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Meryl and Paul Morgan have separated since his infidelity. He's a Manhattan lawyer, seeking forgiveness. She's moved on, focusing on real estate sales. As he walks her to an appointment one evening, pleading his case, they witness a murder, and the murderer sees them. The F.B.I. wants them in Witness Protection until the killer is caught. He's already hunting them. The F.B.I. sends them to Ray, Wyoming, a tiny ranch town, where they stay with the aging Sheriff and his gun-toting wife (who's his Deputy). Meryl and Paul must sort out their relationship while their New York City ways bump up against those of the West. Meantime, Meryl knows two things that Paul doesn't.


In 2o16, the National Institute of Clinical Excellence acknowledged drug Orkambi as a viable treatment for CF but refused to recommend it within the NHS on cost grounds.
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic condition that causes the internal organs, especially the lungs and digestive system, to become clogged with thick sticky mucus, resulting in chronic infections and inflammation of the lungs.
The drug, unlike many drugs in the system which only treat the symptoms, is said to treat the cause of Cystic Fibrosis, as shown in clinical trials. It improves lungs function and respiratory symptoms in people with the genetic condition.
If children with Cystic Fibrosis start taking Orkambi at an early age, they could have a near-normal life expectancy, studies had shown.
Orkambi which was created by a pharmaceutical company Vertex acts to mimic the missing gene that causes the diseases, instead of being an antibiotic.
One of the protesters at the NHS office in Elephant and Castle spoke to our correspondent at the scene.
She said "Orkambi is the first drugs that actually treat the root cause. It is available in Europe, Ireland and we don't have it in the UK. Two young people die every week from Cystic Fibrosis and this drugs can give them an extra 25 years of life and it can stop the disease. We think it is unfair, we all have children and love ones with this ailment.
"The government won't pay for it. If other countries can afford it, why we can't afford it in the UK?".


