You have worked hard and are now duly rewarded; but this is just the beginning of your new life and that is perhaps why in North America graduation is known as commencement. Times have changed since nearly sixty years ago I sat where you are nervously waiting today. The medical faculty in 1952 had less than fifty full time teachers; now it has 237.
The functions of a medical school are to teach, foster research, and care for patients. I hope a significant number of you will choose academic medicine, for the Hippocratic Oath and its modern version exhort us to share our knowledge with others and organize the educational process for future members of the profession. As for research, how would medicine progress without it?
Why should medical doctors do research? Because there is always research relevant to human disease, and the current era of biology is full of intellectual excitement and promise.
Where will the future academic staff come from? Surely from some of you.
It is likely that most of you have decided what to do and I wish you every success in your chosen field. I hope many of you will become generalists rather than specialists or super-specialists. As medical care became more complex, specialization was inevitable, but perhaps we have become too organ/system orientated. There is a tendency to overlook the fact that a patient is a human being living in his or her special environment and these are important considerations in patient care. The generalist perhaps has a more holistic approach. More family physicians are needed, especially with an aging population. A friend of mine asked me to recommend a good family physician. At sixty, she thought she was too young to see a geriatrician!
We should remember that, perhaps with the exception of inoculations against disease, food, sanitation, housing, and education are more important determinants of health than medications. Public health is an attractive option for those who have a broader view of health care, and prevention is always better than cure. It was good old fashioned public health measures that brought the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) under control. Of course the prevention of disease is the responsibility of all health care professionals. Infections such as malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS; cancer; cardiovascular and life-style diseases; and environmental pollution are major causes of premature death. Many of these can be prevented by essentially public health measures.
Medicine is a time honored profession. It is not a trade, and making a profit should not be your aim. There should be a large component of service which implies personal sacrifice. The labeling of patients as clients has somewhat undermined this concept.
You are now members of the medical profession. What is it to be a professional? What is medical professionalism? It is the basis of medicine's contract with society. It demands placing the interests of patients above those of yourself, setting up and maintaining standards of competence and integrity, and providing expert advice to society in matters of health. Essential to this contract is public trust in medical doctors and nurses which depends on the integrity and expertise of individuals and the whole profession. We live in a materialist world with many temptations; but you always have a choice. Make the right one. The trust of patients cannot be breached.
It has been said that present-day medical graduates lack the basic skill of handling people as humans, are poor at communication, and lack kindness. Professor Sir David Weatherall of Oxford University stated, "A core of facts required to practice medicine together with communication skills and an understanding of social and ethical issues can be taught and continued into postgraduate training. But, except by example, no medical school can teach a young person how to be understanding and caring. This can only come from the experience of life." Undoubtedly role models are important. The humanitarian and Nobel Laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer said, "Example is not the main thing influencing others; it is the only thing." Yet the art of medicine has somehow been lost amidst the science. This faculty's introduction of humanities into the curriculum is surely a move in the right direction.
SIR DAVID TODD, MD, FRCP, FRCPath is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China.
Abstracted from the address to graduates of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, January 15, 2011.


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import com.github.dddpaul.connectors.Application.ServiceOneConfiguration.ControllerOne;
import com.github.dddpaul.connectors.Application.SharedService;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.InjectMocks;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.Mockito;
import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc;
import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.setup.MockMvcBuilders;

import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders.get;
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.content;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = {Application.class})
public class ControllerOneTest extends Mockito {

    @Mock
    SharedService service;

    @InjectMocks
    ControllerOne controller;

    MockMvc mockMvc;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
        mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup(controller).build();
    }

    @Test
    public void test1() throws Exception {
        when(service.getMessage("Paul")).thenReturn("Hello, Paul, I'm shared service");
        mockMvc.perform(get("/one?name=Paul"))
                .andExpect(content().string("ControllerOne says \"Hello, Paul, I'm shared service\""));
    }

    @Test
    public void test2() throws Exception {
        when(service.getMessage("Павел")).thenReturn("Hello, Павел, I'm shared service");
        mockMvc.perform(get("/one?name=Павел"))
                .andExpect(content().string("ControllerOne says \"Hello, Павел, I'm shared service\""));
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}

