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October 21, 2019 (JUBA) - The United Nations Security Council on Sunday called on South Sudan leaders to reach a compromise and rescue the fragile 2018 peace agreement from collapse.
The call came hours after the armed opposition faction (SPLM-IO) led by Riek Machar threatened not to be part of a new government.
"There is an opportunity for the leaders of South Sudan to make political compromise and move forward to the next phase of the peace process in a credible, transparent and accountable manner," said Kelly Craft, the United States ambassador to the UN.
In September 2018, the warring parties involved in South Sudan's conflict signed a peace deal to end a civil war that killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
The Security Council delegation, on a visit to the South Sudan capital, Juba acknowledged that progress has been made since then, with a ceasefire significantly improving the security situation.
"We noted the reduction of political violence which has contributed to the return of 594,000 displaced people, increased food production, enhanced humanitarian access, and increased commerce among communities," said Jerry Matthews Matjila, the South African envoy to the UN and Council President for October.
However, key outstanding issues remain which are having an impact on the progression of the peace process. They include decisions on states and boundaries, as well as the reunification of security forces.
The Security Council delegation held separate meetings with President Kiir, Machar and other signatories to the peace agreement, urging them to expedite its implementation and meet the November 12 deadline for forming the transitional government.
Meanwhile Machar expressed concerns over what he described as the failure to reunify security forces, saying his armed opposition movement would not join the government till the issue was resolved.
"Yes, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development stated that by the 12th of November there should be a new government… but the aspects that are needed for establishing the government are not there," said the opposition leader.
"Suppose we force it on the 12th, we know what will happen; the ceasefire that we have been enjoying will be in jeopardy," he added.
The Security Council delegation, however, expressed strong disappointment over Machar's statement, appealing to the country's leaders to reach a consensus and agree on way forward.
South Sudan descended into war in December 2013 when Kiir accused Machar of plotting a coup.
In May, the two sides agreed to form a unity government in six months and in September said that they will establish a transitional government by November 12 as part of the deal.


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The Information Studies Colloquium provides a forum for intellectual exchange and professional networking. All events are free and open to interested members of the community unless otherwise noted. All colloquia are usually held in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) Building, Room 111, on Thursdays at 3:00pm. Receptions to follow in the 2nd floor Salon. We aim to maintain a welcoming and accessible environment for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors in our building. This goal of accessibility includes keeping our classrooms as scent-free as possible by specifically avoiding the use of perfumes and colognes as they can trigger serious health issues. In this regard, as a courtesy to individuals who have fragrance allergies, please refrain from wearing personal care products with fragrance when attending classes and events in GSEIS. More information about being scent-free can be found here: http://eastbaymeditation.org/accessibility/scentfree.html Thank you for your consideration for all members of our community.
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October 3, Andrew Culp, Faculty Program in Aesthetics and Politics, California Institute of the Arts, "Invisibility in the Age of Disclosure"
October 17, Zeb Tortorici, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, New York University, "Archiving the 'Obscene': Sex, Desire, and Memory in Mexico"
Talk co-sponsored by UCLA Department of History and History of Women, Men and Sexuality
October 24, Bonnie Ruberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, "Video Games Have Always Been Queer"
October 31, Rosylyn Rhee, Documentarian, Kitty Maryatt, Curator, "The Re-creation of a Masterpiece: La Prose du Transsibérien"
Talk sponsored by the Breslauer Fund
December 5, Dr. Jeanie Austin, Librarian, Jail & Reentry Services program, San Francisco Public Library, "Library services to people who are incarcerated: Attempting anti-racism through LIS"
Talk co-sponsored by UCLA Center for the Study of Women
January 16, 2020, András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Fine Arts Library, "Destroying and Preserving Cultural Memory in Time of War: Archives and Libraries in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s"
Talk sponsored by Kenneth Karmiole
January 23, 2020, Davide Panagia, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, "A Political Theory of the Algorithm Dispositif"
January 30, 2020, Kathy Carbone, Lecturer and Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Amplification Project: A Community-led Participatory Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action"
February 6, 2020, Melissa Villa-Nicholas, Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island, "Biotechnology and Data Citizens on the U.S. Mexico Border"
February 13, 2020, Roderic Crooks, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, "Capture, calculate, loop: Post factum temporality in learning analytics"
Friday, February 21, 2020*, Lauren F. Klein, Associate Professor, Departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods, Emory University "Data Feminism: Transforming Scholarship into Action"
*No colloquium on Thursday – this colloquium will be held on Friday, Feb 21 at 1:30pm in Room 111 IS Department
Talk co-sponsored by UCLA Digital Humanities Program
February 27, 2020, Anjali Arondekar, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies Department. University of California, Santa Cruz, "Great Expectations: Archives, Abundance, Geopolitics"
March 5, 2020 , Kristin B. Cornelius, "Audit Logs, Evidence and Accountability"
April 2, 2020, Bradley R. Fidler, Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, "When Routers Were Women: How New is the Internet?"
April 16, 2020, Marika Cifor, Assistant Professor, Information School, University of Washington , "Archive as Cure: Critical Nostalgia and HIV/AIDS in Visual AIDS' Activist Archives"
April 23, 2020, Char Booth, Associate Dean of the Library, Cal State University San Marcos, "Change Agents: Toward Justice-Based Action In Libraries"
April 30, 2020, Laila Shereen Sakr, Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Glitch Resistance"
May 7, 2020, Eunsong Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northeastern University, "How does a Personal Collection become a Museum? Looking at the Homestead Strike of 1892 & the Creation of the Frick Collection"
May 21, 2020, Tara McPherson, Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, "Platforming Hate"
May 28, 2020, Johnathan Flowers, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Worcester State University, "Viewers and Readers Like You: The Production of Calculated Communities and Calculated Information in the Digital Age"
Other IS Lectures
The Kenneth Karmiole Lecture Series in Archival Studies:
The Kenneth Karmiole Lecture is made possible by a generous gift from Information Studies alumnus Kenneth Karmiole. The Karmiole Lecture Fund provides departmental support to bring speakers to campus for greater national and international visibility of the Archival Studies program within UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
- January 16, 2020 – András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Fine Arts Library, "Destroying and Preserving Cultural Memory in Time of War: Archives and Libraries in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s"
The Francis Clarke Sayers Lecture Series:
This annual lecture series honors Frances Clarke Sayers (1897-1989), distinguished children's librarian, inspiring master teacher, author, storyteller, and member of the UCLA Department of Library and Information Science faculty from 1960-1989.
- February 9, 2020 – Grace Lin, a NY Times bestselling author/ illustrator.
Past Colloquium Speakers
- OCT 11, Gato Negro Ediciones, Independent Press, Mexico City, "South of No North: Gato Negro Ediciones"
- OCT 18, Julia Hause, Assistant Archivist, Sisters of Social Services of Los Angeles, "Murky Waters: The Revival of the Salton Sea History Museum"
- OCT 25, Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim Maciel, Research, Memory Center, State University of Campinas, President, Brazilian Oral History Association, "Mind Palace or Memory Palace"
- NOV 8, Gregory Rolan, Research Fellow, Monash University, " Participatory Recordkeeping and the Rights in Records by Design Project"
- NOV 15, Patrik Svensson, Professor, Humanities and Information Technology, Umeå University, Visiting Professor, Digital Humanities, UCLA, "Human/istic Infrastructure"
- NOV 29, Veronica Barassi, Lecturer, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University, "Data and Citizenship: Critical Questions and Research Perspectives from the Margins"
- DEC 6, Dr. Marcia Bates, Professor Emerita, UCLA Dept. of Information Studies, on "Designing Search Interfaces for our Inner Hunter-Gatherer: Getting Serious about Browsing."
