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During the 1880s a new emperor-centered state structure took shape. After the Satsuma Rebellion, disgruntled former samurai started a popular rights movement, demanding a national legislature. Meiji leaders were not opposed to constitutional government; indeed, their contacts with the West had convinced them that it would unify and strengthen Japan as well as improve its international standing by conforming to Western ideas of "civilized" government. Thus, in 1881 the emperor declared his intention to grant the country a constitution. In preparation, the government leadership created a strong executive branch run by professional bureaucrats dedicated to the national good rather than to sectional or partisan interests. During the 1880s the government made several steps in this direction. It created a new nobility of five ranks from the former court aristocracy and daimyo, established a cabinet system modeled on that of imperial Germany, created a new privy council of imperial advisers, and instituted a civil service examination system for recruiting high officials.
The constitution, drafted by a small bureaucratic committee working under statesman It? Hirobumi, was promulgated in 1889 as a "gift of the emperor" to the people. It came into effect the following year. The constitution placed most of the powers of state in the hands of the emperor, who was declared "sacred and inviolable." It guaranteed the emperor's subjects certain basic political and religious freedoms "within the limits of the law."
It also established a bicameral (two-chamber) national legislature, the Imperial Diet. The upper chamber, called the House of Peers, was composed of members of the newly created nobility and imperial appointees. The lower chamber, the House of Representatives, was elected by a small percentage of the population—only adult males paying more than 15 yen (Japan's basic unit of currency) in taxes could vote.
While a relatively conservative document, very similar to the constitution of imperial Germany, the Meiji constitution was a remarkable departure from a long tradition of authoritarian politics in Japan. It provided a foundation for the eventual development of representative government. Nevertheless, for many years a small ruling group made up of the Satsuma and Ch?sh? leaders continued to monopolize executive power.
The emperor, although constitutionally the country's highest political authority, did not participate in administration. Until the late 1910s, prime ministers and most cabinet members were drawn from the ranks of the Satsuma-Ch?sh? clique, their protégés, and members of the civil and military bureaucracies. However, political parties gradually grew stronger during this period, eventually winning positions in the cabinet. In addition to restructuring the government, the Meiji leaders worked diligently to build up a modern economic sector by acquiring new manufacturing technology. In the 1870s the government imported a mechanized silk-reeling mill, cotton-spinning mills, glass and brick factories, cement works, and other modern factories. They also brought in foreign workers and technicians to get the factories started and train Japanese workers.
The government hired hundreds of foreign teachers, engineers, and technicians to build up modern infrastructure, such as railroads and telegraph lines, and dispatched hundreds of bright ambitious young men to study science, engineering, medicine, and other technical specialties in the United States and Europe. In the 1880s the government set up a modern banking system. By the 1890s the beginnings of industrialization were well underway. A railroad network linking the major cities of Honsh? had expanded into Ky?sh? and Hokkaid?; coal mines were producing fuel needed for new steam-driven factories; the cotton-spinning industry had reduced the country's dependence on foreign imports; and a domestic shipbuilding industry was developing. Except for the railroad system, however, the government no longer played a direct role either in financing or managing these enterprises. It had sold off its imported factories to private entrepreneurs and had adopted a policy of encouraging private enterprise.
The dramatic changes during the three decades after the Meiji government took power were driven by government initiatives from above, but other classes of society were not simply passive recipients of change. Many former samurai, although stripped of their traditional privileges, made a successful transition to the new society. Highly educated, trained for public service, and imbued with the values of ambition, hard work, and perseverance, they played an important role in many areas, including government, business, science, education, and culture. The same was true of the well-to-do elements in the countryside, who introduced innovations in agriculture, worked to develop local schools, and were active in the movement to establish a national legislature. Even the sons of poor peasant farmers conscripted into the army returned home with new skills, ideas, and habits that they spread to fellow villagers. And by the 1890s, when most school-age children were attending elementary school, Japan's educational system became a formidable vehicle to promote enthusiasm for change. See Meiji Restoration. "Japan" © Emmanuel BUCHOT, Encarta, Wikipedia.
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The Many Colors of Cape Verde (Jan. 5 – 31, 2019)/
Walk through the streets of Mindelo on the Cape Verde island of São Vicente to find a colorful culture bursting with rhythmic music, vibrant street art, energetic people, buildings painted in a rainbow of colors, dozens of stray dogs adopted by the community, and wild beaches with water as blue as Windex.
The women of Mindelo casually stroll through the city wearing bright colors and balancing heavy bins full of fruit and vegetables on their heads. They carry these bins as casually as if they were simply wearing hats. They find a street corner and peddle the fresh produce all day, until long after the sun drops behind the horizon of the plush brown mountaintops. For just about any amount of escudos (local currency) you offer, you can buy lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes, gigantic carrots, rhubarb, zucchini, huge papaya, squash, fresh coconut, bananas, and more.
There are open markets full of more vegetable peddlers. At the Mercado de Peixe you can choose from fresh fish pulled directly out of the Atlantic that morning. In the city center, near the harbor, there is a small replica of Lisbon's famous Torre de Belèm and a bronze bust of Diogo Alfonso, a 15th century Portuguese explorer who discovered São Vicente and several of the other islands of Cape Verde.
Tucked away in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, the 10-island cluster that makes up Cape Verde is located more than 1,000 miles from the northwestern coast of Africa. Cape Verde's landscape includes inactive volcanoes, miles of dry wasteland, and unbelievably beautiful beaches. The sea water reflects a mixture of every shade of blue and green you've ever seen.
Cape Verde (or Cabo Verde) is known for its Creole Portuguese-African culture and traditional lifting and rhythmic morna music. It also has close to perfect weather, rarely shifting up or down from 25-degrees Celsius (77F) at any time of the year, and it hardly ever rains.
The islands were uninhabited until Portuguese and Genoese sailors stumbled upon them in 1456. Many describe the archipelago as the "unspoiled alternative to the Caribbean." Cape Verde stretches across 1,500 square miles of the Atlantic and contains 10 islands. Barlavento, the winward islands, include Santo Antão, São Vicente, Santa Luzia, São Nicolau, Sal, and Boa Vista. Sotavento, the leeward islands, include Maio, Santiago, Fogo, and Brava.
