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Congregations, New forms of church, Missions & Evangelism
Elaine A. Heath: God's people, gathered, blessed and sent out
Photo courtesy of Elaine A. Heath
Small missional communities, anchored to a local congregation, offer a different way of being church, one that offers hope for renewal and new life, says the evangelism scholar.
At their core, small, missional communities such as the one that connected a Houston congregation with African refugees are about a different way of being church, said the Rev. Dr. Elaine A. Heath, co-founder of the Missional Wisdom Foundation.
"The idea with missional ecclesiology is that our identity as the church is to be God's people who are gathered together, blessed and then sent out," Heath said.
Rather than imagining the church as a people who meet inside a building every Sunday, this broader notion of church is about "carrying on the work of Christ in the world," she said. "Christ is missional."
This way of being church has a Eucharistic element to it, Heath said. "We become the bread and wine that God gives to our neighbors and to the world."
While serving as the McCreless Professor of Evangelism at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology, Heath helped her students establish several missional faith communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In 2011, she co-founded the Academy for Missional Wisdom to teach others how to start new types of faith communities beyond the traditional church, yet linked to the institutional church in various ways.
The Rev. Hannah Terry, associate pastor of Westbury United Methodist Church in Houston, studied at the Academy with Heath when Terry was forming a missional community for Westbury and a ministry with refugees from Africa.
Heath's scholarly work integrates systematic, pastoral and spiritual theology in ways that bridge the gap between academy, church and world. She joined the SMU faculty in 2005. She has a B.A. from Oakland University, an M.Div. from Ashland Seminary and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Duquesne University. Heath was named dean of Duke Divinity School in 2016, a position she held until August 2018.
Heath spoke with Faith & Leadership about missional communities, both broadly and at Westbury UMC. The following is an edited transcript.
Q: Give us an overview of the Academy for Missional Wisdom.
When Hannah Terry attended, [the program] was called the Academy for Missional Wisdom; now it's called Launch and Lead. It's a two-year program for clergy and laypeople to learn how to launch and lead new kinds of faith communities that are beyond the walls of, yet still connected to, the traditional church.
We started the program in 2011 in response to the number of people who were coming to Dallas to learn about our emerging hub of experimental communities. More and more people were coming, so we developed Launch and Lead as a more systematized way of answering their questions.
It is a hybrid learning system, with several short online classes that are accessible to laypeople but still challenging for clergy, because of the theological work. The program also has several short training retreats where people gather together, usually Thursday night through Saturday noon, with each retreat having a specific focus, such as community organizing, missional imagination and so on.
The participants have a coach, who is trained and certified and a knowledgeable practitioner in missional ecclesiology. And a spiritual director works with the cohort throughout the program, which is an essential element, since we teach people to live in a contemplative stance.
Q: Tell us about the missional communities that you and others created around Dallas-Fort Worth.
The communities began as learning initiatives that I started with some of my students who felt called to do ministry beyond the walls of the church but still connected to the institutional church. They felt called to go and do something entrepreneurial out in the city, where people are suffering.
I started the first two communities eight years ago. One was a New Monastic house with three women students living in it, and one was a missional house church.
Q: What exactly is a missional community, and what's involved in creating one?
When we speak of being missional, it is helpful to remember that the Latin word missio means "sent out." The Greek word for being sent out is, literally translated, "to be apostolic." The idea with missional ecclesiology is that our identity as the church is to be God's people who are gathered together, blessed and then sent out. We are distributed by God to our neighborhoods and schools and workplaces to be a blessing.
Missional ecclesiology has a Eucharistic element to it. We become the bread and wine that God gives to our neighbors and to the world.
So instead of imagining the church as a gathered people who meet inside a special building with a lot of programs -- though that is part of how we've experienced church -- the core identity of being the church is carrying on the work of Christ in the world, which means being sent out. Christ is missional.
These microcommunities are small faith communities that can be started by laypeople or clergy, but really, laypeople can do this. They do it with several people in a team. And missional communities can happen almost anywhere. The established, traditional church can become an anchoring congregation, which anchors these missional communities located in different parts of the city or out in a rural context.
It's similar to the ancient Celtic cathedral model, where you have a gathered church, but the purpose of the gathering is to equip people to send them out. The real work of the church is the work of the people as they return to their neighborhoods, schools and workplaces.
Q: Are the missional communities always anchored to a local congregation?
In the ones that we started, we promoted pretty heavily the idea that churches -- or even Wesley Foundations and other campus ministries -- should anchor these missional initiatives, rather than starting missional faith communities and ignoring the rest of the church.
We favor doing both together, because it will bring renewal to an established church that's trying to find its vision and mission again. And it will bring stability and accountability to the missional communities that are out there doing ministry beyond the walls of the church.
Q: So a missional community, which at first glance seems anti-institutional, actually feeds back into and strengthens the church?
Yes. In his book about Franciscan spirituality, "Eager to Love," Richard Rohr said the genius of St. Francis was staying on the inside edge of the institution. Not disconnecting from the institution but staying on the inside edge, going out to the edge but staying firmly connected. And this is good both for the institution and for the communities.
Q: What questions should a congregation ask itself as it considers creating a missional community or entering into relationship with marginalized people or groups? What should they be thinking about?
The first thing that has to happen is that the pastors and the lay leaders have to do some teaching and call forth missional ecclesiology from the congregation.
When you ask, "What's the first step?" I always suggest that pastors and lay leaders ask themselves, "Where are our people in terms of their understanding of the meaning of the church?" You want to do some preparatory work -- teaching and preaching about our identity as the church -- so people understand that we're the gathered-and-sent people.
Larry Duggins and I wrote a book that came out in 2014 that answers these very questions: "Missional. Monastic. Mainline. A Guide to Starting Missional Micro-Communities in Historically Mainline Traditions." The first half is about how we started the communities in Dallas, and the second half is a field guide for how to do this in a local church.
So you begin with the teaching and the preaching. Then, if you pay attention, you'll notice people -- not in every congregation, but in quite a few -- who really aren't interested in being on committees or sitting in a Sunday school class or the other traditional things that we try to get people to do when they join the church.
But these people are the first ones who sign up for any activity that involves reaching out to suffering people. Or they're interested in staying connected to the subculture that they are a part of, whether that's bikers or people who practice yoga or some other subculture.
These are people who have compassion and good people skills and care about others, and they're interested in making a difference in the world. That's the group that you want to begin working with, providing training and so on.
It's usually not effective or even a good idea to try to get all the church board members doing this, for example. They're on the board because they want to be on the board, and that's their gift.
Some of the best missional leaders who emerge from congregations will be people who aren't drawn to what they consider "status quo" church. They feel drawn to do something on the edge.
As you gather a small group of people who seem like good candidates for this kind of ministry, work with them to develop their missional imagination. Help them learn to do cultural exegesis in their own contexts. Out of this formative theological work with them, vision will begin to emerge. They will need their pastoral leaders to keep nurturing this vision and equipping them with resources, skills and confidence to finally step out and begin the new ministry.
Q: You said the threshold question is to explore the congregation's understanding of church. I sometimes wonder whether every congregation needs to do that, and revisit the basics -- Why are we here? What's the pastor's role? What's a church?
Yes, at least once a year, it is a good idea to have a short sermon series and a leadership development retreat in which the focus is on missional ecclesiology. Our congregations need us to remind them that this is our call, this is our vocation as church, to be God's sent-out people, and what does that mean for this congregation at this time?
Then small reminders about missional ecclesiology can be naturally woven into the life of the church through the rest of the year.
Q: You've spoken very openly in many settings, including the 2011 Wesleyan Leadership Conference, about your own childhood, growing up in poverty, one of five children, leaving home at 16, not starting college until your early 30s. How does your own story shape your understanding of and approach to missional community?
Oh, I am certain that my vocation has grown out of my own life journey. My experience of real Christianity from time to time as a child happened because laypeople -- usually it was laypeople -- behaved in a missional fashion toward me and sometimes other members of my family. They became the face of Jesus to me, even before I had language to talk about it this way. And I was drawn to their love and their respect for me. It meant so much to be welcomed and included in their activities as if I belonged with them.
Sometimes those activities were religious -- you know, going to Sunday school from time to time. Sometimes they were not religious -- it was, "Would you like to come to our house and play a game?" or, "Would you like to climb the tree and pick some cherries and take them home?"
It was this sort of hospitality and respect that I experienced.
And then also, the rootlessness that I experienced as a child, moving around and around. Everybody else had cousins and grandmas, but I didn't, because we were far away from any relatives. Even longtime friendships were not there, because we moved so frequently.
So I think the natural God-given longing for community, for family-like friends, has definitely been part of my deep awareness of what people need. We live in a really fractured society, in every possible way.
