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Tag Archives: Liquor License
Hopes Are High for Legislative Action on Restaurant Liquor License Bill
Liquor License, Liquor Licensing Laws
Our State's liquor licensing laws date back to the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment in the 1930's. The world is a different place. And those laws have tended to stifle competition and to hamstring local economic development options.
New Jersey municipalities looking to revitalize downtowns and Main Streets, could use some new tools. Thus, the League of Municipalities supports A-2452, which would create new liquor licenses for restaurants meeting certain criteria. It is the sponsor's intent to foster and encourage economic development and growth in this State by creating a new less-costly restaurant license that permits the licensee to sell alcoholic beverages and to provide financial compensation to certain plenary retail consumption licensees who already have established businesses and paid market value for their licenses.
This bill creates a restricted restaurant license (R1) which permits the holder to sell any alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises of certain restaurants. In addition, the bill creates a restricted beer and wine license (R2) which permits the holder to sell only beer and wine by the bottle or can. There is no doubt that these licenses would represent an important economic development or redevelopment tool for many municipalities, and give an economic boost to neighborhood restaurants and to other businesses located in proximity to those establishments.
Under current state law, dating back to the repeal of Prohibition, a municipality may not issue a new license unless and until the combined total number of licenses in the municipality is less than one for each 3,000 people. Assemblyman (and former Mayor) John Burzichelli, the prime sponsor of the bill, has noted, "As a result of this restriction, there's an insufficient number – or complete lack – of available licenses in many municipalities, inflating the value of existing licenses and forcing prospective restaurateurs to buy a license at an exorbitant price or simply operate without a license. This has created an unfair situation for many restaurant owners."
Allowing restaurants to get a newly created license makes sense, as long as it's coupled with relief for existing license owners, so this bill proposes tax credits to the holders of existing licenses to compensate them for any devaluation of their licenses.
The bill establishes a fee schedule for the initial issuance and annual renewal fee for the restricted restaurant license and restricted beer and wine license based on the square footage of the restaurant. The first $2,500 of the initial and renewal fee for the restricted restaurant license and the first $1,250 of the fees for the restricted beer and wine license, would be paid to the municipality where the restaurant is located. If the restaurant is located within the boundaries of two or more municipalities, the fee is to be divided equally among those municipalities. The remainder of the fees would go to the Director Division of Taxation to be used solely for the purposes of offsetting the costs associated with issuing tax credits provided under the bill. After the Division of Taxation is reimbursed for costs associated with issuing tax credits, the full fee is to be paid to the municipality.
The bill imposes certain penalties on the holders of the restricted restaurant license or restricted beer and wine license who violate the law. Any fine money collected is to be paid to the Director of the Division of Taxation to be used solely for the purposes of offsetting the costs associated with issuing tax credits provided under the bill. After the Division of Taxation is reimbursed for up to 75 percent of the projected estimated cost associated with issuing tax credits, the full fee is to be paid to the municipality.
The League's Liquor License Task Force carefully studied this proposal and recognized the benefits such licenses could provide to many municipalities throughout the State. We also identified some problems in the bill.
Assemblyman Burzichelli, has indicated his willingness to accept many of our recommendations. In particular, the Assemblyman agreed to our suggestion to allow an "opt-in" provision for all municipalities. We sincerely appreciate his eagerness to involve us in discussions on the bill and to consider our concerns.
We have no doubt that a significant number of municipalities, if given the opportunity, would take affirmative action to make such licenses available to local restaurateurs. The bill is referenced to the Assembly Regulatory Oversight Committee, which held a "for discussion purposes" only hearing on February 27. We hope to see the bill advance soon.
We suggest contacting your Assembly representatives and ask for their support of A-2452.
Contact: Jon Moran, Senior Legislative Analyst, jmoran@njslom.org ,609-695-3481, x121.
Support A-2452, Restaurant Liquor License Bill Can Boost Main Street Business
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A-2452, Alcohol Beverages, Liquor License, Restaurants
New Jersey municipalities looking to revitalize Downtowns and Main Streets could use some new tools. Thus, the League of Municipalities supports A-2452, which would create new liquor licenses for restaurants meeting certain criteria. There is no doubt that these licenses would represent an important economic development or redevelopment tool for many municipalities, and give an economic boost to neighborhood restaurants and to other businesses located in proximity to those establishments.
This bill creates a restricted restaurant license (R1) which permits the holder to sell any alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises of certain restaurants. In addition, the bill creates a restricted beer and wine license (R2) which permits the holder to sell only beer and wine by the bottle or can. These licenses would only be available to restaurants that meet certain square footage requirements, and that maintain a full-service kitchen. The bill provides that alcoholic beverages could only be sold in connection with the service of food at a table by an employee of the restaurant. A license holder would be prohibited from providing a bar area for customers of the restaurant to congregate and consume alcoholic beverages.
The bill establishes a fee schedule for the initial issuance and annual renewal fee for the restricted restaurant license and restricted beer and wine license based on the square footage of the restaurant. The first $2,500 of the initial and renewal fee for the restricted restaurant license and the first $1250 of the fees for the restricted beer and wine license would be paid to the municipality where the restaurant is located, and if the restaurant is located within the boundaries of two or more municipalities, the fee is to be divided equally among those municipalities. The remainder of the fees would go to the Division of Taxation to be used solely for the purposes of offsetting the costs associated with issuing tax credits provided under the bill. A-2452 provides for a OLS (Office of Legislative Services) certified compensation mechanism for any party that feels that they may have been adversely impacted by the enactment of of this bill After the Division of Taxation is reimbursed for costs associated with issuing tax credits, the full fee is to be paid to the municipality. In addition, the bill requires licensees to pay to the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control any applicable renewal fees that the holder of a plenary retail consumption license is required to pay under current law.
