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For the 10th consecutive year, Mekong Plus participated in the 20km of Brussels. On May 29, 2016, thousands of athletes ran through the streets of the capital. A beautiful demonstration of solidarity by the Mekong Plus team for the schooling of children in Vietnam!
Every year, during the 20 km of Brussels, in Vietnam we organnize a solidariry run. In 2015 they were a little more than 106.000! And they contributed 22.000 Euros for the scholarships fund.
More on this impressive solidarity program with figures and images: download here. It has an amazing impact on education. Every year more people join and less pupils drop out from school.


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Zero Has "Best Batteries", Fears Nobody, Says "No Scooters" and More
Nov 24, 2015 at 3:00pm ET
By: Ted Dillard
In a remarkably frank, and detailed interview from EICMA, our friends at AutoEvolution posted some very interesting comments and statements from Zero's Scott Harden. Brew up a cuppa, and have a nice sit-down and read the whole thing (here), but for a tease, here are the highlights we found particularly interesting.
On their strategy:
SH: ...Building two prototypes does not make you a motorcycle manufacturer, things are far more complicated than this.
ae: Lovely to see you being so confident, especially as Brammo is no more, and Mission Motors is also extinct. What do you think about such companies, that looked promising, but did not quite make it through?
SH: I believe we had a good strategy from the very start. We've always taken a stance that we wanted to be real, we wanted to talk about things we were REALLY doing.
We had a joke at the beginning of time, that if you could build one or two working prototypes and write a press release, you were an electric motorcycle manufacturer, but we always took it more seriously.
We only talked about the things we were PRODUCING, and we always had the strategy of building motorcycles, going to the market, continuing to improve them, and evolving them. Basically, building a real motorcycle that would be affordable and offer what the people needed.
Our studies show it, people are looking for the right balance of weight, range, performance, reliability, durability and cost. We wanted to be that company!
You know, Mission was a great motorcycle, but there is not much of a market for a $40,000 motorcycle. Brammo, they liked to write a lot of press releases about what they were going to do, and often nothing happened, and I don't think that people could ever trust what these were...
OK, we feel validated now. For years we've been of the opinion that much of the progress Zero made was because they "stuck to the knitting"... foregoing a lot of noise and blather, factory sponsored racing, vaporware concepts and other indulgences of larger companies, and put all of their resources into production and R/D.
On their goals for their model lines:
ae: What's more important for Zero, building new bikes, offering a model for virtually any type of rider, or making the current line-up better and more affordable?
SH: Definitely the latter...
Sorry Cruiser dudes.
Sales numbers?
SH: We could always sell more, that's sure. Our trend is in the right direction, even though I can't say our growth this year exceeded 30%.
We are still a small company, we don't even sell 10,000 units a year, it's much less than that, but we are happy with the progress, and so are our investors. We are looking forward to the day when Honda, Yamaha, or KTM will be serious about electric motorcycles.
OK, one last snippet, a little light shed on their investors, and the strategy there:
SH: We are very blessed with our investors, who are not the typical investors. They have very deep pockets; they manage a $4-5 billion fund and have plenty of money to see this project through. They are happy with the current state and don't need money from additional sources, so we can afford to be selective who we work with.
This is particularly interesting. It tells us a number of things about Zero's fairly unique position, especially in light of its past history of management, investor backing, and rate of innovation. It seems to us that a company has to have backing for the long-term in a game like this, with deep pockets, yet a laser focus on ultimate profitability. Sort of an interesting mix of visionary dreamer, well-heeled risk-taker, and grounded bean counters, dare we say?
Well, one very last snippet. Just a little jab, well, let's call it reality, pointed at Harley Davidson Livewire. A veiled jab, but nevertheless.
ae: What about the Harley-Davidson's LiveWire electric motorcycle project?
SH: What they did is great, because when they announced the model they attracted a lot of attention. We recorded the highest traffic on our website ever in that period, so it helped us. Seeing H-D going electric, even in prototype form validates what we are doing.
They literally acknowledged that electric bikes were coming. From that standpoint, it's great, from the execution standpoint, we blow them away. The bike is heavy, pricey and has a very low range.
I think they looked at it and understood that there is so much more work to do. When you start comparing apples to apples, you see how far Zero has come. With their deep pockets and talented design and R&D people, the LiveWire was the best they could come up with...
ooOOOoo, the burn.
Thanks to AutoEvolution for the insightful interview (which we encourage you to check out in full here), and Harden for some forthright discussion. annnnnnd, a tip of the hat to Chris Rowe for the heads up!
ZeroCast: Z-Force Motors with Ryan Biffard
Stay tuned, on Dec. 9 Zero is hosting its third ZeroCast, this time featuring Ryan Biffard and the Z-Force Motor story. Details here, on the Facebook.
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Neil is a Kentuckian; he was born in Louisville and raised in Fern Creek, a small community in south eastern Jefferson County. As a graduate of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry, Neil received his degree in Dentistry from the University of Kentucky in 1977. Since that time, he has been in private practice in Cynthiana, Kentucky. The focus of his professional practice is Family Dentistry with an emphasis on Primary Care.
Neil is active in, and a member of, several volunteer organizations in Cynthiana and Lexington. He is a member and officer of the Cynthiana Presbyterian Church, a member of the Inquisitors Club, the Kentucky Civil War Roundtable, the volunteer faculty of the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, and the local advisory board to the Boyd's Station Project. He is also on the Board of Harrison County Educational Foundation and the Executive Board of the Blue Grass Dental Society.
Neil shares a love of History with his brothers, and together they have been on many of the Witnessing History Tours. Neil has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Witnessing History Foundation, Inc. since 2017. Neil accompanies Kent Masterson Brown on all of the battlefield tours as an assistant and aide; he also accompanies him as an assistant and aide for filming session for all of Witnessing History's film productions.


