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THE PARABLE OF THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH BUILDER
THE PARABLE OF THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH BUILDER.
Spiritual Meaning of
THE PARABLE
THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH BUILDER.
Matt. 7:24-28.
Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
By the sayings of Jesus Christ are to be understood the words which he spoke, and which contained the whole of his Divine Love and Wisdom in close conjunction. Thus the sayings of Jesus Christ are to be regarded as the complex of all divine good and divine truth, intending to form in man the divine image and likeness, by opening in him the kingdom of Heaven, by purifying him from all his natural evils, by restoring him to the form and order of Heaven, and by finally leading him to an eternal conjunction of love and of life with the God of Heaven.
A distinction is made in the above parable between hearing and doing. Let us examine the ground and meaning of this.
By hearing the sayings of Jesus Christ is to be understood their reception in the memory and understanding, where they appear and are stored up under the form of truths; but by doing them, is to be understood their reception in the will, or love, and their consequent operation on the thoughts, words, and works of the devout receiver of them. Thus hearing the sayings of Jesus Christ denotes their admission into the external man or mind only, by virtue of which the external thoughts, words, and works are in a measure directed and controlled; whilst doing the sayings of Jesus Christ denotes their admission into the internal man or mind, by virtue of which admission, interior evils are seen and combatted, interior goods are manifested and exalted, and thus the whole man, both internal and external, is brought into submission to, and conformity with the divine love and wisdom.
All the comparisons applied by Jesus Christ are to be regarded not as mere comparisons only, but as agreements or correspondences between the things compared; which agreements or correspondences were established at creation, and are the results of the relationship subsisting between things spiritual and things natural, in consequence of the derivation of the latter from the former, and thus of their constant connection with each other. The comparisons, therefore, applied by Jesus Christ, differ from other comparisons principally in this respect, that they are comparisons, or agreements and correspondences, between things natural and things spiritual; whereas other comparisons are comparisons only between things natural, which bear some kind of resemblance to each other. When Jesus Christ therefore says, I will liken him to a wise man which built his house upon a rock, he means to declare the existence, not only of a similitude between the two cases, but of a real agreement or correspondence, and this of such a nature, that, when considered in reality and truth, the things compared are the same. Thus, in the present instance, the things compared are a person who hears the sayings of Jesus Christ and does them, and a person who builds his house upon a rock. When, therefore, Jesus Christ says, that these persons are like each other, he intended to mark, by the most significant terms, the proper character of the person who hears and does these sayings, and to say, not only that he resembles a person who builds his house on a rock, but also that he really and virtually is such a person, which will be further evident from the consideration of what is to be understood by building a house upon a rock.
By the house here spoken of, is manifestly to be understood a spiritual house, which is no other than the interior and exterior mind of man, who is called a house in consequence of being the habitation, not only of the man himself, that is to say, of his supreme love, with all its derivative affections and thoughts, but also of the Lord himself, with his divine love and wisdom, together with all the angelic host, who constitute his eternal kingdom. This house is said to be built upon a rock, whenever man opens his mind to the reception of the divine truth of the Most High, and especially to that highest and most sublime truth, the manifestation of God in the flesh, or his revelation of himself in the Divine Humanity of Jesus Christ. For in the Sacred Scriptures all truth is called a rock, by reason of its consistency and durability, and the term is applied pre-eminently to Jesus Christ as being the Supreme Truth, agreeably to his own declaration, where he says, I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). The first step, therefore, towards building this spiritual house is to believe in Jesus Christ as the Supreme God, and thus, as the source and fountain of all divine truth, and the building is afterwards advanced and perfected, in proportion as man forms his mind and his life in agreement with the precepts of Jesus Christ, and especially of that most edifying and purifying precept, to shun all evil as sin against that Great and Holy God.
But it is said that the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house.
The rain, the floods, and the winds, here spoken of, are to be understood spiritually, or according to a spiritual idea, because they are here mentioned as beating upon a spiritual house; and by rain, according to a spiritual idea, is meant the assault of false principles and persuasions in their opposition to the truths and precepts of the revealed wisdom of the Most High; by floods, a destructive accumulation of those principles and persuasions; and by winds, the infernal influences with which they are in continual connection, and from which they derive all their activity, force, and overwhelming operation. By rain, indeed, and by wind, when applied in a good sense, as the terms frequently are applied in the Sacred Scripture, is to be understood the descent of the heavenly doctrine of truth and wisdom, operative under the influence of the power and spirit of the Most High; but in the present instance the two terms are manifestly applied in an opposite, or bad sense, and accordingly denote, as was said above, the assault and operation of false and destructive principles and persuasions infused by the powers of darkness.
The term beating, has relation to the assault made by false principles and persuasions against the principles and persuasions of heavenly truth in the human mind, and therefore it relates to a state of trial or temptation, which is necessary for all to undergo, before the principles and persuasions of heavenly love and wisdom, or, what is the same thing, of heavenly goodness and truth, can be fully fixed and confirmed in the mind and life of man.
It is afterwards said of the house, when thus beaten by the rain, the floods, and the winds, that it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.
