Gov. Rick Perry delivered a farewell speech to a joint session of the Texas Legislature on Thursday. Perry's prepared remarks are below. Our reporters read between the lines for you — using the online annotation tool Genius. Click on the yellow highlights to view our annotations.
For more coverage of Perry's tenure as Texas' longest-serving governor, see our special series, The Perry Legacy.
Governor Dewhurst, Speaker Straus, members of the legislature: I appreciate this one final opportunity to speak to you, in the chamber where it all began for me, 30 years ago last week.
Texas is a state where the impossible is possible, where the sons and daughters of migrant workers can aspire to own the farm, where the children of factory workers can build new age manufacturing facilities, where the son of tenant farmers can become governor of the greatest state in the union. In Texas it's not where you come from that matters, it's where you are going. Texas doesn't recognize the artificial barriers of race, class or creed. The most vivid dreams take flight from the most humble beginnings. And so it was for me.
As many of you know, I grew up in a place called Paint Creek. When I was young, we didn't have electricity or running water. Mom bathed us in a number two washtub. And we attended the Paint Creek Rural School, where some of the teachers lived on campus. Their profession was literally their life, and they inspired me. In fact, I'm proud to say I graduated in the top ten of my class…of 13 students. I can assure you none of my teachers knew they were instructing a future governor. But they also have a motto at the Paint Creek School that summarizes the endless possibilities for its students: "no dream too tall for a school so small." In this, the People's House, we're in the business of making dreams possible. Every dream counts, every child matters, and in Texas, every child has a chance.
That is the Texas we have built together: a Texas of unlimited opportunity. There's a reason more people move to Texas than any other state, because this is the best place to find a job, raise your family and pursue your dreams. In some respects, this has been true for a long time. In the early 1800's Americans headed west, leaving their troubles behind to find a second chance. When they got to Texas, they reached their final frontier. They planted roots, tamed a harsh land, won a Revolution, founded a Republic, survived droughts, wildfires and hurricanes, discovered crude, started great industries, universities, and took mankind to the moon.
In my tenure alone, we have been tested by the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia,Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ike, devastating wildfires, the spread of Ebola and a humanitarian crisis at the border. Each time Texans have responded to these tests with great character. As long as there has been a Texas, there has existed a people whose character has been refined by fire, whose souls are resilient, who respond to tragedy with grace and who look to the future with hope. What we have done together is preserve Texas as a land of opportunity, making our economy more diverse and jobs more plentiful. The difference between the great recession of the last decade, and the recession of the 1980's is that we have built a more diverse economy able to survive even those inevitable slowdowns. Two times during my tenure as governor we have faced major budget shortfalls, and both times we addressed those short falls without raising taxes. Today, the Rainy Day Fund is flush with billions in cash just four years after a $27 billion budget shortfall. In addition, in keeping with my philosophy that you don't spend all the money just because you can, I am leaving the next governor more than $100 million in unspent funds from trusteed programs and other funds managed by my office.
Our economy continues to be fueled by private sector innovation. Texas innovation gave the world Spindletop at the turn of the century and hydraulic fracturing at the end of the century. Today horizontal slant drilling is tapping oil and gas fields unreachable just a few years ago. This technology is testament to the power of the private sector to drive economic change.
But if you wonder whether leadership in a governor's office can impact economic growth, consider two states that share the Marcellus Shale: Pennsylvania and New York. Pennsylvania is creating thousands of energy jobs by utilizing fracking to tap deep energy reserves. On the other hand, New York GovernorAndrew Cuomo, recently announced a fracking ban. Two states, two vastly different approaches. One creates jobs. One appeases a political base at the expense of the people. In Texas, we have chosen jobs. We have chosen energy security and we will one day end America's dependence on hostile sources of foreign energy.
But our success doesn't stop with traditional fuel sources. You can be proud that Texas produces more energy from wind turbines than all but five countries. We have expanded our economy while protecting our environment. Nitrogen oxide emissions are down 62 percent. Sulfur dioxide emissions are down more than 50 percent. Ozone levels are down 24 percent and our carbon footprint has been reduced by nine percent. We do not accept the false choice the president offers about projects like the KeystonePipeline, between a clean environment and a strong economy. In Texas, we have protected the air we breathe, the water we drink, the land we farm, without declaring war on American Industry.
I have been guided by a simple philosophy: that job creation, not higher taxation, is the best form of revenue generation. And we have created jobs. In the last year, we have created 441,000 jobs. Since I became governor, with your help, we have created almost one-third of all the nation's new jobs. The unemployment rate in Texas is significantly below the national average at under five percent. In Austin,it's under four percent. In fact, if you look at the last seven years, starting in December of 2007, you will see that 1.4 million jobs were created in Texas. In that same period, the rest of the country lost400,000 jobs. Our formula for success is simple: keep taxes low, implement smart regulations, provide an educated workforce and stop lawsuit abuse at the courthouse.
As you will recall, with the election of the first Republican Speaker in more than a century, we set out todo things differently in 2003. And we did two things that set the tone for the next decade. First, we refused to raise taxes in the face of a $10 billion shortfall. Instead, we cut spending. We enforced zero-based budgeting, and we resisted the idea that Texans should pay more so government could cut less.
Second, we passed the most sweeping lawsuit reforms in the nation, reforms that Dallas FederalReserve President Richard Fisher has called the key to our economic growth. These reforms were controversial among those who wrote opinion columns and hired swarms of lobbyists. But it wasn't controversial for the trucker or the waitress, the farmer or the nurse, the quiet majority that feels over-billed and taxed to death. Those Texans can't demand a raise when spending exceeds revenue and neither should government.
While some still struggle in the shadows of opportunity, we have created tremendous possibilities for millions of Texans. While the rest of the nation has lost middle class jobs, Texas has created them. In fact, Texas has created new jobs in every income category. The people who benefit from our economic policies are the young high school graduate making six figures working in the oil fields, the small technology start-up with access to software engineers, the line worker at Toyota and the engineer withSpace X.
With major investments in jobs come major investments in the cultural arts. Dallas is home to the Meyerson Symphony Center, and the AT&T Performing Arts Center. The American Film Institute moved its headquarters from California to Dallas. The Nasher Sculpture Center relocated to Dallas in2003. The Perot Museum of Nature and Science opened there in 2012. The largest cultural arts district in the country, at 68 acres, is now in Dallas. Fort Worth is home to a new museum of modern art, a revitalized Kimbell Art Museum, and the Bass Performance Hall, all a vital part of the nation's third largest cultural district. In Austin we now have a museum of modern art, a performing arts facility and the largest film and music festival in the world, as well as the only Formula One Race in the UnitedStates. Just south of us, San Antonio has a new performing arts facility. And in Houston, tonight there are more theatre seats available than any place this side of Broadway. This creative and cultural arts boom is not the product of a government grant program, but the result of your policies that have created a decade of economic expansion.