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In conjunction with the G7 Italy of Culture in Florence, ICOMOS in its advisory role with UNESCO, together with other relevant bodies, ICCROM and UICN, meets on March 30 and 31 in the whole of the SS. Experts, mayors, administrations, protection associations and civil society have been announced in Florence for the implementation of the 2030 United Nations Objective on Sustainable Cities and Communities. The aims are the communication and the strengthening of ICOMOS Italy, concrete actions for the protection of the areas at risk and to face the global climatic, hydrogeological and migratory crises giving responsibility and legitimacy to the safeguard associations and communities.
What is ICOMOS
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention (United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture) launched in 1972 is responsible for the creation of a list of monuments and sites of great value for the whole of humanity. Entry into the world of wonders is today one of the most coveted awards, a sure mark of visibility and success. In 2017 we have 1054 sites registered in 164 countries. Italy with 51 entries is the country with the most sites in the world. UNESCO is an intergovernmental, state-dependent organization founded in 1965 by a body of independent experts: ICOMOS, the International Council of Monuments and Sites, with headquarters in Paris divided into National Committees. The current world president is Gustavo Araoz of the United States, the world vice president is Toshiyuki Kono Japan, The new president of the Italian National Committee is Pietro Laureano.
ICOMOS is a body of excellence of top professionals and experts with inputs on selection but not for this reason not open to young people and new skills. Today ICOMOS with 9,500 members in 144 countries, 110 national committees and 27 international scientific committees is the world's largest non-governmental organization for cultural heritage and the only body for UNESCO monuments and sites and both tangible and intangible heritage.
The paradigm shift
The conference responds to the United Nations goal for 2030 on Sustainable Cities and Communities where for the first time the Heritage is included among the international strategic priorities and ICOMOS is assigned the task of implementing it through a participatory procedure from the bottom up high involving local communities. The new vision is to overcome the monumental approach to Heritage by affirming the centrality of the peoples who made it and their role in management and participation. The conference will consist of working groups to implement good practices. Agreements will be signed between associations and institutions to give legitimacy and voice to the enormous wealth of associations and to start concrete actions in the cities and communities affected by the earthquake and in the areas at risk. A model based on inclusiveness, maintenance, the beauty of the landscape, the health of nutrition, complete traceability, recycling, local knowledge and self-enhancement is proposed, placing human values first. In the affected areas, the paradigm shift is not to separate immediate intervention from environmental and social compatibility by immediately supplying homes, even DIY, but which save water and energy and have urban quality. Recovery must avoid fierce restorations and embellishments and encourage re-use already from safety measures by allocating the sums of the finishes to the populations in reception, education and work.
The participants
About 100 national and international experts will attend, as well as mayors and administrators who will create the Participation Forum introduced by Fabrizio Guarducci, President of the Lorenzo de Medici International Institute. Maurizio di Stefano President Emeritus of ICOMOS Italy will present the proceedings of the ICOMOS World Conference held in Florence in 2014. Luigi Fusco Girard vice president of ICOMOS Italy will explain the role of ICOMOS and the indicators for the implementation of the 2030 agenda. The historian Franco Cardini will hold the Lectio Magistralis: From the decline of modernity to new models of community. Pietro Laureano president of ICOMOS Italy will moderate the international round table in which will participate: Toshiyuki Kono, ICOMOS world vice president, Stefano De Caro, ICCROM President, Sofia Avgerinou Kolonias, of ICOMOS international director and president of ICOMOS task force on sustainable development, Suay Aksoy, President of ICOM, Samir Abdulac, president of the ICOMOS working group for the protection of Heritage in Syria and Iraq, Maria Carmela Giarratano President of IUCN Italy, Francesco Bandarin Director of UNESCO Culture.
The most important Italian organizations and associations of protection will be present, including WWF, Slow Food, Lega Ambiente, Lipu, Italia Nostra, UNISG University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo. A participation charter will be launched and agreements signed between the organizations for the purpose of coordinating protection actions.
The exhibitions
In the cloister of the SS. Annunziata will be exposed to a section of a bio-mimetic, modular, assemblable house, even DIY, supplied with water and energy-saving devices. The fractal geometry of the structure reacts in a differentiated and flexible way to mechanical stresses resulting in anti seismic and meteorological ones acting as a climatic balance. The proposal is from ITKI (International Institute of Traditional Knowledge) designed by Pietro Laureano who for IPOGEA, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture of Abu Dhabi, has already implemented the solution in the Al Ain oasis. The realization is by Ton Grupe in bio architecture materials such as wood, hemp and raw earth. In one of the structures, the Italian Traditional Espresso Coffee Consortium, a candidate for inclusion in the list of UNESCO Intangible Heritage and General Sponsor of the meeting, will exhibit vintage coffee machines and will set up a free tasting coffee shop. According to the agreement that will be signed between ICOMOS, the Gran Sasso Laga National Park, the Municipality of Isola della Scala, Diotima, CSE Idea Ton Grupe, IPOGEA, ITKI, a home prototype and a mobile café for the situations affected will be given as a gift to the earthquake areas.
Exposition of the 15th century choir commissioned by Lorenzo Dei Medici.
At the end of the event a choir of 1484 will be exhibited. The illuminated codex has not been shown to the public since the Napoleonic era. The guests will be seated in the semi-circular choir, in front of the large organ that acts as a backdrop and the cabinet with the lectern that rotates. Further down, a high quality handcrafted reproduction will be arranged by the Mariani Ambassador Institute, so that it is possible to browse through a few pages and observe the decorations in greater detail. A piece of sacred music will be performed by a chorus of voices.
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Weaponized Compassion
November 3, 2014 May 8, 2020 Rilaly1 Comment
Ask a modern-day liberal how they arrived at the notion that the progressive method of problem solving is more effective than conservative one, and you'll undoubtedly hear the word "kindness" dropped at one point in their explanation. If they do not use that word, they will undoubtedly drop the words "compassionate" or "nice" in some form. If we point out that most of the nice and compassionate big government fixes for ending poverty have resulted in numerous unintended consequences, and that it could be argued that many of those programs have resulted in doing more harm than good, we should be prepared to hear their "best intentions" argument. Those who vote Democrat want these programs to succeed of course, but they are not so concerned with the programs' success that they would vote to "fix" them, or change them if some cold, numbers-oriented accounting spreadsheet proved them ineffective. Their greater concern is that their favored politician puts forth an effort to solve the problem.
Political philosophy professor Leo Strauss says that it's a mistake "to presume to understand important political philosophers better than they understood themselves, unless one had already put in the hard work necessary to understand them as they understood themselves."
In an attempt to avoid undue partisan characterization, when it comes to trying to understand why common, ordinary citizens profess an allegiance to the progressive method to problem solving, we provide a characterization of the progressive ideology from one that could be said to be a forefather of modern day liberalism, former President Franklin Roosevelt:
"Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."
If the manner in which most progressives characterize their philosophical pursuit of problem solving is this stark, then it stands to reason that a politically astute observer who opposes it must be cruel, greedy, and callous. If this is not the case, then the next logical conclusion would have to be that the observer who rejects the problem solving approach of the modern liberal is either not very astute, or woefully uninformed.
On those occasions when I've discussed such matters with a liberal voter, I've found that they make an exception for me, because I've established the idea that I'm a nice person who means well. They might question my sources of information, my overall knowledge of the situation, and my status in life, such that it places me above those who in need. Yet, most of them find it difficult to view me as inherently evil, because they know me, but they choose to view me as anecdotal evidence of those who share my evil mindset. These extreme characterizations, William Voegeli writes in his Imprimis piece, are a natural result of the repeated messaging from liberal politicians and activists that he calls "weaponized compassion".
Using compassion as a weapon against the opponents of modern liberalism can be viewed in the following quotes:
"I am a liberal," public radio host Garrison Keillor wrote in 2004, "and liberalism is the politics of kindness."
Last year (2013) President Obama said, "Kindness covers all of my political beliefs. When I think about what I'm fighting for, what gets me up every single day, that captures it just about as much as anything. Kindness; empathy—that sense that I have a stake in your success; that I'm going to make sure, just because [my daughters] are doing well, that's not enough—I want your kids to do well also. Empathetic kindness is "what binds us together, and . . . how we've always moved forward, based on the idea that we have a stake in each other's success."
Conservatives might view this type of "Mean People Suck" messaging as so condescending and simplistic that it could not possibly be effective, but it is. In election after election, exit polls reveal that such themes have worked for liberals, for generations. The reason for this, writes Voegeli, is that Republicans have never mounted an effective defense against it.
"If conservatives had ever come up with a devastating, or even effective rebuttal to the accusation that they are heartless and mean-spirited: a) anyone could recite it by now; and, b) more importantly, liberals would have long ago stopped using rhetoric about liberal kindness versus conservative cruelty, for fear that the political risks of such language far outweighed any potential benefits. The fact that liberals are, if anything, increasingly disposed to frame the basic political choice before the nation in these terms suggests that conservatives have not presented an adequate response."
The problem that exists for Republicans, as it has for most of my life, is how does one defeat a negative? How does a political party prove to the population that they are not mean? An individual candidate can try to prove that they are personified evidence to the contrary, but that candidate will usually end up like John McCain did in the 2008 Presidential Election, expending so much of their time and resources trying to defeat the charge of being mean that not only do they get distracted from other substantive issues, they leave the electorate wondering if they are protesting too much and, in fact, a mean person.
If these two philosophical pursuits of problem solving can be broken down to admittedly simplistic structures, it could be said that when one sifts through all of the rhetoric that both sides of the aisle engage in, the crux of the difference between the two philosophies revolves around money. Those who allocate more tax payers dollars to a problem are deemed more compassionate, and those who don't are viewed as mean, cruel, and in favor of the rich.
Renown budget cutter, and former Indiana Republican Governor, Mitch Daniels believes he has at least one effective counter to the idea that the austerity measures that conservatives employ for problem solving are hateful.
"You ought to be the most offended of anybody," he says to liberals, "If a dollar that could help a poor person is being squandered in some way."
I think that we can say that most honest, and well-meaning liberal citizens believe that when their hard-earned tax dollars are devoted to helping the poor, they don't mind paying those taxes, and they will vote for any politician who pledges to do so. The question I've always had for these citizens of good intentions is what percentage of that tax dollar, ostensibly devoted to fighting poverty, ends up being allocated to a bureaucracy devoted to fighting poverty? What percentage of that dollar goes to administrative costs, various other bureaucratic expenses, and what percentage ends up being fraudulently wasted, abused, and trapped in the bureaucratic red tape of redundancies? What percentage of that hard-earned, tax payer's dollar actually makes it to the poor people that that bureaucracy is intended to help, and what percentage ends up being squandered in some way?
Another way of framing the same question I would have for those who vote Democrat for the expressed intent of helping the poor, or resolving economic inequality, through the various methods of tax allocations, government regulation, etc., is what are the various programs' rates of success?