We spent three weeks in São Vicente, which has a population of just more than 80,000, with most of those people living in Mindelo. Monte Verde is its highest peak at 750 meters, and it dominates the landscape. Even though the name implies that it's green, this mountain is brick red, chocolate brown and every shade of red and brown in between with a little bit of green sprinkled on top.
Mindelo has everything from unfinished brown stone buildings in slum-like, dilapidated condition to buildings painted in bright purple, blue, yellow, orange, green, and red.
Handshakes are nowhere to be found. Instead, the friendly Cape Verdeans greet each other with a fist-to-fist pump with your neighbor followed by an in-sync fist pump to your own chest. The people of Cape Verde always seem to be outside and are always playing happy, lively music.
The streets of the city center are polluted with beggars, mostly men and children, who will walk up to any tourist (most of whom are sailors spending time at Marina Mindelo) and ask for a handout. They are not threatening at all, but the practice is a bit annoying. We actually wonder if it's more of a habit than a necessity. Although the beggars are ever-present, the employed Cape Verdeans are hard-working, kind, and friendly. We have come in contact with many of them in the marina, the markets, and in the boat repair workshop.
The dozens of stray dogs are just part of the fabric of the island of São Vicente. They are friendly for the most part, well fed, and seem to have been adopted by the community although they obviously have no permanent home. Because the weather is so nice—not too hot and not too cold with only very rare drops of rain—they seem content living in the streets and eating random food trash dropped by the locals and tourists or found around the markets.
The open-air buses seem to be the perfect fit for this mild, comfortable climate. These are simply pick-up trucks with wooden benches that pick up the locals and take them where they need to go.
The beaches on the island of São Vicente are completely wild!! It's amazing. There are no tall buildings blocking the coastline view. No restaurants. No hotels. No condos. And hardly any people. No lifeguards or flag signals are there to warn you of heavy waves or dangerous wildlife. You swim at your own risk. This is just nature and beauty in its purest form!
In the Mindelo town square, there is often music and activity. Locals dance in the streets and enjoy daily life. Most of the tourists are either sailors like us staying in the marina or anchored nearby, or people stopping for the day on cruise ships. A walk through the city center is always filled with color and life. There are often free concerts in the main square performed by well-known Cape Verdean musicians.
Because of its remote location, everything is expensive. It's not difficult to understand why as we try to imagine just how difficult it would be to ship anything here. The internet is weak and sketchy, but we were able to find local data cards that helped us stay connected for the most part.
Our three weeks here have been filled with mostly work for our clients and boat maintenance as we worked hard to get our battle-worn Seefalke into shape for the Atlantic Crossing. But we did find some time to explore this beautiful island and experience the friendly, colorful culture.
Sunday, 6 January 2019
After arriving on Friday and spending some time with our sailor friends from Terrapin, Limitless, and Et Puis Pas Plus, we had a visit from Maik's childhood friend, Thomas, who was stopping over for the day while on a cruise with his family. We spent most of the day with him, but found time to connect with our mechanic, Cesar, from Boat CV, the local repair shop. The machine shop's motto is "If it's made by humans, we can fix it." We were hoping this was true in our case, because we feared that ordering and receiving a new heat exchanger from Germany could take much longer than we wanted to wait. And the expense would also be huge. Cesar's guys came over to Seefalke, inspected the cracked casing, removed the heat exchanger, assured us they could repair it, and then took it back to their shop.
Meanwhile, since we were completely out of clean underwear, I dropped off the last five weeks of laundry at a local laundry service shop and splurged on the wash/dry/fold option for about $42 USD. This was expensive, but it felt like a bargain since it included all our clothes, sheets, blankets, bedding, and towels—four huge sail bags stuffed full of laundry.
Following a mediocre lunch of a very thin fish burger at a local café with Thomas and his son, we spent the evening with Maria and Fredrik Rovik on Limitless. Limitless is a huge, beautiful catamaran. Cap'n Jack and Scout had a blast running all over the boat playing with their new best friend, Tulling, an adorable and energetic Jack Russel Terrier. It's been a while since we've come in contact with a dog that can compete with the energy of our Beagles.
Maik wanted to lift me up onto the main mast to repair our courtesy flag line, but the day before he had thrown out his back. This was a challenge for him and for us. It slowed down our repair efforts and some of the physical boat tasks, although we continued with our less-physical task list—which was long and detailed.
Sunday, 7 January 2019
I had been wanting to try the traditional local dish, Cachupa. This slow cooked stew of corn (hominy), beans, cassava, sweet potato, fish or meat (sausage, beef, goat, or chicken) is often referred to as the country's national dish. Each island has its own regional variation. Cachupa leftovers are often re-fried to make cachupa fria, cachupa guisada, or chachupa refogada (served for breakfast with a fried egg and a fried local sausage or fried mackerel).
We found a nice restaurant on the main street right outside the marina called Nautilus. I ordered the Cachupa while Maik ordered some sort of tempura fried veggies just to also try something different. We would have been fine just sharing the Cachupa because the serving was huge and it was very heavy and filling. It was warm and hearty and absolutely delicious!!!
Tuesday, 9 January 2019
Maik had a lot of work to do for his clients, a few phone conferences, and he also wanted to explore the city via drone with his new buddy Fredrik from Limitless, who also has a drone. The boys took off with their toys, and I decided to take a walk to a nearby beach. I invited Fredrik's wife, Maria, to join me, but she wasn't feeling well. So, I volunteered to take Cap'n Jack, Scout, and their new pal, Tulling, to the beach for a couple hours.
Tulling loves the water and wanted to jump right in. Cap'n Jack and Scout love to be ON the water, but don't particularly love to be IN the water and aren't quite sure about the waves at beaches. I was worried about unleashing three dogs who would likely run off in three different directions. Instead, I kept them all on their leashes. We walked the entire length of the small beach, Praia de Laginha, and then I sat for a while on the sugary white sand and admired the amazing blue and aqua colors of the water while the pups all spent their time digging. That's right—they all three just dug holes in the sand for a few hours. We had a lot of fun.
It was cool to get a different view of Monte Cara, which we can see every day from the marina. Monte Cara is a mountain in the western part of the island of São Vicente. Its elevation is 490 meters. If you look carefully at the top of the mountain, you can see a human face looking at the sky. This is why it's called Monte Cara, which means "face mountain." It is a landmark in the city of Mindelo.
