humane, just and inexpensive, only 23,000 immigrants receive alternative surveillance compared to the minimum of 34,000 who are held in detention centers.
President Obama’s budget request for fiscal year 2016 included a large expansion of so-called “alternatives to detention,” or ATD. The bad news is the increased funding provides almost exclusively for ankle-bracelet monitoring, which only expands business opportunities for for-profit prison companies, like GEO. Additionally, this expanded funding does not repeal or reduce the 34,000 detention beds that are required to be filled. Any expansion of ATDs is only helpful and cost-effective if it’s coupled with less detention.
Individuals should be detained only in cases where the government has proved that no other method is feasible. In order to ensure this, Congress must repeal mandatory detention laws and defund appropriations quotas that require 34,000 daily beds and instead invest money into community-based alternatives.
Until Congress acts, ICE will continue to sign contracts with GEO and heartbreaking stories like that of Ramon Mendoza Pascual and his family will continue to be our legacy.
March25,2015
Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives voted on Fiscal Year 2016 budget proposals:
“With increasing income inequality, decreasing wages, and a shrinking middle class, we need a budget that prioritizes those that aren’t sharing in the recent economic recovery. The Democratic budget does just that by expanding tax credits for working families, increasing access to quality education, improving our nation’s aging infrastructure, and ending sequestration.
“Unfortunately, the Republican budget stands in stark contrast by instead giving large tax breaks to the wealthy while failing to address the challenges faced by many hard-working Americans. Their budget would slash funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) resulting in millions of children and families losing essential support to help put food on the table. It would turn Medicare into a voucher system, gut Medicaid and make it more difficult to protect Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). It makes devastating cuts to education, research, and energy which will stifle innovation and the economy.
“These budgets offer two very different visions for the future of our country. It is critical that we come together to support policy priorities in the Democratic budget that invest in our workers, expand economic and education opportunities, and provide funding to rebuild our infrastructure.”
March12,2015
Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) released the following statement on remittances to Somalia:
“It’s now been over a month since Merchants Bank closed their accounts with Money Transfer Operators (MTOs) leaving Somali Americans in the 9th District and across the country without any avenues to send money to their families back home. This is an issue of life or death for families in Somalia as they rely on remittances from their families in the United States. Without a resolution, Somali Americans will be forced to find and utilize unregulated and insecure sources to get money back to their families. We must immediately address this problem.
“A few weeks ago, multiple federal agencies that can address this issue came together to engage in a discussion on how to fix this problem. I was disappointed that no specific solutions were offered and that we continue to have no resolution. We need to take a creative approach to resolve this problem in the short-term and continue to explore solutions to resolve this issue once and for all. This meeting simply made clear that we have a long way to go.
“There will be a meeting between Members of Congress and the National Security Council two weeks from now, and I sincerely hope that we can make progress. I will continue to do all I can to advocate for a solution and advance policies that ensure Somali Americans can send money back to their families.”
February27,2015
Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) released the following statement on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding:
“House Republicans are yet again manufacturing a crisis to force their extreme agenda upon the American people. In December, Republicans funded DHS only through February with the intent to hold its funding hostage to jam through their extreme immigration policies. This dangerous strategy has failed, and once again we’re at the brink of shutting down the agency that protects our national security and the livelihood of the men and women that protect us. The Senate recognizes the importance of DHS and has come together in a bipartisan way to pass a clean funding bill. I urge House Republican leadership to do the same.”
February27,2015
U.S. Reps. Sander Levin (D-MI) and Adam Smith (D-WA) and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have introduced legislation to extend through 2020 the Trade Adjustment Assistance program – which expires at the end of 2015 – and renew a vital 2009-2010 expansion of the program to provide assistance for thousands of service industry workers affected by trade, as well as for workers losing their jobs due to trade with countries with which the United States does not have a free trade agreement, such as China. The bill would also extend the TAA for Firms program, which helps businesses adversely affected by trade regain their competitiveness. A fact sheet on The Trade Adjustment Assistance Act of 2015 is available here.
Trade Adjustment Assistance provides necessary assistance for workers who have lost their job due to trade. The Department of Labor estimates that since 1975 more than two million workers have relied on the TAA program to receive benefits to make ends meet and the training necessary to find new employment. Congress included a short-term TAA extension in the omnibus bill last year, but the statutory authority for the program expires entirely at the end of this fiscal year.
“The extension of the basic TAA program at the end of the year while welcome did not address several key improvements that are vital to assisting an expanded group of trade impacted workers,” Reps. Levin and Smith, and Sen. Brown said. “For example, service workers and workers who lose their jobs due to trade with non-FTA, non-preference program countries like China are not currently eligible for TAA. Our bill restores benefits to these workers while also providing much needed technical assistance so firms can remain competitive. Our commitment to displaced workers and the value of the TAA program stands on its own merits and should not be held up by other trade debates.” | {
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Can my testers be my family, scout troop or friends?
Yes! Your testers can be whomever you like. However, be sure to pick people who you think will follow your instructions for testing the game and then give you honest feedback about what they thought of your game. If you have friends whom you trust, then they would be excellent people to playtest your game. But if you think your friends might take charge of your testing session or tell you only what they think you want to hear, then maybe you might want to ask some people who you don’t know as well, such as members of another patrol or some of your brother’s or sister’s friends. | {
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Manchester cuts: Millions slashed from adults budget
Millions of pounds of council funding which helps some of Manchester's most vulnerable people is set to be cut.
Councillors will consider savings, described as "difficult decisions", which will affect services from help for battered wives to meals-on-wheels.
Nearly 60 voluntary groups will lose all or part of their grants as the council seeks to cut £2m from the sector.
Support for adults could be reduced by £8m over two years.
Liz Bruce, the council's strategic director for adults, said the reduction of funding for 59 voluntary groups was just under 17% of the council's budget for these groups and would see funds targeted at the most vulnerable people.
Twenty-two of these groups will lose their council funding completely including several carers' support groups and some organisations which give advice to people with mental illnesses.
More than half of the proposed £8m reduction in the Supporting People budget will come from the council's spending on homelessness, people affected by drug and alcohol abuse, ex-offenders, travellers and refugees.
Domestic abuse
More than £1m will be lost from its mental health spending, more than £900,000 from people with learning disabilities and more than £800,000 from elderly provision.
Among the services for adults facing closure are supported accommodation projects for the mentally ill, women who have suffered domestic abuse, former prisoners and single homeless people.
Councillor Glynn Evans, the council's executive member for adult services, said: "Manchester City Council has had to take some difficult decisions following the severity of central government's financial settlement earlier this year.
"From the outset of this process, we have said that the tough choices we have to make will affect people's lives."
