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Interview with Rabbi David Wolpe
Posted on December 20, 2015 by Alan Brill | Leave a comment
David Wolpe, the senior rabbi of the Sinai Temple in Los Angeles is consistently ranked as one of the top rabbis in the United States. His congregation attracts a thousand worshippers on a Shabbat morning and at its peak his Friday night service attracted 1500. He is the author of a many books and contributes short columns to many national media sources. I know him as the busy public celebrity who has had debates with several of the new atheists and through his active online presence with tens of thousands of follower. But in his books, his real message is found in how he sits with a friend undergoing chemotherapy, discusses faith with adolescents, or comforts a congregant going through tough times.
What is behind his great success and what can we learn from him? I came to do this interview via Twitter, in that Rabbi Wolpe paid me the honor of recommending my blog to someone else on Twitter, "good interview, excellent blog" to which I responded: "would you like an interview?" But as I prepared this interview, I found less of an exchange of ideas and more of a person. Unlike other rabbis whom I have interviewed, David Wolpe came across without any cynicism, point to prove, or need to argue. He speaks from his heart.
Rabbi David Wolpe is a leader who feels a deep affinity to King David as shown in his recent David: The Divided Heart (Jewish Lives). But King David now lives in successful suburban America where his congregants are creative and prosperous, but at the same time fissured and flawed. Wolpe portrays David as self-confident, sensitive, and gentle, and that David's connection to God often seems more stable that his difficulties with people. In Wolpe's presentation, King David has an enlarged vision that others cannot see, he can envision possibilities.
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Inside all of us is a life of the spirit that needs cultivating. A Chabad Rabbi may give a similar message by quoting the first chapter of Tanya about how we all have a divine soul. Rabbi David Wolpe of Temple Sinai, in contrast, quotes Teilhard and offers the message without the certainty of metaphysics.
Recently Wolpe posted "What is a Rabbi at her or his best? A spiritual midwife helping others bring forth their deepest selves." Wolpe's goal is to support people to cultivate the spiritual self by using the insights of Judaism.
Why Faith Matter? asks Rabbi David Wolpe in his book of the same title where he answers the challenges of the new atheists, the conflict of religion with science, and the continued relevance of religion. He writes: "Faith begins with a question:"Who are you?" He answers: "Love of this world, of one another, is the sole hope in an age when we can destroy the world many times over. Faith when "not blind or bigoted" pushes us to be better, to give more of ourselves, to glimpses of transcendence scattered throughout our lives. He is not going to convince the skeptic or the under-educated.
In this book, we see David Wolpe, philosophy major and philosophy instructor meet the atheism of Bertram Russel, stand with a chemotherapy patient, confront the meaninglessness of the Holocaust, and acknowledge the lack of definitive proofs for God. Wolpe is in favor of honest doubt, uncertainty, and limitations of knowledge. He does not allow any turns to a false certainty, even those of the existential who preaches an existential leap. Rather, we are left with our very human lives that surprises and challenges us, to which we respond with hope and striving for transcendence. The volume can be put on the shelf with one's copies of Rick Warren, Mitch Albom, and Marilynne Robinson.
Wolpe's popular book Why be Jewish? answers the title question with a variety of heart felt thoughts grouped under three headings: to grow in soul, join a people, and seek God. The first reason to be Jewish is "to grow in soul." There is a mystery within us; we have deeper levels to reach in our lives, but many people only open a few doors of their soul. Judaism allows one to open many more. Judaism's central teaching is that we are all in the image of God; we each have great potential and responsibility.
The second reason to be Jewish is to join a people to be part of an amazing history, a surviving people, and to connect to our land of Israel. As part of the Jewish people you gain a system for realizing truth; one gains the enduring wisdom of the Torah and the power of the Torah for our survival. The third reason is to seek God. But we should be aware of the limits of human language to grasp God. We access God through living as the Talmud shows involved in human affairs and to rise above our baser instincts. God is felt, spoken to, listened to.
Note that Wolpe is a critic of the trend of spirituality without religion:
Do you like feeling good without having to act on your feeling? … Spirituality is an emotion. Religion is an obligation. Spirituality soothes. Religion mobilizes. Spirituality is satisfied with itself. Religion is dissatisfied with the world. Religions create aid organizations… To be spiritual but not religious confines your devotional life to feeling good.
Being religious does not mean you have to agree with all the positions and practices of your own group; I don't even hold with everything done in my own synagogue, and I'm the Rabbi. But it does mean testing yourself in the arena of others. [I]nstitutions are also the only mechanism human beings know to perpetuate ideologies and actions.
Covenantal Judaism
Rabbi Wolpe is not your grandfather's Conservative Rabbi. The Conservative movement of the Northeast formulated in the 1950's responded to the working class moving to suburbia and has noticeably declined rapidly. The Northeastern establishment of the Conservative movement even voted against outreach twenty years ago, thinking there would be natural continuity. There are still twice as many Conservative Jews as there are Orthodox, some of it in decline, some of it in a status quo, and other parts growing stronger and bigger.
Yet, there is a generation of new Conservative Rabbis with new ideas, new approaches, and most importantly new locations in the West. Wolpe is one of the new approaches. There are even Orthodox rabbis who teach Wolpe's ideas in their own congregations. Wolpe hosts events to draw people into the congregation including high profile debates and public forums.
In 1998, Wolpe and singer-songwriter Craig Taubman pioneered using contemporary music for the Shabbat-eve musical service called Friday Night Live that offered worship song mixing traditional prayers with new tunes. Attendance soon soared from 300 worshippers to a peak of about 1,500. Until this point, the use of instruments on Shabbat within the Conservative movement, was limited despite the 1958 allowance of organs and a 1970 opinion permitting guitars and other instruments.
In a move taken from the Rick Warren playbook, Wolpe and Taubman stepped down to give the program to a younger cadre of leadership.
Wolpe's views on the future of the Conservative movement are easily accessible through his 2005 essay on Covenantal Judaism, his 2007 reiteration, and his recent 2015 essay on Relational Judaism. Judaism should not be stuck in prior centuries slavishly following prior opinion. The wisdom of our age contributes to the ongoing unfolding of Torah, which he now terms a "Judaism of Relationships."
Covenantal Judaism. That is our philosophy and should be our name. Renaming heralds our rejuvenation. We believe in an ongoing dialogue with God. Not everything significant has already been said, nor is the modern world uniquely wise. Our task goes beyond mere clarification of the old or reflexive reverence for the new. As with a friendship, we cherish the past but are not limited to its formulations or assumptions. Venerating the teachings of Maimonides does not negate that tomorrow, with the tools of modern study, a new Rambam may arise. The Judaism of relationship. Covenantal Judaism. Such is our creed, our dogma, our gift.
Covenantal Judaism holds aloft the ideal of dialogue with God, with other Jews of all movements, and with the non-Jewish world. In holding each of these as sacred we stand in a unique position in Jewish life. Ritual is language, part of the way we speak to other Jews and to God. Learning, ancient and modern, is essential to sustain the eternal dialogue. "I have been given the power," said the Kotzker Rebbe, "to resurrect the dead. But I choose a harder task — to resurrect the living!" Resurrection of passion, of faith, of community requires not the touch of the Divine, but the touch of another human being.
The Covenant and Jewish Law: The overriding commandment of Covenantal Judaism is to be in relationship with each other and with God. The more halacha (Jewish law) we "speak," the more full and rich the relationship. Our faith is neither a checklist nor a simple formula. It is a proclamation and a path.
Jewish authenticity is not measured by the number of specific actions one performs but the quality of the relationships expressed through those actions. Recall what the Torah says of Moses: In praising our greatest leader, The Torah does not recount that he performed the most mitzvot of anyone who ever lived, or even that his ethics exceeded all others. We are told that Moses saw God "panim el panim" face to face. The merit of Moses is in the unparalleled relationship he had with Israel and with God.
In Wolpe's view, the goal is to strike a middle position between past and present. We dare not permit it to turn into a fossilized faith or a sacrifice to the seductions of modernity. In a different interview, he commented:
RW: I think that it's very hard for people at the same time to feel the tradition that has deep roots and divine and yet understand how much of it is a product of human creativity. That's a difficult balance so; it's easier to think, it's all G-d or its only people. And if it's only people then I can discard it anyway I want. If it's all G-d then I can never ever think of changing no matter how much the modern world may demand it. But I believe that Conservative Judaism represents this idea of ongoing dialogue between people and G-d and just like friendship many many important things are said but there's always a possibility to say a new thing. So for me that's the most exciting wonderful model, but I understand that it's a model that for some people is difficult because it puts all of your life in a sort of dynamic balance so you can't rest in one place too easily.
