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'A Cut Through Stoke' a personal and historical celebration of the Trent and Mersey canal.
At a Gallery set beneath the historic gates of Spode, Friday the 19th of June marked the opening of a new photography exhibition. 'A Cut Through Stoke' is an informative, historical and reminiscent set of images taken of the Trent and Mersey canal, captured over 50 years, by Stoke born photographer John Snow. Held at Gallery 116, the exhibition is a partial look at John's extensive archive and takes you on a walk, from the Harecastle tunnel through to Hem Heath Colliery. It's often said, 'Every picture tells a story' and this exhibition certainly achieves that.
Engineered by James Brindley, and partially funded by Josiah Wedgwood, the miles upon miles of slowly winding waterways through Stoke-on-Trent directly led to the development the Potteries. Honoured with being the country's first long-distance canal, the Trent and Mersey is full of interesting features reflecting its history. This captured the imagination of a 14-year-old John Snow, whose passion for photography stems from walks with his grandfather along the stretch of canal running through Middleport. Having never spent much time on the canals myself, John explained, 'There's a certain smell of the canal. It's addictive', with the same passion that uses to talk about his work; a personal, historical, celebration of fifty years involvement with this particular canal. As the landscape surrounding the canal in Stoke has changed an incredible amount over 50 years, I agree with Mark Brereton, curator at Gallery 116 who points out that the beauty of John's collection, a culmination of his experiences and lifetime connection to the canal, is that there are so many unique photos- images nobody else will ever be able get again.
Developed from slides, John's images are full of colour, capturing children fishing on a hot day, the red clay of Kidsgrove, iconic factories, and the remnants of a time where there was still amass of trade occurring along the canal side. My favourite image was taken in the 70s and features a row of canals boats, Stoke Minister in the distance, a blue Ford Zaffa, Navy Jaguar and Cream Marina Coupe parked alongside the canal. Full of colour, light, and the charming grain of film, it looks as though it could be taken somewhere in the Mediterranean and is so rich and textured I felt as though I could step into the landscapes. Looking at the image, I find it a comfort to think that beneath the bustle of our modern day city, there is a peaceful walkway.
John Snow loves the canals and this passion is reflected in his images. He has dedicated his life to documenting its changes since the age of 14, when his grandfather took him to the canal for the first time, and I am pleased that he has chosen to share some of those images at Gallery 116 with us. Having lived in Stoke a while now, there is so much I still need to see. From the exhibition, I took away a renewed enthusiasm to get creatively snapping, the need to jump out of the car once in a while to explore the city at a slower pace and a desire to find the Harecastle tunnel and 'Heartbreak Hill' too. The exhibition is open Tuesday to Saturday 10-3 till the 19th of July at Gallery 116 Church Street, Stoke, ST1 4BU, so be sure to go along and experience it.
By Gabriella Gay.
– See more at: http://www.appetitestoke.co.uk/blog/2015/07/CTS#sthash.9Io3Wwas.dpuf


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LOS ANGELES, CA, December 13, 2022 – SADA, a leading business and technology consultancy and award-winning Google Cloud Partner, has announced that three of its security solutions are now available on Google Cloud Marketplace. The product offerings will allow companies to implement 24/7 security models, improve security posture, and provide valuable data insights, without expanding in-house technology teams. SADA already closed its first Marketplace offering in December 2022.
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Major retailer expands same-day delivery, taking on Amazon and Walmart
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When you wanted your online orders to arrive quickly, the go-to for years was Amazon and its free (with membership) two-day Prime shipping — or even faster depending on where you live. But not anymore.
The long-standing foundation of how fast you get your packages delivered to your doorstep is undergoing radical change, and it's been happening over the course of just the past couple of months. In one corner, the reigning champ, Amazon. In the other is Walmart and each is constantly trying to one-up the other to win customers over.
Now, there's a new contender jumping into the ring to take on both Amazon and Walmart. And this major retailer wants to deliver your online orders the same day.
Amazon and Walmart's back-and-forth
Up until April 26, speedy package delivery was for the most part status quo, aside from the occasional noteworthy new feature. But on that fateful day in late April during its first-quarter earnings call, Amazon shook things up.
Amazon: "How about faster shipping?"
On April 26, Amazon announced that Prime two-day shipping would soon become next-day shipping across most of the country.
Walmart: "Hold my Sam's Cola."
Not to be outdone, on May 14 Walmart launched its own NextDay delivery service that's free with a $35 minimum purchase.
Amazon: "Oh yeah? Watch this ..."
While Walmart's NextDay service is supposed to be available to 75% of the U.S. population by the end of this year, on June 3 Amazon rolled out Prime Free One Day delivery in most areas coast-to-coast. (Read more about the service and how it compares to Walmart's NextDay by clicking or tapping here)
Amazon: "... oh, and we have drones."
That same week, Amazon completed its one-two punch when it showed off its new delivery drone, Prime Air, during its inaugural re:MARS conference. More than five years after Jeff Bezos first proclaimed his plan for drones, Amazon says it'll finally be in the skies making deliveries "within months."
Walmart: "Fine, we'll bring your groceries in AND put them in the fridge."
Amazon already has a service that delivers packages inside your home, garage or car (called Amazon Key) but Walmart wants to take it a step further -- as in, a few steps further into your home. On June 7, Walmart announced that it'll not only bring your fresh groceries into your home, but it'll also put them in your refrigerator. Seriously, we might never have to get up from the couch again.
Target: "Hey guys, over here ..."
Targeting those other retailers
Now, here comes Target stepping into the ring, expanding its own same-day delivery on thousands of products. The best part is, some orders could be delivered in as little as an hour.
So let's back up because this isn't Target's first rodeo when it comes to same-day delivery. Back in 2017, Target purchased a company specializing in same-day delivery, Shipt, for about $550 million. After that, Target started offering same-day shipping through Shipt with a $99 annual membership or $14 month-to-month.
As of this week, same-day delivery is available directly through Target.com and without having to subscribe to the Shipt service. Instead, customers can choose from tens of thousands of eligible items and have them quickly delivered for a $9.99 fee per order — as long as it totals $35 or more.
There are about 65,000 eligible products available to be delivered from the following categories:
Of course, Target would love for you to subscribe to Shipt, so it's also offering a free four-week trial for the service along with a $15 gift card when you spend $100 or more (possibly a limited time offer). Learn more about Target's same-day delivery by tapping or clicking here.
Isn't it nice having so many options? Since late April, just look at every way online order delivery has evolved. It makes you wonder what it'll look like by the end of the year.
By the way, if you've worked up an appetite comparing the various options from Amazon, Walmart and Target, Uber Eats is also readying drones to deliver your fast food, well, faster. It looks like we're well on our way to never having to leave our homes to buy anything ever again.
As machines begin replacing Amazon workers, some encouraged to quit and start their own delivery business
Amazon is bringing in additional machines to get orders out to you more quickly, but it could come at the expense of people who work there. So the company has a new propoosition.
Click or tap here to find out how Amazon plans on helping employees start their own business
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Ubuntu 14.10 LAMP server with Joomla, RSync, SMB & NO-IP.
This is a step-by-step guide to making an Ubuntu LAMP server to self-host a Joomla! website at home.
To begin, install Ubuntu 14.10 Server using a FQHN and only install Open SSH during the wizard install.
For this install, we're using the hostname test.domain.com, the user pcuser, and the server has the IP address 1.2.3.4 – substitute your own values in the method below.
Install sysv-rc-conf to make looking after services easier.
You can now visit http://1.2.3.4 to make sure that apache server is working.
Visit http://1.2.3.4/info.php to make sure its working with the LAMP server.
All domain names point to an IP address, and normally for a server, this is fixed. HOWEVER, you're probably reading this as you want to try this at home and most home net connections don't have a static IP address.
Using No-IP eliminates this problem as it lets you set up a domain name with a dynamic IP address. You need to sign up on their site first, and the directions below set up their Dynamic Update Client (DUC) on our little Ubuntu box.
Installing PhpMyAdmin lets us manage the MySQL databases with a nice GUI via a webpage.
Now visit http://1.2.3.4 in your browser and you can install joomla (assuming you've set up a database and a user via PhpMyAdmin) onto your LAMP server.
Once Joomla is installed, we need to reset the file permissions of the site.
This is fairly straightforward – just do this and you're sorted!
And insert your username as password values – it's easiest to use an online generator to generate this code.
Add this to the bottom of the file – this creates the share definition named secured.
You've just set up a pretty decent little hosting LAMP server for development purposes. You'll need to perform some additional hardening to turn it into a production server for the wilds, but otherwise – nice work!