This is CME on ReachMD. This activity, Advances in Preterm Birth Prevention: Subcutaneous vs. Intramuscular Dosing of 17-OHPC – Pharmacokinetic Profile, Patient and Practitioner Impact, is provided in partnership with Omnia Education and supported by an independent educational grant from AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, SMFM, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, ACOG, and the American College of Nurse-Midwives, ACNM, have all published guidelines providing specific recommendations regarding the diagnosis and management of patients at risk for preterm birth.
In light of the recent availability of a subcutaneously administered 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate, tradename Makena, this activity will seek to provide OB/GYN clinicians with information surrounding the pharmacokinetic principles underlying the determination of pharmacologic bioavailability and bioequivalence and the clinical data supporting the bioequivalence of 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate administered subcutaneously compared to the intramuscular injection. This activity will also define the impact of this new route of administration of 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate on patient and practitioner parameters.
This is CME on ReachMD and I'm Dr. Amy Mackey. Joining me is Dr. Baha Sibai, Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Sibai, welcome to the program.
Thank you for having me participate in this exciting scientific activity.
Dr. Sibai, can you give us an overview of the recommendations from SMFM, ACOG, and ACNM for the diagnosis and treatment of patients at risk for preterm birth?
ACOG, SMFM and ACNM have published many guidelines starting in 2012 and ending in 2017, and these guidelines have emphasized the use of progesterone in the management of patients at risk for spontaneous preterm birth. These recommendations suggested that for women who have a history of previous spontaneous preterm birth at less than 37 weeks, that women should received 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate for the prevention of recurrent preterm birth. This recommendation includes starting the medications at 16 weeks and continuing until 37 weeks gestation. For women without a history of spontaneous preterm birth who had a routine cervical ultrasound, a cervical length of less or equal to 20 mm, they recommended that these women should receive vaginal progesterone starting at 18 all the way up to 24 weeks gestation. In addition, they emphasize that women who have multiple gestation should not receive 17-hydroxyprogesterone or vaginal progesterone to prevent preterm birth.
Great, thanks so much for reviewing those guidelines with us, Dr. Sibai. Now I'd like to talk about something I just mentioned a bit ago: the availability of an FDA-approved new route of 17-OHPC administration from intramuscular to subcutaneous and what this means pharmacologically to the patient.
The FDA granted approval to this drug, based on its bioequivalence and bioavailability data. Bioequivalence means that the drug demonstrated the absence of a significant difference between both the rate and the extent of which it becomes available at the site of action when administered in the same concentration, or same dose, in an appropriately designed study. Bioavailability has a similar definition. It's the degree at which the rate of the drug is absorbed and available at the physiologic site of action, and this is often described as the total exposure or area under the curve – AUC.
For a manufacturer to demonstrate bioequivalence, the study must demonstrate that there is no significant difference between the rate or time to maximum concentration, or Cmax, and the extent or area under the curve between either the new formulation or new route of administration of a drug. The FDA guidance allows the drug to have anywhere between an 80% to 125% variability from the original product or route to claim bioequivalence. It also must achieve a 90% confidence interval where all the values within the confidence interval range have to be within that 80% to 125% variability of the original product.
In this case, Krop did a randomized, multicenter, open-label study to compare the bioavailability of a single dose of 17 OHPC administered subcutaneously via autoinjector (275 mg) versus intramuscular administration (250 mg) in postmenopausal women. 90 patients took part in the study, and 45 patients were in each arm. This table compares the pharmacokinetic parameters for the 2 routes of administration. The key components concerning bioequivalence are the Cmax and Tmax, As can be seen, these are similar for both the subcutaneous and the IM administration. As for the total exposure, which is described as AUC, these were similar between the 2 routes of administration for all the time intervals evaluated. As for the half-life component, there the subcutaneous route was slightly longer compared to the IM. Overall, these 2 routes of formulations were deemed bioequivalent by the FDA based on their assessed parameters being within that 80% to 125% interval for claiming bioequivalence.
Patient tolerability is also a key factor assessed when a new route of administration is put forth. This table compares the reported adverse events from both the patient and investigator perspective. The most common side effect with the subcutaneous injection was injection site pain, with nearly 40% of patients reporting this versus nearly 10% of patients receiving the IM injections. Of the subcutaneous patients, 85% reported this was only mild pain.
Dr. Sibai, any explanation as to why this difference existed, particularly given the smaller size of the subcutaneous needle, a 27 gauge, versus the IM needle, which is 21 gauge?
Interesting this morning I was seeing the patients in my office. I asked all of our nursing staff and the nurse manager about did they have any complaints from the patients about the sub-cu injection. I was really surprised they said they didn't have a single patient among the 22 women who received this medication starting April in my office. So I don't know how well it is really the data in postmenopausal women. I'm surprised, because we asked this question today, and they said they didn't have a single woman who complained about pain at site of subcutaneous injection.
For those just tuning in, this is CME on ReachMD. I'm Dr. Amy Mackey, and today I'm joined by Dr. Baha Sibai to discuss a new option in the management of preterm birth.
Before we talk about its implication for patients, I'd like to take a minute to catch our audience up on the evolution of 17-OHPC.
Since its approval in 2011, 17-OHPC has been administered as a 1-mL (250-mg) solution via IM injection in the upper-outer quadrant of the gluteus maximus muscle using a syringe with a 21-gauge needle. The administration regimen also required that health care professionals draw the drug from a vial using a large-gauge needle, then switch needles to administer the dose with a smaller-gauge needle. In February of 2018, 17-OHPC received FDA-approval for a single-use autoinjector for subcutaneous dosing of 17-OHPC 1-mL (275-mg). The underlying rationale for developing an autoinjector for subcutaneous administration of 17-OHPC included increased convenience and safety of administration, that is, potential reduction in dosing errors and needle sticks by the healthcare professional, and potential reduction in injection-related pain or anxiety for the patient – without compromising its bioavailability and other PK characteristics.
So, Dr. Sibai, considering the availability of the subcutaneous auto-injector, how has this affected your clinical management of patients eligible to receive 17-OHPC?
I think that there are really 2 important issues in this case: first, the compliance by the patient, and more important, the satisfaction by the nursing and the staff in my office, so that's the first issue. In the past year, before I started prescribing the subcutaneous injection, my experience has been about 10 to 15% of all women who are eligible to receive Makena, they were refusing to take anything, and their reason for that was that they didn't like to take IM injections and they didn't want to come every week to have somebody give them the injection in the office. The other thing, few of them said that either they had a friend or a sister who told them that she received the medicine and it is so painful and this is why they elected not to take it. Then I will say an additional probably 15% of the women where we started giving the IM injection—about 15% of them were not really compliant by taking the doses every week, and this really was a major concern.
What I can state now is that once I started using this in April, the compliance was tremendous. I haven't had a single… I know it was only a short time period, about 3, 4 months. I haven't had a single patient who really refused to take the injection if she is eligible to have it. And second important thing, I asked the question about what percentage of our patients actually have now shifted from the IM to the subcutaneous, and the answer is probably now about more than 75% of my patients now are opting to receive the subcutaneous injection. And the main reason most likely is because the needle size is very small, the auto-injection is very easy to teach the patient how to take it, and the main reason, many pregnant women in my office, they know how to give themselves subcutaneous Lovenox.
In my practice I have a few selected patients who are really familiar of administration the subcutaneous injections, whether it is they have already received Lovenox in the past or they have (inaudible)* gestational diabetes or they have been used to giving subcutaneous injection like insulin, and for these patients, they prefer to have it given to themselves at home, and this has enhanced, actually, compliance and the acceptability of the patients to receive Makena to prevent subsequent preterm birth, which really in my opinion is extremely important. Rather than the patient not take anything, it's just to let them receive the injection even though it's considered off label.
How do the patients receive their medication and instructions on how to use it at home?
We rely on the pharmacy here that does really provide all of the information, and in the package that includes the syringe, they have really a video, and we ask the patients when them come whether they are receiving it or not. Hopefully, I will have 1 year where we collect data even look at the outcome in those who receive, because I know some of the concern from some of the providers is that is really the subcutaneous the same like the intramuscular injection, and I think collecting this information might be reassuring to everybody that both of them are the same and the subcutaneous is probably as efficacious as the IM and there should be no concern.
And what has been the reaction of your staff to this?
I tell you the staff really loved it because, first, they don't have to worry about, you know, the patients have to come every week to the office, the time they spend, you know, to give the injection to the patient, plus for safety issue, the way the needle and injection. Now it is very safe, even when the patient receives it in the office, for our staff nurse to give the injection. Again, for me, I think it's one of the most important things I see now for compliance with the medication. Again, we are fortunate here that Medicaid and the commercial insurance have approved it. I haven't had anybody really being denied, which is really a very big plus now for using it.
From your response, would it be accurate to say that the availability of the auto-injector will likely enhance patient adherence to this therapeutic regimen?
Absolutely, there is really no doubt. I really think hopefully we'll be able to show that it has the same efficacy and probably the outcome will be better because you have better compliance.
This information will help our listeners understand the role of a new route of administration of 17-OHPC via subcutaneous administration in the upper arm in their patients at risk for preterm birth owing to prior spontaneous preterm birth.
Dr. Sibai, anything you would like to say in closing?
Absolutely. Really, I need to assure the providers, because again, I have some phone call about, you know, is this really medication any different than Makena? And there really are providers I have to really assure that it's the same medication. It's just being put in a different syringe and being given a different mode. It's not a formulary medication or anything else. It's Makena, but it's given a different route in a different syringe. That's what it is.
Well, this has been a very insightful discussion on one of the most important issues surrounding obstetrics, which is the prevention of preterm birth. Dr. Sibai, thank you for joining me.
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Dr. Sibai and Dr. Mackey discuss one of the most important issues surrounding obstetrics: the prevention of preterm birth.
In light of the availability of a subcutaneously administered 17-OHPC, this activity will discuss strategies for providing optimal clinical management to women at risk for PTB, based on the SMFM, ACOG, and ACNM recommendations, as well as provide information surrounding the pharmacokinetic principles underlying the determination of pharmacologic bioavailability and bioequivalence, and the clinical data supporting the bioequivalence of 17-OHPC administered subcutaneously compared to the intramuscular injection. It will also define the impact of this new route of 17-OHPC administration on patient and practitioner parameters.
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Incorporate strategies for providing optimal clinical management to women at risk for PTB, based on SMFM, ACOG, and ACNM recommendations.
Define the bioavailability and bioequivalence data regarding subcutaneous administration of 17-OHPC compared with intramuscular administration.
Describe the impact of subcutaneous dosing of 17-OHPC on patient and practitioner parameters.


