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Treeder forked the original Rack::Flash and patched its issues, see
https://github.com/treeder/rack-flash

However, when *not* using Sinatra, the code still won't work.
This patches that in the Patch_rack_builder_call branch.

[View the RDoc](http://gitrdoc.com/nakajima/rack-flash/tree/master).
Below is the original README.md
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# Rack Flash

    flash[:notice] = "You can stop rolling your own now."

Simple flash hash implementation for Rack apps.

[View the RDoc](http://gitrdoc.com/nakajima/rack-flash/tree/master).

## Usage

Here's how to use it.

### Install / add to Gemfile

    gem 'rack-flash3'

### Vanilla Rack apps

You can access flash entries via `env['x-rack.flash']`. You can treat it either
like a regular flash hash:

    env['x-rack.flash'][:notice] = 'You have logged out.'

Or you can pass the `:accessorize` option to declare your flash types. Each of
these will have accessors defined on the flash object:

    use Rack::Flash, :accessorize => [:notice, :error]

    # Set a flash entry
    env['x-rack.flash'].notice = 'You have logged out.'

    # Get a flash entry
    env['x-rack.flash'].notice # => 'You have logged out.'

    # Set a a flash entry for only the current request
    env['x-rack.flash'].notice! 'You have logged out.'

Sample rack app:

    get = proc { |env|
      [200, {},
        env['x-rack.flash'].notice || 'No flash set. Try going to /set'
      ]
    }

    set = proc { |env|
      env['x-rack.flash'].notice = 'Hey, the flash was set!'
      [302, {'Location' => '/'},
        'You are being redirected.'
      ]
    }

    builder = Rack::Builder.new do
      use Rack::Session::Cookie
      use Rack::Flash, :accessorize => true

      map('/set') { run set }
      map('/')    { run get }
    end

    Rack::Handler::Mongrel.run builder, :Port => 9292

### Sinatra

If you're using Sinatra, you can use the flash hash just like in Rails:

    require 'sinatra/base'
    require 'rack-flash'

    class MyApp < Sinatra::Base
      enable :sessions
      use Rack::Flash

      post '/set-flash' do
        # Set a flash entry
        flash[:notice] = "Thanks for signing up!"

        # Get a flash entry
        flash[:notice] # => "Thanks for signing up!"

        # Set a flash entry for only the current request
        flash.now[:notice] = "Thanks for signing up!"
      end
    end

If you've got any ideas on how to simplify access to the flash hash for vanilla
Rack apps, let me know. It still feels a bit off to me.

## Sweeping stale entries

By default Rack::Flash has slightly different behavior than Rails in that it
doesn't delete entries until they are used. If you want entries to be cleared
even if they are not ever accessed, you can use the `:sweep` option:

    use Rack::Flash, :sweep => true

This will sweep stale flash entries, whether or not you actually use them.

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Empowering a New Wave
RE-TOOL 21: Art Preparation Skills Development Program Provides Arts Training for Professionals
by Ana Sekler (MA 2016)
Every Saturday and Sunday for seven weeks from September through November, a variety of professionals came together to learn how to frame and mat artwork, pack and crate art objects, and much more. The eight participants along with a peer mentor devoted their weekends to learn new skills as part of RE-TOOL 21, a program which seeks to provide opportunities for traditionally underrepresented groups, including women, immigrants, and people of color, for advanced arts education or training while working to make the industry more inclusive and accessible.
Through RE-TOOL 21, which is sponsored by a grant from the Joyce Foundation, SAIC is able to provide a free training program for professionals, teaching skills from framing and mounting artworks to handling, installing, and appraisals. Ife Williams, program coordinator, says that one of the goals of the program is to create a more inclusive, diversely representative, and accessible arts preparation field, disrupting the more traditional cycles of arts and culture.
"RE-TOOL 21 has the potential to not only provide an entry point for a new wave of arts technicians, it may prove to be a launch pad for future arts professionals who will go on to create new institutions and businesses that enhance our communities and attract new audiences," says Tracie D. Hall, director of the Joyce Foundation's Culture Program.
Many of the people and places they visit and learn from are part of the network of SAIC alums and faculty, like the Roger Brown Study Collection. "We had the pleasure of unpacking, writing condition reports, and reinstalling about 20 pieces of Roger Brown's (BFA 1968, MFA 1970) work that was on exhibit in New York, and that was a big deal," says Michael Ryan, lead instructor and adjunct professor in Arts Administration and Policy, who taught and developed the curriculum for the program.
The sessions are intensive and participants learn a range of new skills. "I want to be an independent curator, so I'm excited to learn the technical stuff, how to document artwork, and the logistical and legal side," says Alexis Villagomez, who works as a family day assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
For others, like Richton Thomas, a health plan advisor, the program is opening up new avenues. "I've never even thought about appraising art for insurance purposes…it's interesting because my work background is in insurance and financial services," he says.
In addition to the hands-on training and exposure to working professionals, participants receive a certificate of recognition, a stipend for their time and successful completion of the program, and support from RE-TOOL 21 staff to identify potential employment opportunities.
"Everyone has different experiences from their work background or creative practice, and we come together and help one another," says Thomas.
For more information, please visit saic.edu/retool.

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const GlassesListComponent = {
    bindings: {
        glasses: '<',
        onGlassesSelected: '&'
    },
    templateUrl: template,
    controller: class GlassesListComponent {
        constructor() {

        }
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};

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You are here: Home / Local / New Health Sciences Research Center to host growing biomedical engineering and premedical programs
January 16, 2020 by Sonja Michaels Leave a Comment
In spring 2020, construction will begin in the Olin Quad on Florida Tech's new Health Sciences Research Center, an $18 million facility to host growing biomedical engineering and premedical programs.
Design plans for the new Health Sciences Research Center that will be located in the Olin Engineering Quad.
Along with classrooms and labs for the biomedical engineering and pre-med programs, the 61,000-square-foot building will house a design center, two lecture halls, study lounges, graduate student work space, and a café, according to facilities operations.
The center will also host augmented and virtual reality tools, providing access to simulations like virtual dissection tables, according to the Florida Tech Newsroom.
Brett Twery, a senior from Orlando majoring in biomedical engineering, describes hearing the news of the new research building as "bittersweet."
"I'm glad to see that there is progress within my program towards bettering opportunities for biomedical engineers, however it's unfortunate that I will graduate by the time that the project is completed." Twery said.
Construction is expected to be completed in 2022, according to FLORIDA TODAY.
The Newsroom reported that the undergraduate biomedical engineering program will double in size to 300 students with the new facility, and the undergraduate pre-med program will increase enrollment by 100 students for a total of 250.
The anticipated increase in enrollment of between 250 and 350 students will not surpass previous high enrollment levels, according to facilities operations.
The field of biomedical engineering is expected to grow similarly to other occupations, by four percent from 2018 to 2028, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a median yearly pay in 2018 of $88,550.
According to U.S. News and World Report, the top-paid 25 percent of biomedical engineers made $114,930 in 2018, with the lowest-paid 25 percent making $67,830.
Specializations in the field include genetic engineering, biomedical electronics, and medical imaging. Genetic engineering uses biotechnology to directly alter the genetic makeup of an organism, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute. Medical imaging includes commonplace diagnostic tools such as MRI and ultrasound.
Facilities operations said in an emailed response that Florida Tech "seized the opportunity to refinance debt at historically low rates" which they say provided funds for center.
According to the Florida Tech Newsroom, the facility will be funded by the sale of educational facilities revenue bonds.
A revenue bond is a municipal bond backed by revenue that is generated by a certain project, facility, or other entity. The revenue from the project is used to repay investors, according to personal finance and business website The Balance.
This method of funding differs from other types of bonds, as the repayment comes solely from revenue, not from tax.
While some students like Twery may graduate before the building is completed, future students enrolled in biomedical and pre-med programs will have access to a multi-million dollar building centered around the technology and research of the two growing fields.
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The inaugural conference of the N.S.W. Pastures Protection Board officials was concluded in Sydney on Wednesday. Many matters of importance to pastoralists and stock-owners were dealt with during the session as reported under, their respective heads elsewhere in this issue.
A resolution was carried to the effect that the present system of paying an in-spector of stock a salary out of which he has to find his equipment and travelling expenses constituted a tax upon, the energetic officer, and was against the best interests of the working of the department. The conference expressed the opinion that the salary ought to be a net amount, and expenses allowed at so much per day while, away, from headquarters. Where an officer was employed solely as a rabbit inspector, his minimum salary ought to be £300 per year, with a forage allowance that would cover the wear and tear of equipment.
In view of the sacrifices made by two brother-officers, Messrs. Flood and McPherson—who had volunteered for active service abroad, it was decided to make them honorary members of the institute.
President, Mr. B. V. Dawson; vice-presidents, Messrs. C. Brooks and C. R. Brett; council, Messrs. C. Dargin (Sydney), F. W. Gavel (Dubbo), F. A. Lucas (Nyngan), W. J. Smith (Young), F. H. White (Orange), C. J. Woollet (Tamworth), F. J. O'Connor (Coonamble), L. A. Hickey (Yass), R. J. Spinks (Lismore), and G. C. Shaw (Nyngan).


