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Articles from the October 20, 2020 edition
By Margaret L. Smykla Front Page October 20, 2020
PED collections are down, but keep up with E. Carson costs
Updates on the South Side Parking Enhancement District (PED), the PennDOT construction project, and local development activities meetings (DAM) were the prime topics of the Oct. 13 monthly meeting of the South Side Planning Forum. The meeting was...
By Tom Smith Front Page October 20, 2020
Boro council approves liquor license transfer for Indian restaurant, store
The Mt. Oliver Borough Council held a public hearing concerning the transfer of a liquor license into the borough, the second in recent months. Attorney Charles Caputo, representing Fat Friday LLC, came before the council with owner Ravi Singh last...
Front Page October 20, 2020
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News October 20, 2020
PRC holds household chemical collection
The Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC) will host a household chemical collection event on Saturday, Oct. 31, in Allegheny County to provide Pennsylvania residents with an opportunity to safely and cost effectively dispose of common chemicals such a...
Government October 20, 2020
Mt. Oliver Housing Court case for October 27
The following Mt. Oliver Borough Housing Court case is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 10:00 a .m. in Municipal District Judge Richard King's Courtroom: • Carl Thompson, 205 Penn Avenue, Mt....
Results for Mt. Oliver Housing Court case on October 13
Results for the following Mt. Oliver Borough Housing Court cases on Tuesday, Oct. 13, in Municipal District Judge Richard King's Courtroom: • Frank Sciulli, 315 Stamm Avenue, Mt. Oliver Borough,...
Roosevelt PreK-5 receives 'Hometown Grant' from Steelers
Pittsburgh Roosevelt PreK-5 School in Carrick was presented with a $10,000 "Hometown Grant" last week from the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Hometown Grant will enable Roosevelt's Food Service Department...
Warrington Avenue will be part of city's Avenues of Hope initiative
Mayor William Peduto and the Urban Redevelopment Authority have formally launched the"Avenues of Hope" initiative to reprioritize business district investments in diverse city neighborhoods. Avenues of Hope is a place-based, people-first...
Public Safety October 20, 2020
Mt. Oliver shooting investigated
The Allegheny County Police Department's (ACPD) General Investigations Unit is assisting the Mt. Oliver police in investigating a shooting on Friday, Oct. 16. County 911 was notified of a shooting in the 1700 block of Arlington Ave. First...
Unoccupied delivery truck rolls down hill into a home on Mount Washington
Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire 27 Engine and Pittsburgh Police from Zone 3 responded to a vehicle that had crashed into a home in the 100 block of Virginia Avenue around 5 p.m. on October 15 The driver of...
City announces disability service facilitator program to improve compliance and access
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law and recognition of the gaps in service that remain for people with disabilities here in...


Work at the £40m Betteshanger Sustainable Parks project, on the site of the former Betteshanger Colliery near Deal, is building momentum.
Led by the Hadlow Group, a new £8m Visitor Centre, including the Kent Mining Museum and Green Energy Centre, is due to open at the country park site in 2018. In readiness for the launch of the state-of-the-art new facilities a programme of site-wide improvement work is being implemented.
Work commenced on site in March to develop a new open air grass amphitheatre. The 3-acre event space, representing a £70,000 investment, will have a capacity of up to 3,000 people. It will be used for open air theatre, cinema, market days and special events. As a former colliery, the site itself provided ample coal spoil for the base of the structure. Aylesham-based construction company Ovenden has then capped with clay for stability and covered in a layer of top soil. It will be seeded with a deep rooted grass mix. Work will be complete this month and the space will be open for use from 2018—allowing essential time for the grass to establish.
Ashford-based agricultural specialist White Land Solutions has landscaped the area to the rear of the play park. The site has been shaped and will be seeded. This will extend the grass area around the play area, making an open green space for play outside the new Visitor Centre.
Further investment has been made in two giant Scandinavian-style tipis. Sitting proudly on top of the hill, the tipis will provide an all-weather temporary event space for the 2017 season. Forming the core of a new festival village for the spring and summer programme, the tipis will be joined by local food and drink stalls during busy periods.
In partnership with Kent Wildlife Trust a long-term management and conservation plan is being developed for the Park. Work has started on Tenant Pond to landscape it into a wildlife pond.
The opening of the new Visitor Centre and improved Park facilities is the first phase of the Betteshanger Sustainable Parks development. Phase II will see 'Betteshanger Business' developed on the site of the former colliery pit head. Betteshanger Business will become a bespoke green technologies park of exemplary low carbon buildings for companies in health and wellbeing, food security, environmental technology, life sciences and green technology.
The first phase 'Health Care Enterprise Incubation Hub' is planned for development in 2018, opening early 2019. An application will be submitted to the European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) shortly.
For further media information on Betteshanger Sustainable Parks, please contact Lynnette Crisp at Lynnette.Crisp@betteshangerparks.co.uk or call 01304 619227.
The £40 million Betteshanger Sustainable Parks scheme, near Deal, in East Kent, will drive regeneration of the site and the area, combining sustainable business and commerce, education, sustainable energy and tourism.
Located on the site of the former Betteshanger colliery, the scheme will see the 121-hectare site transformed into a much-enhanced Country Park, with new Visitor Centre encompassing the Kent Mining Museum, and adjacent Business Park.


- "Dunedin 2040: Planning our Future Together" builds new forms of engagement by incorporating residents in the research and planning processes.
- The NSF "PATHTECH" project has helped local high schools recruit under-represented groups into STEM fields.
- The NSF project, "Community Resources and Disaster Resilience in Florida Mobile Home Parks" studied aspects of disaster vulnerability and resilience, and the influence of community level factors among families living in mobile home parks in the Tampa Bay Region.


