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Jaipur, 19 May: Rajsamand MP, Diya Kumari, has sent an email to Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman demanding reduction of GST on import of marble. She has suggested this as a solution to the crisis faced by the marble industry due to the Open General License (OGL) on the import of mined marble.
MP Diya Kumari said that the Rajsamand district of Rajasthan is a leader in the production of marble in India and is the mainstay. However, this business has been affected due –deepening of the marble mines, increase in royalty and electricity rates, GST, increased cost price, increased prices of petrol and diesel as well as more availability and increased use of artificial marble tiles. Similarly, COVID-19 and the lockdown has led to the shutdown of the industry. In such a situation, marble businessmen are expecting an ambitious plan from the Central and State Government. This would include an economic package to revive this industry.
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The Life-and-Death Consequences of Summer Jobs Programs
And five other surprising takeaways from research into the programs that big-city mayors love to brag about.
Since the 1960s, big-city mayors have touted the virtues of summer jobs programs for inner-city kids with almost religious faith.
Paying a couple of thousand dollars to local businesses to give poor kids an entry-level job for six weeks would reap big rewards down the road, the thinking went. Even a minimum wage job would prepare young people for entry into the job market; give them an incentive to stay in school, stay off the streets and out of jail; and even bring home some cash to help out their hardworking parents.
"It's hard to find a mayor who doesn't love them," says Martha Ross, a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. "They're the political equivalent of a ribbon cutting."
But do these programs really work? For years, no one measured whether summer jobs programs actually achieved what city halls simply presumed they did. Rigorous examination of those claims was hampered by the time it would take to dig through the records from the nonprofits and private companies that provided the jobs, says Alicia Modestino, a labor economist at Northeastern University.
But over the past few years, academic studies, many connected to MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, have started to tally results, in some cases tracking outcomes of summer jobs programs through randomized controlled trials.
The results have been surprising. Things long assumed to be true have been proven false, while other unanticipated, but hugely consequential benefits have been revealed.
Here are six things city governments need to know, based on several groundbreaking deep dives on summer jobs programs in New York (65,000 kids), Boston (3,300) and Chicago (31,000).
Hire a kid, save a life.
In a study that looked at 164,641 youths involved in New York City's summer jobs program from 2005 to 2008, researchers found that the death and incarceration rates for youths in the summer jobs program were reduced by 18 percent for deaths (83 fewer) and 10 percent for incarceration (112 fewer). The researchers still haven't figured out what actually caused the declines, says Judd Kessler, an economist with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, who co-authored the study with Adam Isen and Alexander Gelber. "It might be just that crime was prevented that summer, but it also may be that they were exposed to a different social network, to adults who are good role models, and that keeps you on a path that doesn't lead to incarceration and doesn't lead to mortality," he says.
That data got some reinforcement from two studies conducted in Chicago in 2012 and 2013. Social scientists looked at whether jobs programs reduced arrests for violent crime. The declines were significant—from 33 to 42 percent. The drop in violence also continued in the year after the summer jobs ended. Interestingly, property crime arrests increased over that time, says researcher Sara Heller of the University of Pennsylvania.
Why did violent crime arrests go down? "That's the $64,000 question," Heller says. Because participants were chosen by lottery, it's clear it was the jobs program itself that was somehow connected to a drop in violence and not any other factors. The fact that it continued past the summer "tells us kids are taking something with them that's changing their future behavior," Heller says, possibly self-regulation skills. "They're learning not to mouth off to supervisors, to deal with their peers and to avoid conflict."
Even with the uptick in arrests for property crimes, researchers see it as a net gain. Violence is "so much more socially costly," Heller says.
A Boston study showed that the benefits of the jobs programs can last long past the end of the summer. Alicia Modestino says that the Boston youth who participated in summer jobs had drops in arraignments for violent crimes and property crimes that extended 17 months past their summer jobs. In fact, says Modestino, most of the drop in arraignments happen after the program ends. "That's when we start to think that maybe it's the program that's affecting behavior," she says.
School attendance didn't improve much.
So far, research has struggled to find a connection between having a job in the summer and the number days of school teenagers attended during the school year or make them more likely to aim for college. One earlier study showed an average of two to three more school days for New York City youth who did the summer jobs program.
But there is some more optimistic news from New York. In a report with Jacob Leos-Urbel and Matthew Wiswall for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Amy Schwartz, a professor of public affairs at Syracuse University, found that from 2005 to 2008, high school students who joined the city's summer jobs program were more likely to take, pass and earn higher scores on the Regents exams, standardized tests required by New York state for high school graduation. The "small but significant" effect increased with the number of summers that youth participated in the jobs program, Schwartz adds.
Also interesting is that New York City tried other ways to persuade students to take the exam, in one case offering a $600 cash incentive for each exam passed, but money alone didn't increase the number of students passing the exam, Schwartz writes.
It's a job, not a career.
Summer jobs programs have yet to prove that they can give students a head-start in the job market. Part of the issue is that, as the research on the programs is still in its early stages, no one has done any long-term research on future earnings.
In both New York and Chicago, "we're not seeing an improvement in employment," says Sara Heller. "It's a little bit counterintuitive, since we're thinking we are giving kids a leg up in the job market and connecting them to networks and job skills."
"I think there are still many unanswered questions—how much does it matter, for example, what you are doing?" she asks.
Mentors and hands-on mayors make a big difference.
Boston might turn out to be the city that answers some of those job questions. In one of the more interesting summer jobs programs in the country, the city engages a slew of private-sector companies including hospitals, banks and technology companies to give young people a sense of possible future jobs. The Boston Private Industry Council, with a staff of about 20, matches high school students to school-year internships and summer jobs. This year, that meant about 2,800 in private sector and 500 subsidized summer jobs, with wages supported by the state, says research director Joseph McLaughlin. Adding to the pressure, Mayor Marty Walsh gets on the phone each year and personally calls up companies.
"We have a list of those who haven't participated, and we'll ask, 'Would you take on a high school student this summer?'" says McLaughlin. "That commitment at the top is crucial."
Another key, he says, is having that program championed through the company with mentors assigned to each student.
In other cities, says Erin Valentine of MDRC, a New York social policy research nonprofit, funding for summer jobs programs varies from year to year. It's often not until the spring that a city council finds money for jobs. "Suddenly, some other stream of funding would come in and there would be 10,000 more slots," which then makes it hard to match jobs with student interests.
That extra $1,000 means a lot to a struggling family.
The basic summer job—flipping burgers or watching kids at camp—is no longer a guarantee in today's job market, so subsidized summer programs bring needed money to lower-income households.
In Boston, says Modestino, the program turned out to provide as much as half of a household's income in the summer. "The dryer broke or the cellphone bill came in," she says. "This is a big income driver not just for the kid but for the household."
In New York, many of the young people not offered a job by the city went without jobs, says Valentine. The summer program brought about $1,000 to a household, she says, "money that is meaningful to them and their families."
The investment actually pays off.
Social scientists say prevention is always cheaper than intervention: Keeping kids gainfully occupied and out of trouble is less expensive than dealing with issues when they've already been sucked into the juvenile detention system.
A summer jobs program, which costs the city about $2,000 per person, is "not that much money when you compare it to the cost of juvenile incarceration," says Martha Ross. That's an "amazing bang for your buck," says Amy Schwartz. "You could fit a lot of summer jobs into some of the other interventions we're talking about."
Says Sara Heller, "The thing I find exciting is that there's a feeling that if you can't change the long term, it's not worth doing anything," but "I think if we can make small dents in problems, especially in a way that's cost-effective, that's an investment worth making."
In the end, the question is still what kind of effect a program that lasts only a month or two can have. Ross says, "If you want to have deeper impacts on education, employment, or criminal behavior, you most likely need to extend that intervention beyond that eight weeks and connect young people to something else." Then again, she adds, "serving youth over the summer is good in and of itself."


