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State Department Seeks Diplomatic Security Special Agents (DSSA) — Job Closes Thursday, 12/15
December 9, 2016 By domani spero in Security, Staffing the FS, State Department Tags: Bureau of Diplomatic Security, DS Agents, Foreign Service Specialists, FS Recruitment, FSS, Job Openings, State/DS, State/HR
Posted: 6:02 pm PT
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The Department of State is developing a rank-order list of eligible hires for a number of Special Agent (SA) vacancies. The announcement does not indicate how many vacancies are open only that the specific number to be hired will be based on the needs of the Department and is subject to change.
Diplomatic Security Special Agents (SA) manage a range of security programs worldwide. SAs live and serve at U.S. diplomatic or consular posts abroad, as well as in the Washington, DC area or at field offices in such cities as Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, or San Francisco, according to the needs of the service. As members of a diplomatic team, Special Agents not only help to accomplish the mission of the Department of State, but also represent the United States to people of other nations. The Foreign Service is more than a job – it is a career.
Special Agents normally will be assigned to one of eight domestic Field Offices for their first three years of service (including training), or possibly to a smaller Resident Agent Office. There may, however, be occasions when new SAs will be assigned to other domestic units, support temporary duty assignments, or sent directly overseas. Needs of the service will have a significant bearing on DS SA assignments; sometimes require that domestic assignments be shortened for re-assignment to a Regional Security Office at an overseas post.
Announcement No: SA-2017-0001
Position Title: Diplomatic Security: Foreign Service Special Agent
Open Period: 12/08/2016 – 12/15/2016
Series/Grade: FP-1811-06
Salary: $43,226 – $58,092
Promotion Potential: MC
Position Information: Work Schedule is Full-time – Permanent after being tenured in the Foreign Service by a Foreign Service Tenure Board.
Supervisory Status: Yes
Duty Locations: MANY vacancies – Washington DC
DS Pre-employment PRT Standards
Special Agent Minimum Qualifications Checklist
DS PRT Self Certification Evaluation Form
DS PRT Guide
DS Oral Assessment Information Guide
Read more here: https://careers.state.gov/work/opportunities/vacancy-announcements/sa and here: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/458476800
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Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani Won't Be the Next Secretary of State
December 9, 2016 By domani spero in Politics, Secretary of State, Senators, State Department, Transition, Trump Tags: Donald Trump, Rand Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Trump Transition
On December 9, President-elect Donald Trump announced that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani removed his name from consideration for a position in the Trump Administration. Who's next?
Big blow to #RudyGiuliani who told me 2 nights ago when I interviewed him at Colombian Embassy how much he wanted #SecretaryOfState job pic.twitter.com/Z8sDYv13GA
— Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) December 9, 2016
Giuliani, upon learning he is out of the running for Secretary of State pic.twitter.com/wLWs0eyVvg
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) December 9, 2016
Rudy Giuliani takes his name out of the running. Does this mean a Secretary of State announcement soon? pic.twitter.com/HahXlXrcyP
— Matt McConico (@themcconicowire) December 9, 2016
Rudy Giuliani's bid to serve in Trump's cabinet is over. Now going after role of old man in "Up" https://t.co/mMFkb3hHqN via @nypost
— Kirsten Fleming (@KirFlem) December 9, 2016
Wonder if We Had Any Impact? "How Giuliani, Possible Cabinet Pick,Made Millions as Ex-Mayor"https://t.co/4sumyydOz7 https://t.co/R3JmplRcKc
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) December 9, 2016
Giuliani withdraws from State contention. Note to press: Not his biz ties but that Rand Paul had the 2 other votes needed to block him.
— Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter) December 9, 2016
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Peace Corps OIG: 53% of Rapes Perpetrated on Volunteers Not Reported, See Why
December 9, 2016 By domani spero in Diplomatic Security, Foreign Assistance, John F. Kerry, Leadership and Management, MEDical, Oversight, Realities of the FS, Regulations, Security, State Department, Trends Tags: Foreign Affairs Manual, Kate Puzey Peace Corps Volunteer Protection Act of 2011, Peace Corps, Peace Corps Volunteers, Peace Corps/OIG, rape, restricted reporting, sexual assault, Task Force, unrestricted reporting
Posted: 2:18 am ET
The Inspector General for the Peace Corps released its final evaluation report of the Peace Corps' Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Response Program. The report notes that there were 513 sexual assaults entered into the Peace Corps' Consolidated Incident Reporting System between September 3, 2013 and September 29, 2015.
In 2014, Volunteers reported 251 sexual assaults and there were 241 sexual assaults in 2015. The assaults in 2015 included 52 rapes, 35 aggravated sexual assaults, and 154 non-aggravated sexual assaults.
The main findings are:
The Peace Corps largely complied with the requirements in the Kate Puzey Act.
Compared to our SARRR evaluation in 2013, the Peace Corps markedly improved how it supported Volunteers who had reported a sexual assault. However we found individual cases where the Peace Corps did not meet its standard to respond effectively and compassionately to victims of sexual assault, including a few instances of victim blaming and improperly sharing confidential details with staff.
Some applicants were either not aware of the crime and risks previous Volunteers had faced in their country of service or they did not understand the information that was provided to them.
The SARRR program did not fully utilize some staff with SARRR expertise. The SARRR program would also benefit from a risk reduction strategy that tailors training to the country of service, addresses the risks of sexual harassment, and identifies factors that make sites unsafe.
Finally, the SARRR training's design and delivery may have detracted from Volunteer comprehension and learning.
The Kate Puzey Peace Corps Volunteer Protection Act of 2011 (the Kate Puzey Act) required the Peace Corps to undertake a number of reforms, including providing sexual assault risk reduction and response (SARRR) training for Volunteers, developing a comprehensive SARRR policy, and training overseas staff on that policy. The Act directed the Peace Corps OIG to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of the training and policy, and to review a statistically significant number of sexual assault cases.
Stats on Rapes and Sexual Assaults
Peace Corps Volunteers and trainees reported 251 sexual assaults in 2014 and 241 sexual assaults in 2015. The assaults in 2015 included 52 rapes, 35 aggravated sexual assaults, and 154 non-aggravated sexual assaults. Female Volunteers reported the majority of these sexual assaults (228 cases). Male Volunteers reported 13 sexual assaults including 1 rape, 6 aggravated sexual assaults, and 6 non-aggravated sexual assaults.
Starting in 2014, the Peace Corps began surveying Volunteers at the close of their service regarding crimes they had experienced and not reported to the agency. Survey results indicated that the proportion of Peace Corps victims who did not report one or more rapes or aggravated sexual assaults was similar to the proportion of Peace Corps victims who did not report other crimes: roughly 50 percent of crimes against Volunteers were not reported. This Peace Corps analysis indicated that 53 percent of rapes and 49 percent of aggravated sexual assaults were not reported. It also showed that 85 percent of surveyed respondents who experienced at least one non-aggravated sexual assault had not reported one or more of them to the Peace Corps.
Available Help and Agency Reporting
The evaluation found that the agency had provided contact information for: the Peace Corps Inspector General, a 24-hour sexual assault hotline for Volunteers, the Peace Corps Office of Victim Advocacy, and the Sexual Assault Response Liaison in the Volunteer's country of service as required by the Act.
The Kate Puzey Act required the Peace Corps to create a system "for restricted and unrestricted reporting of sexual assault." Volunteers may file either a "restricted" or a "standard" report, depending on which response services they would like the agency to provide. According to MS 243 Procedures, the restricted reporting option "allows Volunteers to request certain specific services without dissemination of personally identifying information about the Volunteer or the details of the sexual assault beyond those who are directly providing the services, and without automatically triggering an official investigative process." The agency treats all reports as restricted until the Volunteer decides to choose a standard report, and a Volunteer may elect to convert his or her restricted report to standard at any time.
