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One learning disability nurse whose career has taken her from being a clinician through to a very senior role in academia is Jackie Kelly, Dean of the School of Health and Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire.
Jackie spoke about her career path, her enjoyment of working with service users and their families/carers, and her work now with research and education; inspiring the next generation of healthcare professionals.
How did you get into nursing?
'I'd seen at first hand how frustrating it was for family members to try and access services and support for someone with learning disabilities. After qualifying as a registered learning disability nurse, I worked in a variety of clinical settings, often being the interface between services, an individual and their family. The role of a LD nurse is very much about working with people's families and carers and with other health and social care professionals to build a package of care with, and around, the person to meet their individual needs.
"I am so inspired by the people I have encountered – using my skills and expertise to support them to live independently, so they can reach their potential. It's quite powerful, rewarding and a huge responsibility to be a nurse.'
What about the opportunities for LD nurses?
'There's always a need for LD nurses – both working in mainstream as well as specialist services. Today, LD nurses work in any number of places – in the NHS, private healthcare, the voluntary sector, prison services, general and acute hospitals, residential care, schools, community teams, education, research/clinical academic careers and so on. The choice is very varied.
'LD nurses really can take their careers in many different directions. Let's not forget that the CEO of HPFT is a nurse – so it really is possible to get to the very top.'
What about your career pathway and your move into academia?
'Service users are still very much at the heart of my work and influence my decision-making every day. Helping students to develop into rounded professionals who are able to demonstrate care, compassion and empathy for service users and their families remains one of the most rewarding parts of my job.'
What are the important skills for a LD nurse?
'The most important things are interpersonal and communication skills, alongside compassion. Nurses need to be excellent listeners and have good problem solving skills, but the key for LD nurses is that they are able to work with a range of people, providing cross-system support, leadership and advocacy.'
How does the University work with Hertfordshire Partnership University Foundation Trust?
'HPFT is a University Trust. That means there's a formal partnership agreement between the Trust and the University and we work closely in areas of education, research and service innovation.'
What does the University offer students who are thinking of becoming a LD nurse?
'You have the opportunity to start your career journey undertaking a BSc (Hons) in nursing (learning disabilities), an MSc programme or our nursing degree apprenticeship, depending on your learning needs and circumstances.
'I have had fantastic opportunities and a rich and varied career as a learning disability nurse and I look forward to welcoming the next generation of LD nurses at the University of Hertfordshire.'
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In February 2016 L A Moore Ltd, a family run company based in Wells Somerset, were successful in securing the contract to demolish redundant buildings at the former Winfrith Technology Centre in Dorset for the Homes and Communities Agency.
The centre was being de-commissioned and a substantial part of the surrounding area was reassigned for business use. The inner complex remained under MOD security. To the rear of the complex was the headquarters of Dorset County Constabulary.
When Shaun Schroeder – demolition supervisor for L A Moore Ltd, realised he would be working in Dorset all summer, he knew he would miss the beloved flower garden from his home in Bristol.
Not going to be beaten he decided to move some of the hanging baskets to Winfrith and set up a flower display that would be the talk of the site.
Rainwater harvesting was set up to water the baskets which are a sight to behold. They add much needed colour to the demolition site and during the recent CCS visit received a special mention.
In addition local businesses have also benefited:
The highlight of the project was the discovery of 2 unknown statues which were embedded in the gable wall of a building due to be demolished. Using very careful demolition procedures Shaun and the team managed to remove them completely. Sadly research was unable to establish their history.
L A Moore Ltd realised the importance of the statues and kindly donated them to the HCA enabling them to remain on the site therefore maintaining their heritage.
Demolition work continues and will run into 2017. Shaun and his team will continue to assist local residents and worthy causes whenever possible maintaining the philosophy that working as 'a team in harmony with the local environment' really does ensure satisfaction at all levels.
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All of us look forward to pleasure purchases. They add luster to life. And if you think about it, the things we seem to find easiest to afford are the things that make us feel good about ourselves.
Yet, for most of us, number one on the list for a good life is good health. Today we know that good dental health is just as important as your overall physical wellness. After all, you only have one body and one set of adult teeth. How they serve you depends on the priority you assign them.
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You don't need to be told that the actual cash you spend to keep yourself dentally fit is only a tiny fraction of what you spend to feel good about yourself. After all, it's no fun being able to afford a gourmet meal if it's painful to chew and swallow it.
Your dental hygienist will welcome your visit and looks forward to helping you help yourself to dental health with a good dental cleaning.
"Dip" ... quot;Chew" ... "Pinch" ... quot;Snuff" ... "Dirt" ... "Plug" ... all are different names for smokeless tobacco, a finely ground version of processed tobacco. No matter the name, smokeless tobacco is harmful and puts your health at risk. Chew on these facts:
* Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 1999
Smokeless tobacco has been glorified over time by images of quot;macho" men performing feats of fame and prowess, whether as athletes, rodeo cowboys, or country music stars. In reality, many want to kick the habit, but nicotine is addictive. It's hard for them to quit.
In a survey of major league baseball players, more than a third reported they had mouth sores, white patches, or gum problems. Nearly 60% said they wanted to quit. The nicotine actually decreases performance, causing dizziness and slowed reaction time.
Smokeless tobacco causes problems for your oral health:
Additionally, smokeless tobacco can affect your general health causing:
If you use smokeless tobacco, chew all these facts over. Choose to quit. Your health is serious business. Talk to your dentist about getting help to quit. Make the right choice -- it's for your body, your health, and maybe even your life.
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A female teacher at an all-boys school allegedly had sex with two of her students — on the same day.
Cops say much-married June Kendall — a teacher at Chicago's Urban Prep Academy — now faces charges of criminal sexual assault.
The 29-year-old woman allegedly had sex with one of her 17-year-old students early in the day then followed it up with a raunchy recess later in the afternoon with another boy, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Kendall's alleged liaisons with the two boys began over Snapchat, which got increasingly sexually charged. The teacher allegedly sent these students photos of herself in various stages of undress.
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Trust me game
This exercise helps develop a trusting relationship between two people.
Divide into pairs.
