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Employer: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science - Appalachian Lab
Location: Frostburg, MD
Last Date to Apply: 09/04/2018
Open Until Filled: Yes
The Appalachian Laboratory (AL) of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) seeks applicants to fill a tenure-track faculty position in Animal Ecology at the level of Assistant Professor. We are searching for an innovative scientist who addresses research questions regarding ecological patterns and processes at diverse spatial scales. Preference will be given to applicants who: (1) integrate spatial data with quantitative/computational tools to connect phenomena across spatio-temporal scales, including patterns of distribution, genetic diversity, movement and migration and (2) will devote a portion of their research program to issues relevant to conservation and management in eastern North America. Our primary goal is to enhance our expertise in applied ecology toward a predictive understanding of ecological and evolutionary responses to ongoing global change processes, including land use change, disease, and climate change.
The UMCES mission includes advancing basic and applied research, promoting graduate-level education, conducting science outreach and application, and providing scientific expertise for regional environmental policies on topics such as air, land, water, and wildlife management/conservation. UMCES' research domains encompass "genes-to-ecosystems" and "mountains-to-the-sea", from within the Chesapeake Bay watershed to national and international opportunities. Faculty at AL emphasize research, while carrying an expectation of mentoring graduate students and a modest graduate-level teaching load. AL faculty are provided strong administrative support and have access to excellent research, computing, and teaching facilities, including isotopic, molecular, plant, soil, and water analysis laboratories, and a greenhouse. AL is located in Frostburg, MD, a small college town (home to Frostburg State University) in the heart of the central Appalachian Mountains, with excellent recreational and cultural opportunities. See https://www.umces.edu/al to learn more about UMCES and AL.
Applicants should submit the following documents through the applicant portal at:
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(1) a curriculum vitae; (2) a concise statement describing their vision and plans for research if they were to come to AL; (3) statement on experience with and approach to graduate-level teaching and mentorship; (4) up to three selected reprints and preprints; and (5) names of four references (including title, mailing address, telephone, and email address). Review of applications will begin on September 4, 2018 and continue until the position is filled. Inquiries may be addressed to the Search Committee Chair, Dr. Matt Fitzpatrick at mfitzpatrick@umces.edu.
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Trudeau's GG pick faces investigation after 400 complaints filed over her inability to speak French
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Justin Trudeau's pick for Governor General, Mary Simon, is facing an investigation by Canada's official languages' watchdog after more than 400 complaints were filed over her lack of French, one of Canada's two official languages. Previous appointees to the position spoke French, and while Simon claims to be learning French, she had the opportunity to do that when she worked as a public servant. Simon, who is Inuit, only speaks English and Inuktitut, Global News reports. In a statement, Official Languages Commissioner Raymond Théberge said "the appointment of a governor general who is not fluent in both official languages has elicited many reactions across the country since her appointment was announced on July 6th." While Théberge says that he understands the "turning point" that Canada is at when it comes to reconciliation, he says that the number of complaints over Simon's lack of French continue to grow. "I have also received a significant number of complaints on this matter—over 400 to date." Théberge says that his investigation will focus on the Privy Council Office's role in Simon's appointment.
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How the AP Will Decide When to Call States on Election Night—and When to Wait
By Mike Pesca
Early voting in Milwaukee on Tuesday. Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty Images
There is no formal mechanism for the United States to say, "We have a president." Of course, there are 50 states that vote, and then there is the affirming of the Electoral College. But on election night or soon thereafter, we have generally defaulted to letting the television networks "make the call." But in reality, the gold standard within the media is the AP, the Associated Press. Once the AP makes the call, well, then that's it. The call is made. But as with all standards, this gold standard has changed, and it has had to change for this election.
As part of The Gist's series "Calling It" about how the media is preparing for election night, I spoke with Julie Pace, who is the Washington bureau chief of the Associated Press. We discussed how the AP makes the call, and what it's preparing for on Nov. 3 and the days—and possibly weeks—that follow. A portion of that interview is transcribed below. It has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
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Read Mike Pesca's introduction to "Calling It" alongside excerpts from his interviews with NBC's Steve Kornacki and CNN's Brian Stelter.
Mike Pesca: What people are going to want to know is who won and when. You partnered with the University of Chicago to launch VoteCast in 2018, and you've been using it since then. That gives you a counting tool, but not enough to make the call. Could you take us through the portion of your task that is vote tabulation and research? How does that go down?
Julie Pace: VoteCast will be one tool, but it's by far not the only tool that we'll be using. We have a range of resources. We start with a group of analysts and race callers who are real experts in these states. Some people have been calling races in these states for several cycles. We draw on them pretty extensively here.
But essentially what they do is they are waiting to see if enough votes have come in, in the right places in those states to give us a margin [with which] we feel comfortable calling that race. That means that you could end up in a situation where we know that the margin [of victory] is 2 points right now, but we've got 5 percent of the votes still out, and it's in those swingy areas of that state, a swingy county. It might mean, though, that if it's a 2 percent margin and the Democrat is up, and all of the vote that is out still is from the most heavily Democratic county in the state, that might put us in position where we're able to call that race. It's just a series of data points that we're looking at to make that determination. They don't always cut one way or the other.
So it is the case that the AP will make a call even if it is mathematically possible for the candidate who you're making the call against to win. The standard isn't if Candidate A is leading by 20,000 votes, and if there are 21,000 votes out there, we simply will not make the call. No. You look at those 21,000 votes and say, "Oh, my God, they're from areas that should heavily favor Candidate A. Therefore, we can make the call."
Yeah. There are certainly situations where yes, based on raw vote that is still out [there] technically—if the trailing candidate captured every single vote that is still out, they could win. But if we know that that vote is from an area that votes 80–20 for the candidate that's ahead, that will probably give us confidence to call that race. There are always caveats here. One thing that is always a really big caveat for us is we pay very close attention to what recanvass and recount rules are in these states. If we have a margin that is within that window, we're not going to call a race, because we don't want to have the AP race call be part of that process. We don't want to be used in legal challenges or in the ways that states are evaluating whether to start that process or not. If the margin is within that window, we're going to let that process go forward before we call a race. Again, always caveats. But yeah, absolutely. We'd look not just at what the raw tally is, but where those votes would be coming [from].
"You might not know the winner on election night, and that does not mean that something has gone wrong." — Julie Pace, Associated Press
I read in the AP's materials that you have a rule that you do not call a race if the AP determines that the margin of vote is 0.5 percent. You're not going to make the call if you think it's so close that you could be wrong.
That is typically our standard. Yeah. I think one of the reasons why we do that is because we only want to call these races once. We don't want to call a race and then, say, learn that there is some change in calculation. We have had situations where a county can come back and say, "Actually, we didn't put this number of votes into the system that we had," not because anything nefarious happened there, but [because] these are human processes. We have found that sometimes there are just things that change. When the margin is that close, we don't want to have gone out and called a race and then have to take that race call back.
That's, I think, really central in this election. We want people to feel really confident that when we call a race, that it is definitive, that you can trust us, that this is not going to change. You're not going to learn something else that happened, and we're going to have to reverse that call. But that means that we have to have some level of caution within our race call to allow us to be certain that when we're doing it, that it's right.
Would it surprise you if there is a situation where the networks have a bunch of check marks next to states they've called, but the AP doesn't? Maybe four, five, six swing states where other big media organizations with lots of audience have weighed in, but the AP is holding back?
I would say, if you look historically, you'll see a lot of examples where we've called races that other outlets haven't called, or they've called races that we haven't called yet. We all take a similar approach, but we all have tweaks around the edges on this stuff. It's certainly possible that, yeah, they could call some races before we're ready. It's also possible that we'll call races before they're ready. We were in a situation in '16 where there were some states, individual states, where we hadn't called the race yet when some other outlets had, but we ultimately called Wisconsin and then the presidency before others did.
Sometimes it kind of balances out at the end. We're just going to kind of play our own game. That's how we've always done it. We were very clear in our newsroom on election days: We care about the AP race count. That's the one that we control. It's the one that we believe is the gold standard. It's the one we want to point people to and make people feel confident in.
More on Calling It
Dan Rather on What the 2000 Election Can Teach Us About Election Night 2020
How Far Will Conservative Media Go to Help Trump on Election Night?
Can the TV Networks Get It Right on Nov. 3?
So far, we've been talking about accuracy and numbers, a very important part of journalism, but an essential part is narrative. What will you, as an organization, maybe even you personally, be doing in your explanatory or storytelling capacity to explain to the voters, the audience, Americans, and maybe temper expectations about what election night really means?
We have been writing for some time, since the summer really, stories trying to lay out for people this simple idea that you might not know the winner on election night, and that does not mean that something has gone wrong. That is just a function of the fact that we're expecting more mail-in vote this year in some states, including a state like Pennsylvania, which is a really important state, isn't going to be able to start counting those mail-in ballots until pretty darn late. That could really slow down that process. We've been trying to really just hammer home this idea that it's OK if there's no winner on election night. That's not going to probably mean that there was some kind of widespread fraud here.
The other thing, though, that I think you're going to see from us is I think we have to go above and beyond this cycle in explaining the race calls that we are making and explaining the race calls that we're not making. I don't think it's going to be enough anymore in this environment—as much as I think that we're the gold standard—I don't think it's enough in this environment to just say, "AP has called this race for this candidate," or "AP is not able to call this race at this time," and expect that people will just take us at our word.
Stay tuned for Wednesday's episode of The Gist's special series "Calling It," which will feature an interview about election night misinformation with Brian Rosenwald, a historian and author of Talk Radio's America.
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A Jobs Plan for the Post-Cubicle Economy
By Sara Horowitz
Just as workers left the plow for the assembly line, they are now leaving the cubicle for the coffee shop. Here's what Washington needs to know--and what it needs to do.
About 150 years ago, American workers began a profound shift from farms to factories. After suffering through poor work conditions, low pay, and no workplace protections, the workers organized and successfully helped build the framework of laws that became known as FDR's New Deal. This landmark legislation from the 1930s protected workers and supported labor unions by limiting the number of hours that could be worked and setting a baseline minimum pay. But from a larger perspective, the New Deal demonstrated that government had acknowledged the shift in the U.S. workforce, heard their voice, and created a new system in which they could thrive.
Now we find ourselves in the middle of an equally large transition: just as workers left the plow for the assembly line, they are now leaving the cubicle for the coffee shop. Welcome to the Gig Economy, where over 42 million Americans are working independently - as freelancers, part-timers, consultants, contractors, and the self-employed. They are simultaneously holding multiple jobs, working for different employers, and mastering diverse skills. They are accountants and fashion designers and website architects. And, they are completely left out of the New Deal, which protects the rest of the workforce.
[Read Horowitz' first column "The Freelance Surge is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time" ]
If the New Deal had evolved to meet the ever-expanding U.S. workforce, then independent workers would have access to unemployment insurance, affordable health insurance, protection from discrimination, and guaranteed payment for their work. Instead, New Deal protections are stuck in the last century, and those basic needs are out of reach for one-third of the workforce. But we can't simply extend the New Deal to include all workers. Instead, the New Deal must be updated to reflect this new reality. A "new" New Deal will require creating a completely new paradigm for worker supports and building completely new systems for those supports.
The New Deal was based on linking all rights to a single job, which made sense for the Manufacturing Era. At that time, people worked for one company for a long time, so attaching protections to the job was the easiest way to cover the majority of workers. The "new" New Deal must be rooted in portability and mobility. The protections and rights must be centered on the individual, not the job, and must move with the individual from gig to gig.
Take the example of health insurance. Large companies benefit from big cost savings because existing laws allow them to group workers together in large risk pools. But as the way we work today becomes more outsourced, open, and flexible, smaller groups that share an affinity outside of work at a large company should be able to group together to share in these same cost savings. Some of health reform's proposed solutions, like creating Consumer Owned and Operated Plans (CO-OPs) are a great start in harnessing the power of smaller groups, but the savings are still tilted toward large companies, not the independent workers of the Gig Economy
Unemployment insurance is another example. If we simply plug freelancers into our unemployment system, the system would quickly go bankrupt since freelancers - who have no certainty of gigs - experience frequent periods of unemployment. Instead, we could allow freelancers to contribute to a pre-tax fund during flush times that they could draw from during lean times.
Coming together in unions is another right attached to a job and not available to independent workers, meaning they can't fully leverage their political power. By evolving this policy to allow freelancers to unionize, seemingly disparate workers would recognize their shared needs and have the ability to come together to get their needs met. (At Freelancers Union, this is what we call "new unionism," where we're bringing independent workers together to create power in politics and power in markets.)
Creating a "new" New Deal is crucial if we want to build economic security for one-third - and growing - of the workforce. Just as government acknowledged the shift from agrarian to industrial work, and thus created the New Deal, it's now time to acknowledge the shift happening today. But this isn't just about evolving our laws - it's about the changing role of government in our society. As government subsidies are declining, it's up to all of us to be entrepreneurial and together build solutions to these problems, something I'll discuss in a future column. For the workers of the Gig Economy, social media, collaborative consumption, and crowdsourcing are tools of the trade. Our "new" New Deal must follow suit and be created - collaboratively - by us.


