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But the patient and family need professional help to support them through this challenging phase of their lives; and that’s when palliative care can make all the difference.
Palliative care provides pain and symptom relief and emotional comfort. It assists with daily nursing needs. It provides counselling to patient and family who are but naturally going through enormous emotional trauma. And it helps the caregiver to learn how to manage the patient and what to do in times of crises. Palliative care is team work and is delivered by a multidisciplinary team with different experts working together to provide holistic relief i.e. specially trained palliative care doctors, nurses and psycho-social counsellors.
The Jimmy S Bilimoria Foundation is a charitable trust registered under the Maharashtra Public Trust Act 1950. The foundation’s service is called PALCARE. It was set up after the Bilimoria family saw how important it was to get medical and psycho-social help during the last phase of the life of the gentleman by the same name as the foundation. It was then that they felt the need to set up a service so that others after him would not need to face the same challenges.
Hence, PALCARE was launched in December 2015 to provide a much needed home-based, multidisciplinary, palliative care service for patients, primarily those in stage 3/stage 4 cancer, across the length and breadth of Greater Mumbai, so that patients with life limiting conditions, particularly cancer, may live a pain free, symptom-free, comfortable and dignified life, till the very end.
On 1 December 2015, PALCARE registered its first patient and there has been no looking back since. PALCARE has enrolled its 1000th patients on 20 August 2019 and at any given point of time it manages over 110 patients – all in the comfort of their homes. PALCARE’s patients come from all socio-economic groups and all walks of life. And the service is 100% free.
We are guided by impeccable governing boards and advisory committees. Our medical team is highly trained in palliative medicine, dedicated to the task and committed to the cause. They come with a caring heart, as palliative care is a field for healthcare professionals with deep compassion. |
This outfit was very "risky" and when I say that I mean because it's scorching hot here in south Texas. My car today read 106 degrees F... it simply takes walking to your car to your destination to make you glisten.. we'll say that, ha. Although it was probably too warm to wear this outfit, I got tons of compliments and everyone really liked this shirt. Time to unwind from the day and change into comfy pj's as well as read for school, tomorrow is my Friday! Got a long day planned for me, but I believe there WILL be room for ha nap, ha ;-)
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NOW THAT the season nearly is over, we can again raise this question: Which team has established the best plan for building their team, the Miami Heat, who have invested heavily in rookies, or the Orlando Magic, who have signed mostly veterans and just a few young players? Supporters of the Heat point to a star-studded lineup of young talent on Miami's roster: second-year center Rony Seikaly and superb rookies Sherman Douglas and Glen Rice - all starters. Orlando's plan to win now but build for the future was thrown off this season by injuries to key veterans. But the Magic still believe in their plan. If the Magic's plan were to work to perfection, in five years Orlando could add Kenny Anderson (Georgia Tech) at point guard, Dikembe Mutombo (Georgetown) at center, Derrick Coleman (Syracuse) at small forward and LeRon Ellis (Syracuse) at power forward. Of course, that's a farfetched fantasy that won't come to pass. But it is illustrative of the Magic's plan to add one good player a year. |
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The Invisible Deck is one of the most incredible, time-tested effects in all of card magic.
If it wasn’t already so, it was made famous by David Blaine in his early street magic specials.
These days, most intermediate to advanced magicians will keep an Invisible Deck in their arsenal to break out at the right moment.
The effect is stupidly simple, but absolutely impossible. And the trick deck nature of the routine makes it look completely clean and, again, impossible!
You can buy an Invisible Deck on Amazon here for a really fair price, but there are a couple of advantages to learning to make your own (which I’ll explain below).
To make your own Invisible Deck, you’ll need one complete deck of cards, a can of Krylon matte finish spray (or roughing fluid from a magic shop), and an open space to work and spray the cards. That’s it!
Let’s get into the full instructions and tutorial!
Invisible Deck performance explained
You can alter the presentation and performance of this effect to suit your own style, but here’s the “out of the box” performance and patter.
(This is where the Invisible Deck gets its name.)
The magician hands a participant an “invisible” deck of cards. The participant is invited to shuffle the imaginary deck as much as they’d like… Oop, careful, don’t drop them on the floor!
From there, the participant is free to choose any card from this invisible deck that he or she would like, turn it over, and place it back into the deck somewhere.
The imaginary deck of cards is then handed to the magician, who puts them away and now produces a REAL deck of playing cards.
Slowly, deliberately, he opens the pack and reveals one card turned face down among the rest of the face-up cards, and it matches the spectator’s freely selected card.
How does the Invisible Deck work?
The Invisible Deck uses an ingenious gimmick to make the above effect possible without any sleight of hand or pre-arrangement.
It uses the rough/smooth principle quite brilliantly.
The idea is, regardless of which way you look at the deck, 26 of the cards are facing UP and 26 of the card are facing DOWN.
Each face-up card is paired back to back with a face-down mate.
The backs of the cards have a rough finish, using a special spray, that causes them to cling lightly to each other.
You can easily spread through the deck to reveal ONLY face-up cards until you’re ready to reveal the spectator’s chosen card face-down.
The cards are paired in a deliberate system, with each set of mates adding up to 13 (with Aces being 1, Jacks being 11, and Queens being 12.) Kings are paired with Kings.
Clubs are paired with Diamonds, Hearts with Spades (because hearts and spades kind of look alike!)
Even cards are on one side, odd cards on the other. Easy, right?
So the 7 of Hearts, then, would be the face-down card behind the 6 of Spades (Hearts with Spades, adding up to 13).
This way, you can easily locate any card in the deck as you spread through.
Making vs buying
As I mentioned above, you can buy an Invisible Deck for anywhere between $7-12 depending on where you shop.
(Check the current price on Amazon.)
Buying the materials to make one yourself won’t save you a ton of money (though it will save a little), but there are a few other advantages to a DIY Invisible Deck.
Briefly:
- You can make an Invisible Deck out of non-Bicycle cards, or whatever you prefer to perform with
- Once you having matte finish or roughing spray, you can “touch up” old Invisible Decks or Brainwave Decks whenever they start to wear out
- Making your own is way cheaper if you make several gimmicked decks using the same spray
For reference, I spent about $16 total on a 12-pack of Bicycle cards and one can of Krylon matte finish spray, and so far I’ve made two Brainwave decks and an Invisible Deck, with plenty more spray left to use and 9 decks of cards remaining!
Not a bad deal.
(Check out my tutorial on how to make a Brainwave deck here.)
Materials needed
OK, time for the DIY Invisible Deck tutorial.
You don’t need much to do this project, just:
A complete deck of playing cards (I bought a 12-pack of Bikes from Amazon to make several gimmicked decks, you get a great deal this way.) It’s best if your deck still has the jokers, but not 100% necessary.
Roughing spray or similar alternative. You can buy this from magic shops at an enormous mark-up, but Krylon 1311 Matte Finish spray works perfectly and costs just a few bucks at Walmart or any craft store. Buy it from Amazon here.
A working surface. I used some trash bags laid out on my garage floor, but you could also use an old sheet, tarp, or whatever else you have around.
It should cost you around $6 or so to make an Invisible Deck by yourself, and you’ll have a lot of spray leftover to play with.
Now we’re ready to get to work!
Preparation & set-up
Remove the ad cards and jokers (you’ll use the Jokers later) and lay out the 52 playing cards on your working surface.
It’s critical that the cards be laid out FACE DOWN.
If you spray the faces of the cards, your deck won’t work properly.
There’s no need to arrange them in a specific order; we’ll do that later.
For now, just lay them out with ample room to spray.
An inch or so between each card is perfect for avoiding overlap.
Spraying the cards
Time to get your roughing fluid or matte finish spray out.
All you want to do here is give each card a light but even coat on its back.
Shake the can first, then hold it about 10-12 inches from the cards.
Now spray! Keep your hand moving and avoid lingering on any one card too long. A light coating will do it, and you can always touch up any cards that didn’t get enough later.
(Overspraying will make the cards way too sticky, or worse, soggy and ink-bleedy.)
Coat all 52 cards using one more-or-less continuous motion.
When you’re done, let the cards dry for about an hour before touching them.
It’s best to do this in a garage or on a covered porch. You can do it inside but the odor will be pretty strong for a few hours afterward and you’ll want to open some windows, at least.
Assembling the deck & order of cards
Once dried, gather the cards and deal them into two piles:
- Even cards in one pile
- Odd cards in another pile
Now it’s time to match them.
Grab a card from the odd pile and find its mate in the even pile. Remember, the two will add up to 13, spades with hearts and clubs with diamonds.
In the original Invisible Deck order, red Kings are considered odd and black Kings are considered even, and the Kings pair with each other using the same suit system as the rest of the deck.
Here is a full table of how the cards should pair in an Invisible Deck.
Mates go BACK TO BACK, with all evens facing the same way and all odds facing the same way.
At this point, you should test to see if the rough finish is working properly.
When you’re done, you should be able to spread through the cards one way and see only ODD cards:
Flip the cards over, spread them out, and you should see only EVEN cards:
What order should the cards go in once they’re matched?
That’s up to you.
There’s no right or wrong way to arrange the cards as long as they can be located using the matching system.
However, you might want to account for some basic card trick psychology.
Some popular cards include:
- The Aces
- Queen of Hearts
- King of Hearts
- 7s
- 3s
You may want to arrange these cards closer to the middle of the pack for the best visual effect.
Less popular cards include:
- Mid-range clubs (6-9)
- Black 9s
With no direction whatsoever and the ability to name any card, Scientific American found that over half of all people will choose either the Ace of Spades or the Queen, King, or Ace of Hearts!
However, during your performance, you MAY discourage participants from choosing an “obvious” card like those and may want those cards closer to the edges of the deck for that reason.
In any case, there’s no WRONG way to arrange an Invisible Deck. Experiment and find what works for you.
A final optional touch: You may choose to cover one or both ends of the deck with a Joker. It provides cover from flashing the double-face-up nature of the deck, and can easily be brushed aside during your performance.
Putting the Invisible Deck in the box
When you perform, you’ll need to remember which way to take the deck out of the box so you don’t “flash” the wrong side.
I use a simple method, but you can come up with whatever you’ll remember.
I put the EVEN cards facing up toward the front of the box.
Why? Because there’s ONE big Spade on the front of the Bicycle box (an odd number), so if the spectator chooses an odd number I take the cards out from that side, evens facing up and odds facing down.
On the back of the box should be the Bicycle Rider Back design or at least an illustration of the back of the playing card, which has TWO rider figures (an even number).
If they pick an even number, I take the cards out with that side up.
You can choose any memory peg you’ll remember easily.
How to practice & perform the Invisible Deck
The Invisible Deck is quite simple to perform, which gives you a lot of room to craft an epic presentation.
It’s a super-powerful effect that deserves proper build-up.
I like to make a really big deal out of the card selection. I turn it into a whole process, first narrowing cards down to just red or black, then to one suit, then just high or low, and finally to a specific card.
It makes the routine more fun and can allow you to involve multiple people.
The longer build-up makes the payoff that much better.
But there’s nothing wrong with doing a quicker and more matter-of-fact performance of the Invisible Deck. In fact, that’s exactly how David Blaine did it.
As for practicing, you’ll want to get the hang of quickly and smoothly:
- Taking the deck out of the box the right way
- Quickly finding the right card
- Smoothly revealing it
I use a Random Playing Card Generator to practice the whole process.
It pops up a totally random playing card and I practice taking the cards out and finding that card quickly and casually.
Remember: Use firm pressure when spreading through the deck, and then a light touch to loosen the rough card you want to reveal.
It’s not hard and you’ll get the hang of it quickly!
If people want to see the cards: If you perform the Invisible Deck well, chances are no one will want to examine the cards.
This doesn’t scream “TRICK DECK!!” like some other gimmicked packs do. It’s just a deck of cards with one turned over, which you can even hand them or have them pull out of the pack.
It’s a good idea to keep a matching un-gimmicked deck on you if you’re going to perform this, just in case you need to hand something out, but if people are asking to examine your ID, take a look at how your performance might be causing that.
Important note: Your DIY Invisible Deck might be stickier than a store-bought version. You’ll need to practice with it and work it in to loosen up the cards before you can perform.
Wrapping Up
That’s it!
The Invisible Deck is one of my favorite card tricks of all time, and it’s made even better when you can make your own any time you want.
If this all sounds like a lot of work, feel free to buy one from Amazon right here.
Looking for something un-gimmicked? Check out my favorite impromptu card tricks.
And let me know if you have any questions in the comments.
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PH creative industry lost 90% of revenues in 2020
The domestic creative industry lost as much as 90 percent of revenues in 2020, exacerbated by the closure of ABS-CBN that affected the total media landscape.
In a presentation at the virtual Creative Futures 2021, Paolo Mercado, president of the Creative Economy Council of the Philippines, said the film (cinema based): performing arts, concerts and live events; heritage sites and museums, folk arts and crafts, suffered the most with 85-90 percent revenue loss during the pandemic year versus 2019.
TV and Radio was down 50 percent; traditional advertising (TV, radio, print, outdoor) lost their revenues by 30 to 50 percent while the software, animation and game development by 20 to 30 percent.
Even digital marketing, advertising, web and graphic design were also down by 20 to 30 percent.
“Creative industries suffered very heavy losses because a lot of the behavioral restrictions, and the safety protocols, really affected the way people consume creative work. So, cinemas were closed theaters were closed concerts were not possible. Crafts and folk arts could not be sold and museums had lost its visitors for things like media they should have. They should have grown but there were other extraneous things like the closure of ABS CBN, which also affected the total media landscape,” said Mercado.
According to Mercado one emerging as a potential for the Philippines is the online creative freelancing, with about 1.3 to 1.5 million Filipinos already on online international online platform. These Filipinos, he said, are contributing freelancing work, majority of which was actually creative work, such as web design, like multimedia content editing.
He said this kind of work is poised to become the next wave. In fact, he said creative outsourcing is a growing outsourcing sector in the Philippines.
Aside from the 1.5 million online freelancers, Mercado said there are also 2 to 3 million freelancers or project based work for international firms.
Before the pandemic, the Philippines is leading among its peers in terms of creative exports and services among Asian countries.
Meantime, Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon M. Lopez said the local creative industries numbered 305,070 establishments or 30.5 percent of total establishments in the country last year, many of which were affected by the series of community quarantine lockdowns applied against the pandemic.
While some continued full on- site operations, others applied alternative work arrangements or even stopped operations.
During the stricter lockdown of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) last year, about 38 percent of total establishments had to stop operating. This went down to 4 percent as the economy was reopening during the GCQ in the third and fourth quarter.
Although the surge in COVID cases last March and April required us to temporarily escalate the community quarantine to ECQ and then down to modified ECQ and now GCQ in NCR Plus Areas. “This showed that the government’s efforts to reopen have to be gradual and calibrated in order to prevent any surge while bringing back jobs for the people,” Lopez said.
Before the pandemic, the industries provided 4.8 million jobs to our people, or 11.3 percent of total employment as of 2019.
In that same year, he said total creative exports amounted to $6.8 billion or 6 percent of total exports, while industry investments amounted to P281 million of total approved investments from investment promotions agencies (IPAs).
In 2017, the industries’ value added amounted to P383 billion or 7.12 percent of the national total.
In fact, in 2018, the Philippines ranked 1st in ASEAN for creative services exports and 5th in total creative exports. Within that same year, our total creative exports amounted to $4.1 billion in the Asia-Pacific region.
“Overall, the country is in a strong position in terms of our Creative Industries as evidenced by our performance in the 2020 Global Innovation Index (or GII). The Philippines ranked 57th in creative outputs and we are at a competitive position in terms of our creative good exports at 10th place,” he said.
He expressed confidence the country’s Creative Industries can help drive country’s economic growth in the post-pandemic future.
“The creative industry sector can also very well be the next service industry-winner, next to the BPO sector,” he said adding “Not only can it serve as one of the engines for our country’s growth, it can assist with our recovery from the challenges brought about by the pandemic.”
Globally, the Creative Economy. Has been cited as one of the most rapidly growing sectors and contributing 3 percent to the global GDP,. The Cultural and Creative Industries (or CCIs) generate $2.250 billion annually and the Culture Sector employs 30 million people worldwide, according to UNESCO.
The pandemic, however, caused the closure or cancellation of many museums, festivals, live music events, theatres, cinemas, and other activities last year. According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (or OECD), CCIs were among the most affected by the crisis, with jobs at risk ranging from 0.8 percent to 5.5 percent across OECD regions.
Fortunately, he said, the Creative Industries were able to adapt and even develop greenshoots. Thanks to being at the forefront of technological adoption like digitalization. They found new ways to reach their audience in music, film, sports, and graphic design through online content platforms. Even online gaming has expanded exponentially during this crisis.
Given the impact of the pandemic on this sector, it was actually appropriate that 2021 was declared as the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development at the 74th UN General Assembly in 2019.
“The pandemic has shown us how essential creativity is to our well-being as we found solace and resilience in films, series, music, and dance,” he said.
With that in mind, he said, the Creative Economy Roadmap submitted by the Creative Economy Council of the Philippines (CECP) envisions the Philippines in becoming the top Creative Economy in ASEAN by 2030 in terms of size and value of our Creative Industries. It also sees our country becoming number one in terms of competitiveness and attractiveness of our creative talent and content in international markets.
To help us realize this goal, Cong. Christopher “Toff” de Venecia spearheaded the Philippine Creative Industries Act, which was filed by the Arts and Culture and Creative Industries Bloc (ACCIB). This bill aims to provide an enabling policy and governance framework to shape the country’s Creative Industries.
