Several weeks ago I had the privilege of doing some work in the amazing country of Kenya. Fitted tightly into a full schedule were two days at the Kijabe Hospital. This hospital is an amazing gift from God to the Kenyan people. Three of us were partnered with hospital chaplains to visit and pray for patients. Before going on our rounds we met with the senior chaplain for some instructions. A phrase he used to prepare us continues to stir my heart. He very politely and with generosity of soul shared with us some of the ways the Kenyan culture was different from our own. However, the traditional greeting, like that of our own country is to shake hands. While explaining to us the Kenyan value of time and presence he said to us, when you shake their hands "let them feel the weight and the warmth". The phrase went deep with me.
Our Kenyan friend was familiar with the culture of the west. He knows that we often value time as a limited commodity in which to accomplish necessary (or seemingly necessary) tasks. He knows the unspoken mantra of the west is "busy people are important people". "Time is money" is a feeble attempt to quantify the value of time. As one who lived a good deal of his adult life in cultures less focused on time, I wonder if at times I am more schedule-driven than Spirit led. I find I must often return to my favorite (self-edited) quote, that "people are not problems to be solved, but mysteries to be explored". Exploring mysteries takes time and presence, weight and warmth.
As I have pondered the words of the chaplain I have been reminded of a few deep truths. Life is all about relationships. The Greatest Commandment, buoyed by the full weight of all the scriptures (See Matt. 22:40), exposes Abba's chief desire as being love motivated relationships. Offering warmth and weight recognizes and affirms the worth and valueof every human being, no matter their current state in life, as an image bearer of God (Gen. 1:26). Warmth and weight opens and softens the heart of the recipient.
I believe our friend was saying to us, look into the eyes (ignoring your watch) of the person whose hand you are shaking, be fully present with them, offer them the gift of the warmth of your presence and the weight of your time. The genuine gift we have to offer others is ultimately ourselves. Paul said it this way: Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us (1 Thess 2:8). Paul may well be saying hearts were opened to the Gospel because of the weight of Paul's love and the warmth of the investment of his time in the people.
I also hear enfolded in the words "warmth and weight" facets of heart attitudes like; honesty, transparency, genuineness. I have found that people are set at ease by honesty and humility. In a person to person encounter we can choose to not apply our spiritual cosmetics, drop our masks and refuse to put our best foot forward and simply offer others our genuine selves; a God-loved bundle of strengths and weaknesses. When we step outside the courtroom of trying to determine the verdict of how we are perceived (a topic for another day) we are able to offer the gift of listening. The French proverb that says "to be heard is to be healed" captures the warmth and impact of listening ears and the affirmation that it brings.
Where does our weight come from? Our weight comes from His glory. It comes from the unprecedented, unimaginable act of Another. It comes from the accomplishment of the Eternal One, humbling Himself and meeting us right where we live. It comes at His high personal cost of rescuing us – from ourselves. The warmth is no less than his fiery love.
When we are in touch with the truth that our hearts are filled by the weight of His glory and warmed by the fire of His love, we cannot help but offer the same to others. Key words – in touch!
Really good word , Ray. It is ALL about relationships!!!!
Ditto to the above; so good and timely. I recently read a related Spurgeon quote that is now on my phone's lock screen as a multiple-times-a-day reminder: time is nothing to Him; let it be nothing to you.


Deposition Author(s): Su, C.-C., Bolla, J.R., Yu, E.W.
Crystal structure of the open state of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrE outer membrane channel.
Lei, H.T., Chou, T.H., Su, C.C., Bolla, J.R., Kumar, N., Radhakrishnan, A., Long, F., Delmar, J.A., Do, S.V., Rajashankar, K.R., Shafer, W.M., Yu, E.W.
Active efflux of antimicrobial agents is one of the most important strategies used by bacteria to defend against antimicrobial factors present in their environment. Mediating many cases of antibiotic resistance are transmembrane efflux pumps, composed of one or more proteins. The Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrCDE tripartite multidrug efflux pump, belonging to the hydrophobic and amphiphilic efflux resistance-nodulation-cell division (HAE-RND) family, spans both the inner and outer membranes of N. gonorrhoeae and confers resistance to a variety of antibiotics and toxic compounds. We here describe the crystal structure of N. gonorrhoeae MtrE, the outer membrane component of the MtrCDE tripartite multidrug efflux system. This trimeric MtrE channel forms a vertical tunnel extending down contiguously from the outer membrane surface to the periplasmic end, indicating that our structure of MtrE depicts an open conformational state of this channel.
Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America.


