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True development unites the human family in charity and trust in God our Father
June 22, 2017 June 20, 2017 rockcreekcatholic	charity, meditation, Pope Paul VI, social justice, truth	Tags: Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI	Leave a comment
The conclusion of Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in Veritate (2009):
D evelopment needs Christians with their arms raised towards God in prayer, Christians moved by the knowledge that truth-filled love, caritas in veritate, from which authentic development proceeds, is not produced by us, but given to us. For this reason, even in the most difficult and complex times, besides recognizing what is happening, we must above all else turn to God's love. Development requires attention to the spiritual life, a serious consideration of the experiences of trust in God, spiritual fellowship in Christ, reliance upon God's providence and mercy, love and forgiveness, self-denial, acceptance of others, justice and peace. All this is essential if "hearts of stone" are to be transformed into "hearts of flesh" (Ezek 36:26), rendering life on earth "divine" and thus more worthy of humanity. All this is of man, because man is the subject of his own existence; and at the same time it is of God, because God is at the beginning and end of all that is good, all that leads to salvation: "the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours; and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's" (1 Cor 3:22-23). Christians long for the entire human family to call upon God as "Our Father!" In union with the only-begotten Son, may all people learn to pray to the Father and to ask him, in the words that Jesus himself taught us, for the grace to glorify him by living according to his will, to receive the daily bread that we need, to be understanding and generous towards our debtors, not to be tempted beyond our limits, and to be delivered from evil (cf. Mt 6:9-13).
At the conclusion of the Pauline Year, I gladly express this hope in the Apostle's own words, taken from the Letter to the Romans: "Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honour" (Rom 12:9-10). May the Virgin Mary — proclaimed Mater Ecclesiae by Paul VI and honoured by Christians as Speculum Iustitiæ and Regina Pacis — protect us and obtain for us, through her heavenly intercession, the strength, hope and joy necessary to continue to dedicate ourselves with generosity to the task of bringing about the "development of the whole man and of all men."159
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, on 29 June, the Solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, in the year 2009, the fifth of my Pontificate.
BENEDICTUS PP. XVI
159 Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 42: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis 59 (1967), 278.
— Caritas in Veritate 79
God, our greatest hope, strengthens us in the face of discouragement
From Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in Veritate (2009):
Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is. In the face of the enormous problems surrounding the development of peoples, which almost make us yield to discouragement, we find solace in the sayings of our Lord Jesus Christ, who teaches us: "Apart from me you can do nothing" (Jn 15:5) and then encourages us: "I am with you always, to the close of the age" (Mt 28:20). As we contemplate the vast amount of work to be done, we are sustained by our faith that God is present alongside those who come together in his name to work for justice. Paul VI recalled in Populorum Progressio that man cannot bring about his own progress unaided, because by himself he cannot establish an authentic humanism. Only if we are aware of our calling, as individuals and as a community, to be part of God's family as his sons and daughters, will we be able to generate a new vision and muster new energy in the service of a truly integral humanism. The greatest service to development, then, is a Christian humanism157 that enkindles charity and takes its lead from truth, accepting both as a lasting gift from God. Openness to God makes us open towards our brothers and sisters and towards an understanding of life as a joyful task to be accomplished in a spirit of solidarity. On the other hand, ideological rejection of God and an atheism of indifference, oblivious to the Creator and at risk of becoming equally oblivious to human values, constitute some of the chief obstacles to development today. A humanism which excludes God is an inhuman humanism. Only a humanism open to the Absolute can guide us in the promotion and building of forms of social and civic life — structures, institutions, culture and ethos — without exposing us to the risk of becoming ensnared by the fashions of the moment. Awareness of God's undying love sustains us in our laborious and stimulating work for justice and the development of peoples, amid successes and failures, in the ceaseless pursuit of a just ordering of human affairs. God's love calls us to move beyond the limited and the ephemeral, it gives us the courage to continue seeking and working for the benefit of all, even if this cannot be achieved immediately and if what we are able to achieve, alongside political authorities and those working in the field of economics, is always less than we might wish.158 God gives us the strength to fight and to suffer for love of the common good, because he is our All, our greatest hope.
157 Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 42: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis 59 (1967), 278.
158 Cf. Benedict XVI, Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi, 35.
Unfettered biotechnology produces monstrous human injustices
June 18, 2017 June 15, 2017 rockcreekcatholic	calendar, meditation, Pope Paul VI, reason, truth	Tags: Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI	Leave a comment
Paul VI had already recognized and drawn attention to the global dimension of the social question.155 Following his lead, we need to affirm today that the social question has become a radically anthropological question, in the sense that it concerns not just how life is conceived but also how it is manipulated, as bio-technology places it increasingly under man's control. In vitro fertilization, embryo research, the possibility of manufacturing clones and human hybrids: all this is now emerging and being promoted in today's highly disillusioned culture, which believes it has mastered every mystery, because the origin of life is now within our grasp. Here we see the clearest expression of technology's supremacy. In this type of culture, the conscience is simply invited to take note of technological possibilities. Yet we must not underestimate the disturbing scenarios that threaten our future, or the powerful new instruments that the "culture of death" has at its disposal. To the tragic and widespread scourge of abortion we may well have to add in the future — indeed it is already surreptiously present — the systematic eugenic programming of births. At the other end of the spectrum, a pro-euthanasia mindset is making inroads as an equally damaging assertion of control over life that under certain circumstances is deemed no longer worth living. Underlying these scenarios are cultural viewpoints that deny human dignity. These practices in turn foster a materialistic and mechanistic understanding of human life. Who could measure the negative effects of this kind of mentality for development? How can we be surprised by the indifference shown towards situations of human degradation, when such indifference extends even to our attitude towards what is and is not human? What is astonishing is the arbitrary and selective determination of what to put forward today as worthy of respect. Insignificant matters are considered shocking, yet unprecedented injustices seem to be widely tolerated. While the poor of the world continue knocking on the doors of the rich, the world of affluence runs the risk of no longer hearing those knocks, on account of a conscience that can no longer distinguish what is human. God reveals man to himself; reason and faith work hand in hand to demonstrate to us what is good, provided we want to see it; the natural law, in which creative Reason shines forth, reveals our greatness, but also our wretchedness insofar as we fail to recognize the call to moral truth.
Authentic development cannot be merely a set of human projects
May 31, 2017 May 30, 2017 rockcreekcatholic	charity, meditation, Pope Paul VI, social justice, truth	Tags: Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI	Leave a comment
One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation. If we look closely at other kinds of poverty, including material forms, we see that they are born from isolation, from not being loved or from difficulties in being able to love. Poverty is often produced by a rejection of God's love, by man's basic and tragic tendency to close in on himself, thinking himself to be self-sufficient or merely an insignificant and ephemeral fact, a "stranger" in a random universe. Man is alienated when he is alone, when he is detached from reality, when he stops thinking and believing in a foundation.125 All of humanity is alienated when too much trust is placed in merely human projects, ideologies and false utopias.126 Today humanity appears much more interactive than in the past: this shared sense of being close to one another must be transformed into true communion. The development of peoples depends, above all, on a recognition that the human race is a single family working together in true communion, not simply a group of subjects who happen to live side by side.127
Pope Paul VI noted that "the world is in trouble because of the lack of thinking."128 He was making an observation, but also expressing a wish: a new trajectory of thinking is needed in order to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of our being one family; interaction among the peoples of the world calls us to embark upon this new trajectory, so that integration can signify solidarity129 rather than marginalization. Thinking of this kind requires a deeper critical evaluation of the category of relation. This is a task that cannot be undertaken by the social sciences alone, insofar as the contribution of disciplines such as metaphysics and theology is needed if man's transcendent dignity is to be properly understood.
As a spiritual being, the human creature is defined through interpersonal relations. The more authentically he or she lives these relations, the more his or her own personal identity matures. It is not by isolation that man establishes his worth, but by placing himself in relation with others and with God. Hence these relations take on fundamental importance. The same holds true for peoples as well. A metaphysical understanding of the relations between persons is therefore of great benefit for their development. In this regard, reason finds inspiration and direction in Christian revelation, according to which the human community does not absorb the individual, annihilating his autonomy, as happens in the various forms of totalitarianism, but rather values him all the more because the relation between individual and community is a relation between one totality and another.130 Just as a family does not submerge the identities of its individual members, just as the Church rejoices in each "new creation" (Gal 6:15; 2 Cor 5:17) incorporated by Baptism into her living Body, so too the unity of the human family does not submerge the identities of individuals, peoples and cultures, but makes them more transparent to each other and links them more closely in their legitimate diversity.
The theme of development can be identified with the inclusion-in-relation of all individuals and peoples within the one community of the human family, built in solidarity on the basis of the fundamental values of justice and peace. This perspective is illuminated in a striking way by the relationship between the Persons of the Trinity within the one divine Substance. The Trinity is absolute unity insofar as the three divine Persons are pure relationality. The reciprocal transparency among the divine Persons is total and the bond between each of them complete, since they constitute a unique and absolute unity. God desires to incorporate us into this reality of communion as well: "that they may be one even as we are one" (Jn 17:22). The Church is a sign and instrument of this unity.131 Relationships between human beings throughout history cannot but be enriched by reference to this divine model. In particular, in the light of the revealed mystery of the Trinity, we understand that true openness does not mean loss of individual identity but profound interpenetration. This also emerges from the common human experiences of love and truth. Just as the sacramental love of spouses unites them spiritually in "one flesh" (Gen 2:24; Mt 19:5; Eph 5:31) and makes out of the two a real and relational unity, so in an analogous way truth unites spirits and causes them to think in unison, attracting them as a unity to itself.
125 Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 41: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis [AAS] 83 (1991), 843-845.
126 Cf. ibid.
127 Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae, 20: AAS 87 (1995), 422-424.