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Air Bag Recalls
Written by Greg on December 7, 2014
According to reporting conducted by Barbara Liston, from Business Insider, in past weeks hundreds of thousands of Toyota owners received very startling news, which showed up via first class mail. This news indicated that owners should immediately get their air bags replaced and should not let anyone sit on the passenger side. Moreover, the research also indicates that a few thousand Chrysler vehicles are likely to get notifications around December due to having airbags with similar issues.
5 Deaths Attributed to Faulty Air Bags
As the report indicates, over the past six years, approximately five deaths can be attributed to airbags that have been manufactured by the Japanese safety equipment maker Takata. These airbags can potentially rupture upon deployment, which causes metal shards to be blown throughout the car. Additionally, the report indicates that over the past six years, approximately 17 million cars have been recalled worldwide, with an estimated 11 million recalled in the United States alone.
Moreover, a spokesperson for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, David Friedman indicates, "We aggressively investigate and pursue recalls to protect the American public, forcing the recall of approximately 100 million defective vehicles and equipment over the past 10 years.
As mentioned, Takata, the company responsible for the airbags has indicated that there are potentially dangerous consequences that may occur if the airbag does explode upon deployment. Although there is no indication on how to prevent this from occurring, or why it occurs in the first place, research has shown that it is likely caused by propellant chemicals that have been mishandled and improperly stored while in assembly.
No matter the causation, the current list of affected vehicles is as followed:
Acura: 2002–2003 CL and TL; 2003–2006 MDX; 2005 RL
BMW (627,615): 2000–2005 3-series sedan and wagon; 2000–2006 3-series coupe and convertible; 2001–2006 M3 coupe and convertible
Chrysler (371,309, including Dodge): 2005–2008 Chrysler 300; 2007–2008 Aspen
Dodge/Ram (371,309, including Chrysler): 2003–2008 Dodge Ram 1500; 2005–2008 Ram 2500, Dakota, and Durango; 2006–2008 Ram 3500 and 4500; 2008 Ram 5500
Ford (58,669): 2004 Ranger; 2005–2006 GT; 2005–2007 Mustang
Honda (5,051,364, including Acura): 2001–2007 Accord; 2001–2005 Civic; 2002–2006 CR-V; 2002–2004 Odyssey; 2003–2011 Element; 2003–2007 Pilot; 2006 Ridgeline
Infiniti: 2001–2004 Infiniti I30/I35; 2002–2003 Infiniti QX4; 2003–2005 Infiniti FX35/FX45; 2006 Infiniti M35/M45
Lexus: 2002–2005 SC430
Mazda (64,872): 2003–2007 Mazda 6; 2006–2007 Mazdaspeed 6; 2004–2008 Mazda RX-8; 2004–2005 MPV; 2004 B-series
Mitsubishi (11,985): 2004–2005 Lancer; 2006–2007 Raider
Nissan (717,364, including Infiniti): 2001–2003 Maxima; 2001–2004 Pathfinder; 2002–2006 Nissan Sentra
Pontiac: 2003–2005 Vibe
Saab: 2005 9-2X
Subaru (17,516): 2003–2005 Baja, Legacy, Outback; 2004–2005 Impreza, Impreza WRX, Impreza WRX STI
Toyota (877,000, including Lexus and Pontiac Vibe): 2002–2005 Toyota Corolla and Sequoia; 2003–2005 Matrix, Tundra
For additional information, one can visit The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and see a comprehensive guide of the affected vehicles, as well as the next steps one can take in order to rectify the situation.
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-what-is-a-recall-carmakers-confuse-us-drivers-in-deadly-air-bag-saga-2014-11
http://blog.caranddriver.com/massive-takata-airbag-recall-everything-you-need-to-know-including-full-list-of-affected-vehicles/
http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/Vehicle-owners-with-defective-airbags-urged-to-take-immediate-action
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Fraudulent Ahupua'a -- The Use of Cultural and Environmental Restoration as a Political Front for Hawaiian Sovereignty -- The Ahupua'a Restoration Council of He'eia (ARCH)
(c) Copyright 2001 Kenneth R. Conklin, Ph.D. All rights reserved
What follows is the story of a project in Kane'ohe/Kahalu'u that started out looking like a grass-roots community effort to restore the environment in keeping with Hawaiian cultural values, but gradually revealed itself to be a Hawaiian sovereignty front organization. The project organization has gone through various names in two years of its history, but as of May 2001 it is officially named: The Ahupua'a Restoration Council of He'e'ia (acronym ARCH)
At first it seemed people would be asked to combine their efforts to restore the land to flourishing productivity and beauty. But in the end it turned into an organization to promote taro farming and fish-farming as vehicles for likely future filing of lawsuits for water rights and gathering rights for so-called Native Hawaiians.
Early in the project "sustainable agriculture" was the buzzword. But when it was pointed out that rice had been successfully grown in this area and would be as sustainable as taro and more appealing as a food to most modern residents, the group leaders made it clear that they had no interest in rice (or fruit or flowers) -- the only two crops to receive serious attention were taro and fish. That's because taro and fish were the primary foods of Native Hawaiians and had great cultural significance to them, whereas rice was a foreign import of concern primarily to people of Asian ancestry. It is also because one of the group leaders has been the caretaker of the He'eia fishpond for about ten years, while the other group leader has taro patches in a traditional land kuleana. The project is inclusive in the sense that people of all races will be asked to contribute time, money, and lots of hard work. The project is also inclusive in the sense that there might be some token non-Hawaiian members of the 17-member Board of Directors, although any such non-Hawaiian Directors will be required under the by-laws to be strong supporters of Hawaiian sovereignty who will be constantly scrutinized for loyalty.
In recent years the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and various environmental activist groups have found areas of common interest, where they work together on projects of mutual concern. One example is opposition to the Army's use of Makua valley for training. Environmental activists demand an EIS because of concern for toxic waste and destruction of endangered species. Sovereignty activists demand an environmental impact statement as a way of protecting sacred sites but mostly as a way of harrassing the Army because they want to see the U.S. military pull out of Hawai'i as a prelude to ripping the 50th star off the flag. For details about the abuse of cultural and environmental claims primarily as a vehicle to assert political power by Hawaiian sovereignty activists regarding Makua, see:
https://www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/makua.html
Collaboration on environmental issues seems very natural, because one of the fundamental commitments of Hawaiian culture is "malama 'aina" -- caring for the land (and sea and entire environment). Indeed, an 'olelo no'eau (clever saying, or proverb) is: "He ali'i ka 'aina, he kauwa ke kanaka" (the land is chief; people are its servants). The idea is that the land is like a parent and people are its children. People owe loyalty and caretaking to the land; and in return the land will take care of and feed the people. This relationship is seen in the word itself: "'aina" means "that which feeds." Gods are present in the land and in all of its components and processes, both animate and inanimate. Before the arrival of Christianity, prayers were offered and rituals were followed at every stage of planting, cultivating, harvesting, consuming. Modern-day Hawaiians who try to reinvent themselves as "traditional practitioners" study the prayers and chants written down during the 1800s, or invent new ones.
The problem with collaboration between sovereignty activists and environmentalists is: Who is in charge? And of course since sovereignty is all about political control, the answer must always be that sovereignty activists must be in charge of any collaborative efforts. Money, land, and power are the main goals of the sovereignty activists.
This webpage will describe one attempted collaboration, and will show key provisions from the by-laws of the resulting tax-exempt organization that make it clear who is in charge. It is not democratic, does not represent the community, but claims to speak on behalf of the community on environmental issues. The organization envisions itself as the overarching authority to coordinate all other governmental and private organizations within the ahupua'a regarding any environmental impacts, and especially regarding allocation of water.
In pre-contact times, ruling chiefs and konohiki (their land agents) had absolute power to allocate resources, to give land to families or take it away, and to command the unpaid labor of the tenants. But in a modern democracy, it is much more difficult to coordinate everything -- the informed consent of free individuals must be obtained. Hawaiian sovereignty activists think Hawaiians should control the coordination of resources, through an autocratic process that looks democratic because it appears to make decisions by consensus (i.e., group pressure).
The traditional unit of Hawaiian land management is the ahupua'a. Islands are characterized by having mountains in the middle and valleys radiating out from a central point or ridge. Thus a natural way to divide land among people is the ahupua'a: a wedge-shaped piece of land that begins at the mountain, and contains all the land from the mountain to the sea in a valley between two ridgelines (plus the ocean out to the reef). Ahupua'a means "pig altar" and derives from the fact that at the boundary between two ahupua'a there was an altar on which pigs (and perhaps other food) sacrificed to the gods would be placed at the beginning of the harvest season, so that a high-chief or king could make a tour around the island and collect tribute from each ahupua'a. Each ahupua'a contains at least one major stream and its tributaries. Thus, the ahupua'a is the Hawaiian version of the watershed district. But it is much more than that.