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Q: Tracking changes and different iterations of a configuration file I have a number of different versions of a php application, configuration file. Currently the conf folder is being ignored by git, but I'd like to track the changes to config.ini separately, and also label where each version of the config.ini should be. We are not using any specific deployment tools, and though ive looked at capistrano, we are not ready to use it. Also, I looked into using gist or a subrepo. But unsure how to track the deployments. Each config file is ignored, so i'd like to track versions and deployment history. So, when deploying to production I can track changes, and prevent conflicts that introduce bugs.
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So if Jack merges Branch A to master branch, and deploys code to production, the config file changes are deployed safely.
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Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko sentenced to 7 years
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[JURIST] Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive] was sentenced to seven years in prison [press release] on Tuesday on charges of abuse of power and corruption. Judge Rodion Kireyev also barred Tymoshenko from serving public office for three years and ruled in favor of a 1.5 billion hryvnias judgment against her. Despite the conviction, international support for Tymoshenko remains strong, with many calling for her release. Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] called the trial politically motivated on charges that are not internationally recognizable offenses [press release]. The European Union (EU) [official website] announced that the treatment of Tymoshenko will have repercussions for Ukraine's EU accession [press release]:
The EU urges the competent Ukrainian authorities to ensure a fair, transparent and impartial process in any appeal in the case of Ms. Tymoshenko and in the other trials related to members of the former Government. The right of appeal should not be compromised by imposing limitations on the defendants' ability to stand in future elections in Ukraine, including the parliamentary elections scheduled for next year. The EU will reflect on its policies towards Ukraine. The way the Ukrainian authorities will generally respect universal values and rule of law, and specifically how they will handle these cases, risks having profound implications for the EU-Ukraine bilateral relationship, including for the conclusion of the Association Agreement, our political dialogue and our co-operation more broadly.
Tymoshenko repeated her hope [press release] that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] would overturn the verdict and stated her intention to appeal [press release]. In June, Tymoshenko filed a complaint [JURIST report] with the ECHR alleging violations of the European Convention of Human Rights [text, PDF]. The complaint argued that the charges against Tymoshenko are politically engineered by current Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych [official website, in Ukrainian], Tymoshenko's political rival.
Last week, the Ukrainian parliament [official website] rejected four amendments to the country's Criminal Code [materials] that sought to decriminalize Article 365, which stipulates jail time for abuse of office [JURIST report]. Tymoshenko's trial resumed at the end of September after a two-week recess [JURIST reports]. In August, Yushchenko testified against [JURIST report] Tymoshenko, his former prime minister. That same month, the Kiev Appeals Court refused Tymoshenko's appeal of her detention for contempt charges [JURIST reports]. Also in August, Kireyev rejected a request [JURIST report] from Tymoshenko to release her from prison. In July, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) [official website, in Ukrainian] announced that they are launching a criminal investigation [JURIST report] into United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU), an energy company at one time headed by Tymoshenko. Tymoshenko's government was dissolved in March 2010 after she narrowly lost the presidential election to Yanukovych. Tymoshenko had alleged that widespread voter fraud allowed Yanukovych to win the election.