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Erastus "Deaf" Smith
Erastus "Deaf" Smith was born in New York in 1787. He immigrated to Mississippi Territory with his parents in 1798, and in 1821 came to Texas, then a part of Mexico, to remain permanently. His poor health improved in the new environment, but his hearing remained defective. In 1822 he married Guadalupe Ruiz de Duran, a widow with several children, and they subsequently had four children.
At the beginning of the Texas Revolution, Smith was neutral, but when Mexican soldiers barred him from his home and family in San Antonio, he felt compelled to join the Texas army. He was already well known as a scout, for which skill General Sam Houston welcomed him, and he immediately became prominent in the Texas forces. Because of his hearing impairment he was labeled with the nickname of "Deaf", but the loss of hearing apparently sharpened his eyesight. His ability to follow a dim trail in prairie grass was so exceptional that anecdotes quote his superior officers as saying "As long as the sun is shining, Deaf Smith is as good as a bloodhound." He fought in the battle of San Jacinto; on orders of General Houston, he cut down Vance's bridge just before the Texans attacked the Mexicans.
The esteem in which Houston held him is reflected in his words on hearing of "Deaf" Smith's death on November 30, 1837: "My friend, 'Deaf' Smith, and my stay in darkest hour, is no more. A man more brave and honest never lived."
Our county was named after this Texas war hero when it was formed in 1890.
A formal portrait of Deaf Smith was painted in 1836 by a well-known artist, Jefferson Wright, commissioned by Sam Houston. The original oil painting hangs in the San Jacinto Museum of History. The Deaf Smith County Museum has in its collection a reproduction of that painting, along with a copy of the painting "The Surrender of Santa Anna" in which Deaf Smith is portrayed in buckskin clothing with his cupped hand behind his ear. The original oil painting hangs in the State Capitol Building in Austin. A bronze sculpture of the bust of Deaf Smith is displayed in the Deaf Smith County Courthouse on the second floor.
A biography was written in 1973 by author Cleburne Huston entitled DEAF SMITH Incredible Texas Spy. Another book was written by Faye Campbell Griffis in 1958 with the title The Nine Lives of Deaf Smith.
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Future of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Legal
Part II: The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Senior Counsel for Hilgers Graben, PLLC
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly coming into its own in terms of its use by the legal industry. We are on the cusp of a revolution in the legal profession led by the adoption of AI throughout the legal industry, but in particular by in-house lawyers. Much like how email changed the way we do business every day, AI will become ubiquitous – an indispensable assistant to practically every lawyer. But what is the future of AI in the legal industry? A bigger question is whether AI will actually replace lawyers, as seems to be implicated above (a scary thought if you are new to the profession vs. an old-timer like me). And if so, are there ethical or moral dilemmas that should be considered regarding AI and the legal industry? When considering the future of AI in the industry, a few things are for sure: First, those that do not adopt and embrace the change will get left behind in some manner, and second, those that do embrace AI will ultimately find themselves freed up to do the two things there always seems to be too little time for: thinking and advising. Welcome to the second of a four-part series on AI; this article discusses whether lawyers should be concerned about AI replacing them.
The standard view is that routine work in factories and offices, like bookkeeping or operating basic machinery, is most vulnerable to automation. But AI software that can read and analyze text or speech – so-called natural language processing – is encroaching on the work of professionals. For example, there is a lot of legal work that is routine. … But that routine work, sifting through documents for relevant information, is wrapped in language, which had protected lawyers from the effects of automation. But no longer.
Senior Counsel for Hilgers Graben PLLC
Robot lawyer army?
In the first installment of this series, I wrote about what AI is, how it works, and its general impact on the legal industry and legal technology. In this article, I will tackle the question of whether AI will replace lawyers.
I am sorry to disappoint anyone who had visions of unleashing a horde of mechanical robot lawyers to lay waste to their enemies via a mindless rampage of bone-chilling logic and robo-litigation. That isn't happening (but it does paint a pretty cool picture of the robot lawyer army I've always wanted). Instead, what most likely to happen are three things.
Some jobs will be eliminated. Those which involve the sole task of searching documents or other databases for information and coding that information are most at risk.
Jobs will be created, including managing and developing AI (legal engineers), writing algorithms for AI, and reviewing AI-assisted work product (because lawyers can never concede the final say or the provision of legal advice to AI).[2]
Most lawyers will be freed from the mundane task of data gathering for the value-added task of analyzing results, thinking, and advising their clients. These are roles that will always require the human touch. AI will just be a tool to help lawyers do all of this better, faster and more cost effectively.
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1 "Robots Will Take Jobs, but Not as Fast as Some Fear, New Report Says," The New York Times, posted January 12, 2017 (Steve Lohr).
2 "Rise of the Machine: Artificial Intelligence in the Practice of Law," ABA Litigation News, Winter 2017, Vol. 42 No. 2 (Daniel Wittenberg), page 27 (human involvement is still required to interpret data, render legal advice, and fulfill ethical obligations).
3 "Why You Should Want a Lawyer (and Not a Robot)," Best Hooper website, visited February 19, 2017 (Matthew Francke).
Sterling Miller spent over 20 years as in-house counsel, including as general counsel for Sabre Corporation and Travelocity. He currently serves as Senior Counsel for Hilgers Graben PLLC focusing on litigation, data privacy, compliance, and consulting with in-house legal departments. He is CIPP/US certified in data privacy. You can follow his blog "Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel" at www.TenThings.net and follow him on Twitter® @10ThingsLegal. The American Bar Association is publishing a book of his blog posts later this year/early 2017. His first book, The Evolution of Professional Football, was published by Mill City Press in December 2015 and is available on Amazon® and at www.SterlingMillerBooks.com.


It differs from all other species of its kind in that all the spines are very short, and its fruit is sweet and more nearly the size of a strawberry than any of the others; also the spines do not suggest the Hedgehog Cactus, so that the common name of Short Spined Strawberry Cactus Is given to Bonkerae, as more nearly resembling a strawberry in its fruit than any other of the Strawberry Cactus clan. The juicy, luscious berries, less than an inch long, are delicious as jam or served cold with cream; they are always the first to appear in the spring. Often but two inches tall, sometimes reaching six or eight inches, this little Strawberry Cactus grows In clumps of two or three to ten stems which are densely ridged and tubercled. The flowers, nearly three inches long and about the same in width, are a deep rose-purple, and appear in April, the first of the purple-flowered species to bloom. It is easily recognized by Its many ridges and very short spines, all less than a half-inch long, which are whitish or yellowish when young and reddish brown when mature, and by its bright purple blossoms, borne well up on the stems, which open in the forenoon and close in late afternoon, lasting for several days. Under cultivation the larger plants grow as much as three inches in a season.
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The U.S. military engaged in the development and testing of weapons of the future. In this case we have in mind not fighting lasers and railgun, which have already been successfully tested, thus done a lot of noise, but real lightnings.
Created weapon in the literal sense of the word can cause a directed lightning strikes, for example, where there are military operations. Using a super- weapon, the military can, for example, undermine the enemy's hidden ammunition, or even to destroy enemy armored vehicles.
Principle of work of the weapon of new generation is following: using a laser in the air creates a channel through which can pass an electrical discharge. Thus, the military can control the lightning, as well as to control and direct them to the desired location.
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Q: Strange iOS app crashing behaviour when using self. over instance variable Okay I won't pretend to know everything about Objective-C and iOS programming, as I'm just getting started, but this one has me completely stumped. I have a class, ShoppingListViewController, and in that class, I override the initWithCoder Method to read:
- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder {
    self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];

    if (self) {
        self.title = @"Shopping List";

        [self loadItems];
    }

    return self;
}

Within that loadItems method, there is a line that causes the app to crash on opening every time:
self.items = [NSMutableArray array];