Prior to the arrival of Captain Cook, the ahupua'a was a complete self-contained system of integrated resource management including water, plants, animals, people, and gods. The ruling chief would divide an ahupua'a into slivers of land from mountain to sea, or into parcels. Each sliver or parcel would be awarded to a favored sub-chief or commoner, who might then further subdivide it. Sometimes an award of land to a particular individual or family would consist of two or more parcels, one in the uplands and one in the lowlands (different food crops and cultural resources were available at different altitudes). As the stream flowed from mountain to sea, small channels of water would be dug to divert the water into taro patches arranged in terraces, so there was a constant flow of cool water which picked up nutrients on the way to the ocean. Then at the shore there would be a fishpond, constructed with rocks arranged to wall-off a portion of the ocean to contain fish. The nutrient-rich water would attract small fish and make them grow fat, so they could no longer escape through the lattice-work gates and could be caught as needed.
In modern times the integrated system of land management has broken down, partly because of individual fee-simple ownership of land, democratic decision-making, and loss of awareness of spirituality. Those who feel a special bond with the land would like to restore the ahupua'a system, but very few people are confident of their ability to hear the land speaking. The question is: How can we be sure we are doing the right thing when we make decisions? The answer advocated by sovereignty activists: consult the people who have lived in close contact with the land for many generations. Someone born in the ahupua'a, whose grandparents and great-great-great grandparents were also born and raised in the ahupua'a, can hear the land speaking. Since land is primary and people are secondary, we must ask permission from the land before beginning any major environmental projects. And since most people today do not regularly speak and listen to the land, we must rely upon "indigenous" people whose families have lived on the land for many generations, to listen to the land and to seek its approval for our projects. That's why Native Hawaiians, in consultation with their kupuna (elders), claim they are entitled to make the decisions in environmental projects.
However, this theory has major difficulties which the sovereignty activists are unwilling to acknowledge.
The most fundamental problem on the spiritual side is that the ability to communicate with the land is not physical, but spiritual. Thus, it has nothing to do with genetics, race, or length of a family's residence. The land has been here for millions of years but people have been here for less than two thousand years. The land speaks, whether or not people can hear. The land is primary, and people are secondary. It doesn't matter whether someone is young or old, male or female, Hawaiian or Filipino, or how long he and his family have been present here. All that matters is whether he can hear the spirits of the land. All humans are indigenous people of Earth. Some are better at hearing the spirits than others, but that is not determined by race.
The most fundamental problem on the practical side is that today we have a democratic political system based on equal rights. Even if someone believes that only ethnic Hawaiians whose families have lived in an ahupua'a for 6 generations can hear the land speak, such a belief cannot determine public policy without the consent of a majority of community members. It would be unacceptable to set up a decision-making system which automatically awards power to people based on race (or ancestry or geneology or multi-generation residence or any other synonym). Consultation with kupa 'aina (Native Hawaiian or 6-generation residents) can certainly be made a requirement within a democratic process, but final decisions must be made democratically by a group that is freely elected by secret ballot offered to all the people who will be affected by the outcome. Kupa'aina can be advisors, but must not be decision-makers unless freely elected.
Decisions by consensus may make it easier to keep things moving, but when there is an important decision it must be made by secret ballot vote to avoid the intimidation that some people feel about speaking out in public in a group where there are longstanding on-going relationships (some of which may be grossly unequal in power differential). It is interesting that sovereignty activists often assert that decision by consensus is "the Hawaiian way." But the contrary is true. Prior to Captain Cook's arrival, the local King was all-powerful, the ali'i (chiefs) under him had different levels of authority rigidly prescribed by custom and geneology or by the King; and the maka'ainana (commoners) had very little power. There were no elections. Chiefs from neighboring ahupua'a or different islands would constantly make war because they could not reach consensus. Sometimes a chief would ask subordinates for advice, and prolonged discussions might ensue, but it was always clearly understood that the decision would be made by the chief whether or not the subordinates agreed. Even after Kauikeaouli Kamehameha III proclaimed the Kingdom's first Constitution in 1840, the monarch continued to hold nearly absolute power. Subsequent Kings simply proclaimed a new Constitution when they wanted to. Even in 1893, Queen Lili'uokalani announced she would unilateraly proclaim a new Constitution, which is one of the main reasons she was overthrown. The level of violence in today's ethnic Hawaiian families (cited by Hawaiians themselves as a corroboration of their victimhood status) suggests that family decisions are often made by force or intimidation rather than truly voluntary consensus. The Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and also the Trustees of Bishop Estate, have been the focus of public ridicule for many years because of their inability to be civil toward each other, let alone reach consensus. Nevertheless, Article VI Section 1 of the ARCH by-laws says, "The preferred method for decision-making in this organization shall be that of Consensus, a process that is in keeping with the traditional values of the ancient people of the Ahupua'a of He'e'ia, and one that must be attempted in good faith by all members to reach a successful outcome."
Here is one very minor illustration of how consensus actually operated in practice at an ARCH meeting. The name of this particular ahupua'a for centuries has been Heeia. Before the arrival of the missionaries there was no written language, and even when a written language was created, it did not usually make use of the modern-day 'okina (glottal-stop marker). People knew how to pronounce words without needing diacritical marks for clues. In modern times, when people learn Hawaiian primarily through reading rather than through hearing the language spoken while growing up, it was necessary to invent the glottal-stop marker to help people unfamiliar with a word pronounce it correctly. Thus, the name of this ahupua'a has come to be known as He'eia. The name has never been spelled with two 'okina until the two leaders of the restoration project decided to start writing it as "He'e'ia." The issue was discussed briefly at one "community" monthly meeting attended by about 10 people, and several people present said they felt uncomfortable re-naming the ahupua'a. But the two leaders explained that they decided to use the second 'okina for two reasons: (1) it corresponds with the use of the "'ia" suffix as a particle which marks passive voice for an action which has taken place (slipped or slid away; perhaps a significant landslide took place here); (2) it stresses that the purpose the organization is to respond to the sliding away of Hawaiian culture and sovereignty. The issue was never put to a vote, and the discussion moved on to another topic. Changing the name of an ahupua'a should not be taken lightly, and shows disrespect for a thousand years of tradition and for the oral history pronunciation of living kupuna. The "consensus" on this spelling was reached by two group leaders who explained their theory, listened to a few timid objections, and then moved on to further items in a crowded agenda.
The name of the organization is Ahupua'a Restoration Council of He'e'ia (ARCH) chosen in a few minutes after two years of using other names, because of the acronym's implication of a rainbow, and of the organization's intention to be the over-arching decision-maker in the ahupua'a on issues of land and water management. The decision was precipitated by an urgent need to have a formal name for the purpose of writing by-laws to create a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt non-profit corporation. Failure to produce a permanent name and set of by-laws would result in the inability of the group to obtain continued funding; most notably, money to pay the two group leaders.
One reason for forming the corporation is to lend legitimacy to its work. Another reason is to have a means of accepting donations and providing liability insurance. Another reason is to be constituted as a legally recognized entity which will have standing to file lawsuits over water and gathering rights.
What follows are verbatim portions of the by-laws as proposed in early May, 2001, with comments. Then an article by Honolulu Advertiser writer Bob Krauss will be provided, as an example of what a beautiful concept is being offered to the public in the ARCH project.
Article II, Section 1: The name of this Corporation shall be "The Ahupua'a Restoration Council of Hawai'i" (d.b.a. "The Ahupua'a Restoration Council of He'eia")
