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Zahra Haider on what she learnt having sex as a young woman in Pakistan
by Apickmeup Guide
Posted: Jul 11, 2016
When Zahra Haider was in Class 8, she had her first real crush. No, not a celebrity. It was a boy she hung out with her group. He was cute. And intelligent too, or at least she found him to be.
She would get a nice feel whenever he was around. That unexplainable kind of rush…. One day the cute boy kissed her. Alas! All the butterflies from her tummy flew away. "All I can remember was feeling uncomfortable rather than happy about it, probably because it was an awkward and unfamiliar experience for me," she remembers.
Haider, whose article "What I learned having sex as a young woman in Pakistan" has kicked up a storm in the virtual world and is facing much social media backlash, insists that if a man had written such a piece, the reactions would have been totally different.
"Isn't sex a basic human function? Can this natural impulse be refuted? How does gender figure in this? Don't we need to be educated on the matter, whether premarital or post? Frankly, I just wanted to use myself as a personal myself as a personal example because that is the best way to be a voice for people who may need to hear it. Believe me, I was tired of the double standards of many South Asians when it comes to sex," laments Haider, who is in her 20s and shifted to Canada from Pakistan before her 19th birthday.
Zahra Haider.
The author, who has talked about her sexual encounters with almost a dozen people before coming to Canada in 2012, stresses that she did expect a major backlash before writing the article.
"However, I had no expectation of the piece going viral and circulating as much as it has. To tell you the truth, I have this ability to remain detached to hateful comments. But hey, I did find some of the comments highly informative – how vile some people can be towards someone they don't even know!"
How did the folks react? She must have shocked the daylight out of them.
"You bet! I hand't told my mother about it at the time but she has been extremely supportive ever since it was published. My father, on the other hand, has disowned me because he claims I have brought shame upon his family. And that's exactly the sort of cultural conditioning I wanted to emphasise on and combat by writing this piece."
The fact that even in today's times people don't refrain from commenting on someone's sexual life doesn't really surprise Haider.
"Look, some people will maintain boundaries and keep away from other people's business – I know I do, usually either out of respect or simply because I don't care. However, everyone is entitled to an opinion and clearly some people feel the need to comment on someone's personal life, which I also respect."
The author may be facing a lot of backlash from Pakistan but she maintains that women's rights issues are a consistent problem all over the world and culture of silence around women's sexuality is not unique to Pakistan. Neither does she think that religion is a dominating factor in everyday life there.
"Where Pakistan is concerned, I mentioned in my article that draconian punishments for premarital sex and adultery stemming from Zia-ul-Haq's dictatorship are slowly dying out but still linger in the mentalities of fundamentalists. I believe it definitely has a lot more to do with cultural aspects (and perhaps religion may influence said aspects) and an ingrained mindset as a result of these traditionalistic values and beliefs."
Observing that men in Canada are much more open and receptive when it comes to discussing a woman's sexual desires, ("a lot of Pakistani men would become defensive when the topic of going down came up"), Haider is however optimistic that one day Asian men will surely "grow up".
"Of course. I have some incredible Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi etc. friends. Sadly, just not the majority of the guys I have had romantic or sexual encounters with."
Doesn't it surprise her that so many women have written such nasty things about her article?
"Yes and no. Quite a number of women can resonate with me on many levels, many of them have suffered through the pain I have mentioned in my article as a result of the lack of sex education. However, many of them are indeed offended because they have assumed I'm representing them and speaking on their behalf when I'm not – my experiences and my opinions are exactly that: mine. I do personally know a handful of South Asian women who have had similar experiences as I have, but I never expected every single Pakistani woman to find my piece relatable."
Haider, who loves spending as much time being at home as going for hikes, now wants to push out of her comfort zone by attempting to pursue socio-political stand-up comedy as a side-project.
So, what about her passions?
"It's been a life-long dream to have a book published, especially one in relevance to women's rights issues in South Asia correlated with my personal experiences and the experiences of others – let's see what the future has in store!"
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Juniper Networks Announces the Next-Generation FIPS SSL VPN Products to Meet Changing Security Requirements of Federal Government Agencies
WEBWIRE – Monday, April 10, 2006
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 10, 2006 - Juniper Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR), today announced the availability of its next-generation Secure Access SSL VPN FIPS appliances. The SA 4000 FIPS and SA 6000 FIPS offer unparalleled capabilities to meet the stringent security remote access needs of federal, state and local government agencies.
"The functionality offered by these products is important to meet the changing cybersecurity threat that government agencies are facing," said Thomas Kreidler, vice president, Juniper Federal Systems, Juniper Networks. "Juniper Networks will assist the government in staying one step ahead of these threats through FIPS compliance and the best in security products."
According to Roger Cressey, former chief of staff, President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, "As part of prudent continuity of operations planning and to prepare for telework requirements in the case of emergencies such as an avian flu outbreak or terrorist attack, government agencies must have the right technologies in place to ensure employees can fulfill their missions remotely in the most difficult circumstances. Deploying a resilient SSL VPN technology, such as Juniper Networks Secure Access, needs to be part of the foundation of this preparation effort."
The Juniper Networks Secure Access appliances help agencies increase efficiency and productivity by providing remote access to mobile employees, contractors, partners and customers without requiring a pre-installed client. The appliances also allow agencies to secure extranet or intranet access without a DMZ build-out, server hardening or Web agent deployments.
The Juniper Networks Secure Access appliances have earned many awards and industry accolades in the SSL VPN market since its first products shipped in 2001. According to Infonetics Research, Juniper Networks continues to be the market share leader in the Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) market with 33 percent market share in 2005, which was more than double the next ranking competitor.* Juniper Networks is positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant of the recently published 3Q05 North America Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) report.**
This year, Juniper's Secure Access was also selected by Network World as the "Clear Choice" winner in a competitive product review published on December 19, 2005, outperforming 10 other SSL VPN products. As a result of this competitive review, the Secure Access SSL VPN won Network World's "Best Product" of the year in the Security Infrastructure category.
Juniper Networks also continues to be the only SSL VPN provider to have completed multiple, independent security audits - supporting its goal to deliver secure and assured networking solutions, including the only SSL VPN to achieve Common Criteria certification. The appliances have also passed rigorous security audits by Information Security Partners, LLC (iSEC Partners) and Cybertrust, Inc.
About Juniper Networks, Inc.
Juniper Networks is the leader in enabling secure and assured communications over a single IP network. The company's purpose-built, high performance IP platforms enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and education institutions worldwide rely on Juniper Networks to deliver products for building networks that are tailored to the specific needs of their users, services and applications. Juniper Networks' portfolio of proven networking and security solutions supports the complex scale, security and performance requirements of the world's most demanding networks. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.
* Infonetics Research, Inc. Network Security Appliances and Software Quarterly Worldwide Market Share and Forecasts for 4Q05.
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Clean Power Plan: 50 Ways to Get More Clean, Local Energy
by John Farrell	| Date: 3 Aug 2015 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0
The Obama administration released the Clean Power Plan today requiring substantial greenhouse gas emissions reductions from the electricity sector. The plan sets targets from the top down, but largely leaves the details to states, providing a significant opportunity to craft rules that encourage energy development and ownership from the bottom up.
These 50 state plans have huge stakes.
