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I Am Now an App™
[W]e're writing these things that we can no longer read. And we've rendered something illegible. And we've lost the sense of what's actually happening in this world that we've made.
Kevin Slavin, How algorithms shape our world, TEDGlobal (July 2011)
I finished my last post speculating that the business of law will be changed by programmers in the same way one might boil a frog. That is, it will happen slowly under the guise of software support for all of the decision making you have to do every day, and you'll accept that support, incrementally, because you are a consumer. And I'm using "consumer" in a pejorative sense here, namely one who passively (and happily) accepts programmatic decision-making in most aspects of his or her life, such as refrigerators (e.g., handling cooling systems), cars (e.g., protection algorithms to eco-driving), financial markets (e.g., the 2010 flash crash), movie preferences (e.g., the Netflix prize), and healthcare (e.g., knowing whether you are headed to the hospital), just to name a very few things. So, thinking about how much of our day-to-day existence we've already ceded to software and algorithms (or will), it seems appropriate to consider how—not whether—the practice of law will be reduced to an app.
The title of this post is one part a wink-and-a-nod to those within and hovering outside of our industry seeking to capitalize on the notion that most of the work lawyers busy themselves with is reducible to a series of logical arguments necessary to execute a program, and one part a call to recognize how we, as lawyers, are contributing to the perception and actualization that I Am Now An App™. The mark is not about whether software or algorithms will subsume us as attorneys, lawyers, or counselors, but rather how software will change our clients' perspective of our profession. This was, to some extent, the concern of Richard Susskind in The End of Lawyers? when he addressed disruptive technologies. [Fn. 1] And like Susskind, I am concerned that most of us aren't prepared for what we've set in motion.
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, wrote last month that over the next 10 years software will extend its disruptive tendencies to other industries, particularly those with a heavy "real world" component.
Software is … eating much of the value chain of industries that are widely viewed as primarily existing in the physical world. [¶] Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation. My venture capital firm … believe[s] both of these industries, which historically have been highly resistant to entrepreneurial change, are primed for tipping by great new software-centric entrepreneurs.
It's hard to imagine an industry with a heavier real-world component than the practice of law, or one more resistant to entrepreneurial change. And yet, it would seem that we are "primed for tipping." Jordan Furlong, a fellow Slaw columnist, recently assessed the current situation as follows:
New providers and new technologies are not going to replace lawyers. But they are going to marginalize lawyers and render law firms mostly irrelevant. [¶] Lawyers are smart, knowledgeable, creative and trustworthy professionals who, unfortunately, suffer from poor business acumen, terrible management skills, wildly disproportionate aversion to risk, outsized revenue expectations, and a business model about 25 years out of date. The market won't abandon them—they have unique and sometimes extraordinarily valuable skills and characteristics—but it will find the best use for them: expert specialists with limited influence over the larger process.
Furlong, Goodbye to all that Law21.ca (Aug. 26, 2011).
Whether lawyers and firms will be displaced as he suggests will be answered in time, but meanwhile, we can at least consider what he and others are suggesting are the new providers and technologies that will accomplish such a great feat.
Over the last two years, we've been inundated with suggestions that the Susskindian revolution is upon us, and that the practice as we know it is collapsing. But outside of alternative fee and business agreements (and the imminent death of the billable hour), what sorts of businesses have been responsible for these dire warnings? In other words, what have consulting prognosticators been touting as the source for concern and worry?
As best as I can tell, the following suspects have consumed much of the Internet's time and attention (and are presented in no particular order):
- Nolo's online legal forms
- Quicken's Legal Business Contracts & Forms
- Business Integrity's ContractExpress DealBuilder
- Wilson Sonsini's Term Sheet Generator
- Linklater's Blueflag
- Eversheds' HR Dealbuilder
- HotDocs
- Exari
- Koncision
- Kiiac
- West Publishing's ProDoc
- Westlaw's FormBuilder
- Rocket Lawyer
- LegalZoom
The common denominator among these businesses is document automation, which just happens to be §4.1 of the Susskind playbook on disruptive technologies. But when I think about them in the context of I Am Now An App™, I wonder why all the fuss over this stuff? It's not new technology; lawyers have been relying on forms and blanks for over a hundred years and some form of document automation for at least a good 15 years. Even Susskind notes as much. [Susskind, The End of Lawyers? at 102.] So why are we giving so much attention to these businesses, and how are they going to change our relationship with clients?
It would seem the answer lies in Susskind's Pre-Internet | Post-Internet distinction:
Pre-internet business thinking saw document assembly systems as internal efficiency tools mainly for law firms; post-Internet, we can see that this technology is a power vehicle for making legal know-how widely available on an online basis. [Id. at 103.]
In short, systems designed to make lawyers' work more efficient are, post-Internet, being directed outward, toward the client, and this is disrupting (or has a greater potential to disrupt) the attorney-client relationship.
In my opinion, the disruption began many years ago with the Quickens and Nolo Presses, who were allowed (or won the right) to provide automated services directly to consumers for the simplest of legal transactions, such as wills, NDAs, and other business documents. LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer are merely extensions of those services, but not necessarily also-rans because they add a different component, namely Web 2.0 savvy and legal online help (or essentially, a referral service). Either way, they are marginalizing some lawyers because they tap directly into the current DIY mentality of many consumers. [Fn. 2]
The other services listed above are business-facing, so they tend to be used by lawyers to facilitate workflow, but their long-term effect is no less disruptive, and this is where I see a greater threat than self-help divorce, simple wills, and NDAs.
For business-facing services where attorneys are considered the primary user, it seems logical that the user (read: attorney) is less of a customer and more of a sensor for the ecosystem. One of the benefits of having all of these smart, educated lawyers using and interacting with contract drafting and forms automation software is data collection. The more data the system can collect from the user, the smarter the system. And that collection has to occur passively because most attorneys won't take the time to rate a form, suggest changes based on certain fact patterns, identify which form is most relevant, provide a decision-matrix, etc. If a forms-automation business is looking to scale, obtaining data—that is, the user's intellectual capital—passively is an effective means of doing it. And as long as you, the attorney, are deriving a benefit, namely a more efficient practice, why should you care? [Fn. 3] It's this feedback loop that creates an opportunity to sell services directly to the consumer, which facilitates the disruption.
Interestingly, the Internet has been so focused on forms automation lately that it's pretty much ignored §4.5 of the Susskind technology-disruption playbook: online legal guidance. For some segments, I think this presents a greater opportunity for disruption than forms automation, but not in the same (negative) way.
Consider, for example, the online corporate ethics and compliance provider ELT, which was founded in 1997 by and relies exclusively on the significant intellectual capital of Littler Mendleson. In January of this year, Littler, through ELT, partnered with The Riverside Group, a private equity firm, to grow the business globally. ELT may represent a path to consumer-facing success for certain vertical businesses, assuming of course one can convince partners and associates in the firm to produce content on a schedule without taking credit for it (one aspect of Littler's publishing success) and in the manner required by the affiliate (which is run by non-lawyers). Although ELT represents a disruption in the attorney-client relationship because it takes legal advice directly to the consumer through online classes and dramatic videos, it's a good kind of disruptive. It's one that allows the firm to participate in the financial success of an affiliated business and reach a larger consumer base than it might as a firm.
Keys to success, of course, might start with (1) consolidating intellectual capital [Fn. 4], (2) determining what services could be off-loaded to clients, (3) developing "guaranteed by lawyers" systems, such as ELT's Legal Engineering™, or (4) embracing technology as an extension of the firm's capital, not necessarily its brand (but recognize that the imprimatur is still valuable). Susskind adds:
I have identified three keys to success when it comes to making money from online legal guidance. First, for an online legal service to generate serious revenue, its use must actually add substantive value to clients. Unless clients think extremely highly of the systems and would be near panic stricken at the prospect of their withdrawal, then there is little chance they will actually pay for them. Second, the systems must not be easily replicable or competitors can easily mimic their development and … the prices of rival online legal services will tend rapidly towards zero…. Third, for law firms to charge for online legal services, it must not be perceived that these systems are internal systems that are simply being recycled for clients' use. In that event, clients may feel cheated and will argue that such services are a natural (but non-chargeable) extension of the services traditionally being provided.
