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BDO Digital Sponsors girls + data Hands-on Seminar at Purdue University
BDO Digital is proud to sponsor girls + tech data basics seminar on September 29 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The event is designed for 6th-8th grade young women who have an interest in STEM or careers in technology. Students will learn about data fundamentals, how to build a dashboard, and how to tell a data story by getting hands-on with analytics. They will also get a private tour of Purdue Envision Center and learn about Data Analysis and Visualization.
girls + data was founded by Kira Wetzel in 2017. The organization seeks to provide young women with STEM education opportunities and expose them to tech careers within data analytics.
Kira fell in love with data analytics during her Masters program after switching career paths from education to technology. She now uses her education background and passion for technology to teach others.
After participating in a Girls in Tech panel, I realized that many young girls and women didn’t know what types of IT opportunities were out there for them. The biggest misconception was that a career in technology meant a career in computer science – and that’s not necessarily the case. I wanted to find a way to expose women and girls to all the possibilities within IT, specifically within data analytics.
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Data analytics is one of the fastest-growing sectors in technology, with nearly 700,000 predicted open positions for roles like data scientists, data engineers and business analysts by 2020.
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What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Are We Hearing About It Now?
Critical race theory (CRT) has been in the news a LOT recently, and if you’re wondering what it is and why it’s become such a huge topic of conversation all of a sudden, you’re not alone.
Critical race theory is a 40-year-old framework for looking honestly at the role racism plays at every level of American life, from daily personal interactions to the structure of cultural, social, and legal institutions. It’s a way of investigating how systemic racism impacts people of color in America (from housing, education, and healthcare to policing and the criminal legal system), and then finding solutions that create equity for all.
So… why is everybody talking about this now? The manufactured outrage about CRT—a subject that, until recently, had really only been discussed in graduate programs and law schools—is all about white supremacy, politics, and power, and it’s being pushed by rightwing organizations and politicians who deny that systemic racism even exists.
Why Are We Hearing So Much About CRT Now?
The media isn’t talking about CRT by accident. The whole thing has been whipped up and promoted by mostly white, mostly conservative activists who see keeping this subject in the news as good politics.
These are the same people who got very upset about the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project, which put forward the idea that American history should be reframed around 1619, the year the first African people were brought to what would become America to be sold into slavery.
These are the same people and organizations pushing states to pass voter-suppression laws. Why? Just take a look at the impact that huge turnout, especially in the Black community, had on the 2020 election. The political power of communities of color is growing, which is a threat to those who use white grievance and racism to divide us and retain power for themselves. The attack on CRT is part of a wide-ranging, coordinated effort to undermine multiracial democracy—and it’s nothing new. Many of these same conservative groups were created in response to the civil rights movement and have been working to thwart progress ever since.
Maybe we should stop and ask ourselves why one political faction in this country feels like it’s a winning strategy to demonize people who want to lift up long-silenced voices, lift up unacknowledged histories, and lift up communities that throughout our history have been relegated to the margins. Actually, that’s exactly the kind of question that CRT was created to answer.
The Origins of Critical Race Theory
The term “critical race theory” was first used in 1989 by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (now a legal scholar, then a student), to discuss an academic retreat being held at the University of Wisconsin. People were gathering there to discuss a burgeoning movement in legal studies that looked at law not as a neutral or objective system but one that reflected and even reinforced society’s biases and hierarchies.
Some students and professors pushed to expand this idea to include race. Scholars like Professor Derek Bell, one of CRT’s founding theorists, wanted to better understand why it seemed like civil rights victories were so often followed by a reversal. Bell came to believe that racism is a permanent feature of American society, which is why it so quickly reasserted itself after every effort made to eliminate it. He warned against laws and policies that provided a feel-good appearance of equality while fundamentally doing little or nothing to alter the structural inequality that made the laws necessary in the first place.
Critical race theory was developed to study that structural inequality. It’s a powerful way of understanding the everyday experience of racism in America—which is key to achieving racial equity and building a just and multiracial democracy.
At the Intersection of History, Racial Justice, and Democracy
Of course, the facts about CRT haven’t stopped more and more states from passing laws to ban teaching it in K-12 schools. The fact that critical race theory isn’t, and never has been, taught in K-12 schools clearly hasn’t stopped them either. And that’s because this isn’t an earnest debate about facts. It’s a debate about what kind of country we want to be.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and no stranger to fake controversies and manufactured outrage, said:
What they’re really banning is the teaching of a more accurate accounting of history that examines racism…in our country…[T]hese laws are really memory laws where they’re trying to shape our memory by erasing it. And it’s not coincidental that the laws are being passed in the same places that are also passing anti-voting laws, that are also passing laws to restrict women’s reproductive rights.
A Responsibility to Make Change
From slavery through mass incarceration, we’ve seen the legacy and reality of racism at work in America. Yet conservative groups are manufacturing outrage and weaponizing a caricature of critical race theory to prevent people in this country from learning about crucial aspects of our history.
We can’t let that happen. To understand the challenges we face today and begin creating change, we have to keep learning and talking. We have to keep our eyes open so that we can see the history of America that’s been hiding in plain sight.
All of us alive today have a moral responsibility to make a difference—to learn about and dismantle systems of oppression, put an end to racism, and finally help this country create an equitable and just society. Critical race theory teaches us about who we are, and that’s a good thing. Now it’s up to us to decide who we want to be.
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PTFE and PEEK are two materials commonly used for manufacturing bearings. Both materials have unique properties that make them suitable for various applications. In this article, we will explore the properties and applications of PTFE and PEEK bearings.
PTFE, or polytetrafluoroethylene, is a synthetic polymer that is known for its excellent chemical resistance, low friction, and high-temperature stability. PTFE is a self-lubricating material that does not require any additional lubrication, making it ideal for bearing applications.
PTFE bearings are commonly used in applications where high chemical resistance and low friction are required. They are also suitable for applications where high temperatures and harsh operating conditions are present. PTFE bearings can operate at temperatures ranging from -200°C to 260°C, making them ideal for use in extreme environments.
PTFE bearings are also known for their excellent wear resistance, which makes them ideal for use in high-load applications. They are also resistant to deformation under load, which means that they can withstand heavy loads without suffering permanent damage.
PTFE bearings are used in a variety of applications, including aerospace, automotive, chemical processing, food and beverage, and medical industries.
PEEK, or polyetheretherketone, is a high-performance thermoplastic polymer that is known for its excellent mechanical and chemical properties. PEEK is a lightweight and durable material that can withstand high temperatures, making it suitable for bearing applications.
PEEK bearings are commonly used in applications where high mechanical strength, chemical resistance, and temperature stability are required. They are also suitable for use in applications where low friction and wear resistance are necessary.
PEEK bearings can operate at temperatures ranging from -40°C to 250°C, making them ideal for use in high-temperature applications. They are also resistant to a wide range of chemicals, including acids, bases, and solvents, which makes them ideal for use in corrosive environments.
PEEK bearings are known for their excellent wear resistance, which makes them suitable for use in high-load applications. They are also resistant to deformation under load, which means that they can withstand heavy loads without suffering permanent damage.
PEEK bearings are used in a variety of applications, including aerospace, automotive, medical, oil and gas, and semiconductor industries.
PTFE and PEEK bearings have similar properties, including high-temperature stability, chemical resistance, and low friction. However, there are some differences between the two materials.
PTFE bearings have better low-friction properties than PEEK bearings, which makes them ideal for use in applications where low friction is essential. PTFE bearings are also more resistant to deformation under load than PEEK bearings.
PEEK bearings, on the other hand, have better mechanical properties than PTFE bearings, which makes them suitable for use in high-load applications. PEEK bearings are also more resistant to a wide range of chemicals than PTFE bearings.
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The Conquest of Ai
1Now the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land. 2You shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoil and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
3So Joshua rose with all the people of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night. 4He commanded them, saying, “See, you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. 5Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us as at the first, we will flee before them. 6They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ So we will flee before them. 7And you shall rise from your ambush and take possession of the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand. 8Then it will be when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do it according to the word of the Lord. See, I have commanded you.” 9So Joshua sent them away, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.
10Now Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people to Ai. 11Then all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and arrived in front of the city, and camped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai. 12And he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. 13So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north side of the city, and its rear guard on the west side of the city, and Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley. 14It came about when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. 15Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 16And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city. 17So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they left the city unguarded and pursued Israel.
18Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” So Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city. 19The men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it, and they quickly set the city on fire. 20When the men of Ai turned back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers. 21When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and slew the men of Ai. 22The others came out from the city to encounter them, so that they were trapped in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they slew them until no one was left of those who survived or escaped. 23But they took alive the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
24Now when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. 25All who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000—all the people of Ai. 26For Joshua did not withdraw his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27Israel took only the cattle and the spoil of that city as plunder for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He had commanded Joshua. 28So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation until this day. 29He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave command and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to this day.
30Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, 31just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no man had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. 32He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel. 33All Israel with their elders and officers and their judges were standing on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger as well as the native. Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had given command at first to bless the people of Israel. 34Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law. 35There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were living among them.
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Apologetics for the Masses #438 - A Facebook Conversation with a Protestant, Part 1
A Fairly Typical (More or Less) Facebook Conversation with a Protestant, Part 2
A couple of things before we get down to business this week:
1) To address an error in last week's newsletter, I will say that I hope all of you had quiet, peaceful, and spiritually profitable seasons of ADVENT (not Lent) and Christmas. (You guys keep me honest!)
2) Again, if you live in or around the Diocese of Birmingham (Alabama), you can find some blessings at our annual Diocesan Women's Conference on Saturday, February 11th, at Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Hoover (suburb of Birmingham) from 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM. Two absolutely fantastic speakers: Kitty Cleveland and Emily Wilson! There is no cost to attend, but you must make a reservation. To do so, simply send me an email with your name to: [email protected]. Space is limited, so register sooner rather than later. It should be awesome!
Last week I introduced you to one Marie Taylor, a fairly fanatical anti-Catholic who I hooked horns with on a subscriber's Facebook page. I put the first few rounds of my dialogue with her - if you could actually call it a dialogue - in the newsletter last week without comment. This week I'm going to put in the same first few rounds of my back and forth with Marie as last week, but add in my commentary. I'll also add just a bit more of the dialogue.
Just a note, Marie invited me (dared me, actually) to join 3 or 4 anti-Catholic Facebook pages that she frequents/moderates to respond to her postings on those pages. She is attempting to answer the videos in my YouTube series: Questions Protestants Can't Answer. I thought I might be able to get some good material to put in future newsletters that could be instructional for my subscribers, as well as possibly some stuff that I could use in my new book - which is due out in the Spring - so I joined those FB pages. I got a little bit of useful material, but the folks on those pages are so virulently anti-Catholic, and so twisted in their logic and their Scripture interpretations, that after engaging for a day...probably a hundred posts or more...I decided enough was enough. I'll throw in some of what happened there in my commentary in this newsletter and the next one or two in this particular series.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy...
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, Marie Taylor...
Marie Taylor to L.L. Michael:
Can you show that the apostles taught Mary was conceived without sin and that you must believe this to avoid condemnation? And can you explain why at least 7 of your popes denied that Mary was conceived without sin?
John S. Martignoni to Marie Taylor
Can you show that the Apostles taught that all authentically Christian beliefs are found directly in Scripture?
Okay, I asked the question I did to see if Marie was going to be consistent in her logic. If the Apostles are the litmus test for accepting the Immaculate Conception, as she was essentially saying to L.L. Michael, then they ought to be the litmus test for all Christian teaching. So, where did the Apostles teach that all authentically Christian beliefs are found directly in the Bible - i.e., Sola Scriptura? Little did I know the mind searing trouble that the word "authentically" would cause Marie.
Marie Taylor
To answer your question, you'll need to define "authentically". What makes something "authentic"? Is there unauthentic Christian teaching? Please explain.
I will also add that Sola Scriptura does not deny tradition. It accepts all traditionally held beliefs that are either 1) traced to the apostles (and you don't have any of these that are not in Scripture) or 2) does not contradict Scripture (this is where the errors of your religion are noted).
But I'm glad you joined the discussion. Do you know the message of salvation? If so, what is it?
Also, I'd like to personally invite you to join the group Catholics or Christians. Ken is a member there and he and the other Catholics could use some apologetic help. Don't you have a list of questions you believe we Protestants cannot answer? I'd love for you to do a series in the group to see if it is true that the questions cannot be answered. Are you up for the challenge?
John S. Martignoni
To your questions:
1) Definition of "Authentic" - Being so in fact; not fraudulent or counterfeit.
2) "Is there unauthentic Christian teaching?" Yes, there is, in the sense that there are people who call themselves Christians who pass off "unauthentic" (i.e., false) teachings as being true Christian teachings. For example, there are those who profess to be Christian who believe the doctrine of once saved always saved is an authentic Christian teaching. There are others who profess to be Christian who do not believe once saved always saved is an authentic Christian teaching. So, one of those groups of professed Christians is teaching an authentic Christian doctrine, and one of them is not. There are many such examples of teachings in Protestant theology that are not authentic Christian teachings and over which Protestants contradict themselves, as the above example of once saved always saved demonstrates.
3) Of course Sola Scriptura does not deny tradition, since it is itself a man-made tradition.
Now that I have defined the word "authentic" for you, I would ask that you please answer my question: "Can you show that the Apostles taught that all authentically Christian beliefs are found directly in Scripture?"
And, I do indeed have a list of questions that Protestants cannot answer. At least, they cannot answer them in a scripturally and/or logically consistent manner vis-a-vis their theology.
What makes something "authentic"? And, "Is there unauthentic Christian teaching?" Oh my goodness. Marie is trying to be oh so clever with her words here. She's trying to lay down some snares for me to step into. And, in so doing, she's basically trying to avoid answering my question. Always be on the look out for questions like this - questions that really have nothing to do with the topic at hand and the question you're asking.
Anyway, first I gave her a simple dictionary definition of "authentic". Second, in a technical sense, there is indeed no such thing as an "unauthentic Christian teaching". If it's unauthentic, then that means it's not true, which means it isn't a Christian teaching. However, as I explained in #2 above, there are doctrines and dogmas that a lot of Christians believe that are not authentic Christian teachings - Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, Once Saved Always Saved, the Rapture, etc. - yet they are taught by Christians and Christians only. So, in that sense, they are Christian teachings. Unauthentic and completely false Christian teachings, but teachings taught by Christians nonetheless. Do you think taking the time to lay that out for Marie made a difference? Read on...
1) What makes something "being so in fact"? Please be specific.
2) If a teaching is unauthentic, it really isn't Christian, is it?
3) Can you define Sola Scriptura for us? If you can, you'll see that Jesus taught it. If you can't then it is your definition that is man-made, isn't it?
And to your question, I would deny that a teaching that is not authentic is Christian. Can you re-phrase your question? Do you mean to ask, "Can you show that the Apostles taught that all apostolic Christian beliefs are found directly in Scripture?"
And would you be willing to join Catholics or Christians and start a series asking one of your questions at a time?
Also, I asked you a question above that you did not answer. Here it is again: Do you know the message of salvation? If so, what is it?
Don't play word games. You're not going to be one of those Protestants who parses words down to the individual letters so as to avoid answering direct questions with direct answers, are you?
1) "What makes something, 'being so in fact'?" Really?! Is English not your first language? "Being so in fact," means something is true. That's not that difficult to understand.
2) "If a teaching is unauthentic, it really isn't Christian, is it?" I knew you would play that game, which is why I gave an example of what I was referring to and how there are many Protestants who call themselves Christian who teach many unauthentic teachings that are referred to as "Christian" teachings because they pass them off as "Christian" teachings - Sola Scriptura, for example. If something is an unauthentic Christian teaching, then, yes, it is not a true Christian teaching. However, do you believe that everything every Christian believes about the Christian faith is true? If not, then can it not be said that there are Christians teaching things as Christian doctrine that are not authentic (i.e., true) Christian doctrine. Yes or no?
3) You want me to define your doctrine for you? Which version of Sola Scriptura do you want? It pretty much depends on which Protestant you talk to as to what their definition of Sola Scriptura is. By the way, if two Protestants have different definitions as to what Sola Scriptura means, then by what authority do you decide who is right and who is wrong? Oh, and please do give me book, chapter, and verse where Jesus taught Sola Scriptura. If you can't, then I guess it is indeed a man-made tradition, isn't it?
4) I failed to answer one of your questions from an earlier post, my apologies: "Do you know the message of salvation?" I suppose you are referring to 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, yes? That's the "test" you guys give to make sure someone is authentically Christian, right? So, let me ask a "message of salvation" question of my own: What must you do to have eternal life?
To simplify, here is the growing list of questions for you. I have replied to you point-by-point, answered every question you have asked. You, have played word games. So, to answer your final question, will I be willing to join Catholics and Christians, depends on how (and if) you answer these questions that I have already asked. Here they are:
1) Can you show that the Apostles taught that all authentically (i.e. true) Christian beliefs are found directly in Scripture?
2) Do you believe that everything every Christian believes about the Christian faith is true? Yes or no? If not, then can it not be said that there are Christians teaching things as Christian doctrine that are not authentic (i.e., true) Christian doctrine. Yes or no?
3) If two Protestants have different definitions as to what Sola Scriptura means, then by what authority do you decide who is right and who is wrong?
4) Can you give me book, chapter, and verse where Jesus taught Sola Scriptura? If you can't, then I guess it is indeed a man-made tradition, isn't it?
5) What must you do to have eternal life?
First, she doesn't understand the word "authentic," and now, she doesn't understand the phrase, "being so in fact"?! Oh, my! This is where I should have just said to her: "Look, learn how to look things up in a dictionary and then come back to this discussion," and moved on. But, I thought there might be something useful to gain by continuing because I knew, if I could get her to stop trying to be clever and get serious for just a minute, that I could, with just a question or two, show her theology to be exceedingly deficient and maybe plant a seed or two. Or, again, at least pick up something useful to share in the newsletter that would maybe help some of the readers with their future Facebook conversations.
What we have here, folks, is a person who is not interested in learning truth, putting forth serious arguments, or asking sincere questions - no, she wants to play games and prove that she is more clever than the poor unsaved, intellectually and morally deficient Catholic. These are the ones that can be particularly irritating to deal with and who, almost always, turn out to be a waste of time and energy.
So, I called her out on her word games and then directly addressed each one of her points/questions. Then, I laid out all the questions that I had asked her which had gone unanswered, which is the same as the number of questions I had asked at that point. Always keep track of the questions you have asked, particularly the ones that have not been answered, and keep repeating them until you get answers or until it is obvious that no answers will be forthcoming - which usually just takes asking the question(s) 3 times. If they haven't been addressed after being asked 3 times, then I generally advise moving on. That conversation is a waste of your time and can do pretty much nothing except cause you frustration. As would be the case here if I didn't have more than one motive for the conversation.
Note, with my Question #3 above, I'm going straight to the question of authority. Get to authority as quickly as possible, no matter where the conversation starts off. I've said this dozens of times - the underlying issue on every disagreement between Catholic and Protestant is the issue of authority. Park yourself there.
Another thing here I want you to pay attention to...her question to me about whether or not I know what the "Message of Salvation" is. This is one of those Protestant tests folks ask to try and trip up Catholics and to prove, to themselves, that they are spiritually superior to Catholics and that their scripture knowledge is vastly superior to that of any Catholic. It's along the lines of: Are you saved? Or: If you were to die tonight and go before the throne of God, what would you say to Him as to why He should let you into Heaven? This time its: Do you know what the "Message of Salvation" is? Or, it might be phrased, "Do you know what the Gospel is?" Or, "Do you know what is of 'first importance' to God?"
The "correct" answer, according to these folks, is 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, which is talking about Jesus dying for our sins. Which, just so happens, the Catechism of the Catholic Church talks about in I don't know how many places...but it's a lot! So, just keep 1 Cor 15:1-4 in mind should you ever be asked that question. But, as you will see, and as she repeated time and again on those anti-Catholic FB pages I mentioned above, even though I gave her the "correct" answer, she continued to deny that I knew what the answer was. She is one of the most disingenous people I have ever dealt with. Right up there with the likes of Mike Gendron and a couple of others. It was pathetic. But I'll talk more about that in the next installment of the newsletter.
And did you notice how she wants me to define Sola Scriptura for her. Why? So she can come back and say, "No, that's not what Sola Scriptura means!" and then laugh at my ignorance. Nope not going there. At least, not at first (I'll come back to this later). If I do answer, though, the problem for her is that my definition of Sola Scriptura comes from Protestants. So, if I were to be accused of being wrong on that count, it would actually be Marie's fellow Protestants who would be "wrong". And this thing about Jesus teaching Sola Scriptura. You ever see anything like that, you've got to focus in on that. Give me book, chapter, and verse where He does so!
Finally, you see how she wants me to re-word my question? Why? Because she obviously can't answer it as worded. At least, not in a way that fits in with the games she wants to play. She undoubtedly has up her sleeve what she considers to be a clever answer to the question as she wants me to ask it. So, she won't answer the question I asked, but she will answer the question she wants me to ask. Nope, not going there. Don't ever let someone tell you what you really mean to ask.
1) what makes something true? According to your religion that would be something the apostles taught, right? There is no new revelation after the apostles, you know (CCC 76). Why would you not be willing to change your question to, "Can you show that the Apostles taught that all apostolic Christian beliefs are found directly in Scripture?" Then I would know exactly what you mean. Shouldn't be an issue given CCC 76.
2) You didn't answer the question. If a teaching is unauthentic, it really isn't Christian, is it? Shouldn't you change this word to "apostolic"?
3) And no, I'd like you to define what you THINK the doctrine of Sola Scriptura encompasses. And there is only one definition provided by the Reformers. They coined the word, so they get to define it. So, what is its meaning?
4) No, I didn't want I Cor. 15:1-4. That isn't specific enough. Moreover, I'd like to know the message of salvation as taught by your religion. Do you not know how your religion defines this message? I noticed you didn't answer it.
And then you just added questions to the list. Slow down, and let's clarify and answer what has been asked thus far.
Finally, are you up to the challenge of joining our group and starting your series? Are you afraid that your questions CAN, actually, be answered?
Just a quick comment or two this week and then I'll pick up here next week with my reply. But, can you believe it?! "What makes something true?" Oh my goodness! What does authentic mean? What does "being so in fact" mean? And, now, what makes something true? Does that question sound familiar? Pontius Pilate, "What is truth?" (John 18:38). Marie Taylor shows herself to be a spiritual heir of Pontius Pilate.
And, notice what she says about my answer to her question about the "Message of Salvation" - "No, I didn't want I Cor. 15:1-4. That isn't specific enough." So, according to Marie...wrong answer. Until later when it becomes the right answer, as I'll discuss next week.
That's it for now...
I hope you have enjoyed this newsletter, even if Marie's answers, rather her responses (can't call them answers), might be driving you crazy. And I hope all of you have a great week! Don't forget to sign up for the women's conference in Birmingham on February 11th if you're anywhere close by! |
2021 NFL Draft: How does Jets’ trade of Sam Darnold to Panthers impact Giants?
Another trade could reshape the top 10 of the upcoming draft
By Chris Pflum@RaptormkII Apr 5, 2021, 6:12pm EDT
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The 2021 NFL Draft is shaping up to be a wild one. We already saw the top 10 of the draft reshuffled by a pair of big trades, and Monday saw another deal to further change things up.
On Monday afternoon, it was announced that the New York Jets traded QB Sam Darnold to the Carolina Panthers.
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As with the other trades at the top of the draft, the deal between the Jets and the Panthers could have some repercussions for the New York Giants at 11th overall. The move all but locks the Jets into a quarterback pick at second overall, but it removes some of the urgency for the Panthers to select a quarterback at eighth overall.
It had long been suspected that the Jets could take a quarterback with the second pick, even with Darnold on the roster. Likewise, quarterback has been a popular pick for the Panthers, despite the presence of Teddy Bridgewater at quarterback.
So while this confirms that quarterbacks will be (at least) the first two picks off the board, it also puts a non-quarterback firmly in contention at eighth overall.
This doesn’t rule out a third, fourth, or fifth quarterback going in the first 10 picks — the Panthers could always trade down. However, if Carolina hangs onto the pick and choose to see what Joe Brady can do with Darnold, it could take a potential option off the board for the Giants.
Interestingly, the Panthers didn’t have to send much to get Darnold, sending just a 2021 sixth round pick and second and 2022 second and fourth round picks to the Jets. That could be a remarkably low cost for Carolina if Darnold has a Ryan Tannehill like turnaround after parting ways with Adam Gase.
The Jets, meanwhile, have amassed considerable draft capital for the 2021 and 2022 drafts.
#Jets picks:
2021: No. 2, No. 23, No. 34, No. 66, No. 86, No. 107, No. 146, No. 154, No. 186, No. 226
2022: 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 5th, 6th, 6th, 6th.
Unlike the last regime, Joe Douglas has been patient and wants to build via the draft. He's locked and loaded.
— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) April 5, 2021
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Thermoregulation is the body’s process of maintaining its core internal temperature, which is typically between 98°F and 100°F. Sweating is one of the mechanisms the body uses to cool down because as sweat evaporates it cools the skin, which lowers our internal temperature. Excessive sweating in specific areas of the skin is known as hyperhidrosis, or sometimes is referred to as plantar hyperhidrosis when it occurs in the feet. The specific cause of Hyperhidrosis is unknown, however its possible triggers are believed to include emotions, hormones, physical activity, or brain signals which inaccurately prompt sweat glands to overreact even when it is not necessary for thermoregulation. Sweat that sits stagnant on the skin of the feet can compromise the top layer of skin, making it more susceptible to bacteria which can create odor and even expose the body to more serious bacteria. Podiatrists have a variety of treatment options to help control this embarrassing and uncomfortable condition.
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Hyperhidrosis of the Feet
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Create Reasonable Goals
Taking on too much and setting unreasonable goals can cause stress. Making a busy schedule at the beginning of the semester might seem like a good idea but as the workload gets bigger, burnout starts to set in. To avoid feeling unmotivated, try creating reasonable goals. Make small little goals for each week instead of trying to get everything done at once.
Make Time for Fun
For me, one of the hardest parts of college is trying to find time for myself. With classes and clubs, it sometimes feels like I never have time to just chill or to hang out with friends. While school work and other obligations are important, you have to create a good work-life balance. If you’re constantly doing school work and never making time for anything else, you will get burnt out faster. Having that good work-life balance will help to benefit your wellbeing but should also make you feel more motivated.
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I know the feeling of leaving a huge project to the last minute all too well. The anxiety from waiting so long and the exhaustion the next day from staying up late to finish it is not the best. These feelings often get so bad that I have no motivation to do the project at all.
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In college, it feels like people are asking you for things all the time. Whether it be to cover a shift, to come to a meeting or to help them out with some other favor, but we are asked by people all the time to do things we may not necessarily want to do.
If you say yes to everything, it is easy to become overwhelmed with everything you have to do, but there is no shame in saying no. Sometimes you need that extra thirty minutes of sleep or you need the night to yourself to do work or focus on yourself instead of hanging out with a friend. There is nothing wrong with saying no.
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Russian economy has recovered from last year’s recession, but pace of recovery varies considerably across branches
The Russian economy has largely recovered from the recession in spring 2020, and most recoveries have gradually continued in recent months. In the first quarter of this year, GDP was already slightly higher than it was two years previous (i.e. in the first quarter of 2019). The Ministry of Economy Development reports that the increase in the second quarter was about 1.5 % from the second quarter of 2019.
The strength of the recovery varies among core sectors of the economy. For example, the output of extractive industries has recovered notably. In the second quarter of this year, it was down by just 2 % from two years previous. Under the OPEC+ agreement, crude oil output has gradually clawed its way back towards pre-pandemic levels and was down by 6 % from two years previous in the second quarter. Natural gas production was several percent higher than two years previous. Support services for oil & gas production, which constitute a slightly larger branch than natural gas production alone, experienced growth of over 20 % from two years previous.
Manufacturing production has recovered quite well. Second quarter output was about 5.5 % higher than two years previous (7 % in the first quarter). Growth has been broad-based. In the six largest manufacturing branches, the increase from two years previous was 7−8 % in the food industry, more than 13 % in the chemical industry, over 30 % in the metal product industry, as well as 7 % in machinery and equipment branches. Of all manufacturing branches, only metal refining was down in the second quarter from two years previous. On the other hand, manufacturing growth has levelled of this year. In the past couple of months, seasonally adjusted output has declined. The seasonally adjusted manufacturing purchasing manager’s index (PMI) fell significantly in July on the heels of a few positive months. According to the survey, the drop reflects reduced production and fewer new orders. Rosstat’s company survey also found that near-term prospects for manufacturing output and orders were continuously quite tepid in July.
The volume of retail sales in the second quarter was up by 5 % from two years earlier, and no longer more than 5 % lower than in the second quarter of 2014, when retail sales hit their peak in the last decade. Seasonally adjusted sales have increased rather slowly in recent months, though. Services offered to households (excluding those provided by the public sector) recovered in the second quarter to a level only slightly below two years previous. Rosstat’s quarterly survey of consumer expectations of their own household for the next four quarters found modest expectations. The Bank of Russia monthly survey, which in recent months has found rather good expectations, dropped rather sharply in July.
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Wholesale has recovered strongly, up 10 % from two years previous in the second quarter. Construction activity is also up considerably from two years ago. The volume of goods transported (including pipeline transmission of crude oil, petroleum products and natural gas) was up slightly from two years previous.
Output levels in different branches of the Russian economy are quite varied when compared to levels in 2019
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The Spanish National Police and the FIIAPP combat human trafficking in Nigeria and Niger
5th August 2022 1st August 2022 Tony Kingham human trafficking
A total of 25 National Police officers are currently posted in international cooperation projects carried out with the FIIAPP around the world, of which 17 are deployed in international anti-trafficking projects in West African countries, financed by the European Union. The fight against trafficking is a priority within the powers assigned to the National Police, in addition to being a complex criminal activity with a clear international framework, which is faced from an international police cooperation perspective that encompasses all its levels.
Africa is the second region in the world, behind Asia, with the most victims of trafficking. In 2020 alone, 28,500 cases were registered. Nine out of ten victims in the world are women and girls. Most of the outward flows of human trafficking in Western and Southern Europe originate from sub-Saharan Africa. Many are for sexual exploitation while trafficking networks within the West African region focus on labor exploitation.
Organ trafficking, sports competitions or pilgrimage trips are rising trends in human trafficking in Nigeria, according to a study by the European police cooperation project A-TIPSOM Nigeria.
“Working in the countries of origin is essential to dismantle the trafficking mafias. The exploitation of people, be it sexual, labor or for organ trafficking, is one of the worst crimes and the National Police has protocols and reference mechanisms to share with the world”, explains Rafael Ríos, police inspector and coordinator of the A-TIPSOM project. Nigeria which, financed by the European Union, mobilizes members of the Security Forces and Bodies to work with their counterparts in Nigeria.
Ríos sums up the achievements of an emblematic anti-trafficking project after four years of execution: “We have worked hand in hand in prevention, so that potential victims in rural or disadvantaged areas can identify the mechanisms of mafia recruitment. We have rehabilitated 17 care centers for victims in the country -a fundamental protection so that when they are released they do not fall into a new victimization-, we have promoted legislative measures and protocols so that all the actors involved (for example, immigration institutions, security and equality ) are coordinated, and we have collaborated with formations and technical means that have substantially increased the number of traffickers arrested and convicted”.
The police officer also highlights the important return that this type of project has for Europe when it comes to bringing administrations closer: “now any request for information issued by countries such as Spain, France, the Netherlands or Italy is attended to by the Nigerian authorities with much greater efficiency”, which allows an approach to the problem in origin and destination of trafficking.
A recent study carried out by the project pointed to cultural or sports and religious visits as tactics increasingly used by human traffickers. The police have developed numerous prevention activities in the country based on the use of social networks, both so that potential victims know how to identify these hoaxes and to identify the perpetrators.
Reduction in the number of victims in Niger
Four National Police officers participate in the ECI-Niger European project, with the aim of fighting criminal networks in this country through the creation of a joint investigation team (ECI) within the Central Service for the Fight against Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime (SCLCT/CTO). “When our project started, we found in the desert, in deplorable conditions, more than 2,000 people who were victims of trafficking networks. This year there have only been 20, which gives us wings to continue cooperating until no more people are victims of trafficking, whether for the purpose of sexual exploitation, labor or children for begging,” says Fernando Guerrero, a national police officer who He arrived in the country almost four years ago to coordinate the European project ECI-Niger.