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Ancelotti: "Everyone puts pressure on Vinícius, from opponents to fans to referees"
The coach's post-match press conference in Bilbao.
By Euan McTear Jan 23, 2023, 1:22am CET
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Real Madrid earned an impressive 2-0 victory away at Athletic Club on Sunday night and they did so with a line-up featuring several players who hadn't started much during the first half of the season. Asked to explain these rotations, Ancelotti said in his post-match press conference: "I don't think it was a risk. I think it was a point in the season to have more players motivated. Ceballos and Asensio did well against Villarreal and deserved an opportunity. Toni Kroos had played a lot of games and maybe some rest will help him. Luka Modrić could have played, but I decided to go with something else. The players who hadn't been playing as much are now contributing a lot, like Nacho, Asensio, Camavinga…"
Ancelotti on whether Real Madrid can have a B unit
Asked if he feels the squad is deep enough to have a B unit like Real Madrid did under Zinedine Zidane in 2016/17, the coach replied: There's no Plan A or Plan B, the plan is to win matches."
Ancelotti on Nacho improving the defence
Ancelotti was delighted to have a clean sheet in this game and spoke about the defensive performance and how important Nacho was in this. He said: "We defended very well, which we hadn't been doing in recent games. It's never easy here in Bilbao when you play Athletic, where the atmosphere is spectacular, but we did well and managed the game well. Maybe scoring early helped us to have a compact defensive block. Nacho can play right-back, centre-back or left-back and he always performs. He is an exemplary professional. Every coach wants to have a player like Nacho in their team."
Ancelotti on Vinícius
This was another game in which Vinícius was involved in extracurricular conflicts and Ancelotti was asked about the Brazilian's attitude. He launched a very strong defence of the player, saying: "Vinícius is a great player and he is a very sensible person. I spoke to him to tell him to focus on the game. Everyone puts pressure on him, from opponents to the fans to the referees. It doesn't make sense to me. It's true that there are moments where he loses focus a little. I told him that if he needs to speak then to speak to me. He still needs to improve in this, but he's very young. I love him. I think he deserves a little more respect from everyone."


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ALL PEOPLES WORSHIP RELEASES NEW ALBUM!
"In The Key Of Hope" is a new collection of songs unlike anything the All Peoples Worship Crew have released. Each song recorded during Shelter In Place in an effort to keep worship going in our All Peoples community…with flavors of acoustic soul and modern ballads, each of these songs strikes a chord of hope down deep in the soul – therein lies the title "In The Key Of Hope."
RAISE A HALLELUJAH – NEW Single Release
Behind the Scenes with Stephen:
We had a plan, and then we had to audible! Often, limitation is the birthing place for creativity… and this song is no exception. We usually have a lady sing on it, but things weren't working out, so I said, "Maybe I can sing the girl part… kinda like a sing-along Shane and Shane, Phil Wickham vibe." and whadayaknow, it worked! Jarreau brought the strength, joy and leadership the song needed… and I echoed with enthusiasm what he led us into! I love this song for so many reasons, but the acoustic soul vibe of this song and how it came together with our community giving their best with what we had in our hand was just too special not to capture and play again and again!
KEEP ON GETTING BETTER – NEW Single Release
Our gospel ensemble had become a primary leadership core for our worship team just before shelter in place, and so naturally we wanted to have them lead during that time when we couldn't gather as a church. Something about their group dynamic just makes you experience a sense of "community" in the midst of the song – something we all missed greatly. So when the ensemble pulled together their own version of "Keep On Getting Better" by Maverick City, we couldn't resist. Emaree added her own song to the bridge, which the ensemble sang beneath… and you could just feel the presence of God moving right there in the session. I pray that the "sound of hope" she sings with will fill you up even today as you listen and watch!
UNCHANGING – NEW Single Release
One week during Shelter in Place of COVID-19, we were prepping for recording, and I remembered a song my brother James Mark wrote for the church in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and our missionaries (Dayna & Heather) being captured by the Taliban.
I remember thinking, "God, I've seen you use this song to resurrect hope before. Would you do it again?! Later, as our audio engineer was evaluating all the tracks from that season, he placed this one among the very top, saying that from several angles, it was one of our best. After I listened again, I couldn't have agreed more! It is truly a song "In The Key Of Hope."
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Fine art photography at its finest. Artwork for boardrooms, offices and private collections.
Mike's stunning nature photographs are in demand by collectors - as fine art pieces, for corporate decor, and for use as corporate gifts. Photographs of the natural world provide inspirational and meditative interludes from the occasionally charged and energized atmosphere of corporate offices. Mike's intimate views of the natural world and exquisite landscapes provide the perfect compliment to structured architectural environments. His images can be found in national, institutional, and corporate collections across Canada.
Fine art photographs are crafted to the specific requirements of individual collectors, and can be matted, framed, crated, and shipped to anywhere in the world.
Mike's fine art photographs are represented by The Canadian Gallery.
"The natural environment is where I long to be. It's where I find peace and solitude. I love to capture fleeting moments of light and exploring for pattern, form, shape, line, texture and color. Although I particularly enjoy photographing early or late in the day to capture the sweet light, by keeping an open mind, I am able to continuously discover photo opportunities nearly anywhere. Although beautiful images can be made from every corner of the earth, I made a conscious decision very early on to focus on the Canadian environment. My life long task is to capture the essence of this land in beautiful images that speak to the heart."


