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Uh oh ... sworn affidavit asserts that there is no evidence that the "Dennis Canon" ever passed General Convention
BB NOTE: Journalist and Episcopal clergy George Conger has conducted extensive research on the infamous "Dennis Canon" - allegedly passed by General Convention in the 11th hour of the 1979 General Convention and it appears in the archives of the Episcopal Church itself that the Dennis Canon was never officially passed - which may explain a lot. Now George Conger has actually gone into the archives and there's no evidence that the "Dennis Canon" was ever officially passed by both Houses in its final form.
"I visited the library of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas, where the Archives of the Episcopal Church are located and where all of the records of 1979 General Convention are kept," Conger writes in his sworn affidavit in the case of the Diocese of Central New York vs Good Shepherd Binghamton.
"Prior to traveling to Austin," Conger writes, "I asked the General Convention Office at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City if they had any part of the official record of the 1979 Convention, or whether the documents were held in any other location. I was informed that all records of this Convention were held by the Archives."
What he found there - or did not find there - is the stuff of his sworn affidavit being entered in as evidence for Friday's motion to dismiss the lawsuit. As we know in Virginia, we were meticulous in keeping records of the thousands who voted to depart the Diocese of Virginia in December 2006. The records were so meticulous that when the Diocese and TEC officials examined them in preparation for the October trial, they saw in the evidence that it was pointless to challenge the votes - the records were meticulous. That part of the litigation was conceeded by the Diocese of Virginia and The Episcopal Church.
Could the Dennis Canon pass the same scrutiny? According to George Conger the answer is no. As we recall at our table here at the Cafe, General Convention 1979 was consumed with the passing of a new Prayer Book and much energy and time was spent on that major and life-changing event for The Episcopal Church. Eyeballs were not transfixed on much of what else happened in 1979, especially in the closing hours of the gathering.
Apparently, it's now unclear from the official record itself exactly what happened while the dust clouded the air over General Convention's endorsement of the major revision of the American-version of the Book of Common Prayer. The evidence from the TEC archives apparently shows that the Dennis Canon could not pass the scrutiny of a court of law. The evidence is missing.
Here's an excerpt from George Conger's sworn affidavit. Read the whole thing here and here.
3) I know that the Rules of Order of the Constitution of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, in which I have served as a clergyman for the last 11 years, requires that all canons adopted by the Convention be adopted in identical format by both the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies at the same convention. These conventions meet every three years for about 12 days, and consider many hundreds of resolutions, some of which are passed by one or the other house of the convention, and some of which are passed by both houses and therefore become the actions of the convention, and in the case of a new canon, become the canons of the Church. In the legislative process many committees pass on proposed legislation, and there is a constant flow of documentation between these two houses of the convention. There are hundreds of deputies meeting on the floor of the House of Deputies, and over a hundred bishops meet in the House of Bishops. They sit as separate legislative bodies and many hundreds of resolutions are voted upon, messages are sent from one house to another with the matters which have been passed, or in some cases amended and require reconsideration by the other house.
Many items are introduced and voted down, and many are not reached or fail to pass one or both houses of the convention. After some resolutions are adopted by one house, it is not uncommon for them to be sent to committees which may amend the legislation. If amendments are made, each house must separately adopt the amended resolution in identical format. I have been accredited as a reporter to the last four General Conventions, and I have witnessed this process as it has occurred, and reported on it for the religious media which I have represented and for which I have written. I have seen the clerks taking minutes of these meetings as they were being generated and the calendars of the houses of the convention which were in use each day, and have seen many of the resolutions, and am familiar with the format of the documents which comprise the legislation of the convention. Hence in visiting the archives of the Church I was seeking out the underlying documentation which would demonstrate whether or not each of the two houses of the General Convention which met in Denver, Colorado in September of 1979 passed identical copies of the Dennis Canon so as to permit it to become part of the canons governing the Episcopal Church.
4) On August 1, 2007 I visited the library of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas, where the Archives of the Episcopal Church are located and where all of the records of 1979 General Convention are kept. Prior to traveling to Austin, I asked the General Convention Office at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City if they had any part of the official record of the 1979 Convention, or whether the documents were held in any other location. I was informed that all records of this Convention were held by the Archives.
My researches found that the original documents from the 1979 Denver General Convention were stored in two boxes and the records were divided into various three ring binders. Using the 1979 Journal entries I tracked the progress of the Dennis Canon by attempting to locate each of the original documents to which reference is made in the Journal. My review of the archival records found that many of the documents supporting the statements made in the 1979 Journal were not to be found. I found no records of the minutes of proceedings of the House of Bishops and House of Deputies, and a number of resolutions adopted by the Convention lacked supporting document. The records of the proceedings of the House of Bishops were not present, save for those appended to Committee Reports. I found no master list of documents for that Convention in the archives, nor did I observe any protections or mechanisms safeguarding the integrity of the documents from theft or alteration.
5) I reviewed in the Journal pages B-60 and B-61 which recites resolution D-24 as contained in Message No. 76, and I located in the records of the house of bishops for September 13, 1979 a typewritten resolution which is the original of the document from which the journal entry was written. A copy of resolution D-24 as contained in Message No. 76 is annexed hereto as Exhibit "A"
6) That document reflects that it went for action to the House of Bishops and on the fifth day of the session, September 13, 1979 and was sent by "message # 76" to the Deputies stating they (the bishops) had adopted the Resolution with amendments.
7) There are three "Resolved" clauses in this document.
