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Formats and tools
- Unit Description
- Reconstruct the unit from the xml and display it as an HTML page.
- Assessment Tool
- an assessor resource that builds a framework for writing an assessment tool
- Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment. Put student names in the top row and check them off as they demonstrate competenece for each of the unit's elements and performance criteria.
- Assessment Matrix
- a slightly different format than the assessment template. A spreadsheet with unit names, elements and performance criteria in separate columns. Put assessment names in column headings to track which performance criteria each one covers. Good for ensuring that you've covered every one of the performance criteria with your assessment instrument (all assessement tools together).
- Wiki Markup
- mark up the unit in a wiki markup codes, ready to copy and paste into a wiki page. The output will work in most wikis but is designed to work particularly well as a Wikiversity learning project.
- Evidence Guide
- create an evidence guide for workplace assessment and RPL applicants
- Competency Mapping Template
- Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners. A template for developing assessments for a unit, which will help you to create valid, fair and reliable assessments for the unit, ready to give to trainers and students
- Observation Checklist
- create an observation checklist for workplace assessment and RPL applicants. This is similar to the evidence guide above, but a little shorter and friendlier on your printer. You will also need to create a seperate Assessor Marking Guide for guidelines on gathering evidence and a list of key points for each activity observed using the unit's range statement, required skills and evidence required (see the unit's html page for details)
- Self Assessment Survey
- A form for students to assess thier current skill levels against each of the unit's performance criteria. Cut and paste into a web document or print and distribute in hard copy.
- Moodle Outcomes
- Create a csv file of the unit's performance criteria to import into a moodle course as outcomes, ready to associate with each of your assignments. Here's a quick 'how to' for importing these into moodle 2.x
- Registered Training Organisations
- Trying to find someone to train or assess you? This link lists all the RTOs that are currently registered to deliver BSBFRA401B, 'Manage compliance with franchisee obligations and legislative requirements'.
- Google Links
- links to google searches, with filtering in place to maximise the usefulness of the returned results
- Books
- Reference books for 'Manage compliance with franchisee obligations and legislative requirements' on fishpond.com.au. This online store has a huge range of books, pretty reasonable prices, free delivery in Australia *and* they give a small commission to ntisthis.com for every purchase, so go nuts :)
Elements and Performance Criteria
1. Determine franchisee obligations and legislative requirements
1.1. Identify obligations under franchising agreement
1.2. Identify relevant legislative requirements
1.3. Access codes of practice and material that interprets and explains obligations and legislative requirements
1.4. Clarify obligations and legislative requirements with franchisor and relevant government and licensing agencies
2. Develop strategies for compliance with franchisee obligations and legislative requirements
2.1. Analyse available information on obligations and legislative requirements to develop strategies for compliance
2.2. Check strategies with franchisor to determine suitability to operate franchise within obligations and legislative requirements
2.3. Use strategies to develop regular, cyclical compliance checks
2.4. Complete training to facilitate compliance requirements
3. Undertake scheduled compliance checks
3.1. Communicate compliance requirements to staff
3.2. Delegate compliance checks to relevant staff and provide training and support for staff to carry out these checks
3.3. Record timing and outcomes of compliance checks according to organisational requirements
3.4. Identify instances of non-compliance from compliance checks
4. Act on identified instances of non compliance with franchisee obligations and legislative requirements
4.1. Determine courses of action to address instances of non-compliance
4.2. Seek assistance of franchisor or other relevant parties to address non-compliance
4.3. Take action to address non-compliance
4.4. Make checks to ensure non-compliance has been addressed
4.5. Monitor compliance in a specific area to ensure continuing compliance
4.6. Analyse reasons for non-compliance to guide future compliance


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The co-existence of physical and mental illness is common across all populations and service settings. While the biopsychosocial model is a holistic approach to care, this has been criticised in its application for neglect of genuine attention to the physical health needs of people with lived experience of mental illness. Recent scrutiny of this topic has resulted in calls for greatly improved approaches to care and outcomes.
Using the CanMEDS domains of Professional and Medical Expert, students will investigate opportunities and barriers to the implementation of collaborative, integrated approaches to care. Students will increase their collaborative skills across consultation liaison and other settings in contributing to both improving the mental health of people with physical illness, and physical health of people with mental illness, taking into account the limitations of these distinctions. Topics covered will include responses to medical illness and trauma, abnormal illness behaviour, and demoralisation.
Within a holistic recovery-oriented approach, helping people to manage their physical health is core to psychiatric practice. Medical practitioners are expected to contribute to improving the mental health of their patients, and also model good practice in self-care. Students will further develop strategies for maintaining professional standards and importantly, address self-care as mental health professionals.
Learning Outcomes:
In this unit of study, recovery-oriented approach, and knowledge of the relationship of physical and mental illness and their treatments, students will be able to:
Reflect upon personal self-care and professional development and develop a plan for prioritised improvement.
Critically appraise and evaluate opportunities and barriers to applying contemporary research, psychiatric knowledge and treatment guidelines regarding collaborative and integrated management of physical and mental health within a current or recent work setting.
Identify and apply competency, informed consent, duty of care and local mental health law as they apply to a team of professionals working with medically-ill patients, including those refusing treatment.
Critically appraise the influence of various industries, resource availability, and the history of psychiatry, upon the maintenance of a recovery orientation in professional practice.
Critically appraise the literature and explore the effects of serious mental illness on health service outcomes and elaborate on and justify one opportunity to improve practice.
Analyse the effects of specific care settings and the practitioner's role when attributing and investigating symptoms/presentations that may represent physical or mental illness; apply to the assessment and management of a person with a complex presentation.

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This week's sermon text: This Sunday (the fourth Sunday of Advent) Erik will preach on Acts 26:1-32. We invite you to read ahead to help prepare yourself for this week's sermon. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: We are still in need of a few readers for the 11pm Christmas Eve Service. If you're willing to help out, please contact Erik (firstname.lastname@example.com) as soon as you can. Thank you for considering!
Prayer tomorrow: Please join members of City Church's leadership and staff to prayfor City Church tomorrow, December 20th, from 7am-8am at the church office (1520 W. Main Street, Suite 105).
Caroling with Grace Covenant: The members of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church have invited us to join them for an evening of caroling in the Fan on Friday, December 21st. We'll meet at Brian Baird's house at 6pm for snacks and drinks. Caroling will start at around 6:30 and last about an hour. Please bring a small dish or appetizer to share. Contact Brian with questions at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Christmas Eve Services: We will host two services on Christmas Eve at Beth Ahabah: one at 4pm and one at 11pm. The 4pm service is "family-friendly" and will feature readings by some of City Church's younger attendees. The 11pm service will included lessons, carols, and communion. There will be no nursery care or Children's Worship during our Christmas Eve services, but please feel free to bring the whole family — we would love to celebrate and worship with you all. Please note: we will not have access to the Beth Ahabah/St. James Parking Deck during these services. However, VCU has given us permission to use their parking deck at 1111 W. Broad Street (entrances at the corner of Broad and Harrison or Broad and Shafer). **NEW**
January-April 2013 Volunteer Schedule: The volunteer schedule for January through April 2013 is now available for viewing; click here to do so (or visit the volunteer schedule page on the City Church website). Should you have conflicts, please notify your team leader and arrange a substitute as soon as possible.
