Round the hem of his robe the golden bells and pomegranates.
Gleamed like a grate of brass, and the sea at his feet was a laver!
The Courtship of Miles Standish, illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1903).
This was the wedding morn of Priscilla the Puritan maiden.
Simple and brief was the wedding as that of Ruth and of Boaz.
Speaking of life and of death and imploring Divine benedictions.
Clad in armor of steel, a sombre and sorrowful figure!
Why does the bride turn pale, and hide her face on his shoulder?
Is it a phantom of air,—a bodiless, spectral illusion?
Is it a ghost from the grave, that has come to forbid the betrothal?
Grows for a moment thin, and betrays the sun by its brightness.
Bodily there in his armor, Miles Standish, the Captain of Plymouth!
Grasping the bridegroom's hand, he said with emotion, "Forgive me!
I have been cruel and hard, but now, thank God! it is ended.
Sensitive, swift to resent, but as swift in atoning for error.
Than come again to a wedding to which he had not been invited.
Breathing the perfumed air of that warm and beautiful morning.
There were the graves of the dead, and the barren waste of the sea-shore.
Filled with the presence of God, whose voice was the sound of the ocean.
Each with his plan for the day, and the work that was left uncompleted.
Covered with crimson cloth, and a cushion placed for a saddle.
Nay, she should ride like a queen, not plod along like a peasant.
Gayly, with joyous laugh, Priscilla mounted her palfrey.
Happy husband and wife, and friends conversing together.
Tremulous, floating in air, o'er the depths of the azure abysses.
Mingled their odorous breath with the balm of the pine and the fir-tree.
Wild and sweet as the clusters that grew in the valley of Eshcol.
Love immortal and young in the endless succession of lovers.
So through the Plymouth woods passed onward the bridal procession.
 Jump up ↑ See Exodus xxviii, for the references in this description.
 Jump up ↑ laver: A brazen vessel in the court or a Jewish tabernacle, where the priests washed their hands and feet.
 Jump up ↑ Book of Ruth, chapter iv.
 Jump up ↑ rack: vapor.
 Jump up ↑ An English proverb.
 Jump up ↑ See Genesis, xxiv.
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Pete Kaliner Breaks Down Amendments Drawing Gubernatorial Ire
Pete Kaliner is a conservative radio host for WWNC 570 AM in western North Carolina that describes himself as a 'lower case L' libertarian. He has penned a piece breaking down the two constitutional amendments that have elicited a united front of opposition from five former governors.
The amendments transfer authorities from the executive to the legislative. To former governors that represents a crisis. To voters it represents a choice.
From Pete Kaliner via iheart.com:
"I'm old enough to remember when Pat McCrory was called too conservative to lead our state. The Republican former governor was also accused of caving to the Republican legislature – even as he sued that body over who gets to make appointments to many of the state's 500+ boards and commissions.
McCrory won.
So, it's not a surprise he joined the four previous living governors to oppose the proposal to change the way the state appoints members of the judiciary and the Board of Elections.
But Democrats were able to put their hatred of former Governor Pat McCrory aside yesterday (don't worry, it's not a truce – just a temporary ceasefire) to celebrate his call for voters to reject two constitutional amendments on the November ballot.
Let's take a look at both questions.
Remaking the Elections Board (and every other board, too?)
Here is a question you'll see on the ballot to remake the Elections Board:
[ ] FOR [ ] AGAINST
Constitutional amendment to establish a bipartisan Board of Ethics and Elections to administer ethics and election laws, to clarify the appointment authority of the Legislative and the Judicial Branches, and to prohibit legislators from serving on boards and commissions exercising executive or judicial authority.
The governors and Democrats say this will limit Executive Branch power — and that is true.
But that doesn't automatically make it a bad idea. After all, the legislative branch is the one closest to the people, and that's where most power should naturally reside. To borrow a favorite chant of the left: "This is what democracy looks like." One all-powerful executive is not what the nation – or the state – was designed to promote or protect.
It doesn't automatically make is a great idea, either. While Republicans control the legislative branch right now, they will not always do so. It is wise to contemplate how the law will be used when your opponents get to wield the power.
So, let's look at the proposed amendment and what it outlines.
The Bipartisan State Board of Ethics and Elections Enforcement shall be located within the Executive Branch for administrative purposes only but shall exercise all of its powers independently of the Executive Branch.
The Board of Ethics and Elections would be walled off from executive branch influence. I fail to see how this is a bad idea.
The next part outlines how the members of the Board will be appointed.
It will have 8 members – each serving a 4-year term.
"Of the total membership, no more than four members may be registered with the same political affiliation, if defined by general law."
The idea here is that the Board will be evenly split – with 4 Republicans and 4 Democrats.
All of the appointments will come nominations submitted by the General Assembly:
Appointments shall be made as follows:
(a) Four members by the General Assembly, upon the recommendation of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, from nominees submitted to the President Pro Tempore by the majority leader and minority leader of the Senate, as prescribed by general law. The President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall not recommend more than two nominees from each leader.
(b) Four members by the General Assembly, upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, from nominees submitted to the Speaker of the House by the majority leader and minority leader of the House of Representatives, as prescribed by general law. The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall not recommend more than two nominees from each leader.
All of this is defensible as a potentially better way to construct the Board of Elections – rather than the old system – where the Governor built all of the state's elections boards with majorities from his/her own party.
However, the General Assembly just recently overhauled the way the Board of Elections is built. In 2017 the State Board of Elections, State Ethics Commission and the Lobbying Compliance Division of the Secretary of State's Office were all merged together. The agency is overseen by a nine-member board – four Democrats, four Republicans and a member not affiliated with either of those parties.
So, why is this new change necessary?
I suspect because the current model was only temporary.
Look at this language that pops up in the law – but won't be on the ballot:
The legislative powers of the State government shall control the powers, duties, responsibilities, appointments, and terms of office of any board or commission prescribed by general law. The executive powers of the State government shall be used to faithfully execute the general laws prescribing the board or commission.
This is the language that the former governors are concerned about.
Had this been part of the constitution in 2017, Gov. McCrory might not have prevailed in his lawsuit against the legislature.
From the Carolina Journal:
In the lawsuit, the state Supreme Court ruled the governor had to have effective control of a majority of the appointees of a board or commission which primarily performs executive branch functions.
So, the question is – do you want the legislature or the governor to be in charge of appointing ALL boards and commissions in the state.
Which is really a question about your views on legislative vs. executive power."
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>>> if you have spent time on the east, you might know what is lake-effect snow is. well, it has started in earnest for the season, and a whole lot of people are paying dearly tonight and have been since last night. our own ron alan has made his way to an i-90 overpass in west seneca , new york. ron , how are we holding up there?
>> reporter: the conditions out here are tough. heavy snow is falling. there's two feet or more on the ground in some areas and the big question is behind me. that's i-90. and you can see the lights of a long line of cars and trucks sitting there in gridlock. it started last night around 8:00 when a big truck jackknifed and crashed, blocking hundreds of cars and motorists, leaving them stranded, many through the night and through the day. it is the first major snow tomorrstorm of the season for upstate new york . drivers stranded, sharing mare misery on cell phones on the local evening news.
>> the state troopers came through and they said it will be a while.
>> well, we started building a snowman.
>> reporter: this woman sat in traffic for more than 11 hours.
>> it just halted to a stop right around 9:30, quarter till 10:00 . that's where i sat all night until this morning.