When Wolpe speaks of his commitment to academic scholarship, it does not mean that he is an academic scholar, or gives Wissenschaft lectures. Rather that is a signal that he acknowledges that the Jewish classic texts are part of the ongoing human relationship with the divine.
Wolpe does not want to be frozen in the 1950's conservative motto of "tradition and change" in which a rabbi adapted the old to the current life in suburbia. Wolpe comments that "Tradition and change is actually not a slogan; it is a paradox," Wolpe said. "It says: We stand for two exactly opposite things. We are the oxymoronic movement." In its place he offers a defining motto of what a rabbi should be doing, that is, to be "centered on relationship: with other Jews, with the non-Jewish world, and espousing a continuing and growing relationship with God."
Where do the trends of halakhic egalitarianism and the Seminary tradition of the academic study of Talmud fit into this vision? You can answer by asking how these activities help in relating to God, sitting with a sick congregant, or raising the status of Judaism in the wider world.
As stated above Rabbi Wolpe does not seek to recreate the 1950's Conservative movement, but he also does not accept the triumphalist myth within Orthodoxy. Most of the recent small growth of Orthodoxy still leaves the Conservative movement as twice its size. Most of the turn to Orthodoxy, he ascribes to the world-wide turn in the last few decades to fundamentalist religions. Rather Wolpe thinks that as "the intellectual pressures of Western society increase" on Orthodox society, "you will see a gradual defection from fundamentalism." He opines the possibility that "unbeknownst to all these yeshivot – they are training the next generations of Conservative Jews. It has happened before and it may happen again."
Let us turn to his review of former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks to see where the dividing line lies and why he thinks the Conservative movement will prevail. Wolpe cites that Sacks praises pluralism in nations outside of Judaism, but only tolerates Orthodoxy within Judaism. For Wolpe, this is not a logical argument, rather obedience to a fundamentalist position. Preaching pluralism to the world and denying it at home.
With this dubious stroke, Sacks decides that one people cannot sustain internal variety. But this is a conclusion that both Jewish history and much of Jewish philosophy, with its plurality of incompatible views, flatly contradicts. Moreover, it is a conclusion that I suspect he would be unwilling to apply to others. Can there be no pluralism among the French, Indians, or Serbs? Can there be no multiple forms of Chinese Confucianism? Only on Orthodox premises—God told us we must be this way—are Jews bound to reject pluralism. But then our obligation to act in a certain manner does not stem from the fact that Judaism is "the religion of a particular people." Rather, the sticking point is God's will. Presuming to outlaw other interpretations on the basis of one reading of God's will— God does not wish us to be non-Orthodox Jews— is an ancient, venerable practice, but not much of a concession to the dignity of difference.
In addition, Wolpe praises Sacks as a wonderful wordsmith but ignores the serious intellectual questions of our age or to modern academic disciplines. Sacks cannot be an apologist for Judaism to those leaving Judaism because he ignores the real challenges.
More important than his occasional susceptibility to platitudes is the fact that Sacks fails to do justice to the challenges presented by the modern study of religion. He appears never to risk a straightforward reckoning with biblical criticism. Sacks has been quoted as harshly attacking those who deny the Mosaic authorship of the Torah. But since modern criticism is the standard approach in virtually every non-Evangelical or non-Orthodox university in the Western world, it cannot be simply dismissed out of hand. For a thinker preoccupied with the widespread Jewish abandonment of tradition, ignoring the intellectual impact of comparative religion, history, archeology, textual criticism, and science leaves a gaping hole in the middle of his discourse.
I repeat, Wolpe is not interested in giving classes based on scholarship and his sermons may be more God centered than Sacks. Wolpe's book on David was not critical but it acknowledged that the text and all the interpretations came from human struggles.
Elsewhere, Rabbi Wolpe answers the question: Why Do People Become Orthodox? He answers " The three principal, positive reasons why I believe people choose to be Orthodox: community, coherence and connection [to the Divine will]. In that discussion, Wolpe distinguishes Orthodoxy from Conservative Judaism as the distinction between Kabbalistic theurgy to perform God's expressed will as opposed to therapeutic encouragement.
The kabbalistic, theurgic amplification is that performing the mitzvah can make a difference to (or in) God's self. How pale, by comparison, is the dutiful liberal explanation that the mitzvoth will make you a more sensitive person, a more caring person, someone closer to the history and destiny of your people. Of what power is such therapeutic encouragement beside God's expressed will?
Wolpe backhandedly and with self-depreciation clearly defines the liberal position as cultivation of the self, compassion, and connection to Jews, rather than submission to a Divine will.
1) One of your main focuses is God in one's life: What is faith and trust in God?
As I have gotten older my notion of God has gotten more abstract. When I wrote Healer of Shattered Heart(1990) I was very taken by the midrashic idea of God. Heschel's God of pathos – direct, immediate, whose love and embrace are boundless – is powerfully present in rabbinic sources. It spoke to me and speaks to me.
I still find it beautiful and emotionally compelling. Increasingly however, I believe we are completely incapable of truly grasping anything real about God. A two year old cannot understand an adult, or even understand what he does not understanding. The gulf between God and us is immeasurably greater than that between an adult and a two year old. So I come to God less through intellection than through a sense of living in harmony with that great mystery.
And therefore trust is for me trust in something I cannot understand but Who endows the world with wonder, souls with spark and life ultimately with its deepest meaning.
2) What are the ways we come to God?
We come to God in almost every way – through study, ritual, nature, contemplation, music, relationship. Individuals have different lodestars. I love books, but others will find more God in a leaf of a tree than the leaf of a manuscript. I've come to think of religious tradition as a well marked path to get to the destination of both community and Divine Presence. Judaism can show you endless ways to get there, conflicting ways at times, but the ultimate embrace of God reconciles all the incommensurables. Some guidelines are firmer than others of course; some beliefs or behaviors take you out of the tradition. But its boundaries are far wider than once thought.
3) What is the active role of God in our lives?
God's role is not a supernatural interventionist but a strength and a guide, an enduring relationship and a deep spur and comfort. I am skeptical of the God who responds to prayers by changing the world and like very much Leon de Modena's (early 17th Century Italian darshan) analogy of the man standing on the shore watching someone pull his boat to the dock. If you were mistaken about mechanics and motion, says Medina, you might think he is pulling the shore to his boat. Similarly, when we pray we think we are changing God, but we are actually pulling ourselves closer – changing ourselves.
Of course, I cannot know. Do I rule out God's intervention? Of course not. But if it happens, I believe it is on a meta level — there is a design in history but it is large enough to accommodate many different details that are a result of free choice. That is unsatisfying to those who wish to prove – or disprove – God's direct cause and effect. But when I had cancer and was receiving chemo, I could not ascribe to God the mechanistic answer to prayer that would respond to me, because I was praying, but not heal the guy in bed four, who neglected his prayers. So I am content to believe that any intervention is mysterious, if it is real. In this my orientation is from Buber: what God wants from us is presence, and that is what we should seek from God – not goods, but God's presence.
4) What role do specific ritual mizvot play in your life?
Mitzvot are the language we speak to God. Just as gestures, signs and symbols are part of human communication, they are part of theological communication. When we light Shabbat candles, it is an age old sign; not only a connection to our ancestors, but something we are saying to God. So for me the greater mitzvah is to expand and deepen communication, which is more compelling than the command to a single act or observance.
Like my father before me, I am not a ritually oriented person. By that I mean that rituals are often hard for me to sustain, even though I find them nourishing. My life is more ritually embroidered than most conservative jews, and Shabbat and Kashrut (since I am a vegetarian in any case) and prayer are integral to my normal routine. Yet they serve as powerful reminders that to stay 'in touch' is sometimes a yoke as well as a joy.
My favorite single mitzvah is to recite the modeh ani each morning. Gratitude is the foundational religious emotion, and to awaken to a new day fills me with appreciation for the restoration of my life and soul.
5) What is the role of Torah study in your life and that of your congregation?
These days I read more than I study, and generally study 'for use' – to prepare derashot and writings and classes. Not entirely, but mostly. I teach a couple of classes, including a Thursday morning Torah class, a monthly lunch which this year is focused on topics in the Talmud, and am planning to start a Shabbat morning parasha class during the first hour of shul.
