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Beauty is only skin-deep.
My mom, (and yours too, I bet) always said: “Beauty is only skin deep.” In other words, cultivate the inner beauty, not just what others see. Wise words for sure, but you don’t realize how wise until you are much older.
As a young girl, I begrudgingly remembered to have manners and be kind, but I was pretty enough–not drop dead gorgeous, just symmetrical enough–to slide in under the wire. If I made a mistake and apologized quick with a little lash flutter, I was often excused for any perceived transgression.
Now that I am older, I understand better what mom meant. But let’s face it (pun intended), after five plus decades of gravitational pull, skin-deep beauty is a real process. Cover the age spots, use bondo on the wrinkles, and spritz on artificial color and glow!
Basically, I re-excavate my face every day trying to look like I did 40 years ago.
Symmetry is hard to achieve
but much more accessible than beauty. Why? For symmetry (thank you, God), there is medical intervention. There is Botox.
But hey you, with your youthful good looks? Do me a favor, and don’t start yet. Give us in the older generations a running start!
Botox is not for the young. It is for those of us whose eyebrow has fallen and it can’t get up. No, not plural eyebrows. Just one! If aging happened symmetrically, we could all age gracefully with little or no complaint. But it doesn’t happen all at the same time. So most of us go kicking and screaming. Straight to the med-spa.
And there is more gravitational elusiveness
Yes. Gravitational pull would not be complete with a discussion about ‘undergarments.’ The girls are basically housed in full Kevlar body armor all day so no one sees what a 36 long really looks like. Or how gravity affects the drooping skin on the torso. The cruel joke is that the lady who created Spanx didn’t need it as badly as we who are a generation older than her. But we wear them, and suffer in them trying to look like her generation.
Nothing is going to change gravitational pull, years of pregnancy and nursing, and yo-yo weight gains and losses.
So, younger, smarter women: while you can, flaunt the girls because one day, you will just wish you could put them back where they belong without all the binding and gasping. You will just have to trust me on this one.
Beauty is only skin deep.
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment [take that, Mac and Sephora and Spanx!], such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 1 Peter 3: 3-4
Cultivating the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit is only done when we care more about others than ourselves. We practice that (without thinking) as moms every day, but then one day, all of a sudden, we have…time.
“What is this slow pace? This margin I have created? I think I’ll go do my hair and makeup.”
And then we look in the mirror and realize, we don’t look the same as we did when we were young. We’ve still “got it” but we have to work harder to show it. It is a little…unfulfilling.
We need to express our inner self in a way that helps us recognize our beauty through God’s eyes. For most of us, that will be expressed through service.
Enter a younger, tired mom
Even through her exhaustion, she looks pretty. The comparisons start and even in a full face-load of makeup and perfectly messy hair, you know you will never compete with her youth, sparkle and messy mom-bun.
But here’s where we do sparkle
In the middle of a bunch of young, beautiful people who need to know deep truths about God, and life, and love, and holding on to truths, friendships, marriages and promises. YOU sparkle!
You know that stuff, don’t you? You have lived it for a lot of years. You have learned the lessons. You have experienced the peace of God that transcends the trouble. THAT is the secret to your inner beauty.
And your inner beauty has never been more needed or important than it is today.
This is the counter-balance to the gravitational pull of our bodies. When we find worth in our inner beauty, we will no longer come up short in the silent competition between women for who looks the best. Let everyone else win!
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My 99 M750 sounded like a dumptruck when I applied the rear brake at anything less the 50mph, and I just couldn't quiet it. to be honest, I didn't use it that often, but when I did, it was embarassing as hell.
I've found tht replacing the push pin with a bolt that just barely fits is the only way to "cure" the noise. I think it was a 1/4 in. allen head bolt with two nuts on the backside, I haven't heard the noise in almost 4 years now.
I've had much the same experience as Chris. changing pads seems OK for a while, but eventually the noise comes back. I've moved to a non- sintered pad which helped, but will probably wear at a greater rate, plus doesn't quite have the same perceived "grip" as a sintered one. Also, I found my rear disc undersize in thickness, and on removal from the wheel it warped really badly (radial rather than circumferential) and seemed to have been "off-centre", running more towards one caliper piston than the other. The new disc sits nice and central in the caliper, and so far (c. 5000 kms) is nice and quiet. | <urn:uuid:dc6a5dab-dd07-4473-9fef-622e4d59f6a1> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.ducatimonster.org/threads/fixed-my-rear-brake-noise.96156/ | 2020-09-18T17:56:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.987271 | 268 |
Led lights are in the crosshairs of the health authorities. Some would be harmful to the eyes. What for? How? 60 does shed light on these lamps led through six questions.
What is a LED?
It is a light-emitting diode, designated by the LED (Light Emitting Diode) or DEL acronym in french. It illuminates with semiconductors, driven by an electric current, produce a light emission. The diode is for example built into a light bulb.
The two major benefits of this lighting system: it lasts a very long time (30 000 hours, is two to five times longer than a CFL) and consumes very few (between 7 and 8 W for a power equivalent to a 40 W incandescent bulb). But it is very expensive!
Everywhere. In domestic lighting, public lighting, illuminated signs, electric lights, lighting of vehicles, the lights of the toys, bright decorative items, light therapy devices…
Are All LED Lamps Dangerous?
No. In the notice published on October 25, 2010, the national agency of sanitary safety of food, the environment and labour (Anses) warns against some lamps emitting a blue radiation, considered at risk, and yet which are accessible to all consumers according to ZEPHYRLEDLIGHTS.COM.
Of many LED lamps emit a light white, considered safe for the eyes. Moreover, the danger fades as you move away from the light source. It disappears when the light beam is hidden behind a cover, a light… “Under normal conditions of use, these lights pose no risk. Of course, do not stare into the light”, emphasizes the Union of lighting.
What Are the Risks?
‘Blue light is renowned for its effects harmful and dangerous on the retina, resulting from a cellular oxidative stress’, experts say. It would encourage the emergence of eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The danger appears at little intense shows repeated over long periods.
The blue light would be especially harmful for children, already people with AMD, those consuming the medication dosages or even those working in an environment exposed to blue LED (light, middle of the show… installers) lighting.
Furthermore, LED lamps, very powerful, can lead to a phenomenon of glare. Anses wondered also about a possible disruption of the biological clock and strobe effects.
How to Choose LED Lamps Without Danger?
Hard to say. For the time being, there is no specific labelling to identify the LED with no risk. The Union of the lighting reminds that a normative marking is being developed and it will be available in 2011. The Homelights manufacturer undertakes, for its part, to indicate the quality of the light and the security level on all its products in January.
Furthermore, to combat the phenomenon of glare, it is better to avoid the lamps led light beam is directly visible. Prefer those sold with a reflector that diffuses the light source. And do not stare at the light beam!
What Recommendations Emits Anses?
- do not use strong blue light lamps in places frequented by children (maternity, cr猫ches, schools…) or in the objects they use: toys, bright displays, consoles and joysticks, nocturnal lights…
- limit the use of LEDs in the highest risk categories for professional use
- change standards
- implement a comprehensible labelling on the technical characteristics of the lighting and its potential health effects
- mandatory marking of the risk on the packaging of the product category and indicate the safety distance beyond which danger disappears
- evaluate the harmfulness and compliance of light therapy devices, comfort or well-being and regulate their use.
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Who Are Your Enemies?
Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you—Luke 6:27-28
Who are your enemies? Do you have any? Who hates you? Anyone? Most of us would probably answer, no. We might even conclude that these words, spoken so long ago, have become a little irrelevant in our present, everyday lives. And we might try to just move on to the next set of instructions. Should we? Can we? The answer is absolutely not. These particular instructions are as relevant to us, right now, as they are challenging—and as they are important. Our King, Jesus Christ, is simply calling on us to love even those who are hardest to love. And we know people like that.
Who’s mistreated you? Who’s let you down? Who’s taken advantage of you? Maybe someone at work? A family member? A friend? A neighbor? Someone you barely know? “Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst” (Luke 6:27-30 MSG).
We must treat well those who’ve treated us badly (Luke 6:27-29). We must help those who will never help us back (Luke 6:31-34). We must be generous to those who are anything but... (Luke 6:29-30). And we must be merciful to them all (Matthew 6:14-15). But, not only that, we must be merciful again and again and again (Matthew 18:21-22). You see, what Jesus is teaching us—what we must grasp and embrace—is that we don’t fight evil with yet more evil; we fight evil with good (Romans 12:20).
Okay, so what do we do?
Who’d be the hardest person for you to pray for? Got him? Got her in mind? Okay, that’s your person. Pray for them. Let God the Holy Spirit lead you in how to pray. Pray tomorrow too. Write their name down and pray for them every day for a week, at least.
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Our 13th event was another very special edition combined with the Sexton Shootout!
The event was held at La Mirada DGC in La Mirada, CA and we couldn’t have been more thrilled to see how many people came out to support the Jomez Pro crew along with the Sexton Shootout!
Here’s how the format works:
The Sexton Shootout is played as one round of 18 holes, and the Top 3 scores automatically move on to a Final 9 holes to be filmed by us. We also hold a raffle to draw for our 4th “Wild Card” player.
We had such a blast with this event, and we hope to hold many more of these in the near future!
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In May 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a Drug Safety Communication concerning the antipsychotic drugs, Abilify, Abilify Maintena, and Aristada.
This safety announcement provided the following warning:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that compulsive or uncontrollable urges to gamble, binge eat, shop, and have sex have been reported with the use of the antipsychotic drug aripiprazole (Abilify, Abilify Maintena, Aristada, and generics). These uncontrollable urges were reported to have stopped when the medicine was discontinued or the dose was reduced. These impulse-control problems are rare, but they may result in harm to the patient and others if not recognized.
Although pathological gambling is listed as a reported side effect in the current aripiprazole drug labels, this description does not entirely reflect the nature of the impulse-control risk that we identified. In addition, we have become aware of other compulsive behaviors associated with aripiprazole, such as compulsive eating, shopping, and sexual actions. These compulsive behaviors can affect anyone who is taking the medicine. As a result, we are adding new warnings about all of these compulsive behaviors to the drug labels and the patient Medication Guides for all aripiprazole products.
Since the FDA’s warning, over 800 Abilify lawsuits have been filed against the drug manufacturers, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals. These cases involve Plaintiffs who used Abilify, then experienced the harmful compulsory behaviors that the FDA warned about in May 2016.
The Plaintiffs argue that the manufacturers of Abilify, Abilify Maintena, and Aristada should have known and warned about the link between their drugs and the harmful, uncontrollable urges. If such warnings had been provided by the drug manufacturers, then the Plaintiffs claim that they would have recognized the causes of such urges and been able to seek medical help before undergoing such devastating losses.
These Abilify cases have been consolidated in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the Northern District of Florida. An MDL is often created in order to centralize cases that involve the same defendants and issues.
Three test cases out of this MDL were selected by the involved parties and the judge presiding over the MDL to go to trial in June of this year. However, these cases were recently settled after a successful mediation. According to the Order signed by the MDL judge, once the settlement money is paid by the Defendants and dismissals are signed by the Plaintiffs, the cases will officially be taken off the trial docket.
Often times, the test cases in an MDL — often referred to as “bellwether trials” — will determine rulings for the remaining cases in the MDL. Given that the original cases never went to trial, a new round of test cases will be selected. If the second round of cases is again settled before going to trial, one could predict that the cases remaining in the MDL could also anticipate settlements instead of trial dates.
We will continue to monitor the legal news for updates on the onoging Abilify gambling lawsuits and report significant developments as we are made aware of them.
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There is no bigger peace of mind than knowing your children would be taken care of if you were to pass away suddenly. We don’t always have the luxury of knowing when we will die. That is why having a firm estate plan in place is such a necessity. The team at Lucé Law is happy to assist you in putting together a sound estate plan through either a living will or trust, to ensure your children are financially secure after your death. Here is how it works.
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The first step is to schedule a consultation with one of our experienced estate planning attorneys. Before your meeting, write down your questions and concerns so you can get answers during your meeting. You will meet with the attorney for a brief half hour or so to discuss estate planning. The attorney will make recommendations based on your assets and explain the process moving forward.
Creating Your Estate Documents
Depending on the type of estate plan you choose (will or trust) will dictate the paperwork and process you will go through. A will and trust have similar paperwork that you will need to follow. Think about which of your children will inherit what. You will need to know how your assets will be split amongst your kids, and if there are any specific gifts, who do they go to.
You Can Change Your Mind
A common misconception people have about wills or trusts is that once they are signed, they remain the same. You can change your will or trust, as long as they are revocable. There is a very limited situation in which your trust or will would be irrevocable during your lifetime, and your attorney would explain those circumstances fully.
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Need an apple pie recipe that's big enough for a crowd? Apple Slab Pie is just the ticket. You'll be the apple of everyone's eye when you make this slab pie recipe for your next event. Not only is this recipe for apple pie a-peeling to the whole gang, but it's a quick and easy sheet pan dessert, too! (For even more ideas of what to make with apples, check out our 50+ Easy Apple Recipes!)
What You'll Need
- 2 (15-ounce) packages refrigerated pie crusts
- 6 apples, peeled, cored, and cut into thin slices
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon milk
What to Do
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. On a flat surface, roll out 2 pie crusts just enough to hang slightly over the rim of a 10- x 15-inch baking sheet.
- In a large bowl, combine apples, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, the brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon; toss until apples are evenly coated, then spoon evenly over crust.
- Roll out remaining crusts and place over apples. Trim and pinch edges together to seal; flute if desired. Using a sharp knife, cut several 1-inch slits in top. Lightly brush top of crust with milk and sprinkle with remaining sugar.
- Bake 40 to 45 minutes, or until golden brown and bubbly. Let cool.
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Servings Per Recipe: 15
- Calories 297
- Calories from Fat 124
- Total Fat 14g 21 %
- Saturated Fat 5.7g 28 %
- Trans Fat 0.0g 0 %
- Protein 0.4g 1 %
- Cholesterol 11mg 4 %
- Sodium 296mg 12 %
- Total Carbohydrates 45g 15 %
- Dietary Fiber 1.0g 4 %
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The ruling in Upstate Forever and Savannah Riverkeeper v. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, LP expands the rights of citizens groups to bring suits for penalties and injunctive relief under the Clean Water Act even when a state EPA is actively involved in addressing the issue. Furthermore, the court ruling allows claims to be brought even when the original spill ceased and all that remains is ongoing migration from a historical spill.
Back in 2014, a leak occurred in the Plantation Pipe Line which runs from Louisiana to Washington, D.C. The leak resulted in the discharge of gasoline and petroleum below ground. While the leak was repaired quickly, cleanup has been ongoing for a number of years. The cleanup has been supervised by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC). In 2016, environmental groups brought suit claiming the cleanup has been inadequate to prevent migration of pollution into nearby waterways.
The suit raised a number of important issues:
- Typically, where state or federal regulators have taken affirmative action to address a violation, such regulatory action bars citizens from bringing suit. Why not here?
- When a spill has stopped do citizen groups still have authority to assert a claim?
- Does subsurface pollution that migrates to waterways fall within the scope of the Clean Water Act as a prohibited discharge
- The Clean Water Act regulates “point source” discharges which are “any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance,” including pipes, ditches, channels and tunnels. 33 U.S.C. § 1362(14)
Fourth Circuit Rules the Environmental Groups Could Bring Suit
The Court did not directly address the extent of state involvement in the cleanup. However, the cleanup was only being performed in accordance with “guidance” from the SCDHEC, not under a formal judicial consent order which would bar a subsequent citizen’s suit. While the Company was working with state regulators to cleanup the spill, the State never took formal enforcement to cutoff citizen suits.
The Court ruled the spill was not a “wholly past violation.” While the pipeline was fixed, the spill left contaminants in the ground that were still migrating to nearby waterways. The Court found that the pipeline was a point source and even though the pipeline was repaired, ongoing violations were occurring due to migration of contamination to waterways from the original spill. The Court held:
“The CWA’s language does not require that the point source continue to release a pollutant for a violation to be ongoing. The CWA requires only that there be an ongoing ‘addition… to navigable waters,’ regardless whether a defendant’s conduct causing the violation is ongoing.”
The Court rejected other court rulings that held such ongoing migration of pollution did constitute wholly past violations. It distinguished this case from a prior ruling that held decomposition of lead shot was not an ongoing violations. Conn. Coastal Fisherman’s Ass’n v. Remington Arms Co., 989 F. 2d 1305, 1312-13 (2d Cir. 1993). With regard to the case of lead shot, in contrast to the Kinder Morgan case, the pollutants had already been deposited into a waterway. Here, pollution was still entering nearby waterways from the historical spill.
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What does the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) teach us about federalism? A first lesson is that, when confronted with state-based decision making of which they disapprove, national lawmakers federalize rights, as they have repeatedly done throughout United States history. In 2005, Congress turned to the federal courts because CAFA’s proponents believed that state courts were too welcoming of collective adjudication. CAFA is part of a cohort of enactments and doctrinal developments of this era that preempt state decision making and push litigants toward noncollective and nonadjudicative remedies such as privately sponsored arbitration programs.
Lessons in Federalism From the 1960s Class Action Rule and the 2005 Class Action Fairness Act: "The Political Safeguards" of Aggregate Translocal Actions
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Starter duty cycle and system troubleshooting tips
Show of hands if you’ve ever had anyone direct you in how to properly treat your airplane’s starter? Let’s see… one, two, three—you in the blue shirt: really? That’s what I thought.
The truth is, beyond a cursory glance at the POH, very few pilots have ever had, or considered, any formal starter-operations training. From the day you first set your butt in the left seat, it’s pretty much been, “Just turn the key and hold it until the engine starts—or the starter burns up—whichever comes first.”
No wonder so many of us have chronic problems with our starter’s performance and reliability.
So what’s going on here, anyway? To get an answer, I went directly to a source of all things starter-related: Hartzell Engine Technologies (HET), makers of the Hartzell and Sky-Tec brands of aircraft starters.
According to Tim Gauntt, Director, Product Support for Hartzell Engine Technologies, the main cause of most starter problems is most owners don’t really understand their aircraft’s starting system and the stresses the starter experiences when you turn the key.
“One area that the majority of pilots I talk to have little understanding of is the importance of knowing and adhering to the duty cycle that pertains to their aircraft’s starter,” he said. “Knowing and following the duty cycle guidelines will go a long way toward maximizing your starter’s operational life.”
“But,” you ask, “What is a ‘duty cycle’?”
“The starter’s duty cycle determines how well the starter can tolerate repeated starting attempts. Each unsuccessful attempt is meant to be followed by a specified starter cool down interval,” Gauntt explained.
“Not following specified duty cycle procedures will cause the starter to overheat and severely damage the starter’s internal components, leading to premature starter failure.”
Most pilots don’t understand that violating the duty cycle just a couple of times will do irreparable damage to the starter. In extreme cases, it can render the starter inoperable—then you’re stuck. Excessive cranking can also overheat the electrical supply system and cause accelerated wear to the contactor and elevated corrosion rates for connections in the circuit.
The folks at HET feel so strongly about the importance of following proper duty cycle procedures that they produced a short training video on the subject. (See Resources at the end of this article for the link. —Ed.)
Not all duty cycles are the same.
As discussed in the informational video, every type of starter has its own particular duty cycle requirements. And it’s critically important for you to know which starter is in your airplane and how its duty cycle works.
So you don’t have to take notes, here are the duty cycles for the most popular starter types as described in Hartzell’s video.Typical duty cycle times for HET Sky-Tec starters:
• 10 seconds of engagement followed by 20 seconds of rest for up to six
• After that, allow 30 minutes of
cool down before beginning the next
Typical duty cycle times for HET E-Drive and X-Drive starters:
• 10 seconds of engagement followed by 20 seconds of rest for up to 20
• After that, allow 10 minutes of cool down before beginning the next start sequence.
Typical duty cycle times for HET PM-Series Continental starters:
• 15 seconds of engagement followed by 30 seconds of rest for up to six
• After that, allow 30 minutes of cool down time before beginning the next start sequence.
Typical duty cycle times for “legacy” starter models, including Prestolite and Electrosystems:
• 10 seconds of engagement flowed
by 60 seconds of rest;
• Then 10 seconds of engagement
followed by 60 seconds of rest;
• Then 10 seconds of engagement
followed by 15 minutes of cool down time before beginning the next start sequence.
“Following the duty cycle procedures may add a few minutes to your typical starting sequence, but understanding and following the procedures correctly will help your aircraft’s starter provide you with many years of reliable service,” Gauntt said.
Starting problems aren’t always starter problems.
A weak or slow cranking starter is one of the leading causes of people exceeding a starter’s duty cycle. But those symptoms don’t always point directly at a dying starter.
“The starter is actually the last part of a sophisticated, multi-component starting system, and issues with any of the parts—whether environmental, mechanical or operator-induced—will show up as ‘starter problems,’” Gauntt said. “The health of the entire system must be well maintained in order to achieve consistent engine starting performance.”
In addition to individual performance issues with the system’s components, if the engine is improperly adjusted or has a poorly operating fuel system, the engine will also be difficult to start.
Parts of the multi-component starting system include the following items.
Battery: Batteries can vary in size and mounting location, either of which can have an effect on the performance of the starting system.
Electrical connectors: They serve as the termination points for the electrical conductors that interconnect all of the starting system’s various components.
Electrical conductors: Typically these are highly flexible insulated copper or aluminum cables. The length and condition of each has a significant impact on the system’s performance.
Switching devices: Their primary use is to control the flow of electrical power throughout the starting system.
Starter: The starter is the actual unit that converts the electrical power to mechanical energy in the form of torque, which is used to physically rotate the engine to initiate the starting process.
“No matter what the cause or reason, if any of the system’s components are not working properly,” Gauntt said, “the results can run from poor starter performance to outright damage to the starter itself.”
How is all works… and what to do if it doesn’t.
In its simplified form, the starter converts the battery’s electrical power to mechanical energy in the form of torque, which is used to crank the engine.
Cranking requires a significant amount of current (typically ~400 amps in-rush; ~70 amps cranking). Voltage at the battery equals the potential (or “push”) in the system, but if the system has too much resistance along the path, the battery can’t flow enough current to the starter to do its job. That resistance comes in the form of corroded terminals, dirty or worn contactors and old wiring. And, since they suffer from lower potential already, older aircraft with original 12-volt systems are especially prone to problems.
Also, take time to check the other components of the system to ensure good current flow including the aircraft’s switches, relays, and even the aircraft’s key or push-button starter device.
Age-related and moisture-induced corrosion can attack the connecting terminals and erode the internal contacts slowing the flow of power. Even the smallest bit of corrosion on a wire or connection point could be the source of a problem.
Gauntt said that a commonly overlooked point of corrosion is the engine bonding strap. The ground system should be checked for electrical ground integrity using a volt ohmmeter. A maximum of 0.2 ohms of resistance at any bonding/ground connection is the borderline limit.
While you’re under the cowling, check the condition of the electrical conductors and insulation around the wires for chafing damage. Gaps in the insulation will allow moisture to corrode the wiring, increasing its resistance.
A weak battery will make even the cleanest system struggle. Low voltage will require the starter to turn slowly and remain engaged for a longer period of time. Extended engagement periods will lead to heat buildup in the starter motor and reduce its service life.
When it comes to battery troubleshooting, always follow the manufacturer’s guidelines for ongoing inspections, real-charge capacity testing and maintenance—including checking the terminals for corrosion.
Keep in mind that even a well maintained battery will lose a percentage of its charge over time. Corrosion on the battery leads, older batteries, and batteries exposed to extreme temperatures or humidity will see a faster rate of discharge.
A quick word about kickbacks.
The dreaded kickback occurs when, during the starting process, the engine’s crankshaft abruptly changes rotational direction.
A significant kickback can displace the crank as much as 90 degrees in 33 milliseconds and cause significant damage to the starter’s drive and gear engagement system. In extreme instances, kickback can actually break the starter’s mounting pad away from the engine.
Gauntt explained that kickback issues can often be resolved by adjustments to the engine’s ignition and fuel systems or through the pilot’s modification of engine starting techniques. Always follow the engine OEM’s instructions when making changes to the system’s settings or starting procedures.
Show of hands for who would like reliable starting performance in their aircraft? Everyone? That’s what I thought.
Though the functionality of starters hasn’t changed in decades, duty cycle guidelines do vary, and the stresses that a starter experiences during the aircraft startup process are immense.
Know and follow the duty cycle for your starter, keep an eye on the condition of all of the components in the starting system, and you’ll be rewarded with reliability when you turn the key.
Know your FAR/AIM and check with your mechanic before starting any work. Always get instruction and supervision from an A&P prior to attempting maintenance tasks.
Dale Smith has been an aviation journalist for 30 years. He has been a licensed pilot since 1974 and has flown 35 different types of General Aviation, business and World War II vintage aircraft.
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Your day-by-day itinerary
Arrival in Flores
On arrival into Flores, you’ll make your way to your hotel – a charming little place in the old centre with a roof terrace which overlooks the lake. The town itself is a great place to spend an evening or two, with some really good restaurants and a promenade which you can stroll around as you take in the views. It’s best to get an early night though, as tomorrow morning you’ll be up early to head to the ruins.
If you want a really unique experience then you can opt to head to the site for sunrise with a guide, otherwise we’ll arrange for transport to take you to the gate so that you can explore independently. Tikal has some of the largest pre-Columbian temples in the Americas, including the Lost World Pyramid and Jaguar Temple. You can spend hours wandering through the boulevards and will probably see plenty of wildlife popping out of the jungle on your way.
*Arranging a visit to Tikal can be a little complicated, since you need a ticket which can only be purchased locally at one of Guatemala’s main banks (for about £30) and should be done before you get to Flores. Don’t worry though, we’ll explain it in more detail before you go!
Continue your journey
After another evening relaxing in Flores, it’ll be time to check out and carry on to your next destination. We can book extra nights for you here though of course, if you’d prefer to hang around a little longer.
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Last week, Singapore hosted the Singapore International Jewellery Show (SIJS) 2012, its biggest jewellery exhibition to date. SIJS 2012, which featured US$120 million worth of gems and jewellery from 20 countries, also served as a platform for the Singapore government to express its interest in developing the republic into a regional jewellery hub.
Additionally, the show aimed to attract buyers and sellers from the Southeast Asian region to Singapore. Going by the response from traders, buyers and the general public during the show, experts believe that Asia’s already strong jewellery sector is set to soar even further.