Partner A blindfolds Partner B.
Partner A safely guides Partner B around the building or suitable area chosen for this exercise.
There is to be no talking, except in emergencies or when going up or down stairs.
Partner A should give B lots of different objects to feel so she has many different experiences.
Change over after about five minutes.
The Guides should discuss how they felt as both the leader and the led.
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I thought now was the right time to post this, seeing as I start my second semester on Monday! I can't believe time has literally flown by so fast!
I have loved my first semester! I've met so many amazing people and am now confident that I am studying the right subject for me. If anything, I've realised how passionate I am about marketing and that I want to continue with this subject.
As I expected, it's been filled with highs and lows. The high points have definitely been doing well (I'm surprisingly good at my most hated subject, economics), but it has also been filled with loads of low points. I'm not saying I didn't expect the stress and to be stuck n the library at almost all times (as I knew that was coming), but having to deal with not being able to have much of a social life coupled with family dramas, friend dramas, being extremely unwell and family members being unwell was not ideal. I am so proud of myself for managing to deal with it, though and hopefully semester two will be better!
This post was really just an update on my life post-semester one. I hope you're all having a good day :)
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*This article first appeared on the website of the Alliance of Baptists.
Eyes closed. Thoughts flood my brain. The deeper I fall asleep, the more the thoughts subside. Rapid-eye movement sets in. I'm lost in a world of dreams. There is one I've come to know well.
Someone cries out. The police bust through the door. The officers point at me. I don't know what I've done. I scream out that this is a misunderstanding. It doesn't matter. If they come to pick you up, you're guilty. The truth quickly becomes a very relative phenomenon. All they know is that they've found a body and they need to find the killer. Apparently, I fit the description.
Under the weight of questioning, I cry out for a lawyer. The police make me sign a confession before I can see a lawyer. Why would an innocent man sign a confession? I'd been in that room over nine hours. Once the lawyer arrives, she explains that there is very little that she can do. Everyone wants to know why an innocent man would sign a confession.
We proceed to trial. Even though I'm innocent, my lawyer basically leads me right into a death sentence. On multiple occasions, my attorney even fell asleep. I thought counsel was supposed to provide real counsel. I didn't get shit. I would have been better off defending myself. After I was taken to death row, I walked around my cell over and over. I can't get anyone to respond to my cries for help. Didn't anybody get my letters?
Looking to the windows, I cried out, 'I have no more prayers for God. I only know to pray to you. Before you kill me, will you consider doing what God would do.' After I said that, the execution proceeded much faster. I could feel the poison burning my insides. I felt like I was burning alive.
I shoot up in my bed. Terrified, I grab some water.
After calming down a bit, I try to consider what just happened. Even though I've dreamed the dream repeatedly, there is one idea that stays with me. Fresh out of prayers, the only thing we can do is ask people to do what God would do.
I'm talking about the God of love not the God who commits genocide. For love so loved the world that love gave love's only begotten love that whosoever believes in love will not be executed in this life.
I'm ready for followers of God to start dreaming again about what it means to pray with your feet.
Eyes close. Rapid-eye movement sets in. The colors draw me in. Dreams become reality and reality becomes dreams. The death penalty is no more. We finally realized what love was for.


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Everything You Need To Know About Erwan Heussaff and Anne Curtis-Smith's Wedding
Actress Anne Curtis-Smith and Erwan Huessaff tied the knot on November 12, 2017 in Queenstown, New Zealand. Curtis-Smith looked beautiful in her custom Monique Lhuillier wedding gown paired with a natural makeup look. Heussaff wore a grey three-piece suit and a camel-colored tie. The guestlist was intimate as family and close friends welcomed the newlyweds.
The long-awaited wedding of Heussaff and Curtis-Smith has finally taken place. From the previous day's
The Venue
The celebrity mogul and restaurateur chose picturesque Queenstown in New Zealand as the location for their wedding.
The Makeup
Curtis-Smith had her trusted beauty team create a simple wedding beauty look. Celebrity makeup artist Robbie Pinera used little to no foundation, light brown eyeshadow, and a pink lip on the celebrity. The blk cosmetics creative director's dusty rose lip was a shade she created especially for the wedding called I Do. This was released through a bridal box set with another red shade called Mon Amour. Further accentuating the actress' features, hair stylist Raymond Santiago styled her hair with a wavy long bob.
The Dress
The bride wore a custom Monique Lhuillier gown, with a sweetheart cut and long-sleeves while lace, sheer details, and a long train added drama to dress. Curtis-Smith paired the gown with a long veil and threw in an unconventional touch with black platform Prada boots.
The Groom
Heussaff opted for a grey three-piece suit that was paired with a camel-colored tie.
Tim Yap shared a photo with the groom before the festivities, with the caption, "Waiting for @annecurtissmith ♥ The groom went to Mario's, his trusted tailor in Paris for his bridal suit #TheWanForAnne"
The Ceremony
For the ceremony, the couple requested guests refrain from taking photos The sign read, "There's a guy (named Jim) here taking photos. We asked him to come, so please, rest your cameras. Our ceremony needs only one. Thanks, The Newlyweds xo."
Unsurprisingly, a few snapshots of the wedding still found their way on Instagram which revealed a rustic outdoor wedding. Building ruins romantically served as the backdrop to the nuptials, while Curtis-Smith walked down a sparsely decorated aisle.
The Guests
Heussaff and Curtis-Smith were joined by celebrity colleagues, 'It' girl group of friends, friends, and family such as Kim and Felicia Atienza, Georgina Wilson, Isabelle Daza, Christian Razon Gonzalez, Stephanie Kienle-Gonzalez, Bruce Ricketts, Mia Arcenas-Branellec, Tim Yap, and Rajo Laurel on their big day.
The groomsmen included Chef Allen Buhay of Wildflour, The Curator's David Ong, Jacques Christophe Branellec of Jewelmer.


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(a) To demonstrate continuous compliance with the emission limitations using the control efficiency/outlet concentration option, the organic HAP emission rate for each compliance period must be equal to or less than 20 ppmvd or must be reduced by the amounts specified in §63.3490. A compliance period consists of 12 months. Each month after the end of the initial compliance period described in §63.3550 is the end of a compliance period consisting of that month and the preceding 11 months.