Some Volunteers had not learned important information in the sexual assault risk reduction and response sessions, including the difference between restricted and standard reporting, the services available to a victim of a sexual assault, how to report a sexual assault incident, and the identity and role of Sexual Assault Response Liaisons at post. The training was insufficiently tailored to the country of service (as required by the Act), was not responsive to the needs of diverse Volunteers, and did not address the problem of sexual harassment. In addition, some staff delivered the training inconsistently due to poor training skills. Furthermore, the Peace Corps' approach to assessing the Volunteer training was incomplete and did not provide a useful measure of training effectiveness.
[T]he agency often accommodated Volunteers' requests to change sites for safety and security reasons, in some cases Volunteers were separated from the Peace Corps rather than relocated to another site. Volunteers we interviewed felt disenfranchised from the discussions regarding their safety and continued service.[…]We found that staff and Volunteers had a mistaken belief that they were limited to six or fewer counseling sessions after a sexual assault. As a result, some Peace Corps Medical Officers provided incorrect information about the availability of counseling. We concluded that some Volunteer sexual assault survivors could have been deterred from reporting their need for counseling.
Non-Reporting Analysis
The analysis summarized the primary reasons Volunteers had not reported their sexual assaults, which included: embarrassment, self-blame, not perceiving the sexual assault as a crime or serious event, and believing that there was nothing the Peace Corps could do about the assault. For non-aggravated sexual assaults—which were both the most frequently reported type of assault, as well as the most under reported—surveyed Volunteers had not reported them for three main reasons: they did not think the incidents were serious or threatening; they perceived the incident as commonplace in the environment where they served; and they did not believe there was anything the Peace Corps could do to address it.
Other reasons that surveyed Volunteers said they had not reported their sexual assaults included concerns about how Peace Corps staff might respond, such as blaming the victim for their assault, failing to respect the victim's privacy and confidentiality, or simply not responding to the victim in a timely and supportive manner. Volunteers also indicated in their survey responses that they had not reported a sexual assault because they anticipated adverse consequences, such as being required to change their site, sent home, or punished for having violated a Peace Corps policy. These concerns were significantly more pronounced for rape victims and aggravated sexual assault victims than for non-aggravated sexual assault victims.
Among surveyed Volunteers who had not reported their assaults to the Peace Corps because they were concerned about how staff would respond to them or the potential adverse consequences of reporting, a relatively high percentage had served at a small number of posts. Two of the 54 posts in the survey constituted almost 25 percent of the Volunteers who did not report their assaults because of these concerns. Nine posts represented nearly 50 percent of the Volunteers who had not reported an assault for similar reasons.
The PC/OIG review includes interviews with 127 staff, 72 Volunteers, visits to 6 countries, and review of 138 sexual assault cases. The report also includes 36 recommendations for the Peace Corps.
The report is a crucial reference as the State Department task force works on FAM guidance for sexual assault in the Foreign Service. NSVRC also notes that supporting survivors means assisting them with financial burdens as well as physical & emotional ones. Read here: http://buff.ly/2hkqeyh
Supporting survivors means assisting them with financial burdens as well as physical & emotional https://t.co/S9tbLdGGFr pic.twitter.com/U9ivgxtAI3
— NSVRC (@NSVRC) December 8, 2016
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A Holiday Wish to the Hundreds of DS Agents Without a "Handshake" This Bidding Season
December 9, 2016 By domani spero in Diplomatic Life, Diplomatic Security, Foreign Service, Functional Bureaus, Funnies, Leadership and Management, Org Life, Real Post of the Month, Realities of the FS, Spouses, Staffing the FS, State Department Tags: Bidding Blues, bidding season, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Burn Bag, DS spouse, FS Bidding, handshake, State/DS
This Burn Bag was sent to us "as a holiday wish to the hundreds of DS agents still without even an handshake this bidding season and to their families who are also waiting." As requested, we've considered the following and are publishing the entire post in the sender's hope that it might bring a little smile to those still waiting for their assignments. Well, a little smile and as Mr. Google says in his imperfect Italian, maybe "accendere un fuoco sotto il sedere di qualcuno" …
A Visit from the Saint "No Word Yet"
'Twas just days before Christmas and all through the house,
Frustration was building for the DS spouse.
Bids had been entered in FSBid with great care,
In the hopes that DS would do its fair share;
The DS spouse wonders just what is in store,
for their beloved agent – alone – in Lahore.
October 31st, it came and it went,
But for DS agents few handshakes were sent.
When asks the spouse, oh when will we know?
Will it be Paris, Bangui, or Toronto?
Maybe a Field Office, far from DC.
Or perhaps a year or two with MSD.
Spouses query one another with fear and despair,
It really seams as if DS Does.Not.Care.
On November 4 and December 1, jobs are assigned one-by-one.
In hushed voices agents questions those around,
To what office or mission will I be bound?
Will it be the same as my tandem spouse?
We did all the legwork for the six posts that work,
For a DS spouse needing political work.
My GSO wife or my Management hubby,
Would be extremely happy in Abu Dhabi!
To the top of the list, will my name they call?
Will we know where were going, long before fall?
Uncertainty swirls as the days tick by,
The DS spouse lets out a great cry!
How will we get the kids into school,
If we do not know we're going to Banjul?
Maybe its time to let this ship go.
Can't you jump ship to be a U.S. Marshall, too?
The uncertainty for the DS spouse is a constant refrain,
The long hours, TDYs and standing in the rain.
The worry at home when the dear agents abroad,
Protecting our missions, our livelihood, our jobs
But alas, we play this game each and every year,
Just waiting and waiting, and waiting to hear.
By the time all is set and the last chess move is made
Someone will have gone through many a tirade.
That job is gone, and that one, too, what is the DS agent to do?
A now post or the third PSP – isn't it time for something new?
The powers that be, simply do not see
Just what a drag this process can be.
The black hole of bidding in the hands of a few,
Determine the destiny with nary a clue,
Of what this does to house and home,
When the prices drags on they're drafting a tome.
Over half of the cohort still waiting to know,
Would there, could there be a miracle?
On Christmas eve with a visit from St. Nick,
Will they let us know they've gotten on the stick?
A Christmas dream or a Christmas wish,
Waiting for a handshake, oh the suspense!
The call hasn't come and the spouse is a fright,
As the DS agent again goes off in the night,
But I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight,
This systems gotta change, cause it just isn't right!
Former Ford CEO Alan Mulally For Secretary of State? Oh, Yes, Please! #dazzleandwow
December 9, 2016 By domani spero in Political Appointees, Secretary of State, State Department, Transition, Trump Tags: Alan Mulally, Boeing, Ford, Ford Motor Company, Next Secretary of State?
The search for the next secretary of state is now a 10-man race. We're left wondering if we're going to see candidates from each state of the union soon? Here are the ten candidates on the short long list:
Secretary of state candidates. #Hannity pic.twitter.com/3iGvfWTI2u
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 6, 2016
And then there's news that former Ford CEO Alan Mulally is also under consideration for this top job in the Trump Administration. We suspect that President-elect Trump will not pick a career diplomat for the top job at Foggy Bottom. Given all the names that we've heard so far, we think this one is actually quite exciting. There's a lot to like with this candidate, and without the baggage that shadows the rest of the other names under consideration.
BREAKING: Trump to interview former Ford CEO Alan Mulally for secretary of state https://t.co/8xWIm5K0A7
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) December 8, 2016
After Boeing, Ford and Google … secretary of state? Alan Mulally talks with Trump https://t.co/nOJ99tCMBK pic.twitter.com/9zBuwZBwzh
— GeekWire (@geekwire) December 9, 2016
Below is a clip of Alan Mulally, former president and chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Company, discussing the turnaround effort at Ford, which took the automaker from an annual loss of $17 billion in 2006 to its most profitable period in more than a decade. Under Mulally, Ford was the only major American car manufacturer to avoid a bailout fund provided by the government in 2009. His accomplishments at Ford are chronicled in the book, An American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce G. Hoffman, published in 2012. In the video below, Mulally explains that leadership means serving with courage, having a point of view about the future and to pursue it in the face of resistance and doubt, in service of something great. Towards the end of the video, he talks about being grilled by Congress after the auto bailout; he was a witness even if his company did not take money from the government. Via Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2011.