Our paramount concern was that this legislation would preempt municipal discretion regarding the issuance of these new licenses. For instance, as introduced, the bill gives a 'dry town' the option to permit the issuance of 'restricted restaurant licenses' and/or 'restricted beer and wine licenses.' Specifically, only those municipalities are given the opportunity to opt into the program, via ordinance or resolution. No other municipalities have such an option. In fact, the bill states, "The governing board or body of the municipality shall not limit the number of … (such licenses) …within the municipality …"
From our perspective, A-2452 needed to be amended to allow locally elected and locally responsive governing bodies to determine whether the issuance of these new licenses will benefit their local businesses and their neighbors and constituents. Issuance of these licenses should be restricted to municipalities that, by ordinance, authorize such licenses.
Assemblyman (and former Mayor) John Burzichelli, has indicated his willingness to accept many of our recommendations. In particular, the Assemblyman agreed to our suggestion to allow an "opt-in" provision for all municipalities. We sincerely appreciate his eagerness to involve us in discussions on the bill and to consider our concerns.
Click here to see the NJTV segment on this bill.
Jon Moran, Senior Legislative Analyst, jmoran@njslom.org, 609-695-3481 x121.
Michael Cerra, Assistant Executive Director, mcerra@njslom.org , 609-695-3481 x120.


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Page 11, 23 December 1960 — LITERATURE INTO LIFE
23 DECEMBER 1960, Page 11
LITERATURE INTO LIFE
SIR,—Mr. Newton thinks that when I feel alarm at the presumption I seem to see among teachers and students of English, I am afraid only of a bogey of my own devising; Mr. Hough tells me I'm not alarmed enough, that I don't know the half of it. Your readers must decide which of them is right, or whether the fact of their disagreement doesn't sug- gest that the truth is somewhere in between them.
Mr. Newton insists on naming names. I am quite
ready to 'descend to personalities' when the situation calls for it. 1 don't think this situation does. It seems hard on Mr. David Holbrook that he should be singled out; and I must point out that he is Mr. Newton's whipping-boy, not mine. There is even less reason for bringing in the name of Dr. Leavis; after all, Ire wasn't a witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. In short, I was pointing to a general malaise, not attacking individuals without naming them.
I agree with Mr. Hough that the spectacle I tried to regard gravely is from other points of. view extremely comical. A man too big for his boots cuts a ridiculous figure; but he can also be dangerous— which is not a laughing matter. In the same way your readers may be grateful to Mr. Newton for his. information about the magazine Delta, and yet sec something comical in Cambridge's solemn con- viction that the details of its parochial squabbles arc of consuming interest to the world at large.
Mr. Hough asks, 'Is there no literature written in French or Italian or Greek or Russian?' Of course, of course. And to the Italian, the study of Italian, to the Russian, the study of Russian niust be embar- rassing as the study of English is embarrassing for us, embarrassing because we don't sec where it can stop.
Mr. Newton asks, 'What serious function can a humanities study have if it is not ultimately the study of "how to live"?' Much virtue in that `ulti- mately.' The great writers may teach people how to live. Our more modest role is to make those writers easy of access; no more than that, and that is hard enough.--Yours faithfully,

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HIV, the brain and children
20 December 2009. Related: Paediatric care.
Polly Clayden, HIV i-Base
The developing brain is known to be a target for HIV, and there is concern about the long-term effect on the cognitive and behavioural development of HIV-positive children.
Additionally before the introduction of HAART, the prevalence of HIV encephalopathy in HIV-positive children was up to 50%.
Two studies published in the 10 September 2009 edition of AIDS, examine long-term neurocognitive and psychiatric outcomes of vertically infected adolescents and the impact of HAART on HHIV encephalopathy among children and adolescents in two American cohorts.
Impact of AIDS diagnoses on neurocognitive and psychiatric outcomes of vertically infected adolescents
Sarah Woods and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA, to examine the association between previous AIDS and neurocognitive and psychiatric outcomes in vertically infected adolescent long-term survivors. [1]
Adolescents attending the HIV clinic, born before 1 September 1995 and above 11 years of age were enrolled this study in which those with previous CDC Class C diagnosis (AIDS defining) were compared to those with non-Class C diagnosis.
Of the 172 meeting these criteria 39 (23%) patients had died, 45 (26%) transferred and 7 (4%) were lost to follow up. The remaining 81 adolescents were eligible for evaluation of whom 38 (46.9%) were girls and 58 (71.6%) were African-American. Their median age was 15.2 years (range 11.1-23.8, IQR 13.2-17.2 years). Almost half (47%) the participants were Class C and there were no significant differences in sex, race or current age between the class C and non-Class C groups. HIV diagnosis was at a median of 9 months and Class C diagnosis was at a median of 3.1 years of age. Of the Class C group, 51% had at least one additional Class C diagnosis.
Most recent viral load, CD4 percentage and CDC immunological category were similar in both groups. By the end of the study period 93% of the cohort were receiving HAART. There was no difference between the groups in those achieving and not achieving an undetectable viral load when on HAART. The cohort was heavily treatment experienced and patients with Class C diagnosis had received a greater number of regimens p=0.002. Of this group 68.4% had initiated HAART before their AIDS diagnosis.
The median full scale intelligence quotient (FSIQ) of the cohort, measured on the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV (WISC-IV) or the Weschler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence, was 87 (IQR 78-99), which falls within the "average" category.
However, Class C patients had significantly lower median FSIQ than non-class C, 82 (IQR 73-90) vs 93.5 (IQR 84-100) respectively, p=0.0003. Learning disabilities had been diagnosed in 42% of the cohort and 17% had a lifetime history of HIV-related progressive encephalopathy (HPE).