>> reporter: the blizzard conditions are the latest act of a powerful storm that swept up the eastern seaboard , starting with tornadoes in the southeast. more than 50 homes destroyed outside atlanta. in buffalo, near the great lakes, all the white stuff is what's known as lake-effect snow. lake-effect snow happens when you have cold, arctic air pouring over that warmer lake water which right now is in the low to mid 40s, picks up that moisture and dumps it, creating these lake-effect bands.
>> reporter: new york state police say they have no idea when the massive traffic jam will be cleared. but they are giving it all they've got.
>> our main objective is get this road open, east bound and west bound, continue to use our atvs to check stranded motorists, make sure no one is in harm's way and hopefully by this evening this will be the tip of the buffalo knife.
>> reporter: they are making some progress. at one point the jam stretched for ten miles, it's down to about four miles. the problem now is getting the big trucks out of here. a lot of people, of course, are very tired, angry and frustrated to understand how this could have happened. brian, back to you.
>> we're hoping for the best for all those folks in their vehicles. ron alan, thanks.
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Doubting Thomas: a patron saint for scientists?
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The story of Doubting Thomas is a wonderful philosophical parable about seeing and believing, but what exactly is the intended moral? And what light does it shed on the relationship between science and religion?
The standard view portrays Doubting Thomas as a scientific hero demanding evidence and refusing to succumb to blind faith. Richard Dawkins has popularised this version since the publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976. Last September he tweeted, "If there's evidence, it isn't faith. Doubting Thomas, patron saint of scientists, wanted evidence. Other disciples praised for not doing so."
But this is not an entirely convincing interpretation either of the bible or of the nature of scientific knowledge.
In John's gospel, the other disciples tell Thomas: "We have seen the Lord." Thomas is not convinced: "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe." A week later Jesus appears to all the disciples, and addresses Thomas: "Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing." Thomas now believes, and Jesus comments: "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."
Now, remember that according to Dawkins the story is told so that we should admire not Thomas, but the other disciples, "whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence." What is wrong with that? Well, first of all, the other disciples believed in the resurrection not through blind faith, but because they saw the risen Jesus with their own eyes.
Dawkins is right that we are not supposed to admire Thomas's refusal to believe, but he is wrong about the reason. Thomas's behaviour really is a little irrational. What better basis for belief could he have had than the testimony of his most trusted friends? We all have to rely on testimony rather than first-hand experience for the vast majority of our knowledge.
Thomas's sin was the refusal to believe reliable testimony. The English natural philosopher and theologian John Wilkins wrote about the Doubting Thomas story in the seventeenth century. Jesus's saying 'Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe' signified, for Wilkins, that it was 'a more excellent, commendable and blessed thing for a man to yield his assent, upon such evidence as is in itself sufficient, without insisting upon more.' The testimony of the other disciples should have been in itself sufficient for Thomas; and yet he insisted upon more.
Communal observation and testimony are central to both religion and science. Caravaggio's The Incredulity of St Thomas (c. 1601-2) depicts a collective act of witnessing. Should we, perhaps, even think of Thomas's finger here as a rudimentary scientific instrument? Is he making a digital measurement? Are the other disciples there to corroborate his observations? Rembrandt's slightly later painting of an anatomy lesson (1632) can be seen as a transposition of this model to a scientific setting. In both cases, the body of an executed criminal is being probed — in the case of Rembrandt's image, with forceps rather than just a finger — in front of a group of witnesses, and with the aim of producing knowledge.
The key point here is that these images depict acts of communal knowledge-production. Scientific knowledge, like religious belief, is produced by collaborative acts of observation which, in turn, rely on the observations, testimony and inferences of others.
Richard Dawkins suggests that Doubting Thomas should be the patron saint of scientists. In fact he is patron saint of the blind, which is perhaps more fitting. If Thomas does stand for the view that the true basis of knowledge is unaided individual sense perception, then his is indeed an unscientific world and a world of blindness — a world where, in a phrase of Galileo's, "one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth." Galileo admired those who believed in the sun-centred system before the advent of the telescope: "They have by sheer force of intellect done such violence to their own senses as to prefer what reason told them over that which sense experience plainly showed them to be the case." Blessed, you might say, are those who have not seen and yet believe.
Returning to Caravaggio's painting, we see Thomas, his hand being taken by Christ and placed in the wound in his side. Thomas's eyes are dark, glazed, blank; he is gazing straight ahead, not at the wound. This is indeed a depiction of a blind man – a man being led by the hand towards something he cannot see. Caravaggio seems to say that the man who seeks to base all his knowledge on individual sense experience will see nothing. In both religion and science, the most important beliefs rest on a kind of seeing that cannot be done by an individual alone, that cannot be done with unaided human eyes, and that cannot be done without belief in an unseen realm.
Dr Thomas Dixon is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London and the author of Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, which won the BSHS Dingle Prize in 2009. You can find him on Twitter at @thomasdixon2013 .
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Flotsam and jetsam (5/31) | Everyday Theology 31st May 2013
[…] which would better nourish celibate gay Christians, then, would be good for everyone else as well.Doubting Thomas: a patron saint for scientists? Dawkins is right that we are not supposed to admire Thomas's refusal to believe, but he is wrong […]
Ben 31st May 2013
I agree with you that reliable testimony should usually be trusted and accepted. But incredible claims should require more. When those scientists in Europe reported transmitting that signal faster than light last year, it was greeted with skepticism, because it was counter to all we know about science. And it was proven to be wrong, validating that skepticism. Someone rising from the dead would require more than just the word of my best and most trusted friends before I would accept it as true.
FancyGiraffe 31st May 2013
The writer of this article seems to think that there is a comparison to be made between the bible and peer reviewed scientific journals.
We accept the things science tells us because there is a system in place to double and triple check as well as change or renounce old ideas. Nothing is taken on faith, everything has to be demonstrated and proven with repeatable and testable results. Yes we take the word of scientists, but at any point we can go and perform the same tests. And we can be assured that others already have and have published their results as well.
The bible has none of this. Further, there is no such thing as "sense experience" which "plainly shows" anything other than what fits within reality and logic. It would, in fact, be rather blind to claim that we aren't living in reality- that there are miracles and prayers that work.
Jim Clark 3rd June 2013
But the so-called "belief in an unseen realm" is radically different in the case of science than religion. Scientists hypothesize unseen processes that are validated or invalidated by subsequent observations. The unseen is not mere "belief" or "faith", but rather empirically supported hypotheses. Otherwise, the beliefs are discarded as false. There is no such process in the case of the unseen world of religion. It remains always blind belief or faith.
Doubting Thomas | Science and Religion @ Edinburgh 5th June 2013
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Daniel Polowetzky 20th June 2013
Although reliance solely on first hand experience in the sciences instead of the collective experience of reliable colleagues would be irrational, the Doubting Thomas story is a bad example to support this notion
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BlueSci | Cambridge University Science Communications Society 5th February 2016
[…] image of Doubting Thomas as patron saint of scientists is one popularised by Richard Dawkins, and insightfully discussed by historian of science Thomas Dixon. Karl Popper was a famous and influential philosopher of […]