8) The first resolved clause of the resolution is the proposed amendment to Canon I.6 adding a new Section 4 as follows: "All real and personal property held by or for the benefit of any Parish, Mission or Congregation is held in trust for this Church and the Diocese thereof in which such Parish, Mission or Congregation is located. The existence of this trust, however, shall in no way limit the power and authority of the Parish, Mission or Congregation otherwise existing over such property so long as the particular Parish, Mission or Congregation remains a part of, and subject to, this Church and its Constitution and Canons."
9) The second "Resolved" clause of the resolution is the proposed amendment to Canon I.6 adding a new Section 5 as follows: "The several Dioceses may, at their election, further confirm the trust declaring under the foregoing Section 4 by appropriate action but no such action shall be necessary for the existence and validity of the trust."
10) The third and last "Resolved" clause of the resolution is a provision which says that the amendments to Canon I.6 shall "become effective upon enactment by the General Convention."
11) I also found a copy of Committee Report 13 as contained in Message No. 75 which is annexed hereto as Exhibit "B" This is the resolution make a canon change to Canon II.7 by added a new Section 3
12) On Sept 17, 1979 Committee 5 of the House of Deputies: the Canons Committee issued Report Number 32, and in that report, signed by D. Rebecca Snow, committee chairman, it "recommends: concurrence with HBM #75 & HBM #76, the effect of which is shown on the attached text." A copy of the Sept 17, 1979 Committee 5 of the House of Deputies: the Canons Committee issued Report Number 32 is annexed hereto as Exhibit "C"
13) There were some records for each day of the convention, but on the 10th legislative day when the House of Deputies is reputed to have adopted the Dennis Canon, the record becomes quite sketchy since the supporting documentation ends.
14) I reviewed the Handbook of the Secretary of the House of Deputies. This book contained all of the legislative actions and committee reports, and was where the reports on legislation from the 10th day of Convention should have been located, but they were not there. Days 1 through 9 inclusive were present, as was day 11, but all there was from the 10th day was the consent calendar. All that had survived in the documentary record was the 10tth day's agenda with handwritten pen annotations made on the by the Secretary of the House on the typed calendar of the actions to be addressed that day. A copy of the September 19, 1979 Calendar with the handwritten marks is annexed hereto as Exhibit "D"
15) While other agenda items were checked or marked by pen on the typed calendar, the Dennis Canon was not marked off in any manner whatsoever. The references to the Dennis Canon is listed as Item #14 as "Report of Committee #5 on Canons H/B 75 and H/B 76 (D-24) (See Committee Report) Amend Canon I-5 and Canon II-7" on the bottom of the first page of that September 19, 1979 Calendar of the House of Deputies. Most all of the other calendar items were checked or marked, but not the Dennis Canon.
16) Further documentary evidence of the Dennis Canon, Resolution D-24 as contained in Message No. 76 and Committee Report 13 as contained in Message No. 75 was not in the records which I examined.
17) I did a complete search of the all of the records held by the Archive for the 1979 General Convention to see if these missing records might be out of order and misfiled, but did not find them. In that search I examined the "print shop" binder—a record of all items sent for duplication, and there I found only the 10th day summary. On page 9, the summary reports resolution D-24 as amended was adopted by the Deputies, and message 204 memorializing this action was sent to the House of Bishops—-however no copy of this message has survived either, and is known only by that reference.
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The Order: 1886 Trailer Shows Dark Victorian World
by Marcos Thadani ● Last updated on Feb 18, 2015
The upcoming The Order: 1886 is an eagerly awaited third person action game, which will be released exclusively for Sony's PS4 console. And as the clock ticks down to the game's release date on Friday the 20th of February, you can sate your appetite for the game by watching the game's "conspiracy" trailer below.
This Sony PS4 exclusive has a Victorian atmosphere reminiscent of 2012's Dishonored and will provide a "filmic look" according to developer Ready at Dawn. And if one thing is clear, is that the cinematic flair in the trailer is undeniable.
The Order: 1886 takes place in an alternate history London, a dark Victorian world featuring iconic buildings such as the Palace of Westminster and giant airships such as the one seen in the trailer, according to gaming website Dualshockers. It will also boast cutting-edge visuals which will make the most of Sony's PS4 new-gen hardware. The Order: 1886 has also been controversial due to its graphic, violent content (hint: the shotgun has deadly effects on enemies).
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There's also been a fair bit of controversy regarding the game's length. A YouTube user played through the game in just 5 hours, and claimed that about half of that was taken up by cutscenes. But it must be pointed out that this user in question did what is known as a "speedrun" of the game, in other words he rushed through it.
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7 MARCH 2014 – PROTEST ACTION AT THE SOUTH AFRICAN BRITISH CONSULATE
by MRN | Mar 4, 2014 | Press Releases | 0 comments
FREE MUAZZAM BEGG NOW !!!
The Muslim Lawyers Association (MLA), Johannesburg will be protesting against the unjust and morally reprehensible incarceration of Muazzam Begg (Begg) presently held by British Police Authorities at West Midlands Police in Birmingham.
Begg, a Muslim British citizen, who, with his family , moved to Afghanistan in 2001 to run a girls school , was held in the US run military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for nearly three years. This followed his detention in Islamabad in Pakistan where he lived after the war in Afghanistan started; and his subsequent incarceration at the Bagram internment centre in Afghanistan for about a year .He was never charged with any offence. He was released in January 2005 along with three other British citizens and returned to the UK.
On 25 February 2014 Begg, together with amongst others, Gerrie Tehari, was arrested in London. He faces alleged "terror offences" related to Syria. He has been remanded in custody after appearing in courton 1 March 2014.
The MLA calls for the immediate release of Begg, and all other prisoners incarcerated under the unjust and inhumane British "anti terror "laws. The British "anti terror" laws define terrorism so broadly that almost any act (even one intended and done to pursue a just and legitimate cause) would constitute a terrorist act.
Thus far only Muslims have been prosecuted under the British "anti-terror" legislation.
The MLA stands in solidarity with CAGE, UK, an organisation Moazzam Begg co-directs, and one committed to protecting the rights of Muslim prisoners incarcerated by countries such as the UK and the U.S.A in their much publicised "war on terror".
The MLA calls on all people and organisations of conscience to stand for justice, and protest against yet another attempt by the UK to terrorise Begg and other campaigners for justice.
You are invited to join our protest action due to take place at the British Consulate. The details are provided hereunder:
Date: Friday, 7 March 2014
Physical Address: 275 Jan Smuts Avenue, Dunkeld West, 2196
Issued by the MLA
1. Nadeem Mahomed – The Muslim Lawyers Association (MLA)
E-mail: nadeem@mahomedlaw.co.za
2. Feroze Boda – The Muslim Lawyers Association (MLA)
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3. Yusuf Dockrat – The Muslim Lawyers Association (MLA)
E-Mail: yusuf@dockrat.co.za


