Calvary Chapel | Is Anti-Zionism the New Anti-Semitism?
These statements add to the growing chorus of politicians and leaders who have come to recognize that much of what is being done under the banner of anti-Zionism is barely distinguishable from classical anti-Semitism.
Former minister Nathan Sharansky laid out the criteria for distinguishing these boundaries in his article "3D Test of Anti-Semitism."8 The 3D's of the new anti-Semitism are: demonization, double standards and delegitimization.
It is possible to find examples of all three D's in the writings of the anti-Zionist movements. The accusations of racism and apartheid, along with Nazi comparisons, serve to both demonize and delegitimize the state of Israel. Perhaps the most obvious element is the shocking double standards applied to Israel. To speak of supposed Israeli "apartheid" whilst simultaneously ignoring the well documented gender, sexual and religious apartheid existing throughout the Middle East is to apply a double standard. To condemn Israel as one of the chief human rights violators in the world without condemning the rampant human rights violations by surrounding nations is a double standard. To claim that it is due to Israeli actions that we have no peace, without highlighting the many rejected peace offers made by Israel, without discussing the Khartoum Summit's infamous "three No's:" No peace with Israel; no negotiations with Israel; no recognition of Israel, and without addressing the charters of both the PA and Hamas that call for Israel's destruction, is a double standard.
It is for these reasons that the world is slowly waking up to the fact that anti-Zionism, although politically focused, often resembles classical anti-Semitism. Again, there is nothing wrong with bringing forward legitimate criticism about the state of Israel, but where this criticism involves an attempt to demonize and delegitimize the state of Israel by applying double standards then this may properly be identified as the New anti-Semitism.
1 Kentish, Ben. Emmanuel Macron says anti-Zionism is a new type of anti-Semitism. Independent. 07/17/2017.
2 Kampeas, Ron. Schumer on the Senate floor calls anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 07/17/2017.
3 Sacks, Jonathan. Anti-Zionism is the New Anti-Semitism, Says Britain's Ex-Chief Rabbi. Newsweek Opinion. 04/03/2016.
4 Anti-Semitic Incidents Report January-June 2017.
5 Emma Barnett, 'Somewhere Between the Holocaust and 2015 it Became OK to Blame Jews Again,' Daily Telegraph. January, 15, 2015.
6 Friedman, Thomas. Campus Hypocrisy . New York Times. October 16, 2002.
7 The Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism. FAQ: The Campaign to Defame Israel.
8 Sharansky, Nathan. 3D Test of Anti-Semitism. CFCA December, 21, 2009.
Thomas Fretwell is currently undertaking Ph.D. research in a field related to Jewish-Christian studies and serves as an assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel Hastings.


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require 'fileutils'

module Jsonoid
  module Document
    class NotFound < StandardError; end
    class NotPersisted < StandardError; end

    module ClassMethods
      def store_in(name)
        raise ArgumentError, 'Name must be a Symbol' unless name.is_a? Symbol
        collection(name).exists?
      end

      def collection(name=nil)
        @_collection = nil unless name.nil?
        @_collection ||= Jsonoid::Collection.new(name || self.name.downcase + 's')
      end
    end
  end

  class Collection
    EXTENSION = 'json'

    def initialize(name)
      @collection = File.join(Jsonoid.db, name)
      FileUtils.mkdir_p(@collection)
    rescue Errno::ENOENT, Errno::EACCES
      # FIXME: add a warning message or abort?
    end

    def exists?
      File.directory?(@collection)
    end

    def each
      Dir.glob(document('*')) do |fname|
        yield File.read(fname)
      end
    rescue Errno::ENOENT, Errno::EACCES
      # FIXME
    end

    def write(id, data)
      open(document(id), 'w') { |f| f.write(data) }
    rescue Errno::ENOENT, Errno::EACCES
      raise Document::NotPersisted, "Document #{id} not persisted"
    end

    def read(id)
      File.read(document(id))
    rescue Errno::ENOENT, Errno::EACCES
      raise Document::NotFound, "Document #{id} not found"
    end

    def delete(id)
      File.delete(document(id))
    rescue Errno::ENOENT, Errno::EACCES
      raise Document::NotFound, "Document #{id} not found"
    end

    private

    def document(id)
      File.join(@collection, [id, EXTENSION].join('.'))
    end
  end
end

