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Nike CHRO: How investing in tech helps us deliver world-class HR
By Phil Albinus
In times of challenge, Monique "Mo" Matheson, executive vice president and chief human resources officer for Nike Inc., and her HR team rely on a mantra that is used throughout the company: This is a time to be more Nike than ever.
Monique Matheson, CHRO, Nike
It's clearly working, analysts and outsiders have noticed. Nike remains the leading sports apparel manufacturer with 78,000 employees around the globe, and Matheson, who is a 24-year veteran of Nike, is leading the charge in enhancing employee experience during a global pandemic and the subsequent Great Resignation and return-to-office debate.
This winning spirit is among the reasons Nike soared to the No. 3 spot on HRE's latest list of companies Most Admired for HR, just behind Target and Apple. This ranking for the Portland, Ore.-based company is up from No. 8 in 2020 and No. 19 in 2019. Korn Ferry teams up with Fortune each year to determine the World's Most Admired Companies, on which the Most Admired for HR listings are based. To arrive at HRE's Most Admired for HR rankings, Korn Ferry recalibrates the Fortune attribute scores, isolating four criteria that relate to HR: management quality, product/service quality, innovation and people management.
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"People are very emotional about the Nike brand. They love it or hate it," says Matheson, adding, "We feel like our employment brand has [an] inspirational and aspirational pull to it."
Matheson says her mission at Nike is to focus on the entire Nike team, whether she's rolling out large and small HR technology solutions, driving digital business, creating enticing career paths or strategizing how to bring employees back to offices. This means investing in leading-edge HR technology and the employees who will ultimately use it.
"One of the best pivots that we made to get the executive team on board was to make it clear that this investment is not for HR," she says. "This investment is for the company [and] our employees."
This approach, she adds, "will help us be more efficient and effective in delivering world-class HR."
Nike has worked with Korn Ferry consultants over the past few years to help transform its people operations. According to Jane Stevenson, global leader of Korn Ferry's CEO Succession Practice, Nike leaders not only addressed some of the world's most challenging cultural issues, but they also have "owned" the need to change. "They used it to fuel a purpose-driven culture that is demonstrating the power of diversity in action and the exponential business outcomes true transformation provides," she says. "They are not done by any means but are embracing the continuing opportunity to operationally implement ongoing change and renewal."
Also see: Insights into EX, culture and innovation top HR Tech Virtual agenda
A close look at HR tech
Matheson credits Nike's CEO John Donahoe, who joined in 2020 after stints as CEO of eBay and Bain Capital and as a board member for PayPal, for taking a fresh look at Nike's HR tech investment and providing it with some much-needed attention.
Donahoe noted a lack of investment in HR during his initial evaluations of the company's entire tech infrastructure, Matheson says, and immediately became a "very strong partner" for her. That partnership, along with a similarly strong relationship with the executive team, allowed her to build a business case and roadmap for the current HR technology investments and their potential value.
Related: Hear more about tech's role in transforming workplace culture from the HR Tech Virtual keynote speakers.
"We created this more inclusive way of thinking about technology and investments," she says.
Practically, that means Nike is in the midst of rolling out large-scale, cloud-based platforms from Workday along with smaller-ticket HR tools, including Ten Thousand Coffees for career development, Textio for non-biased hiring and Miro for visual collaboration, among other solutions. The Workday rollout began in early 2021 and the company still plans to bring in workforce planning, core HR, recruiting, basic comp, onboarding, payroll and reporting. Additional modules will be added later, Matheson says.
Nike also has implemented Qualtrics to glean insights from its global workforce. "We are listening to our employees … and turning those insights into a strategy and plans in a way that we can create this two-way dialogue with our employees," she says.
Luckily, Nike employees are more invigorated than intimidated by relying on technology for newer HR functions and tasks, Matheson says. "It's really exciting because you couldn't do all this with just humans."
Her philosophy? "Let's let the tech do what tech can do and let the humans do the things that only humans can do."
That philosophy in part reflects a powerful mentality that Korn Ferry's Dennis Baltzley, who has worked with more than a dozen Nike senior teams in his role as global solution leader for leadership development, sees shining through in three parts at Nike.
The first is what he calls the will to win via healthy and fair competition. "Nike has shown the leadership and the will to power through extraordinarily disruptive change and deliver," he says.
Second, Nike leaders take responsibility for challenges that need to be addressed instead of debating strategy. This means "tackling seemingly insurmountable challenges and interdependencies head-on and taking progress inch by inch."
Finally, Nike leaders drive hard and pivot fast, according to Baltzley. "They run the play hard, and if it doesn't work, they try something new," he says. "It seems simple but the teams have an extraordinary ability to pivot together in an entirely new direction."
As Stevenson sums it up, "This is proof-positive that organizations can both do good and do well."
How Nike is pivoting together
The Great Resignation, COVID vaccine management and even return-to-office plans and culture have seen the company move in new directions.
Great Resignation: Although Matheson says Nike has not seen a huge exodus of talent, the company nonetheless is focused on employee learning and leadership development to retain employees. It has moved to a digital skills development platform in an effort to track trend data on such issues as employee engagement, overall attrition and hotspots of employee dissatisfaction and resignations.
The digital platform also makes learning more accessible—"the model of in-classroom training or taking two or three days away from your job to get learning are really challenged," she says—and specific. Nike is relying on the platform to create what Matheson calls a "curated learning path" for skills and capabilities that are unique to jobs inside the company.
Vaccines: Monitoring and verifying employee vaccination statuses also has been a priority for Nike, which contracted with a third party to provide a secure portal for corporate employees to record and verify their COVID-19 vaccination and booster status.
Nike's retail and distribution centers have a "more tailored approach," according to Matheson, who adds, "we're just starting to use the similar portal with our retail field athletes." (Nike refers to retail sales associates as "athletes.")
And the company means business on the vaccine front. Citing worker safety, corporate employees were informed last fall that they could lose their jobs if they didn't show proof of vaccination, and the company made headlines in January when it fired an employee who claims to have been fully vaccinated but refused to enter his information into the company's tracking portal.
Return-to-office strategy: Nike's management team works to include employees in their decision-making around this topic, Matheson says. "It really has to be in partnership with your employees and understanding what they're needing [in terms of] flexibility, what commitment looks like and how you support them," she says.
Overall, Nike's unique role in the sports, fitness and leisure world also is a guiding principle for the company and for Matheson and her HR team. Last August, for example, every corporate employee was given a week off with pay to rest and recharge. After all, Matheson says, Nike is a sports company.
"The aspects of sport that are universal—the idea of team, camaraderie, being competitive and having fun—that is really the Nike culture," says Matheson. "We're having to redefine what that looks like, but we can't lose that distinctive part of our culture."
Talent ManagementCareer DevelopmentCompany cultureHR TechnologyCore HRCoronavirusDEIDEI strategyDigital transformationLeadershipHR strategyLearning and developmentEmployee BenefitsPaid leaveRecruitingRetentionWork-life balance
Phil Albinus
Phil Albinus is the former HR Tech Editor for HRE. He has been covering personal and business technology for 25 years and has served as editor and executive editor for a number of financial services, trading technology and employee benefits titles. He is a graduate of SUNY New Paltz and lives in the Hudson Valley with his audiologist wife and three adult children.


