Mail Call: What is your opinion on the Christian's responsibility regarding voting?
I would like your opinion on the Christian's responsibility regarding voting.
I'm not a good person to ask. I am very conflicted over my own behavior in this issue.
I used to be intensely involved in politics, being a reporter/editor of a weekly newspaper and covering all the politics there was. I had and still hold a firm belief that the US is the best country to live in, and that an aware and involved citizenry is what's best for America. However, I ingested a little too much of local politics back then covering it for the paper, and now I have a healthy distaste for all politics! The level of greed & corruption disgusts me, and the news media's current hatred toward all conservatives doesn't help. It's a minefield trying to educate myself on the local referenda or the national issues because of all the blatant fake news.
I do vote for President and usually Senator/Representative. But that is about it. I don't do a lot of research into local ordinances, zoning, or ballots any more because it all still turns my stomach.
I also believe what John MacArthur preached as the Christian's responsibility toward government involvement. Here is the opening of his part 3 sermon on the topic, and of course he went on with scripture and biblical examples.
My point is not that Christians should remain totally uninvolved in politics or civic activities and causes. They ought to express their political beliefs in the voting booth, and it is appropriate to support legitimate measures designed to correct a glaring social or political wrong. Complete noninvolvement would be contrary to what God's Word says about doing good in society: "Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith" (Gal. 6:10; cf. Titus 3:1-2).
It would also display a lack of gratitude for whatever amount of religious freedom the government allows us to enjoy. Furthermore, such pious apathy toward government and politics would reveal a lack of appreciation for the many appropriate legal remedies believers in democracies have for maintaining or improving the civil order.
A certain amount of healthy and balanced concern with current trends in government and the community is acceptable, as long as we realize that that interest is not vital to our spiritual growth, our righteous testimony, or the advancement of the kingdom of Christ. Above all, the believer's political involvement should never displace the priority of preaching and teaching the gospel.
I am always trying to find that balance between what Dr MacArthur Mac phrased as "pious apathy" and the Bible's concept of "responsible involvement." I don't think I've hit it. And I always hold my nose whichever course I take. So those are my thoughts! What are your thoughts?
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Tetanus is known to occur worldwide.
This vaccine preventable disease is caused by the spores of a bacterium present in soil coming into contact with a wound.
The toxin produced by the bacteria cause a number of different symptoms including spasm of facial muscles e.g. "lock jaw".
All travellers should ensure they are up to date with their tetanus vaccination.
For those travelling to a country where medical facilities may be limited, a booster dose of a tetanus-containing vaccine is recommended if the last dose was more than ten years ago, even if five doses of vaccine have been given previously.
Tetanus is a vaccine-preventable disease caused by a toxin of the bacterium Clostridium tetani. C. tetani is heat sensitive and cannot survive in the presence of oxygen. The bacterium develops a spore that is resistant to heat, antiseptics, phenol and other chemical agents. The spores are present in soil and faeces of some animals and are known to occur worldwide . Vaccination is the sole way of preventing tetanus in humans.
The organism that causes tetanus, C. tetani is present worldwide.
The number of cases of tetanus disease in a country depends on sustained, high population vaccine coverage in both children and adults. In resource-rich countries, such as the UK, vaccine coverage is high  and the number of tetanus cases reported is very low. In resource-poor countries however, vaccine coverage is variable and number of cases higher.
In 2015, 21 countries had not reached the MNT elimination status. The initiative continues, with many likely to achieve MNT elimination in the near future .
Tetanus is uncommon in most resource-rich countries of the western hemisphere; the WHO Western Pacific and European regions have largely controlled clinical tetanus through universal vaccination. However, no country is free of C. tetani as it is an environmental contaminant, so maintaining immunity in travellers is important [4-6].
Tetanus is occasionally reported in England and Wales. Since 1991, there has been an average of seven cases reported each year; there have been no cases of neonatal tetanus in England and Wales for over 40 years [7, 8]. The majority of cases reported between 1984 and 2014 occurred in those over 45 years of age , many will have been born before routine vaccination schedules for tetanus were implemented in the UK in 1961.
In 2003, nine of the 12 reported cases occurred in people who inject drugs (PWID) aged between 20 and 47 years . Tetanus can be caused by contamination of drugs with spores during the production, distribution, storage, cutting, reconstitution and injection of drugs [9, 10, ]. Tetanus associated with foreign travel has only been reported twice in England and Wales since enhanced surveillance began in 1984 .
Tetanus spores are present in the intestine of most mammals including horses, sheep, cattle, dogs, cats, rats, guinea pigs and chickens. They are passed into soil via faeces. The disease is acquired when material containing tetanus spores contaminates a wound. In anaerobic (no oxygen) conditions spores germinate and a toxin (tetanospasmin) is produced which travels throughout the body via the blood, leading to the clinical symptoms of tetanus [4, 12].
wounds or burns in patients who have systemic sepsis (blood infection) .
In resource-rich regions of the world many cases are associated with PWID when the drugs, injecting equipment or puncture site may be contaminated [9,10].
The incubation period of the disease is usually between 3 to 21 days . Generally, the further the injury site is from the central nervous system the longer the incubation period. The risk of death from tetanus is greatest in persons who have the shortest incubation period .
Generalised tetanus accounts for about 80 percent of cases worldwide. After a period of general malaise, trismus (also known as lockjaw) develops. This is characterised by spasm of the facial muscles and produces a characteristic grinning expression (risus sardonicus). Stiffness of the neck, difficulty in swallowing, and rigidity of muscles in the back, chest and extremities follow. The body temperature can rise between 2°C and 4°C above normal, sweating, elevated blood pressure, and episodic (occasional) rapid heart rate when the autonomic nervous systemic that controls these body functions is affected. Spasms lasting for several minutes may also occur and continue for 3 to 4 weeks.
Complications include respiratory failure, aspiration pneumonia and fractures of the spine or long bones resulting from sustained contractions/convulsions. With intensive medical support, death from tetanus occurs in 10-20 percent of cases.
This is a rare and mild form of the disease. Local tetanus is characterised by persistent contraction of muscles in the same anatomic area as the injury, and may persist for several weeks before gradually subsiding. In some cases local symptoms may precede the development of generalised tetanus.
Cephalic tetanus is a form of generalised tetanus, occurring when the tetanus spores enter through the middle ear, following a middle ear infection or a head injury. Generalised disease may or may not develop and prognosis is often poor.
Neonatal tetanus is the main form of tetanus in resource-poor areas of the world. Illness begins three to 14 days after birth. Neonatal tetanus is usually fatal . Death usually occurs secondary to infection of the umbilical stump if the end is cut with unsterilised instruments. The custom in some cultures is to smear animal dung on the open end of the stump. Failure to thrive, poor sucking, grimacing and irritability are quickly followed by intense rigidity and spasms and death.
Diagnosis of tetanus is based on the clinical features, and some laboratory tests are available to support the diagnosis. Individuals who have been partially immunised against tetanus (not completed age-appropriate course) may exhibit less severe symptoms than unimmunised individuals. Occasionally C.tetani can be isolated from a wound .
All wounds must be cleaned and dead or contaminated tissue should be removed to make conditions less favourable for further multiplication of the bacterium and production of tetanospasmin .
Tetanus vaccine and human tetanus immune globulin should be given depending upon the vaccination status of the patient and assessment of the injury . If a wound, burn or injury is considered to be high risk (i.e. has heavy contamination with material likely to contain tetanus spores and/or extensive devitalised tissue), human tetanus immunoglobulin (a blood product) should be administered, irrespective of the tetanus immunisation history of the patient . See management of patients with tetanus prone wounds in the Public Health England 'Green book' tetanus chapter for further details.
Intravenous antibiotics should be given to kill C. tetani.
For those with symptoms of tetanus, benzodiazepines can be used for sedation and to control the spasms. A neuromuscular blocker may be necessary . Intensive medical and nursing care is provided in quiet, darkened conditions to minimise provoked spasms. Intubation and respiratory support may be needed .
Effective vaccination is available and all persons should be immunised regardless of age. See further information about how to vaccinate those with uncertain or unknown immunisation histories.
Travellers should be up to date on their tetanus immunisation, and be aware of the risk of accidents while travelling. It is important to seek urgent medical attention in the case of a tetanus prone wound as thorough cleaning of the injury is essential  and further vaccine / immunoglobulin may be recommended (see diagnosis and treatment above) .
The Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) for the individual vaccine should be consulted for specific information relating to the product [15 -20]. Tetanus toxoid vaccine is now only available as a combination vaccine in the UK.
In the UK childhood immunisation programme five doses of tetanus-containing vaccine are administered at appropriate intervals (see table below). Children should be up to date with the recommended vaccinations.
Travellers to areas where medical attention may not be accessible if a tetanus prone injury occur and whose last dose of a tetanus-containing vaccine was more than 10 years previously, should receive a booster dose of tetanus, low dose diphtheria and inactivated polio vaccination (Td/IPV), even if the individual has received five doses of vaccine previously . This is a precautionary measure in case tetanus immunoglobulin is not available should a tetanus-prone injury occur .
Details of the current tetanus-containing vaccines are found in the summary table.
* Recommended for pregnant women between 16 to 32 weeks to protect unborn child against whooping cough (pertussis).
It is not necessary to restart an interrupted series of a vaccine or to add extra doses; the normal schedule should be resumed as soon as possible observing a one month interval between doses .
If an individual is acutely unwell, immunisation may be postponed until they have fully recovered. This is to avoid wrongly attributing any new symptom or the progression of symptoms to the vaccine.
Detailed information is available in the 'Green Book' and the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) for each vaccine. Links to the SPC for these products can be found by clicking on the vaccine name in the table above).
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Your immune system is designed to find and fight foreign or dangerous materials like viruses or bacteria. An individual with allergies has abnormalities in their immune systems that determine that a relatively harmless thing is harmful; this presents in a physical response as a sign of the body's defenses. Sometimes it easy to figure out why we have an allergic reaction: we may hug a kitten too tight or clean out a musty attic. Sometimes it's not that easy, especially when considering we come into contact with hundreds of substances every day.
The best way to determine if you're being affected by an allergen is through allergy testing. Allergy tests can determine if you allergic to the foods you eat, the things you touch, or the substances you inhale. These tests are usually performed on the skin or in blood and will result in a natural bodily reaction if it's an allergy.
There are countless reasons why getting tested by an allergist is beneficial, relating to your health, your comfort, and even your life. Here are just a few reasons by you should be tested for allergies.
Many people across the country have allergies, but their symptoms are so infrequent or minor that they don't recognize them as allergies. It's estimated that 30-40% of the world's population suffers from at least one allergic condition. Most of us self-diagnose our allergies as hay fever or allergies to pollen, but that hay fever actually be allergies to grasses or molds, or even cockroach or dog dander. Only an allergy test can help you know for sure.
Without an official allergy test, it can be very difficult to know exactly what is producing an allergic reaction. This can be especially dangerous if the reaction becomes so severe you can't breathe or you go into shock. When you know what you are allergic to, you can take precautions. For example, you may be prescribed an epi-pen, or you may consider wearing an emergency alert bracelet. For parents of children with allergies, you can prepare the school for emergencies and educate your family and friends on do's and don'ts to keep your child safe. Most importantly, you can prevent attacks from getting too bad once you are able to manage the triggers, such as getting a puppy that doesn't shed, or cleaning your air filters and vacuuming often.
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LOCK HAVEN — Learn to investigate the paranormal with Clinton County's foremost ghost-hunting team! The Lock Haven Paranormal Seekers will be appearing at the Ross Library at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 31, to teach how to scientifically investigate the paranormal. The lesson will focus on what equipment to use, how to research, how to find measurable evidence in a haunted building, and how to tell a responsible paranormal investigator from a con artist.
Seats are $5 per person, and money will be taken at the door. Pre-registration is available, but not required. For further information or to register, please contact Lou Bernard at 570-748-3321 or ross13@rosslibrary.org.
r Geocaching is a sport played by finding hidden containers with a GPS. It's free and enjoyable, and on Jan. 26, at 2 p.m., 10-year geocacher Lou Bernard will instruct new players in how to join in the fun. Whether you are brand-new to geocaching, or have tried it but have questions, please feel free to come by and learn.
r Each February, the Ross Library celebrates Library Lovers' Month with "Blind Date With A Book." Books will be on display and available for checkout, but they'll be wrapped up in paper, so the contents are unknown. Books will be marked with the genre, such as "mystery" or "science fiction," but the author and title will be a surprise.
r Greg Zinner, marathon runner and author of the fictional book "The Long Run Home" will hold a presentation for the Ross Library on Feb. 21 at 6 p.m "The Long Run Home" is a story of one man discovering himself on the back roads of Pennsylvania. Zinner will discuss his book via Skype from his home in North Carolina, and take questions from the audience.
r The library welcomes everyone into the monthly book club, the Book Brigade. On the last Saturday of each month, the club meets at 10 a.m. to discuss a book and its related topics, drink coffee, and socialize. On Jan. 26, it will be "My Story" by Elizabeth Smart, and on Feb. 23, "I Am Scout" by Charles Shields.
Unless otherwise stated, all programs are free and open to the public. To register for a program or get more information, contact the Ross Library at 570-748-3321 or ross13@rosslibrary.org. The Annie Halenbake Ross Library is a member of PA Forward and is a Clinton County United Way partner agency.