Today, the regional jewellery industry is worth more than US$50 billion. Over the next five years, the industry is set to grow 10% – 15%, in tandem with rising affluence in Asia. India leads the chart, as it is the world’s largest consumer of gold jewellery and third largest consumer of polished diamonds. India is also the largest resource hub in diamond cutting and processing. In March 2011, India’s jewellery exports registered US$43 million. Other major jewellery markets in Asia include China and Japan.
Moving forward, the SIJS organizers will launch an online business matching program in Q3 2012 to provide a platform for exhibitors as well as small businesses to reach out to overseas buyers.
“Recognizing the city-state’s unique location and potential for capacity building, the Singapore government has embarked on various initiatives to equip Singapore jewellers with the necessary tools to build on their inhouse design capabilities and tap the flourishing Asian markets,” said Mr. Satish Bakhda, Head of Operations at Rikvin, a Singapore Company Registration specialist.
For example, Singapore-bred brands such as Aspial-Lee Hwa and SK Jewellery are benefiting from the Productivity & Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme to fund design research and develop innovative new collections.
Moreover, to facilitate development of a new refining and trading cluster in Singapore, the import and supply of investment-grade precious metals will be exempt from the currently-in-place 7% GST (Goods and Services Tax) with effect from 1 October 2012. In addition, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) will initiate new measures to ease the cash flow of qualifying refiners and local consolidators of precious metals. This will apply to payment of GST on the import and purchase of raw materials used in refining the precious metals into investment-grade form.
PRIVATE PUBLIC SECTOR COLLABORATION
The Singapore Jewellers Association (SJA), along with the chemical standard committee of SPRING Singapore, have also collaborated to develop the “Specification for Fineness and Marking for Articles of Precious Metals.” The Specification, which is expected to be ready by Q4 2012, will inject added confidence in the local gold jewellery retail trade. For additional safeguards, the SJA is exploring the possibility of establishing a gold jewellery accreditation program with authorized test laboratories to certify local jewellers.
“The government is also providing financial assistance to the industry for raising productivity through initiatives such as radio-frequency identification to improve inventory management, and upgrade its customer relationship management system to capture customers purchasing profiles. These steps, while boosting Singapore’s business-friendly image, are also testament to its preference among foreign entrepreneurs looking for an alternative safe investment jurisdiction to register a company,” concluded Mr. Bakhda. | <urn:uuid:a98646ec-5cae-4dc7-96fa-461f201e181b> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.rikvin.com/press-releases/singapore-gems-jewellery/ | 2020-09-18T17:53:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.93369 | 717 |
GODEMICHE. You’ve likely heard lots of good stuff about them by now. If not, which rock have you been under? They’re UK based hand-poured dildo makers. A company known for bright, bold colours and multi-hued mixes that are more psychedelic than the 70s. A company ran by the sweetest lady and the most hyper guy you’ll ever meet. They’re also known for having just a few (superb) designs on offer; their Adam and Ambit dildos, and their plugs and pegs. I’ve said in a past review that I’d be watching with keen interest to see what future designs they came up with. I knew it would be something special, and I was right. The Ambit is a hit. Now, I’m gonna tell you all about their latest release; the GODEMICHE Hercules.
I was so excited to be given a chance to review this uncut hero. It was sent to me by the awesome Vikki at Uberkinky, a company who currently have exclusivity on it. Deliveries come so fast from Uberkinky, and I had my Hercules in my hands the day after the review agreement was made. Continue reading “GODEMICHE Hercules Dildo” | <urn:uuid:cf1fb4fb-9a86-4321-be60-4da8f4202509> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.scandarella.com/category/reviews/brands/godemiche/ | 2020-09-18T16:49:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.980708 | 277 |
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- Lewis Baker joined the Owls on Thursday
- Chelsea prodigy signed youth loan deal
- Midfielder has outlined S6 ambitions
Having joined the Owls on a youth loan, Chelsea starlet Lewis Baker is out to maximise his maiden spell away from Stamford Bridge.
The talented midfielder, who has been with the Premier League giants since the age of nine, signed on Thursday morning and is eligible for Saturday’s visit to Nottingham Forest.
Speaking exclusively to swfc.co.uk, Baker outlined his ambitions whilst in S6.
He said: “This is my first loan and I feel I am ready for this. It is the next stage of my development.
“I’ve played for the 21s and I’ve been in around the first team every day so I think I am ready for this loan.
“I got a call to say Sheffield Wednesday were interested in me and I wanted to come because this is a great club with great tradition.
“I’m sure everyone will make me feel very welcome.”
So what kind of player is Lewis Baker?
“I’m a team player with good spirit who likes to get on the ball and likes to get a goal. I am two-footed as well, which is something I worked on every day with my dad after school.
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It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: Smart Communication has opened its registration page for the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. The page mentions that it will soon be available through Smart’s data plans with no mention of other details. Upon registration, you get to choose storage capacities (32GB and 64GB) and colors (Black Sapphire, White Pearl and Gold Platinum).
Once you have completed registration, someone from Smart will give you a call to verify the details of your order. I pre-registered before (for another unit) to test if they’d contact me and I was surprised they gave me a call after just a day or two. They verified my identity and account. Sadly, my line was still under contract so no dice on retention.
Now if you’re still on the fence on whether the Galaxy S6 Edge is for you or not, preview units will soon be available on display in chosen Smart Stores. That way, you can poke and prod both the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge to your heart’s content.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge will be available in the country starting April 18, 2015. For interested Smart subscribers (and non-subscribers alike), just follow this link (http://smart.com.ph/postpaid/galaxy-S6) and fill up the details.
Preview units will be soon available in the following Smart Stores:
- Jump Megamall
- SM Dasma
- SM Cebu
- SM Davao
- SM Baguio
Samsung Galaxy S6 / Edge key specs:
- 5.1 inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display; 1440 x 2560, 577ppi; Gorilla Glass 4
- 14-nm Exynos 7420 Octa Core chipset: Quad Core 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex A53 + Quad Core 2.1 GHz ARM Cortex A57
- Mali-T760 GPU
- 3GB of LPDDR4 RAM
- 32/64/128GB of storage (no microSD card expansion slot)
- 16 MP main camera with f/1.9, OIS, Autofocus, LED flash, Real-time HDR, 4k video
- 5 MP front camera with f/1.9
- Dual SIM (For the Galaxy S6 in the Philippines)
- WiFi a/b/g/n/ac; Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, GPS + GLONASS
- 2550mAh battery; 2600mAh for the S6 Edge; non-removable; Fast Charge
- Fingerprint scanner
- Android 5.0.2 with TouchWiz
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It’s weirdly easier to remember long-abandoned technological habits—like recording a television show to VHS, or that thing where you untangle a landline to let the handset dangle from its cord and spin—than it is to recall how people talked about tech a decade ago.
I know this because I recently came across a guide to writing about the Internet from 2003, a subsection of that year’s Associated Press Stylebook, that sounds ancient in today’s terms. “Blog,” for example, is described as jargon that should only be used if the writer explains that it’s a web journal.
It should be noted that the purpose of the Stylebook is to instruct journalists on the proper usage and meaning of various terms, so it makes sense that some of this stuff is over-explained. But still! These definitions harken back to a different—really, very—time in Internet history. A time when, for example, Facebook and Gmail and YouTube didn’t yet exist. The first iPhone was still years away.
Here are a few of my favorites from the 2003 Stylebook:
blog Internet jargon; if used, explain that it means web log or web journal.
browser Software that enables personal computer users to navigate the World Wide Web and to perform various operations once they re linked with a site. The two most often used are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
brick-and-mortar Note the singular brick and the hyphens for the term meaning traditional companies that sell their products in retail stores as distinguished from Internet companies. (Related is click-and-mortar, to describe commerce integrating the Web and traditional offline sales.)
chat room A World Wide Web site that enables computer users to message each other in an online conversation. [A chat room can exist on only part of a web site, or even off the web.]
cyberspace A term popularized by William Gibson in the novel Neuromancer to refer to the digital world of computer networks. It has spawned numerous words with cyber- prefixes, but try to avoid most of these cutesy coinages …
dot-com As an informal adjective describing companies that do business mainly on the Internet.
DVD Acronym for digital video disk (or digital versatile disk) ... The acronym is acceptable in most stories, but spell out somewhere in a story in which the context may not be familiar to readers.
emoticon A typographical cartoon or symbol generally used to indicate mood or appearance, as :-) and often looked at sideways. Also known as smileys.
Strangely, as time goes on, some of these once-unfamiliar terms will pass back into obscurity. In some cases, they already are. (“Mom, what’s a DVD?”)
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Vanilla and aromatic scent
Base notes of vanilla, aromatic, patchouli, green, fruity, woody
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Victoria Tschinkel, 63, has also decided to leave the company’s Board. Most recently, she served as a Director of the Florida Nature Conservancy and was a Senior Environmental Consultant to Landers & Parsons. From 1981 to 1987, Tschinkel was the Secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation. She currently serves as Chairwoman of 1000 Friends of Florida.
Toronto Bank Appoints Former Johnson & Johnson Exec to its Board
TD Bank Group has appointed Colleen Goggins, 56, to its Board. Goggins is the former Worldwide Chairman of the Consumer Group at Johnson & Johnson, where she also served as a member of its Executive Committee. Before being named Worldwide Chairman, she was the Group Chairman of North America and President of J&J Consumer Products. Goggins joined Johnson & Johnson in 1981. From 2006 to 2009, Goggins was named one of Fortune magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business.
Canadian Telecom Company Appoints Community Board Chairman
TELUS has appointed Claude Benoit as Chairman of the TELUS Montreal Community Board. Currently, she serves as the CEO of the Old Port of Montreal Corporation. Before being named CEO, she served as the company’s VP and oversaw the development of the Montreal Science Centre. Benoit is a member of the Order of Canada and has been awarded the McNeil Medal from the Royal Society of Canada.
Director Leaves Restaurant Chain
Tim Hortons announced the departure of Catherine Williams from the company’s Board. Currently, she serves as a Managing Director of Options Capital, a private investment company. Earlier in her career, she served as the CFO for Shell Canada. Before joining Shell Canada, Williams was a financial analyst for Nova and held various positions with the Bank of Canada. She currently serves on the board of directors at Enbridge and Alberta Investment Management.
Former Time CEO Joins Royal Caribbean Cruises
Royal Caribbean Cruises has appointed Ann Moore, the former Chairman & CEO of Time, to the company’s Board. Moore joined Time as a corporate financial analyst and subsequently served in key executive positions for several of the most popular consumer magazines in publishing, including TIME, People, InStyle, People en Espanol, and Real Simple. She was listed among the 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes.
Viacom & Accenture Board Member Joins Automotive Parts Company
LKQ has appointed Blythe McGarvie, 54, to its Board of Directors. Currently, McGarvie serves as the CEO and Founder of Leadership for International Finance. She also sits on the board of directors at Viacom and Accenture. Earlier in her career, she was the EVP & CFO of BIC Group, a publicly traded consumer goods company. Prior to BIC Group, McGarvie was the EVP & CFO of Hannaford Bros., a Fortune 500 retailer.
ON Semiconductor Appoints Former UBS Exec to its Board
ON Semiconductor announced that Teresa Ressel has joined its Board of Directors. Ressel is the former COO of UBS Americas group and CEO of UBS Securities. From 2001 to 2004, Ressel served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as the Ninth Assistant Secretary and was designated by Presidential directive as CFO of the department. Before joining UBS, Ressel held a variety of roles at Kaiser Permanente, including VP of Corporate Audit and Corporate Environmental Health & Safety Programs, Chief Compliance Officer, and SVP & COO of eCommerce. Earlier in her career, she also served at HP as a Corporate Program Manager.
Founder Leaves Personal Care Products Company
Nu Skin Enterprises announced the resignation of Sandra Tillotson, 54, as SVP & Director. She helped found the company and has served as a Director since it went public in 1996. Currently, Tillotson serves as VP of Seacology, an international environmental nonprofit organization. She is also the Founder and a Board Member of the Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation.
Transportation Products Manufacturer Appoints SVP of Texas Instruments
Melendy Lovett has been elected to the Board of Directors at Trinity Industries. Currently, she serves as SVP of Texas Instruments and President of the company's worldwide Education Technology business. Before being named SVP, Lovett was a VP in the company's human resources organization. Prior to joining TI, she was a Senior Manager with the consulting firm Coopers & Lybrand. In addition to her TI duties, Lovett has established and leads an initiative of TI women who are working to improve math and science education for girls in elementary through high school.
Biotech Company Adds to Board
Seattle Genetics has appointed Dr. Nancy Simonian to its Board. She also serves on the Board of the Personalized Medicine Coalition and does independent consulting for the biotechnology industry. Most recently, Simonian served as Chief Medical Officer at Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Before Millennium, she was the VP of Clinical Research at Biogen. Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, she was on the faculty of Massachusetts General Hospital and served as an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Director Resigns from Software Development Firm
Jeannine Strandjordm, 65, notified DST Systems that she plans on retiring from the DST Board. Currently, she is a director at American Century Mutual Funds, Euronet Worldwide, and JE Dunn Construction Company. Strandjordm is the former SVP & Chief Integration Officer at Sprint, a position she retired from in 2005. Before being named Chief Integration Officer, she served as SVP of Financial Services, SVP of Finance for the Global Markets Group, VP & Treasurer, and Controller.
Attorney on Financial Services Board
CNO Financial Group has elected Ellyn Brown, 62, to its Board. Until her retirement from full-time law practice, Brown practiced corporate and securities law, most recently as Principal of Brown & Associates. Currently, she is a member of the board of directors of NYSE Euronext and NYSE Regulation, the entity that oversees NYSE market regulation. She also serves as a Director at Walter Investment Management. Earlier in her career, Brown was Governor of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and a Trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, the parent entity of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and its government counterpart, GASB.
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4 Precocious Indians Who Are Innovating For A Sustainable Future
The Earth was a pristine, magnificent planet right after The Big Bang but humans have managed to pollute it to such an extent that every new nature-based statistic that has popped up in the last decade has only been about its deterioration and ultimate extinction. The oceans continue to drown in plastic, global warming is now a grim reality rather than a distant possibility and the bees are steadily dwindling in number. Fortunately, a few young (and we mean really young) Indian innovators are tackling these dangers head-on and have come up with ingenious solutions to these looming perils.
All of 12, this young innovator has always had a certain affinity for deep sea creatures which developed into a passion for ridding the oceans of plastic waste as he grew older. He kicked off his TED-Ed Clubs talk with a dialogue by Clint Eastwood from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly which goes ‘You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig.’ Kazi’s version was a little different where he said, “There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who create problems and the ones who solve them. I want to be in the latter category.”
Drawing the audience’s attention to disturbing statistics like the amount of plastic waste in the ocean surpassing the existing aquatic life and creating a line of plastic bottles twice the distance from the earth to the moon if we stacked all the plastic waste we created, Kazi said that he invented his prototype ship ERVIS with the aim to suck out plastic from the ocean’s surface. Think a gigantic vacuum cleaner with chambers for processing waste, collecting waste oil and treating the different sizes of plastic by analysing and segregating it. Kazi, who is busy preparing for his TEDxGateway talk in December, is currently working on logistics that will also help him dispose of the waste once he has succeeded in collecting it. He’s definitely come along way since his first prototype that lasted for about seven seconds before coming apart in his bathtub.
Aged 12, Rao’s invention was triggered by the scandal in Flint, Michigan, where officials are facing charges for manslaughter over water contamination in 2014-15. Not surprisingly, her parents began testing for lead in their own supply of water everytime they would consume it. Rao thought the process wasn’t feasible, practical or reliable which is when she set about creating her own contraption.
Naming her device after Tethys, the Greek goddess of fresh water, Rao completed her project over a period of five months, as part of the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a national competition conducted for middle-schoolers to come up with ingenious solutions to day-to-day problems. Her device utilises carbon nanotubes for detection of lead and includes three main parts — a core device, a housing processor with a Bluetooth extension, a nine-volt battery, and a slot to enter a disposable cartridge — all of which connects to a smartphone, providing an accurate, almost instant analysis. The aspiring epidemiologist/geneticist, who is slated to speak on the TEDxGateway conference in December, now wants to further work on the device and modify it to make it market-ready.
Last year, at the age of 12, Kavya Vignesh and her team became the youngest contingent to represent India at a robotics competition in Denmark with their unique solution to save bees. Her interest in the subject was piqued when her mother enrolled her in the RoboClub during her summer vacation at the young age of 9.
Vignesh has sworn fealty to the cause of saving bees by creating a contraption called the Bee Saver Bot which removes bees safely and carefully without harming them or humans. The thought occurred to her when she realised that more than 85 per cent of the world’s crops are pollinated by honey bees and that it was extremely important to relocate beehives without harming its inhabitants. Every third bite of food comes from a bee-pollinated crop or an animal that depends on bee pollination and it just wouldn’t do to have bees killed because of human negligence. Christened the Lightning McQueen after the animated Pixar film Cars, Vignesh’s invention involves developing a design that is fed into a wood-based 3D printer, which prints a biodegradable, breathable, and reusable enclosure for bees when they are being relocated.
The youngest Indian to be selected for the Antarctica 2018 Expedition with Robert Swan, Aanya Soni was part of this year’s committee that was formed to protect Antarctica and spread awareness about climate change. A 50-year treaty that was signed to prohibit any research, drilling or exploitation in Antarctica ends in 2041 and environmentalists are getting increasingly alarmed at the prospect of what will follow afterwards. For the past 14 years, Sir Robert Swan’s 2041 foundation has been selecting 80 people from across the world for this expedition, to cultivate leaders who will adopt a sustainable life and encourage the peers to do the same.
Soni may not have any inventions to her name yet, but the 13-year-old already lives a more sustainable life than most adults. In addition to being a founding member of the Kids4aCause team that provided aid to the people of Kashmir by recycling materials to create new products, Aanya and her friends have also been creating utility products for sales, every year during Diwali. A proud member of the Woman Up summit’s panel that was held last weekend, Soni plans to create awareness about the effects of climate change by helping people make small changes in their daily lives.
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The majority of national climate plans with an adaptation component which have been submitted under the Paris Climate Change Agreement prioritize action on water, yet financing would need to triple to 255 billion euros (about USD295 billion) per year to meet such targets. This was a key message of the international water community on Friday at their Action event during the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference.
“Sustainable use of water for multiple purposes must remain a way of life and needs to be at the centre of building resilient cities and human settlements and ensuring food security in a climate change context,” said Mariet Verhoef-Cohen, President of the Women for Water Partnership, and Co-Chair of Water Scarcity in Agriculture Platform (WASAG) during her opening speech and presentation.
The international water community co-signed what it called a “nature based solution declaration” at the opening of the Water Action Day to encourage the use of natural systems in managing healthy water supplies.
Water tends to be a local issue but consequences of its unwise management have global impact. Around 40% of the world's population will face water shortages by 2050, accelerating migration and triggering conflict, while some regions could lose up to 6% of their economic output, unless it is better managed.
Obstacles in accessing funding to meet climate change investment requirements in the water sector hinders achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 (ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all), as well as endangering the Paris Agreement’s goal to keep the average global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius and as close as possible to 1.5.
“Involving both women and men in decision making and integrated water resources initiatives leads to better sustainability, governance and efficiency,” said Ms Verhoef-Cohen.
The international water community encompasses several networks, including also #ClimateIsWater, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) and Global Alliances for Water and Climate (GAfWaC). The community underlined the imperative to develop closer cooperation within the climate community, as well as the energy, agriculture, urban, health, and oceans communities.
Water community experts said countries should turn their commitments into ambitious actions, notably by enhancing the efforts announced in their national climate plans – known as nationally-determined contributions.
Water must emerge as a greater priority in national policies and be integrated within other major sectors such as energy, food security, health, education, they said.
The 2017 UN Climate Change Conference COP23 takes place from 6 to 17 November at the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB) in Bonn, Germany, the seat of the UNFCCC secretariat.
The main message WfWP is conveying at COP23:
Women are key allies and the entry point for sustainable behavioral change in the water dimensions of climate adaptation and mitigation programs.
Gender responsive climate policies and programs will deliver a high return on investment in the social, environmental and economic arena.
Ensuring women’s empowerment and engagement at all levels will encourage them to reach their potential as agents of change.
Women are too often left out of governance processes; however, water management activities gain efficiency and impact when both women and men are involved in decision-making.
WfWP President Mariet Verhoef-Cohen is also vice-chair of Global Framework for Action to Cope with Water Scarcity in Agriculture.
WfWP is furthermore steering committee member of the #ClimateIsWater! Campaign.
WfWP supports the campaign and wants to highlight the role women play in the provision, management and safeguarding of water.
The threats of climate change are not gender-neutral. Women are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than men—primarily as they constitute the majority of the world’s poor and are more dependent for their livelihood on natural resources that are threatened by climate change.
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Newsletter Third Quarter ’08
Third Quarter 2008 Commentary
As the third quarter began, it looked like ‘more of the same’ – gradually slowing growth, rising costs for businesses and individuals, and the complex but apparently manageable unwinding of the nation’s multi-year debt binge and resulting housing-related boom/bust. This view proved to be largely accurate through June and into July as energy and commodity prices peaked and key measures indicated meaningful economic slowing.
But, by mid-July, it was becoming evident that the nation’s and world’s financial system ills were much more serious than initially perceived. Fannie and Freddie, the government-sponsored entities created to expand home ownership, were declared essentially bankrupt and the government’s implicit guarantee of their paper was made explicit. Merrill Lynch was folded into Bank of America, Lehman Brothers entered liquidation, and AIG was effectively nationalized.
In spite of all these truly unprecedented actions, by late-September, it became apparent that the mortgage-related problems were still spreading, not only in the U. S., but also in other developed market economies. The quarter ended with the U. S. government desperately working to find a solution that would be effective, affordable, and palatable to the American public. As this goes to press, the issue remains unresolved.
Investment markets in the third quarter illustrated once again that even when things look quite grim and securities prices appear to be very depressed, they can suddenly . . . get even worse. This in particularly occurs in economies struggling to correct several years of excesses. And, it is especially true when the government is at the same time struggling to counter previous naive and largely politically motivated actions with a new generation of questionable judgments.
In this environment of growing investor concerns, the securities markets behaved as expected – stocks sold off, low-quality bonds plummeted, and burgeoning demand for the safest investments drove their yields to near zero. The other traditional ‘safe harbor’ investments, however, did not behave as expected. Precious metals, as well as most other commodities (including energy) saw price declines. And real estate, of course, suffered greatly with the continued tight credit and excess supply.
For the quarter, after maintaining a modest trading range for the first couple of months, U. S. stocks declined through September, suffered extreme volatility late in the month, and ended the quarter down from -4.4% for the Dow to some 9% for the S&P 500 and NASDAQ from their June 30 levels. International stock markets fared much worse with, for example, the German and UK markets off about 12% (all numbers in local currency), Japan down 18%, China 23%, and the Eastern European markets off 35% to 40%.
Ten-year Treasury yields declined from nearly 4% at June 30 to 3.8% at September 30 while 90-day Treasury bill yields declined from a modest 1.8% to a Japan-like 0.5%. Foreign bond markets were generally even more volatile at higher rate levels. Precious metals failed to uphold their reputation. Gold’s decline was only about 1.5% between June 30 and September 30, but that was after peaking at $980 in mid-July and plunging to $750 by mid September, a peak-to-trough decline of nearly 25%. In the currency markets, the U. S. dollar ended the quarter approximately even with the Yen, but gained significantly (12.5%) versus the Euro and approximately 6% on a trade-weighted basis.
The CoreStates Strategy
We, like virtually all other investors, are disappointed and somewhat surprised that the mortgage-related markets have continued to erode. We are also troubled with the lack of price support provided by our usually non-correlated asset classes, which failed to provide the gains we expect at times like these when traditional asset classes are declining.
But, we also know from many years of experience that, when markets are suffering severe stress, troubled investors are forced to raise cash from whatever they can sell at a reasonable price. These are usually the higher quality asset classes, and the selling depresses even their prices. Only after some degree of liquidity returns to the markets do these asset classes become the effective diversifiers we know them to be long-term.
We maintain our faith in the ability of the U. S. and world economies to provide attractive long-term returns to prudent, well-diversified investors. We also maintain our hard-earned humility, which prevents us from betting too heavily on either our fears or our inspirations, especially with our clients’ hard-earned wealth.
So, although we and our carefully selected specialty managers continuously try to prudently adapt our specific day-to-day management tactics to the current market environment, the foundational CoreStates investment strategy remains unchanged – allocate with the goal of moderating risk, not to seek maximum returns, focus on quality investments, and maintain a long-term perspective. This kind of intellectual and emotional grounding is always valuable, and can be invaluable in times like the present. | <urn:uuid:26d70760-6f1c-4d54-b187-f17ab5d32ab4> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://corestates.us/newsletter-third-quarter-08/ | 2020-09-20T00:12:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.970563 | 1,047 |
The peak times for seeing the shower were Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Leonids meteors travel faster than any other meteor shower, hitting Earth’s atmosphere at 158,000 mph.
Leonid meteor shower starts at midnight tonight with meteors traveling at 44 miles a second. Humans can see a Leonids storm from Earth about every 33 years.
You can watch the annual Leonid meteor shower Tuesday evening even if clouds or city lights spoil your overhead views.
Take a moment away from video games and Facebook rants and the hateful nature of the news these days and turn your eyes to the sky tonight for a reminder of just how small we are and how elegant this universe can be. I’ll be sitting on my roof with hot cocoa and a telescope making wishes on meteors if you need me.
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The De Anza College English as a Second Language (ESL) Department offers courses in American English to non-native speakers whose placement scores indicate that their language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) need improvement. The goals of the program are to help students become fluent in English, and clear and correct in their writing, reading, and oral communication.
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When it comes to finding the funkiest streams to enjoy from home, we’ve got you covered! Here are our latest finds so you can couch tour like the VIP you are:
Thursday, July 16th:
The Soul Rebels – you can watch The Soul Rebels’ fiery 1/7/13 set from Jam Cruise 11 here at 7:00 pm CST – FREE!
The Revivalists – the 9/21/19 Revivalists show from Red Rocks will be broadcast here at 8:00 pm CST for $14.99.
Friday, July 17th:
String Cheese Incident – ready for some more Friday night cheese? At 7:00 pm you can catch their 8/10/17 show free on Nugs.tv.