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He Can Only Lose If It's Stolen
Trump rallies supporters in Rome, GA. Michael Tracey.
The election is finally upon us. The mainstream media repeatedly tells us it will be a landslide for Joe Biden. The MAGAsphere insists it will be a red wave.
It's very likely the blowout predictions will be wrong and a close election will be the result. We may not know the winner for several days. If Donald Trump wins, it's a victory for nationalism and the Dissident Right. If he loses, it's the opposite. That's why the Right must insist a loss is the result of a stolen election — and there's plenty of evidence to support this meme.
It's essential for the Right to fight over the election narrative, whatever the results. Cuckservatives and liberals both relish the idea of blaming a Trump loss on the president's implicit white nationalism. You can see the campaign consultants shouting now: "The only future for the GOP is to embrace diversity, racial justice, and mass immigration. White America is done." This happened the last time Republicans lost a presidential election in 2012, with the party producing an odious "autopsy report" that recommended amnesty and "inclusive language" for the party to survive.
This would be silly to do because the election centers on the coronavirus and not immigration. Immigration, unfortunately, is not a central issue of this campaign. In fact, the areas where Trump most differed from the party establishment (immigration, foreign policy, trade) haven't garnered much attention. If Trump loses, the most obvious culprit would be COVID's devastation. Bad economies and social turmoil usually hurt incumbents.
If Trump wins, the cuckservatives and liberals will attribute the win to everything but his semi-nationalist agenda. That narrative is easier to debunk than the ones elevated after a defeat.
But we shouldn't just shrug our shoulders and blame a loss all on COVID. That explanation fails to account for how our present system works against the historic American people. The powers that be–ranging from the FBI to the mainstream media to Facebook — colluded to stop Trump from winning the election. For years, establishment politicians — with the full support of corporate America — flooded this country with foreigners to stifle the founding stock's resistance. People who have no love for the country, its history, or its traditions now decide who's president. They shouldn't even be here, yet they hold the reins.
You can buy It's Okay to Be White: The Best of Greg Johnson here.
The best answer to why Trump would lose is that it was stolen. The people who made this country no longer have the power to resist their dispossession at the ballot box. Widespread censorship, deceptive news coverage, massive demographic change, political corruption, and good old fashioned voter fraud are all wielded together to achieve the desired result. This is not a model that deserves respect. It's a crooked, illegitimate process that occasionally allows mistakes to go through. See Donald Trump's first election.
But when mistakes happen, the other side cries foreign interference. Trump's fair and square victory was blamed on a handful of Russian memes and accurate reporting by WikiLeaks — all allegedly a part of a nefarious Vladimir Putin plot to steal our democracy. The Left never accepted Trump's win as legitimate, which gave their activism greater energy and justified more radical action. It would undermine their whole worldview if they acknowledged President Trump as the natural fruit of American democracy. Liberal democracy is the greatest system ever known to man, except when it puts nationalists in power. Then it's not democracy but "fascism" or "creeping authoritarianism" or some other buzzword to cope with unbearable results.
Liberal claims to be "pro-democracy" are hypocritical and insincere. They don't recognize democracy's results when it fails to go their way, as in the case of Trump, Brexit, Viktor Orban, and Poland's conservative government. "Liberal democracy" is only legitimate when they're in charge.
Unlike our enemies, we have actual examples of rigged elections and a biased process. We don't need to scream over a handful of Facebook memes or engage in Russophobic hysteria to prove something is rotten with our system. Take tech censorship, for instance. For years, Trump supporters have faced suspensions and bans for their content. It's gotten worse over the past few months, with the Trump campaign facing account locks, censored ads, deleted tweets, and obvious reach suppression. Big Tech fully committed itself to throttling the reach of the Hunter Biden laptop story, this year's WikiLeaks dumps. The scandal has reasonably proven the Biden family is corrupt, in bed with hostile foreign powers, and absolutely degenerate. But few normies know about this story due to tech suppression and media avoidance. When forced to acknowledge the story, the media claims it's just about Hunter's struggles with drug addiction. Most drug addicts don't tell Chinese power players to pay them to influence their dad, however.
This is just one of many examples of media disinformation to bamboozle voters. Outlets and politicians also blamed the summer riots on fantasy white supremacists and spread an asinine study that over 90% of the demonstrations were "peaceful." Elites did everything possible to assure voters that there is nothing wrong with blacks and Leftists burning down your city; what's really bad is migrant minors residing in cages and police shooting criminals. The media also did its part to blame Trump entirely for COVID's devastation and to terrify citizens into supporting mandatory lockdowns. These acts both hurt our country and the president's polling.
Liberal officials are openly plotting to ensure the election reaches the desired result. Pennsylvania's Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro effectively called the state for Biden on Halloween, saying, "If all the votes are added up in PA, Trump is going to lose." Philadelphia's Democratic mayor says his city will take "several days" to count its ballots, a suspicious move for a city with a long record of voter fraud. Other states are fighting to get dubious mail-in ballots counted and engaging in odious vote harvesting. Tech companies are also prepared to censor anyone who calls the election for Trump on Tuesday night — the same standard doesn't apply to pro-Biden prognosticators.
The Democrats are fully prepared to not accept the election results if Trump wins. Hillary Clinton and other leaders have urged Biden to never concede and to fight it out in court. Government workers are plotting an effective coup against Trump if he doesn't leave the White House. Liberals are already claiming "mail delays" and other excuses to make sure they get the preferred outcome. Even after all this occurs, they still won't accept that Trump won the election fair and square. The Left still hasn't accepted Trump's 2016 win, which was blamed on Russian interference. They will find some new culprit to blame in 2020.
Our democracy fails to represent white interests and actively works against the people who made this country great. In contrast to liberals who say democracy is only achieved when the government supports globalism, we say that democracy is only realized when it represents the historic American nation.
To accept a loss confers legitimacy to our dispossession. Challenging a loss further delegitimizes the system in the eyes of white America. We need ordinary Trump supporters to see the institutions as hostile appendages on the national body and start to seriously consider alternatives. This can be accomplished through the stolen election meme.
Our ideas are bigger than Trump and our struggle will continue whatever the election results. It would obviously be better if the president wins, but if he loses, the Dissident Right must be prepared to see the election for what it is. There is nothing to be gained by pretending democracy "worked" in defeating the will of the historic American people.
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Afterthought says:
Win or lose the answer was and is Partition.
We could have done better over the last 4 years, we need to do a lot better over the next 4.
Le Fauconnier says:
"As far as we look in the history of the cities, kingdoms and nations of Europe, the military spirit, in its masculine structure, has been the living heart closely associated with sovereignty. Most of those who revolted, of all social categories, men and women, yes, women too, had in common, often by family tradition, a quasi-liturgical attachment to the content of the military order. Not for the army of their time which, in many ways, was unfensible, but for what the spirit and authentic military formation bring to civil society: austerity, self-denial, mastery of feelings, submission to duty. Manly, inherently anti-utilitarian and anti-bourgeois arrangements, even when they are honored, which is common, by socially belonging families of the bourgeoisie. They were all that remained of the ancient human frame which, for more than three thousand years, had made Europe what it had been. »
The Rebel Heart, Les Belles Lettres, 1994, reissue Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2014
SRP says:
"…the historic American nation."
The nation between 1787 and 1861. Everything post-Lincoln is ersatz and unworthy of our allegiance.
Online Samizdating says:
Here's how this plays out. To stop racist populism and save the empire, democracy must go. There needs to be an HR department instead of an electoral college as a check against democracy, and we can't let yesterday's judges decide our future. Electoral college is gone after this so the cities get to vet the emperor, courts packed to keep it so. Trump administration becomes new Holocaust legend for the rising electorate to keep them in fear of the orange man times, when you could be deported just for being a person of color and women were prevented from having it their way. Oh and as for the specifics, the large covid-unemployed population is incited to riot for two months until Biden is inaugurated and then all of a sudden federal forces will be allowed to pacify those 'Democrat cities.'
Bernie says:
Here is what Instauration wrote in the wake of the 1992 elections:
"The great "if" of the American future is whether the Majority will ever coalesce into a single voting bloc and, if it does, will it do so before minority immigration and high minority birthrates and Majority low birthrates transform the Majority into a minority? If the Majority waits too long, the day will come when it will always be outvoted, even if it operates as a single voting' group. And that day wiII be the day the U.S. becomes the Brazil of North America."
Prescient