Collectively, U.S. electric customers spend over $360 billion each year buying power. Most of that is generated from fossil fuels, frequently extracted outside their own state. In other words, most of that money leaves their community to pay for dirty energy. But the electricity system is undergoing enormous transformation.
Driven by improvements in energy efficiency, electricity consumption peaked in 2007 and has been stagnant ever since. Distributed solar, like that found on home rooftops, has provided more than 5% of newly added power plant capacity since 2011. In 2013, nearly one-third of all new power plant capacity was from solar energy. The profusion of smartphones is giving customers innovative ways to control energy use, from web-connected thermostats to light bulbs. Consulting firm Accenture estimates that these disruptive and economical technologies could save electric customers up to $48 billion over the next 10 years.
Electric utilities are aware of the threat. Already, they've mounted serious fights against rooftop solar in over two dozen states, despite ample proof that it's of benefit to electric customers and the grid. Once they've exhausted their legal challenges to the Clean Power Plan, utilities will be interested in compliance strategies that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and threats to their business model. That's likely to mean big infrastructure investments—utilities have traditionally made their profit by earning a return on new power lines and power plants—and utility control or ownership of cleaner power generation.
But electric customers shouldn't settle for last century's centralized control and ownership of a grid dominated by this century's decentralized technology.
For example, several cities and counties in California are forming community alternatives to incumbent electric utilities, delivering cleaner (often local) power at a comparable or lower cost. Grassroots action in Minneapolis, MN, has driven its utilities into a novel clean energy partnership with the city. Community solar programs are expanding rapidly, allowing electric customers to reduce their energy bills, even when they lack ownership of or sunshine on their rooftop. And community energy projects are allowing Americans to pool their resources and own a share in the clean energy transformation.
The Clean Power Plan is a breath of fresh air from the federal government too often known for climate inaction, but it shouldn't reinforce an increasingly un-natural electric company monopoly over the electric system. Instead, use each states's implementation of the Plan as a catalyst for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for individuals and communities to take charge.
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Pro-EU campaigner spoke to IBTimes UK about the Best for Britain tactical voting initiative.
UK voters should move on from the Remain and Leave debate over the EU and back pro-European candidates at the general election in a bid to block a "hard Brexit", Gina Miller has said.
The investment fund manager, who successfully challenged the Conservative government in the courts over triggering Article 50, told IBTimes UK that the £300,000 Best for Britain crowdfunding campaign is about "ensuring democracy".
"We should not be talking about Remain and Leave, we should be talking about what happens next," Miller said.
"The prime minister and the Conservative government does not have a blank cheque or mandate to execute whatever Brexit they see fit.
"This is about the democratic process, it's about people electing candidates who will go to parliament and be strong representatives. It's about ensuring our democracy."
The tactical voting campaign is backing up to 100 pro-European candidates across the UK, including Liberal Democrat hopeful George Turner. Turner is hoping to unseat pro-Leave Labour MP candidate Kate Hoey in Vauxhall.
Hoey, who is defending a majority of more than 12,000 votes, infamously posed alongside former Ukip leader Nigel Farage on a boat in London's River Thames during the EU referendum campaign. Miller and Turner recreated the scene with just a week to go before the election on 8 June.
Miller, a Labour supporter, also told IBTimes UK that she was "pleased" that Jeremy Corbyn's party promised to give parliament a "meaningful role" in their election manifesto.
"I think its has to be about choice whenever the final [Brexit] deal comes back," she said.
The Conservatives and Labour have both promised to honour the EU referendum result and split from Brussels, whilst the Liberal Democrats have called for a second referendum. The two-year-long divorce talks with the EU are expected to begin sometime after the election.
The latest opinion from Panelbase, of more than 1,200 people between 26 May and 1 June, put the Conservatives on 44%, Labour on 36%, the Liberal Democrats on 7% and Ukip on 5%.


It's not easy to create good content, and it's even harder to create content that gets shared, but it is certainly possible if you focus on the right things and put some elbow grease into it.
Creating content that is more likely to get shared, is obviously a better use of your precious time and resources. But what content should you create and what methods can be used to increase your chances of content marketing success?
Articles are of course the fundamental form of content on the internet. There are many millions of articles out there already, with countless more being churned out every day. The reason why they are so popular is simple – all that text gets easily indexed by Google, and anyone can write one without any special skills or tools.
In the good old days, a 300 word article stuffed with keywords, could reach the top of the search engines. These days, that's less likely to happen and unless you are Seth Godin, you're going to need to write a little bit more than that if you want people to share it.
Even the term "articles" these days can mean many things, there are articles and then there are articles – I know that doesn't really say much, but all will be revealed!
As mentioned above, the days of 300 word articles are long gone (although they do still have their place) and these days it's all about long-form content.
In other words (and lots of 'em) it means long articles, with lots of useful, informative or entertaining text. Typically this means at least 3000 words for an article – ten times what used to be the norm! In fact this article is in long-form territory and now heading dangerously close to 4000 words.
The unfortunately named "listicle" (does anyone not think "testicle" when hearing that name?) is just an article consisting of a list. Such as "7 ways to win the lotto", "21 types of pancake" or "Top 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs". It's one of the easiest forms of article that can be created and also one of the most shareable.
Just like regular listicles, these are articles consisting of a list. However the long-form listicle goes much further and each list item itself is practically an entire article. The trick with these is to present in-depth or actionable data in each list item, instead of just a brief description as would normally be the case in a list article. As with any long-form article, this variation for lists is sure to be liked by the mighty Google, and is also much more likely to get shared. It does however, take some time to create.
Yes it's a thing, a Charticle is basically a graphic heavy article. In other words the majority of the content is graphics (ie. charts) along with some supporting text to further enhance or clarify what is portrayed in the charts (and provide food for the search bots). As with infographics, mentioned below, these are very popular and cry out to be shared.
As the name implies, "How-to" content is just articles that provide instructions to perform some specific task or achieve some defined result. This is bordering on documentation, but without being actually called "documentation" since nobody would want to read it or share it if you called it that!
You have to make "how-to" articles more readable, less dry, and not as boring as documentation, and of course include lots of images to spice up the page a little. Examples are things like "How to schedule social posts", "How to boil an egg", or even "How to start a business blog".
Content curation is all the rage these days as digital marketers are faced with the overwhelming task of churning out ever more content to feed the content marketing beast.
Finding quality content published by other people and then sharing that with your followers, or combing multiple curated articles into one new article, is what content curation is all about. It allows you to keep the pipeline full of fresh content to keep your followers happy and to keep attracting new leads to your marketing funnels.
Always a good one to create – a resource list is one of those things which can grow over time as you keep adding more and more resources. Over time, as it becomes ever more comprehensive and useful, it gathers more shares and more backlinks and more authority which pushes it further up the ranks on Google. The end result is more traffic.
Factual data-based articles, also known as data driven content, packed with information such as statistics on a certain industry or niche, or a specific business or process, are always popular. Finding the data to use is the tricky part though. You can just Google for it and hope that the reports you find online have not already been used as the basis for a thousand other articles. But the best way, if possible, is to use your own data.
If your own systems are somehow gathering large enough amounts of data then that is potentially a goldmine and can be turned in to some great articles. If you don't have any data of your own yet then you better start collecting some now – log everything about everything that happens in your business!
