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With a well-publicized trailer for a second feature film recently released, "Captain America" #16.NOW, written by Rick Remender with art by Pascal Alixe, flies in the face of convention by benching the star-spangled super solider and devotes an entire issue to Jet Black, the daughter of Arnim Zola and refugee from Dimension Z. Amazingly enough, it all seems like a great choice.
Throughout the "Loose Nuke" storyline, Captain America moped about, dragging down everyone around him and further miring his own self-esteem as he struggled against a dark reflection of the man he could have become while he tries to find himself. After that battle, Rogers is shown sulking in his gloomy Brooklyn studio, trying to once more determine his place in a world that seems so strange to him. With the apparent destruction of the Grand Canyon-based S.H.I.E.L.D. Hub in "Captain America" #15, Remender offers no shortage of action coming up. This issue fits nicely in the spots in between plot and subplot; after all, Jet was not present in "Captain America" #15, which gives Remender the depth to take stock in this issue and to zoom in on the offspring of one of Cap's most persistent foes. While Jet Black appears to be a Jack Kirby-inspired addition to the mythology surrounding Captain America, Remender leaves readers wondering what they've read when the final page of "Captain America" #16.NOW is turned.
In "Captain America" #16.NOW, the writer continues to shake things up around Cap, elevating the unpredictability of this title without directly affecting the good Captain. Jet Black is considered an ally, but Remender calls her true allegiance into question. Furthermore, Remender, through the character of Tsar Sultan, calls Jet out on her outfit, a weird extreme bondage get-up with a body stocking. It's a mildly humorous bit that displays Remender's awareness of his characters and his ability to continue constructing absurdities around the heroic pillar of the Marvel Universe.
Pascal Alixe supplies some gorgeous art that is equal parts Kirby and Jerry Bingham. Stunning as a tribute and unashamed to celebrate the bizarre world Jet Black finds herself in, Alixe's art shows no reserve, giving Jet plenty of opportunity to explore the details of New York and reflect on her heritage. Alixe's work appears to be produced from pencils, propelling texture forward and absorbing the colors provided by Edgar Delgado, Antonio Fabela and Israel Silva. The trio of colorists does a remarkable job holding the story together and sharing their palette. Letterer Joe Caramagna's work is as solid as always, fitting into the story without distracting while enhancing at all the right moments.
While it is in the best interest of Marvel's marketing to include their major motion picture star characters in their own titles, "Captain America" #16.NOW is a fine, enjoyable comic book, despite the missing super soldier. Stalwart Cap fans might feel slighted and that is certainly within their prerogative, but if they give "Captain America" #16.NOW a chance, they'll find a real good comic story.


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SASOL: Learnership Programme 2014
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Closing Date: 31 March 2014
Areas: Process Artisan, Electrical Artisan, Fitter, Instrumentation, Welding, Rigging, Turning, Miner, Electro-Mechanic, Diesel-Mechanic, Boilermaker.
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- English/Business English passed
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- Previous relevant experience will add as an advantage
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Hello world welcome back in blog Biografia DVD with Biography Soekarno (was born in Blitar, East Java, on June 6 1901 – died in Jakarta, on June 21 1970 in the age 69 years) was Indonesian President first that hold the office of in the period 1945 - 1966. He played the role important to liberate the Indonesian nation from the Dutch colonisation. He was the Kepancasilaan excavator. He was the Proclaimer of Indonesian Independence (was with Mohammad Hatta) that happened on August 17 1945. He published the Letter Of Instruction on March 11 1966 Supersemar that was controversial that, that it seems, including his contents was assigned Lieutenant General Soeharto to pacify and maintain his authority. But this Supersemar was misused by Lieutenant General Soeharto to undermine his authority with the road to accuse him of taking part in masterminding the Movement on September 30. The charges caused People's Consultative Assembly Sementara that his member was replaced with the person who for Soeharto, shifted the presidency to Soeharto
The background and education
Soekarno was born by the name of Kusno Sosrodihardjo. His father was named Raden Soekemi Sosrodihardjo, a teacher in Surabaya, Java. His mother named Ida Ayu Nyoman Rai came from Buleleng, Bali .
When small Soekarno lived with his grandfather in Tulungagung, East Java. In the age 14 years, a friend of his father who was named Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto asked Soekarno to live in Surabaya and to be sent to school to Hoogere Burger School (H.B.S.) there while reciting the Koran in the Tjokroaminoto place. In Surabaya, Soekarno often met the leaders of the Islam union, the organisation that was led by Tjokroaminoto at that time. Soekarno afterwards gathered with the Jong Java organisation (the Javanese Young Man).
Graduate from H.B.S. in 1920, Soekarno continued to Technische Hoge School (now ITB) in Bandung, and was finished during 1925. During in Bandung, Soekarno interacted with Tjipto Mangunkusumo and Dr. Douwes Dekker, that at that time were the leader of the National Indische Partij organisation.


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Look at the beautiful lake from the first observatory. The circumference of the lake is 19.8km, and its transparency is 41.6m, the deepest in the world!
It is foggy for more than 100 days a year, and is called a mysterious lake.
Am I lucky to see such a beautiful and clear lake? Actually, yes and no! We believe that if you see a clear lake, you cannot get married early!!! Hahaha!
Please enjoy the whole picture of the lake with Mt. Mashudake (857m) and Kamuishu island. Kamuishu means a God incarnated from an old lady in Ainu language.
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Friday, April 29, 2005
I'm Ready for my Close Up: Friday Catblog by MJ Cat
It's not easy being a famous cat like me. As your star starts to rise, please keep in mind the following tips:
1. Try to control the photographs taken of you. I don't allow people to take my photograph unless I'm freshly brushed and posed.
2. Keep a press file and, remember, even negative press is still press. It's better for people to write about how you got your claws out, rather than not write about you at all.
3. Only try to be seen out on the town with cats who are equal to or more famous than you(i.e. Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise). My person and I are on equal celebrity footing so that's why I let her take me out on the leash.
4. Hire a publicist. Do you think I type this myself every Friday? I dictate and someone does all the work for me.
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Katfriend and AfroIP blogger Chijioke Ifeoma Okorie returns on a topic that has been increasingly at the centre of attention recently: collective rights management and collecting societies in Nigeria.
Here's what Chijioke Ifeoma writes:
"At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) held on 7th December 2017, COSON's founding Chairman (Mr. Tony Okoroji) was removed and one of the founding Directors, Mr. Efe Omoregbe,appointed in his stead. A General Meeting involving COSON's members (General Assembly) was held on 19th December 2017 and the members who attended the meeting reinstated Mr. Tony Okoroji as Chairman and appointed other Board members. Earlier this month, COSON instituted Suit No ID/4827/GCMW18 seeking inter alia an injunction restraining Mr. Omoregbe from parading himself as Chairman of the Society.
This post reviews the line of events from the perspective of the role of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), the sector regulator for COSON and other collecting societies in Nigeria.
The issue here is a dispute between members of the COSON Board and one that concerns the internal workings of COSON. There are no specific provisions in COSON's Memorandum and Articles of Association regarding disputes arising in relation to the position of COSON Chairman. However, general provisions pertaining to the position of COSON Chairman and the powers of the General Assembly may be found in Articles 17, 36, 44 and 61 of COSON's Memorandum and Articles of Association. COSON's Memorandum and Articles may be obtained from the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) or from COSON itself.
Article 17 is to the effect that the chairman of the management board is to preside as chairman at every general meeting of COSON. Article 36 stipulates that the business of COSON is to be managed by the Management Board and no regulation made by the COSON General Assembly is to invalidate the actions of the Board. Article 44 gives the Management Board to elect the COSON Chairman from amongst its director members and to determine the period for which such chairman is to hold office
Where there is a dispute regarding which director shall be Chairman of the society, such dispute is one that exists between members of COSON and is within the purview of the NCC's powers as sector regulator. This is because, by virtue of Regulation 2(3)(iii) of the Copyright (Collective Management Organisations) Regulations 2007 (CMO Regulations) and Article 61 of COSON's memorandum and articles of association, every member of the Management Board excluding the General Manager, is or must be a member of COSON itself.
Powers of NCC in relation to the issues at stake
In relation to disputes between members and/or disputes regarding the Management Board, the NCC may by virtue of the CMO Regulations:
(a) Order an audit of the accounts of the collecting society [Regulation 10].
(b) revoke the licence of a collecting society [Regulations 3 and 20(2)].