Comment: There is a Hawaiian sovereignty front organization known as the Ahupua'a Action Alliance which has been active on environmental issues for several years, including opposing the Army's training in Makua, opposing the building of a visitor's center at Hanauma, and helping with political and practical activity related to taro-patch and fishpond restoration in Kahana. The official name above suggests that the local dba name is subordinate to a statewide organization. The organization ARCH (Ahupua'a Restoration Council of He'e'ia) has had the active participation over a two year period of such sovereignty notables as Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa, David Stannard, Haunani-Kay Trask, Keali'i Gora, Marion Kelly, Steve Kubota, Lono Correa. The first 4 people rarely attend meetings now but were active at the beginning and are residents of He'eia; the last three people are not residents of He'eia but come regularly to nearly all meetings to shape the decision-making process. Kubota and Correa wrote the bylaws (see below) on advice of consultants with the Ahupua'a Action Aliance and other sovereignty organizations. The extensive control and direction of ARCH policy by activist non-residents of the ahupua'a shows that ARCH is seen as a "demonstration project" and is a sovereignty front organization serving a larger agenda controlled by outsiders. The racially-exclusionary Kamehameha Schools (Bishop Estate) owns one of the most important parcels of land in any restoration effort (the He'eia fishpond), and the University of Hawai'i Center for Hawaiian Studies, dominated by sovereignty activists, has been using the fishpond to teach a course under the guidance of Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa on historical, cultural, practical, and political issues in fishpond management.
Article I: Purpose: Section 1. Mission. We, the people of the Ahupua'a of He'e'ia, and the people of na Moku o Hawai'i who have aloha for He'e'ia, have gathered together to organize and to form this community corporation for the following purpose: Our mission is to preserve, protect, and restore the natural, cultural, ecological and spiritual integrity of the Ahupua'a of He'e'ia for present and future generations of human beings, and for all other indigenous life forms
Article I Section 2: Kino Lau: In carrying out our mission of restoration we recognize the great importance of the Hawaiian concept of Kino Lau. For the purpose of these bylaws, Kino Lau is defined as the Hawaiian concept and belief that spiritual forces may take many different forms, and are present in all things.
Comment: Section 1 might be interpreted to mean that only "indigenous" people are important, in view of the word "other" in the final clause. However, a later "corrected" version of the by-laws removed the word "indigenous." Section 2 imposes the Hawaiian concept of Kino Lau as a religious belief which must be endorsed by every member of this organization; thus, secular humanists or fundamentalist Christians who are environmental activists might feel like "second class citizens" of this group. The words "are present" were replaced by the words "may be present" in a later draft of the by-laws, possibly in response to the exposure of the by-laws language on this website.
Article V: Membership: Section 3. Regular Membership/Duties/Member in Good Standing: Subsection (d) Cause no harm: A Regular or Associate member must not cause harm to this organization by participating in actions or by engaging in the spread of misinformation that brings ill-repute to this organization; and a member shall not engage in any action or activity that impedes this organization in the fullfilment of its mission as stated in Article I of these Bylaws. Section 4. Associate Membership .....[dues and limitations listed] ... (6) notwithstanding any of the above, all Associate members shall be obligated by Section 3, Subsection (d) of this Article.
Comment: This is a gag rule, plain and simple. Its purpose is to prevent members from speaking or writing in opposition to the official actions or views of this organization. Most members of this organization are political liberals or even radicals, who jealously guard their right to free speech and protest. Elderly members in bygone years fought against loyalty oaths required of teachers or university professors. They oppose the Asian Development Bank and feel the police should not have the right to stop them from carrying picket signs, giving speeches, or harrassing ADB participants on the way to meetings. They think it was OK for Jane Fonda to go to North Vietnam to oppose U.S. policy, even while American soldiers were dying on the battlefield. But these same "liberals" cannot tolerate dissent against their own policies when they are in charge. If I were a member of this group in good standing before writing this webpage, I would no longer be allowed to remain. Also, a later portion of the bylaws makes it clear that the only people with an automatic right to speak at "open" meetings are Regular members in good standing.
Article VIII Section 1: Trusteeship: The Board shall act as trustees for the beneficiaries of the vested public trusts of the Ahupua'a of He'e'ia and shall be bound in all matters by the purposes of this organization as set forth in Article 1, Sections 1 and 2.
Comment: Delusion of grandeur! ARCH sees itself as trustees for all the people of He'eia regarding all the public trusts (including ceded lands and water supply). ARCH is asserting that it represents all the people of He'eia and that it has supremacy over the way all other public trusts operate in He'eia.
Article IX Board of Directors -- Composition
Section 1: Representation and Membership Categories: The Board of Directors shall be constituted in the following manner: Of the 17 voting members, 7 positions shall be filled by skilled traditional practitioners or by kupa'aina of the Ahupua'a of He'e'ia because, by the inclusion of skilled traditional practitioners and the kupa'aina of the ahupua'a, the ability of this organization to fulfilll its mission will be greatly enhanced. 7 positions shall be filled by residents of the ili (districts) of He'e'ia. 3 positions shall be filled at-large by members elected from among the Regular membership of the Council.
Comment: 10 out of 17 Directors can live outside He'eia; indeed, 10 out of 17 could theoretically live outside the island of O'ahu. Furthermore, as will be seen below, at least 7 of the Directors are guaranteed to be racially-defined Hawaiians (and of course all 17 might be Hawaiians). Also, the 7 ili residents must each be residents of the ili they represent, but are elected by the entire membership. Thus, the one Director who actually lives in the ili he represents might have views favored by other ili but detrimental to his own ili. This system of ili representatives being residents of their ili but voted on by the entire membership is exactly like the voting scheme in OHA (Office of Hawaiian Affairs) where the Trustee representing a small island like Kaua'i or Moloka'i must be a resident of his island but is elected by all citizens of Hawai'i, including the vast majority who do not live on that island.
Section 3: 'Ili Representation: Each ili shall be represented on the Board by two members. One seat shall be reserved for a person who is a skilled traditional practitioner in the Ahupua'a of He'e'ia of the traditional arts, crafts and sciences of pre-western contact He'e'ia, or by a person who is kupa'aina of He'e'ia. The second seat shall be reserved for a person who is a current resident of the ili that person will represent.
Comment: The definitions of skilled traditional practitioner and kupa'aina are provided in subsections a and b below. The net effect is that 10 out of 17 Directors could live outside He'eia or even outside O'ahu; at least 7 out of 17 Directors must be racially Hawaiian and all 17 might be; and for any particular one of the 7 ili, only one out of 17 Directors must actually live in that ili but even that one Director is elected by the vote of the entire population, most of whom live outside that ili. Thus, there is virtually zero democratic accountability.
Section 3 Subsection (a): Skilled Traditional Practitioner: For the purposes of these Bylaws a skilled traditional practitioner is defined as a person who has a deep commitment to and a demonstrated history of practicing the traditional arts, crafts, sciences, and/or the cultural and spiritual values of the ancient people of the Ahupua'a of He'e'ia, who is acknowledged by their peers in the community as highly skilled in their field or fields, and who is willing to share their knowledge and skills to assist this organization in the fulfillment of its mission.
Section 3 Subsection (b) Kupa 'Aina: For the purposes of these Bylaws a kupa 'aina is defined as a person of indigenous ancestry who was born in the Ahupua'a of He'e'ia and is, therefore, a "native of the land"; or, a person of indigenous ancestry who, although born and/or living elsewhere, is connected to the ahu[ua'a by many generations of ohana living on the land, as evidenced by the location of ancestral na iwi (bones) within the ahupua'a, and who identifies the Ahupua'a of He'e'ia as the location of that person's na'au (feelings) and pu'uwai (heart).
Further comment: Not only are 7 of the 17 Directors absolutely required to be racially Hawaiian, but the 7 Directors who represent the 7 ili and are actually required to be residents of the ili they represent, are required to do "affirmative action" outreach to invite and solicit the active participation in ili meetings by racially-defined Hawaiians who can live anywhere in He'eia, O'ahu, or indeed anywhere in Hawai'i. Thus, even the one Director who actually resides in an ili is separated from accountability to his ili residents not only by being elected by all ARCH members from throughout all of Hawai'i, but also by being forced to reach "consensus" with the racially-defined Hawaiian "traditional practitioners" and "kupa'aina" from throughout Hawai'i whom he is obligated to invite to ili meetings. The following language of Article XII, Section 3 makes this clear (bearing in mind the definition previously given): "It shall be the responsibility of a Board member who represents an ili to facilitate and sustain an ili Committee consisting of residents within an ili, including, as much as possible, the support of the skilled traditional practitioners and kupa'aina of the ahupua'a. [remember that kupa'aina of He'eia must be racially Hawaiians and can include anyone living anywhere in Hawai'i who feels a special connection to He'eia]. .... The Chairperson of an ili Committee shall be the Board member who is the resident representative of a respective ili.
It should be noted that there is nothing inherently wrong with this organization as a private club. The Elks Club can set the requirements for its members, establish its own election procedures, and throw people out of the club for publicly disagreeing with club policy (although in recent years there are restrictions on even a private club's ability to exclude people based on race or gender). But such a private club must not be allowed to pose as being democratically representative of all the people. Under no circumstances should democratically elected neighborhood boards or homeowners' associations give permission to ARCH to speak on their behalf. Furthermore, it seems clear that this organization is primarily interested in asserting Hawaiian sovereignty claims to land, water, and power. It is using statements about malama 'aina (caring for the land) and spirituality as merely a political ploy rather than as its true primary focus.