[Susskind, The End of Lawyers? at 125.]
Perhaps more than forms automation, online legal guidance requires lawyers to come to terms with I Am Now An App™ because to be successful they would first have to acknowledge there are aspects of the practice that require their knowledge and experience but in which they, as a person, can be disintermediated. With forms automation it happens slowly, without their consent, again, like boiling a frog. But convincing them to voluntarily off themselves so they can make money a different way is a very different, and difficult, proposition. Nevertheless, I do believe some firms will follow Littler's footsteps and seek greater disintermediation as a means of global expansion.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention Scott Greenfield's recent reaction to the idea of "robot overlords," as his thoughts represent a certain segment of the legal practice culture:
Technology may well bring useful tools to our practice, but they do not dictate our practice. The vultures who use technology in an effort to infiltrate the practice of law and medicine, to circumvent the judgment and advice that distinguishes what real professionals do versus the bot that spits out factoids, want to convince you that they are the future, that they own the future, that they own us. This is no more law than it is medicine.
[Greenfield, The Robot Overlords Are Here, Simple Justice (Sept. 4, 2011).]
And indeed, there are practices of law that will defy programmatic application for the time being, such as family, criminal law, and other areas where being an advocate and counselor (or therapist) is tangible. But make no mistake, this cannot be said for many other areas, such as within immigration law, that are capable of being defined by a routine workflow and little discretion. [Fn. 5]
It is good to bear in mind that much of I Am Now An App™ is a problem of our own making. As Kevin Slavin's quote at the beginning of this post suggests, we are writing things we can no longer read. And I don't mean that we can't read statutes, judicial opinions, or briefs or represent clients based on all of this information, but the volume of the information being generated by lawyers, judges, legislators, etc. can no longer be found, digested, disseminated, or understood without software and algorithms. Much of modern practice requires software intervention, and it is only natural for today's client-cum-consumer to expect technology will afford them some savings and relief within the traditional billable-hour model. It is also natural that we will push the boundaries of programming into every inch of the attorney-client space suitable. Whether you'll be on the right side of the change will simply depend on your perspective of what you do today.
Good luck.
[Fn. 1] To be clear, "disruption" refers to the displacement of attorneys or aspects of the practice of law through technological advances. It does not refer to the manner in which the implementation of technology within law practice has altered the way lawyers think, which has been adequately addressed in The Document Life: Why "lawyer" is moving from a profession to a metaphor.
[Fn. 2] I'm convinced that automated legal forms have given consumers permission to accept the idea that there is nothing special about many legal documents, and consequently a lawyer's imprimatur is, essentially, a waste of money.
One benefit to the use of computerized forms revolves around a concept that is ingrained in the American mind—the ability, if one so desires, to make full use of the legal system without the interference of a third-party, i.e., a lawyer. Citizens can research their own particular legal problem and represent themselves pro se. However, the law can be an exclusionary profession, and the process of legal research may intimidate the average consumer. By using computerized forms instead of consulting an attorney, consumers may be able to limit the amount spent on remedying a legal problem. Printed forms with very broad instructions are available to the average consumer, but paper can be inexplicably intimidating in comparison to computerized forms. Computerized forms not only offer a broader range of help options than printed forms, they are also more easily edited than their paper counterparts. Instead of buying a separate set of forms for each possible situation, legal software typically contains a variety of legal documents.
Scott, Filling in the Blanks: How Computerized Forms Are Affecting the Legal Profession, 13 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 835, 838-39, 843, 853 (2002-03).
[Fn. 3] This is already happening with legal research, which is business-facing. For example, WestlawNext, which is marketed as an evolutionary step in legal research that provides greater assistance to human-decision making by providing you more "relevant" results, feeds your search queries and decision-making back into the system to help determine relevancy for every other user. And you're glad to do it as long as the system gives you what you believe to be are the most relevant and accurate results.
[Fn. 4] As a publisher, I have often advocated for firms to let us come in and review their intellectual capital to determine what could be consolidated, streamlined, and published in an effort to capitalize on the brand and find additional revenue streams for the firm. Most advances have been rejected, but in the one instance it wasn't, the firm discovered a number of inefficiencies and inconsistencies in the same practice group across multiple offices that made just the consolidation and clean-up effort worthwhile. From what I know about firm KM, my opinion remains unchanged: firms need a C-level IP and content manager that is looking for ways to monetize firm IP.
[Fn. 5] Within a day, Scott Greenfield followed up his robot overlord post with another recommending the creation of a new position within the practice of law: the Legal Practitioner.
I propose the creation of a new professional position, the Legal Practitioner. It's modeled after the concept of the Nurse Practitioner/Physicians' Assistant. It would require specified and regulated education, though significantly less than would be required for a lawyer and at a substantially reduced cost. It would require testing and licensure to make reasonably certain that its practitioners possessed minimum competencies and that the public was safeguarded from incompetents or, in the alternative, had redress.
The function of these Legal Practitioners would be to provide representation to member of the public in non-litigation aspects of the law, such as wills, contracts, uncontested divorces, real estate closings. The most critical function would be to distinguish between those legal functions they are fully capable of performing and those that require an attorney.
Greenfield, The New Position: The Legal Practitioner, Simple Justice (Sept. 5, 2011).
The concession further clarifies that the debate about robot overlords is merely one about the necessity for meat in the consumer-software sandwich.
Exactly. One significant project (if I do say so myself) where this is happening is in the Legal Aid space in the US as represented by CALI's A2J-Author (http://www.a2jauthor.org) and its use on the national LawHelp Interactive website (https://lawhelpinteractive.org/).
In the past couple of years, over 2000 forms have been automated for poor/pro se clients and they have generated hundreds of thousands of documents… for free.
In the coming years, we hope to engage law school clinics and their students to learn and use the technology so that they can incorporate it (if not the actual software, something like it) in their own practice. This is our approach to the representation gap – too many lawyers, not enough representation for clients that cannot afford it.
John Mayer
Executive Director, CALI
I think you are now a developer, producing the actual content that gets wrapped up in the app (;-))
Mind you, certain things can't be neatly packaged. From the programmer's point of view, a system of laws, regulations and precedents is "a semi-infinite sequence of co-routines, all running concurrently, all sharing a few global variables, and all of the form: for all a, b where a is this and b is that, a must do or not do some particular thing to b"
In the above, "semi-infinite", "co-routine", "concurrently" and "global variables" are all extremely bad words. They hint that the problem is either impossible, possible only with infinite resources, or just insanely hard. In other words, something you don't want to be assigned to write a program for.
Those problems are best solved in a human brain, preferably by a discussion in front of an impartial judge in an open courtroom.
For those interested in this topic, Slate has an article up this morning: Will Robots Steal Your Job? Software could kill lawyers. Why that's good for everyone else.
Suggesting that document automation can replace advanced legal work is similar to suggesting that robots are better horseback riders than human beings. The idea that you COULD program a robot to respond to every single input required to guide a live animal in the Kentucky Derby is reasonable, but the fact of the matter is that it would be cost prohibitive to do so.
Automation the production of content is only half of the battle: a human being is required to produce and maintain the content and to put it into context to meet the client's needs.
Can IBM produce Watson and take on Jeopardy? Sure, but would you hire Watson to produce your will based on non-standard facts obtained by the machine interviewing the client?
Probably not.
We have automated the document production for thousands of clients, but we have never replaced a human being in the process.