128 Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 85: AAS 59 (1967), 298-299.
129 Cf. John Paul II, Message for the 1998 World Day of Peace, 3: AAS 90 (1998), 150; Address to the Members of the Vatican Foundation "Centesimus Annus – Pro Pontifice", 9 May 1998, 2; Address to the Civil Authorities and Diplomatic Corps of Austria, 20 June 1998, 8; Message to the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 5 May 2000, 6.
130 According to Saint Thomas "ratio partis contrariatur rationi personæ", In III Sent., d. 5, q. 3, a. 2; also "Homo non ordinatur ad communitatem politicam secundum se totum et secundum omnia sua", Summa Theologiæ I-II, q. 21, a. 4, ad 3.
131 Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 1.
— Caritas in Veritate 53-54
Development programs must be person-centered and transparent
The strengthening of different types of businesses, especially those capable of viewing profit as a means for achieving the goal of a more humane market and society, must also be pursued in those countries that are excluded or marginalized from the influential circles of the global economy. In these countries it is very important to move ahead with projects based on subsidiarity, suitably planned and managed, aimed at affirming rights yet also providing for the assumption of corresponding responsibilities. In development programmes, the principle of the centrality of the human person, as the subject primarily responsible for development, must be preserved. The principal concern must be to improve the actual living conditions of the people in a given region, thus enabling them to carry out those duties which their poverty does not presently allow them to fulfil. Social concern must never be an abstract attitude. Development programmes, if they are to be adapted to individual situations, need to be flexible; and the people who benefit from them ought to be directly involved in their planning and implementation. The criteria to be applied should aspire towards incremental development in a context of solidarity — with careful monitoring of results — inasmuch as there are no universally valid solutions. Much depends on the way programmes are managed in practice. "The peoples themselves have the prime responsibility to work for their own development. But they will not bring this about in isolation."114 These words of Paul VI are all the more timely nowadays, as our world becomes progressively more integrated. The dynamics of inclusion are hardly automatic. Solutions need to be carefully designed to correspond to people's concrete lives, based on a prudential evaluation of each situation. Alongside macro-projects, there is a place for micro-projects, and above all there is need for the active mobilization of all the subjects of civil society, both juridical and physical persons.
International cooperation requires people who can be part of the process of economic and human development through the solidarity of their presence, supervision, training and respect. From this standpoint, international organizations might question the actual effectiveness of their bureaucratic and administrative machinery, which is often excessively costly. At times it happens that those who receive aid become subordinate to the aid-givers, and the poor serve to perpetuate expensive bureaucracies which consume an excessively high percentage of funds intended for development. Hence it is to be hoped that all international agencies and non-governmental organizations will commit themselves to complete transparency, informing donors and the public of the percentage of their income allocated to programmes of cooperation, the actual content of those programmes and, finally, the detailed expenditure of the institution itself.
Solidarity can correct the malfunctions of globalization
May 21, 2017 May 20, 2017 rockcreekcatholic	charity, meditation, Pope Paul VI, Populorum Progressio, social justice, truth	Tags: Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI	Leave a comment
Sometimes globalization is viewed in fatalistic terms, as if the dynamics involved were the product of anonymous impersonal forces or structures independent of the human will.102 In this regard it is useful to remember that while globalization should certainly be understood as a socio-economic process, this is not its only dimension. Underneath the more visible process, humanity itself is becoming increasingly interconnected; it is made up of individuals and peoples to whom this process should offer benefits and development,103 as they assume their respective responsibilities, singly and collectively. The breaking-down of borders is not simply a material fact: it is also a cultural event both in its causes and its effects. If globalization is viewed from a deterministic standpoint, the criteria with which to evaluate and direct it are lost. As a human reality, it is the product of diverse cultural tendencies, which need to be subjected to a process of discernment. The truth of globalization as a process and its fundamental ethical criterion are given by the unity of the human family and its development towards what is good. Hence a sustained commitment is needed so as to promote a person-based and community-oriented cultural process of world-wide integration that is open to transcendence.
Despite some of its structural elements, which should neither be denied nor exaggerated, "globalization, a priori, is neither good nor bad. It will be what people make of it."104 We should not be its victims, but rather its protagonists, acting in the light of reason, guided by charity and truth. Blind opposition would be a mistaken and prejudiced attitude, incapable of recognizing the positive aspects of the process, with the consequent risk of missing the chance to take advantage of its many opportunities for development. The processes of globalization, suitably understood and directed, open up the unprecedented possibility of large-scale redistribution of wealth on a world-wide scale; if badly directed, however, they can lead to an increase in poverty and inequality, and could even trigger a global crisis. It is necessary to correct the malfunctions, some of them serious, that cause new divisions between peoples and within peoples, and also to ensure that the redistribution of wealth does not come about through the redistribution or increase of poverty: a real danger if the present situation were to be badly managed. For a long time it was thought that poor peoples should remain at a fixed stage of development, and should be content to receive assistance from the philanthropy of developed peoples. Paul VI strongly opposed this mentality in Populorum Progressio. Today the material resources available for rescuing these peoples from poverty are potentially greater than before, but they have ended up largely in the hands of people from developed countries, who have benefited more from the liberalization that has occurred in the mobility of capital and labour. The world-wide diffusion of forms of prosperity should not therefore be held up by projects that are self-centred, protectionist or at the service of private interests. Indeed the involvement of emerging or developing countries allows us to manage the crisis better today. The transition inherent in the process of globalization presents great difficulties and dangers that can only be overcome if we are able to appropriate the underlying anthropological and ethical spirit that drives globalization towards the humanizing goal of solidarity. Unfortunately this spirit is often overwhelmed or suppressed by ethical and cultural considerations of an individualistic and utilitarian nature. Globalization is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon which must be grasped in the diversity and unity of all its different dimensions, including the theological dimension. In this way it will be possible to experience and to steer the globalization of humanity in relational terms, in terms of communion and the sharing of goods.
102 Cf. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation Libertatis Conscientia (22 March 1987), 74: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis [AAS] 79 (1987), 587.
103 Cf. John Paul II, Interview published in the Catholic daily newspaper La Croix, 20 August 1997.
104 John Paul II, Address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 27 April 2001.
Social aspects of the economy encompass an ever-widening range of business and political values
In the context of this discussion, it is helpful to observe that business enterprise involves a wide range of values, becoming wider all the time. The continuing hegemony of the binary model of market-plus-State has accustomed us to think only in terms of the private business leader of a capitalistic bent on the one hand, and the State director on the other. In reality, business has to be understood in an articulated way. There are a number of reasons, of a meta-economic kind, for saying this. Business activity has a human significance, prior to its professional one.98 It is present in all work, understood as a personal action, an "actus personae,"99 which is why every worker should have the chance to make his contribution knowing that in some way "he is working 'for himself.'"100 With good reason, Paul VI taught that "everyone who works is a creator."101 It is in response to the needs and the dignity of the worker, as well as the needs of society, that there exist various types of business enterprise, over and above the simple distinction between "private" and "public". Each of them requires and expresses a specific business capacity. In order to construct an economy that will soon be in a position to serve the national and global common good, it is appropriate to take account of this broader significance of business activity. It favours cross-fertilization between different types of business activity, with shifting of competences from the "non-profit" world to the "profit" world and vice versa, from the public world to that of civil society, from advanced economies to developing countries.
Political authority also involves a wide range of values, which must not be overlooked in the process of constructing a new order of economic productivity, socially responsible and human in scale. As well as cultivating differentiated forms of business activity on the global plane, we must also promote a dispersed political authority, effective on different levels. The integrated economy of the present day does not make the role of States redundant, but rather it commits governments to greater collaboration with one another. Both wisdom and prudence suggest not being too precipitous in declaring the demise of the State. In terms of the resolution of the current crisis, the State's role seems destined to grow, as it regains many of its competences. In some nations, moreover, the construction or reconstruction of the State remains a key factor in their development. The focus of international aid, within a solidarity-based plan to resolve today's economic problems, should rather be on consolidating constitutional, juridical and administrative systems in countries that do not yet fully enjoy these goods. Alongside economic aid, there needs to be aid directed towards reinforcing the guarantees proper to the State of law: a system of public order and effective imprisonment that respects human rights, truly democratic institutions. The State does not need to have identical characteristics everywhere: the support aimed at strengthening weak constitutional systems can easily be accompanied by the development of other political players, of a cultural, social, territorial or religious nature, alongside the State. The articulation of political authority at the local, national and international levels is one of the best ways of giving direction to the process of economic globalization. It is also the way to ensure that it does not actually undermine the foundations of democracy.
98 Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 32: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis [AAS] 83 (1991), 832-833; Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 25: AAS 59 (1967), 269-270.
99 John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Laborem Exercens, 24: AAS 73 (1981), 637-638.
100 Ibid., 15: loc. cit., 616-618.
101 Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 27: loc. cit., 271.
Business' relations with capital and labor must take place in a social context
May 19, 2017 May 17, 2017 rockcreekcatholic	charity, meditation, Pope Paul VI, Pope St. John Paul II, social justice, truth	Tags: Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI	Leave a comment