The council's Health and Wellbeing Overview Committee will discuss the proposals next Thursday ahead of a council executive meeting on 26 October. | {
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Please discuss the Motorcycle.com article First Ride: 2008 Buell 1125R in our Motorcycle Forums below. Use the reply button to let others know your comments or feedback on the article. Constructive criticism is always appreciated, along with your thoughts and personal opinions on the bikes and products we have tested.
"Subsequently, a lighter wheel can be used, with lighter steering as the benefit. I can only hope other makes will grasp this concept, soon."
Not quite. The ZTL system makes for HEAVIER steering...
It reduces the unsprung weight of the wheel (lighter spokes, which makes the suspension happier), but it increases the rotational inertia (larger diameter brake disk). Thus at higher speeds, the wheel resists changing direction more, effectively acting as a speed sensitive damper.
Until Honda came out with the electronic damper, it was the best solution for speed-sensitive damping (the electronic damper allows a non-linear rate, unlike the ZTL which is a linear-rate speed-sensitive damper)
Its why the previous buells were able to get away with such little rake without a damper: the wheel is a damper with its greater rotational inertia.
I can't help it. I've been trying to avoid writing negative things in these forums but every time I see this bike I'm appalled at how freaking ugly it is. The XB's on the other hand are truly one of the nicest looking bikes around. How they managed to take what was basically an XB and screw it up so bad in the "style/design" department,...it's beyond me. Well actually it's not beyond me.
1. Fairing is way too wide.
2. Side scoops look like something designed in an 8th grade shop class by someone who was inspired by their mom's Tupperware bowl set.
3. Underslung exhaust appears to have been designed by the same 8th grade shop class with inspiration from......I have no idea.
Who's the Buell expert out there? There was a reference: "instead of the other Buells’ Italian Verlicchi chassis" that surprised me. I certainly don't know Buells as well as HDs, but I had no idea they sourced a frame! I always thought their innovative frames was their forte. I guess you learn something new every day, if you stay relatively sober. Details? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller??
Who's the Buell expert out there? There was a reference: "instead of the other Buells’ Italian Verlicchi chassis" that surprised me. I certainly don't know Buells as well as HDs, but I had no idea they sourced a frame! I always thought their innovative frames was their forte.
Guessing here, but it could be that Verlicchi is the maker, not the designer? Or that Buell had the idea and then contracted with Verlicchi to put it into metal.
Who's the Buell expert out there? There was a reference: "instead of the other Buells’ Italian Verlicchi chassis" that surprised me. I certainly don't know Buells as well as HDs, but I had no idea they sourced a frame! I always thought their innovative frames was their forte. I guess you learn something new every day, if you stay relatively sober. Details? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller??
Buell is usually the designer of all things Buell, but the frame was "made" by Verlicchi. Now an American firm is punching them out.
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Post Election Bonus Coverage
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29 Comments on “Post Election Bonus Coverage”
1.
blake
21 November, 2008, 5:26 pm
Here’s a little quiz I put together for my co-workers. Im shocked at how little they know about Christ even tho most claim to be very religious and regular church attenders. No one has scored higher than 70%.
Question #1 is wrong, though, December 25 is after the solstice so technically it was wintertime not fall. Right?
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Mike S
22 November, 2008, 10:07 am
I don’t know what the reasons for the 12/25 tradition are. Although I’m sure that John will say that it’s because Christianity has pagan roots. Yet the Gospel was first pointed to in Genesis 1 so I disagree.
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F. L. A.
22 November, 2008, 1:29 pm
Yes, he would Mr.Sears.
In his treatise “Retractationes”, St.Augustine himself refuted the traditional view that Christianity, though of obvious Jewish roots, virtually “fell from the skys” as a radically new, unique religion destined to fulfill of eclipse all other faiths.Few average Christians indeed are aware that Augustine himself received the Christian doctrine of the Trinity from a Pagan….the philosopher Plotinus[c.A.D.205-270], who “fed his mind on the attributes of the Pagan divinities and was steeped in Hellenistic rational religion and esotericism”.
St.Augustine’s words are echoed by the church historian Esebius, the Bishop of Caesarea and one of the major shapers of the emerging Christian orthodoxy. In his famous book “Ecclesiastical History” said that the Gospels of the New Testament were really the old dramatic books of the Essenes, from the pre-Christian days. Of a group of Essenes called Therapeutae in Egypt he writes “These ancient Therapeutae were Christians, and there writtings are our Gospels and Epistiles.”.
I could go on and on, but I think that you get my point. Early Christianity was a great “assimilator” of other faiths and others wisdom. Second century theologian and historian Justin Martyr conceded as much when he wrote “Whatever thing were rightly said among the ancients are now the property of the Christians!”.
Why do you not know the reasons for the December 25th traditions, Mr.Sears?
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Mike S
22 November, 2008, 2:01 pm
Thanks F.L.A.
I knew you’d come through. So, it was a great “assimilator” of other faiths because all those other faiths have a God Man sacrificing himself for them? I think not. That is the main difference that stands out from all other faiths and is the prime essential doctrine of the Christian faith. “Why do you not know the reasons for the December 25th traditions” It’s not essential doctrine, so I don’t concern myself with it. Happy Weekend! Go Deacs and Go Texas Tech!!
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F. L. A.
22 November, 2008, 3:43 pm
You theologies “main difference is not all that different after all, Mr.Sears.
Studies show that there are close “parallel cycles” of allegorical “events” in the mythic and dramatic representations of 30 to 50 earlier Gods in the ancient sacred writings of the world. For example….the parallels in the birth and life of Lord Krishna, the Hindu “Christ” are now well known. The Persian prophet Zoroaster was born in innocence and of a virgin birth[As was the Buddha], from a ray of divine reason[Logos]. Eventually he was suspended from a tree. The is also the story of Salivahana, a divine child born of a virgin in Ceylon[Sri Lanka]. He was the son of a carpenter named Tarshaca. His story shows such a close affinity to that of Jesus that it is difficult to believe they both did not arise from the same source. Many of the other circumstances with slight variations are also the same as those told of Lord Krishna.
Comparative religion studies show that almost every known theological belief system has stories of a “God-Man” like character, a Deity that becomes as a mortal, suffers, dies, defeats enemies, and then arises back up to power and “goes home”. There are at least 30 to 50 such avatars or saviors including but not limited to Osiris, Iu-em-hetep, Horus, Krishna, Bacchus, Orpheus, Hermes, Balder, Adonis, Hercules, Attis, Mithras, Tammus of Syria, Thor[Son of Odin], Beddru of Japan, Deva Tat of Siam, Zoroaster, and Salivahana.
THE ONLY REAL DIFFERENCE, between the story of Jesus in the New Testament and all of the other stories and ancient myths is that very few cultures prior to the Christian Movement, enforced the belief that the events were actually historical fact.
I have to go now, for it grows too cold for me to tolerate.