I know from my own journey, and from people that I've pastored or been friends with or helped in other ways, that being a part of a genuine and healthy Christian community, where everybody has a place at the table, where everyone really knows each other, can heal wounds and bring integration to a person's life in ways that nothing else can.
I believe in therapy. I believe in other forms of taking care of ourselves and healing, but there is something about life in community that God uses to bring wellness to us in a way that nothing else can. And I think it's because humans are made in the image of a God who is a community. The Trinity is a community. We were made for this.
All of that plays into my sense of call and my passion around ministry and community and helping the church be a community that's God's gift of love to and for the world.
Q: You mentioned briefly that when you were a child, neighbors would take you to church?
Yes, sometimes. We moved a lot, so we'd live in one place, and a neighbor would start taking us to Sunday school -- not every Sunday, but enough that I had a sense of what Sunday school was. And then we would move, and that would be the end of that one.
It was hit or miss, but it was enough to touch my life. The Sunday school experience -- I don't really remember that much in terms of curriculum. I liked going, because it was a different place, and I liked the Kool-Aid and the graham crackers, and there were often fun activities.
But really, the experiences of Christians that went deep, deep into my soul were these experiences of hospitality -- to be welcomed into people's homes and to be a part of their family community.
From that lived experience comes my passion for my own home to be a site of hospitality, where we welcome strangers, where we welcome our neighbors. Our kitchen table is a place where we can sit and pray together as well as share a meal. Our home is a missional community where much hospitality happens, where people gather for evening prayer, and where all sorts of people find conversation and a place of peace.
Q: What you just described is what these missional communities are supposed to be, right?
Yes. To me, this is the normal Christian life. It should be normal for our church members to be people of hospitality in their neighborhood.
Q: Does a missional community need to be a certain size or a certain arrangement? I was struck that the intentional community at Fondren Apartment Ministry doesn't live in one house together but in several nearby apartments.
There are many ways to be in community. Several families can live in the same neighborhood, each in its own home or apartment, and yet they can gather for evening prayer or for a community meal once a week, and do some things together to be a blessing to the neighborhood.
Q: So is it really the practices that make it a missional community? Though the intentional community at Westbury live in different apartments, they meet at 6 a.m. every day for prayer, and they have dinner together and they pray together.
Yes. And they serve their neighborhood, and they follow a common rule of life. That's a very important part, having common spiritual practices.
When people are starting a new community and they're trying to figure out how to structure their community, I suggest that they have a threefold rule of prayer, hospitality and justice.
They can flesh out those three areas in ways that make sense in their context. A good rule of life is simple, and it helps us to tell ourselves the truth about how we're living and how we want to live. A good rule of life helps us be more honest about what it means to follow Jesus.
Without a rule of life, communities tend to lose focus, and their energy dissipates.
Q: At Westbury, as the intentional community began engaging the African refugees, they were caught off guard when the people wanted to attend Westbury rather than a house church or a new church plant. What do you do then?
Bring them to church, of course.
Because Hannah and her community were listening well, they heard what their new neighbors wanted and needed, which was a connection with the established church as well as the gatherings in the apartment community. Their new neighbors wanted both.
Missional ecclesiology is all about showing up to your neighbors and really listening and paying attention and supporting them as they journey toward God and with God.
What Hannah encountered in Houston, and what we've encountered here in Dallas, in our community with refugees, is that they appreciate an established institutional church such as the United Methodist Church, because it's a reliable institution with a solid structure and accountability for leaders and finances. Our immigrant friends do not have the skepticism about traditional religious institutions that our American millennial friends have.
What we've discovered, and I think Hannah's discovered, is that folks enjoy the smaller fellowship that happens in the apartment complex, where we're gathered around a meal and worship and prayer and Bible study, but they also like to go to the big church. They want to be a part of the big church, too.
On the other hand, I know quite a few people who want nothing to do with the sort of churchy church they grew up with, but they really like meeting in these smaller communities in a not-church space, and doing everything that church is as far as the gathered community. We eat together, we pray together, we celebrate the Eucharist together, we serve in ministry together, but in the smaller, intimate community of a house church.
The important thing is to notice what it is that people need in order to connect to God, and then be there with them and help them in that process.
Q: Speak some to the tension between being a missional community and working for systemic change. How can you be in deep friendship with people on the margins and help them in their current situation, and also work and advocate for changing the systems that put them in this position?
One of the brilliant aspects of eating together is that it breaks down all these barriers that we put between ourselves and other people. This is how Jesus gets his work done in the Gospel. He's always eating with people. That's where he has these great conversations, and healing happens, and people get upset because he's challenging their Scripture interpretation and so forth.
Eating together is foundational. Eating a meal together, where we share our hearts and our spirituality with each other, is actually sacramental.
Out of the relationships that form from eating together and gathering in friendship, we begin to learn what's going on in each other's lives. We become part of each other's story.
When we form friendships across cultural lines and economic lines and class lines and racial lines, pretty soon we become aware of systemic injustice at multiple levels that we may not have understood before.
It is very different to read a story in the newspaper about slumlords than to have a friend whose plumbing is broken and whose landlord will do nothing to fix the problem. It is different to read statistics about how 1 out of 4 children in Texas go to bed hungry every night than to share a meal prepared by families for whom hunger is a real threat.
Out of friendship formed at the table, we want to be there with people who are suffering, and we begin to want to use whatever resources we have, both to alleviate immediate suffering and to change the systems that keep hurting our neighbors.
Here's an example from our work here. Our community that has refugees and former refugees became aware that an unscrupulous used-car dealer was selling immigrants bad cars. The cars would break down after a few weeks and he would refuse to fix them, and threaten the buyers if they didn't keep making the payments. They did not know whether he could make good on his threats.
This guy was making life miserable. People's cars would break down, and then they couldn't get to work, and then they would lose their jobs. There were concentric circles of problems because of this man.
So in our little community, which usually has 15 or 20 people on Sunday evenings, there's a woman who's an attorney. We asked for her help, which she gladly gave. She took legal action on behalf of the buyers and got their money back and put the dealer on notice that he wasn't going to get away with this anymore. It also became an educational opportunity for our friends who had been victimized.
So that was a series of events where we were able to practice justice, which is about changing unjust systems. We were able to offer support and mercy to the people who had an immediate need for transportation, and we helped with other support when they lost their jobs.
All of this flowed right out of our table fellowship, where we get to know each other from week to week.
Q: So it's not "either-or" but "both-and." One leads to the other naturally. You eat meals together; you become an advocate for change.
It's inevitable. We pray together, we practice hospitality together, and out of this we become involved in seeking justice together.
And this can happen in any neighborhood. It's not just among poor people. There are justice issues and there are people who are lonely and hurting and in need of community in every kind of neighborhood.
But it is good for us to remember that when Jesus said, "The poor will always be among you," he was assuming we would always be a community of mixed incomes. He assumed we would have friends from income levels different from our own, and that these would be real, mutual friendships.
Q: We touched on it earlier, but speak more about the benefits that can accrue to an anchoring church that establishes a missional community. In what ways does the missional community feed back into and shape the congregation?
It encourages other people to take discipleship seriously, and it sparks people's imagination about what they can do. A good example is the relationship between Grace United Methodist Church in Dallas and the Bonhoeffer House, which is one of our Missional Wisdom intentional communities.
The men at Bonhoeffer House are engaged in ministries of hospitality and friendship with the neighbors, many of whom are unhoused people. The men at Bonhoeffer follow a Wesleyan rule of life; they do a community meal once a week, and they hold a weekly Bible study or book study.
Because they've built up relationships with the unhoused people over the years, the guys who live under the stars help cook and serve the meal, and they help lead the Bible study. They're very much part of the rhythms of that house's practice of prayer and hospitality.
People from Grace UMC also participate in the Bible study and the community meal at Bonhoeffer House.
So Bonhoeffer House has become the bridge where real relationships happen between people who are not homeless and people who are, people who are from different social classes and races and other kinds of diversity. Bonhoeffer is a place where everyone gathers around the table, literally, and where everyone now has something to offer.
The people in the church also get to hear about and watch and participate in how the men in the Bonhoeffer House practice daily prayer, how they practice hospitality, how they get involved from time to time in justice issues that affect homeless people in Dallas.
That's how that works. Bonhoeffer House takes the church beyond the walls and the programs of Grace United Methodist Church, and it becomes an extension of Grace out into the community in a very beautiful way. The men within the house are also part of the congregation. It is a beautiful, dynamic relationship.
The Fondren Apartment Ministry and Westbury UMC reflect the changing face of Houston and America. Photos by Mark Mulligan
Westbury UMC's apartment ministry has helped resettled refugees -- and the congregation -- find new life in Houston


