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If Christianity Today is to remain at the top of its game after their recent support for the full impeachment of Donald Trump, on what is already widely agreed to be manufactured political manoeuvring by Leftists, they'll now need to give voice to a broader theological critique.
Australia's Eternity News also seemingly plopped itself onto the bandwagon, defending what looked like its own giddy, veiled applause with the dismissal that "reporting the news is not the same as supporting the contents of it." This is despite individuals calling the article "brave."
Readers of both Eternity News and Christianity Today would be right to now feel a fresh entitlement to see from them a FULL Christian theological critique of the spirit of the age, if they are to remain consistent, including:
1.Speaking out against abortion;
2.Exposing the lies of deep state Democrats and career politicians;
3.Providing a complete and rigorous defence of the rights of charities who graciously hold to a biological and biblical definition of marriage;
4. Criticism of Islamic terrorism;
5. Criticism of the abuse of women under Islamism;
6. A blanket protest against the manipulation and mutilation of young people via transgenderism and the apocalyptic climate change propaganda;
7. Condemnation of the bullying of Israel Folau, Margaret Court, and others under the guise of "LGBTQ rights."
Given the trajectory, this all seems unlikely. As one commentator said, after reading about Christianity Today's apologetic track record of Barack Obama, "don't hold your breath, mate."
Christianity Today's treatment of Donald Trump and the previous President are miles apart. One simple search engine comparison proves it [same search engine, same search parameters, completely different result]:
Why the concern?
Franklin Littell, in analyzing the antebellum (pre-civil war) condition of the American churches, identified a pattern of ideological servitude. Churches across America, both North and South were internally divided along ideological grounds. Pastors preached a mix of politics and theology, subsuming the theological critique into the service of a louder ideological master. Thus, he said, was the precursor to the most devastating war the United States ever experienced.
How far Littlell's analysis is to be viewed as a litmus test for us today remains an intriguing open question. Christianity Today has a right to voice their opinion, as we have a right to demand, and expect that this voice be a consistent one.
It's in this demand for consistency; the necessity of a consistent Christian theological critique of all ideological strong-holds, that gives rise to a diverse, but united front, joined in understanding against all unnecessary division.
This may seem utopian, but the further people wake up to the Left's own totalitarian sins while being fully conscious of the sins on the right, the more opportunity there is for the Church to boldly reflect light in an otherwise dark place. Thus perhaps avoiding what Littell identifies as an inevitable slide into a broader, all-out civil war.
First published on Caldron Pool, 23rd December, 2019
© Rod Lampard, 2019
In German Christians, Political Theology, Politics	Christianity Today, Compromise, Ideology, inconsistancy, Mob Mentality, selling out for popularity, the untruth of the crowd
Nicholas Best recounts a little known story about two Lancaster bombers. One crewed by Canadians, the other by Australians*.
Early on April 29th, 1945 the two Lancasters took off from East Anglia. They flew along a previously agreed upon 'corridor'. The route was 'prescribed by the occupying German forces in Holland, who being cut off from Germany due to the Allied advance', had uncharacteristically turned to the Allies for aid.
They did so, on behalf of the Dutch who were suffering through a famine triggered by the Nazis. Similar to German occupation of Belgium in World War One, the German starvation of the Dutch was a means of punishment for assisting the Allies, by way of a rail strike, which had 'prevented German reinforcements going up against the Allied assault in Arnhem during 1944.'
Best writes that the situation was dire, Holland, 'after months of disruption as the fighting came closer, had finally run out of food.' The situation was so bad, that 'many Dutch had eaten their pets, and were now living on grass, sugar beet, and tulip bulbs.'
Despite 'not having the authority to agree to a ceasefire' [i], level-headed German officials who had sought out the Allies, reached an accord of truce. Thus, allowing the Allies to send much needed humanitarian aid.
Not completely trusting of the German truce accord, the Allies flew a test mission along the agreed upon corridor.
The test flight, as Stephen Dando-Collins wrote, 'had all the hallmarks of a suicide mission.' These bomber crews were 'guinea pigs' testing out the German agreement to not fire on the Lancaster's flying low to deliver humanitarian aid to the starving Dutch. [ii]
The ominous mission was a success, and it kick-started Operation Manna – an unprecedented humanitarian air drop, which involved 200 bombers, flying at low levels, dropping much needed supplies into Nazi occupied Holland.
The first bomber, 'Bad Penny', flown by Canadian, Bob Upcott led the way. He described the event in detail, testifying that,
"when we passed the Dutch coast we saw anti-aircraft guns that pointed their muzzles in our direction. We even saw tanks that tried to keep their gun barrels on us. We were looking right down a number of barrels. All the guns were still manned…The Australian pilot was on my port side [left], flying echelon port. I dropped first when we were over the race track, while the Australian dropped almost the same moment." [iii]**
The second Lancaster was flown by F/O. Peter G.L Collett, from Sydney. He was 21 at the time, and already a veteran. Along with the Canadian crew of the first Lancaster, Collett and his Australian crew* effectively spearheaded the humanitarian mission.
Collett passed away in 2012. Although his heroics are mentioned in passing chapters about Operation Manna/Chowhound, no Australian books have been written about him or his crew. Collett's bravery isn't taught in schools. His efforts and heroism currently only exist as a footnote.
While Upcott and his crew are celebrated, the same cannot be said for Collett. Unlike Collett, Upcott and crew remained on as an integral part of the Manna Operation, drawing a bigger spotlight on the original flight into the unknown than was given to Collett.
Collett's absence from the spotlight appears to have been due to him being reassigned to Operation Exodus. Collett's service record reflects as much. From the dates 1st February, 1945, to 19th May, 1945, under 101st Squadron, right next "Bomber", below the word "Bombing", and above the word "Exodus", sits the word "Supplies", where the word Manna test flight should perhaps also be written.
Exodus ran from the 3rd April to the 31st May, 1945. It involved the repatriation of liberated Allied POWs from Nazi camps in Europe. Exodus itself was an enormous undertaking, '1,000 people per day were brought into British receiving camps; totaling 354,000 ex-prisoners of war by the end of May.'
At 21, Collett piloted a Lancaster bomber full of humanitarian supplies, at low level, with a full crew, on a mission of mercy into occupied Nazi territory. All based on the assurance of Nazi officials who had said that the 'mercy drop' would be allowed to proceed without harassment from the well-armed occupying German forces.
Collett is a national hero. Yet, his heroism and the heroism of his crew, isn't mainstream knowledge in Australia. Even the Australian War Memorial's official page for Operation Manna, called 'Food from Heaven', is silent about the test flight.
For an Australian/s to have played such a significant role in the relief operation, and for there to be little to no recognition of their daring and bravery, shows a real blind spot in how Australians are taught history, and how Australians embrace the importance of knowing what History teaches.
This is something to lament. This is something, we as a society, need to correct. If not for the men and women whose bold shoulders we now stand upon, at least for the generations they saved, in order to pass on the freedoms and responsibilities that allowed their own generation to stand against tyranny, in all its devouring and grotesque forms.
[i] Best, N. 2012. Five Days That Shocked The World, Osprey Publishing, (pp.83-85)
[ii] Dando-Collins, S. 2015. Operation Chowdown, St. Martin's Press (p.119)
*Confusion over Collett's crew reinforces my point about the lack of historical interest in the Australian contribution to Operation Manna, from Australians. There are contradictory reports from various sources about whether his crew was an all Australian crew, British or mixed British and Australian.
** 'NX579, No. 101 Sqn. Piloted by F/S Bob Upcott of Windsor, Ontario. Up at 1207, returned at 1444. 274 bags of food dropped. Second aircraft was PB350, No. 101 Sqn. Piloted by P/O Peter Collett of Sydney, Australia. Up at 1215, returned at 1442, 284 bags of food dropped.' (RAFCommands)
First published on Caldron Pool, 15th December, 2019.
