On April 9, the Victoria Beckham for Target collection will launch online and in stores, featuring lines of clothing for women, girls and toddlers created by the British designer for Target's entry-level price points and aspirational customers. The limited-edition drop will give Target's clothing department a brief jolt of high-fashion prestige — borrowed from Beckham and some press coverage — before it sells out, fades away and Target does it all again with a new designer partner.
Target debuted the high-low collaboration model in 1999 when it teamed with architect Michael Graves on household items, bringing it to fashion with a collaboration with Isaac Mizrahi in 2003. The next year, H&M rolled out a similarly formatted collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld, and the two retailers have been announcing regular high-low designer partnerships ever since, working with the likes of Anna Sui, Isabel Marant (at Target), Commes des Garçons and Versace (at H&M) over the years.
The success of these collaborations — their launches can crash websites, draw massive lines and sell out in a few hours — might be to blame for the increasing ubiquity of collaborations in fashion.
Retailers looking for a traffic bump and PR buzz now tend to default to a collaboration, some more imaginative than others. Uniqlo, Nordstrom and Topshop have followed Target's model. Thanks to their popularity on Instagram, there's been a rise in model partnerships, including the Tommy Hilfiger and Gigi Hadid collection and Express's new line with Karlie Kloss. Luxury fashion's participation goes beyond gracing Target shoppers with an aspirational line. Designers like Alexander Wang and Prabal Gurung have dipped into the mass-brand realm, with Adidas and Lane Bryant, respectively, while Coach produced a line with younger New York luxury brand Rodarte, and Louis Vuitton linked up with Supreme for a collection. Even Vogue wants in, recently collaborating with Pressed Juicery on two lemonades.
Fashion collaborations, at risk of becoming oversaturated, have become impossible to escape. In addition to Target and H&M setting the bar, times have become increasingly desperate for brands and retailers facing a grim industry landscape.
For mass retailers, high-low collaborations make sense: Designers get exposure to a customer previously priced out of their collections, while a store like Target and H&M gets the halo-effect brand caché attached to their high-end partners. But as the model seeps elsewhere in fashion, it veers toward a grasp at relevance.
Tommy Hilfiger's collection designed with model Gigi Hadid, who doesn't have any previous fashion accolades, is a transparent marketing play, in line with Express's collaboration with Karlie Kloss, and PacSun's collection with Kendall and Kylie Jenner, said Whitney. Instead of filling a customer need, these model-influencer collaborations jostle in and meet the customer where they happen to be: on their Instagram feeds.
Looking externally to industry partnerships to boost buzz can be a slippery slope, particularly for brands on the mend, like Coach and its capsule collection with Rodarte.


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Sunak says pay rises 'would have to be taken from elsewhere in the NHS
January 23, 2023 mediabest Politics
Nurses and ambulance workers continue strikes across England
The Prime Minister said that giving pay rises to striking staff – including ambulance workers and nurses – would lead to money being taken away from "elsewhere in the NHS budget". But he insisted that the Government would continue to "engage in dialogue with the unions".
Earlier, the Prime Minister was accused of being "missing in action" during the dispute, with one union pointing to an "abdication of leadership".
Unite said that Health Secretary Steve Barclay "does not have authority" to negotiate pay deals, as it urged Mr Sunak to call a meeting with union leaders.
It comes as thousands of ambulance workers are staging the third strike in five weeks in the bitter dispute over pay.
Up to 15,000 Unison ambulance workers are on picket lines and have been joined by up to 5,000 of their NHS colleagues at two hospital trusts in Liverpool.
Further strikes are planned in the coming weeks by nurses and other NHS workers.
Pressed on whether there would be a point where he would have to sit down and negotiate with unions, the Prime Minister told ITV News: "Taking a step back, of course it would be lovely to be able to wave a magic wand and just give everyone what they were demanding when it came to pay.
"But my job as Prime Minister is to make the right decisions for the country, and they are, more often than not, not easy decisions.
"But that's my job, and that's what I will always do in this job, and… when you think about this, how would we pay for these things? Where's the money going to come from?
"My job is to balance all of those things and do what I believe is right for the country. And that's what we're doing.
"I need to do, and the government needs to do, what is right for the country long term."
Thousands of nurses and ambulance workers are due to stage walkouts on February 6 if no deal has been reached by then – potentially the biggest day of strikes in the history of the health service.
And as nurses take strike action on February 7, they will be joined by midwives in Wales.
Members of the Royal College of Midwives in Wales are to stage an eight-hour walkout from 8am to 4pm but will provide "bank holiday cover" for women in labour.
Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, told LBC radio: "There's many, many days between now and February 6, and I hope the Government come to their senses, get the general secretaries around the table – we will be there any time, any place, anywhere – and do this deal.
"So, I really hope that February 6 doesn't go ahead because the Government puts an offer on the table.
"If they don't do that, of course it will go ahead (and) it will be a very bad day for the NHS, everybody will feel that."
Thousands of members of Unison, Unite and the GMB unions staged walk outs across England and Wales on Monday.
Paramedics, emergency care assistants, ambulance technicians, other 999 crew members and control room staff across five services in England – London, Yorkshire, the North West, North East and South West – joined picket lines.
Porters, cleaners, nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants, theatre staff and other NHS workers at the Liverpool University Hospitals Trust and the city's Heart and Chest Hospital are also out on strike.
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Palestinian to Iranian Media: Israel is Stronger, Future Unpredictable
by Seth Frantzman
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Iran's Tasnim News ran a long and important interview on Tuesday with a Palestinian named Ali Reza Soltan-Shahi. The interview is interesting because it gives a window not only into Palestinian thinking, but particularly because of the views it conveyed to the Iranian regime.
Soltan-Shahi has appeared before at Iranian events. Last year, he was described by MEMRI as secretary-general of the Organization for Aiding the Islamic Revolution of the Palestinian People in the Office of the Iranian Presidency. Tasnim describes him only as a former head of the Palestinian Center for Mental Health.
The interview begins with a discussion of the Israeli political parties that ran in the recent election. Soltan-Shahi says the 2019 election was the culmination of a process that began in 1977 and has seen the entrenchment of Likud and the Israeli right. He notes that Labor and Meretz have fallen in their number of seats, and describes Israel as being more fundamentalist and religious – an irony considering that the Iranian regime is a fundamentalist theocracy.
He argues that the Israeli Right will gain more power in the future, and that while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will successfully form a new government, his "popularity is at the lowest level internationally. Those countries that interact with the Zionist regime, such as the Europeans: their interaction is at its lowest." He says that Israel's main ally is the United States and the administration of US President Donald Trump.
The interview notes that the privileges Israel enjoys in its relations with the US have made Israel's policies more efficient, pointing to US recognition of Jerusalem and the Golan. What does this unprecedented Israel-US coherence in policy mean going forward? He notes that due to the flexibility the US is showing in terms of more imaginative peace process concepts, tensions will increase in the West Bank and Gaza, which he refers to as the "occupied territories." Unpredictability will increase and the "resistance may be strengthened."
Israel is also seeking to "strengthen its relations with Arab countries, and as far as possible make these relations more explicit and clear." Israel is helping to cement an anti-Iranian alliance even as Iran's role in the region increases. Soltan-Shahi calls this Iran's "strong presence." The interview does not point to direct confrontation between Israel and Iran, but rather to Washington encouraging the US to be more tough on Tehran financially. "The Zionist regime will certainly use anti-Iran countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia."
Soltan-Shahi then discusses the differences between Iran's view and that of Europe. While European powers support a two-state solution and Israel withdrawing to the 1967 borders, "they are by no means like us, who demand the complete destruction of the Zionist regime." Iran and Europe can only cooperate insofar as Iran seeks to highlight Israel's abuses of international law and violation of international norms, the interviewee says. He indicates such examples as using UNESCO against the Jewish state.
What about the rumors of an "Arab NATO" which would oppose Iran? Soltan-Shahi says that experience shows that the Arab NATO has not worked well. Egypt, for instance, did not agree to be part of it. "It shows that the Arab countries, which have the most secret relations with the Zionist regime, cannot actually bring Zionists against the Islamic republic of Iran." In short, many Arab countries in the region are unwilling to make their relations with Israel public, because they know such relations are unpopular at home and will cause protests against their rulers.
The interview ends with discussions of whether Trump will be re-elected. "The Jews in the US are financially, politically, economically and media-wise very influential, but it should be borne in mind that even as the Jews are powerful in the US, the political system is rooted in four-year terms for the presidency." Soltan-Shahi says that if Trump is re-elected, it would mean the US has changed a lot in the last four years.
The interview is interesting because this is the kind of information that Iranian media wants to highlight – and also what some Iranians read in Farsi. The knowledge of the goals of Israel and the current Israeli government, including the complexity of coalition politics, are laid bare.
In general, the interview seems to suggest that while Israel has cemented its power and relations with Arab states, as well as gaining from Washington's policies, it is unable to take things to the next step. This is because, in the view of the interview, the Arab states will not ever actually form a real alliance with Israel. It is an alliance of convenience. With that knowledge a sophisticated regime like Iran's can continue to insert itself into the politics of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and beyond.
The interview also points to unpredictable Palestinian responses to any kind of US "deal of the century." Defeated militarily, the Palestinian "resistance" has less options. But, isolated, it may be unpredictable. This is an important point because the US is pushing a deal that is reportedly in line with Israel's interests and it is unclear how the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in Gaza will react.
The astute Iranian regime reads the prevailing winds in the region carefully. It correctly understands that, while the European powers may be critical of Israel in some international forums, only Iran really seeks the destruction of Israel. Tehran seems to understand that this cannot be achieved by direct confrontation either. Interviews like this point to what information the Iranian regime is receiving and propagating.
Seth Frantzman is The Jerusalem Post's op-ed editor, a Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a founder of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis.
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It should be used only under professional guidance as older sources state that the herb contains a toxin that paralyzes the spinal marrow that can lead to death through asphyxiation.
Native to the southern US, pinkroot is a prolific perennial plant with oval to lance-shaped leaves, spikes of brilliant red-pink flowers, and a double seed capsule. It grows in dry, rich soil in woodland clearings and borders, especially in Kentucky, Florida, and Texas. The roots are unearthed in autumn.
Used extensively by Native Americans as a vermifuge, it was gathered for trade with the white settlers by the Creeks and Cherokees. From the late 18th century onward, it became a major de-worming herb in North America and Europe.
Spigeleine is irritating to the stomach and strongly emetic.
Today, pinkroot is used solely to expel intestinal worms, especially tapeworms and roundworms. It is prescribed with such other herbs as senna and fennel to ensure the elimination of both the worms and the root itself, which is potentially toxic if it is absorbed through the gut. The recommended dosage is one ounce of the powdered root made into an infusion and taken morning and evening, with as little food during the day as possible between the two doses.
Several of the Spigelia species act as worm-expelling herbs. These include S. flemmingania, native to Brazil, and S. anthelmia, native to the Caribbean, Venezuela, and Colombia, which also contains isoquinoline alkaloids useful in the treatment of heart disease.
The root has also been used as a febrifuge and for malaria.
Homeopathic remedies are used as a calmative during states of excitement.