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WASHINGTON (BP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has vetoed a bill critics warned could have made his state a leader in the commercial surrogacy industry.
Jindal, a Republican, informed the state Senate June 20 he had rejected the bill after state and national pro-life bioethics organizations expressed grave concerns about the legislation. The measure's gestational surrogacy contracts could commercialize surrogacy by allowing "reasonable compensation" to women who carry babies to term for a couple or another person, he said.
Southern Baptist ethicist Russell D. Moore commended Jindal for his decision.
"Surrogacy for hire is bad for children and bad for women," said Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. "The womb is not a commercial commodity to be traded in the marketplace, and children are blessings, not consumer items. Surrogacy bypasses the one-flesh union, and exploits women's bodies and children's lives. This is not the place for laissez-faire bioethics."
Gestational surrogacy — in which an embryo created by in vitro fertilization is implanted in a woman who has no relation to the child but has agreed to endure the pregnancy and give birth — has become increasingly popular. No federal regulation of surrogacy exists in the United States. State laws and policies regarding the practice vary from those without regulation to those with total bans, according to the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network.
Ethical problems with surrogacy include, the CBC says:
— Little consideration is given to children, who have no rights regarding their biological parents or surrogate mother if the couple who contracted with the "gestational carrier" is unrelated;
— Women's bodies are commodified, and those who agree to become surrogates often are unaware of the health risks from receiving multiple hormone injections to enable them to receive and carry an implanted embryo;
— Low-income females are exploited to provide babies for those who can pay from $25,000 to $50,000 per child.
"Surrogacy degrades a pregnancy to a service and a baby to a product," according to the CBC.
Bioethics specialist Wesley Smith said the bill could have transformed Louisiana "into our version of India — a country in which destitute and desperate women are exploited for their gestational capacities by a surrogacy industry and its foreign customers."
The body "and its biological parts and functions are being reduced to the status of natural resources for the well-off to exploit, plunder, buy, and rent," Smith wrote on his blog at National Review Online. "Political actions that blunt this objectification of humanity are to be applauded — including Jindal's veto."
In his veto message to the Senate, Jindal said, "Creating a state sanctioned regulatory structure for contracts pertaining to the birth of children has a profound impact on the traditional beginnings of the family and is an important topic worthy of heightened scrutiny and consensus."
He remained unsatisfied the concerns raised by commercial surrogacy "have been sufficiently studied and thoroughly debated" by legislators, Jindal wrote.
The state legislature overwhelmingly approved the bill. The Senate voted 32-3 for the proposal, while the House of Representatives supported it 85-12, according to The Advocate, a Baton Rouge newspaper.
The bill, supporters said, would have regulated payments to surrogate mothers and provided guidance regarding the responsibilities of the contractual parent or parents and the surrogate, The Advocate reported. The legislation prohibited unmarried or same-sex couples from entering surrogacy contracts.
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Pitstop had the opportunity to sit down with Tony Loxley to discuss his latest book Speedway: The Bikes, the Cars and the Heroes of the Track...
What attracted you to Speedway?
I first was attracted to Speedway when I was very young. I used to go to the Speedway with my parents when I was just a little boy. We'd go to the Sydney showground – I suppose that was the late 60's. The television coverage of the day back in the 60's also illustrated my love of the sport. From there, Mum and Dad stopped going to the Speedway for a while and then in 1977 I saw an advertisement in the Parramatta advertiser about a new track at Parramatta that was opening called Parramatta Speedway. I guess a combination of seeing the advertisement, and seeing the TV advertisements and things like that did something inside me which I can't explain! My enthusiasm was tickled right from the start and I knew that was going to be the sport of my future. I had always been a big rugby league and rugby union player and played a lot of sport, but girls and football are important but after a while it was Speedway racing that became all consuming!
Who are your favourite Australian Speedway drivers?
Garry Rush is always a driver who comes to mind when people ask me that question. I don't think there has ever been a better driver in motorsport. He could do anything, and he did do everything. He was successful at everything that he did! Steve Brazier, Dick Britton, Billy Sanders on the bikes, Doug Tieman, Dog Robson in the sidecars, Grenville Anderson in the sedans, Barry Pinchbeck, John Fenton, George Tatnell – all those guys in the midgets. I had a multitude of drivers that I followed but if it was one particular driver it would be Garry Rush, but followed very closely by Steve Brazier. And of course everyone loved Peter Brock in road racing, but that is another story.
How did you go about writing this book?
I have written and published many books over the years. This time, I wanted to be involved with a major publisher to make sure we got this book out to the general media -- I needed to go with a company that had that expertise. So I sent an email to Alan Whittaker - who is a well known journalist and well known book writer - I sent him some covers and information on my previous books. We got together and had a meeting, and he liked what I had done prior. I showed him a copy of the Tasman Cup 1964-1975 and Ghosts in the Bull Pens - Speedway Racing at Sydney Showground, and pretty much straight away he said yes. The publisher loved the selection of images I gave them – and hey presto, we got a book on Speedway!
There are so many amazing photos' in this book – where do you get these from?
A lot of them are from the photographers themselves. Some I have taken myself – I have been photographing since 1980 – makes me an old guy! The others were private collections, or collections I have accumulated myself. So from a variety of sources, but all of the images are absolutely stunning! I think we have a great selection covering just about every race track in Australia.
You've written so may iconic books- Tasman Cup 1964 – 1975, Speedway by The Freeway , Ghosts in the Bull Pens - Speedway Racing at Sydney Showground among others – what else is in the pipeline?
Well we just put out Caged Heat, which I am proud to say Woodslane is supporting us with their distribution. We want to do Part 2 -- Vern Schuppan. Talk about iconic, Vern Schuppan is one of our most famous race car drivers ever. He won Le Mans, and was rookie of the year at Indianapolis, and god only knows what else he has won! He has raced Formula One – everything! I was honoured to receive an email from him a couple weeks ago reaffirming that he wants to do a book with me in a similar genre to Tasman Cup. So lots of photographs, lots of memorabilia, not too much of a personal history, but basically told in an illustrative way. I also look to do Part 2 of Caged Heat because I really believe that this book, and the popularity of sprint car racing around the world at the moment will be a great success.
There are so many subjects out there that you can cover. The great thing about our books is that they are the perfect of photographs and captions. Let's face it, today 60-70% of people prefer that. Reading is not what it used to be. Before there was television we were sitting in front of the radio, now we all sit in front of the television, or if you want to expand that, we sit and look through our mobile phones. That is what our lives have become! So books that are very similar to the way that we live our lives, through the television or our phones, will be very successful. In our books, the photographs are lavish, there are lots of them, and people seem to like that more and more! We've got a really good mixture there. In fact, I think we've got the perfect scenario for today's books.
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Boeing will take another crack at an uncrewed rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS).
In December 2019, the company launched its CST-100 Starliner capsule to the ISS on an uncrewed demonstration mission called Orbital Flight Test (OFT), which was intended to show that the spacecraft can safely carry NASA astronauts.
But things didn't go as planned: Starliner suffered a glitch with its onboard timing system, got stranded in the wrong orbit and was brought down for a safe landing after circling Earth by itself for two days.
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Analyses of OFT data subsequently revealed several serious software issues. Still, it remained unclear whether Boeing would launch another OFT or proceed directly to the next phase of Starliner vetting, a crewed test flight to the ISS.
We now have our answer.
"We have chosen to refly our Orbital Flight Test to demonstrate the quality of the Starliner system," Boeing representatives announced in a statement today (April 6).
"Flying another uncrewed flight will allow us to complete all flight test objectives and evaluate the performance of the second Starliner vehicle at no cost to the taxpayer," they added. "We will then proceed to the tremendous responsibility and privilege of flying astronauts to the International Space Station."
The statement does not indicate when the second OFT will lift off.
