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What is SmartSend?
SmartSend uses contact engagement data to temporarily suspend emails from being sent to contacts that aren't opening or reading your emails. When a contact is marked as disengaged, SmartSend will temporarily halt any subsequent sends to that contact (i.e: not send any more emails to them, even if they match campaign audiences).
After the suspension period, the contact will receive the next campaign they are allocated to, and depending on their response, SmartSend will update accordingly:
- If the contact opens the email, they will no longer be marked as disengaged and will continue to receive future emails as scheduled;
- If the contact does not open the email, SmartSend will suspend them again.
This can help develop better relationships with disengaged contacts (by not "over communicating" with them), and may prevent them from unsubscribing whilst they are not actively looking to transact.
* In turn, this will also mean that you are sending to fewer contacts than you will see in your Choose recipients total within your campaign settings.
Enabling SmartSend will also improve your email deliverability score, making it much less likely that your emails will end up in your contact's spam or junk mail folders.
How is SmartSend enabled or disabled?
SmartSend is optional for most users*, and can be enabled or disabled by contacting the ActivePipe Support team.
* SmartSend will be mandated for some users with a poor open rate (e.g: less than 10%). This is to protect their sending reputation.
Some brands may also have SmartSend enabled or disabled at brand level.
Check with your corporate admin or ActivePipe support to see if this applies to you.
How do I know if SmartSend is enabled in my account?
If SmartSend is enabled in your account you will see an alert within your campaign Choose recipients module (1). |
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Benefits of having a Lenovo ID
Critical product support, upgrades, and alerts on topics such as safety issues or product recalls.
Quick, secure access to your purchase history for warranty validation or insurance claims.
New product announcement updates and exclusive online offers |
The following describes how to replace a unit in a One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) cluster with a new appliance.
To replace a unit in a SPS cluster with a new appliance
Verify the HA status on the working node. Select Basic Settings > High Availability. If one of the nodes has broken down or is missing, the Status field displays DEGRADED.
Perform a full system backup. Before replacing the node, create a complete system backup of the working node. For details, see Data and configuration backups.
Check which firmware version is running on the working node. Select Basic Settings > System > Version details and write down the exact version numbers.
Log in to your support portal and download the CD ISO for the same SPS version that is running on your working node.
Without connecting the replacement unit to the network, install the replacement unit from the ISO file. Use the IPMI if needed.
When the installation is finished, connect the two SPS units with an Ethernet cable via the Ethernet connectors labeled as 4 or HA.
Reboot the replacement unit and wait until it finishes booting.
Login to the working node and verify the HA state. Select Basic Settings > High Availability. The Status field should display HALF.
Click Other node > Join HA.
Click Other node > Reboot.
The replacement unit will reboot and start synchronizing data from the working node. The Basic Settings > High Availability > Status field will display DEGRADED SYNC until the synchronization finishes. Depending on the size of the hard disks and the amount of data stored, this can take several hours.
After the synchronization is finished, connect the other Ethernet cables to their respective interfaces (external to 1 or EXT,
A node of the SPS cluster is replaced with a new appliance.
The IP addresses of the HA interfaces connecting the two nodes are detected automatically, during boot. When a node comes online, it attempts to connect to the IP address 188.8.131.52. If no other node responds until timeout, then it sets the IP address of its HA interface to 184.108.40.206, otherwise (if there is a responding node on 220.127.116.11) it sets its own HA interface to 18.104.22.168.
Replaced nodes do not yet know the HA configuration (or any other HA settings), and will attempt to negotiate it automatically in the same way. If the network is, for any reason, too slow to connect the nodes on time, the replacement node boots with the IP address of 22.214.171.124, which can cause an IP conflict if the other node has also set its IP to that same address previously. In this case, the replacement node cannot join the HA cluster.
To manually assign the correct IP address to the HA interface of a node, perform the following steps:
Log in to the node using the IPMI or the physical console.
Configuration changes have not been synced to the new (replacement) node, as it could not join the HA cluster. Use the default password of the root user of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS), see "Installing the SPS hardware" in the Installation Guide.
From the console menu, choose 10 HA address.
Figure 360: The console menu
Choose the IP address of the node.
Figure 361: The console menu
Reboot the node.
This section explains the possible statuses of the One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) RAID device and the underlying hard disks. SPS displays this information on the Basic Settings > High Availability page. The following statuses can occur:
Optimal: The hard disks are working as expected.
Degraded: One or more hard disk has reported an error, and might have to be replaced. For assistance, contact our Support Team.
Failed stripes: One or more stripes of data failed on the RAID device. It is possible that data loss occurred, but unfortunately there is no way to find out the extent of the data loss (if any).
If you have a single SPS node: You must reinstall SPS and restore the data from the latest backup. For details, see "One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions Software Installation Guide" in the Installation Guide and Restoring One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) configuration and data. If you do not have backup, contact our Support Team.
If you have a high-availability SPS cluster: Shut the node down. Do NOT disconnect its HA interface. Reinstall the node (for details, see "One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions Software Installation Guide" in the Installation Guide), power it on, then navigate to Basic Settings > High Availability, and click Join HA. For assistance, contact our Support Team.
Offline: The RAID device is not functioning, probably because several disks have broken down. SPS cannot operate properly in this case. For assistance, contact our Support Team.
The following procedure describes how to restore the configuration and data of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) from a complete backup, for example, after a hardware replacement.
To restore the configuration and data of SPS from a complete backup
Connect to your backup server and locate the directory where SPS saves the backups. The configuration backups are stored in the config subdirectory in timestamped files. Find the latest configuration file (the configuration files are called PSM-timestamp.config).
Connect to SPS.
If you have not yet completed the Welcome Wizard, click Browse, select the configuration file, and click Import.
If you have already completed the Welcome Wizard, navigate to Basic Settings > System > Import configuration > Browse, select the configuration file, and click Import.
Navigate to Policies > Backup & Archive/Cleanup. Verify that the settings of the target servers and the backup protocols are correct.
Navigate to Basic Settings > Management > System backup, click Restore now and wait for the process to finish. Depending on the amount of data stored in the backup, and the speed of the connection to the backup server, this may take a long time.
Navigate to SSH Control > Connections, and click Restore ALL. Repeat this step for other traffic types. Depending on the amount of data stored in the backup, and the speed of the connection to the backup server, this may take a long time. |
Licence costs are based on the number of employees that have any benefits assigned in the return year (whether anything is reported to HMRC for that employee or not). We derive a price based on 'per employee with benefits' whereby, the higher the number of employees with benefits you have, the lower that per individual price. Prices start at about £5.90 per employee for 50 employees and scale down from there.
When agreeing a contract, we ask customers to estimate the number of employees they expect to have benefits, and we use that as a minimum commitment (there are no refunds for 'unused' licences) - this means it is in a customer's interest to estimate the highest number possible to get a good price, but not to overestimate and 'waste' licences (and hence, overpay).
If a customer realises they have not estimated high enough when it comes to reporting, we can simply extend the licence at the agreed 'per employee' price. Only in very exceptional circumstances would we consider changing the per employee price 'mid-year' - but the rate is reviewed annually at renewal time and reduced if appropriate.
Why the system's "numbers" can appear to be confusing!
The P11D Organiser keeps a count of the number of employees in the system that have benefits assigned to them, but it also counts how many of those employees have had documents printed (or emailed or saved) – this is because you can reissue documents for the same employee as often as you want.
This means that at any one time, there are four figures that are in play:
- A – The number of reports already created
- B – New reports to issue - at some point you will be producing output for these
- C – Your agreed Licence
- D – The total number of employees with benefits in your system (A+B) - that ultimately, you will need a licence for.
To determine what value D is, you need to take the following steps:
Select the Setup filter from the toolbar
then choose All Employees with Benefits for Everybody
click the Filter button and get the number returned in the dialogue
How the system's "numbers" are managed.
When you ask the system to print employee's information which has a benefit record (or save this in a report), it adds the number of employees that have already had a report printed (A) to the number of additional/new employees it has just been asked to create and compares that to the number of licences you have purchased (C). If the total is higher, then the system won’t continue to produce anything; this is why you will sometime see a message like “You have used 100 of your 300 licences” – in this instance it would mean you are trying to create additional documents/reports for in excess of 200 new people.
The really important numbers are the total number of employees with benefits in your system (see element D above) and your licence – if the latter is lower than the former, you will need to increase your licence!
Odd display of numbers
There are rare occasions where the numbers displayed are not what is expected. e.g., the produced numbers appear greater than the licence. This can be reset to the actual position by going to the Reports area and pressing CTRL+Shift+L - you see a dialogue like the one below
Click Yes and this will reset the numbers. |
This article is on the benefits of using Reflect 360. If you're ready to get going right away, skip ahead to our step-by-step setup guide.
Getting feedback from your colleagues is a great way to improve oneself quickly. Valence has a Reflect 360 tool that is a quick and simple way to get that feedback.
An easy, quick and lightweight is the way to do feedback
You're often stuck between asking each colleague individually for feedback and often hearing nothing from or running a very robust and long 360 process where you and your colleagues are subjected to 30 minutes of questions and dozens of pages of a report.
We want you to get a small dose of insightful feedback with <5 minutes of effort for you to setup or your colleagues to give input.
You'll learn what your colleagues think are the most important leadership skills for your success, and how you're doing on those.
What happens when you use it
Your colleagues give you feedback on the importance and performance on a bunch of leadership dimensions. They simply place 16 statements on a grid based on importance and how well you are doing. Note that you do the exact same activity to rate yourself.
Once everyone has completed the exercise you'll be able to see the results. You (and you alone unless you choose to share your report with others) then see the heatmap of responses.
Of particular importance is to notice where your answers differed from those of your teammates (as these are often blindspot areas).
You'll also receive open-text feedback from people on your team based on why they ranked you high/low on certain statements, and any other feedback they have for you.
How to start
In no time at all you'll be targeting and improving your key development areas. |
§ 6-2003. General.
Expanded news media coverage of judicial proceedings as set forth in the definition of Judicial Proceedings (see § 6-2002(F)) shall be permitted under the following conditions and limitations:
(A) Prior authorization. Except as set forth in subsection (E), no expanded news media coverage shall occur without prior authorization from the judicial officer, who may prescribe conditions of coverage as provided in this rule.
(B) Rights to a fair trial. Expanded news media coverage of a proceeding is permitted unless the judicial officer finds that under the circumstances of the particular proceeding, such coverage would interfere with the rights of the parties to a fair trial.
(C) Objections. Parties to the proceeding may object to expanded news media coverage of the judicial proceeding (see exception § 6-2003(E)). The ruling by the judicial officer on objections rests within the sole discretion of the judicial officer and is a nonappealable temporary injunction or suspension of expanded news media coverage.
(2) Expanded news media coverage of the testimony of an alleged victim/witness in criminal or civil cases when the alleged victim/witness is a minor under 19 years of age, the proceedings relate to sexual abuse or sexual assault, or such are essential elements of the matter is not allowed.
Expanded news media coverage of initial appearances in criminal proceedings in County Court involving bond settings and arraignments is permitted unless otherwise ordered by the court pursuant to § 6-2003(B), (F), and (J). The right of parties to object to expanded media coverage involving bond settings and arraignments does not extend to such proceedings.
A judicial officer's granting of expanded news media coverage of an initial appearance applies only to that particular initial appearance. Authorization for expanded news media coverage of proceedings subsequent to the initial appearance must be requested separately under § 6-2004(C).
(3) criminal and civil cases where the plaintiff and/or defendant is under 19 years of age at the time of the judicial proceeding except in criminal cases in which the defendant, although a minor, is charged as an adult and the court has approved expanded news media coverage for that proceeding;
(10) all criminal and civil jury selection as further defined in § 6-2003(G); and
Note: Exceptions may be granted for subsections (1) through (9) when consent is obtained from all parties but remains subject to approval by the judicial officer.
(G) Coverage of jurors. In all circumstances, expanded news media coverage of all summoned and/or impaneled jurors is prohibited. However, expanded news media coverage of the return of the jury's verdict shall be permitted, so long as there is no photographic, video, or audio coverage of jurors.
(H) Court conferences. Expanded news media coverage of conferences (see § 6-2002(A)) held in a judicial proceeding between attorneys and their clients, between co-attorneys, between attorneys and the judicial officer and court staff held at the bench, judicial chambers, or judicial staff offices is prohibited, as is all related attorney work product on screens or in writing.
(J) Limiting coverage during the proceedings. The judicial officer may exclude, suspend, limit, and/or terminate expanded news media coverage by one or more individual news reporters at any time during the proceedings in the event the judicial officer finds that these rules, or additional rules imposed by the judicial officer, have been violated or there is good cause to believe that the rights to a fair trial will be prejudiced.
(K) Identification. All news media personnel authorized to broadcast, record, photograph, and live electronic report (e.g., tweeting, instant blogging, etc.) judicial proceedings in the courtroom must wear proof of Public Information Office credentialing that is clearly visible to the judicial officer, court security, the public, and members of the jury. Said personnel shall also be subject to any and all security screening/scanning as deemed necessary by any office or agency providing security for the particular courtroom or judicial proceeding. Identification must be in the form approved by the Public Information Office of the Nebraska Supreme Court.
(L) Violation. Expanded news media coverage of one or more individual news reporters may be excluded, suspended, limited, and/or terminated by the judicial officer if there is good cause to find the news media has acted or failed to act in compliance with these rules and/or the order permitting expanded news media coverage in force at the time of the violation. A judicial officer’s finding of a violation is separate from an administrative suspension or revocation of credentials imposed by the Public Information Office of the Nebraska Supreme Court.
(M) Administrative Suspension or Revocation of Media Credentials. The Public Information Officer of the Nebraska Supreme Court may suspend or revoke the credentials of a journalist upon the violation of these rules or an order of a judicial officer. Journalists who have suspended or revoked credentials by the Office of Public Information must reapply for credentialing. An administrative suspension or revocation of credentials does not constitute the closing of judicial proceedings.
(N) Electronic device notetaking. Electronic device notetaking does not constitute expanded news media coverage under these rules and, therefore, shall be allowed by the court, with the following limitations:
(2) No audio recording of any kind shall be made of testimony provided by a child victim, a victim of sexual abuse or sexual assault as provided under § 6-2003(D)(2), a victim of domestic violence, or if the judicial officer denied expanded news media coverage of a witness under § 6-2003(D)(1).
(3) Any dissemination of a copy of an audio recording made for purposes of notetaking requires permission under § 6-2004.
§ 6-2003 adopted December 21, 2016, effective March 1, 2017; § 6-2003(F) amended and (M) adopted June 24, 2020; § 6-2003 amended March 10, 2021. |
How long do
you wait, before you give up hope? How long do you wait until you decide it is
just impossible? As I have mentioned in
the past my Grandpa Surburg was born in 1909 on the northside of Chicago. As a boy he lived within a long walk from
Wrigley Field – though the Cubs didn’t actually start playing there until he
was seven years old.
The Cubs had
won back to back World Series titles in 1907 and 1908 just before he was
born. But then, during his lifetime as a
Cubs fan they lost in the World Series in 1910, 1918, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1937,
and 1945. When he died in 2001, the Cubs
had never even made it back to the World Series since the end of World War II. He saw the famous collapse of 1969, and the
1984 team blow a two games to nothing lead in a best of five series.
Surburg continued to root for the Cubs and watched the games faithfully his
entire life. I don’t know if he actually
still believed that he would see them win the World Series at the end of his
life. How could he when all he had
experienced in them was failure?
this because in our text tonight we consider God’s promise that led to the
fulfillment of the birth of the Savior - Jesus Christ – at Christmas. Matthew begins his Gospel by writing: “The
book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham.” He points us to two key
figures – David and Abraham – who were used by God to carry out his plan of
focus on Abraham. God called Abraham –
then known as Abram - when he as seventy-five years old. He told Abraham to leave his country, and
family and go to a land that he would show him.
God promised to make Abraham into a great nation. Then he added, “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors
you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be
blessed.” Yahweh promised that he
would work through Abraham and his family to bless all people. We learn from the Scriptures that this
descendant of Abraham would be the One who would defeat sin and death that had
entered into the world through Adam.
was seventy-five when God called him, and Sarah his wife was sixty-five. These
are not ages when you expect a couple to have children. Time passed and in
chapter fifteen, after some difficult circumstances Yahweh said, “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall
be very great.” Abraham responded by
pointing out the obvious fact: “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I
continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
promised Abraham that his very own son would be his heir. Then he took Abraham
outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are
able to number them. So shall your offspring be.” God promised Abraham that
despite how things looked he would give Abraham not just one son, but a
multitude of descendants. Then we learn, “And he believed the LORD,
and he counted it to him as righteousness.” Abraham believed God’s
promise. And because Abraham received God’s Word in faith, God counted him as
righteous – he considered him to have a righteous standing before God.
apostle Paul holds up Abraham as the example of faith and the fact that our
salvation depends on God’s grace and promise, and not on our doing. He told the Romans, “But the words ‘it
was counted to him’ were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It
will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead
Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our
believe in Jesus Christ for our salvation.
We also trust and believe in him as we face the circumstances of life.
Yet sometimes doubt challenges faith and we waiver. We struggle to believe that
God really is in charge. We are not
alone. Scripture is very clear in telling us that Abraham and Sarah stumbled in
this way too.
In Genesis sixteen we learn
that ten years after God’s call of Abraham, the couple still had no child. So
Sarah proposed that Abraham should take Hagar her servant, and have a child
with her. Abraham listened to Sarah, and
Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. Neither Sarah nor Abraham trusted in God, and the
result was tension and strife in their family.
In our text from Genesis
eighteen we hear about how Sarah laughed when she heard the Lord say that in a
year she would have a son. But what we
need to recognize is that in the prior chapter, Abraham had done the exact
same thing. We learn that when
Abraham was ninety-nine years old Yahweh said to Abraham, “Behold, my covenant
is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No
longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be
Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make
you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings
shall come from you.”
Then God added, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name
Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and moreover, I
will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall
become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.” And what was Abraham’s
reaction? We are told, “Then
Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, ‘Shall a
child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety
years old, bear a child?’” Yet God
responded by saying, “No,
but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his
name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting
covenant for his offspring after him.” God declared his promise again. He even told Abraham what he would name the
In our text
we learn about how Yahweh visited Abraham, along with two angels. Abraham and Sarah hastened to provide the
hospitality that was so important in that culture. Then, as Sarah listened from
inside the tent at the door, Yahweh said, “I will surely return to you about this
time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” In our text, Genesis
explicitly states what we have known to be the problem all along as it says, “Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years.
The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.”
Abraham and Sarah were too old to have
children. Sarah had gone through menopause and so there was no way this was
possible. And so Sarah laughed to herself,
saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have
pleasure?” But Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I
indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the
LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next
year, and Sarah shall have a son.” Sarah attempted to deny it, but God told
her, “No, but you did laugh.”
Yahweh promises yet
again that Sarah will have a son. This
time he provides the exact timing – it will happen within a year. Some twenty five years after his initial
promise, God tells Abraham when it will happen.
God has waited until the time when the event seemed completely
impossible. But this is the God who created the world. He created it from nothing merely by speaking
his word. As he says, “Is anything too
hard for the Lord?”
The answer is that there is nothing too hard
for him. When St. Paul described the One
in whom Abraham believed he described God as the One “who gives life to the dead and calls into
existence the things that do not exist.”
God called Isaac into existence. We learn in chapter twenty one, “The
LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he
had promised. And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old
age at the time of which God had spoken to him.”
During this season of
Advent, we are preparing to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ – the Savior
and Son of God. As we reflect tonight
upon the first great step towards Jesus, we learn three things. First, God’s salvation is a matter of his
grace and promise. God called Abraham
and made the promise that in him and his offspring all nations would be blessed
purely out of grace. There was nothing about Abraham that deserved this. There
was nothing about Abraham and Sarah that even suggested it was possible. Instead, it was based purely on God’s promise,
for God’s grace and promise go hand in hand.
Second, we learn that God
does things according to his timing.
Twenty-five years passed between God’s promise and fulfilment. This time provided opportunity to doubt God. But God’s timing is always right, just as it
was true of the incarnation of Jesus Christ himself, for Paul tells us that “in
the fullness of time God sent forth his Son.”
Finally, we see that the
life of God’s people is one of faith – faith in God’s Word; faith in God’s
promise. Abraham believed God’s promise
and it was counted to him as righteousness.
We now believe in the seed of Abraham, Jesus Christ. We believe in the baby born in Bethlehem who
grew up to be the man who died on the cross. Just like it seemed impossible
that Sarah could have a Son, on Good Friday it seemed impossible that Jesus
could be the Christ – the Savior.
But nothing is too hard for
the Lord when it comes to his promise and saving work. The One who worked the
miracle of giving life in the dead womb of Sarah, worked the even greater
miracle of giving life to the dead body of Jesus in the tomb. He raised Jesus from the dead on Easter and
vindicated him as the One who has won forgiveness for us and resurrection life.
We live by faith in Jesus Christ the crucified and risen Lord, and in God’s
timing, we will share in his resurrection on the Last Day. |
Yuga Labs, the creator of the popular NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club, has announced its restructuring plans, which will involve eliminating some roles, causing layoffs. Yesterday, the Company CEO, Daniel Alegre, shared his statement on X regarding the latest development. He said that immediately after joining Yuga Labs earlier this year, he realized there were several projects that required to be executed by external experts. He then revealed the firm would partner with other companies to help execute those projects while Yuga Labs focuses on its core competencies.
In his statement, Alegre didn’t mention the number of employees that would be laid off. He, however, said only US-based employees will be affected. According to an X post by Yuga Labs co-founder Greg Solano, the startup has 120 workers, with over 100 being from countries other than the United States.
Yuga Labs’ Co-Founder Comments on the Latest Layoffs
Solano says he is hurt to let go of employees he has worked with since Yuga Labs’ earlier days but insists the move is necessary to ensure the company’s future is secured.
The co-founder agrees with Alegre that some Yuga Labs’ projects need to be executed by external experts to succeed. He mentions the firm’s metaverse game Otherside, saying Yuga Labs does not have the capacity to build this game the way it envisions it. The NFT creator has already partnered with tech firm Hadean to develop Otherside further.
Yuga Labs’ History
Founded in 2021, Yuga Labs rose to fame following the launch of its Ethereum-based NFT collection, Bored Ape Yacht Club. This NFT project is undoubtedly the biggest and the most popular, having attracted the attention of several celebrities, including musician Post Malone and NBA superstar Steph Curry. At some point in 2021, Bored Apes were selling for more than $1 million.
In April 2022, Yuga Labs raised over $400 million, pushing its valuation to $4 billion. The funding came a few days after the firm bought Larva Labs’ CryptoPunks NFT collection IP.
The following month, Yuga Labs launched ApeCoin, a digital currency that powers the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection. The company then started selling NFTs for Otherside, raising $550 million within 24 hours. However, the demand for NFTs has weakened since then, prompting Yuga Labs to consider laying off its employees to keep its business afloat.
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When our child was diagnosed with food allergies, we were absorbed into a new way of life, learning the folkways of keeping our baby safe. We labeled every jar and can in our pantry and fridge so that anyone who visited could see at a glance what was safe (green) or unsafe (red). Like Curtis Sittenfeld, who wrote about learning to live with a child’s allergies in The New York Times, we came “to know certain products so well that when they get a new ingredient, it’s like a friend getting a haircut.”
When our child was little, I trained every babysitter, teacher, and camp counselor, honing my 20-minute message to deliver maximum impact. And I joined an online community, which continues to be a source of incredible wisdom, like this recent post from Molly Moynihan in response to a fellow parent who is facing a daunting challenge — two children with two very different allergen lists:
“Actually, we are all managing risk. And there is a lot written about risk. One concept is called cascading failure and it was important in the first space missions. If you think of anaphylaxis as a so-called catastrophic failure, then in risk parlance, it generally requires several things to go wrong. That is why they used the concept of fail safe or redundancy.
It was our experience that our worst episodes always involved multiple failures of controls. (I was tired and did something differently, that caused another mistake which resulted in a third one.) Typically, you need three things to go wrong before you have catastrophic failure. That’s a reason problems are more common on vacation. So, if we saw one thing going wrong, or being different, we reduced the risk on the next things. You can apply that to two children with multiple allergies by building in more redundancy. For example, eat out less, use one shelf for one child and one shelf for another. So you have systems that tend to lower risk. Check labels three times. Once when you buy, before you put away and before you eat, etc.”
As our child gets older, we are widening the circle of people we count on for safety. The kid is adventuring out to new schools, new friends’ houses, and new camps. At age 12, the kid participates in the safety trainings and the conversations with chefs and waitstaff. Imagine our delight when we met one chef who herself has food allergies and therefore studied the list with careful attention.
This year we added photos of the Epipen and antihistamine tablets to the hand-out we give to teachers and counselors, because we don’t want there to be any barriers to someone’s understanding of the dosage. We also added photos of some of the trickiest labels we have encountered so we could explain why “soy lecithin” is safe, but “soy protein concentrate” is not.
We try not to overwhelm people with information, but it is hard to know how our efforts are received. People are polite. They nod and smile. And we walk back to our car, leaving our child in their hands.
Recently, we sent our carefully-crafted food allergy hand-out to a new camp, at TechShop DC-Arlington. That same day we received the following email in reply:
“Thanks for the thoroughness of the info about your child’s food allergies. As someone who has had Type 1 Diabetes since I was 10, I remember my mom putting together similar informational packets for my teachers, and always having kits with Glucagon & glucose tablets in the event of low blood sugar. I really appreciate having all of this detailed information to be able to share with their instructor, Dave. Dave usually eats lunch with his students, so we can make sure he will be there to keep an eye on your child when they are eating, and to make sure that he checks in occasionally to make sure he is symptom-free.
I will be at the front desk tomorrow morning- I like to meet the parents and kids and be there to answer any questions. If you’d like to talk about this further, or check in about anything in particular, I’ll be there when you arrive. You’re free to come in a little earlier, too, if that helps. I should be out at the desk starting at about 8:30 am.”
I wept. For all the work we did on that document, down to the choice of font, we could never be sure that it had struck home, that it would ever be enough. But here was someone who understood, who thanked us for “all this detailed information to be able to share.” It reminded me of the preschool our kids attended, which approached food allergy as an opportunity for everyone to learn from and embrace.
Our child had a whale of a time at that camp and I had a renewed sense of safety in my community, the community of people who have been through something similar and want to give back. Thank you, thank you, thank you. |
Elements of Webb: Series Introduction Ep0
Elements of Webb EP00: Introduction
The James Webb Space Telescope is three stories tall, as wide as a tennis court. It's got a 21-foot primary mirror and then it's got these 4 instruments that are just incredibly powerful. It's the largest, most technologically challenging space telescope ever created. It's one hundred times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope but at half the weight. It's designed to look back in time even further than Hubble to see the very first galaxies to form after the Big Bang. Building Webb is truly a feat of innovative engineering each material must survive the turmoil of a launch and the varying temperatures of space - and it all starts with the elements. music music music music This is the James Webb Space Telescope!
Elements of Webb explores why engineers chose to use different materials on the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb towers three stories tall, and has a tennis court sized sunshield and is twice the size of the Hubble Space Telescope, yet Webb is half Hubble’s weight. Why? Engineers precisely chose the right materials. #UnfoldTheUniverse
Music Credits: Universal Production Music
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Aden Durde Explains the Daily Life of Being the Dallas Cowboys D-Line Coach
Aden Durde began his football career under humble beginnings, playing in London for the Olympians and later the Scottish Claymores before making it to the practice squads of the Carolina Panthers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Durde is now a valued defensive line coach with the Dallas Cowboys, where part of his focus is on slowing down opposing quarterbacks and also developing strategy around pass rushing.
M&F sat down with Durde to find out how a man from Middlesex, England, became such an integral part of the Dallas Cowboys, and how his unit works to get the best out of the team.
A quick internet search on Aden Durde brings highly positive reviews, and many people credit him with helping to shake-up the Cowboys defensive unit into one of the most efficient in all of the NFL. That’s not the kind of hoopla that the easy going Durde will be drawn on however, simply stating that success is teamwork and that it takes a number of highly skilled people, such as defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, to enforce change within a team.
Of course, one of the wilder aspects of coaching with the Dallas Cowboys is not just about personnel, but in learning to live with some of those extreme temperatures. “You know what, the weather is insane in Texas,” says Durde. “In the summer it is ridiculously hot. I think last year they had, like, 30 days of 100 degrees or more. Then, in the last two years they’ve had these weeks where there are ice storms and it’s negative 20. Recently it was just 77 and the next day, it was zero.”
The Cowboys mostly train at “The Star” in Frisco, TX, a 91-acre campus that also serves as the team’s headquarters. But exactly where at The Star a player should train, and for how long, is of constant consideration for the staff. “It can affect things like practice. If the ball needs to be thrown, we might go inside. But even if it’s super cold, if we’re gonna train outside, we’ll still train outside.”
Aden Durde Has Traveled Far with the NFL
Durde initially interned at the Atlanta Falcons, where he was later offered a job, and he also interned at the Cowboys, where he now calls home. He’s the NFL’s first full-time British coach and a defensive specialist, who has worked tirelessly to help others make the same journey that he’s made by working with The NFL Academy, a major initiative that aims to use American football to create life-changing opportunities for young people in the UK. (Learn more about the NFL Academy.) But wherever a potential superstar may come from, what does Durde look for in the next great player?
“Say there’s 11 players at play. Within those 11 players are probably around eight to 11 positions that you can [scout for],” says Durde. “And then, you kind of split them up into physical traits and you break those down, and how those traits relate to the game.” When it comes to spotting talent, Durde is highly qualified. In addition to being involved with the NFL Academy, he also worked on a program known as the International Player Pathway, where his crew would go and look for athletes who were not already playing football. “You would have to kind of project what position they would play, and train them in that position if they had a certain movement or physical trait,” he shares.
Durde recalls once seeing a rugby player on film, and being impressed by his reaction speeds and agility. It seems that the secret to finding great football players is to cast the net wide. Durde also says that observing how Dan Quinn has been able to watch players and identify qualities that could help the team has been of great value to him. “He’s done a good job of altering the course of the way we were going,” says Durde. “And, hopefully we will keep moving forward.”
For Aden Durde and the Dallas Cowboys, Hard Work Pays Off
“The defense that we play now is different to the defense that we played before,” reflects Durde on the team’s recent improvements. The Cowboys’ dropback success rate, and rush success rate, improved massively in 2022 when compared with the previous year. Durde says that one of the secrets to the Cowboy’s recent successes is that everyone has a chance to be heard and inject ideas. “You watch so much film,” he shares. “So, you see a lot of people doing other things and you think, ‘That could work for us.’” Durde prides himself on spotting opportunities that can be translated to his team. “Part of it, is mentally creating it, and part of it is drawing it up,” says Durde of how he develops his strategy. Those strategies are then trialed, explored, and put to the test on the field to see if they pass muster.
Building the ultimate footballing athlete involves more than one unit. Durde says that he has a great relationship with the strength and conditioning coaches such as Harold Nash Jr. and that they collaborate to determine what a player needs to get more from their performance. Then, there’s the recovery aspect. “Those things are at the forefront of people minds,” says Durde. “Like sleep, hydration, the food that they put in their bodies. I think more and more it’s becoming the forefront of a lot of conversations. Especially as we play some night games, so those things you have to think about.”
For many readers, the big question will be around how players are evaluated following a game. “You do that the day after the game,” says Durde. “You review the game and you talk about it as a group. Then you go with the [individual] players and talk it through with those guys.” But how easy is to critique today’s NFL superstars? “I think, as long as you are being honest, and you are talking about the growth of what they can achieve, I don’t think it’s a negative conversation,” says Durde. “If something needs to be fixed, then we need to fix it. Sometimes it doesn’t need to be fixed, they may be doing it really well, and you talk about that as well.” |
Tweet Review: #NightlyFringe outing #8 for virtual #mnfringe 2020: On The Concept of Irony (With No Reference to Socrates); as both writer and storyteller @maxverbosity's phillip andrew bennett low is mind-boggling in all the best ways; log on and surrender - 5 stars
Show description: What happens when human folly runs face-first into apocalypse? Stolen placentas, political genies, sad puppies, Elder Gods, cryogenically frozen comedians...welcome to this election year's grotesque anthology of comic horror, with no mention whatsoever of a certain ancient Greek philosopher. (Warnings: Abuse/Physical violence, Adult language, Crude humor, Drug content, Gun/Weapon usage, Loud noises, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence) 60 minutes
Much like the stories of Les Kurkendaal-Barrett have become an essential part of my annual Minnesota Fringe Festival experience, so, too, are the stories of Maximum Verbosity's phillip andrew bennett low. The storytelling styles of the two men couldn't be more different, but the artistic development of both has been nurtured by the Fringe over years of creating in that theater community incubator. phillip chronicled this growth in a recent Maximum Verbosity retrospective that he staged online as a fundraiser for the Fringe. On The Concept of Irony (With No Reference to Socrates) is the latest step in that creative journey and watch that step, 'cause it's a doozy.