Enjoy your sporting games.
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John
22 November, 2008, 6:50 pm
Try doing a little research on the holidays of Yule and Saturnalia and what the Early CHURCH did to help convert the pagans into Christianity, for a better understanding of the origins of what we now call Christmas, MikeS.
This is why a some Christians don’t have very much to do with Christmas, or Easter for that matter.
The Pilgrims wouldn’t have anything to do with it at all, but then they were a rather “stuffy” bunch.
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Stanley
23 November, 2008, 11:59 am
They stole the Christmas from the pagans.
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John
23 November, 2008, 5:25 pm
Close enough, Stanley.
We celebrate both Yule and Christmas now.
Any excuse to have a good time with others[smile].
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Ed R.
23 November, 2008, 6:15 pm
Please understand, the early Chruch could have cared less about the date of Jesus’ birth. It just was not an issue. When the birthdate was desired, incorporation of other religions was also desired. So, without an acutal “birthdate” to use, the pegan date was acceptable. Now, is the actual date of the birth of Jesus that absolute as to cause the failing of the Chruch? Of course not. I am a retired submarine Navy vet. I cannot count the number of birthdays that were “postponed” till I got home. The date is not as important as the worship of Jesus.
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F. L. A.
24 November, 2008, 4:38 pm
The personal life and death facts of the most important figure in all of Christian history seems like a rather important detail for the early Church to look into to ME. We do not even know what the man looked like, so little is there of any “factual evidence” of his existence.
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Ed R.
24 November, 2008, 4:48 pm
The early Church was expecting the second comming within thier lifetimes. Unlike any other faith, the actual date of birth was not important. Unlike most other faiths, Christians were being killed for thier faith at the onset. The death, burial and resurection were the focal point of the faith, not the birth.
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F. L. A.
24 November, 2008, 4:55 pm
And this is fine Ed, as so long as the story and it’s characters are not presented as being historical fact.
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Ed R.
24 November, 2008, 5:02 pm
What do you wish. a birth certificate? Then provide the birth certificates of Plato, Arostotle and the like.
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John
24 November, 2008, 7:33 pm
Ironically Ed, we actually know what these two men[Plato and his student Aristotle] actually looked like, their birth and death dates, and we know more about their lives then than we do about Jesus. Odd too, considering that they both predated Jesus by centuries. It was all recorded by historians, which makes the lack of information available on Jesus all the more perplexing.
Do you know why the Christians had such a hard time within ancient society “on the onset”?
Because the Christians were a new heretical minority cult in a dominantly Pagan world.
If it makes you feel better, you got us Pagans[and the Jews, ironically] back for it from the Dark Ages up to about the early/mid twentieth century.
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Ed R.
24 November, 2008, 7:50 pm
There is one more thing about the early Christians. To make an image of Jesus was concidered idolatry. This thinking is still found in many denominations today. I remember somebody finding records of a Jesus born in Bethleham to Mary and Joseph. Another point would have been that the early Church could have been easliy destroyed by producing a body of Jesus or not finding people who had actually met Jesus. The only groups that deny that Jesus exsisted are modern groups or groups that were not in the area at the time.
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Barney
25 November, 2008, 11:10 am
“I remember somebody finding records of a Jesus born in Bethleham to Mary and Joseph.” – Ed R.
Who, where and when, please? Thanks!
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Paul
25 November, 2008, 11:21 am
FLA,John.and Barney: A good book you could read would be “Who moved the stone” by Frank Morrison.
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John
25 November, 2008, 5:09 pm
I shall keep my eyes open for it, Paul. Thankyou for the title.
And please allow me to return the favor.
Read “Intelligent Thought: Science verses the Intelligent Design Movement” edited by John Brockman, published by Vintage Books.
Even if you don’t agree with it, it is still a good read in that it will help you better understand what others think and perhaps help you in a future debate or confrontation.
We have…..many books..on Young Earth Christian Creationism.
22.
Grant
26 November, 2008, 12:41 pm
80%
23.
Maz
26 November, 2008, 12:46 pm
Paul: #20: I’v read that, one of the best books on the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Paul
26 November, 2008, 12:57 pm
Maz: Yeah from a guy that set out to prove it wrong.
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Maz
26 November, 2008, 1:28 pm
That’s why it is so good. I also have ”The Resurrection Factor” by Josh McDowell with compelling evidence which proves the resurrection of Jesus Christ beyond reasonable doubt.
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Paul
26 November, 2008, 2:03 pm
Yes, another good one.
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John
27 November, 2008, 7:30 am
The biggest problem in regards to this information presented, however is that to someone such as myself, the resurrection of Jesus is a moot point. I can chose to believe in it and it still has no impact on my faith, as it’s not connected with, nor contrary to my theological belief system[grin].
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
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Maz
27 November, 2008, 10:55 am
John: ” I can chose to believe in it and it still has no impact on my faith, as it’s not connected with, nor contrary to my theological belief system[grin].”
Are you saying that you can believe in the resurrection of Jesus and still hold on to your other gods?If you believe in Jesus resurrection, then you would have to believe that He is alive today, then you would have to believe that He is the Son of God, and therefore the Savior of the world. And then you would have to make a choice, whether to accept Him or reject Him. If you accept Him as the risen Lord and Savior, you would have to let go of all your other deities.
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John
28 November, 2008, 5:49 pm
Maz, trying to explain this matter to you would be a lot like trying to debate with you about evolutionary science. Things are a lot more complicated, and simpler, and weirder than you might ever seriously consider. I had thought that from reading my posts within the various sites in the past you would have had a better understanding of what my thoughts are on Christ and the Christian God, and why your dualistic theological view doesn’t apply to me. | {
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What comes next at quarterback?
There are plenty of possibilities as the Broncos must go in a new direction after Peyton Manning's retirement and Brock Osweiler's departure.
*** UPDATED FRIDAY, MARCH 11 ***
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- So, what's next?
On the second day of the new league year, that is the question on the minds of Broncos fans around the globe after Brock Osweiler left to join the Houston Texans on a four-year contract Wednesday.
Trevor Siemian is on the current roster, and will factor into the Broncos' plans. But he's only part of the equation, and he will be surrounded by two or three other quarterbacks once the Broncos begin organized team activities in the spring.
But who might they be? Here are some possibilities:
VIA THE OPEN MARKET:
Ryan Fitzpatrick, N.Y. Jets: Everything was smiles and sunshine for Fitzpatrick for 15 games as the Jets' starter last year; he had the Jets needing only a win at Buffalo to clinch their first playoff trip since 2010; he already had a career high in touchdown passes.
But the game that followed was his worst of the season -- a 16-of-37, 181-yard, three-interception nightmare that doomed the Jets to an upset loss and knocked them out of the postseason.