An article by Honolulu Advertiser writer Bob Krauss very favorable to ARCH will be shown below. But first, a legal disclaimer: The word "fraud" is being used here not in any formal legal or financial sense, but in the customary informal political and moral meaning of "a deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair gain; a piece of trickery; a sham." In the case of the community organization ARCH, no allegations of financial or legal fraud are being made (although it might be seen as questionable that nearly all the money provided in a startup grant was used for salaries for the two group leaders, but this was made clear in a budget document briefly circulated at a public meeting and presumably given to the donor of the grant). Rather, the accusation concerns political and moral fraud, where well-meaning members and the community at large are led to believe the organization is focused on environmental restoration when in fact it is primarily seeking to stake claims for political power to use for hidden political purposes related to Hawaiian sovereignty.
Following is an article about ARCH written by Bob Krauss, published in the Honolulu Advertiser of April 18, 2001. Mr. Krauss is well known as a long-time staff writer for the Advertiser who writes "good news." His articles are almost always up-beat, celebratory, affirming the richness of our culture and multi-ethnic society. Thus it was a wise choice for the leaders of ARCH to ask him to write this puff-piece at a critical time when the leaders needed to show community support in order to obtain continued funding of their salaries. At the same time this article was published, the ARCH leaders were busily scurrying to meetings of neighborhood boards and homeowners associations to solicit letters of support. It was a well-orchestrated PR campaign.
Mr Krauss' article is reprinted here in its entirety, because it represents the extremely positive attitude toward ARCH that the project leaders hope to nurture throughout the community. By contrast, the analysis above seems scrooge-like: negative, critical, bah-humbug, perhaps angry. That's the way a fraud works: make people feel confident, cheerful, and even altruistic and magnanimous while manipulating the situation against the victims' best interest in ways the victims are unaware of or are made to believe are unimportant. The innocent wealthy girl being taken for a ride by a skillful gigolo doesn't want to know the truth, and lashes out at friends who try to warn her.
Mr. Krauss' article describes an ideal sort of project, and he is to be praised for capturing how wonderful it could be. What prevents it from truly being that way are the race-based requirements for who has power in ARCH, and the use of ARCH as a front organization for Hawaiian sovereignty. Please read the article below, and then re-read the entire analysis above.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Apr/18/ln/ln39abob.html
Posted on: Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Restoring a He'eia ahupua'a
By Bob Krauss
Advertiser Staff Writer
It's no accident that the Heeia Historical Society, a family affair, dreams big because families over in He'eia are expandable.
The society is not just one family but a whole community of them that started with a family reunion of the entire ahupua'a, the valley that stretches from mountains to the sea.
Now the dream has expanded to become a lesson for everybody in Hawai'i, and an invitation to be part of the family.
It's a powerful dream to reinvent an old Hawaiian ahupua'a in modern terms, like building an ancient voyaging canoe with modern materials.
Quite a few idealists, Hawaiian and otherwise, have dreamed this dream.
What adds tantalizing reality to this one is that by a long chain of circumstances the essential elements are still in place.
Only a fraction of the land is developed. He'eia stream still flows from the mountains to the sea. In the mountains, taro terraces remain, the irrigation system and the broad wetlands below. In the ocean, a fish pond is still there, enriched by the stream and the offshore reef.
People are the biggest concern of the chief dreamers: Donna Ono, president of the society, and Mary Brook, a marine biologist who operates the fish pond.
They agreed that "our biggest challenge is getting people in today's challenging times to see the value of working together on something bigger than themselves that has no immediate benefit to them personally but will increase the quality of the community."
Ono lives up the valley on the family plot where the late kahuna Sam Lono inspired his acolytes. She operates a janitorial service for a living and has planted several acres of taro on the old lo'i. She has taken over for her mother, Anita Kahanu Paoa Gouveia Heen, who launched the society.
Brook has lived at the fish pond for 12 years. She sells limu to subsist. Their dream of restoring the ahupua'a was born about two years ago when they met and realized that the mountains and the sea are incomplete without each other.
Brook's Ahupua'a Restoration Council of Heeia, open to all, joined forces with the Heeia Historical Society, a family affair. A wide assortment of people from government, education, business and the local community sit on the board.
Their first goal for the ahupua'a is a community-driven restoration plan with professional input, something that works and that people want. They see this as a life's work.
In the short term, they're appealing for volunteers to clean He'eia Stream. The number to call is 247-3027.
Said Brook: "When you go out on the pond at night and open up the gate, the mullet rush in, still responding to the tide as they did for the ancestors."
Ono added, "When you go up into the mountains and you chant, asking permission to enter, you speak to your 'aumakua and kupuna, and they answer."
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For over 151 years, Sargent Welch has been supplying quality laboratory equipment and supplies for education at the best value, and streamlining the way schools and educators shop for science supplies. Here's how it started…
A Total Commitment to the Lab Supply Business
During the time of the Gold Rush in 1849, Ezekiel H. Sargent, a young pharmacist from Boston, moved to Chicago to become a partner in a drugstore, selling assaying and prospecting equipment to gold prospectors passing through on their way West. In 1852, he bought out his partners' share, and renamed his store E.H. Sargent & Company.
In spite of the total destruction of his store in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Sargent's business prospered. Four years later, he moved from the northern edge of what was later to become downtown Chicago, rebuilt, and published his first catalog in 1875 - the first recorded attempt at mail order solicitation in the laboratory supply business.
In 1889, Sargent incorporated his business in Illinois. The sale of the drugstore in 1904 and the acquisition of Richards & Company, Ltd., a New York scientific equipment company, marked Sargent's total commitment to the laboratory supply business. In the years immediately prior to World War I, Sargent established research facilities and manufacturing operations that enabled the company to develop precision instruments.
Sargent's efforts were devoted to manufacturing and supplying laboratory apparatus, chemicals and instruments.
In 1941, Sargent became the first laboratory supply company to open a branch warehouse that would better serve a growing chemical industry at the start of World War II. Sargent moved its headquarters from downtown Chicago to a new and modern manufacturing and warehouse facility on the northwest side. Other sales and distribution centers were subsequently opened nationwide.
A Single Source for Science Education Materials
Meanwhile, in 1880 in a one-room country school in Maquoketa, Iowa, W.M. Welch, a 24 year-old school superintendent, was struggling with the inadequacies of school record keeping systems. It was then that he embarked on one of his first commercial ventures - the development of the nation's first system of awards for school attendance and scholarship including elementary school diplomas.
In 1906 Welch moved to Chicago and incorporated the W.M. Welch Manufacturing Company. Four years later, Welch acquired the Edward P. Martin Company - a manufacturer of science education products - and gradually developed proprietary products for physics, chemistry and biology education.
With the 1957 launching of Sputnik and the 1958 enactment of the National Defense Education Act, federal funds began flowing into the nation's schools at an increasing rate. W.M. Welch Manufacturing Company sales increased dramatically. In 1960, Welch changed its name to the Welch Scientific Company, moved its headquarters to Skokie, Illinois and offered its stock to the public the following year. A public offering of 545,000 shares was NYSE listed in 1963.
Partnering for Science Selection and Value
In 1968, E. H. Sargent Company and the Welch Scientific Company merged under the name Sargent-Welch Scientific Company, thereby forming one of the nation's leading suppliers of science education products.
In early 1989, the Welch Manufacturing Division was sold, and in August 1989, Sargent-Welch was purchased by VWR International, LLC, and became a 100% science education supply business.
In 1993, Sargent-Welch moved to Buffalo Grove, Illinois and continued to market science teaching products to elementary through college institutions, museums and science centers throughout the United States and Canada. The company's international division markets science education products throughout the world.
Sargent Welch Today…
From a history of small, specialized companies in the lab supply and education industries, to a single source for science education materials for every grade level, Sargent Welch helps science educators save time and money with value‐priced science supplies and easy shopping solutions.