Boeing had planned for this outcome financially. The company announced in late January that it was setting aside $410 million in case it was decided to refly OFT.
Boeing has been developing Starliner under a series of NASA contracts. The most recent of these, a $4.2 billion deal signed in 2014, covers the end of development work and the launch of six operational crewed missions to the ISS.
SpaceX is working on its own astronaut taxi, a capsule called Crew Dragon. Elon Musk's company holds a $2.6 billion NASA deal, also signed in 2014, to get Crew Dragon up and running and fly six missions to the orbiting lab.
Crew Dragon aced its version of OFT, called Demo-1, in March 2019. SpaceX is now gearing up for the Demo-2 crewed test flight, which is scheduled to lift off in mid- to late May.
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To most Americans, Saint Patrick's Day celebrates the Irish and their traditions by parades, music, shamrocks, and green beer. But are we celebrating true traditions or a fluffy version?
Here are myths and truths about Saint Patrick's Day:
First off, the patron saint of Ireland was actually born in Scotland in the late 4th century. When he was a teenager, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Ireland. Six years later, he escaped and went back to Scotland, where he joined a monastery. As an adult, he returned to Ireland as a missionary, where he lived for 40 years, dying in A.D. 461. His real name is believed to be Maewyn Succat and he took on the name Patrick upon becoming a priest.
St. Patrick's Day did not start out as a party day. Until the 1700s, it was a day in the Catholic calendar in observance of a saint important to and popular in Ireland…and not much anywhere else. And even in Ireland, Catholics honored St. Patrick with prayer and quiet reflection. St. Patrick's Day as we know it today started in America in the late 19th and early 20th century, when the large numbers of newly arrived Irish immigrants began using the day as a way to celebrate their Irish heritage.
Green was not always the color of St. Patrick's Day. Members of the Order of St. Patrick actually used blue as their symbolic color.
The shamrock, as beautiful a plant as it is, is not the officially sanctioned symbol of Ireland. The official symbol is a harp.
Corned beef and cabbage is actually about as Irish as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Favorite Irish foods include traditional fare like Irish bacon, lamb, and soda bread and of course, Irish stew. The tradition of corned beef and cabbage likely came from Irish immigrants who had to make do with what food was available to them once they arrived in the United States.
St. Patrick did not drive the snakes from Ireland. The Ice Age deserves more credit for ridding snakes from Ireland than Patrick. The truth is that weather conditions on the Emerald Isle make snake existence virtually impossible. Thus there have never been any snakes living there at all. As the period came to an end snakes migrated northwards but stopped at Britain when melting ice caps created the Irish Sea.
St. Patrick also did not defeat the pagan druids. The truth: This story is believed to have been invented by a cleric, Muirchú, who lived two centuries later. Historians believe that there were already Christian believers in Ireland by the time Patrick arrived. Ireland also had strong trading links with the Roman Empire, and the religion is likely to have been spread.
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Kate Upton Graces The Cover of 3 Sports Illustrated Issues For 2017
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Kate Upton graces not one, not two, but three covers of the 2017 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, it was revealed in a segment on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and on SI.com Tuesday night.
Upton's appearance on three national covers is a first for SI Swimsuit. It also marks her third cover appearance (2012, 2013), tying her with Christie Brinkley, who returns to SI Swimsuit this year (at 63!), Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum.
Elle Macpherson holds the record, with five SI Swimsuit covers. The reveal coincides with an unprecedented multi-platform, multimedia launch across print, digital, social and experiential channels.
Upton headlines the editorial production that celebrates empowered, confident beauty.
The powerful cast of women, including five previous cover models (Nina Agdal, Christie Brinkley, Ashley Graham, Hannah Jeter and Chrissy Teigen), five mothers (and one expecting), five world-famous athletes (Simone Biles, Genie Bouchard, Aly Raisman, Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki) and seven rookies was assembled by Swimsuit Editor MJ Day.
In addition to being models, these women are authors, activists, designers, kick boxers, impresarios, Olympic gold medal winners, students, groundbreakers, singer-songwriters, up-and-coming and C-level business executives, role models and so much more.
"The women of SI Swimsuit 2017 are a collection of change agents, pioneers, power brokers and breakout stars-in-waiting who have in their own way redefined the cultural conversation around beauty," said Day.
"These ladies embody character and beauty--and they prove that when it comes to beauty, there is not one singular definition. This is the very essence of SI Swimsuit, and it's our guiding principle as we move forward."
SI Swimsuit 2017 is telling the stories of this year's amazing cast across an unprecedented number of platforms and channels, with exclusive partnerships with the biggest players in social media. Launch week will feature over a dozen Facebook Live shows, including the announcement of the 2017 Rookie of the Year winner from Facebook's Manhattan studios; a Snapchat Global Live Story following the models during Swimsuit launch; a new partnership with Giphy to create hundreds of GIFs searchable by model and topic; exclusive new YouTube videos featuring top influencers; exclusive Instagram swimsuit videos and much more.
There are also partnerships with @WomenIRL--a Time Inc.
Instagram community devoted to authenticity--and with Health.com to launch the new "What I Model" campaign, which coincides with the tagline for this year's edition, "Every body, Every age, Every beautiful." It will celebrate confidence and beauty in all its forms as women can participate by submitting their own videos using the #WhatIModel and #LoveYourSwimsuit tags.
In the coming days, SI Swimsuit will continue to roll out never-before-seen photos and video content, including 360-degree videos from shoots in Fiji and Mexico, nearly 1,000 bonus pictures, dozens of new Swimsuit videos, premium in-app content and much more.
On February 16, SI Swimsuit will stream a live show from the red carpet of the New York City launch party debuting this year's full cast of models.
The VIP event will also feature a DJ performance by Nick Cannon and an array of social integrations.
Swimsuit coverage will continue at the first-ever VIBES by SI Swimsuit music, food and culture festival taking place in Houston, Texas, on February 17aEUR'18, featuring live performances by GRAMMY Award winners Diplo and Miguel, a range of panels hosted by 2017 Swimsuit models, food offerings from local and national celebrity chefs and more.
Also, "The Making of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017" will premiere exclusively on DIRECTV NOW on February 15.
The 50-minute documentary offers viewers a rare extended glimpse behind the scenes of the creation of the iconic issue. The show, like this issue, celebrates the strength of women--in all forms.
To produce the 53rd edition of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, the SI team traveled around the globe to capture some of the world's top models in some of the most beautiful locations.
From a private island in Turks & Caicos to the cover model shoot in Fiji to historic Tulum, Mexico, and shoots in Anguilla and Sumba Island, there is no shortage of exotic locales.
See the new covers and Upton's response to the news, here.
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Social Media: The New is the Old, People are People
Posted by Bob Warfield on December 11, 2008
Reading John Jantsch's post that Social media is a tool not a religion reminded of a post I've been meaning to write for a while now. The essence is that Social Media is about Social interaction between people, and however new Social Media tools may seem, people are still just people. They interact in much the same ways. Social media changes that a little, but not a lot. If you're having a hard time grasping what to do with some piece of Social Media technology, or in some Social Media situation, find the real world (i.e. not-virtual) analog and ask yourself how it would work there. There is a real world analog for most any Social Media.
For example, consider blogs such as this one. Blogs are completely analogous to giving a talk to a group. I give my talk (e.g. write and post), and then I take questions in the form of comments and trackbacks at the end of the talk. It's pretty straightforward. We talk about the rule of 10's in social media like it's a profound revelation. To refresh your memory, the rule of 10's says roughly that if you have a community of 100 people, 1 will create new posts, 10 will comment on that post, and the rest will just watch silently. If you've given a talk you know the rule of 10's is alive and well in the real world too! You also know it can be changed through familiarity. When you give a talk at the office to your coworkers, there is much livelier discourse.
Hey wait a minute, if we're talking to friends and coworkers, can that be like a Social Network? Sure it can.