The Department of Trade and Industry is also doing its part to support you under the Integrated Industry Development Program for the Creative Industries, which provides a strategic direction for the industry’s development. |
I have made these cookies for over thirty five years and everybody loves them
- Yield
- makes about two dozen
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter (I use chunky)
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
Preparation
- Mix well and drop by teaspoonfuls on a dry cookie sheet. Bake at 325 degrees for 13 minutes. Don't overcook.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories100
- Carbohydrates11 g(4%)
- Fat6 g(9%)
- Protein3 g(5%)
- Saturated Fat1 g(6%)
- Sodium4 mg(0%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber1 g(2%)
- Monounsaturated Fat3 g
- Cholesterol7 mg(2%) |
THE KILLER SMARM
Once a killer smarm invaded an average home in an average neighborhood. The victims of the smarm did everything they could to keep it out, all to no avail. As smarms inevitably do, this one found a way through every crack, around every door, and under every window in a buzzing, shape-shifting assault that never rested in its determination to overwhelm all those within its smothering reach. Killer smarms of this sort shared with more common varieties their honey-tongued, sweet-and-sticky bent but also exhibited traits that required taxonomists to expand their list of traditional smarm descriptors to include even more saccharine threats. They began with unsurprising additions, such as the late-night TV offerings of:
Get well cards with weepy-eyed kittens or puppies in baskets and the caption, “We’re all thinking of you.” and “Twenty-five easy-listening hits by Beethoven, as you’ve never heard them before” and “Starving artist” sales of copies of Van Gogh’s famous self-portrait (the one without the ear)
But the list went on to include:
Up-close-and-personal testimonials by athletes with millions in corporate endorsements that “I’m doing all this for little Billy, who starved to death on the streets last week but I know in my heart of hearts is cheering for the team up there in a better place now” and Fawning music videos of tough-guy rebels in cute hats lip-syncing the lyrics to a runaway new cover of that old favorite “Everythin’ Sucks ’round Here ’cep’ Me!” and The day’s top headlines from Emmy-nominated anchors Chummy and Chatty with “heartrending pictures of the latest economic, humanitarian, and environmental disasters just as soon as we come back from the commercial break, followed by today’s severe weather warning from Chuckles the Witty Weatherperson, then another inspiring installment of ‘Pint-Size Heroes—Ya Gotta See This!’ and don’t forget to E-mail us your comments on our 10-part Hi-Def television world event, ‘Heartbreaks of Hollywood and the British Royals,’ plus more home video of pets in trees” and Pledges by the powerful and privileged never to forget the lessons they’ve learned from Joe the Schmo and Patriotic pep talks delivered by grown men dressed up as cuddly sports mascots and Decorating tips from domestic divas for tying yellow ribbons to just about anything in times of perpetual war
But there was more as well, additions to the list that required a whole new definition of “smarm attack,” starting with:
Motivational mantras from lifestyle coaches for “how to double your quality time in five minutes” and Vacuous human-interest stories and social commentary where the audience was pulled by the nose through all the proper and approved sentiments of the day and Cloying confessional best sellers inspiring a warm and poignant identification with ordinary conflicted folks struggling against extraordinary psychological and social adversity or, on the other hand, inspiring an equally warm feeling of pity and secret relief in readers at not being one of these miserable wretches and Breathy New Age mediums channeling prehistoric voices with advice on sprucing up your aura, where to bury that pot of gold in the backyard, and how to get your personal guardian-spirit-in-a-rock to pay attention to you when all else fails and Pronouncements from the pulpit featuring a spam-like spirituality that explained good and evil as a death match between us (“good”) and them (“evil”) or, with the same level of certainty, a science-fiction-inspired triumph over godless space invaders, oh, and witches too and Theme-park rides through Civilization-as-we-know-it-land, complete with cartoonish, coin-operated, bomb-proof talking mannequins to explain the sights and Red-white-and-blue declarations by the certifiably inane that reduced the infinite complexities of civic life to the proposition that unregulated business gumption and trickle-down dreams are what the Founders really had in mind when it comes to the democracy thing, all delivered to robo-crowds in a voice somewhere between a snarl, a snicker, and a whine
The full list of new killer smarm descriptors continued on for pages. When rescue units finally broke into the house and found the victims, it was difficult to tell the adults from the children. All were covered with the same gummy smarm residue, and all had the same taut grins stretched across grotesquely swollen, pancake-shaped faces. The lethal smarm, as feared, had moved on to seek out new victims elsewhere. There was nothing to do at that point but to add these latest unfortunates to the already bursting cold case file known as “The Smiley-Face Dead.” |
Sketchbooks
***SKETCHBOOKS***
For fans of: Wolves, Innards and Four Hundred Years.
This band hails from the city where I live and hadn't even heard them until they sent me their new EP 'Scrutiny'. SKETCHBOOKS bring some serious heat/friction/noise with dabbles in softer and moodier rock thrown in for good measure. They remind me of caustic/midwestern raw emo like Four Hundred Years with the chaotic tight/loose back and forth of Foxmoulder and Innards. A very promising band, right in my own backyard! |
Chest and Biceps
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HISTORY
The history of the Nashville Technology Council (NTC) dates back to 1999 when a group of business leaders came together to address the need in Nashville for better-paying tech jobs and improved capital investment in technology start-ups. From its inception, the mission of the NTC was to be a catalyst for the growth and influence of Middle Tennessee’s tech industry. Middle Tennessee is growing, and along with it so is the tech community. Today, the NTC supports the local technology sector through its 450 member companies, educational organizations, and nonprofits by coordinating local technology workforce development, connecting professionals to cultivate a collaborative community, uniting around policies that nurture expansion and attract both talent and businesses, and promoting Middle Tennessee as the Nation’s Creative Tech Destination.
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BRIEF HIGHLIGHTS
Community Programming
The NTC’s Community Events are opportunities to bring different segments of the Nashville tech community together to network, build relationships, and share ideas. The NTC hosts 80+ community events a year, including six signature events ranging from 200 to 600+, on topics including professional development, tech education, BI & analytics, tech marketing, business development, cybersecurity, health tech, public policy and more. The NTC additionally serves as a strategic and promotional partner on numerous Greater Nashville area events.
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The NTC has many ways to grow your professional network — in-person and online — through its signature events, programs, meetings, and webinars. Members build relationships through Peer Networks – including BI & Analytics, Veterans, Nashville DevOps, Sales & Business Development, and Marketing & Tech – and Leadership Exchanges – including ELITE for emerging leaders and the CIO Leadership Exchange.
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Workforce Development
The Nashville area is booming, and so is the need for tech talent. The NTC focuses on increasing the number of undergraduates enrolled in tech-related majors through directed outreach and technology programs with students as young as third grade. The work starts early to interest young students in tech and future tech careers to fill those college program seats. The NTC organizes tech-professional volunteers to support teachers in classrooms during the Hour of Code – regularly teaching programming to 2,200+ students each December. Entering our third year, the NTC Tech Camps have provided summer tech education to more than 800 students ages eight through 18. Traveling Tech Days are organized field trips for high school students throughout the year to experience tech jobs and workplaces in the region, reaching more than 1,000 students to date.
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Tech Hill Commons is the new public gathering place for Nashville’s diverse community of tech leaders, business builders, user groups, students and tech educators. The 9,500 sq foot tech venue houses the NTC’s new HQ, two executive boardrooms, 150-person event space, and a tech learning center. Whether you’re looking to challenge your team in an offsite retreat in the Comcast Board Room; teleconference with a client in the ENA Conference Room, powered by Cisco; organize your next cohort meeting in the PwC Learning Lab; develop the next generation of tech leaders in the Dell Learning Center; or launch your new innovation in the Event Center – our Tech Hill Commons spaces are available to exceed your organization’s needs.
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Apprenti TN
The NTC Foundation, in partnership with the Greater Nashville Technology Council, has launched Apprenti TN. Apprenti TN, the first technologyfocused apprenticeship program in Tennessee, is unlike internships or traditional job training options. Apprenti TN combines paid on-the-job training and education with placement in highly skilled, salary-competitive occupations. The program works with the tech industry to identify mid-tier jobs ready to be filled by highly competent people regardless of educational background. Apprenti TN actively recruits women, minorities, and veterans to aid in diversifying the tech industry, but everyone is eligible and encouraged to apply.
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Public Policy
The NTC works to unite the Middle Tennessee business community and advocates for policies that empowers technological innovation to thrive in our region. In 2018 NTC and its members organized more than 136 engagements with local and national policy makers and lobbied and testified on issues including net neutrality, data breach policy, and blockchain technology.
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Nashville Analytics Summit
One of the most successful examples of the NTC’s work is the growing BI & Analytics peer group which connects professionals around the topic of big data and analytics. With the peer group’s guidance, the NTC produces The Nashville Analytics Summit. Starting with 90 attendees just five years ago, the 2018 Analytics Summit saw more than 600 attendees from hundreds of organizations across Middle Tennessee and surrounding technology communities. The two-day conference empowers professionals to leverage data analytics to grow more effective and competitive organizations by including dozens of workshop & speaker sessions presented by experts on topics ranging from Big Data & Predictive Analytics to Delivery Insights & Professional Development.
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NTC Awards
Nashville’s tech awards are dedicated to connecting, uniting, developing and promoting Middle Tennessee’s rich community of developers and technology entrepreneurs, enthusiasts and institutions with awards in 14 categories. Winners are awarded a signature Gibson guitar before a jam-packed audience of 600+ Middle Tennessee tech community peers.
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(MORTGAGE) The number of mortgage brokers drastically declined after the 2008 financial crisis, however, now lenders are saying they need them back.
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It’s time India stopped compering the fantasy that its tigers and leopards are flourishing, safe, and waiting for tourists for selfies with them. They are not. The country lost 110 tigers in 2019, as many as 38 of them to poaching—their bones feeding a frenzied Chinese medicine market, their felts adorning homes of people with narcissistic personality disorders. Figures compiled by Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), an NGO, say we lost 491 leopards too. The time is well within sight that Tiger will be the neighbour’s Shih Tzu rather than the Royal Bengal.
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CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at Feb 14, 2018 around 01:07
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The hell just happened.
You can touch a broken stick. It's only an issue if you move it to somewhere that it interferes in the play, i.e. in front of a shot.
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No matter where you host your data, there are always risks. The public cloud is no exception. While providers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google offer security features, ultimately, cloud security is your responsibility. Where do you start?
This article explains the key elements of a strong security posture in the cloud and how to choose the right security software solutions for your organization.
Tips for Building a Strong Cloud Security Posture
Cloud computing involves security challenges you might not encounter in an on-prem IT environment. With no perimeter or a vague perimeter, third-party access to your environment is easier compared to a traditional data center. Plus, cloud services rely on a shared responsibility model; the provider is primarily responsible for physical security and application availability.
Therefore, instead of fortifying your physical perimeter, you need to focus on data flows and user and application activity across your infrastructure. Key areas to pay attention to include:
- Security planning — Knowing how and why people and software applications use your data is crucial for determining how to properly secure it. Which data is critical to business operations? What can you afford to lose? Evaluate the sensitivity of your assets, map your data flows and understand your data lifecycle.
- Risk assessment — Don’t let someone else find your vulnerabilities; be proactive. Look for and mitigate gaps in your security posture.
- Security monitoring — Monitoring activity across your network and systems is essential for spotting active threats.
- Regulatory compliance: Cloud environments like Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud provide guides for GDPR compliance and can help with other regulations as well. But keep in mind that compliance is ultimately your responsibility.
Cloud Security Tools and Technologies
Users, data, applications and infrastructure all need specific protections. Here are the tools and technologies to consider in each area.
Data protection
The following security measures will help keep your data safe in cloud-hosted environments:
- Data access governance (DAG) — Strong governance is the foundation of data security. It involves carefully assigning permissions to access data and continuously monitoring for changes to access rights in order to rigorously enforce least privilege. Using built-in roles can be enormously helpful.
- Data discovery and classification — It’s critical to get a complete inventory of the data your organization stores and processes, and to classify and tag that data. The traditional categories of public, internal, confidential and restricted can be a good starting point. Then you can ensure that each type of data has appropriate protection measures in place. Automated remediation workflows are particularly helpful in keeping data secure.
- Data loss prevention (DLP) — DLP technologies can help you protect your sensitive data from being lost, misused or accessed by unauthorized people. DLP solutions can use business policies to detect improper activity and respond automatically, for example, by blocking a user from copying regulated data onto removable media.
- Encryption — Encryption helps keep data confidential, even if it’s stolen or accessed inappropriately in a public cloud environment. Cloud hosts offer multiple options for key management.
- Backup and recovery — You need to ensure you have reliable backups and the ability to restore data quickly in the event of accidental deletions or a catastrophe.
User Protection
- Authentication — In any cloud platform it’s important to implement a zero trust model and ensure each request to access your IT ecosystem is properly authorized. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) adds a layer of security by requiring two forms of identification, often a password and a code from a physical token or phone. Single sign-on reduces the need for repeated authentication and multiple passwords, simplifying access for users.
- Activity monitoring — Closely monitoring user activity is essential to threat detection. User behavior analytics can help you spot unusual activity across your cloud or hybrid environment promptly.
- Cloud access security broker (CASB) — A CASB is a software solution that sits between the users of a cloud service and the cloud applications, monitoring activity and enforcing your security policies across workloads.
Application Protection
Application protection involves a variety of tools and techniques, including the following:
- Vulnerability scanning and management — Open source databases track vulnerabilities in applications. The best application vulnerability management solutions do more than provide a risk score; they provide a remediation strategy and can even automatically remediate some issues for you.
- Static application security testing — You can also analyze your applications for security issues.
- Penetration testing — Pen testing analyzes your infrastructure from the viewpoint of a malicious It is particularly helpful for detection of misconfiguration and access management issues.
- Software composition — Gather insight on the open-source applications in your network.
- Change and configuration auditing — Monitoring all changes that could affect who can use particular applications and what those applications can access is also critical to security.
Infrastructure Protection
Cloud providers typically provide some tools for infrastructure protection, such as:
- Log management
- Anti-malware updates
- Host-based intrusion detection
- System integrity monitoring
- Network segmentation (firewalls and antivirus)
To get a holistic view of your network from physical layer to application layer, you can use a network traffic analyzer, which bundles together:
- Log centralization
- Configuration monitoring
- Network traffic analysis
- System file integrity
- Process canning
- Anti-phishing software
Conclusion
Cloud security is essential to any modern enterprise. To keep your data safe, you need to implement appropriate cloud security tools.
Free solutions can help companies secure their cloud environments. However, with the right comprehensive security platform, you’ll be better positioned to protect your users, data, applications and infrastructure.
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School is back in session, so I figure now is as good a time as any to start writing again! In this series of posts I will discuss a subject that is a perennial favorite: the physical basis of crystal field theory. We will consider the origin of the infamous crystal field parameter 10Dq, and later dwell on the Slater/Racah parameters (F0/F2/F4 and A/B/C, respectively).
Introduction
Crystal field theory (CFT) was first developed by Hans Bethe and John Van Vleck – two physicists who made significant contributions to the modern quantum-mechanical theory of magnetism. Beth and Van Vleck wanted to understand the paramagnetic behavior of simple transition metal salts (e.g. ferrous chloride). Their ideas grew from the theory of atomic electronic structure, which was relatively well developed at the time; and they elegantly showcase the power of group theory without requiring too much mathematical virtuosity on the part of the reader – a good combination, I think!
Before moving forward, we need to remind ourselves of a few things. First of all, we need to understand free ion terms. There are two ways we can think about them. For first row transition metal ions (TMI), the most commonly-used description comes from the Russell-Saunders (LS) coupling scheme introduced in most undergraduate inorganic chemistry classes. In the LS coupling scheme, the spin-orbit splitting of a given free ion term is taken as a perturbation on the relatively large crystal field splitting. This is in contrast to the splitting of lanthanide free ion terms, whose components’ characteristics are largely determined by spin-orbit coupling. The validity of the LS coupling scheme for first row TMIs follows from the fact that 1) the 3d orbitals are relatively small, leading to large coulomb/exchange integrals and 2) the magnitude of spin-orbit coupling has a quartic dependence on nuclear charge, and is therefore is small for first row metals.
Implicit in our choice of the LS coupling scheme is the notion that an ‘uncoupled’ basis of direct product microstates
can be used to construct good approximate descriptions of the components of first row TMI free ion terms. For example: a d1 electronic configuration yields a 2D free ion term which is split into 2D5/2 and 2D3/2 levels by S.O. coupling. The magnitude of the S.O. coupling is taken to be relatively small, however, so we turn our attention to the parent 2D term and its 10 constituent microstates (we will consider S.O. coupling later as a perturbation to the crystal field splitting).
CFT attempts to explain, in a perturbation-theoretic sense, how the components of a parent free ion term (2D in this example) are mixed by an external potential due to a symmetrical collection of point charges (i.e. ligands). In other words, we will be studying a sort of intramolecular Stark effect. This point of view is admittedly simplistic; but by throwing covalent contributions to bonding under the bus, we are free to focus our attention on the symmetry-determined aspects of electronic structure that I find most interesting.
The Crystal Field Hamiltonian as a Multipole Expansion
To understand how a 2D free ion term is split by a crystal field, we need to phrase the question in a way that is amenable to calculation. In other words, the way we represent the crystal field perturbation Hamiltonian
should take advantage of whatever symmetry the problem has. We will consider an octahedral crystal field for the sake of simplicity, but what follows may be generalized to other cases without substantial effort.
Moving forward, the general strategy will be to expand
in an appropriate (infinite) basis, and then use symmetry considerations to determine which terms in the expansion contribute to the physics at hand. Once we have chosen a suitably truncated representation of
, we will study how it mixes the 10 components of a 2D free ion term into Eg and T2g levels split by 10Dq.
The angular components of the 2D basis states may be represented by spherical harmonics, i.e.
Spherical harmonics have a number of nice algebraic properties which we can utilize if we expand
as a series of spherical harmonics sharing the same coordinate origin as the metal-centered basis states (i.e. as a multipole expansion):
where scalar properties of the potential have been subsumed into the constant
(which I will promptly drop and forget about until later posts).
As written, this expansion isn’t terribly useful. The rules of vector coupling allow us to perform a massive truncation, however: two states for which l=2 can be only be coupled by components of
having l
=2+2=4.
.
Next, we take advantage of the octahedral symmetry of
: the potential must remain invariant under Oh symmetries, i.e. it must transform as the totally symmetric (a1g) representation of Oh. Right off the bat, then, we can toss out the
and
terms, as they are ungerade and therefore cannot contribute to the totally symmetric potential. The contribution from the
component affects all d orbitals equivalently (since
transforms as a1g), so it is uninteresting to us. The
components, which transform like the 5 d orbitals, are mixed into eg and t2g sets (in accord with the symmetry of the potential); no linear combination of the
spans a1g, so these components are also uninteresting to us.
