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Perched high on the Peloponnese peninsula like a modern-day acropolis, Amanzoe's nine-bedroom Villa 20 is a masterpiece of elegant indoor-outdoor living.
Spread over six levels, all connected with elevators and with exceptional views of rolling hills and the Aegean Sea, the nine-bedroom Villa sleeps up to twenty guests and is set on 1.9 hectares / 4.7 acres with six pools, a spa and a full complement of staff.
Multiple living rooms and indoor dining options.
Games room with table football, pool table and jukebox. Library. Meeting Room.
Resort is open from April to October. High season from June to August.
No pets and no smoking. Floor-to-ceiling windows. Elevators. Spa with traditional double treatment room, waterbed treatment room, sauna, steam room, cold plunge pool, 15m / 49 ft lap pool, whirlpool. Two kitchens. Two garages. Garden. Staff quarters.
Dedicated host, private chef, housekeepers. Access to Amanzoe's facilities.
10-minute drive to the Beach Club and Porto Heli. 200 km / 124 miles to the Athens International Airport.


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Northpark's 1st annual 5K Run/Walk welcomes the season of giving! This event kicks off Northpark's commitment to support a local family in need, year after year. Join us this year by Running for Adam!
Supporting community, one family at a time.
Enjoy the Merriest Race around, Good Samaritan's 12k's for the Holidays! Do a 12k run, 5k run, 5k walk or FREE Kids One Mile Fun Run with Santa. Register online at http://www.Christmas12k.com for no extra fee.
Registrants can even participate in our Holiday Costume Contest and win prizes! So, put on your holiday garb and run through the streets of Jackson's Historic Fondren Neighborhood!
This race is a fundraiser for The Good Samaritan Center helping families in crisis for over 40 years.


I awoke to see the reading room much as I remember it before I rested my head on my crossed arms—that is empty and well lit. My skin burned lightly under my left eye, which had adopted the weave of my sweater but was now trying to regain its normal texture. My watch read 12:30 p.m., half an hour since I last looked at it. The response I was writing to the artwork of a friend lay there in a half done draft of blue letters but more blue deletions. I was not ready to pick up my pen again to fill the page. I considered reading, as the library room I was in is a literary flea market of new bestsellers, too many newspapers and an extensive collection on how to preserve then hunt wildlife. But reading would have been a distraction. I packed my things, walked out of the room and left Firestone library.
Outside I found the plaza empty like the room but the tower of the library blocked the sunlight so one stood in shadows. On the other side of the plaza is the University Chapel. The mild breeze that blew in between both Gothic masses perhaps took a moment as it coursed to notice the openness of space as I did. Without much of an aim, I went into town, which from Firestone only means walking several dozen feet to cross Nassau Street.
Once across the street, I saw a little girl running, box in hand, attempting to beat the street walk timer already flashing its prohibitive hand. She made it. A motorcyclist wearing all green and black on a green and black bike cleared his visor under a red light. Further along a young dog was tracking a scent intently as if after prize or prey. I hope he found one or the other. I came upon the local bookstore and gravitated to its outdoor stalls as I do every time I am near fulfilling a law of personal physics. A title read, "Higher Gossip: Essay and Criticism" by John Updike. I picked it up and leafed through its full pages, the production of a life knowing of art, literature and that wonder so often considered un-wonderful that we call everyday life. I placed the book back atop two or three more copies like it. Even reading these words would be a distraction right now. For some reason I smiled as I glanced back at the book before continuing my walk.
I crossed back onto campus. The ground was covered in snow delineated and bisected by diagonal, straight and curving paths of stone and gravel cleared with salt and shovel. The snow was in turn illuminated and dimmed as the clouds blocked then revealed the sun light from above. No people walked nearby and the bustle of town was muted as if I had closed a door to it. Very soon I noticed a certain emptiness again, that same openness of space. The emptiness did not say, "You are alone," nor did I feel such. Rather it asked to be filled, and I wanted to fill the emptiness but not with the thought and experience of others, no matter how well articulated and arresting they may be, but with the thought and experience of myself no matter how poorly articulated and quotidian they may be. So I listened, went to my desk and wrote this.


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Fujifilm Unveils the Instax SQ6: Square Format Instant Analogue Camera
Film Hardware Photography
Fujifilm has announced details of the new Instax SQ6 square format analogue instant camera
Unlike the Instax SQ10, which was the first Fujifilm camera to produce the relatively new square format Instax film, the SQ6 is purely analogue, whilst the SQ10 was a hybrid camera, capable of producing digital files as well as instant pics.
The new SQ6 boasts an automatic exposure adjustment function that is automatically initiated when you press the shutter, detecting ambient brightness and adjusting to give the optimum shutter speed and flash; even in a dim light.
Built with selfies in mind, there's a selfie-mode, which automatically switches the camera's settings to the optimum focus and brightness for your situation. There is also a selfie mirror attached to the side of the lens, which helps you to compose the 'perfect' selfie!There's a tripod mount in the bottom of the main body and also a timer function for capturing group shots, or any automated shooting needs, along with three regular shooting modes:
Double Exposure Mode enables two images to be overlapped on a single shot when you press the shutter twice.
Macro Mode can produce short-range pictures up to a [minimum of] 30cm.
Landscape Mode can be used to take long-range landscape pictures.
The new SQ6 also comes complete with three coloured filters in orange, purple and green. Simply put one of these over the flash and you can apply simple colour washes to your overall photograph.
There are three colours to choose from and they all feel a little 'grown up' and 'sensible' if to be compared to much of the rest of the Instax range of cameras, but that's fine as they look great and minimal is cool, after all. Pearl White, Blush Gold, and Graphite Gray.
If you are looking for something a little more quirky and cool, though, you might want to look at the LomoInstant Square camera, which, oddly, was launched ahead of Fujifilm's SQ6. Fujifilm does, however, still claim that the SQ6 is the 'world's first'.
We expect to see the new SQ6 being available from the end of May 2018 at £124.99.
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Q: OfficeJS word-addin - how to remove deleted text/paragraph from document.paragraphs if track changes is on and all revisions inline I am working on word add-in and I have the following scenario:
When track changes is on and the changes are displayed inline

then moved some text/paragraph to another place

at this point the document added the moved paragraph successfully to its items but it does not remove the deleted paragraph, so we have this paragraph twice.
Word.run(context => {
    const { paragraphs } = context.document.body;
    console.log(paragraphs.items) // moved paragraph now in items[2] & items[8]
})

So it there a way to delete the deleted paragraph/text from paragraphs.items if they are deleted? or any workaround?
I know there is no way to access track changes in officeJs word ATM.

A: This is a known issue with the API. The problem will be solved when track changes is supported. Particularly to know that track changes is on, ability to turn it on/off or change the mode.

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Book Launch: The Book of M by Peng Shepherd — in conversation w/ Linnea Hartsuyker
POWERHOUSE @ the Archway
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street @ the Archway)
RSVP appreciated. Please fill out the form at the bottom of this page if you plan on attending.
About the Book.
Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love—a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself.
One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man's shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories.
Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max's shadow disappears too.
Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless.
As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.
Like The Passage and Station Eleven, this haunting, thought-provoking, and beautiful novel explores fundamental questions of memory, connection, and what it means to be human in a world turned upside down.
About the Author.
Peng Shepherd's fiction has been published in the Weird Lies anthology, Litro Magazine, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, among other places. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, and was awarded an emerging writers grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation based on an early draft of her novel.
Linnea Hartsuyker's debut novel, The Half-Drowned King, was published by HarperCollins in the US, and internationally in six other countries. The Half-Drowned King was an Indie Next and a Barnes and Noble Discovery Pick, received starred reviews from Library Journal and Booklist, and was named the best historical fiction book of 2017 by the American Library Association. Linnea grew up in the woods outside Ithaca, New York, and studied Engineering at Cornell University. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. Her family lineage can be traced back to the first king of Norway, and this inspired her to write The Half-Drowned King, the first book of a trilogy about the Vikings. The sequel, The Sea Queen, will be published in August.


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Q: Why am I getting the error: Cannot update a component (`Unknown`) while rendering a different component (`Edit`)? I recently upgraded to WordPress 5.9, and I'm now getting the following error in a custom block: Cannot update a component (`Unknown`) while rendering a different component (`Edit`). The code is as below:
export default function Edit( props ) {

    const {attributes, setAttributes} = props
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    function Placeholder() {
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    useEffect(() => {
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Most solutions I've found so far recommend using useEffect in some way, but I'm not sure how that would apply here. What's causing this error?


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En webbannons, annonsruta eller banner (plural: bannrar; efter engelska banner) är en reklamannons som förekommer på webbsidor. Den är en av de huvudsakliga inkomstkällorna för publikationer på Internet. En webbannons syns ofta ovanför eller vid sidan av nyhetsmaterialet och kan bestå av text, bild eller animation. Alternativt kan en webbannons presenteras som ett poppuppfönster.

Framväxten av reklamblockerare har sin grund av webbannonsering som kan upplevas som störande.