As governor, I have made economic growth my signature initiative. But I recognize job creation is not the answer to every ill. In fact, in some respects it has brought challenges to our state, straining our water resources, crowding our freeways, stressing our power grid. In recent years we have taken action to protect our water supply and expand roadways. But work remains to be done if Texas is to continue to lead the nation.
Our success has also attracted millions of job seekers, not just from other states, but other countries.Many attempt to reach our state by any means, legal and illegal. Even more troubling than the economic migrant who comes here illegally, and the children who come here from Central America unaccompanied by their parents, are the drug cartels and trans-national gangs that exploit their plight and threaten our citizens. Those who smuggle children, enslave women, destroy lives by peddling illegal drugs and weapons, they are the face of evil. We have not stood idle against this threat. Texas has done more to secure the border than any state in the nation. As long as Washington will not secure the border, Texas will be equal to the task.
Thirty years ago, when I took the oath of office on this floor, I was a Democrat. Three sessions and a good many special sessions later I became a Republican. I made both political parties very happy. The one constant has been a belief in conservative ideas, that families know how to spend their money better than government. That government must do a few things, and do them well, and that Texans,uninhibited by over-taxation and excess regulation, can make the most of freedom.
"There is a sunshine that can force its way through prison bars and work wondrous and unexpected miracles…and a genuine change of heart where such results seemed the most utterly unlikely and impossible."
My fellow Texans, we must remember when it comes to the disease of addiction the issue is not helping bad people become good, but sick people become well. Turning to diversion programs hasn't made us soft on crime, it's made us smart on crime.
There is not a single accomplishment I have spoken of today that occurred without bipartisan support. I believe we are at our best when we get beyond our differences and attempt to seek common ground. I speak to members of my own party in asking that you do not place purity ahead of unity. RonaldReagan knew that someone who agreed with him 80 percent of the time was not his enemy, but his friend. There is room for different voices, for disagreement. Compromise is not a dirty word if it movesTexas forward. If members of this body work across party lines and put Texas first, I believe the best is yet to come.
I couldn't pick a better successor as governor than Greg Abbott. And he couldn't have two better partners to lead this state than Dan Patrick and Joe Straus. As I bid farewell, I know the future is in good hands. And I am confident that Texas will remain the best place to start a business, find a job, and realize one's God-given potential. We are the new frontier of freedom and opportunity, a state whose landscape glitters with millions of dreams, big and small.
I am proud to call Texas my home, humbled to have stood in her service for the last 30 years, and ever-optimistic of what she will become in the years ahead. I leave you with this: Be true to Texas,always, and she will be true to you. Good luck, Godspeed, God bless you, and through you, may God bless Texas.
January 15, 2015 @ 5:45 p.m.
No thanks. What an utter tool.
January 15, 2015 @ 6 p.m.
Watching Anita and Rick kiss and embrace each other before and after his farewell address.... Totally awkward! Adios, MoFo!
January 15, 2015 @ 6:25 p.m.
I am laughing while imagining how you all will be wishing for Rick back now that Abbott has the office.
January 15, 2015 @ 6:28 p.m.
January 15, 2015 @ 6:37 p.m.
January 15, 2015 @ 6:50 p.m.
January 15, 2015 @ 7:03 p.m.
I guess his staff did not bother to tell him that fracking was developed with FEDERAL ENERGY DEPT. FUNDING. Pure free enterprise.
January 15, 2015 @ 7:35 p.m.
Knock knock. Who's there? Rick Perry. Rick Perry who? See how quickly they forget!
January 15, 2015 @ 8:02 p.m.
For now and the near future his legacy will be the economy. Long term, history books won't be kind to him.
January 15, 2015 @ 9:17 p.m.
January 15, 2015 @ 9:51 p.m.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, Greg Abbott gets elected.
January 15, 2015 @ 10:14 p.m.
January 15, 2015 @ 10:21 p.m.
To listen to Perry would make my ears bleed.
January 15, 2015 @ 10:38 p.m.
I was busy doing better things.
January 15, 2015 @ 10:48 p.m.
Longest annoying and least appreciated? Mr. Coaster, let me drop some toll roads here for the Spaniards and let me try the massive road project without telling anyone but back door business partners.
January 16, 2015 @ 8:49 p.m.
January 16, 2015 @ 10:30 p.m.
Yadda yadda yadda........adios mo fo!
January 16, 2015 @ 11:15 p.m.
Ricky... don't let the door hit you in the *** on the way out! GOOD RIDDANCE!
January 17, 2015 @ 9:24 a.m.
One annotation required, but not seen is the fact that Texas under Perry is tops for corporate welfare and cronyism with the highest amount in the nation for incentives and tax breaks......What about the huge debt that he leaves our state with along with behemoth inefficient bureaucratic state agencies?


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blog: Understanding Dhaka's public transit routes using open data
Author: Neil Taylor
Tuesday 22nd November 2016
Open data is transforming the way that urban transport authorities manage and plan their public transport networks. It allows them to gain valuable insight into the distribution of public transport services and then re-imagine how the network could function if services were re-distributed, or frequencies were altered.
In 2015 ITP began working with the Dhaka Transport Coordinating Authority (DTCA), on behalf of The World Bank, to demonstrate how open data could inform the management and mapping of the city's existing and proposed public transport services.
Our work with DTCA involved two key tasks. The first was to provide in-house training to their team to help them understand how open data could be coupled with open source network management and modelling tools to aid transport planning. We used "Transport Analyst" – an accessibility modelling tool - and "GTFS Editor" – a tool for digitising transport network data – as the basis for our training.
Our second task involved working with the DTCA team to build two GTFS(General Transit Feed Specification) feeds for Dhaka, one which maps all public transport services within the metro area and a second which was a representation of the public transport services used by females.
The latter GTFS feed was developed based on secondary research that explored the socio-cultural barriers to public transport use for females, such as harassment and antisocial behaviour. By comparing the accessibility profiles for both GTFS feeds in relation to the citys population distribution and key economic activity areas, we were able to estimate and visualise the extent to which publicly transport accessibility for females in Dhaka is significantly lower than for males. The impact of this lower accessibility profile is that many females typically experience longer journey times and higher travel costs than their male counterparts on certain routes, and on certain types of bus service. Our research highlighted the importance of ensuring that currently planned BRT and MRT mass transit investments in Dhaka are designed so as to provide safe environments within which females can travel. In doing so they will dramatically improve accessibility for females who live and work in the city.