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When I wrote my post about substance marking the gubernatorial campaign I guess I forgot to knock on wood. One of the things I most enjoy about these campaigns are the debates. Getting to see two candidates go face to face matching wits and intelligence. Though some argue that debates are too often press conferences and talking points, they also give us a chance to see how candidates might react to the unexpected. It is also an opportunity for candidates to really lay out and contrast their plans and policy to average voters that are not always paying as much attention to the issues as the process.
So I was rather disappointed to find out Ned Lamont is skipping the traditional New London debate thus leaving us without one this cycle. Now this is not just some avoidance of Dan's debate challenge by Lamont. I remember going to New London for the debate in 2006 (back when it was Malloy v. DeStefano) and getting to see not just the debate but the huge number of supporters that turned out before the debate to support their candidates. I thought it was a great rallying tool for both campaigns, so I don't see why Ned Lamont doesn't want to debate.
So maybe Ned Lamont is afraid he won't do so well against Dan Malloy again? Is he concerned that his momentum is waining? If Ned won't debate Dan anymore, will he still have the courage to debate Foley in the fall, or will we just be watching TV commercials constantly?
That being said, I think it's too bad they cancelled it. I think they should "hold" it anyways and if Lamont doesn't show-up they could just have Dan take questions from the audience and YouTube town hall style.


The next version of Moodle, the popular open source learning management system, will integrate Gravatar support for avatars in the next major release. The decision, including the (lengthy) discussion around the decision, can be seen on Moodle's development tracking system. It will be a new feature in Moodle version 2.2, which is scheduled for release on the first of December this year.
Gravatar is a free service run by Automattic that allows the management of globally recognized avatars, and has done so since version two launched in February of 2007. Gravatar was later acquired by Automattic in October of 2007.
Are you a fan of Gravatar? Would you like to see Gravatar integrated into more services that you use?
Twitter integration – it *needs* to happen.
Absolutely, it would make my life much easier!!!


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Driving Change? How Not to Crash and Burn
With so much insight and advice available on leading change, why do most corporate road trips to a desired future state end in shards of glass and twisted steel?
That's a question corporate executives are obsessing over more and more, judging from the volumes being written about managing the people side of change. Over the past 25 years, as organizations have embraced change management broadly as a discipline, a host of scholars, sages and scoundrels have weighed in with advice. We now know a lot about why individuals and organizations change. Or don't.
Yet whether we call it "change," "transition," or "transformation," and whether we propose to lead it or manage it, studies repeatedly show that change initiatives fail 50 to 70 percent of the time—an atrocious record that hasn't budged over the past decade. What gives?
It often comes down to the quality of executive sponsorship.
Each initiative is unique, and there's no one-size-fits-all model that will work every time. We often make it harder than it has to be, however.
Change is a journey that never ends. If you're leading change, here's how to increase your chances of ending up in a better place than where you started.
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Case Study: The Right Chemistry for Success
Employee Engagement and Mobilization