This leaves the
set, which we consider a bit more carefully. First, we formalize our statement about invariance of
under Oh symmetries by insisting
. Now suppose
. Then
The coefficients of the
,
, and
components remain invariant, so some linear combination of these components transforms as a1g. To understand the nature of this linear combination, we investigate the action of a few more symmetry operations on
. Suppose
. Then
From this manipulation, we see
, i.e. (ignoring normalization)
. To find the value of the remaining coefficient c, we consider one final equation. Suppose
. In this case, it is helpful to write out the spherical harmonics in their cartesian form (modulo a multiplicative factor of
:
It follows that
Since the two previous expressions must be equivalent, we can solve for c by collecting terms in z4, and ultimately arrive at
which leaves us with a suitable representation of
(modulo the constant describing its magnitude):
In the next post, we will apply this perturbation Hamiltonian to a 2D free ion term, characterize the resulting states, and hopefully gain a detailed understanding of how the d orbitals mix and split in the presence of an octahedral crystal field! |
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Residents said the flames were moving so fast, they grabbed whatever they could to save their homes.
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Down the road, Paula McCarty also tried to use a hose, but the flames were too close.
"I knew it was fruitless. I just said, 'Let's get out of here, so we did," she said.
"I didn't think there was any hope of saving our home," she said. "We just wanted to save our lives.
The fire burned 50 to 75 acres and destroyed two out buildings. Two homes had minor damage.
People could be seen from Chopper 5 trying to put out the fire with garden hoses at about 3:30 p.m. Soon after, a brush truck arrived, but not before one of the structures on the property caught fire."
The fire threatened nearby homes, but was 95 percent contained by 5 p.m.
The fire spread out south of Interstate 30 near Farm-to-Market Road 1565, two miles east of Royse City.
No one was injured in the fire.
Just days ago, another fire broke out in the same area. Residents said they're not sure how much more they can take.
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Wasps
Wasps are general nuisances, especially in summer when they are attracted to sweet foodstuffs and can in some cases cause severe allergic reactions. When a nest crops up nearby, they can be dangerous as they can react aggressively if their nest is threatened and become a persistent pest.
APPEARANCE
Large conspicuous buzzing insects with yellow and black striped waists measuring about 10-15mm. The queen wasp is larger than normal wasps at about 20mm.
SIGNS OF INFESTATION
Wasp nests can be located by watching the pathway of returning wasps. These are usually located in sheltered spots with easy access to the outside such as in roof spaces, under eaves, bird boxes or sheds. A wasp nest is made from chewed pulp and saliva which gives them their distinctively papery look. These start off the size of a golf ball early on in the year, but can rapidly increase in size as the number of wasps increase.
PREVENTION
Changes to how you handle food and drink outdoors can minimise the chances of wasp infestations. Keeping bins at a distance from your home and securing these bins should discourage the wasps from settling near your home.
ACTION
If you locate a nest, it is advised that you seek professional pest control services. However, for immediate relief, there are several first instance products available.
- Insecticide powders: Where a nest is not visible, insecticide powders are a useful treatment. Here powders can be applied to the areas where they gain entry into the house.
- Sprays: Multi-purpose are useful to have at hand to target the insects directly.
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Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are notorious for their bites, which can affect everyone differently, but commonly cause itching and discomfort. Their bites can occur readily but often significantly at dusk.
APPEARANCE
Often confused in house with the harmless and unrelated crane fly. True mosquitoes are very much smaller but have a similar long thin abdomen, long thin legs and strongly veined wings.
There are two main types, the Culicine mosquitoes sit with their bodies parallel to the ground and Anopheline mosquitoes which sit “nose down” to the surface, and most have dark spots on their wings.
CAUSES
Depending on the country, mosquitoes can cause numerous problems through their bite. In the tropics, they can transmit yellow fever, filariasis, dengue fever and malaria. These can all be major considerations for travellers. Even in England, they can cause significant itchy red bites which cause swelling that can last for days.
Mosquito eggs are laid in batches.
SIGNS OF INFESTATION
Mosquitoes are particularly prevalent where standing and stagnant water accumulates, including estuaries, marshes, lakes, ponds and the edges of river banks. Adult female mosquitoes hibernate in dark corners of houses, sheds cellars and other sheltered sites.
PREVENTION
Breeding sites such as guttering, water butts and bird baths should be cleaned out regularly.
ACTION
If all the breeding sites have been contained in the best way, then the prevention focus on reducing the chance with human contact. If there is a major problem as a result of local breeding sites then it is best to get in touch with a local pest controller.
> Prevent
Flyscreens and flynets can be used to reduce the opportunity for human contact, to get into the house firstly, and then to bite during the night if they get into the bedroom.
> Repel
Mosquito repellents can be a good solution if applied to the skin. There are many types and the ingredients can be important to ensure that people are not adverse to them.
> Kill
Aerosols can be a good solution. Fumagating a room that has been left open for a significant amount of time or killing visible mosquitoes.
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Flies
Flies are a major occurrence within households up and down the country. Apart from the biting flies, all species feed by vomiting food onto the surface, and sucking up the resulting liquid. In doing so, the fly contaminates the food with bacteria from its gut and its feet. This result can have a major impact on people, causing food poisoning and dysentery for most in the western world. This food transference may also result in the transmission of eggs from parasitic worms.
APPEARANCE
Flies are so numerous that they are typically the most common flying insects within homes and readily identifiable with their black bodies and short wings.
CAUSES
Flies are extremely common due to their presence around left over food and rubbish both inside and outside the home.
SIGNS OF INFESTATION
Flies gravitate to any area where food waste has been left, particularly if it has been decomposing over a number of days.
PREVENTION
High levels of cleanliness and excellent food hygiene are essential to stopping the conditions in which flies like to operate. To stop their build up inside the house, prompt removal of refuse is essential along with other preventative measures including covering food and using tight fitting containers.
ACTION
If there is a major infestation, then it is advisable to contact a specialist pest controller, but in the first instance there is an array of available preventative measures.
> Repel
- To ensure that flies are not able to become a problem in the first instance it is essential to cover food and not leave it lying around at any time, using tight fitting containers.
- Fly screens can also be a good option to stop them coming inside when this is not always possible.
> Prevent
- Sticky flypapers: These can be placed in conspicuous areas to stop the movement of flies towards open food.
- Flykiller traps: Ultra-violet electric flykillers can also be placed in open areas to distract flies from open food.
> Kill
If flies are visibly becoming a problem, then they can be tackled in a number of ways
- Insecticide sprays: These can be used to cover significant areas, particularly outside and in warm weather to stop the build up around waste and refuse collection areas.
- Flykiller aerosols: Used to speed up the removal process, particularly internally, these can remove their interest after food has been left open and kill them quickly.
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on a bitterly cold and
frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of '07,
that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was
Holmes. The flashlight in his hand shone upon his
intense face. I knew at once that something was amiss.
"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. "The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!"
My friend had recently sunk into his customary melancholy, his presence but a wailing violin behind a closed door. Nevertheless, as I was hurriedly getting dressed, I remembered that a change had come upon him on the previous morning.
Mrs. Hudson had just brought in the morning papers, along with our toast. I was fiddling with the dial of our new Marconi, when Holmes' sharp cry from the breakfast table diverted my attention. He was marking with his fountain pen an item in the paper. The luster had returned to his eyes. Curious, I let go of the dial knob and leaned over Holmes' shoulder.
The underlined column read:
"Study:
Minorities' 'dream' foreclosed",
and underneath,
"The subprime-mortgage crisis will cost black and Hispanic
homeowners up to $256 billion—the worst financial hit
for minorities in
modern
Just then, the Afro-American voice that had been carrying on in the radio program cohered into distinctive words:
"… money-lenders have already sucked the value out of whole communities, urban and suburban. The wealth loss is staggering: People of color have collectively lost between $164 billion to $213 billion over the past eight years, with Latinos losing slightly more than African Americans."
Holmes was buttering his toast and listening.
"Before the crisis hit," the distinctive voice was now choked with indignation, ."
Holmes leaned back in his chair with a whimsical smile, as the commentary concluded: "Looking backward, that stretches from now to when the great pyramids were built!"
I turned off the wireless and sat down at the table.
"A cup of tea, Watson?" Holmes said.
"A nation destroys its banking system and its currency to fake the putative minorities' creditworthiness," my friend continued as he poured my morning restorative, "… and showers unearned benefits on them. When the subterfuge falls apart, its impact on the same minorities is twisted around to bolster an imputation of racial discrimination."
He stood up, tying the sash of his dressing gown.
"I say, Watson, from the point of view of the criminal expert, new opportunities are arising that may alleviate my singular boredom since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty."
As we alighted into the hansom cab, I had a premonition that a new adventure had just begun, related somehow to that statement…
—After The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, with apologies to Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle
The financial debacle of a $1.4 trillion pool of subprime mortgages of which at least half are unpayable and 25% are irrecoverable did not start in a political vacuum. For years, the American political Establishment badgered the banking industry about the "racism" implied in its loan portfolio. The denial of mortgage loans to "minorities" at a greater percentage than denial to whites has been deemed a prima facie evidence of racial discrimination.
"Classical socialism called for direct state ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange", wrote Peter Brimelow in a 1993 National Review article discussing a clash he had had in Forbes Magazine with the race-drunk mortgage industry critics.
." [Racism
At Work? By Peter Brimelow, National Review,
Brimelow related how the Wall Street Journal had carried five stories in late 1992 alleging, based on raw rejection rates, that lenders were discriminating against minorities. Such allegations were obvious rubbish, as they took no account of standard credit considerations like employment, income, and net worth.
Finally,
the WSJ
reported on a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston study that
did correct for these criteria, and still found that
minorities were rejected at a slightly higher rate.
[Mortgage lending in
Brimelow
and his Forbes
magazine co-author Leslie Spencer had inquired of the
Boston Fed whether it had taken under account default
rates for black and white mortgage holders. It had, the
Boston Fed's Research Director replied, and it had found
equal default rates. [The
Hidden Clue, Forbes,
Brimelow then pointed out that this proved pure market forces were working in mortgage lending. Mortgage lenders were somehow able to weed out impartially credit risks, reducing defaults down to the same rate for whites and blacks.
"[That] is a sophisticated point", responded the Boston Fed's Research Director. "I do believe discrimination occurs", she reiterated, but then conceded, "I do not have evidence ... no one has evidence".
"They don't have evidence, but they sure have convictions", concluded Brimelow, presaging how the Boston Fed study's fatal flaw would be passed over by the mass media. He concluded:
"
The same wishful assumptions masquerading as "research" by high public officials and reported by journalists as the truth were examined by four specialists, who published their findings in a 1996 paper, Mortgage Discrimination and FHA Loan Performance [PDF]. Their conclusion:
"Results of the analysis fail to find evidence of better performance on loans granted to minority borrowers. Indeed, black borrowers are found, all else being equal, to exhibit a higher likelihood of mortgage default than other borrowers. These findings argue against allegations of substantial levels of bias in mortgage lending."
Three years later, two finance professors, Stanley D. Longhofer and Stephen Peters, pointed to the same fatal flaw behind all the caterwauling about the higher rejection rates for black and Hispanic mortgage applicants.
The
"[E]verything else being the same, minority applicants are probably less creditworthy, on average, than whites. Therefore, in the absence of fair lending laws, it is likely that minorities would be denied loans more frequently than whites and would pay higher interest rates and fees on approved loans… [F]air-lending laws have the perverse effect of forcing lenders to cross-subsidize minority borrowers from the higher profits they earn on white borrowers. Such cross-subsidization is inherently 'unfair' because it works as a tax on one group that is used as a subsidy for another." [Why Is Mortgage Discrimination Illegal? A Fresh Look at the Mortgage Discrimination Debate, Longhofer and Peters, Cato Institute, PDF]
Thirty years of faked research and horrendous noise from "social justice" carnies, all amplified by the left-driven mass media, and the political elite figured out which direction held out the most rewards. A heavy dose of demagoguery followed. Some of these sub-eligible politicians, such as Congressman Barney Frank, Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, are still on the job, acting as though they have no part in the financial train wreck they have instigated.
Finally, with further pushing by different government branches and agencies, mortgage lenders found a solution to inconvenient reality. It was the subprime loan, with sub-viable variations such as "interest-only" and "no-money-down."
No forces were available to combat the American economy's unbalancing by cultural Marxists, socialists, noisy "minority" chieftains and power-hungry opportunists. Instead of leading a counteroffensive, the federal government (mostly under Republicans) pushed toward the fall. And the bankers went along—even though it was their depositors' capital they were converting to cotton candy.
Banks started dishing out mortgages as though they were consolation prizes for the poorly educated of shaky employability, or achievement awards for the undisciplined and uneducable with no collateral.
Overwhelmingly, these prize-winners have been "people of color."
Presto! Many more "people of color" could achieve "the American Dream"—some a few times over, as people with no money and no assets were able to buy several houses each, hoping for a quick and profitable flip.
And the occupants of CEO suites were happy too. They had gained points with neosocialist/ "minority" lobbies and their vast cohorts of useful idiots. Not to mention the favors of weathervane politicians—and enormous end-of-year bonuses to boot.
In trampling on rules of sound banking going back at least to medieval Italy, our financial wizards discovered the eternal quest of alchemy—how to convert lead into gold, for a while at least, before it turns into garbage. Employing PhD's in high mathematics, they diced and mixed financial offal, stuffed it into sausage skins, gave this dubious bologna properly pinstriped labels such as "Mortgage-backed Securities" and "Collateralized Debt Obligations", and sold it off by the slice to equally greedy and heedless financial institutions down the line.
From inception through each change of hands, each putrid sausage slice ("tranche") generated fat fees for its handlers.
But reality is stubborn. The
underlying loans went sputtering, then died. The new,
miracle collateral reverted to the ordure it had always
been. Mortgage lenders started dying off from collateral
toxemia. The sausage makers—the major financial
powerhouses of the
In February 2008, the forward estimated total of total losses in the global banking industry was $600 billion. By mid-July 2008, that estimate had risen to $1.6 trillion. With the $10.1 trillion equity loss in the global stock market between December 2007 and July 2008 alone, the subprime debacle qualifies as the greatest financial disaster in history.
That's before the
demise of Lehman Brothers, the world's largest
underwriter of mortgage bonds; the US Federal Reserve's
$85 billion loan to rescue the world's largest insurance
company, AIG, from a similar fate; and the shotgun
marriage of
And it's before this financial system shock has fully fed through into the real economy, precipitating what Steve Sailer has aptly named "The Diversity Recession".
The mega-hustlers who steered venerable financial institutions into this mega-iceberg, are not hurting. The press described the CEOs of two of the greatest malpractitioners of banking, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, as having "fallen on their swords"—but not for these types such a noble end. Stan O'Neal, the ousted CEO of subprime-bombed Merrill Lynch, received a $160 million "retirement" package. The golden chute for Chuck Prince, the CEO who led Citigroup to the biggest loss in its 196-year history, was $42 million. John Mack, the CEO of Morgan Stanley, had to forego his 2007 bonus, but it's some consolation that at the height of the subprime scam, in 2006, he copped $41 million.
Dick Fuld, the CEO of bankrupt Lehman, took home $45 million in 2007, so he won't have to mourn the vaporization of his 401k. "Jimmy" Cayne, the former CEO of the former Bear Stearns, similarly burned on his vested stocks, presumably retired to his $28 million apartment in the Plaza Hotel, to lick his wounds.
The banks themselves have not had to drink the hemlock they had brewed either. Instead of falling under the weight of their own malpractice, except for Lehman they have basked in the largesse of the Federal Government. Technically, it's not a bailout using taxpayer money—just a wide-open "discount window", a spigot from which poured over a quarter trillion dollars in just four days in mid-September '08. But it's a bailout nonetheless, as pointed out by Barry Grey on the World Socialist Website:
"The government-backed bailout plan for Citigroup and Wall Street underscores the increasingly parasitic and socially destructive operations of American and world capitalism", says this socialist writer. "The role of the SIVs [Structured Investment Vehicle, funds that raise capital by selling short-term securities at low interest and then buy long-term securities at higher interest, very often packaged, subprime mortgage loan products] exemplifies the degree to which immense wealth is generated for a layer of multimillionaires and billionaires on the basis of financial manipulations almost entirely divorced from the process of production and socially useful investment."
Exactly right, says this
anti-socialist.
But all this is just one side of the picture. For at the other end of the spectrum from the princes of finance are the mostly "minority" rubes who bought houses they could not afford with money they did not have, based on income data they had falsified, egged on frequently by crooks in the employ of companies such as Ameriquest—that self-lauded "proud sponsor of the American Dream". And there are enough of them, and their skin tones are compelling enough, to generate enormous political pressure for government action to bail them out too.
Entering "subprime minority" into Google recently yielded 544,000 links, with typical items reading:
Even this small sample reveals the main sources of the incessant harangue: ethnic grievance lobbies, socialist fronts, and their three megaphones: lawyers, academics and the Mainstream Media.
To save greed-demented bankers and
freeloading borrowers from themselves, the Fed has
repeatedly cut interest rates and pumped tens of
billions of dollars at artificially low rates to the
subprime-tainted banks. As of
When Fannie and Freddie were profitable, their profits went to the investors. Now that they have losses, those have been assumed by the US taxpayer.
And so we have a government practicing selective socialism on behalf of insatiable corporations on one end and improvident individuals on the other—at the expense of the vast majority in between.
It's socialism that plunders the renters, the old and retired, the savers and the bond investors in order to shower their money onto home owners-by-error, the debtors, and speculators in financial fancy.
This is even more unjust and stupid than simple socialism, for that socialism aimed to plunder a rich minority in order to benefit the middle and bottom majority. This American mutation, however, aims to plunder the middle majority in order to bail out the bottom and top minorities of race and riches.
The refreshingly named Dr. Housing Bubble has named this fiscal mega-crime "Crony Capitalism for Dummies."
What's going on is a base perversion of both morality and justice. It substitutes an innocent party to be punished for the malfeasance of another.