Baby Shower for Meg Haden: Ladies of City Church, please join us on Saturday, January 5th at 2pm at the Blanchards' home to celebrate Meg as she and Jon-Marc prepare for the arrival of their baby boy. Please RSVP to Melise Rowan at email@example.com. Meg is registered at myregistry.com and Franklin Goose.
Baby Shower for Jenny Fisher: Ladies of City Church, please also join us on Saturday, January 12th at 3pm at the Shays' home to celebrate Jenny as she, Matt, and Cash prepare for the arrival of Baby Girl Fisher. RSVP to Aubree Shay at email@example.com. Jenny is registered at myregistry.com.
Change to guidlines for end-of-year contributions: After consulting other churches in the area, we'll be making a small change to how we handle end-of-year contributions. All checks need to be in-hand or postmarked by 12/31 to go towards 2012 deductions. Checks with a postmark of 12/31 (or before) will be counted as 2012 giving if they are received no later than January 10th. Online gifts will still need to be made by 12/31 (some credit cards take 3-5 business to process, so please take that into consideration). Thank you for your cooperation on this. Please contact Valerie Catrow (email@example.com) with questions.
City Church Basics: Our next session of City Church Basics will take place the evening of Friday, January 11th, and the morning of Saturday, January 12th. Church Basics explains who we are as a church and what it means to be a member. It is a necessary step towards formally joining the church, although membership is not required. If you're interested in taking part in this session, get in touch with Val at email@example.com. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Erik at email@example.com.
CommonGoodRVA: CommonGoodRVA is a two-day conference focused on helping Christians exercise vocational stewardship for the common good of Richmond. During this conference we'll explore what it means to see our everyday work as a meaningful part of our Christian calling. The conference will take place on Friday, January 18th (7-9:30pm) and Saturday, January 19th (9am to 3pm) at The Early Center at Union Presbyterian Seminary. The registration fee is $55. There are 200 spots available and it is expected to sell out, so please register as soon as you can! To learn more about CommonGoodRVA and to register, visit commongoodrva.com.


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Eden is a township in Polk County, in the Grand Forks metro area. [NOTE: This is not the only community in Minnesota named Eden. For links to other places called Eden, MN, see the Duplicate Names box at right.]
The latitude of Eden is 47.716N. The longitude is -95.641W.It is in the Central Standard time zone. Elevation is 1,299 feet.
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This just in: women masturbate! It's totally normal and healthy! Everyone does it! Yay! So, now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's talk about on-screen female masturbation scenes—which are pretty few and far between compared to their male equivalents because for some reason people get super uncomfortable with the idea that women like sex. And more specifically, like touching themselves. Even in 2017, this is considered pretty scandalous—so cheers to these films and TV shows for breaking taboos.
Allison Williams, 'Girls'
The scene: Marnie masturbates in a public bathroom while leaning against the door.
Her comments on it: "A scene like [that] just gets added to the pile and gets smushed in. It's been really interesting being interviewed and being asked about it so much, because I'm like, 'Oh, yeah, well there have been seven episodes since that scene.' I also feel like we are showing these very intimate, private and specific moments in our characters' lives and it just sort of is a part of Marnie's puzzle."
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Caitlin Stasey, 'Reign'
The scene: Lest you forget, Reign is a CW show. And CW shows don't typically show sex, let alone masturbation. But this scene features a royal bedding ceremony with witnesses—one of whom is so turned on that she runs away to masturbate.
Her comments on it: "This is the thing: I don't care about being naked on screen. I don't care about masturbating on screen; I don't care about sex scenes on screen. The aftermath is fine; I don't care who sees it. It's the actual process of filming it that sucks. It's unsexy, it's incredibly technical, it's incredibly boring and also incredibly embarrassing. You're just like writhing around in front of a group of maybe 30 dudes because the set is primarily men…. But the act of a woman actually taking care of herself in that way is incredibly powerful."
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Beth Behrs, 'Two Broke Girls'
The scene: Beth's roommate finds her masturbating in the bathtub with a shower head. Everything happens off screen, but the hijinks!
Her comments on it: None, because BFD.
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Lea DeLaria, 'Orange Is the New Black'
The scene: Boo is seen getting off with the end of a screwdriver, because when in jail, you gotta make due.
Her comments on it: "I jumped up and down like a little girl. I was that excited. Because I knew it was going to be something that people will remember. And indeed, it is. The first take, I started laughing because I made the mistake of thinking about what I was doing. That's a huge mistake when acting—you shouldn't think about it. So, the first take was one of the first shots on our gag reel. It was me, starting to masturbate, and howling with laughter. It's just like, 'What am I doing? I'm getting paid to do this.' I can't tell you how many people have asked me to autograph their screwdrivers."
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Ilana Glazer, 'Broad City'
The scene: Glazer performs her "pre-masturbation ritual," which involves a mirror, candles, and a giant vibrator. Treat yourself.
Her comments on female sexuality on the show in general: "It's like these girls are horny but not under the male gaze. They're horny, period. Just starting from the vagina, not starting from some man looking at them."
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Amy Adams, 'Junebug'
The scene: Adams' very pregnant character masturbates in bed while looking at a photo of her husband.
Her comments on it: While talking about the most difficult scene to film in the movie, Adams said "It's a toss up between the masturbation and the hospital…it was such an intimate and vulnerable moment."
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Joan Allen, 'Pleasantville'
The scene: Allen is seen masturbating in the bathtub as the screen changes from black to color.
Her comments on it: None, because BFD.
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Kate Walsh, 'Just Before I Go'
The scene: Kate Walsh's character masturbates while sleep walking.
Her comments on it: "We actually shot all of those on the second day of shooting. [Director Courteney Cox] was great; she made me feel super safe."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal, 'Secretary'
The scene: Gyllenhaal's character fantasizes about her boss while masturbating.
Her comments on sex in the film: "I love the fact that people wanna talk about sex. I mean, I wanna talk about sex, too."
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Shiri Appleby, 'Unreal'
The scene: Rachel is masturbating to porn with a vibrator in the back of a van.
Her comments on it: "The opening and closing scenes of episode 105 of UnREAL really sparked a conversation. Who knew a women pleasuring herself would be so newsworthy."
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Naomi Watts, 'Mullholland Drive'
The scene: Watts' character masturbates on a bed, a moment that was so uncomfortable for the actress that director David Lynch had a tent made around her so she could be completely separated from the crew.
Her comments on it: "I was mad at him for making me do this! I remember saying, 'David, I can't do this!, I can't do this! and being mad at him….I did anger, I did crying, it was just wildly uncomfortable. The thing with David is he just keeps you going, you want to please him because he's after something really true and you don't want to give up."