A no-brainer really – write an article based around images, make sure to sprinkle a selection of catchy images throughout the text. You end up with something which is easier on the eye, which looks bigger and better (even if it's not that great), and which tends to attract more attention than a boring wall of text. It still needs enough text to satisfy Google but the focus should be on the images that the text describes.
Similar idea to the above mentioned image based articles, are video based articles. It is easier to make these shareable when you can see just how popular a video is on YouTube or other video sites. So the secret sauce here is to go to YouTube, search for your keywords and find the most popular videos. Then watch the videos and write down the key points covered within and turn that into a full article, and then just embed the video(s) that were used to inspire the article. Simples.
In any field there are people who are seen as experts or thought leaders, and people listen to (or read) what they have to say. These people are influencers and getting their words into your article instantly gives it perceived value and a potential reach far beyond what it might otherwise have.
There are basically two ways you can go about creating expert roundups – one is simply to curate existing content from a selection of experts and combine it into a whole new article. The other method takes a bit more effort but the pay-off is much higher – you actually go out and ask the chosen experts for their opinion on the topic at hand and their replies form the content of your article. This second method results in something far more unique and much more likely to get shared.
A variation of the expert roundup – pick someone interesting, an influencer, and interview them in-depth. If you can score an interview with someone that everyone wants to read more about, you're sorted. Make sure you don't ask dumb questions though, try to be original so you can craft something interesting. You may need to work on your networking skills to score those interviews though!
By its very nature, news is time sensitive and expires quickly, however if you can get in fast and spill the beans before too many others, you might just be able to ride the wave. It helps if you have already setup some automated monitoring to ensure you're among the first to know when something interesting happens in your target market. Of course "expires quickly" is pretty much the way everything is on social networks like Twitter.. blink and it's gone.
Images are inherently shareable, but of course some get shared more than others, with cat pics being the leader in the field (probably).
Whether it be funny cat pics or the latest Kanye twitter storm, memes are what the internet was made for. If you can start one (without destroying your business reputation in the process) then go for it. Otherwise, just jump aboard an existing meme and try to capture some of that glory. You can learn how to make your meme pics here.
Ever popular among the B2B crowd in particular, the infographic is both visually appealing and informative. It distils boring data into cool charts or graphical representations which can range from the humble pie chart, to an array of Santas or some other creative form of chart. If you have some interesting data and a graphic designer on staff, then you're good to go!
If you or you staff are graphically challenged, then don't despair as there are many places you can find a designer for a quick infographic job, and there are even apps out there which provide templates and easy drag & drop interfaces to create your own infographics online.
I'm partial to these as they are great for sharing on Twitter and the like. Nice little infographics where all the data is visible in the tweet without having to click anything – minfographics! (is that a thing?) or maybe tinfographics for tiny infographics? Anyway, you get the picture, right?
Obviously you can't put too much data in a minfographic/tinfographic but they can easily be used to provide a preview of what your full infographic shows, or you can have a series of them which combined contain all the relevant data.
The internet is chock full of great quotes, although the vast majority seem to be attributed to Winston Churchill. Quotes lend themselves nicely to posting as a tweet of course but they're even better if pasted into a nice graphic template and then that image is posted online instead (or as well).
Simply putting the exact same text in an image, lends it a magical "share me" quality. If Churchill quotes are not relevant to your industry, then find some words of wisdom from influencers or even just use your own words.
How: use a service such as Canva to create these easily, or just use Photoshop or GIMP with some pre-made blanks, then just paste in your text.
Who doesn't like a quiz? They're fun, engaging and interactive – everything you want for your content marketing campaigns. They're not just for doing in the pub of course and you can easily create them online using a service such as Qzzr or Quibblo or if money is no object, you could try Interact.
A survey may at first seem like a quiz, but is in fact quite different. A survey asks a range of questions to collect more in-depth data which is then analysed for various purposes. A quiz asks questions for which the answers are known and is just to test your knowledge. You can use a service such as QuestionPro to create surveys.
A poll is similar to a survey but generally asks a simple question and provides a few simple choices for the answer (such as Yes/No/Don't Know). You can use PollDaddy to create polls.
A hot topic in product design and marketing is gamification and whether you want to gamify your content or your startup, there are many ways you could go about it.
The aforementioned quiz is one example of gamification, another might be content which requires the user to click something somewhere at some time, to proceed to the next screen, or kill an alien, or show a dancing cat. Certain actions may result in points being awarded (or deducted) and a progress bar may be displayed to encourage the user to keep going to the end.
Contests as content? Ye why not? Everybody loves contests and giveaways, basically because free stuff. You could use a service such as Gleam or the aptly named Rafflecopter, or install the KingSumo plugin for WordPress. Contests are by their nature, engaging and fun and that also makes them highly shareable.
Contests are pretty easy to create, and even more so when using one of the apps mentioned here, so you've got no excuse (other than possible laws related to contests in your area) to not give it a try.
The video equivalent of the how-to article mentioned previously. Make it useful, make it actionable, make it not send people to sleep. It can be something as simple as screen capturing a product or feature walk-through which can easily be done with tools such as Camtasia on Windows or Mac, Kazam on Linux, or Screencast on the web.
Slide shows are of course very visual and are often spiced up with the obligatory cat pic or meme, all of which helps make them exceedingly shareable. They are also simple to make and are often created with re-purposed content, so you get lots more content for not much more effort. You can use Google Slides to create your slide show and then easily import it to an online service such as SlideShare.
A visually appealing online presentation goes a long way. These days there's not much excuse for even the most graphically challenged marketer to make an ugly presentation. There are tools such as emaze and prezi that make it quite simple to create something that looks great and gets attention of the right kind.
An unusual variation on the presentation theme is the oddly named roojoom, a "guided content experience platform" which basically allows you to combine content from multiple sources into one shareable document or link, creating a content journey of sorts.
White Papers are in a way, just another type of long-form article. Typically published in PDF format these days and containing in-depth reporting on the topic at hand. A white paper should contain cold hard facts, actionable data, detailed instructions, or thorough analysis, not wishy washy opinions and useless filler. In general, there should be no funny cat pics.
White papers are not fun, they are informative and educational. Publishing white papers helps make you look like you know what you're talking about, they give you an air of authority, but of course it helps if you actually do know what you are talking about otherwise the Emperor's new suit will be revealed for what it is (or isn't).
White papers are frequently used as lead magnets and can serve as a gateway leading to your other content. A good white paper, from a credible company or organization, is usually considered well worth the cost of submitting an email address to download.
Yet another variation on long-form content is the eBook. You can bundle up a few existing articles, throw in a new intro, save as a PDF doc and call it an eBook. Or you can create a whole new document from scratch.
You could say a white paper is just an ebook which is true, it is one type of ebook, but there's a lot more flexibility in the composition of an ebook. An eBook can of course be factual or it can be entirely fictional, depending on the purpose and the target market. As with White Papers, a good eBook of any kind can be great as a lead magnet, an example of which you can see on Bullet.
The web makes it easy for anyone to teach pretty much anything these days. You don't need to be a qualified teacher (but it helps), and you don't need to be and expert (but that also helps), and you don't need to be already known as an authority in the subject (naturally that helps as well). What you do need is the ability to research a topic and present it in a structured way, and a platform from which to teach.