The corner of Northwest 23rd and Pennsylvania looks pretty much like lots of other Oklahoma City intersections: a strip mall, fast food restaurants and lots of traffic. But a generation or two ago, that area was home to one of the city's landmark shopping destinations.
Sears and Roebuck had been around since the late 1800s, and in 1954, Oklahoma City became home to one of its premier store locations. The three-story brick building was a mid-century shopper's dream. Clothing, appliances, automotive parts … all under one roof. And there were toys, too. Lots of toys.
Sears was always busy in those days, Thach remembered. The neighboring Shepherd Mall wouldn't be built until 1964, and a mile north, the open-air Penn Square wouldn't be built until 1960. So for a time, Sears was the place to be.
Thach began working at Sears in 1976, in the snack bar.
Eventually times and shoppers' tastes changed. The once-bustling Sears closed, and the building was demolished in the 1990s.


Washington(CNN) President Donald Trump praised NFL team owners for doing the "right thing" in requiring NFL players to stand during the National Anthem this season, and suggested those who don't stand maybe "shouldn't be in the country."
"You have to stand proudly for the National Anthem and the NFL owners did the right thing if that's what they've done," Trump said in an interview with Fox News that aired Thursday morning. Trump, who had been speaking at a roundtable on immigration when the policy was announced Wednesday, was informed of the new rule by "Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade.
"You have to stand proudly for the National Anthem or you shouldn't be playing. You shouldn't be there. Maybe you shouldn't be in the country," Trump said.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the new policy Wednesday, requiring players and personnel to stand for the National Anthem or face fines, though each team may develop its own work rules regarding those who do not comply with the policy. The new policy does give players the option to remain in the locker room during the playing of the anthem if they do not wish to comply.
"Well I think that's good," Trump told Fox News. "I don't think people should be staying in locker rooms. But still I think it's good."
Trump added that it's "something ideally could have been taken care of when it first started. That would have been a lot easier."
In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, drew national attention for refusing to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner," saying he would not honor a song nor "show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
"I think the people pushed it forward. This was not me. I brought it out. I think the people pushed this forward," Trump said. "This country is very smart. We have very smart people."
CNN's Sophie Tatum, Jill Martin and Allie Malloy contributed to this report.


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YAYASAN Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah (YSHHB) Secondary School Art teacher Naafi'ah and students from Years 9 and 10 Art classes painted a Japanese-styled sea and landscape scene beneath the art room window facing the courtyard.
Teacher Naafi'ah worked alongside Year 10 students Rasyiqah and Batrisyiah who began the project on November 15. They sketched the outline cartoon for the landscape mural on the art room wall.
"We began painting on November 19 and hope to have the mural done by the end of the school year," teacher Naafi'ah explained.
The mural was painted using acrylic (water-based) paint that is waterproof.
The bright, colourful scene Teacher Naafi'ah and her protégés have chosen depicts three vertical layers.
At the bottom is a sea crowded with colourful kite-like fish swimming in stylised waves.
Next, a shore and landscape with buildings and vegetation are depicted.
The final layer at the top is a clouded sky with a bright orange sun to the extreme right.
"The mural will run the length of the art room's courtyard wall below the windows. We think it might spark an inter-department art competition.
"Other departments with subject rooms facing the courtyard might now consider designing and painting their own subject murals," teacher Naafi'ah said.
Either way, teacher Naafi'ah and her students have laid down a challenge to enliven the campus.


Quite probably the world's most unique and influential Catholic publication, the Jesuit-edited 'La Civiltà Cattolica' is provocative, thoughtful, and offers the Church intellectual breathing space. Until now, however, it's been available only in Italian, but all that is changing with a new English edition.
Written wholly by Jesuits, vetted by the Vatican, "dignified but hard-punching" as an American once described it, La Civiltà Cattolica is probably the Catholic world's most uniquely influential publication, a twice-a-month collection of articles that falls somewhere between journalism and the academy.
Having lived through two world wars, two Vatican councils, it recently rolled off its 4,000th edition (February 11-25) which it celebrated by breaking out into a red cover with a handwritten message of congratulations from Pope Francis.
But it has been held back from being even more influential by one major flaw: it is written in Italian. At the time, choosing to publish in Italian rather than Latin was a radically populist move, but being a language little spoken outside il bel paese, its international readership has mostly been restricted to those who have spent time in Rome.
On Tuesday night I was at the residence of Sally Axworthy, the British ambassador in Rome — which occupies the top floor of a palazzo near the Quirinale, under a terrace with a jaw-dropping city view — to help disseminate and diffuse the English edition of Civiltà, which from now on will appear monthly, along with versions in Spanish, French and Korean.
Also on the panel were Bishop Paul Tighe of the Pontifical Council for Culture, CNN's longtime correspondent, Delia Gallagher, the Jesuit in charge of the Korean edition, Father Jeong Xavier Hwang, and of course, Spadaro, the journal's director and one of the foremost interpreters of the Francis pontificate.
Before breaking for last-before-Lent glasses of prosecco, each of us shared a few thoughts on what makes the journal unique with a 40-strong audience of journalists, English curial officials and ecumenical guests.
It turned out to be quite a long list.
Then there's the sheer variety of topics. As Spadaro — who has penned over 200 articles for the journal — puts it in the article introducing the English edition, La Civiltà Cattolica is "a high form of cultural journalism located in a difficult frontier territory," that concerns itself with all that is human.
By way of example, the first English edition has an interview with movie director Martin Scorsese, a papal question-and-answer with religious superiors, a deft summary of church teaching on migration, a meditation on the dialogue between reason and emotion, an article on inculturation in Asia, a profile of the great Brazilian bishop of the poor, Helder Câmara, and a piece on the quality of mercy in Shakespeare.
Then there's the fact that it's a Catholic journal tied by statute to the Holy See and in service of the pope, yet with a particular vocation to the world of public affairs. That means it has to stay tuned to the Vatican — Spadaro told us that this means, in practice, regular two-hour discussions in the Secretariat of State — and conscious of the diplomatic sensitivities that could be touched on by the journal's materials.
(Fun fact: the task of 'vetting' the journal was only delegated to the Secretariat of State relatively recently. Pius XII used to review the proofs himself. St John XXIII told the Jesuits to lose some of the gloom and be less involved in Italian politics).
But while remaining anchored in the papacy, the journal uses the Jesuit technique of discernment to engage with and grasp the dynamics and undercurrents of culture, discerning the seeds of the Gospel in it, as well as what undermines it.
This tension — loyal to the papacy, free to discern —is, of course, at the heart of the Jesuit mission itself. Played out in La Civiltà Cattolica, it offers endless opportunities to journalists to search for the slightest differences between the magisterium and what's in its pages.
Even today, when the love-in between the Society of Jesus and Francis can look a lot like synchronized swimming (the pope, of course, is a lifelong dedicated reader), conservative commentators such as Sandro Magister delight in highlighting apparent differences between this or that article and something Francis has said.
So while it looks a bit like a philosophy journal, perhaps the biggest paradox of La Civiltà Cattolica is that it doesn't exist to promote a set of ideas, but a way of seeing (or as the Jesuits would say, a "hermeneutic").
Another paradox: it offers a window on the Church's thinking — a kind of church barometer, as Italy's Corriere della Sera put it recently — yet also exists to explain the world to the Church, something that makes it suspect to certain Catholics who see church publications as hot oil to pour on enemies storming the citadel.
In his speech, the pope rejected any suggestion of that idea, recalling that in 2013 he proposed three key words for the journal — dialogue, discernment, frontier — and this time proposed three more — restlessness, incompleteness, and imagination — that are hardly more militant.
This openness, I suggested in my remarks, will almost certainly mean that the English edition of the journal will attract even more of the kind of criticism that recently greeted a recent Civiltà article on the female diaconate. Its author suggested that arguments from tradition exluding women cut little ice in contemporary culture, which links women's access to jobs and public responsibilities as the consequence of a novel recognition of their equal dignity.
The article was immediately deplored as "questioning church teaching" when it did nothing of the sort. It was inviting the Church to think more deeply about the reasons it gives for its teaching in the light of present culture.
Rather than diluting Catholic teaching to make it more accessible to contemporary society, La Civiltà Cattolica interprets contemporary society to make Catholic teaching more accessible. It is a unique service that the journal performs both for the Church and the world, and will do so now in the English-speaking world.
And what better time? Precisely because it is faithful to the magisterium, but sees the magisterium as an organic, living thing, in which eternal church teaching is in dialogue with evolving culture, La Civiltà Cattolica now offers the English-speaking Catholic world a space which has too often shrunk in recent years — especially in the United States.