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When I was in high school, I would often hear that being in university is kind of like being "a small fish in a big ocean". In my first year, I found that class sizes were much larger than what I was used to during high school. Don't let that intimidate you! Professors truly want to help students succeed, so make sure you ask questions. Some professors will also have office hours or are active on social media for any extra help you may need.
During my first year at the University of Waterloo, I realized that time was a limiting factor. So, you want to make sure that you use your time wisely! Try to prioritize the tasks you need to accomplish, and set goals for yourself every day.
When you're studying, try to figure out the concepts you understand and those that you are struggling with. You should spend more time on the concepts that you find most challenging than the ones that are relatively straightforward. If there is a certain concept you need to review, make sure to consult additional resources, be it textbooks, journal articles, or your peers.
Back when I was in high school, I loved to write out all my notes. This didn't work well for me when I got to university because, simply put, there wasn't enough time. The courses in university cover more material and in a shorter time-period compared to high school. A couple study mechanisms that I've personally found particularly useful include flowcharts/mind maps, writing on whiteboards, and keeping a separate notebook just for lecture notes. I'm also looking forward to studying using the courses and quizzes we are developing at Minute School.
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Royal & Sun Alliance's group risk department has a motto: "Making your life easier". And although this slogan was relatively recently, intermediaries and their clients are already beginning to see the results of a number of initiatives designed to improve the insurer's level of service. But the group risk team say this is only the beginning.
Royal & Sun Alliance has notched up years of group risk experience. It has been active in the group life industry since 1920 and introduced group critical illness in 1995. Its group income protection products (GIP) were introduced nearly 30 years ago and the insurer currently has a 15% market share, placing it second in the GIP sector.
The company's commitment to intermediaries is clearly evident. According to group risk manager Mike Warr, who has just completed his 25th year with the firm, 99% of business is sold via the independent adviser.
"We are focused almost exclusively on the intermediary. We have been concentrating on the `making your life easier' theme for a couple of years as we have been looking to build and develop our relationship with them," says Warr.
Royal & Sun Alliance sees itself as a long term player in the GIP arena, and the intermediary channel is very much a part of its strategy for steady growth. Warr is cautious of adopting aggressive expansion tactics, mindful of the dangers of compromising standards.
"We want to be able to have sustainable rates and recognise there has to be a stability in price. We can take our strengths and capitalise on them and also know our weaknesses. We want to provide a total proposition, which isn't about being the cheapest," he says.
Operations manager, John Woolfenden, is in agreement. Woolfenden is another Royal & Sun Alliance veteran. After 30 years with the group, he is a recognised authority on GIP: "Service is so important, more so with income protection. When you're ill, the last thing you need is extra stress due to sloppy administration. And employers want a slick and efficient system."
GIP is by its very nature an intermediary marketplace. Its specialist needs can best be serviced by IFAs who know the subject well and are equipped to provide a wide range of essential functions. But even the most professional intermediaries need guidance from the insurer.
Marr and his team recognised this, and, early in 1997, introduced three response services, as part of their ongoing commitment to making the life of their clients easier. The first two initiatives are crucial developments: telephone access which enabled advisers to get immediate cover in place; and Direct Access – year-round fax and e-mail, as well as a "data on disk" facility, and an 0345 telephone connection to decision makers.
But the most impressive benefit for brokers is the new "ball park" facility. This is the delivery of costings indications within a few hours, which allows the intermediary to discuss potential benefit provision without the need to wait for detailed data. The team thinks it maybe first to offer this kind of service.
"The introduction of the ball park responded to a need, IFAs were the key drivers," comments Warr. "We had said all quotes would go out in 10 days but half of IFAs didn't want it in that time and half wanted it earlier. So we flipped it and matched what the broker wanted."
Woolfenden adds: "There are a growing number of intermediaries who want a quote tomorrow.. People find a rough cost useful, they don't want to spend three weeks waiting for what might turn out to be a speculative quote.
"There are more variations in income protection so the broker doesn't know what the quote may be. The last thing the broker wants is to give their client the wrong quote. He can't say but we can."
The main reason the group risk team were able to address the demand from intermediaries for speedier quotes was simple; they maintain an open dialogue with them. And the response to the new measures has been favourable.
A survey completed by intermediaries earlier this year revealed that the ball park facility has proved hugely popular. Immediate cover over the telephone was another winning formula. The fact that the Bristol-based 160-strong staff of the group risk department are based in one office and can therefore offer centralised support has also found favour.
One of the most highly valued product enhancements was shown to be the approach to "free cover" under the GIP schemes. During 1997, Royal & Sun Alliance removed the need for evidence of health for cover for pension scheme contributions and employer's National Insurance (NI) contributions.
"Groups of employees are insured under GIP, instead of medically underwriting each person," explains Woolfenden. "So on GIP, a benefit level is set at X amount and anything beyond it is required to be medically underwritten. But for income protection, the amount isn't just the basic benefit. There are also the pension rights and NI contributions payable upon members' benefits which the employers have to pay.
"We can insure against these extra contributions. There is then a free limit which is based on a basic benefit. It is simpler as far as underwriting is concerned and easier for the intermediary to explain to the client. This is now standard and as far as we're aware, we were the first to come up with the idea."
Warr is of the opinion that GIP is vastly undersold, especially in relation to group life. And when you consider that a mere one to one and a half per cent of payroll goes to pay for the GIP scheme, Warr may have a very valid point.
"It was UNUM who discovered that companies spent more money on mobile phones than on a GIP scheme. It comes last on a company's list but, if something happens, people are glad to have it," comments Warr.
And intermediaries of all shapes and sizes should not be put off recommending GIP plans to corporate clients. It is true that a lot of business is sold via the large benefit consultancies but Woolfenden says a reasonable amount is placed by the smaller regional brokers.
"I don't see why intermediaries who are not necessarily household names should have any more difficulty selling GIP," says Woolfenden. "It is more the case of having the right sized client. And we can step in and help the broker.
"A couple of years ago we produced a quotation pad. We asked brokers for the information they needed to come up with a quote, things which the smaller broker doesn't know, and they can now show this to their clients."
He adds that the majority of GIP schemes are fairly straightforward. And intermediaries will benefit from Royal & Sun Alliance's policies being written in plain language.
Intelligible documentation is vital for GIP policies. As Peter Anderson, group risk marketing manager, points out, the intrinsically complex nature of disability products means there can sometimes be scope for confusion if communication channels are not clear: "Disability insurance is not like life insurance which is a clear-cut event. It is complicated in terms of what is and is not insured and circumstances can differ at time of claiming.
"People need policy documents which are written in everyday language which everyone understands. Everyone needs to know where they stand from the beginning."
Insurance companies are fond of professing their commitment to intermediaries and policyholders. It is refreshing to discover one which has listened carefully to its customers' needs and proven that actions really do speak louder than word.
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Nicola Andrews is a NCSU Libraries Fellow in Raleigh, NC, assigned to the Learning Spaces and Services department and the Special Collections Resource Center. Previously, she worked as the Online Learning Specialist for the University of Washington Libraries and for the Auckland City Libraries in administration and marketing.
Nicola earned her MLIS degree from the University of Washington in 2017 and holds a BA in Social Sciences from Auckland University of Technology. Nicola has been recognized as an ALA Spectrum Scholar, an ARL Career Enhancement Program Fellow, an ARL Diversity Scholar, and will be participating in the upcoming cohort of the ALA Emerging Leaders program. These are only a selection of the awards and honors that she has already earned throughout her impressive career.
Nicola maintains a robust research agenda and presents her work at both national and international conferences. She has authored the chapter "Reflections on Resistance, Decolonization, and the Historical Trauma of Libraries and Academia" (in The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship, 2018) and co-wrote the article, "Cultural Humility as a Transformative Framework for Librarians, Tutors, and Youth Volunteers," published in Young Adult Library Services Journal in Winter 2018. She is also an artist and an activist. You can find more information about Nicola and her work on nicolaandrews.net. Find her on Twitter @maraebrarian.
Can you please describe your research interests? Are there any key theories / methodologies / paradigms that guide your research?
My research interests currently centre on how libraries and academic spaces may operate as spaces that reinforce historical trauma and colonialism for Indigenous peoples; and how those spaces can become more actively welcoming for minoritized people. Among other things, I am a first-generation high school graduate, and my research interests are informed by my lived experience. I'm very fortunate that I now believe in my ability to undertake academic writing and research; but I only want to do so on my own terms, and in a way which attempts to dismantle harmful power structures. Other things I'm interested in include Indigenous property rights – particularly around how imagery and language are appropriated to create profit for non-Indigenous people. Kaupapa Māori frameworks, autoethnography, and critical feminist pedagogy feature heavily within my work; Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Sara Ahmed are academics whose work inspires me. So many outsiders have built careers and profited from exoticizing and doing research about Indigenous people, so it's really important to me that if I do research, it is a collaborative process.
You and your colleague, Sunny Kim, developed a training workshop for library volunteers building upon a framework of cultural humility. What is cultural humility and why is it important for information professionals? How did you use that framework to develop your workshop?