(c) serve a written caution to a collecting society [Regulation 20(1)].
(d) suspend the licence of a collecting society for 3 months [Regulation 20(2)].
(e) set up a dispute resolution panel [Regulation 15].
Given the nature of the issues as described in the preceding paragraphs, appropriate provisions exist within the CMO Regulations that indicate that the NCC is aware of the resolutions reached at the various meetings. In terms of Regulation 2(3)(vi) of the CMO Regulations, Article 35 of COSON's memorandum and articles of association provide for the NCC to have its representative as a non-voting member of the Management Board. Further, COSON is required to furnish the NCC with a report of all its meetings by virtue of Regulation 9 of the CMO Regulations. In the circumstances, a dispute regarding powers exercised at the meetings of COSON's management board and general assembly respectively is within the regulatory competence of the NCC and falls squarely within the purview" of the CMO Regulations.
The NCC is clearly in a position to act and issue a written directive capable of quelling the storm at COSON. The NCC has clear powers to appoint an auditor to audit the account of COSON especially in view of the allegations of financial impropriety levied against the Chairman of the Board. It was present at these contentious meetings and even if it was absent, it has access to report of these meetings. The NCC's adjudicatory powers in this instance can only be activated by a member of the management board presenting the Chairmanship dispute before the NCC. However, the constitution of a panel to resolve such dispute is at the discretion of the Director-General of the NCC by virtue of Rule 6 of the Copyright (Dispute Resolution Panel) Rules 2007.
Accordingly, the NCC has the powers to issue appropriate directives regarding the conduct of COSON's management board and the general assembly. Indeed, there is no point sitting in at meetings and receiving report of meetings if the NCC cannot take steps to address issues that threaten the existence and purpose of COSON.
Presently, COSON's funds that should serve the financial interests of its members are being depleted in terms of lawyers' fees and its image as a fair and transparent collecting society is gradually being eroded.
Up till April 2017 when Nigeria's Attorney-General exercised his powers to approve the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN) and direct the issuance of a CMO licence to MCSN, COSON has operated as a sole collecting society approved for musical works and sound recordings in Nigeria. Indeed, despite several suits instituted regarding the status and powers of MCSN, the courts have consistently ruled that without due appointment and registration by the sector regulator, the NCC, COSON remained the only collecting society available to music copyright owners (for membership) and music copyright users (for music licences) in Nigeria. It is therefore without doubt that COSON wields considerable powers in ensuring adequate remuneration to music copyright owners regarding the use of their protected works.
In the circumstances, it is important that the internal administration of COSON continue to operate smoothly like a well-oiled engine. The NCC can exercise its powers to ensure the achievement of this objective and save COSON from imploding."
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by SCOTT K. PARKS / The Dallas Morning News
It's time to accept that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy all by himself, according to a growing consensus of historians, journalists and legal scholars who have investigated the case for decades.
The 50th anniversary of the assassination on Friday seems the perfect occasion to settle the historical facts once and for all. But that would require an emphatic rejection of fanciful conspiracy theories. And that's not likely. Most Americans still believe Oswald did not act alone, according to public opinion polls.
"People cannot believe someone as inconsequential as Oswald could kill someone as consequential as an American president," said historian Robert Dallek, author of An Unfinished Life, a 2003 JFK biography. "The city of Dallas would be well-served by accepting and supporting the proposition that Oswald was the only killer."
The lone-gunman theory, however, is pretty boring compared to a good murder mystery starring conspiratorial characters lurking through myriad subplots played out in dark corners.
You've got Oswald, the misfit ex-Marine who defected to Russia; Jack Ruby, the Dallas strip club operator who murdered Oswald; Jack and Jackie Kennedy, the glamorous and sophisticated power couple; Lyndon B. Johnson, JFK's vice president and the most powerful politician in Texas.
The Cold War with Russia, fear of communism and an obsession with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro percolated through American culture in 1963. The failed Bay of Pigs invasion, carried out by CIA-sponsored Cuban exiles, had been a disaster in 1961. Anti-Castro Cubans blamed JFK for the debacle.
The president redeemed himself by facing down Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. And the threat of nuclear war or a communist takeover hovered over Dallas and the United States.
The nooks and crannies of politics and international policy, combined with the life tales of the main characters, produced innumerable theories about the assassination, described in countless newspaper stories, magazine articles and books.
Problems arose when so-called assassination researchers went too far, connecting dots and publishing conspiracy theories with no evidence to back them up. Who Really Killed JFK? became a cottage industry.
Lawrence Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, grew up in Dallas during the 1960s and has written extensively about the assassination's impact on him, his family and his East Dallas community. He is among those who believe acceptance of Oswald as the lone gunman is long overdue.
"Conspiracy theories, like flies, they gather around big dead things," said Wright, a staff writer at The New Yorker. "Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. There is so much evidence, it's ridiculous to think there is another explanation."
The LBJ angle Take the case of LBJ, who died in 1973 and is no longer around to defend himself. A barrage of books published during the last decade accuses him of engineering the assassination, or, at the very least, knowing about it ahead of time.
The theory goes something like this: Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy, the president's brother and attorney general, hated each other. Bobby and JFK planned to leak information to the press implicating Johnson in political scandals. Then they would use the resulting bad publicity as a pretext for dumping him from the Democratic ticket in 1964.
Motive is paramount in the LBJ-did-it scenarios. Who, after all, had more to gain from JFK's death than the man who would succeed him as the world's most powerful leader?
"That is so childlike," said Vincent Bugliosi, author of Reclaiming History, which is considered by many experts to be the definitive assassination book. "In real life, motive is just the starting point. The conspiracy theorist writes hundreds of pages establishing motive. Then, they say they've found the killer. But you can only do that through real evidence."
Bugliosi, a former deputy district attorney in Los Angeles, prosecuted cult killer Charles Manson and dozens of other criminals in the 1960s and '70s before he started writing books. He spent years assembling his 1,632-page book on the Kennedy assassination. And he flatly rejects speculation about a second assassin on the grassy knoll or anywhere else at Dealey Plaza.
Bugliosi's conclusions are not sexy. They mirror those of the Warren Commission, the blue-ribbon panel that investigated the assassination in 1964. It concluded that Oswald killed Kennedy, firing three shots through an open window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as the presidential motorcade moved west down Elm Street at 10 miles per hour.
A trial of Oswald would have produced a quick conviction, Bugliosi believes. Sadly, Ruby's murder of Oswald meant the case could never be closed. That, in turn, helped spawn a half-century of conspiracy theories.
"Beyond any doubt, Lee Harvey Oswald was the only shooter at Dealey Plaza that day," Bugliosi said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News. "And beyond any reasonable doubt, he was the only one involved in the planning. Who knows? He may have told someone he was going to do it, but that was never discovered."
Bugliosi scoffs at the conspiracists.
"To show you how noncredible the conspiracy theorists are, over the past 50 years they have accused 42 groups, named 82 assassins and a total of 214 people as being involved in the assassination," he said. Yet, "not one single word or syllable has leaked out about the existence of a conspiracy. And the reason is, there is none to leak out."
Bugliosi's findings constitute a legal brief more suited to a criminal trial than a mass-market book. He presents evidence for 53 points implicating Oswald as the assassin. Among them:
Records show that Oswald was the buyer and owner of the rifle used to kill Kennedy. No other weapon has been found that can be linked to the assassination.
No bullet other than those from Oswald's rifle has ever been recovered and linked to the assassination.
Oswald was the only Texas School Book Depository employee who turned up missing after the assassination.
Forty-five minutes after Kennedy was shot, Oswald shot and killed Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit with a .38-caliber revolver at the intersection of 10th Street and Patton Avenue in Oak Cliff.
Minutes after Tippit was shot, Oswald pulled the same revolver on a Dallas police officer attempting to arrest him at the Texas Theatre on Jefferson Boulevard in Oak Cliff.
The Warren Commission in 1964 and the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the late 1970s spent a combined four years investigating JFK's murder and never found evidence linking the CIA, the Mafia, anti-Castro Cubans or any other group to the crime. Investigators conducted 25,000 interviews and never linked Oswald to any of those suspect groups.
"One would think that anyone faced with these facts would fold up his tent and go home," Bugliosi said.
"Undaunted and unfazed, they continue to disgorge wild allegations, lies and deliberate distortions of the records."
A theory rebounds
The 50th anniversary has pumped new life into the market for JFK assassination books and documentaries.
One of the strangest conspiracy theories now enjoying a second act was initially outlined in a 1992 book, Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK.