When it comes to aftermarket Polaris Ranger accessories, roofs, windshields, winches and LED cargo/backup lights are widely regarded as must-haves. Digging a little deeper, roofs with a radio and speakers, quick-remove windshields, and wrap-around bumpers with built-in winch mounts are also extremely popular. Lift kits and aftermarket tires from industry leaders like Super ATV are also extremely popular side-by-side accessories. But in addition to these big-ticket items, there are also myriad smaller accessories that can make a huge difference in your offroading comfort and performance.
Organization, for instance, can make your work tasks more efficient and your leisure rides more enjoyable. Cargo bed tool boxes, frame-suspended storage pouches, and roll cage organizers are common UTV accessories that keep things orderly as well as optimize space. If you use your Ranger as a work vehicle, there are countless mounts and attachments that tightly secure chainsaws, axes, and other tools in the bed or on the side of your Polaris Ranger. In a similar vein, bow, rifle, and ammunition cases/carriers are the perfect way to keep your hunting gear both protected and tidy. And we can't talk about protective measures without mentioning travel and storage covers -- which shelter your machine from the sun, rain, wind, and snow. However, Midsize accessories that protect your machine are just the start. What's more important than your Polaris? The passengers of course. And to protect the most important cargo, there have been great advancements in aftermarket seat belts, harnesses, buckles, and UTV handholds. Irrespective of your machine, be it a Polaris Ranger EXT, a Polaris Ranger 500, or a Polaris Ranger Midsize 570, even the smallest Polaris Ranger Accessories can make a world of difference, improving your ride and helping you get the most out of your Polaris Ranger.
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Regarding the latter, even if your machine came with a stereo, the stock sound system is weak sauce to say the least. You can swap out your stock Polaris Ranger speakers for better ones like those by Kicker, which will make a huge difference… even without an amp. But if you really want to turn out the decibels on the trail, a few ten-inch Wet Sounds Stealth speakers, a JI audio amp, and a couple twelve-inch subs in a bandpass box in the bed will turn your Mid-Size ranger into concert hall on wheels. Mount the speakers in the front and back corners with six-inch PVC cap with pipe inside flush-mounted and u-bolted to the cage and you'll have surround sound that rivals the best IMax theaters.
In addition to Polaris Ranger audio accessories, many riders also upgrade their Mid-Size Rangers with various lights. LED replacement bulbs are a great option to upgrade those dull Polaris Ranger headlights, while UTV light bars, side-by-side reverse lights, and Polaris Ranger spotlights are all great to have and perform a variety of functions. And if you really want to trick out your machine, Polaris Ranger fog lamps, work lights, and in-grill LEDs can all be installed to illuminate even the darkest of nights.


It is regrettable that periodically we must have this conversation! What "fun" is it to sit and spend time flooding the comment section of a blog with all sort of junk. Look, I read and evaluate each comment, and will answer those that call for personal attention. I get hundreds of comments all the time. So that my serious readers understand, I am tired of emails that are lewd, pornographic, attempts to sell internet services, pharmaceuticals, or to entice me to open some link to wherever. PLEASE, KNOCK IT OFF. I will always identify you as spam and delete you; so quit wasting time – both yours and mine!!!! Thank you and God Bless.
whereof eating we shall live and not die as Adam.
Opening Prayer of the Office of Preparation.
As I listen to this prayer at every liturgy and look at the icon of the Nativity hung over the Prothesis Table, it becomes Christmas at each liturgy. This year, the Days of Blogging, have been one way to centre our attention on the manger and the cave. In these days there is a great need to find the manger spiritually. Our financial, political and international situations call for a return to innocence of spirit. We lack simple trust. No longer do we trust governments, institutions, including the Church, or even the future. Our lost trust is a by product of a great age of cynicism. Now is a good time to reflect on the manger. The manger is more than a place to see on Christmas cards and to sing of in hymns and carols. The manger in a cave is the focus of salvation history. The beginning of the trip to another dark place – the tomb. Here in this Opening Prayer, we begin the journey of the Theanthropos, the God/Man to redeem humanity. His route leads from Bethlehem to Golgotha; from the manger to the Tomb, from paradise to Hades. Our cynicism can be erased and our trust restored if we respond to God's plan. God's plan is His outreach to us his creatures. It is God entering Human history because of His great love. We are the recipients of God's unconditional love. It is our calling to respond.
Question: What is an apostolic father? Today, this is a fitting question. It is the feastday of St. Ignatius of Antioch, the God-bearer. St Ignatius was the second bishop of Antioch after St. Peter. Back to the original question, Ignatius is an apostolic father; because he was a disciple of an apostle of Christ. In St. Ignatius' case, he was a disciple of St John the Evangelist, the beloved disciple of Christ. His writings allow us to see the development of theology in the first part of the second century. Ignatius was sentenced to death in the arena at Rome about 108 AD. On his way to his death from Antioch, Ignatius wrote several letters to various Churches along the route. These epistles give a serious glimpse into the early theology of the nascent Christian Church. Some of the most interesting topics which Ignatius discussed were the three distinct pastoral offices: bishop, presbyter and deacon, the concept of divine economy (God's plan of salvation), the idea of Christ as the God/Man, the theology of the Episcopos (Bishop) and the role of Rome in the early Christian community.
especially a union with Jesus and the Father.
Here we see Christians are united to Christ. They allow Christ to be born into their hearts and their community through the Eucharist, in communion with their Bishop. All Christians are called to be Christ-bearers as was St. Ignatius. This is our calling. This is the destination of our journey to Bethlehem.


This entry was posted in OTF and tagged guilt, Planet of the Apes, Robert J. Sawyer, science fiction, staying positive. Bookmark the permalink.
Exactly how much time did it require you to post "Happy Medium"?
Thanks for stopping by. It took me about 15-20 minutes to write. Glad you liked it.
Interesting post – what comes to mind first for me is that you and Robert J. Sawyer are not the same; that what works for him (and what doesn't!) is different from what will and won't work for you. This is coming from my perspective of working with individuals and knowing that because of history, constitutional type, and a bunch of other factors that make up their context, I can't apply the same principles to each individual.
Give yourself permission to "try on" different ways of working, within the context of the goals you have set for yourself – you'll know pretty quickly what works and what doesn't – your gut, your body, your family will all help to give you that information!
And keep poking that barely breathing body of a novel – with the right energy it'll come back to life!!!
lol – thanks Joanne — I intend to keep poking with extreme prejudice!
I think what struck me most with Sawyer's reply is that I now had a ready-made excuse. Here's an acclaimed author of 22 novels giving me permission (though he didn't likely know it) NOT to write. What a freeing thing that is!
You're right of course, every writer seems to be different. I did manage to write the first draft every day after working all day. Somehow though the second and third drafts are different. It takes a lot more brain power to edit and craft than it does to simply throw some words down on the page. Not that I wasn't "seriously" writing in the first draft phase, but the process is much different. You are writing more from the gut — in fact, part of the trick is to not think about what you're writing at all.
The point of my post I guess was ridding myself of guilt from not working on the novel. I'm hoping too that in getting rid of that guilt, I actually feel a bit lighter about the whole thing, and be more likely to want to put some serious hours in again.
Sounds like the editing process is one of seeing the forest & the trees at the same time – I can understand how that would take more focus and energy than getting the first draft from your brain onto a hard drive. Interesting that you enjoy the process – and I think that doing anything we enjoy feeds us, gives us energy. And that you absolutely needed to be freed from the guilt associated with not working on the novel.
I'm continually amazed that what tends to limit us the most in working toward our goals is generally a construct of our own minds!
Sounds like you're finding your way with this… hope you can find a way to keep it enjoyable!
Joanne Hudspith's most recent blog post: Hello world!
You have to think there's a happy medium there somewhere (hey, that'd be a great title for a post). Unless they acquired a "brand" before the digital/ebook revolution took hold, today's authors probably can't escape the realities of online promotion.
In truth, I wonder if the "I write for four/two hours a day" folks are still being made; outside a small handful of writers who can sell a lot of books, it seems clear that publishing's middle class is disappearing.
What we're left with are the handful who can write for a couple hours a day, and those who can only do so if they've got outside support.
The rest are left to write and hustle (perhaps even in equal parts) or write around the edges of a day job. In your case, I know how much copy you've been slinging lately.
When I'm writing a lot during the day, I can't even keep up with my blogs at night. Just not enough left in the tank. Then again, my blogs aren't that important to me; outlets for stray thoughts.
I might feel differently if I had novel fever.