Almost half the cohort (47%) had a diagnosed psychiatric illness and18.5% had multiple psychiatric illnesses. Treatment with psychotropic medications had been prescribed to 32% of the cohort, and 16% had a history of mental health hospitalisation.
The investigators performed a multivariate logistic regression analysis, adjusted for age at ART initiation, to look at the association between Class C diagnosis and neurocognitive and psychiatric status.
They found a significant association between previous Class C diagnosis and neurocognitive impairment: learning disabilities, adjusted OR 4.1 (95% CI 1.5-11.1), p=0.014 and lower FSIQ (median), -12.1 (-18.7 to 5.5), p=0.002. There was also significant association with psychiatric diagnosis AOR 3 (95% CI, 1.1-8.1), p=0.027, in particular multiple psychiatric diagnosis AOR 19.3 (95% CI, 2.3-162.6), p=0.001; mood disorder AOR 3.3 (95% CI, 1.1-10), p=0.023 and receiving mental health treatment AOR 4 (95% CI, 1.3-13), p=0.042.
The investigators found no difference in FSIQ or rates of learning or psychiatric disorders between Class C patients starting HAART before and after their AIDS diagnosis. But they noted that the number of patients with Class C disease was small and they were underpowered to detect even modest associations in this sub-analysis.
Impact of HAART on encephalopathy
Kunjal Patel and colleagues from The PACTG 219 study team looked at the effects of HAART and CNS penetrating regimens on the incidence of HIV encephalopathy in perinatally infected children and adolescents. [2] This study was conducted between 1994 and 2006 in a large American multicentre paediatric cohort.
The study followed 2398 perinatally infected children with at least one neurological examination.
The investigators used Cox regression models to estimate the effects of time varying HAART vs non HAART and time varying medium and high CNS penetrating regimens vs low CNS penetrating regimens on the incidence of HIV encephalopathy. They also looked at overall survival and survival following encephalopathy diagnosis. Covariates included baseline age and CD4 percentage, sex, ethnicity and birth weight. Secondary analyses used Cox models to estimate the effects of HAART and CNS penetrating regimens on HIV encephalopathy also adjusted for viral load and to evaluate the effect of HIV encephalopathy on mortality.
There were 2398 children, with a median of 6.4 years of follow up, included in this analysis. At baseline the 2272 children followed for incident HIV encephalopathy and survival analyses were equally divided between the sexes, the majority (85%) were less than or equal to 10 years of age, 24% had low birth weight, 56% had a CD4 percentage above 25% and there were no viral load data for 54%.
At the time of their first neurological examination 35% of children were on a HAART regimen and 27% were on a high CNS penetrating regimen. During the study period there were 77 incident cases of HIV encephalopathy, giving an incident rate of 5.1 per 1000 person years (95% CI 4-6.3).
The investigators reported a 10-fold decline in incidence of HIV encephalopathy. This began in 1996 and stablised after 2002. This decrease paralleled a significant increase in the use of HAART in the cohort.
They found the risk of developing HIV encephalopathy in children initiated on HAART was halved compared to those who were not on HAART (hazard ratio 0.5, 95% CI 0.29-0.86), p=0.01. Baseline CD4 less than 15% was associated with over 8-fold increase in risk of developing HIV encephalopathy (hazard ratio 8.41, 95% CI 4.79-14.76). Infants were also at greater risk, age less than or equal to 1 year at first neurological examination was associated with a over 3-fold increase in HIV encephalopathy (hazard ratio 3.38, 95% CI 1.36-8.44).
In the subanalysis looking at ranked CNS penetrating regimens, the investigators found a 41% reduction in incidence of HIV encephalopathy in high CNS penetrating regimens compared to low (hazard ratio 0.59, 95% CI 0.31-1.10). Due to the small sample size in this analysis, this association was not significant, p=0.64.
Across the cohort (n=2272) both HAART and high CNS penetrating regimens were associated with increased survival, hazard ratio 0.41(95% CI 0.29-0.58), and hazard ratio 0.31(0.22-0.45), both p<0.0001, compared to no HAART and low CNS penetrating regimens respectively.
Children with an HIV encephalopathy diagnosis had a 12-fold increase in risk of death compared to those without (hazard ratio 12.42, 95% CI 8.46-18.24).
There was a 50% increased survival benefit associated with HAART use among the 77 children with an incident diagnosis of HIV encephalopathy (hazard ratio, 0.51, 95% CI 0.25-1.05) but this was not statistically significant, p=0.07. High CNS penetrating regimens were associated with greater survival benefit, giving a 74% reduction in risk of death (hazard ratio 0.26, 95%CI 0.11-0.61, p=0.002) compared to low penetrating regimens.
Wood and colleagues write that their findings suggest that early HAART, initiated before the onset of symptomatic HIV, may be warranted to protect the developing CNS in children with HIV. For infants, they suggest that alongside CHER findings, and in keeping with some recent guideline changes, that HAART should be given to all infants immediately after birth. However, in an accompanying commentary, Marc Tadieu suggests that it is not possible to conclude directly from this study that very early treatment would have prevented class C events and possibly ensure normal cognitive and behavioural development, "although, it is tempting to do so."
Patel and colleagues found HAART use to be highly effective in reducing the risk of HIV encephalopathy. They suggest that among children with HIV encephalopathy diagnosis, treatment decisions should take into account the effectiveness of ARVs in penetrating the CNS, as high CNS penetrating regimens offered increased survival benefit (74% reduction in risk of death compared to low penetrating). Editorial commentary from Bruce Brew describes HIV, the brain, children and "neuro-HAART" as "a complex mix" and suggests it is time for randomised clinical trials to establish whether "neuro-HAART" treats brain disease better than standard HAART.