"'Daddy!' she said, unphased by his lack of pants."
On The Concept of Irony (and wow, did that title hit me hard when I stopped to think about it after seeing the show) consists of four stories performed by low:
Womb With A View (a parody title which is also a tip of the hat to his former Fringe blog at the Twin Cities Daily Planet) - in which a private detective is hired by an embarrassed hospital to track down an employee who may be stealing placentas
"We prefer our medicine to have a bit more... well, medicine."
The Yip of Cthulhu - in which a young man's forbidden research leads him to try and raise an evil monster from the depths of the ocean, his story alternating with entries from the journal of his dog
"Like God, only evil."
That Touch Thingy - in which an angel tries doing a "reverse Job," instead of taking everything from a good man, he gives everything to a wicked man, which ends up putting an amoral moron in the White House (any resemblance to current persons is surely coincidental, although the moron President is really into McDonald's and his own daughter, so...)
"That's not how moral education is supposed to work - or math, for that matter."
The Sleeper, Woke - after the revolution, in a better world born out of much suffering, a man from the past who was cryogenically frozen is accidentally revived; with a memory of how the previous dystopian society worked (and could work again), people may wish he'd stayed asleep
"A handful of people living in a place, in a time, when they can change the world forever."
phillip performs all these stories with his usual rapid-fire aplomb, torrents of words spilling out of his mouth till the audience is almost dizzy from the input of so much language into their brains. But what a treat to be asked to think, and think quickly, about how you feel about any of the characters in these situations. low doesn't spoonfeed the audience a particular point of view as he recounts the stories. You have to make up your own mind as to how off-kilter you think some of these people's moral centers are and who, if anyone, you're rooting for in these scenarios. Womb and Yip are both good, old-fashioned first person narratives, while Touch and Sleeper are more third person tales. low also doesn't feed you every little detail. The audience needs to piece these worlds and characters together from a series of context clues that is just enough to help you create a picture, almost in partnership with the storyteller. It's incredibly engaging listening to be challenged throughout in small ways like this.
"Paper makes Master sad."
low has also moved into the clever inclusion of multimedia, moving and shifting digital backdrops set the stage and morph with the needs of the flow of the story, engaging the eye while the performer engages the ear. It's not too slick, just slick enough, just rough enough around the edges to feel Fringey and not antiseptic. Horrible things happen in all four stories, but mostly they're ridiculous horrible things, so a very dark vein of comedy rules the overall feel of the performance. You're more likely to roll your eyes than avert them, and I mean that in a good way. The humor takes the edge off things that would be a bit too dark otherwise (and not all humor needs to be high brow, does it?). low knows how to tell a story the listener is still willing to hear, all the while gently leading them ever closer to the edge.
"Against all the wisdom acquired in my life thus far, I'm going to investigate."
Not for the faint of heart (it's got all those content warnings for a reason), but if you want to see some of the best storytelling on display in the Fringe, this year or any year, you really need to check out Maximum Verbosity.
"Thank you for supporting live theater, such as it is..."
On The Concept of Irony (With No Reference to Socrates) has three more live performances scheduled on the Digital Hub of the Virtual Fringe - Tues 8/4 at 8:30pm, Fri 8/7 at 8:30pm and Sat 8/8 at 8:30pm.
5 stars - Very Highly Recommended |
s'Wirtshaus - Your hotel in Oberammergau
Mountaineering room - Alpine charm at s'Wirtshaus Oberammergau
Experience the mountain world up close
Welcome to the mountaineering room at s’Wirtshaus in Oberammergau, a room that captures the passion and beauty of mountaineering. This unique room is a tribute to the majestic Alps and offers you an unrivalled experience that perfectly combines alpine charm and modern comfort.
A room that celebrates the love of the mountains
The mountaineering room is an oasis for anyone who loves the mountains and appreciates the challenges of alpinism. With its mountain-inspired décor that captures the flair of the Alps, you’ll feel like you’re in a cosy mountain hut. Every detail, from the wall decorations to the rustic furniture, contributes to the authentic and adventurous atmosphere.
Modern amenities for the perfect retreat
In addition to its alpine flair, the Bergsteiger room offers modern comfort. A cosy bed ensures a restful night’s sleep, while amenities such as Wi-Fi and a modern bathroom make your stay pleasant and relaxing. Here you can retreat after a day in the mountains and enjoy the peace and quiet.
A room that reflects the fascination of the mountains
The mountaineering room is not just accommodation, but also a place that reflects the fascination of the mountains. The wall decorations and artwork are carefully selected to reflect the passion for mountaineering and offer you a unique experience.
Perfect for adventurers and nature lovers
Whether you are a passionate mountaineer, love the outdoors or are simply looking for an inspiring and uplifting atmosphere, the Mountaineering Room provides the ideal setting for an unforgettable stay. Let yourself be enchanted by the alpine beauty of this room and experience a night that brings you closer to the mountains. |
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Summer is almost here and we are kicking it off with excitement with our Club Couture June Kit of the Month.
Subscription boxes are so much fun and our Club Couture is no exception. Subscribers receive a monthly selection of the exclusive Chalk Couture Transfer of the month, plus three coordinating Paste Singles, as well as step-by step instructions to complete your own masterpiece. Not only do our special subscribers receive the monthly Club Couture monthly kit, there will be opportunities to receive exclusive discounts, bounce-back opportunities and some sensational secret sales. All exclusively for our amazing Club Couture Members through Club Couture.
Club Couture is just $19.99 USD per month and includes FREE shipping. When you join, you sign up for an initial 3-month commitment and will begin the monthly payment beginning the following month. Billing occurs on the 5th of the month and after the initial 3 months, you may cancel at any time.
Club Couture June Kit of the Month also Available with
New July Subscription
When you first join, you have an opportunity to add the current month’s Club Couture June Kit of the Month as well.
In addition, you may also add the Kickstart Kit at a discount price of $69.99 USD (plus shipping). This kit contains all you need to complete each month’s project. With our Chalkology Paste being water- soluble, you can change out your design on your surfaces with the new design each month.
The Kickstart Kit and the current month’s kit are only available with your initial subscription purchase. The Kickstart includes a Small Squeegee, two Board Erasers, a Multi-Tool, Bright White paste and a couple of awesome surfaces.
Please reach out to me if I may answer any questions for you! Find me on Facebook at Jana Zuercher or That Chalky Gal . Each of my Club Couture members will be invited to my Exclusive Chalky Gals Couture Clubbers Facebook Group. Check out my online Chalk Couture Catalog for more “Chalky” Goodness! |
Michael C. Habib writes:
MySpace, Facebook, and other Web 2.0 tools led TIME to name you, yes, you, 2006 Person of the Year. With such notoriety, you might want to see what your online identity says about you. What do potential employers and friends find when they google you? When was the last time you googled yourself? What impression do your MySpace profile and YouTube videos leave? Your blog? What do other people say about you? How much control do you have over what is written about you on the web?
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This vinyl placemat will be a piece of Art on your table !
Design by Cathy Walters
Print eco-friendly, non-toxic making it suitable for usage by children and sensitive adults
PVC coated polyester woven fabrication
Clean using mild dish soap and a soft, non-abrasive sponge
Please avoid essential oils, bleach, ammonia, acid, and chlorine |
Are you craving fluffy, golden pancakes that melt in your mouth? Look no further! Follow this easy recipe for the best homemade pancakes you’ve ever tasted. With simple ingredients and straightforward instructions, you’ll be flipping perfect pancakes in no time.
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted and cooled
2 & 1/2 cups flour (spooned and leveled)
1/4 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup milk (whole milk works best)
2 eggs, separated
Bacon grease (or butter) for frying
Preheat and Prep: Heat your oven to 170°F (or the “keep warm” setting). This will keep your pancakes warm as you cook them. Also, gather three bowls: large, medium, and small.
Melt Butter: Add the butter to the large bowl and microwave until melted. Set aside to cool slightly.
Mix Dry Ingredients: In the medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
Combine Wet Ingredients: To the melted butter in the large bowl, add buttermilk and milk.
Separate Eggs: Place egg whites in the small bowl and yolks in the large bowl with the wet ingredients. Whisk the yolks into the wet mixture.
Beat Egg Whites: Use a small whisk or fork to beat the egg whites until slightly bubbly (about 20 seconds). This helps them fold into the batter evenly.
Combine Wet and Dry Ingredients: Add the buttermilk mixture to the dry ingredients in the medium bowl. Stir roughly with a wooden spoon until just combined. It’s okay if there are still streaks of flour.
Fold in Egg Whites: Gently fold the beaten egg whites into the batter. It’s okay if there are still streaks of egg white visible.
Heat Griddle: Heat a griddle or large frying pan over medium heat. Once hot, smear a little bacon grease over the surface.
Cook Pancakes: Using a half-cup measurement, scoop batter onto the griddle. When bubbles form on the surface and start to pop, flip the pancakes. Cook for another 2-3 minutes until golden brown on both sides.
Keep Warm: Place cooked pancakes on a cooking rack and keep warm in the preheated oven.
Repeat: Continue cooking pancakes with the remaining batter, adding more bacon grease to the griddle as needed.
Serve and Enjoy: Serve your pancakes warm with plenty of butter, syrup, and for an extra indulgence, a dollop of peanut butter!
With this recipe, you’ll impress your family and friends with delicious homemade pancakes that are perfect for breakfast or brunch. Enjoy! |
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Taylorville High School will hold its Spring Musical Production of the musical 42nd Street in March and reserved seating is available. All of the students have been working hard to put this production together and are excited to be putting this event on. The story is of a small-town girl trying to make it big on Broadway.
Performances will be held at the Taylorville Junior High Gymnasium on Thursday, March 14th at 7 PM, Friday, March 15th at 7 PM, Saturday, March 16th at 2 PM, and Saturday, March 16th at 7 PM. Reserved seating is $12 for adults and $9 for students. Reserved seating may be purchased by contacting Kathy Fergin at 217-825-4857. You can also get general seating which is $9 for adults, $7 for students, and will be available at the door. |
In my spare time (away from TBS) I enjoy watching basket- ball at the college level. I go to Qunnipiac and UConn Women’s games. What I learn from watching them is to have a great team you must have teamwork.
So it is in any organization. The man or woman at the top gets all the credit (or the blame). Here at TBS our team keeps working to provide a caring community where we can pray and play and learn. From the little ones to our more seasoned members, we have many opportunities for your participation. I am very proud of the members of our team and their team work. |
Death, science, faith, and redemption.
In the play “Anatomy of Gray,” which opened at Minneapolis’ Theatre in the Round this past weekend, a small-town, uneducated and very Christian community in the South falls ill to an epidemic, and their savior? A Jewish healer who descends on the town when his hot air balloon gets stuck in a tornado.
Sound intriguing? I vote yes.
The play, an area premiere by Jim Leonard, is, according to the theater, “part fantasy, part allegory, part drama, part comedy.” Like the play “Our Town,” the actors constantly break the Fourth Wall, engaging the audience in their thoughts and action. The play will be showing at Theatre in the Round until May 22nd.
TCJewfolk is giving away two free pairs of tickets to see “Anatomy of Gray” at Theatre in the Round. Want to win ’em? Answer this question in the comments to this post before Friday, May 6th at midnight.
Are faith and science mutually exclusive?
How do faith and science mingle or merge in YOUR life?
And of course, as always, there’s no right answer – we’re picking the winners randomly. Good luck! |
CENTRAL ARMED POLICE FORCES(CAPF)
CENTRAL ARMED POLICE FORCES
“SERVICE AND LOYALTY”
What if we work not only to earn but also to learn?
Yes, there is a work which not only provides you with a steady income but also has learning experience in itself. We are talking about the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF).
- Learning at CAPF- “Nobel Service to the nation , Value system, Leadership qualities, Discipline”
- Earning at CAPF- “Respect”
Now ,Let us know more about CAPF-
The Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) refers to uniform nomenclature of five security forces in India under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Their role is to defend the national interest mainly against the internal threats. They are the Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
Recruitment of candidates is for both Male and Female. The is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission, the Staff Selection Commission, or the respective service HQs depending on the post to be filled. There are three possible pathways for recruitment to the CAPFs.
Here we are discussing about UPSC CAPF-
CAPF is a competitive exam conducted by the Union Public Service Commission to recruit the candidates in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF). The candidates recruited through this exam, join the forces as Assistant Commandant (AC).
The lower age limit for the CAPF exam is 20 years and the upper age limit is less than 25 years. The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree from any recognised university. Marital status should be unmarried.
The written examination comprise two papers:
Paper I General Ability and Intelligence
Paper II : General Studies, Essay and Comprehension.
Physical Efficiency Test (PET)
Task:100 Metre Race,200 Metre Race, Long Jump, Shot Put (7.26 kgs)
Medical Standards Test
Medical Standards Tests will be conducted under the supervision of a Nodal Authority to be appointed by the Ministry of Home Affairs as per the standards of Paramilitary Forces
Candidates, who are declared qualified in the Medical Standards Tests, will be called for Interview/Personality Test to be conducted by Union Public Service Commission. The Interview/Personality Test will carry 150 Marks.
UPSC CAPF 2021 NOTIFICATION
The Union Public Service Commission will publish the Official Notification of CAPF Exam for 2021 Assistant Commandant on 15th April 2021. Eligible and interested candidates can apply for the UPSC CAPF 2021 exam from 15th April 2021 till 05th May 2021. UPSC CAPF 2021 written exam will be conducted on 8th August 2021 across the nation.
CAPF-“The Front-line ,The Life-Line of the Nation” |
Abstract: As the pundits and analysts were busy accounting for a stunningly swift Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on August 16, Taliban allies and sympathisers in Islamabad, Beijing and Moscow had just started celebrating. Then, the Kabul bombing, ostensibly carried out by an ISIS branch – ISIS-K – introduced an entirely new set of calculus to figure out for every global and regional player.
Bottom-line-up-front: The political and economic supporters’ investment in the Taliban was hinged on the promise that the Taliban’s rule would bring enough stability to the Afghan heartland and its border points with China, Pakistan, and Iran to bring in Chinese investment. However, this strategy is not new and has failed many times during the last 40 years.
Problem statement: How did the fall of Kabul and the August 26 suicide bombing influence the dynamics of Afghanistan’s relations with Pakistan, China and Russia?
So what?: The emerging situation in Afghanistan and bordering areas could alter the precariously poised balance of power in South, West and East Asia. It can re-draw China and Russia’s areas of influence in the region, and produce a catastrophic human rights and refugee crisis. The US and its allies must act now to contain the emerging China-Russia-Iran nexus to thwart these ambitions and to keep the Indian ocean and West/Central Asia safe for trade.
The August 26 suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the announcement of HQN-led hardline/terrorist Taliban dispensation, the reports of Taliban factional fighting and reports that Taliban 2.0 is much the same as Taliban 1.0, calls for a swift strategic rethink by the US, Europe and concerned allies and partners in the region. Let’s examine where the equation was after Taliban militia changed it on August 16 with the fall of Kabul and how it swiftly changed for major stakeholders in the region – Pakistan, China and Russia.
First up Pakistan, the immediate neighbour that shares more than 1,500km of its almost entire western border with Afghanistan, invested its almost entire geopolitical clout and capital on harbouring, funding, training and reinforcing Taliban for the last 26 years of the militia’s existence. Up until August 16, the sounds coming out of Pakistan were of joy and celebration, with Prime Minister Khan publicly saying that the Taliban finally broke the shackles of slavery of the West. Understandably, it was indeed a kind of swift coup plotted and staged by its intelligence agencies led by ISI. Prodded by China, the idea this time round was not merely to keep Kabul in Islamabad’s orbit but to deliver the strategically located region for China Pak Economic Corridor (CPEC) and beyond for Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The bet and investment on the Taliban was hinged on the promise that the ISI militia’s (Taliban) brutal and centralised rule would bring enough stability in Afghan heartland and its border points with China, Pakistan, and Iran to bring in Chinese investment. The strategy envisaged two key objectives, namely a) keeping India and the US out of this vital access route to Gulf and Central Asia and turn it into a zone of Pakistani and Chinese trade and investment route; and b) to keep Pakistani border areas of Afghanistan and restive Balochistan clear from any possible Indian interference in these areas.
Up until August 16, the sounds coming out of Pakistan were of joy and celebration, with Prime Minister Khan publicly saying that the Taliban finally broke the shackles of slavery of the West.
Pakistan’s Skin in the Game
However, Pakistanis’ problem is that the strategy is not new and has been tried and failed many times during the last 40 years. Even if the Taliban ruled unchallenged in Kabul, the extremism that it would infuse in already receptive and radicalised Pakistani society would have been enough to set the country aflame as has been witnessed in the past. The Taliban’s allied group TTP or Pakistani Taliban wreaked havoc in the country, with thousands killed in suicide bombings targeted civilians, minorities, and armed forces. Nevertheless, Pakistan’s military’s support to the Taliban is unwavering, and they placed the same bet on the same horse despite losing many times before.
The Taliban’s allied group TTP or Pakistani Taliban wreaked havoc in the country, with thousands killed in suicide bombings targeted civilians, minorities, and armed forces.
This time around, the bet had even lower probability of succeeding because of two new dynamics that crept up lately: a) there is a strong nationalist unrest/insurgency against the Pakistani military in the bordering regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. That unrest is politically motivated against Pakistan’s military’s support to Taliban; b) though the Taliban is largely Pakistan’s creation and proxy, in the past, they, especially their field commanders, attacked Pakistani forces and are closely allied with Al Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban TTP – the avowed enemies of Pakistan’s military; and c) on top of it all, there are severe and deep internal divisions inside Pakistan’s military on a variety of questions like Pakistan’s alliance with China and military’s role in Afghanistan.
ISIS-K, Civil War and Implications for Pakistan
Come August 26, the Kabul bombing and the whole scenario with all its promises of stability turned on its head with the introduction of a new and deadlier player to the conflict – ISIS-K. ISIS and Taliban are sworn enemies and had fought many bloody turf battles in Afghanistan lately. ISIS is a vehement opponent of Pakistani ISI and security forces, considering them a stooge of the US. It has carried out several attacks in the past inside Pakistan on multiple civilian and security targets. It has strong extremist, militant alliances inside Pakistan and Punjab with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JEM). Both organisations were ISI proxies for Indian Jihad, but they are closely linked to AQ and ISIS.
In the likely imminent possibility of a full-fledged civil war between ISIS and the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Taliban would come under severe pressure to govern and control the country. Their fallback on their Pakistani sponsors could bring ISIS suicide and other operatives inside Pakistan where they would find a welcome home with LeT and JeM. Their target would be to strike at the core strength of Pakistan’s military whom they see as the main strength of the Taliban. If this scenario plays out, Pakistan that is already riven by serious economic meltdown, intra-military divisions, and rising waves of nationalist movements could be the next one to fall along with the Taliban’s Afghanistan. This is one of the serious possibilities that the world should prepare for, especially when Pakistan is a nuclear-armed state with approximately 150-200 nuclear warheads.
If this scenario plays out, Pakistan that is already riven by serious economic meltdown, intra-military divisions, and rising waves of nationalist movements could be the next one to fall along with the Taliban’s Afghanistan.
Because even if the Taliban manage to fend off ISIS for some time, it would need open and all-out Pakistani military support which could overstretch the military and drain its budget quickly, making it more difficult to control ISIS and allies inside Pakistan.
The Implications for China and Russia
For China, all bets are on the stability of the Taliban regime, and for that to happen, it would bank on Pakistan and ISI’s good offices and strength. If that strength falls short, China’s dreams of Persian Gulf access and Central Asian route to Russia could die quickly in the wasteland of Afghanistan. It is doubtful that China would undertake any security commitment inside or outside Afghanistan on its own. It is too expensive and , especially when it has its plate full in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait. It would try and underwrite cheques to achieve those goals, but if the costs rise quickly, it would definitely force a rethink.
It is doubtful that China would undertake any security commitment inside or outside Afghanistan on its own.
For Russia, the nature of Taliban victory is more of a propaganda coup than bringing any meaningful deal to the table. If the Taliban could keep a stable central Asian border, it might open up a small window of opportunity for Russia to retrieve that lost influence in “The Stan’s”, but with Masood’s Panjshiris controlling that border, even that window is far from opening. After the August 26 bombings, like everyone else, Russia would be compelled to wait for the outcome of the Taliban-ISIS duel and then make the next move instead of going back in without any clear objective.
Mohammed Rizwan is a freelance writer and researcher based in Toronto. He is a former journalist and fellow at The Pragmora Institute. The views contained in this article are the author’s alone.
James Landale, “Afghanistan: What rise of Taliban means for Pakistan,” BBC News, September 03, 2021, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58443839.
Muhammad Tayyab Safdar and Max C. Barte, “Can CPEC Move Beyond Infrastructure?,” The Diplomat, September 10, 2021, https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/can-cpec-move-beyond-infrastructure/. |
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This is something you will see for the first time in SocialAds. We have always wanted advertisers to get the insights of their ads about how are their ads are performing etc. just like the admin. So we have introduced frontend dashboard to fulfill this requirement.
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The Dynamic Duo
We have a wonderful meeting lined up for March 17. I’m excited to bring Kim Harris and K.J. Waters to our fair city. Both have years of expertise between them and will share their knowledge.
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Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller has the follow statement on the end of the Texas legislative session today:
“When it comes to civil liberties and basic human rights, the Legislature gave Texas a big black eye this session. It’s disheartening that our lawmakers spent so much time trying to dictate which bathrooms people can use, justify discrimination against people because of who they are, and keep women from deciding for themselves whether and when to have children. Too many lawmakers in this state think their primary job is to play culture warrior and please their political base rather than work to solve the real challenges facing Texas families.”
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So why is it hard to take right-wing critics of the CSCOPE curriculum system in Texas seriously? Check out this recent newspaper advertisement published by a Tea Party group near Austin:
“The schools have declared war on our children in the form of C-SCOPE curriculum — COMMUNIST, MARXIST, PROGRESSIVE, LEFTIST DOGMA, PROPAGANDA, AND INDOCTRINATION at the expense of taxpayers!”
The ad (sent to us by a TFN supporter) promoted a February 28 Tea Party event in the Hill Country town of Marble Falls west of Austin. The presenter is one of at least two who have been carrying their anti-CSCOPE circus act to Tea Party and local Republican Party events around Texas.
To recap, CSCOPE is a curriculum management tool developed through a collaboration of regional Education Service Centers set up by the state in the 1960s. The purpose of the service centers is to provide support to public school districts. CSCOPE guides districts in how to cover the state’s curriculum standards and includes sample lessons teachers can use. In recent months far-right activists have charged that CSCOPE and the educators behind it are trying to indoctrinate Texas children with Marxism, radical Islam and a host of other demons. Some have even compared CSCOPE to Nazi mind control. You can read more about the anti-CSCOPE witch hunt here.
This advertisement’s list of supposed “lessons” in CSCOPE is a classic example of the absurdly distorted claims made by the program’s critics. These hair-on-fire claims by right-wing activists have increasingly overshadowed legitimate concerns other critics might have about transparency and the quality of some program materials. Even so, some elected officials — including Dan Patrick, R-Houston, chair of the Texas Senate Education Committee — have aided the witch hunt. Just this week State Board of Education Chairwoman Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, appointed a board committee to review the CSCOPE materials. The committee is scheduled to start later this month. Stay tuned. |
ThermiTight: Enjoy Smoother, Tighter Skin Without Surgery
As we age, our skin loses its elasticity, and this can lead to sagging skin. So while you still feel 23 inside, the mirror might tell a different story. The good news is that with ThermiTight, we can tighten up that sagging skin and provide you with a more youthful look. ThermiTight is painless, non-surgical and usually requires just one treatment.
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Our skin includes both collagen and elastin, and these proteins support the structure of our skin. As we age, our body produces less and less of these proteins and the skin has a harder time maintaining that youthful structure.
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After the procedure, we wrap the area for a while to prevent swelling. After the procedure, you are ready to go home. While ThermiTight is minimally invasive, we do recommend that you have someone drive you home after this procedure.
Generally, the procedure should last just a few hours, and most people can resume their normal activities the following day, although it’s wise to avoid exercise or strenuous activities for several days. Most patients feel very little discomfort after the procedure. There may be some tenderness or swelling in the affected area, but this should resolve in about a week or two at most. There is little downtime.
You should see some improvement in the targeted areas immediately, but the majority of the results will become more apparent as the weeks go by and that collagen stimulation truly begins to take effect.
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Unlike many injection treatments, some of which tend to last just a few months, ThermiTight should yield results for about two years and perhaps longer. Eating healthy, drinking plenty of water and avoiding smoking can help you enjoy the results for a longer period of time.
For instance, there are some foods that have been shown to promote collagen growth. Fish, chicken, egg whites and bone broth are high in collagen, which may help to trigger collagen growth. Foods rich in vitamin C, such as citrus fruits, also can be a good option, as well as berries, beans and leafy greens. A diet high in sugar and refined carbohydrates (such as chips, white bread, etc.) also can inhibit collage growth, so avoiding these foods may help keep your skin healthier and more youthful-looking.
Are There Other Options Besides ThermiTight?
ThermiTight can be an excellent option for many patients, but there are some other treatments that will smooth and tighten the skin. ThermiSmooth, for instance, also uses heat to achieve its results and can be used for the face as well as many other parts of the body.
With ThermiSmooth, we do not make the tiny incisions we make with ThermiTight. We simply apply a gel to the skin and then we use a special wand to distribute the heat waves over the skin. While ThermiSmooth requires no incisions and is a slightly faster procedure than ThermiTight, it can take several treatments to achieve the same results and the results typically do not last as long as with ThermiTight.
Of course, we also can provide you with surgical options that can improve the look of sagging skin in many areas of the body. Surgical procedures tend to produce very long-lasting results, but, of course, they require a much longer recovery time and not everyone is a candidate for these surgeries. For instance, if you have a suppressed immune system or you are a smoker, you probably aren’t a good candidate for surgery. Surgical procedures also are more expensive, which definitely can be a factor to consider.
With ThermiTight and ThermiSmooth, most people are good candidates, although we don’t recommend these procedures for anyone with a current skin infection or for women who are pregnant or nursing.
In general, limiting procedures during pregnancy is always a good idea. A woman’s body changes so much during pregnancy and nursing that it is a good idea to wait for several months after childbirth and after you cease breastfeeding to perform many cosmetic procedures.
Instead of considering cosmetic procedures, book a relaxing pregnancy or post-natal massage. Treat yourself to a pedicure and manicure. These can go a long way toward helping you feel your best during these special months.
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ThermiTight and ThermiSmooth definitely can provide you with tighter skin and a more youthful look. If you wish to learn more about ThermiTight, ThermiSmooth or other cosmetic procedures, give us a call at any time. We can book a consultation with Dr. Thaxton and discover which options are mostly likely to produce your desired results. |
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The Importance of Taking Time to Relax
Hello, dear reader! In our fast-paced and demanding world, it is crucial to find ways to relax and reduce stress. The constant pressure from work, family, and social obligations can take a toll on our physical and mental health. Taking time for ourselves is not a luxury but a necessity for maintaining balance and overall well-being.
The Benefits of Relaxation
When we allow ourselves to relax, our bodies and minds can recharge and rejuvenate. Relaxation has been proven to reduce stress, improve mood, boost immune function, enhance concentration, and increase productivity. It helps us to better cope with challenges and be more present in our daily lives. So, let’s explore some effective ways to relax and find a sense of peace amidst the chaos.
1. Practice Deep Breathing Exercises
One simple yet powerful way to relax is through deep breathing exercises. Find a quiet place where you can sit comfortably and take slow, deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth. Focusing on your breath helps calm your nervous system and promotes relaxation.
2. Engage in Regular Exercise
Moving your body is a great way to release built-up tension and stress. Find an activity that you enjoy, whether it’s going for a walk, practicing yoga, dancing, or playing a sport. Regular exercise not only improves your physical health but also boosts your mood by releasing endorphins, the feel-good hormones.
3. Disconnect from Technology
In today’s digital age, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by constant notifications and the pressure to always be connected. Take regular breaks from your devices and disconnect from technology. Use this time to engage in activities that bring you joy, such as reading a book, gardening, or spending quality time with loved ones.
4. Practice Mindfulness and Meditation
Mindfulness and meditation have been practiced for centuries to promote relaxation and inner peace. Find a quiet space, close your eyes, and focus on your breath or a calming phrase. Allow thoughts to come and go without judgment. Regular mindfulness practice can help reduce stress and anxiety.
5. Prioritize Self-Care
Make self-care a non-negotiable part of your routine. Take time to engage in activities that nurture your mind, body, and soul. This can include getting enough sleep, eating a balanced diet, pampering yourself with a bath or massage, or engaging in a hobby you love.
6. Spend Time in Nature
Connecting with nature has a profound impact on our well-being. Take a walk in the park, go hiking, or simply sit and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors. Being in nature helps reduce stress, boost mood, and improve overall mental health.
7. Foster Healthy Relationships
Building and maintaining healthy relationships is essential for our overall happiness and well-being. Surround yourself with positive and supportive people who bring out the best in you. Take time to connect with friends and loved ones regularly, whether it’s through a phone call, a coffee date, or a fun outing.
8. Laugh and Have Fun
Laughter is indeed the best medicine. Make time for activities that bring you joy and make you laugh. Watch a comedy show, read funny books, or spend time with people who have a great sense of humor. Having fun and laughing helps reduce stress and improves your overall mood.
9. Practice Time Management
Feeling overwhelmed and stressed often comes from poor time management. Take control of your schedule by prioritizing tasks, setting realistic goals, and delegating when necessary. Having a well-organized and balanced schedule allows for more relaxation and less rushing.
10. Create a Relaxing Environment
Designate a space in your home or office that promotes relaxation. Fill it with soothing colors, comfortable furniture, and objects that bring you peace and joy. This environment can serve as a sanctuary where you can retreat to when you need a moment of calm.
Conclusion: Taking Time for Yourself
Hello! In conclusion, taking time to relax and reduce stress is essential for our overall well-being. In our busy lives, it’s easy to overlook self-care and prioritize other responsibilities. However, by implementing these relaxation techniques and making them a priority, we can achieve a sense of balance and peace. Remember, it’s not selfish to take care of yourself; it’s necessary for a happier and healthier life. So, start today and carve out moments of relaxation amidst the chaos. |
We call it the Sunday Best… because there’s no better place to be on a Sunday afternoon than with us at The ABGB.
Hang out under the trees.
Drink some beer (that’s all made here).
Hug your friends.
Have a sandwich… or a slice or two.
Swing your partners.
That’s the Sunday Best. |
Between the nearly 500 student clubs and organizations UC Davis is home to, it’s easy to forget that every student is a part of the greater campus community. The annual Principles of Community Week strives to remind students of this.
“It’s a way to make very visible and meaningful to campus, the Principles of Community, a statement of values and responsibilities,” said Janet Gong, associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs.
The week of events comes at a significant time of campus activism in response to the acts of vandalism targeted at the LGBT and Jewish communities. Organizers cancelled one event so that more people would attend the LGBTRC’s town hall meeting, held Monday night to discuss the hate crimes.
Though unregulated officially, the UC Davis Principles of Community function as a broad and inclusive statement of expected behavior, and reinforce the university setting as an open and fair marketplace of ideas.
Now in its 20th year, Principles of Community Week has evolved into a showcase of ideals we all revere, Gong said.
“We used to reaffirm them [the Principles] on significant anniversaries; part of the notion of the week is that we now do this through active participation in programs,” she said.
Organized by the Office of Campus Community Relations, the five days highlight the diversity that UC Davis students experience daily. This week-long event was launched Monday at the Cross-Cultural Center, and will run through this Friday.
“Unpacking Privilege: Understanding Race, Gender, and Sexuality” was the first event of Principles of Community Week. Organizers invited students to become aware of how privilege contributes to prejudice within institutions, societies and individuals.
Today starts off with “Living the Principles of Community,” a demonstration of an on-line class about implementing the Principles in the Memorial Union East Conference room from noon to 1 pm.