- DEC 13, Audrey Bennett, Distinguished Scholar, University of Pretoria, Former College Art Association Professional Development Fellow, "Using Interactive Aesthetics to Engage Youth with the Heritage Algorithms Embedded in Gees Bend, Anishinaabe, Lakota, and Appalachian Quilts"
- JAN 10, Lily Irani, Assistant Professor, Communication, Science Studies, Critical Gender Studies, University of San Diego, TBA
- JAN 17, Roberto Hernández, Associate Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University, "Colonially of the US/Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative"
- JAN 24, Mizuko Ito, Director, Connected Learning Lab, University of California, Irvine, "Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning"
- FEB 7, Adrienne Benally, Doctoral Student, Claremont Graduate University, "The 'Coloniality of Power' in Tribal Fossil Energy Development: Examining the Navajo Nation's 2013 Decision to Actively Engage in Coal Mining"
- FEB 21, Joe Sanchez, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College (CUNY), ""It's not for us, it's for THEM": Mexican-American Experiences with Their School Library"
- FEB 28, UCLA Labor Center, "Research Justice: Research from the Ground Up"
- APR 11, Aomar Boum, Associate Professor, Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, "Paper, Heat and Termites: The Private Manuscripts of Southern Moroccan Oases"
- MAY 23, Sarah Roberts, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, "Status Update: Online Content Moderation at Crisis Point"
- OCT 6 (CANCELED), Doria Johnson, PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Use What You Got to Get What You Want: Searching High and Low for Big Momma and Dem'"
- OCT 12, Astrid Von Rosen, Senior Lecturer, Art History and Visual Studies, University of Gothenburg, "Dance Community Archiving and the Power of Pluralizing Visual Records"
- NOV 2, Mishuana Goeman, Associate Professor, Gender Studies and Native American Studies, UCLA, "Anticolonial Tools, the Digital Terrain and Working with Tribal Communities"
- NOV 9, Emilia Yang, PhD Student Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) University of Southern California, "Political Memories and Imaginative Futures Through Playful Methodologies"
- NOV 30, Anna Lauren Hoffman, Assistant Professor, The Information School, University of Washington, "Towards a Conception of Data Violence"
- DEC 14, Vivienne Ming, Theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur & author, Co-founder of Socos, "Technology & Society"
- JAN 18, Susan Slyomovics, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA, "Dead Archives, Displaced Monuments: The 1962 Bureaucratic Ruptures Between Colonial France and Independent Algeria"
- JAN 25, Jim Enote, Executive Director, A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center and CEO, Colorado Plateau Foundation, "The Museum as a Space for Knowing, Unknowing, and Mediation"
- FEB 1, Thomas Padilla, Digital Research Services Librarian, University of Nevada Las Vegas, "On the Value of Uncertainty and Nonscalability"
- FEB 8, Lissa D. Stapleton, Assistant Professor, Department of Deaf Studies, California State University, Northridge, "Black Deaf Communities: The Invisible Stories Within Black History"
- FEB 22, Jamila Ghaddar, PhD Student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, "That Keening Trajectory: Archival Place, Third World Futurities and the Making of a Global Order"
- MAR 1, Fiorella Foscarini, Associate Professor, Director of Concurrent Registration Option, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, "Making Records: Collaboration and Identity Construction in Organizations"
- MAR 8, Michal Kosinsky, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, "Predicting Intimate Traits from Digital Footprints"
- APR 12, Victoria Lemieux, Senior Public Sector Specialist (Information Management), Associate Professor of Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia, "Evaluating Blockchain Recordkeeping: An Archival Science Theoretical Framework"
- APR 19 (BRESLAUER LECTURE), Matt Cohen, Associate Professor, Department of English and the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Time and the Bibliographer"
- APR 26, Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Professor, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Comparative Literature and English, School of Humanities, UC Irvine, "Calculating Violence Against Women: Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and the World Bank Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study"
- MAY 3, Diana Nucera, Director, Detroit Community Technology Project & Cayden Mak, Executive Director, 18 Million Rising, "Reimagining the Internet from the Bottom Up"
- MAY 10, Skawennati, Mohawk multimedia artist, Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) and Partnership Coordinator of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, "Skawennati: Indigenous Futurism in an Artistic Practice"
- OCT 6, Johanna Drucker, UCLA Department of Information Studies, "Concept Modelling: A Non-Representational Approach to Visualizing Interpretation"
- OCT 13, 4:30 PM, Renate Mesmer, Head of Conservation at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C."Playing Our Part: A Special Collections Library in the 21st Century"
- OCT 20, 4:30 PM, Abigail Quandt, Head of Book and Paper Conservation, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, "Revealing Hidden Stories: The Role of the Conservator in Advancing Scholarly Research on Illuminated Manuscripts"
- Breslauer Lecture Series: OCT 27, Florian Cramer, Applied Research Professor and Director of Creating 010, Willem de Kooning Academy and Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, "Crapularity Hermeneutics"
- NOV 3, 4:30 PM, Lieve Watteeuw, Head of Book Heritage Lab, KU Leuven, Belgium, "Photometric Stereo Imaging with the Microdome for Studying Bookbindings, Illuminations, Drawings and Documentary Heritage"
- NOV 10, Ted Nelson, Internet Archive Fellow Computer Scientist, "A Conversation with Ted Nelson"
- NOV 17, 3–6 PM, Sheila Waters & Julian Waters, Authors of Waters Rising: Letters from Florence, a Chronicle of the Flood Treatments at the National Library of Florence, "The West Coast Tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the Florence Flood and the Book and Paper Conservation Techniques Developed"
- JAN 19, Dr. Paul Dourish, Chancellor's Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, "Spreadsheets In Organizational Life: A Case Study in the Materialities of Information"
- Kenneth Karmiole Lecture Series in Archival Studies: JAN 31 (Tuesday) David Fricker, President of the International Council on Archives, Title to be Determined, Location TBD. Reception at 4:30 PM, followed by the lecture at 5:30 PM
- Breslauer Lecture Series: FEB 2, Manuel Portela, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Materialities of Literature at the University of Coimbra, "The Book of Disquiet": Digital Archive as Literary Simulation
- FEB 16, Dr. Page Dubois, Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature in the Literature Department at UC San Diego, "Democracy?"
- FEB 23, Dr. Tarleton Gillespie, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, an affiliated associate professor in Cornell's Department of Communication, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, "The End of the Neutral Platform: How Social Media Moderate, Choreograph, and Censor Public Discourse, at Scale and Under Pressure"
- MAR 2, Dr. Christina Dunbar-Hester, Assistant Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, "The 3D Printer Will Come, Now How Do We Kick People Out?" Diversity Advocacy and Governance in Open Technology Projects
- MAR 9, Dr. Pekka Henttonen, Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere, "Privacy as an archival problem and solution"
- APR 6, Dr. Marisa Duarte, Assistant Professor, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, "Connecting Beyond the Interface: Indigenous Knowledge, Mobilization, and Deloria's Right to Know"
- APR 20, Dr. Daniela Rosner, Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington and co-director of the Tactile and Tactical Design Lab (TAT Lab), "Becoming a Maker-Scholar"
- MAY 11, Dr. André Brock, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, "A Critical Race Approach to Social Informatics"
- MAY 18, Doctoral Student Research
- October 15 – Wayne Wiegard (Florida State University), "Why Americans Love Their Public Libraries", GSE&IS 111
- October 29 – Simone Browne (University of Texas, Austin), "Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness", YRL Presentation Room
- November 5 – Randall McLeod (University of Toronto), "The Birth of Italics", GSE&IS 111
- November 12 – Andrea Scharnhorst and Henk Van Den Berg (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), "Who Uses the Digital Archive? A Case Study of the Dutch Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)", YRL Presentation Room
- January 14 – UCLA Student Panel, "The Conundrum of Police-Involved Homicides Counter-Data in LA County"
- January 21 – Johanna Drucker (UCLA Department of Information Studies), "Alphabet Histories: Knowledge Technologies and Historiography"
- January 28 – Alex Wright (Etsy, School of Visual Arts), "The Secret History of Hypertext"
- February 4 – Diane Favro (UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design), "The Dangers of Representation"
- February 11 – Manuel Portela (University of Coimbra), "The Book of Disquiet Digital Archives as a Role-Playing Experiment"
- February 18 – Kate Eichorn (The New School), "Art and Activism in the Age of Generative Systems: Xerography's Forgotten Revolution"
- March 3 – Rich Gazan (University of Hawaii), "Astrobiology and Answerbag: When Research Threads Collide"
- March 10 – Emily Drabinski (Long Island University, Brooklyn), "Infrastructures of Practice: Standards & Everyday Librarian Life"
- March 31 – Matthew Hull (University of Michigan), "Disjunction and Function: Police, Politicians, and a Corporation in India"
- April 14 – Niels Brügger (Aarhus University), "Internet Studies, Digital Humanities, and Web Historiography–Challenges and Possibilities"
- April 28 – Morgan Currie and Roderic Crooks, IS Dissertation Year Fellowship Projects
- May 5 – Greg Cohen, "Of Speculation and Experimental Accumulation: Notes on the Valaco Archive"
- May 26 – John Gillis, "Treasure from the bog; the Fadden More Psalter"
- November 7 – Richard Chabran and Melissa Camaoire, with Ramesh Srinivasan, "Why Diversity Matters in Information Studies: A Roundtable Discussion with IS Diversity Council"
- November 14 – Ciaran Trace, "Archives and Human Centered Computing"
- November 21 – Chris Borgman, "Scholarship in the Networked World: Big Data, Little Data, No Data"
- January 9 – Christopher Kelty and PartLab (Roderic Crooks, Morgan Currie, Seth Erickson, Patricia Garcia, Aaron Panofsky, Michael Wartenbe, Stacy Wood), "Disentangling Participation: Theoretical, Methodological and Collaborative Approaches"
- January 16 – Elizabeth Losh, "The President's Blackberry: Ubiquitous Computing and State Sovereignty in the Obama Administration"
- January 23 – Jason Farman, "Bodies, Spaces, and the Mobile Interface"
- February 6 – Katie Herzog, "Expressionist Librarianship, Psychedelic Informatics, and Experimental Lexicography: Information Science as Art Material"
- February 20 – Sarah Roberts, "Behind the Screen: The Commercial Internet Content Moderation Industry and its Workers"
- February 27 – Mario Biagioli, "Ghostwriting in Science and the Problem of Authorship"
- April 3 – Christo Sims, "The Cutting Edge of Fun: Learning Privilege in the Digital Age"
- April 10 – Lisa Parks, "Water, Energy, Access: Approaches for Studying Mobile Phone and Internet Use in Rural Zambia"
- April 17 – Breslauer Lecture: Robert Fraser, "Whereof One Cannot Count…Reception, Information and Meaning"
- April 24 – Wendy Chun, "Habitual New Media
- May 8 – Rita Raley, "Speculations on a Critical Digital Humanities"
- May 22 – Jenna Burrell, "The Materiality of Rumors"
- May 29 – Gabriella Coleman, "Anonymous in Context: The Power and Politics behind the Mask"

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Atheists of BHS experience prejudice
Atheists have a pretty bad rap.