Användning och teknik
Webbannonser är den helt dominerande inkomstkällan för de stora webbplatserna, och denna kanal för annonsering ökar på andra massmediekanalers bekostnad. Vid sidan av rent kommersiella ersättningar förekommer också en ersättningsform med byte, där en webbplats i utbyte för att upplåter en plats på sin webbsida får en webbannons för sin egen sida visad på andra webbsidor

En webbannons eller banner kan också informera om eget material och egna projekt, i samband med olika kampanjer eller som en alternativ nyhetsplats. Blandningen av nyhetsmaterial och externt reklammaterial på ett och samma utrymme kan dock vara förvirrande för läsarna.

En webbannons kan visas som en statisk text med eller utan bild, alternativt som eller kompletterad av en animation. Den kan visas ovanför (som en "banderoll") eller vid sidan av övrigt sidinnehåll, alternativt som ett poppuppfönster.

Historik

Bakgrund
Webbens sedan 1990-talet ökande roll som nyhetsmedium har lett till att en ökande andel av tidningsreklam "flyttat med" till webben. I Internets etableringsfas på sent 1990-tal var det relativt ovanligt med betalväggar, så webbannonser var ofta nyhetskanalernas enda större inkomstkälla.

Vidare utveckling
Under 2000- och 2010-talet har utvecklingen fortsatt, på senare år även kompletterat av spridning av materialet via mobilapplikationer. Stora nyhetsmedier på Internet bekostar fortfarande stora delar (större delen) av sin verksamhet via annonsintäkter, men den ökande användningen av reklamblockerare har satt ett visst tak på annonsintäkterna. Många nyhetsmedier låter därför användarna läsa en viss mängd nyhetsartiklar (ofta cirka 10 per månad; definierat som enskilda webbsidor, räknat via webbkakor) och erbjuder mer läsning på andra sidan en betalvägg.

Tekniken med betalväggar används både i webbupplagor lästa via webbläsare och motsvarande material i mobilappar (där inkomsterna kan komma via regelbundna prenumerationskostnader). Däremot har tekniken med webbannonser via mobilappar inte blivit lika spridd, till stor del beroende på den mindre skärmytan. surfplattor efterliknar dock mer skärmstorleken på många mindre bärbara datorer.

Video på webben
Många nyhetsmedier sprider numera även TV-material (direktsänt eller som eftersända videor) via webben. Detta inkluderar etablerade TV-kanaler och nya medier typ Youtube. Annonsmaterial kan då synas både som webbannonser på presentationssidorna för videomaterialet eller/och kompletterat med ren TV/video-annonsering inuti de strömmade materialet. Videoannonser kan då ibland "klickas bort" efter ett visst antal sekunder.

Ökande reklammotstånd
I många länder kom Internet endast några år efter etablerandet av ett stort utbud av kommersiella TV-kanaler. Det kommersiella TV-utbudet har ofta helt och hållet finansierats av TV-reklam (mellan program eller programavsnitt). Ökad "reklamtrötthet" i TV har sedan hos en del Internet-anändare kompletterats av en motsvarande reklamtrött på Internet.

Reklamen inträder ("stör") dock på olika sätt i de båda medierna – på TV genom att den tar över hela skärmen under en viss tid, på en webbsida genom att den visas (ofta mer eller mindre animerad) vid sidan av nyhetsmaterialet (alternativt som poppuppfönster). Animerade webbannonser kan vålla oönskad distraktion och även göra webbsurfandet mer bandbreddskrävande, två negativa effekter som lett till utvecklandet av reklamblockerare vilka filtrerar bort en del eller allt annonsmaterial från webbsidan. Resultatet blir tomma block på sidan, alternativt att layouten förändras helt.

Under 2010-talet har det allt vanligare användandet av reklamblockerare medfört att sajtägare presenterar informationstexter som påminner om annonsernas betydelse som finansiär av nyhetsmaterialet. Alternativt stängs läsandet av webbsidan/webbplatsen av helt om användaren inte avaktiverar reklamblockeraren för åtminstone den webbplatsen.

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Energy Assistance program provides energy crisis and bill payment assistance to elderly, disabled, and low-income households.
HACAP's Assessment and Resolution Energy Counseling program (A&R Program) is established in order to provide energy efficiency education, budget counseling, and incentives for qualified households.
The Weatherization Assistance Program works with seniors interested in retooling their job skills and training through the Senior Internship Program (SIP) to foster their economic self-sufficiency, and enjoy the benefits of unsubsidized employment in the private or public sector.
Transitional Housing: This program offers support services to families to assist them toward their goal of self-sufficiency and establishing a permanent housing situation.
Other Programs: HACAP operates Head Start programs and many others for children. HACAP also manages a food reservoir and many more programs.
There are income guidelines and other factors that vary by program.


Raw scores: the process of grading is a cumbersome and tedious process. The multiple choice section of the exam is scored by computer, while the essay portions and other responses are scored by "readers". The combined score of the various sections form a raw composite score.
A number of colleges utilize Advance Placement test scores to exempt students from beginner coursework.
New scoring pattern: Starting with the May 2011 Advanced Placement Exam administration, there was a change in the way AP Exams were scored.
Total scores, are now a total of all the questions answered correctly. There is no negative marking for incorrect answers and no points for unanswered questions.
Score report: AP Score Reports are sent in July( or latest by 2nd week of July) to the college or university as instructed by you in the application form, to you, and to your high school. Each test report is consists of cumulative scores for all the tests you have ever appeared till date, unless you have instructed that one or more scores be withheld from a college or canceled.


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Unemployment Claims On The Rise Yet Again, As Gap Between Whites And Blacks Widens
(TheLibertyRevolution.com)- Unemployment claims were on the rise again last week.
According to the weekly jobless claims report the Labor Department released on Thursday, 870,000 people filed for first-time jobless benefits last week, on a seasonally-adjusted basis. That marked a slight uptick from the week before.
While the weekly first-time unemployment claims are down significantly over where they were near the start of the pandemic, they are still much higher than before the pandemic. Weekly first-time claims now are roughly four times more than they were before states started issuing stay-at-home orders back in March.
The lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, Nancy Vanden Houten, commented:
"The jobless claim data paint a picture of a labor market recovery that's struggling to maintain momentum."
In addition to these first-time unemployment claims, continued jobless claims sat at 12.6 million last week, on a seasonally-adjusted basis. That is a slight improvement from the week before.
Not included in those numbers are people who filed for unemployment benefits under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program that Congress created as part of the CARES Act in the spring. Last week, 630,080 people in the U.S. filed for first-time unemployment claims under that program. That means there was a total of almost 1.5 million people who filed for unemployment benefits for the first time last week.
Some of the numbers released by the Labor Department Thursday show promise, while others do not. For example, 26 million people received a form of government unemployment benefits as of September 5. That's down 3.7 million people from just late August.
On the flip side, the number of people who have filed under alternate programs such as the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program has increased in that time. That program helps people who have exhausted all their state unemployment benefit programs.
The overall unemployment rate has continued to drop over the last few months. In August, the unemployment rate sat at 8.4%, which is 1.8% lower than it was in July, as the economy added 1.4 million jobs.
But there's been a gap in demographics with these numbers. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis reported that the unemployment rate was 7.3% for white workers in August, compared to 13% for black workers.
That 5.7-point gap between white workers and black workers is the highest it's been in more than five years. There has traditionally been an employment gap between the two groups, but the unemployment rate for black workers was almost at historic lows before the pandemic outbreak.
In the early part of the pandemic, black workers were hit particularly hard. The Economic Policy Institute said black workers lost jobs at a higher rate than white workers. In April, less than half of the entire black adult population had a job, according to the institute.
The recent rebound in the overall unemployment rate has been attributed to a resumption of normal economic activity, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. But how long that activity remains as a potential second wave of the coronavirus might hit the country in the fall is up in the air.


