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Perfectly good food destined for the rubbish dump is feeding society's most vulnerable people. But this is no collection of discarded food gathered from rummaging through bins in dank, dark alleyways. These are healthy meals prepared by some of Auckland's best up-and-coming chefs.
Students from New Zealand Management Academies (NZMA) joined forces with Kiwi Harvest to help cook and distribute almost six tonnes of collected food throughout Auckland.
Kiwi Harvest manager Maria Madill says this is the equivalent of 15,000 meals. "All of this food would have ended up in the rubbish but now it's food for people in the community," she says. "Between 500 and 700 meals will be prepared while the rest has already been donated to various charities."
The 5.7 tonnes of perishable and non perishable food was collected on April 8 following the Foodstuff Expo. There was nothing physically wrong with the food, but because it had been on display it could no longer be sold to the public. "It's all about getting food to the right place," Madill says.
Students spent two days furiously cooking the meals which were delivered to community kitchens in Manurewa, Ranui and Hillsborough on April 13.
The organisations began working together in October 2015 and deliver meals to Auckland charities every four to five weeks. NZMA culinary arts campus manager Jasbir Kaur says the task works as the perfect training exercise. "This gives all our culinary students actual experience, not only to help them learn how to cook for large groups of people but think on their feet as well," she says. "It also helps develop a sense of social responsibility. We can see what it means to people, food is about sharing and bringing people together."
Madill says the regular donations also help charities funnel their money to other urgent services. "This is a hand up, not a hand out," she says. "It's the first port of call to break the psychological barrier for people to talk with each other and work through their issues.
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19 October 2015
In submitting these thoughts to the External Panel on Options for a Legislative Response to Carter v. Canada, the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) would first like to focus on some of the risks associated with the legalization of "medical aid in dying". The experience of
By legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide – which allows one person to kill another or help that person commit suicide – we would diminish the respect due to human life and erode the basic trust essential to the functioning of any society: the assurance that human life will always be protected.
If we allow assisted suicide or euthanasia for those terminally ill or not – when requested on the basis of unmanaged suffering, autonomy or individual self-determination over life itself – how can we refuse it to the depressed, the disabled or the frail? How can we insure the rights of conscience of medical practitioners and health care workers who object in the strongest possible terms to being implicated in any way in killing (even by referring a patient)?
In this context, the elderly and the vulnerable risk being pressured to consider the option of an early death; the so-called "right to die" could soon become a "duty to die." And such pressure is likely to increase as healthcare resources decrease. Thus "aid in dying" will become the most deceptive form of violence, the ultimate abuse of seniors already subject to physical and psychological violence.
At a crossroads
It cannot be said enough: it is the suffering that must be eliminated not the sufferer. If we allow doctors to intentionally cause the death of patients in order to end their suffering, we will irreparably undermine in the minds of Canadians the essential relationship of trust that must exist between doctor and patient. We will further cloud the true role of medicine which is to heal, to ensure pain control and to accompany the suffering.
We are at a crossroads. We have to choose what kind of country we want to bequeath to our children and grandchildren, remembering that the measure of a society's civilization is its attitude towards its most vulnerable members.
Do we allow our plans to be upset by the vulnerability of the sick and dying, in order to remain faithful to our characteristic spirit of solidarity towards the weakest and most helpless? Or do we want to become a society eager to help its most vulnerable citizens end their lives? Do we want to come to the point where we kill depressed people, disabled newborns and children with cerebral palsy – as is done now in the
The priority: palliative care
To avoid such a deplorable societal failure, the new government must at all costs act to undo the harm caused by the decision of the Supreme Court and to defend the inviolability of human life. In this decisive hour of Canada's history, we encourage the new Government to work toward a real humanization of end of life care by developing a national strategy based on three priorities:
- promoting research and education in the field of pain relief;
- devoting more public resources to the creation of palliative care units or health centres with a view to providing access to all citizens who need it;
- adopting more generous tax measures that will allow caregivers to devote themselves more freely in supporting their sick or dying relatives.
In 2011, the Parliamentary Committee on Palliative and Compassionate Care interestingly found that 71% of Canadians want more investment in palliative care. In an important report entitled "With Dignity and Compassion – Care of Vulnerable Canadians", this Committee proposed a comprehensive look at palliative and end of life care – including pain management and support for family caregivers. Its concrete recommendations deserve to finally be implemented: restoration of a Palliative Care Secretariat; development and implementation of national strategies for palliative care and end of life care, and suicide prevention; creation of a Bureau for increased awareness and prevention of elder abuse, and implementation of a national strategy to prevent abuse against seniors.
Fundamental trust
We must at all cost resist the temptation to authorize the deliberate killing of any citizens. By falling into such a trap, a government would be committing its people to a path unworthy of a civilized nation.
The legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide would spell the end of our shared duty to protect each other. If we want our country to remain a safe place for all its citizens, even the most vulnerable – the disabled, the elderly, the seriously ill, the dying –we cannot give some people the power to kill others, whatever the circumstances.
Our civilization is at a turning point. If we really believe in the equality of all Canadians, we will work to ensure their equal protection by maintaining the legal prohibition of killing. Only in this way can we maintain the fundamental trust required for us to live together.
The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) was jointly founded by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus, to promote respect for life and human dignity and the essential role of the family.


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There are 12 countries outside Japan that have official representatives. Australia is the most recent addition after Sensei Mike Williams was appointed as the Official Representative of Shito-Ryu Australia Karate-Do Kai by Kenzo Mabuni Soke.
Shito-Ryu Karate-Do was founded by Kenwa Mabuni and is one of the four main styles of Karate in Japan. Kenwa Mabuni founded the Nippon Karate-Do Kai with the Kensyukan (honbu) dojo in Osaka, Japan. After the death of Kenwa Mabuni, the original Dojo and Nippon Karate-Do Kai was passed onto his second son, Kenzo Mabuni Soke.
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A remarkable event took place in the FinTech world last weekend. The world leading banking group Emirates NBD and Emirates Islamic Bank together with the Open Bank Project organised a global competition for start-ups concerning financial technology. 290 projects took part in the contest, competing for multiple exquisite prizes. The jury selected 18 teams that went for the gold in finals. At an exclusive 3-day hackathon on April 15th-17th in London, Polish Fintech start-up Atsora emerged as winners of the First Prize in a challenge considering SME banking. Their flagship product Momentum, a virtual CFO platform, has been recognised, proving its significance and potential for mutually beneficial relationships with interesting partners in the Middle East and North Africa.