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V&A East – Plans unveiled for new museum and collection centre in East London
Main Image: The V&A East will be a new five-story museum and collection centre. © O'Donnell + Tuomey / Ninety90, 2018
The V&A East project will, the museum says, 'revolutionise how its world-leading collection of art, design and performance is accessed, explored and experienced'
Plans to create two interconnected sites in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – a brand-new museum at Stratford Waterfront, and a new collection and research centre at Here East have been unveiled by the V&A Museum today.
Scheduled to open in 2023 as part of East Bank, a £1.1bn centre for culture, education, innovation as part of the Olympic legacy, V&A East will provide a purpose-built home for 250,000 objects and an additional 917 archives spanning the breadth of the V&A's collection
The five-storey museum will also host a unique and unprecedented partnership between the V&A and the Smithsonian Institution – 'the largest museum and research complex in the world', which will provide an exhibition programme and a jointly-curated gallery at the Waterfront.
V&A East will be a five-storey museum and collection centre. © O'Donnell + Tuomey / Ninety90, 2018
At Here East, the new collection and research centre – with a design led by New York-based practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro (supported by Austin-Smith:Lord) – will, the museum says, 'reinvent the idea of a museum store'. Visitors will have the opportunity to go on behind-the-scenes journeys that uncover and demonstrate how and why objects are collected, how they are cared for, conserved, researched and displayed, and how they help make sense of our past, present and future.
"V&A East is timely and ambitious," said V&A Deputy Director and COO Tim Reeve. "It will – for the first time – illuminate the entire lifecycle of museum practice in a transformational experience for visitors. From the moment of an object's acquisition, through its conservation, the research, enquiry and debate that follow, to its display as part of the story of an exhibition, this 360-degree view is unprecedented and will revolutionise how people experience, and are inspired by, our collection.
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The V&A recently opened a new museum in Scotland, V&A Dundee and last year was a partner in the opening of a new design museum in Shenzhen, China. "We are continuing to open up the vast collection that the V&A holds on the nation's behalf. We hope that V&A East becomes a place that sparks the imagination and provides creative opportunity for generations to come."
The collection and research centre will bring treasures out of storage and into public view for the first time in generations and is being designed by Dublin-based architects O'Donnell + Tuomey. A central public collection hall will turn the store inside out, the museum says, with a rich array of objects on rotating display for visitors to explore – from some of the V&A's smallest curiosities to the largest and most significant rooms and building fragments in the collection.
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Painfully White: Paco Romane's Solo Show
Painfully White is Paco's first solo show about growing up in the 1970's and 80's in a small, racist town with a white mom and a black step-father whose last name was White.
Paco's lived with his biological father and step-mother (and two step-sisters and then eventually three adopted kids) during the week and then stayed with his mom and step-father on weekends. Going back and forth between white culture and black culture and trying to seamlessly exist in both worlds. As the youngest of ten children (Kevin, Fuzzy, Lynette, Sheila, Sabrina, Sue, Steve, David, Jeni, Nikki) he also had to create his own spotlight and work hard to be noticed.
Painfully White also looks at how did the White/Black cultures clash and blend as he tried to discover himself? From Slapshot to Dolemite to AC/DC to Cannonball Addrerley which culture, which family should he belong to?
He tries to figure it out in Painfully White.
This was performed on May 5th at the Exit Theater in SF in the "Yes To Everything" solo show festival.


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MLK: Declaration of Independence from the War
July 4, 2012 Augustus	2 Comments
The sixteenth chapter of The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace contains Dr. Martin Luther King's 1967 speech Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam. The speech, which is also known as Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence ,was given in the Manhattan's Riverside Church exactly one year before King was assassinated. It is sad to realize that Dr. King's 45 year old attempt to seek freedom from war applies equally to the Vietnam War as it does to the wars that the United States is now waging in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen.
Through the lens of history, it is hard to understand how controversial the speech was in 1967. It is common wisdom today that the Vietnam War was a mistake, despite the US government's recently started 10-year plan to rehabilitate American's view of that war. In 1967, all the major media backed the Vietnam War. Dr. King was regularly attacked in national newspapers such as the New York Times for speaking out against the Vietnam War. Peace activists are still attacked in today's media for opposing today's wars for the same reasons that Dr. King cites.
Dr. King responds to his critics who say that he should only speak about the domestic issue of civil rights, and keep silent on the VietNam War. The critics make the lesser evil argument that Dr. King is hurting the cause of civil rights by speaking out against the war. Dr. Kings explains in the introduction of his speech that those critics misunderstand both who he is , and misunderstand"the world in which they live." Dr. King gives seven reasons why he must speak out:
Economic. The Vietnam War drains federal funds that could used to alleviate poverty. It becomes useless to speak out against poverty as a civil rights issue when the funds to resolve it are being diverted to war. The same goes for the US today where we are told we cannot afford single-payer universal health care, to fight global warming or save homes from foreclosure, yet 53% of the federal budget goes to war.
Segregation. The people most likely to be sent to war are those who have the fewest rights back home. Dr. King spoke of Blacks and Whites "brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago." There is still segregation today, and those victims of segregation are still the most likely to serve. The only difference is that in 1967 the wealthy could manipulate the draft exemptions in order to avoid serve, while today's voluntary military has an economic draft where those same victims of segregation are given no other choice to survive but to enter the military.
Nonviolence. Dr. King was asked by angry young men how he could preach nonviolence to them when the government used violence to solve its problems. In response, he swore to never "raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government." This is the part of the speech that always touched me the deepest because it seemed to involve the most personal soul searching.
Civil Rights. Dr. King addresses the question of whether being a civil rights leader excludes him from speaking about peace. he explains that when they organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) that their motto was: "To save the soul of America". Their concern was not limited to the needs of African-Americans or through the sole perspective of civil rights.They understood that they must approach change as the betterment of all. Dr King came to see that "if.America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read 'Vietnam.'"
"Brotherhood of Man" First, Dr. King discusses the secular commitment place on him by being awarded the Nobel peace prize to work not just to save the soul of america, but to work for the betterment of all humankind.