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SCOTUSblog co-founder sees 'zero practical…
SCOTUSblog co-founder sees 'zero practical chance' that 'faithless electors' will swing election for Trump
November 30, 2020, 12:57 pm CST
As court losses mount for President Donald Trump, his campaign may take another tack: Persuade presidential electors committed to President-elect Joe Biden to switch their votes to Trump.
Will it work? SCOTUSblog co-founder and Supreme Court litigator Tom Goldstein sees "zero practical chance" of it happening. He explained why in a Nov. 28 post at SCOTUSblog.
Goldstein started with a civics reminder. Under the Constitution, voters vote for "electors" who cast their votes for president in the Electoral College. To win the presidency, a candidate needs 270 electoral votes. In case of a tie, the decision on the president goes to the House of Representatives, with each state delegation getting one vote.
The current state count indicates that Biden has 306 electoral votes, and Trump has 232.
The Constitution does not require electors to vote for the winner of their state's popular vote. But it is unlikely Trump and his allies could get enough Biden electors to switch their votes, according to Goldstein.
One reason: Laws in 33 states and the District of Columbia require electors to vote in favor of the candidate for whom they are pledged. Fifteen of those states impose penalties or sanctions if an elector violates their pledge. Laws penalizing "faithless electors" were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in July in cases involving Colorado and Washington.
Laws requiring electors to be faithful are on the books in 19 states that voted for Biden, along with the District of Columbia. That comes down to 199 electoral college votes that must be pledged to Biden.
Even if Biden electors are able to cast a vote for Trump, despite the laws, it is unlikely to happen, Goldstein said. Nor is it likely to happen in states where Biden electors aren't legally bound to vote for him, according to Goldstein.
"Electors are not random citizens," Goldstein wrote. "They are generally hand-picked by the respective political parties: here, the Democratic Party. To take a prominent example, one elector from Georgia is Stacey Abrams. And carefully chosen Democrats are uniformly able to agree that Trump should not be reelected."
According to Goldstein, electors have voted for their pledged candidate more than 99% of the time. In raw numbers, the number of faithless electors "is fewer across all of American history than would have to be faithless to deprive Biden of his Electoral College victory," Goldstein said.
"In sum, there is zero practical chance that Trump can be re-elected by changing the minds of Biden electors in the Electoral College," Goldstein wrote.
Hat tip to How Appealing.
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For those who don't know: coral bleaching takes place when corals that are mostly vibrantly colored start losing their hues and gradually turn bright white due to warming of oceans and several other environmental factors.
Colorful algae that reside on and feed the coral polyps tend to leave them whenever the situation becomes adverse. It turns the otherwise gorgeous structures into ugly shells. Experts are saying that the increasing ocean temperatures are causing severe issues for the underwater biome. Such changes are damaging the delicate coral ecosystem, and the situation will most likely become worse because of the effects of the El Nino tropical weather system.
Coral reefs cover around 0.1% of the global ocean floor. However, they are home to almost 25% of the existing marine life. Since a long time, these reefs have been listed as one of the primary victims of global warming; but, the coordinator of the Coral Reef Watch Program of NOAA Mark Eakin said that people often struggle to see corals as they are underwater. Eakin has asked the ordinary people to inquire themselves what would one do if 60% of the redwood forest dies within a span of a few months. According to him, finding the right answer to this question is a bit tricky as often out of sight means out of mind.
When making these statements, Eakin was referring to a bleaching of smaller scale that occurred in the Caribbean way back in 2005. The event resulted in wiping out of as much as 60% of the corals of that region; however, the event remained relatively unnoticed and right now, our planet is experiencing bleaching in a much larger scale. Eakin informed that so far, the mass bleaching has hit the Earth only twice (at least recorded history suggests so), first in 1998 and then again in 2010.
The current mass bleaching on our planet began in 2014 summer. The process started from the Northern Pacific region and expanded gradually all through the Pacific and Indian Oceans.


