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Is Your Company Ready To Handle the Next Hot-Button Issue? How To Stay Two Steps Ahead
Published October 12, 2022 | by Jake Wood | 7 mins read
Crickets. That's the sound coming from many companies over today's most pressing hot-button issues. Yet there is an increasingly blurred line between business and politics, leaving business leaders wondering how they should weigh in. These issues are both plentiful and polarizing. It would be easy, if not forgivable, to remain silent from a business standpoint. However, it's not so simple. The public supports and even expects companies to speak out.
In recent years as the political landscape becomes even more divisive that expectation continues to grow. In a Forbes poll, 75% think that companies should be leaders and change makers. And why not? Thanks to employees, stakeholders and the communities they are privileged to serve, companies have the bully pulpit and the resources needed to make a difference. Moreover, recent polls indicate that people trust businesses more than the government.
Leaders must ask themselves what role their companies should play in the evolving political environment. But before they decide how to engage, they must consider both the risks and the challenges.
Current Landscape of Hot-Button Issues
It's not just about the things that any good corporate citizen ought to do, like be a responsible steward of the earth's precious resources. It's about values that cut to the core of every American. Issues like voting rights, vaccine mandates, Roe v. Wade and gun control. There are new issues arising monthly.
Impact on Business
Make no mistake: Taking a stand can have both good consequences and bad. For some companies, it may mean an increase in sales or a boost to their reputation. When Uber and Lyft offered to pay the legal fees for drivers sued under Texas law for driving pregnant people to abortion clinics, they saw an uptick in their stock. However, there was also a negative backlash. Purportedly, the company doesn't have the best track record when it comes to supporting its drivers in other regards.
Yes, taking a stand opens the company up to scrutiny. But it also helps keep leadership accountable and make them even more determined to ensure that their actions match their words, a good all-around strategy for every sustainable business.
New Issue, New Strategy
There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for hot-button issues. Most require case-by-case analysis. You may not want to issue a public statement at all, but that's not the only option.
Before you do anything, you'll need to assess the potential impact on your business. It always pays to know your customers — not just the products and services they will buy but what they believe and value. What are they saying on social media? The same is true for stakeholders and employees, including the company's affinity groups. What do they want you to do?
Acknowledge and respect differing viewpoints while ensuring that the decision-making process is transparent. Of course, everyone will not agree but it's important that the process is fair and that once the decision has been made, you are clear and unapologetic about how the decision aligns with company values. Follow through on your promises and be consistent.
L'oreal Paris learned the hard way how important it is to practice what you preach. After posting in support of Black Lives Matter, the fashion company was lambasted for dismissing one of their models who had previously taken a public stance against racism and white supremacy.
How To Be Proactive Against Hot-Button Issues: 3 Preparation Steps
In addition to making deliberate decisions, here are three concrete steps your company can take to ensure that they are prepared for the next hot-button issue.
1. Establish Safety Nets
Safety nets are resources that are set aside to protect employees and other stakeholders of the company against inequities and provide fair treatment across the board. They provide tangible benefits to all employees and to the community. A safety net allows the company to help without necessarily taking a public political stand.
Despite their own business woes, consider the many companies that stepped up to the plate during the pandemic to provide, for example, support to first responders and vulnerable populations, or that adapted their supply chains to provide personal protective equipment. When companies establish a track record of pitching in during times of greatest need, they build the type of social currency that generates public trust.
A safety net could be considered the company's own economic relief fund. There are no hard and fast rules about how it should operate. However, safety net funds could support:
Travel for health care that is not offered locally
Consistent levels of accessibility in all of the company's offices, whether or not it is mandated by law
Volunteer activities in the community
Extended employee benefits like remote work, flex time, etc
Trauma treatment across all of the various communities and identities
Temporary shelters for weather-related and other emergencies
Nonpartisan resources that support elections
2. Operationalize Your DEI Strategy
Hot-button issues present an opportunity to lean into the company's core values and support them through your DEI strategy. To do so, however, the strategy must be operationalized. Until you formulate and actualize a plan, it's just a mental exercise. Operationalization means making DEI part of your business and operating model. You will be most successful in your support of the underserved communities you've identified if your strategy establishes the following:
In-House DEI Team: Even if you solicit outside help to facilitate your DEI strategy, you still need an in-house team. Your in-house team plays a critical role in analyzing hot-button issues and making recommendations for a thoughtful and inclusive response.
Diversity Training: Training is key, and not just a once-and-done workshop. Rather, you'll need an ongoing approach to ensure that your guidelines are put into practice and everyone understands what's expected of them. Through regular training, you signal to the organization that diversity, equity and inclusion are important values that you take seriously and that these values extend beyond the doors of your organization.
Affinity Groups: Your affinity groups provide the staffing and energy to take on issues. They play a key role in two-way communication that helps to bolster curiosity and empathy among the larger community. They will want to have a voice in the company's response to these issues.
3. Fortify Your Corporate Giving Program
When hot-button issues arise, companies that have established corporate giving programs can respond internally, even without making a grand public gesture. The best programs are those that are flexible, easy to set up and require minimal administrative time. Corporate giving programs not only empower employees, they build engagement and morale, and encourage individuals to express themselves in meaningful ways.
The Groundswell platform allows employees to pre-load charitable donations in a giving account for when and where they want to use them. There are a number of ways for employees to participate, including selecting from various volunteer opportunities or supporting a cause that the company champions. Employees are able to express their values to support something they believe in and they may be eligible, as well, to receive matching donations or use paid time off that the company provides.
Groundswell makes it easy, allowing companies to offer giving as an employee benefit. Further, the Groundswell platform removes the hassle. There's little administration, paperwork or reporting so that your company can easily shift gears for the next hot-button issue. Employees appreciate the opportunity to help the causes they care about year-round, as well as to be part of larger-scale, more impactful giving efforts.
Stay Ahead and Be Proactive
Hot-button issues can be tricky to navigate. But they don't have to create internal headaches. They can, in fact, be opportunities to lean into the values that make your company unique, attract and retain diverse talent and drive innovation. You just need a good plan.
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About two years ago, a heated debate started among cardinals, bishops and lay Catholics regarding some points of Catholic doctrine related to morality and the sacraments.
Can Persons Living in Adultery Receive Communion?
The controversy began at the Extraordinary Consistory on the Family held in February 2014, when Walter Cardinal Kasper, who spoke at the Pope's request, defended the possibility of allowing divorced and civilly "remarried" Catholics to receive Communion. The polemics culminated on March 19, 2016 when Pope Francis published the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, which discreetly accepted the German Cardinal's thesis.
In the period between the Extraordinary Consistory and the publication of Amoris Laetitia, cardinals, bishops and lay Catholics published books, essays and articles refuting the "Kasper thesis." Also, 880,000 people from around the world, including cardinals and bishops, signed a Filial Appeal asking Pope Francis for clarification. The document titled "Declaration of Fidelity to the Church's Unchangeable Teaching on Marriage and to Her Uninterrupted Discipline" was also published, and so far over 17,000 Catholics, including cardinals, bishops, priests and laity have adhered to it.