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my Big Idea? *John Adams Karaoke*. People sing opera everyday; kids do math only scholars once did.
Dreams. And nightmares. How complicated they are, so taken for granted by man and fay. Such a natural resource to mine.
London, 1887, June: Unemployed camps, the City barricaded, breakouts of bourgeois la-Grande-Peur. Asylum canaries send us word: Hurry.
The Glom? Parasites. Almost extinct. But the Nameless one gathered them, taught them to make hosts last, molded them to new purpose.
The Nameless one culled and cosseted. Glom learned the long feed — ate slow, bred slow, centuries concealed. Their food? Nightmares.
When Glom feed in full they breed in the brain till the driven host dies. Transparent newborn Glom slide to fresh minds, irresistable.
We thought the Glom destroyed, left corpses enough. But the Nameless one also shaped people. Broken, spelled, they nursed Glom safe.
The Glom-ridden breed and die, as foulness jumps as lice from host to host. Then, in concentrated quarters, a sign, mad-fever flare.
We take Glom no more for granted. Faery Council Arbitrators, the last branch among men, hunt the Glom, those infested. Cruel, we cure.
Arbs had the run of kingdoms, now we suffer to hunt in cities where Glom-ridden hide. Survivors' dreams tell the tale. If they live.
We land from wood-and-cloth balloon. Pain shoots to bone, through hearts, as iron surrounds, crushes. We go on; we have killing to do.
Our lady Arbitrator's potion quickly cures lost women in asylums, workhouses. "Sleep, sister," she murmurs. She liberates wards full.
I follow a night mob to a defaulted bank and quickly suss they're mad-but-well. But the manager, his eyes? Worth more attention.
The next day, the banker Toole has me to tea. Members of his board pour steaming cups onto their laps. "Cream?" Toole hisses. Glom.
The butler strangles me with chain, guards rank with vermin-breath wrap iron on my arms. I warn my team: They answer with screams.
Guards drag me down the hall, my mouth stuffed with rat. I feel a Glom's first hunger. With mercy I bite rat neck, spit it out.
My magic repels me away from the vault, but no hope: Guards wrap me in anchor-chain, till they mute it. They drag me to my tomb.
Held under chain quenched by Glom-infested blood, by spell unbreakable. My eyes bleed magic; grunting bankers lap up a solstice treat.
Toole's Glom makes him whimper, test chains in blistering hands. With a last plea for salvation, Toole dies as his brain succombs.
Taunting dreams, when Faery ruled: The gentleness of court; our revels; the long, pleasant detente with man. Moments, before madness.
What's madness? Merely the truth: The Glom's foul perch in man made commonplace. A world too poisoned for Faery to ever return.
As I and my kinsmen die, we know we're the last Arbs the Faery Council will send. Man alone with the Glom? May his God help him now.
With our last breath we curse foul Nameless, her Glom children: Nightmares, to her. May our revenge last long, be bitter, and choke.
Ah: To one Nameless, curses are as kisses, harmless. Arbitrators and Faery fall, unlike Glom, to iron and skepticism, so vulnerable.
The Age of Steel, Steam, Madness of crowds? The Age of Glom. Pogroms, arson? Riots, panic? My pets at work, by science undetectable.
I general a war that moves, as you say, asymmetrically. My Glom prove hungry and faithful, the Council too distant to kill or stop us.
But my Glom, the mad ones they ride? All nurtured one seed from parasite to host, from the age of legend till now: My story.
May I tell you a secret? My story is *not yet done*. It will be told tonight in houses, hotels, airports, dorms, where'er eyes droop.
I have been most patient. Tonight I'll claim my rewards. One's written under your eyelids. My Glom will fetch and bring home.


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Ben Stein's Confessions [re: Christmas]
In 2005, Ben Stein delivered this commentary about the observance of Christmas on CBS Sunday Morning, with Charles Osgood.
CHARLES OSGOOD: We all have our own thoughts about the holidays. Here's Ben Stein with his.
BEN STEIN: Here at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart. I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are.
(Footage of People magazine; Us magazine)
STEIN: I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I'm buying my dog biscuits. I still don't know. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores who they are. They don't know who Nick and Jessica are, either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they've broken up? Why are they so darned important?
(Footage of People magazine)
STEIN: I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I don't care at all about Tom Cruise's baby.
(Vintage footage of congressional hearing)
STEIN: Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I'm a subversive? Maybe. But I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is this what it means to be no longer young? Hmmm, not so bad.
Next confession: I am a Jew and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish, and it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautifully lit-up, bejeweled trees "Christmas trees."
(Footage of Christmas trees)
STEIN: I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are — Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they're slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. I shows that we're all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.
It doesn't bother me one bit that there's a manger scene on display at a key intersection at my beach house in Malibu.
(Footage of manger scene; menorah)
STEIN: If people want a creche, fine. The menorah a few hundred yards away is fine, too. I do not like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put it another way. Where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and aren't allowed to worship God as we understand him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we used to know went to. [Bold type added.]
There are several versions of this floating around the internet, but this is the correct original, according to the official CBS transcript, and verified by Snopes.com.
Anglican Fever: Youth Flock to New Denomination
Here's an encouraging video and story about young people being drawn to Anglicanism. Some of the news deals with nearby congregations in the upper Midwest.
Here are some of the points I took away from this brief video about what these young people are looking for in Church:
They love the emphasis on Scripture.
They love the Sacraments.
They love worship that is grounded in ancient tradition.
They love worship that is paticipatory and interactive.
They love being part of a movement that is globally connected.
They love church leaders taking a stand for the faith.
They respect the willingness of these congregations to walk away from property for their beliefs.
(In regard to the previous two points: The Episcopal Church's litigation strategy is creating martyrs.)
They recognize that the Anglican Church in North America is a movement that is growing (with a strategy to double to 2000 churches in five years).
They appreciate being part of a revitalized tradition, in contrast to the decay of many mainline churches.
Did I miss anything? What are your "take-aways?"
Global Schism: Is the Anglican Communion Rift the First Stage in a Wider Christian Split?
From 2007, but still very relevant:
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2007 for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.
Philip Jenkins, a Penn State University professor and one of the first scholars to call attention to the rising demographic power of Christians in the southern hemisphere, analyzed the ongoing schism in the worldwide Anglican church. While the dispute concerns attitudes toward homosexuality, Jenkins argues the core of the conflict lies in how biblical authority is defined. [Emphasis added.]
Will the current alliances between conservative Western and African leaders endure? Will African leaders begin to press an ultra-liberal economic agenda? Are other mainline denominations in the U.S. headed for similar splits? Jenkins answered these and others questions, while offering a fascinating glimpse into the life of African Christianity.
How to answer those questions? Here are my thoughts:
1. Will the current alliances between conservative Western and African leaders endure?
Given this week's developments in the Anglican Mission in the Americas, that is indeed a question. If Global South Anglicans were ever tempted to think of their western brothers and sisters as "Ugly Americans" this week's resignation of Chuck Murphy & Company from the Anglican Province of Rwanda and the events leading up to it cannot help but reinforce that impression. How will this eventually be resolved? And will this action by AMiA leaders cast a shadow on the Anglican Church in North America's relationship with the Global South? I pray not. But time will tell.
2. Will African leaders begin to press an ultra-liberal economic agenda?
No. Not in any way that will alienate them from their North American brothers and sisters. Still, North Americans need to try harder to understand the economic realities faced by those in the Global South and work constructively and cooperatively on solutions.