All the "noble" government efforts to prop up falling dominoes stoke inflation, devaluing savings, and sabotaging the responsible, provident citizen.
As of August 2008, inflation in the
A de facto devaluation of the dollar has now accelerated so much that a formal devaluation may be necessary. Therein lies the specter of the Weimar Republic: people exchanging wheelbarrows of banknotes for a loaf of bread…and a strong, indignant leader saving them from the nightmare with passionate oratory, national socialism, and the goose-step.
Already bank branches are under siege by people facing foreclosure who were primitive enough to sign mortgage papers that they did not understand, in a language they often did not know—English.
In effect, what's going on in the realms of both the subprime Wall Street swells and the little mortgage borrowers with subprime intelligence is a slow but relentless pressure to unravel contracts entered into by consenting adults. That is an erosion of Contract Law, the very foundation of civilized society.
This farce in four acts, with wigs, masks and costumes, trapdoors, sliding plywood scenery and weeping violins in the orchestra pit has been enacted for 40 years without letup for one reason only: to camouflage or otherwise deny racial group differences in IQ, and in mean ethnocultural traits such as the importance attached to education and to obeying the law. In the realm of statistical reality, all these, and not "racism", bear directly on the chances of material success in life—including home ownership.
The statistical facts imbedded in the last paragraph are considered so unacceptable in this country that the verb "to disappear" is deployed here in its transitive mode, the way it has been in the political practice of banana republics. Nevertheless, these phenomena are not only observable in one's daily life—if one but unplug those electrodes implanted in the brain since kindergarten—but are based on thousands of peer-reviewed studies going back 100 years. Corollary issues of ethno-cultural group differences have been studied with conclusive results for almost as long. [Race and Psychopathic Personality, By Richard Lynn, American Renaissance, July 2002]. But woe is him who dabbles in proscribed science.
"Minorities" register mean group IQs of 70 for sub-Saharan Africans, 85 for Afro-Americans and Polynesians and 88 for the main "minority" in the US, the Mexican mestizos, versus 100 for American whites. (The latter containing subgroups with an IQ mean as high as 115.) This is as close to science as anything has ever got in the social sciences. An authoritative review of the last 30 years of relevant research is here and a comprehensive understanding of the subject is available for the intelligent layperson at websites such as gnxp.com or Steve Sailer's archive, the best available bridge between the relative science and common sense interpretation.
The implications of the mean IQ differences for success in education, employment, home ownership etc. are overwhelming and, again, covered in depth by major researchers, ad infinitum. Here is Professor Linda Gottfredson:
." [The General Intelligence Factor, Linda Gottfredson, Scientific American, Volume 9, Number 4, Winter 1998.]
Due to the mathematical properties of the bell curve, 68.3% of the distribution lies within one standard deviation ("sigma") from the mean, and 95.5% lies within 2 sigmas. Since the sigma in intelligence studies of the American population is set at 15, that has deep implications relative to educational and other attainments.
An IQ of 100 is considered necessary for a successful completion of high school—real completion of a real high school, as opposed to the "social promotion" of the dumb through the already dumbed-down curriculum in American Schools (11). With a mean IQ of 100 for American whites, 50% of them have the capacity to acquire that high school graduation ticket to further knowledge and prosperity. But a mean IQ of 85 for American blacks means that only 15.9% of them have that capability. Nonwhite Mexicans have a slightly higher ratio. Nature, unlike Lake Wobegon, does leave children behind.
The subprime scandal is only one example of the political elite's willful blindness. Other adventures of "disappeared" minorities:
The US Transportation Security Administration spends $5 billion a year to delay, harass and annoy 677 million passengers on 10.3 billion occasions per year for the sake of weeding out their toothpaste tubes and making them feel equally debased as they crawl toward the selection chute beltless and barefoot.
All this in order not to have to notice that a definite statistical portrait—excluding the overwhelming majority of all passengers—emerges from tabulating the ethnic and demographic markers of the thousands of terrorists who have attacked American and European targets over the last quarter century.
The American educational systems spends over half a trillion dollars per year K-12 education—but it's a Sisyphean labor.
In a 2007 comparison of 29 OECD countries, the US came up first in education expenditure, spending approximately $10,000 per year, per pupil, while scoring (among 15 year olds) 24th in math and 17th in Science. In the latest reading skills comparison of 44 countries, the US was 23rd.. Meanwhile, to cite one of many, the Czech Republic spends on education about $3,000 per year per pupil, yet in international comparisons it's 6th in math, 5th in science and 2nd in reading.
Could it be, perchance, that America 's vaunted "strength in diversity" has been overhyped when compared to boringly "nondiversified" societies—the Czechs, the Finns, the Japanese?
Per US Government statistics, 42% of students enrolled in American public schools in 2005 were "minorities", and 20% spoke a language other than English at home.
"Minorities" is a euphemism that has nothing to do with population percentages but everything to do with "disappearing" the inconvenient truth of mean racial group differences that handicap the "minorities", but not the majority, in education and wealth acquisition.
In reckoning with these metrics lie the answers to all societal woes of the Third World-infused multiracial society. We have a criterion by which to stop the pouring of further enormous treasure down a bottomless well to "correct" what are not the faults of society but the woof and warp of the manifest forces of nature—or God, to one so inclined. We have a yardstick by which to assess the national interest with regard to unrestricted immigration. We have a map by which to pursue more effective solutions to the problems of crime, welfare, education, cultural dissolution and more.
But perhaps not in our lifetime—not until many more people can be described by Irving Kristol's quip that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
Ultimately, each individual must be judged on his own merit. His group's mean characteristics are essentially irrelevant.
But by granting racial group preferences to "minorities" based on the spurious assertion of racial discrimination, demagogues and bien pensant liberals actually compel truth-seekers to dig for statistical findings related to such groups, to refute the fraudulent charges of "racism".
Instead of condemning the suicidal magnanimity of bestowing home ownership on the mostly-"minority" improvident whose only qualifications were their skin tones and loudmouth advocates, America is busy pouring ashes on its head because of the inevitable consequences of folly that, by incredible coincidence, fall disproportionately on the selfsame "minorities".
It's not often in history that such extraordinary delusions have been so pervasive, with such negative consequences. But instead of facing reality and learning to work with it, our Moriartys lunge at our Sherlocks and wrestle them over the precipice of the Reichenbach Falls—to the ultimate doom of the whole of society.
It's a fraud to attack those who speak out on racial differences as "racists", as though reckoning with salient characteristics of group averages denies the potential of individual members of such groups. It's inexcusable to brainwash generations of vulnerable schoolchildren that a pervasive "racist" environment is responsible for the under-achievement of "minorities" It's the "minorities'" own hereditary qualities that are in free play here: IQ, parents, ancestral culture, the hand that fate has dealt.
The cultural Marxist, or useful idiot, intent on shouting down reality and seeing "racism" everywhere, may drown in a lake whose mean depth is four inches, while protesting that the second and third tallest men in the world, who are Chinese, invalidate comparisons of the mean height of the Chinese and the Dutch.
For forty years now, and perhaps for the first time in 350 years, the West, en masse, has been retreating from the Enlightenment that had catapulted it to the pinnacle of civilization. The forces of reason, empiricism, truth-seeking, basic freedoms (before they became "rights"); the flowering of genius in all areas of human endeavor, all are in retreat everywhere at the same time.
A liberal dogma, a totalitarian taboo divorced from any reality that has ever existed, has taken hold. The new Nicean creed posits that discrimination, i.e. the perception of differences between groups—males v. females; shepherd Muslims v. urban post-Christians; Mexican mestizo peasants v. Danish professors of physics; High Protestant culture v. Hmong tribal custom—are the greatest, the cardinal, sin.
The overwhelming preponderance of black multimillionaires in sports and Rap passes without a comment. No affirmative redress action is available for short Ashkenazi Jews and Bengali Indians who feel unfairly excluded from the NBA. But the preponderance of whites in the sciences, the professions and upper corporate ranks, and the material rewards that accrue to that, are seen as racism that requires a disastrous re-engineering of society.
In finance, we have gone laissez faire on a group of reckless buccaneers disguised in Savile Row finery, selling spoiled meat from the back seats of Maybach limos. But we have banished laissez faire in the main area where it is salutary: liberty to pursue happiness with the hand of cards one has been dealt by fate and DNA, played with will and character by the rules of pure meritocracy. And this, rather than the subprime meltdown of faked homeownership, is the destruction of the American Dream.
A roomful of Professor Moriartys
could not have conceived a more diabolical scheme to
destroy, morally and materially,. An earlier, shorter version of this essay appeared in print in the Quarterly Review, March 2008. |
Shelley Zimmerman, San Diego’s new police chief, posed as a Patrick Henry High School student during a three-month undercover operation in 1983, Voice of San Diego says.
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Bill Holman, the prosecutor assigned to the case, told Voice that the busts were a revelation and a nightly news staple.
“You’d have thought we’d have busted the Arellano-Felix gang,” Holman was quoted as saying.
Holman told Voice that Zimmerman could pass for a 12-year-old and the the Midwestern transfer cover story was plausible because of her Ohio accent.
Voice added:
Holman said he was impressed by Zimmerman’s professionalism while undercover. Most rookie cops, he said, are overeager and talk over suspects rather than trying to get them to incriminate themselves. Zimmerman let the kids talk. “It was so easy for her to buy dope from these people,” Holman said.
Zimmerman said she didn’t use marijuana in the stings of student drug-sellers.
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BASEBALL; Osaka Wins Little League Title Game
Published: August 29, 1999
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Aug. 28— Kazuki Sumiyama struck out nine while yielding only two hits today as Osaka, Japan, beat Phenix City, Ala., 5-0, for the Little League World Series championship.
Sumiyama, a soft-spoken 12-year-old whose favorite United States player is Mark McGwire, struck out three of Phenix City's first four batters and had a total of 19 strikeouts in his two appearances. He can hit, too: He batted .615 in the two victories.
''He was hard to hit off of,'' said Phenix City shortstop Brandon Monk, who was 0 for 3 with a strikeout. ''He would hide the ball really well with his hand, and it was hard to pick up. Plus, he throws really hard.''
Phenix City Manager Tony Rasmus said: ''The kids were coming back to the dugout and saying, 'The ball's just jumping out at us.' ''
United States teams have won 6 of the last 20 Little League series.
Only Zach Martin and Cory Rasmus got hits, both singles, off Sumiyama, who throws a fastball and variations his teammates call the ''Kazuball'' and the ''Thunderball.'' His coaches say he is shy even back home in Osaka but is already being recruited by Japanese high schools.
He was not bashful about keeping runners off base. The 5-foot-7-inch, 122-pound Sumiyama, or ''Sumi'' to his friends, did not allow a run in 11 innings at the series. His father was home in Osaka running the family liquor store today, but his mother made the trip to Williamsport along with seven other parents of team members to see Japan's fourth Little League crown but the first since 1976. The crowd was 42,000.
''I imagined that I was pitching someplace else,'' Sumiyama said through the interpreter Bill Lundy. ''I am not used to playing in front of this many people.''
In the second, Kazutoshi Adachi scored the first run of the game from third on catcher Cory Rasmus's throwing error on a steal attempt.
Tony Rasmus, who quit his job as a coach at a private school to manage the team through the series, had to use Martin, his No. 3 pitcher, after both his son, Colby, and the 5-4 curveball specialist Bryan Woodall pitched in the United States championship victory over the defending champion Tom Rivers, N.J., a game that was stretched over Thursday and Friday by rain.
In the fourth, Osaka got a run on consecutive doubles by Kazunori Morishita and Kazuya Yamasaki, and Yamasaki scored when a low pitch squirted off Cory Rasmus's glove for a 3-0 lead. Osaka had a two-run fifth as well before a crowd that included celebrities such as Tommy John, Kenny Rogers and Brian Sipe.
''I told them last night, 'Hey, if we don't win tomorrow, no big deal. It's been a super run,''' said Tony Rasmus, a former player in the California Angels organization.
Photo: Heath Owens of Phenix City watching Osaka's celebration. (Associated Press) |
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In an era where more and more people have access to a wide variety of digital media, “misinformation about U.S. actions can be quickly disseminated to millions, damaging our country’s reputation when not vigorously countered in a timely fashion,” Smith and Thornberry write in a March 2 letter to colleagues announcing the caucus.
In order for foreign audiences to better understand our objectives and message, the United States must be able to understand and engage these audiences, the congressmen write.
“It is time that America finds creative new approaches to deny internet safe havens, communicate directly to the people of the world, and renew the positive reputation of our country abroad,” the letter continues. “Yet, U.S. strategic communication and public diplomacy lacks a clear strategy, as well as the tools and resources to achieve results.”
The Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy Caucus seeks to raise awareness of the challenges facing these issues and offer multiple perspectives on proposed solutions, according to the letter.
The idea was to “create more informed legislators, which hopefully will create more informed legislation,” noted a source familiar with the caucus. Too often, added the source, “members and staff don’t really understand the holistic problem; they only see a sliver.”
These off-the-record briefings will take place roughly every four to six weeks, this source noted.
The American Engagement Caucus, in contrast, focuses on the role the United States can play in strengthening international institutions like the United Nations, which is essential to respond effectively to global challenges. To achieve its security objectives, the United States must project “smart power,” a blend of military strength and creative diplomacy, according to the caucus. Reps. Russ Carnahan (D-MO) and Anh “Joseph” Cao (R-LA) lead this group, which was officially launched in January.
The Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy Caucus held a preliminary briefing discussing budget-related issues in November, according to the source familiar with the caucus. Future meetings may examine the difference between public diplomacy and strategic communication and the corresponding roles of stakeholders, as well as adversarial use of new media, including a discussion on how al Qaeda and the Taliban use YouTube and Google, said this source.
Another topic may include the “difference between public affairs and the whitest-of-white” psychological operations, added the source.
The Smith-Mundt Act, which governs U.S. global engagement, will also be a subject of discussion down the line, the source told ITP.
The role of business and technology in strategic communication and public diplomacy may also show up on a future meeting agenda, the congressional source stated. Caucus members may probe previous efforts in this area like the Voice of America and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, in addition to past legislation and reports on how to reform strategic communication, added the congressional source.
U.S. strategic communication and public diplomacy efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan may also be reviewed during caucus meetings, Amato told ITP. –– Fawzia Sheikh
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I think strategic communication and public diplomacy are being confused. We get into intelligence issues, intelligence committees, funding NGOs; programs that are obviously intelligence and law changing in country. Strategic communications is not a part of this or five year sustainable budgets for agencies and NGOs. It does the reverse of the harm these do by allowing communication and feedback that makes a difference to our planning and in country communication. |
Over the course of the past few months, there have been a series of unpleasant exchanges regarding the status of nonbinary individuals in the transgender community. There have been claims that the Transgender National Alliance “hates nonbinary people,” and what follows is a response to that claim.
In Whipping Girl, Julia Serano states that the term transgender is useful as a political tool, but is simultaneously problematic in that it is “too vague of a word to imply much commonality between individual people’s identities, life, experiences, or understandings of gender” (2007:26). This loose and vague definition, sometimes experienced as one size fits none, is at the heart of all of these emotional exchanges.
At the intersection of queer, transgender, and feminist theories and politics, there are lively discussions happening about the gender binary. Should trans people strive to shatter the binary? For many, the answer to that question is a solid and resounding yes. This radical position is often valorized (through a practice that Serano refers to as “subversivism”), positioning those who want to exist within the binary as conservative – with all of the negative connotations that term can invoke. Neither of these positions should be valorized over the other. Neither is more or less deserving of protections under the law or access to healthcare, and the Transgender National Alliance is committed to providing aid to any transgender individual who requests services, binary or not. Nonetheless, it still holds that there are vast differences in the lives of various people who fit under the transgender umbrella, and sometimes their goals will be in opposition to one another. We believe there should be a safe and respectful community dialogue around these differences and apologize for not promoting that discussion properly.
Rather than simply focusing on the differences between us, we also recognize the issues all of us face. Binary and non-binary people alike face sexism, gender entitlement, and transphobia. They are the true driving force behind the opponents of HERO, not an individual’s presentation, and we are aware that simply promoting respectability politics will not put a stop to these issues. We are in agreement with the following strategy put forth by Julia Serano:
I argue that, rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary” – a strategy that invariably pits gender-conforming and non-gender-conforming people against one another – we work to challenge all forms of gender entitlement (i.e. when a person privileges their own perceptions, interpretations, and evaluations of other people’s genders over the way those people understand themselves). After all, the one thing that all forms of sexism share – whether they target females, queers, transsexuals, or others – is that they all begin with placing assumptions and value judgments onto other people’s gendered bodies and behaviors. (2007:9)
We hope that you will also work to challenge all forms of gender entitlement with us.
Yours in Solidarity,
The TNA |
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Sybil-Resilient Reality-Aware Social Choice
Sybil-Resilient Reality-Aware Social Choice
Gal Shahaf, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 572-579.
Sybil attacks, in which fake or duplicate identities (a.k.a., Sybils) infiltrate an online community, pose a serious threat to such communities, as they might tilt community-wide decisions in their favor. While the extensive research on sybil identification may help keep the fraction of sybils in such communities low, it cannot however ensure their complete eradication. Thus, our goal here is to enhance social choice theory with effective group decision mechanisms for communities with bounded sybil penetration. Inspired by Reality-Aware Social Choice, we use the status quo as the anchor of Sybil Resilience, characterized by Sybil Safety -- the inability of sybils to change the status quo against the will of the genuine agents, and Sybil Liveness -- the ability of the genuine agents to change the status quo against the will of the sybils. We consider the social choice settings of deciding on a single proposal, on multiple proposals, and on updating a parameter. For each, we present social choice rules that are sybil-safe and, under certain conditions, satisfy sybil-liveness.
Keywords:
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Computational Social Choice
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Voting |
Today we’re happy to welcome back suspense author Donnell Ann Bell, who when she’s not obsessing about plots and characters, she’s spending time with her grandchildren. Learn more about Donnell and her books at her website.Today we’re happy to welcome back suspense author Donnell Ann Bell, who when she’s not obsessing about plots and characters, she’s spending time with her grandchildren. Learn more about Donnell and her books at her website.