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"Popo's about to teach you the Pecking Order."
This page contains information on the various ranks that exist on the ThetaBlocks Minecraft Server and ThetaBlocks community. These ranks and their abilities are subject to change at any time if the server staff deem it necessary. Knowing the information on this page is a great benefit to players of all ranks.
The progression of ranks on the ThetaBlocks Minecraft Server is a little different depending on the rank that is next to be obtained. These Ranks are always subject to change, with additional ranks being added depending on situations and administrative discussion.
To be promoted to Member, you have 1 option.
Create a build within the Travelers Valley using the official ThetaBlocks Resource Pack and request that it be reviewed by a Moderator or Administrator.
Other Players may review your build and offer feedback, but only a Moderator or Administrator may promote you.
To be promoted to Builder, you must meet two criteria.
Be nominated by a player who is currently the rank of Resident or higher, and then be approved by an Admin.
To be promoted to Resident, you must meet two criteria.
Be nominated by a player who is currently the rank of Moderator or higher, and then be approved by an Admin.
Provide proof that you further understand the tools provided with the rank of Resident and how to use them safely.
To be promoted to Moderator, you have 1 option.
Be recognized by the Administration to display qualities befitting the views and beliefs of the rank of Moderator. This rank is provided as an option to those that the Administration believes would fulfill the role effectively without the abuse of power or status.
Moderators are promoted per agreement of a majority of Administrators.
Have it determined that you, as a player and person, embody the qualities of an Administrator and show you have the trust and support of every other Administrator on the server. This rank is only provided at the sole discretion of the administrative team.
Traveler is the very first rank obtained by players upon logging into the ThetaBlocks Minecraft Server. They are fully equipped to explore and discover the various areas and projects that exist on the server. Travelers appear with GREY names in chat.
Change their game mode with /gamemode <gamemode>.
Spawn playerheads using the HeadDatabase plugin using /hdb.
Change their personal time and weather with /ptime and /pweather.
Use commands to which they have access.
Build within areas designated by server staff.
Work with other Travelers they trust in Travelers Valley.
Explore the various worlds that they have access to on the ThetaBlocks Server.
Member is the second rank that can be obtained on the ThetaBlocks Minecraft Server. Players who have obtained this rank have access to build within every public world on the server, and assist on projects by asking the project lead for permission to do so. Member may also start their own projects within the main world. Members appear with a WHITE name in chat.
Make their own ThetaWiki user page!
Build within most worlds on the server.
Assist others on projects with permission from said project leaders.
Builder is a rank provided to those who show interest in learning tools such as Aerosniper and show interest in leading their own projects. Builders appear with a CYAN name in chat.
Light access Aerosniper across all worlds.
Register to access and view the server Dynmap.
Access to emoting with /me.
Resident is the rank provided to players who have shown that they have a level of maturity and skill in which they can be trusted with extremely powerful tools. Residents appear with a LIGHT GREEN name in chat.
Access to teleporting with /tp.
Moderator is the rank provided to those that the server staff believe can be trusted to uphold the standards and ideals for which the ThetaBlocks community stands. Moderators are provided with all the tools that server staff believe are necessary to keep the peace, and maintain order on the ThetaBlocks Minecraft Server. Moderators appear with a DARK PURPLE name in chat.
Access to the ability to /tptoggle and the varieties of /tp.
Access to changing server time and weather.
Access to the ability to kick players who do not comply with server rules, or are being unruly or disruptive.
Access to the ability to mute players who do not comply with server rules, or are being unruly or disruptive.
Access to change player display names in chat using /nickname as per the request of the player, as long as said request is within reason.
Access to features of core protect such as /inspect and /lookup.
Access to the use of /broadcast to inform players about important information that is relative to them or what they are doing.
Administrators are the leaders of the ThetaBlocks Minecraft Server. They are here to provide assistance to all players and see to the needs of the server and the community.
Administrators have access to every command, and are expected to avoid the abuse of this power. Misuse of power by an administrator will be investigated by the server owner and other administrators.
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The Municipality of Podčetrtek ( or ; ) is a municipality in the traditional region of Styria in eastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Podčetrtek. Podčetrtek became a municipality in 1995.

Settlements
In addition to the municipal seat of Podčetrtek, the municipality also includes the following settlements:

 Brezovec pri Polju
 Cmereška Gorca
 Golobinjek ob Sotli
 Gostinca
 Imeno
 Imenska Gorca
 Jerčin
 Lastnič
 Nezbiše
 Olimje
 Pecelj
 Polje ob Sotli
 Prelasko
 Pristava pri Lesičnem
 Pristava pri Mestinju
 Roginska Gorca
 Rudnica
 Sedlarjevo
 Sela
 Sodna Vas
 Sveta Ema
 Verače
 Vidovica
 Virštanj
 Vonarje

References

External links

Municipality of Podčetrtek on Geopedia
Podčetrtek municipal site

Podčetrtek
1995 establishments in Slovenia


How to Set up Voicemail On Galaxy S8 / S8+ - Learn here un Galaxy S8 Manual Tutorial to setup, acces, reset, troubleshooting guide voicemail on Galaxy S8. Both of Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ support voice mail, but this features can be operated basics from your provider.
This provides instructions on how to set up your Samsung Galaxy S8 / S8+ Basic Voicemail and greeting. For additional info look up Voicemail Instructions. Set up Voice Mail and calling features such as Caller ID and Call Forwarding. It will take a few minutes to set up your Voicemail account. Once setup is complete, your Voicemail will be ready to receive messages Select the Phone app from the home screen.
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From your Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+, press and hold 1.
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Use the following keys to navigate Voicemail through your messages.
Use this guide to the voicemail menu options as a reference when managing your voicemail.
Get it to know more in Samsung Galaxy S9 User Manual.
When a new voicemail is received, the Voicemail icon will appear in the Notification bar.
To access Visual Voicemail, you must have already Set Up Voicemail.
From the home screen > select and hold the 1 key > if prompted, enter your voicemail password > follow the prompts to listen to your messages.
If you have forgotten your existing voicemail password, you will not be able to access voicemail until you reset your voicemail password.
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Scroll and select the Galaxyy S8 / S8+ if you want to manage.
Select Reset voicemail password and follow the prompts.
You'll receive a temporary password via text message - use that to access your voicemail and change your temporary password to something more personal to you.
You'll need to be in an network provider coverage area to create a new voicemail password.