Today's international economic scene, marked by grave deviations and failures, requires a profoundly new way of understanding business enterprise. Old models are disappearing, but promising new ones are taking shape on the horizon. Without doubt, one of the greatest risks for businesses is that they are almost exclusively answerable to their investors, thereby limiting their social value. Owing to their growth in scale and the need for more and more capital, it is becoming increasingly rare for business enterprises to be in the hands of a stable director who feels responsible in the long term, not just the short term, for the life and the results of his company, and it is becoming increasingly rare for businesses to depend on a single territory. Moreover, the so-called outsourcing of production can weaken the company's sense of responsibility towards the stakeholders — namely the workers, the suppliers, the consumers, the natural environment and broader society — in favour of the shareholders, who are not tied to a specific geographical area and who therefore enjoy extraordinary mobility. Today's international capital market offers great freedom of action. Yet there is also increasing awareness of the need for greater social responsibility on the part of business. Even if the ethical considerations that currently inform debate on the social responsibility of the corporate world are not all acceptable from the perspective of the Church's social doctrine, there is nevertheless a growing conviction that business management cannot concern itself only with the interests of the proprietors, but must also assume responsibility for all the other stakeholders who contribute to the life of the business: the workers, the clients, the suppliers of various elements of production, the community of reference. In recent years a new cosmopolitan class of managers has emerged, who are often answerable only to the shareholders generally consisting of anonymous funds which de facto determine their remuneration. By contrast, though, many far-sighted managers today are becoming increasingly aware of the profound links between their enterprise and the territory or territories in which it operates. Paul VI invited people to give serious attention to the damage that can be caused to one's home country by the transfer abroad of capital purely for personal advantage.95 John Paul II taught that investment always has moral, as well as economic significance.96 All this — it should be stressed — is still valid today, despite the fact that the capital market has been significantly liberalized, and modern technological thinking can suggest that investment is merely a technical act, not a human and ethical one. There is no reason to deny that a certain amount of capital can do good, if invested abroad rather than at home. Yet the requirements of justice must be safeguarded, with due consideration for the way in which the capital was generated and the harm to individuals that will result if it is not used where it was produced.97 What should be avoided is a speculative use of financial resources that yields to the temptation of seeking only short-term profit, without regard for the long-term sustainability of the enterprise, its benefit to the real economy and attention to the advancement, in suitable and appropriate ways, of further economic initiatives in countries in need of development. It is true that the export of investments and skills can benefit the populations of the receiving country. Labour and technical knowledge are a universal good. Yet it is not right to export these things merely for the sake of obtaining advantageous conditions, or worse, for purposes of exploitation, without making a real contribution to local society by helping to bring about a robust productive and social system, an essential factor for stable development.
95 Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio (26 March 1967), 24: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis [AAS] 59 (1967), 269.
96 Cf. Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 36: AAS 83 (1991), 838-840.
97 Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 24: loc. cit., 269.
Economic justice cannot be achieved by markets and the State alone
May 18, 2017 May 14, 2017 rockcreekcatholic	charity, meditation, Pope Paul VI, Populorum Progressio, Rerum Novarum, social justice, truth	Tags: Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI	Leave a comment
Paul VI in Populorum Progressio called for the creation of a model of market economy capable of including within its range all peoples and not just the better off. He called for efforts to build a more human world for all, a world in which "all will be able to give and receive, without one group making progress at the expense of the other."94 In this way he was applying on a global scale the insights and aspirations contained in Rerum Novarum, written when, as a result of the Industrial Revolution, the idea was first proposed — somewhat ahead of its time — that the civil order, for its self-regulation, also needed intervention from the State for purposes of redistribution. Not only is this vision threatened today by the way in which markets and societies are opening up, but it is evidently insufficient to satisfy the demands of a fully humane economy. What the Church's social doctrine has always sustained, on the basis of its vision of man and society, is corroborated today by the dynamics of globalization.
When both the logic of the market and the logic of the State come to an agreement that each will continue to exercise a monopoly over its respective area of influence, in the long term much is lost: solidarity in relations between citizens, participation and adherence, actions of gratuitousness, all of which stand in contrast with giving in order to acquire (the logic of exchange) and giving through duty (the logic of public obligation, imposed by State law). In order to defeat underdevelopment, action is required not only on improving exchange-based transactions and implanting public welfare structures, but above all on gradually increasing openness, in a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communion. The exclusively binary model of market-plus-State is corrosive of society, while economic forms based on solidarity, which find their natural home in civil society without being restricted to it, build up society. The market of gratuitousness does not exist, and attitudes of gratuitousness cannot be established by law. Yet both the market and politics need individuals who are open to reciprocal gift.
94 No. 44: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis [AAS] 59 (1967), 279.
Justice applies to a wider framework than only economic markets
In a climate of mutual trust, the market is the economic institution that permits encounter between persons, inasmuch as they are economic subjects who make use of contracts to regulate their relations as they exchange goods and services of equivalent value between them, in order to satisfy their needs and desires. The market is subject to the principles of so-called commutative justice, which regulates the relations of giving and receiving between parties to a transaction. But the social doctrine of the Church has unceasingly highlighted the importance of distributive justice and social justice for the market economy, not only because it belongs within a broader social and political context, but also because of the wider network of relations within which it operates. In fact, if the market is governed solely by the principle of the equivalence in value of exchanged goods, it cannot produce the social cohesion that it requires in order to function well. Without internal forms of solidarity and mutual trust, the market cannot completely fulfil its proper economic function. And today it is this trust which has ceased to exist, and the loss of trust is a grave loss. It was timely when Paul VI in Populorum Progressio insisted that the economic system itself would benefit from the wide-ranging practice of justice, inasmuch as the first to gain from the development of poor countries would be rich ones.90 According to the Pope, it was not just a matter of correcting dysfunctions through assistance. The poor are not to be considered a "burden,"91 but a resource, even from the purely economic point of view. It is nevertheless erroneous to hold that the market economy has an inbuilt need for a quota of poverty and underdevelopment in order to function at its best. It is in the interests of the market to promote emancipation, but in order to do so effectively, it cannot rely only on itself, because it is not able to produce by itself something that lies outside its competence. It must draw its moral energies from other subjects that are capable of generating them.
90 Cf. no. 49: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis [AAS] 59 (1967), 281.
91 John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 28: AAS 83 (1991), 827-828.
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Motorola Edge 40 Release Date, Price & Specs Rumours
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Motorola is one of the grand old names of smartphones, so it's always interesting to see what it comes up with when new models are announced.
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We were impressed by the Edge 30 series and with rumours beginning to appear regarding its successor, we gather together all the news and details we know so far about the Motorola Edge 40 series, also known as the Moto X40.
When will the Motorola Edge 40 series be released?
Motorola has confirmed that it will launch the X40 series in China on 15 December, teasing a pair of phones in the poster.
Since the X30 line eventually released in the West as the Edge 30 series, it stands to reason that the X40 phones will eventually be known to us as the Edge 40.
That still leaves the question of when these models will launch under the Edge 40 name, but it's most likely to be at least a few months. The Motorola Edge 30 range had a staggered release, and it may be a case of more of the same with the next generation. Here's when the Edge 30 models debuted:
As you can see, the 30 Pro was the first to launch, and we think it's likely that we'll see the same again next time around.
How much will the Motorola Edge 40 cost?
We've yet to see any details on pricing for the Motorola Edge 40 range. To give ourselves some idea though we can look back to the previous generation. Here's how the models in that range lined up:
Motorola Edge 30 Neo – £349/€399 (approx. $415)Motorola Edge 30 – $399/£379/€499Motorola Edge 30 Pro – $699/€799 (approx. £589)Motorola Edge 30 Ultra – £749/€899 (approx. $889)
Motorola didn't release all models in all regions (hence the various approx. prices) and we suspect that it may be a similar story with the Motorola Edge 40 series.
What features will we see in the Motorola Edge 40 series?
So far, we only know a little about the Edge 40 line, though Motorola has begun to confirm some details.
The company has confirmed that the X40 – the model we expect to launch as the Edge 40 Pro elsewhere – will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, and will feature IP68 water and dust-resistance.
In the launch poster, above, we can also see that there are two phones in the series so far, and that one of them doesn't have a visible selfie camera cut-out – suggesting that Motorola will be including an under-display selfie camera on one model.
A few more details can be gleaned from an FCC listing for the Edge 40 Pro, which shows a device that supports 125W fast wired charging, with support for wireless and reverse charging as well. There seem to be two variants, one that offers a single SIM and another that has both a physical SIM and eSIM.
The same phone has appeared on the Chinese certification site TENAA under the X40 name. In that listing there are images of the design, along with more details about the hardware inside, with the model sporting a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 along with a 6.67in OLED display that has curved edges and a 144Hz refresh rate.
You can get a better look at that design in these renders created by leaker OnLeaks and shared with MySmartPrice based on specs he's found so far, which show a clearer look at the Pro phone's likely design.
He adds that the phone will measure 161.3 x 73.9 x 8.6mm, and will feature a glass back along with a metal frame.
The rear camera array contains three units: a 50Mp main shooter, allied with a 50Mp wide and 12Mp telephoto sensor. RAM will apparently range from 8GB to 18GB, with storage from 128GB up to 512GB. Interestingly, the listing has the device coming with a 5000mAh battery and 68W charging, which is less than the 125W fast charing on the FCC listing. Could this mean that these are two distinct devices, or will charging vary by market?
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Trainer Nicky Henderson believes he has the "quality and quantity" to record his first Grand National win on Saturday after warming up for the steeplechase with a treble at Aintree.
The three-time champion trainer, 63, is the most successful handler at the Cheltenham Festival with 51 winners.
Henderson will saddle four of the 40-strong National field and said he has his "best chance yet".
"It doesn't bug me but I'd love to win it," he said.
He added: "You need the right ammunition. I'll keep trying."
Henderson's quartet are headed by Long Run, the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner in 2011 and twice successful in the King George VI Chase, who will be ridden by amateur Sam Waley-Cohen.
He also has Hunt Ball, Triolo D'Alene and Shakalakaboomboom.
"Every now and then, the right horses come along. We've had some close shaves, we've been second twice. It's there but it's avoided us so far," he said.
His near misses came with his first runner Zongalero in 1979 and The Tsarevich, who was also second eight years later. But since 1991 only two of his entries have finished.
Henderson and jockey Barry Geraghty enjoyed a hat-trick of wins on Friday as Ma Filleule won over the Grand National fences to claim the Topham Chase.
They also won the opening race with Josses Hill in the Novices' Hurdle, and then with Beat That in the Sefton Novices Hurdle later in the day.