Grandmotherly Confessions, Part Deux
The last time I visited Lois’s blog to confess my grandmotherly inadequacies was March 24, 2020. If you read the blog back then, you realized I was a mess around newborns through the infant stage. Perhaps then you’ve wondered if I’ve gotten used to the little tyke and have at least grown a grandmother gene.
Alas, that might have been feasible had my daughter and her wife cooperated, and said little tyke remained an only child. What’s happened since 2020? Twins!
So, as of this writing, I now have . . . . Wait for it. SIX GRANDCHILDREN!
Although these children are among the cutest on the face of the planet, Grandmotherly Confessions, Part Deux has required more adjusting. After all, how can I have six grandchildren when I haven’t even applied for Medicare yet?
All right my question is rhetorical; I do remember the birds and the bees’ lectures and know for a fact the stork delivers them!
In my last grandmotherly confession, I complained that so much has changed in the last forty years. Baby monitors, sleep slacks, no sleeping on their tummies, and more.
My children grew up by my admitted wayward instinct and by me spending a lot of time rocking, holding, and, of course, reading to them. Was it time-consuming? Always. Still, the time that they’re infants is so fleeting in the grand scheme of things, I’ll take all the cuddles I can get.
Studies have shown there really is a “love” hormone and the positive correlation between parent-infant contact and oxytocin levels during the infancy period. I’m going with the theory I had enough residual left over from the raising of my own children. It must be so. The bond I feel for my grandchildren is nothing short of amazing.
Until Dead
A Cold Case Suspense, Book 2
This killer won't stop . . . until she’s dead
When Lt. Everett T. Pope is notified of an explosion in downtown Denver close to the judicial buildings, his first instinct is gas leak. No such luck. As Incident Command and Pope's own Major Crimes unit move in, he discovers he knows the intended victims—an Assistant U. S. Attorney—and Pope’s former partner, now a private investigator, has died shielding the injured AUSA with his body.
As ATF and the FBI take over investigating the bombing and unraveling motives behind the murder attempt, Pope is relegated to a peripheral role. But the injured AUSA's aunt is a United States senator used to getting results. She turns to the team that solved the Black Pearl Killer murders with a very big ask—find her answers and locate the bomber.
FBI Special Agent Brian DiPietro must recall his entire cold case team from their far-flung assignments knowing he's being asked to do the impossible. The senator, however, doesn’t know the meaning of the word. All too soon, DiPietro finds his team working alongside ATF on a red-hot mission. One that uncovers a decades' old cold case.
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8 comments:
Thanks, Lois!!! Do you think there's a school for inept grandmothers? :)
Donnell,
Congratulations on the new release, and new grandchildren!
Mary
M.E. Bakos
If there's a club for inept grandmothers, then sign me up as well. But I did lots of reading to mine and I think that's what grandma should be best at, anyway.
Thank you, Mary!
Karen, wow, we should start one. There's nothing I love better than reading to my grandchildren. I usually buy books Lois recommends :)
Donnell, you are definitely NOT an inept grandmother!
Very cute post, Donnell. Congratulations on the new book!
Donnelle, congratulations on your book! Always exciting to publish, isn't it? Things have changed from the time we raised our kids. I'm the grandmother of three and I love that technology allows me to see and hear the grandkids.
Your grandbabies are adorable. |
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Save your Tumblr blog! Move it to WordPress!
Tumblr to WordPress Migration
You may have heard that Tumblr is making some major changes to their services- changes that could affect up to 90% of current Tumblr blogs! If you think your Tumblr blog is in danger of deletion, then you need to act now before you lose all of the content you’ve created and shared with the interwebs.
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How to Take Your Business Personally
I'm always surprised when I hear the advice, don't take business personally. It's 'just a business decision'. My response? Horseradish! Okay, I'd prefer to use another term here, but I'm keeping it clean!
After years of working in an impersonal corporate setting where so much bad behavior was excused by saying, 'it's just business', I am delighted and pleased to tell you that you have an alternative.
You can take everything about business personally!
Taking business personally creates success for you, for your clients, and for your staff.
It moves business into a whole other realm, the realm of connection. Connecting with yourself, with your clients, and also with your staff, if you have people working with you.
Let's not go down the well-worn path of pretending to be impersonal. You can instead choose the creative path of making everything personal!
A business is all about the people who make it come alive: entrepreneurs, clients, staff. If you as an entrepreneur do not take your businesses personally, then you risk abdicating responsibility for your decisions.
Your decisions about how you treat clients and staff, and even yourself, become disconnected from who you are as a person, because you can blame it all on, 'it's just a business decision'.
Do you want to be a connected entrepreneur? I sure do! Chances are, if you want business success, you do too.
Here's a quick 1-2-3 on how to stay connected:
1. Be clear. When you are clear within yourself about what your goals are, your vision, you can make the appropriate choices from that place. Being present to where you are and where you want to go gives you access to an amazing inner guidance system. That allows you to make decisions from that very personal place within yourself.
2. Be responsible. Sound a little boring, or even a little scary? Here's where we get to redefine responsibility - it's the ability to respond. Response-ability. You are able to respond in a way that you choose, a way that is true to you. Clarity helps, but ultimately your business hinges on the action that you decide to take. Make that action conscious, by taking each decision personally.
3. Be yourself. You are the ultimate compass for your business. You as the owner decide on the vision, the goals, AND how the business operates every single day. You get to have the best day at work ever, if you define what you value, what's personally important for you, and act authentically out of that place. That's also what sets you apart.
Being an entrepreneur is an ongoing challenge - remaining true to yourself while managing the day-to-day of your company, dealing with a lot of different people, serving your clients.
Yes, it's a challenge. AND you can do it without abandoning yourself and who you came here to be.
When you are called to make a tough choice, own it! Nobody but you is making this decision, and it is always for a myriad of reasons.
That's at least partly why you choose to be an entrepreneur - you choose to bring the whole of yourself into the world, into your work, into your life.
It's not always easy, but it is so worth it!
So which are you going to choose? Living fully, with your whole self, in everything you do? Or defaulting to 'just business'?
Consciously ask yourself, is this choice a true expression of me as I choose to be in the world? Once you've considered that, you can step up, make your choice with clarity, and stand behind it as your personal decision.
Your own clarity translates directly into business success. Your clarity becomes a beacon, a guide, a sentinel for you as you move forward.
People won't necessarily like your decision, but as long as you stay connected to yourself, you can stay strong in your clarity, knowing you have brought your whole self into your decision and your business.
You know that it's all personal. You act out of who you came here to be. And ultimately, that's the best business decision.
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Changed video format for emailed videos from quicktime to m4v so emailed videos would play on the ipad.
App Description
Create Animated Talking Characters that Repeat what they hear with Different voices, then Create Videos and Share them via Facebook and Email. Includes 4 Adjustable Mouth Shapes and 3 Voice Modifiers! Universal support for iPhone and iPad. Supports AirPlay!
Features:
- Built-in UI for iPad and iPhone and support for Portrait and Landscape orientation.
- Create as many animated talking characters as you want using your own photos. You can go back and edit them anytime and try out different mouth shapes and voices.
- Ability to choose from 4 different adjustable mouth shapes and then change their size and position on an image.
- Includes 3 Different Voice modifiers.
- Create, save and share videos of your characters speaking. Videos can be shared through email, on facebook, or even played on AirPlay enabled devices!
App Changes
- November 21, 2015 Initial release |
Today, Dan and I were sorting through photos of vignettes and details in order to choose a few for the book’s introduction and chapter openers. We came across a photo of a starfish that I snapped in Jamaica while we were there photographing a brochure for The Villas on Bluefields Bay. Want to play Where’s Waldo? Find me (not Waldo) in one of the photos on the Bluefields web site (). Some of the photos on the site are from that heavenly photo shoot.
Even before I realized their decorating potential, I was attracted to star fish. As a kid, I kept several in a treasure box under my bed. Now, I display several different kinds on the window ledges in my dining room.
Quick Trick: Tie these pointy-toed denizens of the deep onto a ribbon or string to make a garland. String across a mantel, footboard or curtain.
Starfish Trivia: There are over 1,800 species of starfish in the world’s oceans and saltwater tributaries and bays. Most have five legs, however some have more or less. At you can see photos of several unusual varieties. Need some for a decorating project? stocks a nice assortment of types and sizes.
5 comments:
Love these ideas! Now you've got me thinking...
:)
Dan? and Jamaica? sounds like heaven!!LOL! Loving these photos, hope Dan approves of any "crop-ness" and re-sizing!
I am delighted to have found your blog! I can't wait to see your book, I am sure it will be one of those that we will all keep and look at forever.
Lidy
Hello and welcome to Blog land.
Makes us sound like a bunch of little aliens but everyone is great, you get pink people, duck egg blue people even cutie pie .... opps I feel a song coming on.
Anyway Blogland is a wonderful world of inspiration and talent, and a great place to critic most things including books.
I have bought so many books on the say so of others, I would not have even known they existed.
So now we have a book blog which is great - I can't wait to get hold of your latest book - it sounds great.
Good luck with it and best wishes
Ginny (in England)...
Hi Barbara,
Welcome to the blog world! Just came over from Tara's blog to say how exciting it is to have you sharing your book journey with us. Your two magazines are my favorites. Love your header picture. Stop by my blog and say hi if you get a minute. It would be an honor to have you.
Sue
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Revivals in the Highlands
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A great revival of religion took place in the Northern Highlands of Scotland during the latter part of the eighteenth century. God brought thousands of men and women to be humble and faithful followers of Christ. They were noted as exercised and consistent Christians who delighted in the doctrines of grace. Angus MacGillivray was well placed to write an account of this remarkable period. From 1828 to 1841 he was the parish minister of Strathy on the north coast of Sutherland and knew many people who had become shining examples of godliness. He traces the history of the revivals in a number of localities in Ross-shire and Sutherland, describing the effects of the revival and illustrating this by short biographies of some eminent Christians.
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- 9781872556208
- Reformation Press (Standard Copyright License)
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- First
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- Reformation Press
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- June 24, 2016
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I was a child in the 1960s and early 70s, but even at an early age it was impossible not to be affected by those tumultuous years. Even in the suburbs, far from the so-called Grant Park riots, the anti-war movement, Civil Rights, the vitriolic assaults against those questioning the status (white) quo and Vietnam, the historic scope of those years was inescapable. And that was perhaps the most dramatic period of American History since the civil war. Before that change was far more incremental, and still favored the status quo. White power and supremacy was not assailed or significantly challenged for more than two centuries. That changed in the 1960s.
But the effort begun during those years was surrendered as that generation grew older. Many, though not all, abandoned the ideal of love, peace and egalitarianism they fought, bled, and in the case of Kent State or Martin Luther King, or Malcolm X and many others, died for. To be fair, their dreams were not completely abandoned. Important steps forward in peace, human and civil rights were made, but too many of that generation believed they had won the fight, or had won it enough. In the last several decades a purposeful effort was made to discredit their work and to roll it back as much as possible. As much as civil order would tolerate. But many from that generation abandoned their ideals, or followed the mantra of ideological cowards, a phrase repeated endlessly by the Right:
When I was a young man I was a liberal, when I grew up I was a conservative.
Where is the evidence for the charge that the 60s generation quit, conceded or defected to the enemies of peace and tolerance? First of all, they are the ones mostly in charge now, because succeeding generations have not yet acquired enough money, power and influence. Here are but a few examples.
Racists have honed their message, and made their craft slicker and less apparent, even seductive. So-called “men” like Limbaugh and Savage and Beck tease the humors of their closeted and bigoted followers in carefully couched language. Human Rights were thrown back pre-Second World War over lawyerly justifications and obfuscations about torture. Vietnam was a war over money, markets(oil and rubber) and influence filtered through extreme national ego, with just the right amount of racism to sell it to middle America. The perverse invasion of Iraq, the “strategic” picking and choosing of which human rights issues we will interfere in makes American foreign policy in Indochina and the 1960s-world seem naive and innocent by comparison.
And please don’t think this is a generational thing. My generation gave itself to an “Alex B. Keaton” style of morality and conscience, compromising comfort with ethics. We were on watch when the Twin Towers were struck, and when war threatened in Iraq, carried on propaganda and demonstrable lies, we acquiesced. A million of us marched, but it wasn’t enough, because we didn’t understand the powers arrayed against us, nor how to turn the message to our favor. We stood in the street and then conceded when the war began, disillusioned that a wholly owned media would impune our patriotism, and that a bought and paid for government wouldn’t simply ignore us, it laughed in our faces as pathetic for believing our voice actually held value in this nation.
And now comes the Occupy Movement. they stand for equality. They stand for freedom. And they stand for a government that must work for human beings, rather than corporate and banking interests. And for those simple assertions they are treated like peddlers of porn or worse. Safe from the comfort of their homes, too many in older generations ignore their efforts or dismiss them as kids, communists-and even worse-not serious. They will inherit the world the rest of us failed to improve enough. They are in the fight to reverse the damage the out of control influence corporations have had on the nation and the world. It is a just fight. It is the correct fight, because in each of our hearts we know the alternative should this movement fail.
And they have created their own media. The mainstream media is obsolete and never even a consideration any longer. The revolutions will not be televised, I have heard, it has been digitized. And it works through the amazing ascension of social networking, instantly and around the world. They control their own message, and underground message, if you will, growing and strengthening as the old media kills itself off with its corrupted and co-opted corporate parentage. Occupy will succeed or build its own society based upon principles often quoted from the Constitution…and Bible…documents too many now wipe their ass with to use as a weapon against others.
But what if it succeeds? What if a world in which the individual is paramount is forged. What if the government works to further human rights, fight wars only in defense or in defense of the helpless rather than as the enforcement wing of multi-nationals, or the marketing wing of those companies, siphoning taxpayer dollars to subsidize corporate profits? what if we lived in a world in which political candidates were chosen by the people, without the money influence, and that we could be sure they were beholden to us, and if not faced dismissal or prosecution? What if our choice for president was 3 or 5 or a dozen viable candidates, rather than two media chosen automatons shoe-horned into the ballot box? Now what if none of that came to pass?
And so one question remains, one that calls us back to our purer, less cynical, less damaged,more loving and accepting selves? When is it time for change? When do we decide to make that change. Where does a road begin, and when is it time to take the first step on that road. No one can make that decision for another. They must make it on their own. But that decision begins change in the world, every decision makes change in the world, and that is each person’s legacy.
In my younger days I was a liberal…and I never stopped fighting or believing.
That is my legacy. |
I was in second grade when Shea was born. I remember I brought her in for show and tell and showed her off to my whole class. I thought she was perfect - she was little and cuddly and adorable - although she had many medical problems from the start, she was born with Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis manifests itself in many ways, some people get really sick in their lungs, some in their digestive system, some people hardly have symptoms at all. I was always really sick with my lungs, infection after infection, hospitalization after hospitalization. I gave my sister infections and we often ended up in the hospital at the same time. She was always very much a momma’s girl and my mom always stayed with us when Shea was hospitalized too. It was nice to have Shea in the hospital with me most of the time though. We shared a room and we could relate to each other. She understood what it was like to be sick even if we didn’t talk about it much. We were psychically there for each other and sometimes that’s all you need. I was diagnosed at three months old and Shea was diagnosed before she was born. I don’t really remember either diagnoses, however, I know my family was told I wouldn’t live past 14. I was told that and knew it most of my childhood, I just never quite believed it.
Shea was seven or eight years younger than me, so we weren’t extremely close. We spent time together in the hospital, but my mom was always there when Shea was. If not my mom, then my grandmother was there, someone most always stayed with us. For the majority of her life Shea had a cast on her leg. She was born with a bow in her leg and broke her leg when she was three months old. They thought she must have broken it kicking her crib. I can still remember my mom holding my little sister sobbing asking if her leg looked weird. It just sort of hung off to the side. Dangled there, lifelessly. Little did we know how much pain that leg would cause. After dozens of surgeries and pins in her leg, they amputated it below the knee when she was eight.
My sister had some favorite things, some things you could always count on her wanting. I remember when my dad came home from the store he always brought us treats. For the life of me I can’t remember my favorites - they changed so often - but Shea always wanted mini M&M’s. She was so funny with it. Anyone who brought them for her would always try to take them out of the bag so quietly, but she would hear and come running! “ca-thunk, ca-thunk,” you’d hear the brace or cast on her leg hit the floor. She was also obsessed with Dr. Pepper, if she heard anyone crack a soda, she wanted a sip. Again, in she would come, “ca-thunk, ca-thunk”! She would hobble in as fast as her cast would let her and ask for her M&M’s and soda.
Shea had some other weird quirks, mostly all she would eat was yogurt and “chicken”. Every meat she ate we had to call chicken, otherwise she wouldn’t eat it. “What kind of chicken is this?” She would ask. “It’s pork chicken,” my mom would reply. “Oh! I like pork chicken!” She would exclaim and we would all chuckle. If we called it just pork, she wouldn’t eat it. She also loved playing Yahtzee, but she was a horrible cheater. If she dropped a dice on the floor, you would pick it up and she would have the other four the same, her sitting there looking as innocent as ever. Shea and I were similar in the way we were really bossy. We both loved to get our own way and thought we were always right. The difference was, I would argue, while she would state it as a fact and that was it and most people just did what she said. Also, she would not do whatever it was she said she wouldn’t, there was no arguments about it. I was also very independent where she really depended on my mom and grandmother. She liked having them around, while I preferred to be alone and do things on my own.
Fast forward a few years after her amputation, one beautiful summer day I was driving down the road to pick up a coworker to go to work. My cellphone rang and it was my mother, she informed me that Shea’s biopsy came back and it was cancerous. A couple of weeks earlier they had realized one of my sisters fibromas had tripled in size over the year since her last imaging. They didn’t know what they could do for it because it was in her nervous system of her left shoulder and the nerves were intertwined with the blood vessels of her heart. They didn’t think they could remove it because she would definitely lose her arm and probably wouldn’t make it through the surgery. My mom told me they were going to try chemo and radiation. She started chemo a few weeks later and she was so sick. Throwing up and nauseous all of the time. She hated it and was miserable. They basically told us it was chemo or nothing. There was nothing else they could do.
