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Keeping Obama administration-era net neutrality rules would result in higher Internet prices for consumers and less innovation, according to a new report.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute released a report Tuesday providing a history of net neutrality regulations and arguing the Internet flourished precisely because it was free from federal government control.
The Federal Communications Commission will meet and vote Thursday on Chairman Ajit Pai's proposal to reverse the Title II net neutrality rule that treated Internet service providers, or ISPs, as utilities rather than information services. Information services have historically been free from regulation, but the Obama administration's FCC changed course by subjecting ISPs to broad regulation with the adoption of net neutrality in 2015.
"Consumers should be aware that net neutrality regulations will result in higher prices and less innovation for their broadband services. So, if it ain't broke, don't break it," said Jessica Melugin, an adjunct fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and coauthor of the report. "Just look at Europe's broadband market. It has long been regulated like a utility, and they now have half as much investment in wireline service as the United States, and their average mobile broadband speeds are 30 percent slower than what Americans enjoy."
"Washington's hands-off approach has allowed a vibrant, open, and free Internet to flourish for decades," according to the report, which explains that regulating companies like Verizon and Comcast as utilities went "far beyond net neutrality's relatively humble roots."
"If you have watched Last Week Tonight with John Oliver recently, you will have noticed that its TV comedian host is upset about something called ‘net neutrality,'" Melugin and coauthor Ryan Radia, CEI's regulatory counsel, wrote. "But does anyone know what it means?"
The report sheds light on the complicated rules highlighted by Oliver's "go FCC yourself" campaign, which has led to racist attacks against Pai.
The rules force ISPs to treat all data transmitted over the Internet in the same manner. However, not everything on the Internet is treated equally by consumers, the CEI report argues.
"The FCC's net neutrality orders presume that consumers will be better off if their ISPs are barred from throttling usage on an basis," the report said. "In reality, not every consumer perceives every byte of Internet traffic to be equally valuable."
"If a mobile ISP were to degrade video content from ultra-high-definition to ‘ordinary' high-definition, how many consumers could even tell the difference?" Melugin and Radia ask. "The answer depends on the technical sophistication of the ISP's customers, the capabilities of their mobile devices, and even their average visual acuity."
The report argues that ISPs are better equipped at finding innovative solutions to solve network congestion than federal regulators. Net neutrality has "thwarted such exploration, ultimately reducing innovation and consumer choice."
As a result of net neutrality rules, companies are restricted in how they can manage Internet traffic on their own networks.
"If the FCC rule is left intact, it will prevent you from getting free stuff like sponsored data from your wireless provider," Radia said.
"Just think, if you like unlimited HBO with your AT&T plan or unlimited music streaming from T-Mobile, then you should demand that these net neutrality regulations be eliminated," he said.
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‘Dressed alike’ by photographer George Maas
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Amsterdam-based photographer George Maas has a large collection of photos he made of couples wearing the same thing. His book ‘Geijkgekleed’ is now for sale in our giftshop.
“In the beginning of 2007 I started taking photos of them: couples who dress alike.
I don’t mean people that work in uniform, or teams or twins for that matter. They don’t count. Besides that, wearing the same piece of clothing on their upper body is my minimum requirement. I take their photos while they unknowingly walk down the streets or while posing. In almost every case I ask them why they wear the same jacket, sweater, T-shirt, bodywarmer, tracksuit or cardigan. I believe this is important and it makes this form of street photography more informative than simply documenting people in public spaces. The couples in my photos come from all over the world, dressing alike is a global phenomenon.
All of a sudden it caught my eye! Men and women wearing the exact same jacket. First I took their photos for fun, then I created a working folder on my computer and started studying them. This went on for a while, but at a certain point it became more serious and I started to look out for them. Nowadays I can’t go outside without checking every jacket that I come across.
Why do couples wear the exact same jacket? That is the question that has kept me occupied for the past few years. “Two jackets cost less!” “My spouse bought it for me!” But when I continued asking them questions, I got a little deeper. They often would rather not go into it too much or they have an emotional response such as: “But we have been married for over forty years!”
stellen die gelijkgekleed zijn met dezefde rompbekleding van hetzelfde merk, type en kleur
couples who are dressed in the same hullcladding
Behind their disguises I see two people that have created a pact together, against the rest of the world. In this way they show us that they belong together. And that’s beautiful.
The streets, where I meet most couples, is not the perfect place for confessions. Sometimes they don’t mind having their photos taken, but rather not talk about it. Others do talk, but don’t give their name or address. In such cases I hand them my business card in the hope they’ll reach out to me. About forty couples gave me more than a routine or cliche answer. They help to get to the essence of this photo project: to make sense of a specific type of behavior and to do away with all kinds of prejudice.”
The book ‘Gelijkgekleed’ by George Maas is available in our gift shop. Disguised as two caravans behind reception.
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Kerry is fast becoming a hub for the science, technology, and engineering sectors, with an ever-growing demand for talent across the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, financial services and technology industries in the region. In May 2019, JRI America announced the expansion of its technology centre in Tralee along with another 100 new jobs. Most recently, Fexco opened a €21 million research and development facility in Killorglin and is set to create a further 305 jobs by 2024.
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Quality of life, closeness to family, a high disposable income and a safe environment were key attractions for those relocating to the county
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“This has been a very productive and worthwhile exercise and has equipped us here in Kerry with an important array of data and information which can be applied in many ways. These surveys are a very important asset in continuing the work being done by Kerry County Council and other agencies in promoting the county nationally and internationally as an ideal place to live, work and do business.”
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District Court Rejects Goldman Sachs’ Last-Ditch Attempt to Stop Long-Standing Gender Discrimination Class Action; The Certified Class Action Will Proceed to Trial
Publi2022, District Court Judge Analisa Torres issued an Order in the ongoing Goldman Sachs gender discrimination case (originally filed in 2010) with significant positive ramifications for the plaintiffs and the Class. Most significantly:
First, Judge Torres denied the defendants’ motion to decertify the case. The case proceeds on behalf of nearly 2,000 female Associates and Vice-Presidents in revenue-producing divisions who have worked at Goldman Sachs in New York City since 2002, and in the rest of the country since 2004.
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Fifth, the Court rejected almost all of Goldman’s attempts to trim plaintiffs’ expert opinions, including rejecting Goldman’s attacks on how plaintiffs’ statistical expert modeled the data. The Court agreed with plaintiffs that plaintiffs’ expert on climates for harassment and bias may testify at trial that Goldman’s climate is tolerant of gender bias and harassment.
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Home ▶ Vol 50, No 1 (2016) ▶ Magezi
Abstract
Introduction
Bediako’s biography
The interface between traditional African religion and Christianity: Bediako’s perspective
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Footnotes
About the Author(s)
Vhumani Magezi
Faculty of Humanities, School of Basic Sciences, North West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, South Africa
Christopher Magezi
Faculty of Humanitiei, C., 2016, ‘Soteriology on the interface of traditional African religion and Christianity: Engaging Bediako’s soteriology ance of traditional African religion and Christianity: Engaging Bediako’s soteriology and a soteriological alternative
Vhumani Magezi, Christopher Mageziss article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is propeeen traditional African religion and Christianity. Some scholars tend to exalt traditional African religion at the expense of the biblical meaning of salvation, as well as undermining the value of traditional African religion. In seeking to establish the interface between traditional African religion anunique place of Israel in God’s redemptive history, as well as diminishing the biblical meaning of conversion and the newness of the Gospel. Thus, in contrast to Bediako’s inclusivism position, the article offers an alternative approach which argues that God’s general revelation in all pre-Christian traditional religions is a non-preparation for the Gospel. This is because in Pauline theology (Rm 1:18–32), general revelation grants humanity a very limited insight into the divine nature.
Introduction
Christianity entails shifting belonging and allegiance from one kingdom to the other, namely, from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. It is about changing from a fallen state of humanity to a new state ushered by a new belonging of ‘union’ in Christ. This is soteria, commonly called salvation. Soteriology is a pivotal doctrine upon which the Christian salvation doctrine lies. Among African Christians, salvation is identified with the missionary era. The question that has been posed is about the relationship between traditional African religions and Christianity. This question is an emotive one. On the one hand, it borders on diminishing the value of traditional African religion, whilst on the other hand, it challenges one to consider what and how salvation was achieved before missionaries. To address this subject many African scholars (cf. Bediako 1995:82–83; 1999:244–245; Bujo 1992:81; Nyamiti 2006:16) have attempted to draw a relationship between traditional African religious teachings and Christian teachings of salvation in Christ. Whilst this suggests that the subject has been addressed by many African scholars such as John Mbiti, Bolaji Idowu, Kwame Bediako and others, there has been little reflection and engagement with Kwame Bediako (1945–2008) as one of the key theologians who has articulated salvation from its interface with Christianity as taught in the New Testament (Asamoah-Gyadu 2009:9). Considering his post-colonial reading of texts and other emancipatory approaches to the biblical texts, it is imperative to revisit the subject of salvation. In doing so, engaging Bediako1 as one of the most influential African theologians and pastors of the late 20th century (Asamoah-Gyadu 2009:5–9; Omenyo 2008:388) would suffice as an enlightening and productive approach.
We regarded Bediako as a representative voice of African theologians because unlike Mbiti’s descriptive approach to the question of the interrelationship between traditional African religion and Christianity, the former offers doctrinal concepts which respond to the interface between traditional African religion and Christianity. For example, Bediako (1999:244–245) designated the ancestral category to Christ2 by paralleling God’s revelation of himself in Jewish culture to African traditional culture. Thus, he justifies the use of a category in which God was at work revealing himself in the same way he used the priestly category of the Jews. This approach is evident in Bediako’s (1995) argument that:
… a theology of ancestothe grace of God in the Gospel of Jesus Christ have been truly anticipated and prefigured in the quests and the responses to the Transcendent in former times, as these have been reflected in the lives of African people. (pp. 224–225)
Furthermore, we chose Bediako as a representative voice of African theologians because whilst many African scholars tend to react to some early Western missionaries’ misrepresentation of the traditional African world views and Christianity in Africa,3 Bediako (1994:17) is of the opinion that the ‘… era of African theological literature as reaction to Western misrepresentation is past’. He understands that: ‘… what lies ahead is a critical theological construction which will more fully relate the widespread African confidence in the Christian faith to the actual and on-going Christian responses to the life experience of Africans’ (Bediako 1994:17).
In consideration of, but moving beyond Bediako’s understanding of the interface between the traditional African religions and Christianity, this article seeks to give an alternative approach to the proposed subject. The questions that are posed to guide the discussion are: what is the appropriate and responsible understanding of the meaning of salvation for African Christians? How should one respond to the ideas of Bediako as a representative African theologian regarding the interface between traditional African religion and Christianity and its implications to African Christians?
In order to answer the preceding questions, the researchers will briefly establish Bediako’s position on the interface between traditional African religion and Christianity. Related to our study of Bediako concerning the interface between traditional African religion and Christianity, there are three possible theological models or positions which can be adopted. These theological models are pluralism, exclusivism and inclusivism (Ferdinando 2007:124; Kärkkäinen 2003:17–29). The researchers will briefly present all these possible outlooks in order to investigate Bediako’s position concerning the three theological models. In doing this, the researchers will examine whether Bediako’s perception of the interface between pre-Christian tradition and Christianity is informed by the broader scope of scripture; or whether he chooses some specific texts to foster his own agenda. Thereafter, the researchers will consider the implications of Bediako’s stance (on the interface between traditional African religion and Christianity) for the biblical meaning of salvation. The article will then conclude by bringing the main arguments together.
Bediako’s biography
Kwame Bediako was one of the most influential African theologians and pastors of the late 20th century (Asamoah-Gyadu 2009:5; Omenyo 2008:388). His death in 2008, at the age of 63 years, was a huge loss for the Church in Africa and beyond (Asamoah-Gyadu 2009:6). Bediako’s basic education and his Bachelor of Arts degree were obtained in Ghana (Asamoah-Gyadu 2009:11; Omenyo 2008:387). In the late 1960s, Bediako moved abroad, to the University of Bordeaux to embark on his Masters and Doctoral degrees in French, with particular focus on French African Literature (Asamoah-Gyadu 2009:11; Omenyo 2008:387). Significantly, whilst in France, Bediako underwent a spectacular conversion experience. Omenyo (2008:387) says that Bediako ‘had a dramatic experience with Christ which saw him being converted from atheism to a fervent Christian life’.
After his conversion, Bediako concluded that all academic pursuits which were not rooted in Christ were pointless (Omenyo 2008:387). Asamoah-Gyadu (2009:11) states that Bediako’s conversion enabled him to understand the central tenet that: ‘Chriself and for the whole world’. Soon after his dramatic conversional experience, Bediako commenced his formal studies in theology at the London School of Theology from 1973 to 1976 (Omenyo 2008:387). He was ordained in 1978 in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (Omenyo 2008:387). Soon afterwards Bediako left for Aberdeen University in Scotland to complete his doctoral studies in theology under the supervision of Professor Andrew Walls (Asamoah-Gyadu 2009:5; Omenyo 2008:388). After his return to Ghana, he founded and led the Akrofi-Christaller organisation for Mission and Applied Theology19 (Asamoah-Gyadu 2009:10; Walls 2008:188).
Bediako wrote many highly rated academic works, and worked at various universities as a visiting lecturer, as well as obtaining various qualifications and appointments at local and international institutions. To mention a few, Bediako was a visiting lecturer at Edinburgh University in Scotland, teaching African Theology (Asamoah-Gyadu 2009:9; Omenyo 2008:388); he was granted an honorary professorship at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, as well as an appointment to the fellowship of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 as an acknowledgement of his accomplishment in the domain of academic scholarship (Omenyo 2008:388). Omenyo (2008) concludes that:
Bediako was a widely travelled man, whose expertise was sought by reputable organizations and institutions, both locally and internationally … He brought his high quality work and knowledge to bear on international networks, agencies and institutions. (p. 388)
The interface between traditional African religion and Christianity: Bediako’s perspective
Bediako (1995:82–83; 1999:244–245) describes traditional African religion as a preparation for the Gospel4 by explicitly stating: ‘African traditional religion has been a serious preparation for the gospel in Africa and forms major religious substratum for the idiomatic and existential experience of Christianity in African life’5 (Bediako 1995:82–83). However, he is not the first African theologian to wrestle with this matter as he acknowledges and supports his predecessors, namely, John Mbiti and Bolaji Idowu (Bediako 1999:267334). These theologians are in concurrence that monotheism, being a belief in both traditional African religions and Christianity, establishes the authenticity of traditional African religion as a preparation for Christianity (Bediako 2000:21). That is, the God of Christianity (who was proclaimed by the early Western missionaries) is the same God who has been worshipped in traditional African religion (Bediako 2000:21). In his discontentment with some early Western missionaries’ presentation of the gospel in Africa, Bediako (2000) argues that:
… for many years African theologians have refused to accept the negative view of African religion held by Western Missionaries and have shown consistently the continuity of God from the pre-Christian past into the Christian present. (p. 21)
Unfortunately, Bediako did not qualify the nature of the discontinuity and continuity he refers to. Instead, he just agrees with his predecessors, Idowu and Mbiti, by contending that there is continuity and discontinuity between traditional African religion and Christianity (Bediako 2000:21).
In recognising monotheism as the valid point of continuity between traditional African religion and Christianity, Bediako (1999:245) argues that the New Testament provides a solution to the issue of the interface between Christianity and pre-Christian traditions, on the basis of the universality of Christ (his central theological tenet). Based on Paul’s speech at Athens (Acts 17:22–31), Bediako (1999) argues that:
It can rightly be said therefore that the apostle who grasped most firmly the significance of Christ for the entire universe, and who strenuously preached Jesus to Jews as the fulfilment of the promises of the Old Testament, proclaimed with equal conviction that Jesus was to Gentiles also the fulfiller of their deepest religious and spiritual aspirations. (p. 245)
In using this biblical passage, Bediako contends that Christ is the fulfillment of the religious aspirations in traditional African religion, as God’s general revelation is within pre-Christian religions as a preparation for the Gospel. Therefore, Bediako establishes a pre-existent aspiration of Christ in pre-Christian religions. In this way, Christian conversion for Bediako (2000:21) is not an introduction ‘… to a new God unrelated to the traditions of our past, but to One who brings to fulfillment all the highest religious and cultural aspirations of our heritage’.
It is uncertain whether Bediako (1999:441) is crediting salvation to non-Christian religions, as he also draws a robust parallel between African Christianity and Hellenistic Christianity from the 2nd century. In his own words, Bediako (1999:441) agrees with Justin Martyr and Clement of Alexandria’s position by concluding that the: ‘Hellenistic Christianity in the second century and the emergent theological self-consciousness of African Christianity in the twentieth century, belong to one and the same story’. However, this is questionable. In Kärkkäinen’s (2003:56–62) historical discussion of the interface between Christianity and non-Christian religions, Justin and Clement’s6 position has the risk of crediting salvation to non-Christian religions. However, based on this evidence, one cannot be justified in concluding that Bediako attributes salvation to non-Christian religions. This is because Bediako clarifies that there is no salvation in pre-Christian religions (salvation is only in Christ), as pre-Christian religions only serve as preparation for Christ to its adherents. In view of the above-mentioned discussion, the ensuing sub-sections will briefly present the pluralist, exclusivist and inclusivist outlooks in order to ascertain Bediako’s position within these theological models.
Is Bediako a pluralist?
Race (1983:viii) and Hick (1987:33–34, 1993:140–147) are two of the adherents of the pluralist position. According to Ferdinando (2007:124), Race (1983:72–73), Sennett (2005:309) and Hick’s (1987:33) understanding, pluralism is the claim that all religions lead to equal salvation in diverse ways. This is why Hick (1987:33) – who is an advocate of pluralism – further explains that pluralism ‘is not a radical departure from the diverse and ever-growing Christian tradition’. Instead, it is a ‘further development in ways suggested by the discovery of God’s presence and saving activity within other streams of human life’ (Hick 1987:33). This is because pluralists contend that the cosmic Christ (Colossians 1:17), who is the saviour of all men (1 Timothy 4:10) is perceived in his approaching death as a source of blessing for many people (Hick 1987:33; Mark 10:45). In establishing this, the question of salvation to the unevangelised people or those who lived before the incarnation of Christ (either Jews or Gentiles) is not an issue, as every religion is capable of attaining salvation for its adherents.
Christianity claims to be the only true means of salvation, because of the uniqueness of the incarnation of Christ, the eternal Son of God (Barth 1956:346; Race 1983:7). For this reason, Hick (1993:ix) de-constructed the Orthodox Christian doctrine of Christ’s incarnation. In order to parallel Christianity with non-Christian religions, Hick (1993:ix) argues that the incarnation of the divine Logos should be understood in a metaphorical sense. That is, ‘Jesus embodied the ideal of a human life lived in faithful response to God … and he accordingly embodied a love which is a human reflection of the divine love’ (Hick 1987:21). In this way, Hick denies Jesus’ claim (in John 10:30 & John 14:9) to be of one being with the Father (Hick 1995:53). He argues that these words were put in Jesus’ mouth 60 or 70 years after Jesus’ death by the scriptural authors, who expressed their ideas which were developed during the expansion of the early Church (Hick 1995:53). However, Hick’s serious weakness is his presumptuous claim to know Jesus better than the disciples, who knew him directly.
This category (pluralism) seems to be a modern7 or post-modern endeavour, which succumbs to what is acceptable in multicultural society at the expense of the biblical truth of salvation (McGrath 1995:151). In doing this, pluralists credit salvation to non-Christian religions at the expense of the fundamental truth that Christianity is the only religion which offers authentic restoration of man’s eternal fellowship with God, based on Christ’s life, death and resurrection (John 14:6 & Acts 4:12). The researchers agree with Demarest (1991:152) that ’other religions and ideologies are not alternative paths to God but to judgment, for Christ is the only way’. That is, ‘religious plurality is a global manifestation of sinful humanity’s flawed responses to general revelation and that the dogma of religious pluralism is false’ (Demarest 1991:152). Hence, in the midst of the current pluralistic society, we call evangelical theologians to an important task of formulating ‘adequate evangelical theology of religions’ which is ‘shaped by the teachings, values and assumptions of the Bible and be faithful to the central confession of the church throughout the centuries’ (Netland 2001:313). However, because Bediako understands pre-Christian religion as a preparation for Christ, he does not fit within the pluralism category.
Is Bediako an exclusivist?
Exclusivism is a position which maintains that salvation ‘is found only through an explicit knowledge and confession of Christ’ (Ferdinando 2007:124). Although there are three distinct forms of exclusivism,8 Morgan (2008:39) argues that all exclusivists are concerned with the means which God uses in bringing people to the saving knowledge of Christ. A few of the evangelical adherents of this position are Demarest (1991:135–152), Morgan (2008:79–39); Ferdinando (2007:124–135), Barth (1956:309), Calvin (1960:42–68), Strange (2008:72), Edgar (2008:93–95) and Schnabel (2008:99, 121). Peterson (2008:193) argues that all exclusivists refuse the sufficiency of general revelation in bringing people to the saving faith by employing Romans 1:18–23. They argue that in Pauline theology, general revelation is only capable of securing condemnation for both Jews and Gentiles (Peterson 2008:192). In this way, the purpose statement for the epistle of Romans (1:16–17) warrants the exclusivists’ view that salvation for both Jews and Gentiles is solely grounded in their faith in Jesus Christ (Peterson 2008:192). In sustaining this, Strange (2008:61–62) argues that all exclusivists agree that ‘the universality and depth of sin is pervasive throughout this section of the letter and both Romans 1:18 begins and Romans 3:20’ ends with sin. Therefore, exclusivists do not perceive non-Christian religions as a preparation for the Gospel, as ‘general revelation is insufficient for salvation both in terms of its mediation and its message’ (Strange 2008:72).
In view of Paul’s speech at Athens (Acts 17:18–31), exclusivists disagree with Bediako’s ‘notion of the universal nature and activity of Christ among the heathen’ (Ferdinando 2007:125). For example, Ferdinando (2007:124–125), Demarest (1991:139) and Gempf (1993:53) argue that there is none of the continuity or fulfillment which Bediako sees between the Athenian god and the God of Christianity which Paul was preaching to the Athenians. Here, Paul quoted from pagan literature and philosophy in order to demonstrate the mistakes or inconsistencies intrinsic within the Athenians’ pagan belief system about God. Therefore, Paul is correcting the Athenians’ misconception about God in view of God’s self-revelation in Christ. In this way, all exclusivists perceive non-Christian religions as a non-preparation for the Gospel, as they have nothing to do with Christianity. Demarest (1991) summarises the exclusivist position in light of Acts 17 (v. 18, 23), as follows:
[T]he Athenians were caught in huge confusion and error, hence Paul declared against their distorted truth by declaring the personal, wise and sovereign God of heaven and his saving action in the resurrected Jesus Christ. (p. 139)
Schnabel (2008:113) expands Demarest’s summary in his prolonged argument that Paul’s speech at Athens contradicts the Athenians’ belief system. He puts it this way:
Paul here does not regard the Athenians’ various systems of faith and worship as less or more identical with or at least similar to, the Christians’ convictions concerning God, the world, humankind, history, and salvation. He does not argue for essential continuity between the revelation of the God whom he proclaims and the convictions of pagan poets and philosophers. Instead, he disputes the Athenians’ understanding of the divine. (p. 113)
Currently, Strange (2014) presents us with an exclusivism position which makes the exclusivism category complex to comprehend. That is, although Strange (2014:103–273) is an exclusivist according to the standard categorisation, he has an optimistic view on the interrelationship between non-Christian traditions and Christianity. Strange (2014:268–273) identifies both continuity and discontinuity9 between Christianity and non-Christian traditions like the African traditional religion. In the missional nature of his theology, Strange employed a presupposition that views other religions as borrowing their revelation from the true God; however, the Gospel of Christ stands in opposition to the pervasion of revelation by non-Christian religions. In this way, Christ is seen as actively fulfilling the various elemental aspects of true revelation within pre-Christian religions. This position currently expressed by Strange indicates that the standard exclusivism position is helpful but there is more need for precision as the exclusivism category encompasses internal distinctions.
In-spite of these seemingly internal distinctions in the exclusivism category, one presumes that the exclusivists are correct in disagreeing with Bediako’s appropriation of Acts 17 as affirming continuity between the God of traditional African religion and Christianity (Gempf 1993:51–53). Nonetheless, one can go to the extreme of denying that Paul at Athens is using some points of contact to communicate the Gospel to his audiences. In affirming the foregoing statement, one would not be considering the doctrine of general revelation from a broad scriptural perspective. That is to say, one would be failing to understand that general revelation provokes to the heathens a sense of the existence of the creator God (Psalms 92). On the contrary, one should grasp that Paul finds a points of contact with the Athenians, which they conceived from general revelation. Thus, when Paul quoted the Athenians’ pagan philosophy (Epicurean and Stoic) and literature (Aretas), he is certainly using its distorted belief system about God in order to create a conversation. This is the conversation which Paul used as a means to rectify the Athenians by pointing them to the actual God, who revealed himself in and through Jesus Christ (Acts 17:16–34). In affirming this, one is neither inclining towards Bediako’s understanding of traditional African religion as a preparation for the Gospel, nor claiming that Paul proclaimed the identical God, which the Athenian non-Christians were already improperly worshipping.
Is Bediako an inclusivist?
Inclusivism is a complex concept to attribute a precise definition to, as it encompasses a ‘broad spectrum of opinions’ (Pinnock 1995:98). There are two major sub-categories of the inclusivist position. Sennett (2005:309–318) and Rahner (1966:116–134) are a few of the major scholars within the inclusivism category. All these theologians are pre-occupied with the question of whether God can use non-Christian religions or general revelation to bring people to salvation (Morgan 2008:38). The first sub-category of inclusivism (its adherents include the Second Vatican Council) is more cautious with the depth of sin, as it does not view non-Christian religions as the vehicle of Christ’s salvation (Pinnock 1995:99). That is, it is aware of the fact that because of the problem of sin, all non-Christian religions are bound to falsehood or wickedness (Pinnock 1995:99). In this way, this category perceives God’s general revelation within non-Christian religions as only capable of giving its adherents a perception of God’s existence, which neither amounts to their salvation nor to their preparation for the Gospel (Pinnock 1995:99). In other words, the more cautious inclusivism category has a positive view of general revelation, but it maintains that salvation or truth is solely found in people’s definitive confession of Jesus Christ. Therefore, one can contend that there is no clear distinction between the more cautious inclusivism and the exclusivism (in sub-section 2.2) categories.
Furthermore, Rahner (1966:119–134) and Sennett (2005:313–314) represent less cautious inclusivism, which holds a more positive perception of non-Christian religions. However, Rahner and Sennett’s less cautious inclusivism has some internal distinctions. On the one hand, Sennett (2005:313–314) establishes a bare bones inclusivism through his philosophical interpretation of Romans 1:20, which takes a different shape from Rahner’s inclusivism. Sennett’s bare bones inclusivism argues that God’s condemnation of non-Christians, based on general revelation (in Romans 1:20), can only be justified in one way, that is, if non-Christians have the capacity to respond negatively or positively to general revelation (Sennett 2005:314–316). God is not justified in condemning non-Christians on the basis of general revelation, as he predisposes them (non-Christians) to the incapability of responding appropriately to it (general revelation) (Sennett 2005:314–316). Owing to this, Sennett (2005:313) contends that it is coherent for one to philosophically claim that general revelation is capable of bringing salvation to non-Christians without hearing the Gospel, if they respond appropriately to it (general revelation). The opposite is true in that general revelation also brings condemnation if non-Christians respond inappropriately to it (Sennett 2005:313). In doing this, Sennett (2005:314) opens up a possibility of salvation to the unevangelised, including those who lived before the incarnation of Christ. Nevertheless, Sennett’s philosophical interpretation of Romans 1:20 is problematic (Peterson 2008:192). This is because he argues for the possibility of unbelievers’ appropriate response to general revelation, which Paul did not mention10 (Peterson 2008:192).
On the other hand, Rahner (1966:116–134) diverges with Sennett in the sense that he perceives God’s general revelation in non-Christian religions as capable of saving them; however, this salvation is still Christ’s work through various religious means. This implies that ‘the knowledge of God which humans can reach through the cosmos is already on their (humanity) part a response to a revelation of the Logos, for creation is itself a divine manifestation’ (Kärkkäinen 2003:59). This is why Hick (1993:148) writes that Rahner ‘recognises the spiritual values of other religions and the occurrence of salvation within them and yet at the same time implicitly affirms the final superiority of his own religion over all others’. In this respect, just like Sennett, Rahner opens up the possibility of having anonymous Christians among the unevangelised, including those who lived before the incarnation of Christ. Race (1983:39) asserts that all inclusivists who hold to Rahner and Sennett’s position have an optimistic view of God’s operation within non-Christian religions through the interpretation of Acts 14:16–17, Acts 10:35, and Acts 17:22–31. They use Acts 14:17a to argue for the general revelation of the cosmic God in all non-Christian religions, as God did not leave humanity without a witness of himself (Race 1983:39). The common grace and the goodness of God is evident by his provision of rain to everyone in every season (Acts 14:17b) (Race 1983:39). The amplification of this notion climaxed in Acts 17:22–31, in which inclusivists believe that Paul at Athens ‘includes the impressive spiritual life of the men of Athens in the Christian way of salvation by conferring a name on the God whom they have already worshipped but did not truly recognise’ (Race 1983:39–40). In arguing this, these inclusivists show continuity between non-Christian religions and Christianity.
Given these aforementioned differences within the inclusivism category, Bediako can be classified as a more cautious inclusivist. This is because he perceives non-Christian religions as preparation for the Gospel and recognises that non-Christian religions are incapable of attaining salvation for their followers without their definitive confession of Jesus Christ.
The implications of Bediako’s understanding of traditional African religion as a preparation for the gospel
It is our firm conviction that the concept of salvation is at the heart of scripture (Packer 1990). He puts it this way:
Evangelicals have always seen the question of salvation as one of supreme importance and their witness to the way of salvation as the most precious gift they bring to the rest of the church. This conviction rest not in the memory of conversion of Paul or Augustine or any other evangelical hero, but on the emphasis with which the Bible itself highlights salvation as its central theme. (pp. 111–112)
The above-mentioned emphasis of salvation in scripture arises from the actuality that all human beings are sinful before God (cf. Romans 3:23) because they are marred with the original (or Adam’s) sin of Genesis 3. Through Adam’s rebellion (sin) before God, all people are in enmity with, and alienation from God (Romans 5). However, scripture confronts humanity with the good news that in the incarnation, death, resurrection and ascension of Christ, God acted from his ontological depth of existence and human existence11 in order to save humanity from sin and all its consequences (Torrance 1995:155–156 & Moltmann 1974:234). That is, out of his eternal love, God assumed our human mode of existence in order to redeem us and reconcile us to God. In this way, salvation or forgiveness of sins comes by God’s grace alone through faith in Jesus Christ (cf. Ephesians 2:8–9). Thus, it is the standard evangelical doctrine of salvation we adopt, which states that salvation is passively (not actively) received by faith in Jesus Christ as God’s provision for salvation (Tillman 1993:4). Through faith in Christ’s redemptive acts, which commence from the incarnation, his life, death and resurrection, all people are confronted by God’s unmerited favor of redemption. Thus, we agree with Thimell’s (2008:30) affirmation that faith ‘does not create a new reality. It simply participates in an already completed event. And even that participation is a sharing in the faithfulness of Jesus’. Thus, in the incarnation, death, resurrection and ascension, God in Christ salved humanity from the pandemic of death and corruption, which they find themselves in as the result of Adam’s sin. That is:
[W]ithin this human-inhuman existence of Adam, Jesus Christ comes as the Son of God, the Son of man as Jesus calls himself, to live out a truly obedient and filial, that is a truly human life, in perfect and unbroken union with God the Father … In all of that Jesus Christ is the last Adam, the one who … brings to an end the bondage of Adam’s sin, breaks its power and opens up a new and living way to God. (Torrance 2008:73)
Biblical salvation is, however, reminiscent of various redemptive aspects. Given this, it is important to mention that Bediako’s understanding of traditional African religion as preparation for the Gospel is controversial, as it does not seem to acknowledge the broader perspective of scripture in view of our redemption. This is because it makes one understand conversion from traditional African religion (or any other non-Christian religion) into Christianity as a fulfillment of something which Africans are already partially experiencing in their pre-Christian tradition, or else perceiving conversion as a completion of a pre-Christian religious experience. Indeed, this diminishes both the newness and the transformational (or the counter-cultural) aspect of the Gospel in conjunction with the agented work of the Holy Spirit.
Concerning Christian conversion, the New Testament defines it as ‘an act of radical transformation’ based on faith in Jesus Christ (Ferdinando 2007:134). Paul, in his epistle of 1 Thessalonians 1:9, demonstrated the exact meaning of conversion as he argued that the Thessalonians ‘turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God’ (Ferdinando 2007:134). Moreover, Paul set himself as a paradigm of Christian conversion in Philippians 3:7:8, as he argues that his transition into Christianity necessitates ‘the surrender of the heritage and piety which he once treasured’ (Ferdinando 2007:134). Once one’s conversion to Christianity has occurred, the convert is biblically described as a new creation in Christ (2 Cor 5:17) (Ferdinando 2007:134). Ephesians 2:12–13 indicates the status of Christians prior to their conversion into Christianity as without hope and without God; however, owing to their faith in Christ, they are now reconciled with God (Ferdinando 2007:134). Given this, Bediako’s understanding of traditional African religion as preparation for the Gospel tends to confuse the above-outlined biblical meaning of Christian conversion.
Furthermore, Bediako’s perception of traditional African religion as a preparation for the Gospel runs the risk of equating non-Judaism religions with Judaism (Ferdinando 2007:133; Sharkey & Weinandy 2009:172). Here, the contention against Bediako is that God solely reveals himself salvifically in Judaistic religion. This is to say, Judaism is the only religion which God has historically used as a preparation for the Gospel in a salvific sense (Sharkey & Weinandy 2009:175). Therefore, taking traditional African religion as a preparation for the Gospel seems to be misidentifying the unique place of Israel in God’s redemptive history of the world, which found its climax in the salvific incarnation of Jesus Christ. Jesus himself warranted Judaism as the only religion, which holds the special promise of salvation, and serves as preparation for the Gospel (Ferdinando 2007:133; Sharkey & Weinandy 2009:175). This is evident by Jesus’ explanation to his disciples that the Old Testament is an authentic attestation ‘of his coming and work’ (Luke 24:27) (Ferdinando 2007:133; Mahan 2007:78). Paul made similar remarks in Romans 1:2 (Romans 11:17–25), as he maintained that the Gospel of Christ, which brings salvation to both Jews and Gentiles (through its fulfillment by Jesus Christ), was promised in advance by the Old Testament prophets (Ferdinando 2007:133–134). This indicates that the revelation of God in the Old Testament only prepares the Jews for the Gospel, although they rejected Jesus Christ, who fulfilled their salvific prophetic promises from God (Mark 6:1–6; Matthew 13:54–58).
However, the above discussion does not downplay the significance of general revelation. Instead, it repudiates Bediako’s understanding that God’s general revelation equals the preparation for the Gospel. In this respect, the researchers hold an exclusivism position (in sub-section 2.2), which argues that in Pauline theology (Romans 1:18–32), general revelation grants humanity a very limited insight into the divine nature. That is, general revelation has nothing about Jesus, as all the general revelation offered to Gentiles is sufficient solely to secure their condemnation by God (Demarest 1991:140–142). This understanding fits well with the whole argument of Romans 1–3, namely that God’s will is revealed in natural revelation (Romans 1), and in Jewish law (Romans 2) does not amount to anyone’s salvation. Instead, Romans 3 presents the vital truth that all people can only be saved through faith in Jesus Christ. Here, Romans 3:23 is a central verse for the entire argument of Romans 1–3, as Paul unswervingly affirms that ‘for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God’. However, based on Psalm 19 (and other scriptural passages), it is sustained that general revelation cannot amount to anyone’s salvation; instead it ‘affords all people of all times and places rudimentary knowledge of God as Creator and moral law-giver’ (Demarest 1991:151).
Conclusion
Bediako can be categorised as an inclusivist who views non-Christian religions as a preparation for the Gospel. However, his understanding of traditional African religion as a preparation for the Gospel is controversial. This is because, based on scripture, natural revelation does not amount to anyone’s saving knowledge of God nor prepares the Gentiles for their salvation in Christ. Instead, natural revelation arouses the awareness of God’s existence to the heathens. Specifically, in Pauline theology, general revelation has the negative result of securing people’s condemnation by God. In this way, it is important for one to understand that general revelation within all pre-Christian religions (with the exception of Judaism) does not prepare its adherents for the Gospel. This understanding avoids one’s misidentification of the unique place of Israel in God’s redemptive history. Also, it will not diminish the biblical meaning of conversion and the newness of the Gospel.
Acknowledgements
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The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationships which may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.
Authors’ contributions
V.M. conceptualised the article and its outline, including formulating the core research ideas and theme. C.M. mined the data and conducted preliminary data analysis. Both engaged in the writing, editing, critical reviewing and refining of the article for its completion.
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Footnotes
1. Asamoah-Gyadu (2009:9) argues that Bediako shouldristianity, mother-tongue hermeneutics and the interface between primal religion and Christianity’ (Asamoah-Gyadu 2009:9).
2. Bediako’s contemporaries like Bujo (1992:79) and Nyam as the forerunners of Christ. In Bujo’s view (1992:81), Jesus Christ is ‘the ultimate embodiment of all the virtues of the ancestors, the realisation of the salvation for which they yearned’. Nyamiti (2006:16) argues that the ‘ideal and fulfilment of African views on ancestorship kinship and its values are found in Christ’. The treatment of Christ under the ancestral concept takes the traditional African ancestral world view seriously; however, this approach has encountered serious critiques at both academic and grassroots levels. Scholars who are against the treatment of Christ under the category of ancestor argue that this approach reveals a tendency of diminishing the actuality of Christ as God incarnate and encourages syncretism in African Christianity (Reed & Mtukwa 2010:144–163; Palmer 2008:65–76 & Mkole 2000:1138). Concerning the diminishing of Christ as God incarnate, these theologians are of the opinion that Christ, since he is God incarnate, transcends the African ancestor category, which makes the concept unsuitable for a biblically based Christology. Concerning syncretism, they argue that it is unhelpful to force the preconceived African ancestral category on Christ, since it encourages African Christians to continue to think of Christ in the categories of their natural ancestors. That is, the conceptualisation of Christ in the ancestral concept encouragod (Reed & Mtukwa 2010:157).
3. Bosch (1993:267) acknowledges Mesthene arguing that, because of the Age of Enlightenment, ‘the demonic, external power of nature was at last surrendering to human planning and reasoning, thus, enabling humans to remake the world in their own image and according to their own design’. Thus, they dismissed traditional African beliefs by regarding them as merely unscientific, superstitious or irrational (Adewuya 2012:253–254; Haar 2009:45; Imasogie 1983:46–53; Ncozana 2002:147; Salala 1998:137). In doing this, some Western missionaries are believed to have attempted to ground Africans in their own quasi-scientific world-view which stated that ‘the knowledge of God is exclusively based on sensory experience’ (Oladipo 2010:42–43, who has based his understanding on Imasogie’s work). Given this, Bosch (1993:291) contends that: ‘… the scientific and technological advances …, put the west at an unparalleled advantage over the rest of the world’.