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Some games in the Carmageddon series feature cutscenes: Videos to entertain or provide mission information. Most are pre-rendered footage. By default, they can be skipped by pressing the Escape key.
Carmageddon has an opening sequence, played each time the game is run. It also features a scene at the end of the game when the player has completed all the levels, and a short cutscene when the player starts a new game.
One of three more cutscenes play every time a level is finished. The movie that plays depends on whether the player won or lost the race, and whether (s)he profited or end up with a loss of credits.
Winner, profit: The racer stands on a hill, facing away - A giant champagne bottle swings into view, knocking the racer off the hill to rapturous applause.
Loser, profit / winner, loss: The racer stands on a hill, facing away, and the crowd can be heard talking among themselves. The racer throws his helmet away to the right: It reappears from the left and hits him on the head.
Loser, loss: The racer stands on a hill with the crowd jeering. A giant cow/vehicle hybrid comes rushing in, gibbing the racer into a bloody mess.
Game over, bankrupt: The racer is shown in the cockpit as his car is side-swiped and the engine sets on fire. The Red Eagle then explodes, leaving just the cars framework and a charred skeleton.
Players may be confused by these cutscenes at first, and one might not even recognize them as result videos if it weren't for the audience's cheers/boos in the background.
The videos are encoded in the Smacker video format (.SMK).
This game features one intro cutscene, which plays every time the game is run, and one ending cutscene that plays after the final mission is completed.
Besides the pre-rendered introduction clips, Carmageddon TDR 2000 also has some in-engine cutscenes that play on missions. At the beginning of all missions, a brief camera flyover shows the player a general view of the location and points out some of the mission's hot spots. Other cutscenes may play when certain objectives are granted, in order to highlight the next objective. There is also a brief ending video, where Max reaches the "Subates" and screams out in... triumph?
The cutscenes can be canceled at any time by pressing Escape. However, if the player holds Escape as the cutscene loads, the game will crash. A smaller glitch involves pressing Escape when the cutscene bars (the black borders) are appearing. If done right, the mission will start but the HUD won't be displayed, as the game will still think it's in "cutscene mode".
The game uses the same opening sequence as Carmageddon II. There is no ending sequence. There is a different cutscene after each group is cleared - Each one is utterly random and unrelated to the game, featuring such things as a man in a television and the cow/vehicle hybrid.
The game uses the same opening sequence as Carmageddon II. The exposition before and after missions, and also the ending, are text only.
Carmageddon's intro features Auto Scum's Razorback, an Auto Scum vehicle that wasn't in the game. It was driveable in Carmageddon II.
After around one minute and a half into the opening sequence of Carmageddon, the announcer states "Those who are about to die, we salute you!". This is a reference to an album by Colosseum released in 1969, Those Who Are About to Die Salute You, or a reference to the saying that goes back to about 52 A.D. 'Morituri te salutant' ("those who are about to die salute you"), which the album is named after.
The Game Over/Bankrupt cuscene in Carmageddon show a number plate reading OUTTALIFE fall from the Red Eagle, spinning on one corner. This is a parody of the OUTATIME number plate on the DeLorean in Back to the Future, which also fell off and span on one corner on the cars first test run.
The Carmageddon II intro sequence is also used in the Playstation and N64 Carmageddon games.
This sequence features the Tashita2 with a different paintjob, being driven by Batmad instead of Ed 101.
The mobile and Game Boy games obviously don't have cutscenes.
It is unknown if Carmageddon TV or Carmageddon IV would have had cutscenes. It is most likely that the Game Boy version of TDR would not have them due to limitations.
Carmageddon TDR 2000's intro cutscenes can be skipped by pressing any key. However, in order to skip the next one, the player must release the key and press it again (or another one). This rule doesn't apply to the Space key. This means that the fastest way to skip all cutscenes is to hold Space for ~2 seconds.
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The Lone Bellow at Band on the Wall
Last Updated 18 December 2017
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The Lone Bellow at Band on the Wall, Manchester, 19 January 2018, from £12 - Book now
Cited as one of the top 10 reasons to love country music, The Lone Bellow return to Band on the Wall two years on from their last visit.
The American trio formed in Brooklyn in 2011 before relocating to Nashville in 2016. In between, they were snapped up by newly established Sony imprint Descendant Records and released two albums: their self-titled debut in 2013 and 2015's Then Came the Morning – produced by Aaron Dessner of The National. The latter helped land them a nomination for Group of the Year at the Americana Music Award, as well as appearances on the likes of The Late Show With David Letterman and Later… with Jools Holland, and a UK support tour with Kacey Musgraves.
The group, who returned in 2017 with Walk Into a Storm – this time, produced by fellow Nashville resident (and Jason Isbell collaborator) Dave Cobb – are natural crowd-pleasers, thanks to their luscious harmonies and upbeat, often raucous tunes.
The Lone Bellow at Band on the Wall, Manchester
19 January 2018 7:30 pm
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More brilliant gigs appear on the horizon as we inch further into 2023.


Having I an XMPP account (riseup.net domain) I see all my friends names and mine as user@domain, not the nickname they have set.
First would be nice to solve that (and be able to see my friends nicknames correctly (the ones they have set) and set easily mine so others see it too). That would be very intereseting for the free software community so XMPP/Jabber is the most common IM that we have, and soon MSN is gonna disappear (migrate to Skype) so that would be a very good opportunity to have many users moved to the "free world" and giving more power to it, aiding that if we fix this issue.
And second, as a complement for this, would be nice to be able to set a nickname to the different accounts we have activated (not having to set one by one); as happens with the status (where it yes works perfectly like this).
For example if I change my nick to "nick2" it is set as my MSN, and different XMPP accounts nickname, and any other protocols possible. That would be very nice for usability.
Hello, I found some fix to the XMPP nick change, though an easier way to do it would be cool and also the nick change integration for all accounts.
I managed to change my XMPP via adding myself and opening a conversation with myself. Then i double clicked my nick and could change it (and other people see the change, so it's not something local).
Btw I think it would be interesting to being able to change it easily as how msn accounts do.
And also Integrating the nickname for all accounts, as for status is done.


You know, I gotta tell you, when your party beat Gore by a couple of thousand (hundred ?) votes in Florida in 2000 and beat John Kerry by a few tens of thousands of votes in Ohio in 2004, it seems to me that being cocky about ANYONE you may face is pretty questionable. Now, it is certainly possible that the Democrats will decide to once again nominate someone who is near unelectable, but given the potential GOP nominees I wouldn't assume anything is in the bag. Nevertheless, I'm inclined to think even the fickle American electorate would not view "being crazy" as a positive attribute in a potential President.
Me: I think this is all perfectly fine, though one could quibble here or there. My point wasn't to say the Democrat can't win in 2008 or anything of the sort. My point was to call attention to some really shoddy analysis and wishful thinking from one guy. For example, I think it's perfectly reasonable to think Hillary Clinton might win (See John Pod's new book for example). But if you said she was going to win because of her haircut, I would make fun of you.