The book, written by Bonar Menninger, a Kansas City journalist, was based on ballistics analyses by firearms expert Howard Donahue. It alleges that Secret Service Agent George Hickey, riding in a convertible right behind the presidential limousine, accidentally shot JFK in the back of the head with an AR-15 assault rifle.
So goes this theory:
Forensic evidence of an entrance wound in the back of JFK's head indicated that the "kill shot" was fired from street level, not from a sixth-floor window high above Dealey Plaza. After Oswald fired, an alarmed Hickey grabbed his AR-15 from the floorboard, clicked off the safety and stood up. Just then, the driver of the convertible accelerated unexpectedly, causing Hickey to fall back and accidentally pull the trigger. The bullet struck Kennedy in the back of the head. Witnesses reported smelling gunpowder at street level.
Hickey, of course, denied firing his rifle. And none of the other seven people in his car — five other Secret Service agents and two presidential advisers, Dave Powers and Ken O'Donnell — reported a gunshot flying past their heads.
Author Menninger has an explanation for that: The Secret Service, he says, engineered a cover-up to protect its reputation.
Bugliosi and other critics call this a classic conspiracy theory: There's not a stitch of evidence to support it. But that's because the evidence has been covered up by powerful forces.
Before he died in 2011, Hickey sued St. Martin's Press, the publisher of Menninger's book, for libel. The parties reached an out-of-court settlement. Now that the Secret Service agent is no longer around to defend himself, an obscure cable television channel has aired a documentary, JFK: The Smoking Gun, that resurrects the accidental-assassin theory.
"It's too preposterous to talk about," Bugliosi said. "I won't dignify it."
Follow the evidence
Reporters, investigators and Warren Commission staffers instinctively searched for a conspiracy after the assassination. No glory would be found in a report naming Oswald and Ruby as unconnected lone gunmen.
Burt W. Griffin, a Warren Commission staffer from Ohio, admitted that he had political ambitions and hoped that uncovering a dramatic conspiracy might launch his career. His job was to investigate Ruby's background and track his activities before the assassination.
"Make no mistake — I wanted to find a conspiracy," said Griffin, a retired judge, at a recent JFK symposium in Dallas.
David W. Slawson, another Warren Commission staffer, was assigned to track down the possibility of an international conspiracy. Were the Russian secret police behind the assassination? After all, Oswald had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and spent almost three years there.
"We had some information, evidence rather, that the KGB had evaluated Oswald for some kind of secret agent purposes, but found it easy to determine that he was too unstable and unreliable to put into any spy program that required discipline," Slawson said.
Slawson, now a retired law professor, said Warren Commission staffers all ended up in the same place. Oswald did it alone. Ruby did it alone.
Jim Lehrer, the noted broadcast journalist and author, was a young reporter at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963 and wrote many assassination-related stories. He, too, moved from dreams of conspiracy to grudging acceptance of Oswald as the lone gunman.
"There was no Pulitzer Prize to be won by showing a lone assassin did it," Lehrer said recently.
In fact, it seems that Oswald was much like the modern-day, mentally disturbed loners who shot up a theater in Aurora, Colo., a congresswoman's town hall meeting in Arizona and an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
Why, then, do some researchers — they don't like to be called conspiracy theorists — persist in selling rumor and speculation as fact?
Victoria Pagan, professor of classics at the University of Florida, has spent 15 years studying conspiracy theories dating back to the Greek and Roman empires. The stages after a tragedy — whether it be the murder of Julius Caesar or JFK — start with shock, then run toward rampant speculation about who was involved and why, Pagan said.
"What's interesting," she said, "is seeking proof of the unseen hand."
She, like many others, would like to see an end to the cottage industry profiting from fake stories about a terrible misfortune — the death of a president.
"We need to embrace the truth as part of our history," Pagan said. "It's nothing we have to fight over anymore. To continue to do so in 2013 seems pretty hollow."
John Judge, executive director of the Coalition on Political Assassinations, disagrees. He and other assassination researchers insist that more CIA documents need to be uncovered and that JFK's autopsy needs more forensic analysis.
Judge said he is working on a theory that the Joint Chiefs of Staff engineered JFK's assassination. Hawkish military leaders wanted to escalate American involvement in Vietnam and end Castro's socialist regime in Cuba. And they believed JFK was not sufficiently committed to either goal, Judge said.
Of course, those five military leaders are all dead and can't answer the accusation.
"I don't think this is an insoluble parlor mystery," Judge said. "I don't think we are just flailing in the dark."
Judge said he has no intention of accepting the Warren Commission's conclusions.
"I don't think Oswald was on the sixth floor, and I don't think he killed Officer Tippit," he said. "I think Oswald was being paid to penetrate left-wing groups."
The Coalition on Political Assassinations will conduct a symposium at a downtown Dallas hotel next weekend. Judge says more than 200 colleagues from around the world will attend. It will be the first time in 49 years that they will not gather on the grassy knoll for speeches and a moment of silence at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 22.
The city of Dallas has reserved Dealey Plaza for a commemoration ceremony on that day. Dallas police will be guarding the perimeter, as an estimated 5,000 ticketed guests pass through security checkpoints to attend the open-air ceremony.
Unless they somehow wrangle tickets, Judge and other assassination researchers will be kept away from the scene until midafternoon.
"What I get from this is that the city of Dallas is not interested in our message," Judge said. "They know the world press is coming and they want us to be invisible so they can control the message entirely."
1. The Mafia theory: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was conducting aggressive prosecutions and deportations of mobsters. Killing his brother put an end to that.
2. The LBJ theory: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson had the most to gain from JFK's murder. He and Robert Kennedy hated each other. Johnson feared the Kennedy brothers planned to dump him from the Democratic ticket in 1964. But he and his fellow conspirators struck first.
3. The anti-Castro Cubans theory: Many "freedom fighters" died in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Cuban exiles living in the United States exiles never forgave JFK for failing to provide close air support for the invasion. So they had him killed.
4. The CIA theory: JFK and the CIA had their differences throughout his thousand days in office. CIA leaders feared that the president might disband the agency, especially after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs fiasco. So they engineered his murder.
5. The Israelis theory: JFK did not support Israel's drive to build nuclear weapons. The Israelis believed Joe Kennedy, the president's father, was anti-Semitic and wielded influence over his son. LBJ reversed U.S. policy on Israeli nuclear arms once he became president.
6. The KGB theory: Russia was humiliated when its leaders backed down during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Oswald became a KGB operative after his defection to the Soviet Union in 1959. The Soviets "programmed" him to kill JFK.
7. The UFO cover-up theory: JFK wrote a letter to the CIA demanding to see secret UFO files. The insistent president might have leaked information about secret aerospace projects. He had to be silenced.
8. The Texas oil magnates theory: JFK planned to reduce or eliminate the oil depletion allowance, which brought millions in profits to oil producers. The oilmen made sure LBJ, a supporter of the depletion allowance, became president.
9. The J. Edgar Hoover theory: He hated his boss, Robert Kennedy, and didn't think the Kennedys gave him the respect he deserved. Hoover and Johnson were old friends. So Hoover made sure LBJ became president.
10. The Secret Service theory: Agent George Hickey accidentally shot JFK in the back of the head from the car behind the presidential limousine. The Secret Service covered up the horrible accident.


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Most people need more vegetables in our diet, but with food prices rising all the time, that can get expensive. Many people supplement their groceries with home-grown produce. If you don't have a large backyard to plant a garden in, don't count yourself out. You can grow a variety of vegetables using grow boxes that you make yourself, using easily found inexpensive parts. As long as you have space to put at least one storage tub, you have room for a garden.
Set the pond basket next to one of the storage tubs and mark the height with a pencil or marker. Do this all around the tub.
Cut off the top of the tub along the line you drew, using the hacksaw or jigsaw. You will use the bottom part only of this tub.
Turn the tub bottom upside down, and put the pond basket upside down in the center of it. Draw around the basket, and then cut out the circle about ½ inch INSIDE the line. Using the 1 ½-inch bit, drill a hole in one corner of the tub bottom. With the ¼-inch bit, drill several small holes all over the bottom of the tub.
Cut the center out of one of the lids so that there is only about a 2- or 3-inch frame left. With the 1 ½-inch bit, cut a circular notch out of one corner of the new opening.
Fill the pond basket with potting soil. Set it down in the center of the other (uncut) tub.