Guerrero points out that one of the most important challenges is overcoming the cultural taboos that often sustain trafficking. “One of our latest interventions with the Nigerien National Police has been aimed at dismantling groups of marabouts who, in the form of supposed Koranic schools, forced boys and girls to beg in the street.” Guerrero points out that they are currently focusing on improving care for victims in police stations: “we want to guarantee a protected legal asset such as human dignity.”
25 police officers displaced in international cooperation projects with the FIIAPP
From the International Cooperation Division, the actions promoted both at a bilateral level and at a multilateral level through the participation of national police in these international projects carried out in the countries of origin are considered essential at a strategic level in the fight against trafficking in human beings. All of this will make it possible to create an atmosphere of mutual trust with their authorities through joint daily work with the same goal, in addition to knowing and understanding the specific and unique problems of each country.
“The National Police is one of the Spanish institutions most committed to international cooperation. They work hand in hand with gendarmeries, police and justice institutions from other countries in areas such as police investigation, the fight against organized crime, the dismantling of trafficking networks and migrants, or the protection of public spaces from terrorist attacks. At FIIAPP we are convinced that security and peace are pillars for development and we work to mobilize the public talent of Spanish institutions in this direction”, explains Lourdes Sartorius, deputy director of Security, Peace and Development at FIIAPP. 25 police officers are currently posted with FIIAPP around the world,
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Three men jailed after yacht carrying almost one tonne of meth
18th November 2022 17th November 2022 Tony Kingham drug smuggling, drug trafficking, methamphetamine
Three men have been sentenced to a combined 37 years’ jail for their roles in a mid-ocean transfer of nearly a tonne of methamphetamine that police later intercepted on a yacht sailing off the NSW coast.
The three men sailed a yacht called the Mo’Chuisle, which was laden with 992kg of methamphetamine, about 750km from Mexico to the vicinity of Norfolk Island, in April 2020.
Once there, they transferred the methamphetamine into another yacht called the La Fayette that had sailed about 1400km from Mooloolaba, Queensland, with two crew on board.
The illicit drugs had an estimated street value of $495 million.
When the Mo’Chuisle docked in Noumea, New Caledonia, local authorities – French Customs and French National Police – searched the yacht. They found evidence of the drug transfer and passed information to the Australian Border Force (ABF) and AFP, which started Operation Romani to investigate the drug transfer.
The ABF’s Maritime Border Command located the La Fayette on 17 April 2020 sailing towards the east coast of Australia.
The next day the New South Wales Police Force Marine Command intercepted the La Fayette, with the methamphetamine on board, about 50 nautical miles east of Lake Macquarie (NSW). The two men aboard the La Fayette when it was intercepted have already been sentenced to prison.
On 24 April 2020, the three men who sailed the Mo’Chuisle to New Caledonia arrived on a flight at Brisbane International Airport, where they were arrested and charged with conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug.
The men all pleaded guilty on 3 November 2022 and were sentenced yesterday (16 November, 2022) in the Brisbane Supreme Court.
A United Kingdom man, 40, was sentenced to 18 year’s imprisonment with a non-parole period of 11 years.
Another United Kingdom man, 55, was sentence to 7.5 years’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of 4.5 years.
A US man, 32, was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of 7 years.
The two men who sailed the La Fayette to Norfolk Island to collect the methamphetamine were both sentenced in July 2021. A dual UK-South African national, 35, was sentenced to 16 years and six months’ in jail, while a New Zealand national, 34, was sentenced to seven years and six months in jail.
AFP Detective Acting Superintendent Luke Wilson said the multi-agency effort demonstrated the AFP’s determination to work with partner agencies, in Australia and abroad, to stop organised crime from sending drugs to Australian shores.
“The AFP and our partners have shown the importance of working together to protect the Australian community and our commitment to dismantling and disrupting organised criminal groups anywhere we find them,” Det-A/Supt Wilson said.
“Because of this joint effort, hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine did not reach Australian streets – stopping enormous harm to our communities and making our streets safer.”
ABF Acting Commander Trade and Travel East, Elke West, said the ABF continues to play a frontline role in protecting the Australian community from criminal activity and the supply of dangerous drugs.
“The Australian border is the gateway to our community at large and our officers are committed to detecting and deterring the importation of illicit substances,” A/g Commander West said.
“This result demonstrates that the ABF has a wide range of assets and capabilities that help keep us a step ahead of those who seek to profit from causing others harm.
“We continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners, but also the community has an important role to play. If you see something suspicious at the border, you can report it anonymously to Border Watch.”
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Did you know that if you’re a man, Wisconsin is the place to be? If you are like most Americans, you?re diet is deficient in Omega-3 fatty acids. Did you know more than 200 studies have demonstrated the problems associated with Omega-3 deficiencies? Did you know a new sweetener is hitting the market that?s 1000 times sweeter than cane sugar? Learn about the these topics and more HERE.
there is more and more evidence showing that if a healthy individual wants a strong core, instability exercises dont cut it. Core stabilizer training has become extremely popular in the past few years. I am starting to see a trend toward the core being the core of training programs. This shouldn’t be the case, and there is a tremendous amount of data showing the benefits of basic weight training exercise. In this newly published study, researchers used 16 physically active subjects. The purpose was to compare the activation of various trunk muscles with selected weight training exercises (squat and deadlift) and Swiss ball unstable callisthenic-type movements (superman’s and side bridging). The researchers concluded it is unnecessary to incorporate unstable callisthenic-type exercise if one is performing exercises like the squat and deadlift. Basic heavy exercise is the key to a strong healthy core. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2007, 21(4), 1108-1112.
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As a follow-up to a previous article “Everything in moderation, right?“, I decided to educate my readers on substances so vital to there health daily consumption is essential. Below is a portion of “Daily Consumption“.
Taken from the fruit portion of the seed off the coconut palm tree, coconut oil is one the most beneficial foods you can consume. In tropical regions where coconut oil or fat is a large portion of their caloric intake, people are much healthier and experience a much lower incidence of the modern diseases we do in the U.S. [17, 18]
There is an array of positive research published in the last few years showing the significance of coconut oil. [19] Coconut oil is classified as a “functional food” because of its health benefits that go far beyond its nutritional content. In fact, the coconut palm is so highly valued by Pacific Islanders as a source of food and medicine that it is called “The Tree of Life.” [20]
Coconut oil is the most saturated of all fats. Saturated fat has three subcategories: short chain, medium chain and long chain. Coconut oil contains approximately 65% medium chain fatty acids (MCFA). Although recognized for its health benefits many centuries ago, it wasn’t until 40 years ago that modern medicine found the source to be MCFA. Remarkably, mother’s milk contains the same healing powers of coconut oil. [21]
The saturated medium chain lipid lauric acid, which comprises more than 50 percent of coconut oil, is the anti-bacterial, anti-viral fatty acid found in mother’s milk. [22] The body converts lauric acid into the fatty acid derivative monolaurin, which is the substance that protects adults as well as infants from viral, bacterial or protozoal infections. This was recognized and reported as early as 1966. [23]
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Fat = Health If you eat the right type
The best advice I can give concerning fat consumption is to increase your intake of omega 3s, like EPA and DHA found in fish oil, and reduce your consumption of polyunsaturated fats like vegetable oil.? Polyunsaturated fats contain high amounts of omega 6 fatty acids, which in excess are detrimental to our health. Probably most importantly however, is to eliminate trans fats if your like most Americans who consume processed foods. By switching the fats one consumes you can increase your overall health, prevent heart disease, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, ulcerative colitis, depression, Alzheimer’s, and a host of other diseases..
These two types of fat, omega-3 and omega-6, are both essential for human health. However, the typical American consumes far too many omega-6 fats in their diet while consuming very low levels of omega-3. America’s consumption of vegetable oil has increased by 437% in the past 80 years.? We evolved on a fairly high fat diet. The problem is that the types of fats we were eating back in the Paleolithic days were quite a bit different from the fats we eat now.
In the Paleolithic era, our ratio of omega 6s to omega 3s was very close to 1:1. We ate like this for millions of years. These days it has been suggested that this ratio is 30:1 up to 50:1! So why should we be concerned? The change in the ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 plays a role in pretty much every major disease that’s killing us in Western civilization. The primary sources of omega-6 are corn, soy, canola, safflower and sunflower oil. These oils are overabundant in the typical diet, which explains our excess omega-6 levels. Avoid or limit these oils. Omega-3, meanwhile, is typically found in flaxseed oil, walnut oil and some fish.?
By far, the best source of omega-3 fats are those found in wild fish. Wild caught fish like salmon is high in two omega-3 fatty acids crucial to human health, DHA and EPA. These two fatty acids are pivotal in preventing diseases as mentioned earlier. The human brain is also highly dependent on DHA. Low DHA levels have been linked to depression, schizophrenia, memory loss and a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s. Eat more salmon
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A good night’s sleep linked to better memory, especially in the elderly
Many Americans get less than the recommended amount of sleep. Poor sleep has been linked to a variety of chronic diseases like heart disease, obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Now, recent research suggests that poor sleep can also deteriorate memory performance, especially in older adults. The National Sleep Foundation‘s inaugural Sleep Health Index report that […]
Researchers discover a protein in the blood of young mice that improves cognition and lifespan in older mice
The quest for finding ways to delay aging has led scientists from the Washington University School of Medicine to a protein extracted from the blood of young mice. When injected into older mice, the protein, known as eNAMPT, could delay aging and inhibit age-related diseases in the senior rodents. The researchers found that eNAMPT extended the lifespan of the older […]
Technology and road safety: Brain-training game helps improve the driving skills of older people
Older adults looking to improve their driving skills may need to sit down and play a brain-training video game before hitting the road, according to a new study. Carried out by Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan and led by Rui Nouchi, associate professor in the Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, the research found that seniors who played […]
What does it mean to be sexually satisfied? For the elderly, it goes beyond the bedroom
As people get older, they start looking for more than just physical attraction. New research shows that older people require clear communication, good health, and a happy relationship to feel satisfied during sex. Studies have shown that sexual expression remains essential throughout life. It helps preserve ties between people, increases self-esteem, and improves health and […]
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Noninvasive form of brain stimulation improves memory among older people, study finds
As you age, you may begin to forget some things or misplace things occasionally. This is a normal part of the aging process. However, age-related memory loss can possibly be reversed using a noninvasive form of brain stimulation. A study published in the journal Neurology found that transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can restore the memory […]
Could falling prey to financial scams be a sign of dementia in older people?
To err is human. But if an older person falls for a financial scam, it may be an early warning sign of declining mental powers. And such cognitive decline eventually leads to dementia and even Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s afflicts a third of the population aged 85 or older. The disease is incurable. Existing “treatments” only […]
Can essential oils be used to treat certain symptoms of dementia?
Essential oils are commonly used in aromatherapy to relieve stress or address sleep problems. According to a fascinating study, essential oils could also be used to treat certain symptoms of dementia, some of which are associated with Alzheimer’s disease. In the U.S. alone, at least 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer’s. Most individuals with the disease are […]
Study says dementia affects even those who are “highly educated” – natural treatments are the answer
Many factors can increase your risk of developing dementia, and there are those who believe that having a higher education can help lower your risk for this condition. However, according to an enlightening study, your education before you reach 20 years old is the crucial factor that can help protect you from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The study was […]
Working out to work it out: Exercise endorphins found to help fight depression
When depression strikes the elderly, it doesn’t always get the attention that it does in younger people. After all, it’s widely considered normal to feel negative emotions as people get older and deal with issues like failing health and the end of their lives inching closer. When depression in seniors is taken seriously, it’s usually […]
Diet and language: Type 2 diabetes linked to decline in speech skills among the elderly, says study
If you are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, you need to follow a nutritious and healthy diet since the condition affects your blood glucose levels. But diabetes doesn’t just affect your blood sugar. According to a study, Type 2 diabetes can also affect verbal fluency, especially among older patients. The study was published in the journal Diabetologia. […]
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By your strength you established the mountains;
You visit the earth and water it,
You water its furrows abundantly,
You crown the year with your bounty;
The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
they shout and sing together for joy” (Psalm 65:5-13).
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1) Brethren Disaster Ministries directs latest EDF grants to Ukraine relief, NYC service project
2) WCC urges Patriarch Kirill: ‘Intervene and ask publicly for a ceasefire during the Resurrection service’
3) Brethren Historical Library and Archives reopens to researchers, with COVID protocols
4) Nigerian Brethren mourn deaths of denominational trustee, seminary lecturer, staff driver
5) Brethren in Dominican Republic make small but important steps toward reconciliation
6) Sending cards: A report from the Death Row Support Project
7) Bethany Theological Seminary announces new faculty member in Peace Studies
8) Sam Locke named executive director for Institutional Advancement at Bethany Seminary
9) Linetta Ballew to lead Brethren Woods
10) National Youth Conference Office hosts two book conversations in May
11) Part-Time Pastor; Full-Time Church to host virtual speaking events in May
12) Manchester University sets dedication of building in honor of first Black students
13) Memorial Day concert to feature Manchester University student choir, alumni
14) Brethren bits: Job openings, Material Resources shipments, no quilting at this year’s Annual Conference, celebrating volunteers, Bethany Seminary commencement date, Kingdom Advancing Grants opportunity through MAA, and more news by, for, and about Brethren
“If hope had a color, it would be the pale green of a newly sprouted seed. It would smell of pollen and damp earth. Its shape would be the swanlike arc of a stem stretching toward the sun.”
— Sarah Kaplan, a climate reporter for the Washington Post, introducing an article compiling short essays from climate scientists and conservationists about where their hope comes from. Read more at www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/04/22/earth-day-nature-climate-hope.
Brethren Disaster Ministries is directing the latest grants from the Church of the Brethren’s Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) to a relief response to the Russia-Ukraine war, and to support a National Youth Conference (NYC) service project making School Kits.
A grant of $50,000 supports the response to the Russia-Ukraine war by partner organization the International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), a US-based NGO. The grant announcement stated that “according to the United Nations more than 11 million people need assistance inside and outside of Ukraine, with over 4.6 million refugees and 7.1 million more displaced inside of Ukraine…. The United Nations has a relief plan targeting 6 million people in need with a flash appeal of $1.1 billion for just the first 3 months of this response. Many of the surrounding countries, including Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Moldova, are housing and supporting Ukrainian refugees, and most of the world’s largest nonprofit organizations are also mounting large scale relief programs.
Pencils collected for School Kits. Photo by Sarah Kovacs
“Even with this massive response there are communities and very vulnerable people not receiving enough aid. Identifying and supporting some of these groups will be the focus of the Brethren Disaster Ministries response,” the announcement said. The IOCC “has developed a meaningful response to the war through connections with the Orthodox churches and other NGOs in Ukraine, Romania, and Poland. With about 67 percent of Ukrainians identifying as Christian Orthodox, IOCC has been effective at reaching people in need that few other aid groups can reach.”
The IOCC response focuses on three key priorities:
— Support for Ukrainian displaced persons as they travel to neighboring countries.
— Support for host families and institutions providing humanitarian assistance for refugees.
— Protection for women and children.
NYC service project
A grant of $37,500 helps fund a School Kit service project at the 2022 NYC, taking place this July. Brethren Disaster Ministries is partnering to offer the service opportunity this year, as took place at the last NYC in 2018.
Participants will assemble Church World Service (CWS) School Kits, connecting to the “Foundational” theme of NYC. Conference attendees are asked to sign up through an online tool to bring a portion of the items needed in the kits as an offering at NYC. Groups of attendees will organize the materials and assemble 3,000 kits, with oversight and organization by Brethren Disaster Ministries staff, including logistical coordination of getting the completed kits back to the Materials Resources warehouse at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md.
CWS estimates the value of each School Kit at $15, making the value of these 3,000 kits total $45,000.
— Find out more about Brethren Disaster Ministries at www.brethren.org/bdm. Give to the Emergency Disaster Fund in support of these grants at https://churchofthebrethren.givingfuel.com/bdm.
A release from the World Council of Churches
In a letter to H.H. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia on April 19, World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Ioan Sauca urged Patriarch Kirill to “intervene and ask publicly for a ceasefire for at least few hours during the Resurrection service.”
The letter reads: “I am aware that it is not in your power and authority to stop the war or to influence those who have such powers of decisions. But the faithful are waiting for a comforting word from Your Holiness. They think that if you come out with a public statement and request, as the spiritual father of so many millions of Orthodox in both Russia and Ukraine, that might have an impact.”
This is Sauca’s second letter to Patriarch Kirill; in the first he urged the patriarch to be a voice of mediation and help stop the war.
“The Orthodox and Greek Catholic faithful in Ukraine, in Russia and all over the world are preparing to celebrate at the end of this week the most important feast of the year, the Day of Resurrection,” wrote Sauca. “It is well known that for Eastern Christianity this day has a special resonance and importance.”
Sauca’s letter touched upon the moments in history that remind us, even in the most difficult moments of persecution, wars and suffering, nobody could stop the faithful singing and proclaiming boldly the Easter hymn which affirms the victory of life over death.
“In the light of these affirmations which are the core of our very identity, I have dared to write to you, with deep respect and filial love,” Sauca wrote. “People lost their trust and hope in politicians and in a possible peaceful negotiation and a ceasefire.”
The WCC receives daily requests from the faithful in Russia and Ukraine but also from all over the world to contact Patriarch Kirill to ask him to intervene and mediate for a peaceful solution, for dialogue rather than confrontation, for end to the fraternal blood shedding.
“We hear now worrying news that plans are to attack churches during the Easter night celebrations and to spread even more terror, fear, mutual accusations and demonization,” wrote Sauca. “We have kept asking the political leaders for a ceasefire and for return to the table of dialogue since the very beginning of hostilities but with no result.”
Sauca notes that, on the contrary, the war has intensified, and urges Patriarch Kirill to intervene to “give a chance to the soldiers and to the terrified civilians to embrace and greet one another with the paschal greeting, to silence for a moment the bombs and the missiles and to hear instead the triumphant sound of the church bells and the joyful signing of the faithful people.”
Read the full letter at www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/wcc-acting-general-secretary-letter-to-his-holiness-kirill-patriarch-of-moscow-and-all-russia-russian.
By Jen Houser
The Brethren Historical Library and Archives (BHLA) at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill., is now open to researchers effective immediately. Please follow these guidelines as you plan to come to our facilities to do research:
— Please call the BHLA at 847-429-4368 (director), 847-429-4369 (intern), or email us at [email protected] to make an appointment to visit us. At this point, no walk-ins are allowed.
— Researchers are expected to wear a face mask always covering their mouth and nose in the building unless physical distancing is possible. Please respect others’ boundaries by wearing a face mask within 6 feet of other humans.
— If you have been exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, you have tested positive for COVID-19, or you are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, please reschedule your appointment for a later date, as you will not be allowed to enter the building.
We will continue to answer your research questions and other needs via phone, email, Facebook message, or letter as well.
— Jen Houser is director of the Brethren Historical Library and Archives. Find out more about the archives at www.brethren.org./bhla.
The Brethren Historical Library and Archives at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill. Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
Communications staff of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) have shared prayer concerns for the deaths of an EYN trustee, a lecturer at Kulp Theological Seminary, and a staff driver, among other losses.
“We give God the glory for a successful Annual General Church Council Meeting [Majalisa] 2022,” wrote EYN head of Media, Zakariya Musa. “It was not easy for the church because it buried one of the EYN Board of Trustees on 29th March, the very day the Majalisa started, and another burial was conducted at the same venue where the Majalisa took place on 1st April, a day the meeting ended.”
Prayer is requested for these losses:
The death of Ibrahim Dawa Ashifa Amuda, a minister on EYN’s Board of Trustees and a traditional ruler in the abandoned Bayan Dutse area, who died in an IDP camp for displaced people run by EYN in Nasarawa State.
The death of Aishatu Joseph Buduwara, from Gwoza area of Borno State, on March 31.
The death of Daniel John, a driver for EYN’s ICBDP program at the EYN headquarters, who was killed by Fulani.
The kidnapping of five staff of the EYN Brethren Health Technology program on April 7, who were later freed by community youths.
The death of Gulla Nghgyiya, a minister and lecturer at EYN’s Kulp Theological Seminary originally from Gwoza area, who was killed in an auto accident on April 10. His burial was scheduled for April 13, after a special service at the EYN Headquarters Conference Centre in Kwarhi.
“May God comfort their families, friends, and the entire Church of the Brethren in Nigeria,” wrote Musa.
By Jeff Boshart
Small, but important steps were taken this year in the life of Iglesia de los Hermanos (Church of the Brethren) in the Dominican Republic. In February of 2019, a division in the denomination began when pastors of Haitian descent walked out of the Asamblea or Annual Conference, citing discrimination among other reasons leading to a separation. An autonomous organization, La Communidad de Fe (Community of Faith), was organized and registered with the Dominican government as a nonprofit entity.
Attempts have been made by representatives from the Church of the Brethren’s Global Mission and Service Ministries since 2019 to reunite the church through visits and video calls. This year, two small, symbolic, but important steps have been made.
When Iglesia de los Hermanos held its Asamblea in February (18-20), representatives from the leadership of La Communidad de Fe were in attendance. More recently, on April 9-10, leaders from the board of Iglesia de los Hermanos attended the Asamblea of La Commnidad de Fe. A joint pastors’ retreat is in the planning stages for late May, as the two groups pursue a process of reconciliation.
The leadership of Eglise des Freres d’Haiti (Church of the Brethren in Haiti) also has made numerous visits to the Dominican Republic over the last few years and this year sent representation to both conferences. Both the Haitian and the US delegations have consistently called for the two sides in the conflict to seek peace and reconciliation.
— Jeff Boshart is manager of the Church of the Brethren’s Global Food Initiative (GFI).
Above, a view of the annual conference of La Communidad de Fe in the Dominican Republic. Below, presentation of new pastors: Francisco Santo Bueno, with microphone, president of the board of Communidad de Fe, and Ariel Rosario Abreu, president of the board of directors for Iglesia de Los Hermanos. Photos by Ariel Rosario, president of the board of Iglesia de Los Hermanos (Church of the Brethren) in the Dominican Republic.
By Rachel Gross
In the past several years, individuals and groups have chosen to send greeting cards to those on death row, in addition to or instead of exchanging letters with one individual. Some request a list before Christmas or Easter; others have asked for a list of birth dates. Manchester University (North Manchester, Ind.) students gathered once a month to send cards, using a list of names provided by the Death Row Support Project (DRSP). One year Trinity Church in Princeton, N.J., undertook the project of sending Christmas cards to every single person on death row.
Some who send cards use their own addresses and find themselves with new pen pals. Others use the DRSP address, sometimes enclosing an invitation to request a pen pal from DRSP.
Trinity Church group writes cards. Photo courtesy of Michelle Baxter
In recent years, some prisons have instituted no-card policies, i.e., greeting cards cannot be received by their residents. Other prisons are now photocopying all incoming mail so that the recipients only see a sometimes-not-so-great copy of the card sent to them. This provides an extra challenge for those who wish to send colorful messages of joy into prisons.
This year, DRSP writer Mary Elizabeth Allen, along with her mother, Jane, and her daughter, Catharine, have been sending birthday greetings to those on death row for whom we have dates of birth. Recently we received the following letter from Bobby Stone, on death row in South Carolina:
“Hi Mary, James got your card. I would like to thank you for writing to him. He is mentally ill and cannot write you back. But he loves getting mail. I take care of him so if you would like to write him, I will always try and write you back and let you know how he is doing, and what is going on with him. He is a good guy. Again, thank you for sending him the birthday card. That was very nice of you. May you have a blessed day. Bobby Stone.”
I am grateful to card-senders whose efforts expand the work of DRSP; thank you!
Names and numbers
By Mary Elizabeth Allen
When we send birthday cards to men on death row, we use lists provided by Rachel. These lists include the man’s name, his date of birth, and a number assigned by the prison system. No one can receive a card, or any mail, without this number on the envelope. When I write a letter to one of my imprisoned friends, his number must be part of the address on the envelope and first page, and put at the top of subsequent pages. A person is reduced to a series of letters and numbers.
It is the names that cause me greater sorrow. Some of the names are shared with my brothers. Some of the names could be those of first-generation arrivals, and I wonder about these men’s backgrounds. Can they speak English? Can they understand the guards’ orders? Are they even more isolated than most who wait and endure on Death Row?
My mother, who is 86, is most moved by the birthdates. Many of the men are about the age of her children. Occasionally the year of birth is in the 1950s or even the 1940s.
Each of these men was born, as was our Lord. We don’t know the circumstances of their births, but everyone was named. Some were named in hope and love by their families; some by overwhelmed and suffering mothers; some by nurses, as my daughters were; some by social workers. All were born, all were named. All are someone’s child.
— Rachel Gross is the founder and director of the Church of the Brethren-related Death Row Support Project. For more information go to www.brethren.org/drsp.
A release from Bethany Seminary
Margaret (Maggie) Elwell will join Bethany Theological Seminary this fall as assistant professor of Peace Studies. Chosen from an international search, Elwell comes to Bethany from the University of Maryland where she has been an assistant clinical professor in the University Honors program since 2019.
“I’m pleased to welcome Dr. Elwell to Bethany,” says dean Steve Schweitzer. “She comes with an educational experience that includes undergraduate work in English and Religion, an MA in Teaching, an MDiv, and a PhD in Religion and Society. Her teaching experience includes courses at the University of Maryland focused on issues of violence in stories and narrative approaches to theological concerns. She also taught middle school for four years in Baltimore City Public Schools. Maggie will bring creativity to courses in Peace Studies as well as contribute to our expanding offerings in Theopoetics. She exhibits excellent pedagogy, insightful approaches to complex topics, and a commitment to issues of social justice and peacemaking from a theologically informed perspective. I am confident that she will be a wonderful addition to Bethany’s faculty.”
Elwell, whose teaching and scholarship often makes connections between religion and literature, earned degrees from Swarthmore College, Johns Hopkins University, and Princeton Theological Seminary. Her dissertation is entitled “The Timing of Violence: A Critical-Literary Intervention.”
Drawing on a wide range of interests and methodologies, Elwell’s teaching and research examines such subjects as: frameworks of social injustice and violence; narrative ethics; creative writing and theopoetics; memoir and traumatic memory; literary theory; feminisms and gender; post-holocaust Jewish and Christian theologies; and pedagogy and the arts. She has shared her scholarship through published articles, conference presentations, invited lectures, and consultations. Her works under review, or in preparation, include scholarly articles and a novel.
While completing her graduate studies at Princeton Seminary, Elwell earned the Senior Fellowship for Best Thesis and a Doctoral Merit Fellowship. She served as director of the Center for Theology, Women, and Gender and in several other administrative roles at Princeton.
As a member of the Bethany faculty, Elwell will contribute courses in both Peace Studies and Theopoetics across Bethany’s various degree and certificate programs.
Bethany Theological Seminary has named Sam Locke as executive director of institutional advancement following a national search. Locke joins the seminary from Indiana Legal Services, a nonprofit law firm based in Indianapolis that provides free legal services to low-income individuals, where he has served as director of development since 2016.
He served the Presbyterian Church (USA) as national director for special offerings and direct response fundraising from 2008-2015. Locke also has a background as a consultant, assisting Hartford (Connecticut) Seminary (now known as Hartford International University for Religion and Peace) with a successful fundraising campaign. Earlier in his career, he worked for Blackbaud, Inc., an industry leader in customer relationship management technology.
“We are thrilled to have Sam join us as the new leader of our institutional advancement team,” says president Jeff Carter. “During the interview process, Sam impressed us with his understanding of fundraising processes and his deep appreciation for the transformative potential of theological education. Sam understands both the art and science of fundraising, I know he will do a great job working with our donors and with colleagues at the seminary to help us gain the support we need to flourish.”
Originally from Connersville, Ind., Locke earned undergraduate degrees in education and political science from Indiana University and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Wyoming. He also earned a master of divinity degree from Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.
“I’m excited for this opportunity to help Bethany flourish,” says Locke. “I look forward to learning more about the seminary’s rich history from its alumni and friends and am eager to look for ways to make Bethany’s world-changing mission sustainable well into the future. Now more than ever our communities need leaders with the skills Bethany grows in its students, it is an honor to be part of President Carter’s team as it works to make theological education accessible to new and diverse audiences.”
Locke’s first day in the office at Bethany will be May 2. In this role, he will be a member of the president’s leadership team and oversee the organization’s fundraising, alumni relations, communications, community relations, and marketing efforts.
Shenandoah District has announced the call of Linetta Ballew to the role of executive director for Brethren Woods Camp and Retreat Center in Keezletown, Va. After the retirement from Brethren Woods of long-time executive director Doug Phillips in 2021, Ballew was hired as acting director. That role ends on Aug. 31.
Ballew has served in camping ministry for 19 years in a variety of roles, including as program director and assistant director at Brethren Woods. She also was co-administrator of Camp Swatara in Bethel, Pa., from 2013 to 2018. She holds degrees from Bridgewater (Va.) College and Eastern Mennonite Seminary, where she earned a master of divinity.
Next month, the National Youth Conference (NYC) 2022 Office will host two book conversations for NYC participants via Zoom. These conversations are centered around books written by two NYC speakers, Osheta Moore and Drew G. I. Hart.
The first conversation will take place May 10 at 7 p.m. (Eastern time) and will be about Dear White Peacemakers by Osheta Moore. Rachel Johnson will lead this conversation. She is from Lancaster, Pa., and is a student at Messiah University studying youth ministry. She works at Camp Swatara and is a licensed minister in the Church of the Brethren. Register for this conversation at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwod-6qqz8tG9yE20WsehNSXqU8QB-iHO0u and purchase the book from Brethren Press at www.brethrenpress.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=1513807668.
Rachel Johnson
Kayla Alphonse
The second conversation will be on May 24 at 7 p.m. (Eastern time) and will be about Who Will Be a Witness by Drew G. I. Hart. Kayla Alphonse, one of the adult advisors for the Church of the Brethren’s National Youth Cabinet, will lead this conversation. She is pastor of Miami (Fla.) First Church of the Brethren and has spoken at NYC, Annual Conference, and National Junior High Conference. Register for this conversation at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoc-CuqDkrHtbwj9EhGVFA6IFkDeg5KqWk and purchase the book from Brethren Press at www.brethrenpress.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=1513806580.
Not yet registered for NYC? Do so as soon as possible using this link: www.brethren.org/nyc/registration.
— Erika Clary is coordinator of the 2022 National Youth Conference and a Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) volunteer. The 2022 NYC will take place July 23-28 in Fort Collins, Colo.
By Jen Jensen
As we continue through a time of reflection, discernment, and hope for what the future holds, we have invited Melissa Florer-Bixler and Peter Chin to reflect on their recent respective articles addressing the challenging times as they speak openly and honestly, but with hope and gratitude.
Each event will include a question and answer portion at the end, and both will be available as a recording for later viewing. Registration is required, but the events are open to all with no fee. Questions about the events can be sent to Jen Jensen, manager for Part-Time Pastor; Full-Time Church, at [email protected].
Melissa Florer-Bixler will speak on Tuesday, May 3, at 8 p.m. (Eastern time), sharing about her article “Why Pastors Are Joining the Great Resignation” featured in Sojourners (https://sojo.net/articles/why-pastors-are-joining-great-resignation). Florer-Bixler is a Mennonite pastor and an author in Raleigh, N.C., who persists with her community to free people from prisons and to build a world that no longer depends on the logic of incarceration. She was educated at Duke University and Princeton Theological Seminary, and by the people of L’Arche, a community of those with and without intellectual disabilities who share the rhythms of daily life together. She’s written two books, How to Have an Enemy and Fire by Night, and articles in Sojourners, Christian Century, Geez, Image Journal, and Anabaptist World. Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_97UH_NyaRxaEfjmFs0rYcQ.
Peter Chin will speak on Tuesday, May 17, at 8 p.m. (Eastern time), sharing about his article “I’ve Reached My Breaking Point as a Pastor,” featured in Christianity Today (www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/january-web-only/covid-church-pastor-quit-ministry-burnout-breaking-point.html). Chin is senior pastor of Rainier Avenue Church in Seattle, Wash., and a former columnist for Christianity Today. He has planted and led churches in major metropolitan cities throughout the United States, and his ministry focus on racial reconciliation has been featured in the Washington Post, CBS Sunday Morning, and National Public Radio. He is also the author of Blindsided by God, a memoir of his wife’s fight against breast cancer while pregnant with their third child. Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bKB6kj5nRgO0ZaWEUlWXuA.