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Facebook Privacy Disclaimer & Facebook Will Charge Hoaxes So Prevalent, Mainstream Media Outlets Publish Denials
By Don Crothers
Sep. 30 2015, Updated 3:27 a.m. ET
Facebook hoaxes have been around since Facebook came into being, and email hoaxes before them. Normally, they come and go without remark. Now however, one set of hoaxes targeting Facebook itself – namely, that Facebook will start charging users to keep their posts private or that users need to post a privacy disclaimer to maintain their privacy – has become so widespread (as previously reported by the Inquisitr) that mainstream media outlets are actively publishing denials this morning.
As The Guardian puts it, mimicking the tone of the original hoax, "To make it official, we're publishing it in the media: there's no need to post an informational message on the social network to warn friends."
The widely-circulated message claims that "Now it's official! It has been published in the media," and indicates that Facebook will be charging an introductory price of £5.99 (in the UK version) to keep your posts private. The Guardian notes that this is easily disproved with a simple search on Google or Snopes, but this hoax is particularly insidious. It doesn't spread through an external link, like most. Rather, it implores readers to copy and paste it.
"If not tomorrow, all your posts can become public. Even the messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. After all, it does not cost anything for a simple copy and paste."
That's pretty beguiling, when you consider the underlying message; "do this and it will cost you nothing, not even the time it takes to search Google, but not doing it might cost you everything." Considering all of the people who have been harmed in the past by private information online leaking to the public, it's hard to resist doing something so simple.
CNN also got in on the action, spelling out Facebook's Terms Of Service for readers and noting that the TOS explicitly states that users own their media.
Meanwhile, CBC is reporting that Facebook has published an official denial of the rumor; again, something practically unheard of up to now. Facebook's policy has normally been to ignore any individual hoax and concentrate on improving the social network's defenses against hoaxes and fake news.
Even Facebook's login page today is indicating that "It's free and always will be."
Of course, even with 522,000 likes and 507,000 shares, one has to wonder how many will see Facebook's post as compared to how many have been duped by the hoax. As of last March, Facebook had almost 1.5 billion active users worldwide; 522,000 is a drop in the bucket by comparison.
According to Snopes, this hoax has been around in some form since December, 2009; this version of the hoax actually began circulating in or around September, 2011. That version, as archived by Snopes, barely differs in essence from the current version. One might say that the 2015 version has evolved from this 2011 version, which has never stopped circulating. That should give the reader some idea of how prevalent and difficult to stomp out these hoaxes are.
[Collected via e-mail, September 2011]
Now it's official! It has been published in the media. Facebook has just released the entry price: £5.99 ($9.10) to keep the subscription of your status to be set to "private". If you paste this message on your page, it will be offered free (I said paste not share) if not tomorrow, all your posts can become public. Even the messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. After all, it does not cost anything for a simple copy and paste
Further research from Snopes traces the 2011 version back to a Weekly World News (the infamous tabloid) article, and it seems that in September 2014, fake news site National Report posted their own version of the story. WWN also appears to have updated the dates of the original article several times since.
So, to be absolutely clear on the matter; no, Facebook is not going to start charging users and no, your Facebook posts are not at risk of becoming public.
[Screenshot by Don Crothers/The Inquisitr]