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Diffusion Pharmaceuticals Sends Letter to Stockholders Highlighting Strength of Board Leadership and Positive Progress in Strategic Review, Cautioning Stockholders Regarding LifeSci's History of Stockholder Value Destruction and Self-Dealing
Diffusion has a highly engaged and independent board that possesses the right skills and experience to execute the strategic review process
Diffusion received bids from more than 15 companies participating in review process
LifeSci invited to participate in review process on same terms as all other bidders following submission of client's unsolicited offer, but LifeSci instead chose to launch a proxy contest against our highly qualified board
LifeSci's track record demonstrates a highly troubling pattern of self-dealing and stockholder value destruction, including more than $1.3 billion of stockholder losses in recent SPAC transactions
Diffusion's board and management are fully committed to maximizing value for all stockholders through the completion of the strategic review process, notwithstanding LifeSci's self-serving attempts to disrupt the process
Diffusion urges stockholders to vote "FOR" each of the Board's six nominees for director on your WHITE proxy card
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Diffusion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: DFFN) ("Diffusion" or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies that may enhance the body's ability to deliver oxygen to areas where it is needed most, today sent a letter to its stockholders. The letter highlights the strength, experience and quality of the Company's board of directors as it continues to take steps to unlock stockholder value through a strategic review process. The letter also summarizes the value-destructive acquisition offer presented by LifeSci Capital on behalf of a purported client, the dismal track record of LifeSci Capital and its many affiliates in the biopharmaceutical space, and LifeSci-affiliated funds' recent nomination of an unqualified dissident slate of nominees for election as directors at the Company's 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting").
Diffusion's board of directors urges stockholders to vote "FOR" each of its six nominees for director on your WHITE proxy card. The Annual Meeting will be held virtually on December 30, 2022, at 8:00 a.m., Eastern Time. Stockholders of record as of the close of business on November 1, 2022, are entitled to vote at the meeting.
The Company's proxy statement and other important information related to the Annual Meeting can be found at investors.diffusionpharma.com
The full text of the letter follows.
Dear Fellow Stockholder,
The value of your investment is at stake at Diffusion's 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be held on December 30, 2022. LifeSci Special Opportunities Master Fund Ltd. ("LifeSci Master Fund"), a fund affiliated with the investment bank LifeSci Capital, on behalf of itself and other related entities (collectively with their respective affiliates, "LifeSci"), and managed by David Dobkin, the LifeSci Capital banker who previously delivered an unsolicited, lowball offer to the Company on behalf of a purported client, is seeking to replace our board of directors (the "Board") with its hand-picked, inferior and unqualified slate of nominees. In contrast to LifeSci's nominees, our Board has the required skills and expertise to drive our strategy forward through its ongoing evaluation of a range of value-creating opportunities as part of our strategic review process.
DIFFUSION'S BOARD IS DILIGENTLY ADVANCING THE STRATEGIC REVIEW PROCESS
Our Board has made significant progress to date in its strategic review of opportunities to enhance value for all stockholders. Working together with our financial advisor, Canaccord Genuity LLC, and legal advisor, Dechert LLP, our Board has been driving a thorough process. We received bids from more than 15 companies, and we are currently in the process of identifying and negotiating the most compelling, value-enhancing transaction for ALL Diffusion stockholders. While we cannot provide any assurance as to the ultimate outcome of this strategic review process, we are very encouraged by the level of response received from interested parties. Our Board and management team are highly motivated to complete this process expeditiously and bring an attractive opportunity to our stockholders as soon as possible within a reasonable timeframe.
DIFFUSION'S BOARD IS LEVERAGING RELEVANT EXPERIENCE IN CONDUCTING THE STRATEGIC REVIEW
Our Board is currently composed of uniquely qualified leaders with public company senior leadership experience, including at the C-level in Fortune 50 companies. A majority of our directors are independent, and multiple directors – including our Board Chair and our Chief Executive Officer -- have been added to the Board since the beginning of 2020. During this same timeframe, our Board has also overseen significant changes to our management team, with four of our five current executive officers appointed to their position since September 2020.
Our Board is highly engaged and actively overseeing the strategic review process. Stockholders should not be misled by LifeSci's claims and self-serving campaign: this is NOT a board that is entrenching itself. To the contrary, the Board is diligently reviewing a range of potential transactions that will likely involve significant changes in the composition of the Board, including a sale of the Company.
Our current directors have a broad industry network and a deep understanding of pharmaceutical dealmaking that will be key to negotiating a transaction that maximizes value for ALL stockholders, and our board's experience has been invaluable in carefully evaluating the proposals received from interested parties to date. Furthermore, unlike the destructive and conflict-riddled special purpose acquisition company ("SPAC") mergers led by LifeSci in recent years that are described below, our Board is being advised on this process by a highly qualified team of independent financial, legal and other advisors.
LifeSci's nominees on the other hand, with their resumes in the ammunitions industry, lobbying and private consulting, SPACs or solar technology – as well as various affiliations with LifeSci and its principals – lack any relevant industry relationships, knowledge or experience that could credibly generate any value for stockholders or pursue anything other than advancing LifeSci's self-serving agenda.
Particularly given the poor quality of LifeSci's nominees, as well as LifeSci's questionable motives and misleading statements in its past dealings with the Company, we believe any changes to our Board at this critical juncture threaten to seriously jeopardize the progress and momentum of the ongoing strategic review process.
LIFESCI HAS A TROUBLING HISTORY OF STOCKHOLDER VALUE DESTRUCTION AND SELF-DEALING
LifeSci is a nebulous organization with a dismal track record in the public biopharmaceutical space. Its motivations and actions are highly unorthodox and laden with conflicts of interest. In contrast to the Board's strategic review, we can only guess how LifeSci's actions are intended to generate value for Diffusion's other stockholders, as they have yet to surface any credible proposal, only opaque and ever-changing half-truths regarding their intentions.
For example, LifeSci misled Diffusion's management team throughout the parties' correspondence. It first indicated that it was a LifeSci client (rather than LifeSci itself) that was acquiring a position in our stock, then presented Diffusion with an unsolicited, lowball acquisition offer purportedly on behalf of a client, only to turn around and nominate a slate of inexperienced director nominees on its own behalf while the company is in the middle of a strategic review, a process in which – despite its earlier requests that Diffusion consider certain unnamed strategic alternatives with one of its clients -- LifeSci has refused to allow its purported client to participate. In fact, the same company on behalf of which LifeSci purportedly submitted the unsolicited offer subsequently approached Diffusion through a different investment bank about potentially participating in the Company's process.
LifeSci's public statements regarding Diffusion have been equally confusing and misleading. For example, among other misrepresentations in LifeSci's recently filed preliminary proxy statement:
LifeSci claims that Mr. Dobkin's outreach to Diffusion on May 26, 2022 was on behalf of, "an unaffiliated client." However, in Mr. Dobkin's e-mail to management, he stated that his outreach was on behalf of, "one of your larger shareholders." Based on LifeSci Master Fund's transaction history, it appears this "client" was not an unaffiliated entity at all, but rather LifeSci itself.
LifeSci claims that the intent of its outreach was to encourage Diffusion to undertake a review of certain strategic alternatives. However, Diffusion was already engaged in just such a process at the time of LifeSci's outreach, has publicly reported its significant progress in that process over the ensuing months, and has invited LifeSci's clients to participate in a competitive bid process on numerous occasions. Despite this, LifeSci delined to participate in the process and instead made the decision to nominate an alternate slate of directors on its own behalf without any further rationale.
LifeSci claims that Diffusion refused to engage with LifeSci beginning on September 27, 2022. On the contrary, it was LifeSci who went dark from this point on, continuing its refusal to provide additional details regarding the types of transactions their purported clients were proposing before submitting their client's unsolicited offer.
One thing is crystal clear: in the public biopharma markets, LifeSci's record is abysmal. LifeSci has demonstrated on multiple occasions that it is ill-equipped to evaluate and identify value-enhancing alternatives or oversee a successful M&A process. Particularly demonstrative of LifeSci's penchant for underperforming transactions and destroying stockholder value is their recent experience as both a sponsor and financial advisor on a variety of SPAC merger transactions in the life sciences sector:
The LifeSci-affiliated vehicle, LifeSci Acquisition Corp. ("LSAC"),1 for which David Dobkin served as CFO, merged with Vincerx Pharma and its stock price has dropped from the merger closing price of $19.00 on December 23, 2020 to $0.71 as of December 2, 2022, a decline of approximately 96%.
The LifeSci-affiliated, LifeSci Acquisition II Corp.,2 for which David Dobkin served as CFO, merged with Science 37 and its stock price has dropped from the merger closing price of $9.01 on October 6, 2021 to $0.60 as of December 2, 2022, a decline of approximately 93%.
The LifeSci-affiliated, Petra Acquisition Corp. ("Petra"),3 an entity with past affiliations to LifeSci Capital, David Dobkin (as both a director of Petra and in his capacity as a managing director of LifeSci Capital), and one of its director nominees, Jessica M. Lockett, who served as counsel to Petra, merged with Revelation Biosciences Inc. and its stock price has dropped from the merger closing price of $8.32 on January 10, 2022 to $0.22 as of December 2, 2022, a decline of approximately 97%.
In the aggregate, these three LifeSci-led merger transactions have resulted in stockholder losses exceeding $1.3 BILLION over the last two years, drastically underperforming the broader life sciences market.
Despite this record of stockholder value destruction, in those same transactions, LifeSci extracted millions of dollars for itself through investment banking fees, advisory fees and a tangled web of additional related party relationships by hiring one or more of LifeSci's countless affiliates to act in various other roles, such as financial advisor, underwriter, and administrative services provider. In the quintessential example of LifeSci's self-interested investing style, LifeSci Capital is currently suing Revelation seeking to recover more than $5 million in investment banking fees – an amount that would effectively drain all of Revelation's cash reserves – despite the fact that LifeSci itself held approximately 7% of Revelation's outstanding stock at the time the suit was filed.
In all three of the transactions identified above, the merger parties were purportedly introduced through a combination of Mr. Paul Yook, the chief investment officer of LifeSci's venture capital funds, and Mr. Dobkin. In two of those transactions – Science 37/LSAQ and Revelation/Petra – in parallel with the SPAC's formation and capital raising activities, Mr. Yook's funds made pre-merger investments in the private operating companies at valuations significantly below the valuations assigned to the company by LifeSci Capital, in its capacity as a financial advisor on the transactions, and the parties thereto for purposes of the subsequent business combination.