Full details of the project, and our final report published by The World Bank, are available online here: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/982301473880705884/Final-report.
If you would like to know more about this project, and the tools we used, please contact Neil Taylor or Ian Stott on +44 (0) 115 9886905.
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Robert J. Ciaruffoli isn't afraid to put employees first at ParenteBeard LLC
By: Mark Scott | 7:33pm EST November 25, 2013 6:08am EST June 30, 2014
Robert J. Ciaruffoli isn't afraid of hiring too many people to come work at ParenteBeard LLC. His fear is exactly the opposite — a situation where he wakes up one day, looks at his team and realizes he doesn't have enough people to service the accounting firm's clients in a high-quality manner.
"It takes a long time to build up your reputation, but you can destroy it overnight by not providing your clients with great service," says Ciaruffoli, chairman and CEO of the $170 million accounting and consultant firm.
"Because we were in a growth mode, if anything, we overhired in anticipation of growth in certain areas. If it came time to redesign our system and we were a $50 million firm, we built it for a $100 million firm so that it was scalable and we wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel every other year."
It's not a mindset shared by everyone in today's business world. Many leaders remain skittish about ramping up their payroll even as they bring in a steady stream of new business. Ciaruffoli says it's a dangerous path to follow.
"I'd rather be in a position where I have extra people around to take on work as it comes in the door as opposed to being in a position where we have work, and we can't get it done," Ciaruffoli says. "And because we can't get it done and get it done right and on a timely basis, we have unhappy clients out there. The cost of an unhappy client is significantly greater than having several extra team members on board."
Ciaruffoli takes an aggressive approach when it comes to hiring, but he's not reckless about it. There is a great deal of conversation with his leadership team and a thorough study of important trends that help guide the effort to keep ParenteBeard appropriately staffed. It's one of the reasons the firm has grown from $32 million in revenue when Ciaruffoli arrived to $170 million today and more than 1,000 employees.
"Every aspect of our administration had to make sure that we were not only meeting our current needs, but also anticipating our future needs," Ciaruffoli says. "We knew we had growth plans in place and we were going to be able to execute them."
Talk to your team
If you think you've got a pretty good handle on whether your company needs to hire more people, that's great. You still need to talk to your team.
"You try to anticipate what your turnover is going to be and then hire accordingly," Ciaruffoli says. "But before you even get to that point, you have to wake up every morning, look in the mirror and admit that you don't have all the answers and you have to listen to your team."
Those in-depth conversations with the leaders in your organization are crucial to learning whether your observations match what they are seeing on the ground level.
"Gather all that input before you make an organizational decision that we're going to hire X number of people or we have certain strategic hires that we're going to have to go out in the marketplace and recruit," Ciaruffoli says. "Nobody is that good that they have all the answers by themselves. There is no substitute for listening well to your leadership team and the organization as a whole."
Listening is sometimes a tough skill for leaders at the top of an organization.
"It's one thing to have people who are willing to speak up," Ciaruffoli says. "There is another part of that equation. You have to have people on the other end willing to listen. If people have something to say or something that is on their mind, it may or may not sway a decision. But it's important that they be heard. It's important that I hear what everybody has to say so I have all the information I need to make a decision."
It comes back to the idea that Ciaruffoli doesn't want employees feeling overburdened and in a situation where they feel like they'll never be able to climb out of the hole they are in. If more staffing is needed, he wants to know about it.
"People need to feel loved, feel that they contribute to the organization, feel that they have a meaningful job and feel that they have the ability to learn and grow in an organization," Ciaruffoli says. "If not, in this mobile society that we have today, it's all too easy for people to find another position somewhere else."
Look below the surface
Ciaruffoli puts a lot of stock in the referrals he gets from employees when a position opens up at ParenteBeard.
"They are putting their reputation on the line," Ciaruffoli says. "They know it can come back to bite them. If they recommend somebody who doesn't work out well, whether the individual on the other end is going to hold them accountable or not, I think most human beings would hold themselves accountable for that and feel bad about it. Nobody wants to be put in that position."
In order to get good referrals from your existing employees, you need to have an environment that those employees would want to encourage others to join.
"We need to have people who want to be here and have the ability to perform," Ciaruffoli says.
Beyond that, Ciaruffoli likes to see candidates who have done something in their life that is meaningful.
"What has this individual done with their time?" Ciaruffoli says. "What activities have they been involved in? Besides book smarts, what have they learned about life? Sports, the military, the Peace Corps, working in a restaurant, you learn a lot about people and teamwork. Those other qualities they bring to the table are extremely important."
The other part of hiring is what you do on your end to select candidates. Ciaruffoli says it's almost impossible to get a good read on a candidate after just one interview, so multiple touches over multiple dates are imperative.
"Somebody can have a really good day or a really bad day," Ciaruffoli says. "It's important to have those conversations multiple times. What we saw the first time, did we still see it in the individual the second time?
"For me, a second or third interview is less about skill sets and more about the individual as a human being. It's about getting to know them, the things they like, the things they don't like, their family, how they react in certain situations, the chemistry. It's all about getting comfortable with the candidate."
Once you've made your choice and decided to hire, you need to do your best to make it a smooth transition for the new employee. It can make a big difference in the time it takes to get a person up and running in their new job.
"One big mistake a lot of firms and organizations make, and we've learned by our mistakes also, is trying to cram too much into an orientation program," Ciaruffoli says. "It's basically like opening a fire hose in terms of information flow. You force that information on somebody and it's impossible to retain it."
ParenteBeard has developed a 4 ½-day orientation program that is about half business and half team building.
"They'll have a lot of hand-holding upfront to make sure they understand process, policy and procedures," Ciaruffoli says. "We'll also spend time talking about audit philosophy and tax and consulting philosophy. We want them to know what we do as a firm and most importantly, what their role is, and what our expectations are for that individual."
The program is customized for different levels of the company. So someone entering at the management level will have a different experience than someone joining the firm straight out of college. But much of what is covered is the same no matter who you are or what you do.
"We look at the history of the organization, the culture and the strategic direction of the firm," Ciaruffoli says.
"HR policies impact everybody. Technology policies impact everybody. So those types of things are important. But no matter whether they are right out of college or experienced, people are always very interested in the firm's strategic plan. Younger people want to know who they are going to work for and what is the direction of the firm."
The ability to speak intelligently about these topics with new hires and have a strong system for finding and welcoming new employees into your organization will help position you for steady growth.
"You need to have people systems in place," Ciaruffoli says. "There are two major components of that infrastructure. The systems themselves and the people involved in those systems. The key for us was making sure we had the right people in the right position as we experienced a significant amount of growth over the years." •
Takeaways:
Don't go it alone.