By falling, applied to a spiritual house, is to be understood the separation or disjunction of the house, and of all things contained in it, from the divine love and wisdom of Jesus Christ: for when this is the case, the house then of necessity falls, since it is then placed only under the rule and government of selfish and worldly love, which love, in respect to heavenly love, is grovelling and debased, and destitute besides of all order, strength, and consistency necessary for the support of a spiritual building. When, therefore, the house, as in the present case, is said not to fall, the expression was intended to denote, that what is signified by the house was still kept in conjunction with the divine love and wisdom of Jesus Christ, and consequently, that the trial, or temptation, signified by the beating of the rain, the floods and the winds, had produced no other effect than to strengthen the foundations of the house. For such is the nature of all opposition from the powers of darkness, when exercised on the well-disposed mind, that, instead of destroying, it strengthens the heavenly principles which it assaults, by bringing those principles more into exercise, by leading man into deeper humiliation, and by thus elevating him to a closer conjunction with the powers of heaven and their God than could otherwise have been effected. The Almighty, therefore, permits such opposition on account of the end which is accomplished by it, and which is no other than the more radical purification and regeneration of his children, agreeably to his own declaration, where he says, You shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy (John 16:20).
By the rock, as was shown above, is to be understood the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, or the Incarnate God, together with all the truth, or wisdom, which proceeds from him; and the nature of man's connection with this Lord and Saviour is such, that if he be wise to open his mind to the reception of him, and of the heavenly principles of life and love which proceed from him, by renouncing all the evils which are in opposition to those principles, he then connects himself with the Omnipotence of that Great God and Saviour, and thus cannot perish, since none is able to pluck him out of that Saviour's hand (John 10:28). Whenever, then, man is wise to build his house upon this rock, he may console himself with the blessed conviction, that it can never fall, but is that house not built with hands, of which it said, that it is eternal in the heavens (2 Cor. 5:1).
We have now considered what is meant by the sayings of Jesus Christ, and what by hearing and doing them. The meaning, therefore, of hearing and not doing them is plain: but we have yet to seek the reason why the man, who hears them, and does them not, is like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.
He is like a foolish man, because he is a foolish man, agreeably to what is said above concerning the Lord's comparisons; and therefore the Lord would here teach that this is the essence of all folly, to hear his sayings and not to do them; in other words, to acquire speculative knowledge of holy things in the memory and understanding, without suffering that knowledge to influence the life and conversation. And this folly Jesus Christ further marks by the significant expression of building the house upon the sand. For sand, we know, is a strong substance, without coherence and consistency, and therefore is an exact representative figure of all that truth in the human mind which is not reduced to practice, by being allowed to govern and control the love and the life, in which case, being deprived of the heavenly conjoining spirit of love to the Lord, and neighbourly love, it has nothing to give it consistence and coherence, consequently, nothing to give it strength and stability. As, therefore, a material house must soon fall, if it has no other foundation for its security than material sand, in like manner, a spiritual house must soon fall, if it has no other security than spiritual sand; in other words, if it be built on mere speculative truths, or knowledges, which, being separated from heavenly life and love, are of consequence disjoined from each other, and therefore incapable of supplying a firm and durable foundation. It is accordingly said, that when the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it fell, and great was the fall of it, to denote, that in time of spiritual trial or temptation, truth alone cannot stand; in other words, that the man of the church cannot be supported under spiritual conflicts, only so far as knowledge is formed into life, speculation brought into practice, and the whole man thus, both internal and external, restored to an eternal connection and conjunction of life with the divine fountain of all good and truth, whose high and holy name is Jesus Christ.
The fall is called a great fall, to distinguish it from lesser falls, and to teach the edifying and awful lesson, that the greatest fall to which the spiritual house of man is exposed, results not from ignorance, but from the knowledge of heavenly truth received in his understanding, when it is not suffered to operate and produce its proper fruits in the will and life, by purifying man from all his natural evils, and restoring him both internally and externally to the love and the practice of heavenly good. Jesus Christ therefore says, in another place, If the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness! (Matt. 6:23). to instruct us, that great darkness does not result from mere ignorance, or the want of spiritual light, but that it results from spiritual life itself, when it is either perverted, suffocated, or rejected, – in consequence of not applying it to the purposes for which it was given, namely, purification, reformation, and regeneration of the heart and life. The same truth is again inculcated in these words of Jesus Christ, That servant, which knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many blows. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of blows, shall be beaten with few blows (Luke 12:47, 48)
From this parable then, we learn, in the first place, the distinguishing marks and characters of wisdom and folly, and what it is which properly constitutes the essence of each. For we are taught that the proper mark and character of wisdom, is both to hear and to do the sayings of Jesus Christ, whereas the proper mark and character of folly is, to hear only, and not to do. A man therefore cannot properly be called wise, merely because he has much knowledge, or because he abounds in the science even of things the most heavenly and sublime, but he becomes wise in proportion as he suffers such knowledge and science to elevate his love and affections, to raise him above his corruptions, and to conjoin him with the Father of his Being, the High and Holy God. Neither can he be properly called foolish on account of any defect in knowledge or science, but he becomes foolish by the possession of knowledge or science unpractised, in consequence of not suffering it to convert him from the love of evil to the love of good, and thus to influence his life and conversation. We are instructed yet further by the above parable, that in building our spiritual house, we ought both to hear and to do the words of Jesus Christ, and thus to lay the foundations on a rock; in other words, we ought to believe in the incarnate God, and to form our life in obedience to his heavenly precepts of love and charity, in which case our house can never fall, because it will ever be kept in connection with the Eternal, and under the support of his Omnipotence; whereas, if we only hear, and do not, we shall then build our house on the sand, and when trial or temptation assaults us, it will fall, and its fall will be the greater, because we knew our duty and did not practise it. Let us endeavour, therefore, from now on, to acquire the blessed character of true wisdom, and for this purpose, both to learn what our Heavenly Father requires of us, and also to practise it, that so, when the hour of trial and temptation comes, we may stand steadfast and unmoved, and may enter into all the comfort of the blessed declaration, It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Amen.