Next on the docket is “Immigrants Tale,” a documentary project for students to share their own stories of immigration. The film will be shown in Wellman Hall from 5 to 11 p.m.
The night comes to a close “Sick Spits Open Mic Night,” which invites students to express themselves through music, dance, or spoken word from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in Griffin Lounge.
Student Assistant to the Chancellor Nina Massoumi, a senior international relations major, said Principles of Community Week serves to promote the diversity on campus.
“The week is to bring to light different events that further these ideals, but also call attention to things that do not represent them and discuss how we as a campus community can be held accountable for these things,” she said.
“That’s so BLEEP,” on Wednesday night in King Lounge from 7 to 9 p.m. aims to accomplish the week’s main goal, Massoumi said.
“Even though the Principles are not enforced, the idea is to respect people no matter their race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, etc.,” Massoumi said.
The program will examine the roots of hate speech and try to discontinue its presence in 21st century language. By discussing the connection between hate speech and genocide, “That’s so BLEEP,” aims to unify and rebuild communities through words and actions.
MIKE DORSEY can be reached at [email protected]. |
The best general education classes to take this spring.
With pass times just around the corner, freshmen are looking to lighten their class load while seniors are hoping to satisfy their remaining requirements, with everyone in between frantically searching for interesting General Education (GE) courses to add to their spring schedules. Unfortunately, not every student has the time, energy or desire to scroll through Schedule Builder for hours on end to find the perfect match. Save time and check out this list of seven GE classes to consider taking this spring.
ENL 5F – English 5: Fiction & ENL 5P – English 5: Poetry
GE credit: AH / WE
Students looking to channel their inner J.K. Rowling or Shakespeare can do so by taking English 5F or English 5P. These four-unit classes offer students hands-on experience with reading and writing fiction or poetry. Students have the chance to become authors themselves in a small classroom environment that encourages discussion and collaboration. Fiction and Poetry are introductory courses that are accessible to students of all majors, and are meant to encourage students to express their creativity. For this reason, they are great class choices for those who see writing as an intimidating task. One last thing for those who still need convincing — this class has no final exam!
ANT 003: Intro to Archaeology
GE credit: SE / SL / SS
$5 services fee
Ever wondered how generations lived before the dawn of iPhones, CoHo food and student housing? If so, consider taking Intro to Archaeology. During lecture, learn how archaeologists use excavation sites to piece together human history and prehistory. During discussion, look at various excavated artifacts, and even get the chance to hold and touch some extremely old items. This four-unit class is a great fit for students looking to fulfill GE credit and learn about something that may be new and unfamiliar, from professors who are extremely passionate about the subject.
SOC 025: Popular Culture
GE credit: SS / VL
How exactly did Beyonce become “Queen B?” Why is Instagram so wildly popular? What influences media culture? These questions are explored in Popular Culture, but students who take the class are guaranteed to gain knowledge of cultural expressions by studying different forms of art, music and more. This class captures aspects of everyday life in art and media through the lens of sociology, making it a great class for students looking to add a bit of uniqueness to their schedule.
ENT 001: Art, Science, World Insects
GE credit: AH / OL / SE / SS / VL / WE
$65 services fee
Entomology 1 fuses the worlds of humans and animals by blending art with the study of insects. This class fulfills a variety of GE options, meaning that students of all fields have the chance to experience a unique subject that they might not have seen in their course of study. Art, Science and World Insects includes two lectures a week and one lab. In selecting which section of lab to enroll in, students have three options to enroll in: graphics studio, ceramics studio or multimedia studio. While there is a $65 dollar services fee to accommodate the course materials, this class is one of the most unique in the course catalog and is definitely worth the experience.
AST 10G: Introduction to Stars, Galaxies and the Universe
GE Credit: SE / SL / VL
Students wanting to surprise their friends, families, lovers or pets with an abundance of knowledge about the universe should definitely consider taking this introductory class. This interactive class is highly popular each quarter, and students can expect to learn about the world beyond the Milky Way. While this class does use physics to explain concepts, it is an introductory course and physics is not a prerequisite, making it accessible to students of all majors. Students who are interested can selectively enroll in AST10L (lab class) for one unit, allowing them to put their knowledge to the test and observe the night sky through telescopes!
ECM 1: Design of Coffee
GE credit: SE / SL / VL
$25 materials fee
Outsmart your coffee date by learning the science behind every college student’s favorite drink. Students in Design of Coffee will learn a “non-mathematical introduction” to the science behind coffee. This class teaches students how to think like chemical engineers, without requiring them to pursue an engineering degree themselves. With both a lecture and a lab, attendees have the opportunity to learn the science and practice the methods themselves. Past classes have completed Coffee Design competitions as a final exam, meaning students will be caffeined-up and ready to go for the remainder of finals week.
ABT 049: Field Equipment Operation
GE credit: SE, VL, QL
$26 materials and services fee
What better place to learn to drive a tractor than at one of the top agriculture schools in the world? In addition to learning how to operate a tractor, students will learn how to use field equipment, along with the basics of cropping and planting. This two-unit course can only be taken for P/NP, so students looking to enjoy the experience do not have to worry about getting that perfect A! Offered only in fall and spring, many Aggies recognize Field Equipment Operation as a must-do before graduation, so those interested should sign up quickly.
So, while El Niño continues to dampen the spirit of Winter Quarter, look forward to spring by planning a schedule full of one or more of these great GE classes. Students can find a comprehensive list of course descriptions online, and can also refer to their Schedule Builder to search for additional courses. Pass times will be released on Jan. 25, and registration will span from Feb. 1 to 12.
Written by: LINDSAY BILLINGS – [email protected] |
Professor Ari Kelman honored for literary achievements
UC Davis History Professor and Interim Dean for the College of Letters and Science Ari Kelman was recently elected to the Society of American Historians for his published historical novels.
The society’s executive secretary, Andie Tucker, explained that the Society of American Historians honors eloquent literary works in historian academia.
“Unlike most other societies devoted to history, our society’s members include not just scholars but also independent writers, journalists, filmmakers, novelists, poets and others.” Tucker said. “We are the only society I know of that considers literary grace and narrative art as important components of historical writing that should be taken seriously.”
Kelman was elected as a fellow to the society in honor of his historical nonfiction novels: A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek (2003), A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (2013) and Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War (2015).
Kelman reported that each book took nearly a decade to write, edit and publish.
His latest novel, Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War (2015), is a co-authored graphic comic novel. Kelman worked with graphic artist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm.
“It’s a graphic novel but it’s nonfiction, so a graphic history of the U.S. Civil War.” Kelman said. “It was a really fun project.”
“It is an ambitious text, as in many ways a comic can only paint a broad picture of a complex theater,” said literary critic Cassandra Koslen. “To widen this scope, Battle Lines relies on a human narrative of America’s bloodiest divide.”
To be elected to the Society of American Historians, writers must be nominated and voted in by current members of the society. The election process and limited number of new fellows elected makes Kelman’s inclusion a prestigious title.
“Professor Kelman’s election means that a substantial number of our current members — among whom number some of the most celebrated historians working today — recognized his work as showing both historical rigor and stylistic grace,” Tucker said.
Tucker explained that an annual fellowship awards night and dinner is usually planned for May but has been postponed due to the pandemic.
Kelman joins three UC Davis professors in the Society of American Historians.
Written by: Hannah Blome — [email protected] |
When navigating a lifestyle change midway through the quarter, the Editorial Board reminds students to prioritize their health and wellbeing
Being a student for the past two years has required more patience, flexibility and empathy than anyone could have anticipated. And while many may have adjusted to the constant uncertainty of the education system during a pandemic, students were thrown a curve ball that impacted learning and wellbeing with the return to campus midway through this quarter.
The beginning of a new term can be tough, especially with the quarter system, which tends to move at a faster pace. Adjusting to a new schedule, from class times to club meetings to course workload, is a necessary part of students’ reset, and we usually get to organize our schedules in Weeks 1 and 2 before the work really picks up. This time around, students established a routine while attending “Zoom University,” and then had to figure out an entirely new one when campus reopened and classes resumed in person. Not to mention, it was Week 5, when many instructors typically schedule midterms.
During the first four weeks of the quarter, getting lunch was merely a short walk to the kitchen, and a 7 p.m. meeting could be taken from bed, if it was that type of day. Some lectures were recorded and not required, so if something came up during class time, you could always rewatch it later. Now, a trip home to the kitchen is considerably longer, those dinner time meetings are in person and many professors track attendance or aren’t posting lectures online.
It’s not that these are impossible tasks to manage — on the contrary, most students are probably used to doing so after an in-person fall quarter. But they are new to us this quarter, so figuring out when to eat with back-to-back lectures all day and physically attending every commitment, where before a virtual presence was sufficient, are pretty draining.
Members of the Editorial Board, at least, have been feeling drained in the past two weeks, and we can imagine many students feel the same. While we’re glad to be reconnecting in person again, we realize the strain this puts on all of us and want to remind everyone to take extra care as we tackle this transition in the midst of midterm season.
It may sound frivolous to say, but don’t forget to eat lunch and drink water — you won’t have much luck running around campus or paying attention in class if your body isn’t properly nourished and hydrated (especially with the climate anxiety-inducing warm weather we’ve been having). Similarly, try to prioritize your sleep, since getting to and from campus takes more energy than you might realize (has anyone else been feeling way more tired than usual?).
There is also an added mental strain in taking on all of these activities, so taking the time for a mental and physical recharge during the day can make a world of a difference. Some of the Editorial Board’s favorite places to take a break on campus are the Student Community Center (where both you and your laptop can recharge), the hammocks on the Quad and the Kemper Courtyard.
Being in person also presents opportunities for social interaction that, for some, can ease the anxieties associated with our new lifestyle. From speaking to peers face-to-face in discussion sections to running into friends at the Memorial Union, these conversations bring some excitement that may have been missing when only communicating over Zoom. We want to recognize that for some, the fear of contracting COVID-19 surpasses the benefit of socializing in an in-person setting, but we hope everyone can find an opportunity to gather safely.
At the end of the day, living our lives beyond our bedrooms is finally a normal part of life again, and we are slowly but surely figuring out how to balance being in person. But as we all adjust, it’s important to bear in mind that it can take some longer than others, so be sure to give some slack to those who are finding difficulty in this return to campus — including yourself.
Written by: The Editorial Board |
A sordid enterprise, nasty, crude and needless. But the World Cup 2022 will be, should anyone bother watching it, stained by one of the highest casualty rates amongst workers in its history, marked by corruption and stained by a pharisee quality. The sportswashers, cleaning agent at the ready, will be out in force, and the hypocrites dressed to the nines.
From the start, the link between the world’s premier football (or soccer) competition and the gulf state was an odd one. Qatar and the World Cup are as connected in kinship as gigantic icebergs and parched desert sands. But money was the glue, prestige the aim, and there was much glue to go around when it came to securing the rights to host the competition. What was lacking was a football tradition, an absence of sporting infrastructure, and the presence of scorching weather.
The central figure in this effort of bald graft over distinguished merit was Mohamed Bin Hammam, Qatar’s football grandee and construction magnate. From his position as a member of the executive committee of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), he is said to have acted, on occasion, more like “the head of a crime organisation” than a mere board official. All the time, he risibly claimed that he was a fan of reform, calling for “more transparency in FIFA.”
There was little evidence of transparency when it came to Doha’s bid. With manoeuvring and cash incentives, the votes fell Qatar’s way in December 2010. FIFA’s own comically named ethics committee cleared the country’s officials of any misdemeanour (it was “verified internally” that no secret plots had been made leading up to the award), while also having harsh words for other bidders, notably England.
The body also commissioned a 430-page report from lawyer and ethics investigator Michael Garcia that put the officialdom of both Russia and Qatar at ease. For one thing, Garcia seemed mild in noting that, “A number of executive committee members sought to obtain personal favours or benefits that would enhance their stature within their home countries or considerations.” With specific reference to Qatar, Garcia mentioned the country’s Aspire sports academy, alerted to it being used to “curry favour with executive committee members.” This gave “the appearance of impropriety. Those actions served to undermine the integrity of the bidding process.” But not enough, it would seem, to invalidate the choice.
In all the scrounging, haggling and dealing, the fate of tens of thousands of migrant workers have fallen into the void, showing that sporting choices, even if nourished by a grossly unethical base, will still be tolerated. Despite this, the reports about the appalling treatment Qatar affords its imported labour have not stopped coming. For one thing, 2 million workers retained to build the various stadia, a new airport, roads, the metro system, not to mention providing a range of other services (restaurants, transport, in some cases, even security), would generally count as indispensable. The problem with modern trafficking and slave practices lies in the fact that they will, when the time comes, be dispensable. The pool is large and constantly replenished.
The years since Qatar was awarded the right to host the World Cup have seen a degree of ugliness that would make the hair stand on the back of any labour and human rights activist. Much of this predates the commencement of work upon the facilities needed for the sporting event, a legacy shaped by the Kafala system. The system of sponsor-based employment effectively indentures the worker to the employer, or kafeel, trapping the employee by restricting mobility, choice of employment and visa status.
In 2017, Qatar reluctantly signed an agreement with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) giving an undertaking to combat labour exploitation and “align its laws and practices with international labour standards.”
Despite such undertakings, The Guardian revealed in February 2021 that 6,750 migrant workers hailing from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had perished in Qatar since December 2010. Such a total would be further inflated were it to account for other source countries of migrant labour, including Kenya and the Philippines.
The circumstances behind each death vary from suicide to being killed in shoddy worker accommodation. But the authorities have done their best to relay the causes in murky terms, often aided by a reluctance to conduct autopsies. “Natural deaths” tops the list as a favourite, with respiratory and acute heart failure featuring strongly.
In May this year, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, FairSquare, and a number of international migrant rights groups, labour unions, business and rights groups, along with football fans and abuse survivors, made a plea to FIFA. In a letter addressed to its President Gianni Infantino, the collective writes of “hundreds of thousands of migrant workers” who had yet to receive “adequate remedy, including financial compensation, for serious labour abuses they suffered while building and servicing the infrastructure essential for the preparation and delivery of the World Cup in Qatar.”
In urging Infantino to work with the Qatar government, trade unions, the ILO and other relevant bodies to address labour abuses, the collective acknowledges various modest improvements. But minor labour reforms and the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy Initiatives came “too late”. The various reforms have also been unevenly enforced. Many workers essential to the World Cup enterprise also fall outside the remit of the Supreme Committee’s initiatives.
This whole endeavour, in short, remains plagued and blotted by institutional callousness. But a good deal of this will be forgotten come the opening ceremony and lost among the hordes of politically illiterate fans. The sporting show will go on, and anyone wishing to protest its merits will risk five-year prison sentences and a fine of 100,000 Qatari riyals (US$27,000) for “stirring up public opinion.” That’s mightily sporting of the authorities.
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Looking for ways to save money on your energy bill? We-Energies has a list of inexpensive ways to help keep your home warmer and more energy efficient in the cold months of the year.
Use shades, blinds and drapes to help with heating and cooling. Open them during the day to gain the sun’s heat and in the cooler months, close them at night. Make it a habit every day.
Adjust your thermostat when you are asleep or away from home. You can save as much as 10 percent a year on heating and cooling by simply turning your thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer. Recommended thermostat settings when you are home are 68 degrees F in winter and 78 degrees F in summer.
Leave thermostat’s fan switch on “auto” so the fan only runs when the furnace runs. Setting the fan to “on” causes it to run all the time, whether or not heating is needed.
Turn thermostat down to 55 F when using a fireplace. Older, wood-burning fireplaces tend to be inefficient and can be costly, drawing more heated air out of your home through the chimney than a fire can produce. So, turn the thermostat down when you cozy up in front of the fire. After the smoldering embers are out, close the flue damper to keep warm air in the house.
Seal cracks and gaps around windows, doors and siding with caulk and weather stripping. This prevents loss of heated or cooled air and improves the comfort of your home.
Use fans to push warm air down. Make sure to reverse the direction of your fans from the way they were going during the summer months.
Install a programmable thermostat for your comfort and convenience. It can adjust the heat or air conditioning for times you typically are away (when you go to work) and again for times you typically are home. You also can program it to turn the heat down when you go to sleep and turn it back up before you wake up in the morning. It adjusts automatically, so you don’t have to remember to do it.
Schedule regular tune-ups for your furnace and air conditioner. Seasonal maintenance keeps equipment running safely and efficiently, and saves money in the long run.
More ways to save
If you just look at energy savings, window replacement should be your lowest priority, since replacing windows involves a large investment. However, if you are getting new windows for other reasons – appearance, condensation, comfort – look for Energy Star qualified windows.
Consider switching to natural gas. Compared to other traditional energy sources, natural gas is the least expensive way to heat your home and water, dry your laundry and cook your food. |
The fifteenth episode of the season of Gotham airs tonight at 8PM ET/PT on Fox with “The Sinking Ship The Grand Applause”. Fox has released a number of screens and videos to promote tonight’s episode.
Synopsis: Bullock and Gordon try to track down someone who is key in Sofia’s control over Gotham. Meanwhile, Penguin, Lee and Nygma enlist an unlikely ally as they seek revenge, and Selina asks Bruce for a favor to help rid her of her guilt over Ivy.
Guest Cast: Anthony Carrigan as Victor Zsasz, Kyle Vincent Terry as Headhunter, Stu “Large” Riley as Sampson, Christopher Convery as Martin, Nathan Darrow as Mr. Freeze |
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Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. ~ Ecclesiastes 7:10
Thus says the ancient, postexilic, author who went by the penname Qoheleth.
Qoheleth likely lived during the time when the Persians ruled, or even later during the Greek period. His world was complex and messy, a far cry from the ordered world of old that birthed his Jewish tradition.
To read Ecclesiastes is to see someone struggling to stay connected to his tradition amid a changing world—not for lack of trying, but because the tradition did not help him explain his present.
The finality of death, skepticism over the afterlife, the absurdity of life’s labors, and his blaming of an inscrutable God for this whole business pitted him in a struggle with the God of old, and he made no bones about doing so.
I am very glad that Ecclesiastes found its way into the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. His experience of alienation from the faith of old very much rings true for many Christians today, namely those who are having trouble staying connected to the faith of their youth.
They are seeking new language for their evolving faith, which, like that of Qoheleth, is sparked by the tensions between an ancient faith lived in a modern world.
What resonates with me so powerfully about Qoheleth is that he calls into question a tendency that is so common in American evangelicalism today: to think of the Bible as a mandate to return to the “former days”—a sentiment evidenced whenever “biblical” or “unbiblical” is used to describe someone’s thinking.
I think if we were to pin Qoheleth to the wall and ask him whether he actually rejected the tradition, he would say no. In fact, the book ends with a call to “fear God and keep his commandments” (12:13)—an affirmation of tradition if ever I heard one.
But . . .
This affirmation of tradition is set side by side with the affirmation of Qoheleth’s bracing challenges to the tradition. After nearly 12 chapters of skepticism, even cynicism, the writer of the brief concluding section still calls him a wise teacher who “wrote words of truth plainly” (12:9-10).
Call it a paradox: honor the tradition of old and interrogate it as we exist in the present.
Or perhaps better put, honor the tradition by interrogating it. This is how I understand Ecclesiastes 7:10 cited above: not as a blanket rejection of tradition, but as a warning not to idolize it.
Traditions survive by adapting to the challenges of the present. A tradition that does not remain curious and flexible, willing to address the moment, is a tradition that will die a slow but inevitable death.
I find this paradox life-giving, particularly because Scripture as a whole models this paradox again and again, not only in Qoheleth’s challenging of the tradition, but, for example, in Job’s rejection of the theology of retribution such as we read in Deuteronomy, and Jonah’s realization that God may not hate Israel’s enemies.
And the New Testament writers proclaim the Gospel as deeply tied to the ancient tradition while at the same pushing past the tradition—obedience to Torah, temple worship, a monarchy, and possession of the Promised Land.
For the New Testament authors, these core elements of the tradition were not rejected, but neither were mimicked or reproduced. Rather, they were radically reinterpreted to keep pace with a God who was out ahead of the tradition, leading it to place “no eye has seen or ear heard.”
The Bible simply does not allow its readers to glorify an idealized past time as a golden age. The Bible, rather, bears witness to how knowledge of God is a process of on the move— changing, developing, evolving—because God is always out ahead of what we can possibly understand or think.
The Bible itself bears witness to the process of moving forward rather than retreating to an idealized past.
And so engaging the Bible seriously today means more than seeing it as a vault of unaltering, static pieces of “information.” It means paying attention to this paradox of old and new.
Never simply a choice between one or the other, but always both.
Never thinking that God is found only in the one and not the other, but in both.
Never limiting God’s activity to the past, but always asking where God might be out in front of us.
Like Qoheleth, we live in a messy world made more and more complicated, for generations, now, by explosions in technology and science. To think the Bible provides an escape from addressing constructively the challenges of our day is not only to miss the Bible’s own witness, but will signal far and wide that the Christian faith is only prepared to wish for a past rather than create a future.
Engaging the Bible responsibly means today what it has always meant: embracing the expectation that God is doing a new thing among us. Our job is to discern what God is doing, not isolate ourselves from that sacred responsibility by cloaking ourselves with prooftexts. |
Have you ever had your air conditioner blow hot air rather than cold air into your room? This condition may bother us, especially during the summer months when the weather is hot. Your AC may not be operating correctly for several reasons. Please continue reading to find out how to fix an AC and the six most common reasons it isn’t cooling your room.
1. A blocked air filter is number one
The most common reason for your split and window AC not cooling is dirty air filters. If the air conditioner filter is unclean or clogged with dust and grime, it may lead to several problems.
Dirt in the AC filters obstructs the flow of cold and warm air via the ducts. It can block the proper working of the thermostat. It might also freeze the evaporator coil, preventing cold air from exiting the outlet. To fix this issue, contact experts from your nearest stores of Air Conditioning Adelaide.
2. Incorrect Thermostat settings
Check the thermostat if your split or window air conditioner isn’t cooling. You have a problem if your air conditioner from Domestic Aircon Services SA blows cold air first, then lukewarm air. Put the thermostat on auto mode when faced with a situation like this. When the air is cooled, the fan will switch on.
3. The outside unit is unclean
To understand why a dirty external unit obstructs the performance, you must first grasp how it operates.
- The evaporator (internal unit) gathers heat from the air around you and transfers it to the exterior air conditioner.
- The hot air is then condensed into cool air (outside unit). If the condenser is obstructed, the air conditioning system will not cool adequately. The even transfer of heat will be blocked by debris and filth.
Are you looking for a way to fix your air conditioner? Remove weeds and debris from the condenser area to give it room to breathe. Get your air conditioner serviced and regularly maintained by the experts from the nearest stores of Air Conditioning Adelaide to avoid expensive air conditioner maintenance bills.
4. Motors that aren’t up to snuff
If the fan motor is damaged or malfunctioning, the outdoor unit will be unable to disperse heat, interfering with the cooling capabilities of an air conditioning unit. To fix this issue, contact the experts from Domestic Aircon Services SA.
5. Inadequate refrigerant
Your air conditioner from the stores of Air Conditioning Adelaide may not cool due to a shortage or insufficiency of a refrigerant, which absorbs heat from the surrounding air. It’s conceivable that the refrigerant in your air conditioner is leaking, and it isn’t cooling. Get your air conditioning regularly serviced to prevent this problem.
To keep your air conditioning system working correctly throughout the year, it is advised that you get it serviced and maintained by a professional from Domestic Aircon Services SA.
Do you know how often you should contact your AC service? It should be done every three months to increase your air conditioner’s efficiency and output. An unmaintained AC may raise your energy bills while also cooling your home ineffectively. As a result, take proper care of the system to avoid expensive air conditioner maintenance and repairs. |
As we all know butt acne exists. And there is no need to hide them as this is a natural thing that we all are aware of.
People can feel embarrassed while talking about all these things but what can we do human does all sorts of things that can make us embarrassed in public.
However, the amazing thing is that it can easily be cured and you can get rid of it easily. We have put some great tips to remove acne from your butt and these MMCrypto tips will help you remove all the acne exist on your butt.
If you are still not comfortable to talk about it then try to remove it, it is a natural thing happens to everyone, you do not need to be scared of this, it is easy to remove them, all you have to do is to read this article.
And try to remove all the acne by following these simple tips that we are telling you about.
Loosen Up Your Clothes
Loosen up your clothes can make your butt acne go away, as most of all the guys and gals love to wear slim-fitting pants that are super tight, although they give your butt a special look.
They can make your butt acne worse and most of the time butt acne happens because of this problem. Just like ladies wear their yoga pants in public so they can look super hot but they should understand these types of pants are just good for yoga not good for outside.
As they can increase your butt acne and can make you uncomfortable in public. Similarly, guys are obsessed to wear slim-fitting pants that make their but super cool but this can make your butt acne worst as well.
So, if you are a guy and want to stop acne from happening in the first place, you will have to change your wardrobe and try to lose your clothing.
The problem of butt acne occurs when you wear tight pants because you butt needs some space and if you do not give them enough space, the sweat your body is releasing might get stuck at the same place it came out and this causes the production of butt acne.
So, if you want to solve the problem of butt acne in the first place, you will have to give room to your butt to release all the sweat.
Shower Immediately After Working Out
Showering immediately can stop butt acne from happening because the sweat that your body produces after some workout can become dry and that can cause some irritation to your butt hair follicles.
So, try to keep the workout timing that can make you fo to shower immediately if you stooped for some grocery or go to the library then it can make your butt acne worst or can grow your butt acne much faster.
As we were talking about clothing before, you should stay away from material or clothes that trap heat or moisture because this is the biggest reason for acne to happen.
Cotton pants or underwear are the most important clothes that you should wear while you are working out because they let air to pass through and can be very much effective for preventing acne from happening.
Don’t Scrub Your Bum
If you are thinking to scrub off your butt acne then it can not happen because butt acne can not be scrubbed off.
You should not use any scrubbing material on your butt because if you did it can make your butt acne much worse, aggressive scrubbing can be dangerous to your butt as your butt will have inflamed follicles.
So if you used aby scrubbing stuff in these follicles so that can make your skiing much rash and can be hurtful afterwards.
You can do exfoliation but you should do it gently, with a soft cloth or nylon body pouffe because acne can be soft as well, you just have to treat it gently and after some time or hours, it will be removed completely.
Use an OTC Body Wash with Benzoyl Peroxide
There are some treatments that you do to fix your face pimples can be useful for butt acne as well.
If your butt acne is mild which means that you have soft pimples or bumps in your butt then that means the treatment can be easily done by benzoyl peroxide.
Benzoyl Peroxide helps you clear all the dirt from your skin and clears all the pours so your blemishes of the butt can be reduced.
On top of that, it has anti-inflammatory properties that will help you cool your inflammatory follicles, this is a good treatment to reduce your butt swollen spots.
Use Salicylic Acid Medicated Pads
You can use regular exfoliation to relieve your butt from the acnes but there is another way to remove your acne and this method is far better than scrubbing off your butt acne.
We introduce you to Salicylic acid which is a hydroxy acid, by applying this acid, it will help your skin to shed cells more effectively.
However, the cells that will shed are not around your hair follicles and that will make your skin softer and smoother. These pads are the best way to medicate your butt acne and will give their medication effect in no time.
As we have told you some of the best tips that can make your butt skin alive again and free from acne. We hope your butt skin gets alive again and free from all acne.
Make sure to wear loose clothes to prevent acne from happening in the first place. |
More exciting stuff is how nicely the first half of the ride is shaping up to look. Amazing rockwork is met with increasingly lush foliage. Every day I step foot in this park, a few trees and plants have been added.
The park has also installed thematic light fixtures on the velociraptor enclosure. The lights are white, but currently wrapped in blue tape to preserve them while they aren’t being used yet. The blue looks equally as appropriate of course.
This may very well be my favorite angle of the coaster, so I’ll always throw in some shots. I am happy that they’re planting so many trees to help with the separation between Hogsmeade and Jurassic Park, as this has always been a very weird transition between the two major themed lands.
We’ll now take a look at VelociCoaster construction from the air with a few shots of the amazing @Bioreconstruct on Twitter! They have the best aerial shots of the construction, so make sure to follow them!
I have incredibly high expectations of this project as they did a great job with Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure. In addition, this project is to rival Disney’s major new coasters: TRON: Lightcycle / Run and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind.
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I can’t believe, I just wrote that…Hello December. Has this year flown by at warp speed or what!
This month’s blog posts were dedicated to the time and preparation that goes into making Thanksgiving such an awesome event. Our family is currently tucked into Loblolly Manor for the first time in 26 years and it feels so nice to be able to kick off the holiday season at this home we’ve loved so much. It’s one of the smallest homes we’ve ever lived in but it was the last place we were all living under one roof before the military moved us to Texas and changed our lives forever.
There was a lot of behind the scenes work like building a coffee table, a dining room table, painting several pieces of furniture and recovering more chairs than I would ever like to see again. I’ll be sharing all of the details with you after the holidays. We got most of big items on the to do list finished in time but truth be told we’ll have to adjust some things before we gather together in just a few short weeks to celebrate Christmas. It’s been another fun month filled with lots of coffee and adventures. Here’s a quick look back at what made this month such a special one…
My parents host a lot of guests especially during the busy summer months. My mom gave me her best tips on How to Make Overnight Guest Feel Welcome and How to Make a Cozy Guest Bed so I could share it with you.
I shared easy to make hostess gifts with a Homemade Pumpkin Bread Recipe and a Free Bread Wrapper Printable and an easy to make Pumpkin Spice Sugar Scrub too.
It took A LOT of convincing to get me to do this Happy Thanksgiving video. I think I said the words, “No way, I’m too fat” like a hundred times but I wanted you to hear how truly thankful I am for each and every one of you.
I was kind of worried when my post How to Get Pet Prints Off Windows went live because I didn’t want you guys to think I was totally gross. But as it turns out, you were amazing and it’s a more common problem with pet owners than I thought it was. Thanks for being awesome by the way.
I didn’t do a lot of shopping for furniture and accessories this month because I’ve been getting ready for Christmas at the booth at the Pickers Market. I’ll need to head out to find a few pieces of furniture soon because this French Linen Painted Dresser I painted a few weeks ago sold. I’ll share more of what it looks like all dolled up for the season next week.
Thanks to my mom’s help my little cottage on the island is decorated for Christmas. It is going to feel so nice to walk through the front door and have everything ready and waiting on me to start celebrating. It was fun to take a look back at last year’s Neutral Inspired Christmas Ideas. It makes me giggle to see how much I’ve changed and how much my photography skills have changed too. I was so glad to get a new camera for Christmas last year. It feels like a gift every day. It was also a lot of fun to participate in the DIY Ornament Blog Hop with 16 other bloggers. The Easy Coastal Inspired Ornaments were simple to make.
I can’t wait to show you guys all the Christmas projects I’ve been working on so far this season. Goodbye November, it’s been fun. December if you’re listing, I can’t wait to see what adventures you have in store for me.
I hope you guys all had a safe and loving Thanksgiving weekend. See you back here on Monday for the Something to Talk About Link Party and on Tuesday for the 2015 Christmas Home Tour Blog Hop. |
Like the article says, I cannot believe they did not put more effort in preventing this from happening.
Apple gets Ping’d with comment spam – They didn’t see this coming?
Most of the security industry has been pointing out the migration of spam from an email-only venture to blog/forum comments, Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 platforms. But apparently Apple didn’t consider this when designing Ping, as the service implements no spam or URL filtering. It is no big shock that less than 24 hours after launch, Ping is drowning in scams and spams. |
Many commercial buildings rely on fire sprinkler systems to protect their spaces when a blaze ignites. As an active measure of fire protection, sprinkler systems use a distribution of pressurized water to douse the flames. Sprinkler systems are incredibly common across the globe, but there are some misconceptions about them that people still tend to believe about the way they operate and how effective they can be. Here are the most common myths about fire sprinkler systems.
- Myth: Water damage from a sprinkler system will be more extensive than fire damage.
Truth: Water damage can be an issue, however, sprinklers will cause much less damage than a firefighter hose line. Sprinkler systems are designed to act fast and treat a fire before the fire department even gets there. If the fire continues to spread while you wait for the fire department, the smoke and flames will tear through a space and cause irreparable damage.
Sprinklers are activated by heat and will help to put out the fire quickly and efficiently. They release much less water than firehoses but are still very effective. They release eight to 24 gallons of water versus the 50 to 125 from a firehose.
- Myth: When a fire occurs, every sprinkler in the building is engaged.
Truth: Sprinkler heads are activated individually. It is the heat from the fire that initiates fire sprinkler systems, so they will only activate if the fire is nearby (and in that case, they will be needed). Research has shown that sprinkler heads are rarely ever activated by accident.