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Blogging Sax Rohmer's The Hand of Fu Manchu, Part Six – "The House of Hashish"
Friday, December 16th, 2011 | Posted by William Patrick Maynard
"The House of Hashish" was the sixth installment of Sax Rohmer's The Si-Fan Mysteries. The story was first published in Collier's on February 17, 1917 and was later expanded to comprise Chapters 22 – 26 of the third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries first published in 1917 by Cassell in the UK and by McBride & Nast in the US under the variant title, The Hand of Fu Manchu. The US book title marks the first time that the hyphen was dropped from the character's name, although it was retained within the text.
"The House of Hashish" starts off with a wonderfully atmospheric opening with Dr. Petrie keeping a lonely nighttime vigil in the now abandoned shadow-filled wharf-side Joy Shop with only the sound of lapping waves and the incessant squealing of rats to accompany him. From a window, he watches Nayland Smith approach an old beggar woman and overhears their conversation. The old woman claims to have twisted her ankle and begs Smith to help her to the rooms she keeps in a wharf-side warehouse. Smith obliges and, of course, walks into a ruse as a dacoit leaps upon his back and quickly wraps a cord around his neck and begins strangling him. Fearing he is witnessing his friend's death and helpless to stop him, Petrie is flabbergasted to see Smith's apparent twin arrive to the rescue. Smith's double beats off the dacoit and hurls the man into the Thames.
Regrouping at their apartment, Petrie realizes that Smith's rescuer was a sailor acquaintance from an earlier episode. The man is noted to bear a strong resemblance to Smith. The old beggar woman was, of course, Zarmi in disguise and unsurprisingly, she managed to escape during the fray. From there, Petrie skips ahead in the narrative to the morning when Smith is summoned to the prison where the Si-Fan's Greek operative, Samarkan is being held. The prisoner was found dead in his cell. Upon their arrival, it is clear to Smith and Petrie that something is amiss. It transpires that Samarkan's body is missing. An interrogation of his guard reveals that when Samarkan was first brought in, he expressed that he suffered from heart problems. The guard claims that out of kindness he agreed to retrieve his medication for him. Upon further inquiry, the guard breaks down and confesses to having developed a hashish addiction while stationed in the East. He has known Samarkan and his crowd from the hashish house, the Café de l'Egypte located in Soho. The heart medication was Dr. Fu-Manchu's catalepsy-inducing serum that Smith and Petrie are familiar with from the past. The first injection convinced prison officials that Samarkan had expired of heart failure and the corrupt guard's second administration of the serum revived Samarkan enabling him to escape from prison.
The story picks up speed as Smith and Petrie are disguised as futurists by Foster at Scotland Yard so that they may infiltrate the artsy environs of the Café de l'Egypte. Smith suspects this may be Fu-Manchu's new base of operations now that the Joy Shop has been closed. Smith berates Inspector Weymouth for not having told him about the café before. Weymouth informs him that since it was not located in Limehouse, he did not concern himself with a hashish shop catering to the art crowd. Rohmer, who started out as a journalist covering Limehouse, is making a deliberate point about the double standard employed by the police for prosecuting criminal activity. Smith and Petrie repair to the Café de l'Egypte where they down drinks and soak up the atmosphere. Rohmer gets in some light jabs at the pretentious art crowd whose views on art, literature, and music would likely seem foreign to his more conservative readers. They observe denizens of the café with dilated pupils exiting by a rear door into a courtyard. After paying for their drinks, they hide in the alley in the back of the café until they discover that a secret door opens when patrons exit by the rear door that allows them access to a hidden room where hashish may be obtained. Petrie deduces that the hidden room is a disused art studio and that there should be an entrance via a skylight.
What follows is one of Rohmer's most thrilling episodes as Smith, Petrie, and Weymouth make a perilous night-time rooftop journey through Soho. Rohmer wrings every last bit of suspense as they leap from building to building, scale smokestacks, and navigate parapets before finally reaching the roof of the Café de l'Egypte. From the skylight, they look down upon (literally and figuratively) the surreal sight of a harem of Middle Eastern beauties entertaining the hashish addicts in the room below.
Smith recognizes a colleague from the India Office and is scandalized that a government official is not only a drug addict, but involved in prostitution. Petrie is heartbroken to spy his fiancée, Karamaneh (once more an unwilling slave of the Si-Fan) among the harem entertaining the men. Then Zarmi makes her grand reappearance in the series providing a raunchy burlesque act that leaves Smith and Petrie both repulsed and aroused. Part of the strength of these early stories is how well Rohmer manipulated readers a century ago to be outraged by "Pagan foreigners" while secretly enjoying the same forbidden fruit vicariously. The double standard Weymouth exhibited earlier is the same that Rohmer enjoyed playing upon in his readers' own Edwardian sensibilities.
Zarmi's erotic dance in a room full of men smoking hashish with half-dressed women lounging decadently upon pillows would seem to be the pinnacle of what Rohmer could achieve here and sure enough, our voyeurs are interrupted by Dr. Fu-Manchu himself who opens a trap door to the roof and spies them peering through the skylight. Weymouth shouts a warning, but not before Fu-Manchu drops and bolts the trap. There is pandemonium in the room below as the girls run screaming from the room while the men stumble out in their drugged stupor. Dr. Fu-Manchu appears and douses the room with petrol and then ignites it with a burning torch. Smith, Petrie, and Weymouth watch helplessly as the building bursts into flames. It seems like certain death for our heroes until an eleventh hour rescue by the fire brigade who are able to contain the flames but not before the Café de l'Egypte is engulfed in the thrilling conclusion leaving readers virtually panting for the next installment of the serial.
William Patrick Maynard was authorized to continue Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu thrillers beginning with The Terror of Fu Manchu (2009; Black Coat Press). A sequel, The Destiny of Fu Manchu is coming in early 2012 from Black Coat Press. Also forthcoming is a collection of short stories featuring an original Edwardian detective, The Occult Case Book of Shankar Hardwicke and an original hardboiled detective novel, Lawhead. To see additional articles by William, visit his blog at SetiSays.blogspot.com
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Taking into account the local, regional, and global threats to sharks, the Shark Research and Conservation Program was developed to increase the capacity of basic and applied shark research in The Bahamas. Our research this spring is focused on the stress physiology of elasmobranchs. We are investigating the physiological and behavioral stress response of sharks to longline capture, as well as quantifying the effects of stress on the immune system of yellow stingrays. Additionally, we are conducting studies pertaining to the basic spatial and temporal patterns of Caribbean reef sharks and oceanic whitetips, an important first step toward addressing the conservation needs of species that likely transcend many different coastal habitats and political boundaries. By identifying when and where Bahamian sharks are being targeted, international conservation and management plans can be developed.