Saturday, July 18th:
Know Justice, Know Peace – this online music and cultural education fundraiser will feature a ton of amazing artists including members of Soulive, the Nth Power and TAUK. Focused on the racial equality and justice movement, the Facebook event starts Saturday at 3:00.
With all the new restrictions in place due to the spread of COVID -19, many of the shows and events we all love are being cancelled or postponed. We at FunkyBatz take responsible social distancing very seriously. If you still choose to attend a show that is listed on our site, you should contact the venue’s website to learn of its status.
In the meantime, we encourage all to do their own couch tours, buy band merch and stay safe!
On Friday, December 13th, FunkyBatz welcomes the incredible Pike & Sutton to the stage at One2One Bar.
As connoisseurs of Austin music, our readers can easily recognize the mind-blowing vocals of Patrice Pike. 2019 marks the release of the first album written and recorded by Pike and her longtime musical partner, guitarist Wayne Sutton, Heart is a Compass. This project is a long-anticipated culmination of musical experiences the pair gained both apart and together, and Austin is ready.
Known to the jam-band scene of the 90’s, Pike and Sutton were the founders of Little Sister, aka Sister 7. Through the years they continued playing live together; those decades of partnership can be heard in their live show. Mixing hard rock, R&B, blues, funk and world music together in their own unique concoction, they’ve come to the place where their groove flows organically. Though Pike’s vocals have been likened to Janis Joplin and Sutton’s guitar style has the seductive textures of blues greats, the live experience proves that they’ve created a blend that is all their own.
On Heart is a Compass, the theme of surrendering to where the spirit takes you is a hint to what you’ll see on Friday – two veterans of the road and stage, who let the music lead them to where they are today. Experience it for yourself – this will be their last show in ATX for a while, so you can bet it will be epic.
Join us for this magical night – get your tickets here.
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For a taste of what you’ll see onstage:
Pike & Sutton Live
Check out Pike & Sutton’s new single with John Popper, a rendition of the soulful classic, “New Year’s Resolution” on Spotify. Save and follow HERE to be registered to win a brand new turntable!
Sneak a Peek! Robert talks about his new record and upcoming 20th Congress tour 🎵 New Orleans 10/18, Houston 10/19 and Austin 10/20.
Pretty much every artist we hope to see during Jazz Fest is part of this insane line up of night shows starting Friday Apr 27 and running through Sunday May 6. FunkyBatz has all the details PLUS a pair of tickets to give away to EVERY show in both the main room and the den. Check it out and lock down your tickets! See you in New Orleans!
Among the most original and visionary musicians writing and performing today. Osborne’s masterful guitar work, intricate songwriting, and emotive vocals have earned him countless awards and endless troves of fans new and old.
To see Anders perform LIVE is truly transcendent.
Guitar Player calls him “the poet laureate of Louisiana’s fertile roots music scene.” New Orleans’ Gambit Weekly has honored Osborne as the Entertainer Of The Year. OffBeat named him the Crescent City’s Best Guitarist for the third year in a row, and the Best Songwriter for the second straight year. Osborne also won Song Of The Year for his composition, Louisiana Gold.
These two shows at The Howlin Wolf are our picks to get our Anders fix!
This may very well be the best thing I do this year during Fest and here’s why…
“Wash, rinse, repeat” becomes our motto as we foray night-after-night into the clubs that host the shows during the New Orleans Jazz Fest. From sundown to sunrise we tend to seek the funkiest collaborations that make up the core of our show selections, and even for the most seasoned Fest veterans, it can become a blur. It is downright addictive.
So when we hear about a little known performance to take place outside of a traditional venue — by a vocalist who feeds our souls in a way that brings tears to our eyes — our ears perk up! That’s what happened when I heard about Erica Falls and her ”soft” CD release of HomeGrown to be performed in the courtyard of a private home in historic uptown New Orleans. Erica calls it ”The Sanctuary” and I suspect it will be just that for us fans too.
Most know Erica from her performances with Galactic, but here’s a chance to meet this soul singer in her own surroundings where she performs her new record HomeGrown in its entirety and covers a few of her all-time favorite songs. It is R&B, soul, rock, and so much more! I conjure up a history lesson of sorts about a beautiful soul singer and her life and destiny in a setting that is heady, sweet, and very much New Orleans. It isn’t just about her range of high soprano moments to deep sultry tones, it’s how she looks each and every one of us in the eye and touches something deep inside us all.
Erica told me that this record is a reflection of her life growing up in the 9th Ward in New Orleans with her family, the church and their music together. She was the youngest of eight children and she grew up under the musical tutelage of her mother and the church choir. When I asked about how she became a vocalist she told me that it was after she initially played both the piano and the violin. “I was so in awe of my mother’s singing that at times I felt intimidated to sing.”
With unwavering love and discipline, her gift prevailed and like all great talent, something fired deep inside her that pushed through the barriers to make Erica one of the most poignant modern day soul singers we will ever have the chance to witness. We will be able to tell our great grandchildren, nieces and nephews… ”We saw her when…..”
Catch this ‘very special’ performance on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 8 p.m. at “The Sanctuary”. Limited advance tickets are available and there will be a pop-up food vendor serving authentic New Orleans fare, Vintage Soul Martinis and other icy cold beverages to refresh. I have compiled all the details and links at www.funkybatz.com.
As we click-and-ponder the night show grids, we would be kickin’ ourselves later if we missed the “Howlin’ Wolf 2017 Fest By Nite” stellar line-up! It’s nicely situated in the New Orleans warehouse district, starting on Thursday, April 27 and running through Sunday, May 7th. Just about every artist we hope to see brings a unique groove to this long-standing venue — in both the main room and the den. Fans definitely want to pick up some advance tickets so they won’t miss out!
Check out this year’s shows – They’re all nicely laid out for our readers, along with links and more. Plus FunkyBatz has a pair of tickets to give away for just about every night show! Check it out! See you in New Orleans!
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It’s challenging enough to describe live music in words that entice the reader to go out and buy a ticket to a show. Try describing a record you have never heard! But when it comes to funk and soul-jazz and the artists who play in this genre, nothing is certain except that they perform a groove that is familiar to us and one that we want to come back to time and time again.
One minute we have a notion as to what the music will be like and the next minute our pre-conceived ideas are in the wind. That is one reason we keep following the artists we love and continually get surprised with each and every note, rhythm and transition. It’s the same as it never was!
I caught up with Robert Walter, master of the B3 and most any keyboard he puts under his fingers for that matter, and asked him to tell us about his new 20th Congress record that’s planned for release this fall. You may know Robert from his works with the Greyboy Allstars, Stanton Moore Trio, and recently Mike Gordon. I had noticed his photo from his session at The Parlor in New Orleans that he recently posted on Facebook, and of course like all super- fans with inquiring minds and no advanced tracks to listen to… I asked “What’s it like”?
The answer was surprising: “Barb – it will be like nothing you have ever heard from me before. Wild, unique and not the ‘usual’ funk you will expect. This is a new sound for me and I haven’t been this excited in a long time.”
Keep in mind that Robert Walter is first a composer and then a collaborator. He crafts melodies that we can’t help but play over and over in our heads. He is brilliant that way. Add some funk to it, you know the danceable, syncopated, in-the-pocket kind with the heavy organ that Robert is known for, and we all get why it’s hard to miss any of his performances.
And now add the wild-card description from Robert himself, that it won’t be like anything we have ever heard and now –as Super-Fans we have a show not to be missed!
Catch the ONLY Robert Walter’s 20th Congress performance during the 2017 New Orleans Jazz Fest on Saturday April 29, 2017 at the Blue Nile presented as part of the 12th Annual Backbeat Jazz Fest Series. For more info and how to buy tickets visit us at www.funkybatz.com.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year here in Austin, TX. South By Southwest (SXSW) is upon us and the music choices are limitless. Official showcases, unofficial showcases, free shows and parties you may or may not have to RSVP to and every venue in town is fully booked. It is a blast, but it is also difficult to navigate all the options and find that sweet funky spot you long for. Never fear FunkyBatz is here to help. Make sure you check back often this week, as we are sure to add more funky discoveries to our list of picks.
Have a funky fun time ya’ll and we hope to see you at FunkXFunk Fest our annual unofficial SXSW party and funk extravaganza.
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Introduction to Explosive Hazards Awareness and Reduction
Explosive Hazards Awareness and Reduction are those actions which lessen the probability and/or severity of physical injury to people, property or the environment. Explosive Hazards Awareness and Reduction can be achieved by physical measures such as clearance, fencing or marking, or through behavioural changes brought about by risk education.
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The Explosive Hazards Awareness and Reduction training programme is prepared in accordance with the relevant international humanitarian Mine Action standards.
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The training programme content among others entails:
The training programme includes one course provided in two languages, namely for Russian and for Tajik/Dari speaking groups of participants.
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The training aims to enhance national capacities in Explosive Hazards Awareness and Reduction operations for the interested states in Central Asia, including Afghanistan in accordance with international standards.
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The target group of the training programme are professionals/experts from the interested OSCE participating States in Central Asia and Afghanistan serving in the military and security sector as well as in humanitarian Mine Action institutions.
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Some other facts about fluoride which the government or medical authorities won't tell you:
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2) Other studies on fluoride have shown that children exposed to fluoride in their drinking water have a lower IQ.
3) Despite the Qld government's decision to fluoridate water supplies in 2007, only one-third of Qld councils are doing so, as many have reversed their decision and stopped fluoridation, after researching the issue more.
4) Water fluoridation has been shown in published research in 2015 to cause thyroid and parathyroid dysfunction including hypothyroidism (low thyroid function, which leads to low body temperature, reduced metabolism, fatigue and weight gain), reduced immune system function, increased inflammation, and other health conditions.
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Yesterday’s shows included a variety of styles. From Kygo to Band of Horses to Dwight Yoakam, a good music festival offers various types of musics in one easy-to-access venue.
If you read Day 56, you know I excitedly trotted off to see Dwight perform. For years, I’ve had a secret crush on this man. His hat…his tight jeans…the way he holds his guitar and swings it back and forth as his knee (just one) swings back and forth in the opposite direction…the sweet crackle of his voice…you put it all together and it creates a magnetic pull I can’t explain.
I thought this appeal was something only I saw, but yesterday…standing in a sea of 20-somethings…surrounded by young things that have discovered a new found love for old country…I was shocked at what I heard.
Just as Dwight started his famous twist, the crowd — specifically the women in the crowd — went crazy. I heard screams…screams like you’d hear at a JT show. These women…these girls…loved Dwight too.
So this is what it feels like when your secret isn’t so secret…. When something you thought no one else would understand or appreciate is also shared by those around. It felt…it felt good.
I got to thinking about all the “secrets” we have…all the things, thoughts, feelings we keep to ourselves because we don’t think anyone else could possibly think or feel the same as we do. I started to wonder how many of those secrets are also deeply held…tucked away…by others. I wondered how much more inclusive we’d feel with our friends, neighbors, co-workers…with strangers…if we didn’t feel the need to hide parts of ourselves.
Not everyone is going to be on the same page. Not everyone is going to like…think…feel…the same way I do, but by keeping my secrets secret I’m holding myself back from finding other humans I have things in common with. I’m the one creating the obstacle…choosing to hide a part of myself…creating the secret and carrying around whatever feelings are generated as a result. I’m the one creating shame…fear…guilt…when I could be feeling a connection.
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Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Con mis mejores deseos. He also discovered that when giving patients their medicine and delivering positive suggestion at the same time, proved to be a more effective cure than prescribing medicine alone. He eventually abandoned hypnosis in favour of just using positive suggestion and he thought that the hypnotic state impaired the efficiency of the suggestion.
In this way he proposed bridging the gap between behavior and cognition, a concept offered over years earlier by Blaise Pascal. But can reciting a mantra involving positive thoughts improve ones outlook? Crases is now much evidence that it can.
This book gives autosugdstion guidelines to follow to indeed “turn your dreams into a reality”. It is recommended for scholar and historian alike, as well as the everyday seeker looking for practical guidance on thought management.
Hay mucha evidencia ahora de que si se puede. Suggestion, or rather Autosuggestion, is quite a new subject, and yet at the same time it fraees as old as the world. It is new in the sense that until now it has been wrongly studied and in consequence wrongly understood; it is old because it dates from the appearance of man on the earth.
In fact autosuggestion is an instrument that we possess at birth, and in this instrument, or rather in this force, resides a marvelous and incalculable power, which according to circumstances produces the best or the worst results. Knowledge of this force is useful to each one of us, but it is peculiarly indispensable to doctors, magistrates, lawyers, and to those engaged in the work of education. By knowing how to practise it consciously it is possible in the first place to avoi d provoking in others bad autosuggestions which may have disastrous consequences, and secondly, consciously to provoke good ones instead, thus bringing physical health to the sick, and moral health to the neurotic and the erring, the unconscious victims of anterior autosuggestions, and to guide into the right path those who had autosuvestion tendency to take the wrong one.
Las victimas inconscientes de autosugestiones anteriores, y guiar al camino correcto a aquellos que tienen tendencia de irse por el equivocado. The Conscious Self and Unconscious self In order to understand properly the phenomena of suggestion, or to speak more correctly of autosuggestion, it is necessary to know that two absolutely distinct selves exist within us.
Both are intelligent, but while one is conscious the other is unconscious. For this reason the existence of the latter generally escapes notice. It is however easy to prove its existence if one merely takes the trouble to examine certain phenomena and to reflect a few moments upon them.
Let us take for instance the following examples: Every one has heard of somnambulism; every one knows that a somnambulist gets up at night without waking, leaves his room after either dressing himself or not, goes downstairs, walks along corridors, and after having executed certain acts or accomplished vrases work, returns to his room, goes to bed again, and shows next day the greatest astonishment at finding work finished which he had left unfinished the day before.
It is however he himself who has done it without being aware of it. What force autosugestin his body obeyed if it is not an unconscious force, in fact his unconscious self? Let us now examine the alas, too frequent case of a drunkard attacked by delirium tremens. As though autlsugestion with madness he picks up the nearest weapon, knife, hammer, or hatchet, as the case may be, autpsugestion strikes furiously those who are unlucky enough to be in his vicinity. Once the attack is over, he recovers his senses and contemplates with horror the scene of carnage around him, without realizing that he himself is the author of it.
Here again is it not the unconscious self which has caused the unhappy man to act in this way? And what aversions, what ills we create for ourselves, everyone of us and in every domain by not “immediately” bringing into play “good autosugeation autosuggestions” against our “bad unconscious autosuggestions,” thus bringing about the disappearance of all unjust suffering.
If we compare the conscious with the unconscious self we see that the conscious self is often possessed of a very unreliable memory while the unconscious self on autosugestiob contrary is provided with a marvelous and impeccable memory which registers without our knowledge the smallest events, the least important acts of our existence.
Further, it is credulous and accepts with unreasoning docility what it is told. Donald Tyson] Thus, as it is the unconscious that is responsible for the functioning of all our organs but the intermediary of the brain, a result is produced which may seem rather paradoxical to you: Not only does the unconscious self preside over the fraases of our organism, but also over all our actions whatever they are.
It is this that we call imagination, and it is this which, contrary to accepted opinion, always makes us act even, and above all, against our will when there is antagonism between these two forces. El ser consciente y el ser inconsciente. Ambos son inteligentes pero mientras uno es consciente el otro es inconsciente. Vamos a tomar para ilustrar algunos ejemplos.
Will and Imagination if we open a dictionary and look up the word “will”, we find this definition: We accept this definition as true and unattackable, although nothing could be more false. This will that we claim so proudly, always yields to the imagination. It is an fases rule that admits of no exception. On the contrary, it is the purest truth,” I shall reply.
In order to convince yourself of it, open your eyes, look round you and try to understand what you see. You will then come to the conclusion that what I tell you is not an idle theory, offspring of a sick brain but the simple expression of a fact. Suppose that we place on the ground a plank 30 feet long by 1 foot wide. It is evident that everybody will be capable of going from one end to the other of this plank without auttosugestion over the edge.
But now change the conditions of the experiment, and imagine this plank placed at the height of the towers of a cathedral. Who then will be capable of advancing even a few feet along this narrow path? Could you hear me speak? Before you had taken two steps you would begin to tremble, and in spite of every effort of your will you would be certain to fall to the ground.
Why is it then that you would not fall if the plank autosugestio on the ground, and why should you fall if it is raised to a height above the ground?
Simply because in the first case you imagine that it is easy to go to the end of this plank, while in the second case you imagine that you cannot do so. Notice that your will is powerless to make you advance; if you imagine that you cannot, it is absolutely impossible for you to do so.
If tilers and carpenters are able to accomplish this feat, it is because they think they can do it. Vertigo is entirely caused by the picture we make in our minds that we are going to fall. This picture transforms itself immediately into fact in spite of all the efforts of our will, and the more violent these efforts are, the quicker is the opposite to the desired result brought about.
Let us now consider the case of a person suffering from insomnia. If he does not make any effort to sleep, he will lie quietly in bed. If on the contrary he tries to force himself to sleep by his will, the more efforts he makes, the more restless he becomes.
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Have you not noticed that the more you try to remember the name of a person which you have forgotten, the more it eludes you, until, substituting in your mind the idea “I shall remember in a minute” to the idea “I have forgotten”, the name comes back to you of its own accord without the least effort?
Let those of you who are cyclists remember the days when you were learning to ride. You went along clutching the handle bars and frightened of falling. Suddenly catching sight of the smallest obstacle in the road you tried to avoid it, and the more efforts you made to do so, the more surely you rushed upon it. Who has not suffered from an attack of uncontrollable laughter, which bursts out more violently the more one tries to control it? What was the state of mind of each person in these different circumstances?
To the same order of ideas belongs the case of the leader who rushes forward at the head of his troops and always carries them along with him, while the cry “Each man for himself! It is because in the first case the men imagine that they must go forward, and in the second they imagine that they are conquered and must fly for their lives.
Panurge was quite aware of the contagion of example, that is to say the action of the imagination, when, to avenge himself upon a merchant on board the same boat, he bought his biggest sheep and threw it into the sea, certain beforehand that the entire flock would follow, which indeed happened.
We human beings have a certain resemblance to sheep, and involuntarily, we are irresistibly impelled to follow other people’s examples, imagining that we cannot do otherwise.
I could quote a thousand other examples but I should fear to bore you by such an enumeration. I cannot however pass by in silence this fact which shows the enormous power of the imagination, or in other words of the unconscious in its struggle against the will. There are certain drunkards who wish to give up drinking, but who cannot do so.
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Ask them, and they will reply in all sincerity that autosugestipn desire to be sober, that drink disgusts them, but that they are irresistibly impelled to drink against their will, in spite of the harm they know it will do them. In the same way certain criminals commit crimes in spite of themselves, and when they are asked why they acted so, they answer “I could not help it, something impelled me, it was stronger than I.
Thus we who are so proud of our will, who believe that we are free to act as we like, are in reality nothing but wretched puppets of which our imagination holds all the strings.
We only cease to be puppets when we have learned to guide our imagination. Por el contrario, es la pura verdad. Para convencerlo de ello, abra los ojos, mire a su alrededor y trate de entender lo que ve.
Es evidente que todos somos capaces de ir de una punta a la otra sin pisar fuera. Mientras que en el segundo caso imaginas que no puedes. Nota que tu voluntad es impotente para hacerte avanzar; si imaginas que no puedes, es absolutamente imposible para ti hacerlo.
Consideremos ahora el caso de la persona que sufre de insomnio.
Si por el contrario el se esfuerza a voluntad por dormir, entre mas se esfuerza, mas agitado se vuelve. Iban agarrando el manubrio y asustados de caerse. Es por que en el primer caso los hombres se imaginan que deben avanzar, y en el segundo se imaginan que son conquistados y deben huir para salvar sus vidas.
Nosotros los seres humanos tenemos cierta semejanza con las ovejas, e involuntariamente, estamos irresistiblemente impulsados a seguir el ejemplo de otros, imaginando que no podemos hacer otra cosa.
Existen ciertos borrachos quienes desean dejar de beber, pero no pueden hacerlo. Suggestion and autosuggestion According to the preceding remarks we can compare the imagination to a torrent which fatally sweeps away the poor wretch who has fallen into it, in spite of his efforts to gain the bank.
This torrent seems indomitable; but if you know how, you can turn it from its course and conduct it autosugewtion the factory, and there you can transform its force into movement, heat, and electricity. If this simile is not enough, we may compare the imagination — “the madman at home” as it has been called — to an unbroken horse which sutosugestion neither bridle nor reins.
What can the rider do except let himself go wherever the horse wishes to take him? And often if the latter runs away, his mad career only comes to end in the ditch. If however the rider succeeds in putting a bridle on the horse, the parts are reversed. autosugestiom
It is no longer the horse who goes where he likes, it is the rider who obliges the horse to take him wherever he wishes to go. Now that we have learned to realize the enormous power of the unconscious or imaginative being, I am going to show how this self, hitherto considered indomitable, can be as easily controlled as a torrent or an unbroken horse.
But before going any further it is necessary to define carefully two words that are often used without being properly ds.
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The first thing on my to-do list after pulling into Carlisle, MA for summer vacation:
Visit Colonial Spirits, which is a ten-minute drive away in nearby Acton.
Colonial Spirits is the best beer store ever!
I loaded my cart with all sorts of beer that I can’t find back home. Although I can find brews from Magic Hat Brewing Company (Burlington, VT) in Maryland, I tossed the Magic Hat Summer Variety 12-Pack in my cart because I love the brewery and I had never tried two of the four beers in the mix pack.
I sampled these Magic Hat brews on Saturday, July 25:
- #9 (Pale Ale with apricot extract)
- Lucky Kat (IPA)
- Odd Notion (Belgian Blonde)
- Wacko (Beet extract gives this beer its beautiful red color)
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Mom can I get you to buy me some Nipits…..pretty please with nip on it? I’ve told everyone about the benefits of this product and should find out for myself. Maybe there are side effects my friends should know about.
Shoko, those are not for cats or dogs…they’re for people. They are licorice and I don’t think you would like the taste and neither would your friends. Seriously? Only for peoples? My friends will think I’m a liar. Ohhhh, I’m so embarrassed. You didn’t know Shoko…your friends will understand. It sounded too good to be true. What will Einstein think? He’ll think I’m some kind of weirdo, won’t he?
If you explain to your friends what happened….they’ll understand Shoks. They visit with you and know how excited you get about something new. Ok, I’ll explain right away mom.
Friends I have just discovered that Nipits are not made for us cats and dogs but for people. I know, it is a shame and an obvious oversight that will cost the manufacturer millions. He has missed the market of us! Apparently the little discs taste like licorice….yuck! My friends one day perhaps someone will solve our problems by discovering a remedy for our throat conditions. I am sorry we can’t sample this product. | <urn:uuid:5cca0e03-1667-428e-94f4-413fd9864d1d> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://canadiancats.com/2015/04/01/what-do-you-mean-mom/ | 2020-09-20T01:02:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.961637 | 303 |
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Level 1864 is the 9th level in Bubbly Business and 398th frosting level in Candy Crush Soda Saga. To pass this level, you must find 5 bears in frosting and score at least 50,000 points in 35 moves or fewer. When you complete the level, Soda Crush is activated and will score you additional points.
- Finding the bears isn't that easy with three types of blockers on the board.
- The lower board can get filled with liquorice swirls.
- Create special candies and their combinations and focus on removing the necessary frosting underneath the blockers.
- Fish + wrapped candy combinations are useful for targeting blockers at the lower board.
- Candy ice cubes show where to have candies or liquorice swirls inside.
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All the parts of the bones involved in articulation within the knee joint, are covered with articular cartilage. This is a shiny smooth continuous layer that allows for a friction free movement in the knee. It is this articular cartilage that is worn away, leading to osteoarthritis.
Articular cartilage can be damaged acutely in an injury (which has the potential to heal) or become chronic when it fails to heal. When there is a general loss of articular cartilage this is termed osteoarthritis.
When a lesion fails to heal, there are many methods to try and regrow cartilage, none of which are perfect. One of the most used and successful techniques is micro fracture, which was popularised by Professor Steadman from Vale, Colorado.
This is a biological form of trying to regrow cartilage from stem cells. It is done via arthroscopic day surgery.
WHAT IS DONE AT THE TIME OF OPERATION?
The articular cartilage is stabilised and all loose bits of cartilage are removed. This leaves a solid rim of supporting cartilage around the lesion. The top layer of bone is then removed. Small holes are then made in the bone by using a small pick. Care is then taken to ensure that the bone bleeds, and specifically from the newly made holes. The knee is then washed out and the operation is finished.
HOW IS CARTILAGE FORMED?
Blood and the stem cells leak out from the holes made in the bone. The blood and stem cells forms a clot in the hole left where the cartilage used to be. This then needs to change and form cartilage. Studies done on stem cells show that when they are exposed to shear stresses or movement, they form into cartilage cells and produce cartilage. For the next 6 weeks, the rehabilitation is very important. The patient is non weight bearing and needs to stimulate the stem cells with movement. This is best done in the form of continuous passive motion (CPM), done via a CPM machine or physiotherapist. The more movement and CPM one can do, the better the success. It is best to exercise the knee everyday and as many times a day as possible.
THE PROCESS AFTER THE FIRST 6 WEEKS
At 6 weeks, the clot in the lesion has started to form cartilage and is basically a gel like substance. One can now begin to weight bear on the leg and start doing more strenuous exercise. This gel then forms to immature cartilage and matures over the coming months to year.
The cartilage will hopefully start to strengthen and allow the patient to regain their pre-injury exercise level. It must be stated though, that even with a successful outcome, the best exercises are going to be cycling and swimming as these are the least weight bearing exercises. Patients can however get back to more robust and contact sports.
Other options for articular cartilage lesions are:
- Cartilage scaffold (as in a Maioregen). This is an “off the shelf” scaffold which is placed into the defect and allows for the body to lay down chondrocytes into the scaffold and form new articular cartilage. The early results of these are extremely encouraging.
- Osteochondral plugs. Cartilage along with bone is taken from another area of knee and put into the defect. Good results but does carry morbidity at the donor site.