3. Are other mainline denominations in the U.S. headed for similar splits?
Yes. Presbyterians actually preceded Anglican splits with the formation of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Moves by the "mainline" Presbyterian Church in the USA to ordain non-celibate homosexual clergy will only expedite the exodus, assuming that there are actually any remaining conservatives in the PCUSA who have not already left. (And, yes, I know there are some--you don't need to write.)
Southern Baptists, the largest Protestant body in the US, have seen their liberals (yes, liberals--not moderates--look at what they actually believe on all the major issues) depart into the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has seen their conservative wing split after they followed Episcopalians and Presbyterians in ordaining gay clergy. The conservatives have now formed the North American Lutheran Church (NALC). The trend is sure to continue as other denominations face these issues.
But the critical question is the one in the title: "Is the Anglican Communion Rift the First Stage in a Wider Christian Split?"
In a nutshell, yes. Christianity is faced with a division of greater significance than the Protestant Reformation and even the Great Schism between East and West in 1054, as western, so-called "mainline" churches embrace secularist agendas and revisionist views of God, and reject biblical and historic Christian teaching on faith and morals.
There are those who will challenge me for saying this is of greater significance than the Protestant Reformation. I would say it is because they have not looked at what is really at stake. The Protestant Reformation was chiefly concerned with the nature of justification (sola gratia, sola fide) and the related issue of biblical and church authority (sola scriptura) although there were other issues as well. The division today is over the nature of God. You can follow in the direction of Sallie McFague (quoted approvingly by TEC presiding bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori, although she is far from alone among mainline leaders in embracing McFague's views) or you can hold that God has an objective identity that we know through revelation.
McFague's view is essentially this: God is a projection of our own needs, ideals, and imaginations, not a being with an absolute, objective identity that we can know. The classical Christian view is that God has an objective existence, that he has revealed himself to us in Scripture and in the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. I cite McFague, but she is only one example. The drift in academic theology from the objective to the subjective has taken place over more than sixty years. It includes Paul Tillich but goes back even farther, as theology moved from being a dogmatic discipline grounded in Scripture to a speculative discipline grounded in philosophy.
Then there is the division over the nature of the Bible. The revisionist view holds that the Bible is merely a record of human experiences of God. The Jews of the Old Testament had their guesses about God. The New Testament Christians had their guesses about God. And as these guesses worked themselves out in religious experience they became enshrined in a book. But, say those who hold this view, our contemporary guesses about God and our experiences are just as valuable as theirs, maybe even more so. This leads to the hubris that results in such statements as "The church wrote the Bible; the church can rewrite the Bible." For others it is not so much a matter of rewriting the Bible as interpreting it any way they please (they would say they are interpreting it in the light of "modern scholarship" or "contemporary experience") or ignoring it altogether.
What we are dealing with is a dichotomy as to whether Christianity is a speculative religion or a "revealed religion." In affirming revealed religion, I would point to two such unlikely allies as John Henry Newman and J. Gresham Machen. (Take time to follow the three links in this paragraph and to read both Newman's sermon and Machen's entire Christianity and Liberalism, and you'll be glad you did.)
The cry sola scriptura was once raised against a church hierarchy that twisted the interpretation of Scripture for its own ends. Today we must raise once again the cry sola scriptura against church hierarchies and liberal academia that have twisted Scripture to erect a god and a theological system that is of their own idolatrous imaginations instead of the God who was, and is, and evermore shall be, who has revealed himself in the Word of God written [Article XX] and the Word of God Incarnate, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
The Great Schism of 1054 was between two different expressions of Christianity, East and West. The Schism today is between two elements that, though they both use Christian terminology, are, in fact, two different religions.
This is a rift that has been growing for decades, perhaps for centuries, and that has resulted in two distinct (despite the attempts at camouflage) and incompatible worldviews. It is a rift that cannot be bridged because there is no middle ground. You have to choose.
I have made my choice. Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.
John Wesley's Church Planting Movement: Discipleship That Transformed a Nation and Changed the World
When John Wesley was born in 1703, four million out of Britain's five million people lived in absolute poverty—unless they found enough food for that day, they would begin to starve to death.
When John Wesley launched a Church Planting Movement in this context, he not only changed the eternal destinies of an estimated one million people who came to Christ through his ministry, he changed their economic status as well. Not only did the Methodists he led get saved, they got out of poverty and became a powerful influence in discipling their nation. Wilberforce and other "spiritual sons" of Wesley honored him as the "greatest man of his time."
The Methodists made such an impact on their nation that in 1962 historian Élie Halévy theorized that the Wesleyan revival created England's middle class and saved England from the kind of bloody revolution that crippled France. Other historians, building on his work, go further to suggest that God used Methodism to show all the oppressed peoples of the world that feeding their souls on the heavenly bread of the lordship of Christ is the path to providing the daily bread their bodies also need.
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In a city like Nashville it's pretty normal to collaborate with people you barely even know. It's not unusual to co-ordinate a session with someone you may have never met before or potentially may never meet again. Yet somehow you're expected to get to know each other in an incredibly intimate way and finish creating something from nothing within that 3-4 hour window that you have together. Naturally the best way to develop comfortability with anyone is through a good old fashioned chit chat and just spending some time getting to know each other. That works great for me because I really, really love the sound of my own voice! In fact the two things I adore most in life are talking and eating - I love them so much that I'm convinced the greatest songs I've ever written have always started out with a great conversation and a full belly.
That's exactly how my session began with Sean Swenson; an incredible pop-country songwriter who had only recently moved to Music City and someone who also happened to be one of the most chilled individuals I've ever met. He treated me to some biscuits and gravy in an old school dive diner; we discussed life and music for a while and then he took me to a writers room that he'd rented for the afternoon just off Music Row. One of the wonderful things about being a songwriter is that over time it teaches you to become ludicrously comfortable relatively quickly, sharing your innermost thoughts with people you've only just met. Some people might see this as a bad thing, but personally I think there's no greater personality cocktail mix than to have two large shots of openness and honesty mixed with a fistful of empathy and a sweetener of compassion.
Throughout 2018 I felt like I was constantly in a state of mental warfare - struggling to comprehend my recently failed marriage, struggling to rediscover myself and who I now wanted to be, battling with the crippling fear of loneliness and how I was going to ever start making sense of how I really felt about anything or anyone again. I had met a girl a few months before and felt like our personalities had clicked almost immediately. I cared about her deeply as a person and always felt motivated being around her, ignited by her general drive and passion for life. Being fresh back into single life however, I quickly realized just how awful I was at reading the signs of mutual attraction, therefore finding one more thing to add to my already abundant worries. Should I tell this girl how I really felt about her and risk losing her friendship if she didn't feel the same way...?
A relatively simple outpouring of emotion, the chorus fell in place pretty quickly and before we knew it we were back in high school chemistry class. For a while we got fixated on trying to think of some chemical reaction buzz words that might perfectly describe that sense of personality fusion that happens when you connect with someone in really natural way. After spending some time getting the lyrics and melodic phrasing just right we realized that it would probably be worth our while to take some time over this and in hindsight I don't think we were wrong.
I remember feeling a certain tension throughout the session, as though the music was perfectly capturing the struggle I had been going through at the time. In my opinion however, the best written tension songs will always provide some form of resolve, restoring a little hope into a seemingly hopeless situation. When the bridge finally started to take shape I distinctly remember feeling that sense of relief that I needed in that moment; a rush of peace in the way the melodies and chords began to move at just the right time, putting me at ease and feeling like I had begun to remove some of the weight off my shoulders.
I find it pretty normal to fall head over heels in love with a song when I've just finished writing it, but there have only ever been a handful of songs that I've never lost that honeymoon feeling about. Closer has proven to be one of those songs and the only thing that I can attribute it to is the feeling that somehow we found the perfect balance of great melodies, great hooks, great vibes and great lyrics that captured the emotion of the moment whilst leaving nothing to the imagination.