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Natalie Portman, 'Black Swan'
The scene: Okay, so Portman's masturbation scene was kind of unrealistic (for most women, masturbating isn't a male's fantasy come to life, like it was depicted in this film)—but it basically consists of her writhing around on her bed.
Her comments on it: "So disgusting. It was akin to the experience of watching the movie with my parents sitting next to me, let me tell you."
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Riley Keough, 'The Girlfriend Experience'
The scene: Keough's character, an escort, enjoys watching herself masturbate.
Her comments on it: "We wanted to show things that you don't really see, like the girl getting her period or the girl masturbating… You really feel like you're creeping in on this girl, so it's a bit uncomfortable. It's not like we're showing her masturbate just to have a masturbation scene. It's showing every part of this person and her private moments."
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Lizzy Caplan, 'Masters of Sex'
The scene: Her character stands completely naked and masturbates as Michael Sheen's character watches.
Her comments on it: "That was shitty. I could not have been more well protected…crew was as paired down as possible, these are my friends now. I just remember sitting in my trailer feeling for the first time since being on the show that I don't know if I can walk out there. What is it going to take to be able to walk out there and do this."
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In earlier posts, such as notes 31 and 58, the Brown Advisor has endeavoured to separate out variety, greatness and extent, suggesting that these qualities should be held in balance. Islands, as the poet Shenstone remarked, give beauty, if the water be adequate; but lessen grandeur through variety.
Shenstone surely borrowed the thought from the Spectator himself, Joseph Addison, who remarked that 'there is generally in Nature something more Grand and August, than what we meet with in the Curiosities of Art'.
But now I am asked by Mr S of Leominster whether there is really anything grand about Berrington. The question is a difficult one for a Herefordshire man, since that county is the home of the ardent picturesque, and for such people 'grand' has a meaning that is close to 'sublime', while whatever else Berrington may be, it is emphatically not sublime. But might I put it to Mr S that Berrington is still grand in Addison's sense. The lake is not visible from the house, nor is the London Approach brought round the lake as it might be, because the landscape is to unfold piece by piece, almost by accident, with no hint of 'the Curiosities of Art'. So the north front with its pediment is more decorated than the south simply because the north front needs a little more decoration to give it an even chance against the south, with its splendid view south to the industries of Leominster. Everything about the position of the house is a little skew-whiff because its compositions are to be subordinated to nature.
As William Combe put it: 'Where Nature is grand, improve her grandeur, not by adding extraneous decorations, but by removing obstructions. Where a scene is, in itself, lovely, very little is necessary to give it all due advantage, which undergoes no variety of cultivation.'
We should not think the less of Berrington if it continually confounds our expectations that it should behave like other 18th century landscapes. I fear Mr S that the fault lies in our own preconceptions of what landscape is.


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The 9 Best Fracture Boots
If you have a bad ankle sprain, foot injury, or broken bone, make sure you safeguard your extremity during recovery with one of these solid fracture boots. They'll protect the damaged area, ensuring that you get back on your feet as quickly as possible. And although we probably don't need to say it, remember that one of these on its own is no substitute for a trip to the doctor. When users buy our independently chosen editorial picks, we may earn commissions to support our work. Skip to the best fracture boot on Amazon.
Benefits Of Fracture Boots
Hair on the leg and foot may get darker, and patients may notice muscle loss caused by inactivity.
Doctors initially used fracture boots as adjunct therapies to ease patients into full functionality. Now they are a primary treatment for many injuries in the foot and ankle. There are many benefits of using fracture boots over rigid plaster or fiberglass casts. For example, fracture boots are much more comfortable than plaster casts. Plaster casts are applied directly to the skin and are not very breathable. Patients complain they are uncomfortable, especially when sweat collects in between the cast and the skin. This can cause tremendous itching, and may put a patient at risk for bacterial growth leading to skin conditions such as heat rash and atopic dermatitis.
Plaster and fiberglass casts are also not able to come into contact with water. This makes things like bathing very difficult. Fracture boots are much more manageable. Patients can carefully remove the boot after a certain period of time to gently wash and dry the leg. This also reduces the other complications, such as sweat seeping back into the pores. When plaster casts are removed, they often reveal an ankle that has experienced significant changes. The skin may be discolored, dry, and flaky. Hair on the leg and foot may get darker, and patients may notice muscle loss caused by inactivity. Fracture boots address many of these problems. Carefully removing the boot to help stretch and strengthen the joint during recovery can help prevent these issues, and this is conveniently possible in a fracture boot.
Ankle fractures may be especially dangerous to athletes, as the complications that can arise from a poorly treated fracture can be career-ending in some cases. The full recovery time for an athlete will vary greatly, from three up to 51 weeks. Modern fracture boots may greatly improve the healing process for athletes, as they allow for the patient to strengthen the ankle during recovery using guided exercises.
Deciding Which Fracture Boot Is Best For You
Immobilization therapy has been around for thousands of years. Many different ancient civilizations had their own unique versions of orthopedic braces. Homemade versions of ancient immobilization techniques are still used in some areas of the world. These splints may be helpful in very minor strains, but will not be enough for serious sprains or fractures. It is best to turn to a trusted fracture boot in these cases.
Pneumatic boots can pump air into any space in between the foot and the cast.
You can use fracture boots to treat a number of issues, such as ankle sprains and fractures, plantar fasciitis, foot fractures, metatarsal stress fractures, and even tendonitis. Understanding the type of injury the patient has and which boot will be most beneficial must be considered before recommending the use of a fracture boot. Doctors generally recommend short boots in cases where the injury is lower on the foot, such as a metatarsal fracture or plantar fasciitis. These injuries require less support and will benefit most from the level of immobilization a short boot provides. Doctors typically recommend tall boots for injuries that need more stabilization and support, such as ankle fractures.
The shape of the patient's foot and leg may also play a role in which fracture boot they should buy. People with larger calves or those who suffer from inflammatory disorders like edema may need special casts that can accommodate larger legs. Temporary inflammation caused by a sprain or fracture may prevent some boots from properly immobilizing the leg, too. Pneumatic boots can pump air into any space in between the foot and the cast. This helps create a more complete immobilization in cases where inflammation from the injury would keep a normal fracture boot from working as intended. This can make all the difference in treatment, as immobilization is the most important function of a fracture boot.
How Important Is A Fracture Boot?
We intuitively understand the importance of immobilizing an injury like a fractured ankle. Stepping on a recently injured leg causes tremendous pain, and putting it in a cast is necessary to even think of continuing on with daily life. Yet most people don't understand that the real treatment begins when the cast comes off. It is easy for a fractured ankle to heal improperly. Typical casts do not allow for movement at all, so all the physical therapy is left until after the cast comes off. Unfortunately, this is also when the ankle is weakest and most at risk. This standard treatment causes long recovery times, muscle atrophy, and may even increase the risk of re-injury.