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Patan Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It is a segment of the Jabalpur (Lok Sabha constituency) and is in Jabalpur district. After the last delimitation in 2007, the constituency comprises the Majholi and Patan tehsils of Jabalpur district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2018

See also
 List of constituencies of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
 Jabalpur district

References

Assembly constituencies of Madhya Pradesh
Jabalpur district

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Science is a method of how to investigate the world.
The scientists work according to scientific rules. Those who work according to those rules are those that can be called scientists, whether they have an academic degree or not. What is not so often realized is that you can have degree and anyway not work scientifically. And you can lack a degree and anyway work scientifically.
You get an idea how things can be connected and explain some phenomenon. You form a test to try to confirm it. If it's already a "good" idea, or after the first confirming test you can call it a hypothesis. You go on with other tests to confirm or reject the hypothesis. The hypothesis can then be so well grounded that you can call it a theory.
A scientific theory is a well-functioning model, which explains a natural phenomenon. A scientific theory is not rejected because it does not "envision it", it is rejected only on experimental grounds. We say that the natural sciences are empirical, ie. They must work in experimental situations.
Falsible. Ie It must be possible to find experiments that contradict the theory if it is incorrect.
Predictive, ie Results can be predicted, which is called prediction. It should be possible to make predictions about the future based on it.
The scientific method only works with what can be observed in the natural world. It though doesn't say other objects can't exist.
Many scientists today embrace the philosophy of naturalism, which is not science. According to naturalism cosmos consists only of objects studied by the natural sciences, and does not include any immaterial or intentional realities.
The scientific method does not take any stand if there are any additional ways than the scientific method to obtain knowledge.
The philosophy naturalism says that the reality can not involve any immaterial or intentional realities, for example a creator outside the world.
Scientism is another philosophy that goes one step further and says there are no other ways to obtain knowledge than through the scientific method.
What is often forgotten is that according to the scientific method, the answers that you get are dependent on knowledge of today, what you have perceived about the world so far and how your tests are designed with these facts as a base. So the answers we get today are not 100 % truth, they are the most probable truth depending on what we know today. When knowledge increase, the most probable truth may change to something else.
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Yes. Knowledge against science. Or scientific theories. That's why wise scientists refuse to answer to the question: "Is it possible to have working apiary without treatments?". Because sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. And scientia still doesn't know the key circumstances of the success or failure.
So, we can say that most we know about living beings is still just knowledge, but not the real scientific knowledge. We know better, what will happen, when we strongly interfere in natural process (like feeding, treating, inseminating etc.) eliminating lots of key factors, but in fact we don't know, what WILL happen without our interference.
Lack of data in my humble opinion.
Thank You for Your work, Erik.
Thanks for your input Krzysztof!
It makes me inspired to do the following comment.
An expression often used is "science and proven experience". Knowledge is always imperfect, dependant as it is on previous knowledge, which is also imperfect. That's why science says "this is true, as far as we know today". The science knowledge is coming from following the scientific rules in making tests and discussing the results, often with statistics.
"Proven experience" is knowledge obtained through other means than scientific tests, often during many years getting the same results when doing things the same way. Is it false knowledge or bad knowledge? Of course not. That's why it's used by scientists, and used as well.
If the advice would be to do nothing until you had scientific tests confirming methods or descriptions, not much would be done. It's not much confirmed by science what we do every day in life. And yes, many things we do are kind of wrong. And even advices we follow from scientists sometimes change radically after a number of years when they and we know better. Also so with proven experience.
When it comes to scientific tests, after some time we may realise that tests done are designed with lack of knowledge concerning some important facts. If these had been known the tests had been designed differently and results had maybe been different.
Sadly, sometimes also scientists (as all other types of people) have been revealed to cheat. (Why do people cheat?) One way of doing that is to consciously design a test so that you most probably woun't get a statistically significant result. With bees and varroa tests you just keep what you call control colonies and test colonies enough close to each other and let the mite populations raise high enough.
so may I ask, why you deleted my critical post regarding "Resistant bees in Wales"?!
The presented table within that article is full of statistical error.
Thus your own site is containing pseudoscience too – and you were told so.
the missing posting is online now.
You touched several times this topic in earlier blogs, from different perspectives. This is good because necessary.
Normally beekeepers are thought to work not scientifically and learnings are discussed more anecdotally. In contrast scientist are trained to ask clear hypothesis, conduct precise experiments (i.e. only one factor – the one that is investigated – is changed, statistic is OK and the result is confirmed at least a second time.) Hence, it is clear that the scientific approach is preferable to solve important questions, however, cannot always be followed up, as the effort is clearly higher and for simple topics often to overblown.
Anyway, I very much like your sentence, that there are beekeepers that work scientifically and are no scientists and scientists (or better people with a degree) that do not work scientifically.
I personally have the feeling that the "commercialisation" of science becomes bigger and bigger and as a consequence, scientific topics are more and more biased. As an example bee health research is too much focused on varroa research and equivalently on the effect of pesticides. When directly asked why varroa research dominated that much over the research on pesticides Prof. Bienefeld answered in the german beekeepers journal: Because the legislator don't want that. Even worse, scientists are paid to publish wrong results, when this fits to the needs of big companies (e.g. Monsanto or Syngenta) or even heavily attacked if they publish results that do not fit to the marketing stories of huge companies. In my eyes this should be mentioned as well, when talking about this topic.
On the other hand a lot of beekeepers like D. Lusby, M. Bush and K. Webster in the US and you Erik and some others in Europe contributed significantly to the varroa resistance progress and demonstrated that beekeeping is possible without treatment in a scientifically manner. It is important to understand that varroa is a simple threat to bees, that can be overcome by right management and selection system.
These principles have been addressed and are regularly discussed eg. in your blogs.
As said above probably because too many scientists get not funded anymore, if they would contribute too successful to resistance research or in case the blame pesticides too much, we have the situation that we have right now. The example you gave in your March blog – the beekeeper C. Baldwin works since years treatment free, but he feels blacklisted as no scientist is interested in what he is doing in particular.
This is a weird situation. However, as framework will not change in short term this will go on and may even get worse.
BTW, Erik did you know Maja Lunde? I have read her nice nook recently: "The story of bees".
Neither Dee Lusby nor Michael Bush nor Kirk Webster nor Paul Jungels follow a scientific approach at all!
I'm tempted to say: Not even one of the well-known treatment-free beekeeper-gurus does.