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Q: Can't get model variable at the jspx page I working with spring 3.1 and method should return a view that represented by jspx page. While in debug i see variable in model named noteList, i can't print or iterate this variable on the page.
The output is ${noteList}.
Here is some code:
@RequestMapping( value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView rootPage(){
    List<Note> result = sessionFactory.openSession().createCriteria(Note.class).list();

    ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("index");
    mv.addObject(result);
    return mv;
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
    xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"
    xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/tags" version="2.0">
    <jsp:directive.page language="java"
        contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" />

    <![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE html>]]>
    <html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Index page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <c:out value="${noteList}"/>
</body>
    </html>
</jsp:root>

<beans:bean id="viewResolver"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <beans:property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>
        <beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
        <beans:property name="suffix" value=".jspx" />
    </beans:bean>

A: Since the noteList contains list of object type Note, you can try accessing one of the attributes of the Note object. Suppose you have a name attribute in Note, then try {node.name} in your jsp.

A: You can use ModelAndView addObject(String attributeName, Object attributeValue) instead.
E.g.:
mv.addObject("noteList", result);

Then in JSPX
<c:forEach items="${noteList}" var="node">
  ${node}
</c:forEach>

A: thanks all! i have got an answer.
The problem was in the jspx page
working page contains next code at the beginning:
 <jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
    xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"
    xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/tags"
    xmlns:form="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" version="2.0">

    <jsp:output doctype-root-element="html" omit-xml-declaration="true"
        doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        doctype-system="http://www.w3c.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" />
    <jsp:directive.page language="java"
        contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" />