In the congregation there are study groups of various kinds, havurot and Sunday morning Torah study and so forth. Yet the practice of regular study is one of the things that non-Orthodox Judaism has been weak in for the past decades. It is a major failing, and in this as in many other things we could learn from our Orthodox sisters and brothers.
6) Why do you avoid the trends toward Neo-Hasidism, pantheism and renewal?
Theologically I am deeply drawn to insights that are psychologically oriented. Most of the notable modern theologians – particularly Heschel and Soloveitchik – write in this mode. As a lover of literature (had I not been a Rabbi I would have been an English Professor) I am drawn to literary analysis of the Bible, and find in Midrash and modern literary analysis great theological nourishment. Additionally, I find my Jewish readings enriched by my favorite non-Jewish writers, particularly Emerson, who is an endless well of provocative thoughts. The writings of certain great modern Rabbis, like Israel Leventhal and Milton Steinberg, are particularly dear to me and I hope will not be forgotten.
In high school I was enamored of Bertrand Russell and also read quite a bit of Walter Kaufman, a self-proclaimed 'heretic' who was also thoughtful and deep and influential in his day. Although I believe I outgrew that world view, they oriented me to look for the slightly skeptical but surprising take on theological matters. So I find the slightly astringent (and now sadly neglected) Maurice Samuel and Arthur Cohen worth rereading. But mostly I am drawn to parshanut (Midrash is after all a species of parshanut) and Radal on Pirke D'Rabbi Eliezer or the remarkably productive, perspicacious Torah Temimah (his commentary, Tosefet Bracha, is extraordinary) are ever surprising stimulants.
In my own mind I do not so much avoid Neo-Hasidism and renewal, as choose selectively those bits that serve my own theological bent. So I have taken from classical Hasidic literature (especially the Kotzker, whom I think a remarkable religious genius, if a profoundly troubled human being) and use books like Itturei Torah quite a bit. But although I read and appreciate Art Green and R. Zalman and the school(s) they represent, my father's family has roots in Lithuania. Perhaps I am too much of a Litvak soul; Heschel and Buber speak profoundly to me in different ways, but their 'Hasidut' such as it is, is mediated by a profoundly intellectual approach. I find that more compelling.
7) You portray King David's life as the messy but creative life of lover, husband, fugitive, king, sinner, father, caretaker, one that is fissured and flawed. You paint him as living in the real world. Is that the way you see life?
One of the reasons I was so drawn to King David is that my appreciation for human frailty grows year by year. I tell younger people that you think you will figure life out as you get older but the opposite, in some sense, actually happens. The world gets more confusing. Not because you know less, but the puzzle gets bigger. You weigh more factors. Lines are less clear cut.
King David was an astonishingly gifted and astonishingly flawed person. One of the greatest characters of history, outsized, lasting. I see his enormity as a model that we, in our lesser ways, reproduce without being aware of it. The Greeks used to say that whatever road of life you took you found Plato on the way back. I might similarly say that whatever sin you commit or blessing you bestow, David got there first. In that sense working on his life consolidated and deepened my view of how human beings work.
8) In 2005, you wrote a programmatic essay about your vision for the Conservative movement. What do you think of that essay today? essay?
One thing I believe I was right on is that Judaism needs a public voice. I was once silenced in a meeting of Jewish leaders on the question of how to revive Judaism. I kept saying "media, media media." I told them it was a shame that only Christian preachers spoke on television. This was before Facebook and social media in general and I was concerned that Jewish kids were not confronted with powerful role models. I still think the absence of rabbinic and Jewish voices in public discourse – not political, but public – is a lack that we need to remedy.
But I am someone who is almost constitutionally incapable of seeing one side of the issue. Invariably I find merit in the other side. I am bad, in this sense, at being single minded. So even though I argue vigorously (convincing myself, as a rule, in the process), I am well aware of the dialectic of debate in our tradition and I find the dogmatically certain an astonishment, and sometimes a little worrisome.
10) What is your advice for the Conservative movement?
I see the Conservative movement as the movement in Judaism that is most centered on relationship: with other Jews, with the non-Jewish world, and espousing a continuing and growing relationship with God. I find that compelling and that is why many years ago I suggested the name "covenantal" in place of "Conservative" for our movement.
Additionally I think of CJ as a movement suffering from a lack of self-definition. When it was a big tent movement people did not want to define it for fear of losing those at the edges of the tent. But mushy movements are not growing ones. So I still believe that a single centralized vision is essential. And it should be a combined effort of all the organizational braches – the rabbinical schools and assembly, the United Synagogue and with input from laity around the country. The very process of such reexamination will create dynamism, I believe, that will lead to other and better things.
But I believe deeply in its potential. Conservative Judaism takes modern scholarship seriously and is not afraid of its insights. It believes that in relationship (hence another suggestion, relational Judaism) is the secret of our continuity. Community is our keystone. And I believe that Conservative Judaism motivates people to see the larger Jewish picture. Just yesterday one member of my synagogue became President of the Federation and another member became campaign chair. That's not a coincidence. Conservative Judaism at its best pushes people not only intellectually but communally and encourages them to think beyond their boundaries. It is, or should be, the commitment of a thinking Jew in the modern world.
12) What did you personally learn from the Exodus controversy in 2001? What does that say about the bifurcation from scholarship even in the liberal world?
What Exodus controversy?
Oh, THAT Exodus controversy. Well, I learned one thing that I put into practice when I announced that we would be performing same sex marriages. Before I made the latter announcement I did a series of classes to prepare people. I think for the Exodus I did insufficient preparation. But it does demonstrate that what we study and what we preach are often at odds with each other. Even today when I say something about the Passover story people will say "How can you say that when you question if it happened" (for the record, I never said it didn't, just that it was uncertain and did not happen the way the Bible depicts it.)
My answer to that is that spiritual memory and historical memory are not identical and religion, if it is to move forward both academically and communally, has to acknowledge those divisions.
13) What advice do you have for young rabbis?
Young Rabbis. Don't let your sense of mission interfere with your evaluation of your own gifts. Create the kind of rabbinate that you are good at and your congregants will appreciate you. If you are pastoral, don't take a place where they put a premium on speaking; if detached, don't look for a place where there needs to be a lot of hand holding; if your dream is song and dance and joy, make sure the community is open to your vision. A mismatch in Rabi and shul is very painful, because unlike other professions, when people criticize a Rabbi they are commenting less on a specific skill than on his or her personality and it is painful.
Two ways of thinking about what you do. A Rabbi is a spiritual midwife. We help others give birth to the spiritual drives that exist within them. And our message is, like a quarterback in football, thrown a little ahead of the receiver. In time the congregant will (if it is done right) grow into the message, rather than grow out of it. It is like the Kotzker's insight about why we say in the shema "al levavecha" – these words should be "on your heart" rather than "in your heart." He taught that hearts are not always open, but if you put the words there, in time the heart will soften and they will sink in.
All in all, it is an extraordinary and rewarding calling. You get more positive reinforcement in a week than most people get in a year. Ok, you also get more criticism in a week than most do in a year. But let me close by telling you what two different Rabbis told me when I was starting out. One said, "Only go into this if you love Jews." He was right. But I do, very deeply. And another told me that he never felt he was wasting his time; the work matters. As he said, very memorably, no matter how difficult the day, you can get into bed thinking, "it was for God, Torah and Israel." Be strong, have courage and good luck.
Addenda from an op-ed
When asked about how to deal with tragedy, Wolpe answered in a way that encapsulates his entire view of the tradition of Judaism.
In the face of death, religion maintains that life is meaningful. Not only because of the belief that human beings never fully disappear, but because it teaches that this pageant, with all its pain and anguish, need never resolve into despair. Life still matters; we always matter.
A religious community provides comfort and help. Long after others have forgotten, the congregation will be there, with everything from meals to a shoulder to a prayer.
God is called "Zochair Kol Hanishkachot"— the One who remembers everything forgotten. In the community too, we read the yahrtzeit notices years, sometimes decades later. We do not let the memory of those we loved slip away.
The long tradition reminds us that others have suffered and endured before us. The bereaved can turn to Job and Ecclesiastes for theology and wisdom; to Aaron and David and Sarah and Naomi for the companionship of those who have lost; to the Rabbis for endless, anguished and deep reflections on the fleetingness of life, the meaning of faith, the promise that is the leitmotif of religious life. Nothing erases pain; nothing wipes away loss. But a kehilla kedosha, a sacred community, is the beginning of healing our hearts.