4. Bediako’s contemporaries also view the traditional African ancestors as the forerunners of Christ. In Bujo’s view (1992:81), this implies that Jesus Christ is ‘the ultimate they yearned’. Nyamiti (2006:16) argues that the ‘ideal and fulfilment of African views on ancestorship kinship and its values are found in Christ’.
5. One may be interested to know the authors’ view about the interrelationship between pre-Chriof salvation.
6. For a detailed understanding of Justin and Clement’s position concerning the interface between Christianity and pre-Christian religions, one should visit Kärkkäinen’s (2003:57–62) study of biblical, historical and contemporary perspectives. Kärkkäinen (2003:57–62) observes that both Clement and Justin perceive a compatibility between Greek philosophy and the Gospel. They argue that, out of God’s common grace, human philosophy serves as a vehicle of salvation, as well as the means of achieving salvation in itself (Kärkkäinen 2003:57–62). That is, based on the belief that all profitable things come from God, Clement and Justin believe that pagan philosophy was given to the Greeks as a stepping stone to the full knowledge of God, if it is properly used (Kärkkäinen 2003:62). In this way, both Clement and Justin argue for the possibility of the existence of Christians in non-Christian religions. However, Clement and Justin’s understanding seems to lack biblical warrant even though they may claim to have it.
7. Race (1983:71) argues that pluralism ‘does not exist in Christian history, rather it started existed in the modern period’.
8. Morgan (2008:39) highlighted three identical forms of exclusivism, namely ‘church exclusivism, gospel exclusivism and special revelation exclusivism’. These concepts of exclusivism sub-categories advocate that salvation is only found in Christ, but from a different angle (Morgan 2008:39). Church exclusivists contend that there is no salvation outside of the Church; Gospel exclusivists present that there is no salvation without hearing the Gospel; and the special revelation exclusivists sustain that there is no salvation apart from God’s special revelation in Christ (Morgan 2008:39).
9. For interest’s sake, Strange (2014:103–120) sees general and special revelation from Adam to Noah. In view of special revelation, he argues that there was special revelation from Adam to Noah because God communicated directly to humankind. This is an interesting point from Strange, which is worth exploring.
10. In agreement with Peterson, Romans commentators, like Schreiner (1998:86) and Moo (1996:106) contend that Paul’s theology of natural revelation (in Romans) is simply that natural revelation is impossible to bring one to the saving knowledge of God. According to Schreiner (1998:82), in Pauline theology (Romans 1–2:23), both Jews and Gentiles possess the knowledge of God from natural revelation; however, this is the same knowledge they concurrent with the knowledge of him, with the result that it is impossible to excavate one’s past and find a point in which there was saving knowledge of the true God through natural revelation’. Likewise, Moo (1996:106) understands that Paul, in Romans, affirms the actuality that general revelation ‘… in and of itself, leads to a negative result. It is vital if we are to understand Paul’s Gospel and his urgency in preaching it to realise that natural revelation leads not to salvation but to the demonstration that God’s condemnation is just: people are without excuse’.
11. The doctrine of Christology affirms that Jesus Christ was fully God and fully man (Torrance 2008:232). However, the human nature of Christ does not have its own personal existence/expression (anhypostasis); instead, it found its personal expression in the eternal person of the Divine Logos (enhypostasis) (Torrance 2008:232). The anhypostasis and enhypostasis are two Greek theological terms which are brought together to configure the nature of the person of Christ (read the previous reference on Torrance for a detailed understanding of these Greek theological terms). Given this, Moltmann (1974:234) contends that ‘if this divine-human nature in the person of the eternal Son of God is the centre which creates a person in Christ’, it follows that Christ saved humanity from the depth of his existence, as he suffered and died (on their behalf) for the sake of their redemption. That is, human salvation is not something external to God, but a permanent internal act of God in redeeming humanity from sin and all its consequences
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May 5 will mark the eighth is doing, our healthcare is always very important. We're always going to need healthcare,” said Theresa Nickel, Hearts for Healthcare executive director. “The pieces of equipment that we've purchased in the past, knowing that it's actually saving lives is huge. It's important this foundation stays afloat.”
Raising just over $200,000 at the 2016 gala, Hearts for Healthcare was able to purchase a cardiac telemetry system. Used to detect heart conditions, the device allows medical staff to constantly monitor a patient's heart on different displays stationed on the third floor and emergency department in the hospital. This ensures they are able to catch what's going on in patients who are experiencing frequent yet short-lived symptoms.
“There was actually a person that came into the hospital and was having heart problems. No one could tell what the problem was because they couldn't catch it on the old equipment. Finally, because of the 24-hour monitoring from the different stations, they could detect the problem and had to airlift him out immediately to Edmonton. Potentially it saved his life,” recounted Nickel.
While the organization doesn't boast its significant impact, cases like this aren't uncommon. On more than one occasion, the equipment purchased by Hearts for Healthcare has had a life-changing impact on local families.
“The Panda Warmer that we focused on at the last gala as well, they believe it saved a little baby's life that was born at the hospital.”
The Hearts for Hospital gala itself has humble beginnings. It all started eight years ago as a simple dinner and dance.
Nickel, a volunteer at the time, and her friends were reading about how desperate the hospital was for fundraising and help from the community. At the time, the group known as CLR3 was in need of funds to attract physicians to Cold Lake.
“Our first year, we raised $125,000. In our minds we were thinking maybe $50,000. In the second year, it was even double that,” said Nickel. “We were just blown away by the response from the community so that made it worth all of the hard work and effort we put in to keep doing it every year. By the response we got, we could tell it was well-needed.”
The CLR3 foundation liked the name the event was given, Hearts for Hospital, and from there, Hearts for Healthcare was born.
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The goal this year is to raise at least $200,000, and with at least two new physicians on their way to the city, it's money that's greatly needed. From the funds collected, at least $40,000 will be used for the doctor incentive program, which offers new physicians $20,000 to get started.
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Hearts for Healthcare wish list for equipment includes a $42,000 pediatric endoscope, two intelivue portable monitors priced at $14,000 to allow unstable patients to be monitored during scans and tests, a second Panda Warmer for $35,000, as well as a portable ultrasound, pediatric crib for acute care, and multiple portable vital signs machines. Once the money from the gala is tallied, Hearts for Healthcare will meet with hospital officials to determine the priority of equipment based on the dollars raised.
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Mostly they are way far away from everybody in very remote areas like in Alaska, Canadian NW, or are not quite what I am hoping to find. I'm interested in something like might be a Noah Bradley type style of cabin but no place I can find does this. I know NB has online resources but no actual school where you go and do some building on an actual cabin. I suppose this type of cabin would be common in the middle Atlantic, west to the Mississippi states, historically, and would be where I would expect to find a school of some sort teaching this style of construction, but I can find nothing at all. Can someone help help me out here with some suggestions for schools in this area, or some different search terms? Thank you so much.
frankpaige
Member # Posted: 30 May 2022 18:09
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Why does it have to be a school as such? Could you locate a company that builds that type and ask for a job? If you were going to school you would be paying. Tell them what you are looking for and maybe come to some kind of agreement?
Luck
Rdsrds123
Member # Posted: 30 May 2022 18:31
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Just a couple of weeks to gain instruction, thank you.
ICC
Member # Posted: 30 May 2022 19:22
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Do you mean the old Appalachian style of chinked square log as pictured?
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Rdsrds123
Member # Posted: 30 May 2022 19:27
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Yeah, like that one pictured...but smaller. Squared hewn logs. Chinked between log courses. The debarked round logs are what you call log cabins built today. Maybe a restoration school instead of build new school? Lots of these cabins come up for sale on FB.
DaveBell
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Google/Pictures 1800's log cabin for sale
toyota_mdt_tech
Member # Posted: 30 May 2022 21:08
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Quoting: Rdsrds123
Have you considered the Log Home Builders Association, ie the LHBA?
You used to have to fly into Seattle area and then they moved to Vegas and was a 3 day class. But it gave you a lifetime membership and with itan LHBA member and complete the course all online. I did it, was great, quite a few videos. Good this is, I can revisit those videos anytime for the rest of my life and watch them over and over. They cover all aspects and include resources and tricks to acquire free logs from the USFS etc.
ICC
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Doesn't the LHBA only do butt n pass? That is quite different from the traditional squared hewn chink style.
I do like the squared hewn chink style but all I have ever seen is restoration of structures and dismantling and reassembling, usually with the dismantle & reassembly including relocation. The picture cabin was two separate building, dismantled, moved and reassembled into one new building. Old chestnut timbers originally harvested 1840 or thereabouts.
Rdsrds123
Member # Posted: 31 May 2022 06:00
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Just looked at LHBA. Using the word association, I would think this is an entity that represents a collection of similar groups related to building log homes for profit or even non-profit. What it appears to be is a company that is marketing it's own products. You can get the whole online package for only $12000 and be on your way to a mortgage free cabin built in their style. But wait! If you order now you can get their entire online package for only $497. This is a discount of $11,500! Nuff said.
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I'm sitting here wondering how LHBA can use the word association in it's name. Perhaps all their individual online log home construction videos taken (and bought)together make up an association of items related together to form a complete package?
Rdsrds123
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I do think that in the end, before building, the LHBA information is something to get and study. There is much there that would be used no matter what kind of log structure is being built. It's just their packaging that troubles me. But still, doing some actual building at a school and information such as this probably are what I need. Thanks!
toyota_mdt_tech
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I do think that in the end, before building, the LHBA information is something to get and study. There is much there that would be used no matter what kind of log structure is being buer, bought the complete log home plans, the material is theirs designed by them, they have a unique system that makes it easy to do, no settling of the logs. They do everything from foundation to roof and plus they have lots of other resources. They have been around for many decades.
Dont beat yourself up over the word association, get over their packaging, dont let that little issue stop you from learning the simplest, easiest method of building skinny right from the IRS.
In general, an association is a group of persons banded together for a specific purpose. To qualify under section 501(a) of the Code, the association must have a written document, such as articles of association, showing its creation. At least two persons must sign the document, which must be dated.
Specific purpose could be to teach people how to build log homes? Just a guess.
Rdsrds123
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I do think COVID infections caused some closures. Maybe they will reopen. Casually surfing cabin building a while back, though not paying attention, I think I saw a number of people offering classes. Some larger places just stopped entirely and will not reopen. They can still be easily found searching.
toyota_mdt_tech
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I did do a log home class about 5 yrs prior to the LHBA one and was basically a condensed version of the LHBA, in fact, he was an LHBA member. His was a one day, it took all day, they fed us lunch. It was nice and we got a booklet or overview for reference.
The LHBA when changes are made, is incorporated in the new video, so its all kept current.
You can watch the same video again and pick up info you missed before.
I was always curious how it was done, now I know, but not sure if I will build one. I do have plenty of acreage and timber to build one. But no longer a spring chicken.
Their method is pretty quick, the butt-n-pass corners etc. How they pin them to avoid settling and the trick to chinking using mortar.
Its a good investment. Look at members photos, all gorgeous homes.
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Don't know where you are at, but Eash Sales in Shipshewana Indiana has some really nice cabins for sale.
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Rdsrds123
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Can't find a single traditional log cabin building school...nada. Timber framing classes are easy to find. That's about as close as I can find ol. Looks to be a wide open nich for someone to offer such a school or even one for maintenance.
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Wow, I have done 2 classes, one in person at and the
Malamute
Member # Posted: 5 Jun 2022 11:49 - Edited by: Malamute
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If i can make a suggestion, buy some decent books with pictures of the type cabins you like, and get a few log building books. Study, see a few in person at historical locations, and just go do it. Maybe do a small yard shed as a practice project.
I think people tend to overthink it all. Yes, knowing some stuff helps, but log building is not some mysterious dark art known only to master craftsmen, the vast majority of old cabins were built by people with little or no knowledge other than what they saw nearby.
I looked at the LHBA stuff some time ago. No personal disrespect for anyone, but its NOT log building in any traditional sense. Its stacking logs and pinning them with rebar. Theres a reason they dont want or allow anyone with actual log building experience attending their stuff, they dont want questions or comments from people that know what actual log building is about making them look like they dont know anything about log building. Anyway, if anyone is OK with all that, great, rock on, but I dont think its related in any way to what the original poster is looking for or likes.
I like traditional rockies frontier type cabins. I bought a pile of logs and built one because i needed a place to live. Its just not that hard to do. You learn to fix or get over your mistakes, and most people never notice them anyway. Look at some actual old time cabins once you know some stuff and your ideas of them being built by master craftsmen quickly evaporate. They are still very fine and functional cabins, despite not being perfectly executed examples of furniture grade craftsmanship.
The general understanding in log building is that logs should be allowed to settle, its not difficult to do. You can get away with not allowing for settling, especially in smaller places, but it can put stress on various things when they can't settle. Its not the end of the world to ignore, but its also not rocket surgery to take care of.
Anyway, if you like that type of traditional eastern type log building as mentioned earlier, please dont feel its beyond the average persons ability or you cant do it without some special instruction. Again, most old time cabins were not built by master craftsmen, they were built by average people that needed a place to live. Corner notches are not voodoo or anything overly complicated by any means. Theres various types, figure out which ones you like best, start messing with some smaller log scraps and figure it out.
Rdsrds123
Member # Posted: 5 Jun 2022 12:04
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Thank you for the encouragment
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Ive considered using landscape timbers for a small utility building but never got to it.
Once saw a cabin built of telephone poles a guy bought 'right' somewhere.
Not having to prep the logs sure seems like a good start to me.
Malamute
Member # Posted: 5 Jun 2022 12:36
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You can do this.
Do you have a copy of The Foxfire Book? he first one has quite a bit of info on square hewn log work with dovetail corners. Theres also pics online of the Foxfire Museum that turned up in a google search that has pictures of the cabins there, if youre close enough you could go see them in person. Ive always loved looking at old cabins, Ive seen hundreds over the years. You start realizing that in a particular area, many were built with similar styles, even when the style was a bit weird or quirky. Ive seen it firsthand, the first cabin I bought, the people said they "went and looked at so-and-so's cabin and did it like his was". They had never done any log work whatsoever, and it was reflected in the cabin, but it was there and was fine for the most part.
I realized this was a common thing, that most old cabins were somewhere between crude and fair in actual execution, and the highly detailed log mansions often seen today arent really very representative of old cabins and log work. Not to take anything away from modern log work, ive seen some awesome work, its just different than old stuff for the most part. It sounds like you prefer a certain traditional style. Dont give up on it.
I had no plan, little experience beyond having looked at many books and old cabins and helped do a crude barn structure. I took a single picture from the book "Cache Lake Country" and said "How hard can it be?"
This was my blueprint,
Malamute
Member # Posted: 5 Jun 2022 12:43
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Im trying to post a pic but its not working, and neither is editing.
Power poles are generally treated and its unhealthy to live in a cabin built from creosoted poles. If youre talking square hewn, thats a non-starter anyway as regards non prep of the logs. I didnt think hand peeling logs was the end of the world by any means. its hard work but it seemed rewarding for how they looked when done, its a character nothing else gives and reminds you of building it every moment you look at the small facets on the logs from the drawknife. I love laying in bed looking up at the purlins, ridge and wall logs with the way the light platys across them in the morning. It also gets you in terrific shape.
Aklogcabin
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As a guy who built a log cabin with 3 sided 6"" logs. I can say that a bit of common sense would get you buy. I used timberlock brand screws to fasten the logs together. With butyl caulk between instead of fiberglass insulation or sill seal. Our cabin is 16x24 built a cedar utility poles. Which worked very well BTW.
An electric hand planer will help keep things level. Using a butt n pass on the corners is easy enough. There are several types of jigs that fit on to a chainsaw and can help make square cuts on the log ends where they meet. You will figure out what works best for you. If you look at pictures of log cabins you can see the way every log was done.
We have been working on ours for 10 years and finally getting finished up. It's remote so we have to haul everything in in the winter with snogos n freight sleds. I'll put a couple pictures up to show the construction design. We get big snow n bigger earthquakes n it's still standing n the floor is level. I think I will try n pressure wash the outside of the logs to finish cleaning up the bark. Hopefully next year or so. With the 3' overhang everything stays dry n the snow slides far enough away from the cabin.
I'd suggest trying to educate yourself n go get some logs. Using a bit of common sense it's just putting logs together.
We enjoy the looks of logs n wood. And it's much better bear proofing for us. Good luck, you got this
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Large organizations whether for profit or not for profit employ staff at these levels:
Receptionists
Office Assistants
Office Administrators
Executive Assistants
Senior Executive Assistants
Small businesses use staff at the first three levels in the list while their owners may perform some of the work for the last two.
Receptionists and Office Assistants Handle Essential Tasks
Some companies combine the roles of receptionist and office assistant into one position. Many larger organizations keep the two roles separate with somewhat different duties. Here is a typical breakdown of these two jobs when separated:
Receptionist Office Assistant
Answer phone calls
Write emails
Draft letters
File documents
Run significant errands
Assist office administrators
Welcome guests
Answer phone calls
Handle Petty Cash
Record and organize data
Either of these two positions are typically entry-level jobs in any organization. Larger companies will place more responsibilities on receptionists and office assistants because of the volume of their business activities.
Office Administrators Are Managers
Office administrators typically combine the jobs of managers and office assistants. They supervise office staff and delegate tasks and responsibilities to them. Administrators also schedule agendas and meetings for lower-level management and coordinate activities across departments. They also provide simple administrative support for lower management. In 2016 there were 2.5 million office administration assistants in the U. S.
Office Administrators sometimes conduct research and compile reports for supervisors. They assist the human resource department with hiring and training new employees. Maintaining office equipment and ordering supplies may be additional duties.
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Executive Assistants Work in High-Level Positions
Executive assistants work with executives, directors, and other high-level personnel to provide administrative support as well as perform daily and weekly tasks. They act as a senior offications
Arrange travel plans, plan events, and handle information requests
Generate statistical reports and process expense reports
The last advanced position in the office administration hierarchy is a senior executive assistant.
Senior Executive Assistants Have More Responsibilities
These higher-level assistants work with top executives and corporate managers in a dynamic environment. Their role is to assist with administrative and organizational functions that affect high-level responsibilities and objectives.
Senior executive assistants may perform the duties of executive assistants but within a larger realm. They coordinate daily calendars of several senior managers and serve as liaisons between executives, employees, and clients. They may also coordinate activities with other company locations and other companies.
An Associate Degree Is the Key to Open the Door to Your Career
A new hire that is better trained will adjust to the job faster with less stress and be in a better position to move up in the organization. The key to open the door for your first job in this career is to earn an associate degree.
ITI Technical College in Baton Rouge offers an Associate of Occupational Studies (AOS) Degree in our Office Administration Program. Students have two options from which to choose: Business Administration and Healthcare Administration.
Business Administration will prepare you for an entry-level job in one or more of these areas:
Accounts receivable
Accounts payable
Payroll
Customer service
Human Resources
Office Assistant
Healthcare Administration will prepare you for working with the basics of administrative functions in an entry-level job in these facilities:
Physicians’ offices
Clinics
Hospitals
Surgical centers
Insurance companies
Nursing homes
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Luis Castillo traded to Mariners by Reds for 4 prospects
by: TIM BOOTH, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 29, 2022 / 11:17 PM EDT
Updated: Jul 30, 2022 / 01:11 AM EDT
Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Luis Castillo gestures to a teammate at the end of the sixth inning of the team’s baseball game against the New York Yankees…
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Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Luis Castillo gestures to a teammate at the end of the sixth inning of the team’s baseball game against the Nence 2001, the longest postseason drought in the four major North American professional sports.
“He’s one of the best pitchers in the game. He’s really established himself as a dominant starter,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said in Houston. “We’ve got a chance to do something really big here this year. You have to step out and take a chance once in a while if you ultimately want to get the reward, take a little risk. Dominant starting pitcher, and I’m anxious to meet him.”
At 54-47, the Mariners are in the second of three AL wild-card spots, a half-game in front of Tampa Bay (53-47) and two games ahead of Cleveland (51-48).
Seattle won its final 14 games before the All-Star break, one short of the longest winning streak in team history and the best run by any club heading into the break since 1933. But the Mariners are 3-5 since, following an 11-1 loss at Houston on Friday night.
Getting back into the AL West race may be out of the question with Houston holding a 12-game lead. But landing Castillo solidifies Seattle’s rotation and makes the Mariners dangerous if they can get into the playoffs.
Seattle general manager Jerry Dipoto said there were conversations with the Reds about Castillo dating back to last fall, prior to the lockout, and the Mariners’ performance over the last six weeks led to the teams re-engaging.
“Right now we just think he is in the prime of his career, performing at the top of his game, and our goal is to keep him there and in any possible way help him improve where it’s possible,” Dipoto said.
Cincinnati obtained infielders Noelvi Marte and Edwin Arroyo, and right-handers Levi Stoudt and Andrew Moore. Marte was the Mariners’ top-rated prospect, Arroyo was third and Stoudt fifth.
“We felt this was the best return we could get for Luis,” Reds general manager Nick Krall said.
Castillo joins third baseman Eugenio Suárez and left fielder Jesse Winker, both traded to the Mariners by Cincinnati in mid-March. Castillo last pitched Wednesday and figures to make his Mariners debut next week at Yankee Stadium, where Seattle plays a three-game series starting Monday.
A 29-year-old right-hander, Castillo was 4-4 with a 2.86 ERA for the last-place Reds (38-61), striking out 90 and walking 28 in 85 innings. His fastball averages 97 mph.
He rebounded from a career-worst 8-16 record last year, when he had a 3.98 ERA.
“It has been a beautiful experience,” Castillo said through a translator. “To have my name in the fans’ mouth and having them cheer me on, it is something I will treasure forever.”
Acquired from Miami before the 2017 season, Castillo is a two-time All-Star with a 44-53 record and 3.62 ERA in six seasons. He has a $7.35 million salary this season, is eligible for arbitration next winter and can become a free agent after the 2023 season.
He joins a rotation that includes Logan Gilbert, Robbie Ray, Marco Gonzales and Chris Flexen. Touted rookie George Kirby appears likely to be displaced, but Dipoto said the goal is to be creative to keep Kirby on a regular turn and contributing.
Marte, 20, hit .275 with 19 doubles, 15 homers, 55 RBIs and 13 steals this season for Class A Everett.
The 18-year-old Arroyo was a second-round draft pick last year and has hit .299 in the minors with 21 doubles, seven triples, 15 homers, 77 RBIs and 25 steals.
Stout, 24, is 13-9 with a 4.32 ERA in 33 starts over two minor league seasons.
The 22-year-old Moore was 2-1 with a 1.95 ERA this year for Class A Modesto.
“Noelvi Marte has a chance to be an impact middle-of-the-order bat who can play shortstop,” Krall said. “Edwin Arroyo, same thing — he has power/speed combo, who can play shortstop. Levi Stoudt has a chance to be a major league starter. Andrew Moore just started to pitch. He was drafted last year. He has explosive, explosive stuff. His fastball is up to 102 (mph) with a plus slider.”
A night earlier, the rebuilding Reds dealt outfielder Tyler Naquin and lefty reliever Phillip Diehl to the New York Mets for two teenage minor leaguers.
Major League Baseball’s trade deadline is Tuesday.
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The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), Africa’s global bank, yesterday announced the appointment of Mr. Oliver Alawuba as its Group Managing Director. The bank disclosed this in a statement yesterday.
Alawuba is to oversee all the Group’s banking operations across its 20 African country network and globally in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, and the United Arab Emirates.
Alawuba joined UBA in 1997 and has held a series of senior positions, including as the CEO of UBA Ghana, the CEO of UBA, Africa and most recently as Group Deputy Managing Director.
Commenting on the new appointment, UBA Group Chairman, Tony Elumelu stated: ‘I am very pleased to announce Oliver Alawuba as the new Group Managing Director of the UBA Group. Oliver has extensive experience in Nigeria and our African network and is well equipped to advance our pan-African and global strategy.
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“I have no doubt that Oliver will build on the legacy of Kennedy Uzoka, who has exemplified transformational leadership by championing a customer-first philosophy; launching our twentieth operation in Africa, UBA Mali; acquiring a wholesale banking licence for UBA UK in the United Kingdom and opening our fourth global operation, UBA Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.”
Also, Alawhe opportunity to lead this great institution and would like to thank the UBA Group Chairman and the members of the Board of Directors for the confidence they have put in me to deliver the mandate.”
Alawuba assumed his new position from August 1, 2022, subject to approval by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Equally appointed, according to the statement was Muyiwa Akinyemi as Deputy Managing Director.
Akinyemi joined UBA in 1998, as a Senior Banking Officer in UBA’s Energy Bank and has served the Group in Nigeria and our broader Africa network for twenty-four years.
Other executive appointments announced by the bank included: Ms. Sola Yomi-Ajayi as Executive Director, Treasury and International Banking. Yomi-Ajayi has been with the Group since 2004 and has considerable international experience, culminating in her appointment as CEO of UBA America.
In the same vein, Mr. Ugochukwu Nwagodoh was appointed the Executive Director, Finance and Risk Management. According to the statement, Nwagodoh joined the Group from PwC in October 2004. He has since held a series of significant roles in the areas of performance management, compliance, financial control and reporting.
“Mr. Alex Alozie, Executive Director and Group Chief Operating Officer, who joined the Group in 2019 and has driven the Group’s digital transformation and operational efficiencies.
“Ms. Emem Usoro, Executive Director, North Bank. Emem joined the Group in 2011 and has served in a series of senior regional appointments across Nigeria, covering the retail, corporate and public sectors,” it added.
The Board also announced the retirement of Executive Directors who had completed their tenor, many of whom the statement disclosed would continue to serve the broader Group upon regulatory approval of a holding company structure. They included Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, Mr. Uche Ike, Mr. Chukwuma Nweke, Mr. Ibrahim Puri, and Mr. Chiugo Ndubisi.
A further announcement was made on the retirement of a Non-Executive Director, Ambassador Joe C. Keshi, who served as Vice Chairman of the board. This took effect from August 1, 2022, after a completion of his tenure of 12 years.
The Group Chairman congratulated the retiring Directors on the completion of their tenors and their exemplary records.
United Bank for Africa is one of the largest employers in the financial sector on the African continent, with 25,000 employees group wide and serving over 35 million customers globally.
Operating in 20 African countries and in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France and the United Arab Emirates, UBA provides retail, commercial and institutional banking services, leading financial inclusion and implementing cutting edge technology.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Volume X, Part 1, Eastern Europe Region; Soviet Union; Cyprus
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168. Memorandum From the Director of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs (McSweeney) to the Assistant Secretary of State in general agreement with Mr. Nunley’s penetrating evaluation of Soviet tactics and objectives at the UNGA.1 We concur particularly with his conclusions that Khrushchev sought by his outrageously belligerent behavior to weaken Western influence in the UN by expanding in the course of time the role of the Soviet bloc and of the neutral nations in both the UN constituent organs and in the UN administrative apparatus and to diminish the possibilities of opposition by the uncommitted countries to Soviet objectives, particularly through gaining broadened acceptance of the two-world concept.
SOV offers the following observations which may throw some additional light on Khrushchev’s motivations and on an assessment of his performance.
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The central current fact of the Soviet Union’s international relations is the existence of a real and formidable challenge to Soviet leadership of the Sino-Soviet bloc. It is the primary current task of Soviet foreign policy to repulse this challenge and reassert the unquestioned Soviet leadership of the bloc. Furthermore, the Soviets have shown themselves clearly determined to reassert this leadership on the basis of the essential general tenets of Soviet foreign policy: Soviet foreign policy should pursue a relatively low risk course of action; bloc objectives should include disarmament on terms acceptable to the Soviets and [Page 562] should be pursued, when appropriate, through negotiation with the major Western powers; in the current period the bloc should cultivate better relations with all non-NATO countries and for this purpose be prepared to extend economic assistance to non-communist governments of some of these countries whatever their attitude toward domestic communist parties. The Chinese Communist position on many of these points requires a substantially more uncompromising opposition to non-communist political forces. Therefore, as part of its campaign to re-establish its hegemony in the bloc the Soviet Union must show itself as an outspoken and effective champion of anti-imperialism in order to avoid the possibility of its position being undermined by the Chinese Communists. This imperative colors its actions in the international arena.
This is not to say that the Soviet line itself does not accommodate a substantial measure of militancy and belligerence whenever it is deemed to suit Soviet purposes. Given the advent of numerous new African members to the UN, the Cuban situation, the unsettled state of the Congo and the Soviet set-back there and the growing Algerian disillusionment with the prospect of accommodation with France, the Soviets would under almost any circumstances have appeared in the UN as the outspoken and anti-imperialist champion of the formerly colonial areas. However, it would be our conclusion that extremes to which the Soviet performance went on some of these issues, the Soviet de facto recognition of the PAG, and the lengths to which Khrushchev carried his attack on Hammarskjold and the UN structure were importantly influenced by the requirements of Soviet problems within the bloc. Likewise, the future Soviet development of these positions will be to some extent conditioned by the measure of Soviet success with the Chicoms.
Whatever their motivation, Khrushchev’s very excesses in the UN will make any moderation of his conduct more dramatic to less sophisticated observers.
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Soviet objectives toward the underdeveloped and newly independent countries have distinct short- and long-term aspects. In the short run, the Soviets are striving in these countries to overcome their fears of Communism, to gain a substantial measure of acceptability and to associate them with the bloc in frequent opposition to the Western powers. In the longer run, the Soviets hope by the force of Soviet example and by the strengthening of local Communist forces to gain political control within these countries. These two objectives are frequently complementary and reinforce each other. However, this is not always the case and it is well to bear in mind that the long-range objective—Communist political control of these countries—is more fundamentally important to the Soviet Union than the shorter range aims and also more fundamentally adverse to our own national interests.
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We make this point because it seems relevant to an assessment of the measure of Khrushchev’s success with these countries at the UNGA. As Mr. Nunley has cogently pointed out, there is small comfort in any revulsion in these countries towards Khrushchev’s behavior if their probable political reaction over the next few years is to incline in the direction of the extreme Soviet position as a means of “seeking accommodation.” However, it is possible that the fright technique may induce these countries to behave on the international scene more according to Mr. Khrushchev’s likes and at the same time make them more wary regarding Soviet intentions within their countries. From some of the reports of Nasser’s conversations,2 it would seem that he gained a deeper appreciation of the fact that Khrushchev’s behavior in sum had said that “those who oppose me I will break.” Quite possibly, other neutralist leaders reacted similarly. Without the felt presence of Communist power within another country, the scare tactic may have limited effectiveness. The reaction may be to take steps to see that the menacing power does not acquire the potential to execute what Khrushchev’s behavior so clearly implied.
Although there can be no immediate conclusions in this regard, there may be indications of the reactions of neutralist leaders in the domestic political field before Khrushchev’s maneuvers on the UN front have run their course.
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SOV would doubt that Khrushchev believes that he can best weaken the free world collective security systems “through a process of intimidation”—the British Labor Party notwithstanding. He recognizes the limits of the tactic and seems well aware that a major Stalin mistake was an over-reliance on threats and bluster. We believe it more likely that, having abandoned the prospect of negotiations in 1960, he has discounted the losses involved in greater Western opposition in order to make gains in and with the uncommitted countries and to regain bloc leadership.
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We would emphasize what appears already to be an apparent Soviet gain from Khrushchev’s menacing behavior. He frightened most neutrals into not opposing him directly and in the process strengthened the acceptance of the “two-world” concept with a moral equation of the sides. In this context Nehru’s departing statements3 were particularly useful to him. The trend toward neutralism was strengthened with its implied denial of the expansionist nature of Soviet foreign policy.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 761.13/10–2660. Confidential. Drafted by Armitage on October 26 and sent through Davis. Initialed by Armitage, McSweeney, Davis, and Kohler.↩
The memorandum from William T. Nunley (EUR) to Kohler, October 17, attached to the source text, is not printed.↩
[Text of footnote not declassified]↩
On his last day in New York, Nehru stated that both the United States and the Soviet Union were more alike than any two other countries. his remarks were reported in The New York Times, October 10, 1960.↩
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Multinational tech company and vacuum virtuoso Dyson has unveiled its refreshed lineup of coveted vacs, launching a new range to simplify that weekly household hoovering.
The revamped range introduces new detangling brush bar technology, a cordless pet groom tool, a new scratch-free dusting brush and an awkward gap tool attachment to deep-clean those nooks and crannies.
The new-and-improved lineup promises to go beyond the capabilities of a traditional vaccuum, cleaning more than just the floors and carpets. The latest attachments can be used throughout the home, from freshening the mattress to dusting the bookshelves. The latest release aims to help house-proud Kiwis clean those hard-to-reach places, as well as tackle pesky pet hair and dander.
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Dyson unveils secret prototype robo vacuum cleaners, the new detangling brush bar technology is designed to tackle hair of every kind, whether it's a shedding cat or a hairy partner. Inspired by a detangling comb, the brush bar features 56 hair removal vanes, angled to help migrate all hair types directly into the cleaner head.
These polycarbonate teeth, combined with a set of spiralling nylon bristles, anti-static carbon fibre filaments and strong suction power, work in tandem to capture and tackle troublesome tangles, as well as larger debris and microscopic dust.
To understand the problem at hand, Dyson engineers and microbiologists studied a variety of animals such as cats and dogs, while also including more unexpected animals - such as an alpaca, donkey, horse and rabbit. This provided the team with a detailed understanding of the size, texture and structure of hair across animal species and breeds, as well as the invisible allergens and bacteria they can introduce to the home.
"The impact pets have in the home goes beyond what we can see. Effectively removing pet hair is important but pet dander with dried-on saliva is a problem which is invisible to the naked eye," said Monika Stuczen, Dyson's research scientist in microbiology.
"These microscopic particles can carry allergy-causing proteins around the home. Lightweight and miniscule, they can remain airborne for hours or transfer between objects. Research has even found cat allergens in rooms where cats have never been."
Groom tool reintroduced
Although pet hair can carry pollen and other allergens, research conducted by Dyson indicated that pet owners are likely unaware of the impacts their furry friends can have on the home - and on the family. By investigating cleaning habits from around the world, Dyson found 50 percent of pet owners allow their pets to sleep on their beds; yet only 30 percent are aware that bacteria and dust mite faeces often reside on their puss or pooch, which can be a hidden cause of allergies.
In a bid to combat the issue, Dyson has reintroduced it's grooming tool to the refreshed lineup. Now compatible with Dyson's cordless range, it can be attached to the main body of the machine or via an extension hose. Designed to remove loose hairs, pet dander and microscopic skin flakes, the tool flexes as you brush your pet, reaching through the dog's coat to grab loose hairs for quick and comfortable grooming.
The brand's first self-cleaning dusting brush
The refreshed range also introduces the scratch-free dusting brush; the first self-cleaning dusting brush to be introduced by the brand.
While traditional dusting tools may use coarse bristles to agitate dirt, which can inadvertently scratch surfaces, the soft brush is equipped with ultrafine and densely packed Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT) polymer filaments - a material inspired by fine paint and makeup brushes. The bristles are tapered to 0.05mm to avoid scratching, so if your home is full of delicate glass and wood surfaces, this could be a good bet.
The brush also features a rotating cuff to remove dust and debris from the bristles hygienically and easily.
Clean those awkward nooks and crannies
Anyone who has used a vacuum before will know how difficult it can be to get into those hard-to-reach areas, often involving contortions in the vein of Twister. Tools created specifically for crevices can be rigid, making them hard to use in tight, awkward spaces, while flexing tools can lose suction when bent, and clog easily from built-up debris.
To combat this, the new lineup has introduced an aptly named awkward gap tool that twists 22 degrees. According to Dyson, multiple prototypes tested at varying angles found that this is the optimum angle for cleaning hard-to-reach places around the home or car. With a width of 12.5mm and 254mm reach, it's been engineered to reach and deep-clean narrow gaps. The attachment also offers a secondary brush at the tip to tackle more stubborn messes.
The two new attachments join Dyson's suite of 12 vacuum cleaner accessories.
A new-and-improved vacuum
Additionally, the Dyson V8TM vacuum has been given a makeover. Initially launched in 2016, the Dyson V8TM vacuum was designed to deliver cord-free, hassle-free cleaning for up to 40 minutes. It's now been upgraded with detangling technology, including the new Motorbar cleaner head and detangling hair screw tool.
To trap invisible particles such as pet dander and allergens, filtration has been improved from 99.97 percent to 99.99 percent efficiency at 0.3 microns, in line with the latest V15TM models, Dyson said.
What else is out there?
If Dyson doesn't quite tick your boxes, the Samsung Bespoke Jet Elite Extra Stick Vacuum is a good bet, but for an eye-watering price. The Samsung Bespoke Jet features an aesthetic clean station, Jet Cyclone technology, an ergonomic telescopic wand, dual floor brushes, a power mop and handy tools to deliver optimum cleaning performance - for around $1599. It also offers up to 120 minutes of run time, letting you clean more areas in one go.
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CECA and Its Applicability to Hedge Funds
September 2005 | Leena Pinsler, Rajah & Tann
Abstract
This article analyses the applicability of the Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement signed between Singapore and India against the backdrop of the current regulatory regime for hedge funds in India. It examines in particular the benefits of listing hedge funds on the Singapore Exchange.
1. Introduction
The Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement ("CECA") between Singapore and India is the first of its kind that India has signed with any country as well as the first that Singapore has signed with a developing country. CECA integrates agreements on trade in goods and services, investment protection and promotion and economic cooperation in fields like education, intellectual property, science and technology.
2. Benefits under CECA
2.1 Capital Gains Exemption
The understanding reached on CECA has also resulted in an improvement to the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement between Singapore and India. The Protocol gives Singapore residents a status comparable to that given to residents of Mauritius ie whereby capital gains may be remitted from India free of Indian withholding tax. However, for Singapore residents to qualify for the capital gains exemption, a resident must not be a shell/conduit company with nil/negligible operations or with no real and continuous business activity carried on in Singapore. A company has been given a broad definition and could include other entities such as funds.
A Singapore tax resident is deemed not to be a shell/conduit company if:
i. it is listed on the Singapore Exchange ("SGX"); or
ii. has an annual operating expenditure of at least SGD 200,000 or Rs. 5,000,000 in the last 24 months preceding the capital gains.
A separate condition is that a Singapore resident may not be permitted to claim the benefit of the exemption where the affairs of the resident are primarily arranged to take advantage of the capital gains exemption. However this condition is explained to cover cases of legal entities not having bona fide business activities. The phrase "arranged with the primary purpose to take advantage of the benefits in Article 1" has not been defined. It remains to be seen whether Indian tax authorities come out with guidance notes to clarify its application.