Courses online can be presented in a variety of formats, from a series of downloadable PDF docs or educational videos on YouTube, to an interactive learning environment complete with tools for teachers to manage students and for students to easily learn from and engage with teachers and other students, or something in between such as Udemy.
Some might argue that a headline alone is not a form of content, but in this era of micro-blogging à la Twitter, I think it's clear that a headline can and does stand on its own as content. Of course it doesn't have to be alone, but when you're spamming posting on Twitter, that is the only part people will see unless it is compelling enough to make people click the associated link. Which is where the curiosity gap headline comes in to its own.
A curiosity gap is created by providing just enough info to whet the appetite but not enough to satiate. The reader is intrigued by that carefully chosen collection of words in the headline, it tells them enough to hook them, then they cannot resist being reeled in – they simply have to know the outcome of the story you teased them with!
Upworthy is the acknowledged king of the curiosity gap headline, but many others have used and continue to use this copy-writing tactic, because it works so well at getting people to engage or click through to the full content.
Because the content is just too good not to share!
So you've created some great content, and you're sure people will want to share it as soon as they find it, but there lies the flaw in the process – if nobody sees it in the first place, it won't ever get shared, or at least not to an extent that would make any significant impression on your lead acquisition or brand awareness campaigns.
The days of "build it and they will come" are long gone on the internet, so you have to employ a range of tactics to make sure people find your content, and it has to be enough people to make it worth the effort of creating all that content in the first place.
For a listicle, use odd numbers in the title (like I did for this article): "7 ways to.." not 8. Why? I don't know, but allegedly it works better! YMMV.
Paid amplification (or paid discovery) – this is what the pros do. Don't leave things to chance, simply pay to get your content link shown enough times to get it noticed so that it can then take on a life of its own. You can advertise on social networks like Twitter, Facebook, or StumbleUpon. You can also buy some content distribution from Outbrain and Taboola, or you can perhaps get a sponsored comment on Disqus. There are many such places you can pay to give your content a boost, just be careful not to spend too much!
What are your favourite forms of content? Which methods do you use to get it shared? Feel free to share your successes and failures, in the comments below.


Sour beer is one of the oldest types because at the time the process of getting rid of the sour taste through pasteurization and sterilization was still being developed and understood. The sour taste comes from bacteria and wild yeast which can produce various flavors such as spicy, leathery, and fruity.
I wanted to design an illustrative and unusual label that plays on the idea of a trick. Heavier serifs were influenced by the time period in which the beer was created. My goal was to intrigue a consumer to not only pick up the bottle but experience and discover more details as they turn it.


WASHINGTON - As preparations continue for the Jan. 30 opening of the 2013 filing season for most taxpayers, the Internal Revenue Service announced today that processing of tax returns claiming education credits will begin by the middle of February.
Taxpayers using Form 8863, Education Credits, can begin filing their tax returns after the IRS updates its processing systems. Form 8863 is used to claim two higher education credits -- the American Opportunity Tax Credit and the Lifetime Learning Credit.
The IRS emphasized that the delayed start will have no impact on taxpayers claiming other education-related tax benefits, such as the tuition and fees deduction and the student loan interest deduction. People otherwise able to file and claiming these benefits can start filing Jan. 30.
As it does every year, the IRS reviews and tests its systems in advance of the opening of the tax season to protect taxpayers from processing errors and refund delays. The IRS discovered during testing that programming modifications are needed to accurately process Forms 8863. Filers who are otherwise able to file but use the Form 8863 will be able to file by mid-February. No action needs to be taken by the taxpayer or their tax professional. Typically through the mid-February period, about 3 million tax returns include Form 8863, less than a quarter of those filed during the year.
The IRS remains on track to open the tax season on Jan. 30 for most taxpayers. The Jan. 30 opening includes people claiming the student loan interest deduction on the Form 1040 series or the higher education tuition or fees on Form 8917, Tuition and Fees Deduction. Forms that will be able to be filed later are listed on IRS.gov.
Updated information will be posted on IRS.gov.


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Incommensurable
Photomedia in the era of globalisation
Merilyn Fairskye, Anne Zahalka, Nick Danziger, Ciara O'Brien, David Stephenson, Martin Walch
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
23 February - 8 April 2018
Terence Maloon, Director of the ANU (Australian National University) Drill Hall Gallery, joked that they could have made Incommensurable: Photomedia in the era of globalisation a satellite event of the Sydney Biennale that had recently opened down the Hume Highway. What he meant was that the works in this exhibition were similarly contemporary, on the same wave length as the international art offerings of a Biennale and covering similar ground. But in this he may have sold himself short.
Incommensurable was actually better imagined than many an international art show that is overdrawn on buzz words and fashion-consciousness. Incommensurable was that rare thing; an exhibition where the whole was greater than the sum of the parts.
Some of the strongest commentary about the global era is being pursued currently, beyond journalism and academic discourse, in image-based art forms. International art has the power to open up to us the contradictions and trauma of different lives lived globally in the glare of media and social media. In many ways, artists are more capable than they ever were of 'making statements'. And yet, the financialising of international art, and the creating of art-experiences as tourism, also compromises this.
For a small gallery, Drill Hall was punching above its weight, with stirring photomedia from artists Merilyn Fairskye, Anne Zahalka, Nick Danziger, Ciara O'Brien, David Stephenson and Martin Walch. Remarkably different images, they colluded to provide reflection on the moral force of image-making in the global era and to do so by mobilising the aesthetics of photomedia. It was admirable curation.
For example, the juxtaposition of several of David Stephenson's large-format photographs from his series Light Cities, of global cities at night, addressed both the more studied moments of Anne Zahalka's Leisureland Star Casino images and Nick Danziger's claustrophobic black and white photo-realism of poverty in the third world.
Meanwhile, Merilyn Fairskye's Radiant, video installations of natural settings disfigured by nuclear sites, amplified the deceptively placid landscapes of David Stephenson and Martin Walch's collaborative Watershed (also video installations). The images talked among themselves, producing strange commentary on the power of the lens to capture not just the realist forms but the histories and portent of their settings.
Several characteristics of photomedia were recruited in this exhibition—the drama of large-format work, the beauty of colour and light and the power of framing scenes.
At the entrance to the gallery, Ciara O'Brien's billboard-sized image of life jackets discarded on a Mediterranean beach testify to the lives lost and changed under the weight of global 'push' and 'pull' factors. The bright colour belies the sinister rendering of a humanitarian crisis, as seen on high-rotation on CNN and Al-Jazeera.
In Zahalka's Imax Cinema (1999), spectator-consumers watch the screen that projects giant images of a profoundly foreign place, Egypt. The image shows them immersed in their sensations of it from the safety of a first-world leisure location. Open Air Cinema takes up the same idea from a different perspective as viewers watch an enormous blank screen on the edge of the harbour against the backdrop of Sydney icons. The framing suggests the temptation for viewers of media to project the desires of 'the technological sublime' onto fetish objects like the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.