Mark Deal
Document & Data Solutions, LLC


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[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] dismissed [opinion, PDF] a suit on Friday from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) [advocacy website], a consumer privacy group, asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [official website] to block Google's [corporate website] proposed privacy policy changes [text]. EPIC brought suit against the FTC earlier this month [JURIST report]. The new policy allows a user's information to be shared among different Google products, including YouTube, Gmail, and Google Maps. EPIC alleged that the changes to the privacy policy were in violation [EPIC materials] of a consent order [JURIST report] between the FTC and Google in October over a breach of consumer privacy rights and misleading consumers during the launch of Google Buzz, a social networking service. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson stated that the decision to not block the privacy policy changes was within the FTC's discretion and thus not judicially reviewable:
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Today (more or less) I celebrate my first years as a Microsoft FTE (Full-Time Employee). And I say celebrate because I am very happy of my decision to work here. And as a year has passed, this is a great moment to look back.
It all started with a call from a good friend (and peer in a previous project) that worked at MS, telling me send my CV as his team was searching for an PM intern. As I was doing a full time PhD, but started being tired of it, this was a good opportunity to try something else without having to throw the PhD out the window. Long story short, I started working as an intern around mid-2013 and after weighting my possibilities, I decided to go all in and make MS my main occupation and the PhD my side-project (which I'm still working on)
Looking back, it has been a very interesting year here at MS with many changes. With the appointment of Satya as our CEO, a wind of change started to blow all around. I had very interesting discussions with many employees about how the company is changing and how it must change to embrace new technologies. Microsoft became more and more active in open-source projects even open sourcing the next-gen compiler; embraced Git as a first class citizen in its development platforms; kept its word on being a "mobile first" company by delivering Office apps for iPad, iPhone, and Android; moved into more rapid engineering practices and adopted "combined engineering"; and on a personal level, my team delivered a private preview of our service (Azure AD Application Proxy), a public preview of it and took it to GA level, and I gave a presentation at TechEd EU 2014. Ah, and MS bought Mojang (as my kids love Minecraft, they are happy that I now work in the company that owns the game, for whatever that's worth :-)).
But as always, there are things that still need improvement (how politically correct of me, ah?). First, if we liken companies with boats, then MS is a Supercarrier. And it takes time and effort to change the direction where this ship is going, especially as this ship is still moving forward very fast, and the change is not 1-2 degrees but something like 60 degrees. And in the era where patience is not widespread, this makes some people (like me) hesitate and think that maybe the change is not really happening. While collaboration has improved impressively and development velocity is also much better, there is still much room for improvement. We'll just have to wait and see. On the technical side, Azure had a number of major glitches this year (1, 2), which was expected as usage increases and new features are added, but is still sad.
Unrelated of the technical elements of my job, Microsoft is a great employer and community member. In 1013, it donated $113M to charity with a 1:1 employee donation matching (I donate $1 and MS also donates $1, also before tax, so my actual donation is even less!). And has donated more than $1B since 1983. That is really impressive. And while I have been experiencing some personal problems this year, I have received the full support of my managers and peers in every step of the way, which is something that can't be taken for granted. And for this I am very grateful.
It has been a great year. Let's make the new one even better.
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On Tuesday, February 23rd, I will be leading the jam session for Come Jam With Us, the software developer study group in Ann Arbor. The session will be on ASP.NET MVC, and aims to give attendees enough of an introduction to the product to empower developers to be able to start coding their own ASP.NET MVC 2 projects. Like all of the Come Jam With Us sessions for the winter/spring of 2010, it will be held at the offices of SRT Solutions in Ann Arbor at 5:30p.
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Bohemian Rhapsody passes $900 million
'Bohemian Rhapsody' has surpassed $900 million in ticket sales.
The Queen biopic - which starred Rami Malek in the role of the iconic late rocker Freddie Mercury - may have been released way back in October, but it seems the flick isn't done raking in the millions just yet, as Fox and New Regency have announced it has officially earned more than $900 million worldwide.
According to Variety, the movie - which is the highest-grossing music biopic of all time - has generated $685 million internationally, along with an impressive $216 million at the domestic box office.
Despite having not been shown in cinemas in the US or UK for several weeks, the film is still playing in theatres in China and Japan, where it grossed a total of $114 million.
In the UK, the movie made $71 million, whilst South Korea earned the production a further $76 million.
'Bohemian Rhapsody' uses the legendary catalog of Queen music to chronicle the life of Freddie Mercury and the band's rise to glory.
The production cost just $50 million to make, meaning Fox have managed to secure a mammoth profit for their venture.
And it isn't just audiences who have loved the flick, as it turned out to be a hit during awards season, with Rami's performance as Freddie Mercury bagging him the Best Actor gong at the Oscars, alongside three other awards for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing.
The movie also won Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture Drama, and another win for Rami as Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama.
'Bohemian Rhapsody' is now Fox's fourth biggest movie ever after 'Avatar', 'Titanic', and 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace', and comes as Disney last month announced it was closing its $71 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox.


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Girls in the Storm • February 28 - March 1, 2017
Kate and her family have skiied with Kathy on and off piste at various times over the past 5 years. Last year, Kate and some of her family branched out into touring, and she was hooked. She invited a couple of her friends to join her this year for an introductory 3 day ski touring outing.
As you'll see, our long dry spell ended quite abruptly, and just as they arrived, in a storm that literally did not let up for the entire three days! We made the best we could of it, and did manage to have a lot of fun and the deep snowy woods were beautiful. The snow was great at times, indeed our main complaint was too much of a good thing!
Other Trips with some of these folks
Kate VacherChamonix - January and February 2016
Chamonix - February 2015
Chamonix - January 2013
Chamonix - February 2012
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five-page preview of the issue.
Look for the mag at your local comic book store, but if you can't find it, you can purchase it from Boom! Studio's website.
As it does after every four issues, the monthly Peanuts comic book will be taking a break in March and return in April.
However, early in March will see the release of Peanuts Volume 3, a trade paperback collecting issues #5-8 of the comic (which were published separately last year).


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B. Preaching the resurrected and reigning Lord Christ:
We must remember that in Acts 2 on the day of Pentecost, that which cut the people to the heart was the gospel message of the resurrected and reigning King. "This Jesus God has raised up" (At 2:32). "Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this same Jesus whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ" (At 2:36). This message keeps the chicken before the egg.
After the resurrection of Jesus, Jesus was no longer just the good Teacher from Nazareth. He was no longer just Jesus who walked with the disciples on the roads of Galilee. He was no longer just the brave Teacher who stood up and taught in the temple and the synagogues. He was now the resurrected, raised and reigning King Jesus at the right hand of God (Hb 8:1). This was the gospel message that cut the people to the heart on the day of Pentecost (At 2:37). This was the message that turned the world upside down. It will do the same today if we once again restore gospel preachers among us.
We seem to miss this point, even today among those who only want to know Jesus simply as the good teacher with His disciples on the road to and from Galilee. Such is brought out in the request of many who seek a more "personal relationship with Jesus," which often translates into a "mere" relationship. At least it gives the appearance that if one behaves correctly he or she can have and maintain a "personal relationship" with Jesus. But this often becomes religious behavior because it is based on self-appointed merits by which one seeks the personal relationship.
One often concludes that if his or her relationship is to be "personal," then one must bind on oneself "personal works" to perform in order to "measure up" to what he or she thinks Jesus would expect of us. When one fails in his or her own self-imposed standards of expectation, then he or she feels emotionally unworthy. This is performance-oriented religion. It leads to a lack of confidence in the sanctifying power of the blood of Jesus because our confidence is focused on our own self-imposed performance.