    <html>
<head>
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Crowd Innovation: Hype or Help?
How to Manage Crowdsourcing Platforms Effectively
Ivo Blohm, Shkodran Zogaj, Ulrich Bretschneider and Jan Marco Leimeister
Crowdsourcing, Platform Management, Governance
Not all crowdsourcing challenges are created equal
New information technologies have allowed companies to tap into the creative potential, distributed work patterns, and expansive knowledge of huge online crowds. In various business fields, crowds can solve certain problems faster, better, and cheaper than companies are able to do in house. Today, according to a trend report published by the platform provider eYeka in 2015, 84 % of the world's top companies – including SAP, Dell, Google, General Electric, Fiat, LEGO, and Procter & Gamble – have started to build their own crowdsourcing platforms. The crowd-sourced tasks, however, are highly diverse, as are crowdsourcing platforms. For instance, the Fiat Mio platform, where contributors collaborated to develop a new concept car, is completely different from the GE Ecomagination Challenge, where contributors compete against each other. In the case of Fiat Mio, contributions were small and reflected by sharing, commenting, editing, or integrating ideas for further developing the car in a collaborative fashion. In contrast, GE's Ecomagination Challenge does not require substantial collaboration among contributors. It facilitates an innovation contest in which each contribution reflects an independent and exhaustive solution to a specific crowdsourced task. Of course, the different nature of the tasks demands different governance mechanisms. While collaboration is an important issue for Fiat Mio, mechanisms that permit the control and evaluation of a high number of alternative contributions will be a key challenge for GE.
Different types of crowdsourcing platforms
Crowdsourcing platforms fall into four categories, distinguished by the diversity and aggregation of their contributions (see Figure 1). The main goal of microtasking crowdsourcing platforms is the scalable and time-efficient batch processing of highly repetitive tasks, e.g., categorizing data or writing and translating small chunks of text. Crowdsourcing platforms for information pooling aggregate contributions such as votes, opinions, assessments, and forecasts through approaches such as averaging, summation, or visualization. Broadcast search platforms collect contributions to solve a task to gain alternative insights and solutions from people outside the organization. They are particularly suited for solving challenging technical, analytical, scientific, or creative problems. Frequently, broadcast search is applied to running different kinds of innovation, design, or data science contests. Finally, open collaboration platforms invite contributors to team up to jointly solve a complex problem where the solution requires the integration of distributed knowledge and the skills of many contributors. The individual contributions are aggregated such that one or more solutions to the underlying problem can emerge. In practice, however, pure forms of these archetypes are rare. Frequently, crowdsourcing platforms combine several traits.
How to manage the different types successfully
The management of these different types needs to reflect their varied goals and nature along several[CK1] dimensions. Governance involves structuring roles and responsibilities, formal and informal rules, standards and regulations, outcome control measures, communication processes, or details of task allocation to achieve a crowdsourcer's goal. In a research project, we identified six distinct governance domains that encompass 21 distinct governance mechanisms for crowdsourcing. We investigated a total of 19 platforms and for each platform type, we studied at least four typical platforms. The purpose of our study was to identify effective governance mechanisms for each type of platform. Figure 2 summarizes which types of governance mechanisms are effective for the different types.
Effective governance of microtasking platforms
Organizations that host a microtasking platform should consider governance mechanisms that are primarily geared towards assuring an adequate quality of contributions. In order to ensure the repeated and parallelized execution of tasks, modularization is key; to receive high quality contributions, crowdsourcers should communicate contribution requirements. Such definitions provide contributors with a clear set of instructions to help them better understand the tasks and document the results of their work. For example, Clickworker provides templates for defining the characteristics of desired results.
The large quantity of contributions is also a challenge for monitoring quality. Whenever possible, management should opt for automated quality control. Our results demonstrate that relatively simple measures that are easily adapted by many crowdsourcers prove to be effective. Financial payments are the primary incentive for contributors. Typically, each contributor who completes a valid solution that satisfies the task requirements is paid. We recommend that hosts of microtasking platforms also install a reputation system with which contributors can signal their skills, expertise, or participation level. These systems effectively complement financial incentives and increase the effort exerted by contributors. Further, authentication for verifying the identity of contributors is recommended as it helps prevent misconduct. It removes the anonymity of contributors and incentivizes more accurate task performance.
Effective governance of information pooling platforms
Organizations intending to establish an information pooling platform should implement a governance structure that focuses on helping contributors submit high quality information. They should define contribution requirements and offer tutorials. For instance, BahnScout has clear guidelines: Contributors are expected to include a picture of the issue, a textual description, the precise location, select a predefined category, and mention potential hazards. Typically, contributors voluntarily participate in this type of crowdsourcing and therefore most contributors are personally interested in the task or project. To get a realistic picture and avoid bias, organizations should focus on integrating diverse and independent contributions, e. g. by demographic-based task allocation. For this type of crowd work, non-financial incentive mechanisms such as reputation systems are most effective. Rankings or experience levels are good tools to motivate contributors because they enable contributors to signal their standing within a platform's community. Similarly, socialization enables contributors to communicate and interact with peers and is often appreciated.
Effective governance of broadcast search platforms
Completely open approaches to broadcast search tend to create a lot of "noise", resulting in many low-quality contributions. In order to receive a manageable number of contributions without substantially reducing the chances of getting high quality, organizations should consider focusing their broadcast search on groups of contributors with proven abilities. For this type of platform, contribution requirements again play a crucial role and should be defined carefully. They should ensure that results can be implemented in practice. For broadcast search, financial incentives are particularly important. Usually the best contribution receives a significant prize while unsuccessful participants come away empty-handed. For example, the jovoto platform recognized that competing for such prizes is perceived as risky by many contributors. To ensure broad participation, jovoto usually offers multiple prizes such as rewards for runner-up contributions or progress prizes for best contribution at the halfway point of the contest. In some cases, payments for participating can also be considered. This is common when a group of contributors with specific skills are included within the broadcast search, e.g., design professionals, or for invitation-only projects with a limited number of participants.
The management of different platform types needs to reflect their varied goals and nature along several dimensions.
Effective governance of open collaboration platforms
For open collaboration platforms, modularization of tasks that structure the collective effort of contributors alongside incentives that appeal to intrinsic motivations can be highly effective. The overarching goals of the task are often broad and complex and should be broken down into sub-goals, which can be framed in a project-like fashion. Frequently, contributors perceive the topic of an open collaboration platform as personally important and are willing to expend substantial effort in contributing to achieve the goals. Thus, organizations should define precise and inclusive objectives that appeal to many contributors. They should ensure that these objectives are clearly communicated on the platform. Due to the collective nature of open collaboration, peer assessment is an effective mechanism for quality assurance. Quality control can be achieved by letting participants validate the contributions of other contributors. Apart from peer assessment, open collaboration platforms should provide a variety of socialization mechanisms that enable contributors to immerse themselves in the community. Contributors need to be able to communicate, to exchange, and to discuss their ideas with their peers, and also to resolve disputes during collaboration. For this purpose, all the open collaboration platforms we investigated maintain communication forums that are used extensively. While these forums resemble a general communication infrastructure, open collaboration platforms should also contain sophisticated structures with which contributors can directly collaborate on their emerging contributions. Further, providing contributors with feedback is key to long-term success and to the development of the platform. Contributors consider feedback on the collective effort of the community as a genuine sign of appreciation.
Don´t expect too much too quickly
Crowdsourcing can achieve astonishing results but getting a platform right is an ongoing project. The analysis in this article can help define the goal and the key design of the operating system of a crowdsourcing platform. Nevertheless, we recommend starting small. Effective governance is an experiential learning process, and appropriate mechanisms may not spring into being all at once. Organizations should consider pilot-testing their governance mechanisms with a series of smaller crowdsourcing projects in a noncritical environment. Also, they should think of restricting the crowd to create room for experimentation and learn how to improve governance without fear of negative consequences. Managers responsible for crowdsourcing platforms should recognize that they are the "middlemen" between the organization and the crowd. In order to avoid redundant time-consuming interactions, managers should invest in making their governance mechanisms scalable after having accomplished an effective proof of concept. Finally, companies establishing crowdsourcing platforms should continuously monitor and adjust their governance mechanisms. Quality and quantity of contributions, project runtime, or effort for conducting the crowdsourcing project may be good starting points.
Ivo Blohm, Assistant Professor for Data Science & Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, ivo.blohm@unisg.ch
Shkodran Zogaj, Research Assistant, University of Kassel, Germany
Ulrich Bretschneider, Interim Professor Corporate Entrepreneurship & Digital Transformation, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Jan Marco Leimeister, Full Professor for Information Systems Research, University of St. Gallen & University of Kassel, Germany, janmarco.leimeister@unisg.ch
Blohm, I., Zogaj, S., Bretschneider, U., & Leimeister, J. (2020). How to Manage Crowdsourcing Platforms Effectively, NIM Marketing Intelligence Review, 12(1), 18-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/nimmir-2020-0003
Blohm, I.; Zogaj, S.; Bretschneider, U.; Leimeister, J.M. (2018): "How to Manage Crowdsourcing Platforms Effectively?", in: California Management Review, Vol. 60 (2), 122-149. doi: 10.1177/0008125617738255
Crowd-Innovation: The Philosopher´s Stone, a Silver Bullet, or Pandora's Box?
Strategies for Leveraging Crowds
How to Prevent Crowdsourcing Disasters and Leverage Positive Side Effects of Open Innovation
Open Strategy: The Inclusion of Crowds in Making Strategies
Motivating Crowds to Do Good: How to Build Crowdsourcing Platforms for Social Innovation
Crowdsourcing at NASA: About the Work Behind Having Others Do the Work
Case Study "Crowdsourcing@Rivella": In Search of New Flavors