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I came to SA to make wine. As a career farmer I tried vines in Kent with the available hybrids of the day (Muller Thurgau, Madelaine Angevine, Seyval Blanc, Reichstensteiner etc) but soon gave up due to frost, mildew, birds and rain. I grubbed up the vines and headed to where the sun shines. Because of the politics they were exciting times, but I enjoyed the zest of it and have never regretted the move. South Africa remains a land of great excitement and opportunity.
Your determination seems to have driven you through many obstacles. You managed to grow grape varieties in an area others said were not suitable. Then, after being part of the co-op system, you decided to venture out on your own. Finally, you went against the old law banning the individual from distilling their own liquor and managed to overturn it in 1994. What motivates you in these endeavours? Are you an avid believer in the individual over the corporate machine?
I am a rebel at heart but I am foremost an artisan who backs himself out of necessity. In winemaking and distilling there are always new challenges and I will jump into new projects with both feet and all my heart. "Handcrafted" is a magic word as it represents the effort and passion of the individual over the faceless corporate juggernaut. Handcrafted now applies to the real ale movement, artisan cheeses, boutique or garagiste wines, artisan coffee roasting, chocolateers, holistic veggie producers, and now handcrafted spirits. They all have one thing in common: a real person putting his name and passion into his product as well as he can.
The old system of control by the co-op system (KWV) and previous government meant that one was not allowed to distil your own liquor. How did you fight this law and win?
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Of course, setting up a farm is not a cheap and easy process, so it is understandable that another money-making venture might be needed to help fund your dream. One of these was diamond mining off the West Coast. What other opportunities did you take to help realise your passion?
The first opportunity was the "financial" or discounted rand offered to immigrants which allowed me to swap a two-up two-down in Clapham for a decent wine estate here. Then there was the diamond business… The recent realisation that craft distillation could extend beyond brandy into other fine spirits is also opening new doors for us.
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You are extremely hands-on in your production, growing your own herbs for the absinthe and restoring an old gin still. Is this very important to you and how might that affect production in the future?
We are hands-on from both choice and necessity. Most of the herbs are not generally available here so if we don't grow them we can't have them, and there is the added bonus that we can absolutely guarantee the quality and provenance. Most of the old Cape copper-working skills have died out so they have to be re-learned. Great stills are made in Scotland, France and Germany but they are beyond our financial reach so we improvise. And we are pleased with the results. If things continue to go well Dawn and I might be tempted to invest in slightly bigger equipment, but never at the expense of quality.