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/**
 * @author Mugen87 / https://github.com/Mugen87
 */

import { ArriveBehavior, CompositeGoal, Goal, Matrix4, Vector3 } from "yuka";
import { Collectible } from "./Collectible";
import { Girl } from "./Girl";

const RIGHT_TURN = 'RIGHT_TURN';
const LEFT_TURN = 'LEFT_TURN';

const inverseMatrix = new Matrix4();
const localPosition = new Vector3();

export class RestGoal extends Goal<Girl> {
    constructor(owner: Girl) {
        super(owner);
    }

    activate(): void {
    }

    execute(): void {
        if (!this.owner) {
            return;
        }

        const owner = this.owner;
        owner.currentTime += owner.deltaTime;
        if (owner.currentTime >= owner.restDuration) {
            this.status = Goal.STATUS.COMPLETED;
        }
    }

    terminate() {
        if (!this.owner) {
            return;
        }

        const owner = this.owner;
        owner.currentTime = 0;
        owner.fatigueLevel = 0;
    }
}

//

export class GatherGoal extends CompositeGoal<Girl> {
    constructor(owner: Girl) {
        super(owner);
    }

    activate(): void {
        this.clearSubgoals();

        if (!this.owner) {
            return;
        }
        const owner = this.owner;

        this.addSubgoal(new FindNextCollectibleGoal(owner));
        this.addSubgoal(new SeekToCollectibleGoal(owner));
        this.addSubgoal(new PickUpCollectibleGoal(owner));
    }

    execute(): void {
        this.status = this.executeSubgoals();

        this.replanIfFailed();
    }
}

//

class FindNextCollectibleGoal extends Goal<Girl> {
    animationId: string | null;

    constructor(owner: Girl) {
        super(owner);
        this.animationId = null;
    }

    activate(): void {
        if (!this.owner) {
            return;
        }
        const owner = this.owner;
        if (!owner.manager) {
            return;
        }
        // select closest collectible
        const entities = owner.manager.entities;
        let minDistance = Infinity;
        for (let i = 0, l = entities.length; i < l; i++) {
            const entity = entities[i];
            if (entity !== owner && entity instanceof Collectible) {
                const squaredDistance = owner.position.squaredDistanceTo(entity.position);
                if (squaredDistance < minDistance) {
                    minDistance = squaredDistance;
                    owner.currentTarget = entity;
                }
            }
        }

        // determine if the girl should perform a left or right turn in order to face
        // the collectible
        if (owner.currentTarget === null) {
            return;
        }
        owner.worldMatrix.getInverse(inverseMatrix);
        localPosition.copy(owner.currentTarget.position).applyMatrix4(inverseMatrix);

        this.animationId = (localPosition.x >= 0) ? LEFT_TURN : RIGHT_TURN;
    }

    execute(): void {
        if (!this.owner) {
            return;
        }
        const owner = this.owner;
        if (owner.currentTarget !== null) {
            if (owner.rotateTo(owner.currentTarget.position, owner.deltaTime)) {
                this.status = Goal.STATUS.COMPLETED;
            }
        } else {
            this.status = Goal.STATUS.FAILED;
        }
    }

    terminate(): void {
    }
}

//

class SeekToCollectibleGoal extends Goal<Girl> {
    constructor(owner: Girl) {
        super(owner);
    }

    activate(): void {
        if (!this.owner) {
            return;
        }
        const owner = this.owner;
        //
        if (owner.currentTarget !== null) {
            const arriveBehavior = owner.steering.behaviors[0];
            if (!(arriveBehavior instanceof ArriveBehavior)) {
                return;
            }
            arriveBehavior.target = owner.currentTarget.position;
            arriveBehavior.active = true;
        } else {
            this.status = Goal.STATUS.FAILED;
        }
    }

    execute(): void {
        if (this.active()) {
            if (!this.owner) {
                return;
            }
            const owner = this.owner;
            if (owner.currentTarget === null) {
                return;
            }
            const squaredDistance = owner.position.squaredDistanceTo(owner.currentTarget.position);
            if (squaredDistance < 0.25) {
                this.status = Goal.STATUS.COMPLETED;
            }
        }
    }

    terminate(): void {
        if (!this.owner) {
            return;
        }
        const arriveBehavior = this.owner.steering.behaviors[0];
        arriveBehavior.active = false;
        this.owner.velocity.set(0, 0, 0);
    }
}

//

class PickUpCollectibleGoal extends Goal<Girl> {
    private readonly collectibleRemoveTimeout: number;

    constructor(owner: Girl) {
        super(owner);
        this.collectibleRemoveTimeout = 3; // the time in seconds after a collectible is removed
    }

    activate(): void {
    }

    execute(): void {
        if (!this.owner) {
            return;
        }
        const owner = this.owner;
        owner.currentTime += owner.deltaTime;
        if (owner.currentTime >= owner.pickUpDuration) {
            this.status = Goal.STATUS.COMPLETED;
        } else if (owner.currentTime >= this.collectibleRemoveTimeout) {
            if (owner.currentTarget !== null) {
                owner.sendMessage(owner.currentTarget, 'PickedUp');
                owner.currentTarget = null;
            }
        }
    }

    terminate(): void {
        if (!this.owner) {
            return;
        }
        const owner = this.owner;
        owner.currentTime = 0;
        owner.fatigueLevel++;
    }
}

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As Nações Unidas coordenaram uma Conferência Internacional sobre População e Desenvolvimento (CIPD) no Cairo, Egipto, de 5 a 13 de setembro de 1994. O seu Programa de Acção resultante é o documento orientador do Fundo de População das Nações Unidas (UNFPA).

Cerca de 20.000 delegados de vários governos, agências da ONU, ONGs e a mídia se reuniram para discutir uma variedade de questões populacionais, incluindo imigração, mortalidade infantil, controlo de natalidade, planeamento familiar, educação de mulheres e protecção para mulheres contra aborto inseguro.

Contexto e história
A primeira Conferência Mundial de População, organizada pela Liga das Nações e Margaret Sanger, foi realizada na Salle Central em Genebra, Suíça, de 29 de agosto a 3 de setembro de 1927.

A primeira Conferência Mundial de População patrocinada pelas Nações Unidas foi realizada em 1954 em Roma, a segunda em 1965 em Belgrado, a terceira em 1974 em Bucareste, a quarta em 1984 na Cidade do México.

Metas
De acordo com o comunicado oficial da ICPD, os delegados da conferência alcançaram consenso sobre as quatro metas qualitativas e quantitativas a seguir:

 Educação Universal;
 Redução da mortalidade infantil;
 Redução da mortalidade materna;
 Acesso a serviços relativos à sexualidade, reprodução e planeamento familiar.

Conferências diplomáticas no Egito
Conferências das Nações Unidas
População

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Q: App Crashing after updating from 10.9.3 to 10.9.1 I have mac version 10.9.3 and I am using xcode 5.1 on which I set build target 10.9. Now when I am running its build no 10.9.3 or latter versions it is good. But on previous versions it is not running.

A: It has solved, basically it was the problem with code signing. When I changed the code signing with Mac developer, the issue has resolved.