Ministry Moving to his responsibility as a Christian pastor, he is astounded that anyone can even question his duty to work for peace: Could it be that they do not know that the Good News was meant for all men—for communist and capitalist, for their children and ours, for black and for white, for revolutionary and conservative?
Christianity. Lastly, as an individual who believes that all humanity are children of God, Dr. King feels a calling to speak out: We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation, for those it calls "enemy," for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.
Only after explaining his reasons for speaking out against the war does Dr. King move on to reviewing the history of the conflict. First, he explains the death and suffering caused to the ordinary people of Vietnam by the governments of France and the Unites States engaging in three decades of war. Part of the litany of terror is:
They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. They wander into the hospitals with at least twenty casualties from American firepower for one Vietcong-inflicted injury. So far we may have killed a million of them, mostly children. They wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals. They see the children degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food.
Dr. King asks a series of questions aloud what the ordinary Vietnamese citizens must think of our intentions:
What do they think as we test out our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe?
Dr. King then turns to what must be the most difficult section of his talk, but the one that he felt the greatest calling to address as a Christian:
Perhaps a more difficult but no less necessary task is to speak for those who have been designated as our enemies.
He details the history of betrayals as the Vietnamese fought a series of wars of independence from the Japanese, then the French, and finally America. He chronicles the lies that paved over the missed opportunities to make the Vietnamese an ally of the French and the Americans instead of a battleground.
Dr. King then returns to the concern he first raised in his second reason for opposing the war:
At this point I should make it clear that while I have tried to give a voice to the voiceless in Vietnam and to understand the arguments of those who are called "enemy," I am as deeply concerned about our own troops there as anything else.
He regrets the physiological nad physical damage we have imposed on our fellow Americans for no good reason:
Before long they must know that their government has sent them into a struggle among Vietnamese, and the more sophisticated surely realize that we are on the side of the wealthy, and the secure, while we create a hell for the poor.
Surely this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroy, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and dealt death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as one who loves America, to the leaders of our own nation: The great initiative in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours.
Reflecting Dr. King's own call for an end to the war he quotes a "great Buddhist leader from Vietnam."
Each day the war goes on the hatred increased in the hearts of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom, and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism.
I have always imagined quoted Buddhist leader to be Thich Nhat Hanh, who had urged Dr. King to speak out against the Vietnam War and who Dr. King, in turn, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967.
Dr. King sets out a five-step plan to disengage from the Vietnam War and issues a call for others to join. He then looks at the war as merely a symptom of a larger problem with America.
It is with such activity that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. I am convinced that if we are to get on to the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin, we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see than an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just."…
He contininues with a call to look inside our soul as a nation.
The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Dr. King looks to the path we should take in the future.
This kind of positive revolution of values is our best defense against communism. War is not the answer. Communism will never be defeated by the use of atomic bombs or nuclear weapons. Let us not join those who shout war.
The same can be said for the new name menace that has become the new excuse for war, hatred, and oppression: Terrorism. Dr. King warns us of how we will be judged if we do not leave our destructive path:
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.
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A curated list of shell commands and tools for use in OS X.

## Table of Contents
- [Networking](#networking)
    - [ARP Table](#arptable)
- [Tools](#tools)
    - [FileMerge](#filemerge)

## Networking

### Local Network

#### Find IP and MAC addresses of local machines
Show the IP and MAC address of all devices on the network that have been successfully probed or connected to.
```bash
# ARP Table
arp -a
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## Tools

### Compare and Merge Files or Directores

#### Compare using FileMerge utility in OS X
FileMerge can find the differences between two text files, as well as compare two directories with the ability to merge them into a single directory that eliminates duplicate files.
```bash
# opendiff
opendiff File1.rtf File2.rtf
```

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January 3, 2014 - Vol 10, Issue 1
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Insights Gained Into Tourette Syndrome
New insight into what causes the uncontrolled movement and noises (tics) in people with Tourette syndrome may lead to new non-drug treatments for the disorder, a new study suggests. These tics appear to be caused by defective wiring in the brain that results in "hyper-excitability" in the regions that control motor function, according to the researchers at the University of Nottingham in England. "This new study is very important as it indicates that motor and vocal tics in children may be controlled by brain changes that alter the excitability of brain cells ahead of voluntary movements," Stephen Jackson, a professor in the school of psychology, said in a university news release. "You can think of this as a bit like turning the volume down on an over-loud motor system. This is important as it suggests a mechanism that might lead to an effective non-pharmacological therapy for Tourette syndrome." To read more, click here
Early Elective Childbirth May Raise Health Risks for Babies, Moms
Pregnant women who choose to have an early delivery put themselves and their babies at increased risk for complications, researchers warn. A full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks, while an early-term pregnancy is 37 weeks to 38 weeks and six days. In about 10 percent to 15 percent of all deliveries in the United States performed before 39 weeks, there is no good medical reason for the early delivery, according to the researchers. Illness and death rates "have increased in mothers and their babies that are born in the early-term period compared to babies born at 39 weeks or later. There is a need to improve awareness about the risks associated with this," Dr. Jani Jensen, a Mayo Clinic obstetrician and lead author of a review article on the topic, said in a Mayo news release. To read more, click here
Eating More Nuts During Pregnancy Might Help Prevent Allergies in Kids
Women who eat nuts during pregnancy -- and who aren't allergic themselves -- are less likely to have kids with nut allergies, a new study suggests. Dr. Michael Young, an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues collected data on more than 8,200 children of mothers who took part in the Nurses' Health Study II. The women had reported what they ate before, during and after their pregnancies. About 300 of the children had food allergies. Of those, 140 were allergic to peanuts and tree nuts. To read more, click here
Girls' Brain Connectivity Happens Sooner Than for Boys
New brain research suggests one reason girls mature faster than boys during their teen years. As people age, their brains reorganize and reduce connections. In this study, scientists examined brain scans from 121 healthy people, aged 4 to 40. It's during this period that the major changes in brain connectivity occur. The researchers discovered that although the overall number of connections is reduced, the brain preserves long-distance connections important for integrating information. The findings might explain why brain function doesn't decline -- but instead improves -- during this period of connection pruning, according to the research team. To read more, click here