Design Museum Dharavi book is now available!
We've created a very special book that celebrates and documents our exhibitions, events and work so far! The publication includes a manual with the 'lessons learnt', a catalogue showing our first collection of chai cups and a series of essays from contributors such as urbz, Nadine Botha, Steven van den Haak and Dewi Pinatih. The book is entirely handmade, designed and printed by The Future Publishing & Printing, comes in a limited edition of a hundred copies and we still have a few copies left!
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The French brother of the Nissan Qashqai, the 2020 Renault Kadjar, last and the launch of its first renovation. Aesthetic redesign and new engines are expected for the SUV.
Renault seems ready to renew almost completely in the coming months its range of best-selling cars. If days ago we have told you the first information of the new Renault capture 2019 and Renault Clio 2019, today we know the first details of the renovation of its compact SUV, a Renault Kadjar developed on the base and many components of Nissan Qashqai.
Launched in 2015, the 2020 Renault Kadjar will become the first major renovation of the first-generation SUV. And it will not hurt, because the model must be updated in a very competitive segment and, in between, has seen new models as interesting as the Seat Ateca or the Peugeot 3008, and this year will also attend the arrival of the new Hyundai Tucson. The fourth model sales volume of the brand (after Clio, Mégane and capture) has already been hunted in the last phase of testing and camouflage suit by French means as autoplus. In the link you will see the images and then a video of Autonews Creative.
Of the new Renault Kadjar 2020, therefore, a revolutionary change is not expected, but an updating to offer the new design features of the family. With much new kinship with the Mégane, the SUV will remodel, in front, the grille, the bumpers and the optical groups, while in the rear one also expects new pilots and even a slightly redesigned tailgate.
2020 Kadjar Engine Specs; With the new engine 1.3 TCE?
As there is no security that the new SUV releases engines. In Diesel it is a fact that the new Renault Kadjar will opt for the latest evolution of its same 1.5 DCI of 110 Hp and the well-known 1.6 DCI of 130 Hp, two mechanics of more than proven performance. However, the doubts are already in petrol: the logic should indicate that its current 1.2 Tce will be replaced by the new engine 1.3 Tce, with direct injection, developed in collaboration with Daimler and able to comply with the Euro 6c regulations. This engine, which has debuted in the Scénic/Grand Scénic, will be gradually incorporated into the entire range and has versions of 115, 130, 140, 150 and 160 hp power.
In addition, another possible option is that the new Renault Kadjar premieres at the same time the new versions micro-hybrids with technology of 48v, already available in the Scénic: This technique will reach all the manufacturers to lower the emissions of their ranges. If you confirm the information coming from France, in October, at the Salon de Paris 2018, we should already know all your official data.


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Science Author:	reporter - February 8, 2020
Last of the Woolly Mammoths Suffered from Genetic Defects like Male Sterility Before Going Extinct
The world's last woolly mammoths, sequestered on an Arctic Ocean island outpost, suffered from serious genetic defects caused by generations of inbreeding that may have hampered traits such as sense of smell and male fertility in the doomed population.
Scientists said on Friday that the genome of one of the last mammoths from Wrangel Island off Siberia's coast showed that the population was riddled with deleterious mutations. They resurrected genes from this mammoth in the laboratory to find clues about the demise of this illustrious Ice Age species.
Most woolly mammoths went extinct roughly 10,000 years ago amid a warming climate and widespread human hunting. But isolated populations survived for thousands of years after that on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea and Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean. The Wrangel Island population was the last, disappearing roughly 4,000 years ago.
The researchers compared the Wrangel Island mammoth's DNA to that of two older mammoths as well three Asian elephants, a close relative. They pinpointed a collection of genetic mutations in the Wrangel Island mammoth and synthesized these genes in the laboratory to test their functionality.
They found problems with genes responsible for sperm production, smell, neurological development and a function involving the hormone insulin that is responsible for permitting glucose in the blood to enter cells to give them energy.
"We can activate those genes in the lab using cell culture and test whether they are functional or not. In this case not," said evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch of the University at Buffalo in New York, who led the study published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution.
"Mutations happen all the time. But the population that lived on Wrangel was very small and inbred, which leads to an accumulation of mutations that are normally purged by evolution," Lynch added.
The sperm production-related mutations may have reduced fertility in an already shrinking population. The olfactory mutations may have harmed the ability to forage and to even smell the flowers that made up an important part of their diet.
"Mammoths ate a lot of flowers," Lynch said.
The woolly mammoth, about the size of today's elephants but possessing long brown fur and immense tusks, first appeared about 700,000 years ago in Siberia, expanding through northern Eurasia and North America.
The Wrangel Island mammoth genome was previously mapped using well-preserved DNA from a 4,300-year-old molar. The new study built on previous research pointing to harmful mutations in the Wrangel Island mammoth.
With a population of just a few hundred, generations of mating between related individuals – inbreeding – triggered harmful mutations.
"It is indeed a sad thing," Lynch said. "Mammoths were literally huge and globally distributed, and this massive range was reduced to a tiny island in the Arctic Ocean before their extinction. It should be a warning about the consequences of climate change."
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10 years since Lehman Brothers mutual funds are in robust health
By Jake Moeller
Time heals all wounds, right?
For many of us who were caught up in the storm of the Global Financial Crisis the 10-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers is an anniversary that evokes mainly unpleasant memories.
The image of Lehman employees carrying out their belongings in cardboard boxes is forever seared in the memory.
It's easy to forget the market carnage in UK and European mutual funds around that time.
According to Lipper data, pan-European bond funds haemorrhaged €500bn (£448.1bn) net by the end of 2008. It wasn't until the end of 2013 that those outflows were recouped.
Equity funds saw net outflows of some €115bn for 2008, although they recouped those flows the following year.
Whatever challenges our industry faces at the moment - and there are a few - they are nothing compared to those of 10 years ago.
Today, the pan-European mutual funds market has reached over €10.5trn of assets (at the end of 2008, assets under management were €4.3trn), with the UK constituting over a fifth of today's assets.
Bond funds, which were so critically wounded after the Lehman collapse, have been the top-selling asset class for three of the last four years.
Although there's a relative slowdown of overall fund flows for the year-to-date 2018, 2017 was a record year, with net inflows of some €757bn being the highest in over 15 years.
There has been a considerable structural shift in the funds we buy. Our love affair with passive investments is unabated.
For the last three calendar years, on average, the flows of passive investments as a total of all European fund flows is 24 per cent, and for 2018 year-to-date as of 31 May it's nearly 40 per cent.
In the three years post-Lehman, this average was only 5 per cent.
Overall, too, fund costs are falling. At the end of 2017 the average total expense ratio for non-institutional equity funds in the UK had fallen 9 per cent from 10 years before. For bond funds the decrease was 15 per cent.
Other lessons have been learned. Bond fund managers place more emphasis on the analysis of credit ratings and the importance of covenants in high-yield instruments and loans.
Furthermore, they have not increased credit risk to boost yield.
In the flexible IA UK Strategic Bond sector, for example, the average fund exposure to investment-grade credit in 2008 was 61.5 per cent; today it is only marginally lower at 59 per cent.
Today, fund transparency and governance have become significantly more robust. Regulatory reforms are doing their job, and fund gatekeepers are more vocal.
The fund industry too knows that fund buyers are cannier, more demanding, and price sensitive. There are fewer cosy distribution free lunches.
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Iran has warned the United States that it will forcefully retaliate any moves by the US military against the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps .
Iran's envoy to the United Kingdom Hamid Baeidinejad told a US news channel that American military forces in the Persian Gulf region are in a volatile situation and it will not be wise if they decided to take action against the Iranian elite force.
He said any move by the United States to counter the IRGC, would be forcefully retaliated on the ground.
Following Trump's declaration of Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, Iran reciprocated by designating the US Central Command as a terrorist organization.