- Myth: A smoke detector is all you need for a fire protection system.
Truth: Although commercial fire alarms are great for notifying people of a fire, they cannot do anything to put out the flames. You need a method of extinguishing the fire in addition to an alarm or smoke detector. For the utmost in safety, you need both an alarm system and a sprinkler system.
- Myth: Adding sprinklers will greatly increase construction costs.
Truth: A sprinkler system only will increase the cost by an average of one to two percent. Think of it in terms of an investment: you will be paying a lot more money in repairs if a fire ever does strike. Aside from saving money in the future, fire protection systems save lives. You cannot put a price on that.
Commercial fire protection is imperative to the safety of your business. Forget what you’ve heard about sprinkler systems, get to know the facts, and consider installing one today. |
ABEOKUTA – A prominent monarch in Ogun state, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, the Eselu of Iselu Kingdom in Yewa North local government has once again risen to the defense of the embattled businessman, Ibrahim Egungbohun Dende who is accused of smuggling rice and assaulting Customs Officers by an investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo.
Oba Eselu in an open letter on Saturday warned the journalist to refrain from defaming Chief Egungbohun whom he described as his subject or be prepared to face the consequences through legal means.
Recalled that, the investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo had released a video where IBD Dende reportedly assaulting Customs officers for seizing is ‘smuggled’ goods.
But Oba Akinyemi explained that, Chief Egungbohun did not assaulted the customs officers for his seized goods.
The monarch noted that, IBD Dende was on his way to a social party when he discovered that customs officers have seized a few bags of rice to be eaten by a known person and his family.
He said, as a social justice crusader and lover of the downtrodden, IBD Dende pleaded that the customs officers should release the said bags of rice to the guy.
He continued: “Despite the warning and request to him to desist from his mission to defame the person of Alhaji Ibrahim Egungbohun Dende, the undercover, Fisayo Soyombo still came out with another allegation that Alhaji Ibrahim Egungbohun Dende threatened to kill a customs officer for seizing the illicit goods which he smuggled into the country.
“Before the undercover released this new allegation to the public, he had boasted that he was going to release another missile to corroborate his earlier allegation against Alhaji Ibrahim Egungbohun Dende. To my surprise, he released to the public a video that shows Alhaji Ibrahim Dende Egungbohun and a Customs Officer quarreling.
“As a prominent traditional ruler in this country, I will not delve into things that are illegal and I will not also condone any attempt to destroy my subjects’ hard-earned reputation by some people who are uncomfortable with the rising profiles of Alhaji Ibrahim Egungbohun Dende.
“This is my philosophy and it is the reason I am informing the public again that the latest allegation of threat to the life of a customs officer leveled against Alhaji Ibrahim Egungbohun Dende is not only fake but also another hatchet job being carried out by the undercover whose determination is to ruin the reputation of Alhaji Ibrahim Egungbohun Dende, a lawful businessman, philanthropist and peoples’ rights crusader.
“To set the records straight and for the public to discard the nonsense that the undercover is spewing into the public, I want to state that:
“In the circulated video, Alhaji Ibrahim Egungbohun Dende was not quarreling with customs officers because they seized any smuggled goods like rice, etc from him.
“IBD Dende was on his way to a party and on getting to the place shown in the video, he discovered that a customs officer had seized a few bags of rice to be eaten by a known person and his family. As a social justice crusader and lover of the downtrodden, IBD Dende pleaded that the customs should release the said bags of rice to the guy since his action was better than elements taking to crimes in the society due to unemployment.
“The customs officer and his superior whom he called on the phone rejected IBD Dende’s plea and this led to the altercation, not that IBD Dende was fighting the customs because his smuggled contrabands were seized.
“IBD Dende became annoyed and asked why the customs officers did not go to other border areas like Seme Border where even senior customs officers are smuggling bags of rice in large quantities into the country.
“In the said video, customs officers were holding their guns and were even trying to calm down everybody. If IBD Dende had truly been an unlicenced clearing and forwarding agent and importer of contrabands, the customs officers in the video would have arrested and prosecuted him.
“From the foregoing, it is clear that IBD Dende cannot be fighting customs officers who were aiding him in smuggling guns and other contraband into the country, as alleged in the first release by the Uncover. In other words, IBD Dende would not have had the guts to challenge the customs if truly he had been caught and found guilty of the importation of contraband into the country in the past.
“It is important to let the public know that the undercover is not doing any serious investigations. Rather he is busy picking information from questionable sources to defame the person of Alhaji Ibrahim Egungbohun Dende.
“I am, therefore, using this opportunity to advise the undercover to go to scenes of incidents to get factual information and stop misleading the public with lies and unfounded allegations.
“I am warning the undercover called Fisayo Soyombo to stop forthwith his mission to destroy the reputation of my subject, IBD Dende. If he refuses to put a stop to this character assassination against IBD Dende, he (the undercover) should be prepared to face the consequences of his actions, as every lawful means will be explored to fish him out for prosecution.” |
My name is Nick de Vries, 28 years old and I’ve been living for more than 20 years with epilepsy now. Epilepsy came into my life out of the blue when I was 8 years old. I had my first seizure at school when I was having a break and while I was playing on the schoolyard. The teachers brought me inside and called for an ambulance. After some researches I was diagnosed with epilepsy, but no one had a good reason for it. Because I’m the only one in my family which has epilepsy, it has always been a mystery. After some researches and scans it appeared that scar tissue in the Temporal Lobe was the reason of the whole problem. I didn’t have any accidents in the past, so that didn’t clarify anything.
When I was young, cars were a true passion of mine and I was able to recognize almost every car in the dark only by just looking to the rear lights of the car. When a neurologist tells you that you’re probably not allowed to get your drivers license, your world seriously collapses. At the age of 8 I didn’t understand every word of it, but I realized that my passion was limited to just watching and not driving cars. Through time I’ve learned to accept it, and I started having less troubles with it.
In 2011 I’ve started a study Mechanical engineering at the Hanzehogeschool university of applied sciences in Groningen, which is very hard. While I was studying my epilepsy affected my study a lot, especially when the exam-weeks were coming. For example, the seizure frequency increased from an average of 3 in a week to almost one a day. This made studying at home a lot heavier, because the level of energy does not meet the required level. Because of my epilepsy I was delayed, for example I barely performed my second year as I should, and due to fatigue and other effects caused by epilepsy I had weeks that I didn’t show up. For that reason it took me 6½ years to finish my study which is officially a study that takes 4 years. I feel blessed that I did finish my study though, and a lot of credits for that to my best friends and family and within that a special thanks to my younger sister which truly is an angel for me. If she wasn’t there for me, I probably wouldn’t have finished my study and sometimes I doubt whether I still would’ve been alive. She gave me a lot of support, as well mentally as well to explain me the rules within mathematics. She made me feel much better, also in the most terrible situations. At some points I seriously walked around with thoughts like: ‘it’s better to stop studying, because studying increases the level of stress in my life which is higher than the amount of advantages my diploma would give me’. But by talking with my sister I was always able to change my mind, even when she wasn’t around I just picked my phone and called her. She was always there for me, even if she was at her own place for her own study. She always wanted to make time for me
I believe in God, which always has been a source of strength for me. But when I said that I am a Christian, people often asked me: How do you relate your epilepsy with your religion? That’s quite simple to answer for me and I’ve got several arguments for that. I’m still alive, and my health condition is good (except for my epilepsy). Besides that, my mother travels a lot for her work to Africa by plane and a friend of mine also travels to China by plane almost once a month. Flying isn’t as safe anymore as it ever was, but the fact that God brings them home safely and healthy is one of my arguments. People often doubt that, so I tell them about the way I’ve experienced Gods hand in my life. God also promises to guide you on your way, by sending you people that will help you in difficult situations. Of course my sister is one of these angels, because without her I probably would’ve done terrible things to myself. Next to that: During my graduation time I’ve had 3 traffic accidents, in July 2017 I’ve had the last one. It was around 8:30 PM while I was driving my bike towards the sports club, and I had a seizure on the road where also cars and buses were driving. A little boy noticed that I had a seizure and also saw a bus coming that probably didn’t see me and would have crushed me. The boy stopped the bus and they called an ambulance because they didn’t noticed my safety tag around my neck which explains the situation. Later in the weekend on Sunday I was heading to church, and a pastor spoke about presence of God in your life. He asked everyone that was there: In which way do you see God actively in your life? It can be little things, it doesn’t always have to be the big things. When he said that, I remember that little kid that saved my life Monday evening. At that moment I saw that it was God that saved me and kept me alive like he promises as our shepherd. Because: Why would a little kid which was younger than 8 years old play outside alone at 8:30 PM while it is almost freezing? I don’t always convince people with these arguments, but they do understand my point of view and admire me sometimes.
I’m living on my own now since December 2017, which isn’t always safe. But the trick is to prevent yourself from getting into dangerous situations. We’ve made a couple of safety precautions like a system that detects whether I’ve got a seizure during the night, or covering the stairs which will prevent myself from falling downstairs when I have a seizure. The chance of getting seizure free by just using medicine is approximately 1-2%, but surgery isn’t possible. So I’m afraid epilepsy won’t leave me alone. But with a seizure frequency of average 3 a month I can be satisfied. When I have a seizure at night, my father gets a warning from the system and he’ll come over to my place as soon as the seizure takes longer than it normally would which makes living alone safe enough for me. That feeling of safety replaced a restless feeling, which also made me feel better.
I don’t have a job nowadays so life isn’t always cheering me up. But after a while there will probably be a possibility for me to get myself working. I also don’t have a partner, to be honest I’ve never had a serious relation. I don’t know why they always rejected me, but it feels disappointing. That also means that when you come home after bad day of work you don’t have someone to talk to or someone to give a hug. Thinking back at the time that I was a student, I barely went into town for a drink like fellow students did, because no one ever ask me. In the beginning it was hard to accept, and I always went alone, just once in a few months. But just looking into your life to what you don’t have is a great danger, because you should count your blessings and be happy with the things you have and which you have achieved. I’ve learned to accept it, and after a while I wasn’t the same person I was in the beginning, because I have some other words which lead me through life. And those words are also my message for people who are struggling these days:
Enjoy your life, don’t lose hope, don’t be restrained and don’t lose yourself into alcoholic or other things that affect your health!
I hope it all makes sense because English isn’t my native language :P. If you have any questions you can always let me know. |
I’m generally known as self-disciplined person, someone who sets and meets goals. I’ve beaten the odds, done the unexpected, gone beyond and proven doubters — and myself — wrong. It is a big part of what I do, helping others make progress through life challenges and toward desired changes.
About five years ago my Mom had a stroke, actually her third stroke. I had a habit of drinking three or four…okay five or more cans of diet Coke a day. My doctor had encouraged me to cut down. I blew it off, until that day. While visiting the hospital I decided no more. I have not had a diet Coke, or any other artificially sweetened soda, since. None, zero, period, end of conversation.
And I didn’t replace it with a similar course of sugar-sweetened soda. My “treat” is to drink about one (real) Coke a week and generally get by on unsweetened tea or water.
In spite of my discipline of ceasing to drink diet Coke, I fail when it comes to food. I could be referred to as a “fast food person.” Not that I frequent fast food restaurants — no, I eat fast. Too fast.
“Hi, I’m Jim.”
“I eat fast. Way too fast.”
It’s something of a life long habit. The end result is that I not only eat too fast, I eat too much. I know the equation, eat fast and the message can’t get from your stomach to your mind soon enough to tell you to stop.
I learned much of my love of food in my extended family. We would eat and then we would talk about eating. If you mentioned going out someone would ask, “Where’d you go?” which means, “What restaurant?” The follow-up is, “What did you have?” Which leads to comparisons with other restaurants, family recipes or a wandering conversation touching on various food related topics. Many of us worked in food services at one time or another. My first paycheck was from a restaurant, where my grandfather worked as well.
My Mom’s identity was in feeding “the boys.” That included my Dad, my brother, me and any friends or family who might be around. She often said her greatest joy was seeing us eat. When my sons came along, she became known as the “cinnamon roll Grandma.” Neighborhood kids would swarm our yard upon her arrival in anticipation of the famous treats.
In my young adult years I was anxious, driven, overly responsible. I was worried I’d never do enough, get it all done or do things quite right. I pushed others, but never as much as I pushed my self. As a program director at a Christian conference center, my responsibilities included coordinating summer staff. At mealtime I’d sit where I could see the room, all of the comings and goings, inhale my food. This would allow me to move from table to table checking in with staff members, keeping the flow of the day going.
As time progressed my work became less active; meetings, desk time and travel. Food related activities increased: mealtime meetings, working lunches, events and celebrations, and work trips with their endless parade of buffets and nameless restaurants. At the same time my metabolism went south. You can guess the result.
When the term multi-tasking became vogue, I felt I’d found my level. I loved the idea of being able to do multiple things as quickly as possible. I’d amaze mere mortals by crushing deadlines, managing an overly full schedule, holding together diverse interests, programs and people. Checking things off a list became a matter of identity. Accomplishment equaled value.
As time progressed, I was able to gain a better understanding of reasonable expectations for self and others. I became more aware of what could and couldn’t be controlled. I think others would agree that I became much more relaxed in relationships and responsibilities. I found ways to live more by flow than a driven linear model. I learned it’s not always worth getting things done if relationships are sacrificed in the process. I’m much more at peace with life, the world, others and myself. You might think this deep sense of balance would permeate all of my life. You might be wrong. I still eat too much, too fast.
I’ve developed strategies to change my behavior. I try to be the last served, wait for others in a meal line, chew more, put down my fork, sip water, converse — anything to slow my pace, but with little success. I hate when others notice and comment. It proves my weakness and failure at mastering this ever-hovering ghost.
I could make a case that this is some divine gift to keep me humble, remembering I can’t do everything. I know about strength in weakness, waiting, trusting, letting go, spiritual disciplines and self-control. And I still know I eat too fast.
Wisdom and science agree. Eating slower is better. Maybe someday my eating habits will align with best practices. Or maybe I’ll just have to keep working on it. |
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TEAM NAME: Kansas American football team
HEADQUARTERS:Kansas City, Missouri, United States
STADIUM: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
OWNER: Hunt family
PRESIDENT:Kansas City Chiefs
HEAD COACH:Andy Reid
GENERAL MANAGER: Brett Veach
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The Chiefs will make an attempt to b On August 15, 2021, the NFL Network began releasing their annual top 100 list. There are five players Hank Stram was fired after a 5–9 season in 1974, and by the middle of the decade, many of the Chiefs’ future Hall of Famers had left. From 1975 to 1988, the Chiefs were a team that rarely won, leaving Chiefs fans with nothing but disappointment. Five head coaches struggled to match Stram’s success, compiling an 81–121–1 record. Coach Marv Levy traded future Hall of Fame kicker Jan Stenerud for little-known Nick Lowery in 1980, and Lowery would go on to become the most accurate kicker in NFL history over the next fourteen years. Running back Joe Delaney was named AFC Rookie of the Year in 1981 after rushing for 1,121 yards. The Chiefs finished the season with a 9–7 record and were optimistic about the 1982 season.
The NFL Players Association strike, however, hampered the Chiefs’ chances of making the playoffs for the first time in over a decade. The Chiefs finished 3–, and Joe Delaney died in the off-season while attempting to save several children from drowning in a pond near his home in Louisiana. While Kelly and Marino had Hall of Fame careers, Blackledge never started a full season for Kansas City. While the Chiefs struggled offensively in the 1980s, they had a strong defensive unit that included Pro Bowlers Bill Maas, Albert Lewis, Art Still, and Deron Cherry. After Marv Levy was fired, John Mackovic took over as head coach for the 1983 season.
In the wild-card round, they were defeated by the New York Jets. Despite leading the Chiefs to only their third winning season and second playoff appearance since the merger, Mackovic was fired due to a lack of chemistry, according to Hunt. For the next two seasons, Frank Gansz was the head coach, but he only won eight of 31 games. During the Marty Schottenheimer era During the 1990s, Marty Schottenheimer’s Chiefs had the NFL’s second-highest winning percentage. Carl Peterson was hired as the team’s new president, general manager, and chief executive officer on December 19, 1988, by owner Lamar Hunt. Two weeks after taking over, Peterson fired head coach Frank Gansz and hired Marty Schottenheimer as the club’s seventh head coach.
The Chiefs selected defensive end Neil Smith and linebacker Derrick Thomas in the 1988 and 1989 NFL Drafts, respectively. The defence that Thomas and Smith built over their seven seasons together was a big reason why the Chiefs made the playoffs six years in a row. During Schottenheimer’s ten-year tenure as head coach, the Chiefs became a perennial playoff contender, with offensive players such as Steve DeBerg, Christian Okoye, Stephone Paige, and Barry Word, a strong defence led by Thomas, Smith, Albert Lewis, and Derrick Cherry, and Nick Lowery on special teams, who was then the most accurate kicker in NFL history.
The team finished with a record of 101–58–1 and clinched seven playoff berths. The 1993 season was the Chiefs’ most successful in 22 years. With the additions of newly acquired quarterback Joe Montana and running back Marcus Allen, both former Super Bowl champions and MVPs, the Chiefs’ position in the NFL has grown even stronger. The Kansas City Chiefs won 11–5 against the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Houston Oilers on their way to their first AFC Championship Game appearance against the Buffalo Bills. The Chiefs were dominated by the Bills and lost the game 30–13.
The Chiefs’ victory over the Oilers on January 16, 1994, was the franchise’s last postseason victory for 22 years, until their 30–0 victory over the Houston Texans on January 9, 2016.They were defeated by the New England Patriots in the AFC Divisional Round, 27–20, despite being plagued by injuries. After falling behind 24–3 with six minutes left in the third quarter, the Kansas City Chiefs rallied for a 33–27 win over the San Diego Chargers, culminating with a two-yard touchdown run by Alex Smith in overtime to give the Chiefs their largest regular-season comeback to start the season at 1–0. The Chiefs defeated the Denver Broncos 33–10 on Christmas Day, giving Kansas City their tenth straight win against divisional opponents. On January 1, 2017, the Chiefs clinched the AFC West and the second seed in the 2017 playoffs. However, they were defeated by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the divisional round, 18–16, despite Chris Boswell’s six field goals. The Chiefs finished the 2017–18 season with a 10–6 record and won the
The 13–3 Kansas City Chiefs hosted the Indianapolis Colts in a cold, damp late afternoon game at Arrowhead Stadium in the 1995 NFL playoffs. Kansas City fell to the Colts 10–7 after kicker Lin Elliot missed three field-goal attempts and quarterback Steve Bono threw three interceptions. The Chiefs selected tight end Tony Gonzalez with the 13th overall pick in the 1997 NFL Draft, a move that some saw as a risk given Gonzalez’s background as a basketball player at California. A 1rs were added to the list during a 1rs. Frank Clark, a defensive end, is the only player still on the roster who was ranked the previous season but is now unranked for the 2021 season. Travis Kelce was ranked fifth, the highest ranking ever for a tight end in the Top 100’s history.
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes was ranked first on the list, marking the first time a Chiefs player had been ranked first. Become the fourth team in NFL history to play in three consecutive Super Bowls, joining the Miami Dolphins in 1971–73, the Buffalo Bills in 1990–93, and the New England Patriots in 2016–18. Following a 9–31 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV, they will attempt to win their second Super Bowl title in three years.
The Chiefs officially renamed Arrowhead Stadium, GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, on March 4, 2021.Former New England Patriots vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli was hired as his replacement for 2009. Dwayne Bowe Herm Edwards was fired as head coach on January 23, 2009 and Todd Haley signed a four-year contract to replace him two weeks later. Haley had a history with Pioli, which made him an appealing hire as Pioli’s first coach in Kansas City. Notably, head coach Todd Haley fired offensive coordinator Chan Gailey just weeks before the start of the 2009 season and chose to take over as coordinator himsel
For the 2010 season, the Chiefs made significant coaching staff additions, bringing on former Patriots assistant coaches Charlie Weis and Romeo Crennel to coach the offence and defence, respectively. The coaching changes were a huge success, as the Chiefs won their first AFC West title since 2003. Their ten victories in the 2010 season were more than the team’s previous three seasons combined. On January 9, 2011, the Chiefs were defeated 30–7 by the Baltimore Ravens in their home Wild Card playoff gam Jamaal Charles was named FEDEX Ground Player of the Year, and Dwayne Bowe led the NFL in Touchdown Receptions. Jonathan Baldwin, a wide receiver from Pitt, was selected with the team’s first pick in the 2011 NFL draught, and 26th overall. After a shaky start,
Haley was relieved of her duties as head coach on December 12. Clark Hunt noted “bright spots at various points this season,” but felt the Chiefs were stagnant overall. The highlight of the 2011 season was an upset win over the Packers, who were undefeated at the time with a 13–0 record. Defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel would be named the team’s interim head coach for the final three games of the season, including the aforementioned Packers game. Crennel was named the 11th full-time head coach in Chiefs history on January 9, 2012. The 2012 Kansas City Chiefs became the first team since the 1929 Buffalo Bisons to fail to lead in regulation in any of their first nine games.It is the first time since the merger that they have held the first overall pick. Andy
Reid, John Dorsey era Following the 2012 season, the Chiefs fired both head coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli. Former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid was hired as head coach to work with new general manager John Dorsey, a former Green Bay Packers head scout. In 2016, Andy Reid was known as “Big Red” by his players. The Chiefs acquired quarterback Alex Smith from the San Francisco 49ers in exchange for the Chiefs’ second-round pick (34th overall) in the 2013 draught and a conditional pick in the 2014 draught. Matt Cassel was soon released. Eric Fisher was selected first overall by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2013 NFL Draft. For the second time in team history, the Chiefs began the season 9–0 in 2013.
They led the Indianapolis Colts 38–10 shortly after halftime in their wildcard game, but collapsed late and lost 45–44. In 2014, the Chiefs attempted to make the playoffs for the second consecutive season for the first time since 1995, but finished 9–7 and were eliminated in Week 17. Following a promising Week 1 victory over Houston, the Chiefs went on a five-game losing streak, culminating in a 16–10 loss to Minnesota and the loss of Jamaal Charles to a torn ACL. However, they staged one of the most unlikely season comebacks in NFL history, winning ten consecutive games to improve their record from 1–5 to 11–5.
The team clinched a playoff berth with a 17–13 win over Cleveland in Week 16, becoming only the second post-merger NFL team to make the playoffs after a 1–5 start. The Chiefs’ streak broke a franchise record of nine straight wins (2003, 2013) and was Reid’s second nine-game win streak. The Chiefs extended their winning streak to ten games after defeating Oakland 23–17 in Week 17. They qualified for the playoffs, appearing in the 2015 AFC Wild-Card playoff game on January 9, 2016, at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. The Chiefs defeated the Houston Texans 30–0 to earn their first NFL playoff victory in 23 seasons, dating back to the 1993–94 NFL playoffs, which they also won in Houston.
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So Ted Cruz has had a big week. His 21 hour assault on Obamacare had its intended effect: everyone buzzing about the possibility of defunding or delaying the law on the cusp of its stumbling, bumbling rollout, with Democrat Senator Joe Manchin becoming the first – and likely not the last – to break ranks and endorse delay.
The second tier of buzz, of course, is about the possibility of Cruz’s 2016 presidential candidacy. And that’s had a host of pushback this week from the media, which is essentially framing Cruz’s filibuster as an inconsequential issue except insofar as it makes him unpalatable to Republican donors.
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that the narrative the elite media is framing is true, and that Cruz’s impassioned assault – which led to more collateral damage among the Republican caucus than it should have – is going to hurt him with the Republican establishment (for the record, that means The Money). Who stands to benefit the most from such a result?
The answer is Rand Paul.
It’s a distinct possibility that the 2016 candidate now best positioned to triangulate himself as both anti-establishment and not a creature of the radical base is Rand Paul himself.
The assumption in Washington has been for some time that Paul and his team will inevitably see a Cruz candidacy as a rival for the same portion of the primary electorate (I’ve written before in The Transom why this is wrong, but let’s leave that aside for a moment). Except it’s not apparent that Paul shares that view. He seems – very cannily – to have decided there is no risk of him being painted as anything but anti-establishment on the right… and thus has taken several steps to insulate himself from establishment criticism.
Paul’s endorsements of incumbents and his détente with Mitch McConnell is only one aspect of this. Notice how when Paul went to the Senate floor to give Cruz an assist during his filibuster, he posed a rather odd question about whether Cruz would be willing to settle for something less than full defund.
The path for Paul to the nomination could take many forms. But a path that involves Paul actively, if subtly, turning Ted Cruz into one extreme (from the establishment’s perspective, an Ivy League Sarah Palin) and Chris Christie (Rudy Giuliani without the charm) into the other is impressive and innovative. If this is intentional, it reveals a degree of Machiavellian political skill which goes far beyond the drone filibuster move, the success of which went far beyond what was anticipated even by Paul’s supporters.
Think about it this way: if the defund gambit is indeed Ted Cruz’s Braveheart moment (historical inaccuracies notwithstanding), would you rather be the guy who got disemboweled, or the guy who got the crown? |
Capital Bank of Jordan has revealed the latest benefit from its partnership with Codebase Technologies – a fully-digital onboarding process for investments and brokerage customers.
Capital Investments, the bank group’s dedicated investment arm, is using Codebase Technologies’ Digibanc platform to support the digital onboarding solution.
Investment platforms and accounts face a problem that is common in the banking and financial services industry. More than 80 per cent of customers abandon the account opening process due to a range of complications during the onboarding process.
Projected to grow to $3.43trillion by 2030, the wealthtech industry is dwarfing conventional investment channels due to the ease by which both new and seasoned investors can sign up, manage and transact.
“Our Capital Investments trading platform provides customers with a simple and easy way to invest in stocks and currencies, locally, regionally, and internationally. Implementing digital onboarding for Capital Investments will expand our access to investors while accelerating our digital acquisition strategy,” said Izzidin Abusalameh, group chief operating officer at Capital Bank of Jordan.
“Our strategic technology partner, Codebase Technologies, has been instrumental in realising these ambitions.”
Tamer Al Mauge, MD of MENA at Codebase Technologies, added: “We are honoured that Capital Bank Group has once again chosen us as a key strategic technology partner for its digital transformation objectives. Customer onboarding for investment accounts has been a challenge in the industry, and we are excited to help Capital Investments overcome it. Our digital onboarding solution provides a highly customer-centric, streamlined process that will accelerate the growth of its investment business.”
Over the past year, both teams have collaborated on the launch of Blink, Jordan’s first neobank, as well as a reworked mobile banking app. |
Scattering of the Old
As things are shaking and turbulent around us,
we are here to deepen the ground within.
For what is there to walk on, if the world around us is crumbling?
All we can truly rely on is our inner strength, our trust and a kind of holy knowing,
that no matter what happens, we’ll be okay.
For deepening to happen challenges are needed or else we’d stay the same. There wouldn’t be any need to cultivate inner power and a deeper connection to yourself.
This process of deepening also requires the scattering of the old, which can be a very painful process.
It’s the letting go of the known, the familiar and stepping into naked-ness of the unknown.
May we honour our tender hearts that want to stay safe.
May we hold ourselves in love at all times.
The temptation to turn back to the old ways is always pulling.
Yet that’s why we’re here.
We’re here to strengthen the invisible within.
Our holy connection to something bigger than ourselves.
The intelligence that makes our heart beat,
that opens the flowers and holds the stars.
That is the intelligence we’re connecting with more deeply.
It requires us to embrace whatever we feel.
Our feeling of unsafely and lostness.
Our willingness to drop to the ground and say: “I don’t know, please help.”
It’s making the present moment more important than what swirls through our mind. To not allow fear and hatred to take root inside of us.
For if we don’t learn to be present, we’re just living out our patterns. Patterns of complaining, blaming, unworthiness and shame.
Our patterns of always seeking fulfilment and salvation outside of ourselves.
Our patterns of control, fear, hiding and running from our painful feelings.
May we find the courage, compassion and strength to hold ourselves, through these difficult times. May we soften and be there for ourselves with wide open arms.
And say: “It’s okay my child, it’s okay.”
May we weep and cry until our hearts are washed clean.
So often we fail to be a true friend to ourselves.
We abandon ourselves in moments we need our love the most.
We are in shame and the only way we know is to run, to numb to NOT feel.
Yet we can change and become a true friend to ourselves.
It takes trust, patience and courage.
Please hold yourself, my dear, please celebrate every little step toward moving through the dark, for the light is always here to support you. Always.
We’re in this together!
With love and gratitude, |
Welcome to the aromatic world of mint! This versatile herb has captured the hearts and taste buds of gardeners everywhere. But did you know that choosing the right plant companions can take your mint garden to the next level? In this short and sweet guide, we’ll explore the art of companion planting with mint. Get ready to unlock the secrets of pairing mint with the perfect plant partners, creating a thriving herb garden that delights the senses. Let’s dive in and discover the perfect plant companions for your mint!
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- GROWTH: Mint can get up to 18 inches tall and 24 inches wide, Growing mint in containers is recommended to keep it contained from spreading rampantly to other areas of your garden.
- CARE: Mint plants prefer part shade, good soil drainage also is essential. Water your mint during dry spells to keep the soil lightly moist.
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Mint’s Growing Habits and Benefits
Mint is a lively and vigorous herb that loves to spread its fragrant leaves. It’s a herbaceous superhero with many benefits! Mint adds a burst of fresh flavor to dishes, fills the air with its delightful aroma, and even acts as a natural pest repellent. But, it’s important to understand mint’s growing habits before selecting its companions. Mint likes to spread, so keep that in mind when planning its garden neighbors.
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Mint’s Compatible Plant Partners
Now, let’s explore the perfect plant partners for your mint! Consider these companion plants:
- Chives: These pest-repellent pals keep aphids at bay while adding their own distinct flavor to dishes.
- Dill: The vibrant and delicate dill attracts beneficial insects and creates a delicious combination with mint.
- Marigolds: These colorful flowers not only enhance the garden’s visual appeal but also repel unwanted pests.
- Nasturtiums: With their attractive blooms, nasturtiums attract pollinators while deterring pests from your mint.
- Basil: Mint and basil make a delightful duo, combining their flavors and aromas in a harmonious way.
By planting these compatible companions alongside your mint, you’ll create a dynamic herb garden that thrives in harmony. These plant partnerships offer a range of benefits, from pest control to flavor enhancement. Get ready to witness the magic that happens when these plants join forces!
Stay tuned as we continue our journey and uncover more about companion planting with mint. Together, they’ll create a garden that’s both beautiful and bountiful.
Companion Planting Tips
To ensure successful companion planting with mint, keep these tips in mind:
- Consider each plant’s sunlight, water, and soil requirements to ensure compatibility.
- Interplant mint and its companions to maximize garden space and create a visually appealing arrangement.
- Regularly prune and harvest your mint to prevent it from overpowering its companions.
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Avoid Planting Mint with
While mint can be a fantastic companion, there are a few plants you should avoid planting it with:
- Other herbs that may struggle to compete with mint’s vigorous growth.
- Delicate or small plants that may be overshadowed or inhibited by mint’s invasive nature.
By following these tips, you’ll create a thriving herb garden where mint and its companions coexist harmoniously. With strategic planting and proper care, your mint garden will flourish, offering a delightful mix of flavors and aromas. Get ready to enjoy the magic of companion planting with mint!
Congratulations! You’ve discovered the art of companion planting with mint, unlocking a world of possibilities in your herb garden. By selecting compatible plant partners and considering mint’s growing habits, you’ve set the stage for a harmonious and flourishing garden.
With chives, dill, marigolds, nasturtiums, and basil as your mint’s companions, you’ll enjoy not only a beautiful display of plants but also the benefits they bring. From pest control to flavor enhancement, these plant partnerships will elevate your gardening experience.
Remember to follow companion planting tips, ensuring that each plant receives the right care and attention. Regular pruning and harvesting of mint will keep it in check and allow its companions to shine.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
- Can I plant mint with other herbs? While mint can coexist with certain herbs, it’s important to consider their growth habits. Mint tends to spread rapidly, which may overpower delicate herbs or inhibit their growth. It’s best to give mint its own space or plant it with herbs that can handle its vigorous nature.
- Can I plant mint with vegetables? In general, it’s recommended to keep mint separate from vegetables due to its invasive growth. Mint’s spreading habit can overshadow and compete with vegetables for resources. However, planting mint in containers can help contain its growth and prevent it from encroaching on other plants.