The concession granted to Singapore, with reference to capital gains exemption, will remain valid so long as the same treatment is available under the India-Mauritius DTAA. While critics of CECA feel that the limits on the Singapore treaty make it less efficient than the Indo-Mauritius DTAA, it should be noted those limits on CECA were inserted to stem abuse of the kind seen in the case of the India-Mauritius DTAA where mail-box companies were established. India is under tremendous pressure to review the capital gains exemption terms it has with Mauritius. Accordingly, it might be a short-term strategy to use Mauritius for new investments.
2.2 Increase in permissible investment limits of equities and instruments listed on SGX
CECA provides two primary benefits in relation to SGX-listed instruments (including hedge funds):
i. Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI") regulated funds managed by asset management companies ("AMCs"), owned or controlled by India or Singapore juridical persons and intermediaries, may offer SGX-listed mutual funds and CIS (including hedge funds) to Indian investors without the limitation that the company in which investments are made should have a stake in an Indian company; and
ii. AMCs established in India, which are owned or controlled by Singapore or India juridical persons, may invest an additional US$250 million in SGX-listed equities and instruments above the usual ceiling of US$1 billion that Indian AMCs may invest abroad.
2.3 Listing of hedge funds in Singapore
In light of the CECA benefits, hedge funds may consider an SGX listing both:
i. to qualify for exemption from Indian tax on capital gains made by the hedge fund; and
ii. as an avenue for tapping Indian investor demand for hedge funds.
Hedge funds would generally be regarded as collective investment schemes ("CIS") in Singapore. The Monetary Authority of Singapore ("MAS") has essentially gone the way of most regulators in allowing hedge funds to remain largely self-regulated unless they are to be offered to the public. Where CIS are to be offered to the public or any section of the public, they would have to be "authorised" if constituted in Singapore or "recognised" if constituted outside Singapore. There is also an abridged procedure for restricted recognition where the CIS are only to be offered to sophisticated investors.
Hedge funds can seek a primary or secondary listing on the SGX. Like the MAS, the SGX has also taken a reasonably flexible approach to regulating listed hedge funds, allowing listed hedge funds leeway in how they manage their assets, whilst mandating standards that ensure that investors in listed hedge funds are made fully aware of the risk of losing all or part of their investment, and setting disclosure standards that are capable of fully and frankly informing investors of a listed hedge fund's investment performance and management standards.
The SGX's regulatory regime for hedge funds is comparable to that of the Irish Stock Exchange which currently attracts several hedge fund listings. The SGX in comparison places minimal investment restrictions on hedge funds.
3. The Indian regulatory framework regarding hedge funds
3.1 SEBI (FII Regulations), 1995
Hitherto, there have been many pitfalls in the mode of operation of hedge funds in India. For instance, hedge funds generally do not approach SEBI for registration as FIIs under the SEBI (FII Regulations), 1995 ("Regulations") as they are unlikely to satisfy the eligibility criteria.
The reason for this is that the eligibility requirements for FII applicants which SEBI takes into consideration are:
i. Applicant's track record2, professional competence, financial soundness, experience, general reputation of fairness and integrity;
ii. Whether the applicant is registered or regulated by an appropriate Foreign Regulatory Authority in the same capacity in which the application is filed by SEBI;
iii. Whether the applicant is a fit and proper person.
However hedge funds can enter the Indian market through the FII sponsored sub-account route. Under the Regulations, foreign corporates, foreign individuals, proprietary fund of FIIs and institutions or funds or portfolios established outside India, whether incorporated or not, can get registered as sub-accounts. The FII is required to apply on behalf of the sub-account with both signing the application form. The validity of the sub-account registration is thus co-terminous with the FII registration under which it is registered. However, it should be noted that SEBI has in the past withheld approval of sub-account applicants having characteristics similar to a hedge fund According to SEBI figures, on the basis of market value, the hedge funds account for about five per cent of the market value of the total assets held by the FIIs in India.
3.2 Participatory Notes
Under the current regime, hedge funds operate either through the sub-account route or through the more popular Participatory Notes ("P-Note") route. P-Notes are offshore derivative instruments in the form of contract notes issued by registered FIIs against underlying securities to overseas investors. The reason for the popularity of P-Notes is that it allows for foreign funds to flow in without the identity of the actual overseas investor being disclosed to SEBI. The way P-Notes function is quite simple: the investors place their order through brokerage houses that enjoy FII status. The brokerage houses then repatriate the dividends and capital gains back to these entities. The broker executes the trade on its proprietary trading account thereby keeping the investor's name anonymous.
The reason given by the foreign hedge funds for use of P-Notes in India is threefold. First, there is the problem of regulatory delay since it is highly probable that a new fund will not get registration as an FII and, even if it could, it will take at least 4 weeks to obtain such registration. This lag time is very inefficient for investment in capital markets which react on a daily basis. It is simpler therefore, to sign a P-Note contract despite the fact that it is more expensive from a trading point of view and very illiquid. The second reason for opting for P-Notes is the freedom and flexibility to trade in a few stocks rather than be obliged to comply with the SEBI-imposed requirement to invest in a broad market of 30-40 different stocks. The final factor for opting for P-Notes is the disclosure regime as P-Notes are only monitored by SEBI on an extremely limited basis:
i. FIIs/sub-accounts which issue/renew/cancel/redeem P-Notes are required to report to SEBI on a monthly basis;
ii. FII/sub-accounts merely investing or subscribing to the P-Notes/Access Products/Offshore Derivative Instruments or any other such type of instruments/securities with underlying Indian market securities are required to report on a quarterly basis;
iii. FIIs/sub-accounts who do not issue P-Notes but have trades or hold Indian securities during the reporting quarter require to submit 'nil' undertaking on a quarterly basis;
iv. FIIs/sub-accounts who do not issue P-Notes and do not have trades or hold Indian securities during the reporting quarter are not required to make any report for that particular quarter.
3.3 SEBI Task Force Report
With a soaring market, healthy foreign exchange reserves, and stronger institutional framework in the capital markets (as compared with the rest of Asia), India has finally taken a more favourable view towards hedge funds. The biggest reason for such a mindset shift is that hedge funds are becoming the favoured investment vehicle for serious investors in the US and the single largest source money from foreign institutional investors. Hedge funds have been collecting more money than mutual funds reflecting that more investible funds are being channelled through them. This has finally galvanised India's market regulator, SEBI, to come out with a draft report on 24 May 2005 ("Report") for a proposed regulatory framework for registration of hedge funds in India.
The Report, while identifying the lack of a definition of hedge funds under any law, has pointed out that these could loosely be termed as unregistered private investment partnerships, funds or pools that may invest and trade in different markets and are not subject to any regulatory requirement in their home country.
The Report is a consequence of SEBI trying to find a workable solution to the problem at hand and allowing hedge funds to register directly with it instead of through the P-Note route. At the end of March 2004, total investment by hedge funds in offshore derivative instruments (participatory notes) against Indian equity was Rs 8,050 crores. The key recommendations of the Report include:
i. The investment advisor to the hedge funds should be regulated investment advisors "under the relevant Investor Advisor Act or the fund should be registered under the Collective Investment Fund Regulations or Investment Companies Act;
ii. The fund should be broad-based, that is, it should invest in a basket of 30-40 stocks. The rationale behind this recommendation is that hedge funds seeking absolute returns usually invest in a few stocks while the Regulations require a more broad-based investment philosophy;
iii. The fund manager or investment advisor must have a minimum three-year track record in managing funds with an investment strategy that is similar to that of the applicant fund. The rationale for this is to keep the Indian markets insulated from the trial and errors of new entrants and encourage well managed funds;
iv. At least 20% of the corpus of the hedge fund, seeking to register in India as an FII, should have been contributed by pension funds, university funds, charitable trusts, endowments, banks and insurance companies. The presence of institutional investors in the fund is expected to ensure better governance on the part of the fund manager and fund administrators. The rationale behind this recommendation is that institutional investors may help fund managers to take a long term perspective of the market;
The Report, while recommending that hedge funds be afforded a limited opportunity to invest in the Indian equity markets, also recommends that they should still not be allowed to invest in commodity and currency markets in India. The Report has also proposed an additional limitation on hedge funds by recommending that they will not be allowed to engage in the short-selling strategy in the Indian stock markets. According to the recommendation, all transactions must have a delivery dimension.
There is no indication at this stage as to when the proposals, made in the Report, will be implemented.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article is correct to the best of our knowledge and belief at the time of writing. The contents of the above are intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter and should not be treated as a substitute for specific professional advice for any particular course of action as the information above may not necessarily suit your specific business and operational requirements. It is to your advantage to seek legal advice for your specific situation. In this regard, you may call the lawyer you normally deal with in Rajah & Tann or e-mail the Knowledge & Risk Management Group at
Footnote
1 The author heads the South Asia practice at Rajah & Tann. The author would like to acknowledge the contributions of Nisha Kaur Uberoi and Abhishek Singh.
2 It is necessary for the applicant to have at least a one year track record.
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Liz Cheney braces for primary loss as focus shifts to 2024
by: STEVE PEOPLES and MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 22, 2022 / 11:16 AM EDT
Updated: Jul 23, 2022 / 12:00 PM EDT
Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington,…
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Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.Sg former President Donald Trump’s attack on democracy during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. As the cowboy fest roared back home, Cheney railed against Trump’s failures.
“Donald Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office,” she said during Thursday’s hearing.
Dean Finnerty, a rancher from Wheatland competing in the steer wrestling competition, was not moved.
“I tell you what: I voted for Cheney when she ran last time and I won’t vote for her ever again,” Finnerty said. “I don’t know if she’s representing the conservative Americans that voted her in.”
Cheney’s unrelenting criticism of Trump from a Capitol Hill committee room represents the centerpiece of an unconventional campaign strategy that may well lead to her political demise, at least in the short term. Many Cheney allies are prepared for — if not resigned to — a loss in Wyoming’s Aug. 16 Republican primary against Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.
But as primary day approaches, there is also a pervasive belief among Cheney’s team that her unorthodox strategy in 2022 may put her in a stronger position for the 2024 presidential contest. Cheney’s fierce anti-Trump message as vice chairman of the congressional committee investigating the insurrection has strengthened her national brand while expanding a national network of donors and Trump critics in both parties who could boost a prospective White House run.
Cheney has yet to finalize any decisions about 2024, but she has not ruled out a presidential run as a Republican or an independent.
“The single most important thing is protecting the nation from Donald Trump,” Cheney said in interview with ABC News that aired Friday. She said she would make a decision about a potential White House bid “down the road.”
Cheney’s supporters understand the political paradox she faces in Wyoming, the state where Trump scored his largest margin of victory, 43 points, less than two years ago.
“She knew that she was shooting herself in the foot politically (in Wyoming) and she was going to walk around with a limp for the rest of her life,” Landon Brown, a Wyoming state representative and Cheney ally, said of Cheney’s unwavering Trump criticism. “But I could see this blossoming into something larger.”
Cheney, the 55-year-old daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is perhaps the best known among a small group of so-called “Never Trump” Republicans weighing presidential bids for 2024. They include term-limited Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Cheney’s only Republican colleague on the Jan. 6 commission, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who opted not to seek reelection this fall.
Trump would likely dominate a large field of presidential primary opponents should he run again, as he has said he will. But there is also a notable group of Republican voters eager to move past Trump and his continued fight to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Still, few believe that an outspoken Trump critic could ultimately prevail in a Republican presidential primary. The vast majority of Republican voters still approve of Trump.
And while her allies may be optimistic about her long-term future, Cheney would certainly like to avoid a blowout loss next month in her home state.
It won’t be easy.
Facing consistent and credible death threats, she has been forced to abandon traditional retail campaigning, trading public rallies and town halls for private events where her presence is often revealed to the public only after their conclusion, if at all.
She has essentially been excommunicated by the Wyoming Republican Party, which voted last year to censure Cheney before deciding to stop recognizing her as a Republican altogether. Local GOP offices offer yard signs for Hageman and many other Republicans on the ballot but not Cheney.
Left with few options, she has turned to Democrats for help. Her campaign website now features a link to a form allowing voters to change their party affiliation to Republican to participate in the Republican primary.
Kinzinger’s political team is helping to accelerate her crossover push.
“We need more principled leaders like Liz to ensure that those who want our democracy to fail don’t succeed,” Kinzinger told AP. “There has never been more urgency for pro-democracy voters to participate in primary elections.”
Cheney has resisted private pressure from some allies to shift away from her anti-Trump message. Many Republicans on the ballot this year who criticized Trump after Jan. 6 have since tried to sidestep the controversy by focusing on local issues in their districts, President Joe Biden or runaway inflation.
Cheney has refused to soften her message, instead leaning into Trump at the biggest moments of her campaign.
In her reelection campaign announcement video this May, she promised to “reject the lies” while not surrendering “to pressure or intimidation.” I n her closing statement at last month’s Republican primary debate, she called out “the lies of Donald Trump,” vowing, “I will never put party above my duty to the country.”
Meanwhile, Trump has made Cheney’s defeat a chief priority.
He called her a “despicable human being” on his social media site this month. And in May, Trump traveled to Wyoming’s second-largest city, Casper, to rally support for his preferred Cheney successor, conservative attorney Harriet Hageman.
As Cheney focuses her energy on the Jan. 6 commission, Hageman has barnstormed the state courting small, rural crowds in the traditional mold of Wyoming politicking. The approach is more like the one Cheney herself used to top a crowded Republican primary field to win Wyoming’s lone House seat in 2016.
Friends and foes alike have noticed her absence this year.
“I do know that Liz absolutely wants to be out across the state meeting with all our residents,” said Paul Ulrich, a former chairman of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming and a Cheney supporter. “It’s painful for her to have these security concerns. It’s disgusting that it’s come to this.”
The Capitol Police assigned Cheney a personal security detail last August, a step taken only when members of Congress are facing credible security threats.
Dean “Doc” Schroeder, a registered Democrat now planning to change his registration to vote for Cheney in the GOP primary, has been impressed by Cheney’s leadership on the Jan. 6 commission. He said it may not matter whether the congresswoman spends more time in the state given Wyoming’s overwhelming Republican majority.
“A very large proportion of that wouldn’t care if she came flying into the election on angel’s wings. They’re not going to vote for her,” said Schroeder, a retired psychologist and Frontier Days Rodeo volunteer. “So I don’t know that it has hurt her anything. And I’m a perfect example of how her behavior in Washington has helped her.”
Some Cheney allies are skeptical there are enough Democratic crossover votes to put her over the top next month.
“I wouldn’t want to put any money on this race,” said Marilyn Kite, a former state Supreme Court justice who supports Cheney. “I hope like heck she’s successful, but if she isn’t, maybe her being true to her oath truly is more important in the long run.”
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There’s nothing like the smell of a freshly baked loaf and it couldn’t be easier to make with this white bread recipe. Only a few store cupboard ingredients needed for perfect bread every time!
Have you noticed that so much shop bought bread is actually pretty flimsy and tasteless? Bland and blah. Completely forgettable. Merely a conduit to get something else, more tasty, into your mouth. Yeah I have opinions 😉 But there’s something deeply satisfying about making your own bread. And the grandpappy of them all – honest to goodness, no frills homemade white bread.
I have a lot of bread recipes on the blog. A LOT. Everything from asparagus and sun dried tomato bread to gluten free bread, kombucha bread and beyond! I love making it and I love sharing it with you. Oh and we love eating it. We all like to get in on THAT action.
The beauty of a simple white loaf of bread is its compatibility with so many things:
Accompanying a warming bowl of Hearty Vegetable Soup
Dipped in sweet, spiced milk and gently fried to make Vegan French Toast
Toasted, slathered in vegan cream cheese and topped in blackberries for the perfect lunch
Gorgeous vegan Sesame Prawn Toast (I honestly can’t stop making these!)
If you’ve ever been nervous about making your own bread it really is a simple process. There are just a few ‘rules’ to follow and it does take a bit of time with all the proving but hands on activity is fairly minimal and SO very worth it. The whole process can be quite cathartic – take any pent up frustration out on your raw dough. Bash it, stretch it, pound it. Scream at it if you need to. No judgement. It can take it. And then you get that wonderful smell wafting through your home. And THEN you get to eat it. Dip it, toast it, spread it, who cares? This loaf of bread is not that flimsy, wishy washy stuff in a bag. This bread has flavour. REAL flavour. All made by your own two hands.
However, I AM trying to cutdown eating bread. Simply because I would eat it ALL the time. Every meal. Every day. So when I do have it, I want to make sure it’s something I can really enjoy. And fresh homemade white bread is one of the most comforting of comfort foods. It’s almost primal. Like if I can bake a whole loaf all by myself then maybe I do have a little bit of my shit together. The world was unified in March last year by a sudden need to make bread. Baking supplies became precious commodities. And as we’re in the middle of our second major lockdown here in the UK I thought we should revisit our old friend, the humble white loaf.
How to make a simple white loaf:
The beauty of homemade bread is that it really doesn’t require many ingredients. Sure you can add all kinds of goodies to it for variety but a base dough is simply flour, yeast, liquid, salt and sugar.
I also add a little bit of vegan butter because fat not only provides flavour but also lubricates the dough. This helps to retain the gases released during baking, ensuring a well risen loaf which with a softer crumb. All the principles of vegan bread are exactly the same as a non-vegan loaf. It’s just a straight swap of butter and milk to their vegan counterparts.
Start by warming the liquid and sugar. For this white loaf the liquid I’ve used is a mixture of water and non-dairy milk. I’ve used oat and almond milk on different occasions but you can try other types or even use all water. Milk gives a richer and more velvety texture and often when making sweet dough (for something like this Pumpkin Spice Pull Apart Bread) I tend to use all milk.
You only want to warm the liquid to body temperature. This just means that when you dip you finger to test the temperature you can’t actually feel if it’s hot or cold! If you’re unsure about any of these stages I’ve written a complete bread making guide with some of the science behind why we do some of the things we do to bread.
We also have a YouTube video for Tear and Share Pizza Bread – the early part shows how to knead the dough
Whisk in the yeast. Then cover with a tea towel and set aside for 5-10 minutes until a froth forms on top of the liquid.
Put the remaining ingredients into a large bowl. This is the flour, salt and butter. Then use your fingertips to rub the butter into the flour until no lumps of butter remain.
Add the liquid to the bowl of dry. Then give it all a stir together until it starts to form a dough. Tip it out onto your work surface and continue to bring it together, kneading, stretching and tearing the dough for 5-10 minutes until it feels smooth and elastic. If your dough is too wet just add some more flour while you knead. You don’t want the dough too dry, if it’s still sticking to the surface that’s ok, I really recommend a dough scraper for helping you get any sticky dough off your counter!
Put the dough into a lightly oiled bowl and leave to prove until doubled in size. This can take anything from 30 minutes to over an hour dependent on ambient temperature – or if you have one of those fancy ovens with a dough setting!
Knock the dough back. This is what helps to eliminate any large air pockets in your finished loaf. Because I don’t know about you but I feel cheated when my slice of bread comes with a giant hole!
Shape the dough or put into a (prepared) tin. I just grease and flour my tin as it’s old and a bit battered with not much non-stick left! This bread recipe makes two loaves. One for now, one for later! I slice and freeze the second loaf and use it for toast.
Leave to prove somewhere warm again until doubled in size. Just before you’re ready to bake, preheat your oven then pop the loaves in for 45-50 minutes. Before you bake you can dust the tops of the loaves with flour or do some artistic slashes with a (very sharp) knife. The sharper the better as you want to slash rather than push with the knife so you don’t deflate your lovingly kneaded dough!
To test if bread is cooked just tap the bottom of one of the loaves. It should sound hollow. If not bake for a few more minutes.
Once baked leave to cool in the tin for 10-15 minutes. Turn out onto a cooling rack. Try not to leave it to cool completely in the tin as this results in condensation and soggy bottoms!
Bask in your epicness at being a baker of loaves. Schmear and tuck in. And don’t share.
I’d love to hear from you if you make this Homemade White Bread recipe! Just leave a comment as it’s so helpful and I love to hear how the recipe worked out for you! Thank you so much!
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Easy Homemade White Bread Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup (250ml) water
1/2 cup (125ml) non-dairy milk
1 tblsp sugar
1 tblsp active dried yeast
4 cups (630g) strong white bread flour
1/2 tblsp salt
1/4 cup (50emperature. It only takes a minute, maybe less - keep testing it so it doesn't get too hot
Whisk in the yeast, cover the pan with a tea towel and leave 5-10 minutes until the top becomes frothy
Tip the flour, salt and butter into a large bowl and use your fingertips to rub the butter into the flour until no lumps of butter remain
Add the frothy yeast mixture to the bowl of dry and mix together until it starts to form a dough. Then tip out onto your work surface and continue kneading for 5-10 minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic
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It’s the 1200’s, and the small realm of Ilari has had peace and prosperity for generations. That doesn’t mean every citizen is happy, however.
Sulphur, the third of seven sisters, is glad the older two have been slow to wed. It’s given her the freedom to train as a fighter, in hopes of fulfilling her lifelong dream of joining Ilari’s army. Then, within a matter of days, both sisters announce plans and now Sulphur is expected to find a man to marry.
Is it Sulphur’s good fortune her homeland is gripped by fear of a pending Mongol invasion? And the army is going door to door encouraging recruits? Sulphur thinks it is. But once she’s forced to kill in a small skirmish, she’s ready to rethink her career decision.
Too bad it’s too late. The invasion is coming, and Ilari needs every good soldier it has.
Once Sulphur learns Ilari’s army has made the strategic decision to not defend certain parts of the realm, including the one where her family lives, she has to re-evaluate her loyalty. Is it with the military she’s always admired? Or is it with her sisters, who are hatching a plan to defend their homeland with magic?
Everywhere she turns, someone is counting on her to fight for what’s right. But what is?
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In early spring, after the last of the snow melted and the mud dried, I told my parents I wished to visit friends I’d made while studying. Then I rode to Pilk to learn more about joining the Svadlu. I knew they had a booth at the largest market there, often staffed by Svadlu officers who’d answer questions. I had a lot of them.
They accepted women, but what were the standards? Were they the same as for the men? Being a Svadlu provided status and a fair amount of pay, so they never wanted for recruits. How many people who tried to join were accepted?
The next day I found the booth. Officers wore cloaks of saffron yellow, but this man boasted a scarlet cape covered in regalia, identifying him as a Mozdol. My nervousness surprised me as I approached him.
“Hello, lass,” he greeted me with warmth. “Let me guess. You’ve got a younger brother who wants to join us but he’s too nervous to come talk to me himself. Am I right?” He seemed pleased. With what? That he induced nervousness in potential recruits?
“Uh, no. Sir. I was hoping to get some information on me joining.”
“You?”
He looked at me more closely. Of course I wore a dress, not my fighting clothes, so I didn’t much look the part, but he squinted at me anyway.
“You’re tall. Well-muscled for a woman and you look to be in good shape. Have you ever held a sword?”
“I’ve been sparring since I was a child.”
That impressed him.
“And I’ll do whatever you need to me to. Answer questions about weapons, engage in fights, perform tests of strength, whatever you need.” I spoke too fast in my eagerness.
“Slow down,” he chuckled. “All that’s good, but actually, none of it matters compared to what I’m going to tell you next.”
He hesitated as if he wasn’t sure how to explain this vital fact to someone as ignorant as me.
“You’re a farmgirl, right?” He looked at my clothes again.
“Yes, sir.”
“Well, the Svadlu are more of a city operation. We do things differently than on the farm.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean being a member of the Svadlu is a pretty good deal. Lots of young people want in.”
“I know. That’s why I’ve worked so hard.”
“And that’s good, but most successful recruits get in because they have a sponsor. You know, someone already in the Svadlu who vouches for them. Um, especially if you’re, well, you know, a woman. Then it helps a great deal if one of us says you’re up to it.”
“But I can prove I’m up to it!”
“I suspect you can.” The look he gave me held respect, but he stayed firm. “A sponsor makes the difference. Why don’t you ask around? Surely your family knows someone who can help you.”
He looked up. Several people stood behind me now, all hoping to talk to him. “If you’ll excuse me …”
I rode back to Vinx dejected. I already knew my family had no contacts in the Svadlu and I had no idea of who I could turn to find some. Why did I have to know someone in order to get in? What stupid kind of way was that to run an army?
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Sherrie Cronin is the author of a collection of six speculative fiction novels known as 46. Ascending and is now in the process of publishing a historical fantasy series called The War Stories of the Seven Troublesome Sisters. A quick look at the synopses of her books makes it obvious she is fascinated by people achieving the astonishing by developing abilities they barely knew they had.
She’s made a lot of stops along the way to writing these novels. She’s lived in seven cities, visited forty-six countries, and worked as a waitress, technical writer, and geophysicist. Now she answers a hot-line. Along the way, she’s lost several cats but acquired a husband who still loves her and three kids who’ve grown up just fine, both despite how eccentric she is.
All her life she has wanted to either tell these kinds of stories or be Chief Science Officer on the Starship Enterprise. She now lives and writes in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where she admits to occasionally checking her phone for a message from Captain Picard, just in case.
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Vaccinated Retail – digital learnings from the COVID crisis hold have seen digital return hold steady even as stores re-open.
As the Vaccine Economy continues to evolve, retailers are learning lessons from the COrombie & Fitch.
At Gap, it’s all about the highest Q2 sales in over a decade – that’s the boast from CEO Sonia Syngal. After the ups and downs of recent years, she’s entitled to point to some success stories at last, not least in terms of fleshing out its digital portfolio yet further.
For Q2, Gap turned in revenue of $4.2 billion, up 29% year-on-year. Online sales grew 64% compared to 2019 to now represent a third of the total business. That growth is mirrored by an 11% decline in in-store shopping over the same period, a figure obviously impacted by COVID closures.
The latest addition to the arsenal is virtual try-on company Drapr which is intended to enable shoppers to find their best clothing sizes to fit their personal body shape. Sally Gilligan, Chief Growth Transformation Officer at Gap, said in a statement:
Fit is the number one point of friction for customers and, through their advanced 3D technology, Drapr has shown it can help shoppers efficiently find the size and fit they need. We plan to leverage Drapr to help Gap improve the fit experience for our customers and accelerate our ongoing digital transformation.
Brand health is improving overall, said Syngal, pointing to growth of the customer file and the biggest ever spend on digital transformation:
Since moving to the cloud last October, every dollar we spend goes further toward growth and innovation versus modernization. Innovation that could impact our entire portfolio of brands. And that speed of our technology deployment has increased our confidence to invest further. We are digitizing operations and increasing automation across inventory management, stores, and key areas of the value chain to unlock costs in margins. We’re prioritizing work that will have a long-term impact end to end. We believe this will radically redefine our operating cost structure and create an operating machine to support our long-term ambition for growth.
Digital holds steady
Meanwhile over at Abercrombie & Fitch, Vaccine Economy learnings are being taken on board as stores re-open, but digital stays steady in terms of its contribution to the bottom line, now making up 44% of the total revenue. CEO Fran Horowitz noted:
Even with aggressive store sales growth, digital did not skip a beat and remained a solid as stores reopened. Digital sales held steady to 2020 levels and grew 52% from 2019. Results are further proof of our ongoing evolution into a digital-first global omni-channel retailer and should yield sustainable operating margin benefits.
CFO Scott Lipesky expanded on the theme, saying:
We are very happy with the digital sales hanging up. That was one of our first big learnings coming through as the world kind of re-opens, specifically here in the US, is what was going to happen to digital whenever the stores re-open? So, with the fleet work that we did last year and the huge jump that we saw last year in digital sales because of the COVID-related closures, it was great to sustain that this year.
This has strategic implications moving forward:
This business is about omni-channel now. We need to make sure we have the right size stores in the right locations to support a bigger digital halo within a certain market, and that’s how we look at each market that we’re entering, we want to maximize that omni business. So, absolutely has an implication and we’ll be thinking about that as we go into the back half of this year when we have those 240 leases up for renewal.
The digital focus is ramping up, confirmed Horowitz:
A common theme across the company has been our focus on digital, which is critical for future growth. As we continue our transformation into a digitally led operating model, we have made investments in technology and talent. Over the past year, we’ve expanded our data and analytics, user experience and technology teams, and we recently welcomed Samir Desai to the ANF family in the newly created role of Chief Digital and Technology Officer.
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Year : 2016 | Volume : 6 | Issue : 3 | Page : 115-118
Rupinder Sharma, Varundeep Dogra, Gurudutt Sharma, Vivek Chauhan
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Introduction: In North India snake bite deaths are predominantly seen with neurotoxic envenomations (NEs) whereas in South India the hemotoxic envenomation (HE) is more common. Krait is responsible for most deaths in North India. It bites people sleeping on the floors, mostly at night. We describe the profile of venomous snake bites over 1 year in 2013.
Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in a rural tertiary care hospital in North India. Demographics, circumstances of bite, envenomation, first aid, delay, consultation, treatment, anti-venom, and outcomes were recorded for all victims of snake bite. We included all consecutive adult (>18 years) venomous snake bite victims admitted from January to December 2013.
Results: A total of 91 patients with venomous snake bites were included in the study. Pure NEs were 41 (45.1%), pure HE in 31 (34.1%), 7 (7.7%) had mixed NE + HE, and 12 (13.2%) had only local swelling. Forty patients (44%) were bitten during sleep presenting as NE (92.5%), NE + HE (5%), and HE (2.5%). Findings in the 51 patients (56%) bitten during activity were HE (58.8%), local swelling (23.5%), NE + HE (9.8%), and NE (7.8%) (P < 0.0001). First aid was sought by 24 NE patients out of which 23 (96%) went to alternate practitioners or religious healers.
Conclusion: Almost all (97.5%) bites during sleep resulted in NE in our study. About 96% of NE sought first aid from alternate practitioners or religious healers in hope of some magical treatment. Thus, a deadly combination of krait bite during sleep and wrong health seeking behavior is responsible for high mortality krait bites in this region. Mass public awareness regarding krait bites can prevent mortality in many such cases.
Keywords: Anti-snake venom, cobra, krait, religious healers, viper
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Introduction
Our hospital receives venomous snake bites with from a surrounding area of 100 km. Mos to find the patients dead in the morning. Mortality is rare with viper bites that cause hemotoxic envenomation (HE) and occur mostly during activity and daytime. We present the profile of venomous snake bites inrtiary care hospital catering to the referred cases from a predominantly rural population in North India. The whole area falls under the Sub-Himalayan belt and includes tribal areas and hilly terrain.
Design
This was hospital-based observational study. We recorded the demographics, circumstances of bite, envenomation, first aid, delay, consultation, treatment, anti-snake venom (ASV), and outcomes of patients with venomous snake bites.
Inclusion criteria
We included all consecutive adult (>18 years) with venomous snake bites admitted in our hospital.
Statistical analysis
The data were analyzed using SPSS software (version 23, SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). The continuous variables were expressed as means and standard deviations and categorical variables were expressed as proportions. Comparison of continuous variables was done using t-test and categorical variables were compared using fisher's exact. An alpha error of 95% was considered significant (P < 0.05%).
Ethics committee approval was obtained before the initiation of the registry, and informed consent was obtained from all the patients or their close relatives.
Results
Total 127 patients of snake bite that were admitted to the medicine wards in 2013 and 91 (71.6%) with envenomation were included in the study. The baseline characteristics of the patients are shown in [Table 1].
Table 1: Baseline variables among venomous snake bite patients
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About 91.2% venomous bites occurred in 6 months from May and October compared to 8.8% bites in rest of the year (P < 0.0001). Bites that were inflicted to the patients during their sleep were 44%, and 97.5% of these had NE whereas, only 18.8% of the patients bitten during activity had NE (P < 0.0001). Since the patients bitten during sleep had a completely different profile than patients bitten during activity, we divided the patients into two groups. Group 1 included snake bites during sleep (SBS), and Group 2 included snake bites during activity (SBA). The comparison of various parameters among SBS and SBA is shown in [Table 2].
Table 2: Comparison of variables between the snake in sleep and snake bite during activity
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The SBS group had age and gender distribution comparable with the SBA group. 87.5% bites in the SBS group occurred in 3 months June, July, and August, while in SBA group bites were distributed throughout the year [Table 2]. Patients in SBS group took longer to reach hospital as most were bitten during the night and many of the bites were unnoticed while sleeping [Table 2]. SBS patients had signs of envenomation in the form of ptosis, difficulty in swallowing, difficulty in breathing and neuroparalysis. Ninety-six percent of SBS patients went to alternate practitioners or religious healers instead of allopathic sub-centers or primary health centers for first aid. The need for ventilatory support was higher among the SBS group.
Patients in the SBS group had four deaths (10%) whereas in the SBA group there were three deaths (5.8%). In the SBA group, two out of the three patients who died had NE + HE, and only one patient had pure HE. Thus, out of the seven patients who died, six had NE and only one was pure HE. Thus, patients with NE had higher mortality in our setup. The patient who died of HE was brought >12 h after the snake bite and had respiratory failure, multi-organ dysfunction, and bleeding from many sites when he was brought.
The total dose of ASV given to SBS and SBA groups was 227 ml and 201 ml, respectively.
The snakes with NE were identified as kraits, snakes causing NE + HE were cobras, and snakes with HE were vipers. Based on the profile of the patient, 41 patients presenting as pure NE were presumably bitten by kraits, 31 patients presenting as pure HE were bitten by vipers, seven patients with mixed NE + HE were bitten by cobras, and 12 patients with local swelling were also most probably vipers.
Discussion
Snake-bites by kraits, cobras, and vipers identified as the most common venomous snakes in India. The frequency of snake bites increases during monsoons in India with an increase in morbidity and mortality in the rural community. Our data were analyzed by making two groups SBS and SBA. The groups differ significantly in the type of envenomation and outcomes. SBS was caused exclusively by kraits leading to pure NE. Many patients did not notice the bite and were found paralyzed in the morning. SBA group also had cases of NE, but it was NE + HE indicating a cobra bite. Mortality was associated with NE in 6 (85%) cases, and there was 1 (15%) with HE. The features of pure NE and pure HE are contrastingly different [Table 3].
Table 3: Differentiating clinical features of neurotoxic envenomation and hemotoxic envenomation in North India
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Other studies from Himachal Pradesh show a similar prevalence of NE over HE.[1],[2] Same findings are evident from other North Indian states like Punjab where NE was almost 100% among the venomous snake bite cases.[3] The findings from South India were contrary to North in having HE much more common than NE. Pore et al. from Maharashtra reported HE (75%) and NE (16%).[4] Snake bites in children from rural Maharashtra showed HE in 90.74% and NE in 9.25% cases.[5] Karnataka also showed HE to the tune of 73.68% and NE 19.73%.[6] Kerala had HE as high as 90.4%.[7]
Hence, from above review, it can be said that NE is the predominant envenomation in the Northern States while HE is the predominant form of envenomation in the Southern States of India. Reasons for this distribution is yet unknown.
In West Bengal, SBS by krait caused 66% of all deaths due to snakebites.[8] In our study, 44% had SBS whereas in Kerala 93% of 583 venomous bites had outdoor snake bites.[9] Thus, a contrasting difference in the type of snake bites was noticed.
Another interesting feature of krait bites was that 87.5% krait bites occurred between June and August, while the viper bites were distributed throughout the year with a peak during monsoon. Bawaskar et al. from Maharashtra have also reported the similar seasonal distribution of snake bites with regards to vipers and kraits.[10] Pure NE was recorded in 92.5% of SBS compared to 3% of SBA and tells about the nocturnal nature of the snake.
Krait bite being painless goes unnoticed in many cases and patient presents with ptosis, paralysis, dysphagia, and difficulty in speaking in the morning hours. People know that this is the result of krait bite; still they prefer the religious healers and alternative practitioners for first aid (96%) over the government hospitals. This health seeking behavior in this region leads to further delay in anti-snake administration and increases morbidity and mortality. The mortality figures in our study are not representative of mortality in the society. Many patients of krait bite are found dead in the morning and thus missed from the analysis. Only 14% of all deaths due to snakebites occur in-hospital, which is why the National deaths figure in snake bites is skewed.[8] The same situation exists in other parts of India, where 75% of deaths occur at home or after seeking only religious interventions.[8]
HE, on the other hand, is caused by vipers that have a painful bite with local swelling. The patient develops a fear complex and rushes to the hospital. The systemic derangement also is slower to develop, and the patients respond well to ASV. Only one patient with HE died in our study since he presented >12 h after the bite with multi-organ dysfunction and bleeding manifestations.
Conclusion
We conclude by saying that SBA and SBS are two spectra of snake bites in North India. NE is much more common in North India than South India where HE is more common. Most importantly, public awareness regarding the timely administration of ASV in a patient with early morning neuroparalysis during monsoons is advocated even if there are no fang marks and the snakebite was unnoticed. The information has been shared with the Chief Medical Officer of this area, and a sensitization workshop is planned on the issue of snake bites in the coming season. Mass awareness program using electronic and print media is also planned to help disseminate the information regarding the SBS among the public.
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Conflicts of interest
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Meghessica Yellin on Abortion Rights, the ERA, and Why They Won’t Give Up Hope
On June 26—two days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—Jessica Yellin, the award-winning journalist seismic event into perspective. The first? Gloria Steinem. The second? Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.
Steinem, the face of American feminism, and Meghan, a vocal advocate for paid leave and fair labor rights for women, have been friends since 2020. After Meghan learned that they were both sheltering in place in Montecito, California, she asked if Steinem wanted to help her make calls thanking voter-registration organizers. Steinem agreed.
That connection soon blossomed into an alliance, and for the past several months, Steinem and Meghan have been formulating a plan to get the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratified. (“It would explicitly extend to women the rights granted in the Constitution to men,” Yellin tells Vogue. “The ERA would change the playing field for women’s reproductive rights, women’s workplace rights, and so much more. For decades Steinem has been advocating for its enactment, and now Meghan is joining in.”)
So, when the Supreme Court’s ruling came down, Yellin decided to moderate a conversation between the two advocates about their own reproductive choices, the realities of America pre-Roe and post-Roe, and, most importantly, where the country goes from here. “I entered this conversation feeling disoriented by the new reality—anxious that there is no clear path forward. Opponents of abortion built so much infrastructure over so many years. How can that be answered quickly, and how many lives will be destroyed in the meantime?” Yellin says. “For now, some women will be denied basic life-saving medical care because of a power struggle in a dysfunctional political system. But after this conversation, I was reminded that change starts with simple actions—and deadly setbacks sometimes precede transformational change.”
Read their wide-ranging conversation below.
Jessica Yellin: I hear from so many people—they’re feeling panic, confusion. They’re looking for guidance on what to do now. Let’s talk about the immediate impact of this ruling. Women in 13 states are seeing their reproductive rights vanish. And in another 13 they’ll likely be severely restricted. Tens of millions of women will have to make brutal choices, and we know that some will die. For people who were born after 1973 and have no idea what that was like, would you tell us a little about the reality of being a pregnant woman before Roe?
Gloria Steinem: There were underground networks, most famously Jane. That is where you called up a particular number and asked for Jane and that meant you needed an abortion. And there were women who bravely guided you. In my situation, I was in London, not this country, when I needed an abortion and was lucky to find a physician in the equivalent of the Yellow Pages, who said that if I promised him two things—one, that I would never tell anyone his name and two, that I would do what I wish to do with my life—he would send me to a woman doctor who would do the abortion. I dedicated a book to him. He’s no longer with us. So I thought it was okay, finally, after all these years, to do that.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex: That gave me chills, Gloria. Also that you were in the hands of someone who understood that it was your choice to create the life that you wanted for yourself. That’s so powerful.