The app crashes with the following error:
Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException',
reason: 'Could not load NIB in bundle:

However if I replace that line with the following:
_items = [NSMutableArray array];

Everything works fine. Now I understand that I am circumventing the default setters by doing this, but I'm unclear on why exactly the runtime has an issue with this normally, and why it's anything to do with NIB files? Could anyone enlighten me?
Updating with more info:
The items property is declared in the header of the class:
@property (nonatomic) NSArray *items;

And the loadItems method is pretty sparse and essentially that line is the only one that really matters on first load:
- (void)loadItems {
    NSString *filePath = [self pathForItems];

    if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:filePath]) {
        self.items = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithFile:filePath];
    } else {
        _items = [NSMutableArray array];
    }
}

A: You should not message self in init or dealloc. Read this article for a better explanation

This is because self.whatever will trigger other side effects, such as
  Key-Value Observing (KVO) notifications, or maybe your class
  implements (explicitly) or a subclass overrides setWhatever: -- and
  that could expose your partially initialized instance to other APIs
  (including its own), which rightly assume they are dealing with a
  fully constructed object.

You can refer to this answer for further information.
P.S. Do not ever forget that self.something invokes a setter/getter.

A: I think that the default property setter might have some dependencies you don't know. ( Although I'm not sure ).
The init# family of methods is just for class initialization. Since iOS dev implies MVC development and loading the data is loading the model dependencies, they shouldn't be in the init functions.
I'd recommend to put the load functionality in viewDidLoad or similar methods that imply a ready state before having shown the view, since then you can be a 100% sure that the view controller is ready.
Do not put it into viewWillAppear or viewDidAppear since these could be called multiple times!

A: First, calling properties in init method is not recommended, as they may not be ready yet.
Second, show the declaration of self.items property and the loadItems method.

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Luis Suárez has discussed the latest goings-on at the club in an interview with local sports dailies Sport and Mundo Deportivo, saying that "Barça must win our last two Liga games for the sake of pride and prestige," while taking a self-critical look at the way the title race has gone.
Personal feelings
"I have come back from injury full of enthusiasm and keen to help the team".
"It was difficult to return as I did, following lockdown. Training at home is not the same as being as the club with the physio Juanjo".
"I am aware that my playing time needs to be regulated. I mustn't be headstrong and expect to play all the time".
"The way we played in Villarreal is the right one if you want to win trophies. We need to be self-critical about things and prepare ourselves for things to come".
"We knew our fate was in our own hands, so there can be no excuses".
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"I am proud to have found a place in club history. I was very happy to be in the top ten goalscorers of all time, while being in the top 3 is truly comforting with an eye to the future and helps me to appreciate the job I have done for the club I always wanted to play for".
"I don't think I ever imagined myself breaking that record. I just came here hoping to help the team".
"I have a year left on my contract and the option to one more. I'll always try to be helpful and not create problems. I hope the club can keep developing and bringing in young players to show why Barça is the best club in the world".
"As long as I'm getting a chance and my stats support me, I'll keep battling for a place. But doing it for the club and my team-mates, which is most important".
Message for the fans
"We have to help each other to get the world back to the way it was before. We don't want to lose any more people, because it's so painful".
"We would like to bring some joy to the fans by winning the Champions League".
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Q: How to set maximum allowed ping in matchmaking? Another Valve game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive allows setting the highest allowed ping for connected servers in options, but I haven't found a corresponding option in the Team Fortress 2 settings or a console command for the game.
I often queue for one map only and am frequently placed to an overseas server with close to 150 ping.

A: Yes, you're currently able to set this limit by clicking on your own avatar in the "party bar" at the top left of the screen, then it should drop down and present you with a "Matchmaking settings" option.

The CVARs for these settings (as of April 2018) are as follows:

tf_mm_custom_ping_enabled 1 // enable the custom ping limit
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Thin Skins And Male Tears: The Tragedy Of White Atheism
November 27, 2015 Alex GabrielAhmed Mohamed, Atheism, Diane Burkholder, Gamergate, Harassment, ISIL, Islam, Mark Schierbecker, Racism, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Sexism, Sexism and feminism, Skepticon, Slymepit, White Atheism
Richard Dawkins is in the news again. This times it's the Muslims. In September, Texas teenager Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for making a clock that — mainly due to being next to him — looked too much like a bomb; when Barack Obama asked to meet him, Dawkins speculated Mohamed 'wanted to be arrested' for exposure and cash. In the US, where police shoot young black and brown men for breathing too loudly, you'd think posing as a bomber would be high-risk, but perhaps your experience of anti-terror laws isn't confined to jars of honey on domestic flights.
The last Texan to con his way to the White House had ideas the New Atheists quite liked, and this week Dawkins compared Mohamed to a child filmed beheading a prisoner of ISIL. (That both were Muslims is apparently incidental.) What's striking about Dawkins and his fans at times like this is their portrayal of critics as fragile, oversensitive flakes in whose world dogma is king and emotion queen, despite flinching at the slightest rebuke. 'That actually hurts,' Dawkins told a friend after I called his tweets racist. Some people's emotions, it seems, just matter more.
Two weeks ago, atheist conference Skepticon hosted speaker Mark Schierbecker, a white student at Missouri whose clips of antiracist protests had drawn right wing media coverage, and who was suing taking action against an academic for pushing his camera out of her face after declining to be filmed. While the session had been advertised as a Q&A, it comprised a half hour interview conducted by his publicist, a former employee of American Atheists — and so when the event was meant to end, audience members, many black, insisted on a dialogue.
Questions were asked with urgency, but few were posed half as angrily as they might have been. You wouldn't know from the YouTube comments, which liken Schierbecker to a hostage and claim he was attacked on stage. 'I have autism,' he says at the end. 'After this meeting, I will probably go up into my room and cry for about ten minutes, because I've had more interaction today and this week than I ever get' — a description of sensory overload, not bullying, which still appears to have been alchemised into a persecuted wail: black conferencegoers made a young autistic man cry.
The Schierbecker event angered white atheists because it bust two of their favourite myths: that meritocracy has succumbed to tokenism, and that it ever existed. It's women and minorities who are presumed unskilled, but it was Schierbecker for whom the bar was lowered, event time halved, audience muted, publicist on hand to edit him, while women of colour — Niki Massey, Fallon Fox, Sikivu Hutchinson, Hiba Bint Krisht, Kavin Senapathy — went without help and still performed better. It's hard to imagine anyone except a white man getting the bar lowered so far.
Yet Schierbecker's fans believe Skepticon set him up. Of course they do — politically and demographically, he's exactly who they think must deserve to speak at cons. Why else could he appear ill equipped? In the video, his publicist talks far more than he does, and he seems unsure what to say except that fuck racists, racists are bad; seems not to grasp that someone going outside doesn't mean media can film close-ups against their will; believes harassing a woman is about his country's First Amendment, when actually, it's about ethics in journalism.
I'm not here to attack Mark Schierbecker — he seems too lost to loathe. Watching him didn't spur hatred in me, but the dead weight of empathy for someone realising, as at some point I must have done, that his own voice isn't always the one worth listening to, his own pain not the worst. 'Black people are dying every day', activist Diane Burkholder told him, 'and you're going to have the audacity to fight another white woman?' This is what the words white tears are about — the idea a young white man crying is more appalling than a dozen young black men shot dead.
Geek culture's masculine insurgencies
It's Schierbecker's supporters this post is about, to whom certain people's emotions always matter more. Media knows them as angry white males, but they believe unflinchingly that while their own fury is rational, Burkholder's is unhinged; that their heroes' tears and hurt feelings make them the victims of injustices, while the presumed anguish of feminists makes them sensitive and thin-skinned — makes raped women irrational, trans women bedwetters, women in academia coddled. Emotions mean you're wrong, unless you're a white man, in which case you're most definitely right.
We're warned about offence and sensitivity as if sexism is a mouse before which feminists cower atop their chairs, not something they've been fighting for a hundred years; taught to hear angry black ladies and scary black men no matter how measured their critique. Most SJWs I know have rhino hides due to nonstop hostility. It's AWMs, not we, who are hysterical — who blew their lids when Schierbecker met a hostile audience, who think being the angrier or more upset party gives them impunity, who struggle to contain their feelings, indeed who rarely display anything else.
Geek culture's white male insurgencies are united by their emotional incontinence. Dawkbros, MRAs, Sad Puppies, Slymepitters, Gamergate: these groups rant about a cult of outrage, yet they know nothing else. They have no imagination, no sense of irony or history, no real political philosophy and nothing of their own to say, no reading skills, no writing style, no humour more advanced than a small child's — no long term goals, no sense of what it is they want, no clue why they're even angry, except that damn it, they are angry, and progressive culture is to blame.
There's a reason Dawkins' fanboys are hostage to emotions they barely notice, why he and Schierbecker dwell on being aggrieved yet fail to empathise. These men have never had to check their feels, or even to acknowledge them — never had to fear sounding unhinged, hysterical, blunt or angry, never been told to remain calm by officials with guns, or that it must be their time of the month; never grown used to non-confrontation under someone else's power, or unused to telling their story in the third person, convinced reality is however the world feels to them.
Why does a lauded scientist believe a Muslim boy in Texas hoped to be mistaken for a terrorist? Because he doesn't understand how life treats someone unlike him, or feel a need to try. Why does a young white man see himself as the primary victim at Mizzou? The same reason. This is white atheism's tragedy: in its quest to decode the world with the throbbing, thrusting hard sciences (compared in The God Delusion to undressing a burqa-clad woman), it fails at the oldest means of uncovering truths beyond those we know: listen and empathise.
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32 thoughts on "Thin Skins And Male Tears: The Tragedy Of White Atheism"
Rieux
The last Texan to con his way to the White House had ideas the New Atheists quite liked….
I don't quite understand this idea. George W. Bush's ideology seems to me to present very significant contrasts with at least the most prominent New Atheists, most clearly with regard to their divergent perspectives about Christianity.
Bush was, infamously, fixated on finding a pretext for invading Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein—an effort that Christopher Hitchens, slightly less infamously, supported. Is that the "idea" you have in mind? (It's the only parallel between the groups I can think of.)
As I remember the Oughts, the public face of New Atheism was fairly consistently opposed to the "ideas" being most prominently pushed by the Bush Administration. Not so?
(FWIW, I'll say that I have despised Bush since he started running for President in 1998—and I'm presently no defender of Dawkins, Harris, or Hitchens, though I was on-balance a fan of theirs as of, say, the time that Dubya left office in 2009.)
Cartimandua
Alex, I'm normally impressed with you. However using Mark as a casestudy here is off.
Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't Mark invited by Skepticon to speak? Ie he was imposed on the audience by the Conference organisors. And having had the hand extended was it no so the audience could hear his particular POV and experience – which everyone knew was connected to but also tangential to the racisim protests?
And were these not the same organisers who were responsible for ensuring a balanced session or no session?
And wasn't Mark being guided by an (albeit white) woman who far from helping turned hostile in reaction to audience vibe?
And should the tears of an autistic be used to further wider agendas? Is this really the precedent to set?
This is a missed volley.
polishsalami
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@Cartimandua (#2):
Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't Mark invited by Skepticon to speak? Ie he was imposed on the audience by the Conference organisors. And having had the hand extended was it no so the audience could hear his particular POV and experience – which everyone knew was connected to but also tangential to the racisim protests? And were these not the same organisers who were responsible for ensuring a balanced session or no session? And wasn't Mark being guided by an (albeit white) woman who far from helping turned hostile in reaction to audience vibe?
I don't know what point you're making.
And should the tears of an autistic be used to further wider agendas?
Apart from the phrase 'an autistic' being one I'd prefer you not to use, my point is they've already been. The narration of his tears is what this is about.
Feminace
Allow me to clarify, as I was attending Skepitcon.
Mark's thing was presented to the staff as a last minute, during the lunch break Q&A session that turned out not to be a Q&A session until the audience started asking questions at the supposed end of it. Most of the people I spoke to were not expecting a PR nightmare of someone trying to prioritize his assault over the needs of the protesters, and that was what we ended up getting. The staff themselves with shocked and freaking out about what was happening before their eyes.