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The Optare Delta was a single-decker bus body manufactured by Optare on the DAF SB220 chassis. They were built in a factory in Leeds, England. They are known for their distinctive sloping front window. A common feature about the bus that it has a distinctive one-piece windscreen with a sloped windowline and a separately mounted destination display.

History
Announced in early 1988, the first Delta was launched at the British International Motor Show at the National Exhibition Centre in October 1988. The first was delivered in February 1989. A total of 324 were produced with British Airways purchasing 49, Trent Barton 43, London Regional Transport 35, Reading Buses 20 and Northern General 19. Production of the Delta ceased in 1999.

In popular culture
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Steam Now Offers Native Support For Sony's DualShock 4
By Rexly Peñaflorida
Steam hasn't officially supported Sony's DualShock controllers for years. Most developers instead focused on support for Microsoft's Xbox controller and, more recently, the Steam controller. But the latest client update has finally brought native support for the DualShock 4 to Steam.
Valve's Jeff Bellinghausen said during a talk at Steam Dev Days earlier this year that support for additional controllers was on the horizon.
The DualShock 4 was the first controller to receive this support because of its gyroscope and touchpad, which are similar to those used in the Steam Controller, so it could work with the Steam Controller API. Bellinghausen also said that trying to use a DualShock 4 on PC was a horrible experience.
"Existing native support was just terrible. It just sucked and it was awful," he said. "I've tried to use a PS4 controller on PC, and it's just not great at the moment. Other devices work pretty good on PC already. This fills a hole, this meets that demand." DualShock 4 controller support was available in the Steam client, albeit in beta form, at the end of October. This week's client update represents the update growing up and leaving the beta stage.
Here's how it works: When using Steam Big Picture, you can use the Steam Configurator with the controller to map out commands for its buttons and triggers. You can also customize its gyroscope and touchpad functions to suit your needs. You don't have to install other software to make your PC think the DualShock 4 is an Xbox controller or trick it into converting the inputs into key presses. All you have to do is head into Steam's built-in settings.
DualShock 4 isn't the only thing included in this update. Steam added "higher bandwidth options" to enable in-home streaming of games in 4K. If you're using the Oculus Touch with SteamVR, then its navigations functions are improved as well. There's also a new controller mode called "Joystick Mouse," which Valve said works best with stick-based controllers, and a new feature that lets you change the brightness and color of the LEDs on your controller. (This was presumably added because of the DualShock 4.) Check out the rest of the release notes to learn all the details about this client update.
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And it has created a really irritating problem for me. I play Assassin's Creed Syndicate that activates a UPlay account. I use a PS4 controller connected to the computer with a power cord USB connector. I also have a Steam account for playing Obduction. Now when I play Syndicate every time I press L3 to activate eagle vision if opens some kind of on screen keyboard thing that is associated with Steam Big Picture. When I press the O button to close the keyboard it minimizes my Syndicate game to the taskbar and opens the Steam program. Even if I don't have any programs open I can plug in the PS4 controller, press L3 and it brings up the on screen keyboard thing. I haven't found a way to disable the controller in Steam and I may just have to uninstall Steam.
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You don't have to leave Steam running all the time, and since it sounds like you're very new to PC gaming, and don't have 99% of your games in Steam like most PC gamers, there's really no reason to have it running in the background at all.
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Maybe Abstergo is trying to keep you from the truth. (Give me the Illuminati theme.)
Hello Jeff. I have it figured out now. I was using the X in the upper right corner that you normally use to close a program but apparently that leaves the big window or something running in the background. I noticed it in task manager background processes. I used the "exit" option instead of the X and that closes everything in Steam. The controller now works normally in Syndicate. Thanks for the nudge to investigate other options. Problem appears solved.
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So when can we see support for the dualshock 3 controllers and not have to rely on virus prone third party apps?
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From fast food ad man to nutrition evangelist
As a successful advertising executive, Dan Parker helped companies like Coca-Cola and McDonald's shift fizzy drinks and fast food. But when diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he quit ad land. Parker now uses his insight to tackle obesity
Lucy Purdy May 14, 2018
Lifestyle Society
"Nobody knows more about what people choose to put in their mouths than those who work with Coca-Cola, McDonald's. Their knowledge of manipulating emotions? It's genius."
Dan Parker should know. He promoted the products of both, plus plenty more global food and drinks brands, during his 25-year career in advertising and marketing. "I'd spent my life with these people, and I was pretty good at it myself," he says.
But everything changed in 2014, when he discovered he had type 2 diabetes. It was a "slap around the face. But not really a surprise," says Parker. "I was four stone heavier than I am now, had a sedentary lifestyle, I worked with computers all day and I had a terrible diet."
He owned a marketing agency and stuck it out for a while post-diagnosis, devising promotions for the likes of Cadbury, Walkers, Tesco and Asda. But the gap between Parker's work and his growing knowledge of nutrition began to grate. "Briefs would come across my desk at the same time as I was reading books on coping with diabetes. I'd think, 'Do I really want to do another McDonald's campaign?'"
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He readily admits that he was part of the problem, wrapped up in the "cosy, middle-class, wealthy, Soho bubble", ignorant to the harm that junk food marketing was doing. "A lot of that was down to arrogance, no question."
But it began to dawn how he could be part of the solution. By 2016, he had closed his advertising agency and founded Living Loud: a charitable coalition of experts from health, nutrition, digital, PR and advertising. "I realised that if I could take the skill I've seen trying to persuade people to drink more Coca-Cola to get people to make healthy choices, then I might be able to change the world."
Living Loud makes and advises on campaigns that promote healthier living, trying to tackle the root causes of non-communicable diseases like heart disease, strokes and diabetes. Already, Parker's team has worked with the Children's Food Campaign and the Advertising Standards Authority to define new regulations to ban junk food advertising online and has teamed up with groups such as Action on Sugar, the Obesity Health Alliance, Cancer Research UK and Jamie Oliver Foundation, helping them understand the thinking of global junk food giants and hone their own messaging.
I'd think, 'Do I really want to do another McDonald's campaign?'
Most recently, Parker has joined forces with The Food Foundation, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, and leaders from agriculture, industry and advertising on a campaign to glorify vegetables. The government's 5 A Day campaign failed, suggests Parker, because it demonised veg. He hopes to launch a fund to use marketing and advertising to positively encourage more of us to eat more of the good stuff.
His biggest bugbears in food and drink advertising? The intense concentration of junk food advertising during early evening 'family viewing' TV is one. Slathering the packets of high-sugar cereals in pictures of Disney characters is another – "how is that justifiable?" And another really sticks in Parker's throat come festive season. "As soon as children have any sense of the world, they love Father Christmas. He's the giver of gifts, the bringer of joy, the happiest man in the universe. And what does he do every Christmas? He sits on a lorry handing out Coca-Cola. One can contains more sugar than most adults should consume in a day, let alone children. How is it OK to use such an influential figure to get kids to like Coke?"
Crucially, Parker thinks he can help bridge the gap between the academics and institutions who know about obesity but who stick rigidly to figures and technicalities, and the hundreds of thousands of people who are struggling with ill health but lack a clear, positive vision of how to change.
Parker now uses his knowledge of the advertising industry to campaign for healthier living
The NHS gives patients fear and knowledge, he posits – "'If you don't sort yourself, you're going to have a heart attack in 10 years' time so here's a leaflet'" – but often fails to provide the tools for people to change. This can lead to despair.
"Despair is one of the most lucrative emotions. People who feel despair buy whole packets of biscuits, eat tubs of ice cream and they have a second burger. I think that combination of fear and knowledge without the inspiration is probably making the obesity crisis worse."
These are emotive words, but Parker's motivation is deeply personal. "I've got a debt, right? I don't know how many more burgers have been sold as a result of my work, but it's a lot. I also saw my dad go through a terrible end of life. He was obese, he had type 2 diabetes and for 20 years I saw him always in pain."
Parker's rapid-fire speech slows: "My dad never met my son," and he pauses to wipe away tears. "I couldn't save my dad but if I save anyone else, then it's one small step towards making up for my mistakes."
Parker is certain that the persuasion industry – creative advertising – can be a force for good. "I'm convinced that the next great breakthrough in medicine won't happen in a laboratory but on a moodboard," he says.
I'm convinced that the next great breakthrough in medicine won't happen in a laboratory but on a moodboard
As advertisers have long known, behaviour change usually happens on the emotional level rather than the practical. "We really need to understand the trigger points in people's lives, when they are most likely to be receptive to change."
Environments where people don't feel blamed or judged, but are positively motivated to change are also key. "Let's empower people, give them hope and put them in control, so we prepare them to succeed," he says. "Unless we flick a switch in people's heads about making positive choices to care for themselves, we'll continue on a path to nothing."
And it isn't useful to demonise those who work at companies like Coca-Cola either. "The idea that there is some kind of evil collaboration of overlords in their darkened temple, cackling insanely: there isn't," says Parker.
Not the woman whose job it is to maximise the satisfying crunch of a crisp, or the man bent on calculating the optimally pleasurable amount of salt they are sprinkled with? Is he guilty of manipulation? "He's just a guy," says Parker, "trying to do his job, maybe get a bonus or a pay rise. But times that by a million and that's the obesity crisis. I want people in my field too to be more aware of the consequences of what they do."
Let's empower people, give them hope and put them in control, so we prepare them to succeed
People power is capable of big things, Parker reminds. "Corporations with large sums of money have a disproportionate amount of influence in the corridors of power. But there is one thing more influential and that's popularity, especially in the sort of knife-edge politics we're in at the moment."
As one example, he points to the ban on selling energy drinks to children under 16 that most UK supermarkets introduced earlier this year. It followed campaigners raising concerns about the drinks' levels of sugar and caffeine and their impact on health and behaviour.
Today is the time to act, Parker thinks, because big food is now fighting a defensive game. "It's very reminiscent of tobacco in the 1950s: managing decline. Companies are still making loads of money, of course. But they're defending their wicket. People need to get engaged and realise that they own the world."
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The Danger of Workism
Posted by Erik Cooper | Jan 13, 2021 | Faith and Work | 0 |
I started taking piano lessons when I was four. I had a knack for it, and as I got older my discipline to work at it matured, too. My elementary school peers knew me as the piano-kid. I was the student who always knew the theory answers in music class. I accompanied the school and church choirs and ensembles at concerts and contests.
When I was 11, our family took a Carnival Cruise to the Caribbean. I remember getting a standing ovation at the ship's weekly talent show for playing a killer rendition of the Hill Street Blues theme song. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think I beat out an octogenarian comedian and a Midwestern soccer mom still chasing an elusive dream to be a Vegas lounge singer. This growing musical gift was slowly becoming my identity.
Eventually it led me to Belmont University in Nashville where I initially pursued music as a course of study and ultimately ended up working in music at a local church through my mid-30s. I loved that job. I loved it so much that I had a hard time turning it off. I would find myself arranging a new song while I was pushing my daughter on the swing set, turning a new lyric idea over in my head during family dinners, and plopping my kids down in front of another Air Bud movie so I could jot down ideas for a weekend worship service uninterrupted.
It was beautiful to have my gift, my passion, and my career all sync up for a season of life, but I found myself obsessed with the work so much that it became my identity. When I left that role to pursue a new opportunity, I spent three or four years not knowing who I was anymore. In retrospect, I think that was a gift from God. Not because my love for the work was wrong (it was actually quite beautiful), but because I had elevated the work to a place in my life it was incapable of sustaining.
What is Workism?
Statistics claim that over 80% of people hate their jobs. But some people actually have the opposite struggle when it comes to embracing their daily work. They worship it.
The term is workism, a word I wasn't familiar with until recently. I stumbled across a sobering article from Derek Thompson at The Atlantic that defines it well. In his essay, The Religion of Workism is Making Americans Miserable, he postulates that, for the college-educated "elite," work has actually become a religion of sorts. Because of our focus on the Gospel and the marketplace here at The Stone Table, that analogy caught my attention. Here's what Thompson said:
"The decline of traditional faith in America has coincided with an explosion of new atheisms. Some people worship beauty, some worship political identities, and others worship their children. But everybody worships something. And workism is among the most potent of the new religions competing for congregants."
That is a stunning insight coming from a non-Christian perspective, but one it's definitely easy to see in certain factions of our modern Western culture. Work can claim a place in our lives that only God was intended to fill. Work can become an idol.
Thompson defines Workism as "the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the centerpiece of one's identity." Like other forms of idolatry, workism takes something with a clear God-given design and elevates it to an identity-defining position it was never meant to fill. Idolatry of any kind is the root of all sin. While we usually think of sin as "doing bad things," idolatry is sneaky because it mis-uses good things.
Work is Good
In Genesis 1-2, we see work as part of God's nature (Genesis 2:2). We see a Creator fashion man and woman to "work and keep" his creation (2:15). We see God stamp mankind with his divine image and commission us as His vice-regents to partner with Him in the care and cultivation of His world (1:27). All of this takes place before the serpent, the tree, the apple, and the fall of man.
Work is not punishment for sin, work is part of God's original design for mankind! The Old Testament Hebrew word for work is Avodah. This is the exact same word used for service and for worship. Work is good. Work is from God.
Work is worship, but work is not meant to be worshipped!
That's what workism does. Workism hijacks God's creative intent for our work and elevates it to a place of ultimate identity and transcendence in our life.
Workism is Idolatry
As champions of everyday work and the role of the marketplace in God's Kingdom, the rising concern over workism really hits home. We are huge promotors of the Gospel and the marketplace, good work theology, business as mission, and work as a vital component of God's Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. We believe that the Gospel, the finished work of Jesus, made peace with everything on heaven and earth, including the work of our hands (Colossians 1:19-20). Work is a sacred thing!
But as we've seen so clearly in the recent political landscape, the idolatry of anything – including good things, including sacred things – turns beauty back into ashes and ultimately leaves us empty and disillusioned.
Thompson eerily hits that part on the head: "A culture that worships the pursuit of extreme success will likely produce some of it. But extreme success is a falsifiable god, which rejects the vast majority of its worshippers. Our jobs were never meant to shoulder the burdens of a faith, and they are buckling under the weight."
Only in Christ can our relationship to our daily work be made whole. It's not a way we forge our own identity, it's not a means to transcendence in this life, it's not our source of hope in this world, it's a beautiful expression of worship to God and love to our fellow man.
The Workism Remedy
Workism tries to elevate work into something it not capable of being, but that doesn't mean we throw away the sacred role of work. It means we repent of its mis-use. It means we surrender our trust and identity to Jesus and allow our work to become the beautiful outflow it was intended to be. This is where secular solutions miss the mark.
Instead of returning work to its proper place, Thompson instead chooses to combat workism with an anti-work prescription, touting government policies like universal basic income, parental leave, and child allowances as the way to minimize Americans need to work so much.
But the prescription to idolatry of any kind is not less worship, it's right worship.
Do Americans work too much? Maybe. But it's not the work itself that is the core of the problem that workism presents, it's the worship of our work that leads to the heartache. We weren't created to worship our work, work was created as a means by which we worship God and love our neighbor. When we find our identity, our transcendence, and our hope in Christ alone, everything else can finally take its rightful place, including our day-jobs.
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Q: Creation of.so of files There is a set with - files with extension.с: avl_tree.c, buf_read.c, db_prep.c, file_process.c, global_header.c, traverser.c. Used include files are in folder/usr/gcc/4.4/bin/include except for jni.h, and libraries are in folder/usr/gcc/4.4/bin/lib. How from them to create.so the file (if it is possible specify all options in this command)? It me interests in communication by creation of native of methods by means of JNI.