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This is a curriculum presented by International Task Force on Resident and Specialist Education in Ophthalmology on behalf of the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO), 2006.
This report expands upon the Visual Acuity Measurement Standard report, published in 1984. While the previous report just dealt with the measurement of visual acuity, Visual Standards - Aspects and Ranges of Vision Loss, published in 2002, discusses meaningful ways to categorize this data for population surveys.
These CME requirements listed were approved by the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) in Amsterdam, June 1998 and reaffirmed by the ICO in January 2003.
The Community Eye Health Journal is free to subscribers in low and middle income countries. It is available in French, Spanish, Chinese, and Portuguese.
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View 30 scientific and related presentations from various World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC) 2010 symposia (audio and slides) online at www.icoph.org/woc2010webcasts.
Un-operated cataract remains the leading cause of avoidable blindness in poor and emerging countries. This Statement summarizes the problem, suggests ways to address it, and the potential roles of ophthalmology and the ICO.
Aurosiksha, developed by Aravind, is an online educational program that offers training material to learners and trainers. The material covers the theories, techniques and practical aspects of clinical and non-clinical management.
The International Council of Ophthalmolgy (ICO) Directory of Ophthalmic Societies includes national, supranational, subspecialty and other societies around the world. The Directory is meant to facilitate awareness and communication between ICO Member societies and other ophthalmic societies.