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Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk: 'If AJ puts a sustained combination on anyone, he goes through them'
"If Anthony Joshua gets a sustained combination on anyone in the world, boxer or not, possibly even animal or tree, he's goes through them"; Frazer Clarke gives his insider's view on Oleksandr Usyk rematch
Stephen OluwatosinAugust 8, 2022
Anthony Joshua could deliver Britain's greatest night of heavyweight boxing against Oleksandr Usyk, and, in his own words, GB Olympic captain Frazer Clarke explains why.
I've been around most of the sparring sessions that took place in the UK.
I am just a fighter in the gym but I have that sort of captain personality where I want to see everyone in the gym doing well. So there have been times where I've asked the coaches if it's alright if I share my opinion and I've said the odd word here and there.
Clarke and boxing trainer Gary Logan analyse what Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk need to do ahead of their fight on Sky Sports Box Office
I think the one thing you're looking for from a fighter which you always want is dedication and will towards the cause. I think Joshua went to Loughborough 12 weeks before going to Jeddah, possibly 14. Loughborough is a lovely place but there's not much to do. He didn't go back to London and I think that in itself is a statement of intent. He took himself away for that long. That's a long time for a camp. That's mentally hard, physically difficult.
In a six-week camp there are ups and downs so you can imagine what it's like in a 14, 16, 18-week camp as such. There have been good days, there have been bad days, there have been ups and down. If you can get more good days than bad days, you're on the right track.
The team he's employed is good for the fight. You've got the youthfulness of Angel Fernandez, the enthusiasm of Angel Fernandez and the expertise of Angel Fernandez with the experience of Robert Garcia. He's been in many championship fights.
Good sparring – not exact sparring because trying to replicate Oleksandr Usyk is near enough impossible. You've good fighters but there's not many people with that quality. You can't find experience like he's got. They've good fighters in, chopping and changing different people. They've done a fantastic job, I think.
He's under no illusions. He's going to have to be the best he's ever been to beat Usyk. I think he's going to have to be better than he's ever been. Better than the Wladimir Klitschko night. I feel like he has to be Klitschko-esque. That night there were ups and downs and he had to come back. He might just have to do that.
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He's got every chance. From what I've seen him put in on a daily and a weekly basis, he's given himself every chance and that's all you can ask from a fighter in a camp. If you give everything you've got to give, with the experience and the skill he's already got, he's given himself every chance.
There's a lot of people out there talking about Usyk being so good and this and that. He is very good. There's no doubt. He's a great fighter. But he's a human. If AJ hits him on the chin more than once, he's only human, he goes down, he probably doesn't get back up.
If Joshua gets a sustained combination on anyone in the world, boxer or not a boxer, possibly even animal or tree, he goes through them.
Clarke has seen Joshua's intense focus and dedication for this rematch
I've sparred hundreds of rounds with him. I think of this thing of 'he's gun shy' – he wasn't gun shy when I've seen him in sparring, believe me.
I feel like he's a nice guy. I think someone had to pull the bad guy out of him. I think Robert Garcia was good to do that. He pulled out the not give a [stuff] about anyone apart from winning this fight. He's brought it out of him.
This could be Britain's greatest night of heavyweight boxing. I feel like everyone's putting him as a massive underdog and he might just get outboxed for 12 rounds. But you'd be daft to bet again him.
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In my daily readings I come across posts that grab me for this reason or that.
Today is the day I share them with you!
Reading anything from the Gypsy Mama (aka Lisa-Jo) is like having a giant brownie sundae, it makes you happy and you feel a little bit like licking the bowl afterward to get every last taste. One of the highlights of my day is checking out her blog because she has such a way about her.
Born in South Africa, Lisa-Jo has lived on three continents over the last 12 years. She says she and her husband gypsy their way around the globe. She currently lives in the US where she is raising their two boys and is the Community Manager for (In)Courage – another one of my favorite sites.
What I love is the perspective that Lisa-Jo chooses to have from this point forward. Check out her blog post, because I could never say it as beautifully as she does.
I can't remember how I first met Melissa Runcie, but I'm so glad I did. She and I discovered that we live very close to one another and we're hoping to one day be able to get together over a cup of Starbucks.
The thing I love about Melissa's blog is how she combines her faith with art. Her website, Madabella, is a combination of her daughters' names and her love for her daughters is evident throughout her site.
The post she wrote yesterday about her daughters is definitely one of my favorites from this week, because it was one of the ones I needed to hear the most. There are moments as parents when we can choose to react to our children in our flesh or in a godly manner. Unfortunately I am finding that lately my fleshly response is coming out more than it should.
Melissa writes about an instance in her life where she was the one who got In Trouble, from God through her daughter. It touched on an issue in my own heart that God has been putting pressure on.
I got in trouble, from God through Melissa. It was ok, I needed it.
Carlos Whittaker is a musician, pastor, creative, speaker, blogger, and his tweets are always interesting. That's actually how I first discovered him, on Twitter. I had no idea about the other things.
Now that's an interesting title.
I follow a lot of people's blogs and tweets who have had affairs and God has restored their marriage. I was intrigued by these stories because growing up I'd thought that if someone cheated that meant the relationship was automatically over.
When I read Carlos' post I really appreciated what he had to say. He pointed out that there are tons of people writing about what you shouldn't do in marriage, but the one's who have been able to maintain a healthy, committed relationship are pretty silent.
I've never had much of a testimony, in my mind, because I grew up in the church and wasn't "saved" from anything. I was a goodie two-shoes. I felt like my testimony was boring compared to others.
So those are my favorites from this week…I'd love to know what posts you read (or wrote) that I might have missed this week!
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I totally love me some Madabella and Los…and of course some Lisa-Jo :) love your picks for this week.
Thanks Jenny! I saw that you commented on Loswhit's post. It's so weird to see other people I know comment on other blogs. I always wanna say, "Hey! I know you!" haha!
Haha! Of course. I really liked what Carlos had to say. And you had a great list yourself today. Everyone should check it out (click on his name).
Great picks! I need to check out Madabella!
I respond in posts without answering the question all the time. The real purpose is conversation, not interviews. :) Thanks for working with the Spirit to bring about such a great post! :) Can't wait till my schedule calms down some and we can make a date. Haha!
Thank you so much for sharing some of your favorite blogs from last week! :) I clicked on your recomendation of Melissa's 'In Trouble' post and it SO hit home with me too! God is working in me on this and I am so looking forward to her posts this week on the topic of Anger. LOVE your blog and now I have another favorite!!
yes! I read it..amazing! I am going to print out the language of grace 'one liners' at the end of her post and hang it on my fridge!! :) My favorite being…"Grace responds. Not reacts." Can't wait for tommorrow's post!