As something significantly more than just a casual observer of the marketing, advertising and branding space, I decided that for this post I was just going to showcase a few brands that are doing things right.
You know, kind of take the 40,000 foot view if you will. Or is it 60,000? Or is it.. ah never mind, you get the idea.
And one brand you won't see here is Pepsi. Sorry, cheap shot.
My assumption is you will have heard of most of these brands but probably not all. And that's kind of the point because there are a great number of brands doing it right without all the fanfare and big budgets.
The ability of Facebook to adapt to change and introduce internal platform changes to their customer base is legendary. In the past year they rolled out a massive global ad campaign that sought to educate people on the potential of their latest innovation, Facebook Live. The campaign showed the average person how it could be used and demonstrated to attentive marketing professionals how to leverage authenticity in their marketing endeavors.
The success of the Facebook Live launch is undeniable. Many industry experts have listed it as one of the most important trends in 2017. It has been embraced by individuals, entrepreneurs, news organizations, and international corporations as the go-to platform for engaged communication with their communities.
Insurance is typically sold as protection against some sort of disastrous event. State Farm recently turned that notion inside out and began an effective and uplifting campaign that focuses on when things go brilliantly.
Instead of focusing on all that can go right, the new tag line tells consumers their State Farm agents are there to help life go right. It is a powerful message that has resonated with consumers who embrace a more positive world view.
Most people are aware they can sell their diamonds, luxury watches, or other jewelry but are reluctant to do so because of the stigma surrounding the process. WP Diamonds has changed the narrative by cultivating a lavish experience for both the buyer and seller.
The website is designed to put sellers at ease with detailed information about the experts who appraise items, the security of the shipping process, and payment details. They collaborated with consumers to showcase the experience on personal and professional blogs and encouraged sellers to leave reviews across various channels to further establish their expertise and creditability.
If you've watched any sort of television programming in the past decade, you've likely seen Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, or Jennifer Garner asking, "What's in your wallet?" This campaign by Capital One has been immensely successful and driven their brand awareness to 90%.
They've also used social media influencers and event sponsorships to reach a broader and younger audience. A recent concert featuring Imagine Dragons and Macklemore was live streamed from the Capital One Orange Bowl and listed as one of the most watched events in the app's history.
In business for nearly two decades and serving companies of all sizes – from big brands like Speedo, Adidas, Zumba Fitness and Marriott to the small business owner that just needs that one flag for their trade show booth, Australian Flagmakers understands that vibrant visuals on their website and social media channels is what illustrates the depth of their skill and expertise in their market.
Large photos slideshows and videos are central to selling an audience on selecting a company based just on online research and shopping. Plus, it doesn't hurt to name drop with the logos of recognizable brands that have counted on the company to deliver on their needs.
In an age where everyone is attached to their smartphones, it is no surprise that some of the most innovative strategies would come from data providers such as Sprint. One of the biggest coups in the history of marketing occurred when Sprint drafted a former Verizon spokesman.
The star of Verizon, Paul Marcarelli, had been known as the voice of Verizon for nearly a decade. Commercials featuring him have made a play on his switch from Verizon and the fact that the quality of both providers is comparable but the cost of Sprint plans is half that of Verizon.
The underlying theme behind each of these examples is the story the brand has been able to give to their customers.
Great marketing must feel authentic and relevant to the audience in ways that were simply not expected in previous generations. Brands must identify with the emotional needs of their target audience and strive to create an experience that fulfills those needs whether they be for luxury, a great deal, authentic interaction, or a story that ends with happily ever after.