Nurture your culture.
Make a good impression.
The Ciaruffoli File:
Name: Robert J. Ciaruffoli
Title: Chairman and CEO
Company: ParenteBeard LLC
Born: Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Education: Certified public accountant; bachelor's degree, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
What did you learn from working on a farm? I'm the oldest of 10 children and everybody contributed. I worked on a farm for two summers picking strawberries, tomatoes, beans, weeding and doing miscellaneous other things. I hated it. Very quickly I came to the realization that it was something I didn't want to do the rest of my life. I needed to do whatever I could to make sure I didn't end up in that type of position. But it was a job and I was able to make some money doing it.
Who has been the biggest influence on your life? My father. I observed a lot about work ethic and doing whatever it takes. If you have to work two jobs, you have to work two jobs. Whatever you do, you have to do it well because you cannot afford to be unemployed in this life.
How much did being the oldest contribute to the kind of person you are? It had a lot to do with it. My father was a blue-collar worker, and we had a large family.
What one person would you really like to meet? Pope Francis. I find him very intriguing and I find his management style very interesting and would like to hear about his approach to change management. He's making a lot of changes for the better and it would be quite a treat to talk to him.
Robert J. Ciaruffoli
Chairman and CEO, ParenteBeard LLC
www.parentebeard.com


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James madison PENDLETON, D.D.
James Madison Pendleton, D.D., was born Nov. 20, 1811, in Spottsylvania Co., Va. His parents, John and Frances J. Pendleton, removed to Christian Co., Ky., when he was one year old, and settled upon a farm near the present village of Pembroke. Upon this farm he lived until he was twenty years old.
Reminiscences of a Long Life
By James M. Pendleton
On the first day of January, 1857, I left Bowling Green and removed to Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Nothing had been more unexpected by me. The explanation of the matter is this: The Trustees of Union University decided to establish a Theological Department in the Institution, and, to my amazement, they appointed me professor. When informed of the fact I promptly declined the appointment and told the Trustees that I was utterly incompetent, having never been to a theological school, and knowing nothing of theology except what I had learned from the Bible. I thought this would end the negotiation, but the Trustees said they wanted a man who had learned his theology from the Bible. I then replied that preaching the gospel was my business and that I could not give it up for anything in the world. I supposed that this would settle the matter, but the Trustees were ready to meet this state of the case. They said that the Baptist church in Murfreesboro was without a pastor, and that I would be chosen to the pastorate, so that I could preach every Sunday and teach theology during the week. They argued that in this way my usefulness would be increased, and this consideration alone induced the acceptance of the professorship offered me. I thought it my duty to God to place myself in a position promising greater usefulness. I therefore, with a sad heart, resigned my pastorate at Bowling Green, and, in broken accents, preached my last sermon, which was heard by many whose eyes were filled with tears. It was a day of sorrow. It is proper to say that, at that time, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary had not been established, and it was thought wise to have theological instruction in colleges. Thorough teaching was, of course, out of the question, and the plan was for instruction in theology to be interspersed with literary pursuits through the collegiate course. This was the best that could then be done, but the work of the Seminary now supersedes this arrangement. While connected with Union University I had, first and last, between forty and fifty ministerial students under my instruction. The different classes could not be so arranged as to give me more than an hour a day for my class in theology; and it was not long before other classes were given me, so that I had to teach five hours a day. Marvellous to say, I had to teach many things of which I knew absolutely nothing, except what I had learned myself without the aid of any one. I had therefore to go ahead of the classes, and it is a wonder to me to this day how I was able to conceal my ignorance so as to avoid the ignominy of its exposure. In the Theological Department, the text-books I used were Horne's Introduction, Ripley's Sacred Rhetoric, Dagg's and Dick's Theology. One brother, rather more candidly than encouragingly said that the department was a "one-horse concern." Even so; but the students had to learn what they could from one teacher, as they could not go to a regular theological seminary. The greatest improvement I saw in the young preachers was in the art of sermonizing. They studied Ripley to great advantage, and listened attentively to my extemporaneous explanations. I trust they received some benefit, and some of them became useful.
Dr. Joseph H. Eaton was President of the University. He was a man of intellectual power and broad scholarship, not inferior, as I think, to his brother George W., who died President of Madison, now Colgate University. Dr. Joseph H. was a very laborious teacher, enthusiastic in his work, and almost compelled by the cares of the Presidency to do overwork. When I first knew him he was a fine specimen of manly beauty, and his sermons and addresses were replete with vigor and eloquence. But his noble physical frame succumbed to disease and he died in the prime of his life, January 1859, leaving a bereaved University, a bereaved church, and a more bereaved family. It devolved on me to preach the funeral sermon and the text was, "Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit." (Acts vii: 59). The general feeling was, "A great man has fallen in Israel." Mrs. Eaton, left to feel the desolateness of widowhood, was a remarkable woman, equal in intellectual and spiritual qualities to her husband. She spent many years of her life in teaching, and left her impress on the minds of many young ladies. She lived a widow more than twenty-five years and died in Louisville in 1886. I preached her funeral sermon also, from Rev. xiv: 13: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord," etc. Two children survive, Rev. T. T. Eaton, D.D., and Mrs. J. E. Peck, who are worthy representatives of their parents, and who are occupying positions of usefulness.
After President Eaton's death the faculty consisted of Professors George W. Jarman, Paul W. Dodson, and A. S. Worrell, with all of whom my relations were specially pleasant. For two years I acted as Chairman of the faculty and therefore presided on commencement occasions, and handed to the graduates their diplomas in testimony of their scholarship.
Rev. J. R. Graves had long been editor of the Tennessee Baptist, published at Nashville, and in 1858, Rev. A. C. Dayton and I became joint editors with him. Dr. Dayton (not a D.D. but an M.D.) is best known as the author of "Theodosia Ernest," a book of great celebrity, having had a wide circulation, and which was written, as I know, to show that there is, in the republic of letters, a realm which sanctified fiction should claim as its own. My becoming editor did not impose on me the necessity of writing more than I had done; for I had been for several years engaged to supply two columns a week for the paper, and was one of the editors of the Southern Baptist Review for the six years of its existence, immediately preceding the war. It may be inferred that mine was not an idle life in Tennessee. My body would probably have sunk under the mental strain if I had not taken active exercise on my little farm. I often plowed by way of recreation in the afternoon, and did other work which needed to be done. Usually I finished my editorials by nine o'clock Saturday night. I did too much for any mortal man to do. I advise no one to copy my example except in part. While engaged in performing these onerous duties, I was charged with being an "Abolitionist." The charge, so far as I know, was first made by Dr. Dawson, then editor of the Alabama Baptist paper. In justice to him it is proper to say that he had, as he stated it, no feeling against me "personally;" but he declared boldly that no man of my anti-slavery views ought to belong to the faculty of any Southern college. I suppose he made no distinction between an "Abolitionist" and an "Emancipationist." The latter was in favor of doing away with slavery gradually, according to State Constitution and law; the former believed slavery to be a sin in itself, calling for immediate abolition without regard to consequences. I was an Emancipationist, as I have said, in Kentucky in 1849; but I was never for a moment an Abolitionist. The application of this term to a man was, at the time referred to, the most effectual way of creating hostility to him. I suppose one fact intensified the hostility in my case. In 1859 John Brown made his raid into Virginia, and, as Greeley says in his "American Conflict," "The fifteen slave States were convulsed with fear, rage, and hate." The excitement in Tennessee was great and, farther South, still greater.