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The Dangers in Our Food Supply Are Worse Than You Think
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Food-borne illnesses are escalating in the United States, and it's not because of a few unwashed spinach leaves. Foul conditions, lax regulations, and too few inspectors are threatening our safety.
All his life, Paul Schwarz had been active and healthy. When his family imagined the various ways that the decorated veteran of World War II might eventually die, they never imagined that the cause would be a piece of cantaloupe.
On Tuesday, September 13, 2011, Schwarz, 92, complained to his daughter Janice of abdominal pains and a slight fever. She took him to his doctor, who said it was likely the stomach flu. By Thursday, the symptoms had worsened, and Schwarz had developed diarrhea. Janice took him to the ER. Again, flu was the diagnosis, and he was sent home. For a few days, he improved. He called his son, also named Paul, that Sunday and cheerfully assured him that he'd eaten a big breakfast and felt a lot better.
But on Monday morning, the younger Paul received an urgent phone call. His father, unable to move his legs, had been rushed to the hospital. In the coming weeks, Schwarz's behavior grew erratic, and he began thrashing in his bed and behaving like a drunk. Within a month, he no longer recognized his son. On December 18, he passed away.
By then, the doctors had determined that he was suffering from invasive listeriosis, an infection caused by Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium transmitted by eating contaminated meat, dairy products, or produce. The pathogen can lead to bacterial meningitis, an infection of the covering of the brain and spinal cord, which may cause headaches, confusion, and convulsions. It kills about one in six of those infected. Children, the elderly, people with depressed immune systems, and pregnant women are most vulnerable. Schwarz had contracted listeriosis from eating contaminated cantaloupe in a fruit bowl he'd ordered at a restaurant that he visited after Mass each week.
Schwarz was but one of more than 100 patients suffering similar symptoms at the same time in 28 states. Eventually, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would attribute 147 illnesses, 37 deaths, and one miscarriage to the listeria, making it the most lethal outbreak of food-borne illness in the United States since 1924. While the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversees food safety for most meat and poultry products, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is charged with keeping the rest of our food supply safe. And for the Schwarz family, the FDA had clearly dropped the ball.
The 2011 listeria outbreak was not an isolated case. The United States is experiencing what amounts to an epidemic of food-borne illnesses. According to the CDC, there are about 48 million cases of food poisoning a year, leading to more than 128,000 hospitalizations and more than 3,000 deaths. E. coli in spinach and fruit juice, salmonella in eggs and jalapeño peppers, listeria in cheese and bagged lettuce: The toll from food-borne bacteria is mind-numbing.
Lucas Zarebinski for Reader's DigestWith the exception of E. coli infections, the rate of outbreaks from other pathogens tracked by the CDC rose from 2007 to 2011. The decline in E. coli–related illnesses is in part the result of strong actions taken by the USDA. Following an outbreak caused by tainted hamburger that killed four children in 1993, the agency declared E. coli 0157:H7, the strain that sickened the children, an adulterant, making it illegal for companies under USDA jurisdiction to sell food contaminated with the bacterium. But potentially fatal bacteria other than E. coli have yet to be declared adulterants.
It would be truly impossible for any government agency to prevent every case of food poisoning in our country. But in report after report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has uncovered woeful shortcomings within the FDA. Its product-recall process is ineffective and confusing. It has done a poor job of dealing with the overuse of antibiotics in livestock feed. It lacks the scientific capacity to perform its duties. Even when it uncovers health violations at food-processing plants, the FDA takes enforcement action in about half of the cases and almost never imposes fines, making it logical for corporations to risk making people ill, since the worst they can expect is a warning letter.
By the time doctors diagnosed Schwarz with listeriosis, the FDA had zeroed in on the source of the contaminant—a farm in Colorado owned by brothers Eric and Ryan Jensen. Inspectors descended on Jensen Farms three times during September 2011. Conditions could hardly have been more favorable for listeria, which thrives in moist areas. There was no system for precooling the picked cantaloupes; this allowed condensation to form on their rinds as they were refrigerated. Water stood in puddles on the floor. The washing and drying machinery was rigged in a way that made it all but impossible to clean, so corrosion, dirt, and "product buildup" remained even after the machinery supposedly had been sanitized. Finally, Jensen washed its fruits in only water, using no chlorine or other antimicrobial solution that might have killed the listeria.
Jensen issued a recall on September 14, but the damage had been done. On October 18, more than a month after its initial investigations, the FDA issued a warning letter to the company (which eventually filed for bankruptcy). If there ever was an example of too little too late, this was it.
Until people started dropping dead, the Jensen facility had never once in its 20-year history been inspected by the FDA, even though the agency considers fresh produce to be "high risk" and a priority for inspection. Like most produce companies, Jensen used third-party auditors to certify its handling systems. On July 25, at about the same time the first people were sickened by contaminated cantaloupe, one auditor visited Jensen for four hours and blessed the plant with a "superior" rating of 96 percent.
Lucas Zarebinski for Reader's DigestThe FDA often seems to adopt a "see no evil" approach to potential problems. In 2010, eggs from two Iowa-based companies, Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg, sickened almost 2,000 people in 11 states with salmonella, a bacterium that can produce fever, stomach cramps, and diarrhea and can result in death. The outbreak led to the recall of 170 million eggs, the largest such recall in American history. When FDA inspectors visited Wright County Egg, owned by Austin DeCoster, in August 2010 after determining that its products were partly responsible for the outbreak, they found barns infested with mice, flies, and maggots. Manure pits were leaking. In some areas, manure was piled eight feet high. Hens used the heaps as ramps to access laying boxes. Wild birds, which are potential carriers of salmonella, fluttered about. The barns were littered with dead, decaying chickens.
What's shocking is that farms owned by DeCoster were involved in an outbreak that occurred in the Northeast in 1987. The contamination that sickened 500 and killed nine was caused by eggs from farms owned by DeCoster. In the early 1990s, Maryland regulators banned the sale of DeCoster eggs in the state after they were found to be contaminated with salmonella. The company had so many environmental and safety violations that Iowa declared it a "habitual" offender. Despite the red flags, the FDA did not inspect DeCoster's Iowa barns until after the 2010 outbreak. And when FDA inspectors discovered "serious deviations" from food-safety laws, the agency's punishment consisted of a warning letter saying that failure to initiate prompt "corrective actions" could lead to "regulatory action being taken." In November, one month after the letter was mailed, the FDA allowed DeCoster to resume selling fresh eggs.
Following a 2007 salmonella outbreak in which 425 people in 44 states were sickened by peanut butter produced by ConAgra and sold under the Peter Pan and Great Value brands, the FDA intensified its inspection activity at peanut-processing facilities. Unfortunately, the agency missed a plant owned by the Peanut Corporation of America in Blakely, Georgia. It was a deadly omission. In 2008 and 2009, products from that plant sickened 714 people in 46 states and Canada and killed nine. When they did arrive, FDA inspectors found mold on the walls and processing equipment covered in slime.
Investigators for a congressional committee turned up something even more worrisome: internal e-mails indicating that Peanut Corporation's owner, Stewart Parnell, not only knew about the salmonella at his plant but also ordered products that had tested positive for the bacterium to be shipped. "Turn them loose," Parnell wrote in one message to a plant manager. He added that results showing contamination would cost the company "huge $$$$$." In a rare instance of prosecutorial vigor, the FDA, which lacks authority to file criminal charges on its own, teamed up with the Justice Department to pursue a case, yet four years passed before charges were filed. (Parnell has pleaded not guilty.) In the meantime, the lawsuit-besieged Peanut Corporation filed for bankruptcy. "I have never seen a clearer case that demanded criminal prosecution," says William Marler, a Seattle-based attorney who has represented food-poisoning victims in court for 20 years.
Marler says that during the past 20 years, the FDA has only twice succeeded in pursuing a significant criminal case. In 1998, for example, Odwalla, a fruit-juice bottler based in California, pleaded guilty to 16 misdemeanor charges and agreed to pay fines totaling $1.5 million—hardly an onerous penalty, given that the company's E. coli–tainted apple juice killed a Colorado toddler. Three years later, Odwalla's owners sold out to Coca-Cola for $181 million.
The FDA's responsibilities also include inspecting seafood sold in the United States. Eighty-four percent of it is now imported, and half of the imports are from Asia. Fish farmers there produce huge volumes of shrimp, catfish, and tilapia in grossly polluted and overcrowded ponds, thanks to antibiotics and fungicides banned in the United States because they can cause antibiotic resistance or spark allergic reactions when consumed by humans or because they are carcinogens. The FDA is charged with keeping drug-tainted fish out of our food supply, but according to a 2011 GAO report, the agency is hardly trying: The FDA tested only one out of 1,000 imported seafood products—or 0.1 percent—for 16 chemicals. By contrast, Canada tests 50 out of every 1,000 products for over 40 chemicals; Japan tests 110 out of every 1,000 for 57.
This lack of oversight not only leaves the American public vulnerable but also threatens our once-thriving catfish industry. Bill Battle, until recently the president of the Catfish Farmers of America, has had to sell over 1,000 of his 3,000 acres in recent years. The problem: competition from cheaper, Asia-raised fish. Battle doesn't begrudge foreign farmers the advantages of warmer weather and cheaper labor, but he strongly objects to their being allowed to sell fish raised with the help of chemicals banned here. "I wouldn't be cutting back hours, selling land, or draining ponds if the FDA had done its job," he says.
The state of Alabama became so frustrated with the FDA that it initiated its own testing program for imported seafood. Of the 258 samples tested between 2002 and 2010, nearly half were positive for banned drugs, according to Lance Hester, director of the food safety section of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries. American producers eventually lobbied to have jurisdiction over the inspection of both imported and domestic catfish moved from the FDA to the USDA, which has a more robust inspection system. Although the 2014 Farm Bill reauthorized this change, opponents in Congress still seek its appeal. Battle suspects that critics are reluctant to disrupt trade and diplomatic relations with Vietnam, which supplies more than three fourths of the catfish imported into the United States. "I guess politics trumps food safety," he says. "Apparently, we are going to let [Asian fish] come here and possibly kill people—and certainly kill the industry."
If there is an enforcement arm for food safety in the United States, it's trial lawyers like Marler, an intense workaholic who estimates that his firm, Marler Clark, has won more than $600 million for clients since he filed his first lawsuits in the early 1990s. As he sees it, the FDA is being slowly starved of the resources and manpower required to fulfill its mandate. In the 1970s, the agency conducted 35,000 inspections of food-processing plants each year. Today, it inspects fewer than 8,000, although the number of facilities under its jurisdiction has skyrocketed.
Recognizing that business-as-usual was failing, the FDA began drawing up a proposal to improve its performance following a series of outbreaks from 2006 through 2008, according to David Acheson, MD, the former associate commissioner at the agency and now a food-industry consultant. Dr. Acheson says that the agency has a "huge problem with a lack of personnel and resources in general, which is a direct consequence of a lack of money." The FDA employs about 1,000 food inspectors, who cover 421,000 facilities. The USDA has about 7,000 inspectors for about 7,000 facilities, and a USDA inspector is present at every operating slaughterhouse or poultry processor. "If you look at the enormous number of places that are growing, processing, manufacturing, holding, distributing, or selling food versus the number of inspectors at the FDA, inspections are not going to happen very often," Dr. Acheson says. "This can lead to a get-away-with-it mentality." He adds that the agency "carries a very small stick" with which to punish violators, although this may be changing.
In 2007, Dr. Acheson and a group of agency associates drew up a plan to radically realign the FDA's efforts. It would shift the agency's focus from responding to outbreaks to preventing them. It called for the creation of clear standards and for training food-industry personnel on how to meet them. Inspection would play a part, but site visits would be targeted, with frequency based on the risks of a product's poisoning people. "Some products, like bananas (because the fruit is in a protective skin), are inherently safe," Dr. Acheson says. "Products like lettuce, spinach, and tomatoes, which are right out of the fields, are less safe. Some places you need to visit regularly, others every five years and you'd be fine." The plan would also speed up and streamline the response to outbreaks.
This plan became the basis for the Food Safety Modernization Act, which passed in early 2011 but has yet to take effect. The act gives the FDA new authority, including the power to revoke the registration of a company and prevent it from selling its products. Dr. Acheson says that sterner civil penalties and higher fines in early drafts were stripped out by legislators.
Maybe the plague of food-borne illness in this country has not yet affected the right people needed to force real change in the system. "It's mind-boggling," says Paul Schwarz Jr. of his father's experience with listeria. "After all my dad gave for this country, the government was not there for him when he needed it. I keep asking, Why did it happen to him? To us? The answer is that you never know when it will happen to someone close to you. Nothing is perfect in life, but you can try to do the best you can, and we're not doing that. Maybe it will take a congressman losing a loved one before food safety gets the attention it deserves."
Update: In September 2013, Eric and Ryan Jensen—co-owners of Jensen Farms, which supplied the tainted cantaloupe—were charged by federal authorities with introducing adulterated foods into interstate commerce. Both men pleaded guilty, but their attorneys said that did not imply intentional wrongdoing or knowledge that the fruit was contaminated. In January, the Jensens were sentenced to five years' probation. Paul Schwarz Jr. said while he does not agree with the sentence, he accepts it.
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John D. Copenhaver Jr. column: A Christian case for abolition of the death penalty
by Brenda Capen | Feb 2, 2021 | Church and Society, News, Op/Ed
Legislators in the General Assembly soon will be voting on a measure to abolish the death penalty in Virginia. Support for the death penalty has been waning but it still is strong among Christians. White Protestants are the strongest supporters of the death penalty.
As an opponent of the death penalty, this concerns me because more than 70% of our representatives fit this demographic. I hope to persuade readers that abolition is more consistent with Christian moral reasoning.
I often have heard Christians cite Genesis 9:6 in support of the death penalty. It reads, "Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person's blood be shed." That text would lead readers to believe that the Bible unambiguously demands the death penalty for murder, and that Christians should support the death penalty.
I want to correct this false impression and to explain why many Christian denominations (United Methodist, Episcopal, Evangelical Lutheran Church, American Baptist, Church of the Brethren, Presbyterian Church USA, United Church of Christ, and Roman Catholic) oppose the death penalty.
There are many notable examples in the Bible where the death penalty was not administered. Cain murdered Abel, and God did not kill him — but only made him a wanderer and a fugitive.
Ironically, the mark God put on his forehead was meant to protect him from execution. Moses murdered an Egyptian taskmaster but God used him to free God's people. King David committed adultery with Bathsheba and then murdered Uriah, both capital offenses, but when Nathan the prophet delivered God's judgment, it did not include execution.
The law demanded capital punishment for the woman caught in the act of adultery, but Jesus reminded her accusers of their own sins and he had mercy on her. These are not minor Biblical characters; these are key figures in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. So, though a Biblical case can be made for the death penalty, I believe the case against it is stronger.
These denominations also believe it to be unjust. Space will not allow me to fully develop this argument but I will present it in outline:
1) It is unjust because death sentences almost are entirely reserved for the poor. Most of those facing capital charges cannot afford their own attorney and often are poorly represented.
2) The death penalty is unjust because there is ample evidence the death penalty is applied in a racist manner. In 1990, the U.S. General Accounting Office reported "a pattern of evidence indicating racial disparity in charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty."
3) The death penalty is unjust because it is likely that innocent people are being executed. There is no way to tell how many of the 1,532 people executed since the restoration of the death penalty in 1976 were innocent, but the Death Penalty Information Center reports 170 people convicted of capital offenses and sentenced to death have been exonerated by later evidence.
But these aren't the main reasons many Christians oppose the death penalty. Our key reasons are theological. God made humans in the image of God. Human life is sacred: All of us share in God's image, even those with character defects and moral failings. Jesus even calls us to love our enemies because they, too, are created in the image of God.
George Bernard Shaw put it well: "It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites which cancel each other out, but similars that breed their kind."
There is no evidence that capital punishment deters murder; in fact, murder rates are lower in states that have abolished capital punishment.
We do not show respect for human life by taking the life of the murderer — rather in doing so, we cheapen it. Let us break the cycle of violence. As the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Violence is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to eradicate."
John D. Copenhaver Jr., Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of religion and philosophy at Shenandoah University.