It is certainly a noble desire to feel close to Jesus. But our meritorious behavior is somewhat misguided if we seek such a relationship that is based on our own performance of self-imposed laws. It is somewhat misguided because the object of our relationship is no longer the man Jesus whom we seek to know according to the flesh in the records of the gospel. The man Jesus is now King and Lord over all things.
Paul certainly knew Jesus as a man while Jesus was in the flesh, for he lived in Palestine during the ministry of Jesus. He even persecuted those who followed the Nazarene called Jesus. He persecuted these followers even unto death because he believed that Jesus was only a rebellious leader of a sect of Nazarenes.
But Paul's understanding of Jesus changed from Jesus the man to Jesus the resurrected and reigning Son of God. After the gospel of the ascension of Jesus, he once wrote the following words to some who possibly considered Jesus as only a renown teacher from of Galilee:
"Therefore, from now on we know no man according to the flesh [including Jesus]. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no more" (2 Co 5:16).
If we are preaching that people must have a personal relationship with Jesus according to the flesh, then we are not preaching the gospel message that we must establish a gospel covenant relationship of peace with King Jesus. We are preaching an earthly message because we are seeking to attach people to a concept of Jesus while He was yet in the flesh. But now we do not know Him as such.
What the people understood from the message of Peter on Pentecost was that it was no longer Jesus according to the flesh. It was the resurrected Jesus who was reigning as Lord and Christ. And being at the right hand of God and reigning on David's throne meant that the resurrected Jesus is now King and Lord over all things (See Mt 28:18; Ep 1:21-23). He is now as Isaiah prophesied of Him:
"For to us a child is born, to us a Son is given. And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" (Is 9:6).
Church existed in the first century because people believed in the gospel message of the reigning King Jesus. If we would speak of personal relationships with this King, therefore, we must seek out how we would establish a covenant relationship with King Jesus who is now reigning over all things. He is now Lord and King! He is the One before whom all of us will eventually give account.
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that everyone may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad" (2 Co 5:10; see Jn 12:48).
Jesus is now the King about whom He spoke when He taught His disciples. He is the King with whom each one of us must make peace before He comes again with His mighty angels (Lk 14:32; see 2 Th 1:6-9). Whatever relationship one might seek to establish with this coming King, it must be a relationship of reverence, awe and submission. We must establish a covenant with this King before He comes. In order to do this, we must obey the gospel of King Jesus in order to come into the realm of His grace (Gl 3:26-29). This is what those who were cut to the heart on the day of Pentecost realized, and thus were willing to do what Peter instructed: "Repent and be baptized every one of you" (At 2:38).
- Preach Christ: We preach Jesus the Christ and King. This was the message of the early disciples. Some have had difficulty understanding Paul's statement in 1 Corinthians 1:17 when he referred to this message: "For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel." Those who are of a legal heritage have reversed the order. They would conclude from their catechism of identity that evangelists must first be sent to be legally baptized, and then the baptized believer must be discipled in matters of knowing the Christ. This is revealed by those who preach church in meetings without mentioning Christ.
This is the reverse order of what Peter preached on Pentecost. It was the reverse order of all the evangelists who obeyed the commission to go into all the world and preach the gospel. It was the reverse order of what Paul preached in Corinth upon his initial arrival in the city. He later wrote to the Corinthians, and all those in the province of Achaia, "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received" (1 Co 15:3). And that which he received was a risen Christ who died for our sins and was resurrected to reign as King of kings (1 Co 15:3,4). This is the gospel message that we must first preach as we go into all the world.
When Philip encountered the eunuch on his way back home to Ethiopia, he preached "Jesus" to him (At 8:35). It was only later, and after hearing this gospel message, that the eunuch said, "See, here is water! What hinders me from being baptized" (At 8:36). And herein is the difference between preaching a legal catechism of restoration, and the gospel of the incarnate Son of God who lived on earth under the name of Jesus. This Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected, and is now reigning as the King who will come again. It is, therefore, as Paul wrote, "We preach Christ crucified" (1 Co 1:23).
Our message to draw people to the cross is the good news of the incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, reign and final revelation of King Jesus from heaven. It is this message that cuts people to the heart. It is this message to which people gravitate away from institutional religiosity to a relationship with the One who is now reigning over all things. This is the power of the gospel to change the lives of those who realize that they will eventually give account of themselves before a returned King (Jn 12:48; At 17:30,31). This is the right and only mediator through whom we must call all men in order to reconnect with the God who is over all things.
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Editor's Letter: Interpretation
Do you find that your students are open to interpretation? Are they open to being art critics about their own and other works of art? When initially introduced to art criticism, some may associate negative connotations with the word "criticism." Art criticism, in practice, though, is generally positive and focuses on interpretation.Read Article


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Sewing Projects. Butterfly wallhanging.
The base of this wallhanging is calico onto which I have embellished roving with my Babylock Embellisher. I free motioned quilted over this and embellished the 'fussy cut' pansies on top of the free motion stitching. I dyed squares of lightweight cotton and tied these in the middle and added onto the top. See detail photo.
Cornish Rex hanging.
I made this as a 60th birthday present. I embroidered the cats onto silk over wadding using a dark brown thread. The designs came from www.hollysdesignstudio.com and stitched out beautifully without any thread jumps.
Pattern cutting out table.
I sew a lot of clothes and find cutting out sewing patterns difficult. I came up with this idea to make my fabric cutting easier. It is light weight and easily stored. At the moment it is made and available in the UK.
Here is the link: ansa table
Other Web Links
100 Sewing Links - Browse the list of the Best Sewing Sites on the web!
Canine Partners - My assistance dog is Morgan. Still bouncing!
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Free Knitting Patterns
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More companies are starting to give back to the medical professionals who are tirelessly working around the clock during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
On March 18, Uber and gourmet salad company Sweetgreen announced plans to offer free meals to healthcare workers and first responders in the coming days.
Uber will give away over 300,000 meals to those on the front lines in the United States and Canada. "We're doing what we can," the company's chief financial officer, Nelson Chai, told CNBC.
On Wednesday, Starbucks announced that it would be also be offering free coffee to those serving in hospitals and other medical professionals.
Sweetgreen, the fast-casual chain, gave thanks to medical professionals in a post on Instagram, writing, "We're so grateful for the hospital workers + medical personnel who are putting others before themselves during this critical time."
The company also vowed to do its part to help keep healthcare professionals well fed during this hectic time: "In the midst of the current crisis, we're dedicating our Outpost operations and teams to support those on the front lines by delivering free, fresh sg salads + bowls to hospitals in the cities we serve."
Starting Wednesday, March 25, anyone who "identifies themselves" as a police officer, firefighter, paramedic, doctor, nurse, hospital or medical staff member or a medical researcher will be able to enjoy a tall brewed hot or iced coffee for free.
From now through May 3, customers working through the crisis in one of these positions can enjoy one free cup of joe per visit at chain's drive-thru or pickup in select locations, since all dine-in cafes are temporarily closed.
Work in a hospital? Stop by your local &Pizza restaurant for a free pizza. All you have to do is present a valid staff ID. Can't leave work? Text 200-03 #HERO to get your pie delivered.
Free food delivery
Many food companies are also coming up with creative ways to help Americans enjoy their food despite temporary dining room closures. In recent days, the following restaurants announced free delivery and other incentives for those practicing social distancing at home.
Uber Eats
Uber's food delivery platform Uber Eats is also sending some love to small businesses during this difficult time and nixing delivery fees in some of its markets.
"As more customers are choosing to stay indoors, we've waived the Delivery Fee for the more than 100,000 independent restaurants across US & Canada on Uber Eats," the company said. "We will also launch daily dedicated, targeted marketing campaigns — both in-app and via email — to promote delivery from local restaurants, especially those that are new to the app."