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The equation $3x+5y+7z=15$ can be rewritten as $z = \frac{15}{7} - \frac{3}{7}x-\frac{5}{7}y$. What are the meanings of the three fractions that appear in this equation?

I know that $\frac{15}{7}$ is the intersection of the plane on the $z$-axis. However, is $-\frac{3}{7}$ the slope on the $x$-axis and $-\frac{5}{7}$ on the $y$-axis? Any help will be appreciated.

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The benefits of a summertime birthday are virtually endless. To be sure, while having a birthday in the winter allows for a day spent romping around in the snow, skiing or skating with friends and family, and sipping hot chocolate by the fire, a summer birthday comes with equally wonderful advantages. A birthday in the summer can be spent outdoors in the sunshine, relaxing and enjoying the season.
Of course, if your little one has an upcoming birthday this season, you can add some excitement by tailoring it specifically to fit in with the summer season. So this year, get ready for the birthday bash of a lifetime and try out one of these kids summer birthday party themes that your little ones are sure to love.
With such beautiful weather appearing each and every morning during the summer, why not take advantage of it and spend all day outdoors with your little one during his or her birthday? And to do so, consider hosting an outdoor scavenger hunt for your child and all of his or her friends. This is a great way to encourage outdoor play and physical activity, and will allow the children to hunt around the neighborhood for some exciting rewards.
How can you get started planning for this theme? To begin, consider the scope of the area in which you would like the hunt to remain. This may simply be the confines of your backyard, or you may wish instead to take the hunt to a park where you can have a more expansive place to play. Then, gather all of the items you want to hide; this may include small toys, coins, cards, or anything else that isn't entirely visible from afar, but that your children can surely find. Finally, make sure you bring along rewards for the kids who spend all day searching for the items hidden in the park to help cap off an excellent kids summer birthday party theme.
Do your little ones love to run around outdoors during the summer months? Do they seem to have reserves of energy that never run out? If so, consider throwing them an outdoor birthday party that requires fun and physical activity by setting up one or more obstacle parks in the backyard, or even in a nearby park. This will help the kids get rid of some of their high-intensity energy, and will allow them to get wild and crazy with a few of their best friends.
The concept of the party is simple: all you need are a few obstacles that you can set up in a row. Items that work well as obstacles include hula hoops, plastic chairs, rope ladders, and even playground equipment. Make sure the kids have an objective, such as getting through the obstacle course in the quickest amount of time, or doing it with the most style. And, of course, ensure that the children are under constant supervision while going through the obstacle course so that everyone is safe and injury-free. Get ready for some true excitement with this fun summer-themed children's party.
Are you looking for a fun way to beat the heat while celebrating the birth of one of your children? If so, consider taking your little one and a few of his or her best friends to the local pool or outdoor reservoir for some fun in the sun. But don't just settle for an average day at the water; instead, throw some excitement into the mix by making it a Hawaiian themed birthday party with relevant games and activities. You can make sure that everyone wears a Hawaiian shirt or hula skirt and include fun activities like hula dancing and lei making. This great summer-themed children's party will be a certain hit with your child and his or her friends.
All kids love to eat cake and ice cream on their birthdays. So this year, why not add some fun into the mix by having the little ones make ice cream for themselves. You can easily find an ice cream churner at a local department store to help you mix the cream; or, you can always churn it at home by hand. Search for a few fun and delicious recipes online beforehand, and let your children get wild and crazy with ingredients. This is a wonderful kids summer birthday party theme for little ones of all ages who love cake and ice cream.
Are you getting ready to celebrate the birthday of one of your little ones this summer? If so, consider one of these amazing kids summer birthday party themes to ensure you have a blast with your children and all of their friends.


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O'Reilly Stewart Appointed to Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry
We at ORS Healthcare are honoured and humbled to have been appointed by the Chair of the Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry, Mr Tom Kark QC, to assist persons who may wish to contribute to the Inquiry .
The core objectives of the Inquiry are to examine the issue of abuse of patients at Muckamore Abbey Hospital, to determine why the abuse happened and the range of circumstances that allowed it to happen, and to ensure that such abuse does not occur again at Muckamore Abbey Hospital, or at any other institution providing similar services in Northern Ireland.