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Meet the Adelaide Street Angels - Taking back their part of Stonehouse
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Peter ChapmanCommunity Reporter
Adelaide Street Angels celebrating their street (Image: Penny Cross / Plymouth Live)
Are you tired of seeing the area you live in being mistreated and disrespected? Are you waiting for somebody else to do something about it? Why? Your voice matters, and the more of you that come together on an issue, the louder you can shout.
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Taken at July's Adelaide Street Angels meeting (Image: Helen Moore)
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Cllr Tuffin replies: "Just moving them on to another community doesn't solve problems. They're going to drink, maybe we need a place for them to do it off the street. Drugs are more complicated but we have to support people."
Whitleigh's street drinkers are ditching alcohol and turning to God
The productive and passionate meeting ends, and when most have left I grab a quiet word with Peter Davey and Helen Moore, two of the group's founding members.
Helen was keen to stress the following: "What's important is that this is not some kind of vigilante group against homeless people, or people who have a drug or alcohol problems, because it is a serious illnesss. The question is, what are the people around here doing in the places where homeless people are, what are they doing to help them recuperate and come back into society and get better?
Pete Davey, one of the driving forces behind Adelaide Street Angels (Image: Penny Cross / Plymouth Live)
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Peter Davey, who spoke about how the idea for the group came about, said: "In January I was beaten up. I'm a poet so I go for late night and early morning walks, and this one particular night I was beaten up by two blokes who tried to rob me. I was pretty much critically ill for several months but I did not refuse to continue doing arts and supporting my community.
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Life inside Plymouth's amazing cafe for the homeless - run by people who used to live on the streets themselves
Adelaide Street is vibrant and unique, much like its artistic inhabitants. They have identified colour and expression as main goals for the group to achieve and Peter Davey shares that passion with them.
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Adelaide Street is one of Plymouth's home zones (Image: Penny Cross / Plymouth Live)
"I think it's the greatest street in Plymouth, there's no street like it. The amount of arts and crafts that come out of here: Raay, 100 Homes Project, WonderZoo, if we can create that much art in culture in our street then we should be able to make proper social change.
Homeless women in Plymouth are being given panic alarms
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Choco-Story fue inaugurado por Eddy Van Belle y su hijo, Cédric. Los dos son también los propietarios de Belcolade, un negocio familiar de chocolate.