Star City Casino (after Breughel) (1998) portrays a frenzy of desires in a blurred cacophony of detail—a grotesquerie worthy of Breughel, Zahalka suggests, in a market that is driven by barely-controlled speed and avarice. In the background we see the banks of pokies, onto which punters project their great gamble of free money—a gamble they eventually lose. In Star City Casino (1998) a sadder rendition is offered, in which the aesthetic of carnival is engaged in the figure of an uncanny employee-as-clown figure pushing a catering trolley. The froth of bubbles disguises an industrial ceiling, and fantasy tree-pillars support the pavilion of pokies. A solitary figure on the right embodies the loneliness of this world of commodified desire, manufactured hope and final disillusionment.
The images of Zahalka's Leisureland are framed by the faux glamour of high-end capitalism and David Stephenson's Light Cities images are similarly lit by 'a veritable fairyland of megawattage'. As emergent global cities—'spectacular islands of wealth and privilege'—the skylines of Hong Kong, Shanghai and Melbourne shimmer with artificial light, betraying a superficial beauty that hides the environmental cost of globalisation.
Merilyn Fairskye also counts this cost in the portrayal of nuclear power stations and test sites set in the natural environment—beautiful images of pasture and the local beauty of coastal places—birds thrown into wide skies and clouds; cows grazing beside unassuming rural houses; pebbled beaches, all juxtaposed with industrial concrete bunker-like power stations and barbed wire that encircle them in a half-hearted manner. But archival images, and the disturbing soundtrack of emergency drills, clash with the apparent serenity of the visuals.
This is a kind of commentary, the photo-journalist at work showing the world of global capital in its oppressive weight on the environment, as figured in the frail beauty of seabirds' flight, grasses, sky and sea. Likewise, in Stephenson and Walch's Derwent River Project the soundtrack of logging trucks interrupts birdsong while we gaze at tranquil river stills.
At last, in Zahalka's Derrida Lecture (1999), the spectacle is extended to theory itself, to critique becoming a consumer event in the televised appearance of a philosophical celebrity. The theatrical-plush interior of the Sydney Town Hall expands the ambition of a postmodern moment, where cynicism is as much courted as it is diagnosed. And yet. It is Derrida in Spectres of Marx (2006) who tracks the uncanny trajectory of capital that has given a particular cast to the global era, when he writes of the 'new tele-techno-media conditions of public space, of political life, of democracy'.1
So does Incommensurable bear witness to 'how much the world is out of joint'? It dramatises, in the language of spectacle which is its native tongue, the 'incredible disparities in the circumstances and conditions of different parts of society and different parts of the world, in people's lived experience and what they can possibly hope for'.2
Anne Zahalka, Star City Casino (Oasis), 1998. Type C print, 115 x 145cm. Courtesy the artist and ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne.
Merilyn Fairskye, On the Beach (north-east view, Dungeness Power Station B, Kent U.K.), 2015. Pigment print, 92 x 275cm. Courtesy the artist.
Nick Danziger, Abbas, 15, Niger, 2005. Detail. Archival print, 50 x 40cm. © Nick Danziger / *nb pictures.
Ciara O'Brien, Lifejacket Graveyard, 2016. Detail. Inkjet mural print on phototex, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.
1. J. Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International, trans. Peggy Kamuf, Routledge Classics New York & London 2006, p.127.
2. Terence Maloon, Catalogue essay in Incommensurable: photomedia in the era of globalisation, ANU Drill Hall Gallery Publishing, p.21.


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Ex-Naval
Ex-Naval 'officer', but not a gentleman
Amit KumarAmit Kumar / Updated: Jan 10, 2020, 06:00 IST
Divorcee meets 47-yr-old on matrimonial site; after a year of bliss, he turns out to be a womaniser
A divorcee, who wanted to remarry, had her plans thwarted by a man, who she alleges is a casanova. The 42-year-old divorcee, who works with an MNC was cheated by the man she met on a matrimonial website. The man told her he had service in the Navy for 15 years, but after his conduct, she is not sure about that claim anymore.
Bhavana (name changed), had got a divorce in 2016, and she and her son live in the city. In January last year, she met Rakesh Karn (47) on the site. Karn too works in an MNC. Bhavana and Rakesh decided to meet at a mall. Here, Rakesh told her that he was getting divorced from his wife and that the procedure would take one or two months. He also told her he had two children, a son and a daughter. His son staying in Delhi was in college.
Bhavana and Rakesh decided to get into a relationship after going out for a month. He assured Bhavana that he would marry her once he gets the divorce. During the courtship, Bhavana and Rakesh also got physically intimate.
Rakesh used to spend the weekends at Bhavana's apartment and her neighbours in the apartment complex too knew about the relationship.
'My father is lying'
Everything was going well between Rakesh and Bhavana till about one year into the relationship. But almost abruptly, Bhavana found out that Rakesh was in a relationship with another woman who lives in Hyderabad. She managed to call that woman, who told her that Rakesh was having another affair too. When Bhavana realised Rakesh was in two other relationships, she decided to dig deeper. She got in touch with Rakesh's son. The son had more alarming news for her. He told her that Rakesh had not applied for divorce from his first wife and was just staying separately from his wife. After hearing the truth about Rakesh, Bhavana decided to file a complaint against him.
Bhavana told Mirror she had decided to get married because her family was pressurising her. "Then I met Rakesh a year back. He assured me he was getting a divorce. I trusted him and decided to marry him. He was also close to my son and we lived like a family. I came to know of his affair as he used to chat with her on WhatsApp," she said.
He assured me he was getting a divorce. I trusted him completely and decided to marry him. He was also close to my son and we lived like a family
An FIR has been registered at the Begur police station under Section 420 (Punishment for cheating). An officer said the accused was not yet taken into custody and that they were still collecting evidence.
It was speaking to Rakesh's wife that decided it all for Bhavana.
"When I called his wife in Delhi, she told me that he was a womaniser and was having an extra-marital affair even when they were together. I was completely shattered after hearing this. When I questioned Rakesh about this, he started giving excuses and even asked me to help with the divorce."
But by this time, Bhavana had had enough. "I realised that this person is a big fraud and decided to file a complaint against him. Whatever happened with me shouldn't happen with another woman. People like him take women for granted and especially single women like me can fall in his trap," she said.


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English Translation: The south zone finalists for World skill competition has been selected. Ratheesh Radhakrishnan,Anandhakrishnan,Rejeesh M.K and Jinesh C are the selected candidates for the national level competition which will be held on November. The selection camp was organized by NSDC along with Furniture and Fittings Skill Council at Calicut. 60 students from ITIs all around Kerala participated in the selection camp.
The First Annual General Meeting of Furniture and Fittings Skill Council (FFSC) was held on August 6, 2016 at India Habitat Center, New Delhi.
Mr. Gurpal Singh, CEO of FFSC put forward the Annual Business Plan for the council which contains the directives from MSDE Ministry and NSDC. The members discussed the key activities which have been planned for the next one year and the preparation for version 2 of the PMKVY scheme.
The E & Y team presented a rough occupational map of the Furniture and Fittings Industry and presented the draft classification of the Industry. They will be preparing a Skill Gap study of the Indian Furniture Industry covering all the sub-sectors and will finalize the select Job Roles for which National Occupational Standards will be made.
Mr. Narayan mentioned about various initiatives being taken by NBCFDC such as providing soft loans to assist in promoting employment generation and MoU signed with FFSC for imparting vocational training to rural youth belonging to backward castes.