A couple of weeks ago, our lovely managing editor for The Carroll News, Ryllie Danylko, wrote a fantastic column called "20 signs you're a 20 something who's sick of being told how to be a 20 something." If you haven't read it yet, I strongly suggest you go digging through your old issues or browse jcunews.com to find it and give it a read, because it really hit the nail on the head with how our generation is now seemingly obsessed with giving others life advice. I'm finding that these "listicles," as Ryllie so aptly put it, are becoming increasingly prevalent on social media sites and about nine times out of 10 tell you about something you are doing wrong or others are doing right in the most sarcastic, biting way possible.
I, like Ryllie, agree that this whole little "listicles" trend is far from a suitable substitute for actual writing or blogging and needs to go pronto. However, I see a far bigger problem in this trend that Ryllie touched on in her article and I would like to now expand on. I think it's hilarious when any "20something" thinks they know enough about life to tell other people how to live it. Furthermore, I've been seeing an increasing number of articles about what it really means to be beautiful. For example, I'm pretty sure everyone with a Facebook or Twitter has seen the countless articles about how fantastic and beautiful Jennifer Lawrence is and how the way she talks about her body image is doing such great things for young girls everywhere. I do agree that Jennifer Lawrence is beautiful and although I do not know her personally, she seems to have a sparkling personality and is indeed a great role model for girls. However, constantly idolizing her for these body issues is doing just as much damage as idolizing someone like Paris Hilton or any other beautiful actress or model.
The problem is that we keep setting this new standard for beauty. In the past, the general guidelines for being considered beautiful was the whole "Barbie" ideal: tall, skinny, luscious locks, perfectly tanned and perfectly madeover. This image of beauty is essentially unachievable for a large percentage of women, and I'm glad to see that it is changing. But, the fact is that we keep trying to tell other women what they must do or say or eat to be beautiful. Whether we are telling each other to starve ourselves or eat an entire pizza in one sitting, it's wrong to perpetuate this one standard of beauty.
There's another article floating around on social media sites titled, "The Actual Difference Between Women Who Are Hot And Who Are Beautiful." It discusses how a woman's beauty shouldn't be measured by her physical attributes, and it's more about her heart and mind than it is about her face and body. My favorite thing that they mention in this article is that "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder." That's a pretty common saying, and yet so many seem to forget it. The article identifies men as the culprits of this, but it seems to me to be more about the standards us women place on ourselves. There have been countless studies about where the idea of beauty comes from and how it has continued to change in society for many decades. I remember learning about "The Beauty Myth" in one of my classes last year, which is a book by Naomi Wolf that discusses the ever-changing ideal of beauty and how it has been a thorn in women's sides for countless years. She suggests that this unattainable standard of beauty is an attempt by men to undermine the power of women. She describes how everytime women make a social or political breakthrough, a new standard of beauty surfaces in a sense and breeds doubt and insecurity.
This is an interesting idea and perhaps it has been true in some circumstances. However, I think that men have become a common scapegoat when the reality is our society is just obsessed with perfection. No matter who or what the newest idol is, it always boils down to this idea that we can be perfect and beautiful if we do such and such.
We really just need to stop telling each other what to do and who to be. I mean, does anyone really truly know what exactly it means to be beautiful or have a perfect life? All anyone really knows how to do is how to be themselves, so no one is in a good position to tell another they're not beautiful. Enough with all the standards already.


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Tindefjellbreen is a glacier in the municipality of Stryn in Vestland county, Norway.  The  glacier lies about  east of the mountain Skåla, roughly halfway between the villages of Bødalen and Erdalen.  The glacier is in the mountains east of the lake Lovatnet and south of the lake Oppstrynsvatn.  The glacier is part of Jostedalsbreen National Park, about  east of the village of Loen.

See also
List of glaciers in Norway

References

Stryn
Glaciers of Vestland


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Willem Adolf Visser 'T Hooft
1900- . Dutch ecumenical leader. Born in Haarlem, he studied theology at Leyden and was successively secretary of the World Alliance of YMCAs, general secretary of the World Student Christian Federation,* and general secretary of the World Council of Churches* (not formally constituted as such until 1948). He was the author of numerous publications that distinguished him as one of the foremost ecumenical statesmen of modern times. A multilinguist with sound Dutch common sense, he was associated with many aspects of the WCC which raised doubts in evangelical circles. Nevertheless he never succumbed to the aridity often encountered in professional ecumenists, and just before his retirement in 1966, answering a question from Christianity Today, he expressed three convictions: "that it is the duty of every Christian to proclaim the divine lordship of Jesus Christ; that this Gospel is to be addressed to every man, whatever his religious or cultural background may be; that it is to be given in its purest form, that is, in accordance with the biblical witness and unmixed with extraneous or cultural elements."