In certain cases, LifeSci also benefitted from sponsor arrangements which allow SPAC sponsors to buy shares for pennies on the dollar and, in many cases, sell those shares at temporarily inflated valuations following a business combination transaction.
LIFESCI PRESENTED AN UNSOLICITED OFFER REPRESENTING APPROXIMATELY HALF OF DIFFUSION'S CASH POSITION AND HAS REPEATEDLY REFUSED TO ENGAGE WITH OUR BOARD
If LifeSci were interested in value creation for all stockholders, why haven't any of their purported clients joined the strategic review process? Why was LifeSci unwilling to sign a customary non-disclosure agreement that more than 15 participants in the process were willing to sign? Why did LifeSci amend its proxy statement to disclose that Mr. Dobkin, the portfolio manager of LifeSci Master Fund, "will be entitled to receive certain fees and related compensation in the event that the Company completes a transaction with any of [LifeSci] Capital's investment banking clients," due to the fact that he also serves as a managing director for LifeSci Capital?
LifeSci, rather than constructively engaging in the Company's robust process, has instead chosen to selectively engage with Diffusion offering vague notions of pursuing unidentified potential transactions with unidentified counterparties. Moreover, throughout its interactions with Diffusion, LifeSci has obfuscated and misled Diffusion regarding on whose behalf it was acting, repeatedly insinuating that LifeSci was acting on behalf of "client-stockholder" when in fact it was LifeSci itself who was acquiring our stock.
Following a period of silence after going dark in late September, LifeSci presented an unsolicited offer, on behalf of one if its purported clients, to purchase all of Diffusion's outstanding common stock for $6.58 per share, or an aggregate purchase price of approximately $13.4 million, effectively seeking to use Diffusion's own cash to buy out Diffusion's other stockholders.4 This offer represented an approximate 48% discount to our cash position of $25.9 million5 as of September 30, 2022, effectively provided no value for the Company's trans sodium crocetinate assets, and offered no opportunity for Diffusion stockholders to participate in potential future upside of the enterprise. This is disturbing if this is the new promise of value creation that LifeSci's nominees hold for us as stockholders and contradictory to their own public statements regarding the significant potential value of Diffusion's assets.
After deliberation and in consultation with its advisors, and in the exercise of its fiduciary duty to protect the interests of ALL Company stockholders, our Board rejected LifeSci's offer as woefully inadequate. In our letter to LifeSci rejecting the offer, the Board encouraged LifeSci to have its client participate in Diffusion's strategic review, but LifeSci's affiliates once again refused to enter into the customary non-disclosure agreement signed by more than 15 parties. LifeSci then went silent. This unwillingness to negotiate at all raises further questions about the true intent behind LifeSci's strategy. Diffusion was particularly surprised when a different investment bank approached Diffusion regarding having this same company join our review process.
A few weeks later, in the middle of the strategic review process and in another potentially destructive attempt to take advantage of Diffusion and its stockholders, LifeSci announced on November 17, 2022, the commencement of a proxy contest on its own behalf, nominating a slate of directors for election at our upcoming annual meeting of stockholders.
We believe that LifeSci is engaged in another attempt to undertake a conflicted, value-destructive transaction and is using Diffusion's annual meeting to cause confusion and disrupt the positive progress made during the strategic review process so far in hopes of achieving an alternative, self-serving outcome.
LIFESCI'S NOMINEES LACK PUBLIC COMPANY BOARD EXPERIENCE THAT WILL BE CRITICAL TO OVERSEEING A SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE STRATEGIC REVIEW PROCESS
While LifeSci's public company experience is checkered with conflicts of interest and poor results, the public company experience of its director nominees is virtually non-existent. Only two of LifeSci's nominees have any experience sitting on public company boards, but that experience does not inspire confidence:
Ms. Jessica M. Lockett has served on the board of directors of an ammunition company, Ammo, Inc, since December 2020. In August 2022, one of Ms. Lockett's fellow directors launched a proxy contest seeking to replace her on the board with one of his own nominees. Her seat on the board was only assured after Ammo subsequently entered into a settlement agreement with the other director.
Dr. John S. Ziegler MD's only previous public company board experience consists of approximately one year serving on the board of directors of LifeSci Acquisition Corp. at a time when it was effectively a shell company. In September 2020, he and his fellow directors approved the value-destroying merger with Vincerx.
Furthermore, of the six LifeSci nominees, ZERO have held an executive role at a publicly traded pharmaceutical company and three have never worked in the healthcare industry at all. Further, LifeSci has nominated individuals with seemingly no connection to pharmaceutical development, instead involved as consultants and advisors to solar, real estate and technology industries.
Our board is committed to protecting the interests and maximizing long-term value for ALL Diffusion stockholders. We believe that the election of any directors from LifeSci's slate threatens to seriously jeopardize the progress of our strategic review process, and therefore, we strongly urge stockholders to vote the WHITE proxy card in favor of Diffusion's highly qualified and experienced nominees.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, we thank you for your continued investment in Diffusion.
Robert J. Cobuzzi, Jr., Ph.D.
Jane H. Hollingsworth
If you have any questions or need assistance in voting your shares, please contact Innisfree M&A Incorporated, Inc., our proxy solicitor, at (877) 456-3402.
About Diffusion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Diffusion Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies to enhance the body's ability to deliver oxygen to areas where it is needed most. Diffusion's lead product candidate, TSC, is being investigated to enhance the diffusion of oxygen to tissues with low oxygen levels, also known as hypoxia, a serious complication of many of medicine's most intractable and difficult-to-treat conditions, including hypoxic solid tumors like GBM. For more information, please visit us at www.diffusionpharma.com.
This press release includes express and implied forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including: the timing and potential outcome of the Company's ongoing strategic alternative review process; the potential therapeutic value of TSC in cancer and non-cancer indications; anticipated timelines for the initiation, completion, and announcement of data from Study 200-208; the Company's ongoing and planned clinical trials; the Company's near-term strategic priorities with respect to the development of TSC and otherwise; and the Company's anticipated cash runway. The Company may, in some cases, use terms such as "believes," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "plans," "intends," "may," "could," "might," "will," "should," "approximately," or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that it has a reasonable basis for each forward-looking statement contained herein, forward-looking statements by their nature involve risks and uncertainties, known and unknown, many of which are beyond the Company's control and, as a result, the Company's actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statement. Particular risks and uncertainties include, among other things, those related to: the Company's ongoing strategic alternative review process; the novelty of the Company's Oxygenation Trials' design and endpoints, the relevance of trends observed in those studies to any indication, including hypoxic solid tumors, and the therapeutic value of TSC; the optimal doses and dosing regimens of TSC in connection with the potential treatment of GBM; the Company's ability to design, initiate, enroll, execute, and complete its planned studies evaluating TSC, including Study 200-208; the likelihood and timing of regulatory approval of TSC, if any, for the treatment of solid tumors complicated by hypoxia or any other indication, or the nature of any feedback the Company may receive from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or other regulatory bodies; the impact of global supply chain disruptions on the Company's drug product manufacturing capabilities, clinical development program, and associated timelines; the Company's ability to identify, evaluate and execute potential business development transactional opportunities, if any; the Company's ability to protect and expand its intellectual property portfolio; the Company's access to capital resources: general economic, political, business, industry, and market conditions, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, inflationary pressures, and geopolitical conflicts; and the other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's filings most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date hereof (or such earlier date as may be identified) and, except as required by applicable law, rule, or regulation, the Company undertakes no obligation to update any such statements after the date hereof.
Gladstone Place Partners
Felipe Ucrós
Tiberend Strategic Advisors, Inc.
Daniel Kontoh-Boateng/Jonathan Nugent
Important Additional Information Regarding Proxy Solicitation
Diffusion intends to file a definitive proxy statement and associated WHITE proxy card with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the Annual Meeting (the "Proxy Statement"). Stockholders as of the record date of November 1, 2022 are eligible to vote at the Annual Meeting. Diffusion, its directors and certain of its executive officers will be participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in respect of the Annual Meeting. Information regarding the names of Diffusion's directors and executive officers and their respective interests in Diffusion by security holdings or otherwise is set forth in Diffusion's proxy statement for the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, filed with the SEC on April 30, 2021, and the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 18, 2022. To the extent holdings of such participants in Diffusion's securities have changed since the amounts set forth in the 2021 proxy statement, such changes have been reflected on Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 or Annual Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership on Form 5 filed with the SEC. Details concerning the nominees of Diffusion's Board of Directors for election at the Annual Meeting will be included in the Proxy Statement. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY ARE URGED TO READ ALL RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH OR FURNISHED TO THE SEC, INCLUDING THE COMPANY'S DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT AND ACCOMPANYING WHITE PROXY CARD, AND ANY SUPPLEMENTS THERETO, WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors and stockholders will be able to obtain a copy of the definitive Proxy Statement and other relevant documents filed by Diffusion with the SEC free of charge from the SEC's website, www.sec.gov., or by directing a request by mail to Diffusion Pharmaceuticals Inc., Attention: Corporate Secretary, at 300 East Main Street, Suite 201, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902, via e-mail to [email protected], or by visiting the investor relations section of Diffusion's website, investors.diffusionpharma.com.
1 Now known as Vincerx Pharma, Inc. ("Vincerx") (NASDAQ: VINC).
2 Now known as Science 37 Holdings, Inc. ("Science 37") (NASDAQ: SNCE).
3 Now known as Revelation Biosciences Inc. ("Revelation") (NASDAQ: REVB).
4 Based on 2,039,441 shares outstanding as of November 10, 2022.
5 Includes cash equivalents and marketable securities.
A graphic accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/34121b8e-7909-4692-8340-9cc3ca45d00e