Wood SM et al. The impact of AIDS diagnoses on long-term neurocognitive and psychiatric outcomes of surviving adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV. AIDS 2009, 23:1859-1865.
Patel K et al. Impact of HAART and CNS-penetrating antiretroviral regimens on HIV encephalopathy among perinatally infected children and adolescents. AIDS 2009, 23:1893-1901.
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Navy Medical Corps
Adapted from "Captain Thomas Ferwerda, Medical Corps, U.S, Navy, Retired"
[biography, dated 26 August 1954] in Modern Biographical Files collection, Navy Department Library.
Thomas Ferwerda
14 Janaury 1906-[no death date]
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Thomas Ferwerda was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on January 14, 1906, son of John and Minnie (Appel) Ferwerda. He attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1932. Following his period of internship, he practiced Medicine in Grand Rapids, and was a member of the US Army Reserve in 1934 and 1935, serving as Assistant Medical Officer at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, in 1935-36. Commissioned Lieutenant (jg) in the Medical Corps of the US Navy on August 3, 1936, he advanced through subsequent promotions, to the rank of captain, his date of rank January 1, 1952.
Reporting in August 1936 to the US Naval Hospital, New York, New York, he served there as a Junior Medical Officer, Surgical Service, for a year, after which he had graduate work at the Naval Medical School, Washington, DC. In 1938 after a course at the Army's School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field, Texas, he was designated Flight Surgeon and ordered to the USS Saratoga as Junior Medical Officer. A year later he reported as a student at the Naval School of Aviation Medicine and upon completion of the course was designated Naval Flight Surgeon.
From November 1, 1939 to April 1, 1941 he was attached to SS-3 Fleet Marine Force, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and upon his return to the United States was assigned as Senior Medical Officer at the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, DC. While there he developed an Antiblackout Suit and Mechanical Equipment for Aviators during the First year of World War II. When detached in December 1942, he was ordered to report to Commander Fleet Air Wings, South Pacific, as Staff Medical Officer. Late in 1943 he returned to the United States for brief duty at the Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland, assigned to the Physiology Test Division.
He served as Senior Medical Officer of USS Saratoga in 1944-45, and during the next year he was Senior Medical Officer at the Naval Air Station, Glenview, Illinois. From July 1946 until June 1947 he was a graduate student in Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and during the three years after graduation served as chief, Eye, ear, Nose and Throat Division, of the Naval Hospital, Dublin, Georgia, and later the Naval Hospital, Mare Island, California.
During the period 1950-52 he served as Medical Officer in the Office of Naval Officer Procurement, Detroit, Michigan, after which he had duty as Senior Medical Officer at the Marine Corps Air Station, Miami, Florida. Under orders of April 29, 1953, he reported to the Bureau of Medicine and Survey, Navy Department, where he served first as Head, Medical Military Specialties Branch and Aviation Medicine Research Division, and currently serves as Deputy Director, Research Division.
Captain Ferwerda has the American Defense Service Medal with star; the American Campaign Medal; the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one engagement star; the World war II Victory Medal; and the National Defense Service Medal. He also holds the Expert Pistol Shot's Medal.
He is a member of the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
Published: Wed Oct 21 11:39:22 EDT 2020


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Retail business event at Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, Gothenburg.
The role of markets in the innovation process
It's universally understood that innovation transforms markets, sometimes in a small way, sometimes radically, but how do markets influence and encourage innovation? And if they do, what are the drivers that will make it happen? Some markets are unquestionable more mature than others, but maturity is not the right way to look at it, as history has shown that almost non-existing markets can have a great influence on innovation, while markets that consist of millions of customers and vendors have hardly any influence on innovation that matters.
The most recognized examples of markets that either had a huge influence on innovation or didn't matter at all are the original Apple computer and the Nokia phone. While Nokia devoted lots of energy and resources to study how people used their handsets, it wasn't an endemic frustration amongst mobile users that created the original Apple iPhone in 2007. It was the frustration of a small set of people at Apple, and the technology they were developing in the form of the touch screen, that brought about the iPhone.
The original Apple computers (the Apple II and Macintosh) benefited to a large extent from a small but opinionated community that gave much needed input, enough to drive the next step in the innovation process. It was a group of enthusiastic hobbyists, who wanted to make their own creations, either these were programs, spreadsheets or simple documents. They either had or knew someone who had a mini computer or mainframe at work, and they wanted to share that experience at home. These were early adopters who were willing to overlook imperfections while the idea of a personal computer more than well served their needs and interests. For them, it was as exciting as traveling the world in the '30s. Usually opinionated, but in a constructive way, they often had other interests besides computers — in art, medicin, or zoology — who gave them unique perspectives in the field of computer science. Proximity to this community was, if not critical, very important to drive Apple's understanding of what needed to be done. Although 95% of all ideas these hobbyists came up with were rejected, it was the ones that got through that resonated with and built Apple's future.
Nokia also recognized the need to observe how their customers used their handsets. They sent experts in behavioral science and psychology to study people in parks and cafes, often secretly, but the problem Nokia had was that they lacked the proximity and kind of users Apple had; the ones that would benefit Nokia in the long run. People loved Nokia's products, but it wasn't the kind of love who made the community come up with new ideas that could be incorporated in future products. Nokia's elicitation activities, including their usability labs, only managed to make them outperform their current competitors, which wasn't bad at the time, but it didn't secure their future. Nokia lacked the active community Apple had in order to innovate. Innovation isn't a one way street, and has never been, which most successful companies understand. In order to build products that can survive in the long run, companies need a market that is active and has a deep understanding of the products they use.