Fitzpatrick proved how effective he could be with two top-shelf receivers last season in Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker. And as the most experienced starter left on the market, he will draw interest.
Robert Griffin III, ex-Washington: After the 2012 season, Griffin, Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson were considered the next wave of great quarterbacks, to the point where the 2012 draft was being compared with the fabled 1983 draft for the quality of quarterbacks it produced.
But Griffin has not been the same since tearing two ligaments in his right knee during Washington's divisional-round loss to Seattle. He hasn't been the same since then; his quarterback rating dropped from 102.4 as a rookie to 82.2 in 2013, and by 2015 he was the inactive third quarterback.
The talent is there. The arm strength is there, and despite having a negative touchdown-to-interception ratio in 2014 (4 to 6), his completion percentage of 68.7 was the best in his career to date. At 26, he's young enough to still have a second act -- or a third, depending on your perspective -- and a more functional organization with better chemistry could get him back on the track he had as a rookie under then-head coach Mike Shanahan. But for Griffin's next act to match his brilliant first act of 2012, he will have to refashion himself as a pass-first quarterback who gets the ball away before pressure strikes.
He will also have to curb his fumbling and reduce his sack rate. In Washington he absorbed 101 sacks in 1,164 dropbacks, a rate of one every 11.52 dropbacks that is well worse than the league average of one every 15.71 dropbacks since 2013. He also needs to take better care of the football; over his career, he's averaged 0.86 fumbles per game.
Johnny Manziel, ex-Cleveland: The Browns' decision to waive the talented-but-troubled 2014 first-round pick brought an end to a stretch that saw some promising starts, but was defined more by off-field incidents and a stint in an outpatient rehabilitation facility.
He is currently under investigation for a claim of domestic violence, although no charges have been field. He was demoted last year after the Browns became aware of a video of him partying, but then became the starter again before suffering a concussion in Week 16.
On the field, he has as many interceptions (seven) as touchdown passes, and has been sacked once every 12.7 dropbacks. He improved his completion percentage from 51.4 percent on 35 attempts as a rookie to 57.8 percent on 223 attempts last year, but is still in need of refinement.
However, those issues take a back seat to his off-field ones, which must be addressed first.
Matt Moore, Miami: Since Ryan Tannehill beat him out in 2012 in a quarterback duel aired on Hard Knocks, Moore has bided his time as a backup. Twelve of his 25 career starts came during the 2011 season with the Dolphins, when he posted a solid 87.1 rating on 210-of-347 passing.
Moore might be best suited to being a bridge quarterback. If a team starts Moore, the key would be to keep him upright; he is susceptible to strip-sack fumbles, with 23 fumbles in his career -- or one every 37.3 pass plays or carries, which adds up to just under one fumble per game.
According to reports, Moore visited with the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday.
T.J. Yates, Houston: Remember, he was the starting quarterback for Houston when it won its first playoff game under Gary Kubiak. He returned to Houston last year and started two games before being injured. Overall, he's 5-4 as a starter -- and all of his career wins came against teams that made the playoffs, won at least 10 games, or both.
VIA TRADE:
Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco: Although 49ers head coach Chip Kelly has said there are no plans to trade the sixth-year veteran, a reported trade request from Kaepernick has sent the rumors into overdrive and has led to rampant speculation.
Of the possibilities on this page, there is no doubt that Kaepernick is the most seasoned. He's started in six playoff games, winning four, and has taken the 49ers to a Super Bowl. During three seasons under Jim Harbaugh, his quarterback rating was 9-to-7, he had a 50-to-21 touchdown-to-interception ratio and he added 11 more score on the ground.
Most importantly, the 49ers' record in those three years was 29-14; even after the team went 2-6 in his starts in 2015, he has a career 31-20 record as a starter.
Last year was a struggle; the roster was decimated and the coaching staff changed. But Kaepernick was good enough to guide a team to within three points of a world championship in his first year as a starter, and hardened by experience, better days appear ahead -- no matter whether they happen to be.
A.J. McCarron, Cincinnati: He's the preferred choice of Peter King of TheMMQB.com:
If I’m Elway, I try to trade a 2 and a 4 to Cincinnati for A.J. McCarron.
Broncos fans got a first-hand glimpse at his potential and moxie when he brought the Bengals in for Monday Night Football and he piloted his team to a 14-0 lead that could have been 17-0 if Mike Nugent had connected on his second-quarter field-goal attempt.
If not for an emotional meltdown from defenders Vontaze Burfict and Adam Jones, he would have been the first quarterback since Boomer Esiason to direct the Bengals to a playoff win. But with questions lingering because of Andy Dalton's injured arm, the Bengals could hold tight to McCarron.
THE DRAFT:
It's unlikely that the Broncos will be in position to get California's Jared Goff or North Dakota State's Carson Wentz unless either drops unexpectedly or the Broncos make a daring trade up to pick one of those two signal-callers. But at the end of the first round and the second day, there are some intriguing prospects.
However, with today's quarterbacks, what they need more than anything in their development is time. The proliferation of spread offenses in the college and high-school ranks forces a young quarterback into an extremely steep learning curve.
"It's harder for these guys -- especially [the ones] that are high draft picks -- that have been in the shotgun their whole life, their expectation level is for them to come out and perform right away," Elway said. "With them put in that spotlight, and that pressure, then all of a sudden the development slows down, so they don't have the time that it takes to start learning those skills."
So if the Broncos do pick a young quarterback, the ideal situation would involve time to learn. But if they add a passer in the first round, they might not have that luxury.
Some of the quarterbacks that might be available in the Broncos' range include:
Connor Cook, Michigan State: I've never seen a Combine press conference quite like Cook's, as he was forced to answer questions about why he wasn't a team captain and what that revealed about his character. The questions were largely irrelevant; State changes its captains on a game-by-game basis, and Cook was a member of a 12-player group that selected the Spartans' captains each week.
A shoulder injury that he said prevented him from taking part in the Senior Bowl has now healed. He can lean on his success in a pro-style attack that should shorten his learning curve, but he needs to improve his accuracy, because his completion percentage for any of his seasons never broke 60 percent. He also struggled down the stretch last year, with three touchdowns and four interceptions in his last four games, although the shoulder injury impacted his form.
Christian Hackenberg, Penn State: Houston's acquisition of Brock Osweiler likely ensures there will be no pro reunion between former Nittany Lions head coach Bill O'Brien and his one-time pupil. Although Hackenberg has all the physical traits you want for someone at the position, he spent most of his time at Penn State operating under a heavy pass rush, as the offensive line leaked defenders. Hackenberg was sacked once every 11.28 dropbacks the last two years, and his completion percentage fell from 58.9 in 2013 to 55.8 in 2014 and 53.5 in 2015.