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The Olympics are approaching, and my mind has been wandering in eager anticipation.
Will David Beckham be shot into space at the opening ceremonies to light a lunar torch symbolizing the union of all galatic beings? Will the US team wear their made-in-China outfits? Or has Harry Reid already burned them? Will the world rejoice at the closing ceremonies with the announcement that Kate Middleton has been successfully cloned? What on earth are those eyeball mascots? Why are olympic mascots always so weird?
Failed attempts at cross-culturally appealing mascot design aside, the Olympics are basically all about art, or maybe better put, aesthetics. There's the mass spectacle of the opening ceremonies and the fashion of the outfits. (Last time the US athletes kind of looked like a wait staff on a high end cruise ship.) There's the beauty of the sports themselves — twisting, turning, flipping, bending, and moving through air and water at speeds that don't even make sense — the poetry of this captured in a snippet of diving from Leni Riefensthal's Olympia (let's temporarily ignore the politics behind this). There's the beauty of the actual athletes, which ESPN is not overlooking. Finally, there's even a lot of actual art.
Some of this art has been commissioned specially for the Olympic Park and some of it is just being exhibited in venues throughout the UK to coincide with the games. I've spent some time scrolling through London Festival 2012: the behemoth of a website that compiles the featured events and exhibitions that hope to highlight London as the cosmopolitan capital of the art world.
Most of the big name UK artists are involved and more. Damien Hirst extends his Gagosian world tour to the Tate Modern — where Olafur Eliasson will also distribute little "suns" aka solar powered flashlights to look at art in the dark. Yinka Shonibare's sculpture of a life-sized ballerina encased in a giant 'snow globe" will be displayed on the outside of the Royal Opera House. Jeremy Deller will bring his amazing looking "blow-up" stonehenge to the National Botanical Gardens in Wales. Susan Phillipsz will create "a new sound installation across multiple sites in Edinburgh." Martin Creed hopes everyone will simultaneously ring a bell "as quickly and loudly as possible for three minutes." Chris Ofili will be creating a setting for a new ballet at the Royal Opera House that will "respond to Titian paintings." Ai Weiwei and Hezog & de Meuron have created a "plane" of water for the Serpentine Pavilion. Yoko Ono will create "IMAGINE PEACE," described as a "worldwide initiative of anti-violence. This ongoing project uses the Internet, posters, thoughts, badges and a multitude of other media to communicate its message of peace to the global community."
This list could go on and on because the "art olympics" overwhelmingly try to be just like the real olympics. According to one source, the entire London Festival "involves 25,000 artists from all 204 competing Olympic nations in 12,000 events and performances at 900 venues all over the UK." But unlike the real olympics, artists did not go through rigorous trials to get there. (Imagine if they did??!! How exciting would be to see Damien and Yoko head to head on the track. Or Ofili vs. Deller in table tennis. Ok, maybe not too exciting, but the thought reminds me a lot of the below Monty Python skit.)
I guess the idea is that art somehow fits in with and translates the lofty olympic values of peace, harmony, and universality. Sometimes the attempts at inclusion risk sounding a little demeaning:
"Arab artists occupy an underground gallery, a magic shop and an office hub to evoke signs of change."
"Rio artists occupy the streets, stages and squares of London in collaboration with London artists."
Is "occupy" really the best choice of words here?
There are also what sound like pretty hokey stunts with "interactive technology:"
"WE PLAY EXPO – Handprint 2012 — Large-scale interactive projection of live handprints, controlled online and with smartphones."
This could actually be cool, so I probably should not judge it ahead of time and my cynical sentiment does not fit the olympic spirit — just like performance enhancing drugs, women that may be men, children separated from their families to become elite athletes before they could ever make that kind of decision for themselves, and anything else that threatens to destroy the veil of purity that olympics tries so hard to superficially maintain.
Of course, I wish I could go visit to see if the art is co-opted or blandly manufactured to pay lip service to illusory ideals. Or maybe like the athletes themselves, it's refined, lean, techinically spectacular, and doing things that have never been achieved before. I am guessing it is something in between, and it will be interesting to see during the coverage how (if at all) the artistic side of the olympic machine gets represented. All I know is that I will be glued to almost every second of it.