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Former Bond 25 Director Thinks Robert Pattinson Should Be the Next 007
127 Hours and Trainspotting director Danny Boyle recently dropped out of helming the new James Bond movie with Daniel Craig leaving the job for True Detective season one and Beasts of No Nation director Cary Fukunaga to pick up. But even if Boyle is stepping out of the directing chair on this new Bond adventure, the man still has an idea of who he'd like to see step into the famous super agent's deathly shoes should the time come to replace Craig. And just like Matt Reeves and the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in The Batman, it looks like Boyle thinks Twilight star Robert Pattinson should snag the 007 name.
In an interview for his upcoming musical Yesterday, Boyle talked a bit about having just seen Claire Denis' sci-fi-horror movie High Life starring Robert Pattinson and said this.
"It was so bizarre because I was sitting there thinking: 'Oh my God, they should get him to be the next Bond.' He must be in his 30s. How old was [Sean] Connery? He's ready now."
Danny Boyle then goes on to speak a bit more about just why the hell he decided to step away from directing Bond 25, saying this:
"I was with [Trainspotting and The Beach collaborator John Hodge] and they didn't really like what we were doing and so it's far better to part company. What we were doing was good. But it was obviously not what they wanted. That's ultimately what you learn. But you've got to go into that stuff optimistically. It's like falling in love. You can't go in guarded and trying to protect yourself. You have to be open-hearted and prepared to be hurt – and so what if you get a bit of bruising? You get well-paid and well looked after. So at the end of the day, these are champagne problems."
So Boyle is out of James Bond 25, and Cary Fukunaga is in. But don't feel too bad for Boyle just yet as the 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire filmmaker has a new movie Yesterday all set to hit screens later this month. That movie features EastEnders star Himesh Patel as Jack Malik, a struggling singer-songwriter who, after a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, wakes up to find out that nobody else on Earth remembers The Beatles.
Danny Boyle directs Yesterday from a screenplay written by Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral screenwriter Richard Curtis based on a story by Curtis and The Fabulous Picture Show writer Jack Barth. On top of writing and directing this new flick, Boyle and Curtis also produced the film along with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Bernie Bellew, and Matthew James Wilkinson.
Related: Richard Madden as James Bond? Game of Thrones Star Responds to Rumors
Patel's co-stars include Lily James Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Kate McKinnon Office Christmas Party, The Spy Who Dumped Me, and some dude named Ed Sheeran as himself. Daniel Pemberton provides the movie with its score, while Christopher Ross handles cinematography, and Jon Harris edited it all together. Working Title Films and Decibel Films are the production companies behind the movie which Universal Pictures will release in theaters in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2019. This story first arrived at Deadline.
Topics: James Bond, James Bond 25
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Teddy Wares and Flutterbies: WOYWW - One Down, One to Go - Twice!
WOYWW - One Down, One to Go - Twice!
Then I used the sticky-back plastic to cover the shelves.
I'm now a happy flutterby, and looking forward to tackling this one's sister.
and I'm pleased to say it's growing more quickly than the first.
Whoops! Hope you didn't notice the clock in that pic, still waiting some more TLC! Maybe next week LOL! That's one of the prob's of having a flutterby nature.
Hope your week is going well, and I'll see you over at Julia's for a virtual cuppa. Don't know what I'm on about? Click on the WOYWW button on my side-bar to join in the fun and take a sneaky peek at crafting all over the world, today.
Hi there Chrysalis what a clever make over .. but must admit I adore your socks they are so colourful. Great Job!! happy WOYWW Shaz in Oz.x # no number yet.
Great job indeed, it looks so pretty! As for the clock.ah well, it's time will come. *cough* Love the colours you've got going for those socks...looks like we could all place orders!
I love how your bookcase turned out to be. The rose pattern on the shelves is beautiful! Very good job!
Love the new and improved bookshelf!
Hi Chris, thanks for the visit. Great job with the bookcases.
Hi Chris, Wow! I am impressed by what you did to that book case. Very nice. I also like 'the one you made earlier' wall unit. You are clever.
What's with the clock? Is that getting the beauty treatment too?
Thank you for letting me look over you shoulder.
I love this, Chris! I have got two small cabinets and a flat-pack Ikea box (had for years and it's still in its packaging lol!!) which I want to paint eventually. Just shows what can be done in a very simple way to give them a new lease of life. Your socks are great, too. Thanks for your lovely supportive comment on my blog. We are certainly enjoying our few days' break from Mum, and enjoying a holiday at home.
The shelves look great! And I so zoomed in on the wall china shelf. I, too, collect china! Your tea cups are beauties!
Glad the socks are coming along.
Thanks for dropping by earlier too.
Hi Chris, thank you for visiting my blog and leaving an encouraging comment! I thought I had left a comment here, but looks like I haven't! Your post is a good reminder for me that we crafty girls can try our hands at DIY home deco as well! In my house my hubby does all the DIY - he prides himself on being the DIY guru, but next time I'll ask him to give me a brush too!
Great to see the finished book case. And such vibrant socks!
Oh Chris, I LOVE how the bookshelf turned out! Sooo pretty!! And yay for your second sock being the same as the first! That's exciting!!
Thank you dear Chris for taking the time to write such a beautiful comment on my blog today. I am very happy to have found you here.
I wish you a beautiful autumn full of precious moments.
That bookcase looks so lovely now, Chris. Well done. Socks are looking good - soon have them finished!
Thanks for visiting - sorry I'm so late this week - life sort of intervened!
Brilliant new socks! Well done for having a go, but let me warn you, they're totally addictive!! I'm almost done with my 12th pair for the year and the next two pairs are already ready to go! I've even made a spreadsheet with socks I want to knit, when I think I can fit them in and which yarn (from my stash) I plan on using !! Welcome down the rabbit hole, lol! I plan to start this pair in October, it'll be the most complicated pair yet so I hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew!
Nice re-vamp on the bookcase. Never knew stick back came in that lovely rose image! Socks are looking good, such fun colours.


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Q: Can the dnx/dotnetcore package cache location be changed I have a machine where the C:\ drive is running out of space and I'd like to change the location where my DNX/DOTNET packages are installed to a location under my D:\ drive.
Is the package cache location configurable?
NOTE: I don't have the flexibility to change my profile location to a different drive.

A: Use the NUGET_PACKAGES environment variable and set it to a path you prefer.
Specifically, open up System Properties, create a user environment variables called NUGET_PACKAGES, and set it to a path of your choosing.

You will need to restart Visual Studio and any other programs for them to see the updated environment variable.
This works with Nuget 3.3 / .NET Core RC1.

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Pastor M.C. Bellamy is the founding and lead Pastor of the Refinery Church. In 2009 while pastoring a church in Chandler, AZ the Lord spoke to M.C. and Corinne about moving back to Yuma and planting their second church. Pastor M.C. has been in ministry for over 30 years and a lead Pastor since 2001.


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"We remained committed to staying independent because we want to lead the return of the small- and mid-size accounting firm and make sure small business doesn't get left behind and underserved in this wave of consolidation. To do that, we turned down overtures from larger firms and added Marshall Watry, CPA, and Kara Tess as principals to continue to fuel our growth."
What prompted your company's recent move and need for additional space?
"We have doubled our space twice now because of our client growth and the continued need to bring in new talent and the opportunity to add different lines of business like wealth management."
What has enabled your company to accelerate its growth since its launch in May 2012?
"We charge flat fees for our services, and we also do not charge businesses that are either buying or starting a business. This not only has led to very loyal clients who are advocates for us, but it has also raised our profile with other professionals, such as bankers and attorneys."