Hackenberg struggled under pressure, and there are questions about his feel for the game and the rush. How much of that was attributable to the blocking scheme will likely determine where he ends up in the draft.
Paxton Lynch, Memphis: Lynch rose quickly up draft pundits' rankings last year, then struggled in the Tigers' Birmingham Bowl loss to Auburn, a performance exacerbated by the departure of head coach Justin Fuente to Virginia Tech after the close of Memphis' regular season. An inconsistent Combine workout followed.
There is no question about Lynch's arm strength, quickness and ability to make plays with his feet. He also has the requisite accuracy, completing 66.8 percent of his passes. But working from the shotgun means that he must learn how to operate under center, and that could ensure that it takes a while for the 6-foot-7 passer to develop.
Dak Prescott, Mississippi State: A strong Senior Bowl week in which he displayed an ability to make his second read and take snaps under center cemented Prescott's status as a second-day pick.
His footwork still needs to become more consistent, but that's something that can be coached up, and improvement there would help his accuracy.
Prescott already has an NFL-caliber arm and the ability to make deep outside throws. He also possesses everything you can't coach: feel for the pass rush, leadership, tenacity, intelligence and an ability to make quick, correct decisions as to when to take off or when to throw. | {
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7 U.S. Code § 6407 - Required terms in orders
Each order issued under this chapter shall contain the terms and conditions prescribed in this section.
(b) National Processor Advertising and Promotion Board
(1) Establishment
The order shall establish a National Processor Advertising and Promotion Board to administer the order.
(2) Service to entire industry
In administering the order, the Board shall carry out programs and projects that will provide maximum benefit to the fluid milk industry and promote only fluid milk products. The Board shall, to the extent practicable, ensure that advertising coverage in each region is proportionate to the funds collected from each region.
(3) Regions
The Secretary shall establish not less than 12 nor more than 15 regions in order to ensure appropriate geographic representation on the Board.
(4) Board membership
The Board shall consist of one member appointed by the Secretary, from among fluid milk processors, to represent each of the regions established under paragraph (3), with the membership representing, to the extent practicable, differing sizes of operations. The Secretary shall appoint five additional at-large members to the Board, of which at least three shall be fluid milk processors and at least one shall be from the general public.
(5) Terms of office
The members of the Board shall serve for terms of 3 years, except that the members appointed to the initial Board shall serve, proportionately, for terms of 1, 2, and 3 years, as determined by the Secretary. No member shall serve for more than 2 consecutive terms, except that the members that are selected to serve for the initial term of 1 or 2 years shall be eligible to be reappointed for a 3-year term.
(6) Compensation
Each member of the Board shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of duties of the Board.
(c) Powers and duties of Board
The order shall define the powers and duties of the Board, which shall include the power and duty—
(1)to administer the order in accordance with the terms and conditions of the order;
(2)to make rules to effectuate the terms and conditions of the order;
(3)to receive, investigate, and report to the Secretary complaints of violations of the order;
(4)to develop and recommend such rules, regulations, and amendments to the order to the Secretary for approval as may be necessary for the development and execution of programs or projects to carry out the order;
(5)to employ such persons as the Board considers necessary and determine the compensation and define the duties of the persons;
(6)to prepare and submit for the approval of the Secretary, prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, a fiscal year budget of the anticipated expenses in the administration of the order, including the probable costs of all programs and projects;
(7)to develop programs and projects, subject to subsection (d) of this section;
(8)to enter into contracts or agreements, with the approval of the Secretary, to develop and carry out programs or projects of research and advertising;
(9)to carry out advertising or research, and pay the costs of the projects with funds collected pursuant to section
6409 of this title;
(10)to keep minutes, books, and records that reflect all of the acts and transactions of the Board, and promptly report minutes of each Board meeting to the Secretary;
(11)to furnish the Secretary with such other information as the Secretary may require; and
(12)to invest funds collected by the Board pursuant to subsection (g) of this section.
(d) Plans and budgets
(1) Budgets
The order shall require the Board, prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, or as may be necessary after the beginning of the fiscal year, to develop budgets of the anticipated expenses and disbursements of the Board in the implementation of the order, including projected costs of research and advertising. The budget shall be submitted to the Secretary and be effective on the approval of the Secretary.
(2) Incurring expenses
The Board may incur such expenses for research or advertising of fluid milk products, and other expenses for the administration, maintenance, and functioning of the Board, as may be authorized by the Secretary. The expenses shall include any implementation, administrative, and referendum costs incurred by the Department.
(3) Paying expenses
The funds to cover the expenses referred to in paragraph (2) shall be paid from assessments collected under section
6409 of this title.
(4) Limitation on spending
Effective 1 year after the date of the establishment of the Board, the Board shall not spend in excess of 5 percent of the assessments collected for the administration of the Board.
(e) Prohibition on branded advertising
A program or project conducted under this chapter shall not make any reference to private brand names or use false or unwarranted claims on behalf of fluid milk products, or false or unwarranted statements with respect to the attributes or use of any competing products, except that this subsection shall not preclude the Board from offering its programs and projects for use by commercial parties, under such terms and conditions as the Board may prescribe as approved by the Secretary.
(f) Contracts and agreements
(1) In general
To ensure efficient use of funds collected under this chapter, the order shall provide that the Board may enter into contracts or agreements for the implementation and carrying out of programs or projects for fluid milk products research and advertising and for the payment of the costs of the programs or projects with funds received by the Board under the order.
(2) Requirements
Any such contract or agreement shall provide that—
(A)the contracting party shall develop and submit to the Board a program or project, together with a budget or budgets that shall disclose estimated costs to be incurred for such program or project;
(B)the program or project shall become effective on the approval of the Secretary; and
(C)the contracting party shall keep accurate records of all of the transactions of the contracting party, account for funds received and expended, make periodic reports to the Board of activities conducted, and make such other reports as the Board or the Secretary may require.
(g) Investment of funds
(1) In general
The order shall provide that the Board, with the approval of the Secretary, may invest assessment funds collected by the Board under the order, pending disbursement of the funds, only in—
(A)obligations of the United States or any agency thereof;
(B)general obligations of any State or any political subdivision thereof;
(C)any interest-bearing account or certificate of deposit of a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System; or
(D)obligations fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States.
(2) Income
Income from any such investment may be used for any purpose for which the invested funds may be used.
(h) Books and records of Board
(1) In general
The order shall require the Board to—
(A)maintain such books and records (which shall be available to the Secretary for inspection and audit) as the Secretary may prescribe;
(B)prepare and submit to the Secretary, from time to time, such reports as the Secretary may prescribe; and
(C)account for the receipt and disbursement of all funds entrusted to the Board.
(2) Audits
The Board shall cause the books and records of the Board to be audited by an independent auditor at the end of each fiscal year. A report of each such audit shall be submitted to the Secretary.