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The sight of HTC-Highroad's lead-out train delivering the Manx Missile to probable victory has been one of the finest sights in sport.
Eight men, sacrificing their individual ambitions for one objective, one rider.
To the untrained eye a sprint stage at the Tour de France is at best mundane ahead of the finale, at worst plain boring and a procession for Cavendish. But to the cycling insider it's the ultimate delivery of team work, as Great Britain showed at the World Championships in propelling Cavendish to the line.
But will Cavendish enjoy the same luxury at Team Sky? After all, when the team was formed in 2009, Dave Brailsford set the ambitious target of producing a British Tour de France winner within five years.
Now, in signing Cavendish, Brailsford faces the prospect of balancing both the team's yellow and green jersey ambitions.
Team Sky have come of age in 2011 and lie second behind Omega Pharma-Lotto – powered almost solely by Philippe Gilbert's exploits – in the UCI's team rankings, with Bradley Wiggins' Criterium du Dauphine triumph, Edvald Boasson Hagen's two Tour de France stage victories and Chris Froome and Wiggins' podium finishes at the Vuelta a Espana the standout performances.
The team have contested almost every race entered but, significantly, also emerged as general classification contenders in the three-week Grand Tours after a limp debut season. And the 2012 Tour de France route, reportedly linked on Monday, looks set to favour both Froome and Wiggins, who are not natural climbers but who will thrive on the two individual time trials.
And so while Sky can joust with the top teams in the general classification, sprinting, a closed shop under Cavendish's dominance at HTC-Highroad, is open to new challengers. André Greipel and Tyler Farrar will continue to feature, but its the emergence of a new bank of sprinters that will most likely provide the biggest threat. Marcel Kittel has claimed 15 victories in his debut season, with another neo-pro, Andrea Guardini, registering 11 wins, while Peter Sagan is a real threat on lumpy sprint stages.
Sky's management team will need to select nine riders for the Tour de France who are capable of fighting on two fronts. It's not an impossible task, however, and Team Telekom won both the yellow and green jerseys in 1996 with Bjarne Riis and Erik Zabel, before achieving the same feat 12 months later through Jan Ullrich and Zabel, who, incidentally, has mentored Cavendish throughout his time at HTC-Highroad.
Sky possess two of the world's best all-rounders in Geraint Thomas – Cavendish's World Championship lead-out man – and Boasson Hagen, with engines to provide the firepower in the finale on sprint stages. Securing the signature of Danny Pate was also significant, with the American playing a key role in chasing down breakaways for Cavendish in this year's Tour.
Thomas and Boasson Hagen also possess the qualities to offer support in the mountains. Indeed, Boasson Hagen produced an epic turn on the front to blow apart the peloton on stage six of the Dauphine, while Thomas became the virtual yellow jersey on the Col du Tourmalet while in a breakaway on stage 12 of the Tour de France. An important side note, however – Thomas will likely miss the 2012 Tour to focus on the team pursuit at the Olympic Games.
"I think we can accommodate Brad and Cav in our Tour de France team as a lot of our riders can do a mixture of jobs," wrote Thomas in his BBC blog. "For instance, this year's Tour line-up included myself and Edvard Boasson Hagen. We can lead out Cav at the finish and we can also climb to help Brad.
"Christian Knees and Juan Antonio Flecha can ride all day on the flat or climbs, too, so I don't think we need to take too many out-and-out climbers. As long as Brad is protected until the final climb, there is not a lot we can do after that."
But Wiggins and Froome will also need more specialist support in the mountains, although there is the possibility of one sacrificing his ambitions to play super-domestique to the other. At the tail end of the peloton, Bernhard Eisel, who also signed for Team Sky on Tuesday, will chaperone Cavendish to ensure he finishes within the time cut.
A frenetic first week of this year's Tour was littered with crashes and Wiggins fell victim on stage seven, abandoning with a broken collarbone. Now, such stages will see Sky at the front, chasing down breaks to setup Cavendish for the finish while also keeping the protected GC rider out of trouble. Riding for two objectives can have its benefits.
"It generates so much discussion, can we win the green, can we win yellow? I don't think it is impossible. We performed across the board this year and having Cavendish will strengthen us," Brailsford told the Guardian.
"What is important is that every rider understands what we are trying to achieve and how we are going to try to do it. They will have to understand their roles and responsibilities but that's down to good planning and preparation."
Brailsford has masterminded the current renaissance in British cycling and planning and preparation are hallmarks of his regime – but the signing of Cavendish marks the start of the 47-year-old's toughest job to date.
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Poster Released Of Amrit Maan Latest Movie Do Dooni Panj
Nowadays, films are not a mere source of entertainment, but every film maker tries to ensure that their film leaves people thinking beyond theatres. They start preparing the whole strategy around it right from the announcement of the film. Special care is taken at every step, from the designing of poster to making the songs, which resonate with the theme and mood of the movie. Quite like how Badshah is paying attention to every detail of the upcoming film 'Do Dooni Panj' under his production house, APRA Films. The poster of 'Do Dooni Panj' released today and it gives an interesting sneak peek into the film.
Amrit Maan, the lead actor of the film can be seen on the poster which takes a satirical take on the education system of the country. 'Do Dooni Panj' is directed by Harry Bhatti and has been shot in the locations of Punjab and Chandigarh. The film also stars beautiful Punjabi actress Isha Rikhi as the female lead. Other names associated with the project include veteran actors like Karamjit Anmol, Rana Ranbir, Sardar Sohi and more.
Badshah, the producer of this project, said, "I feel making a film is a matter of great responsibility and you have to justify each aspect of this process. Audiences must be hooked right from the announcement. The name itself must arouse their curiosity and prompt them to think about the film. And as far as the poster is concerned, it must set the right direction for the story to unfold. We have tried to keep the essence of the film alive on the poster of 'Do Dooni Panj' without really revealing the intricate details. I am sure people will love to watch this film."
Poster Released Of Amrit Maan Latest Movie Do Dooni Panj
Main lead of the film, Amrit Maan, said, "Do Dooni Panj is a project which is beyond my expectations. I had worked with Harry Bhatti on 'Aate Di Chidi' and knew his vision as a director. However, working with Badshah Bhaji has been inspiring, to say the least. He is involved at every step of the filmmaking process that you feel motivated to perform better. He had discussed his ideas for the poster shoot with us and had given us the free rein to improvise. I think we have come up with something interesting which people will look forward to unfold."
Captain of the ship, Harry Bhatti quoted, "I am a firm believer of quality work, over quantity. 'Do Dooni Panj' is a film which will definitely change the scenario of cinema in Punjab. We have raised an important question right from the launch of the poster and hope that people will go out and watch the film to get the answer."
Do Dooni Panj will hit the theatres on 11th January 2019.
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Have you ever laid your eyes on a redhead Grandma before? I didn't think they existed, but apparently not only do they exist but there are some willing to get freaky on camera too. Linda Roberts is the name of this fine piece of older booty from the site Grandma's A Freak, and she has been doing porn videos for years! You can find her in porn videos from ten to fifteen years ago, with a much younger face and body of course. Regardless of her age and looks she still likes to suck younger dude's cocks and make them cream just for her.
She finds herself poolside with this young stud and decides to show him a few tricks. He had no idea that she could handle a dick so well or that her mouth would feel so amazing sucking his dick! Before he even got his penis inside of her wrinkled mouth he watched her get naked outside next to his pool.
Linda was already wearing some sexy purple underwear underneath her clothes, and she had on black stockings. Her black high heels really turned him on, especially when she started to strip off her top and then expose her hairy used up twat. What a sight to see! Her hairy clam almost jumped out from behind her panties and he really got a start in his shorts seeing that special taco.
When Roberts went inside and showed him her ample ass cheeks he was beside himself with excitement. You have to see her big white fifty something year old butt to believe it! Trust me, you will want to smack her big pale junk and then feel it pressed up against you as you fuck the crap out of her old pussy.
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22 December 2016 -
Hitachi, which I joined in 2008, was my first Japanese company. The culture is different to that of western businesses but many of the challenges are the same.
In our case, the challenge was to introduce global best practices in people management that would be consistently applied, but in a culture where there's no central mandate for change.
That cultural attitude to change was critical. Hitachi is a complex global organisation, with 330,000 staff in 900 autonomous companies. In Europe, we have around 18,000 staff across 100 companies in a broad range of sectors, from train building to financial services.
Each company has the authority to make decisions that may take it in a different direction from the rest. So, without a central mandate for change, how do you create change? We all know successful change is usually led from the top, but what do you do in an organisation where the top management will support change but the culture won't allow them to mandate it?
Through working with my colleagues in Tokyo and other regions globally, it became clear that, to address this issue and introduce new global best practices, we needed to influence the key stakeholders – we had to get people to want to be involved.
Our engagement strategy was a partnership between colleagues in Tokyo communicating with parent companies, and those of us in the regions interacting with our businesses (in my case, across Europe).
Through our strategy, we wanted to create a culture of change, and this takes time. It takes time to build relationships, and even longer to sell change and ensure participation, rather than dictating.
So we tirelessly embarked on an engagement plan: meeting with leaders across companies, talking about their issues and explaining how the new people-management practices could make a positive difference to their businesses.
In doing this, we realised we shared many of the same issues: finding talent for the future, ensuring we develop and retain key people, and so on. But, without this proactive engagement, we could not listen, learn and find solutions.
Involvement also takes time. Showing the financial benefit was one way to encourage involvement. So our change journey did not just include changing people management practices but also reviewing HR service providers.
Historically, group companies had bought services separately, which meant they paid higher prices. So we worked together to create economies of scale, buying similar or better employee benefits at a lower price – everyone wins.
As more companies became involved in decision-making and buying into group-wide solutions, it became clear that not all of them could move at the same speed, and, for practical reasons, we could not implement change at the same speed everywhere.
This enabled us to pilot change in some cases, and allowed those with the strongest business need or commitment to participate and show the benefits to others. This was especially helpful for some systems-based solutions, where testing in a smaller group made sense prior to wider implementation.
Our change journey will never end but we've seen huge progress across our business in recent years. This includes a database with details of 250,000 staff, to underpin decision-making; a global performance-management system used by 100,000 staff; and a global careers site launched in 2013, via which we have hired 4,000 staff so far.
We are also saving about $5m a year on employee-benefit costs.
The key lessons for me include: the importance of engagement, considering every possible way to get buy-in, and answering the question 'What's in it for me?' when talking with key stakeholders.
I have also been reminded that we can never communicate too much, and that tenacity and resilience are undervalued but critical attributes of successful change programmes.
Stephen Pierce CCMI is chief HR officer at Hitachi Europe.
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This course is a continuation of ACCT-220 Introduction to Taxation. It emphasizes tax research through the use of RIAs Checkpoint and LexisNexis. The students also learn how to prepare tax returns using a computerized tax return preparation program such as TurboTax. Technical tax topics are covered in more depth. Learning is accomplished through the use of case studies, such as Prentice-Hall's Life of Riley. There is a heavy emphasis on learning to recognize and research tax issues. The course places a considerable emphasis upon the development of the student's ability to recognize, interpret and weigh the various and often conflicting sources of the tax law. These sources include the Internal Revenue code, congressional committee reports, Treasury Department regulations, IRS pronouncements, federal court precedents, and commentaries of tax practitioners and academicians. The student is exposed to the various sources of the tax laws: how to find them, how to correctly cite them, how to read and interpret them, and how to weigh conflicting authorities in formulating recommendations. The course also develops and refines students' analytical and legal reasoning skills and their diagnostic instincts and abilities. Prerequisite: ACCT-220. 2 SH.


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Hi guys,
Here is a very quick blog post to give some answer to the poor SP Developer who are running on a mac, dealing with the new SharePoint Framework.
So, after updating to MacOS Sierra, you should experiments two troubles (I did) : a DNS Error (DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN), and a npm error (uid must be an unsigned int)
#1 – DNS Error during debug
It is really easy to solve this one :
- In Terminal, just type
sudo nano /etc/hosts
- Type your password
- In the text editor, add a line
the-name-of-your-mac.local localhost
So the file should be like this :
- Hit ctrl+x, then Y, then Return
- You're all done : it works
#2 – npm error (nodeJS) when you try to install/update anything with npm
The error is typically : « uid must be an unsigned int »
This is linked to an user uid modification during the MacOS upgrade process (don't ask me anymore). The solution was found on GitHub, with the help of Ed Pelc. Ed does not really explain how to install this very helpful utility called « n ». It allows you to change your version of node really easily.
So, go on https://github.com/tj/n, download the package like this :
Because MacOS Sierra is smart, the zip will be automatically unzipped as a folder, in the « Download » folder.
In the terminal make a
cd .. cd Downloads/n-master make install sudo n 6.2
This last command will change your version of node to a working one !
That's it ! I will be back soon with a full tutorial about the framework jPBI.js recoded in a SharePoint Framework webpart !


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Welcome to
- 100 pieces of code. This year you will begin a collection of 100 pieces of code that you like because it is ... well-written (even beautiful), or does something really interesting, or is very useful. If you collect 10 pieces a month, you will be done by year end. Organize and rank them anyway that you see fit. For now keep them in a document called "100 pieces of code".
- Influence Map. In Life, you are influenced by many things, and I would like to know what things influenced you to take this class. Download the attached "Influence Map" (rt-click and "save image as"). Fill in the squares with things that influence and inspire you to want to program. You can put anything in the squares. Fill in the grid placing more prominent influences as larger images. A 3x3 image being the biggest.
- Code Year. Go to Code Year at Code Academy (www.codecademy.com). If you don't have an account, you can sign in with your Google account (email@example.com; if you haven't used your Templeton Google account yet, dont' create an account yet). Code Year starts with the basics and teaches concepts into a practical context. The first unit will give you an introduction to JavaScript, a beginner-friendly programming language. Later Code Year units focus on teaching HTML and CSS, and how these technologies can be combined with JavaScript to build interactive websites. Noodle around and get started if you want.