Big Strides in Battle Against Pediatric AIDS
The effect that AIDS is having on American kids has improved greatly in recent years, thanks to effective drugs and prevention methods. The same cannot be said, however, for children worldwide. "Maternal-to-child transmission is down exponentially [in the United States] because we do a good job at preventing it," said Dr. Kimberly Bates, director of a clinic for children and families with HIV/AIDS at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In fact, the chances of a baby contracting HIV from his or her mother is now less than 1 percent in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To read more, click here
Therapy That Confronts Trauma of Sexual Abuse Helped Teen Girls With PTSD
Teen girls struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from sexual abuse do well when treated with a type of therapy that asks them to repeatedly confront their traumatic memories, according to a small new study. The study's results suggest that "prolonged exposure therapy," which is approved for adults, is more effective at helping adolescent girls overcome post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than traditional supportive counseling. "Prolonged exposure is a type of cognitive behavior therapy in which patients are asked to recount aloud several times their traumatic experience, including details of what happened during the experience and what they thought and felt during the experience," said study author Edna Foa, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. To read more, click here
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Behavioral Therapy Might Ease Kids' Migraine Symptoms
A specific type of therapy helps reduce the number of migraines and migraine-related disabilities in children and teens, according to a new study. The findings provide strong evidence for the use of "cognitive behavioral therapy" -- which includes training in coping with pain -- in managing chronic migraines in children and teens, said study leader Scott Powers, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and colleagues. The therapy should be routinely offered as a first-line treatment, along with medications, he said. To read more, click here
Study Finds Autism More Challenging For Caregivers
Caregivers of kids with autism report more trouble accessing services and a greater impact on their families than do parents of children with other developmental disabilities. Despite having some similar needs, a new study indicates that the experiences of families living with autism differ significantly from those with intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities as well as those with mental health conditions. To read more,click here
Feds Report Boost In Disability Hiring
The number of federal workers with disabilities is on the rise, with a new report finding that such employment has reached its highest level in more than three decades. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management said in a report released Thursday that the nation's largest employer added 16,653 new employees with disabilities during the 2012 fiscal year, bringing the total to nearly 220,000. That's more people with disabilities than have been employed by the government at any other time in the last 32 years, officials said. To read more, click here
Disability advocates are protesting a move by the U.S. Department of Education that they say could leave students in the hands of poor-quality teachers. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, a coalition of almost 100 civil rights and disability advocacy groups including the Council for Exceptional Children, The Arc and the National Down Syndrome Society, among others, blasted federal education officials for what they called "apparent backtracking" on measures to ensure that all children have access to good-quality teachers. To read more, click here
Students With Disabilities in Florida District Outpace Peers on NAEP
Students with disabilities in Hillsborough County (Tampa), Fla., did markedly better than the national average of students with disabilities on the 2013 administration of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the "Nation's Report Card." Hillsborough County and 20 other urban districts have their scores reported separately, as part of the Trial Urban District Assessment, or TUDA. The special analysis of urban district performance started in 2002. Overall, scores on the TUDA were stagnant compared to the last time the tests were administered, in 2011. Candace Cortiella, the director of the Advocacy Institute, analyzed the results of the TUDA districts on her blog Our Kids Count. As she noted, Hillsborough's performance was one bright spot in a set of scores that showed most students with disabilities in urban districts are scoring well below the the average of students with disabilities nationwide. And the achievement gaps between students with disabilities and their general education peers remains wide, both in urban districts and nationwide. To read more, click here
House Education Committee Requests Report on IDEA Paperwork Burden
Two House Education Committee leaders are asking the Government Accountability Office to find out which parts of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act create the most paperwork for schools and districts, and to figure out why no state has taken advantage of paperwork-reduction pilot programs that were written into the law when it was reauthorized nearly 10 years ago. U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., the chairman of the House Education and the Workforce committee, and Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., the chairman of the House education subcommittee on K-12 policy, both signed the letter, dated Dec. 17. In it, they also asked the agency to find out if innovative technology could play a role in reducing paperwork, and if administrative redundancies make the paperwork problem worse. To read more, click here
Two-Drug Combo Helps Adolescents With ADHD, Aggression
Prescribing both a stimulant and an antipsychotic drug to children with physical aggression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), along with teaching parents to use behavior management techniques, reduces aggressive and serious behavioral problems in the children, according to a study conducted by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The study was conducted in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh, Stony Brook University in New York and Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. The findings published online this week ahead of publication in the January issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. To read more, click here
Making Sad Sense of Child Abuse
When a man in Israel was accused of sexually abusing his young daughter, it was hard for many people to believe -- a neighbor reported seeing the girl sitting and drinking hot chocolate with her father every morning, laughing, smiling, and looking relaxed. Such cases are not exceptional, however. Children react to sexual and physical abuse in unpredictable ways, making it hard to discern the clues. Now Dr. Carmit Katz of Tel Aviv University's Bob Shapell School of Social Work has found that when parents are physically abusive, children tend to accommodate it. But when the abuse is sexual, they tend to fight or flee it unless it is severe. The findings, published in Child Abuse & Neglect, help explain children's behavior in response to abuse and could aid in intervention and treatment. To read more, click here
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Fight the Fade - What We Know
May 3, 2012 By Lee Brown in Reviews | Comments closed
Artist: Fight the Fade
Album: What We Know
Label: EYC Records
Reviewer: Lee Brown
Breaking Perceptions
Sycar
A Day Is coming
I Repent (Bonus Track)
Those in the music business who believe in Jesus Christ typically take one of two paths: Either their music is "simply" shaped by their faith, or their music "simply" is their ministry. For the former group, producing exquisite music that honors their faith is the goal. For the second, the goal is the where the music will open up the life of someone, somewhere, to the truth of Christ. Of course, the word simply is in quotes to note that you can never give "simple" generalizations. However, the crux of the matter remains. Where some bands produce music and pray that God will use it, some actively seek to produce ministry and wrap it in a musical message.