Some would suggest, through confusing and somewhat contradictory figures, that the poverty rate was 14.7 in 1966, and it was listed at 15.0 in 2012. This rate, no matter how one chooses to define and redefine the term poverty, is a paltry number when one considers the projection that there has been an average of over one trillion dollar American tax payer dollars devoted to ending poverty, since the largest liberal program The Great Society was put in place in 1964.
The liberal response to former Governor Daniels' quote is that he is hateful, racist, against the poor, against women, and mean. If Daniels followed the John McCain strategy of countering such charges, he would then spend so much of his time defending himself against this charge that his central message would get lost in the shuffle, and people would walk away thinking that he's mean. It's called weaponzied compassion.
The aspect of Mitch Daniels' argument that Mitch Daniels doesn't discuss, in his rational argument against liberals, is that the solvency issue, or the effectiveness of the welfare program, isn't of primary concern to liberal citizens. They simply want more for more, and anyone who attempts to cut the amount of money going to entitlement programs, or decreases the increase from the previous year, is deemed mean, hateful, racist, and engaged in a war against the poor.
When these numbers are put into actual and proverbial spreadsheets, it can be proven that while the welfare program has expanded exponentially in the last two generations, the needle of the poverty rate hasn't moved much at all. This appears to be of less concern to liberal citizens, when as Daniels points out it should be their primary concern.
Why doesn't the welfare program work very well? Why have there been so many problems with the wealth redistribution aspects of Obamacare? Why has Lyndon B. Johnson's (LBJ) 1964-65 Great Society program failed to move the poverty level over the last fifty years, and why do most of the well-intentioned plans of liberalism fail to achieve on a level that could promote liberalism as the ideal political philosophy for all Americans, as opposed to the twenty some odd percent who maintain unwavering belief?
The cynical conservative would say that these programs have inherent flaws that keep those immersed in these troubled programs voting for the career politicians who promise to fix them in every election cycle. These programs are never fixed, but politicians have vowed to fix them, or the system, for as long as most of us have been alive.
While this might apply to liberal politicians, the liberal citizen would inform you that they have nothing to gain from the stagnancy, or failure, of the program for which they advocate. They don't understand how a conservative could be rooting on the failure of a program ostensibly designed to help the poor. Most conservatives are not, of course, they just have a different way of approaching the matter, but the conservative methods to fixing the problem are complicated, difficult to understand, numbers oriented, long-term, and very difficult to sell on a campaign trail. When people can't grasp the totality of such an approach, they feel stupid, and when they feel stupid they need someone to help them understand it, or if that's not possible, to, at least, make them feel better about not understanding it. What better way is there to relate to these people, and their confusion, than to call those with alternative, and complicated, solutions names? People understand name calling, it's street, and it reaches us on a base level equivalent to bathroom humor –a tool that some comedians employ when they fear they're losing an audience. This type of response unites us all in a manner –a Jerry Springer manner– that a complicated explanation with long-term problem solving techniques cannot.
"I conclude that the machinery created by the politics of kindness does not work very well–" writes Voegeli, "in the sense of being economical, adaptable, and above all effective– because the liberals who build, operate, defend, and seek to expand this machine don't really care whether it works very well and are, on balance, happier when it fails than when it succeeds."
To accentuate this particular point, William Voegeli pulls out his Oxford English Dictionary to provide us with the literal definition of compassion.
"Compassion means suffering together with one another. Compassion is the feeling or emotion, that a person is moved by when witnessing the suffering or distress of another, and by the desire to relieve it."
This definition of compassion does not include a wish to suffer the identical fate of the sufferer, but that they want to suffer the trials and tribulations of others vicariously, and they do want someone to do something about it, regardless how effective that something is.
As Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in Emile:
"When the strength of an expansive soul makes me identify myself with my fellow man, and I feel that I am, so to speak, in him, it is in order not to suffer that I do not want him to suffer. I am interested in him for love of myself."
Those who reject this characterization as simplistic still need to ask the question why liberals would be for programs that have, historically, proven ineffective? Why would their answer to the problems that everyone acknowledges exist in the welfare program be more welfare? With a fifty year track record of failure, why would so many liberals consider LBJ's Great Society program to be a success?
The co-editor of a book called Pathological Altruism, Barbara Oakley explains her point of view:
"It's the indifference –blithe, heedless, smug, or solipsistic– that liberals have to actual results that defines them as pathological altruists. It's the idea that they can appear compassionate by being for these programs," and thus be perceived as wonderful people by their peers, "That drives them to be for these programs even if they have a poor track record."
Those who have introduced a results-oriented refutation of these programs to liberals –or people that are generally for such altruistic programs– have either witnessed genuine surprise on their face, or they've been greeted with a very frustrated person who reacts in a manner that suggests that a results-oriented presentation is obnoxious. To those who are surprised, some of us have recognized that not only did they not know these facts and figures that we're presenting to them, but that the very idea of investigating for this kind of information never occurred to them.
"Pity is about how deeply I can feel," wrote the late political theorist Jean Bethke Elshtain. "And in order to feel this way, to experience the rush of my own pious reaction, I need victims the way an addict needs drugs."
As a former fraud investigator of charitable enterprises, experience informed me, firsthand, that some people are pathologically altruistic. There's nothing wrong with giving, of course, and there may be some merits to blind, uninformed giving, but those merits, as Rousseau points out, are generally immersed in how one views themselves, or how they want to be viewed.
There's an old line that suggests: "Who cares why people give, as long as they give." The same could be said, I suppose, when it comes to why some people are for government programs ostensibly designed to help poor people: "Who cares how effective they are, as long as they have the best of intentions."
The calls I made to these charitable givers involved a disturbingly high number of givers who claimed that it was my company's responsibility to police these charities, because we allowed them to use our payment service for their transactions. It was, in fact, our job to see to it that the charities who used our service were giving a universally accepted rate to intended recipients, but I couldn't shake the idea that by castigating the company I worked for, these givers were absolving themselves of the responsibility of knowing, or learning, the true percentage of recipients that were actually being helped by their charitable giving and making more informed choices for their charitable giving going forward.
The givers did their part, in other words by caring enough to give money, and their responsibility concluded at that point. The same could be said, I believe, of those who absolve themselves of the effectiveness of federal government poverty programs. "I pay my taxes," is something one might hear from one that learns that the poverty rate hasn't moved in fifty years, "and I vote Democrat. I can't help it if they can't get their act together."
As a fraud investigator of charities, I was not permitted to provide those I called the actual percentage of the charitable givers' dollar going to support the organization's stated cause, but I was able to tell them where to find that number. The very idea that I would call these people to ask them questions about their charitable largess did raise some concerns about the institution they selected for their charity, but they were in the minority.
The question I would've loved to ask those (too few in my humble opinion) who were concerned about the charitable institutions I was calling about, had my company allowed me to do so, is, "Even though, as you say, it's our responsibility to police this charity, will you continue to give to this charity? Even though you now wonder if the practices they engage in are, at the very least, questionable?" The answers, I believe, would've been fascinating for political scientists and psychologists to study, for it would've suggested that the most important part of charitable giving, for some, is to prove that they care, and the actual responsibility of seeing to it that people are helped is another entity's responsibility. One could argue that most people, conservative and liberal, work very hard, and they are too busy to dot the I's, and cross the T's involved in the process of giving, and they they have to rely on others to see to it that their generosity is pushed through to its end. My firsthand experience with altruism revealed that most people care more about caring than they do the ultimate reality of other people being helped.
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CONCORD, N.H. — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is weighing a presidential bid, made his first hire in the key early voting state of New Hampshire on Thursday, bringing aboard political strategist Rich Killion.
If Bush formally seeks the Republican nomination for president, winning the New Hampshire primary will be critical and Killion has experience here. He worked on Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential bid and as an adviser to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty in 2012. He also helped state Senate Republicans increase their majority in 2014.
"Rich's counsel will be critical to Gov. Bush as he outlines his vision for the future of our country and travels across America in support of conservative candidates and causes," said Matt Gorman, spokesman for Bush's political committee Right to Rise. "We're excited to have him on board."
Bush is planning a trip to New Hampshire on March 13 and 14, his first since campaigning with his brother former President George W. Bush ahead of the 2000 primary.
So-called establishment candidates typically do well in the New Hampshire primary, and Romney's decision not to run opens the field for a candidate such as Jeb Bush. Other possible candidates such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker could also appeal to the establishment.
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The idea of dropping everything, selling homes, and moving to a blank-slate piece of property in rural northern California to rescue farmed animals is not for the faint of heart. In fact, it sounds downright frightening!
And yet that is exactly what Kim Sturla and Ned Buyukmihci did in 1988 – both sold their homes, emptied their savings account, and purchased 60-acres of raw land in Vacaville, CA. No septic. No electricity. No fences. No barns. No permanent home. No phone. Only a trailer and the conviction that what they were doing was right.
For Ned, a veterinary ophthalmologist and professor at UC Davis, providing sanctuary to rescued farmed animals not only helped those individuals but also offered him a respite from the barrage of anti-animal sentiment at research-rich UC Davis.
As an employee of a local dog and cat humane society, Kim saw firsthand her colleagues' disconnect toward farmed animals. While moving to their new home in Vacaville, the shelter took in a pink farm pig. The shelter staff named her Zelda and doted on her.
"We'd all take breaks and visit Zelda in her straw-filled dog kennel and feed her peanut butter sandwiches. Everyone loved her." But when it came time to find a home for Zelda, the only offers came from people interested in slaughtering and eating her.
Kim and her colleagues knew this was unacceptable and they refused to adopt her to anyone interested in killing her.
That year, 1989, Zelda became the first official resident of newly incorporated Animal Place. It had taken a year to build fencing and the first barn, but the refuge was now ready for residents. For the next ten years, Ned and Kim would be the sole caregivers and funders, volunteering at the sanctuary while working full-time jobs.
What started as volunteer-run, small sanctuary has over the years transformed into one of the most respected sanctuaries in the country. For years, Ned and Kim had done more than simply care – the sanctuary was a physical reflection of their compassion in action. Today, it is a model sanctuary with two facilities (600-acres in Grass Valley, and the original 60-acre site in Vacaville), 14 employees, a cadre of volunteers and interns, and tens of thousands of supporters.
But in the beginning, it was just Kim and Ned, their pups, some raw land, and a germinating idea of making something important for farmed animals out of nothing.