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Scars: An Anthology. Edited by Erin Wood
January 24, 2016 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
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For some two years, Erin Wood spent her time examining scars. As careful and probing as a surgeon, the writer and editor of Scars: An Anthology examined a wealth of poems, photographs, and prose about the subject and handled each person's revealing narrative with the emerging understanding that "there is a great deal about our scars that extends far beyond the individual body and the self."
Wood, whose essay "We Scar, We Heal, We Rise" was a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2013 (it appears in this volume) reflects on the ways scars may "belong to different versions of ourselves: our past selves...or new selves, selves in transition, or even selves we wish to regard more fully."
Stories that address these issues make the collection a rich reading experience that at times can be intense and painful, but also enlightening and entertaining. There is a lot of humor alongside the humanity that's revealed, as well as insight into the clinical encounter, most notably in Sayantani DasGupta's "'Tell Me About Your Scar': Narrative Medicine and The Scars of Intelligibility." One of the most moving and insightful pieces in the collection is "The Women's Table," an interview with Andrea Zekis, who speaks frankly about her "gender confirmation surgery" and the scars, emotional and physical, created but also taken away during her transition. A photo essay by New York photographer David Jay, who began The SCAR Project, is a stunning look at those who show their scars frankly and with pride. And while many of the pieces in this book are personal essays and memoirs, it is the poetry— like Samantha Plakun's "Written In Stitches" and Philip Martin's "The Pry Bar"—that draws the reader in close to examine the beauty and personal history revealed in the body's terrain.—Donna Bulseco
On December 10,2015, Columbia University's Seminar on Narrative, Health and Social Justice presented "Scars as Art, Text and Experience" at the Faculty House, featuring Editor Erin Wood and contributors Kelli Dunham, Lorrie Fredette, Samantha Plakun, and Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes. Marsha Hurst, who is a lecturer in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and co-chairs the University Seminar on "Narrative, Health, and Social Justice" introduced the panel. Hurst is co-editor with Sayantani DasGupta of Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies. Listen to the event in its entirety below:
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Six Cyclone Engineers will receive College of Engineering and Iowa State University Alumni Association awards at a virtual ISUAA Honors and Awards Ceremony on April 7 at 7 p.m. Register to watch or leave a note of congratulations for awardees here.
ANSON MARSTON MEDAL by the College of Engineering
Iowa State University established the Anson Marston Medal in 1938 in honor of Anson Marston, the first dean of engineering. The Marston Medal recognizes alumni of the College of Engineering for outstanding achievement in advancing engineering science, technology or policy having national and international impact in academics, industry, public services, government or other venues.
Za-Chieh Moh, M.S. civil engineering '55, Taipei, Taiwan
Za-Chieh Moh is a distinguished educator, entrepreneur, and leader in geotechnical engineering. Moh's knowledge, professionalism, and pioneering spirit have made him a role model for others in his field, and he's made remarkable engineering contributions in Southeast and East Asia and across the world.
Moh founded and is chairman of the board of the MAA GROUP, a prominent international engineering consultant conglomerate that serves clients in numerous projects that are vital to the development of Asian regional economies.
Moh also served as the vice president and provost of the Asian Institute of Technology and has published more than 160 technical publications. His instructions to engineers and researchers have expedited many economic and scientific developments internationally, and his former students have gone on to lead large-scale infrastructure projects across Asia.
He has been named a fellow of many engineering organizations, including the American Society of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers (U.K.), Chinese Institute of Engineers, and Institutions of Engineering in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Moh was the founding president of the Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society and has served as the vice president of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.
In addition to his degree from ISU, Moh holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University, a doctorate of science degree in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an honorary doctorate of technology from the Asian Institute of Technology.
Moh was married to the late Diana Mai-Ding Yeh and has three children, Alexander, Angela and Richard, and six grandchildren.
Lori Ryerkerk, chemical engineering '83, Dallas, Texas
Lori Ryerkerk is the chairperson, chief executive officer, and president of Celanese Corporation, a Fortune 500 global chemical and specialty materials company based in Dallas, Texas.
Ryerkerk's expertise in the energy industry spans three-plus decades. She combines deep technical and commercial skills with a passion for the manufacturing business. Her unwavering focus on safety, environmental, and social performance is the foundation on which she has overseen some of the most technically complex operations in the industry.
Ryerkerk has been named by Fortune Magazine as one of America's Most Powerful Women in Business, and she serves on the board of directors of Eaton Corporation and previously served on the board of Axalta Coating Systems. Under Ryerkerk's leadership, Celanese received its fifth consecutive Energy Star Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence Award and achieved a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year.
Prior to joining Celanese, Ryerkerk was the executive vice president of global manufacturing at Shell Downstream Inc., leading a team of 30,000 employees and contractors at refineries and chemical sites worldwide. She has also held senior leadership positions at Hess Corporation and spent 24 years with Exxon Mobil, improving operational performance in assignments across the U.S. to Europe and Asia.
Ryerkerk is married to the Honorable Carl R. Griffith. She is the proud mother of two children, Dr. Katherine Woodburn, a fellow in urogynecology in Washington, D.C., and Grant Woodburn, a senior in chemical engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT CITATION IN ENGINEERING by the College of Engineering
The PACE Award was established in 1968 to recognize superior technical or professional accomplishments in research, development, administration, education and other engineering activities. The citation recognizes alumni eminently known for their professional competence and creativity.
Edward Maginn, chemical engineering '87, South Bend, Indiana
Edward Maginn is a recognized research and education leader in chemical engineering. Currently the Keough-Hesburgh Professor in the University of Notre Dame Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, he has demonstrated success in both research innovation and inspiring the next generation of chemical engineers.
Maginn was the department chair from 2012 to 2020 and previously served as associate dean for academic programs in the Notre Dame Graduate School. He has advised 32 PhD students, 21 postdoctoral researchers, and 29 undergrad researchers, and he teaches a wide range of undergrad and graduate-level thermodynamics, process design, and separation processes courses. He has won multiple teaching awards, including the BP College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award.
Maginn's research expertise is the development and use of atomistic molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation methods to study the thermodynamic and transport properties of materials, with emphasis on ionic systems important in energy and environmental applications. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles, holds five patents, and has been elected a fellow of the AAAS and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Maginn is senior editor and founder of the Springer Nature series "Molecular Modeling and Simulation: Applications and Perspectives" and is a senior editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
After graduating from Iowa State, Maginn worked as a process engineer for Procter & Gamble and received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is married to Iowa State alumna Tracy Maginn ('87 English), and he and Tracy have four children: Grace, Jake, Emma, and Teddy.
Jeff VerHeul, computer engineering '80, Austin, Texas
Jeff VerHeul is a computer engineering leader with more than three decades of product innovation and management success at the industry's most recognizable companies.
VerHeul is senior vice president of non-volatile engineering at Micron, a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions. He's responsible for leading the non-volatile (NAND flash and 3D XPoint™) memory engineering team — 2,500 employees across six countries who drive execution of Micron's leading-edge flash memory semiconductors and system-level storage solutions.
Prior to joining Micron, VerHeul served as senior vice president of corporate engineering for SanDisk. His career also includes senior and corporate vice president positions with Standard Microsystems Corporation and AMD, where he led the development of multiple generations of microprocessors. He spent 25 years with IBM, working his way up to vice president positions within IBM Server Group and IBM Microelectronics.
VerHeul made InfoWorld's list of best chief technology officers in 2009 for his outstanding ability — demonstrated at AMD – to overcome engineering development process deficiencies and obstacles inhibiting the delivery of leadership products. At Micron, he is known for his ability to quickly win respect and drive program transformation, helping teams be the best in class.
In addition to his degree from Iowa State, VerHeul received a master's degree in management of technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
VerHeul is married to Mary Jo VerHeul. They have four children: Victoria, Alex ('06 finance), Alanna, and Paige.
VerHeul serves on the College of Engineering's Dean's Advisory Council and is a member of the ISU Foundation Order of the Knoll President's Circle. He is also an annual member of the ISU Alumni Association.
YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD by the College of Engineering
The Young Alumni Award recognizes Iowa State University alumni, age 40 and under, who have excelled in their professions and provided service to their communities.
Gretchen Kinsella, construction engineering '02, Phoenix, Arizona
Gretchen Kinsella is a construction engineering leader on the rise who has advanced quickly at DPR Construction from intern to leadership. She started at DPR in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2001 and immediately asked for a more challenging project with bigger engineering problems to solve. Her spirit of pushing the limits has led to fast progress, from project engineer to project manager to project executive – and now she is leading the entire business for DPR Construction in Arizona.
Kinsella has demonstrated outstanding skills in a wide variety of construction engineering areas, including risk management, operations, people development, and work acquisition.
In 2019 she was named to Arizona's Real Estate People to Know, and she's been profiled in Engineering News-Record's Viewpoint series. In 2020, Kinsella was named to Arizona's Real Estate People Most Influential Women in Real Estate list.
Kinsella serves as a role model for women in the building industry. She has shared her story at the 2017 ENR's Groundbreaking Women in Construction conference and serves the Phoenix community. Kinsella is currently a member of Greater Phoenix Leadership and is on the board of directors for Banner Health. Previously, Kinsella served on the Junior League of Phoenix for seven years.
She was similarly involved in the Iowa State University community during her time on campus, participating in numerous organizations, including Homecoming Committee as special events chair and the Panhellenic Board Council.
Kinsella is married to Ryan Kinsella, and they are parents to a four-year-old daughter who fills Kinsella's free time with joy and laughter.
ALUMNI MERIT AWARD by the ISU Alumni Association
The Alumni Merit Award was established by the ISU Club of Chicago in 1932 to recognize ISU alumni for outstanding contributions to human welfare that transcend purely professional accomplishments and bring honor to the university.
George Burnet, chemical engineering '48, MS '49, Ph.D. '51, and Martha Anderson, home management '48, Ames, Iowa
George Burnet and Martha Anderson are two individuals who have always been devoted to Iowa State University, and just recently found their devotion to each other. Burnet and Anderson met each other while living at Green Hills Retirement Community in Ames. After discovering their shared enthusiasm for Iowa State women's basketball games, their friendship blossomed into marriage.
After graduating and working in industry for several years, Burnet returned to Iowa State as a faculty member, subsequently becoming head of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department in 1961 and associate dean of the College of Engineering in 1986. He retired in 1995.
Anderson inherited her passion for Iowa State from her father, Mervin Coover, the namesake for Coover Hall. Following her graduation, she lived in Pennsylvania for 40 years, culminating with her serving as director of a pre-school and head start program. In 1989, she retired and returned to Ames.
Prior to the pandemic, Burnet and Anderson made a point to attend events held by the College of Human Sciences and College of Engineering, the Iowa State University Alumni Association, and the Iowa State University Foundation. They found time to gather with other alumni and globetrotted with the Iowa State University Alumni Association Traveling Cyclones program and are consistent participants in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Throughout their lives, Burnet and Anderson have enjoyed philanthropy and have supported many Iowa State initiatives. Some of their favorite causes include scholarships, ISU Athletics, the Iowa State University Varsity Marching Band, and the Greek community.
Today, Burnet and Anderson live together at Green Hills Retirement Community in Ames, Iowa. They are both life members of the Iowa State University Alumni Association, belong to the Order of the Knoll W.M. Beardshear Society and Campanile Society, and are Cyclone Club members.
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International bestselling author and filmmaker Jeffrey M. Smith is the leading spokesperson on the health dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods. His first book, Seeds of Deception, is the world's bestselling and top-rated book on the topic. His second, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, provides overwhelming evidence that GMOs are unsafe and should never have been introduced. Mr. Smith is the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology (responsibletechnology.org), whose Campaign for Healthier Eating in America is designed to create the tipping point of consumer rejection of GMOs, forcing them out of our food supply.