Pesky marmot activities at Chelan PUD Kirby Billingsley Hydro Park and Riverfront Park in Wenatchee and in the past at the Rocky Reach Hydro project are nothing new. These common rodents have wreaked havoc on flower plantings, as well as causing fish habitat damage and riverbank destabilization along the rocky banks of the Columbia and Chelan Rivers. Chelan PUD is asking for the public's help – PLEASE, Don't feed the marmots.
With no real predators, marmots become quite tame and will take advantage of food being left by people who, although well-meaning, are putting the marmot at risk, as well as the public. Marmot populations are increasing rapidly, which means that there's more competition for food and homes and the greater likelihood of diseases and parasites. An agitated marmot will bite. Washington State Parks & Recreation prohibits the feeding of wildlife in their parks for this very reason.
These rodents aren't polite visitors to our parks either. They destroy park properties and there's a risk of marmots venturing beyond park areas into other parts of the community or into neighborhoods. Marmots have been known to chew through fuel and water hoses on cars resulting in thousands of dollars in personal property damage.
Chelan PUD asks for the public's cooperation and NOT FEED THE MARMOTS! The PUD will be putting signs into the parks to inform the public on the risks of feeding marmots. For more information, please visit our website www.chelanpud.org/parks-and-recreation.


A fan-coil unit (FCU) (Fig. 26-5) is a factory-assembled unit with a heating and/or cooling coil, fan, and filter. Wall, ceiling, and vertical stacking models are available. Some designs are concealed in custom enclosures, semi-recessed into the wall, or installed as floor consoles with various cabinets. Recessed units are often found along corridors. Ceiling models are available in cabinets for exposed locations, or without a cabinet for concealed mounting. They should not be mounted above solid ceilings, as the condensate drains are prone to clogging and the drain pans can overflow, requiring maintenance. One ceiling unit can be ducted to supply several adjacent small spaces. Vertical stacking units are used in multiple-floor apartment buildings, condominiums, office buildings, and hotels. They eliminate the need for separate piping risers and runouts.
Fan-coil units may have one or two coils. Those with a single coil can only heat or cool without a seasonal changeover period, but the design saves plumbing costs.
Figure 26-5 Fan-coil unit (FCU).
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Fan-coil units are a good choice for serving a large number of small, individually controlled rooms with a variety of occupants, such as hotels and motels, apartments, nursing homes, and medical centers. Since FCUs don't provide fresh air for ventilation, each space must have operable windows for ventilation. Maintenance occurs in the room, along with fan noise, and the drain pans may support bacterial growth. The filters on FCUs are relatively ineffective.
Unit ventilators are FCUs with an opening through the exterior wall for outside air. Unit ventilators offer individual temperature control in each room. They circulate only chilled or heated water from a central unit to the room. An inside damper controls the amount of fresh air. Room air plus a percentage of fresh outdoor air is filtered and passed by a heated or cooled water coil.
The opening through the wall is covered with a lou-vered grille, which may leak air. The result can be drafts, energy waste, and the possibility of freezing and rupturing coils. Circulation of cooled water causes condensate to form on the coil, as with other FCUs.
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Al Dobson Jr. returns to Kutmah's IZWID imprint with yet another fine collection of dusty beats and breaks. Selected by Kutmah, Sounds from the Village Vol.2 offers another outstanding compilation of slacker funk, VHS soul and exotic interludes.
My personal favourite is 'Malay Quarter' which uses a tidy double paced Darbouka-like sample and droney reversed pads to get the botty wiggling.
Diggers delight! Get on it!