Bank service charges or fees make a compelling case for the mass adoption of crypto-currencies, particularly in developing countries, where these fixed costs remain disproportionately high.
In fact, in some lands, it is these high bank charges that actually discourage people from using financial services offered by banks.
The overall cost of accessing banking services increases when expenses like transport to and from the physical offices of the bank are factored in.
In addition, the very low wages earned suggest that since many families survive at or just above the poverty datum line, therefore they will be very sensitive to extra costs like bank service charges or fees.
Zimbabwean banks demand their clients to maintain a balance that makes it possible for the bank to deduct $5 in fees every month, irrespective of whether the account is accessed during the month or not.
For the majority of workers who earn less than $400 per month, such a fixed monthly cost only drives people away from the traditional banking system and there is documentary evidence to support this.
To illustrate, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's October 2018 monetary policy statement revealed that depositors are not very keen on keeping their funds inside the banking system.
According to the statement, demand deposits -- customer bank deposits that can be withdrawn any time without notice --comprise 65% of all bank deposits, a clear indication of an unwillingness to fully use the banking system.
In any case, a number of Zimbabweans lost out at the end of the hyperinflation period in 2009, when bank account holders' balances simply disappeared without explanation. Subsequently confidence in banks tanked.
The same happened to the insurance industry and, to this day, pension rights groups are still fighting for fair compensation. According media reports, some pensioners reportedly received payouts not exceeding $5 despite having made contributions for years.
Weak consumer protection laws and inept regulatory bodies in some developing countries mean banks can connive to levy high charges, without facing significant risks of being penalised.
When the same banks fail, deposit insurance is inconsequential, only a maximum of $100 per depositor is paid regardless of the level of losses.
This reinforces distrust of the financial system, a fact supported by a World Bank Global Findex Database of 2017, which also revealed that 1,7 billion people around the world remain unbanked. According to the Global Findex Database, a lack of documentation and distrust in the financial system were both cited as these reasons why roughly a fifth of adults globally, do not have a financial institution account.
Interestingly, banks cannot carry on the same way in developed countries like the United States, as they normally do in developing nations.
The US has applicable laws and institutions to deal with banks' malpractices with respect to deposit-taking as well as lending. For instance, the Truth In Lending Act (TILA) passed in 1968, compelled banks to be more truthful when advertising or informing potential clients about the cost of borrowing. There is legal protection for bank clients.
While such laws do not offer 100% protection, the legal threat posed ultimately forces banks to toe the line, something that cannot be said of developing countries like Zimbabwe, which is yet to pass a consumer protection law, some 39 years after gaining independence.
Inversely, banks' refusal to set up in rural areas amplifies the extent of global financial exclusion.
Apparently, banks cannot establish a branch in areas not dominated by regular income earners as this denies them the opportunity to earn fixed service income, enough to cover overhead costs. For instance, areas dominated by smallholder farmers are ignored because such farmers do not regularly receive an income, which banks use to fund part of their operations.
Given this whole background, it is easy to see why crypto-currencies could see a mass adoption in the coming few years.
Whereas potential bank customers have to contend with transport costs when accessing banking services, with crypto-currencies it is simply getting internet access via a mobile phone or a computer, there is no costly and inconveniencing long-distance travelling .
In certain instances, people might be compelled to open an account but the centralised nature of the banking system means many will remain under-banked despite possessing a bank account.
To illustrate, Zimbabwe is a major tobacco-producing country with the multi-million dollar industry now dominated by tens of thousands of smallholder farmers.
A few years ago, the Zimbabwe government made it a mandatory requirement for all tobacco farmers to open a bank account while suspending payments of tobacco proceeds in cash.
Farmers duly obliged by opening bank accounts with different financial institutions, which are mostly based in Harare and many were issued with credit cards to facilitate payments.
Herein lies the problem, tobacco farmers reside in farming towns outside Harare and with a few banks having branches in such remote places, this meant that for the majority of new account holders, they would have to travel to Harare or any other town just to access banking services.
Even worse, if a tobacco farmer has a major query about their bank account or they lost a credit card, then only a visit to the head office in Harare will suffice, a costly exercise! If the tobacco farmer were to opt for crypto-currencies instead, a similar scenario will be resolved without the need for an account holder to incur transport costs. Blockchain technology, which underpins crypto-currencies, eliminates the very query to begin with.
A complex verification and validation of records means there is a remote chance of encountering a typographical error or any other problem which might necessitate the need to travel more than 100 kilometres to get the problem fixed.
Crypto-currencies will potentially solve the confidence issues that presently beset the financial system, particularly where the unbanked are concerned. Transparency has been one key to the success of crypto-currencies like bitcoin thus far because the blockchain technology, which is essentially a publicly distributed ledger, allows anyone to verify or authenticate transactions.
This level of transparency has not existed within financial systems before.
Of course, crypto-currencies have small in-built transactions costs, but these are significantly lower than what is obtaining within traditional banking system.
The other appealing aspect of crypto-currencies has to be the ability of two or more people to transact without having to go through intermediaries, a process which normally comes with high costs.
Going back to the example of tobacco farmers, further problems are experienced when two neighbours, who are new account holders, want to perform a transaction with funds in the banking system.
The buyer will have to travel to the nearest town or business centre to withdraw funds or transfer money to an account of his neighbour, the seller. This might seem ridiculous, but it has been happening for years and it is the only way the seller can be assured that the buyer has an adequate balance to fund the transaction.
A mobile phone company, Econet Wireless, has since stepped in, allowing people to transfer fiat money with more ease via mobile phones. The mobile phone application, EcoCash, which now enjoys a virtual monopoly, can only go as far as facilitating the ease of moving funds inside national borders.
Cross-border payments are only possible after one pays a visit to a banking institution to make the deposit of the appropriate foreign currency deposit. The intermediaries involved here include the public transport operator, the resident bank plus a clearing bank and all demand a fee for their services. Crypto-currency payments or funds transfer are normally seamless inside borders just like they are seamless outside borders and the cost is much smaller than the conventional route. There are no intermediaries and this lowers the cost of the entire transaction.
Crypto-currencies surpass the mobile money transfer application by a wide margin and, once the ignorant population becomes aware of this, more people will abandon the banking system.