In a recent study at the University of British Columbia and the University of Oregon, 350 American adults and 420 Canadian college students were told a fictional story about a teacher who found a wallet, took the money, damaged a parked car, and left the scene. Groups of subjects were asked if they thought the character in the story was a rapist, a Muslim, a Christian, or an atheist. The psychologists offered four options so they could see if people associate the illegal acts with a certain group of people. The results of this was "pretty remarkable," said Azim Shariff, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and a co-author of the study.
According to the results, atheists are less trusted than rapists. This said, think about what it's like to be an atheist. The United States is a highly theistic nation, with 70.6% of the population identifying as Christian. As a result, the 3.1% that identify as atheist put up with Christian traditions, like having to say "One Nation, under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and having "In God we trust" as a national motto. Why would you even come out as a non-believer when rapists are more trusted than atheists?
According to The Guardian, Ansarullah Bangla Team, an Islamic militant group, has compiled a "hit list" of 84 atheist bloggers. So far, four bloggers on that list have been killed. One of the more recent murders was that of Niloy Chatterjee, who was found in his apartment, beheaded and without hands. Knowing this, the world is a very scary place for an atheist growing up. Some atheists go to church only because their parents make them. Coming out as an atheist is risking being disowned by your own family.
To a religious person, someone who does not fear or follow God is a frightening concept. So imagine being an atheist and knowing how many people in this world are scared and angry at you just for your beliefs. Put yourself in the shoes of an atheist in school in the extremely conservative Wright County.
"People find atheists very suspect," Shariff said. "They don't fear God, so we should distrust them; they do not have the same moral obligations of others. This is a common refrain against atheists. People fear them as a group."
America was founded on the freedom to believe in whatever you want or not believe at all, with the first amendment of the constitution stating the freedom of religion. If we begin to deny an entire group of people their constitutional rights just because of their beliefs, everyone should always have the same rights, regardless of religion, race, or creed. Atheism should be treated no differently than religion.
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If you've worked hard in your career as a physician but find yourself counting down the years or months until retirement, there are several key things you should consider. In this blog post, we will address three important things all doctors nearing retirement should keep in mind and evaluate before scheduling a retirement party.
- Timing: First and foremost, work with your financial planner and tax professional to come up with a realistic plan to transition away from practicing medicine. There may come a point in your practice where you are no longer feeling personally rewarded by your work. While that's a sure sign that you need to transition away from practicing, don't make the retirement decision based on your emotions alone. Make sure retirement income projections show that you (and your financial dependents) are likely to be able to live the retirement life you want to live.
- Taxes: While the majority of your retirement savings is probably in tax-deferred vehicles, talk to your financial and tax professionals about whether it makes sense for you to set aside some after-tax dollars now, by rolling over a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA, or by taking advantage of a Roth 401(k) option, if that's available to you in your current plan.
- Budgeting/Spending: Take a careful look at your spending habits now. Many physicians find themselves in the trap of spending too much of their disposable income while working and then find it hard to adjust to having less money available for discretionary spending after they retire.
By working with professionals to evaluate where you are today financially and what you want your retirement to look like, you will be taking those first steps on the path to retirement with the same care you have given to your career. Contact Chandler & Knowles CPAs to learn more about our experience working with physicians.


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Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," White House aide Kellyanne Conway said President Donald Trump was not governing with the "spurious nationalism" Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) condemned.
Instead she said he was governing as a "center-right president."
Conway said, "Well, I just don't see that in the president's agenda or in his philosophy. His moorings are conservative, and he is governing as a center-right president who believes that we pay too much in taxes, that we're overregulated, that we have not taken terrorists seriously. We've not even been willing to call them terrorists for the last however many years. This country is safer and more prosperous under President Donald Trump."
She added, "We hope we can rely upon Sen. McCain's vote on any number of issues that Sen. McCain has promised the people of Arizona he would do, lowering taxes, getting stronger against terrorism, obviously, again, being for free markets and being for prosperity and security around the globe."
(h/t Politico)
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SEYMOUR, Tenn. — A Tennessee man shared on Facebook this week that his fiancée was asked to cover up or leave their apartment complex swimming pool because her bathing suit was deemed "inappropriate."
The June 20 post has since gone viral.
Tyler Newman said the situation helped him understand how women are told to police their bodies when men are around.
"I have never really witnessed sexual harassment and/or 'rape culture' until today with Smoky Crossing Apartments," the post began.
Newman and his fiancée, Tori Jenkins, 20, were with friends when after a few minutes, a leasing agent with the apartment allegedly accused her of wearing a "thong bathing suit" and that she was receiving complaints from other people at the pool.
"She was told that her body because it's built curvier than others, is 'too inappropriate' for children to be around. She was told, 'there are a lot of teenage boys in this complex, and you don't need to excite them,'" Newman wrote.
Jenkins was told to change her suit, cover up or leave the pool.
Newman wrote that Jenkins went to the office to speak to the employee and they "insisted upon letting Tori take her picture to show 'how inappropriate' her bathing suit was, and instructed her to look into a mirror at her own body."
Newman wrote the leasing consultant told his fiancée, "that if she didn't have kids herself, she wouldn't understand. She was told that the leasing consultant wouldn't want her own kids around Tori.
When Tori explained that yes, she does indeed have a larger butt than a lot of people, and that 95% of the things she wears ride up when she walks, the woman told Tori that a "normal bathing suit covers your entire butt" and again deemed my fiancée's body inappropriate."
Another post with Jenkins in her bathing suit has since surfaced since Newman's post went viral. It shows her in the same bathing suit at the pool on a different day. You can see it here.
In a post on her own Facebook page, Jenkins thanked everyone for their support.


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www.carvingart.com/A0..htm, and if you want to see the cheeky brat's website, click on http://www.carvingart.com/. All kidding aside, this guy is a serious, and seriously great artist. His work is collected by people all over the world, and he is available for commissions. If you love his carving, but aren't wanting a religious piece, he will do some non-religious projects.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
As long as we're talking about church art...
Awhile back, I mentioned another artist George Bilak, and invited you to click a link to his site. Now that I've gotten my hands on a few pictures of his work, I would like to extend that invitation again. These photos are of his work at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Cambridge, MA.
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934 Gallery merged an open-air concert with a traditional gallery exhibition this past weekend in the third annual installment of 934 Fest.
The aim of the 934 Fest, a volunteer-run event, was to attract people who might have never visited an art gallery before, said Lisa Steward, exhibitions director and mural coordinator.
"We really strive to have this open and welcoming feeling in our festival and we try to do this year-round in the gallery space as well," Steward said.