(i) Books and records of processors
(1) In general
The order shall require that each fluid milk processor subject to this chapter maintain and make available for inspection such books and records as may be required by the order and file reports at the time, in the manner, and having the content prescribed by the order.
(2) Use of information
Information obtained under paragraph (1) shall be made available to the Secretary as is appropriate for the effectuation, administration, or enforcement of this chapter, or any order or regulation issued under this chapter.
(3) Confidentiality
(A) In general
Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C), commercial or financial information that is obtained under paragraph (1) or (2) and that is privileged or confidential shall be kept confidential by all officers and employees of the Department and agents of the Board, and only such information so obtained as the Secretary considers relevant may be disclosed to the public by them and then only in a suit or administrative hearing brought at the request of the Secretary, or to which the Secretary or any officer of the United States is a party, and involving the order.
(B) Availability of information
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, information obtained under this chapter may be made available to another agency of the Federal Government for a civil or criminal law enforcement activity if the activity is authorized by law and if the head of the agency has made a written request to the Secretary specifying the particular information desired and the law enforcement activity for which the information is sought.
(C) Other exceptions
Nothing in subparagraph (A) may be construed to prohibit—
(i)the issuance of general statements, based on the reports, of the number of persons subject to an order or statistical data collected from the persons, which statements do not identify the information furnished by any person; or
(ii)the publication, by direction of the Secretary, of the name of any person violating any order, together with a statement of the particular provisions of the order violated by the person.
(4) Penalty
Any person violating this subsection, on conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or to imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or both, and if such person is an agent of the Board or an officer or employee of the Department, shall be removed from office.
(5) Withholding information
Nothing in this subsection shall authorize the Secretary to withhold information from a duly authorized committee or subcommittee of Congress.
(6) Time requirement
The records required under paragraph (1) shall be maintained for 2 years beyond the fiscal year of the applicability of the records.
(j) Prohibition on use of funds to influence governmental action
(1) In general
Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2), the order shall prohibit any funds collected by the Board under the order from being used in any manner for the purpose of influencing legislation or government action or policy.
(2) Exception
Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the development or recommendation of amendments to the order.
(k) Coordination
The order shall require the Board to take reasonable steps to coordinate the collection of assessments, and advertising and research activities of the Board with the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board established under section
4504(b) of this title.
(l) Exemptions
The order shall exempt fluid milk products exported from the United States from assessments under the order.
(m) Report
The Secretary shall provide annually for an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of the fluid milk promotion program carried out under this chapter during the previous fiscal year, in conjunction with the evaluation of the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board established under section
4504(b) of this title.
(n) Other terms and conditions
The order also shall contain such terms and conditions, not inconsistent with this chapter, as are necessary to effectuate this chapter, including regulations relating to the assessment of late payment charges. | {
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vegetarianbeefeater wrote:She should know what most kanji mean just not what theyre called.
if i recall correctly, junjun knows mandarin which uses slightly different kanji than japanese. mandarin useses simplified and japanese uses traditional characters.for example, 愛 (traditional) > 爱 (simplified) and 馬 > 马 are all i can think of right now
vegetarianbeefeater wrote:She should know what most kanji mean just not what theyre called.
if i recall correctly, junjun knows mandarin which uses slightly different kanji than japanese. mandarin useses simplified and japanese uses traditional characters.for example, 愛 (traditional) > 爱 (simplified) and 馬 > 马 are all i can think of right now
Actually, Mandarin is a dialect. People in mainland China use simplified Chinese characters, whereas people from Hong Kong and Taiwan use traditional ones (they speak Mandarin in Taiwan too).
Both sets of characters share same characters for some words. There are some differences of course but one should be able to understand/guess the meaning of the other set. In Japan, they use characters from both kinds. (However, of course, Japanese also made up characters or used some for meaning that are not the same in Chinese.)
teth wrote:Actually, Mandarin is a dialect. People in mainland China use simplified Chinese characters, whereas people from Hong Kong and Taiwan use traditional ones (they speak Mandarin in Taiwan too).
Both sets of characters share same characters for some words. There are some differences of course but one should be able to understand/guess the meaning of the other set. In Japan, they use characters from both kinds. (However, of course, Japanese also made up characters or used some for meaning that are not the same in Chinese.)
Even sharing characteristics, it still takes a moment for it to click in your brain that it's like "oh that's that!" Or thinking in your head what each part means.Kind of like when you can't read someone's handwriting.Just saying it was probably overwhelming for her, which is why she seemed confused.
It's kind of like how there are various words in other languages that are similar but not exactly the same to English words. Since English was adapated from French, German, Latin, Spanish and other languages, we have words that are very similar. I can't think of any at the moment, but I know they exist.
xxskawt wrote:Even sharing characteristics, it still takes a moment for it to click in your brain that it's like "oh that's that!" Or thinking in your head what each part means.Kind of like when you can't read someone's handwriting.Just saying it was probably overwhelming for her, which is why she seemed confused.
In case you misread my line on both sets of characters, I meant that both sets use the same characters for some words. Just to clarify. | {
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“We visited with a mix of patients who were uninsured, had Medicare, or Medicaid.” said Donda Bennett, GSC executive director. “Our goal for the program is to assist anyone who doesn’t have a primary care provider, insured or not.”
For patients who are uninsured, they will go through a screening process and an appointment will be set up at the Good Samaritan Clinic. Most of these patients will be established for primary care with GSC new provider, Chelsea Batten, PA-C. Patients who are insured and have not established with a provider will have the opportunity to work with an Open Door volunteer.
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“The timing was amazing. We had a gentleman who was out of his insulin and GSC made a slot that same day.” said Perry Hines, Open Door executive director.
Carolyn Pope, a volunteer at the Open Door, will be heading up the program. Part of this will be training additional volunteers, contacting physician offices in the community, and working with GSC staff.
The next screening will be on Thursday, Aug. 28 at the Open Door from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m..
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Thank you very much for your comments on this thread. I feel that at this point both you and I are reiterating what we have said before so I will stop at this point. Thanks again.
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By: qunfuz https://qunfuz.com/2009/12/09/five-books-on-israel-palestine/#comment-1010
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:04:46 +0000http://qunfuz.com/?p=562#comment-1010Yossi – If you back down from your european muslims analogy I’ll back down from my response to your question on how muslims would react to european aboriginal persecution. I wasnt being serious about them building a state. My point was in fact to say that Jewish nationalism in Europe, in the context of surrounding nationalisms which excluded the Jews, and in the face of antisemitism, was understandable. If it had concentrated on building a state in areas where the Jews were a majority, it might even have been laudable. But aiming to create a Jewish state in Palestine by immigration, colonisation, and expulsion (or, in orientalist fantasy, assimilation) of the natives is indeed disgusting and has no analogy whatsoever in the migration of Muslims to Europe, where they still make up less than 4%, which was the proportion of Jews in Palestine at the start of the 20th century.