That evening, I wanted to try another local restaurant. We headed out in search of something new and tasty. We stopped at a nice Italian restaurant that had some variations of pizza and pasta but with a local flair. But they wouldn't allow dogs, so we walked around a little and finally stopped at a local dive. Generally, we just love to find these "hole-in-the-wall" restaurants where all the locals eat. We are rarely disappointed. This time, we were not so lucky. I had fish that looked and tasted like a pork chop—and that's all I have to say about that.
Thursday, 11 January 2019
Maik and I both spent the previous day working and barely left the boat at all the entire day. Maik was working again, but I was all caught up. He had a few more conference calls, so I decided to leave the pups at the boat with him and see what it was like at the beach all by myself!
It was a gorgeous but extremely windy day. I just lay there and soaked in the sun and got lost in the pages of a book for about three hours. Two stray dogs lay down next to me and napped in the hot sun. It's been a while since I've been truly alone and with nothing to do. It felt so good to just relax.
As I was walking back to the marina, I caught a glimpse of some of the local graffiti, something I love to see in all the places we visit. São Vicente markets itself as the home to some of Cape Verde's greatest musicians, writers, and thinkers. Mindelo is considered to be the cultural hub of the island.
I walked by the Universidade do Mindelo, which is one of only seven institutions of higher learning on the islands of Cape Verde. This university has only been around since 2003. It consists of one gray building on the corner of one square block.
That evening, our French neighbors, Alain and Alexa, from Et Puis Pas Plus joined us for dinner on Seefalke. They have been sailing the world together for 10 years and told us their most favorite place in the world is Panamarina. We have decided we must go there. We will possibly take a little detour on our way from the Caribbean to Alabama.
Friday, 12 January 2019
Maik spent the day working on Seefalke's flesh wounds from when we slid into the fuel station pier as we entered Marina Mindelo. This was mostly cosmetic damage as some of Seefalke's bright orange paint was stripped from her starboard side hull. We inflated our dinghy, Nela, and Maik began first by sanding the affected area, then applying rust preventer, then primer, then Seefalke's signature bright orange paint.
This marina is full of battle-worn ships! Almost every sailor in the marina was busy making repairs after long voyages and in preparation of even longer voyages. Not many people sail to Cape Verde unless they are crossing the Atlantic, or sailing to southern Africa. Some find their way to these remote islands when some sort of boat-related malfunction happens after leaving the Canaries. Others just use it as a break point when sailing from the Canaries to the Caribbean.
Every ship in the marina was working on repairs of some sort. The marina was active with the sounds of drills, sanders, hammers and conversations among sailors helping each other get fit to return to sea. Even with our broken motor, Seefalke was in better shape than most of the ships in the marina.
As the paint was drying, we walked through the city some more and decided to venture far beyond the city center. This is where we found many local people out in the streets, listening to music, enjoying the amazing weather, and peddling more fresh vegetables. We constantly ran into the stray dogs of each neighborhood. It's crazy how Cap'n Jack and Scout would bark and become agitated by some of them, and others didn't even get a reaction from the Seadogs. One large brown dog just casually walked behind us for several blocks as if he were part of our pack.
That evening, we decided to leave the exhausted Seadogs on Seefalke, and we returned to the local Italian restaurant that had originally rejected us. I had a yummy salad full of fresh Cape Verdean veggies and a delicious pizza covered in fresh tuna, cheese, and artichoke.
Sunday – Thursday, 14-17 January 2019
Once again, Maik left us for a few days. This time, he went to Germany for a family funeral. There is only one airport on this small island. It is located about five kilometers from the Mindelo city center, just north of São Pedro. We passed it a few times while exploring some beaches, and we only saw one small airplane there at any given time. Its runway is 1,975 meters (6,480 ft) long and its width is 45 meters (148 ft). They generally have one flight per day to Lisbon, Portugal for connections to other parts of the world.
I mostly used this time to work, work, work for my clients. But I also found time to work on the main cabin floor—a project I've been wanting to tackle for a while. I sanded and cleaned the raw wood floor and applied a few layers of polyurethane. I couldn't find wood stain anywhere in town, but the clear coating really moisturized the wood and brought out some deeper brown tones. It looks so much better.
I removed the stained, worn-out blue fabric that snapped to the floor and served as something of a "carpet." I think this fabric floor coating has been in Seefalke since it was built in 1974. At least it looked that old. I hated this and was happy to get rid of it and replace it with the more natural, warm, wood tones. I'll probably need to apply a few more coats of varnish, but it was a worthwhile project and kept me busy and distracted while Maik was away.
On Wednesday evening, our French neighbors invited me to join them for dinner along with another French sailing couple. Everyone was speaking French, but charades skills often come in handy in this situation. I never felt left out as these lovely people continuously tried to include me in conversations. One of the women teaches English at a school near Madagascar, so she was able to translate all the best conversations for me and was very kind to speak to me in English for most of the night. It was almost 23:00 before we ate dinner. I must learn to adjust my digestive schedule if I want to hang with the French!
Thursday, 17 January 2019
Maik returned from Germany around 13:00, just in time for the repaired heat exchanger to be installed at 15:00. We ran the motor for about 20 minutes. The engine performed perfectly. No leaks. Before he left for Germany, Maik had gone to the repair shop to check out the progress. It was full of very hard-working local men working in either flip flops or their bare feet. He described the equipment and machinery and tools as "ancient." It was amazing the quality of work they delivered working in such an environment. It's a good thing. There are not many options in this part of the world. The next morning, we ran the engine for 90 minutes and it passed our test with flying colors.
Saturday, 19 January 2019
We rented a car and drove all around the island of São Vicente. We first drove to Praia Salamansa and enjoyed spectacular views of the surrounding mountains, crystally-dynamic blue waters, and pounding waves while several local kite surfers put on a show for us! As the hounds were enjoying their unleased time, Maik launched the drone and got some amazing footage from high above us.
As he was filming, a young local boy from the nearby rural village approached Maik, curious about the drone. He was probably about 12 years old and didn't speak English or any of the other languages Maik knows, but they were able to find a way to communicate. Maik said he could tell the boy was fascinated seeing his home town from a completely different view. We are fairly certain he had never seen a drone before, and it's possible he had never seen a video camera of any kind.