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The relationship between China and America is far from a good one, with trade wars, news of Chinese hacking attempts available and much more occurring daily. This would make it seem strange to have a Chinese national looking over ISO quality for US businesses. But this is exactly what is happening, against an outcry from US veterans led by Daryl Guberman.
New York, NY, USA, November 12, 2018 — Many experts agree China is probably the biggest threat that the United States faces both now and well into the future. With their President recently named "Leader for Life", a massive nuclear arsenal, huge army, and ever expanding network of state-sponsored cybercriminals, the country looks more aggressive and hostile nearly every day. While President Trump has worked hard to balance the two country's relationship to a more agreeable situation for the American economy and worker, some American businesses are completely lost when it comes to China. Having no idea just who it is who is issuing their ISO quality certifications and having access to all of their business's internal information – the Chinese themselves! The good news is Daryl Guberman, CEO of Guberman PMC, LLC, and a growing group of US Veterans is doing their best to educate about the issue using Guberman's growing following on YouTube to help spread the word. Recently, Guberman released a new video on the subject that should serve to open the eyes of many US businesses who are either being deceived about where their ISO certifications are coming from, or are acting with a complete lack of ethics. The video is titled, "US Veterans Warning Businesses About ISO Certificates Overseen By China", and runs under five minutes so it doesn't take a great time investment to view, but completely makes his and US veterans' points clear on this important and timely subject.
"It's not hard to understand why our veterans would feel so strongly after serving in the interest of freedom and love for their country, only to find out businesses slap them in the face like this by working with our national rivals or even enemies," commented Guberman. "Beyond these wretched ISO-certification organizations being led by a Chinese national, they also have insider their associations ties with some of the other most American and Israel hating countries on the planet. Places like Iran, Pakistan, and the list goes on and on. Everyone BUT Israel, of course, a staunch ally of America and the only democracy in the middle east. To sum it up it's quite shameful to do be certified by these kind of ISO groups and depending on the industry the business is in, doing so could be an actual serious security risk."
Just to show this is no paranoid fantasy, recently American Defense Contractor Lockhead Martin had to receive "a final regulatory approval from China" before they were allowed to close on its $9 billion acquisition of Sikorsky Aircraft from United Technologies, who produce attack helicopters derivative of the famous UH-60 Blackhawk. See: http://dguberman.com/CHINA_APPROVES_SALE_OF_SIKORSKY_2018.pdf. It would seem that China having any kind of a say in a decision that affects American national security when many military analysts warn a US/China war may be inevitable in the next decade is mind boggling. Or that China decides by issuing ISO certificates what is "quality" and "safe" when the things being looked at may be used by American service men or women See China takes F 35 information 2009 http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/21/pentagon.hacked/index.html
For those companies who wish to make a change in where they get their ISO certifications, or new businesses who need to fulfill this need Guberman-PMC offers these services covering a vast array of areas. The business is run by a proud, patriotic Jewish-American and goes above and beyond to hire veterans whenever possible.
For more information be sure to visit http://dguberman.com.
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Holmes Report 01 Jun 2005 // 11:00PM GMT
Providian was consistently one of the top performers in the financial services sector (and in the S&P 500) until a fast-moving series of events in 2001 put the company at risk of insolvency. In early 2002 a new CEO and management team came in and began taking drastic action to stabilize the company, including cutting the workforce by more than half, closing two service centers, and implementing strict cost reduction measures. The Company now has about 5,000 employees, ranging from call center employees who are paid by the hour and do not have access to email (relying primarily on their managers for information about the company) to salaried employees in the San Francisco Bay Area, who are better educated and fairly cynical.
The opportunity is to reposition Providian in the marketplace as a new and different kind of credit card company that's focused on serving mainstream