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(d) You must demonstrate continuous compliance with the work practice standards in §63.3493. If you did not develop a work practice plan or you did not implement the plan or you did not keep the records required by §63.3512(j)(8), this is a deviation from the work practice standards that must be reported as specified in §§63.3510(b)(6) and 63.3511(a)(7).
(e) As part of each semiannual compliance report required in §63.3511, you must identify the coating operation(s) for which you used the control efficiency/outlet concentration option. If there were no deviations from the operating limits or work practice standards, submit a statement that you were in compliance with the emission limitations during the reporting period because the organic HAP emission rate for each compliance period was less than 20 ppmvd or was reduced by the amount specified in §63.3490, and you achieved the operating limits required by §63.3492 and the work practice standards required by §63.3493 during each compliance period.
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(h) You must maintain records applicable to the control efficiency/outlet concentration option as specified in §§63.3512 and 63.3513.
[68 FR 64446, Nov. 13, 2003, as amended at 71 FR 20464, Apr. 20, 2006]


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Speak to Rodney Wells at Wintergarde Keep to secure a ride to Stars' Rest in western Dragonblight.
Another force threatens to destroy all that we have worked for, <name>. You must head westward to Stars' Rest. Archmage Modera has sensed a great disturbance in the magical ley lines of our world that must be dealt with immediately!
Go now, <name>! Speak to Rodney Wells at the gryphon station here in Wintergarde and let him know the nature of your mission. He will place you on his fastest gryphon to deliver you to Stars' Rest. Speak with Archmage Modera when you arrive.
We definitely don't want another sundering, friend. I'll do all that I can to help you on your mission.
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Technology and the Market
Demand, Users and Innovation
Edited by Rod Coombs, Ken Green, Albert Richards and Vivien Walsh
Chapter 2: Many visible hands
Arie Rip and Aard J. Groen
Arie Rip and Aard J. Groen INTRODUCTION Compared with the 'careless technology' of the 1960s (to quote the title of a book at the time (Farvar and Milton, 1972)), the present safety, reliability and environmental friendliness of many products and technologies, at least in the richer countries, is striking. Salmon are swimming in the Thames again. Companies like The Body Shop, but also 3M and Proctor & Gamble, pride themselves on their contributions to sustainability, and are recognized for it. Critics might call these accomplishments 'rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic', and point out ongoing exploitation of natural resources, the hazards of the man-made environment, and long-term macro-risks such as climate change. For the moment, our interest is not in who is right and who is wrong, but in the observable fact of an overall change in the last decades, as well as the widespread recognition of the importance of paying attention to environmental aspects. In addition, in contrast to blaming the technology of the 1960s and 1970s as perhaps inherently 'careless', many stakeholders in these issues are interested in new technological options. They actively seek technological development (or better, socio-technical developments) to contribute to solutions of environmental problems, including the uncertain but possibly staggering climate change problem. A double question can now be raised: how did improvements which are clearly in the public interest emerge at all, and can one expect further changes now that demand for climate-friendly technology appears to be articulated? Clearly, there must have been more to...
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The Baker
Bread is one of my earliest memories. At 5-years-old I remember going grocery shopping with my mom and on the bus ride home eating a fresh Italian style bun, with a flaky crust and soft crumb.
In early adulthood, and many PB&J sandwiches later, the idea of baking my own bread peaked my interest. My mom makes jams but not bread, so I took it on. I read the books, talked to chefs and bakers, watched the videos and consumed as much knowledge as I could while continuously testing out my own bread.
Bread, to me, is more than just the ingredients it is made out of. Bread in one form or another is in almost every culture and dates back several centuries. It is found in every class of society. People share bread with their neighbours and bond over it. To me, bread is another way I can connect with my community. With people. It is such a simple act but can represent an everlasting connection.
"Companion" in Latin loosely translates to "With" "Bread"
In 2013, the first summer of the Yellowknife Farmers Market, With Bread made its debut and has grown ever since. Find out where you can find With Bread here.
The Bread
In the early days, we admit we didn't know much about bread baking and made many of our loaves with commercial yeast, sugar, and oil. Not having a bakery in Yellowknife, we really had nothing to compare too. Eventually, our desire to develop a sustainable product that is naturally rising, healthier and better tasting led us to shift more of our products to a sourdough culture, rather than commercial yeast.


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Idyllically situated in Queenstown, New Zealand, overlooking Lake Wakatipu to The Remarkables mountain range, Hotel St Moritz embodies the spirit of its location.
Its architecture and interiors offer intriguing works of art, bespoke furniture and refreshing colours, which highlight the unique charm of the place and the serenity of its surroundings.
Decorated with style and elegance, its spacious rooms provide the same sense of calm and serenity. The blend of textures, colours and light combine to make this "alpine residence" a unique haven where sensorial delights await you.
Each boutique hotel in the MGallery collection tells a unique story, inviting guests to immerse themselves in tales of adventure, romance, history, culture, nature and more for the length of a memorable stay. Discover the high points of our story here.
Hotel St Moritz offers a choice of rooms and suites, each handsomely appointed, cleverly blending timeless classics with modern essentials....Read more
There are enthralling views of lake and mountains from Lombardi, the hotel's award winning restaurant offering a superb New Zealand dining...Read more
Hotel St Moritz is the ideal venue for an effortlessly stylish Queenstown event, complete with innovative, memorable touches. A dedicated events...Read more
Prolong your relaxation, extend your explorations, indulge in a gourmet encounter or do business in style. For a unique experience, shaped by the...Read more
Prolong your relaxation, extend your explorations, indulge in a gourmet encounter or do business in style. For a unique experience, shaped by the hotel story, discover our Memorable Moment.
Unless you're lucky enough to live here in Queenstown, winter gives you the blues. It's cold. It's rainy. And worst of all, life slows down as...Read more
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A Performance Not to be Missed Every year, a group of rising Yale seniors are selected to be in the Whiffenpoofs, the world's oldest and...Read more
We stayed here for two nights at the end of our honeymoon trip for a bit of luxury and luxury it was. Our room was absolutely beautiful. High quality furnishings and amenities, a luxuriously...