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The cost of driving a 'greener' car
The financial benefits of driving a company car have continued to erode over recent years, but this benefit remains one of the most popular and potent perks of a job.
Broadly, the taxable benefit arising on a car is calculated using the car's full manufacturer's published UK list price, including the full value of any accessories. This figure is multiplied by the 'appropriate percentage', which can be found by reference to the car's CO2 emissions level. This will give the taxable value of the car benefit. The employee pays income tax on the final figure at his appropriate tax rate (e.g. 20% for basic rate taxpayers; 40% for higher rate taxpayers). In general terms, less tax will be payable on 'greener' cars those with lower CO2 emissions.
To provide stronger incentives for the purchase of ultralow emissions vehicles (ULEVs), at the 2017 Spring Budget, the government announced that new, lower bands will be introduced for the lowest emitting cars. The appropriate percentage for cars emitting greater than 90g CO2/km will rise by one percentage point. The changes, which are expected to take effect from 6 April 2020, are as follows:
– The graduated table of company car tax bands will include a differential for cars with emissions of 1 to 50g CO2 per km based on the electric range of the car.
– For cars with an electric range of 130 miles or more, the appropriate percentage will be 2%; for cars with an electric range of between 70 to 129 miles, the appropriate percentage will be 5%; for 40 to 69 miles, the appropriate percentage will be 8%; for 30 to 39 miles, the appropriate percentage will be 12%, and for less than 30 miles, the appropriate percentage will be 14%.
– For cars that can only be driven in zero-emission mode, the appropriate percentage will be 2%. For all other bands with CO2 emissions of 51g CO2 per km and above, the appropriate percentage will be based on the CO2 emissions only. For cars with emissions of 51 to 54g CO2 per km the appropriate percentage will be 15%. For cars with emissions above 54g CO2 per km, the bands will be graduated by 5g CO2 per km and the appropriate percentage will increase by 1% for each 5g CO2 per km band, up to a maximum of 37%. For cars with emissions above 90g CO2/km, the appropriate percentage will increase by 1% in comparison to 2019/20 levels.
Whilst at first glance these changes look positive, for 2017/18, the appropriate percentage for a car with a list price of £18,000 and CO2 emissions of just 50gkm, will be 9%. For a higher rate taxpayer, the taxable benefit will be £1,620 (£18,000 x 9%) and the tax payable will be £648 (£1,620 x 40%). In 2018/19, the tax payable by the employee will rise to £936 ((£18,000 x13%) x 40%), representing a 30% increase.
Compare this with an employee (also a higher rate taxpayer) driving a company car with a list price of £18,000, but CO2 emissions of 160g/km. The appropriate percentage for this car is 31% for 2017/18. The taxable benefit will be £5,580 (£18,000 x 31%) and the tax payable will be £2,232 (£5,580 x 40%). In 2018/19, the tax payable rises to £2,376 ((£18,000 x 33%) x 40%), representing only a 6% increase.
Although the tax payable on cars with lower emissions is still considerably lower than those with higher outputs, the increases set to take effect over the next few years will mean 'greener' company car drivers will experience steeper increases in the resulting tax payable.
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On February 12, the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice published #RealCollege 2020, the fifth annual #RealCollege survey on basic needs insecurity among college students. In 2019, nearly 167,000 students from 171 two-year institutions and 56 four-year institutions responded to the #RealCollege survey. The results indicate:
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The report's findings highlight the need for improving policies and practices, including the identification of students experiencing homelessness. For example, 12% of respondents at two-year institutions experience homelessness, but do not self-identify as homeless, while 10% of respondents at four-year institutions experience homelessness, but do not self-identify as homeless. According to the report, "The vast majority of students who experience homelessness temporarily stay with a relative or friend, or couch surf. Using an inclusive definition of homelessness allows more students to receive the support they need. The Brookings Institution recently found that "academic outcomes for doubled-up homeless students and other homeless students are almost indistinguishable from one another."
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The Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act of 2019 – HEASHFY (S.789/H.R.1724) is bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would ensure that homeless and foster youth benefit from college access programs, have access to financial aid without burdensome and prohibitive documentation, and receive the support they need to stay in school and graduate. Learn more and take action.
The Housing for Homeless Students Act, H.R. 4865/S.767, is bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would update the LIHTC Program to allow full-time students to live in LIHTC housing if they have experienced homelessness within the last seven years. The bill also includes homeless or formerly homeless veterans pursuing full-time education. Learn more and take action.
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This week I attended the Peopleclick Authoria (PCA) Global Customer Conference (#GCC2010). I gave a couple of presentations at the conference on Talent Management market trends which is always fun. In contrast to my usual practice of attending customer case study sessions, I used a different strategy at this conference. I attended the "big tent" sessions where PCA's relatively new CEO, Joe Licata, laid out their positioning. One interesting tidbit included investment in R&D of $23.4 million expected in 2010 which is comparable to the spend of SuccessFactors in 2009. The clear message was that PCA was investing in growing the business both organically in addition to acquisitions (by parent Bedford Funding).
They also had Jack Welch (@jack_welch), former CEO of General Electric, as a keynote speaker. PCA Chairman (and Bedford Funding CEO) Charles Jones interviewed Welch. The interview covered a wide range of topics (see the Twitterstream at #GCC2010 to see more details). Welch is definitely a strong advocate for HR's role in leadership development. GE's goal during his tenure was to be able replace someone in a key position within 24 hours. To do this requires a significant investment in readiness and having adequate bench strength (it also explains why GE has been a furtile ground to find executive talent). There were many great one-liners, but it was an analogy that resonated with me the most. It was around the importance of HR vs. Finance. My apologies in advance to my colleagues that focus on the Finance organization, but the example he used was a professional baseball team. Whose advice should the President of baseball operations (substitute our favorite sport) trust in making a decision on making an offer to a player: the CFO or the Director of Player Personnel? Who is going to know best how to allocate that budget to achieve the best results? It is pretty obvious in this context, but given that people-related costs are anywhere from 20-70% of total costs in most organizations, it makes sense that CEOs should view HR leaders as vital to their success. However, good Directors of Player Personnel bring a lot of player performance data to the table to help the organization make good decisions. HR leaders that do not bring something to the discussion will likely not be heard.