Markets need to have a deep understanding of the products they use in order to have a role in the innovation process.
Time and time again history has shown how different needs can be present in a market, while the actors who should serve the needs don't have the ideas or incentives to do it. Instead, these actors become gatekeepers, preventing real solutions from entering the market. Not seldom is this done in collusion with an unwitting government in order to keep entry barriers in place, wasting booth human talent and emotions in the process. It only feeds frustration and anger in those who challenge existing solutions and who look for change. These gatekeepers are more interested in fulfilling their own needs, either these are career goals or financial targets, creating lock-in effects to make customers dependent and vulnerable instead of helping them.
Markets that work properly will supply a constant flow of ideas, demands, and opportunities; they will even supply people who can be employees or part of an ecosystem. A market is a testing ground for innovation, a place where entrepreneurs and companies can benchmark ideas. Markets are not above failure; they can easily go down blind alleys, like the 3D television and the supersonic passenger jet airliner Concorde. But markets are seldom wrong in the long term, as customers will rank, reward and punish companies and their innovations. Markets that are agnostic when it comes to brands and technology are less likely to play an important role in the innovation process. This is what happened to Nokia, whose customers were not aware of what they wanted or why they wanted it. People who are easily convinced by their friends and influencers have few strong opinions about the products they use. It's therefore not enough to build the best product, it has probably never been, as history is filled with exceptional innovations that were knocked out by much inferior products. Markets can become single-minded and outright hostile to ideas that are different. This is frequently seen in the Software engineering community, where people are mocked because they dare to be different, which is really a sign of misgiving and insecurity when it comes to own choices. The more people dare to express their opinions, the more a market will evolve. The alternative is a market that stagnates and where innovation is largely absent.
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Reza Aslan Talks 'Zealot,' the Book Behind the Viral Fox News Video
by Hector Tobar
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Having spoken earlier to author Reza Aslan about his viral video with a certain Fox News reporter, The Times took a few moments Tuesday to talk to the UC Riverside professor about his book and what's in it.
"Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" (Random House, $27) is a lucid, intelligent page turner about "the historical Jesus." It's a portrait of the violent and changing times he lived in and the decades that preceeded the ill-fated rebellion of the Jews against the Roman Empire and the destruction of Jerusalem.
You say early in your book that your study of Jesus' life has made you "a more genuinely committed disciple of Jesus of Nazareth than I ever was of Jesus Christ." What exactly do you mean by that?
Millions of Christians in the world think that Jesus is fully God and fully man…. But for me, the more I studied the earthly Jesus and the world in which he lived, the powers that he confronted and the social ills that he addressed, the more real he became. He was far more real than the celestial Christ I had been introduced to in my church.
In a sense I wanted to have, as Evangelicals put it, a personal relationship with Jesus of Nazareth. To me that was far more meaningful than the relationship that I'd had with the Christ. For many Christians … all of his actions and all of his suffering are put into the framework of his knowledge as an eternal being — everything he does is all for some greater spiritual good. To me that's less compelling than an actual human being who sacrifices himself on behalf of the dispossessed and the outcast.
I can see in "Zealot" the influence of the sociology you've studied — in the sense that you try to reconstruct the social relationships and the larger context of the beliefs of the society Jesus was living in.
What's amazing about the world that Jesus lived is that it's a world that we know a lot about. First-century Palestine, thanks to Roman occupation, was a very well documented society. We know a great deal about the social, political and religious context of Jesus' times. That's important because we know very little, almost nothing, about Jesus himself outside of the Gospels. It's up to the historian to fill in the holes left behind by gathering what information we can from his time and place. In the case of Jesus, the picture that arises bears very little resemblance to the catechistic creature of good works most Christians are familiar with.
The portrait that emerges of Jesus in your book is of a rebel, a "zealot." He is a man who is shaped by the great movements of the day and especially the resistance to the Roman presence.
We're talking about an illiterate, uneducated poor peasant from the Galilean countryside whose charisma was so great and whose teachings were so compelling that he gathered a mass of followers and marched with them into the lion's den, into the seat of the Roman presence in Judea and also into the heart of Jewish culture, the Temple. And in the name of the outcasts, the marginalized and dispossessed people … he took on the greatest empire the world had ever know and sacrificed himself for it. How can that person not be worth knowing? This is a man who is heroic in very sense of the world. He's the quintessential Hollywood action hero.
"Zealot" has some wonderful novelistic touches, moments when you work hard to visually fill out the scenes while recounting various episodes of Jesus' life. If you could put yourself in a time machine and witness one of the moments in your book, which one would it be?
The most pivotal moment of Jesus' brief ministry was the so-called cleansing of the Temple. It was the event that led to his arrest and execution. Jesus and his multitude of followers triumphantly entered Jerusalem and the Temple marketplace … and violently attacked it, which is how the events are described in the Gospels. He and his followers are breaking open the cages that hold the animals, they're kicking over the tables of the moneylenders and the money changers. The Gospels say that he makes a whip out of cords and starts beating people.
That kind of violent zealotry is the lens through which we need to see Jesus. That's the single most important moment in trying to understand what his relationship was to Judaism and the Jewish authorities at the time and why he was seen as such a threat to the Establishment. I would have loved to have been there to see that.
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Minister of ICT Meets the Egypt Open Source Association Representatives
- Transition to Open Source Software Gradually
-Setting a New Strategy for Using Open Source Software in the State Administrative Body
Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Hany Mahmoud met with Egypt Open Source Association representatives to review a number of current issues related to the sector.