Shea’s medical team called a meeting after a few months for all of her staff and family. They told us we could try another round of chemo, but it didn’t do much the first round. My sister said she wasn’t doing anything else. She was done feeling terrible all the time. She seemed stoic, not scared at all. Almost stubborn. My family allowed her to make the decision. The only time I remember us talking about her actually dying was a few days before she really passed away. I asked for a few minutes alone with her, she wasn’t talking much at the time. Just talking made her short of breath. I asked her if she knew what was happening and she nodded her head yes. I asked her if she knew where she was going to go after here, she again nodded her head yes. Where? I asked her, she looked up at the ceiling and pointed. I asked if she was going to heaven, she nodded yes. She seemed so sure, so unquestioning even I believed her.
The day my sister passed away My brother and I went in to see her. I was in dress clothes because I had been out looking for a new job. I had on grey slacks and a maroon top with a green jacket over it. We went in during the day and I remember passing people in the hallway who looked happy. I couldn’t imagine how anyone could look happy when my sister was so sick. I was young and lost in my own grief and didn’t understand how everyone else couldn’t see it flowing out of me. Everyone seemed to know it was my sisters last, she hadn’t been awake for a few days. I remember the nurse coming in and telling my mom, “you can push this button every seven minutes, it will keep her comfortable while slowing down her heart rate. It will speed things up, but it will make sure she doesn’t feel any pain.” I remember thinking, “don’t push that button!” at the same time as thinking, “She has to push that button.” I didn’t know what I would do as a mother.
My brother and I went home in the late afternoon to change into something more comfortable, preparing for a long night. I grabbed my notebook and we headed back to the hospital. The nurses told us sometimes people hold on because of their families, they told us that maybe if each one of us took a moment to say good-bye it would ease her passing. During my turn I just sat their holding her hand and stroking her hair - something she would never let me do if she were awake. I let the tears come, but couldn’t speak words. I felt so weird talking to a body that looked asleep. Like I would disturb her or something. Finally, I leaned over and spoke quietly in her ear. “I will make something of myself, I promise. I will write a book and tell our story, tell your story.” The rest of the evening passed in most the same manor. My dad sitting on one side holding her hand, my mother on the other, holding her other hand. My step dad and mom were also there, my grandmother was there, and my aunt arrived late into the evening. She swooped in a barrel of emotions, afraid she hadn’t gotten there in time. I sat in the corner of the room with my notebook.
At one point my sister let out a large breath and the machines stopped. We all looked up, knowing that was the end. Then she started breathing again, we all laughed quietly. “Well, we know she’s only going to go on her terms. It’s just like her to joke about this too.” She liked to trick people. A couple of years earlier we were at a birthday party for my boyfriends (Elmer) cousin, Elmer and Shea devised a plan to trick everyone at the party. They pretended to have a fight over a hammer and Elmer smashed it on Shea’s foot. Everyone in the room stopped, conversations ceased immediately and the room was silent. Some of the men looked like they were going to kill Elmer. Then my sister started laughing as she pulled her leg off, “it’s fake!” She hollered laughing. I thought it was pretty funny, many of the guests didn’t like our dark sense of humor. Shea liked to do things like that, she tried to make light of her situations. After she started breathing and we all laughed a sigh of relief it wasn’t long before she did take her final breath. I think all of us kind of willed her to take another, but she never did. She passed away in her hospital room surrounded by those of us who loved her most. The tears started flowing freely, if not quietly. We went out and told the nurses she was gone.
A few minutes too late my uncle and aunt arrived with my grandfather. They cried at their tardiness and their lack of deciding to come earlier. I went out to the hall and found a quiet place to sit and write in. I didn’t know what to do. My grandmother and step mother washed my sister and got her ready for.. what? I didn’t understand it. After that the nurses told us we could spend as much time with her body as we wanted. I didn’t want. I wanted my sister back. The sassy little ball of energy she was. I left alone. As I walked out I wondered how other families did it. Did they all walk out together as a tight unit or separately as I was. Alone. Being alone suited my mood just fine. I was dark and sad and a little angry. Why did my family deserve this? Why did my sister?
My sisters passing made me realize that I wasn’t as indestructible as I thought. My body was fragile and I couldn’t be sure I wouldn’t die anymore. I always knew I would die someday, but I thought it would be a day that I chose. Then again, I thought, my sister did choose to die. I was mad that I was born with such an illness. I was upset the only person who understood fully about my disease in my family was gone.
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Andaman Queen Liveaboard – Welcome on board
MV Deep Andaman Queen Liveaboard is a highly demanded Andaman Queen Liveaboard has now Colti Sub Nitrox membrane on board – unlimited Nitrox is available for every diver. She has one of the largest dive platforms in the Thailand..
Interior charm
The interior saloon is large enough to seat everyone on the boat, including crew, and features a DVD entertainment system and comfortable benches and low tables to sit and enjoy a drink. Most meals are served in the covered deck area just to the rear of the saloon. She has wooden tables and comfortable chairs where you´ll enjoy your meal with three other guests. Meals are served buffet style, with fresh breads, fruit, and wonderful Thai and Western dishes served up by the fabulous chef.
Sunbathers can enjoy the top desk, where there is a large 60 square meter half-shaded sun deck equipped with sun beds, lounge chairs and soft sofas.
The sun deck is very popular among our guests as you can read your favorite novel or take a nap during the surface interval on our nice clean and comfortable leather sofas.
All cabins are modern and comfortable, equipped with:
• Air con
• Private bathroom
• Towels
• Toiletries
• Life jackets
Dive deck and gear area
Going down the stairs from the top deck you’ll be on the cabin deck and this is where most of your time will be spent–gearing up for diving, the reason we’re here. The dive deck is spacious and well designed. There is no moving tanks around, all tanks are filled at their stations or the crew will handle the lifting. Put your gear together and forget about it. Two dinghies will transfer you to the dive sites, or we’ll jump off the mother ship. All pick-ups are done from the dinghies for your convenience. Since many of the dives are drift dives, this system is pretty common practice in these waters.
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Booking information
► Following the new National Parks regulations, we updated our booking conditions:
To book your Andaman Queen
- All meals
- Tea and Coffee
- Soft Drinks
- Fruits and Snacks all day long
- Drinking Water
- Instructors maximum 4:1 Ratio
- lamps for night dives
- Toiletries (towels, shampoo and body lotion)
NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRICE
- Similans Park Fees: 2,000 THB per diver
- Burma trip Fees: 250 US$ to pay cash in US$
- Scuba equipment – see the prices
You need
- Your certification card for scuba diving
- Diving insurance – Since 2018 mandatory
- Andaman Queen 6-9 months in advance.
MV Andaman Queen Liveaboard schedule
Prices are in Thai Baht (THB) and per person.
MV Andaman Queen Liveaboard Itinerary
Similan Islands Liveaboard Diving
The Similan Islands is one of the Top Ten dive destinations in the world which you do not want to miss either as a scuba diver or a snorkeler. The Similan islands and Surin islands National Park is only open from October 15 to May. These islands are located off the West coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea. The Similan Islands have something for everyone at every age and ability. Shallow tropical coral reefs, soaring pinnacles, with massive coral gardens and a breeding ground for the Hawksbill turtle. The diversity of the underwater world is amazing that the Similan islands can offer.
Day 1
- 15:00 – 18:00 Pick-up at your Hotel, Phuket Airport, Dive shop & Khao Lak
- 18:00 – 20:00 Arrival at MV Andaman Queen Liveaboard
Welcome Drinks – Cabin Allocation – Staff Introduction
Boat Briefing – Welcome Dinner
Day 2
- General Diving Rules / Safety Briefing
- Three dives around the Similan Island #4
and visits Island #4 – Enjoy paradise with a beautiful white sandy beach.
- Night dive at Honeymoon Bay (Island No. 4)
Day 3
- Two dives around the Similan Islands
- Visit Island No. 8 / Enjoy paradise with nature & a white sandy beach.
- Two dives around Ko Bon & Ko Tachai Islands
Day 4
- One early morning dive around Koh Tachai Island
- Three dives around Richelieu Rock & Surin Island
Day 5
- One early morning dive around Koh Bon Island
- If possible, one dive at Boon Sung Wreck
- Around 12:00 cruising back to Khao Lak
- Around 15:30 Disembarkation at Khao Lak
- 16:00 – 18:00 Transfer back to your Hotel in Phuket, Air Airport & Khao Lak Area.
Similans & Burma Liveaboard Diving
Mergui Archipelago
Join Andaman Queen liveaboard for some of the most exciting dives in the world. This area only opened in the late 1990s includes islands within the Mergui.
Day 1
- 15:00-18:00 Pick up and transfer to Khao Lak
- 20:00 Arrival at MV Andaman Queen
Welcome drink serves – Cabin allocation – Staff introduction – Boat briefing
- Welcome Dinner
- Leave from Khao Lak and cruise overnight to Similan Islands
Day 2
- Enjoy with 2 dives at Ko Bon and Ko Tachai followed by 2 dives at Richelieu Rock.
- After the last dive, we are going for a night cruise to Ranongs’ immigration on the next day.
Day 3
- In the morning we will clear border formalities at Thailand and Burma before cruising out towards islands of Burma.
- Afternoon you will go for 3 dives at High Rock, Rocky Island and Shark Cave areas
Day 4
- 4 extremely exciting dives at the Black Rock
Day 5
- Another 4 exciting dives at North Twin, Shark Cave and Stewart Island
Day 6
- Morning dive at North Rock then follow by Fan Forest Pinnacle
- Afternoon 2 more dives at Western Rocky
Day 7
- 2 dives at Western Rocky
- Afternoon returning to Burma border for check out and back to Thailand
Day 8
- 2 wreck dives at Boonsung and another wreck in front of Khao Lak
- 11:30 – 13:00 Leave the dive site for Tablamu Pier, lunch, and debriefing on the way back
- 13:00 Disembarkation at Tablamu Pier
- 13:00 – 16:00 Transfer back to your Hotel in Phuket , Air Airport & Khao Lak Area
Important notice
The above itineraries are an example of a usual dive cruise. The Captain and the Cruise Leader will decide the best course of action based on weather conditions at the specific time of each trip.
In case of bad weather conditions, the Liveaboard trip can be altered or canceled for the safety of all passengers, crews, and the vessel.
MV Andaman Queen Description
MV Deep Andaman Queen is Thailand liveaboard operating Similan islands and Burma. All cabins are with air condition and private bathroom.
All cabins complete with 220 volt of Electricity 24 hours a day
Air-conditioning system (Hino)
- 2 Master cabin
- 5 Deluxe cabins
- 1 Standard Quad cabin
- 1 Standard Triple cabin
- 2 Standard Twin cabin
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Large saloon with TV/DVD system.
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You will also find two large buckets with fresh water for rinsing cameras, dive computers and torches.
Technical Description
- Length: 31 m
- Beam: 7 m
- Hull: Steel
- Speed: Cruise 9.5 knots
- Speed max: 15 knots
- Max. passenger: 25
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- Engine: 2 Hino Engines 2 X 510 hp each
- Air Compressor: 2 Bauer mariner with Nitrox
- Water Capacity: 20,000L
- Navigation: GPS SatNav, Compass, Depth Sounder, Radar
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Chance the Rapper and mom, Lisa Bennett rock the red carpet at the BET awards in L.A. (Getty/C.Flanigan)
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Alderman Anthony Beale
On Tuesday, Ald. Anthony Beale (9th Ward) made his opposition against the underpass closing—speaking to WVON’s morning show hosts, Maze Jackson and Charles Thomas. As chair of the Transportation Committee, the proposed ordinance was brought to the Finance Committee, which he says was racially biased and held more priority than other public safety concerns that plague the Black community because it’s in a predominately white area. Are we surprised?
Jackson asked Beale. ‘Why are Black alderman going along with the status quo of Chicago politics?’ Beale answered, ‘Because it’s every man for themselves.’ Hmmm…well, there you go! Not one to hold his tongue, Beale grew a ‘set’ as he made it abundantly clear that there is no ‘Black and Brown’ coalition as the number of Black families move out of the city and Illinois becomes a sanctuary city that serves approximately 500,000 undocumented immigrants. Does this affect the re-mapping of aldermanic wards based on groups that culturally represent that area—yes it does. Alderman Ray Lopez (15th Ward) has gained a great portion of Englewood, yet some critics will say he doesn’t fight hard enough for his Black constituents. Alderman Walter Burnett (27th Ward) has had the most drastic change as his area is the hottest piece of real estate in the West Loop, bustling with trendy restaurants, luxury high rise buildings, and satellite offices for leading Fortune 500 companies.
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Last night, my girls, Dana Divine and Ronda Flowers set it off with the 3rd Annual House House Club Tour ‘Pub Crawl’. The “Get on the Bus” tour celebrated the different sub-genres of House Music played throughout the city of Chicago with a talented group of selected DJs. Some of the different sounds included Afro House, Classic House, Chicago Old School, Down Tempo Disco, Funk, Global House, Latin, Studio 54, Underground, and Vinyl. Shout outs to some of the DJs that kept the party going; First Lady and Mickey Calvin at The Family Den; CelestetheDJ Alexander and DJ Boxx at Red Pepper Lounge; Steve Miggedy Maestro, Vince Adams and Dee Jay Alicia at Baderbrau Brewery; DJ Mark Fuller and Chris Underwood at Frances; Ron Carroll, Hula Mahone and Esmoove at Lemelles; Maurice Joshua, Sundance at The Promontory; and so many more wonderful, dope-ass DJs carried the bus loads of patrons throughout the Southside Black pub life scene.
It’s about that time again where BBQ grills, mobile lawn furniture, and coolers are packed and stacked high on the four-wheel red Radio Flyers as house heads head to Jackson Park. The 27th Chosen Few DJs House Music Festival takes place Saturday, July 1, kicking off the 4th of July festivities. Originally, the picnic started as an intimate family reunion held by the Hatchetts and slowly grew out of the familiar meet-up held behind the Museum of Science and Industry. Since then, every year the country’s largest festival of old school House music is a celebration of reunions—bringing together long-time friends, family and the Black community in a peaceful and positive setting.
The Chosen Few DJs recently kicked off the week of festivities at Guaranteed Field during Monday night’s White Sox game.At this year’s two-day festival, expect to be wowed on Saturday with live performances by Cece Peniston and Dajae along with DJ sets featuring Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley, DJ Spinna, Greg Gray, Brian Frazier and Chosen Few DJs—Wayne Williams, Alan King, Tony Hatchett, Jesse Saunders, Andre Hatchett, Terry Hunter and Mike Dunn. On Sunday, the party continues with music spun by Ron Trent, Sadar Bahar, Gene Farris, Craig Loftis, Hula Mahone, Dee Jay Alicia and other others.
There’s still time to get your tickets online so don’t delay—the walk-up line to pay at the gate is NO JOKE.
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Birthday Shout-outs
Cancer nation takes us into the 4th of July celebration. Belated happy birthday wishes to fashion designer and breast cancer advocate, Barbara Bates on June 27. Marketing consultant, Carl Washington; hip-hop publicist, Briahna Gatlin; and rap artist-turned-manager, Pheave celebrate June 28. One of my favorite 100 Black Men of Chicago members, Nathaniel Ward aka ‘Mr. Wonderful’ celebrate the BIG 50, V103’s Chris Micheals; businessman, Troy Williams, and the late Commissioner Robert Steele on June 29. Party promoter, Shannon Waldron and former DJ/talent manager, Eric Sexton aka Eric the Wiz rock out on July 1. Dr. Who fan, Rachell Montgomery; rap artist, Cordell ‘Co-Still’ Hunter; and hairstylist Meako Bailey June 2. Entertainment attorney, Daryl Jones; House music DJ, Craig Loftis; playwright and producer, John Ruffin and Groove Parlor founder, Paula Jones celebrate on July 3.
Pre-4th of July Weekend Chicagoland Hot Picks
This will be a long holiday of 4th of July activities as the weekend kicks off on June 30 and many are returning to work in mid-week.
The International Festival of Life begins Friday through Tuesday, July 4, in Union Park (Ashland and Lake St.). Make sure to check out Capleton & The Prophecy Band, Darius Brooks, The Tommies, Lyfe Jennings and Al Hudson & One Way—along with many more acts. Special Hot Mix 5 DJ sets on Sunday, July 2 so bring your comfortable shoes to dance the evening away.
Good Vibes Music Festival takes place in Aurora (360 N. Broadway) on Sunday, July 2. This has been on my calendar for the last two months! If you want that dose of 1990’s R&B, make sure to catch Ginuwine, Dru Hill, Jon B. and Mya.
Naperville’s Ribfest has become to the ‘go-to’ foodie event in the suburbs. Grill masters as far as Mississippi attend the Ribfest, showing off their skills serving thousands of attendees. Naperville is approximately 36 miles Southwest of Chicago but it is truly worth the drive and bring plenty of wet wipes. The festival runs from June 30 through July 3 at Knoch Park. Great 1980’s flashback performances by Flock of Seagulls and the B52’s. Bring the family out to the fireworks on Monday, July 3, at 9:30pm.
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- UK Innovator Visa – The visa is valid for three years with multiple extensions of 3 years. The applicant needs to invest a minimum of £50,000 (INR 51 Lac) in a new UK business. The business idea must be endorsed by the UK endorsing body. UK Permanent residency is possible after five years of stay.
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ACHA Would Break Apart What Is Working in New York
by James Tallon, President, United Hospital Fund and Co-Chair of Philanthropy New York's Health Working Group
This piece was originally published on the United Hospital Fund website and was reposted with permission.
New York has overwhelmingly embraced the Affordable Care Act, taking advantage of subsidies for the purchase of individual insurance coverage through New York State of Health; expanding our Medicaid program with the aid of enhanced federal support; and creating the Essential Health Plan, offering insurance with nominal premiums to more than 600,000 people, including 250,000 legally resident immigrants who had previously been covered at State cost.
By any measure, this has been a success story. The proportion of state residents without insurance has plummeted from 13 percent to the single-digit range, the culmination of several decades of effort to reduce the numbers of uninsured.