— Jen Jensen is manager of the Part-Time Pastor; Full-Time Church Program of the Church of the Brethren’s Office of Ministry.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Peter Chin
A release from Manchester University
Manchester University is inviting descendants of its first Black students to the formal naming ceremony of its Academic Center in honor of siblings Martha and Joseph Cunningham. It is Monday, May 2, on the North Manchester, Ind., campus.
The observance begins with a celebration paying tribute to the Cunninghams and their descendants. The program at 11 a.m. in Cordier Auditorium includes family representatives David Cunningham and Germar Reed, and a historian who has written about the Cunninghams, Nicholas Patler. The presentation, part of the Values, Ideas, and the Arts series at Manchester, is free and open to the public.
A March 1903 photo of the Lincoln Society with Joseph Cunningham at front and center, provided from the Manchester University Archives.
It will be followed immediately by a public ribbon-cutting ceremony on East Street at what is now called the Academic Center. Signage on the building will be changed to the Martha Cunningham and Joseph Cunningham Academic Center, and a new timeline inside will reflect the siblings’ life and times.
Siblings who grew up near Kokomo, Ind., the Cunninghams started at Manchester in 1900, Joseph in the preparatory school and Mattie in the Bible School.
Martha “Mattie” Cunningham Dolby spent the early part of her career working to improve the lives of impoverished Black families in the segregated South. Having spent much of her childhood in the Church of the Brethren, she worked to establish a congregation in Arkansas and reviving one in the Midwest. In 1911, she became the first woman to be installed as a minister in the denomination.
Joseph Cunningham completed the Manchester normal English program–a course designed as professional training for teachers that offered a solid base in mathematics, science, language, history and pedagogy–in 1903 and continued the following year with a program in elocution. He went on to become a physician and lived in Chicago.
The early 1900s were a time of intense racial violence and bigotry in the United States. The Cunninghams leave a legacy of tenacity, courage, and achievement in the face of systematic oppression.
“I can think of no better way for Manchester to honor the Cunninghams than to name a hall of learning for them,” said Manchester president Dave McFadden.
A luncheon for invited guests will follow the public festivities. Manchester is expecting at least 20 descendants of the Cunninghams to attend the dedication.
A collection of a family’s letters from the Civil War era inspired Manchester University professor Debra Lynn to write “A Family Portrait,” which had its world premier at the school in North Manchester, Ind., in 2017.
She has been invited to conduct the oratorio at Carnegie Hall on May 30, with combined voices from Manchester’s A Cappella Choir, its alumni, and friends.
“It has wonderful educational value because much of the multi-layered musical material is derived from folk songs, hymns, and children’s songs from the Civil War era,” Lynn said. “If you’re an American history buff, you’ll be in heaven learning and performing this piece.”
“A Family Portrait” is an hour-long masterwork (10 movements) for chorus, orchestra, hammered dulcimer, and two soloists.
The lyrics for eight of the movements come from letters written by three people in the Houghtaling family line. The oldest was a soldier in the Union Army, stationed at Manassas during the Civil War. The other two movements are settings of an excerpt from Walt Whitman’s epic poem “To Think of Time.”
The May 30 performance is at 7 p.m. on the Perelman Stage in Stern Auditorium with the New England Symphonic Ensemble and includes John Rutter conducting his Requiem and Cheryl Dupont conducting a treble chorus festival. Tickets range from $20 to $150 and can be purchased at www.carnegiehall.org/Cart/Event-Seating?itemNumber=41254#.
Closer to home, there will be a performance at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 1, in Cordier Auditorium on the North Manchester campus. Admission is free.
Lynn has conducted at Carnegie Hall twice before, in 2001 and 2007. She serves as director of choral organizations and vocal studies at Manchester. Choral ensembles under her direction include the A Cappella Choir, Chamber Singers, and Cantabile. She is conductor of the Manchester Symphony Orchestra, a collaboration that involves Manchester students, alumni, employees, and residents of nearby communities.
14) Brethren bits
— The Church of the Brethren seeks applicants for the position of director of Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS). This is a full-time salaried position. A successful candidate will be an energetic and dynamic leader who connects well with people of all ages, is skilled at leading through programmatic change, and facilitates Christian discipleship formation. Major responsibilities include directing the program, ministry, and staff of BVS and FaithX (formerly workcamps). The new director will join a review and reimagining of BVS programs that is currently in process. This position is part of the Service Ministries team and reports to the executive director of Service Ministries. Required skills and knowledge include excellent written and oral communication in English; skills in program development, management, administration, and volunteer management; effective training and presentation skills; skilled competency in Microsoft Office component applications, particularly Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with the capability and willingness to learn new software; knowledge and experience in budget development and management; skills at supervision and mentorship of staff and staff volunteers; ability to work with minimum supervision, be a self-starter, and adapt to change; ability to act within a multicultural and multigenerational team environment; ability to articulate, support, and lead from the core values of the Church of the Brethren and to operate out of the vision of the denomination and the Mission and Ministry Board; ability to relate with integrity and respect within and beyond the organization. Full COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment. Five years of proven experience in social services, program development, and administration, and three years of experience in volunteer management are required, with previous international living experience preferred. A bachelor’s degree is required, with an advanced degree in a related field preferred. This position is based at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill. Applications are being received and will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Send a resume to [email protected] or to the Office of Human Resources, Church of the Brethren, 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120; 800-323-8039 ext. 367. The Church of the Brethren is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Material Resources this month completed shipments of hospital supplies and equipment to Guyana and to Haiti. Material Resources is a Church of the Brethren program that collects, warehouses, and ships relief goods on behalf of a number of ecumenical and humanitarian organizations, working out of the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md. Staff member Scott Senseney loaded two containers filled with Brothers Brother Foundation donations. On April 14, one of the 40-foot containers was shipped to Guyana, filled with hospital equipment including 16 hospital beds and mattresses, exam tables, wheelchairs, pediatric scale, bedside cabinets, and patient room recliners. On April 19, the other 40-foot container was shipped to Haiti, containing hospital supplies and equipment. These shipments were from donations that had been inspected and organized on pallets by staff Winni Wanionek and Jeffrey Brown. Glenna Thompson, as with all shipments, organized and filled out the paperwork in order to get the containers on their way.
— The Church of the Brethren’s South/Central Indiana District seeks candidates for district executive minister. The district includes 40 congregations in the middle of the state of Indiana, representing a wide range of theological views. The district seeks good connections and relationships between the executive minister, pastors, and congregations. The shift to a full-time position envisions strong connections out of which congregations will be able to reach out in service and witness more effectively to Christ. The executive minister’s commitment to Jesus Christ and the scriptures is essential. This full-time position is available Sept. 5, 2022. The executive minister functions as executive officer of the District Board, facilitates the implementation of the core ministries of the district, serves as custodian of all official papers of the district, serves as an ex-officio member of the District Board (without vote), assists congregations and pastors with search and call of ministerial leadership, assists congregations and pastors with the development of wholesome relationships, and assists congregations with church growth initiatives. Qualifications include a clear commitment to Jesus Christ demonstrated by a vibrant spiritual life; commitment to the Seven Core Values of the district; commitment to Church of the Brethren faith and heritage; strong personal, communication, and mediation skills; strong administrative, management, and budget skills; respect for theological diversity; willingness and ability to travel across the district on a regular basis. A master of divinity degree is preferred, as well as a minimum of five years of pastoral experience. Apply by sending a letter of interest and a resume to Nancy Sollenberger Heishman, Director of the Office of Ministry, 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120; [email protected]. Applicants will be asked to complete a candidate profile on receipt of resume. Applicants are requested to contact three or four people to provide letters of reference. Applications will be received until the position is filled.
–– Camp Swatara in Bethel, Pa., is posting the following job openings for the 2022 season: lifeguards, counselors, housekeeping, kitchen, grounds keepers (Building & Grounds). Applicates can visit www.campswatara.org/full-time-employment-opportunities for job description and to apply.
— The Annual Conference is sharing an announcement that there will be no onsite quilting at the 2022 Conference. “Due to some lingering hesitations about the need for people to be in close proximity to one another during the quilting, the Association for the Arts in the Church of the Brethren (AACB) will not be hosting the auction or quilting at Conference this year,” said the announcement from AACB coordinator Tara Hornbacker. “There will be a presentation to the moderator. Send your quilt blocks to Margaret Weybright, 1801 Greencroft Blvd., Apt. #125, Goshen, IN 46526. We plan to return to quilting at Conference, along with hosting the auction next year in Cincinnati. See you there!”
— Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) has been highlighted in an article on the “Cool Deeds” website. The article promotes CDS as one of the “Share Good, Do Good, Feel Good” options for readers to support. Go to www.cooldeeds.org/post/view/760.
–– Brethren Disaster Ministries is celebrating “all the rebuild volunteers who have served in many ways to support our projects!” Said a Facebook post for this National Volunteer Week: “You have helped us to support Hurricane Matthew and Florence survivors in the Carolinas for the last five years, ending last week! You have signed up to serve on our new site in Waverly, Tenn., that opens next week and short-term responses around the country. And you have supported the Dayton, Ohio, tornado response during a pandemic for survivors like Ms. North. The work that BDM volunteers and supporters did to transform the ‘Little Marlin’ house has offered the opportunity for her to possibly go from being homeless for 10 months to owning her own house she can welcome her family to. THANK YOU!” Find an article about North and the house, rebuilt by Brethren Disaster Ministries volunteers, from Spectrum News at
https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2022/04/13/tornado-survivor-moves-one-step-closer-to-homeownership.
— Brethren Disaster Ministries also issued a reminder about the upcoming disaster relief auction in Shenandoah District: “It is time to put the Shenandoah District Disaster Ministries Auction on your calendar: May 20 & 21!” Find the schedule and follow the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ShenandoahDistrictBrethrenAuction for updated information.
— Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Ind., has announced that its commencement this year is scheduled for Saturday, May 7. “Bethany will honor graduates from the Class of 2022 during an Academic Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 7, at 10 a.m. in Nicarry Chapel,” said an announcement. “The featured speaker is Kelly Burk, MDiv, a Bethany graduate who serves as Chaplain and Director of Quaker Life at Earlham College.” The seminary will provide a live stream via Zoom.
— Dauda Gava has joined Bethany Seminary as visiting international scholar-in-residence for the Spring semester 2022. Gava is provost of Kulp Theological Seminary, the seminary of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria), located near EYN’s headquarters in Kwarhi in northeast Nigeria. He is a Pauline scholar and previously collaborated with Bethany’s Dan Ulrich “to team teach a well-received course on the Book of Romans. They offered that course this year as a January intensive, with Dr. Gava teaching from the Technology center in Jos [Nigeria],” reported a Bethany release. During this Spring semester, Gava has taught a course on Paul’s letter to the Philippians and will be writing a commentary on the book of Titus. He also preached for the Bethany Seminary chapel service on April 6.
— “Join us for our seminar ‘Children as Peacebuilders: Equipping Resilient Leaders- Environmental Justice,’” invites On Earth Peace. The event is offered at 12 noon (Eastern time) on April 23. “Bring your children!” says the invitation. The agency’s Environmental Justice organizer Calum Clow, and Children’s Peace Formation organizer Hadil Alhayek, will be addressing Environmental Justice as part of On Earth Peace’s Earth Day activities, equipping caregivers and educators with tools–such as storytelling using the Read Aloud Program–to talk to children and the community about issues surrounding environmental justice. Go to www.onearthpeace.org/cap_environmental_justice.
— Atlantic Northeast District is holding a special event on May 14, under the theme “The Church: Alive to Thrive,” hosted at Ephrata (Pa.) Church of the Brethren. Said an announcement: “Gathering from different areas within ANE District, representing ethnically and culturally diverse congregations, we will worship, fellowship, and share testimonies about The Church: Alive To Thrive. La Iglesia: viva para prosperar Encuentro de congregaciones desde diferentes lugares dentro del Distrito ANE, representando la diversidad Étnica y Cultural, adoraremos, compartiremos y proporcionaremos testimonios sobre la Iglesia: Vivo Para Prosperar. Join us in this inspirational time of connection and relationship building with the expectation to learn and return to your own congregation with renewed excitement about how God is working among us! ¡Únase a nosotros en este tiempo inspirador de conexión y construcción de relaciones con la expectativa de aprender y regresar a su propia congregación con entusiasmo renovado sobre cómo Dios está trabajando entre nosotros!” The gathering will address the questions: What is keeping your church alive? ¿Qué mantiene viva a su iglesia? How does your church thrive? ¿Cómo prospera su iglesia? How does your church call out the gifts of persons in your midst? ¿Cómo llama su iglesia a los dones de las personas entre ustedes? How are leaders called out within your church? ¿Cómo se llama a los líderes dentro de su iglesia?
— Pacific Northwest District has begun holding special times of prayer led by the Envisioning Team of Peggy Liley, John Jones, Howard Ullery, and Colleen Michael. The evening online events are held on the first and third Thursdays of the month via Zoom, according to an announcement. The intent is “for a time of prayerfully discerning how best to encourage our congregations and faith communities to reconnect and stay connected in intentional community so we can explore together what God might have in mind for us…. We anticipate this being a time of sharing and prayer concerns for our congregations and thoughtful discernment about the direction our District will be heading specifically in terms of ministry and organization.”
— Virlina District has announced that its Kentucky tornado offering is complete. “District congregations and individual members contributed $12,404.50…. The Disaster Response Committee of the district matched this amount. As a result, we have sent $24,809.00 to Brethren Disaster Ministries. We appreciate the generosity of our people and congregations in giving to this effort!”
— Cross Keys Village: The Brethren Home Community in New Oxford, Pa., is offering educational events for those living with or caring for people with memory loss and dementia. “Making a Difference in the Lives of People with Dementia in the Adams & York Area” is offered in person and online on May 13 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Eastern time) led by author and speaker Loretta Woodward Veney. Register at www.crosskeysvillage.org/difference. “Memory Care Basics,” an interactive three-part series, begins on May 11. Memory care coach Kim Korge will present three afternoon sessions, providing a thorough orientation for family caregivers and professionals who need a better understanding of neurocognitive disorders. Register at www.crosskeysvillage.org/basics.
— McPherson (Kan.) College has announced its Spring Horizon Fund Grant recipients. “For more than a decade, McPherson College has been encouraging the entrepreneurial ideas of its students by awarding mini-grants that help students develop innovative solutions to common problems,” said a release. “This spring, the Horizon Fund is providing grants to 15 students with ideas ranging from a car rental service to daycare to fitness training. The individual grants range from $100 to $500 and students have the option to reapply for continued funding of existing Horizon Fund Grant projects.” Abbey Archer-Rierson, chief of staff and head of the entrepreneurship program at McPherson, said, “The grants have supported a variety of wildly creative ideas and this most recent round of funding is no exception.” Find the full release at www.mcpherson.edu/2022/04/mcpherson-college-announces-spring-horizon-fund-grant-recipients.
— Mutual Aid Agency (MAA) is announcing the Kingdom Advancing Grant program from the Brotherhood Mutual Foundation for congregations carrying out innovative church programs. MAA is an independent insurance agency based near Abilene, Kan., providing property insurance to the Church of the Brethren and its members and beyond, and is an agency partner of the Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company. The Kingdom Advancing Grants “will be awarded to innovative Christian church programs that are transforming local communities through ministry,” said a release. “The goal is to support sustainable initiatives that then can be replicated by other Christian churches by awarding up to $100,000 in grants. Grant recipients will be announced July 2022.” Criteria for the grant includes church teams and programs focused on planning a new initiative or revitalizing a recent initiative that addresses at least one of the following objectives: increasing community engagement; meeting real and practical human needs; establishing creative, transformative, or collaborative revenue streams to help the church expand its impact. In order for an initiative or program to be considered for a grant, it must be directly overseen by a Christian church that meets each of the following requirements: a tax-exempt charitable organization as described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; in good standing with the IRS; if the 501(c)(3) tax exemption was previously revoked by the IRS, it must have been reinstated for at least one full year prior to applying for the Kingdom Advancing Grant; based in the United States. Each grant recipient will be paired with an experienced ministry leader who can provide guidance and assistance. Applications are open through May 1 at www.brotherhoodmutual.com/kingdom-advancing-grant. MAA’s Church of the Brethren Ministry Partner landing page is at www.brethren.org/insurance. Find the MAA website at https://maabrethren.com.
— Anabaptist Disabilities Network is the recipient of the 2022 Mennonite Health Services’ Innovation Grant, which will go towards the development of an Anabaptist membership curriculum for youth and adults with intellectual disabilities. A release from the network reported that “ADN’s membership curriculum will include an overview of the biblical story, a brief history of the Anabaptists, an exploration of Anabaptist beliefs and practices, and a detailed explanation of the practice of baptism in Anabaptist tradition. The curriculum will be written for adults, easy to read and illustrated. The teacher’s book will help teachers accompany their students as they consider a choice for baptism. Membership curriculum and Bible studies for youth/adults with intellectual disabilities are some of our most frequently requested resources.”
— Global Scholars Canada is hosting a talk by Rebecca Dali titled “Women in the Cross-Fire: The Girls of Chibok and the Long Road to Healing,” with respondent Elaine Storkey, author of Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women. Dali is a member of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) who has been a leader in responding to and aiding women and children, particularly widows and orphans, affected by violence in northeast Nigeria. Dali completed a master’s thesis as well as a doctoral thesis with Global Scholar’s Wendy Helleman, and “in both she dealt with the effect of violence on women, children and the family in the context of ethnic unrest/riots,” said the announcement. She has been recognized for her work through the NGO she founded called the Center for Caring, Empowerment and Peace Initiative (CCEPI), in 2017 receiving the Sergio Vieira de Mello United Nations Humanitarian Award. The Zoom event takes place on Saturday, May 14, at 11a.m. (Eastern time). To receive the link for this event, email Global Scholars Canada at [email protected] or go to the website www.globalscholarscanada.ca/news-stories/may-14-11am-est-rebecca-dali-on-women-in-the-cross-fire-the-girls-of-chibok-and-the-long-road-to-healing.
— The National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) is mourning the shooting death of Patrick Lyoya at the hands of the police in Grand Rapids, Mich. The NCC is sharing a prayer by its chief operating officer Leslie Copeland Tune, written for the NCC’s Holy Week of Prayer series: “We are triggered by yet another unnecessary death by police of an unarmed Black man, this time in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We are weary of the ways in which racial hatred and vitriol continue to erode the fabric of this nation, making the promise of America seem to be a dream deferred for far too many. We pray for the loved ones of Patrick Lyoya and all those who know the pain they are experiencing right now. We pray for our nation to break this confluence of systemic racism, inhumanity and violence by police who are supposed to protect and serve. We pray for Black and Brown communities, too often plagued by violence and many of whom believe we are not safe, including and especially with law enforcement. Lord, have mercy.”
–– Church World Service (CWS) is calling for people of faith “to welcome vulnerable people with warmth and open arms, and urge Members of Congress to do the same. We invite faith leaders and faith organizations to sign onto this important faith letter” about the Biden administration’s “planned end to the inhumane Title 42 policy by May 23rd, 2022.” CWS explained, “Since the announcement to end the policy, new anti-asylum measures have been introduced in an attempt to keep Title 42 in place, including the Public Health and Border Security Act of 2022. This bill would make it difficult or impossible to rescind Title 42 and would force the CDC and DHS to keep border expulsions in place–contradicting the CDC’s scientific analysis which found that the expulsion policy is not necessary to protect public health.” The sign-on letter is available through April 25 at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJ-h9dK8se0v-Ow5aE5RGeGy_Oy5ZCeclMnQI6ipcNr9xLuQ/viewform.
— Church agencies are urging action for those threatened by famine in eastern Africa. An estimated 15.5-16 million people are in urgent need of food assistance in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, according to the Intergovernmental Government Authority on Development. Reported in a release from the World Council of Churches (WCC), of these numbers, 6 to 6.5 million are in Ethiopia, 3.5 in Kenya, and 6 million in Somalia. “It is also anticipated that floods and insecurity in South Sudan will push another 8 people into acute food insecurity. In the region, 29 million are facing high food insecurity.” Read the full release at www.oikoumene.org/news/as-severe-drought-hurts-food-security-in-eastern-africa-church-and-aid-agencies-call-for-urgent-action.
— The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) is requesting letters from people of faith to members of Congress urging them “to vote to end the restrictions on transferring detainees out of Guantanamo. The House and Senate Armed Services Committees are now beginning to draft their respective versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In the past, this bill has been used by Congress to place restrictions on transferring Guantanamo detainees to the U.S. for any reason, even for trial or for necessary medical treatment. Congress has also used the NDAA to place limits on transfers to other countries with bureaucratic hurdles that make transfers unnecessarily complicated. For the past three years, the U.S. House has voted to lift the restrictions on transfers to the United States in their version of the NDAA, but the Senate has not,” explained the NRCAT action alert. Find out more at https://nrcat.salsalabs.org/close-guantanamo-2022-3/index.html. View an NRCAT Facebook post and webinar recording about the Guantanamo Bay detention center, first posted in January of this year, at https://fb.watch/cyqpchqga2.
— Creation Justice Ministries is sharing an Earth Day Sunday website with numerous resources for congregations to use in worship and other settings. “The last five years have shown that the climate crisis is no longer something to worry about in the future–it is affecting our communities right now,” says the introduction, in part. “It has become clear that climate change is not merely a problem for the church to prepare for in ten or twenty years; it is time for the church to prepare right now. Around us, God’s people and planet are facing the impacts of the climate crisis. As the world groans in travail, the church ought to partner with God in cultivating a redeemed, restored, and resilient creation. It is time for Christians to be agents of ‘Faithful Resilience.’” The theme for the 2022 resources is “Weathering the Storm: Faithful Resilience.” The webpage includes links to free worship resources, Bible studies, sermon starters, a church crisis map, faithful resilience videos, and action steps. Go to www.earthdaysunday.org.
— Dawn Blackman, outreach pastor at Champaign (Ill.) Church of the Brethren, is one of the speakers for the YWCA of the University of Illinois’ virtual event titled “We Can’t Wait to Close the Digital Divide” scheduled for April 28. The event is part of the YWCA USA’s annual Stand Against Racism campaign that happens every April to “raise awareness about the negative impact of institutional and structural racism in our communities and to build community among those who work for racial justice,” said an announcement on the “Smile Politely” blogsite. The 2022 theme is “We Can’t Wait.” Blackman will be part of a panel discussion on the “impact of racism on access to technology and the subsequent inequities in education, healthcare, employment,” moderated by Lemond Peppers, community engagement coordinator for the city of Urbana. Also on the panel are Sam Hall III, program director with DREAAM, and Stephanie Burnett, Move to Work and Community Program Manager for the Housing Authority of Champaign County. Go to www.ywcauofi.org/we-cant-wait-digital-divide.
— Tim and Byron Joseph, who have been part of Onekama (Mich.) Church of the Brethren, were highlighted by the Manistee News Advocate recently as “two-thirds of popular singing group The Nephews…. The cousins grew up next door to each other as part of a larger family that was music oriented. Some of their earliest recollections are attending church on Sunday with the family at Church of the Brethren in Onekama where music played a big role in their services. Both Tim and Byron Joseph couldn’t help but smiling a little when they recalled the debut performance of The Nephews when they played together 62 years ago for the Junior Clio Club in Onekama. Many songs later, they still are entertaining audiences with their smooth harmony. They possibly are the longest-performing musical group in Manistee County.” Read the articlee titled “The Nephews Spread Joy Through Music” at www.manisteenews.com/news/article/The-Nephews-spread-joy-through-music-17084170.php.
— Marci Frederick, director of libraries at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., is researching Brethren communion bread practices, including recipes, spiritual practices while making bread, purchased bread, and how the bread is used. In an announcement of a survey for this research, she requests “your personal and congregational stories as she attempts to track how recipes spread and changed.” The survey is open through June 30 at https://emu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6QiDm3DEgvRGsU6. For more information on this Eastern Mennonite University sabbatical project, feel free to contact Ms. Frederick at [email protected].
— Mary Dulabaum of Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren in Elgin, Ill., who works as director of marketing and communications at Judson University, will receive the Marguerite Henry Award for Communications and Technology at the YWCA Elgin 38th annual Leader Luncheon on May 12. She is among 28 women to be honored in a number of categories.
Newsline is the email news service of the Church of the Brethren. Inclusion in Newsline does not necessarily convey endorsement by the Church of the Brethren. All submissions are subject to editing. Newsline stories may be reprinted if Newsline is cited as the source. Contributors to this issue include Dina Al Bayati, Mary Elizabeth Allen, Erika Clary, Marci Frederick, Rhonda Pittman Gingrich, Tina Goodwin, Anne Gregory, Rachel Gross, Wendy Helleman, Tara Hornbacker, Jen Houser, John Jantzi, Jen Jensen, Nancy Miner, Zakariya Musa, Frank Ramirez, Janelle Rebman, Howard Royer, Kimberly Rutter, Ron Stief, Loretta Wolf, and editor Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, director of News Services for the Church of the Brethren. Please send news tips and submissions to [email protected] . Find the Newsline archive at www.brethren.org/news . Sign up for Newsline and other Church of the Brethren email newsletters and make subscription changes at www.brethren.org/intouch . Unsubscribe by using the link at the top of any Newsline email.
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Betty Coombs
December 3, 1930 — May 2, 2007
Betty Mae Steele Coombs, 76, of Santaquin, left this world on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 after a long and eventful life. She was born December 3, 1930 to Chester Cloy "Chum" and Edna Mae Wickman Steele. She lived most of her life in Santaquin and traveled for a few years to construction sites in other states with her husband Ken, of 54 years. He loved her deeply all the days of her life. They were married September 19, 1952. Together they had 4 children, 10 grandchildren, and 3 great grandsons. Mom loved to travel with Dad and took many wonderful trips across the Western United States, Canada and Mexico. She loved reading every historical marker, and knowing everything about any site they visited before going there. She loved camping and roasting hotdogs over the fire until they spit. Picnics in the spring when the trees were in bloom and the air was sweet were her favorite. Spring was her favorite time of the year, and she could hardly wait to sit out on the lawn with dad and "watch the world be re-born". She knew everything would improve when the humming birds came to her porch where they would always find a feeder full of nectar. Mom was a lot like the humming birds she admired. She loved being busy and was well known for helping others. It seemed taking care of the widows and orphans was a calling for her and dad. What was theirs was yours if your need was greater. As kids we didn't dare eat anything in the fridge until we asked, "Is this for the relief society?" She was an active member of the LDS church. She worked in primary for 25 years, with the young women, and was a visiting teacher for many years. She was very civic minded and we learned at an early age to vote in elections, help your community, and take care of your family, friends and neighbors. In 1946 she was a Santaquin City Queen. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary Post 84 and a right of passage as one of her children was selling poppies each May to help disabled veterans. She was an active member of the Daughters of the Pioneers. But most of all, she was Betty Grandma. She was a fabulous cook, never used recipes, she liked to read, rooted for the Jazz, and loved mud racing. A special thanks to the Davita Dialysis Center in Provo, and Trent Coombs for all their tender loving care. She fought the good fight and endured to the end and she will be missed more than words could ever express. Mom was preceded in death by her parents, 3 brothers, a sister and a granddaughter. She is survived by her husband Ken, 4 sisters and 1 brother and her children, Steele (Marilyn) Coombs, Santaquin, Cheryl (Gary) Evans, Payson, Mitch (Patti) Coombs, Santaquin, and Clayton (Clarice) Coombs, Santaquin. A viewing will be held on Sunday, May 6th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Santaquin North Stake Center, 545 North 200 East and Monday from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. prior to the services at 11:00 a.m. Burial, Santaquin Cemetery under the direction of Holladay-Brown Funeral Home, Santaquin.
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At Bucyrus Little Theatre, 'The Secret Garden' is ready to bloom
Gere Goble
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
BUCYRUS - Sheila Holloway makes no secret of her love for the latest Bucyrus Little Theatre production.
"I jumped at the chance," she said of directing the musical adaptation of "The Secret Garden." "This is a bucket-list show for me. I've done it once before, but as just musical director. This time I'm artistic director as well as musical director."
The musical is based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel by the same name, which Holloway said she's read many times.
"It centers around a young girl, Mary, who is 8 years old she loses her entire family to cholera and ends up going from India to Britain, to Yorkshire," Holloway explained. Mary ends up living with an uncle she's never met, Archibald Craven. "She adapts and goes from being a very bitter young thing to a beautiful little girl who's friendly and charming and helpful to everyone around her."
In the BLT production, Mary is played by 8-year-old Sophia Grace Schag, who is making her stage debut. "I'm very excited about this part," Sophia said.
She said she's enjoyed "Getting to know like all the songs, and getting to learn about all the cast."
Sophia said she enjoys the early part of the show, when Mary is mean and bitter. "Very fun," she said.
One challenge to playing Mary?
"They'll be talking about something else, and then I have to throw a line in that's not even about the topic we were just talking about," Sophia said, explaining that makes it more difficult to remember all of her lines.
And while she enjoys all of the songs, when asked how many she sings, she answers, laughing: "Too many."
Chris Collins, 22, who plays Mary's friend, Dickon, also cited the songs as one of the things he loves about the production.
"This is probably the funnest show that I've done so far," Collins said. "Just selfish reasons; this is the biggest part I've had in a musical so far. The songs are beautiful, too; hearing everybody come together and the harmonies is just great."
Collins, who said he's been shows at BLT for a while, said Dickon is one of his favorite roles.
"Learning the Yorkshire accent was really fun to do," he said. "I was worried about learning it at first, because it used to be the only accent I could do ever was New Jersey. But then I found a 20-minute YouTube video, watched it for a while and got it down, like, the day after."
Caitlin McCarthy also had to perfect a Yorkshire accent for her role as Dickon's sister Martha, who works as a maid in the Craven home.
"When I heard last summer that we were going to do this show here, I knew that this would be that part that I'd want to audition for," she said. "I started watching things like 'Frasier' and mimicking every line that Daphne Moon gave, and things like 'The Great British Baking Show.' And I've been watching them just like off and on all year to familiarize myself, and get familiar with the way the vowels would feel and that sort of thing. So I've been looking forward to this for quite some time."
Caitlin, who turns 26 on Sunday, said she enjoys being the comedic touch in a show that can be "a little serious."
"This is just one of those very, very 'me' parts; the textbook part that I would audition for," she said. "It's the funny kind of supporting role that I love."
For Kirsten McCarthy, her role as Lily, the deceased wife of Archibald Craven, is just the opposite of what she's accustomed to playing.
"It's actually one of the more vocally challenging roles I've had and I'm usually a silly character; she's more of a serious character," she said. "So it's been really cool to sort of explore that side of things."
Like a majority of the production's 29 cast members, she plays a ghost.
"The cast, though half-dead, is full of life," she said, laughing.
The 24-year-old Buckeye Central graduate is a theater veteran, having done shows at her high school, Galion Community Theatre and Mansfield Playhouse.
"I love musicals and acting and all that stuff," Kirsten McCarthy said. "Before I got involved in community theater, I didn't think there was a way to keep that in my life outside of high school. Then when I discovered there were so many local theaters around me, I was like really excited, because it's always been something I've enjoyed doing, ever since I was young."
Holloway said the production got off to a rocky start getting everything cast, but recently, things have been going well.
"It's very enjoyable; it's not just a children's show; in fact, it's barely a children's show," she said. "It's very much geared toward adults in the story line."
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What: "The Secret Garden"
When: 7:30 p.m. May 11, 17 and 18, and at 2:30 p.m. May 12 and 19
Where: Bucyrus Little Theatre, 130 Songer Ave., Bucyrus.
Tickets: $15 for adults and $10 for students.
Details: BucyrusLittleTheatre.com. |
Remittances to Ghana to hit $4.5bn in 2022 – Fitch Solutions
11th Apr 2022 | Source: Ghanaian Times
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta
Remittances to Ghana is expected to grow to about $4.5 billion in 2022, as the global economy recovers, Fitch Solutions has projected.
Nonetheless, the country’s Current Account deficit will widen albeit modestly, from an estimated 2.6 per cent of the size of the economy in 2021 to 2.9 per cent in 2022.
Fitch Solutions said Ghanaians will continue to move abroad as a result of the reopening of borders, a situation that will boost remittance inflows into the country.