- How often should I prune my mint? Regular pruning is essential to keep mint in check. Trim the stems regularly, removing any overgrown or woody parts. This encourages bushier growth and prevents the mint from taking over the garden.
- Are there any other plants that repel pests and work well with mint? Absolutely! Plants like lavender, rosemary, and thyme have pest-repellent properties and can complement mint in the garden. Consider incorporating these plants as well to create a diverse and pest-resistant herb garden.
Now armed with the knowledge of companion planting, go forth and create a thriving garden filled with the aromatic allure of mint and its compatible companions. Enjoy the bountiful harvest and the joy of a well-balanced herb garden. Happy gardening! |
Hello, fellow plant lovers! Are you a proud owner of an ivy plant, or perhaps you’re considering adding this leafy green beauty to your indoor garden? Ivy, with its cascading trails of heart-shaped leaves, is a favorite among houseplant enthusiasts. It’s not just about its good looks, though. Ivy is well-loved for its resilience and adaptability, making it an excellent choice for both beginner and experienced gardeners.
But even the hardiest plants can run into trouble, and ivy is no exception. One common issue that many ivy owners face is yellowing leaves. It can be quite disheartening to see your once vibrant and healthy ivy take on a sickly yellow color. But don’t fret just yet! This guide is here to help you understand why your ivy might be turning yellow and how you can restore it to its former green glory.
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Normal Ivy Growth
Before we delve into the causes of yellowing leaves, it’s essential to understand what healthy ivy looks like. Ivy plants are characterized by their lush, trailing vines adorned with small, heart-shaped leaves. The leaves are usually a vibrant green color, although this can vary depending on the variety of ivy you have. Some types of ivy might have variegated leaves that are green and white or even green and yellow.
It’s also worth noting that ivy leaves naturally age and will eventually turn yellow and fall off as part of the plant’s growth cycle. This is perfectly normal and not a cause for concern. If only a few leaves are yellowing and they’re at the bottom of the plant, your ivy might just be shedding some old foliage. However, if the yellowing is widespread or the plant appears unhealthy, it’s time to play plant detective and figure out what’s going wrong.
Causes of Yellowing Leaves in Ivy
If your ivy is sporting a yellow look, a few different things could be going on. Here’s a simple rundown of the most common causes:
- Watering Woes: Both overwatering and underwatering can cause your ivy’s leaves to turn yellow. Ivy doesn’t like to have its feet wet all the time, but it also doesn’t appreciate being too dry.
- Light Trouble: While ivy can tolerate low light, too little light can make the leaves turn yellow. On the other hand, too much direct sunlight can scorch the leaves and cause yellow patches.
- Missing Nutrients: Ivy plants need a range of nutrients to stay healthy. If they’re not getting what they need from the soil, the leaves can start to yellow.
- Unwanted Pests: Pests like spider mites, aphids, or scale can stress your plant and cause yellowing leaves.
- Temperature and Humidity: Ivy prefers cooler temperatures and higher humidity. If conditions are too hot or too dry, the plant can show its discontent by turning yellow.
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How to Treat Yellow Leaves in Ivy
Now that we know why your ivy might be turning yellow let’s talk about how to fix it:
- Adjusting Watering: If you suspect overwatering or underwatering is the problem, adjust your watering schedule. Ivy prefers to dry out a bit between waterings. Stick your finger about an inch into the soil. If it’s dry, it’s time to water. But remember, don’t let it sit in water! Drain any excess from the saucer underneath.
- Light Conditions: If your plant isn’t getting enough light, move it to a brighter location. But be careful about too much direct sunlight. If the plant is getting scorched, consider moving it back a bit from the window or providing some shade.
- Providing Nutrients: Use a balanced, slow-release fertilizer during the growing season to provide all the nutrients your ivy needs.
- Pest Control: If pests are the problem, remove them with a gentle blast of water or a soapy water mixture. In severe cases, you might need to use a pesticide.
- Temperature and Humidity: Keep your ivy in a cooler spot, out of direct heat sources like radiators. And to increase humidity, consider using a pebble tray or a room humidifier, or grouping plants together.
Remember, yellow leaves won’t turn green again, but fixing the problem will help new growth stay healthy and vibrant.
Prevention and Ongoing Care for Ivy Plants
Prevention, as they say, is better than cure. With a few simple ongoing care tips, you can keep your ivy plant happy and prevent yellow leaves from making an unwanted appearance:
- Consistent Watering: Remember the finger test we talked about? Keep that up! Regularly check your ivy’s soil and only water when necessary to prevent both overwatering and underwatering.
- Light Conditions: Find the right spot for your ivy. Bright, indirect light usually works best. If you notice your plant’s color fading, it might be a sign that it needs a little more light.
- Regular Feeding: Feed your ivy with a balanced plant fertilizer during its growing season (spring and summer) to ensure it’s getting all the nutrients it needs.
- Pest Checks: Regularly check your plant for pests. Catching a pest infestation early can make treatment much more manageable.
- Suitable Environment: Keep your ivy in a cool, humid environment. If your home tends to be dry, consider getting a plant humidifier or grouping your plants together to create a mini indoor jungle.
And there you have it, folks! Dealing with a yellowing ivy plant might seem daunting, but armed with a little know-how, you can diagnose the problem and nurse your plant back to health. Ivy is a resilient plant, and with your care and attention, it will bounce back in no time. Happy planting, and remember, every plant owner faces some green challenges – they’re just opportunities for you to grow along with your plants! |
Our weekend commenced with bold intentions that fizzled with the rain and the cold. Instead we found ourselves doing domestic things; setting up the new internet, cleaning the kitchen. Then drinking coffee at the French restaurant across the street and looking up autumnal activities on our phones. “We could go to the ocean park by the Rockaways,” I suggested. “There will be sand dunes. We can walk in the rain and enjoy the melancholy.” “Hmm.” Michael contemplated this. " I like the idea of going to a sad ocean park, but I don't know what we'd do there together. I won't be able to have my melancholy thoughts.” “That’s not true!” Michael looked at me. “You do little dances and stuff." |
LulzStorm , Another Antisec supporter leaked Italian Universities dump database via a tweet on twitter. He release a torrent link and a Mediafire mirror link with a archive of 2.74 Mb.
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The hack is in support of Operation Antisec.
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Senate Bean Soup Recipe McguireʼS
Ahh, the famous Senate Bean Soup! If you’ve ever visited the United States Capitol, chances are you’ve heard of this iconic dish. It has been served in the Senate dining room every day since the early 20th century, making it a beloved recipe among senators and visitors alike.
This American classic is not only delicious but also carries a great deal of history. Its origins date back to the early 20th century, when Senator Fred Dubois of Idaho requested a bean soup to be included on the Senate menu. Since then, it has become a staple and a symbol of tradition in the Senate.
Now, are you ready to bring a taste of history to your own kitchen? Let’s dive into the Senate Bean Soup Recipe McguireʼS!
- 2 cups dried Senate beans
- 8 cups water
- 1 ham hock
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 celery stalks, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 bay leaves
- Salt and pepper to taste
- In a large pot, combine the Senate beans and water. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 1 hour.
- Add the ham hock, chopped onion, celery, carrots, garlic, and bay leaves to the pot. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Continue to simmer the soup for an additional hour, or until the beans are tender and the flavors have melded together.
- Remove the ham hock from the pot and shred the meat. Return the shredded meat to the soup.
- Discard the bay leaves and adjust the seasoning if needed. Serve hot and enjoy!
Prep time: 15 minutes
Yield: 6 servings
Senate Bean Soup Recipe McguireʼS is a delicious and hearty American soup made with Senate beans, ham hock, and a medley of vegetables. It is a dish that carries the essence of tradition and history, just like the Senate itself. With its rich flavors and comforting warmth, this soup is perfect for cold winter nights or anytime you crave a taste of American heritage.
Nutritional information: This information will vary depending on the specific ingredients and quantities used in the recipe.
So, next time you want to savor a truly iconic American soup, remember the Senate Bean Soup Recipe McguireʼS. It’s a recipe that has stood the test of time and continues to delight generations with its timeless flavors. Prepare this delicious soup, sit back, and imagine yourself enjoying it in the historic halls of the United States Capitol. Bon appétit! |
By Dr. Ajesh Raj Saksena, Senior Consultant Surgical Oncologist, Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad
New Delhi (India), April 3: As the mango season approaches, anticipation and eagerness fill the air, with families and fruit lovers looking forward to enjoying the “king of fruits.” However, this excitement often overshadows a grave concern that threatens not just the authenticity of the fruit’s taste but, more importantly, our health. I am talking about the dangerous practice of artificial ripening and food adulteration, particularly the use of calcium carbide, a harmful chemical that poses numerous health risks, including cancer.
The Health Risks of Artificial Fruit Ripening
Calcium carbide, when used in the artificial ripening of fruits like mangoes, reacts with moisture to produce acetylene gas, which mimics the natural process of fruit ripening. However, the use of this chemical is not just an unethical shortcut but a health hazard. Exposure to calcium carbide has been linked to several health issues, ranging from neurological disorders to severe gastric irritation, and, in long-term cases, it can increase the risk of developing cancer.
• Neurological Disorders: Continuous exposure to the chemicals used in artificial ripening can affect the nervous system, leading to headaches, dizziness, and mood disturbances. Over time, these symptoms could escalate to more severe neurological conditions.
• Gastrointestinal Problems: The ingestion of chemically ripened fruits is often linked to severe gastrointestinal distress, including stomach aches, ulcers, and prolonged episodes of diarrhoea. The harsh chemicals can irritate the lining of the stomach and intestines, leading to discomfort and acute health complications.
• Respiratory Issues: Breathing in the residues from these chemicals can lead to respiratory problems such as difficulty breathing, throat irritation, and an increased risk of asthma and bronchitis. For individuals with pre-existing respiratory conditions, the impact can be significantly worse.
• Cancer Risk: Perhaps most alarmingly, the long-term exposure to these chemicals has been associated with an increased risk of developing cancer. Calcium carbide itself is not a direct carcinogen but its use in food can lead to potential exposure to other harmful chemicals or impurities such as arsenic or phosphorous, which can be present in calcium carbide and have known or suspected carcinogenic effects. Long-term exposure to these chemicals can contribute to the development of various cancers, primarily due to their ability to cause cellular damage and genetic mutations. Here are some types of cancer that could be associated with long-term exposure to harmful chemicals found in artificially ripened fruits:
Gastrointestinal Cancers: Regular consumption of fruits ripened with harmful chemicals can cause chronic irritation and inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract, potentially leading to cancers of the esophagus, stomach, colon, and rectum. The constant irritation can lead to cellular changes and, over time, may result in cancerous growths.
Liver Cancer: The liver is responsible for detoxifying harmful substances, and consistent exposure to carcinogens found in artificially ripened fruits can lead to liver damage and an increased risk of liver cancer. The chemicals can induce mutations in liver cells, leading to cancerous growths.
Lung Cancer: Inhalation of chemical residues from artificially ripened fruits can affect the lungs, leading to respiratory issues and potentially increasing the risk of lung cancer, especially in individuals with prolonged exposure to these chemicals.
Bladder Cancer: Chemicals absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract can end up in the urine, potentially causing irritation of the bladder’s lining. Over time, this irritation could lead to cellular changes and an increased risk of bladder cancer. It’s important to note that the risk of developing cancer from consuming artificially ripened fruits depends on various factors, including the amount and frequency of exposure to these chemicals, individual susceptibility, and genetic factors.
Identifying Artificially Ripened Fruits
As consumers, it’s important to learn how to identify fruits that may have been artificially ripened. Mangoes ripened with calcium carbide often have an uneven color, with patches of green and yellow, and may lack the natural fragrance of a naturally ripened mango. Additionally, the flesh near the skin may feel harder, while the inner flesh remains unnaturally soft.
Safe Practices for Fruit Consumption
Before consuming mangoes or any fruit, it’s crucial to clean them properly to minimize the risk of ingesting any residual chemicals. Soaking fruits in water mixed with baking soda for about 15 minutes before rinsing them under running water can help remove some of the chemical residues.
A Call to Action for Authorities and the Judiciary
While awareness and preventive measures at the consumer level are important, the responsibility does not end there. It is imperative for authorities and the judiciary to recognize the seriousness of artificial ripening and food adulteration as dangerous public health hazards to our community at large. Stricter regulations, vigilant enforcement, and severe penalties for violations are essential to curb these practices. Making artificial ripening and food adulteration a serious and heinous crime is not just a regulatory necessity but a moral imperative to protect public health and safety.
The Way Forward
As a cancer surgeon, I have witnessed the devastating impact that cancer can have on individuals and their families. The link between cancer and environmental factors, including exposure to harmful chemicals found in artificially ripened fruits, underscores the urgency of addressing this issue. Let us not wait for the problem to exacerbate before we take action. It is time for each one of us—consumers, vendors, authorities, and the judiciary—to play our part in ensuring the safety of the food we consume. Let this mango season be not only a time of joy and celebration but also a season of increased awareness, responsibility, and action towards a healthier, safer future. Remember, the choice we make today can safeguard our health tomorrow. Let’s commit to enjoying our mangoes, and all fruits, in their most natural, safe, and delicious form.
Dr Ajesh Raj Saksena
Senior Consultant Surgical Oncology Apollo Hospital, Jubilee hills, Hyderabad www.drajeshraj.com
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Aug 18, 2022
“I want to know how to deal with the ups and downs, feeling good then having a setback over and over and over. In the beginning it’s easier to know it won’t last, but when it keeps happening it gets harder to get through it. Also how to be more patient.”
“I am struggling with the fact that I have been dealing with a stress fracture since January from a car accident, have followed all my doc's advice, and just had a setback again. So why, if I keep following the rules, AND my latest MRI shows the stress fracture is mostly gone, am I still having setbacks? There will be no tri season for me this year.”
“I would say how to handle the unexpected setbacks and the constant fear or having one. I feel like I cannot trust my body anymore.”
This week, co-host and mental skills coach Carrie Jackson answers three MORE questions from listeners.
Setbacks are a part of the process, and how you react to them helps determine how they’ll affect you. It’s never fair when you encounter one, but there are ways to reframe them to minimize their impact. Listen as Carrie talks us all through the process of viewing obstacles as opportunities, recognizing the gifts in our struggles, and seeking the support we need to get through it all.
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Reno is one of the top tourist destinations in Nevada. Known as ‘The Biggest Little City in the World’, there are plenty of things to see and do in this city, regardless of whether you like spending time outdoors or you prefer to learn more about the history of an area while you are on vacation. There are also activities to suit people of all ages. You should plan your activities before embarking on your trip to get the most out of your Reno vacation. To help you decide which attractions and activities to include in your vacation itinerary, here are some of the best attractions in Reno, Nevada for first-timers.
1. Nevada Museum of Art
The best attraction to visit in Reno is the Nevada Museum of Art. It is the only accredited art museum anywhere in Nevada. Located in downtown Reno, this art museum covers four stories. It is a themed attraction that focuses on the interaction between humans and the environment. There are more than two thousand exhibits in the permanent collection, plus there are temporary collections throughout the year.
2. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center
If you are passionate about science and astronomy, you will find the Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center fascinating. This attraction is part of the University of Nevada. Visitors can enjoy a digital show in the planetarium’s dome theater. The purpose of the facility is to educate the public about space and other science topics.
3. Animal Ark
If you are visiting Reno with children, an excellent attraction to visit is the Animal Ark. This attraction is a wildlife sanctuary and education center. Its purpose is to provide a safe habitat for wild animals that cannot rehabilitate back into their natural environment. The enclosures provide the animals with plenty of space and an environment that reflects their natural habitat as closely as possible. The design of the habitats means that visiting this attraction is very different from visiting a regular zoo.
4. National Automobile Museum
Although there are several fascinating museums to visit in Reno, one of the best is the National Automobile Museum. There are more than 200 vehicles at this museum, which range from celebrity cars to horseless carriages. Many of the exhibits are from the personal collection of Bill Harrah, one of the pioneers of the city’s casino industry. Although this attraction will appeal most to car enthusiasts, the displays are impressive enough for all visitors to enjoy.
5. Mount Rose Ski Resort
Reno is known as an excellent destination for enjoying outdoor pursuits, especially outdoor pursuits such as skiing. One of the top places to enjoy such activities is at Mount Rose Ski Resort. There are both accessible and challenging slopes at this resort, so there is something suitable for experienced skiers and novices. Some of the resort’s most popular activities are only available seasonally. However, you can hike around the resort at any time of the year.
6. Pioneer Center for Performing Arts
If you want to watch live entertainment during your visit to Reno, the best place to head for is the Pioneer Center for Performing Arts. The center is a geodesic dome that has the nickname the ‘Golden Turtle.’ There are 1500 seats in the theater that are over two levels. Some of the city’s most renowned performing arts companies perform at this theater, so there is a very varied schedule throughout the year. It is advisable to check the performance schedule before your trip. You can then book tickets in advance if there is a performance that appeals to you.
7. Reno River Walk District
A pleasant way to see the city’s sights and get a feel for Reno is to walk through the Reno Riverwalk District. The walk takes you along the scenic banks of the Truckee River between Lake Street and Arlington Avenue. Besides admiring the landmarks you will see on the riverwalk, you will find other things to enjoy along the walk. Events, temporary attractions, and festivals take place at various spots along the trail. Walking along the Reno Riverwalk District is a free activity.
8. Rancho San Rafael Regional Park
Although many of the attractions in Reno are indoors in an urban setting, there are also some fantastic outdoor spots to explore. One that you should try to include in your itinerary is the Rancho San Rafael Regional Park. From this park, you can enjoy both desert and mountain views. Most of the park is a natural wetland habitat, so it is an excellent place for birdwatching. In the past, this park was a ranch, and two of the original ranch houses remain on the site. There are picnic tables to sit and grab a bite to eat, and playgrounds for children. This park is also home to the William D. May Museum and Arboretum. Therefore, there is plenty to keep you entertained. Park entry is free, but you may need to pay for some of the park’s attractions.
9. Bartley Ranch Regional Park
Those who enjoy spending their time outdoors and want to feel close to nature should spend some time at Bartley Ranch Regional Park. This 56-acre park has picnic pavilions, pastureland, an outdoor amphitheater, historic buildings, walking trails, and a horse arena. It is used as a venue throughout the year for various events and outdoor performances. Visiting the park is free, so it is a good option for those with a limited budget. However, there is a cost if you are watching a performance during your visit.
10. Reno Rodeo Cattle Drive
Rodeos have an atmosphere that is unlike any other kind of event. If you want to enjoy the fun of the rodeo during your stay, head to the Reno Rodeo Cattle Drive on North Wells Avenue. The rodeo venue opened in 1919, and it hosts a variety of events throughout the year, such as steer wrestling, bull riding, cattle roping, and barrel racing. There are many family-themed activities throughout the year, such as parades and carnivals. If you plan to attend a rodeo event during your visit, then you should book in advance.
11. Galena Creek Park
This natural recreation area is next to the Humbolt-Toiyabe National Forest. It is an amazing place to spend some time enjoying activities such as horse riding, hiking, or cycling. There are miles of trails that cover both high desert and alpine ecosystems. There is also a visitor center that educates people about the plants, birds, insects, and animals living in the park.
12. McKinley Arts and Culture Center
Located on Riverside Drive, the McKinley Arts and Culture Center is home to both the Reno Chamber Orchestra and the Reno Philharmonic. It is also the base of the Reno Pops Orchestra and the Masterworks Chorale. There are various musical performances held at this venue throughout the year. Visitors can take guided tours of the center or view the artwork on display in the galleries. If you plan to watch a performance, it is best to buy your tickets online before arriving in Reno to ensure that seats are available.
13. The W.M. Keck Museum
An unusual museum to visit in Reno is The W. M. Keck Museum. It is the second-oldest museum in Nevada, and it showcases the geological and mineral variety of the state. The exhibition consists of minerals and geodes, including silver, copper, amethyst, gypsum, and quarts. Nevada’s mining history is another topic of the museum, with a display that exhibits maps and tools relating to mining. The 1250-piece collection of silver that belonged to John W. Mackay, one of the Bonanza Firm founders, is one of the most significant exhibits.
14. Peppermill Casino
One of the top casinos in Reno is the Peppermill Casino. It is a casino resort that is one of the most popular accommodation options in the city as it boasts luxury rooms. Some of the facilities for guests include multiple restaurants, a spa, and two nightclubs. However, it is the casino at this hotel that is a big attraction for many people. There is everything that you would expect to find in a casino, such as table games, slots, and poker.
15. Reno Philharmonic
The Reno Philharmonic is the most famous musical performing group from this city. Their repertoire includes both classical music and interpretations of modern music and music from the musicals. Throughout the year, Reno Philharmonic performs at various venues across the city, including outdoor performances in the summer months. If you want to hear them play when you visit Reno, you should check where they are performing and book your tickets to avoid disappointment.
16. Lake Tahoe
Just outside Reno is Lake Tahoe, which is considered one of the most beautiful spots anywhere in the United States. Although it is not directly in Reno, it is worth taking the time to make a day trip to this picturesque location. Set against the mountains’ backdrop, some of the most popular activities at the lake are hiking and skiing. Take along your camera because there are many excellent photographic opportunities as you walk around the lake.
17. Casino at the Eldorado
Another fantastic casino to visit is the Casino at the Eldorado, one of the most notable venues in the city as neon lights illuminate the building. It is not only a casino but also a luxurious resort that offers high-end accommodation with lots of facilities. It is home to award-winning restaurants, a Broadway-style theater, and multiple other guest facilities. However, you do not need to stay in the hotel to enjoy the fun at the casino. There are table games, slots, poker, card games, and sports betting in the casino. Various tournaments take place at the casino throughout the year.
18. Atlantis Casino
Reno is a city that is known for its vibrant nightlife, which includes its casinos. One of Reno’s best casinos is Atlantis Casino. The casino is within the Atlantis Resort & Spa, which has everything you could want to enjoy your stay in Reno. The spacious and comfortable rooms have modern amenities. This hotel also boasts live entertainment, a luxurious spa, and award-winning restaurants. Even if you and your fellow travelers are not guests at this hotel, you can still access everything in the casino, including poker rooms, table games, sports betting, poker, and card games.
19. The Discovery Museum
If you have traveled to Reno with children, then one of the attractions you should visit is The Discovery Museum. It is an attraction that provides an interactive experience for all the family as it encourages learning about the sciences through play and a variety of hands-on activities. Some of the topics this museum covers include astronomy, biology, chemistry, math, geography, art, and paleontology. It is a fantastic attraction to visit on a rainy day.
20. Basecamp at Whitney Peak Hotel
A fun activity to try during your stay in Reno is Basecamp at Whitney Hotel. An interesting fact is that this attraction holds the Guinness World Record for being the tallest climbing wall. The wall is fixed to the side of the Whitney Hotel and rises 164 feet overlooking downtown Reno. If you have enough courage to climb to the top of the climbing wall, you can enjoy spectacular views. At night, the views are particularly impressive as the lights of the city are shining.
21. Meet Locals in Reno
Finally, if you’d like to go off-the-beaten-path and have a unique experience in Reno, consider hanging out with the locals. You can use an APP like Citysurfing.com to meet locals that will show you around; invite you to join fun activities; and even offer to teach you arts, crafts, language lessons and more! You can use Citysurfing to find and book a local city pal or if you prefer, you can also book a traditional tour guide. Having a local guide is a great way to experience a new city without having to figure out how to do it all on your own.
Regardless of whether you enjoy outdoor activities or you are interested in history and culture, you will find plenty of things to enjoy during your time in Reno, Nevada. Hopefully, these suggestions will help you plan your vacation itinerary and make the most of your time in this diverse city. |
For years, as we gaze upon the face and appearance of Kabul and other cities and rural areas in Afghanistan, the dust of poverty and deprivation is evident in their countenances.
As the winter continues, the difficulties for many Afghans get doubled since most people are poor and cannot keep their homes warm. In other seasons, the people can work outside and can overcome challenges and obstacles. However, in winter, humans are tightly bound by the thread of cold and severe chill, preventing them from working with open hands and advancing through a time filled with challenges. For years, as we gaze upon the face and appearance of Kabul and other cities and rural areas in Afghanistan, the dust of poverty and deprivation is evident in their countenances. Like a bird with broken wings, they stand on the branches of existence, longing for the flight towards a better life. Although the people of this land were liberated from the shameful captivity cage after the IEA takeover in Afghanistan, the claws of poverty and deprivation and the economic challenges still press tightly against the slender throat of this nation. They enter the burdensome daggers of torment deep into the heart of this suffering nation. This suffering nation is in desperate need of compassion, and from time to time, they turn their eyes towards the benevolence of the Islamic system, eagerly awaiting assistance and cooperation. Therefore, our system must reciprocally dedicate all its capabilities and strengths to serving the homeland and the nation out of kindness. It should consider the resolution of this nation’s problems as its religious, national, and conscientious duty, rolling up its sleeves to free the nation from the clutches of difficulties. Undoubtedly, the success of governments depends on the satisfaction of the people. It is the people who strengthen the foundations of the government and the system, rescuing the government and governance from collapse. The Afghan mujahidin, alongside the resilient people, have endured numerous invasions, sacrificing a great deal to defend Islam, land, honor, and freedom. They have rendered commendable services for the triumph of jihad. We are optimistic that in the future, God willing, if the enemies of Afghanistan have intentions of invasion, this heroic nation will stand alongside the mujahidin once again, staining the aggressors’ faces with blood and rubbing their noses in the soil of disgrace. The honorable Afghan nation deserves love and affection, and its problems must be addressed promptly without delay. The suffering of this nation should be rescued from the clutches of difficulties. As history and experience have proven, this nation is endowed with high aspirations and courage. With minimal assistance and support, they can lift themselves from the ruins of challenges and, with determination, contribute to the prosperity and blossoming of their country. Alongside freedom, they can lead their nation towards prosperity and ensure the development of their homeland. Sayed Asef Fekrat |
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After the recent tragedy of a bus falling into a gorge in the Uttarkashi region of Uttarakhand on June 5, several photos claiming that it is of the same incident are going viral. The incident of the bus accident, which had 28 pilgrims from the Panna district in Madhya Pradesh and two others, claimed 26 lives.
A Twitter user shared this image and wrote, "मध्य प्रदेश मध्य से उत्तराखंड में तीर्थ यात्रा पर जा रही बस के दुर्घटनाग्रस्त होने से पन्ना जिले के कई तीर्थयात्रियों की मौत का समाचार अत्यंत दुःखद एवं पीड़ादायक है दिवंगतों की आत्मा को शांति प्रदान करें। शोकाकुल परिजनों के साथ मेरी संवेदनायें है."
[English Translation: The news of the death of many pilgrims of Panna district due to the accident of a bus going on pilgrimage from Madhya Pradesh to Uttarakhand is very sad and painful. May the soul of the departed rest in peace. My condolences to the bereaved family members.]
Another Twitter user shared an image with a similar caption.
Congress leader, Dr. Samir Kumar Singh shared this image by linking it with the Uttarkashi bus accident. He wrote a caption in Hindi which reads, "उत्तराखंड में बस दुघर्टना में हुई 26 लोगो की मौत की खबर अत्यंत पीड़ादायक हैं। ईश्वर पीड़ित परिवारों के परिजनों को इस सदमा को सहन करने की शक्ति दें। सरकार पीड़ित परिवारों को अबिलम्ब मुआबजा दे."
[English Translation: The news of the death of 26 people in a bus accident in Uttarakhand is extremely painful. May God give strength to the families of the victims to bear this shock. The government should provide immediate compensation to the families of the victims.]
The Logical Indian fact check team verified the viral claim and found it to be false. The viral images are related to different accidents.
During the initial investigation, we did a google reverse image search and found the viral image in a report of The Times of India dated July 2018. According to the report, the viral picture is of a bus accident in Uttarakhand. A bus carrying 60 passengers fell into a 100m-deep gorge in the Pauri district. 48 people died in this accident.
According to the report of Amar Ujala, the accident took place at 8.45 am on Pipli-Bhaun motor road in Pauri-Dhumkot Nainidanda block. At that time, the Chief Minister also announced Rs 2 lakh each to the deceased family and Rs 50,000 to the injured. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP National President Amit Shah have expressed grief over the Dhumkot accident through a tweet.
We did a google reverse image search and found the viral image in a report of Amar Ujala dated 14 February 2022. According to the report, the photo is of an accident that took place in Jhakri in Rampur, Himachal Pradesh, when a Himachal Pradesh Road Transport Corporation bus on its way to Rekong Payo met with an accident. The bus stopped after hitting eight trees. Eight passengers suffered minor injuries in this accident.
Hindustan Times, News 18 Himachal Pradesh also reported this incident back then.
We did a google reverse image search which led us to a report of India Today dated September 2014. According to the report, the incident took place in the Tehri district of Uttarakhand where a bus fell into a gorge. 16 people died and 15 people got injured in the accident. The bus was going from Haridwar to Karnaprayag. It was said that the mishap occurred because the driver tried to overtake another vehicle.
The then Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat also announced a compensation of Rs 1 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each for the injured at that time.
We also looked for the media report of the Uttarkashi bus accident. According to The Quint report, a total of 26 people died in the Uttarkashi bus accident, while four people were injured. A total of 30 people were on the bus, out of which 28 were pilgrims. The image mentioned in the report does not match with the viral photos.
Our investigation shows that the viral images are of different bus accidents which took place in the last few years. It has nothing to with the recent Uttarkashi bus accident. Hence, the viral claim is false.
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The Supreme Court granted bail on Friday to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, who was detained in October 2020 while on his way to Hathras, where a Dalit woman died after being gang-raped. Kappan was arrested on suspicion of having “deep ties” to terror funding and links with the Popular Front of India and its student wing, Campus Front of India. After his release from an Uttar Pradesh prison, a bench led by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit ordered Kappan to stay in Delhi for the next six weeks.
The bench imposed conditions on him, including the requirement that he surrender his passport and report to the police station every Monday.
“After 6 weeks, the appellant shall be free to travel to Kerala but shall report to the local police station in the same manner, that is, every Monday, and mark his presence in the register kept on that behalf,” it added.
“At this stage, we refrain from dealing with and commenting on the progress of investigation and the materials gathered by prosecution because the matter is still in the framing stage,” the Supreme Court stated.
However, the bench stated that he was granted bail “considering the length of custody endured by the appellent and the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case.”
“I want to thank everyone who supported me and my family during this legal battle.” ‘We can’t explain the trauma we’ve been through in the last two years,’ Raihana Siddique, Kappan’s wife, said.
She stated that she had filed a bail application in connection with the Enforcement Directorate case against him. “I hope Kappan gets bail soon in the ED case as well.” It was registered as part of the UAPA case.” |
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Manila: Muslim rebels waging a four-decade insurgency in the Philippines signed a historic pact with the government on Monday to end the conflict, but both sides warned the road to peace had only just begun.
President Benigno Aquino and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chief Murad Ebrahim witnessed the signing of the accord, which aims for a final peace pact by 2016, in a landmark ceremony at the presidential palace in Manila.
“I come in peace and to forge a partnership of peace on the basis of the framework agreement between the MILF and the Philippine government,” Ebrahim said in a speech at the palace just ahead of the signing.
“We extend the hand of friendship and partnership to the president and Filipino people”.
President Benigno Aquino, who has driven the process since assuming office in 2010, also hailed the agreement as a chance to “finally achieve genuine, lasting peace”.
Ebrahim became the first MILF chief to visit the presidential palace, signifying the optimism from both sides about finally ending a conflict that has claimed 150,000 lives and the priority Aquino has put on achieving peace.
Under the plan, the 12,000-strong MILF would give up its quest for an independent homeland in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao in return for significant power and wealth sharing in a new autonomous region there.
However the MILF’s leadership, the government and independent observers have also all warned the path towards peace remains littered with obstacles, and that Monday’s signing does not guarantee an end to the conflict.
“As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. Much work remains to be done in order to fully reap the fruits of this framework agreement,” Aquino said in his speech just before the signing by both sides’ chief negotiators.
Ebrahim’s deputy for political affairs, Ghazali Jaafar, expressed similar caution.
“We feel honoured to be welcomed in Manila, but I must stress this is just the beginning of the peace journey,” Jaafar told AFP on Sunday before flying to the nation’s capital.
Muslim rebel groups have been fighting since the 1970s for full independence or autonomy in Mindanao, which they consider their ancestral homeland from before Spanish Christian colonisation of the country began in the 1500s.
The estimated four to nine million Muslims are now a minority in Mindanao after years of Catholic immigration, but they remain a majority in some areas. Muslims would be a majority in the planned new autonomous region.