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WHEN THE GREAT CANOES CAME
The heritage of the North American Indian tribes has always been passed down through storytelling as well as rituals of dance and song. Few written histories today can recount the past as well as the tribal elders who once served as the historical, philosophical, and cultural educators of the entire community. Mary Louise Clifford's When the Great Canoes Came recreates this lost practice for young readers as the setting for telling the history of the Virginian Indians following their first contact with European explorers at Jamestown.
The storyteller is Cockacoeske, the seventeenth leader of the Pamunkey Indians. A successor of the famed chief Powhatan, she was a strong force in maintaining peace between the natives of North America and the incoming colonists from Europe. Her stories present the history of the region through a fictitious meeting between herself and the younger members of her tribe. Focusing most of its attention on Jamestown, the book is one of the first histories of the settlement from a non-European perspective. It will give children a sense of history that is lacking in most contemporary texts.
From the struggles against colonization to the personal triumphs for peace, When the Great Canoes Came is exciting, nail-biting, and enlightening. Suitable as a supplementary text for American history classes or simply for the enjoyment of a good story, Cockacoeske's adventurous tales will capture the imaginations of children.
Author Mary Louise Clifford holds a master's degree in education from Virginia's oldest university, the College of William and Mary. During the course of her graduate work, she followed up on a professor's challenge to explain the English intrusion on the Indians to young readers. The result of her research is When the Great Canoes Came, a retelling of American history that is sure to raise cultural awareness.
Joyce Haynes received her BA from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette. She has worked as an art director, a children's book illustrator, and a designer. Haynes is the recipient of such accolades as the Judges Choice Award in Best Illustration from the Missouri Advertising Managers' Association. She is also the illustrator of Pelican's Eyr the Hunter: A Story of Ice-Age America, Jane Wilkinson Long: Texas Pioneer, Nana's Rice Pie, and The Diary of Marie Landry, Acadian Exile. Haynes lives in Pineville, Missouri.
By Mary Louise Clifford
Illustrated by Joyce Haynes
JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 19th Century / Colonial & Revolutionary Periods
10 Illustrations Bibliography Map Genealogical chart Chronology
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Posted byImran	 December 30, 2015 January 28, 2019
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The Secrets of Lahore
It was a big day. A Sunday with ICC Cricket World Cup fixture between the arch rivals. Pakistan was playing India in the lush green parks of Australia. With me it was a close call as I had to choose between an impending Sunday outing vis-à-vis staying home glued to the television. Having been an ardent follower of the game, the choice could have left me to the traditional ritual of tossing a coin, but quite contrary to that, it turned out to be an easy decision. Over the years, instead of being developed into a seasoned outfit, Team Pakistan has succeeded in becoming too "predictable", and the term in fact translates to a convenient willingness of a handful of bewildered souls to 'let it go without putting up a fight'. Hence, dear reader, a lifeless show of "flannelled fools at the wicket" was an easy choice to get relegated to the excitement of exploring the unexplored. On that cold February morning, my itinerary on it had the wandering paradise lying on the periphery of Lahore, as I headed towards India – Pakistan border. With the unfolding of the layers of a bright day, I was to come across the historical village of Padhana and in my visit, I was to meet a wonderful person by the name of Sardar Saifullah Sandhu.
The border stretch on the periphery of Lahore contains villages with a history. Old edifices of grand havelis, Gurudwaras, domestic forts; landmarks like kos minars, baolis and serais laying out the route of ancient Mughal Highway, the Grand Trunk Road; pre-partition mysteries and the post-partition Indo-Pak war memorials, and much more. A lot of history punctuates the countryside, where the land changes its nationality. I had frequented this area on foot and it was during one of the trademark evening sessions with "Chad Yaar" (my cohorts from DHA Lahore), when I was boasting about my 'adventures' in the rural outskirts of Lahore, someone mentioned of the village named Padhana. The point of conversation was one ancient haveli from the times of the Sikh rule in Punjab that had reported links to the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and thence to the colonial days of the British Raj. This cursory reference ignited further interest within me and on the very next available Sunday, I found myself at Coffee Planet Y Block (the usual RV for Sunday breakfast), where over a subtle dose of chocolate brownie with a double espresso shot, I had concluded my brief search and charted out my travel plan on the map template. It was that day, dear reader, when I dumped the India-Pakistan cricket encounter and headed out to explore the rural Lahore, yet again.
Following the alignment of 'Neher' (canal) right up to the point of its origin from Bamabanwala-Ravi-Bedian (BRB) Link Canal, if one continues on the exit from Lahore, having crossed the prominent village (stop) of Minhala, plying parallel to the running border between India and Pakistan, eventually reaches Padhana, the last village on the home side directly facing the prominent Indian town of Naushehra across the border. Ahead of village Lalloo, the metalled surface turns to kacha fair weather track and one has to negotiate the maze of inter-winding, worm like features, the defensive ditch cum bund, and while driving here the border fence stays right in the sight of a naked eye. The travel here is nothing short of a mini adventure, with this (hair raising) feeling of constantly being under observation of some invisible eye and the curious scrutiny from the every passer-by. Having reached the village, it wasn't difficult to find the ancient haveli from the old times. I was conveniently guided to the place the route to which got dwindled past through a narrow street. Having parked my car beside a general store on the main street, as I inquired about the directions, was aptly afforded the luxury of cold drink and snack with a seat at the store as the word about their 'guest' was conveyed to the residents of Padhana Haveli. A young and smart fellow appeared and introduced himself as Sardar Saifullah Sandhu. My introduction and the reason of an impromptu calling on brought a warm and welcoming smile on the young lads face and I was led to my destination that happened to be the very home of Sardar Sahab. Following the footsteps of my host, I entered the narrow street and having paced a few steps the profile of a grand edifice disclosed itself upon me. At the haveli, I met father of Sardar Saifullah and was afforded the full company and cooperation in a conducted tour of the Sandhu landmark in the village of Padhana. The haveli was a magnificent three story structure built of nanak shahi bricks. Its origin is associated with one Sardar Jawala Singh Sandhu and that gets traced back to the times of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The origin of the village itself dates back to Mughal era, more precisely to the times of Emperor Akbar. The architecture is an amalgamation of Mughal and Rajput styles. The onion shaped domes, squared top pavilions on the corner turrets, bricked arches running parallel on multi-story structures and the paired pilasters give the building a real Mughal touch. The main building unit is the red burnt brick with the signature plaster of gach from old times. Years of neglect has resulted in the plaster wearing out and where it remains it has lost its true colors of yellow to a stale grey. There must have been floral frescos and intricate ornamental work both at the exterior and interior, of which what exist now are the (very) scanty remains at few odd places. The roof at the first and second floor has given way at most of the places and what remains as intact is crumbling under the weight of its torn layout. The haveli had been a complex of residential quarters (originally built in the times of Sardar Jawala Singh, an influential ally of young Maharaja Ranjit Singh) and annexed to one side used to be the katchehri; the court offices of Sardar Atma Singh (a divisional magistrate from the days of the Raj with jurisdiction in fifty two villages, as the gazetteers narrate to us). The katchehri now is entirely wiped out and the residential quarters also lie in ruins, where now the live stock gets herded. The family residences have moved to a partitioned corner, in a complex that has been rebuilt. In the companionship of Sardar Saifullah, I roamed freely in the (now) deserted residential portion and took a few snaps. The following gallery is an effort to highlight the battered architecture that once had the glorious and ornate features, the aesthetically decorated alcoves, in-lay frescos, bracketed eaves, ornamented friezes and much more.
*complete album can be accessed here
Having visited the haveli, I accompanied Sardar Saifullah to the grave of his grandfather, Sardar Amanullah Sandhu (who embraced the new faith as Sardar Khazan Singh Sandhu) and dear reader, away from the tradition, the old man's grave was not to be found in the village graveyard. We came out of the village, took the kacha track leading to the border and little less than a hundred yards from the zero line turned towards the ancestral lands under cultivation. There in the vast stretch of the fields, under the scantily branched twin trees lies the grave where Sardar Saifullah's grandfather is buried. Sardar Amanaullah, at the time of partition had decided to stay in Pakistan and eventually was buried in the land he had very dearly owned and toiled at to earn a livelihood. The lineage of Padhania Sandhus takes us back to the times nearing 13th century, once they emigrated from Afghanistan and inhabited the village of Manjha. A Jat Choudhary of prominence in the days of Muhgal Emperor Akbar, Chaudhary Changa is reported to have founded the village of Padhana, north east of Lahore. Further down the bloodline, we come across a prominent Sardar Jawala Singh, a loyal to the darbar of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. An able and brave leader, who distinguished himself in the campaigns of Multan, Mankera, Kashmir and Attock. Sardar Jawala Singh was reputed to be a generous human being, who while administrating the village of Padhana never charged the monetary taxes or rent from his disciples. Upon his death, a considerable portion of the jagir entrusted upon him was resumed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Another name in the Padhania Sandhu lineage is that of Atma Singh who was the head of the family during late 1880s and was appointed to be the Honorary Magistrate by the British government. Owing to his loyalty to the Raj, he was granted a Sanad by the viceroy. A nephew of Sardar Atma Singh was Gurubakhsh Singh, whose son Sardar Harcharan Singh having embraced the new faith was named Sardar Nasrullah. Sardar Amanullah Sandhu, on whose grave we stood that afternoon was the son of Sardar Nasrullah. The lineage of Chaudhary Changa got divided at the time of partition. The Muslim and Sikh factions of the Padhania family, though reside on the opposite sides of the international border, yet mingle through frequented visits to each other.
The landscape at the international border between India and Pakistan across the fertile stretch of Punjab bears the colours of of peace and conflict alike. Around the front defences of ever alert, ever agile and ever opposing security forces, people go about their usual routine of the calm and tranquil rural lifestyle. Outside the village of Padhana, at the grave of Sardar Amanullah Sandhu, I inhaled the quite and still air, and I sensed the abrupt divide in the immediate neighbourhood. A dividing line that had direct links with ideological diversity in the lineage of Padhania Chiefs, that made Sardar Amanullah to choose the land of his ancestral livelihood and the others to move across to new lands. Padhana has stories to tell, stories from the rich past, of the present divide and of the future hope. On that February afternoon, at the border village of Padhana, I benefited as a student of history, as much as an apprentice of ancestry. Dear readers, it was fun as much as it was learning.
"The Punjab Chiefs; Historical and Biographical Notices of the Principal Families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi Divisions of the Punjab" by Sir Lepel H. Griffin, published by Civil and Military Gazetter Press Lahore, 1890
A special mention of Sardar Saifullah Sandhu is due on me. He was very kind to spare the time in showing me around and has been a source of very useful pieces of information ever since my visit to Padhana.
Posted byImran December 30, 2015 January 28, 2019 Posted inLahore - City of Hearts, The Punjab GazetteerTags: Anglo Sikh Wars, Haveli, lahore, Padhana, pakistan, punjab, Sikhs
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Sardar Saifullah Sandhu(Padhania) says:
Uncle Imran sahib!!!!!!!
These History Lines are very nice & allegorical .
Muhammad Imran Saeed says:
Thank you Sardar Sahab for the visit and comments.
Tariq Amir says:
An interesting and informative article. Hopefully I shall visit this village one day and meet Sardar Saifullah.
You will find the Haveli, a majestic edifice and Sardar Sahab, a charming personality.
A Sandhu says:
I just recently found out from my father that our heritage is Sandhu's from Padhana. My Grandfather who died before I was born was in the Army and moved all his family to India in 1947. My father was born in his mother's village near Tarn Taran months after partition. So, he has never seen his ancestral land. There are so many questions like how many Sandhu families still live in Padhana and how many left for India. I wish we could build a DNA record for partitioned families. In pursuit of better opportunities in life, we all have moved so far away from home. But I never want to forget my heritage and would like to have a good insight into my family story. I would love to connect with any people belonging to "the amazing Padhania Sandhu family".
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Q: Inno Setup launch executable (to install drivers) during installation I am using Inno Setup to create an installer for my application. The installer is very basic and just copies some files. This works very well and I am happy with it.
I recently implemented USB support and need to install the USB driver from the IVI foundation for that. It is basically an exe file that has to be launched somewhere during the setup process. Until now, the user has to install the drivers separately, which is not so elegant. My first approach was this:
[Run]
Filename: "{app}\driver\IviSharedComponents_2.2.1.exe"; Description: "Install USB driver (IVI Foundation)"; Flags: postinstall skipifsilent
Filename: "{app}\driver\IviSharedComponents64_2.2.1.exe"; Description: "Install 64bit USB driver (IVI Foundation)"; Flags: postinstall skipifsilent
Filename: "{app}\{#MyAppExeName}"; Description: "{cm:LaunchProgram,{#StringChange(MyAppName, "&", "&&")}}"; Flags: postinstall skipifsilent