Los visitantes del museo pueden ver como se fabrica el chocolate.

Además, una sección del museo está dedicada a los beneficios para la salud del chocolate.

Véase también
 Choco-Story (París)

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Enlaces externos

 Artículo sobre "el Chocolate Atlas"
 Le musée gourmand du Chocolat - Choco-Story - París
 Choco-Story, El Museo Del Chocolate - Praga, República Checa
 Choco-Story - Uxmal, Yucatán, México
 Belcolade plantación - Tikul, Yucatán, México
 Belcolade plantación de Google.com/maps
 Los Museos De Brujas

Museos del chocolate
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Dundee LibDem Councillor criticises loss of Grampian TV name
Dundee LibDems highlight loss of Grampian TV name
Dundee Liberal Democrat Councillor Fraser Macpherson today strongly criticised the decision by SMG, owners of Scottish and Grampian TV, to scrap the name of Grampian TV after 45 years of broadcasting in the North East of Scotland, including the Dundee area
Fraser said today (2nd March 2006), "The proposal to rebrand the ITV service across the Grampian and Scottish TV areas as "STV" would be a real backward step for the Grampian TV area and would mean that 'Glasgow-Edinburgh' would dominate the service.
"Grampian TV has served our area well since the 1960s and the "Grampian TV" brand is very much seen as the local service. I think everyone sees STV as the service for the Lothians, South Fife and West Central Scotland, and I am calling on local people and politicians of all parties to campaign against the loss of the local identity of ITV in our part of Scotland," commented Fraser.
Grampian TV Name Set to Go - Press & Journal - 2nd March 2006


For nearly two decades Groove Armada has been established as one of the planet's best loved and biggest selling dance acts. As comfortable on the big stages as they are in sweat soaked basements, the boys cross genres and styles with ease.
Andy Cato and Tom Findlay met in London in the mid 90s. Groove Armada started as a series of nights across London. It was to promote these nights that they started releasing 12s for East London pioneer 'Tummy Touch'.
An album made in a week, 'Northern Star', soon followed (which contained downbeat anthem 'At the River'), and from that came major label recognition. 'Vertigo' their first album on Jive sold over a million copies and four albums followed on SONY and BMG garnering Grammy and Brit Nominations and sold out gigs from Sydney to Moscow. A pioneering combination of performance and electronics, the GA live show evolved into one of the very best in dance music.
In 2010, the boys redefined the GA sound with Black Light, their 6th and best album which saw the songwriting and musicianship that made their live shows so special, brought into the studio. The band toured this album across the globe bringing their 'live' career to a close with 2 memorable nights at Brixton Academy.
Now the boys are returning to their roots. Through live shows and a series of dancefloor EPs, GA have marked a return to DIY spirit of the warehouses where the project was first spawned. They began with a series of release with London label Hypercolour. They've followed this up with EPs and remixes for the likes of Moda Black, Defected and Danse Club records.
GA returned to their We Love Space Terrace residency in 2013, DJ shows from Ushuaia to Jakarta and closed and hosted arenas at Beat-herder and Creamfields. For the run of special shows, the pair took control over every aspect of the show; from the sound to lighting and lasers and visuals from their custom built booth. 2014 saw the duo continue to explore the sound of their roots, with critically acclaimed debut release on Moda Black, and also appearances on Get Physical, Danse Club Records, Moon Dance and OM Records.
2015 saw GA release their 7th studio album, revisiting the Moda Black label for the 'Little Black Book' package. The double disk album featured 21 new tracks, as well as remixes from a hand picked selection of producers from Kolsch, Joris Voorn, Huxley, Pillow Talk and more. In December 2015 GA return to Fabric for their first yearly residency at the club, 17 years after making their debut appearance at the world famous nightclub, and bringing some of their favourite selectors to play alongside the duo.