- Metal resurfacing (Hemicap). This is a non biological option where the damaged area is replaced with a small metal cap. | <urn:uuid:4e9244d6-c71a-404a-b4d1-192c8ee126d4> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://capekneeclinic.co.za/articular-cartilage/ | 2020-09-20T02:21:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.94081 | 741 |
Yesterday, in Part I of this analysis we included a chart showing our best estimate of the international, domestic, and total cargo traffic (including mail and both scheduled and charter freight) flown by the top fifty carrier groups worldwide. But why do we call it our “best estimate,” and how is our best estimate different from someone else’s “Top 50” list? You can read Part I here, and we repeat the chart at the bottom of today’s post, but here is the story behind it:
First, there is no single source for complete and accurate cargo traffic data. Different sources will often report different totals for the same carrier, and carriers do not always report their traffic the same way. Our main sources were reports compiled and issued by IATA and the US Department of Transportation, as well as statistics published by the carriers themselves.
Second, not all carriers report their traffic. Many of these non-reporting carriers are relatively insignificant, but some would almost certainly alter the rankings if they did report. Yangtze River Airlines (YRA), for example, operates three 747-400Fs, three 737-400Fs, and fourteen 737-300Fs. Including YRA would significantly boost the total of its majority owner, HNA Group. Other significant cargo carriers not reporting their traffic data are Air Atlanta Icelandic, MNG Airlines, and European regional specialists ASL Group and West Atlantic.
Third, there is no easy (or accurate) way to show the huge cargo presence of DHL Express. DHL owns, or is a joint-venture partner in, several airlines, some of which do not report their traffic. On top of this, unlike FedEx and UPS, DHL moves a significant percentage of its shipments using purchased or leased space on non-affiliated carriers worldwide. For this report, we have added up the traffic flown by DHL Air, EAT Leipzig, DHL International, ABX Air, AeroLogic, Air Hong Kong, Blue Dart Aviation, Polar Air Cargo, and Southern Air, and show it in the chart as “DHL Express.” This under-represents DHL’s total, but at least gives a sense of just how much cargo the German express company moves.
It also hides the size of two major players in the air freight business: Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAWW) and Air Transport Services Group (ATSG). AAWW, for example, has three airline subsidiaries: Polar Air Cargo (in which DHL has a minority stake), Southern Air, and Atlas Air. While it is true that much of the cargo flown by Polar and Southern is for DHL, they are still part of AAWW, and if one were to group them with Atlas Air, rather than DHL Express, it would give AAWW a 2016 total of 10.50 billion RTKs – making it the fifth-largest carrier in the world.
Likewise, if one considers ABX Air as part of ATSG’s operation, along with sister carrier Air Transport International (ATI), then ATSG becomes one of the world’s biggest domestic cargo carriers, and also enters the total cargo ranks, though further down at #39.
Regarding the data, we have chosen to show all cargo traffic – both freight and mail, flown in both scheduled and charter operation. Many “top cargo carrier” lists include only scheduled freight traffic, but we believe that including mail along with freight, and charter operation as well as scheduled service gives a much better picture of the overall industry.
We also show merged, or about-to-be-merged, carriers as single entities, and include the traffic of subsidiary carriers with their parents. So Lufthansa, for example, includes not only Lufthansa Cargo, but also the cargo activities of SWISS, Austrian Airlines, and Brussels Airlines. In addition to Lufthansa and DHL Express (see above), other groups shown under a single name include:
- AirBridgeCargo/Volga-Dnepr Airlines (as Volga-Dnepr Group)
- Air China/Air Macau/Shandong Airlines/Shenzhen Airlines
- Air France/KLM/Martinair
- Avianca/Avianca Brasil
- British Airways/Iberia/Aer Lingus (as IAG Group)
- Cargolux/Cargolux Italia
- Cathay Pacific/Cathay Dragon
- China Eastern Airlines/Shanghai Airlines
- China Southern/Xiamen Airlines/Sichuan Airlines
- FedEx/ASL Airlines Belgium/Morningstar Air Express
- Hainan Airlines/Hong Kong Airlines/Tianjin Airlines (as HNA Group)
- LATAM Chile, LATAM Basil, and LATAM Paraguay (as LATAM Group)
And finally, the mention of AAWW and ATSG, above, brings up the subject of the new kid on the air freight block in 2016: Amazon Prime Air. In late 2015, Amazon began testing the idea of running its own air operation. Following a five-freighter trial with ATSG, Amazon entered the game in a big way, signing agreements with both ATSG and AAWW, under which each of these two companies would operate twenty 767 freighters for the e-commerce giant, with all forty to be in service by the end of 2018. Prime Air gave a boost to the cargo traffic of ABX, ATI, and Atlas Air in 2016, but its impact will be much greater in 2017, and greater still in 2018.
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There are so many home design pieces that catch my eye each month that I never have enough room to put them all in the weekly edit. So, with this in mind, I have decided to start a new post category highlighting the most covetable pieces that have caught my eye. And for my inaugural post I could hardly choose anyone more deserving than Tom Dixon to put the lust lens on.
Tom Dixon’s designs have been a long term love affair for me and one of my very first home purchases was his legendary copper light shade which I got for an amazing deal from an events company selling off their old wares.
These three items were launched last month as a part of Tom’s Eclectic range and are firmly on my lust list. Just exquisite, the design and materials are luxe simplicity at its finest. He is such a brilliant old hand at designing pieces that are assured to enter the catalogue of great British modern design. They are made from welded brass which has been coated in a warm gold wash and are so sensual and striking. They are also hideously expensive, but if you have the money you can buy the full range from Heals here. | <urn:uuid:9c01d784-22d8-45c8-a7ad-c7f4af3ace83> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://designsoda.co.uk/design-crush-1/ | 2020-09-20T02:00:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.985319 | 239 |
When I was guessing what kind of writing my friends would send in for the guest blogging series, I automatically assumed Ike would do a lifestyle sort of article because well, she’s fantastic at it. Check her blog, you’ll see what I mean. So when she sent me a short story I was like wawu!!! A beautiful, well written fiction. I was like, Jehovah- how you gotta be dashing people this much talent and sub talent. lol. I hope you enjoy the story as much as I did.
He sat down in the chair across from her, the desk, sturdy and tidy barricading him. She smiled at him calmly, but she had grown impatient with his games, he could tell. Months of stalling on an issue she had tagged as priority, wasn’t something you did if you wanted to keep your job. She was three levels up in the organization; intelligent, powerful and riveting.
She looked at him in a way that made him feel uncomfortable. Her thick lashes exaggerated the size of her eyes, making the white part of it even whiter, eerily whiter. He tried to keep his body still, but he wasn’t successful. His feet shuffled rebelliously beneath the table, unable to keep still.
He had seen her this morning on her way into the office, when she walked by his desk wearing a gray pant suit, that clung to her body like a wet suit, swaying her hips slowly and leaving a trail of her perfume behind.
His head swam as he got enveloped in her fragrance again, right here, in her office. Her jacket, now off, lay carelessly on the sofa. She wore a pink camisole that bared more of her smooth, dark skin; a delicate lace trim tapered the neckline, threatening to reveal breast with her every move. He willed himself to look at her face, but only for a short while. His eyes fell beyond voluntary control to the skin just above the lace on her camisole.
The air was tight but she seemed comfortable in it on her side of the table, watching him try to control his body’s response; his eyes from looking at her chest, his body from shifting in discomfort, his — well, she didn’t want to be presumptuous.
She looked at him intently and asked him what his answer was. Her large eyes focused on his lips. His palms began to sweat, his heart drummed against his chest, other parts of him throbbed too. He sat up uncomfortably, trying to will his body to attention.
What would his answer be?
She looked at him, her smile transitioning from teasing to knowing. She knew he would need a miracle to get out of this today.
She asked him again if his answer was what she thought it was. She teased and told him if it was otherwise, she would imagine he would have some difficulty talking his way out of this one.
He remained quiet. Was it considered ‘chicken’ to report a sexual harassment case as a man? His friends already told him what a fool he was. They laughed at him saying, “When the boss asks you to sign here, you sign and you sign again and again and again until the ink runs out.”
She got up and his gaze followed her. She walked slowly around the table and leaned forward, he moistened his lips nervously.
She told him to think deeply about his answer, even though she had given him a month to already. His right forefinger and thumb closed around the metal on his ring finger.
She could read his thoughts. She told him his wife would never find out. It would be just this one time, she pushed her camisole strap down her shoulder and reached for his face. He could feel all he stood for disintegrate very slowly. God came to mind but was God here? He thought about Vera again. Like a TV interference, his image of Vera fluttered as she ran her fingers over his lips.
Vera, her sweet face and throaty laugh.
His boss got up, slowly walked to the door and turned the key in the lock. He felt caged, like a sheep up for shearing. He couldn’t file a complaint when the deed was done, right? She could argue that it was consensual?
She was sure now. She had him where she wanted him. In her office, vulnerable and responsive; no more hall chasing, corridor dodging, cubicle hiding.
She stood behind him and placed her hands on his tense shoulders. He fingered his wedding ring still, his eyes fixed on an invisible screen on the head of her swivel chair across the table.
She whispered something in his ear, her breathing soft but uneven.
His will had crumbled, his beliefs, deflated. His future, in the balance.
He started to speak but felt his words hang in his dry throat. He tried again.
He asked her why. Why him? Why not Fred from Marketing? Or Ola from HR?
She sighed and continued kneading his shoulders. In his earlier days, she wouldn’t even have to ask but things were much different now. He had Vera. She had made him a better man; a respectable man.
He shuddered slightly as she rubbed his ears. She whispered in them that she chose him because he had a quality she was unable to explain. It was beyond her. She watched him all day and thought about him all night. All she really wanted was this one time. Once, just once.
Every man has a choice, she drawled. She advised him to make the right one. She wasn’t wearing any underwear too, if that helped him make his decision. He knew he wouldn’t last long here. He felt his old self resurface, he had sat here for too long. Her hands were inside his shirt, stroking his chest slowly. She felt the thumping of his heart and she giggled. “Easy, you should pace yourself,” She teased. No one would know.
His heart quickened. She giggled again.
He thought about Vera’s eyes and the way it’s sparkled when she began to read a new book, the way she closed her eyes with every bite of dessert. He remembered the first time he saw her cry. The first day he saw her hurt. He had promised himself never to be the reason she cried. His hands dropped to his thighs.
His body weighed into the chair as she slowly walked forward and stood in front of him.
His gaze had shifted to the window. As she turned his face to look at her, he realized the other strap had fallen off her shoulder.
One thing was clear, there was no dignified way out of this.
It was a 6-story building. They were two stories up. His gaze moved slowly again to the window. He had found his way out.
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You travel to somewhere in the world, and you must be very surprised at something strange or something that does not exist in your countries. Strange things here can be LIKE things or DISLIKE things. Let’s see if you go to Vietnam what they are. This is a review of a traveller Mr Thomas Griffin.
This is just me being a picky westerner, but I’ve been here a couple months now and have found myself irked by many, mostly small things. To preface, I really like a lot of things about Vietnam as well. I’m going to miss it when I leave.
Let’s get to it!
- The casual racism. I get that this is probably just not as big a deal over here, but I’ve heard some pretty shocking things in casual conversation about black people here. From kids, too.
- The weather. Just personal preference here. I’m in Ho Chi Minh City, and it’s just way too hot and humid way too often. I feel the same way about summer where I come from, too, to be fair. I just don’t like heat and humidity together.
- The traffic. While you do get used to it, I don’t really appreciate risking my life on a daily basis crossing the street or getting on a motorbike (it’s pretty thrilling though!)
- The western stereotyping. It’s a shame how so many people here see white/western face and automatically assume “money”. This makes us prime targets for scammers and just over-solicitation in general, even of the honest kind. Yeah, I know that compared to most Vietnamese, we do pretty well, but in a different context, that being us in our own countries, which we will go back to eventually, we’re in need of cash just as much as them.
- The cockroaches. Never seen so many anywhere else, though I’m sure it’s bad elsewhere too.
- Young western tourists. Again, not exclusive to Vietnam, but really not a fan of the sleazy culture around western (male) tourists and what they get up to here. I feel like a lot of guys come here with the image of the perfect, submissive Asian woman they can’t get back home, and they do their best to sniff her out. There is blame on both sides, but I just end up feeling bad for the Vietnamese women, who, from what I hear, already aren’t treated super respectfully by Vietnamese men, so they turn to the exotic white man, who also uses them as a commodity. This is how we’ve been conditioned, so we can’t blame any one person, but let’s just say mentalities on both ends need to change.
Now for things I like!
- The food. Especially Mi Xao Bo. That’s beef noodles, for anyone who hasn’t been. It’s relatively balanced, and fills me up. Cheap, too!
- The 2 hour lunch break. The west needs to steal this, particularly the U.S. From 11:30–1:30, everyone stops work and goes to lunch, or goes home to have a nap. I am all for it. You’re better rested in the afternoon, and people who have night jobs bust ass at them because they caught up on sleep in the afternoon.
- The lack of stranger danger, and the hospitality in general. I love how kids come up to you with no fear and say “hello”. And not “Xin Chao”, actual “hello” in English. Kids are starting to learn English at a young age here now, and they are not shy about practicing with foreigners. And the parents are fine with it. Not only that, they encourage it. I love this, it really relaxes the mood. I guess it kind of goes along with how here in this big city, people live right on top of or next to each other. So they’ve learned how to get along.
- The overall attitude of the people. Sometimes I think the Vietnamese have every reason to dislike Americans. I mean, we did occupy their country for no immediately discernible reason for about 20 years, and we fought and killed thousands of them with many different weapons. There’s even a war museum here that shows what happened, and it does not hold back. So they probably hate us, right? On the contrary. Unlike lots of western nations, which seem to hold grudges against each other over long lost disputes, the Vietnamese are more than happy to put the past behind them and move forward with open hearts. I admire this more than they can know. They even wonder why more Americans don’t come over here. I would bet it’s because we’re under the impression we’re not welcome; even I was a little worried. And even so, you should see the faces of the Americans who see the war museum exhibits- pretty heavy. I want to stress that the Vietnamese don’t hold it against us. They’re very optimistic, light-hearted people, and it’s really inspiring. You do you, Vietnam.
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IRS broadens Free File
The IRS revised an agreement with the Free File Alliance of tax preparation software vendors to expand the number of taxpayers eligible next year for free electronic filing. IRS earlier this year received criticism for striking a contract through 2009 with the alliance that restricted eligibility compared with previous years.
For 2007, taxpayers who earn $52,000 or less will be able to use Free File services. That translates to 70 percent of all taxpayers, or 93 million individuals.
“We heard many legitimate concerns about the marketing of ancillary products during the last filing season,” said IRS commissioner Mark Everson in a statement.
The Free File program, which enters its fifth year in January, also agreed to remove from the program ancillary offerings, such as refund anticipation loans for which vendors charge a fee. Such loans use a taxpayer’s refund as collateral for a same-day, interest-charging loan.
Taxpayers locate Free File through the IRS Web site
. The Free File Alliance may still offer customers the option of having their state tax return prepared for a fee. Some alliance members are offering the state return for free as well.
eliminated 39 million tax filers from eligibility, a 23 percent drop between 2005 and 2006 in taxpayer usage, said the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration in a report.
At the same time, the agency eliminated the TeleFile program, which provided free electronic filing directly with the IRS by phone for certain eligible taxpayers.
The IRS told TIGTA that the Free File Alliance never guaranteed universal coverage, only up to 60 percent, although some industry participants have made their services available to all.
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Georg Roth's new and fresh Garment Dyed in a vibrant stunning Turquoise on a super soft rich fabrication. Shades of blues with the collar and cuffs a slightly darker shade stand out making this truly unique. Dressed up or sporty worn open with a tee under it makes this truly versatile for anywhere, any occasion.
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This is something I was meaning to write for a long time. Maybe I'll get around to it sometime, but I woke up just now thinking that it might be pretty easy to write a short synopsis of it and let the reader do the rest.
For all I know this has all been laid out before somewhere else. In retrospect, it seems a little obvious. Then again, I don't see a lot of people talk about this One Big Thing, so maybe that's not wholly true. Anyway.
I was going to write a pamphlet or short book. The working title was, "The Bad News about Imperialism, the Good News about Feminism, Socialism, and Humanist Wisdom."
The thesis was this:
1. That all oppressive thinking is of one sort: it can be boiled down to imperialistic thinking–that is, exploitative thinking. What do I mean by that? It is when one aspect of something that is basically whole and coequal decides that another aspect of it should be subordinate to the other and decides to treat it so.
a. Imperialism on a global political-economic scale is when one set of humans (the empire, the imperialists) decides to force another to suffer in some way (by colonizing it, setting it up so that it is easily and consistently exploited) so that the former can "benefit" in some way–that is, so that the imperialist can acquire more of some resource by having the colonized produce it despite not truly wanting to because of a system of violence, coercion, and fear that the colonized is encaged in.
b. Capitalism is imperialism on an intra-national scale: the ruling owning class exploits the working class.
c. Sexism is sexual imperialism: males, especially males that buy into patriarchal masculinity, perpetuate the subjugation of women because of numerous economic and psychological "benefits" that are only possible thereby.
d. Racism is another form of imperialism: white people, especially white people who believe in race as a scientific reality, perpetuate the subjugation of people of color, again because of numerous economic and psychological "benefits" that are only possible thereby.
2. That we have already conceived of understandings of how to cure the world of at least most of the prevailing imperialism that takes place in it. Those understandings can be conceived of in three broad but significantly interconnected categories:
a. Feminism: the analysis of the ways in which women are oppressed (but indeed analysis can and should be brought to bear on racist oppression, anti-queer oppression, anti-trans oppression, classist oppression, and so on, not least because, as bell hooks points out, if you would end the exploitation and oppression of all women, you can't possibly ignore the factors involved in the oppression of women of color, of poor women, of queer women, of trans women, and so on, nor the ways in which this system is damaging to all people regardless of gender, race, sexuality, and so on).
b. Socialism: the analysis of the economic reasons of how these oppressions came to be and why they remain this way, as well as how it all might be brought to an end. This might also be called Marxism. The economic basis of all these oppressions is bound up in capitalism and imperialism's requirement that there by an exploitable working class that will work for less than the value it generates so that an exploiting owning class can profit off of it. The way to end it would be to unite the working class and all oppressed people of the world to recognize their common interest in ending this exploitation in order to overthrow all imperialism and capitalism by instituting a system that would be conscious of humanity's capacity to engage in imperialism of many different sorts and seek to obviate it at every point by ensuring that human beings were universally empowered internally and externally in every sense possible. Included in such an understanding of socialism should also be an understanding of humanity's relationship with nature as not being one of fundamental difference but one of connection and unity, and so socialism would also necessarily seek to end an exploitative relationship between humanity and nature as much as possible.
c. Humanist wisdom: the analysis of the modes of thought that allow the sort of intellectual mistake that would encourage one to think of another human as sub-human in any way. A basis for these modes of thought might be called egoism and conceived of as a sort of inward-facing imperialism, wherein one aspect of the mind has decided that the rest of the mind should be subordinate to it and must serve it. Most religious traditions and secular traditions of wisdom have tried to explain this in some way or another.
i. The basic idea is that the ego believes it IS the whole mind, that it speaks for the whole mind, and that all a self's or a being's desires and feelings are contained in the model of the self (the ego, the internal self-portrait) that the self mistakes for the whole self because the ego believes it IS the whole self–and constantly tells itself that it is the whole self.
ii. In truth, each of us with an ego (which is pretty much all of us, so far as I can tell) is so much more than we know. One of the most obvious proofs of this is the existence of the subconscious.
iii. Whatever of the self does not fit into the ego's model of itself is suppressed and denied attention and encouragement, causing neurosis of some kind.
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Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon:
- Deciduous tree, 70-90(150) ft, [21-27(46) m], strong central leader, narrow ovoid. Winter buds are valve-like, resembling a duck's bill, to about 13 mm. Leaves alternate, simple, 7.5-20 cm across, broad truncate apex, bright green above; foliage only yellow, brown in fall. Tulip-like flowers in spring, greenish-yellow petals, orangish interior. Fruit cone-like, 6-8 cm long, green then brown, ripening in fall, containing numerous 1-2 seeded winged carpels, 2.5-3.5 cm long.
- Sun. pH adaptable but prefers a slightly acid soil. Aphids are a serious problem, in some areas the copious, sugary honeydew produced by the aphids results in a sooty mold on the upper suface of leaves.
- Hardy to USDA Zone 4 Native range from Massachusetts west to Wisconsin and south to Florida and Mississippi. This is the state tree of Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana
Several cultivars are somewhat available:
- ‘Aureo-marginatum’ (‘Aureomarginatum’) - variegated, leaved gold-edged at frist then greenish-yellow, green center. Monrovia Nursery offers it as Majestic Beauty®
- ‘Contortum’ (‘Crispum’) - leaves contorted and margins undulated.
- ‘Fatigiatum’ (‘Arnold’) - narrow tree, upright branches; 25 ft tall and 8 ft wide in 10 years.
- ‘Medio-pictum’ (‘Mediopictum’, ‘Aureopictum’) - variegated, leaves green except for a yellow blotch in the center
- Liriodendron: from Greek, leiron, lily, and dendron, tree tulipifera: tulip-bearing
- Corvallis: large tree in front of City Hall on Madison Ave; two trees in Central Park, the one on the north side is the tallest tree in the park.
- Oregon State Univ. campus: along Campus Way east of Cordley Hall.
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It’s me! And my partner in life and business and creation, Jayel Draco! We’re inviting you into our worlds! With our new publishing company, Oneshi Press, we’re building gorgeous, fully designed, immersive worlds that readers of our art books, graphic novels, and comic books can get lost in. (We hope you’ll find the “lost” experience fun and exciting, but some worlds are a tad dark, so, like… bring a flashlight.)
Anyway, we’re funding the company even as we’re starting it using Patreon, a subscription-based crowdfunding service that lets patrons sign up to donate any amount every month, and we’ve got rewards lined up for every level of subscription! Think exclusive access to high-resolution art, letters from your fave characters, original stories and art featuring you, cameos in our books, free downloads of our publications, and more.
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Due to the screen on my laptop turning pink I was unable to make updates and so I am doing it now.
One saturday in October Brindis came up to help me with my project. To check my redactions and see where things can be improved in order to put them into a book. This is an ongoing project and one that is not going to be done in a short amount of time. I also asked if she wanted a formalized student relationship to give us structure to work under and also so I can help her discover and achieve her goals as well.
My goal was 7 recipes, we accomplished 5! Considering they arrived (she brought her hubby with as a taste tester) 4 hours late than planned this to me was a huge success! We ate as we went and made notes as well. We had a fantastic time even if we were just the 2 of us in my tiny kitchen. We even had to start putting things on the couch for lack of room!
For the most part only minor changes were made to the recipes. We did however experiment with 2 types of rice for the rice dishes as well as substituting broth for milk in one of them as well (it was an alternative in the original.
To Make a Tart of Rice (Good Housewife's Jewel, p73)
Various ways to saute' a capon (Scappi p199)
To Prepare Rice Fritters (Scappi, p498 )
To Braise Eggplant (Scappi, p360)
To Prepare Pumpkin Tourte without a Shell (Scappi, p484)
Everything tasted fantastic and there is one more thing to try with the chicken and that it to grill it over wood and/or charcoal. We did fry it in oil and we grilled it on an electric grill. Both had distinct flavors. The fried of course carried the flavor of the oil with it as well, seeming to dull the flavor of the chicken some.
The rice tart is oddly better with the parboiled rice as opposed to milk rice.
The rice fritters were fantastic no matter what they were made with but really the milk rice helps them stick together best and to boil them in milk helps too, though the savoriness of those cooked in broth was also quite good.
I didn't take the time to puree the pumpkin only to mash it and the texture was still good. This is a recipe I would make for modern potlucks. Though we followed the weights exact to the medieval recipe (in proportion) It could do with less cinnamon or with a bit more ginger.
We could have used more eggplant for the amount of herbs we had but it was still a lovely flavor and I need to serve this again. It is not a pretty dish but it is quite tasty.
I had started some of the things on the day before. The chicken especially needs to be started ahead of time. I had prepped the filling for a 6th dish but we didn't get to it and that was ok. In total the cost of the experiment was a day and a half of work on my part and Brindis putting in about 6 hours helping as well and an actual cost of 50€ including ingredients for the 2 unmade dishes. Each dish could have served 6 at least except the chicken. The chicken was only 4 whole legs that were split, so 8 pieces.
We are looking for a good time to move on to the next set of recipes as well as Dominik is trying to recover my files from my brick of an old laptop!!! I hope he is successful! | <urn:uuid:d9936606-001f-4e54-8b85-26313458725e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://magdelena-kitchen.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-successes-of-that-saturday.html | 2020-09-20T01:37:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.990152 | 739 |
Booming creative design and display company has the ‘edge’ in retail industry
A Yorkshire creative design and display company has doubled its team to over 40 in the year that sees turnover increase by 133%.
After just seven years in business, Leading Edge, whose clients include high-street retailer Card Factory, is optimising its progression with a Regional Growth Fund boost enabling the purchase of a state-of-the-art printer, new fabrication equipment and a five-vehicle addition to its installation fleet, bringing a total investment of £200,000 in the last six months.
Led by founder and managing director Matthew Evans, the team has reported turnover of £1.5million in 2014 and has grown from a staff of four in 2008 to a 40-strong team today. New roles created in 2015 include fabricators, drivers, printers and fitters.
The new resources and expanded team has brought Leading Edge, which specialises in retail shop signage including 3D and illuminated lettering, its widest ever national client base.
Matthew said: “From our West Yorkshire base, we are now independently delivering on retail contracts across the whole of the UK, including Northern Ireland.
“Competition on the high street is fiercer than ever and attention-grabbing fascias which draw people in are a key way to win customers.
“Our new super-wide printer produces graphics up to 3.2 metres wide and has a dual print facility which means we can produce more high impact, high quality artwork, faster than ever before.
“Retail contracts have to be delivered alongside other suppliers to strict deadlines which are created to minimise customer disruption. Our new facilities gives us greater flexibility and speed to meet these deadlines with our biggest ever team to fulfil on delivery and fitting.”
He added: “Our investment in new equipment continues our policy of keeping our services in house which continues full autonomy on every client project. It opens up new ways we can create vibrant and creative artwork for our clients and is helping us win previously out of reach contracts on a national scale.”
Leading Edge design and produce signage and display graphics including exhibition and vehicle graphics, branding and marketing literature.
Leading Edge Creative is a creative design and display company based in Gomersal, West Yorkshire.
Founded in 2008, it produces graphic designs, vehicle graphics, exhibition and display stands to many market sectors including hospitality, retail, construction, interiors and specialist vehicle wrapping.