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WI: Wisconsin Cable Bill Proponents Fudge Facts
Posted on August 1, 2007 - 6:50am.
from: Madison.com
Wisconsin Cable Bill Proponents Fudge Facts
From Wisconsin State Journal, July 30, 2007
By Brad Clark and Barry Orton
The facts simply don't support the State Journal's July 24 editorial praising the so-called "Video Competition" bill.
Everyone favors cable competition. But AT&T (the corporation behind this legislation) has been free to compete with cable providers for over a decade, and has chosen not to.
The agreement AT&T swiftly negotiated with the city of Milwaukee as well as the local franchises Verizon has entered into — more than 700 to date — demonstrate conclusively that local governments have not been holding up competition.
Your claim that the bill would allow competing providers to "negotiate a single contract with the state" shows a misunderstanding of the bill. The state could not negotiate anything: State franchises would be empty boilerplate, held in perpetuity, and freely transferable without state oversight.
No wonder both the cable companies and AT&T find the bill's relief from "the tedious task of negotiating cable television deals with hundreds of individual communities across Wisconsin" worth the fortune they have spent on lobbyists.
You belittled legitimate concerns over the bill's financial impact. Franchise fees collected from cable companies are the "rent" that private, for-profit companies like Charter pay for the use of public rights-of-way.
The $2 million that Madison collected from Charter in 2006, far from being a "convenient" and "generous revenue stream," represents real property tax relief for Madison taxpayers every year.
This bill fails to support the "need for government-related programming" such as Madison City Channel. While the bill preserves channels for such programming, it eliminates the small fee subscribers pay for their operation. For Madison's Channel 12, city subscribers pay less than $5 annually for access to city government. Compare that to the hidden cost of some $3 per month for ESPN.
Madison will be faced with the choice of either closing this door on local government, or raising property taxes by $250,000 a year.
You also call the recent demonstration by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and state Rep. Spencer Black on the alarming size of AT&T's fiber conversion cabinets a "scare tactic."
But the reality is that the only reason AT&T intends to install these boxes in the terraces and backyards of Madison residents is that they don't wish to make the financial investment to run state-of-the-art fiber optics to subscribers' homes.
That this scheme is far from 21st-Century technology is confirmed by the fact that AT&T itself has said that in areas of new construction, they plan to run fiber directly to the home.
Finally, you repeated the discredited notion that passage of this bill will lead to "savings for Wisconsin consumers." The reality is that in state after state, from Texas to Virginia, the passage of similar legislation has not resulted in lower cable rates. Rates, which are primarily driven by the cost of programming, have continued to increase everywhere bills like this have passed.
Competition is a good thing and we're in favor of it, but don't pass along the false claims made by industry-sponsored groups, which have little credibility in this debate. By echoing their arguments, you diminish your credibility as well.
Clark is Madison's television coordinator and station manager for the City Channel. Orton is telecommunications professor at UW-Madison.
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210 F. 2d 29 - Robinson v. United States
210 F2d 29 Robinson v. United States
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued October 26, 1953.
Decided January 28, 1954.
Mr. William H. Collins, Washington, D. C., for appellant.
Mr. John D. Lane, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., and William J. Peck, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at time of argument, were on the brief, for appellee
Messrs. Charles M. Irelan, U. S. Atty., Martin J. McNamara and William R. Glendon, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., at time record was filed, also entered appearances for appellee.
Before EDGERTON, BAZELON and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.
EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.
Appellant and one Ward, officers of the Uniformed Firemen's Federal Credit Union, were jointly indicted for offenses concerning the Union's funds and records. Count 1 charged that the defendants conspired1 to embezzle and misapply Union funds, conceal material facts, and make false statements and entries. Count 9 charged the defendants with drawing an unauthorized check.2 Counts 11 and 12 charged appellant alone with embezzlement3 and with making a false deposit entry.4 Counts 2 to 8 inclusive and count 10 charged Ward alone with embezzlement and false entries.5 Each defendant was convicted on all counts that named him. Ward did not appeal.
The statutes the defendants are charged with conspiring to violate cover various forms of misconduct either (1) concerning a credit association "authorized or acting under the laws of the United States"6 or (2) "in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States".7 Count 1 fixed the time of the conspiracy as "* * * the period from about March 1, 1949, to about March 16, 1952". In March 1949 the Credit Union was operating as the Uniformed Firemen's Credit Union of the District of Columbia. It did not begin active operation under the Bureau of Federal Credit Unions until November 15, 1949. Appellant complains that the conspiracy charged was impossible when it was alleged to have commenced. But the federal charter was applied for in February 1949 and issued March 16, 1949. Such charters are not issued until the Bureau of Federal Credit Unions has approved an organization certificate submitted by the promoters.8 At least as early as March 16, 1949 the Union was "authorized * * * under the laws of the United States" and was "within the jurisdiction" of an agency of the United States. There is no material variance between March 16 and "about March 1". Moreover the defendants may have conspired, when the federal charter was applied for, to violate the statutes when it was obtained.
Appellant contends that count 1 charged three different conspiracies and was therefore duplicitous. It did charge a single conspiracy to commit several closely related offenses. "The allegation in a single count of a conspiracy to commit several crimes is not duplicitous, for `The conspiracy is the crime, and that is one, however diverse its objects'." Braverman v. United States, 317 U.S. 49, 54, 63 S.Ct. 99, 102, 87 L.Ed. 23.
Nor was the indictment bad because it charged each of the two defendants with other crimes in addition to conspiracy. Rule 8(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure [18 U.S.C.A.] authorizes charging two or more offenses in the same indictment "if the offenses charged * * * are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan." Rule 8(b) authorizes charging two or more defendants in the same indictment "if they are alleged to have participated in the same act or transaction or in the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses. Such defendants may be charged in one or more counts together or separately and all of the defendants need not be charged in each count." These Rules cover this case.
The question remains whether the application of these Rules was so prejudicial to appellant that the court abused its discretion in not granting his motion to be tried separately from the other defendant. Rule 14 provides: "If it appears that a defendant or the government is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses or of defendants in an indictment or information or by such joinder for trial together, the court may order an election or separate trials of counts, grant a severance of defendants or provide whatever other relief justice requires." This restates the common law rule,9 that a motion for severance was addressed to the trial court's discretion, subject to review only for clear abuse. Wheeler v. United States, 82 U.S.App. D.C. 363, 165 F.2d 225; Hall v. United States, 83 U.S.App.D.C. 166, 168 F.2d 161, 4 A.L.R.2d 1193; Lucas v. United States, 70 App.D.C. 92, 104 F.2d 225. The mere fact that appellant might have had a better chance of acquittal if tried separately from Ward does not establish his right to a severance. Simcic v. United States, D.C.Mun.App., 86 A.2d 98, 102; affirmed and opinion adopted, sub nom. Miciotto v. United States, 91 U.S.App.D.C. 102, 198 F.2d 951. Appellant contends that trial jointly with Ward was prejudicial because it led to the admission of three government exhibits containing extra-judicial statements by Ward that incriminated appellant as well as Ward.
We find no error or abuse of discretion. It is not necessarily error, even in a capital case, to allow the introduction of incriminating evidence that is incompetent as to one of the defendants, if appropriate instructions are given. Hall v. United States, supra. When each of the Ward exhibits was introduced the court warned the jury that it was evidence only against Ward and not against appellant. The court's charge to the jury repeated the warning.
Moreover, Ward's confirmatory testimony on the witness stand made his extra-judicial statements practically harmless. Count 1, the conspiracy count, charged six overt acts. Proof of one overt act in carrying out the conspiracy would support the conviction on this count. Hall v. United States, 10 Cir., 109 F.2d 976, 984; Williams v. United States, 6 Cir., 3 F.2d 933, 935. One of the acts charged is not mentioned in the exhibits, and Ward repeated on the witness stand the gist of what the exhibits say about four of the other acts. With respect to count 1, therefore, the claim of prejudice fails. The exhibits include an incriminating statement, which Ward did not repeat on the stand, with respect to the offense charged in count 9. But sentences of one to three years, to run concurrently, were imposed on counts 1 and 9. Since the sentence on count 1 is valid, we need not consider the validity of the concurrent sentence on count 9. Whitfield v. State of Ohio, 297 U.S. 431, 438, 56 S.Ct. 532, 80 L.Ed. 778; Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, 105, 63 S.Ct. 1375, 87 L.Ed. 1774; Wanzer v. United States, 1953, 93 U.S.App.D.C. ___, 208 F.2d 45. The exhibits do not refer to the acts charged in counts 11 and 12, on which the court imposed concurrent sentences of one to three years, consecutive with the sentences on counts 1 and 9.
Appellant complains that these and many other exhibits were sent to the jury room. This is a matter for the trial court's discretion. Buckner v. United States, 81 U.S.App.D.C. 38, 154 F.2d 317. We find no abuse. We think it immaterial that the court acted sua sponte.
We have considered appellant's other contentions and find no prejudicial error.
1. 18 U.S.C. § 371.
2. 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
5. 18 U.S.C. §§ 657, 1006.
8. 48 Stat. 1217, 12 U.S.C.A. § 1754.
9. Notes of Advisory Committee, Rule 14, F.R.Cr.P.