When Sunny and I were finishing our graduate degrees, we teamed up to develop a pilot workshop on cultural humility for The Seattle Public Library and The Seattle Tutoring Coalition. We recently gave an updated version of the workshop at the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color in September and have been touched and overwhelmed by the response. It gives me hope that this kind of equity and inclusion work is really something people get excited about and want to share with their colleagues.
Cultural Humility is a framework that was developed by Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia; specifically to improve healthcare for migrants and people of colour. Tervalon and Murray-Garcia found that medical professionals were getting basic cultural competency training, and then making harmful assumptions about their patients, instead of listening to patient needs or getting to know them.
"Cultural humility is an ongoing process, which also means practitioners need to reflect on their progress, and know when to admit they need to step up and do better."
We can define cultural humility as an ongoing process of empathy and understanding. There are three main concepts within cultural humility – examining and understanding your own background, committing to dismantle and redress power structures, and building relationships. In practice, this means believing people when they talk about their own experiences or needs – this can be difficult for anyone who feels like they have to be an expert or authority; but this is really important for information professionals who serve researchers and patrons who are their own experts and creators of knowledge! I know that many library workers endure sexism, or thinly-veiled racism because they are met with stereotypes or assumptions instead of being listened to. Cultural humility is an ongoing process, which also means practitioners need to reflect on their progress, and know when to admit they need to step up and do better.
Using a framework that was developed in the medical field has been a useful way to begin conversations about power and privilege in an accessible way. However, cultural humility was introduced twenty years ago, and although it is a useful tool, we cannot pretend it has cured the world of bias, microaggressions, or racism; which continue to cause problems within medicine. We know that in Western society, women's knowledge about their bodies is consistently dismissed by male healthcare providers; and that people of colour are even more likely to be denied autonomy or authority when advocating for themselves. We have a lot of work left to do.
A common theme throughout your work is decolonizing the information profession, including our work, spaces, and LIS education. How can we decolonize the research process? What are some ways that you and others that you work with actively disrupt research and other colonial processes within academia?
When I consider the Indigenization or ReMāorification of research, I first think of consent and relationality. Whether you subscribe to an Indigenous worldview or not, when you ask someone to participate in your research, you are entering into a collaboration with them. In the case of most Western research, it's very transactional – someone fills out a survey or gives an interview, and then that information becomes the intellectual property of a researcher or an institution. In Kaupapa Māori research, informed consent means consulting with iwi and elders among the community you wish to collaborate with – and you need to take the time to establish a connection before even asking about research. You need to be very clear about what the purpose of the research is, how the research will be stored, and how it will benefit Māori. One of the things that is most exciting to me about Māori research is how family-centred it is – asking people if they want family members present during interviews, conducting interviews in people's homes, or thanking people with a koha after you've gotten to know them. Building relationships is very intentional and it takes time, which rarely conforms to a Western academic schedule.
"I think vulnerability and openness is a big part of Indigenizing research; but so is self-determination."
Considering my day-to-day work, I try to empower students to think of themselves as researchers, and to believe that they can create knowledge and impactful projects in a number of mediums. Knowledge production can include art, storytelling, and dance; impactful academic writing isn't always stuffed with jargon or big words. I think vulnerability and openness is a big part of Indigenizing research; but so is self-determination. When I was a graduate student, I would happily help a fellow researcher – especially one doing diversity work – even if the questions I was answering left me feeling poorly afterwards. I'm much less likely now to agree to answer research questions about microaggressions, burnout, or employee morale – partially because my conditions have improved so much since I was a student, but also because I don't want to give my experiences to somebody else to anonymize and shape for their own benefit.
What are ways that non-indigenous allies can recognize and incorporate indigenous knowledge into their research in a respectful way?
Two ways that Settlers can show their respect for Indigenous peoples are to do their own research (by which I mean not burdening people with emotional labour or basic questions), and to listen to the experiences of Indigenous people without defensiveness. Not all Indigenous people are the same – I am Indigenous, but in this country I am a Settler. Some people are happy to share their knowledge and values, but others may be loathe to lend their expertise; and both of those decisions should be respected. There is a lot of talk about "Indigenizing the academy" and performing land acknowledgements, with no actual benefit to Indigenous people. I don't think that non-Indigenous people should be incorporating Indigenous protocol and knowledge systems into their research; but they can be an ally by supporting Indigenous people bringing those things into their own projects. And we can all work to cultivate supportive and positive relationships with those we interact with.
What's next for you? What are you working on in your current role as a NCSU Libraries Fellow?
The next year is off to an exciting start for me – I've been invited to give a talk in late January for the University of Michigan Libraries Emergent Research Series (thank you to Anne Cong-Huyen), from there I'm heading to Seattle to participate in the 2019 cohort of ALA Emerging Leaders (with my NCSU colleague Kim Henze), and then flying home to Tāmaki Makaurau to present at the International Indigenous Librarians Forum (with talented folks such as Spencer Lilley, Sandy Littletree, and Camille Callison). I'm very fortunate in that I'll be able to connect with and learn from many kind and talented people along the way, so I'm looking forward to it although it's also a daunting trip!
In the meantime, I'm busy collaborating with my NCSU Libraries colleagues to plan programming and outreach options for the spring – my work will include recording and processing videos for the Wolf Tales oral history programme, curating video games, and thinking of more ways the Libraries can support student wellness and success.
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"Courtroom Criminal Evidence" by Edward J. Imwinkelried, Paul C. Giannelli et al.
Overview of evidence for criminal trial attornies.
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A revolutionary study published last month supports the use of helmet therapy in the treatment of flat head syndrome. What does this mean for you and your baby, asks Steve Mottram, Consultant Orthotist and Managing Director of Technology in Motion, and why does the advice provided to parents remain so inadequate?
Ever seen a baby wearing what appears to be a crash helmet and wondered why? Unless you happened upon a particularly accident-prone child, chances are (s)he was undergoing helmet therapy for flat head syndrome.
Also known as plagiocephaly or brachycephaly, the condition affects nearly half of babies to a greater or lesser degree. Because the skull is still relatively soft, extended periods spent sitting or lying with the head resting in the same position can eventually causes a flat spot to emerge.
The deformity can usually be prevented or reversed in the early stages by taking pressure away from the flattened area through what is known as repositioning. In mild and moderate cases, and if started early enough, this will allow for good improvement. However, in severe cases and for infants over six months of age, repositioning becomes less effective – and this is where helmet therapy comes in.
The infants' flat head treatment involves wearing a custom-made helmet (cranial orthosis) over a period of three to six months. This gradually allows controlled natural growth to correct the position and shape of the skull bones, giving a safe, gentle and permanent correction.
The study, published in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (the Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons), provides the strongest evidence yet in support of helmet therapy where conservative (repositioning) therapy has failed.
Steinberg and his team followed the progress of over 4000 patients with plagiocephaly and/or brachycephaly. Some had been assigned repositioning (alone or with physiotherapy) and others helmet therapy. The aim was to achieve a complete correction in each scenario – even if this meant referring patients for another form of treatment partway through the investigation.
The researchers compared patients' head shape measurements and rates of correction throughout treatment. While repositioning alone achieved acceptable correction in 77.1% of cases, 15.8% of patients required helmet therapy and were moved into this treatment group.
The researchers also analysed the cases in which conservative and/or helmet therapy had failed. In both scenarios, the two most common reasons were that (a) clinical guidelines had not been followed correctly, and (b) treatment had been delayed until after the recommended age.
In spite of this clear evidence, many of the parents we see tell us that they would not have even heard of helmet therapy had it not been for recommendations from friends and family. Many have been actively discouraged from seeking treatment by their doctor or health visitor, and several feel that their concerns have been ignored or ridiculed. Some have even been accused of being vain.
Why is it that parents are still not being provided with up-to-date advice on the options that are available to them in a neutral and helpful manner? Helmet therapy is a recognised treatment for flat head syndrome throughout much of the developed world, including the USA, Australia and Germany, so why not here?
This throws up more questions than answers. Why is treatment seen as controversial? Surely the new study provides some pretty convincing evidence that helmet therapy works, even after a correctly implemented course of repositioning?
The lack of awareness surrounding helmet therapy appears to stem from the outdated advice that is being put forward by the NHS, and by the extension of other healthcare professionals.
So, what can be done for babies with flat head syndrome?
Let's be realistic here; we're not suggesting that the NHS reaches into its already shallow pockets to fund the treatment. What we do propose is an urgent rethink regarding the advice that is being provided to parents, so that they can at least make informed decisions rather than finding out what they could have done when it's too late.
Moreover, the longer health care organisations continue to avoid the issue, the more cases we'll see of questionable practitioners seeking to take advantage of desperate parents – a phenomenon that already is not unheard of. And without standards to adhere to, there is absolutely nothing to stop these people from cutting corners, potentially harming their patients in the process.
So, what can you do to improve your own understanding and come to a position whereby you can make your own informed decisions? How can you help spread awareness of the issue and encourage others to do the same?
Do your research. Trust your instincts as a parent – they're there for good reason. Talk to friends and family. Show them this article. Spread the word about your own experiences. The more people are made aware of the issue, the sooner it will be taken seriously – and, all being well, the sooner action will be taken.