I also enjoyed the other keynote session, a panel discussion with Elaine Orler from Talent Function, Brad Smart from Smart & Associates (best known for TopGrading, a practice developed and used at GE), Kim Seals from Mercer, and Gerry Crispin from CareerXroads. Again, you can check out the Twitterstream for more details on the discussion, but to me the most interesting part of the discussion was around performance vs. potential. Kim was of the opinion that you promote based on potential (assuming at least adequate performance), but reward based on performance. Gerry has the viewpoint that performance is more important. High performers should be given the opportunity to show potential in new roles if it aligns with their career aspirations (assuming at least adequate potential for the new role). I am not sure there is one right answer. To me, a lot of the answer depends on how well your organization can judge performance and potential and your promotion track record. Examining your own data around this will be illuminating. It may also highlight changes you need to make to make in how you do performance appraisals and talent reviews. From a technology perspective, remember garbage in = garbage out. I can have the best succession planning process and best technology supporting it, but if I am not looking at the right attributes of performance and potential, it is all for naught.
Ok, back to the change in my conference routine, instead of going to customer case study sessions (though I did have some good conversations at meals with customers), I went to sessions led by thought leaders I admire and who I rarely get to see present. Gerry Crispin (@GerryCrispin) did a session on candidate experience that was very thought-provoking. For those not familiar with Gerry, he does the most in-depth research on this topic of anyone I know. For more than a decade, he has "mystery shopped" as a "candidate" at all of the Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For.
Near the beginning of his presentation, Gerry asked the audience a simple question: how do you define a candidate? Needless to say, the audience definitions were all over the place. I thought he had an interesting taxonomy for thinking about this in terms of customer experience. In his view, a candidate was someone who has applied for a job (an applicant being someone who is a qualified candidate for a job). Prior to applying for a job, the person was a prospect. Gerry points out that experience needs to be different for prospects, candidates, and applicants (and new hires). Once someone becomes at least a candidate, they have affirmatively expressed interest in your organization. If they are treated poorly through the rest of their experience, there can be repercussions not only for your employment brand, but also your customer brand because in many cases candidates/applicants may also be customers and/or influence other customers. That taxonomy also got me thinking about the parallels with Customer Relationship Management. Many large employers already have people responsible for just candidate sourcing this is akin to the role of Marketing in CRM. Marketing is responsible for generating leads that turn into qualified prospects. Sourcers are responsible for finding prospects and converting them into candidates (I am simplifying here a little to make the analogy, but stay with me). Sales is responsible for taking qualified prospects and converting them into paying customers. Recruiters are responsible for determining qualified candidates (applicants) and facilitating the process to hire the best one. So far so good, there is nothing terribly new in this line of thought. What I had not thought about previously was the third pillar of CRM, Customer Service. In the CRM context, Customer Service helps ensure a customer is happy (based on customer satisfaction, net promoter scores, etc.) as well as to find additional cross-sell and up-sell opportunities (in some cases). It was not so much finding the analog for recruiting (or more broadly talent management for the new hire), but that it made start to think about why we do not have a group responsible for candidate (and applicant) service. If organizations really want to take the candidate experience seriously, it needs to do more than just design a candidate-friendly, employer brand reinforcing, self-service web site. Why shouldn't a candidate/applicant be able to interact with your organization in a variety of channels as they go through the process. Yes, it can be more expensive to provide this level of service, but for many organizations, especially with the viral nature of social media, it may be more expensive in the long run not to offer a high level of service.
I also attended a session conducted by Dr. John Sullivan and his associate Master Burnett (@masterburnett). Dr. Sullivan is always provocative and expresses a strong point of view. His topic was the important of contingent labor on workforce planning. He cited a study of 200 companies where they looked at the workforce-related spend and found that only about 36% of the spend was on regular employees, the rest was for various forms on contingent labor. That is an eye popping statistic and should give any HR leader heartburn. It means that the vast majority of HR leaders have ignored how their organizations recruit, manage, develop, and separate from a significant part of its workforce. In fact, it is even worse than that. If organizations are actively managing it all, it is driven by procurement whose role it is to help negotiate contracts and manage vendors. This is one of Dr. Sullivan's arguments for why Workforce Planning is so important. Organizations need to make intelligent decisions about where they source the most appropriate talent based not just on cost, but on agility (the ability to scale up and scale down the workforce), speed (how fast are the capabilities needed if we do not have them internally) and how long the capabilities are required (for example, is it just for a project or is there an ongoing need). We have published a number of research notes on Workforce Planning and Analysis this year, but we still find a relatively small number of clients focused on either contingent workforce management or workforce planning. This should be a wake up call to HR leaders and the IT organizations that support them.
There has been a lot of interesting discussion in the blogosphere about the notion of Recruitment leaving the HR organization (see Dave Lefkow's post on ERE). Here is a quote from that post: "Instead of being HR's red-headed stepchild that's locked away in the basement (only to see the HR team take all the credit for the big accomplishments of your team), it's time for truly strategic talent management departments to secede from HR. To stop sitting at the "people-people" table and start sitting with the "businesspeople."
I disagree with the premise of recruitment being thought of as talent management (follow this link to my research about talent management application suites). Sorry folks, it is not. It is part of talent management, but only a part. It does not deal typically with the contingent workforce, which is becoming an increasing percentage of the workforce. What about internal mobility? retention? development? even separation (I know we do not like to talk about it in the HR world, but it is important)? In my opinion, strategic talent management can happen only when it deals with the full workforce and in an integrated way with the talent lifecycle.
I wholehartedly agree with Dave about the need to start sitting with "businesspeople". However, to help the "businesspeople", all of HR, not just the "red-headed stepchild", needs to start focusing on what the business needs to successfully leverage talent.
Procurement-Focused Vendors -- These niche vendors really target the procurement organization with their solutions and are evolving into platforms for broader services procurement.
HR-Focused Vendors -- These vendors come from an HR-background (recruitment) and have either built their own solution or have acquired a procurement-focused vendor.
Subsidiaries of Staffing Firms -- These providers offer vendor-neutral software and service solutions but are separate entities from their staffing service parents.
Staffing Firms -- Some of the large staffing firms offer software and managed services for contingent workforce management.
Enterprise Application Vendors -- These vendors offer broader ERP solutions.