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A refractometer is a laboratory or field device for the measurement of an index of refraction (refractometry). The index of refraction is calculated from Snell's law and can be calculated from the composition of the material using the Gladstone–Dale relation.
A refractometer is an optical device that, like a hydrometer, measures the specific gravity of your beer or fort. It does so by sampling a small amount of liquid, and looking at its optically. The main advantage over a hydrometer is the small sample size needed – typically only a few drops.
If you start with a glass of clear water, you will notice that the water and glass bend the light passing through it in a certain way. The bending of the light by the water is called refraction. Light bends to different degrees as it passes through different substances. This is the same effect that glasses lenses in eyeglasses are based upon – the lenses bend the light allowing glasses to adjust the focus of an image and make it clearer to your eyes.
If you add sugar to your glass of water, the light will bend more. The refractometer takes advantage of this effect to measure the amount of bending (refraction) which indicates the amount of sugar in the sample. Most refractometers use a prism and a light source to illuminate the sample. On inexpensive refractometers, you hold the instrument up to a natural light source. More expensive models have internal light sources.
Most brewing refractometers measure samples in Brix, which is a scale used to measure specific gravity primarily by wine makers. Some also use a Refractive Index (RI) scale. Both the Brix and RI indexes need to be converted to standard specific gravity or Plato scales using a formula, as wort does not have the same reflective properties as plain sugar water.
In gemology, a refractometer is used to help identify gem materials by measuring their refractive index.
In marine aquarium keeping, a refractometer is used to measure the salinity and specific gravity of the water.
•The range of readings (highest to lowest), to make sure it will suit your purpose. A standard range for home brewers is 0 to 32% Brix. For example, in order to achieve a 13% wine, you'll want to start your wine at a Brix of 23.
•The ease with which the refractometer can be read and understood. Some less expensive refractometers are difficult to read, either due to a lack of a focus adjustment, inferior optics, or the eyepiece lacks a rubber seal and will not fit snugly over your eye.
•The calibration temperature of the refractometer. The most common calibration temp is 20° C or 68° F. If your sample is not exactly 68° F, you will need to make mathematical corrections to compensate for the temperature difference. Luckily, many modern models of refractometers (like the ones stocked by grapestompers) are sold with ATC (automatic temperature compensation), so you never have to worry about the temperature of your sample.
•How easy it is to calibrate. Must you purchase a calibration liquid, or can you calibrate with distilled water? Does it calibrate with a set screw or a dial or knob?
•How easy it is to clean.
•If it comes with a protective case (they're pretty fragile) and instruction manual.
The top 10 most frequently asked questions about our traditional hand-held refractometers.
"Why is the scale completely dark?"
Unless you have a fluid sample on the measuring surface the inside of the instrument will be dark and you will not see the scale or a shadowline.
"Why is the scale completely bright?"
If you cannot see the shadowline and the whole scale is illuminated, then the sample you are testing is above the range of the instrument.
"How do I turn the light on?"
To activate the light on the ViewPoint Illuminator gently press the spot on the label marked "PRESS FOR LIGHT." Remember there are no dumb questions. If the light doesn't work, the battery may be dead. If this is the case, please send the instrument back to us and we can replace the ViewPoint.
"How do I know if my instrument is in calibration?"
Most instruments have a scale division that is equivalent to water. in the case of a Brix refractometer, it is 0.0 Brix, and on the Glycol & Battery Tester, it is +32 degrees. This is the reading you should get when testing water at room temperature. If the reading for water does not equal one of the above values, then you need to recalibrate your instrument.
"I hear a rattle inside whenever I shake it."
Then don't shake it - just kidding. A rattle most likely means that one of the internal optical components came loose inside. This is usually caused by dropping the instrument. Please send the instrument to our repair department. There is nothing you can do in the field to repair it. In the future remember that this is a precision optical instrument. Although we try to make refractometers as rugged as we can, please try to handle them as you would a pair of binoculars or a camera.
"How do I know what instrument I need?"
If you are uncertain about which model refractometer you need to test a particular fluid, just call us. We more than likely have experience measuring that fluid. If we can't help you over the phone, we will happily test your fluid in our laboratory FOR FREE to determine which refractometer is best for your needs.
"Can I get a certified calibration?"
We have a dedicated laboratory and trained staff that will happily test your refractometer and issue a certificate of calibration traceable to NIST.
"How do I replace my ViewPoint Illuminator?"
The ViewPoint illuminator has a built-in coin cell battery with a ten-year shelf life. It is designed for between 3,000-5,000 fifteen-second uses. In the event the battery dies, just send your entire instrument to MISCO, and we will replace the ViewPoint for you. You may also order a replacement online and change it yourself. Do not try to disassemble the ViewPoint, there are no user serviceable parts inside.
"What is the difference between freezepoint and burst point?"
Freezepoint is the point that the first ice crystals form in the absence of supercooling. Burst point is the point that the solution freezes solid and bursts the vessel containing it. The burst point is usually 30-50 degrees colder than the freezepoint. Our Glycol & Battery Tester reads the freezepoint of both ethylene and propylene glycol solutions. If you need to know the burst point, take a reading on the Glycol & Battery Tester and use a chart (available from your antifreeze supplier) to cross-reference freezepoint to burst point or percent concentration.
"I need to know the percent volume of my glycol?"
To ascertain the percent concentration of glycol in a system, obtain a chart of physical properties from your glycol supplier. Take a reading with the Glycol & Battery Tester and cross reference the freezepoint reading to the percent volume column on the chart.
The refractometer will power off automatically after three minutes of inactivity. To manually shut off the instrument, hold the ON/CLEAR button down for 3-5 seconds.
"How do I change the scales?"
Pressing the SELECT button will cycle through all the possible scale choices on the instrument. If you want to permanently change the instrument scales, you may send it back to us and we will be happy to reprogram it for you for a slight charge.
"Why does my instrument read [BRIGHT +]?"
A reading of [ BRIGHT + ] indicates the optical sensor is being overpowered by strong ambient light. If this happens, shade the sensor or move to a less brightly lit area and repeat the measurement.
"Why does my instrument read [TEMP]?"
A reading of [ TEMP ] indicates the fluid or instrument temperature is above or below the range of the instrument.
"Why does my instrument read [RANGE +/-]?"
A reading of [ RANGE +/- ] indicates that the measurement is above or below the range of the current scale. If the instrument periodically reads [RANGE -], make sure you haven't trapped a small bubble in the sensing area. A bubble directly over the sensing area can cause the instrument to display [RANGE -].
"Why does my instrument read [CALIBRTE]?"
A reading of [ CALIBRTE ] indicates the instrument needs to be calibrated. The spelling error is intentional since we can only display eight characters.
"Why does my instrument read [LOW BATT]?"
A reading of [ LOW BATT ] indicates the battery needs to be replaced. Make sure you observe the battery polarity when changing the battery.
"How often should I calibrate?"
It is recommended that the instrument be calibrated at least once a day, prior to performing any test requiring the highest precision, or when moving between environments with extreme changes in ambient temperature.
"Why won't it turn on?"
If your instrument won't power on, check the battery polarity. If the polarity is correct and the instrument will still not power on, change the battery.
Refractometer, 0~10% Brix, 0~20% Brix, 0~32 Brix%, 28-62% Brix Cutting Liquid refractometers work for a variety of applications including: food and beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, and industrial cutting fluids These refractometers are at home in the laboratory, in the factory, or in the field. Material: Copper chromeplate and ABS body, Metal meterial of screw, Optic lens. They are are rugged and reliable with exceptional optics.


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PIIC hosted its Fall Professional Learning Opportunity (PLO) from October 17-19, 2011. The PLO provided professional development to over 85 school administrators, coaches, mentors, and regional mentor coordinators. This was the first PD for many since the PIIC expansion occurred in July 2011. In addition, session # 5 of the PIIC Act 45 course was held.
Day 1 started with Voices from the Field, an informative session in which IU 8 coaches Cassie Grassmyer, Brandi Orner, Andrea Conrad, Mary Sabatino, and Jessica Diehl discussed their instructional coaching experiences working with the PIIC BDA cycle of coaching. The day continued with Literacy Across the Curriculum, facilitated by PLN Director, Joe Ginotti. In classic PIIC fashion, day 1 ended with personal and group reflections.
Understanding and Applying the BDA Cycle of Coaching, introduced the general session on Day 2. Divided into three groups, veteran mentors facilitated the sessions: the Red Group was facilitated by Nancy Neusbaum and Chris Caton; the Blue Group was facilitated by Karen Macartney and Amy Walker; and the Green Group was facilitated by Jessica Jacobs and Laura Yaeger. The next session, The Art of Questioning by Nancy Neusbaum, reinforced the BDA cycle of coaching by delving more deeply into the communication process.
The day concluded with two of three Carousel of Learning session rotations. Participants selected three of four topics online prior to the PIIC PD. After spending 50 minutes at a given topic, participants rotated to their next selection. The topics covered a wide range of interests: Writing and the Common Core State Standards (facilitated by Pam Wolff, IU 14 PIIC Mentor); Read the Book – Book Studies and PLCs (Beaver County HS Librarian, Laura Cipriano); Using Reading/Literacy CDTs to Impact Instruction (IU 7 PIIC Mentor, Cindy Shaffer); and Differentiated Instruction and Assessment (IU 29 PIIC Mentor, Evelyn Wassel). Participants ended the day with group reflections and reports out.
On the last day, participants moved into their respective Red, Blue, and Green groups for the final general session of the PIIC PD, Problem Solving Scenarios. The session enabled participants to apply what they learned over the previous two days.
The agenda from this event is available on our Past Professional Development Conferences page. Our next PIIC Professional Development will be January 9-11, 2012 at the Penn Stater Conference Center in State College, PA. Details are listed on our Events page.