The conflict has left huge areas of Mindanao, a resource-rich and fertile farming region covering the southern third of the Philippines, in deep poverty.
It has also led to the proliferation of unlicensed guns and political warlords who battle over fiefdoms, while smaller but more militant Islamic separatist groups have been able to create strongholds in lawless areas.
The MILF is the biggest and most important remaining rebel group, after the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) signed a peace pact with the government in 1996.
That peace pact led to an autonomous region in Mindanao but Aquino described it last week as a “failed experiment” because of massive corruption and worsening poverty there.
The planned new autonomous region would replace the old one.
Some of the MNLF’s leaders have voiced anger at seeing their powerbase dissolve, and have warned they may be prepared to take up arms again.
Fresh attacks by the MNLF or small Islamic groups who still want independence are among the potential obstacles to the peace process.
Another is potential opposition from Catholic politicians and business leaders. The nation’s parliament, dominated by Catholics, will have to approve the laws of the new autonomous region.
However experts have said that Aquino, who is one of the most popular presidents in the country’s history, may be able to convince the country’s Catholic majority to support the plan.
The two sides have set 2016 as a deadline because that is when Aquino is required by the constitution to stand down after serving a single six-year term. |
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I wrote a post for the Center for Historic Preservation’s blog, Southern Rambles, on the use of shipping containers in vernacular and high-style architecture. It emerged from my work in South Africa, and might be of interest to readers here. Please feel free to check it out here!
When you tell people that you’re going to South Africa*, everyone wants to know if you’re planning to go on safari. A lot of well-meaning people chimed suggesting that I go to Kruger National Park, not realizing that Kruger is about an eight-hour drive from Johannesburg or that it’s the sort of place you need to visit for weeks. It’s definitely one of my dreams to visit Kruger, but it was never going to happen in the amount of time or budget I had for this trip. I did, however, manage to squeeze in a trip to Pilanesburg National Park and Game Reserve, which is less well-known but only a two-hour drive from Joburg.
Pilanesburg is a beautiful park. It is situated on an ecological transition zone, which means that it is home to a broad array of African wildlife. We saw lots of impala, elephants, zebra, hippo, wildebeest/gnu, giraffes, and warthogs, along with some harder-to-spot animals like ostrich, a white rhino, and even a leopard. Though I’m no photographer and of course I forgot my camera in the US (typical), I got some nice shots on my rented iPhone, especially when I held it up to the binoculars, because I am nothing if not resourceful.
Although I had a great time enjoying the natural landscape and seeing the animals, the heritage preservationist in me kept wondering about the history of the park. A few years ago, a friend sent me an old (but excellent) article on the formation of Serengeti National Park.** The article described how the formation of the park included the removal of evidence of human life, except for tribes that were deemed sufficiently “primitive” to not disturb visitor’s chance to see the “real” Africa. The author describes the impact of this decision not only on the displaced people, but on those who were forced to remain “primitive” so they would not lose their homes and land. Beyond this, he describes how this affected the way visitors see the park and their ideas about what Africa really is. This last idea in particular is something that has stayed with me, though of course it’s hardly unique to Africa–Frederick Jackson Turner conveniently erased Native Americans from the landscape for his frontier thesis, and scores of people were evicted from their homes in Appalachia to make way for national parks. This idea was brought home quite strongly for me when my tour guide mentioned that she thought of this place as the “real South Africa.”
The problem with this idea is that the landscape at Pilanesburg, just as at Serengeti, is manufactured. Before it became a park, this land was home to Zulu warriors, Boer farmers, and later the re-settled Bakgatla tribe during apartheid. The land has been inhabited by humans and hominids for millions of years, and these people evolved alongside the animals in the park. When it was converted into a game reserve, much of the evidence of human habitation was erased, barring one remaining official building which has been converted into a visitor center. The animals that live in the park were reintroduced as part of Operation Genesis in the 1980s.
The thing is, for all its natural splendor, this place is no less a managed landscape than a city. It is stunning, but is it anymore the “real South Africa” than Johannesburg or Soweto or Cape Town? So much of South African history is fraught and intense, and the specter of apartheid lingers because for half a century it dominated people’s lives and the landscape. A place like Pilanesburg can seem like an oasis from these hard truths; after all, there are no people here. But apartheid was here, too. It’s why the Boer farmers are no longer here; they sold their land to the apartheid government, which used it to create a homeland for the Bakubung tribe where they would be racially and ethnically segregated. Pilanesburg is not what South Africa used to look like–it’s what it looks like now, with all of the layers of meaning that exist in any cultural landscape, and that’s worth keeping in mind whether you are walking through an informal settlement or staring in awe at a leopard casually surveying his territory.
*After they ask about Ebola, of course.
**Neumann, Roderick P. “Ways of Seeing Africa: Colonial Recasting of African Society and Landscape in Serengeti National Park.” Cultural Geographies 2, no. 2 (April 1995): 149-169. (I cannot recommend this article highly enough.)
The thing about researching and working on difficult heritage is that it is difficult for a reason. Part of why I planned such a lengthy research trip to South Africa was that I knew I’d be confronting a lot of serious, emotional topics and sites, and I wanted to have time in between these more intense experiences to recover. I wanted to be sure that when I visited a site, I wasn’t emotionally exhausted from an earlier visit elsewhere. I want to be a thoughtful, engaged visitor, and that means not shutting down because I’ve spent the last three days confronting the horror that human beings inflict on each other. With that in mind, I made a visit to the Cape Medical Museum in Cape Town.
The Cape Medical Museum does not have a website, and they are actually a bit tricky to find. I happened to see it when I rode past in a taxi, and knew that I absolutely HAD to visit. I have a pet interest in medical history, and I enjoy learning about the past through the lens of disease and medical practices. I love a good medical history book, especially when the writer explores the intersection between disease, science, culture, social history, and race. I listen to a lot of medical histories when I’m driving (not always the best idea if you don’t feel well), and right now I’ve been listening to Rabid: A Cultural History of Rabies, which I recommend highly.
Anyway! The museum is in an attractive but unassuming historic house in the Old Hospital Complex in Green Point, Cape Town. There is no admission fee (though I made a donation), and there are no guided tours. In addition to an extensive collection of medical machines and equipment, the museum includes a fantastic exhibit on various diseases that have invaded the region. The multilingual panels connect the facts of diseases like typhus and yellow fever to their impact on society. In a panel on the bubonic plague, for example, one section describes how the practice of quarantining Africans suspected of having plague in camps helped create the idea for townships under apartheid. One of these camps later became the site of the Nyanga township. Unfortunately, there was no photography in the museum, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.
The disease room also had a display case with small windows where visitors could look in and see some of the medical models physicians in training used to learn how to identify diseases like diphtheria and gonorrhea. Though these were not as elaborate as the casts and preserved parts I saw earlier this year at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, they still conveyed the horrifying commonness of these types of conditions.
There were several rooms dedicated to particular types of medical equipment, like dentistry and ophthalmology, and a few period rooms set up as an operating room, a dispensary, and a delivery room. These rooms also included display cases full of medical equipment from different time periods, which was both fascinating and a little disturbing. One of my favorite displays was a series of respirators/ventilators showing the evolution of that technology, and culminating with a 1960s-era Bird respirator.
If you do happen to find yourself in Cape Town, this little gem is well worth a visit. It’s an easy walk in Green Point or from the V&A Waterfront, and I spent about an hour and a half, which included reading all of the panels because that is how I roll.
On June 16, 1976, some 20,000 students in Soweto (a township southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa) gathered to march in peaceful protest against the implementation of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. The decree represented a significant attack from the apartheid regime on the already struggling education system available to students labeled “non-white.” Unlike white students, who received a free and mandatory education, parents of children classified as “non-white” had to pay tuition and for books send their children to non-compulsory schools where they were taught by teachers who were paid a pittance in appallingly poor conditions. The majority of students did not speak Afrikaans, nor did many of the teachers, so the transition to this new language would make it virtually impossible for many students to learn.
The students planned to march from the Orlando West suburb of Soweto to Shap Stadium for a rally, but they encountered police led by Colonel Kleingeld. Kleingeld fired the first shot, and violence erupted as students fled or threw rocks at police, who in turn loosed dogs and fired tear gas canister and bullets at the students. A young man, Hector Pieterson, was shot, and photographer Sam Nzima snapped what would become the iconic image of the uprising, in which Hector’s body is carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo as his sister, Antoinette Sithole, runs alongside.** The violence led to more than 150 deaths, and in the following days students across the city and notably from the University of Witswatersrand joined in the protest. The decree was eventually repealed in 1979, but the student uprising is credited with reinvigorating the anti-apartheid campaign by organizing youth against the regime. If you want to know more, Helena Pohldant-McCormick has an amazing digital book project on the student uprising that is well worth checking out.
I went to the Hector Pieterson Museum and Memorial twice during my visit to Johannesburg, both times as part of township tours of Soweto. I had no idea what to expect because the museum does not have a website or much of an online presence, at least not that I’ve been able to find beyond a few short blurbs on wikipedia and travel websites. I was impressed with the museum, which interprets the events of 1976 and contextualizes against both what happened before and after, and most impressively, includes discussion of lasting impact of the events and their interpretation and commemoration.
The museum constructs its narrative using extensive oral history testimony from many sides of the conflict; students, parents, and police. One of the things that stood out most to me was that there was a real effort to convey what happened in all its confusion and nuance. Contrasting interpretations are offered, as is testimony that complicated ideas about innocence in guilt. In particular, I was struck by the inclusion of the story of a young man who took part in the looting of a shop, probably because of how such reports in the US have been used to discredit the acts of rioters in Ferguson. The museum presents the participants as human beings with agency, and there is no effort to cast them as passive victims in order to make it clear that the violence committed against them was criminal.
For me, this was the most important aspect of the museum. In the US, we have a tendency to want to paint our conflicts in the most black and white terms possible; we like our heroes to be paragons of virtue and our villains to be flawed and malevolent. The problem is that history is made up of the acts of human beings who are inherently flawed and rarely all good or all evil. When we perpetuate these ideas in our presentations of history, we encourage the spread of these ideas in our larger culture. It perpetuates the idea that the only real victim is one who is totally innocent, not just in the context of the crime committed against him or her, but of anything ever. It’s why Trayvon Martin was labeled a thug. It’s why the Ferguson Police felt the need to inform the public that Michael Brown was suspected in the theft of a box of cigars on the day he was shot by Officer Darren Wilson. It’s the reason people wonder what rape victims were wearing.
Our cultural institutions are often reflections of the values we hold as a society. While they cannot single-handedly reform attitudes, they are uniquely placed to encourage dialogue about the past and the issues of race, class, gender, and justice that we still deal with today. When we visit these types of sites, we bring with us values and ideas that can be upheld or challenged by what we see. These sites should be places where we are encouraged to embrace complicated ideas and stories, and then carry that willingness to be uncomfortable and uncertain into the rest of our lives.
*South Africa had a number of racial classifications under apartheid, each of which conveyed a different level of privilege (all subordinate to white, of course). I place “non-white” in quotations because it is the language of the regime; I only use it here to refer to the laws of that period, as I recognize that it is no longer acceptable, and to convey the arbitrary nature of racial classification under apartheid.
**This photograph is widely available online, but I have chosen not to show it here because I do not have the permission of Sam Nzima. The image has a long history of incorrect attribution and appropriation of which I do not want to be a part. You can easily find it by clicking the link above or simply typing “Hector Pieterson” into the search engine of your choice.
So I made it to Johannesburg, and I’ve now officially been here for a week. It seems like a lot longer, in part because it took two days to get here. I left last Sunday (Sept 28), flew overnight to London where I spent 14 hours (during which I visited the fantastic V&A Museum) before catching another overnight flight (10.5 hours) to Johannesburg. The trip to London was a bit rough; I didn’t sleep well, due to adrenaline and a bad seatmate, but I did get to see a great movie I’d been meaning to catch, Belle, which I recommend thoroughly. If you’re wondering why I don’t have any pictures from London, it’s because I left my camera at home, because of course I did. Fortunately, I am renting an iPhone while I’m in South Africa, so I have plenty of photos of my adventures here.
After spending a day recovering from my journey, I decided to ease into my trip by starting out with a visit to the Johannesburg Zoo. One of the things that has really struck me about Joburg (or Jozi, as the locals call it) is how little public space there is. All of the houses are behind walls and fences and gates, so there’s very little to see when you walk down the street. Several tourism websites recommended the zoo as a place where it is possible to walk around and see things without concerns for safety that seem to be embedded into the physical space of the city elsewhere, and I definitely found that to be the case.
I took a taxi to the zoo (because everyone drives here), and I was pleasantly surprised. The zoo is laid out informally relative to a lot of zoos I’ve visited, by which I mean that there’s no clear direction of traffic or path to follow. There are some paved walks, but other walks are little more than dirt paths, though they are clearly meant for visitors since there are markers with information about the animals in each enclosure. One of my favorite things about the zoo was their work on historic preservation. Though the zoo has only limited space in which to expand, they have retained the historic animal enclosures and interpret them for visitors.
Some of the enclosures have been repurposed to house new species. The Old Polar Bear Enclosure (pictured above) is now home to the bushbabies. It’s a great lesson on the evolution of animal husbandry, though it’s a little horrifying to imagine some of these animals being kept in such small spaces. Along with the Old Polar Bear Enclosure, the zoo also still has the Old Carnivore Enclosure and the Old Elephant House. These sites all have interpretive markers that discuss when they were built, and acknowledge that these facilities were state-of-the-art at the time they were constructed. While the zoo still has lions and elephants, they are now housed in much more generous spaces.
Preservationists like to talk about the importance of protecting the layers of past embedded in the landscape, meaning that we want to protect the evidence of how the use of the physical landscape has changed and evolved. In a historic house, this means keeping additions made throughout the house’s life that show how various residents adapted the house to their changing needs. In the case of the zoo, it means keeping and reusing old structures so that visitors can see and appreciate how this zoo (and zoos generally) have evolved to provide better and better care for their animals. The approach used by the Johannesburg Zoo is a great example of an effective and low-maintenance way to expand the visitor experience to include education about history as well as animals. If you find yourself in Joburg on a beautiful day (like I did), it’s well worth a visit. |
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A great solution for the front desk or checkout where receipts are printed. Processing times are quick for the MS331. This Lexmark is compatible with a broad range of applications. Future expansions are accommodated with additional paper capacity.
The Lexmark MS331 is ahead of the other printers in this segment. The HP M404n has 256MB of memory and the Brother HL-2300d a meager 8MB. While the Lexmark MS331 is packed with 512MB.
It also has a dual core processor. The larger memory combined with the dual core will tear through spreadsheets or larger PDF’s. In my experience Lexmark print drivers are quick and reliable as well.
As for print speed, the Brother lags at 27 pages per minute. The HP M404 specs at 40 ppm while the Lexmark is at 38 ppm. In my experience, 2 ppm is not noticeable. Real world print speeds vary depending on what file you print. Processor and memory specs will play a huge role.
While the Brother is slightly lower in cost, it is also much slower and lesser equipped. The HP is a strong contender but the Lexmark edges it out for value and performance.
In most office environments security is a concern. Not that home setups don’t care, they just have slightly less risk. Lexmark is one of the most secure offerings on the market, having won the buyers lab PaceSetter award.
It has built in security for remote management. There is restricted access for unauthorized network requests. A standard practice of Lexmark is unnecessary software modules are not installed in the factory image. By not installing these modules, certain processes are not running or available for potential exploits by hackers.
In addition to the built in security, the web interface has more security to configure. Event logs are also available through the web interface.
I have no complaints about Lexmark’s printer support. As a Lexmark certified technician I’ve used both their phone and online support. Their phone support typically provides a resolution quickly. Everyone I’ve talked seems to know what they’re doing.
The support website is the same for the public and techs. Although techs have access to service manual and tech bulletin libraries.
Everything is available at the product libraries. The knowledgebase, warranty, how-to’s, manuals, drivers, and support info are all there.
Setting up a Lexmark is average as far as difficulty is concerned. I had to remove packing tape and foam inserts. Then I added the toner cartridge.
The drum and toner cartridge is attached to the drum unit. It comes out as one unit. However, I haven’t had issues attaching them like I have on some brands. For instance, I like Brother printers but their cartridges don’t seem to go together as easy as other brands.
You enter some basic info when it first boots up. The Lexmark MS331 doesn’t have wireless. Network setup is done through the control panel. If wireless is a necessity, then the Lexmark MS431 has that option.
The toner comes in a standard 6,000 page capacity. Or a high capacity cartridge with a whopping 15,000 page yield. Using the high capacity cartridge is recommended since toner doesn’t expire or spoil.
Paper is loaded in a cassette located in the front. It holds 250 sheets while the multi purpose tray just above it holds 100 sheets. You can add one optional tray. A 250 or 550 sheet tray is available for purchase.
Supported stock includes labels, envelops, cardstock, or transparencies. The Brother HL2300d and HP M404n both have similar paper specifications as the Lexmark MS331. The HP offers one optional 550 sheet tray yet the Lexmark offers a choice between two optional trays.
The display is a 2 line screen with some buttons. Which is adequate given that most of the time the display only needs to convey a limited amount of information.
Instead of the ISO/IEC 24734 test page, my method for testing speed is by printing emails. I printed several test pages and clocked the print speed at 38.4 pages per minute. A very quick printer indeed.
For testing weight and dimensions, I used a standard scale and ruler. I placed the printer on my scale and discovered it weighs 21.2 lbs.
I measured the dimensions with a ruler and found the printer is 8.9 inches high, 14.7 inches wide, and 14.3 inches deep.
The footprint is just over 14 inches square with no protruding trays. If you print 8 ½ x 14, then the cassette expands out the rear a few inches.
The HP M404n is a slightly larger footprint than the Lexmark MS331. While the Brother HL-2300d is smaller by less than an inch.
The Lexmark MS331 covers a lot of ground with its print drivers. Airprint and Mopria print services are standard. These are the point and print automated setup. They are the quickest way to get a document from a mobile device or tablet to the output tray.
The MS331 comes with quite the library of print drivers. PCL5e, PCL XL, Universal (PCL), PS3, PPD, HBP, and a slew of Linux drivers. While PCL and PS are enough for most installations. Lexmark develops drivers for diverse installations.
For Linux installations 32 & 64 bit driver versions are available for Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE. The Ubuntu driver is 32 bit. If one of those drivers doesn’t suit your needs, there’s also a CUPS driver for Debian and OpenSUSE.
Windows installations have their choice of PCL, PS, or Universal drivers. I typically recommend PCL5e drivers. They are the fastest and most reliable in my opinion. If you can’t use PCL5e for some reason the Universal driver by Lexmark is good. I work with a lot of print drivers and this is one of the few universal drivers I would recommend.
Lexmark’s universal driver is more than a stripped down version of PCL. It starts as the basic universal driver but all the advanced features are opened up for configuration. You can modify the basic configuration of the driver. Form to tray is edited directly from the driver. The Job accounting is changed within the driver. Fonts are added directly from the driver. This is a great example of a universal print driver.
The Lexmark MS331 has a lot more to offer than other monochrome printers. For example, it’s much faster than the Brother HL-2300d. It has more memory and a better processor than the HP M404n as well as tray options. The Lexmark MS331 print driver offerings are abundant.
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After the Sky
Spirits of the Earth Book 1
by Milo James Fowler
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic SciFi Fantasy
The world isn't how they left it. When the bunker airlocks release them after twenty years in hibernation, the survivors find a silent, barren world outside. But they are not alone. There is a presence here, alive in the dust—spirits of the earth, benevolent and malicious as they interact with the human remnant.
Milton is haunted by a violent past he's unable to escape, despite the superhuman speed the spirits give him.
Not interested in bearing the next generation, Daiyna is determined to destroy the flesh-eating mutants lurking in the dark, pierced by her night-vision.
Luther is a man of conviction who believes the Creator has offered humankind a second chance, yet he's uncertain they deserve it—and he's perplexed by the talons that flex out of his fingers.
Willard is a brilliant engineer-turned-soldier who refuses to leave his bunker, afraid of becoming infected and willing to destroy any obstacle in his way.
As their lives collide, the mysteries of this strange new world start unraveling, culminating in the ultimate life-or-death decision one survivor will make for them all.
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Spirits of the Earth Book 2
The future is in their hands.
The post-apocalyptic world is bigger than the remnant imagined. Across the ocean, the domed cities of Eurasia have survived the nuclear holocaust that ravaged the rest of the planet. But only the survivors from the North American Wastes can give the sterile Eurasians what they need most in order to continue existing as a society: children.
Sergeant James Bishop, United World Marine, leads his team across the desert wasteland in order to make first contact with survivors in Eden, who are rumored to have a lab full of viable embryos. Meanwhile Cain, a coastal warlord dedicated to repopulating the planet, follows the will of Gaia, a malicious spirit of the earth with no love for humankind. Margo, telepathic geneticist responsible for designing the next generation, struggles to balance the will of a selfish dictator with what's best for humanity. Tucker, an invisible man on a mission, carries precious cargo across the Wastes in an effort to rally a group of survivors into action against Eden.
As their lives intersect, agendas collide and tensions reach a breaking point. Twenty unborn children in incubation chambers hang in the balance—along with the fate of the world.
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City of Glass
Spirits of the Earth Book 3
The children of the remnant are adults living in the 10 Domes of Eurasia, self-sustaining biospheres along the Mediterranean Sea. Aerocars fly, clones work as security officers, and every citizen's words and actions are monitored via their neural implants. Peace reigns over all—until a group of terrorists targets government buildings, and Chancellor Persephone Hawthorne is kidnapped.
Sera Chen, Dome 1 law enforcer, is drawn into the conflict after chasing a curfew violator capable of leaping from one skyscraper to another. When her augments go offline due to a localized EMP burst, she starts hearing voices. The band of survivors in North America is fractured. Daiyna roams the Wastes with a bounty on her head, refusing to confront her demons. Samson and Shechara target UW raiders who are pillaging ruins for resources the remnant needs to survive. James Bishop struggles against unexpected obstacles to be reunited with his family. And Luther is determined to find a way into Eurasia to meet the twenty children taken from Eden.
As their lives converge, unlikely alliances will form to combat an emergent enemy with plans to undermine the course of humanity's future.
The Spirits of the Earth Trilogy concludes with this epic final installment. You won't want to miss this!
Milo is a teacher by day and a speculative fictioneer by night. When he's not grading papers, he's imagining what the world might be like in a dozen alternate realities. www.milojamesfowler.com
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Minnesota’s Favorite Halloween Candy Isn’t What You’d Think
Halloween is just over a month away, so, of course, we're all about stocking up on the candy. But Minnesota's favorite Halloween candy isn't one you'd probably think it is.
Around this time of year, you can find tons of different surveys about Minnesota and Halloween. Like, The Most Popular Halloween Costume in Minnesota. Or Minnesota's Favorite Scary Halloween Movie. Most of these surveys are just taken from some lame online survey or Googled phrase.
But this new survey about the favorite Halloween candy in each state is actually based on some solid figures. It was compiled by candystore.com, a candy retailer that ships some of the most popular candy out there today. And, overall, we buy a LOT of candy. The story said Americans will spend $2.6 billion on trick-or-treating this year!
To find out our favorites, they looked at the actual sales figures for each type of candy and came up with the top sellers in each state. They then compiled an overall list of the Top Ten Favorite Halloween Candy. Nationally, Skittles came in at #1, followed by M &M's, Snickers, Reeses Cups and Starbust.
Those all sound about right. I love me some chocolate, so I'd probably put M&M's or Snickers at number-one. But when you look at just the candy sales here in Minnesota, you get a bit different picture.
The favorite Halloween candy in Minnesota? Yeah, that's be... Tootsie Pops. Really?!? Don't get me wrong, I love a Tootsie Pop every now and again but is it really our favorite? According to candystore.com's figures, it is-- Minnesota bought over 202,210 pounds of them.
Our second-favorite candy was Skittles, with 196,451 pounds sold. Rounding out the top three was Candy Corn, with 96,431 pounds sold. You can check out the entire list HERE. |
Pantera Announce Four Reunion Shows at 2022 Festivals
The much discussed Pantera outing with Philip Anselmo, Rex Brown and special guests Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante will officially hit the stage in December. That's because the foursome will be rocking three of the five scheduled Knotfests that are taking part in South America that month.
Update: Pantera have also been confirmed to play at the Hell & Heaven Metal Fest in Mexico on Dec. 2. See more information on that festival here.
Slipknot have continued to expand their Knotfest brand and 2022 will bring Knotfest to Colombia on Friday, Dec. 9 at the Campin Circuit of Bogota. This Knotfest staging will feature Judas Priest as the headliners with the recently reformed Pantera atop the bill. Knotfest Colombia will also feature Bring Me the Horizon, Trivium, Hypocrisy, Sepultura, Suicide Silence and Sold amongst the first wave of bands announced. Tickets for the concert go on sale at 9AM local time on Wednesday, Aug. 31 and can be purchased here.
Knotfest will also make its first venture into Argentina, with two nights of Knotfest Roadshow performances. Slipknot will headline opening night on Dec. 8, while Judas Priest will headline the second on Dec. 13. Both shows will take place at the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a full lineup of acts for the shows to be announced soon. Tickets for these shows are currently on sale. Get ticketing details here.
Meanwhile, both Judas Priest and Pantera have been confirmed for the lineups at Knotfest Chile and Knotfest Brasil, joining the previously announced Slipknot for the inaugural shows in both locations. The bills for both shows also includes Bring Me the Horizon, Mr. Bungle, Trivium, Sepultura, Motionless in White, Vended and Project 46. Knotfest Chile will take place at Estadio Monumental in Santiago on Sunday, Dec. 11. Tickets can be found here. Knotfest Brasil is set for Sunday, Dec. 18 at Sambódromo do Anhembi in São Paulo. Get ticketing info here.
News of a potential Pantera reunion first broke last month, with it eventually being revealed that Wylde and Benante would fill in for the late members Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul. Both Wylde and Benante have expressed their desire to stay as true to the original sound as possible while touring, while Anselmo stated in a pre-reunion announcement discussion that he felt the Abbott brothers would want Pantera's legacy to live on. |
Each year, The Seattle School offers the Stanley Grenz Lecture Series to advance theological discourse as an expression of faith and service in honor of former Professor Stanley Grenz, a prolific Christian scholar with a pastoral heart and deep intellectual presence.
Womanist theologian and ordained minister Dr. Angela Parker joined The Seattle School on January 12, 2024 for a conversation on “America’s Failing Empire: A Womanist New Testament Response to Rising White Christian Nationalism.” Examining scripture, theology, and psychoanalysis of the self, Dr. Parker argued that America’s failing empire clings to the deep narrative/story of White Christian Nationalism while ignoring the ways that the imago dei of God can be found in passages outside of traditional readings of scripture. A panel discussion followed where Dr. Parker was joined by Dr. Chelle Stearns, Associate Professor of Theology at The Seattle School from 2008-2023 and current Affiliate Faculty, and Dr. David Leong, Professor of Urban & Intercultural Ministry at Seattle Pacific University.
More about Dr. Parker: Angela N. Parker, PhD, (Chicago Theological Seminary) is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. Prior to her doctoral studies, she received a B.A. from Shaw University and an M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School. In 2018, Parker’s article, “One Womanist’s View of Racial Reconciliation in Galatians,” earned second place in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion’s Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholar Award, and in 2023 she published If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority (Eerdmans). Parker is ordained with the Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina and can be found on YouTube and TikTok @BoozyBibleScholar.
Dr. J. Derek McNeil:
Good afternoon. Well, first, before I get started, did someone lose their cap? Anyway, it will be probably on this first row if you see somebody asking about a cap. Okay. First of all, it’s my pleasure to welcome you this afternoon evening to the Stanley Grenz Lectureship Series. How many years it say that I look at Chelle and ask how many years has this been?
Dr. J. Derek McNeil:
2011, 2013, somewhere in there. We do this lectureship series to remind us that theology is important in the cultural context. We’ve had a little bit of a season where theology is thought to be maybe irrelevant. I think we’re going to have a season where theology is known to be necessary.
So in this crisis of meaning space as people, some people will call it, or a moment of potential collapse, asking bigger questions is essential. And so our hope is to stimulate a conversation of bigger questions. Now, also to the other sort of thing that’s striking is–we’ve lost the idea of what discourse means. We no longer can hear. Now, as a person trained as a psychologist, I can know we can shut your capacity. Your brain can shut down with how much stimuli that’s threatening to you, lose your capacity to process. Well, it’s a strange thing to watch society lose capacity to process, which means we’re not learning. That’s frightening for me as a person to teacher. And so part of the challenge for you and for us in this context where learning is lessened and threat is louder, and most of our moments are reactive. We like to have this space of discourse, a space of conversation. So for Stanley Grenz, who is a prolific Christian style with a pastoral heart and a deep intellectual presence, it’s his memory. Each year, The Seattle School hosts a theological leader and thinkers to advance theological discourse. Dr. Angela Parker, my friend–[audience cheers]
Dr. J. Derek McNeil:
I had the pleasure of being her boss for a little while, is our guest lecturer for this year, she will be presenting on “America’s Falling Empire: A Womanist New Testament Response to Rising White Christian Nationalism.” She wants to examine scripture, theology, and psychoanalysis itself. Dr. Parker will argue that America’s Falling Empire clings to the deep narrative story of White Christian Nationalism while ignoring the ways that the image of God can be found in passages outside of traditional readings of scripture. Just for bio, because in some ways it’s easy to be saying, this is my friend, but let me give her her due. Dr. Angela Parker received her PhD from Chicago Theological Seminary and is Assistant Professor of New Testament in Greek studies at Mercer University, McAfee School of Theology. And prior to her doctoral studies, she received a BA from Shaw University, an MTS from Duke Divinity School. And in 2018, excuse me, 2018, Dr. Parker’s article on “One Womanist’s View of Racial Reconciliation in Galatians” earned second place in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion’s Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholar Award. And in 2023 she published, If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority by Eerdmans. Dr. Parker is ordained with the Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina. And so in a minute I’ll ask you to welcome her, but I want to introduce you to our other guests. They’ll be joining her on a panel after she presents: Dr. David Leong [applause] holds a degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, is a Professor of Urban Ministry and Intercultural Studies at Seattle Pacific University and Seminary. His latest book, Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation, explores themes of exclusion and belonging in Urban Context. David and his family live in southeast Seattle where they enjoy local parks, endless coffee selections, and the best spa in the city. I think you took my wife on a tour. That’s what it was. And I think I heard about the tour you took you took my wife on. My sister Dr. Chelle Stearns. She received her doctoral degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She served as Associate Professor of Theology at The Seattle School from 2008 to 2023 and now serves as Affiliate Faculty. She’s the author of Handling Dissonance, A Musical Theological Aesthetic of Unity, and has published essays on subjects such as trauma and Christology, music and trauma, and Pneumatology and the arts. Her current research and writings are at the intersection of theology, music, and trauma. We welcome you both when she finishes her presentation to us, but I simply want say, I think I texted you and said, Hey, would you do this? I got that casual. I simply texted and she said, Yes. Right away.
Dr. Angela Parker:
I was like, of course.
Dr. J. Derek McNeil:
You did say something like, of course. And I thought, oh, I wonder if she’ll… Well, I didn’t have to do any talking answer, but she is a wonderful creative mind and loves the text. And so for a person, it would tend to sometimes assume that modern day revolutionaries, they want to discard the text. And I’ve watched Angela go deeper into the text. And in some ways it reminds us that our reading of the text is culturally informed influenced, which means we’re not always reading the text just because we think we know what it’s said. And so I’ve appreciated her work to say, no, go deeper, understand that context to help you understand your context. And so we invite you to share with us the gifts that you are and the blessing you are to us. Welcome, Dr. Parker.
Dr. Angela Parker:
Oh, I have to turn on my mic. Thank you. That’s helpful. No, it’s on. It’s on. It’s on. All right. Austin got me. Good. It’s on. I don’t have to do anything. So, first of all, friends, may God be with you and
[Audience Response: And also with you]
You let us pray. Gracious God, we thank you for this day. We thank you for life, health and strength. We thank you for allowing us to gather for this Stanley Grenz lecture, a noted theologian, but also lover of the biblical text. And we thank you for just allowing us to come together in order to discuss difficult topics, but difficult topics that need to be discussed in today’s day and age that are important for our livelihood that are important just for the flourishing of our lives. So we thank you for this opportunity. We thank you for The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, a place that helped me begin to think about those intersections of viable theology, psychoanalysis, and what they can look like out in the world. Allow this place to continue to be just that, a place of integration, a place of conversation, a place where even when we’re wrestling, we know that we are alive and flourishing and doing what you have called us to do. So we thank you when we praise you in Jesus’ name. I pray even as others come to you by the name that you have revealed yourself to them. Amen.