More than 20 music acts performed across stages and activities were offered for children by the Wexner Center for the Arts. Vendors sold vintage clothes, postcards and keychains, and two food trucks offered drinks and snacks to visitors.
For the first time, the festival took place over two days. However, due to poor weather conditions, the second day was rescheduled for Saturday, a month after the initial start of the event.
The festival was free to enter, with the hopes of providing more accessible and affordable art. However, donations were encouraged to help the continued operation of the gallery.
Steward said the gallery chose its more remote location at 934 Cleveland Ave., a mile away from High Street, to attract a different array of artists.
"We are providing artists who might not fit into the 'High Street mold' a chance to exhibit here," Steward said.
Steward said people were initially drawn in by the activities and music and eventually made their way to the exhibition and murals.
"I made sure that I was choosing a diverse crew of muralists — women, queer artists, people of color — who might not have had a chance to do murals in the city before," Steward said.
Johnny Riddle, sponsor relations coordinator and music committee lead of the festival, said he is proud to have invited DANK, which stands for Dope Ass Negro Kids, to 934 Fest.
"I wanted to have a mixture of more established acts as well as some of the up-and-coming acts that you may not see on stage just yet," Riddle said.
Liv Barney, a Native American muralist, painted her first large-scale mural live during the festival.
"Typically, with my work, I like it to show native dancers or just native culture in substance, even if it's contemporary or traditional," Barney said.
Barney wanted to support the gallery by offering this performance to the festival and painted three dancers in different poses for the mural.
The exhibition inside the gallery, entitled "What The Living We Know," by Mandi Caskey, will be on display until Oct. 19.


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Credit card transactions in the US last year totalled more than two trillion dollars. The credit card processing industry is definitely not a small one - that pie gets bigger and tastier as time goes on and consumers move more and more of their transactions to non-cash options. And at the same time, this industry is rather new, with general purpose credit cards getting introduced just 75 years ago. In those 75 years, new businesses and technology have sprung up around credit card processing with only a few disruptions along the way; the biggest of which we may be seeing now.
Let's rewind to the 1950s when all transactions were done in cash. General purpose credit cards were just getting introduced and now businesses needed to find a way to support them. At the time, a business's POS system was very basic - essentially a cash register, with no operational workflows such as integration with the kitchen for the hospitality industry. Credit card processing was a new and confusing system. Credit card processing companies popped up, building the infrastructure around this system and providing the devices to businesses to allow them to accept credit cards for payments.
The confusing and complicated nature of credit card processing - something that, to this day, is rather opaque - provided an opportunity for profit. No contract conversations were transparent or simple. The simple business owner question of "what's this going to cost me?" didn't have a straightforward answer because of the variation built into Interchange rates and the extra fees charged in a variety of situations. Very quickly, business owners working with processors recognized the profit they were losing to these companies and, because of the lack of transparency, began to rely completely on the relationship with specific sales representatives they had to trust wouldn't take advantage of them.
Enter partnerships between credit card processors and POS companies. Credit card processing remained separate from the POS system, but some companies started improving upon the interface between the two to make integration possible. Suddenly, credit card processors and POS companies were becoming partners. By preferring our services, the processors said, we'll give you a cut of the profits to make it worth your while. POS companies became a sales channel for credit card processors, encouraging their customers to choose one processor over another. This was the beginning of a relationship that would expand over time as more technology became available to business owners.
A major change happened in 2009 with Square making credit card processing much more transparent and automated. The automation - the ability to self-purchase and self-setup - enabled them to reduce the cost to a business and reach a new audience that previously couldn't afford a POS. On top of that, the transparency they provided - just one flat rate instead of unpredictable fees - was welcomed by many businesses. In a few short years, they accumulated millions of customers worldwide.
This transparency had an interesting effect - no longer did you need to rely on a sales representative at a processing company to pick rates that will work best for your business. Instead, business owners could make a clear and informed decision on their own. After all, credit card processing is essentially the same, the only difference being the cost to the business. The relationship-dependent sale of the old processors became less and less common as business owners were armed with more information to make sound decisions themselves.
Credit card processing is now a commodity. Business owners can choose transparent, flat rates over a confusing contract, or even calculate their effective rate themselves. Credit card processors are like car dealerships - they all sell the same cars. You can choose one over the other based on its location or how they give you free coffee and pastries when you visit, or you can do research online and pick out the car you want and research a good price without relying on a particular sales representative. And the credit card processors recognize this shift. They still operate on the basis of their relationships and put down competitors based on the same factors - business practices or personal connections - rather than the product or service value they're getting. That's because credit card processing as a product/service is essentially the same from one company to the next.
And so we enter the next phase of the evolution of this industry: product platform over isolated services. In other words, rather than buying each service separately - credit card processing, POS, back of the house reporting, etc. - more and more businesses are buying a package of integrated tools. This transition happens not only because it's the POS or other business technology that provides the value-add to businesses, but also because this integration makes sense for the consumer and manager experience. When a consumer orders something for dinner at a restaurant, their reservation, their order, their exchange with their server, and their payment are all part of the same interaction. By integrating each step of that process, the customer experience is smoother and the business manager experience is smoother - for example, no longer do managers need to match sales reports with deposit slips because both sides of that process are handled by the same product. A lot of these common tasks - or tasks that are becoming more common - like confirming deposits or splitting checks become infinitely easier if you have a single system that handles sales and deposits, orders and payments, and everything in between.
The sales channel that was once the POS is now the business technology platform. Multiple credit card processors have been moving in this direction, acquiring, investing, or partnering with technology companies to become a technology platform for their customers. Heartland acquired a slew of POS companies: PC America, Dinerware, Xpient, and Leaf (now defunct), Chase invested in Square (in addition to creating their own Square-like product), and First Data acquired Clover. These are just a few examples of this trend, as more and more processing companies start to expand their scope and play in the technology space instead of the processing industry. Why? Because the credit card processing industry as it once stood - an isolated revenue stream - can't exist without the technology that enables business owners to grow and succeed.
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HTC EVO™ 4G from Sprint will receive the Android™ 2.3, Gingerbread, update through an over-the-air maintenance release beginning on Monday, June 6.
Sprint will send update notifications to users in waves. The notification will let users know the update is available and provide the simple two-step, over-the-air download instructions.
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For those who just can't wait to get Android 2.3, there will be an easy user initiated option to download the upgrade starting on Friday, June 3. To access the update – from the home screen/Menu/Settings/System updates/HTC software Update. This will initiate the upgrade process.
The software release upgrades HTC EVO 4G to Android 2.3, Gingerbread. This version of Android improves download management through the Downloads application, offering the user easy access to any file downloaded from the browser, email or another application. It also fixes the devices ability to stream media through certain applications for the device.
Gingerbread restores HTC EVO 4G's ability to sync multiple Gmail™ accounts, display email attachments in the email client and fixes battery discharge issues.
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this is how the fruit tree thing works.
you have to dig a few feet down into the ground, then add some compost fill with water. then add tree root and cover then water.
this isnt a quick affair. and you need some people power.
the tilling thing is for gardens. and you need to really break up the soil first. or it will take a long ole time.
you should ask me and some folks to come out there with ya'll make it a "thing" feed us. feed us karaoke.
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This is a medium to large deciduous tree with reddish autumn colours. Flowers are cream to pale yellow, slightly scented and open in September to November. The fruit are small, 4-winged and a greenish brown colour, ripening to yellowish brown and drying to a honey-brown. They stay on the tree for a long time. The fruit is poisonous and results in hiccups. A popular shade tree, surprisingly drought and frost resistant and fast growing, reaching 4-6 m in three years. The gum has interesting antibiotic properties and is applied to sores. It is non-toxic, elastic, producing a non-cracking varnish. Ornaments, cattle troughs and grain mortars are made from the wood, which is yellow, tough and easily worked. It is also used as fire wood. A dark, rich brown dye is extracted from the roots which is used when tanning hides. The dried fruits also work well in flower arrangements and are eaten by pied barbets. It has non-aggressive roots and attracts birds. It is the larval host plant for several butterflies like Liordes Hairtail, Red -tab Policeman, Two-pip Policeman and the Orange-barred Playboy. I just love these charming butterfly names! It is an ideal tree for wetlands as well as game farms as it is browsed by Kudu, Bushbuck, Eland, Giraffe and Elephant. It is often used as a street tree, in large gardens and along rivers. There are many medicinal uses. Root bark and stem bark are used to treat a cough, infertility, leprosy and VD. The bark is taken during labour to ease childbirth, to treat infertility and as an aphrodisiac. The leaves are used for coughs and abdominal pains.The roots, which some regard as poisonous are used as a purgative, to treat venereal diseases and as a prophylactic for V.D. The roots are fed to dogs by the Zulu to fatten them up.