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1980s Swedish Goth Band The Bizarre Orkeztra is Reissuing Their Music for Streaming
In the early '80s, a post-punk plumed Swedish phoenix arose from the ashes of cult favourite PF Commando and the more avant-garde Modaern Art: a glorious hybrid called The Bizarre Orkeztra. One of Sweden's early goth bands, the group released three albums and several singles before disbanding at the end of the decade.
Comparable in style to The Chameleons, Killing Joke, Teardrop Explodes, and Josef K, The Bizarre Orkeztra is currently digging through the vaults and finally re-releasing their work digitally for the first time, via COMEDIA's reissue program.
1985's Visions On The Wall (Ambush Records), the band's first full-length album, is out now, as is 1987's A Beautiful Place. Forthcoming releases this year include the single Midnight Show (1986), Hunger For Pleasure (album, 1988), and She's Got (single, 1989).
Visions On The Wall and A Beautiful Place were originally recorded and mixed by Jomma Sundström at Gävle Ljudstudio and produced by Bob Boxkopf. The re-release was remastered in 2020 by Jonas Strömberg at Slowbeat Studio / Gävle in Sweden.
Check out The Bizarre Orkeztra on your preferred music service.
The Bizarre Orkeztra
Electro-Pop Duo Laikka Provides "The Answer"
The Underground Youth Unveil "Letter From A Young Lover"
Love and Rockets Reunion Rumours Stir After Launch of Band's new Instagram Profile
Swedish Synth Maestros Twice a Man Announce "Songs of Future Memories" Compilation