Again, there is anticipated increase in foreign direct investments in the coming quarters, as gold mining companies such as GoldFields and Newmontinvest in production capacity.
Despite that, the research arm of ratings agency, Fitch, said the country’s current account position will expand but marginally in 2022, though it will not be in the same category five or more years ago.
“That said, the widening of the external account position will be tempered by stronger tourist arrivals, narrowing the services trade deficit from $4.8 billion in 2021 to $4.3 billion in 2022”.
It also projected an increase in services exports by 25.1 per cent in 2022, as increased demand for imported business and financial services surge.
Remittances to Ghana shot up by five per cent to $3.6 billion in 2020, according to World Bank’s 2021 Migration and Development report.
With the exception of Nigeria where there was a significant decline in remittances, foreign inflows to Africa went up by 2.3 per cent.
According to the report, Ghana was ranked second behind Africa’s most populous nation, benefiting significantly from remittance flows last year.
“Remittance flows to the region were estimated to have declined by 12.5 per cent in 2020. The decline was almost entirely due to a 27.7 per cent decline in remittance flows to Nigeria, which alone accounted for over 40 per cent of remittance flows to the region.”
“Excluding Nigeria, remittance flows to Sub-Saharan African increased by 2.3 percent, demonstrating resilience at a time of crisis. Indeed, strong remittance growth was reported in Zambia (37 per cent), Mozambique (16 per cent), Kenya (9 per cent), and Ghana (5 per cent)”, the report added.
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Calibre One Sets Sights on Growth in China
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Company’s unique combination of regional expertise, deep industry knowledge, and broad talent networks provides engine for substantial growth.
Calibre One, a premier global executive search firm specializing in building senior leadership teams within innovative areas of technology, is poised to continue its remarkable global growth path, with added expansion in China. The company was recently listed at number 21 on the Hunt Scanlon List of Top 50 Recruiters in recognition of its overall 27 percent year-over-year growth and consistent success in building senior management teams.
“Many companies continue to look toward global expansion, particularly in China,” said James Brocket, Managing Partner of Calibre One in London. “Our goal remains to provide some of the most innovative companies around the world with the best leaders – regardless of location – by leveraging our local expertise and global reach. Our network, developed over nearly 20 years, is one of our greatest assets in allowing us to deliver outstanding results for our clients across the world.”
Healthy Growth Still Projected in China
Despite a slowing growth rate, China’s economic growth is still at a healthy level compared to other countries. China’s economy grew at an annual rate of 6.7% in the first quarter of the year. It is the slowest quarterly growth in seven years, but is still an impressive pace that many major economies envy.
“China will continue to be a major growth driver for many multinational corporations,” said James Gathercole, Partner of Calibre One in Shanghai. “In addition, the government appears to be genuinely committed to making a serious and sustained contribution to creating a culture of innovation in China through continued investments, strategic partnerships, and trade agreements.”
The region also continues to demonstrate its influence over the global technology sector. According to the February 2016 Electronic Component Manufacturing Research Report, China has become the world’s largest manufacturing center for electronic products, such as televisions, computers, smartphones, and other popular consumer electronic devices. Consequently, China’s output of electronic components is the highest in the world.
Calibre One in Asia
Calibre One first opened its Asia Pacific practice in 2012 and in the past few years the company has opened offices in Singapore and Shanghai.
In 2015, Calibre One appointed James Gathercole as Partner – China, based in Shanghai. Gathercole spent over 15 years living and working in China, and speaks fluent Mandarin, as well as some Cantonese and Shanghainese. He previously established, and led, Heidrick & Struggles in China. His applied experience is invaluable to understanding the unique challenges related to adjusting to life in China and navigating the cultural complexities in the workplace, along with family transition issues.
“James brings a valuable combination of industry expertise, longevity in the search market, and a deep understanding of the cultural sensitivities required to be successful in China,” said Brocket. “As a result, our business in China is off to a great start and poised for significant growth.”
Calibre One has completed a number of successful placements of senior executives in key roles for a variety of North American and European technology companies operating in China. Current clients include electronics manufacturers, enterprise software and technology service companies. Going forward, Calibre One intents to expand its focus in Asia into all specialist areas of expertise the firm has developed in its core markets of Europe and the U.S. These include consumer internet, enterprise software, cleantech, healthtech, and expertise in helping major enterprises across all sectors drive transformation in their businesses through the use of digital technologies.
“Finding great executive leaders to work for companies operating in China is about much more than just relevant work experience,” Gathercole added. “There are many nuances in managing the work environment. In manufacturing, for instance, the scale of the labor force can be enormous. There are companies that have 50,000 employees in a single campus. We have an intimate understanding of the type of specific leadership skills it takes to be successful in this type of environment.”
Unique Values of Calibre One
Calibre One has a single practice structure that enables it to benefit from global teams that can work together seamlessly without worrying about geographic P&Ls, allowing it to develop talent across North America, Europe, and Asia, regardless of client location. Calibre One is also the only boutique search firm with a truly global presence. As a result, there are fewer “off-limits” candidates, resulting in a larger and deeper ecosystem of talent.
Calibre One has also just launched its enhanced website to better serve its clients around the globe. The new modernized site is fully mobile ready and performs significantly faster, with Google PageSpeed Insights scores of 97 for mobile and desktop. The company will continue to add new thought leadership through its Insights section.
Calibre One’s unique combination of regional expertise, deep industry knowledge and broad talent network provides engine for substantial growth – particularly in China.
James Gathercole now leads Calibre One in China.
Company increases thought leadership and launches new website.
Founded in 1999, Calibre One is an executive search firm that specializes in building senior management teams within innovative areas for technology-enabled companies of all sizes and stages of growth. The company leaves no stone unturned in its search for the best executive leadership in the world. With offices across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, Calibre One is the World’s only truly global specialist TMT boutique search firm. For more information, please visit https://www.calibreone.com.
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Callon Petroleum Company Announces Retirement of Board Chair
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HOUSTON, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Callon Petroleum Company (NYSE: CPE) ("Callon" or the "Company") today announced L. Richard Flury's intention to retire from the Board of Directors following the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders ("Annual Meeting").
"With guidance from Richard's deep experience in the energy industry, Callon has built a high-quality asset base of more than 200,000 gross acres in the leading oil plays in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale that has allowed us to profitably grow our production throughout his tenure," commented Callon President and Chief Executive Officer Joe Gatto. "Richard's leadership supported Callon through transformational acquisitions that have positioned the Company to execute our "Life of Field" Co-Development model on a deep inventory of high-return projects while preserving balance sheet strength. In addition, his focus on good governance has resulted in a strong and diverse Board that will continue to pursue sustainable value for all stakeholders. We are deeply appreciative of Richard's enduring contributions to the Company and wish he, Liz and their family all the best."
Mr. Flury has served as director of the Company for nineteen years and as Board Chair since 2017. Prior to joining the Board, he spent a 30-year career with BP plc and predecessor entities in roles of increasing responsibility including as Chief Executive for Gas, Power and Renewables. Mr. Flury's previous board service includes McDermott International, Chicago Bridge and Iron Company where he served as board chair, and QEP Resources, Inc.
"It has been a great honor to serve Callon during a period of extraordinary growth and change for our Company and our industry. I am confident that now is the right time to transition the role of Chair as Callon is well positioned with a strong board and management team to continue pursuing strategies to drive shareholder value," commented Mr. Flury.
In preparation for Mr. Flury's forthcoming retirement, the Board has named independent director Matthew R. Bob as Chair-elect and expects to appoint him as Chair immediately following the upcoming Annual Meeting. Mr. Bob has served on the Callon Board since 2014 and is currently Chair of the Compensation Committee. He recently retired as President of Eagle Oil & Gas Co., an independent oil and gas company with operations in Texas. A registered geoscientist, he is also the founder and managing member of MB Exploration, LLC. Mr. Bob previously served as a director of Southcross Energy Partners, a natural gas processing and transportation company in South Texas, prior to its acquisition by Targa Resources Corp.
Pursuant to the Company's mandatory retirement policy, director James M. Trimble will also retire from the Board at the upcoming Annual Meeting after nine years of distinguished service. Mr. Flury and Mr. Trimble's retirements are a continuation of Callon's planned Board refreshment and commitment to good governance.
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The exact relationship between religiosity and moral values is understudied, and it is unclear what the process of secularization means for the morality of Europeans. Previous research shows that religion is associated with low levels of political and economic development. A potential explanation is that religion provides an alternative moral authority to the authority of the state. Using data from four waves of the European Values Study 1981–2008, I analyze attitudes to personal autonomy (vs tradition) and self-interest (vs social norms) in a multilevel model of 48 European countries. The results show that religious decline has been accompanied by an increase in autonomy values, but not self-interest, that the relationship between religion and morality is stronger in more religious countries, and that it has declined since the 1980s. We also show that religiosity is more negatively associated with self-interest among people with low confidence in state authorities.
Politics and Religion , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 111 - 138
Copyright © Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2015
There is a general assumption that religious beliefs, behavior, and belonging influence moral values and attitudes, although exactly what the association is remains unclear. During the past century, many European countries have undergone a process of secularization at an unprecedented scale. This raises the question of what consequence decline of religious belief and practice may have on the moral and social values of Europeans. More specifically the question is whether religious decline is accompanied by change from traditional to modern, or also by a subversion of values from pro-social to self-interested. Previous studies have found significant value change (Schwartz Reference Schwartz1994; Reference Schwartz2006; Inglehart and Welzel Reference Inglehart and Welzel2005) in most European countries. Specifically, there has been an increase in acceptance of personal autonomy on issues concerning sexuality and family. These studies also indicate that the change has been largely generational (Inglehart and Welzel Reference Inglehart and Welzel2005, 101; Tilley Reference Tilley2005). There is no similar evidence that moral values have become more self-interested or anti-social.
A second question concerns when (and why) we should see an association between religion and moral values: a number of studies do indicate that religious people are more likely to behave pro-socially than nonreligious people (for example, Putnam and Campbell Reference Putnam and Campbell2010; Saroglou Reference Saroglou2006; Shariff and Norenzayan Reference Shariff and Norenzayan2007), but there could be different mechanisms for this association. In all faith traditions, moral values and prescriptions for social behavior constitute a substantial part of religious teachings. Belief in supernatural authorities (e.g., God), accounting systems (e.g., karma), and sanctions (e.g., Hell), could be reasons for internalizing these values and acting according to them. Moreover, religious communities facilitate social control and monitoring of behavior through dense networks and regular meetings, which may also constitute motivations for moral conduct (McCullough and Willoughby Reference McCullough and Willoughby2009, 81–82). Common for both belief in supernatural justice and religious social control is that they rely on a sense of legitimate moral authority that is separate from the state.
Norris and Inglehart (Reference Norris and Inglehart2004, 18–19) have argued that religion could be seen as a response to existential insecurity, by providing authority and predictability. Their analysis of the World Values Survey shows that national religiosity is strongly negatively related to economic development (Norris and Inglehart Reference Norris and Inglehart2004). This could be the result of a psychological response to stress, but it is also possible that religious norms and networks fulfill a social “policing” function in the absence of legitimate alternatives. Since the main resources for promoting and sanctioning moral and civic values and behavior in Europe are state authorities such as legal and governmental institutions, the role religion plays is at best secondary. If it is the case that religion promotes moral values by creating a sense of moral authority, it should be particularly effective under the following three circumstances: (1) when the moral values in question are not sanctioned by the state, (2) when public authorities that have the power to sanction the moral values are not trusted, and (3) when the religious beliefs and behaviors that promote these moral values are widely shared within the society.
To examine questions about the relationship between religion and morality in Europe, the first part of this article reviews relevant literature to introduce five hypotheses, the second part outlines the dependent variables used to measure moral values, the third part looks at trends over time and differences between countries relative to religion, while the fourth section tests the hypotheses about mechanisms by examining the relationship between religiosity and values in a multilevel model.
Autonomy vs Self-Interest
Morality refers to normative guiding standards for prescribing appropriate behavior and proscribing inappropriate behavior. The definition of moral values used here is a formal, rather than a normative one. In other words, I use the word “moral”, not as a normative evaluation, but to refer to understandings of good and bad, right and wrong, worthy and unworthy that vary between persons and between social groups” (Hitlin and Vaisey Reference Hitlin and Vaisey2013, 55). Finke and Adamczyk (Reference Finke and Adamczyk2008) distinguish between morality which is sanctioned by the state and morality which is not. Using international survey data they find that religion is more associated with moral values which are contested, but not state sanctioned. In other words, religion has more power to influence moral issues when secular legal codes are absent (Burkett and White Reference Burkett and White1974, 460; Finke and Adamczyk Reference Finke and Adamczyk2008, 638–639).
In order to operationalize and measure morality, we can distinguish between different moral value dimensions. A number of studies in social psychology find that religion is negatively associated with individual autonomy values, and positively associated with traditionalist and group-centered morality. According to Haidt's (Reference Haidt2012) moral foundations theory, humans intuitively grasp a few basic moral principles that form the foundations for the adoption of more specific moral values and attitudes from cultural and environmental influences. A sense of fairness and protecting other individuals from harm are universal principles for making decisions about right and wrong. But compared to secular liberalism, religious cultural norms are more likely to additionally rely on moral foundations of authority, group loyalty and sanctity. The sanctity foundation is related to the ideal of purity and the feeling of disgust in response to contamination or infection, which may explain why rules against infidelity and sexual deviance, specific dietary requirements and ritual cleansing figure prominently in many religions. Tetlock et al. (Reference Tetlock, Kristel, Elson, Green and Lerner2000) concluded that a value is sacred to someone if they refuse to measure it against profane concerns, and feel contaminated if they do. Neuro-imaging studies shows that such “sacred values” are processed in the brain as moral imperatives of right and wrong, rather than pragmatic cost-benefit calculations (Berns et al. Reference Berns, Bell, Capra, Prietula, Moore, Anderson, Ginges and Atran2012).
In studies reviewed by Jost et al. (Reference Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski and Sulloway2003), conservatism and traditionalism have been shown to correlate strongly with religiosity. Cross-cultural personality and value studies have found that religiosity is also strongly correlated with Schwartz’ (Reference Schwartz1994) value dimensions of tradition, conformity and security (McCullough and Willoughby Reference McCullough and Willoughby2009; Inglehart and Welzel Reference Inglehart and Welzel2005) as well as Altemeyer's (Reference Altemeyer1981) Right-Wing Authoritarianism scale. National level religiosity also has a strong negative association with Inglehart and Welzel's (Reference Inglehart and Welzel2005) dimension of individual autonomy values, “self-expression values.” Similarly, Schwartz (Reference Schwartz2006, 172) shows that countries with high levels of religiosity score lower on cultural value orientations of autonomy and egalitarianism, indicating a preference for order and hierarchy in religious societies.
A value dimension that is concerned with the contrast between self-interested behaviors and universally agreed social norms and principles should be less associated with religion, simply because norms against cheating, dishonesty, and theft are part of the moral framework in all societies, and for all individuals. To put it in Haidt's (Reference Haidt2012) terminology, such values are primarily based on the care and fairness foundation rather than the authority, loyalty, or purity foundations. Halpern (Reference Halpern2001) found that self-interested values, such as justifying corruption and cheating, are associated with crime figures (victimization rates) at the national level, whereas what he calls personal-sexual morality (autonomy vs purity) was not.
In addition, moral questions concerned with individual autonomy over one's life (euthanasia), family (divorce), or sexuality (homosexuality) are often openly contested even in countries where they are subject to legal sanction. As a consequence they may be regarded as the domain of religion or ideology, rather than matters of national or universal agreement (Finke and Adamczyk Reference Finke and Adamczyk2008).
Hypothesis 1:
Religion is more negatively associated with moral justification of issues of individual autonomy than with acts of self-interest.
Generational Value Change
The associations between religiosity and morality raise the question of whether religious decline in Europe has led to a similar change in moral values. Comparative studies by Schwartz (Reference Schwartz1994; Reference Schwartz2006) and Inglehart and Welzel (Reference Inglehart and Welzel2005) have found a profound recent change in values in most European countries. Since the first value surveys in the 1980s there has been a significant increase in acceptance of personal autonomy, particularly on issues like sexuality, marriage, and abortion, and some of these attitude shifts have been accompanied by changes to the law. There is also a difference in value orientation between older and younger generations. Previous studies (Inglehart and Welzel Reference Inglehart and Welzel2005, 101; Tilley Reference Tilley2005) suggest that value change is largely due to generational replacement, and that each birth cohort is more “individualist” than the last.
It is not clear how much, if any, of this change is attributable to religious decline. In general, values seem to be strongly related to environmental and material conditions. People who enjoy secure conditions of health, climate, and economy are more likely to hold values that are concerned with personal autonomy, and less likely to emphasize social hierarchies, group loyalties, and sanctity than those whose survival is under threat (Haidt Reference Haidt2012; Norris and Inglehart Reference Norris and Inglehart2004; Inglehart and Welzel Reference Inglehart and Welzel2005). The relationship between values and security can also be observed at the national level. For example, developed countries in Western Europe score much higher on value orientations emphasizing personal autonomy, and low on hierarchy and communitarian values compared to most other regions of the world. Over a period that in general has seen economic growth and increased living standards in Europe, in addition to religious decline, one would thus expect a general increase in autonomy values affecting both religious and nonreligious populations. In contrast, there is no reason to expect the same for self-interest values, which are universally contested (Haidt Reference Haidt2012).
Autonomy values have increased generationally whereas self-interest values have not.
Religious Context
Because social norms are an important source of morality and a person's social environment consists of more than their religious group, what matters are not only their religious beliefs or practices, but “whether this religiousness is, or is not, ratified by the social environment” (Stark Reference Stark1996). The social networks provided by religious communities seem to account for much of the relationship between religiosity and pro-sociality. According to Putnam and Campbell (Reference Putnam and Campbell2010) religious social networks in the United States have the same effects irrespective of individual beliefs or behaviors. On a small scale such networks include friendship ties and links between religious groups and voluntary organizations and charities (Becker and Dinghra Reference Becker and Dhingra2001; Wuthnow Reference Wuthnow1991). On a larger scale, people in countries with high levels of religiosity are more likely to volunteer, independently of their own levels of religiosity (Ruiter and De Graaf Reference Ruiter and De Graaf2006). When it comes to anti-social behavior, Stark and Bainbridge (Reference Stark and Bainbridge1996) suggest that the negative effect of religion on crime only works in contexts where there are sufficiently high levels of religiosity.
The reason for these aggregate level associations may be that religious norms need to be validated by a moral community of other religious people (friends and family) and social and political institutions (the media, the government) in order to be effective (Finke and Adamczyk Reference Finke and Adamczyk2008, 619). Some literature suggests that religious people would be more actively committed and more eager to distance themselves from nonreligious people in more secular countries, and vice versa (see for example, Achterberg et al. Reference Achterberg, Houtman, Aupers, de Koster, Mascini and van der Waal2009 and Ribberink et al. Reference Ribberink, Achterberg and Houtman2013), but there is little evidence that moral polarization is a necessary feature of secularization. On the contrary, Finke and Adamczyk (Reference Finke and Adamczyk2008, 634) found that religion was more associated with conservative morality in countries with higher levels of religiosity. Based on this literature, it is expected that both individual and country level religiosity will have an influence on moral values, but that the influence of individual religiosity on moral value dimensions will be stronger in contexts with a higher density of religious people.
Individual religiosity has stronger associations with moral value dimensions in countries with high levels of religiosity.
Similarly, as religion declines, the average person is less likely to encounter other religious people. Hence, we would also expect that the relationship between religiosity and morality would have weakened over time. According to Nevitte and Cochrane (Reference Nevitte and Cochrane2006), in addition to religious decline, there has also been a decline in the association between religiosity and moral values in all European countries with available data from the World Values Survey from 1981 to 2002. In other words, it has become harder to predict someone's moral values from knowing their religious orientation and beliefs. Nevitte and Cochrane (Reference Nevitte and Cochrane2006) suggest that this shift is a symptom of individualization and suggest individuals are generally less influenced by communities and social institutions. However, the decline in association could also be due to other influences besides religion on morality, changes in religious values in response to secular society, non-religion becoming a more acceptable position among those with traditional moralities, or a combination of these effects.
The association between religiosity and moral value dimensions has decreased since the 1980s.
Moral Authority
Aside from its social networks, a second reason why one might expect religion to affect morality is the sense of being monitored by a moral authority that arises from belief in supernatural agents. The effect of belief in an omniscient and judging deity seems to be a powerful motivator both for behaving altruistically and resisting cheating. In an economic game experiment by Shariff and Norenzayan (Reference Shariff and Norenzayan2007) participants who were primed with religious words gave more money to the other players than those who were given neutral primes. Shariff and Norenzayan (Reference Shariff and Norenzayan2007) attribute this to a fear of supernatural punishment. However, they found the same result with concepts associated with secular law, indicating an effect of a more general respect for authority. Other studies show that any watchful third party promotes honesty (Galen Reference Galen2012, 889). These results indicate that religious belief in God or tight-knit religious communities may be particularly influential for morality in contexts where other observing authorities are perceived to be absent, illegitimate, or ineffective.
If religious norms and social networks are effective in creating moral communities and cohesive sets of values, one could imagine that they could partly substitute governmental and legal institutions in motivating moral judgements and behaviors. Just as we would expect religion to have greater influence over morality that is outside the domain of secular authorities (Finke and Adamczyk Reference Finke and Adamczyk2008), we would also expect religion to have greater influence on people who see their governing institutions as weak or illegitimate. Like religious morality, legal codes concern what is considered acceptable behavior by offering sanctions for norm transgressions. To what extent one trusts the legal codes to be implemented depends on ones confidence in institutions such as the police and the courts.
The difference should be seen mainly on universally agreed moral values concerned with self-interested behavior, such as “stealing is wrong,” which should ordinarily be sanctioned by the state, rather than on the more contested values of personal and sexual autonomy. Self-interested behaviors are expected to be less effectively prevented by the state and thus more likely to be influenced by religion among people who express low confidence in state institutions.
Individual levels of religiosity have a stronger negative association with justifying self-interest among people with low confidence in state authorities.
The European Values Study (EVS) is an international survey that has run in four waves: in 1981, 1990, 1999, and 2008. The latest wave included 67,490 respondents from 46 countries, and combining the four waves gives a sample of 166,206 individual respondents. The EVS is ideal for this analysis as it includes a number of items concerning religion and values that have been asked over four waves in a number of European countries. Including all four waves enable us to view change over time. A factor analysis was conducted on the value questions in order to identify underlying value dimensions. As the data are multinational and I am interested in the effects of both individual and country characteristics, I use multilevel regression models to account for the fact that individual respondents are nested within countries.
Dependent Variables: Two Dimensions of Moral Values
In all four waves, the EVS respondents were asked a question about justifications of morally contentious behaviors. Illegal or controversial acts such as abortion, cheating on taxes, and drug use were presented to respondents and they were asked “Please tell me for each of the following whether you think it can always be justified, never be justified, or something in between” on a 10-point scale from 1 (never) to 10 (always). “Never” (1) makes up around 50% of responses on most items, with notable exceptions: divorce, abortion, and euthanasia (20–30% never) and joyriding, soft drugs, and bribery (70–80% never). These questions operationalize moral values, understood as guiding standards for right and good (or justifiable) behavior.
A factor analysis (Principal Axis Factoring with Oblimin rotation) was conducted on the whole European sample on the 14 items that were asked in all waves.Footnote 1 Two factors were retained, based on both the subjective scree-test (Preacher and MacCallum Reference Preacher and MacCallum2003) and the Kaiser-Guttman criterion. The two factors are shown in Table 1. The first, accounting for 30% of the variance (Eigenvalue 4.12), had high loadings (above 0.5) on homosexuality, prostitution, abortion, divorce, euthanasia, and suicide. This dimension can be seen as an indicator of extent to which the respondent values personal autonomy and individual rights and is labeled autonomy vs tradition. Typically, these moral issues are highly contested in society, without being sanctioned by most European states. The second factor had high loadings on accepting a bribe, avoiding a fare on public transport, cheating on taxes, claiming government benefits you are not entitled to, and lying in your own interest. This dimension (accounting for 10% of the variance) is labeled self-interest vs social norms, and concern behaviors that are universally condemned and usually sanctioned by the state. The factors were positively correlated (r = 0.421), and two items (adultery and taking soft drugs) loaded almost equally high on both factors. I discounted these two items and created two combined measures: the mean score on the six items with a high score on the first and second factor, respectively. Both scales had high internal reliability, with Cronbach's alpha 0.835 for autonomy and 0.762 for self-interest. The same two factors emerged when analyzing data from the four survey waves separately, and have also been found in analyses of earlier waves of the World Values Survey (Barker Reference Barker1992: Halpern Reference Halpern2001; Nevitte and Cochrane Reference Nevitte and Cochrane2006).
Table 1. Factor analysis (PAF) of justifying behaviors
EVS 1981–2008, N = 119542.
Independent Variables: Religiosity and Confidence in Public Institutions
The two independent variables of particular interest are religiosity at the individual and country level, and confidence in public institutions. To measure religiosity, six dichotomous variables were added together into a scale from 0 (no to all) to 5 (yes to at least five): Consider yourself a religious person, Religion is important in your life, Get comfort and strength from religion, Attend religious service at least monthly, Believe in God, Take moments of prayer and/or meditation (Cronbach's alpha = 0.845). This measure thus captures both the salience of religion in a person's life and their more concrete beliefs and practices. The country level religiosity is measured as the mean value on this scale for the whole country sample.
To measure confidence in public institutions I use a composite measure: This is the mean value of six variables, rating the respondent's confidence in the Civil Service, Government, Parliament, Police, Social Security, and The Justice System respectively, on a four point scale: (1) None at all, (2) Not very much, (3) Quite a lot, and (4) A great deal. The items have a high degree of internal reliability (Cronbachs alpha = 0.854).
On average there has been an increase in justifying autonomy rather than tradition across Europe. Analyzing this using all four waves of the EVS, and estimating the respondents’ age from their birth decade and survey year the change appears to be a combination of cohort and period effect. As shown in Figure 1, each birth cohort is more likely to condone these behaviors than the previous cohorts and there has been an additional increase in liberal attitudes which has affected all age groups, at least in Western Europe since the 1980s. This supports findings from previous studies (Inglehart and Welzel Reference Inglehart and Welzel2005, 101; Tilley Reference Tilley2005) that the change in autonomy values has been primarily generational.
Figure 1. (Color online) Value change in Europe by age and birth cohort.
Younger people are also more likely to justify self-interest rather than social norms, but as shown in Figure 1, the change over time on this dimension seems to be almost entirely an age effect. The older respondents are, the less likely they are to justify crime and cheating, regardless of when they were born. Eastern European countries have been excluded as they were only added in later waves, but the patterns are broadly similar. These findings support Hypothesis 2 that autonomy values have increased generationally, whereas self-interest values have not.
Religion, Values and Confidence in Public Institutions within and Between Countries
Bivariate associations show that individual religiosity is significantly associated with both value scales. Whether measured by religious self-identification, service attendance or how important God is in the respondent's life, religion seems to matter a great deal for morality, but much more too justifying autonomy than to justifying self-interest, supporting Hypothesis 1. Someone who considers themselves nonreligious scores a mean value of 4.8 on justifying autonomy, meaning that they on average think behaviors such as abortion and divorce can be justified in some, if not all situations. In contrast, someone who attends services every week scores 3.3, meaning that they think these behaviors can very rarely be justified. The equivalent scores for justifying self-interest are 2.5 and 2.0, respectively. The difference is statistically significant (p < 0.001), but not nearly as large as both the religious and nonreligious are generally opposed to self-interested behaviors. It should be noted that as the items in this scale are usually protected by law, most would not condone them even if their justification was made on a legal basis rather than a moral one. As Figure 2 shows, these differences hold when controlling for age, but the gap between those who identify as religious and those who do not is somewhat larger in younger than in the oldest birth cohorts. In other words, the generational increase in autonomy values has been somewhat larger for nonreligious people. This indicates that the less religious parts of the European population have been particularly influenced by the trend toward more tolerant or permissive values. The effect could arise both because those most supportive of autonomy values are more likely to become nonreligious, and because religiosity may prevent adoption of individualist values. Figure 2 also shows that the change in autonomy values among the nonreligious mirrors the decline in religiosity over the same period, with the largest change taking place in the cohorts born in the 1940s and coming of age in the 1950s and 1960s.
Figure 2. (Color online) Value change by religious self-identification and birth cohort.
Some of the differences between religious and nonreligious individuals may be due to effects of living in a more or less religious environment. Table 2 shows the average scores for justifying autonomy, justifying self-interest, and the religiosity scale. Countries in Western and Northern Europe generally have higher mean scores than countries in Eastern Europe on the autonomy scale, but there are exceptions such as Ireland and Italy which have more traditional moralities on average. The composite scale of religiosity correlates negatively with autonomy at the country level (r = 0.771, p < 0.001, n = 48). In general, the more religious the population of a country, the less its people justify autonomy over purity. In contrast, there is no significant association between religiosity and self-interest at the aggregate level.
Table 2. Mean score on variables of interest in 48 countries (2008–2010)
EVS 2008–2010.
The mean values of “confidence in institutions” are also shown in Table 2. In Europe, they range from 2.11 (Albania) to 2.85 (Denmark). As expected from value studies of modernization (Inglehart and Welzel Reference Inglehart and Welzel2005), in the countries where confidence in a country's government and legal institutions in higher, justifying autonomy over tradition is more prevalent while justifying self-interest is slightly lower. However, neither relationship is statistically significant.Footnote 2
One thing to note is that one can oppose self-interested behaviors such as cheating on either traditional grounds, as they defy legitimate authority, or liberal grounds, as they undermine the general good. This could explain why the levels of approval are so similar cross-nationally. In order to test whether the individual and country differences hold in a multivariate analysis while controlling for the multinational and hierarchical nature of the data, the variables are analyzed in a multilevel regression model.
Multilevel Models
Multilevel models were fitted with autonomy vs tradition and self-interest vs social norms as outcome variables. As control variables I included survey wave, with the most recent wave (2008–2010) as the reference category. Socio-demographic variables include age and gender of respondent, with male as the reference category, and three categories of income, with low income as the reference category.Footnote 3 The individual level variable of primary interest is the religiosity scale.Footnote 4 In Model 2, I include the four-point measure of confidence in political and legal institutions as well as the country mean on the religiosity scale in 2008–2010 (see Table 2). I also control for generalized trust, measured by the standard question with two answer categories (1) Most people can be trusted, 0) You can't be too careful when dealing with people), as this is likely related to all the variables of interest, and I want to distinguish between specific confidence in public institutions and a more general trusting attitude (Zmerli and Newton Reference Zmerli and Newton2008).
In Models 3–5, interaction effects are included to see whether individual religiosity has a stronger effect in some contexts than in others.Footnote 5 Specifically, I want to test Hypothesis 4 that the association between religiosity and values has declined over time, by including interactions between individual religiosity and survey year in Model 3. Hypothesis 3, that religion has a stronger effect on moral values in countries with higher or lower levels of religiosity is tested in Model 4 by including an interaction between individual and country mean score on the religiosity scale. Finally, the interaction between individual religiosity and confidence in institutions is included in Model 5 in order to test Hypothesis 5, that religion has a stronger effect on moral values for people with lower confidence in public institutions. The results can be seen in Tables 3 and 4.Footnote 6
Table 3. Multilevel model: Justify autonomy vs. tradition
EVS 1981–2010, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01.
Table 4. Multilevel model: Justify self-interest vs. social norms
Autonomy vs Tradition
The variance partition coefficient in a null model shows that 22% of the variance on the autonomy vs purity scale can be attributed to country level differences. The controls confirm that autonomy values have increased over time, and that younger people are more likely to hold them than older people. It also shows that such values are more common among women and people with higher income. Justifying autonomy is associated with low confidence in government institutions but also with generalized trust. This could be because people who value self-expression and personal autonomy are skeptical of the power and control held by the state and government institutions (Flanagan and Lee Reference Flanagan and Lee2003, 267). At the same time, trust in other people as individuals is implicit in valuing personal autonomy over collective interests.
Religiosity is negatively associated with autonomy values, both at the individual and country level. The negative interaction effect between survey year and religiosity shows that the negative association between religiosity and autonomy values was stronger in the 1980s and has progressively weakened, supporting Hypothesis 4. Similarly, the negative cross level interaction effect in Model 4 between individual and country religiosity indicates that the negative association between religiosity and autonomy values is strongest in countries with high average religiosity, thus supporting Hypothesis 3.