Soon, about 10 other kids came running toward us as Maik was landing the drone. The boy told them of the flying camera and they all became wide-eyed and looked to Maik to show them the magic machine. Unfortunately, the battery needed to be charged so Maik couldn't launch it again for the new spectators. One of the kids had a small tray of seashells he had gathered from the beach. He had used the shells to make trinkets to sell. I bought a small turtle he created from the shells and a shell bracelet. Total price – 5 euros, which is probably more money than he had ever seen at one time before.
We set out to explore more of the island. We found a huge wasteland with a giant mountain sitting virtually in the middle of nowhere and decided to launch the drone again. We were amazed to discover that the mountain was actually a volcano that had been inactive for millions of years. Volcano Viana is not the most well-known volcano. It is not very notorious and does not spit lava, or smoke. It is small and off the beaten path. But it's just breathtaking, so we made a short video.
From there, we drove to Praia de Sarangaca, another totally wild an uninhabited beach with spectacular views and even more brilliant shades of blue!
We then decided to drive to the top of Monte Verde and see the island from its highest peak. We could see many of the surrounding islands and noticed the overall dryness of the island. In many places it's desert-like with mostly sand, rocks, and mud. There is not much grass anywhere and not much natural vegetation. But the beaches that surround the entire island highlight the amazing azure waters of the Atlantic.
Sunday, 20 January 2019
We had the car another day and decided to go to the other side of the island to the beach at São Pedro. This beach once again had vibrant blue water. It also had gorgeous golden-blackish sand and was surrounded by another small village with buildings as colorful as a Crayola box. The wooden boats that lined the shore were also painted in a multitude of bright colors.
We were welcomed by about 10 stray dogs who seemed to be a built-in alarm system for the village. Cap'n Jack and Scout joined in the bark fest as we made our way to the water.
The water was a bit cold for me, so I played on the beach with the dogs while Maik tried out the scuba suit he bought in the Canaries. He went into the clear water, but he didn't see much sea life.
Monday, 21 January 2019
As Maik was continuing to nurse his sore back, I woke up with huge sty in my left eye. I think it could have been caused by a combination of the very windy, dry weather and the wind blowing sand in my face the past two days. I'm not complaining. It was totally worth it, but the sty was very painful and uncomfortable and annoying. I worked some more on my floor project and also worked on applying some varnish protection for the wooden trim surrounding the cockpit.
That evening, there was a free concert in the Mindelo city center square. One of Cape Verde's pop stars (can't remember his name) was performing a free concert. It was such a lively and energetic atmosphere as the locals and tourists enjoyed the free entertainment into the early hours of the next morning. Of course, we didn't last that long.
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
As my sty began to get worse, we headed into the city in search of a pharmacy. We found one with a line that was all the way out the door and into the street. I stood in the queue for about 10 minutes before I realized I needed to take a number. In Cape Verde, and in most other countries other than America, I have learned, you cannot just walk into a store like Walgreen's and get over-the-counter drugs—not even antibiotic ointment or saline eye drops. All the medicines and ointments and other things Americans can usually can grab off of a shelf are stored in locked cases behind a huge counter manned by licensed pharmacists. You can't even get aspirin without first consulting the pharmacist.
While walking back to the boat, we stumbled upon a cool classic car show in the middle of one of the busy streets in the city center. Once again, Cape Verdeans were enjoying an afternoon of fun, free entertainment in Mindelo.
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Many ships have come and gone in the time we have been here in Mindelo. Boats come into the marina with battle scars and many required repairs. Then a few days later they head west toward the Caribbean or south toward the southern points of Africa. We have had no less than six different neighbors on our port side who have stayed a few days and then continued their journeys. We have been here for three weeks now and so have our French neighbors, who have a much worse problem than us—a broken mast!
Once again, we had dinner with Alain and Alexa on Et Puis Pas Plus. You may remember from a previous blog that we met these lovely people in Arrecife and their boat's name is loosely translated into English as, "That's all I have to say about that."
Alain and Alexa are becoming such good friends as we continue to spend time with them. Their carefree style matches the name of their beautiful white steel ship—a ketch in need on one more mast.
Thursday, 24 January 2019
Since there are no laundry facilities in this marina, and since we had so much work and projects to continue to pursue, we splurged again on another batch of laundry. This time it was only one bag rather than four.
As many of you know, I've been working on solving our "trash" problem for the crossing. Think about how much trash you generally have in a week. Multiply that by three or four weeks. This is how much trash we could potentially have onboard Seefalke during the Atlantic crossing and with nowhere to dispose of it. This has been weighing heavily on my mind since last August.
I've come up with a few solutions. Anything organic goes overboard. Any major packaging of food and/or supplies is thrown away before we leave the marina (for example, cereal boxes). Ziploc bags are my new best friend. Plastic bottles are smashed and crushed to take up less room in the garbage. We have a Diaper Genie for the head to handle waste paper. AND, we just came up with this brilliant idea....
We have several 8L jugs of water that we constantly use to refill just a couple of smaller reusable bottles for drinking. By not using too many smaller water bottles, this eliminates the large number of bulky bottle trash on board. Then we use the empty 8L jugs for paper trash. A lot can be stuffed in there and it can be sealed! Much better, much more compact, and less smelly than trash bags. Brilliant, right? Can you give us any other tips for what to do with all the trash on board while crossing the Atlantic?
Sunday-thursday, 27-31 January 2019
I was at the marina's floating bar on a lovely, mild evening when a sweet couple from the Netherlands approached me and asked if they could pet Cap'n Jack and Scout. We started a conversation and I learned that Caroline and Fred have been sailing on Pegasus for a while and have been in Cape Verde for several months. They have visited eight of Cape Verde's 10 islands and will not leave again until after the famous Cape Verde Carnival on Sao Vicente, which is a colorful spectacle of music, dance and street processions.
During the Mindelo carnival, also known as the Creole festival, the streets come alive with colorful dance troops and spectacular floats, each competing to win the coveted carnival prize for being the best. Unlike the similar carnival in Rio, this is very much a local affair, but in recent years it has become increasingly popular with people traveling to the island from all over the world who all come to join in the celebrations and watch this vibrant festival of life.
The celebrations start in January with colorful parades held every Sunday. We actually got to see one this week. It was so cool. The procession went through the streets and anyone who wanted to join in the dancing and celebration just jumped right in. The week leading up to Shrove Tuesday (in 2019 from the 2nd to the 6th of March) is crammed with parties and other events, eventually culminating in the main parade, which runs late into the night.