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INEPT WITHOUT END, AMEN: Goldberg believes, Gene Lyons don't!
Part 5—It's all anthropology now: Below, we'll show you some things Gene Lyons said about Juanita Broaddrick this week—about the accuser Michelle Goldberg has newly declared she believes.
First, though, a quick overview:
On Friday morning, November 10, the Washington Post published its first report about Roy Moore's conduct in the late 1970s.
In that 3900-word report, Leigh Corfman, an Alabama woman, alleged that Moore molested her in 1979, when she was 14 years old.
The report also cited three apparent "supporting witnesses," though they may not have seemed like supporting witnesses depending on the extent to which you longed to stampede.
Corfman was alleging a serious crime. From that day to this, the work of our pseudo-liberal elite has been inept all the way down.
Good God! So many questions:
Just for starters, four questions:
1) Should people have assumed that Corfman's claims were true, right there that first day?
2) Should liberals have started name-calling the "If true" crowd—the people who didn't state an instant verdict?
3) Should people have regarded those apparent "supporting witnesses" as actual supporting witnesses?
4) Even now, should people be describing Moore as an "accused pedophile," given, for example, the meaning of the latter term?
Other questions pop into our heads as we watch the stampede of the pseudo-liberals. For example, do these life forms understand the meaning of terms like "alleged" and accused?"
Judging by parts of their current stampede, it isn't real clear that they do.
For ourselves, we know of no reason to doubt what Corfman told the Washington Post. We also know of no obvious way to swear on a stack of corporate liberals that her statements are accurate.
This is a basic problem which arises when we turn out politics into a series of accusations involving private behavior. Such accusations can be very hard to judge even in court. In the realm of public debate, the task becomes nearly impossible.
Most likely, a continental nation can't long endure once it decides to conduct its politics in this exciting way. But then, who cares about that?
Here at this award-winning site, we're not sure we've ever seen The Dumbness surpass the level it's reached in the two weeks since that first Post report. We'll only say this:
In the wake of this latest stampede, it's pretty much all anthropology now! We're no longer involved in press critique at this award-winning site. We're involved in scientific description of a badly misfiring life form, a life form about which sacred Aristotle was just hopelessly wrong.
Is man (sic) really the rational animal? So said the sacred Greek!
Today, we can see that he was hopelessly wrong. Today, it's abundantly clear that man (sic) is really the tribal animal, or perhaps the stampeding animal. Also, following sacred Wittgenstein, man (sic) is the animal which has trouble with words.
At some point, we may return to Professor Horwich with respect to that latter point. Today, let's look at what Lyons said this week with respect to Juanita Broaddrick, an accuser of Bill Clinton.
In the stampede which followed that Post report, the New York Times' Michelle Goldberg swallowed a snootful and wrote a column which bore this virtue-signalling headline:
I Believe Juanita
They're on a first-name basis now! Quite a few children cheered.
That said, there was no sign in Goldberg's column that she had any idea what she was talking about, or any clear basis for her shiny new belief. Sadly, the children were launching a new stampede, one which would distinguish their stampedes from those of their pseudo-liberal elders.
Sillily, Goldberg pretended to explain why she now believes Juanita, concerning whom Lyons has written such things as the text reproduced below perhaps ten million times.
We're omitting material from Lyons' column; you should peruse the full text. As Goldberg may have heard at some point, Lyons has written two books on these topics, one of which he co-authored with Joe Conason:
LYONS (3/22/17): Maybe something happened between then-Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton and Juanita Broaddrick in a Little Rock hotel room in 1979. Also, maybe not. However, to accuse a man of a vile crime like rape requires serious evidence. And I'm sorry, but there simply never was any, apart from Broaddrick's unverifiable tale—one she'd previously denied three times under oath and penalty of perjury.
Then after falling into the hands of [Kenneth] Starr and his team of prosecutorial bedsheet sniffers, she sang a different tune.
[Broaddrick had] filed an affidavit and given a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit.
"During the 1992 Presidential campaign," Broaddrick swore, "there were unfounded rumors and stories circulated that Mr. Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward me in the late '70s. Newspaper and tabloid reporters hounded me and my family, seeking corroboration of these tales. I repeatedly denied the allegations and requested that my family's privacy be respected. These allegations are untrue and I had hoped that they would no longer haunt me, or cause further disruption to my family."
So no, I don't know, and neither do you.
With apologies to George Carlin, you'll note that Lyons said the three words you aren't allowed to say on cable TV or in a New York Times column. Lyons said these three dirty words:
In the manner of the tribal animal, Goldberg moved from "I don't know" to "I believe" in the course of a single paragraph. That said, the story of our own liberal tribe is plainly ineptitude all the way down.
Allowing for the intermingling of simple dishonesty, it's been that way for at least the past twenty-five years.
Why did Broaddrick change her story when Ken Starr arrived on the scene? Like Lyons, we have no way of knowing, if you know what "knowing" means.
That said, Lyons went on to sketch the outlines of one possible explanation. Note! When we say it's "possible," that means we don't know if it's true:
LYONS (continuing directly): This too: Juanita Broaddrick ran a nursing home facility reliant on Medicaid and Medicare funding—a motherlode of potential federal crimes. Not because she was crooked. There's zero evidence of that. But that wouldn't have mattered once Starr's prosecutors put her on the rack.
You wouldn't have thought they'd question the legality of [Julie] Steele's adopted child either. But they did.
So did Juanita choose the easier path? Which time?
The FBI couldn't decide.
Uh-oh! Lyons suggested a possibility—the possibility that Starr's team threatened Broaddrick with legal actions, perhaps dishonestly, in ways which made her flip on her previous statements. Given the overall conduct of Starr's team, that possibility is depressingly real, unless you're a somewhat small child.
Goldberg says that didn't happen. But how does this tribal star know this?
We suggest you read all of Lyons' column, in which he suggests you read the book he wrote with Conason. That will never affect this discussion, of course. Within the realm of the corporate "press," the talking Ken and Barbie dolls all say this when poked or squeezed:
Reading books is hard!
Did Bill Clinton rape Juanita Broaddrick? Like Lyons, Goldberg can't exactly know. She does know how to type this:
"It's fair to conclude that because of Broaddrick's allegations, Bill Clinton no longer has a place in decent society."
We default to our earlier question. Does this ridiculous person actually know what the word "allegations" means?
Our advice to you would be this:
If you want to understand the world in which we live; if you want to understand our tapidly failing nation; then you have to come to terms with this anthropological fact:
Aristotle was clownishly wrong about us so-called humans! The hirelings thrown at you by the corporate press tend to be the tribal and status-seeking animals, with "rational" lagging behind.
Hints of the rational may appear. But they're not required.
Should you "believe the accusers," full stop, no questions asked? Plainly, no, you shouldn't do that, and there's something else you should avoid.
You shouldn't believe the TV stars and the stampeding columnists. Our tendency to believe these types has proven to be extremely bad for the planet's troubled health.
Coming next week: Back to that first Post report. Also, Moore meets Leslie Caron!
Posted by bob somerby on Saturday, November 25, 2017
You don't automatically believe but you investigate, because you don't automatically disbelieve either.
Lea Corfman attemped suicide at age 16. She was married and divorced three times. We cannot prove that was because of her earlier experience with Moore, but it is similar to girls who were indisputably molested. Because such acts have consequences for young girls. It is why they are illegal. That seems to be missing from Somerby's rush to define "pedophilia".
Raven November 25, 2017 at 4:19 PM
> Somerby's rush to define "pedophilia".
Somerby does not appear to be in any such rush.
That word has, of course, already been defined.
Yes. Sexual interest in pre-pubescent children. Which is not Roy Moore.
I used to love MSNBC. But their hysterical and dishonest demonization of all things Republican-- and their constant slandering of their voters -- sickens me.
Do they WANT Moore to be a "child molester"? Obviously. Just like they want him to have "nine" accusers of sexual misconduct when there are only two. But it's backfiring.
"I used to love MSNBC. But their hysterical and dishonest demonization of all things Republican-- and their constant slandering of their voters -- sickens me."
If they keep this up, Dem9ocrats might soon own the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the feederal government, just like it worked for Republicans when the Fox, AM radio,and other right-wing, corporayte-owned media did the same.
Or is this one of those, 'liberals need to fight with one hand tied behind their backs" posts, because only one side of our political spectrum can be held to standards?
Puberty hapens at 8-10 years old fir some girls. I suppose you pervs think they're fair game too. Do you buy them Barbies to gain their trust?
Anon, the point and purpose of a legal age of consent (set between 16 and 18 in all US states, and at 16 in Canada) is to take that decision out of individual hands, and you might notice it also doesn't leave it quite so close to actual puberty.