Discussions tackled a number of current ICT topics, most importantly, what was raised recently about the Egyptian government renewing the partnership agreement with Microsoft Corp. for using its software and owning desktops and servers licenses used in all ministries and government entities in Egypt.
In this context, Minister of ICT declared that software is a major industry in the ICT sector globally. According to him, Egypt is keen to intensify the cooperation with leading major international companies to provide tools, database systems and software through a number of framework agreements that allow Egypt a package of technical and economic features in this field.
Renewing partnership agreement with Microsoft Corp., as he says, is the best alternative at the moment to preserve the rights of the Egyptian government. The agreement signed in April 2009 aims to appoint a licensed software to the Egyptian government from the company for three years ending in October 2012, with the possibility of owning these licenses by the Egyptian government after the agreement period end.
The Minister has formed a committee to study and discuss alternatives that were put forward to maximize the benefit of this agreement. In its final report, the committee recommends to negotiate with Microsoft Corporation the acquisition of these licenses by the Egyptian government to preserve the government investments.
The committee also recommends to keep programs and licenses already in use by the government and entailed in the agreement, in addition to the human development investments for the State's employees, users of these licenses and national companies. Recommendations include also the applications and information systems developed by national companies and databases built in ministries and agencies.
This comes out of the Egyptian government keenness to regulate the licenses used in the public agencies, out of respect for the protection of intellectual property laws signed by Egypt.
Accordingly, negotiations have been launched with Microsoft Corp. As a result, Microsoft offered the Egyptian government the licenses with the same value stipulated by the acquisition clause in the 2009 agreement.
The licenses are to be paid within four years. The Egyptian government is to receive periodic updates and maintenance to the programs and licenses throughout the agreement's duration, in addition to obtaining a 10% return on investment from the company to be allocated for the completion of government projects in the same field.
Recommendations underline the importance of the gradual transition to the use of open source software and cloud computing in accordance with the technical requirements of reducing the operating cost and maximizing the use of government agencies and information centers, so as the transition plan would include the following elements:
Capacity building of technical personnel to deal with open source software, by inserting these programs in universities and institutes curricula.
Developing training programs for IT professionals in open source software.
Establishing a specialized center for the support management of open-source-software-based applications to develop the domestic market to take benefit of capable companies of providing software support services to government agencies.
Develop a plan to create awareness for beneficiaries of open source software and free software model.
Upon proposing tenders for applications, they must include the software or servers operating licenses required for the application. The operation environment should not be specified unless the tender contract is an extension of an existing application.
Accordingly, in November 2012, Mr. Hany Mahmoud formed a committee to formulate a new strategy on open source software usage in the state administration. He set a 3 months limit to finalize this strategy implemented in parallel with what has been achieved of the utilized advantages of the Microsoft Corporation partnership agreement, thus bringing the desired gradual shift towards open source software in accordance with the set strategy.
He stressed on the necessity to have this strategy focus work on developing an integrated system to develop the open source software industry in Egypt, in order to actually start the gradual shift.
Given the seriousness of the sudden shift towards these programs and the negative impact that may result if implemented immediately, it has been agreed to hold a training program in cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education in faculties of engineering, computer science and IT to create the required technical staff to support the industry.
Among its members, the strategy formulation committee comprised a group of Egyptian university professors and representatives of Egypt open source association.
The main axes of this strategy were developed, including soft skills at all levels of universities, government officials, companies and developers, with a special emphasis on developing policies and legislation in an attempt to ensure the gradual shift within the public sector.
Moreover, it covers the pillars of government shift, open source software industry development and the change management.
The new strategy addresses studies on the economic feasibility of gradual turning to software open source. On January 9th, 2013, the open source software Industry Development pillar will be discussed through holding seminars including civil society representatives (Egypt Open Source Association and other associations and companies to discuss and develop the civil society and the private sector vision) in order to participate in developing this important strategy.
Egypt gained many advantages through its partnership with international specialized IT companies such as Microsoft Corporation; the most important is providing licenses to use software at prices much lower than the official rates, which support the growth of this industry and its local spread.
It also increases investments in Egypt in IT field, where these companies reinvest part of their profits in Egypt in cooperation with local companies, as well as providing job opportunities for youth in the ICT fields.
Moreover, it improves the status of Egypt internationally in preserving intellectual property and fighting software piracy, besides improving the image of the investment climate in Egypt, increasing global companies' investments in Egypt and attracting more foreign investors from other sectors to invest in the Egyptian market.
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Lower Sesan II plant set to launch
The Hydropower Lower Sesan II power plant, which will be launched next week, is set to add another 20 per cent to the Kingdom's current total electricity production, said a senior official of the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
The plant has a total electricity generating capacity of 400 megawatts, which will bring the total amount of hydropower produced by Cambodia to 1,328 megawatts.
The dam, which is located in Stung Treng province, is constructed on 36,000ha with a height of 80m, of which 75m serves as water preservation and the remaining five meters reserved to avert the risk of excess water.
The project is a joint investment by Chinese firm Hydrolancang International Energy Co Ltd, which holds 51 per cent of its shares, Royal Group (39 percent), while the rest is held by a Vietnamese-owned company, EVN, with a total investment of more than $800 million.
The seventh hydropower dam
Ministry spokesman Victor Jona said that after trial launches, the power plant will officially be launched next week.
"The launch of [the Hydropower Lower Sesan II power plant] is very important in promoting energy security and making supply more stable," he said.
The launch of the Sesan II will bring the total number of hydropower dams in Cambodia to seven.
However, Jona said although Cambodia is able to produce much of its own electricity, it still needs to buy 15 percent of its electric power from neighboring countries.
"Every year, electricity consumption in Cambodia increases between 13 and 15 percent."