"One of the primary indicators and fruits of faith is joy in midst of a confusing and broken world….[Joy] arises from a life lived in wisdom, with a vision and passion for good work and with a resolve and capacity to love as we have been loved….[Joy is] the fruit of or the evidence of our union with Christ" (p. 154).
"What defines the church and the Christian, intellectually and emotionally, is the deep awareness that all will be well. This means we will get angry; we will fear and we will get discouraged. And we will mourn the deep losses of life. And yet sorrow is not our true home. We were designed to live in joy" (p. 157).
"[Holy] people are happy people. They know how to dance….They are not happy all the time, of course. It is important to stress that holy people feel keenly the fragmentation of the world. They sorrow with those who sorrow; they know how to be angry without sinning. They know what it is to be profoundly discouraged without allowing their discouragement to go to seed so that they are nothing but cynics. They know the pain and sorrow of mourning; they have experienced loss and they have walked with others who have experienced loss. And yet what defines them is an emotional center, an emotional resilience, an emotional maturity that is perhaps most evident in deep and abiding joy" (p. 158).
"The decision to sin always includes the thought that I cannot really trust God to watch out for my well-being" (p. 69).
"There is nothing more winsome or attractive than a person who is secure enough in being loved by God that he or she lives with a spirit of openness and transparency and without guile" (p. 76).
"Some people use their intelligence as a veil. Others use ignorance. Some veil themselves in busyness, in their work, in their vast competence and success….Ironically, many people in the church veil themselves in spirituality" (p. 79).
"Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive. We communicate this in a hundred ways, but the most powerful way is to listen with patience and compassion as they reveal their dark secrets" (p. 101).
"[Generally] people who don't read others well aren't aware that they don't" (p 108).
"[There] is a direct correlation between the number of words you say and the number of sins you commit" (p. 111).
"Every human being you know is making a request of their friends, though it often goes unspoken. Here is what they ask: 'Motivate me. Call out the best in me. Believe in me. Encourage me when I'm tempted to quit. Speak truth to me and remind me of my deepest values. Help me achieve my greatest potential. Tell me again what God called me to be, what I might yet become" (p. 121).
"To be alive means to be in conflict" (p. 131).
"Avoidance kills community. Avoidance causes resentment to fester inside you" (p. 132).
"Scott Peck says that most of the time we live in what he calls pseudocommunity. Its hallmark is the avoidance of conflict. In pseudocommunity we keep things safe; we speak in generalities, we say things that those around us will agree with. We tell little white lies to make sure no one's feelings get hurt, no one gets tense. We keep relationships pleasant and well-oiled. Conversations are carefully filtered to make sure no one gets offended; if we feel hurt or irritated, we are careful to hide it. Pseudocommunity is agreeable and polite and gentle and stagnant — and ultimately fatal" (p. 180).
Reconciling. Reconciling "requires the rebuilding of trust, and that means good faith on the part of both parties" (p. 158).
"[When] we decide to stop trying to get even….
A new way of seeing and feeling….[When] we discover the humanity of the one who hurt us….
[When] you find yourself wishing the other person well" (pp. 159, 160).
"There are few joys in life like being wanted, chosen, embraced. There are few pains like being excluded, rejected, left out. At the core of Christian community is a choice, in the words of Miroslav Volf's great book on the subject, between exclusion and embrace….It is part of our fallenness that makes us want to be in not just any group but an exclusive group….We exclude others because of pride or fear or ignorance or the desire to feel superior" (p. 186).
"The desire to make it into the Inner Ring is by its nature insatiable. You will never succeed. However, when it comes to the choice to include people, you can hardly fail. They may refuse you, of course. But the mere effort will expand your heart and bring joy to God" (p. 192).
"The ability to assign value is one of the rarest and most precious gifts in the world. People who live deeply in community learn to discern and express the value of other human beings. They are masters of expressing love in word and gesture. They assign high worth, value, and importance to others by viewing them as precious gifts…In a word, what they give is called honor" (p. 205). They are grateful for God and others.
"God is not a solitary being; rather, the divine being is a union of three persons bound together by the mutuality of love. In like fashion we affirm and celebrate that the human person is not a spiritual monad but a being designed to live in interdependence and communion with others. Adam was created in the image of God to be in communion with God, but Adam was not created a solitary or isolated being. Genesis 1 celebrates the deep goodness of the created order, as is evident from the recurring line 'and God saw that it was good.' But then we have one of the most extraordinary declarations in all of Scripture when God says of Adam that it is not good for him to be alone" (pp. 128, 129).
"The biblical vision is for the individual to thrive in community and in mutual interdependence….The deep challenge we all face…is that our hearts are bent on independence, self-sufficiency and autonomy. No one is naturally loving" (pp. 130, 132).
"Humility is the antithesis of self-dependence" (p. 134).
"Listening is the fundamental means by which we honor [each other] and fulfill the call to honor others above ourselves" (p. 139).
"If we are marked by sincere or genuine love it is evident in this: that we listen more and talk less" (p. 140).
"Hospitality also means that we do not impose ourselves upon [others] — we give them their space" (p. 140).
"[We] cannot love until and unless we graciously come to terms with the imperfections and failures of others….This will include at the very least that we are patient with others, that we bear with and forgive each other" (p. 141).
"Patience is closely linked to hospitality, only now our hospitality is that of those who accept rather than demand, whose hope and aspiration for the other are not oppressive but grace-filled. We let God do God's work in the life of the other in God's time" (p. 141).
"Forbearance is the twin sister of patience….This mark of compassion and generosity signals not tolerance of evil or wrongdoing but the reality that all of us are on the road to transformation…" (p. 142).
"To forgive means we let it go; we no longer hold it again [each other]. We bless [each other] rather curse the one who has wronged us" (p. 142).
"[The] flipside of the call to patience, forbearance and forgiveness: the proactive resolution of wrongs" (p. 143).
"Specifically, to serve the other is to respond to genuine, concrete need" (p. 144).
"First, it is important to stress that our generosity is always a generosity 'in Christ'….
Second, 'in Christ' also means that our acts are never to our own merit or honor; we can and must learn how to serve quietly without seeking recognition or thanks for the simple reason that we do it in Christ and for Christ….
Third, to love is to actively seek the welfare of [each other]. We are called to love; therefore our way of being in the world is always one of attentiveness for the well-being of all. And thus there is a close affinity between love and justice….
Fourth, one of the most powerful forms of service is intercessory prayer. We serve one another by praying for one another. It is done quietly and without fanfare; it is offered in secret as an act of service…" (pp. 145, 146).
We have a need to connect.
"The yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved, is the fiercest longing of the soul. Our need for community with people and the God who made us is to the human spirit what food and air and water are to the human body" (p. 18).
"Neil Plantinga notes that the Hebrew prophets had a word for just this kind of connectedness of all things: shalom — 'the webbing together of God, humans, and all creation in justice, fulfillment, and delight'" (p. 19).
"Community is the place God meets us" (p. 21).
"Community is rooted in the being of God" (p. 34).
"The Trinity exists as a kind of eternal dance of joyful love among Father, Son, and Spirit" (p. 35).
"In the Bible, a person's name generally stands for his or her character and identity. To gather in Jesus' name means tro relate to other people with the same spirit of servanthood, submission, and delight that characterizes Jesus in the Trinity" (p. 40). What does that mean?
Think abouwt the paralyzed man and the friends that brought him (dropped him through the roof) to Jesus (Mark 2:1-12).
"Here is the truth about us: Everybody has a mat. Let the mat stand as a picture for human brokenness and imperfection. It is not what is 'not normal' about me. It is the little 'as is' tag that I most desire to hide. But it is only when we allow others to see our mat, when we give and receive help with each other, that healing becomes possible" (p. 47).
"Humility and trust are more at the foundation of community than penrfection. If you want a deep friendship, you can't always be the strong one. You will always have to let somebody else carry your mat" (p. 48).
Family: "A group which possesses and implements an irrational commitment to the well-being of others…noticing and doing (p. 52).
Friend: "When someone is your friend, your greatest desire for them — deeper than external well-being or even physical health — is that things are right between them and God" (p. 56).
"Count on it: In community with Jesus and with those who love you, most of what happened to this man will happen with you: Sin will get named and dealt with. And although this sounds frightening, it may be the best gift of all" (p. 57).
"The truth is, the more spiritually mature you grow, the more you will find your heart being drawn to people. You want to reach out to people, especially those neglected by society or far from God….People who don't love people can't love God" (p. 59).
"This is vocational holiness — that on any given day or week or chapter of our lives, we are able to say, 'I glorified God and completed the work that he gave me to do.' To be able to say that for this day I have completed work God assigned to me" (p. 90).
First, the language of vocation suggests that we live in response to a call….
Second, the language of vocation assumes that more is not necessarily better" (p. 90).
The work of God in the world as Creator and Redeemer….
Ourselves as agents who respond to the invitation….
Our world — the actual situation of our lives, the arena into which God calls us…" (pp. 91, 92).
"Our work is a participation in the work of God" (p. 92).
"First, our work is a participation in the work of God….We create; we heal. In both cases, we are co-workers with God….
Second, when we speak of the work of God and thus our work, the sequence of creation and redemption are important….When we use the phrase 'good work' we must begin with creation: what did God intend when we were invited to be co-workers with the Creator?" (p. 93).
"Vocation is discerned at the intersection of three realities.
The first…is the vision of work in the Scriptures, specifically the work of God and his invitation to us to participate in that work.
The second expression of self-knowledge is a gracious acceptance of one's strengths and limits….
Perhaps what we should stress is that we need to identify and cultivate those strengths and capacities that open up the possibilities of fulfilling our deep passions. These are the strengths that matter…..
Limits are not a problem; they are an opportunity for us to focus, to truly embrace our calling. Furthermore, our limits bring us to interdependence with the strengths of others, allowing the synergy of our strengths to produce an outcome that is beyond — perhaps way beyond –both of our individual capacities….
The third critical reference in discerning vocation is found in careful attention to our circumstances. We are providentially located in time and space, thus 'vocation' is never just about us and God, about God's mission in the world and our identity in response to that mission. It is also about the social circumstances and historical 'accidents' in which we have been placed….(pp. 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104).
"Vocation flows from union with Christ; it is an integral dimension of living in Christ, abiding in Christ and identifying with Christ. And our only hope for navigating the complex world of vocation, work, and career is to have a prior commitment to and practice of dynamic communion with Christ" (p. 122).
"We are striving and running toward a goal — the telos of our Christian journey toward mature discipleship and transformation into sonship" (p. 44).
"We are freed from sin, but to what end? Clearly, it is to enter into the power and presence of God" (p. 45).
"In other words, our transformation is both an external transaction, by Christ and for us, and also a participation in the life of Christ Jesus through him as pioneer and perfecter of our faith" (p. 45).
"And that is our goal: union with Christ. Our righteousness is not self-produced but arises from our union with Christ, and thus our only hope is to be participants in or partakers of the life of Christ" (p. 50).
"What we are after here is a theology of Christian maturity — or, it could be phrased, a theology of Christian character" (p. 50).
"Maturity in the Christian life is maturity in faith. Nothing so marks faith as this: that a person recognizes and lives in the reality that there is another order of life beyond what we engage with our five senses" (p. 53).
"And so evangelism is about fostering and cultivating the opportunities for a person to meet Jesus: to meet Christ Jesus in real time. In the end it is all about Jesus. It is not about persuading [someone] of certain truths or laws, or even about believing that Jesus has done something — that if the "believe" it will lead to their "salvation." It is rather about meeting Christ Jesus in person and in real time (p. 57).
"[Attack and Withdraw] express the only two ways that many…people…see for dealing with each other….At root they are the two expressions of the one great sin, which is a lack of love, the violation of the one great commandment" (pp. 23, 24).
"Our task is to create little islands of shalom in a sea of isolation" (p. 25).
"In the Bible, a person's name generally stands for his or her character and identity. To gather in Jesus' name means to relate to other people with the same spirit of servanthood, submission, and delight that characterizes Jesus in the Trinity" (p. 40).
How do we be in the Trinity at Trinity? How do we "meet Christ Jesus in person and in real time?" How do we "create little islands of shalom in a sea of isolation" and "engage in "fostering and cultivating the opportunities for a person to meet Jesus" to invite more to "gather in Jesus' name?" How do we become a "holy people?" What does doing business have to do with that?
Research from Gallup indicates that people who work according to their strengths are 6.0x more likely to be engaged in a career; and people engaged in a career are 4.6x more likely to experience well-being.
Why Does Being Engaged In A Career Lead To Well-Being?
God created us to work and manage his creation. Humans flourish when they have the opportunity to be engaged at work. They are engaged at work when they are empowered to discern, develop, and deploy their gifts and callings.
Our big "C" calling is be holy. A contributor to becoming holy is using our gifts in ways that glorify God. A lot can be said here. But simply stated, we glorify God when we use our talents (Matthew 15:14-30) and walk humbly, love mercy, and seek justice (Micah 6:8). Our little "c" calling is to do that.
What Leads To Being Engaged In A Career?
In short, God created us to help others discern, develop, and deploy our gifts and calling.
We believe organizations have a responsibility to create those experiences. This is what we seek to do at Trinity.
How Do We Educate Students To Succeed?
Critical thinking is the skill needed for all aspects of life. As M. Scott Peck says, "Life is a series of problems." Best to be able to solve them.
Personal Leadership means being able to manage oneself. Peter Drucker famously wrote: "Now most of us, even those of us with modest endowments, will have to learn to manage ourselves. We will have to learn to develop ourselves. We will have to place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution" (Drucker, HBR Leadership Fundamentals, p. 7).
Managing ourselves is a primal skill because at our core we default to being emotional, rationalizing beings. Today we refer to the skills that manage our primal instincts as emotional intelligence: "The key…to making primal leadership work to everyone's advantage lies in the leadership competencies of emotional intelligence [EI]: how leaders handle themselves and their relationships" (Goleman, Primal Leadership, p. 6).
For example, if you tracked high IQ people over time, who would rise to the top of organizations and stay there? You guessed it: emotionally intelligent people.
Like Critical Thinking and Personal Leadership Development, Vocational Discernment is a necessary skill for success. Vocational Discernment, however, not only defines success differently, it empowers the development of Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence skills — more than any extrinsic motivator ever could. And it is not a gift to be achieved, but received.
Note Vocational Discernment is different that Career Discernment. Although they could be the same, they don't usually entirely overlap. One might say that one's Vocation transcends and transforms one's career, much like one's eulogy virtues might transcend and transform one's resume virtues (David Brooks).
Some people find success by learning the rules of the game and using them to get ahead. Others break all the rules, or at least some of them. "I believe that God doesn't want us to be satisfied with just the status quo. I think in a sense everyone is called to be an entrepreneur in a way. We are all called by God to approach life as an opportunity to use our skills that God has given us to better the world for the glory of God" (Jordan Rose).
Another work for calling is vocation: "True vocation joins self and service, as Frederick Buechner asserts when he defines vocation as 'the place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need'" (Parker Palmer).
Interestingly, David Brooks tells us that we don't find out calling, it finds us. That may be true. As Parker Palmer writes, "Today I understand vocation quite differently — not as a goal to be achieved but as a gift to be received" (Parker Palmer).
In other words, it is a gift to be called to make the world a better place doing that which combines one's deep gladness and the world's deep need. The concept that pulls those concepts together, believe it or not, is Holiness. Can striving for holiness lead to joy?
We are called to holiness (big "C" calling). In other words, God intends for us to be perfect. But perfection is not something we can obtain this side of heaven. However, in accepting it and then seeking it we can experience wisdom and joy! Joy and wisdom come from radical dependence on God and interdependence on others. Sounds crazy!
We can strive toward holiness, believe it or not, by accepting we have a calling and seeking to discern, develop, and deploy it (little "c" calling). Doing so is incredibly empowering and motivates us to become even better at critical thinking and personal leadership. There is nothing more energizing than doing that which brings us fulfillment and joy.
Discerning can occur when we listen to what God speaks in our lives and in our hearts — our holy discontent.
Development can occur when our Adam II transcends Adam I (when our eulogy virtues begin transcending our resume virtues), and our "fundamental" state of leadership transcends our "normal one" such that it reflects the fruits of the Spirit. It is no long conforming to the pattern of the world (Romans 12:1,2).
Deployment can occur when we actively pursue God and his will in our work. This is also the source of wisdom, which is both understanding and practice, "for we do not understand until and unless we live this understanding" (Gordon Smith).
Therefore, if we wish to set students up for success, we need to enhance their critical thinking and personal leadership skills. But most of all, we need to help them accept and discern, develop, and deploy their gifts and calling. How do we do that? In the classroom but also outside of the classroom via experiential learning and mentoring.
Which learning opportunities bring us joy? Why? Which meet the the world's deep needs? How?
Sometimes we forget to ask the big questions.
"Jesus assures his followers that in him they will find life abundant, surely echoing this wonderful line from Psalm 1 that they will be like trees planted by streams of water. What are the contours and what is the character of this abundant life? What is the good life for which we were created and to which we were called? What are the indicators of a life well lived? To what end were we created? And thus, to what end have we been saved? (p. 14).
"[An] articulation of the call to spiritual maturity can and ideally should be inherent in each dimension of the church's life and ministry…" (p. 17).
"The Old Testament is essentially the account of a God who forms for himself a people who are specifically called to be holy" (p. 17).
"Jesus uses language that makes some readers uncomfortable; he speaks of perfection (p. 18).
"When we view the human vocation and sanctification from the vantage point of creation, we see the human vocation as fulfillment of creation. To be complete in Christ, to be 'perfect,' is quite simply to be what one was created to be" (p. 19).
"The biblical vision is a life lived in radical dependence on God and in deep mutual interdependence with others" (p. 25).
"Our theology of the Christian life must take account of how suffering…a means by which God forms and purifies us" (p. 31).
"A holy person is a wise person. A holy person does good work. A holy person lives in a manner consistent with how God has loved us. A holy person is a happy person" (p. 36).
"[The] Christian life is defined as knowing or gaining Christ, and this 'knowledge' is not a reference to intellectual understanding but to an experiential encounter with Christ. Paul used the language of to know in the same way it is used to refer to intimacy in marriage — we know Christ intimately" (p. 42).
"[Our] transformation is both an external transaction, by Christ and for us, and also a participation in the life of Christ Jesus…" (p. 45).
"And so evangelism is about fostering and cultivating the opportunities for a person to meet Jesus: to meet Christ Jesus in real time. in the end it is all about Jesus. It is not persuading [others] of certain truths or laws, or even about believif ng that Jesus has done something — that if they 'believe' it will lead to their 'salvation." It is rather about meeting Christ Jesus in person and in real time. Thus the church is nothing other than the place where there is a 'Christological concentration:' people who in worship and mission are about Jesus. That is their passion and focus and commitment. And as you join them in worship and in mission, in time you too will come to know this living Christ" (p. 57).
Why are we here? What is the meaning of life?
"[The] crux of the matter, the heart of the issue, is that Christian institutions — colleges and universities of higher learning — have the potential to offer transformative learning" (p. 219).
"The greatest value that higher education offers the world — whether for the marketplace or the church — is wise men and women of mature character who are capable of providing vibrant moral leadership" (p. 220).
"I propose that we can say to a prospective student, this is what we hope for you and long for you and offer to you. This is what we are about. This is what it means to be part of this academic community, this university, this seminary.
You will grow in wisdom and in your capacity for wisdom.
You will mature in your vocational identity and calling, and you will receive the inner tools and resources for a lifetime of vocational discernment.
We will grow together in love and in our capacity for love, even as we are loved.
You will become a happier person: you will know the joy of God, but more, you will grow in your capacity for joy" (p. 222).