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May 1, 2020 - St Michael ArchangelI am Michael the Archangel, the Defender of the Faith of your Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. And I come to you today - to the People of the United States of America - bearing a Message from Your Heavenly Mother, who reigns over your land in the most difficult period in your nation's history... MORE!
Fiat Lux Artist Andrew Jones:
FIAT LUX IMAGES ON THE VATICAN: "Conjured up by psychedelic substances."
Andrew Jones, one of the world's foremost digital painters and projection artists, who specializes in portraying terrifying images of Greek, Roman and Eastern pagan deities, is an artistic contributor to the psyop porn projected onto the Vatican. He said in an interview last month that he turns to these gods and goddesses by means of "psychedelic substances" (mind altering drugs) so that he can portray them accurately. He said the "deities" are "actively involved" in guiding his hand as he makes the work.
The Dream of Two Pillars...
Our Lady's Message Recalls Visions of St. John Bosco
"Very grave trials await the Church. What we have suffered so far is almost nothing compared to what is going to happen. The enemies of the Church are symbolized by the ships which strive their utmost to sink the flagship. Only two things can save us in such a grave hour: devotion to Mary and frequent Communion!" - May 26, 1862
Message to Pope Francis: "Diplomacy is the art of the avoidance of truth. In these times, the people of the world need to hear the truth!" - Our Lady of Light on April 4, 2014 at 7:50am
Vatican Radio Explains Holy See on UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The VATICAN RADIO statement (dated Sep 3, 2015) explains that "the Holy See does not consider abortion or access to abortion or abortifacients as a dimension of the terms "sexual and reproductive health" and "reproductive rights," Editor's Note: "Reproductive Rights" is an essential element defined by the 2030 AGENDA, regardless of the Holy See's letter.
Pope Embraces UN's 2030 AGENDA
Pope Francis UN Speech: "The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the World Summit, which opens today, is an important sign of hope." - Pope Francis (September 25, 2015) In the coming months, END TIMES DAILY will now explore the many areas of concern in 2030 AGENDA, now that the Pontiff has clearly signed on to the NWO/UN AGENDA. For example, Section 5.6 of the 2030 Agenda States: "Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences." "Reproductive Rights" - The definition itself includes "the right to legal and safe abortion."
Pope Francis tackles climate change, Iran deal at UN
Message From Our Lady: "The reason for the gravity and seriousness of this message is the fact that the Pontiff in Rome, His Holiness Pope Francis, is falling under the influence of advisors, who are not living true to My Son's Church and My Son's teaching. There is a great potential for the Pontiff to err in his judgment at this most critical time, because his advisors are not conveying the truth to Pope Francis in very critical areas and in many critical subjects that are of interest to humanity." Message From Heaven - May 2, 2015
Central Park - Poison Over The Pope!
NBC implies that a miracle took place in the skies from New York to Philadelphia on Friday and Saturday (Sep 25-26, 2015) during the Pope's visit. THE TRUTH: This phenomenum is NO MIRACLE! But the result of geoengineering - deliberate heavy chemtrail spraying over the Northeast! See: Ned's Blog - September 27, 2015
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!...
Read Pope Francis' Historic Speech to Congress
APPLAUSE FOR POPE FRANCIS - A COURAGEOUS SPEECH!!! Highlights: Respect for life/ Respect for family. His most important statement: "To protect and defend life at every stage of development". Possibly a recognition of the NWO: "Humans must not be slaves to the economy and finance." Down Note: The Pope sppears to have aligned himself with Obama on "combating climate change." Perhaps while addressing climate change at the UN, he will address the issue of geo-engineering, which may make his entire trip a home run! But as the recently departed Yogi Berra said: "It's not. over, until it's over!" - ND
Here we go...
Pope Francis calls for urgent action on climate change in White House speech
Because the Media wants to make it so???
Why Pope Francis' Canonization of Junipero Serra Is So Controversial
The Vatican sees Serra almost as a patron saint of immigration. Serra's canonization is a way of communicating that, "there's a history behind immigration policy that is rooted in a Spanish Catholic past and not just a Protestant, 18th Century political rebellion."
The Big Squeeze and the Destruction of the Middle Class
The Middle Class is being squeezed economically by rising unemployment, declining wages and rising prices -- this is producing a remarkable decline in purchasing power
The next time you choose to march on Washington for abortion rights, stomp on the U.S. flag, picket at the airport, express your solidarity by blocking traffic, or assault, riot, loot or set fire at your college campus, try following the money trail so you at least know who is pulling your puppet strings. Here is the directory of the Soros-funded organizations that are using you! Maybe it's time to WAKE UP! - Ned Dougherty
Dr.Udo Ulfkotte:
Mainstream Media is Completely Fake!
Dr.Udo Ulfkotte went on public television stating that he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents under his own name, also adding that noncompliance with these orders would result in him losing his job.
Why President Trump should issue an Interpol arrest warrant for George Soros
Soros has directly funded what can only be called domestic terrorism operations that have led to the deaths of police officers and the destruction of American cities.
"Big Joe"
Trump Supporter Eviscerates Women Marchers (video)
"BIG JOE" melts the anxiety-ridden snowflakes! He knows his history about Planned Parenthood and it's founder Margaret Sanger, an avowed eugenicist and racist, who targeted African American communities with abortion mills. The clueless screamers were suddenly silenced when they realized they were clueless! Where is all the peace and love among this crowd???
'Opposites attract':
Theresa May signals strong relationship with Donald Trump
GUARDED OPTIMISM: The beginning of the end of the New World Order? "The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are decisively over." - Theresa May
Congresswoman Returns From Syria With 'Proof' Obama Funded ISIS
There are no "moderate rebels" in Syria. "Moderate rebels" is an Obama-era propaganda myth. The opposition to Assad is led by ISIS and Al-Qaeda – and they are raping, kidnapping and murdering Syrian women, men and children – and any smaller rebel groups fighting against Assad are fighting in coalition with ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
The Thin Veneer Of Civilization That We All Take For Granted Is Evaporating All Over The Globe
Have you noticed that the world seems to be going a little bit more crazy with each passing month? Here we are halfway through 2016, and the rot and decay that are eating at the foundations of civilized society seem to be rapidly gaining momentum.
At Least 80 Dead
Terror: Truck Crashes into Crowd Celebrating Bastille Day
At least 80 people have died and dozens injured during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice, France after a truck ran into a large crowd.
No Longer a Conspiracy Theory:
CIA Director Admits Plans of Aerosol Spraying for Geoengineering
The CIA intends to ramp up the propaganda and inform the mindless masses that aerosol spraying is now necessary to save humanity from "global warming". God help humanity from these psychopaths!
Nun shocks Church by suggesting...
"Jesus's mother wasn't a virgin!"
Further evidence that the world is running off its rails!
French Priest, 84, Beheaded By ISIS Cowards
Islamist knifemen forced priest, 84, to kneel and filmed his death as they slit his throat: Hollande says 'France is at war with ISIS' after jihadists storm French church during Mass chanting 'Allahu Akbar'
Beloved Long Island Nun Missing For More Than A Week While Vacationing In Austria
Sr Eileen Christie is personally known to Ned's son, Michael Dougherty and teaches at his Alma Mater St Anthony's H.S. in Huntington NY. She is a Sister of St. Joseph, as are Sr Kathy at Michael's grade school Our Lady of the Hamptons and Sr. Kerry at St. Joseph's Villa in Hampton Bays. Major Prayer Request for Sr Christie and the community of St Joseph Sisters.
Top adviser to Pope JPII warns of a cabal undermining Church with backing from within
Monsignor Michel Schooyans, a top adviser to Pope St. John Paul II who was also close to Pope Benedict XVI, has issued a dire warning about the current trajectory in the Catholic Church.
Vatican P.R. Aide Warns...
Catholic Blogs Create "Cesspool of Hatred"
"Many of my non-Christian and non-believing friends have remarked to me that we 'Catholics' have turned the Internet into a cesspool of hatred, venom and vitriol, all in the name of defending the faith!" he said.
Father Tom Uzhunnalil 'Safe', Release Could Be 'Imminent'
The Rev. Thomas Uzhunnalil, a Salesian priest, was kidnapped in Yemen in early March during a raid on a nursing home run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity.
Mel Gibson Planning
'Passion of the Christ' Sequel
Mel Gibson and writer Randall Wallace are working on a sequel to The Passion of the Christ that will tell the story of the resurrection of Jesus, Wallace tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Pope Francis:
'Rigid… this or nothing' Catholics are 'heretical' and 'not Catholic'
Interpreting what Pope Francis is saying in a precise way has always been difficult. However, there has been a consistent theme in his remarks against what he refers to as 'rigid' Catholics who hold steadfastly to the ideals proposed by Christ and to absolutes
Mother Angelica, 1923-2016
Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), passed away on March 27, Easter Sunday, after a 15-year struggle with the aftereffects of a stroke. She was 92 years old.
Visits from the Holy Souls in Purgatory
– The life of the Austrian Mystic, Maria Simma (1915-2004)
U.S. House votes to permanently ban taxpayer funding of abortion
A January 2017 Marist poll revealed 61% of Americans don't support using tax dollars to pay for abortions.
Geoengineering Destroying the Atmosphere
Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab
How sick is this? "This biomedical advance has long been a dream and a quandary for scientists hoping to address a critical (human) shortage of (pig) donor organs."
Dignified speech stands in stark contrast to vulgar, foul-mouthed rants at DC Women's March
500,000+ marchers ignored by mainstream media. Compared to the Women's March on Washington, it's a boring crowd: No angry middle-finger salutes, no profanity, no vulgar signs or costumes; no demonic screaming; no rants from has-been celebrities craving to be relevant. But I did hear a lot of "F" words - like faith, fortitude, forgiveness... - Ned Dougherty
Stranger than fiction technology may explain why so many people seem to be freaking out...
The Spin on Aspartame
The FDA has compiled a list of 92 symptoms associated with aspartame consumption, including nausea, dizziness, blindness, deafness, weight gain, and even death.
NextTrend? Removing Tattoos!
The Toxic Truth About Tattoos
The tattoo trend started 20 years ago in America and Europe, and it has become a worldwide obsession.
Geoengineer David Keith Admits to Dangers of Spraying Aluminum
Massive amounts of aluminum nano-particles and other toxic materials are now being sprayed into the atmosphere daily and globally by NWO elitist psychopaths masquerading as scientists.
Man-made pollutants found in Earth's deepest ocean trenches
Crustaceans at depths of 10,000 metres contain higher concentrations of chemicals than do some animals in coastal waters.


text: Tri County Medical Transport operates out of Reedley CA, in Fresno County. The Company works with many insurance companies, which are listed in our 'Transport Service' tab. Our services cover the following counties: Fresno, Tulare, Kings, Kern, Merced and Madera. We provide a non-emergency service for clients who require daily transportation to varying doctor's appointments as well as dialysis visits. Tri County carries a variety of vehicles which can range from wheelchair accessible vans and minivans to non-wheelchair accessible cars. The Company started out with 5 vehicles in a 15,000 square foot facility, but is now operating with over 80 vehicles and an 86,000 square foot location. With over 100 current employees we have our own mechanic shop, call center, dispatch center, billing department.


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Resigned from Lefty's Live Music
Effective as of May 1st, I will no longer be a Talent Buyer at Lefty's Live Music. I will continue to work, promote and run all the events I currently have confirmed or a hold date on. However, as of March 24th, 2018, I will not be booking any new shows at Lefty's during the transition from being involved in the daily operations and bookings, to becoming an independent promoter. At this point, I plan on continuing to book and promote some selection show but no longer as an employee of Lefty's Live Music.


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All Mentor Circle members will be celebrated with a special listing in the Annual Report, receive an invitation to an annual reception exclusively for Mentor Circle members, as well as personalized tours of our Clubhouses.
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Relay for Life golf tourney seeking players
The Lehigh Relay for Life is gearing up for a golf tournament to be held on the course of Majestic Golf Club on March 12. Benefits go to the American Cancer Society to help local people fight cancer.
The entry fee is $69 with non-members paying $35 and includes gift bags, lunch, coffee and donuts by Dunkin' Donuts and prizes.
You can try your skills at Long Drive for both men and women, putting and Hole-in-One contests. Teams can include four men or four women or two men and two women.
Registration begins at 7 a.m. with the Four Ball Scramble starting at 8 a.m. If you would like to become a sponsor of the tournament or for more information on teams, call Jim Wallin at 218-0788 or to enter, call Majestic Golf Club at 369-8216.