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University of Michigan to Pay $490M to Sexual Abuse Victims
Colombia: The Country Struggling to Stay Afloat
In the midst of a society in crisis, pimps fly over to feed themselves: insatiably hungry politicians
Miguel Ángel Camacho
In 2018, after the triumph of Iván Duque as president of Colombia, one thing was clear: poor management would not only weaken even more the country's institutionality but would finish opening the doors to radical ideologies that seek to widen the crack in Colombian society. In the midst of chaos, these ideologies seize power and impose a single thought on every citizen.
Although with the best intentions and against the most radical wing of his party (the Democratic Center), Duque has tried to lead a country in a spiral of corruption, a society with open wounds after decades of blood spilled by guerrillas, paramilitaries, drug traffickers and members of state forces, but he has not been able to. His weakness of character and his eagerness to try to look good with everyone have not allowed him to read the real needs of society, those that are lost behind the excessive noise made in moments of crisis by uribistas, petristas, fajardistas, charistas, robledistas, istas, and more istas. Duque is stuck in a bubble from which he is afraid to get out.
Thus, he has only managed to encourage those who see Colombia as a good haul. One of them, one of the bishops of the weakening of the clumsy democracy that has been built so far, is Gustavo Petro. In addition to seeking the Presidency, he has a more dangerous objective: to position a majority of people in Congress who are accountable to him and militate with his ideas. With the logical weakening of the image of our politicians, with the "gamonales" who are beginning to retire and leave millions of votes orphaned, and with the clumsy decisions taken by the Duque Government, the possibilities of more radicals in Congress are high.
It does not matter if due to his strategies and the evident exploitation he has made of the indignation of citizens, Petro's image falls. For decades he has been spreading a narrative that, although fed by a true feeling of the citizenry, is full of deception. A discourse strong enough to co-opt a few million votes and put more of his own on his right and left.
On the other side, things are not looking good either. Parties whose foundations are full of farcpolitics, parapolitics, cocaine, and clientelism. Former presidents who have not understood that their moment has passed, that their words only feed the anger of Colombians, that their ways are no longer useful and that the best way to help the country move forward is to enjoy the pension we pay them away from the political arena.
The Duque government presented a tax reform that once again inflamed the spirits of many citizens. (EFE)
The evils of our questionable politicians are only symptoms of a society that has not wanted to face its own decisions and has allowed itself to be convinced that it needs to be saved. "Relax, father state will have to help you," we have been told for years. We have fed a monster whose stomachs are multiplying and Father State has become an aberrant predator. Its size is so appetizing that a large number of unpleasant beings are willing to give the lives of others to eat a slice.
The political renovation of Colombia is not in any of the heads that today seek to impose their ideas at any cost. There are no visible leaders who understand that the freedom of citizens should not be put into discussion, as long as – the most basic thing ladies and gentlemen – the freedom of others is not disrespected. There are no visible heads who understand that a giant State is a drain through which citizens' money is lost. For the moment there are only "lesser evils" that end up paving the way to something darker and darker. If society does not understand how important its freedom and that of others is, how can we expect them to promote leaders who do?
Further enlarging the State with the money extracted from those who fight for it day by day and from those who generate wealth, so that it can be administered by politicians who have been parasitizing it for decades, is an idiocy of enormous proportions.
The decades of violence that we, Colombians, have lived through would be argument enough to convince some that we have learned from our past, but everything shows that a kind future does not await us. We are still struggling to build a prosperous nation for all, but we lay mud as foundations and demand from those who for years have been, in one way or another, in charge.
What is happening in the streets of Colombia is being exploited by those who only want to fill their hands with more power. But that cannot be an excuse to hide the fact that people are terribly tired. More than of the quarantines, of the shit they endure day after day from those who sell themselves as martyrs and heroes from ministries, Presidency, and Congress.
It is the citizens, from poor to rich, who keep afloat a nation that is being pulled to the bottom by those who claim to be saving it, while the dead are piling up at the door.
Colombian Protests
Iván Duque
Petrismo
Miguel Ángel Camacho is an editor at El American, Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Literature, and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Creative Writing. // Miguel Ángel Camacho es editor en El American, profesional en Filosofía y Letras y actualmente cursa una Maestría en Creación Literaria.
marga says:
Es exagerado decir q los muertos se acumulan a las puertas,ni siquiera por la pandemia ha muerto tanta gente,no tanta como quisieran Petro y demás "demócratas"q expectantes asechan el día y la hora para tomar el "cielo por asalto".
*tomar no acosar.
LeBron James' Ma'Khia Bryant Controversy Rumbles On
HB6: Texas Legislature Prepares to Vote on Major Election Bill
After Supreme Court Ruling, Starbucks Will No Longer Force Employees to Get Vaccinated 01.21.22
Iran Threatens to Crash Plane Into Capitol Building: 'Soleimani Will Be Avenged'
"The followers of the Soleimani school will first break the bones of the Americans and then drive them out of the region" said Esmail Qaani, general of the Revolutionary Guard of Iran
U.S. Sanctions Nicaraguan Officials After 'Sham' Ortega Elections
The Biden Treasury Department slammed Ortega for the "sham" elections held on November 7, in which all opponents were jailed by the government
The Idiot of the Week: Black Lives Matter
Faced with the barrage of ground-to-ground missiles - estimated at more than 3,000 - launched by Hamas indiscriminately on the Israeli civilian population, Black Lives Matter has decided to stand in solidarity with those firing the rockets, and not with the victims of the attacks
Taliban Government Consist of Terrorists Under FBI 'Most Wanted' and With Links to Al-Qaeda
With a new prime minister, Afghanistan will be governed as a parliamentary state, but the leadership of the Taliban will remain with Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada.
Is Latin America Anthropologically Doomed to Being Underdeveloped?
The blame for our sociological inability to progress is spread throughout our history, it is not just about men or names, it is about social processes and systems
Individualism vs. Collectivism: The New 'Left vs. Right'
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The Best Memes of the Week: Big Bird Wants You to Get Vaccinated
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Mexican Politicians Love Living in America. They Should Learn to Imitate It
Mexican politicians have made an art of anti-American rhetoric, while going to great lengths to buy a mansion in the U.S. Such hypocrisy is toxic.
Here are the Latin America Countries with Largest Level of Bureaucracy: Report
Brazil becomes the country with the least bureaucracy in the region, while Venezuela, Argentina and Mexico make entrepreneurship increasingly difficult
Colombia's Fake Peace
Peace was a mere show orchestrated by the international left to launder the criminals of the FARC and guarantee the operation and profit of the mafias
Nahem Reyes
The U.S. Must Avoid A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
Taiwan is a key strategic ally to the U.S., said Admiral Philip S. Davidson, commander of the navy in the Indo-Pacific.
Camilo Bello
Australia Slams Facebook Restrictions, Won't Back Down on Digital Content Law
Australians are now unable to post links to news articles or view Facebook pages of local or international media.

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Q: ODE for the inverse of fundamental solution Let $A:[0,T]\to \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be a continuous function, and let $\Phi$ satisfy $\frac{d}{d t} \Phi_t=A_t \Phi_t$ for all $t\in [0,T]$, and $\Phi_0=I_n$. I hope to prove
that the solution to the linear equation
$$
\frac{d}{d t} \Psi_t=- \Psi_tA_t, \quad t\in [0,T]; \quad \Psi_0=I_n,
\tag1
$$
is the matrix inverse of $\Phi$, i.e. ,$\Psi_t:=\Phi_t^{-1}$ for all $t\in [0,T]$.
By definition, $\Psi_0\Phi_0=\Phi_0\Psi_0=I$. Hence
it suffices to verify $\frac{d}{dt}(\Psi\Phi)_t=\frac{d}{dt}(\Phi\Psi)_t=0$ for all $t\in [0,T]$. The identity $\frac{d}{dt}(\Psi\Phi)_t=0$ is easy, but I met some difficulty in proving $\frac{d}{dt}(\Phi\Psi)_t=0$. Below please find my calculation:
\begin{align*}
\frac{d}{dt}(\Phi_t\Psi_t)^i_j=\sum_{k}\frac{d}{dt}\left((\Phi_t)^i_k(\Psi_t)^k_j\right)
=\sum_{k,l}\left((A_t)^i_l(\Phi_t)^l_k(\Psi_t)^k_j+(\Phi_t)^i_k\left(-(\Psi_t)^k_l(A_t)^l_j\right)\right),
\end{align*}
which does not seem to be zero. Have I overlooked anything?

Note that $\Phi_t$ is invertible and $\Psi_t$ is a left-inverse of $\Phi_t$. Hence by the invertible matrix theorem,  $\Psi_t$ should be the unique right-inverse of $\Phi_t$.