In his up-to-date statement of December 2021, the Chair has indicated that we have now been appointed to provide preliminary advice to those persons who may wish to avail of it as to whether or not they should apply for core participant status in the Inquiry.
In simple terms, a person warrants core participant status if that person played or may have played a direct and significant role in relation to the matters to which the Inquiry relates, has a significant interest in an important aspect of the matters to which the Inquiry relates, or that person may be subject to explicit or significant criticism during inquiry proceedings. If such persons meet those criteria, then it will be for the Chair to consider whether it would be fair to designate core participant status to that person having regard to the need to avoid unnecessary cost.
In providing such advice, it is important to note that we will be acting entirely independently of the Inquiry and will represent the individual rather than the organisation. The Chair has indicated that not every witness requires to be represented by a lawyer, nor does every witness require to be a core participant. Ultimately it will be for the Chair to consider each application for core participant status and for legal funding.
If you, or any of your relatives have been affected by the issues, the subject matter of the Inquiry, then please do not hesitate to contact our Healthcare Team at info@oreillystewart.com.


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iTunes Is Going to the Operating System in the Sky
So long, iTunes
At some point during Apple's annual developer conference (kicking off today), the company's expected to axe iTunes, per Bloomberg. The desktop music player and iOS sync-er has outlived its relevance, though it was a revolution for music distribution when it was first released. Gen Z readers: look up "record store," then continue reading.
It had a good run. iTunes launched as a media player in 2001, but in 2003 Apple introduced the store, which was the real game changer. Suddenly music buyers could have their Sean Paul immediately and for much cheaper than a CD.
But now it seems…out of place. iTunes is a music, podcast, and TV desktop app at a company that already has separate Music, Podcast, and TV apps for iPhones and iPads. So Apple is expected to replace it with three distinct apps like its phones and tablets have.
Bottom line: iTunes bridged the brick-and-mortar era to the Streaming Age, but it's a little surprising it survived so long, what with its bonanza of confusing features…and that free but not good U2 album.


QUESTION: ……(I)sn't it fair to say that when you arrived in Geneva on Friday there was more agreement around the draft, and that the Iranians were also more or less on board, and then the French injected some objections which then meant that the Iranians had to go back to Tehran to consult back with the capital?
Ahh, I thought, that well known and deeply respected negotiating strategy of bracketed language. (For American readers I am being ironic). Which is what exactly??
Bracketing is a technique which is designed to make the gap between parties look smaller than before, and inject some flexibility into a situation. A typical example is where two parties are separated by a numerical difference – for example in a commercial negotiation the Buyer has demanded a 10% discount and the Seller has only offered a 2% discount. Bracketing would involve the seller making a proposal along the lines of 'If the buyer would move to a 7% discount demand, we would move to a 4% discount offer'. So instead of the gap being 10-2=8%, the gap is now only 7-4=3%. In a bracketed proposal only one variable is dealt with; this is not the same as a multi-variable trade - for example 'If you could increase the volume by 100 I would increase the discount to 4%'.
The idea that you signal flexibility by bracketed language has to be a two-edged sword. Of course it might encourage movement, assuming that the recipient recognises the flexibility in the language, and co-operative and creative negotiators would see this as a good thing.
But it is also an enormous sign of weakness, of indecision, of preparedness to give way. This is not the place for a political analysis of Iranian nuclear policy, but I would suggest that Iranian behaviour over many years should have led the P5+1 negotiators to recognise that giving an inch to the Iranians is always reciprocated by them taking a mile.
I suspect that most readers with commercial negotiating experience would be deeply cynical of this technique in all but the most benign of negotiations. The most likely reasoning from a buyer who gets a proposal like this would surely be 'Ah – so you can go to 4% discount and I haven't offered or agreed anything – I expect you can probably go even further! So I'll just say no and see what you do next'.
Of course it could be that John Kerry understands the meaning of bracketed language differently. Maybe he uses it as an expression for unspecific or alternative language. Even so, its existence indicates flexibility, which is not wise when dealing with negotiators who view flexibility as weakness.
Good negotiators measure the style and track-record of the counter party. Those who suggest that Iranian policy is different since the new President came to office and that these negotiations represent a real opportunity for a new order should remember that the Iranian ruling class, where the decisions are really made, has not changed at all. Which is why I believe that the use of bracketed language last weekend in Geneva was unfortunate. As it probably is most of the time.


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7. The System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace provides access to network traffic data, network address information, and notification of address changes for the local computer.
8. Double click the ListTcpButton to create the click event handler for the button.
a. First we create an object of IPGlobalPropertiesand name it ipProperties . IPGlobalProperties class provides information about the network connectivity of the local computer. Use the static method GetIPGlobalProperties to fill ipProperties with this information.
b. Create an array of the TcpConnectionInformationclass and name it tcpConnections. The TcpConnectionInformation provides information about the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections on the local computer.
c. Call the GetActiveTcpConnectionsmethod of the ipProperties object to get information about the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and IPv6 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections on the local computer.
d. Create a foreach statement and loop into the tcpConnections array and display information about each TCP connection.