Then it was that articles which I had published in Kentucky in 1849, in connection with the Emancipation movement there, were republished in a Nashville paper to excite prejudice against me, with a view to my dismissal from the faculty of the University. The thing was as cruel as the grave, and I did not know till the war was over who furnished the articles for publication. Then I learned that they were furnished by a brother who had delivered a course of lectures to our theological students, and whose traveling expenses had been paid in part by me. This was the poetry of the case. He was, in spite of his strong pro-slavery feeling, a good man, a just man, and his recent death has no doubt released him from all earthly imperfections and introduced him into the blest region where "the spirits of just men are made perfect."
The Trustees did not dismiss me. As an honorable man I told them that if my views of slavery were unsatisfactory to them, and they thought my influence was injuring the University, they could have my resignation at any time, and that there was no earthly power that could compel me to remain in my position. The Trustees did not wish me to offer my resignation, and I did not. I therefore continued in my place till the Institution suspended in April, 1861.
It was while I was in Murfreesboro, that is, in my forty-ninth year, that I began to feel the need of spectacles. I first detected my failure of sight by my inability to see the figures opposite to the first lines of hymns in the Psalmist, which book we then used. I wondered why figures could not be as plain as letters, not thinking that there was anything the matter with my eyes. From my forty-ninth year till now (1891) it has not been necessary to change my eye-glasses. This, I suppose, is something unusual, and my children may be interested in knowing it. They need not be told that I have used my eyes by day and by night.
It was during my residence in Tennessee that I had a little discussion with Alexander Campbell. He was a celebrated man and quite adroit in controversy. I wrote an article for the Tenneesee Baptist, in which I argued the priority of repentance to faith. Mr. Campbell published a long reply in his Millennial Haringer. To my astonishment, he treated me with marked respect, a thing he did not always do with his opponents. He insisted that faith must precede repentance. In proof of my position I quoted such Scriptures as these: "Repent and believe the gospel," "Testifying repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." (Mark i:15; Acts xx:22.) Mr. Campbell said that the mention of repentance first was a matter of no significance. I insisted that in explaining Scripture it is often indispensable to take things first that come first. In proof of this I quoted I Timothy v:14, "I will therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children," etc. The point I made was of course that younger widows should marry before bearing children. There was, there could be no reply to this.
Mr. Campbell was a great man, had a high reputation for scholarship, but this reputation was somewhat impaired by his Revision of the Acts of the Apostles for the American Bible Union. Having referred to Mr. Campbell, I will now quote a long sentence from him in his written controversy with a "Clergyman," as published in the Harbinger. Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, was no doubt the "Clergyman." The Bishop contended that the validity of gospel ordinances depends on their administration by men Episcopally ordained. Mr. Campbell in reply used these words, which made such an impression on my memory that I have not forgotten them in thirty years. I quote them that my children may have an unsophisticated laugh.
The long sentence is as follows:
"If my salvation depended on a pure administration of baptism, I would rather have a pure, godly man to immerse me, on whose head the hands of Romish or British prelates were never laid, than to be baptized by any Bishop under these heavens, whose sacerdotal blood has run through ecclesiastic scoundrels ever since the flood which the fiery dragon issued out of his unsanctified mouth to drown the apostolic church in its early youth."
A premium may well be offered for any sentence equal in all respects to this.
no impenitent sinner can constitutionally enter into the kingdom. There is no place more inappropriate for the impenitent than a church of Christ.
By J. M. PENDLETON, D.D


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NB. German fork mounts will have a problem if target is at zenith as camera will not be able to swing through mount.
using a Fastar to achieve a faster f/ratio with a SCT causes significant coma, Starizona's Hyperstar is said to be a better alternative & gives a faster f/ratio of f/1.9.
stacking increases the number of possible digitized values linearly with the number of images stacked.
mosaicing uses different exposure durations for sub-exposures so that when combined allowed an even greater dynamic range to be represented in the final image in a similar way to landscape photographers who create high dynamic range images by using bracketed exposures and combining them.
stacking images results in improved signal:noise ratio as by combining 10 images you get 10 x the signal but only 3 x the noise (as noise is random, it increases by square root of the number of images whereas the subject which is almost constant increases linearly).
a signal:noise ratio of greater than 3 is desirable.
1. Allow you to register images of different scales.
2. It will do image warping to match the stars.
avoid using brightness & contrast controls - these are just linear stretches of the histogram such that increasing brightness is equivalent to both pointers on the histogram being moved equally to the left, while contrast adjustments move the pointers in opposite directions.
? use contrast stretch in ImagePlus using digital development and in Photoshop using LAB mode luminance channel only.
using DDP often works wonders with globular clusters and is a quick and dirty way to get a good non-linear stretch. The resulting histogram will allow you to present the image with nice core detail and more of the fainter stars surrounding the core. This can also be done in PS with a good use of curves...just takes more time and practice.
? use lighting effects to generate a light fall-off profile & reducing fall-off using a color burn layer in Photoshop.
the S/N ratio but it rather balances the brightness of the center with the corners as well as removes dust effects.
to do after stacking, because there is only one image!
ImagesPlus does a nice job with its Adaptive Addition where overflow is automatically avoided.
it helps to boost the dimmest parts of the image.
Adaptive Addition in ImagesPlus not just adds but it increases the level of the dim parts of the image more in proportion.
The "T" in parentheses should be replaced by a word to indicate the type of stacking done. Additive stacking is the most common type, but other types include Averaging and Median stacking. The "#" should be replaced with the number of images in the stack.
The parenthetical number indicates the number of images in the stack.
Also referred to as stray light subtraction or scattered light subtraction. A form of background compensation or flattening technique.
that there is overlap among these terms but different individuals have their own preferences for terms.
automatically. For instance, filters for brightness enhancement, contrast enhancement, color/tone enhancement, and the like work by histogram modification.