Windmill pic credit: Vishwas Katti on Unsplash
In Australia, Australian History, History, World War two	Australia, Holland, Humanitarian Aid, Lancaster Bombers, Nazi Famine, Peter Collett, Peter G L Collett, RAAF, Royal Australian Air Force, World War two
Gene Veith once wrote, 'secularists are genuinely unable to tell the difference between art that has aesthetic merit and art that has none.' His words were part of both a critique and lament of the 'State of the Arts', and what the world of art has become.
Calling art 'the plaything of the rich', 'art is now considered to be whatever the artist does.' Art has become a slave to the post-modern mind. Under the foppish, vain lordship of the unhinged, vague emptiness of moral relativity, art has lost all meaning. An 'impersonal, dehumanised' and desensitised public, is no longer capable of distinguishing between good modern art and bad.
Rather than speak of and to the human condition, the art of this post modern world is 'anti-art'. It 'rejects humanness', worships 'the cult of the artist', and is controlled by the often contradictory 'elitism of the art world', whose global membership only amounts to the 'size of a very small town.' Where the 'wealthy elite' pose as proletarian, as they patron 'bohemian' artists in an irony that 'combines Marxist poses with upper class social snobbery.'
Veith's criticisms and lament is justified. Notorious examples include 'a performance artist in Milwaukee who entertained his patrons by screaming abuse at them, stuck fishhooks under his skin and cut himself with razor blades'; and partially U.S. Tax payer funded artists such as, Anne Sprinkle, a self-described "post-porn Modernist" 'masturbates, then invites patrons to come up and inspect her genitalia with a flashlight.' [i]
Add to this the masochistic art of Robert Mapplethorpe, Andre Serrano's 'Piss cross', photographs of a crucifix in his urine', Duchamp's 1917, urinal entitled 'Fountain', and more recently Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian' – a banana taped to a wall with duct-tape.
Last week, Cattelan's duct-taped banana, called 'Comedian', was sold to a French collector in Miami for $120, 000 (175k AU) U.S. dollars. The banana was then eaten by David Datuna, a performance artist.
Gallery officials questioned Datuna then asked him to leave the event, later stating that the performance artist didn't actually destroy the 'Comedian' because the banana is meant to be replaced. As SBS noted, 'the value of the work is in the certificate of authenticity.'
EJ Dickson for Rolling Stone adds that the Art Basel festival is 'one of the biggest and most prestigious art shows in the country, even if few know about it.' The saga didn't end with Datuna. Dickson stated that after the banana heist, artist, Roderick Webber arrived and wrote on the wall: '"Epstein didn't kill himself" in red lipstick.
Unfortunately for Webber, Datuna's destruction in the name of art appears to have been more appreciated. Webber's attempt at protest art saw him 'arrested on charges of criminal mischief.' With police escorting Webber out, he could 'be heard saying "This is the gallery where anyone can do art, right?"
Dickson said that the banana "art work" has now been removed from the gallery due to the "compromised safety of the piece, and those surrounding it."
Cattelan isn't new to melodrama. His 18 karat gold working toilet, called 'America' was stolen in September, from Blenheim Palace, and is yet to be recovered by police.
The Daily Wire's Andrew Klavan rightly called the banana heist saga a metaphor for Western Elites, stating,
"These are our elites: where eating a banana someone else paid $120,000 dollars for is considered a work of art, because somebody put the banana on the wall and called it art."
Klavan then reminded people that this is from
"the same civilization that created the Sistine Chapel, Hamlet and King Lear. Now art is a banana taped to the wall, and someone is willing to pay six figures to do this. Someone else thinks it's art to eat the banana, which at least is a joke, and then when they put up something that is actually true about our elites, such as, "Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself" they cover it up!"
Had Klavan read Vieth's criticism in its entirety, I think he'd agree that they were on the same page.
Cattelan's $120, 000 edible banana and 18 karat gold working toilet fortify Veith's criticism of post-modern art as anti-art. Artists using "art" in the 'utter annihilation of art.' (Veith, p.93)
Cattelan, Mapplethorpe, Serrano, Sprinkle, and work that mimics theirs all embody the content of Gene Veith's lament and critique of the art world today. Although Veith's analysis is grim, especially when weighed against these examples, he looks to a recovery of the arts where the divine Logos is rediscovered; where 'artistic talent is not thought of as some innate human ability, nor as the accomplishment of an individual genius, but as a gift of God.' (Veith, p.107)
To paraphrase, Calvin Seeveld, this recovery will mean the complete abandonment of the foppish, vain lordship of moral relativity, and the subsequent awakening of a desensitised, dehumanised public to an appreciation of the difference between cheap deodorant and good perfume.
[i] Veith, G. 1991. State of the Arts, Crossway Books
©Rod Lampard, 2019
In Art, Art and Theology	Banana, Duct-tape, Miami, Post-modernism
Scottish Pastor, Richard Cameron, was suspended by church officials this week, until further notice, after "heckling" openly socialist, U.K. Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn, who has the potential of becoming the U.K's next Prime Minister in the December election, was day two into his campaign trail in Glasgow, when according to The Scottish Sun, Cameron, a 60 year old Church of Scotland minister, approached the Labour leader.
Referring to Corbyn's tartan scarf and his criticism of the United States actions against the late ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Cameron stated,
"I thought you'd be wearing an Islamic jihad scarf. Do you think the man that's going to be prime minister of this country should be a terrorist sympathiser? Who's going to be the first terrorist to be invited to the House of Commons when you're prime minister?" (The Times)
Short video footage of the incident shows Corbyn surrounded by staffers, with Richard Cameron calmly approaching the Labour leader. After hearing the nature of Cameron's questions, a clearly indifferent Corbyn and his entourage dismissed the Pastor. Turned their backs on him and walked in the opposite direction. In response, as reported by The Scottish Sun, Cameron then allegedly tells the now shuffling huddle of retreating Labour members, "Aye, you're running away.'
Not long after the event, screenshots from Cameron's Twitter account were spammed over the social media platform, quickly denouncing the minister as a troll, homophobic, Islamophobic, and bigoted.
Some of the tweets in question show Cameron voicing support for Israel Folau, promoting the Bible's view on marriage, homosexuality and idolatry.
The BBC, joining the chorus of hate and manufactured rage against the pastor, falsely accused Cameron of "shouting at Corbyn." They also appear to have scoured the minister's posts, and replies on Twitter for alleged abuses. Digging as far back as 2016 in an attempt to further the claim that Cameron's views were both "homophobic and Islamophobic."
Cameron has also been relieved of duties at a local primary school, with one facilitator stating that, "Cameron doesn't belong in the pulpit and that he's glad Cameron will no longer be providing moral guidance to kids."
Cameron's questioning of Corbyn triggered a soft-doxxing of the Pastor by outraged Leftists, effectively forcing his suspension and a Church of Scotland internal investigation. Church officials have stated that Cameron's suspension will 'allow them to carry out an enquiry in relation to the incident which took place earlier this week and the subsequent complaints about his social media use.'
Leftists love a firebrand, as long as that firebrand is singing the Leftist's tune. For evidence of this simply compare the open arms celebrity treatment of Leftist, activist, and Anglican Minister Rod Bower, who remains in his lofty position even after publically falsely labeling LNP M.P, Peter Dutton, "a sodomite" (et.al)
Cameron's suspension and the justifications for it make a mockery of freedom, and the Scottish people.
If Cameron's Twitter feed is any indication, Cameron seems to epitomize the fiery, blunt, straight-talking Scotsman. To punish him for doing his job as a Pastor; for being true to his vocation, isn't just to place a gag order on the Bible, it bogs down freedom of speech, and squashes part of a cultural attribute long associated with what it means to be Scottish.
The suspension is a farce. It was led by a lynch mob on social media, and triggered by Jeremy Corbyn's apparent inability to face uncomfortable questions from a member of the discerning public.
Cameron should be reinstated on the grounds that the actions taken against him unfairly give advantage to manipulators. It gives power to dishonest critics who turn the term "hate speech" into a weapon, and abuse others from behind a wall of anonymity, and pompous self-righteousness.