We were blown away with the view. Simply stunning. Definitely recommend a room with a view. So worth it. The room service was the best we have ever eaten. You would think we were eating at their...
This is a very good hotel. The room was very nice. My recommendation is to NOT book a room on the 7th floor. The elevator only goes to the 6th floor and you have to take stairs to the 7th. Also if...
We stayed in 2 hotels in QT - including this and the Rees. Other than this property not being blessed with huge windows overviewing the lake (like the Rees), it is a must stay when you want to be...
Stayed here at beginning and then the end of our holiday, lovely hotel with great views of Lake Wakatipu and The Remarkables. Staff vey friendly and attentive, they even looked after our luggage when...
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My approach is to be discrete, acting as an observer so as to let the day unfold naturally leaving you with lasting, honest memories of your special day. The most important thing is that you relax and enjoy your day with as little interference or instruction from me as possible.
For this reason the majority of the shots are taken documentary style however I also like to set aside a little time for the more traditional shots such as bridal party and family pictures.


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The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking public input on how best to provide veterans with free civilian urgent care. The VA Mission act of 2018 directed the department to provide access to walk-in care for veterans who are eligible for VA health care. According to the law, all veterans enrolled in the VA health care system who have gotten treatment in the last 24 months will be eligible for civilian urgent care. Veterans can provide feedback by visiting the Federal Register entry. Learn more about the urgent care benefit in this Military.com story.
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The Differential Impact of Welfare Reform in Non-metropolitan and Metropolitan Areas of Virginia
Chinnis, Sarah
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The state of Virginia has been a leader in the design and implementation of welfare reform measures. State welfare reforms were enacted in 1996 and federal reforms followed shortly after in 1996. Initial decreases in program caseloads and the movement of former recipients from unemployment to employment have led initial reform measures to be widely heralded as successes. Significant concerns remain, however, about the ability of non-metropolitan labor markets to absorb female household heads currently on welfare. This thesis addresses potential differences in the impact of welfare reform measures in non-metropolitan and metropolitan labor markets by estimating wage and reservation wage equations for female household heads in Northern and Southwest Virginia. The results suggest young children and lack of access to automobiles create significantly greater barriers to employment in non-metropolitan than metropolitan labor markets. Estimated potential earnings in Southwest Virginia were lower than in Northern Virginia and suggest that female household heads will have trouble escaping poverty through employment. In fact, initial reported earnings for both areas have fallen below estimates of living wages needed to escape poverty. The results also suggest traditional labor market characteristics do not explain all of the differences in earnings, particularly the differences in the observed wages of persons exiting welfare as compared to the general population. If this is the case, policies that only address child care and transportation costs may have little impact as to the ability of welfare recipients to get and keep jobs that enable them to become economically self-sufficient.
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Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth @ Edinburgh Festival 30 Jul–15 Aug 2010
Published in The Skinny
The title of Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth's new Edinburgh Festival commission might suggest a work that is rather spectacular. 'Staged' is a term often used to allude to all that is amplified, visually seductive and riddled with exaggerated fakery. Likewise press releases for the show describe a project that seeks to document the 'human drama' that invades the city every August.
Yet sitting quietly at the summit of Edinburgh's Carlton Hill, 'Staged' uses a mixture of live feed CCTV and pre-recorded footage to chronicle the 2010 festival with a lightness of touch that is almost imperceptible. Projected floor to ceiling onto every wall of the small, sweltering box that is The City Observatory, many of the images depict Edinburgh in the abstract, focusing on the pattern of light on rooftops in a way that feels more referential of the visual history of painting than the rampant cavorting of theatrical display.
For centuries the human race has been compelled to recreate its environment via art and the production of imagery. What began with cave paintings and experiments in pinhole photography, now finds form in reality TV and the popularity of camera phones. What Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth have understood about the 21st century manifestation of this phenomena, is that as our access to digital image media increases, so does our tendency to record the painfully mundane. While trying to concentrate on out of focus CCTV images of an empty city bar at lunchtime, it's impossible not to wonder if all of this voyeurism is really as entertaining as we think.
Back outside on Carlton Hill the air is fresh, some kids are running about playing football and an American tourist is bitching at his wife about the fact that their dog has just taken a shit in the grass. It's a human drama all of its own and its only a matter of time before someone takes a photograph of it.


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A CONTEST!!! — Ok, not counting the 2 obscured pictures (one behind Fleming, one behind a word balloon) there are 14 items visible in Fleming's artifact chamber. The first person to correctly identify all 14 will WIN the ORIGINAL ART from this page, AND you'll be featured as a character in the upcoming MANLY TALES OF COWARDICE #6 (due sometime this year). The contest will run until JULY 1st. If no one gets all the 14, the person with the most correct guesses wins. So post your guesses on the comment section (I will delete your message as soon as I read it so no one else can profit from all your hard work).
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What is the fee for certification?
There is no fee.
Are there size or length-of-time in business requirements for certifiable companies?
There are no size or length-of-time in business requirements to apply for or to obtain the WBE or MBE certifications.
What is the processing time for certification?
The processing time is generally up to 3 weeks from the date all documentation has been received by Mississippi Development Authority.
What if I don't have a document that is required?
Please submit a notarized letter, along with the other required documentation, stating which documents do not apply and why.
How am I assured of the confidentiality of my documents once I send them?
All submitted documents are treated with the utmost confidentiality. Only select Mississippi Development Authority staff members will have access to these documents. Mississippi Development Authority takes your privacy and the confidentiality of your information very seriously.
I am the only owner. Why do I need to have an annual meeting?
According to most by-laws, the shareholders of record are required to meet annually in order to be in compliance with their own by-laws. If you do not hold an actual meeting, it is to your benefit to have something on file that states you waived the annual meeting.
Can a woman/minority and a majority man own the company jointly?