A former Olympic sportsman and international footballer has been acquitted of assaulting a neighbour after a bust-up in a Teesside street.
Ex-Cameroon star Samuel Ebwea, who played at the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, was cleared of assault occasioning actual bodily harm at Teesside Magistrates' Court.
Ebwea, who had unsuccessful trials at English Premiership club Southampton and Second Division side Oldham Athletic, now hopes to quit his Middlesbrough home and follow his dream of playing for Spanish side Athletico Madrid.
The 26-year-old striker, of Gower Close, Middlesbrough, was part of the team that reached the quarter-finals of the Atlanta Games in 1996.
He fled political unrest in his homeland and had top-flight experience at Rapid Bucharest in Romania, as well as playing for clubs in Holland, Switzerland and the former Yugoslavia.
More recently he had a stint at Irish Premier Division team Drogheda United. He ended up settling in Middlesbrough and offered his services to professional clubs through the pages of the Evening Gazette.
He recently told the Gazette: "I'm strong with both feet, can make the play and score goals and I think I could do a good job at as high a level as the premiership."
It was an incident near his previous home in Keith Road, Grove Hill, on August 26 last year that led to his court appearance yesterday.
He was accused of assaulting his neighbour Maureen Morley, 62, after she intervened as he argued with neighbour Kelly O'Brien.
In a police interview Ebwea said a fight broke out between himself and another neighbour in which Ms Morley may have been hit accidentally. District Judge Martin Walker acquitted Ebwea, deeming witness statements unreliable.
Ebwea said after the trial he was delighted with the result.
"I won the victory. I win everywhere I go," he said.