As Franklin Littell warned in 1962, anti-Christian 'movements are the product of persecuting or corrupt, self-indulgent establishments. Soft religiosity is more of a threat to the Gospel than hard opposition.' [i]
Cameron may need to tweak his approach to others on social media, but his example raises questions about what happens when those who are led into all truth, by the Holy Spirit (John 16:13), are by consequence, entering into direct opposition to those being led by the spirit of the age.
[i] From State Church to Pluralism, p.32
First published on Caldron Pool 28th November, 2019.
Photo by Ye Jinghan on Unsplash


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CAVANAGH LAW GROUP TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE: LAWSUIT FILED ON BEHALF OF 18 VICTIMS IN ST. IGNATIUS BUS CRASH
UPDATE: Watch the press conference below.
Cavanagh Law Group Files Lawsuit on Behalf of St. Ignatius College Prep Hockey Players — Press Conference on Tuesday Nov. 29 at 10:30 a.m. at 161 N. Clark St. — will be broadcast live on Facebook Live
16 hockey players, their families and two coaches file lawsuit alleging negligence and willful and wanton disregard for the safety of those aboard the bus
Chicago, Illinois November 29th — Sixteen members of the St. Ignatius College Prep junior varsity hockey team, their parents and two coaches filed a three-count lawsuit late Monday afternoon in Kosciusko County, Indiana after a truck driver, with a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit, ran a red light and crashed his semi-tractor trailer into the players' school bus on November 12th in Warsaw, Indiana. The crash sent all 23 of the players and their two coaches to a local hospital including several who were transported to a level 2 trauma facility. The lawsuit, filed by Cavanagh Law Group (www.CavanaghLawGroup.com), names the truck driver, Victor Santos, and the trucking companies, N&V Trucking Express, B&W Cartage Company, Inc., B&W Cartage, Inc. and B&W Cartage International, Inc. as defendants. The complaint accuses the defendants of negligence and willful and wanton disregard for the safety of the players and coaches aboard the bus.
The crash occurred at approximately 8 pm on November 12, 2022 in Warsaw, Indiana. The team was returning to its hotel from a hockey tournament in Culver, Indiana in a yellow school bus. The bus was making a legal left turn on a green arrow when the truck driver, Victor Santos, barreled through a red light. On impact, both vehicles flipped on their sides. At least one student was ejected from the bus. Witnesses said it did not appear Santos tried to slow down or swerve to miss the bus. Before the impact, Santos was reportedly seen swerving back and forth across a highway and traveling more than 90 mph.
Santos' blood alcohol level was .13%, almost twice the legal limit in Indiana, at the time of the crash. He was charged with 26 felony counts of causing serious bodily injury while operating a vehicle and criminal recklessness while armed with a deadly weapon. Santos is a registered sex offender in the state of New York, was convicted of rape in 1999. He was also previously charged in Indiana with failure to comply with federal motor carrier safety regulations and failure to register under the unified carrier registration system.
"Santos is a convicted felon who was previously incarcerated for sexual assault. He was previously charged, in Indiana, with violations of the federal motor safety carrier act. He never should have been on the road—much less hired to be behind the wheel of a semi-tractor trailer," said Timothy J. Cavanagh, attorney for the plaintiffs. "Santos and the trucking companies must be held responsible for the egregious conduct that has left these young men with lifelong physical and emotional injuries."
Many of the students who were injured are back at school, but several are still not well enough to return to class and one student remains hospitalized. It is possible more plaintiffs will be added to the lawsuit in the coming weeks.
Cavanagh Law Group will host a news conference to discuss the lawsuit on Tuesday November 29th in downtown Chicago. The firm's trial team of Timothy J. Cavanagh, Michael Sorich and Stacey Cavanagh along with parents of the hockey players will attend and be available to answer questions. The news conference will also be broadcast live on facebook.
Read the filed complaint below:
2022.11.28-CAL-FILEDDownload
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We tend to focus on the emotional stress after sexual abuse, but there are many physical problems, often related to emotional stress. For instance tension headaches and nausia. Not to mention the risk of selfmutilation, eating disorders etc.
We women know all the effects of PMS: Wanting to hide until it's over. Cramps, headaches, grumpiness. You don't want to see anybody. Hormones running wild.
I never did any extensive research but I noticed all my female clients complaining about extreme physical discomfort during their periods. Extreme in the sense of extreme bloodloss, extreme cramps and having their periods more often than the regular cycle.
The younger the victim at the time of abuse, the higher the risk.
When I found out about the high risks to my health, I became even more furious at the man who abused me. I had suffered very painful periods for years and only found some relief after quite a few sessions in homeopathy.
All the risks he exposed me to, makes me even more determined to break the silence. I don't want to be a victim. I know we can all heal from sexual abuse. But it's time we face all the uncomfortable truths. It's time to share the physical effects from child abuse with the media as well. It's too significant and damaging not to.
The lack of respect for your boundaries at an early age can have a big impact on your reactions now. When somebody crosses the line, your basic response is that it's no use saying NO. Your experience in the past has taught you that the other person is in charge.
It may seem strange, but sometimes you literally don't know what you want or don't want. Simply because you haven't yet developed a will of your own. You've never practiced. When someone says we'll take a left turn, you go left. When someone wants you to go right you will. You obey. You're a good kid. Your likes and dislikes are very well hidden. You live a robotic life, because you don't know that you even have a choice.
Another result of child molestation and sexual abuse may be not knowing another person's boundaries. Either consiously: Why should I care about yours when nobody ever respected mine. Or perhaps you just don't realize that No means No because you've never experienced this simple fact.
Depending on your environment, you are likely to find a pattern of continuous abuse that suits you. Whether it's drugs or drinking, violence, sexual abuse or trying to desperately please everybody around you, any of those will serve to prevent you from leading your own life. If you have no experience in protecting your boundaries, you're hard pressed to enforce them when someone else pushes your buttons.
The first step to heal is to stop the abuse. The original sexual abuse often ended years ago. But by not setting your boundaries you're still allowing yourself to be abused. You've become identified with the victim role. The way out is to learn to feel what you want and what you don't want. Practise setting boundaries, even very small ones. If you don't, you will continue to be the victim.
Believe me, the first time you'll say NO is absolutely terrifying AND enormously liberating! You've reclaimed your right to say NO.


Update 18/5/2018: Five years later, the video has been released on Youtube.
Hideo Kojima, along with a few other staff members from his studio, is holding a presentation at the Game Developers Conference 2013.
The main focus of the presentation will be Fox Engine, the newly developed game engine by Kojima Productions. There will also be a new trailer for Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes, and Kojima will make an announcement of some sort as well.
The presentation, called Photorealism through the eyes of a FOX: The Core of Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes, will take place today, on 11:00 AM PST. It will take between 75 and 90 minutes.
Gaming website GameSpot will be live streaming the event.


BNP Paribas Factor offers a wide and comprehensive range of factoring services to meet the financing needs of companies locally, regarding importation and exportation, and beyond the Spanish borders with its international products.
BNP Paribas Factor was created in Spain in 2009, although the BNP Paribas Group has been providing these services in our country since 2006. This entity has 14 employees in its Madrid office. In 2016, it managed a total of 100,000 invoices in Spain and its purchased turnover amounted to 910 million euros. The entity has a direct presence in 14 European countries.


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Investigation launched into Heil Hitler inscription on synagogue in Lithuania's Kaunas
BNS/TBT Staff
VILNIUS – Lithuania's police has launched a pre-trial investigation into a Heil Hitler inscription on the sign of the synagogue in Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city.
"The incident has been registered. A pre-trial investigation has been started," Ramunas Matonis, spokesman for the police, told BNS Lithuania on Saturday night.
The investigation was launched into incitement to hatred, he added. The offence is punishable with a fine, freedom restriction, arrest or up to two years in prison.
Simonas Gurevicius, chairman of the Jewish community in Vilnius, shared a photo of the inscription on Facebook, saying that it's a manifestation of anti-Semitism.