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In terms of films I was watching for the first time, Another Year is probably my pick of the week. It's a low-key drama from Mike Leigh (a director who's been responsible for a number of films I've enjoyed, including Naked, Happy Go Lucky and Vera Drake). A simple story of the year in the life of a happily married middle aged couple and their rather less than content friends, the film feels incredibly true to life and contains a great script and strong performances from the likes of Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen (and in particular) Lesley Manville.
Also very good were a pair of vintage films: Mr Smith Goes to Washington and Laura. The former is Frank Capra's classic tale of a smalltown idealist betrayed by political corruption in the American Senate, a film which is notable for inspiring a Golden Age Simpsons episode. The actual movie didn't have any corrupt lobbyists attempting to drill for oil in Teddy Roosevelt's head, but it's still pretty damn entertaining. The latter picture was lent to me by my Grandma and concerns the investigation into the murder of a beautiful femme fatale played by Gene Tierney. I didn't find it to be quite up to the standards of my favourite film noirs (such as Double Indemnity and The Big Sleep), but it's nevertheless well worth a watch.
There were two other brilliant movies which I caught for the third time this week: Almost Famous and Boogie Nights. The themes of both films share a strong connection; both are set in the '70s and concern a young man running away from his parents to join a surrogate family. In Almost Famous, this family is made up of a rock band (and its associated hangers on) - in Boogie Nights, the family unit is made up of the cast and crew of adult movies. Anyway, both are great, great films with excellent soundtracks. Paul Thomas Anderson (who directed Boogie Nights, as well as Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood) is returning later on this summer with his first film for five years. It's called The Master, and explores the shadowy world of Scientology. I'll be waiting on tenterhooks until the movie's UK release date.
I didn't see any movies this week which I would regard as 'bad', but there were a few minor disappointments. The Page Turner was a French cuckoo-in-the-nest thriller which built up the tension very effectively, but was rather marred by a dull, anti climatic ending. Goon was a surprisingly sweet comedy about an ice hockey enforcer in the Canadian minor leagues, but I couldn't stand the idiotic, foul mouthed supporting character played by Jay Baruchel. My Week With Marilyn was a bit of a non event as a movie, but was brought up to 'slightly above par' by a great lead performance from Michelle Williams.
That just leaves me with Prometheus, Ridley Scott's prequel to Alien. It was a film which left me with rather conflicting emotions. On the one hand, it's a really ambitious, intelligent picture which at least attempts to do something interesting with its big budget (unlike a large number of other recent major Hollywood productions). I was impressed with some of the acting - Michael Fassbender, as David, the ship's android, and Noomi Rapace, the closest thing we have to Ripley in this film, Dr Elizabeth Shaw were both very good. On the other hand, the film was full of plot holes, unresolved plot threads and things that just didn't make much sense. These included (potential spoilers ahead) - why weren't the crew informed of the nature of their mission before they went aboard? Why would the ship's biologist attempt to pet a dangerous looking space snake? How exactly did the black goo create a super size facehugger? I feel like I should try to watch the film for a second time so that I can resolve my feelings about it, but until that point I'll have to give it the middling grade of 7/10.
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Q: Divide a big dataset in subsets of 100, calculate mean, and plot I have a huge data set that containts 30000 columns full with data. I want to take one row and plot the means of sets of 100 (the first 100 entries, the second 100 entries, and so on), so a total of 300 entries. I have the script for the plot ready, but I can't figure out how to divide my data into sets of 100.
Can anybody of you help? Thank you