Mr. Salam gave a brief presentation highlighting that bamboo is one of the best material for making various types of furniture especially the solid bamboo species available at Indian sub-continent. He further mentioned that one can easily think of making high end furniture for modern interior space like residential, office, public space etc. As this material is very strong and long lasting after various treatment this is very suitable for making furniture which is in demand and produced in high volume industrially.
Mr. Rao gave a brief overview of IKEA's plans to enter the Indian Furniture Industry through 25 retail stores beginning with Hyderabad which will be operational by June, 2017. He mentioned that the key focus of IKEA would be to bring about a positive impact on the workforce and their working conditions. He further mentioned that the average Indian consumer will rely heavily on the after sales services which will bring opportunities for specific job roles under assembly and installation. IKEA will partner with FFSC generate the workforce who have the required skill sets for the job.
Mr. Krishna mentioned that akin to the IT industry, the Indian Furniture Market has the potential to be one of the sunrise industry. Given Furniture and Fittings is a labour intensive sector, India may be seen as the capital of Furniture and Fittings by incentivizing its' factor endowment. In the given context, there is a huge opportunity for SSC on a global level, as in Europe per capita is 45 USD per hour in comparison to Rs 12 per hour in India. Organizations such as Godrej and IKEA, may play an imperative role by setting up iconic skilling centers.
Mr. Agarwal mentioned that a Sector Skills Council (SSC) is one of the key elements of skill development in the country and thereby, we need to mobilize the aspirational objectives of SSC to create a market, leveraging the existing competencies. National Skill Development Corporation, Sector Skill Councils and the Government of India have come with new guidelines entailing uniformity and clear-cut segregated roles for having a valuable eco-system. Adhering to the aforementioned objectives, skill will be translated into imperative source of livelihood.


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1.10 - [Effective 12/01/2021] NMSU System Policy Framework
1.10 – [Effective 12/01/2021] NMSU System Policy Framework
Source: ARP Chapter 1 | Institutional Governance
Rule Administrator: Responsible Administrator - Vice Chancellor Sr. CFO, Responsible Executive - Chancellor, Responsible Office - Strategic System Services
Regents Policy 1.10, NMSU Policies and Rules
Regents Policy 1.70, Shared Governance
Standard Operating Procedures for ARP 1.10 – NMSU System Policy Framework
10/27/2021 Major Revision effective 12/01/2021 approved by Chancellor
2017 Recompliation
12/07/2015 Major Revision approved by Chancellor
10/21/2015 Former Policy 1.10 replicated by the Board of Regents as initial Rule 1.10
Part 1: AUTHORITY AND PURPOSE
1.1 Authority: The NMSU Board of Regents has delegated to the chancellor the authority to promulgate, amend and repeal Operational Policy for the NMSU System. (RPM 1.10; RPM 1.30).
1.2 Purpose: The purpose of this rule is to establish the criteria for NMSU System Operational Policy, and to set the framework by which it will be developed, vetted, approved, published, implemented, administered, and reviewed on a cyclic basis. Additionally, it identifies the Operational Policy Facilitator as the official to facilitate and support the work of the Policy Steering Committee, including maintenance of the NMSU Policy Library.
Part 2: SUMMARY
2.1 Policy Framework: This rule describes the types of Policy Action which may amend NMSU System Operational Policies maintained in the Administrative Rules and Procedures of NMSU. The type of Policy Action proposed will determine the vetting groups, timeline and applicable approval process. The Responsible Administrator, in consultation with Stakeholders and Responsible Offices, is authorized to issue corresponding Standard Operating Procedures to provide clarification and interpretation of the rule, to facilitate implementation. For example, the Standard Operating Procedures associated with this Operational Policy will illustrate policy flow and provide instructions (template forms, policy format) to regarding initiation of a proposal for Policy Action.
2.2 Policy Support Services: The Policy Steering Committee, led by the Operational Policy Facilitator, is assigned an integral role in the administration of this rule, consistent with the principles of Shared Governance. The Policy Steering Committee and Operational Policy Facilitator will promote best practices relating to policy development, review and approval; including being responsive to Stakeholders and acting in the best interest of the institution. The Policy Steering Committee confirms the type of Policy Action proposed to determine the applicable vetting groups, timeline and approval process, as well as collaborates with the proposal sponsors, vetting groups and provides the final recommendation to the chancellor.
Part 3: DEFINITIONS
The following terms will be capitalized to denote they are defined terms for purposes of this rule. In the future, all defined terms may be relocated from the individual policies to a centralized glossary in the NMSU Policy Library.
3.1 Administrative Rules and Procedures of NMSU: The online compilation of NMSU Operational Policies, accessible through the NMSU Policy Library.
3.2 NMSU Board of Regents: The governing board for New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Department of Agriculture.
3.3 NMSU Community: NMSU officials, students and employees, as well as visitors to NMSU campuses and properties. A visitor includes and is not limited to affiliates, contractors, vendors and the general public.
3.4 NMSU Policy Library: Located on the web at https://policy.nmsu.edu, this site contains links to the various tiers of policy directives applicable throughout the NMSU System: 1) Regents Policy set by the NMSU Board of Regents; 2) Operational Policy enacted by the chancellor, and 3) Standard Operating Procedures issued by the relevant Responsible Administrator. See also Part 5.5 C. below.
3.5 NMSU System: Property and operations under the control of the NMSU Board of Regents throughout the state, including the academic and administrative support units and their respective faculty, staff, students and visitors. The NMSU System includes all NMSU community colleges, educational centers, agricultural experiment stations, cooperative extension offices, and the New Mexico Department of Agriculture.
3.6 Operational Policy: Policy statements (rules) or key process elements (essential procedures) adopted by the chancellor that apply throughout the NMSU System and meet one or more of the criteria set forth in Part 4.1.
3.7 Operational Policy Facilitator: An NMSU official designated by the vice chancellor to facilitate and support the Policy Steering Committee and the Office of the Chancellor with administration of this policy.
3.8 Policy Action: The type of action sought by a Proposal Sponsor pertaining to Operational Policy: 1) new, amended or repealed policy, 2) interim policy, or 3) non-substantive correction or update. (See Part 4.3 below.)
3.9 Proposal Sponsor: The initiator of a proposal for Policy Action. The Proposal Sponsor will often be the Responsible Office or Responsible Administrator, but may also be an individual or campus constituency (e.g. Associated Students of NMSU, Faculty Senate and Employee Council).
3.10 Policy Steering Committee: A collaborative university board charged to oversee the policy development, and applicable vetting and approval process. The Policy Steering Committee is comprised of executive leadership and/or other NMSU representatives appointed by the chancellor, and Faculty Senate leadership (chair and vice chair or their designees). The Operational Policy Facilitator and other support staff as designated by the Office of the Chancellor will attend in a non-voting, ex officio capacity.
3.11 Regents Policy: Policies enacted by the NMSU Board of Regents, accessible through the NMSU Policy Library. Regents Policy provides direction relating to the mission and goals for the NMSU System, as well as regarding the Board's delegation or reservation of authority.
3.12 Responsible Administrator: A NMSU administrative position designated by the Operational Policy Facilitator, with concurrence of the vice chancellor, to oversee the development, vetting and applicable approval process, implementation, administration, and cyclic review of Operational Policy under the administrator's purview.