G.S.: Yes. And I kept my promise. Without him, I would have been stopped there. I was working as a waitress in London waiting for my visa to India, where I had a fellowship. I wouldn’t have been able to do that. My life would’ve stopped there.
Meghan, for women who live in the states where trigger laws have already gone into effect, they will learn quickly what life was like before Roe.
M: This is having a very real impact on women’s bodies and lives starting now. Women are already sharing stories of how their physical safety is being put in danger. Women with resources will travel to get an abortion, those without might attempt to give themselves one at tremendous risk. Some will have to source abortion pills from unregulated pharmacies. Others who are pregnant and find themselves in a medical emergency will be at the mercy of doctors and lawyers to determine if a procedure that is needed to save her life can even be done at all. What does this tell women? It tells us that our physical safety doesn’t matter, and as a result that we don’t matter. But we do. Women matter. And this is one of the reasons that I called Gloria immediately. Because in all of it, she reminds me that when you have anger, you have to channel that energy into something that makes a difference. That’s what activism is. It’s about how we show up.
G.S.: Meghan, I owe this friendship to you because I did not realize that in California, where I was sheltering on a friend’s ranch, we were neighbors—or at least what is called neighbors in California, which means you’re, what, a half-hour away. [Laughs.] It was you who realized that and came to the farmhouse where I was. Then we sat at the dining room table and made cold calls together.
M: I was thrilled. I was nervous too. I thought, Oh my goodness, how am I going to be in front of Gloria Steinem? The [presidential] election was coming up soon and we both knew the value of women and everyone getting out to vote. The ripple effect of elections matters so much, and that’s what we’re seeing now, unfortunately.
G.S.: A big part of the problem, of course, is that we have a Supreme Court that does not represent the country. Perhaps because I’ve been here longer, which means I’ve been here before, I say we are going to do what we need and wish to do. Something like one in three American women had an abortion when it was illegal. The need and the right to govern one’s own body continues. We need to translate it into a political reality.
Many of the states that are banning abortion, Meghan, are also those with the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality, especially for Black women. Across the U.S., Black women are almost three times more likely than white women to die in pregnancy or childbirth, and Black infants have twice the mortality rate of white infants. How concerned are you that this ruling will have an outsized impact on those women? And what specifically worries you?
M: These issues are systemic, interconnected, and preventable. Women of color and especially Black women are most impacted by these decisions because most of us don’t have the same access to health care, economic opportunity, mental health resources…the list goes on. It’s difficult to overstate what this decision is going to do to these communities.
G.S.: When I first entered into this struggle for reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right, it was the 1970s. Ruth Ginsburg was with the ACLU and she sent me to Alabama to talk with a Black woman who had been sterilized without her knowledge or permission when she went into the hospital for something else entirely. So, you know, this was a struggle with quite a few state legislatures to keep them from allowing the sterilization of women who were on public support.
Gloria, Representative Mary Miller of Illinois was at a Trump rally this weekend, and she thanked President Trump for “the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court.” Her office insists that she misspoke and meant to say “right-to-life,” not white life, but her language does track with a strain of thought in the antiabortion movement that’s about race and demographics. Would you give us a little more context and history on that?
G.S.: There is a proportion of this country that is well aware that the first generation of babies who are majority babies of color has already been born. And that means that the country could and would become a country where people of color are the majority. Then we’ll look more like the rest of the world. But if you’re a white racist, it’s obviously frightening. So the same forces that were in favor of the forced sterilization of women of color on welfare are now frequently against abortion.
In his concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said that the court should “correct the error” of allowing for same-sex marriage, same-sex relationships, and even contraception. Legal analysts I trust argue that same-sex marriage is most at risk from this court. James Obergefell, who brought the case that legalized same-sex marriage, has warned it’s in danger. Meghan, how concerned are you not just for women, but for other groups who fought to gain rights in the U.S.? Do you think this is a canary-in-the-coal-mine moment?
M: Absolutely. We saw it in plain terms with Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion. This is a blueprint for reversing rights. The ruling is a signal about the future of same-sex marriage, contraception access, and many fundamental rights to privacy. It feels like the tip of the iceberg and is part of why people feel so scared. We have to channel that fear into action. We can start this November in the midterms. I know hearing that feels so repetitive, but we have to vote, every time, from local elections to state and national elections.
So, let’s talk about what can be done. People ask what they can get behind, where they can make a difference. Is the fight now at the state level, working for new laws and bringing challenges to existing restrictions? Is it getting out the vote nationally and electing pro-choice candidates? Where would you tell people to focus their attention?
G.S.: It depends where the person is. If they’re living in an anti-choice state or with a state that has a majority anti-choice legislature, then working politically is very important. If they’re in a pro-choice state where the clinics are being picketed or not supported, then it’s important to protect and support those clinics. But wherever we are, we can make clear that reproductive freedom is a fundamental right like freedom of speech.
M: It’s a much larger conversation about why for years, for decades, we’re fighting to get a constitutional amendment put through [the Equal Rights Amendment] that makes it clear that women can be treated equally, and how it is completely nonsensical that that’s even something we’re still fighting for. And Gloria, you know, we’ve talked about how to continue to push that through. I think now is probably the time more than ever before.
G.S.: We are the only democracy in the world that doesn’t include women in its constitution. I think we should put big billboards up in every airport where people arrive from other countries saying, “Welcome to the only democracy in the world that doesn’t include women.” Maybe that would embarrass people into action. All the necessary states have ratified [the ERA], and it just needs acceptance in Congress. So if the president made it a priority, it could happen. It means that we would be on the same standing of inclusiveness as every other democracy in the world.
Editor’s note: The ERA likely as the votes—all that’s needed now is the signature of the Archivist of the United States, who heads the National Archives and Records Administration. While proponents are calling on elected Democrats to get involved, opponents insist that the deadline to pass the ERA has expired.
Meghan, is that an issue you want to tackle?
M: Without question. Being home, seeing what’s happening in our country and feeling energized and motivated, if this is the type of legislation that we need pushed through, then this is a moment that I am absolutely going to show up for. Not just because it’s what we need as women, but it’s what we need as people.
G.S.: The ERA has been ratified by the requisite number of states and we should put the pressure on the White House and Congress to enact it.
M: Well, Gloria, maybe it seems as though you and I will be taking a trip to D.C. together soon.
There’s so much stigma around all this. I think it’s important to normalize conversations about abortion and women’s health. What do those topics bring up for you?
M: I think about how fortunate I felt to be able to have both of my children. I know what it feels like to have a connection to what is growing inside of your body. What happens with our bodies is so deeply personal, which can also lead to silence and stigma, even though so many of us deal with personal health crises. I know what miscarrying feels like, which I’ve talked about publicly. The more that we normalize conversation about the things that affect our lives and bodies, the more people are going to understand how necessary it is to have protections in place.
This is about women’s physical safety. It’s also about economic justice, individual autonomy, and who we are as a society. Nobody should be forced to make a decision they do not want to make, or is unsafe, or puts their own life in jeopardy. Frankly, whether it’s a woman being put in an unthinkable situation, a woman not ready to start a family, or even a couple who deserve to plan their family in a way that makes the most sense for them, it’s about having a choice. It’s interesting that here you’re talking to two women: one who chose to give birth happily, and one who chose not to give birth happily. And we’re both prospering because we were able to make our own choices. Incredible.
G.S.: This is as old as human beings. I remember a couple of decades ago sitting with women in the Kalahari Desert as they showed me one plant that they used to increase fertility and one that they used as an abortifacient. This is hardly a new consideration, and in our Native American cultures here, too, it was understood.
It’s worth saying this shouldn’t just be on women. There is never an abortion without sperm. What would you say to men who support reproductive rights?
M: Men need to be vocal in this moment and beyond because these are decisions that affect relationships, families, and communities at large. They may target women, but the consequences impact all of us. My husband and I talked about that a lot over the past few days. He’s a feminist too.
G.S.: Yes—I can testify to that since I met him before I met you. He was at a big meeting I attended and he was advocating for people’s rights.
M: And his reaction last week was guttural, like mine. I know that for so many women right now, there is a sentiment of despair. But again, we have to band together and not wallow. We have to do the work.
G.S.: Also, you and I are in states where there is reproductive freedom—New York and California. So it is a state-by-state question, and unfortunately the Supreme Court has allowed it to remain a state-by-state question.
Gloria, what kind of impact does it have when people like Meghan and Harry own this issue, speaking openly about abortion and equal rights and reproductive access—a happy man and woman with a huge public platform?
G.S.: It’s very, very, very important. Because what they both have is trust. We trust them and nothing but nothing replaces trust. It is the most important quality or attribute. We can see things on television and not believe them or not trust them. But when people like these two tell us, then we trust it.
M: Thank you. That’s really kind
Gloria, I’m listening to this conversation and I wonder, are you passing the baton to another generation and a new voice to help carry forward the work you’ve done?
G.S.: Well, you know, it’s true, though I plan to live to 100.
We hope you do!
M: You will. My goodness, Gloria, I hope it’s even longer than 100. And you’ll still be wearing these incredible leather pants.
G.S.: I do have to recognize my own age, but I’m not passing the baton. I’m keeping the baton, but understanding that we each have a baton; there’s not just one.
Meghan, what do you think this moment requires?
M: This moment requires unity—really listening to people, understanding the Constitution was written at a time when women were second-class citizens. We’re not. Certain things need to change. I think it’s equally about honoring the people who’ve been doing the work long before us, like Gloria. I’m grateful that I’m holding a baton right there next to her and that we will continue to be doing this work together.
G.S.: Yes, we are chosen family. I feel just as thankful to Meghan for being the present, the future—for taking risks of criticism by standing up for what she believes in and what the majority needs.
M: I always look at things with the undercurrent of hope. If you are someone who truly believes that there can be something better, if you’re someone who sees injustice, you have a choice: You can sit there and be complacent and watch it, or you can say, “What can I do to get us to the other side of this?” That’s another reason why I called Gloria, because I knew what I was looking for. What do we do? How do we do it? How do we support each other? How do we get the necessary changes across the line? What we need, in this moment, is to start with hope.
GS: I think we need to remember that hope is a form of planning. [Laughs.] If you’re not hopeful, you’ve given up.
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Analysis: The take away from the first days of Brexit 2019? No Deal is a charade that won’t happen
10/01/2019
Ben ence that May is engaged in a massive No Deal sham – but have Labour MP’s noticed?
THE first few days back following the Christmas holidays has been clarifying as to where we are at in the Brexit process. So clarifying, in fact, that we really should start narrowing down our ‘what if?’ questions when it comes to analysing the political possibilities going forward.
Political is the key word here. There is so much chatter about the technicalities of the Brexit process – the deadlines, the parliamentary rules and procedures, etc – but all of that misses the fact that politics has primacy here: all rules can be re-written, all deadlines changed, if the powerful will it to be so.
So when it comes to the possibilities of No Deal, the only important question is what are the political interests and balance of forces?
Any serious analysis of UK politics would come to the obvious conclusion that the prime minister is engaged in a massive charade – No Deal is not politically possible and won’t happen.
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On Tuesday we saw Yvette Cooper MP’s amendment to prevent No Deal Brexit passed by the House of Commons. While the motion’s power is not all that significant, it showed clearly that there is an anti-No Deal majority in the House of Commons. This is crucial. Parliament can’t currently agree on anything except that they don’t want No Deal.
It has been argued that a parliamentary majority against No Deal doesn’t automatically mean No Deal will be avoided as the government, not parliament, controls the business of the House, and current legislation means that if nothing happens then on 29 March No Deal will happen. While technically all this is true, it is going to be next to impossible for the government to resist parliament’s political will, and as we saw on Wednesday, the actions of the Speaker, John Bercow, is increasingly empowering parliament to control House business, with the UK Government forced to come back to the House just three days after the inevitable failure of the meaningful vote on May’s deal next week, to prevent the prime minister running down the clock.
So parliament doesn’t want No Deal, the institutions of parliament are operating against No Deal; what about the government? The Business Secretary Greg Clark has today written in Politico arguing that “we can’t go on like this”, stating No Deal needs to be ruled out by the end of the month at the latest to prevent global investors from pulling billions out of the UK.
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“In recent weeks, confidence from investors has been shaken,” Clark writes. “Debates in the UK Parliament are monitored closely, and with mounting alarm, in boardrooms around the world. The dire prospect that we could tolerate trading with our largest and closest market on WTO terms – the most rudimentary that exist between any nations on earth – is bewildering to them. And when hundreds of millions of pounds are having to be diverted by companies from productive investments into defending themselves against the risk of a no-deal exit from the European Union – through piling up stocks, reinventing warehouses and planning shutdowns of production – investors have every right to object.”
Clark is not being helpful to the prime minister here, but let’s be clear – he is no lone wolf in the Cabinet. The majority of the Cabinet voted Remain. So did the prime minister. These people are class warriors for British capitalism, and as such they are pragmatic and attentive to their interests. They are a world away from the ideological imaginary of Jacob Rees-Mogg and co, the hard-right Brexiteers who have already lost when they tried and failed to oust May in December.
So if all the institutions of the British political establishment are going to resist No Deal, the only way it could possibly happen is if that same establishment couldn’t find a way of agreeing on how to stop it from happening. The government is (at least for the moment) not going to go for a second referendum, but it could seek to extend article 50. May has hinted at this, and there has been rumours that tentative discussions have started between UK and EU officials on that.
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Every EU state would have to agree to such an extension, but the EU Commission has indicated in the past it would be open to such an extension as long as there was a clear purpose behind it, and for a number of very good reasons. The EU doesn’t benefit from No Deal, neither economically or politically – as we’ve argued on CommonSpace previously, if Britain is to leave the EU, Brussels wants to keep it as locked into the EU’s orbit as it can. Extending Article 50 is another indication to the rest of Europe of just how difficult it is to leave the institution, and so not to even think about trying. And of course an article 50 extension opens up the possibility of Britons just getting fed up with the whole thing and moving towards a Remain position.
So whichever way one looks at it politically, No Deal is not going to happen. If that is accepted, it has major political implications. May is banking on the possibility of No Deal to instil sufficient fear into MPs to get them to vote for her deal.
This includes Labour backbench MPs. The Prime Minister wants to play a game of chicken with them by running down the clock, watching UK stock markets plunge and engaging in lorry exercises and other pantomime No Deal preparation activities. But the events of the last few days should have shown that this is all a ridiculous farce and shouldn’t be taken seriously by any MP. It’s understandable that MPs want to look like they are acting responsibly and being the grown-up, but there’s nothing grown-up about watching a fictional drama with a ridiculous, unrealistic plot line and believing it to be real life. Any Labour MP that indulges the charade will just become another character in May’s ludicrous bid to hold onto power. Surely they realise that by now?
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Felix comes out of retirement, helps 4×400 relay into final
by: PAT GRAHAM, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 23, 2022 / 09:30 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 23, 2022 / 09:30 PM CDT
Allyson Felix, of the United States, runs in a heat of the women’s 4×400-meter relay at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday, July 23, 2022,…
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Allyson Felix, of the United States, runs in a heat of the women’s 4×400-meter relay at the World Athletics Chamr the “last” time to help the Americans advance to the final.
Back into retirement she goes. She said she will watch the final of the women’s 4×400 on Sunday from the seats.
That’s the plan — for now. She did have the fastest one-lap split of her teammates as the U.S. posted the fastest qualifying time of 3 minutes, 23.38 seconds.
“From what I know,” the 36-year-old Felix said of whether this is really the end. “But you know, what do I know?”
Last Friday, she went through an emotional send-off after helping the 4×400 mixed relay team to a bronze medal. That was supposed to be it.
She went back to Los Angeles for the ESPY Awards and was a few hot wings in when she was summoned to the track for an encore performance.
Talitha Diggs ran the opening leg for the U.S. before handing off to Felix. She powered around the track and gave the baton to Kaylin Whitney, the sprinter who grew up idolizing Felix. Jaide Stepter Baynes brought it home.
“It’s kind of coming full circle, literally,” Whitney said of passing the baton to Felix. “To be able to run alongside her, as well as these other great ladies, is always a privilege. I can’t be happier.”
Soon after her run, Felix crouched down by the scoreboard and then sat on the grass to watch. When it was over, she hugged her teammates.
“I was well on my way (to retirement),” said Felix, who had her Saysh spikes — a footwear company she launched — dangling from her shoulder. “I had no plans to be back here for the rest of the meet. But things happen. I felt good. It was really cool to run when the stadium was full and just get all the love, and run with this amazing group of women. It’s really set the team up to go after the title.”
The American contingent in the final figures to be 400-meter hurdle world champion Sydney McLaughlin, fresh off her world-record performance Friday, and Dalilah Muhammad, who won bronze in the race. They were on the winning 4×400 team at the Tokyo Games. So were Felix and Athing Mu. But Mu has the final of the 800 on the same day.
Any chance Felix may leave the seats to run again?
“I was asked to run in the prelim,” Felix said.
Should the group bring home a medal — the team is a big favorite — it would be Felix’s 20th medal at world championships, extending a record she already held. She also has 11 Olympic medals.
“It was just about being a team player and putting them in position to run their best (Sunday),” Felix said.
Her immediate plans revolve around one thing — more hot wings.
“I only got a few of them,” Felix said. “I’ll finish them now.”
A LANE BY HERSELF
Belgian hurdler Anne Zagre will always have a cool story of how she ran all by herself in a heat at worlds. She will probably have the scars to prove it, too.
Zagre ran all alone in lane six because in a round one heat during the morning session, defending champion Nia Ali crashed into the 10th hurdle and impeded Zagre’s lane. The jury of appeal made the decision to have Zagre run in a substitute heat for a chance to advance. She hit the last hurdle and fell across the finish line. She had bandages on her left shoulder and hand, along with both knees.
“Such a pity that I touched the last hurdle and fell down,” Zagre said. “I have no words. I actually have mixed feelings. Just crazy.”
END OF REIGN
For Ali, her reign as world champion comes to an end. The 33-year-old mother of three hit the ninth hurdle while in the lead and fell into the 10th. She took the setback in stride.
“It’s part of my journey. I have to embrace every part of it,” Ali said. “I am not incredibly happy about it but I have to overcome it. I wanted to do my very best in front of the home crowd. I was prepared to show a fast time.”
Those who made it through round one of the hurdles included Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico and world-record holder Keni Harrison of the U.S.
“This is a pretty special moment,” Harrison said. “To hear the crowd cheer for me brings a smile to my face.”
The semifinal and final will be Sunday.
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Finau wins Rocket Mortgage for 2nd straight PGA Tour victory
by: LARRY LAGE, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 31, 2022 / 05:21 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 31, 2022 / 05:21 PM CDT
Tony Finau reacts after making his putt for par on the ninth green during the final round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic golf tournament, Sunday, July 31, 2022,…
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Tony Finau reacts after making his putt for par on the ninth green during the final round of the Rocket Mung (68) tied for second.
Finau coasted to his fourth career victory, a third title in 11-plus months. He was the 3M Open winner last week in Minnesota, where he rallied from five strokes back to win by three. Brendon Todd was the last to win two straight in the regular season, doing it in 2019.
Finau, the Salt Lake City native with Tongan-Samoan heritage, began his stretch of success last August at The Northern Trust, where he had his first victory in five years and 142 PGA Tour starts.
Finau stopped another drought in Detroit, winning for the first time in six attempts when he had or shared the 54-hole lead in a PGA Tour event. With his sixth birdie at No. 17 and a closing par, he broke Nate Lashley’s tournament record of 25 under set in 2019 during the inaugural PGA Tour event.
The PGA Tour will close the regular season at the Wyndham Championship, with the North Carolina event opening Thursday. Players on the bubble will have one last shot to finish in the top 125 of the FedEx Cup standings to earn a spot in the playoffs and a full card next season.
Finau and Pendrith started Sunday tied and their potential duel in Detroit turned out to be a dud.
Pendrith had his first lackluster round of the tournament after he shared the first-round lead with Finau, led him by one shot after the second and matched his 21-under total through three rounds.
The 31-year-old PGA Tour rookie from Canada hit an errant tee shot on the second hole to the right in the rough behind tree branches — after being distracted by a fan running across the fairway — and later pulled a 9-foot to lose the lead for good.
Cantlay, No. 4 in the world ranking, had his third straight round in the mid-60s after opening with a 70. Young bounced back from a first-round 71 to finish second for the fifth time.
Pendrith struggled in the final round just as he did the only other time he had a 54-hole lead. He led the Bermuda Championship last October by three shots before a 76 dropped him into fifth place, which was his best finish before his showing in the Motor City. Pendrith played in his third tournament after missing nearly four months with a broken rib.
Finau began to pull away from Pendrith with an 11-foot birdie putt at No. 4 and a tap-in for birdie at No. 7.
He made a 21-foot putt for birdie at No. 10 for his third birdie. After his first bogey in the tournament at No. 11, Finau made a 31-foot putt with a break from right to left at No. 12 and Pendrith missed an 11-foot putt on the same hole to fall four shots back.
Cantlay surged within three shots of the lead with a 5-foot eagle putt at the par-5 14th. On the same hole, Finau made his fifth birdie of the final round to lead by four shots.
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Larson reflects on 2nd chance offered by Philly race school
by: DAN GELSTON, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 23, 2022 / 05:29 AM PDT
Updated: Jul 23, 2022 / 05:50 AM PDT
NASCAR driver Kyle Larson, center, talks with members of the Urban Youth Racing School before the start of a race on the grounds of the Please Touch Museum in…
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NASCAR driver Kyle Larson, center, talks with members of the Urban Youth Racing School before the start of a race on the grouly-based program that creates opportunities in racing for minorities.
Larson might seem an unlikely ambassador in the wake of his 2020 suspension for using a slur during an iRacing event that cost him his ride driving for Chip Ganassi. He instead built on his existing relationship with the program and grew it into something deeper: Zoom calls with students, buying race simulators, making personal appearances — all while mending fences with the Black community and spreading the word of UYRS’ mission statement.
“The journey that he was on was extraordinary,” NASCAR President Steve Phelps said. “We asked him to do a series of things, and he did so much more than that. To have the school embrace him like they did, that true love affair that exists between the school and Kyle, I think is amazing.”
Sure enough, take a look at Larson now: Reigning Cup Series champion, wildly popular with grassroots racing fans, a dedicated mentor at UYRS and hey, he even won an ESPY this week for best driver. Of course, Larson wasn’t on hand to accept the award in Los Angeles — he was out racing Wednesday night on the half-mile dirt track at Port Royal Speedway in Pennsylvania.
The entire Hendrick Motorsports fleet of Larson, Chase Elliott, William Byron and Alex Bowman were among a handful of NASCAR drivers that raced Friday at the UYRS Grand Prix in Philadelphia. The race team with Richard Childress Racing driver Austin Dillon won the fundraising event.
The NASCAR stars teamed with UYRS students and local personalities on a makeshift track on the property of a Philadelphia children’s museum. The race was held on a small slice of city property, but the couple of hundred fans, school buses filled with kids, food trucks and DJ’s cranking out tunes gave the course the party vibe that has made street racing so appealing to NASCAR.
NASCAR announced this week its first street course to the Cup schedule with a planned 2023 race through downtown Chicago. The Cup Series will race July 2 against the backdrop of Lake Michigan and Grant Park as part of a three-year deal with Chicago.
“I think it’s going to be an off-the-charts success,” Phelps said at the Grand Prix. “Could we have other street courses in the future? I certainly wouldn’t rule it out.”
The Grand Prix — as small as it was — provided a window into the kind of young, diverse environment NASCAR has strived for under Phelps and the rest of the current leadership group. Though, don’t expect so many fans in Chicago wearing Allen Iverson jerseys.
“Just look at the crowd. We’re a sport every day that gets younger and more diverse,” Phelps said. “That’s exactly what this is. Some of these people are younger. Some are more diverse. But I think it’s just this melting pot of people with everyone feeling welcome.”
Larson hoped the scene was a taste of what NASCAR could become on race weekends.
“I think NASCAR works really hard to try and get to that point,” Larson said. “There’s no reason why not. I think events like this is where it starts. This is probably a lot of people’s first times ever behind the wheel of a go-kart. Should be a good introduction.”
The Urban Youth Racing School was hatched by Philly native Anthony Martin, who left a sports marketing career to pursue his love of racing and mix it with a dream of introducing inner-city kids to NASCAR. The school has served more than 7,500 students from ages 8 to 18 over almost 25 years and teaches all aspects of auto racing, including driving and Black racing history.
Before he made the short trip to Pocono, Larson had to pay back the program that stood by him in 2020 and offered him a very public second chance.
“I’ve been able to give back and support them, as well,” Larson said.
Larson’s redemptive path put the school in the spotlight, fueling UYSR with more determination to graduate students to NASCAR.
“Look around, you’ve got a lot of folks of color here, and that’s what the goal was,” Martin said. “We wanted people to come here and see, here’s the drivers, here what they do, and see it for themselves.”
One thing Larson doesn’t have on his plate is time to dwell on his near miss last year at Pocono Raceway. Larson was about a mile away from winning the race when a blown tire denied him a fourth straight Cup victory.
Bowman won the race last June.
Larson has only one win last season, well off his smashing 2021 season when he won 10 times. Larson does have crew chief Cliff Daniels back from a four-race suspension after the No. 5 Chevrolet lost a wheel at Sonoma Raceway.
“Our car has been fast,” Larson said. “We’ve got to get better on pit road, and get better behind the wheel, too, and hopefully we’ll be in contention more often.”
POCO-NO-GO
This year is the first time Pocono will not host two Cup events in the same season since 1982. Once a summer stalwart with a pair of 500-mile races on the schedule, Pocono will run a lone 400-miler on Sunday. Pocono had a race moved to World Wide Technology Raceway, nestled just across the Mississippi River from the Gateway Arch and downtown St. Louis.
Phelps said moving one of the races “was not a shot on Pocono” but the series has simply embraced ambitious schedule changes — like its preseason race on a track inside the Los Angeles Coliseum. But Pocono wasn’t necessarily going away.
“I’m not suggesting they would come off the schedule, I’m not suggesting that all,” Phelps said. “But I think the opportunity to expose our racing to a different market is important. I think we’ll continue to look to do that moving forward with our schedule. It’s an important thing for us and, by the way, it’s successful.”
TRUCK CHAMPION
The Truck Series holds its regular season finale on Saturday. Zane Smith, John Hunter Nemechek, Chandler Smith, Stewart Friesen, Ben Rhodes, Ty Majeski, Christian Eckes and Carson Hocevar have clinched spots in the 10-driver field. Zane Smith needs only two points to clinch the regular-season crown.
The Xfinity Series also races Saturday at Pocono. Sage Karam races at Pocono for the first time since his involvement in a fatal 2015 IndyCar wreck at the track. Justin Wilson died from injuries suffered in the race.
ODDS AND ENDS
Kyle Busch, still racing without a contract for next season, is a 7-1 favorite to win for a fifth time Sunday at Pocono, per FandDuel Sportsbook. Busch cruised to an 8.654-second victory over Larson in the second race of last season’s Pocono twinbill. He has led a total of 522 laps in 34 career Cup Series starts at Pocono and his average finish at the track 15.1.
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This Week in African Art and Culture (August 29 – September 4, 2021) New African Show on Netflix, Serge Attukwei Clotteity offered by one of Africa’s most renowned contemporary art museums in collaboration with a university, for a one-year fellowship with them.
On art exhibitions, we present snippe and fascinating anecdotes.
The highest monetary prize for literature in Nigeria has announced its shortlist, and three outstanding writers are anticipating coveting the $100,000 prize.
Following a successful cinema run and smashing box-office record for her first two movies, a formidable Nigerian female director continues on her trailblazing streak with her third release on Netflix.
Zeitz MOCAA in Collaboration with University of Western Cape Offers a Museum Fellowship Program
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) and the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa recently announced an opportunity for a new generation of art and museum professionals in Africa. The program is ideal for individuals who are interested in further developing their careers in art museums, galleries, art centers, private and public collection management, biennials, art publishing, art festivals and related fields.
Slated to commence in 2022, the Zeitz MOCAA & University of Western Cape (UWC) Museum Fellowship Program has been created to contribute towards the redefinition of curatorial practice as well as art history scholarship on contemporary art discourse from the continent. This Pan-African program endeavors to foster knowledge production around curatorial practice, arts administration, and heritage management. It offers fellows exposure to museum practice, is facilitated both by Zeitz MOCAA senior staff and underpinned by academic rigor in contemporary art scholarship through facilitation byUniversity of Western Cape’s outstanding faculty in the field of humanities.
Based in Cape Town, which is fast becoming a major global art center, the program will offer participants a rich exploration of the fundamental networks and systems that contribute towards the city’s art and heritage ecosystem.
Five successful applicants will be selected and expected to participate in the full 12-month study program on a full-time basis starting February 2022 to February 2023. Eligible applicants preferably have a bachelor’s degree in an art, heritage or museum studies or other relevant humanities field, with a demonstrated capacity to work at a postgraduate level; knowledge of contemporary art and heritage from Africa and the African Diaspora; excellent writing skills; two to three years of relevant work experience; citizenship in an African country; and proficiency in English.
These successful fellows will contribute actively to the research, planning, execution and management of Zeitz MOCAA projects, ranging from exhibitions, publishing, public programming, art education and fundraising.
The program is modeled on a one-year tenure, where fellows will study and work with both institutions towards an accredited Bachelor of Arts Honorsqualification. The program will cover tuition, accommodation, basic health insurance and a monthly stipend. Travel and visa costs are not included.
Both Zeitz MOCAA and the University of Western Cape (UWC) celebrate diversity in all its forms including gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation.
Deadline for application is Sept. 30, 2021, and successful applicants will be contacted by Oct. 30, 2021.
Above: Olu Amoda | Hang Out II | stainless steel | 2021
Rele Gallery Presents Free Form by Olu Amoda in Los Angeles
Rele Gallery has opened its Los Angeles branch with a solo exhibition featuring recent works by Nigerian sculpture and metal artist, Olu Amoda. Titled Free Form, the exhibition features small-scale metal sculptures that Amoda has created—from parts sourced from fabricator shops and forge offcuts—to examine the quality and latent energy of material as well as the irregularity of form. With this body of work, he continues a career-long dialogue with materiality and the transformation of objects found from the debris of consumer culture.
Amoda has a proven, varied and dynamic oeuvre that includes sculptures, murals, furniture designs and multimedia installations. With this exhibition, he offers a less structured engagement with metal as compared to his more popular method of intricate arrangement and dense layering seen in works like his Sunflower series (2014), which garnered acclaim along with a grand prize at the 11th Dak’art Biennale in 2014. The works here are looser, allowing for a more intimate engagement with material and manipulation technique beyond the represented forms.
From solitary figures dressed in elaborate attires and shown in various stages of movement to groups of figures in companionship, the works in Free Forms also explore social issues and personalities; from the effects of the pandemic on social gatherings to fashion aesthetics, and dynamic figures inspired by popular culture.
Olu Amoda, who lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria and in Atlanta, U.S. has worked consistently over the past four decades to create a sculptural language with unique character and beauty. Amoda graduated in sculpture from Auchi Polytechnic, Nigeria, and received a Masterof Fine Arts from Georgia Southern University, U.S. He also taught drawing and sculpture construction at the Yaba College of Technology, from 1987–2019, before he voluntarily retired in protest of politicization and declined sabbatical leave.
Some of the exhibitions he has participated in include the Victoria and Albert Museum (U.K.), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Skoto Gallery (New York), Georgia Southern University (U.S.), Didi Museum (Nigeria), WIPO Headquarters (Switzerland) and Art Twenty One (Nigeria), among others.
Free Form is on view at Rele Gallery, Los Angeles until Oct. 9, 2021.
Above: Sam Nhlengethwa | Frank Sinatra | mixed media on canvas | 2021
Sam Nhlengethwa’s Jazz and Blues at Night at Goodman Gallery, London
At Goodman Gallery, London, an exhibition titled Jazz and Blues at Night by South African artist Sam Nhlengethwa is on view. As can be inferred from the title, these new works—in a series of prints, tapestries and mixed media collage works—intricately explore jazz music as its focus. The artist does this by paying homage to the musicians that have inspired him throughout his five–decades-long artistic career.
Over the course of his career, Nhlengethwa—dubbed by critics “one of the country’s most celebrated living artists”—has developed a distinctive collage and painting practice while exploring themes common to everyday life in South Africa, from the street life, to domestic interiors, to the influence of mining. Intrinsic to this practice is Nhlengethwa’s love of jazz.
From the age of 15, Nhlengethwa was exposed to the genre through his two older brothers, who listened to everything from the classic standards of artists such as Miles Davis and Dave Brubek to the more experimental sounds of Sun Ra, Eric Dolphy and Charles Mingus, to name a few.
“My life belongs to the jazz world, because I don’t spend a day in my studio without listening to jazz in the background,” said Nhlengethwa. With a collection of over 4,000 vinyls, Nhlengethwa views his records as “art material,” likening the experience of listening while working to a dialogue. “I don’t think I could be who I am, what I’m doing in the art world, if there was no jazz,” he continued. “It is my daily inspiration.”
Jazz and Blues at Night features the first–ever public display of pages from Nhlengethwa’s sketchbooks dating back to the 1980s. These drawings form a sort of note taking for Nhlengethwa, who would carry along his sketchbooks wherever he went, finding inspiration in jazz clubs, restaurants and buskers on the street. The selected sketches represent over a decade’s worth of these drawings, which themselves served more as ideas for Nhlengethwa than actual blueprints for his work.
Although Nhlengethwa is an experienced and acclaimed artist, this exhibition marks his first solo exhibition in London and will be on view until Sept. 25, 2021.
Above: Installation view: Serge Attukwei Clottey | Distinctive Gestures | Gallery 1957, London | 2021
Gallery 1957 Presents Distinctive Gestures by Serge Attukwei Clottey in London
Also in London, Gallery 1957 is showing works by Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey in an exhibition titled, Distinctive Gestures. Described as his immediate translation of the body observed on social media, this selection of work explores themes of identity and the politics behind body language by comparing the expression and gesture of subjects from the 1950s and ’60s to those of today.
The Tondos series reinterprets the body language and facial gestures of mid-century black–and–white photography in intimate Ghanaian spaces such as barbering salons. These spaces are known even today to foster uniquely intimate social relationships and serve as sites for community building and gathering. Through Clottey’s work, we are invited to reflect on the expressions of men at the middle of the century.
In the Sex and Politics pastel drawings, Clottey reflects on his own social media engagement and its proliferation of one-sided relationships, where, on one end, a persona can be cultivated by an “influencer” or “user,” and is received on the other by a “follower.”
In To Be A Man, the artist abstracts the tendency of Western ideals of masculinity—spread by social media to influence the preoccupation of contemporary men living in countries such as Ghana and the Congo—with new ways of communicating wealth and virility.
This is also Clottey’s first solo show at Gallery 1957’s London outpost and can be viewed until Sept. 10, 2021.
Above: Book covers of the 2021 NLNG Literary Prize Shortlist
Shortlist for the 2021 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature Announced
The NLNG Prize for Literature, one of Africa’s most coveted literary prizes, has announced its shortlist for this year’s edition. Worth $100,000, the prize ranks as the richest literary prize in Africa.
The Nigerian Prize for Literature, sponsored annually by oil firm NLNG, was started in 2004 to honorNigerian authors of literature and rotates among four genres: fiction, poetry, drama and children’s literature, repeating the cycle every four years. This year, the genre of focus is fiction, and the three shortlisted authors vying for the prize are Abi Daré, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia and Obinna Udenwa for their works, The Girl With The Louding Voice, The Son of The House and The Colours of Hatred respectively.
The judging panel for 2021 is led by the Chairman Professor Toyin Jegede, who is a professor of literature in English at the University of Ibadan. The other judges are Professor Tanimu Abubakar and Dr. Solomon Azumurana. Prof. Abubakar is a professor of literature in the art faculty at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Dr.Azumurana is a senior lecturer in the department of English at the University of Lagos.
The judges, in their report, described the novels as full of suspense and intrigue. They stated that the novels “tell human and indeed universal stories of rural as against urban life, suffering and survival, loss and redemption, decline and renaissance, destruction and reconstruction, and death and rebirth.”
The winner will be announced by the NLNG advisory board in
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Nigerian Filmmaker Kemi Adetiba’s King of BoysSequel is All the Rage
Throughout the month of August, anticipation was at an all-time high for the phenomenal Nigerian filmmaker Kemi Adetiba’s series, King of Boys: Return of the King. One of the Netflix originals announced last year, the crime thriller, created as a limited series that was released on Aug. 27, has been enjoying raves and non-stop positive reviews online. This comes as no surprise, as Adetiba has continuously pushed the limits and broken sales records since her movie directorial debut with The Wedding Party.
In October 2018, Kemi Adetiba’s sophomore film, King of Boys was released. It received rave reviews and grossed ₦200 million (U.S. $486,000)by its seventh week in the box office before selling exclusive streaming rights to Netflix in 2020. Since its release,King of Boys: The Return of the King sits at number one, and the three-year–old King of Boys at number twoon Netflix’s Top 10 in Nigeria. And it might not be overreaching to say this position would stay true if Netflix had a “Top 10 in Africa” ranking on its app.
The series, which follows the story of its protagonist, Eniola Salami (played by Sola Sobowale and Toni Tones), is a dark, crime and political show. It tells the story about her efforts to reassert herself in power after her return from a five-year exile. She attempts to turn her underworld might into legitimate political power—this time aiming even higher than before.
The series has received positive reviews from critics, who praised the direction, cinematography, action sequences and performances. With its returning cast and new additions like Nse Ikpe-Etim and Charles “Charly Boy” Oputa, (who have been commended for their outstanding performance in the film), more costumes and locations, it is safe to assume that King of Boys: The Return of the King has surpassed its predecessor in budget and turnover.
Upon the release of this film, Kemi Adetiba has been showered with many phenomenal praises including being a visual goddess. With the success streak in all three films she’s directed in the last five years, it will be difficult to contest her immortality.
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Engineers make world’s fastest organic transistor, herald new generation of see-through electronics
Ex Coastest thin-film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has the potential to achieve the performance needed for high-resolution television screens and similar electronic devices.
For years engineers the world over have been trying to use inexpensive, carbon-rich molecules and plastics to create organic semiconductors capable of performing electronic operations at something approaching the speed of costlier technologies based on silicon.
In the Jan. 8 edition of Nature Communications, engineers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and Stanford University show how they created thin-film organic transistors that could operate more than five times faster than previous examples of this experimental technology.
Research teams led by Zhenan Bao, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, and Jinsong Huang, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering at UNL used their new process to make organic thin-film transistors with electronic characteristics comparable to those found in expensive, curved-screen television displays based on a form of silicon technology.
They achieved their speed boost by altering the basic process for making thin film organic transistors.
Typically, researchers drop a special solution, containing carbon-rich molecules and a complementary plastic, onto a spinning platter — in this case, one made of glass. The spinning action deposits a thin coating of the materials over the platter.