What about Twitter? What real world situation only lets me speak in 140 character chunks? There is no restriction, but isn't Twitter a bit like a conversation? Isn't it rude to embark on a long monolog when you're having a casual conversation. Don't you make brief statements and wait for the other participants to get their words in edgewise? Feels right to me.
There are many more similarities that can inform us. Take forums. These are group conversations where someone comes to a group to ask a question or tell them something and then there's a lot of interaction afterwards. We've all done this. Maybe we tell a story at a cocktail party, a reception, or a lunch and that kicks off a lively discussion.
The next time you're pondering some seemingly alien Social Media experience, ask yourself what real world Social experience it comes closest to. If you're wondering what to do, or whether to do something online, ask what you'd do in the real world analog?
You'll be surprised at how much thinking about the real world helps your understanding of what's going on in the virtual world.
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That trackback "People Aren't Just People" is a great post BTW, be sure to click through. Wolf21's concern is that people don't act like people with Social Media. They have far less inhibitions. I've copied my comment (posted on his blog) below:
You're right about the inhibition, but what do you want to do about it?
My advice that people are people still holds. Disinhibition, as you call it, gets more people into trouble than anything. If those overly dis-inhibited people had taken my advice and thought about the Internet as being equivalent to a conversation, they would've avoided posting that seriously career-limiting memo.
Companies, moreover, would be even more advised to treat their online social interactions in this way. You're writing about marketing solutions on this blog. Would you advise your marketers to act without inhibition, or to treat people as people no matter the medium? Put another way, what do you think Seth Godin would do?
The disinhibition comes about when people allow themselves to forget that there is a person at the other end of whatever artificial meeting they're communicating with, and it is often a mistake to allow yourself to go too far down that path.
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A day in the life of an OOH GP
After graduating from medical school in London in 2006, I did academic foundation years before starting core surgical training at Imperial. During my training I married my wife who was a final year medical student at the time and who wanted to be a paediatrician whilst I was hell bent on vascular surgery. We quickly realised that we would never see each other and therefore made a joint decision to do general practice instead, which was the best decision ever.
During my GP training the part which I enjoyed the most was the OOH element with Harmoni (which later became Care UK). With no administrative tasks, bloods to file, documents to check, it was as close to the acute care as a GP could get. Confident in my training, I excelled as a registrar in the OOH in Surrey and started working as an OOH GP the very first weekend I qualified. Whilst becoming a partner the same week, I was continually drawn to the OOH work, not only because the work itself was enjoyable and rewarding, both professionally and monetarily, but it was also flexible so I could work whenever I wanted to work without being tied into a set routine, which worked really well for me at that time.
I worked long and hard in the OOH service during my early years after qualifying (well supported by a wife who was now a junior doctor) and was quickly able to do the things you want to do once you qualify including having kids and buying a large house in West London. But it was never about the money – the work itself was thoroughly enjoyable for me, and the working environment was safe and supportive.
I managed to convince Surrey to release me to London where I continued to work, and came across the medical lead role in one of Care UK's OOH services. My clinical work and dedication to the service helped me land the post despite no previous medical lead experience. I was very well supported by Care UK during this time and was able to excel and make a mark, so when my line manager at the time left due to personal reasons, it was suggested that I apply for his role. In June 2015 I became the Regional Medical Director for London, which has been an immensely fulfilling and satisfying role. I balance this management job with OOH work as well as remaining a partner in a practice in South West London and Care UK allows me immense flexibility to do all this.
And now almost a decade on since I joined as a registrar, and three children later, my wife has also qualified as a GP also and has started working for Care UK in the Out of Hours services.


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The University of Lodz (ULO) is one of the largest HEIs in Poland. Founded in 1945 it currently employs over 2500 teaching staff (inc. over 1200 Ph.D.). Research and teaching is carried out at 12 Faculties and inter-faculty, interdisciplinary research institutes. International Cooperation has a high priority at ULO, which has collaborated with 91 HEIs in 26 countries. ULO has participated in a number of international programmes including: LLP, Tempus, Mundus, Framework Programmes, SOCRATES Thematic Network, INCOCOPERNICUS, ACE, Jean Monnet, CEEPUS.
Faculty of Management (FoM) works closely with entrepreneurs and business environment institutions. Team of FoM's employees has approx. 20 years of experience in training staff in entrepreneurship as well as consulting and managing development of SMEs. A number of research and international projects on entrepreneurship has been implemented in recent years with the contribution of FoM's researchers.


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Q: Why doesn't God just destroy those who reject Him instead of sending them to hell for eternity? Isn't God being cruel by punishing otherwise generally good people just because they didn't believe in Him?
Dear Em
Thank you for writing. I always find it interesting and difficult to answer questions that deal with God's judgment. Have you read The Revelation of Jesus Christ given to the Apostle John? This is the only book in the Bible that promises a blessing for both reading and hearing it. Incidentally, it is not a calendar. In my opinion the book was not given to us as a way to predict when Jesus will return. Even though it's a very difficult book to understand, if you haven't read it lately you should do so. You will probably have even more questions after reading it. You won't be alone as you ponder it's mysteries. A countless number of commentaries have been written about it over the years. My favorite teacher is the late Dr. Ray Stedman. You can find his work on Revelation in the Peninsula Bible Church online publications--(just click on the link).
If I understand your question correctly, you are not asking if there is a hell, but rather you are asking why death isn't judgment enough, why does there have to be a "hell"? I have observed that most people, believers and nonbelievers alike, struggle with understanding why God, who says He is love, would cause anyone to be cast into a "lake of fire." Perhaps you have even asked God the same question that I have: "Lord, why don't you just un-exist your enemies instead of sending them to a cruel-sounding hell?" I have a semi-comforting answer. There are a lot of things counted and numbered in the Revelation, but there is no fixed number of people going to hell mentioned in the book. Therefore, we can pray that the number will be small and we can ask God to use us, through the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to reduce that unknown number. If all we do is complain about the existence of hell and never make ourselves available to God to do something about the people who are going there, we don't really care all that much about it, do we?
The popular mythology of our culture has provided us with a lot of misinformation and mistaken assumptions about the state of humanity and God's judgment. We err in how we imagine the scene. It's common for people to think that when we die, each of us will appear before God on His throne and in the blink of an eye, because time is suspended, God will run an instant replay of our lives and individually judge each person or former person on the basis of their good and bad behavior. Because we have heard that He is a loving God, we figure that He cuts everybody a lot of slack and manages to find a couple of fairly good things about each of us. He forgives the bad stuff and welcomes everyone into Heaven except for Hitler and a few other really bad guys. We find it easier to believe that there may be a hell or some other kind of punishment for history's big time villains.
The belief that there is a final judgment and destruction is not limited to the philosophies of western civilization, it's part of almost all the world's religions. This is because the creation itself teaches a powerful and undeniable message. It is obvious that the world is moving toward some kind of an end. My morning hot cup of coffee always gets colder unless I reheat it. Indeed everything around me seems to be caught in the same flow of energy loss. New cars grow old, their tires wear out, the road under them needs repair, the Earth's elements continue to decay and even the Sun will someday expend all of its energy. And more to the point, each of us, along with all other living things, are growing old and dying. Because death is so evident, mankind has always wondered about life after death.
For instance, some of the religious paintings of a group of long dead Tibetan monks depict a scary looking figure with a set of balance scales weighing the deeds of the dead. On the scale are black and white stones. The white ones represent the good deeds and the black ones the evil deeds. Behind the being with the scale are two paths: one goes to a kind of heaven and the other to destruction. The path to paradise is open to those who have more white stones than black ones. Obviously Christians aren't the only people who believe that how we live has something to do with a final judgment, nor are we the only religion with a burning hell. These ancient Tibetan scroll paintings show the black rock folks being pushed into a fiery cauldron. They also reveal a belief that there are lot more people going the way of the black stone path than there are on the white rock road.