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Q: Changing Locale in Android Emulator I'm just starting to learn Android development. I have included a EditText component in my view and started the emulator in Eclipse.
When I type in the Textbox, the auto suggestions are coming up in Chinese language but I want to change this to English.
How do I change this Locale and Android Emulator?
I'm using the Android 2.1 for development.

A: My solution is to use preinstalled on android emulator "Custom locale" application. Simply send intent with extra language parameter to it as below:
adb shell am broadcast -a com.android.intent.action.SET_LOCALE --es com.android.intent.extra.LOCALE EN

More information here - prepare android emulator for UI test automation.

A: No Need to change local, just long press on the EditText widget, on the popup menu select input method, and change to the android keyboard.

A: I'm using 2.3.3, but it should be similar:
Start emulator -> Launcher -> Settings -> Language & keyboard -> Select language

A: I am using the emulator with Android 4.2 + 4.3 and there is an app to set the locale called "Custom Locale".
Start emulator -> Launcher -> Custom Locale
=> Select the desired language from the list
=> Confirm with e.g "Select 'de_DE'"


The Right to Information Act 2009 (the RTI Act) and the Information Privacy Act 2009 (the IP Act) give right of access to information held by the QCT, unless it would be not be in the public interest to release it.
a search of the QCT annual reports in the Publications section of the website.
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A Celebration Of British Director Sam Mendes
By: Anders Frejdh
A celebration of the much respected British director Sam Mendes, member of the 'James Bond family' since 2011.
With this special page, From Sweden with Love would like to celebrate Sam Mendes on his 50th birthday.
"Dear Sam - very best wishes for you birthday. Keep up the great work."
About Sam Mendes:
Sam Mendes began his theatre career as Assistant Director at the Chichester Festival Theatre and was the first Artistic Director of the Minerva in 1989. In 1992, he founded the Donmar Warehouse where he was the Artistic Director until 2002.
While at the Donmar Warehouse, he directed Assassins (Olivier and Evening Standard awards), Translations, Cabaret, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Glass Menagerie (Olivier Award), Company (Olivier Award), Habeas Corpus, The Front Page, The Blue Room, To the Green Fields Beyond, Uncle Vanya (Olivier and Evening Standard awards) och Twelfth Night (Olivier and Evening Standard awards). In the West End: The Cherry Orchard (Critic's circle Award), The Plough and the Stars, Kean, London Assurance and Oliver!, which ran for 4 years at the London Palladium.
In 2009, his transatlantic company, The Bridge Project, debuted with productions of A Winter's Tale and The Cherry Orchard led by Simon Russell Beale and Ethan Hawke. The plays opened in New York and arrived at the Old Vic in May of 2009 after an international tour. In 2010, The Bridge Project entered its second year with productions of As You Like It and The Tempest, led by Stephen Dillane. The third and final season in 2011 had Kevin Spacey taking the lead in Richard III. In 2013 his production of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory opened in London's West End.
Film credits include American Beauty (Oscar® Best Director and Best Picture, Golden Globe, DGA Award), Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), Away We Go (2009) and Skyfall (2012) (2012).
He has been the recipient of the Director's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in the theatre. He was made a CBE in 2000.
Sam Mendes returned to the Bond franchise in 2014 as director of SPECTRE (2015).
Sam Mendes after the first press conference for Skyfall in November 2011. Photo by David Dettman. © EON Productions. All rights reserved.
For more information about Sam Mendes, check out his profile on IMDB:
www.imdb.com/name/nm0005222/
#directors
#sam_mendes