But that's not the function of the diagnostic categories (-philias), which is simply to distinguish between the attractions involved.
You might as well accuse people of being robots if they discuss robotics, or of being aliens if they discuss the possibility of off-world life, as accuse them of being perverts if they try to make sure a technical term about perversion is used correctly.
Anon, but I suppose that's typical of today, when someone can be accused of misogyny and sexism for using the word "histrionics"....
Because somehow men are rarely accused of histrionics.
Raven November 27, 2017 at 4:24 AM
Because the accusers had mistaken the word for "hysterics".
As with the accusations of racism for uses of the terms "niggardly" and "chink in the armor"....
The common factors are (a) ignorance of vocabulary and (b) self-righteousness — together at the same time.
Rather like the present case of netkookery, accusing other people of sexual perversion for correcting one's own vocabulary error.
Reminiscent of the infamous netkook Curio Jones, who wound up accusing half Usenet (and then Hollywood) of pedophilia, Satanic Ritual Abuse, and conspiring with Alien Abductors. (Diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic with delusional disorder, and spent time in a state mental hospital, after threatening to shoot one person she was accusing.)
You may also want to read Newsweek magazine's correction.
Mao Cheng Ji November 25, 2017 at 12:13 PM
"Other questions pop into our heads as we watch the stampede of the pseudo-liberals."
Ah, the famous 'no true Scotsman' fallacy. No, dear Bob, these are not 'pseudo-liberals', they are perfectly normal, typical liberals.
And no, Bob, man is NOT necessarily the tribal/stampeding animal. But liberal zombies certainly are - at least in this day and age.
All humans behave similarly.
AC/MA November 25, 2017 at 3:24 PM
I see the Breitbart zombie never fails to chime in.
"I see the Breitbart zombie never fails to chime in."
You just have to point to Trump's big, fat, wet kisses to the "Establishment". He ignores those daily.
Gloucon X November 25, 2017 at 1:07 PM
"Should you "believe the accusers," full stop, no questions asked? Plainly, no, you shouldn't do that, and there's something else you should avoid. You shouldn't believe the TV stars and the stampeding columnists." (We don't unless they're on Fox or AM radio.)
I lived in the deep South for forty years Bob; you have nothing to worry about; the people of the great god fearing state of Alabama will not let you down. They will send Alabama's finest to the US Senate. He represents the only two things on this Earth that they care about--guns and The Bible (and maybe add NASCAR and wraslin'). What's wrong with the people electing representatives who are just like them? In Trump's case, he's what the people who voted for him aspire to be--a rich ignorant asshole, rather than the poor ignorant assholes that they are and will always be.
Mao Cheng Ji November 25, 2017 at 1:20 PM
"the poor ignorant assholes that they are and will always be"
Thank god we still have utterly superior heavenly creatures like yourself among us.
Please, please, please - don't emigrate to Canada...
What you don't understand is that it is the ignorant assholes who feel superior. I don't believe in superior or inferior.
"We're no longer involved in press critique at this award-winning site. We're involved in scientific description of a badly misfiring life form, a life form about which sacred Aristotle was just hopelessly wrong."
First off, thanks to Somerby for informing his readers of his change of mission. This may come as a surprise to many, especially those who quite recently described Somerby as a "media critic", or to those who thought this blog was about the "mainstream press corps."
Secondly, Somerby despairs about man, the hopelessly broken life form, but somehow only finds time to discuss the brokenness of liberals. So, I call bs on the new mission statement. It's still a politically motivated blog, despite Somerby's lofty philosophical pseudo-disinterested pose. He wants to attack liberals, pure and simple -- with the possible exception of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, who aren't poised to shape liberal politics going forward.
It's quite amusing to see Somerby use the word "scientific." His insults, childish name-calling, and unfounded assertions betray an emotional, not scientific, frame of mind.
Has Somerby finally given up the ghost? Who knows what his politics are now (he once claimed to be a progressive), but no one need look to Somerby for any help in the political arena. He's too busy with his hopelessness and his anger. His mission statement boils down to "I'm just going to rant about liberals for the rest of my life."
And anyone who believes there's a dime's worth of difference between Somerby and his most ardent commenter, Mao Cheng Ji, needs to re-examine that belief.
@Anon 1:39pm: "no one need look to Somerby for any help in the political arena"
My only quibble with this is that Somerby does indeed give someone help in the political arena. That would be the Republicans. Somerby is known as a liberal by right-wing sites, so they link their trolls here so they can revel in the joy of a liberal bashing other liberals and thus providing cover for the Republican theft of our political system. Somerby is one more voice aiding and abetting them. They get to say "see, liberals are as horrible as we said; even liberal Bob Somerby sees through their lies."
And that's an excuse for not telling the truth? Or makibg sense?
No. The excuse for not telling the truth or making sense is that it wins at the voting booths.
That statement misfires badly because its author continues to ignore that fact that politics is, and always will be about the battle between plutocracy and democracy, which is always going to be a messy fight. So you better play to win and not worry about getting your clothes dirty.
Plutocrats know that spreading a state of deep ignorance is essential to their maintaining their power. That's why they own all of the mass media. It's why they always support the stupidest and most delusional forms of religion that wreck people's minds and leave them in a state of helplessness. They spread division and encourage irrational hatred and fears. Many Republican voters have been deluded into supporting the establishment of plutocracy--though I'm sure the majority earnestly do want to see permanent plutocracy. Those of us who still care about democracy know that plutocracy must be destroyed.
Believe it or not, there was once a time in this country when even Supreme Court justices said that plutocracy must be destroyed:
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
--Louis D. Brandeis
Dude the Obscure November 25, 2017 at 7:56 PM
"It's all anthropology now"
OK. I'll take a stab at this.
Numerous sexual misconduct allegations are being leveled against quite a number of public figures. Many of these figures have either an R or D associated with their names, designating their tribe. Regarding biased and non-biased treatment of these accusations, what are some of the ways that journalists could treat the presentation of these cases? Could these professionals be categorized into various anthropological archetypes?
Type A, The Partisan: A population explosion of these tribal types occurred with the advent of the Information Age (contrary to the name, dissemination of actual information is strongly declining during this age). These types consistently lie, exaggerate, understate or omit facts to cast those from the competing tribe in a bad light and their own tribe in a more favorable one. "By any means necessary" is the mantra of Partisans, as they are convinced that abetting their tribes would result in installing leaders who would govern such that their principles would be upheld. This reasoning has turned out to be as primitive and ineffectual as bloodletting by medieval barbers and the whirling behavior of Dervishes. Contemporary examples include three talking heads that oddly resemble characters from The Flintstones cartoon: Hannity (Barney Rubble), Doocy (Wilma Flintstone) and Maddow (Dino).
Type B, The Weasel: Since some of the Partisan types do actually yell quite loudly and convincingly feign anger, and weak-kneed Weasels get their feelings deeply hurt when they are yelled at, Weasels include dirt on one group (just for the sake of argument, let's say Ds) whenever reporting the scandals of another group (say Rs). Examples of Weasels include Wolf B. Weasel, Anderson C. Weasel, Chuck T. Weasel and the late Tim R. Weasel.
Type C, The Fortune Seeker: Members of this type are generally descended from Potato Famine escapees who were too weak and self-serving to stick it out in their homeland (many hail from Clan O'Reilly, Clan O'Donnell and Clan Matthews). Like cuttlefish, these individuals can radically modify their color and form to blend into a changing (corporate) environment, thus, by virtue of widespread gullibility, profiting to the tune of vast fortunes. They are versatile, also selling vacuous coffee table books which are purchased and prominently displayed (but never read) by pseudo-intellectual Brie-eaters of both D and R persuasions.
Type D, The Dowd: Reminiscent of a room full of spider monkeys trying to plagiarize Tolstoy, this micro-type produces perplexing batshit-crazy gibberish on each and every page. A certain commenter from a large western state is an example of this ignoble type.
Type E, The Believe-'em-Alls: A new group, emboldened by the sheer number of sexual misconduct accusations, these odious band-wagoning primates cast all critical thinking aside and pretend to believe every single accusation, no matter how implausible, and grant equivalent status to each accuser without any due diligence or analysis of evidence. They can deftly equate a pinch on the ass while the "victim's" husband photographs the event with forcible rape of a child. Largely employed by obsolete sophomoric organs like MSNBC, the New York Times and something exceedingly obscure called Slate, these monumentally lazy and cowardly nitwits make all other archetypes appear professional by comparison.