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package cd4017be.automation.TileEntity;

import net.minecraft.util.EnumFacing;
import net.minecraft.util.EnumHand;
import net.minecraft.util.ITickable;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import cd4017be.api.Capabilities;
import cd4017be.api.automation.ITeslaTransmitter;
import cd4017be.api.automation.PipeEnergy;
import cd4017be.api.automation.TeslaNetwork;
import cd4017be.automation.Config;
import cd4017be.lib.BlockItemRegistry;
import cd4017be.lib.ModTileEntity;
import cd4017be.lib.Gui.DataContainer;
import cd4017be.lib.Gui.DataContainer.IGuiData;
import net.minecraft.block.state.IBlockState;
import net.minecraft.entity.EntityLivingBase;
import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayerMP;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.nbt.NBTTagCompound;
import net.minecraft.network.PacketBuffer;
import net.minecraftforge.common.capabilities.Capability;

/**
 *
 * @author CD4017BE
 */
public class TeslaTransmitter extends ModTileEntity implements ITeslaTransmitter, ITickable, IGuiData
{
	public boolean interdim = false;
	public PipeEnergy energy = new PipeEnergy(this.getMaxVoltage(), 0);
	private float addEnergy = 0;
	public int freq;
	public float Estor;

	protected int getMaxVoltage() {
		return Config.Umax[4];
	}

	@Override
	public void update()
	{
		if (worldObj.isRemote) return;
		if (addEnergy != 0) energy.addEnergy(addEnergy);
		addEnergy = 0;
		Estor = (float)(energy.Ucap * energy.Ucap);
		TeslaNetwork.instance.transmittEnergy(this);
	}

	private void changeFrequency(short nf)
	{
		if (nf == freq) return;
		TeslaNetwork.instance.remove(this);
		freq = nf;
		TeslaNetwork.instance.register(this);
	}

	public double addEnergy(double e)
	{
		double s = addEnergy + energy.Ucap * energy.Ucap;
		if (s + e < 0) e = -s;
		else if (s + e > energy.Umax * energy.Umax) e = energy.Umax * energy.Umax - s;
		addEnergy += e;
		return e;
	}

	public double getPower(double dst, double Uref)
	{
		if (dst < 8) dst = 8;
		double e = energy.getEnergy((float)Uref, (float)dst);
		double s = addEnergy + energy.Ucap * energy.Ucap;
		if (s - e < 0) e = s;
		else if (s - e > energy.Umax * energy.Umax) e = s - energy.Umax * energy.Umax;
		return e;
	}

	public boolean checkAlive()
	{
		return !this.isInvalid() && worldObj.isBlockLoaded(pos) && worldObj.getTileEntity(pos) == this;
	}