This works, but the user has to select the correct bitness. The advantage here is that he can choose not to install it (in which case the application just ignores the USB functionality which is fine). What I actually want is to detect the bitness of the system automatically and run the setup process. This does not have to be in the [Run] section, although I would not have anything against it (because the user can choose not to install it).
I also found some code and tried to run it like this:
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procedure CurStepChanged (CurStep: TSetupStep);
var
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begin
   if (ssInstall = CurStep) then
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     Exec ('IviSharedComponents_2.2.1.exe', '', WorkingDir, SW_SHOW, ewWaitUntilTerminated, ReturnCode);
end;

But this does not start the installation (although I can see the log entry 'Starting driver installation'). Is there something wrong with my path? What am I doing wrong and how could I change this script to automatically select the right executable depending on the bitness?
EDIT: I used the proposed solution with the [Tasks] entry. The implementation looks like this (just for reference):
[Tasks]
Name: "install_usb"; Description: "Install USB drivers (IVI Foundation)"; GroupDescription: "External drivers:";

[Run]
Filename: "{app}\driver\IviSharedComponents_2.2.1.exe"; StatusMsg: "Installing USB driver (IVI Foundation)"; Check: Not IsWin64(); Tasks: install_usb; Flags: skipifsilent
Filename: "{app}\driver\IviSharedComponents64_2.2.1.exe"; StatusMsg: "Installing USB driver (IVI Foundation)"; Check: IsWin64(); Tasks: install_usb; Flags: skipifsilent

This works very well, thanks a lot for your help!

A: In this case, it's best to remove the postinstall flag so it runs unconditionally at the end of the setup process (but before it says finished) and add a Check: parameter to limit it to the correct bitness:
[Run]
Filename: "{app}\driver\IviSharedComponents_2.2.1.exe"; StatusMsg: "Installing USB driver (IVI Foundation)"; Check: Not IsWin64(); Flags: skipifsilent
Filename: "{app}\driver\IviSharedComponents64_2.2.1.exe"; StatusMsg: "Installing USB driver (IVI Foundation)"; Check: IsWin64(); Flags: skipifsilent

If you want this to be conditional, you can use a normal [Tasks] entry that prompts before the setup starts.