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Ornella Domini (born 2 November 1988) is a Swiss professional boxer. She is a two-time European female welterweight champion, having held the title since 2019 and previously from 2013 to 2015. She also challenged for the WBC female super-welterweight title in 2018. As of September 2020, Domini is ranked as the world's fifth best active female welterweight by The Ring and ninth by BoxRec.

Professional career
Domini made her professional debut on 26 January 2013, scoring a third-round technical knockout (TKO) victory against Daniela Bickei at the Hotel Ramada in Geneva, Switzerland.

Following four more wins, one by TKO, she defeated the European female super-lightweight champion Sabrina Giuliani—who had moved up a weight class to face Domini—via ten-round split decision (SD), capturing the inaugural European female welterweight title on 9 November 2013 at the Hotel Ramada. The two ringside judges scored the bout 96–95 in favour of Domini while the referee scored it 97–94 to Giuliani. After two unanimous decision (UD) victories in non-title bouts in 2014—Kremena Petkova in March and Borislava Goranova in May—Domini defeated Giuliani in a rematch on 28 March 2015, retaining her European title via ten-round UD at the Hotel Ramada with the scorecards reading 100–91, 97–93, and 97–93.

Domini was scheduled to face undisputed female welterweight champion Cecilia Brækhus on 28 November 2015 at the ESPRIT Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, with Brækhus' WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO titles on the line. The bout was set to serve on the undercard of Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tyson Fury. However, the bout was called off after Brækhus suffered an injury. Following another postponement of a bout with Brækhus, coupled with commitments outside of boxing, Domini made the decision to retire from the sport.

After two years out of the ring, she made her return on 1 April 2017, defeating Lela Terashvili via six-round UD at the Hotel Ramada. Two months later Domini suffered the first defeat of her career, losing by UD over six rounds against Ruth Chisale on 24 June. She bounced back from defeat with a third round stoppage via corner retirement (RTD) against former opponent Lela Terashvili in November, followed by two UD victories against Mariam Tatunashvili in March and September 2018.

Her next fight came against WBC female super-welterweight champion Ewa Piątkowska on 10 November 2018 at the Gliwice Arena in Gliwice, Poland. In what was described as a dominant performance from the champion, Domini suffered her second professional defeat, losing by UD with the judges' scorecards reading 100–90, 99–91, and 98–92.

Following the loss, she recaptured the vacant European female welterweight title, defeating Szilvia Szabados via ten-round UD on 9 March 2019 at the Hotel Ramada with the scorecards reading 99–91, 98–93, and 97–94. The pair had a rematch one year later on 7 March at the same venue, with Domini retaining her title with a SD victory.

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Swiss boxers
Welterweight boxers
Light-middleweight boxers
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I'll never forget many, many Christmases ago, shopping with my best friend Liz. She'd asked her entire family for Anthropologie gift cards… and they seriously delivered.
Liz's obsession was my first glimpse into how great Anthropologie really is. I've bought countless dresses for special occasions, tops, shoes, home decor… but I've never quite understood my fascination.
When I walk inside, the clothes never really seem to suit my style. Yet somehow, I adore everything I've ever bought there.
Flipping through the pages of Anthropologie's "HOUSE and HOME spring 2015" catalog, nothing seems quite my taste, yet I want every single thing inside.
Maybe it's the touch of whimsy I'm lacking in my life. Maybe it's the unapologetic splashes of color. Maybe it's sense of daring I secretly envy.
Who knows why I love it all so much, but I'm already filling up my wish list!
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Q: Approval Workflow to update User Profiles Details I am working on a Leave Application System using Sharepoint.
I have added the total leave each user have in their user profile.
The user will apply leave and once it is approved, the leave taken will be deducted from their user profile.
The workflow is done using the Approval Template.
So the question now is how do I proceed from here?
How can I have the last step in the approval process to update the user profile total leave?
Do I have to create a web part? If so, how I can pass parameter into web part from the approval workflow so that I can do the deduction?
Thanks

A: I would solve this in 2 steps:

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*Make the Approval Workflow call some server side code;

*Let the server side code update the user's profile.

Make the Workflow call your code

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*Create a event handler project in your Visual Studio for SharePoint

*In the WorkflowCompleted function put these code:

public override void WorkflowCompleted(SPWorkflowEventProperties properties)
{
    base.WorkflowCompleted(properties);
    if (properties.CompletionType != SPWorkflowEventCompletionType.Completed) return; //only update the Leave days when the leave request get approved.
    SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate
    {
        using (SPSite site = new SPSite(properties.WebUrl))
        {
            using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
            {
                SPWorkflow wf = new SPWorkflow(web, properties.InstanceId);
                UpdateUserProfile(wf.AuthorUser.LoginName); //update the initiator's profile
            }
        }
    }
}

Update the user's prfile
public void UpdateUserProfile(string userAccount)
{
    string url = "http://sp.adventure.com"; //replace with your site collection
    using(SPSite site = new SPSite(url)){
        SPServiceContext sc = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);
        UserProfileManager upm = new UserProfileManager(sc); //now you have the manager object
        UserProfile up = upm.GetUserProfile(userAccount); //for example, "adventuer\\jony"
        up["Leave"] = int.Parse(up["Leave"].ToString())-1; //you may want to check if the Leave is more than 0
        up.Commit();
    }
}

A: How are you applying the leave count to a user profile? Do you have a custom list somewhere?
If that's the case, then a workflow should be triggered when the administrator accepts the request -
Example:
- User Leave (Custom list)
- User Requests (Custom list with approval)
The workflow would do a list look-up based on the user that created the request:
User Leave.CreatedBy = User Requests.CreatedBy
That should return only 1 record, which will have the User Leave count. Simply decrease that variable by 1
For more info, check out: Sharepoint - Create a workflow

A: One of the sessions I've been doing this year has been one that provides an intro to creating custom workflow activities that can be used in SharePoint designer.  In there I have an example project that can read from the User Profiles.  I'm using an example you provide a user name and a property you want to read and it returns the properties value.  This could be used to get the current days available and a second, similar action could be created to write out a value back to the user profiles.  As the slide deck explains, I feel very strongly about trying to leverage farm level services versus using lots of local sources like custom lists.
This page on my site has links to the slide deck and some source code to get you started.
http://www.mikeoryszak.com/sharepoint/sps-the-conference-slides-and-additional-info
[Note, the source code is incomplete and since been significantly updated but not republished]