	public double getSqDistance(ITeslaTransmitter te)
	{
		int[] p = te.getLocation();
		double d;
		if (p[3] == worldObj.provider.getDimension())
		{
			int dx = pos.getX() - p[0];
			int dy = pos.getY() - p[1];
			int dz = pos.getZ() - p[2];
			d = (double)(dx*dx + dy*dy + dz*dz);
		}
		else d = Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
		if (interdim && d > Config.m_interdimDist) d = (double)Config.m_interdimDist;
		return d;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onActivated(EntityPlayer player, EnumHand hand, ItemStack item, EnumFacing s, float X, float Y, float Z)
	{
		if (!interdim && item != null)
		{
			if (item.isItemEqual(BlockItemRegistry.stack("m.EMatrix", 1)))
			{
				interdim = true;
			} else return false;
			item.stackSize--;
			if (item.stackSize <= 0) item = null;
			player.setHeldItem(hand, item);
			return true;
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Jaclyn Batchelor was raised in the small town of Russellville in rural southern Kentucky where she discovered her passion for music. Once she reached high school and began writing her own songs, she realized that this was more than just a hobby to her. After graduation, she took a leap of faith and moved to Nashville. Jaclyn is now pursuing a degree in Music Business at Belmont University while recording, networking, and growing as an artist. She spends her summers backstage at the Grand Ole Opry and dreams of one day making her own Opry debut.
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2020-21 SCPF PDI League Round 5
2020-21 SCPF PDI League Round 5 – 23 February
It's our turn to host a round of the SCPF PDI League Division 1.
After four out of the seven rounds, we are lying top equal on points with Basingstoke.
Judge: Tony Oliver ARPS CPAGB BPE4*
About SCPF
SCPF PDI
SCPF Leagues
How the leagues work
From the Handbook
WPS is affiliated to the Southern Counties Photographic Federation (SCPF), which was formed in 1963 to act as an umbrella organisation for photographic societies in Hampshire and neighbouring parts of Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, representing their interests to the wider photographic community.
We enter three SCPF competitions: the Print and PDI League competitions and the Annual Exhibition.
The SCPF is a Member of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) and is Affiliated to the FIAP.
The SCPF runs League competitions each year for Projected Digital Images (PDIs) and Prints.
The member clubs are split into divisions, with promotion and relegation at the end of each season. There are separate and independent divisions for PDIs and for Prints, so a club could be in the top division for prints and the bottom division for PDIs.
There is no SCPF Print League competition this season. The pandemic has made the physical judging of prints impossible.
This year, there are 7 divisions in the PDI League.
WPS is one of 7 clubs in the top division. The other divisions have 8 or 9 clubs
You can read the rules on the SCPF website.
At the beginning of the season, each club's Competition Secretary chooses eight images to represent their club in the League (and eight prints in years when there is a Print League).
Each club in a division hosts one round. So in SCPF PDI League Division One this year there will be seven rounds.
The same 56 images (eight images from each of the seven clubs) compete in each round of the competition.
But there is a different judge for each round.
For the top three divisions, the rules state that you must use a top level (Level 3) judge from the SCPF list.
Scoring is by giving marks out of 10 to each image.
At the end of the evening, the club with the highest total score gets 7 points, second gets 6, and so on till 1 point for the club placed last.
If there is a tie between clubs for any position, there is a countback. The position goes to the club with the most 10s (and if equal, the most 9.5s, and so on).
If at the end of the season two (or more) clubs are tied, the countback looks at the scores for individual images in every round. Again, the club with the most 10s (and if equal, the most 9.5s, etc.) is the winner.
Text from the WPS Handbook – numbers in italics do not hold for all SCPF divisions in 2020-21
SCPF Print and PDI League Competitions
Before the start of the season each club selects, from its members' work, the eight prints and eight PDIs that will represent them in the SCPF League Competitions.
There are currently six divisions in the print league and seven in the PDI league, with eight clubs in each division. We are currently in the first division for both prints
and PDIs.
Each of the clubs will host one of their division's rounds for each competition.
An independent judge assesses each image and awards it a mark out of ten.
At the end of the evening, each club's scores for their eight images are added to give a club total.
Once all eight rounds have been judged, each club is given a position in the league, resulting in promotion for the top two clubs and relegation for the bottom two.
Tony Oliver ARPS CPAGB BPE4*
We are happy to welcome Tony Oliver as judge for SCPF Round 5.
Tony is well-known as a regular visitor to WPS as judge and as a speaker.
He has been judging since 2011.
Recent visits have been
2019/20 Print League Round 2 – 14 Jan 2020
as a judge for the 2019 Winchester National Exhibition
and, on 4 February 2020, speaking about his trip to India.
Tony receives his SCPF Roll of Honour certificate from President John Hodge
Tony has been a member of Salisbury Camera Club since 2004, which he joined on retirement from the Fire Service.
Tony describes his photography as:
very eclectic as you will see from my four galleries. I enjoy all genres and subjects but will always admit that landscapes are my first passion.
You can see Tony's ARPS panel, Salisbury Cathedral Moods, on his club website.
In January 2020 Tony was presented with the SCPF Roll of Honour in recognition of his many years of dedication to Salisbury Camera Club, including a number of initiatives to help support newer and developing photographers, his work as a busy judge throughout the Federation and his years on the SCPF Council including a term as President.
You can see Tony's work on his website https://www.aropics.com/
At the time of writing, Winchester is top equal on 21 points with Basingstoke in SCPF PDI League Division 1.
You can see the results of all the rounds in each of the seven divisions in the PDI league at https://southerncountiespf.org.uk/league/pdi-league/
Basingstoke (05) 6 5 4 6 21
Winchester (61) 3 7 7 4 21
Yateley (67) 7 2 5 3 17
Chichester (13) 4 6 2 2 14
New Forest (37) 2 4 1 7 14
Wareham (70) 1 1 6 5 13
Farnborough (16) 5 3 3 1 12
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WPS Online Spring Challenges 2020 – Themed challenges on this website while movement is restricted. Members upload some recent favourite images.
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Background and Objectives: Urinary incontinence is a problem that creates both physical and psychological nuisance to a woman. This problem needs to be studied in detail in Indian population because of lack of precise data. The objectives of this study were to study the prevalence and risk factors of urinary incontinence in Indian women.
Materials and Methods: This hospital-based cross-sectional study conducted from August 2005 to June 2007 included women attending gynecology OPD (consulters) and hospital employees (nonconsulters). Subjects who were incontinent were asked a standard set of questions. Incontinence was classified as urge, stress, or mixed based on symptoms. A univariate followed by multivariate analysis was done to look for risk factors.
Results: Of 3000 women enrolled, 21.8% (656/3000) women were incontinent. There was no significant difference in incontinence rate between consulters and nonconsulters [618/2804 (22.1%) vs. 38/196 (19.4%); P value = 0.6). Of the total women having incontinence, highest numbers were found to have stress incontinence [73.8% (484/656)] followed by mixed [16.8% (110/656)] and urge incontinence [9.5% (62/656)]. Age more than 40 years; multiparity; postmenopausal status; body mass index more than 25; history of diabetes and asthma; and habit of taking tea, tobacco, pan, and betel are risk factors found to be associated with increased prevalence of urinary incontinence in univariate analysis. On multivariate analysis, age more than 40 years, multiparity, vaginal delivery, hysterectomy, menopause, tea and tobacco intake, and asthma were found to be significantly associated with overall incontinence. Stress incontinence was separately not associated with menopause. Urge incontinence was not associated with vaginal delivery.
Conclusion: Urinary incontinence is a bothersome problem for women. Simple questionnaire can help to detect this problem and diagnose associated risk factors, so that necessary steps can be taken in its prevention and treatment.
Urinary incontinence is a common problem with widespread human and social implications causing discomfort, shame, and loss of self-confidence. It not only affects the quality of life but also has significant cost implications. Although several large-scale studies have focused on epidemiology of urinary incontinence in women of western countries, limited data are available from Asian countries. This population differs from western population both constitutionally as well as behavior wise. Thus, it is of great importance to try to define prevalence and possible etiological factors with a view to subsequent prevention. Although some risk factors for incontinence have been studied, still several important predictors of incontinence remain uninvestigated. For example, cigarette smoking has been shown to have a positive association, and the relationship between tobacco chewing, other form of nicotine intake, and tea intake, a very commonly used drink in south East Asian region, has not been elucidated. Studies of the association between hysterectomy and incontinence have reported conflicting results. Moreover, very few studies have analyzed the risk factors for different types of urinary incontinence separately. In this cross-sectional study, analysis has been done in India on frequency and risk factors of urinary incontinence and its various subtypes.
This single-center cross-sectional study was conducted in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at our center from August 2005 to June 2007. All women aged more than 18 years attending obstetrics or gynecology OPD were screened for urinary incontinence by a doctor based on history and then included in the study. The entry question was whether or not the participant experienced involuntary loss of urine. If the answer was yes the woman was categorized as having any incontinence. Subsequently, a standard questionnaire was asked by a doctor to know the clinical and demographic profile [Appendix 1 [Additional file 1]]. Incontinence was categorized as stress, urge, or mixed type. Women who confirmed involuntary loss of urine in connection with coughing, sneezing, laughing, or lifting heavy items were classified as having symptoms of stress incontinence. Those whose involuntary loss of urine was connected with a sudden and strong urge to void were classified as having urge symptoms. If there were urge and stress symptoms, then subjects were classified as having mixed incontinence.  Also women employees of the same hospital who were otherwise healthy were also screened for incontinence. Subjects enrolled from OPD were labeled as consulters and hospital employees were labeled as nonconsulters. Data analysis was done by using SPSS version 10. Continuous data are presented as mean + SD. Student's t-test was used to compare means and chi-square test was used to compare discrete variables. Data are presented as 95% CI.
Of the 3000 women enquired, 2804 (93.4%) were consulters and 196 (6.5%) were nonconsulters. Overall frequency of incontinence was 21.87% (656/3000) [Table 1]. Of the total women having incontinence, highest numbers were found to have stress incontinence [73.8% (484/656)] followed by mixed [16.8% (110/656)] and urge incontinence [9.5% (62/656)]. In consulter group, total incontinence was 22.3% (458/2804) with highest number of stress incontinence [74.1% (458/618)] followed by mixed incontinence [16.8% (458/618)] and urge incontinence [9.1% (56/618)]. In nonconsulters group, total incontinence was 19.3% (38/196). Stress incontinence was commonest [68.4% (26/196)] followed by same prevalence of urge and mixed incontinence 15.8% (6/196) of both. It was seen that prevalence was low in women upto 30 years of age (7.5% and 11.6% in women <20 years of age and between 21 and 30 years of age). In women above 30 years of age, the prevalence ranged from 27.8% to 42.8% with maximum prevalence in the age group of 61-70 years of age [Figure 1]. There is marked difference in frequency of incontinence between women below 40 years of age (median age of our study population) and women above 40 years of age. All types of urinary incontinence were found to be significantly higher among women above 40 years of age (P < 0.001). Incontinence was found to be positively associated with increasing parity. Differentially stress incontinence showed an increasing trend with increasing parity. However, in case of urge incontinence, prevalence was high only in grand multiparous women, while it was similar in nulliparous and women of low parity (P = 0.244 and 1.35) The prevalence of all types of urinary incontinence was significantly higher in postmenopausal women and women who have had hysterectomy (P < 0.05) [Table 2]. The prevalence of urinary incontinence was 20.77% and 26.25% in women with body mass index less than or equal to 25 and more than 25, showing a significant difference between the two (P < 0.004). Among different types, stress and mixed but not urge incontinence were significantly associated with BMI >25 [Table 3]. Among chronic medical disorders, diabetes was not associated with increased prevalence of any type of incontinence (P = 0.863), while COPD was associated with increased risk of having all types of incontinence (P < 0.05). Mode of vaginal delivery had a significant impact on prevalence of overall and stress incontinence, prevalence being higher in women having even one vaginal delivery. Stress incontinence has a stronger relationship than urge and mixed incontinence. There was no significant difference in incontinence for nulliparous and women having caesarean section only except for a slightly increased risk of mixed incontinence (P = 0.041). The prevalence of overall and stress incontinence was significantly higher for persons with habit of tea intake (P = 0.010 and 0.011), while the prevalence of urge and mixed incontinence showed no significant association with tea intake. Prevalence of all types of incontinence increased with tobacco and tea intake. Multivariate analysis showed that in mixed and stress incontinence except for age and body mass index (BMI), all the variables parity, personal habit, delivery type, history of hysterectomy, and asthma were significantly associated with complaints of incontinence [Table 4]. In urge incontinence apart from age and BMI, delivery type too did not show statistically significant association with complaints.
In this cross-sectional study, urinary incontinence was self-reported and diagnosis was based on answers to leading questions about symptoms of urinary incontinence. This study provides an opportunity to analyze the prevalence and determinants of different types of urinary incontinence separately in a large series of subjects using standard methods for recording symptoms. The questionnaire directly filled by physician increases the reliability of diagnosis of various types and risk factors of incontinence. Out of 3000 women, 656 women reported urinary incontinence and prevalence was 21.87%. In various studies using ,, the same definition on similar population, prevalence was 25-45%. Other studies , using the same population but different definitions (any leakage in previous 30 days) reported a prevalence of 35-37%. In our study, the prevalence of stress, mixed, and urge type was 16.13%, 3.67%, and 2.07%, respectively. This was similar to most of the other studies (2, 7) , in which also stress incontinence was the commonest type. Only few studies  found mixed incontinence to be commonest type. In our study, prevalence of urinary incontinence in young women (18-30 years) was only 9% which is strongly in contrast t 52% reported by Nemir and Middleton  and 51% reported by Wolin  studied among college students. Significantly high prevalence (38.4%) in women above 40 years is similar to most of the other studies , where it ranges from 36 to 43%. Significant relationship between parity and incontinence was found to be similar with other studies. A definite trend of increasing prevalence in all types of urinary incontinence with increased parity suggests cumulative effect. Comparable results were obtained by Swash  who concluded that injury to the innervation of pelvic floor is worsened by successive deliveries.
Pregnancy and child birth are regarded as key environmental determinants of urinary incontinence, and more than 60% of incontinent women associate its onset with pregnancy, child birth, or postpartum. However, the impact of birth mode on incontinence and possible protective role of caesarean section have remained the subject of intense debate. In our study, prevalence of urinary incontinence is maximum among group with vaginal delivery (26.84%) which was significantly higher than nulliparous women (9.42%) and caesarean deliveries (8.59%). This is in agreement to many studies , that showed increased prevalence of urinary incontinence after vaginal deliveries. Urge and mixed incontinence showed least significant association with vaginal delivery. Parazzini  also did not find increased risk of urge incontinence after vaginal delivery (OR 0.7).
There may be association between hysterectomy and stress incontinence. The most biologically plausible rationale for this association is surgical trauma caused when uterus and cervix are severed from pelvic floor supportive tissues at the time of hysterectomy. Hysterectomy could interfere with intricate urethral sphincter mechanism by damaging distal branches of pudendal nerves and inferior hypogastric plexus but it might also result in changes in bladder and urethral neck support. In our study, a significant association between hysterectomy and all types of incontinence was found (P = 0.001). However, results of various studies are conflicting. Burgio et al  and Eva Samuelsson  found no significant association between hysterectomy and urinary incontinence. In a meta-analysis, Brown et al  found a significant increase in the odds of incontinence after hysterectomy. There are studies showing association between coffee, alcohol, smoking, and incontinence. In this study, effect of tea and tobacco intake is studied which shows significant association with overall and stress incontinence.
Norwegian Eppincott  study evaluated the effect of tea intake and concluded that tea drinkers were at slightly higher risk for all types of incontinence. Tea is caffeinated drink. The caffeine content of tea is approximately one-third of coffee. Various studies show conflicting effects of coffee intake on incontinence. Arya et al  reported that high caffeine intake is related to detrusor instability, while Burgio  reported no effect of coffee on incontinence. In this study, tobacco chewing was associated with increased frequency of incontinence. Sampselle  reported 38% increased risk of incontinence among smokers. Other studies also confirm this view.  Smoking effects continence by damage to urethral sphincter mechanism by frequent coughing, decrease in collagen synthesis, and smoking-related vascular diseases.
With regard to medical history, role of type 2 diabetes is not completely understood. In this study, no significant difference was found in diabetics (P = 0.86). Further studies are required to solve this issue. Asthma is associated with significant risk of urinary incontinence (P < 0.01). Parazzini  reported similar results in his study.
Urinary incontinence is a very distressing problem. With the help of simple questionnaire, burden of disease can be estimated. Knowing about prevalence and risk factors of urinary incontinence is very important, so that necessary steps in its prevention and treatment can be taken.
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Q: Creating a SWF with Frames and Bitmaps using AS3SWF I need to collect and import a mass of images into Flash. The cleanest way to do this seems to be using AS3SWF to create a timeline with 1 image per frame.
Does anyone have a code sample for something like this? AS3SWF looks great, but it's not heavy on documentation.