The company said they hope the gesture sends a bit of sunshine to medical workers who are working overtime to protect the public: "We know that the work of medical and crisis response teams can be tireless, and the hours long; we hope we can help in a small way."
Fried chicken lovers can get free delivery through KFC's website, Grubhub or Seamless until April 26. In-store pickup is also available at some locations.
The fast-casual burrito chain is offering free delivery on all orders over $10 through March 31. Along with the service, the company is also offering a tamper-evident packaging seal to keep food safe.
Moe's Southwest Grill
With many Moe's dining rooms closed, the restaurant is offering pickup options and free delivery on all app and website orders of $10 or more through April 10.
Blaze Pizza
Blaze Pizza is offering free delivery across the country. All customers have to do is order via Blaze's website or app and spend $10 or more.
El Pollo Loco
Along with offering sealed, tamper-proof delivery bags, the company is also offering free delivery via Grubhub at participating locations starting March 25. The promotion runs until April 7.


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Earlier this year, I wrote about Beyoncé's politically charged Super Bowl performance and the scandal that arose in its wake. Half the world praised her for giving Black empowerment a moment in the media, while the other half branded her a racist and threatened to boycott her music.
Beyoncé made no apologies and paid no heed to the angry mob. Instead, she later followed up the performance with the release of Lemonade. Since its release, the album has inspired critical acclaim, a whole new host of pop culture references… and the witch hunt for one very elusive "Becky".
In her song Sorry, Beyoncé stated:
He only want me when I'm not there He better call Becky with the good hair
Brilliantly Bad Decision
In hopes of capitalising on the spotlight thrown on Beyoncé yet again, two staffers of Glamour devised a brilliantly terrible plan. They fired back at Beyoncé's Becky with the Good Hair by posting:
I had to see it to believe it. I couldn't believe that anyone living in a multicultural society, like America or the UK, could be so bloody clueless as to why this would be inappropriate.
The responses on social media further brought perhaps the biggest embarrassment any lifestyle and entertainment brand has faced in quite some time.
Glamour Magazine is not Alone
But I would soon learn that Glamour staffers weren't the only ones who didn't quite get it. Many people actually have no idea what this means.
The following day, while Michael and I drove back from the gym, I asked him if he had heard about the incident.
To put things into context here, let me just inject the necessary detail that my husband is White.
Michael raps, has more Black friends than I do, and knows more about Ebonics than I will ever care to learn. Yet, even he was clueless as to why the article was offensive, and as to what on Earth the phrase "Becky with the good hair meant".
"Isn't that the whole thing about Jay-Z cheating on Beyoncé?" he asked me.
"Becky isn't the point. Don't you know what 'good hair' means?" I asked incredulously.
He didn't.
It was at that moment that I had to step back and re-evaluate what I believed should have been common knowledge and fairly obvious. After all, I come from a predominantly Black country, whereas America is… well… America.So let me explain why this is not just another minority-tantrum like the many that make it through the media.
The History Lesson
Of all the angry tweets directed at Glamour, this one summed up the root of the problem best.
The keywords here are "historical significance". This is because the phrase good hair wasn't coined by Beyoncé for Lemonade, or even by 90s rap. It's been a part of the Black Movement and the Black struggle since the days of slavery, and is deeply rooted in the journey of Black women (and men) from properties to human beings.
To keep slaves compliant, they were taught that their natural features made them somehow less worthy of rights and freedoms than other races. This primarily included the colour of their skin, and the texture of their hair. Coincidentally, these are the two most distinguishing features of what it means to be Black.
After slavery, as civil rights movements took shape and Blacks received their first chance of assimilating into regular society, these differences posed a problem. But while Black skin brought no inherent inconveniences besides people's personal biases, Black hair did.
Let me explain how.
The Struggle is Real
For most Black women, our hair is still a part of that daily struggle – especially in an era where personal appearances mean so much. Our friends of other ethnic groups and mixes can easily throw their hair into a ponytail in five seconds. But our frizzy hair obeys no law and no man.
Even in the corporate world, many of us are forced to ditch our natural hair, because corporate thinks our kinky locks are too naughty for regular business operations. And at my Catholic school, every ethnic hair-do was banned in the rule books, and as we tried new ones – like my signature Mickey Mouse puffs in seventh grade – those were quickly outlawed, too.
But ironically, the people who notice our hair the most? – is us. While other teenagers mostly worried about body image issues and acne, we worried about that and our hair. Maybe mostly our hair.
Many of us have tried everything – perms, presses, cornrows, braids, and just cutting the damn thing off. Sometimes we've done so much crap to it, it just falls off on its own…
And all of that to conform to what regular society decides is good hair – which is essentially not our stubborn kinky hair. Good hair is the Black Community's bitterly-spoken name for obedient, soft, silky smooth locks of the Mixed, the Asians, Latinas, and of course White folks.
It's worry-free hair; the hair of the models they put in Pantene ads, and the girls on Pinterest with an effortless bun on the top of their heads.
In contrast, our naturally dry, frizzy hair is bad hair. We are taught from an early age through dolls, school rules, corporate expectations, and the media that our genetically gifted natural hair is not sufficient, fashionable, or appropriate.
To soften the message, the media often puts forward an image that kinky (or nappy hair) looks like this:
This is true to an extent, but more accurately, this is what African hair looks like when a woman is mixed. In other words, if Michael and I had a daughter, she would likely have a similar hair type to either of these two women. Often times, these hair-types become grouped with good hair because it's "less Black".But for most of us, our hair looks a bit more like this:
Imagine trying to get hair that kinky to meet society's professional, beautiful, and neat standards, like these Beckys with the Good Hair.
And then imagine the overwhelming pressure to meet these expectations. We quite literally get chemical burns from relaxers and heat burns from press combs just trying to keep up. As one tweep summed it up nicely:
The Way Forward
Of course, things are changing now. Many corporations "allow" us to wear our natural hair without causing a fuss. I, for instance, wore my dreadlocks when I worked at Xerox Business Services.
Similarly, many magazines, fashion shows, and movies also feature Black women who embrace their natural heritage; whether they have bad hair, good hair or something in-between.
As we grow older we learn what works for us, and we accept that we'll just have to spend more time and more money on making our bad hair good enough to meet societal expectations.
In fact, Beyoncé made a strong statement by refusing to chemically alter her daughter's hair – at least, not yet. However, when that same Queen Bey – the most powerful female symbol in the Black Community – hires a team to make her look like a Becky with the Good Hair, you know we still have a ways to go…


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The Adriatic Recovery Project calls upon Commissioner Vella and Croatia to promote the establishment of an international Fisheries Restricted Area in the Central Adriatic
15 July 2017. On the eve of the EU Fisheries Council (Bruxelles, 17 July 2017), which will examine the latest status of Mediterranean fisheries[1], the Adriatic Recovery Project calls upon Commissioner Vella and Croatia to promote the establishement of an international Fisheries Restricted Area (FRA) in the Central Adriatic Jabuka/Pomo Pit, closed to all demersal fisheries, such as trawling and longliners.
Last May the Scientific Committee (SAC) of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), endorsed the Adriatic Recovery Project's proposal for the establishment of a FRA closed to all demersal fisheries in the Pomo/Jabuka Pit, and submitted it to the next Conference of the GFCM (Montenegro, 16-20 October 2017). This measure would allow for the protection of the most important nursery and spawning grounds of Adriatic overexploited species, such as European hake and Norway lobster. In addition, the establishment of a FRA closed to demersal fisheries, would create a level playing field in the area by extending the fishing ban, introduced last May by Croatia, to all Mediterranean fleets.
"We consider the establishment of the Jabuka/Pomo Pit FRA, closed to all demersal fisheries, the first testing ground for the European Commission willingness to implement the Med4Fish Declaration, adopted last March in Malta. We now look at the Commission to propose the establishment of the FRA at the GFCM Conference, with measures based on SAC advice. Anything else short of a full ban on demersal fisheries will be considered a poor compromise and will not provide the full protection needed for the critical habitats and species present in the area " – said Domitilla Senni from MedReAct/Adriatic Recovery Project.