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ST. ANDREWS CHURCH BOOTHBY PAGNELL
ONE OF THE BELTISLOE GROUP OF PARISHES
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DOMESDAY BOOK – Records exist of a church at Bodebi (Boothby).
Dr. Robert Sanderson, chaplain to Charles 1, was Rector from 1619 - 1660 and Bishop of Lincoln 1660 – 1662 (Life of Robert Sanderson by Izaak Walton, 1648.)
Charles 1st is recorded as saying;
'I carry my ears to hear other preachers. I carry my conscience to hear Mr Sanderson and to act accordingly.'
The Church was restored by Mrs Cecil Thorold in 1895 -1897.
It had, according to a contemporary report in the Grantham Journal of Sept 4th 1897 'become impoverished and disfigured by the ravages of time and neglect'.
The architect John Loughborough Pearson was chosen to be responsible for the restoration.
Pearson was one of the most famous of Victorian church architects; he was also responsible for Truro Cathedral
and St John's in Brisbane, Australia.
THE CHURCHYARD – This was extended to the South, during the restoration, and the Lych - gate built in 1896 is now a listed building.
THE SOUTH PORCH – Built in the 14th century with a gabled flat roof. The only ancient piece of glass in the Church is in these windows – 15th century and depicts the Harrington Coat of Arms. Meetings of the P.C.C. were held in the porch until the end of the last century.
SOUTH AISLE – Rebuilt and extended in the 14th – 15th century (Perpendicular windows). Norman Font with oak cover made 1896 carvings depicting the seven virtues Lady Chapel was formed at the church restoration; the statues on either side of the altar are of our Lady and St. Andrew. The Mothers Union Banner was embroidered by the late Mrs W Chantry wife of William Joseph Chantry Rector from 1941.
THE TOWER – Built at the end of the 12th century has a fine Norman West Doorway with Waterleaf capitals.
The groin vaulting in the lower stage is from 1896.
The bell openings have Saxon type mid-wall shafts, whilst the top of the tower has battlements with eight pinnacles; on the S.W. pinnacle is a coat of arms of the Paynell family.
The pinnacles were repaired in 2005.
THE BELLS – The Church did have three bells as follows:
(1) Pre- reformation
These were replaced in December 2008 with a peal of five bells dating from 1867. Click here to see more about this project.
THE NAVE – This is the earliest part of the present church and was built 1125 – 1150.
The roof was raised and the clerestory added early in the 14th century.
At the restoration in 1896 the low Norman arch dividing the nave from the chancel was demolished and the existing arch was built. The Rood Loft was destroyed at the reformation.
CHANCEL – Rebuilt and extended in 14th century.
Piscina, or basin for washing vessels, in South Wall.
Aumbry or small cupboard, and filled in Priest's Doorway in the North Wall.
Marble pavement was part of the 1896 restoration.
WINDOWS – The windows in the church were made by Clayton and Bell as part of the restoration, they were one of the largest and most respected stained-glass makers of the Victorian period and the designer George Daniels, who was an apprentice at Clayton and Bell, went on to become a much sought after freelance designer. The Jesse Window is especially impressive.
NORTH AISLE – Rebuilt between 1320 - 1330 and considerably extended.
Prior to 1896 this aisle was used as a chapel and is the cemetery of the Harrington, Tyrwitt and Litchford families. A brass memorial to the Harrington's is on the South wall of this aisle.
THE ORGAN – In 1896 Mrs Thorold commissioned Robert Hope Jones to install an Electric organ in the church. This was powered by re-charchable batteries; at first the organ pipes were housed in the newly cut opening in the East wall of the Tower, whilst the console was at the East end of the North aisle.
Robert Hope Jones is either reviled or revered in church building circles yet the fact remains that he was the inspiration for the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ arguably America's finest product of the early 20th century and at the reopening service in 1897 Hope Jones himself played the organ.
This original organ proved to be unsatisfactory and it was rebuilt in 1904 by Norman and Beard and converted to pneumatic action and the organ pipes were rehoused in an oak case in the north aisle.
THE VESTRY – This was built in 1896.
GENERAL ITEMS OF INTEREST
The restoration in 1897 cost Annie Thorold £10,000.00 around £756,000.00 at today's prices.
Electric lighting was put into the church in 1946 at the cost of £95.00 around £550.00 at today's prices.
In about 1900 the Low Church Kensitites, who were a group of men opposed to ritual in the church, cycled from Grantham with the intention of breaking the sanctuary lamps and other decorations. The villagers resisted their efforts with ripe tomatoes and bad eggs and seized a revolver from one of the party.
This revolver was hanging for a time in the vestry. It then disappeared but came to light in 1955, underneath the organ, as this was being cleaned and overhauled.
It was taken to the police station!


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Q: How to put a complex Layout within CollapsingToolbarLayout I am trying to put a complex layout within a CollapsingToolbarLayout. Attached image describes the details.

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*What I want - Add the described custom layout in my CollapsingToolbarLayout.

*What are the problems

*CirclePageIndicator is not visible (screenshot below)

*ViewPager swiping through the ViewPager gives blank Screens. This is
depite PagerAdapter configured.

*Any attempt to bring my custom layout outside CollapsingToolbarLayout
and make it a direct child of AppBarLayout brings a blank screen.

*What I have done -

*Tried creating a child LinearLayout of CollapsingToolbarLayout - this does not show the CirclePageIndicator and inconsistently shows the ViewPager

*Tried creating a child LinearLayout of AppBarLayout - This shows a blank screen.

How do I go about resolving the issue ??
Any help is really appreciated !

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<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/main_content"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:id="@+id/appbar_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="250dp"
        android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true" >

        <android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout
            android:id="@+id/collapsing_toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|exitUntilCollapsed"
            app:contentScrim="@android:color/darker_gray"
            app:expandedTitleMarginStart="48dp"
            app:expandedTitleMarginEnd="64dp"
            android:fitsSystemWindows="true">

            <!--<ImageView
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:src="@drawable/charts"
                android:scaleType="centerCrop"
                android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
                app:layout_collapseMode="parallax"
                app:layout_collapseParallaxMultiplier="0.1" />-->

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                android:background="@drawable/charts" >

                <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
                    android:id="@+id/pager"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

                <com.viewpagerindicator.CirclePageIndicator
                    android:id="@+id/circlePageInd"
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

            </LinearLayout>

            <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
                app:layout_collapseMode="pin"/>

        </android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout>

    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
        android:id="@+id/fab"
        app:layout_anchor="@id/appbar_layout"
        app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

    <android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior" >

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation = "vertical" >

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="Info
                Jarlsberg lancashire edam. Dolcelatte hard cheese brie st. agur blue
    cheese caerphilly bavarian bergkase cheese and biscuits mascarpone. Cheeseburger swiss bavarian
    bergkase cream cheese fromage frais cheesy feet port-salut airedale. St. agur blue cheese rubber
    cheese caerphilly cheddar cheesecake cream cheese manchego lancashire. Roquefort squirty cheese
    the big cheese."
                android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Title" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="Jarlsberg lancashire edam. Dolcelatte hard cheese brie st. agur blue
    cheese caerphilly bavarian bergkase cheese and biscuits mascarpone. Cheeseburger swiss bavarian
    bergkase cream cheese fromage frais cheesy feet port-salut airedale. St. agur blue cheese rubber
    cheese caerphilly cheddar cheesecake cream cheese manchego lancashire. Roquefort squirty cheese
    the big cheese." />

        </LinearLayout>

    </android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

MainActivity.java
    package com.deep.;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.support.design.widget.TabLayout;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentStatePagerAdapter;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.TableLayout;

import com.viewpagerindicator.CirclePageIndicator;

import java.util.List;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private static final int VIEW_PAGER_COUNT = 3;

/*    private ListView listView;
    private DrawerLayout drawerLayout;
    private ActionBarDrawerToggle actionBarDrawerToggle;*/

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
//        toolbar.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);
//        toolbar.setTitle("Wealth Tracker");
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        final ActionBar ab = getSupportActionBar();
        ab.setTitle("WealthTracker");
        ab.setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.ic_drawer);
        ab.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

        ViewPager viewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
        ScreenSlidePagerAdapter pagerAdapter = new ScreenSlidePagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
        viewPager.setAdapter(pagerAdapter);

        CirclePageIndicator circlePageIndicator = (CirclePageIndicator) findViewById(R.id.circlePageInd);
        circlePageIndicator.setViewPager(viewPager);

    }

    private class ScreenSlidePagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {

        public ScreenSlidePagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
            super(fm);
        }

        @Override
        public Fragment getItem(int position) {
            return new ScreenSlidePagerFragment();
        }