On June 29, 2016, a group of forty-five theologians and lay scholars sent the cardinals a theological study of Amoris Laetitia which censures several of its statements as heretical, bordering on heresy, scandalous, and so forth.
Unfortunately, though based on solid Church doctrine and tradition, those documents and requests for clarification remain unanswered.
Most recently, given the silence of the Pope and of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, four Cardinals of the Holy Roman Catholic Church wrote a letter to the Holy Father, with a copy to Ludwig Cardinal Muller, dated September 19, 2016. With this letter, they attached a formal request for clarification on certain erroneous statements in Amoris Laetitia.
The signers are American Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Patronus of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Germans, Walter Cardinal Brandmüller, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences and Joachim Cardinal Meisner, Archbishop Emeritus of Cologne, and Italian Carlo Cardinal Caffarra, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna.
They adopted the traditional request for clarification known as dubium (singular) or dubia (plural). The dubia ask for a yes or no answer on each point without further explanation.
For example, on February 1, 2008, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith answered dubia on the validity of the baptism done with extravagant formulas and whether such people should be baptized in an "absolute" way. The Congregation's answers were simply: Ad primum: Negative; Ad secundum: Affirmative (negatively on the first, affirmatively on the second).
1. Should the possibility raised by Amoris Laetitia in footnote 351 (No. 305) of giving sacramental absolution and the Holy Eucharist "in certain cases," "be applied to divorced persons who are in a new union and who continue to live more uxorio [as husband and wife]" keeping in mind that this contradicts the preceding Papal Magisterium?
2. Does the teaching contained in John Paul II's Encyclical Veritatis Splendor (No. 79) "based on sacred Scripture and on the Tradition of the Church," "on the existence of absolute moral norms that prohibit intrinsically evil acts and that are binding without exceptions" remain valid "after the publication of the Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia" (cf. No. 304)?
3. After Amoris Laetitia (No. 301), is it still possible to affirm that a person who habitually lives in contradiction to a commandment of God's law, as for instance the one that prohibits adultery (cf. Matt. 19:3-9), finds him or herself in an objective situation of grave habitual sin?
4. After the affirmations of Amoris Laetitia (No. 302) on "circumstances which mitigate moral responsibility," does the teaching of the encyclical Veritatis Splendor (No. 81), based on sacred Scripture and on the Tradition of the Church, according to which "circumstances or intentions can never transform an act intrinsically evil by virtue of its object into an act 'subjectively' good or defensible as a choice" remain valid?
5. Finally, the cardinals ask whether the teaching of Veritatis Splendor, (No. 81), "based on sacred Scripture and on the Tradition of the Church, that excludes a creative interpretation of the role of conscience and that emphasizes that conscience can never be authorized to legitimate exceptions to absolute moral norms that prohibit intrinsically evil acts by virtue of their object" also remains valid.
In an interview with Catholic Action for Faith and Family, Cardinal Burke explained that the request for clarification addressed to the Pope was both a moral obligation and an act of justice and charity toward the faithful, now immersed in confusion.
For us to remain silent about these fundamental doubts, which have arisen as a result of the text of Amoris Laetitia, would, on our part, be a grave lack of charity toward the Pope and a grave lack in fulfilling the duties of our own office in the Church.
Has the Pope Answered the Cardinals?
Several Catholic outlets are presenting Pope Francis' recent statements to the Italian bishops' newspaper, Avvenire, as an indirect answer to that formal request for clarification.
Pope Francis has fired back at his critics over the document Amoris Laetitia, suggesting they suffer from "a certain legalism, which can be ideological." The critics now include a group of four cardinals who've accused the pontiff of causing grave confusion and disorientation and even floated the prospect of a public correction.
Obviously one should not mistake such hardly merciful criticism of the cardinals for a formal response to their doubts, formulated in correct theological and canonical terms. In fact, instead of clarifying the doubts raised, the Pope's statements have added to the confusion.
The quote seems to imply that principles drawn from divine Revelation do not suffice to form a moral judgment because things are not "black and white," that is, good or bad. On the contrary, it is in the "flux of life," in the praxis, that one discerns whether or not an act or situation is morally correct.
At the moment of this writing, some progressive bishops and laity have attacked the brave prelates. Others have come out in their defense, such as Most Rev. Józef Wróbel, Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin (Poland), Most Rev. Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana (Kazakhstan), Bishop Jan Watroba, President of the Council for the Family of the Polish Bishops,' Fr. George Woodall, Professor of Moral Theology and Bioethics at Rome's Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, and Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith a doctor of moral theology.
There may be other statements by ecclesiastics along the same line. In any case, it is impossible to list here all the blogs of Catholic laity that fully support and show real enthusiasm for the cardinals' statement.
In addition to these dubia on Amoris Laetitia raised by the courageous cardinals, should others be raised on matters of Catholic social doctrine?
If we consider the Pope's repeated hostile statements about private property and free enterprise, his sympathy for the socialist and communist rulers of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and China, his support for subversive revolutionary social movements, and finally his declarations with a "pauperist" or "miserabilist" bent, is the Church's traditional doctrine condemning socialism and communism still true and binding?
What we want is a battle against inequality, this is the greatest evil that exists in the world. It is money that creates it and that goes against those measures that try to make wealth more widespread and thus promote equality.
Vatican Radio reported on this interview, and L'Osservatore Romano ran it on November 11, giving it widespread publicity in the Catholic world. Two weeks have passed, but the Pope has not withdrawn or corrected these remarks.
1. In light of the statement "inequality, this is the greatest evil that exists in the world," is it possible to continue upholding the Church's traditional teaching that wealth inequality is legitimate and in accordance with the order established by God?
2. For example, does this teaching from Pope Pius XII in his Encyclical Sertum Laetitiae (1939) remain true?
3. In light of the affirmation that "it is the communists who think like Christians," are the following statements by Pius XI in his encyclical Divini Redemptoris (1937) still true?
The Church can analogically apply to herself the words of Our Lord: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life" (John 14:6). If confusion is rife in Catholic ambiences, it will inevitably extend to all other domains of existence. And no worse confusion can exist in the Church than that regarding principles.
Cf. Matt. 19:9; Mark 10:11-12; Luke 16:18. Our emphasis throughout the article.
Pius XII, "Speech to the Conference of the World Federation of Female Catholic Youth," Discorsi e Radiomessaggi di sua Santità Pio XII, Apr. 18, 1952, Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, Vol. XIV, 72, 75 (our translation).
Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8, 1907, No. 13, http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html.
Più volte è stato detto e la mia risposta è sempre stata che, semmai sono i comunisti che la pensano come i cristiani.
Nov. 1, 1939, Nos. 34-35, http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_01111939_sertum-laetitiae.html.
May 15, 1931, No. 120, http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html.