This deciduous tree can reach 5 to 10 meters. The stem is often crooked and the rough bark is dark grey-brown. It produces lovely white pinkish scented flowers in early spring and is a striking sight. These flowers attract bees and butterflies. One of it's common names is "Bruidjie van die bosveld" because it looks like a bride clad in white. It likes summer rain and a dry winters. The leaves are thick, rough and hairy. The word rotundifolius means having round leaves. They are browsed by game, elephant, giraffe, kudu, nyala, sable and steenbok and the inner bark is used for twine. The bark is stripped, soaked for 2 days and then pounded with round rocks till soft and smooth. These fibres are twisted into string and rope . They are also used to bind dressings in place. The heavy wood is termite proof and is used for implement handles, fence posts and ornaments. The bark is traditionally used to relieve headaches, heart palpitations, nausea, to hasten labour and for abortions. Roots are used for abdominal upsets, colic, diarrhea and rheumatism. Root decoctions are rubbed into the body to dispel the effects of witchcraft. Makes a lovely bonsai and is cold and fire resistant. Very good street tree as it does not have aggressive roots so plant it about 3 meters from buildings and pools. Dried flowers are used in floral decorations. This is the larval host plant for the Ragged Skipper butterfly as well as 9 moth species. Named for Joseph Dombey 1742-1794, a French naturalist, physician, botanist and traveller. He researched the cinchona plant which produces quinine for malaria. He wrote numerous books that were only published once he had died. Sometimes his specimens were captured and sent to the British Museum instead of the French one. They were also confiscated. On a trip to the USA they were struck by a storm and never arrived. He was captured and imprisoned, for a ransom, in the West Indies where died in jail.


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MgTiO 3:Mn 4+ a multi-reading temperature nanoprobe
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MgTiO3 nanoparticles doped with Mn4+, with homogeneous size ranging about 63.1 ± 9.8 nm, were synthesized by a molten salt assisted sol gel method. These nanoparticles have been investigated as optical thermal sensors. The luminescence of tetravalent manganese ion in octahedral environment within the perovskite host presents drastic variations with temperature. Three different thermometry approaches have been proposed and characterized. Two luminescence intensity ratios are studied. Firstly between the two R-lines of Mn4+ emission at low temperature (-250 °C and -90 °C) with a maximal sensitivity of 0.9% °C-1, but also secondly between 2E → 4A2 (R-line) and the 4T2 → 4A2 transitions. This allows studying the temperature variation within a larger temperature range (-200 °C to 50 °C) with a sensitivity between 0.6% °C-1 and 1.2% °C-1 over this range. The last proposed method is the study of the lifetime variation versus temperature. The effective lifetime value corresponds to a combinati...on of transitions from two excited energy levels of the tetravalent manganese (2E and 4T2) in thermal equilibrium toward the fundamental 4A2 state. Since the more energetic transition (4T2 → 4A2) is spin-allowed, contrary to the 2E → 4A2 one, the lifetime drastically decreases with the increase in temperature leading to an impressive high sensitivity value of 4.1% °C-1 at 4 °C and an exceptional temperature resolution of 0.025 °C. According to their optical features, MgTiO3:Mn4+ nanoparticles are indeed suitable candidates for the luminescence temperature probes at the nanoscale over several temperature ranges.
Keywords:excited states / luminescence / magnesium compounds / manganese / nanoparticles / perovskite / sensitivity analysis / sol-gel process / sol-gels / synthesis (chemical) / temperature
Source:RSC Advances, 2018, 8, 33, 18341-18346
- Physics of amorphous and nanostructural materials (RS-171022)
- Cluster of Excellence MATISSE (France)
- DGA (Direction Générale de l'Armement, France)
- Bilateral project between France and Serbia (No. 36214NE – Campus France)
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Who gave our souls–will intellect and emotions–free will? ANSWER: GOD.
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Some years ago, an article in the Journal of the History of Ideas, in an attempt to score some points against the great "economic determinist" historian Charles A. Beard, charged that for Beard it was only his historical "bad guys" who were economically determined, whereas his"good guys" were governed largely by ideology. To the author, Beard's supposed"inconsistency" in this matter was enough to demolish the Beardian method. But my contention here is that in a sense, Beard wasn't so far wrong; and that, in fact, from the libertarian if not from the Beardian perspective, it is indeed true in a profound sense that the "bad guys" in history are largely economically motivated, and the "good guys" ideologically motivated. Note that the operative term here, of course, is "largely" rather than "exclusively."
Let us see why this should be so. The essence of the State through history is that a minority of the population, who constitute a "ruling class, govern, live off of, and exploit the majority, or the "ruled." Since a majority cannot live parasitically off a minority without the economy and the system breaking down very quickly, and since the majority can never act permanently by itself but must always be governed by an oligarchy, every State will persist by plundering the majority on behalf of a ruling minority. A further or corollary reason for the inevitability of minority rule is the pervasive fact of the division of labor; the majority of the public must spend most of its time about the business of making a daily living. Hence the actual rule of the State must be left to full–time professionals who are necessarily a minority of the society.
Throughout history, then, the State has consisted of a minority plundering and tyrannizing over a majority. This brings us to the great question,the great mystery if you will, of political philosophy: the mystery of civil obedience. From Etienne de La Boétie to David Hume to Ludwig von Mises, political philosophers have shown that no State—no minority—can continue long in power unless supported, even if passively, by the majority. Why then do the majority continue to accept or support the State?
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when they are clearly acquiescing in their own exploitation and subjection? Why do the majority continue to obey the minority?
Here we arrive at the age-old role of the intellectuals, the opinion molding groups in society. The ruling class—be they warlords, nobles, feudal landlords, or monopoly merchants, or a coalition of several of these groups—must employ intellectuals to convince the majority of the public that their rule is beneficent, inevitable, necessary, and even divine. The dominant role of the intellectual through history is that of the Court Intellectual, who in return for a share, a junior partnership, in the power and pelf offered by the rest of the ruling class, spins the apologias for State rule with which to convince a deluded public. This is the age-old alliance of Church and State, of Throne and Altar, with the Church in modern times being largely replaced by "scientific" technocrats.
When the "bad guys" act, then, when they form a State or a centralizing Constitution, when they go to war or create a Marshall Plan or use and increase State power in any way, their primary motivation is economic: to increase their plunder at the expense of the subject and taxpayer. The ideology that they profess and that is formulated and spread through society by the Court Intellectuals is merely an elaborate rationalization for their venal economic interests. The ideology is the smokescreen for their loot, the fictitious clothes spun by the intellectuals to hide the naked plunder of the Emperor. The task of the historian, then, is to penetrate to the essence of the transaction, to strip the ideological garb from the Emperor State and to reveal the economic motive at the heart of the issue.
What then of the actions of the "good guys," i.e., those unfortunately infrequent but vital situations in history when the subjects rise up to diminish, or whittle away, or abolish State power? What, in short, of such historical events as the American Revolution or the classical liberal movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? It goes without saying, of course, that the economic motive for diminishing or throwing off State power is a "good" one from the libertarian point of view, in contrast to the "bad" economic motives of the statists. Thus, a move by the ruling class on behalf of higher taxation is a bad economic motive, a motive to increase their confiscation of the property of the producers, whereas the economic motive against taxation is the good one of defending private property against such unjust depredations. That is true, but that is not the major point I am trying to make here. My contention is that, in the nature of the case, the major motive of the opposition, or the revolutionaries, will be ideological rather than economic.