"We are hopeful that we'll be able to continue to add high-level, experienced professionals who will allow us to continue to grow. Our goal is to become the largest health care accounting and consulting firm in the state within five years."
"There's been a tremendous amount of consolidation in the accounting industry. As such, our biggest challenge will be to convince other professionals in our industry that there's a different way to do business and that our firm might be a great employment option for them. From the time an accounting student steps into college, they are told that they must work for a big firm or risk failure. Our overwhelming success in less than two years shows that that's not true."
Do you have a business mantra?
"Be responsive. If a client calls or emails, get back to them the same day."
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for all of our clients who have taken the risk to either start or buy a business. I am also grateful to Dwayne Johnson, who I worked for, because he showed me how, by focusing on a few niches, we could compete with larger firms. Additionally, I'm always striving to live up to the great and responsive customer service that Rick Shneyder of U.S. Bank provides."
"My brother Tony Bark, who owns Four Lite Window and Door, once said the key to sales is to 'talk to people like they're people.' It sounds simple, but the key thing in any interaction we have with a client is to simply be ourselves and sit back and listen to their needs. There's no need for a fake sales pitch."
"As a young staff accountant, the first audit I took part in was for a printer whose primary business was adult magazines. Needless to say, there were a few interesting listings on the inventory work paper."
"With three boys under age 5, there's not a ton of free time, but I love cycling and getting out to concerts."
Principal, Edge Advisors, LLC
6737 W. Washington St., West Allis
www.edgeadvise.com
Industry: Accounting/consulting
Family: Wife, Rebecca; sons, Johnny, 5, Joey, 3 and Josh, 7 months.
"We remained committed to staying independent because we want to lead the return of the small- and mid-size accounting firm and make sure small business doesn't get left behind and underserved in this wave of consolidation. To do that, we turned down overtures from larger firms and added Marshall Watry, CPA, and Kara Tess as principals to continue to fuel our growth."
What prompted your company's recent move and need for additional space?
"We have doubled our space twice now because of our client growth and the continued need to bring in new talent and the opportunity to add different lines of business like wealth management."
"We charge flat fees for our services, and we also do not charge businesses that are either buying or starting a business. This not only has led to very loyal clients who are advocates for us, but it has also raised our profile with other professionals, such as bankers and attorneys."
"We are hopeful that we'll be able to continue to add high-level, experienced professionals who will allow us to continue to grow. Our goal is to become the largest health care accounting and consulting firm in the state within five years."
What will be your company's main challenges in the next year?
"There's been a tremendous amount of consolidation in the accounting industry. As such, our biggest challenge will be to convince other professionals in our industry that there's a different way to do business and that our firm might be a great employment option for them. From the time an accounting student steps into college, they are told that they must work for a big firm or risk failure. Our overwhelming success in less than two years shows that that's not true."
"Be responsive. If a client calls or emails, get back to them the same day."
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for all of our clients who have taken the risk to either start or buy a business. I am also grateful to Dwayne Johnson, who I worked for, because he showed me how, by focusing on a few niches, we could compete with larger firms. Additionally, I'm always striving to live up to the great and responsive customer service that Rick Shneyder of U.S. Bank provides."
"My brother Tony Bark, who owns Four Lite Window and Door, once said the key to sales is to 'talk to people like they're people.' It sounds simple, but the key thing in any interaction we have with a client is to simply be ourselves and sit back and listen to their needs. There's no need for a fake sales pitch."
What's the funniest thing that ever happened to you in your career?
"As a young staff accountant, the first audit I took part in was for a printer whose primary business was adult magazines. Needless to say, there were a few interesting listings on the inventory work paper."
"With three boys under age 5, there's not a ton of free time, but I love cycling and getting out to concerts."


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Q: Como posso usar o comando fopen? Sempre que tento usar o comando fopen o Visual Studio me retorna um erro dizendo que tal comando é inseguro, e que devo usar o fopen_s, mas no caso não sei que rumo tomar com o fopen_s.

A: Segundo a documentação da função, o trecho de código usando fopen:
fp = fopen(filename, mode);

pode ser reescrito como
errno_t error_code = fopen_s(&fp, filename, mode);

em que error_code é igual a 0 se a operação for bem sucedida ou contém um código de erro se a operação falhar. Note que o primeiro argumento de fopen_s é FILE**, ou seja, um ponteiro para um ponteiro. Por isso é necessário passar o endereço de fp como &fp.
Com exceção do tratamento de possíveis erros que agora deve considerar o valor de error_code, o resto do código deve funcionar da mesma maneira que funcionaria se fosse usada a função fopen.
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Percebi que não respondi diretamente a sua pergunta. Se você realmente desejar usar fopen (por razões de portabilidade, por exemplo), defina a macro _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE antes de incluir stdio.h:
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New Law Protects Greyhounds In Iowa
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) is lauding Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad for enacting a law to protect greyhounds and restrict greyhound racing operations throughout the state. This new law will permanently end slot machine subsidies for greyhound racing in Iowa; end greyhound racing at Bluffs Run by the end of 2015; and reduce the live racing minimum requirement at Dubuque from 135 days to 60 days next year, and 95 days each year after that. Bluffs Run and Dubuque are the only two greyhound tracks that still operate in Iowa.
"For years we've witnessed the dangerous — and often deadly — effects that racing has on dogs. The severity of their injuries illustrates the inherent cruelty in this so-called sport," said Ann Church, vice president of state affairs for the ASPCA. "When combined with the steady financial decline of the racing industry nationwide, it's clear that this needs to end, so the ASPCA thanks Governor Branstad and state lawmakers for their support on this critical issue. We look forward to continuing to work with them to permanently end dog racing in Iowa."
In 2010, greyhound protection group GREY2K USA and the ASPCA released a report detailing the inhumane conditions and weak financial viability of greyhound racing in Iowa. The report documented more than 500 serious greyhound injuries at Iowa racetracks from 2006 through 2010, with nearly 100 of those injuries resulting in fatalities or requiring euthanasia. The report also noted that gambling on dog racing had declined by more than 95 percent at Iowa racetracks.
Breeders won two concessions under the new law, which will allow them to apply for licenses to conduct races at Dubuque and requires that Iowa casinos pay the greyhound industry $72 million. However, the breeders will be financially responsible for the operation of these tracks and will not receive any public subsidies.
With the recent enactment of a law to ban greyhound racing in Colorado, greyhound racing is now illegal in 39 states. It can only be found in seven states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Texas, and West Virginia. Dog racing is also still legal in Connecticut, Kansas, Oregon and Wisconsin, but no tracks currently operate in those states.


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First off, I just want to say thank you thank you thank you to all of the love!!! Can you believe Christmas is just around the corner and I know many of you are making candy, un/baking and hopefully having a nice time together in the kitchen. To make your holiday completely quilt-free but delicious, today I'm sharing some of my favorite recipes from the past year.
Try these delicious Christmas Dessert Recipes for favorites like cookies, cakes, "hot" chocolates and more. Delicious sweet treats for a holiday celebration, I'm sure your family will love it as much as mine did. Forget the presents, Christmas is all about making and baking! Can't wait for Christmas now ❄ ❄  Fa la la la la, la la la la!
Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without a homemade mince pie and be honest, nothing can't beats the taste of the real ingredients.
This is my raw, purely delicious "old – fashioned" fruity mince pie recipe and it tasted just as fabulous as it looked – yum!
A delightful mixture of dired apricots, almonds, coconut, sultanas and lime. Seriously, if you think these look good, they taste about a million times better. Made by using only natural ingredients and with no added sugar. So yum, quick, easy and the best thing is it's full of goodness! But most importantly – ready in just 15 minutes.