Jona said the ministry is currently studying the possibility of building many hydropower dams in the southwest and northeast quadrants of the Kingdom. But such construction will not be seen soon, as it requires detailed studies on the environmental and social impact.
"The government's strategy is to find low-cost energy sources to contribute to economic growth and give all people and enterprises low-cost electricity," he said.
Currently, about 45 percent of the electricity consumed in Cambodia is from hydroelectric sources, about 35 percent from coal-fired power plants, about five percent from petroleum, biomass energy plants and solar power, while 15 percent comes neighboring countries.
During Prime Minister Hun Sen's visit to Laos last week, Cambodia signed to buy 230kV and 500kV of power from the Lao Hatch Station to Stung Treng station in Cambodia.
A ministry report published late last year showed that based on a preliminary assessment, Cambodia could potentially extract about 10,000 megawatts from hydropower dams.
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Whether it is running, swimming, weight lifting or aerobics, fitness experts say the center of all exercise routines is the core — the abdominal, back and muscles around the pelvis — which is the seat of stability, strength and power. Adding in exercise routines to strengthen the core can help the runner go faster, the basketball player jump higher and the everyday exerciser more easily do routine tasks from loading the car to cleaning the tub.
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At the end of a rough day, the rhythmic swooshing of the elliptical, whir of a bike or patter of feet on the belt of a treadmill might sound like music to your ears — for stress relief, cardio is tops. It's also, of course, awesome for your heart, and a definite calorie burner. Still, while all that good stuff is true, there are a lot of fallacies running around out there, and following them may be stopping you in your fitness tracks.
Exercising when you're caring for someone else
Caregivers have little spare time for themselves. So when you do get a break, you're probably craving rest, rather than thinking of exercise. Yet, of the two, exercise could be a far better choice. It may prevent you from getting sick, help you sleep better and is almost certain to give you more energy &mdahs; three things of prime importance to a caregiver.
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Want to lose weight? The advice most often given is to diet and exercise, but it turns out that one aspect is far more important than the other. While both are key to living a long, healthy life, ultimately, nutrition experts say you can't outrun a poor diet. The reality is that the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you take in, which is nearly impossible to do unless you change your eating habits.
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If listless Romelu Lukaku is the answer then what's the question
We often hear about a player or maybe a club suffer from "second season syndrome" - a mythical condition that seems hard to diagnose but easy enough to recognise the symptoms. Whether it's a legitimate condition or merely a figment of the fickle football fan's imagination, there can be no debating that - whatever it is - Romelu Lukaku is suffering a nasty dose of it at present.
After an excellent first campaign in the red of United, Lukaku looked set to have carried on where he left off after a superb World Cup for a star studded Belgian side that finished third. After four goals in five games at the start of the 2018-19, Lukaku has now not scored in eight games since he found the net at Watford five weeks ago. Beyond merely his struggles in front of goal, Lukaku is worryingly off the pace in all aspect of his game. His touch is poor, his movement non existent and his link-up play conspicuous by its absence. Against Juventus, his game was epitomised by as early as the eight minute. Having drifted out wide, Lukaku hit an aimless 30-yard pass to no one in particular, inevitably recycled the ball to a black and white shirted player and then meandered sluggishly back into the position as Juventus countered. His game did certainly not improve after that. At times, it was almost like United were playing with ten men. Without wishing to sound too harsh on last term's top scorer, he has become more of an hindrance than a help. Lukaku is struggling to find any of the basic pre-requisites of a centre forward. Dry spells are an occupational hazard for any striker but in the absence of finding the net, a no.9 has to diversify. Right now Rom is failing to compensate in any way.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to justify Lukaku's continued inclusion in United's starting team. But therein lies in the problem: to drop a £75m striker would be to admit failure, and so lacking in depth is this squad that there's a lack of options elsewhere. Marcus Rashford hasn't developed enough to play as a nine, and Anthony Martial is at his best when the ball is played into his feet rather than with his back to goal. Maybe Lukaku is simply exhausted and Alexis Sanchez should get a run through the middle.
In the eight games since the 2-1 win at Watford on September 15, the United forward has neither scored nor created a goal for anyone else. Lukaku can hardly put it down to poor finishing on behalf of his team-mates. He's managed a mere four shots in four Premier League games, none of which have been on target.
Harry Kane has attempted four times that number and Sergio Aguero even more, but it's not just the elite level strikers that have been a greater threat to the opposition goal - 95 players have attempted more shots than red Rom since his last goal. He is struggling badly and desperately needs an upturn in form and fortune.
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Game #103 Preview: Gausman vs Rasmussen
Blue Jays (57-45) vs Rays (54-48)
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As the trade deadline approaches today, the Blue Jays will prepare themselves to open the post-deadline schedule at the Little Trop of Horrors, taking on the hometown Rays for a short two game series. The first game of the series gets underway at 7:10 ET, just over an hour after the 6pm ET trade deadline. Both the Rays and Jays are expected to make some moves today, so the teams could look a bit different than it sets up right now.
Blue Jays' Starter
Kevin Gausman will go for the Jays, and barring an injury, that won't be changing. Gausman will be making his 20th start of the season, bringing a 7-8 record and 3.30 ERA into the game. His FIP has been fantastic this season, but isn't showing up fully in games for Gausman, as his 2.06 FIP is still the best in baseball, but the difference between his FIP and ERA one of the greatest in all of baseball.
There are many theories as to why his results aren't close to the process, with many falling back on to the shift that has hurt him. But he has also just given up a lot more solid hits with high hit probability, especially lately. There is certainly a combination of bad luck and bad positioning in there too, but the fact that he can carry a 2.06 FIP yet see the team go 9-10 in his starts is quite baffling.