Set the cut tub bottom down into the other tub, with the large hole centered over the pond basket. Push it down as far as it will go. Stick the tube (or hose) through the hole in the corner. This is where you will pour the water for your garden.
Fill the tub with soil, leaving about half an inch from the top. Cover this with the piece of dark tarp, with a hole in it for the tube. Cut X-es at regular intervals in the tarp, to correspond with where you want your plants to poke through. You'll need to check spacing charts for the crop you are planting. You now have a mini-garden. Make as many of these as you need or have room to put in a sunny location.
Things You Will Need
- Two 18-gallon dark-colored storage tubs with lids
- One 5-inch tall pond basket
- One 24-inch long black flexible tubing (or large diameter water hose labeled as safe for drinking water)
- Drill with a ¼-inch and a 1 ½ -inch drill bit
- Saw (hacksaw or jigsaw)
- Pen
- Knife
- Soil of your preference
- Dark plastic tarp
- Whatever type of soil you use, remember you will need to add compost or other fertilizer periodically to make sure your plants have plenty of nutrients.


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Pays voisins : Bangladesh, Inde, Tibet, Chine, Laos, Thaïlande
Densité : 62.43 hab./km²
Superficie : 676 552 km²
Capitale : Yangon
Principales villes : Mandalay, Moulmein, Pegu, Bassein, Akyab, Myeik
Point culminant : Hkakabo Razi 5 881 m.
Langue(s) parlée(s) : Birman, Karen, Shan, Tibéto-birman
Langue(s) officielle(s) : Birman
Monnaie : Kyat
Fête nationale : 4 janvier
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Burma also known as Myanmar ( , or ), is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by India, Bangladesh, China, Laos and Thailand. One-third of Burma's total perimeter of forms an uninterrupted coastline along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. At 676,578 km2 (261,227 sq mi), it is the 40th largest country in the world and the second largest country in Southeast Asia. Burma is also the 24th most populous country in the world with over 60.28 million people.
Since independence in 1948, the country has been in one of the longest running civil wars among the country's myriad ethnic groups that remains unresolved. From 1962 to 2011, the country was under military rule. The military junta was officially dissolved in 2011 following a general election in 2010 and a nominally civilian government installed, though the military retains enormous influence.
Burma is a resource-rich country. However the Burmese economy is one of the least developed in the world. Burma's GDP stands at $42.953 billion and grows at an average rate of 2.9% annually – the lowest rate of economic growth in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Among others, the EU, United States and Canada have imposed economic sanctions on Burma. Burma's health care system is one of the worst in the world: The World Health Organization ranked Burma at 190th, the worst performing of all countries.
The United Nations and several other organizations have reported consistent and systematic human rights violations in the country, including genocide, systematic rape, child labour, slavery, human trafficking and a lack of freedom of speech. Nevertheless in recent years, the government has slowly been improving relations with the major powers like the United States, Japan and European Union countries.


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TheArtist is a modern WordPress music theme that focuses on the music industry. It can be used for the websites of deejays, music bands, radio websites, and vocal performers. Looks great on all devices, both mobile and desktop.
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WARNING: I am by no means a communications major and english is technically my second language so you will be enjoying: run on sentences (they're worth it I promise), misplaced commas, terrible spelling and so on and so forth!
Best Methods of Programmatic Display Buying:
If you're on my blog, you must be wondering how all of this relates. For starters, I am a digital marketing student at the University of Michigan- Dearborn. I am a lover of all things art related, especially that of fashion. Again, you may be wondering, ok so? Here is the thing, if you want to have a career in the fashion marketing field like me, you'll need to know what programmatic display buying is and the best methods of doing so.
So what is Programmatic Display Buying and how does it relate to my fashion marketing field?
Programmatic Display buying is basically the future of how all online advertising will be done. To put it simply, it is any ad space that is purchased on a website. This can be done either by: directly buying a guaranteed space or by bidding for a certain space.
Bidding for space: Also known to marketers as Programmatic RTB. This is while a website is loading, there is an advertising space available for real time bidding. This information is then passed on to a platform that allows users to bid for this space. The ad that wins the bid, then loads on that website! Pricing for each impression (or each person of value that views it) is determined by the demand of the ad space and what marketers are willing to pay.
Direct buying: Buying a ad space that is guaranteed to be yours with the target market that you are searching for.
Ok, back to what really matters: FASHION!
We all know social media has taken over the fashion world COMPLETELY!! I mean would the Kendall Jenners and Gigi Hadids of the world be as successful in this industry without this newfound love of social media? Would Gucci have really made such an amazing comeback without social media??? Probably not, if we are being honest!
Lets assume you're now working for an amazing fashion brand and lets assume you manage the social media aspect of the marketing department. You're already awesome and I like you! The best thing you can invest in would be programmatic display buying. This platform saves you time, money and lots of effort, allowing you to focus on your creative execution even more so. By using this platform, you now have your budget and goals allocated to the right websites and social media platforms. It easily finds your audience and displays your content to them! (WOW, that was easy) Using this tool can be extremely helpful because now you have more time thinking of creative ways to display your ads as opposed to doing the boring analytics and research about who you want these ads displayed to exactly. This will put you ahead of those in your industry so long as you do your part: come up with creative ways to display your products. This puts you at a great advantage because its essentially doing the hard part for you.
So, if you're starting out in marketing and hope to work in fashion, impress your boss by presenting them with this awesome information and why you NEED it to be successful in your industry.


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WWP is a professional organization of local writers, poets and publishers, as well as editors, graphic artists, and web designers–people of all levels and backgrounds–interested in producing, editing, publishing, and supporting the written word.
Based in Bellingham, Washington, WWP is open to anyone who is interested in writing, editing, or publishing.
The organization formally meets once a month (July, August, and December excluded) with a dinner/speaker event. Our dinner meetings include opportunities for professional development and meeting writers, publishers, editors, publicists, and more. Topics have included pitching your manuscript to New York publishers, self publishing and marketing, book design, web presence, and the life and times of local nationally renowned authors.
Speakers have included Laura Kalpakian (Memoir Club and American Cookery), Clyde Ford (Whiskey Gulf), Alice Acheson (editor to Jean M. Auel, author of The Clan of the Cave Bear), Jo Dereske (Miss Zukas mysteries), Alma Alexander (The Secrets of Jin-shei), and Chuck Robinson (co-owner of Village Books). Neophyte writers get to co-mingle with veteran writers to learn the hazards and joys of the trade. Veteran writers get to offer advice and even sell a few of their books.
Dues are $25 a year (see Become a Member). We have many Benefits of Membership. The organization is open to anyone interested in writing and publishing, including those just starting out. Come hang out with fellow like-minded enthusiasts of the written word!


text: A series of protests partially funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) sought to highlight the difficulty of low-wage workers. Workers across the country gathered over Labor Day demanding that they be paid no less than $15 per hour. President Obama, the man whose job is to make America a competitive economy globally, publicly sided against business owners when he stated, "America deserves a raise." Such a statement by the President of the United States shows that even he does not understand why the U.S. economy is flawed or how economics works. [more...]


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Tapping the business intelligence of your own data can tell you where, when, how and how much of sales is really profitable. And long-term analytics in utility companies, for example, are showing the power of shifting buyers to lower-cost but higher-income options.
In a Business Week article and video interview, PG&E Chairman Peter Darbee explains the logic and the math. By saving the peak energy costs — shifting energy use to cheaper off-peak prices and not having to build additional power plants — his company is doing more with less. Instead of spending $2 billion on a new facility to support more consumption, a greater benefit could be obtained by spending half that amount on insulation, more efficient bulbs or other ways to lower energy use. Looking hard at the details and finding new solutions for big picture issues makes the difference.
Uncertainties over financing huge projects and the difficulty of long-range forecasting for recovering billion-dollar infrastructure bets means companies are looking for more dependable sources of income and profits. That's just one reason why large multinational companies are pursuing diversification or finding ways not to rely on sales graphs that go perpetually up — as we've learned in recent years those projections may not come true. No wonder Duke Energy CEO James Rogers says "The business model fundamentally changes in the 21st century."
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haiku of the moment
chased by gallons of ice tea
now it's time to play
a return to greatness
the crab apple tree at my house
displays itself in the front yard.
it is not a multi-armed giant,
lurking in an immense jungle
waiting to seize any object that moves.
nor is it a pillar
with intricate extensions
which hold back the clouds,
so they don't fall on our heads.
it's not a magical tree
that grows many flavored
chewy gumdrops from its limbs,
or mild mints for leaves.
however, the thought
that it might be
is what makes the tree
bloom every year.