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Critical Perspectives on Modern Slavery: Prof. Scarpa Presents Her Research
On Wednesday 30 October 2019, JCU Professor Silvia Scarpa presented a paper on “The prohibition of slavery as a jus cogens rule of international law: definition and interpretation” at the Conference on “Critical Perspectives on Modern Slavery: Law, Policy and Society” organized by the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation of the University of Hull (United Kingdom).
The paper builds on Professor Scarpa’s study on “Contemporary Forms of Slavery” requested by the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI). The paper was presented in Panel 3 “Modern Slavery in Legal and Historical Contexts” chaired by Dr. Laura Lammasniemi of the University of Warwick. The Conference was organized by Dr Elizabeth Faulkner of the Wilberforce Institute and Dr. Laura Lammasniemi and it brought together a group of scholars doing multidisciplinary research in the field of contemporary slavery studies.
Silvia Scarpa teaches courses on contemporary slavery and human trafficking, human rights, international law, international organizations and international migration at John Cabot University. She is the author of the books Trafficking in Human Beings: Modern Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2008) and An Introduction to International Human Rights Standards for Law Enforcement Authorities (UniversItalia, 2012). | <urn:uuid:c0ad55f2-fd32-4aff-8510-f838aaa6f4e2> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://news.johncabot.edu/2019/11/professor-silvia-scarpa-modern-slavery/ | 2020-09-20T01:29:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.8797 | 303 |
DAG Rosenstein announced indictments of 12 Russian GRU members for various activities related to the 2016 Presidential Election.
Tagged: 2016 Presidential Election
The success of Trump demonstrates just how committed white Americans are to ethnic nationalism.
…and do we even want it?
Republicans need to challenge the implicit frame of the coverage of their nominating process.
Let’s be sure to not forget Richard Nixon while we’re having all our political fun.
Partisanship and Fear.
When headline writers use questions, Burt Likko answers them. Briefly, completely, and unabashedly expressing his own opinion. Ten questions about politics, the business of news, news of business, and grizzly bears.
The Republican Party is not the American Whig Party, but its successes–and eventual failure–offer some useful lessons worth considering.
Criticizing Scott Walker for not having completed his college degree may or may not be elitist. Because something is elitist, however, doesn’t make it invalid. So is it valid? Will Truman considers…
Mitt Romney is considering running again in 2016. Herewith a little history lesson. Three men have lost their first election as their party’s presidential nominee, then gone on to get their party’s nomination again:*#...
In one very important way, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is more like Newt Gingrich than her husband Bill. Democrats would be wise to consider that before the primaries begin.
Forgive me the hiatus in posting. I’ve been parenting (and writing a fair amount). Saw Tod (et al) at Leaguefest and he (et al) encouraged me to share links here to my work elsewhere,...
Good news, everyone! Finally admitting to ineptitude and corruption, each of the two major political parties is throwing in the towel and admitting that as a general rule they’re really terrible at picking candidates. ... | <urn:uuid:7a3c5ced-9b84-4c1a-a15c-d820dab5738a> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://ordinary-times.com/tag/2016-presidential-election/ | 2020-09-20T02:56:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.941177 | 400 |
What is UGC in SEO?
User-generated content acronym as UGC is any form of content that can be text, image, video, post, product review and much more. In a simple sense, it is content curated from users in any online platforms. For instance, your recent post on Facebook, online review in amazon and so on. They all are some sorts of user-generated content.
According to a Semrush ” More than 86% of companies today use user-generated content as part of their marketing strategy”.
Overwhelming statistics shows why you should focus on user-generated content for boosting SEO traffic and improving overall marketing funnel.
What are the Benefits of UGC in Marketing (SEO)?
Benefits of UGC are numerous. Your brands can better understand the target audience and helps to build a stronger community.
For instance, if some of your friends showcase latest gadgets in social media, you might be tempted to buy. It acts as a gateway for other users to connect with the brands.
People Trust People Not Your brand content
According to an article mentioned in a Guardian “A whopping 70% of consumers trust online peer reviews and recommendations more than professional content and copy”.
Above statistics clearly show reviews and recommendations stand as a social proof which drives a potential customer.
It is Authentic, Real and Cost-Effective
If you are offering quality products and services then people start creating user-generated content either by sharing in a social media profile or in an online forum.
This makes user-generated content real and authentic. So, it generates the trust factor among the customers because they see users like them posting reviews and feedback for your brand.
With billions of users on Social media, what would the consequence be if people start talking about your brands? Your brand will have high visibility and a brand authority that makes your marketing campaign cost-effective.
Communicate your brand values through customer stories
When consumers post UGC on social media or any online platform, they do it to tell their real-life experience with you brands products and services.
It is created by loyal customers who use and care about your products and services. User-generated content speaks to your audience in a tone that is loyal and authentic. Hence, it communicates your brand values in a way like no other advertising or marketing content could.
Boosts Social Media Metrics
Running a UGC Hashtag Campaign on social media is one of the best ways to engage your users with your brand and create a word of mouth marketing.
As a matter of fact, people love participating in UGC Campaigns as they get the opportunity to showcase their creativity to a broader group of audience.
How is user-generated content helpful for SEO?
One of the fascinating things about UGC is that consumers highly trust user-generated content which impacts purchasing decisions.
Let me tell you a story. A week ago, I was seeking a quality kindle ebook reader on Amazon. I was pretty perplexed which could be the right fit. So, I went through the Amazon store to search for a kindle. Results popped right with varieties of kindle. After reviewing for a while from different buyers, I came to know Kindle Paperwhite was the right fit. After a while, I ordered it online. Boom! a win-win situation for both amazon as well as vendor.
Did you notice my buying journey and the power of user-generated contents? I just made purchasing decisions simply from assessing the different reviewers. That’s why user-generated has a huge impact on sales funnel.
Another staggering statistics from 3dcart “A significant 70% of consumers will consider UGC reviews or ratings before making a purchasing decision. At least 41% of them will read four to seven UGC reviews to gain important insights on a product”.
That’s why implementing user-generated content into your SEO strategy is one of the most effective ways to boost your brand’s search rankings and search engine visibility. Even more, it helps to build social proof for your products and services.
How to use UGC for better SEO performance?
You might have heard people trust people not your brand content first. When it comes to user-generated content, running UGC hashtags campaign in social media has a greater impact on driving s website traffic. Let’s say your brand has a great online presence in social media, people talk about your brands. If people are interested in your brands, they will most probably visit your site to know more about it.
Enable User Review & Testimonial
It is the right strategy to showcase user review and testimonial in your website. Better reviews & testimonials help to boost conversion and SEO performance as well.
Generate Traffic Using Schema Markup:
You can generate a considerable amount of traffic using review snippets if you are selling products & services.
Discussions Forums & Q&A Session
Implementing one of these, you can monitor some of the conversation surrounding your brand. Users can also answer questions and provide one another with useful insights. A forum section on Best Buy eCommerce site is an excellent example because it lets users ask the community and sort through existing answers to find the information they’re looking for.
Start creating content that is qualitative and gives a high value to the users. If you curate awesome content you don’t even need to share the rest of the online platform. Providing content that actually users are looking for so that you can get tons of shares.
Furthermore, this type of UGC is often more shareable than reviews or discussion threads and can increase traffic to your website.
Enabling a comment leads to building trust and may help increase site engagement.
For instance, one of a post on backlinko has a massive amount of shares and comments. From this post what we can infer is that domain backlinko is providing a lot of value in the field of SEO and overall marketing industry.
UGC has a high potential of increasing brand awareness and ultimately conversion. Every brand is leveraging UGC as a marketing strategy. Then why not you too? Let’s take a moment and include UGC strategy into your to-do for better SEO performance. | <urn:uuid:d410efa1-0b1a-46f9-a011-11fe3e4adac9> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://orkasocials.com/improve-seo-with-ugc/ | 2020-09-20T01:20:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.929389 | 1,285 |
The Smoker Diamond Painting
Product Name: The Smoker Diamond Painting
Painting Type: DIY Diamond Painting
Also Known As: Diamond Dotz art, Gemstone paintings
Canvas Size: Multiple sizes available
Diamond Shape: Square/Round
Best use as: Bedroom Painting, Lobby, Office, and all the walls that you want to decorate with your creativity. | <urn:uuid:9a105a43-0a61-404a-897b-1dc789c67448> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://paintingscart.com/product/the-smoker-diamond-painting/ | 2020-09-20T02:18:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.777685 | 77 |
So today was a day off from work day, which is always pleasant as days off go. I hadn’t planned on doing much of anything except blog and internet work. (I have such the pressing social life.)
However, yesterday I got my paycheck. So this morning I was practically forced into actual clothes by my mother in order that I’d go out to the bank and deposit it.
Since I got somewhat dressed anyways, I decided to give you an OOTD (outfit of the day).
I never said I got out of bed to take the picture. .
I wore my new black running shoes (not shown), jeans, my camouflage sweater, and my awesome Spirited Away t-shirt that I bought at the thrift store for 99c.
This is something I’ve never mentioned on my blog, which is amazing to me. But I’m an anime fan. Specifically, Studio Ghibli. I have almost all their movies, and I can (and have) watched them over and over.
Shoutout to Kiki’s Delivery Service (grew up on that), Nausicaa with the song that gets in everyone’s head, the beautiful Howl’s Moving Castle, and the movie that is basically my current life on film, Whisper of The Heart.
Love, love, love. They are the only thing/brand I will gladly advertise on my person. I’m so surprised I’ve never shared this nerdy fandom side about me until now.
I mostly played with my new camera the rest of the day.
We had smores for dessert after lunch.
My mom found her old tripod for me to have. Early Christmas present! Now I will be able to show you our Christmas decorations in the low lighting.
Every year, we set up our little village on top of the piano, and every year it grows. One and all are welcome. You can see the back of Han Solo’s head in this picture and a fuzzy shadow of Darth Vader farther out. They are in constant frozen battle.
Doesn’t this little guy have an interesting look on his face? It seems as though he has paused in his wood chopping to rest, but he’s also deep in thought. It’s as if he’s stopped to take a breather and truly examine his life, and from the look on his face, he is not happy with where he is at the moment. He wants more for himself. He had bigger dreams for himself.
That’s what I see. Do you see anything?
Oh and his name is Jim. He looks like a Jim.
I finished up the day by painting my nails festively, and watching Sleepless In Seattle with my mom. It’s kind of a Christmas movie.
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Ellen G. White’s Ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Dean and Professor of Theology
Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary
Paper presented at the conversation with the World Evangelical Alliance
August 7, 2007
Seventh-day Adventists believe that God bestows upon all members of his church in every age spiritual gifts which are to be employed in ministry for the common good of the church and of humanity. These gifts are apportioned by the Holy Spirit to each believer and provide abilities and ministries needed by the church to fulfill its divinely ordained mission and functions.1 Adventists believe these gifts are to function for the perfecting of the saints and for the edification of the body of Christ until his return. Just as they were needed in the early church to confirm the work of the apostles and to provide guidance in the young congregations, these gifts are also needed today. While Adventists recognize the unique position of the Bible as the sole criterion by which all claims to spiritual gifts must be evaluated, the Bible itself points to a continuing manifestation of spiritual gifts in the Christian Church until the return of Christ and particularly at the end of time. On the basis of Revelation 12:17 and 19:10, Adventists hold that the gift of prophecy is an identifying mark of the people of God in the last days. This gift they believe was manifested in the life and ministry of Ellen G. White.
1Adventists, along with Pentecostal Christians, believe in the perpetual manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit until the second coming of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:9-11, 27, 28; Ephesians 4:8, 11-13; Romans 12:4-8; Acts 6:1-7; 1 Timothy 3:1-13; 1 Peter 4:10, 11.
Adventists have argued that while Ellen White’s ministry and writings are valued as a genuine gift of the Spirit, her authority is considered secondary to the Bible. Adventists see a similarity between the ministry of non-canonical prophets and that of Ellen White. The Bible describes the work of many prophets who did not write any portion of Scripture. Enoch, Gad, Nathan, Huldah, and even John the Baptist are such non-canonical prophets. Although genuine prophets and empowered by the Holy Spirit to minister to Israel during a particular period of time, these prophets did not write any section of the Bible. Yet their ministry is considered genuine, valid, and authoritative. Adventists perceive the role and ministry of Ellen White in a similar way. Her ministry is believed to be a spiritual gift to the church in the last days to provide guidance to Adventists in the fulfillment of their mission and to help prepare God’s people for the second advent of Christ. Her writings are thus viewed as secondary to Scripture.
Ellen White was born Ellen Gould Harmon in 1827 in Portland, Maine. She was raised in a devout Methodist home and in her teen years accepted Jesus as her Savior. In the early 1840s she became a believer in the imminent return of Christ and joined the Millerite Second Advent movement. She had her first vision in December 1844, at the age of 17, and thus reluctantly began a lifelong prophetic ministry that lasted until her death in 1915. In 1846 she married James White, a Christian Connexion minister, who had also joined the Advent Movement in the early 1840s. Together with other colleagues they founded the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. During her lifetime Ellen White provided prophetic guidance to the denomination through her influence, sermons, and numerous books and periodical articles. It is estimated that she wrote over 100,000 pages of manuscripts during her 70 years of ministry and addressed a wide variety of subjects and interests. She wrote on many biblical themes, church
organization and pastoral ministry, lifestyle issues, education, health and temperance, home life, and mission.
Ellen White’s numerous books fall into two major categories. First, she wrote extensively on biblical themes and stories. Her best known books are part of a series called the “Conflict of the Ages” series which include five books on the story of the conflict between good and evil, from the fall of Lucifer to the new earth.2 She also authored Steps to Christ (1892) on themes related to doctrine of salvation, Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing (1896) on the Sermon on the Mount, and Christ’s Object Lessons (1900) on the parables of Jesus.
2The “Conflict of the Ages” series include the books Patriarchs and Prophets (1890) which covers the fall of Lucifer to the reign of king David, Prophets and Kings (1916) from the reign of Solomon to the end of the Old Testament; Desire of Ages (1898) on the life and ministry of Christ; Acts of the Apostles (1911) on the early church, and The Great Controversy (1911) from the fall of Jerusalem to the new earth.
Much of her writings also dealt with various aspects of ministry and Christian life. Often the contents of her letters, manuscripts, sermons, and periodical articles were reshaped to form books on particular subjects. Such is the nine-volume series of Testimonies for the Church which she published between 1855 and 1909, and books on Education (1903), Ministry of Healing (1905), and Gospel Workers (1915). In her last will and testament she made provision for her estate to continue the publication of her books and also print compilations of her writings as church leaders would see fit. Thus through the years many other books have been published from her published and unpublished letters and manuscripts files. All of Ellen White’s published writings are available on CD-ROM and on the Ellen G. White Estate website.3 Her unpublished letters and manuscripts are available for consultation at many research centers in the United States and overseas and are currently in the process of being published by section. Ellen White is the most prolific American woman author in the history of the United States thus far. She is also the most translated author with her book Steps to Christ translated into more than 120 languages. Perhaps one day someone at the United States Postal Service office will be convinced to issue a stamp in her honor.
When it comes to the writings of Ellen White, the main question in the mind of many Evangelical Christians pertains to the relationship of Ellen White’s writings to the Bible and their role in the shaping of Seventh-day Adventist beliefs. The rest of this paper will seek to address this question by (1) referring to some statements Ellen White made in this regard, (2) examining her role in the development of distinctive Adventist doctrines, and (3) reflecting on
3The official Seventh-day Adventist website about Ellen White and her writings is found at www.whiteestate.org.
the theological value of her writings.
Ellen White and the Bible
One of the earliest and clearest statements regarding what Ellen White believed to be her relationship to the Bible is the following, “I recommend to you, dear reader, the word of God as the rule of your faith and practise [sic]. By that word we are to be judged. God has, in that word, promised to give visions [i.e. a reference to her own ministry] in the ‘LAST DAYS’; not for a new rule of faith, but for the comfort of His people, and to correct those who err from Bible truth.”4
4The Christian Experience and Views of Ellen G. White (1851), p. 64; reprinted in Early Writings (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald, 1945), p. 78
Mrs. White believed in the supremacy and ultimate authority of the Word of God. The following comment was written in 1888 when many Adventist ministers were debating the concept of righteousness by faith. What I find enlightening in this statement is her understanding of the issues related to critical scholarship and her own strong faith in the Word of God.
I take the Bible just as it is, as the Inspired Word. I believe its utterances in an entire Bible. Men arise who think they find something to criticize in God’s Word. They lay it bare before others as evidence of superior wisdom. These men are, many of them, smart men, learned men, they have eloquence and talent, the whole lifework [of whom] is to unsettle minds in regard to the inspiration of the Scriptures. They influence many to see as they do. And the same work is passed on from one to another, just as Satan designed it should be, until we may see the full meaning of the words of Christ, “When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). . . .
Brethren, cling to your Bible, as it reads, and stop your criticisms in regard to its validity, and obey the Word, and not one of you will be lost. The ingenuity of men has been exercised for ages to measure the Word of God by their finite minds and limited comprehension. If the Lord, the Author of the living oracles, would throw back the
curtain and reveal His wisdom and His glory before them, they would shrink into nothingness and exclaim as did Isaiah, “I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of people of unclean lips” (Isaiah 6:5). . . .
Men of humble acquirements, possessing but limited capabilities and opportunities to become conversant in the Scriptures, find in the living oracles comfort, guidance, counsel, and the plan of salvation as clear as a sunbeam. No one need be lost for want of knowledge, unless he is willfully blind. We thank God that the Bible is prepared for the poor man as well as for the learned man. It is fitted for all ages and all classes.5
5Manuscript 16, 1888 published in Selected Messages (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald, 1958), vol. 1, pp. 17-18. One of the most forceful statement she made about the value and authority of Scripture is the following: “In the Bible the will of God is revealed to His children. Wherever it is read, in the family circle, the school, or the church, all should give quiet and devout attention as if God were really present and speaking to them.” Testimonies for the Church (Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 1948), vol. 5, p. 84.
Many other passages in her writings could be quoted to highlight her unwavering faith in the supreme authority of Scripture for Christian beliefs and practice. Ellen White understood her ministry to be a gift of God to the Seventh-day Adventist church to help members live committed Christian lives in preparation for the second coming of Jesus. Her writings were never intended to replace the Bible but to help people see the precious gems of truth in the Bible and to point them to the Bible as their authority and guide. It is in this context that in 1903 she penned the following explanation: “Little heed is given to the Bible, and the Lord has given a lesser light [i.e. her writings] to lead men and women to the greater light [the Scripture].”6
In 1889, Ellen White felt people needed to be reminded of the nature and role of her writings for the church and wrote a 38-page document, published in her Testimonies for the Church.7 In this document she gave extracts from what she had written over the years regarding her work. She commented that “The word of God abounds in general principles for the formation of correct habits of living, and the testimonies [i.e. her writings], general and personal, have been calculated to call their attention more especially to these principles.”8 “The written testimonies are not to give new light, but to impress vividly upon the heart the truths of inspiration already revealed. . . . The Testimonies are not to belittle the word of God, but to exalt it and attract minds to it, that the beautiful simplicity of truth may impress all.”9 She also emphasized that knowledge of her writings was not a test of fellowship and that her writings
6Review and Herald, January 20, 1903.
7“The Nature and Influence of the ‘Testimonies,’” in Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, pp. 654-691.
8Ibid., p. 663-664.
9Ibid., p. 665.
were not to be used to prove biblical teachings to unbelievers.10
Ellen White’s Role in the Development of Seventh-day Adventist Doctrines
10Ibid., pp. 668-669. See also Testimonies for the Church, vol. 1, pp. 327-329.
Perhaps one of the subjects concerning Ellen White’s ministry that brings up the most inquiries has been in regard to her involvement and influence in the development of Seventh-day Adventist doctrines. Many believe that her visions were the origin of the distinctive doctrines of Adventism. However, a brief look at the historical development of the distinctive doctrines of Adventism reveals a different picture. Adventist pioneers accepted a set of distinctive doctrines based on their study of the Bible and Ellen White’s influence in these early years was often limited to confirmation and clarification of these doctrines. Never was she the initiator of these doctrinal beliefs.
Second Advent of Christ. Adventists take their name from their belief in the imminent, visible, and literal second advent of Christ which will then be followed by the millennium (premillennialism). They are not the only Christians to believe in a premillennialist eschatology and many believed in this understanding of the second coming of Christ long before the time of Ellen White. She herself learned of this doctrine as a young Methodist girl, along with other members of her family, as she listened to lectures of William Miller and other early Adventist preachers. This doctrine has a solid biblical foundation and is still accepted today by numerous Christians in many denominations, although we will agree that there are a variety of premillennialist interpretations. During her years of ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist church Mrs. White used her influence to reassert this doctrine among Adventists and to invite
Adventists to be ready for Christ’s advent.
Observance of the Seventh-day Sabbath. A knowledge of the doctrine of the seventh-day Sabbath was first brought to Adventists in early 1844 in Washington, New Hampshire, by Rachel Oaks (later Preston), a Seventh Day Baptist. Far from being an innovation of the nineteenth century, the seventh-day Sabbath as a day of rest and worship has been observed by Christians since the beginning of Christianity and by Seventh Day Baptists since the seventeenth century. In early 1845, two ministers in the Washington, New Hampshire, area, Thomas Preble and Frederick Wheeler, accepted this doctrine and began to propagate their views. Thus it came to the attention of Joseph Bates, who, with James and Ellen White, would later become one of the three co-founders of the Seventh-day Adventist church. When Bates first approached Ellen White on the doctrine of the Sabbath in 1846, her initial reaction was negative. “I did not feel its importance,” she later wrote, “and thought that he erred in dwelling upon the fourth commandment more than upon the other nine.”11 In August 1846, Bates published his first tract, The Seventh-day Sabbath, A Perpetual Sign, and gave a copy of it to James and Ellen White. From the biblical evidence presented in the book, and not because Ellen had received a vision, they decided to accept this doctrine.12 In 1874 she recalled in a letter to John Loughborough, “I believed the truth upon the Sabbath question before I had seen anything in vision in reference to the Sabbath. It was months after I had commenced keeping the Sabbath before I was shown [in vision] its importance.”13
11Life Sketches of Ellen G. White (Nampa, Idaho: Pacific Press, 1915), p. 95.
12Testimonies for the Church, vol. 1, p. 75.
13Letter 2, 1874, published in Manuscript Releases (Silver Spring, MD: E. G. White Estate, 1990), vol. 8, p. 238.
A similar scenario took place regarding the time to begin the observance of the Sabbath, an issue that was not settled among Sabbatarian Adventists until November 1855. Four views of when the Sabbath begins coexisted among them during the late 1840s and early 1850s: (1) sunrise Saturday morning; (2) midnight Friday night (“legal time”); (3) 6 p.m. Friday (“equatorial time”), the position favored by Bates, who knew that the sun rises at 6 a.m., and sets at 6 p.m., at the equator; and (4) sunset on Friday, the Jewish and Seventh Day Baptist position. J. N. Andrews was commissioned to study out the matter from Scripture, and write a report for a conference in Battle Creek in November 1855. On the basis of biblical evidence, Andrews concluded that the proper time to begin the Sabbath was sunset on Friday.14 While the attendees at this conference accepted Andrews’ biblical study and conclusions, Bates initially held out for “equatorial time,” and so did Ellen White who sided with Bates. Three days later, however, during a season of prayer “at the closing of the conference,” Ellen White received a vision correcting her position, which she immediately shared with the other believers.15 In subsequent years, she continued to give her strong support to the doctrine of the Sabbath and its theological and spiritual meaning. She also provided numerous counsels regarding Sabbath keeping. But it can hardly be said that Adventists got their distinctive belief regarding the Sabbath from Ellen White.
14J. N. Andrews, “Time for Commencing the Sabbath,” Review and Herald, December 4, 1855, pp. 76-78.
15Arthur L. White, Ellen G. White: The Early Years, vol. 1, 1827-1862 (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald, 1985), pp. 322-325; cf. Testimonies for the Church, vol. 1, p. 116.
Christ’s Ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary. One of the major beliefs of the Millerite Second Advent movement in the early 1840s was the belief that Jesus would return to the earth
around 1843 or 1844. Millerites, along with many other biblical commentators before their time, came to this conclusion by studying the time prophecies of the book of Daniel, specially chapters 8 and 9. When Jesus did not return as predicted in the fall of 1844, a general disappointment followed and Millerites sought to understand their spiritual experience and the meaning of the prophecies of Daniel that had led them to believe that Christ would return that year. A few of them came to understand that the prophetic calculations they had done were accurate but that the event predicted was mistaken. A study of the Bible, extending over a period of months, first done by Hiram Edson, O. R. L. Crosier, and Frederick Hahn, led a small group of Millerite Adventists to conclude that the two phases of priestly ministry in the Old Testament sanctuary services were a type of Christ’s ministry in the heavenly sanctuary after his ascension, and that Christ had begun a new phase of his ministry in October 1844 in preparation for his second coming. Edson, Crosier, and Hahn published their findings in the Day-Dawn (Canandaigua, New York) during the winter of 1845-1846 and again as an “Extra” in the Day-Star (Cincinnati, Ohio) of February 7, 1846.
Ellen White’s first written statement upon this subject came about a year after the conclusions of Edson, Crosier, and Hahn had been published. In a letter to Eli Curtis, April 24, 1847, she wrote, “The Lord showed me in vision, more than one year ago, that Brother Crosier had the true light on the cleansing of the sanctuary, etc., and that it was His will that Brother C. should write out the view which he gave us in the Day-Star Extra, February 7, 1846. I feel fully authorized by the Lord to recommend that Extra to every saint.”16 Here also her role was largely to confirm the conclusions of these brethren, not to initiate them. In later years she
16A Word to the ‘Little Flock’, p. 12.
repeatedly urged church members to read articles upon this subject written by the pioneers of the Advent Movement.17 Although Ellen White received visions on the subject of the heavenly sanctuary between 1845 and 1851, she consistently referred church members to articles written by the pioneers explaining from Scripture the doctrine of the sanctuary. In these articles, her visions and writings are never used to back up their views.
17Cf. Letter 99, 1905, published in Counsels to Writers and Editors (Nashville, TN: Southern Publishing Association, 1946), p. 26. In 1983, Paul A. Gordon, then associate secretary of the Ellen G. White Estate, collected over 400 articles on the sanctuary doctrine and related topics published between 1846 and 1905. The anthology he produced, Pioneer Articles on the Sanctuary, Daniel 8:14, the Judgment, 2300 Days, Year-day Principle, [and the] Atonement, 1846-1905, contained 1,009 pages.