The very slight positive interaction between religiosity and confidence in institutions in Model 5 implies that the negative association between individual religiosity and autonomy values is somewhat weaker among people with more confidence in the state. However, as the −2 log likelihood indicates that the model fit is poor compared to models 3 and 4, this cannot be considered significant.
Self-Interest vs Social Norms
When it comes to self-interest values, only 8.2% of the variance is at the country level. The majority of the variance is explained by individual level socio-demographic variables such as age and gender. Men and younger people are the most likely to justify cheating and lying, but as Figure 1 showed, this appears to be mostly an age rather than a cohort effect, and the controls for survey years indicate a slight, but inconsistent, increase in self-interest values since the 1980s. People with low income are the most likely to justify self-interest, but higher income is not associated with stronger support for social norms compared to medium income.
In Models 1 and 2, religiosity only has a slight negative association with self-interest, and it is only significant at the individual level. Nonetheless the effect is comparatively large relative to variables such as income and generalized trust. Confidence in public institutions and generalized trust are both negatively associated with self-interest. The more one expects others to cheat and lie without appropriate sanctions, the easier it is to justify for oneself. In Models 3–5, the interactions with survey wave support Hypothesis 4 by showing that the effect of religiosity was even more negative in the 1980s than in the more recent waves of the survey.
The interaction effect in Model 4 shows that country level religiosity does make a difference to the effect of individual religiosity, albeit a small one. In support of Hypothesis 3, individual religiosity has a more negative association with self-interest in countries with higher levels of religiosity (Model 4). In Model 5, religiosity has a weaker negative association with self-interest for people with high confidence in government. In other words Hypothesis 5, that individual level religiosity would be more associated with moral values when confidence in public institutions and state sanctioning is low, is supported. As hypothesized, this interaction is seen only for self-interest values (which should ordinarily be sanctioned by the state), whereas it was not significant for personal autonomy values (Table 3).
Understanding the nature of the relationship between religion and moral values is of great interest, especially in countries that are experiencing a rapid decline in religious observance, belief, and identification. This article has examined which moral values religion is most associated with, how these associations have changed over time and how they vary by national context.
First, I found support for Hypothesis 1, that religion is most associated with openly contested values that concern individual autonomy. A factor analysis showed that attitudes to personal and sexual behaviors such as homosexuality, abortion, and euthanasia were strongly related, and seem to represent a dimension of moral values contrasting traditional values of the sanctity of life and the body on the one hand with ideals of personal liberty and autonomy on the other. While religion was clearly negatively related to such autonomy values at both the individual and country level, there was only a small negative association with the second factor, the dimension of self-interest (cheating, lying, stealing) contrasted with social norms and laws. The issues and behaviors loading on the autonomy vs tradition factor are not subject to legal sanctions in all European countries, and many, such as homosexuality and euthanasia, are publicly debated with strong involvement from religious organizations. It is thus to be expected that religion is more associated with these than with attitudes to the more universally condemned and illegal behaviors in the self-interest vs social norms dimension (Finke and Adamczyk Reference Finke and Adamczyk2008).
I also found evidence in support of Hypothesis 2, that there has been an increase in autonomy values due to a cohort change, echoing the findings of Inglehart and Welzel (Reference Inglehart and Welzel2005) and Tilley (Reference Tilley2005). However, I did not find this for self-interest values. Self-interest values appear to decline over the life course as people age, but have not changed much over time from one cohort to the next.
The multilevel model showed that individual religiosity has a stronger negative association with both autonomy values and self-interest values in countries with high levels of average religiosity, supporting Hypothesis 3. The finding that the religious context matters could be seen as supporting a social network hypothesis, that the availability of religious fellow citizens increases the impact of religiosity on moral values (Putnam and Campbell Reference Putnam and Campbell2010). However, the interaction effects also imply that the impact of religious context is particularly strong for individuals who are religious themselves, perhaps providing social validation for the association between religious belief and moral values (Finke and Adamczyk Reference Finke and Adamczyk2008; Stark Reference Stark1996; Stark and Bainbridge Reference Stark and Bainbridge1996).
In support of Hypothesis 4, there is also evidence of a slight change in the nature of the relationship between religiosity and values over the 25 years from the first to the fourth wave of the EVS, with religion becoming less important for moral values over time. When survey year is interacted with religiosity, I find that the effect of religiosity on moral values was stronger in the 1980s than in more recent waves of the survey. This result, combined with the support for Hypothesis 3, may suggest that religion's influence on morality is reduced with secularization.
Hypothesis 5, that religiosity should have a stronger effect on self-interest values when confidence in public authorities is low, was also supported. Individual religiosity has a negative association with the willingness to justify self-interest over social norms, but this effect is strongest for people whose confidence in institutions is low. This indicates that the social and moral influence of religiosity (Shariff and Norenzayan Reference Shariff and Norenzayan2007) may be less important when secular authorities are perceived to be effective and trustworthy. In other words, religious norms may, to the extent that they are widespread enough, be a substitute for legal or utilitarian motives for supporting social norms over self-interest. However, I did not find any evidence of a similar effect for autonomy values. This may be partly because the morally contested behaviors covered by this value dimension, such as divorce and homosexuality, are not criminal acts in most of the countries and thus fall outside the domain of authority held by legal institutions (Finke and Adamczyk Reference Finke and Adamczyk2008).
While the results do not directly speak to the mechanism of the association between religiosity and moral values, the apparent social effect of religious norms and state authorities call into question the idea that belief in observant deities on its own motivates moral behavior (Shariff and Norenzayan Reference Shariff and Norenzayan2007). What this analysis suggests is that such individual beliefs depend on social validation as well as low confidence in alternative sources of moral authority.
This research has a number of limitations, which can be classified into three sets, providing avenues for further investigation. First, future research should examine the relationship of these findings with behavioral outcomes. Some behavioral consequences of the value dimensions used here have been validated in previous studies. Halpern (Reference Halpern2001) found that self-interest values are correlated with victimization rates, and Storm (Reference Storm2015) found that autonomy values are positively associated with reported volunteering and civic behavior. However, we cannot be certain that all moral behaviors follow the same patterns as attitudes about behaviors, nor can we say anything about the salience of these attitudes. For example, it is entirely possible that religious people in secular countries are more assertive of religious values in public moral debates (Achterberg et al. Reference Achterberg, Houtman, Aupers, de Koster, Mascini and van der Waal2009), even if on average their moral values is closer to those of a nonreligious person.
Another possible limitation is the uncertainty about whether and to what extent subjective confidence in public institutions reflects more objective aspects of quality of governance, modernization and development. The average confidence in political and legal institutions is not significantly associated with the Human Development Index, and only moderately correlated with The World Bank's World Governance Index of the Rule of Law (r = 0.397, p = 0.006, N = 46). This could be partly due to within country differences between people who benefit from and feel discriminated against by government policies. However, it could also be due to misinformation or misinterpretation. As Halpern (Reference Halpern2001, 62) has shown, perceptions of the risk of crime, for example, are only tenuously related to actual crime rates. The choice to use a measure of subjective perceptions of public authorities is based on the assumption that religiosity provides a sense of moral authority, security, and predictability, which individuals who have confidence in the government will benefit less from, regardless of objective quality of governance of the country. More clearly distinguishing between confidence in authorities and the quality of those authorities is a challenge for future studies in this area.
Finally, a limitation of this research is that, while considering macro- and micro-level effects of religion, it only measures religiosity along a single dimension. Future research in this area could attempt to account for the possibility of divergent effects of religious pluralism compared to homogeneity, and religious practice compared to belief or affiliation, as well as differences between different religious denominations. This could also help to answer under what circumstances we would expect moral polarization along religious lines.
In line with previous literature (e.g., Norris and Inglehart Reference Norris and Inglehart2004), this research indicates that the processes of religious decline and moral value change in Europe are related. Several studies (e.g., Ruiter and De Graaf Reference Ruiter and De Graaf2006) have also found a positive relationship between religion and pro-social behavior. However, this analysis shows that while religious decline has been accompanied by an increased support for personal autonomy over traditional values, this rise in “individualism” does not represent a turn to self-interest or anti-social values. Further, the effect of religiosity on morality is moderated, especially by the religious environment, but also to some extent confidence in public authorities.
Previous studies suggest that religion can create a sense of moral authority that is effective in promoting norms and values (Finke and Adamczyk Reference Finke and Adamczyk2008; McCullough and Willoughby Reference McCullough and Willoughby2009; Shariff and Norenzayan Reference Shariff and Norenzayan2007). The findings from this study supports this, and more specifically indicate that religion promotes moral values more effectively around personal concerns that are not sanctioned by the state, and when the quality of governance from state authorities is perceived to be lacking. It also suggests that a large national religious community may provide an alternative source of moral and social values.
The generational decline of religiosity in Europe is associated with a similar change in support for personal autonomy over traditional values of purity and sanctity, but it is not associated with any substantial increase in self-interest. As the influence of religion is dependent on the religiosity of other people, a decline in religiosity may be accompanied by a decrease in the influence of religion on moral values. Whether anything else replaces religion as a moral compass is unclear, but our analysis indicates that confidence in institutions as well as economic security and generalized trust are important predictors both of respect for the norms of society and the autonomy of other individuals.
1. 46,664 cases with missing values on these variables (due to survey design) were deleted by list-wise deletion, leaving a sample of 119,542 for the remainder of the analysis. There are slightly more missing values in the earlier surveys, and the valid sample is slightly younger and less religious than if the missing values had been randomly distributed.
2. For comparison, the higher the country scores on the Human Development Index (HDI), a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income, the more people condone autonomy over tradition (r = 0.829, p < 0.001, N = 41), but there is no significant relationship between justifying self-interest and the HDI.
3. No consistent education measure was available in the first two waves of the survey, so this could not be included. Analysis on the last two waves, not reported here, show that education is consistently positively associated with autonomy values, and negatively with self-interest values when controlling for all the other variables in the model.
4. I do not include religious denomination in the model as it is strongly correlated to both individual and country religiosity. In exploratory models not shown here, there were only weak or nonsignificant differences between the denominations. However, the effect of country mean religiosity may be partly due to variation in moral values by religious tradition as well as degree of religiosity. The effect of religious denomination as well as differences between affiliation, attendance and belief requires further research.
5. Country level interaction terms were entered one by one to avoid issues of multicollinearity, but it did not make a substantive difference to either the statistical significance or direction of the coefficients if they are entered together.
6. Alternative models including a random slope for religiosity did not have a better fit, and the random slope was not significant when also including the interaction terms. The direction or significance of the interaction coefficients do not change when including the random slope.
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THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA
Early in 1756, the terrifying tale of the Black Hole of Calcutta begins. The East India Company, a relative newcomer to the Indian subcontinent, had already created a well-known trade hub in Calcutta, but French interests in the region threatened to undermine its primacy. The Company made the decision to fortify Fort William, its primary fort in the city, as a preventative precaution.
It is important to keep in mind that the East India Company only directly controlled a small number of strongholds in India during the early stages of colonial rule. In order to maintain these strongholds, the Company was frequently compelled to enter into tense truces with neighbouring princely states and their ruling "Nawabs."
When the neighbouring Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, learned of the rising militarization of Fort William, he gathered some 50,000 soldiers, 50 cannons, and 500 elephants and marched on Calcutta. By June 19th, 1756, the Nawab’s force was at the gates of Fort William, and the majority of the local British employees had fled to the Company's ships in the harbour.
The fort was, sadly for the British, in quite bad shape. The mortars' ammunition was too wet to be used, and their commander, John Zephaniah Holwell, was a governor whose primary responsibility was tax collection. On the afternoon of June 20th, Holwell was compelled to hand over to the Nawab with only 70 to 170 soldiers left to defend the fort. The last British troops and residents were collected up as the Nawab’s forces approached the city and thrown into the fort's "black hole," a tiny prison measuring 5.4 metres by 4.2 metres that was initially designed for minor offenders.
The convicts were subsequently confined for the evening in stifling humidity and temperatures that reached approximately 40 degrees. According to Holwell's testimony, over a hundred people perished over the course of the following few hours as a result of asphyxia and trampling. When the cell doors were unlocked at 6am, there was a heap of dead bodies. Those who begged for their captors' mercy were met with jeers and laughing. Only 23 individuals had endured. A relief expedition headed by Robert Clive was swiftly organised once word of the "Black Hole" reached London and landed in Calcutta in October. Fort William was captured by the British in January 1757 after a protracted siege.
At the Battle of Plassey in June of that same year, Robert Clive and a force of only 3,000 men destroyed the Nawab’s 50,000-man army. The British's victory at Plassey is frequently recognised as the beginning of extensive colonial authority in India, which would continue unbroken until independence in 1947.
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Update #6: Statement from the Chief Public Health Officer on the release of selected individuals from quarantine for the 2019 novel coronavirus
From: Public Health Agency of Canada
February 26, 2020 - Ottawa, ON - Public Health Agency of Canada
OTTAWA – Further to my previous statements, as Chief Public Health Officer, I have assessed individuals in quarantine at the NAV CENTRE pursuant to an Emergency Order under the Quarantine Act and determined that they do not pose a risk of significant harm to public health.
I have authorized the release of 15 flight crew members who accompanied the returning travellers on the third Canada-chartered flight from Japan to CFB Trenton to the NAV CENTRE in Cornwall, Ontario. In my assessment, I took into account the fact that they followed appropriate infection prevention and control protocols (including the use of personal protective equipment), and that they did not have unprotected contact with passengers or persons at risk of having the novel coronavirus. As a result of this assessment, I have determined that their continued quarantine is not required.
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Vendor Finance Program
Vendor Finance Programs – Broker Versus Lender or Lessor
There are basically two types of vendor finance programs that can be set up to provide financing to your customers in order to complete a purchase they are trying to make from you.
A vendor finance program can be set up and run by an equipment financing broker or it can be set up and administered by an individual equipment lender or leasing company.
In both cases, you are connecting the customer directly to the vendor financing program administrator for your equipment line so that an application for financing can be processed and hopefully approved as quickly as possible.
Broker Vs Equipment Financing Company
In an equipment financing broker driven model, the broker collects the information from the customer with or without the vendor or dealer’s assistance, puts an application package together that will be submitted to a lender or leasing company best suited to fund the deal, and then manages the process back and forth between the customer and the finance company until it is complete.
With a vendor program run through an individual financing company, instead of a broker administering the process, the work is done by an agent or customer service representative that works for the finance company.
The main difference between the two types of programs is that the financing company led approach can only service and approve applications that meet the lender’s criteria. If you have a customer that applies for credit who does not fall within the credit requirements of that specific lender or leasing company, the customer will be declined and then left to figure out potential financing on their own which could lead them to a different dealer or leave them with no financing option at all. In either case, the deal becomes in jeopardy of being lost.
When the broker model is utilized, the broker may very well be able to send deals to the exact same financing company that internally administers their own vendor program, but in addition, can provide the customer with additional equipment financing choices that may better fit the customer’s credit and financial profile.
With the broker model, your customer is not limited to one financing choice, and at the time of application, the broker is in a position to route the deal to the most likely source of financing versus having an all or none approach with one financing source.
Other Vendor Finance Program Considerations
Even if you have a very homogeneous group of customers whose needs could all be serviced with one financing company, you need to make sure that the turnaround time of the finance company and their level of customer service is in keeping with what you internally provide for your customer. Many of the financing companies provide services through an agent desk where there can be considerable variation in service from one day to the next, one agent to another agent.
A broker can still work with one targeted financing company if that provides the best value for your customer, but as an individual broker, they can also potentially provide a higher level of service which can make all the difference between closing a deal or not.
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THE CAPTAIN IS TAKING A BREAK
Hello Readers!
Like many people my activities have been constrained by the Coronavirus pandemic. Consequently, although I have been riding quite a lot I haven't been anywhere special or had many exciting adventures. Well, exciting enough to share with you. So I have decided to have a break from blogging for a while and I hope to return, refreshed and reinvigorated next year.
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Carmel City Council - First Tuesdays
Tuesday, November 02, 2021, 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Routine Public City Council Meetings are held the first Tuesday in each month, unless this week aligns with holidays - when the meeting will push to the second week. Confirm dates on the link provided.
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Normally, the Mayor and four Council members represent the residents of Carmel-by-the-Sea, review public policy, and adopt policies responsive to the community. The City Council meets the first Monday and Tuesday of each month at 4:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber of Carmel City Hall located on the east side of Monte Verde Street between Ocean and 7th Avenues.
Note: Most commonly the public City Council Meetings are held on the first Tuesday, where the private City Council meetings are held on the first Monday.
Note: When holidays interrupt this scheduling, they will be shifted to the Second week days.
All legislative power is held by the publicly elected, five-member City Council which consists of the Mayor and four Council members. While all Council members enjoy the same powers and privileges, the Mayor has the additional responsibility of presiding over City Council meetings, signing official documents, and officiating at ceremonies and events
To see the agenda for all City Meetings use click this link.
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The Mayor and four Council members represent the residents of Carmel-by-the-Sea, review public policy, and adopt policies responsive to the community. The City Council meets the first Monday and Tuesday of each month at 4:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber of Carmel City Hall located on the east side of Monte Verde Street between Ocean and 7th Avenues. NOTE: The Monday meetings are closed. The Tuesday meetings are open to the public.
All legislative power is held by the publicly elected, five-member City Council which consists of the Mayor and four Council members. While all Council members enjoy the same powers and privileges, the Mayor has the additional responsibility of presiding over City Council meetings, signing official documents, and officiating at ceremonies and events. |
Why you should consider taking a gap year
4th February 2021 Advice
The Cambridge Dictionary defines the term ‘gap year’ as a year between leaving school and starting university that is usually spent travelling or working. Going travelling during this period of time is very popular amongst young people before they start the next chapter of their life. However, the benefits of taking them are so immense that they shouldn’t be confined to just occurring in between school and university. Thinking about taking a gap year? Stick with us as we discuss the rewards they can reap and when the best times to take one are.
Many people tend to take time out to go off travelling before or after major turning points in their life. Be it before starting university or during a career break, everyone has their own personal reasons for travelling. If you’re older and regret not taking a gap year to travel, don’t feel that way. There is never a bad time to take one – a study by gap360 found that around 200,000 people each year take retirement gap years at the end of their careers!
Saying this, gap years can be very unique and personal to the individual. You will meet some very vibrant people on your adventures, each with their own unique stories to tell that often ties in to their underlying reasons for travelling. That being said, don’t feel like you need a reason to take one other than to just experience some amazing places the world has to offer. You will meet some very vibrant people on your adventures, each with their own unique stories to tell than often ties in to their underlying reasons for travelling.
The benefits of gap years
The benefits that come with taking a gap year really relate to why you are choosing to go on one in the first place. So, ask yourself what do I want to get out of this? Having a clear idea of your reasons for travelling will ultimately lead to a better overall experience.
Meeting and experiencing different cultures at a young age will really put in to perspective certain things that you might have previously taken for granted. On your travels you will also learn to become much more self-reliant, including how to look after yourself properly. This will really benefit you going into university, where for many it is their first time being away from home. When I moved into my student halls, you could immediately see the difference those who had taken a gap year and those who hadn’t. One of my flatmates who had come straight from school didn’t even know how to use an oven!
Gap years are also a great time to reflect on what you want out of life. If you choose to go to university, the months leading up to it can be truly pivotal, especially if you’re not sure what career path you would like to go down. Taking a gap year taught me that there is no rush in making decisions such as this. Your travels will teach you a lot about yourself, including what you want from life and the steps needed to achieve it.
The benefits of taking a gap year will also extend well-beyond university life. A study by Teaching Abroad found that 84% of gap year students that they interviewed said that their adventures had helped them to acquire new skills they believed would be of success to them in future jobs. The same study also showed that 97% enjoyed an increased feeling of maturity, making them take their futures more seriously.
If you were unsure about whether taking a gap year was right for you or not, we hope this article has helped you to make a decision. If you want to read about some of the amazing experiences our travel writers have had, you can check them out here. If you want to read more about how travelling in general can help you, check out Richard’s piece, where he answers the question what’s the point of going travelling? Our Safer Travel website also has travel safety guides for a wide range of destinations, and we are continuously working hard to add many more.
Written by Joe Corfield.
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Car Theft Prevention & Statistics
Carshipping Guide
Having your car stolen or vandalized can be a disheartening and, sometimes, expensive experience, but there are several measures you can take to mitigate the risk of becoming a victim. In 2011, about 715,400 motor vehicles were stolen nationwide according to the Uniform Crime Report from the FBI. That translated to roughly 230 auto vehicle thefts per 100,000 inhabitants. The most stolen cars and vehicles last year included the Ford F-250 Crew, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Crew and the Chevrolet Avalanche 1500. Other vehicles on the list included the Chevrolet Suburban 1500, GMC Yukon and the Chevrolet Tahoe. Insurance companies lost more than $4.3 billion, at an average of about $6,100 per vehicle, as a result of such theft.
Ignition Immobilizer
Even though the numbers appear high, they are actually lower than previous years. In fact, motor vehicle thefts overall have declined steadily in the last few years, largely due to the introduction of ignition immobilizers in many new vehicles. An ignition immobilizer is, basically, a car theft prevention device that automatically switches on when your vehicle’s ignition is turned off. The immobilizer cuts off the ignition, the starter and the fuel, making it impossible to start the vehicle without the key. The device is designed to prevent car thieves from hot-wiring vehicles and driving them away. Close to 90 percent of all 2012 vehicles manufactured in the United States came equipped with ignition immobilizers.
Mechanical Anti-Theft Devices
Even if your vehicle is not equipped with similar technology, there are several things you can do to minimize the risk of becoming another motor vehicle theft statistic. An easy way to keep your car from being stolen is to use a steering wheel lock. Steering locks basically make it impossible to steer a vehicle and have proved to be a very effective anti-theft device. Most steering locks are made of high-strength steel and are resistant to sawing, prying and Freon attacks. They are also very visible and, therefore, are effective at keeping would-be auto thieves at bay.
Clutch and brake locks are two other highly visible and effective theft deterrents. Like steering locks, a clutch lock and a brake lock prevent the clutch or brake from being used, thereby making it impossible for someone to steal the vehicle. Most clutch and brake locks are made of high-strength steel, and are usually brightly colored so as to be clearly visible from outside a locked vehicle.
Remote Trackers and Disablers
Numerous alarms, tracking systems and electronic immobilizers are also available to deter vehicle thieves. Even if your car does not come with an ignition immobilizer, you can easily purchase and install an electronic “kill-switch” that functions more or less in similar fashion. Such anti-theft devices can be remotely activated and used to shut down a vehicle’s electrical system or engine using a wireless transmitter. Some models allow the starter system or the fuel system to be shut down via a wireless transmitter, thereby preventing a stolen vehicle from being driven. Many people also use car alarms that are designed to activate when someone breaks into the vehicle or gets too close to it. The devices come equipped with sensors that are capable of detecting a forced entry, a glass break or the presence of someone too close to the vehicle. If a threat is detected, the device sounds an extremely loud alarm to scare away potential car thieves.
Companies like OnStar and LoJack also provide vehicle-tracking services that can be used to track and immobilize a vehicle that has been stolen. Both companies provide radio transmitters than can be hidden inside a vehicle and activated if the vehicle is stolen. The transmitters allow the vehicle to be tracked and even immobilized remotely. Often, companies providing such services work directly with police in retrieving a stolen vehicle.
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Zatarain's Yellow Rice Mix, 6.9 oz
Yellow rice, or arroz amarillo in Spanish, is a culinary staple in nearly every Latin American culture. It is commonly served as a simple side dish or, more famously, simmered with chicken and other ingredients to create arroz con pollo. This savory side dish boasts an exciting blend of flavors that includes turmeric, onion and red pepper. Zatarain’s Yellow Rice is simple to prepare, cooks to fluffy perfection every time, and presents a beautiful complement to a range of meats and vegetables. Try it with chicken and asparagus, or pork chops and green beans. Yellow Rice will be your new favorite trick for quick weeknight meals. |
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Amritsar: Tourists praise Jallianwala Bagh's new look
News Agencies | Updated on: 15 September 2021, 17:19 IST
Tourists at the newly renovated Jallianwala Bagh. (Photos/ANI)
Tourists in Amritsar have praised the new look of the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar after its renovation.
Be it the entrance to this historic place, the galleries or the light shows telling the whole story of the incident, tourists are admiring the renovation of the venue.
While talking to ANI, some of the tourists shared their thoughts on the renovation of the historic site.
"The site has changed a lot now. Earlier it was not very developed but it looks amazing now. The entrance is good. The light and sound shows and galleries are really good too. It is flawless," said Archana, a tourist.
Another tourist named Arun lauded the steps taken by the government to restore and renovate the site.
"It is a commendable step by the government that they preserved and restored this historic site in this way. It has a lot of significance in Indian history but it had been lying ignored for a long time. I had come here in 2019, but now it looks great. The atmosphere, galleries and laser and light shows are beautiful," he said.
Another tourist named Samartha said that the site in its current form looked really good and everyone must pay it a visit.
"I saw the light and sound show. It showed who were the martyrs and how they were killed by the Britishers. We do not get to read this in our books. I will recommend it to my friends and schools should also organize trips to this site," said a student named Sarthak.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the renovated complex of Jallianwala Bagh Smarak to the nation through video conferencing on August 28.
As per the PMO, four Museum galleries have been created through adaptive reuse of redundant and underutilised buildings. The galleries showcase the historical value of events that unfolded in Punjab during that period, with the fusion of audio-visual technology, including projection mapping and 3D representation, as well as art and sculptural installations.
A 'Sound and Light' show has also been set up to display the events that happened on April 13, 1919.
Multiple development initiatives have been undertaken at the complex. Elaborate heritage restoration works have been carried out in sync with the local architectural style of Punjab.
The Shaheedi well has been repaired and restored with a redefined superstructure. The heart of the Bagh, the flame monument, has been repaired and restored, water body rejuvenated as a lily pond, and the pathways made broader for better navigability.
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on April 13, 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army, under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer, fired machine guns into a crowd of unarmed protesters and pilgrims who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh in Punjab's Amritsar on the occasion of Baisakhi.
The crowd had assembled peacefully at the venue to condemn the arrest of two national leaders -- Satya Pal and Saifuddin Kitchlew -- when they were fired at indiscriminately by General Dyer and his men.
First published: 15 September 2021, 17:19 IST
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Former NBPA head Billy Hunter feels both victimized and vindicated
Say what you want about his tenure, but a lot of money is coming to the players this summer
By Ken Berger
Jun 29, 2016 at 12:09 pm ET • 8 min read
OAKLAND, California -- Over pancakes and Eggs Benedict at the Cock-A-Doodle Café, a quaint, downtown breakfast spot, Billy Hunter peers through the window onto sun-splashed Washington Street. He's contemplating a question that cuts to the core of his downfall as the former executive director of the National Basketball Players Association.
What do you want to tell people about you that they don't know?
Still quick on his feet and 35 pounds lighter than the day he was fired three years ago from the only job he'd known for 17 years, Hunter suddenly goes silent. He pauses for 10 seconds, then 20. Soon it's an NBA shot-clock violation; then, a college violation.
Voices rise and fall and silverware clings and clangs in the small restaurant in Hunter's old stomping ground -- downtown Oakland, where he was once a swashbuckling federal prosecutor, and later, a high-profile defense attorney. Fifty-three seconds later, he delivers the answer.
"Just that I always acted in the best interests of the players," Hunter told CBS Sports in his first interview since he was removed from his post under a cloud of suspicion. "I always put their interests first."
Hunter seems smaller, and his voice is softer now, though somehow he's no less bombastic. He's always been a fighter; an underdog in the perpetual tug-of-war with billionaire owners and the NBA's army of lawyers. As the league prepares for a monumental and chaotic free-agency period that begins Friday at 12:01 a.m. ET, Hunter feels at once vindicated and victimized.
Vindicated, because the players he was accused of selling down the river in the 2011 collective bargaining agreement are doing surprisingly well six years later. Though their share of league revenue was drastically reduced, an unprecedented boom in business has sent total salaries skyrocketing. League revenues have grown by nearly $1 billion in the last three years. Since the lockout, the salary cap has exploded by 162 percent.
When the league's nine-year, $24 billion TV deal begins hitting the system with the dawn of the new league year on Friday, a period of unprecedented spending will commence. By next summer, LeBron James will shatter Michael Jordan's league record annual salary of $33.1 million in what will be the first $200 million player contract in NBA history.
"That's why the owners are crying," Hunter said. "... Ironically, some agents have called me now who wanted my head before and they thanked me for the deal. They said it's been very lucrative for the players."
Victimized, because Hunter, 73, believes he was unfairly ousted in a one-sided inquisition that didn't allow for him or anyone on his behalf to respond to the allegations that he put his personal interests ahead of the players' and failed to properly manage conflicts of interest.
"It was overnight," Hunter said. "The next thing I knew, I was gone."
The NBPA's executive committee unanimously ousted Hunter in February 2013 on the heels of a blistering report from famed sports attorney Ted Wells alleging wide-ranging shenanigans. Hunter sued the union alleging breach of contract; the NBPA filed counterclaims in 2015. Each side has been forced to retrench at times and has been able to claim small legal victories along the way. A recent ruling from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Huey Cotton favored Hunter when 12 of the union's 14 counterclaims were thrown out.
The union then filed an amended complaint narrowing its action to seven claims and removing the Wells report from the filing. The case now gets down to the potentially explosive phase of discovery. In a subsequent ruling May 16, Cotton ordered the NBPA to produce documents related to the preparation of the Wells report before deposing Hunter. NBPA lawyers continue to resist turning over the work product behind the report that doomed Hunter's tenure and have filed a motion asking Cotton to reconsider his ruling, a person familiar with the proceedings told CBS Sports.
"There was nothing to rebut what Ted Wells and others were saying behind closed doors," Hunter said of the 2013 meeting in Houston where he was ousted in absentia. "I think it was pretty one sided."
Hunter, who sat for the interview with one of his attorneys, Joshua Hill, is seeking at least $10.5 million in salary and severance he claims he is entitled to under a 2010 contract extension that was executed by then-NBPA president Derek Fisher, who later turned against him. (Defamation and other claims against Fisher and his business manager, Jamie Wior, are no longer part of the case.) The union claims that the contract extension was not valid because it had not been properly ratified by the Board of Player Representatives.
"The NBPA has delayed Mr. Hunter's day in court for more than three years, but the NBPA cannot delay forever," Hunter's lead attorney, David Anderson, said in a statement to CBS Sports. "The NBPA promised Mr. Hunter a guaranteed severance payment in a contract signed by Derek Fisher as the president of the union in 2010. Mr. Hunter earned that guaranteed severance payment when he negotiated the most lucrative collective bargaining agreement in the history of the NBA in 2011."
In a statement, the NBPA said: "We are pleased that the judge ruled that the NBPA's primary claims against Mr. Hunter for breach of fiduciary duty will go forward. Those claims encompass all of the misconduct for which the NBPA seeks to hold Mr. Hunter accountable."
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In the meantime, Hunter has transitioned into a simpler lifestyle as a grandfather, Little League coach and chauffeur for his four grandchildren, ages 5 through 9. He and his wife, Janice, split time between Harlem and their residence in the Crocker Highlands section of Oakland.
He's traded in his former life of bare-knuckle negotiations with the commissioner's office for shuttling his two youngest grandchildren to karate practice and Kumon. He drives them to and from school every day, too, in his soccer-mom mobile -- a Chevy Suburban.
"I do a lot of hugging and kissing, which I never did before, with these grands," Hunter said. "I'm forever hugging them and kissing them, telling them how much I love them, how much they mean to me, how my life would be empty without them. Obviously, you're concerned at this stage in life how much time you have left. I'm going to be 74 my next birthday. My whole idea, my whole effort is to make as much impact on them as I can."
The years of stress took a toll on Hunter's health. Since his ouster, he's been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and had six stents implanted in his arteries.
"You can't get any more than six," Hunter said. "I'm maxed out."
His wife implores him to address the disease with nutrition and exercise, so he can get off the steady diet of pills he has to down twice a day. The pancakes and syrup on his plate on this morning during the NBA Finals, he said, are a rarity.