English version with map: CS_ 1307017 Jabuka-EN
Croatian version: CS Pomo 15.7.2017 HR
The Adriatic Recovery Project is an alliance of NGOs and scientific institutions to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems and fish essential habitats of the Adriatic Sea. The Project is coordinated by MedReAct, in partnership with Legambiente, Marevivo, the Stanford University and the Marche Polytechnic University.[1] Communication from the Commission on the State of Play of the Common Fisheries Policy and Consultation on the Fishing Opportunities for 2018.


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Google just released a study (no release yet, though I've been promised one) showing that for B2B advertisers, search is more effective than trade journals. If that's not a shot across the bow of every niche publisher in the world, I dunno what is. (via AdWeek)
(The study) polled 900 technology professionals with involvement in purchasing in enterprise application software, security software and server storage. The online poll found search was used 30 percent more frequently than trade periodicals in the research phase of the buying cycle. Search was 21 percent more frequently used than the b-to-b press in the consideration phase and 62 percent more in the final purchase phase.
Andy has a good breakdown.


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DRIFTMASTER 4 ROD SYSTEM. WITH 4 CAPPS & COLEMAN GUN SLINGER HOLDERS. 3/8 STAINLESS ROD SCREWS INTO FLUSH BASE, AND EXTENDS THROUGH THE VERTICAL TUBE AND TOP BAR. (4) 2100-HC GUN SLINGERS. (4) 214-B CLAMP BASES. The item "DRIFTMASTER CRAPPIE POLE ROD HOLDER 4 ROD PRO GUN SLINGER SYSTEM T-250-HC" is in sale since Wednesday, April 15, 2020. This item is in the category "Sporting Goods\Fishing\Other Fishing". The seller is "grizzlyjig" and is located in Caruthersville, Missouri. This item can be shipped to United States.
- Model: T-250-HC
- MPN: Does not apply
- Brand: DRIFTMASTER


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Civil service law
Civil service law is a key branch of law in terms of the management of state personnel. It includes the regulations governing the general legal status of civil servants, i.e. their rights and duties. Civil service law regulates the state's role as an employer.
Duties involving the exercise of public authority can primarily be performed only by civil servants in a public office relationship. For this reason, such a relationship is the chief form of service relationship used for government employees. Public office relationships are governed by specific responsibilities laid down in the Constitution (731/1999) as pertaining to holders of public office.
According to the State Civil Servants Act (750/1994), a public office relationship is a service relationship governed by public law, in which the state is the employer and the civil servant is the performer of the duties in question. A public office relationship is formed based on the required, unilateral administrative action involving a recommendation to recruit, i.e. an appointment. The duties of civil servants cannot be agreed separately.
The legal status of employees with an employment contract is regulated by the Employment Contracts Act (55/2001).
Further information
Hospitality, benefits and gifts, 1.5.2021
Policy Brief: Long-term development and future prospects of civil-service ethics in Finland
The state of civil servants ethics and morals – citizens' survey results, October 2017
State of Civil Service Ethics in Finland, August 2017
Recommendations of the Committee, 17 June 2014
Guideline: Outside employment of public officials, March 2017
Guideline: Post government employment waiting period agreement and organisation of duties at the beginning and end of employment, June 2017
Comparative Study on the Public-service Ethics of the EU Member States (publication 13 December 2006)
Values to be part of the daily job (publication 30 August 2005)
Values in the daily job - civil servant's ethics (publication 14 January 2005)
Picture: Values into practise, May 2015
Civil Service Ethics (publication 31 March 2000)
TI - Transparency International
OECD Ethics and Corruption in the Public Sector
Public Sector Integrity: A framework for assessment
Position and service relationships of senior management
Leaders selection and career management
Contact information
Miska Lautiainen
Senior Ministerial Adviser, Legislative Affairs
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Workplace Gallery is delighted to present our second exhibition of new work by Jo Coupe.
After the rain is an installation that presents an audio recording made by Coupe alongside the means of its making. Recorded in Chopwell Woods in West Gateshead, After the rain documents the sounds emitted from a series of high voltage power lines traversing the woodland, which are loudest when the air around the lines is damp. The piece was recorded with provisionally assembled parabolic microphones, fashioned from lapel microphones and domestic objects such as umbrellas, bowls, lampshades, woks, paint rollers, and decorators' poles. Coupe presents a collection of these objects stood vertically within the gallery space, a sinister group pointing collectively out of the space like banks of satellite dishes or observatories tracking some distant and unknown activity. The sounds in the space has a powerful effect due to both the physicality of the low frequency buzz and hum, and also because of our familiarity with the experience of being near such structures and the massive voltage and danger of death that they imply. This rendering of the sublime is put in contrast by the contingent sounds of the world around; a bee buzzing around the microphone, an aeroplane in the distance, far away cars and sporadic birdsong bring back an unhurried sense of pastoral beauty, creating an atmospheric fog of sound in the gallery space, to be felt as well as heard.
Cameo is a new sculptural wall piece shown in the adjacent gallery. In the centre of the wall is a festooning accumulation of gold chain and costume jewellery that spills and hangs down to the floor, with a gold plated earring subtly twitching and spinning as they are caught in an invisible electromagnetic field. The piece is part of an on-going body of work that explores the personal connections we have to objects and the significance and memories that we attach to them. Cameo is informed by research into Louisiana Voodoo and Haitian Vodou, where the symbolic nature of objects and materials is paramount, serving as a route to the spirit world.
'What I find interesting about this idea is that art often performs the same function, investing
objects with power beyond the material, almost like casting a spell. I want to explore the
mechanisms we use to make this evident.'
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KUALA LUMPUR, 13 AUGUST 2020: The Malaysian Institute of Integrity (IIM) and SIRIM QAS International Sdn. Bhd. have jointly organised a forum on "Breaking the Chain of Corruption through ABMS for Economic Sustainability" today.
The forum which featured panellists who are leading corporate figures and experts in the field of corruption aimed to provide updates on the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Plan (NACP), highlight how ABMS can help local businesses achieve sustainable growth, share the experiences of Top Glove Corporation Berhad on taking a stand against corruption and bribery, and share findings on an impact study on ABMS certified organisations.
"Corruption is damaging for local businesses and ultimately, our national economy. Corrupt practices threaten business sustainability as they increase the costs of doing business and in the long term, customers, suppliers and investors would rather do business with well-governed and reputable firms," said Academician Tan Sri Dr. Ahmad Tajuddin Ali, Chairman of SIRIM.
"World's best practices, ISO 37001 (ABMS) aims to improve systems and workflows by enforcing corporate governance. It will boost the level of confidence towards the country, making the economy more diversified by creating a healthy and competitive environment," he added.
The implementation of the Corporate Liability provision under the new Section 17A of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009 (Amendment 2018) on 1 June 2020, makes corporations liable to prosecution for corruption.
Tan Sri Dr. Ahmad Tajuddin Ali said businesses and organisations should implement ISO 37001:2016 Anti-Bribery Management Systems (ABMS) as an effective defence mechanism to manage corruption risks and to demonstrate that they have adequate procedures to prevent persons associated with the commercial organisation from undertaking corrupt practices.
ISO 37001:2016 is based on internationally recognised good practices and it specifies the requirements and provides guidance in designing, implementing, maintaining and improving organisations' anti-bribery management system, which helps to prevent, detect and respond to bribery while adhering to the MACC Act 2009 (Act 694) and other anti-corruption laws and regulations, he said.