And for crying out loud, this isn't about his autism. At all. He got some unexpected pushback, and while I understand it being very overwhelming, it's kinda what happens when you put yourself out there as some sort of journalist. People are going to push back. And they (I would say "we", but I walked out the second it was clear that this was more about him, but watched the video later) did just that.
plutoanimus
Love the cartoon.
Especially how the clock looks like an ordinary wind-up alarm clock, and absolutely nothing like the mess of wires and electronic components that Ahmed really presented as his own creation.
Let's imagine two scenarios:
A) Ahmed tries to fly to Qatar with his 'homemade clock' in his luggage.
B) Ahmed tries to fly to Qatar with a clangy, old-timey wind-up alarm clock in his luggage, like the one in the cartoon.
Does Ahmed undergo intensive screening because of clock A or B?
Would that be racism or reasonable caution?
And would illustrating the cartoon accurately destroy its point?
Nate Carr
Disingenuous question. Ahmed was not trying to fly with his clock, he was trying to show to his teachers that he was able to disassemble and resemble the thing.
Had he been white, the worst he would have gotten was a "that's nice, Adam, new sit down and get your homework out."
The white fear of brown men with gadgets has been hurting geeks with too much melanin since 9/11. Ahmed is not alone in his persecution.
starskeptic
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Rowan vet-tech
Pluto, do you think a white girl, if she'd brought such a thing to school and said "look, I made a clock! ", would have been arrested? Because the answer to that is "no."
A white boy most likely wouldn't have been arrested either. A black boy or girl, slightly higher chance, but a middle eastern girl would probably have been arrested too, because in America we have been trained to associate middle easterners with terrorists.
So, because a white kid would not have been arrested for the same device. …. racism.
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Two weeks ago, atheist conference Skepticon hosted speaker Mark Schierbecker, a white student at Missouri whose clips of antiracist protests had drawn right wing media coverage, and who was suing an academic for pushing his camera out of her face after she'd declined to be filmed.
seems not to grasp that someone going outside doesn't mean media can film closer-ups against their will; believes harassing a woman is about his country's First Amendment, when actually, it's about ethics in journalism.
This! It's sad and disheartening that a privileged white male student can (mis)use the legal system like this to essentially continue the harassment he started during the protests. He first transgressed clearly established and articulated boundaries including both written signage ("no media safe space") and repeated verbal announcements that his presence was not wanted there ("you need to leave," "no we don't want to be interviewed or photographed," etc.). Where are the ethics here? After ignoring all that he basically shoves his camera in the face of a respected academic and she rightly pushed his camera out of her personal space. If anything that should be protected as a form of self defense.
As if that wasn't bad enough he turns around and sues or presses charges… Truly this is privilege and patriarchy in action. In a more just world she and the other protesters would counter sue for harassment and invasion of privacy.
Geek culture's white male insurgencies are united by their emotional incontinence.
So very well said. Seems they are angry because their privilege and power are being threatened and they can no longer control the narrative the way they are used to doing. It's like a temper tantrum in a way with a bunch of angry dudebro misogynists throwing a fit because women and minorities are finally gaining a foot hold. They seem to view this as a zero sum game where any gains by someone else equates to their personal loss.
There's a reason Dawkins' fanboys are hostage to emotions they barely notice, why he and Schierbecker dwell on being aggrieved yet fail to empathise.
Unchecked privilege in action. It's no coincidence that both Dawkins and Schierbecker are white males and the people they are harassing or insulting tend to be women and minorities.
This is white atheism's tragedy: in its quest to decode the world with the throbbing, thrusting hard sciences (compared in The God Delusion to undressing a burqa-clad woman), it fails at the oldest means of uncovering truths beyond those we know: listen and empathise.
Listen and empathize: beautiful, love it! That's pithy enough to be used as a tagline or maybe even a Twitter hashtag. Imagine Dawkins being inundated with that message every time he farts out one of his clueless and thoughtless Tweets.
Cartimandua @2,
Yes Scheirbecker was invited but the Skepticon organizers have since apologized because the event did not pan out as originally envisioned. It was supposed to be about racism and the protests but it turned into something quite different.
http://skepticon.org/regarding-the-qa-with-mark-schierbecker/
Seems like a great case study actually. It illustrates how even folks who are very well intentioned and attuned to social justice issues (the organizers) can make mistakes that end up contributing to rather than alleviating injustices.
Tom Foss
@Rieux #1:
The Bush Administration's ideas, so far as I can see, include things like endless war against radical Islam, racial profiling in the name of national security, indefinite detainment of suspected terrorists, unfettered surveillance in the name of national security, ignoring the advice of national security experts, pre-emptive strikes on Muslim countries in the name of national security, unfettered capitalism and rampant deregulation, and torture as an effective and ethically permissible means of extracting information from suspected terrorists. Those are all things that one or more of the prominent New Atheists has argued for. The largest differences seem to be a hostility towards gays and lesbians, and an affinity for inserting fundamentalist Christianity into the political decision-making process.
cadfile
Not sure why we need to have a scale of victimization with some levels higher than the other. Sure most of the people who "support" Schierbecker will do so because he is a white male and there are others who support him because he was wronged and not just having his camera pushed around. Censorship of the press is serious.
He was chosen as a scapegoat to the bad or negative press protestors and others in the #BlackLivesMatter movement believe they have received. Instead of rebuking and demonizing a student journalist for the wrongs of the other members of his potential profession how about directing that anger to the people it needs to be directed to – the media.
If tearing down people is wrong then why is hanging Schierbecker out to dry not wrong?
Schierbecker hung himself out to dry. But by focusing on specifically you're distracting from the thrust of the piece, that white people, especially white men, center their own grievances while carrying the grievances of others as irrational.
We don't need to play Depression Olympics to put a pushed camera in perspective with shit swastikas and death threats.
Schierbecker is a prime example of white privilege blindness. Trying to derail discussions of his actions by calling it a rebuke is akin to the gun lobbyists who always claim that it is "too soon" after the most recent shooting to discuss gun control.
Jadehawk
1)given that I've been given "intensive screening" for hair dye, who the fuck knows. Probably both. Hell, most likely someone like Ahmed would undergo "intensive screening" even if he traveled with nothing but stuffed plush animals, because of racial profiling at airports.
2)this assumes that the response of the school was how schools react to bomb threats, which lolno. When there's something that someone actually thinks might be a bomb, there's an evacuation and they call the bomb squad. What actually happened was abuse and a violation of rights under a pretext.
But by focusing on specifically you're distracting from the thrust of the piece, that white people, especially white men, center their own grievances while carrying the grievances of others as irrational.
not so much missing the point as needlessly demonstrating it again.
smrnda
"there are others who support him because he was wronged and not just having his camera pushed around. Censorship of the press is serious."
I'm not totally sure I can look at a person asking someone with a camera to stop recording them or leave as 'censorship of the press.' I thought censorship required some sort of government action? Do movie theaters engage in censorship of the press when they eject people who try to film the movies they are showing? If some random person starts pushing a camera at me on the subway, and I ask them to stop, is that censorship? Can a guy trying to take upskirt photos/vid of women on a subway not call himself a 'journalist' and telling him to stop is now 'censoring the press?' Sorry to pull out a bunch of more extreme examples, but I think the term 'censorship' is getting abused to include what happened to Schierbecker.
this assumes that the response of the school was how schools react to bomb threats, which lolno. When there's something that someone actually thinks might be a bomb, there's an evacuation and they call the bomb squad. What actually happened was abuse and a violation of rights under a pretext.
This comes up again and again. In a much more extreme example, the killing of Tamir Rice is so filled with "wait, hang on, if you thought this was an actual threat why did you-?" moments and people working backwards to excuse police conduct you wonder if it's even possible to agree on the basics of what happened. Which of course we can't because the mainstream (in both these cases white people) will always look to demonize the behavior of the marginalized. But if we point that out we're race-baiters or devisive or some other made up phrase they use as code for people critical of their privilege.
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Censorship of the press is serious.
Please explain how people not wanting to give the press access to them is "censorship"?
Pilgrim of the East
Wow, just wow. Are you serious? This was most ableist thing I've ever read. So you in fact accuse people supporting Schierbecker of being racists just because they aren't total assholes and want to create safe space for people with special needs? You should check your neurotypical privilege, because you're a terrible person
Somehow I don't think that violating the consent of black people had anything to do with creating or maintaining a safe space for autistic people.
May I direct you to the pieces written by other people with autism who quite agree with alex and who take exception that their neurodiverse condition is once again used to explain peoplebei ng assholes?