"I believe it's an act of provocation aimed at not only smearing the Jewish prayer house, but also the commemoration of the Lithuanian army day, Kaunas, as the future European Capital of Culture, and also Lithuania as the year of Jewish history is approaching," Gurevicius wrote on Facebook.
"With no doubt, it's a manifestation of anti-Semitism, and let's acknowledge the fact that their number has been increasing lately," he added.
Five similar incidents have been recorded in Vilnius, Siauliai and Kaunas District lately as swastikas or crossed David's stars were drawn, and also a monument to XX century Jewish industrialist Chaim Frenkel was also vandalized in Siauliai.
One of the oldest Lithuanian schools, Palangos Senoji Gimnazija, celebrates its centenary
Raising not only bright footballers, but good citizens too – football academy Gintaras in Lithuania's Klaipeda and Palanga
Lithuania's greenest municipality with particularly ambitious sustainability quests - Taurage
Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Skritulskas: "Fate itself puts Homeland Union at the helm of the state during a crisis"Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Skritulskas: "Fate itself puts Homeland Union at the helm of the state during a crisis"
MEP Liudas Mazylis: "We will likely find ourselves in a different geopolitical world after the war"
FK Zalgiris Vilnius director Vilma Venslovaitiene: "Without love, you cannot achieve big things!"
Klaipeda Port CEO Algis Latakas: "Our port is like a long-lasting blow-resistant punching bag"


On Tuesday, the 20th of June, the fifth Stakeholder Platform Meeting was organized in Brussels. During the project, this platform gives strategic advice and keeps an eye over the total project. We are very grateful for all their knowledge and advice; to improve all parts of the project, where and when possible.
In the meeting there is discussed about the state of art of the project. So far, the guides will get the last revisions, the factsheets are now send in for translation and storyboards of the videos will be formulated. In addition, to reach more people – multiple roadshows will be organized in eight countries. There are a lot of interesting and nice ideas. As soon as they are confirmed, we will inform you – to save the date!
In the end of this month, a newsletter will be send – to give another update so far. Didn't received any newsletters yet? Please feel very welcome to subscribe on the newsletter. You can subscribe on main page of the website.


Myobrace is a no-braces orthodontic approach to help straighten your teeth and jaws. Myobrace aims to address the real cause of crooked teeth: poor oral habits.
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He supports forced abortion, sterilization. Next month, he's speaking at the Vatican.
Paul Ehrlich, a proponent of sex-selective abortions and mass sterilization, will give a talk next month at an event sponsored by two Pontifical Academies.
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VATICAN CITY, January 12, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican has invited the undisputed father of the modern, pro-abortion population control movement to present a paper at an upcoming Vatican-run conference.
Dr. Paul Ehrlich, author of the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb is scheduled to speak in Vatican City during the February 27-March 1 conference that will discuss "how to save the natural world." The Stanford biologist champions sex-selective abortion as well as mass forced sterilization as legitimate methods to curb population growth.
In his 1968 book, Ehrlich went so far as to defend forced abortion, writing: "Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."
Titled Biological Extinction, the February conference will address what Vatican organizers call an unsustainable "imbalance" between the world's population and what the earth is capable of producing. The event is jointly sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
Organizers of the Vatican-run conference predict that if effective steps are not taken to reverse so-called man-made "global climate change," then up to 40 percent of "all biodiversity on Earth" will be destroyed "by the end of this century," including a "majority" of species of plants.
"[T]here is no possibility of improving our situation without the widespread adoption of social justice, both as a matter of morality and as a matter of survival," the event brochure put out by the Vatican states.
With the invitation of Ehrlich to address the conference, how the Pontifical Academies understand "social justice" takes on a sinister aspect.
In The Population Bomb, Ehrlich forecasted "an utter breakdown in the capacity of the planet to support humanity" that would result in starvation for hundreds of millions, predictions that have proved to be false while his theories have been debunked. The biologist predicted in 1968 that half of Americans would die by 1990. India and China would simply die out. By the year 2000, England would also cease to exist. Ehrlic mentioned in his book sex-selection abortion as a potentially effective tool for conserving the world's resources by reducing population, a position he continues to defend.
In a 2011 interview with Mara Hvistendahl, Ehrlich defended sex-selection abortion, stating that "it would be a good idea to let people have their choice so that they could have fewer children and could have what they wanted," adding that a sex-selection abortion and possibly even infanticide might be a better fate for females than what awaited them in an overpopulated world.
"You can be aborted as a conceptus, you can be killed at birth, or you can be sold into slavery and die in a slum someplace," he said. "It would be interesting to know how many females you're keeping out of hideous situations [when they are not] killed or infanticided."
In the same interview, Ehrlich also defended the principle behind mass forced sterilization, a concept mentioned in a 1977 book he co-authored titled Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, suggesting that mass sterilization working in tandem with sex-selection technology would be particularly effective for population control interests.
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, criticized the Vatican's choice of Ehrlich as a suitable speaker.
"Ehrlich's opinions on biological extinction rates are just as exaggerated as his failed predictions of a human population explosion. Why the Vatican should be giving a platform to this secular prophet of doom is beyond me," he told LifeSiteNews.
"There are plenty of credible Catholic scientists around whose fact-based opinions should be highlighted by their Church. What's next? Inviting Raúl Castro to speak on human rights?" he added.
The Catholic Church not only condemns abortion but coercive population control methods as well.
Instead of seeing people as "mouths to feed," "pollution producers," or "carbon footprint makers," the Church sees each person as a unique and unrepeatable gift from God.
In his watershed 1968 Encyclical Humanae Vitae that taught about the moral evil of using contraception to space birth, Pope Paul VI warned rulers of countries against using illicit methods of birth control to solve the "demographic problem."
"Do not allow the morality of your peoples to be degraded; do not permit that by legal means practices contrary to the natural and divine law be introduced into the fundamental cell, the family," he urged at that time.
Paul VI warned the people of the world then that if contraception became a societal norm it would provide governments with a "dangerous weapon" to manipulate population sizes.
"Who will stop rulers from favoring, from even imposing upon their peoples, if they were to consider it necessary, the method of contraception which they judge to be most efficacious? In such a way men, wishing to avoid individual, family, or social difficulties encountered in the observance of the divine law, would reach the point of placing at the mercy of the intervention of public authorities the most personal and most reserved sector of conjugal intimacy," he wrote.
Pope Francis has also explicitly rejected population control as a method to combat climate change, writing in his encyclical Laudato Si' that to "blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some [for lack of resources] is one way of refusing to face the issues."
Given the Church's outright condemnation of abortion, contraception, and the use of coercive population control measures to curb demographics, it remains to be seen why the Pontifical Academies viewed the famed proponent of population control as a suitable speaker for their conference.
This is not the first time an advocate for positions contrary to the Catholic faith has been invited to attend Vatican conferences. The leaders of both Pontifical Academies have, under Francis' pontificate, surprisingly given prominent platforms to some of the world's foremost proponents of abortion and population control, including Ban Ki-moon and Jeffrey Sachs.
In 2015, Professor Margaret Archer, president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, slammed the Centre for Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam), an American pro-life research institute that monitors the United Nations, after it raised concerns about abortion and population control proponents being given a platform at a Vatican conference on climate change. "I am appointed by the Pope and responsible directly to him. I'm afraid that leaves you and your cohort out in the cold," she told the organization at that time.
Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, also has a history of inviting abortion and population control proponents to Vatican events. He has been criticized by pro-life advocates for unreservedly endorsing the United Nations' controversial Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which pro-lifers warn include a not-so-hidden abortion and population control agenda. Last year, Sorondo defended inviting then-Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, an abortion advocate, to address a "social order" conference.
Also attending the Vatican conference is African Cardinal Peter Turkson, who in a BBC interview in 2015 said "birth control" could "offer a solution" to the impacts of climate change. Turkson, who has since become the prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, later revised his statement, saying that when he used the term "birth control," what he actually meant was spacing of births or "responsible parenthood."