He misses the job, but on the other hand, the ongoing collective bargaining negotiations with commissioner Adam Silver are no longer his problem. His replacement, Michelle Roberts, is engaged with the league in an effort to recalibrate the agreement to reflect the league's post-lockout largesse. The goal is to reach a new agreement before either side can opt out of the 10-year deal on Dec. 15.
The biggest issue is the massive increase in TV revenue, which threatens to disrupt the system changes that the league insisted on six years ago to restore competitive balance. With the salary cap rising from $70 to $94 million -- and the tax from $85 million to $113 million -- contending teams are getting a rare chance to get even better and big spenders are receiving a get-out-of-jail-free card.
The dynamics have changed so much, so quickly that Silver -- in his pre-Finals address -- significantly walked back his rhetoric on competitive balance. He changed the terminology to "equality of opportunity," and admitted, "We're never going to have NFL-style parity in this league."
Silver, the NBA's lead negotiator during the lockout as deputy commissioner under David Stern, has said the spike was unavoidable because the dramatic increase in TV revenue couldn't have been anticipated. Hunter disagrees.
"The one thing that I do remember saying to the players was that we had to be conscious of the fact that the revenues were going to jump significantly because of the TV money," Hunter said. "And I'd said that I knew that it would at least double; I didn't expect it to triple, but I knew that it would at least double. ... It's not credible for the NBA to make that claim."
The league office had no comment on Hunter's assertion. But while the league office also thought at the time it was plausible for broadcast rights fees to double, neither side expected them to triple -- an outcome that is about to flood the system with about $1 billion in salary cap room. Hunter's successor, Roberts, rejected the league's proposal to smooth the additional money into the player compensation pool.
For the third straight year, the league will have to write a huge check to the union to cover a shortfall between the players' negotiated 50 percent split of basketball-related income (BRI) and the actual revenue. By the end of next season, Silver has projected that the shortfall could balloon to $500 million.
"The kicker I put in there," Hunter said, "was that they had to spend up to 90 percent of the cap. That's why it's a killer."
All of his observations are from afar now. Hunter has not attended a single NBA game since his ouster.
"Why not?" I asked.
"I guess because I'm embarrassed, putting it bluntly," he said. "I'm embarrassed. I left under a cloud."
He also left behind years of knockdown fights with his nemesis, Stern, with whom he has not crossed paths since he was fired. Given their contentious relationship, don't hold your breath.
"David and I had a peculiar relationship," Hunter said. "I don't know that we were always distrusting of one another. I respect David for the job he did. I think he did a great job and the league is the beneficiary. I don't think I ever got any credit, even from the media. You guys were the ones who made all the characterizations and I was always scratching for whatever I could get.
"I don't dislike him," Hunter said. "The difference was, I had a job to do and he had a job to do. And I did it. I didn't let anything interfere with that."
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The purpose of family law is to protect and maintain the rights and well-being of families. These rights include a right to life, a safe environment for children, and to prevent harmful behavior. In Canada, the legal recognition of same-sex relationships has been expanded. This represents a long-awaited sea change in the heterosexual norm.
Family law provides a framework to help parents and children reach a peaceful and secure relationship. It also helps to preserve the institution of marriage. However, some individuals use the system to perpetuate abuse and violence. Despite these issues, the law still provides some protection to children and ensures their safety. For more information about family law and legalities visit https://www.thedivorcelawyersdallas.com/family-lawyer/.
Families can be divided into different-sized units, such as a single parent, a couple with two children, or a family of four. A person’s family status is determined by a range of factors, including whether they have children, whether their spouse has custody of them, and whether they receive child support. While the courts have some discretion in determining this, they are not allowed to deny or limit the rights of the people involved.
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There are a variety of ways to define income. Many expenses are required to produce income, such as payroll taxes, a rent or mortgage payment, a bonus, or a commission. Some of these expenses can be deducted from the gross receipts. But a variety of other expenses are not necessarily considered “ordinary and necessary” to meet the income needs of a household. To prove that an expense is “ordinary and necessary” for family law purposes, a forensic accountant may be needed.
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The tax season comes upon us quickly every year. It is important that you understand your state’s tax laws before filing your state income tax returns. While many state tax codes closely mirror the federal code, there may be key differences between every state that are especially important to be aware of before you begin the state tax collection process. This information is presented below – with links to additional state tax information and resources – including state tax forms and relevant links to other state tax information. Have a look around!
One of the most common reasons that people don’t comply with their state’s income tax laws is because they don’t fully understand or believe that they don’t need to pay taxes at all. Some think that just because they have no taxable income that they don’t need to pay federal tax laws. The plain fact is that in the eyes of the federal tax laws anyone who earns more than they have paid over a three-year period must pay both federal and state taxes. That includes even those individuals who live in a state that has no income tax or a minimal state income tax. For more information and questions about paying taxes and processing visit https://www.northcarolinataxattorneys.net/durham-nc/.
There are a couple of ways that you can gauge whether or not you need to file for a federal tax return. The first is a self-assessment. Assessing yourself simply means figuring out what your annual gross income is. In order to figure this out you’ll need to add together all of your estimated earnings from wages, business ventures, interest, and other sources. Your annual gross income figure will then be divided by the total number of people you live with or employ. If your annual gross income is higher than the median household income in your state, then you are required to file a federal income tax return and the corresponding federal tax laws.
If your annual gross income is lower than the national median, then you are considered a low-income taxpayer and do not have to file a federal tax return. If you do have to file a federal tax return, you are responsible for deciding which forms you wish to file, and then paying the appropriate amounts. Most taxpayers determine their own filing status using the instructions provided by their Internal Revenue Service agent, which are typically referred to as the Schedule V. The majority of taxpayers start off with the Form 1040, which is the federal tax law that applies to taxpayers in the United States. After filing this form, an individual then files their federal tax return.
Taxpayers can also choose to file either a state income tax or a state tax return depending on the filing status in their state. All states have different definitions of taxable income, and taxpayers need to be aware of these definitions before filing their federal tax return. For example, a resident of Alaska is considered to have no taxable income for purposes of federal tax laws if they have no state income tax due. Residents of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and the states of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin are also considered non-resident for purposes of state tax laws and must file a state tax return. Residents of Puerto Rico are subject to both state and federal tax laws.
In order to determine the correct amount of tax due for each year, taxpayers must use all of the available resources available to them. This includes using official IRS publications such as the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and the Tax Code. Official publications and the Tax Code are available on the IRS website, which is free. There are many forums on the IRS website where taxpayers can post questions and receive answers from knowledgeable individuals. In order to maximize your tax benefits, it is imperative that you fully understand the federal tax laws and understand your rights as a taxpayer. |
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How to Learn to Eat Naturally Again: The CEDRIC Method Step-by-Step Process
Posted by mmorand on August 20, 2011 This week I’m sharing a brief but invaluable tool for any of you who would like to be able to trust yourself to be around any food, in any quantity, any time. Sound good? If you follow these steps, you will quickly be able to identify when you’re using food to cope vs. when you are just confused about what to eat and how much, and getting anxious because of that. If you’re at a point in your use of the core CEDRIC Method tools where you are able to manage your stress in rational, life-enhancing ways, you’ll also be able, in a 2-3 weeks, to trust your body to know what and how much it needs, and as a result, you’ll feel much more peaceful and at ease in your body and around food. (more…)
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SEC Extends Compliance Date for “Pay to Play” Prohibition on Payments to Certain Third-Party Solicitors
In 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 206(4)-5 and related amendments to certain other rules under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. These rule changes are intended to prevent “pay to play” practices by investment advisers seeking to manage funds for state and local governments. One element of the new rule is to prohibit an adviser and its covered associates from paying a third party, such as a solicitor or placement agent, to solicit a government client on behalf of the investment adviser unless that third party is an SEC-registered investment adviser or broker-dealer subject to similar pay to play restrictions. The compliance date for this element of the new rule was set for June 13, 2012. However, in light of pending SEC rules providing for the registration of municipal securities advisors, the SEC recently extended the compliance date for this element of the rule until nine months after the compliance date for the rules requiring municipal advisor registration with the SEC. The compliance date extension is limited to this element of the new rule, and the other elements of the rule continue to remain in effect.
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Home / Chess News / Will there be trash-talking with Magnus? Oh yeah, no doubt, says Fabiano Caruana
Will there be trash-talking with Magnus? Oh yeah, no doubt, says Fabiano Caruana
Leon Watson
We couldn’t help ourselves. Less than 24 hours after Fabiano Caruana won the Candidates tournament in Berlin to secure a world title tilt against Magnus Carlsen we were onto him.
Most of all we wanted to know when the trash-talking would start!
But also what the new World Chess Championship challenger’s relationship with the champion is. Oh, and finally, whether he would create a Chessable opening repertoire for us.
Thankfully, Fabiano – who perhaps had a bit of a groggy head after a few drinks the night before – was game. Here’s what he had to say from his hotel room in Berlin:
Fabiano, congratulations! First of all, how are you feeling?
Feel great.
Fabiana Caruana talking to Chessable
So how did you celebrate?
After all the official stuff was done, all the interviews, press conference, closing ceremony it was midnight pretty much so we found an Italian restaurant that was open and we got a few bottles of wine with a few friends. There was just five of us, and we had a few drinks and it was nice
Have you heard of Chessable?
Yeah, I’ve seen it online, and I know John [Bartholomew].
Have you thought about doing a repertoire for us? Everyone would love it…
Haha, I can only offer really boring openings like the Petroff unfortunately…
Ok, so how are you going to beat Magnus?
Well, I’ll certainly do my best. I think a lot of it will come down to the preparation before the match. Like, before this tournament I think my preparation was very successful in terms of relaxing and getting into the proper shape that I can calculate well.
We didn’t have much time before this tournament but we will before the world championship and I will have to step it up a few notches, especially since it is a much different challenge.
Congratulations to Fabiano Caruana, who just became the first American challenger for the world chess championship since Fischer. He was the most stable ship in a stormy sea at the Candidates!
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) March 27, 2018
Here I’m playing seven other players and it’s very tough but with Magnus it’s one guy and to kill each other over the boards each day it will be psychologically and mentally draining and also physically draining.
So I will have to come with my best physical shape and my best mindset and my best chess-shape in terms of calculating variations and preparing for Magnus specifically. So it is also a challenge that I’ve never had to face before.
Will you be focusing more on yourself or on Magnus?
Myself. I really need to make sure I am playing at my absolute best ability. I need to be 100 per cent because anything less than that and I won’t be able to win it.
But of course a lot of the focus will be on him as well because he is a unique opponent: he is the best chess player in the world and you can never play an easy game with Magnus, it just doesn’t ever happen.
The Candidates is over, and it was the most difficult and rewarding tournament of my life. Still only half the goal – on to play Magnus in November!
— Fabiano Caruana (@FabianoCaruana) March 28, 2018
If you win a game it’s going to be very difficult and then if you are under pressure from the start he’s going to make you suffer for seven hours or however long it might take to beat you.
But recently I’ve had some games, like in London in the first round, where I was worse out of the opening and I stuck with him the whole game and then after six-and-a-half hours I managed to hold him with black.
So this, I think, shows that even if he puts you under pressure from the start it’s still not the end of the world.
And we also saw last time Karjakin defended bad positions with some tenacity and this ended up as being almost enough to win the match because he defended his bad games then when he got a chance he took it and nearly won the match I thought.
Are there any particular weaknesses he has that you will be trying to exploit?
I think the weaknesses he has are very relative. Yes, he does some things better than others but you can’t point out any true weaknesses where if you take the game in that direction then suddenly he’s a much weaker player.
He is basically the most well-rounded player so everything he does he does well. Some things he does… perfectly, but some things you can outplay him.
This is the same young talented boy who started his chess career around 6 at my Polgar Chess Center in NY. I'm so proud to see him grow as a person/player over the years! Now he'll be battling for the World Championship! Congrats to @FabianoCaruana & his family! @theworldchess pic.twitter.com/aYbgNxnOSY
— Susan Polgar (@SusanPolgar) March 27, 2018
In a complicated fight when the game can go either way when you are risking a lot but also he is risking a lot and you have to calculate then you can beat him. In a complicated fight it is definitely possible to outplay him and to beat him.
I don’t think that I calculate any worse than him. He does some things better than me, but also I think I do some things better than him. If I put pressure on him from the start then I will definitely have my chances.
What’s your personal relationship with him like?
It’s pretty much neutral. We hang out occasionally but never one-on-one. I also would not describe us as friends, but we are definitely not on bad terms and I think that we both respect each others’ play.
Obviously, I respect him and I think he also respects my ability and how I fight in any individual game and go for the win. He respects that I am not just trying to hold him back but I am trying to take my chances and go for the win.
Obviously, there is mutual respect there but is there going to be any trash-talking before the match?
Oh yeah, no doubt…
Can we start that now?
I think that maybe I should wait just a few more months.
Finally, thanks for talking to us and do you have a message for him?
Well, I’m actually playing him in a week, so if I have a message for him I would like to deliver it over the board.
Out now – Tactics Training: Fabiano Caruana >>
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Leon is a national newspaper journalist from London, England. He is an avid chess fan, and writes regularly about the game. Apart from chess, he loves cricket, Tottenham Hotspur FC and spending time with his son. |
10 March Madness oddities that could actually happen this year
By Neil Greenberg
The unpredictable nature of March Madness is part of its allure, and while we have seen a lot of surprising performances over the years, there are certain scenarios we have never before seen.
Earlier this month, Mike LoPresti highlighted 30 things that have never happened during March Madness. Here is a look at how likely some of these are to appear in the 2019 NCAA Tournament.
North Carolina and Duke meet in the NCAA Tournament
The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have been a part of 34 tournaments together but have never faced off during March Madness. The only way it happens this year is if the two make it all the way to the national title game in Minneapolis.
That isn't too far fetched. Duke, in the East, is the top seed in the tournament and North Carolina is a No. 1 seed in the Midwest, giving this match up a five percent chance of finally happening in 2019.
Three No. 1 seeds ousted in the first week
From 2011 to 2017, only one No. 1 seed per tournament was ousted before the Sweet 16. Last year two, Virginia and Xavier, were bounced by the end of the Round of 32.
This year's top seeds are all highly likely to make the Sweet 16 but it's not completely out of the question three of the four No. 1 seeds fall before then. Duke is the most vulnerable (16 percent chance of not making a Sweet 16 appearance) followed by North Carolina (12 percent), Gonzaga (8 percent) and Virginia (6 percent). Still, three of those four lose in the opening weekend less than one percent of the time.
A No. 16 seed gets to the second week
No. 16 UMBC shocked everyone last season with its stunning upset of No. 1 Virginia and now it's time for a No. 16 seed to win not one but two games during the tournament. Think it can't happen? You're probably right, but it's not impossible.
No. 16 Gardner Webb has the best chance at 0.11 percent, or 940-to-1 odds against. Iona is 1,100 to 1, North Dakota State is 1,300-to-1 and Fairleigh Dickinson is 2,300 to 1 to make it that far.
The No. 1 seed plays a 15 or 14 seed
The only way we see this matchup is in the Elite Eight or later. No. 14 Yale is the only team close to having a one percent chance to make it to the Elite Eight (0.7 percent), making the odds of a Duke-Yale matchup approximately 200 to 1 against. And that's the most likely scenario.
An Elite Eight without a single No. 1 seed
Since 2011, 19 out of 32 No. 1 seeds have made an appearance in the Elite Eight. Top seeds Duke, North Carolina, Virginia and Gonzaga each have a 60 percent chance or better to make this year's Elite Eight, but the chances of none of them surviving that far is less than one percent (0.9 percent).
A team seeded lower than No. 11 plays in the Final Four
A No. 11 seed has made the Final Four four times (Loyola in 2018, Virginia Commonwealth in 2011, George Mason in 2006 and LSU in 1986) but the best finish of a No. 12 seed or higher is No. 12 Missouri in 2002, making it to the Elite Eight. No. 12 New Mexico State has the best chance among this group, but I used the term "chance" loosely: the Aggies have a 0.22 percent chance to appear in this year's Final Four. No. 12 Oregon has the next best chance at 0.16 percent.
Tennessee makes it to the Final Four
The Volunteers will be making their 22nd appearance in the NCAA Tournament but have never ventured further than the Elite Eight. Only five other schools have that many trips to the Big Dance without a Final Four appearance, and there is a 24 percent chance Tennessee leaves them all behind.
A No. 5 seed wins the national championship
A No. 5 seed has made the finals three times — Florida in 2000, Indiana in 2002 and Butler in 2010 — yet none have been able to cut down the nets. Auburn is the most-likely No. 5 seed to break through this year (0.6 percent) followed by Wisconsin (0.4 percent), Mississippi State (0.2 percent) and Marquette (0.03 percent).
A team seeded No. 9 or lower plays in the national championship game
Villanova, a No. 8 seed in 1985, is the worst seed to ever win a national title. Saint Mary's, a No. 11 seed this year, has the best chance of inheriting the mantle (0.2 percent), which makes them a 400-to-1 shot. No. 10 Florida, No. 11 Ohio State, No. 10 Iowa and No. 11 Belmont each have 0.1 percent chances to play for the NCAA title in 2019.
A coach wins the national championship past the age of 70
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has guided his team to 34 NCAA Tournaments, 12 Final Fours and five championships: 1991, 1992, 2001, 2010 and 2015. He turned 72 years old on Feb. 13 and has a 15 chance to win a championship in 2019.
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Dr. Matthias Erb, effective January 1, 2022, has been appointed chairman of the Executive Board of ARRI. The announcement was made by the Supervisory Board of the global film technology company. With this addition, the Executive Board will once again, as in 2019, consist of three members.
In addition to his duties as chairman of the Executive Board, Dr. Matthias Erb is responsible for the strategic alignment of the business along with the Finance, HR, Legal, and Quality Management departments. Dr. Michael Neuhaeuser will continue to focus on operations and technology. Markus Zeiler will continue to oversee business and sales.
The new configuration will ensure that the members of the Executive Board can focus even more intensively on their respective areas while facilitating the further development of technologies and business models.
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joerg Bullinger, chairman of the Supervisory Board at ARRI, explains: “ARRI has already taken successful steps in the transformation from the analog to the digital age and has achieved record sales in 2021 despite the coronavirus pandemic. However, virtualization in our target markets will continue to advance and bring about changes to which we must adapt and, as market leaders, want to help shape proactively. Therefore, we will continue to work intensively on the future alignment of the company. On behalf of the Supervisory Board, I wish Dr. Matthias Erb a good start and great success with these complex and diverse challenges.”
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DHL delivers to over 220 countries and territories worldwide.
UPS delivers to over 200 countries and territories worldwide.
4.4) DHL has faster delivery times than UPS.
DHL's average delivery time is 1-3 days for most destinations worldwide. UPS's average delivery time is 2-5 days for most destinations worldwide.
4.5) DHL is more reliable than UPS.
DHL has a better on-time delivery record than UPS. In a recent study, DHL had an on-time delivery rate of 96%, while UPS had an on-time delivery rate of 93%.
5) DHL vs UPS: Services offered by them
5.1) Services offered by DHL
Next Day Air Delivery
DHL offers next-day air delivery to major cities in over 220 countries and territories worldwide.
Time Definite Delivery
DHL offers guaranteed delivery within 1-3 days to over 190 countries and territories worldwide.
Economy Delivery
DHL's economy service is perfect for customers who are not in a hurry to receive their shipments. This service has an average delivery time of 5-7 days to over 190 countries and territories worldwide.
5.2) Services offered by UPS
UPS offers next-day air delivery to major cities in over 220 countries and territories worldwide.
UPS guarantees delivery within 1-3 days to over 190 countries and territories worldwide.
Economic Delivery
UPS's economy service has an average delivery time of 5-7 days to over 190 countries and territories worldwide. This service is perfect for customers who are not in a hurry to receive their shipment.
6) DHL vs UPS: Which is cheaper?
Comparing the prices of DHL and UPS is not an easy task, as many factors can affect the cost of shipping, such as destination, weight, and shipping method. However, DHL is typically cheaper for international shipments, while UPS is usually cheaper for domestic shipments.
The average shipping charge of DHL for domestic orders is Rs. 891, while the average shipping charge of UPS is Rs. 814. For international orders, the average shipping charge of DHL is Rs. 2519, while the average shipping charge of UPS is Rs. 2713.
7) DHL vs UPS: Which has better customer service?
Both DHL and UPS offer excellent customer service, but UPS is typically considered to have better customer service than DHL. UPS delivers more features and services that are designed to make the shipping process easier for customers, such as tracking and insurance.
UPS also has a more extensive network of locations than DHL, making it easier for customers to find a location of their convinence to drop off their shipments or pick up their packages.
UPS offers a money-back guarantee for its services, while DHL does not. It means that customers can feel confident that they will be satisfied with the service they receive from UPS.
8) DHL vs UPS: Which is faster?
DHL and UPS are both well-known for their speed and efficiency in shipping. However, UPS is generally considered to be faster than DHL. UPS offers more features that help speed up the shipping process, such as tracking and insurance. UPS also has a more extensive network of locations than DHL, making it easier for customers to find a convenient location to drop off their shipments or pick up their packages.
The average delivery time for domestic UPS shipments is 2-3 days, while the average delivery time for DHL shipments is 3-4 days. However, it is important to note that UPS does not guarantee delivery times, while DHL does. It means that if your shipment is delayed, you may be able to get a refund from DHL but not from UPS.
9) DHL vs UPS: Which is more reliable?
Both DHL and UPS are reliable shipping companies. However, UPS is generally considered to be more reliable than DHL. It is because UPS has a better track record for on-time deliveries and lost or damaged packages.
UPS is also better at tracking packages. UPS uses cutting-edge technology to track packages, while DHL relies on manual systems. If you want to know where your package is, you're more likely to get accurate information from UPS than from DHL. All these factors make UPS more reliable than DHL.
10) Positives and Negatives of DHL
DHL has its fair share of advantages and disadvantages. It is important to be aware of these before deciding which shipping company to use.
10.1) Positives of DHL
DHL is one of the largest shipping companies in the world. It means that it has a vast network and can ship to more destinations than most shipping companies.
DHL is faster than many other shipping companies. DHL Express promises to deliver packages within 1-3 days to most major destinations worldwide.
DHL offers a wide range of services. It means that you can find a service that meets your specific needs. For example, DHL's "time definite" service guarantees that your package will be delivered by a certain time.
10.2) Negatives of DHL
DHL can be more expensive than other shipping companies. DHL offers a wide range of services and has a large network.
DHL is not available in all countries. It means that you may not be able to ship to all destinations with DHL.
11) Positives and negatives of UPS
11.1) Positives of UPS
UPS is one of the largest shipping companies in the world. It means that it has a vast network and can ship to more destinations than most shipping companies.
UPS is faster than many other shipping companies. UPS Express promises to deliver packages within 1-3 days to most major destinations worldwide.
UPS offers a wide range of services. You can find a service that meets your specific shipping needs.
UPS is a reliable shipping company. You can trust UPS to deliver your packages on time and in good condition.
11.2) Negatives of UPS
UPS is more expensive than some other shipping companies. It means that it may not be the best option if you are on a tight budget.
UPS has been known to lose or damage packages. While this is not a common occurrence, it is something to be aware of.
12) Conclusion on DHL vs UPS
Both DHL and UPS are reliable shipping companies. They hold a great reputation in the shipping industry. However, DHL is a more affordable option and offers a wider range of services. If you are on a budget or need a specific type of shipping service, then DHL may be the better choice. However, if you are looking for a reliable company with a good track record, UPS may be the better option. Both companies have their equal share of advantages and disadvantages, so it comes down to your specific needs. We hope that this DHL vs UPS comparison has helped you decide which company is right for you. |
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Obesity Continues to Rise Among Americans, Says CDC
Published Wed, Jul 8 200910:46 AM EDT Updated Fri, Sep 13 20134:33 PM EDT
Obesity among US adults continues to rise according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control. The report says that obesity prevalence is 25 percent or higher in 32 states.
The proportion of U.S. adults who are obese increased to 26.1 percent in 2008 compared to 25.6 percent in 2007, according to the report. The data come from CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a state-based phone survey that collects health information from adults aged 18 and over.
In six states - Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia - adult obesity prevalence was 30 percent or more. Thirty-two states, including those six, had obesity prevalence of 25 percent or more.
Only one state, Colorado, had a prevalence of obesity less than 20 percent. But no state showed a significant decrease in obesity prevalence from 2007 to 2008.
More than 400,000 U.S. adults were surveyed in the 2008 BRFSS. To assess obesity prevalence, survey respondents are asked to provide their height and weight, which is used to calculate their body mass index (BMI). A person is considered obese if they have a BMI of 30 or above.
"Obesity is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. As obesity increases among all age groups, we are seeing chronic diseases in much younger adults compared to a few decades ago," said Dr. William Dietz, director, CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity.
"For example, we now see young adults who suffer from heart disease risk factors and other conditions such as type 2 diabetes that were unheard of in the past," said Dietz.
The 2008 BRFSS obesity data indicate that none of the 50 states or the District of Columbia has achieved the Healthy People 2010 goal of reducing obesity prevalence to 15 percent or less.
"The latest BRFSS survey data show that the obesity problem in this country is getting worse," said Liping Pan, CDC epidemiologist and lead author of the 2008 BRFSS obesity map analysis. "If this trend continues we will likely see increases in health care costs for obesity related diseases." |
CNBC Program Change for 10/25
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India's trajectory of spending on US defense equipment will continue, expert predicts
Published Mon, Jun 26 20175:22 PM EDT Updated Mon, Jun 26 20176:38 PM EDT
Michelle Fox@MFoxCNBC
India is planning to invest over "a quarter of a trillion dollars" on defense in the next few years, the president of the U.S.-India Business Council told CNBC.
"The last couple of years India has become one of the largest buyers of U.S. defense equipment, roughly $15 billion. I believe this trajectory will continue," Mukesh Aghi said.
In addition to meeting with President Donald Trump, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with U.S. CEOs, earning rave reviews.
India likely to continue trajectory of buying US defense equipment: Expert
India is planning to invest over "a quarter of a trillion dollars" on defense in the next few years, and it will likely continue to turn to the U.S. to buy its materials, the president of the U.S.-India Business Council told CNBC on Monday.
"The last couple of years India has become one of the largest buyers of U.S. defense equipment, roughly $15 billion. I believe this trajectory will continue," Mukesh Aghi said in an interview with "Closing Bell."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had his first face-to-face talks with President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon.
The encounter comes days after the Trump administration authorized the sale of unarmed surveillance drones to India, according to the manufacturer, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they begin a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on June 26, 2017.
Carlos Barria | Reuters
India initiated its request to buy 22 Guardian MQ-9B unmanned aircraft for maritime surveillance last year. The deal is estimated to be worth about $2 billion. The transaction is still subject to congressional approval.
Since 2008, India has signed U.S. defense contracts for things like C-130J and C-17 transport aircraft, P-81 maritime patrol aircraft, Harpoon missiles, and Apache and Chinook helicopters.
Defense spending isn't the only topic presumably at the table between the two leaders. Immigration and the hotly contested H-1B program may also be discussed.
The prime minister also spent time with U.S. CEOs during his visit, meeting with high-profile leaders on Sunday and earning rave reviews.
CEO Tim Cook and Amazon
CEO Jeff Bezos were among those in attendance. When CNBC asked Cook how the meeting went, he responded by saying "fantastic."
Rick Rossow, senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told CNBC the corporate relationships may somewhat overshadow the one between the two governments.
The two countries "haven't been able to find common ground," he said in an interview with "Closing Bell."
"But CEOs are still investing. India's the largest destination for foreign investment in the world this year. It's becoming one of America's largest trading partners," he added.
Companies that would benefit from a growing trade relationship with India would be ones that the Indian or its key state governments have highlighted, said Rossow.
"Right now they have really liberalized the oil and gas sector, they've liberalized coal production. They're also undertaking a massive renovation of the broke electric power grid. So if you're a company that sells electric power equipment or related services, you've got a great opportunity out there," he said.
— CNBC's Seema Mody and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
WATCH: US missile defense agency takes out ballistic missile in live-fire test
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Satellite photos show work on North Korean site linked to long-range missiles
Published Sun, Dec 22 20193:23 PM EST Updated Sun, Dec 22 20193:26 PM EST
Ken Dilanian
North Korea has expanded a factory linked to the production of long-range nuclear missiles, according to a new analysis of satellite photos provided to NBC News.
Commercial satellite images from Planet Labs show a temporary structure at the site to accommodate the raising of a launcher arm, according to Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program.
"There is activity at a number of locations indicating that North Korea is laying the groundwork for an expansion of their ICBM program — more systems, more buildings, more capabilities," Lewis said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiles as he guides missile testing at an unidentified location in North Korea, in this undated image provided by KCNA on August 7, 2019.
KCNA via Reuters
North Korea has expanded a factory linked to the production of long-range nuclear missiles, according to a new analysis of satellite photos provided to NBC News that bolsters a growing expectation the country soon will resume testing a capability that threatens the United States.
Commercial satellite images from Planet Labs show a temporary structure at the site to accommodate the raising of a launcher arm, according to Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
"We believe North Korea erects this structure when the facility is involved in producing or modifying ICBM launchers," Lewis concluded in a written analysis, using the acronym for intercontinental ballistic missiles.
North Korea has expanded the March 16 Factory in Pyongsong, a facility associated with the production and modification of ICBM launchers. The March 16 Factory produces both military and civilian vehicles. Russian truck maker KamAZ began participated in a joint venture from November 2006-2010 at the facility to produce to produce civilian vehicles.
This is one of many pieces of evidence pointing in one direction, Lewis added in an interview with NBC News.
"There is activity at a number of locations indicating that North Korea is laying the groundwork for an expansion of their ICBM program — more systems, more buildings, more capabilities," he said.
The new evidence comes as U.S. military and intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that North Korea is poised to conduct a long-range missile test in the next few days or weeks, an act that would signal the final breakdown of diplomatic talks that President Donald Trump has hailed as a signature foreign policy achievement.
Kim Jong Un's regime has recently warned of an imminent "Christmas gift," to the United States, and the U.S. Air Force's top general in the Asia-Pacific region said last week he believes that "gift" could be the test of a long-range ballistic missile.
Commercial imagery taken by Planet Labs shows that North Korea began expanding the site shortly after Kim's visit in June, including constructing a new building that is connected to the one where Kim Jong Un witnessed preparations for the Hwasong-15 launch in 2017.
The country halted nuclear and long-range missiles tests in 2017 in the wake of diplomatic talks with the United States that included two summit meetings between Kim and Trump. But in recent months no progress has been apparent.
"What I would expect is some kind of long-range ballistic missile would be the 'gift,'" Gen. Charles Brown, head of Pacific Air Forces, told reporters Dec. 17. "Does it come on Christmas Eve? Does it come on Christmas Day? Does it come after the new year? One of my responsibilities is to pay attention to that."
The Air Force will be prepared to respond to a missile launch, Brown said, without being specific. "There's a lot of stuff we did in 2017 that we can dust off fairly quickly and be ready to use," he said.
The facility flagged by Lewis and his team is known as the March 16 Factory, and it produces both military and civilian vehicles. Russian truck maker KamAZ began participating in a joint venture at the facility to produce to produce civilian vehicles from November 2006 to 2010, Lewis said.
Kim Jong Un visited the facility in August 2017. Although North Korea presented the trucks he viewed as civilian vehicles, the same type of trucks were seen in military parades in 2017 and 2018 transporting ICBMs, Lewis said.
Kim visited the factory again in December 2017 to watch preparations for the launch of a Hwasong-15 ICBM. North Korean tests of mobile missiles tend to be conducted from factories involved in the production of the launcher.
Kim appears to have visited part of the facility a third time in June 2019, Lewis says, and commercial imagery taken by Planet Labs shows that North Korea began expanding the site shortly after that visit. Among the additions was a new building that is connected to the one where Kim witnessed preparations for the Hwasong-15 launch in 2017.
"An expansion of the plant increases its capability to produce trucks for both civilian and military use," Lewis wrote. "Until now, North Korea's limited ability to produce heavy-duty vehicle chassis has been a constraint on the development of a survivable intercontinental-range ballistic missile program. The expansion of this facility may represent an increase in North Korea's ability to produce domestic missile launchers and expand it ICBM force."
When North Korea conducted a series of long-range missile tests in 2017, Trump threatened the nation with "fire and fury." If it resumes the tests, Trump will find himself, as every recent president has, with no palatable choices. A military strike against the North risks a war that could cost hundreds of thousands of South Korean lives.