A: I played with AS3SWF a bit some time ago and found the SWF format specs (pdf) and documentation very useful. Still I didn't find it particularly easy as I don't have proper programming background/assembly experience.
There might be an easier way around your problem: SWFTools.
They're a bunch of open source utilities, some of which might help you with your task, like jpg2swf and png2swf
I'm currently on OSX, so have downloaded the source and used the typical commands:
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

I see for Windows there's an exe already, so it might be simpler.
Still I imagine you'd call the utilities from command line.
That can come in handy when using the undocummented fl.runCommandLine() function in JSFL.
Here's a basic call to compile a swf 'slideshow' based on all the .png files on my desktop:
./png2swf -o ~/Desktop/desk.swf ~/Desktop/*.png

There are quite a few options for each utility, here an example:
jpeg2swf

Usage: ./jpeg2swf [-options [value]] imagefiles[.jpg]|[.jpeg] [...]

-o , --output <outputfile>     Explicitly specify output file. (otherwise, output.swf will be used)
-q , --quality <quality>       Set compression quality (1-100, 1=worst, 100=best)
-r , --rate <framerate>        Set movie framerate (frames per second)
-z , --zlib <zlib>             Enable Flash 6 (MX) Zlib Compression
-M , --mx                      Use Flash MX H.263 compression (use for correlated images)
-x , --xoffset <offset>        horizontally offset images by <offset>
-y , --yoffset <offset>        vertically offset images by <offset>
-X , --width <width>           Force movie width to <width> (default: autodetect)
-Y , --height <height>         Force movie height to <height> (default: autodetect)
-T , --flashversion <version>      Set flash file version to <version>
-v , --verbose <level>         Set verbose level to <level> (0=quiet, 1=default, 2=debug)
-V , --version                 Print version information and exit
-f , --fit-to-movie            Fit images to movie size
-e , --export <assetname>          Make importable as asset with <assetname>

Also, it might be worth taking a peak at this old(2004) article by Keith Peters.


Despite the lack of new information, it's nice to see members of the team getting really excited about it and being open about their experience showing it off at E3 2018. Also, the narration is from Doug Cockle, the voice of Geralt! Nostalgia, right! Ah you guys love it.
The team reminds everyone that the game will ship "when it is done." I'm sure everyone is thrilled to hear that passive aggressive phrase following the rising trend of releasing unfinished games for full price, much to the vocal dismay of players everywhere.
Cyberpunk 2077 is set to drop for PC, PS4 and Xbox One when the time comes. It was also recently revealed that The Witcher 3's director has joined the Cyberpunk team, and the game is guaranteed to make an appearance at this year's E3. Let us know how much you're looking forward to it for the 500th time since its reveal in the comments!