So I have the task of speaking to you this evening about America’s Failing, Falling–And it’s funny, I did go back and forth between failing and falling empire. So I think we probably could say failing/ falling–Empire, A Womanist New Testament Response to Rising White Christian Nationalism. I want to ground us by just introducing this particular quote from Samuel Perry and Philip Gorski. It’s from their book entitled The Flag and the Cross. And in this quote, they saved us. They say that White Christian Nationalism’s deep story goes something like this. America was founded as a Christian nation by white men who were traditional Christians who based the nation’s founding documents on Christian principles. The United States is blessed by God, which is why it has been so successful. And the nation has a special role to play in God’s plan for humanity. But these blessings are threatened by cultural degradation from un-American influences both inside and outside our border.
Hence the deep story of White Christian Nationalism. I think it’s interesting for me, particularly coming back to The Seattle School, knowing that the original name of The Seattle School is Mars Hill something, something. And by that time we had folks like the Driscolls, the Mark Driscolls of the world, the angry white men who are just still pounding some kind of Christianity that I don’t recognize. And so you have an institution that’s always re-imagining who we are. I still count myself as part of you who we are in the midst of the day and age that we live in. So fast forward to 2019, I go to Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology, and I’ve said this to my colleagues, which is probably why they’re not as kind as my Seattle School colleagues. No, but I said something like, as Baptists who started a school after the Southern Baptist Convention traditional takeover of Baptist seminaries, and you’ve come out of that and you started this institution, you are still trying to figure out who you are.
And it’s funny because, and I think Derek always recognizes this in me, I’m always going places and asking people: Who are you really? Who are you really? Or who are you trying to pretend to be? What does it mean to really understand and identify yourself?And institutions just like people are trying to understand and identify themselves? So I think about my foray into theological education and realize that just as institutions are trying to figure out themselves, we can read biblical texts and see that oftentimes the people in the text are trying to figure out themselves as well.
So, boom, oh, he told me to turn it on. Okay, that works down there. There we go. So you have the abstract. You don’t need me to talk like that. But how did, okay, now I hit too much. There we go. We’re getting there. Go back. Go back. There we go. So how do we begin to understand the deep story? Talked about the Mark Driscolls of the world, but I think in order to understand the deep story of White Christian Nationalism, some of the other folks that we need to be aware of are folks like Pamela Cooper White. So in Pamela Cooper’s White, The Psychology of Christian Nationalism, she talks about how White Christian Nationalism kind of had this deep story that Samuel Perry and Philip Gorski talked about. But in that deep story that meant that only someone like a Donald Trump would stop the”line cutters” who had been helped by elites like a Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, that there became this assumption that white folks became strangers in their own land. And I’m trying to argue that an invitation into the deeper story of Jesus from my own particular Womanist New Testament scholarship helps us to argue against the deep story of White Christian Nationalism that if I’m actually truthful with myself, that story does not actually resemble the Jesus that I see in the text. And here’s going to be the kicker. This means that we are going to have to think about Jesus even differently. And that’s one of the things, and I feel it even as I remember teaching in this classroom.
What do you mean you want me to think differently about my Jesus? Don’t you know, it’s my Jesus that I take out of my pocket and offer to people when I’m in the grocery store? Don’t make me think differently about my Jesus. But I think if we take the gospel writer and I’m specifically going through the gospel of Matthew, if we take the gospel writer seriously, then we have to wrestle with these similar conversations that we find within the biblical text that I think we should be having outside of the biblical text. So what you hear me advocating for is understanding Jesus slightly differently so that we can understand one another slightly differently. That’s what I’m trying to get us to begin to think about. So in my own work, If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority, I argue that part of the narrative of white Christianity actually comes from, very good, a whole bunch of German scholarship that’s steeped in Eurocentric thinking.
So I talk about how when I was learning to be a biblical scholar, my professors were telling me to ask the proper questions, the proper questions that were set up by a Rudolph Boltman or a GWF Hegel or Epstein Bauer or Heidegger. A lot of us who have been trained in biblical scholarship, and I would also argue even in theological studies, and here’s, let me say this, there is a difference between biblical studies and theological studies. I am a biblical scholar. That means that I’m tied to the text. Dr. Stearns is a theologian. She goes into 20th-century theology and I’m just like, Ooh, no.
I am like, let me read this text and tell you all how you got theology wrong. That’s what I do. But I have to recognize that a lot of my training has been steeped in GWF Hegel who famously said that only Aryan nations have pure culture. That those Africans, those Orientals, those Jewish nations, those were enslaved nations and they had nothing to add to the culture of the globe. So you hear about Hegel and Hegel talks about how the spirit or the geist is within the world and cultures change and shift, but it’s only those Eurocentric nations that actually gave anything good. All those others, they did nothing. And so why is this important? I’ll tell you why. When they read Jesus, they read Jesus as white masculinity and then they go out and they colonize other nations and they present Jesus as white masculinity, Jesus as the universal male, Paul as the universal man.
So if you read someone like a Peter in the scholarship, Paul becomes universal white male. Peter becomes that backwater Jewish representative. And so you get this idea of antisemitism by ignoring Paul’s Jewishness, you get antisemitism by also ignoring Jesus’s Jewishness. And that leads to reading Jesus just like them. And so my biblical scholar professors were trying to make me read Jesus like that. How is that even possible? Alright, it’s not. So I go through and I talk about how Hegel and all the others just begin to talk really horrible about the other nations. And what Pamela Cooper White does is she connects some of these conversations to what becomes understood as nationalism, meaning German biblical scholars such as Heidegger, a card-carrying Nazi member until World War II. They were also steeped in this idea of nationalism, this patriotic way of understanding your nation and connecting it to your Christianity. And so when we see in Charlottesville white men in Dockers [pants] with tiki torches talking about the Jews will not replace us, a lot of that comes from this particular Euro-centric worldview. Alright? And so that’s what infiltrates into our readings of biblical text. So then what happens? How do we begin to get out of it? We have to get out of it in some way. I’m going to go first to Matthew chapter one. So Matthew chapter one, you have the infant narrative of Jesus. How many of you actually read Bible and like it?
Okay, there’s one over there. Good, I got a few. So I’m thinking, I’m also wondering, is this the first time a biblical scholar has done a Grenz lecture? Okay, Dr. Chelle is shaking her head yes, I’ll go with that. Because oftentimes we think we know the text. We say we know the text. If you’ve ever taken a class with me, I say that you cannot say: that’s what the Bible says. Thank you. I’m so happy I can look at folks and they know what to say. You can’t say that when you are around me because the Bible is thousands of years of a collection of books that had been put together. I’ve often said they did not come down from God written in God’s pen to the earth like floating on a spirit. No, that’s not what happened. There were people who were trying to figure out their relationship to the Almighty.
So you have to realize that this compending of books are different people talking about their relationship to the Almighty as they’re talking about navigating their relationship with other people. And oftentimes those other people were nations that were over them. Why do you think we had to learn about the Assyrians and the Babylonians and the Romans? Because they were trying to navigate: oh my God, these people are oppressive over us and we have some kind of promises from God, but I don’t know how we’re supposed to work all this out. What are we supposed to do in the midst of this? So now that’s what we’re reading, we’re reading other people’s relationship with God, not to get a one-to-one correspondence for our relationship to God, but just to see how they navigated it and perhaps, just perhaps, you know what? I am very much aware of the blessed Holy Spirit that can tell us things in the midst of reading that Bible, but not that one-to-one corresponds to this is my relationship with God.
No, it’s different. We have to nuance it and we have to interpret it. It’s not a self-interpreting book. Alright, so Matthew chapter one, [reads in biblical text] the beginning, the genesis of the book of Jesus, Christ son of David, son of Abraham. So you get this genealogy. Abraham begets Isaac. Isaac begets Yakob, Yakob begets Budha and his brother [reads in Greek]. Alright, first person that you need to know because you get there, Tamar, Tamar, Tamar. Rembrandt picture top left Tamar Tamar, she is the daughter-in-law of Judah according to Genesis 38. And as the daughter-in-law of Judah, she has a husband who’s Judah’s son. He dies. Judah gives Onan the next child to Tamar. She’s supposed to get pregnant by him. Onan spills his seed on the ground, God strikes him dead. Tamar of course was like, okay, I need another boy. And Judah’s like, Hey, no, just go in your mother’s house and wait until the youngest one grows up and then maybe I’ll give him to you.
She is like, oh no, that’s not going to work. She takes off her widow’s clothes, she goes and she sits and she’s looking like a prostitute. Judah sees her as a prostitute at the gate, says, come on, let’s go do the do, she becomes pregnant with twins. And he’s like, oh my goodness. In Rembrandt, her head is covered. So somehow he doesn’t know it’s her. They have sex, she’s pregnant. She is now “disgraced herself” because she’s pregnant and they don’t know how she can getting pregnant. And so he’s like, oh, I can get rid of her, prepare the fire, I can kill her. Oh, give me. And she says, go ahead, prepare the fire, but I need you to know that I’m pregnant by the man who these belong to and it’s his signet ring and his rod. And he is like, oh hell.
Dr. Angela Parker:
Well, that changes things. And he actually says in the text that she is more just than he is because she took matters into her own hands. So you get Tamar named in the genealogy of Jesus and you’re like, oh, that’s odd. Because normally women are not named in genealogies, it’s just the men. And so they actually pushed somebody out there. So naming women, weird practice, but note they name Tamar, they name Rahab. Rahab. Look at Joshua, brothel owner or prostitute, Hebrew Bible scholars, they kind of tussled with that. Ruth, oh wait, Tamar, Ruth, Rahab. Cannanite Ruth, you know the Ruth story where Naomi says, where Naomi goes, Ruth is going to go, your people will be my people. We use that in marriage ceremonies. That’s the wrong text. Please.
See, we think we know Bible but we don’t. And then wife of Uriah, Bathsheba, the classic case of victim blaming I’ve ever seen in my life. Oh, Bathsheba. And I have a friend Cynthia, who teaches Bible. She also does archeology. So she goes and she looks at Israel, she talks about the topography of Israel. And she says David was on the roof. The text specifically said that David was on the roof, that she was in her house and she was doing a ritual cleansing, meaning she had just come off of her cycle and at that particular time she would be fertile. Now David, the peeping Tom that he was, looks in sees her, is like: Ooh, I want that. No idea of consent or an adulterous relationship. It’s the same thing as someone saying Sally Hemmings had an affair with Thomas Jefferson. Now it was rape, call it what it is. David raped Bathsheba. And so we get this woman named as wife of Uriah in the lineage of Jesus. And then finally Mary, the mother of Jesus who when she said, I’m pregnant by the Holy Spirit, as a teenage girl, they were like, Mary, get the heck out of here. So concluding with five sexually suspect women in the lineage of Jesus, not the Sarahs or the Rachels or Leahs, not the approved supposed matriarchs of Israel, but the suspect women. And so I’ve always read that. I’m like, why the suspect women? Why the suspect women? Why the suspect women?
I’m going to answer that question as I go to Matthew 15, because Matthew 15 I would argue has to be read in light of Matthew chapter one. And this is where we get into the deeper story of Jesus. So Matthew 15, [oh], you may have to do something. Austin. As Austin is doing whatever magic he’s doing, Matthew 15 verses 21 through 28. So going from someplace Jesus is going into now entering into the region of Tyre and Sidon and behold, a woman Cannanite, a woman Canaanite from the regions there, she’s coming in and she’s crying out [reads text in biblical language]. And she said, A Sunday, have mercy on me Lord, son of David, for my daughter is demon-possessed like evilly, horribly, it’s bad. And Jesus at verse 23 does not answer her a word.
[reads Biblical language text] she’s coming the disciples, they’re coming up behind him and they’re asking him, saying a, send her away because she’s crying after us, but there’s no Jesus. It’s just Jesus. Jesus says, I am not sent except to the sheep, specifically the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And she coming, so she coming does a bodily action, she falls down. I’m not getting, five years ago when I was teaching her, I would easily get on the ground, not today. She goes and she falls before Jesus and this bodily idea of worship, but worship where you also prostrating yourself. And it’s almost like you’re kissing the feet and the garments of that person that you are asking for help. And so she is doing all the things in order to get Jesus to change his mind. And she says, Lord, help me.
And he said, it is not good to give the loaf, the bread of the children and throw it, throw it to the dogs. But she said, nay Lord or aye Lord. But even the dogs eat from the crumbs that have fallen from the table of their masters. And Jesus said, oh woman, [reads biblical language text] this happens three times in the book of Matthew. Is this like your great faith? Not little. Usually we get ye of little faith, but we get this mega, this great faith–depart and as you wish, let it be done. And her daughter was healed from that hour. Alright, so that’s our story. And usually I often ask students, how has this text often been preached or taught to you?
How has this text often been preached or taught to you? And let me hear one answer. Oh my goodness. How is it often taught or preached to you? [Audience: Jesus was testing her.] Jesus was testing her. Jesus was growing her faith. Very John, Calvin, John Calvin reading this is saying, oh, this is the example of how we’re supposed to pray. You are persistent in your prayer no matter what. Well, I would argue something differently. I would argue that this woman is doing a multitude of things and we’re going to focus on the woman for a second. She’s crossing a border, she has crossed the border to get to Jesus and she’s crossing that border. And as she’s crossing that border, she identifies Jesus as son of David. So not only has the woman who is on the border of society crossed the boundary to get to Jesus, but she has also recognized and acknowledges Jesus’s identity and his royal lineage even though she is other.
So she’s other. Jesus is being callous. And when you look at the gospel of Mark chapter seven verses 24 through 30, somewhere in that range, you get the same story, but she’s called a Syro-Phoenecian woman. She’s not called a Canaanite woman. And so Jesus says not a word to her in Matthew 15:23, which does not appear in Mark chapter seven. Matthew, the Matthian writer makes Jesus even more callous. But it seems to me that as I read this text, Jesus is also doing something else. The Canaanite people who have a history for the Israel nation of being barbarian only worthy of death, a good Canaanite is a dead Canaanite for the Israelites. Just like a good N-word is a dead N-word for a lot of White Christian Nationalists. This woman is other. And why did I go back to Mark chapter one. Who is in Jesus’s genealogy? Canaanite other women. So what happens when you say you’re only come to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, but then you have to look in the face of the other and realize, oh my God, that person is me. So here’s the twist. Jesus is not just pushing her faith, but I would make the argument that if we really believe what the text says about Jesus being fully God and fully human and not just harp on the fully God part, but actually wrestle with the text where Jesus is fully human, we have to recognize that Jesus, even as he’s created in the image of God, has to go through what those of us who are created in the image of God go through, a progressive transformative, gradual moving of our own imago dei. And this is where the work of Stanley Grenz becomes important because Grenz argues that when you think about the imago dei of Jesus or the imago dei in connecting it to Jesus, he’s talking about we have to take seriously that Jesus is human and divine.
And that according to Western psychology, which is what Grenz loves to also think about, just as we have a self, we have an individual self, we have a relational self, we have a collective self. And some psychologists would say that for a lot of people, the most important self is the individual self. And then maybe when you started getting into relationships with other people, then that relational self sometimes takes over. But that collective self, from what I was reading, that collective self is the least developed self most of the times from what I read, you all can correct me in the Q and A if I’m wrong, but I think what we’re seeing here is that Jesus, moving away from only being for the lost sheep of the house of Israel actually moves into a deeper collective, I would say a deeper collectivity. And how do I know that?
Because the gospel writer has argued or stated that, in my view, 14, 13 through 21, Jesus feeds like 5,000 people. And that feeding, they take up 12 baskets of bread, 12 being the number of the house of Israel, 12 being the number of disciples that he calls or apostles that he calls that idea. And also in Mark 14, he’s in a land that is mostly Israel. He has the conversation with the Canaanite woman. He sees himself in her because she is the other. And then at Matthew 15:32 through 39, he has another feeding, but it’s in a more Gentile region because he’s still hanging with the people of Tyre and Sidon from Matthew 15. And so that feeding the gospel writer says that the leftovers that they took up were seven baskets. Now if you know anything about biblical numbers 12 representing the number of the house of Israel, seven representing men or more of a complete mission. And now you’ve seen Jesus’s mission change from that individual Israel mindset to, oh my God, I am here for more people. That deeper story of Jesus is the invitation that I’m asking White Nationalists to think about. I am here for other people. I am not just here for you. So what does that invitation look like? It looks like an invitation to solidarity. I feel like I need to say more about Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
I believe that Jesus comes away with a healed understanding of his own identity and he has a push toward a more inclusive ministry and mission. And I also think that in that healed understanding of his identity, when you read the gospel in its entirety, you also have to see that, I think Jesus also has a healed identity regarding masculinity and power, masculinity and power. How do I get that? If you go back to Matthew chapter eight, Matthew chapter eight, a Roman centurion asks Jesus to heal his enslaved person. Is a Roman centurion a part of the house of Israel? No, a Roman centurion is not a part of the house of Israel. But Jesus at that text says, sure, I’ll come. Let’s go heal your enslaved servants. But in 15 he says, I’m come only to the lost people of the house of Israel, basically ignoring that Canaanite woman.
So Jesus in the entirety of the gospel of Matthew, I think there’s that healing from wanting to be close to power, wanting to be in charge, wanting to be the man in the room who knows the answer to everything, wanting to be that person who knows everything. And if Jesus, the Jesus that we know as the Christ both human and divine has to have these conversations, I would argue within his own mind and within this text, why do we feel like we don’t have to have the same conversations today? [Oh yes] That’s where we’re going to. So how do we invite people into conversations like that? I don’t know. Lemme tell you, it’s hard as hell.
Plain and simple. For some reason I did it again, I’m sorry. For some reason back in Atlanta and other parts of the world, I’m invited to teach and preach in predominantly white spaces, white churches who love their Bible, love Jesus. And then they’re trying to figure out, well, where are we going wrong with our family and our friends who are Trumpites, our MAGA supporters who are putting forth this idea of making America great again, which is going back to some kind of 1950s idea of being America. And what I just try to do is invite them into a deeper story of Jesus. That’s the invitation. The invitation to explore such questions are not always easy. It is hard. You have folks like, oh, Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Green has called herself a proud Christian Nationalist and is trying to make that term more acceptable. So I would say that the deep story of Jesus has to ask these questions about how are we getting away from this? How are we getting to a posture that really takes a look at the history in which this country was founded? How do we not whitewash it? How do we begin to interrogate our own biases? That’s our second posture. How do we begin to realize that even if someone is loud and makes a lot of noise, that doesn’t mean you ignore them. Maybe perhaps you need to have a conversation with them in us and Jesus. And then the third posture, an invitation to not feel as though we’re astray within our own individual identity.
In a book, David Roediger wrote it, the book’s title is Working Toward Whiteness, Working Toward Whiteness that elite white society had shunned less than elite white society. And he really goes into talking about white folks understanding themselves as white trash, but the ways that political systems move them from white trash to at least you’re better than these other people, gave them an out from their straight status or their straight identity. The story of Jesus actually invites us to become more in solidarity of people, to have solidarity across identities and not coalesce around one particular tribe or group, specifically white identity. That’s what I’m trying to do as I imagine my life, my project, as a Womanist, new Testament Biblical scholar who’s just trying to make a difference wherever she finds herself. Thank you. [applause, standing ovation]
[end of lecture, transition to panel]
My colleagues will have our panel discussion as to what they heard and granted they read the, or had the opportunity to read the larger work that this is coming from. So there are things that I’ve probably skipped that they’ll be able to point out, [CS: “still taking notes.”] What are you thinking? Going to drop my, oh, lemme say some other things to help. Please. One thing that’s interesting for me, even as I read the Canaanite woman, I was trying to focus more on Jesus because oftentimes we focus more on the Canaanite woman when we’re reading the text. But one thing that’s interesting about the difference between the Mark narrative and the Matthew narrative is that the Canaanite woman, as Mr. Dubay argues, internalizes Jesus’s racism. And so when you think about she’s agreeing with Jesus saying, yeah, I may be a dog, but at least the dogs eat under the table. She said essentially, yes, I’m a little dog. Or I think I put in the paper she was acknowledging that she’s a little bitch. Sorry, but I had to put it in the paper because come on. But it’s that internalized racism that we all kind of live in sometimes. So I forgot.
Dr. Chelle Stearns:
Dr. Angela Parker:
Dr. Chelle Stearns:
Yeah, I think the first thing that I’ll just speak for both of us in just saying thank you for coming. It’s delightful to have you. [applause]
Dr. Angela Parker:
Dr. Chelle Stearns:
To have Dr. Parker here is a delight. So yeah, I think the thing that really stood out to me when I was reading the paper was really that kind of sense of you read the genealogy and you connect it to these women, to the women within the gospel, and really kind of thinking back of how often even when we’re reading, we begin to erase others in order to get to a Jesus we’ve already preconceived. So we actually are reading poorly, but we think we’re reading some. [AP: Exactly.] And so I think that’s the thing that [AP: Awesome.] I think that’s the thing that really stood out to me. And so this question as a theologian, the question then becomes, so what is being revealed here? And you’re actually in some sense messing with this idea of the revelation of who this Jesus is.
I’m kind of thinking of the passage in Hebrews in the book of Hebrews where it’s kind of like that Jesus becomes perfected. There’s kind of this weird play on this idea of what does it mean for Jesus to actually perfect our faith or perfect our own humanity? And by Jesus embodying in this story something that in some ways expected of him and then is transformed in this moment in some ways by this woman kind of, I love the way you put it, of he begins to see who he is as a Canaanite. [AP:Exactly, exactly.] He begins to see his own identity as other and realizing, oh, there’s something more that’s happening here. There’s something more. If you want to talk about it as the imago dei as a theologian, I’d be like, what we’re seeing is the transformation of the Imago Christi or the image of Christ that we are called into as Christians, to become less the individual.
And he becomes the collective of how his whole being begins to pick up this collective identity and transform it. And therefore our call is not to the pre-Jesus before this encounter. We are called to the Jesus after this encounter. And the thing that’s probably hard for folks to even begin to talk about is the idea of a Jesus that changes because most of us have grown up with a Jesus the same today, tomorrow, forever, whatever. And that’s something that we can’t live in the cognitive dissonance of if we read the text well, and that’s the thing. So either you’re going to read the text well or you’re going to hold on to your preconceived notion of the Jesus that you’ve already always been taught or the Jesus that has been christologically formed in theological construction.
Dr. David Leong:
I guess I’ll share some similar thoughts while on the genealogy topic, which I think is obviously such an essential part of how we understand Jesus’ life and ministry yet so often overlooked. So I appreciate how in the paper today, just a reminder that Jesus’ mixed genealogy helps us to see this really critical role that foreigners and outsiders play. And it’s interesting how in so much of the modern development of racial ideology, how this notion of racial purity, this notion that people groups can maintain some kind of integrity is what creates all these racial hierarchies in the world. And even though we now have all of the DNA science that recognizes that if you send your DNA off to send it off to 23 and Me or ancestry.com, what have you, it is really illuminating. It reflects how all of us are quite mixed, and yet these myths of racial purity kind of persist.
But I think most of all, I think similarly, I appreciated this depiction of a Jesus who’s confronted with his own ethnocentrism and has to really reevaluate if his depiction of who belongs in the house of Israel is a wide enough picture of the scope of God’s activity. So I think similar to what you were just saying, I think it’s wonderful to have the text open up the humanity of Jesus in new ways. And I think rather, while that is a, I think growing up I grew up as a Southern Baptist biblicist so I can identify with some of the ways that fixes Jesus’ persona in our minds. And so while it’s maybe a little scary to think about a fully human Jesus who is, as he’s teaching, as he’s performing miracles, as he’s living in the world, is also having to ask hard questions about whether the God that he serves, whether they’re on the same page quickly. I can see how that could be maybe threatening to some or how that kind of disturbs our level of comfort with the text. But I really love the way you opened it up to say that really this is an invitation into the mystery of God, the mystery of the incarnation of the dual nature of God. And so I don’t know, that’s something I hold onto saying that uncertainty, that dynamic nature of seeing Jesus or doesn’t have to be a threat to the authority of scripture, in fact reflects all of its beauty and complexities. I appreciate that.
Dr. Angela Parker:
And I appreciate that. And that’s exactly what I’m trying to do because when I think about how people respond to if God’s who reads, and I’m asking the questions around inerrancy and infallibility and connecting them to white supremacist thought, that’s even difficult for people to begin to wrap their minds around because it’s like, wait, no, this is just the way it’s always been. And I’m like, no, it’s not the way it’s always been. There has been an evolution of the doctrines of an errancy and infallibility that actually moves to the person who’s doing the interpretation or the person who’s doing the preaching in the congregation. So it’s kind of like the same thing almost in my brain because being able to wrestle with a Jesus who is wrestling with his own ethnocentricity gives an example of white supremacy that has to wrestle with their own ethnocentricity. And to put that in front of people, that’s hard because why do we have to do that? And I’m like, well, it’s going to benefit me and my grandchildren, so I’m going to push you no matter what. And that may be selfish, but here’s the thing where it’s not selfish. I think those who wrestle with it will actually be better.
I often ask in a class context, what salvation do white men need? And I’m not talking all white men, please don’t hear that. But there is a type of liberation from the belief that one knows everything, that this particular identity should have all of the answers. And I’ve never grown up with the luxury of being looked upon as the person who had all the answers. So I can live in that. I don’t know. I can live in the mystery of, okay, Jesus God, man, okay, Jesus in Hebrews being perfected, okay, Jesus in Matthew doing something different. Okay, Jesus and John being completely masculine and taking care of business from the cross. Okay. Can I just live in all of that and not have to have mastery and control over it? Can I just read it and engage it? And it’s funny because you’re in a place where you’re getting a master’s degree, but you really don’t get mastery and control over it. And we’re never supposed to get mastery and control over it. And that’s where we’re trying to live. So I think that’s where salvation comes from, those for those who think that they’re always supposed to have mastery and control.
Dr. David Leong:
Can I ask a follow up? [AP: Yeah]. Since I hear a little Willie Jennings, oh,
Dr. Angela Parker:
Dr. David Leong:
I think this is for all of us in perhaps in the room a little bit to think about. In my experience, Christian Nationalists have a hard time seeing the Whiteness in their nationalism, especially maybe the deeper story. It’s a very – forgive the pun – skin- deep racial analysis. And I know that among academics and among a lot of theologians, whiteness is a very common, very popular area of discourse, rightfully so. Given all the sort of Eurocentric history that you went over a little bit, I sometimes just wonder as maybe a pragmatist or as one wanting to have conversations outside spaces like this. [AP: Yes.] How do we talk about whiteness in the way that Jennings does as a way of seeing the world as a cultural hermeneutic, as a way of embodying our lives through maybe demonstration, things like master possession control, but how do we do that in a way that doesn’t just sort of reinstantiate the polarizing ways that people are thinking, like the Fox News-ification of racial politics? And I ask that for, I mean, even in my own family, there are people, they wouldn’t call it Christian nationalism, but they’re living inside that narrative deeply. And I want to be able to kind touch on some of those things. But I fear that as we talk about whiteness, it’s not having the same effect when I’m reading a journal article and presenting a paper. Do you know what I mean? How do I translate that? How do you translate that for browns?
Dr. Angela Parker:
So usually I am in a church preaching and I’ll preach something I’ll preach by Philemon. And so I’m preaching Philemon and making it connected to the 1619 project and saying, so what does Jesus want us to do in this moment? It’s not a come to Jesus accept Jesus’ Lord and Savior, because usually I’m preaching in churches where probably everybody’s been the member for 50 years. And so I’m like, okay, let’s read this text and read it differently. And usually no matter what, after I’m done preaching, I’ll have someone come to me, shake my hand earnestly and say, thank you for that word, preacher, but I don’t speak color. I’m colorblind.
And it’s that moment for me to have that conversation with that well-meaning person that says something like this. I know that a lot of liberals have put forth this idea of colorblind mentality that if we just ignore race and just treat each other the way we think Dr. Martin Luther King said about, I want my children to be received on the content of their character, not the color of their skin. See, it’s amazing to me, that’s the one thing white folks can quote from that opinion. I’m just like, is that the only thing that he said? No, but when we think about that language of colorblindness, you’re usually ignoring 400 years of history that comes with me when I enter into a room. And that’s what I’ll tell any parishioner. I’ll say, you’re looking at me and you’re telling me you don’t see color. So you don’t see my grandmother who was raped off of her land.
You don’t see my great-grandmother who was an enslaved person. You don’t see what it means to live in Jim Crow South. You don’t see all of the things that are part of the history behind me. And truth be told, you don’t see the history that you bring into this room either. So you’re trying to ignore my history and you’re also ignoring the history of how you even became colorblind and white. I mean, you weren’t White when you came here. You were Italian, you were German, you were Scottish, you were Swedish, and you’ve lost all of that. And so that language of colorblindness actually means that there’s so much more that we lose instead of gaining. And that’s a sit down conversation that has to occur all the time. But I find it fruitful, especially after I preach, and it’s not the academic conversations, it’s the sitting at the tables after a church service and having, I don’t know. Well, last time I went to the church, they made ribs. So that’s a great question.
Dr. Chelle Stearns:
Not quite bad church coffee and stale bagels. I yet, okay. I mean, I would definitely open things up. I think one of the things that I find challenging in this conversation is in some sense, yeah, going back home, what are the conversations we have when we’re with our family or I was working, I spent a lot of time in Canada this last summer working with an artist, and I had done a conference with her, Erica Grimm. She’s amazing. Hey Erica, have you watched this? And one of the things that she really challenged me was to go, so one of the things we wanted to start with was not only doing a land acknowledgement from the place where we were doing our conference, but to think through what was the land acknowledgement from where I grew up and from Seattle. And from there we began to go and what’s the story of the watershed that is there or is no longer there?
So it began this kind of journey of asking the question of the stories that have been lost. So I really love, you don’t see all the things in which I am connected to my ancestors. You don’t see all the ways in which I’m connected to the land. You don’t see. And in that the privilege of whiteness is that we don’t have to tell the story. The story I keep getting is, oh, well, I have nothing to do with that. It’s not actually my story. So where I am from just to do a short land acknowledgement, I’m from the Rogue River Valley where I was actually born, and I’m doing this off the top of my head, so I’m like, I’m losing the name of the tribe, but there’s a small tribe from the region on the Rogue River that I am from that was 10,000 strong before the settlers came.
They were all over the entire Rogue River Valley from eastern Oregon to the ocean, and there they were. And then the gold came, and a state that purposely wanted to be white supremacist. And they came and they basically erased. There are now 70 people left of that tribe. They’re not in their land. They are somewhere up north on a small disputed–they’re not actually acknowledged as a tribe anymore. So they have no rights or privileges to land anywhere. And so I have privilege because my parents live there and they own land, and that I can go back whenever I want and I have value and money kind of invested in this land. And it is somehow mine where this tribe that went back thousands of years in an area that is rich and wonderful is now 70 people and they don’t know their own language.
And so I’m like, the more I can wrestle with that story as actually this is not someone else’s story, this is my story now. This is part of my bias is that I have this huge blind spot because I don’t know how to tell the story well. And I’m like, I’m in my fifties, but I had never heard the story. I didn’t know that most of the tribe died because they made them walk up north in northern Oregon. I didn’t know there was a trail of tears in the state of Oregon. So there’s things like that of even you go, well, that’s a pretty simple thing. But I’m like, when I went to go look for the story, when I went to go look for land acknowledgements from where I come from, they were non-existent. Southern Oregon State University over in Ashland had something.
But then I go, so this is the problem. We stop telling the story and we think that has nothing to do with us, and yet we lose part of ourselves in the process. So I think that, I mean that’s in some ways how I’ve, it’s like the slow long work of the restoring of land, the restoring of my own life, my own body, my own family. And to realize that to be white is in some sense this collective of erasure of almost everyone else.
Dr. Angela Parker:
That’s a good answer. That’s a good way to think about it. I mean, that’s why we’re such good friends. I think I want to take this time to at least prompt you all who have questions to begin to think about your questions, you push back, what I left out that probably needs to be said. And I do want to make sure that those identifiably who identify as students or other students have an opportunity to address question pose before, you know what usually happens. I was trying to be nice. Anything that you want anything about,
If I could,
Dr. Angela Parker:
So it’s all clear as mud. Oh, thank you. You want to do that set? Alright. Thank you
Dr. Parker. Let us know who you want us to the link to. Sure.