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LOADING 1 Indicates that the text track is loading and there have been no fatal errors encountered so far. Further cues might still be added to the track by the parser.
LOADED 2 Indicates that the text track has been loaded with no fatal errors.
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Work it this season in a kaleidoscope of saturated shades popped with floral prints and polka dots.
To see the story Click Here. Spring Fashion Photo Shoot 2014 from Fort Worth, Texas magazine on Vimeo.
Captivating spring fashion abound in the beautiful setting of a colonnade-lined plaza containing an oasis of cool fountains, lush gardens and Old World Charm.


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Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the world. What are they trying to tell us?
Kinship series
From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible only by the good graces of our many natural companions. From PRX, Wisconsin Public Radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge explores this theme of "kinship" in a special four-part radio series in the lead-up to Earth Day. Saturdays in April 2022 at 9am on KSPB.
by Jeff Barrett
Jeff Barrett is KSPB's chief operator and manages the station's operations.
KSPB is a community service of Stevenson School
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The purpose of the Good Work Plan is to ensure that the UK adapts to the changing employment landscape, embracing change and the opportunities that change brings, while also protecting workers' rights.
The plan sets out a number of reforms that apply to all workers, but there is also a strong focus on strengthening employment rights for those in flexible employment, such as agency workers and gig economy workers.
What is the Good Work Plan?
The Government's 'Good Work Plan' was published in December 2018, in response to an independent review into modern working practices in the UK. The review was commissioned by the Prime Minister, in recognition of the modern challenges faced by workers and businesses in the UK.
This review – the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices – was published in July 2017, highlighting some key areas for attention. The Government took these recommendations, along with feedback received in a set of consultations, to formulate their Good Work Plan.
The overarching ambition of the Good Work Plan is for all work in the UK economy to be fair and decent, with workers having a realistic prospect of development and fulfilment in their role. This is what the Government defines as 'Good Work.'
Five principles have been identified as underpinning 'Good Work.' These are:
Overall worker satisfactionGood payParticipation and progressionWellbeing, safety and securityVoice and autonomy
What is in the Good Work Plan for Agency Workers?
The Good Work plan sets out several proposed employment law reforms to provide a better quality of employment to agency workers.
Repealing the Swedish Derogation
This is an existing legal loophole which means that agency workers can currently be paid less than those hired directly.
Under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, agency workers are entitled to the same pay and benefits as permanently employed workers after 12 weeks' service. However, under the Swedish Derogation these workers can be paid less than direct employees providing they have a contract of employment with their agency and they are paid between assignments.
Providing Specific Information to Agency Workers
Under the proposed regulations, companies would be legally obliged to provide agency workers with specific information about their employment. This includes:
What type of contract they're employed under
The minimum rate of pay they can expect to receive
How they will be paid
Whether they will be paid by an intermediary company, and if so:
Details of any fees or deductions this company will take
Details of how this impacts on their take-home pay
State Enforcement Protections
The proposals call for greater state enforcement protections for agency workers, when they have pay withheld or deductions made from their pay by an umbrella company for unclear reasons.
What's in the Good Work Plan for All Workers?
There are also a number of proposals that apply to agency workers and non-agency workers alike.
Some of the key proposals for all workers include:
A break of up to 4 weeks between contracts won't break continuity of employment, instead of the current 1 week.
After 26 weeks' working on a non-fixed pattern, give workers the right to request a more stable contract and a fixed working pattern.
Align employment status across employment law and tax, so that the same employment status will apply in both contexts. This would mean, for example, that someone who is self-employed for tax purposes would be recognised as self-employed for Employment Law purposes.
Improve the clarity of employment status tests so that businesses cannot misclassify their workers.
Entitle workers to receive a written statement of rights on their first day of work (currently this can be provided up to 2 months after their first day), and extend the information given to include sick leave eligibility, pay and details of the types of leave available to them.
Ban employers from making any deductions from staff tips.
Increase the holiday pay reference period to 52 weeks, instead of the current 12 weeks. This means that workers will be entitled to holiday pay that is a more accurate reflection of their hours.
Extend state enforcement on behalf of vulnerable workers to make businesses liable for underpayment of holiday pay.
While the Good Work Plan does address many of the issues raised in the Taylor Review, some campaigners and trade unions feel that the plans don't fully accommodate the needs of gig economy workers. These campaigners would like to see an end to low wages in the gig economy and an abolition of zero hours contracts, amongst other things.
The proposals set out in the Good Work plan are expected to come into force in April 2020.


People who search on Google for a selected subject will see 1000's or presumably tens of millions of websites which might be relevant in their search results. When you notice that many users get to your web site through a social media platform like Facebook, then bettering what is already working on your Facebook account could help entice substantially more page views. Website analytics may be challenging and time-consuming to evaluation for most companies nonetheless the information it supplies is extremely necessary for the most effective WEB OPTIMIZATION advertising. \n\nAdWords offers you the flexibility to set day by day spending limits for keywords. When you only wish to spend $75 per day on advertising, set that as your limit and the system will stop serving your adverts when your limit has been reached. You ad could be triggered anytime a person enters a search string that included the words "fantastic" and "dining" regardless of order or placement. \n\nThe examine results underscore the fact that a Google Local Business listing just isn't only effective at driving site visitors but, more importantly, it is effective at driving site visitors that converts. Naturally, Google will continue to innovate in both the local search house and in the cell internet search house.\n\nDue to this fact, an internet presence of your corporation just isn't only really helpful; it is nearly a must, except you don't have any interest in a share of the pie of shoppers which might be to be found online. The first thing that you can do is to look at a simple video posted by Google to indicate you the way the local business search from Google works.


Tanx Oleg. Tried your suggestion and I get : TypeError: $.url is not a function .
Is there no way to switch to newer less buggy versions of jquery and jquery ui?
Then, select the theme "Virtualmin Framed Theme".
Thank you for reporting this problem. We crated a bug for this and will fix in next release of plugin.
Can't get comodo cwaf in webmin centos 7. I just get a blank page!
The issue is related to the Webmin's Authentic Theme. For example, with default or Gray Framed Theme everything works fine.


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Drawing on their long experience, our experts can help you design your pizzeria. Call us for advice, request a complete solution and even design the layout of the premises.
We can offer you all the marketing, technical and administrative support needed to realize the project you have in mind.
or extend your existing premises?
We supply all the ingredients, including training.
We don't just offer verbal assistance, but also invite you to our showroom to see our products and try them with your own hands.
Bring your dough along and tell us what type of pizza you desire. With the help of our experts we'll figure out the very best conditions for making the most of your recipe. We can recommend the most suitable product and work together in order to perfect baking techniques.
We organise regular training courses in order to obtain the most from our products and help you to start or expand your business.
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Following installation, our engineers will be on hand to conduct a comprehensive site acceptance test.
You can try out our products, preparing pizza according to your own recipe. A proper simulation to ensure that everything is working perfectly and the result meets your highest expectations.


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Q: pointer to 3d array i have a 3D array and i want to get IntPtr to point on it so here what i did ..can anyone tell me if it's right or not...
fixed (Int16* mypointer = &myvolume[0, 0, 0])
{
     //then i cast mypointer as IntPtr
}

notice that myvolume is of dimensions 200 x 100 x 100

A: Are you sure that what you really want is an unsafe pointer?  Using pointers like this is very very rare in C# land.
Eric Lippert recently wrote about a simple class that offers some of the behavior of pointers, without resorting to unsafe code.  You might consider extending it to work with your multidimensional arrays.