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The Triple Goddess
We have seen through the work of Rudolf Steiner that a Divine Feminine Trinity is implied in his teachings and that Anthroposophia is the guide to help us understand such profound mysteries of the future. Two students of Steiner's, Valentin Tomberg and Robert Powell write about a Divine Feminine Trinity and attribute the source to Cabalistic lore concerning the Tree of Life. Neither author develops the concept much and does not align their ideas with Steiner's teachings. But they were right that Jewish mysticism teaches that there is a Feminine Divine principle that is a trinity. Jewish Mysticism and the Cabala suggest that there is a Feminine Divine Trinity that works together in concert with a Male Divine Trinity.
Shekinah (Sophia or Wisdom) is called the 'Soul of God', the 'Mother or Origins', and the 'Motherly Space.' There is an inner glory, and that is the Shekinah and the Holy Ghost together. Shekinah is threefold as 'Queen', 'Daughter', and 'Bride of God.'
The Jewish Feminine Trinity is hidden in mysticism. Every aspect of human nature and the cosmos seem to be parceled into a trinity. The trinity is found in the human body with thought, air in speech passing through the larynx, and the wedding of thought and speech to spirit. Everywhere in the human constitution are trinities: thinking, feeling, willing – waking, sleeping and dreaming – body, soul and spirit. It is only natural, since we are created in the image of the divine, that we also find these trinities in ourselves and the world.
Let's refer to the sections below from Rudolf Steiner to glean the nature of Sophia.
On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times, Dornach, 26th December, 1917, Lecture 2
These three, — the inspiring Spirit, the Virgin Mother, and the Logos or the Word — must of course be maintained; they must he sought for through Spiritual Science also. And would say, in an Imaginative form did endeavor to point out these things during my recent lectures, when I described the transition from the old Mysteries to the new. I said that Antiquity only got so far with its Mysteries that it was able to revere, in Pallas Athene, the Virgin Wisdom, Pallas Athene is indeed a virgin figure; but within the ancient epoch this Virgin Wisdom did not give birth to the Logos. This is precisely the characteristic feature of ancient Greece, for example; it stops short at the Virgin Wisdom, whereas the new Age passes on to the Son of the Virgin Wisdom — to the Logos, which is there on the physical plane through that which represents it: the human word, human speech or language. For human speech may truly be regarded from the point of view of its connection with Wisdom. In earthly life of man, Wisdom lives itself out through human thought. The air that is breathed out through our larynx, configured through our larynx and its movements, is wedded to the Wisdom that dwells in our thoughts; and the content we have to express is the inspiring Spirit. Every time you speak — no matter how profane the impulse of your speaking is — you have expressed earthly representation of the Trinity. The thought in your head, and the configured air that passes through your larynx, — these two are wedded and united under the influence of the Spirit (that is to say, when you are voicing things of the sense-world, united by the percept itself).
It is indeed the earthly expression of the Trinity. And the Divine, the spiritual Trinity, must stand behind it, — the all-embracing Wisdom which becomes Teaching for mankind, and which expresses the Universal content. Anthroposophical Spiritual Science cannot admit or confess its faith in any earthly constitution; for an earthly constitution, whatever it might claim, would be unfolding mere claims of power. Anthroposophical Spiritual Science takes the Virgin cosmic Word in real earnest.
If we think in the sense of anthroposophical Spiritual Science, then, in this content of all that is brought forward by this Science, we see not a mere sum of abstractions or abstract ideas but a living entity that fills us and infills us; For it can even fill us in our soul with active impulse. Thus it becomes the Word, the Teaching, not in a mere scholastic sense. For spiritual-scientific Wisdom grows to be of service in the social life. The Word itself becomes of social service, and the content which it expresses — brought down from super-sensible worlds into the world of sense, so to be the underlying basis of our impulses of action — is the inspiring Spirit. Thus I would say: We look for Pallas Athene, the Virgin Wisdom, the Virgin Wisdom of the Cosmos; but we also look for the Son who is born of her, who finds expression in this: that in all the things we do and will in the social life, the Virgin Wisdom is working with us, giving us that which becomes the guiding impulse of our willing and our doing. Then we express the Spirit — the Holy Spirit, the Supersensible — in our sense-perceptible actions on the physical plane.
In the realm of the soul there are three soul forces that work on the Sentient Soul, Intellectual Soul, and Consciousness Soul. Each of these forces is represented by one of the "three Marys" under the cross of Christ. Each one of the Marys represent a stage of spiritual development that relates to one of the three aspects of the soul. The Sentient Soul is represented by Mary Magdalen, the Intellectual Soul is represented by Mary the wife of Cleopas, and the Consciousness Soul is represented by the Mother of Jesus. Steiner describes these three Marys and their relationship to the three parts of the soul in the following excerpt.
Gospel of John, Rudolf Steiner, Basle, November 20, 1907, Lecture V
Let us now consider another scene in this Gospel. In (John 19:25), we read: "Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene." If we wish to understand this Gospel it is necessary to know who these three women are. We do not usually give two sisters the same name; neither was it the custom in former times. The passage we have quoted proves that, according to St. John's Gospel, the mother of Jesus was not called Mary. If we search through the whole of this Gospel we nowhere find it said that the mother of Jesus was called Mary. In the scene of the Marriage of Cana, for example, Chapter 2, we only read, "the mother of Jesus was there." In these words something important is indicated, something we only understand when we know how the writer of this Gospel uses his words. What does the expression "the mother of Jesus" mean? We have seen that man consists of physical, etheric and astral bodies. We must not consider the transition of the astral body to the Spirit Self so simply. The Ego transforms the astral body very slowly and gradually into sentient soul, intellectual soul and spiritual soul. The Ego goes on working and only when it has developed the spiritual soul is it able so to purify it that Spirit Self can arise in it.
The Spirit Man will only be developed in the distant future, and Life Spirit is also only germinal in most people of the present day. The development of the Spirit Self has only just begun; it is closely united with the spiritual soul (somewhat like a sword in its sheath). The sentient soul is similarly united with the astral body. The human being thus consists of nine parts or principles; but as the Spirit Self and the spiritual soul, and the sentient soul and the astral body are so closely united, we often speak of seven parts. Spirit-Self is the same as the "Holy Spirit," who according to esoteric Christianity, is the guiding Being in the astral world. According to the same teaching, Life Spirit is called the Word or the Son; and Spirit Man is the "Father Spirit" or the "Father."
Those human beings who had brought the Spirit Self to birth within them, were called Children of God; in such men "the light shone into the Darkness and they received the light." Outwardly they were, men of flesh and blood, but they bore a higher man within them; the Spirit Self had been born within them out of the spiritual soul. The "mother" of such a spiritualized man is not a bodily mother, she lies within him; she is the purified and spiritualized spiritual soul; she is the principle who gives birth to the higher man. This spiritual birth, a birth in the highest sense, is described in St. John's Gospel. The Spirit Self or the Holy Spirit pours into the most highly purified Spiritual Soul. This is referred to in the words, "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him." (John 1:32).
As the Spiritual Soul is the principle in which the Spirit Self develops, this principle is called the "mother of Christ," or, in the occult schools, the "Virgin Sophia." Through the fertilization of the Virgin Sophia the Christ could be born in Jesus of Nazareth. In the occult school of Dionysius, the Intellectual Soul was called "Mary," and the Sentient Soul "Mary Magdalene."
Mary Magdalene represents the process of cleansing the astral body to develop new organs of supersensible perception. That is why the spiritual scientist must understand and move through this stage of spiritual development. Conquering the desires of the astral body is a necessary stage of renunciation and purification.
Reflections of Consciousness, Super-consciousness and Sub-consciousness, Munich, 2.25.1912, GA 143
Let us suppose that someone desires most intensely to be the reincarnated Mary Magdalene, (I once mentioned that I have already met twenty-four reincarnated Magdalenes in my life); let us assume that someone desires most intensely to be Mary Magdalene. But let us also assume that this person does not confess this wish to himself (we need not confess our wishes to ourselves — this is unnecessary). Well — someone may read the story of Mary Magdalene and may like it immensely. In his sub-consciousness the desire to be Mary Magdalene may now immediately arise. He is aware of nothing in his usual consciousness except that he likes this character. The person in question has a liking for this character. He is aware of this in his upper consciousness. But in his sub-consciousness lives the burning desire to be himself this Mary Magdalene — yet he knows nothing about this. He does not bother about this. He is guided by the facts of his usual consciousness; he can go through the world without being compelled at all to become aware of this erroneous fact in his consciousness — the intense wish to be Mary Magdalene. But let us suppose that such a person has attained, in some way or other, a kind of occult training. This would enable him to descend into his sub-consciousness — but he would not become aware of the fact, "in me lives the desire to be Mary Magdalene" — he would not become aware of this in the same way that he becomes aware of a headache.
If he were to notice this desire to be Mary Magdalene then he would be sensible and assume toward this desire the same attitude as toward a pain — namely, he would try to get rid of it. But through an irregular descent into sub-consciousness, this does not take place, because his desire acquires the form of something which is outside his own personality, and to the man in question it appears as the vision: "You are Mary Magdalene". This fact stands before him, is projected outside his own being. Moreover, a human being at this stage of development is no longer able to control such a fact through his Ego. This lack of control cannot arise when we undergo a regular, sound and absolutely careful training; for then the Ego accompanies all experiences in every sphere. But as soon as the Ego no longer accompanies all our experiences, the fact described above can arise in the form of an objective outer happening. The observer believes that he can remember the events connected with Mary Magdalene and feels himself identified with this Mary Magdalene. This is unquestionably possible. I emphasize this possibility, because it shows you that only a careful training and the conscientiousness with which we penetrate into occultism, can rescue us from falling into error. If we know that we must first see before us an entire world, that we must see around us facts, not something which we apply to our own selves, but something that is in us, and yet appears like the picture of a whole world — if we know that we do well to consider what we first see before us is the projection of our own inner life — then we possess a good shield against the errors which can beset us along this path. The best thing of all is to consider at first everything that rises out of our inner being as if it were an exterior fact. In most cases these facts arise out of our desires, vanities, and ambition — in a few words, out of all the qualities connected with human selfishness.
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Comprehensive Primary Health Care Reform in Costa Rica
In the past, Costa Rica was characterized by a duplicative and fragmented public primary healthcare system. In 1994, the country initiated a sweeping reform of the health system, including primary health care. Bureaucratic reorganization of the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Social Security Agency (CCSS) led to the integration of all healthcare delivery under the CCSS, from public health activities to tertiary care. Comprehensive multidisciplinary primary healthcare teams (EBAIS)—comprised of a doctor, nurse assistant, community health worker, and data specialist—were created to care for approximately 5,000 patients each. A system of geographic empanelment was implemented to ...
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Educating and empowering children to make healthy choices across Mexico
In Mexico, one in three children and adolescents are overweight or obese. This increases the risk of diabetes and hypertension, as well as learning and development issues. Additionally, many children are at risk of addiction, teenage pregnancy, and mental health issues.
"Health at your school" is a joint strategy between the Secretary of Public Education and the Secretary of Health (MoH) to address these health risks. It encourages children and adolescents to maintain a healthy body, avoid risky behaviors and acquire healthy habits, through five components: educate for health; curricular autonomy; professionals and students of health at your school; training ...
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The district of Voznesensk experimented with initiatives, such as provider payment mechanisms, designed to align service delivery with the principles of family medicine, becoming an example for broader primary care reform across Ukraine; effective local leadership, combined with political and financial support, created a stable platform from which bottom-up reforms were built; aligning local initiatives with national priorities proved valuable for gaining legitimacy and support for the initiative; availability and capacity to collect and share data was fundamental for improving communication between health providers and increasing continuity of care. A district-wide electronic patient registration and medical records system was created ...
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The separate budget proposals passed by the Florida House and Senate last week both feature big layoffs of the state workforce, charging state workers for their retirement plans, deep cuts in healthcare services and other assistance for the young, the disabled and the elderly. These are painful budget plans that reflect the Republican-led Legislature's struggle to balance the budget while facing a $3.75 billion deficit and still keeping a campaign promise to avoid tax increases.
The budgeting process is far from done. The bills need to be reconciled in committee through negotiation and continued outside pressure from many legitimate interest groups — not the least of them being public hospitals, public schools and the entire state justice system.
But the massive switch to completely privatizing 18 correctional facilities without debate, research or planning is a much more foolhardy enterprise than the FDOT proposal. It simply makes no sense and seems fueled more by lobbying and campaign contributions from private prison operators than from any reasoned approach to trimming the cost of incarcerating prisoners.