Contamination of drinking water by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has garnered much attention in recent years. PFAS include perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and PFAS exposures and risks can result in regulatory concerns and active management at contaminated sites and surrounding areas. On September 12, 2018, ELI hosted leading experts for an in-depth discussion on the sources, overarching chemistry, environmental fate and transport, exposure, toxicology, and occurrence of PFAS, with emphasis on the state of knowledge regarding the characterization, risk management, and remediation of PFAS-impacted sites. The panel provided updates on state and federal regulatory issues, and explored the spectrum of legal challenges associated with the use of PFAS at industrial and military facilities. This Article present a transcript of the discussion, which has been edited for style, clarity, and space considerations.
Scott Fulton is President of the Environmental Law Institute. Peter Zeeb, Ph.D. (moderator) is Senior Principal, President, and CEO at Geosyntec Consultants. Adam Baas is of Counsel at DLA Piper. Eric Burneson is director of the Standards and Risk Management Division in the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Rula Deeb, Ph.D. is a Senior Principal Civil and Environmental Engineer at Geosyntec Consultants. Virginia Yingling is a Senior Hydrogeologist in the Environmental Health Division at Minnesota Department of Health.


Tehran(ANN)-German Red Cross has shipped lifeboats to the Iranian Red Crescent to help it with its efforts to rescue those trapped by floods.
According to official data, at least 70 people have died from floods over the past three weeks while many are still missing.
More downpours are forecast for the south-west, with 400,000 people at risk. Dangerously full dams are being opened to ease water build-up.
The situation remains serious in the southwestern part of the country, where dozens of small towns and villages have been evacuated.
More than 25,000 homes were destroyed, and at least 60,000 families were forced to flee to emergency shelters.
According to the Iranian Red Crescent, Kuwait, Switzerland, Turkey and Germany have sent aid to Iran. However, due to US sanctions banning bank transfers to Iran, the country has not been able to receive financial assistance.