Keskin, foreground, and, from left, Freeman, Sox and Capar indicate both UA and the company benefited from the collaboration (Zach Riggins).
A group of University of Alabama business researchers teamed with a heavy duty truck and trailer supplier to solve a product distribution challenge and achieve cost-savings for the company.
Drs. Chuck Sox and Burcu Keskin, business analytic experts in UA's Culverhouse College of Commerce, along with two doctoral business students, Ibrahim Capar and Nickolas Freeman, used their talents to help Webb Wheel in Cullman keep the wheels turning and the trucks rolling.
The company manufactures aftermarket brake drums, hubs, spoke wheels and rotors for heavy-duty trucks and trailers. The problem facing the company: combining daily orders, separating the orders into truck loads, less-than truckloads and containers, then determining the best routes to get those orders to their customers in a timely, cost-efficient manner.
"Webb Wheel is always looking for ways to improve our products and processes," says John Walker, vice president of operations.
With two plants – one in Alabama and one in Arkansas – Webb Wheel serves a customer base spanning nationwide with more than 4,600 ship-to locations. It doesn't own a truck fleet, so it relies on contract carriers for product distribution.
Tracking daily orders and trying to determine the optimum times to ship full loads cost the company money and time. Webb Wheel knew there had to be a better way.
With no off-the shelf software available to assist, the company turned to UA's Culverhouse College of Commerce to reduce costs and improve product distribution efficiency.
Krassick contacted the research professors who specialize in data analytics and supply chain optimization, and it became a project that merged the theory of academia with real world operations.
"The problem is unique in that nobody has ever developed a solution," Sox says. "We could not find anything in previous academic literature relating to this issue.
UA researchers collaborated with Webb Wheel to solve a challenge related to the distribution of the company's brake drums and other products (Illustration by Julia Ludlam).
The solution produced by the faculty and student team was to develop an efficient loading and routing optimization model that links production output with shipment quantities to delivery locations via the optimal selected transportation mode. Then, they created a software program that includes a mapping feature that assists with optimizing routes and loads.
Off-the-shelf software and third-party logistics companies Webb previously interviewed looked only at orders and routed them without verifying inventory, says Krassick.
Keskin says the issues facing Webb Wheel excited the Culverhouse team because the problem was complicated with all of the realistic challenges, uncertainty of future orders, inventory rules, drops and transportation and weight restrictions.
Keskin says the project, which achieved a cost-savings for the company, was both "humbling" and "exciting" (Zach Riggins).
Just when the team thought it had a solution to optimizing Webb Wheels' outbound supply chain, another roadblock appeared.
"We are still benefiting from this experience, and we get to contribute to the new academic literature," says Capar, the other doctoral student involved. "That's exciting. In the process, we learned a lot as a whole team.
Since implementing the load-planning and routing software, Webb Wheel has achieved cost savings. Company representatives say they foresee working with the University in the future to further develop and improve upon the software.
"I believe the highlight of the project was to actually be able to go in and see the real benefits experienced by a company," Freeman says. "That is always something that gives you a sense of accomplishment.
UA's department of information systems, statistics and management science has collaborated with businesses and state agencies on multiple projects over the years, and Sox says he expects more opportunities.
Dr. Sox is a professor and head of the department of information systems, statistics and management science, and Dr. Keskin is an associate professor in the department.