Yes, a woman/minority and a majority man can own the company jointly; however, the woman/minority must be the majority owner (at least 51% ownership) and must demonstrate that management and control of the company, contribution of capital and/or expertise, and assumption of all profits and risks are commensurate with ownership percentage. A woman/minority must also hold the highest office as outlined in the company's documentation.
What if my bank won't give me a copy of my signature card?
In place of the bank signature card, a letter may be sent from your bank officer on the bank's letterhead informing the Mississippi Development Authority of the authorized signatures on the bank account(s) and any stipulations placed on the account(s), e.g., two signatures required on all checks.
How long is a company's certification valid?
The certification period is for three years from the date of issue. MBE/WBEs that wish to remain certified must recertify every three years. However, MBE/WBEs are encouraged to begin the recertification process 90 days prior to the expiration date.
How do I recertify my business and will my company have to re-submit all of the same documentation?
The recertification process is much simpler, and all the initial documents are not required. However, Mississippi Development Authority requests updated financial information, board meeting minutes, if applicable, and any supporting documents to support changes that may have occurred in either ownership or management of the business.
Is recertification automatic?
Recertification is not automatic. The owner is sent a courtesy reminder 90 days prior to the expiration date of the company's certification. However, Mississippi Development Authority does not guarantee receipt of the reminder e-mail and recommends the MBE/WBE marks its calendar as a reminder to begin the process 90 days prior to its expiration date.
My company applied for recertification early – will the expiration date change?
No, the certification is valid for a period of three years. It is not a rolling 36 months.
I did not submit my application within the 90 days allowed, what do I do?
Start a new application. The system purges all files that have exceeded their expiration date of 90 days, a recertification application, and/or supporting documents have not been submitted. If you experience difficulty, please contact our office at (601) 359-3448.
Is my certification transferable if I sell my business to another woman?
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Inside Advantage Certification II
Required: Company must have completed Inside Advantage Certification I
For small and midsize firms that lack the deep pockets of their bigger rivals, staying ahead of change can be even more demanding. Educating your team is the only way to keep pace, but it can be challenging to do so amid the daily hustle.
Our Inside Advantage Certification II make professional development more attainable for you and your company.
Your company has completed the Inside Advantage Certification 1, and your employees have learned to adopt the vision, mission and purpose of the company. You have implemented a plan to help scale the businesses and have achieved your desired growth in Phase I. Now the team is ready to achieve more!
Inside Advantage Certification II is a process which includes 4 day intensive business and development masterclass. Your employees will learn how to turn setbacks into opportunities and negative anchors into wind at in their backs.
You will learn how to implement Phase II of Scaling Up which includes:
- Discover future growth opportunities and set NEW measurable targets
- How to fully engage all of your team members in your HR portfolio
- How to fully engage your customers and turn them into your marketers
- Identify deficiencies and establish NEW habits & routines to enhance personal and team efficiency and execution capabilities
There will be a series of team assignments that will take the trainees approximately 5-10 hours per week to complete. The assignments will be reviewed by the trainer in a one-hour webinar each week. The Training Business Pros executive team will work with your team to verbalize their goals and key decisions.
While most small business have already learned to distribute responsibilities, the barriers of growth remain. We identify those barriers and help the leadership with the "tools for scaling up". When all of the key players have a clear shared vision, it resonates through the entire company and becomes the biggest motivation for your employees to stay focused and enthusiastic about the mission.
- You will find a dramatic improvement in identifying and solving key deficiencies (technical and/or operational).
- You will have a key understanding of the driving forces and future scenarios for your industry and how to leverage those to your advantage.
- You will find key opportunities to turn customers into champions resulting in more sales (with more buying frequency from happy customers)
- Learn how to drive the execution of your Phase II growth plans, and how to keep the entire team accountable.
The goal of the Inside Advantage II process is to help leaders help their teams execute on the company vision, give a voice to that vision and to commit to the mission. Once your entire team buys into the vision that you've co-created with them it will be much easier to scale up and focus on growth.
Who Is the Inside Advantage II For?
The Inside Advantage II executive training is for employers who want to take their leadership team to the next level. You are ready to grow, develop high-performing teams, and plan for the future.
In order to qualify for the Inside Advantage Masterclass II, you must have completed Inside Advantage Certification I.
What to Expect
- Training includes 4 Intensive Training Days: Your employees will need to make themselves available for four days from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.
- Estimate your Assignments will take up to 5 hours per week to complete. Assignments are mandatory and will need to be implemented to complete certifications.
- Participants must be available 2 hours a week for pre-scheduled training webinar.
- Required Reading List: Scaling Up and Inside Advantage
$12,000 per Team Member (program is 53 hours not including assignments)
Travel, Accommodations and Expenses incurred must be paid by Employer.
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Costs incurred due to assignments are the responsibility of the employer. I.e. design, layout, printing, corporate policy, binders, etc.
To learn more about obtaining your Inside Advantage Certification II call us today at 416-444-7767.


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Vino 2010: Apulia Wine Dinner
This past week the second annual Italian Wine Week, Vino 2010, took place in New York City. It's the largest Italian wine event held outside of Italy, and I was lucky enough to attend last year. This year, because of travel for my birthday, I was not able to attend many of the events, which was a disappointment, since the celebration is filled with grand tastings, seminars, tastings, panel discussions, and did I mention tastings?
So while I couldn't make the Grand Tasting, I did make it to the Thursday night regional wine dinner event at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. This was a unique event, with 4 separate winemaker's dinners held simultaneously in different ballrooms of the hotel. Sponsored by the Italian Trade Commission, it was an opportunity for winemakers from the regions of Tuscany, Calabria, The Veneto and Apulia to show off their regional dishes and the wines made from native regional grapes.
I was invited to attend the Apulia regional dinner, while my partner in crime Jennifer Iannolo attended the dinner celebrating Calabria, since her father was born and raised there. She'll have a report from that dinner.
The Apulia dinner was prepared by Chef Patti Jackson from I Trulli Restaurant in New York City, and hosted by wine writer Tom Maresca, who described each wine we had throughout the course of the evening. We snacked on focaccia and other nibbles before the first course, while sipping Alberto Longo Falanghine "Le Fossette" IGT 2008. Falanghine is an ancient native varietal of Apulia, not commonly found outside the Southern Italy. This particular wine had been aged in barrel for 18 months, which imparted quite a bit of oakiness which was not so appealing. Tom Maresca explained that this is not so typical for a Falanghine. I would have liked to taste a more typical interpretation of the grape, and not one that mimics a California style.