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Q: Controller is not called in Spring MVC I am new to Spring MVC .
please excuse if this is a dumb question , i have tried a lot on my own , but couldn't able to resolve
I am facing here a issue which is my controller is never being getting called
Here is the code
index.jsp

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>

<form action="/hello.html" method="post">
Name:<input type="text" name="name"/>

Password:<input type="password" name="password"/>

<input type="submit" value="login"/>
</form>

dispatcher-servlet.xml
 <context:component-scan base-package="com.javatpoint" />
    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </bean>

hellopage.jsp
Message is: ${message}

errorpage.jsp
${message}
<jsp:include page="/index.jsp"></jsp:include>

HelloWorldController.java
@Controller
public class HelloWorldController {

    @RequestMapping("/hello")
    public ModelAndView helloWorld(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse res) {
        String name=request.getParameter("name");
        String password=request.getParameter("password");

        System.out.println("The Name is"+name);
        System.out.println("The password is"+password);

        if(password.equals("admin")){
        String message = "HELLO "+name;
        return new ModelAndView("hellopage", "message", message);
        }
        else{
            return new ModelAndView("errorpage", "message","Sorry, username or password error");
        }
    }

}

web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

A: Include your app context path in the form action:
<form action="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/hello.html" method="post">

A: Try changing your form's action from /hello.html to /hello, as that's what you have in your controller's @RequestMapping

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Will the Seaport or Hudson Yards Get the Market? New Amsterdam Public, the locavores trying to build a year-round indoor market at South Street Seaport, last night issued a strongly worded statement to the city while cold-shouldering uptown suitors for a new food market. At a fund-raiser catered by Essex Street purveyor Saxelby Cheesemongers, New Amsterdam founder Robert LaValva insisted that the city owed the public a food hall in two old Fulton Fish Market buildings. "This place has markets in its blood," LaValva told us, while supporters sipped wine and nibbled. The city's reaction has been tepid, and one of the megadevelopers vying to build Hudson Yards recently approached New Amsterdam about a bid there.
Landmark Maritime Building Hauls in Downtown Gourmet MarketplaceThe city's seafaring future smells like tapenade and baguettes, now that a grand second-floor space at the Governors Island ferry terminal belongs to the Poulakakos family, the clan behind both H Bayard's and the dainty downtown bakery Financier. According to a press release from the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the Dermot Companies will develop the Battery Maritime Building at South Ferry into a boutique hotel.


This data set used in the CoIL 2000 Challenge contains information on customers of an insurance company. The data consists of 86 variables and includes product usage data and socio-demographic data.
This is not a native data set from the KEEL project. It has been obtained from the UCI Machine Learning repository. The original page where the data set can be found is: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Insurance+Company+Benchmark+%28COIL+2000%29.


Midnite Movie DVD Covers Galore!
The folks over at DVD Drive-In have posted a treasure chest's worth of covers for the September 11th Midnite Movie releases. The most interesting thing about the images is that it looks like 20th Century Fox is using their distribution deal with MGM to co-opt the Midnite Movies brand-name. Expect to be completely broke by September 12th.


Argumentative Essay: Should Zoos Be Banned?
Some people believe that zoos can protect them from various dangers while others argue that it is inhumane to confine animals in such man-made environment. Animals we see, we are more likely to appreciate and want to help. Their freedom is always in the forests. Also, zoo life does not prepare animals for the challenges of life in the wild. I don't think there is any one quick and easy answer.
The word zoological refers to zoology which means study of animals. Elephants are often the focus of this key point because of their size compared to their enclosure. Human rights activists emphasize on the necessity of natural habitat for the normal growth of any species, and insist that zoos should be banned. Seeing an animal in person is a much more personal and more memorable experience than seeing that animal in a nature documentary. In the past, this was a valid observation. In zoos vets and biologist help to prevent inbreeding. What Are the Pros of Having Zoos? The owner of the U.
Neither you, nor the coeditors you shared it with will be able to recover it again. Search Engine Optimisation provided by - Copyright © 2019 DragonByte Technologies Ltd. Zoos are working with universities to develop in-depth degree programs. Animals will be used for safety tests such as cosmetic, food, and household. You can learn more from watching wildlife documentaries that observe animals in their natural habitats, or if funds allow, by taking an expedition to see them enjoying their lives right where they belong, in nature! Some people may question why Salinger has Holden Caulfiend cursing so much. With that appreciation people will be more inclined to care for our beautiful Earth. Is keeping animals in captivity a good way to ensure their future? There are Zoos that need shut down, but others that do really well for their charges.
Because zoos are treated more as a recreational facility, visitors do not always have respect for the boundaries and borders that keep them safe from potentially dangerous animals. What would it be like without pennies? Their concern for animals is secondary. Captivating wild animals for educational and entertainment purpose is unacceptable. In the past, zoos were a place where animals were kept behind steel bars. Thankfully the plan was stopped, but only after a lot of international pressure from varying animal rights organizations.
But other than that, Animals deserve to be free and experience wildlife. Depriving animals of their natural habitat, just to entertain people is unethical. Therefore must be protected and preserved to maintain the right balance of nature. If you feel this user's conduct is unappropriate, please report this comment and our moderaters will review its content and deal with this matter as soon as possible. Finally, it is common for visitors to tease and provoke caged animals.
I have been to my local zoo here in San Antonio, its small but they do a good job looking after there charges. Kohn 2007 states there is three facts about homework: 1. Congress to go up against the zoo lobby is, of course, a whole other question. Zoos go by several different official names. Being kept in small and cramped enclosures is unsuitable for the animals as they lack exercise. Finally, zoo animals are probably more at risk of dying from disease or poisoning than their wild counterparts.
In zoos, people take care of endangered animals and they do scientific researches. Zoos serve as laboratories to learn more about how to fight animal diseases and develop effective animal anaesthetics and other treatments to help more animals in the future. It is quite common to have offspring created at a zoo to be moved to another zoo, sold to raise money, or in the case of the Giant Panda, used as a financial resource for an entire country. Would they have a better life in the wild? They need to learn how to take care of their selves, Because if they are living in zoos for such a long time and the zoos returned them in the wild they don't know how to take care of them selves. Two of its three jaguars are still thought to be dead, as are 12 of its 14 bears.
More than 75 elephants have been euthanized at zoos before reaching the age of 40 when their lifespan is estimated to be 70 years in the wild. Regarding education in zoos, although they do provide a lot of it, most of us go to the zoo as a way to spend time and for recreational purposes. About the Author of this Article Crystal Ayres is a seasoned writer, who has been serving as our editor-in-chief for the last five years. Because animals are nature they belong here, and if we close down zoos we wont be able to see any of the animals. With this opportunity, they enjoy learning about animals and endangered species. After Apollo program ended budget cuts followed; but succeeded with the Skylab project and the Viking Mars Landers but most of all the majestic Hubble Space Telescope.
Removing individuals from the wild will further endanger the wild population because the remaining individuals will be less genetically diverse and will have more difficulty finding mates. They want to provide entertainment but they are greatly concerned with the protection of animals and their natural habitats. African elephants also live three times longer in the wild than they do in captivity, and 40 percent of lion cubs die in zoos compared to 30 percent in the wild. One vet suggested colic, so Sukari was given antacids and painkillers, until colic was ruled out. Being kept in small and cramped enclosures is unsuitable for the animals as they lack exercise. The history with animal abuse begins with fighting dogs for sport.
Should All Zoo's be Abolished?
The ongoing debate between animal rights activists along with zoo officials remains to be a question of concern, should wild animals be removed from their natural habitats to live in city zoos for education and entertainment purposes. There are several animals which are poached frequently because of certain items. Even if captivity extends a lifetime, it can change animal behavior. Why Are Zoos So Bad? Let us take a look at their biggest pros and cons: List of the Biggest Pros of Zoos 1. Polar bears for example they are given about 10 meters of walking space in the zoo. The same cannot always be said for the newborns that become part of local zoo breeding programs. Learn about the pros and cons of zoos and join our debate and poll: Should there be zoos? Based on analysis the factors conservation, education, entertainment, and exhibits and diets, is it ethical to keep wild animals in captivity? Capturing them destroys their routines and their way of life.