-- an answer by a six year-old american boy when asked, "what is man's
greatest accomplishment?"
-- internet ad for priceline
awhile back i went through this deal where people would ask me a
question, i'd answer, then they'd ask the same question *again.*
sometimes there was, say, a five minute delay. but the question would
come back around.
now i'm going through a phase of people not answering my questions. so
i'll say something like, "do you want to have burritos for lunch?" and
i'll get three minutes on the history of bean farming in russia, and
then a pause. like i'm supposed to be satisfied.
you know you're in trouble when communication on the internet makes more
sense than in the world.


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99thfloor wrote:The Pama forum very recently migrated to a new host (a transition greeted with a mixed reception, but it works), and as I understand it this is a free platform, why couldn't this forum also be hosted in such a way?
buzzlulu wrote:Would that be Steve as in Barrow?
If he is the webmaster and host does that mean he is the one paying the annual hosting bill (which most likely is not that large of a charge)?
B&F Moderator wrote:Hi all
Finally managed to get hold of Steve, the webmaster & host of the B&F website.
He says that as far as he could find there are no signs of this website shutting down.
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The Devil in Your Deodorant
Following a post on Facebook by a woman complaining of mould on her lip balm, I realised that many of us aren't even aware of what's in the products we're slathering on our faces and bodies.
Post by Caryn White.
Unfortunately the preservatives that we've been putting in our food and beauty products has trained us to believe that mould is equal to rot, and that anything that looks mildly old should go straight to the refuse bin. South Africa alone generates more than 9 million tonnes of wasted food every year, while millions of people still go hungry every night.
The balm mentioned in the post is an all-natural and 95% organic product, and it is likely that the mould is the result of the user's own skin cells and probably the remainder of food on their lips. Someone mentions that their natural bee balm product does not grow mould, but bee propolis is also a natural antibacterial agent, so mould won't grow on that. It saddens me that people don't know that!
The balm in question above is also pabove araben-free, petrolatum-free, and phthalate-free. Why should these three ingredients be removed from a beauty product? Because they're (possibly) quite harmful in fact.
parabens, esters of an acid, are the chemical that preserve your beauty product and this is why the balm has grown mould. Parabens have been used in cosmetics and beauty products since the 1950s and can currently be found in around 85% of cosmetics. Usually more than one form of the chemical can be found in your cosmetics, including butylparaben, methylparaben, and propylparaben. Concerns were raised in the 1990s after parabens were found to have gathered in cancerous tumours and were thus believed to imitate the function of estrogen in the body. Parabens have been found to have a weak effect on estrogen levels and many doctors say people should not be paranoically concerned.
petrolatum, also known as mineral oil jelly, soft paraffin, or petroleum jelly, is the queen of beauty products. It's in everything from lip balm to hair conditioner. It works really well to lock moisture into the skin and hair. But the European Union has restricted its use in cosmetics as it considers it a carcinogenic. It is a by-product of oil production and may be contamination with stuff called polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons and studies have linked these with cancer.
phthalates, also esters of an acid, that are used to make plastics more flexible, although they cannot become chemically bonded to the plastics they're added to. This means they're released into the air around us, our water, and into the product (food, liquid, cosmetic) the plastic is retaining. This release of phthalate is why plastic becomes hard and brittle over time, by the way. In cosmetics, they are also used to help fragrances last longer, increase a product's spreadability, and help lotions to penetrate the skin. The are also found in fatty foods such as milk, butter, and meat and this is apparently where we receive most of our phthalates from. Because of their widespread use, it is very simple for them to be absorbed into our bodies. Babies are particularly at risk: plastic toys + baby's mouth = oral absorption of phthalates.
Although the danger phthalates represent to humans have not been studied, as all studies have been undertaken on animals, the studies do suggest that phthalates can affect gestational age and birth weight, lower sperm reproduction, and abnormalities of male genitals. Other studies are looking at how phthalates might have a relationship with asthma, early puberty, and childhood obesity. The Breast Cancer Fund says phthalates disrupt the body's hormones as well and a high exposure to the ester may result in cancer.
Checking for phthalates is difficult: manufacturers apparently do not have to list them separately on the ingredients list, and sometimes they'll only be referred to as 'fragrance'. And finding phthalate-free plastics can also be a nightmare.
The problem for me is the fact that we're consuming more than just one low-dose paraben-, petroleum- or phthalate-including product a day and surely it all adds up. I don't use many beauty products - I'm abnormal - and I already have six products I use daily that include one or all of the above chemicals. All six have 'Fragrance', all sit in phthalate-leaking plastic all day, and at least two had a form of paraben in them. I happen to use petroleum jelly for my feet. So I'm too wicked to preach. :)
So what are we to do? Use more glassware, metalware, avoid plastic items, buy children's toys that are made from special plastic... and all of this at a higher cost of course. A cost that sadly the majority of the population cannot afford.
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The past few months, I have been busy upgrading a book I published about five years ago titled The Genealogy of Benjamin Bullock. My goal is to place a document with all my research in the library at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) so it is available for future genealogist who are working on our family history. The Genealogy of Benjamin Bullock will be that document. The book has an ISBN number (978-1-77136-599-4) and I am in the process of arranging to get the book to LAC. I have added a great deal of information to the new book and will include colour photos of many of our ancestors.
Above is a rare photo which I have included in the book. It shows three generations of my family. The young boy in the centre is my father, Hubert Bullock Jr. Holding him is his father (my grandfather), Hubert Bullock Sr. Seated at the front are my great-grandparents, Charles Edward Bullock and his wife, my great-grandmother, Ada Louise Boyd. This is the only photo I have found of my great grandfather, Charles Edward Bullock.
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|Creating a rich environment to encourage toddlers to be active
Blocks for a variety of activities
I have a set of medium density compressed foam blocks which are used to create many different opportunities for crawling, climbing, stepping up and down,and jumping activities.
It is important to get blocks that are made from medium to high density compressed (rebonded) foam. This quality of foam the blocks more stable and firm enough to provide a firm surface for standing.
Unfortunately most of the soft play equipment that can bought in a store is made from a softer foam which gives way when the child stands on it.
I get my blocks cut to size and covered by a foam supply store.
Recommended sizes for blocks
400 X 400 X 50 mm
Two wedge shaped blocks can be made by cutting a 400 X 400 X 200 block diagonally across to create 2 wedges.
Large foam block made from high density foam
I have a couple of 1000 X 600 X 100mm blocks that are used in many activities. These blocks are used as landing pads for jumping activities, as soft surfaces for rolling on and piled on top of one another they make a raised platform for clambering onto and crawling over.
If you have loose sofa cushion they can be used in the same way as the large flat blocks
Making steps using cardboard boxes
Take a look at your local supermarket for some sturdy boxes used to transport fruit. These come in different sizes and are usually made from heavy duty cardboard.
Collect a couple of these as well as some regular cardboard boxes.
Cut the cardboard boxes up into pieces that will fit flat into the fruit box. Pack layers of cardboard into the box until you have filled the box completely.
Now wrap packaging or masking tape around fruit box to secure the layers of cardboard inside the box.
Now you have a sturdy step for almost no cost - except for your time.
You could also tape a piece of non-slip matting to the base of the box to make it more stable.
Several large pillows
For crawling and walking over, for landing on and for pillow fights.
An exercise or yoga mat is very useful
An exercise mat provides a useful non-slip soft surface if you are playing on a smooth, non-carpeted floor.
Some non-slip mats
Purchase some non-slip bath mats or s roll of non slip matting. it is very important to be quite sure that blocks and steps do not slip during an activity.
Steps from the store
A couple of the small steps that are used in the bathroom to allow a toddler to reach the hand basin. These can be used for a large variety of activities.
A low kitchen step is also useful.


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The truth is, we hand-soldered all of the components on the board.
Although some people have had success with tiny 0806 sized components (we've soldered a few in the past) generally we try to stick to 1206 sizes for resistors and capacitors, SOIC for ICs and microcontrollers and SOT-23 (or SC59) for other silicons; these sizes are perfectly manageable (if not a little fiddly) for soldering by hand.
If you're working with home-made boards with no solder resist layer (as we do) you might find tinning the board with some plating powder helps with getting the solder to flow just where you want it to. We used to do this with every SMT board, but over time, just got into the habit of brightening up the copper with a bit of wire wool and soldering the entire board in one go, before it has time to tarnish.