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, "Neste século da confusão, rogai por nós ó Mãe do Bom Conselho," http://www.pliniocorreadeoliveira.info/1968_208_209_CAT_Neste_seculo_da_confusao.htm#.WDxl1lwZnyQ (our translation).
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Windows 10 Cloud confirmed. Will Surface Pro 5 feature Windows 10 Cloud?
A few days back we had reported that Microsoft has planned an event on May 2 centred around education and now we have a new leak that confirms existence of Windows 10 Cloud and the possibility that the Microsoft event could see launch of Chromebook competitors powered by Windows 10 Cloud.
The leak reveals minimum hardware specifications of Microsoft Windows 10 Cloud-powered laptops. The leak was first reported by Windows Central wherein they revealed details about "recommended minimum spec" document, which is believed to have been handed out to Microsoft's partners.
The document contains details about Microsoft expectations as far as its Windows 10 Cloud is concerned. The document also details "Edu Cloud device" that features extensive battery life, quick boot and resume cycle, and at least a quad-core Intel Celeron processor behind the scenes.
It wasn't a long shot to assume that Microsoft is to reveal details of Chromebook competitor considering the theme of event on May 2 is education. Microsoft has almost always dominated the consumer and enterprise computing market – and lately the two-in-one market with its Surface Pro range of tablets [Surface Pro 4 prices reduced by up to 27%] – but has never been really that strong in the education niche.
That's something that Google exploited through its Chrome OS-powered Chromebooks thereby garnering a huge fanfare in the education sector. Microsoft seems to have realized that education holds a massive potential considering there are very few competitors. Releasing a full-fledged Windows 10 powered device doesn't make sense for the education segment as the device will become expensive as well as bulky.
The way out then is a cloud powered OS – Windows 10 Cloud in this case that is not only simple to use and manage, but also versatile and apt for students and teachers alike. Windows 10 Cloud will likely contain on the essential features required by students and teachers. The OS will not allow users to install non-Windows Store apps and this effectively will enable Microsoft to keep close control over the quality of the apps being released for Windows 10 Cloud.
Some of the specifications mentioned by Microsoft in the document are 10-plus hours of battery life, cold-boot times of 20 seconds and resume times of under 2 seconds, at least a quad-core chip, 4GB of RAM, and at least 32GB of eMMC or SSD storage. Microsoft has listed pen and touchscreen capabilities as "optional".
Surface Pro 5 powered by Windows 10 Cloud?
Surface Pro 5 has been confirmed and while we await the launch of the device, there are speculations that Microsoft may launch a Windows 10 Cloud powered Surface Pro 5 at a lower price point to target students. Tablets have found increased adoption in the education niche, but Microsoft doesn't have a presence there.
Surface Pro 5 is the right platform alongside Windows 10 powered laptops to appeal to students and teachers alike. Alongside a full Windows 10 Professional powered Surface Pro 5, a Windows 10 Cloud-powered Surface Pro 5 will make a huge difference and increase customer base for Microsoft – a move that will prove strategically beneficial in the long run. Check out massive discounts on Surface Pro 4.


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The Cognitive Clouding of Global Warming: Paris and Pittsburgh; Creditors and Debtors
The argument of America First seems to have been extended to its logical conclusion as the apparently selected President of the United States has single-handedly subtracted the nation from a map of climate change. By denying the place of the United States in the Paris Climate Accords, President Trump seems, in the most charitable interpretation, to have acted on his own instincts for what was the benefit that accrued to the country in the very short term, and after looking at the balance books of the United States government for what might have been the first time, decided that America had no real part in the map of the future of a warming world. Rather than outright denying global warming or climate change, Trump decided that the conventions established to contain it by the world's nations had no immediate advantage for the United States. The result wasn't really to subtract the United States from the ecumene, but from the phenomenon or at least the collective reaction of the world to climate change, and openly declare the supremacy of his own personal opinion–as if by executive fiat–on the matter.
The personal position which he advanced was so personal, perhaps, to be presented in terms of his own clouded thinking on the matter, or at least by seizing it to create what he saw as a wedge between national consistencies, and to use wildly incommensurate forms of data to create the impression of his own expertise on the issue–and to mislead the nation. For Donald Trump took advantage of his having Presidential podium to diss the Paris Accords by a torrent of alliteration as resting on a "cornucopia of dystopian, dishonest and discredited data." Even if one wants to admire the mesmerizingly deceptive alliteration, the notion of rooting an initial response to planetary climate change in the perspective of one nation–the United States of America–which produced the lion's share of greenhouse gasses–is only designed to distort. By pretending to unmask the Paris Accords as in fact a bum economic deal for the United States, as if it were solely designed to "handicap" one national economy, set a sad standard for the values of public office. For as Trump dismissed data on climate change as discredited with mock-rage, and vowed that the entire affair had been designed by foreign groups who had already "collectively cost America trillions of dollars through tough trade practices" and were desiring to continue to inflict similar damage.
But the large future on trade imbalances–which he treated as the bottom line–he staged a spectacle of being aggrieved that seemed to take on the problems of the nation, with little sense of what was at stake. Trump's televised live speech was preeminently designed only to distract from the data on which the Accords had been based. And even as Trump sought to pound his chest by describing the Accord as a "bad deal for Americans," that in truth "to the exclusive benefit of other countries." By turning attention to an America First perspective on global warming, Trump sought to replace the international scope of the challenge–and intent of the much-negotiated Climate Accords–by suggesting that it obscured American interests, even if it only took America's good will for granted. As if explaining to his televised audience that the agreement only "disadvantages the United States in relation to other countries," with the result of "leaving American workers–who [sic] I love–. . . to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs [and] lower wages," he concealed the actual economics of withdrawing from the Accords were buried beneath boasts to have secured "350 billion of military and economic development for the US" and to help American businesses, workers, taxpayers, and citizens. In dismissing the data out of hand about the expanded production of greenhouse gasses, Trump ridiculed the true target of the nearly universally approved Accords, scoffing at the abilities to reduce global temperatures; instead, he concentrated on broad figures of lost jobs in manufacturing and industries that are in fact small sectors of the national economy, and incommensurable with the dangers of ignoring global warming and climate change, or the exigencies of taking steps to counter its recent growth.
Increased likelihood of temperature rising above previous records by 2050 and 2080
Sea Surface Temperatures compared to historical baseline of a century ago
As if years of accumulated data of earth observation could be dismissed as deceptive out of hand by executive authority, independent of an accurate judgement of its measurement, Trump dismissed expert opinion with the air of a true populist whose heart lay in the defense of the American people and their well-being–as if they could be abstracted and prioritized above the world's Trump's largely rambling if gravely delivered comments in the Rose Garden press conference that painted himself as daily fighting for the country cemented the alliance of populism and a war on science by its odd substitution of bad economic data for good scientific data. The switch is one in which his administration has specialized. His address certainly culminated an outright dismissal of scientific conclusions based on a distorted America First picture of the world, where a stolid declaration that "the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords" made sense as form of national defense–despite the potential global catastrophe that rising global temperatures and sea surface temperatures threaten.