In their Nature Communications paper, the collaborators describe two important changes to this basic process.
First they spun the platter faster. Second they only coated a tiny portion of the spinning surface, equivalent to the size of a postage stamp.
These innovations had the effect of depositing a denser concentration of the organic molecules into a more regular alignment. The result was a great improvement in carrier mobility, which measures how quickly electrical charges travel through the transistor.
The researchers called this improved method “off-center spin coating.” The process remains experimental, and the engineers cannot yet precisely control the alignment of organic materials in their transistors, or achieve uniform carrier mobility.
Even at this stage, off-center spin coating produced transistors with a range of speeds far above those of previous organic semiconductors and comparable to the performance of the polysilicon materials used in today’s high-end electronics.
Further improvements to this experimental process could lead to the development of inexpensive, high-performance electronics built on transparent substrates such as glass and, eventually, clear and flexible plastics.
Already, the researchers have shown that they can create high-performance organic electronics that are 90 percent transparent to the naked eye.
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Lawmakers who after which point they’ll have five to seven weeks more in which to consider and vote on them.
House Speaker Nancy Pelose Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, D-CA, speak during a press conference in the House Studio of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on October 2, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)nks to a surge in regulatory action as the last administration was packing its things, measures that facilitate discrimination in health care and greenlight pollution (among many others) are on the books. And due to the inistration will be obligated to dedicate scarce resources to administrative procedures like notice and comment — resources that would be better spent developing new initiatives to use the executive branch’s vast powers for good.
But, at least for the time being, there’s a faster, easier path to address some of these damaging, last ditch efforts to exert lasting Trumpian control on the government. For just a short while longer, Congress can use the Congressional Review Act to strike last-minute Trump rules from the books by a simple majority vote. This could skyrocket the Biden administration months or years forward on critical issues, such as air pollution, labor and civil rights. That’s obviously good policy, but it also makes for good politics in a world in which congressional Democrats’ political prospects are entwined with the president’s ability to deliver major improvements quickly and keep his approval ratings high. Whether out of moral commitment or cold political calculation, Democratic lawmakers should move quickly and aggressively to repeal eligible Trump rules.
Whereas reversing regulations via administrative procedure is a months-long process (effectively writing a new rule to replace the old one) by using the CRA, lawmakers can strike rules from the books in the space of just a few weeks. CRA resolutions also are not subject to the Senate filibuster. This power is limited in several ways — it only applies to rules that are finalized within a set time period and only lasts for a short window — but, provided those conditions are met, it’s a formidable tool. Indeed, in 2017, Republicans used it to target 34 Obama-era regulations and successfully eliminated 14.
The window to act in 2021 closes this week. Lawmakers who after which point they’ll have five to seven weeks more in which to consider and vote on them. So far, members have only taken this perfunctory step for five rules.
Needless to say, this is not for a shortage of eligible regulations. The Trump administration took an estimated 1,490 regulatory actions that are subject to the CRA, of which the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards has identified 28 rules that challenge key Democratic priorities.
On the docket, for instance, is a Health and Human Services regulation that, as Lambda Legal describes, “permit[s] social service agencies and providers that receive HHS grant funding to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, as well as religion and sex.” Also, eligible is a housing rule that, according to the National Low Income Housing Center, makes it “virtually impossible for victims [of housing discrimination] to prove they were discriminated agaicancer, neurotoxic effects, fetal damage and premature death — and disproportionately impact[ing] Black, brown and low-income people who often live near toxic facilities,” according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. So far, we’ve received little indication that they will.
Some lawmakers have suggested that they are reluctant to use the CRA due to a provision barring future administrations from implementing rules that are “substantially the same” as those eliminated under the law. Some argue that this prohibition could apply to any rule that tackles the same subject matter, even if it is in a different form or with drastically different intent. But there’s good reason to believe that these concerns are overblown. The Trump administration, for example, implemented two rules that treated “substantially the same” issue as ones reversed under the CRA. Inevitably, Republicans will cry foul (emphasis on “cry”) when Democrats implement prosocial regulations after reversing Trump’s cruel ones — but, especially if their party already did the same thing, does it matter? More fundamentally, the CRA bars judicial review, so it is unclear how parties can bring cases relating to the interpretation or enforcement of CRA provisions.
So why the dearth of CRA resolutions? This is likely just a reflection of the fact that congressional Democrats have not considered rolling back Trump rules a major priority. Unfortunately, as someone who regularly critiqued Democratic leadership for being inattentive to the tremendous damage the Trump administration inflicted using executive power, this is hardly a surprise to me.
As previously noted, lawmakers have moved to reverse five of Trump’s disastrous midnight regulations. By erasing these rules, lawmakers will ensure strong standards for methane emissions, protect the ability of victims of workplace discrimination to get relief, maintain shareholders’ ability to push companies on climate and other matters, and stop predatory lenders’ latest effort to skirt interest-rate limits. These are important steps. Lawmakers should go further to target all of the eligible rules public-interest advocates have identified as a priority.
But is there time? Despite Democrats’ procrastination, yes. CRA resolutions consist of just a few lines of text into which the name of the specific regulation in question is inserted. A motivated aide could draw up resolutions for all of the remaining 23 regulations on the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards’ list in about 15 minutes. Having taken this initial step, Democrats will have several weeks more in which to fight to get these resolutions passed.
And that fight is well worth their while. First and most obviously, the rules described above stand in direct opposition to everything Democrats ran on; they should be eager to ensure that they are not the policy of the United States. Arguably even more importantly, it’s a simple matter of resource management — in this case, Democratic man-hours and political capital. Allowing Biden to sidestep the lengthy administrative process to reverse rules (a process that hostile courts could draw out even longer) will let him put the full force of his team’s resources and talents behind new initiatives to advance the public interest that much faster. There are 208 weeks in a presidential term. Biden’s already burned through 11. The stakes, especially before the midterm elections, are just too high to let any opportunity slip through Democrats’ fingers.
In general, lawmakers who are eager to enact transformative change should care not only about passing new legislative measures, but also ensuring that strong, existing statute is applied as effectively as possible. Using the CRA is an early opportunity (among many) to put this into action.
The considerable policy benefits aside, helping Biden help people faster is plainly good politics. Rightly or wrongly, Democrats’ control of both chambers of Congress will depend a great deal on Biden’s performance over the next two years. And while the recovery bill made for a strong start, that goodwill is unlikely to endure for the duration of this Congress absent additional action.
In other words, it is in Congressional Democrats’ interest for Biden to continually demonstrate that the federal government can help people — and in more ways than just writing checks. Using the CRA expansively to help this administration enact better regulations faster would make for a strong start.
Eleanor Eagan is a research assistant at the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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The Daily Hatch
The Daily Hatch
with Everette Hatcher
Dan Mitchell: If Joe Biden’s bungled economic policy is any indication, the GOP may wind up controlling Washington in the not-too-distant future. If so, I hope Republicans rekindle their interest in the kind of genuine entitlement reform discussed in this interview!
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Tthis interview.
But I’m not sure whether to be optimistic or pessimistic.
On the plus side, the GOP supported pro-growth entitlement reform during the Obama years.
On the minus side, the party largely punted on the issue once Trump took over.
To be sure, punting is the easy route from a “public choice” ps economy is weakened by an ever-growing burden of federal spending and eventually is plunged into fiscal crisis.
And that’s based on et Journal editorialized about the downside of making America more like Europe last October.
The result of…expanded entitlements is likely to be reduced incentives to work and invest, slower economic growth, lower living standards, and less fiscal space for essential public goods like national defense. That’s the lesson from Europe’s cradle-to-grave welfare states… Europe’s little-discussed secret is that its cradle-to-grave welfare states are financed by the middle class via value-added and payroll taxes. The combined employer-employee social security tax rate is 36% in Spain, 40% in Italy and 65% in France. Value-added taxes in most European economies are around 20%. There simply aren’t enough rich to finance their entitlements.
Amen. I’ve repeatedly warned that a European-sized welfare state would mean European-sized taxes on lower-income and middle-class Americans.
And what’s remarkable (and discouraging) is that some politicians in the U.S. want to expand entitlements even though many European governments now realize they made big mistakes and need to scale back.
The irony is that some European governments have tried to reform their tax and welfare systems to become more competitive. Germany and Sweden over two decades reformed their welfare and labor policies. …Other European governments are also pushing welfare-state reforms. French President Emmanuel Macron has passed pension reform and cut the corporate tax rate to 26.5% from 33% in 2017… Greece is pulling out of its debt trap with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s tax, pension and regulatory reforms.
For what it’s worth, I’m happy about these reforms, but I fear many European nations are in the too-little-too-late category.
Why? Because the demographic outlook is deteriorating faster than reform is happening. In other words, most of them are probably destined to suffer Greek-style fiscal crises.
But if (or when) that happens, maybe American politicians will finally wake up and realize we need good reforms to prevent Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid from causing a similar collapse on this side of the Atlantic Ocean..
Hopefully that epiphany will take place before it is too late for the United States.
P.S. For those who are interested in the history of fiscal policy, John Cogan of the Hoover Institution wrote about pre-20th-century entitlements earlier this year.
Here are excerpts from his column in the Wall Street Journal.
The history of U.S. entitlements is a 230-year record of continuous expansion… The first major entitlement, Revolutionary War disability benefits, was initially restricted to members of the Continental Army and Navy who were injured in battle and survivors of those killed in wartime. Eligibility was then expanded, first to state militia soldiers, then to veterans whose disabilities were unrelated to wartime service, and eventually to virtually all people who served during the war regardless of disability. Civil War disability pensions followed the same…process, except on a far grander scale. Pensions were initially confined to U.S servicemen who suffered wartime injuries and survivors of those killed in battle. Eventually they were extended to virtually all union Civil War veterans regardless of disability. …Congress followed the same liberalizing process with 20th-century entitlements.
If this excerpt doesn’t satisfy your curiosity, here’s Cogan discussing the topic for 46 minutes.
P.P.S. Not all entitlement reform is created equal.
P.P.P.S. Here an informative chart if you want to know whether to blame defense spending or entitlement spending.
P.P.P.P.S. I always argue in favor of a Swiss-style spending cap, which presumably would force politicians to address America’s entitlement problem.
Democrats’ Destructive Spending Spree Would Turn America Into a European Social Welfare State
Grace-Marie Turner / @gracemarietweet / October 12, 2021
The Congressional Budget Office says it’s “unclear” when it will be able to estimate the cost of the spending bill. Pictured: Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has expressed concerns over the price tag of the spending bill, calling it “fiscal insanity.” (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Grace-Marie Turner@gracemarietweet
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute.
Capitol Hill staffers are working around the clock to hammer into some twisted shape a spending bill that warring factions of the Democratic Party will support in their goal to transform America.
The cradle-to-grave subsidies in the 2,448-page, $3.5 trillion spending bill that Democrats in Congress are crafting will create a welfare trap for millions more Americans, send inflation soaring, and drive our nation much deeper into debt.
Economic policy professor Chuck Blahous of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University analyzed the health benefit proposals in the spending bill. He wrote that expanding Medicare, Medicaid, and “so-called Obamacare” will “represent a major escalation of the fiscal irresponsibility lawmakers have practiced for the past several years.”
Former White House chief economist Casey Mulligan, now a professor at the University of Chicago, wrote that the spending bill would “implement the single largest permanent increase in work disincentives since the income tax came into its own during World War II.”
“The implicit employment and income taxes in [this legislation] would increase marginal tax rates on work by about 7 percentage points,” he wrote. “I expect that such a change in the disincentive would reduce full-time equivalent employment by about 4.5%, or about 7 million jobs.”
University of Chicago professor Charles Lipson wrote in “It’s Not the Top-Line Number—It’s the Bottom-Line Goal” that the spending bill would fundamentally transform the United States into a European social welfare state.
“Progressives know—and the whole country should understand—that piling on these vast new programs would be a major step in turning the United States into a European-style social democracy, along the lines of France, Germany, Spain, or Italy,” Lipson wrote. “Voters never elected [Joe] Biden to do that.”
The legislation is so huge and complex that even the Congressional Budget Office says “it is unclear” when it will be able to estimate the cost of the full spending bill, which is itself a moving target.
Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel wrote in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., last week, “The agency has not estimated how the entire package would affect direct spending, revenues, deficits, or spending that would be subject to appropriation. [The Congressional Budget Office] also has not completed its analysis of all of the mandates that the bill might impose on intergovernmental or private-sector entities.”
He says that instead of doing their primary job of estimating costs, Congressional Budget Office experts are spending time with congressional staff drafting the complex bill.
John Goodman, president of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research, wrote that the proposed bill is “throwing good money after bad” instead of focusing “on rational reform of existing programs.”
Because entitlements comprise so much of the new spending, Goodman wrote, “The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the full cost is not the $3.5 trillion that has been widely advertised, but at least $5 trillion and possibly as much as $5.5 trillion.”
Apart from direct federal spending, there are other huge costs to the private economy. It would cost about $171 billion in the first year just to provide the salaries and facility spaces to meet the demand for increased subsidized child care, according to an analysis by Tara O’Neill Hayes of American Action Forum.
Blahous’ “A Pictorial Guide to Congress’ Irresponsible Health and Budget Proposals,” shows that the Democrats’ proposed legislation “adds substantially to runaway federal spending that is already outpacing U.S. economic output.”
In a dozen or so charts, Blahous shows how the spending blowout will influence the vast number of affected programs. “In practical terms, the current trend must stop,” he wrote. “No population will tolerate its discretionary income perpetually shrinking to support lawmakers’ addiction to promising bigger health benefits.”
Halloween is the new target date for passage. We should all be scared. When even the Congressional Budget Office is daunted in figuring out how much the monstrous bill would cost, it is way past time to press “pause,” as Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., pleads.
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Democratic Tax Plan
By Chris Edwards
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House Democrats are moving ahead with a huge bill to raise taxes on businesses and individuals, increase welfare handouts, and micromanage numerous industries. It is a complex proposal that would increase taxes $2.1 trillion over 10 years with 66 provisions and would distribute tax breaks and spending with another 79 provisions.
The following table is my summary of the bill based on the official estimates. The bill would raise $2.073 trillion in taxes, distribute $1.202 trillion to infrastructure, green, and safety net programs, and leave $871 billion in higher taxes to be used for other spending in the overall Democratic agenda. Of the $1.202 trillion, 43 percent is tax cuts and 57 percent is spending through refundable tax credits.
Here is a brief summary of the Democratic tax plan:
Subtitle F, Infrastructure. The main provisions are subsidies for infrastructure bonds, building rehabilitation, and the low‐income housing tax credit (LIHTC). The LIHTC is an awful, fraud‐ridden program that mainly benefits developers. That the tax bill would expand it by $29 billion illustrates the absence of evidence‐based policymaking in Washington.
Subtitle G, Green Energy. The main provisions are subsidies for electric utilities, biofuels, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles. The subsidies are mainly in the form of tax credits, which are nearly always complex and difficult to administer.
Subtitle H, Safety Net. The main provisions would expand the child tax credit (CTC), the earned income tax credit (EITC), and the child and dependent care tax credit (CDCTC). The official scoreshows that three‐quarters of CTC and EITC benefits are spending, not tax cuts.
Subtitle I, Tax Increases. The $2.1 trillion in tax hikes include raising the corporate tax rate ($540 billion), raising taxes on business foreign operations ($424 billion), and raising income and capital gains taxes on individuals and small businesses ($1 trillion).
The Democratic tax plan would seize $2.1 trillion from the private economy and use it to micromanage industries and buy votes with handouts to favored interests. The actions of seizing, micromanaging, and handing out benefits would each distort the economy and reduce overall national income.
There would be other costs of the plan. The 145 provisions and the follow‐on regulations would generate large administrative and compliance costs, which would only benefit high‐paid lawyers and accountants. Another cost would be diverting the energies of the nation’s business leaders and entrepreneurs from making better products to dealing with all the new rules.
Below is a JCT table showing projected taxes by income level under present law and under the Democratic proposal in 2023. I circled the overall effective tax rates, meaning total federal income, payroll, and excise taxes as a percent of income. Under present law, the average tax rate at the top is 30 percent, which compares to 0–10 percent for groups at the bottom. If the tax plan passed, the average tax rate at the top would rise to 37 percent, while tax rates at the bottom would fall, going negative for some groups as CTC and EITC expansion wiped out all federal taxes for many additional households.
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Biden Admits Green New Deal Is a Dream
David Harsanyi / @davidharsanyi / August 17, 2021
The reality is that President Biden, pictured at a ceremony where he signed a bill honoring law enforcement in the Rose Garden of the White House on Aug. 5, couldn’t go a year in office without pleading with oilocracies to hike production. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
COMMENTARY BY
David Harsanyi@davidharsanyi
David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and the author of “First Freedom: A Ride through America’s Enduring History With the Gun, From the Revolution to Today.”
Last week, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ordered a “code red,” releasing a “landmark” report warning that global warming was an existential threat to humanity, “unequivocally” blaming humans for the problem, and demanding rapid action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
“What the IPCC told us is what President [Joe] Biden has believed all along,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki noted last Tuesday. “Climate change is an urgent threat that requires bold action.”
The very next day, the Biden administration released a statement imploring the OPEC cartel to increase production of oil to help lower worldwide gas prices. “Higher gasoline costs,” the White House said, “if left unchecked, risk harming the ongoing global recovery.” The White House wants OPEC to go above the 400,000-barrels-per-day increase it already promised to implement, which doesn’t seem to jibe with the notion that we are on the precipice of the apocalypse.
As an economic matter, of course, the request makes total sense: By pressuring exporters to pump more oil, a fungible commodity, we lower costs worldwide.
Even though technology continues to create efficiencies that lower emissions, modernity relies heavily on affordable and reliable energy. Economies would collapse without it. And for emerging nations, affordable fossil fuel remains a prerequisite for lifting billions of people out of poverty.
As a political matter, it might seem odd, to say the least, that President Joe Biden is imploring foreign nations to increase supply. Firstly, such a position runs contrary to virtually every “green” plan in existence—almost all of which intentionally, through mandates or bans or taxes or contrived “markets,” exist to make fossil fuels more expensive and reduce use.
Clean energy advocates, including the president, argue that, in the aggregate, going green would be an economic plus. But if slightly higher prices threaten the world’s economic health, what would complete weaning from fossil fuels do to the economy? Biden has promised a “100% clean energy economy” with “net-zero emissions” in only a few decades. Without some technological miracle, this is a fantastical, not to mention suicidal, goal.
The reality is that Biden couldn’t go a year in office without pleading with oilocracies to hike production. In his defense, one assumes, people will point out that COVID-19 presents a historically unique situation. As far as the economics of recovery go, not really. In fact, this manmade downturn should be easier to mend than most. And this is certainly not the last recession or downturn or pandemic or world event that is going to affect the energy market.
Though it’s probably an unpopular position, I’d be content importing cheap oil, or allowing others to flood the market, while saving our own supply for a time when new drilling becomes more economically feasible. But the hypocrisy of all this is that Biden works to restrict energy trade only in North America.
Earlier this year, the president rescinded oil and gas lease sales from most of the nation’s massive state-owned lands and waters, citing climate change as the reason. He then shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, revoking a permit that was needed to build a 1,200-mile project that would have carried around 830,000 barrels per day of Alberta oil sands crude into the United States—probably more than enough to avoid begging OPEC for oil—again citing climate change as the reason.
At the same time, Biden lifted United States sanctions that would have blocked completion of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that will transport fuel from Russia to Germany, which, like us, is a signee of the Paris Agreement.
Most European nations aren’t abiding by that agreement (well, without the help of an economy-paralyzing pandemic). Which is a reminder that to merely keep pace with the IPCC recommendations on carbon emissions, Americans, who use around 20 million barrels of petroleum every day, would be compelled to induce a pandemic-level shutdown of the economy every year for 30 years.
Americans, despite what they tell pollsters about climate change, demand affordable gas. You might recall that, despite his best efforts to undermine U.S. energy production, former President Barack Obama took credit for the domestic oil and gas boom. “That was me, people,” he told a crowd in 2018. Political pressure is also why the White House made sure its OPEC statement on gas prices was for public consumption, rather than simply making those requests of OPEC through diplomatic channels.
The Green New Deal, whatever iteration of the plan you care to support, is unfeasible. Biden’s request is just another reminder.
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The climate-change hustle
John Stossel: Through 50 years of reporting on scares, only COVID proved true
By John Stossel
Published November 17, 2020 at 7:06pm
I hear that climate change will destroy much of the world.
“There will be irreversible damage to the planet!” warns a CNN anchor.
Joe Biden says he’ll spend $500 billion a year to fight what his website calls an “existential threat to life.”
Really?
I’m a consumer reporter. Over the years, alarmed scientists have passionately warned me about many things they thought were about to kill Americans.
Asbestos in hair dryers, coffee, computer terminals, electric power lines, microwave ovens, cellphones (brain tumors!), electric blankets, herbicides, plastic residue, etc., are causing “America’s cancer epidemic”!
If those things don’t get us, “West Nile Virus will!” Or SARS, Bird Flu, Ebola, flesh-eating bacteria or “killer bees.”
Experts told me millions would die on Jan. 1, 2000, because computers couldn’t handle the switch from 1999. Machines would fail; planes would crash.
The scientists were well-informed specialists in their fields. They were sincerely alarmed. The more knowledge you have about a threat, the more alarmed you get.
Yet, mass death didn’t happen. COVID-19 has been the only time in my 50 years of reporting that a scare proved true.
Maybe you accepted the phrase I used above: “America’s cancer epidemic.” But there is no cancer epidemic. Cancer rates are down. We simply live long enough to get diseases like cancer. But people think there’s a cancer epidemic.
The opposite is true. As we’ve been exposed to more plastics, pesticides, mysterious chemicals, food additives and new technologies, we live longer than ever!
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That’s why I’m skeptical when I’m told: Climate change is a crisis!
Climate change is real. It’s a problem, but I doubt that it’s “an existential threat.”
Saying that makes alarmists mad.
When Marc Morano says it, activists try to prevent him from speaking.
“They do not want dissent,” says Morano, founder of a website that rebuts much of what climate activists teach in schools.
“It’s an indoctrination that’s so complete that by the time (kids) get to high school, they’re not even aware that there’s any scientific dissent.”
Morano’s new movie, “Climate Hustle 2,” presents that dissent. My new video this week features his movie.
Morano argues that politicians use fear of global warming to gain power.
“Climate Hustle 2” features Sen. Chuck Schumer shouting: “If we would do more on climate change, we’d have fewer of these hurricanes and other types of storms! Everyone knows that!”
But everyone doesn’t know that. Many scientists refute it. Congress’ own hearings include testimony about how our warmer climate has not caused increases in the number of hurricanes or tornadoes. “Climate Hustle 2” includes many examples like that.
“Why should we believe you?” I ask Morano. “You’re getting money from the fossil fuel industry.” After all, Daily Kos calls him “Evil Personified” and says ExxonMobil funds him.
“Not at all,” he replies. “I’m paid by about 90% individual contributions from around the country. Why would ExxonMobil give me money (when) they want to appear green?”
Morano’s movie frustrates climate activists by pointing out how hypocritical some are.
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio says he lives a “green lifestyle … (using) energy-efficient appliances. I drive a hybrid car.”
Then he flies to Europe to attend a party.
I like watching Morano point out celebrities’ hypocrisy, but think one claim in his movie goes too far.
“Stopping climate change is not about saving the planet,” says narrator Kevin Sorbo. “It’s about climate elites trying to convince us to accept a future where they call all the shots.”
I push back at Morano: “I think they are genuinely concerned, and they want to save us.”
“Their vision of saving us is putting them in charge,” he replies.
And if they’re in charge, he says, they will destroy capitalism.
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State of the Union 2013
Published on Feb 13, 2013
Cato Institute scholars Michael Tanner, Alex Nowrasteh, Julian Sanchez, Simon Lester, John Samples, Pat Michaels, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Michael F. Cannon, Jim Harper, Malou Innocent, Juan Carlos Hidalgo, Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus and Neal McCluskey respond to President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Address.
Video produced by Caleb O. Brown, Austin Bragg and Lester Romero.
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In the past I have written the White House on several issues such as abortion, medicare, welfare, Greece, healthcare, and what the founding fathers had to say about welfare programs, and have got several responses from the White House concerning issues such as Obamacare, Social Security, welfare, and excessive government spending.
Today I am taking a look at the response of the scholars of the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute scholars to the 2013 State of the Union Address.
Morning Bell: Heritage Experts Analyze the State of the Union
Amy Payne
February 13, 2013 at 8:22 am
State of the…Climate?
Swept into office four years ago based, in part, on promises to slow sea-level rise, President Obama initiated a radical climate agenda. It seems we are seeing a rerun in 2013. It is worth asking what is different four years after his first State of the Union Address?
There have been four more years of no global warming. In 2010, there had been no significant world temperature increase for over a decade. The streak is now 16 years long. We have four years of costly lessons on the waste and inefficiency of green-energy subsidies.
The scientific basis for catastrophic climate change gets weaker and weaker. The economic argument for green subsidies has already collapsed. It is time for the administration to quit using both arguments to justify a regulatory and fiscal power grab.
– David W. Kreutzer, PhD, research fellow in energy economics and climate change, Center for Data Analysis
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Lake Michigan Gives Up Title Of United States’ Biggest Lake To That One Puddle In Front Of The Library
TOPIC the Wimberly Library took its rightful place as the largest lake in the United States. As many FAU students may know, there is occasionally a puddle that clearly takes the cake as the largest puddle known to man in front of the library. After those gentle Florida rains pour down onto campus, the natural dip in the sidewalk forms a puddle so deep students have gone missing within it. Thus, the puddle, which clearly surpasses Lake Michigan’s size, has been awarded the title of the largest lake in the United States.
“It’s truly awe inspiring,” commented student Elizabeth Hayes who had just taken a swim in the puddle. “The pool at the gym feels so manufactured and fake. This? This is a real experience to swim out in nature, to live in the wild.”
FAU Student Government has issued statements that they will begin organizing kayaking events to celebrate. There are also rumors of plans to install a diving board. Unfortunately, they declined to comment on what they will do when the puddle dries up.
At press time, it was revealed that the puddle in front of the library is now in competition for the United States’ biggest lake with those puddles formed by the sprinklers. More information soon to come.
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The RMT and Unite are also taking part in industrial action which will affect the London Underground on 21 June.
Thousands more railway workers will vote on strike action in gaffs Association (TSSA) will ballot more than 6,000 of its members at Network Rail from 20 June to 11 July.
The RMT and Unite are also taking part in industrial action which will affect the London Underground on 21 June.
The TSSA previously announced strike ballots among its members at four rail companies - Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, East Midlands and West Midlands Trains.
Members of Asleand safety-critical roles on rail services across the UK.
The union is asking for a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies this year, no unagreed changes to terms and conditio three years, the TSSA said.
If they vote for a strike, it could be held from 25 July.
'Summer of discontent'
TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said: "We could be seeing a summer of discontent across our railways if Network Rail don't see sense and come to the table to face the concerns of their staff.
"Network Rail staff are asking for basic fair treatment - not to be sacked from their jobs, a fair pay rise in the face of a cost-of-living crisis and no race to the bottom on terms and conditions.
"Fat cat bosses have so far refused these completely reasonable requests, leaving us with no option other than to ballot for industrial action, something which is always a last resort."
He said Network Rail have "dragged their heels" at every stage of pay talks, which began in April.
More talks will be held on Thursday in a bid to agree a deal.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "Now is not the time for the TSSA to be jumping on the RMT 'strike bandwagon'.
"Positive pay talks were in full swing with a 'no-strings' pay offer of 2.5% on the table, with the potential for more if connected to productivity and efficiency gains, so this news is both premature and deeply disappointing."
A Department for Transport spokesman said the ballot was "disappointing and premature", adding: "Taxpayers across the country contributed £16bn, or £600 per household, to keep our railways running throughout the pandemic.
"The railway is still on financial life support, with passenger numbers 25% down and anything that drives away even more of them puts services and jobs at risk."
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22.22 September 2015 (PDF version)
As a further encouragement to micro and small enterprises [1] to join the Sup registration. Since 1st September, micro and small enterprises only need to register to show their commitment to the initiative and the principles; they are no longer asked to conduct a preliminary self-assessment, to appoint an independent contact point to deal with complaints or to carry out training. Moreover, they are invited to take part in the survey but this is no longer compulsory.
Medium-sized enterprises already benefit from a simplified procedure including a commitment to apply the principles, a simplified self-assessment tool, simplified training obligations and a special rate for the on-line training tool. They can benefit from a derogation to appoint an independent contact person where resources are insufficient, but there is an obligation to take part in the annual survey.
Large companies continue to use the standard registration procedure.
Mella Frewen and Else Groen, co-Chairs of the Governance Group of the SCI, commented: ‘Micro and small enterprises can now enjoy easier access to the SCI. This decision responds especially to feedback from some registered companies that wished to see their trading partners also on board.
At the moment, SMEs represent 58% of the companies taking part in the SCI. We very much hope that this will contribute to reaching out to even more micro and small enterprises so they too can benefit from the full set of advantages offered by the SCI, including access to a range of dispute resolution mechanisms in case of an alleged breach of a Principle of Good Practice.’
[1] The EU definition is used to classify an enterprise in each of the categories, micro, small, medium and large. A micro enterprise is a company with <10 employees and ≤ € 2m turnover or balance sheet total. A small enterprise is a company with <50 employees and ≤ € 10m turnover or balance sheet total.
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Type 13 hotspots are used for example in the match box puzzle and in the icons for raising the ship, in Myst island. They possibly trigger a variable change when rolling over the hotspot.
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Type 13 hotspots are used when an action is triggered by mouse movements (enter/exit) rather than clicks. Examples:
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*the match box puzzle in Myst isla a variable change when the cursor enters and leaves them.
==Case studies==
==Case studies==
Latest revision as of 00:14, 13 October 2008
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Mohawk Overview
CL. Hotspots come in several "types" and depending on their type their action can be simple or very complex.
RLST data is a list of records, each record describing one of the hotspots:
short record_count
variable records
The record length is variable, dependihort right
short bottom
unsigned short destination
variable additional data
type specifies the hotspot action in a wide sense. Every value between 0 and 14 except for 9 has been observed. See below for the meaning of each type.
flags seems to be a bit field. Observed values are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 (4 variable bits). The value seems related to when the hotspot actions should be executed. For example, regular clickable hotspots usually have bit 1 set while hotspots that run background movies (e.g. the Channelwood windmill) have flags = 0. Bit 0 seems to indicate whether hotspot subimages are to be drawn (at least for type 8 hotspots). Hotspots with bit 2 set usually don't have any other bits set (except bit 0, encountered only twice). Bit 3 is suspected to flag Zip Mode hotspots.
(left, top, right, bottom) is the hotspot rectangle in pixels. Note that weird rectangles are found, like (-32000, -32000, 32000, 32000).
destination contains a destination card ID for hotspots that change card, or zero.
Additional data follows for some types, describing actions to perform. See below.
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1 Hotspot types
1.1 Types 0 to 4 and 14
1.2 Type 5
1.3 Type 6
1.4 Type 7
1.5 Type 8
1.6 Type 10
1.7 Type 11
1.8 Type 12
1.9 Type 13
2 Case studies
2.1 Intro Case Study
Hotspot types
Types 0 to 4 and 14
"Simple" hotspots that just change card. There is no additional data in the hotspot record. Types 0 to 4 define the movement direction (forward, left, right, down and up respectively) while the purpose of type 14 is not yet clear. It is used prevalently near linking books.
Type 5
Type 5 hotspots have a simple script attached to them, which is executed when the hotspot is activated. See the page about scripts for the structure of scripts.
Type 6
Type 6 hotspots have a script like type 5 ones, but they also play a video when activated. The record starts with a full type 5 record. Then comes a zero-terminated string (C string) which defines the path to the video file within the Myst CD-ROM, without extension. Backslashes are used to separate directories, as usual in Windows. After the string, the input stream position should be padded to the next 2-byte boundary. Finally come 7 shorts:
short left
short top
short loop
short u0
short u1
short u2
short u3
left and top specify the movie position. Sometimes they misteriously exceed the correct position by 10000, so one has to take them modulo 10000 to get "safe" values. loop is 0 for movies that are to be played once, 1 for movies that must loop. The unknown fields are usually 0 or 1 but u3 is found with 125 in one case. u0 seems fixed to 1.
Type 7
Type 7 record serves as some kind of switch statement: it runs a script from a list indexed by the value of a variable:
(var_index) {num_cases} [record_type <record_data>]
Each case itself begins with a record type (always 5 or 6) and contains the data you would find in a hotspot record of that type, excluding the standard block common to all types.
Type 8
Type 8 record is like type 7, but additionally it specifies a list of pictures to draw over main WDIB. The particular picture is chosen depending on the value of variable. This record includes the type 7 record at start.
<type_7_record> (var_index) {num_subs} [wdib_id <rectangle>]
Here, each subimage record defines a source WDIB ID and a source rectangle inside this WDIB. Rectangle is defined in the usual (left, top, right, bottom) format, with one exception: empty rectangle is defined as the single short -1. This is probably the case when source rectangle equals destination rectangle. Also, wdib_id itself can be -1, this probably means original WDIB for this card should be used as source WDIB.
Type 10
Type 10 hotspots implement slider-like controls. The record structure is:
variable type 8 block
short kind
short left
short right
short top
short bottom
short u0
short u1
short u2
short u3
short u4
unsigned short count0
short list0[count0]
unsigned short count1
short list1[count1]
unsigned short count2
short list2[count2]
unsigned short count3
short list3[count3]
kind is a small number (0-3) and seems to describe what kind of control this is. left, right, top and bottom look like coordinates and probably specify the area available to the control (e.g. for sliders). The values in the final lists look like sound IDs.
A few cases:
Myst island, card 4500: planetarium sliders, kind = 2
Myst island, card 4530: spaceship sliders, kind = 2
Selenitic Age, card 1147: slidnd
short left
short right
short top
short bottom
short u0
short u1
short u2
short u3
short u4
unsigned short count0
short list0[count0]
unsigned short count1
short list1[count1]
unsigned short count2
short list2[count2]
The first list seems to list sounds that play at animation start, the second seems to loop in the middle and the third seems to play when the user releases the control.
A few cases:
Myst island, card 4006: clock tower wheels, kind = 3
Myst island, card 4059: fireplace pattern book, kind = 3
Myst island, card 4098: huge tree control wheel, kind = 3
Selenitic Age, card 1245: arrows for rotating the cameras, kind = 1
Stoneship Age, card 2013: Achenar's toy lever, kind = 1
Stoneship Age, card 2161: generator handle, kind = 3
Stoneship Age, card 2218: telescope navigation, kind = 1
Type 12
Type 12 hotspots implement animated controls which use a sequence of separate pictures for the animation. Thcoordinates of the animation
A few cases:
Channelwood Age, card 3161
Channelwood Age, card 3246
Channelwood Age, card 3271
Mechanical Age, card 6044
Mechanical Age, card 6156
Mechanical Age, card 6180
Myst island, card 4100
Myst island, card 4113
Type 13
Type 13 record has just two unknown shorts u0 and u1 after the main block. In addition, destination seems to be a variable rather than a card ID.
Type 13 hotspots are used when an action is triggered by mouse movements (enter/exit) rather than clicks. Examples:
the match box puzzle in Myst island
the icons for raising the ship in Myst island
the crystals in Sirrus' room in Mechanical Age.
Looking at the scripts, these hotspots could trigger a variable change when the cursor enters and leaves them.
Case studies
Note: these are simply the data in little-endian shorts and line-broken where patterns are found. <l t b r> is the hotspot rect. count [entry]... are guesses at when there are lists of entries. The number in parentheses before the data is the card number (not the resource number).
The following hotspots replace part of the image (in this case <417 260 544 333>) with part of another image (in this case 3004 <0 0 127 73>) based on a variable (103 2 plays in here somewhere):
8 1 < 31 276 163 333> 0 FFFF 0 103 2 3006 <0 0 132 57> 3005 FFFF
8 1 <417 260 544 333> 0 FFFF 0 103 2 3004 <0 0 127 73> 3003 FFFF
Case studies from Channelwood:
(CHANNEL 3001) 2
1 2 <1 0 110 332> 3002
2 2 <455 2 544 332> 3003
(CHANNEL 3002) 2
1 2 <0 1 100 332> 3005
2 2 <431 0 544 332> 3001
(CHANNEL 3003) 4
5 2 <213 90 343 290> 3494 2 [6 0 0] [24 0 1 {34904 <0 0 127 73>] [3003 <FFFF>]
(CHANNEL 3005) 4
0 2 <76 152 196 330> 3012
1 2 <0 0 106 332> 3003
2 2 <438 0 544 332> 3002
8 1 <31 276 163 333> 0 FFFF 0 103 2 [3006 <0 0 132 57>] [3005 <FFFF>]
(CHANNEL 3012) 8
8 3 <101 243 214 343> 0 FFFF 1 5 (1 [2 208> 0 1 [117 0 1 {1}]
5 2 <281 193 295 208> 0 1 [117 0 1 {2}]
5 2 <294 193 308 208> 0 1 [117 0 1 {3}]
8 1 <252 190 310 210> 0 FFFF 0 17 4 [3008 <0 0 58 20>] [3009 <0 0 58 20>] [3010 <0 0 58 20>] [3011 <0 0 58 20>]
0 4 <180 31 379 305> 0
5 2 <0 0 544 332> 0 1 [34 0 2 {3005 0}]
(MYST 4368) 3
8 3 <305 148 375 238> 0 FFFF 1 5 (1 [3 103 1 {802}]) 103 2 [FFFF <FFFF>] [4369 <0 0 70 90>]
7 2 <216 110 304 235> 0 106 5
5 (1 [115 101 3 {4741 4370 4368}])
5 (1 [115 101 3 {4741 4370 4368}])
5 (1 [115 101 3 {4741 4370 4368}])
5 (1 [115 101 3 {4741 4370 4368}])
5 (0)
0 2 <0 0 544 332> 4345
Intro Case Study
(INTRO 1) 1
0 2 <-32000 -32000 32000 32000> 5
INTRO 1 is supposed to be the card which shows the opening movies and then switches to card 2.
(INTRO 2) 1
5 2 <245 202 304 253> 4 2 [37 0 0] [34 0 2 {3 11}]
INTRO 2 is the first interactive part of the game, the part where you can pick up the Myst book. The rect correctly corresponds to where the book is on screen. But, look at the "destination" -- 4. There is no VIEW/RLST 4! However, there is a WDIB 4 and it is the open book with the water. Where this should go is to card 3 and show the Myst book cover before showing image 4 and then playing the video. And, there is a 3 in this chunk, but I'm not sure if that's the purpose. I have no idea what commands 37/34 could be. There is a WDIB 11, but it's of D'ni, so I doubt it's that. ;)
(INTRO 3) 2
0 2 <-32000 -32000 32000 32000> 5
6 0 <312 70 441 159> 0 0 "\qtw\intro\intro2" 0x2848 0x2756 0 1 0 0 0
Note that this one has a string for the video (null-terminated). This obviously calls that video which is the Myst fly-by for the linking book. And, that rect perfectly matches where the video should be displayed on screen. However, this also clearly breaks the format specified above for "type 2 hotspots".