We spent the rest of the week truly focusing on work, creating videos to release while we are at sea, and working on small boat projects which are ever-present. Maik's back is still bothering him, but my sty has cleared. Seefalke seems to be in ship-shape and fit for the crossing.
This week, we will continue to work hard toward our goal of crossing the Atlantic. We have used most of the provisions we gathered in Arrecife, so most of the major provisions will need to be replenished. It will be more difficult to find things here, but we are on the hunt.
We originally had our sights set on a late-week departure. But at this point, we think it will take longer than that.
There are three things that must be in perfect shape before we make the three-week crossing—the ship, the crew, and our work.
Right now, only one of those three things is fit for the crossing—Seefalke. Maik and I both have more work than we likely can complete this week, and Maik is still struggling with his aching back. At the moment, these two things will delay us a bit longer. We won't take any chances, especially with Maik's ability to physically skipper the ship. So we wait . . .

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SINGAPORE, Dec 28 (Reuters) - China is set to issue its first batch of refined fuel export quotas for 2019, set at a total of 18.36 million tonnes or 13 percent more than the first issue for this year, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
China, which authorises annual fuel exports progressively, is expected to ship out more refined products next year as two large new refineries add to on an already over-supplied domestic fuel market.
The quotas, which are issued by the Ministry of Commerce, comprise 8.7 million tonnes of diesel, 5.19 million tonnes of gasoline and 4.47 million tonnes of kerosene, said one source.
Calls to the Ministry's press office were not answered. The Ministry did not immediately respond to a faxed request for comment.
The first batch of quotas will be shared between four state-run firms - Sinopec, CNPC, CNOOC and Sinochem, the two sources said.
Top refiner Sinopec will receive 8.3 million tonnes, China's second-largest refiner CNPC will get 6.09 million tonnes, Sinochem 2.13 million tonnes and CNOOC 1.84 million tonnes.
All the new issues will fall under the general-trade category, under which refiners will receive tax refunds after exports are completed.
China issued a record of about 48 million tonnes of export quotas for 2018, up about 12 percent on the previous year.
Reporting by Chen Aizhu and Florence Tan; Additional reporting by Beijing newsroom; editing by Richard Pullin


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Published in the Ferndale Record, November 4, 2015
I used to read a lot of books, magazines and newspapers. Now, most of my reading is done online, and this isn't necessarily bad, but it places me squarely at the mercy of everyone who posts anything on the internet and the randomness surrounding this medium.
When I choose what to browse or absorb, I'm reminded there are slimy strings attached to brilliant technology. Even major news outlets pander to human nature's seamy side. Everyone wants a larger piece of the reading audience and their tactics are often shameless.
The result is that I sometimes cave and peruse bits that are only mildly entertaining and far from edifying.
This week, while catching a look at NBC news online to see if there was anything I absolutely needed to know, I saw these headlines:
"Two more women accuse Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct" – How is this even important to the general population?
"Here's how to make money off the migrant crisis" – Why is this a thing? And why is anyone writing about it?
"Vladimir Putin's approval rating hits all time high" – Well, good for him.
"Trump takes swipe at Carson: Lower energy than Bush" – No mud slinging, please.
"Costumed canines strut their Halloween stuff" – Harmless, but not interested.
The following links were more to my liking, but still not anything I needed to know to survive:
"Mets to start Harvey in game 1 of the World Series" – The teams in this year's Fall Classic are not my favorites, but there might be some good baseball, and I'm thrilled that the New York team playing doesn't start with a Y.
"The 6 biggest health mistakes women make in their 50s" – I haven't clicked on this yet, but I might. On principle alone, I usually move quickly past headlines claiming "6 things, 10 things or 17 things" that are critical for my wellbeing and promise that "number 4 will blow your mind!"
"Watch time lapse video of Hurricane Patricia" – OK, I clicked on this one.
I'm positive I would have lived another day without any of this information. It's clearly up to me to make good choices and not just gobble up information because it happens to be in front of me. That's really the problem, isn't it?
I don't dispute the value of everything written online, just a lot of it. Sensationalism is rampant. Grabbing readers and filling space seems more important than printing anything worthwhile.
Recently I heard a talk in which the speaker said, " ..Why would we listen to the faceless, cynical voices..? [They] prefer to tear down rather than elevate and to ridicule rather than uplift. Their.. words can burrow into our lives.. Is it wise to place our.. well-being in the hands of strangers? .. These anonymous individuals, if presented to us honestly, would never be given a moment of our time, but because they exploit social media, hidden from scrutiny, they receive undeserved credibility."
Choosing wisely shouldn't be hard because there's a lot of goodness out there, too. Try reading the high road. See where truth and fairness take your mind and heart.


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We are interested in the education and work of women as engineers. There seem to be a couple of big road blocks for getting young people, and girls in particular, to become engineers. I would like to understand how women engineers happen. Perhaps there are some things that educators and mentors can do to encourage and support more of those potential engineers.
What did you know in middle school or high school that got you started down this path? How come you weren't put off? What motivated you to get through the requirements – most of which sound pretty dull and/or scarey to high school kids and their guidance counselors? What were some of the successes along the way that kept you going through the coursework?


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Gwendolyn M. Irvin, affectionately known as Lady Gwen is a Prophetess and Teacher of the Word. Lady Gwen is the wife of Djuan A. Irvin, Pastor and founder of New Life Ministries World Outreach Center. With a strong anointing to minister to the needs of women, she has a desire to see every woman whole and walking in liberty.
Lady Gwen is the founder of Ladies of Life, a women's fellowship of women that meet monthly. She passionately teaches women how to be profitable (useful) to God, prepared (fit), and ready for any good work (2 Timothy 2: 19-21). Her teachings inspire and challenge women to develop a strong relationship with God and with their families. After years of ministry training, she works in full time ministry.
Devoted to the vision of the ministry, she assists her husband with a variety of duties to assure that his God-given mandate is carried out. She has the emphasis in ministering as her husband and Pastor which is ministering to the whole man.
Lady Gwen holds an Associate in Science Degree in Early Childhood Management and is currently working on her Bachelors in Science Degree in Early Childhood Administration. She seeks to pursue her Masters in Christian Education Administration in the near future.
A committed wife, mother, and mentor, words can not describe her calmness of spirit. The things that God has imparted into her are amazing. She is the proud mother of twin boys and one daughter Denzel, Darius, and Tiffany.