Our Antipasto course was a mixed salad of grilled "Cefalapodi", squid and octopus, served over endive, baby brown chickpeas, and roasted baby tomatoes. I loved this dish, not only for the fresh and tender seafood, but also for the tiny chickpeas which had a nice bite on the outside, but tender on the inside. It was served with a Tomaresca Chardonnay Puglia IGT 2008. I found this a nice pairing, and the Chardonnay, unlike the previous wine, was not at all oaky.
The Pasta course was a Cavatelli with Broccoli Rabe & Toasted Almonds, which is typical of the simple, honest, rustic food of Apulia. The Broccoli Rabe was not at all bitter, and the cavatelli was perfectly al dente. It was served with Cantatore di Castelforte Primitivo de Manduria "Donna Maria" DOC 2007. Primitivo is one of the most typical varietals found in Southern Italy, and is predominant in the neighboring province of Basilicata. Primitivo is a precursor, and sort of "cousin" to Red Zinfandel.
Our main course was a roasted rack of lamb with potatoes and a puree of fava beans and dandelion, served with Sampietrana Salice Salentino Riserva "Vigne delle Monache" DOC 2004, made with the Negra Amaro grape.
We finished off the dinner with Sweet Baby "Calzones" filled with Hazelnut puree, Fried Dough Rosettes topped with Vanilla Ice Cream, and Stuffed Figs. These sweets were served with A Rivera Moscato di Trani "Piani di Tufara" 2007, an appropriately sweet Moscato typical of the sweet dessert wine style, with notes of honeysuckle an melon. It was a fitting ending to the evening.


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The philosophy of how to have a fulfilling secretarial position.
Musings of a Modern Day Cyberneticist
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I have hesitated whether to publish the following essay. I started it almost two years ago and all but finished it last March. However, revisiting it I feared that it would interest few of this blog's readers: it focuses on an abstract philosophical idea touched upon in the preface to an academic book which, under a thin disguise of impartiality, is informed with attitudes entirely unsympathetic to those held by the majority of this blog's readers. Moreover, being written in French and as yet untranslated, it is inaccessible to all but this blog's francophone readers.
However, 'L'Enfant Interdit' is challenging, informative and well-written. The proposition about the child's existential status which this essay explores strikes me as valid and powerful, with significant practical, ethical repercussions for paedophiles.
L'Enfant Interdit (the Forbidden Child) nevertheless gets, in my opinion, many things wrong – but even its errors are interesting, not least the theory that the end of the 'paedophile revolution' of the 60s and 70s was precipitated by the emergence of AIDS in the gay community. I cautiously recommend the book to this blog's francophone readers, with the warning that there is nothing positive or sympathetic to be found in it, and Verdrager's treatment of the French hebephile author, Gabriel Matzneff, in the book's final chapter is so vindictive and mean-spirited that it reads like an act of personal vengeance. Or maybe after having had to adopt a non-judgmental attitude towards paedophilia for the duration of the writing of this book, this chapter is an act of catharsis in which the Verdrager's hatred of paedophiles finally finds spectacular, unrestrained expression.
So despite my doubts I shall break my recent silence, show signs of life and 'publish and be damned'. What follows may not be to everyone's taste, but it will not be the first time I published something nobody wants to read, and I certainly hope that it will not be the last (to misquote Count Arthur Strong).
I first came across the idea of the child's dual status in Francois de Singly's preface to Pierre Verdrager's book 'l'Enfant Interdit' (The Forbidden Child). The main body of the book itself analyses why paedophilia went from being, in the 1960s, a legitimate cause advocated by radical thinkers on both the left and the right, to being the scandalous, taboo-ridden thing it is today.
Verdrager aspires to approach the history of militant paedophilia as would an ethnographer: he states that he will not judge paedophilia, or the arguments made by (what he describes as) 'the apologists for paedophilia', but will be a disinterested observer, gathering data, from which to elucidate narratives, histories and explanations.
He manages enough disinterestedness to probably convince the average reader, a reader aware of no other stance towards paedophilia than that of unreserved condemnation. But to my maybe-oversensitive ears his 'impartiality' is squeezed out through teeth so firmly gritted that one can almost hear the crepitation of shattering dentine.
It is not, however, Verdrager's ideas that concern me in what follows, but rather those of Francois de Singly, the author of the book's preface, and Verdrager's colleague at Paris Descartes University's Sociology department.
In his preface de Singly (a specialist in the sociology of childhood, education, and the family) notes that:
"To write a book on paedophilia is to risk being suspected of having a predilection for this kind of behaviour. There are subjects which adhere to you, in the eyes of others, as if to your very skin."
This gives a clue as to the real purpose of de Singly's preface: it does what Verdrager's ethnographic aspirations prevent him from doing in the body of the book, namely: making it clear that all involved condemn paedophilia. The purpose of de Singly's preface is to cover Verdrager's ass.
And to do this de Singly does not mobilise the usual objections: that children aren't sexual, that they can't consent or find adults attractive, or that children are inevitably harmed by such intimacy. De Singly is no fool and knows all too well that these populist objections won't do the job. Instead he tries to launch his assault from the idea that children have a 'dual status'.
I find the proposition that children have a 'dual status' sufficiently plausible and powerful to merit closer attention. Whether it fulfils de Singly's brief of condemning caring, consensual child-adult intimacy is another question.
Dual Status
In nature a young animal's vulnerability makes it little more than 'prey' – something to satisfy a stronger animal's needs. A lion has few qualms about killing and eating a young antelope, seagulls eat newly hatched turtles before they reach the safety of the sea, humans treat calves cruelly to make their cooked flesh more tasty.
This indifference is not found in the behaviour of nurturing animals (all mammals, all birds, except cuckoos, some fish, amphibians and arthropods) toward their own young.