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History of olive oil
The roots of the olive tree and olive oil, also known as "the green gold of the Mediterranean", stretch far back into antiquity and arise from a widespread legend. Athena, goddess of wisdom, and Poseidon, god of the sea, competed for the honor of becoming the patron deity and namesake of the city now known as Athens, which was the largest, most modern and influential city of that time. Given the city's current name, it's clear who won. But the story is just too picturesque to not narrate it here:
The rules of the contest were simple, because there weren't really any rules. All that was needed was intelligence and foresight. Whoever presented the city's residents with the most sensible and sustainable gift would be declared the winner by Zeus, father of the gods and the sole member of the jury. Poseidon struck his trident against a rock to create a water source, but only salt water flowed out. Meanwhile Athena planted the first olive tree. She thus gave the city a tree that would always produce sufficient food and wood, throwing a clear knockout punch in the first round.
As a consequence, the Greeks have always honored the olive as signifying a sacred gift from the gods. They anointed their kings exclusively with olive oil, athletes followed olive oil diets before the Olympic Games to strengthen and cleanse the body inside and out, and the Olympic victor was crowned with a wreath of olive branches. The dove of peace was also depicted with an olive branch in its mouth, further popularizing the olive as a symbol of peace.
Nutrition with olive oil
It's impossible to imagine Greek cuisine without olive oil, which is valued for its precious nutritional content and year-round availability. In times of crisis, Greeks have always prudently used whatever is available. In the kitchen, that meant fish, olives, and olive oil. Thanks to the culinary tradition arising from this necessary pragmatism, the average Greek consumes 20 liters of olive oil a year (in comparison to just 0.5 liters for the average German).
Single-variety extra virgin olive oil contains naturally occurring vitamin E, together with sharp and bitter aromatic substances, known as phenols, which all have antioxidant properties. It also contains up to 85% monounsaturated fatty acids. Despite consuming immense quantities of olive oil (i.e. fat), Greeks and other Mediterranean residents enjoy better health than the average European. Statistical studies, for example, show that Mediterranean residents have lower cholesterol levels and are at lower risk for hypertension and heart disease.
This apparent paradox can be explained by the ratio of LDL cholesterol (the 'bad' cholesterol) to HDL cholesterol (the 'good' cholesterol) in a person's total cholesterol level. Eating saturated fat (mostly animal fat) can increase LDL levels, while eating unsaturated fat (mostly plant fat) can increase HDL levels. Olive oil contains up to 85% monounsaturated fat, so it reduces the disease risks associated with excess LDL cholesterol. By eating more olive oil, you naturally increase your 'good' cholesterol levels.
Researchers have found a direct link between the development of colon, prostate, and breast cancers and the effect of saturated fat, mostly from animal sources, on the HDL/LDL cholesterol ratio. Eating more saturated fat can increase your risk of disease and death. In contrast, olive oil is rich in unsaturated fat, so it exerts a protective effect, particularly in the gastrointestinal region.
Phenols are the sharp and bitter aromatic compounds found in abundance in olive oil. They are antioxidants, which prevent harmful oxidation processes in the body. The liver and gall bladder, in particular, benefit from their protective effect.
Olive oil's naturally occurring vitamin E protects cells and tissue from destruction by so-called free radicals. Vitamin E also promotes fat metabolism, digestion, and helps prevent diseases such as atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Its antioxidant properties make it a valued ingredient in many skin care products. In combination with oleuropein, a phenol found only in olive oil, vitamin E effectively stimulates cell renewal.
We also produce our own soap, deploying olive oil's unique properties in the field of personal care. In soap form, olive oil cleanses the skin deep down, stimulating cell renewal, and maintaining the skin's natural lipid layer.


I have been into futurism, more than ever before. It is just so exciting to see the latest improvements in technology and its side or direct effects on our daily lives. When I think about the old civilizations that took place thousands of years ago, I cant help but feel grateful for living in 2000ths. By then you would be lucky to live 30 years, finding food was a big issue, and there were a lot of threats to your life. There was no light, no heater, nothing to read and learn. For me it sounds very boring.
When I think about of 50 years ago, still it sounds very boring. By then, it was not that easy to travel to other parts of the world, meeting people from other cultures, listening the music you wanted, watching the movies you liked. Or still if you get a severe disease, you were not very likely to survive easily.
I came across this amazing video on internet. It is prepared by World Future Society. I think it is an incredible source. I encourage everyone to follow it.
Learning will become more social and game based, and online social gaming will soon replace textbooks in schools.
Commercial space tourism will grow significantly the coming decade.
Future buildings may be more responsive to weather fluctuations.
The end of identity as we know it: It will be easier than ever to create a new identity or identities for ourselves.
Robotic earthworms will gobble up our garbage.
Lunar based solar power production may be the best way to meet future energy demands.
Machine vision will become available in the next 5 to 15 years and grow more sophisticated over time.
Advances in fuel cells will enable deep-sea habitation.
You can watch the video below for more details or you can visit Ray Kurzweil website. There are very valuable information.


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Home Article "Course" Correction
"Course" Correction
by Harold Meyerson
The president has fled the field from "stay the course," signaling not just the unwinnability of his war but the bankruptcy of his political strategy. For as the president and his party grope for an alternative plan of action in Iraq, Karl Rove's bright line between Republican resolve and Democratic defeatism has become irreversibly fuzzed.
"Stay the course," after all, was never intended to have a free-standing existence. Republicans invoked it only in dialectical contrast to "cut and run," their caricature of the Democrats' preference for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, or for partitioning it into three separate quasi-nations, or for redeploying our troops to neighboring states -- or, more simply, of the Democrats' mounting conviction that our presence in Iraq was growing more pointless each day.
In a strenuous attempt to make lemonade from lemons, George Bush attacked the Democrats for failing to articulate a clear, compelling alternative to his war, though his war created so cosmic a debacle that there were no compelling alternatives. Appearing last week with Don Sherwood, one of many embattled Republican congressmen in Pennsylvania, Bush accused the Democrats of being "all over the place" on Iraq.
Over the past several months, though, more and more Republican candidates have taken to voicing the same doubts and suggesting the same alternatives as those Democrat Defeatocrats. Wobbly Joe Biden has been joined by staunch Kay Bailey Hutchison -- Republican of Texas, Bush's own senator -- in calling for a tripartite partition. "People say, 'Well, that would balkanize the country,' " she told the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News. "Well, things are pretty stable in the Balkans right now."
Or consider George Allen, Virginia's own Mr. Malaprop, who as recently as last month was preaching the gospel of Stay the Course and disparaging those who would "second-guess" his votes for the war. In just the past couple of weeks, Allen has allowed as how "mistakes have been made, and progress has been far too slow."
Earlier this month Bush stood alongside Allen at a Richmond fundraiser and complained that the Democrats "would have our country quit in Iraq before the job is done. That's why they are the party of cut and run. We will fight. We will stay. We will win in Iraq." But after Bush left, Allen told reporters he didn't embrace all the president had said: "The president has his ideas on Iraq. John Warner has his, and I have mine."
As Iraq descends into a Hobbesian bloodbath, it's every man for himself within the Grand Old Party. In Connecticut, Representative Chris Shays, after his 14th visit to Iraq, announced he was "losing faith in how we are fighting this war." In New Jersey, senatorial candidate Tom Kean Jr. called for Don Rumsfeld's resignation. Most wondrous of all, in suburban Philadelphia, Representative Curt Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, suggested that the right to make decisions about the future deployment or redeployment of our troops in Iraq should be left to the generals there, rather than remain with Bush, Vice President Cheney and Rumsfeld -- in whose judgment, we must presume, Weldon has lost all confidence. Weldon is under investigation by the FBI over some alleged financial dealings that he and his family have had with Russian businesses. While they're at it, the agents might inquire if Weldon has ever read the Constitution, which designates the president as commander of our armed services.
If a Democrat offered Weldon's remedy for Iraq, the Republicans would flay him alive. When Weldon went woozy, however, they reacted by continuing to funnel money into his coffers. "Stay the course" has been replaced by "anything goes" -- so long as it helps the Republicans cling to power.
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1660s, "stream of water or air flowing beneath the surface or beneath another current," a hybrid formed from under + current (n.). The figurative sense of "suppressed or underlying character" is attested from 1817.
And the undercurrent of suppressed excitement, the sensation of Her!
It seems to me that you're running a sort of undercurrent in my thoughts all day long.
As it was, there ran through the town an undercurrent of puzzled suspicion.
But subconsciously there ran an undercurrent of dread insecurity.
But through all his dismay ran an undercurrent of puzzled wonderment.
"Oh, I'm sorry," said Peter, aware of the undercurrent of sadness in her voice.
The air was filled with mystery and an undercurrent of excitement that day.
There was an undercurrent of nervousness, discernible only to her eyes.
Bettina glanced from one to the other, conscious of some undercurrent of feeling which she did not share.


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Q: How to hide navbar-toggle in jQuery when the search button is clicked? I have a small problem with my website. In the header there are 2 buttons with 2 different codes ( 1 for open/close the menu and 1 for open/close the search  ).