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DeSantis Demands Universities Report on CRT and 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion' Spending
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has demanded that state educational authorities report how much they spend on critical race theory (CRT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the state's higher education system.
In a Dec. 28 memo, the governor's office gave state Education Commissioner Manny Diaz and Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of the state university system, until Jan. 13 to produce the information.
The requested documents should "provide a comprehensive list of all staff, programs, and campus activities related to diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory," Chris Spencer, the governor's director of policy and budget, wrote in the directive.
Officials need to describe each program, list all the full- and part-time positions associated with them, and report each program's total funding and the amount provided by the state.
Spencer referenced the upcoming legislative session in Florida and DeSantis' priority to provide "a cost-effective higher education system that delivers high-quality service to Floridians to best prepare them for employment."
The iconic Century Tower on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Fla. on July 30, 2022. (Nanette Holt/The Epoch Times)
"I can't offer more on this topic at the moment," Bryan Griffin, DeSantis's press secretary, wrote in an email, responding to a query whether the move was prompted by an Epoch Times story published Dec. 24, 2022.
In it, Florida students claimed conservative viewpoints, and those expressing them, were often targeted in the state's public university classrooms.
"All I can say for now is that we are currently fact-finding; stay tuned," Griffin wrote.
'Where Woke Goes to Die'
In April 2022, DeSantis signed the "Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees" Act, also known as the Stop WOKE Act. The law prohibits discriminatory classroom instruction, such as CRT. And it prohibits employers from forcing workers to attend antiracism and CRT training.
The law bans instruction that implies someone is responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, sex, or national origin. The measure also allows Floridians to sue if they believe their school or workplace has violated the law.
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, issued a preliminary injunction against the law in November after several Florida students and professors sued. The DeSantis administration is appealing the decision.
Students at Florida State University protest an appearance on campus of the communist political activist and academic Angela Davis, in Tallahassee, Fla., on Jan. 16, 2018. (Courtesy of FSU College Republicans)
In November 2022, the governor's office said that Florida was first for best value in tuition and fees, and first overall for higher education, citing U.S. Department of Education Statistics for the 2018-2019 school year. The state budgeted about $4 billion last year for higher education.
But DeSantis, who often says Florida is "where woke goes to die," signaled in his inaugural address on Jan. 3 that he is not done reforming higher education in Florida.
"We must ensure schools systems are responsive to parents and to students, not partisan interest groups, and we must ensure that our institutions of higher learning are focused on academic excellence and the pursuit of truth, not the imposition of trendy ideology," he said, after being sworn in to a second four-year term as Florida's governor.
In another move showing he's serious on the subject, DeSantis named CRT-proponent Chris Rufo to the board of trustees of the state's New College on Jan. 6. Rufo, a documentary filmmaker and Manhattan Institute fellow, spoke at the Florida press conference where DeSantis signed the Stop WOKE Act into law.
Florida's Stop WOKE Act originated as a response to the spread of CRT and other social justice concepts widely promoted by works such as The New York Times 1619 Project, which paints America as a country founded on slavery and characterizes the nation's Founding Fathers as racists.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs the Stop WOKE Act in Hialeah Gardens, Fla., on April 22, 2022. (The Florida Channel/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)
While the 1619 Project has been rejected by many academics, historians, and politicians, its teachings have been embraced just as vigorously by many liberals and progressives. Many have held it up as a model of how history should be taught to children and college students.
Florida universities actively promote CRT, according to the Critical Race Training in Education database maintained by the Legal Insurrection Foundation. The database lists CRT programs at universities and schools nationwide.
'A Positive Development'
In its Dec 24, 2022, report, The Epoch Times documented experiences of six conservative students attending a major Florida university. In the article "Students Speak Out on Anti-White, Anti-Christian, Anti-American Culture at Florida University," the young people, who spoke anonymously, described their frustration with a hostile environment for conservatives on campus. They described feeling uncomfortable, at best, and threatened, at worst.
Their accounts describe a campus culture focused on race and social justice, and hostile to conservative or Christian views. They asked to use pseudonyms to protect their identity, fearing retaliation for speaking publicly.
One of those students, identified as Robert, was encouraged to learn that DeSantis was taking action by requesting information about the funding of university programs steeped in racial bias.
In the Dec. 24 article, Robert, a Christian law student, told The Epoch Times he'd been reported to the FBI as "an extremist" for expressing conservative views. FBI agents visited his home and questioned him for more than an hour about the claims. He never learned the name of his accuser.
"I was excited by that," Robert said, referring to the Dec. 28 demand from DeSantis for information about programs involving DEI and CRT at Florida universities. "It's definitely a positive development, and I think The Epoch Times brought it to light."
A journalism student, who asked to be identified only as Mia, said she was happy to see DeSantis take CRT seriously.
A Florida university student, who asked to be identified only as Mia, sits with her study Bible at home on Christmas break on Dec. 22, 2022. Expressing Christian views on campus draws scorn from professors, who openly talk about their "hate for Christians," she told The Epoch Times. (Courtesy of Mia)
"I'm glad to see they are looking into it," she said, wondering aloud if it was in response to the news coverage.
The Stop WOKE Act, which prohibits discrimination based on "antiracism" in the classroom and at the workplace, is a start, she said. But she doesn't think it's being enforced.
"I think somebody described it as toothless, which I would agree with," Mia said.
The culture on campus remains hostile to conservative students. And if anything, CRT has only worsened during her time in school, she said.
"You see it every day on campus. That kind of thing is alive and well."
Rodrigues, the state university system chancellor, was contacted in December by The Epoch Times and asked to comment on the students' concerns. Through a representative, he declined comment, citing the litigation, while noting that the university system has regulations ready for implementing the legislation.
Sunshine Needed
William Jacobson, a conservative Cornell law professor and founder of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, said the Florida universities shouldn't have a problem providing the financial information the governor's office wants.
William Jacobson, a Cornell law professor, started a database of universities engaged in Critical Race Theory. (Photo courtesy of Jacobson)
"I would simply say it's the Sunshine State, and there should be sunshine on what these expenses are," he told The Epoch Times.
It's essential to understand and quantify the administrative costs of various DEI programming, he said.
"Only once you understand the scope of the issue can you start to understand whether anything needs to be done."
University of Central Florida political science professor Aubrey Jewett laughed on Jan. 5 as he told The Epoch Times he'd coincidentally just been working on his department's required report on the matter. He's the assistant director of the UCF School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs. With the department head on leave, the reporting job fell to him.
He said he had not found much CRT or DEI spending in the school. But he acknowledged that more spending might be found at the university's administrative level, where employees work full-time or part-time on CRT or DEI.
"They have certainly pushed being more inclusive and diverse because American society has become more diverse over the last 30 years. We want to make sure all students feel welcome at UCF," Jewett said.
DeSantis, widely seen as a presidential aspirant in 2024, is showing national leadership on the issue, Jewett said.
"My take is that frequently Gov. DeSantis has been a leader in this area. What he does finds itself repeated in other states. He's not always the first to do something. But he's gotten a national reputation. And even if he's not the first, he gets a lot of attention. He has a knack for getting that media attention, and he's sometimes clever framing an issue."
On how it might affect a presidential race if DeSantis runs, Jewett said, "He's reinforcing his image as a conservative fighter. He's somebody who's not just talking about things they don't like, but actually trying to do something about them. That has endeared him to many conservatives; not only in Florida, but across the country."
DeSantis raised over $200 million in the last election cycle.
Whether DeSantis will seek the Republican nomination is one of the biggest political questions of the next presidential election cycle. Former President Donald Trump has already declared his candidacy. But polls show DeSantis to be a clear favorite after Trump, Jewett said, and in some polls even leading Trump.
University of Central Florida political science professor Aubrey Jewett. (Courtesy of Aubrey Jewett.)
Addressing the issue of CRT and DEI in the budget can be effective, Jewett said.
One of his academic mentors used to say that "the budget of any organization is the most important public policy document you can have," Jewett recalled. "It's where you put dollar amounts to your goals and your values."