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How to Deal With Leftist Bishops
Written by Gary North on February 19, 2015
In the United States, the Federal Council of Churches began in 1908. About 5% of the budget was paid for by John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Rockefeller was a major promoter of the social gospel, as was his son.
Social gospel economics hit the Roman Catholic Church only after the death of Pope Pius XII. But it made rapid gains within a decade. Today, the American bishops are as far to the Left on economic and political matters as the Federal Council of Churches was in 1908.
A good book on the Federal Council and its successor after 1950, the National Council of Churches, was written a generation ago by the American Calvinist historian, C. Gregg Singer: The Unholy Alliance (1975). His editor was Lew Rockwell. You may download it here.
From the beginning, there have been opponents of these welfare state wolves in sheep's clothing. But there has been a problem with their attempt to refute the social gospel. They have maintained the position that the Bible is silent on these issues, and therefore the social gospel is illegitimate.
This surrenders the high moral ground to the defenders of the social gospel. The defenders of the social gospel come to the people in the name of the moral high ground. The opponents do not take this strategy. They simply say that the Bible doesn't speak to these issues.
Unfortunately for the opponents of the social gospel, the Bible does speak to these issues. This is why I sat down in 1973 to write a detailed economic commentary on the entire Bible. I wrote 31 volumes of exegesis to show that the Bible does speak to these issues. This is the first time in the history of church that anyone has done this. This puts me at a disadvantage. The project sounds too radical: "not invented here." Also, who is going to read 31 volumes of exegesis? Nobody. But anyone can look up a verse. But journalists won't do this — too much work.
The critics of the social gospel have relied on the instinctive opposition of the man in the pew to a government that comes to take money out of his wallet. But this is not a philosophical or theological defense of the idea of liberty. So, step-by-step, generation by generation, the social gospel has penetrated the thinking of evangelicals and Catholics. It has been overwhelmingly successful in the mainline Protestant denominations, which, by the grace of God, have been shrinking for a generation.
MATTHEW LYNN OBJECTS
A recent example of this type of futile criticism of the social gospel was made by a financial columnist in the British newspaper, The Telegraph: Matthew Lynn. In financial matters, he is generally a sensible fellow. But in the area of theology, he is a blind man attempting to lead the blind, and they are going to go into the ditch.
He reports on a presently secret document issued by the bishops of the Anglican Church. The Anglican Church has been in the process of disintegration since the end of the 19th century. It has shrunk relentlessly. Fewer than two million Anglicans attend church at least once a month. There are almost three million Muslims.
With this as background, consider Mr. Lynn's critique of what he calls woolly-headed Leftist Keynesianism among Anglican bishops.
The Church has been hijacked by a woolly left-of-centre Keynesianism, where it is automatically regarded as more moral to support higher taxes, more government borrowing, and a more generous welfare system. And yet, in fact, there is very little basis for that. If you care to look, there are just as many passages in the Bible that support a smaller state and more liberal markets. It might be better if church leaders stayed out of the economic debate and just stuck to spiritual matters.
But social gospel advocates have been working since the 1880's to get deeply involved in spiritual matters, because they fully understand that spiritual matters affect the social order. They fully understand that whatever people believe about God, man, law, sanctions, and history will affect the way that they vote.


Location is one of the most important things that you can factor in when getting a good tutor. You should not be tempted to hire a tutor who lives very far from you. This will have many challenges with access. In fact, you should find a tutor who just lives in the neighbourhood. The best thing is that you will always find these people in almost every neighbourhood. This will also save you transport time as you will indirectly be liable for the transport of the tutor. You should also make solid arrangements with the tutor on the best time that he is available for training. You should go for time that he is comfortable with. You should also pick the hours that you can afford to pay since many tutors are usually available on a hourly basis. You don't want your kid to come out of class and come home to another class. Probably you can make tuition time be on the weekend.
The reputation that a tutor has is very important. A tutor with a good reputation is better of than a tutor who does not have a good reputation. The best thing to do when finding a good tutor is to try as much as you can to get client feedback. Today, there are many ways of getting this type of feedback. You can for instance touch base with past clients. Also, if you are getting the tutor online, you should get the feedback from the portal you are using. Therefore, you should do the best that you can to interrogate the tutor in the best way possible.
How do I know I've chosen the right person?
As a parent, you should have a good way of monitoring and evaluating the tutor as much as possible. Many parents have a problem whereby they attempt to force a tutor to the pupil. You should first of all try to sit in the class to see how the tutor is handling the class. Some tutors may freak out in this situation. You can use a nanny camera to record the class and see how the tutor is handling everything. Another way of knowing if the tutor is doing a good job is sitting down and assessing the notes that the kid has written. If the notes are good, you should assume that he is doing well. You can also administer some quiz and exams to monitor and evaluate the kid. Remember that you want to get more value for your money through private tutoring.


U.S.-China Green Fund, an innovative private equity firm with a focus on green investments, announced that it has closed a transaction to invest RMB 500 million into Huitongda Network Co., Ltd. ("Huitongda") to address rural sustainable development and poverty alleviation through private equity investments.
Founded in 2010 in Nanjing, Huitongda began to develop its rural e-commerce network in 2012. Through its O2O platform, Huitongda provides franchise members with training tools, financing, supply chain management, and sales support to better serve their rural customers.
As a pioneer in supplying electronics and home appliances to rural markets, the founders of Huitongda, Chairman Jianguo Wang and CEO Xiuxian Xu were keenly aware of the vast market potential of small and medium-sized townships and villages in China. The company has a deep understanding of the local characteristics of and the pivotal role mom-and-pop shops serve as both the agents for bringing goods to the countryside and upstream distribution channels for selling agricultural products.
Powered by the latest e-commerce technologies and the founders' successful track record of building large-scale retail franchises, Huitongda developed a special new business model that has achieved great success. Now its network has reached over 78,000 mom-and-pop stores in 15,600 towns and villages across 18 provinces, serving nearly 50 million rural families with RMB 200 billion of GMV annually.
Dr. Bai added, both companies are highly aligned on financial interests and social values to contribute to green development and poverty alleviation. The two companies agreed to empower some of the mom-and-pop shops to become "green village ambassadors" to help promote green products such as rooftop solar and source local green projects. The Fund is fully committed towards contributing to a green and sustainable rural economy through this meaningful investment in Huitongda.
U.S.-China Green Fund is a commercially-run private equity fund whose mission is to promote sustainable green development in China through innovative U.S.-China collaborations in finance, green technology and business models. The Green Fund has developed a unique five-pillared business model "P.R.I.M.E." (Policy, Research, Integration, Money and Execution), to leverage policy support and use "industry + technology + capital" investment strategy to support strong execution teams to achieve its goal to "Invest · Greenergize China." The Fund has made a number of investments in two main areas: 1) green energy, energy efficiency, and environmental protection and 2) green smart cities and villages, making great strides in commercial building energy efficiency, data center energy savings, green smart homes, waste heat recovery, distributed solar, and green smart parking etc..