We are not as contemplative as our ancestors were, so to most modern people life is like that old joke about the guy who fell down the elevator shaft of a very tall building. About half way down a friend shouted, "How's it going?" and as he fell past he replied, "So far so good!". We are all so busy getting on with getting ours, we think we're still alive. We don't realize that we just haven't hit bottom yet. From time to time the certainty of death intrudes into our conscious thoughts along with the evidence that the Earth under our feet is doing a slow burn. For a moment we pause and wonder about it all, give a so-far so-good shrug of our shoulders and press on. However, in the end, I would be willing to bet that the number one subject on a dying man's mind is how to escape death and what ever follows.
I think the best way to approach part of your question is to get a clearer picture of that terrible day. The Bible teaches that we are all born on our way to death and destruction. This means we are already judged. You could just as easily have asked, "why do people die?" Most critics of judgment overlook the fact that we were born under what the ancient world called the curse of death. In other words, death is what God's judgment is. The whole human race, past, present, and future is already on the way to hell. How to escape death is really the issue, not what we believe about the end, hell, or our mistaken ideas of how that final judgment scene might look. If there is no escape available it hardly matters that we think an endless hell is cruel. The only thing that matters is that this very day might be my last. Read what Solomon said, "For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die!" (Eccl 2:16). Things change. Because believers and non-believers face the same apparent end, the question has now become, "What is death?"
Christians believe that death is the evidence that all of fallen humanity is sinful and unable to live a righteous life. Sin is in the world because death is in the world. Death is in the world because sin causes it. The Apostle Paul wrote, "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned..." (Romans 5:12). Paul is referring to the sin and death of the first human and all of his descendants. Adam sinned and he and all of creation, both in the sky above and on Earth, died. The whole cosmos started falling down that elevator shaft. So-far, not-so-good.
Your question left out the fact that we were all born damned. Whether or not one believes that there is a God, judgment, angels, devils or hell doesn't have much to do with it. Death is actually the evidence of our problem. Death is the proof that we are in need of salvation. Good behavior will not save us. One can not avoid death by being good. Believing that there is a God won't save anyone. Paul goes on to explain in same the letter to the Roman Church, "For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5:17)
Those who face hell do so because they rejected the salvation offered through Jesus Christ. God is not cruel. He offers us a most amazingly merciful deal while we are still alive and falling. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, as most of us have heard. Somehow the rest of the offer isn't as commonly known. This is the part of the deal that astounds me the most. He offers all humanity, on an individual basis, the free gift of His own righteousness. In a judgment scene from the Revelation John wrote, "And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds." (Revelation 20:12)
For me this is the most important part of Jesus' offer: He is willing to write in the Book of Life after my name, in the place where good deeds are recorded, something like this: "Ted Wise: born of a virgin, filled with the Holy Spirit, lived thirty three years without sin, he healed the sick, raised the dead and loved humanity enough to die for everyone...". Jesus will give anyone who will accept Him as Lord the free gift of His righteousness, His right standing with God. Frankly that's just too good of a deal to pass up. Particularly if one is balking over something they don't know anything about. Like what life is like after death, or because one's limited sense of justice can't seem to accommodate the idea that God has a penalty for sin. God says that all of humanity is equally sinful and evil. Just because one lacks the nerve or opportunity to do big time villainy doesn't make one innocent. God can not possibly be cruel and offer such a wonderful escape from the curse of sin and death. I believe that those who will perish in that final judgment were all offered the same grace-filled gift that Jesus presented to me. Maybe they turned Him down?
There is one more thing I would like to point out about God's judgment and that has to do with who Jesus says won't make the cut. From the first recorded acts of worship by Cain and Abel, down through time until the last day, there will be those who believe that their own sincere effort to live righteously will count for something when the Book of Life is opened. They believe that because they have denied themselves many earthly pleasures, and have spent their lives devoted to keeping the commandments, they have earned a place in heaven. It's easy to understand how they might feel that way. Anyone who worked hard all of their life doing what they believed to be God's work might well expect a reward for their effort. It's only natural, but it's not supernatural. It's actually a pagan type of belief like the idea represented by the white rocks in those old Tibetan paintings.
Here is what Jesus says about this kind of person, "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.'" (Mat 7:21-23) How can this be? How can they be lawless?
They are lawless because they failed to see that the law demanded perfect obedience, not merely sincere obedience. By attempting to lower the law to their own standard they became lawless. Jesus is the only one who has ever fulfilled the commandments. And in that big book, He has written that I have done it too. I hope you know that He is willing to write all that good stuff after your name as well. Not only is the offer too good to pass up, but you will still have the freedom to say to Him, "Hey Father, this hell stuff still looks weird to me". He loves to answer our questions. The Apostle James wrote, "But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him." (James 1:5).
Ted Wise
"He must increase, but I must decrease..." --John the Baptist
PS. Regarding the message that God's creation declares, Lambert Dolphin has done an amazing amount of research on this subject and some great reading can be found at his site: (http://www.best.com/~dolphin/index.html). This link from his index leads to an article titled, "Thermodynamics of Living Systems" (http://www.ldolphin.org/mystery/chapt7.html).
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"We had a family get together at Seaport Pier with with over 40 people. The staff was awesome. The game room was great for the kids and everyone enjoyed the entertainment and dancing."Tony WarrenLocal Guide
"Huge bar with plenty of space to move about. Beautiful space outside with fun activities while you hang with friends. Live music also offered at their stage. Nice addition to the Wildwood boardwalk."Noelle FlorekLocal Guide
"This place is totally huge and really awesome. They have bars inside and outside which is cool. We ate outside which was great and our waitress was amazingly helpful. They were incredibly accommodating and the food was delicious too!"Steve RussoLocal Guide
With the support of Mayor Patrick Rosenello, the once foreclosed Seaport Pier was brought back to life in late 2017 by BG Capital, a Philadelphia based development firm.
Seaport Pier is now North Wildwood's one and only beach front family-friendly bar & grill, live-music venue and private swim club on the Boardwalk! The ramp on our pier allows for convenient access to the beach on 22nd street.
Families and friends can enjoy options from our extensive menu that has something for everyone at the Dive Bar. The Sand Bar allows for outdoor dining with a panoramic view of the ocean. Each summer, we will provide a wide range of entertainment for all to enjoy.
The Starboard Swim Club offers membership options to seasonal guests with private entry to our elevated pool and lounge area. Our swim-up bar is one of a kind! Members will also be provided with special incentives!
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I could tell you lots of great things about this cardigan; it's comfy, it looks great over maxi dresses, the wool is amazing, etcetera. But the absolute coolest part of it is that I knitted it myself! No, I had absolutely no idea I was able to do that but yes, I succeeded! Let's talk more about this new hobby of mine – because it for sure is.
I was asked if I wanted to try out a kit and after carefully browsing their website I chose the We Are Knitters Simone Cardigan. What I wear daily are jeans and dresses, and I knew this cardigan would look good on either one of them. I was tempted by the white one shown on the website, but eventually chose grey as it's a better color on me.
So this is what you receive at home; a bag with everything you need for this project.
If you are a beginner (like me), you don't have all this at home so this is perfect! As you can see it's a chunky yarn and the needles are size 15. I had to get used to the thick yarn at first but in the end it's great because it knits super fast so it keeps you motivated. While I considered myself a beginner, I did know how to "straight knit". I made a few scarfs and my mom would help me with everything else. This time I had to do it all myself, so I knew it would be more challenging.
While I am a beginner when it comes to knitting, I do have some experience with wool (clothing) and I was so pleasantly surprised by the quality of this beautiful yarn.
I cannot write this post without admitting I had some troubles while knitting. I had to start over a few times, didn't always understand the instructions right away – so I definitely had to use all my perseverance to finish it. Blood, sweat and tears, quite literally! While this is beginners level, it has a few new techniques I didn't know yet so with every new technique came a challenge. I was very happy with some knitting-friends I could contact via phone (you know who you are!) that would have my back when I had a little setback.