I'm not really going to talk about how much of a goddess Natasha is or how amazing her and Tyler are together, but I am going to talk about Appalachia. If you don't know me you probably don't know that I grew up in Eastern KY. Literally the farthest east you can get. It's one of the poorest areas in the country, but I never saw that when I was younger.
I moved to central KY for college the week after I graduated, but by that time I was itching to get away from the mountains and the small town life. I didn't really appreciate the beauty of the place until a couple of years ago. I think photography helped me with that. Being away and going home two or three times a year will also do that. And let me preface a lot of this by saying that most of my family is still in Appalachia, and I really do love being there, but it makes me so sad.
Coal companies literally rip the tops of mountains off for coal. They're drilling for natural gas. The water supply there is awful and most people won't even drink the tap water. There is trash everywhere, and a lot of the people that do live there do not value the area. They don't see the beauty in it. They don't see that what they do is hurting the place they claim to love so much.
I'm not going to go into all of my grievances with the area, but I really hope that the people back home can see these photos and see how beautiful the place is. I want them to start taking care of the area. I want them to pick up the trash and not to spray paint the naturally beautiful areas (talking about Mars that was recently tagged), I want them to prosecute people that do destroy the beauty, and I want people to be held accountable for their actions. This is the only home most of you will get, why would you want it to be destroyed?
Appreciate the beauty. Go camping. Go hiking. Drive around, but don't leave a trace that you were there.
literally all of these are stunning. so well done.
I really love these! I think Appalachia is one of the most beautiful places on this planet. It needs more love. Also, her dress is so so so so awesome…It was perfect for the shoot! One of my favorite photos is the black and white one where they are out of focus and the mountains are in focus. Very Last of the Mohicans vibe there haha it's amazing.


Should You Go to a Business Consultants Seminar?
The CBD is a particle present in the cannabis plant with a structure quite similar to that of THC but without psychotropic effects. The guarantee after tests with patients has made it one of the most popular parts and that all people look for an element with great properties in it. In this article, we want to talk about why we should take it and what are the benefits that it brings to the user. Have you ever wondered what it is for?
Marijuana has always been said to contain several health contributions. Although it is very bad look in many countries, the truth is that studies over these years have proven that this is a substance that can make a patient is better and that the diseases of bones and joints are less or go down little by little.
Of all the variants of cannabis that we could talk about, the CBD is one of the most striking since its function is healthy and vigilant at all times because the patient is well and has much more desire to live. Thanks to the healing power that characterizes it, any person who has a muscular problem or who have suffered injuries due to falls and/or traffic accidents, will enjoy a lighter recovery. Are you aware of everything you offer a person?
What are the real benefits of CBD?
The CBD is worth enough mostly to relax the muscles. Sometimes we have had an accident or a fall that has left us injured some parts of the body. So that those pains are not so abrupt, smoking this part of the stem can be very beneficial to health always equally, in a standard measure.
Depression is a mental health problem that occurs in many individuals in our society. The marijuana feminized seeds have been used for years to combat this complicated part of our head and slowly make the person recover the esteem and love of life. The CBD against depression is more than proven, so we should not be afraid to consume it.
Sometimes the stomach pains are very complicated to suffer. For people who have intestinal diseases, marijuana can also be very useful. In its just measure, smoking grass can make us have a better quality of life when we are victims of this type of ailments. You can inform yourself in specialized centers about its effects.