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Published on 14.2.2022 in Vol 2 , No 1 (2022) :Jan-Jun
Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/37115, first published February 07, 2022 .
Advancing Infodemiology in a Digital Intensive Era
Tim Mackey 1, 2 ; Cynthia Baur 3 ; Gunther Eysenbach 4, 5
Article Authors Cited by Tweetations (30) Metrics
Tim Mackey1,2, MAS, PhD ;
Cynthia Baur3, PhD ;
Gunther Eysenbach4,5, MPH, MD, FACMI
1Global Health Program, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
2Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA, United States
3Horowitz Center for Health Literacy, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, MD, United States
4JMIR Publications, Toronto, ON, Canada
5Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Tim Mackey, MAS, PhD
9500 Gilman Dr
MC: 0505
La Jolla, CA, 92093
Email: tmackey@ucsd.edu
infoveillance; infodemiology; infodemic; social listening; COVID-19; Twitter; machine learning; surveillance; infoveillance; public health; infodemic management; fake news; conspiracy; health communication; medical informatics; digital health; scholarly publishing; misinformation; digital epidemiology; medical informatics; journalogy
Infodemiology: Then and Now
Origins of Infodemiology
The concept of infodemiology was introduced in 2002 by Gunther Eysenbach [1], the editor and founder of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), to identify, characterize, and measure misinformation, in analogy to epidemiology, the science of determinants and distribution of disease:
A new research discipline and methodology has emerged—the study of the determinants and distribution of health information and misinformation—which may be useful in guiding health professionals and patients to quality health information on the Internet.
Having done research on how to quantify and prevent outbreaks of misinformation [2,3], Eysenbach [4] was acutely aware that "quality of health information" and "misinformation" were elusive concepts with little or no consensus on how to define, let alone combat low quality and misinformation. For these reasons, the original definition of "infodemiology" purposefully avoided the term "misinformation."
Information epidemiology, or infodemiology, identifies areas where there is a knowledge translation gap between best evidence (what some experts know) and practice (what most people do or believe), as well as markers for "high-quality" information.
In subsequent studies, Eysenbach [5,6] and the early work of others [7,8] found further use cases for studying information patterns and information retrieval patterns, including the detection of emerging outbreaks by studying the search and click behavior of populations [5]—ideas that were later adopted and implemented on a larger scale by Google Flu Trends [9].
The concept and area of study continued to evolve and advance, and by 2009, the now most frequently cited definition for infodemiology emerged in an article also by Eysenbach [10] in JMIR:
the science of distribution and determinants of information in an electronic medium, specifically the Internet, or in a population, with the ultimate aim to inform public health and public policy.
More than a decade since infodemiology entered the scientific consciousness, JMIR Publications has been committed to spearheading, advancing, and shaping this emerging field. The JMIR family of journals have strived to publish leading-edge studies that complement and push the methodological and disciplinary boundaries of health informatics research. Reflecting those efforts, a recent scoping review by Mavragani [11] found that more than 83% of studies focused on infodemiology and infoveillance have been published by JMIR Publications, with interest and number of publications increasing every year. Hence, recognizing a need for a formal scientific space to further catalyze advancement of this interdisciplinary community, in mid-2021, we launched JMIR Infodemiology.
The Urgency of Now
Nearly 20 years after the concept was first introduced and with an increasing breadth and depth of research [11], infodemiology was further recognized as a critical field of study and formal practice in conjunction with the current COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an "infodemic" and now defines it as when there is "too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak" [4,12], and in June 2020, the WHO held its first WHO Infodemiology Conference [13], following a preparatory online crowdsourcing process to develop a policy framework to fight infodemics, which was published in JMIR [4,14].
The WHO would use this occasion to define infodemiology as the "science of managing infodemics" in the context of the COVID-19 infodemic itself, which aligns with the WHO's important work and capacity building in advancing the field of infodemic management. These efforts include supporting the generation of tools to respond to misinformation, building community resilience to misinformation, fostering partnerships among multiple stakeholders (including the United Nations [UN] system, the technology sector, media, and civil society), and advocating for the issue through UN and WHO resolutions and community outreach and training [12,14]. These efforts have helped the concept of infodemiology gain traction among policy makers and public health professionals alike, though the scope of infodemiology is broader than a singular focus on managing infodemics.
Importantly, the convergence of factors—volume and speed of information, misinformation, and disinformation flow combined with political polarization [15-18]—makes the goal of forging a community of evidence-based practice for infodemic management one that we share as well. Supporting these shared goals of advancing the science of infodemiology; ensuring broad dissemination and translation of research; and, most importantly, pursuing science-based advocacy, findings from the WHO's first Infodemiology Conference were published in the inaugural issue of JMIR Infodemiology [19]. In a relatively short period of time, JMIR Infodemiology has published several papers that address urgent needs of the COVID-19 infodemic (including studies addressing information demand and behavior [20], leveraging social listening across multiple data sources and languages [21], using mixed methods approaches blending online and offline data [22], and large-scale big data studies examining misinformation narratives [23] to name a few).
Crucially, though vaccines, public health interventions, and other medical countermeasures may ultimately lead to the halt or mitigation of the COVID-19 spread, the infodemic generated by this global pandemic will persist and mutate into new topics and opportunities for disinformation/misinformation in other health spaces. Who generates and shares information, how they use or share it and to what end, and how people respond to and contest information is already shaping the contours within which everyday health decisions, as well as the next public health emergency, are likely to occur. Although the COVID-19 pandemic is not the first instance in which digital media fueled global, national, and local struggles to define an information ecosystem [6], COVID-19's residue along with the broad-ranging promise this field holds is an appropriate basis for a new multidisciplinary effort to foster and report on the science of infodemiology.
Shaping the Field: Goals and Key Themes of Infodemiology
Next Gen Supply and Demand
Eysenbach introduced the concepts of supply- [1] and demand-based [5] infodemiology that continue to provide a framework for identifying and exploring novel methods and applications of infodemiology and infoveillance [10]. The construct of supply-based infodemiology may be increasingly more robust than the earliest days of conceptualization, when supply focused more on what was published, especially measuring for or analyzing the quality of health information. Today, supply-based infodemiology could have as much focus on how information is published, republished, translated, and adapted, all with the need for a reflexive understanding of the sociocultural dynamics of influence and trust as well as the technical factors of communication timing, real-time monitoring, and automated responses or adaptations, among other variables. Public health communication may never have been a one-and-done effort, but with the pace of information transmission and potential distortion of that information (eg, in the case of the current COVID-19 infodemic), the evolving practice of information-sharing will continue to be an especially dynamic research area.