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United States aviation regulator, Federal Aviation Administration, on Thursday warned America's airlines and their pilots that there is risk involved in operating flights in Pakistan airspace due to "extremist or militant activity", according to an official document.
"Exercise caution during flight operations. There is a risk to US civil aviation operating in the territory and airspace of Pakistan due to extremist/militant activity," said the US Federal Aviation Administration in a notice to airmen (NOTAM) dated December 30, 2019.
The NOTAM is applicable to all US-based airlines and US-based pilots.
The US regulator said in its NOTAM that there continues to be a risk to US civil aviation sector from attacks against airports and aircraft in Pakistan, particularly for aircraft on the ground and aircraft operating at low altitudes, including during the arrival and departure phases of flights.
"The ongoing presence of extremist/militant elements operating in Pakistan poses a continued risk to US civil aviation from small-arms fire, complex attacks against airports, indirect weapons fire, and anti-aircraft fire, any of which could occur with little or no warning," it said.
The FAA said that while, to date, there have been no reports of man-portable air defense systems or Manpads being used against the civil aviation sector in Pakistan, some extremist or militant groups operating there are suspected of having access to these Manpads.


Shelves brings to Eurorack modular systems something we are all very familiar with: the 4-band parametric EQ typically found in console channel strips. But this time, thereメs CV control! The first band is a low-pass shelving filter, the fourth band a high-pass shelving filter, and band #2 and #3 have full-blown parametric controls with bandwidth (Q) adjustment. All analog.
Unlike console EQs, each band is not restricted to a narrow range of frequencies: it can be swept across the entire audio range, from 20 Hz to 20kHz ヨ with unexpected phase cancellations or reinforcements when corrections compete in the same frequency range. All parameters have direct CV control. Global frequency and cut/boost CV inputs allow simultaneous CV control of all channels.
Shelves two parametric sections are, behind the scenes, full-blown 12-dB multimode filters. The expander panel gives you access to their low-pass, band-pass, and high-pass outputs.
Voltage controlled EQ with sweepable low-shelf, high-shelf, and two parametric sections.
The parametric sections are realized with state-variable filters, whose high-pass, band-pass, and low-pass outputs are available on a header on the back of the module or through an expander.
Input impedance 100k (25k for the global frequency and gain CV inputs).
Current consumption: +12V: 75mA ; -12V: 75mA.


Added by Andy Hargreaves on June 19, 2012.
A new event being planned for the autumn could bring extra visitors and publicity for Scilly.
Scilly is having its first food festival.
Over two days in September, visitors to Tresco will be able to attend free courses on how to cook menu items from the land and the sea. There will be tips on dressing crab and making artisan bread and pizzas, as well as wine and cheese tastings.
On the Saturday evening, there'll be a seven-course tasting menu at the Flying Boat Club with each course prepared by a different island chef. The next day there'll be a chance to try food on Bryher.
Bryher resident Issy Tibbs and Alasdair Moore from Tresco discovered that they were both planning separate food events and they agreed it was best to share the session between the two islands over the weekend.
Alasdair says the festival will mix formal meals with informal tastings, presentations and hands-on learning events.
The event will highlight the range of foods produced here on the islands and also offer a specific reason for people to travel to the islands in the shoulder period, says Alasdair.
There'll also be some mainland contributions from producers representing products that aren't available in Scilly. A cheese expert is coming from Newlyn and they're hope to have some expert wine sommeliers on hand, but the main purpose of the event is to showcase the two islands' producers and chefs.
Alasdair says they're focussed on making this first festival a success but says it would be fantastic if it could become bigger and cover the whole of Scilly.
The festival will be taking place on the 15th and 16th of September.


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package com.ukiy.test.testupdator;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

import com.ukiy.module.updator.core.Updator;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        Updator.init("1.1.1.0", "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ukiy2010/testJson/master/README.md");
        Button btn = new Button(MainActivity.this);
        btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Updator.start(MainActivity.this);
            }
        });
        setContentView(btn);
    }
}

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/**
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 * It contains the localizable messages extracted from source code.
 * You may modify this file by translating the extracted messages.
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 * Each array element represents the translation (value) of a message (key).
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    'Home' => 'Inicio',
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    'Please contact us if you think this is a server error. Thank you.' => 'Por favor, póngase en contacto con nosotros si piensa que se trata de un error del servidor. Gracias.',
    'The above error occurred while the Web server was processing your request.' => 'Este error ocurrió al procesar su solicitud',
];


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This LS-DYNA simulation shows a simple ICFD input deck with a coarse mesh. It shows how the solver deal with infinitely thin plates or shells in 3D. Since two nodes are needed in order to solve for the pressure difference between the two faces of the plate, the automatic volume mesher will generate an extra node and 'pull' a little on the mesh leaving a tiny gap between them, considered infinitely small compared to the size of the problem. This is done through the introduction of the keyword MESH_EMBEDSHELL.