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Wednesday Lupypciw's (2014) video and textile installation continues her research into feminism, labour and economy as it relates to both textile practices and technology. Lupypciw's characters inhabit a fractured video narrative that tracks the invention of the internet in what she calls her "imaginary sex dungeon." With a cheeky humour, the work mocks fetishistic labour-intensive practices in both craft and emerging media. It proposes an alternate reality in which queer feminist desire is the impetus for creating, controlling, and enjoying online spaces and interactions.
Wednesday Lupypciw
BED OF INTIMACY (2014)
16:00 single-channel, Standard Definition video with ambient sound displayed as video installation with two synced monitors
My Sex Website (2014)
Tapestry installation with cotton, wool, silk, lurex, leather, wood and paint.
8' x 15' installed (variable)
photo credit: Stacey Watson
This work is included in a group exhibition titled In the making, curated by Diana Sherlock, that investigates conceptual intersections between contemporary craft and emerging digital media. The works in this exhibition span a diverse range of disciplines—photography, performance, video and sound installation, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry and glass. Together they reflect the ongoing influence of technology on ways of making and ways of thinking about the contemporary context. In its title, In the making alludes to the ongoing process of invention in both handwork and emerging technologies. The exhibition assumes the centrality of the processes of making to art, craft and design. It posits that technology and ways of making are not merely tools or processes required to get the job done, but are an integral conceptual extension of the project that allow the artist to produce objects and ideas they would not have been able to produce otherwise.
When the exhibition was presented at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in January 2014, Lupypciw's 16-minute video work was positioned at the entrance of the gallery, as part of a larger installation called My Sex Website (Figs. 1 and 2). The installation featured two TV monitors sitting on the floor alongside a hand-woven tapestry, and numerous fabric swatches hung from metal rings on the wall. Similar to Lupypciw's past video works (http://wednesdaylupypciw.com/video/), BED OF INTIMACY uses split screens, mismatched voiceovers, and outdated equipment to piece together a humorous, fantastical, and multilayered work that simultaneously features the artist as director, editor, and actor(s). In Lupypciw's hands, video is treated as a raw material to be shaped and manipulated. As with any other craft medium, video is employed here for its inherent material qualities, glitches, and idiosyncrasies. This materialized approach is extended into the narrative of the video itself, where the characters turn the camera on one another to co-create customized spaces to suit their particular desires and bodies. In a reversal of patriarchal structures of control enacted or enforced in online communities, Lupypciw's hands-on engagement with the medium works to undermine the power relations inherent in (online) surveillance.
In the video, a dominatrix struggles to find new and stimulating ways to please her client, and eventually enlists the help of her robot assistant to "build" the internet: an interconnected web of "sites" for her client to peruse. The work of building the sites and their connections is done laboriously by hand, using both basic and complex tools such as wrenches and looms. Each site or page is initially depicted as a hand-woven swatch of fabric (the same ones featured in the installation) – physical objects that can be handled, selected, and arranged at will. These very literal acts of making – alongside the woven objects that exist both within and outside of the video – make visible and tangible the labour and time involved in constructing online spaces.
By using the physical and tactile vocabulary of hand-making to address issues of online labour and authorship, Lupypciw links these ways of making together to argue for the internet as a (potential) site of female agency. If most current web content is still created by and for men, Lupypciw's cyber-women work against these traditionally gendered structures to build their own internet from scratch. Calling upon the feminist histories and politics of craft, these women are charged with creative autonomy and control over the processes, tools, and organization of the sites that they create and use. Here, crafting and craft labour become metaphors for the ways in which women and queers might not only invent, but also customize their own online spaces.
The characters in the video also reinforce the potential of these online spaces to be continuously adapted and improved by their users and creators. As the character of the client travels through the newly created web and visits each site in turn, he encounters a selection of men, dancing and posing provocatively—and embodying the content and style of each webpage. When he finally finds a "site" he likes, it is a space he declares as "safe" and where "the boundaries of our bodies collapse." Rather than a disconnected or disembodied relationship between web content and users, those watching and those being watched, Lupypciw's video ultimately argues for an optimistic and intimate view of a new feminist internet: a safe space for connection, communication, and desire.
Wednesday Lupypciw is from Calgary, Alberta, where she pursues a video and performance art practice. To make money she is a part-time maid. She also maintains a concurrent practice in textiles—weaving, machine knitting, embroidery and crochet—but this is done mostly while procrastinating on other, larger projects. The performance art collective LIDS, or the Ladies Invitational Deadbeat Society is one of those projects. Other recent works have been exhibited at Nuit Blanche of Calgary (2014), La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse (Montréal, (2014), at the Feminist Art Gallery (FAG) and the FADO Performance Art Centre, (Toronto, (2013), and in the touring show They Made A Day A Day Here (Grande Prairie, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, 2013), curated by Amy Fung.
Nicole Burisch is a Canadian curator, critic, artist, and cultural worker. Much of her work has focused on contemporary craft and craft theory and she has researched, published, exhibited, and lectured on this topic in Canada and internationally. Her research (with Anthea Black) into curatorial strategies for politically engaged craft practices is included in The Craft Reader (Berg) and Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Duke University Press). Burisch's writing has also been published by FUSE Magazine, Stride Gallery, the Richmond Art Gallery and in the Cahiers métiers d'art :: Craft Journal. She is one-third of the Ladies Invitational Deadbeat Society, a loosely knit group of purposefully lazy womenfolk whose activities make visible and politicize women's roles in the (arts) economy.
Diana Sherlock is a Canadian independent curator, writer and educator whose projects engage research and commissioning models that create opportunities for contemporary artists to produce new work in response to specific collections, contexts, histories and cultures of display. Recent projects in addition to In the making, include Folly: Château Mathieu at the Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary (Alberta). Since 1995, Sherlock has published over 50 texts in gallery catalogues and contemporary art journals including Canadian Art, FUSE Magazine, Blackflash, Ceramics Art and Perception (Sydney, Australia), Border Crossings, Artillery (Los Angeles/New York), CMagazine and The Calgary Herald. Sherlock was the Curator-in-Residence at the Alberta College of Art + Design (2011/2012), where she teaches critical theory and professional practice in the School of Critical and Creative Studies.
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Q: Why is my trap not printing any log message? What I'm doing is,
trap 'rm -f /path/of/file/fileName.running; echo "TRAPPED & READY";' 1 2 9 15 >> trap.log