Demand-based infodemiology methods and applications have also become increasingly varied and more robust. Search and click measures continue to offer baseline insights, and yet more sophisticated capturing of a user's entire journey on the internet or through smartphone searches and apps offers myriad ways to explore and track information-seeking behaviors. Regardless of the evolution of supply and demand methods, the ongoing need for novel methods for consumer and public health informatics to measure the epidemiology of information, describing and analyzing health information and communication patterns in "electronic media," remains. What is more, we invite social and behavioral scientists to interpret measurements in different ways, further exploring the sociocultural and political dimensions that we may have otherwise tried to control for in the past but now acknowledge that we must engage with to make better sense of the variety of knowing-doing behavior patterns and gaps.
Goals of Infodemiology
Earlier studies in the field of infodemiology include articles that set up early infoveillance systems and argued that public health agencies should prepare for the next pandemic by implementing social listening and media monitoring tools into pandemic preparedness plans, often framed in the context of syndromic surveillance [6,7,9]. Many of these applied infodemic concepts were tested to track misinformation and communication patterns on social media during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, which was the first pandemic in the age of social media [6]. The idea that social media communication patterns may be predictive for other events was also used in the establishment of altmetrics to measure the uptake and knowledge translation of scientific work [24].
Since these early works that set the foundation of infodemiology research, the field has grown in data sources, methodologies, and practitioners. Despite these gains, deficits remain in maturing infodemiology into a more diverse, inclusive, and truly interdisciplinary field of practice, most of which focuses on the need for greater diversity of data sources, better triangulation of infodemiology insights from novel sources of online and offline information, and the need for greater inclusion of other health challenges that have traditionally been neglected or overlooked. One critical challenge to ensuring advancement of the field is bridging pre-existing disciplinary silos, where much of the innovation in methods, experimentation, and evaluation of data science approaches (eg, data mining, natural language processing, and forms of machine learning) still occur in the computer science (ACM) and engineering (IEEE) literature. However, this literature is often limited in its translation of research to real-world public health application, with studies in the social science (JSTOR, SSRN) and health and life sciences (PubMed-indexed articles) often filling this gap but inherently less technically rigorous. For example, studies of algorithmic bias, eHealth literacy, and cultural influences on online health information seeking are some areas where data and social science researchers can more actively collaborate to address existing gaps.
More generally, Mavragani's [11] review discovered that the most popular data sources for infodemiology research are social media, search queries, websites and internet platforms, and mobile apps. The most frequently studied topics included epidemics, infectious diseases, flu, HIV/AIDS, measles, and other outbreaks, with drugs, tobacco and marijuana use, depression, suicide, cancer, and chronic disease also receiving attention [11]. Hence, the tracking of misinformation is but one line of infodemiology research, and harnessing the study of information patterns in cyberspace for other critical research questions is another, also envisioned in 2009 [7]. Additional findings from this review highlighted the following issues that need to be addressed for their implications to the field:
Twitter and Google dominate as research data sources
The need to take into account demographic differences in social media channel preferences
The concentration of specific topics that may or may not represent people's everyday health concerns and the most common causes of illness, injury, and death
This also requires us to ask more critical questions that advance and shape health policy and practice, and further extend the application of infodemiological principles to domains beyond health. Infodemiology has several advantages to that end. Web-based data makes data access and analysis faster than traditional research methods and at scale. It is also possible to retain anonymity while researching broad and distinct populations, though many ethical principles of conducting research using online data are still maturing [25]. It is also critical to make more intentional connections between information-seeking actions and real-world behavior through innovative study designs, such as using digital mixed methods approaches. Responding to these needs, JMIR Infodemiology aims to also explore infodemiology's current limitations, such as research driven by current events and perpetuating population and channel biases, among others.
We see a unique opportunity, therefore, to accelerate the coordination of this broad-ranging research to greater effect on public health policy and practice and other pressing global issues. Our specific goals for the journal are to:
Share what researchers from different disciplines are doing in how they collect and analyze online data
Understand what online data say about offline human behavior
Provide an intellectual space for researchers from different disciplines to cross theoretical and methodological boundaries
Provide equal attention to supply-side and demand-side dynamics in an information-abundant global society
Innovate and advance research design and practice by trialing and sharing new data sources and methods including through development of unique scientific content types and interaction tools
Highlight biases, inequities, and limitations of digital spaces and claims about online behaviors
Key themes and research aims we will support, some of which we expound on briefly in the following section, will include exploring the supply and demand infodemiology framework; expanding and diversifying data sources; broadening the range and scope of global health challenges studied; supporting a multidisciplinary approach to infodemiology; supporting exploration of a range of analytical methods that can be applied to infodemiology; studying eHealth literacy and its connection to infoveillance; exploring population, algorithmic, descriptive, or sociocultural biases; and addressing issues relating to health equity.
Infodemiology in a Digital Intensive Era
With over half of the world's population currently on the internet and other connected devices, information access and availability can seem ubiquitous, while public opinion polls show many people are confused, unsure, or disbelieving of official information sources [26]. An increase in information and communication technology (ICT) access has led to a proliferation of data sources, including the evolution of the internet from web 1.0 (static websites and the dot-com boom) to 2.0 (software applications built on the web and the rise of social media and other interactive digital platforms), moving toward 3.0 (emergence of the semantic web, artificial intelligence imbedded on the web, and decentralized and distributed applications), and now discussions of a metaverse (generally the connection of networks of cyberspace and virtual worlds focused on social connection). The opportunity to leverage these data sources to improve individual and population health is now paramount, but equally important is ensuring that these sources do not lead to offline health harms or harms within digital communities themselves.