Puan Nor'afiza Saim, Chief Executive Officer of the Malaysian Institute of Integrity (IIM) presented findings from a study which focused on the effectiveness of the implementation of ABMS. The study, which was conducted by IIM and Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), had nine (9) organisations participating, all who had been certified with ISO 37001 since 2017. The study revealed that ABMS is an effective tool to improve the organisation's culture of integrity, governance and anti-corruption, reputation and the commitment of its top management and governing body.
SIRIM QAS International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SIRIM Berhad is the first and only certification body to be accredited by the Department of Standards Malaysia to offer ISO 37001:2016 Anti-Bribery Management Systems certification. SIRM QAS International is currently offering 20% rebate on ABMS certification fees until December 2020.
Certification from SIRIM QAS International provides confidence to customers and stakeholders that the certified organisation is adopting best practices in managing bribery risks. Currently, 60 organisations have been certified under the ISO 37001:2016 Anti-Bribery Management Systems certification scheme.
Featured in the forum were four panellists Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed, Director General of the National Centre for Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption; Tan Sri Dr. Ahmad Tajuddin Ali, Chairman of SIRIM Berhad; Dato' Lee Kim Meow, Managing Director of Top Glove Corporation Bhd; Puan Nor'afiza Saim, Chief Executive Officer of the Malaysian Institute of Integrity and moderated by Encik Mohd Azanuddin Salleh, Chief Executive Officer of SIRIM QAS International Sdn. Bhd.
About The Malaysian Institute of Integrity
The Malaysian Institute of Integrity (IIM) functions as the operational body of the National Centre for Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption (GIACC) with the aim to develop the capabilities and competencies of the public and private sectors on matters pertaining to governance, integrity and anti-corruption, which ultimately aims to making Malaysia known for her integrity and not corruption.
IIM can assist organisations in putting in place systems, procedures and tools to build the culture of good governance, high integrity and anti-corruption. Among the tools and systems that IIM has to offer are Anti-Bribery Management Systems (ABMS), Corruption Risk Management (CRM), Organisational Anti-Corruption Plan (OACP), Individual Integrity Profile (IIP), Integrity Assessment Tool (IAT), Community Integrity Building (CIB) and Ethics and Integrity Culture Building programmes.
About SIRIM QAS International
SIRIM QAS International is Malaysia's leading conformity assessment body with over 40 years of experience in providing certification, inspection and testing services in Malaysia and overseas. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Malaysian government-owned company, SIRIM Berhad. The various accreditations and recognitions from Malaysian and international bodies not only attest to its impartiality and competence in conformity assessment but also facilitates the acceptance of its certificates and test reports worldwide. www.sirim-qas.com.my


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Greece is a home to marvelous monuments archaeological sites. There are many reasons one should visit Greece at least once. Whether you are looking for exotic cuisines, breath-taking landscapes, exciting nightlife, Greece has got all of it. So if you are willing to take a trip to Greece, then you should definitely visit 7daysabroad to know more about Greece. These are a few places you should visit if you ever take a tour here.
- Athens is a beautiful place to visit anytime in the year.
- You can spend your entire day visiting the archaeological sites including the Acropolis, the Temple of Hephaestus, and the Ancient Agora.
- You can go and watch the Evzones, who, with their pleated skirts, white stockings, and pompom shoes, guard the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma Square.
- Athenians love shopping. You will always find an enthusiastic crowd at the antique market. You can hit the local boutiques and or malls for both – the atmosphere and bargains.
- In Santorini, you can view the best sunset in the world. Oia is a beautiful place to do this.
- Santorini is an extremely photogenic place of remarkable landscapes.
- Almost every house here has a private chapel, which gives a hint of spirituality.
- One who is fascinated with archaeology should definitely visit the excavations at Akrotiri.
- If you are a fan of adventure, Santorini also has ghost towns for you, where deserted streets will give you a haunting experience.
- Hersonissos is a great destination if you are thinking of a trip with families.
- You can enjoy the sun and beaches all day long.
- You can visit area museums like the Lychnostatis Open Air Museum. This museum gives you a lot of information about the lifestyles and trade histories of the early people of the island.
- Another must-visit museum is the Archaeological Museum in Heraklion where you can appreciate the exhibits from the Minion times.
- You can enjoy the nightlife here, by going to the beach bars and the clubs.
These are the places which will amaze you once you visit Greece.
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Union Life Equals Work-Life Balance
Work life balance is finding an equilibrium between a career and home life. Many workers who are new in their careers struggle finding this balance as they work to move up in the ranks.
More than 50 percent of employees consider work-life balance "very important" when they are considering whether to take a new job, according to a Gallup's State of the American Workplace report.
A career in HVAC with one of New Jersey's four union Locals offers better work life balance than careers in the private sector. Working for a contractor that employs technicians from one of New Jersey's four union Locals ensures work life balance with regular work hours, overtime compensation for extra hours worked, regular work weeks and holidays.
Among the top three decision makers for employees is work life balance, after salary and long-term job security (58 percent and 46 percent, respectively), according to the 2017 Randstad Employer Brand Research report. At 45 percent his balance is nearly equal to job security in gauging the attractiveness of a potential employer.
Work-life balance was number two in priorities among male and female workers aged 25-44 around the world, which is attributed to childbearing years. It is the third priority among workers 18-24 and fourth among workers 45-65.
The Randstad study showcases the increased importance of work-life balance for employees. For 25-44 year olds, work-life balance has moved up from fourth to second place in terms of priorities in an employer while long-term job security moved from second place in 2016 to third place in 2017. This is very similar to 18-24 year olds, where work-life balance moved from fifth up to third place and long-term job security moved down from third to fourth place in 2017. This reflects how both groups are placing a greater importance on their personal lives and expecting their employers to recognize their desire for personal growth outside the workplace.
Employers with unions are more likely to implement work-life balance practices, according to research by Professor Alex Bryson (UCL Institute of Education) and John Forth from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), who undertook research for the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to evaluate the benefits that unions provide.
The pair's research also shows that collective bargaining significantly reduces the number of hours employees work and changes the employees' perception of a long-hours culture, perpetuated by the belief that one has to work long hours to progress at work.
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PTC Punjabi continued to lead as the most watched Punjabi Channel with 73 million impressions, according to BARC data for week 38 (16th September 2017 to Friday, 22nd September 2017). It was followed by MH One Music with 40 million impressions and Chardikla Time TV with 29 million impressions.
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This autumn Kenza is excited to announce that we will be launching our new online interior design service next Spring. We've listened to everything you've been telling us you wanted from our design and personal styling service. I know it can be difficult to identify your style, and most importantly, make it work within your budget. Instant Spaces is your answer, it is the possibility for you to create stylish designs for your home, the potential for your interior arrangement is endless.
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"The Arena" is an action-packed web series where teen entrepreneurs present their businesses to a group of coaches who are successful entrepreneurs, Olympians, professional athletes and celebrities. It's not an idea pitch or pitch event; these teens already have a small business and are looking for advice and being able to showcase their businesses as examples for youth across the country. The coaches know what it's like to be in the arena and will provide advice the young people will need to grow their skills and their venture.
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|Australian Fairy-wren (Maluridae) iNaturalist Observation
|Black-backed Fairy-wren (Malurus splendens ssp melanotus)
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Thank you Antoni Camozzato for confirming the id of this species for us
General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere
Males are a bright blue, mischievous rascals. Will sing loudly to distract you away from nest and family.
The hours we've spent being lead from one bush to the next and back to the first to get a shot
As with other wrens, males coming into breeding plumage are a real hotchpotch.
Females are very plain with an apricot patch around the eye, if you can get close enough to see it. Her blue tail is easy to spot, though.
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Abell, Peter, Felin, Teppo and Foss, Nicolai (2008) Building micro-foundations for the routines, capabilities, and performance links. Managerial and Decision Economics, 29 (6). pp. 489-502. ISSN 0143-6570Full text not available from this repository.