I think you are being deliberately obtuse in claiming that Zionism is as old as Judaism. It just isn’t, as you know. It’s a modernist-secularist and ethnic-nationalist transformation of Zion concepts in Judaism. I’ve commented on that above. And what I’m saying isn’t even controversial. I’m not going to talk about that any more because I don’t think I need to.
As for ‘feeling’ what Zionism means to Israelis, you’re right, I don’t. But I do understand that the Zionist ideology has been tauught to generations of Israeli (and non-Israeli Jewish) children, that people identify deeply with Zionism, that Israeli Jews obviously attach to the concept because Zionism is what brought them to Palestine in the first place. I know that. I also know that 94% of Israeli Jews supported the Gaza massacre and that half think Jews were a majority in Palestine at the start of the 20th century. Fortunately, I am not so foolish as to imagine that this is going to be changed simply by dialogue. Israeli society has no need to change when it is so much more powerful than the Palestinians. South African whites changed when the power balance changed. I support a BDS campaign in the hope that this will really build into an economic and political power challenge to Israel. But it would be foolish to put all my hopes in the West. The change will come, if it does come, from the Arab world and the wider region.
Zionism certainly isn’t Israeli nationalism, as Sand reiterates. According to its own institutions, it is JEWISH nationalism. It does not include the quarter of the population (not counting the territories) which is not Jewish. It may not even include people like you, if you think about it. Sand talks about a person (of Jewish origin) who wanted ‘Israeli’ on his id card and wasn’t allowed.
The problem with ‘The two-state solution, if ever implemented, would restore Israel to its self-image of a predominantly Jewish democracy.’ is that the Palestinians still end up losing 78% of their country. I am saying, Israeli Jews could live in the country with the Palestinians, and let’s start talking now, while Israel is still in a powerful position, about how this could be arranged to the satisfaction of all. I don’t say it will be easy. And it may never work. But I don’t see a state which defines itself as a ‘Jewish democracy’, which has established itself colonially in the Arab and Muslim world, surviving long term. I don’t think the environment will accept, especially if the environment becomes more democratic. And I don’t accept it. Those Palezstinians who want to should be able to return to their families’ homes.
I am by no means an expert on DNA evidence, the Khazar people, or anything in this field. Sand, however, describes in some detail the argument about the DNA studies and their contradictory results. He also suggests good reasons why the ‘Ashkenazis’ may have forgotten their Khazar past.
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By: Yossi (AKA Rumyal) https://qunfuz.com/2009/12/09/five-books-on-israel-palestine/#comment-1009
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:33:05 +0000http://qunfuz.com/?p=562#comment-1009(Robin, sorry for double posting this comment, it appears that the earlier one is stuck because I wasn’t logged into WordPress)
Hi Robin,
Welcome back!
I didn’t think I made a compelling case with the European Muslims analogy, so I don’t want to dwell on it too much, except I found what you said here:
“If there were such a call, and if the ’state’ centred on a few urban areas with Muslim majorities, it would be problematic but no more so than the idea of an Ashkenazi state in a Jewish-majority area would have been in the early 20th c.”
Highly inconsistent with the rest of your expressed opinions. The Jews in Europe were a national minority which existed in Europe (mostly in Eastern Europe) for centuries if not millennia and were a majority in substantial swaths of Poland, Russia and the Ukraine. You are saying that their case for national minority rights (which, they did happen to negotiate over in the 19th century) is not stronger than that of recently-arrived work migrants from Muslim countries. That sounds very flawed to me but, OK. Let’s accept this logic for the sake of argument. At the same time, the then-recently-arrived Zionist settlers of Palestine of the first half of the 20th century, did not, in your opinion, have a case for self-determination in those areas in which they constituted a majority. e.g., in the area allotted for a Jewish state in the UN partition plan. Don’t you find that a little inconsistent?
Robin, I don’t want to sound condescending, but you really don’t have a chance at feeling what the word “Zionism” means to an Israeli. All of this discussion that we’re having, really has no applicability to how this word is experienced. You need to understand that, because your political plans (however personal they are…) include convincing Israelis that they need to renounce Zionism. This will not happen. The word Zionism is just a modern incarnation of terms such as “Ahavat Zion” and “Khibbat Zion” (both mean Love of Zion) that are as old as Judaism. The term, even though new, is deeply connected to Jewish spiritual roots as well as having a political meaning which, as Nethy has very accurately observed on my blog, is simply Israeli nationalism. The political meaning is intertwined with the religious strata of the term “Zionism” and Israelis in particular and non-assimilating Jews in general are deeply committed to both.
That is not to say that Zionism (that is, Israeli nationalism) is not taken these days into fascist and racist directions (check news for “Im Tirtzu”), as happened to German and Italian nationalisms, but that in itself doesn’t mean that Israelis will renounce their national identity once their fascism is curbed. And their immutable national identity is: Zionists. BTW, Israelis doesn’t say “Zionism” they say “Tziyonut” and a person is “Tziyoni” which simultaneously means Zioni (from the land of Zion) and Zionist (a supporter of Zionism). In other words, convincing Israelis that they should not be considered Zionists is akin to convincing Italians that they are not Italian.
I, for one, would be extremely surprised if Israelis all of the sudden realized that Zionism has been channeled to mean a supremacist ideology and that they need to renounce it and accept bi-nationalism. It’s much more likely that one side would be cleansed before that happened, or that a two-state separation solution would be implemented. It’s also very non-PC to say it, so you can’t, but I will, this tendency towards “exceptionalism” that is so central in Zionism is not an aberration of modern volkish Zionism—it’s part and parcel of Judaism. To fight the wrongs of Zionism, you’d have to force Jews to confront the exceptionalism that is strongly woven into our religion.
Again, the reasons I’m telling you all of this is (a) because you may find this useful and (b) it illustrates, to me at least, that the effort that you undertake to tarnish Zionism will not result in Israelis renouncing this moniker but rather identifying you as their mortal enemy. I would think that a dialectic move towards defining “New Zionism” in a manner consistent with robust democratic values has better chance of succeeding, but is also a long shot.
If you are interested, we can simulate you addressing an Israeli audience. This may help in framing your goals, your arguments and your language. We can try to get it translated and published and I could translate responses. Would you find that interesting to try? If not, I would maintain that the Hamas one-state vision, of coercion and Islamic supremacy, is more transparent and more realistic than yours.
While you travelled, the two-state/one-state debate picked up some steam in Israel, due to a piece in Haaretz by Meron Benvenisti which is translated here:
Some Zionism lefties tries to answer but didn’t really address the core of the issue: Israel is today and Apartheid bi-national state who wishes to believe otherwise. The two-state solution, if ever implemented, would restore Israel to its self-image of a predominantly Jewish democracy.