A: It may be easier to melt the data, add a column identifier (1:300, repeated 100 times each), and then summarize by that column.
So something like:
library(dplyr)
df <- df %>%
   gather(Key, Value) %>%
   mutate(ID = rep(1:300, each = 100)) %>%
   group_by(Key, ID) %>%
   summarize(Mean = mean(Value))

ggplot(df) +
   geom_point(aes(x = ID, y = Mean))

You'll have to customize the code, since I don't have the data structure...

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"Skin O' My Tooth" His Memoirs, by his Confidential Clerk – Inscribed to the Detection Club - Baroness Orczy 1928 - Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London - First Edition	A unique and important association copy, in the scarce dust jacket. A gift from Baroness Orczy to the 'Detection Club', whose founder members include Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts. Baroness Orczy was initiated into the club in 1930.
Inscribed 'The Detection Club, With the author's compliments, Emmuska Orczy, Montecarlo 1932', and with the club library's pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown.
Short stories featuring Patrick Mulligan aka Skin O' My Tooth, the sharp Irish lawyer who is rather unkindly described as 'fat and rosy and comfortable as an Irish pig, with a face as stodgy as a boiled currant dumpling. His hair, I believe, would be red if he gave it a chance at all, but he wears it cropped so close to his bulky head that he looks bald in some lights'.	Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947), British author, artist, and creator of the now famous genre of 'armchair detective'. 'When Baroness Orczy was a struggling young author in London, before the success of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the editor of the Pearson magazines suggested she profit from the popularity of Sherlock Holmes by writing a series of detective stories. The result was The Old Man in the Corner, one of the great figures in the early detective story. During World War I, she founded the Women of England's Active Service League, which listed over 20,000 young volunteers, who canvassed across Britain to convince young men to join the war effort.
Provenance: The Detection Club, with their bookplate.
References: Ellery Queen, The Detective Short Story, 83. Reilly,Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (1980), 1140.


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Q: Float to int cast without conversion as constexpr to be used in switch So far i have this working outside of a switch statement but i really want to switch on a const float.
typedef union IntAndFloat
{
    float fvalue;
    uint32_t uivalue;
    int32_t ivalue;
};

constexpr uint32_t FloatToIntImpl(const IntAndFloat value) { return value.uivalue; }
constexpr uint32_t FloatConst(const float value) { return FloatToIntImpl({value});  }

int main()
{
    cout << FloatConst(1.0f) << endl;
    switch(0x3f800000)
    {
        case FloatConst(1.0f): cout << "hit" << endl; break;
    }

//example 2

//ugly version
int val = 0x3f800000;
switch (val)
{
    case 0xbf800000: cout << "-1" << endl; break;
    case 0x80000000://neg 0
    case 0x00000000: cout << "0" << endl; break;
    case 0x3f800000: cout << "1" << endl; break;
    case 0x40000000: cout << "2" << endl; break;
    case 0x40400000: cout << "3" << endl; break;
    case 0x40800000: cout << "4" << endl; break;
    case 0x40A00000: cout << "5" << endl; break;
    case 0x40C00000: cout << "6" << endl; break;
    case 0x40E00000: cout << "7" << endl; break;
    default: cout << IntToFloat(val) << endl;

}

//clean nice looking version
int val = FloatConst(1f);
switch (val)
{
    case FloatConst(-1f): cout << "-1" << endl; break;
    case FloatConst(-0f)://neg 0
    case FloatConst(0f): cout << "0" << endl; break;
    case FloatConst(1f): cout << "1" << endl; break;
    case FloatConst(2f): cout << "2" << endl; break;
    case FloatConst(3f): cout << "3" << endl; break;
    case FloatConst(4f): cout << "4" << endl; break;
    case FloatConst(5f): cout << "5" << endl; break;
    case FloatConst(6f): cout << "6" << endl; break;
    case FloatConst(7f): cout << "7" << endl; break;
    default: cout << IntToFloat(val) << endl;
}

}

On building in gcc you get:
error: accessing 'IntAndFloat::uivalue' member instead of initialized 'IntAndFloat::fvalue' member in constant expression

I don't know of any other way of doing it other then.
inline uint32_t FloatToUInt(float x) { return *(uint32_t*)&x; }

However that isnt constant.
I'm not even sure if this is possible and if it's not it should be.