I didn't get anything in log & the file which should have been deleted still exists, I'm not sure of which signal could be stopping the script while it's running as I'm just killing the servers which are being used by the script.
NB: My Cron-Scheduled job won't run if that file is present & I don't think I've missed any possible signal.
where am I wrong?

A: Part of your problem is that you have the >> trap.log outside the (quoted) command arg,
so all you're getting in the trap.log file is the output from the trap command itself
– which is nothing.
I'm not sure what you mean by saying "TRAPPED & READY" when your script is terminating,
but it looks like what you mean is

trap 'rm -f filename; echo "message" >> trap.log' sigspec …

And I agree with Karlo: if you are
"just killing the servers which are being used by the script,"
then the script is quite probably exiting (rather than being killed by a signal)
and you should use the EXIT (or, equivalently, 0) sigspec
(possibly in addition to 1, 2, and 15).
P.S. You don't need a semicolon (;) at the end of the trap command arg.

A: Use EXIT instead of the signal numbers.
The script below works for me. I use the constants.
> cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash

trap 'echo trap' EXIT

echo 'Program running'
sleep 1

> ./test.sh
Program running
trap

From the bash manpage:

If  a  sigspec  is  EXIT (0) the command arg is executed on exit from the shell.  If a sigspec is DEBUG, the command arg is executed before every simple command, for command, case command, select command, every arithmetic for command, and before the first command executes in a shell function (see SHELL GRAMMAR above).  Refer to the description of the extdebug option to the shopt builtin for details of its effect on the DEBUG trap.  If a sigspec is RETURN, the command arg is executed each time a shell function or a script executed with the . or source builtins finishes executing.

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Falcons Blanked by Rivier 5-0
Rivier (15-15) 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 5 9 0
Albertus Magnus (13-22) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3
2B: Marissa Mercier; Lia Bobek
2B: Jamie Vesciglio
The Albertus Magnus softball team fell to Rivier University 5-0 in game two of the Saturday afternoon doubleheader.
With the win Rivier evens its record at 15-15 on the year and improves to 11-9 in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) play. Albertus moves to 13-22 overall and 6-15 in league action.
Rivier tallied two runs in the opening inning, one in the third and one in the fifth to take a 4-0 lead after five.
Nicole Peacock and Hillary Tarr each recorded multiple hits for the Raiders in the contest. Marissa Mercier finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored.
Taylor Miller picked up the shutout as she allowed six hits and struck out six in the victory.
Amanda Green (Shelton, Conn.) gave up two runs in the opening frame before leaving the game. Jackie Medina (Bridgeport, Conn.) took the mound and went six innings as she struck out six and walked six batters.
Isabel Lopez (West Haven, Conn.) and Alyssa Puccilli (Milford, Conn.) had two hits apiece.