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Maybe the days have ends,
the possibility of some strange
intelligence that appeared
in a supermarket.
The point is, I don't
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from page 391 of Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976 by Hunter S. Thompson (Simon & Schuster, 2000).


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George Saunders in conversation with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW's Bookworm, Jan. 31, 2013:
I think [these are hard times], but also they've probably always been, in the sense that we aren't really born very well equipped [for] the struggles that we're gonna go through. We're kind of born with this idea that we're permanent and we're central and we're enduring and we're the most interesting person in the room, and then, especially in times like these.
When I was growing up, the sort of things was that capitalism was in a battle with socialism and communism and anarchy was sort of the crazy uncle over there on the side. And now, in our time, I think capitalism has just won. There's no question. It's just overwhelming victory for capitalism.
But I think we're in an interesting time, in that maybe capitalism is trying to decide which capitalism it's going to be. And it seems to me that just in my lifetime, it's kind of been decided that the form of capitalism we're going to embrace is the one that says, "If you got it, you deserve it. No guilt. Don't worry about it. And anybody who doesn't like that is whining."
Whereas, the one I like is sort of a Emersonian-Whitmanesque form which says, "There's no point in any of this—democracy and capitalism—if we're not simply making more citizens—making brighter citizens, making the lives of the least among us better.
So I think it's some kind of weird diffuse way, fiction can remind us that even those people are on a continuum with us and that remembering that actually enobles us.
See also:
- Saunders, G. (2013). Tenth of December: Stories. New York: Random House. [excerpt]
- "George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year," by Joel Lovell, The New York Times Magazine [cover story], Jan. 3, 2013


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Selectmen met with representatives from traffic engineering firm Howard Stein Hudson and landscape architects Halvorson Design, who are developing the landscape plan for the East Milton Square deck.
The primary goal of the project is to improve traffic and safety for motorists and pedestrians in East Milton Square while increasing bicycle ridership.
Halvorson Design's plans for the deck includes a lawn covering much of the area, a pavilion for special events, and trees lining the perimeter. A section of Adams Street would serve as a paved pathway across the deck, but would be closed off to vehicular traffic.


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Including works by: David Beattie, Richard Carr, Edgardo Rudnitzky and John Wynne
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Describing listening as a motile bond of entanglement, Salome Voegelin in her recent book 'Listening to Noise & Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art' puts forward that sound art must remain a strategy of listening rather than an instruction to hear. Referring to Maurice Merleau Ponty's notion of being honeyed, a phenomenological approach to the world of perception, Voegelin proposes a criticality in listening, one of generative discovery through a fluid, fleeting sound-listener relationship.
HAMMER | ANVIL | STIRRUP presents the work of a key group of Irish and International artists whose current practices evoke a vitality and freshness in their engagement with concerns surrounding sound related artwork; from composition, physics and sculpture to noise, acousmatics and listening. Occupying both gallery spaces at Wexford Arts Centre, HAMMER | ANVIL | STIRRUP showcases the work of David Beattie [Ireland], Richard Carr [Ireland], Edgardo Rudnitzky [Argentina] and John Wynne [UK/Canada]. While each artist's work remains specific to their own motivations and impulses, they come together in this exhibition to enquire into notions of listening as a critical practice while embracing the curatorial implications of exhibiting a number of 'sound works' within a gallery context; noise, interference and conflicting autonomies.
HAMMER | ANVIL | STIRRUP takes its name from the three smallest bones in the human body. Found in the middle ear; these bones perform as an interface between the inner and outer sonorous worlds. In a constant state of simultaneous reception and production, the Hammer, Anvil and Stirrup exist as both independent entities as well as an interconnected sonic system. Working on this premise, the exhibition aims to bring to the fore, enquiries into the practice of listening within the development of sound related art work and when exhibited, who, what or where does the sound belong. Through the combination of these works, the exhibition itself aims to act as a similar interface, generating its own internal logic and inviting you to enter its space and become entangled in the world around you.
HAMMER | ANVIL | STIRRUP includes a number of existing, but diverse sound works to form the basis of future conversation, investigation and discovery rather than commissioning new work to fit a tightly knit curatorial thread. The works bring divergent approaches to the notion of listening as a critical practice, investigate the role of listening outside of the term 'sound art' and invite prospective perspectives to its relevance going into the future.


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Thomas Lemut, born in 1961, is a sculptor, film director/producer and artistic director. He has worked in art from a very early age and is now creating furniture. Functionality follows aesthetics in his work, which makes him more a sculptor than a designer. He works for art collectors and interior designers and is represented by Gallery Fumi in London. He now lives in Paris.
1/ Can you introduce yourself?
I'm not a designer, nor an artist, I consider myself a furniture creator.
2/ How do you define design?
I've been hearing a thousand different definitions for the word « design », today it means everything and nothing at the same time. The best way to get an actual definition be to open up a dictionary, design is « an aesthetic applied to the research of new shapes and objects, and adapted to their function. »
3/ Must design necessarily be functional?
Yes, because design cannot dissociate function from aesthetics, even when the object is associated with social or environmental problematics, we always come back to the pair: function and beauty.
4/ What do you dream of designing?
A firearm, a gun probably.
5/ Your next project?
On the long-term, I'd like to pursue my goal ; to create furniture based on authenticity, sustainability and the re-location of production, a new and essential need in my opinion. And on the short-term I work on creating a lamp collection for an exhibit in Paris in 2015 and London in 2016 with Gallery Fumi.


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Frank Hyneman Knight, 1885–1972, American economist, b. McLean County, Ill., Ph.D. Cornell, 1916. He taught economics at the Univ. of Chicago (1927–62). Knight's most influential work was his first book, Risk, Uncertainty and Profit (1921), in which he described the relationship between profits and risk in a free market economy. He distinguished insurable risk from uninsurable risk, contending that the latter produced profits. His methodology was the foundation of the Chicago school of economics, which held that competition in a free market economy was the best method for achieving economic health.


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After something of a stand-off with the hosting company and a few name server issues, the Phog Blog is back. Judging by the performance of our football team in our absence, perhaps we're better off shutting up and letting life happen. I'll be upgrading Wordpress later this evening but you'll be getting a lot more of what you used to get starting very soon. A few topics for discussion:
Is it silly that KU can win out and watch two one loss teams play for the national title?