"The only option is to accept the reality that North Korea is a nuclear-armed state that holds the U.S. at risk," Lewis said. "The Trump administration had an opportunity, and I think they've blown it."
Kim was never willing to disarm, Lewis said, but he may have been prepared to "have those weapons recede from view, stop testing, stop showing them off at parades, stop threatening people with them."
But Trump insisted that North Korea would have to give up its weapons entirely, something the U.S. intelligence community has assessed as extremely unlikely.
Trump appeared to make a direct appeal to Kim earlier this month, when he tweeted: "Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way. He does not want to void his special relationship with the President of the United States or interfere with the U.S. Presidential Election in November. North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, has tremendous economic potential, but it must denuclearize as promised."
Trump's special envoy, Stephen Biegun, on a visit to South Korea this month urged the North back to the negotiating table.
"Let me speak directly to our counterparts in North Korea," he said. "It is time for us to do our jobs. Let's get this done. We are here, and you know how to reach us." |
Joe Biden gets endorsement from Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti
Published Thu, Jan 9 20206:17 PM EST
The endorsement of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti gives Biden another high-profile supporter as he tries to demonstrate a wide base of support across the party.
Garcetti's decision comes Iess than a month before voting begins with the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses and less than two months before the California primary.
The mayor could be an important surrogate for Biden in California. That state has more than 400 delegates at stake on March 3.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
Steve Marcus | Reuters
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is endorsing Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, giving the former vice president another high-profile supporter as he tries to demonstrate a wide base of support across the party.
Garcetti's decision comes Iess than a month before voting begins with the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses and less than two months before the California primary. The Biden campaign confirmed Garcetti's decision, which was first reported by The New York Times.
The mayor could be an important surrogate for Biden in California. That state has more than 400 delegates at stake on March 3. That's about 20% of the 2,000 or so that will be necessary to win the nomination. Garcetti also has previously traveled the country in his own right, proving a popular speaker and fundraiser for state and local Democratic organizations.
With his decision to back Biden, Garcetti spurns two former mayors in the field, Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, and Michael Bloomberg of New York City. Garcetti has called Buttigieg one of his close friends. Buttigieg has raised considerable sums from California donors, including some in Garcetti's political network.
The timing is a blow for Buttigieg, who heads to Los Angeles on Friday. Instead of enjoying the city's ample media spotlight on his own terms, he'll arrive as a popular mayor opts to back the 77-year-old former vice president whom Buttigieg wants to displace as the choice for more moderate, establishment Democrats.
Garcetti's endorsement of Biden, who has spent four decades in national politics, demonstrates his style as an able establishment player. It is, however, somewhat at odds with the arguments he made in late 2017 when he was openly flirting with his own national campaign. In interviews and speeches, he often framed Washington as hopelessly partisan and mired in gridlock and instead pointed to the nation's cities and their mayors as models for solving problems and helping voters.
Garcetti and Biden's relationship goes back years. Garcetti was an early supporter of the presidential bid of Barack Obama, under whom Biden served as vice president.
In 2014, Biden praised a Garcetti proposal for boosting the city's minimum wage and attended a roundtable with him in the city. At a 2018 event sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, Biden called Garcetti "a great guy who has real character" and "understands what the future looks like."
They've also eaten together, munching tacos near downtown Los Angeles last year.
Garcetti's political website features a photo of him shaking hands with Biden above the caption "Thank you, Joe Biden," along with a letter thanking him for his service as vice president. |
2021 Harley-Davidson Pan America Special review: A shockingly great first effort
The Pan Am may be Harley's first take on the adventure bike segment, but with great looks and a host of innovative features, it's already one of the most interesting entries in its class.
Kyle Hyatt
Kyle Hyatt Former news and features editor
Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific Northwest, but has long called Los Angeles home. He's had a lifelong obsession with cars and motorcycles (both old and new).
The Pan America somehow looks like a Harley-Davidson and a world-class adventure bike all at once.
Kyle Hyatt/Roadshow
Harley-Davidson, that most American of brands, is now entering the high-stakes world of high-tech adventure motorcycles. On the surface, that might seem strange. But here's the thing: The Pan America is good. In fact, it borders on brilliant.
While most Harley engines are big, low-revving torque factories, the new-from-the-ground-up Revolution Max engine takes a totally different approach. This 1,250-cc mill produces 150 horsepower and 94 pound-feet of torque with a 9,500-rpm redline. Those figures are impressive on their own, but they don't tell the whole story.
The all-new Revolution 1250 Max is liquid-cooled, and has variable valve timing and hydraulic valve adjusters, making it the lowest-maintenance engine in its class.
The Revolution Max motor differs from other H-D powerplants in a bunch of different ways. First, it's liquid-cooled, which isn't a first for the brand, but it's still not typical. It's also a stressed member of the chassis, which helps increase the motorcycle's stiffness while also reducing weight. It has dual overhead cams with hydraulic valve lifters that never need adjustment and also uses variable cam timing.
The Pan America features a six-speed transmission that has Teflon coatings on its internal shift shafts and low-friction roller bearings. This helps reduce drivetrain power losses and improve shift feel. It works, too, because the Pan America gearbox feels good. The clutch is a wet, multiplate unit. One of the only disappointments with the powertrain comes from the lack of a quickshifter, something that is standard equipment on most of the Pan Am's competition.
The next-- and maybe the best -- feature of the Pan America Special model is its electronically adjustable semiactive suspension. I've ridden many bikes with some very competent suspension systems from the likes of WP and Ohlins, and this might be the most comfortable setup out of them all. Plus, the bike lowers itself at a stop to make it easier to put your feet flat on the ground, which is totally rad for smaller riders who might struggle to get two feet on the ground with a typically tall adventure bike. The rest of the Pan Am's physical hardware is top-notch, as well. The brakes come courtesy of Brembo and feature dual 320-millimeter rotors up front with a single 280-millimeter rotor out back. The rest of the ergonomics are typical for the Pan Am's class, which is to say relaxed and upright, with wide handlebars and good wind protection.
The dash is a little less sophisticated visually than its European counterparts, but the info is all there and you can tilt it!
The combined effect of the powertrain and chassis make for an incredibly comfortable and compelling motorcycle, both in town and up in the canyons. It's sharp and rowdy when you want it to be but relaxed and easy when you want to putter around or crack off a thousand-mile ride. Adventure motorcycles are generally pretty good at straddling the line between sporty and comfortable, and the Harley definitely feels like a do-it-all bike.
Adventure bikes are known for having sophisticated electronics suites, and the Pan America doesn't disappoint here, either. In addition to the previously mentioned semiactive suspension, the Pan Am also gets electronically linked, lean-sensitive antilock brakes, where the computer will automatically apply the rear brake when you apply the front. Additionally, the Pan Am has traction control, a host of ride modes, cruise control, wheelie control, hill hold control and a tire pressure monitoring system. All of these systems work well and are easy to configure through the bike's TFT dash screen.
All of these features make the Harley a real competitor for the likes of BMW's R1250GS, Ducati's Multistrada V4 and Triumph's Tiger 1200 while offering unique styling, a robust dealer network and significantly lower maintenance costs. The Pan Am isn't a cheap motorcycle to buy, particularly in the top-tier Special trim pictured here. Still, the maintenance-free valves should make it significantly more affordable to own than other bikes in the class.
The 2022 Harley-Davidson Pan America starts at $17,319, but I wouldn't even bother with the base model. For what you get in the suspension alone, the $19,999 Pan America Special is the one I recommend. If you're looking for one motorcycle for your garage that's going to let you do basically anything, you could do a whole lot worse than the Pan America.
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MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini run on Apple's self-designed M1 silicon
The company has integrated its first chips for Macs across its computer lineup. And the devices sport long battery life.
Shara Tibken
Nov. 10, 2020 11:30 a.m. PT
Shara Tibken Former managing editor
Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a team covering tech policy, EU tech, mobile and the digital divide. She previously covered mobile as a senior reporter at CNET and also wrote for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. Shara is a native Midwesterner who still prefers "pop" over "soda."
The new MacBook Air features Apple's first processor for its computers, the M1.
Apple's long breakup with Intel is official. The tech giant on Tuesday unveiled its first Mac computers that use Apple's own silicon -- the MacBook Air, Mac Mini and 13-inch MacBook Pro. The devices all sport improved battery life and either cost the same or less than their Intel-powered older siblings.
The computers' designs are essentially the same but feature something very different inside: Apple's new M1 processor. The MacBook Air will start at $999 for the general public -- the same price as the older version -- or $899 for educators. The Mac Mini will retail for $699, which is $100 lower than the previous generation. And the MacBook Pro will start at $1,299, or $1,199 for educators, the same level as before. Preorders begin Tuesday, and the computers arrive Nov. 17.
"The Mac is having its best year ever," Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the event. "More customers than ever are choosing the Mac."
The computers use Apple's new M1 processor. It's based on 5-nanometer technology, the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology in the world. The M1 has an eight-core CPU -- four performance and four efficiency cores -- and an eight-core GPU, making it both powerful and battery efficient, said Johny Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies. It's twice as powerful as a rival laptop chip (likely one from Intel) while consuming a quarter of the battery life, he said.
The MacBook Air has 15-hour battery life for wireless web browsing and 18 hours for movie playback, while the 13-inch MacBook Pro can surf the internet for 17 hours on a single charge or play back video for 20 hours -- 10 hours longer than its predecessor.
And Apple customized Mac OS Big Sur "to fully take advantage of all the capability and power of M1," said Apple's head of software, Craig Federighi. The software is available for Mac users Thursday.
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Apple made the announcement during its third event in the past three months. The tagline for the latest launch was "One More Thing." It followed September's introduction of the revamped iPad Air and Apple Watch Series 6 and October's unveiling of the iPhone 12 lineup.
Apple silicon for Macs is the latest effort by the company to control all of the hardware and software on its products. It designs its own application processors that act as the brains of its iPhones and iPads, a Bluetooth chip that quickly links its AirPods to its iPhones, and security chips that protect personal data and biometrics from hacking attempts. By designing its own chips, Apple is able to better control the features it releases, as well as better manage the timeline for introducing new devices.
"With the move to in-house capabilities, Apple is looking to regain control over the pace of the technology road map on the processor chips, and create a common architecture across all Apple products, making it easier for developers to write and optimize applications for the product ecosystem," JPMorgan analyst Samik Chatterjee noted.
Apple's breakup with Intel
Apple has used Intel chips in its computers for over a decade, when it moved away from its previous partner, IBM. That decision changed the PC industry and helped Intel become the world's dominant computer chipmaker. But Intel has stumbled in recent years. It has struggled to move to the highest-end processor technology, and it abandoned its efforts in mobile chips and sold its 5G phone modem business to Apple last year. At the same time, Apple's been working on processors to replace Intel's chips in Mac computers for several years.
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Losing Apple as a customer will deal a big blow to Intel but will give Apple more control over the features and release date of its computers. While Macs make up only a small percentage of the total PC market -- 8.5 percent in the third quarter, according to IDC -- Apple remains one of the biggest and most powerful companies in technology. Macs tend to command higher prices than Windows-based PCs, and while many PC companies have seen their market share slide, Apple's has been rising.
The new Apple silicon-based computers are expected to have a big advantage over Intel machines when it comes to battery life. They will also go up against new Windows machines that have been designed to be more like mobile devices. Qualcomm has partnered with Microsoft and PC makers like Asus to create what it calls always-on PCs, but the devices haven't sold in huge numbers. They may have great battery life and constant connectivity, but they haven't been able to match the performance of processors from Intel and AMD.
Apple's newest Macs come as millions of people around the globe upgrade their computers for working or learning from home. Laptops have been selling well across the board. In the third quarter, global notebook and mobile workstation shipments soared 28% from the previous year, helping push overall PC shipments up 13% to 79.2 million units, according to Canalys. Shipments reached levels not seen since 2011, the firm said.
While Apple has updated three of its computers, its highest-end Macs are sticking with Intel chips, at least for now.
The revamped Mac lineup
The new MacBook Air is three times faster than the best-selling Windows laptop on the market and is faster than 98% of all PCs notebooks sold in the past year, said Laura Metz, Mac product line manager. It sports a 13.3-inch retina display and doesn't need a fan to cool the machine.
"With M1 and Big Sur, we've taken the MacBook Air and transformed it into something far beyond any other notebook," she said.
Apple's first computers with its M1 processor are the MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro and Mac Mini.
The Air contains a 49.9-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery and comes with a 30-watt USB-C power adapter. There are two versions of the computer, with the higher-end product retailing for $1,249. And it's available in three colors: gold, silver and space gray.
The Pro and the Air are similar to each other. Both have two Thunderbolt/USB 4 ports and a 3.5mm headphone jack. They come with 8GB of RAM and can be upgraded to 16GB, and the solid state drives start at 256GB and can be configured up to 2TB. Both machines also have 720p FaceTime HD cameras and TouchID sensors to unlock them.
The Pro has a slightly better screen, better speakers, bigger battery (58.2-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery) that boosts the battery life by two hours over the Air, and comes with a 61-watt USB-C power adapter. It's slightly heavier than the Air, weighing 3 pounds versus the Air's 2.8 pounds.
It comes in silver or space gray options, and the higher-end version retails for $1,499. The Intel versions of the MacBook Pro cost $1,799 and $1,999.
The Mac Mini, meanwhile, also comes in two versions, for $699 and $899. It packs in 8GB of RAM that's configurable up to 16GB, and the SSD starts at 256GB and goes up to 2TB. The Mini has a built-in speaker, 3.5mm headphone jack, two Thunderbolt/USB-4 ports, two USB-A ports, an HDMI 2.0 and a gigabit ethernet port. The Intel version retails for $1,099.
CNET's Alfred Ng contributed to this report.
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Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (guitars, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitars, backing vocals). They established themselves as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement of the early 1980s. The band's greatest commercial success came between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. Their first album, 1980's On Through the Night, reached the Top 15 in the UK but received little notice elsewhere. Their second album, 1981's High 'n' Dry, was produced by Mutt Lange, who helped them begin to define their melodic, hard rock style, and the album's most popular track "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" became one of the first rock videos played on MTV in 1982, but the album only reached the Top 30 and 40 in the UK and US. Def Leppard's next studio album, Pyromania, was released in January 1983, with "Photograph" and "Rock of Ages" both topping the US Rock Tracks chart and reaching the Top 20 of the Hot 100. Reaching No. 2 on the US album chart, Pyromania was certified Diamond in the US and 7x platinum in Canada and reached the Top 20 in the UK but did not sell much elsewhere. |
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SSG Eric Myers, his wife and his daughter, were given the keys to their new home in Linden, North Carolina. The smart home was built as part of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers’ Building for America’s Bravest program which builds smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and incorporates technology that will make day to day living more manageable for SSG Myers.
Myers had served ten years in the military, and was deployed in Afghanistan as a field artilleryman with the 82 Airborne Division, when he stepped on an IED. He suffered serious injuries as a result of the explosion - the loss of both legs above the knee, one finger, and forearm nerve damage.
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New Chapter 11 Filing – Life Settlements Absolute Return I, LLC
Life Settlements Absolute Return I, LLC, a special purpose vehicle investing in life insurance policies, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, has filed a petition for relief under Chapter 11 in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (Lead Case No. 17-13030). The Debtors estimate their assets to be between $10,000,001 and $50 million and their liabilities to be between $100,000,001 and $500 million. According to the First Day Declaration, the chapter 11 cases are the result of insureds living beyond their actuarial life expectancies, which has led to an unexpected delay in policy payouts and the Debtors’ need for additional capital. The Debtors have requested that the Court authorize them to use their cash collateral, noting their need to continue paying the premiums on their life insurance policies – their only significant assets – to preserve the value of their estates. The Debtors have not proposed a claims agent. The cases have been assigned to the Honorable Mary F. Walrath.
Contact Norman L. Pernick or Nicholas J. Brannick for more information regarding this matter. Please note, however, that Cole Schotz P.C. does not represent the debtors in these cases and cannot respond to questions directed toward the debtors. |
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Self Storage Less Vulnerable to Economic Disruptions
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After a long tenure of negative performance, street-rate rents for standard non-climate-controlled units remained unchanged year-over-year.
Self Storage Under Construction & Planned Percent of Existing Inventory
With continued demand and improving street rates, March proved to be a positive month for the storage industry. After several consecutive quarters of negative rent performance, national street rates for the 10×10 non-climate-controlled units remained unchanged year-over-year at $116. Street rates for 10×10 climate-controlled units, however, declined by 1.4 percent on an annual basis. Las Vegas was the best-performing metro in terms of rent growth—over the past 12 months, rates were up 2.9 percent for the standard climate-controlled units and 1.9 percent for non-climate-controlled units of similar size.
Although the coronavirus outbreak has burdened the economy and all the facets of the real estate business, self storage, compared to other asset types, appears to be less vulnerable to economic disruptions. RENTCafé data shows that the amount of weekly storage listing views, for the week of March 15, increased 81 percent compared to the first week of 2020, showing potential interest in self storage. According to Beyond Self Storage, demand for storage units was underscored by the abrupt closing of colleges and universities, urging students to move out. Nonetheless, the full impact of the outbreak on all the aspects of the storage industry, from the operations side to development to consumer demand, will be clearer in the coming months.
Nationally, units under construction and in the planning stages accounted for 8.9 percent of existing stock, representing a 30-basis-point growth month-over-month. However, the COVID-19 crisis is likely to cause a slowdown in development, as projects under construction and in the planning stages are expected to experience delays due to nationwide lockdowns. Yardi Matrix forecasts deliveries to drop by 40 percent over the next five years.
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"Jacobson's account of Finlandia is huge...and stupendous; the pedals - skull and rafter rattling."
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"Jacobson delivered a sparkling performance of Dupré’s Three Preludes and Fugues, Op. 7”
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“…both 'Hosannas' thunder climactically, well served by organist Christopher Jacobson at the Schoenstein organ of First-Plymouth Congregational church, Lincoln NE.”
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Duke University Chapel Organist and Organist at Duke Divinity School, Christopher Jacobson, FRCO, is active as a versatile concert organist, conductor, accompanist, guest clinician, and teacher. At Duke he founded and directs the Duke Evensong Singers in services and concerts, oversees the training of the Chapel’s organ scholars, and plays the organ for over 150 services each year.
As a soloist, Mr. Jacobson has presented organ recitals across North America, Europe, and Australia. His recordings appear on the Dutch record label Pentatone Classics both as an organ soloist and accompanist. He has won top prizes in numerous organ competitions, including the National Young Artist Competition of the American Guild of Organists, the Miami International Organ Competition, and the John R. Rodland Competition in sacred music. In addition to maintaining an active recital schedule, he has presented performances of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach across the United States to critical acclaim.
An active ensemble performer Mr. Jacobson is in demand as an accompanist and continuo player. He is a 2017 Grammy-nominated organist for his work with conductor Brian A. Schmidt and the South Dakota Chorale in the world premiere recording of Marcel Tyberg’s two Masses. His work as an accompanist has taken him all over the world working regularly with choirs and orchestras in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Recent engagements have included performing and recording at Victoria Hall with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva, Switzerland, and with early music ensembles including Three Notch’d Road in Charlottesville, Virginia.
One of the few Americans to hold the Fellowship Diploma from the Royal College of Organists (FRCO), Mr. Jacobson is in demand as conductor, organist, and adjudicator, and has led choirs on cathedral residencies in North America and England. Most recently he conducted the Duke Evensong Singers in choral residencies at Gloucester Cathedral and Westminster Abbey in July 2018.
Before moving to Duke Mr. Jacobson was previously Associate Organist and Choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, South Carolina, and Assistant Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Washington National Cathedral where he assisted in the daily training of the choirs of Men and Boys and Men and Girls and playing the organ for numerous services including the State Funeral of President Gerald Ford.
Mr. Jacobson is a 2006 graduate of the Eastman School of Music where he earned the Master of Music degree in Organ Performance and the Sacred Music Diploma. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree with highest distinction in Organ Performance from St. Olaf College. His teachers and mentors have included David Higgs and William Porter at Eastman, and John Ferguson at St. Olaf. Mr. Jacobson is a graduate of Woodberry Forest and the American Boychoir School where he was a treble chorister under James Litton.
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Stars Don't Lie
"The wise people will shine like the brightness of the sky. Those who teach others to live right will shine like stars forever and ever." - Daniel 12:3
The Little Dipper, Big Dipper, Orion’s Belt, The North Star just to name a few. Most of us know these common constellations in the night sky, probably since we were kids. Our parents probably at some point, pointed to the star-filled sky and said, look and learn. To this day I can still always find the Little Dipper when I look up into the vast night sky.
Some of us have even gone on to learn all the many constellations in the stars. Stars are beautiful, stars are innumerable, stars are pretty awesome to watch. If you live in the city it’s harder to enjoy the stars because of all the bright lights, but where I live out in the country I go out each night and stand in awe at the many stars I see and praise God for His creation.
I heard a story of a young boy just starting to drive. He and his older brother, along with a friend, decided to go on a camping trip to a cabin up in the woods, far away from any civilization. It was late at night and they were still on the road and the older boys decided to go to sleep. His older brother told him to just stay on the main road and he wouldn’t get lost. Everything was fine until there came some detour signs. He started following them but soon got very turned around. Waking his brother, they pulled over off the road. The older brother gets out of the car looks both ways then up into the sky. He then tells his younger brother turn this way and drive and then goes back to sleep. A little while later the boy was lost again, pulls the car over and again wakes his brother. The brother again looks both ways and then up to the skies, says turn that way and then goes back to sleep. They reach their destination and now confused the young driver asks his brother how he knew where to go by looking at the sky. His brother said, “Stars don’t lie and when you know your constellations you can always know where to go.”
Stars in the heavens never lie. When we learn about constellations we will always have a map to navigate us to where we need to go to reach our destination. In hearing this story my mind went to another map we have that will lead us to our destination in Heaven with Jesus. This map in known as Bible and all we have to do is read through its pages to learn how to navigate through life, until the Lord returns to take us home to heaven. We don’t have to be scholars or scientists to learn how to read it, all we need is an open communication with God and let Him lead us and we will find our way. So next time you look up into the night sky and see the many constellations remember God created them and He is helping us find our way home. Enjoy the night sky! |
UAMPS Receives Federal Funds for NuScale Reactor Construction
Tue November 03, 2020 - West Edition #23
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The award is for the development and construction of a 720MWe NuScale power plant.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has approved a $1.355 billion cost-share award, allocated over 10 years to a new special purpose entity named the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP), wholly owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS).
The award is for the development and construction of a 720MWe NuScale power plant to be located at DOE's National Laboratory site, and will serve as a funding vehicle to advance the CFPP as funds are appropriated by Congress, UAMPS said. The CFPP will be the first NuScale small modular reactor (SMR) project in the USA.
The award will fund the one-time costs for the first-of-a-kind project, as funds are appropriated by Congress, to reflect what second and subsequent NuScale plants would cost. This will help ensure that the levelized cost of energy target price of $55 MWh can be achieved at a level of risk UAMPS can manage. That price makes the CFPP competitive with other non-intermittent dispatchable energy sources such as combined cycle natural gas plants, but without greenhouse gas emissions. It will ensure long-term affordable energy to UAMPS member participants while avoiding exposure to greenhouse regulation and compliance costs.
DOE said the award also demonstrates its commitment to accelerate the decarbonisation of electrical generation nationwide and globally, and to support stable, carbon-free electrical supply to complement intermittent renewable energy. The project will help maintain U.S. leadership in nuclear innovation and development.
DOE Assistant Secretary Dr Rita Baranwal said the agreement for the CFPP "is a big step forward in helping to lower the risk of first-of-a-kind advanced nuclear technologies like NuScale Power. Global leadership starts at home and this project will be instrumental in the deployment of SMRs around the world".
"We appreciate this tremendous vote of confidence in CFPP by the Department of Energy," said Douglas Hunter, CEO & general manager of UAMPS. "It is entirely appropriate for DOE to help de-risk this first-of-a-kind, next-generation nuclear project. This is a great example of a partnership with DOE to lower the cost of introduction of transformative advanced nuclear technology that will provide affordable, carbon-free electricity all over the country and the world. This project is much bigger than UAMPS itself.
"The ideal world for utility companies and their customers, and the most cost-effective," added Hunter, "are portfolios containing a high percentage of low-cost renewables, backed up by stable, carbon-free nuclear energy that is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year."
The 12 small modular reactors in the project will provide the flexibility to ramp up and down as needed to follow load and complement intermittent renewable supply. Energy from the project will replace electric generation from coal plants that are nearing the end of their life cycles. The CFPP, combined with UAMPS renewable projects, will enable many members to completely decarbonise their energy portfolios.
Electricity from the plant will be distributed to customers of 33 UAMPS member utilities in five states. Other western utilities are expected to join the project in the future. UAMPS, established in 1980 as a project-based consortium, provides a variety of power supply, transmission and other services to its 47 members, which include public power utilities in six western states: Utah, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming.
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Top 150 U.S. Postal Service suppliers get more in FY 2017
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As part of our postal industry practice, we annually compile a list of the Top 150 USPS suppliers based on data received under the Freedom of Information Act.
In FY 2017, USPS spent $13.9 billion on outside purchases and rental payments, an increase of $181 million over last year. The biggest increase went to the top 10 USPS suppliers. That group received a total of $3.9 billion, up $400 million from last year and accounting for 28 percent of the Postal Service’s total spend. The Top 150 suppliers received $9.2 billion, about two-thirds of the agency’s total spend. Only 81 suppliers collected revenues exceeding $25 million in 2017.
As it has since 2002, Federal Express Corporation lands atop the list, this year with $1.61 billion in revenues—about a $68 million drop from its 2016 earnings. FedEx carries package and letter mail for the Postal Service. FedEx’s air cargo network contract with the Postal Service has been extended several times, and the latest extension takes it to September 29, 2024.…
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Federal Express Corporation was the U.S. Postal Service’s largest contractor in fiscal year 2013. The next largest USPS supplier was EnergyUnited, which provides consolidated telecommunication and energy billing services. Military air mail transportation provider Kalitta Air was third. Six of the Postal Service’s top 10 suppliers served the agency’s transportation needs. The Top 150 USPS supplier list is compiled annually by David P. Hendel, a partner in Husch Blackwell LLP’s Government Contracts practice group who focuses on Postal Service contracting matters.
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Life at Meadows goes on as investigation continues
Leonard Hayhurst
COSHOCTON – Beth Winner, a resident of Coshocton Meadows, was stunned Monday when she walked by the Coshocton Metropolitan Housing Authority office to see police tape surrounding the building.
Federal agents with assistance from the Coshocton County Sheriff’s Office removed a large amount of documents as they pursued what was termed a long-term investigation into misappropriation of funds.
While some people looked to see what was going on at the time, the incident seems to have been only a minor disruption in the day-to-day life of the community. On Friday morning, parents were putting their children on a school bus while younger kids rode their bicycles on the sidewalk. It was a day like any other.
Cliff Biggers, board president, said the mission of CMHA will remain serving the public and making sure low-income families have a place to stay that is clean, comfortable and affordable while the staff meets needs to the best of their abilities. He assures residents that benefits and services would not be disrupted by the investigation.
“This type of situation is very stressful, but operation is still number one,” he said.
William Todd Drown, legal counsel for the CMHA board, said the Department of Housing and Urban Development – Office of the Inspector General field office in Cleveland has extended deadlines for filing routine paperwork and would be providing personnel to help CMHA get back on track following the execution of Monday’s search warrant.
Drown also said that confiscated computers would be returned shortly after digital copies of hard drives are made. However, HUD officials and those at the U.S. Attorneys Office have told Drown little about the investigation itself.
Drown confirmed the probe was centered on Executive Director Greg Darr and his employment of certain individuals and the financial management of funds related to the local Resident Council, a Department of Housing and Urban Development mandated organization of local residents which is allocated specified funds for activities, improvements, security and other purposes.
In a special meeting Tuesday, Darr was suspended until further notice without pay and Lisa Mowery, Section 8 Housing Coordinator, was named interim director.
At a meeting on Friday, the board chose to table discussion of how to handle Darr’s accrued sick leave and vacation time until matters settle down from the tumultuous past week. The board approved removing Darr’s name from all accounts and replacing it with Mowery’s.
No decision has been made yet on increasing Mowery’s salary. She is making about $35,000 a year now and Darr, who had been director since 2001, was making $88,000 annually.
CMHA provides services to about 700 individuals through public housing and Section 8 housing vouchers for rentals through private landlords. It has 131 units at the Meadows, 23 units at Parkview for those 62 and older and can issue up to 253 housing vouchers based on available funding.
Drown said there is a certain degree of human dignity tied into having a roof over your head and there are many in Coshocton that would not be able to afford that without CMHA.
“We’re proud to offer housing to people who might not be able to have housing. I think it does give them a great amount of dignity to have their own place,” he said.
Winner has custody of 4-year-old twins and has an adult son, Corey, who is developmentally disabled living at home. They’ve been at the Meadows a little more than year after a two-bedroom apartment just wasn’t cutting it for the unconventional, yet loving, family anymore. Winner said a friend told her to try CMHA for housing help and they were happy to assist her. Their unit has four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Winner knows some people complain about the Meadows, but her family likes living there and feels safe. She said anytime she needs something fixed, the office responds promptly. She never had any interaction with Darr.
“It’s really been a blessing,” Winner said of CMHA help. “The apartment is very nice.”
Winner gets along with most of her neighbors and likes that there is an adjacent park. A learning center, which is part of the main office, housed a summer lunch program and also offers computers for public use if someone is looking for a job or to further their education.
“I just wanted to move in here and make my kids feel safe, happy and secure,” Winner said. “I feel like everything is OK.”
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Logic for Economists
This course provides a very brief introduction to basic mathematical concepts like propositional and predicate logic, set theory, the number system, and proof techniques. At the end of the course, students will be able to (1) detect the logical structure behind simple puzzles (2) be able to manipulate logical expressions (3) explain the connection between logic and set theory (4) explain the differences between natural, integer, rational, real and complex numbers (5) recognise different basic proof techniques
Great course for an introduction into logic and its relations mathematics. The instructor was very responsive and helpful as well.
Actually, I have learned this material in school, but when I try to do the test it was still challenging.