The catastrophes were minimized by being argued to be based on "discredited data" in a bizarre flourish designed to dismiss scientific concensus Trump conspicuously faulted not only the "discredited" but distracting nature of data in the speech he gave in the Rose Garden on June 1, 2017 that supposedly justified his announcement of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords in 2015 to limit heat-trapping emissions of carbon fuels that have been tied to observed climate change. Rather than foreground the international nature of the accords among agreed upon by almost 200 nations, trump advanced the need to heed local interests, perversely, but even more perversely argued that the Accords resulted from disinformation. He spoke to the world to chastise their recognition of scientific observations, in so doing destabilizing not only global alliances but undermining a long-negotiated climate policy by pulling the rug out from long accepted consensus not only of climate scientists but a role of national leadership that sought to remedy the failure of the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. Trump turned his back on the Climate Accords on how to curb greenhouse gas emissions by proclaiming their unfairness to American interests, and attacking unwanted constraints on American industry, through his own deployment of data that was even more discredited as an excuse to walk away from the prospect of a greener world.
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If Trump steered the nation away from green energy and into darkness, Vladimir Putin seemed to mock Trump's rationale for the withdrawal when he mused, jokingly but ever so darkly, that "maybe the current [U.S.] president thinks they are not fully thought-through," making open fun of Donald Trump's image of global leadership by wryly noting in ways that echoed the absurdity of Trump's defense of the local in place of the global. "We don't feel here that the temperature is going hotter here, . . . I hear they are saying it snowed in Moscow today and its raining here, very cold," Putin noted, as if relishing undermining long-established trends in climate data by invoking a populist championing of local knowledge as if it trumped the advantages of earth observation that satellite observation has long provided. Populism trumped expertise and Putin laughed at the possibility that the Accords might soon fail as a result.
Given the longstanding desire of Moscow to be released from constraints on exploring the billions of tons of Arctic oil on which Russia has chosen to gamble, Trump's almost purposive blindness to a changing environmental politics of the global economy astounds for its parochialism, and its championing of place to dismiss undeniable effects of climate change that seems closely tied to carbon emissions. For with a false populism that championed the limited perspective of one place in the world–or one's own personal experience–Trump dismissed the maps and projections of climate change, on the basis that the "deal" was simply "BAD." And as a man who views everything as yet another deal, while he pronounced readiness to "renegotiate" an accord he sought to cast as a failure of President Obama to represent America's interests, the rebuke fell flatly as the accord was never designed to be renegotiable.
Putin's remarks were met by scattered laughter of recognition, and some smirks at the decision of the American president to withdraw form a long-negotiated set of accords to the collective dismay of our military and environmental allies, and its implicit endorsement of deniers of climate change. The potential "axis of mass destruction" France's climate minister has cautioned against might indeed be one of mass distraction. For in dismissing and indeed disdaining the historical accords to limit carbon emissions, Trump sought a soundbite sufficient to stoke suspicions the climate treaty. He sought to cast it as yet another deeply rigged system of which he had taken to compulsively warning Americans. Such a metaphor of bounty was jarring to reconcile with onerous economic burdens cited as the prime motivations for deciding to reject the Paris Accords on Climate Change. The jarring cognitive coinage seemed to connote its negative by a disorienting litotes; but perhaps the most striking element of the entire news conference was that Trump offered no data that backed up his own pronouncements and appearance of steadfast or only obstinate personal resolve.
Before the coherence of the embodiment of climate change in maps, Trumps jarringly juxtaposed radically different sorts of statistic to snow the nation–and the world–by disorienting his audience, on which Trump turned to a litany of complaints and perceived offenses striking for providing no data of any sort, save several bits of false data. As much as Trump betrayed uneven command over the data on climate change, as if embedding discrete numbers in unclear fashion that supported a self-evident argument, as if they addressed one of the most carefully documented changes in the atmosphere of the world. By juxtaposing a threat that "could cost Americans as much as 2.7 million lost jobs by 2025"–a number described as extreme but decontextualized to exaggerate its effect, framed by the dismissive statement "Believe me, this is not what we need!"– with a projected small temperature decrease of two tenths of a degree Celsius–"Think of that! This much"–as if to indicate the minuscule return that the "deal" offered to the United States that would have made it worthy accepting its costs–
The gesture seemed designed to juxtapose the honesty of direct communication with the deceit of the experts. Trump's notion of direct communication concealed the surreal enjambment of disproportionate numbers more striking by the difference of their scale than their meaning. Of a piece with his citation of partial statistics that exaggerate his points, from "95 Million not in the U.S. labor force" as if to imply they are all unsuccessfully looking for work, targeting some 8 million immigrants as "illegal aliens"ready for deportation, or how immigrants coast American taxpayers "billions of dollars a year." Such large figures deploy discredited data difficult to process to conjure fears by overwhelming audience, distracting from specific problems with large numbers that communicate an illusion of expertise, or even overwhelm their judgment by talking points disseminated in deeply questionable media sources.
If the power of this juxtaposition of unrelated numbers gained their effectiveness because of a lack of numeracy–Trump's claim of 100 million social media followers lumps his followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, many of whom may be the same people, and other fake persona —the numbers seem to exist for their rhetorical effect alone, as if to awe by their size and dismiss by the miniscule benefits they might provide. The point of contrasting such large and small statistics was to suggest the poor priorities of the previous administration, and dilute form the consensus reached on the modeling of climate change. To be sure, the Trump administration also barters in fake facts on Fox News Sunday. inflating the number of jobs in coal industries, that show a misleading sense of the government's relation to the national economy, generating a range of falsehoods that disable fact-checking, obscuring the fact that the global marketplace increasingly gives preference to cleaner energy and clean energy jobs more quickly others sectors of our national economy beyond energy industries. The ties of Trump's administration to fossil fuels–from the Secretary of State to the Secretary of Energy to the Secretary of the Interior down–employ the obsfuscating tactics of fossil fuel industries to obscure benefits of low-carbon fuels. Indeed, the inability to "renegotiate" a deal where each nation set its own levels of energy usage rendered Trump's promise of the prospect of renegotiation meaningless and unclear, even if it was intended to create the appearance of him sounding reasonable and amiable enough on nightly television news.
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Another point of the citation of false data was to evoke a sense of false populism, by asking how the Accords could ever add up. In isolating foregrounded statistics great and small, tightly juxtaposed for rhetorical effect, the intent seems consciously to bombard the audience to disorienting effect. We know Trump has disdain for expertise, and indeed the intersection between a sense of populism with disdain or rejection of science may be endemic: in formulating responses to a global question like climate change that he has had no familiarity with save in terms of margins of profits and regulations. Rather than consulting experts, the President has prepared for public statements by consulting sympathetic media figures like Kimberly Guilfoyle who endorse climate conspiracy–and not experts–who use data as obscuring foils, suggesting an ecology of information originating from pro-fossil fuel industry groups.