This code works nice, it open and close the menu.
! function(a) {
    a(".navbar-toggle").on("click", function() {
        a(this).toggleClass("open"), a("#navigation").slideToggle(400)
    }), a(".navigation-menu>li").slice(-1).addClass("last-elements"), a(".crspnt").on("click", function(b) {
        a(window).width() < 992 && (b.preventDefault(), a(this).parent("li").toggleClass("open").find(".submenu:first").toggleClass("open"))
    })
}

Also this code works nice, it open the search box:
(jQuery), $("search-btn").on("click", function() {
    $("#show-search-box").css("display", "block")
});

The problem is that when the menu is open and I open the search, it looks very bad.
I need to change the 2nd code ( of the search ) and add the function that when the search button is clicked the menu close.
Any Idea?
Thank you

A: Remove the class from the menu:
(jQuery), $("search-btn").on("click", function() {
    jQuery(".navbar-toggle").removeClass('open');
    $("#show-search-box").css("display", "block")
});


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Special Rules Apply to School Employees on Family and Medical Leave
Holland & Knight Alert
Paul G. Lannon
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued sweeping revisions to its regulations implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The FMLA applies to employers with 50 or more employees (including private elementary and secondary schools) and provides that qualified employees may take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for certain family and health reasons. Despite the many recent changes to the federal regulations, private elementary and secondary schools remain subject to "Special Rules" that give the schools more flexibility than other employers when responding to employee requests for family or medical leave.
Instructional Employees Only
The Special Rules apply only to "instructional employees" whose principal function is to teach and instruct students in a class, small group or individual setting. Instructional employees typically include teachers, coaches, driving instructors, sign language interpreters and other special education assistants. By contrast, instructional employees typically do not include counselors, psychologists, curriculum specialists, cafeteria workers, maintenance workers, bus drivers, teaching assistants and others who do not provide student instruction as their principal job duty.
How the Special Rules apply depends upon the timing and duration of the requested FMLA leave. The DOL recognizes that disruptions of the learning environment harm students and unfairly burden school administrators. Accordingly, the DOL crafted these Special Rules to help minimize the burden that FMLA leave imposes on schools while at the same time protecting the rights of teachers and other instructional employees to take leave.
Leave Near the End of a Semester
Special Rules apply to instructional employees requesting leave near the end of an academic term, a particularly crucial period for teachers and students. If an instructional employee begins FMLA leave more than five weeks before the end of a term, the school may require the employee to remain on leave until the end of the term if the requested leave is expected to last at least three weeks and the employee would otherwise return to work during the last three weeks of the term. If the instructional employee begins FMLA leave during the last five weeks of a term, the school may require the employee to remain on leave until the end of the term if the leave is expected to last more than two weeks and the employee would otherwise return to work during the last two weeks of the term. If the instructional employee begins FMLA leave during the last three weeks of the term, the school may require the employee to continue taking leave until the end of the term if the leave is expected to last more than five working days.
Special Rules also impose certain limitations on instructional employees taking intermittent leave. If an instructional employee needs intermittent or reduced leave and the employee would be on leave for more than 20 percent of the total number of working days over the leave period, the school may require the employee to choose between the following: (a) taking a certain period of consecutive days on leave, not greater than the duration of the employee's planned medical treatment, or (b) transferring temporarily to an available alternative position for which the employee is qualified, which has equivalent pay and benefits, and which better accommodates recurring periods of leave than does the employee's regular position. For example, the school could offer these options to an instructional employee who normally works five days each week but needs to take two days of FMLA leave per week over a period of several weeks.
Counting FMLA Leave
There are also Special Rules for keeping track of an instructional employee's FMLA leave. For example, when an employee is required to remain on leave until the end of an academic term, the school may only designate as FMLA leave the period of time during which the employee is actually unable to work, not the period of time after which he or she was ready and able to return to work but was asked by the school to remain on leave. The initial period of leave was required by the employee and therefore is properly counted against FMLA entitlements, but the additional leave was required by the employer and is therefore not counted against the employee.
Similarly, FMLA leave taken for a period that ends with the school year and begins the next semester is leave taken consecutively rather than intermittently. The period during the summer vacation when the employee would not have been required to report for duty is not counted against the employee's FMLA leave entitlement. When FMLA leave continues beyond the end of the school year, the school must continue to provide the employee with any benefits over the summer vacation that the employee would normally receive if he or she had been working at the end of the school year and not on leave.
Returning From Leave to an Equivalent Position
Lastly, the Special Rules provide that a school's "established policies and practices" will determine how an employee should be restored to an "equivalent position" upon return from FMLA leave. The policies must be in writing, must be made known to the employee prior to taking FMLA leave, and must clearly explain the employee's right to be restored to an equivalent position upon return from leave. Specifically, the policy must provide for restoration to an equivalent position with equivalent employment benefits, pay and other terms and conditions of employment. An employee may not be restored to a position requiring additional licensing or certification.
Private schools are well advised to take advantage of these Special Rules and revise their policies and practices accordingly. The full text of these Special Rules can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29, Section 825.600.


Zooplankton and bottom-feeding fish (four species) from the coastal Bay of Bengal were analysed for residues of DDT, DDD, DDE and aldrin, Concentrations of t-DDT (DDT+DDD+DDE) ranging from 1.31 to 115.90 ngg @u-1@@ wet weight in different fish tissues and 4.00 to 1587.76 ng g @u-1@@ wet weight in zoolankton were found. Aldrin levels were of the order of 0.32-4.23 ng g @u-1@@ in the fish ittues and 'not detected' to 0.78 ng g @u-1@@ in zooplankton. The concentration levels are discussed in relation to the distribution of the compounds in different fish tissues, differences in the proportion of DDT and its metabolities DDW and DDD in the various organisms and the possible influence of suspended particulate matter on the availability of DDT residues to organisms in the water column.


So Fleury becomes the third youngest goalie to get to 300 wins. I can't see I saw that coming but good for him as this is a big accomplishment and he's having a fantastic year. He led the Pens to a 3-2 overtime win over Rask and the Bruins. Rask made 30 saves and kept the Bruins in it but got beat by Malkin early in OT.
Poor Steve Mason. He has a 46 saves shutout . . . and loses. It would have been nice if his offense could have got him just one goal for his amazing performance. He's in entrenched in that #1 role right now. As is Halak, who had the less impressive 21 saves shutout but his owners don't mind getting the win, as well.
Anderson had a strong game for the Sens with 39 saves but he gave up four goals in a 4-3 loss to the Red Wings. Lehner should get the start on Tuesday against St. Louis. Howard gave up 3 goals on 26 shots but held on for the win.
Backstrom finally got a win again as the Wild beat the Panthers 4-1. This was just a rare spot start for Backstrom so I wouldn't get too excited as Kuemper is the clear #1. Luongo made 35 saves for the Panthers but the Wild were just too much and Zucker led the way with 2 goals. I could see Montoya getting a start in the next few games but Luongo has absolutely nothing to worry about in regards to the #1 goalie in town.