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The basic reason is that the ruling class, being small and largely specialized, is motivated to think about its economic interests twenty-four hours a day. The steel manufacturers seeking a tariff, the bankers seeking taxes to repay their government bonds, the rulers seeking a strong state from which to obtain subsidies, the bureaucrats wishing to expand their empire, are all professionals in statism. They are constantly at work trying to preserve and expand their privileges. Hence the primacy of the economic motive in their pernicious actions. But the majority has allowed itself to be deluded largely because its immediate interests are diff use and hard to observe, and because they are not professional "anti-statists" but people going about their business of daily living. What can the average person know of the arcane processes of subsidy or taxation or bond issue? Generally he is too wrapped up in his daily life, too habituated to his lot aft er centuries of State-guided propaganda, to give any thought to his unfortunate fate. Hence, an opposition or revolutionary movement, or indeed any mass movement from below, cannot be primarily guided by ordinary economic motives. For such a mass movement to form, the masses must be fired up, must be aroused to a rare and uncommon pitch of fervor against the existing system. But the only way for that to happen is for the masses to be fired up by ideology. It is only ideology, guided either by a new religious conversion, or by a passion for justice, that can arouse the interest of the masses (in the current jargon to "raise their consciousness") and lead them out of their morass of daily habit into an uncommon and militant activity in opposition to the State. This is not to say that an economic motive, a defense for example of their property, does not play an important role. But to form a mass movement in opposition means that they must shake off the habits, the daily mundane concerns of several lifetimes, and become politically aroused and determined as never before in their lives. Only a common and passionately believed in ideology can perform that role. Hence our strong hypothesis that such a mass movement as the American Revolution (or even in its sphere the Calvinist movement) must have been centrally motivated by a newly adopted and commonly shared ideology.
We turn now to the insight of such disparate political theorists asMarx and Mises, how do the masses of subjects acquire this guiding and determining ideology? By the very nature of the masses, it is impossible for them to arrive at such a revolutionary or opposition ideology on their own. Habituated as they are to their narrow and daily rounds, uninterested in ideology as they normally are, concerned with daily living, it is
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impossible for the masses to lift themselves up by their own bootstraps to hammer out an ideological movement in opposition to the existing State. Here we arrive at the vital role of the intellectuals. It is only intellectuals, the full-time professionals in ideas, who can have either the time, the ability, or the inclination to formulate the opposition ideology and then to spread the word to the mass of the subjects. In contrast to the statist Court Intellectual, whose role is a junior partner in rationalizing the economic interests of the ruling class, the radical or opposition intellectual's role is the centrally guiding one of formulating the opposition or revolutionary ideology and then to spread the ideology to the masses, thereby welding them into a revolutionary movement.
An important corollary point: in weighing the motivations of the intellectuals themselves or even of the masses, it is generally true that setting oneself up in opposition to an existing State is a lonely, thorny, and oft en dangerous road. It would usually be to the direct economic interests of the radical intellectuals to allow themselves to "sell out," to be co-opted by the ruling State apparatus. Those intellectuals who choose the radical opposition path, then, can scarcely be dominated by economic motives; on the contrary, only a fiercely held ideology, centering on a passion for justice, can keep the intellectual to the rigorous path of truth. Hence, again, the inevitability of a dominant role for ideology in an opposition movement. Thus, though perhaps not for Beardian reasons, it turns out to be true that the "bad guys," the statists, are governed by economic motivation with ideology serving as a smokescreen for such motives, whereas the "good guys," the libertarians or anti-statists, are ruled principally and centrally by ideology, with economic defense playing a subordinate role. Through this dichotomy we can at last resolve the age-old historiographical dispute over whether ideology or economic interests play the dominant role in historical motivation.
If it is the shame of the intellectuals that the Court Intellectual has been their dominant role over the course of world history, it is also the glory of the intellectuals that they played the central role in forming and guiding the mass movements of the modern world in opposition to the State: from the Calvinist upsurge of the Reformation to the classical liberal and radical movements of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Bible: The purpose of the civil magistrate–the higher power–is to do judgment and justice.
Evil Comes From the abuse of FREE WILL–C.S. Lewis
Determinism and the free will controversy–Mises
Researching our free wills given by God; and finding those trying to reduce or remove our free wills–by Richard Duke
Do I Respect My Free Will?–Libertarian Christian Institute
God's Sovereignty and Our Free Will
Free Will and the Market Place
Positivism and Behaviorism–Mises


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By Carol Morello, Inquirer Staff Writer
POSTED: February 12, 1989
LATROBE, Pa. — Bob France. Mountain man. Lives in a log cabin with a stockade gate to keep the world at bay. Snares snakes for fun.
The woods and its denizens are as familiar to him as the calluses on his hands.
Then one day Bob France went into the dark and teeming woods, and familiarity slipped away. For he had entered another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A dimension is known as – Chestnut Ridge.
This stretch of the Allegheny Mountain foothills, running from West Virginia up through Westmoreland and Indiana Counties, is Pennsylvania's, Twilight Zone.
It was on Chestnut Ridge that France saw the creature he has come to think of as Bigfoot.
"I know it's there," he said recently of the tall, hairy, neither-man- nor-animal that he says he has encountered six or seven times along the Ridge, either glimpsing it through the brush, smelling its rancid emanation or sensing its eyes following him as he walked along the Ridge. "I can feel it."
And it was near a Chestnut Ridge hollow called Death Valley, he will tell you as matter-of-factly as if he were mentioning a bear or a deer, that he saw a UFO.
"It was cigar-shaped, and it flew up and darted away in zigzags," he said, showing a blurry photograph he took that night of the moon in a starless sky with a second, oval blaze of light in the photo's corner.
It would be easy to dismiss France's stories if he were the only one to tell them. But over the years, hundreds of people have reported seeing similar eerie, even unearthly, things along Chestnut Ridge.
To be sure, scattered reports of UFOs and Bigfoot come in from across the state. But the one place where reports have consistently accumulated is along Chestnut Ridge. And over the last 18 months, the number of sightings has been on the upswing.
When so many of their friends and neighbors swear they have seen something, even skeptics hedge their bets.
"When I see it, I'll believe it," said Kim Opatka, who covers the UFO and Bigfoot beat for her local newspaper, the Latrobe Bulletin, which publishes stories about the sightings as routinely as some newspapers cover traffic accidents. "But I do believe these people believe they saw something."
Stan Gordon. Electronics salesman. Runs the Pennsylvania Association for the Study of the Unexplained out of his Greensburg basement. Is listed in the 1988 edition of Who's Who in UFOlogy. Has never personally seen a UFO or Bigfoot.
"That hill over there is where Bigfoot was first seen, in 1972," Gordon said one day recently, sitting in the coffee shop of Greensburg's Sheraton hotel as he looked out a window across a shopping mall and pointed beyond the Sears store.
"The people who lived there one night heard unusual animal screams. Then they heard something heavy walking. Someone saw lights coming in and hovering over a cemetery. Then the lights sped away. The next morning, one family found a large footprint in the dust. It had five toes and was larger than a human's.
"Now, we don't want to say that Bigfoot is coming out of a UFO. Mostly, Bigfoot and UFOs are seen separately. Only in a very small number of cases are both seen at the same time."
According to reports Gordon has collected, witnesses consistently describe Bigfoot as a longhaired, foul-smelling creature six to eight feet tall that walks on two legs, has eyes that glow red in the dark and arms that hang down below its knees. If it makes any noise at all, witnesses have likened it to a baby crying or a bird chirping. Gordon says it is attracted to mobile homes and trailer parks.
UFO descriptions, however, have changed over the years.
"In the '40s and '50s, most people reported saucers," Gordon said. "Now they say they see cigar shapes and triangles.
"So maybe they've had a model change."
Gordon insists that the number of UFO and Bigfoot sightings has soared since August 1987. He said he has heard of at least 28 Bigfoot sightings throughout Pennsylvania in 1988 alone, and he has not even had time to tally the reported UFOs that cannot be immediately discounted by explainable phenomena such as meteors, aircraft lights and the like.
Most were reported from seven counties clustered in southwestern Pennsylvania, and many occurred along Chestnut Ridge, but Gordon said he had not calculated exact figures.
In any case, it still has not reached the level of 1973, when, Gordon said, Pennsylvania led the nation in UFO sightings and men in the towns around Chestnut Ridge formed armed vigilante posses to comb the woods at night looking for Bigfoot.
"The Ridge seems to be a window for this kind of thing," Gordon said. "But we don't know why. One theory is that its magnetic forces. All we know for sure is that the area is producing a higher level of this phenomenon for some reason."
Chestnut Ridge itself is a vaguely foreboding place. Two miles wide and about 100 miles long, the ridge rises 2,650 feet above sea level at its highest point, according to Robert Eppley, a physical chemist, and spelunker who is a member of the Chestnut Ridge Explorers Association. On a clear day, the Pittsburgh skyline can be seen 40 miles to the west.
More than 30 caves have been discovered in the low mountains covered with poplars and birch, and hikers from around Pennsylvania converge on Chestnut Ridge during weekends to descend into the underground mazes.
Moss covers jutting plates of sandstone and limestone, lending an otherworldly air to hollows and dells with names like the Black Swamp and Dark Hollow.