The expansion and evolution of the ICT ecosystem provides new opportunities to characterize and assess changes in large-scale human behavior. Understanding how data and behavior interact also requires recognition of the complex interplay between how people now increasingly rely on and are influenced by information exposure on these digital platforms that are increasingly primary sources of communication and health seeking behavior. Key pillars of infodemiology remain its ability to analyze (nowcast) and predict (forecast) forms of health behavior, diseases (especially those with behavioral risk factors), and epidemics, and to generate insights closer to real time; though as mentioned, the scope of the field is rapidly expanding, and other data sources such as digital biomarkers, including data from wearables, may enhance our ability to measure information and communication patterns for public health purposes [11].
As exponential growth in data generation and access has catalyzed the infodemiology field, the breakneck pace of successive complex global public health emergencies (including the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the 2015 Zika outbreak, multiple Ebola virus outbreaks, the ongoing antimicrobial resistance crisis, the current opioid public health emergency, and the current 2019 COVID-19 global pandemic as a few examples) further necessitates its maturation to meet 21st century health challenges that the world now faces together. Supporting the future development of infodemiology also aligns with broader international goals of creating a more sustainable future for humanity, many outlined in the Goal 3 and Goal 9 health and technology and innovation targets of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Hence, now represents a crucial time for society to leverage "data for good" through the research and practice of infodemiology, leading to the generation of actionable public health intelligence to address current and future global health challenges as they may arise.
Call to the Infodemiology Community
The primary goal of JMIR Infodemiology is to foster the development of a multistakeholder and multidisciplinary community of researchers, practitioners, and advocates with shared goals of advancing the field of infodemiology to improve health outcomes and tackle other critical social challenges in what is now a digitally intensive era. This includes challenging ourselves to continuously innovate in our methods, including adding new sources of data, conducting more multimodal research, and exploring new methodological approaches to bridge infodemiology with health education, promotion, interventions, and policy. Equally important is the need to generate public health intelligence that is meaningful and actionable, including exploring new content types that the journal will launch in the future that are more responsive to detecting infodemic events and rapidly reporting them to our infodemiology community for real-world impact. Supporting more robust translation and dissemination efforts, the journal will also support more enhanced content such as data visualizations and dashboards that can further augment infodemiology findings. The journal will also purposefully help to ensure adequate representation of neglected health topics and provide dedicated space to discuss important practical, ethical, policy, and e-governance considerations that arise from the evolution of infodemiology and the information ecosystem itself. We invite suggestions for theme issues or special issues, which can be outputs from infodemiology-related conferences and workshops. We welcome authors, reviewers, editors, and other stakeholders who can help us achieve these shared goals of advancing the field of infodemiology and infodemic management, which we agree has—in the words of Chris Zielinski [27]—"a short history, a long future."
All authors contributed to the design, formulation, drafting, completion, and approval of the final manuscript.
TM serves as editor in chief for JMIR Infodemiology and is an employee of the startup company S-3 Research LLC. S-3 Research is a startup funded and currently supported by the National Institutes of Health–National Institute of Drug Abuse through a Small Business Innovation and Research contract for opioid-related social media research and technology commercialization. CB serves on the editorial board for JMIR Infodemiology. GE is the CEO and executive editor of JMIR Publications.
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ICT: information and communication technology
JMIR: Journal of Medical Internet Research
UN: United Nations
Edited by G Eysenbach; This is an unreviewed Editorial.submitted 07.02.22; accepted 07.02.22; published 14.02.22
©Tim Mackey, Cynthia Baur, Gunther Eysenbach. Originally published in JMIR Infodemiology (https://infodemiology.jmir.org), 14.02.2022.
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Four Ways To Get Your Imagination Back
Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition is a rules-heavy game. Only a year old, we have dozens of books with thousands of pages of new powers, items, feats, and monsters. We have a combat system refined over four decades. We have rules for just about everything. Sometimes, however, the rules get in the way of the thing most important to a good role playing game - imagination. At the D&D Game Day last week, it took sitting next to a young kid to remind me how important imagination can be in our games.
Today we're going to look at four ways a good DM can bring this imagination back to the game.
Describe with sight, sound, smell, and taste
I've seen DM's describe rooms in such vivid detail that you can feel the grit on the walls and taste the air. I've seen others describe it only in terms of what blocks line of sight and which squares contain difficult terrain.
It always depends on what your group wants or expects, but a good DM might consider avoiding anything but narrative in their descriptions of a location.
The old artists trick of closing one's eyes and imagining yourself in the place can work wonders. Before your game, sit back with some good music, close your eyes, and imagine what the PCs see through their eyes. Go there. How does it feel? What does it look like? What do you smell? Write it down, even if it's just notes on a 3x5 card.
Reward Ingenuity and Spontaneity
Do the rules cover firing a color spray into a cluster of crystals? So what if they don't? Give the player who thought it up a bonus. Let the players throw a grappling hook around that Harpy and pull her in or pick up a potted plant and toss it at the main spellcasting bad guy.
As a DM in a rules-heavy game, we might avoid or dissuade players from seeking such creative solutions, but it is within these solutions that our games become unique. Sure, everyone might fight a harpy the same way, but your group was the one to grapple it, reel it in, and beat it down.
Give players bonuses on these creative moments. Is your rogue swinging in on a chandelier? Give him the DM's friend, a +2 bonus to hit.
It's easy to get too stuck on the rules in all the books and forget how dynamic a good roleplaying world can be. Sometimes it's ok to break the rules if doing so helps push your players to think outside the rules and start interacting with the world around them.
This can be dangerous, though. Those rules build the structure of the game and breaking that structure can turn a lot of players off. When you do choose to break the rules, do it so it fits the world - don't do it just to move the story or it becomes too unpredictable or worse, too predictable.
Speed Up Combat
Combat can take a significant amount of time in a 4e game. The average battle lasts around an hour, according to the DMG, leaving little room for exploration and roleplaying in a four hour game. One way to increase the time for imaginative storytelling is to increase the speed of combat. A simple house rule can help accomplish this: Reduce monster hitpoints to 75% and increase their damage output by +1/2 level. For a little excitement, give monsters high-crit (+1d10 on crits). This can help speed up combat, make battles more exciting, give you more battles a session, and give you and your players more time to imagine the world around them.
The key to bringing our imagination back into the game is to become a kid again. Use our atrophied creativity to build the shared world in which we adventure. Remember that the rules are simply the structure, the physics, of the world. Instead, seek its beauty and its horror and instill it in the imaginations of your players.
Going There
Four Principles for House Rules
2016 D&D 5th Edition Dungeon Master Questionnaire
Experiences Running a Level 1 to 30 4th Edition D&D Campaign
Dungeons and Dragons Tips From Gencon 2015
The Hard Parts of Running D&D