3.13 Responsible Executive: The supervisor of the Responsible Administrator.
3.14 Responsible Office: The NMSU unit supervised by the Responsible Administrator which coordinates the day-to-day responsibilities involved with the implementation, administration and cyclic review of Operational Policy, which may also involve policy development as indicated.
3.15 Shared Governance: Shared Governance as it pertains to this rule refers to participation by Faculty Senate leadership on behalf of all faculty in the various phases of policy making, including policy development, vetting, recommendation for approval, implementation and cyclic review. (See Regents Policy 1.70)
3.16 Stakeholder: A member of the NMSU Community, including representative constituencies, departments or other units that may be impacted by a proposed Policy Action. Examples include the Faculty Senate, the Associated Students of NMSU (ASNMSU) and the Employee Council.
3.17 Standard Operating Procedures: Supplemental guidance issued by the relevant Responsible Administrator, in consultation with Responsible Offices and Stakeholders, which may include step by step procedural detail to help the user understand the intent, application, or administrative processes required by the policy objective.
Part 4: KEY POLICY STATEMENTS
4.1 Operational Policy Criteria: Operational Policy is promulgated by the Office of the Chancellor, designed to foster transparency, consistency and accountability throughout the NMSU System.
A. Operational Policy must meet one or more of the following criteria:
Provides operational direction to advance NMSU's mission, goals and strategic plans;
Aligns functions to promote operational efficiency and effectiveness;
Requires or prohibits specific actions of NMSU employees, students and external individuals who use NMSU resources or services.
Is necessary to implement Regents Policy or to mitigate institutional risk, including support for adherence to applicable accreditation standards, regulatory and legal requirements.
B. Operational Policy does not include:
NMSU unit directives that apply only within the unit;
Regulations promulgated by the NMSU Board of Regents in its capacity as the governing body for the New Mexico Department of Agriculture pursuant to the State Rules Act, NMSA 1978, § 14-4-1 et seq or
Regents Policies approved by the NMSU Board of Regents.
4.2 Fundamental Principles:
A. Policy Priorities: Through Operational Policy and associated Standard Operating Procedures, NMSU administration protects the health, safety and welfare of the NMSU Community members, and safeguards and preserves NMSU finances, property and resources. Consideration should be given to how a specific policy proposal aligns with the NMSU mission, vision and goals; regional and programmatic accreditation standards; and the potential impact of a proposed Policy Action to the various Stakeholders and to NMSU property and resources.
B. Policy Hierarchy: NMSU policies exist within the ranked hierarchy of authorities set forth below. If a conflict or inconsistency arises, the provisions of the policy with the higher ranked status will govern.
Federal law, statutes, and regulations;
State law, statutes, and regulations;
Policy and procedures of the NMSU Board of Regents (Regents Policy, found at https://rpm.nmsu.edu);
NMSU System Operational Policy (Operational Policy, found at https://arp.nmsu.edu);
Standard Operating Procedures (reflective of regional accreditation standards where appropriate), found at https://ARPSOPs.nmsu.edu and
Unit-Level (college, division, department) internal directives and protocols (reflective of programmatic accreditation standards where appropriate).
C. Chancellor's Authority: Nothing in this policy shall be construed to limit the chancellor's authority to issue, amend, suspend or repeal an Operational Policy or unit-level policy to respond to a public health emergency or other unforeseen disaster, time sensitive external directive or emerging risk, or other extraordinary circumstance. (See Interim Policy Action at Part 4.3 B.
D. Engaging Stakeholders: NMSU is committed to Shared Governance and engaging with relevant Stakeholders.
E. Duty to Abide by NMSU Policy: All members of the NMSU Community are expected to review and abide by Regents Policy, Operational Policy and associated Standard Operating Procedures applicable to their duties, responsibilities, or activities.
F. Approach in Drafting: Policy Sponsors, Responsible Administrators and Responsible Offices should maximize practicality and minimize burdens of time, cost or other resource expenditure, training, and complexity in their approach when drafting Operational Policy and associated Standard Operating Procedures.
G. Resolution of Conflicts in Policy Documents: Should a conflict or inconsistency arise, the Operational Policy approved and signed by the chancellor will govern.
H. Cross Referencing: NMSU webpages referencing NMSU policy should link directly to the appropriate source policy document (e.g. Regents Policy, Operational Policy, Standard Operating Procedures). Unit handbooks, guidebooks, procedures, and similar resource materials should also link directly to the source policy document rather than copy/paste or duplicate the material.
4.3 Types of Policy Action: Policy Sponsors and Responsible Administrators may request one of the following types of Policy Actions relating to Operational Policy:
New, Amended or Repealed Policy: Policy action that repeals current policy, proposes new initiatives or programs, or amends with operational impact. Proposals for new policy, amended policy or repeal of policy that will have a significant operational impact will be enacted after vetting with the Stakeholders, as indicated by the Policy Steering Committee.
Interim Policy: Policy action for which there is a compelling reason to expedite, approved directly by the chancellor. Interim policy will be enacted after consultation with the Office of General Counsel. Interim Policy will be effective for a period of six months up to a year, during which time it will be formally vetted.
Non-Substantive Corrections and Updates: Policy action which merely corrects errors in the ARP (grammatical or typographical errors, broken hyperlinks), updates job titles or office names, or other similar non-substantive change that has no operational impact. Non-substantive policy action will be enacted by the Operational Policy Facilitator after consultation with the Responsible Administrator.
4.4 Analysis of Impact of Proposed Policy Action: When a proposal has the potential for significant operational impact as determined by the Policy Steering Committee (See Standard Operating Procedures, "Reasonably Anticipated Operational Impact"), it will be assigned for formal vetting by the appropriate Stakeholders.
4.5 Authorization of Standard Operating Procedures: This rule authorizes the respective Responsible Administrators, in consultation with Responsible Offices and Stakeholders, to issue Standard Operating Procedures, which must be consistent with Regents Policy and with Operational Policy. The Standard Operating Procedures will be linked from the relevant Operational Policy to help the user understand the intent, application, or administrative processes relevant to the policy objective and may include timelines, flow charts, FAQs, templates, forms, interpretative clarification etc. Responsible Administrators must provide a copy of each official edition of their respective Standard Operating Procedures to the Operational Policy Facilitator for publication and records maintenance purposes.
4.6 Roles of the Policy Steering Committee and Operational Policy Facilitator: The Policy Steering Committee provides guidance, promotes transparency and awareness, facilitates communication and provides informative recommendations to the chancellor regarding the proposals for Policy Action. The Operational Policy Facilitator is charged with supporting the Policy Steering Committee, serving as a resource for Proposal Sponsors and Responsible Administrators, and for maintaining the electronic NMSU Policy Library. The Operational Policy Facilitator works with the Policy Steering Committee to prioritize and guide Policy Action proposals through coordination, facilitation and monitoring, including cyclic reviews.
4.7 Cyclic Review: To stay current with the legal, political and environmental changes which affect institutions of higher learning, Responsible Executives are charged with the cyclic review and update of the Operational Policies within their purview. (See Part 5.7 below.)