Financial reports may not uncover all CRT and DEI efforts on Florida campuses, such as how much time professors devote to promoting those viewpoints in the classroom, how aggressively they do it, or how much they grade students on it, Jewett said.
But the budgetary inquiry surely will have an impact, he said. Universities know they're being examined and that their funding might be impacted.
"If University X is spending $10 million on this kind of initiative, [the state can decide] they need $10 million less. The underlying potential for pushback is there."
Jewett observed that DeSantis is opening another front, a financial one, in a battle already being waged in court, with an injunction in effect. DeSantis may not win the latter battle, Jewett said.
Some may have called the Stop WOKE Act toothless, but that's only because the injunction has stopped it from being applied, Jewett said.
The law might face an uphill court battle on the point of impinging on professors' free speech, he said. The DeSantis Administration has argued that professors don't necessarily have "free speech," because while teaching, the Florida government "owns" their speech. That's because the government is paying for that speech.
"Anything that provides governmental oversight of university spending on DEI and CRT programs and personnel is a welcome change from the status quo," retired Vanderbilt professor Carol Swain, now a fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, wrote in an email to The Epoch Times.
Carol Swain, conservative author and commentator. (Photo courtesy of Carol Swain)
"Greater scrutiny of the programs could result in some curtailment of the most egregious ones. It is unlikely, however, to prevent individual faculty members from pursuing ideological agendas that work to the disadvantage of conservative students and faculty.
"Filing civil rights complaints might be the best avenue for students to pursue when they find their rights infringed by DEI advocates who engage in racial or gender discrimination. Enforcement of state and federal anti-discrimination and non-bias laws should protect conservative students who are victimized because of their race, religion, or gender."
Not a New Problem for Conservatives
"Conservative students have long complained about ideological bias against conservative viewpoints in the classroom," said political scientist Susan MacManus, professor emerita at the University of South Florida. "It's a continuation of the CRT debate in [grades] K through 12, now extended to higher education. They will show how they're spending the money."
It's worse in some disciplines—such as the humanities and liberal arts—than in is in others, such as the hard sciences, she said.
"One thing that is likely to be targeted [in this year's budget cycle in Florida] is the ideological diversity of speakers brought to college campuses [with tax dollars]. It's hard for conservative students to get speakers without a lot of trouble."
One thing that did apparently get done before the injunction went into effect was a survey of students on whether they perceived bias in the classrooms, MacManus said. She has yet to see formal results but heard that, at the outset, the response rate to the survey was low, and the researchers hadn't found much, she said.
Author and political scientist Susan A. MacManus is professor emerita at the University of South Florida's Department of Government and International Affairs and the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies. (Courtesy of USF)
While defunding CRT is a positive step, Robert, the law student, said the governor needs to go further. He should start by replacing professors who follow Marxist-based doctrine with those who don't, he said.
To truly make the college culture less hostile to Christian students or to those who speak in favor of preserving gun rights under the Second Amendment, he thinks universities need to hire conservative professors—if they can find them.
"From what I can tell in the culture is that the conservatives just accept that academics [and] colleges are owned by the leftists," he said. "So they don't really try to change that."
Because of that belief, a lot of conservatives who might want to become professors don't even try, he said.
"But then, another part is, it's very obvious that whether it be through student admissions, or hirings, or grades, even, that the leftists in the schools prefer their fellow leftists and that they definitely have favoritism towards the people who share their political beliefs," he said.
The hiring process for professors needs to become a level playing field, he said.
Right now, if a conservative professor interviewing for a teaching position discloses he was against wearing masks or doesn't believe the Constitution is a living document, he wouldn't be hired, Robert said.
Mia, the journalism student, questioned if restructuring money for DEI programs or anything labeled CRT would get to the root of the problem.
She pointed to a required journalism class in which her professor lauded the teachings of Karl Marx and emphatically spoke about "white privilege" and "systemic racism" as fact. She said students' grades suffered if they wrote about views contrary to the professor's anti-white, anti-establishment positions.
"I'm not sure she ever said the words Critical Race Theory, but she was teaching the ideas of Critical Race Theory," Mia said. "So that won't be uncovered by this" inquiry by DeSantis.
But she hopes the inquiry might cut back on programs and events that teach CRT and gender theory on Florida campuses.
Darlene McCormick Sanchez reports for The Epoch Times from Texas. She writes on a variety of issues with a focus on Texas politics, election fraud, and the erosion of traditional values. She previously worked as an investigative reporter and covered crime, courts, and government for newspapers in Texas, Florida, and Connecticut. Her work on The Sinful Messiah series, which exposed Branch Davidians leader David Koresh, was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting in the 1990s.
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Tottenham Hotspur reportedly join North London rivals Arsenal in the race for Ajax full-back Nicolas Tagliafico, who has also been linked with Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Tottenham Hotspur have reportedly joined North London rivals Arsenal in the race to sign Ajax full-back Nicolas Tagliafico.
Tagliafico only joined the Dutch outfit last summer, but his form in the Eredivisie and during Ajax's run to the quarter-finals of the Champions League has attracted interest from elsewhere.
Arsenal boss Unai Emery is thought to see the Argentine as a replacement for Nacho Monreal, while Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona have also been credited with an interest.
Metro reports that Spurs are now in the running for his signature and have already scouted the defender on numerous occasions this season.
Tagliafico could reportedly be available for as little as £15m, making him an affordable option for the North London duo, both of whom have limited transfer funds this summer.
The 26-year-old has scored five goals and created five more in 34 appearances for Ajax so far this season.
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Q: How to statistically analyze this data? For my school I'm doing a science project, where one of the requirements is a "statistical analysis of gathered data".
I'm good with most math, but I know nothing about statistics. Now most of my peer's data is simple enough, but mine looks like this: (red is independent variable, blue is dependent variable)

What isn't shown is a blue line under that red line that mirrors it exactly. That blue line is one data set, with every x value having exactly one y value. Through experimentation, I've also found those smaller curves are simply the red values divided by some integer.
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P&G Is Looking To Lead Sustainability In The Consumer Goods Arena
June 21, 2019: 12:00 AM EST
Procter & Gamble is aiming to raise its profile as a standard bearer for corporate sustainability, led by its CEO, David Taylor. Last year, he and P&G co-founded the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a coalition aiming to invest $1.5 billion in appropriate schemes. He has also elevated the role of vice president of sustainability to chief sustainability officer and led the launch of a program called Ambition 2030, which aims to link creating value for shareholders and consumers with a positive impact on the environment and society, to develop P&G as a force for good and growth together. Ambition 2030 will help drive the transition of packaging for its major brands to be 100% recyclable or reusable, introduce more sustainable innovations, and develop other environment-focused initiatives.[Image Credit: © Procter & Gamble]
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I joined the lab in May of 1987 after getting my chemistry degree from the United States Naval Academy and serving 5 years in the service on nuclear submarines. I was the 6th person hired on staff at ESC during a time when our annual revenue was $250,000.
Our earliest focus was on technology and how to make our lab more efficient and sustainable. We started by building our first LIMS system using IBM PCs with a Token Ring network and a Foxpro Database. Our LIMS and lab automation efforts included sample kit building so that all of the container labels and chain of custody documents would be completed digitally and the bottles organized by Sample ID.
We set up client remote access before the internet was available by providing a bank of modems accessible via a toll-free number where our clients could download sample results in customized spreadsheets. This was the precursor to our current industry-leading data access tools that allow clients to design a table on the fly and save multiple views specific to their needs, including action limits from our comprehensive library of State and Federal regulatory limits.
In 1988, we began testing samples for the Underground Storage Tank program. The next year we added Biomonitoring testing capabilities.
We continued to grow at our Mays Chapel location to about 40 on staff and expanded the facility by adding several trailers around our original 2,000 sq. ft. building.