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10. You should review the Local endpoints ports and view your firewall settings to make sure that you allow such kinds of connection or take the necessary actions.
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Current market examples, trends, news and data are utilised wherever helpful to illustrate the learning. It is important to note that market intelligence and examples are continuously updated and refreshed before every course, and so not always reflected in detail in the pre-published agenda.


Unlike Social Security retirement benefits, the spousal benefit does not increase if you wait to take benefits beyond your full retirement age, currently age 66 for most retirees. Thus, there is no advantage in waiting beyond your full retirement age to start taking your spousal benefit. Of course, if the principal beneficiary has not claimed his/her retirement benefits, then you cannot claim spousal benefits regardless of age.


The Carapax centre consists of a European association for the protection of all species of turtles. The centre in Tuscany is located in Massa Marittima. The center Tuscan addition to accommodate thousands of turtles, receives a large number of storks. The center aims to give hospitality to turtles that can no longer be rinserite in their natural abitat, or save those in danger of life because wounds. The centre, which has a territorial extension of 15 hectares, is divided into areas that recreate the environmental conditions of all kinds of turtles; currently in the center are about 8,000 copies. The path to follow is an easy path along the various areas where turtles are wild. In the Mediterranean area are land turtles, while at the exotic you can admire the enormous turtles of the Sahel, the red-legged from Amazon and those azzannatici.


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Hope everyone has a relaxing fun day whether you are celebrating the Superbowl or not! I decided to take pulled chicken and chicken wing dip. If my vegetarian daughter comes, I will bring rotel dip too. Can't wait to chow down!
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Ha ha ha... without the pets! Wishful thinking for me. I spent last night crammed in one little tiny corner of the king size bed - thanks to the lab and the beagle! DH is visiting family so you'd think I'd have a little more room.
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Series: Series on Regulatory Process and Perspective
Anne Joseph O'Connell Thursday, August 6, 2020
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This report is part of the Series on Regulatory Process and Perspective and was produced by the Brookings Center on Regulation and Markets.
Federal government Inspectors General (IGs), who are charged with preventing and identifying "waste, fraud, and abuse" in their agencies, generally labor in obscurity. Sometimes, their investigations do take center stage. In late July, for example, after clashes between demonstrators and federal law enforcement agents in Portland, Oregon, IGs of the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice initiated probes into their agencies' use of force.
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But lately the IGs themselves have made regular appearances in the Friday night news. In early April, President Trump fired Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community's IG who had dealt with the Ukraine whistleblower complaint that featured prominently in the President's impeachment. A few days later, the President removed Glenn Fine, who had been doing the job of the Defense Department IG, thereby preventing him from serving as the chairman of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. Fine's IG peers had selected him to oversee more than $2 trillion in government stimulus spending.
More removals followed in May. At the start of the month, President Trump claimed that he was getting rid of Christi Grimm, the temporary IG at the Department of Health and Human Services, after she reported "severe shortages" in hospital supplies during the pandemic. (She remains, however, as principal deputy IG, carrying out the vacant job's duties). The President next fired Steve Linick, the IG for the State Department. He also replaced the career acting IG for the Department of Transportation, Mitch Behm, with a new interim political official, Howard "Skip" Elliott.
In response to these staffing purges, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have proposed legislative reforms ranging from limitations on IG removal to restrictions on who can serve as an acting IG. One proposal on acting IGs recently made it into the House's version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which the White House has threatened to veto.
IGs form a crucial accountability mechanism in our contemporary federal bureaucracy. Legislators established these Senate-confirmed watchdogs in cabinet departments and major agencies during the Carter Administration, and both parties have feted modern IGs, who have reporting obligations to agency heads as well as to Congress. While IGs are most known for ferreting out "waste, fraud, and abuse" in regulatory agencies, they also conduct evaluations of key agency programs to improve their effectiveness. If they are systematically undermined by a hostile President, the quality of our governance is likely to suffer. The stakes for reform are, therefore, high.
But would-be reformers' good intentions do not guarantee that their proposed changes will have good effects. To assess these proposed reforms and some of their unintended consequences, one must primarily consider the empirical realities of staffing vacancies in IG positions and the role of acting officials and delegations of authority. The Supreme Court's recent decision about the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plays a small part as well.
Staffing Shortages
IG positions have always suffered from vacancies. The problem has been especially bad in recent Administrations. The amended Inspector General Act of 1978 and other statutes created 36 IG jobs that require presidential nomination and Senate confirmation.[1] In addition, the President must select a nominee "without regard to political affiliation" and "on the basis of integrity and demonstrated ability in accounting, auditing, financial analysis, law, management analysis, public administration, or investigation." Senate-confirmed positions come with delays at both the nomination and confirmation stages.
IGs don't fare well in the appointments process, with above-average failure rates and confirmation delays compared to other agency roles. Between 1981 and 2016, more than one-quarter of IG nominations were withdrawn or, more frequently, returned by the Senate. In President Obama's last year, Senate Republicans blocked all twelve of his IG nominees. Nominations that were confirmed in the 1981-2016 period took, on average, 104 days. These figures consider each nomination separately: if it takes two nominations (often of the same person) to get a confirmed IG, two years can easily go by. Vacancies, including delays in nominations, are also longer for IGs.