The medical waste and secure document destroyer cut its guidance again.
What: Shares of Stericycle Inc (NASDAQ:SRCL) are getting destroyed today, with the stock down more than 15% at 11:00 a.m. ET on Friday.
So what: Investors are reacting to Stericycle's decision to cut its guidance once again. Several factors, including foreign exchange headwinds, a challenging hazardous waste market, and increasing pricing pressure are driving the downward revision to the company's outlook. As a result, the company now sees revenue in the range of $3.56 billion to $3.6 billion. That is down from last quarter's projections of sales in the range of $3.6 billion to $3.66 billion and its initial projections of revenue in the range of $3.56 billion to $3.72 billion. The company's outlook for earnings, likewise, continues to come down. After starting the year with non-GAAP earning projections of $5.28 to $5.35 per share, Stericycle watered that down to a range of $4.90 to $5.05 last quarter and again down to $4.68 to $4.75 per share in its latest revision. Needless to say, the market is not happy with this trend.
The company is doing several things to combat its headwinds, including hiring a consulting firm to optimize its organizational structure. In addition to that, Stericycle is investing in its sales force to drive new customer growth, which is expected to push selling expenses higher and weigh on profitability in the interim.
Now what: Stericycle is losing its battle against a variety of headwinds right now, and they appear to be strengthening. That is forcing the company to double down on its efforts to combat these challenges. That said, given how deeply these challenges affected Stericycle, the market is starting to lose faith in management's ability to overcome the obstacles.