Type F, The Anti-Partisan Media Critic: The rarest of all journalistic types. As far as anthropologists can determine, this archetype is highly endangered and contains but a single individual, who as such feels adrift in a cruel inhospitable world, like Cooper's last Mohican Chingachgook or Nessie, the mascot of a Scottish tourism campaign. Bizarrely, this individual excoriates members of his own tribe, often for trivial missteps, while largely ignoring the felonies of the other tribe. He constantly calls his tribe names meant to be demeaning like "children" and "fiery liberals" while simultaneously lambasting them for calling "The Others" similarly sarcastic names. He becomes oddly bothered when science writers cannot explain complex physics topics such as quantum mechanics and relativity in simple terms that many of his ditsy followers (mostly named Anonymous) could understand. The sole proprietor of this archetype was writing a book of his own but ceased abruptly when it was alleged his ex-college roommate requested a happy ending from an Oregon masseuse. Contrary to popular opinion, this writer's best work came not from the 20-month war on said ex-roommate, but his exposure of the populist sacred weasel Tim Russert. The scribe's latest assault on the Believe-'em-Alls make his more discerning followers (all 17 of them) wonder whether a rebirth of sorts might be underway.
sherrlock November 27, 2017 at 12:27 PM
Nicely delineated, professor. I would offer a caveat - assuming that this is a combox populated primarily by males, it might behoove us to actually pay attention to women, whose plaints have been dismissed, vilified, and quashed for time immemorial.
As a straight male in the performing arts, I've witnessed the pernicious effects of, for want of a better phrase, 'the casting couch,' all of my adult life. In short, it is we men, gay or straight, who have a problem with power and its abuse. In allowing for voices of victims to be at long last heard and respected, we need not set aside our foundational presumptions of innocence but nonetheless recognize that the same abusers have gaslit their victims with the same mollifications since the dawn of civilization. How to reconcile those two perhaps irreconcilable notions - one of modern jurisprudence, the other of ancient biology? That would seem to be a question worth considering.
Sherrlock, some of us don't think you can blame crime on biology, ancient or otherwise.
sherrlock November 27, 2017 at 4:34 PM
Anon 3:41: Then some of you need to reconsider. Let's just take a look at a few numbers, shall we?
The following is taken directly from FBI crime statistics:
Males constituted 98.9% of those arrested for forcible rape
Males constituted 87.9% of those arrested for robbery
Males constituted 85.0% of those arrested for burglary
Males constituted 83.0% of those arrested for arson.
Males constituted 81.7% of those arrested for vandalism.
Males constituted 81.5% of those arrested for motor-vehicle theft.
Males constituted 79.7% of those arrested for offenses against family and children.
Males constituted 77.8% of those arrested for aggravated assault
(source: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table_66_arrests_suburban_areas_by_sex_2011.xls)
And, gilding the lily, how many mass murderers, serial killers, and pedophiles are female? Again, a tiny minority.
What in fuck do you think is the reason for crime, Anonymous? Bad upbringing? Nope. There are lots of awful women in the world; they just can't begin to compete with the evil men do.
And I left out:
Murder and non-negligent homicide: again, men take the prize at nearly 88%.
Perhaps it's time to (re-)read O'Brien's talk to Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984 — "How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?" ("By making him suffer.") "Power is inflicting pain and humiliation. ... Power is not a means; it is an end. ... The object of power is power." — then turn to Colin Wilson's A Criminal History of Mankind [pdf] for details.
And so you think not only rape, but also murder, robbery, burglary, car-theft, arson, et al., are motivated by sex?
You've never heard the idea that even rape/sexual assault is not a crime so much of sex but of power and control?
Humanity is a sexually dimorphic species, like lions: males tend to be larger and stronger than females, particularly in upper-body strength, which is why they have traditionally supplied the hunters and warriors. The male hormone testosterone provides aggression, useful for that purpose, but with the unfortunate side-effect of also causing violence when and where it's less welcome, at home and in other civilian settings, thus crime.
So, it's not sex-drive as such; not just the drive to have sex; but the drive to power, control, and violence.
And you must know, to this, women also are not immune. Else Manson's family would have been all male, as all murderers would have been.
Raven, I'd suggest you read 'A Primate's Memoir' by Robert Sapolsky. A fair portion of it details his years documenting the lives of a baboon troop in Kenya. When the alpha males of the tribe all died off in one fell swoop, the females took over; the "culture" of the tribe changed utterly - and to date permanently. Matriarchal control resulted in what can only be described as sea shift to nurturing and pacifistic behaviors. Here's NYT article about the event and its aftermath: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/science/no-time-for-bullies-baboons-retool-their-culture.html
For more of Sapolsky, read his magnificent, recently published opus about the structure of the brain, 'Behave.'
Thank you! For a SFictional (but human) quasi-parallel, you might in turn enjoy Sheri S. Tepper's novel The Gate to Women's Country [Wikipedia] [Amazon, ebook available] — though it takes a while to realize the actual underlying power structure....
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There ended up being two other such masseuse assertions, but — like the first, Molly Hagerty — they also were exposed as fakes.
Not that this keeps them from all being cited endlessly just as though they were genuine; after all, "Whitewater" is still a meme, despite even Ken Starr's own horribly expensive report having ended with the whimper that no evidence could be found to support the allegations.
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She's based in the US, but her parents are Haitian and Japanese. Naomi Osaka is at the forefront of the changing of the guard in women's tennis, with an unflappable nature that served her well in last year's US Open final. Caroline Taylor charts her dramatic rise to fame. Published in the first issue (July 2019) of the relaunched Parkite Sports Magazine From the moment … Continue reading A quiet racket | Parkite Sports
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Growing up in Guyana, Letitia Wright never imagined a Hollywood career. But after a string of stage and TV roles and early recognition of her talent, her casting in the blockbuster movie Black Panther was the break every actor hopes for, says Caroline Taylor. Published as the cover story in the May/June issue of Caribbean Beat Despite a cast brimming with award-winning Hollywood legends, there … Continue reading Wright on | Caribbean Beat
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I wouldn't mind trying for just a mediocre result under this new approach – say half the bonus for double the cost overrun… the Triple Constraint has a lot to answer for!
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PMI gives only scant coverage to interfaces (inter-project or external dependencies) in its Standard for Program Management. However, mis-managed interfaces have the potential to cause days or even weeks of delays and consequently wreak havoc with schedules – and often do.
The completion criteria should be defined as a checklist of requirements from the input owner. He/she will then use these as the basis for full acceptance of the interface as 'done' or 'not done'.
A hammock task can be defined as either a summary task that aggregates a related set of activities, or an actual ongoing activity whose start and finish is driven by other tasks or milestones that may or may not be related. In the first case, summary tasks are easily created using the outline feature in Project of course but the second case can present more of a challenge.
In the simple example below, two non-summary hammock tasks are shown.
A problem with hammocks is that they may show up as critical items (as here with Hammock A) whereas in reality they do not actually drive the project schedule. Hammock B shows how we can avoid this by linking the finish date to a 'dummy' milestone "Finish -1" that we set to finish just before the project finish (predecessor is Finish milestone SF-1).
Using either approach above will allow the hammock to 'stretch' or 'shrink' as the durations of the other tasks change, during plan updates for example. If necessary, a manual click on the F9 key will force a correct recalculation of the hammock's duration.
Anyway, swept along in all this enthusiasm at seemingly the same rate of knots, is a fast-growing band of HR Managers, (or "Talent Managers" for the politically correct), who have been misled into believing that a PMP certification makes for a better project manager. In fact there is ample evidence that knowledge of the PMBOK does not make for a better PM. I have trained plenty of PMPs who by their own admission did not fully understand how to actually develop a high quality tactically viable schedule.
When organizations and recruitment agencies get locked onto PMP as a primary hiring criteria for candidate project managers, my first reaction is despair. My second reaction is excitement at another opportunity to provide some coaching in practical project management.
So some time ago I started wondering if we could condense recognized best practices in project management into a simple set of guiding principles. My answer – YES, I think we can.
I believe these realities hold true irrespective of the nature or complexity of project. They reflect the strongest forces for shaping success or failure on most projects, most of the time.
I'll be expanding and evangelizing my perspectives on each of these in future blogs… so stay tuned!
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Q: Provision Amazon EC2 instance with salt-cloud from a machine w/o public IP Ok, I am quite a newbie of the salt-stack world, but after 2 days being stuck with this issue I'm starting to feel a bit stupid too.
I would like to have  a simple 1:1 configuration:

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*[Master] Vagrant/VirtualBox/Ubuntu with salt & salt-cloud installed

*[Minion] Amazon EC2 machine,  conveniently provisioned with state files I have in [Master].
I have reached the step where I am able to create the Minion instance thanks to salt-cloud, but I am stuck at the next step: I don't know how I can

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*Transfer .sls files to the Minion

*Run the top.sls at Minion side to perform the provision
The fact is that any salt-cloud command seems to work (I am able to create, list, delete the Amazon EC2 instance by command line), but I cannot connect to the Minion with any salt command, I just get timeout ("Minion did not return").
Moreover I am not comfortable with this architecture because the Minion could receive Master's requests, but on the other end it doesn't have visibility of the Master, since the Master is not  publicly reachable (and I don't want to).
What am I missing to be able to have an architecture as simple as this?

A: The problem you're running into is that the Salt Minion probably can't find a route back to your laptop. Your laptop is most likely behind a nat firewall.
Your Salt Minion must be able to reach your Salt Master on ports 4505 and 4506. Once you've got that working, you should be fine. You're probably going to want to have your Salt Master on EC2 or somewhere that can be reached easily by your minion on EC2.

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Fetty Wap Snubbed by The Grammy's, Not Nominated in Best New Artist Category
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Everyone from fans to music industry insiders had an opinion on the 2016 Grammy Awards nominees once they were revealed last week — for better or for worse. The annual awards ceremony, taking place on Feb. 13, is music's biggest night, with the nominations list giving some major props to hip-hop. Kendrick Lamar leads artists in all genres with 11 nods for his work, proving his To Pimp a Butterfly album truly resonated with the people this year.
The equivalent to a superlatives section of a high school year book, the Grammys doles out awards to arguably deserving artists in categories like Album of the Year, Song of the Year to Best, Rap Performance and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Before the ceremony even begins, there's already a category clouded in controversy: Best New Artist. Like with all awards show nominations, there are some glaring omissions and one artist with good reason to have beef with the Grammy committee is Fetty Wap.
The New Jersey native, who emerged on the rap scene in late 2014 under the guise of the Trojan Horse that was his hit single, "Trap Queen," was nominated for Best Rap Performance, but was locked out of the highly coveted Best New Artist category. The snub got quite a rise out of the hip-hop community, who had a few things to say about the news, most notably 50 Cent. Two days after the Grammys nominees were revealed, the rapper shared his thoughts on Fetty's snub. "My Best New Artist Award go's [sic] to, Fetty Wap," 50 wrote as a caption to an Instagram post featuring Fetty's album cover.
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Reports of humans being killed by pythons are extremely rare.
The Indonesian village of Persiapan Lawela on the island of Muna is reeling in shock after the body of a missing woman was found inside the belly of a giant python. The Indonesian woman was found in the belly of the giant python after the swollen snake was captured near where she vanished while tending her vegetable garden, police said. They killed the animal and returned to the village, where they cut the snake open.
Numerous villagers jostle to take images and videos of the event.
Reticulated pythons grab onto their prey with dozens of sharp curved teeth and then squeeze it to death before swallowing it whole. In nearly all cases, the predator is a reticulated python (Python reticulatus), a species of python found in Southeast Asia.
Last year, the body of a 25-year-old farmer was sliced out of a giant python on the same island of Sulawesi, after he was eaten alive.
Despite this discovery, Electrorana actually raises more questions than answers, according to Blackburn. He said his role in the project was to scan and describe the fossils.
Her head was towards the snake's tail with her feet close to it's mouth, showing she had been swallowed head first.
Giant pythons, which regularly top six meters (20 feet), are native to southeast Asia and count as some of the largest snakes in the world.
A young farmer was swallowed by an enormous killer snake in March past year after harvesting a rubber plantation.