WDIB 3 is the cover of the Myst lin with the water image) and eventually ending at WDIB 12 (the open linking book with the dock image). The 5 after the very large numbers is the target card for the open linking book which seems correct. 0x2848 is 10,312 and 0x2756 is 10,070. The rate of the audio is 11,025. Not sure if this has any correlation.
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I Spy: “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” in “You Came From The Stars / My Love From The Stars 별에서 온 그대”
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EDITED ON 2014.05.1hing “You Came From The Stars / My Love From The Stars”. After posting this back in January when the drama was airing in Korea, I later managed to find a copy of the book. It’s heartwarming, and in many ways, Edward’s story is reminiscent of Min Joon’s. The rabbit’s journey and experiences with each of the people who manage to find and care for him feels like the many lifetimes Min Joon has had to live since he came to Earth. They both loved and lost and loved again, and eventually, managed to find their way back home.
I’ve added an excerpt from the book below, which is the part Min Joon was reading in the drama.
～゜・_・゜～ ☆ ～゜・_・゜～ ☆ ～゜・_・゜～
Soompi ran a story on how the book sold some 30,000 copies (in Korea, I assume) after this episode of the drama “You Came From The Stars 별에서 온 그대” (a.k.a. “My Love From Another Star”) aired.
In the drama, Do Min Joon (Kim Soo Hyun) is an alien who has been living on Earth for several centuries. Just like any self-respecting immortal, he has amassed enough riches to maintain a swanky apartment with an awesome hidden library.
In one scene, he is seen reading Kate DiCamillo’s “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, an illustrated (by Bagram Ibatoulline) children’s book.
“Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart. . . .”
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely.
And then, one day, he was lost.
Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes’ camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle — that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.
Here is the excerpt which Min Joon was reading in that scene. I’ve quoted a few more additional lines to give it some context:
“Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone as bright as the stars on a moonlit night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference.”
“Why did it make no difference?” asked Abilene.
“Because,” said Pelligrina, “she was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her.”
☆彡 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane — Chapter Four
I’m not sure why the writer picked this part to highlight in the episode, but I feel like the description of the princess somehow reflects what Min Joon thought of Song Yi at this point in the story.
When Soompi wrote that the book was published in 2009 and that it didn’t generate any interest then, they are referring to the Korean edition; the English first edition was published in 2006, and within a span of 2 or so years, it was nominated for and won several awards.
The publishing industry exec that was interviewed made an interesting point: “…that the bestselling status of a work can be influenced by a single broadcast is very bittersweet, reflecting the fragile state of the Korean literary market.” The appearance of the book was about as effective as most product placements in Korean dramas (i.e. very effective)!
I’m no publishing guru, and I have no idea what the literary market there is like, but it’s obvious that this cross-media thing is happening everywhere. Many publishers, especially American ones, know that social networks, movies, television, fandom (just go on Tumblr) and other non-traditional book marketing increase awareness and sales, and exploit those. Those are part of why the Young Adult demographic is alive and kicking…and hey, those are also part of how a K-pop album can sell a million copies.
I write about books and give away books not only because I enjoy it but also, in my own small way, I want to try to make people more interested in reading. Personally, while I think it is disheartening that it has to take a drama to get people interested in reading a certain book, I am nevertheless happy that it got people reading in the first place. I appreciate that the writer used such a public platform to introduce a book that she liked.
Next move for the publisher: invite Kate DiCamillo to do a book signing in Korea and make sure Kim Soo Hyun attends. 😛 (Kidding.) (Or maybe not.)
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Hi Meann!
I’m a Brazilian reader and have a blog about books too.
I find your blog because I has looking for more information about “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, after watching “My Love From The Stars” (I always do this!).
Unfortunately I just find a english edition of the book (and my English is terrible, like you can note), but I needed to buy it. ;P
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and reliable storage needs are exploding to new levels. While companies can continue to add 4TB HDDs there is an upper limit to the amount that can be added to an existing network. With the Seagate 6TB V.4, users can add 50% additional storage into the same rack U space. Not only will users get 2TB of extra space per HDD in a given footprint, users can choose from SED or government-grade SED FIPS 140-2 all with Seagate’s Instant Secure Erase technology. Built on field-proven, eighth-generation platforms, the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB V.4 is made to deliver high capacity storage, 24×7 reliable storage without sacrificing performance
The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB 3.5 HDDv4 comes with a 5-year limited warranty and has a street price of about $600.00 at the time of this review. Our review comprises 16 of the 6TB drive with SATA interface.
Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB 3.5 HDD Specifications:
Model
SAS: ST6000NM0014, ST6000NM0034, ST6000NM0054, ST6000NM0104
SATA: ST6000NM0004, ST6000NM0024, ST6000NM0044, ST6000NM0084
Interface: SAS 12Gb/s, SATA 6Gb/s
Capacity (GB): 6TB
Sector size (variable, Bytes/sector): 512/4096
Max Areal Density (Gbits/sq. in.): 643/633
Form Factor: 3.5-inch HDD
Performance:
Rotational Speed (RPM):7200
Interface Access Speeds (Gb/s): 12.0, 6.0, 3.0 (SAS), 6.0, 3.0, 1.5 (SATA)
Reliability:
Error Rate (non-recoverable, bits read): 1 in 10^15
MTBF (M hours): 1.4
Availability (hrs/day x days/wk): 24×7
Reliability – Warranty (yrs): 5
Power
Requirement: +5 VDC and +12VDC
Typical Operating, Random Read (W): 11.86 (SAS), 11.27 (SATA)
Idle (W, avg): 7.97 (SAS), 6.9 (SATA)
Physical size
Dimensions (H x W x D, mm): 26.1 x 101.85 x 147.0
Weight (g): 780
Environmental (operating)
Ambient temperature: 5º to 60º C
Shock (half-sine wave): 70
Environmental (non-operating)
Shock (half-sine wave): 250
Vibration (10 to 500 Hz): 5.0 (SATA), 4.9 (SAS)
Design And Build
The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB hard drives have a similar appearance to standard counterparts. The drives aren’t flashy; they are functional. The top of the drive is all silver with an inlay in the center adding protection to the drive head. Also featured on the top, there are six screws enabling access to the internal parts of the drive.
Most notable from a design perspective is that to make room for the sixth platter, Seagate had to move the center screw holes. They’re gone on the sides entirely, and the ones on the bottom have moved to the back. There’s a chance this could make the drives incompatible with tool-less drive trays and older trays that have not accounted for the move to a rear mounting point on the bottom of the drive.
Testing Background and Comparables
For our testing we used 16 x SATA Seagate 6TB HDDs.
Enterprise HDD comparables for this review:
Seagate Constellation ES.2 3TB
HGST Ultrastar He6 6TB
Western Digital RE4 4TB
Seagate Constellation CS 3TB
Western Digital Se 4TB
All enterprise HDDs are benchmarked on the same testing platform for each test.
For our Synthetic FIO tests, we use our ThinkServer RD240 configured with:
2 x Intel Xeon X5650 (2.66GHz, 12MB Cache)
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition R2 SP1 64-Bit and CentOS 6.2 64-Bit
Intel 5500+ ICH10R Chipset
Memory – 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1333Mhz DDR3 Registered RDIMMs
LSI 9211 SAS/SATA 6.0Gb/s HBA
Application tests each have a unique environment that is detailed on each benchmark page. For cases where 16 drives are tested, an iXsystems Titan 316J JBOD was added to the environment and connected to the relevant cluster via external SAS cable.
Application Performance Analysis
In the enterprise market, there is a huge difference between how products claim to perform on paper and how they perform in a live production environment. We understand the importance of evaluating storage as a component of larger systems, most importantly how responsive storage is when interacting with key enterprise applications. To this end, we’ve rolled out application tests including our MySQL performance via SysBench and SQL Server performance via Benchmark Factory.
Our first application test consists of Percona MySQL database test via SysBench, which measures the performance of OLTP activity. In this testing configuration, we use a group of Lenovo ThinkServer RD630s and load a database environment onto a single SATA, SAS or PCIe drive or a group of HDDs using an LSI 9286-8e RAID card. This test measures average TPS (Transactions Per Second), average latency, as well as average 99th percentile latency over a range of 2 to 32 threads. Percona and MariaDB are using the Fusion-io flash-aware application APIs in the most recent releases of their databases, although for the purposes of this comparison we test each device in their “legacy” block-storage modes.
With a working database footprint of about 333GB, we looked at the performance in both RAID10 using the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB. The Seagate 6TB ran a little on the lower end to middle here, peaking at 332.34TPS, outperforming the WD RE4 and Se comparables.
Measuring average latency in our Sysbench MySQL test, the Seagate 6TB out performed both of the WD drives with lower average latency.
Comparing the 99th percentile latency in during the TPC-C Sysbench test, similar results to those above can bee seen with the Seagate 6TB running better than the WD SAS and SATA comparables.
StorageReview’s Microsoft SQL Server OLTP testing protocol employs the current draft of the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s Benchmark C (TPC-C), an online transaction processing benchmark that simulates the activities found in complex application environments. The TPC-C benchmark comes closer than synthetic performance benchmarks to gauging the performance strengths and bottlenecks of storage infrastructure in database environments. For this test, our SQL Server protocol uses a 333GB (1,500 scale) SQL Server database and measures the transactional performance and latency under a load of 15,000 virtual users.
Looking at the transactional performance of each drive configuration, the Seagate 6TB holds its own coming in at just under 3,000TPS again beating out the WD drives and closely trailing the Seagate Savvio 10K.7 drives.
Comparing average latency between each storage configuration, we once again see similar results.
Enterprise Synthetic Workload Analysis
Our enterprise hard drive benchmark process preconditions each drive into steady-state with the same workload the device will be tested with under a heavy load of 16 threads with an outstanding queue of 16 per thread, and then tested in set intervals in multiple thread/queue depth profiles to show performance under light and heavy usage. Since hard drives reach their rated performance level very quickly, we only graph out the main sections of each test.
Preconditioning and Primary Steady-State Tests:
Throughput (Read+Write IOPS Aggregate)
Average Latency (Read+Write Latency Averaged Together)
Max Latency (Peak Read or Write Latency)
Latency Standard Deviation (Read+Write Standard Deviation Averaged Together)
Our Enterprise Synthetic Workload Analysis includes four profiles based on real-world tasks. These profiles have been developed to make it easier to compare to our past benchmarks as well as widely-published values such as max 4K read and write speed and 8K 70/30, which is commonly used for enterprise drives.
4K
100% Read or 100% Write
100% 4K
8K 70/30
70% Read, 30% Write
100% 8K
128K (Sequential)
100% Read or 100% Write
100% 128K
In the first of our enterprise workloads, we measured a long sample of random 4k performance with 100% write and 100% read activity to get our peak sustained random I/O results. The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB came out on top in both write and read performance with 234IOPS and 155IOPS respectively.
In our main average latency segment with a load of 16T/16Q, again the Seagate 6TB out performed the others having the lowest write and read average latency, at 1090.56ms and 1644.29ms, respectively
Measuring just read activity, the Seagate 6TB fell to third in max latency with a read speed of 5172ms. Both the Western Digital Se 4TB and the HGST Ultrastar He6 6TB beat it out but only by about 60ms. On the other hand it came in best with write max latency having a speed of 2589ms.
Reviewing the 4k latency consistency in our standard deviation section, the Seagate 6TB had the best read speed at 479.3ms however with a write speed of 130.5ms it dropped to fourth behind the Western Digital Se 4TB, the Western Digital RE4 4TB, and the Seagate Constellation ES.2.
Compared to the fixed 16 thread, 16 queue max workload we performed in the 100% 4k write test, our mixed workload profiles scale the performance across a wide range of thread/queue combinations. In these tests, we span workload intensity from 2 threads and 2 queue up to 16 threads and 16 queue. In the expanded 8k 70/30 test, the Seagate 6TB had the greatest throughput throughout peaking at 214IOPS.
Looking over the 8k 70/30 average response times, the Seagate 6TB had the lowest latency throughout coming out on top again.
Over the duration of our primary tests at varying thread and queue depth levels, the Seagate 6TB ran near the top of the pack throughout and had the lowest average max latency speed of all HDDs.
For the entirety of the thread/queue spectrum, the Seagate 6TB had the lowest speeds almost throughout the entire run and had the lowest average.
Our Enterprise Synthetic Workload 128K test is a large block sequential test that shows the highest sequential transfer speed for a platter drive. Looking at 128K performance of 100% write and 100% read activity, the Seagate 6TB boasted impressive numbers with 223,053KB/s read and 222,666KB/s write, taking top spot in both categories well ahead of the other HDDs.
Conclusion
The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB V.4 is a 3.5” HDD with 7200 RPM spindle and Seagate’s proven reliability. It comes in multiple models including other capacity such as 5TB, 4TB, and 2TB with either 12Gb/s SAS or 6Gb/s SATA connectivity for easy integration. The drive is FIPS SED certified for maximum security. The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB V.4 3.5” HDD is ideal for business that want to increase their overall capacity while staying within the same footprint.
Overall we saw the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB perform strong in our enterprise testing and ran strong against similar HDDs in our application performance analysis. In our 4K random performance, the Seagate 6TB came out on top with 234IOPS write and 155IOPS read. It also had the greatest throughput in our 8K 70/30 test. And overall the Seagate had the lowest average latency of the drives tested. In our 128K synthetic workload the Seagate 6TB put out some pretty impressive numbers with 223MB/s in both read and write putting it at the top of the group.
The 6TB world is pretty thin, only HGST ships a competing product that is also available with SATA or SAS interface. The problem for HGST though, is that today their platform is new technology, which means unproven. Seagate has gone with a traditional design and is also significantly faster and less expensive by a wide margin. The helium drive has a power draw benefit, but it’s generally outclassed by Seagate in most use cases. HGST’s decision to go with sealed drive technology may tilt back in their favor when they’re able to go to 8TB and 10TB on this platform, but that’s an argument for another day. Today, if you need 6TB and want the fastest and least expensive, Seagate is the clear winner.
Pros
Fantastic application performance in MySQL and SQL Server workloads
Tops the charts in synthetic performance with a clear lead in sequential transfers
Sticks with traditional and also trusted non-sealed design
Priced lower than HGST Helium
Cons
Draws more power than HGST Helium 6TB model
The Bottom Line
The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB 3.5 HDDv4 is a well performing high capacity drive, a drive that can add up to an additional 50% capacity over current drives with a relatively low price point and all the interface and security features the enterprise wants.
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She hoped her employer could lend her money after seeing her 'brave act'
But the blaze went out of control killing the family of four in Hangzhouath today after setting her employer's flat on fire during her desperate attempt to find money for her debts, according to a Chinese court.
The blaze caused a mother and all of her three children - aged between six and 11 - to be killed last June at their 17th floor home in eastern China.
The court said the former nanny, named Mo Huanjing, had intended to set the fire then put it out, hoping her 'brave act' could win her middle-class employer's gratitude. This way, she could expect them to lend money to her.
This handout picture taken on February 1, 2018 and released by the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court on February 9 shows Mo Huanjing (centre) speaking in the court in Hangzhou. The former nanny has been sentenced to death today after setting her employer's flat on fire
The fire caused Ms Mo's employer and all her three children to be killed at their 17th-floor home on June 22, 2017. The court said Ms Mo's addiction to online gambling had led to the tragedy
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However, the fire went out of control killing the family of four during the wee hours at their four-bedroom home in Hangzhou, a bustling metropolis.
The children's father was reportedly on a business trip, hence survived the tragedy. The nanny managed to escape the fire.
The court claimed that Ms Mo was addicted to online gambling games and had been buried under debts.
She lost £6,800 after gambling online from the night of June 21 into the early hours of June 22 - right before she decided to set the flat on fire - said the court.
The 34-year-old woman is originally from Dongguan, southern China, and she left her hometown in 2015 to dodge gambling debts, according to a previous report from Xinhua New Agency.
The picture, taken on June 22, 2017, shows the aftermaths of the building after Ms Mo set her employer's four-bedroom home on fire in a desperate bid to find money for her debts
Lin Shengbin's wife and three children were killed by the fire after Ms Mo. The man is surrounded by journalists at Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court on December 21, 2017
Before setting the family's home on fire, she had stolen luxury watches and jewellery from the family on several occasions before pawning them off for 180,000 yuan (£20,000), said the court.
Ms Mo was found guilty of arson on February 9.
She was sentenced to death by a first instance judgment at the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court, according to People's Daily Online, citing a court report.
According to a video of the sentencing, shared by Chinese new site Sina, Ms Mo remained silent throughout the process.
The picture, taken on June 22, 2017, shows people gathering in front of the fire incident site
The incident took place in Hangzhou, a bustling metropolis and a provincial capital in China
In addition, the court also found Ms Mo guilty of theft and sentenced her to five year in jail alongside a fine of 10,000 yuan (£1,142).
The court said she had repeatedly stolen from her employers while working as a nanny in nearby Shanghai and Shaoxing during 2015 and 2016
The court said considering both sentences, it decided to give Ms Mo a death penalty, deprivation of political rights and a fine of 10,000 yuan (£1,142).
The court has not proposed a date of the execution.
It is currently unclear whether Mo will appeal the verdict.
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Today the Old City neighborhood is Philadelphia's version of New York's SoHo. Many cast-iron building facades remain, though the old warehouses, with telltale names such as the Sugar Refinery and the Hoopskirt Factory, now house well-lighted loft apartments popular with artists and architects. There are small theaters—the Painted Bride, the Arden Theatre Company—and numerous art galleries and boutiques. The Old City Arts Association hosts a festive, popular event the first Friday of each month—known, appropriately enough, as First Friday—when the galleries throw open their doors during evening hours.
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Norizers and wave-plates. during interfacial aggregation, highly relevant to the molecular systems of type II diabetes. These latest advancements demonstrate the guarantee of SFG as ane areas. 1. Intro Amyloid aggregates shaped by misfolded disordered proteins are implicated in lots of illnesses [1] intrinsically. Here, we concentrate on human being islet amyloid polypeptides (hIAPPs) that aggregate into parallel in situanalytical strategy for effective characterization of systems at interfaces. In the next sections, we will illustrate the applications of SFG towards the scholarly research of IAPP at membrane areas [14, 61, 62, 64, 65]. Open up in another window Structure 1 The second-order optical procedure for sum frequency era vibrational spectroscopy. 2.2. Surface-Specificity, Monolayer Level Purvalanol A of sensitivity, and Polarization Dependence of SFG Spectroscopy Like a non-linear optical technique, SFG actions the second-order susceptibility, designate the direction from the Cartesian element of the optical areas and can become denoted by are specific in one another (i.e., configurations are chiral-selective and therefore may be used to probe the chiral SFG Purvalanol A spectra mainly because talked about previously [33]. Others are achiral polarization configurations that are delicate to different vibrational settings. Completely, chiral and achiral SFG spectroscopy can offer a comprehensive evaluation of vibrational settings of chiral or nonchiral substances at interfaces. In more complex measurements, you can Rabbit Polyclonal to Trk C (phospho-Tyr516) actually determine the total orientation of substances at interfaces by carrying out a global evaluation of varied polarization-modulated spectra [77]. With these features, SFG can record on orientations and constructions of substances and proteins at areas, offering a strategy to handle mechanistic queries on amyloid aggregation that could otherwise be challenging to tackle through the use of more conventional strategies. Open in another window Structure 2 The polarization establishing within an SFG test: pspsppppsto probe the chiral SFG spectra andsspspspppto probe the achiral SFG spectra [33]. When carrying out the achiral and chiral SFG measurements, you can control the polarization from the beams using suitable wave-plates and polarizers. Chiral SFG pays to for probing biomolecules because most supplementary constructions are chiral especially, such as for example in situand instantly in the user interface. Open in another window Structure 3 Illustration of adsorption of hIAPP on the lipid monolayer as well as the SFG test for probing the hIAPP aggregations in the lipid/drinking water user interface. Modified from [62] with authorization. Copyright 2010 American Chemical substance Culture. 3. SFG Probes the first Phases of hIAPP Aggregation at Membrane Interfaces The first phases of hIAPP aggregation at interfaces involve hIAPP-membrane relationships from the pathogenic system of type II diabetes [6, 84, 85]. Nevertheless, it’s been demanding to probe how hIAPP adsorbs onto the user interface and whether hIAPP undergoes structural and orientation adjustments that may induce toxicity to pancreatic in situand instantly monitoring the amide I and N-H extending vibrational settings [61, 62]. Protein constructions, including ssp(achiral) SFG spectra of IAPPs. Human being IAPP without DPPG (= 0?h and = 10?h) and with DPPG in = Purvalanol A 10?h in the (a) atmosphere/D2O and Purvalanol A (b) atmosphere/H2O interfaces; rat IAPP without DPPG (= 0?h and = 10?h) and with DPPG in = 10?h in the (c) atmosphere/D2O and (d) atmosphere/H2O interfaces. Modified from [62] with authorization. Copyright 2010 American Chemical substance Society. A nearer go through the spectral modification of hIAPP incubated with DPPG after 10 hours demonstrates the amide I maximum position can be blue-shifted by 10?cm?1, from ~1650 to ~1660?cm?1, and there can be an additional maximum in 1750?cm?1 related towards the carbonyl extend from the DPPG lipid [87]. non-etheless, it really is still demanding to designate what structural adjustments are participating in the lipid/aqueous user interface. To handle this relevant query, we used chiral SFG. The chiral SFG measurements (Shape 2) show even more interesting phenomena. With no DPPG lipid, neither hIAPP nor rIAPP displays detectable chiral SFG sign in the amide I area. Having less signal isn’t surprising because the indigenous constructions of hIAPP and rIAPP are disordered and don’t adopt any chiral conformation. Nevertheless, after incubating with DPPG for 10 hours, hIAPP displays a solid chiral.
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HONG KONG: Good Economics for Hard Times (3) — How Will Tai Po District Share 1 Million More Populations With 450,000 New Jobs Upon Industrial Estates And Neighbourhood Renewal?
Tai planning “Hong Kong 2030+: Towards a Planning Vision and Strategy Transcending 2030” (“Hong Kong 2030+”) and initiated the sectoral and land planning document “Northern Metropolis Development Strategy” amid the global uncertainties — global trade pacts reshuffling, geopolitical conflicts, global price rise on commodities and economic stagflation.
The Eastern Knowledge and Technology Corridor in the first conceptual planning map in Hong Kong 2030+ implies the bold economic choice pre-selected by Hong Kong SAR Government — Hong Kong needs to restructure its strategic economic model with industrials with advanced sciences and technologies, besides the conventional banking and financial services — and such re-engineering move, by looking at neighbour economies like Singapore (aeronautical engineering and robotics), South Korea (integrated circuits and chips) and, most importantly, Mainland China, can only be accomplished consistently and coordinately by a dedicated change of the roles the government bureaus, economic and industry policies play (re: Public Policy Research Group 6 and 7). It is no longer the game of “Big Market, Small Government”.
Overall Spatial and Land Conceptual Planning along the Eastern Knowledge and Technology Corridor.
In the territorial spatial planning document of Hong Kong 2030+, Northern Metropolis is positioned as 2nd economic growth engine, besides the central financial district in Hong Kong Island, for the long-term and sustainable development — with 10 key initiatives and 45 development projects as stated in the sectoral panning document (below), including the establishment of Lok Ma Chau Loop with the Hong Kong — Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Parks, that, by industrial ecosystem and value-chain sense, connects to the Shenzhen Qianhai’s larger economic cooperation zone (“前海方案”) — while connecting to the several re-industrializing (digitally transforming) industrial estates, logistics & shipment depots and warehouse zones in Sheung Shui, Fanling (togther as Northern District), Yuen Long, Tuen Mun and up to Tai Po District and Fotan (Shatin District) — together with a few New Development Areas (NDA): Fanling North, San Tin, Kwu Tung North and Hung Shui Kiu (re: Public Policy Research Group 2).
Sectoral Planning and Land Conceptual Planning Maps in the Northern Metropolis.
Making Mission Impossible Possible — Liveability and Future Job-Friendly In The Next 10 Years?
While Hong Kong has been also struggling with the economic speed turn due to the socio-political road blocks — Job Security and Welfares (in non-financial sectors), Housing Quality, Population Over-Density in certain districts, Ageing Populations and Elderly Caring Services … (re: Public Policy Research Group 1, 3, 4 and 5), the Hong Kong 2030+ and “Northern Metropolis Development Strategy” stated that the new clusters of towns and technology innovation-driven industrial zones shall aim to accommodate further 1,000,000 (1 million) populations in the involved districts (Tai Po, Northern, Yuen Long and others) and 450,000 new jobs respectively.
To analyse further, this is assumed that the ambitions behind such key objectives are to demonstrate the strong political that Hong Kong SAR Government shall take in the process of policy innovations, local administrative entrepreneurship and coordination with the private sectors (as considered “social” in their ESG strategies, so as to respond to the principles of urban planning in liveability and future job-friendliness in the next 10 years. (re: Public Policy Research Group 1)
Tai Po District As A Case — Making Sense of Northern Metropolis And “Social” of “ESG” In Corporates — The Most Influential Infinity Stone
Continue Chapter (1) and (2) — Along with the several field studies conducted with the public policy research interns and groups since March, the groups are currently conducting further policy and social economics researches, case studies, interviews and necessary dialogue using Tai Po District as a local context, given that the Tai Po District:
Shares similar demographics and urban economic structures of the “New Town” during the 70s and 80s by the Government then — like Sheung Shui, Fanling and Yuen Long (town clusters of Northern Metropolis) (re: Public Policy Research Group 1, 3, 4 and 5)
Visited by President Xi Jinping to HK Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) during the 1st July 25th Anniversary of Hong Kong SAR Establishment, the speech addressed by the President Xi in HKSTP demonstrated the political importance of Tai Po District (where HKSTP locates) to drive the Eastern Knowledge and Technology Corridor over other neighbour districts. (re: Public Policy Research Group 7)
President Xi Jinping Visited HKSTP and Delivered Speech on 7 Top Innovations to Watch in Hong Kong and Greater Bay Area (source: info.gov.hk)
As part of the process of Community Program collaborated with the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Summit, the Public Policy Research Interns delivered the current outlooks of the research frameworks and shaded lights to the importance and broader views of the social economics logics to be applied to the local community studies. More context, statistical figures and voices of stakeholders in the Tai Po District will be collected, consumed and analysed in the process.
Public Policy Research Mid-Term Review and Presentation Conducted by The Public Policy Research Groups.
Are Districts Locally Ready? — Resilience of District Economic Power; and Are The Districts Serving Accordingly?
“Price on Household Expenditure” (Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, 2011) has been a commonly used indicator to measure the real economic growth and purchasing power. Furthermore, this is assumed that the household expenditure on (non-formal) education may proxy the district-level economic resilience, while the indicator may be able to bridge the understanding of the social costs to nurture the right talents (Labour Supply Side) to match the new jobs to be created by the 10-years development of Northern Metropolis. (Labour Demand, but acting on the Policy-Driven Market Supply Side)
The assumed nature of inelasticity of household expenditure on education to the changes of non-formal education price along the years leads to the possible use of the economic figure as an indicator for measuring the public costs to change, hence the readiness to adopt new economic model in district.
(re: Public Policy Research Group 8)
Raw data on pricing and categories of courses provided are collected with over 40 education centres and tuition shops street-visited that are mainly located in the low-grade community centres (屋村商場), where public housing estates are neighboured.
Class-sizes are estimated too, over the household populations among the neighbouring public housing estates and hence the ratio of shop-to-household over education expenditure can be calculated to estimate the household economic power, to benchmark the social costs and policy budget for innovating the way licensed (regulated by Education Bureau) non-formal education curriculum for responding to the needs of future jobs upon the new industry development in Northern Metropolis, ensuring the supply of future talents with synergetic environment that create new jobs as planned.
Research Interns Conducting Field Visit to Small Shops (Education Centres and Other Tuition Shops)
Reference
HONG KONG: Good Economics for Hard Times (1) — How to Communicate the Realistic Socio-Economic Outcomes and Reasoning in Industry 4.0?
HONG KONG: Good Economics for Hard Times (2) — It Takes Strong Political Will To Lead 4.0 Industrial Economic Choice Towards New Urban Sustainability And Growth Formula
Hong Kong 2030+: Towards a Planning Vision and Strategy Transcending 2030 (“Hong Kong 2030+”)
Northern Metropolis Development Strategy
Projections of Population Distribution 2021–2029
Table 7 : Projected Population by District Council District by Quinquennial Age Group, 2021–2029 (Figures of 2019 and 2020 are base year estimates) | Planning Department of HKSAR Government
Questions Posted on the Field Study to Education Centre and Tuition Shops :
假設（Assumptions）：
大埔區主要分為：1) 屋村商場；2) 大型發展商商場。
從這城市商店資產（Real Estate Retail Asset / 服務（Normal Goods）及奢侈商品 / 服務（Luxury Goods）；需求的價格彈性相對較高（Price Elasticity of Demand）。
同時假設「屋村商場」的商店帶有相對更多低檔商品 / Goods）及普通商品 / 服務；需求的價格彈性相對較低（Price Elasticity of Demand）。
及 2018 28,000 港幣；稍高於全港住戶每月入息中位數的 26,500
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An inmate has sued the Oregon Department of Corrections staff for failing to serve halal meals in accordance with his Muslim faith.
Turkish migrant and rapist Rashid Kambarov demands that the state of Oregon serve him halal meals in prison.
Rashid Kambarov, 29, who is serving an eight-year sentence for rape, filed a complaint this week in U.S. District Court in Pendleton.
The Turkish migrant is not a U.S. citizen but is living in the United States legally on a green card. He is currently incarcerated at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla and is suing the superintendent along with other administrators at the prison, the Oregonian reports.
Betty Bernt, spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections, said the agency accommodates inmates’ requests for religious diets by offering a “meat alternative tray” or a kosher diet prepared in accordance with Jewish law.
Kambarov alleges he is not served halal meat and that vegetarian alternatives have been cross-contaminated with pork. Halal refers to food and drink prepared in accordance with Islamic dietary laws, including beef and chicken that is ritualistically slaughtered in the presence of an imam.
He claims the state’s failure to accommodate his religion violates the First and 14th Amendments and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act of 2000, which bars state and local jails and prisons from imposing arbitrary limits on inmates’ religious practices.
According to the suit, Kambarov asked for and was denied a special diet to accommodate his faith when he was sent to prison in 2015 for raping and sodomizing a 31-year woman who he cornered at a Portland motel.
He says he was told the department offers Muslim inmates a “pork-free meat alternative diet” that includes fresh and cooked fruits and vegetables.
He says he was told the food would not come into contact with pork or alcohol, halal requirements.
Kambarov said he was also told the vegetarian option “is the best option for a Muslim.” However, Kambarov said he witnessed kitchen staff handling vegetarian meals as well as salami. He said he watched staff use the same knife to cut vegetables and ham.
He said his requests for kosher meals, which are prepared in accordance with Jewish law, were rejected by prison staff. Kosher requirements satisfy Muslim dietary restrictions, he said.
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gottlieb says:
February 3, 2018 at 7:05 pm
“The demise of every entity lies in an excess of it’s primary principles.” Lord Acton
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jonklement says:
February 3, 2018 at 2:16 pm
So he’s concerned how his god feels about ham, but wasn’t concerned that RAPE might be immoral? Let him rot, dismiss his parody of a lawsiut, and tell him to STFU.
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Ray Arlen says:
February 3, 2018 at 5:12 pm
That is really the problem. As far as I can tell, his god is OK with rape, as long as the victim is a female of any age. I don’t know if his god makes allowances for raping men, since he is in a male prison, and he is accustomed to being around women for his raping needs. I also don’t know if his god is OK with him being raped. Probably not, since it seems that his god thinks being raped is the victims fault.
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Pat says:
February 3, 2018 at 12:58 pm
Feed him NutraLoaf.
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gg says:
February 3,d Halal is to say “Bismillah.” This holds even if the Muslim is eating bacon or being a cannibal. Please, before blowing more taxpayer money on this carbuncle, get expert verification of this, present it to the judge. If the judge isn’t a crypto Muslim or an outrageous coward he or she will deny the lawsuit. The convicted rapist – who does not look like he’s missed any meals – can either eat what everyone else eats or starve. His choice.
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Bob Carrillo says:
February 3, 2018 at 3:09 am
Frankly speaking, and with a wry smile attached to my comment, I would serve this trash a steady diet of pork slop – with ketchup and mustard.
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Jon says:
February 3, 2018 at 2:42 am
Then, eat your OWN sh*t, Vermin!
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Dave says:
February 3, 2018 at 2:15 am
Feed him sausage in the morning, a ham sandwich for lunch and a pile of bacon for dinner every day. Jail is not a place where you are to be catered to, Oh don’t forget some fried bologna.
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Remster says:
February 3, 2018 at 2:04 am
It’s a war and the lefties don’t get it.
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James Dinkins says:
February 4, 2018 at 6:42 am
They get it.its just we are there enemy so to thr left the the muslim is a commrade
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Carole Ann Rule says:
February 2, 2018 at 9:38 pm
This is why we need one prison strictly for Muslims. Same food for all. Otherwise tell this idiot you will not starve on what you can eat.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNIT CV-14-01930-TUC-RCC Charles L Ryan, et al., 13 Respondents. 14 15 Pending before the Court is Petitioner Ignacio Esteban Rimer’s pro se Petition 16 Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for a Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody (Non- 17 Death Penalty) (Doc. 1), Magistrate Judge Macdonald’s Report and Recommendation 18 (“R&R”) (Doc. 21), Petitioner’s objections (Doc. 26) and Respondents’ response to the 19 objections (Doc. 27). Petitioner did not file a reply. The R&R is ripe for review. For the 20 following reasons, this Court shall overrule Petitioner’s objections and deny the petition. 21 I. Background 22 The factual and procedural background in this case is thoroughly detailed in 23 Magistrate Judge Macdonald’s R&R. The Court fully incorporates the “Factual and 24 Procedural Background” section of the R&R into this Order. 25 II. Legal Standard 26 The duties of the district court in connection with a R & R are set forth in Rule 72 27 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). The district court may 28 “accept, reject, or modify the recommended disposition; receive further evidence; or 1 return the matter to the magistrate judge with instructions.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b)(3); 28 2 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). 3 Where the parties object to an R & R, “[a] judge of the [district] court shall make a 4 de novo determination of those portions of the [R & R] to which objection is made.” 28 5 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); see Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 149-50 (1985). When no objection 6 is filed, the district court need not review the R & R de novo. Wang v. Masaitis, 416 F.3d 7 992, 1000 n. 13 (9th Cir.2005); United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121-22 8 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc). The Court will not disturb a magistrate judge’s order unless his 9 factual findings are clearly erroneous or his legal conclusions are contrary to law. 28 10 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A). “[T]he magistrate judge’s decision…is entitled to great deference 11 by the district court.” United States v. Abonce-Barrera, 257 F.3d 959, 969 (9th Cir. 12 2001). A failure to raise an objection waives all objections to the magistrate judge’s 13 findings of fact. Turner v. Duncan, 158 F.3d 449, 455 (9th Cir. 1998). A failure to object 14 to a Magistrate Judge’s conclusion “is a factor to be weighed in considering the propriety 15 of finding waiver of an issue on appeal.” Id. (internal citations omitted). 16 III. Discussion 17 Petitioner has several objections. First, Petitioner “generally objects to [the 18 R&R’s] assertion that his claims are without merit.” Doc. 26 at 1. However, a “general 19 objection to the entirety of a magistrate’s report has the same effect as would a failure to 20 object.” Howard v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 932 F.2d 505, 509 (6th Cir. 21 1991). Thus, this objection is overruled because it has the same effect as failing to object. 22 Petitioner’s remaining objections rely on the same false premise: that he raised the 23 relevant federal constitutional claim in the state courts. First, Petitioner claims that his 24 trial counsel was ineffective for failing to raise the issue of having his case severed. 25 However, Petitioner neither raised this claim in his pro se PCR petitions nor did he raise 26 it to the Arizona Court of Appeals. “[A]ll operative facts to an ineffective assistance 27 claim must be presented to the state courts in order for a petitioner to exhaust his 28 remedies.” Hemmerle v. Schriro, 495 F.3d 1069, 1075 (9th Cir. 2007). After reviewing -2- 1 the Petitioner’s pleadings in state court, it is clear that Petitioner did not raise an 2 ineffective assistance of counsel claim. Thus, Magistrate Judge Macdonald’s holding that 3 this claim is procedurally barred is correct and the Court will overrule Petitioner’s 4 objection. 5 Petitioner’s second and third objections also assume that he raised the claims in 6 state court. However, the record indicates that he did not. Because Petitioner did not raise 7 his objections in his state court proceedings, the claims are procedurally barred. See 8 Martinez-Villareal v. Lewis, 80 F.3d 1301, 1305-06 (9th Cir. 1996). 9 Accordingly, 10 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Magistrate Judge Macdonald’s Report and 11 Recommendation is accepted and adopted as the findings of fact and conclusions of law 12 by this Court. 13 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Petitioner Ignacio Esteban Rimer’s pro se 14 Petition Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for a Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State 15 Custody (Non-Death Penalty) is denied. Doc. 1. 16 17 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff’s request for an evidentiary hearing is denied. 18 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Court will not issue a certificate of 19 appealability because Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a 20 constitutional right. 21 22 23 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of Court is directed to close the case. Dated this 17th day of May, 2017. 24 25 26 27 28 -3-
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Steps to change the strings of guitar;
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After removing the old strings from your guitar completely clean the guitar because it is the time you can easily clean your guitar without strings disturbance.
While removing you can also use the household things like the naphtha or lemon oil to remove every dirt on guitar.
Now work on to change strings on Stratocaster, prepare the new set of strings and some of those sets in the market have the coloured ends, so prefer it based on your taste. Remember you have to string in the way thickest to thinnest.
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have been posted as soon as this board came into existance. Basically, the client comes first in all considerations, and the clients belief system shall not be challenged. This is why, when I recently replied to a posting about PLR I stated that this should only be done at the request of the client. There are many other statements of ethical behaviour, but the first is the one that all should ascribe to in my opinion, since it is the only way to help the normal client. Truth of course is also important when a client comes with beliefs that indicate a mental problem, and to go with them would harm him or her. Naturally, no false claims should be made by any practitioner, and this means that you only agree to help in cases were you have a good understanding of methodology, or are an expert in hypno suggestion in the area of concern. Terry
Sonya
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Posted - 10/02/2003 : 10:01:46 PM
Hi Terry.
I had written a wonderful reply and this darn aol turned off! It is frustrating. Well, I was visiting this sight because you had noted it in one of your posts on another board. I thought I would check this one out. I looked at the list of topics and saw "Ethics" and thought, great! This is where to start! I was not surprised to find your post here. I am surprised that yours is the only one. Maybe others don't care or think too much about ethics. I believe it to be the foundation of my practice. Thank you for getting this thread started. Maybe others will care to comment.
sonya
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Posted - 05/23/2004 : 5:05:27 PM
Well, the way I see it, the main purpose of hypnosis is to help people. I have a broad definition of "help", however.