On each side of the ridge lay towns with names evocative of the immigrants who first settled them: North Florence, Bolivar, Kingston, Waterford, Derry, Latrobe, Youngstown, Bagley.
Bill Dascani was living in a trailer home along the edge of the ridge in 1968, when he looked outside before retiring for the night and saw what to this day he insists was a flying saucer.
"It was like a round football field sliding by 100 feet over my head, noiseless," said Dascani, who is 45 and unemployed because of a kidney ailment. "The bottom was open and I could see inside. Three people walked out of a sliding glass window and stood in front of a railing. They looked like humans. Just like us. When they saw me, they went back inside. I could see a panel inside with flashing lights. And then they went away."
Dascani's ex-wife, Drucilla, who was with him at the time, confirms his account. Both remain haunted by the memory.
"It sure wasn't like something I've ever seen in my life," said Dascani, who once punched his brother during a quarrel over whether UFOs exist. "It's been on my mind all these years. I would give anything in the world to relive that night because too many people don't believe me. But it's the truth. I'll go to my grave saying it."
Unlike Dascani, many people who say they have encountered Bigfoot or a UFO are ashamed to have their names publicized. They say they are belittled and have their sobriety and sanity questioned.
"I've been getting ridicule from my family, my friends, and my neighbors," said Bob, 28, the resident of a small trailer park outside Latrobe. It was Dec. 12 – the first day of doe season, Bob recalls – when he and his buddy, Bill, last ran across a tall, dark, hairy, smelly creature walking along a railroad track.
He said it caught his attention by throwing something at him to stop his approach. He said he would have shot, but he sensed something vaguely human about it.
"I don't know what, but there's something going on out there," he said. "A lot of people here say it's a bear. But it's not. It's too human-looking. It don't walk on all fours. It walks upright."
Sam Sherry, who has hunted and fished for more than 50 of his 67 years, says he saw it, too, as he was unloading his car to go night fishing in Loyalhannah Creek alongside Chestnut Ridge. He said the creature, smelling musty like a wet dog that had been in an underground mine too long, approached him, beat its fist on its chest, then followed him to his pickup and put its hands on the hood so heavily that the truck sank into the mud.
"Hey, biggie, cut it out, you're gonna bust my tires," Sherry said he yelled out, prompting the creature to let go with a wheeze and a grunt.
Since that encounter, Sherry has become obsessed with the idea of trapping the creature, which he describes as having a body as shapeless as an old overcoat. He hopes to vindicate himself, and maybe even turn a little profit. So at night, Sherry goes into his back yard and looks toward Chestnut Ridge, as though he can somehow will the creature to come forward.
"People won't believe you when you tell them what you saw," he said. "They think you're drunk. But I haven't had a drink for 30 years.
"So I'm gonna find 'im and prove he exists. I can get me a million bucks for that old overcoat."
Bob France is looking for the creature, too, though he is armed with only a camera, and fruit for bait. Weekends, he ventures deep into the Ridge, hoping it will become familiar enough with his presence to come forward.
"It's no bear, I know that," France said, "and it's not a deformed person. But I don't know what it is. I just know it scares the doozies out of me."
Cal Smith, whose family owns 4,000 acres of the Ridge outside of Latrobe, has heard dozens of stories like France's over the years. He remains skeptical.
"People come up to my door all the time – Boy Scout leaders, children, old people – and swear they've seen something up here," he said. "I always tell them it's just a bear. Some say they know a bear, and it couldn't have been one. Others seem relieved and say, 'Yes, it must have been a bear.'
"I don't really believe it. But I guess it's always a possibility."


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A pilothouse from a 1950s-era tug can seem simple, almost to a fault. In contrast, today's workboats bristle with technologically advanced equipment. Traditional controls have given way to joysticks and computer keyboards.
Two marine casualties from opposite ends of the world illustrate how the complexities of today's vessels impose greater demands on owners, captains and crews.
The loss of the anchor-handling tug/supply (AHTS) vessel Bourbon Dolphin on April 12, 2007, off the coast of Shetland was a tragedy. During an anchor-handling operation, the angle of attack on an anchor chain shifted from starboard to port. The vessel rolled to port as a result and ultimately capsized. The investigation found that the Bourbon Dolphin had stability issues that weren't clearly conveyed from the shipyard to the company and, ultimately, to the crew. Another finding was that the company didn't adequately establish crew qualification requirements for such demanding duty. The investigation further revealed that the captain only had an hour to familiarize himself with the crew and vessel.
A continent away, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on a case involving a complex piece of navigation equipment, the Furuno 1731 Mark-3 radar ( Omega Protein v. Samsun Contour Energy , November 2008).
Early on Oct. 4, 2004, a fishing vessel struck an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel's radar was equipped with an anti-collision alarm designed to sound when an object appeared on a field set by the operator. The vessel owner had not implemented a policy about use of the alarm or provided training for its use. Sometime during the voyage, a crewmember entered the bridge to discuss a refrigeration part. The bridge lights were turned on while arranging for the spare part, and the ship struck an oil platform whose own lights weren't working properly.
The court found the vessel and platform owner both liable.
These two situations involve vastly different facts and legal issues. However, they share a common thread in that today's vessels are more sophisticated and mariners have a lot on their plates.


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EXEDY Friction Material receives a Public Acknowledgement Award from the Thai Ministry of Labour
The Thai Ministry of Labour awarded Exedy Friction Material (EFM) for its excellence in environment, health, and safety, which now meets Thai national safety targets.
The award ceremony was held at Tawarawadee Hotel in Prachinburi, Thailand on July 20, 2011. EFM was one of 60 companies from seven eastern prefectures eligible for the award, and was awarded in recognition of its efforts and contributions to safety. This is the second year that EFM has won this prestigious award. EFM served as the host for this year's safety exhibition as a representative of all companies in Chonburi prefecture. The Director of the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare and the Chief of the Chonburi Labour Bureau Mrs. Aumporn Nitisri attended the exhibition.
Mrs. Aumporn Nitisri, the Director of the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare, presented the award to EFM President Tomoaki Goto, saying, "Chonburi is the largest industrial area in Thailand. I hope that you do your best as a representative of Chonburi."
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Substance Abuse Treatment Programs for Adolescents in Washington
Family First Adolescent Services offers treatment for the most problematic, common and complex mental and behavioral health issues that affect teens from Washington today. Our treatment offers a teen-centric approach that taps into each client's creativity, vitality and sense of community.
Substance Abuse
Our teen-centric approach to substance use issues means we address the underlying psychological issues that precipitate substance use disorders including depression, anxiety, and process disorders.
Teens are Abusing Substances in Epidemic Numbers (Including Teens from Washington
Facts About Adolescent Substance Use
Adolescent substance use is a family disease. When you discover that your child is using drugs or alcohol, it is perfectly normal to experience an onslaught of painful emotions. It is also normal to be flooded with questions that don't have immediate answers. Try to maintain a level head. Laying blame on yourself or your child is not productive and could potentially make matters worse.
- The overwhelming majority of adults who are addicted to drugs or alcohol started using before the age of 18.
- 20% of teens report having a friend that misuses prescription drugs.
- According to researchers, there is a high correlation between underage alcohol consumption and cocaine use later in life.
- By 8th grade, 17% of teens have smoked marijuana.
- Most prescription drugs misused by teens were taken from the medicine cabinets of family or friends.
- In the United States, the average age of heroin addicts in addiction treatment centers is 23 years old.
The Most Dangerous Substances Affecting Our Nation's Youth: Opioids and Alcohol
Opioids -
With opioid-related deaths reaching plague-like proportions, parents from Washington must be extra vigilant. According to the Centers for Disease and Control (CDC), over 47,000 of the 70,000 drug-related deaths in 2017 were due to opioids.
What's worse, adolescents are among the most affected demographic regarding abusing and even dying from opioid overdoses. New studies, like the Yale School of Medicine, are eye-opening and terrifying new perspectives on a truly grisly epidemic our teens currently face. According to Yale's research, opioid death rates among teens have tripled over the last two decades. Their study, which gathered data from 1999-2016, found that in all, 9,000 teens between the ages of 12 and 17 died due to opioid overdose.
Other similar studies show that not only are overdoses on the rise among teens, including those from Washington, widespread usage of the dangerous substance is also on the rise. According to the CDC, over 276,000 US teens used some form of opiate for 'non-medical' reasons. Of those quarter of a million teens, over 122,000 were found to be addicted to opioids. According to their report, the CDC states that the opioid issue is only getting worse among teens with opioid addiction rates increasing 19 percent between 2014 and 2015.