A technique that reduces the dynamic luminance range of a digital image to be more like those obtained from conventional film photography. The middle range of luminance is kept linear but the high and low ends of the luminance are made nonlinear to avoid saturation at the high end and to enhance details at the low end.
An image created by combining pieces of multiple images into a single image.
ones). A mosaic may be created to provide a larger or more detailed continuous image than a single shot could have provided, or to provide detail for a portion of an image that would not have been possible in a single image.
indicate that some commonly-used techniques do not appear on this list and should be added.
data) and remove it with some complicated math that he tried to explain.
the computation of the background data.
is in the first place?
on the opposite corner of the image.
magic. That's the only way to explain it.
see it even with the most aggressive histogram stretch.
gradient differences in each channel.
$50,000 for imaging equipment...crummy pictures from gradients.
accurate with easy tools to repair data due to light pollution.
all your labors than the equipment you use.
equipment and then you start getting the proper perspective on value.
RAM), then a 180mm refractor and Paint Shop Pro.
I agree one hundred percent with your philosophy. It is a lot like buying a telescope. Many new to this hobby and just starting out, buy such things as a LX200GPS-12. (Yours truly included.) They think that the big pretty OTA will allow them to see Hubble type vistas right in the eyepiece. The mount is only that part of the system that holds the telescope up so you can look through it! I now tell anyone who is thinking about getting into this hobby to buy a GOOD mount then look for an OTA. If I were doing it again, I would have bought something like a Losmandy GM-11 and put my old C-8 OTA on it until I could afford a larger OTA. (It would have been less expensive too.) Buying software is much the same. I used Paint Shop Pro for a long time (And I still like some of its tools.) But PS-CS allows me to do things that PSP simply does not have the power to do. This is what the extra few hundred dollars i n purchase price buys you. I suppose the same thing is true about Mira. You can use lower end programs and still come out with very good images, but the higher end tools produce the images with a lot less aggravation.
I have seen so many people plan their hardware budget carefully to get a mount, scope, pier, reducers, focusers, etc., and have no clue that they will eventually spend another $2000 or more in software to process their images. They also have little insight into the process work flow and how many disparate programs that they will need.
1. Acquire your data with CCDSoft and do image links with TheSky to find the guide star. Get Focusmax software to focus your electronic focuser for sharp stars.
2. Use reduction groups in CCDSoft (now Maxim, too) to reduce and possibly align your images. If you don't like their alignment quality, get other programs like Registar or MIRA.
3. Combine the reduced images in such programs as Sigma or Russ' Croman's RC Control Panel to take advantage of more sophisticated rejection methods.
4. Deconvolute the luminance in programs like CCDSharp for even sharper stars.
5. Bring the R,G,B into Maxim, normalize the background and apply the color weights after aligning. Oh, you may have used alignment in CCDSoft or gone out and used programs like Registar. Create a 16-bit RGB TIF file in Maxim for import into yet another program, Photoshop. If you don't own it yet, prepare to give up 2" Nagler eyepiece and buy Photoshop, and if you don't have Photoshop CS to work in 16-bit mode, better plan to upgrade $$.
6. You may still may go back into Registar to align the RGB TIF with the FITs luminance.
7. Import into Photoshop. Oh, wait, the FITs file is not importing. Get Eddie Trimarchi's free FITs plug-in for Photoshop. If you are working with 32-bit real (IEEE) files in such programs as MIRA, then you need to buy Eddie's commercial program.
8. Spend 3 years learning Photoshop (Total Training's DVD set is wonderful in this regard $$), and possibly buy Grain Surgery to smooth backgrounds.
9. Make sure you budget for a laptop or desktop computer with the largest hard drive you can find and a fast (e.g. 3GHz) processor, and don't forget that large-screen calibrated monitor.
I know this is a generalized example (rant) just to make a point, and is nowhere near exact. There are many other programs out there, such as Image Plus, MIRA, AIP4WIN, Picture Window Pro, AstroArt, etc. just to confuse your selection. Have you ever tried flowcharting this???? Anyway, I was one who did a good job budgeting for the hardware with no clue as to the software. As Richard points out, it is your processing skills that will make your raw data alive, but you have to figure out your process flow first.
The information for gradient removal is in the picture, when it is a many stars--much sky type picture.
My backgrounds were effectively removed by doing a wide range median fiiltering on my original picture and subtracting it from the original.
necessary to make a structureless background.
In case of Hi-Res pictures, it is not necessary to do a median on a full-scale picture (which took ages, especially on a 33 MHz 486). Resampling the picture for 10 % of the size, median filtering it and resampling to the original size was just as effective.
To balance the color in a RGB image you need to have all the images "normalized". Roughly speaking, and this may not be technically correct, you need to set the background level of the images to the same value. As you can see from my post the background ADU counts for my R G & B were all very high and they were different. This is primarily due to the high level of light pollution I was imaging under. This light pollution is not even across the spectrum and therefore the different levels of background intensity. This of course is also affecting the main part of the image but you do not have a standard there to go by. The standard to balance to is a dark sky location. In effect, the normalization process is to remove as much of the light pollution (Sky Glow) effect as possible. This is not to be confused with correcting a gradient problem. That is a different process. To normalize the RG&B frames I use pixel math in MaxIm. I make note that the sub-exposures ha ve been reduced and combined into 3 R G B master frames. If any gradient removal plug-ins are used I do that before normalization. Now for the normalization steps.
First open all three R G B master frames into MaxIm. Open the image information window. (View/Information) Select a master frame to work on. Choose three locations on the master frame where you know the sky is to be dark. These will be our standardization reference points. (Avoid any nebulae, stars, etc.) I set the aperture radius of my cursor to 10 pixels. (Right click on the image and choose "Set Aperture Radius") Move the cursor over the three areas you chose and read the average ADU count displayed in the Information Window for each location. Get out you calculator and average these readings. This now becomes the background count for the frame. My R frame had a count of about 9,200. (Very high, I hope yours are not that bad.) You now go to pixel math. (Process/Pixel Math) I try to bring the background count down to about 125 to 150. To do this set the parameters in the Pixel Math Window to: Scale factor % = 100 Operation = None and Add Constant to the amount you want to reduce. In my case it is -9,050. This should give me a 150 background when the operation is complete. Click on OK and the operation completes. You can now check by moving the cursor over the three reference areas and see if they are in the ballpark of between 125 to 175. If not simply go to Edit/Undo Pixel Math and redo the operation again with a revised "Add Constant" amount. Do this for all three of the R G B frames. Just be sure you use the same three locations for all frames to get your background counts. After you normalize your R G B frames you can combine them into a master RGB image. I combine this RGB image with my Luminance image in PS layers.