A: You really should read the documentation of GCC. Notably invoking GCC. The program library howto is also relevant.
Very often, some builder is used to drive the build. GNU make is often used and has a good tutorial documentation. If your Makefile-s are complex, you may also want to use GNU remake to debug them (remake is a debugging variant for make).
You usually want to compile each individual C source file into position independent code because shared objects have PIC code. You can use
 gcc -Wall -fPIC -o foo.pic.o foo.c

to compile a C source foo.c into a position independent object file foo.pic.o and you may need some other compiler options (e.g. -I to add include directories, or -D to define some preprocessor symbols, -g for debugging, and -O for optimizing).
I strongly suggest to enable almost all warnings with -Wall (and to improve your code till no warnings are given; this will improve a little bit your code's quality).
Then you have to link all these *.pic.o files together into a shared object with
 gcc -shared *.pic.o -o foo.so

You can link some shared libraries into a shared object.
You may want to read Levine's book on linkers and loaders
Of course if you use GNU make you'll have rules in your Makefile for all this.
You could use GNU libtool also.
Maybe dlopen(3) could interest you.

A: The question should probably give more information.
Most sets of sources have a Makefile, configure script or some other item to set up to make the output (the .so library you want).
gcc -dynamic -o file.so file.c
will create an so file from one of the source files, but you probably want a single so from all of them.