This restraint is informed by an awareness that their offspring are at the same time like themselves, yet different: the offspring's life has a value that equals that of the parent, or even exceeds it (some animals will risk, or even sacrifice, their own lives to ensure their offspring's survival); at the same time the parents do not treat their offspring as they do their coevals. this is especially noticeable in solitary animals that are normally hostile to their own kind – such as the Tasmanian Devil.
This dual status lasts until the offspring grows strong and resourceful enough to fend for itself. The struggle for survival means that the nurturing parent-offspring relationship cannot be maintained for longer than necessary – though in social animals, traces of this dual status may persist long past the moment when offspring achieves independence.
Humans ascribe this dual status to their offspring: we recognise that babies, by virtue of being vulnerable, nescient and dependent, are profoundly different to adults; yet at the same time we acknowledge them as being fully human. And as with mammals and birds, children become 'adult' when they are capable of existing, or rather 'thriving', independently of their birth-family.
Effectively, as De Singly states, this means that:
"the child, insofar as it is a child, has the right to be protected; the child, insofar as it is a person, has the right to be treated as a person."
Or: children are not small adults, but they have equal value to adults.
Different societies express the child's dual status in different ways. At one end of a continuum one could place the ancient Spartans, who exposed their newborns on hill-sides in order to cull the weak; at the other end one might place western consumer society, in which (arguably) adulthood is never properly achieved.
In simple societies children become adult younger. This is because the knowledge and skills required for a child to assume their adult role can be mastered sooner, and the passage from childhood to adulthood is clearer and generally marked by rites of passage. Also the conditions of survival may be harsher – a prolonged childhood is a luxury born of safety, wealth, and leisure.
In more complex societies, achieving independence requires a more extensive and more abstract knowledge – hence prolonged 'schooling'. Young people are also faced with several non-synchronised rites of passage: puberty, passing the driving test, graduation, getting one's first wage, losing one's virginity, attaining the legal drinking age, the various age of criminal responsibility and the age of sexual consent, the minimum school-leaving age, and the age when one can join the army, … this jumble of rites of passage means that there is no clear point at which a 'child' becomes an 'adult'. Hence the prolonged transitional phase that is embodied in the 'teenager'.
Ethics and dual status
Dual status makes 'the child' into a difficult, complex, contradictory ethical entity. It deprives us of our two simplest ethical algorithms: the denial of ethical status, and the golden rule. The child is not like a stone, or a mosquito, or a battery hen – an entity that makes few or no ethical demands on the world. Nor is the child a mirror of ourselves. This means that the Golden Rule – do to others as you would have them do to you – can't be relied on for resolving ethical challenges.
Child abuse happens when adults ignore the child's dual status.
When we ascribe to them our own desires, functions and needs we treat children as small adults. This leads to soul-destroying child labour, child marriage, child soldiers and to sexual interactions inappropriate to the child's needs, desires or level of development.
On the other hand, considering the child as an entity that makes few or no ethical demands is to prioritise your own interests (or the interests of other interested parties, such as the family, the community or a god) above those of the child. This leads to infanticide, mutilation, indoctrination and emotional, physical and sexual abuse.
The child's Dual Status, having deprived us of the easy algorithms for resolving ethical dilemmas, obliges us to be empirical, to struggle with observations, experience, data, facts and reason – to weigh things up and reflect. In short the child's dual status obliges us to focus entirely on the child, rather than on ourselves (or other interested parties).
The Child Forbidden – De Singly's Objection
In his preface De Singly tries to use the child's dual status to ethically condemn consensual child-adult intimacy. In what follows I try to summarise his argument, using his own (translated) words as much as possible. De Singly starts off by stating that in the 1970s:
the 'apologists for paedophilia' asserted
"that children have as much of a capacity to say 'yes' as do adults in the context of a sexual relationship".
and were promoting
"a version of unchecked power" which "entailed an equal diminution of the power of the parents."
He considers that this failed to
"take into account the fact that in all of society there are power imbalances, and therefore 'liberation' does not suffice to guarantee the condition of free expression."
and that
"if the parents and adults impose upon the children by privilege of their dominance, how justify the fact that other adults [i.e. paedophiles] can be their liberators, without this also being an imposition?"
De Singly elaborates on this by making a parallel between the war against paedophilia and
"the introduction, in 1992 […] of the concept of sexual harassment, defined back then as 'the fact of harassing someone by using orders, menaces or constraints, with the goal of obtaining sexual favours, by someone abusing the authority conferred by their office"
He goes on to give the example of a business in which a low-status employee (such as a cleaner) and a high-status person (the Managing Director) engage in a sexual relationship. The power imbalance between them means that the low-status person can not be considered as having full power over herself. Any claims she makes that she consented to the relationship can't be considered as sufficient to exclude the possibility that the MD employed his authority to bring about the relationship. Further evidence of the cleaner's consent must be furnished to dispel suspicions.
"a young girl who has the power to say 'yes' to a sexual relationship with a young man, or a young girl, of the same age, loses this capacity if her partner is an adult, and all the more so if this partner is an authority figure." (would de Singly also argue that her capacity to refuse consent is likewise nullified?)
He makes a further parallel between the pleas of the partisans of paedophilia and
"those who advocate economic liberalism, similarly unrestrained i.e. without state intervention. If the state is a central figure of repression it is also an instrument that can serve to regulate freedom in order that those endowed with the most power don't abuse it in interactions across social class and age."
Society's construction of 'paedophilia', with all its taboos, stigma and assumptions of criminality is, for de Singly:
"a wall within which children today dispose of a little more power. This place of play, of the self-fulfillment, has undoubtedly expanded, but on one condition: that they play among themselves and that adults are there as 'arbiters' not as 'playmates' […] the history of emancipation in the West rests on the intervention of "separations/" – secularism, with its separation of church and state, is an example. Each wall gives birth to a new freedom.
It is for this reason that partisans of the paedophile cause are wrong: the protection of the child that is written into the limitations of its capacity to consent do not primarily reflect parental oppression, but have as their function the guarantee that personal expression, including sexuality, will not be hijacked to the benefit of adults who could profit from this situation."
objections to de Singly's objection
If one accepts that children often need to be protected from bad choices they might make if they were free, then the next step is to determine criteria for a 'bad choice'.