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Second day of political speeches at the Neshoba County Fair
Posted: Jul 31, 2019 / 10:31 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 31, 2019 / 06:50 PM CDT
And they're off to the races…. that is, the political candidates at this year's Neshoba County Fair. Organizers are expecting upwards of 15,000 people to watch Wednesday and Thursday's speeches.
Each candidate has ten minutes to tell a packed crowd at the Pavilion why they are the right person for the job. In some cases, they might use the opportunity to say why their opponent isn't the person for the job.
Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney poses with a supporter
Campaigns compete to see who can come up with the most memorable gear
Speeches at Neshoba have been known to make or break a candidate's chances of winning. Anything can happen, from the crowd literally throwing flip flops (over stances on taxes) to a sitting Governor threatening to whip his opponents…well, backside. While some may go for the diplomatic approach, stump speeches lend themselves to colorful anecdotes, disparaging comparisons and a firebrand's approach to the memorable.
Lt. Governor candidates
Lt. Governor candidate Shane Quick hit ahem, quickly on the topics of flood control and health care. According to Quick, he spent ten years in the healthcare industry on the cardiovascular side before a health issue forced him to leave. He now works in agriculture.
"I'm more of a sharecropper, I work for my rent," said Quick. He hit his points quickly finishing well ahead of the ten minutes allotted each candidate.
State Representative Jay Hughes from Oxford approached the podium next. The democrat from Oxford touched on healthcare, retaining talent in the state and teacher pay. Hughes mentioned campaign 101 touchstones, faith, family and patriotism, highlighting his experience in the military. At one point the candidate for Lt. Governor made a dig at political cronyism referencing hundreds of thousands spent to hire an outside contractor to place posters in schools for a number of health and safety-related campaigns. But education, is the issue Hughes champions most.
For twelve years, Delbert Hosemann served as Secretary of State, now he's asking voters for the chance to serve as Lt. Governor. He rifled through a list of accomplishments in office including; $4 billion in monies earned from 16th section lands, making it simpler to incorporate new businesses, a common-sense approach to voter i.d. and making it easier for children with autism to obtain insurance. Hosemann touched on increasing the number of teachers graduating from college and better pay for those in the classroom. He referenced the need to start earlier with funding for pre-K. The former tax attorney placed particular emphasis on the economy, not just Wall Street, but Main Street.
Secretary of State candidates
In the Democratic primary, Maryra Hodges Hurt is running against Johnny Dupree for the slot in November's general election.
State Representative Michael Watson and State Representative Sam Britton are in a heated contest for the Republican nomination.
Michael Watson stumps for SOS
Johnny Dupree makes his case
Sam Britton waits for his turn to speak
Andy Gipson visits after his speech
It's a toss up
Delbert leading the charge
An enthusiastic crowd
Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall delivers farewell speech
By the numbers, at the fair
As the people watching the speeches tapered off, 'fair people' went about the important business of sitting on porches, catching up and watching the afternoon talent show. Walt Grayson was in the front row with them.
The talent wasn't the only performance judged here on Wednesday. Long-time political correspondent Bobby Harrison with Mississippi Today provided WJTV 12's Byron Brown and Melanie Christopher with a brief breakdown of how the candidates did from the podium.
Well, the political bull may come and go but the pretty cows at Neshoba go on forever….
Cows of Neshoba past
Pretty girl, pretty cow
Hula time
And the winner? "Milk is Magic"
Clinton Police Officer Johnny Figures passes away
Free admission to State History, Civil Rights Museums


I am looking for an MBA degree for my dad, he's got 25 years of experience in sign and marketing with a BA degree. He wants to do an MBA degree, can anybody recommend any good MBA degree?
Doesn't have to be from very reputed university also has to be quiet cheap.
isnt it kinda pointless to get an MBA from not a very good university?
Well how cheap? All MBAs are more or less expensive.Also why does he want to get an MBA? Would he consider traveling to continental europe?
You could also have a look at the Henley Business School at the University of Reading. They offer a range of MBA programmes, including a flexible learning option at £20,000. The full time option is £33,000.
He should go to a good uni.MBA is all about the connections you get.If anything its the most important degree in terms of where you get it.
At his age an MBA is useless. Corporations won't hire anyone who are around the 50 mark unless they have had previous corporate experience.
A cheap degree from a university with a poor reputation will be a waste of money. At your father's career stage, the only use of an MBA is to prove that he is not just a competent manager, but is a capable strategic manager. No-one will doubt that he would make a reasonable middle manager ie 30-50 k salary bracket. He can get there with a well written CV and a strong interview performance.
If he wants to get a salary over about 60k then he should get on the most reputable MBA he can. Employers will then look at his applications and see a lot of experience plus strong academics, which makes him potentially quite valuable.
No point going for an MBA that isn't from a very reputable university unless you're just doing it for knowledge purposes. If you're doing it in view of gaining employment, then only the best would do.