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The Icing and the Cake
Posted on December 10, 2020 by jar101
In the absence of watching any sport from the terrace or the boundary edge since the beginning of February, it might have been expected that I would have compensated by seeking out more sport on television. This has turned out not to be the case.
Since the Spring, the full catalogue of my television sport viewing has comprised:
* the BBC's evening highlights of England's Test match series against the West Indies and Pakistan (see "Soul Limbo", 10th July 2020);
* BBC Alba's coverage of the Glasgow City vs VfL Wolfsburg match in the UEFA Women's Champions League ("Unfinished Business at Petershill Park", 22nd August 2020);
* the respective finals of the rugby league Challenge Cup and rugby union's Heineken Champions League ("Risks and Probable Outcomes", 19th October 2020) plus a couple of games in the earlier rounds of the Challenge Cup;
* the weekly editions of the BBC's The Super League Show and The NFL Show (a review of the National [American] Football League) and Fox's NRL Try Time (the tries in Australia National Rugby League shown on a Sky terrestrial channel);
* the evening highlights of the major cycling tours of France, Spain and Italy (the Tour de France and La Vuelta a Espana on ITV4 and La Giro d'Italia on QUEST/Eurosport); and
* ITV's coverage of England's delayed Six Nations match against Italy (when the English half backs spent 80 minutes kicking the ball high into the early evening Rome sky).
For what it's worth, the programmes I have most looked forward to have been the ITV4 cycling highlights (with the excellent presentations by Gary Imlach and informed commentaries of Ned Boulting and David Millar) and The NFL Show.
The latter, in addition to the highlights of the week's key games, has included some revealing analysis by Jason Bell and Osi Umenyiora (both former NFL players) not only on the intricacies of individual plays on the field, but also some deep-rooted issues within the sport, including the "taking of the knee" and the psychological effect on the individual of long-term injury. The programme does have a laddish tendency, however, and the mid-season replacement of the reliable Mark Chapman by Dan Walker as its anchor is a step backwards. I am prepared to wince at some of the on-field hits that are shown, but Walker's comment that the Cincinnati Bengals' Joe Burrows "looked the most promising" of two young quarterbacks following an earlier "Me and Jason were wondering…" really did set the teeth on edge.
The overall choice of viewing has been constrained by the prescient cancellation of my Sky Sports subscription in 2019 but, even so, the above list is selective and not particularly long. There are no one-day cricket internationals or England soccer games (or, indeed, any soccer games apart from the Glasgow City/FC Wolfsburg encounter) or any of England's recent rugby union internationals in the Autumn Nations Cup. There is no Match of the Day or golf or motor racing or athletics… Admittedly, some of these I probably wouldn't have watched in a "normal" year, but the fact still remains that the scope of my interest in the general sporting environment – and the specific outcomes within it – does appear to have narrowed.
I am not at all sure what the psychological roots of all this are, though I suspect that they are complex. I assume that underpinning it must be the continual process of revaluation of what is or is not important – prompted by the global impact of the coronavirus – that all of us must have undertaken in some form or another in recent months across many parts of our day-to-day lives.
I should acknowledge that – pre-coronavirus – I was already really not all that interested in watching the global multi-millionaires of the Manchester United and Arsenal brands battle it out in front of a capacity Old Trafford on MOTD. So it is not surprising that I have not had any more interest when the stadium is empty. However, it can't all be about the finances. My interest in The NFL Show has not been diminished by the reports of Patrick Mahomes – the quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs – being awarded a contract worth $503 million over 10 years.
Perhaps some insight is given by looking back at the soccer games that I attended over the two years prior to last Spring. There was an international at Hampden Park, a Europa League tie at Celtic Park and Scottish Premiership fixtures in Kilmarnock and Edinburgh. But the other matches I watched were in Berwick, Alloa, Dumfries and Annan. Likewise, the rugby league venues included Workington and Millom as well as Huddersfield and Leeds and there was rugby union in Otley and shinty in Kingussie… It is not difficult to work out that, whilst I enjoy being an observer at a "major" event, I also like to attend the small-scale contest when there is a new place to visit and a local history to explore.
It was probably inevitable that the availability of television sports would not compensate for the absence of opportunities to watch local events. The sports on television are largely at the elite ends of their respective spectra – not at all surprisingly, given that broadcasters have hours of airtime to fill, the sponsors want value for money and the governing bodies and major clubs need to receive the finances for which they had budgeted.
Hence, for the rugby union authorities, the Autumn Nations Cup: on the one hand, a much-needed contribution to addressing a financial black hole; on the other, a quick-fix solution without any history, played in empty stadiums, the viewing rights for which were sold to the streaming arm of a global behemoth with no pedigree in the sport. Regrettably, for me, in the grand scheme of things, it just didn't seem that important.
The principal impacts of the coronavirus on sport have been below the elite levels. In Britain, the 2020 rugby league season was abandoned after a couple of games at all levels below the Super League. For the 2020-21 season, the Rugby Football Union has cancelled all matches below the top two divisions (and even the second tier – the Championship – has not yet started); Scottish Rugby followed suit for all matches in its league structure. The 2020 English cricket season saw the 18 First Class counties muddle through truncated versions of their 4-day and 1-day competitions, but the club-level programme was drastically curtailed. The recent lockdown in England ruled out amateur and grassroots team sports, whilst team sport in schools has also been severely affected.
And so the elite players are – if not thriving – keeping their heads above water. The multi-millionaire footballers and motor-racing drivers are still being paid. But the events in which they participate are – as they always have been – the icing on the cake. The difference now is that the icing is in danger of being all that is left. The cake itself is being hollowed out and is at risk of disappearing.
The Super League's governing body can probably feel satisfied that its competition succeeded in reaching the end of the season, which culminated in a pulsating Grand Final between St Helens and Wigan that was only decided in the final seconds of the match. However, in doing so, they would do well to remember that, amongst the players who took part in that encounter, were those that had begun their professional careers at lower league clubs such as Batley, Featherstone Rovers and Whitehaven. About a dozen others had aided their development via loan or dual registration experience with other teams in the lower divisions, including the North Wales Crusaders, Dewsbury Rams and Workington Town.
My concern is that, by the time that we reach the "new normal" of the post-pandemic world, there might be a generation of sports participants below the elite levels – especially players and coaches, but also administrators, volunteers and spectators – who will have moved on to other things, not to return. Where, then, will the elite players come from for the television sports of the future?
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Mashing up the chamber music: Stewart Copeland beats down the musical barriers
Stewart Copeland is probably best known as the hard-charging drummer for the legendary band The Police.
But behind all that celebrity, Copeland is becoming well-known as a composer of "orchestral" music. Just don't try to call it classical because, well truth be told, he ain't dead yet.
But he does compose operas, symphonic works and movie scores galore.
And now he is involved in a chamber music mashup called Off the Score with one of Canada's great pianists Jon Kimura Parker and three other musicians who have strong orchestral chops: Yoon Kwon, violin and a regular with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra; Marlon Martinez on double bass and Judd Miller, who plays an Electronic Valve Instrument.
It is a grouping of two types of musicians, Copeland says: The people of the ear and the people of the eye.
"On my side, there is the improvisational rock technique and on the other side there are finely honed classical chops. The two sorts of musicians are two families divided at birth.
"The readers and the players. The people of the ear and the musicians of the eye," he says.
"Classically trained musicians connect with their music through the page with their eyes and the cue of the baton. The players, the people of the ear, they don't use their eyes, they just stare off into space. It's their ears that connect to the music. They just know when four bars are done, they think it and they know it.
"The two are very different. The players of the ear tend to improvise and make this s**t up as they go along. Readers strictly adhere to the instructions coming from their eyes off the page.
For each of these different components, Off the Score, Copeland says, is a very exciting combination. Parker "loves the idea that he can improvise on his Stravinsky and is set free. I love being able to play the Stravinsky and learn those strange meters of his and do cool stuff with it. We are all getting something out of this."
Copeland has always had many sides to his musical thinking. Pre-Police, he was in the 1970s prog-rock band Curved Air. In 1986, the year The Police broke up, he developed a piece for the San Francisco Ballet, called King Lear. In addition to the operas and film scores, he's toured with a 14-piece Italian jazz/classical/rock project called Orchestralli. It doesn't always work out. Critics beat up a recent performance of his score for the silent film Ben Hur. But, frankly, one doubts Copeland gives a damn.
"I've been messing around with orchestral music. I'm not classical. When I started out, I might have intended to be but I've long since abandoned any idea of being Mahler. Nowadays I'm taking what I have learned from the world that I have lived in and using an orchestra for that. It may have been used in past by Mendelssohn and Mahler et al but my plans are different for the orchestra."
Such as?
"To rock the house and burn down the building. It's the same sort of thing with these classical players, they really can play and really can burn down the house."
He hooked up with Parker when he was looking for a smaller sized project. The two men share the same agent and apparently the same sort of musical ambition.
When they first played together, Parker told the National Post, he felt "this wave of hugely positive energy, and I was incredibly pumped and excited — it was so much fun I couldn't concentrate."
Mixing a rocker and a classically trained chamber ensemble has meant some adaptation.
Volume being a key. The classical players are forced to be louder, while Copeland has had to turn down the sound.
"Drums are about the worst possible instrument to stick in the middle of an orchestra. They are designed to create volume and I sit there with a big orchestra in Pittsburgh, I have to play so quietly, the instrument is whispering.
"It actually sounds better, there is more character. Off the Score is also very contained in that way. The good thing is that all sorts of technique can be revealed and be relevant."
For the audience coming to the performance by Off the Score in Ottawa on April 5, they won't be seeing a Police show.
"We aren't playing Roxanne."
People will see players stretching themselves. For Copeland, he's tackling Prokofiev and Ravel. And he likes it.
"I have to thrive in that world," he says, but learning is the fun part.
Copeland believes that it's important to keep the music of Brahms and Mendelssohn alive.
"I'm actually glad when an orchestra hires me to do a piece they also have a dead composer on the bill."
But those same organizations "if they don't have living composers on their bill then they are letting us all down."
He's not in love with all "classical" composition. Copeland could do without modernism.
"There is a phase which thankfully is over when the modern composers went crazy even Uncle Aaron Copland (no relation). Modernism basically drove people out of the theatres. It actually came close to killing the orchestras because nobody liked it. It was 'Oh no not another modern piece by some a**hole from Juilliard who wants to show us how ugly he can make the music."
What saved it, he believes, was the arrival of minimalism and composers such as Steve Reich and John Adams.
"Secretly I loved that minimalism. My mother turned me onto drumming and Steve Reich. It's beautiful and it transports you but it's also revolutionary.
"As an artist you want to push back the frontiers and move forward. You don't want to do same old, same old but you want to keep the beauty going too."
Off the Score has been going for a couple of years now. Each of the performers has commitments but they do enjoy getting together to play. This past year they've played concerts in the states and in Toronto and they intend to keep going. It's a chance to work in a different milieu with very talented musicians, Copeland says.
As it was in The Police. "I suppose all three of us were eclectic within the smaller realm of a rock band. Introducing a little reggae would be eclectic," for example.
And as it was before then.
"My head was already raging with all the 20th century composers. That didn't go away just because Jimi Hendrix came along."
Copeland is always learning, always drawing from whatever he sees and hears, he says.
"I listen to Kanye (West) and I (think to myself) I never thought of that. I see some band that sucks because of such and such and I was considering doing such and such. I'm always learning from everywhere. The policy is to be open minded."
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Australia's household savings rate has almost fallen to zero, which raises doubt about the outlook for domestic consumption.
However, Macquarie says wording in the RBA minutes suggest the central bank is "sceptical" about the data.
They said the RBA "don't really believe the extent and persistence of the weakness in Australian household income growth".
Australia's household savings rate is at a 10-year low of 1%.
It's notable in the context of falling house prices and low wage growth — two threats to the outlook for domestic consumption, which itself makes up the biggest component of GDP.
Interestingly, Australia's most recent GDP report — which easily beat forecasts — was driven by a strong lift in consumer spending.
But if Australians are digging further into their hip pocket to to maintain spending levels, it raises doubts about the outlook.
However, Macquarie economists Justin Fabo and Rick Deverell think there may be more to the story.
But in reviewing the minutes from the RBA's latest board meeting, the two said they found evidence which suggests the central bank is "sceptical, or at least puzzled" about household income data.
Recorded household income growth had been subdued and this continued to be an important source of uncertainty for the outlook for consumption and inflation.
"You know that when the RBA uses terms like 'recorded', 'reported' or 'measured', it has a healthy degree of scepticism about the data being referred to," the pair said.
Often, that's because the RBA has access to internal data which may refute the headline number.
And Fabo and Deverell also have their doubts. They said the household savings rate has been "notorious for hefty revisions" over the years, due to inconsistencies in the data.
As a result, the two are wary of the average disposable income figure which the ABS uses to calculate the savings rate.
Instead they prefer to use a measure which they call "income from working". The figure combines compensation of employees, and an estimate of labour income from self-employment.