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Q: Preventing web site links and email addresses in a form when "Submit" is pressed Folks,
I have an html form which sends the form data as an email. Unfortunately spam bots have been filling the form in and send web site links and email addresses in the message part of the form.
Is there a way I can delete the web site links and email addresses when the "Submit" button is pressed before it gets sent on as an email address? I use PHP to do the actually sending of the form data as an email message.
Thanks and regards,
Tony

A: Have you tried having a hidden form via css (display: none) but in HTML like a regular form, and call it email or something common, and if that form has data, then it must be a bot.

A: How about using regular expressions to replace anything that matches a web link or email address to an empty string.
You can find tones of regular expression examples on the web, just google it

A: You can do that with Javascript. The problem is that Javascript needs to be enabled for that to happen so you can imagine the odds that the spambots will be cooperative when it comes to this.
You're going to have to filter it out on the server. Personally I would simply reject outright any message containing links or email addresses. Spit back an error to the user but don't even save it.
For some tips on detecting spam in PHP read Spam-free accessible forms.
You may also want to consider the use of CAPTCHA.

A: You would have to iterate over every field in the $_POST array (at least the ones you don't want to have emails or links in) and check it against a couple of regexes.
The suggestion to use CAPTCHA is also a good one.
Anyway, here's a crappy implementation of the checking:
class ValidationHelper
{
    // Regex taken from https://github.com/google-code-export/prado3/blob/master/framework/Web/UI/WebControls/TEmailAddressValidator.php
    const EMAIL_REGEX = "#\\w+([-+.]\\w+)*@\\w+([-.]\\w+)*\\.\\w+([-.]\\w+)*#";

    // hacked up regex that I just cooked up - could be hugely improved i'm sure.
    const LINK_REGEX = "#(h\s*t\s*t\s*p\s*s?|f\s*t\s*p)\s*:\s*/\s*/#";

    public static function containsEmail($value)
    {
        if (preg_match(self::EMAIL_REGEX, $value))
            return true;

        return false;
    }

    public static function containsLink($value)
    {
        if (preg_match(self::LINK_REGEX, $value))
            return true;

        return false;
    }
}

$errors = array();
foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) {
    // presumably you want at least one email field, yeah?
    if ($key != 'email') {
        // perhaps you should be running strip_tags over everything if you don't want html and such...
        // see http://php.net/strip_tags for more info. without it (or something similar), there's nothing
        // to stop people from putting <script type="text/javascript" src="http://notyourdomain.com/~1337skriptkiddy/haxxors.js"></script>
        // into your form. even if you might not necessarily ever be displaying this in a scenario
        // where it can cause trouble, it's never a bad idea to stop this stuff *before* it gets into your db
        $_POST[$key] = $value = strip_tags($value);
        if (ValidationHelper::containsEmail($value) || ValidationHelper::containsLink($value))
            $errors[] = 'Please ensure the value you entered for '.$fieldNames[$key].' does not contain any links or email addresses';
    }
}

if (!empty($errors)) {
    // failed - show errors.
}
else {
    // success!
}

A: Well, if your really want to fight spam, go for these steps:

*

*Put a CAPTCHA in the form so that non-humans cannot even submit the form. A very popular CAPTCHA implementation is reCAPTCHA.

*Do a strip_tags on the fields so that even if someone puts URLs by hand, it will be removed.

*Do a regular expression check for email addresses and remove them as well. Pick a good regex expression from the web which will pick most email formats.
Hope this help. Cheers!

A: Presumably, you don't want to accept any kind of HTML, just plain text? In this case strip_tags is your friend. strip_tags also allows you to specify some tags that are acceptable.
I also heartily recommend incorporating a header-injection defence script.

A: Folks,
I tried using strip_tags which certainly removes tags but doesn't remove "mailto:" nor "http://" text, so the links are still links.
Is there an easy PHP command or routine that can scan a string and just replace "mailto:" and/or "http://" with a harmless empty string "" in those portions of the string?
Tried googling too but most of the stuff I found was about trimming white space etc.
Sorry about this, I'm kinda new to PHP.
Thanks and Regards,
Tony

A: This is very simplistic, but you could build on it I'm sure ...
Try adding a picture of a cat or dog, then asking them to enter the three letter name of the animal shown ... or something similar. Do a validation check, then go from there ... cheap and easy Captcha. This way only human input is going out .. .


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10.04.2006 Business & Finance
Ghana's agriculture labour force declines
Accra, April 10, GNA - The Private Enterprises Foundation (PEF) on Monday said between 1984 and 2000 the agricultural labour force declined by about 10 percentage points from 61.1 per cent to 50.7 per cent. Dr Osei Boeh-Ocansey, Chief Executive of PEF, said it was thus wrong for speech writers for politicians to continue to feed the nation with the figure that 60 per cent of Ghana's population was in agriculture.
He said according to the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) Three and Four and 2000 population census by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) the service sector total employment increased by seven percentage points during the period (1984-2000) from 26.1 per cent to 33 per cent.
Contributing to a discussion at a national seminar on The State-of-Play of the various negotiating issues on the Doha Development Agenda of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Accra, Dr Boeh-Ocansey said the industrial sector share in total employment during the period increased only by 3.5 per cent from 12.8 in 1984 to 3 per cent in 2000.
He agreed with other participants that for Ghana and for that matter Africa to gain from the World Trade they must increase their production levels and sharpen technical negotiating skills.
Mr Edwini Kessie, Counsellor, Council and Trade Negotiations Committee Division of the WTO and the lead resource person, said African countries must show resilience in their political and economic policies that would make them to benefit from multi-lateral trade negotiations. He said the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) would have been of immense help in sub-regional trading activities if the member countries had followed their own protocols.
Mr Kessie said developing countries could criticise the multi-lateral system under which the WTO operated but studies revealed that countries, which liberalised their trade policies stood to gain more than entering into unilateral and bilateral trade agreements. "We need to have realignment of policies to produce...Africa is not competitive enough in the face of free trade groupings."
On the benefits of trade to developing countries, Kessie said there was general acceptance that trade was the engine of economic growth and development, which fact developing countries accepted and were determined to participate effectively in the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations and to play a greater role in the multi-lateral trading system.
Mr Kwadwo Affram Asiedu, a Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, in opening the three-day seminar, said the adoption and declaration of the Hong Kong Ministerial Meeting were cleared yet it had variously been interpreted and assessed by people from diverse background including Government officials, the academia, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and journalists.
Mr Asiedu said: "These assessments are largely informed by the pre-conference expectations of those who have been making them. "To almost all of them the results were disappointing but to those who were involved in the pre-conference negotiations in Geneva, including the Ghana delegation, however, what was achieved in Hong Kong was, realistically speaking, not so disappointing and unexpected."
Mr Asiedu urged the participants to study the WTO agreement carefully to ensure that during the implementation process of the Hong Kong Declaration Ghana could achieve what was of interest to her.