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Quiring C, Sanoski CA, Vallerand AH. Phenylephrine. Davis's Drug Guide. 16th ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2019. https://www.drugguide.com/ddo/view/Davis-Drug-Guide/51605/all/phenylephrine. Accessed April 25, 2019.
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Here's What To Know About The New Abortion Laws In Virginia & New York, So Stay Informed
by Shelby Black
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Let's be real, it's never been more important to stay up to date on the issues impacting our country at the moment. Even though it feels like there's a new controversy every day, here's another one to add to the list. In recent weeks, two states have introduced new abortion laws that could mean serious changes for reproductive rights. So, what are the new abortion laws in New York and Virginia? Here's what to know.
In the midst of concern that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationally, could be overturned thanks to a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, some states are moving to secure abortion rights at the state level. In recent weeks, two states, Virginia and New York, have introduced laws to ensure abortion rights to people within their borders, but they're causing some controversy.
In Virginia, House Bill 2491 would remove abortion restrictions such as the 24-hour waiting period, which requires women to wait a full day and undergo counseling before having an abortion, and a mandate that requires women in their second-trimester to have abortions in a hospital. In addition, the bill would change the current law in Virginia which requires people in seeking an abortion during their third trimester of pregnancy to be evaluated by three doctors to confirm that the pregnancy is life-threatening before an abortion is permitted. With House Bill 2491, only one doctor would be required to do the evaluation and terminating the pregnancy would be allowed if the mother's "mental or physical health is threatened," per Vox. The bill was introduced in the Virginia House on Jan. 9.
Meanwhile, in New York, legislators passed The Reproductive Health Act on Tuesday, Jan. 22, allowing patients seeking abortions to be assisted by physicians without political interference. The act, which was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Jan. 23, does several things, including removing abortion from the state's criminal code and moving it into the realm of public health, as well as legalizing abortions after 24 weeks if the mother's life is in danger or the fetus is not viable. In addition, the new law allows nurse practitioners and physician's assistants to provide abortion care, which was formerly restricted to doctors.
While the bills are in different states and at different stages of becoming law (or are law), they've both raised some controversy among pro-life groups and anti abortion activists. Some opponents of these new legal measures have claimed that the laws will give pregnant individuals the right to receive abortions up to the time of birth. While that may be true if a doctor allows it, the reality is that it's very unlikely — abortions late in pregnancy rarely occur unless there's a serious threat to the woman's life, or the fetus has medical issues.
According to reproductive rights organization Planned Parenthood, only 1.4 percent of abortions occur at or beyond 21 weeks of the women's pregnancy. Dr. Anuj Khattar, a Fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health, stresses in an interview with Elite Daily on Feb. 4 that many women who have abortions later in pregnancy do so because consequential information concerning the fetus' health and fetal genetics isn't available until later in the pregnancy.
"[The] majority of procedures do occur before 26 weeks, and it's rare that procedures happen later in pregnancy," Khattar says. "And that's because it takes time to develop some of these diagnoses that impact the fetus. Most women don't have information or data regarding their pregnancy in that regards until later."
These new laws may have caused a stir, but they're important for a number of reasons, such as making sure continuing a pregnancy to term is up to the mother's choice, and not a third party. "It's not a politician's job or my job to force the decision to continue a pregnancy to term for a pregnancy that might not even be viable," Khattar says. "It's cruel to women and puts them at increased risk."
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Andrea Miller, President of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, told Elite Daily in a press call that the bills are being misrepresented, and that voters are in fact pressing for better legislation around reproductive rights.
"The important point is that there's an attempt to misrepresent, there's a cynical ploy happening in order to score political points," Miller told Elite Daily during the press call. "Voters are clear in many states that we need to be turning the direction of this country around toward reproductive freedom, toward trusting women and not in the direction that the Trump administration wants to take it."
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Controversy aside, Khattar sees the laws as a progressive move towards reproductive rights. "I hope it sets a stage for other people to follow and show that we can live in a fact based and health based society and meet the needs of women," Khattar says.
No matter where you stand on these issues, it's always important to stay informed. So before you judge, make sure you have all your bases covered.
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Maxwell Kennel
PHD Candidate in Religious Studies at McMaster University
Ontologies of Violence (Dissertation)
Postsecular History (Book)
Mennonite Studies (Project)
Postsecular History: Political Theology and the Politics of Time
Slated for publication in 2021 in Palgrave MacMillan's Radical Theologies and Philosophies series, Postsecular History: Political Theology and the Politics of Time seeks to revisit and revise the theological and political character of periodization by tracing powerful efforts to divide time into past, present, and future, and by critiquing political partitions of history into the Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Postmodern. In the book I develop a critique of theopolitical periodization, specifically concerning the proclamation of novelty and succession in the prefix 'post' that precedes the 'postsecular.'
Spanning several disciplines while engaging in the close reading of several key texts in political theology, the book revises and extends my work on the historiography of the Radical Reformation (Political Theology, 2018) and early Enlightenment (Studies in Religion, 2017), the politics of autobiographical periodization in Nietzsche and Augustine (Telos, 2019), and the technological mediations of time in postmodernity (rhizomes, 2018).
Contemporary approaches to both the meaning of history and the experience of time continue to follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological. Even after the postsecular turn and its critiques of Christianity, religion, and secularity, divisions of both historical and autobiographical time continue to be formed by providential narratives that mediate experience and expectation and economize time through movements from promise to fulfilment. Consequently, in the postsecular landscape the contested categories of Christianity, religion, and secularity are not only conceptually distinguished, but they also rest upon temporal distinctions that have undergone incomplete and uneven secularizations.
Given the persistently theological characteristics of time and history, Postsecular History revisits and revises the concept of periodization by tracing powerful efforts to divide time into past, present, and future, and by critiquing political partitions of history into the Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Postmodern. Developing a critique of theopolitical periodization in six chapters, Postsecular History questions how relations of novelty, succession, and freedom implied in the prefix 'post' are reproduced in the discourse on the postsecular and in the field of political theology.
By uncovering periodizing gestures in the economic turn in Political Theology (Chapter 1), the history of radicalism and dissent between the Reformation and Enlightenment (Chapters 2 and 3), the temporal politics of autobiography in Nietzsche and Augustine (Chapter 4), and the technological politics of time in postmodernity (Chapter 5), Postsecular History addresses both the acceleration of time and the loss of its measure. The study closes with an examination of the everyday experience of waiting (Chapter 6), before concluding with an argument for renewed figural approaches to the problems of time and history in the postsecular context.
Chapter 1. Political Theology and the Politics of Time
Chapter 2. Postsecular History and the Seventeenth Century Dutch Collegiants
Chapter 3. Emancipatory History in Taubes, Müntzer, and the Anabaptists
Chapter 4. Periodization and Providence between Nietzsche and Augustine
Chapter 5. The Regulation of the Subject by the Technology of Time
Chapter 6. Dorothee Sölle's Postsecular Political Theology of Waiting
"Let's Talk About Extremism" (2020/1968)
"Secular Mennonites and the Violence of Pacifism" (2020)
"In Search of Peace" (2020/1976)
"The Philosophical Legacy of Robert Friedmann" (2020)
"Mennonites and Philosophy" (2020)
"Violence and the Romance of Community" (2019)
"Periodization and Providence" (2019)
"Mennonite Political Theology and Feminist Critique" (2019)"
"Muntzer, Taubes, and the Anabaptists" (2018)"
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When I was growing up I enjoyed writing poetry, singing and acting, but when I embraced the feminist movement during the 70's and 80's, I took on more left-brain pursuits – a Masters and Ph.D. while raising three kids, college teaching, writing and editing academic prose – rather than ventures in the arts. I kept those right-brain temptations at bay until a lovely man I met and married encouraged me to make dolls (you can see them here) and now to write poetry.
During the school year, I live in State College, Pennsylvania where my husband teaches at Penn State. We spend our summers in Colorado to be near children and grandchildren. You can reach me by email at denversrh@gmail.com.
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En ecología, los seres vivos se ven limitados por condiciones diversas y, además, por las interacciones producidas entre ellas. Los organismos viven dentro de unos rangos que van desde demasiado a demasiado poco, los llamados límites de tolerancia.
Este concepto de que ciertas condiciones mínima y máxima limitan la presencia y el éxito de un organismo, se domina ley de la tolerancia o ley de la tolerancia de Shelford.
Se conoce como la "ley de tolerancia de Shelford" porque fue propuesta por el zoólogo y ecólogo animal americano llamado Victor Ernest Shelford, a comienzos de la primera década de 1900.

Véase también

 Ecología
 Ley del Mínimo de Liebig
 Valencia ecológica
 Factor limitante

Referencias

Términos de ecología
Medio ambiente

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The Specific Carbohydrate Diet is a strict grain-free, lactose-free, and sucrose-free dietary regimen intended for those suffering from Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (both forms of IBD), celiac disease, IBS, cystic fibrosis, and autism. It is based on the work of Elaine Gottschall, who wrote Breaking the Vicious Cycle, which introduces the SCD and explains the importance of eliminating certain carbohydrates in order to alleviate digestive ailments such as IBD, IBS, and celiac disease. For those suffering from gastrointestinal illnesses, the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) offers a method for easing symptoms and pain, and ultimately regaining health. Recipes for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet(TM) offers a diverse and delicious collection of 150 SCD-friendly recipes, that includes over 80 dairy-free recipes. The easy-to-make and culturally diverse recipes featured in the book include breakfast dishes, appetizers, main dishes, and desserts such as -- Hazelnut-Vanilla Pancakes, Olive Sandwich Bread, Chicken Satay, Roasted Bass with Parsley Butter, Thin Crust Pizza, Gretel's Gingerbread Cookies, and Mango Ice Cream. It is accompanied by 40 full-color photos that will inspire you to get cooking again. In addition, personal anecdotes accompany each section of this book. You can find out more about this book on-line at www.scdrecipe.com/cookbook/.