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COLUMN: A spring football league can work, but we have to support it
By Josh Boutwell sports@southeastsun.com
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As most everyone in this state is aware of by now, Alabama has a professional football team again with the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football.
It's no secret that I have been a supporter of this league and the Iron from the beginning, as I desperately want a pro football team and a spring football league to work here.
Since I was a kid hearing stories about the Birmingham Stallions of the United States Football League and the Birmingham Americans/Vulcans of the World Football League from my dad, the thought of a spring football league has always amazed me.
I've been a football nerd from as long as I can remember. The first books I can remember reading were about the game I loved.
In the fall, Alabama and Auburn are kings and always will be kings. A pro football team would have to fight with those two giants that routinely draw 90-100,000 people each week, and would likely ultimately fail. A spring league, though could, and should, work.
People in this state love football and in the old USFL, the Birmingham Stallions routinely drew among the most fans in the league, the same can be said for the Birmingham Americans/Vulcans of the WFL. Even the old Canadian Football League team, Birmingham Barracudas, drew good crowds and the horrible Birmingham Bolts had more than 30,000 people for its first few games.
In the AAF's first few weeks, the Iron have drawn nearly 20,000 fans, a good start for a league that is just trying to get going, and Birmingham's game against Salt Lake on TNT drew more than a million viewers on a Saturday afternoon. The AAF's debut game on CBS drew more viewers than that of any NBA game that night.
With all of the success of the first couple of weeks, it all got wiped away with just one negative report, however.
Last week, reports from various media outlets surfaced suggesting that the AAF was in such a dire financial crisis that players had yet to be paid for their week one games and that the AAF needed a gigantic $200 million investment from NHL owner Tom Dundon just to make payroll.
The fact that the AAF's entire year's worth of salary, cited by co-founder Charlie Eberson, is just $32 million didn't stop the avalanche of criticism.
Just like that, media outlets – ESPN included – that had paid little to no attention to the upstart league since its inception suddenly couldn't stop talking about it. ESPN, The Athletic and The Action Network were some of the primary reporters of this news.
Neither of those outlets made mention of the AAF's big ratings in the debut or last week's debut on TNT. Neither of those outlets talked about the positive feedback on the quality of football being played or unique new rules that fans have been given. The minute there was the possibility of a negative outcome, though? They pounced.
According to Ebersol, the truth is that he and Dundon had been negotiating a "buy-in" investment for months before finally closing the deal after the success of the first two weeks. The payroll issues that The Athletic originally cited from "sources?" A clerical error that caused players to be paid on the Tuesday after President's Day rather than the previous Friday like was scheduled. Birmingham Iron General Manager Joe Pendry and Dundon himself backed up this claim.
Whether those initial reports were true or not, it's pretty clear that there are a number of national media outlets looking for this league to fail and are ready to jump on any sliver of negativity. That is something the AAF is going to have to overcome.
The positive thing is that fans seem to be gaining interest by the week, more and more members of the national media are paying attention to the league in a positive manner and the league just got an injection of more than $200 million, which should put any worries about financial issues to bed, at least for a while.
Regardless of any negative stories, none of that will matter if crowds continue to grow, ratings continue to grow and the play on the football field continues to be solid. Pendry has cited the numerous Alabama, Auburn and Troy players on the Iron roster as evidence of the team's hope that it becomes a state team, not just Birmingham's team. Pendry said that those local connections – Atlanta's TJ Barnes was also a former star at Enterprise High – and affordable ticket prices are reasons he hopes that happens. Tickets to the Iron can be bought for as little as $15, season tickets can be bought for as little as $50, and if we want to see professional football played in this state, especially in the spring, we have to support it.
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Q: Calculate limit at infinity. $(0 \cdot\infty)$ form $$\lim_{n\to \infty} \left( \left (\frac1{1+\frac1n}\right )^\alpha - 1\right)n$$
If we plug in $n=\infty$. We get $0 \cdot \infty$ which should be zero, right?  But according to textbook answer is $-\alpha$.
 How?

A: $$ \lim_{n\to \infty} \Bigl(\Bigl(\frac1{1+\frac1n}\Bigr)^\alpha - 1\Bigr)n$$
let $x \equiv \frac 1n $
$$ = \lim_{x \to 0^+}  \frac{(1+x)^{-\alpha  } -1  }    {x}       $$
now use l'hospital's rule
or binomial approximation $(1+x)^{-\alpha} \to
  1-\alpha x $

A: Put $x=1+(1/n)$ so that $x\to 1$ and the expression becomes $\dfrac{x^{-\alpha} - 1}{x-1}$ which tends to $-\alpha$ via the limit formula $$\lim_{x\to a} \frac{x^r-a^r} {x-a} =ra^{r-1}$$


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Daniel Sack is an associate in the Boston office of Latham & Watkins.
Mr. Sack represents clients in general commercial litigation.
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Prior to joining Latham & Watkins, Mr. Sack practiced at both a boutique law firm in Boston and at a large law firm in New York City. In 2018, Mr. Sack received the Legal Aid Society's Pro Bono Publico Award.
Mr. Sack received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his law degree from Columbia Law School, where he was recognized for outstanding academic achievement as a James Kent Scholar. During law school, he was an articles editor on the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts and a winner of the Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems' E. Allan Farnsworth Note Competition.
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Tax devolution – a help or hindrance to the UK's cities, regions and nations?
The devolution of tax-setting powers across the UK is a transformative issue meriting wider debate than at present.
That was the overwhelming view of a panel of experts who gathered at 10-11 Carlton House Terrace for the latest CIOT/IFS debate on the future of the UK's tax system, chaired by Helen Miller from the IFS.
A piecemeal approach to tax devolution over the last two decades has seen a myriad of tax powers devolved to the UK's constituent nations. However, England remains an outlier, with a tax system decided from the centre with little respect for regional priorities.
David Phillips, Associate Director at the IFS covering devolution and local government, set out the rationales for tax devolution, which have the ability to empower communities, incentivise economic growth and be more responsive to local investment priorities.
He then considered the risks and challenges of devolution. He questioned whether significant capacity existed at a sub-national level to support the devolution and implementation of tax setting powers. He noted that while devolution is an enabler of choice, it could also incentivise tax competition, with authorities seeking to lower their tax rates to attract investment, to the detriment of the tax base and public spending.
When considering the suitability of different types of taxes for devolution, in theory, Phillips noted that property taxes were the most attractive option. But the inequities of property prices across the UK (and thus a hugely differing tax yield) posed a problem, with receipts heavily concentrated in the south east of England.
Personal income taxes had the benefit of being easily identifiable, but diverging rates within jurisdictions had the potential to encourage avoidance, especially among higher earners.
Dr Neil Lee of the London School of Economics said that despite a global trend towards devolution since the 1970s, there was little clear guidance in theory of the costs and benefits of fiscal decentralisation. While the majority of research was inconclusive, there were some examples when tax devolution had been found to deliver benefits.
For tax devolution to be effective in practice, Dr Lee warned that local authorities and sub-national regions needed to have strong leadership in place to deliver real benefits along with public support. The UK's quality of local governance had declined in recent years, leaving local government in many areas not up to the task.
Joanne Walker of the CIOT considered the impact of tax devolution in Scotland, noting that fiscal devolution had existed in some form or another since the Scottish Parliament reconvened in 1999.
The majority of discussion and debate north of the border had focused on powers devolved in the Scotland Acts of 2012 and 2016 (Scottish Income Tax, Land and Buildings Transaction Tax, Scottish Landfill Tax and (the yet to be implemented) Air Departure Tax).
Together with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS), the CIOT had established the Scottish Taxes Policy Forum to review Scotland's tax powers in the 21 years since Scottish voters backed the creation of a Parliament with tax raising powers.
Its report – published at the start of the month – had concluded that there needed to be a more logical and consistent framework for the devolution of tax powers across the UK, with a greater emphasis on improving public awareness and understanding.
The CIOT had commissioned an opinion poll that had found that 84 per cent of Scots believed they needed better information about how taxes were decided in Scotland.
The same survey had also found a widespread lack of understanding over which tax powers were the responsibility of Westminster and Holyrood, despite the growing importance of devolved taxes to the Scottish budget.
Walker noted that the forum had considered a range of issues relating to the operation and performance of the devolved taxes, their interactions with the wider UK system and the attitude of the Scottish public towards tax devolution.
Julia Goldsworthy, director of strategy for the West Midlands Combined Authority, said that combined authorities, established on a regional scale, were set up nicely to empower fiscal devolution.
However, in the West Midlands, the current focus was less on the devolution of existing tax powers and more on the generation of new revenue streams.
Tax devolution, she argued, needed to be viewed as a process and not an event. Consideration needed to be given to the impact of tax devolution on other revenue streams and the ability to attract both public and private investment.
Goldsworthy also suggested that a longer-term approach to revenue planning was necessary to remove day-to-day political expediency from the process.
During a Q&A session, the panel were asked whether tax devolution was a distraction from the day-to-day business of running local government. They were also asked if the constraints on Scottish income tax devolution had increased the scope for tax planning and avoidance and whether a wider debate across the UK on the devolution of extra powers other than revenue-raising was needed to empower local democracy.
Links to the audio of the event, together with presentation slides, can be accessed below.


Similarly, there are two classes of people in the world—those who create dissensions and disharmony, who separate man from man; and those who bring about peace and harmony, who unite people. The former are generally the rich people, powerful politicians and kings; the latter are generally the poor devotees of God, the penniless wandering monks, and mendicants. The Lord makes use of both to carry on his function of providing the field for the evolution of individual souls. He throws down on the dust the mighty kings and millionaires who create wars and disharmony; and He keeps the poor, pious devotee over His own head. In His eyes the scale of values is entirely different!


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