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Pope Paul VI is pictured in this undated photo. Pope Paul, who served as pope from 1963-1978, was declared blessed by Pope Francis Oct. 19, 2014. He is most remembered for his 1968 encyclical, "Humanae Vitae," which affirmed the church's teaching against artificial contraception. (CNS photo/Giancarlo Giuliani, Catholic Press Photo)
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This coming July, we will mark the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's deeply controversial encyclical letter Humanae vitae. I won't bore you with the details of the innumerable battles, disagreements, and ecclesial crises that followed upon this text. Suffice it to say that this short, pithily argued letter became a watershed in the post-conciliar Catholic Church and one of the most significant points of contention between liberals and conservatives. Its fundamental contention is that the moral integrity of the sexual act is a function of the coming together of its "procreative and unitive" dimensions. That is to say, sexual intercourse is ethically upright only in the measure that it is expressive of love between married partners and remains open to the conception of a child. When, through a conscious choice, the partners introduce an artificial block to procreation—when, in a word, they separate the unitive and procreative finalities of the sexual act—they do something which is contrary to God's will.
Again, within the context of this brief article I won't detail the arguments for and against this position. But I would like to draw particular attention to a remarkable passage in Humanae vitae, namely section 17, in which Paul VI plays the prophet and lays out, clearly and succinctly, what he foresees as consequences of turning away from the Church's classic teaching on sex. Though he is convinced that artificial contraception is morally bad in itself, he's also persuaded that it would, in the long run, adversely affect general societal attitudes regarding sex. Here is a first observation: "Let them consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law."
Does anyone doubt that, in the last fifty years, we have seen a profound attenuation of marital fidelity? Could anyone possibly contest that the last half century has witnessed a significant breakdown of the institution of marriage? Is anyone so blind as not to see that during the last five decades "a lowering of moral standards" has taken place?
To be sure, there are multiple causes of these declines, and certainly not all the blame can be ascribed to artificial contraception. However, Paul VI was intuiting something of great moment, namely, that once we commenced to redefine the nature of the sexual act, we placed ourselves on a very steep and slippery slope toward a complete voluntarism, whereby we utterly determine the meaning of sexuality, of marriage, and even of gender. And the rapid rise in pornography use, the sexual exploitation of children, and human trafficking are functions of this same arbitrariness. What was only vaguely envisioned and feared fifty years ago is now accepted more or less as a matter of course.
In that same section, Paul VI continues to prophesy: "Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection."
In the post-Weinstein era, we hear practically every day of another celebrity who has treated women with disrespect, turning them indeed into objects for his own use and manipulation. The entire society is rightly outraged at this behavior, but precious few cultural commentators have noted the link between this kind of objectification and the conscious disassociation of the twin ends of the sexual act. When we are permitted casually to separate love from procreation—or as one analyst had it, to sever the link between sex and diapers—we place ourselves on a short road to reducing sexual intercourse to a form of self-indulgent recreation.
Section 17 of Humanae vitae concludes with a startling act of prescience regarding the political implications of countenancing artificial contraception: "Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone."
What might have seemed exaggerated, perhaps even slightly paranoid, in 1968 is now a commonplace. The HHS Mandate, which would require even Catholic institutions to provide insurance coverage for contraception and abortifacients, has been so aggressively pursued that even the Little Sisters of the Poor found themselves battling for their rights in court. Pope Francis, an ardent admirer of Paul VI, has picked up on this theme, bemoaning the "ideological colonization" that takes place when the Western powers attempt, through threat of economic sanctions, to impose their sexual program on the underdeveloped world.
This coming 50th anniversary year would be a good time to take another look at Humanae vitae. I might suggest we commence with section 17.
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From 2007-2010, Weston was a member of the Pathways to China program. Students in grades 8-11 participated in the WEEFC sponsored program for enrichment education about China. Students participated in at least two 20-hour online-hybrid courses during the summer/fall covering Chinese history as well as current events. Students were not required to speak or understand Chinese, but could take an introductory to Chinese course for enrichment. The program culminates in an optional trip to China over April break.
Read about some of their experiences on the Pathways to China blog.