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El Manifiesto de Lausana fue un manifiesto hecho público por don Juan de Borbón el 19 de marzo de 1945 en Lausana, donde residía, en el que el pretendiente al trono de España rompió con la Dictadura del general Franco, cuyo régimen calificaba como «inspirado desde el principio en los sistemas totalitarios de las potencias del Eje», cuya derrota final se produciría mes y medio después. Don Juan le pedía al dictador Franco que abandonara el poder y diera paso libre a la restauración de la monarquía en su persona, como hijo y heredero legítimo del rey Alfonso XIII, fallecido en febrero de 1941.

Antecedentes

Tras el fracaso de las conversaciones entre los generales monárquicos y la Alianza Nacional de Fuerzas Democráticas (AFND), don Juan de Borbón envió una carta confidencial a sus partidarios dentro de España pidiéndoles la opinión sobre si debía romper con el régimen franquista y publicar un manifiesto. El contenido de la carta llegó a conocimiento del general Franco quien inmediatamente ordenó al embajador español en Suiza que se entrevistara con don Juan en Lausanne, donde residía. Tras la entrevista, que tuvo lugar el 18 de febrero de 1945, el embajador envió a Franco el siguiente telegrama:

Según un informe de la policía franquista que hizo llegar al general Franco, el 7 de marzo se habían reunido en la casa de Madrid del infante don Francisco de Borbón y de la Torre un grupo de destacados monárquicos, entre ellos los generales Kindelán y Espinosa de los Monteros, para redactar un documento en el que se exigía a Franco que proclamara a don Juan como rey.

Contenido

Tras casi un año sin haber hecho ninguna declaración, el 19 de marzo de 1945 don Juan de Borbón hizo público el Manifiesto de Lausana en el que manifestaba que «el régimen implantado por el general Franco, inspirado desde el principio en los sistemas totalitarios de las Potencias del Eje, tan contrario al carácter y tradición de nuestro pueblo, es fundamentalmente incompatible con las circunstancias presentes está creando en el mundo», es decir, con la victoria aliada, y «compromete también el porvenir de la Nación» . Por eso pedía a Franco que dejara paso a la «Monarquía tradicional» pues sólo ella «puede ser instrumento de paz y de concordia para reconciliar a los españoles». «Desde que asumí los deberes y derechos a la Corona de España, mostré mi disconformidad con la política exterior e interior seguida por el general Franco». Por eso «me resuelvo… a levantar mi voz y requerir solemnemente al general Franco para que, reconociendo el fracaso de su concepción totalitaria del Estado, abandone el poder y dé paso libre a la Restauración».

Según el manifiesto, las «tareas primordiales» de la «Monarquía tradicional» habrían de ser: «aprobación inmediata, por votación popular, de una Constitución política, reconocimiento de todos los derechos inherentes a la persona humana y garantía de las libertades políticas correspondientes; establecimiento de una Asamblea Legislativa elegida por la Nación; reconocimiento de la diversidad regional; amplia amnistía política; una más justa distribución de la riqueza y la supresión de injustos contrastes sociales...». Según el historiador franquista Luis Suárez Fernández lo que don Juan «prometía [era] el total desmantelamiento de la obra de Franco».

El documento fue redactado por Eugenio Vegas Latapié y Julio López Oliván.

Consecuencias

El manifiesto fue silenciado por la prensa y la radio españolas, aunque sí lo difundió la BBC. Se preparó una especie de gobierno de transición presidido por el general Kindelán, con el general Aranda como ministro de Defensa, el general Varela como ministro del Aire y el general Juan Bautista Sánchez González como ministro del Ejército.

El 25 de marzo don Juan pidió a sus partidarios que dimitieran de sus cargos, pero solo lo hicieron dos de ellos: el duque de Alba, que renunció a la embajada en Londres y comentó: Franco «no quiere sino sostenerse a perpetuidad; es infatuado y soberbio. Todo lo sabe y confía en el juego internacional temerariamente»; y el general Alfonso de Orleáns y Borbón, duque de Sevilla, que dimitió de su cargo de inspector de las fuerzas aéreas. «Quedaba, pues, claro que, por muy propicio que fuese el momento para tal paso, sólo un puñado de los que se decían monárquicos estaba dispuesto a arriesgar su futuro en el seno del régimen y a apoyar la restauración de la monarquía en contra de la voluntad del dictador. Por tanto, el pretendiente, habiendo observado el fracaso de su ataque frontal, se refugió otra vez en una postura discreta, esperando a que los acontecimientos provocasen el cambio que él deseaba».

La reacción del general Franco fue inmediata. Desterró al general de Orleáns a la finca que poseía en Cádiz y envió dos emisarios, los católicos Alberto Martín Artajo y Joaquín Ruiz Giménez, a que comunicaran a don Juan el total apoyo del Ejército, de la Iglesia, del partido único FET y de las JONS y de la mayoría de los monárquicos al régimen franquista. El 20 de marzo convocó el Consejo Superior del Ejército que estuvo reunido tres días y allí rechazó la petición de Kindelán de que se restaurara la monarquía —«Mientras yo viva nunca seré una reina madre», le dijo—. Según Paul Preston, «el calibre de falsedades que dijo en la reunión sugiere que su tendencia natural a razonamientos ilusorios se había agudizado por la desesperación». Llegó a decir que todos los países, incluidos Estados Unidos, pronto adoptarían los principios falangistas. «Sólo Kindelán desafió lo absurdo de algunas de estas afirmaciones, por lo que fue recompensado con una amable burla por parte de Franco. Sin embargo, muchos otros generales parecían satisfechos con lo que acababan de oír».

Referencias

Bibliografía

Véase también
Manifiesto de Ginebra
Manifiesto de Estoril

Enlaces externos

Casa de Borbón en España
Manifiestos políticos
Antifranquismo
Primer franquismo (1936-1959)


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35  public class TestPageFilter {
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42    @Test
43    public void testPageSize() throws Exception {
44      Filter f = new PageFilter(ROW_LIMIT);
45      pageSizeTests(f);
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