I regret you don’t read Hebrew as some of the most intelligent debates on these topics is in Hebrew only sites such as HaOkets (“the sting”) and Kedma (“towards the East”). In the latter, Sami Shalom Shitrit writes that anti-Zionism cannot be a constructive rallying point for the Jews of Israel because it says what it wants to destruct, but not what it wishes to build.
One final word, be careful with Sand, a lot of what he says about the history of the Ashkenazi Jews is highly improbable, although his analysis of recent history (which includes Zionist historiography) and current affairs is brilliant . In particular, the Kazaria theory of the origin of Ashkenazi Jews is extremely weak, both because this people doesn’t have a recollection of this assumed (glorious!) period in their past (despite them being “the people of the book”!) and because DNA evidence, despite what Sand says about it, does support their Mideastern ancestry.
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By: qunfuz https://qunfuz.com/2009/12/09/five-books-on-israel-palestine/#comment-995
Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:39:53 +0000http://qunfuz.com/?p=562#comment-995again, Yossi, your analogy just doesn’t work. There are no calls to create a Muslim state in western Europe in response to rising Islamophobia. If there were such a call, and if the ‘state’ centred on a few urban areas with Muslim majorities, it would be problematic but no more so than the idea of an Ashkenazi state in a Jewish-majority area would have been in the early 20th c. Zionism’s fatal flaw was its territorial asscociation with Palestine and the colonial mindset that underlay this. Palestinians at first accepted or welcomed Jewish immigration. What changed that was not increased numbers but the realisation that the new batch of Jews was immigrating not only to escape oppression or for religious reasons but to establish a Jewish state. The Palestinian response was quite understandable.
Nathan Birnbaum was the coiner of the term ‘Zionism’. He wrote “The distinction of the people stems from the distinction of the race.” And this is not an ancient Jewish idea. It’s the product of the late 19th century, of Volkish nationalism and racial pseudo-science. ‘Zion’ is indeed a holy word in Judaism. It signifies a range of spiritual referents. But Zionism is something else again.
Shlomo Sand says “in Germany in 1914 Zionists accounted for less than 2% of Germans of Jewish origin, and in France even less.”
Just written an essay on Sand’s book, which will appear on my blog eventually. Much of it is relevant to our discussion. Particularly this:
For a fleeting moment in the Zionist enterprise the Judean origin of the natives was openly discussed. Some Zionists even argued for a unified homeland based on ethnic brotherhood with the Palestinians, but the 1929 Arab Uprising dashed their unrealistic hopes and the Judeans were forgotten again. “The inclusive concept,” Sand writes, “was based on the assumption that it would be easy to assimilate a ‘low and primitive’ Oriental culture, and so the first violent resistance from the objects of this Orientalist fantasy shook them awake.”
On Islamic political ideas and the Caliphate, I strongly recommend a book called Who Needs an Islamic State? by Abdelwahab El-Affendi. I like his idea of non-territorial statehood, and I wonder if this could not be adapted to the Israel/Palestine situation. I may get around to writing about that too.
and have been hearing about the occasional terrorist cell, or outrageous Imam. I also presume to know that almost all first generation immigrants came to Europe to find work and didn’t plan on staying there for multiple generations. I also heard that xenophobia against Muslims is on the rise. That’s the extent of my knowledge…
My point was that even given this largely non-colonialist and non-violent background (with a non-negligible modicum of exceptions), it would be hard to predict how the Muslim community will react to violent persecution from “aboriginal Europeans”.
thanks for comments. no time to respond yet, except to say that there is no comparison between Muslim migration to Europe and the Zionist colonial project. Any ‘Muslim leader’ that talks about turning Europe into an Islamic state is on an irrelevant fringe, has no audience among the vast majority of Muslims, and even if he did has no power behind him to make this absurd dream a reality. Apart from a few ‘cultural Zionists’ (I’ll talk about these distinctions when I get round to responding to Yossi) the Jews arrived in Palestine with a plan for a Jewish state, and with guns and miltary organisation, and with money to create new institutions and settlements, and with the Balfour Declaration in their pockets. The comparison is absurd. Some Muslims do talk about Europe becoming Muslim one day, but by ythis they mean by voluntary conversion of the Europeans, of which there is no sign. And if the Europeans do convert, that’s fine. If the Palestinians convert to Judaism, that’s also fine.
The Palestinians don’t need to prove that they can build a democratic state in order to be released from apartheid and to exercise their right to return to the land they’ve been ethnically cleansed from. And I have never said that a one state solution will be easy to achieve. It does seem to me, however, that it is the only long term solution which has a possibility of working, and the only one which is just.
More on this later – I accept that not all forms of Zionism are as nasty as the state-obsessed apartheid and iron wall system which exists at present, but I do think that they are seriously misguided as soon as they identify the Jews of the world in any concrete way with the territory of Palestine, which was inhabited by other people.
I think you have a lot of insight & a appreciate the level of though that has gone in to your discussion above.
I think you have an interesting mix of an insider and an outsider’s perspective. I think that your position on the one/two state solutions is a result of the latter, armchair perspective. It’s analogous to those on the left that supported the Iraqi invasion on the grounds that it would result in Iraqi democracy.
I have absolutely no moral quarrel with your description of a one man one vote state. But, I do not believe there is a path to it that results in a stable democratic state. That kind of cultural-political engineering is impossible at the best of times. Here, it stands an even worse chance. There are probably half a dozen insurmountable barriers.
It is not even obvious that Palestinians would, at the moment, be able to form an effective democratic government in the entire area even if Jews magically disappeared tomorrow morning. It is unlikely that they will be able to form a state in the Territories that is stable & functioning enough to make Arab citizens of Israel want to join them even if they take their land with them (this was recently suggested by an ultra right camp within Israel).
Your picture of Tel Abib is nice but the path to it is as hand wavy as it gets. I suspect that most of the intelligent insiders pushing for it are pushing for it with a concealed or semi concealed agenda. For many (as you both hint at), this is the two state agenda.
I have a lot or respect for what you write above. It seems abrupt to introduce myself with a criticism so I apologise, but this is perhaps the nature if this topic.
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By: qunfuz https://qunfuz.com/2009/12/09/five-books-on-israel-palestine/#comment-972
Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:45:36 +0000http://qunfuz.com/?p=562#comment-972Yossi, I think you are way off in your understanding of European Muslims etc and I will respond to it. On Zionism you are making me think, and I have a great deal to say. Had a conversation tonight with an old friend about how everyone from Noam Chomsky to King Fahd are called Zionist. I will respond, insha’allah, but give me some days. In Muscat now (come from Doha) and inundated by activity. Wonderful to be here in this beautiful country with these beautiful people.
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