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A close-up of an Intel chip. (Image courtesy of Fritzchens Fritz, Creative Commons).
New Self-Learning Chip Takes Music Lessons
"What we truly need to get the most out of the technology is for algorithms to map very efficiently to the architecture," said Praveen Raghavan, who leads machine learning chip development at Belgium's Imec.
James Morra | May 26, 2017
Before sitting down to write code for self-driving cars, software engineers have to guide them through vast amounts of information on things like traffic lights, highway lines, and other vehicles.
"But there's an entire other set of problems where it is extremely hard to figure out what exactly you want to learn," said Praveen Raghavan, who leads machine learning chip development at Belgium's Imec, the advanced electronics researcher center, in a recent interview.
That is one reason why Raghavan and his colleagues built a self-learning chip to compose music, learning the craft's hidden rules through observation rather than explicit programming. The prototype is built to faintly resemble the human brain, detecting patterns without code and using those patterns to create its own tunes.
The chip is still a work-in-progress, but it represents the latest effort in the field of neuromorphic computing. These chips aim to mimic the brain's ability to save and apply information, consuming so little power that sensors and smartphones can run complex software for image recognition and text translation without outsourcing work to cloud servers.
The researchers, who showed an early demo this month at the Imec Technology Forum, fed the hardware pieces of classical flute music. The device detected underlying patterns in the notes, training itself to the point where it composed a new 30-second song – a simple and unpolished tune, not without a few dissonant notes.
The chip contains arrays of oxide-based random-access memory or OxRAM memory cells, which swaps between states of electrical resistance to represent bits. Its power consumption is limited because it stores and processes data simultaneously, cutting out the exhausting task of retrieving data from memory.
In training, the neuromorphic chip learns to associate notes that it hears back-to-back in multiple pieces of music. After every encounter with that pair of notes, the conductance between the memory cells storing the individual notes increases. In that way, the pattern is burned into the chip's circuitry.
The learning process bears a resemblance to how the human brain forges connections between neurons, creating synaptic highways for familiar ideas. With training, the chip becomes more likely to play two notes together when making music. The chip also grasps larger patterns thanks to its hierarchy of memory cells.
Raghavan declined to share many specifics about the architecture or its power consumption, since the chip's blueprints are pending patent.
Imec suggested that the chip could be used in personalized wearables, detecting heart rate changes in an individual that betray heart abnormalities. It could also let smartphones translate text or grasp voice commands without consulting the cloud, where companies Nvidia and Google are targeting number-crunching chips for deep learning.
With the rise of custom silicon for data centers, the fate of neuromorphic chips for sensors and smartphones is still uncertain. For the most part, chip designers still color within the lines drawn in 1945 by the mathematician John von Neumann, who outlined an architecture where processors always fetch data from memory.
For decades, chip designers have tried to sidestep the von Neumann architecture. Perhaps the most famous is Carver Mead, a professor of electrical engineering at Caltech, whose research into neuromorphic chips in the eighties helped create a counterculture in computing inspired by the human brain.
Though most neuromorphic chips have fallen short of revolutionizing computers, many companies have not given up. IBM, for instance, cast billions of silicon transistors as biological neurons in its True North chip, which the company is aiming at deep learning software and nuclear simulations in servers.
Others companies like Qualcomm are not only inspired by the human brain but are literally trying to recreate it in silicon. These spiking neural network chips, Qualcomm says, are more efficient handlers of artificial intelligence software with billions of virtual neurons. Potentially, the chips could be used from drones to servers.
Optimizing hardware for specific algorithms – and vice-versa – is vital for making more powerful chips, Raghavan said. The Imec researchers also devised a prototype chip based on magnetic random access memory and hardwired for software using deep neural networks.
"What we truly need to get the most out of the technology is for algorithms to map very efficiently to the architecture, and the architecture to map extremely well to the circuit design," Raghavan added. "We are trying to reach across the board."
That has been a tall order for the entire semiconductor industry, as companies struggle to kick their habit for traditional graphics and multicore processors. "It's like getting someone who only speaks Chinese to understand a person that only knows Greek," said Raghavan.


A huge set with endless possibilities! Build a community with a theme park, zoo, high street or whatever else you might think of. Includes colourful bricks in all shapes and sizes and a large selection of special elements such as windows, flowers, wheels and mini-figures. Also includes 4 brick separators that make it easier to take models apart. 1907 pieces. Ages 4+.