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Several Mustangs also competed in the wrestlebacks, highlighted by 174-pounder Ryan DesRoches (15-4) collecting four pins and a major decision before falling 5-2 to Ryan Patrovich of Hofstra.
Cal Poly finished seventh among 44 in the overall team standings with 78.5 points. Ohio State finished first with 122.5 points, and Cornell was second with 121.5.
The Cougars remained undefeated and will be playing in the championship game at the Grossmont College Tournament today.Cuesta led 37-35 at halftime and outscored Rio Hondo 49-33 in the second half.
Phillip Jimenez was the leading scorer for Cuesta with 19 points. Henok Yiszaw scored 17 points and was 5 of 7 on 3-pointers.
Cuesta (8-0) will be playing the winner of the semifinal game between Saddleback and Desert College, in the championship game.
The Cougars suffered two injuries as starters Seth Koenig (mouth injury) and Xavier Mylleville (back injury) both missed time during the game.
The Cougars (3-5) defeated Bulldogs in the third-place game at the 26th-annual Conoco-Phillips Tournament, hosted by the Cougars.Ashley Bonnenfant was the top scorer for the Bulldogs with 16 points.
Cuesta's Raleigh O' Brien scored a game-high 19 points and was named to the all-tournament team. Cuesta's Erika Wilhelm had 16 points and 20 rebounds.


Parents are struggling. All around the world, parents know that they want to parent differently than they were parented. But many parents are so busy and overwhelmed, it's difficult to garner the resources to change or even to begin to know how to start.
And the truth is, raising children is challenging. As parents, we want our children to thrive and to be happy, AND we want them to know how to behave in a restaurant. We want them to experience the joy and freedom of childhood AND, sometimes, we wish they'd just sit quietly in the back seat so that we can have a moment of peace.
Up until this point in history, children have primarily been seen as "less than." The prevailing wisdom has been to use different forms of punishments and consequences to control our children, and get them to comply with our wishes for acceptable behavior through dominance.
1) Is fundamentally damaging to the long term relationship between parent and child.
2) Limits the child's ability to develop intrinsic motivation, emotional intelligence and empathy.
children grow into their teenage years and adulthood.
Our process is based on brain science, communication, and empathy. Through our coaches, we work with families all over the world to give them the education and support to parent in a new way that is not about exerting control over our children, but rather is about creating authentic relationships that are built on a foundation of shared values.
It is our mission to train two hundred Parenting Coaches a year, so that our highly trained Parenting Coaches can effectively empower parents around the world to offer the next generation of children the means to grow up with self-confidence, self-worth, self-control and intrinsic motivation.
Our Parenting Coaches feel a deep sense of peace and confidence, knowing that they have done the work to bring their best efforts to their parenting.
Our coaches have the ability, every day, to impact the lives of parents and children in a way that will have lasting effects for generations to come.
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This process is the first of it's kind, helping parents experience authentic, deep connection with their children, while setting limits in a way that enhances the long-term relationship between parent and child.
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She lives with her husband and son in Southern California.
Satya Beneventi is our Lead Trainer at The Jai Institute for Parenting. Satya is masterful at leading parenting groups as she's deeply passionate about her work as a Parenting Coach and Lead Trainer at The Jai Institute for Parenting.
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Satya lives in beautiful southern Oregon with her two children.


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Avaneer Health Honored with 2023 Best Places to Work Award
Elisabeth Cox, Vice President of Human Resources, Avaneer Health
I am honored to announce that Avaneer Health recently earned a place on Built In's 2023 Best Places to Work in Chicago on the 50 Best Startups to Work for in Chicago list. The annual award is presented to companies of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. It honors both remote-first employers as well as companies in large tech markets across the country.
Built In determines the winners of the award based on several factors, including compensation and benefits, criteria like remote and flexible work opportunities, programs for DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), and other people-first offerings—all elements we believe are essential to building a great team.
It's all about the team
This award is a testament to our team members' passion, determination, and shared vision. We are fortunate that people with such exceptional skill sets and a passion for solving our industry's biggest problems have come to join us at Avaneer Health. I hear all the time about how excited people are to be a part of such an innovative company.
"Success is organic when we find the right people who invest in each other." Gerard Gingco, Director of Corporate IT, Support, and Service Delivery, Avaneer Health
Exponential growth
2022 has been a time of exponential growth for Avaneer Health, especially in our engineering team. We've more than quadrupled our company's size, going from 12 employees in 2021 to 66 now. Our ability to achieve what we have is phenomenal, especially when you consider that we're trying to do something that's never been done before: Building a digital ecosystem that reinvents the back office of healthcare.
In the fourth quarter of 2022, Avaneer Health successfully completed a rigorous System and Organization Control (SOC 2) Type 1 examination, achieving an unqualified (clean) opinion from WithumSmith+Brown, PC (Withum).
Celebrating our achievements
One of the things we strongly believe at Avaneer Health is the need to celebrate our achievements, no matter how big or how small. We work hard but we know the importance of being intentional, staying in the moment, and really enjoying and acknowledging what we're accomplishing. We have weekly "Fri-YAY" calls to recognize individuals who have achieved remarkable things that week. We also have monthly town hall meetings where we promote open, honest conversations. Many of our team members are remote so these calls help create authentic connections across the company and to promote a culture of collaboration and camaraderie.
"It's exciting to see what was merely a vision and a dream a few years ago come to life." Dan Sanders, Sr. VP, Security and Technology Operations, Avaneer Health
Work-life balance is another essential part of the Avaneer Health culture. It's important to disconnect with time away, and to put our families first. That's how we stay balanced and give our best when at work. We offer childcare benefits, family medical leave, flexible work schedules, parental leave, and a generous vacation/time off policy from day one. We also provide time off for civic engagement and have created many partnerships with nonprofits to help give back to our communities.
Because our reason for being is to fix healthcare's administrative woes, we believe we need to set an example by offering outstanding healthcare benefits to our team members. And we do it with low or no payroll deductions for medical insurance premiums.
"Leadership emphasizes the importance of disconnecting with time away and prioritizing families over work when needed." Jessica Willoughby, Program Director, Avaneer Health
Making it real
This past November, our network went live, our initial clients are beginning to exchange data, and now we're testing a client's solution on the Avaneer Network™. It's accomplishments like this that keep us stoked and moving forward.
We're living in unexplored territory at Avaneer Health, creating pathways where none existed before. And it's all due to our amazing team and their passion for taking our vision and making it real.
Where healthcare leaders come together to share data and create solutions – to deliver the greatest possible care.
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Detta är en lista över myndigheter inrättade av den andra Palmeregeringen mellan oktober 1982 och februari 1986.

1983
Statens mät- och provråd (1 juli)
Ansvarsnämnden för biskopar (1 juli)
Regeringskansliets förvaltningskontor  (1 oktober)
Energitekniska rådet (1 december)

1984
Kooperativa rådet (1 januari)
Löntagarfondsstyrelserna (1 januari)
Programrådet för industriell utveckling inom mikroelektroniken (1 april)
Bränslenämnden (1 juni)
Transportforskningsberedningen (1 juli)
Branschrådet för läkemedelsindustrin (1 augusti)
Flygtekniska rådet (1 oktober)
Polarforskningssekretariatet (1 november)
Statens institut för personalutveckling (6 december)
Statsrådslönenämnden  13 december)

1985
Styrelsen för psykologiskt försvar (1 juli)
Samrådsnämnden för kärnavfallsfrågor  1 augusti)
AMU - styrelsen (1 december)
Elförsörjningsnämnden (1 december)

1986
Kabelnämnden (1 januari)
Kemikalieinspektionen  (1 januari)

Tryckta källor
Sveriges statskalender för året 1986.