By the early 1990s ESC had begun to outgrow the Mays Chapel location. In 1993 we moved 4 miles closer to Nashville to our current site on Lebanon Road in Mt. Juliet. Initially, we moved our entire laboratory to a single 12,000 sq. ft. building. Since we were leaving a total footprint of about 5,000 sq. ft., the new location seemed like more than enough space. Little did we know at the time, the amount of growth that ESC would undergo in its near future would quickly deem this space insufficient.
My father passed away in September of 1993, just as we were moving to our new lab. We took videos of the new building to the hospital so he could see us at the new location. I believe he took a lot of pride in seeing the company he founded continue to grow and excel in our industry.
ESC continued to expand at this location and added our second building in 1994. We immediately moved our VOC lab in order to gain isolation from solvents being used in our semi-volatile and wet chemistry labs.
In 1997 we implemented our Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) in order to share equity and success with all of our staff. Our ESOP now owns 28% of our company making every ESC employee an owner. All of our assets and real estate are held inside the company and are included in our ESOP valuation. This structure was deliberately implemented (against the advice of several attorneys and accountants) in order to strengthen our ESOP and share all of our success with those who work to make it possible.
Solvent usage by our lab and our industry has always been a pressing concern for ESC. Existing EPA methodology mandates the usage of large quantities of solvent for each Semi-Volatile analysis. Most of this solvent, amounting to millions of pounds for the entire industry, was evaporated into the atmosphere during sample extract concentration. ESC invested heavily in R&D to minimize or eliminate solvent evaporation from the extraction process. This research included exploring alternatives to standard equipment and laboratory practices. In 2004 ESC took the first major step in the reduction of solvent effluence by becoming the first environmental laboratory to utilize Buchi vacuum distillation for sample extract concentration. This step allowed us to recover over 90% of the extraction solvent that was typically released into the atmosphere during the sample preparation process. This was a major improvement, but it wasn't enough.
In 2010 ESC took the largest step toward reducing our environmental impact and improving our sustainability in the history of the environmental lab industry. We were able to incorporate the latest Agilent technology to develop Large Volume Injection (LVI) methods that would support our clients. As a result, we began the conversion of our macro-scale organic extraction methods to micro-scale techniques, eliminating the use of over 98% of the required solvent, while still allowing for necessary sensitivity and low detection limits.
In 2015 ESC brought the Outreach Laboratory team on board. This added radiochemistry to our full-service laboratory.


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This spacious semi-detached cottage is situated on the edge of the hamlet of Beck Hole, close to the village of Goathland, and is blessed with fabulous views. The refurbished interior has been completed with a modern way of life in mind yet in a beautiful 1800s building. The open plan living space has all modern conveniences including speakers throughout which are set into the ceiling, a 65'' 4K TV and wonderful bi-folding doors which open out onto a fabulous patio area with seating for eight, complete with fantastic views of the moorland behind and the steam railway in the valley beyond. The bedrooms are spacious and comfortable with a stunning en-suite master and family bathroom, including heated mirrors to prevent steaming and a contemporary rain shower and bath. The summerhouse is a self-contained unit of its own and can be used either as a double bedroom or a summerhouse, again with spectacular views from the bi-folding doors onto a large decking area.
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https://www.manisteenews.com/local-news/article/City-of-Manistee-enters-two-emergency-response-14248988.php
City of Manistee enters two emergency response agreements
Ashlyn Korienek
Published 3:57 pm EST, Wednesday, March 6, 2019
MANISTEE COUNTY — When it comes to firefighting, there's strength in numbers.
The City of Manistee Fire Department entered two agreements on Tuesday night, which would allow automatic aid within Manistee Township and mutual aid within Manistee County, per request by a participating jurisdiction.
Manistee City Council members unanimously approved both agreements. Council member James Grabowski was not in attendance.
Manistee Public Safety director Tim Kozal said the automatic aid agreement would allow an immediate response within Manistee Township. In the past, the delay in response was an issue for the departments.
"The hospital last year when they had a small fire, we were not on the initial response and tone so we waited," he said. "We would be initially toned now."
Chief Chuck Barron of the Manistee Township Fire Department said he was completely on-board with the idea, and spoke with Kozal in the past about the need.
"We have been talking about it for a couple of years now and it has finally come full-circle," Barron said. "We have an automatic aid agreement with East Lake and we do have a mutual aid agreement now county-wide, so we can call anybody... but we want people there as quick as we can."
In case of an emergency, Manistee Township will also be automatically toned by dispatchers to assist in the City of Manistee.
"The City of Manistee would respond up the commercial corridor to the (Little River) Casino up U.S. 31 and up to the prison (on M-55)," said Barron. "For Manistee Township, we would respond anywhere in the city."
Kozal said this is something both parties saw a need for, especially since the Manistee Fire Department is full time and works 24/7.
"I've had a lot of discussions with chief Barron about this, if it were necessary for us to assist each other because we are neighboring with the city and township," he said.
Previously, the agreement was mutual aid, which means the departments would wait to be requested in the event of an emergency.
"We currently only have an automatic aid with Filer Township," said Kozal. "If there's a significant emergency or fire, Filer Township would be toned with us and we would also go there if they have a fire."
Council members were supportive of the agreement.
Also on Tuesday, council members unanimously approved a county-wide mutual aid agreement, which allows fire departments within Manistee County to assist each other on a case-by-case basis.
This agreement is something that was already done in the past, Kozal said. All participating agencies wanted to continue the partnership.
"All along we've had a mutual aid agreement within the county. We always want to try and be there for each other," he said. "Now it's just written down on a document — it's official. The county decided we needed to get this redone, and put back into motion."
Council members inquired about the procedure, if an emergency were to happen. Kozal said they would respond when asked, but there will be crew members in Manistee at all times.
"If somebody requests us we are going to help," he said. "And of course, we want to come and help."
Both agreements aim to reduce response time, increase the number of responders on scene and, hopefully, reduce possible injuries.
The county-wide mutual aid agreement includes Arcadia, Bear Lake, Cleon, Dickson, Filer, Manistee, Maple Grove, Norman, Onekama and Stronach townships, as well as the City of Manistee and Village of East Lake.
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National Defence
THE CDS: A LONG OVERDUE STEP
by Maroof Raza October 17, 2019
written by Maroof Raza October 17, 2019
Few people, outside those informed about India's higher defence organisation, know that the defence of India—as per the Government of India's (Transaction of Business) Rules of 1961—is the responsibility of civilians; the defence secretary (a bureaucrat), and not the service chiefs! The Chiefs of India's armed forces are responsible through the defence ministry for the command, training, administration and preparation for a war of their respective services. No wonder, it has led many commentators to say that India has the most absurd civil-military equation for a country with such an impressive military tradition and with all the military challenges it continues to face. These rules, it appears, were formulated by copying the British system, which has influenced the structures of India's ministry of defence (MoD) and that of its armed force. However, in the British system, the Defence Secretary is a politician, and a minister in their PM's cabinet, whereas in India, the defence secretary is a civil servant. Even in the American system, the Secretary of State for Defence is appointed by the President, who may neither be a politician nor a bureaucrat, but has cabinet rank. But in India a secretary is a high ranking bureaucrat and not a politician.
Therefore India's armed forces have been insisting on having a military officer as the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) since the armed forces have a number of professional requirements that need domain expertise, which a generalist bureaucrat doesn't have. However, as a legacy of the Pandit Nehru and Krishna Menon era, the bureaucracy is all over the Indian Ministry of Defence, and all-powerful, but military men say, that they are often neither held accountable—as the defence secretary after the 1962 military debacle, was only posted out to another ministry, while the defence minister and many senior generals resigned—and nor is he sufficiently sympathetic to the needs of serving and retired personnel of India's armed forces.Thus, the announcement that India would now have a CDS, has brought some relief in military circles, though there is much to be done before a CDS adequately address our security concerns. In fact, the idea of a CDS, was apparently, first brought up after the 1971 war, when it was suggested that Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw should be made the first CDS. Not only did Manekshaw, soon fall out of favour with Mrs. Gandhi, but his candidature was apparently vetoed also by then Air Chief, ACM PC Lal (with whom Manekshaw was not quite on talking terms, at least during the 1971 war) and the then Defence Secretary, KB Lal, as Manekshaw was known to bulldoze his way past the bureaucracy.