Micro-foundations have become an important emerging theme in strategic management. This paper addresses micro-foundations in two related ways. First, we argue that the kind of macro (or 'collectivist') explanation that is presently utilized in the capabilities view in strategic management—which implies a neglect of micro-foundations—is incomplete. There are no mechanisms that work solely on the macro-level, directly connecting routines and capabilities to firm-level outcomes. While routines and capabilities are useful shorthand for complicated patterns of individual action and interaction, ultimately they are best understood at the micro-level. Second, we provide a formal model that shows precisely why macro-explanation is incomplete and which exemplifies how explicit micro-foundations may be built for notions of routines and capabilities and how these impact firm performance.
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The Meeting With Joe, by Gary S. (source lost)
One cold winter morning as I looked out my bedroom window at the gray, bleak landscape I wondered, What is my life worth? Where do I fit into the scheme of things? I felt completely overwhelmed by rejection. I couldn't see any hope in my future. And when I considered my past, I didn't like anything I saw.
I was 45 years old, and had recently lost my job. I was getting no response to the dozens of resumés I sent out. The idea of taking a drink occurred to me, but I had already been down that road. Alcohol had wreaked havoc on my life, but I'd been sober now for eight years. For what? part of me sneered. Alone in my house, I sank deeper and deeper into despair. My head ached as I fought one black thought after another. Am I losing my mind?
I kept picturing the 12-gauge shotgun in the attic. Over and over my mind took me back to that loaded gun.
Suddenly a new thought came out of nowhere: Go see Joe.
I had met Joe at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. A straight-talking trucker and farmer who was as opinionated as people come, he was as different from me as could be. But I admired his frankness and eventually asked him to be my sponsor, another recovering alcoholic I could always talk to one-on-one.
"Sure," he had agreed. "Helping you helps, me." I had no idea what I could possibly offer him.
Afraid of what I might do if I stayed alone, I forced myself to get into my car. I drove the three miles to Joe's and found him in his barnlike garage, standing near his wood-burning stove. He acted as though I was just the person he wanted to see. Soon he was telling me about things that were hurting him, trying to sort them out. He must have gone on for two hours, with me just listening, both of us sitting by the stove, tossing in a log every once in a while. Finally we said good-bye.
On my drive home I realized I had made it through the day. My troubles weren't over, but hearing about Joe's struggles had really helped me. I almost had to smile. Joe, you don't know it, but you saved my life today.
At an AA meeting about a week later, I nodded to Joe across the room. The group recited the 'Serenity Prayer,' then we took turns talking. Joe said, "A week ago my life seemed hopeless. In fact, I had decided to end it. I picked out a rope and the beam I was going to throw it over. But then, unexpectedly, another recovering alcoholic came by."
I almost fell out of my chair. I had no idea!
Joe looked at me. "God used that alcoholic to save my life."
Galatians 6:2 — Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
II Corinthians 1:3-4 — Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
Proverbs 11:25 — Be generous, and you will be prosperous. Help others, and you will be helped. (Good News Translation)
The AA Prayer of Serenity
God, give us grace to accept with serenity
The things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
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Big Tech Crackdown: Twitter Permanently Suspends Project Veritas, Locks James O'Keefe Out of His Account
Project Veritas and its founder James O'Keefe are the latest victims of Twitter's push to silence conservatives on the platform.
Fox News reported Thursday that a spokesperson for Twitter confirmed the account @Project_Veritas was "permanently suspended for repeated violations of Twitter's private information policy."
Further, the @JamesOKeefeIII account was "temporarily locked for violating [Twitter's] private information policy." O'Keefe's personal account has since been unlocked.
O'Keefe responded to Twitter's moves in a statement provided to The Western Journal.
"Late last night, Twitter locked Project Veritas's and my Twitter accounts, claiming we violated Twitter Guidelines by posting a video of our journalists asking questions of Facebook's Vice President Guy Rosen which Rosen refused to answer," he said.
"Twitter claimed the video published private information, which is false. Twitter invited Project Veritas to, and we did, appeal that decision with Twitter," O'Keefe continued.
"In an apparent act of retaliation for daring to question their authority, Twitter responded to our appeal by suspending our account, continuing to tell us that Project Veritas could delete the tweet and have our account reinstated. "
The video O'Keefe referenced is still on YouTube. In it, a Project Veritas reporter confronted Rosen, apparently outside the executive's home, over Facebook's ability to "freeze" comments that contain "hate speech."
"How do you define hate speech? Is it just speech that you hate?" Project Veritas senior journalist Christian Hartsock asked Rosen, who did not respond.
Project Veritas, of course, is known for publishing undercover or leaked videos, released by "whistleblowers," demonstrating the internal bias or policies of organizations like CNN and Twitter.
One that made headlines in January was Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in an internal company video announcing to employees the censoring of political speech on the platform would go beyond just banning then-President Donald Trump.
"We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it's going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week and the next few weeks. It's going to go on beyond the inauguration," Dorsey said in the video.
BREAKING: @Twitter Insider Secretly Records CEO @jack Detailing Agenda For Further Political Censorship
"We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now but this is going to be MUCH BIGGER than just one account & it's going to go on for much longer…"#ExposeTwitter pic.twitter.com/QhyyUTHlM9
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 14, 2021
O'Keefe was defiant in the face of Twitter's actions against him.
"This is nothing new from Twitter — just last fall Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted in Congress his company's decision to block the New York Post was erroneous while still demanding the Post kneel before them by deleting the tweet," O'Keefe said in his statement provided to The Western Journal.
In October, Twitter prevented New York Post stories about President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden's apparent plans to enter into a business venture with a Chinese energy company from being shared on the platform.
However, in December, Hunter Biden confirmed that his business dealings were under FBI investigation.
"Here we go again — Twitter opting to delete news and demand fealty when their decision is dared to be questioned," O'Keefe said.
"I will not kneel," he continued. "Twitter is wrong. Let them kneel."
In addition to the actions taken against O'Keefe and Project Veritas, Twitter suspended the accounts of Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft and conservative radio talk show host Wayne Allyn Root last weekend.
Root cautioned in a Wednesday interview with The Western Journal that while he's the victim now, all conservatives should take note.
"There's nobody to protect Wayne Root," he said. "There's nobody to stop the IRS from coming after Republicans. There's nobody to protect anything from anyone because [Democrats] own all the power now."
"I just want you to understand you're probably really angry, but you still don't think it's going to happen to you," Root said. "Well, that was me a week ago. I'm telling you, it's going to happen to you."
"So I'm just telling you, they took me. Soon they're coming for you."
It's ironic that the constant drumbeat by leftists during the Trump administration was: "The president's a fascist." Yet, what actions did he take to quash free speech?
Trump railed against "fake news," of course, but he did not spy on the media as former President Barack Obama's administration did in relation to the Associated Press and then-Fox News reporter James Rosen.
Further, Trump along with Republicans in Congress sought to hold social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, to account for the censorship and bias directed against conservative outlets.
Now with Biden in the White House and Democrats in charge of Congress, it appears to be open season on conservatives — and sadly, no one seems willing to fight to uphold the First Amendment rights of all Americans.
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We all know the KISS shortcut for "Keep It Simple," but out next guest mentor Jim Horan takes simplicity to a whole new level and applies it to business! Brilliant! After two decades in senior financial positions with Shaklee Corporation and Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Horan launched The One Page Business Plan Company that has helped literally thousands of businesses achieve sustainable cash flow and profit growth. The Mentors Radio Host Tom Loarie talks with Horan about how to simplify your business and the pressing matters of your life in order to radically improve health, wealth and whatever other goals you may have! Find Show Notes here. Listen to radio podcast below. You can also subscribe to the show podcast — its FREE — here.
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