The first trick with hand-soldering SMT components is flux. Lots of it. Get it all over the pads, inbetween the pads and everywhere. We use a non-clean, non-corrosive flux dispensing pen from Maplin. It's quite expensive, but ours has been going for a few years now and we use flux on everything so it does last a good long while.
Our next secret weapon for hand-soldering tiny components is solder paste. Put your 0.2mm reels of solder and your super-fine iron tips away: a regular pointy iron tip and solder paste is all you need!
You can get solder paste easily from eBay, but be careful you don't end up with a tub of solid flux-jelly (it's often also described as soldering paste). The stuff to look out for is a silvery grey colour - if it's an off-white or orangey-yellow colour, it's flux. Solder paste is a mix of solder and flux combined. You can buy both leaded and lead-free versions of solder paste. For one-offs and prototypes, leaded solder paste is ok. We try to use lead free where possible.
Beware of misleading adverts like this one:
The description clearly states it is lead-free - and then also lists the contents as Sn63/Pb37!
For those of you who never listened during chemistry at school (and don't play along to the science rounds during Pointless on BBC1) Sn is the chemical symbol for tin, and Pb is the chemical symbol for..... lead.
So here's some amazing stuff: lead-free solder paste, with 37% lead. Excellent!
Make sure all the pads (and if you're using a homebrew board, between the traces) get a good coating of flux. If you're using professionally made PCBs, you can apply the solder paste quickly and easily as a "slug-trail" across all the pads
If you're using homebrew boards, it's very easy to create solder-bridges across the tiny gaps between the SMT pads (or even across traces, if you've routed any between the pads of your components. For homebrew boards, we tent to put the paste only where we want it to end up
Here you can see we use a small jewellery screwdriver to deposit tiny dots of paste, just onto the pads we want to solder, working just a few components at a time
You can use a stencil to apply the paste onto just the pads (some people do this, even for professionally made PCBs) but for hand-soldering, it increases the chance of you resting your hand (or arm) into some paste and smearing it across the rest of the board! We tend to work on three or four components at a time.
Using some small nosed tweezers, carefully place the component into the solder paste on the board. This is the really time consuming bit. One twitch of a shaky hand, and you can easily spread the solder paste from the pads onto the surrounding traces (if you do this, remove the component, clean up the paste, reapply flux and start again!)
With the component in place, it's ready to start soldering.
Hold the component down using the tip of the tweezers. This is important. In a reflow oven, all of the solder melts at pretty much the same time, and the surface tension in the liquid solder can realign badly placed components, and they end up perfectly in the middle of the pads. When hand-soldering, we're melting the solder one pad at a time - which will try to pull the component towards the molten solder. Always make sure the component is held firmly before soldering.
With the component in place, and held down by the tweezers, touch the iron between the pads and any surrounding traces. This performs two tasks - firstly it melts the solder and gets the component to stick, but it also clears away any excess solder paste from between the pads/traces. If you've plenty of flux on the board, the excess solder will simply be burnt away.
For our homebrew boards, we use 0.5mm traces (it helps when etching in "old" ferric chloride or when etching times are prolonged) and occasionally go as low as 0.38mm when running traces between SMT pads. Even with relatively chunky traces, we can use this method to successfully solder 1206 resistors over the top of traces without any bridging.
Once you've done a few small components, it's just a case of getting into a rhythm - but take your time on each one!
With practice, we found that a board like the one above, with 12 x sot-23 and 14 x 1206 resistors can be soldered up by hand in about 20-30 minutes. Obviously this is nowhere near production speeds - but it does prove that SMT components can be used for home-made, one off prototypes.
We've got quite a few boards to solder up over the next few nights, so we're going to be perfecting our hand-soldering technique, using this very method!


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At four, Victoria Schein fell in love with cars and began reading any automotive car magazine she could get her hands on. From Claremont California, Victoria Schein graduated from Smith in May 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and a minor in Studio Art. Schein started interning at Ford Motor Company in the summer of 2015 and officially started in June 2016 working in Dearborn, Michigan within the Product Development department as a Research Engineer. At 23, less than a year after beginning work at Ford, she holds nine patents related to a side project she completed during an internship at the Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto.
Schein is currently in a program that puts graduates in a variety of rotations and job assignments during their first few years with the company – the Ford College Graduate Program. Now onto her second rotation, she is working on projects involving vehicle air quality, air quality sensors, air filtration, exploration of the science behind in-vehicle brought-in odors, detecting and mitigating odors in autonomous vehicles, new climate control technology and interior design concepts.
Today, you can find Victoria riding her bike to work in Dearborn, hopping on a shuttle, or catching a ride with friends. Victoria gets around without a car and wants to help change the way the world moves. Her patents are geared toward driver assist technologies. She created a Geotag device that when you press it, will alert you if certain hazards or accidents are in your path. Victoria wants to make distracted driving a thing of the past.
To this date, what have been some of your more important responsibilities?
I am developing a work plan to detect and mitigate odors in autonomous vehicles and researching the science behind in-vehicle brought-in odors, such as cigarette smoke, cosmetics/personal care products, body odors, pet odors and food odors. I am also working on a cabin air quality sensor and filtration project to provide more awareness to the user of a vehicle about air quality. Additionally, I am responsible for facilitating a variety of projects to help promote innovation within the work environment and inspire innovation through cross-functional teams.
What do you enjoy the most working at Ford?
I enjoy inventing with a passion and having the opportunity to expand my ideas. Four months into my internship at Ford, I told my supervisor about a new idea I came up with while I was riding my bike to work. He was very interested, and suggested that I submit the idea as an invention disclosure. In the following month, I ended up submitting 11 new ideas as invention disclosures during my internship – nine of those ideas became patent filings.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
I see myself working at Ford in Product Development for a Studio Design Team or in Research & Advanced Engineering. I hope to be involved in areas such as Car Design, Product Design, Connected Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles or Mobility/Ride-Sharing Research. My goal in a future career is to go further in making Ford's cars and people's lives better through automotive and mobility solutions, while combining insight and behavior to help Ford drive innovation.
What is a highlight of your experience at Smith? Is there someone such as a professor or something that stood out?
The biggest highlight for me was doing several years of research in the Physics department with Professor Doreen Weinberger. She helped inspire me to learn new things every day and develop my strong work ethic. The research I was involved in was exciting and challenging. I was able to ultimately teach others about this research and share my experiences at conferences and with students and professors at Collaborations. I would recommend to all students at Smith to become involved in any type of research group or team based learning activities.
What advice would you give to students who are interested in this career path?
Never give up on your dreams and passions. There were many days in college where I wanted to quit and give up because of course load difficulty and lack of motivation, but I stayed focused on my career goals and was determined to become an Engineer in the Automotive Industry. Take part in as many activities and opportunities that you can in college and through internships – there are so many things that Smith and the college experience have to offer.


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Talking about God means talking about us." That's how I ended the previous post.
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Talking about God means talking about us." That's how I ended the previous post.
While bumper stickers proclaim "God is the answer," many today recognize that "God" is part of the problem. In the dynamic worldview that's ours thanks to modern science, a static understanding of God doesn't work. We need a participatory understanding of the anthropos-theos relationship to go with our participatory understanding of the anthropos-cosmos relationship.
In the dynamic worldview, we can see not only that cosmos, anthropos and theos go together, but also that anthropos has a central position. It's obvious that we can't say much either about the world or about God without talking about ourselves. That's what this post is about.
In sharing my thoughts about the convergence of science and religion via this blog, I've mentioned many times how valuable I find the Biogenetic Structuralist perspective, with its combination of insights from the three big scientific areas of evolutionary biology, neurophysiology and cultural anthropology. It's called a "structuralism" because it looks at the underlying structural aspects of all human cultures; it focuses on what groups of persons, from small communities to large ethnic groups, have in common.
In the realm of religious thought, Karl Rahner, a great genius of 20th century theological and philosophical understanding, does something similar. He too tries to analyze what all humans have in common; his emphasis is not on human culture, however, but on personal experience. Rahner focuses on the underlying structural aspects of the most basic experience we human have: our awareness of being a human being. (It's so basic it even sounds odd to say it!)
As an attempt to analyze the fundamental structural aspects of our experience of being human, Rahner's work is a kind of "experiential structuralism."