Drolfe
I'll lower the bar. In the context of this event name a single press that was censored.
devianttouch
Pilgrim of the East – No one is talking about "creating a safe space for people with special needs." The people who were going on about Schierbecker's autism weren't advocating for safe spaces for autistic people – they're defending his racism. These aren't anti-ableism advocates, they're anti-social justice trolls.
Furthermore, there is no reason why a person getting on stage and talking about their involvement in journalism on race issues, especially a person whose work is being featured on Breitbart and Stormfront, is entitled to not have his perspective questioned and his work criticized. Furthermore, safer spaces for neurodiverse people don't mean those are spaces in which people have the right to be racist or sexist or otherwise hateful. If by "safer space" you mean one in which people are going to be racist without anyone pushing back on that I want nothing at all to do with it.
qwints
someone trying to prioritize his assault over the needs of the protesters
How dare someone care about a person being violent towards them? I agree that Schierbecker was a pawn (willing or unwilling) in white supremacist media. Criticize him for that (which is what most of the people at skepticon did.) He doesn't have to forgive violence against him for the sake of any movement. The assault (though minor) wasn't justified, and neither the professor nor ConcernedStudents1950 have sought to justify it.
qwints, he can care about the assault all the wants; what he can't do is make an event that was supposed to be about racism about himself instead; at least not without (correctly) having his ass handed to him for it. He was invited to a Q&A about anti-racist activism and instead made it about how his issue needed resolving before racism could even be addressed.
Oh and his assault? Someone pushed his camera while he was filming a group who didn't want to be filmed. He said nothing about being hurt, or the camera being damaged. Wow, such violence. Does he have the right to claim assault over a push by a woman tinier them him? Sure, but I don't have to give a single fuck about it.
Sorry if I'm not crying tears of sympathy when the students of color at that school had to deal with much, much worse. Yes, I am more concerned about the needs of the protesters, because they are way more important that his little shove-while-being-an-intrusive-douche issue.
Does he have the right to claim assault over a push by a woman tinier them him? Sure, but I don't have to give a single fuck about it.
StevoR
.. in its quest to decode the world with the throbbing, thrusting hard sciences (compared in The God Delusion to undressing a burqa-clad woman), it fails at the oldest means of uncovering truths beyond those we know: listen and empathise.
I don't recall reading that analogy in Dawkin's book. Admittedly been a while since I read it now though. Do you any chapter / page numbers or anything for it please?
@StevoR (#29): See the link in the book title for the full page.
Ah, okay, thanks.
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The Peak District is renowned by walkers and runners alike, and the trails on the Longshaw Estate are no exception. There's a whole variety of terrain to explore, from wild moorlands to ancient woods and tumbling streams. This three-mile route follows and old packhorse route through gorse and heather, before heading down among the oak trees of Padley Gorge. There are a few steep sections to get you working a bit harder, but with so much beautiful scenery you might not even notice the extra effort.
There's nothing better than a coastal trail to blow away the cobwebs. This route will reward you with stunning views in all directions as you follow it out along the Porthdinllaen headland - an outstanding wildlife haven. Grey seals are a particular highlight, and can often be seen hunting for fish along this stretch of coastline. The route is only 2.5 miles but is steep in places with a few steps to get your heart rate up. If you wear yourself out you can always refuel in the the Ty Coch Inn, which has been around for almost two centuries.
It's much easier to find the motivation to exercise when you've got a good view. This three-and-a-half mile route includes the most famous landmarks on the Jurassic Coast - the Old Harry Rocks chalk stacks on Studland. With miles of golden sandy beaches, the dramatic history of Studland Bay and internationally important heathlands, this is the British coastline at its most beautiful.
Octavia Hill was a social reformer, philanthropist and co-founder of the National Trust. This is one of two trails that celebrate her life, passing through the countryside where she was born and lived, and which inspired her mission to provide open spaces for everyone to enjoy. The four-mile route covers varied terrain that is great for stretching your legs and building stamina.
Trelissick sits on its own peninsula, surrounded by water on three sides. This four-mile route follows the River Fal for part of its length before heading inland, so you can get fit while still enjoying spectacular views over water, woods and grazed farmland. The terrain is fairly easy-going so it's great for beginners with one short, steep climb at the end for a bit more of a challenge.
This four-and-a-half mile walk covers moderate terrain, but there are a few steep gradients to help push your stamina levels a bit. Admire beautiful views along the Icknield Way as you head towards Whipsnade Tree Cathedral. This memorial to those lost in the First World War provides a tranquil spot to pause and rest, before you head off on the trail back to the centre.
Take the ferry over from Bowness and ease yourself into walking, running or cycling with this wonderful low-level route. The well-surfaced lakeside track means you can get out and stretch your legs whatever the weather and it offers great views of the islands, interesting woodland archaeology and the Victorian Gothic Wray Castle. The linear route is four miles, but you can always re-trace your footsteps back to the start for a longer challenge.
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The visit of Mark Zuckerberg's to congress provided an interesting juxtaposition between the criticism of Facebook as a rapacious corporation and Ted Cruz's criticism that Facebook is a bastion of anti-conservative liberalism. Zuckerberg did allow that Silicon Valley leans hard left but denied the charge of bias. While the matter of bias is interesting, I will set it aside to consider Zuckerberg's claim that Silicon Valley is left leaning.
On the face of it, the valley does seem to tilt to the left. Zuckerberg and his brethren do tend to embrace the leftist positions on various social issues. For example, Apple's Tim Cook is routinely praised for his advocacy of LGBT rights. In general, one might say, the Silicon Left has embraced the narrative of identity politics. Interestingly, some have argued that this focus on identity politics has cost the Democrats dearly in terms of votes lost to Trump and his fellows. While this claim can be contested, it is not without merit. However, a proper analysis does require a bit more nuance. While it seems likely that the Democrat focus on identity politics made the forgotten Americans feel forgotten, this would not have been a major problem if it had not been for another major factor: the correct belief on part of the forgotten that the elites, including the elites on the left, did not care about them. In fact, it would be reasonable to say that the elites actively harmed the forgotten Americans. Before getting back to the Silicon Left, I need to tell a seemingly unrelated story from my college days. But, I assure you, it will be quite relevant.
When I was in college, the cafeteria served a mystery meat—a breaded patty of some sort of meat and probably soy as filler. This meat was quite magical—by pouring different sauces on it, the cooks could transmute it into beef (brown sauce), chicken (yellowish sauce) or pork (light brown sauce). Under the sauce, as far as any of us could tell, it was the same meat adjacent mass.
The point of this is to set up an obvious metaphor: the elites are like the meat mass: they are almost all essentially the same under the thin layer of sauce: they do not care about the lower/middle classes and are simply out for power, money or fame.
While the idea that the conservative elites do not care about the forgotten Americans and actively harm them with the implementation of their environmental and economic ideologies is well known, the fact is that the left elites are also guilty of at least cruel indifference if not active harm. While this might seem odd, given that the leftist elites are harshly accused by their conservative elite brethren of wanting to coddle the poor, it is quite real. The Clintons, for example, were instrumental to the rise of globalism and shaping it in ways that have been catastrophic to American workers and the middle class. In this regard, Trump's criticism of globalism does have merit: while it has been amazing for the corporations, it has been harmful to many American workers.
In the case of the Silicon Left, they are also the same sort of meat masses under that liberal sauce. For example, consider Apple's Cook. While Cook, as noted above, is considered a champion of LGBT rights, Apple is infamous for the human rights violations in its supply chains. While Cook also professes liberal values, his company dodges paying the taxes that could be used to fund all those social programs that are supposed to be beloved of liberals. Zuckerberg, who also follows speaks within the narrative of the left, heads up a company best known for an economic strategy based on privacy violations and monetizing racism, ageism, sexism, and xenophobia. It could be countered that folks in the Silicon Left and other left elites do donate to charities, praise going green, do speak on social issues, and have enlightened policies for their top employees. While this is all true and does make some difference, this is the liberal sauce and not the meat. Under that sauce are the values that allow the above-mentioned human rights violation, tax evasion and so on.
While it might be pointed out that the Silicon Left is no worse than the right, this is not exactly the case. The Silicon Left purports to be liberal, caring and dedicated to "doing no evil." While this might hold true regarding certain social issues and identity politics, it does not apply to core economic concerns and even basic human rights. This compounds their misdeeds with hypocrisy. As such, the liberalism of the Silicon Left is just sauce deep.