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One-two, one-two-one. No, we shall not be starting dance lessons. But we shall be solving equations. So when we have a function, we've got a domain, a range and a rule f which specifies for every element in the domain, an element in the range. So if A is in the domain and B in the range, such that, half of A is B, then we call B the image of A and A an original of B. And you see, here it is 'the' image because it's the only one and here it's 'an' original because there can be several ones. Now let's look at a function f from D to R is called injective. If every B in R has at most one original, or if you will, we can say this differently. Or if the equation have A = B has at most one solution A for given B. So you see, injectivity of a function is about the number of solutions the equation f(a) = b can have. And if the function is injective we say that this equation can have at most one solution. Now just to remind ourselves what this means. A function is injective, well, draw our arrows here and here. Now if I look at the points in the range, this point has one original and one only. This point has one original and this point has no original. So every point has at most one original. So this function is injective. On the other hand, function like this, like so. If we look at the first point, this point has three originals and this point has no original. So while this point has the required number of originals, at most one. This one has three of originals, so this function is not injective. Now we can just play this game again. By saying that a function f from D to R is called surjective. If every point B in the range has at least one original in D or again, if the equation f(a) is b has for every b, at least one solution a in D. Now this is something you often want to have if you want to solve a certain equation that you know that a solution or at least one solution exists. So let's look at our the examples again. If I've got a situation like this then I have to look at every point in the range. This point has at least one original. It actually has two, those two points. That's originals. And this point has one original, which is at least one, so this function is indeed surjective. On the other hand if I'm looking at this function where the arrows go as follows, then, yes. This point in the range has at least one original. It has three but this point has none so this function is not surjective. If we combine these two notions we get a new notion. A function f from D to R is called bijective if for every b in R, there is exactly one original a in D or if the equation f(a) is b has for every b in R exactly one solution a in D or again, if f is both injective and surjective. Three ways of saying the same thing. Now let's have a look our examples again. So this first example, when I look at my range, this element has exactly one original. This element has exactly one original So clearly this function is bijective. On the other hand, if I look at this example then I see that this element has exactly one original. This element has exactly one original, but this element doesn't have an original at all. So this function is not bijective. Actually it is injective but not surjective. Actually we have to look a little bit closer at injective functions, sorry, at bijective functions. So, let's give an example of a bijective function from the set one,two, three to the set four, five, six and we define it as follows. One is mapped to five, two is mapped to four, and three is mapped to six. So as we stated, every element in the domain is associated to exactly one element in the range. That's the definition, of well, of the function. But on the other hand every element in the range has exactly one original in the domain. What this means is that we can invert the arrows. So we now can have arrows go in a different direction. So while we had originally a function which mapped one to four, two. Sorry, one was mapped to five. Let's fix that. One was mapped to five, two was mapped to four and three was mapped to six. We now have also the rule that four has mapped to two, five is mapped to one and the six is mapped to three and every element in the range is accounted for. So for every element in the range we've got exactly one image. So g is also a function. And that is the theorem. If f from D to R is bijective then there is a function g which goes from R to D such that if f(a) = b, then g(b) = a. Now the difficulty with this theorem is not that the proof is terribly deep, but I have to see what it is that has to be proved. We can, of course, always write that as a function g from R to D but we have to define it. Now the definition is, we take an element B and we look up by this equation, what's its origin, originally is, under f. That's a and a will then be the image of g. Now the question is whether this is a good definition. Well, it wouldn't be a good definition if we wanted to associate a different element for c also to b. But that cannot happen because if we have b, we go to this equation and we know, that's just since the function f is bijective, that there's exactly one solution to it. So for every b we've got exactly one a that fits. And that a we've put in there has the image of b on a g. And in this way we define a good function. And this function is called --- g is called the inverse of f because if f goes from left to right, then g goes in the inverse direction, from right to left. There are, of course, a lot of inverse functions. For instance, if f is the function which adds two to number, then the inverse of f is the function which subtracts two from a number. If f is a function that multiplies the number by two, then the inverse is the function which divides the number two. If f is the function which squares a number, then f inverse is the number which takes the square root. But, wait a second. Here we have to pay attention because we know that with the square root there's a problem, the number x is not allowed to be negative. So here we have to take care of the definition of f. Now what is the problem? If we are looking to the graph of f, which we've just drawn, it looks like that. We see that it is actually not, if we define it from R to R, it is not an injective function because if we take any y, then f(x) is y has two solutions. If y is bigger than zero and it has no solution if y is smaller than zero. So it's neither injective nor surjective. You can see that graphically. If y is bigger than zero, then we get two solutions, one there, one there. If y is smaller than zero, we've got no solutions at all. So what should we do here? Now the way to remedy is always change the domain and the range. 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Trigger Warning: This article discusses childhood verbal, emotional, physical & sexual abuse.
Growing up in an abusive household left me with a lot of questions about God.
Often, people’s advice to forgive and obey my parents didn’t seem to take into account the full impact of the abuse I was experiencing. I felt like Christians were giving me poor advice to look past the severity of my pain and ignore the lasting damage that childhood abuse has. Fortunately, I’ve found that God’s plan is not for us to ignore or downplay injustice. In fact, He has a just and loving response to everything I’ve been through.
I wrote earlier about my experience of being the ‘Bruno’ in my dysfunctional family. (If you haven’t read it, check it out here— it’s an on-ramp to the depths we’re going to go in this one.) When I put the label of child abuse “out there” for the world to see, it temporarily destroyed my family. And just like Bruno, they blamed me as if I were the cause instead of the messenger. The extended family, and several of my siblings, labeled me as the person who “broke” the family. Thankfully this is no longer the case. A lot has happened since that call to children’s services.
The first few years were a roller coaster of events and emotions. My mother and youngest sibling came to live with me while courts, police, and medical got involved. Without going into too much detail (we have a large family, and we are all in different stages of healing), I can say that all of the children were victims of my dad’s abuse in some way.
Between us, we survived verbal abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, financial neglect, and medical neglect. And because of my father’s narcissistic ways, we were trained to put on a show as though everything was going well. One of my siblings even told a teacher - someone mandated to report - and the teacher didn’t believe it. That’s how good the act was.
Trite responses I got from churchgoers about my family dynamics left me questioning God’s goodness and didn’t help me get any closer to real, true healing. But luckily, as I got older and studied the Bible further, I learned that many of these canned responses were taken out of the context of the Biblical passage, and not in the character of who God really is.
When I look at the entire passage on dealing with difficult people and difficult situations, I see healthier, and clearer answers come through. Here is where I currently stand on some of my big questions for God. I’m sure God will continue to reveal more truth to me as I walk with Him through more scenarios. I’m sure that my understanding of His love and responses to challenging scenarios is not complete and will continue to evolve. But my hope is that this can help others who have similar experiences and questions.
What about the verse about obeying your parents?
Ephesians 6:1 commands children to obey their parents. My dad loved to use this verse against me. He hit me across the face and knocked me over when I continued the passage and said, “Fathers, do not exasperate your children” (Ephesians 6:4).
I looked up the definition of exasperate. It is to “irritate or frustrate someone intensely.” You know - like repeatedly telling your children why they’re not good enough for your love and approval. Or repeatedly teasing them in front of their friends until they cry, then teasing them for crying. Or dropping them off on a random street corner in a random city and driving away as a “joke” while they’re left there crying. Or leaving a drowning pre-schooler in a pool to “teach them a lesson” and only pulling them out when they started to lose consciousness. Or holding their face within inches of a hot burner until they said their headache was gone. Or holding their hand in scalding hot dishwater and yelling that the dishes weren’t clean enough while they cried about the burning pain. Yes, all of these happened to me. And according to people’s interpretations of scripture, I was supposed to obey him, like he had no responsibility towards my well-being.
If you read the entire passage of Ephesians 6, it is all about various earthly relationships and our responsibilities towards each other. One may be in authority over the other, but we both have responsibilities towards one another in order for the relationship to function. Yes, I was supposed to obey him. But he was supposed to raise me in the context of Biblical teachings. Somehow he always forgot that part. If the person in authority isn’t fulfilling their duty honorably, then it becomes impossible for the person under their authority to fulfill their duty. I was in an impossible situation. God knows this. I like to think God overlooks those times I disobeyed my dad’s commands when he told me to harm my siblings or mother in some way.
What do I really want for my dad?
This took a lot of soul-searching. The final answer is that I want justice. This could be done in two possible ways. Note that none of them leave it up to me to administer this justice.
One way to dispense justice is to turn my dad over to the authorities, to be tried and punished on earth for his crimes. God encourages this in Isaiah 1:17. He says, “Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless.” (Technically I wasn’t fatherless. But this sounds like God commanding his people to stand up for people like my siblings against people like my dad - so I did).
I’ll admit that I felt slightly guilty for praying this. Yet Psalm 109 is an entire prayer for justice against someone who wronged the author. The Bible is filled with asked and answered prayers for God’s justice to be done. Our desire for justice was put there by a just God.
The other option is to let him go to hell for his crimes, to be punished after death. I couldn’t ask for this option without facing my own failings. The Bible says that we all make mistakes and miss the mark, and we all deserve punishment for it (paraphrased Romans 3:23). His issues are worse than mine by the world’s standards, but none of us meet God’s standards. My mistakes and his mistakes are all so incredibly far from where God wants us that the difference in severity between his mistakes and mine really doesn’t matter. The question is—do I want sin to equal hell, or not? If I want there to be a way out of hell for me, then I have to be OK with a way out of hell for my dad.
In order for my dad to receive the kind of justice I really want for him, I need to let those tasked with implementing justice do their jobs, and pray for them to have wisdom. I reported my father’s abuse and let the law take over from there. I still want justice to prevail on earth, and I pray for it whenever I think of him. I also want him forgiven in heaven. I don’t want him in hell any more than I want myself there.
What about forgiving him now?
The church always taught me that God commands us to forgive in order to maintain relationships. That’s good advice, but restored relationships only works if the other person has an invested interest and feels responsibility towards maintaining the relationship as well. How does forgiveness look when the other party continues to repeat the behavior, with complete disregard for the pain it causes others?
Matthew 18:21-22 tells us to forgive them not 7, but 77 times. (To clarify, that is not a literal 77 times. We don’t keep score). It means we keep forgiving them as often as it is needed. I couldn’t help but wonder if a piece was missing here whenever people gave me this advice.
There was, in fact, a piece missing. Earlier in the chapter, Jesus tells people how to confront sin in their congregation. The short version: you take escalating measures to explain to them (first privately) how their behavior hurts others and encourage the person to change. If all of those escalating measures fail, they are dismissed from the community (Matthew 18:15-17). God made a plan for people who refuse to change. Those people are cut out of the community like a tumor that is harming the body. You forgive what they did, you give them repeated chances to change, and then you cut them out so they do not destroy you - literally or figuratively. (Special note: refusing to change is a different issue than trying to change but struggling. This rule doesn’t apply to those who want to change and struggle. They need increased community support.)
In financial terms, you can loan someone money. If they are unable to pay back the loan, their debt can be forgiven. It means the debtor and loaner are free and clear and don’t owe one another anything. The debt is forgiven—gone. But only a fool would keep loaning them money without a demonstrable change in circumstances. That’s the fine line between forgiving someone while also gaining wisdom from what happened and not letting it happen again. I can forgive my father and walk away, knowing we owe each other nothing. But I cannot keep him in my circle and let him repeatedly destroy me. He had to go.
Do I still want a relationship with him?
Yes, and no. I want a relationship with a version of him who worked through his issues, healed, and made efforts to change. Until that happens, the relationship is unhealthy. The things he said to me, and the way he treated me, made it difficult to see myself the way God sees me and believe I could be loved the way God loves me. I know God values my relationship with Him more than my relationship with others, no matter who they are. God wants reconciliation between families and people, but isn’t afraid to separate us from one another if that relationship destroys us or our relationship with Him. Maintaining an ongoing relationship with my father led me to believe that I was someone who was never quite good enough to deserve unconditional love. I think God needed to pull me out of that relationship until my father’s behavior changed. When the behavior changes, and only then, do I believe God is ready for the relationship to be restored. (This fits again with Matthew 18.)
How can I “honor” a father like this? Does he even deserve it?
God does not want to honor sin, yet He commands us to honor our parents. It is one of the Ten Commandments, so it must be important, right? How do I reconcile this? Well, here’s my approach—as long as my father is alive, his name and my name will not be attached to things like this article. I will share my story in small groups with people I know and trust, or with the authorities whose job is to dispense justice. Anyone else will need to hear the story anonymously. I will not publicly shame my father in an open forum for the world to see. That is the most I can do to honor him as long as he still has a chance to change.
The other thing I can do is take away his opportunity to continue his mistakes. Romans 14 addresses what we should do if our behavior causes another to stumble. Paraphrased, it says, “what you’re doing isn’t necessarily wrong, but it really provides an opportunity for the other person to consistently mess up when they’re exposed to it. So please stop doing it whenever they’re around.” How does this apply to my situation? If my presence continually prompts my dad to spin out of control and start hurting people, then I remove my presence from him. Period. In reality, this benefits both me and him.
Do I believe my family can be restored?
I have absolute faith that my family could be restored with God’s intervention. I already see it beginning now that my father is out of the picture. One by one, family members all cut him out of their lives and reunited. We are still in various stages of healing, and we are trying to become a family again (without him). We still behave awkwardly when we are together. But slowly and surely, we are shedding the labels he put on us. And we’re getting to know one another’s authentic selves for the first time, without him in the picture distorting our views of one another. We are still trying to figure everything out and learn to trust one another.
Every day, my prayer for him is for justice on earth and forgiveness in heaven. My prayer for others who have been through a traumatic upbringing is that God will find a way to remove you from ongoing abuse and help you heal. That the hurtful things said and done (or not done) by those who were supposed to help - and didn’t help - will be replaced by a new outlook on how God feels about the situation. And that what He wants us to do about it will be made clear. That all damage done will get tended to. That you will find yourself in safe relationships. That people will stand up for you against your oppressors. That God and his people will show you unconditional love. And that your relationship with God, yourself, and safe family members, will be restored.
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What stood out to you most about this article? Did anything feel surprisingly triggering, or maybe even nice to see someone else articulate? Sometimes simple things like this can be ways that God shows up to tell you that he hears your struggles & is present to help you heal.
Have you had any experiences of feeling like people (maybe even people attempting to represent God) were telling you to bypass the pain being wrongly inflicted on you, for the sake of forgiveness? Did you sense God allowing you to handle this pain any differently, after reading this article?
What’s one new thought, feeling, relief or perspective that this author’s experience has given you. Ask God if there is any way He’s prompting you to lean into your own continued healing; and then ‘get crazy’… actually try it. He’s with you.
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For Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me The Path of life: in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore (Ps. 16:10-11).
As David's thoughts went beyond his immediate surroundings, he considered the day of his death. With full confidence in God, he said: Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. He looked beyond the grave with assurance that he would live forever in the presence of God, saying: In Thy presence is fulness of joy . . . pleasures for evermore.
Who would have thought that Psalm 16 referred to Christ if the Holy Spirit had not revealed it hundreds of years later on the day of the Pentecost? The Apostle Peter declared that David was referring to Christ's death and resurrection (Acts 2:25;31; 13:35). There are many Old Testament promises of the coming Messiah. Jesus, though not using that name, is mentioned and prophesied about often in the Old Testament, including the Book of Psalms. Psalm 110 refers to the coming Messiah. It affirms the deity of Jesus (v. 1) and His eternal priesthood (v. 4) and prophecies His return. The Lord shall send the rod of Thy strength out of Zion: rule Thou in the midst of Thine enemies (v. 2).
So much of the revelation of our Lord is missed when we fail to read all the Scriptures! As we read, we should pray: Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy Law (Ps. 119:18; Luke 24:27). It is easy to overlook many things in the Word of God if we do not read and study prayerfully. But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (Heb. 11:6).
David foretold of a path of life (Ps. 16:11), but we know Him who is The Path — The Way, The Truth, and The Life (John 14:6). As stated above, Christ is revealed throughout the Word of God. He is revealed as The Path; David was telling of who was to come. Jesus is that path. The Father decided long ago that the Son would be the One to stand in the gap for mankind. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the Book, and to open the seals thereof: for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation (Rev. 5:9).
I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me (John 14:6).
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Brief moments of earthly pleasures cannot compare with the lasting joy our Lord imparts.
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In the prophecy that God would not allow His Holy One to see decay (Ps. 16:10). This foretells the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 2:25-27; 13:35-39). When Jesus spoke His Revelation to John, He declared: I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death (Rev. 1:18).
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Sheriff: Infant's head trauma injuries believed to be accidental
The Guernsey County Sheriff's Office will not pursue charges against the caregivers of a 6-month-old girl who suffered serious injuries Wednesday, as the head trauma has been deemed to have been the result of an accident.
"Based on the results of the investigation and after conferring with neurologists from Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Guernsey County Prosecutor's Office, no criminal charges will be filed in this case," said Sheriff Jeff Paden in a press release.
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Authorities declined to say how the girl suffered the head trauma, stating in the release that "injuries sustained by a 6-month-old infant are believed to be accidental in nature."
The girl was flown by medical helicopter to Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus after initially being taken to Southeastern Med for treatment.
Interviews, investigation conducted after 6-month-old infant sustains injuries
Deputies were dispatched to the Cambridge hospital just after 2 a.m. Wednesday when a staffer reported the girl was being treated in the emergency department for a brain bleed.
Paden said hospital staff are mandatory reporters by Ohio law.
On arrival, deputies spoke with the mother of the child and her boyfriend just prior to the girl being flown to the Columbus hospital.
"At that time, the investigation was assigned to the Investigation Division," said Paden.
Over the next 48 hours, detectives conducted interviews, reviewed medical records and worked with medical personnel from Nationwide Children's Hospital, case workers from Guernsey County Children Services and the prosecutor's office.
No other information was released by the sheriff's office, including the condition of the infant. |
Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?
In this Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, Tumblr founder David Karp participates in the “Bloomberg Leadership Summit” seminar in New York. In a deal announced Monday, May 20, 2013, Yahoo is buying New York-based Tumblr, the online blogging forum, for $1.1 billion. About $275 million will go to Karp, 26, who dropped out of high school to concentrate on computer programming and started Tumblr six years ago. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes/Invision for Advertising Week)
May 20, 2013 at 10:32 p.m.
NEW YORK — It’s one thing to say tech geniuses don’t need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.
But now we’ve got David Karp, who doesn’t even have a high school diploma. Karp, 26, founded Tumblr, the online blogging forum, and sold it to Yahoo for $1.1 billion.
Which raises the question: When is it OK for a wunderkind to drop out of school?
Some folks in Silicon Valley and elsewhere say a conventional education can’t possibly give kids with outsize talents what they need. Others, like Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School who teaches and advises startup companies, say dropping out to pursue a dream is like “buying a lottery ticket — that’s how good your odds are here. More likely than not, you will become unemployed. For every success, there are 100,000 failures.”
But what about kids who are so good at computer programming that schools can’t teach them what they need to know? “That’s what internships are for; that’s what extracurricular activities are for,” says Wadhwa, who has founded two companies.
Karp, in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, said he hopes teenagers don’t look at his success as an excuse for leaving school. “That is not a path that I would haphazardly recommend to kids out there,” he said. “I was in a very unique position of knowing exactly what I wanted to do at a time when computer science education certainly wasn’t that good in high school in New York City.”
Karp’s mother gave him the option of home-schooling when he was 14, after he completed his freshman year at the Bronx High School of Science, an elite New York City public school that only admits students who score well on a difficult entrance exam. Karp took Japanese classes and had a math tutor while continuing with an internship at an animation production company, but by age 16, he was working for a website and was on his way to become a tech entrepreneur. He never did get his diploma. Karp’s mother told the AP that she let him leave school because she realized “he needed the time in the day in order to create.”
That resonates with Penny Mills of Hudson, Mass., who let her son Thomas Sohmers, 17, drop out of 11th grade this year. “I could see how much of the work he was doing at school wasn’t relevant to what he wanted to learn,” she said. “He always wanted to learn more than what the schools wanted to teach him. At times it was very frustrating. I was fortunate to find people that were able to teach him more, but he has gone beyond what high school could ever give him.”
Thomas has been working at a research lab at the esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology since he was 13, developing projects ranging from augmented reality eyewear to laser communications systems. He just won a Thiel Fellowship, which gives $100,000 to 20 people under the age of 20 each year so they can skip college to focus on research or a dream, whether it’s a high-tech project, a business or a nonprofit. But his mom says she would have let him drop out even if he hadn’t won the award.
“The part that really bothers me is that there are a lot of Thomases out there and their needs are not being met,” said Mills.
Thomas says he’s sad to be leaving his teenage friends behind, but he’s excited about the future. And he has mixed feelings about his years in school. “I’ve had some amazing, great teachers that really have the passion to teach, but most of what is in school now is teaching to a test,” he said. “It’s really sad. You’re not learning the skills for how to solve the problem – you are just learning the answer to this question that is going to be on the test.”
Susan Bartell, a psychologist based in Port Washington, New York who works with adolescents and their families, says she frequently encounters parents who are convinced that their kids are extraordinarily gifted. But she cautions that it’s “the very rare exception when this decision (to drop out) makes sense.” In the case of Karp, she said, “it worked out, but almost always it doesn’t — even if a kid is extremely gifted. School is about much more than just academics and in most cases, even the most gifted kids need the socializing.”
And not all young moguls take Karp’s route. Earlier this year, a 17-year-old from London, Nick D’Aloisio, sold an app he created to Yahoo for $30 million – but he decided to stay in school.
On the other hand, there are examples of successful individuals in many fields who lack a high school diploma, from top performers such as Jay-Z to billionaire businessmen such as Richard Branson.
The tech community may be different from other industries. Degrees are not necessarily seen as a hallmark of achievement and programmers are judged on their ability to type lines of code. You are what you create.
What also sets the field apart is that computer programming is not taught at every high school, and even when it is, the most talented students often either “surpass the curriculum or feel it’s not relevant to them,” said Danielle Strachman, program director for the Thiel Fellowship. “They want to move at their own pace.”
Strachman also emphasized that just because someone has left school, doesn’t mean they’ve stopped learning. The Thiel program provides not just funding, but a community of peers and mentors to help recipients reach their goals. And they can always go back to pursue a degree when the fellowship is over.
It’s a goal that even Karp has his eye on- despite his newfound wealth. “I hope I have an opportunity to go to school at some point,” he said, “and study something completely different.” |
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is no longer at UBC law school
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is no longer employed by the University of B.C.’s prestigious law school after controversy this fall surrounding her long-standing claims of Indigenous heritage.
The university did not say why the former judge and high-profile advocate for children’s and Indigenous rights is no longer a tenured professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, only confirming that she is no longer with the school as of Dec. 16. UBC cited privacy law in not giving more details.
Turpel-Lafond, whose celebrated career has often centred around Indigenous legal issues, was appointed as the inaugural director of UBC’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, a term that ended in June.
She is perhaps best known in B.C. as the province’s representative for children and youth from 2006 to 2016, and for a 2020 report on systemic racism against Indigenous people in B.C. health care.
In October, the CBC published a lengthy investigation into Turpel-Lafond’s claims of Indigenous ancestry and statements that she grew up in Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba. The media outlet said the claims of Cree ancestry and treaty Indian status are inconsistent with publicly available documents.
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A detective who led the probe into the disappearance of British toddler Maddie McCann has voiced his doubts on a Polish woman’s claim that she is the missing girl.
Maddie was just three years old when she vanished from her parent’s holiday villa in Portugal in 2007 triggering one of the largest manhunts in history.
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Al Ahly Capital’s total investment portfolio EGP 8bn; targets adding EGP 500m in 2020
By Mahmoud El-Qassas 5 Min Read
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a leading contributor to real economic growth, which prompts the Egyptian economy to attract long-term investors, says Managing Director of Al Ahly Capital Holding Karim Saada.
Al Ahly Capital’s investment portfolio reached about EGP 8bn, and it aims to pump over EGP 500m investments this year.
One of the major obstacles to foreign investment in Egypt was the local currency value, meaning that the floatation was the most powerful step of economic reform and contributed to the stability of the currency now, he added. FDI would create job opportunities and contribute to economic growth.
Al Ahly Capital, the investment arm of the National Bank of Egypt, played a major role in attracting FDIs through managing and directing foreign investors’ money, and creating real investment opportunities.
Al Ahly Capital’s investment portfolio is strong, allowing the company to penetrate different sectors, most notably education and health, allowing it to add value, both economically and socially, to Egypt.
Therefore, the value added is an essential factor for entering any new investment. For example, Al Ahly Capital invested in Canal Sugar company, as this investment had a greater impact on the national economy than on the company’s financial return.
Canal Sugar would expand in beet cultivation on 122,000 feddan reclaimed land, and build a new sugar factory with a production capacity of 900,000 tonnes. The investment cost of the project is about $300m, of which $100m are direct investments and the rest are financed by local loans and foreign banks.
The company, so far, has drilled 84 water wells at different depths for irrigation. The sites of those wells are chosen carefully to ensure long-term use.
As for the health sector, Saada said the Egyptian healthcare still needs further investments to improve its quality. Al Ahly Capital aims to establish an integrated medical system through one of its subsidiaries.
Al Ahly Medical Company’s targeted investments in the health sector would reach $300m within three years, of which about $50m would be provided by the company itself, he added.
Saada pointed out that the application of Egypt’s comprehensive health insurance system would take years, and that there would be no contradiction between his company’s expansion in medical services and the new health insurance, as they would integrate with each other.
Moreover, Al Ahly Capital also studies entering into the education sector in 2021, targeting the middle class, through the establishment of a holding company for education.
Al Ahly Capital usually takes a long time in the investment cycle as the company always seeks to achieve added value to the investment, so it takes 5-7 years before exiting the investment.
He pointed out that the size of the investment portfolio is about EGP 8bn, according to the company’s budget, adding that the company aims to pump investments amounting to more than EGP 500m during 2020.
On a different note, Saada pointed out that the company’s plan to develop into an integrated investment bank started with acquiring Pharos Securities, where Pharos had an investment model that matched Al Ahly Capital’s aspirations.
He noted that Al Ahly Capital was entitled to use Pharos trademark for now, however, it would change it later by merging Pharos and Al Ahly trademarks. The brokerage fee represented 90% of the transaction, he added.
The company is working on a separate platform for microfinance and agricultural industries for export which is due to start this year.
On another front, Saada explained that the monetary easing policy pursued by the Central Bank of Egypt would enhance the companies’ ability to borrow and help complete their projects, as well as improve the FDI climate in Egypt.
Moreover, the tax reform system needs to be reconsidered, as it’s still an obstacle to investment, he said, urging the need to focus on tax revenues, not tax rates, because it further attracts FDIs.
Regarding the macroeconomic indicators of Egypt, Saada pointed out that formal GDP represents about 60% of the national economy, stressing the necessity of adding the informal economy, which is what the state is pursuing through financial inclusion.
This, he explained, would bring the GDP much higher than external debt, which would improve Egypt’s ability to borrow, upgrade its credit rating, and attract further FDIs.
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Water pressure is something that many of us will quickly notice a change in. From washing your hands before a meal to taking a warm shower at the end of a long day, water pressure is something we often take advantage of. It’s not until the water pressure drops that we start to wonder what could be causing this issue to arise. Well, the team at Dash Drains is going to dedicate today’s blog to a few of the most common causes of low water pressure. Let’s go ahead and get started!
A Clogged Pipe
There’s no doubt about it, a clogged pipe is easily the most common reason that water pressure drops. When there’s a blockage in a pipe, water isn’t able to exit at the pressure that it’s being released. If this particular reason for a lack of water pressure isn’t tackled in a timely manner, you wind up with a lot of water pressure (and water) at another part of your pipe. This often leads to a pipe burst and a costly repair.
Partially Closed Valve
Another common issue that can lead to low water pressure is a partially closed valve. This is much more common than some may realize, but it’s a relatively easy fix if you catch it early on. Ultimately, all that needs to be done to tackle this particular problem is to open the valve fully. Then, the pressure of the water should come through fully.
Failed Pressure Regulator
A faulty pressure regulator could also be a problem for your lack of water pressure. This piece of equipment reduces the input of pressure into your plumbing system to ensure that the traveling water does not damage your pipes. Though this particular piece of equipment is designed to minimize the chances of any damage happening to your pipes, when it’s faulty it can lead to a lack of water pressure. In many instances, all that needs to happen here is a quick repair or replacement of the regulator and your pressure should be back to normal.
Old Steel Pipes
If you have old steel pipes in your home, there’s a chance that this outdated plumbing could be the cause of your low water pressure. With steel pipes, they can become corroded and can have a build-up that makes it difficult for water to travel through them. Unfortunately, the only means of fixing this is going to be on the pricier side of plumbing projects.
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Exploring the Quaint and Colorful Colonial Town of El Quelite
December 29, 2015 by Alexa Meisler2 Comments
El Quelite, a quaint town 25 miles northeast of Mazatlán is the perfect day trip for anyone interested in exploring an authentic Mexico experience.
The small town sits on the bank of the river El Quelite and is known locally for practicing the pre-Hispanic game Ulama, which has important ritual aspects for the town and its native population.
The main street in the village is lined with buildings of Spanish classical influence with red tile roofs and many covered by colorful bougainvillea. You just may think you’re in a different century as you walk down the cobblestone streets where you are more likely to see the locals on horse rather than in a car.
The entire town is picturesque and if you like taking photos, you won’t be able to stop snapping. As you wander down the main street, be sure to look for the plaques on many of the historical buildings to learn (en Espanol) about the town’s rich history.
There are a few shops including a shoe store that also seems to double as a sundry shop as well as a tortilleria and cheese shop that are a must visit.
The town has three major landmarks; the statuesque Catholic church, a town square and the restaurant El Meson de los Laureanos. All three are located on the main street and worth a visit. The church, was built in the 19th-century and is known as the Lady of Guadalupe’s church. There is a beautiful courtyard also worth a visit.
The town square is a quiet place to sit and absorb the quaintness of town. Filled with trees, park benches and a pavilion, you can easily see this is the heart of the the small town.
EL QUELITE was the scene of major historical events during the Mexican revolution when several rebel groups where formed and the most recognized was “Los Laureanos”, who were known to steal the gold that was carried thru the roads in stagecoaches, heading from the Sierra Madre mountains towards the coast.
El Meson de los Laureanos; the only true restaurant in town took its name from this piece of history and is much more than a dining experience.
El Meson Laureanos is owned Dr. Marcos Osuna, who has made it his mission to re-frame how tourists experience Mazatlán and it’s nearby towns.
The restaurant is the childhood home of Dr. Osuna. The front of the building is a large porch with handmade leather chairs which leads to an entry that opens onto an outdoor dining room. From this patio, there are several other dining rooms all showcasing art depicting Sinaloan history, photographs and other local artwork.
The Mexican themed restaurant serving traditional dishes opened in 1998 and is a big part of the tourism draw to the tiny town. The food is traditional and Osuna describes is as rural food from the pueblo. During my visit we were served entrees include tamales, quesadillas, machaca, carnitas, flank steak as well as delicacies such as tongue and pork knuckles. While I enjoyed every bit of the meal, it was the fresh horchata that stole the culinary show.
The restaurant also offers live entertainment. During my visit there was an extravagant show including local musicians, dancers and reenactments of the Ulama game with actors dressed up as Mayan warriors. While the show verged on outlandish, it was a glimpse into their customs and I couldn’t help but think of how much my 13 year old son would have loved the fireplay between the warriors.
The highlight of the visit was Dr. Osuna taking time to chat with us during our meal. He explained that when he grew in the town there was no running water and they used a well for all their fresh water. He also explained that when he went to school, there were no chairs or walls in the classroom. As he told us stories, he would periodically head to the wall of photographs and take down a picture to illustrate his story.
He shared that he opened the restaurant because he wanted to bring tourists to the town he loves and grew up in. Learning about Dr. Osuna and his passion for El Quelite was a perfect way to end a wonderful day trip to this quant and colorful village.
If you’d prefer to visit El Quelite with a tour, I suggest Pronatours and I highly recommend requesting Rodolfo Osuna as your guide.
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Penny williams says
Wonderful article. Loved the info about El Quelite. Alexa always makes her travels sound so exciting.
I need to get back to Mazatlan and do some exploring outside of the city. El Quelite looks just like it would deliver the perfect slow pace of life I crave when I am in Mexico 🙂
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Nick Chubb at No. 26 on NFL’s Top 100 list
Browns running back recognized as one of the league’s best by his peers.
By Thomas Moore@Tom_RedRight88 Aug 22, 2021, 6:10pm EDT
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Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb has spent his first three seasons showing everyone that running backs can still matter in the NFL.
His fellow players have clearly been paying attention as Chubb came in at No. 26 on the NFL’s list of the game’s Top 100 players heading into the 2021 season.
Silent but deadly. @Browns workhorse @NickChubb21 barrels in at 2⃣6⃣ on the #NFLTop100. pic.twitter.com/p97n4CpakI
— NFL Films (@NFLFilms) August 22, 2021
According to the rankings at NFL.com:
Chubb turned in consecutive 1,000-yard seasons for the first time in Cleveland since Jamal Lewis (2007-08), and the 25-year-old did it in only 12 games (1,067 rushing yards) while logging a career-high 12 rushing TDs. An ideal mixture of speed and power, Chubb’s knack for breaking tackles wears down defenses and opens up passing attacks. In Year 3, he contributed greatly to a franchise-cleansing season for the Browns, who scratched and clawed their way to their first playoff berth in 18 years and went on to their first playoff victory in 26 years by virtue of Chubb’s 40-yard TD reception versus the Steelers.
A second-round selection in the 2018 NFL Draft out of Georgia, Chubb has earned two trips to the Pro Bowl while rushing for 3,557 yards and 28 touchdowns in three seasons. His 1,494 rushing yards in 2019 were the most in franchise history for a running back not named Jim Brown, and his 12 rushing touchdowns last season have only been exceeded by Brown and Leroy Kelly in franchise history.
According to clevelandbrowns.com, Chubb’s average of 5.23 yards per carry is tops among running backs with a minimum of 300 carries in the past three seasons. He also leads the league during that time with 34 runs of more than 20 yards, is second with 17 100-yard rushing games, tied for second with 101 runs of more than 10 yards, tied for second with seven runs of more than 50 yards, is third in rushing yards and sixth with 28 rushing touchdowns.
Chubb is the third member of the Browns to be named to this year’s list, joining wide receiver Jarvis Landry (No. 94) and quarterback Baker Mayfield (No. 71). |
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