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I have encountered many amazing teachers all of whom have played an important role in my life. Whether my experiences with them were pleasing or shocking they all showed me important pieces of myself, helping me to grow into the human being I am today. So I like to express my deep felt gratitude to all of you here.
That's my way and how I have experienced it so far. The diversity and intensity of my experiences, which have seldom run in a straight line, has repeatedly encouraged me to go further and to look deeper into myself and become more aware and expanded. I was able to open many doors that had been closed previously as I connected with the source within me that knows the world of joy, ease and graciousness.
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2 weeks to go: Ireland hosts historic Beach Volleyball Olympic Qualifier
There is only two weeks to go until some of the best Beach Volleyballers in Europe descend on Bettystown for an international Beach Volleyball competition. The Continental Cup is part of the Tokyo 2020 qualifying series and it will see eight teams battle it out to progress to the second stage. The tournament is taking place in Ireland for the first time, and will become one of the first Olympic team qualifying tournaments held on the island.
The event will see Denmark, Estonia and Slovakia join the hosts in the women's section, whilst Scotland, Ukraine and Lithuania take on Ireland in the men's draw. Excitement is building in the Volleyball community as final preparations take shape. President of Volleyball Ireland Grainne Culliton said, "The Continental Cup is a chance in a lifetime opportunity to see an Olympic qualifier taking place in Ireland. It will be a great weekend of sport and we urge everyone to pop to Bettystown and take a look; it is an incredibly exciting sport with some phenomenal athletes on show."
The Ireland team will be announced next week, but there is an expectation that Izzy Carey will take the no.1 jersey for Ireland in the women's team. Carey, who represents UCLA in the American College competition, has recently been awarded the prestigious PAC-10 Student Athlete of the Year Award as she led her Californian College to an unprecedented unbeaten season. Carey added, "I am thrilled to be pulling on the green jersey again and representing Ireland. It gives me enormous pride and I am excited to meet up with the rest of the squad next week."
The event will include two competition courts as well come try it activities for children and adults. Volleyball Ireland are also running fun blitzes in local schools ahead of the event as well as a Beginners session for adults on the Thursday evening. Entry is free of charge all weekend with games all day Saturday and Sunday (June 1 and 2). Click here for further information on the Continental Cup.
Faroese Volleyball Association wins 'Campaign of the Year' Award for School Volley Project
On Friday, the Faroese Sports Federation presented the Faroese Volleyball Association with the 'Campaign of the Year' award for 2018 for their 'Kidsvolley' project that has run now for a couple of years promoting and introducing Volleyball to kids in schools in the Faroe Islands.
The idea with Kidsvolley is that the youngest kids start with some very basic and altered Volleyball rules, which then evolve as the kids grow and according to their improved motor skills.
For the last couple of years, the Danish couple Peter Morell and Anne Frederiksen have been in charge of the project of introducing Volleyball to a large number of kids and teachers throughout the country, and in his acceptance speech, the President of the Faroese Volleyball Association Magnus Tausen was quick to praise them.
"Fortunately Peter and Anne had a dream to come and live in the Faroe Islands. They wanted to embark on an adventure. We have become a part of this adventure. They have visited every school in the country, and in most of them, they have held lessons in 'Kidsvolley' for teachers and kids," he said.
Mr Tausen also mentioned the importance of the broader aspects of the sport as it contains so much more than the game itself: "It is also about making good friendships, helpfulness, respect for each other and solidarity across gender, abilities and age. A Volleyball-kid shall learn all of this and have the feeling of being important and being a part of something greater. That is what we try to achieve in addition to having the world's best ball-game for all children," Mr Tausen added.
The Faroese Volleyball Association has been organising school tournaments throughout the country, and in the spring a final round will be taking place for regional winners to find a national school volley champion. There is no doubt that this action – which runs under the umbrella of the CEV Schools Project – has paid dividends as there are numerous examples of children who have been introduced to Volleyball in the schools and who have later joined a Volleyball club. Often it has been children who had not practiced any other sports prior to their introduction to 'Kidsvolley'.


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O God, who by thy Spirit didst call Cornelius the Centurion to be the first Christian among the Gentiles: Grant to thy Church, we beseech thee, such a ready will to go where thou dost send and to do what thou dost command, that under thy guidance it may welcome all who turn to thee in love and faith, and proclaim the Gospel to all nations; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Thou, O Lord, art our king and our God; thou only hast the wisdom to know what is best for us, the love to bestow it, the power to effect it, and the eternity to continue it: Give us but grace to believe, to seek, to receive, and to apply these gifts by thy free bounty in thy free service unto our life's end; through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Os Sete Hábitos das Pessoas Altamente Eficazes é um livro administrativo (considerado por alguns como sendo de auto-ajuda) do consultor Stephen R. Covey. O livro é resultado de pesquisa feita em duzentos anos de publicações sobre sucesso que vão desde biografias a simples manuais e livros de auto-ajuda.

Foram vendidas mais de 15 milhões de cópias (ISBN 0-671-70863-5) em trinta e oito idiomas desde a sua primeira publicação em 1989 e foi eleito pelos leitores da revista Chief Executive como o livro mais influenciador do século vinte. Devido a sua grande popularidade, Stephen conquistou grande destaque na sua carreira como escritor, conferencista e consultor, sendo convidado para muitos eventos e workshops.

O livro lista sete princípios que, se estabelecidos como hábitos, devem ajudar a pessoa a atrair a verdadeira interdependência efetiva. Stephen argumenta que ela é atingida por meio do alinhamento a princípios da "Ética do Caráter", que ele acredita serem universais e atemporais, ao contrário da "Ética da Personalidade", algo que ele vê como prevalecentes em muitos livros modernos de auto-ajuda.

Os Sete Hábitos
Covey introduz a ideia de mudança de paradigma e ajuda o leitor a entender que perspectivas diferentes existem, ou que duas pessoas podem ver a mesma coisa e mesmo assim diferirem uma da outra na opinião sobre aquilo.

Covey também introduz a ideia do "Maturity Continuum", que são três estágio sucessivos da evolução da maturidade: dependência, independência e interdependência. No nascimento todos somos dependentes, e as características de dependência podem durar tempo. Esse estágio é o primeiro e mais baixo estágio de maturidade.

1 - Dependência: Significa que você precisa dos outros para ter o que você precisa. Todos nós começamos a vida como uma criança, dependendo dos outros. Eu posso ser intelectualmente dependente do pensamento de outras pessoas. Eu também posso ser emocionalmente dependente de afirmações e validações que outras pessoas me dão. Dependência é a atitude do "você", no sentido de "você tem que cuidar de mim".

2 - Independência: Significa que voce é livre de influências externas e suporte alheio. Apesar de ser o foco de muitos, não é o último estágio de desenvolvimento do viver.

3 - Interdependência: O terceiro estágio de maturidade é a interdependência. É a realidade em que vivemos. Essa característica é essencial para bons líderes, bons jogadores de equipe, um casamento de sucesso. Nas empresas a interdependência é a atitude de "nós", como "nós podemos cooperar, nós podemos ser um time, podemos combinar nossos talentos".

Cada um dos três primeiros hábitos serve para alcançar independência. Os três seguintes servem para alcançar interdependência. O último deles serve para manter essas conquistas.