Is It Time For A Gold Rebound?
Speculative gold longs declined by over 30,000 contracts on the week as they cut back positions. Despite the second straight week of declines, speculators still remain extremely long on gold.
Is A Bear Raid Coming Next Week In Gold?
Latest COT Data Shows Gold Shorts Running For The Exits - Does Gold Have Another Bullish Week Coming?
The big move for speculative traders last week came from shorts covering not longs adding to positions. The reason why was the escalating tensions between the US and North Korea as evidenced by the charts.
The Fed Is Hawkish…Should Gold Investors Be Bearish Too?
Speculators Flee Gold And Silver…Is It Time To Buy?
The largest silver ETF SLV was down 14 consecutive days, the longest losing streak in its history. Both gold and silver speculators significantly cut their net long positions.


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The exterior is opaque and there's foam making the isolation go from the inside to the outside. There's a soft tip so you can control the water flow and a dust cap, to make sure you drink as clean as possible. With a wide opening, it makes it more convenient to insert some ice cube's if necessary.


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Lima Accord announced on climate
By Deborah Jones | Published
Every country would be required to submit a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Lima Accord announced Sunday at global climate talks in Peru.
The Lima talks aimed to set ground rules for a global climate deal between world leaders meeting late next year in Paris. That deal would kick in after 2020. Negotiators representing 196 counties talked in Lima about adaptation and resilience, boosting a "Green" global fund, and emissions. Their agreement includes a commitment to raising public awareness of climate change in schools and national development plans, among other items.
The timing of Sunday's agreement does not bode well. The "Intended Nationally Determined Contributions" came two days after Friday's scheduled deadline, reportedly due to wrangling over details by factions split between rich and poor countries.
Sunday's announcement called the agreement "significant progress," and in a nod to reality noted that adapting to climate change was raised to the same level of importance as acting to "to cut and curb emissions."
Nations have "a far clearer vision of what the draft Paris agreement will look like as we head into 2015 and the next round of negotiations," the release said, quoting Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Minister of the Environment of Peru and the COP President. It quoted other officials citing the "positivity" of the talks, and congratulating each other.
Some observers expressed optimism about the Lima agreement. "Negotiators found common ground on the most pressing issues," said Jennifer Morgan, Global Director, Climate Program, World Resources Institute, in a statement as the talks wrapped up Saturday.
Whether the Lima talks have produced mere hot air, or substantive progress, may be determined next year in Paris. That is the next of a a long series of talks named after host cities, each marked by the effusive production of lengthy documents full of long words, and until now followed by little or no action.
The Lima meeting was preceded by the fifth and most comprehensive report by the world body of climate experts. It warned that climate change caused by humans will result in food shortages, mass extinctions and flooding, said the science is now 95 per cent conclusive, and that today's climate change is unprecedented. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that the world must act, together and immediately, on adaptation and mitigation, some changes are already inevitable, and said the risk of not acting is "extreme."
For the Lima Accord to make a difference, citizens and governments worldwide will have to pay attention and act. Don't hold your breath. The vague and wordy accord was buried by global news media even before its release, by massive coverage of a stupid stunt by Greenpeace activists. The Greenpeace team defeated their message by damaging a 1,500-year-old World Heritage Site on the Nazca desert in Peru, which they trampled to create a sign visible from the air, "TIME FOR CHANGE!"
The Nazca culture is believed to have collapsed in about 750 AD. Experts theorize the Nazca people failed to adapt to climate change, having altered their landscape in ways that reduced resilience.
Participants at climate talks in Lima, at Plenaria-de-Cierre. Photo by H. Berninzon, © COP20
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