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State Trunk Highway 135 (WIS 135) was a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. At its latest routing, it traveled from WIS 59 in Palmyra to WIS 106 near Hebron.

Route description
At its latest routing, WIS 135 began in WIS 59 in Palmyra. Then. it traveled northwestward and then northward. After that, WIS 135 intersected WIS 106 in between Hebron and Oak Hill. At this point, the route ended there.

History

Original alignment
Initially, in 1923, WIS 135 was established along a series of current County Trunk Highways from WIS 29 (now WIS 23) near Big Spring to WIS 10 (later US 51, now CTH-M) in Packwaukee. Later, in 1924, WIS 135 was extended westward to WIS 13/WIS 29 (now WIS 13/WIS 16) in Kilbourn (now Wisconsin Dells). In 1934, WIS 135 was slightly truncated in favor of US 51's Packwaukee and Buffalo bypass. In 1939, WIS 135 was rerouted northward to directly connect to US 51/WIS 23. In 1948, the route then moved northward away from Wisconsin Dells, superseding CTH-H in the process. In 1955, WIS 135 was decommissioned after WIS 82 extended east onto the newly-built Wisconsin River crossing. This extension resulted in a portion of WIS 71 and the entirety of WIS 135 being superseded by WIS 82.

Wisconsin Highway 90 alignment

In 1919, WIS 90 was formed to travel from WIS 99 (now WIS 59) in Palmyra to WIS 19 (now WIS 16) in Ixonia. During its existence, no significant changes have been made to the routing.

In 1957, WIS 90 had to be replaced with WIS 135 due to the introduction of Interstate 90. At this routing, it traveled from WIS 59 in Palmyra to US 16 (now WIS 16) in Ixonia. In the mid-1980s, a large portion of WIS 135, from WIS 106 to WIS 16, was removed in favor of local control (replaced by CTH-F). In 1990, the rest of the route was removed in favor of the realignment of WIS 106. The numbering has not been in use ever since.

Major intersections

References

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West Country boy Luke Friend has just come off the back of being crowned the winner of the singing competition TeenStar, the nationwide competition for teens and pre-teens. The TeenStar singing competition's Grand Final took place within The O2 in London and gave acts the chance to play in front of a massive crowd and music industry judging panel. Here, Luke tells us about himself in his own words….
To kick things off, can you give us a funny fact about Luke Friend?
You look very different to when you entered Open Mic UK, do you think image plays an important role for any musician?
So, what's life been like for you since winning TeenStar?
Do you think TeenStar has helped you gain confidence as an artist?
Did you think you had a good chance of winning?
You entered Open Mic UK in previous years, do you think that has really helped develop you as artist?
What other things have you done to develop your music career?
What's been the single most important thing to date, musically?
Musically, has to be writing and recording my own songs to share with an audience! I love that.
As a result of winning TeenStar you've played and impressed at a few festivals this summer?
I adore playing at festivals, they're always a great time, I was so happy that people enjoyed my own songs at the festivals as well as the covers I did, I can't wait to play even more in the future!
Which festival was your favourite?
Which would be your ultimate festival to play at?
Do you feel being based in the south West has been a help or hindrance?
How difficult is it to get your name known as an unsigned performer?
What importance do you place on your social networks to increase your fan base?
High importance, social media in this day and age is really key to getting a positive and dedicated fan base from around the world!
What tips would you give to those who are trying to get their name out there?
Who are Luke Friend's favourite artists?
People you respect and admire?
Check out Luke Friend's winning TeenStar performance above.


Sense Number 1: Schedule or designate.
He slated his talk for 9AM.
The company slated the meeting for the following Thursday.
Sense Number 2: Enter on a list or slate for an election.
NOTE: Compare to Sense 1: individual named is not designated but elected.
He was slated for borough president.
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Lognkosauria is a clade of giant long-necked sauropod dinosaurs within the clade Titanosauria. It includes some of the largest and heaviest dinosaurs known. They lived in South America and likely Asia during the Late Cretaceous period.

Description
Lognkosaurians can be distinguished from other titanosaurs by the wide and unusually thick cervical rib loops on their neck vertebrae, their extremely robust neck neural spines, the relatively narrow neural canal, and their huge vaulted neural arches. They also had very wide dorsal vertebrae with wing-like side processes, and extremely wide rib cages. Their dorsal side processes are also fairly in-line with the level of the neural canal, instead of being attached further up the neural arch as in lithostrotians.

Skull material from Malawisaurus, the sister taxon to Lognkosauria, indicates that lognkosaurians at least began with the big-nosed, rounded head shape of earlier titanosaurs and more basal macronarians.

Classification
Lognkosauria was defined as the clade encompassing the most recent common ancestor of Futalognkosaurus dukei and Mendozasaurus neguyelap and all its descendants. Malawisaurus may be related to this group. Lognkosauria has been found to include other giant sauropods, such as Puertasaurus, Argentinosaurus, Patagotitan, Notocolossus, Drusilasaura and Traukutitan.

References

Lithostrotians


What is the best way to keep a load secure on top of your car?
The ability to gain a little mechanical advantage simulating a crude block and tackle in order to cinch the load down is the key, but so is being able to tie the final hitch to lock the load in place. So … I figured another short video tip wouldn't hurt (below).


I am so pleased to be able to share with you information about this wonderful all natural product called Diatomaceous Earth. Many years ago I picked up a Mother Earth magazine and read a very interesting article about this stuff called DE for short. The article told about all of the benefits but the part that I was most fascinated with was the fact that you could eat it but it also killed bugs…How could that be?
I set out to find out more about what actually turned out to be a form of dirt. Now mind you this was before Al Gore invented the internet and way before I had a computer so I really had very little to go on.
I took what information I had to my local Co-Op and they too thought it sounded like great stuff but they were never able to find the "Food Grade" which was spoke of in the Mother Earth article. I did purchase a bag of what they so graciously stocked for me and it did indeed kill the bugs where I put it but I would NEVER have eaten it. So it really was NOT EXACTLY what I was looking for.
Fast forward to mid-summer 2010 (now). I had ants.. lots of ants. I did an online search to help me get rid of these pesky buggers and I once again discovered Diatomaceous Earth. But this time it was EXACTLY what I had been looking for many years ago.. "Food Grade". I ordered a bag. My dirt was here within a week. I loved the quick service. I bought it from a company called Earth Works Health.
Gosh!! I hope he meant that remark because I sure did a bit of BORROWING!!
We will be discussing all of that and MORE….I hope you will enjoy what I have to share with you.
You can eat my dirt!!