Independência e Autodomínio

Os três primeiros Hábitos vão da dependência à independência (i.e., autodomínio):

 Hábito 1: Ser Proativo

Seja responsável por sua reação às suas experiências, tome iniciativa para responder positivamente ao que acontece e melhore a situação. Não sente e espere em uma mentalidade reativa, trabalhe constantemente focando em suas responsabilidades.

 Hábito 2: Começar com o Objetivo em Mente

Descubra por si mesmo e deixe claro para si quais são seus valores pessoais mais profundos e quais são seus objetivos na vida. Visualize as características ideais para cada atitude e relacionamentos na vida. Crie uma declaração de missão.

 Hábito 3: Primeiro o Mais Importante

Priorize, planeje e execute suas tarefas semanais baseando-se mais na importância do que na urgência. Avalie se seus esforços exemplificam seus valores pessoais desejados, impulsionam-no em direção às metas e enriquecem suas atitudes e relacionamentos elaborados no Hábito 2.

Interdependência
Os três seguintes têm a ver com a interdependência (i.e., o trabalho com os outros):

 Hábito 4: Mentalidade Ganha-Ganha

Esforce-se em busca de soluções ou de acordos que sejam reciprocamente benéficos em seus relacionamentos. Valorize e respeite as pessoas entendendo que uma "vitória" para todos é fundamentalmente a melhor solução a longo prazo do que se somente uma pessoa numa dada situação tenha atingido seu propósito.

 Hábito 5: Procure Primeiro Compreender, Depois ser Compreendido

Escute bem ou preste atenção enfaticamente para ser genuinamente influenciado pelas pessoas a fim de que elas também sejam influenciadas por você. Isso cria uma atmosfera de cuidado mútuo na solução positiva de um problema.

 Hábito 6: Criar Sinergia

Combine as forças das pessoas através de uma equipe de trabalho positiva; assim, para atingir objetivos, nenhuma pessoa trabalhará sozinha.
 Mude a atitude
Quando se trabalha sobre a atitude, nada pode ser um impedimento para a eficácia de alguém na vida.

 Hábito 7: Afinar o InstrumentoEquilibre e renove seus recursos, sua energia e sua saúde para criar um estilo de vida efetivo e sustentável, com exercício físico, oração (meditação, yoga, etc) e boa leitura para a renovação mental. Além de serviços à sociedade para renovar-se espiritualmente.

Stephen Covey também escreveu diversos outros livros tendo este como base, como: "Os sete hábitos das famílias altamente eficazes" e "Vivendo os Sete Hábitos: Histórias de Coragem e Inspiração".

Em 2004 foi publicada a sequência do Os Sete Hábitos''': "O 8º Hábito: da Eficácia à Grandeza".

Sete Habitos Pessoas Altamente Eficazes
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Q: New UNIX User- need help troubleshooting error 0403-057 I am new to UNIX and can not execute some very simple code. I am trying to execute a KornShell (ksh) command and receive an error :
0403-057 Syntax error at line 82 : `if' is not matched.

where line 82 is:
". /home/C_files/_bash.cfg"

I did not know that calling a config file qualifies as an "if" statement"
Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
Thanks

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Posting the config file may lead to further enlightenment.


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Hamas supports prosecution of Abu-Jihad's assassins
February 17, 2014 at 11:19 pm | Published in: Middle East, News
A member of the Islamic Resistance Movement's political bureau has expressed support for the prosecution of the Israelis who killed Khalil Al-Wazeer, alias Abu Jihad. Senior Hamas official Izzat Risheq used his Facebook page to call on human rights organisations to "raise this issue" along with the prosecution of all suspected Israeli war criminals.
Abu Jihad co-founded and was the second in command of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). He was assassinated in Tunis in 1988 and the PLO accused Israel's Mossad espionage agency of the killing.
It was only last week that the Israeli military censor authorised the publication of the testimony of the Israeli army officer who said that he killed the PLO man.
Nahum Lev, the commander of the operational team which carried out the assassination, told a reporter for Yedioth Ahronoth before his death in a car accident in 2000 that he had pulled the trigger. The Israeli newspaper published a photograph, testimony and information about the officer last Thursday.
Lawyers acting on behalf of the Tunisian Wafaa Movement filed a lawsuit on Monday against Israel after it had formally acknowledged responsibility for the assassination of Abu Jihad on Tunisian territory. According to Salim Bokhtheer of Wafaa, the lawyers thus have clear evidence against Israel and will be pursuing the action under the International Convention on Political Assassination, which is ratified by both Tunisia and Israel. The convention was adopted in order to track down Nazis responsible for the Holocaust.
According to Bokhtheer, deposed Tunisian president Ben Ali was complicit in the assassination. "A lot of documents proving this were hidden or destroyed by previous governments," he said.
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When I was working on round 1 and began pinning it to the center block, it hit me: "I'm working on someone else's quilt!" (I did the round with the polka dot fabrics above.) A bit intimidating but I did like the results. I haven't a clue what I'll be doing for round two. Time is not my friend right now, so I haven't even pulled out the fabrics and quilt to begin to get ideas. Best of all, I know they will be patient. I also know that whatever is sewn onto my quilt will be amazing!
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I love your original block. These different styles make me realize where I haven't gone and don't know about quilting. Great centers and rounds from everyone.
Thanks for fitting Janet into Fall retreat. I know she will love it and learn a lot.
No bounds to our quilting journey! Always love meeting a new retreated.
All the centers and borders look great.
How fun for you and your Robin friends! I would like to join one of these sometime, or organize one here in my neck of the woods. Yours are going to be AMAZING!
Seems that each first round was certainly worthy of the original block. Each round added to the original designs in a synergistic manner. I look forward to seeing the progress of these works.


We have a list of designs that we have cut already, but if you don't already know, we can cut kits for almost any design where we have the copyright owner's permission.
So, if you've been having a look through a designer's catalogue, and see a design that you want to build, contact us, and we will go through the following stages.
We will contact the copyright holder to obtain permission to cut the kit. This is not normally a problem, and we have agreements in place with Selway Fisher, Dix Design, and Iain Oughtred for cutting their kits. We have also dealt with a couple of other designers on a one-off basis. If necessary (and usually so), we will agree a royalty payment to the designer for the use of their design.
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To price the kit, we will ask the designer what the estimated ply requirement is for the design. From this, we will give you a quote for the production of the kit.
We will ask you for a 50% deposit for the development work involved in the new kit. Once we know how much ply is needed for cutting the kit, we will ask you for the balance. We will not start cutting the wood until we have received payment in full. We are often though not always able to make savings on the designer's estimated ply requirements.
It may be that the copyright owner already has exclusive arrangements in place with another company to cut their kits. If this is the case, we will not be able to cut the kit for you, and will point you towards the other company.


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Mungallala South is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mungallala South had a population of 24 people.

Mungallala South's postcode is 4467.

History
The name Mungallala comes from the town and pastoral run name. It is derived from the Kunggari language, from mungar/kungar meaning bird and yaya/lala meaning shout, describing the sound of the claws of running emu.

Education
There are no schools in Mungallala South. The nearest primary school is in neighbouring Mungallala. The nearest secondary school is in Mitchell but only offers up to Year 10. For Years 11 and 12, the nearest secondary schools are in Roma and Charleville.

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Sicilians love coffee. It's a custom that starts the day and, in bars all over the island, you will always find locals taking a break or chatting with friends over a cup of coffee. This is because coffee in Sicily is more than a tradition, it is a ritual. It is not by chance that there are at least ten big factories roasting and packaging coffee on the island. This coffee, different from the American brands, Is black, small and very strong: it is drunk quickly and gives an immediate adrenalin kick. Sitting at the bar of a small Sicilian town, we can experience the unique pleasure of an Italian coffee, chatting with the people at nearby tables, especially older people who have a great experience of life without having ever left their island, and talking about Sicily, its traditions and, of course, its coffee.