You knit the pieces separately, as you can see in the photo above. You end up with 5 pieces; the back, 2 fronts and 2 sleeves. You stitch them together and finally knit the collar.
The positive side of it was that this was luckily a chunky yarn which meant it knitted fast – so apart from the times I had to start over it went pretty quick! In the end I would've loved if it was a bit bigger, since it runs smaller than I thought it would. I knitted an M, am usually a size S but if I would re-knit it I would knit an XL. To make it extra big, chunky and comfy!
So while it was definitely a challenge for me and I had some moments where I wanted to quit, I am so (SO!) pleased I pulled through and now have my first hand-knitted cardigan. I already have my second kit on the way because I really want to keep up the new techniques I learned and I love that I'm now able to do this. So yay for me!
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask because I'd love to answer them! And a big thanks to We Are Knitters for sending me this kit, I am so happy with my new knitting skills.
Thank you for reading and have a great day!
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Man in custody over death of PAOK supporter
One of three men detained over the death of a 24-year-old supporter of PAOK soccer club in Thessaloniki in April last year was remanded in custody Friday.
The other two suspects were released conditionally.
All three have denied the charges of assault with intent to kill and rob the 24-year-old who was on his way home after a PAOK soccer match.


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Hudaibergen Divanov - First Central Asian Photographer
Hudaibergen Divanov (1878-1938), the first well-known Uzbek photographer, was born in the Khorezm region, where his father was secretary to the Khivan Khan. The young Divanov was given a camera by a German craftsman, Penner, who had been moved from the Volga region into the town of Aq Meschit. Divanov began taking landscape photographs and portraits of his family in 1903, but soon came into conflict with the religious authorities of the town. They complained to Muhammad Rahim II, Khan of Khiva, that Divanov's photography was incompatible with Muslim teachings. Divanov's father defended him and encouraged his work. In response, the Khan asked Divanov to take his portrait. (Muhammad Rahim was a literate, well-educated, and exceptionally open-minded ruler. A poet, he had established the first mechanical printing of Uzbek literature in Turkestan in 1875.) The Khan was satisfied with the resulting portrait. The ruler quieted the clergy, and gave Divanov a job at the Khivan mint. Divanov also acted as official photographer to the court. When the Khan sent a mission led by his Vizier to St. Petersburg in 1907, Divanov accompanied it and was allowed to study photography there for two months. He returned to Khiva with a Pathé film camera, a gramophone, and new camera apparatus.Divanov also supplied materials to commercial photo studios. For the most part, his work has a quiet, unobtrusive character – the viewer feels that he is an unnoticed participant in the scenes of agriculture, canal building, and village meetings. There is also a very traditional, undisturbed feel to the environment in which the photographs were made; Divanov's photographs of the teens and twenties could have been taken in the late nineteenth century – except for the paper and the written date. In part this is because his subjects were the people and events of a small provincial capital. Khiva and its environs had a population of only 30,000 in 1900. Life in the town had changed little in comparison to the larger cities of Turkestan. Divanov's prints are generally small in size. Often a date and description of the activities depicted is written in Persian or Turki directly onto the negative.
Divanov held a variety of posts; he served as Minister of Finance of the Khorezm Republic; in 1910 he was the first cameraman at the first Uzbek film studio, and later taught at the Pedagogical Technical College. He became suspect during the years of Stalin's terror, and was shot in 1938, but was posthumously "rehabilitated" in 1958 on Stalin's death.


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Now in its 4th year, the River North Design District (RNDD) Fall Gallery Walk will return on Friday, September 7th, 2018. The RNDD Fall Gallery Walk is free and open to the public with the exception of two special events (more information here).
Each participating showroom will be exhibiting designer vignettes from Chicago's top designers as they showcase living settings highlighting artwork created by some of the brightest stars in the art world today. Showrooms will have extended hours during the event on September 7th until 9pm. The vignettes will be exhibited until October 9th.
We have some really amazing collaborations in the works for this year and wanted to share a sneak peek with you.
JOLIE ID featuring Arthur Meyerson of The Rangefinder Gallery at Tamarkin Camera at Orizzonti
329 West Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60654
Arthur Meyerson's "Water Wall, Tokyo (2016)" photograph will be on display at Orizzonti's River North Showroom. Capture and celebrate how people, water and light co-exist by designing a vignette that compels RNDD visitors to photograph themselves with the art and the bathroom fixtures. Friday will feature cocktails + hors d'oeuvres starting at 6pm, and enter to win a signed copy of Arthur Meyerson's book! Music and dancing from 8-9pm. Saturday will feature a virtual reality design presentation and mini spa treatments from 11am-4pm while enjoying mimosas and brunch bites. And be sure to visit The Rangefinder Gallery September-October where Arthur Meyerson will be showing an exhibition of his photographs.
Robin Thomas Design featuring René Romero Schuler of Zolla Lieberman Gallery on Exhibit at Chicago Luxury Beds
440 North Wells St. #100n Chicago, IL 60654
Robin Thomas Design, artist René Romero Schuler and Chicago Luxury Beds present HAVEN: Creating soulful spaces through art + design. Join us Friday night for discussions on design, art, and rejuvenation while enjoying sparkling wine and hor d'oeurves.
Adam Siegel on Exhibit at The Golden Triangle
330 North Clark St. Chicago, IL 60654
Four of Chicago's most talented design firms – Kelley Audrain & Cookie Weber of Inside Job, Brian Snow of SemelSnow Interior Design, Donna Mondi of Donna Mondi Interior Design, and John Cialone for Tom Stringer Design Partners – will each select a piece from Adam Siegel's considerable body of work to pair with a specific interior design scheme. The paintings will be arranged to show how artworks can be used to bring unique atmospheric and emotional qualities to a space and work with technical limitations like the size of walls, location of doors and etc. During the Gallery Walk, our DJ will provide a deep and complex musical soundtrack inspired by Adam Siegel's art and other cultures including original compositions Adam has created on the piano. Specialty cocktails and food selections will also be provided and inspired by the artist's work.
Stay tuned for our next Gallery Walk preview!


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Two years in the making, welcome to my new book on Motörhead, issued by the
highly discerning ECW Press, my first book for them since Judas Priest:
Heavy Metal Painkillers ten years ago.
As the back cover (in part) says, this is the first book to celebrate the
classic-era Motörhead lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, Fast Eddie Clarke and Philthy
Phil "Animal" Taylor.
Through interviews with all of the principle troublemakers, Martin Popoff,
author of 62 books on heavy metal, celebrates, over the course of the book's
action-packed 260 pages the formation of Motörhead in 1975, and, in detail,
the records that made them legends, namely Motörhead, Overkill, Bomber, Ace
of Spades, No Sleep 'til Hammersmith and Iron Fist, followed by
an epilogue that brings the story up to date.
Eminently quotable, Motörhead come to life in this book as bad luck bad boys
incapable of running their lives right, save for Fast Eddie who is charged
with holding the thing together against all odds doused in drink and drugs,
most notably speed.
Within the context of the book, Popoff also examines the heady heavy metal
climate of the times exploding into what was known as the New Wave of Heavy
Metal, including Motörhead's unique position in the scene as both originators
and bridge band to the punks, most notably The Damned.
A first-hand account in Popoff's dependable style, Beer Drinkers and Hell
Raisers includes interview footage from Brian Robertson Mikkey Dee, Phil
Campbell and the band's manager at the time Doug Smith as well as members of
Hawkwind, Angel Witch, Girlschool, Tank and Twisted Sister.
And of course, prominent are the many highlights from Martin's many chats over
the years with Fast Eddie, Phil and Lemmy, the latter two of which died after
Martin had finished the manuscript, requiring a last-minute update due to
their shocking demises.