Fight the Fade clearly goes beyond "simply" being influenced by their faith to a place where the band itself is first and foremost a ministry. And they don't try to hide it. In fact, they make no bones of pointing out that they have given away over 10,000 copies of their previous albums at shows. The idea is simple, get the message out there at all costs.
It's with this heart that the band is set to release the upcoming What We Know. The album follows their first studio album American Missionary, and features new lead vocalist Zene Smith. Stylistically it meanders from rock to grunge and incorporates a dash of some harder elements here and there. If I had to guess at the musical inspirations, I would place my bets on a mixture of bands from Disciple to Underoath.
At just eight tracks, (actually seven if you consider that the last song is listed as a bonus track) What We Know is a rather quick listen. The album begins with "House of Cards," which you can download for free from their website. As an opening track "House of Cards" is a wise choice. The song combines many of the musical elements which recur throughout the rest of the album. In terms of the message of the song, FTF conveys a message of living for the true source of life and tearing down the fake things we try to base our life on.
"Breaking Perceptions" and the title track "What We Know" pick up where the first track leaves off with some deep guitar riffs and melodic crooning. Fans of Disciple and the 2010 (or so) line up of Decyfer Down will find a style that feels familiar and comfortable. Both tracks continue the message of hope, while moving the message sharply into the realms of declaration and testimony.
"Tomorrow" speaks to the pain of losing a loved one and not knowing where you may not get another chance to tell someone you love them. "Sycar" quickly returns the album to a testimonial focus while focusing on Jesus' promise to "drink this water and never thirst again." "A Day is Coming" serves as the bands' battle song, stating, "a day is coming when we will arise. It's already started to bottle up inside. So strap on your armor, raise your shields to the sky, cause a day is coming when your walls are set on fire." If you only get the chance to sample one FTF track leading into this album, "A Day is Coming" is a great place to start. While it certainly doesn't break any molds, it shows an energy and passion that characterizes FTF.
"Collapse" repeats the lyrics of the opening track, only setting them to more of a power-ballad feel. If one is to consider this the "official" final track of the album, it fits well as in its role… However, there's the "bonus track." From a ministry standpoint, it makes sense that "I Repent" close out the album. In concert, this is certainly that song the band should play after pretending they're done with their set list; possibly doing a short worship set afterward for good measure. For the flow of an album, however, "Collapse" makes more sense to close out the album.
Overall: "What We Know" is ministry in the form of music. The album has potential to find FTF a solid fan base, but possibly fits too comfortably into the mold of some of the bands mentioned above (especially Disciple). Make no mistakes, though, this album is a vehicle for its message. Despite its short set list, the band refuses to miss a single opportunity to present the risen Christ. At only eight tracks, however, just as you're becoming friends it's time to say goodbye.
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import numpy as np
import os

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from tau_leap_latent import population_at_equilibrum

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# Function Get beta
#
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def get_beta(densitySubPrefecture_filename,
             polygonPointsSubPrefecture_filename,
             subPrefectureNumbering_filename,
             r,
             c):
    '''
    Compute the beta parameter
    '''
    with open(densitySubPrefecture_filename, "rb") as pickleFile:
        RhoPolygons = p.load(pickleFile)
    with open(polygonPointsSubPrefecture_filename, "rb") as pickleFile:
        PolygonPoints = p.load(pickleFile)
        community = len(PolygonPoints.keys())
        listing = PolygonPoints.keys()
    with open(subPrefectureNumbering_filename, "rb") as pickleFile:
        ConnectionNumber = p.load(pickleFile)

    beta = np.zeros(community)
    for i in listing:
        k = RhoPolygons[i] * (np.pi) * r ** 2
        beta[ConnectionNumber[i] - 1] = -k * \
            np.log(1 - c[ConnectionNumber[i] - 1])

    return beta

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# Function save_results
#
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def save_results(S, I, R, A, ES=None, EI=None, ER=None, directory='Results'):
    """
    Save the result of the number of people in each different states
    in in separate files
    """
    if not os.path.exists(directory):
        os.makedirs(directory)
    with open(directory + '/S.p', 'wb') as fp:
        p.dump(S, fp)
    with open(directory + '/I.p', 'wb') as fp:
        p.dump(I, fp)
    with open(directory + '/R.p', 'wb') as fp:
        p.dump(R, fp)
    if type(ES) != None:
        with open(directory + '/ES.p', 'wb') as fp:
            p.dump(ES, fp)
    if type(EI) != None:
        with open(directory + '/EI.p', 'wb') as fp:
            p.dump(EI, fp)
    if type(ER) != None:
        with open(directory + '/ER.p', 'wb') as fp:
            p.dump(ER, fp)
    with open(directory + '/A.p', 'wb') as fp:
        p.dump(A, fp)

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#
# Function get_transition_probability
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def get_transition_probability(filename):
    with open(filename, "rb") as pickleFile:
        Tlist = p.load(pickleFile)
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    # Transition Probability
    #
    Tarray = np.array(Tlist, dtype=np.float)
    O = np.ones((255, 255)) - np.identity(255)
    Tarray = Tarray * O

    with np.errstate(invalid='ignore'):
        res1 = Tarray * (1 / Tarray.sum(axis=1))

    for i in xrange(255):
        for j in xrange(255):
            if np.isnan(res1[i, j]):
                res1[i, j] = 0.0
    #
    # Per Capita Leaving Rate
    #
    res2 = Tarray.sum(axis=1) / Tarray.sum()
    return res1, res2

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#
# Function compute_population_at_equilibrium
#
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def compute_population_at_equilibrium(
        N0,
        dim,
        sigma,
        nu,
        rho,
        total_population):

    N = np.zeros((dim, dim))
    for i in range(dim):
        Ni = np.sum(N0.reshape(dim, dim), axis=1)
        N[i, :] = np.floor(
            population_at_equilibrum(i, sigma, nu, rho, Ni[i]) * total_population)
    return N

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# Function compute_population_at_equilibrium
#
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def initial_population(areaSubPrefecture_filename,
                       densitySubPrefecture_filename,
                       polygonPointsSubPrefecture_filename,
                       subPrefectureNumbering_filename,
                       Totalpopulation):

    with open(areaSubPrefecture_filename, "rb") as pickleFile:
        AreaPolygons = p.load(pickleFile)
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        RhoPolygons = p.load(pickleFile)
    with open(polygonPointsSubPrefecture_filename, "rb") as pickleFile:
        PolygonPoints = p.load(pickleFile)
        community = len(PolygonPoints.keys())
        listing = PolygonPoints.keys()
    with open(subPrefectureNumbering_filename, "rb") as pickleFile:
        ConnectionNumber = p.load(pickleFile)
    N0 = np.zeros(community)
    for i in listing:
        N0[ConnectionNumber[i] - 1] = AreaPolygons[i] * \
            RhoPolygons[i] / float(Totalpopulation)
    return np.identity(community) * N0


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The wooden sculptures depict some of the wildlife that can be seen around the reserve and on the adjacent Stort Navigation.