This suggests that fracture boots are important for every stage of the healing process, and may in fact be the best recovery method available.
Recent research has suggested that fracture boots may be more important than commonly understood. While doctors generally use ankle braces for minor sprains, the standard treatment for any serious ankle fracture involves immobilizing the leg by using a plaster cast. Fracture boots are now becoming more popular for the treatment of ankle fractures, though. This is thanks in large part to advances in new materials and technologies, as well as a growing understanding of the healing process. A recent study posted to the Asia-Pacific Journal of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation and Technology investigated the healing times of fracture boots when compared to standard treatment methods.
Researchers selected 47 patients who had undergone surgery for serious ankle fractures. They then separated the patients into two groups. In one group, patients used plaster casts to aid their recovery from the fracture. In the other group, they used used fracture boots. The researchers then measured recovery times in each group by determining how long it took the patients to stand on their injured leg and walk without crutches.
The study concluded that the healing times were significantly shorter in patients using fracture boots. They also tolerated weight-bearing activity during treatment much better, as well. This is because participants who wore fracture boots were able to exercise and keep their range of motion higher during treatment, which is also known to speed healing time. This is nearly impossible with plaster casts. This suggests that fracture boots are important for every stage of the healing process, and may in fact be the best recovery method available.
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The longest verse of the Quran, i.e. 2:282, which is known as Ayat-al-Mudayana, also speaks about the principles of loans. There is no mention of riba/interest in the entire verse as riba is strictly prohibited in Islam.
'O you who have believed, when you contract a debt for a specified term, write it down and let a scribe write (it) between you in justice. Let know scribe refuse to write it as Allah has taught him. Sp let him write and let the one who has obligation dictate. And let him fear Allah, his Lord, and let him leave nothing out of it. But if the one who has the obligation is of limited understanding or weak or unable to dictate him self, then let his guardian dictate in justice. And bring to witness two witnesses from amongst your men. And if there are not two men (available) then one man and two women from those whom you accept as witnesses- so that if one of the women errs, the other one can remind her. And let not the witnesses refuse when they are called upon. And do not be (too
) weary to write it, whether it is small or large, for its specified term. That is more just in the sight of Allah and stronger as evidence and more likely to prevent doubt between you, except when it as immediate transaction which you conduct amongst yourself. For (then) there is no blame on you if you do not write it. And take witnesses when you conclude a contract. Let no scribe be harmed or witness. For if you do so indeed it is grave disobedience in you. And fear Allah and Allah teaches you. And Allah knows everything.
During the Jahilliyah period, if a person was unable to repay a loan, the lender would keep on increasing the rate of interest. Due to this cruel practice the original amount of the loan would increase to such an extent where its repayment would be next to impossible for the borrower. However, Islam has put an end to this inhuman custom. Allah (swt) has decreed in the Quran that if the borrower is bankrupt, insolvent and poor, then the question of charging interest from him does not arise. In fact, the lender should postpone the payment of debt till a time when the borrower can easily pay back the loan. By this ruling, the Quran advises the lender to treat the borrower in a lenient and gentle way. The lender can also forgive the loan altogether. This would be an act of charity on the part of the lender for which Allah (swt) will reward him greatly.
When we compare these two different ideologies we find that the practices during the period of Jahilliya were based on callousness, selfishness and cruelty whereas the Islamic practice is based on compassion, co-operation, brotherhood and mutual support. The loans of the capitalist societies are quite similar to loans during the period of Jahilliya.
Islam has encouraged benevolent lending instead of lending with a profit motive. According to Ibn Qudama, giving loans is encouraged in Islam because by lending a person is akin to providing relief, fulfilling the needs and offering help and support to his Muslim brother.
Keep Me In Your Prayers.
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10 décembre 2018, 14h00–15h30
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Industrial Organization seminar
Consumers rely on intermediaries ("influencers") such as social media recommendations to provide information about products. The advice may be mixed with endorsement in a way that is unobservable to the follower, creating a trade-off for influencers between the best advice and the most revenue. This paper models the dynamic relationship between an influencer and a follower. The relationship evolves between periods of less and more revenue. The model can provide insight into policies like the Federal Trade Commission's mandatory disclosure rules. An opt-in policy may be superior: it deregulates influencers who are reaping the rewards of past good advice.


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by John Ellis
Oddly enough, certain maxims for "high" art[1] and country music are kissing cousins. I'm speaking of the conceit that conflict is essential for art. A good pop culture example is found on "The Fly" where Bono sings, "Every artist is a cannibal, every poet a thief/All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief." Now, consider the joke that if you play a country song backwards, you'll get your dog back, your wife back, and your truck back. That joke is predicated on the wide spread belief, and maybe for good reason, that country music is generally about loss and pain. And, for the sake of my argument, loss and pain = conflict. In fact, and my argument aside, I don't believe that many people will push back on my claim that "loss and pain = conflict." But are those parallel maxims true? Well, of course, at times – possibly quite often. However, Creation is beautiful; human relationships reflect the unimaginably awesome relationship of the Trinity; and hamburgers and beer are delicious! Art, and even country music, can be truthful, excellent AND be beautifully conflict free (at least mostly conflict free[2]). One of my current favorite country/Americana bands, Carolina Story, demonstrate that art, specifically the art of country/Americana music, can freshly spring from a well driven deep into the solid foundation of love, respect, and joy.
Carolina Story is a husband and wife band/team. I had the pleasure of being introduced to them via a concert, and immediately fell in love with their music. After the concert, which was at the beginning of November, I promised Ben Roberts, who had generously given me a copy of all three of their CDs, a review of their latest album, Chapter Two. Nearly three months later, I'm finally keeping my promise.
In those intervening three months, my wife and I have frequently listened to Chapter Two, as well as Chapter One and Home[3]. Considering the amount of music in our home, a new album from a relatively new band elbowing its way into the regular rotation is quite a feat. And, of course, the usual music laudatory claims apply – Ben and Emily Roberts' voices are beautiful, honest, and harmonize engagingly well together; the song writing is crisp, interesting, and accessible; and the instrumentation is toe-tappingly fun when needed, contemplatively beautiful when needed, and skillfully executed at all times. But, I'm far more interested in writing about Chapter Two in relation to my opening paragraph.
Without any sloping transitions, I'm going to jump directly into what I believe is the heart of not only Chapter Two but also of Carolina Story in general, and the meat of my opening paragraph – beautiful optimism bursting out of and away from the painful constraints of a broken world. "When I Was Just a Boy," the third track on Chapter Two, is a song grounded in the wisdom that resides in loving parents that understand the importance of communal storytelling as a means of conveying advice and truth. The song begins with an earned nostalgia[4] that recounts the soft words of the singer's mother as she, using Biblical metaphors, provides a melodic picture of the well-lived life's path. Halfway through the second verse, the voices of Ben and Emily combine to sing a public promise to their unborn son[5] – a promise to live out and share passed down values and truths. The final chorus is owned by Emily Roberts as she repeats the loving wisdom of the mother from the first verse. That transition from the mother of the past to the mother of the here and now is as poignant a moment as music in 2014 had to offer.