Being able to work from anywhere is convenient, efficient, and productive. Why sit around an airport bored stiff or waste time staring out the train window, when you could be churning important work?
But while making you more productive, working remotely can leave you vulnerable to a new range of hackers, trackers, and cyber-attackers who hijack nearby data streams.
Free Wi-Fi is usually either unsecured or has shared passwords. Even the most inept hacker can hover nearby and easily intercept and decode your data stream via a "sniffer" software that lets them see your online activity, capture your passwords, identify your device, and your name.
Visual hacking is even more basic and involves simply watching over your shoulder as you type in login details and passwords to your bank, or confidential work and personal sites. More insidious is blue bugging — where your attacker latches onto your smartphone via Bluetooth, takes control of your phone, and leaves all subsequent calls open for eavesdropping. There's also blue-snarfing – where data on phones, tablets, or laptops can be hijacked via your Bluetooth.
Here are the five most common places that you risk getting hacked, tracked, or cyberattacked by someone nearby.
Airports are such a trap for mobile workers. Although some airlines now offer sky-high wifi, with prices to match, most departing travellers are eager to latch onto that airport wifi till that moment when the plane wheels leave the tarmac – and arriving passengers are as keen to connect as they are to lunge into the aisle at touchdown, and line up impatiently for the exit door opening, a good ten minutes later. You're surrounded by people on devices — how many can you trust?
Plenty of mobile workers will hog a café table for hours while they blast through their digital to-do list. Online banking? Tick. Staff expenses account? Tick. Corporate CRM system with full details on all the company's customers? Tick. But when you're so busy, chances are you won't notice the extra-curious person on the next table carefully watching your screen — and your keyboard actions.
Whether you're waiting to check in, waiting for your taxi after checking out, waiting to meet someone, or waiting between conference sessions, hotel lobbies seem to be places where there's a heck of a lot of waiting to be done. But not everyone in the lobby is a waiter. Can you tell a porter from a blue-snarfer?
The daily commute can be a big trap for unwary players. It seems so safe, you do it all the time, you've got your favourite seat near the rear window but not too close to the door. But all it takes is one cyberattacker keen to hitch a ride on your bluetooth and you're already at risk of being exposed.
If you've ever left your laptop in the boot of your partner's car, had an inopportune hard disk die on you, or an inconvenient internet outage, you may have ventured into an internet café. These are usually places better known for their inexpensive internet-connected computers than for connoisseur-quality coffee. But before logging into sensitive systems or posting your passwords into a precariously protected PC — think carefully, not only may there be hackers nearby, but the computer itself may not be safe.
Win the race to protect your digital life from cyber-attacks – with the zero-compromise HP Elitebook x360 with Windows 10 Pro .
The IT security at your workplace may be at an all-time high — but mix it up with today's digital threats and things may get a whole lot murkier. Check out the 2018 HP Australia Security Study, which found that 53 percent of Australian SMEs allowed employees to work from public places.
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Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a related field.
Minimum standard period of study: 3 years.
The four tracks have different degree requirements:
For the "Rotor design" track applicants must hold a bachelor's degree in either mechanical, aerospace engineering, physics, or a degree with equivalent core content.
For the "Wind farms and atmospheric physics" track applicants must hold a bachelor's degree in either mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, mathematics or physics, or a degree with equivalent core content.
For the "Electrical power systems" track applicants must hold a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, physics, or a degree with equivalent core content.
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The applicant's qualifications must include a strong working knowledge of mathematics and experience in programming and applicants must document that they have fulfilled the following minimum requirements (if not explicit in the names mentioned on the transcripts, extra documentation is required):
Mathematics: 25-30 ECTS.
Physics: 10-15 ECTS.
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Programming experience (Matlab, Python, or similar) using numerical methods for solving applied mathematical problems (you'll have to document it by mentioning courses in transcript and in CV under 'Skills').
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Materials science, and production technology: 10-15 ECTS.
For the track "Electric power systems", students must document a working knowledge at bachelor level of electric power engineering especially in the three of the following subjects (if not explicit in the names mentioned on the transcripts, extra documentation is required):
Power systems, power electronics, and electric machines: 10 ECTS.
Working knowledge at bachelor level of at least four of the following five subjects is prerequisite for the central courses of the MSc program (if not explicit in the names mentioned on the transcripts, extra documentation is required):
Engineering design methodology.
Statics, mechanical vibrations, and strength of materials.
Fluid mechanics.
Applicants that are enrolled in an integrated five-year degree with no bachelor entry level must have passed 180 ECTS and will be evaluated on an individual basis.
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Specification: With an overall score of 176 and a minimum of 169 for each section.
Specification: Minimum of 6.0 for each section.
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English language certificate (see language requirements).
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Why you are interested in TU Delft and what you expect to find here.
If this MSc program has specialization (s), which specialization interests you the most, and why?
Describe your hypothetical thesis project: what kind of project would you prefer? What would you want to explore? Please limit your answer to three possible topics.
Summarize in a maximum of 250 words your BSc thesis work or final assignment/project. Please include information about the workload.
Curriculum vitae: an extensive curriculum vitae (resume) written in English.
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EU/EFTA nationals:
A photocopy of the page(s) of your passport that gives your name, date of birth, place of birth and the passport expiration date or a photocopy of your European ID card (both sides).
Non-EU/non-EFTA nationals:
A photocopy of the page(s) of your passport that gives your name, date of birth, place of birth, passport expiration date, and signature. In addition, a photocopy of each stamped page is required.
The Dutch Immigration Office (IND) requires all non-EU/non-EFTA nationals applying for a visa/residence permit to have a passport valid for 6 months after the start of their studies.
Reference letters (only required for applicants applying for a scholarship listed on the website).
If the diploma/transcript is in a language other than English, French, German, or Dutch, a certified translation is also required.


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This Intellipaat MicroStrategy certification training course is meant for an in-depth understanding of the MicroStrategy platform, its architecture, the significance of Business Intelligence, etc. You will gain expertise to do multidimensional data modeling involving hierarchies, levels, measures and schemas. This MicroStrategy training course also includes the Desktop tutorials, Server applications and derived metrics. You will learn MicroStrategy as per the needs of the industry.
What will you learn in this MicroStrategy training?
Who should take up this MicroStrategy online training?
You don't need any specific skills to take up this MicroStrategy certification course.
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Learning how BI capability various at different levels, operational, adhoc and dashboard needs and solutions offered like grids and graphs.
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The MicroStrategy foundation of logical data model and schema, its role in data warehouse and business intelligence, clear understanding of Star Schema, working with Facts and Dimensions Tables.
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Understanding the different ways of creation of Prompts and its various uses.
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Clear understanding of how to create Reports using MicroStrategy Developer/Desktop, executing the Report, the various View types like Design, SQL and Grid, deploying View Filters and Report Editor, learning to work with Reports like creating and using Filters, Prompts, Sorts, Drill-down and Format.
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Understanding the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, the various components like OLAP and Reporting, Distribution and Transaction Services, Clustering and Multisourcing, learning about the two tier and three tier architecture.
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This course is designed for clearing MicroStrategy Certified Developer exam. The entire course content is in line with the certification program and helps you clear the certification exam with ease and get the best jobs in top MNCs. As part of this training, you will be working on real-time projects and assignments that have immense implications in the real-world industry scenarios, thus helping you fast-track your career effortlessly.
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Course videos and training material are very detailed and easy to understand in this MicroStrategy certification course.
This course is designed for clearing MicroStrategy Certified Developer exam. At the end of the course, there will be a quiz and project assignments. Once you complete them, you will be awarded with the Intellipaat Course Completion Certificate. Intellipaat enjoys strong relationships with multiple staffing companies in the US and the UK and has 80+ clients across the globe. If you are looking out for exploring job opportunities, you can pass your resumes once you complete the course and we will help you with job assistance. We don't charge any extra fee for passing the resume to our partners and clients.
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