The barn owl, dragonfly, water vole, woodpecker and otter seat were all commissioned by Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust, who own Thorley Wash, and were carved by local artist Dan Cordell.
The Thorley Wash project is supported by the Rural Development Programme for England, for which Defra is the managing authority, part financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas.
Jenny Sherwen, the Trust's Community Nature Reserves Officer for Thorley Wash, said: "Explore the newly opened trail route, see the new sculptures and have a look at our recent restoration work. It is going to be very exciting this spring to see what wildflowers and other wildlife appear. I hope to see you at our open day in May!"
The reserve can be accessed from the Stort Navigation - park in Spellbrook Lane East and walk north along the Navigation. Refreshments are available at the Three Horseshoes Pub on Spellbrook Lane East.


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If you're looking to save a little money on your flea/tick or heartworm preventative by purchasing a name brand from an online pharmacy or by purchasing a "generic" from another store, BE CAREFUL. Here are a few reasons why you would be better off purchasing a well-known brand from your veterinarian.
1) Products sold through a licensed veterinarian are generally guaranteed through the manufacturer to be safe and effective. If the product does not work for you or your pet is one of the small percentage of animals that has a bad reaction to the product, the company will generally refund your purchase and/or cover the cost of treatment if the product made your pet ill or was ineffective.
2) So-called "generics" often do not contain the same ingredients or the same amounts of active ingredients as the brand-name products, and therefore do not kill and control pests in the same way or as effectively.
3) Reported reactions for over the counter, "generic" products seem to be higher in frequency and more severe in their effect.
4) Over the counter products, if applied incorrectly, can be deadly to your pet. The client-veterinarian relationship helps to ensure that pet owners are properly instructed about dosing and application of flea/tick products, many of which can be deadly if they are ingested, applied at the wrong dosage, or applied to the wrong species (i.e. putting a dog's medication onto a cat).
5) The FDA has "shut down 1677 online pharmacies for selling counterfeit or substandard medication, or for selling drugs without appropriate safegards." (CNN article, below) Licensed veterinarians purchase their medications from reputable distributors and, often, directly from the manufacturer, so you know you're buying the real thing.
6) Most flea/tick and heartworm preventative manufacturers only want their products to be sold through a licensed veterinarian, which means that if the product proves to be ineffective and you purchased it from an online pharmacy, you may have no recourse. For example, if you buy heartworm preventative over the web and your pet comes up positive for heartworms months later, the online pharmacy is not going to help you pay for your pet's treatment, which could run into the $1000s AND have long-lasting implications for your pet's continued health.


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Ex-Wife Of murder suspect Arthur Simpson-Kent Accused Of Murdering Actress Spills More Distasteful Things About Him....
The ex-wife of murder suspect Arthur Simpson-Kent has told how he turned from a 'kind, quiet gentleman' into a depressed, jealous thug who beat her and their baby daughter.
Dominique Deblieux, 42, said her ex-husband – who is suspected of murdering EastEnders actress Sian Blake and their two young sons – also took steroids and was a member of a black supremacist cult.
She told the Mail how the couple divorced in 2008 after she grew tired of supporting him financially.
But he left her and their daughter Isis, now 18, destitute after racking up £40,000 of debt in her name.
Speaking from her home in southern France yesterday, Miss Deblieux said she was 'horrified' to learn what her former husband, 48, is suspected of.
But she said it was her daughter who had been most affected, saying she was 'traumatised' to hear her father is a suspected triple killer.
According to Miss Deblieux, Mr Simpson-Kent has fathered eight children by six women, including Miss Blake – whose body and those of her sons Zachary, eight, and Amon, four, were found buried in the family's garden in Erith, south east London, on Tuesday.
The suspect is now believed to be on the run in Ghana.
'My daughter is heartbroken,' said Miss Deblieux. 'She was already so upset that he rejected her all her life and now this is like stab through the heart.'
But despite revealing her ex-husband's violent past, she said she could not believe he was a killer, saying: 'When I heard the news, I was completely shocked – I thought "have I been living with a child murderer?"'
'Beating, yes, but killing, cold blooded murder, and killing children, I can't believe it.'
Discussing his current whereabouts, she said: 'I think he will be in Ghana. Even with me, he always wanted to go back to Ghana. But I think he may kill himself before they find him. I hope he does.'
The boys he murdered alongside their mom
His wife, (the mother of the boys) murdered with her sons


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In 1999 Adrian was recruited to the C1RCA team making him the 2nd rider to join Chad Muska and the brands debut, shortly after Jamie Thomas would join, creating one of the most dynamic trios in skateboarding at the time.
Adrian has been a staple member of the C1RCA team and to this day is the brands leading ambassador.