But as much as adopt talking points from other media, Trump uses data to frame overstatements of unclear relation to actualities–as making the distorting and meaningless promise to drop power plant climate rules, clean water rules and other regulations to "help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next seven years"–a figure drawn from a fossil fuel industry nonprofit, which offered little grounds for such a claim, and was a cherry-picked large number offered without any contextualization–or consideration that $30 billion would not fill the pockets of 300 million. The point of allowing workers to continue to fire coal without hoping to meet any guidelines for carbon emissions did secure the total of 50,000 jobs in coal mining in the US, bit seems out of synch with the decline of demand for coal world-wide.
The point of citing such numbers offer a scaffolding for many of Trump's claims, but as talking points serve to disorient as much as instruct, and disorient from a global perspective and became the basis for pushing the groundless withdrawal from the Paris Accords. Perhaps the orientation for the talking points that migrate from many right-wing news sites into Trump's public speeches As many of the talking points culled from the unsourced ecosystem of the internet inform Trump's public statements that may be drawn from a special dossier that arrives on his desk, as Shane Goldmacher suggested, many of which are circulated in the White House to feed Trump's personal appetite for media consumption, many both dislodged from their original contexts and some neither substantiated or fact-checked, are printed and placed on his desk in the Oval Office, effectively introducing dissembling as much as dissenting information into Trump's significantly reduced three-page Presidential Daily Briefing.
Such a new information economy that defines the Oval Office in the Age of Trump makes it less of a nexus of information-sharing from scientific communities. It rather serves to introduce information designed to swamp existing facts–as the eight inch rise in sea levels since 1880, or the catastrophic floods on course to double by 2030, or economic disparities of the global footprints of different parts of the world, and only recently recognized ecological debts that patterns of consumption generate globally.
It is almost difficult to tell whether the jarring incommensurability of great and small numbers that Trump cited in his Rose Garden press conference was intentional–a strategy designed to mystify,–as some have cautioned–or a sort of cognitive dissonance between the ingrained skepticism before data, and belief in his own powers to resolve a problem of any size. It may well be a combination of both: but the history of long-term measurement of climate change suggest a perfect storm between his own doubting of data and persuasive skills with his outsized cognitive sense of his abilities to resolve an issue of such magnitude, and the inability he had of acknowledging that the United States had a need to recognize a debt it owed anyone.
The very overflow and abundance of data on global warming and climate change, in this context, cast a gauntlet and raised a challenge to be dismissed, and negotiated around in ways that did not depend on scientific observations, but would reflect his own ability to get a better deal for the United States alone, in a perverse impulse to isolationism in response to one of the greatest consequences and challenges of globalization–climate change–and the particular problems faced by the developing countries and for nations that were defined as biocapacity debtors. Indeed, in separating the nation from a pact between developing and developed countries on energy use and fossil fuel emissions, the notion of any prospect of global compact is unsettled by the withdrawal of the largest developed nation form the Accords–under the pretense that their interests were not respected enough–with one other nations that sought to enforce stricter emissions guidelines.
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Africa Day Webinar on Reflections on Africa amidst COVID-19
The Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS) and the UFS will host an Africa Day Webinar on the topic, Reflections on Africa amidst Covid-19, to be delivered by Prof. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, renowned decolonial scholar. The title of his lecture is Revisiting the African idea of Africa during the moment of Covid-19 pandemic.
The crisis delivered by Coronavirus and Covid-19 invites Africans to rethink and even unthink the long-standing dependency on Europe and North America for help. What has dawned on Africa is the equally long-standing aspiration of self-reliance. What is emerging is a new African idea of Africa which takes responsibility for its own challenges. This new African idea of Africa challenges the Mudimbean idea of Africa embodied in the colonial library.
Thus this presentation reassesses how Africa has relied on its own historical experience, its own knowledge, and own people to confront Covid-19. What is of interest here is the proverbial wisdom of necessity being the source of invention. The presentation brings to the fore the decolonial turn as it gestures beyond crisis into post-Covid-19 world order. It ends with a call for decolonial love founded on new ethics of living together and new economies of care.
Bio of Prof Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatshen
Date: Tuesday, 26 May, 2020
Duration: 90 min max (45 min talk, 45 min Q&A)
The webinar can be accessed via one of the following links:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/cgas-africa-day-webinar
https://bit.ly/3cVDMJU
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This semester students from the service learning module in the Department of Computer Science and Informatics at the University of the Free State (UFS) gave computer training to a group of persons from the community. Ms Bongi Ntulini from the Mangaung University of the Free State Community Partnership Programme (MUCPP) selected the group.
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At this event were, from the left: Ms E.S. Martins who passed the course in Computer Literacy (MSWord) and Mr Frank van der Lingen.


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Nicolet - Guided Snowmobile Ride
Nicolet - Trails
Oconto County ATV/UTV Clubs
Oconto County ATV/UTV Trails
Oconto County Snowmobile Clubs
Oconto County Snowmobile Trails
River Valley - Trails
Welcome to Oconto County, Wisconsin...a place for you. Since the County is over 100 miles long, we've made it easy for you to navigate the array of tourism resources available in the County, or to help you locate available sites and buildings and obtain business assistance. The adjacent map divides the County into three distinct sections. All resources and attractions are categorized by region within the County. So come to Oconto County to play, live or work, because after all, we are a place for you!
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Oconto County Tourism - 1-888-626-6862 Website
Oconto County has over 480 miles of snowmobile trails! We are less than a full tank of gas round trip from the Fox Cities/Geen Bay area and less than a three hour drive from the Milwaukee area. The Oconto County area is the best snowmobiling closest to the Fox Valley.
For your convenience, trail heads have been strategically placed throughout the County. Trail heads are located near Hwy 32/64 intersection, just East of Chute Pond, in Gillett at Zippel Park, in Suring near the Village Hall, and in Lakewood on Hwy 32. The Nicolet State Recreational Trail starts in Gillett and runs 90 miles north to connect to numerous trails systems.
Wisconsin Snowmobile Trail Pass - 2013 Wisconsin Act 142, effective July 1, 2015, expanded the snowmobile trail pass requirement to include snowmobiles registered in Wisconsin and increased the nonresident snowmobile trail pass fee. Beginning with the 2015-16 snow season, all snowmobiles operating on a Wisconsin snowmobile trail or corridor must display a valid snowmobile trail pass whether registered in Wisconsin or another state.
Click here for a detailed Oconto County Snowmobile Trail Report!
Oconto County Snowmobile Clubs -
Red Arrow Snowmobile-ATV Club
Paul Bunyan Riders Snowmobile Club
Chute Pond Snowmobile Club
Oconto Falls Sno Jokers
Bagley and Brazeau Joyriders
Lena Snowdrifters
ATV/UTV Trails
Oconto County ATV/UTV trail system is over 450 miles of fully interconnected scenic riding. We are less than a full tank of gas round trip from the Fox Cities/Green Bay area and less than a three hour drive from the Milwaukee area.