I know this is long and I am no expert in image processing. Some on this group may wish to educate me as to a better method of doing this. This is just what I use and I learned a lot by trial and error. (It seems like more error than anything else.) Use this and if you like it all the better. If it doesn't work for you, disregard or modify it. If you find something else works better please let me know so I can use it.
1. Open all three R,G and B master FITS frames in Maxim.
2. Start with the Red frame.
3. Open up the information window. VIEW > INFORMATION or Ctrl-I.
4. Set mode to APERTURE.
5. Right click on the image and set APERTURE RADIUS to 10 pixels.
6. Now grab your notebook or a piece of paper.
APERTURE RADIUS to accommodate for a very busy image.
areas. You don't have to use three, you could just use two or even one.
is background and what is not based on what we see with our own eyes.
10. Next open up pixel math. PROCESS > PIXEL MATH.
11. Image A should be the Red frame we are working on.
12. Image B should also be the Red frame.
up with. So if we came up with 5050. The add constant should be -4950.
you were studying all hover around 100 ADU. +/- 20% is expected.
18. Now you have three manually normalized RGB images.
balance comes our very well.
care of light pollution gradients first, then do the pixel math.
Once the background is "neutral", color balance on the "target"
questions...maybe I or someone else can explain it better.
the starting point of the histogram).
working space. So now the file takes up 40 MB of RAM.
Load 20 Bias frames to perform a mean sigma clip combine.
20 Images X 40 MB = 800 MB of RAM.
Total RAM = 1.2 GB (over physical RAM limit).
Now do the mean sigma clip combine = more RAM.
Now you are hitting the hard drive to do memory swaps.
drive to swap memory' limit.
Total time to combine = 1 minute.
and Outlook XP running all at the same time.
2 GB = Not enough RAM = Time for new machine.


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Q: Scipy code to solve optimization problem ( gurobi code is written!) I wrote a Gorubi optimization code, but because of some issues, I need to convert to Scipy code. Still have difficulties to convert it. Here is a part of code related to Gorubi:
m = Model()
#x is charging, discharging variable
x = m.addVars(n,lb=-1.5,ub=1.5,vtype=GRB.INTEGER, name="x")
#Y is SOC variable
Y = m.addVars(n+1,lb=0,ub=100,vtype=GRB.CONTINUOUS, name="Y")
# Add constraint: SOC[start]=50, initial SOC
m.addConstr(Y[0]==initialsoc,name='c1')
#Final targeted SOC
m.addConstr(Y[n]>=65,name='c2')

m.addConstrs((Y[i+1]-Y[i] == 3.75*x[i] for i in range(n)), name='c0')
#Objective function. 6 comes from capacity of inverter.
obj1=sum(((load[i+1]-(6*x[i]))*(load[i+1]-(6*x[i])) for i in range (n)))

m.setObjective(obj1,GRB.MINIMIZE)
m.optimize()

My x constraint can only have -1 or 0 or 1 values. The other constraint is Y where at each step y(i+1)-y(i) equals to 3.75*X(i).
Is it possible to convert this code to Scipy? Or do you recommend any other libraries?

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Legal • May 1, 2005
ADJUSTING YOUR RENTAL APPLICATION TO COPE WITH MEGAN'S LAW
A number of apartment associations recently approached the state Legislature with their concerns about renting to individuals whose names appear on the so-called "Megan's Law" list. Many of their proposals, however, run the risk of needlessly creating more landlord liability, and also of creating an ugly, government-mandated program of ostracization. Fortunately, there are simple strategies that any intelligent landlord can employ, right now, for dealing with Megan's Law issues in a reasonable and humane manner.
"Megan's Law," or Penal Code Section 290, requires people convicted of certain crimes to register with police as "sex offenders." Over time, the list of crimes requiring registration has grown and grown, so that it now includes everything from misdemeanor indecent exposure to the most violent forcible rapes. (Section 290 registration should not be confused with the other, far more limited, law that creates the designation of "Sexually Violent Predator" for a far smaller number of individuals.) Even though the list of registrants is published on the internet, Section 290 strictly limits the use of that information, including preventing it from being used to deny a person housing.
The three concerns most often raised about renting to 290 registrants can be summed up as liability, liability, and profit. More specifically: liability for renting to a 290 registrant who later victimizes another tenant; liability for refusing to rent to (or even evicting) a 290 registrant; and finally, loss of profit if other tenants move out because they refuse to live in proximity of a 290 registrant. Whether these are grave risks is a matter of debate; we know of no actual instances of these scenarios arising, but they are certainly possible.
Hopefully, all of your leases already include standard language advising your tenants that the Megan's Law list is available through the local police department or via the internet. That's an important initial safeguard that properly places the burden of education on other tenants.
You may also wish, however, to add a question to your written rental application (you are using one, and saving it, right?) that asks whether the applicant has ever been convicted of a felony. If the applicant answers "yes," you may want to inquire further about the nature and date of the conviction. Among other things, a recent crime involving dishonesty might give you a quite reasonable basis for refusing to rent to someone.
Can you really expect an applicant to answer such a question truthfully? Perhaps not. The applicant may be a crook and a liar. Or the applicant might be someone trying to live a straight life who has learned the hard way that many employers and landlords simply won't consider anyone who has committed a crime, even after that person has "paid his debt" to society.
But once the applicant chooses to lie, you will have acquired a valuable tool for managing that tenancy in the event you ever find out about the lie. Should you find it necessary to take the ultimate step of eviction, the fact that the tenant was dishonest in his or her original application—rather than the actual information lied about—should give you a sound basis for doing so.
As usual, remember that this article, like all others printed by BPOA, is educational and is not intended to be legal advice. For specific legal advice on your own situation, you should consult an attorney.


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The Weeknd Debuts Cover of R. Kelly's "Down Low" on OVO Sound Radio
ByKyle Neubeck
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Frequent collaborators turned frenemies, The Weeknd and Drake have had their ups and downs over the last half decade or so. But with the two finally back on good terms—for now—OVO Sound was the perfect place for The Weeknd to drop off his cover of R. Kelly's "Down Low" (Nobody Has to Know), a song he has been performing live for the past few years.
The Canadian singer hadn't exactly been cryptic about teasing new music on the horizon. On Sept. 7, he teased a bit of new music as he prepares to hit the road for the next leg of the Starboy Tour. Just a day before the latest episode of OVO Sound, he teased the radio show with a simple, two-word caption: "Down Low."
The Weeknd and Drake have plenty of successful partnerships under their belt, and they're much better off when they work together. Publicly, the former has always tried to show love to Drake for helping him make it in the industry, though it's well-known the singer gave Drake a bunch of material that became the spine of his beloved album, Take Care. Now that they're competing for a lot of the same fans, it would be easy for the relationship to remain icy, as it had for much of the recent past.