When Adrian was given the opportunity to design his first signature shoe the AL202 back in 2001, it really was an honor for him due to the other riders he would join in the pro shoe ranks.
"I couldn't believe I was getting a shoe after Chad Muska and Jamie Thomas, It was a big deal back then".
In 2004 Adrian would debut his 2nd signature shoe the AL50 which has become the longest running model for the brand and is an icon in the world of skate shoes. To this day the AL50 is a staple within the C1RCA footwear collection and continues to see increased demand.
Over the years Adrian has some incredible memories with the brand, from video projects and world tours.
Video Radio – Transworld video (2001)
"The C1RCA / Transworld Skateboarding Video Radio tour was a great experience traveling through 9 countries for 3 weeks with Chad Muska, Jamie Thomas, Chris Cole, Mark Appleyard, Tom Penny, and the rest of the team", it was wild times".
It's Time – C1RCA video (2006)
"Hitting the road for the It's Time video tour was an amazing time, especially after all the hard work that went in to getting this video completed. Had some wild times with Jon Allie, Peter Ramondette, Sierra Fellers, Windsor James and the rest of the team traveling to promote the video and just get back out in front of all of the fans".


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Blog | March 2019 | How to Create a DIY Rosette Bouquet for Mother's Day!
Flowers are synonymous with Mother's Day. A beautiful gift, they brighten up any home with springtime cheer and are sure to put a smile on the face of any mum. But, how great would it be if you could create your own beautiful bouquet to gift?
We've teamed up with our Design Team member Claire Gladman, who today will be showing you how to create your own Rosette Bouquet, bursting with beautiful handmade paper flowers. So simple to create with just a few folds and scores, these rosette flowers would make the perfect gift for the special lady in your life (or for yourself for that matter!) and she will really appreciate that you've taken the time to make them.
Whilst these would make a wonderful last minute gift for Mother's Day, with the sentiment removed or changed, they'd make a lovely project to brighten up your shelf or table.
The rosettes can be made to any size or colour and can be decorated for any colour scheme or occasion. For our paper rosettes today, we used the beautiful new Gardenia paper pad from First Edition. With gorgeous nature-inspired designs and colours, they work perfectly for this project and will look wonderful in your home, bringing some floral magic with them.
We're also showing you how to create a quick paper vase for your bouquet as well, although you could use your own to display your paper flowers. We have a free template here to help you create your vase.
Read on to find out how to create your own DIY Rosette Bouquet with our handy tutorial.
1. Take a 12" x 12" square of the Gardenia green wood effect paper and cut out the net from the free template.
2. Cut a 2" x 2" square of cardboard and stick to the centre square.
3. Assemble the vase by sticking down the panels to each side and pop in a rectangular piece of oasis to fit.
4. Cut four small rectangles of gold mirror card. Two measuring 1" x 2" and two measuring 1" x 2.2". Attach these halfway up each rectangle to the top of each side of the box.
5. Cut a 4.1 x 3.2cm square of smooth white card and border with gold mirror card. Die cut a Thank You sentiment in gold and stick to the centre of the panel. Attach this using a peg to the front of the vase.
1. Next, it's time to make a start on the flowers. For the large flower, cut four 12" x 2" strips of gardenia paper, score at each ½ inch, concertina fold and attach together.
2. Fold inwards, push together and use a glue gun to fix in place. Die cut a 1 ½"circle of rose gold mirror card and attach to either side in the centre.
3. Then create a smaller rose gold rosette using the exact same method but with strips measuring 8" x 1". Add ¾" die cut circles of rose gold mirror card to the centre of each side, embellish with a button and attach to the centre of the larger rosette using a glue gun.
4. To finish, adhere two craft sticks together and glue gun them up through the back of the rosette.
5. Now create four medium sized rosettes using four 8" x 1" strips using the method above. Then create one smaller rose gold rosette using four 5" x 3/4" strips.
6. Once all the rosettes have been glued to sticks and embellished with buttons, arrange into the vase.
7. Die cut two butterflies from gold and rose gold mirror card and attach these to the flowers.
There you have it! You've created your very own paper flower rosette bouquet. Perfect for gifting or popping on display in your own home, we think that this is a super versatile make that you can turn to again and again. What's great is that you don't need an occasion to create these (even though they'd make the perfect handmade gift for Mother's Day)!
Alternatively, why not turn your rosettes into bunting or a card topper?
What did you think to our rosette bouquet tutorial? Will you be giving it a try? Don't forget to show us your makes in the Inspiration area, or #Trimcraft on social media as we really do love to see what you create.
You can also follow Claire on Instagram here, or check out her makes on our blog.


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Retirement Should Be An Option Not A Luxury
Posted bybobbyzane420 April 4, 2022 Posted inOp-Ed, Uncategorized
In the past week, we've learned that Bruce Willis, at 67, is retiring from acting after it was publicly announced he has been diagnosed with aphasia and probably struggling with it for a few years. For most of his career and especially, the last 10 years, he has been the subject of jokes for his choices in movies, most of which he usually filmed his scenes within a few days time for a few million dollars and use of his face in advertising and marketing.
At the same time, Jim Carrey has announced he is thinking of retiring from acting too. Carrey has voiced his disdain for certain Hollywood practices over the years and wasn't too happy about what happened at the Oscars on March 27. But at 60, he's been making movies and working in show business for over 40 years. He should retire if he wants to. Cary Grant retired around the same age.
Also, news outlets reported Betty Reid Soskin recently retired from the National Park Service at the age of 100. She reportedly joined when she was 84. And while her story is a nice thing to read about as someone who kept themselves active throughout her years, not everyone can go to work at 84. A lot of people don't live to 84, nonetheless 100.
I theorized that maybe Willis knew this day would come and rather than wait around for all the contract negotiations that happen in pre-production on bigger movies, he decided to take the money on jobs he could get. Let's be honest, Willis isn't Daniel Day-Lewis and people don't act for free, even though Willis has done it in the past as favors. He made about two dozen movies in the last four years. On Out of Death, he reportedly only worked one day.