Boulder Lake Campground Trail
A wooden boardwalk begins your journey into another world of primitive bog vegetation, deer trails, squirrels' nests, and the workings of woodpeckers. Hike up and down the ridges around a large open bog area. The huge boulders you'll see are the calling cards left behind when the last glacier receded and formed the rugged terrain over 10,000 years ago. Campers can access the trail from several points in the campground.
Directions: From Langlade, take State Highway 55 south for 5 miles to County Highway WW. Turn left and go east 1/2 mile to Campground Road (FR 2166). Turn left onto Campground Road and head north to Boulder Lake Campground. As you enter the campground, go past the road to the boat ramp (on left). Turn at the first right, just past the entry information area into the parking area. A trail map is located at the trailhead.
Cathedral Pines
Townsend, WI - 715-276-6333 Website
Follow this 1/4 mile trail into a unique "cathedral" of towering pines and hemlock trees. This area survived Wisconsin's logging era and has been preserved in its natural state. During early summer you may observe great blue herons nesting high in the tallest pines. This is one of Wisconsin's largest active heron colonies. The site may be visited May through October.
Directions: From Lakewood, take State Hwy 32 North 1 mile to Archibald Road (FR 2121). Turn left (west) for 1-1/2 miles. Watch for signs on the left side of the road. Turn right to parking area. There is parking for 5 vehicles, hiking trails and benches. The site is accessible for persons with disabilities.
Chute Pond Overlook Trail
Mountain, WI - 715-276-6333 Website
This short, moderately steep trail (2/3 miles) leads to the top of a rock outcrop that features five vistas. Three of the vistas overlook Chute Pond, one looks over a Forest Service tree plantation, and one looks north along State Highway 32 with Bagley Rapids on the west and Green Lake on the east. At the northernmost vista, look north to see the last remaining Forest Service fire lookout tower almost six miles away at Mountain. Looking south from the southernmost vista you can see the radio tower on Suring Hill, about eight miles away. Be sure to bring your binoculars on this hike!
Directions: From Mountain, take State Hwy 32 south for 3 1/2 miles to Parkway Drive and turn right (west). Follow the signs to the scenic overlook. Parking lot for 4 vehicles. The site is 2/3 mile from the parking lot and is not accessible to persons with disabilities.
Jones Spring Area Trail
Fanny Lake Road, Townsend, WI - 715-276-6333 Website | Map
You are bound to see wildlife on this trail. Jones Spring is a 2,000 acre area managed for non-motorized use and offers several loops of hiking and groomed cross-country ski trails (for traditional style skiing). The area features three lakes. Fanny Lake has five walk-in campsites on the shore. On an overlook between Upper and Lower Jones Lakes, you'll find an Adirondack-style shelter for a quick rest while skiing or a place to picnic when hiking. The trail traverses a variety of landscapes and forest types which also means a variety of wildlife. Look for the wood duck boxes which have been placed here to increase the wood duck population. Jones Spring Area is also managed as a wildlife area for hunting.
Directions: From Townsend, take County Highway T southwest for 5 miles to Fanny Lake Road (FR 2938). Turn right and follow Fanny Lake Road west to parking area. Space is available for approximately 6 vehicles.
Lakewood Cross Country Ski Trails
Lakewood, WI - 715-622-1754 Website
Lakewood Cross Country Ski Trails established in 1977 and located in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. 25 km of marked trails groomed for classic and skating. Parking and maps available off County Hwy F, Old 32 Road, McCauslin Brook Country Club in Lakewood. Click here to view a map!
Maranatha Ski Trail
Sawyer Lake Road, Langlade, WI - 715-362-1300 Website | Map
This trail is maintained by the privately-run Silver Birch Ranch and is a system of interconnected loops. One of these loops crosses Rose Lake. Before skiing this loop, check ice conditions on the lake. This trail is groomed for traditional skiing and is marked for beginning, intermediate and advanced skiers. A map is available at Silver Birch Ranch.
Directions: From Langlade, follow State Highway 55 about 4 miles north to Sawyer Lake Road (FR 2122). Turn right onto Sawyer Lake Road and go east and north about 2 miles. The parking area is on the right (south) side of Sawyer Lake Road. There is space for approximately 6-8 cars.
Nicolet Nordic Ski Trail
McComb Lake Road, Mountain, WI - 715-479-2827 Website | Map
The Nicolet Nordic Ski Trails are cross-country trails groomed by volunteer efforts of local ski club members and friends in cooperation with the Forest Service. Most of the trails are double tracked. A trail map is located at the trailhead.
Directions: From the town of Mountain, follow County Highway W west for 1 mile to McComb Lake Road (FR 2311). Turn left and go south 2 miles to parking area on the left (east) side of the road. Space is available for approximately 30 vehicles.
Nicolet State Trail
Oconto County - 920-834-6969 Website
The Nicolet State Trail in Oconto County begins in the town of Gillett near the Oconto/Shawano county line. Gillett is located on State Highway 22, about 18 miles northeast of the city of Shawano. The trail runs for about 30 miles north from Gillett in Oconto County and passes through the communities of Suring, Mountain, Lakewood and Townsend. In Suring, a parking area with access to the trail is available next to the Village Hall near State Highway 32. Beginning around Mountain, the trail parallels Highway 32 the rest of the way north into Forest County.
Directions: The Nicolet State Trail in Oconto County begins in the town of Gillett near the Oconto/Shawano county line. Gillett is located on State Highway 22, about 18 miles northeast of the city of Shawano. The trail runs for about 30 miles north from Gillett in Oconto County and passes through the communities of Suring, Mountain, Lakewood and Townsend. In Suring, a parking area with access to the trail is available next to the Village Hall near State Highway 32. Beginning around Mountain, the trail parallels Highway 32 the rest of the way north into Forest County.
Popple Ridge Horse Trail
Sawyer Lake Road, Lakewood, WI - 715-276-6333 Map
The Popple Ridge Horse Trails are located on gently rolling terrain. The trail tread is a mix of sand and some stones. All but one section is wide enough for 2 horses to ride side-by-side. These wooded trails are cool and shady even in the middle of the summer.
Trail lenght: 26 miles of marked trails
Directions: From the intersection of Highways 64 and 55 near Langlage drive north 4 miles on Highway 55 to the intersection with Sawyer Lake Road. There is parking for the trail at this intersection.
Quartz Hill Trail
Highway 32 South, Laona, WI - 715-276-6333 Website | Map
Discover the breath taking Quartz Hill Trail located on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Laona, Wis. This stunning trail cascades into two sections. One portion is located on the east and the other portion is located on the west side of Wisconsin State Highway 32. The east section leads across a boardwalk to the top of McCaslin Mountain. It has moderately steep sections, but the view from the top of this quartz rock outcrop is worth the climb. The prettiest time to explore the trail is in fall when the brilliant fall colors will be visible on the surrounding hills from the overlook.