The album's next track, "The Stranger," pushes hardest against the credulity of my claim in the opening paragraph. The song tells the story of two broken and hurting people. The narrator, a stranger, weeps, "Sometimes I wish that I could say I'm sorry/For those who hurt your heart so badly." But, that weeping, that impulse to make things right, to un-break the broken, comes from a place of hope and the ability to see the beauty in things unbroken. "The Stranger" isn't a lament; it's a prayer for someone greater than the narrator and, more importantly, greater than the Fall[6] to come and undo all the hurt and evil in the world. The song is the belief that loss and pain were never meant for this world.
The word "highlights" implies "lowlights," and I don't believe that Chapter Two contains any filler tracks. That being said, I encourage the readers to check out "Almost Over Now." The first track, "Almost Over Now," is possibly my favorite song on the album; I keep going back and forth between it and "When I Was Just a Boy." Both songs feature the seamlessly meshed harmonies of the love-filled couples' voices. Both songs demonstrate Ben and Emily Roberts' ability to write tight and interesting lyrics with zero wasted words. The difference lies in the tone – "Almost Over Now" is the kind of song that makes driving on a wide-open highway with either mountains or plains spread out before you, doesn't matter which, a quicker drive than expected. "When I Was Just a Boy" speaks to the best of your down-home memories. It engenders introspection that, while quietly joyful, probably won't help your right foot find the gas pedal. In other words, my mood helps determine what my favorite song off of Chapter Two is at any given moment.
With six songs, Chapter Two is in a no-man's land between EP and LP, at least in my mind[7]. Regardless, it's a beautiful, thoughtful, and well-done album that lends itself to singing along with whether you're driving in your car or sitting at your desk trying to write an album review.
Order Chapter Two here: http://carolinastory.com/
[1] I'll leave it the reader to determine for herself or himself what "high art" means.
[2] All humans, which, and surprising some, applies to all artists, live in a broken world. 100% conflict free is a lie. But, the point stands that art can still be good art even if it lives mainly in the land of the unbroken. P.S. I'm proud of myself for putting a footnote inside a parenthesis – which is essentially a footnote itself.
[3] I highly recommend both of those albums, too.
[4] Shout out to my filmmaker friend, Chris White, who oft complains of unearned sentimentality/nostalgia.
[5] The couple's first child, a boy, was born not long after Chapter Two was released.
[6] For the uninitiated into Christianese, see/read Genesis 3.
[7] Feel free to disagree, obviously, but let me know why you feel strongly about a six song record being either an EP or an LP. And don't provide me links to "definitions;" I've probably already seen them. Tell me why YOU believe what you believe.


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Red was the color that kept popping up when I was going through the Pre-Fall 2012 collections. I really like the draped dresses shown at Alexander Wang and Donna Karan. And the Zac Posen dress will most likely be worn by a starlet on the red carpet. Here I put together a few more of my favorite looks.
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What to Watch on Friday: Raleigh native Michael C. Hall joins Netflix's 'The Crown'
The Crown (Netflix) – We get Season 2 of the award-winning series chronicling the goings on at Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street. Raleigh native Michael C. Hall ("Dexter") joins the cast this season playing President John F. Kennedy. The Kennedy stuff should happen around episode 8.
Joy of the Season: NC Master Chorale (9 p.m., UNC-TV) – The NC Master Chorale performs holiday music, recorded live at Meymandi Hall in Raleigh.
Jane the Virgin (9 p.m., The CW) – Jane's book tour takes an unexpected turn at the first stop.
Great British Baking Show (10 p.m., UNC-TV) – In the Christmas Masterclass episode, contestants make mince pies, Christmas pudding, Christmas cake and other tasty treats for the holiday season.


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While a long-time user of Firefox, I'm always ready to have a look at the alternatives. Firefox works well, but it's too heavy. Some time ago I found a new Firefox extension called Conkeror, which added Emacs-like keybindings to Firefox. It was too unusual for me at that time and I ditched it. Since then I switched to tiling window managers (first Ion, now Stumpwm) and I thought that Conkeror might fit my new style of work.
Below is the initialization file I compiled on the very first day with Conkeror:
// shortcuts for Google Reader and Gmail: define_webjump("gread", "http://google.com/reader"); define_webjump("gmail", "https://mail.google.com"); // keybindings to open links in new buffer and new window define_key(content_buffer_normal_keymap, "F", "follow-new-buffer-background"); define_key(content_buffer_normal_keymap, "C-f", "follow-new-buffer"); define_key(content_buffer_normal_keymap, "d", "follow-new-window"); // show history items when typing URL: url_completion_use_bookmarks = false; url_completion_use_history = true; // use my delicious: add_delicious_webjumps ("minaev"); // allow installation of addons from any URL: session_pref("xpinstall.whitelist.required", false); // show Firefox-like tabs: user_pref("conkeror.load.tab-bar", 1); require("tab-bar.js");
There's a lot of things to borrow from other RC files, but the first steps were made.
I started by installing Conkeror packaged with Ubuntu 9.04, version 080629. This version could not find the location of the Conkeror init file till I explicitly pointed at the file in .conkeror.mozdev.org/conkeror/<profile>/prefs.js, where I added a new line:
user_pref('conkeror.rcfile', '/home/minaev/.conkerorrc');
The Ubuntu version did not support tabs, so I had to grab a Debian package from the Conkeror web site, version 090624.


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Sometimes a solid, savory breakfast just hits the spot. I'm a diehard oatmeal fan, but once in a while I really want an alternative to sweet breakfasts and to animal-centric ones like bacon and eggs.
Enter – scrambled tofu. These burritos are quick to throw together and surprisingly flavorful! The filling is good enough to eat plain, but you could always add your favorite toppings like avocado, guacamole, cilantro, etc
If you haven't yet been won over by tofu's chameleon-like versatility, you might be after trying this one. 🙂
Turmeric is the secret ingredient that gives the tofu it's scrambled egg-like color.
- 1 block extra firm tofu, drained and pressed
- 1 red or green bell pepper
- 1 15-oz can black beans (or 1.5-2 cups cooked)
- 2/3 cup salsa
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 tsp oregano
- 3/4 tsp cumin
- 3/4 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion flakes (optional)
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- Salt to taste ( I used about 1/8 tsp)
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- Tortillas, and any additional burrito fixin's
Chop the onion.
Heat a little oil in a saute pan (I used a wok), and saute the onion over medium–high heat until soft. Crumble the tofu block into the pan. Note: The firmer the tofu you use the harder it will be to crumble, but using a wooden spoon and a little elbow grease will do the trick.
Add the spices and stir. When the tofu starts to brown, add the chopped bell pepper and beans.
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Worrying about how you'll return to the workforce after travel overseas? These steps can make your re-entry a success.