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3. Lack of Physical Activity.
There are quite a few benefits of being active and while exercise can help you to look good, feel great, and help to monitor your body weight, it can be great on your bones. In contrast, a sedentary lifestyle is one that is damaging to your health in many ways, including harmful on your bones. The lack of activity can cause the bones to have to work not quite as hard and since bone is a living structure, it can dwindle over the years if you are not active. Consider being as active as possible and if you are at risk, consider talking with your doctor about activity.


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Anybody have one in stock?
Anybody have one in stock?
you looking for a brand new one? I have one that I used for less than 10 hours. $175 + shipping.
Do you still have the banderlog? Why didn't you use it?
Damn, guess everybody's out of them and waiting.
Squirt, thanks for the update.
The Banderlog valve is worth the wait!!!
Hope this is not a thread highjack, but i have a question.
What is a HEI converter? I am in the final stages of finishing up my Eliminator restore and Im installing a banberlog valve. I am running a stock (aftermarket) HEI distibutor. Do I need some sort of converter for it to work with the banderlog valve?
Thanks, Scott
Yes, you need the converter. It converts the signal from the HEI to work with the Banderlog.


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Where's my household's $550 carbon tax savings Mr Abbott?
Posted by John, July 14th, 2014 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Carbon tax, Cost of living
Now that, third time lucky, the Carbon Tax Repeal legislation, suitably amended, has passed the House of Representatives, and god and Clive Palmer and Bob Day and David Leyonhjelm willing, will pass the Senate in the next day or two, I have been reading some of the propaganda from the Liberal and National Parties before the September election about the impact of the carbon tax on the cost of living.
You might remember that before the last election Tony Abbott promised that households would be $550 better off every year when the Carbon Tax was repealed.
As part of this lie to the electorate of $550 in savings for each hosehold, the Liberal Party election gumff promised that because of the repeal of the Carbon Tax:
- electricity bills would be 10 percent lower under a Coalition government,
- gas prices 9 percent lower;
- costs of Australian-made cars up to $400 cheaper;
- aluminium production up 61 percent;
- coal production 17 percent higher, and
- steel and iron ore production 21 percent higher.
In February 2014, 6 months after the Abbott government was elected and [sarcasm alert] only 5 months before the repeal of the carbon tax was set to liberate aluminium production in Australia, Alcoa announced it would close 'its Point Henry aluminium smelter and two rolling mills, costing a total of 980 jobs.' I wonder how that stacks up against the promise that aluminium production would be 61 percent higher.
How did the Coalition arrive at their $550 figure? They used a Gillard government document which estimated the initial cost at $515 in the first year of operation, rising to $540 in the second year and $568 this financial year. According to ABC FactCheck:
The document estimated the carbon price would cause an average household's bills to rise by $515 a year. The $515 included:
- $172 for electricity
- $53 for gas
- $42 for food
Treasury also listed increases to nearly all consumable products including petrol, pharmaceuticals, furniture, holidays and sporting equipment.
All other things being equal those figures would this financial year under a Carbon Tax be about ten percent higher, ie electricity bills would rise over the period 2012/13 to the current financial year (ie since the introduction of the carbon tax to today) by about $190, gas an almost $60 increase and food would be in the order of $46 more expensive.
So is any normal working class household likely to see reductions in the annual household cost of living of $550? No. Will any of us get electricity bill reductions in the order of $190? No. Gas bill reductions of $60? No. Our food bills cut by $46 a year? No.
Will the price of 'nearly all consumable products including petrol, pharmaceuticals, furniture, holidays and sporting equipment' fall commensurate to the identified impact of the carbon Tax? No.
Why not? While the climate sceptics used hip pocket arguments to entice working class people to vote for them their real aim was to destroy any action to address climate change. Let the market rule for these activist conservatives means abolishing the carbon tax, and having a direct action plan which won't do anything either to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or change polluter behaviour significantly but will give them lots of money to take token action.
This is a government which, like its Labor and Coalition predecessors over the last 3 decades, is engaged in shifting more of the wealth we workers produce from us to capital.
The very logic of the repeal of the Carbon Tax is to see business, not working class consumers, reap the benefits.
For example, the Palmer amendments to force electricity and gas providers to pass on the savings impact only those two areas of capitalist production.
What about food and the price of 'nearly all consumable products including petrol, pharmaceuticals, furniture, holidays and sporting equipment'? There is nothing in the amendments to force these prices down commensurately to the impact of the carbon tax or to offset Treasury's claimed impact of the tax.
My guess is the amendments for gas and electricity providers won't be watertight anyway and that the more clever providers will say the price increases this year with the carbon tax would have been even greater. 'The increase will be only 8 percent instead of 12 percent.'
The reason for the doubling of electricity prices in the last decade wasn't the carbon tax. It was infrastructure spending by utility companies and the quasi-monopoly positions they hold as a result of privatisation.
Gas prices are set to explode because the global price is higher than the domestic price and it is more profitable to export gas than to sell it here. Some estimates are that the domestic undersupply will force gas prices up by 18 per cent.
As to food, already Woolworths are saying that they didn't increase prices because of the carbon tax so there won't be any price reductions on their goods, including fresh and processed food. Maybe the ACCC should check that out although that is likely to be too difficult to entangle production cost and supply and demand increases from those of the carbon tax.
Not much of that promised $550 is going to go into your pocket. It is going to go by and large into the pocket of business.
One final point. The Coalition claimed before the election that families would save $3000 over six years with the repeal of the Carbon Tax.
That will be small recompense, if it were to happen, to the $3000 each family will lose every year as a result of the 2014 Budget.
The best way to get real compensation for the price reductions that won't be passed on to working class consumers is to add $550 to every wage claim.
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Time July 16, 2014 at 10:27 am
Agreed. The Coalition's tactics are puzzling, without the carbon tax who or what will be the convenient scapegoat?
Perhaps they actually believe their own propaganda.