Three Angels’ Messages of Revelation 14. The messages proclaimed symbolically by three angels in Revelation 14 form the basis of Adventist self-understanding and missionary consciousness. In the first message an angel proclaims the everlasting gospel and the hour of God’s judgment to all nations (14:6, 7). The second message proclaims the fall of Babylon (14:8) while the third message warns against the mark of the beast (14:9-11). References to these messages were made during the Millerite Second Advent movement. William Miller and his associates used the imagery of the first angel’s message to teach that the time of God’s judgment had arrived and that Christ would soon return. Charles Fitch seems to have been the first to preach on the second angel’s message on July 26, 1843. This message referring to the fall of Babylon never really “caught on” among Millerite preachers, although many believers accepted it. Previously, Protestants had tended to identify Roman Catholicism with spiritual Babylon. Fitch broadened the category to include contemporary Protestants who had turned from the doctrine of an imminent second advent. While the Millerite movement had been fairly well received by most Protestant denominations until then, in fact it had been an ecumenical movement, Fitch’s message caused a rift and much antagonism. Joseph Bates was the first Sabbatarian Adventist minister to articulate and integrate all three messages with the doctrines of the Sabbath and the heavenly ministry of Christ. In his pamphlets published between 1846 and 1848, he argued that the observance of the Sabbath was the seal of God and the keeping of Sunday was a mark of the beast. Revelation 14:12 concludes these three messages by pointing out that in the end of time, and as a result of the preaching of these three messages, God’s remnant people will be identified as those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus. Adventists have understood these messages to be a divine commission to warn the
world of the soon coming of Christ and to invite all people to observe all of God’s commandments, including the seventh-day Sabbath, and to follow the example of the life of Jesus and to rely on his mercy and grace for salvation. During this period of time, Ellen White wrote little on the three angels’ messages and her role was limited to endorsing the presentations made by other speakers and writers with the exception of one vision on the seal of God she received in December 1848 that significantly enhanced Bates’ understanding of the subject at that time. In later years she continued to affirm the value of the three angels’ messages as key to Adventist identify and purpose.18
18Ellen White wrote in 1909, “In a special sense Seventh-day Adventists have been set in the world as watchmen and light bearers. To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing world. On them is shining wonderful light from the word of God. They have been given a work of the most solemn import–the proclamation of the first, second, and third angels’ messages. There is no other work of so great importance. They are to allow nothing else to absorb their attention. The most solemn truths ever entrusted to mortals have been given us to proclaim to the world. The proclamation of these truths is to be our work. The world is to be warned, and God’s people are to be true to the trust committed to them. They are not to engage in speculation, neither are they to enter into business enterprises with unbelievers; for this would hinder them in their God-given work.” Testimonies for the Church, vol. 9, 19.
ajor new ideas.
Conditional immortality and annihilation of the wicked. Adventists believe in the intrinsic unity of human life and that all essential aspects that characterize human life (e.g. knowledge, emotions, will) can exist only in dependence of bodily functions; human life does not include inherent immortality. Immortality is only conferred by God on the day of the resurrection. Hence, the intermediary state between death and the resurrection is perceived as a deep sleep, one that is deprived of all the cognitive attributes of bodily life. This view also embraces the annihilation of the wicked at the end of time and does not support the concept of an eternal hell. George Storrs, a Methodist minister who became a Millerite preacher in 1842, is believed to have been the first in the Millerite Second Advent movement to advocate the unconscious state of human beings in death. Storrs’ ideas influenced Eunice Harmon who shared them with her daughter, Ellen, who was about 15 years old then. Ellen’s initial reaction was one of strong disapproval; but after a careful study of the biblical evidence, she accepted it.19 Later, she became a strong advocate of Storrs’ “soul-sleep” doctrine of conditional immortality, and she considered it to be one of the half-dozen “pillar” doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.20 Her role in promoting it, however, was largely in the nature of endorsing Storrs’ views; she did not bring any m
These distinctive doctrines of Adventism are part of the core of Adventist teaching, they are what make us a distinctive group of Christians but they are not all the doctrines we believe. Adventists share many other doctrines with Evangelical Christianity, including the Trinity, the
19Testimonies for the Church, vol. 1, pp. 39, 40.
20Manuscript 13, 1889, cited in Counsels to Writers and Editors, 30, 31. In this manuscript Ellen White highlighted that the core “landmark” doctrines of Adventism are the heavenly ministry of Christ, the three angels’ messages of Revelation 14, the immutability of the commandments of God, with special emphasis on the Sabbath, and the non-immortality of the soul.
centrality of Scripture, creation ex-nihilo, the substitutionary atonement of the death of Christ, salvation by grace through faith in Christ, justification and sanctification by faith, the church and its ministry, believer’s baptism by immersion, the Lord’s Supper, and the new earth as the inheritance of the redeemed. Ellen White affirmed all these doctrines in her writings.
Between April 1848 and December 1850, about twenty-three Sabbatarian Bible Conferences were held to hammer out the distinctive doctrines of what would become Seventh-day Adventism. These conferences were meetings of believers and interested people who came together from varying distances, usually on a weekend, during which participants studied the Bible, prayed, and fasted. The pioneers who led out in these meetings were mainly James White and Joseph Bates. Although Ellen White attended, her participation and influence in the discussions were limited. In 1904 she recalled her experience during these conferences: “During this whole time [1848-1850] I could not understand the reasoning of the brethren. My mind was locked, as it were, and I could not comprehend the meaning of the scriptures we were studying. This was one of the greatest sorrows of my life” (1SM 207). She went on to explain that sometimes when the brethren were at a standstill in their study, she would have a vision to confirm the understanding of some texts they had arrived at or to point out a mistake in an interpretation. It was only after the participants at these conferences had reached a dead-end, so to speak, that her visions played an influential role and that role was limited to guidance and confirmation and not to the formation or generation of new ideas or beliefs.
A more complete history of the development of Adventist beliefs indicates, however, that Adventists did not always adhere to some of the teachings we hold today. While many other Christians tend to believe that Ellen White had a detrimental role on the development of
Adventist beliefs, restraining Adventists in what they can believe or forcing them to believe certain distinctive and odd doctrines, what is not well known is the formative and shaping role her writings had on the development of a solid doctrinal orthodox position. Many early Adventists were Arians or semi-Arians in their understanding of the divinity of Christ and viewed the Holy Spirit only as a power emanating from God the Father. Ellen White’s influence was beneficial in helping the denomination at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in adopting an orthodox view of the divinity of Christ and personhood of the Holy Spirit.21 She also helped the denomination steer away from some pantheistic views at the same time.22 The same can be said regarding the role of the Law of God in salvation. Early on Adventists tended to be legalists and many promoted, if not altogether believed, in salvation by faith and works. Although Ellen White never advocated such a view, she used her influence to bring many of her colleagues and the young denomination to a clear understanding that salvation is by grace alone through faith in Christ, that it is a gift of God that cannot be purchased by our good works, and that our good works are the fruit of the work of God in our lives.23 So for Adventists, Ellen White’s influence and role in the development of our doctrines and teachings was beneficial; albeit secondary to Scripture, it was nonetheless important.
21See George R. Knight, A Search for Identity: The Development of Seventh-day Adventist Beliefs (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald, 2000), pp. 110-117; Jerry Moon. “The Adventist Trinity Debate, Part 1: Historical Overview,” Andrews University Seminary Studies (41:1) Spring 2003, pp. 113-129) and “The Adventist Trinity Debate, Part 2: The Role of Ellen G. White,” Andrews University Seminary Studies (41:2) Autumn 2003, pp. 275-292.
22Testimonies for the Church, vol. 8, pp. 255-304.
23See Knight, A Search for Identity, pp. 100-110. A good example of Ellen White’s writings that highlight her emphasis on salvation by faith in Christ is the compilation of sermons and articles Faith and Works (Nashville, TN: Southern Publishing Association, 1979).
Theological Themes in Ellen White’s Writings
While I readily admit that Ellen White was not a theologian, nor was she trained in biblical studies, her writings present many theological themes and ideas which expand on the biblical stories. Herbert Douglass has commented correctly that “The uniqueness of Ellen White’s contribution lies not in total originality of thought but in her synthesis of divinely revealed insights and the results of her own reading and observations.”24
Like John Calvin’s theology is centered around the organizing principle of the sovereignty of God, Ellen White’s theological themes integrate various strands of her thought into a unified network of concepts and provide an interpretative framework for not only single documents or books, but for entire sectors of her writings (such as health, education, family living).25 George Knight has identified seven of those themes in her writings: the love of God; the great controversy between good and evil; Jesus, the cross, and salvation; the centrality of the Bible; the second coming of Jesus; the third angel’s message and Adventist mission; and practical Christianity and character development.26
Illustrative of how she understood the theological articulation of Bible doctrines and of her theological themes are the following statements.
On the theme of the great controversy:
24Messenger of the Lord: The Prophetic Ministry of Ellen G. White (Nampa, Idaho: Pacific Press, 1998), p. 256.
25George R. Knight, Meeting Ellen White: A Fresh Look at Her Life, Writings, and Major Themes (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald, 1996), p. 109.
26Ibid., pp. 109-127.
The Bible is its own expositor. Scripture is to be compared with scripture. The student should learn to view the word as a whole, and to see the relation of its parts. He should gain a knowledge of its grand central theme, of God’s original purpose for the world, of the rise of the great controversy, and of the work of redemption. He should understand the nature of the two principles that are contending for supremacy, and should learn to trace their working through the records of history and prophecy, to the great consummation. He should see how this controversy enters into every phase of human experience; how in every act of life he himself reveals the one or the other of the two antagonistic motives; and how, whether he will or not, he is even now deciding upon which side of the controversy he will be found.27
27Education (Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 1903), p. 190.
On the theme of salvation:
The central theme of the Bible, the theme about which every other in the whole book clusters, is the redemption plan, the restoration in human soul of the image of God. From the first intimation of hope in the sentence pronounced in Eden to that last glorious promise of the Revelation, “They shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads” (Revelation 22:4), the burden of every book and every passage of the Bible is the unfolding of this wondrous theme,—man’s uplifting,—the power of God, “which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:57.28
On the theme of atonement:
The sacrifice of Christ as an atonement for sin is the great truth around which all other truths cluster. In order to be rightly understood and appreciated, every truth in the word of God, from Genesis to Revelation, must be studied in the light that streams from the cross of Calvary. I present before you the great, grand monument of mercy and regeneration, salvation and redemption,–the Son of God uplifted on the cross. This is to be the foundation of every discourse given by our ministers.29
28Education, pp. 125-126.
29Gospel Workers (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald, 1915), p. 315.
Seventh-day Adventists certainly value the writings of Ellen White and give them a measure of doctrinal and theological authority, albeit secondary to Scripture. But I wonder to what extent the way Adventists use the writings of Ellen White is different from what other evangelical denominations do with the writings of their founders. I’ve been told that Lutheran pastors are required to affirm their assent to the Book of Concord before they are ordained. Reformed Christians hold in high esteem the writings of John Calvin and the canons of the
Synod of Dort. Methodists value the writings of John Wesley and an Arminian theological framework. The Westminster Confession of Faith is an authoritative document for Presbyterians. Although these Christian denominations do not categorize these writings as inspired, in contrast to what Adventists do with the writings of Ellen White, nonetheless these writings hold authoritative value in these denominations and serve as a compass for doctrinal orthodoxy and theological education. Yet all these denominations also claim to have Scripture as their sole authority in matters of faith. I think this would be a subject of discussion that could be very informative and enlightening. Adventists know that the writings of Ellen White influence their theological thinking and Christian life, I wonder to what extent Evangelical Christians realize how much the writings of their church founders influence their theological thinking and Christian life. One contribution I believe Adventists can make to dialogues with Evangelical Christians is how to interface the primacy of Scripture’s authority with the secondary authority given to writings of church founders and professions of faith.
Much more could be said about the role and ministry of Ellen White in Seventh-day Adventism. We could look at her personal life as a mother, a wife, a friend, a counselor. We could observe her as a soul-winner and evangelist, an anti-slavery advocate and a temperance reformer. But I’ll conclude with a quote from A. G. Daniells, then president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, who gave a short summary of Ellen White’s contributions at her funeral in Battle Creek, Michigan, on July 24, 1915.
Perhaps we are not wise enough to say definitely just what part of Mrs. White’s life work has been of the greatest value to the world, but it would seem that the large volume of Biblical literature she has left would prove to be of the greatest service to mankind. Her books number upwards of twenty volumes. Some of these have been translated into many languages in different parts of the world. They have now reached a circulation of more than two million copies, and are still going to the public by
As we survey the whole field of gospel truth – of man’s relation to his Lord and his fellow men – it must be seen that Mrs. White, in all her teaching, has given these great fundamentals positive, constructive support. She has touched humanity at every vital point of need, and lifted it to a higher level.30
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So far, it appears House leaders have no intention of preventing that from happening — they have postponed any action on relief measures until at least fall.
While a Senate-passed bill would significantly reduce the amount of the payment, the House has not acted on that legislation. House leaders also have reversed plans to take up a rival measure that would cut the payment to $1 billion, according to a spokesman for one of the measure’s sponsors, Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla.
“It appears, although we have the votes, leadership does not intend for postal reform to come to the floor before (the) August recess,” the spokesman, Fred Piccolo, said in an email late Wednesday.
Under a schedule laid out in the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, the Postal Service also is supposed to make a $5.6 billion payment into the retiree health fund at the end of September.
“Without congressional action, we will default on both payments,” Postal Service spokesman Dave Partenheimer said in an email Thursday.
Lawmakers appear likely to let the Postal Service default, representatives of mailing industry groups said Thursday.
“They’ll let them default,” said Gene Del Polito, president of the Association for Postal Commerce. “What time is there left to do anything?”
While a default would be embarrassing for the Postal Service, the practical consequences, if any, are unclear.
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At church, the pastor has been preaching about the beatitudes. A few weeks ago he got to, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy” and shared the parable of the parable of the unmerciful servant (Matt. 18:21-35).
32 “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’”
How often do we refuse to extend mercy to others, forgetting the mercy Christ extended to us?
For me, I know it’s fairly often. People get on my nerves. They offend me. They don’t do things the way I’d like them to. They refuse to own up to their actions and apologize when they’ve done something wrong and they probably never will. But that doesn’t let me off the hook when it comes to extending mercy.
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Napoleon built modern relations between West and Middle East
Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1798 invasion of Egypt represented the first modern attempt to incorporate an Islamic society into the European fold. Although the expedition was a military fiasco, it left a lasting legacy in the region. "In the beginning was Napoleon". So commences the late Thomas Nipperdey’s acclaimed history of nineteenth-century Germany, Germany from Napoleon to Bismarck. But although Nipperdey was referring to Napoleon Bonaparte’s central role in creating modern Europe, in many respects his statement also applies to today’s Middle East, Alexander Mikaberidze writes in the article Casting a long shadow – Napoleon's intervention in Egypt.
America finds itself in the grips of two epidemics, each of which has exposed deep inequalities across races and levels of educational attainment. Between rising "deaths of despair" among working-class whites and higher coronavirus mortality rates among African-Americans, the stunning secular decline in U.S. life expectancy will continue. Napoleon’s 1798 invasion of Egypt marked the first instance of liberal imperialism and highlighted the speed with which the French Revolution had transcended France’s borders – and Europe’s. Although the expedition was a military fiasco, it left a lasting legacy in the region.
Instruments of Western domination
For starters, the invasion represented the first modern attempt to incorporate an Islamic society into the European fold. It also constituted the formative moment for the discourse of Orientalism, when all of its ideological components converged and a full arsenal of instruments of Western domination was employed to protect it. The occupation itself did little to modernise Egyptian society, because the revolutionary principles that the French tried to introduce were too radical and foreign, and met determined local resistance. But Napoleon created a political vacuum in Egypt that was soon filled by Kavalali Mehmet Ali Pasha, who, within a decade of the French departure, began laying the foundation for the reformed and modernised Egypt that later would play such an important role in the Middle East.
Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign also upended traditional European policies toward the region. Instead of striking its intended blow at Britain’s imperial power, the French invasion drove the Ottoman Empire, France’s traditional ally, into an alliance with its former adversaries, Russia and Britain, and transformed the nature of Franco-British rivalry in the East. Up to that point, France traditionally had launched forays into India from island bases in the Indian Ocean, relying on naval power that the British could counter with their own fleet. But Napoleon’s attempt to conquer Egypt by land profoundly altered this equation by forcing Britain also to consider the possibility that other powers might approach India through territories adjacent to the Indian subcontinent.
This imperative drew Britain into a lasting endeavour to secure additional dominions to protect its Indian possessions against an overland attack. "We have won an empire by armed might," observed British East India Company officials in 1798, "and it must continue to rest on armed might, otherwise it will fall by the same means to a superior power. " This reliance on force underpinned the British Raj until 1947 and sustained British interventions in Egypt, Yemen, Oman, Iran, and Afghanistan.
The "Eastern Question"
The wider Napoleonic Wars cast a long shadow over the Islamic heartland. Although fundamentally European in nature, they shaped Europe’s relationship with the Islamic world for the next century. The Ottoman Empire found itself the target not only of Russian imperial ambitions, but also of French, Austrian, and British designs that contributed to its continued territorial losses and the emergence of the "Eastern Question". Moreover, the similarities between Napoleon’s rhetoric and methods and those used in twentieth-century Western interventions in the Middle East underscore the long-term impact of his legacy.
In 1810-1812, a century before "Lawrence of Arabia", Napoleon’s agents were seeking to encourage Arab tribes in Syria and Iraq to unite in revolt against the Ottomans. And later French governments realised Napoleon’s vision of a French colonial empire. In 1830, French troops, some of them veterans of the Egyptian campaign, invaded Algiers on the basis of contingency plans developed under Napoleon two decades earlier, and laid the foundation for a period of French colonial rule that lasted until 1962.
Iran, its own empire a thing of the past, endured an equally painful fate, becoming a pawn in the hands of European powers. Double-crossed by both France and Britain, Iran suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of Russia, which acquired Georgia and south eastern Caucasia by 1813 and all but supplanted Iranian influence in the region.
The Napoleonic Wars revealed glaring inefficiencies in the Ottoman and Iranian states, and highlighted the growing military and economic imbalance between them and the leading European powers. The wars thus ushered in an era of state-sponsored reforms, as Ottoman, Egyptian, and Iranian political leaders sought to remake their administrations and militaries in a European image.
Herein lies one of the most enduring Napoleonic legacies in the Middle East. Reform-minded rulers such as the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II, Mehmet Ali of Egypt, and Iran’s Crown Prince Abbas Mirza did not question the cultural norms or social structures on which traditional order rested. Instead, they believed that European-style military and administrative reforms would enable them to consolidate their domestic power and protect their states more effectively from outside threats.
But these reforms entailed the introduction of Western practices into Islamic societies and posed challenges to existing power structures, because they inserted the central government into the daily lives of its subjects more directly and pervasively than ever before. That is why many groups – including the ulema (religious leaders), the Saudis in central Arabia, Ottoman janissaries, and Iran’s traditional elites – reacted so negatively, rejecting even those modernising changes that could have better protected their respective states.
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From March 13th to 17th Milan hosts the Milano Digital Week, a week dedicated to the world of innovation and digital promoted by the Municipality of Milan and the Department of Digital Transformation and Civic Services.
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Gay Hawkes was a creative visual artist. Gay Hawkes was born in 1942. Also born in 1942 and of this same generation are Jiangbai Cai, Rubens Gerchman, Felipe Davalos Gonzalez, Chen Yan, and Dorothea Hyde.
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Gay Hawkes was born in 1942 and was primarily inspired by the 1960s growing up. Artistically, the decade began with the twin movements of Pop and Minimalism emerging parallel to each other. On one hand, Pop espoused the visual culture of the mainstream and mass media, and of products and consumerism. The work of art by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann and Claes Oldenberg was inspired by the popular culture of the fast developing Capitalism of the United States, using things like advertising, comic books and ideas surrounding celebrity culture as their main visual cues. A parallel movement developed on the West Coast in California - a strain that also related to language in art, and is viewed as the initial developments of conceptual art. Minimalism developed a formal language with no external references, focused solely on line, colour and geometric form as key constituents of both painting and sculpture. The main figures of Minimalism included Frank Stella, Donald Judd and Agnes Martin. Pop Art was a prominent offshoot of minimalism, a discipline made famous by through the work of artists such as Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley. Globally, a number of artistic movements resonated the artistic concerns of the previously mentioned movements, often with regional specialties and nuance. In Italy, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni developed Spatialism, and in Germany the Zero group under the leadership of Gunter Uecker adopted similar ideas. The influential school of Existentialist Philosophy was an important source of creativity for artists, with artists like Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti achieving international prominence for their idiosyncratic approaches to the human form and the angst related to the human condition. | <urn:uuid:50b998b5-0d00-4a8b-95bb-e47767b845d4> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.artland.com/artists/gay-hawkes | 2020-09-20T02:07:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.958513 | 413 |
A happy moment: the bank has approved the required loan and it is now ready for use. The instalments are paid on time and everything is fine. But all of a sudden the monthly instalment to repay the loan – for example for health reasons – can no longer be paid in the agreed amount. So what to do?
Anyone taking out a loan enters into an obligation to repay the loan granted by means of monthly instalments plus interest at the latest when the corresponding loan agreement is signed. As long as the borrower fulfils this obligation, everything is fine and there are no problems with the bank granting the loan. And yet it can happen that the loan taken out becomes an unexpectedly high financial burden. This happens exactly at that moment when the borrower realises that the chosen loan instalment can no longer be serviced. So what can be done?
Interest rate is too high? This is to be done when there is a shortage
If there is only a little more money than usual available for a short time, most banks offer the possibility to ask for a so-called deferral of the instalments. As a rule, banks grant the deferral of a maximum of three monthly loan instalments. However, this does not mean that these instalments do not have to be paid. A deferral is tantamount to the fact that the number of deferred instalments means an extension of the credit period.
However, there is no general right to breaks in instalments or deferral of instalments. All too often, local credit institutions have very different regulations in this respect. For some loans it is not even possible to suspend the instalment, for others only under certain conditions. After all, the fees for instalment breaks are usually manageable. Where the service of a flexible instalment arrangement is not free of charge anyway, the credit institution often charges an amount between 15 and 30 GBP.
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If the disposable income rises because, for example, a wage increase has taken place, a special payment (Christmas bonus, holiday pay, etc.) is available, a large amount of money can possibly be saved by increasing the rate. This is because an increase in the rate for a loan taken out can reduce the term of the loan, which is mainly reflected in savings on interest costs.
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Our good friend from across the pond Paul at Paul's Boutique sent us an update on his XL Sporty bike he has been building. Looks Great Paul and the seat will be there hopefully soon.
"Here an update again, not a lot happened but some changes were made:
- Sportster gas tank with high flow petcock, "Half" Frisco, mounted on top of the
backbonewith a piece of Universal Solex handlebars.
- Seat, still waiting for the Biltwell seat so I cut the original seat and made it a
bit shorter and more comfortable than the diamond Alu plate that killed my back for some weeks.
- New front inner tube, cause I managed to make a hole in it while putting it on the rim.
Things to do:
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To get a sense for the perceived financial system risk out there, take a look at LIBOR. LIBOR is the rate at which banks lend unsecured funds to each other. It’s risen 29 of the last 30 days.
The good news definitely seems sparse beyond Canada’s borders, but fear is often fleeting. While the current market environment is grim, sentiment may be considerably different next week.
Today’s concerns must also be set against a strong rebound in Canadian economic performance. When the problems above are resolved, the BoC will likely resume focus on Canada’s robust domestic indicators.
Sidebar: The last time 5-year yields were this low was March 5. Posted 5-year fixed rates were 5.39% at the time. Today, they’re 5.99%—60 bps more! Granted, there’s more of a risk and rate-hike premium built into today’s rates, but 60 basis points seems extreme.
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Q&A with Charles Salzberg, Author of Second Story Man
Charles Salzberg is a former magazine journalist who recently turned to a life of crime—fictitiously, of course. His acclaimed Swann series boasts four titles (with a fifth on the way); these include Swann’s Last Song, which was nominated for a Shamus Award, and Swann’s Lake of Despair, which was nominated for two Silver Falchions and was a Finalist for the Beverly Hills Book Award and the Indie Excellence Award. His novel Devil in the Hole was named one of the best crime novels of 2013 by Suspense Magazine, and his novella “Twist of Fate” was included in Triple Shot, a collection of three noir crime novellas. Salzberg—who teaches writing at the New York Writers Workshop, where he is a Founding Member—has also written more than 20 non-fiction titles. His most recent novel, Second Story Man, takes inspiration from real-life thievery and obsession.
Recently, the author kindly entertained curiosities pertaining to branching out from the Swann series, melding fact and fiction, and creating suspense through the use of multiple perspectives. Salzberg also discussed his background in journalism, the realities of teaching writing, and what comes next in his storied career.
Second Story Man marks a departure from your Swann series. What was the impetus for writing this book, and how did the crime genre lend itself to an exploration of existentialism?
Having just finished Swann’s Way Out, I thought I’d written the last Swann novel—that I’d taken the character as far as I could. And so, I was looking for something else I could sink my teeth into. Years ago, I read a piece in The New Yorker that stuck in my mind. It was about a master burglar known as The Silver Thief. I went back and re-read it—it held up beautifully—and I got to thinking about the need to be the best at something. How it seems to be a very American thing. We make everything into a competition, and the prevailing attitude seems to be to win at any cost. To be a loser is to be a failure. We have a president now who’s all about winning and who disdains “losers.”
This bothered me, and after reading about The Silver Thief, I realized it was possible to write something in terms of crime about this obsession. I began researching burglary and came across another thief known as the “Dinnertime Bandit,” who only struck when he knew his victims (and their valuables) would be home. Like the Silver Thief, this guy considered himself the best ever. I had my story.
Using facets of both these men, plus a few others, I created Francis Hoyt—arrogant, athletic, brilliant, someone who thought of himself as the best and who was willing to do anything to maintain that status. Then, I created two men on the other side, who also considered themselves the best at what they did.
That provided me with the conflict I needed.
As far as being existential, I suppose in this case it means the novel is really a consideration of what it means to be a winner (does this sound familiar) and what the costs are. The existential question is: how far will one go to be a winner and at what cost?