On May 4, the House of Representatives passed a new version of the American Health Care act, which would replace the Affordable Care Act. This bill would not only cause significant disruption in New York of individual insurance markets and the Essential Health Plan, and increase costs for those with pre-existing conditions, but would also make broad—and damaging—structural changes to the Medicaid program, which in New York covers almost a third of the state’s population.
A FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT
At its core, Medicaid performs four connected, critical functions. First, in any given month, it provides payment for the basic health needs of 6 million low-income New Yorkers. Second, it covers 1.3 million elderly and disabled people with a wide range of chronic or disabling conditions. Third, it supplements the costs of Medicare for 850,000 beneficiaries and is the de facto payer for nursing home and other long-term care services. And fourth, it gives direct subsidies to the institutions that make up the health care safety net.
The American Health Care Act would repeal additional financial support for approved coverage expansions and, more importantly, cap the growth of Medicaid expenditures in future years. At its heart it upends the federal-state sharing of Medicaid costs that has guided the program for more than 50 years.
The hundreds of billions of dollars the plan would reportedly save in federal Medicaid expenditures over the next decade in fact represents a shift in costs: to state budgets, to health care providers, or to beneficiaries in the form of reduced services.
For New York, the proposed legislation provides a particularly tough challenge, one with potentially broad, and meaningful, effects on our entire health care system. Over the decades the State has combined Medicaid’s robust insurance coverage with efforts to advance both quality and cost discipline in the delivery of services—moving from highly regulating the commercial insurance industry, through all-payer rate setting and managed health care, and into the current push for value-based payments.
Since the administration of Nelson Rockefeller, successive governors have continued their bipartisan policy initiatives, with legislative support and often with waivers of federal Medicaid rules.
IMPACT BEYOND MEDICAID
While other states have used Medicaid primarily to expand coverage, New York has leveraged the program not only to provide access to care for millions but also to guide the use of resources and control health care cost growth. Whether in low-income communities or elsewhere, Medicaid has become an integral part of the structure of service delivery.
In New York it would mean an estimated million people losing coverage, the inability to support health care providers, and the loss of the policy construct linking coverage to quality and cost control—all threats with ramifications far outweighing any budget impact.
The approach taken by the American Health Care Act breaks apart the federal-state compact that has been in effect since 1965. Altering that underlying shared responsibility undermines the basic concept of federalism on which Medicaid was constructed.
This change would also challenge all we have tried to accomplish in New York’s health care over the last 50 years. Along with hurting poor people and those with significant health care needs, it would weaken our entire health care system. As the U.S. Senate now considers this bill, the health of many New Yorkers, and other Americans, hangs in the balance. |
Originally published December 31, 2012 at 5:33 P.M., updated January 1, 2013 at 8:32. |
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Employees at the U.S. consulate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discovered an envelope containing an unidentified white powder on Wednesday.
After the request of the consulate staff, the municipal fire brigade arrived to the scene and collected the suspicious envelope and sent its unknown contents to the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a world-renowned scientific institution on public health research, PeopleDaily.com reports.
Members at the consulate said that no threats were received to make them believe that the envelope contains a bioterrorist agent like anthrax, but followed the standard safety protocol measures nonetheless.
"The consulate has no indication that the envelope contains any harmful substances, but, as a precaution, the item was sent to the authorities for evaluations and tests," the consulate said in a statement, according to PeopleDaily.com.
Rigid precautions were developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after several letters containing anthrax were sent through the mail in several areas of the United States in 2001.
Although there have been no recent mail-related anthrax exposures, the CDC recommends that all persons should take the appropriate steps to protect themselves and others from exposure to Bacillus anthracis.
The consulate expects the results of the test to be disclosed within the next few days, PeopleDaily.com reports.
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Yes, a child is still a child, even when you put a gun in his hand. How young is too young with respect to children having access to guns? Does the type of gun make a difference or is a young child too immature or inexperienced to safely control any type of gun? That’s that question that I have following an Arizona incident yesterday (Tuesday) in which a young girl, age 9, accidentally shoots a gun instructor with an UZI. She was receiving training under the supervision of her parents. This isn’t the first incident such as this.
An 8-year old Massachusetts boy killed himself in a similar accident at a gun show with the same type of high-powered UZI weapon as in the Arizona incident.
A 7-year old on a shooting outing with his parents in Kansas accidentally shot himself in the head.
It’s bad enough to hear of kids finding an unlocked gun and accidentally killing themselves or others. But to place a powerful weapon in a child’s hands is very irresponsible. Even experienced adults oftentimes cause death or injury when a gun they’re handling is accidentally discharged. I think there should be stricter laws when it comes to children. Parents should not be the deciding voice when it comes to guns and their children. Legislation should be enacted taking the decision-making out of their hands, just like it is with the purchase of alcohol. As a general rule, kids shouldn’t not be allowed to have access to guns. |
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You might not know this about me but...when I throw a party....I almost always have to have matching water bottles. Whether it be a printable found online, or a piece of scrapbook paper...I love love love to dress up Costco water bottles. Which is why I keeled over in happiness when I found this little tip from Creative Party Buzz.
Have you noticed that at most stores lately {Wal-mart, Target, JoAnns} they carry TONS of cute Duct Tape? I mean SUPER cute! Well, Creative Party Buzz has used this same CUTE duct tape as water bottle labels. AND....the cool thing about using this is that you can dump the bottles right into the ice bowl...unlike the paper labels. AND...no glue dots are required since the duct tape sticks right on to the bottle! I LOVE this! And I am hightailing it back to Walmart tomorrow to purchase this roll:
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Speaking of duct tape...my cute nephew makes the most adorable duct tape wallets.
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Dodge Philippines has confirmed that it will launch the 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat in Q3.
Dubbed by the automaker as the “most powerful muscle car ever,” it features a vertical-split grill along with quad projector headlights, ventilated aluminum hood and large front splitter. It also has dual air extractors placed on its hood to provide air and to reduce air turbulence in the engine compartment.
The rear of the vehicle is fitted with split LED taillights, dual exhaust tips finished in black chrome and spoiler. The 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat is finished off with 20-inch matte black forged aluminum wheels.
Inside, it has heated and ventilated SRT Laguna leather seats while the dashboard's center stack houses the standard 8.4-inch Uconnect touchscreen. It also has a trapezoidal shaped aluminum center console with leather-wrapped surface and French-seamed accent stitching.
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This Amazing Woman Gave Herself a C-Section, and Somehow Everyone Survived
A mother faced with the prospect of losing a baby in utero resorted to extreme measures and actually gave herself a DIY Caesarian section with a kitchen knife. Somehow she and her baby survived, and there are not enough expletives and reaction GIFs in the world to adequately convey the appropriate reaction to this woman’s story.
According to Discover, the 40-year-old woman lived in a small village eight hours away from the nearest hospital. The village had no running water or electricity, and the woman did not have access to prenatal care or help with her delivery, which is how she wound up faced with the prospect of losing her baby or carving open her own stomach with a kitchen knife.
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The woman had eight surviving children already, but two years before this pregnancy she experienced an obstructed labor, and the baby died in utero when she could not manage to get it out. When she went into labor this time and realized she was in the same situation, she decided she was not going to risk losing another baby that way.
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Holy fucking shit, man. I feel like I need three shots of hard liquor just to read that, and this woman actually lived through it.
And because the woman was eight hours away from the nearest hospital when this happened, that meant that when help did arrive, this woman–who had just eviscerated herself–had to undergo an 8-hour car ride to the hospital before undergoing several days of massive surgery. And she was caring for and breastfeeding a newborn while that was going on.
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After all the surgeries, the woman reportedly recovered well and was discharged from the hospital after just 10 days after surgery.
This woman’s story is insane. But it really highlights the need for more extensive prenatal and maternal care around the world, especially in rural areas like this one. There’s no good reason in 2016 for a woman to have to use “her skills at slaughtering animals” to perform a C-section on herself. It’s amazing that this woman and her child survived. |
The federal government is giving employers a little more time to fulfill some of the new reporting requirements created by the Affordable Care Act. For employers who fall under these reporting guidelines and deadlines, the extension means another two months. The Internal Revenue Service announced the changes in late December, which amounts to just over a month’s notice before the arrival of the first deadline. This new IRS guidance extends the ACA information reporting due dates and gives companies covered by the law a little more time to make sure that they properly comply with the requirements.
Employers that are large enough (companies with 50 or more full-time equivalent workers) fall under the ACA requirement to provide their workers with insurance. These companies initially faced a Feb. 1 deadline to issue tax forms 2015 1095-C to their workers, the form that shows the workers information about their healthcare coverage. These forms also provide proof to the IRS that the worker has that insurance coverage. Workers covered by other insurers, such as a Small Business Health Options Program, were to receive a similar form, a 1095-B. According to the IRS’s Dec. 28 notice, the deadline for employers to issue either the 1095-C or the 1095-B forms to their employees has been extended to March 31.
The next set of deadlines applies to submitting forms to the IRS. In addition to providing the 1095-C forms to workers, employers need to send these forms to the IRS. Companies initially faced a Feb. 29 deadline to send the 1095-C forms, along with a 1094-C form – a cover sheet for the 1095-C forms. The 1094-C form includes details about the employer, the number of employees, the contact person, and how many 1095-C forms are being sent. For forms submitted by paper, the deadline to file these forms with the IRS has been pushed back to May 31.
Under the ACA, employers faced a different deadline for submitting forms 1094-C and 1095-C electronically. The initial deadline was March 31. But under the IRS extension, the new deadline is now June 30. Likewise, the deadlines for the 1094-B forms, which show the transmittal of health coverage information, were also pushed back. Companies now have until May 31 to send the form if filing by paper, or June 1 if filing electronically.
These deadline extensions apply automatically to all filers, ADP explains. Companies that face reporting requirements under the ACA do not need to submit anything to the IRS or take any other action in order to have the new deadlines apply to them. But if you already requested a deadline extension before the IRS issued the new deadlines, don’t expect to hear back from the IRS. The agency says it will not respond to companies that have already requested an extension, nor will it grant extensions beyond these new deadline extensions. The IRS adds that companies who fall under the ACA reporting requirements but do not comply with the new deadlines will be subject to penalties.
Not all companies will qualify for the extended deadlines. But the IRS urges companies that don’t qualify for the extended due date to go ahead and file their paperwork by the old deadlines anyway. The IRS will take the decision to file into consideration when deciding whether to penalize a company, ADP says. The IRS will also weigh whether a company made a reasonable effort to provide the required health insurance information to their employees, and to prepare the necessary information for a filing with the government.
Employers face multiple new requirements under the ACA. SurmountHRM has expertise guiding companies through the new ACA rules. For help with your ACA compliance efforts, contact us. |
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Today we raise up MLA: The Honourable Stephanie Cadieux, Minister of Children and Family Development, in prayer. Lord, may You bless her in each thought and decision as she over sees Your treasured families her in British Columbia. May You guide her in each and every decision as she oversees her very important portfolio. We pray for her and her husband as they give of their time to benefit the people of this amazing province. We ask all of. |
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John W DeWolf of Beta Theta Pi, University of Illinois, died February 5, 2004 after a brief illness.
John was initiated into the Sigma Rho chapter in February 1927 on the 25th anniversary of the Chapter. Francis Shepardson, the president of Beta Theta Pi, attended the initiation. John returned to the campus in 2002 to attend the 100-year anniversary of the Chapter.
John served as a Lt. Colonel in the Air Corps in WWII, entering active duty just before Pearl Harbor. He was awarded the Legion of Merit Medal. He spent most of his business life in industrial advertising, starting with General Electric; followed by three years with Bethlehem Steel; 20 years with Basford, a New York industrial advertising agency; and finally 19 years with Cahners Publishing Company, a business-magazine publisher headquartered in Boston. He was president of the 4500-member Business Marketing Association (then the Association of Industrial Advertisers) in 1965-66. He retired to Reston, VA in 1977 and then moved to Falcons Landing, an Air Force retirement home in Sterling, VA, in 1997. John was a strong supporter of the Sigma Rho chapter and the Beta Theta Pi Foundation.
John's brother, Frank T. De Wolf '39, was also a Sigma Rho Beta.
John was born June 27, 1909. He married Jean Bull, a Delta Gamma at the University of Illinois. She passed away January 30, 1999. John is survived by a daughter, Deborah Allen and her husband, Harry, and by four grandsons and one great grandson.
John has written about his time at Sigma Rho in an unpublished document "My Life and Good Times" in 1999. An excerpt of this document is on this site: |
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Having to endure hard and unsatisfying life in the city (whatever city) everybody's got her/his own "white list" for food and drinks. Hence the meticolous journey to find the "good places" (doesn't rob you / doesn't poison you / has food that's actually good / owners are laidback / word "fashion" never appears in place / ain't on navigli). Let me show you some of what I've found thru the years. (but then don't tell anyone, or I'll have to kiil you with a Spontini slice).
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When Antetokounmpo attempted to go one-on-one with Ibaka, a guy he posterized in Game 1, Ibaka blocked him cleanly much to the delight of the 19,800 on hand. Tucker said. Casey said the team has studied its first-quarter conundrum. DeRozan finished with one assist. The Raptors big men had a rough start offensively but, when Lowry hit a bit of a wall in the second half from a scoring standpoint, Jonas Valanciunas and Serge Ibaka were there to pick him up.
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The Celtics had 23 road wins in the regular season, tied for 5th most in the National Basketball Association. I think that their length and their ball pressure and (Dwyane) Wade and (Jimmy) Butler and Rondo and their bench and the bigs are just really up and active in utilizing their length on us.
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Ancelotti added: "Sometimes you miss a penalty, that was not the first one, and it will not be the last one, but we can build on the first half". "I am very happy", he said. Real defender Sergio Ramos had the ball in the Bayern net with time running out, but the goal was ruled offside but the Spaniards have the upper hand for the second leg at home next Tuesday.
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Butler, Bulls rally to beat Celtics 101-94 in series opener
He wasn't the only Boston player a little off their game in the first half. Go ahead, Boston. Keep booing Rondo out of the building. "These fans are great, I wouldn't expect anything else", he said. That changed quickly, though, as the Bulls responded with a 20-4 run. Chicago again used its big men to push the Celtics out of the paint and was quicker to the ball in a lot of 50-50 situations.
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Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, center, celebrates after scoring as Bayern players react during the Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday April 18, 2017.
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Mercedes consider team orders to stop F1 threat of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel
In Bahrain Hamilton and team-mate Valtteri Bottas gave Mercedes their first front-row lock-out of the season, with the Finn ahead on his first career pole position. A generator problem on the grid meant the team were unable to bleed his tyres properly and he started the race with higher pressures than he would have liked.
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Russia Relations At All-Time Low
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It was a monumental goal as it not only gave Real Madrid the lead for good but it was also the 100th goal for the Portuguese superstar across all European competitions. Ancelotti says the Germans still have a fighting chance in the return leg in Madrid on Tuesday. Robert Lewandowski was back in Bayern Munich training on Sunday following the club's scoreless draw with Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.
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Ahmed Elmohamady's own goal opened the scoring before half time at Etihad Stadium, as the Hull defender turned in Jesus Navas' unsafe low cross. Neither side made any changes at halftime but only a minute into the second half slack marking allowed Sterling to pull the ball back to Aguerro who made it 2-0.
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We need to deny them space because they're a very, very good counter-attacking team. "It's no discredit to lose to a team of that calibre", Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare told BT Sport . While the deficit is just the one goal , Leicester will have their work cut out if they are to complete a dramatic turnaround against an Atletico side who have the best defensive record in La Liga, despite sitting in third place at present.
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The Champions League quarter final match between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich is set to start at 7.45 pm local time, 12.15 am IST and 2.45 am EST. "Such super transfers do not fit with the club's philosophy". Gareth Bale has been ruled out of Real Madrid's 2nd leg match against Bayern Munich with an injury. "Sooner or later, in the biggest games, they are decisive".
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Manchester City go third after easy win at Southampton
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Ronaldo hat trick puts Madrid into Champions League semis
More generally, video assistant referees might have reversed the two Ronaldo goals for offside, but they would not have reversed the yellow card to Vidal. We wanted to go through and there's a lot of anger in that a match of such intensity is decided by the referee. "We don't know. The important thing is to not make a mistake".
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Happ, who won 20 games for the first time past year, left Sunday's start against Baltimore in the fifth inning with a sore elbow. Happ joins Josh Donaldson , Aaron Sanchez and J.P. "The guys (Goldstein) has done it (to) have had no problem and it heals up pretty quick". Happ hopes he will have better results than he has had so far this season, going is 0-3 with a 4.50 ERA.
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Son Heung-min matched a 31-year South Korean scoring record as Tottenham beat Bournemouth 4-0 in the Premier League on Saturday to remain hot on the heels of leader Chelsea . Chelsea goalkeeper Asmir Begovic has insisted that the players are not feeling the pressure despite seeing their lead at the top of the Premier League table dwindle in recent weeks.
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Celtics will try to avoid 0-2 hole against Bulls
The 8-seeded Chicago Bulls stole Game 1 and home-court advantage from the top-seeded Boston Celtics behind a big game from Jimmy Butler and a big advantage on the offensive glass. Stevens, however, stressed that all plans are up to Thomas . "I think the biggest thing is they really care about each other", coach Brad Stevens said Monday.
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One of the CCDA plenary sessions last week featured a couple of professors and practitioners speaking about a theology of reconciliation. The focus throughout the conference was on reconciliation between peoples. There was much about their talk I appreciated but there was also a theme that ran throughout that seemed contrary to their purposes. I thought I may have misinterpreted them until a follow-up conversation with a couple of folks who also took issue with this theme. I’ve thought about it a fair bit since the conference and think I know what was troublesome.
The speakers were very direct about the importance of Jesus Christ for the work of reconciliation. They made this point repeatedly and, in my opinion, rightly. Those of us who are Christians engaged in the life of reconciliation ought to be clear about the source of our thought and practice. For the Christian there is no genuine reconciliation outside the person of Jesus.
Things get interesting when we consider just what Jesus has accomplished that leads to reconciliation. For the speakers it seemed that this could be summarized with the language is a crucial passage for any theology of reconciliation though its interpretations vary. For the conference speakers this passage seems to indicate that Christ’s atoning death and victorious resurrection lead to a oneness that minimizes the distinctions (and divisiveness) of difference, including ethnic and racial differences. As one friend said after the session, “They weren’t advocating for color blindness, but it’s easy to see how someone could get there.”