Myndigheter inrättade av Sveriges regeringar
Listor över organisationer

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Demonstrates how you may interact with annotations that have been placed on a chart, using the UIElement Annotations API.
To make an annotation Read-only, set AnnotationBase.IsEditable=false. Some of the annotations have IsEditable=true on this example. You can click them, drag and resize via the adorner anchor-points.
The C#/WPF source code for the WPF Chart Interaction with Annotations example is included below (Scroll down!).
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Q: how to specify version of dependency in meson build? I have two projects in C++, both using meson build. One is a subproject of the other:
noise-status is a dependency of noise-service
I'm importing the noise-status subproject with a wrap-file:
[wrap-git]
url = http://eng-server:9090/yxia/noise-status.git
revision = master

And in the noise-service meson build file, I'm specifying the version of this subproject that I want to be used (noise-service has tags up to 0.5.0):
noise_status_dep = dependency('noise-status', required: false, version: '0.2.0')

But this apparently doesn't work, it always pull the latest version of noise-status as a subproject. How should I modify this setup for pulling a specific version of the subproject?

A: The wrap file specifies the imported version in your case. Currently it will choose master. You must change revision = master to the tag you want to import.
From the manual:

revision - name of the revision to checkout. Must be either: a valid
value (such as a git tag) for the VCS's checkout command, or (for git)
head to track upstream's default branch. Required.

So, if you want the tag 0.2.0 change your wrap file to:
[wrap-git]
url = http://eng-server:9090/yxia/noise-status.git
revision = 0.2.0

The dependency declaration would still work this way:
noise_status_dep = dependency('noise-status', required: false)

If you add the provide keyword as well, you can declare an individual name which you can reference in the dependency declaration, such as:
[wrap-git]
url = http://eng-server:9090/yxia/noise-status.git
revision = 0.2.0

[provide]
dependency_names = noise-status-0.2.0

Then you can declare a dependency with that name:
noise_status_dep = dependency('noise-status-0.2.0', required: false)


"Since leaving the Army I've been planning to do an MBA for 20 years. As a young captain, after leaving the Army, I've become moderately successful in business. I've been a Managing Director for over 10 years.
"I have found the course absolutely brilliant and got fully immersed in the whole thing. So much so I'm sending a couple of my other directors onto the course as it's achieved significantly more than I'd hoped for.
"The depth of knowledge and the way that it's developed me as a person and my company, has far exceeded my expectations. I've used the process to educate myself and the company.
"You get out what you put in, and I have been focussed about the time I have dedicated to study. I have been able to apply specific elements of the course to my business. I've written up my own learning notes and used those to feed into the company so that everyone learns from it. So pound for pound it's been fabulous value considering what everybody is getting out of it. The great thing about the Executive Bristol MBA is that apart from the disciplines and models that it teaches you, it also re-ignites your joy of learning.
"I encourage everybody to do it - if you are serious about developing your career and reaching your potential, you should do the MBA. Go in with your eyes open, fully commit yourself to what goes."


Welcome to the Minecraft Resource Packs category of Minecraft-Resourcepacks.com. Here you can browse trough a modern, fresh and very stylish selection of fine 1.12.2, 1.12, 1.11.2, 1.11, 1.10, 1.9, 1.8, 1.7 Resource Packs for Minecraft. Just filter them by category, version and resolution, this will make finding your dream pack way easier. Moreover we make sure all downloads are safe and only review the best Resource Packs.
We make sure to provide you the best and most amazing resource packs for Minecraft. However, the majority of popular resource packs is getting updated by the pack makers every time a new version of the game is being released. Unfortunately, we can't guarantee that all resource Packs in this listing are fully compatible with minecraft 1.13. If you have any more question don't hesitate to contact us. We try to publish new Resource Pack reviews every day! + provide free installation guides.


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music / Electronic
Stream a Long-Lost Aphex Twin Album, Caustic Window
Hear Aphex Twin at his creative peak on a long-lost 1994 recording.
By Alex Frank
There was a bit of a flurry a couple months back when a newly-discovered test vinyl of a mythic, long-lost album by English electronic music pioneer Aphex Twin showed up mysteriously on Discogs with the auction price of $13,500. And now, to help raise money to buy back that original vinyl, Twin's label Rephlex have sanctioned the release of MP3s from the record—they've set up a Kickstarter where you can purchase the album and donate funds. Recorded under the moniker Caustic Window and meant to be released in 1994, a stream has also shown up on YouTube: it's such a welcome treat to have a surprise new window into Richard D. James' period of creative peak.
Aphex Twin Alex Frank
Alex Frank, Aphex Twin, Electronic


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Q: Prevent stretching across the entire map when connecting coordinates into path from Asia to North America I am connecting coordinates around the world in a specific order. When moving from Asia to North America the line makes a connection that stretches across the entire map instead of bleeding over the edge of the map and reconnecting in North America. How can I avoid it?
I have three layers:

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*a basemap (ESRI Gray)

*CSV data

*output of the "Points to Path" geoalgorithm

I found this answer, but it seems complex and even if that is the solution to my issue as well I have been unsuccessful at implementing it in my case: QGIS Vector layer stretched across entire map

A: There are at least four possibilities. I list them in the order of straightforwardness - so 1 is easier than 2 and so on. Find screenshots below:
Solution 1
Re-project your project CRS to a pacific centered CRS like EPSG:3832 - and you're done. For the line you want to represent, it is better than a Greenwich-centered CRS.
Solution 2
Use Menu Processing / Toolbox / Geodesic line split at antimeridian.
Solution 3
Split your line at a very short distance (like 1 meter) after the last point before the line should cross the antimeridian (180 degree meridian) and instead of this streches over the whole map canvas. Repeat this with clipping shortly before the first point on the other side. Than delete the line in between. However, you will loose a part of the liene (see screenshot).
Solution 4
Set a pacific centered CRS as project CRS, create your line there, than split at the anti-meridian (180 degrees meridian) as described in this solution.
Further solutions
Using the Geometry Wrapper pugin might be another solution (not tested).
Screenshots
The screenshots illustrate solutions 1 to 3. In all cases, start point is the black line, created by connecting the red points:
Solution 1: change project CRS to EPSG:3832:

Solution 2: run Geodesic line split at antimeridian on the black line to get the light red line:

Soution 3: manually clip the line at the two points indicated by red arrows. Afterwards, the disturbing "streched" line can be selected (highlighted in yellow) and deleted. However, the part of the line connecting over the 180th meridian is lost (compare with screenshot of solution 2):

A: Let's assume there is a point layer 'test' with its attribute table, see image below

Step 1. Use "Points to path" geoalogirhm with "id" as 'Order field'

Step 2. Proceed with "Explode lines"

Step 3. Apply a filter for a line layer with a condition of your own choice. Here $length < 4000 was used

Step 4. And finally "Dissove" to get the desired output

If necessary apply the "Multipart to singleparts" to get single features


Can I process both Canadian and US transactions with the same Merchant ID/Location ID?
Credit card transactions can be processed using the same Merchant ID/Location ID as long as the cards display a major card brand on them (e.g., VISA, MasterCard, Discover, etc.).
ACH transactions can NOT be processed using the same Merchant ID/Location ID. When we create your Forte merchant account, we assign you to an Originating Depository Financial Institution (ODFI). Currently, we do not offer any ODFIs that support cross-border transactions. For details on which ODFI would work best for your business, contact your Forte Sales representative or Forte Relationship Manager for details.
What are the supported integration methods for Canadian transaction processing?
What information do I need to pass for Canadian ACH transactions?
How do I format Canadian Routing Numbers?
Can I use the REST API Applications object for Canadian Merchants?