Francis Hoyt’s character is drawn upon two real-life burglars: the Dinnertime Bandit and The Silver Thief. How did fact inform your fiction, and what was the role of creative license in crafting an antagonist who is both familiar and original?
We all know that line about life being stranger than fiction, and it’s often true. Since I know virtually nothing about being a thief, I had to do a lot of research. I also had to come up with a flesh-and-blood character, which meant I had to get into the mind of a master thief, giving him a past as well as a present. In the novel, I used some of the facts when it comes to the various break-ins—for instance, it’s true the thief hit several houses one night right under the noses of the cops who’d staked out the neighborhood. But as far as Francis Hoyt is concerned, he’s totally a product of my imagination. The same is true of the two men who are after him: Charlie Floyd, a recently retired Connecticut State investigator, and Manny Perez, a Cuban-American Miami police detective. Both these characters were slightly familiar to me since Floyd was a major character in my novel, Devil in the Hole, while Perez appeared briefly in one chapter. They were both interesting enough to me to want to use them again, and so I did. I think they make an odd pair because they’re so different yet share an obsession with doing their job well.
The book alternates perspectives between Hoyt and the two lawmen tasked with catching him. How does this construct heighten the overall narrative suspense, and in what ways do the dueling viewpoints allow for organic character development?
It’s a technique I used in Devil in the Hole but to a much greater extent. Doing it this way allows me to get into the heads of all three of the men while heightening the suspense at the same time because we see the story from the three perspectives. The reader knows what all three are thinking, while each of them only knows what he’s thinking. But it doesn’t work unless each chapter moves the story forward. It’s not like Rashomon, wherein each character is telling the same story only from a different point of view. I tried to make it so that no information is repeated.
You have a background in journalism. Can you briefly compare/contrast the standards of non-fiction and fiction? Also, in what ways has that lineage lent itself to your creative writing endeavors, both in terms of process and storytelling?
I wanted to be a novelist well before I ever got into journalism. In fact, becoming a journalist was an accident. I thought I wanted to be a magazine editor and so I got a job in the mailroom at New York magazine. But when I saw what editors did as opposed to what writers did, I realized writing was for me. I’d never written a magazine article, but I approached it as I would a piece of fiction. I realized that no matter what I was writing, it was all about story. And so, being a fiction writer, I’d already mastered a lot of the techniques: creating a scene, using dialogue, telling a coherent story with a point of view.
Writing nonfiction made me a better fiction writer. Having to work to a word count was invaluable. It taught me the necessity of making every word count, thereby cutting down on a lot of wasted verbiage. It also taught me how important it was to get and keep the reader’s attention as well as how important character and dialogue was to a successful article.
Any kind of writing you do—whether it’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry, advertising writing—must tell a story. It has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Working as a journalist helped me to understand that.
Being a journalist also taught me how to research and how to interview people. These skills come in handy with everything I write. For instance, every one of the Swann novels introduces the reader to other worlds: the art world, the world of rare books, the movie industry, the world of photography.
You also teach writing. In your opinion, what of the discipline can be learned versus what is intrinsic, and how does tenacity factor into the equation?
I’ve learned I can help someone become a better writer, but I can’t teach someone how to write. As far as I’m concerned, it’s an innate skill. There are people who are natural storytellers and others who can’t tell a story to save their life. For instance, let’s say I tell a joke to someone who’s a good storyteller. When that person retells the story, chances are it’s going to be even better. But if I tell that joke to someone who can’t tell a story, it’s going to come out a jumble when they try to retell it. Why? Because some people have a better storytelling sense than others. I think you can teach organizational skills and the skill of being able to look at what you’ve written, see where there are problems, and improve those areas, but either you’ve got talent, or you don’t. I, or any other teacher, can’t give it to you.
I think you’ve hit on one of the most important things about being a writer, or any kind of artist: tenacity. There’s so much failure in what we do, and if you’re going to make it, you have to be able to shrug off that failure, learn from it (if you can), and go right back at it. When I was starting out, if I got a rejection, I wouldn’t sulk about it—and believe me, it hurt—I’d just send that piece of writing out to two more places and keep doing it until it sold or I’d exhausted every possibility. You have to believe you’re good enough to get published. If you’re not tenacious, then you’re not meant to be a writer.
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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
By Ludwig Mises
IT GIVES me great satisfaction to see this book, handsomely printed by a distinguished publishing house, appear in its third revised edition. Two terminological remarks may be in order. First, I employ the term “liberal” in the sense attached to it everywhere in the nineteenth century and still today in the countries of continental Europe. This usage is imperative because there is simply no other term available to signify the great political and intellectual movement that substituted free enterprise and the market economy for the precapitalistic methods of production; constitutional representative government for the absolutism of kings or oligarchies; and freedom of all individuals for slavery, serfdom, and other forms of bondage…. [From the Forward to the Third Edition]
First Pub. Date
Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education
Printed 1998. 4th revised edition. Foreword by Bettina Bien Greaves.
The text of this edition is under copyright. Picture of Ludwig von Mises: file photo, Liberty Fund, Inc.
- Foreword to Fourth Edition, by Bettina Bien Greaves
- Foreword to the Third Edition
- Part 1, Chapter I. Acting man
- Part 1, Chapter II. The epistemological problems of the sciences of human action
- Part 1, Chapter III. Economics and the revolt against reason
- Part 1, Chapter IV. A first analysis of the category of action
- Part 1, Chapter V. Time
- Part 1, Chapter VI. Uncertainty
- Part 1, Chapter VII. Action within the world
- Part 2, Chapter VIII. Human society
- Part 2, Chapter IX. The role of ideas
- Part 2, Chapter X. Exchange within society
- Part 3, Chapter XI. Valuation without calculation
- Part 3, Chapter XII. The sphere of economic calculation
- Part 3, Chapter XIII. Monetary calculation as a tool of action
- Part 4, Chapter XIV. The scope and method of catallactics
- Part 4, Chapter XV. The market
- Part 4, Chapter XVI. Prices
- Part 4, Chapter XVII. Indirect exchange
- Part 4, Chapter XVIII. Action in the passing of time
- Part 4, Chapter XIX. Interest
- Part 4, Chapter XX. Interest, credit expansion, and the trade cycle
- Part 4, Chapter XXI. Work and wages
- Part 4, Chapter XXII. The nonhuman original factors of production
- Part 4, Chapter XXIII. The data of the market
- Part 4, Chapter XXIV. Harmony and conflict of interests
- Part 5, Chapter XXV. The imaginary construction of a socialist society
- Part 5, Chapter XXVI. The impossibility of economic calculation under socialism
- Part 6, Chapter XXVII. The government and the market
- Part 6, Chapter XXVIII. Interference by taxation
- Part 6, Chapter XXIX. Restriction of production
- Part 6, Chapter XXX. Interference with the structure of prices
- Part 6, Chapter XXXI. Currency and credit manipulation
- Part 6, Chapter XXXII. Confiscation and redistribution
- Part 6, Chapter XXXIII. Syndicalism and corporativism
- Part 6, Chapter XXXIV. The economics of war
- Part 6, Chapter XXXV. The welfare principle versus the market principle
- Part 6, Chapter XXXVI. The crisis of interventionism
- Part 7, Chapter XXXVII. The nondescript character of economics
- Part 7, Chapter XXXVIII. The place of economics in learning
- Part 7, Chapter XXXIX. Economics and the essential problems of human existence
Part 4, Chapter
HARMONY AND CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
1. The Ultimate Source of Profit and Loss on the Market
THE changes in the data whose reiterated emergence prevents the economic system from turning into an evenly rotating economy and produces again and again entrepreneurial profit and loss are favorable to some members of society and unfavorable to others. Hence, people concluded,
the gain of one man is the damage of another; no man profits but by the loss of others. This dogma was already advanced by some ancient authors. Among modern writers Montaigne was the first to restate it; we may fairly call it the
Montaigne dogma. It was the quintessence of the doctrines of Mercantilism, old and new. It is at the bottom of all modern doctrines teaching that there prevails, within the frame of the market economy, an irreconcilable conflict among the interests of various social classes within a nation and furthermore between the interests of any nation and those of all other nations.
Now the Montaigne dogma is true with regard to the effects of cash-induced changes in the purchasing power of money on deferred payments. But it is entirely wrong with regard to any kind of entrepreneurial profit or loss, whether they emerge in a stationary economy in which the total amount of profits equals the total amount of losses or in a progressing or a retrogressing economy in which these two magnitudes are different.
What produces a man’s profit in the course of affairs within an unhampered market society is not his fellow citizen’s plight and distress, but the fact that he alleviates or entirely removes what causes his fellow citizen’s feeling of uneasiness. What hurts the sick is the plague, not the physician who treats the disease. The doctor’s gain is not an outcome of the epidemics, but of the aid he gives to those affected. The ultimate source of profits is always the foresight of future conditions. Those who succeeded better than others in anticipating
External events affecting demand and supply may sometimes come so suddenly and unexpectedly that people say that no reasonable man could have foreseen them. Then the envious may consider the profits of those who gain from the change as unjustified. Yet such arbitrary value judgments do not alter the real state of interests. It is certainly better for a sick man to be cured by a doctor for a high fee than to lack medical assistance. If it were otherwise, he would not consult the physician.
There are in the market economy no conflicts between the interests of the buyers and sellers. There are disadvantages caused by inadequate foresight. It would be a universal boon if every man and all the members of the market society would always foresee future conditions correctly and in time and act accordingly. If this were the case, retrospection would establish that no particle of capital and labor was wasted for the satisfaction of wants which now are considered as less urgent than some other unsatisfied wants. However, man is not omniscient.
It is wrong to look at these problems from the point of view of resentment and envy. It is no less faulty to restrict one’s observation to the momentary position of various individuals. These are social problems and must be judged with regard to the operation of the whole market system. What secures the best possible satisfaction of the demands of each member of society is precisely the fact that those who succeeded better than other people in anticipating future conditions are earning profits. If profits were to be curtailed for the benefit of those whom a change in the data has injured, the adjustment of supply to demand would not be improved but impaired. If one were to prevent doctors from occasionally earning high fees, one would not increase but rather decrease the number of those choosing the medical profession.
The deal is always advantageous both for the buyer and the seller. Even a man who sells at a loss is still better off than he would be if he could not sell at all, or only at a still lower price. He loses on account
The statement that one man’s boon is the other man’s damage is valid with regard to robbery, war, and booty. The robber’s plunder is the damage of the despoiled victim. But war and commerce are two different things. Voltaire erred when—in 1764—he wrote in the article “Patrie” of his
Dictionnaire philosophique: “To be a good patriot is to wish that one’s own community should enrich itself by trade and acquire power by arms; it is obvious that a country cannot profit but at the expense of another and that it cannot conquer without inflicting harm on other people.” Voltaire, like so many other authors who preceded and followed him, deemed it superfluous to familiarize himself with economic thought. If he had read the essays of his contemporary David Hume, he would have learned how false it is to identify war and foreign trade. Voltaire, the great debunker of age-old superstitions and popular fallacies, fell prey unawares to the most disastrous fallacy.
When the baker provides the dentist with bread and the dentist relieves the baker’s toothache, neither the baker nor the dentist is harmed. It is wrong to consider such an exchange of services and the pillage of the baker’s shop by armed gangsters as two manifestations of the same thing. Foreign trade differs from domestic trade only in so far as goods and services are exchanged beyond the border-lines separating the territories of two sovereign nations. It is monstrous that Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the later Emperor Napoleon III, should have written many decades after Hume, Adam Smith, and Ricardo: “The quantity of merchandise which a country exports is always in direct proportion to the number of shells it can discharge upon its enemies whenever its honor and its dignity may require it.”
*91 All the teachings of economics concerning the effects of the international division of labor and of international trade have up to now failed to destroy the popularity of the Mercantilist fallacy, “that the object of foreign trade is to pauperize foreigners.”
*92 It is a task of historical investigation to disclose the sources of the popularity of this and other similar delusions and errors. For economics the matter is long since settled.
2. The Limitation of Offspring
The natural scarcity of the means of sustenance forces every living being to look upon all other living beings as deadly foes in the struggle for survival, and generates pitiless biological competition. But with man these irreconcilable conflicts of interests disappear when, and as far as, the division of labor is substituted for economic autarky of individuals, families, tribes, and nations. Within the system of society there is no conflict of interests as long as the optimum size of population has not been reached. As long as the employment of additional hands results in a more than proportionate increase in the returns, harmony of interests is substituted for conflict. People are no longer rivals in the struggle for the allocation of portions out of a strictly limited supply. They become cooperators in striving after ends common to all of them. An increase in population figures does not curtail, but rather augments, the average shares of the individuals.
If men were to strive only after nourishment and sexual satisfaction, population would tend to increase beyond the optimum size to the limits drawn by the sustenance available. However, men want more than merely to live and to copulate; they want to live
humanly. An improvement in conditions usually results, it is true, in an increase in population figures; but this increase lags behind the increase in bare sustenance. If it were otherwise, men would have never succeeded in the establishment of social bonds and in the development of civilization. As with rats, mice, and microbes, every increase in sustenance would have made population figures rise to the limits of bare sustenance; nothing would have been left for the seeking of other ends. The fundamental error implied in the iron law of wages was precisely the fact that it looked upon men—or at least upon the wage earners—as beings exclusively driven by animal impulses. Its champions failed to realize that man differs from the beasts as far as he aims also at specifically human ends, which one may call higher or more sublime ends.
The Malthusian law of population is one of the great achievements of thought. Together with the principle of the division of labor it provided the foundations for modern biology and for the theory of evolution; the importance of these two fundamental theorems for the sciences of human action is second only to the discovery of the regularity in the intertwinement and sequence of market phenomena and their inevitable determination by the market data. The objections raised against the Malthusian law as well as against the law of returns are vain and trivial. Both laws are indisputable. But the role to be
Nonhuman beings are entirely subject to the operation of the biological law described by Malthus.
*93 For them the statement that their numbers tend to encroach upon the means of subsistence and that the supernumerary specimens are weeded out by want of sustenance is valid without any exception. With reference to the nonhuman animals the notion of minimum sustenance has an unequivocal, uniquely determined sense. But the case is different with man. Man integrates the satisfaction of the purely zoological impulses, common to all animals, into a scale of values, in which a place is also assigned to specifically human ends. Acting man also rationalizes the satisfaction of his sexual appetites. Their satisfaction is the outcome of a weighing of pros and cons. Man does not blindly submit to a sexual stimulation like a bull; he refrains from copulation if he deems the costs—the anticipated disadvantages—too high. In this sense we may, without any valuation or ethical connotation, apply the term
moral restraint employed by Malthus.
Rationalization of sexual intercourse already involves the rationalization of proliferation. Then later further methods of rationalizing the increase of progeny were adopted which were independent of abstention from copulation. People resorted to the egregious and repulsive practices of exposing or killing infants and of abortion. Finally they learned to perform the sexual act in such a way that no pregnancy results. In the last hundred years the technique of contraceptive devices has been perfected and the frequency of their employment increased considerably. Yet the procedures had long been known and practiced.
The affluence that modern capitalism bestows upon the broad masses of the capitalist countries and the improvement in hygienic conditions and therapeutical and prophylactic methods brought about by capitalism have considerably reduced mortality, especially infant mortality, and prolonged the average duration of life. Today in these countries the restriction in generating offspring can succeed only if it is more drastic than in earlier ages. The transition to capitalism—
In the days of Malthus it was not yet possible to observe these demographical characteristics of capitalism. Today it is no longer permissible to question them. But, blinded by romantic prepossessions, many describe them as phenomena of decline and degeneration peculiar only to the white-skinned peoples of Western civilization, grown old and decrepit. These romantics are seriously alarmed by the fact that the Asiatics do not practice birth control to the same extent to which it is practiced in Western Europe, North America, and Australia. As modern methods of fighting and preventing disease have brought about a drop in mortality rates with these oriental peoples too, their population figures grow more rapidly than those of the Western nations. Will not the indigenes of India, Malaya, China, and Japan, who themselves did not contribute to the technological and therapeutical achievements of the West, but received them as an unexpected present, in the end by the sheer superiority of their numbers squeeze out the peoples of European descent?
These fears are groundless. Historical experience shows that all Caucasian peoples reacted to the drop in mortality figures brought about by capitalism with a drop in the birth rate. Of course, from such historical experience no general law may be deduced. But praxeological reflection demonstrates that there exists between these two phenomena a necessary concatenation. An improvement in the external conditions of well-being makes possible a corresponding increase in population figures. However, if the additional quantity of the means of sustenance is completely absorbed by rearing an additional number of people, nothing is left for a further improvement
The case becomes still more obvious if we assume that a prophylactic invention is made by a lucky chance and that its practical application requires neither a considerable investment of capital nor considerable current expenditure. Of course, modern medical research and still more its utilization absorb huge amounts of capital and labor. They are products of capitalism. They would never have come into existence in a noncapitalist environment. But there were, in earlier days, instances of a different character. The practice of smallpox inoculation did not originate from expensive laboratory research and, in its original crude form, could be applied at trifling costs. Now, what would the results of smallpox inoculation have been if its practice had become general in a precapitalist country not committed to birth control? It would have increased population figures without increasing sustenance, it would have impaired the average standard of living. It would not have been a blessing, but a curse.
Conditions in Asia and Africa are, by and large, the same. These backward peoples receive the devices for fighting and preventing disease ready-made from the West. It is true that in some of these countries imported foreign capital and the adoption of foreign technological methods by the comparatively small domestic capital synchronously tend to increase the per capita output of labor and thus to bring about a tendency toward an improvement in the average standard of living. However, this does not sufficiently counterbalance the opposite tendency resulting from the drop in mortality rates not accompanied by an adequate fall in fertility rates. The contact with the West has not yet benefited these peoples because it has not yet affected their minds; it has not freed them from age-old superstitions, prejudices, and misapprehensions; it has merely altered their technological and therapeutical knowledge.
The reformers of the oriental peoples want to secure for their fellow citizens the material well-being that the Western nations enjoy. Deluded by Marxian, nationalist, and militarist ideas they think that all that is needed for the attainment of this end is the introduction of European and American technology. Neither the Slavonic Bolsheviks and nationalists nor their sympathizers in the Indies, in China, and in Japan realize that what their peoples need most is not Western technology, but the social order which in addition to other achievements has generated this technological knowledge. They lack first of all economic freedom and private initiative, entrepreneurs and
If the Asiatics and Africans really enter into the orbit of Western civilization, they will have to adopt the market economy without reservations. Then their masses will rise above their present proletarian wretchedness and practice birth control as it is practiced in every capitalistic country. No excessive growth of population will longer hinder the improvement in the standards of living. But if the oriental peoples in the future confine themselves to mechanical reception of the tangible achievements of the West without embracing its basic philosophy and social ideologies, they will forever remain in their present state of inferiority and destitution. Their populations may increase considerably, but they will not raise themselves above distress. These miserable masses of paupers will certainly not be a serious menace to the independence of the Western nations. As long as there is a need for weapons, the entrepreneurs of the market society will never stop producing more efficient weapons and thus securing to their countrymen a superiority of equipment over the merely imitative noncapitalistic Orientals. The military events of both World Wars have proved anew that the capitalistic countries are paramount also in armaments production. No foreign aggressor can destroy capitalist civilization if it does not destroy itself. Where capitalistic entrepreneurship is allowed to function freely, the fighting forces will always be so well equipped that the biggest armies of the backward peoples will be no match for them. There has even been great exaggeration of the danger of making the formulas for manufacturing “secret” weapons universally known. If war comes again, the searching mind of the capitalistic world will always have a head start on the peoples who merely copy and imitate clumsily.
The peoples who have developed the system of the market economy and cling to it are in every respect superior to all other peoples. The fact that they are eager to preserve peace is not a mark of their weakness and inability to wage war. They love peace because they know that armed conflicts are pernicious and disintegrate the social division of labor. But if war becomes unavoidable, they show their superior efficiency in military affairs too. They repel the barbarian aggressors whatever their numbers may be.
A socialist commonwealth would be under the necessity of regulating the fertility rate by authoritarian control. It would have to regiment the sexual life of its wards no less than all other spheres of their conduct. In the market economy every individual is spontaneously intent upon not begetting children whom he could not rear without considerably lowering his family’s standard of life. Thus the growth of population beyond the optimum size as determined by the supply of capital available and the state of technological knowledge is checked. The interests of each individual coincide with those of all other individuals.
Those fighting birth control want to eliminate a device indispensable for the preservation of peaceful human cooperation and the social division of labor. Where the average standard of living is impaired by the excessive increase in population figures, irreconcilable conflicts of interests arise. Each individual is again a rival of all other individuals in the struggle for survival. The annihilation of rivals is the only means of increasing one’s own well-being. The philosophers and theologians who assert that birth control is contrary to the laws of God and Nature refuse to see things as they really are. Nature straitens the material means required for the improvement of human well-being and survival. As natural conditions are, man has only the choice between the pitiless war of each against each or social cooperation. But social cooperation is impossible if people give rein to the natural impulse of proliferation. In restricting procreation man adjusts himself to the natural conditions of his existence. The rationalization of the sexual passions is an indispensable condition of civilization and societal bonds. Its abandonment would in the long run not increase but decrease the numbers of those surviving, and would render life for everyone as poor and miserable as it was many thousands of years ago for our ancestors.
3. The Harmony of the “Rightly Understood” Interests
From time immemorial men have prattled about the blissful conditions their ancestors enjoyed in the original “state of nature.” From old myths, fables, and poems the image of this primitive happiness passed into many popular philosophies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In their language the term
natural denoted what was good and beneficial in human affairs, while the term
civilization had the connotation of opprobrium. The fall of man was seen in the deviation from the primitive conditions of ages in which there was but little difference between man and other animals. At that time, these romantic eulogists of the past asserted, there were no conflicts between men. Peace was undisturbed in the Garden of Eden.
Yet nature does not generate peace and good will. The characteristic mark of the “state of nature” is irreconcilable conflict. Each specimen is the rival of all other specimens. The means of subsistence are scarce and do not grant survival to all. The conflicts can never disappear. If a band of men, united with the object of defeating rival bands, succeeds in annihilating its foes, new antagonisms arise among the victors over the distribution of the booty. The source of the conflicts is always the fact that each man’s portion curtails the portions of all other men.
What makes friendly relations between human beings possible is the higher productivity of the division of labor. It removes the natural conflict of interests. For where there is division of labor, there is no longer question of the distribution of a supply not capable of enlargement. Thanks to the higher productivity of labor performed under the division of tasks, the supply of goods multiplies. A preeminent common interest, the preservation and further intensification of social cooperation, becomes paramount and obliterates all essential collisions. Catallactic competition is substituted for biological competition. It makes for harmony of the interests of all members of society. The very condition from which the irreconcilable conflicts of biological competition arise—viz., the fact that all people by and large strive after the same things—is transformed into a factor making for harmony of interests. Because many people or even all people want bread, clothes, shoes, and cars, large-scale production of these goods becomes feasible and reduces the costs of production to such an extent that they are accessible at low prices. The fact that my fellow man wants to acquire shoes as I do, does not make it harder for me to get shoes, but easier. What enhances the price of shoes is the fact that nature does not provide a more ample supply of leather
This is the meaning of the theorem of the harmony of the rightly understood interests of all members of the market society.
*95 When the classical economists made this statement, they were trying to stress two points: First, that everybody is interested in the preservation of the social division of labor, the system that multiplies the productivity of human efforts. Second, that in the market society consumers’ demand ultimately directs all production activities. The fact that not all human wants can be satisfied is not due to inappropriate social institutions or to deficiencies of the system of the market economy. It is a natural condition of human life. The belief that nature bestows upon man inexhaustible riches and that misery is an outgrowth of man’s failure to organize the good society is entirely fallacious. The “state of nature” which the reformers and utopians depicted as paradisiac was in fact a state of extreme poverty and distress. “Poverty,” says Bentham, “is not the work of the laws, it is the primitive condition of the human race.”
*96 Even those at the base of the social pyramid are much better off than they would have been in the absence of social cooperation. They too are benefited by the operation of the market economy and participate in the advantages of civilized society.
The nineteenth-century reformers did not drop the cherished fable of the original earthly paradise. Frederick Engels incorporated it in the Marxian account of mankind’s social evolution. However, they no longer set up the bliss of the
aurea aetas as a pattern for social and economic reconstruction. They contrast the alleged depravity of capitalism with the ideal happiness man will enjoy in the socialist Elysium of the future. The socialist mode of production will abolish the fetters by means of which capitalism checks the development of the productive forces, and will increase the productivity of labor and wealth beyond all measure. The preservation of free enterprise and the private ownership of the means of production benefits exclusively the small minority of parasitic exploiters and harms the immense majority of working men. Hence there prevails within the frame of the market society an irreconcilable conflict between the interests of “capital” and those of “labor.” This class struggle can disappear only when a fair system of social organization—either
Such is the almost universally accepted social philosophy of our age. It was not created by Marx, although it owes its popularity mainly to the writings of Marx and the Marxians. It is today endorsed not only by the Marxians, but no less by most of those parties who emphatically declare their anti-Marxism and pay lip service to free enterprise. It is the official social philosophy of Roman Catholicism as well as of Anglo-Catholicism; it is supported by many eminent champions of the various Protestant denominations and of the Orthodox Oriental Church. It is an essential part of the teachings of Italian Fascism and of German Nazism and of all varieties of interventionist doctrines. It was the ideology of the Sozialpolitik of the Hohenzollerns in Germany and of the French royalists aiming at the restoration of the house of Bourbon-Orléans, of the New Deal of President Roosevelt, and of the nationalists of Asia and Latin America. The antagonisms between these parties and factions refer to accidental issues—such as religious dogma, constitutional institutions, foreign policy—and, first of all, to the characteristic features of the social system that is to be substituted for capitalism. But they all agree in the fundamental thesis that the very existence of the capitalist system harms the vital interests of the immense majority of workers, artisans, and small farmers, and they all ask in the name of social justice for the abolition of capitalism.
All socialist and interventionist authors and politicians base their analysis and critique of the market economy on two fundamental
The second fundamental error involved in the socialists’ critique of the market economy stems from their faulty theory of wages. They have failed to realize that wages are the price paid for the wage earner’s achievement, i.e., for the contribution of his efforts to the processing of the good concerned or, as people say, for the value which his services add to the value of the materials. No matter whether there are time wages or piecework wages, the employer always buys the worker’s performance and services, not his time. It is therefore
On the shaky ground of their misconception of the catallactic nature of wages, the socialist authors have advanced fantastic fables about the increase in the productivity of labor to be expected from the realization of their plans. Under capitalism, they say, the worker’s zeal is seriously impaired because he is aware of the fact that he himself does not reap the fruits of his labor and that his toil and trouble enrich merely his employer, this parasitic and idle exploiter. But under socialism every worker will know that he works for the benefit of society, of which he himself is a part. This knowledge will provide him with the most powerful incentive to do his best. An enormous increase in the productivity of labor and thereby in wealth will result.