Think outside the resume
The time you've spent as an expat is not time wasted. Spending time outside of your own country provides an intimate, firsthand look into how other people live, work and spend their money.
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One of the most effective ways to re-enter the workforce after time abroad is by maintaining an exciting and current online presence. This means that you must work to keep your LinkedIn profile updated and professional, as well as other social media profiles. Assume that employers will look you up, and keep personal profiles open to only friends and family members.


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Ellora Entertainment, LLC Acquires Renaissance Entertainment CorporationLOUISVILLE, Colo., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Ellora Entertainment, LLC, a company owned by Charles S. Leavell and J. Stanley Gilbert, acquired Renaissance Entertainment Corporation (OTC: FAIR) ("Renaissance") on December 22, 2005 pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated November 21, 2005. Shareholders of Renaissance are entitled to receive merger consideration in cash equal to $0.03 per share of Renaissance common stock. The Company is in process of mailing instructions to shareholders to redeem their shares.Renaissance owns and produces Renaissance Faires throughout the United States that are re-creations of a sixteenth century England village. Renaissance owns and produces three Renaissance Faires: the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Kenosha, Wisconsin; the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Irwindale, California and the New York Renaissance Faire in Tuxedo, New York. These faires are created through authentic craft shops, food vendors and continuous live entertainment throughout the day, both on the street and the stage and includes actors, jugglers, jousters, magicians, dancers and musicians. In addition to the Renaissance Faires, Renaissance also produces the Forest of Fear each October in Tuxedo, New York.SOURCE Ellora Entertainment, LLC
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The rabbits seem determined to get to my garden before I do. Before my brother kindly helped me make this cover to keep them away from the veggies, I my frustration posted on Facebook. My friend Elizabeth in Llano Grande replied that I should eat the rabbits. We did raise and eat rabbit when we … More That darn rabbit


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BASF Enzymes and Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits (LBDS) have formally entered into a marketing and sales collaboration agreement with the aim to 'maximise value to customers in the ethanol market in the United States.'
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I say this every single time, but it really has been a super long time since I last wrote an entry. I have a genuine excuse though this time, I moved house recently and I've only just got the internet in my place! As usual, a crazy amount of stuff has happened in the past few months.
Ink & Water
In June, I spent some time freelancing with the nice dudes at Ink & Water who are a small design studio in Sheffield. Also, they have an ace coffee shop in West One Plaza so check that out if you're ever over that way. I mostly did some InDesign work but also got the chance to do a couple of illustration based things as well which is always an added bonus. I've always wanted to do an icon set and then I was able to create one for the Engineering Department at the University of Sheffield.
I also drew these illustrations for an animation to explain how to use a HIV testing kit. I'm just going to put it out there that I never want to draw hands ever again, I found it so difficult! My desk was littered with pages and pages of hand sketches ha!
Goodbye Sheffield, Hello Leeds
I'm not sure how, but I managed to bag a design job at a digital agency in Leeds. So sadly, I left Sheffield after spending nearly a decade there and returned to West Yorkshire. But I get to do a fair bit of illustration in my day job which is pretty neat. I've never been too confident with a pencil in my hand, but having to do it at work, I've really improved so I'm making it my mission to use my sketchbook and actually put it in my bag when I go out. My work let me loose on their blog, so naturally I wrote about how great illustration is and how demand for it is increasing, you can read it here. It's been my absolute dream project to do a mural and my first project at work was to design TWO. First one's up already, second one is in progress. (Note to self: upgrade my bloody phone camera).
Interview: Introtuesday
One of my favourite illustrators, Wijtze Valkema, got in touch to ask me a few questions for his blog which features new artists and you can read that here. I tried to make myself sound a bit professional but to be honest, most of my work is done stretched out on the sofa in my pyjamas. Comfort first!
As a lot of things have changed and I'm settling into a new routine (I am a creature of habit, major changes freak me out!), I've been fairly quiet. I'm currently working on a commission and my partner and I are planning a super awesome top secret project together, but apart from that, I've been taking time to refine my work/experiment with new techniques/draw inspiration from other places. At the moment, I'm really enjoying playing around with making textures and vector brushes. I'm looking to get my hands on some blow pens to make some ace scatter brushes (I love living round the corner from a Hobbycraft store, so convenient!). As much as I love flat vectors, I'm wanting to develop my work further and level up by making use of more patterns and textures.
I think that's everything that's happened in the past couple of months. Oh, my ridiculously long "Things I'd Like To Do One Day" list just got bigger with the addition of "teach a Skillshare class". It's been in the back of my mind lately, I'm thinking of something to do with vector textures.
P.S. The astute among you may have noticed all my social media handles are now taaryn_b. A new domain and email address to follow soon but more on this another time.


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For the 9th straight year, the "Minerals Generals" will represent Koch Minerals in the Koch-Sponsored Bowl For Kids' Sake benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters. This year's event is on Friday, March 1st. It's a wonderful event and a great cause, and we can all be very proud of the support Koch gives it each year. Last year your generosity helped the Generals earn over $2,900 for Big Brothers Big Sisters, which ranked 5th out of 33 Koch teams. Please help us GO even BIGger this Year!


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The application of SpMT WaveCache in performance development of dynamic data flow computer
Zhou Ning1, Zhang Jing2
1Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei, China, 071002
2Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding, Hebei, China, 071001
Along with the gradually rising of the frequency of single core processor, it also brought communication overhead, design difficulty, power consumption and other problems. These problems all come from memory wall, power wall, and etc. However, dynamic data flow computer well solved the problems such as memory wall, and catered to the development trend of current multi-core system architecture. Based on this, this paper made a study on the performance development of a typical dynamic data flow computer system structure - WaveScalar system structure, introduced in detail the application of SpMT WaveCache in dynamic data flow computer performance development, dug the speculative multithreading parallelism of data flow computer, and finally proved with practice that the performance of WaveScalar system structure was greatly improved, and thus is a method of dynamic data flow computer performance development deserving to be vigorously popularized and applied.


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The idea of an extensive trip through Europe didn't come all at once. Truthfully, I don't even remember how it happened anymore. All I know is, it somehow all fell into place, perfectly: my mom and I and at least 3 new countries! It started out with us booking the resort in Spain for a week since we own timeshares around the world. We knew that Italy had to be included, and seeing at least most of the northern-central part was a must. From there on, suddenly it was a choice between Egypt and South Africa, and I said: "If we're going to Africa, we're going to Morocco!". I had been fascinated with Arabic culture, from costumes, to traditions, to music, for a very long time now and the opportunity to experience it personally would just be over the top amazing! And, many weekends spent on trip planning and research later, which successfully kept the stress of homework and exam preparation away, here we were: embarking on our 3-week, 3-country majestic trip, knowing that only the best lies ahead.
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Stuttgart-Milan (2 days) flight-->Bologna (train) 1 day--->Florence 3 days (train)-->Pisa 1day (train)--->
Marrakech, 6 days--->Valencia (2 nights)--->Tarragona (7 days)-->home (but I'm not thinking about that part yet!)