I want to emphasize that this is no small example of the contemporary convergence of science and religion. Just as Biogenetic Structuralism asks, "What do we come up with when we take into account biology, brain studies and the Earth's cultures?" so Rahner asks, "What do we come up with when we reflect on our experience of ourselves as a person?" The creative growing edge of scientific thought and the creative growing edge of religious thought are using very similar methods to enlarge and enhance our self-understanding.
"What's it like to be a person?" is not a question that most of us ask ourselves often, not only because we are taken up with the practical details of living, but also because we live in what has been called-- in a recent book, The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby-- a "culture of distraction." The superficiality of so much in contemporary society prevents us from focusing on the deeper aspects of our lives.
Such questions are, however, the ones that matter most to all of us in the long run. They matter because how we understand ourselves shapes how we act. As Teilhard de Chardin expresses it, "Seeing is being." How we see ourselves determines how we live our lives.
Creative thinkers on the growing edge of both scientific and religious understanding are offering us new ways of seeing and offering us, therefore, new ways of being. They help us to a new understanding of our own existence, which we need in order to deal with our contemporary problems. It has always been the case in the Earth's cultural evolution that every evolutionary advance is the result of people dealing with new problems. Individuals and groups who don't deal with their problems eventually die off.
Rahner's starting point is to ask, " What touches all of us? What can everyone agree on about what's basic to human experience?" He attempts to articulate what all humans experience-- whether young, old, male, female, Christian, Jew, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, secularist, atheist or agnostic-- simply because they are human.
The great power of this effort is that, in looking at the underlying basics of personal experience always and everywhere, it allows us to link the static worldview of the past with the present dynamic perspectives of evolutionary science, and to see the world's various religious and cultural traditions, even contemporary secular values, in terms of our common human experiences.
I've emphasized repeatedly in these posts that we are a mystery to ourselves. Rahner's effort is to ask what aspects or structures of the experience of being a mystery to ourselves we can make explicit. What can we put into words about what's basic and common to the conscious experience of every human being who ever lived?
Rahner sees four underlying structural aspects to the mystery of being a person; he calls them "existentials" and names them self-presence, freedom, transcendence and grace.
His terms aren't as helpful as they might be. They come from a basically Germanic philosophical tradition, and just as C. G. Jung's German names for the functions of the four-fold mind (as I mentioned in post #29) don't really convey their meaning well in English, neither do those of Rahner.
Because at least two of them sound like traditional religious terms, it's especially important to recognize that Rahner is not relying on the traditional religious thinking of the past to talk about human experience.
He is relying neither on biblical and liturgical imagery (as was done in the Patristic period of western religious reflection) nor on abstract rational thought (as was done in the later Thomistic-Scholastic period). Rahner is doing something new.
His analysis of concrete human experience is part of the very broad movement in the modern world called the "turn to the subject" or "turn to the person." This "turn" toward episteme (personal consciousness), comes out of the more or less "Germanic" philosophical tradition which includes Descartes, Kant, Heidegger and the Enlightenment thinkers; it earliest roots go back to the time of Dante. It might best be described as an increasing awareness of awareness.
Karl Rahner calls this "turn to the subject" the "awakening of person in the world." In a way that our ancestors of past centuries never were, we are aware of ourselves today as autonomous and responsible "subjects." Rahner's focus is the anthropos-cosmos relationship which I have frequently referred to in these blog postings. And it's this awareness of the mystery of ourselves as conscious participants in an evolving universe that leads to new spiritual-religious perspectives appropriate to the New Cosmology. It really is a new start.
One important note. In Rahner's "structural" analysis of our experience of being a person in the world, it is you and I who are the authorities. Rahner can help us-- and he helps a great deal-- in putting words on our experience of being a person. But we're the ones who decide. In what follows, I'll describe as well as I can my understanding of Rahner's four "existentials." You can see if you think they fit your experience-- and whether, as Rahner says, all human experience.
[1] Self-presence. The first of Rahner's existentials-- of the fundamental aspects of the experience of being a human being-- is the easiest to understand; it is that we are aware of ourselves. Rahner calls this self-possession or self-presence.
As is the case for each of Rahner's existential aspects of human experience, we can express what he's trying to say in many ways: we are in possession of ourselves, we are present to ourselves, we experience ourselves as experiencing ourselves, we are conscious of ourselves as being conscious of ourselves, we know ourselves as knowing ourselves....
And although we can't give a simple definition of consciousness, we know what we mean by it. We understand what we're talking about, even though it's understanding that we are trying to understand. That's why we have so many names for the mystery of being a person: "mind," "consciousness," "experience," "gnosis," "knowledge," "awareness," "episteme"....
The problem is that a satisfying definition always has two parts: we always define something by saying it's "like such and such, but it differs in some way." A familiar scientific example is defining a plant by naming its genius and species. At familiar example at the cultural level is the term first used for a self-moving (auto-mobile) machine: a "horse-less carriage."
But we haven't anything to compare our conscious awareness with. We can say we experience ourselves as "subject" in contrast to being an "object," but that only distinguishes us as being self-aware from things which are not self-aware; it doesn't really help us to understand what self-awareness is in itself.
Probably the best and truest thing we can say about our consciousness is that "it's the same thing as God, but created." That's not helpful either, of course, unless-- as the Asian religious traditions have done-- we do some serious reflection on what we mean by "God." All the Eastern traditions begin with the insight that we and the Ultimate are a-dva: "not two."
And maybe that's the best we can do. And maybe, also, that's not so bad. Thinking about our self-presence leads us to an awareness of our own deepest mystery: our non-duality with the Great Mystery. (Clearly, "Talking About God" and "Talking About Us" go together.)
It's important to note that in Rahner's view, the awareness of the non-dual nature of personal awareness has nothing to do with religious doctrines as such.
He specifically mentions that while many people today reject religious beliefs, it's "not because they abhor the incomprehensible." What contemporary people reject, he says, is "the complications of human reasoning which has tied itself up in knots." It's the rationalism of religion and theology that they reject, not mystery.
Rahner stresses that people "sense and revere the nameless and inexpressible." It is "a mysterious simple thing of infinite fullness," he says, that, based on our experience of being a person, we find ourselves to be "a being in face of the nameless mystery."
This takes us well-beyond the rationalism of recent centuries in the western world, where the mind is "tied up in knots." As anthropos-in-cosmos-- "person in the world"-- we know ourselves in a new way. And this allows us to be in a new way.
[2] Transcendence. Rahner names his second existential aspect of human experience "transcendence." While the word is traditionally used to describe a creator who is above, apart from and independent of the world-- utterly different than anything we know or imagine-- Rahner uses it to describe human experience. He says we are self-transcendent.
It sounds as if he's saying that we experience ourselves as being beyond or separate from ourselves, but that's not what he means. He's saying that our deepest personal experience is something more profound than that of our everyday ordinary consciousness. There's more to us than the awareness we have when we are carrying out the normal everyday aspects of living. We are conscious that we have (or are) a deeper (or higher or bigger or truer) self. (Again, how we struggle with words!)
Probably the best word to use to express what Rahner means is "open." As a "person in the world," we experience ourselves at a deep level as being utterly open to everything that exists.
Another way to say it is that we experience ourselves as being "many-sided." Very many-sided.
This experience of being unlimited-- open to everything, unbounded, infinite-- is what Thomas Aquinas meant when he said that a person is "that which can become all things." We are potentially open to everything. We don't have any limits. We participate in infinity.
At first hearing, this may seems difficult to make sense of, but in fact it's something we experience all the time. As Aristotle said, "We desire to know." And everyone has had the experience, for example, of being interested in something-- whether it's growing roses or the structure of atoms or major league batting averages-- and wanting to know everything about it.
And as anyone with a passionate interest in anything has experienced, the more we learn, the less we know. The more we realize, that is, how little we know.
A good example is how we feel when we look up something on the internet. There are millions of sites and many millions of topics. Just now I checked out "Abraham Lincoln" and got 24 million entries. If I looked at one per minute, it would take me 500 years.
We may not be especially interested in Abraham Lincoln, but there are many things that we are interested in, and some of us seem to be interested in everything. The experience of wanting to know everything, to experience everything, to go everywhere, to see every interesting place in the world, to try every thing at least one, maybe even to go into outer space or certainly to go into the bigger world of inner space-- all of this is the kind of thing Rahner means when he says we experience ourselves as "transcendent."
Maybe the best way to say it is that nothing exists outside the realm of our possible experience. We really are open-ended. We are in some way one with all things. We experience ourselves as infinite, unlimited, unbounded, potentially present to all of reality, participants in infinity. We do not exist apart from the infinite unbounded reality underlying everything.