Rays' Starter
The Rays will counter with Drew Rasmussen, who will be making his 18th start in what has become his first full season of starting. At 82.1 innings, he is now just 5 innings short of the total he put up last year between the Minors and Majors, but given his success and strength thus far, the Rays are probably hoping to be able to use him as a starter right through the end of the season as they fight for a playoff spot.
On the season Rasmussen is 6-3 with a 3.17 ERA. Two of his starts have come against the Blue Jays, and he has gotten strong results thus far. Across 10.1 innings, he has allowed 3 runs (2 earned), surrendering 8 hits and 3 walks. The Jays batters don't have a home run off him yet, but they also have just 3 strikeouts in 40 plate appearances.
Blue Jays' Lineup
With today's trade deadline looming, there's a chance that there could be some changes here, but realistically even if there is a move today, it likely won't change anything in today's lineup, unless there's a massive move that sends out a position player. Even then, any new players acquired today likely aren't going to be able to make it to Tampa in time for tonight's game.
Danny Jansen has caught Gausman in each of his last three starts, but Gausman hasn't seen favourable returns, and the pairing doesn't seem to be working overly well. I wouldn't object to Alejandro Kirk getting the Gausman starts.
Both George Springer and Bo Bichette had some injury scares on Thursday night, which led to off days on Friday. They both returned to the lineup on Saturday, but Springer was once again absent for Sunday's game. Concerns over Springer are certainly plentiful, and the Jays may feel the need today to get some more insurance in case of longer term injury.
Rays' Lineup
The Rays currently have a fairly significant and impactful injured list. Both regular catchers Mike Zunino and Francisco Mejia are out, although neither were anywhere close to the dominating bats they were last year. Young phenom Wander Franco is out for several weeks after going for wrist surgery a few weeks ago. And the Rays are without a trio of outfielders in Kevin Kiermaier, Manuel Margot and Harold Ramírez.
The Rays have already made a couple trades in the last couple days, bringing in outfielders David Peralta and Jose Siri to help cover for their currently injured outfielders. Siri has been a Kiermaier-level defender in the outfield this year, while Peralta brings a solid veteran left handed bat to the lineup while still contributing strong defense in LF.
Brandon Lowe, who started off really bad (66 wRC+ in 88 April plate appearances), missed several weeks from mid-may to early July. Since coming back, he has looked like the Lowe of old, hitting .340/.392/.553 in 51 PA, bringing his season total line to a 125 wRC+.
Yesterday's Heroes
Jose Trevino had a pair of home runs yesterday, good enough to take home the Monster Bat award. His big day helped his Yankees beat the Mariners 7-2.
Jose Miranda had a game tying 2-run single in the 8th inning, and a game tying 1-run single in the 10th inning, on his way to helping his Twins beat the Tigers 5-3 in extras. Miranda gets the WPA King trophy with a .536 mark.
Mike Clevinger fired 7 dominating innings yesterday, getting the Pitcher of the Day award along the way. He made it through 7 innings, allowing just 1 run on 5 hits and no walks, striking out 6. He picked up the win as well, as his Padres beat the Rockies 4-1.
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New York City administered just over 8,300 doses of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, a decrease of more than 2,100 shots compared to the number given out seven days ago, and far fewer than the 12,170 jabs given on Wednesday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo pinned the slow pace on poor hospital leadership.On Monday, Cuomo threatened that hospitals in the state who failed to work through their initial allotment of the vaccine supply would face fines of up to $100,000, and that those who felt overwhelmed should contact the state and opt out of distribution plans.The threat faced criticism from many, namely New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, who reportedly said it was "arrogance," and added that the governor should instead come up with a plan to help the hospitals distribute the vaccines faster rather than punish those struggling.The two Democrats have sparred throughout the pandemic over handlings of city school closures and implementing coronavirus restrictions, including the closure of restaurants. CUOMO SAYS UK CORONAVIRUS VARIANT A 'GAME-CHANGER'But Cuomo on Tuesday hit back that New York has only received enough allotment to vaccinate half of the health care workers, adding that some of the 194 hospitals in the state have failed to vaccinate 50% of their staff over the last two weeks. He also fought back against the notion that hospitals may be facing vaccine hesitancy among health care workers."I have also been deluged with phone calls of health care workers saying, 'I can't get a vaccine, and I'm going out there every day and I can't get a vaccine,'" Cuomo said.Unlike Florida, Tennessee, Nevada and West Virginia, New York has not opened up the vaccine supply to include members of the public who are over age 75. Cuomo said that hospitals have not been moving quickly enough through Phase 1a of distribution, and added that if a hospital moved through their allocation then they should contact the state, which would move the remaining supply for them to continue vaccinating health care workers.DESANTIS SAYS FLORIDA HOSPITALS SLOW TO DISTRIBUTE COVID-19 VACCINE WILL SEE SUPPLIES REDISTRIBUTED When questioned if fining hospitals would result in pulling resources away from public and already-struggling facilities, Cuomo defended the threat and said that it was not meant to be a money-making scheme for the state."This is not about money, this is about saving lives," he said. "We're not really interested in collecting fines, we're really interested in – for those hospitals who now have the allocation and are slow — move the allocation, move it quickly. We're serious and if don't want to be fined just don't participate in the program."He added that retrieving vaccines from hospitals who no longer want to participate in distribution plans would prove difficult due to refrigeration and transportation logistics.CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE"The situation we're in is we've already allocated to all the hospitals, and again as I said before it's hard to get it back but if a hospital calls up and says I'm going to use this allocation and then I want out – fine," he said. "That's totally fine."Cuomo said the discrepancy between some hospitals moving through 99% of their supply versus those lagging behind at just 15% is a matter of "some of them, frankly, operate better than others."
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