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PH91 Human Sexuality
Something that is similar or comparable to something else.
Sexually responsive to either gender
The rodlike structures that reside in the nuclei of every living cell and carry the genetic code in the form of genes.
Coitus
Sexual intercourse.
In psychoanalytic theory, automatic processes that protect the ego from anxiety by disguising or ejecting unacceptable ideas and urges.
Erogenous Zones
Parts of the body, including but not limited to the sex organs, that are responsive to sexual stimulation.
The development of a species to its present state, which is believed to involve adaptations to its environment.
Evolutionary Psychologist
Psychologist who studies the effects of evolution on behavior and mental processes.
In psychoanalytic theory, arrested development, which includes attachment to objects of an earlier stage of psychosecual development.
Mutual sexual stimulation that precedes sexual intercourse.
Sexual intercourse between people who are not married to one another.
One's personal experience of being male or female.
Complex clusters of ways in which males and females are expected to behave within a given culture.
The behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex.
The basic units of heredity, which consist of chromosomal segments of DNA.
Human Suxuality
The ways in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings.
The prohibition against intercourse and reproduction among close blood relatives.
Acquiring knowledge and skills by observing others.
The practice of having one spouse.
Random changes in the molecular structure of DNA.
Pederasty
Sexual love of boys.
Phallic Symbols
Images of the penis.
Phallic Worship
Worship of the penis as a symbol of generative power.
A form of marriage in which a woman has two or more husbands. (andros comes from the greek work meaning "man")
A form of marriage in which a man has two or more wives.
The theory of personality originated by Sigmund Freud, which proposes that human behavior represents the outcome of clashing inner forces.
The automatic ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from consciousness.
The practice of achieving sexual gratification through hurting or humiliating others.
A person who engages in the scientific study of sexual behavior.
Social-learning Theory
A cognitively oriented learning theory in which observational learning, values, and expectations play key roles in determining behavior.
The evolutionary process by which adaptive traits enable members of a species to survive to reproductive age and transmit these traits to future generations.
A sexual activity involving oral contact with the penis.
Psychosexual Development
In psychoanalytic theory, the process by which sexual feelings shift from one erogenous zone to another.
A secondary wife, usually of inferior legal and social status.
Deoxyribonucleic acid- the chemical substance whose molecules make up genes and chromosomes.
Oeduipus Complex
In psychoanalytic theory, a conflict of the phallic stage in which the boy wishes to posssess his mother sexually and perceives his father as a rival in love.
Arousiing sexual feelings or desires.
Behaviorists
Learning theorists who argue that a scietific approach to understanding behavior must refer only to observable and measurable behaviors.
The qualities in life that are deemed important or unimportant, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.
A prostitute- especially the mistress of a noble or wealthy man.
A sexual activity involving oral contact with the female genitals.
Sexual relations between a person and an animal.
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The Busy-Bugz team consists of 9 staff members, which were hand-picked not only for their special skills, experience and personality traits that compliment the dynamic of the team but also for the love of children.
At Busy-Bugz we are passionate about your child's happiness, growth and safety and our teachers are dedicated to developing your child's potential and are sensitive to every child's individual needs.
The Butterfly Class provides a loving and caring environment for babies of a few weeks to two years old. Cathy, Florrie and Erika have been specifically selected as caregivers for the Butterfly class for their special gift of loving and caring for the very young, and are experienced and dedicated. To ensure personal care in a homely environment, a maximum of ten babies is cared for in this section.
The Caterpillar Class provides early education and fun (and even potty training) for children between the ages of two and three. Teacher Keri, supported by her efficient and loving assistant Tanja, ensure that learning is a fun yet dynamic experience. No more than 20 children are cared for in this group.
Teacher Natalie in the Dragonfly Class provides basic education and activities for children between the ages of three and four. Although 25 children can be accommodated in this class, the group is really much smaller and provide excellent one-on-one time with the teacher.
In addition to all the fun stuff, teacher Euodia places emphasis on school readiness in the Beetle Class, which is incorporated in the children's daily activities. This class caters for age group four to five and also allows for 25 children but is generally much smaller, ensuring ample attention and assistance.