Western people are not at ease with such understanding of ourselves, even though it is a familiar experience when we reflect on it. But it, too, appears clearly in the Asian traditions, and this is, as I mentioned in the previous post, one of the main reasons westerners today are so interested in those ancient traditions.
[3] Freedom. Rahner's third existential is the very opposite of experiencing ourselves as open to all things: it's knowing ourselves to be limited, finite, particular, to be "this" but not "that."
This aspect of the experience of being a person is just as familiar as that of being open to and participating in infinite reality. And it, too, is an aspect of our being participants in the cosmic process. As "person in the world" we are not apart from and separate from the world. Indeed, as anthropos, we are the cosmos become aware of itself.
This means that we have a specific place in the world. We have a history. Each of us can say something like... "I'm male. I'm American. I have a mixed Scotch, German and Polish ancestry. I'm 5 feet, 9 inches tall. I'm 70 years old. I live in New Jersey. I'm married. I have two adult married children and two grandsons. I'm not good at languages, but I can do math fairly well. I don't like broccoli...."
Each of us can fill many pages with this kind of specific information about ourselves, but no other person in all the world can say exactly the same things we can. Rahner calls this "existential" aspect of ourselves, which is the opposite of openness or self-transcendence, our "historicity."
It has to do with "actualizing"-- making actual or real-- our uniqueness, our individuality, our creativity and freedom.
At first, "freedom" may seem to be the wrong word, but it's not. Rahner is talking here about what he calls our "awareness of the unbounded scope of the human spirit" and of bringing it down to earth.
It is precisely this experience of being a free and autonomous person which allows one to know one's self as a responsible subject. In the conventional religious context, "responsibility" usually has negative connotations; it readily evokes guilt feelings which religious authorities abusively exploit. But Rahner's emphasis is on the experience of being responsible for and to ourselves.
At a very deep level, we know we really are free, at least to some extent, to choose who and what we will be. And it is this freedom, which is ours precisely because we are specific and finite, that makes us a mystery to ourselves.
[4] Grace. Rahner's fourth existential is less easy to express clearly than the others. Not because it's difficult to understand, but because it's difficult to put into words that aren't easily misunderstood.
In responding to the question, "What is the experience I have of being a mystery to myself?" Rahner says we experience ourselves as "graced" or "blessed." A better English term might be "given." We experience ourselves as having been "given" to ourselves.
This is precisely the point that I made in the previous post (#33) when I noted that, in contrast to the idea of creation ex nihilo, the idea of creation by kenosis sees the creative source of the world as bringing us into existence by pouring itself out as the world and us.
In that post I quoted the pioneer 20th century theologian Henri de Lubac who explicitly says with regard to the Mystery's creative out-pouring that "there is no prior recipient." In calling this fourth existential "grace," Rahner is making the point that at a very deep level we do in fact experience ourselves as the "embodiment of an incomprehensible source."
I want to emphasize again that Rahner is not proposing a theological doctrine. It's what might be called a "pre-theology." He is intending a description of our experience of being a "person in the world" and offering an insight about human self-understanding which is independent of any specific religious or cultural tradition. A problem is that in our rationalist culture we can hardly hear it except as a theological concept.
But of much greater interest is the fact that the growing-edge scientists who have moved beyond the rationalism of 19th century science are saying something very similar to what Rahner is saying. I described some of these ideas in my very first blog entry.
In talking about what they call the "mind-matter issue," theoretical scientists working in fields with still-unfamiliar names such as "Systems Theory," Chaos Theory" and "Unified Field Theory," conclude that we and the world appear to be expressions (or manifestations) of an underlying order of reality for which they use terms like the "Vacuum Plenum," the "Quantum Sea" and the "Implicate Order."
Rahner says we experience ourselves as the "embodiment" of an "incomprehensible source." Back in the 1930s, the Russian theologian Sergius Bulgakov used the phase "actualizations of the divine potentialities." And Jungian analyst Michael Conforti, a contemporary pioneer in matter-mind studies in the realm of the psychotherapy, uses a more traditional religious term. "The patterns of reality," he says, "are continually being incarnate in space and time."
Conforti's book, Field, Form, and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature, & Psyche, is an especially good collection of many of these concepts. (It was published in 1999, but it is recently new to me. My thanks to Mary Conrow Coelho for pointing it out to me.)
Once more, I want to emphasize, with regard to this existential aspect of being a person Rahner calls "grace," that he is not talking theory or theology. He says it's a matter of personal experience.
Some last thoughts. If you feel that Rahner's existentials aren't all that different from one another, I agree. They seem to be different ways of looking at the one same experience, of being a human person, from slightly different points of view.
And if you're thinking that this sounds a lot like the ideas about the four-fold mind that I've talked about in recent posts (#29-31), again, I agree. And there's even more to it: I've found that seeing Rahner's existentials in the light of quaternary consciousness is especially helpful for understanding the Immense Transition global humanity is in the midst of. I hope to share some thoughts about that in a future post.
My final thought is that whether we're talking theoretical science or personal experience, we are in fact "talking about us." These insights are available to all humanity, no matter what our ethnic and cultural and religious background. In recognizing ourselves as self-aware, open, free and blessed, we find ourselves not only to be mystery in the face of mystery, but personal participants in the progressive embodiment of the Great Mystery.
The New Science Story of the cosmos, life and anthropos-- of seeing ourselves as "person in the cosmos"-- is the heritage of all the people of the Earth. And it really is something new.


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Posted: 10:41 am Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
By Jamie Dupree
In the biggest ruling of the Supreme Court's term, the court's conservative majority upheld President Donald Trump's travel order, saying there was no question that Mr. Trump had the power to act to restrict the entry of foreign nationals into the United States.
"The Proclamation is squarely within the scope of Presidential authority under the INA," the majority opinion noted, referring to the Immigration and Nationality Act.
"The entry suspension is an act that is well within executive authority and could have been taken by any other President," the court's opinion stated.
"Under these circumstances, the Government has set forth a sufficient national security justification to survive rational basis review," though the majority went out its way to make one other note.
"We express no view on the soundness of the policy," the Chief Justice wrote.
The original Trump travel order barred travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States; it was later modified to include eight nations, not all of which were overwhelmingly Muslim – North Korea, Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Iran, Chad and Somalia.
In the ruling, the court's majority rejected criticism that the Trump policy was a "Muslim ban," writing that the travel order "covers just 8% of the world's Muslim population and is limited to countries that were previously
designated by Congress or prior administrations as posing national security risks."
Republicans in the Congress praised the court's decision, led by the President himself.
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TRUMP TRAVEL BAN. Wow!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2018
BREAKING: Trump calls Supreme Court decision upholding travel ban 'tremendous victory' and 'moment of profound vindication'
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) June 26, 2018
"The Supreme Court's ruling today reinforced what I have said all along: The President of the United States does indeed have the final say when it comes to our immigration policy – as the Constitution provides for, and as Congress has directed," said Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH).
"He is well within his authority to pass travel restrictions against countries with internal unrest and instability that prevent thorough vetting of individuals," said Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK).
The President's travel order had been challenged by the state of Hawaii – their lawyer, Neal Katyal, said he was disappointed by the ruling.
Disappointed by decision, but proud to be part of judicial process that closely reviews&checks Presidential overreach. Americans don't exclude b/c of nationality or religion. POTUS shouldnt take ruling as approval to continue attacking our Constitution. I will always fight it.
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) June 26, 2018
Democrats condemned the ruling.
"The conservative majority of the Supreme Court just legitimized religious animus. Shame," said Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA).
"The Muslim Ban does little for American security and continues to tarnish our global reputation," said Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH).
"As a country of immigrants that has been a refuge for people from around the world, this decision is contrary to who we are as a nation," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA).
Shelby, Korematsu, Dred Scott, and now, Trump v. Hawaii. Today's decision joins a line of rulings history will look back on in shame. Join us on the #SCOTUS steps at 11:45 to affirm that #wewillnotbebanned https://t.co/QV4oXJL9xi
— Rep. Hank Johnson (@RepHankJohnson) June 26, 2018
"This ruling will go down in history as one of the Supreme Court's great failures," the ACLU said in a written statement.
The court's minority echoed that assessment.
"It leaves undisturbed a policy first advertised openly and unequivocally as a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" because the policy now masquerades behind a façade of national-security concerns," wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in the court's dissent.


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