The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, among others, tracks IG vacancies online. At the high end, as of the end of July, the Export-Import Bank has lacked a confirmed IG for over six years and the Central Intelligence Agency for five and a half years. Seven of the fifteen cabinet departments currently do not have a confirmed IG.
Alternatives to Confirmed IGs
Titles can get confusing when there are not confirmed IGs in place. The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 permits acting IGs in some circumstances. But agency delegation orders typically allow principal deputy IGs to carry out the IG's functions when the Act's time limits run out. These technical complexities matter for accountability.
Take Glenn Fine at the Defense Department. When the White House demoted him from leading the IG office, many commentators called him the acting IG. But he wasn't. After the last confirmed IG, Jon Rymer, resigned during President Obama's second term, Fine became the acting IG under the Vacancies Act. President Obama nominated him twice for the job (the second time during his final few weeks in office), but the Senate never confirmed him. Fine received another 300 days to use the acting title when President Trump took office. However, because President Trump did not formally nominate anyone for the job, Fine had been carrying out the same functions through delegation, as the principal deputy IG, since late 2017.
Only when the White House nominated Jason Abend to the position in early April could President Trump demote Fine. Abend's nomination allowed the Vacancies Act to kick in again, which permitted the President to select Sean O'Donnell, the EPA's confirmed IG, as the new acting IG for the Department of Defense. (Under the quirks of the Vacancies Act, O'Donnell maintains his official title and responsibilities as the EPA's IG as well. Although he can delegate work to others, he is now stretched very thin.)
When President Trump fired the State Department IG in May at Secretary Pompeo's urging, he again turned to the Vacancies Act to go around the deputy IG. He picked Stephen Akard, the director of the Office of Foreign Missions, as the acting IG.[2] In doing so, President Trump promoted a political appointee over a careerist to take charge of investigations into potential wrongdoing by agency officials—without Senate approval. Critics charge that this move undermines the integrity of the IG office. Akard just announced that he is departing the State Department as of this Friday. Diana Shaw, the deputy IG, will reportedly take over as acting IG.
A final example: The President did not need to nominate someone to change the acting IG at the Transportation Department because the vacancy still fell within the Act's time limits. President Trump extended those limits, however, when he did submit a nominee a month later. Like Akard, the new acting IG at Transportation is a political appointee. Elliott heads the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and now serves as the interim IG.
The non-partisan and expertise statutory mandates for nominated IGs do not apply to acting IGs. Akard, for instance, "has no investigative or oversight experience." Democrats charge that Elliott also lacks "experience and independence."
How IGs Lose Their Jobs
Senate-confirmed IGs in cabinet departments and major agencies also have unusual removal protections compared to other top-level officials. Presidents cannot simply fire them, but they also do not need cause to remove them. Instead, Presidents may remove (or transfer) a confirmed IG for any reason so long as they convey that reason in writing to both chambers of Congress (or, rarely, to relevant committees) at least 30 days in advance.
These reporting mandates have little bite in practice. Recent Presidents have circumvented them by announcing IG removals and then placing those IGs on administrative leave during the 30-day notice period. This use of administrative leave, at the least, violates the spirit of the removal protections. Further, the reporting obligations do not apply to acting IGs or those officials performing the delegated functions of a vacant IG position.
Consequences of Proposals
Recent IG firings, questionable White House rationales for those firings, and the use of political officials as acting IGs have motivated members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to propose reforms. The enthusiasm for reform is entirely understandable, but reformers must be careful that they don't unintentionally worsen vacancies or isolate and hinder IGs through their attempts to protect them.
In their May stimulus spending bill, The Heroes Act, the House of Representatives included a provision called the Inspector General Independence Act (IGIA). The IGIA would permit Presidents to fire an IG only for "[p]ermanent incapacity," "[i]nefficiency," ''[n]eglect of duty," ''[m]alfeasance," ''[c]onviction of a felony or conduct involving moral turpitude," ''[k]nowing violation of a law, rule, or regulation," "[g]ross mismanagement," "[g]ross waste of funds," or ''[a]buse of authority.'' These "for cause" restrictions are almost always paired with fixed terms for officials, which typically allows a new Administration to replace officials from the previous Administration on a rotating basis. But this proposal does not include fixed terms for IGs.
Since January, President Trump has submitted seven nominees for regular IG spots (excluding a new position to oversee pandemic recovery). If confirmed, these nominees could serve for life under the IGIA, assuming they don't run afoul of any of the listed reasons for dismissal. Even without the IGIA, Vice President Biden has promised, if elected, not to fire any confirmed IGs.
Some Senate Democrats have called for pairing removal restrictions with terms. Senator Murphy, for example, has proposed seven-year terms in the (stand-alone) Inspectors General Independence Act of 2020. Senator Warren has done the same in the Coronavirus Oversight and Recovery Ethics Act of 2020. Editorial boards and good-governance organizations have also called for removal restrictions.