Machickanee Ski Trail
Stiles, WI - 920-846-2965 Website
The Machickanee Cross Country Ski Trails were originally planned and developed by local skiers in the Oconto County Forest with the cooperation of the Oconto County Land , Forest , and Parks Committee. The current trail system has resulted from the efforts of many volunteers who have donated their time, money, and energy since 1978. In 1982, the Machickanee Cross Country Ski Club was formed to organize those efforts. The trails lead through a series of forest types, including red pine plantations, coniferous swamps, oak ridges, and birch and aspen stands. They undulate through topography ranging from creek bottoms to ridge tops. Numerous hills and curves of various slopes and lengths make this course a challenge for the intermediate to advanced skiers. Find us on Facebook!
Oconto Marsh
County Y, Oconto, WI - 920-834-6845 Website | Map
The city of Oconto has a large marsh area also known as the Oconto Marsh and is part of the Great Wisconsin Birding & Nature Trail, Lake Michigan Region. The Oconto Marsh & Rush Point Refuge is located just north of the City of Oconto on the west shore of Green Bay. Covering more than 800 acres, the marsh is an area rich in birdlife, which includes: Wood Ducks, Ring-neck Ducks, Snowy Owl, Scoters and many, many more. It also encompasses a state waterfowl sanctuary and a breeding ground for the "yellow-headed blackbird. Uncommon birds such as Acadian Flycatchers and Cerulean Warblers can also be found here.
Oconto River State Trail
Oconto, WI - 920-834-6995 Website | Map
This 8-mile trail passes through the forests and farms of Oconto County between the communities of Oconto and Stiles Junction. Outside of Oconto the trail parallels the Oconto River. The river has a long history of human activity, dating back 6000 years to the early Native Americans who lived along the river, to the fur trading and logging operations of the last few centuries, to present-day recreation activities such as canoeing and kayaking. Copper Culture State Park, which is near the trail, sits on the banks of the river and features a Native American burial ground and museum. The Copper Culture burial ground is the oldest cemetery site in Wisconsin and possibly the oldest site in eastern North America.
Outback Riders
Suamico, WI Website
Outback Riders, Inc. was established to create and maintain a public bridle path in the Machickanee Forest and the Oconto River Trail in accordance with the Special Recreational Use Permit granted by the Oconto County Forestry & Parks Department; to hold family oriented equine related social activities and fundraisers. Find us on Facebook!
Ride Oconto History
Oconto, WI - 920-834-7711 Website
Bike routes through historic Oconto. 5 bike routes with 46 historical stops. This includes: 1 National Landmark, 5 Historical Markers, 28 National Registers of Historic Places.


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Brazil: 17th Concession Bid Round – Tender Protocol and Concession Contract Drafts
Bruno Triani Belchior
Leandro Duarte
Bárbara Eiroa Leite
On November 27, 2020, Brazil's National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels ("ANP") published the draft tender protocol ("Draft Tender Protocol") for the 17th Concession Bid Round ("17th Concession Bid Round") for exploratory blocks, establishing the procedures and rules for participation in the bid, as well as the concession contract draft, the preliminary schedule, and information regarding the offered areas.
The 17th Concession Bid Round was temporarily suspended in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was resumed by the ANP after a decision of the National Energy Policy Council ("CNPE") to hold the bid round in 2021, as detailed in our previous Legal Update on CNPE Resolution No. 07/2020.
The 17th Concession Bid Round will offer 92 blocks in the Campos, Pelotas, Potiguar and Santos sedimentary basins, encompassing a total area of 53.9 thousand km2. Three blocks of the Santos Basin (sector SS-AUP5) are partially located beyond the 200 nautical mile limit from the Brazilian baseline and may contain deposits located beyond such limit.
Also, the concession contracts for the SS-AUP5 sector blocks shall include an additional clause establishing that, in the event of production in reservoirs totally or partially located in areas beyond the 200 nautical miles limit, the concessionaire will be responsible for paying the amounts due to the International Seabed Authority – ISA pursuant to article 82 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea – UNCLOS.
The technical data package is already available and to have access the interested bidders must (i) fill out the electronic registration form; (ii) submit the registration documents required by the Draft Tender Protocol, such as the company's corporate documents and the evidence of powers of its legal representatives or attorneys-in-fact and the confidentiality agreement; and (iii) pay the participation fee for the specific sector of interest. The 17th Concession Bid Round will follow the schedule below.
Publication of the Draft Tender Protocol and the draft concession contract
Commencement of the period for fulfillment of registration forms, delivery of registration documentation and payment of the participation fee
Technical data package availability
Deadline for comments to the Draft Tender Protocol and to the draft concession contract, and end of the public consultation
Public hearing (city of Rio de Janeiro)
Publication of the tender protocol and the concession contract
Technical seminar
To be defined
Environmental and fiscal-legal seminars
Deadline for the fulfillment of registration forms, submission of registration documentation and payment of the participation fee
Deadline to present the offer bid bonds
Public session for the presentation of offers
Deadline for the submission of the following documents: (i) qualification documents (winning bidder) and (ii) additional bid bond provided in section 6.4, item (v), when applicable
Award and ratification of the bid
By December 17, 2021
Deadline to present the financial guarantee of the Minimum Exploratory Program in the form of an oil and natural gas pledge
Deadline to submit the following documents related to (i) the execution of the concession contract (except the financial guarantee of the Minimum Exploratory Program in the form of an oil and natural gas pledge); and (ii) the qualification of the affiliate appointed for the execution of the concession contract, when applicable.
Deadline for payment of the signing bonus and submission of the evidence of payment
Execution of the concession contracts
The 17th Concession Bid Round uses the same electronic mechanism system used in the 16th Concession Bid Round for the presentation of documents. The Draft Tender Protocol establishes that the required documentation must be uploaded through the Electronic Information System ("SEI") pursuant to the instructions provided in the "SEI External User Manual" and the "Manual for Submission of ANP Bidding Documents on SEI," which is available on the ANP/Rodadas website (Portuguese only).
In addition to the digital submission through SEI, the original versions of the financial guarantees of the Minimum Exploratory Program and the performance guarantees must also be submitted in hard copy to ANP. The bid bonds must be submitted to the ANP in hard copy only.
The Draft Tender Protocol is available on the ANP/Rodadas website (in Portuguese and English). All documents are available for public consultation by January 28, 2021, and inputs may be made by both the industry and the general public.
We will keep you posted on the development of the 17th Concession Bid Round through our Legal Updates.
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Extragalactic Astrophysics at Occidental College
Traveling Planetarium
Interacting Dwarf Galaxies
We are currently leading the first systematic observational study of star formation and the subsequent processing of the interstellar medium in interactions and mergers between low mass, dwarf galaxies, the survey TiNy Titans (TNT). Mergers among massive galaxies have been studied extensively and found to provide an important mode of galaxy evolution, but we know very little about how mergers proceed at lower masses. Mergers between dwarf galaxies are especially important because they are thought to be more common when the universe was young. A few of our dwarf pairs (caught in various stages of interaction) are pictured here.