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One of the joys of this connected age in which we live is how easy it is for people to connect and collaborate, even at opposite sides of the globe. Nowhere is this phenomenon felt more than in the area of electronic music, where artists all over the globe routinely collaborate to produce amazing work.
This release, entitled Ege Denizi, is just such a case. Two of our favorite Earth Mantra artists, Phillip Wilkerson and Gordon Macmillan of Tange, got together virtually and created an ambient album of immense beauty. Thanks be to the digital gods for the internet!
And what a release this is, composed of pure light ambience combined with tasteful lap steel guitar licks and soothing synthesizer riffs. When we first heard that these two were going to work together on a release, we knew it was going to be good, but when we first listened we were nonetheless surprised by the delicate and transcendent nature of the music we heard. One of the most striking elements is Tange's lap steel playing, which came as a complete shock to us; we've known him for some time but did not know he played lap steel at all, much less that he had such mastery of the instrument. Combined with the beautiful bed of droney washes, synthesized arpeggios, and drum programming contributed by Phillip, the result is a slice of pure heaven.
In fact, we would go so far as call this work an example of synergy. Both Tange and Phillip Wilkerson are very accomplished ambient artists in their own right, having released some of the best music we have heard anywhere at any level. But together, somehow, they have created a masterwork that is even more than the sum of its parts. Remarkable.
The more we listen to this music, the more we love it. And we are certain it will have the same effect upon our listeners. So it is with great pleasure we present to you Ege Denizi, by two of the best ambient artists of our time. Certainly, one of the best releases of 2009.