Such restrictions may, however, generate unintended consequences. When Congress contemplated removal restrictions during President George W. Bush's Administration, most members of a Government Accountability Office-convened panel (which included IGs and their supporters) did not want them. Panelists feared that IGs would become "isolated from the agency head and the rest of the agency."
In addition, removal restrictions may exacerbate vacancies. Fixed-term positions, which almost always span more than a single presidential term, have longer vacancies, including more failed nominations and longer confirmations. Removal restrictions without terms would presumably create even worse delays.
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Finally, it is unclear whether removal restrictions are constitutional. While the Supreme Court just barred removal restrictions for the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, its reasoning may allow them for IGs.
There are other reforms on the table. Senator Grassley, a Republican, was unimpressed by the White House's cursory notice to Congress about the President "no longer" having "the fullest confidence" in two confirmed IGs; he wrote to ask for "detailed reasoning." Senator Grassley and Senator Peters, a Democrat, then introduced the Securing Inspector General Independence Act, which would require the President to offer a "substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons" before firing an IG. The bill would also restrict placing IGs on administrative leave in the 30-day notice period.
Both House and Senate proposals also target acting IGs. Commentators on the left and right support cabining the use of political officials as temporary watchdogs. The House's version of the National Defense Authorization Act restricts acting IGs to the principal deputy IG if there is one, or to a senior official in the IG office if there is not. Because this change is not in the Senate version that passed in late July, it is not clear whether it will end up in the bill that gets to the President's desk. The Coronavirus Oversight and Recovery Ethics Act and the Securing Inspector General Independence Act would do something similar, although in the second proposal the options for the White House would differ depending on whether the President had fired the confirmed IG. By restricting the President's ability to circumvent the Senate-confirmation process through political acting officials, such proposals would presumably encourage the White House to formally nominate people for IG positions.
Other pending proposals include requiring presidential explanation for failure to nominate IGs (for instance, within 30 days after a vacancy has lasted 210 days) and restricting dual hatting (where the acting IG is also under the IG's purview) by mandating recusal. These proposals may also encourage the White House to staff IG positions through the traditional appointments process.
What reforms will get enacted, if any, is uncertain. The interaction between reforms and vacancies should not be ignored as these watchdogs play critical roles in the administrative state.
Anne Joseph O'Connell is an appointed senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States, an independent federal agency dedicated to improving regulatory procedures. She is also a volunteer for Joe Biden for President. This work represents only O'Connell's views. The author did not receive financial support from any firm or person for this article or from any firm or person with a financial or political interest in this article. She is currently not an officer, director, or board member of any organization with a financial or political interest in this article. No outside party reviewed this work prior to publication at Brookings.
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There are some IG positions with different selection procedures, such as the one for the United States Postal Service.
Courts have not resolved whether the Vacancies Act, which allows for temporary service when the previous officeholder "dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the office," applies to firings. For more discussion, see Anne Joseph O'Connell, Actings, 120 Colum. L. Rev. 613, 672-75, 709-10 (2020).
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Abstract: One of the most interesting aspects of complexity is that it occurs at different levels. It may occur at the level of interactions among the agents that compose a complex network: despite the relatively simple behavior of each single unit, the whole network may exhibit holistic collective dynamics, such self-organization, synchronization, robustness to failure, and so on; and it may occur, in the form of an aperiodic irregular behavior, at the level of a system described by a low-order set of ordinary differential equations, three, for instance, in the case of continuous-time systems. This thesis focuses on both levels of complexity. The first part, in particular, deals with complexity at the level of a single dynamical system. The main contributions of the work summarized in this thesis refer to the use of a new electronic component for the design of chaotic circuits. This new component, the memristor, is at the same time a memory element and a nonlinear element and for this reason has been regarded in literature as an effective block to reduce the minimum number of components needed to build a chaotic circuit. The original aspect of this thesis is the focus on a realistic model of memristor, that is a model derived starting from the analysis of the real memristor device discovered in the HP laboratories. The use of such approach introduces constraints in the design that are not considered in idealized models such as piece-wise linear ones. The main results were: i) the introduction of a configuration of two memristors in antiparallel which has been used as the fundamental block to design a gallery of autonomous and non-autonomous nonlinear circuits exhibiting a rich dynamics, including chaos; ii) the design of a hybrid circuit which takes from the characterization methodology of real memristors the idea of using a simple digital linear control circuitry which allows chaos to be observed with the driving of a single memristor. The second part of the thesis focuses on synchronization on complex networks. In particular, the onset of a new form of synchronization, named remote synchronization, in complex networks has been investigated. Remote synchronization appears in star-like networks of coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators, where the hub node is characterized by an oscillation frequency different from that of the leaves, as a regime in which the peripheral nodes are synchronized each other but not with the hub. In this thesis we have investigated if similar conditions can be observed in more general frameworks. We have found that networks of not homogeneous nodes may display many pairs of nodes that, despite the fact that are not directly connected nor connected through chains of synchronized nodes, are phase synchronized. We have introduced measures to characterize this phenomenon and found that it is common both in scale-free and Erdos-Renyi networks. Furthermore, this is an important mechanism to form clusters of synchronized nodes in a network. Finally, we have linked the appearance of pairs of remotely synchronized nodes to a topological condition of inhibition of direct paths or paths through chains of synchronized nodes, thus elucidating a mechanism which has lead to the definition of a series of topologies where remote synchronization is found. Finally, we have explored the use of memristor as a synapse for complex networks. Also in this case, we have used a configuration of two HP memristors and shown that such configuration provides an adaptation rule for the links of a complex network, enabling the emergence of a set of weights leading to synchronization.