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InFaith Community Foundation's Collaborative Funds reflect who InFaith is as a faith-based community foundation. As part of our mission, InFaith works to achieve positive, effective and lasting change, thanks to the generosity of donors. Grants from InFaith's Collaborative Funds reflect commitment to ongoing partnerships and investment in community issues.
Current InFaith Collaborative Fund concentrations are:
- Ending family violence,
- Creation care, and
- International disaster relief.
InFaith staff and donors often reflect on outcomes from each initiative and explore possibilities for continued impact. From these discussions related to the Creation Care Initiative, the concept of water as a guiding focus within the initiative arose. Access to clean water is a basic and essential right, yet is increasingly compromised by droughts, pollution, rising tides, flooding and other natural disasters.
Why Water as a Focused Issue?
Water makes life possible. It is an essential element to physical and spiritual existence. Storms and wildfires of unprecedented magnitudes have caused environmental stresses and impact on humanity all over the world. Some one-third of the world's population is living in either water-scarce or water-short areas. It is predicted both climate change and population growth will take this number to one-half of humanity.
InFaith is uniquely positioned as a catalyst and connector throughout communities. Thanks to the generosity of InFaith donors, grants from this initiative will aid in building transformational capacity of faith leaders to create change in communities where help is an utmost necessity.
The Creation Care initiative with a focus on water begins its work with three new grantee partners:
- Creation Justice Ministries (CJM) – Started in 1983 by the National Council of Churches, CJM represents a broad coalition of ecumenical members (38 denominations) in the work of educating and mobilizing Christian denominations, churches and individuals to protect, restore and rightly share God's creation. CJM has responded on the front lines of water crises, such as Flint, Detroit and Appalachia. This grant will deepen Christian engagement on water issues on a national level, with specific focus on Appalachia and Michigan.
- Minneapolis Area Synod of the ELCA (MAS) – The largest synod of the ELCA, MAS is the first and only ELCA synod to have on staff a Congregational Organizer for Environmental Justice. One initiative of MAS is the EcoFaith Network, which is leading "Our Watershed Moment", engaging communities of faith in dialogue and action around water. This grant will replicate their organizing structure ecumenically with local judicatories, including AME (African Methodist Episcopal Church).
- Ecumenical Water Network of the World Council of Churches (EWN of WCC) – The WCC is a fellowship of 348 churches representing 560 million Christians in more than 110 countries, the broadest and most inclusive expression of the modern ecumenical movement. This grant will support one of its networks, EWN, in holding its second annual Eco-School on Water, Food and Climate Justice. In 2018 this training will bring together 25 young people from Latin America and the Caribbean in an ecumenical setting to study the local, regional, and international manifestation and causes of the world's water crisis, challenges to food security and the effects of climate change. Read more about the 2018 Eco-School and its impact here.
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Actor-comedian Slink Johnson (Black Jesus, Grand Theft Auto) returns with another installment of his live-action comedy, Get LOUD! w/Slink Johnson. In Episode Two of his PRØHBTD series, Slink connects with WoahStork, a technology platform that simplifies cannabis ordering and deliveries. When he decides to join a driver on a cannabis delivery, Slink winds up in Compton with A$AP TyY where the streets get loud in more ways than one.
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Hyperbolas have many uses, both mathematical and practical. The hyperbola y = 1/x is sometimes used in the definition of the natural logarithm. In Figure 6 the logarithm of a number n is represented by the shaded area, that is, by the area bounded by the x-axis, the line x = 1, the line x = n, and the hyperbola. Of course one needs calculus to compute this area, but there are techniques for doing so.
The coordinates of the point (x,y) on the hyperbola x2- y2 = 1 represent the hyperbolic cosine and hyperbolic sine functions. These functions bear the same relationship to this particular hyperbola that the ordinary cosine and sine functions bear to a unit circle:
Unlike ordinary sines and cosines, the values of the hyperbolic functions can be represented with simple exponential functions, as shown above. That these representations work can be checked by substituting them in the equation of the hyperbola. The parameter u is also related to the hyperbolas. It is twice the shaded area in Figure 7.
The definition PF1 - PF2 = ± C, of a hyperbola is used directly in the LORAN navigational system. A ship at P receives simultaneous pulsed radio signals from stations at A and B. It cannot measure the time it takes for the signals to arrive from each of these stations, but it can measure how much longer it takes for the signal to arrive from one station than from the other. It can therefore compute the difference PA - PB in the distances. This locates the ship somewhere along a hyperbola with foci at A and B, specifically the hyperbola with that constant difference. In the same way, by timing the difference in the time it takes to receive simultaneous signals from stations B and C, it can measure the difference in the distances PB and PC. This puts it somewhere on a second hyperbola with B and C as foci and PC - PB as the constant difference. The ship's position is where these two hyperbolas cross (Figure 8). Maps with grids of crossing hyperbolas are available to the ship's navigator for use in areas served by these stations.
Gullberg, Jan, and Peter Hilton. Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers. W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Hahn, Liang-shin. Complex Numbers and Geometry. 2nd ed. The Mathematical Association of America, 1996.
Hilbert, D., and S. Cohn-Vossen. Geometry and the Imagination. New York: Chelsea Publishing Co. 1952.
Larson, Ron. Calculus With Analytic Geometry. Boston: Houghton Mifflin College, 2002.
J. Paul Moulton
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Science EncyclopediaScience & Philosophy: Hydrazones to IncompatibilityHyperbola - Other Definitions, Features, Drawing Hyperbolas, Uses