As a moral guide, (if I ever truely learn hypnosis) I basically won't do anything that would bother my oun concience. If I start feling guilty about a particular post-hypnotic sugestion I gave someone, I'll undo it. Also, I'll try to avoid anytghing that would ruin people's lives or interfere with their career or education plans or whatever.
However, to my understanding, you can't actually make people do anything unless some part of them wats to do it. I've read that, even under really deep hypnosis, some women have still strongly objected to group or anal intercourse. I've also seen a short documentary in hypnosis (wasn't verry informative, actally) where one girl, under hypnosis, actually disobeyed an order to give the hypnosis $50 that she believed to belong to a stranger, because it bothered her concience to do so.
Therefore, hypnosis isn't so much forcing people to do things against their will, it's more getting past their inhibitions to allowing them to do things they don't have the guts to do otherwize.
and, I think as long as you have a hypnosis subject under your controll, I think you should also make sure, for everything you make them do for your oun amusement, you must also do something to help them. Ask them if they have any phobias, inhibitions, or anything about themselves that they would like to change, then make it happen. or if they have any fantasies they'd like to actually enact, irt is your right, priviliage and duty to make it happen.
Besides, I don't think you can hypnotize somene without their oun cooperation.
Dave
United Kingdom
2 Posts
Posted - 05/29/2004 : 11:59:41 AM
Hi Terry.
I think most people are like me, we dont state our ethics, simply because we belong to a society or association or other governing body and they have a code of ethics that we agree to abide by as members, these complete codes of ethics are freely available to all members of the public, via the web, by mail or even by phone, I belong to The National Council of Hypnotherapists, The National Council of Psychotherapists and The Hypnotherapy Society, all in the UK.
Hope that helps in some way, all the best, Dave.
trust your karma and go with the flow
DesElms
USA
22 Posts
Posted - 05/07/2005 : 4:55:22 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Terry
...
The ethical issues that you intend to be discussed here notwithstanding, I believe that the ethics of using the word "accredited" (as appcreditation" tossed around quite a bit around these forums, and I fear the reader will be misled. So, knowing that it will anger some, I nevertheless offer the following...
Gregg L. DesElms
Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi.
Veritas nimium altercando amittitur.
Edited by - DesElms on 05/07/2005 4:56:44 PM
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isn't known for, however, is building a publish / subscribe system. Redis, on the other hand, is known for having a high-bandwith, low-latency pub/sub protocol. One thing I've always wondered is whether I can build a similar system atop MongoDB's capped collections, and if so, what the performance would be. Read on to find out how it turned out...
Capped Collections
If you've not heard of capped collections before, they're a nice little feature of MongoDB that lets you have a high-performance circular queue. Capped collections have the following nice features:
They "remember" the insertion order of their documents
They store inserted documents in the insertion order on disk
They remove the oldest documents in the collection automatically as new documents are inserted
However, you give up some things with capped collections:
They have a fixed maximum size
You cannot shard a capped collection
Any updates to documents in a capped collection must not cause a document to grow. (i.e. not all $set operations will work, and no $push or $pushAll will)
You may not explicitly .remove() documents from a capped collection
To create a capped collection, just issue the following command (all the examples below are in Python, but you can use any driver you want including the Javascript mongo shell):
db.create_collection(
'capped_collection',
capped=True,
size=size_in_bytes, # required
max=max_number_of_docs, # optional
autoIndexId=False) # optional
In the example above, I've created a collection that takes up size_in_bytes bytes on disk, will contain no more than max_number_of_docs, and which does not create an index on the _id field as would normally happen. Above, I mentioned that the capped collection remembers the insertion order of its documents. If you issue a find() with no sort specified, or with a sort of ('$natural', 1), then MongoDB will sort your result in insertion order. (($natural, -1) will likewise sort the result in reverse insertion order.) Since insertion order is the same as the on-disk ordering, these queries are extremely fast. To see this, let's create two collections, one capped and one uncapped, and fill both with small documents:
size = 100000
# Create the collection
db.create_collection(
'capped_collection',
capped=True,
size=2**20,
autoIndexId=False)
db.create_collection(
'uncapped_collection',
autoIndexId=False)
# Insert small documents into both
for x in range(size):
manipulate=False)
manipulate=False)
# Go ahead and index the 'x' field in the uncapped collection
Now we can see the performance gains by executing find() on each. For this, I'll use the IPython, IPyMongo, and the magic %timeit function:
In [72] (test): %timeit
1000 loops, best of 3: 708 us per loop
In [73] (test): %timeit
1000 loops, best of 3: 912 us per loop
So we get a moderate speedup, which is nice, but not spectacular. What becomes really interesting with capped collections is that they support tailable cursors.
Tailable cursors
If you're querying a capped collection in insertion order, you can pass a special flag to find() that says that it should "follow the tail" of the collection if new documents are inserted rather than returning the result of the query on the collection at the time the query was initiated. This behavior is similar to the behavior of the Unix tail -f command, hence its name. To see this behavior, let's query our capped collection with a 'regular' cursor as well as a 'tailable' cursor. First, the 'regular' cursor:
In [76] (test): cur = db.capped_collection.find()
In [77] (test): cur.next()
Out[77]: {u'x': 0}
In [78] (test): cur.next()
Out[78]: {u'x': 1}
In [79] (test): 1})
Out[79]:
In [80] (test): list(cur)
Out[80]:
[{u'x': 2},
...
{u'x': 99}]
Notice above that the document we inserted {'y': 1} is not included in the result since it was inserted after we started iterating. Now, let's try a tailable cursor:
In [81] (test): cur =
In [82] (test): cur.next()
Out[82]: {u'x': 1}
In [83] (test): cur.next()
Out[83]: {u'x': 2}
In [84] (test): 2})
Out[84]:
In [85] (test): list(cur)
Out[85]:
[{u'x': 3},
...
{u'x': 99},
{u'_id': u'y': 1},
{u'_id': u'y': 2}]
Now we see that both the "y" document we created before as well as the one created during this cursor's iteration included in the result.
Waiting on data
While tailable cursors are nice for picking up the inserts that happened while we were iterating over the cursor, one thing that a true pub/sub system needs is low latency. Polling the collection to see if messages have been inserted is a non-starter from a latency standpoint because you have to do one of two things:
Poll continuously, using prodigious server resources
Poll intermittently, increasing latency
Tailable cursors have another option you can use to "fix" the above problems: the await_data flag. This flag tells MongoDB to actually wait a second or two on an exhausted tailable cursor to see if more data is going to be inserted. In PyMongo, the way to set this flag is quite simple:
cur = db.capped_collection.find(
tailable=True,
await_data=True)
Building a pub/sub system
OK, now that we have a capped collection, with tailable cursors awaiting data, how can we make this into a pub/sub system? The basic approach is:
We use a single capped collection of moderate size (let's say 32kB) for all messages
Publishing a message consists of inserting a document into this collection with the following format: { 'k': topic, 'data': data }
Subscribing to the collection is a tailable query on the collection, using a regular expression to only get the messages we're interested in.
The actual query we use is similar to the following:
def get_cursor(collection, topic_re, await_data=True):
options = { 'tailable': True }
if await_data:
options['await_data'] = True
cur = collection.find(
{ 'k': topic_re },
**options)
cur = cur.hint([('$natural', 1)]) # ensure we don't use any indexes
return cur
Once we have the get_cursor function, we can do something like the following to execute the query:
import re, time
while True:
cur = get_cursor(
db.capped_collection,
await_data=True)
for msg in cur:
do_something(msg)
time.sleep(0.1)
Of course, the system above has a couple of problems:
We have to receive every message in the collection before we get to the 'end'
We have to go back to the beginning if we ever exhaust the cursor (and its await_data delay)
The way we can avoid these problems is by adding a sequence number to each message.
Sequences
"But wait," I imagine you to say, "MongoDB doesn't have an autoincrement field like MySQL! How can we generate sequences?" The answer lies in the find_and_modify() command, coupled with the $inc operator in MongoDB. To construct our sequence generator, we can use a dedicated "sequence" collection that contains nothing but counters. Each time we need a new sequence number, we perform a find_and_modify() with $inc and get the new number. The code for this turns out to be very short:
class Sequence(object):
def __init__(self, db, name='mongotools.sequence'):
self._db = db
self._name = name
def cur(self, name):
doc = name})
if doc is None: return 0
return doc['value']
def next(self, sname, inc=1):
doc =
query={'_id': sname},
update={'$inc': { 'value': inc } },
upsert=True,
new=True)
return doc['value']
Once we have the ability to generate sequences, we can now add a sequence number to our messages on publication:
def pub(collection, sequence, key, data=None):
doc = dict(
k=key,
data=data)
collection.insert(doc, manipulate=False)
Our subscribing query, unfortunately, needs to get a bit more complicated:
def get_cursor(collection, topic_re, last_id=-1, await_data=True):
options = { 'tailable': True }
spec = {
'ts': { '$gt': last_id }, #rsor(
db.capped_collection,
await_data=True)
for msg in cur:
last_id = msg['ts']
do_something(msg)
time.sleep(0.1)
We an actually improve upon this a tiny bit by finding the ts field of the last value in the collection and using it to initialize our last_id value:
last_id = -1
cur = -1)])
for msg in cur:
last_id = msg['ts']
break
...
So we've fixed the problem of processing messages multiple times, but we still have a slow scan of the whole capped collection on startup. Can we fix this? It turns out we can, but not without questionable "magic."
Now, for some questionable magic...
You may be wondering why I would use a strange name like ts to hold a sequence number. It turns out that there is poorly documented option for cursors that we can abuse to substantially speed up the initial scan of the capped collection: the oplog_replay option. As is apparent from the name of the option, it is mainly used to replay the "oplog", that magic capped collection that makes MongoDB's replication internals work so well. The oplog uses a ts field to indicate the timestamp of a particular operation, and the oplog_replay option requires the use of a ts field in the query.
Now since oplog_replay isn't really intended to be (ab)used by us mere mortals, it's not directly exposed in the PyMongo driver. However, we can manage to get to it via some trickery:
from pymongo.cursor import _QUERY_OPTIONS
def get_cursor(collection, topic_re, last_id=-1, await_data=True):
options = { 'tailable': True }
spec = {
'ts': { '$gt': last_id }, # only new messages
'k': topic_re }
if await_data:
options['await_data'] = True
cur = collection.find(spec, **options)
cur = cur.hint([('$natural', 1)]) # ensure we don't use any indexes
if await:
cur =
return cur
(Yeah, I know it's bad to import an underscore-prefixed name from another module. But it's marginally better the performance depends on the particular type of message passing you're doing. In the MongoTools project, there are a couple of Python example programs latency_test_pub.py and latency_test_sub.py in the directory that allow you to do your own benchmarking. In my personal benchmarking, running everything locally with small messages, I'm able to get about 1100 messages per second with a latency of 2.5ms (with publishing options -n 1 -c 1 -s 0), or about 33,000 messages per second with a latency of 8ms (this is with -n 100 -c 1 -s 0). For pure publishing bandwidth (the subscriber can't consume this many messages per second), I seem to max out at around 75,000 messages (inserts) per second.
So what do you think? With MongoTools pubsub module is MongoDB a viable competitor to Redis as a low-latency, high-bandwidth pub/sub channel? Let me know in the comments below!
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Nick 3:36 PM
Nice writing, I have a similar implementation and find it extremely usufull since it saves me the trouble of maintenance for one more application (REDIS) in the stack, performance is not bad either.
The only thing I missed is hacking of "ts" field although I use 'oplog_replay' when i read from RS oplog.
And one question ..... why not use a mongo Id object for filling 'ts' field instead of creating your own sequence ?
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Rick Copeland 3:45 PM
Thanks for the comment, Nick!
The reason I'm using a manually generated sequence number is that ObjectIds aren't actually sequence numbers (ObjectIds generated on 2 different clients can come in "out of order" for instance). What I need for this is a way to ensure that I never handle a message twice; an always-increasing sequence number is a fairly inexpensive way to do that.
Thanks again for the comment!
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Victor 1:02 AM
Why not using server side generated Date or ObjectId?
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Rick Copeland 8:25 AM
Neither dates nor ObjectIDs are server-side generated in MongoDB, so there's no guarantee that events are consumed in the same order they're produced.
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Victor 8:50 AM
According to the docs
> Most drivers create an ObjectId and insert the _id field, but the mongod will create and populate the _id if the driver or application does not.
As for server side generated dates, you can do:
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Victor 8:53 AM
And this allowed me to evaluate an expression on the server side:
new Date()})')
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Rick Copeland 8:53 AM
Good point on the _id field. I would *not*, however, assume that server-generated _id fields are guaranteed to be monotonically increasing.
As an aside, I've actually abandoned this approach in favor of using the oplog directly (just create insertion or update events in some collection and the get a monotonically increasing "ts" field in the oplog automatically)
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Rick Copeland 9:03 AM
eval() could be used to generate new dates on the server, I suppose, but it suffers from having to eval() Javascript, which causes a speed penalty. It's also not guaranteed that dates are unique when they are generated (multi-client again), so you'd need a unique index to take that into account.
Tailing the oplog fixes those issues and more, though. A big issue I discovered when doing using theent is inserted, so you can have a race condition where client A generates a sequence number, client B generates a sequence number, client B inserts an event, server handles client B's event and re-queries the server, updating its internal counter, then client A inserts its event. In this case, client A's event will never be handled because the internal 'tail' of the capped collection has already proceeded beyond client A's sequence number.
Additionally, it's much faster to just insert into a collection and count on the oplog to get updated by the replication machinery rather than perform the 2 separate operations of a) generate sequence number and b) insert into oplog.
Thanks for the comments!
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Victor 9:09 AM
I am using this to generate the _id on the server side:
{'data': message, 'channel': channel}, ensure_ascii=False)))
I've seen your code using oplog, but I found it too complex. Does it have to use a dedicated database if you are reading `local`?
> I would *not*, however, assume that server-generated _id fields are guaranteed to be monotonically increasing.
I would ObjectId contains "a 3-byte counter, starting with a random value", which is, I guess, incremented upon each new object id.
Thanks for the article and your comments!
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Victor 9:12 AM
Having server side generated object ids, no counters are needed, so there is no race condition (as I see it). Also not every installation is run in master mode having an oplog.
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Rick Copeland 9:29 AM
As for server-side ObjectIds being monotonic, there are two possible issues. One is counter rollover. At some point your sequence number will contain 0xfffffe, 0xffffff, 0x000000, 0x000001..., which would lead to an order inversion if two events in the same second spanned the rollover. Secondly, I haven't read the MongoDB server code here, but irver to eliminate locking, which could lead to consistent order inversion within a second. The same page you referenced did contain a warning not to assume monotonicity (though it didn't explicitly state whether server-side monotonicity is guaranteed).
As for the local database, that's a database present on all MongoDB nodes that is never replicated to the rest of the set. That's why the oplog is located in the local database (replicating the oplog would cause a circular replication dependency). And while using the oplog for pub/sub does require running a replica set (in most cases you should probably be doing this in production anyway), it does not require any secondaries. For instance, in development and testing I run a single-node replica set (no secondaries) for just this purpose.
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Rick Copeland 9:30 AM
Oh, and also regarding the local database and replication: all operations on all your non-local databases are automatically appended to the oplog, so there's no dedicated databases needed for that approach. (Operations in the oplog specify both the database and collection to which they pertain.)
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Nick 9:52 PM
yaps, you are right in a multi client scenario mongoIds can possibly overlap.
Thanks for replying and your post.
Regards Nick Milon
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Unknown 10:01 AM
Rick,
This is a great post, thanks, but it leaves me wondering one thing: What happens in the case of the classic slow consumer? E.g. what if I can insert records into the capped collection faster than I'm able to get them to the consumers, and capped collection fills up. Won't I simply lose data in that case? Or is there a way I'm not seeing to "block" the producer temporarily?
Thanks again for the post
Mike
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Rick Copeland 5:37 PM
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the comment. In the case of the slow consumer, it is possible to lose data. Blocking the producer is certainly an approach, but in my case I was able to size the capped collection to handle the occasional slow consumer, and in general I have a large number of consumers for each producer.
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Victor 9:42 AM
The reply button under your comment doesn't work, so I reply here.
I meant that local oplog.rs records insertions not only into messages collection, but also into other collections? Or not?
> which would lead to an order inversion if two events in the same second spanned the rollover
I thought of this, but this means over 16 mln of documents per second, which is unrealistic. Anyway, I think using server-generated ids suits my case, where sequence within a second is not so important (although on my server machine identifier and process id are the same for inserted records).
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Rick Copeland 9:49 AM
For the oplog, I think you have things backwards. Inserts into messages (as well as all other collections in your database) causes new operation documents to be inserted into the local.oplog.rs collection. (This means that if you tail the oplog you'll have to filter out operations that you don't care about.)
And order inversion doesn't require 16 mln documents per second. It only requires 2 documents in the same second that happen to have the sequence numbers 0xffffff and 0x000000, which can happen once ever 16 mln documents (which is not unrealistic over the course of weeks or months.) And of course, the first rollover will occur at a random time after the counter is initialized, since it's initialized with a random value.
Thanks for the comments!
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Victor 10:08 AM
> This means that if you tail the oplog you'll have to filter out operations that you don't care about.
That's what I meant. Filtering out also takes resources. And IIRC oplog is a capped collection with a limited size. So it could be filled with other records with enough intensivity.
> It only requires 2 documents in the same second that happen to have the sequence numbers 0xffffff and 0x000000
Rollove + process id + counter.
In order that object_id_1 > object_id_2 while object object_id_1 was generated earlier than object_id_2, the overflow must happen during one serted documents have ids generated on clients).
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Rick Copeland 10:20 AM
With the oplog, the filtering happens on the server (you query the oplog for only the events you're interested in), so it doesn't actually consume more resources than the approach in this blog post. So you'd do something like db.oplog.rs.find({'ns': 'my-db.messages', 'ts': {'$gt':
For rollover, keep in mind that, while the counter may nohus we can ignore them entirely for this analysis. So consider two ObjectIds generated in the same second *on the server*. In this case, the first one is [current_time, server_machine_id, server_pid, 0xffffff], and the second one is [current_time, server_machine_id, server_pid, 0x0000kelihood of this, but it 50% of your events occur in the same second as the previous event, this inversion will happen, on average, every 48 mln events, with higher likelihood if you have a faster flow of events. (And the approach in this blog post can generate 1000s of events per second, so you *can* get inversions almost every every 28 mln events).
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Victor 10:25 AM
Ah yes, you are right about the rollover.
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Victor 10:38 AM
Looking at the sources (I could really read them, but;
> The bson_oid_t generated by this function is not guaranteed to be globally unique. Only unique within this context. It is however, guaranteed to be sequential.
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Victor 10:49 AM
No, the sources are for something different. I've restarted the mongodb server and the ids have changed in the middle.
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‘Agarwal’, is, but a generic name used to classify a large number of people from a migrant, trader community who were called (and now call themselves) Marwaris (in parts of Sikkim, Darjeeling and Nepal, sometimes, one might hear the more derogatory variant – कईयां ‘kaiyan’). The Bengal Code of Census Procedure for 1901 defined Marwari as “a trader from Rajputana” – “includes Agarwalas, Mahesris, Oswals, Seraogis, etc. The true caste should in all cases be entered.”
The more specific name for Deepchand Agarwal was दीपचंद रामपुरिया Deepchand Rampuria – the word ‘Rampuria’ implying hailing from Rampur – a village in Rajasthan (though I found a village/town with the name Rampur in a few states in India, and also in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal). The Rampurias, pronounced ‘रामपरिया Ramparia’ (with an ‘a’ following ‘Ramp’) by the Marwaris (who are adept at mutilating any given name) were supposed to have been given a boon whereby they, with their mere touch, can heal a skin eruption called ‘करांत karaant’. I’ve seen my Rampuria cousins (much older in age than me) being called upon to touch and heal those in Gangtok who suddenly had an eruption of ‘karaant’ on their bodies.
The other name of Deepchand Rampuria was ‘Deepla’. A Nov 7, 2002 article titled, ‘The truth about Sikkim’ by Major General (retired) Ashok K Mehta in mentions how in 1911, the British Captain Francis Younghusband pioneered the invasion of Lhasa through the Chumbi valley fighting battles at Yatung and Gyantse. He writes, “Till the late 1950s, Indian Army detachments were posted at Lhasa and Yatung, protecting the trademarks. Until [the year 2000], the owner of Gangtok’s Hotel Tashi Delek, Mr. Hira Lal Lakhotia [the owner actually is Moti Lal Lakhotia. Hari Lakhotia was his younger brother who passed away a couple of years ago — as per a clarification by Tenzing Chukie and Rajni Sarda Khemani], whose parents came to Sikkim much before Younghusband, had a bank account in Yatung. Along with fellow Marwaris, they still own much of the businesses in Sikkim.” Motilal and Deepchand, better known as Motia and Deepla, were close buddies. Both partnered in trade with Tibet (I often heard Yatung mentioned). I would assume it must either have been through the Nathula pass above Gangtok or the Jalepla pass near Kalimpong (a small hill station 2 1/2 hours by road from Gangtok, but part of West Bengal – currently fighting, along with Darjeeling, Kurseong and surrounding areas to form a new state with a distinct identity called Gorkhaland ). The stories I heard included Deepla often driving in the roads in Gangtok in old classic cars and his dining with the Chogyal (the King of Sikkim). I wonder whether it was Chogyal Sir Tashi Namgyal, the founder of my school – Tashi Namgyal Academy, who ruled till 1963, or Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last king of the independent kingdom of Sikkim, who was forced to abdicate in 1975. It is fascinating I’m writing this on the day a cover story on Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal hits the stands in ‘Talk Sikkim’. Yesterday, 4th April, was the 45th anniversary of the coronation of the late Chogyal (as per a status update on Facebook by Tenzing Chukie, who wrote the cover story).Other stories included his returning with Tibetan stones and jewels and his wife throwing them away as they were touched by the ‘Bhotias’ (the ‘we’ versus ‘them’ happened on all sides, and continue across the world today, at various levels). My child’s mind (along with those of my siblings) would feel sorry for the loss and wonder how rich she’d have been had she kept them. There was another tale of Deepla being put behind bars once (was it in Tibet?) and his wife taking money to him (100 rupee note inside a ‘फुल्का phulka’ or ‘फलका phalka’ – chapatee). I imagined the process of the rupee note making it safely inside the phulka without getting burnt. Was the note rolled or put flat? Or, was it inserted once the phulka was made? I’m not sure the extent to which these stories were true, but they helped build the mystic of the man who these were attributed to. In 2003, after then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s visit to China and the talks on the resumption of trade between Sikkim and Tibet, now India and China respectively, through the Nathula pass close to Gangtok, Deepla was very excited and full of energy. Despite his age in the 70s, he wanted to seek permission to resume trade again (and demanding priority treatment owing to his status as an old trader along the route).
The other, more respectful, name for Deepchand Agarwal or Deepchand Rampuria or Deepla was दीपचंद जी Deepchand ji. This was how he was referred to in my immediate and extended family, and one that I heard all the time. All the stories about him I heard were told using this name. The ‘ji’ is added as a mark of respect, in this case, for being the जंवाई janwai or son-in-law of the family (a similar measure unheard of for daughter-in-laws). The deference in pronouncing the ‘ji’, I suppose, came from being the husband of the elder (only) sister of my father and his two brothers. There was something more to it, though. The man himself demanded respect, commanded it, and got it – respect not by following the norms of society, but by being himself; by living life in his own terms.
Deepchandji had one daughter and three sons with my aunt (father’s elder sister) – all of them doing well, with grown-up children, and grandchildren, in some cases (one son had once gone to Bombay wanting to be an actor – I was intrigued to see old photographs of Devanand, Vaijyantimala, etc. on a film shoot during a visit to the Kalimpong home of my aunt). Deepchandji continued to live life on his own terms. The not-so-nice mentions included his visiting the casino in Kathmandu (much before casinos became a ‘hip’ term, with even Singapore bowing down to having its own), drinking, eating ‘अडंगो adango’ [stuff i.e. meat] (not sure how true – a complete ‘No, No’ in Marwari families), etc.
The name I used to address Deepchandji was फुम्फोजी phumphoji. फुम्फा phumpha is the Marwari term for father’s sister’s husband. My father would call him जीजोजी jeejoji (brother-in-law). His kids (at least from the first family) called him बापू bapu (father). Phumphoji attended the weddings of all my siblings (my four sisters and two brothers), including my own in 2003. He would visit otherwise as well. What impressed me was his forthrightness. Even when I was 10-year old, he gave me the kind of respect people would give the grown-ups, and had no compunctions referring to his virtues or his vices. The only other place where I’ve seen such forthrightness is in Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography ‘My experiments with truth’. He talked about how he had studied only till Class IV (fourth grade), but managed well, during all his experiences. He greatly respected my mother. I remember him once mention his age as 74. He would surprise the youngsters with his energy and the elders would be forced to listen to him, as he talked sense. Once the room he was staying in had a faulty (fluorescent) tube light, and had been faulty for years. He immediately got that fixed. In the days leading up to my sister’s wedding in 1990, there was a shortage of water. He got a pump installed and personally made sure there was adequate water during all the days of the wedding. I really respected him when I saw his stature during a particular incident. There was an undue demand from the groom’s family, and he (the main person), and other elders from the family took the lead to go and give a stern warning to the family that we would withdraw from the wedding (even at that stage – and considering we being the bride’s family) if they did not behave. Everyone quickly fell in line. He would be there wherever he could make any difference. He took the responsibility to see his granddaughters married and oversaw the entire process. These are, but surfaces of his life I know about. His success reflects in the success of his kids today.
In the last decade or so, he developed a skin condition called psoriasis. One would find his skin peeling off. He had told me about the disease and how it is non-infectious. During one of the weddings, where some people were perhaps avoiding his flaking fingers, somebody was taking a big ‘thaali’ of ladoos around. He expressed interest in them, touched almost each one of them, and returned them saying he didn’t want them. It was perhaps an indication to the crowd around not to make a big deal of his skin condition. He had once, perhaps similarly, taken my engagement ring, and tried it on his flaky-pink finger. He told me how he is getting old, and how, he must (or how he had already – I’m not sure), now, start praying and thinking of God.
During my last trip to Delhi in July 2009, I saw him in my cousin (his son’s) house. I forget the exact words, but he spoke in Marwari. “कद आया kad aaya – when did you come?”…and something else. Every 3-4 minutes, he would come back and repeat the same set of questions again. After about an hour or so, he suddenly recognized me and asked if I was still in Singapore and how was I doing. A few minutes after that, it was back to “कद आया kad aaya – when did you come?”…and something else. My भुआ bhua was lamenting how he refused to be shaved for days (he had a short white beard – in the preceding years, he would always be clean shaven). He had developed amnesia and didn’t remember things. I was sad to see him in that state. The person with so much of zeal to do things, and with his vast treasure trove of information on Tibet and Sikkim – and one who was a part of Sikkim’s history, had lost all he knew. I was told he had gotten lost in Delhi for a day or two. The police helped find him back. My भुआ bhua said she watches over him all day, fearing he doesn’t venture out. The next day, when I touched his feet to leave (he was sleeping; then got up and came outside). He asked me, “सारो काम हो ग्यो? saaro kaam ho gyo? Is all the work done?” I asked, “कुन सो काम? kun so kaam? Which work?”. He thought hard, then said, “बो पुजा हारो? Bo pooja haro? That work related to the worship?” Then he raised both his hands slightly, as if to bless, and asked again, “सारो काम हो ग्यो नी? saaro kaam ho gyo ni? I hope all the work is done.” “बो पुजा हारो? Bo pooja haro? That work related to the worship?” I said, “हाँ फुम्फोजी, हो ग्यो haan phumphoji, ho gyo. Yes, phumphoji. All’s done.”
That was the last time I met him. A month or two ago, I was further saddened to hear that he had fallen down and fractured his hips (and supposedly underwent two surgeries). He was bound to a wheelchair and was bed-ridden (with somebody taking care of changing and feeding him). Last night 4 April, after I’d reached Boston from New York, and sat at my desk around 11:30pm Eastern time (5 April, 9:00am in India) preparing Powerpoint slides for a lecture on ‘Observation Research and Usability Testing/Think Aloud Protocols’ to teach my class this morning, I got a call from home saying, “दीपचंदजी गुज़र ग्या Deepchandji guzar gyaa. Deepchandji has passed away.” He was supposedly alone at the Delhi home of his son with the caretaker (and maybe a grandson – not sure). His sons and their families had gone to Haridwar to attend the Kumbh mela and were rushing back. My भुआ bhua (even though she was in the same house, but too fat and frail to climb upstairs) had not yet been informed. My sadness on the news was coupled with a sense of relief for him for getting freed from his misery, especially after the fracture. My mother advised his son to take out a ‘बैकुंठी baikunthi’ – an elaborately-decorated funeral procession given to a person who had lived a long, fulfilling life and leaves behind children and grandchildren who are all doing well (I hear this was eventually not done due to lack of time or know-how). He supposedly was 85 years old.
I spoke to two of his sons who were on their way to Delhi. The elder of the two said, “फुम्फोजी तो गया भाई phumphoji to gaya bhai. [Your] phumphoji is gone, brother.”
Further telephone calls this morning told about the extended family coming to my house in Gangtok condoling his death.”को को आयो? ko ko aayo? Who all came? (in Nepali)”. Among the people who came, I’m told, was Moti Lal Lakhotia – the Motia to the Deepla, both of who traversed the high passes from Sikkim to Tibet (he said, in a matter of 2-3 days, he had lost his only 2 friends in the world; and that he was older than the two).
I was asked a question, to which I gave a simple answer without much thought. The question was, “चेतन के छोरो है की छोरी? Chetan ke choro hai ki chori? Does Chetan [his grandson from his second son] have a boy or a girl?” I had met all of them last year and had taken photos. I thought the question might be related to taking a gift for the baby when people from my family go to Delhi. I replied, “चेतन के शायद छोरी है, रशमी के छोरो है Chetan ke shaayad chori hai, Rashmi ke choro hai. Chetan, most likely, has a daughter. Rashmi (his sister) has a son.” The response was, “ओ, फेर तो सोना की सीडी कोनी चड O, pher to sona ki seedi koni chade. O, then a ladder made of gold can’t be made”. “अगर पड़पोतो होतो तो सोना की सीडी चड जाता agar padpoto hoto to sona ki seedi chad jaata. If he had a great grandson [instead of a great granddaughter; and not counting that his granddaughter has a son], then his body could have been accompanied by a golden ladder [and he could have climbed the golden steps to heaven]”. What followed was a brief argument on gender divide and whether such views are applicable anymore, with both sides too deep in their conviction to budge.
My phumphoji was the tallest person of his generation I knew. For good or for bad, he lived on his terms. If only for his sheer honesty and his ability to face up to and confront things squarely for the way they were, and for not distinguishing between कईयां kaiyan and पाड़ीया-भोटिया padiya-bhotiya, and seeing humans as humans – equally gifted and equally flawed, I hope, on the 45th anniversary of the day Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal of Sikkim ascended his throne, Deepchandji gets a golden ‘सीडी seedi’ to heaven!
P.S. When I shared the article with his son a couple of days later, he added a few more things I hadn’t known about, “A good footballer, photographer. Amiable and could mix up with people easily. Fond of playing Mhajong too and could be seen playing with the Chogyal of Sikkim and the Dorji,s of Bhutan. Would not give up easily once he made up his mind.”
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parking area, follow a paved service road marked with the teal diamond blazes of the Highlands Trail, passing through a picnic area. Soon, a sign marks the start of the white-blazed Pine Swamp Loop Trail. When the paving ends, proceed ahead on a gravel road, continuing to follow both white and teal blazes.
In 0.2 mile, you’ll reach a T-intersection with a sign and a kisok, which marks the start of the loop of the Pine Swamp Loop Trail. Turn right and head downhill on a gravel road, still following the white and teal blazes. After crossing a brook, bear left at a fork and climb gradually.
At the top of the climb, you’ll reach a Y-intersection with a bench and a kiosk. On the right, a triple purple blaze marks the start of the Purple Trail. Turn right, leaving the road, and follow the Purple Trail into the woods on a footpath. After traversing a level area, the trail descends gradually and curves to the left, joining a woods road that comes in from the right. In a short distance, you’ll reach a limited viewpoint (partially obscured by vegetation) over the Jefferson High School and Middle School below and the hills beyond.
The Purple Trail continues to descend. At the base of the descent, the trail reaches a cascading brook and turns left to parallel it, heading upstream. The trail bears left, away from the brook, descends to the brook in an area where the brook widens into several branches, then again climbs away from the brook.
The Purple Trail ends at a wide woods road – the route of the white-blazed Pine Swamp Loop Trail. Turn right and follow the trail downhill to cross a brook (the same brook that the Purple Trail parallels) on a wooden footbridge. The trail now climbs gently and bears left at a fork, continuing through dense thickets of mountain laurel. Soon, it bears right and continues on a footpath, which approaches Sparta Mountain Road, just to the right.
At the next intersection, with Sparta Mountain Road just to the right, the Highlands Trail turns right, but you should turn left to continue on the white-blazed Pine Swamp Loop Trail. The trail climbs a little, levels off, and gradually descends.
Soon, you’ll notice hemlock and mountain laurel along the trail. You’re now entering the Pine Swamp, after which the trail is named. Just ahead, you’ll notice a short unmarked side trail on the left. Follow this trail, which leads to a rock ledge overlooking the Pine Swamp below. Characterized by spruce, hemlock, rhododendron and mountain laurel, this swamp is remote and gives a feeling of deep wilderness. You’ll want to take a break here to observe this special feature.
The trail descends to the level of the swamp, curves to the left, and continues to follow a woods road through the swamp. After crossing another stream, the trail climbs slightly to reach a junction. The Orange Trail begins on the right, but you should continue ahead on the white-blazed trail.
Still on a wide woods road, the trail now climbs gradually to the highest point in Morris County (1,395 feet), marked by a bench and a sign placed by the Morris County Park Commission. The actual high point is a short distance to the right of the trail.
The trail now begins a steady but gentle descent. Just ahead, it reaches a fork where a black-dot-on-blue-blazed trail begins on the right, but you should bear left to continue on the white-blazed Pine Swamp Loop Trail. In another half mile, after a slight climb, you’ll reach a junction. Turn left here, then left again in another 75 feet (where a blue-blazed trail on the right leads to the trailer area). The second turn once marked the beginning of the green-blazed Boulder Trail, named for the interesting large boulders which can be seen on both sides of the trail. The green blazes have been obliterated (you should continue to follow the white blazes), but the boulders remain.
In another half mile, three pink blazes mark the start of the Pink Trail, which proceeds ahead on the woods road, but you should turn right onto a footpath, continuing to follow the white blazes. When the footpath ends, the trail turns right onto a woods road, then in 100 feet turns left onto another road (following the sign to the “picnic area”). At the next T-intersection, you turn left again and soon reach the start of the loop of the Pine Swamp Loop Trail (marked by a sign). Turn right (again following the sign to the “picnic area”), and follow the road back to the parking area where the hike began.
Publication: Submitted by Daniel Chazin on 03/28/2008 updated/verified on 02/10/2019
Pine Swamp Trail Loop
Mahlon Dickerson Reservation
This loop hike traverses less-used areas of this park, paralleling a cascading stream, passing the interesting Pine Swamp and reaching the highest point in Morris County.
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Food - Snacks/lunch will keep you going as you burn energy walking or climbing. Nuts, seeds, and chocolate are favorites on the trail.
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Rain Gear and Extra Clothing - Rain happens. So does cold. Be prepared for changing weather. Avoid cotton--it traps water against your skin and is slow to dry. If you are wearing wet cotton and must return to your starting point, you risk getting chills that may lead to a dangerous hypothermia. Choose synthetic shirts, sweaters and/or vests and dress in layers for easy on and off.
Compass - A simple compass is all you need to orient you and your map to magnetic north.
Light - A flashlight or small, lightweight headlamp will be welcome gear if you find yourself still on the trail when darkness falls. Check the batteries before you start out and have extras in your pack.
First Aid Kit - Keep it simple, compact, and weatherproof. Know how to use the basic components.
Firestarter and Matches - In an emergency, you may need to keep yourself or someone else warm until help arrives. A firestarter (this could be as simple as leftover birthday candles that are kept inside a waterproof container) and matches (again, make sure to keep them in a waterproof container) could save a life.
Knife or Multi-tool - You may need to cut a piece of moleskin to put over a blister, repair a piece of broken equipment, or solve some other unexpected problem.
Emergency Numbers - Know the emergency numbers for the area you're going to and realize that in many locations--especially mountainous ones, your phone will not get reception.
Common Sense - Pay attention to your environment, your energy, and the condition of your companions. Has the weather turned rainy? Is daylight fading? Did you drink all your water? Did your companion fail to bring rain gear? Are you getting tired? Keep in mind that until you turn around you are (typically) only half-way to completing your hike--you must still get back to where you started from! (Exceptions are loop hikes.)
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Schedule your trip to avoid times of high use.
Visit in small groups when possible. Consider splitting larger groups into smaller groups.
Repackage food to minimize waste.
Use a map and compass to eliminate the use of marking paint, rock cairns or flagging.
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Durable surfaces include established trails and campsites, rock, gravel, dry grasses or snow.
Protect riparian areas by camping at least 200 feet from lakes and streams.
Good campsites are found, not made. Altering a site is not necessary.
In popular areas:
Concentrate use on existing trails and campsites.
Walk single file in the middle of the trail, even when wet or muddy.
Keep campsites small. Focus activity in areas where vegetation is absent.
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Disperse use to prevent the creation of campsites and trails.
Avoid places where impacts are just beginning.
Dispose of Waste Properly
Pack it in, pack it out. Inspect your campsite and rest areas for trash or spilled foods. Pack out all trash, leftover food and litter.
Deposit solid human waste in catholes dug 6 to 8 inches deep, at least 200 feet from water, camp and trails. Cover and disguise the cathole when finished.
Pack out toilet paper and hygiene products.
To wash yourself or your dishes, carry water 200 feet away from streams or lakes and use small amounts of biodegradable soap. Scatter strained dishwater.
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Preserve the past: examine, but do not touch cultural or historic structures and artifacts.
Leave rocks, plants and other natural objects as you find them.
Avoid introducing or transporting non-native species.
Do not build structures, furniture, or dig trenches.
Minimize Campfire Impacts
Campfires can cause lasting impacts to the backcountry. Use a lightweight stove for cooking and enjoy a candle lantern for light.
Where fires are permitted, use established fire rings, fire pans, or mound fires.
Keep fires small. Only use sticks from the ground that can be broken by hand.
Burn all wood and coals to ash, put out campfires completely, then scatter cool ashes.
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Observe wildlife from a distance. Do not follow or approach them.
Never feed animals. Feeding wildlife damages their health, alters natural behaviors, and exposes them to predators and other dangers.
Protect wildlife and your food by storing rations and trash securely.
Control pets at all times, or leave them at home.
Avoid wildlife during sensitive times: mating, nesting, raising young, or winter.