The matter thereafter lay in limbo for another four decades, as the bureaucracy was quite happy to see that the three service chiefs were not on the same page at least on this issue. Interestingly, the strongest opposition to the idea of the CDS, still comes from the IAF and the IAS lobbies. Even during the Kargil conflict, it is said that the then Army Chief, General Ved Malik, and then Air Chief, ACM Tipnis, had major differences about the use of airpower and helicopter gunships against Pakistani bunkers. Such differences and delays cost lives of soldiers on ground. However, it was eventually resolved and the IAF became a force multiplier. But, following the Kargil conflict, the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) report, had recommended that a CDS was essential for the demands of modern warfare — which require inter-service cooperation — to achieve our political goals with the limited resources of our armed forces. And thereafter, following the KRC's recommendations, a Group of Ministers supported the idea of CDS and so did the Naresh Chandra Committee on Defence Reforms. As did a study by a team headed by Lt Gen. Shekatkar in 2016, since India's armed forces, have traditionally operated in independent silos, with each service having its own doctrine, its own of equipment purchases, and their own professional traditions and culture.
This has always led to heartburn and wrangling over who would get how much of limited budgets left over for the purchase of equipment for critical military equipment to fight wars. It has to be done with what is left over after the basic needs of the services, like salaries and infrastructure upgrades, are met, with the increasingly dwindling defence budgets.The CDS, once fully operational, could help the government of the day in meeting the requirements of the armed forces, more so, as is known that the advice given by the defence secretary to the Cabinet on our state of military preparedness has been sometimes questionable. For instance, during the Kargil Conflict, the then defence secretary had told the Cabinet that while General Malik was publicly stating the army was short of basic weapons to fight Pakistani intruders, there were enough rifles that were available in our ordnance depots. A quick check by army headquarters revealed that there were rifles, but these were of World War II vintage, and it would be suicidal to send our troops in battle with vintage .303's. And even now, with a few exceptions, a generalist bureaucrat without domain expertise, but responsible for the defence of India, would often be hard put to differentiate between an armoured car and armoured vehicles.
The question now is what should be the role of the CDS? We've had a Headquarters of Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) in the MoD for fifteen years now, which has been in waiting for a CDS, to help it fulfil its roles! To begin, it must be ensured that the CDS, must be a military man from any of the three services but picked for his suitability for the job, ideally after him having been a service chief, and not purely on the basis of seniority, as has been the case until now with the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, which is held by the senior-most service chief. And as the CDS should be the single point of military advice to the Prime Minister and his cabinet, his role must not threaten the civilian bureaucracy in the Ministry of Defence nor the service chiefs and their fiefdoms. Instead, the CDS could be given a proactive role in streamlining our defence and military acquisition processes and facilitating the inter-service sharing of equipment and resources. Equally, the CDS could advise the government on how India's armed forces must prepare for the future challenges of threats in the cyber and space domain as also the better sharing of intelligence inputs. And of course, there is a need to synergise the war-fighting doctrines of our three services which are currently tailored to meet their own specific requirements, instead of an 'air-land' or 'air-sea' operation as well as out-of-area operations beyond India's borders. For this, the CDS must be senior to the service chief's, and if we go in for theatre commands, he must he their overall coordinator.
However, the establishment of theatre commands, which I'm told is also opposed by the IAF, will take time. While our armed forces have been greatly influenced by the British tradition, and though they often quote the American model now—with theatre commands the world over—perhaps, the Chinese model is a better option for India to adopt. In 2016, President Xi Jinping appointed China's first Chief of Joint Staff and divided China's armed forces into theatre commands for managing its military operational needs. Thus, China's Western Command in Chengdu is now focused on India and parts of Central Asia with adequate land and air resources to fight a war in the high Himalayas. India, on the other hand, has a fragmented approach to dealing with the Chinese, with multiple commands of the army (in J&K, Lucknow, and Calcutta), the airforce (in Shillong, and in J&K), and the navy (in Vishakhpatnam), all prepared to battle the Chinese threat. In fact, in all, India has 17 military commands and each of them have operational roles that overlap over that of a sister service and a massive logistics tail.
Thus, what India therefore needs are theatre commands that cover all our threats and use our limited resources to the optimum. This writer had proposed the idea of theatre commands about 25 years ago and these could be as follows. A theatre command each to address the threat from China that would start from India's north-east on the Indo- Myanmar border and go along Sino-Indian boundary to LAC in Aksai Chin. The other would focus on Pakistan, starting from Siachen Glacier, and go along the LOC and Indo-Pak Border right up to the Rann of Kutch. Both these should be headed always by army officers with adequate components of air-force in particular and some elements of the Navy, since their primary threats would be on land. And then a peninsular command, which would run from the coasts of Gujarat, right along the Indian coastline, until Bengal and Bangladesh to be headed by a naval officer since their primary role would be to guard against maritime threats and manage out of area operations. This theatre would have the necessary army and air resources to meet all the contingencies of this theatre. And finally, an air and missile forces command that could be used in addition to the above- outlined commands, to provide air and missile firepower as force multipliers, to any operations India's armed forces might have to undertake, along our land or sea borders. The CDS should be the link between the CCS and the defence minister, to coordinate their operational engagements, without interfering in their roles.
And then there is the issue of nuclear weapons. Though the decision to use them will continue to rest with the PM and his CCS through the defence minister, the CDS could manage their deployment along with the service chiefs, theatre commanders, along with our scientific community. Here, the CDS could play a very important role in coordinating between the civilian leadership and the military headquarters, and he would need to do it, in double-quick time. For this reason itself, the CDS must be given the necessary authority to ensure that we are not fumbling when faced with threats from an increasingly aggressive Pakistan or China. To that extent, India could closely look at America's Goldwater-Nicholas Act that gives their Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (which came into being in 1986) direct access to US President, their supreme military commander, (which in our case would have to be modified for the CDS to have direct access to the Defence Minister) but without him interfering with the operational roles of American theatre commanders all over the world. But unlike the US, the CDS in India would need to coordinate with the Indian theatre commanders and the service headquarters, since there could be conflicts of professional opinions between the service chiefs and our theatre commanders.
In all this, the bureaucracy in the MoD should retain its own relevance while the CDS with his own headquarters would work to fill the gap of professional knowledge that the bureaucracy suffers from since they are not career military officers but civil servants, who, at least in the decision- making levels (joint-secretary upwards), shift from the one ministry to another, and are thus familiar with the Government of India's rules and regulations. One major shortcoming of our absurd system, as yet, has been the confusion over the need for critical military equipment. This, the armed forces are best placed to handle. To that extent, there is a requirement of having military officers positioned alongside bureaucrats in the MoD. And finally the fear, that has been promoted sometimes by the bureaucracy and intelligence agencies, that a "super-general" (CDS) once appointed could energise the armed forces into taking over the country is ridiculous, to say the least. Nothing can be further from the truth and is an insult to the integrity of India's armed forces, which have remained steadfastly loyal to the Constitution, and the elected government of this country. In fact, their professionalism and their apolitical conduct have been an example to others in the developing world.
This essay by Maj Maroof Raza was first published by Open Magazine on 23 August 2019.
June-July 2019Maroof's Musings
Maroof Raza
Maroof Raza is currently the Consulting Editor on Strategic Affairs with Times TV Network, and anchor of 'Latitude' a weekend TV show on World Affairs. He had earlier also anchored and presented a 20 part series on the Indian armed forces, titled 'Line of Duty'. An episode from this series, on the Siachen Glacier won an Award in the military documentary section at the Film Festival in Rome in 2005. This TV series has entered the "Limca Book of Records" as India's first military reality show. His recent tv show on 'Tales of Valour' has won the EMBA media award for the 'Best in Depth- TV series in English'. Maroof has written editorials for all the leading newspapers of India, and has lectured extensively in India and abroad on India's security concerns. He has also authored several articles, essays and books.
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