Prices including shipping:
Sweet postage savings to be had for multiple orders (or two of pretty much
anything—long story, ask me!). Given new mailing system, works best for US
Or mail payment (personal check in US funds, cash, or INTERNATIONAL money
order), to:
Martin Popoff
P.O. Box 65208, 358 Danforth Ave.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada


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[imgcontainer right] [img:earlyphone.jpg] The Federal Communications Commission is asking for nothing more than to place broadband under the same controls that helped spread telephones across rural America. [/imgcontainer]
The definitive battle for the future of the Internet is underway.
On June 17, the Federal Communications Commission, now with a 3-2 Democratic majority, moved to reclaim its authority over broadband Internet service; a federal court had overturned FCC action – using a weaker telecom rule – to prevent abusive practices by broadband providers.
The FCC's move is also critical for the implementation of the National Broadband Plan, which Congress last year ordered the FCC to draft to address the growing disparities in broadband access, adoption, and affordability.
The National Broadband Plan makes clear that subsidies are needed to ensure broadband deployment in rural areas and other underserved communities.
The question we and our elected officials face is this: Will these subsidies be used to free our communities to become more self-reliant, or will they keep us in a state of dependency on Wall Street-backed conglomerates?
The only legal mechanisms by which rural Americans can express their preference for broadband dependency or self-reliance are Congress, the courts, and – most directly – the Federal Communications Commission.
The FCC's June 17 Notice of Inquiry asks for public comment on its proposal to regulate broadband under the rules originally designed to govern traditional phone networks.
This may be rural America's only opportunity to tell the FCC that we prefer self-reliance to dependency, that underserved communities are capable of building and operating their own broadband networks, and that we need a strong FCC to stand up to Wall Street on behalf of Main Street if broadband self-reliance is in our future.
The deadline for public comment on the FCC's Notice of Inquiry is July 15. The deadline for replies to these comments is Aug. 15.
Everyone should comment. (You can make a comment here.) But before you write, consider a little history.
Eight years ago on March 14, 2002, the five-member Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to surrender voluntarily its authority over broadband Internet access via a cable modem. The vote split along party lines: Republicans led by FCC Chairman Michael Powell voting for, the two Democrats voting against.
The FCC press release that day predicted that the unusual and controversial move "will promote broadband deployment, which should result in better quality, lower prices and more choices for consumers."
The vote reclassified cable broadband from a "telecommunication" to an "information" service, thus exempting cable broadband access from "common carrier" obligations that had governed the nation's telecommunications since the days of the telegraph.
One of those obligations was allowing independent Internet service providers (ISPs) to re-sell cable broadband access. A decade earlier, common-carrier rules helped the Internet move from government and academic circles into mainstream American life by creating a market for independent ISPs to lease and resell dial-up access over the nation's telephone networks. [imgcontainer] [img:ppcommissioners2009.jpg] [source]Federal Communications Commission[/source] The Federal Communications Commission (above) is trying to reassert some control over broadband. The members of the Commission are (from left) Mignon Clyburn, Michael J. Copps, Julius Genachowski, Robert M. McDowell, and Meredith Attwell Baker. [/imgcontainer]
Michael Copps, one of two Democrats on the FCC, criticized the reclassification for "substituting our own judgment for that of Congress and playing a game of regulatory musical chairs by moving technologies and services from one statutory definition to another."
Meanwhile, an ISP in Santa Monica, California, called Brand X filed suit, and a federal circuit court struck down the FCC's cable broadband reclassification. The FCC appealed, and on June 27, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the lower court in a 6-3 decision.
Reporting the "Brand X" decision the next day, the New York Times noted Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent: "[Scalia] wrote that the commission's ruling was trying to further a free-market agenda, through 'an implausible reading of the statute, and has thus exceeded the authority given it by Congress.'" Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter joined Scalia's dissent.
The telephone industry immediately petitioned the FCC to "level the playing field" with cable by removing common-carrier obligations from its digital-subscriber-line (DSL) broadband service. On Aug. 5, 2005, a still-divided FCC concurred.
In the years since the FCC's reclassification of cable and DSL broadband, consider what's happened to broadband:
•Thousands of independent ISPs have disappeared.
•Cable and telephone companies gained control of more than 95 percent of all U.S. broadband connections.
•America's world rankings for broadband access, speed and cost have fallen sharply.
This is the context for the FCC's June 17 decision and for the struggle now taking place in Washington, D.C.
The stakes are high. The Internet's explosive growth – and the spectacular innovation it has spawned – were enabled by common-carrier protections that still govern the nation's dial-up telephone networks.
Before 2002, online users were at the center of the Internet and World Wide Web, free to choose among competing ISPs, and free to roam and innovate.
With the removal of common-carrier protections, the cable and telephone companies occupied the center of a broadband-driven Web, free to pick winners and losers among innovators — consider AT&T's exclusive iPhone deal with Apple — and free to dictate when and where broadband access will be deployed.
In short, the definitive battle for the future of the Internet is underway. The cable-telco duopoly has huge advantages in this conflict:
•Superior lobbying forces in Washington and every state legislature.
•Fake grassroots, or "Astro-turf," groups – plus Fox News and talk-radio allies – to denounce any government move to restore ISP competition and consumer protections.
•Commercial broadcast allies intent on retaining control of unused swaths of the public airwaves that could otherwise be used for wireless broadband expansion in rural areas.
Finally, this is a complex issue requiring serious attention and debate, both scarce resources in a sound-bite society ruled by propaganda and sloganeering.
Moreover, the future of the Internet is being decided with professional journalism on life-support, unlikely to provide little more than superficial coverage. Adding insult to injury, a recent Supreme Court decision ("Citizens United") granted full speech rights to corporations for unlimited media and campaign spending in federal elections, a sea-change not lost on members of Congress up for re-election in November.[imgcontainer] [img:wardssets.jpg] Early telephone equipment advertised in a Montgomery Ward catalogue. [/imgcontainer]
The frustration of rural residents and other underserved populations runs deep. Frustration, however, can breed confusion, especially when telecom lobbyists swing into action. Recently, 74 Democrats signed a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genakowski expressing "serious concerns about . . . the expanded FCC jurisdiction that has been proposed." (More than 200 Republicans signed a similar letter.)
The letter deceptively points to a 1998 Clinton-era FCC decision affirming the 1996 Telecommunications Act's treatment of Web content and dial-up ISPs (unrelated to broadband) to imply that the FCC's 2002 ruling was merely a continuation of Clinton-era policy. And the letter implied that the FCC's June 17 move disrupts a "stable regulatory environment that has existed for the last dozen years . . . [and] undermines critically important investment in broadband."
Such blatant whitewashing of the Bush-era FCC's actions on broadband – falsely portraying a continuous 12-year bi-partisan policy – is clear evidence that the letter was written by telecom lobbyists, who no doubt knew that most Congressional staffers would lack the insider's knowledge to catch the deception.
Of course, rewriting history is what lobbyists and propagandists do routinely. And the intricacies and complexities of telecom policy make their jobs all the easier.
But advocates for rural America and other underserved areas have history on our side.
Transportation and communication infrastructure have long been used by Wall Street-backed companies to exploit rural America and its resources. Only when rural leaders (not on the corporate payroll) took hold of the levers of power in Washington and in state capitals were grievances redressed and self-help programs like rural telephone and electric cooperatives begun.
These locally-owned and accountable nonprofit providers helped move many rural communities from dependency to self-reliance in electric power and telecommunications.
The same is possible today with broadband infrastructure in rural areas. The cost of digital network technologies continues to drop as efficiency grows, making it economically feasible for rural and other underserved communities to build and operate broadband networks.
These locally owned networks have many advantages. They are less likely to outsource jobs, and they keep revenue in the local economy. They are locally accountable and more responsive to community needs, unlike absentee-owned networks whose tech support and management can be so hard to reach they might as well be on the dark side of the Moon.