Be Considerate of Other Visitors
Respect other visitors and protect the quality of their experience.
Be courteous. Yield to other users on the trail.
Step to the downhill side of the trail when encountering pack stock.
Take breaks and camp away from trails and other visitors.
Let nature's sounds prevail. Avoid loud voices and noises.
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Take I-80 to Exit 34B (Route 15 North/Jefferson/Sparta). Proceed north on Route 15 for about five miles, and take the exit for Weldon Road (Milton/Oak Ridge). After about one mile on Weldon Road, you'll pass a sign indicating that you have entered Mahlon Dickerson Reservation. In another 1.5 miles, you'll pass the entrance to Saffin Pond on the right. Continue for one mile beyond Saffin Pond, passing an entrance to a camping area on the left. Just beyond, you'll pass another entrance on the right. Turn left at the next park entrance - this one, an entrance to a picnic area on the left - and continue ahead to the parking area. (The entrance to the picnic area is 4.0 miles along Weldon Road from Route 15.)
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Welcome back to Cake Week! For five jam-packed days, I’m teaching you how to make professional looking cakes at home, so you can avoid those high bakery prices. You can find links to all posts in the series HERE.
There’s a lot of buttercream frosting recipes floating around, but the key is to find one you can use to frost cakes, pipe all sorts of intricate decorations, and still have it taste GOOD.
I’ve tried a few different variations of buttercream, but I keep coming back to this Wilton classic because it fits all three criteria. It also forms the perfect “crust” after it sits, so everything stays in tact and doesn’t sag or melt!
Another thing that is really unique, are the ingredients. Because this recipe doesn’t use any milk, eggs, or butter, it lasts for days in a sealed storage container. Technically, you could prep your frosting a day or two before you need it, but if you’re a frosting junkie like I am, it might not last that long!
How to Make Buttercream Icing:
Step 1: Cream shortening, vanilla and water. TIP: Use clear vanilla if you want a pure white icing.
Step 2: Add dry ingredients and mix on medium speed until thoroughly mixed together.
Step 3: Blend until creamy {usually 1 to 2 minutes}
Step 4: Use immediately, or place in an airtight storage container for later!
Consistency Tips:
Before using, you will need to adjust the consistency of your icing depending on the project. You can thin the icing by putting in more water, or thicken it by adding confectioner’s sugar.
For icing cakes, use a thin-t0-medium consistency.
For cupcakes, use a medium-to-stiff consistency.
For piping flowers and borders, use a medium-to-stiff consistency.
For writing, use a thin consistency.
Basically, if your icing doesn’t come out right or do what you want it to do, it’s probably a consistency issue!
Coloring Tips:
I like to use coloring gels versus the watery drops you can buy in the grocery store. The quality and vibrancy is lot better and they also help maintain consistency. Remember though, a little goes a long way!
To Color:
Dip a toothpick into the color gel of your choice, and poke into the frosting in various places. The more color you get on the toothpick and more places you poke, the deeper the color will be.
Mix thoroughly until the white part of the frosting is completely gone. Add more color for a darker hue.
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Prders, but my favorite part is the unique “crust” it forms to keep all your creations in tact!
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1 cup solid white vegetable shortening
1 tsp clear vanilla extract
2 tbsp water
1 lb confectioners sugar
1 tbsp meringue powder
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Cream shortening, vanilla and water.
Add dry ingredients and mix on medium speed until thoroughly ch icing to use, are you ready to take this buttercream for a test drive? All my Cake Week posts are listed right HERE, so you can practice your skills.
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Lindsey says:
June 21 at 8:50 am
This frosting looks delicious. If I ever make any kind of dessert from scratch I’ll have to give this a try.
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Kalyn Brooke says:
June 23 at 2:41 pm
I honestly think it’s the best frosting out there for decorating – and it tastes good too!
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Melisha says:
June 22 at 6:03 pm
I have never used meringue powder. I’ll bet that is the secret ingredient I’ve been missing to add a touch of stiffness to the frosting. I can’t wait to try this recipe!
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Kalyn Brooke says:
June 23 at 2:51 pm
I’ve never been exactly sure what the meringue powder does, but that makes sense. I also think some recipes call for egg whites instead, but the meringue powder makes it so you don’t have to refrigerate it.
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Julie says:
September 12 at 9:56 pm
I tried this tonight! I am going to make my own gender reveal cupcakes! I wanted them to look nice. I bought the tip suggested at Walmart, and I got started with my test batch. My measurements for a 1/3 practice batch in case you want to try them too…. I cut the recipe by 3 which was just enough to practice with.
1/3 c shortening
1/3 tsp extract
3-4 tsp water (2 tsp is 1/3 of the recipe, but I needed more water.)
1 tsp meringue powder
1 1/3 c sugar
I used almond extract and butter flavored shortening. I think when I do it again, I will just use vanilla. The almond was overpowering.
The consistency was perfect. My swirl looked awesome. I tried a few. I think I am ready to make my cupcakes! Thanks so much!
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Kalyn Brooke says:
September 24 at 11:07 am
You’re welcome! So glad they turned out well – and it’s a great idea to cut the recipe down for practice. Thanks for sharing.
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I’m Fraser and I am a Dispenser at our busy Shop Street store in Galway, Ireland.
I have just completed the first of a two-year Retail Supervision Apprenticeship Programme run by Retail Ireland Skillnet. I cannot lie, juggling a full-time job and an apprenticeship is a challenge. Add to that a new born baby daughter and it’s fair to say I have my hands full! In truth, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I began my career with Boots working in Operations whilst I was at university in Glasgow, evenings and weekends mostly. Over these early years I had the opportunity to pick up some key transferable skills that unbeknownst to me, would serve me well down the line.
I was always interested in the pharmacy side of the business and I enrolled on the healthcare assistant course keen to learn more and perhaps one day get a chance to do the dispenser programme.
And sure enough, as my old dad would always say, “What’s for you won’t go by you”.
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I was offered an amazing opportunity to join a Care Home Services team as a Trainee Dispenser. It was full on to say the least! I was learning on the job, but it wasn’t long before I was hooked. It’s the thrill of a fast-paced dispensary and working as a part of a team that ensured nursing home residents received their crucial medication.
s room with, and I have to say, THE MOST AMAZING team. Ten years on and I transferred from Glaswegian to Galwegian! (If you have not visited Galerial side of the business. Though my primary role is still in the dispensary, it’s a really interesting time for my career. I work as part of the pharmacy team but have the additional interest in scorecards, KPI’s and financial analysis. I am blessed to have such a great mentor who supports me 100% with my development and learning.
If I was to give one piece of advice to Boots colleagues (or if you are considering a career with Boots) it is this… Speak to your line manager about your future. Don’t be afraid to have an open and honest conversation about what areas of the business interest you. Development opportunities are available, and the training is second to none. So, grab it with both hands and give it your all!
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As I write this blog we are in unprecedented times with COVID-19. We are faced with new challenges to our business and our priority is for the safety of our colleagues and customers. Working within a confined dispensary means we all wear PPE and speak to customers at distance or through shields. In a strange way, it has brought our team closer together. We all share the common goal of protecting ourselves and our loved ones.
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Turnaround Publisher Services: “Ferrante’s dedication to the working class is deeply satisfying. No matter how much delight you take in Elena’s cultural and intellectual strides, those figures from her childhood always take the spotlight.”
Turnaround Publwooned over what is, as the Sunday Times put it, “The publishing story of the decade.”
If you’ve been struck down by this same literary fever, you’ll know that by the time you reach the third book in the quartet, you’re so all-consumed by the lives of these characters that doing simple things like buying milk or going down the pub feel oddly unreal. You’re in Naples instead. You’re watching lives unfold with an intensity more tangible than real life. And whatever happens you CAN’T. STOP. READING.
By the time you finish The Story of a New Name, the second book, and have gasped at its ending (Ferrante is VERY good at endings), there is nowhere to go except into the depths of book three, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.
This is the point we’re all at here at Turnaround. We’ve offered up our thoughts on each book so far. And with LESS THAN A MONTH to go before the release of the fourth and final book, The Story of the Lost Child, we’re back to tell you what we thought of book three.
Sarah
I have never read anything so ravenously as Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.
It is incredibly hard to condense my thoughts and feelings about this instalment of the series, not only because it deals with the most grown up themes thus far (Elena’s career, marriage, motherhood and widening interest in feminism), but also because the characters are living in 1968-1976 Italy, in which revolutionary fanaticism and fascism have reached a breaking point. The overall consensus in the office is that tooooooooooooo much is happening here!
In spite of that, it in some ways seems less exciting than the first two novels, as it focusses on the steady Elena more so than the hot-blooded Lila, who has undeniably been the star up to this point. Suddenly Lenu’s life is more exciting and more interesting, at least at first. Where Lila does feature, and even when she is embroiled within a battle between workers and fascists in the factory where she works, her youth and volatility have been dulled somewhat through years of poverty, hard work and motherhood. She lacks the resourcefulness and the venom that I have grown to love about her – until the end, in an evocative passage which I shan’t spoil!
This point aside, this is the novel that spoke to me most out of the three. Throughout the series, I have identified with Lenu far more than Lila. I’m currently very close to the age that Lenu is in this book, and she was living out many of my greatest fears – unhappy marriage (thankfully mine isn’t!) and having children and, most of all, that one is stuck in a futile scenario and that there could be more out there, just out of reach… I felt like this book was in part written with me in mind; obviously it wasn’t!
Perhaps that’s what is so wonderful about this series: Ferrante’s haunting storytelling ultimately speaks to all women – and indeed to a great deal of men, who aren’t immune to these anxieties – and the doubts they have about their identities, their relationships, their stations in life, the oppressions that take place around them and the worry that there could always be something more ahead.
I think it’s worth mentioning that the ending of the novel actually elicited a scream from me. READ IT. NOW.
Heather
Elena Ferrante opens up Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay with Elena (the fictional one) reflecting on the span of the neighbourhood. Despite having appeared to have climbed the middle-class ladder rather effectively – moving on to reside in Florence with her university professor spouse, successful debut novel, and two healthy children – this series and its narrator can never escape its roots. Writing from the 2000s, after the events of the Neapolitan novels, she admits that the neighbourhood had always been bigger than that run-down suburb she and Lila grew up in; that its power actually spread insidiously across Italy, across Europe, across Elena’s entire world, and we soon begin to see Ferrante’s drama played out across a much wider, international stage.
This widening of scope and readjusting of the lens of Ferrante’s fiction is what impressed me the most in Book Two. While I’d followed the personal, romantic and political lives of Elena and Lila in raptures, I slowly found myself embroiled in the radical and often violent struggles of those at the bottom of the class system, of the student population and their young leaders, and of groups of women meeting in sitting rooms to dissect their existence in a thoroughly woman-hating society.
The stakes are raised with this book, without Ferrante ever making any grand, obvious leap towards political pedantry – her characters sometimes preach, that’s true, but the clash of personalities, political positions, and inescapable societal rankings keep the reader on their feet. Scenes featuring some of the more engaged characters are properly shocking, and provide great contrast to the slowly deprecating familial drama of the Airotas. Elena also makes a great narrator of these anomalies; you really feel her own discomfort when Nadia and Pasquale toddle off to have sex in her bathtub.
Ferrante’s dedication to the working class is deeply satisfying. No matter how much delight you take in Elena’s cultural and intellectual strides, those figures from her childhood always take the spotlight.
Special shout-out to Ferrante’s continually dazzling beginnings and endings – my very favourite kind of book is the one that, upon finishing, you can’t help but go back and read over the first chapter. She achieves this every time, and the series flows seamlessly because of that. Also adored Enzo’s success at IBM, and the Mad Men-esque ending that sees Elena positively weirded out by her first aeroplane flight.
Jenn
In Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena and Lila have grown into fully-fledged adults. They’ve left the world of Ischia behind them and are living in two different cities, leading very different lives.
There’s a parwretched to watch her trapped in domesticity. Where is the strong-willed (if under-confident) Elena who put herself through University and wrote a bestselling novel – one with a progressive dirty scene? Who is this person trapped in a house with kids, a husband who is always working, and a routine of housework and shitty sex. NO! This is not her! It was hard to watch her lose everything she’d worked for and end up not really liking herself; maybe that’s why I couldn’t actually put the book down; I was waiting to see how she’d get the hell out.
Although the narrative turns decidedly more towards Elena in this third book, Lila is still there. Her presence is felt through whatever Elena does. That’s part of the magic; Ferrante has wound the two together so tightly you can’t read one without sensing the other. I’m back to liking Lila. She’s escaped that brute Stefano and is working hard for herself, her son and Enzo, albeit in a sausage factory that ends up making her both physically and mentally ill. Her curiosity and urge to learn comes back to her in waves. She’s getting braver and becoming more independent.
And while these two women are trying to get along with their lives – and maybe even actually enjoy life – the political tension in Italy is heating up tenfold. There are elements of the book that read like the best kind of political thriller. Every character who we’ve watched grow up is in some way involved. Lila and Elena getting involved more heavily with the beginnings of a feminist movement is a real highlight of the book, a bit of a release amongst the oppression.
As soon as I started the book, it was full-steam ahead. It really is all-consuming. And as it steers towards its ending, there is only the worry that you have to wait a while before the final book is released. AND THAT ENDING!
Tom
Last time, when writing about The Story of A New Name, I focused on Elena Ferrante’s evocations of place – particularly during the book’s centrepiece on Ischia. In the same spirit of approaching the Neapolitan novels from a slightly different angle, this time I’m going to briefly examine the idea of progress in Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.
In this third novel, Elena and Lila are separated; their lives only briefly intersect (although when they do, it is often with shattering consequences). Their lives have both moved forward in different and arguably unexpected ways, and this physical separation seems to be an indicator or how far they have grown apart.
Yet there is something inescapable – for Elena, at least, as Lila’s thoughts still remain tantalisingly obscure – about the Naples neighbourhood she grew up in. It regularly informs her writing and her thoughts, even as she is ostensibly ‘progressing’ through life, moving further away from her roots. Lila’s progress is blunted with almost chilling abruptness in this instalment, yet there are still elements of her lifestyle that Elena finds beguiling. It is the same nagging question that has permeated the books so far – are we ever happy with our own lives, with our own achievements? Or are we destined to be dissatisfied, no matter what we gain from life?
In addition, and especially in Those Who Leave, Ferrante consistently asks – what do we mean by ‘progress’? Does it mean moving further away from your beginnings, your family? Or is there something more subtle at work? Indeed, can those same questions be applied to a whole society? As Italy moves through a period of gigantic political and social change, its own progress increasingly comes under scrutiny in these later novels. Happily for the reader, Ferrante is as interested in the process of finding answers as she is in the questions themselves; it is a joy to see the workings of her mind through these characters. As Elena boards a plane for the first time at the end of Those Who Leave, we deeply feel her own tremblings, her own uncertainties about which kind of progress she is destined to make. Like the previous two books, this is stirring, life-affirming writing. You’re hardly likely to need convincing at this stage, but the Neapolitan novels are works to treasure; simply one of the greatest sequences of fiction you are ever likely to come across.
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that appears to have originated from a meeting of China’s top war generals reveals elaborate plans for a land invasion in the near future, waged by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and augmented with cyber warfare, orbital space weapons and the activation of CCP civilians currently embedded in corporations and governments around the world.
This is the bombshell that has emerged from the leaked audio out of China, for which a full English translation and transcript has now been published by whistleblower Jennifer Zeng at this link. (The English translation is somewhat rough but still very useful.)
Yesterday I interviewed John Moore who offered extensive details on this plan. His source, in turn, is JR Nyquist, with whom I spoke yesterday in a private phone conversation. (I am interviewing Nyquist today during the fourth hour of the Alex Jones Show, where I’m a fill-in host. See that at
I’m also scheduled to interview Nyquist in much more detail Monday, with that interview to be posted Tuesday next week at my channel on which will also post the recent interview with John Moore:
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Some of the highlights of all this, which I cover extensively in today’s Situation Update podcast (see below), including the following conclusions and/or claims. Note that no one can yet prove this is the active plan of China at this moment, but it appears that such plans are being actively pursued:
China’s shutdowns of Shanghai and Beijing were actually a cover story to allow the military to use sea port infrastructure to load cargo ships with military supplies in preparation for a large-scale “D-Day” land invasion.
Although the United States is not specifically mentioned in the leaked audio, the preparations refer to a “Final War” and are deemed far too extensive to merely be targeting Taiwan.
The invasion forces would cross the Pacific disguised as merchant ships / cargo ships. Once they arrive within short-range rocket range, containers on the top of these ocean vessels would open up and launch short-range rockets, including tactical battlefield nuclear weapons, striking National Guard and military bases in California. Chinese troops would then land on the beaches. They would seize the ports (such as Long Beach), then use the ports to land heavier ships which would offload armor, artillery, and other heavy weapon of war. From there, China would have established a beachhead similar to the way allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in World War II.
Both China and Russia have pre-staged large caches of weapons, uniforms, RPGs, automatic weapons, night vision equipment and other military gear across the United States, county by county. These equipment caches will be activated when the CCP and Russian civilians are told to “go hot” and begin carrying out domestic sabotage operations targeting the US power grid, fuel refineries, railways and other infrastructure targets. From the transcript of the leaked audio, “We should take the way of using civilians to cover and support the military… We will mobilize overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese organizations to actively participate in supporting our military operations.”
China is deliberately stockpiling massive quantities of food supplies (grains), microchips, ammunition, commodities and other items in preparation for being economically cut off by the West, just as the USA and NATO did to Russia. This further implies that China is preparing to attack the West and is anticipating the West’s response by watching what the USA and NATO have done to Russia.
China is actively converting its economy from a normal peacetime operation to a wartime operation, and China’s military leaders cite their “success” with covid lockdowns as proof that their command-and-control dominance over domestic operations will keep them in power.
China is expecting massive riots and civil unrest in the large cities around Hong Kong (Guangzhou and Shenzhen), and they are committed to using special forces from the PLA to immediately execute protesters and instantly quell any uprisings.
China and Russia have teamed up in this effort to destroy their common enemy (the USA). Russia’s operations in Ukraine are essentially a “fixing operation” to cause the USA to commit its military hardware and troops to the Ukrainian theater of war, thereby creating vulnerabilities and lack of military readiness in the continental United States (CONUS), just as China is preparing to invade the USA in a D-Day-style landing of troops and military equipment.
From other sources, we also know that China is taking active steps in global currency wars to dump the dollar, dump all dollar / Treasury debt, and prepare for a global dollar collapse.
This invasion plan has all been aided by Gov. Newsom and the Democrats of California outlawing AR-15s and normal capacity magazines, causing the people of California to be ill-equipped to defend themselves against invading enemy forces.
California Gov. Newsom is complicit in the entire operation and has been paid off with $500 million in laundered money that the state of California first transferred to China as part of a $1 billion “PPE purchase” scheme which resulted in $500 million going back to Newsom and his treasonous co-conspirators. Newsom literally used taxpayer funds and China money laundering to pay himself half a billion dollars in kickbacks, believed to be denominated in gold, cash and crypto.
China’s goal is to exterminate every last American in North America, then conquer the fertile farmlands of the Midwest, which are desperately needed by China to produce the crops that will feed its people and support China’s global expansion toward world dominance. The longstanding military posture of China includes a plan to exterminate every last American, including all the illegals who currently reside in the USA.
China can raise up to 100 million military troops over time, flooding CONUS with a seemingly endless stream of combat troops.
Readying large numbers of ocean transport vessels for the invasion
From the leaked audio transcript, you can see China’s preparedness activities involving ocean vessels and how they’re being readied for war:
Commanders! Regarding the formation of the fleet and the distribution of personnel and equipment, we are prepared to arrange it in this way.
First, equip the ships with strong cadres. According to the different support items and specific uses, they are formed into 3 brigades, 45 squadrons, and 135 detachments. We have prepared 231 cadres to accompany the ships, 3 of them are in regimental positions, 45 battalion positions, and 183 other military cadres.
Second, optimize the ship’s militia. Equip them with the main crew, veterans, and equipment in a mixed-mode. The transportation ships are mainly manned with defense forces, medical personnel, and correspondents. Ten thousand-ton ships are equipped with a platoon, thousand-ton ships with a squad, and hundred-ton ships with a squad. Each group of the militia is mainly composed of defense forces and main equipment operators.
Third, load the ships with high-tech equipment. Follow the latest task needs of the maritime militia, and equip the militia with a variety of unmanned equipment, radar, sonar, and other high-tech equipment. Altogether there are more than 2,000 sets.
End of report!
The transcript also makes reference to elements of drone warfare, cyber warfare and space weapons, specifically mentioning Huawei as a large company whose resources are needed to support China’s war efforts:
As to the 2,000+ pieces of high-tech equipment, 480 drones and 70 unmanned boats are currently secured in place. We need to seize the moment to transfer.
Superiors asked us to mobilize 21 network attack and control detachments, we’ve mobilized 15, with a current shortage of 6 detachments and 60 people. We also lack 32 attack and control system industry network expert talents. Our advice is to mobilize Qianxin, Huawei, Tencent, and other key high-tech enterprises, and enhance the corresponding distribution to meet the needs of the troops.
In Shenzhen, we can find all satellite supporting enterprises. Can we take the initiative to take advantage of this area to contribute to the participation in the war to support the front?
Commander, at present we rely on Zhuhai Orbita, Shenzhen Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Co., Foshan Deliya and Ji Hua Laboratory, and have formed four satellite detachments. We have in total 16 low-orbit satellites, with 0.5 to 10 meters global remote ultra-high optical resolution sensing and imaging capabilities.
In addition, China’s war leader make strong reference to the psychological operations that will be waged by their government to control the population as they wage war against the West:
First, we need to strengthen the protection in political field. Look at the recent several regional wars, especially the Russian-Ukrainian conflict war situation. If you look at the big picture, the United States and the West will try everything to slander us, smear us, in an attempt to confuse right and wrong, to shake our will to win a just and decisive battle. We must give full play to public opinion, legal struggle, psychological war and militia teams to strengthen the guidance of public opinion and psychological protection, and cohesion of patriotic support for the positive energy of the military front.
Estimated timetable is early November of this year
Although the leaked audio does not specifically refer to a calendar date, JR Nyquist told me he believes the planning details point to a rapid timetable, perhaps early November of this year. That would of course help the Democrats avoid any mid-term elections where they would be removed from power due to the overwhelming American frustration with Joe Biden’s catastrophic fake presidency and the total destruction against America that has been unleashed by Democrats who rigged elections in order to steal positions of public office.
An invasion by China would suspend the mid-term elections and place America into a near-instant military dictatorship, commanded by none other than Joe Biden, the Impersonator-In-Chief who can barely command his own lips, much less the entire U.S. military.
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Popularized in recent years by the likes of Joe Wicks and other online exercise gurus, HIIT training is the perfect training for those who need to get fit in a small space or from the comfort of their own home. However, as every basketballer will know, HIIT training is also important for the game. This is because HIIT training can help you to build your stamina for a game where you might have sudden bursts of activity and where you might only have small breaks before enduring a great amount of activity. Then, you should consider looking at routines that can take you between 10 minutes and an hour and that can allow you to start to build up your energy levels. These routines should include squats, jumps, and lunges that can strengthen your leg muscles and give you all of the skills that you need to excel at basketball.
You Need to Warm Up and Cool Down
A basketball player needs to be at the top of their game at all times to be successful and to ensure that they are always able to perform at their best. To do this, they need to warm up and cool down before every game, and you need to do the same when you exercise. Although you might not think that you have time to warm up or you might want to jump straight into the main bulk of your exercise regime, warming up and cooling down are important as they can get your body ready and prevent you from getting injured if your body is not flexible enough. Warming up and cooling down will allow you to increase and regulate your heart rate at a gentler pace and will ensure that you can get ready for and relax after the exercise that you are about to do. Then, you should make sure that you have a number of stretches and short exercises under your belt to enable you to do this properly.
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Although you should always make sure that you have rest days that can prevent injury and ensure that the same parts of your body do not have too much pressure placed on them, it is important to exercise regularly and at the same time of day if possible. This will ensure that you keep moving toward your fitness goals at all times and help you build up your stamina and improve your performance. If you do not do this, you may find that your body starts to lose strength and fitness, that you get out of the habit of exercise, and that your body is less flexible and performs less well. Therefore, you should make sure that you make exercise a big part of your routine.
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Can a tenant terminate a commercial lease early?
One of the options for a tenant to terminate a commercial lease early is to have a break right in the lease. A break right is a provision in a lease which allows a tenant (and sometimes the landlord) to end the lease early.
What happens if you walk away from a commercial lease?
The terms of your lease may allow you to walk away under certain conditions: Early termination clause. This would let you off without any further obligation to the landlord for the balance of the rent. If you fail to reach a pre-set level of sales, you may be released from the lease.
What happens if a commercial tenant dies?
Tenancy does not end when the tenant dies The tenancy can only be ended by those who are: The executor – someone named in a will as the person who will deal with the deceased possessions (similar to representative described above)
Does it hurt your credit to break a lease?
When you break a lease, you’ll generally be charged penalties by your landlord. Failure to pay these penalties can impact your credit scores, as your landlord can turn the debt over to a collection agency.
Who is liable for rent if tenant dies?
The surviving joint tenant is responsible for any rent arrears on the property. If you’re not a joint tenant or a family member who has lived with the deceased for at least 12 months, you may still be able to take over the tenancy. Ask your landlord about this.
What happens when a private tenant dies?
First off – a tenancy does not end when the tenant dies. If the tenancy is in joint names then the living tenant will acquire the deceased tenant’s share by what is known as the ‘right of survivorship’. So if a husband and wife rent a property jointly and the husband dies, it will then belong just to the wife.
What if a tenant moves out before an eviction?
If the landlord has already filed the unlawful detainer papers at court, and the tenant moves out before the trial, the landlord has 2 choices: Dismiss the case, or. Ask the court to convert the case to a regular civil case for damages to collect back rent in the amount requested in the unlawful detainer complaint.
Can a landlord ruin your credit?
To answer your question, landlords can affect your credit reports and scores in certain situations. If you owe them money for the damage and you don’t pay in the stipulated amount of time, they can send your account to a collection agency, which can report your debt to the credit bureaus.
When to terminate a lease on a commercial property?
Most commercial property leases provide a commercial landlord with early termination rights in particular circumstances. Commonly, these early termination rights include the right to terminate a lease if a tenant fails to pay rent or if a tenant violates various provisions of the lease.
Can a landlord give a tenant a right of termination?
Sometimes a landlord will give a tenant a right of termination but such right is inappropriate in the circumstances. For example, it is common for a retail lease to provide the landlord with the right to relocate the premises within the shopping centre or building.
When to give notice of intent to terminate lease?
In a five-year lease, a tenant may be required to wait until after three years of the lease have been completed. Once the minimum period is completed, the tenant is then generally required to provide written notice to the landlord of its intent to terminate.
Is there a penalty for early termination of a lease?
So a landlord will generally require some kind of early termination penalty, usually in the form of some additional rent and a reimbursement of costs expended by the landlord at the start of the lease. In general, tenants must occupy the space and pay rent for some minimum period of time before being able to exercise the right to terminate.
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View all Portfolioe is legal access which is blocked. This policy aims to clarify where people can go and under what circumstances.
Does this mean people can go anywhere?
No. The “right to roam” found little support in consultation and is not supported by Government.
Isn’t this just a big landgrab?
No, this is about access, not ownership. There are no changes to the title because of the walking access proposal.
Doesn’t the Queen’s Chain cover all this?
No, the Queen’s Chain is fragmented and covers only between 50 per cent to 70 per cent of land aloacross private land to reach the footway?
There will be no automatic right to cross private land. The Government will help create negotiated solutions to access, including through setting up a fund to create and improve access opportunities across private land to footways.
How will people reach the footway then?
In almost all cases there will be existing public access that will reach the footway at some point along the watercourse. The Government is also working to facilitate negotiated solutions to access across private land.
Aren’t I liable for any injuries people get on my land?
No. Under the Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Act 1998, you are not responsible for injuries people might incur while on your land if you do not know they are there.
If you do know they are going on your land, you are only obliged to warn them of extraordinary risks: for example, if trees were being harvested, you would need to warn people of that and the risk of logging trucks. You do not need to warn them of natural hazards, such as tomos or bluffs.
What about waterways in urban areas?
All policy proposals relate to rural land only. There are two reasons for that: the amount of curtilage (the land immediately surrounding and enclosed with a residence) in urban areas would stop access to almost all waterways, and secondly, access in urban areas is generally well-provided for – eg, public roads and parks - and understood.
Does this policy apply to Maori land?
Yes. The policy applies to land of all tenures. Mâori land would be subject to linked and parallel statutory and judicial processes arising from the Te Ture Whenua Mâori Act 1993.
What happened to the “right to roam” concept?
The Government has decided, based on the outcome of consultation, not to pursue a policy option for general “as of right” access or the “right to roam” any further.
What happens if I want to take my dog or gun or four-wheel drive vehicle there?
You must ask the landowner for permission first. The policy is only for walking access. It is not for people with guns, people with dogs, people with vehicles, or people with motorbikes or mountainbikes.
Will compensation be paid for the public having access?
This is unlikely. However, under the work programme, there is to be an investigation of whether compensation should be payable.
Doesn’t this mean rural families will be at risk of more intruders?
No. Under the Trespass Act currently, anyone can enter property anywhere and remain there till they are verbally warned off. Under these proposals, people will be expected to stay to particular routes and comply with a statutory code of conduct. In effect, the new code will be an extra protection for occupiers over and above the current situation.
How does this policy fit with the Foreshore and Seabed Act?
On the coastline, where an area has access value this policy will apply to the strip of dry land which adjoins the public seabed and foreshore. The Foreshore and Seabed Act only applies to the ‘wet’ part of the beach covered by the ebb and flow of tides.
When will the policy come into force?
There will be a long lead in time to allow for the further policy work, the passing of legislation and the consultation that needs to take place over issues such as access values. If the legislation enabling the policy passed into law in 2006, the policy would probably be fully in force by 2009, although identification of existing access could be completed much sooner.
When will the legislation be introduced?
It is hoped that legislation will be introduced into Parliament by the middle of next year.
What is going to happen to unformed legal roads?
The consultation process attracted considerable comment and debate about the value of, and need to protect, the extensive network of unformed public roads because they are a valuable tool for extending public access to the countryside. These roads provide the most legally secure form of access as they also allow access to vehicles, horses, etc. Nevertheless, their location is often difficult to determine.
Under the work programme, there is to be a closer examination of how unformed legal roads can be better used to enhance public access to the countryside. The role of local authorities in managing and protecting this valuable network of access ways will be considered.
What does this mean for “exclusive capture”?
Exclusive capture is not directly covered by this issue, but has some overlap. In New Zealand, water and fish do not belong to the owner of the land in which they flow and live; they are public resources. Under these proposals, it would be more difficult for rivers and streams to be blocked off from public access. The Conservation Department is to lead an investigation of this issue for Cabinet, to report by March next year.
How will this proposal fit with existing legislation for access under the Resource Management Act 1991?
Currently the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) states that the “maintenance and enhancement of public access to and along the coastal marine area, lakes and rivers” is a matter of national importance. It requires also preparation of the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement, which contains rules on public access which must be reflected in council plans and policy statements (which in turn impact upon conditions on resource consents).
The RMA establishes processes for the creation of esplanade reserves, esplanade strips and access strips to enable public recreational use of areas adjacent to the sea, rivers or lakes when private land is subdivided. District councils have a duty to keep information on the “location and area of all esplanade reserves, esplanade strips and access strips in the district”. Councils are not obliged, however, to promulgate this information in any systematic fashion.
The Government’s policy proposals guarantees access regardless of ownership, therefore achieving the goal of High Quality Access without acquiring land. Esplanade reserves may enhance this right of access (e.g. allowing dogs, providing amenities etc) by providing an opportunity to reserve land for other purposes (e.g. conservation) but access would be provided regardless of council decisions.
Under the work programme, there is to be a further investigation of the issues surrounding the provision of access under the RMA.
What access problems have been identified?
Access problems are caused by other such factors as:
Social: the erosion of traditional social conventions based on goodwill between communities and visitors;
Legal: the ad hoc system of reservations comprising the Queen’s Chain means that in many places there may not be a legal right of public access to a waterway or the coast;
Economic: substantial anecdotal evidence suggests that some public resources such as rivers, lakes, or beaches, are being “captured” by the surrounding landholders, who allow access only to paying visitors;
Institutional: access arrangements are managed by different agencies (such as the Department of Conservation and local authorities) with varying commitment and capacity; and
Practical: surveyed public access routes may not mirror the physical location of the water margin (e.g. where a river has moved due to erosion).
What makes up the New Zealand Land Access Strategy?
Within a land access framework, the key component is a New Zealand Land Access Strategy, which would be guided by the principles of High Quality Access. High Quality Access means the goal of providing access opportunities that are certain, free, and enduring.
Based on consultation, the principles underlying High Quality Access are that access should be:
free (no charging or hindrance) to the New Zealand outdoors and iconic lands, including access along waterways (limited and well-understood restrictions on walking access may be appropriate in some circumstances;
reasonable (for exercising the right of access, for both recreation and passage);
appropriate (for the situation, there will need to be exemptions/exceptions);
fair (in terms of the responsibilities for all parties);
enduring (i.e. not easily terminated or conditional on landholder attitudes);
simple (easy to understand, administer and enforce);
nationally consistent; yet
responsive to societal needs (both within and outside a physical community); and
certain (public understanding, mapping and/or signage).
The strategy would address each of the five objectives advanced by the Group in its report, of strengthening leadership, information and certainty, embracing the ethos of the Queen’s Chain, encouraging negotiated solutions and improving existing legislation and leadership.
Achieving these objectives requires new tools and measures, including a legislated right of responsible access along water margins; a statute-based code of responsible access; and an appropriate arrangement to strengthen leadership on access, nationally.
What are the core components of the indicative policy on land access?
The establishment of an enduring and accountable access leader. An access leader, in the form of an access agency, must have regard to the access needs of future generations of New Zealanders.
The Government has agreed to the concept of a contestable access fund to support High Quality Access initiatives where they occur on private land.
The Government considers that the concept of the Queen’s Chain is a powerful ideal deeply embedded in New Zealand heritage. It notes that there are inconsistencies within the law around the Queen’s Chain which mean that the quality of access arising from the legal status of the land may not, in some cases, meet the principles of High Quality Access.
Therefore, the Government has also agreed to walking access along significant water margins (coastline, rivers and lakes), that gives the public the ability to traverse within and/or alongside the landward side of a water margin.
The development of a code of responsible conduct which may better define the rights and responsibilities of those involved in utilizing and providing access.
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to 2012. The number is expected to be higher in 2019.
Most of the factors that lead to dog attacks are closely related to the responsibility of the owners. Dog owners should, therefore, take the necessary actions to prevent potential dog bites.
Select a dog wisely
Understand the history and the behavior of the dog you are about to take home. Consider working with a professional to study the behavior and point out some issues from history. A dog with an account for bites will likely inflict injuries in the future. Also, take some time to interact with the dog before bringing it to your home. Be cautious about bringing a canine pet to your kid.
Teach dog safety to your kids
Dogs love to chase moving things, and if your kid doesn’t know how to interact with your pet, it’s time you teach them before it’s too late. Teach your child to handle your dog gently by stroking it in a calm and friendly manner. Discourage kids from pulling on a dog’s ears while encouraging them to approach the pets slowly. Teaching your children when to and not approach a dog is important. Moreover, allow your child to play with a dog only under your supervision.
Seek professional help for an aggressive dog
Signs of aggression in dogs include snarling, growling, guttural barks, bruising bites, and mouthing among others. Whereas attacks can be attributed to several factors, environmental factors are mainly to blame. You should consult a professional dog trainer immediately to help adjust the behavior. The expert will determine what in the pet’s environment contributes to the aggressive actions and take the appropriate steps to correct the situation.
Avoid playing aggressive games with your dog
You should not engage your dog in aggressive games. Learn to play with your dog the proper way and under appropriate situations. It’s best to pause the playtime when your dog gets too excited and portrays symptoms of aggression.
By taking the necessary measures, dog owners can play a vital role in preventing fatal dog attacks. Anyone aiming to bring in a new dog to their home should evaluate the dog’s behavior and history with the help of a professional. Learn how to familiarize your kid with your dog and hire a professional trainer to adjust aggression tendencies in your dog.
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‘I give her away to God’: Family, fellow officers pay tribute to mother, daughter, CMPD Officer Mia Goodwin
“There’s, 2021 at 2:02 PM EST|Updated: Dec. 29, 2021 at 2:50 PM EST
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – A mother, a daughter, a wife and a beloved protector was remembered Wednesday.
Family members both by blood and by blue came together at the First Baptist Church to say their final goodbyes to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Mia Goodwin, who died in the line of duty on Dec. 22 while working a traffic accident on Interstate 85.
Related: ‘From tragic to almost unbearable’: Memorial growing, city leaders step up to help after CMPD officer killed during crash investigation
Through tears, Goodwin’s father, Antonio Figueroa, talked about the day of his daughter’s wedding and how shortly before walking her down the aisle, he told her how beautiful she looked.
“We proceeded to go down the aisle and I gave her hand in marriage. Today, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters in Christ, I once again take my daughter’s hand today and I give her away to God because I loved her, but God loves her more,” Figueroa said.
The service was held at the First Baptist Church in Charlotte.
The service was held at the First Baptist Church in Charlotte.
The father also addressed his three grandchildren – Gabriella, Greyson and Gia – and told them, “you’re not alone.”
At the end of his remarks, Figueroa walked off the stage and hugged his son-in-law, firefighter Brenton Goodwin, before the two were embraced by other loved ones.
😰 Officer Goodwin’s dad embracing her husband Brenton and other loved ones after sharing his memories of giving away his daughter on his wedding day. Paraphrasing he said, “today I held her hand again and this time gave her away into the hands of God.” 🙏🏼🤍
— Mary King (@MaryKingTV) December 29, 2021
Mia Goodwin had been with the CMPD since 2015. She was on her fifth day back to work from maternity leave when the crash on I-85 happened.
“There’s no magic words that takes this type of pain away, nor should there be,” CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings said during his remarks.
The chief also thanked everyone from the Charlotte community, as well as around the country, for their “overwhelming” support for the department and Goodwin’s family.
“Your watch may have ended on Dec. 22, 2021, but your legacy carries on. Rest easy now,” Jennings said.
Chief Stella Pattelessness to treat people with dignity and respect even when disrespected.” @WBTV_News
— Mary King (@MaryKingTV) December 29, 2021
In a moment of levity during the emotional service, fellow CMPD officer Aston Kersey regaled the audience with the story of the night he and Goodwin, while on duty, went to check out homes they saw posted on Zillow that were for sale.
Kersey said the two answered a few calls, “to act like we were doing work,” before going to see a home around 2 a.m. that was outside of their patrol division.
As the laughter increased, Kersey said he went up to the window of the home and started shining his flashlight into the window.
“Unbeknownst to me, I did not know people posted their homes on Zillow and still lived in their homes,” he said.
Kersey ended his remarks on a somber note by asking his fellow officers to “watch your six, be safe, get home.”
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