Sadly there are people in their 60s, like Carrey and Willis, who don't have the option of retiring. If they're lucky, they can work until their 65 when their Social Security kicks in. Then, they can go find a part-time job to supplement their income. There's no retirement communities. There's no recreational vehicles they can buy to move around seeing the country. If they go on a cruise, it's probably a one-time birthday or Christmas gift.
It wasn't always like this. When I was younger, retirement seemed like a given. Yes, they were people who didn't have the right jobs or options, but it wasn't as bad as it is now. The moment corporations moved away from providing retirement benefits to making employees choose 401K options, it was the beginning of the end. I knew people who lost $30,000-50,000 in money when companies merged or were taken over. And this was 20 fucking years ago.
This was before the financial crisis of 2008 when Enron was finally being talked about less. But it didn't help. I give Boomers a lot of Hell but some are taking a bigger bite of the shit-burger than their Gen Xer and Millennials children. For many of us in our 30s and 40s, there's still some wiggle room to implement policies so by the time we're 60-65, we might have a better safety net.
Sadly, most Boomers have been royally screwed by the same policies they thought were going to help them under the Reagan-Bush Administrations. As a young teen, I knew something was funky in Denmark when a lot of people in their early 50s were being offered (or more or less forced) to take early retirement. The corporations wanted the more experienced people gone, so they can pay the entry-level Gen Xers a lot less and not have to worry about retirement packages anymore.
Unfortunately, those still being forced to work are looking at Millennials and Gen Xers during the Great Resignation, or what it should be called the Great Reshuffling, as lazy. But we all know there's no way they would handle a job at McDonalds or waiting tables at Applebee's. The problem is what goes up, most come down. While most corporations are raising prices, but dropping wages, sooner or later, it all falls down, as Yeats wrote, "Things fall apart."
Times must and do change. For a lot of people being told they're too young to do this and should just focus on that, we're not willing to spend 40-50 years of our adult life working just to barely survive and then being forced to live with relatives or in a low-income dwelling. What do you think is going to happen to all those retirement communities once all the residents die and there's no Gen Xers and Millennials with money to live there?
Eventually a lot of things will change. And for the most part, it needs to be done. We're still relying on the old-fashioned ideals of civilizations in which the elders made all the decision. That might have worked in a different time. But the world is now more global. We don't need someone using "Get off my lawn!" as a policy.
Yet, we still have people in their 70s and 80s making legislative policies that aren't representative of the whole. And while there is question on whether Clarence Thomas should still be on the Supreme Court while the Senate hasn't voted as of this posting on Ketanji Brown Jackson, lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court needs to change. Yes, that might have been something when most justices were expected only to last 20-25 years, Thomas has been on for over 30 years.
On the flip side, many companies won't hire people passed a certain age. Hospital refuse to allow surgeons to perform past 65. Educators usually work 30 years, but here in Oklahoma, they can accrue sick days up to 120 and retire one year earlier, meaning someone can very easily retire in their early 50s. And also, anyone who works a minimum of eight years for any Oklahoma government office pays into the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS). Even if someone takes a job at the lowest level the day after high school graduation, by 27, they're eligible.
It's a struggle between policies that were put in place to protect corporations versus policies that were put in place to stop discrimination and protect workers. And both of these policies have been in place long before many Gen Xers and Millennials filled out their first job applications so it's Boomers who are stuck trying to wade through this mess.
I'm still optimistic by the end of this decade, they'll be better policies and practices in place that protect workers and employees. The recent news on the unionization of Amazon employees on Staten Island is a win. And it's only a matter of time before someone else is able to do what Amazon does better. I can't remember the last time I bought something off Amazon. It's been a while. And I've only use Wal-Mart once within the last month.
Younger generations want change and eventually, we'll be the only ones making the rules and regulations. And many of us aren't ready to lose our livelihoods at the drop of a hat and then go greet people at Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, some of us have already had this happen to us more than once and we're a good decade or two away from getting our Senior Discount at Country Kitchen Buffet.
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News that the Federal Court of Appeal had ruled against the approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project sent shock waves throughout not only western Canada, but from coast to coast to coast.
After over a year and a half of waiting for the Liberal government to come up with a concrete plan to ensure that this project is completed, Canadians are now left wondering where do we go from here?
To add insult to injury, shortly after the ruling, Kinder Morgan shareholders voted to approve the sale of the pipeline, leaving Canadian taxpayers on the hook for a multi-billion dollar pipeline that the government isn't even allowed to build.
The fact that the court ruled that the Prime Minister failed to meet his own standards when it came to the consultation process is troubling. By failing to adapt to the changing legal landscape, the Liberals have failed our workers and the Indigenous Canadians who saw the economic potential in the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
Further cited in the ruling was the fact that project-related tanker traffic was not included in the review. It is projected that the expansion will increase the number of tankers needed from five per month to approximately 34, meaning an additional one ship each day.
Under our previous Conservative government, measures were taken to strengthen an already robust tanker safety system. And when you compare the amount of tanker traffic in ports around Canada and the world, it is clear that this increased traffic can be done safely.
For example, in the Netherlands, the Port of Rotterdam sees approximately 30,000 deep-sea vessels, including 8,200 tankers each year. In 2016, the Straits of Malacca and Singapore saw over 25,000 tankers, up almost 7 per cent from the previous year.
According to Transport Canada, tankers in Canada already carry about 80 million tonnes of oil safely from our coasts each year. In fact, oil tankers have been moving safely and regularly along Canada's West Coast since the 1930s.
We know in Canada that it is vital that we get our resources to international markets. The future of our national economy depends on it.
I share in many Canadians' frustration with the Liberal government's gross mishandling of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project. I know many of you are angry, and you have every right to be. The livelihoods of hardworking men and women in our resource sector depend on important projects like this one.
My Conservative colleagues and I will continue to push the Liberal government to stand up for this sector, come up with a plan to ensure that this pipeline project is built, and fix this mess of their own making.