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The Strongest Qi Refiner v2 Chapter 3346: Keep evolving
Author:Lee Daoran Category:urban Update time:2022-09-11 13:33:59
Fang Yu said with a smile.
These words are obviously a pain point for the ghosts!
Especially he could clearly sense that Fang Yu's aura at this moment was much stronger than before.
The body is crystal clear, as if covered with a faint crystal gauze.
This situation...can only show one fact.
That is... Fang Yu got the benefits from the Conferred God List!
Great benefit!
His name... is on the list of the gods!
And all this was given to Fang Yu personally by him!
Originally, he didn't say, Fang Yu couldn't even determine whether the Fengshen Bang existed!
But he took the initiative to take out the Conferred God List and forced Fang Yu to open it!
It just gave Fang Yu...
Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! ! !
At this moment, the jealousy, resentment, anger...all entangled together.
He stared at Fang Yu, wishing to tear Fang Yu to pieces!
"What's wrong I thank you, why is your face so ugly" Fang Yu asked with a smile.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..." The ghost immortal roared and rushed towards Fang Yu.
"boom!"
Fang Yu's eyes suddenly turned cold, and his right foot suddenly kicked out, hitting the ghost's abdomen.
Amidst the explosion, the body of the ghost immortal burst out instantly.
The power contained in Fang Yu's foot is much higher than before!
Gui Zhanxian couldn't think of it, now he can't even hold Fang Yu's kick.
"This ghost is getting weaker and weaker. It seems that even if you can't kill him, you can still seal him." Fang Yu looked forward and thought, "As long as you keep killing him, his breath will It will become weaker and weaker until it can't resist the power of the seal..."
"Owner!"
While Fang Yu was still thinking, his hands crossed his body from behind and hugged him.
Fang Yu was taken aback for a moment, then turned his head.
"Master, you have become stronger again, I can feel it!" Han Miaoyi hugged Fang Yu tightly from behind and said.
"Let go." Fang Yu said.
"Hey, I haven't seen you for so long, what's the matter with a hug" Han Miaoyi said with a pouting mouth.
With that said, Han Miaoyi still let go of his hand.
Fang Yu turned around, glanced at Han Miaoyi, and then looked forward.
"Boom boom boom..."
There was still bursts of noise in the distance!
"Wow!"
Fang Yu raised his head with a bark.
Beibei appeared from above and landed on his shoulder.
"The Star Devourer is here" Fang Yu frowned.
When absorbing the energy of the Fengshen Bang, he was unaware of everything in the outside world.
Therefore, it is also necessary to understand the current situation.
"The Star Devourer is at war with the Sky Devourer..." Han Miaoyi explained what had happened before.
"He even gave up on continuing to create black holes, and rushed over to attack the Sky-Eater..." Fang Yu squinted and said, "Could it be the breath of the Sky-Eater that attracted it"
With that said, Fang Yu said to Lihuoyu in his heart: "Lihuoyu, now it seems that it is wrong for you to say that there are only stars in the eyes of the Star Devourer... It first gave up absorbing the northern giant star and turned to it. Shot on me. Now he gave up his original plan to devour the entire galaxy, and instead shot on the Sky Eater..."
"Does this mean..."
"This shows...With the continuous evolution, the Star Devourer now has obvious individual likes and dislikes in its development." Li Huoyu interrupted Fang Yu's words and said, "Whether it is from shooting you or creating a black hole to swallow The entire star is a manifestation of its likes and dislikes."
"If you anger it, it will attack you. Then the law of the realm angered it, and it created a black hole to avenge the law of the realm..."
"According to this trend, this star devourer will become less and less like the law of beings. It will gradually produce wisdom and start to do other things... Devouring stars will become its instinct, but wisdom..."
Speaking of this, Li Huoyu paused, and said, "If the Star Devourer possesses wisdom, it will be a disaster for the entire plane."
"Why do you say that If it is wise, it won't be able to think about it, and it won't do anything brainlessly devouring stars" Fang Yu frowned~www.novelhall.com~ You think too simple, I just Having said that, it is its instinct to swallow the stars. Since it is an instinct, it means that it will not stop in any way, just like most living beings need to rely on eating or absorbing the breath of heaven and earth to maintain life..." Lihuo Yu slowly said, "In the future, if the Star Devourer really develops wisdom and starts to think, then it will use various smarter and more effective ways to devour the stars. In battle, the Star Devourers with wisdom will be stronger and will use their own advantages..."
"Simply put, it will be extremely difficult to deal with the Star Devourer who possesses wisdom..."
Fang Yu did not speak.
He knew that there was no problem with what Li Huoyu said.
If the Star Devourer possesses wisdom, it will become more difficult to deal with.
But now is not the time to think about this issue.
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Thank you so much! The first blog was a resounding hit. You have truly energized me. I am now thinking about a better–or more fun–platform of writing. In fact, as I sat down to write this next blog, I began the rough draft for two others, GENEROSITY IS GREATER and MODERATES WIN, but more about that and your various responses in future blogs!
ARE YOU STILL READING THIS CR*P? ;-) I hope so, because I actually enjoy writing it.
On to the point of this blog, "Who stays after class?" Seriously–you've been in class for hours and you can go now, why would you stick around? I don't care if you are in high school, college, preschool, or in an insurance CE course, once class is adjourned, participants should have an automatic, instantaneous reaction to leave. The only exception is detention or some other punitive reason. Staying after class is a BAD thing. One truly has to be a bit leery when one steps outside this social norm. These constructs of society exist for a reason, right?
The picture below is from a High School reunion…of sorts! It's the kind you find out about on Facebook. This type of "reunion" isn't held in a banquet center, just at a local bar. Very casual, but still, social norms exist. You get the invite and then check to see if anyone you "really" know is going. When you see that enough "real friends" plan to attend, and then, yeah, you're there too!
The person in this picture to my left is Lisa. Before the photo, I had talked to her several times on Facebook, many of my friends knew her, but as much as she tried to tell me different, I don't think we'd ever met before this evening. Granted, I could be wrong. One thing the walk down Facebook memory lane has taught me is I remember very little about high school. Please, do not think I was in some drug induced coma during those very valuable and formative years. I wasn't. In fact, from about age 15 to 22, I didn't even have so much as a beer. Being the Type A that I was, and am today, I was very focused on my future. I had many friends and good times during the period, but fitting in with the "cool crowd" was not a priority. Even today, when I think of the work that goes into being popular amid teenagers with an emotional IQ near their shoe size, I don't regret that I had other priorities.
As you can see from the photo, Lisa kind of adopted me that night. Which was fine. I found out a lot of interesting things about her and had a really good time. Lisa most certainly isn't shy, and as a result of our little connection, I ended up meeting a lot of other very fun people that night. One of those Lisa connections was the gentleman below.
Kidding aside for a moment, those of you that know me, and even those who've attended our classes have seen it, I tend to be a bit transparent with my feelings. Call it an Italian Curse–or blessing. I feel emotions deeply and they are generally written all over my face. If that's not clear enough, there are a number of hand gestures that enter the discussion. So when others are either so engrossed in their personal agenda, or possibly socially inept enough to just not see my non-verbal communication, it becomes a tough situation. I pay a lot for my nails, so I don't like to bring out the claws!