These gorgeous Pink Beetroot Snowballs are easy and perfect for Christmas dessert. You can never go wrong with beetroot. These balls turned out so perfect, incredibly tasty and nutritionally beneficial. Naturally-sweetened with dates and covered with a light snowfall of shredded coconut. You only need 5 simple ingredients ( shredded coconut, buckwheat, dates, beetroot and fresh vanilla) to make these cuties, so basically as good for you as it looks.
Raw Mini Cranberry Cake with goji berry, pomegranate, hibiscus, colored naturally with beet … and other nutritious ingredients.
Raw cakes are a great way to get more glowy food in your life, and this raw carrot cake is a Star! Carrot cake (I think it's one of those foods that people either love or love to hate) is a classic dessert, so why not make it raw? I decided to come up with a raw version. If you're fun of juicing, this raw carrot cake recipe is a great way to use up excess carrot pulp and turn it into a cake.
Here is my super delicious recipe for raw Carrot Cake, with pistachios, walnuts, cranberries and fresh coconut. Gluten free, dairy free, raw, vegan and wonderfully healthy!! Taste like the real thing!
Your taste buds will LOVE this. You will probably want to eat the all cake by yourself.
Deliciously scented lemons and poppy seed are a classic combination – Holy poppy seed cookies! The cookies themselves minus the pudding would be lovely on their own, but with the orange & persimmon pudding was pretty awesome and just one bite of this amazing dessert will tell you why. My favorite dessert ever? Maybe … Oh yes, definitely! These are dreamy, it's so moist and full of citrus flavor and it melts in your mouth. With every bite, it reminded me so much of my childhood memories especially reminds me baking with my Granny.
These beauties are a quick-serving version of my Persimmon pudding dessert.
Chocolate and orange are a match made in heaven. It tasted as good as any Orange Chocolate Mousse Cake and the fact that it was a healthy. The base is a light, crispy and sweet crust, topped with a layer of silky, rich chocolate mousse with a hint of orange flavor, topped with bright, creamy orange mousse layer and finished with an orange segments and marmalade. With this flavor combination, you can't really go wrong! This Orange Chocolate Mousse Cake is quite possibly my best yet and it tasted just as fabulous as it looked – yum! There is a zucchini and avocado in this decadent Cake. I mean, really. I actually made this cake when my brother and his girlfriend came to visit us last year.
Everyone who tasted this, though, was obsessed and no one has guessed the chocolate mousse it's made out of zucchini and avocado;). This cake have been quite a hit!
These elegant bonbons are quick&easy to make Christmas dessert also perfect for gifts.
The flavors are perfectly balanced. The combination of carrot, almond butter, hazel nut, dried cranberry and crispy apple … covered with a smooth white chocolate shell and sprinkled with hibiscus flower powder it's kind of perfect.
I simply love the color, the simplicity and the beauty of this tart. There's nothing quite like blood oranges to add a burst of sunshine to your plate.
This winter dessert featuring blood orange, goji berries, almonds, poppy seeds, coconut meat and coconut water.
Winter Smoothie – a nourishing and healthy persimmon and goji berry smoothie to keep your energy up! Not only do goji berries taste amazing, but the amount of health benefits attached to this super-fruit.
Here is a fun healthy eating snack idea that is packed with full of goodness! These balls are the super food of superfoods! This is definitely a recipe not to be missed!
Oh, how I love morning boosts! This thick and creamy cranberry smoothie bowl tastes decadent but is packed with nutrition. This healthy fruity smoothie bowl is great for breakfast, snack time, or even dessert.
Topped with banana, dragon fruit, cranberries and a little sprinkle of hemp hearts (aka raw shelled hemp seed).
Anyone can make cookies and everyone loves to eat cookies isn't it? So during this Christmas cookie season, I'm sharing my new recipe for Orange cardamom cookies with super yummy plum jam – raw and healthy.
Persimmon, orange and banana puree & Chocolate chia pudding with fresh persimmon, pomelo and hemp seeds for breakfast.
Add the chia seeds to a jar with a tight fitting lid, pour in your nut milk and sweetener. Close lid and then shake it well. Then shake again, and then again. If you don't shake it enough, the liquid won't incorporate and you'll end up with clumps that are not very nice. Place it in the fridge to set for at least 30 minutes or overnight for the best texture.
I was making a banana bread treat for you folks – you know, something cute and festive. But as it turned out super cute … my husband and I could't stop stuffing these in our faces. These little people are so much more than being cute, they are good – made with healthy ingredients, this recipe is also incredibly simple to make and it's a lot of fun to make with the kids too.
Thanks for checking out my big Christmas post! I had such fun putting today's recipes together and I hope you'll enjoy the recipes. I'm wishing you and your family a beautiful, blessed and healthy Holidays!
This year I've been very, very good! I have been a very good girl! I have tried to be good this year! Honestly, I really have been a good girl this year … as you know I was always very well behaved … okay, rather sometimes … That's OK?It might be … So I know you're really busy now, but all I want for Christmas are these sweet treats.!!


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Human Rights Claims – Public Children's law
Added in Public Law Children by Marie Crawford
Here are a couple of interesting recent examples of successful Human Rights Act claims against Local Authorities in respect of care cases:
BT & GT (Children: twins – adoption) [2018] EWFC 76
This is a High Court case in which Keehan J granted two applications for adoption in respect of twins who had been placed separately and criticising the 'utterly appalling' failings of the local authority, which had led to their separation.
Care and placement orders were made in 2015 in respect of twins born in 2010. The care plan stipulated a nine-month search for a joint adoptive placement and thereafter a three-month search for a joint long-term foster placement. There was no question of separating the twins. Nonetheless, the local authority took the decision to do so a little over a year after the final orders were made. There were no records relating to that decision and a sibling attachment assessment was only undertaken three months after the decision had been made. That assessment 'completely misrepresented' the court's care plan and was written with the plan for separation already determined; further, the judge found that the author of that report had deliberately misrepresented the opinion of an expert psychologist which ran contrary to the local authority's recommendation. The care plan itself appeared never to have been uploaded to the local authority's IT system.
In 2017 the twins were matched and placed with their separate prospective adopters. It later emerged that important and highly relevant information had been deleted from the children's Child Permanence Reports and Adoption Support Plans by the adoption team manager in order to mislead potential adopters as to the children's challenging behaviours. The local authority had further decided, without recording why or how, to curtail sibling contact such that the twins saw each other just twice in the space of 11 months.
In October 2017 the local authority decided to end one of the placements under s.35(2) ACA 2002 over purported concerns as to the care being provided; this decision was reversed a month later, with the local authority accepting it was 'entirely misconceived'. For the avoidance of doubt and any future obstacles, Keehan J, sitting as a judge of the Administrative Court, granted permission for and deemed an application for judicial review by the adopters, in which he quashed the decision to issue a s.35 (2) notice on the basis of irrationality.
The applications
Separate applications for adoption were made by the prospective adopters in late 2017 and early 2018. HHJ Plunkett noticed the sibling connection and allocated both to Keehan J. All parties now agreed that the children should be adopted in the current, separate placements. Keehan J had hoped either to reunite the children or to make an order short of adoption, which would not sever their legal relationship as siblings.
The Anna Freud Centre was instructed and recommended that the twins remain separated, in their current placements, but continue to have a relationship; an adoption order was preferred to an SGO, on balance, due to the children's likely on-going vulnerability beyond their minority. The judge was persuaded, in particular by the evidence of the Centre, to make the orders sought. However, he was clear that but for the failings of the local authority there was a real possibility the children could have been placed together. An order for sibling contact was not made, as the judge was confident that the adopters would facilitate this 'imperative' contact.
Breaches of human rights
The children and prospective adopters made further applications, outwith these proceedings, for declarations and damages under the HRA 1998. In light of the history above, the local authority admitted 'extensive and grave breaches' which 'relate to the whole operation of children's services in Herefordshire' and which were 'both systematic and the fault of individual social workers'. Damages were settled in the sum of £5,000 for the prospective adopters and £20,000 for each child.