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Igor Alexandrowitsch Krawtschuk (; * 13. September 1966 in Ufa, Russische SFSR) ist ein ehemaliger russischer Eishockeyspieler.

Karriere
Seine Karriere begann 1982/83 bei Salawat Julajew Ufa. Hier spielte der Verteidiger bis zur Saison 1987/88, ehe er zum ZSKA Moskau wechselte. Insgesamt erzielte er 16 Tore in 243 Spielen in der sowjetischen Liga. Beim NHL Entry Draft 1991 war er in der vierten Runde an 71. Stelle durch die Chicago Blackhawks ausgewählt worden. So wagte er nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion den Sprung in die National Hockey League.

Zum Ende der Saison 1991/92 stieß er zu den Blackhawks und setzte sich dort auf Anhieb durch. Nach dem Erreichen der Stanley Cup Finals wurde er im Laufe der kommenden Spielzeit gemeinsam mit Dean McAmmond an die Edmonton Oilers abgegeben, die im Gegenzug Joe Murphy erhielten. Dort spielte er 1993/94 seine beste Saison und brachte es auf 50 Scorerpunkte. Im Januar 1996 wechselte er zu den St. Louis Blues. Die Saison 1997/98 begann er mit den Ottawa Senators, die ihn für Steve Duchesne geholt hatten. Das Spiel der Senators baute auf schnelle Schlittschuhläufer auf und das lag Krawtschuk, der so auch für das NHL All-Star Game 1999 nominiert wurde. Im Laufe der Spielzeit 2000/01 wechselte er zu den Calgary Flames und spielte dort eineinhalb Spielzeiten. Er brachte es später noch auf sieben Spiele für die Florida Panthers, bevor er seine Karriere beendete.

Früh wurde er in das Team der Sowjetischen Eishockeynationalmannschaft berufen. Am 6. April 1987 stand er in einem Spiel gegen Schweden zum ersten Mal für die Sbornaja auf dem Eis. Nach 1991 war er weiterhin Mitglied des Vereinten Teams und dann später der Russischen Nationalmannschaft.

Seine internationale Karriere wurde mit den Goldmedaillen bei den Olympischen Winterspielen 1988 und 1992 gekrönt. 1988 wurde er in als Verdienter Meister des Sports der UdSSR ausgezeichnet.

NHL-Statistik

Sportliche Erfolge
 1986 Goldmedaille bei der Junioren-Weltmeisterschaft
 Olympiasieger: 1992
 Weltmeister: 1990

Persönliche Auszeichnungen
 Teilnahme am NHL All-Star Game: 1998

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 Igor Krawtschuk bei chidlovski.net (englisch)

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Inception date: 11 May 2009 | Removal date: 09 Dec 2011
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On 4 May 2009, the Italian authorities notified a scheme for granting aid in the form of loans with subsidised interest rate under the "Temporary Community framework for State aid measures to support access to finance in the current financial and economic crisis." State aid N 268/2009
The aid will be provided in the form of subsidized public loans. The scheme applies to the whole territory of the Italy and is open to all sectors of the economy. The scheme applies to small and medium-sized enterprises ("SMEs") and large firms.
The Commission found that the notified measure constitutes State aid within the meaning of Article 87 (1) of the EC Treaty and gave the following assessment:
" State resources are involved in the notified scheme since the subsidized loans are made available from national, regional, and local resources, via the respective aid granting authorities at national, regional, and local level. The measure is selective since it will be granted only to a limited number of firms located in the Italian Republic. The measure confers an advantage by relieving the beneficiaries of costs which they would have to bear under normal market conditions since, without the intervention by the State, the borrowers would obtain loans only at higher costs, if at all. The favouring of certain undertakings means that competition is distorted or threatened to be distorted. The measure affects trade between Member States since the scheme is not limited to beneficiaries which are active in sectors where no intra-community trade exists." (par. 24-27 of the letter from the EC to Italy - Brussels, C(2009))
Article 87(3)(b) of the EC Treaty enables the Commission to declare aid compatible with the Common Market if it is "to remedy a serious disturbance in the economy of a Member State." This aid has to be applied restrictively and must tackle a disturbance in the entire economy of the Member State according to the interpretation of the Article 87(3)(b) by the Court of First Instance.
The Commission referred to its Communication on the financial crisis (Temporary Framework) and concluded that the Measure complies with the conditions laid therein. Therefore, despite the measure constituting State aid pursuant to the Article 87(1) EC, it is compatible with the Common Market according to the Article 87(3)(b) EC Treaty. The Commission raises no objections against the measure at issue and authorizes it as emergency intervention in the face of the current financial crisis. (par. 29 - 35 of the letter).
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Have you heard about the increase in social and health insurance advances for self-employed? No? So keep reading to avoid possible penalties.
As prices for most goods rise every year, our wages also increase. And as a result of the increase in this average wage, the advances on social and health insurance, which are calculated from this amount, must also increase. In 2022, the average wage will reach a record amount of CZK 38 911, which is why the advances will also increase.
In 2022, advances on social insurance will increase by CZK 253 to a total of CZK 2 841 (originally CZK 2 588). You must pay the new amount no later than the month in which you submit your income and expenditure statement for 2021. To put it concretely, most self-employed persons submit their statement together with the tax return at the end of March or at the beginning of April at the latest, in which case they are obliged to pay increased advances from April.
For health insurance for 2022, advances will increase by CZK 234 to a total of CZK 2 627 (originally CZK 2 393). Regarding the payment for health insurance companies, these advances are paid from the beginning of the new year. The due date is then always by the 8th day of the following month. These advances work retroactively, so be sure to pay the first increased payment by 8th February.
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Finally, there is a novelty of 2021 – a flat tax. By choosing this option, self-employed persons with an annual income of up to CZK 1 million can pay one flat tax payment, which includes income tax, social and health insurance. This payment for 2022 should amount to CZK 5 994 (CZK 3 267 social insurance, CZK 2 627 health insurance and CZK 100 income tax). The flat tax for 2022 can be registered until 10th January.
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