For example, it's shortly after 9-11 and one of the men who is attending our class on Asset Allocation comes up to me during one of the breaks and asks, "Do you have a minute?" Since I don't find myself at my last breath, it seems I have a minute and I tell him by stopping the work at my computer and looking him in the eye while I say, "Of course, what can I help you with?" Isn't that what you do when someone very politely asks for a minute?
As I then hear him stammer around what he might want to say, I lose interest. I hate to admit it–I want to be better about it, but frankly, the phrase, "Sh*t or get off the pot!", comes to mind! Crude, I know, but that is the BEST colloquial expression I can think of used to imply a person should follow up their stated intentions with action. That he wanted a minute assumed he wanted to discuss something with me and instead I see this minute fading fast and chances are this will turn into two, or three, or five, and since I am limited to a ten minute break to wrap up various responsibilities before the next fifty minutes of class, I grow impatient.
As I continue to make firm eye contact while trying to appear interested, I am certain my eyes were screaming, "Please get to the point! I've got 25 emails in my inbox." Just more reading and writing, right? "Who reads all this CR*P anyway?"…while here is a live person asking for a bit of attention. It's like standing in-line at the store while the clerk takes a customer call instead. There just seems something wrong in the priority of it.
I think he saw my frustration so he gave up. I guess during this round I've handedly dismissed him, but he'll be back. In these moments I also think, "Good gravy girl, it's only a minute! Have a bit more patience. He might have something quite serious to discuss." Then I think, quite clearly, yes…quite clearly indeed, "You are standing in front of an audience for 50 minutes encouraging 'them' to participate saying time in again in various ways, please say something, 'Questions–comments?' *PAUSE…anyone…please." What is it that he might want to say to you that none of them can hear? That is the question that scares me the most!
Agents have asked for a minute or stayed after class to discuss a number of very important things–too many to write about in this blog. Things here range from advice for a client case to an ethical dilemma at work. While some are private and it's totally understandable why they'd prefer an after-hour discussion, for the vast majority of these, I again wish they'd brought it up to the group. The other insurance professionals in the meeting are a wealth of information and there is a way to discuss it that still keeps the information confidential. There have also been a number of job offers. Although some of them I would consider, in case you are thinking about staying after class to recruit me for the latest franchise selling agreement, to save us both time, I'm not interested. There have also been numerous men who stay after to "chit-chat" about everything under the sun casually hiding their left hand thinking I don't know the wedding ring is there. While I might enjoy the discussion as I pack up, I can't help but think, "The kid you are telling me about would prefer that you were home right now, and the wife you aren't discussing would probably love it if you made dinner tonight."
This particular gentleman had something very unique to discuss. After several attempts to chat with me during the breaks, he stayed after class and finally got to the point of his investment strategy. It seems he, like many others, was concerned about how things in the future economy and decided to put his money in gold. Not so unusual until he proceeded to tell me what he was doing with it: Burying it in his yard! Yup–you read that right and like you, I was in a bit of shock and awe. As much as he might like me and as trustworthy as I am, this is pretty secure information to share with your CE instructor. Plus his repeated diligence to chat personally with me to ensure I knew this about this gold all over his yard was icing on the cake! This time I think my eyes were screaming, "I have his address on his registration form and my son wants a metal detector for Christmas!"
Of course now I just think, "What an interesting way to get your money to grow!" Plant some gold in 2002 and you'd have quite the harvest today. Just check out the return at BLOGSPOT. Apparently this guy had more going on than I gave him credit for that day and the more I truly get to know the agents that attend our classes, I'm thinking there's a lot to learn during these after class discussions. Maybe staying after isn't the nerdy thing to do–maybe it's quite cool!
Something very interesting happened at our recent ethics class in Duluth–agents wanted to skip the break and continue our ethics discussion into lunch. Yes, that is correct! The discussion was so lively and fun, the participants wanted to stay–unheard of in any CE course. For years agents attending our classes have said, "This is the BEST CE!" In fact, this happens so frequently we host a page for these agent comments: WALL OF FAME. This particular class was unique. Our discussion had rolled past our normal break time and when I, as the instructor, took note of it and suggested we adjourn for a few minutes, a gentleman in the room responded, "Let's keep going and just skip the break."
To this, both he and I looked around to the other agents in the room–NONE of which seemed to object. In fact, they were all looking around too attempting to see if this was a consensus. This seemed so groundbreaking, we created an advertisement with a twist on the double meaning of our WORKING WITH ETHICS course–we plan to "work" with the concept of ethics so you can bring it back to "work", but this class isn't work–it's FUN!
Our ethics courses have become my fan favorite topic to bring relevant and interesting discussions to you. Of course, the word "discussions" only works if the agents in the room participate. I am truly blessed so many of you become engaged in the topics we've brought forth, and through these relevant examples, I think we've all become a bit wiser in the work place. I know that I have a better ethical perspective today than I did when we first started offering these classes over eight years ago.
If you're still reading this cr*p, this is not the end of the story. Recently in Anoka, I adjourned our CURRENT ECONOMIC TRENDS class after a pretty lively discussion. I know "lively" and "econ" seem mutually exclusive, but in most of these classes, agents have been chiming in all over the map from current US monetary policy to the how the vast majority of Americans fail to budget their money, or in truth, have adopted the same over-spending budget as the US government. This was a particularly great class with fabulous insight. Then the clock chimed for dismissal and I said, "Thanks for coming!" No one moved–each agent stayed in their seats. In fact, they all looked at me like I was the nerd with the resounding look of, "This is some good stuff we've got going on. Why would we leave?" You know what? Maybe they were right. Maybe we aren't going to solve the world's problems in any of our CE classes, but if each of us becomes a bit wiser and we each apply it in our own lives, maybe the world will be a little better for it. Maybe, just maybe, there are times it actually makes good sense to stay after class.
Thanks for reading this cr*p! Because of the two new blogs I've started, GENEROSITY IS GREATER and MODERATES WIN, SOCIAL SKILLS 101 might be a bit postponed. To be perfectly honest, I am unsure where the next blog will bring me. Maybe it'll arise from some after class discussion or one of your emails so please CHIME IN. Just like I said before, a blog should NOT require this much thought…and if you've read this far, please email me your thoughts, or post them on our Facebook page. After all, I am learning so much from the agents in class, I would love to get the same insight in written form.
Because of much of your insight and other enlightening moments, the next blog became a bit different. Check it out here: TIMES ARE CHANGING.


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