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Banks and credit companies are, strictly speaking, the direct source of their illusory "income." But considered more abstractly, it is their bosses who are lending them money. Most households are net debtors, while only the very richest are net creditors. In an overall sense, in other words, the working classes are forever borrowing from their employers. Lending replaces decent wages, masking income disparities even while aggravating them through staggering interest rates.
—Kim Phillips-Fein "Chapters of Eleven"
The Baffler No. 11, 1998
Note: Since I began this blog by writing about golf, I originally wrote a short paragraph tying what follows to the FIFA scandal, on the perhaps-tenuous connection that the Clinton Foundation had accepted money from FIFA and Bill had been the chairman of the U.S. bid for the 2022 World Cup. But I think the piece works better without it.
"Why is it that women still get paid less than men for doing the same work?" presidential candidate Hillary Clinton asked recently in, of all places, Michigan. But the more natural question in the Wolverine State might seem to be the question a lot of economists are asking these days: "Why is everyone getting paid less?" Economists like Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, who says that "U.S. income inequality has been steadily increasing since the 1970s, and now has reached levels not seen since 1928." Or Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, who says that even the wages of "highly educated Americans have gone nowhere since the late 1990s." But while it's not difficult to imagine that Clinton asks the question she asks in a cynical fashion—in other words, to think that she is a kind of Manchurian candidate for Wall Street—it's at least possible to think she asks it innocently. All Americans, says scholar Walter Benn Michaels, have been the victims of a "trick" over the last generation: the trick of responding to "economic inequality by insisting on the importance of … identity." But how was the trick done?
The dominant pedagogy of the American university suggests one way: if it's true that, as the professors say, reality is a function of the conceptual tools available, then maybe Hillary Clinton cannot see reality because she doesn't have the necessary tools. As well she might not: in Clinton's case, one might as well ask why a goldfish can't see water. Raised in a wealthy Chicago suburb, on to Ivy League colleges; then the governor's mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas and the White House; followed by Westchester County, then back to D.C. It's true of course that Clinton did write a college thesis about Saul Alinsky's community organizing tactics, so she cannot possibly be unfamiliar with the question of economic inequality. But it's also easy to see how economics is easily obscured in such places.
What's perhaps stranger though is that economics, as a subject, should have become more obscure, not less, since Clinton left New Haven—and even if Clinton should have been wholly ignorant of the subject, that doesn't explain how she could then become a national candidate for president of the party. Yet at about the same time that Clinton was at Yale, another young woman with bright academic credentials was living practically just down the road in Hartford, Connecticut—and the work she did has helped to ensure that, as Michaels says, "for the last 30 years, while the gap between the rich and the poor has grown larger, we've been urged to respect people's identities." That doesn't mean of course that the story I am going to tell explains everything about why Hillary asked the question she asked in Michigan, instead of the one she should have asked, but it is, I think, illustrative—by telling this one story in depth, it becomes possible to understand how what Michaels calls the "trick" was pulled.
"In 1969," Jane Tompkins tells us in "Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History," she "lived in the basement of a house on Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut, which had belonged to Isabella Beecher Hooker—Harriet Beecher Stowe's half-sister." Living where she did sent Tompkins off on an intellectual journey that eventually led to the essay "Sentimental Power"—an essay that took up the question of why, as Randall Fuller observed not long ago in the magazine Humanities, "Uncle Tom's Cabin was seen by most literary professionals as a cultural embarrassment." Her conclusion was that Uncle Tom's Cabin was squelched by a "male-dominated scholarly tradition that controls both the canon of American literature … and the critical perspective that interprets the canon for society." To Tompkins, Uncle Tom's Cabin was "repressed" on the basis of "identity": Stowe's work was called "trash"—as the Times of London did at the time it was published—because it was written by a woman.
To make her argument, however, required Tompkins to make several moves that go some way towards explaining why Hillary Clinton asks the question she asks, rather than the one she should ask. Most significant is Tompkins' argument against the view she ascribes to her opponents: that "sentimental novels written by women in the nineteenth century"—like Uncle Tom's Cabin—"were responsible for a series of cultural evils whose regrets still plague us," among them the "rationalization of an unjust economic order." Already, Tompkins is telling her readers that she is going to argue against those critics who used Uncle Tom's Cabin to discuss the economy; already, we are not far from Hillary Clinton's question.
Next, Tompkins takes her critical predecessors to task for ignoring the novel's "enormous popular success": it was, as Tompkins points out, the first novel to sell "over a million copies." So part of her argument is not only the bigotry, but also the snobbishness of her opponents—an argument familiar enough to anyone who listens to right-wing talk radio. The distance from Tompkins' argument to those who "argue" that quality is guaranteed by popularity, and vice versa—the old "if you're so smart, why ain't you rich" line—is about as far from the last letter in this sentence to its period. So Tompkins deprecates the idea that value can be independent of "success"—the idea that there can be slippage between an economic system and reality.
Yet perhaps the largest step Tompkins takes on the road to Hillary's question simply concerns how she ascribes criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin to sexism, or Stowe's status as a woman—despite the fact that perhaps the best-known critical text on the novel, James Baldwin's 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel," was not only written by a gay black man, but Baldwin's based his criticism of Stowe's novel on rules originally applied to a white male author: James Fenimore Cooper, the object of Mark Twain's scathing 1895 essay, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses." That essay, with which Twain sought to bury Cooper, furnished the critical precepts Baldwin uses to attempt to bury Stowe.
Stowe's work, Baldwin says, is "a very bad novel" for two reasons: first, it is full of "excessive and spurious emotion." Secondly, the novel "is activated by what might be called a theological terror," so that "the spirit that breathes in this book … is not different from that spirit of medieval times which sought to exorcise evil by burning witches." Both of these reasons derive from principles propounded by Twain in "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses."
"Eschew surplusage" is number fourteen of Twain's rules, so when Baldwin says Stowe's writing is "excessive," he is implicitly accusing Stowe of breaking this rule. Even Tompkins admits that Uncle Tom's Cabin breaks this rule when she says that Stowe's novel possesses "a needless proliferation of incident." Then, number nine on Twain's list is "that the personages of a tale shall confine themselves to possibilities and let miracles alone"—the rule that Baldwin invokes when he criticizes Uncle Tom's Cabin for its "theological terror." When burning witches, after all, it is necessary to have a belief in miracles—i.e., the supernatural—and certainly Stowe, who not only famously claimed that "God wrote" her novel but also suffused her novel with supernatural events, believed in the supernatural. So, if Baldwin—who remember was both black and homosexual—is condemning Stowe on the basis of rules originally used against a white male writer, it's difficult to see how Stowe is being unfairly singled out on the basis of her sex. But that is what Tompkins says.