Dr. Ron Ruthruff:
I have a question.
Dr. Angela Parker:
Oh, Ron, I’m going to take personal privilege and stay. Wait. Oh yeah, I’ll come back to him. I’ll go first real right here because I’m trying to make sure I’m not overlooking anyone, but I do want to, especially those who just added this semester.
Dr. Parker, thank you so much for being with us for your time. I think when we talk about White Christian Nationalism, we can talk about that without talking about the concept of borders. And you brought up borders a bit with when we coming to cross border, and I’m wondering if you can speak just a little bit to the concept of borders and give a response to people who maybe are build-thewall type or who advocate so strongly for a holding of a border. I love just what you already brought up with the crossing border. Come see Jesus. Can you speak more to borders?
Dr. Angela Parker:
Yeah, sure. I don’t think we’ve realized how much borders, how many times we put up borders and boundaries, that just even thinking about the separation between sacred and secular and the separation between church and politics, that we have these imaginary borders that really our faith is hell. And even though that Canaanite woman was crossing the border from Tyre and Sidon and getting to Jesus, I even think that that border is quite imaginary as well. What am I saying?
When you look at the topography of Israel and you look at Palestine and you see that Jesus and the disciples would’ve been able to look across rivers and across the sea of Galilee, sea, the Capernaum Sea, sea of Galilee, dead sea, okay. Sea of Galilee. And to see the ways that the folks at Tyre and Sidon lived that there was a more porous, permeable border. It’s not as hard and fixed as we think. And I think even when we talk about borders in the United States of America, they’re not as hard and fixed as we think, because essentially Mexico owned what most of Texas beforehand. And we don’t realize or go back to that history and say, wait, we were already mixed up anyway. And I think Jesus is seeing that that woman was already mixed up within him anyway. And I think that as we imagine the folks who have the ability to make policy that number one, we should not be living in this age of scarcity.
If we really took seriously that those who had more should perhaps pay more, then we wouldn’t be living in the scarcity. And that’s another issue of humanit– that those who are hoarding can look at another person and say, oh no, I need it for me. I don’t recognize you and this is all mine, my mind, my mine. It’s like the 3-year-old and can’t even imagine what it means to have others who come in and just want to first of all have peace, not dodge bullets in their home nation, not running from political imprisonment in their home nation, to actually seek amnesty. It was interesting. I just started watching The Good Place and when they start talking about no one will ever close borders, no one would ever not allow amnesty for other people. And I’m like, oh, well we are, we have completely, our moral code has just completely changed.
And I don’t know, that’s just my weird thoughts on more why immigration. But I think that there’s something even within the biblical text that says, open up to more, not to less. I think that’s the morality within the biblical text, open up to more and not less. And so the Mike Johnsons of the world who say, I read my Bible and my Bible is my biblical worldview–that was bad–but that’s what we’re arguing against, that you are a biblical worldview is actually culturally White Christian Nationalist. It’s not actually your “biblical world view.” Okay. Rochelle,
Dr. Parker, I have an analogy of a phone conversation where you can’t tell by the tone of someone’s voice what color they are or what nationality they are. And then something happens in a face-to-face or in a change or in a dissonance that makes the world smaller. And you just talked about expanding, and I wonder what your thoughts are around an inability to see a divine or a sacred in another person that would increase the humanity and expand a vision and an interpretation of God rather than create a defensiveness that shrinks everything.
Dr. Angela Parker:
A vision of expansion, a vision of expansion, a vision of expansion. Oftentimes when we think about again, God, and now even Jesus, we are so hung up with the idea of never changing and I’m talking about God and Jesus never changing. And I wonder if we really think about the expansiveness of God and the idea of Jesus being transformed in some way, that we can make that connection to a change in transform of other people. That we tend to look at someone. Alright, don’t psychologists say that if you like someone within the first 10 seconds of meeting them. Oftentimes that’s what y’all say, but you get to know someone and you begin to understand, oh, they’re deeper than I thought they were, or there’s more to them than I gave them credit for.
I think that our relationship with God and the divine, if we have that small relationship with God, I think we also tend to have that small relationship with other people. And so I would argue that a larger relationship with God can give us a larger relationship with other people. I need to write that book too, remind me of these words. [comment from audience] Oh that’s funny. But I appreciate that, Michelle. And I think that’s the problem with White Christian Nationalism too. So small. So small.
Dr. Chelle Stearns:
Even just to maybe push this a little bit is kind of the sense of you think that you are getting power. I think this is the lies of the construction of whiteness. You think you’re getting power, you think that you’re even expanding, and actually you’re limiting. It’s like you’re seeing the small vision of power or you’re seeing the small vision of what could be. And instead it’s like God keeps blowing open these perspectives and like, well, Jesus does it all the time in the gospels. I love how you said, talked about Peter or Paul over Peter and going, I have to sit with that for a long time. Yes.
Dr. Angela Parker:
And then we’ll go to Ron Ruthruff. We’ll do.
Yeah. Dr. Parker, during your lecture you spoke of solidarity and as I’m reflecting on my own personal experiences with people from different communities, maybe a little more commonly with some white cousins, but that the solidarity can sometimes when some people tend to look more like ripping on other white people. And the meaning I make of that ends up looking a little bit more like a form of self-hatred, I think, than it does like a lot of other communities for other people. And so the question that I have then is, from your discipline, from looking at Jesus, you have more, can you give us more to go off of I against, what is it true and better solidarity actually look like that we can work with.
Dr. Angela Parker:
What does a true and better solidarity look like that we can actually work with? I have to acknowledge that for me, I’m in a field that I am 5% of the field. So no matter what, I have to look for allies and people to be in solidarity with because I will never be the constituency that has the most power in my field, which means that I have to be careful. And I always have to say, I have white guy friends that I’ve written with. We publish together. So because especially with students, students will look at me and they’re so afraid. I’m like, dude, calm down.
That as a minoritized person in the country, I have to find ways of solidarity and allyship that can be reciprocal. And when I have the capacity to not rip on white folks, that’s not the point. But when I have the capacity for my friends who say, can you explain to me why my colleague over here may be upset with something that I’ve just said? And if I have the capacity and I’m listening to the conversation, I can say, oh, well yeah, you were racially microaggressive them when you said blah, blah, blah, blah. So I have to live in that allyship of being a sounding board, even if it’s I have to be quiet and not, so I have to be like the Canaanite woman. Sometimes I can scream, but sometimes I also have to be like, just this is what you said and this is why it was offensive and this is why she felt my whole rest. But then I have to also be able to receive from them. So I think it’s a give and take in all relationships, but also I need my white allies and colleagues to know that I can’t be the only sounding board for you because I get tired.[applause]
Just can’t do it all the time. So you have to respect when I say I’m not at capacity to do this right now, I can’t. And it has to be any kind of relationship that we’re all constantly coming together or coming apart, coming together, coming apart, coming together, coming apart. That’s the only way I can think about it. I don’t have the power to do anything big and large. I just have the power to be in personal relationships. Question and then question.
Dr. Ron Ruthruff (faculty):
Dr. Parker, thank you so much. [laughter] You gave me permission. I’m go, I did one. Maybe this is another book you need to write, but I loved thank you and thank you Dr. Stearns and Dr. Leong. It was a gift to hear all three of you. And I love this image of the present transformation of Jesus in the text. The actual fact that Jesus is being changed and the humanness of him is sort of being attentive to things in his own life that needs to move and moving towards this perfected state in a very human-becoming sort of way. I love that. I think it’s such a great conversation piece when I think about my white family and my white friends. And I was just going to ask you, this can’t be the only place in the text that it happens. There has to be other stories where Jesus is being transformed. If this is sort of a theological theme in the gospels, and so I don’t want to put you on the spot, but I want to say, I would love for you to think about it or our panelists to think about where else could we go in the text to see Jesus’s invitation to be transformed. And that’s how I look at it. He’s inviting me to be changed in his own transformation. Are there other places we could go?
Dr. Angela Parker:
So one thing that’s coming to my mind immediately, I had the opportunity to record content with The Bible for Normal People. So if you don’t follow The Bible for Normal People, so over the next year you’ll see things that I recorded in one freaking weekend that will come out sporadically throughout the year. But one of the questions that was raised for that particular constituency was why does it prayer all always change things. Prayer should change things, but prayer doesn’t always change things. And I see Jesus wrestling with prayer in Matthew 26. So in Matthew 26, Jesus is tells the disciples, sit down here, I need to go pray. He goes off a few feet, he’s asking God if this cup can be taken away from me, take this cup away from me. He goes back, the disciples are asleep. He’s like, dudes, wake up. I just need you to be with me. Just be with me. And he goes off and he prays again. The prayer gets shorter and it’s getting more in anguish. He goes back, they’re asleep again. And he’s like, you can’t just stay awake. And then he goes back and he prays and the prayer is even shorter. And it’s just like, ugh. In that passage I see human Jesus wrestling with what happens when God does not answer prayer. And I think that’s also transformative for us. Instead, I’m super Christian. I pray. If things change, I say this, God jumps. I don’t know where that came from.
Dr. Angela Parker:
I just, it’s funny. My husband, Dr. Stearns and her husband, they all can play instruments. And the joke was, I’ll be in the background with a tambourine. She’s playing violin. I’m just like, oh yeah, I’ll dance. Like, wait, stop.
So I think that’s where we see other moments of Jesus going through and I think that’s important. Other moments of transformation, I could think about that. But the Jesus who’s in anguish and prayer is not changing things. I think that’s an important construct as well to think about.
Okay, so I saw here, here. Oh, one more. Okay, we’re down to the back one. Oh, I picked the one more. Who else had their hand up? I saw that hand. Did I see him? Oh, honey, I see. Oh hell. I got to stop. I don’t want to only for over here. See me after because I’m still going to be here and I’m going to be here tomorrow. So I’ll go right here just because it’s bright. It’s the white. It’s not you. It’s the imago dei shining upon thy face. What date is that?
No. Okay, so I want, my question is, so you mentioned you speak to a lot of predominantly white congregations. I live in Ohio and most people, I live in a predominantly white area. But more importantly, I live in a predominantly, I would say maybe traditionalist area. And I love these kind of conversations. I love the context of this school. If I brought this to my town, it would be like what? So what I’m curious to your thoughts on.
Dr. Angela Parker:
Wait a minute, I took this to Amarillo, Texas.
Okay, well maybe I’m wrong.
Dr. Angela Parker:
Amarillo, Texas, Trump town, where when I told a friend that I was in Amarillo, he was like, I grew up there. Are you okay?
So this is probably helpful because I think my question is, what is your advice for where do you start this conversation
Dr. Angela Parker:
Usually? No, that’s a great question. So I often tell students, you can’t go anywhere and preach and teach the way I would preach and teach. What you can do is you can go in with the, have you considered this? I think the best ways for white folks to go and talk to their own white folks, their own family friends, is to just ask gentle questions. Just ask gentle questions of, well, what if Jesus couldn’t get a prayer through? What if Jesus had to have a conversation with this stuff about something that’s happening in the text? What if Jesus actually loves all people and not just our own traditional understandings of ourselves or something? What if Jesus is bigger on what if Jesus is more? And I think the well placed question that just allows the beginning of conversation is the best thing to do. Good. Appreciate that Sister been helping me out all time. For those who didn’t get a question and see me, I’m still here. I’m here until tomorrow. I’m here all weekend, friends. I always say, you have to be part standup comedian and professor. [applause]
Dr. J. Derek McNeil:
I just want to say again, thank you Dr. Parker, and thank you, Dr. Stearns. Thank you, Dr. Leong. This has been a great panel. My only one concern is that we forget too easily that when you move from your seat, you’ll start to lose some of what you heard that we don’t retain very well. So the question is, what do you go and write down that you felt, that you heard, that you saw, that in some ways will stick with you to continue a longer conversation. And so think of it as the conversation began or maybe continue, that you want to keep moving through. Because again, it is a movement, a developmental process. And so my hope is that when you hit the fresh air, and this is pretty cool fresh air, that it won’t wipe you clean and that you’ll remember something. The challenge of remembering is critical for us. And so thank you for being here and being a part of a community, part of what it means to belong, part of what it means to share. And in some ways, not do this as a solo trip. I can appreciate whatever individual stance you take, but you are not by yourself. And if you do it that way, I’m sorry. So blessings to you. Peace to you. That’s my prayer. Shalom, peace to you, peace to you, peace to you, and we’ll see you again. Thank you. |
Specifically, the SRA is gathering more evidence as to the extent to which conveyancing and probate solicitors are meeting their obligations. Supervision arrangements within firms specialising in those areas will also be assessed (immigration is also a focus).
The regulator’s ‘next steps’ for continuing competency are contained in a recent report setting out its latest findings into how solicitors and firms maintain their skills and competency. The changes had been expected in January 2024, but have been pushed back while the SRA carries out further work.
What’s the background?
The solicitors’ profession has been under threat for some time of a tighter continuing competency regime, by order of the Legal Services Board. Until such a shift is implemented, solicitors will continue to be required to make a mandatory ‘statement of competence’ (supported by the Statement of Knowledge and the Threshold Standard) each year.
The current system has been in place for more than seven years (replacing the prescriptive system where solicitors had to fulfil a minimum number of CPD hours). But this is not sufficiently protecting consumers from incompetent or ineffective solicitors – at least, that’s what the super-regulator believes.
The SRA recently published its findings following an analysis of the latest data, ranging from reports of alleged incompetence; findings from recent thematic reviews; and from wider SRA checks on training and supervision arrangements.
As a result, it found - unsurprisingly - that conveyancing and probate are more likely to be the subject of a report to the SRA. This means a particular focus will now be on those two areas, particularly on any competence reports requiring remedial action, and research into the risks to and impact on consumers of a lack of competence in conveyancing and probate services.
So what will this mean in practice? The regulator will consider enforcement action against solicitors breaching the rules in failing to keep up with their knowledge and skills; and against firms lacking appropriate supervision arrangements.
Conveyancing firms can also expect a letter from the SRA reminding them of their obligation to ensure solicitors maintain their competence. The regulator may also decide to introduce specific guidance on solicitor competency in conveyancing and probate.
More generally, the next 12 months will see the SRA continue its competency-related work, including investigations into serious cases and competence-focused inspections. It is also to publish guidance next year clarifying its competence expectations, with a focus on the expectation for solicitors to reflect on their particular practice - and how they can do so effectively and can identify their learning and development needs.
To help support your continuing competency, we have created the SRA Webinar Bundle, a 4 x 1 hour webinar package designed to help ensure your skills are up to date and in line with the SRA competence standards. View our SRA Webinar Bundle here. |
The roar of the Six Nations fades, but the Legacy of Past Champions echoes on. Wilkinson’s poise, O’Driscoll’s flair, and countless others inspire, unite, and shape the game’s future. Explore their impact, beyond the trophies, on the tournament’s captivating journey.
Legacy of Past Champions: The Pioneers: Setting the Stage for Greatness (1883-1931)
England’s Era of Dominance (1883-1900)
Led by legendary figures like W.G. Grace and Rowland Hill, England established themselves as the early pace-setters, instilling a winning mentality and laying the foundation for future generations.
The Rise of Welsh Flair (1901-1931)
Wales, under the leadership of flamboyant players like Gwyn Nicholls, started challenging England’s dominance, showcasing their unique playing style and igniting the first embers of a fierce rivalry.
Legacy of Past Champions: French Flair and the Rise of New Challengers (1932-1999)
The French Revolution (1910-1931)
France’s entry in 1910 injected a new dimension with their charismatic players like Jean Prat and Lucien Mias. Their attacking style captivated audiences and influenced other nations to adopt more expansive play.
Ireland’s Triple Crown Triumph (1985)
Ireland defied the odds to secure a historic Triple Crown in 1985, showcasing their resilience and tactical prowess, proving that success wasn’t limited to the traditional powerhouses.
Scotland’s Grand Slam Glory (1990)
Scotland’s unexpected Grand Slam victory in 1990 under the leadership of Gavin Hastings further emphasized the growing competitiveness of the Five Nations, demonstrating that any team could rise to the occasion.
Legacy of Past Champions: The Grand Slam Era: Defining Moments and Enduring Heroes (2000-Present)
England’s Woodward Era: Setting New Standards (2000-2003)
Clive Woodward’s England redefined professionalism and tactical innovation, with iconic figures like Jonny Wilkinson and Martin Johnson leading them to dominant victories and Grand Slams.
Wales’s Golden Generation: Passion and Precision (2008-2019)
Sam Warburton’s leadership, Leigh Halfpenny’s kicking prowess, and a passionate defensive style defined Wales’s golden generation, captivating fans with thrilling victories and Grand Slam triumphs.
Ireland’s Ascent: From Underdogs to Champions (2014-Present)
Under Joe Schmidt and Andy Farrell, Ireland transformed from underdogs to Grand Slam champions in 2018 and 2023. Their journey embodies determination, tactical adaptability, and the emergence of a new force in the Six Nations.
Legacy of Past Champions: Beyond Trophies: The Enduring Impact of Champions
Inspiring Generations: Role Models and Legends
Past champions like Jonny Wilkinson, Brian O’Driscoll, and Fabien Galthié continue to inspire future generations with their dedication, skill, and leadership, demonstrating the values that define Rugby union.
Uniting Nations: National Pride and Shared Passion
Champions often ignite a national fervor, fostering a sense of pride and unity among fans. Wales’s 2019 Grand Slam, for instance, provided a much-needed boost to national morale.
Lessons Learned: Shaping the Future of the Game
The legacies of past champions extend beyond individual achievements. Their triumphs and failures offer valuable lessons, shaping the evolution of tactics, training methods, and the overall landscape of the Six Nations.
Suggested Read: A Journey Through Six Nations History: Humble Beginnings
Summing it Up
The tapestry of the Six Nations is enriched by the Legacy of Past Champions. Their stories remind us of the core values of the sport – courage, sportsmanship, and unwavering passion. As the Six Nations continues to evolve, these legacies will continue to inspire future generations, ensuring that the tournament’s rich history fuels its captivating present and exciting future.
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In the celebratory cookbook Cake, Maira Kalman writes:
“When we lived in Rome we had a party and we made a gorgeous pink cake. Lucretius was on our mind. And Spinoza. His search for happiness. And someone mentioned Nietzsche’s quote. He said a day without dancing is a wasted day. You don’t think of philosophers dancing, especially Nietzsche. But apparently they do.”
I had this idea in mind as I watched OnlyHuman by Christine Bonansea Company at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church. Kalman’s aphorism brings out not only the centrality of dancing in a life well-lived but also the improbability of a dancing Nietzsche. Like Kalman, Bonansea invites us to ask: what does it mean to dance? And what does it mean to be human?
The piece has three sequences–a fuzzy, looped video projection, a solo movement sequence, and group choreography. Each part highlights a different theme of the work: technology, biology, society, all of which are reshuffled and recombined in the successive sequences. From the top, we are confronted with the strangeness of the show, as the solo performer Mei Yamanaka moves through the darkness, lit only by the Blair Witch-style footage on the screen behind her. After the film projection ends, Yamanaka stands perfectly still, in perfect silence, for a few agonizing minutes. Every sound in the building is audible, and I felt like a rube wondering repeatedly, are those footsteps and that door shutting part of the show? Then I realized–my focus was being sharpened, the stillness and silence forcing me to concentrate on minute movements and sounds which only gradually got large enough for my brain to recognize them as these things called dance and music.
Yamanaka’s excruciatingly controlled movements during the solo were not dancerly per se, nor was the soundscape at all harmonious. Dressed in grey sweats that concealed her age and gender, she resembled one of the Doric columns that divide the chapel’s space. Her movements were elemental. Sometimes she pivoted her torso holding her arms at right angles, evoking industrial machinery. At other times she crouched low and hopped, looking positively simian. Is this what it means to be human? A primate with a brain-machine?
For me the most touching moment was when Yamanaka reached her hands up into the hood of her sweatshirt, stretching it up above her head to reveal her mid-section clad in a black leotard.
Moving her hands around the hood in an expressively curious way, she had transformed her own body into a human-like puppet. It was funny and ingenious, and reminded me of a notion that I came across in Scott McCloud’s book Understanding Comics–people will always read a circle with two dots and/or a line as a human face. Yamanaka’s face betrayed no emotion throughout her dance, but her person-puppet was coy and playful, more human than human.
When Yamanaka is joined by the rest of the company, the same movements reappear and take on a new meaning. What was so defamiliarizing when performed alone seems so much more recognizable as dance when done by a group performing in unison. This is one of the darker truths about human society, the permissiveness that multiplicity accords to actions. The sensuality of the choreography is evident only in the context of the group and the diads that break apart from it, the dancers in the company by turns cooperative and vulnerable. It’s dark and unsettling, and the wide range of possible meanings could point to a bleak Nietzschean nihilism. The theatre’s capacity is small, and the enthusiastic applause of the two dozen or so audience members seemed an inadequate thanks for the sheer physical labor performed for our entertainment. But after the ovation, the dancers came out of their professional mode, mingling with friends in the cast and audience, hugging, laughing. They’re human after all.
This post was written by the author in their personal capacity.The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of The Theatre Times, their staff or collaborators.
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I measure capacity based on a dollar goal per month. When I reach it, I shut the door.
If you don’t have some way of measuring your capacity, it’s tempting to just keep saying yes, yes, yes. Sooner or later, you’re running ragged and doing lower quality work.
And don’t worry about sending people away. The good clients will wait for you – the ones who won’t, never thought you were that special to begin with (fools). |
I’ve been on the phone a lot this week: Cable company, mortgage company, health insurance company.
The experiences were good enough, but pretty much as expected: Twenty+ minutes on hold, multiple transfers, a lot of time listening closely since, apparently, “our menu options have changed.”
This morning, I called my home insurance company: Bunker Hill Insurance.
Three things caught my attention, all of which hinted at the size of the operation:
- The woman who picked up the phone just said, “Hi, this is Elizabeth.” No boilerplate jargon.
- She had a very distinctive, local (Boston) accent.
- After I explained the situation (accidental double-payment), she said she would “keep an eye out for my check and send a refund right away.”
Keep an eye out? You mean the person on the phone actually has some connection to the operation itself?
We are all so used to dealing with gigantic call centers that interacting with a friendly, knowledgeable local business is a bit of a shock.
If you’re a tiny professional service firm that is trying to appear bigger than you really are, I think you may be leaning in the wrong direction. |
A virtual exhibition of artworks by Indigenous artists currently in or recently released from prisons in Victoria.
Presenting over 300 artworks, from 286 artists, Confined 11 creates a strong visual metaphor for the over-representation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system.
The Confined 11 virtual gallery opens Thursday 14th May 2020, 9am at thetorch.org.au/C11
The Confined exhibition is the key annual public event of The Torch’s Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program which provides art, cultural and arts industry support to Aboriginal offenders and ex-offenders in Victoria.
Artworks created through The Torch are part of a rehabilitation process that helps build confidence, social capital, economic stability and pathways to reconnect with the community. Confined plays an important role in supporting Aboriginal offenders and ex-offenders to tell their stories, connect with the community, develop arts networks and reintegrate back into society.
Image: Sunset Cockatoo, Stacey, Taungurong/Boon Wurrung people |
Black Man Forced into Slave Labor Wins Judgment of More than $500K
In a story as appalling as many of the racially motivated attacks on African Americans and one that was relatively obscure, a federal appeals court ruled that a White man should pay more than $500,000 to a Black man with intellectual disabilities whom he enslaved at his restaurant.
Bobby Paul Edwards, who employed John “Jack” Christopher Smith at his J&J Cafeteria in Conway, S.C., from 2009 to 2014, pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor and was sentenced in 2019 to 10 years in prison. A civil court judge ruled that Smith had been forced to work for more than 100 hours a week without pay.
The lawsuit filed against Edwards said that he provided Smith with an apartment during his employment, but the conditions were akin to living in squalor.
“They were subhuman,” attorneys for Smith wrote in court briefs.
They said Edwards regularly subjected Smith to harsh treatment, including berating him with racial slurs and often threatening to do physical harm.
Smith was awarded $272,952.96 in damages and wage repayment in 2019, but a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated that decision late last month, sending the case back to the lower court to essentially double the amount awarded to $546,000.
“When an employer fails to pay those amounts (regular and overtime pay), the employee suffers losses, which includes the loss of the use of that money during the period of delay,” read the appeal ruling.
According to reports, Smith worked at J&J for more than 30 years. He began working at the restaurant when he was just 12. When Edwards took over the business from his family, that’s when the mistreatment of Smith began.
His attorneys said Edwards forced Smith to work 18-hour shifts for six days each week and 11 hours on Sunday. The lawyers said Smith received just under $3,000 annually under Edwards. |
G20 India - 1st Employment Working Group Meeting: Addressing Priorities of Labor, Employment, and Social Issues for Strong, Sustainable, Balanced, and Job-Rich Growth
The 1st Employment Working Group (EWG) Meeting was successfully held in Jodhpur, India between 2nd and 4th February. This significant gathering brought together delegates from 19 countries, the European Union, 9 guest countries, and 9 regional and international organizations. The host country, India, played a crucial role in raising concerns about addressing the priorities of labor, employment, and social issues for strong, sustainable, balanced, and job-rich growth within the group.
Key Focus Areas of the EWG Meeting
During the EWG Meeting, the delegates engaged in productive deliberations centered around three key thematic areas. These areas were carefully selected to foster the development of robust, sustainable, inclusive, and job-rich growth worldwide.
1. Addressing Global Skill Gaps
One of the critical challenges faced by countries across the globe is the existence of skill gaps in their respective labor markets. The EWG Meeting aimed to explore effective strategies for addressing these gaps and harmonizing global skills and qualifications. By developing a framework for common skill taxonomies, countries can bridge the divide and ensure a skilled workforce that meets the demands of the evolving job market.
2. Gig and Platform Economy and Social Protection
With the rise of the gig and platform economy, it has become essential to extend social protection coverage to workers in these sectors. The EWG Meeting emphasized the need for enhanced national statistical capacities to capture gig and platform work accurately. This data would aid in effective policymaking and decision-making processes. Additionally, policy options based on social insurance and tax-financed schemes were discussed to ensure sustainable financing of social security for gig and platform workers.
3. Sustainable Financing of Social Security
Sustainable financing of social security is a crucial aspect of ensuring the well-being and protection of workers worldwide. The EWG Meeting delved into various policy recommendations to address this issue. Priority was given to exploring options such as sharing best practices, extending international development assistance, and implementing social insurance and tax-financed schemes. These initiatives aim to provide a solid foundation for sustainable financing and enhance welfare entitlements based on fiscal space.
Collaborative Efforts and International Representation
The EWG Meeting witnessed fruitful collaboration among various stakeholders. International organizations like the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the International Social Security Association (ISSA) actively participated in the discussions. Indian institutions, including the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), also shared their valuable insights on the topics at hand.
The World Bank delivered a compelling presentation highlighting the need for universal social protection. Moreover, the Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) team from the Ministry of Labour and Employment shed light on the initiatives and schemes implemented by the Government of India to enhance and strengthen social security.
Country-Specific Interventions and Open Discussions
To promote a comprehensive understanding of social security practices worldwide, participating countries shared their experiences, existing conditions, and legal frameworks regarding social security provision. This country-wise intervention provided valuable insights into the diverse approaches taken by different nations, enabling the identification of successful models and areas for improvement.
The 1st Employment Working Group Meeting held in Jodhpur, India was a resounding success. Delegates from various countries, international organizations, and Indian institutions convened to discuss critical labor, employment, and social issues. The meeting's focus on addressing global skill gaps, the gig and platform economy,
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Binance’s NFT marketplace has recently unveiled a new functionality that enables users to borrow cryptocurrencies by leveraging NFTs as collateral. This development marks the platform’s entry into the NFT lending space. According to a recent announcement, the Binance NFT marketplace currently supports ether (ETH) borrowing against notable NFTs like Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC), Azuki, and Doodles.
To provide more details, the current interest rate for NFT loans on the Binance NFT marketplace is set at 7.91% per annum, and the loan-to-value ratio ranges between 40% and 60%, as stated on the Binance NFT website. Notably, users won’t incur any gas fees or Ethereum transaction charges when utilizing this feature.
Binance initially introduced its NFT marketplace in April 2021, officially launching it in June of the same year. In a recent update, Binance NFT announced its intention to support Ordinals, Bitcoin NFTs, adding to its existing blockchain offerings of Ethereum, Polygon, and its native BNB Chain.
The introduction of the NFT loan feature by Binance NFT follows closely on the heels of Blur, a prominent NFT marketplace, which launched its NFT lending protocol named Blend earlier this month. Blend distinguishes itself by allowing lenders to establish their own interest rates and loan-to-value ratios, as highlighted by analyst Brad Kay from The Block Research. Kay states, “Blend’s meteoric rise in the NFT lending market is undeniable. As it continues to break new ground, the protocol is proving that a market-driven approach can successfully revolutionize the lending landscape.” |
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Emanuel AME and the buoyancy of hope
By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist
Rev. Clementa Pinckney and his fellow congregants of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. gathered as usual in the historic edifice June 17 for their Wednesday evening prayer service. They came, as always, to refresh their religious faith, to testify and bear witness to the importance of living a life of righteousness and to extend to all, including the stranger in their midst, their welcome and their trust.
How could they know that he represented a monstrous evil that would consume them?
So, once again, American society has been wounded by the dangerous forces of hatred and violence that have always shadowed the gleaming idealism of the American Creed.
As usual when the mask of American innocence slips, the crowd that loves to glibly boast of “American exceptionalism” ran for cover. Fox News propagandists led the way in desperately fleeing from the clear evidence of Dylan Roof’s racism. Instead, they claimed he was striking against Christianity and “religious freedom.”
Revealingly, the same pose was adopted by the Internet’s overtly white-supremacist websites and the trolls of the right-wing Twitter mob.
But Roof’s own words and Facebook posts leave no doubt of his motivation—and leave no room for the cowardice of not confronting them.
President Obama gave voice to “the heartache and the sadness and the anger” the massacre provoked in decent people when he said, “We as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries … with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something about it … the politics in [Washington] foreclose a lot of those avenues right now. But it would be wrong for us not to acknowledge it. At some point it’s going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it, and for us to be able to shift how we think about the issue of gun violence collectively.”
In those words the President spoke, substitute for “gun violence” the words “slavery” and/or “racism” and you have why, for many Black Americans, the terrorist attack at Emanuel AME scourged a profound historically-rooted pain.
Yet, even in this moment of grief, we ought to recognize the several truths that offer “the buoyancy of hope,” said the President, quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
One truth lies in our learning something of the very people – a cross-section of the American people – who were gunned down. Their being lost to the whirlwind of evil shouldn’t be allowed to obscure their fundamental goodness and commitment to Christianity’s most cherished precepts – as shown in their families’ heart-rending declarations of forgiveness toward Roof. “We are the family that love built,” said Bethane Middleton-Brown, sister of DePayne Middleton-Doctor, during the June 19 court hearing on the charges against Roof. Middleton-Brown said her family has no room for hate in their hearts, before adding that “I also thank God I won’t be around when your judgment days comes with him.”
The tragedy has also underscored the real and symbolic meaning to Black Americans of the Black Church. It was and remains our piece of the rock: A refuge against the storm of racism and malicious indifference that has swirled about us outside its walls. A vault that has held the treasures of fellowship and the space to practice communal leadership as well as religious faith. And an armory where Black Americans forged and buffed to a luminous shine both their civic faith in the American Ideal and the weapon—nonviolent protest—they would use to demand the full measure of their American citizenship.
Another insight is that Emanuel AME is “historic” not just because of its early 19th-century founding but because it met again and again the challenge of being a full-service Black communal institution. In that regard, Mother Emanuel is, thankfully, far from unique. Innumerable Black communities across the country have a “Mother Church” of this or that Protestant denomination whose roots go back to at least the late 1800s.
Another bright gleam the tragedy cannot extinguish was the immediate rush of people of all backgrounds to stand in solidarity with the congregants of Mother Emanuel. That was most dramatically illustrated by the actions of Debbie Dills and Todd Frady, two White North Carolinians whose call to a local police officer in the morning of June 18 directly led to Dylann Roof’s capture. Dills, who spotted Roof in his car while she was driving to her job at Frady’s florist shop, said, “I saw the news coverage last night. … Since it happened I was praying for them and the church. I was in the right place at the right time that the Lord puts you.”
That shining compassion, sense of kinship and determination to redeem a terrible wrong both illustrate and justify “the buoyancy of hope” that has always fueled Black Americans’ faith in America and in their march toward the future. |
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