But some high-profile appearances onstage together this year helped clear any misconceptions about their relationship, and if anything, excitement should start to build about the two getting back into the studio together once more. If he's dropping bars about Drake's brand of whiskey, Virginia Black, The Weeknd is clearly focused on building bridges to his old partner-in-crime, not destroying them.
Video: The Weeknd f/ Drake "The Zone"
OVOXO: The Weeknd Surprises Toronto Crowd With Drake
Drake even hinted that they should make new music. Captured by New York Times pop music critic Jon Caramanica, he wrote in a caption on Instagram: "Subliminally trying to tell you we need to make music."
A post shared by joncaramanica (@joncaramanica) on Sep 9, 2017 at 3:41pm PDT
Listen to the cover, below.
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Noel Gugliemi is known for portraying tough guys and Californian Latino gang members on film. Also known by the moniker Noel G., Gugliemi began his on-screen career with the 2000 film Price of Glory starring Jimmy Smits. That same year, he appeared on Resurrection Blvd.
The following year, Gugliemi landed roles in The Animal with Rob Schneider, The Fast and the Furious, and Training Day with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. In 2001 he also appeared in numerous TV shows like NBC's CSI, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The X-Files.
Gugleimi has gone on to guest star on numerous television shows, including 24, Without a Trace, Joss Whedon's Angel, NYPD Blue, USA's Monk, The Shield, The Young and the Restless, CSI: Miami, NBC's The Mentalist, Chosen, Fresh Off the Boat, and Bones. He also found popularity after his episode of The Walking Dead, "Vatos", in which he portrayed tough-looking special care provider, Felipe.
Some of Gugleimi's film credits include Old School with Luke Wilson and Will Ferrell, S.W.A.T. starring Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell, Bruce Almighty, Crank with Jason Statham, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, For the Love of Money, The Purge: Anarchy, and he reprised his role as Hector for Furious Seven. His upcoming projects are Ditch Party, The Pizza Joint, Fade Away, Devotion, Vigilante Diaries, The Night Before, Pope, Los Muertos, and Smartass.


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Farooq Abdullah's detention extended by 3 months
Posted: Dec 14, 2019 05:10 PM (IST)
Farooq Abdullah. Tribune file photo
Srinagar, December 14
The detention of Farooq Abdullah, a three-term chief minister of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, was extended on Saturday by three months and he would continue to remain at his residence that has been declared a sub-jail, officials said here.
The case of Abdullah, also a five-term parliamentarian, was reviewed by the advisory board of the Home Department of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir which recommended extension of his detention under the PSA, they said.
His house, located at Gupkar Road, has been declared a sub-jail by the the union territory's Home Department.
The 82-year-old Abdullah, who became the first former chief minister against whom the stringent public safety law was invoked, has a heart pacemaker implanted and had undergone a kidney transplant a few years ago.
Abdullah was among a host of leaders and activists who were detained on August 5 when the Centre abrogated Article 370 and divided the state into two union territories —Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir.
The PSA has two sections—'public order' and 'threat to security of the state'. The former allows detention without trial for three to one year and the latter for two years.
The PSA is applicable only in Jammu and Kashmir. Elsewhere in the country, the equivalent law is the National Security Act (NSA).
Besides Abdullah, his son and former chief minister Omar and ex-CM Mehbooba Mufti, several other leaders have also been under detention since August 5.
An emotional Abdullah had told the media on August 6 that he was pained at the Centre's decision on Article 370. PTI


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Finding your happy place
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When mom is the CEO at home, workplace ambitions take a back seat
UC Berkeley study finds women prioritize domestic power
It's often said that women can have it all — motherhood and a successful career. But a study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that women who rule the household have less energy for or interest in being a rising star in the workplace.
While household decision-making power was highly valued by both men and women who participated in the UC Berkeley study, women reported that running the home made them less likely to pursue promotions and other career advancement steps at the office. This was not the case for men, whose work goals were unchanged by their domestic role, according to the study.
"It appears that being in charge of household decisions may bring a semblance of power to women's traditional role, to the point where women may have less desire to push against the obstacles to achieving additional power outside the home," said UC Berkeley psychologist Serena Chen, a co-author of the study.
Despite the feminist movement and other gender equity efforts, women largely retain authority over child-rearing and household chores and finances, with men deferring to their expertise in these matters, researchers point out. This paradigm has had an impact on women's career choices, the study implies.
"As a result, women may make decisions such as not going after a high-status promotion at work, or not seeking to work full time, without realizing why," said Melissa Williams an assistant professor of business at Emory University and lead author of the study. She presented the findings in January 2013 at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in New Orleans.
In the first experiment, 136 participants ranging in age from 18 to 30 were surveyed on whether being in control of household decisions is desirable and empowering. Both men and women agreed that household control is advantageous.
In another experiment, each of the 166 female participants was asked to imagine two scenarios: That she was married with a child and made most of the household decisions, or that she made most decisions with her husband. The women then rated their life goals in order of importance.
Those who envisioned exercising control over domestic decisions rated the perks of workplace power, such as earning a high salary, lower than participants who imagined sharing household decision-making with their husbands.
In the final experiment, 644 male and female participants were again presented with the scenario of being married with a child and the choice of wielding household power or sharing it with their spouses. But this time, there was another option: The participants had to imagine doing most domestic chores without the distinction of having control of the household.
Again, women who wielded household power expressed less interest in workplace power than women who imagined making household decisions equally with their husbands. Meanwhile, men's interest in workplace power did not vary across the household power conditions. Thus, the dampening effect of household power on workplace goals is specific to women, researchers said.
Unlike the female participants who controlled the household, women presented with the "chores-only" scenario did not show a dampened interest in workplace power compared to those who shared domestic power with their spouse.
"This suggests that it is the power aspect of household control that reduces women's interest in power outside of the home," Chen said.
"To realize true gender equality in both the private and public spheres, our results suggest that women may need to at least partially abdicate their role of ultimate household deciders, and men must agree to share such decision making," she concluded.
This information was first published in January 2013
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Find out more here about our infant feeding support line and the help available if you have any questions or concerns about feeding your baby.
Throw in a pandemic and many new parents might feel even more lost and isolated when it comes to feeding support. Our Infant Feeding Support line has proved to be a life-line for new mums over the last few months.
The line is open every day from 8am to midnight, including bank holidays – and it's free to call. If you need information, support or just someone to talk to, give one of our trained breastfeeding counsellors a call on 0300 330 0700. And please do share this number with anyone you think might need it.
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