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Wow! This is a gorgeous site, offering spectacular sunsets, with a front row seat, each and every night. As the days turn into nights… turn your attention to the tranquility of the shimmering lake, right across the street. With dusk comes the beautiful illumination of the fountains and the peaceful sounds that they bring with them. What scenery, what a location.
After a great day at the resort, or the beautiful Gulf of Mexico, return home and sit back, stir up your favorite cocktail and enjoy the moments of the evening. Buena Vista RV Resort is in the process of bringing even more wonderful amenities to the resort to enhance your vacation experience. Check back often, or why not just stay?


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We profile how technology can power market forces to progress towards more open, free, and efficient decisions and exchanges. Promising vehicles include peer-to-peer platforms (specifically for commerce and lending) and prediction markets.
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Posted by: Michael Grace July 11, 2010
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, often referred to simply as the 'QE2', is a former Cunard ocean liner, now owned by Nakheel (a division of Dubai World). She was designed to primarily run a transatlantic service from Southampton, England, to New York, USA, and was named after the earlier Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth, and served as the flagship of the line from 1969 until succeeded by RMS Queen Mary 2 in 2004. Built in Clydebank, Scotland, she was considered the last of the great transatlantic ocean liners built for over four decades before the construction of the QM2.
Before she was refitted with a diesel power plant in 1986/87, QE2 was also the last oil fired passenger steamship to cross the Atlantic in scheduled liner service. During almost forty years of service, the QE2 undertook regular world cruises and latterly operated predominantly as a cruise ship, sailing out of Southampton, England. QE2 had no identical sister ship or running mate and never ran a year round weekly transatlantic express service to New York. QE2 did, however, continue the Cunard tradition of regular scheduled transatlantic crossings every year of her service life.
QE2 retired from active Cunard service on 27 November 2008, where it was planned for her to begin conversion to a floating hotel which would have seen her eventually moored at the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai. However, as of March 2010 she remains moored at Port Rashid awaiting an uncertain future.
CUNARD LINE liner Liner History maiden voyage new york harbor Queen Elizabeth 2 2010-07-11
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This post is at the top of the networking forum and will stay here. This is the place for you to post ONLY your Home airport. the idea for this is if a JC member finds they are on a trip , Cargo, 135, or 121 airline, and has the time you might get an invite to come out and visit, or even sit upfront and make vroom vroom noises in some very cool airplanes. This may work better for the folks flying part 135 charter, but even others who are students or pvt pilots building time can check this posting and see if anyone is along their route of flight or intended destination.
Then if a pilot hitting the road checks this you may get a PM saying Hey I will be in town come on out.
A word of caution though, any invitation puts you down at the bottom on the list of priorities.
Don't be waiting at the FBO, and run out to the airplane once landed let the crews shut down disembark the pax or cargo, and/or put the airplane to bed.
Superfluous information will be edited out.
The new forum software doesn't have a "View All" option, but it does have a "Search Thread" function. The search funtion only recognizes strings of 4 letters or more, so make sure that you enter your airport as Kxxx or it won't register in the search.
John Herreshoff - Airports: KAZO, KBTL, (without enough lead time possibly) KGRR.
pilot602, home airport: KFFZ, can get to any airport in PHX or AZ.


I am hoping to learn to play a musical instrument (I cannot play anything as yet) that is easy on fingertips and am looking for some suggestions, please. I have psoriasis on my fingertips and it usually spreads to just above the first knuckles. I also get it at the base area between my fingers. I am unable to put too much pressure on my fingertips most days or they will split and bleed, and the same goes for stretching.
I am wondering about saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, or maybe flute. If anyone who has experience with these instruments would like to share thoughts on how hard these are on your fingertips I would be most grateful. I am especially wondering if I could play trumpet using my first knuckles rather than fingertips.
I would like to learn for only my own pleasure as I have no desire to make a career of it or ever play in public, so if I am mediocre at it, I really won't mind... I will be happy with the achievement for achievements' sake!
Thank you all very much for the wide variety of suggestions, there are many ideas that I just never considered. You have all given me a lot of food for thought and the 'out of the box' instruments look very interesting and fun. Regarding the drums, does anyone know how hard the steel drums are on your hands? I looked at YouTube to see some players and the sticks look quite loosely held and not involving the fingertips very much. Finally, can anyone tell me how important the tension/grip is for the mallet instruments? Could they be played with padded gloves or would that mess up the sound? Thank you again.
What about the trombone - a "real" orchestral instrument, should you wish to play with community orchestras, but just as at home with bands, etc, and doesn't depend on the fingertips to the same extent as pretty much everything else.
I would like to suggest a theremin.
It is an electronic music instrument that is played without physical contact.
I personally like the sound, see here for example a performance of Over the rainbow.
However, since it is less prevalent than many other instruments, it might be difficult to find a teacher in your area. There are DVDs and online resources, though.
One potential issue is that playing the theremin requires precise repetitive movement of the fingers which may count as stretching, depending on how severe the OP's psoriasis is. But it's a fun instrument and definitely worth having a try at.
A harmonica might work for you. Diatonic harmonicas are very cheap, so there's no real problem if you don't like it. Chromatic harmonicas extend the range and keys available, if you decide you do like it.
Panpipes, although typically handheld, are played without putting pressure on the fingers.
— Image source: Dom Flemons, using panpipes held in a neck rack.
Pro: When compared with the other instruments in this list, the flute requires the least force through the finger tips when playing - it's a more 'delicate' instrument, if you will.
If these four instruments are your only options, I would recommend avoiding the clarinet and the trumpet. I'd lean towards trying the flute and the saxophone, but even these may be too much for your finger tips to handle.
Difficult to find instruments which don't have to be played using fingers/fingertips. It knocks out woodwind, brass, strings, keyboards and some percussion quite easily. Along with slide trombone could go Swannee Whistle. Xylophone or marimba or vibes could also work, using hands to hold sticks rather than fingers.
Have you considered a Hammered Dulcimer or a Cimbalom? They are sometimes included in orchestral works - although I can't name one off the top of my head - and there are also "Dulcimer Orchestras" around - look on YouTube.
I also agree with @Marzipanherz that a Theremin might be suitable.
When you tried piano, was the pressure on your fingertips a problem mainly when you played loudly?
You could consider learning to play the electronic organ. Most organs have a very light touch compared to piano - indeed, learning to play with a light touch is greatly beneficial to your technique and will in time help you play faster and more accurately.
You could also consider saxophone. On a properly set up instrument very little pressure is needed to operate the keypads. The same would be true of any woodwind instrument that uses keypads exclusively. But I would avoid anything like the recorder or clarinet where you need to seal your finger tip against a hole because I expect this would require more pressure.
You could also consider any brass instrument. Again, little pressure is needed to operate the valves. I have even seen trumpet players pushing the valves with the middle segment of their finger rather than their fingertips, though I've no idea if this is good technique or not.
Don't forget that your voice is also a musical instrument.
Definitely avoid any stringed instrument (including guitar) as these are the worst for putting pressure on your fingertips.
Maybe a harmonica to begin with? If the problem you have focuses on finger tips this should work fine, worst case you might have a problem to produce effects.
If fingers specifically are an issue, drumming may be up your alley. As far as I know, minimal finger use is required compared to other instruments. Maybe not even with a kit, but with other percussion instruments.
Play the trombone: need no fingers at all. It's a lot of fun and covers a broad variety of musical directions.
Others have suggested using your voice as an instrument. But rather than singing, you could use it in a different way. Using a loop station and effects pedals, you could record voice samples and layer them on top of each other, slowly constructing a song. You'd grunt and hum to make a baseline, click your tongue or hiss for percussion, and vocalise to add some melody.
The effects pedals allow you to add all sorts of effects, such as reverb, echo, modulation or distortion, to help you create the sound desired.
And probably the best thing about these machines for you is that they can be operated entirely with your feet. You can hold a microphone in your hands, but you could also get one that clips to your shirt to keep your hands entirely free.
Here is an example of a street performer using such a setup, and as a bonus he even explains to his audience a bit how it works.
You could try something more unusual, like Pipe Drums.
As you can see in this example, you use your foot and, unlike standard drums, you hold the sticks with your whole hand, not with your fingers.
Look it up on youtube - so many examples. For example this.
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