Interacting Dwarf Pairs from Tiny Titans
One of the TNT initial results is shown in the plot on the below. Star formation is enhanced in paired (i.e. interacting) dwarfs (blue line) as compared to unpaired dwarfs (red line) out to projected separations (Rsep) as far as 100 kpc – that is 50 times the extend of the dwarf galaxy itself! That enhancement increases as the dwarfs get closer together (i.e. Rsep decreases). These results are published in The Astrophysical Journal (Stierwalt et al. 2015).
The TNT collaboration is a group of hard-working people who are all very active in the program. Gurtina Besla (University of Arizona), is leading a complementary theoretical component involving comparisons to the Illustris cosmological simulations. Dave Patton (Trent University) is an expert in pair studies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Kelsey Johnson (University of Virginia) is an expert on star formation in nearby galaxies. Nitya Kallivayalil (University of Virgnia) is an expert in the stellar populations of dwarfs. Mary Putman (Columbia) is an expert in neutral gas kinematics in galaxies.
Sombrero Galaxy Cover Image Credit: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)


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She is the daughter of my sister" Nigel reacts to a viral video on the internet
She is the daughter of my sister" Nigel reacts to a viral video on the internet
Prophet Nigel Gaisie, the founder and head of Prophetic Hill Chapel International in Ghana, has reacted to critics using a viral video of him and a young lady in a room having fun to ruin his reputable image.
Nigel Gaisie and the young lady were seen taking selfies in the bedroom in the video, which has now gone viral on Twitter and other social media platforms. Following the release of the video, his fans have been expecting him to comment.
Prophet Nigel Gaisie responded on his official Facebook page, saying that the lady in question is Sandra Mantey, his blood sister's daughter. The opponent is attempting to ruin Nigel Gaisie's well-built reputation, according to him.
According to Nigel Gaisie, the enemy is attempting to damage his well-established reputable reputation, but they are unable to do so, which is why the video was removed.
He asked his fans to disregard people who are attempting to smear his reputation with that video because the lady in question is his blood sister's kid.
"This is something that was just brought to my knowledge. This is the daughter of my blood sister. Sandra Mantey is her name. They don't know anything about me, therefore this is what they're going to do!!! WICKED PEOPLE" he stated in a post. "FUNNY PEOPLE…..IGNORE THEM**THIS GIRL IS MY BLOOD' SISTERS DAUGHTER*WICKED PEOPLE" he wrote in another post.


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How to Make Your Brand Appeal to Young People
Ryan Kh
We've all shopped online, whether that's for a new outfit, the latest tech, or even for our weekly grocery shop. It's such a popular consumer activity since it's so convenient to do — sometimes all you need to do is click the pay button and your order is complete. It's as simple as that. In fact, over 2.14 billion people are expected to purchase goods and services online in 2021 alone.
As a business owner, these stats demonstrate the importance of optimising your online presence, though it's important to do so for younger generations in particular. These individuals have moved permanently from browsing physical stores to shopping online due to their love of convenience and lack of affinity towards in-store shopping. Indeed, those aged between 25-34 are the largest group of online shoppers in the UK. Targeting this young audience is therefore critical, but how do you do this exactly?
1. Offer quick delivery services
Driven by technology and a demand for instant gratification, more than half of customers aged between 18 and 34 expect same-day delivery. If this isn't available, they are likely to find another shop that does offer it — hardly anyone is willing to wait three to five business days anymore. This expectation has been set by retail giants like Amazon, and customers now base their shopping decisions on how long it will take to receive their items.
Currently just over half of retailers offer customers same-day delivery, and while many businesses worry about providing this service due to additional costs, it's worthwhile considering that 61% of users are willing to pay more for it. And fortunately for companies, there are many courier services that can help them with their delivery processes. Take CitySprint's priority service, for example, where you can get your package collected in 60 minutes or less, making it an incredibly convenient service.
2. Embrace engaging design
The key to attracting young people in a world saturated by media is great visuals. Consumers, in general, are no longer interested in long chunks of text as our attention spans are shorter than they used to be, and this influences the content we consume. In fact, people start to lose their concentration after just eight seconds, so it's important your branding is visually striking.
For your brand to catch a younger demographic's eye, your design (including everything from colours and fonts to the types of images you use and website layout) needs to be modern and up-to-date with trends. This is because Gen Z are more tech-savvy and their values and styles differ from previous generations. For instance, they appreciate easily accessible content, immersive navigation and browsing, and a high level of functionality. The latter can be achieved through things like social features, fewer pop-up forms on websites and rich graphics and animations.
Generally speaking, aim for your design to be unique, aesthetically pleasing, consistent and authentic. The goal is to create a brand so visually strong that an image of it instantly pops up when mentioned, as this can help differentiate your company from others on the market. Take skincare and makeup brand Glossier, for example, which is very popular among millennials due to its simple fonts and two-toned colour palette. While dating app Bumble stands out due to its bold visual marketing, with a sea of yellow and black dominating its website and materials.
3. Address the issues they care about
The young generation have got their hearts in the right places, wanting to change the world by campaigning for issues such as sustainability, LGBTQ+ rights, and race. For your business to appeal to these individuals, your company mission and values need to match what they believe in and address the important stuff. Take sustainability, for instance, with 62% of Gen Zers preferring to buy from sustainable brands. By incorporating more eco-friendly practices into your business, such as eco-packaging and green energy, you can benefit the world and appeal to young customers.
Meanwhile, if your company works with charities, make sure your website and social media reflect your efforts. With 83% of millennials wanting businesses to align with their values, you're missing the trick by not promoting your work. Your diversity and inclusion policies are also important to youngsters. Show that your business cares about current events and problems, like the Black Lives Matter movement, for instance, and you'll definitely attract young people. However, this should be done authentically, rather than just shoehorning different beliefs into your branding for greater appeal. This can be achieved in many ways, such as updating your diversity policies to create better spaces for your staff and community, eliminating unconscious bias from your workplace, and publishing content about such issues.
4. Use the same platforms
A sure-fire way of getting more young customers is by using the same social media platforms they do. For example, research shows that users aged 25-34 are the largest demographic on Facebook, so if that's not your market, choose a more relevant platform. The most popular apps among the young generation include Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat, so be sure to use these and keep up-to-date with the latest trends on each of them. TikTok is definitely one to keep your eye on as different music clips go viral each week, and these can be used to your advantage during content creation, as can popular hashtags. You can create a new product video teaser on the video platform, for example, or make use of Instagram's algorithm which recognises trending hashtags.
With so much competition online though, you've got to stand out. For example, Playstation is the most followed brand on Twitter, which is partly due to how active the gaming business is online. While Depop's key to success is user-generated content and influencer marketing. These are just some of the methods used to attract young people, with others including humour, unique video content, and celebrity endorsement.
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Written By Ryan Kh
Ryan Kh is a big data and analytic expert, marketing digital products on Amazon's Envato. He is not just passionate about latest buzz and tech stuff but in fact he's totally into it. Follow Ryan's daily posts on WordPress / Clear World Finance / Forumsmix
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