Is Brandon Rush going to be the same?
Does anyone else think that the concerns over recruiting in basketball this year are greatly exaggerated?
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ON AIR - Ken Tobin in the Afternoon
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DCU's Media Production Society are back with another take on student life in the 21st century, this time nailing nights out amongst the undergrad population of the country. We've all made friends with someone on a night out only to forget about them completely the next day, accidentally drank pure vodka thinking it's water and had horrible fear not remembering half the evening. It's basically a rite of passage.
Ah college, the best days of your life, no?
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Jennifer Magas: New MCVA Professor and Communications Guru
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Professor Jennifer Magas, a new MCVA professor at Pace, is a master of many trades in communications.
Although many may consider her a communications guru, her favorite part of having this much experience is being able to pass on her expertise and seeing her students thrive.
"The most exciting part has been seeing all of my students getting internships, getting jobs, and getting into graduate school," said Magas. "They always seem to come back, so I know I'm doing something right."
Magas is an award-winning professor who transferred to Pace this semester after teaching at Southern Connecticut State University for 16 years.
She believes that the diverse student background and the combination of theoretical learning and hands-on learning that draws her to Pace.
"I am honored to join the Pace family and further the University's commitment to a college education that is dynamic, intellectually challenging, forward-thinking, simultaneously combining theory and practice to enhance graduates' career readiness and entrepreneurial agility."
Magas has been teaching for over 20 years and is very passionate about enriching her students' lives and is constantly going the extra mile and helping her students inside and outside of the classroom.
She has helped over 70 of her students receive jobs and internships with high profile companies and has accepted over 140 students to intern and work with her public relations agency, Magas Media Consultants (MMC).
Over the past semester, her interns were given the opportunity to represent Bobby Johnson, a man who was wrongfully convicted for murder and spent nine years in jail.
Magas is vice president of Magas Media Consultants and does all of the work regarding communications in her company, such as the press releases, writing, and handling social media.
She recalled that it was very difficult for her and her husband to start MMC because of how much needed to be done.
"You can't really prepare for the running of a business," said Magas. "When you first start your own business it's very overwhelming because you have to do everything on your own."
Magas believes that building her brand over time helped her by creating her own website and continuously updating it over the years, which helped her company to become more successful.
"Build your brand early. I say this to all my students. Start with your resume and go to career services" said Magas. "You also have to think about what your digital identity is on social media. Google yourself."
Since Magas started teaching 20 years ago, she has noticed a considerable difference in the role technology plays in the classroom within the last decade.
"The integration of technology is just amazing and it's so exciting to see students embrace technology and bring that into the classroom," said Magas.
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5 Overvalued Dow Components - April 2019
There are so many great companies in the market today, but there are also many overvalued companies. By using the ModernGraham Valuation Model, I've selected five overvalued Dow Components reviewed by ModernGraham according to the ModernGraham approach.
Defensive Investors are defined as investors who need to select only the companies that present the least amount of risk. Enterprising Investors, on the other hand, are able to select companies that present a moderate (though still low) amount of risk. Each company suitable for the Defensive Investor is also suitable for Enterprising Investors. Only speculators should pursue companies not suitable for either the Defensive Investor or the Enterprising Investor.
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As many of you know, each year I try to identify a word or phrase that I deem to be most descriptive of the moment in which we find ourselves. It is an exercise I do at the end of each year to try to help me understand where our nation lies in the larger spectrum of history and where we, individually can begin to put this moment in time in some kind of perspective.
In past years, some of these words included "relevant", by which I discussed how so many events were swirling around us that we needed to find some anchor or ethos to give us some guidance during difficult moments. One year my word was "meaningful" and I went to great pains with some friends and family members to explain that we all needed to perform truly valuable deeds, big and small, that return us to the basics of our existence and showed our inner civility in times of #MeToo, wanton illegal gun attacks on our schools and churches and other events that have eroded our own sense of right and wrong.
So, with a great deal of thought based on the events of our nation over the past year, I pondered a number of words and phrases that I thought were most appropriate to the year ahead. As I wrote in my final blog post of 2018, the past year was inexorably linked to 1968 – some 50 years earlier – that threw our nation into a different kind of tailspin.
After much reflection I hereby announce that the phrase of the coming year is: [drum roll] rule of law.
The rule of law is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as:
"The authority and influence of law in society, especially when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behavior; the principle whereby all members of a society are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes".
The phrase dates to the Magna Carta signed by King John in England in 1215. The king deemed it necessary to issue this pronouncement when a group of barons, powerful noblemen who supported the king in exchange for estates of land, demanded that the king sign the charter to recognize their rights. That document was written to ensure that the life, liberty, or property of free subjects of the king could not be arbitrarily taken away. Instead, the lawful judgment of the subject's peers or the law of the land had to be followed.
So, what does this ancient document have to do with the year 2019? Quite a lot, it seems. The construct behind the phrase "rule of law" recognizes that a person's fate should not be in the hands of a single individual—whether a king, a dictator or the president of the United States. Magna Carta planted the seeds for the concept of due process as it developed first in England, and then in the United States. Due process means that everyone is entitled to a fair and impartial hearing to determine their legal rights.
James Madison expressed this idea for us in Federalist Paper No. 51 (1788) when he wrote:
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
The framers of the U.S. Constitution addressed this problem by dividing power among the different branches of government (legislative, executive, and judicial). This framework for government, known as the separation of powers, ensures that no one person is able to gain absolute power and stand above the law. Each branch of our government has some level of control or oversight over the actions of the other branches.
When we talk about the rule of law, "we must understand that we are talking about a law that promotes freedom, that promotes justice, that promotes equality." said former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who suggested in his writings that the rule of law has taken on special meaning for the people of the United States, based on our history of looking to the law to fulfill the promises of freedom, justice, and equality set forth in our nation's founding documents.
One of my favorite movies is the adaptation of the story of Sir Thomas More whose life was memorialized in the Robert Bolt film, "A Man for All Seasons". In the movie, Sir Thomas, played brilliantly by Paul Schofield, is faced with the mandate of the king that all citizens of the realm must swear an oath permitting the king to divorce his wife (against the dictates of the Catholic Church) and marry his lover, Anne Boleyn. More, facing false charges at his upcoming trial, learns from Richard Rich, his former protégé, that he will testify against More.