However, the identification of the interests of each worker and those of the socialist commonwealth is a purely legalistic and formalistic fiction which has nothing to do with the real state of affairs. While the sacrifices an individual worker makes in intensifying his own exertion burden him alone, only an infinitesimal fraction of the produce of his additional exertion benefits himself and improves his own well-being. While the individual worker enjoys completely the pleasures he may reap by yielding to the temptation to carelessness and laziness, the resulting impairment of the social dividend curtails his own share only infinitesimally. Under such a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity. The socialists may still babble about the miraculous change in human nature that
No judicious man can fail to conclude from the evidence of these considerations that in the market economy the productivity of labor is incomparably higher than it would be under socialism. However, this cognition does not settle the question between the advocates of capitalism and those of socialism from a praxeological, i.e., scientific, point of view.
A bona fide advocate of socialism who is free from bigotry, prepossession, and malice could still contend: “It may be true that
P, the total net income turned out in a market society, is larger than
p, the total net income turned out in a socialist society. But if the socialist system assigns to each of its members an equal share of
d), all those whose income in the market society is smaller than
d are favored by the substitution of socialism for capitalism. It may happen that this group of people includes the majority of men. At any rate it becomes evident that the doctrine of the harmony between the rightly understood interests of all members of the market society is untenable. There is a class of men whose interests are hurt by the very existence of the market economy and who would be better off under socialism.” The advocates of the market economy contest the conclusiveness of this reasoning. They believe that
p will lag so much behind
d will be smaller than the income which even those earning the lowest wages get in the market society. There can be no doubt that this objection is well founded. However, it is not based on praxeological considerations and therefore lacks the apodictic and incontestable argumentative power inherent in a praxeological demonstration. It is based on a judgment of relevance, the quantitative appraisal of the difference between the two magnitudes
p. In the field of human action such quantitative cognition is obtained by understanding, with regard to which full agreement between men cannot be reached. Praxeology, economics, and catallactics are of no use for the settlement of such dissensions concerning quantitative issues.
*101 It cannot be denied that this haughty indifference with regard to material well-being is a privilege reserved to ivory-tower intellectuals, secluded from reality, and to ascetic anchorites. What made socialism popular with the immense majority of its supporters was, on the contrary, the illusion that it would supply them with more amenities than capitalism. But however this may be, it is obvious that this type of prosocialist argumentation cannot be touched by the liberal reasoning concerning the productivity of labor.
If no other objections could be raised to the socialist plans than that socialism will lower the standard of living of all or at least of the immense majority, it would be impossible for praxeology to pronounce a final judgment. Men would have to decide the issue between capitalism and socialism on the ground of judgments of value and of judgments of relevance. They would have to choose between the two systems as they choose between many other things. No objective standard could be discovered which would make it possible to settle the dispute in a manner which allows no contradiction and must be accepted by every sane individual. The freedom of each man’s choice and discretion would not be annihilated by inexorable necessity. However, the true state of affairs is entirely different. Man is not in a position to choose between these two systems. Human cooperation under the system of the social division of labor is possible only in the market economy. Socialism is not a realizable system of society’s economic organization because it lacks any method of economic calculation. To deal with this fundamental problem is the task of the fifth part of this book.
The establishment of this truth does not amount to a depreciation of the conclusiveness and the convincing power of the antisocialist argument derived from the impairment of productivity to be expected
human beings. To stress this point is the task of economics as it is the task of biology and chemistry to teach that potassium cyanide is not a nutriment but a deadly poison.
The convincing power of the productivity argument is in fact so irresistible that the advocates of socialism were forced to abandon their old tactics and to resort to new methods. They are eager to divert attention from the productivity issue by throwing into relief the monopoly problem. All contemporary socialist manifestoes expatiate on monopoly power. Statesmen and professors try to outdo one another in depicting the evils of monopoly. Our age is called the age of monopoly capitalism. The foremost argument advanced today in favor of socialism is the reference to monopoly.
Now, it is true that the emergence of monopoly prices (not of monopoly as such without monopoly prices) creates a discrepancy between the interests of the monopolist and those of the consumers. The monopolist does not employ the monopolized good according to the wishes of the consumers. As far as there are monopoly prices, the interests of the monopolist take precedence over those of the public and the democracy of the market is restricted. With regard to monopoly prices there is not harmony, but conflict of interests.
It is possible to contest these statements with regard to the monopoly prices received in the sale of articles under patents and copyrights. One may argue that in the absence of patent and copyright legislation these books, compositions, and technological innovations would never have come into existence. The public pays monopoly prices for things it would not have enjoyed at all under competitive prices. However, we may fairly disregard this issue. It has little to do with the great monopoly controversy of our day. When people deal with the evils of monopoly, they imply that there prevails within the unhampered
As has been pointed out already,
*102 there is no such tendency toward monopolization. It is a fact that with many commodities in many countries monopoly prices prevail, and moreover, some articles are sold at monopoly prices on the world market. However, almost all of these instances of monopoly prices are the outgrowth of government interference with business. They were not created by the interplay of the factors operating on a free market. They are not products of capitalism, but precisely of the endeavors to counteract the forces determining the height of the market prices. It is a distortion of fact to speak of monopoly capitalism. It would be more appropriate to speak of monopoly interventionism or of monopoly statism.
Those instances of monopoly prices which would appear also on a market not hampered and sabotaged by the interference of the various national governments and by conspiracies between groups of governments are of minor importance. They concern some raw materials the deposits of which are few and geographically concentrated, and local limited-space monopolies. However, it is a fact that in these cases monopoly prices can be realized even in the absence of government policies aiming directly or indirectly at their establishment. It is necessary to realize that consumers’ sovereignty is not perfect and that there are limits to the operation of the democratic process of the market. There is in some exceptional and rare cases of minor importance even on a market not hampered and sabotaged by government interference an antagonism between the interests of the owners of factors of production and those of the rest of the people. However, the existence of such antagonisms by no means impairs the concord of the interests of all people with regard to the preservation of the market economy. The market economy is the only system of society’s economic organization that can function and really has been functioning. Socialism is unrealizable because of its inability to develop a method for economic calculation. Interventionism must result in a state of affairs which, from the point of view of its advocates,
*103 Such being the case, the only social order that can preserve and further intensify the social division of labor is the market economy. All those who do not wish to disintegrate social cooperation and to return to the conditions of primitive barbarism are interested in the perpetuation of the market economy.
The classical economists’ teachings concerning the harmony of the rightly understood interests were defective in so far as they failed to recognize the fact that the democratic process of the market is not perfect, because in some instances of minor importance, even in the unhampered market economy, monopoly prices may appear. But much more conspicuous was their failure to recognize that and why no socialist system can be considered as a system of society’s economic organization. They based the doctrine of the harmony of interests upon the erroneous assumption that there are no exceptions to the rule that the owners of the means of production are forced by the market process to employ their property according to the wishes of the consumers. Today this theorem must be based on the knowledge that no economic calculation is feasible under socialism.
4. Private Property
Private ownership of the means of production is the fundamental institution of the market economy. It is the institution the presence of which characterizes the market economy as such. Where it is absent, there is no question of a market economy.
Ownership means full control of the services that can be derived from a good. This catallactic notion of ownership and property rights is not to be confused with the legal definition of ownership and property rights as stated in the laws of various countries. It was the idea of legislators and courts to define the legal concept of property in such a way as to give to the proprietor full protection by the governmental apparatus of coercion and compulsion and to prevent anybody from encroaching upon his rights. As far as this purpose was adequately realized, the legal concept of property rights corresponded to the catallactic concept. However, nowadays there are tendencies to abolish the institution of private property by a change in the laws determining the scope of the actions which the proprietor is entitled to undertake with regard to the things which are his property. While retaining the term private property, these reforms aim at the
*104 There is need to mention these things in order to avoid popular fallacies and confusion. In dealing with private property, catallactics deals with control, not with legal terms, concepts and definitions. Private ownership means that the proprietors determine the employment of the factors of production, while public ownership means that the government controls their employment.
Private property is a human device. It is not sacred. It came into existence in early ages of history, when people with their own power and by their own authority appropriated to themselves what had previously not been anybody’s property. Again and again proprietors were robbed of their property by expropriation. The history of private property can be traced back to a point at which it originated out of acts which were certainly not legal. Virtually every owner is the direct or indirect legal successor of people who acquired ownership either by arbitrary appropriation of ownerless things or by violent spoliation of their predecessor.
However, the fact that legal formalism can trace back every title either to arbitrary appropriation or to violent expropriation has no significance whatever for the conditions of a market society. Ownership in the market economy is no longer linked up with the remote origin of private property. Those events in a far-distant past, hidden in the darkness of primitive mankind’s history, are no longer of any concern for our day. For in an unhampered market society the consumers daily decide anew who should own and how much he should own. The consumers allot control of the means of production to those who know how to use them best for the satisfaction of the most urgent wants of the consumers. Only in a legal and formalistic sense can the owners be considered the successors of appropriators and expropriators. In fact, they are mandataries of the consumers, bound by the operation of the market to serve the consumers best. Under capitalism, private property is the consummation of the self-determination of the consumers.
The meaning of private property in the market society is radically different from what it is under a system of each household’s autarky.
5. The Conflicts of Our Age
Popular opinion sees the source of the conflicts which bring about the civil wars and international wars of our age in the collision of “economic” interests inherent in the market economy. Civil war is the rebellion of the “exploited” masses against the “exploiting” classes. Foreign war is the revolt of the “have-not” nations against those nations who have appropriated to themselves an unfair share of the earth’s natural resources and, with insatiable greed, want to snatch even more of this wealth destined for the use of all. He who in face of these facts speaks of the harmony of the rightly understood interests, is either a moron or an infamous apologist of a manifestly unjust social order. No intelligent and honest man could fail to realize that there prevail today irreconcilable conflicts of material interests which can be settled only by recourse to arms.
It is certainly true that our age is full of conflicts which generate war. However, these conflicts do not spring from the operation of the unhampered market society. It may be permissible to call them economic conflicts because they concern that sphere of human life which is, in common speech, known as the sphere of economic activities. But it is a serious blunder to infer from this appellation that the source of these conflicts are conditions which develop within the frame of a market society. It is not capitalism that produces them, but precisely the anticapitalistic policies designed to check the functioning of capitalism. They are an outgrowth of the various governments’ interference with business, of trade and migration barriers and discrimination against foreign labor, foreign products, and foreign capital.
None of these conflicts could have emerged in an unhampered market economy. Imagine a world in which everybody were free to live and work as entrepreneur or as employee where he wanted and how he chose, and ask which of these conflicts could still exist.
In the ages preceding the rise of liberalism and the evolution of modern capitalism, people for the most part consumed only what could be produced out of raw materials available in their own neighborhood. The development of the international division of labor has radically altered this state of affairs. Food and raw materials imported from distant countries are articles of mass consumption. The most advanced European nations could do without these imports only at the price of a very considerable lowering of their standard of living. They must pay for the badly needed purchase of minerals, lumber, oil, cereals, tat, coffee, tea, cocoa, fruit, wool, and cotton by exporting manufactures, most of them processed out of imported raw materials. Their vital interests are hurt by the protectionist trade policies of the countries producing these primary products.
Two hundred years ago it was of little concern to the Swedes or the Swiss whether or not a non-European country was efficient in utilizing its natural resources. But today economic backwardness in a foreign country, endowed by rich natural resources, hurts the interests of all those whose standard of living could be raised if a more appropriate mode of utilizing this natural wealth were adopted. The principle of each nation’s unrestricted sovereignty is
in a world of government interference with business a challenge to all other nations. The conflict between the have-nots and the haves is a real conflict. But it is present only in a world in which any sovereign government is free to hurt the interests of all peoples—its own included—by depriving the consumers of the advantages a better exploitation of this country’s resources would give them. It is not sovereignty as such that makes for war, but sovereignty of governments not entirely committed to the principles of the market economy.
Liberalism did not and does not build its hopes upon abolition of
Economic nationalism is incompatible with durable peace. Yet economic nationalism is unavoidable where there is government interference with business. Protectionism is indispensable where there is no domestic free trade. Where there is government interference with business, free trade even in the short run would frustrate the aims sought by the various interventionist measures.
It is an illusion to believe that a nation would lastingly tolerate other nations’ policies which harm the vital interest of its own citizens. Let us assume that the United Nations had been established in the year 1600 and that the Indian tribes of North America had been admitted as members of this organization. Then the sovereignty of these Indians would have been recognized as inviolable. They would have been given the right to exclude all aliens from entering their territory and from exploiting its rich natural resources which they themselves did not know how to utilize. Does anybody really believe that any international covenant or charter could have prevented the Europeans from invading these countries?
Many of the richest deposits of various mineral substances are located in areas whose inhabitants are too ignorant, too inert, or too dull to take advantage of the riches nature has bestowed upon them. If the governments of these countries prevent aliens from exploiting these deposits, or if their conduct of public affairs is so arbitrary that no foreign investments are safe, serious harm is inflicted upon all those foreign peoples whose material well-being could be improved by a more adequate utilization of the deposits concerned. It does not matter
There is no use in conjuring away these conflicts by wishful thinking. What is needed to make peace durable is a change in ideologies. What generates war is the economic philosophy almost universally espoused today by governments and political parties. As this philosophy sees it, there prevail within the unhampered market economy irreconcilable conflicts between the interests of various nations. Free trade harms a nation; it brings about impoverishment. It is the duty of government to prevent the evils of free trade by trade barriers. We may, for the sake of argument, disregard the fact that protectionism also hurts the interests of the nations which resort to it. But there can be no doubt that protectionism aims at damaging the interests of foreign peoples and really does damage them. It is an illusion to assume that those injured will tolerate other nations’ protectionism if they believe that they are strong enough to brush it away by the use of arms. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.
The League of Nations did not fail because its organization was deficient. It failed because it lacked the spirit of genuine liberalism. It was a convention of governments imbued with the spirit of economic nationalism and entirely committed to the principles of economic warfare. While the delegates indulged in mere academic talk about good will among the nations, the governments whom they represented inflicted a good deal of evil upon all other nations. The two decades of the League’s functioning were marked by each nation’s adamant economic warfare against all other nations. The tariff protectionism of the years before 1914 was mild indeed when compared with what developed in the [j?,’twenties and ‘thirties]—viz., embargoes, quantitative trade control, foreign exchange control, monetary devaluation, and so on.
The prospects for the United Nations are not better, but rather worse. Every nation looks upon imports, especially upon imports of manufactured goods, as upon a disaster. It is the avowed goal of
Essais, ed. F. Strowski, Bk. I, chap. 22 (Bordeaux, 1906), I, 135-136; A. Oncken,
Geschichte der Nationalökonomie (Leipzig, 1902), pp. 152-153; E. F. Heckscher,
Mercantilism, transl. by M. Shapiro (London, 1935), II, 26-27.
Extinction du pauperisme (éd. populaire, Paris, 1848), p. 6.
The World of William Clissold, Bk. IV, sec. 10) characterizes the opinion of a typical representative of the British peerage.
Malthus and His Work (London, 1885), p. 53. One could as well substitute the term
praxeological restraint for
Principles of the Civil Code, in “Works,” I, 309.
Quadragesimo anno of Pope Pius XI (1931). The Anglo-Catholic doctrine is presented by the late William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the book
Christianity and the Social Order (Penguin Special, 1942). Representative of the ideas of European continental Protestantism is the book of Emil Brunner,
Justice and the Social Order, trans[j?,.] by M. Hottinger (New York, 1945). A highly significant document is the section on “The Church and Disorder of Society” of the draft report which the World Council of Churches in September, 1948, recommended for appropriate action to the one hundred and fifty odd denominations whose delegates are members of the Council. For the ideas of Nicolas Berdyaew, the most eminent apologist of Russian Orthodoxy, cf. his book
The Origin of Russian Communism (London, 1937), especially pp. 217-218 and 225. It is often asserted that an essential difference between the Marxians and the other socialist and interventionist parties is to be found in the fact that the Marxians stand for class struggle, while the latter parties look at the class struggle as upon a deplorable outgrowth of the irreconcilable conflict of class interests inherent in capitalism and want to overcome it by the realization of the reforms they recommend. However, the Marxians do not praise and kindle the class struggle for its own sake. In their eyes the class struggle is good only because it is the device by means of which the “productive forces,” those mysterious forces directing the course of human evolution, are bound to bring about the “classless” society in which there will be neither classes nor class conflicts.
Principles of Political Economy [People’s ed. London, 1867], pp. 126 ff.). However, Mill resorted to this doctrine merely in order to refute an objection raised against socialism, viz., that, by eliminating the incentive provided by selfishness, it would impair the productivity of labor. He was not so blind as to assert that the productivity of labor would multiply under socialism. For an analysis and refutation of Mill’s reasoning, cf. Mises,
Socialism, pp. 173-181.
Der wahre Staat (Leipzig, 1921), p. 249.
Le Nationalisme économique et la Société des Nations (Paris, 1938).
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The project is co-funded from European Funds by the National Centre for Research and Development within the framework of Measure 1.1 “R&D projects of enterprises”, Sub-measure 1.1.1 “Industrial research and development work implemented by enterprises” of the Operational Programme ‘Innovative economy’.
Goal of the project: The goals of the project are to develop innovative technologies for the production of insects as feed for fish and companion animals, and to obtain ready-made products including feed materials and compound feeds. The core of the research works will be the application of new protein sources in the form of biomass of insects bred according to proprietary methods developed by the applicant.
Planned effects: Bred and processed insects will be a source of high-quality protein and fat suitable for applications in the feeding of fish and companion animals. The goals of the project will be achieved by employing the direct outcomes of R&D activities which will include:
1) Innovative methods of sustainable insect breeding, and technologies of industrial insect processing;
2) Nutritional and environmental techniques for selected insect species in large-scale production;
3) Balanced complete and complementary feeds for insects, based on biological utilization of waste;
4) New feed materials and complete feeds containing these materials for application in aquaculture;
5) Hypoallergenic, functional complementary feeds and protein-rich foods for companion animals.
Value of the project: PLN 3,843,244.00
Contribution from European Funds: PLN 2,531,989.00
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Lamb Nipple - X cut, TanThese are made to fit on a soda bottle.
- Type: Nipple
- Color: Tan
- Brand: Rhinehart
"Lamb Nipple - X cut, Tan"
Too large, does not fit on my bottles by 1/4 inch so slips off when in use.
"Love these for my bucket"
I raise Nubians and mini Nubians. These nipples are the easiest to get the kids switched from mom to bucket. And yes they fit my bucket feeder too. | <urn:uuid:9c77dcc1-b250-4a6d-950b-ad30f6c50dfd> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.jefferspet.com/products/lamb-nipple-x-cut-tan | 2020-09-20T01:26:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.853168 | 116 |
A very important blog on a very important subject... Fretboard Visualization! I've been asked about the way I look at the fretboard and how I tend to distribute the information I know on the instrument. After sitting down for a second to think about it I came up with a 3 topic description in which I can fit a lot of what goes on in my head.
The 3 topics are:
1. Knowing the Notes on the Fretboard
2. Fretboard Dividing System (CAGED, 3 notes per string, mini patterns)
3. Visualization of Intervallic Relationships
Hope this video answers a couple of your questions about the fretboard and how I look at distributing different arpeggios, chords, intervals and scales on the guitar. | <urn:uuid:0ad61966-c61b-48b6-9f33-b5a3b6bb34c5> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.juanantoniomusic.com/single-post/2018/07/23/How-to-Visualize-the-Fretboard-Notes-CAGED3-NPS-Intervals-Vlog-9 | 2020-09-20T00:04:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.892967 | 162 |
The MeeGo project was formed only eight months ago, when Intel and Nokia announced that they were merging their two portable device distributions, Moblin and Maemo, into a single, unified “MeeGo Core” on top of which companies can built embedded Linux devices. As recently as this summer, there was still trepidation among development community members about how that merger would go — combining two code bases is never easy, much less two user and developer communities and two corporate projects. Nevertheless, when the first MeeGo Conference opened its doors in Dublin, Ireland on Monday, there were nearly 1200 attendees — double the original estimate.
The MeeGo Conference takes the place of Nokia’s Maemo Summits the previous two years, preserving the format, but expanding the scope of the projects and sessions. The main event is three days longs, preceded by weekend “early bird” events and hacking time. The first half of day one was occupied by a series of short keynote talks in front of the entire attendee audience. These included updates from Intel and Nokia, plus a Q&A session led by the Linux Foundation’s Jim Zemlin with the MeeGo Technical Steering Group’s Imad Sousou (of Intel) and Valtteri Halla (of Nokia). Also among the keynote speakers was Dominique Le Foll of Amino Communication, a UK-based company that is already building MeeGo-based set-top boxes for cable and satellite TV service providers in Europe and North America. He spoke about the cost- and time-savings Amino enjoys by working with a full-blown Linux distribution like MeeGo instead of a striped-down, embedded distro.
The “connected TV” platform used by Amino is one of MeeGo’s newly targeted user-experiences (UX), along with in-vehicle infotainment (IVI). But the netbook and handheld UXes still took center stage for the event, with 70 sessions and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) meetings spread out over the next day and a half. Development took up many slots, from Qt training to working with the MeeGo APIs and SDK, to building on specific hardware devices. Not all of the developer-centric talks were MeeGo-specific, either — most of the MeeGo software stack is shared with typical Linux desktop distributions, so projects such as Telepathy, Zeitgeist, and Zypp had representation as well.
But there were plenty of talks for the non-technical attendees as well, including a full-track’s worth of sessions on the open source community and its processes. There were presentations on bug triage, localization, and community metrics, plus sessions that might appeal to managers and marketing teams interacting with the open source way for the first time. In spite of the potential for MeeGo Conference to become a Qt-heavy event (due to Nokia’s sponsorship), there were plenty of presentations from the GNOME side of the fence as well, including a large turnout for Dave Neary’s talk on resolving open source community “anti-patterns” (e.g., problematic behavior or miscommunications).
The final day of the event was reserved for unconference sessions, planned and led in the meeting rooms by the participants themselves. All three days tried to accommodate the “hallway track” ethos by providing plenty of meet-up space, followed up at the hotels by 24-hour “hacker lounge” rooms.
From the business side of the conference, the big news was undoubtedly Monday’s announcement that chipmaker AMD was joining the MeeGo project. AMD’s Operating System Research Center Director Chris Schlaeger appeared onstage during the Q&A session, joking that it was a marvel he was within a few feet of an executive from rival silicon vendor Intel without a swarm of lawyers surrounding them both. Of course, AMD’s involvement not only increases the possibilities for MeeGo to build and be tested on a wider range of processors, but bodes well for its GPU support, too. Two of the three mainline graphics chip makers are now participating in the project, with only NVIDIA holding out.
For most of the attendees, however, the bigger news was that Intel, the Linux Foundation, and Nokia had combined forces to provide a free MeeGo-powered Lenovo ideapad to each participant (excepting Intel and Nokia employees, who numbered a few hundred out of the overall audience). Beyond the appeal of shiny-new-hardware on its own, the netbook giveaway is a way to seed independent development on MeeGo. One of the project’s common refrains is that compliance testing and API stability ensure that an application written for MeeGo will run the same on any MeeGo-powered UX: netbook, handheld, or other. Nokia provided pre-release N900s to several hundred developers at 2009’s Maemo Summit, and that hardware has been one on the very short list of supported devices for this year’s official MeeGo releases. With many of the same community members now able to test on the larger, touch-screen netbook, the promise of run-everywhere applications will get a much needed stress-test.
An interesting side-note to the netbook giveaway is that Lenovo actually makes two variants using different WiFi chip sets: one with available open source Atheros drivers supported by MeeGo, and one with only closed source Broadcom drivers available. The conference was unable to get sufficient volume of the Atheros-based netbooks for the giveaway, so it offered a choice to the developers receiving the Broadcom version: MeeGo builds were provided that included the binary-only Broadcom drivers, and builds were provided that contained free software only. As the speaker put it, “you can take the one that works as-is, or you can take the one that allows you to write a driver.”
Compliance and “upstream first”
The compliance message is one of the MeeGo project’s cornerstones. Time and time again over the course of the event, a speaker would mention casually that developing for MeeGo is a safe bet. The project refers to its compliance program as “stack based,” meaning that a device that ships with MeeGo uses the complete MeeGo code base, and that any vendor applied patches do not break API or ABI compatibility. Thus, a software component that is developed for MeeGo will work on a handset, a netbook, or an embedded device — at least for a particular MeeGo release; forward-compatibility is difficult to guarantee. The message is one that OEMs and device makers need to hear — everyone plays by the same rules, and as a result, everyone gets a stable and dependable base platform.
Hand in hand with it, though, was the message that MeeGo is full-fledged, “upstream first” distribution project compatible with the current releases of all of the same components that comprise Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Gentoo, Debian, or any other Linux desktop. The same kernel, libraries, graphics stack, audio layer, network tools; even the same core applications. Device makers and commercial application vendors are sure to love the “no fragmentation” promise inherent there, but other Linux developers ought to like it for another reason: ultimately it’s just another Linux distribution, not a fork or a “special” case. And that means the development community gets to focus on what it does best: creating applications. | <urn:uuid:ace98265-1388-4cd9-8483-8979c56335f6> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.linux.com/news/meego-conference-2010-wrap/ | 2020-09-20T02:11:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.956737 | 1,591 |
Above all else, everyone at London Designer Outlet is totally committed to providing an environment where all our guests, staff, brand partners and other visitors can feel safe and comfortable.
In the current climate we recognise we have a responsibility to consider all the relevant risks and to stringently follow government guidelines and have therefore made a number of changes to how the centre operates. Please refer to the document below for further details.
View our shopping commitment document
We hope that the measures in this commitment provide you with peace of mind that we can offer safe shopping and that you have an enjoyable visit to the centre. | <urn:uuid:9d2881b5-ab8a-4c87-99b5-4310e88f6d51> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.londondesigneroutlet.com/welcome-back/our-commitment/ | 2020-09-20T02:09:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.944718 | 121 |
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