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Fill the strike fund: Migrant strike in Valencia enters its eighth week
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Since 25 February, the workers at the factory of Productos Florida SA near Valencia, Spain, have been on an indefinite strike. The main demand of the workers is that all pseudo self-employed workers get regular employment contracts – and thus basic workers' rights.
The strikers set up a camp outside the factory gates. Some of the workforce even went on hunger strike. The workers organised rallies and demonstrations, including in Barcelona (headquarters of the parent company, the Servicarne Cooperative) and Madrid (headquarters of the Ministry of Labour).
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The corona pandemic forced the workers to dismantle the camp, stop rallies and picket lines, and also end the hunger strike. It looks like the labour struggle will continue for some time. However 95% of affected workers continue to strike. For the migrant workers this means, among other things, homelessness, dependence on strike money, lack of health care, and increasingly unclear residence status the longer the conflict continues.
In this situation, the striking workers and their union, CNT Valencia, are asking for two things: financial support of the strike funds and external pressure.
Bank: CAJA DE INGENIEROS
Account holder: SINDICATO OFICIOS VARIOS VALENCIA CNT
Subject: Strike
PayPal: valencia@cnt.es
Channels to make pressure:
Mail address of the company: florida@productosflorida.es
Contact number of the company: +34 96 455 10 24
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/senorpollo/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senyor_pollo/
Mail address of the parent company: servicarne@servicarne.com
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Servicarne & Productos Florida are two of the largest suppliers of meat and poultry products in Spain, producing for some of the largest supermarket chains there. Despite, or perhaps because of this consolidated market position, they ruthlessly exploit the mostly migrant workers as pseudo self-employed without any rights.
Together with their union, CNT Valencia, the local workers have been in a long conflict with both companies. The aim is to bring about legal employment, protection against dismissal, sick pay and other labour standards in order to provide at least a minimum of basic security for the workers and their families. However, until now the companies have always reacted to judicial victories by founding new fake companies and with other tricks.
For those who face a moral dilemma when it comes to supporting a struggle within the meat industry, do not forget that the often-criticized dumping prices of meats are not only based on the massive subsidies the meat industry enjoys, but also on the extreme exploitation of workers as is the case at Productos Florida.
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NEWS & ANALYSIS FUNDING
Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged that the government will honour the financial commitment made by the previous cabinet to fund elite sport ahead of the 2020 Olympics. Last November, then chancellor George Osborne increased UK Sport's exchequer funding pot to £148m (US$181.3m, €164.6m) to prepare for the Games in Tokyo in four years' time. During a speech delivered during an event organised to celebrate
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UK Sport will get Tokyo 2020 funding boost
Theresa May (far right) said the funding increase was a "bold statement" about success the achievements of Great Britain's Olympic team in Rio this summer – where the team broke previous medal haul records with a total of 67, with Paralympics GB also winning 147 medals – May confirmed that would remain the case. She said: "Last year the government announced a 29 per cent increase in
"In four years' time, I want another great parade after success in Tokyo"
funding for elite sport. It was a bold statement about our determination to invest in your success. "And that financial commitment will continue under this new government. In four years' time, I want to see another great parade like today's after another great summer of success in Tokyo 2020." Read more: http://lei.sr?a=z3j1H
Sport England publishes Towards an Active Nation funding timeline will be able to apply for grants through Sport England's new funding programmes from December 2016. The grassroots quango has made public its first timeline since the publication of its Towards an Active Nation strategy in May.
The first phase of the inactivity fund will
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Sports organisations and governing bodies
be focused on getting the over-55s active, with 42 per cent of this age group likely to be inactive compared to 29 per cent of the population as a whole. Organisations bidding for money from this pot can expect awards of £250,000-
Providers aiming to take a slice of Sport
£500,000. Expressions of interest need to
England's £7.5m (US$9.1m, €12.2m) facilities
be submitted by 13 February 2017, with the
pot – called the Community Asset Fund – will
first awards announced in June next year. In
be able to bid from January 2017 following a December 2016 launch. Money will be
The first focus wil be on boosting inactivity levels among the elderly
available for the development of single and multi-sport community facilities.
the coming months, Sport England will be publishing guides on how to bid for money from forthcoming pots of investment.
information on the types of projects it wants
Bodies that are interested in
Awards of between £5,000 and £150,000
to support. A bulk of the organisation's
"supporting sport's core market" will find
will be made for these projects, with the first
funding over the next four years (25 per
out the requirements in December 2016,
batch of awards announced in April 2017.
cent) will go towards tackling inactivity, with
while those wanting to work with children
the first £10m (US$8.3m, €11.1m) inactivity
and young people outside of school hours
fund launching in December 2016.
will be briefed next February.
In January, Sport England will publish its wider facilities investment guide to supply


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Forget Obamacare, forget Trumpcare — according to a team of researchers from Stanford University's Clinical Excellence Research Center, "daughter care" is the most reliable (and affordable!) form of health insurance in this country. So what is daughter care? It's more than likely you have already witnessed this troubling but all too common trend in your own family with a mother or an aunt. Care-taking responsibilities often fall to women, and indeed, daughters provide a disproportionate amount of unpaid eldercare compared to sons. As the age of the general population increases, as will the demands on women, notes a report recently published in the medical journal JAMA Neurology. Daughter care is an issue every woman should be aware of, as these additional responsibilities touch every part of a woman's life, from her career trajectory, to her finances, and health and wellbeing.
Aging parents are frequently reliant on their daughters to provide affordable, in-home care, and while men are not entirely absent from these duties, the gender-divide is staggering: "Women provide nearly two-thirds of all elder care, with wives more likely to care for husbands than vice versa and daughters 28 percent more likely to care for a parent than sons," states the report. "The best long-term care insurance in our country is a conscientious daughter."
While this reliance on "daughter care" is nothing new, the burden put on women will only get worse with time, notes the report. One of the main concerns is that as the population ages, cases of dementia are predicted to rise from 5.5 million to 8.4 million by 2030, further increasing the strain on younger family members. Those living with dementia require over an additional 100 hours of care and supervision per month compared to those without, and this increased burden will certainly negatively impact women and their hard-fought place in the workforce. When faced with steep caregiving demands, women are far more at risk of "lowering or exiting their career trajectory," than their male counterparts. A 2014 report from the Alzheimer's Association, notes that women are seven times more likely to cut back on their hours of employment than men, which produces financial strain and could seriously affect everything from retirement funds to sending their kids to college, states the New York Times. Those attempting the impossible balancing act of holding down a full-time job and providing round-the-clock care, may see their productivity and attendance suffering at work. With less free time and significantly more stress, it goes without saying that caregiving for dementia patients can negatively impact a woman's mental and physical health.
As the health care debate rages on and possible cuts to Medicaid loom there will be very little in the way of reprieve or support for women tasked with caring for their sick parents in the future. Men are stepping up around the house but we are far from seeing men play an equal role in caring for the elderly parents and in-laws. We need to make sure there is no unspoken rule about who takes care of the parents, because when it comes time gender shouldn't be the deciding factor.