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Crowds gathered in Ossett over the weekend to see Wakefield Morris Dancers heave a cart laden with heavy barrels of beer around the town.
More than 100 dancers from around the country took part in the third annual Ossett Beer Cart festival.
They paraded from the cricket and athletics club to the town centre, before carrying the first barrel into the town hall.
The Beer Cart event, which ran from Friday until Sunday, also included a beer festival on Friday and Saturday, an open air market throughout the weekend and morris dance performances on both Saturday and Sunday.
"It went really well and the weather was on our side.
"Ossett was just buzzing on Saturday .
"A couple of thousand people turned out to watch. It was a wonderful atmosphere.
"All the morris dancers and musicians took part in the procession, some pulling the cart, some walking behind.
"We want this to continue as an annual event. Traditions have to start somewhere.
The festival was held for the first time in 2014.
Inspiration for the event was taken from the Lancashire rushcart tradition which involves villagers carrying rushes on a cart to their local church.
The Beer Cart festival is designed to encourage more people to take up morris dancing whilst also raising funds for Wakefield Hospice.
Wakefield Morris will host two taster dance sessions on September 12 and November 7. To find out more, visit the Wakefield Morris Dancers Facebook page.


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Testing in Alexandra and other townships countrywide continued on Tuesday, with residents' fears ranging from what they would do if they contracted the virus, to where their next meals would come from
Simnikiwe Hlatshaneni
A man gets swabbed at a screening and testing site in Alexandra Stadium, 27 April 2020. Picture: Neil McCartney
Only a few dozen Alexandra residents in Johannesburg braved the cold on Tuesday to visit the local community health centre, one of several Covid-19 mobile testing sites. While many were there to access various other healthcare services at the centre, those who met certain criteria during the screening process were referred to the testing site over the past two days. The area is in Johannesburg's District E – which consists of Sandton, Wynberg, Alexandra and other suburbs – which is the virus epicentre in Gauteng, with 253 cases according to government's latest data. Nothemba Ntambo, 28, said she lived in...
Only a few dozen Alexandra residents in Johannesburg braved the cold on Tuesday to visit the local community health centre, one of several Covid-19 mobile testing sites.
While many were there to access various other healthcare services at the centre, those who met certain criteria during the screening process were referred to the testing site over the past two days.
The area is in Johannesburg's District E – which consists of Sandton, Wynberg, Alexandra and other suburbs – which is the virus epicentre in Gauteng, with 253 cases according to government's latest data.
Nothemba Ntambo, 28, said she lived in daily fear of catching the virus because she worked at a local supermarket, where unlike the major franchise stores, optimum precautionary measures were not always taken at the store.
"It is a scary time for all of us but especially those who have been working all along during the lockdown. Sometimes, when they run out of the masks, we must buy our own masks. We ride taxis and stand in lines for everything and it's not always easy to keep social distance. That is why I took the first chance I got to see if I can get tested."
Life had slowly begun to return to the relatively quiet streets of the township with a moderate amount of pedestrian traffic, taxis and a few cars breaking the general silence. People complained of jobs that may never be recovered as they waited in line to enter the clinic.
Like thousands of destitute Joburgers, Samson Ngwenya, a 37-year-old informal recycling trader, awaited the return of various industries to reopen. His daily routine collecting recyclable plastics along London Road and other parts of Alex and surrounds was severely impacted during the lockdown, with little to collect from the industrial part of the township and virtually nowhere to sell it.
Some of his friends who also depended on the informal waste trade for income had been forced to beg for money and food, despite the large-scale food parcel distributions by government and civil society organisations.
"Even if you can give me something I will be happy because I don't eat every day," Ngwenya appealed in isiZulu. "It is not just the disease that is dangerous, we are also hungry and we have no jobs."
The Zimbabwean complained that only those who were South African or had the correct documents were allowed to receive food parcels. "I don't have a birth certificate, because when I came to Johannesburg in 2015, it was a difficult journey and many of my belongings were stolen and lost."
Since the inception of the Gauteng health department's rollout of community and mobile testing drives, 2,611 people were tested. Only 15 were subsequently quarantined.
The province had by Monday recorded 876 recoveries, eight deaths and 1,353 cases. Over 8,000 people had been listed by tracers as having had contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19, but 5,204 of these had already de-isolated after remaining asymptomatic for the 14-day self- isolation period.
According to department spokesperson Kwara Kekana, the response from various, mostly vulnerable communities where the tests were being conducted had been positive.
"The department has received positive responses from the community facilities as well as in areas where we have set up mobile testing sites and as part of the massive screening campaigns. We would like to thank the responsive communities and the individuals that have come out to be screened and those that have been referred for testing."
– simnikiweh@citizen.co.za
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