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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Dimensions 110 x 180 x 17.78mm | 126g
Publisher Penguin Books Australia
Imprint Signet
Publication City/Country Hawthorn, Australia
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About Edward Albee
Edward Albee, the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays: A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most famous play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, The American Dream, Tiny Alice, All Over, Listening, The Lady from Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Finding the Sun, Fragments, Marriage Play and The Lorca Play.


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by Matthew Wallin | Feb 7, 2013 | Monitor
Today, Walter Pincus' Washington Post column explored the effect of the new U.S. Army Field manual on Inform and Influence Activities (IIA). IIA is essentially a rebranding of the prior term Information Operations (IO) with a bit of tweaking. As the military has been on the forefront of countering and confronting violent extremism since 2001, it should be no surprise to anyone that it been giving more attention to the use of communication as an element in its strategy. However, exactly what that strategy is, and exactly who should be performing and coordinating it is incredibly confusing.
Looking at some of the definitions within DoD's effort to influence populations, we begin to see why there are problems.
According to Army Field Manual 3-13 (25 January 2013):
Inform and influence activities is the integration of designated information-related capabilities [IRC] in order to synchronize themes, messages, and actions with operations to inform United States and global audiences, influence foreign audiences, and affect adversary and enemy decisionmaking [sic].
Information-related capabilities [IRC] are capabilities, techniques, or activities employing information to effect any of the three dimensions [cognitive, informational, and physical] within the information environment to generate an end(s). Designated information-related capabilities that support inform and influence activities (IIA) and its lines of effort typically include, but are not limited to, public affairs operations, military information support operations (MISO), combat camera, Soldier and leader engagement, civil affairs operations, civil and cultural considerations, operations security (OPSEC), and military deception.
According to an earlier version of the manual (28 November 2003), which employed the term Information Operations:
Information Operations – The employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to affect or defend information and information systems, and to influence decisionmaking.
According to Joint Publication 3-13 (27 November 2012):
Information Operations – The integrated employment, during military operations, of information-related capabilities in concert with other lines of operation to influence, disrupt, corrupt, or usurp the decision-making of adversaries and potential adversaries while protecting our own.
Confused yet? These definitional differences, disagreements about who does what, and overlap, coupled with lack of true coordination within DoD on this matter are detrimental to the potential for success. Interestingly, "public affairs" is now included as an IRC—a change which actually makes sense. But throw in elements like "operational security," as an "Information-Related capability" and it's no wonder there's confusion as to who is supposed to be doing what.
To clarify Pincus' implication that the Army has developed "Military Information Support Operations" (MISO) units—MISO in itself is merely a rebranding of Psychological Operations (PSYOP). However, MISO does employ Military Information Support Teams (MISTs) comprised of regional experts with language proficiencies. To a large extent, these MISTs seem to be the most engaged in what are traditionally viewed as public diplomacy activities, operating out of embassies in conjunction with public diplomacy efforts in non-warzone countries.
As IIA is essentially about shaping the actions that a target audience takes through the use of communication or activities, the type of definitional confusion within DoD seems superfluous and detrimental. Ultimately, IIA is about influencing that target audience to undertake decisions that help the military achieve its strategic objective. That in itself is nothing new.
DoD needs to truly take this issue seriously, and the problem of definitional changes mixed with seemingly unrelated activities serves to cloud the matter to the point of being ineffective. Regardless of resources, if DoD can't internally explain a simple concept, how can it conceptually be expected to influence people towards its goals overseas?
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Q: How can I send a query to an IQuerable method on an ASP.NET controller? I am using Entity Framework 6 and trying to get some data from my controller. The data is from a table of words which has a key of WordId (the actual words).
My controller has this method:
[Route("Get")]
public IQueryable<Word> Get()
{
   return db.Words;
}

Here's my Word object:
    public class Word
    {
        public string WordId { get; set; } // WordId (Primary key) (length: 20)
        public int CategoryId { get; set; }
    }

Is there a way that I can use this method to just get those words that have a first character between A and E ?

A: Never return Entity or IQueryables from the controller, instead create a model and return it as mentioned below:
string matchStr = "abcde";

[Route("Get")]
public List<WordModel> Get()
{
    return db.Words.Where(p=>matchStr.ToUpper().Contains(p.UniqueID.ToUpper().FirstOrDefault())).Select(p=>new WordModel(){
    WordId  = p.WordId,
    CategoryId  = p.CategoryId
    }).ToList();
}

Create a model class WordModel, as
public class WordModel
{
    public string WordId { get; set; }
    public int CategoryId { get; set; }
}

A: I agree with Sophia. It is a good idea to expose view models (designed based on the view) rather than the actual entities. Lets assume WordVm is that in your case. The return type form the controller action will be a List. Add a reporsitory or a manager class that will be called from your action method that returns your result. I am creating a manager that has access to the db context class with the Word entity.
[Route("Get")]
public List<WordVm> Get()
{

    var manager = new WordsManager()

   return manager.GetWords();
}

  public class WordsManager
  {
     public List<WordVm> GetWords()
     {
       return repo.Words.Where(a => {
           var t = a.Trim().ToUpper().Substring(0, 1)[0];
           return t >= 'A' && t <= 'E';
          }).ToList();
     }
   }

Thank you,
Soma.


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