More's son-in-law, Roper, demands that Sir Thomas find a reason to arrest Rich and charge him even though he hasn't broken any law. More explains to Roper, that he would give the benefit of law to the Devil, rather than arrest Rich on false charges.
MORE: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
ROPER: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
MORE: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
ROPER: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
MORE: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast -- man's laws, not God's -- and if you cut them down -- and you're just the man to do it -- d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes. I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
We should not doubt – nor let others convince us – that these are ordinary times. We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis that will determine the future direction of our nation and the future of each of its 323 million citizens. We need to raise the critical questions as to whether our constitution is the essential wisdom that governs us or whether a cult of personality shall be permitted to subsume those fundamental rights that we have fought so hard to preserve.
The rule of law was essential to the ethos of England from the time of the Magna Carta. It was deemed at the heart of the Founding Fathers belief that our nation be governed as one derived from man's laws. It was essential to the constructs underlying our union when spoken so ably by Abraham Lincoln as he worked to keep our nation together after secession of the southern states. And, it was essential to the protection of our democracy in the dark days of Watergate that led to the disgrace and resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
Today, we are as steadfastly in need of reliance on the rule of law as ever before in our history. We are a nation of laws. And it will be the laws that stand mightily to oppose any individual's belief – whatever his place in our society -- that he or she is above the law.
Wishing each of you a prosperous and healthy new year.


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I love Asian cuisine and have always wanted to be able to duplicate it at home. After years of trying different recipes and modifying them I finally decided this is my favorite way to make sweet & sour chicken. Make sure to get the sauce thick enough, sometimes I have to add a little bit more of the cornstarch and water mixture to thicken the sauce. I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do!
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2 - 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (pounded and cubed)
2 sweet bell peppers, chopped
1/2 small or large yellow or white onion (cubed)
2 tbsp high temp cooking oil
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 1/2 cup rice
3/4 th cup sugar
1/4 th cup ketchup
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp garlic powder
2 tbsp tamari sauce (or if you are not gluten free, you can use regular soy sauce)
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar (regular vinegar will suffice also)
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1Cook rice as package indicates.
2After the rice is started, (or if you have made the rice the night before) you want to start with making the sauce. In a small pot or medium sauce pan mix the ketchup, garlic powder, garlic salt, tamarin sauce, vinegar, and sugar. Bring this to a boil.
3Next mix the cornstarch and cold water together until dissolved. Add this to the sauce and stir until thickened. After it is thickened reduce heat to low.
4Take the chicken cubes and batter them in the cornstarch (easiest to add to a ziplock bag and shake or stir in a bowl). Add oil to a pan and add the chicken. Sauce chicken for about 5-6 minutes.
5Then add the peppers and onions. Continue to sauce over medium heat until the chicken is browned.
6Add the sauce to the chicken and veggies, coat well.
7Serve over rice.
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"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another" (John 13:34-35).
Jesus gives tough commands. Considering all the people I have come in contact with yesterday, was I loving to each one of them like Jesus would have been? Unfortunately, no, I wasn't. I showed love to many, but not to all. Why wasn't I? Human reasons such as tiredness, impatience, past experiences, hunger, and anything else that puts me as the center focus instead of God. I am so thankful for grace. Grace gives me a chance to try again.
Each individual is so special to God. He knows their name and they are not forgotten. If we see people as God sees them, we can take on the command of loving one another better equipped. How do we know how God loves us? By reading his Word and prayer, we can see that God considers us valuable to him, not because of what we can do, but by who we are. We are his.
Prayer: Lord, I do thank you for your grace that I need on a daily basis. You have not given up on me and have loved me forever. I pray that I keep you at the center of my interactions with people and show them love as your ambassador. Amen
Faith Tip: Take notice of each person you come in contact with today. Show them a glimpse of the love of God.


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Research in the School of Business and Management
The School of Business and Management at QMUL was created with a clear remit to build an outstanding, unique approach to research in which scholarship of international quality can flourish.
Our students are attracted to the School by its distinctive research strategy, which focuses on the economic, societal and historical context of business and management, social justice issues in business and management, and governance in the private, public and third sectors.
Interconnected research environment
This strategy is achieved through the distinct identities of interconnected research centres and groups and the expertise of individual academics. This leads to a dynamic research environment where collaborations, workshops, public events and community engagement take place.
Our students benefit from the research that our academics undertake, as they are exposed to real business problems and the complexities that in-depth research can reveal. Our academics publish in leading business and management journals, author books and chapters, and play a major part in the wider national and international research community. You can find out more about their areas of specialist interest, along with their publications and research in progress, at: busman.qmul.ac.uk/staff
Our research centres and groups
Each of our research centres or groups makes a distinctive contribution to both research and teaching. We encourage PhD applicants who are interested in their areas of research:
Behavioural Finance Working Group (BFWG) focuses on areas of behavioural finance, emerging markets, corporate finance and corporate governance financialisation and its impact on business models as well as financial and management accounting.
Business Ecosystems Research Group (BERG) examines the way that businesses' different components relate to and interact with one another. BERG members use their expertise to research both innovation and production ecosystems.
Accounting and Accountability Research Group (AARG). historical perspective and methods to contemporary business and management issues, such as financial capitalism, privatisation and technological change.
Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR) is a global academic hub that researches multiple aspects of globalisation. It focuses on international monetary economics and finance, emerging and developing economies and labour economics.
Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED) is at the forefront of equality and diversity research both nationally and internationally. Its research is focused on the employment, management, careers and migration aspects of diversity and inequality. Its three broad themes are social identity, policy and practice research.
Centre on Labour and Global Production (CLGP) engages in inter-disciplinary research on the changing position of workers, labour and regulation in the world economy. The centre's research on labour in the global economy focuses on uneven working conditions, labour standards, affective labour, unpaid work, and forms of representation and worker organisation that arise from inter-dependent global economic relations.
Marketing Interactions and Consumer Behaviour Group (MICB) aims to generate and disseminate novel insights that advance the understanding about different stakeholder groups, especially consumers, and marketing interactions in increasingly dynamic and global business environments.
Organisational Processes and Practices Research Group (OPPRG) focuses on how organisations and people learn, professional identities, and managing knowledge.
Public Management Group (PMG) investigates the management of core executives in national governments, the strategic management in international organisations, leadership in the management of public services and regulatory activity.