De Singly singles out child-adult intimacy as the worst of 'bad choices'. Is his justification for this a logical consequence of dual status, or has he arbitrarily grafted dual status onto the prejudices of the dominant culture?
De Singly's criterion appears to be 'a relationship which involves an imbalance of authority'. But this criterion is seriously undermined by the very examples he uses.
Take his example of the managing director and the cleaner.
Is de Singly claiming that a relationship between an MD and a cleaner must necessarily come about through the MD abusing his power? I think it would hardly be credible for him to claim this – after all, many happy relationships and marriages have been known to occur between bosses and their secretaries.
Nothing in what de Singly writes excludes (or even addresses) the possibility that a relationship can come about between adults and children without resort to the use of authority on the adult's part. In such a case would de Singly be justified in characterising child's sexuality as having been 'hijacked to the benefit of the adult'? Surely not.
De Singly's example also draws attention to the humanising effect of interaction. Individuals who work (or play) together can rapidly pass from being mere embodiments of their roles to becoming known by their self-hood and personality. What might be, on first encounter, just a 'child' or an 'adult', after hours of interaction, becomes 'Matilda' and 'Uncle John' – people defined by their quirks, their personalities, their vulnerabilities and, above all, defined by the nature of the relationship evolving between them. In a healthy interaction closeness and intimacy dissolve authority.
De Singly also ignores the fact that every socially approved interaction a child can have with an adult (parent, teacher, social-worker…) involves exactly the kinds of power imbalance he is so wary of.
De Singly's objection comes on a sliding scale of authority – a teacher, a parent or imam does indeed wield a great deal of authority. But what about a stranger, a neighbour or family friend? Adults in such roles bring little authority or status to an interaction with a child, and indeed these relationships are the only relationships with adults in which the child has the power to end the interaction or relationship if he/she so chooses.
Undoubtedly some adults do use their status or authority to coerce or manipulate a child into 'consenting' to sexual activity. But, should a right be withheld because of the danger that the right might be abused?
De Singly might have had more to work with if he'd conceded that child-adult intimate relationships aren't necessarily the result of abuses of authority, and focused instead on the difficulties of determining whether a relationship has come about with or without an abuse of authority on the adult's part (see 'Consent' Without 'The Age of Consent').
A more profound flaw in de Singly's objection is that he simply gets paedophilia wrong. He assumes that paedophiles want to treat children as small adults – an assumption he could not have maintained if he'd taken the slightest interest in the subjective experience of paedophiles.
His misunderstandings come from treating 'the paedophile' as a blank screen onto which he can project the polemics of provocative, radical thinkers of the 1960s – many who were not themselves paedophiles – and his own teleophilic sexuality, with its focus on conquest, penetration and orgasm.
One of his errors is that he writes as if paedophiles were mainly attracted to children's physique and appearance. We are, of course, but our attraction is essentially to the quiddity of children, to their whole nature – we love 'children', not 'children's bodies'. To impose adult forms of desire on them is to violate the very thing we love most in a child. A few interviews with paedophiles speaking candidly would have cleared up this basic misunderstanding.
As to the comparison he makes between those advocating paedophilia and "those who advocate economic liberalism": I can think of few societies where children are less free than in contemporary consumer societies, nor have children ever been less able to construct their own independent culture (think of how much of children's time, activity and culture is conceived, controlled and supervised by adults).
De Singly, in what is akin to a cardsharper's sleight of hand, gives the impression of having successfully damned all child-adult intimacy.
But what he has done is give grounds for condemning those forms of child-adult intimacy that merit condemnation, whilst, at the same time, diverting attention from the possibility that child-adult relationships could come about and be maintained other than by an abuse of authority.
Indeed, for him to do so would have been to draw onto himself exactly those suspicions which his preface was meant to deflect from his colleague, Pierre Verdrager.
Few contemporary radical paedophile would argue that relationships that came about through abuse of authority should be legitimate. If de Singly's goal is to condemn all child-adult intimacy he can't do this by only condemning its worst manifestations. He can only do this if he addresses child-adult intimacy in its best, most ethically conducted manifestations.
But De Singly has condemned the only form of 'paedophilia' the popular narrative is aware of – therefore, to minds formed by the popular narrative, he has successfully condemned all forms of paedophilia.
The only reason he could get away with this stratagem is that he knew that the huge majority of his readers would have no wish to be made aware of the possibility that intimate child-adult relationships could be conducted consensually and honourably; he knew that his readers would be as eager as himself to see all forms of paedophilia summarily condemned and would not subject the reasons for his condemnation to too rigorous an evaluation.


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Most projections usually predict that China will be the largest economy by the year 2030. This got me thinking: when exactly did the USA surpass other nations? I knew it was in the 19th century, but I wasn't sure exactly when.
GDP estimates are always somewhat dicey, and they were even more so in the past. But the above plot* is representative of what you can find online: the USA became #1 in the decade or so after the Civil War. What surprised me is that the nation it surpassed was China! Around 1880 the USA overtook China, and around 2030 China will overtake the USA. That's 150 years of American singular economic dominance. Curiously, for a period India was #3, just as it will be in 2030 (though its GDP will be far lower than #2 USA by most estimates).
I am aware that on a per capita basis America will be the most affluent large society in the world for decades beyond the point when its economy is not the largest. My only observation is that we are living to see the end of a particular phase in world history.
One aspect of this that I wonder about is that it is a fact that to some extent in the late 19th and early 20th century America refused to take over the role of the world's preeminent power from the United Kingdom long after it had become the most consequential economic force. To be frank, it was clear in the early 20th century that the UK was simply longer up to the task, and arguably a great deal of suffering might have been alleviated if the United States had stepped into its natural role earlier. Now I wouldn't be surprised if the inverse occurred in the second quarter of the 21st century: the USA, like Britain, continues to play the role of hyperpower hegemon longer after it's able to carry out that role credibly. I hope I'm wrong.
* Data from Barry Ritholtz's blog.


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