Alcohol -
While the opioid addiction may seem overwhelming, the truth is, alcohol remains to be the deadliest and widely used substances to date. The most recent studies from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA) states that approximately 5,000 young people, under the age of 21, die as a result of underage drinking, each year.
More specifically, underage drinking fatalities breakdown like this:
- 1,600 by way of homicide
- 300 from suicide
- Hundreds of others from additional injuries such as falls, burns, and drownings
Additional facts relating to underage drinking (according to the CDC):
- 30% of high school students admit to drinking at least one time in the past month
- 8% of 8th graders admit to drinking at least some alcohol during that same time
- In seniors, nearly two-thirds admit to drinking recreationally
- In 2013, there were approximately 119,000 emergency room visits related to underage drinking.
- People aged 12–20 drink 11% of all alcohol consumed. More than 90% of that consumption is in the form of binge drinking.
Hard Facts: Addiction experts ubiquitously agree that teens who suffer from opioid or alcohol-related abuse or addiction issues require intensive, residential treatment. In other words, when it comes to an epidemic as tragically widespread as opioid and alcohol addiction/fatalities, merely seeking outpatient-based treatments for an addicted teen from Washington would most likely end in tragic consequences.
Substance Abuse Treatment Programs for Troubled Teens from Washington
As we have covered thus far, substance abuse and addiction among teens has reached epidemic levels and must be treated with treatment that is as intensive as the substances themselves. However, with a rise in addiction among teenagers, so too has the number of residential treatment facilities around the US - not all of which are reputable or effective in treating dangerous addictions as they may claim to prospective, desperate parents. With that said, it is imperative for parents from Washington seeking rehabilitation for their addicted child to do their due diligence in their research in any potential program they may choose for their son or daughter.
We help families create a roadmap towards sustainable healing with ongoing continuing care support for up to a year or more after a teen completes residential treatment. Call (800) 881-9945
Mental Health Help in Washington for At-risk Youth
Family First Adolescent Services is the optimal choice for parents in Washington who are wanting a leading residential treatment center to give guidance for their struggling child undergoing food addiction (overeating, binge eating), adoption (attachment disorder), or bullying (or being bullied) related problems. Since it can be difficult to work with highly resistant teenagers, most programs rely heavily upon level systems, punishments, and other disciplinary tactics in order to manage a teenager's behavior. Here at Family First AS, we recognize that the situation of one struggling child may not apply to all of our young students.
Our counselors are dedicated to not only providing help to our young students in need, but also the whole family; with the care and commitment required for full transformation. It is our desire to assist, guide, and coach parents from Washington, with a at-risk child, through a very difficult time. Family First AS is here to serve! There is hope... and you are not alone. The vision of Family First AS is to bring forth peace while recovering emotional health for struggling adolescents from Washington.
Because we specialize in a variety of relevant residential treatment strategies (equine, life training, behavioral therapy) and provide outdoor recreation and adventure therapy, struggling adolescents can grow to be healthy adults, and Family First' young students can emerge as strong people who are motivated to succeed. Family First AS recognizes that the entire family needs the help that our trained counselors give; so that your child can be rehabilitated and whole. Family First AS' consultants can be reached immediately at (833) 241-7746.


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A stubborn fire at a PECO substation in North Philadelphia that at one point knocked out power to 36,000 customers has been contained, officials said.
About 3,000 customers in Philadelphia remained without power early Wednesday afternoon. Peco's online outage map listed an estimated restoration time of 4 p.m. for many of those households.
Two nearby schools are closed Wednesday due to a lack of electricity: Philadelphia High School for Girls and EW Rhodes Middle School. After-school activities and professional development sessions at those buildings are also canceled.
The fire started around 1:50 p.m. Tuesday at the Hunting Park substation at 2634 W. Westmoreland Ave. in Tioga. Officials powered down the facility to allow fire crews to safely extinguish the blaze, but that shut off power to homes in North and Northwest Philadelphia,
"We are currently working to re-route power in areas where we can to restore service," said PECO spokesman Greg Smore.
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Flash Movie Review: A Wrinkle in Time
AS I LISTENED TO THE description of the show I became more horrified by the changes in the story. It was one of my favorite stories when I was a child. The changes I was hearing did not make any sense to me and I could not understand why anyone would want to tamper with a classic story. That is not just my opinion; the story has survived as they say the test of time, bringing joy to millions. The story has been turned into several films, theater productions and ice skating shows; yet for the most part the essence of it remained the same. Imagine how you would feel if you were going to see something that you were familiar with only to discover it was nothing like you remembered. For me it is like going to a favorite restaurant for a specific dish only to find out, after they brought it to your table, that the cooks changed it. Yes I know there is a possibility I could love it even more; but the chances the new dish will not satisfy my taste buds seem to always run higher. SO LET ME TELL YOU about the book today's movie is based on. It was required reading when I was in school. I enjoyed the story so much that I read the book twice. It has been years since I thought about the story; but I remember anytime I was invited to a kid's party I would always first consider buying this book as a gift. There were times I found out the child already had a copy of the book which in an odd way pleased me. I felt like this family, whether I was related to them or not, gets it; they understand the story is truly special and may also know the book was awarded the Newbery Medal. For those of you not familiar, the Newbery Medal is a literary award given to the author; think of it as the Oscars of children literature. As you may imagine I was looking forward to seeing this movie version of one of my favorite books. Let me also say I am aware I may not remember everything about the story but I do know how it made me feel and this adventure fantasy caused me to experience different feelings. FOUR YEARS AFTER HER FATHER disappeared from home Meg, played by Storm Reid (12 Years a Slave, Sleight), was visited by three beings who knew where her father had gone. With Oprah Winfrey (Selma, The Color Purple) as Mrs. Which, Reese Witherspoon (Home Again, Walk the Line) as Mrs. Whatsit, Mindy Kaling (No Strings Attached, The Office-TV) as Mrs. Who and Levi Miller (Pan, Red Dog: True Blue) as Calvin; I enjoyed the visuals in this picture. What I did not enjoy was pretty much everything else in this movie. I was actually annoyed with the direction; it seemed at least 50% of the scenes were shot in close-up. The script was so poorly written that almost all the characters were drab and lifeless. For such a story the writers and director needed to hit the viewers with deep emotional scenes, making the negative forces something we would fear. Instead I sat in my seat being bored and depressed with how wrong this movie got the story. Even the acting, except for a couple of actors, was bland and uninspiring. Now I will say if you have never read the book, you might find something you like about this movie. For me I plan on re-reading the story so I can forget about what I saw in this film.
1 ¾ stars
Flash Movie Review: Lee Daniels' The Butler
If you really want to learn something about the area you are in then talk to a local person. I discovered many hidden treasures this way when I traveled to new places. This is one of the reasons why I use public transportation when visiting a new city. With advice from local residents, I was able to experience the best pecan pie in Charleston, South Carolina and a wonderful BBQ meal in Dallas, Texas. In case you were wondering if I am only concerned about food when I travel, I do ask local residents about places that a guide book may not cover. One of my best trips took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota simply because of a woman who was standing next to me at a bus stop. She gave me some wonderful tidbits about local spots. When a story is being told by the person who lived through it, it allows us to relate to it on a personal level. This was a wonderful device that was used impressively in this dramatic film, inspired by a true story. Forest Whitaker (Phone Booth, Repo Men) played Cecil Gaines, a White House butler who served through eight different presidents' terms of office. The viewer was a witness to numerous historical events, told through Cecil's eyes. Aware the script took creative license with facts; this review is based on the movie's entertainment value. Forest was outstanding as the stoic, quiet butler who took to heart the advice given to him on his first day of employment: The White House was not a place for politics. Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple, Beloved) as Cecil's wife Gloria, showed us she can be known as an actress who has a talk show. I was impressed with David Oyelowo (The King of Scotland, Lincoln) as Cecil's increasingly militant son, Louis. The actors used to play the various presidents came across more like a stunt to me; the only convincing one was John Cusack (Martian Child, High Fidelity) as Richard Nixon. For their brief scenes I felt Vanessa Redgrave (Howard's End, Blow-Up) as Annabeth Westfall and Jane Fonda (Nine to Five, Coming Home) as Nancy Reagan were the only ones who stood out. I thought the story's flow was well done, despite several scenes being too syrupy for me. Strictly speaking on the entertainment factor, this movie provided a glimpse into historical events, using both drama and humor to tell the story. And what a story it told; my interest never waned. There were a couple of scenes where blood was shown.
3 1/4 stars