So while the presenters were far more nuanced than are many who talk about the divisions that exist within the Church, their theology could to lead to a sort of color blindness that obscures real and important cultural and historic particularities.
There are plenty of reasons why this colorblind theology is damaging. Here are two: First, for churches working towards reconciliation within their congregations there will always be a tendency to lean towards the dominant culture. Korie Edwards’ very important book, The Elusive Dream, documents in detail how this plays out in every aspect of an intentionally multi-ethnic congregation. When the particularities of culture are subsumed by some so-called common Christian culture we will inevitably move towards whichever culture is dominant. Hence Edwards’ disheartening conclusions that multi-ethnic churches, despite their diversity, are actually white.
Second, when we lose the ability to talk about the real difference that exist within different cultures, ethnicities, and races we also lose the ability to identify the disparities and injustices that plague some and bypass others. I was recently talking with a friend who has taught sociology courses at a local college. She has noticed that most of her students of color are able to talk about injustices they’ve faced. But notably, rather than making connections to their race or ethnicity they individualize these ugly experiences. In other words, while race continues to be a significant marker of societal achievement these students have internalized a colorblind view of the world that hinders their ability to see the racialized systems that hinder their success.
As I said, the conference speakers were absolutely right to point us to the centrality of Christ for reconciliation. But rather than obscuring the real differences that exist within our humanity, the person of Christ actually makes these differences real and important. The vision found in Galatians is not one where difference no longer exists but where, in Christ, they lose the ultimate power to divide and destroy.
Mark Noll, in his book Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind, describes a Christology that legitimizes the differences inherent in our world.
The implication can be stated succinctly: because God revealed himself most clearly in a particular set of circumstances and at a particular time and place, every other particular set of circumstances takes on a fresh potential importance.
Rather than whitewashing race and ethnicity, Jesus Christ calls out these differences as the location for God’s salvation. Thus in Acts the nations hear the Gospel proclaimed in their own languages at Pentecost and the Jerusalem council eventually agrees that Gentiles need not first become Jewish to join the people of God.
In Race: A Theological Account J. Kameron Carter points to Christ’s “Jewish flesh” as the particularity that makes impossible assimilation, “the violent processes of extending the accomplishments of whiteness to nonwhite flesh and to immigrant groups.” That is, within a society (and a Church) that requires conformity to the dominant cultural norm, Christians have access to another way of being.
To be in Christ…is to be drawn out of tyrannical narratives of identity (and the social orders they uphold), such as modernity’s narrative of racial identity generally and the pseudotheological narrative of whiteness particularly, and into the identity of Israel as preformed in Christ’s Jewish flesh.
In his sermon at the CCDA conference Rev. Ray Rivera called himself “a reconciler with contradictions.” By this he seemed be recalling the many times that reconciliation has meant conforming to the dominant culture. “Reconciliation to what?” was a question he asked repeatedly. I’m not sure the theology provided by the conference speakers provided the framework to answer this question well. And while I suspect theirs is the typical perspective it’s important to know that it’s not the only one. Christ is our universal savior whose salvation is worked out within the particularities of culture and history. Our work of reconciliation must reflect our Savior.
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David, were you at the conference? I did not see you- sorry if I missed the opportunity to day hi. Also, I think there are many reasons things could have been misinterpreted- one of which is the fact that historically the attenders of CCDA were practitioners knee deep in the practice of reconciliation. It’s has been a much different demographic then let’s say the justice conference or the mosaic conference. Over the past year it has grow so much but primarily with new folks to the journey who are studying it, reading about it, and/or just new. This does make for a need to define and explain more then assume we all know what we are talking about. Having been a part of CCDA and knowing many of the speakers well, I am sure that they do not embrace a diminishing of distinctive approach, but I can see where some many have misunderstood.
Hey Sandra. I was at the conference Wednesday through Friday afternoon. I had the chance to meet a few of your excellent worship team members as I was leaving for the airport.
I appreciate your point about CCDA being primarily a gathering of practitioners. However, in the session I’m responding to the presenters were presenting a theology of reconciliation. (And to be fair, there were some other theologians I heard who I thought provided a very different view of reconciliation than did these presenters.) I don’t think I or the folks I debriefed with afterward (who are far more familiar with CCDA than am I) misunderstood their presentation. Rather, I think they articulated a common view of reconciliation that does diminish difference in order to diminish dividing lines.
Again, there were others I heard who articulated a more helpful – in my view – theological rationale for reconciliation. I benefitted from these presenters as well as from the ones I disagreed with.
David, Can you let me know who presented a colorblindness theology of reconciliation? I thought I heard most speakers, but i did step out. I do want to go back and listen if I missed something. I know the theology and practice of the leaders and board of CCDA is not one that diminishes difference, so i am very curious.
Interesting I have had times in the years I was working with CUP that I myself was confused about what people were saying about the nature of reconciliation and race (colorblindness specifically). I had to ask speakers to clarify for students/peers so I can see if people who are not precise with their words could be misunderstood.
David, it’s interesting that you quote Carter. Some believe his views on racial and Christian identities may also lead to a type of colorblindness.
I’ve not heard that critique of Carter’s work Brandon. Can you point me to more about this?
Well, this critique has primarily come from students. I gave a series of lectures/discussions on the book at the seminary and several of the students and faculty felt like in his attempt to destabilize racial identity, some felt like this was a type of colorblindness.
BTW: Carter, Brian Bantum, and Willie Jennings will be on a panel at AAR in the Black Theology group on “The New Black Theology”. Several major figures in black theological discourse will be responding.
I’d have loved to hear those lectures! It’s hard for me to imagine how Carter’s theological reading of race would lead to colorblindness. Sometime I’d love to hear more of your thoughts on this. |
How to Resign Your Job Gracefully
I get a lot of questions from people who are nervous about the best way to tell their boss they're resigning. Fortunately, there's a basic formula for doing it well:
• First, be sure resigning is the right decision. Don't do it in a huff, to make a point, or in the hopes that it will make them realize how much they need you.
• Do it in person. Unless you have virtually no personal relationship with your boss, this is not a message to send by E-mail or via a letter left in your manager's inbox. Request a meeting, and say it face to face.
• Be prepared for your boss to ask you why. I'm a proponent of being honest unless you're worried that honesty would burn bridges. If your boss's management style or the company's culture or the long hours were part of your decision, you're doing your boss a favor by saying so, as long as you're tactful about it. (For instance, tact might mean saying that it was a factor, but not the whole reason.) On the other hand, if your boss is a tyrant, can't take criticism, or is otherwise unlikely to respond favorably to candor, go with something safe and bland: You want to "take advantage of an excellent opportunity," "get experience in new areas," or have a shorter commute. In this case, it's not your fault her employees can't be honest with her.
• If your boss does react poorly to the news, this reflects badly on her, not on you. Stay professional, and simply reiterate that you've enjoyed your time there but will be moving on. Emphasize what you're planning to do to make a smooth transition. (And, for the record: The correct way for a boss to respond is to congratulate you and tell you how sorry she will be to lose you, and to ask what could have been done differently to make you want to stay.)
• You must give at least two weeks notice. Period. Unless you want to burn bridges and tarnish your name in a way that may follow you around forever, you must give at least two weeks and, in some jobs, more than that.
• If you can give more than two weeks, consider doing it.. (It's in most employers' best interest to do the latter, but too few of them do, and they end up with employees who have no choice but to limit their notice periods to two weeks. This is counterproductive because it ends up denying employers a head start on the hiring process, which they otherwise could have had.)
• Offer to do whatever you can to make the transition go smoothly—and then do it. For instance, leave thorough documentation of how you do your job, contacts, passwords, etc. Make sure all your E-mail has been answered, your replacement well trained (if time allows), and remaining work well organized. Offering to be available for a phone call or two with your replacement after you leave is optional but can generate substantial goodwill.
• Don't check out during your remaining time.It will show, and it can damage the reputation you might have spent years building up. Stay engaged, don't start coming in late and leaving early, and care as much about leaving your work in good shape as you cared about your performance up until now.
Like a breakup, the way someone leaves a job can tell you a lot about who you've been involved with. Handle yourself well, because you may cross paths in the future.
Two-weeks notice
I agree that the current employer should receive two-weeks' notice. I also have a rule of thumb that if the job is temporary, then the employer should receive one-week's notice so there is adequate time to find a suitable replacement.
In some cases, the new employer may need someone who can start immediately and in those situations, I can understand not giving two-weeks' notice. However, I think in a situation such as this, the employee should do his/her best to ensure that the old employer is covered (such as helping to find a suitable replacement, etc.). I have seen cases where the situation was so bad that employee was out of there as soon as a new offer came along. While I don't condone burning your bridges behind you like this since you may need a good reference some day, I can also understand the employee's not wanting to stay in a bad situation.
I live in a right-to-work state with at-will employment law. I have seen many people lose their jobs who in my opinion didn't deserve it. Also, in this state, your employer can terminate you if he doesn't like the way you parted your hair one day and doesn't have to give you a reason. My personal opinion is that employers who are in the habit of doing terminations like this do not deserve two-weeks' notice since they have a revolving-door mentality anyway.
Maybe someone can help?
I know for a fact that my company does not allow two weeks notice, as soon as someone resigns with notice, they want the employee to leave that day, no two weeks, no two weeks' pay. I cannot afford to not be paid those two weeks but at the same time feel bad about not warning anyone or even attempting to give notice. Is there anything I can do in this situation?
Check the handbook
Until now I have NEVER heard of requiring more than a two week notice to anyone. I have just found out the hard way. I have recently gave my current employer my two week notice I was leaving as they are selling the business I work at for them which I have been at for eight years and six of the eight years their manager of the year. I just found out that in the employee handbook that was just re-written beginning of this year and I signed for (since you have to anyway) it states employee must give THIRTY DAYS NOTICE or forfiet their PTO time, previous handbook was 14 days. Since I had 150 hours accumulated I have letting them keep over $1,500.00 of my earned PTO time. The rich man just keeps getting richer, and I keep getting poorer!
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Is your fiancée stalking the Bella Naija’s instagram page? Taking screenshots after screenshots of featured couples?
It’s two months to the wedding and you haven’t been able to save even half of the money that is needed. All you can think of is how to avoid throwing a Bella Naija wedding.
Welcome. You have come to the right place. However, you should know that for this to work, your fiancée has to be a typical religious Nigerian. What does religion have to do with anything you may ask?
Well, majority of the religious Nigerians today; Christians, Muslims, or Traditionalists, have made their religious leaders into demi-gods, worshiping the ground they walk and accepting all that they say unconditionally without questions. They also seem not to know that their God, whichever one they believe in, listens to not only the select few who are “called” but to everyone else too.
A popular opinion is that, these men, who supposedly have direct links to God, have access to the future and can give instructions on how to live a perfect, trouble free life, devoid of mistakes. So many have lost their free will and ability to make decisions, and refuse to do anything without first asking for the permission blessings of their consultants religious leaders. It has become so bad that they almost nearly ask them for the permission to breathe.
Pastor, should I travel next week. Is the road safe?
Alfa, should I start the business my friend just introduced me to?
Priest, who should I marry, Amina or Bisi?
Is this girl/boy a good partner for me?
Blablabla….
And as the saying, stop staring into the shadows or you’ll find the monster you’re looking for (or so), goes, they get answers which eerily come to pass, if they don’t act accordingly.
Don’t travel next week. Something tragic will happen.
He has a curse on him. Don’t marry him. He is not your husband.
She’s a good girl. But if you marry her, you’ll face difficult challenges.
There are two ladies in your life, one is fair, fat and not too tall and the other is dark, slim and very tall. Marry the fair, fat one, her star matches yours.
Several cases have being reported in which an engagement is called off just because a pastor or Alfa or Priest said the couple were not destined for one another or some other variation. Many a wedding have also being conducted on the low key because a religious leader said “e ma se la la riwo.” Do not throw a lavish wedding party they said, the bride’s head (spirit) does not like noise or something of the sort.
Well, this can be of use to you, if you are looking to avoid throwing a Bella Naija wedding without pissing off your fiancée or working yourself to death just to make enough money for the wedding ceremony.
Have a heart to heart talk with her about how your family pastor, Alfa or priest has advised that you make the wedding has low key as possible so as not to attract the evil eye. Sure enough, she would gobble it up, hook, line and sinker. And because these things have a weird way of correlating, you don’t have to worry that her own family pastor, priest or alfa, may say different. In fact, what you should be worried about is worse news.
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Since their popularization, video games have developed a reputation for being antisocial spaces. However, this is somewhat contrary to the wealth of social opportunities and functions which contemporary gaming offers, as well as what much of the research in the area suggests. This chapter will outline the key claims and draw on research findings from the academic literature, in order to debunk much of these anecdotal and old-fashioned conceptualizations of what gaming is and who gamers are. This will include a discussion of the various ways in which gaming can be experienced socially, the effects of social play, and how these effects may vary depending on the specific type of game and context of play.
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So, what are the main issues here? Why are they not saved?
• They have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge
• They are ignorant of the true righteousness of God
• They are seeking to establish their own righteousness
• They do not submit to God’s righteousness
So, let’s look at this in context. Romans 1 talks about God’s wrath against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. So God gave them up to the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to dishonorable passions, and to committing shameless acts, etc. So, unrighteousness results in sinful behaviors, thus righteousness results in godly behaviors and the honoring of God..”
I think that is pretty clear in what that says there. We will be judged by our works, and for those who are self-seeking, and who do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. Let that sink in. For, “There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good” (Rom 2:9-10).
In Romans 6 we read that “our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.” So we are not to let sin reign in our mortal bodies, to make us obey its passions. For sin will have no dominion over us. For we are slaves of the one whom we obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness and to sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God.
And in Romans 8:1-14 we read that God sent us Jesus, and he.” “For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.”
So, the knowledge of God’s righteousness can be gained by reading all of the book of Romans, not just a few cherry picked Scriptures, and to read it in context, one chapter at a time. And we learn that God’s righteousness has to do with us walking (in conduct, in practice) according to the Spirit and not according to the flesh, and it has to do with honoring God for who he is, and it has to do with us obeying our Lord in doing the good we ought to do.
And righteousness has to do with us no longer being enslaved to sin, and us not being under the control of sin, and us not letting sin reign in our mortal bodies, and not obeying sin’s passions, and us not obeying sin, which leads to death, but us obeying obedience, which ends in eternal life. And it has to do with putting to death the deeds of the body, so we will live, and us being led by the Spirit, and us not living by the flesh, or we will die.
So, seeking to establish their own righteousness and not submitting to God’s righteousness, involves people seeking after the pleasures of this sinful world, and yielding to the passions of the sinful flesh, and refusing to obey the Lord and to forsake their sinful practices. Now that can include making up their own rules for what they believe makes them righteous, but seeking to establish OUR OWN righteousness is not via obeying our Lord and living righteously, for those are his standards of righteousness, not ours.
Romans 10:5.”
Now, we must distinguish here between the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, and purification laws the Jews under the Old Covenant had to follow, and the way of the cross of Christ, and of grace. We don’t have to obey all those liturgical laws. But the way of the cross, and the way of grace still includes God’s moral laws, and it still includes obedience to his commands, only to those commands that continued under the New Covenant. For we are not free from having to obey our Lord’s commands, which is apparent when you read the other chapters of Romans.
Faith in Jesus Christ in the New Testament is coupled with obedience to our Lord and to his New Covenant commands, but also to obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and not just to the written word. And that obedience includes dying with Christ to sin and living to him and to his righteousness, and us forsaking our sins to follow Jesus in obedience.
And confessing involves us agreeing with God, having the same mind as God about something, and Lord means “Owner-master.” So, if we are confessing Jesus as Lord with our mouths it isn’t just lip service, but it is having the same mind as God about Jesus Christ now being our owner-master and us being his slaves/servants, here to do his will, and to obey his commands. So, this involves us submitting to Christ as Lord and us obeying him.
And belief comes from God. We can’t even come to faith in Jesus Christ unless God the Father first draws us (persuades us) to come to faith in Christ, a faith which is gifted to us by God and is not of our own doing and is perfected by Christ. So this faith will submit to Christ as Lord, and it will forsake a lifestyle of sinning against God, and it will follow Jesus in obedience, because it is of God, and this is what God requires of us.
So, you can’t just make a verbal confession with your mouth of Jesus as Lord if he isn’t really Lord (owner-master) of your life, and for your confession to be genuine. And you can say all you want that you believe in your heart that Jesus was raised from the dead, but unless that faith is biblical faith which submits to Christ as Lord, and which walks in obedience to our Lord’s commands, then it is of the flesh and not of God. Please take this to heart!
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To help you tap into your intelligence, here are five ways to keep your mind fresh and become smarter every day.
1. Read…a lot
Reading is a skill just like anything else and it takes dedication. You have to carve out the time each day to read — try to spend at least ten minutes a day reading. Even if all you can do is read a few articles online, making this a habit can help you learn more and increase your knowledge. If you have the time, try to find a long novel that is about a subject you are particularly interested in.
2. Make mistakes
True intelligence means making a lot of mistakes and learning from them. Every mistake is an opportunity to learn more and improve yourself. Part of becoming more intelligent is shifting your mentality away from being afraid of making mistakes and instead embracing them and learning from them. Mistakes just show you what you need to refine and grow. If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t learning.
3. Ask questions
There are plenty of people who don’t want to learn about things that don’t “pertain” to them, but people who truly want to be intelligent are interested in learning more about everything. If you find yourself talking about a subject that you aren’t well-educated on, ask questions and try to learn more. Be open-minded.
4. Work hard
Smart people know that doing the bare minimum will get you average results. Get up early, take charge, and don’t procrastinate. Learning and improving yourself should be fun and you should enjoy the steps you are taking to perfect your craft. Sometimes it takes working hard — and then working harder — to learn all that you need to know in order to level up in your career and in life.
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- Modesthouse simply elegant prefab homes. Ross Dulmaine. 04-02-09. AlternativeConsumer.com.
- The Modesthouse Kit. Greenmuze Staff. 04-09-09. GreenMuse.com.
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