I take such time on these points because ultimately Twain's rules go back much further than Twain himself—and it's ultimately these roots that are both Tompkin's object and, I suspect, the reason why Hillary asks the question she asks instead of the one she should. Twain's ninth rule, concerning miracles, is more or less a restatement of what philosophers call naturalism: the belief "that reality has no place for 'supernatural' or other 'spooky' kinds of entity" according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. And the roots of that idea trace back to the original version of Twain's fourteenth rule ("Eschew surplusage."): Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologica, gave one example of it when wrote that if "a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do by several." (In a marvelous economy, in other words, Twain reduced Aquinas' rule—sometimes known as "Occam's Razor," to two words.) So it's possible to say that Baldwin's criticisms of Stowe are actually the same criticism: that "excessive" writing leads to, or perhaps more worrisomely just is, a belief in the supernatural.
It's this point that Tompkins ultimately wants to address—she calls Uncle Tom's Cabin "the Summa Theologica of nineteenth-century America's religion of domesticity," after all. Also, Tompkins doesn't try to defend Stowe against Baldwin on the same grounds that two other critics tried to defend Cooper against Twain. In an essay named "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Defenses," Lance Schachterle and Kent Ljungquist argue that Twain doesn't do justice to Cooper because he doesn't take into account the different literary climate of Cooper's time. While "Twain valued economy of style," they write, "such concision simply was not a characteristic of many early nineteenth-century novelists' work." They're willing to allow, in other words, the merits of Twain's rules—they're just arguing that it isn't fair to apply those rules to writers who could not have been aware of them. Tompkins however takes a different tack: she says that in Uncle Tom's Cabin, "it is the spirit alone that is finally real." According to Tompkins, the novel is not just unaware of naturalism: Uncle Tom's Cabin actively rejects naturalism.
To Tompkins, Stowe's anti-naturalism is somehow a virtue. Stowe's rejection of naturalism leads her to recommend, Tompkins says, "not specific alterations in the current political and economic arrangements but rather a change of heart … as the necessary precondition for sweeping social change." To Stowe, attempts to "alter the anti-abolitionist majority in the Senate," for instance, are absurdities: "Reality, in Stowe's view, cannot be changed by manipulating the physical environment." Apparently, this is a point in Stowe's favor.
Without naturalism and its corollaries—basic intellectual tools—it's difficult to think a number of things: that all people are people, first of all. That is, members of a species that has had, more or less, the same cognitive abilities for at least the last 100,000 years or so, which implies that most people's cognitive abilities aren't much different than anyone else's—nor are they much different from anyone in history's. Which, one might say, is prerequisite to running a democratic state—as opposed to, say, a monarchy or aristocracy, in which one person is better than another by blood right. But if naturalism is dead, then the growth of "identity" politics is perhaps easy to understand: without the conceptual category of "human being" available, other categories have to be substituted.
Without grouping votes on some basis, how could they be gathered into large enough clumps to make a difference? Hillary Clinton must ask for votes on the basis of some commonality between voters large enough to ensure her election. Assuming that she does, in fact, wish to be elected, it's enlightening to observe that Clinton is appealing for votes on the basis of the next largest category after "human being"—"woman," the category of 51 percent of the population according to most figures. That alone might explain why Hillary Clinton should ask "Why are women paid less" rather than "Why is everyone paid less?"
Yet the effects of Tompkins' argument, as I suspect will be drearily apparent to the reader by now, are readily observable in many more places than Hillary Clinton's campaign in today's world. Think of it this way: what else are contemporary phenomena like unpaid internships, "doing it for the exposure," or just trying to live on a minimum wage or public assistance, but attempts to live without material substance—that is, attempts to live as a "spirit?" Or for that matter, what is credit card debt, which Kim Phillips-Fein was explaining in The Baffler so long ago as 1998 as what happened when "people began to borrow to make up for stagnant wages." These are all matters in which what matters isn't matter—i.e., the material—but the "spirit."
In the same way, what else was the "long-time" Occupy Wall Street camper named "Ketchup" doing when she said, to Josh Harkinson at Mother Jones, that the "'whole big desire for demands is something people want to use to co-opt us'" but, as Tompkins would put it, refusing to delineate "specific alterations in the current political and economic arrangements?" That's why Occupy, as Thomas Frank memorably wrote in his essay, "To the Precinct Station," "seems to have had no intention of doing anything except building 'communities' in public spaces and inspiring mankind with its noble refusal to have leaders." The values described by Tompkins' essay are, specifically, anti-naturalist: Occupy Wall Street, and its many, many sympathizers, was an anti-naturalist—a religious—movement.
It may, to be sure, be little wonder that feminists like Tompkins should look to intellectual traditions explicitly opposed to the intellectual project of naturalism—most texts written by women have been written by religious women. So have most texts written by most people everywhere—to study a "minority" group virtually requires studying texts written by people who believed in a supernatural being. It's wholly understandable, then, that anti-naturalism should have become the default mode of people who claim to be on the "left." But while it's understandable, it's no way to, say, raise wages. Whatever Jane Tompkins says about her male literary opponents, Harriet Beecher Stowe didn't free anybody. Abraham Lincoln—by all accounts an atheist—did.
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Yet another contender in the battery throne that is currently occupied by the Lithium-Ion battery emerges. This is a proton battery.
This battery was created by researchers in Australia. It is the world's first rechargeable proton battery. The proton battery primarily uses carbon, which is cheaper and more readily available than Lithium.
From Christian Post
|Researchers Create First Rechargeable Proton Battery as Alternative to Lithium-Ion
The world's first rechargeable proton battery has been created and demonstrated by a team of researchers in Australia. The current battery, which is now just a prototype to prove that the mechanism works, is a big step towards a more environmentally sound energy storage system.
Unlike current lithium-ion designs that use rare materials, the prototype battery uses carbon and water to store electrical charge. The proof-of-concept was created by a team at the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, as announced by the university on social media on Wednesday, March 7.
"Carbon, which is the primary resource used in our proton battery, is abundant and cheap compared to both metal hydrogen-storage alloys and the lithium needed for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries," lead researcher Professor John Andrewsexplained to Fairfax Media via The Age Australia.
With the world now rapidly moving towards electric-based transportation, there is now a need to come up with rechargeable batteries that are more environment-friendly to produce and dispose of.
"Our latest advance is a crucial step towards cheap, sustainable proton batteries that can help meet our future energy needs without further damaging our already fragile environment," Andrews noted.
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Jessica has recently obtained her diploma in Massage Therapy from the Canadian College of Massage & Hydrotherapy. Through her studies, she found her passion is to treat athletes of all levels and ages to help them achieve their athletic goals or recover from injury. Having an athletic personal history and raising a little ninja, has given her experience and knowledge of how athletes train and compete and the benefits of maintaining body health and treating injuries with therapeutic massage.
Jessica looks forward to continuing her training and studies to expand her knowledge and skills in athletic therapies to provide the most effective treatment for her clients.
In her spare time Jessica enjoys being a Taekwondo Mom, reading, listening to music, and participating in fun runs.