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Climbing the Matterhorn (dt. Die Besteigung des Matterhorns) ist ein US-amerikanischer Dokumentar-Kurzfilm von 1947, bei dem Irving Allen sowohl Regie führte als auch die Produktion innehatte.

Handlung
Der Film zeigt den beschwerlichen und nicht ungefährlichen Aufstieg auf das Matterhorn, das mit 4478 Metern Höhe einer der höchsten Berge der Alpen ist.

Produktion und Hintergrund

Die Filmaufnahmen entstanden bereits 1946 in der Schweiz. Climbing the Matterhorn hatte am 30. Mai 1947 Premiere.

Irving drehte 1946 zusammen mit Richard Angst das Bergsteigerdrama High Conquest, in dem ein amerikanischer Bergsteiger (Warren Douglas) von seiner Angst vor dem Matterhorn beherrscht wird, da sein Vater bei einem Aufstieg ums Leben kam. Obwohl er sich erst weigert, Teil einer Rettungsmannschaft zu werden, besinnt er sich dann durch besondere Umstände anders und steigt mit auf.

Nach einem Bericht der New York Times entstand während der Entstehung des Films High Conquest zusätzliches Material für eine kurze Dokumentation, die dann unter dem Titel Climbing the Matterhorn 1947 veröffentlicht wurde.

Auszeichnungen
Irving gewann auf der Oscarverleihung 1948 den Oscar in der Kategorie "Bester Kurzfilm" (2 Filmrollen).

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 1947
US-amerikanischer Film
Dokumentarfilm
Kurzfilm
Matterhorn
Bergfilm

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Recently the Japanese Diet approved Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's initiative to rewrite rules of engagement for the Japanese Self Defense Force (SDF), precipitating a wave of criticism and controversy. Street protesters, politicians (some of whom engaged in a fist fight on the legislative floor), and even some scholars are raising concerns over the expanded role of the SDF. Their fears primarily focus on the view that the new legislation will entangle Japan in unnecessary conflict, violate parts of the Japanese constitution, and revitalize a nationalism that Japan has largely suppressed since the Second World War.


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Money Clip or Wallet: Which Is Best?
Which is more practical: a money clip or wallet?
- One or two business cards If you stick to these basics, either a money clip or a wallet should be equally practical and function well for your needs.
Which is more presentable: a money clip or wallet?
A wallet is more prone to overstuffing simply because there's more space available compared to a money clip. If you tend to overfill any space you give yourself, a money clip may help you keep that under control. It simply won't hold as much.
Whether you opt for a money clip or wallet (Or hey, how about a hybrid: the money clip wallet!), most options will be fine as long as you keep it tidy and don't overstuff it. Bottom line: find a well made option that speaks to you, and carry it with pride.
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(Berlin / Vienna) The ecclesiastical demolition squad is on the move. The new President of the Pastoral Council of the Austrian Diocese of Linz, Wolfgang Froschauer, is in favor of "married and female priests." The CDU General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, diocese of Trier, who, despite her age, is already strikingly reminiscent of Rita Süssmuth, calls for "Catholic priestesses" in the new edition of Christ & Welt. Above all, elite Catholics seem to know one thing, which is the opposite of Church doctrine and order.
Whether Kramp-Karrenbauer, who became CDU General Secretary only in February, is already considering a career alternative, is not known. After all, she could have "imagined herself becoming a priestess." More questionable is whether her remark was of a private nature or is it a meddling of politics in Church affairs.
The married Froschauer, since 2011, a permanent deacon, on the other hand, seems to feel quite safe to speak in his own right. As a trained theologian, he would rather be at the head of the parish than just parish assistant.
Froschauer does not have to worry about anything. He ventured only as far as his bishop has already gone. He is even a faithful servant of his Episcopal Lord. Bishop Manfred Scheuer, the steward of the decline, said shortly before Easter that married priests were his "hope".
Instead of keeping basic catechesis and, first and foremost, instructing one's own full-time bureaucracy in ecclesiastical doctrine and Church ordinance, makes big careers for professional Catholics with feeble faith among some bishops.
He who has such bishops no longer needs enemies.
If things were done rightly, Pope Francis would have to find the world's most remote monastery for certain church hierarchies and banish them there with a strict fast and penance order - perhaps for life.
Instead, they sit wide and powerful on their throne and deconstruct like the demiltion squad the remainder of the Church. In addition, everything is financed with Church contributions. And if it were not fitting for Rome, the threat seems to come through behind closed doors, it will be done just like Dr. Martin Luther did, and with all the benefices of the Church. Everything that is not nailed down, goes with it. Especially the Church tax. From history, one learns above all the refinement of negative things: In the German-speaking world, too, the state has in the past 500 years already gained some experience with the expropriation of Church property.
It also demands that those bishops, priests, religious and faithful, who wish to remain faithful to Christ and the truth entrusted to him by the Church, organize themselves - completely without illusions, but also unwavering. Because Christ's promise that the Church can not be destroyed, is for them. The promise does not apply to peoples and states. What the future will bring can not be said in terms of a policy that is not determined by believing Christians. The promise of Christ, however, is quite independent of it.
You have to be naive not to see "the graffiti on the wall". Francis has already given the word. There is a master plan at work which is being implemented using the science of "gradualism". It would be nice if Scripture was part of the agenda but it isn't. Scripture is viewed as outdated and St. Paul as a fascist.---Malachi Martin wrote that traditionalists would be "hunted like doves". The head of John the Baptist was put on a platter to please Herodius because he dared to criticize the radical feminist of his era. Radical feminists in St. Louis were able to have then Archbishop Raymond Burke removed using the same agenda. He is lucky to have left St. Louis with his head which was demanded and given in absentia to Poor Claire and her pseudo Salome followers.


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