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On this week's Relationship Marketing Weekly, Relationship Marketing Expert Kody Bateman interviews Rev Joshuwa Armstrong of the Second Baptist Church in Keyport,NJ. Rev. Armstrong discusses several ways that he has incorporated a relationship marketing strategy that has allowed his membership to thrive and has strengthened the bond with his members. He'll also go into detail about several incredible campaigns he's developed that empower their members and guest to connect with family and friends in a meaningful way. He also discusses many other ways that he leverages these strategies in his business outside the church… You're going to not only love the interview, you'll love his vision on bringing people together!
Kody Bateman: Hey everybody. This is Kody Bateman. Welcome to our Relationship Marketing Weekly Show. I'm really, really excited about the guest that we have on the show today.
I want to thank all of you for tuning in. Just state your names and say hi to us as you're tuning in here. We got people that are tuning in from all over the United States, Canada, Singapore, UK. It's really cool to watch as all the names come in or the people that tune in to this show. This is going to be a great, great show today.
Typically we interview business owners and salespeople with businesses and different things and today we got kind of a unique twist because we are going to interview how a church uses relationship marketing to better relationships in its congregation. We got a dynamic, dynamic personality with us today. I would like to welcome to our show, Reverend Joshua Armstrong. He is the assistant pastor at the Second Baptist Church of Keyport, New Jersey. Reverend Joshua, welcome to the show today.
Reverend Joshua Armstrong Hey, Kody. How are you doing?
Kody: I'm doing great. It's great to have you on with us. You and I had a chance to visit for a few minutes before the show started and I will tell you, I just want to sit and listen to your stories and your – you got some fun stuff that you like to share with us.
I would like to get started by – first of all, tell us a little bit about you, how you got into – how you got into being a pastor of a church and a little bit about – because you don't just do the pastor shift. You also have other businesses that you run. So just give us a little background on you.
Reverend Joshua: Well, basically how I became a – got into the ministry, I was – my dad is a pastor. So I've always been in church all my life. But I enjoy church. I enjoy the word of God. So I was actually an associate minister at my dad's church about two, three years ago, for about ten years.
Then I came up to this church here and became the assistant pastor. I went to school. I went to College and I got a degree in Christian Counseling and Psychology and yeah, becoming a pastor is – certainly pretty much you don't really strive to beat. It's just something that happens over time and you love your relationship with Christ and you follow what he has called you to do.
Also again I'm an entrepreneur. I have a delivery service. I'm also a representative of SendOutCards and the reason why I use SendOutCards in my business is because I realized that I needed to stay in touch with my customers because there's an old saying that "Out of sight, out of mind."
So again, the longer you don't talk to your customers, the greater chance that they won't call you back again. So I came across SendOutCards because no one told me about SendOutCards. I was Googling one day, looking for a way to stay in touch at an affordable rate with my customers and I came across your service. As a matter of fact, before that, I read a book by Joe Girard, How to Sell Anything to Anybody, and as you know, he used greeting cards in his strategy and he's still the number one car salesman in the world.
So I said, "You know what? If it will work for him, more than likely this should work for me," and I've tried it out and it has been working for my business personally and also for the church.
Kody: So when you first started, like you say, you're an entrepreneur. So when you first started, you started utilizing greeting cards and gifts as a follow-up service for your businesses, right?
Reverend Joshua: Yes.
Kody: And by the way the Joe Girard story is incredible and a lot of inspiration I've had over the years has come from some of his teachings. So that's a great way to get started. But one of the things that's unique about you is that you took the entire concept and you moved it over to your church services, which is unique because we were commenting before the show that I wonder why there aren't a lot more churches using our service. There are a lot of churches that do. But I would think – I mean so Josh would tell us. Being a leader of a congregation, are you not in the relationship business? I mean isn't that what you do?
Reverend Joshua: Yes, we are Kody. Like you, I'm still trying to figure out why people don't use it because it's the best tool to connect more with your members. That's why we use it. Our goal is not just to have members. But we want to connect more with our members on an emotional level and SendOutCards is the perfect tool and it helps us do just that.
Kody: So you have a – what you call a "First Time Visitor Campaign". This is really interesting. I hope everybody listens into this, how you do this, the First Time Visitor Campaign. So when someone new comes and visits your congregation, tell us what you do.
Reverend Joshua: Yes. We do have a First Time Visitor Campaign because my mother always said, "First impressions are lasting impressions." So we always want to make a big first impression. So what we do, we're all first time visitors. We have a card that we haven't filled out and we collect the name, address, birthday, stuff like that.
Then again, we have a campaign that we send out not just for the first time, but throughout the year. So again, we send a first-time card up the next day and also we attach a box of brownies with it.
Kody: That always works.
Reverend Joshua: It always works. At the church service, they love their brownies. Then also if they're a mother, they get another card for Mother's Day. If they're a father, they get a Father's Card for Father's Day. Then of course we have a holiday card attached to the same campaign.
Now everyone on our list gets a birthday card with a box of brownies. Whether they're a member of church or not, if they're on our list, we're going to stay in touch with them and just let them know that we're thinking about them.
Kody: I got to tell you, that's incredible. We were talking earlier before the show started. One of the things I do on occasion is I will go and visit other congregations. I attend the church myself regularly, weekly. But on occasion, I will go to other parts of town just to visit other congregations, other denominations because I like to see what other churches are doing. I would love to listen to choirs.
We were kind of joking a little bit, but I said, "I will tell you what, man. If I go into one of those churches and five months later when my birthday hits, if I get a birthday card from that congregation, I guarantee you I'm going to go back to the congregation to say hi to somebody at least."
Reverend Joshua: Of course.
Kody: You know, it's funny because we joke about that and how simply of a concept that is and I think everybody listening would relate with that. If anybody listening right now, if you put yourself in my shoes of the story I just said, if any of you went to another congregation and several months later, unexpectedly, birthday card shows up, you instantly know how that would make you feel. You would feel appreciated by that congregation. So why more churches don't use this for those kind of things is kind of beyond me.
Reverend Joshua: Even we have some members who we don't even have their birthdays. But because we're on Facebook, when their birthday pops up, I go into my smartphone, grab their picture off Facebook, send them a birthday card with their picture on it with a box or brownies and it's amazing. They love it.
Kody: That's incredible and it's – I sure appreciate your example on that. There needs to be a lot more church leaders and business leaders and people in everyday life that will take the time to do that.
Reverend Joshua: Yes.
Kody: It really doesn't take much time, does it? I mean once you get into the habit of doing what you just said, it's pretty simple to do.
Reverend Joshua: Like send an email.
Kody: Pretty much. Yeah, pretty much. A couple of other things that you do, very interested in – you have a campaign that you're just going to start this and I think you just built this campaign. You call it the "Marriage Advice Campaign" that you send out to members of your congregation. Can you tell us a little bit about that?
Reverend Joshua: Yes. Well, in 2018, we're going to send out a marriage tip advice campaign when we send postcards. The goal is to really connect with our members in a meaningful way. That's our main goal and we do that by sharing information with them that can help them in their everyday life. So we can be sending that campaign to all our married couples.
Of course throughout the year, we're going to create some other campaigns for different categories or groups of the church. But for right now, we're going to start with this campaign and our goal is that after they have experienced the postcard – receive the postcard in the mail from us, we're going to challenge them and empower them to do the same thing to their friends and families because our goal and every church's goal – question is, "How do we connect with more people without having to spend more money?" because outreach costs money. So again – and Joe Gerard says – he did a study. It said that everyone knows 250 people. So that means if I have 50 members, my 50 members, each member knows about 250 people.
Kody: Right.
Reverend Joshua: The question, "Why are not churches packed?" Because nobody – none enough people are inviting people to church. So again I believe that again, if we empower members to share meaningful information with their friends and family, eventually the friend and family will say, "Wow, thank you for that information. Where did you get that from?" Oh, my church.
Kody: Yeah. I will tell you, I love that because we're teaching businesses how to do the same thing. I mean this show, all that we do once a week is a service that we provide, free of charge, that any businessperson could come and learn relationship marketing tactics and it's the concept of just give – freely give information and be of service to other people. You've taken that to the church as a leader of a congregation. You know, obviously there's a lot of things that you can do, of free service to people who are a member of your congregation or not.
Reverend Joshua: Yes.
Kody: And obviously marriage advice and relationship advice and key things to do to keep your family together. Who better than you guys to be able to tell us those things? That's the world that you live in.
Reverend Joshua: Yes, yes.
Kody: Yeah, it's great. I love that stuff. So we were also talking – one of the things I comment on a lot, you know, we run a company called SendOutCards. We help people create relationship marketing for their business, so that they can better their business and that's – I like to call that leveraging what the marketplace wants from us, which is a way to follow-up with clients, customers. Do the things like you just talked about. But we need to inspire people on what they really need from us and what people need from us is a system to help them reach out and be kind to other people.
Reverend Joshua: Yes.
Kody: Because the bigger mission that – at SendOutCards, the bigger mission here is we basically teach people and show people how to be nice to each other. Would you not agree that that's probably the biggest thing that we need in the world today?
Reverend Joshua: Oh, definitely, especially in the climate that we're in today. We definitely need that. We need to not just talk about it, but now have a way to actually do it, which I believe that SendOutCards is that way to do that.
Kody: So we were talking earlier, you know, we got a big convention coming up and our theme is titled "One" and the whole concept of that is one – we're one race. We're the human race and our job is to come together in all of our diversity, come together as one human race and celebrate each other and send our positivity out to the world. We deal with that even in the church environment. We were talking about the fact that you have Christian denomination. You have non-Christian denominations. You have a lot of different theologies and different beliefs throughout or even within Christianity, you have Catholicism and Protestantism.
So over the course of time, there seems to be – I don't want to say separation but there is a separation of different congregations or different denominations. How do we – whether you're a Christian or a Buddhist or a Muslim or whatever it is that you are, how do we as God-fearing people on this planet come together? What is the common denominator that should bring all of us together regardless of our denomination or our theology?
Reverend Joshua: Well, the common denominator is relationships. Before there were any churches, there was a family and a family has a relationship. The challenge is that we as men may – have created differ denominations, different religions, which has placed walls and barriers and guess what. We have – even as Christians – let's talk about just the Christian body. We have felt more in love with our religion instead of our relationships.
Number one, the relationship with Christ and then relationship with each other. So again, we have created the religions. So now I can't go to a certain church because I'm a Baptist, some people would say. But that's not true because again, our core common goal is Jesus Christ that we all share a relationship with and I believe that again when we get to that – the thought process that it's not a – it doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, atheist. We're all God's children and that my job is to celebrate you, help you and give you – give you a hand and for you to do likewise. I believe that when we do that, the walls of religion, hatred and racism will all come down.
Kody: I got to tell you, Reverend Joshua, it is – it's inspiring to hear that message come from the assistant pastor of the Baptist Church. That's very inspiring. It really is.
Reverend Joshua: Well, thank you.
Kody: We do. We need more of that. We need to come together as people. You say common denominator is the relationships, which is true. You could also say the common denominator is love. At the end of the day, we all have a desire to love and be loved and that's how we're all the same.
Reverend Joshua: Yes.
Kody: So if we can just celebrate that amongst each other and – you know, here's the other thing. I found – kind of in closing, I just kind of want to get your thoughts on this. I really believe – I strongly believe and I teach this from the stage all the time. I believe the key, the very, very key to finding fulfilment in life is to embrace diversity. Not be scared of it. To me, diverse – there's a reason God put different kinds of people on this earth.
Reverend Joshua: Yes.
Kody: And I just truly believe that if we embrace the diversity of the human race and learn from the differences of the human race, embrace that and come together with a common denominator of love, to be loved, that is the essence of a great life in my opinion. I just want to get your thoughts on that as we close.
Reverend Joshua: Oh, no. I totally agree. I think what hindered us in success is that we have – again, we do have barriers because we look at the religion or we look at the color and say, "You can't help me." But in reality about it, that you probably can. When love is there, love says, "I'm not looking at your skin color. I'm not looking at your denomination."
We have something in common. Let's get together. Let's go to work. So we all can have a great life and I think that – when that happens, again, the walls of traditions, denominations, racism will definitely come down.
Kody: Well, I love that. By the way, what you're using with the greeting cards and the gifts and how you're sending campaigns out to people, that's simply a mechanism to help bring those walls down and it's just – it's an inspiration to hear your story. So Reverend Joshua Armstrong, thank you so much for being with us today. I appreciate it very much.
Hey, listen. We will be back here next week. It's the holiday season. We're celebrating and it's busy season for us here. We're going to talk next week about some really unique gifting ideas, gifting ideas for your clients, customers, your family members, people at your church. We got some great gifting ideas and concepts for you that will help you to be in service of other people. Thanks everybody for being with us. God bless. Take care now.
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