The four annexes to the judgment set out the admitted HRA breaches alongside other admitted failings and planned improvements prepared by the new management at Children's Services. Keehan J was reassured by the 'root and branch' reform now being undertaken at Herefordshire.
A & B (care orders and placement orders – failures) [2018] EWFC 72
This is another High Court case in which Keehan J was highly critical of the Local Authority.
The case concerned two young women A and B. A and B were made the subject of care orders and placement orders on 2nd May 2008 in favour of Herefordshire Council. Neither was ever placed for adoption. A's care order and placement order ceased to have effect when she attained majority on 1st September 2017. The local authority made an application to revoke the placement order in respect of B on 26th April 2018. The Court revoked the placement order at a hearing before on 11th October 2018. B attained her majority the following day.
The Judge found 'that the care of and care planning for both these young people by Herefordshire Council has, over the last ten years or so, been woeful'.
The Parents of both of the young people had played no substantial part in their children's lives for many years save for occasional contact, nor did they take any role in the High Court proceedings.
At the hearing on 11th October 2018 the local authority conceded that the serial failures in the care provided, or not provided, to either A or B amounted to breaches of their respective Article 8 rights. Keehan J urged the local authority to reach an agreement with both young people in short order in respect of:
i) the acknowledged breaches of their Article 8 rights; andii) the quantum of damages which should be paid in settlement of their Human Rights Act claims.
The Judge made the final conclusions:
'52. This local authority, as it has accepted, failed both young people in the errors made by its social workers and their managers over a very prolonged period of time.
53. The IROs failed them on a serious and serial basis.
54. I entirely accept and acknowledge that in these straitened financial times all local authorities are stretched. Furthermore I recognise that this local authority, like very many around the country, have difficulties recruiting and retaining social workers. As a consequence many social workers have to carry very heavy caseloads, may not have sufficient experience to deal with the more complex cases and/or have limited time to work on a particular case.
55. These difficulties, however, do not begin to explain the wholesale failure of this local authority, in its role as a corporate parent to plan adequately or appropriately for the care of these children. I simply do not know or do not understand why the care plan was changed from adoption to long term fostering in 2009. The explanation given in B's 2018 Care Plan is plainly false or, at best, inaccurate.
56. This means that neither A nor B can now be given a clear and cogent explanation of why they suffered such instability when in the care of this local authority. I find this to be profoundly regrettable.
57. The fact that the local authorities are under financial pressures, and they're too few social workers that carry too many cases, increases the importance of the role performed by the IROs. When it is known deadlines may be missed, visits not undertaken, assessments not completed or other actions in furtherance of a child's care plan not addressed, the IROs must take active steps to ensure a child's welfare and future care is not disadvantaged by these omissions.
58. Whatever opposition or obstruction the IRO or Head of Service faced from a local authority, the IROs and their managers must remember that their first and foremost duty is to the children and young people that they serve. If this is ignored or obstructed, it is only the children or young people, who are our future, who will be harmed.
59. The clear message must go out that IROs serve a vital and essential function to ensure that a child's or a young person's interests are met post the making of a care order or other orders. If those functions and roles are not exercised in a clear, robust and untrammelled fashion, the children or young people will suffer.
60. For clear and obvious reasons, I conclude these proceedings by affirming the revocation of the placement order in respect of B as I made on 11th October 2018.
61. The local authority have rightly agreed to pay A and B's costs of these proceedings.
62. My findings in this case merit my judgment being sent to the Secretary of State of Education, the Senior Social Worker, Ofsted and the Chief Executive of Herefordshire Council'.
These 2 cases are therefore good examples of the types of poor care planning (one where siblings were separated and one where the Care Plan for adoption was never implemented, so the children remained in 'limbo') which will be considered breaches of the Human Rights Act 1998.
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Network nodes in cryptocurrency
In this guide we discuss network nodes, masternodes and lightning nodes. Before we begin we first need to understand what a blockchain network is. Fundamentally it is a technology that enables us to store and transfer information securely with the data integrity intact. Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT) – as the name implies it must be conducted on a distributed basis across the world.
But how is this distribution achieved? Through network nodes.
What is a network node?
You can think of a node (or rather set of nodes) as the foundation of a blockchain. If an electronic device has a working internet connection and by default an Internet Protocol (IP) address – it can be used as a node. The primary function of a node is to retain a copy of the blockchain. Sometimes a node can also be used to process a transaction. It is important that each node retains a copy of the blockchain since this defines the blockchain as both distributed and decentralised.
Nodes help ensure that the integrity of the information is not altered. If someone trys to retroactively tamper with the blockchain it would only appear changed on that node. The remaining nodes will display the 'true' copy of the blockchain. This helps categorise the network as decentralised since no central authority can have full control over the information being stored on a blockchain.
Below is a visual representation of all live Bitcoin nodes taken at the time of writing. The image has been sourced from bitnodes.earn.com.
The image portrays 10,604 Bitcoin nodes that were reachable when the image was captured. Each dot on the map represents a single node.
Each node is loaded with Bitcoin software. The code in the software enables nodes to find and establish a connection with other nodes – which in turn forms the network.
Through this connection, nodes are able to send or receive information such as transactions, blocks or other relative data.
If you ever hear the term 'full node,' it refers to a fully validating node on a network which will validate each block and transaction that occurs.
What is a masternode?
A masternode is notably different from a regular node because it will have unique functions. A masternode can be utilised to direct send or instant send transactions – including private ones.
They typically boast increased capabilities and so it requires substantially more investment to get one up and running. In return for this investment, you can receive a greater block reward.
A block reward is given to data miners when they successfully add a block of data to the blockchain. For reference, Bitcoin currently has a block reward of 12.5 Bitcoin (this number is halved every four years, it began at 50) whereas Ethereum's current block reward is 3 Ether.
What is a lightning node?
To understand the purpose of lightning nodes in cryptocurrency you first need to understand the Lightning Network. The Lightning Network is a layer 2 scaling solution. While Bitcoin can facilitate peer-to-peer transactions, previously it has not been able to facilitate them as quickly as mainstream payment processors such as Visa or PayPal.
The Lightning Network was designed to enhance transaction throughput. In theory, though this is not necessarily the case, Bitcoin could process an unlimited amount of transactions with the Lightning Network.
A lightning node is simply a node that supports the Lightning Network. The Lightning Network opens a channel between two participants in the network which allows those participants to transact between each other. If a third participant had a channel open with the second one – the first participant could actually send a transaction to the third one.
The idea behind this is simple: a participant can transact with another one in a couple of 'hops', as long as the 'routing' is known.
Below is a visual representation of lighting nodes and how they are connected to each other, taken from 1ML.com.
This site is a useful tool for viewing lightning nodes because it also depicts which nodes are connected to other nodes.
The Lightning Network functions on top of the Bitcoin network. Therefore the Lightning Network has its own protocol for communicating 'lightning' transactions and a lightning node will follow this protocol to communicate with other ones.
Essentially a regular node will be booted with Bitcoin software that enables one node to connect to another node. In comparison, a lightning node functions by creating a channel which enables it to send/receive information with another lightning node.
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Eddy Zheng came to America with his family when he was 12 years old. Then at the age of 16, he committed a horrible crime: home invasion and kidnapping. He was sent to San Quentin Maximum Security Prison, the youngest prisoner in the jail.
Zheng became a model prisoner, teaching himself to read and counseling at-risk youth. Year after year he hoped for parole, and when he was released after almost 20 years in prison, he wanted to work as a community leader. His plans fell apart when the family he'd attacked made it clear they still felt there was no place for Eddy in America; he was picked up by Homeland Security and headed for deportation.
But his supporters said Eddy had served his sentence and was reformed. "If he's not the epitome of rehabilitation," says one friend, "who is?" Will society, his family and his victims give him a second chance?
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