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Why is Jamie Spears Asking Britney Spears to Continue Paying His Legal Fees?
Mike Nied
Mike Nied Published: December 21, 2021
Jamie Spears was suspended from Britney Spears' conservatorship in late September, and the conservatorship was dissolved in November. However, the pair is still working things out in court.
In recently filed legal documents, the elder Spears asked for his famous daughter to continue paying his legal fees.
The documents — which were obtained by People — claim the fees stem from "ongoing fiduciary duties relating to the winding up of the Conservatorship of the Person and Estate."
"Prompt payment on account of Jamie's attorneys' fees is necessary to ensure the Conservatorship can be wound up quickly and efficiently to allow Britney to take control of her life as she and Jamie desire," the document read.
The documents also address Jamie's suspension: "The fiduciary obligations Jamie owes did not end with his suspension or with the order terminating the Conservatorship."
According to TMZ, a hearing is scheduled for Jan., and it should address some of the ongoing legal debate.
We won't have to wait that long to find out how Britney's team feels about Jamie's request, though. Britney's lawyer Mathew Rosengart slammed it as an "abomination" in a statement shared with People.
"Mr. Spears reaped many millions of dollars from Britney as a conservator, while paying his lawyers millions more, all from Britney's work and hard-earned money," he said. "The conservatorship has been terminated and Mr. Spears was suspended ignominiously. Under the circumstances, his petition is not only legally meritless, it is an abomination."
Additionally, Rosengart addressed claims Britney leveled against her father while he acted as her conservator: "Britney poignantly testified about the pain her father caused her and this only adds to it. This is not what a father who loves his daughter does."
Britney broke her silence regarding the conservatorship during a June hearing this year. Her harrowing testimony included claims that she had an IUD that she was not allowed to remove and that she was held against her will in a treatment facility.
She's since spoken about the situation on Instagram. In an Oct. post the hit-maker alluded to being confined to a house with no privacy for four months.
Jamie's court documents addressed his daughter's statements about him: "Payment of Jamie's attorneys' fees from the Estate is required regardless of the unsupported ad hominem vitriol lodged at him."
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I am also trying to bring the current consumption down. For the ESP32 I am using a Lolin D32. It consumes 70uA in standby. I added the RFM95W and now the total standby current is 240uA.
I followed your blog post and also added pull-up resistors to MOSI, MISO, SCK AND SS. I used 20k resistors connected to 3.3v. After that the standby current was 160uA. A big improvement.
However I am unable to achieve your results. The Lolin D32 uses 70uA on standby, so combined with the RFM95W a current consumption of between 71uA – 80uA should be possible. Do you have any idea what I should try next?


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Q: linux find all files where directory or filename contains a text I want to find files where a given text is present either in file name or in path.
for eg:
find /a/b/ -name "*log*" -type f -or -name "*log*" -type d
(EDIT:
Looks like find /a/b/ -name "*log*"  will give same result as above.)
The above commands will give all directory or files with log in it. the result will be like this.
/a/b/log      -directory
/a/b/c/log.txt     -file
/a/b/log/log.txt   -file
/a/b/log/xx.txt    -file

But I want only below results with filename, where log is present anywhere in the path(Want to omit the first line in the above result, to be precise)
/a/b/c/log.txt
/a/b/log/log.txt
/a/b/log/xx.txt

Is it possible to limit to only files in result but both files and directories in search condition?

A: Is this what you wanted :
find /a/b -type f -path "*log*"


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Posted on July 3, 2013 · Posted in Belfast Telegraph
The story of Harrison's of Greyabbey is one of remarkable success. A mere 14 months after the restaurant opened, it is already on the verge of a one million pounds turnover.
"We thought we needed just one chef and now we have four full time chefs, two part time chefs, plus a baker and I am interviewing for a second baker, because we have lots of groups booked in between now and the end of June," explains the head of the family business, David Harrison.
The business now has a payroll of an astonishing 44 full and part time staff, having launched in March of last year with just one and a half employees. "We never envisaged having so many staff," continues David.
As can often happen with a popular business innovation, the fast expansion took place because the Harrisons listened to their customers. Harrison's of Greyabbey is located on one of the most beautiful spots on the Ards Peninsula and was already a garden centre and nursery, but its customers wanted more.
"We live on a family farm of 90 acres, which started 20 years ago selling vegetables to local shoppers," explains David. But a change of nurserymen about 12 years ago led also to a change of direction into the hanging basket and plant retailing trade. "Everybody [who came to the nursery] kept saying we had a great view over the Strangford Lough and we should have a coffee shop here – so we built a 120 seater restaurant," reports David.
That restaurant does breakfasts from 9 in the morning, including full Ulster Fries, and cooked lunches from 12 to 4. "It is good basic farmhouse cooking," says David. "It is local produce, locally sourced. Our beef comes from the Ards Peninsula – we could even tell you which field the beef comes from! All our pork is local Northern Ireland pork."
David is very appreciative of both the Ulster Bank and Henderson's food suppliers in enabling the business to get started. "The Ulster Bank has invested big time," he says, with the family also committing large amounts of capital. "All the money we had is invested in this." Despite that, the restaurant could not have opened without the support of Henderson's in providing credit, when other suppliers refused. Further assistance of about £50,000 is expected in the near future as a rural development grant.
The family has not invested heavily in marketing, but instead strongly benefited from appearing on the television programme The Farm Fixer with Nick Hewer. The family's appearance was marked by controversy, with them refusing to accept the main recommendations of the host, who proposed a name change and Sunday opening. As committed Christians who want to emphasise the family character of the business, the Harrisons rejected the advice. But the difference of opinion not only made for good television, but also led to a lot of coverage in newspapers and on the radio.
"We may now do some advertising on the radio to keep ourselves in people's eyes," adds David. But the restaurant is clearly doing the right things to keep its customers satisfied – 30% of people eating there have travelled more than an hour to do so. Many diners come from as far away as Ballymena as well as Belfast to eat and to enjoy the view.
With the family's objective of a £1m annual turnover already within reach, the business will now focus on consolidation, though also with some changes to the menu. It is also intended that the farm shop will develop and offer more home cooked bakery items.
David believes that the success of the family business is a strong indication of how Northern Ireland can make the most of its already very successful agri-food sector. He offers advice to MLAs – many of whom often eat in the restaurant. "We have been well supported by them," he says.
"Northern Ireland is good for good local food and I think we should promote that," argues David. "It creates jobs. The Government needs to get its act together to promote the food industry here and create lots of jobs. We want to be a major food centre here. We all like our food here."
It is clear from the Harrisons' dramatic expansion success that a lot of people are especially keen on their food.
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