This future-of-broadband decision will be made by our government. Those who reduce this historic and complex decision to simple slogans – such as "Keep the government's hands off the Internet" – would perpetuate our dependency on the cable and telephone conglomerates, which used an act of government to gain control of broadband in 2002!
Will our government rule this time in favor of Wall Street or Main Street? The answer to this question is in our hands.
Wally Bowen is founder and executive director of the nonprofit Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN), a nonprofit community broadband network serving Asheville and surrounding counties in western North Carolina. This is an edited and expanded version of a column that originally appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times on June 16, 2010.


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I've always thought it odd that Lynwood Center's old Tudor-style building was also named Lynwood Center. To me, It's kind of like calling the little island in the Battle Point Park pond "Bainbridge Island."
It makes it a little complicated for us reporters when we're doing a story about Lynwood Center (the neighborhood) and want to also mention Lynwood Center (the building). To avoid confusion in a story a while back, I referred to the building as the "Lynwood Theater building," but that angered a reader or two, so I quit doing it.
The organizers of Lynwood Center's (the neighborhood) annual street party (see the logo above) simply refer to it as "Lynwood" and call the building "Lynwood Center." That sounds like a good idea to me, and maybe henceforth we should simply call the neighborhood "Lynwood." But won't people then be confused with the Lynnwood (note the double 'n' difference) north of Seattle? Perhaps we could convince Lynnwood to change its name, possibly to something more fitting, like "Sprawlsville" or "Suburbswood."
Steve Romein, who owns Lynwood Center (the building), calls the neighborhood "Lynwood Center" and the buidling "The Historic Lynwood Center." But I don't know. Does an added adjective really set it apart? And why "historic"? Aren't the Edna's restaurant building and that old lumber store on pilings historic too? They're also in Lynwood Center (the neighborhood). And besides, there are lots of other complimentary adjectives you could add that are more pizzazzy than "historic." Why not call it the "Awesome Lynwood Center" or the "Fantastical Lynwood Center" or the "Courageous Lynwood Center." In an effort to capture the all-important youth market, why not call it the "Sick Lynwood Center" (a young whippersnapper recently let me know that "sick" means "good" these days).
Another reporter recently asked for some guidance on what to call the same-named building and neighborhood. I think I sighed and shrugged. I wasn't much help. Confronted with the same problem this week, I posed the question to Romein.
He shrugged too (at least I imagine he did while writing his e-mailed response).
"As far as an official name, we have never discussed it. Should we?" he wrote.
Yes, Mr. Romein, we should discuss it. And who better to discuss it than the clever and wise readers of this blog? Head over to the right of the screen for a poll in which to cast your vote for the Lynwood Center neighborhood's new official name. No doubt the poll's winningest name will dominate discussions at the next City Council meeting, and that our unofficial mayor will issue a decree on the neighborhood's official new name. If your favorite selection for Lynwood Center isn't listed, you can always drop it into the comments section. Happy naming.
By the way, the second-annual Taste of Lynwood is this Saturday. Click here for more info.


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We are living in a modern world where technology has become an important part of our daily life. Many young people interested in using technology. The fact is that many students go online for various purposes every day. The Benefit of Using Technology In The Classroom
In this case, the student will get many benefits if the teachers bring some form of technology in the classroom. Modern technology allows the student to study more effectively. Here is some advantages of using modern advanced technology in the classroom.
Modern technology improves student engagement.
Most of the teacher expects all the students interested in the subject they taught in the class. In this case, the teacher should integrate technology into the teaching session in the class.
Modern technology at http://18.104.22.168 allows the student to study more enjoyable and fun. For example, the teacher can ask the student to take part in an online virtual trip. The virtual trip enables the student to learn the subject more interestingly.
Modern technology helps to improve knowledge retention.
When the student found that the subject they studied is interesting, they tend to remember the subject for an extended period of time. Student's knowledge retention is high if the teacher can make the subject more interesting.
Technology makes the teaching and learning process more interesting that eventually will increase student knowledge retention.
Technology promotes individual learning
We all know that different student has different learning styles and abilities. Advanced technology enables students to learn a different subject more effectively. The advanced technology allows the student to learn the subject on their speed.
The student can skip the difficult subject, and they can review it later on when they are ready for it. Internet technology, allows the student to access a broader range of information they need.
Technology encourages collaboration
Students need to learn how to work with others. Collaboration skill is essential skill for student's future career and social life. The teacher can ask the students to take part in different online activities. For example the teacher can ask the students to collaborate with others on online forum and share a document on the virtual learning environment.
The fact is that technology enables the student to collaborate with other students from different class, different school or they can collaborate with other students around the world.
Encourage the student to learn a useful life skill in technology
We are living in the millennial era where technology plays a significant role in student success. Using technology in the classroom, allow the student to learn a useful life skill in technology.
The student will able to learn how to write an email, find different information from the internet, learn effective online communication and many more.


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Ok stay up as long as you want
spank spank
By the way I babysit a lot of naughty adult men & women
There truly is such a thing as an "adult" babysitter
Professional Disciplinarian extraordinaire, Miss Jenn who *loves* spanking, spanking tube, spanking audio clips and spanking therapy
Well then, as an "adult" babysitter, I suspect there is no shortage of reasons that you should be taken over my knee, skirt raised and the teary-eyed recipient of a very sore, red hot bottom. Stand in the corner and ponder...and don't you dare touch that bottom!ReplyDelete
Great Artwork by the artist known as 'Spanka' I love his style of drawing and the captions he puts in. '_
GOOD to know you BABYSIT Miss Jenn.......Could be something that will come in handy in the future! ;)
I'll bet you make a GREAT Babysitter!! I love this artist, (named 'Spanka'), style, he does great fun captioned color drawings ;)


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Happy Thursday! Let's celebrate the fact that tomorrow is Friday with the start of a little series! This series is called Print & Pray Q & A. Doesn't that just have the BEST ring to it!? I love things that rhyme. :) Periodically, I want to write articles that answer specific questions I hear from you all in the community regarding the Print & Pray Shop and digital products. Since we've launched the shop, one of the questions I've been asked over & over again is:
Q: "How do you store & organize your printables?"
My answer to that storage question is organizing them in individual packs in a basket on my IKEA Raskog cart. Everyone's workflow & optimal organization method is going to be different! For me, I am more likely to use my printable elements if they're already cut out & ready to go. I hate having to stop the creative process just to cut something out or find my circle punch. So pre-cutting & clear storage are key.
So I cut an entire kit out in one go when I receive it & store all the elements in their own little clear packs or baggies. You can get these at your local craft store, often in the bead & jewelry-making section. I bought a pack of 100 3″x4″ bags for under $4.00. Once you cut a printable kit & put it in its own pack, it becomes just like a die cut pack you buy from a scrapbooking company!
I use an electronic label maker to label the pack with the kit's title & the artist's name. If you're doing this with printables from different brands, you could add another line that reflects which company it's from (i.e.: "You're Beautiful" by Valerie Wieners; Illustrated Faith).
Now when I need a little element, I grab this basket & everything is organized, clearly labeled, & ready to use! Storage success!
Another thing you can do is purchase a divided acrylic organizer & make use of more "open storage" on your workspace itself. These little containers are great for sitting out on your craft table & keeping different sets in one place. Again, I pre-cut each element, & then assign a compartment to each kit. This is a great way to keep your current favorites within arm's reach!
I hope this helps those of you who are struggling with how to store your digital products from the Print & Pray Shop. There are a million ways to organize your favorite Illustrated Faith products, but these are the ways I've found that work for me. :)
Please share YOUR storage ideas for printables in the comments below! We would love to hear them & maybe your system will inspire someone else! Also, share photos of your printable organization on Instagram with the hashtag #printprayshop !
<3 Elaine


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