With the match opening up as West Brom pursued an equaliser both sides had opportunities, as Chadli hit directly at Forster from 18 yards out before Tadic curled narrowly around at another end with Foster rooted to the place. But West Brom were not able to get them pay, Jonny Evans refused by Fraser Forster's excellent reaction save with nearly the final activity of the match.
A new manager in the Premier League always gives us a chance to size them up, see what makes them tick and if they have any certain quirks that we should be aware of. If anything it highlighted the paucity of options available to Ronald Koeman. Ashley Williams' late red card on Tuesday compounds the problem, leaving Koeman with some thinking to do when it comes to organising his defence this weekend.
The 2026 World Cup host won't be announced until May of 2020, but trying to put on a tournament across three countries is extremely complicated and the U.S., Mexico and Canada would be wise to use as much time as possible to work through all those difficulties.
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Comunità Ebraica di Casale Monferrato
Cultural activities program Virtual Tour
The Jewish Community
The Monferrato
Jewish Monferrato
La vita è una Fiaba - Sabato 6 luglio -
Jews in Monferrato
Moncalvo:
the Ghetto
and the Synagogue
The Jewish-Piedmontese
dialect
Jewish cooking
Jewish history in Monferrato
The first sure traces of Jews in Monferrato dates around 1492, year of the great expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Before, we don't know anything about a presence in the region of Jewish groups, that had, on the contrary, already settled in other zones of Piedmont.
This relatively late presence isn't strange: the history of the Monferrato's Jews is different from the one of the other Jewish groups that have lived in Piedmont. Casale and the marquisate have in fact had a political history independent from the Savoy, in whose orbit they entered only in the 1700's.
The Jews lived without many problems under the dynasty of the Paleologo (until 1533), under the Gonzaga (dukes of Mantua), and finally under the Gonzaga Nevers (from 1536 to 1708), even if in this period the Monferrato was upset by continuous wars which directly involved the Jews. They had in fact to pay large sums for the military expeditions, in order to have the right to live in a city.
In town they were subject to many limitations; in particular, during the Saint week and religious processions, it was avoided to the Jews to walk in some roads. They had the obligation to wear a distinctive symbol, a yellow band, from which they were exempted only when travelling, on the day of departure and on the day of arrival.
In 1611 the Jews were accused of ritual homicide, yet -differrently than in other places- this libel didn't have a tragic epilogue and at eventually they were completely exculpated.
The Jews of Casale mostly practiced the loan on pledge. In the community's archive many interesting documents can be found, concerning how the pledge was regulated, the interest rates a lender could ask (no more than 25 per cent), the damages to pay the debtor in case of the destruction of the pledge by act of G-d (pillages and fires) or for more banal and culpable causes (rats or wood worms).
The Monferrato's Jews also practiced commerce, even on wide scale. Jona Clava and Salomone Jona, as an example, in 1640 became the wheat suppliers of all Casale. Then, they extended their field of action to the commerce of jewels, peaks, spices and they even obtained the monopoly of the sale of game cards in Casale.
The Jews joined then the lead, rice and salt commerce. Their activity reached the apex when, in 1643, they were adjudicated the supplying of grain for all the French army in Casale: the general commander of the troops became their associate. They also obtained the contract for the construction of some fortifications, after having lent money without interests to the garrison's officers.
In 1708 the Monferrato was annexed to the Savoy's dominions and the Jewish condition got immediately worse. The first disposition, that wasn't followed by all the Jews, regarded the transfer of the Jewish population in one zone, from 1724. The ghetto was chosen in a wide quarter of Casale where many Jews already lived. The synagogue was built up in the centre of the neighbourhood, in a protected position, in the alley now called Salomone Olper. Even if the chosen quarter was large, it soon became very crowded: in 1761, 136 families lived in the ghetto of Casale, with a total of 673 people. It was the most populated ghetto in Piedmont after Turin.
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic occupation (1799-1814) took a momentary equality and the doors of the ghetto were eliminated.
Re-established with the Restoration, the doors fell definitively in 1848 when King Carl Alberto gave the Jews of Savoy civil rights. The Jews of Casale were then 850.
Soon the community began to grow thinner because, following the general phenomenon of the urbanism, the Jews of Casale moved to the newborn industrial cities, in particular to Turin and Milan.
The Community of Casale, that in 1931 counted still 112 persons, today, after World War II hardly has ten members.
Comunità Ebraica di Casale Monferrato - Vicolo Salomone Olper, 44 - CF. / P.IVA 82000390060
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Abstract : [en] Seven yellow eels (572–643 mm, 318–592 g) Anguilla anguilla (L.) were tagged with surgically implanted radio transmitters (activity circuit, 1.6–1.7 g) and tracked in the Awirs stream, a small (width <5 m, depth from 0.1 to 1.2 m), densely populated (ca. 250 kg of eel ha−1) tributary of the Belgian River Meuse. The eels were positioned daily from late April to mid-August, and their diel activity was studied during twenty four 24-h cycles. During day-time, the eels were resting in rootwads or in crevices inside stone walls or in crevices in between rocks. They became more active in the late afternoon but generally did not leave their residence before sunset, except under overcast weather. Activity peaked during the first part of the night then progressively vanished, and always ended before sunrise. The area exploited during night-time never extended over more than 40 m2, except when the eel changed its residence. The intensity and timing of nocturnal activity and the extent of the daily activity area were dependent on water temperature (respectively P<0.0001, P<0.05 and P<0.0005), with eels showing little or no activity when the diurnal temperature did not exceed 13 _C. Eels showed higher agitation under full moon and maintained their activity later in the night (P<0.05). The eels showed restricted mobility, and occupied small stream areas (from 0.01 to 0.10 ha) in a non sequential mode, except for two fish which were displaced to the River Meuse by a spate in early June and were never recovered. The length and frequency of net daily journeys were higher (P = 0.005) at water temperatures above 16 _C in late May and June, which also corresponded to the period of immigration of eels from the River Meuse. This study thus shows that large yellow eels may adopt a highly sedentary lifestyle in a continental, fast flowing and densely populated environment, even at periods of the year when these stages usually show upstream migrations.


I remember first seeing one of the Pink Panther movies at a drive-in theater as a kid. My dad was partial to Lom's Dreyfus character, who had an eye twitch and a propensity to attempt the murder of Clouseau. He'd play-act Lom's part for weeks after seeing the film, crazily mumbling "kill Clouseau" when someone mentioned the movie or one of the characters. He was a real card.


We are in a stretch of pretty good pollination weather, however it looks like we will get some wet weather towards the end of the weekend and into next week. If you are in Botrytis prone areas or you are concerned about this disease, an application before this next wet period would be worth considering.
We are starting to see the impacts of herbicide applications from this spring and last fall. The photo below was from a November 27th application of Kerb to control fescue. I applied it with a 2 metre CO2 sprayer. You can see the "control plot" in the centre of the screen that didn't receive any product.


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