Part 5: KEY PROCESS ELEMENTS
Key Process Elements provide essential procedural steps which may be required by the Operational Policy. In contrast, the Standard Operating Procedures provide detailed information in distinct formats to facilitate understanding and compliance. The Key Process Elements relating to the development, vetting, approval process, publication, implementation, administration and cyclic review of Operational Policy are set forth below:
5.1 Initiation of Policy Action: Proposal(s) for Policy Action may be initiated by any member or constituency of the NMSU C The Proposal Sponsor consults with the relevant Responsible Office(s) and/or Responsible Administrator(s) to complete the form required for proposed Policy Action. The Responsible Administrator signs the form to acknowledge that the proposed Policy Action will be submitted to the Policy Steering Committee as the first step in the review process.
5.2 Review by Policy Steering Committee: Proposals are submitted to the Policy Steering Committee through the Operational Policy Facilitator or designee(s). The Policy Steering Committee confirms the type of Policy Action proposed and the corresponding operational impact, to determine the applicable vetting group(s) and approval process.
5.3 Vetting: Review of proposals is conducted in accordance with principles of Shared Governance and an inclusive process. Once the Policy Steering Committee determines the vetting groups, the Proposal Sponsor in coordination with the Responsible Administrator manages the vetting and finalization process. The Operational Policy Facilitator will coordinate posting the proposal at the appropriate policy website for university wide review and comment. The Office of General Counsel may provide comment on any proposal at any stage in the policy development, vetting and approval processes.
Routing to Vetting Groups: Vetting groups include Stakeholders including any unit deemed appropriate by the Policy Steering Committee. Academic proposals will be submitted to Faculty Senate. Stakeholders who do not respond during the vetting period will be deemed to have abstained.
Finalization Based on Feedback: The Responsible Administrator and Proposal Sponsor will review the feedback and make revisions consistent with interests of the institution. Substantially modified proposals may be re-posted by the Operational Policy Facilitator or re-routed based on guidance from the Policy Steering Committee.
5.4 Approval Processes:
A. Expedited Review/Approval: Two of the three types of Policy Actions are subject to abbreviated vetting and approval processes.
Non-Substantive Policy Updates: Requires action by the Operational Policy Facilitator and notice to the Responsible Administrator.
New, Amended or Repealed Policy: When a proposal will not have a significant operational impact, it requires an informative recommendation from the Policy Steering Committee and approval from the Chancellor to enact.
Interim Policy Actions: Requires approval from the chancellor to address situations where there is a compelling reason justifying an expedited policy change.
Examples of Interim Policy Action include revisions for compliance with accreditation standards, state or federal law, regulation, executive order; or needed to address time sensitive issues (e.g. for risk management purposes).
Interim Policy Actions will be announced to campus in similar fashion as other approved Policy Actions and the formal proposal and vetting process will be commenced at an appropriate time, as decided by the chancellor, in consultation with the Policy Steering Committee.
Interim Policy Actions will be effective for six months, with the potential for a time extension by the Chancellor which should not exceed one year. Interim Actions, including extensions of their effective dates, if any, must be formally documented as approved by the chancellor.
B. Vetted Proposals for New, Amended or Repealed Policy: After a proposal with the potential for a significant operational impact has been vetted, the Policy Steering Committee will issue its collective recommendations to the chancellor. In making the final decision to approve or disapprove a proposed Policy Action, the chancellor will balance the needs and interests of the involved units and Stakeholders with the best interest of the institution.
5.5 Publication, Communication and Reporting: Policy Actions approved by the chancellor and non-substantive corrections and updates to Operational Policy will be routed to the Operational Policy Facilitator for publication and maintenance within the NMSU Policy Library.
New, amended or repealed policy, including Interim Policy, will be announced via the NMSU mass communication channel(s) and appropriately disseminated.
The Operational Policy Facilitator will submit a summary of approved Policy Actions, with exception of the non-substantive corrections and updates, as an informational item for inclusion in the record of each regular meeting of the NMSU Board of Regents.
The approval and amendment history for each type of policy in the NMSU Policy Library at https://policy.nmsu.edu should be included together with effective dates.
5.6 Implementation and Administration: Performed by the Responsible Office designated by the Responsible Administrator, policy administration includes training of staff, initial implementation and day to day application and adherence to the policy.
5.7 Cyclic Review: Cyclic Review will occur within a range of three to five years from the date of adoption or from the most recent date of modification. If an Operational Policy is reviewed for potential update, but does not require amendment, this will be indicated in the revision history. When Cyclic Review indicates an update is appropriate, the Responsible Administrator will coordinate with the Operational Policy Facilitator to submit a proposal for Policy Action.
Part 6: CROSS REFERENCES
Cross references include sources of authority, related authorities and the associated Standard Operating Procedures which assist with policy implementation and administration.


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Trump Promises Mutually Beneficial Trade Deals in Meeting With Kenyan President
By Holly Kellum
August 27, 2018Politics
In his first meeting with President Donald Trump, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said he hoped to build on the "strong" and "solid" relationship the two nations enjoyed, and joked that he hoped the United States would share some of its record-breaking stock market figures with Kenya.
Kenyatta, who was reelected last July as the leader of one of Africa's largest economic and transportation hubs, is the son of the country's first leader, Jomo Kenyatta.
Trump described the relationship as "tremendous" and pointed to the construction of Kenya's first high-speed expressway by an American company as an example of the two nations' economic cooperation.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcome the President of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, and Mrs. Margaret Kenyatta on the South Portico of the White House in Washington on Aug. 27, 2018. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)
"We're going to be making some great deals for both countries," Trump said in a photo opp before the meeting.
While in Washington, Kenyatta oversaw the signing of two investment deals by American companies worth a combined $238 million, his office said. One was for a 100-megawatt, grid-connected wind power plant south of Nairobi, and the other was a letter of commitment to expand Twiga Foods, a mobile-based food distributor, among other food-related projects.
Although the entire country is just over twice the size of Nevada, with about double the population of Pennsylvania, it had a $118 million trade deficit with the United States last year.
The United States was Kenya's third-largest export partner last year, mainly exporting tea, coffee, and apparel, while Kenya wasn't even in the United States' top 15 for exports.
The two were also expected to talk about regional security. The United States has been working with Kenyan forces to defeat the al-Qaida affiliate al-Shabaab in East Africa. The terrorist group is trying to remove Somalia's U.N.-backed government and impose its own strict interpretation of Islam. The group has intensified attacks in Kenya since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in 2011.
The elephant in the room during the two leaders' meeting was China, one of Kenya's largest investors and the holder of over half of its public debt. China has been investing heavily in Africa, and many are watching what Trump will do regarding China's growing influence in the area.
A few days before visiting the United States, Kenyatta met with China's ambassador to Kenya, Sun Baohong, to talk about an upcoming summit on China–Africa cooperation in Beijing. Kenyatta is the second leader from sub-Saharan Africa to visit the White House after Trump met with Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari in April.
President Donald Trump hosts a joint press conference with President Muhammadu Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 30, 2018. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)
Kenya's cabinet secretary for foreign affairs, Monica Juma, said in a statement that she expected Kenyatta to push for increasing exports under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which gives certain sub-Saharan nations increased market access to the United States.
"You know, we are a key beneficiary of AGOA. But it is also true that there are a number of lines within AGOA that we could enhance. And so, there will be discussions around this. And we hope we can also commence discussions on post-AGOA arrangements," she said in a statement.
Juma, who met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Aug. 23, called the United States the most "significant country in the world today."