        @Override
        public int getCount() {
            return VIEW_PAGER_COUNT;
        }
    }

    public static class ScreenSlidePagerFragment extends Fragment {
        @Nullable
        @Override
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
//            return super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState);

//            View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container, false);
//            return view;

            TabLayout tabLayout = new TabLayout(getActivity());
            tabLayout.addTab(tabLayout.newTab().setText("Expense"));
            tabLayout.addTab(tabLayout.newTab().setText("Inflow"));
            tabLayout.addTab(tabLayout.newTab().setText("Investment"));

            tabLayout.setTabMode(TabLayout.MODE_FIXED);
            tabLayout.setTabGravity(TabLayout.GRAVITY_FILL);
            tabLayout.setTabTextColors(Color.WHITE, Color.YELLOW);

            Log.i("ScreenSlidePagerFrag", "Returning tab layout");

            return tabLayout;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // If the nav drawer is open, hide action items related to the content view
//        boolean drawerOpen = drawerLayout.isDrawerOpen(listView);
//        menu.findItem(R.id.action_websearch).setVisible(!drawerOpen);
        return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.

//        if(actionBarDrawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(item)){ return true; }

        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}


LENIN'S TOMB: What next after #30June?
Action for ESOL. Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (BARAC), Brent Fightback, Camden Keep Our NHS Public, Camden United Against the Cuts, Central London Right to Work, Coalition of Resistance (CoR), CWU London Region, CWU North/North West London, Day-mer (Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre), Defend the Right to Protest, Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC), Ealing Alliance for Public Services, Education Activist Network, Hackney Pensioners Group, Hands Off Our NHS, Islington Disabled People Against the Cuts, Islington Hands Off Our Public Services (IHOOPS), Keep Our NHS Public, National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN), NUJ London Magazine, NUT Camden, NUT Croydon, NUT Ealing, NUT East London Teachers Association, NUT Hackney, NUT Islington, NUT Islington 6th Form College, NUT Newham, NUT Southwark, NUT Wellington Park Primary School, PCS Central London Valuation , PCS DWP North London, PCS Euston Towers, PCS LPS London & South branch, PCS Office of the Public Guardian, Queer Resistance, Right to Work (RtW), RMT Eurostar, RMT Fleet branch, Southwark Save Our Services, TUC Barnet, TUC Greenwich & Bexley, TUC Haringey, TUC Slough, TUC Waltham Forest, UCU City & Islington College, UCU City of Westminster, UCU Conel, UCU Greenwich Community College, UCU Hackney, UCU Kings College, UCU Lambeth College, UCU Left, UCU Lewisham, UCU London Metropolitan, UCU London Region, UCU Richmond College, UCU South Bank University , UCU Tower Hamlets, UCU Westminster Kingsway, UK Uncut, Unison Camden, Unison Haringey, Unison LFEPA, Unison Tower Hamlets, Unison United Left.
I'm not bigging up diversity for the sake of it. Many of these groups would overlap in terms of their activists and politics, and anyway I don't suppose every group has the same social weight. But the point is that among these are groups that really need to work together, as well as some that aren't rooted in the labour movement but have nonetheless understood the importance of supporting it - just as the student movement has. Take UK Uncut, for example. It's contribution to the strike was a simple gesture of solidarity: they brought breakfast to striking workers on the picket lines. In a previous post, I argued that UK Uncut's major contribution so far had been to shift the field of signification, forcing a different kind of discussion about tax and spending into the mainstream media. This is doing a bit more than that, I would venture - it's building relationships between anti-cuts activists who aren't necessarily unionised and trade union activists whom the media try to pick on and single out as some sort of gluttonous alien presence within an abstemious, belt-tightening society.
Of course it isn't only UK Uncut that are doing this sort of thing, but it's an imaginative intervention. Such relationships need to be expanded and deepened. There will be more strikes. There needs to be a lot more industrial action if this government is to be defeated. And when that happens, communities of activists able to back up the strikers, counter the propaganda, raise funds, connect their strikes to wider political objectives, etc., will be essential. So, 30th June was an excellent start. And there will be a series of political campaigns between now and the next wave of strikes in Autumn - the campaign to save the NHS now being launched, for example, as well as the demonstrations outside Tory and Liberal conferences, which should be big - to keep the momentum going. Moreover, there will be furious debates in those unions such as the GMB, Unison, and Unite, which didn't participate in these strikes. The Labour leadership has made it very clear that it is opposing any strike action while negotiations are ongoing (even though, as Francis Maude made abundantly clear in his floundering BBC Radio 4 interview on the day of the strike, the government isn't actually negotiating on the main issues). I expect that this is part of the reason why the union leadership that is closest to the Labour leadership has felt compelled to sit the recent strike waves out. So, rather sooner than I expected, the anti-cuts movement is posing a hard question for the labour movement. Ed Miliband has signalled that he wants to reduce union influence in the Labour Party, and is broadly tilting toward the right, particularly the 'Blue Labour' types. The question now is whether the unions closest to Labour will act independently, or waste their energies trying to buttress a weak leadership for fear of something worse following him. Similarly, the CWU now faces the question of whether it will support strike action to stop the closure of mail centres in London, which are known to be militant strongholds being targeted to facilitate privatization. But there's more to it than this.
I argued before that a precondition of the success of anti-cuts movements was 1) a plausible, popular explanation of the crisis, 2) a set of solutions based on that explanation (an alternative economic strategy), 3) a unified political movement capable of taking those arguments to a wider public. I would pose this in opposition to what might loosely be termed 'syndicalist' responses to the cuts. These would involve the idea that 'struggle' alone is a sufficient basis for action, and that such 'struggle' can be conducted independently of the existing mass parties and unions, almost without reference to fixed political norms or concepts. Perhaps that doesn't seem to be a pressing danger. But syndicalism arises historically where the extant labour bureaucracies and associated reformist parties have become too invested in the current bargaining system to really fight for the interests of workers. I'm not really convinced we're at that stage with the trade unions, but in countries where reformist parties are in power, and implementing cuts, and doing so with the acquiescence of union leaders, such tendencies have already manifested themselves in one form or another. I can well see it becoming a tendency here among younger, unorganised activists.
But David McNally raised a different kind of issue in his talk on new socialisms, specifically with reference to Bolivia and Egypt. It was the issue of how to build a popular labour-based response to neoliberalism in a context in which traditional unionism is either in serious difficulty or has been repressed by the state. In Bolivia, elements of the labour movement recognised that workplaces in the neoliberal era were becoming very different to traditional mass production outlets, and as such unions were finding it harder to organise. Not only that, of course. The Bolivian working class also had to contend with imperialism in the form of the IMF and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA, now happily replaced with ALBA). The production centres were smaller, more geographically scattered, and were more difficult to reach. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the most class conscious sector of workers in the Americas was subject to continual erosion so that by the end of the 1990s, the organised working class represented just a fifth of the total urban working class. As a result, some activists turned toward outreach work, setting up stalls in town and city centres, inviting people to join unions. (For what it's worth, this part of McNally's analysis comes straight from Jeffrey Webber's book From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia, which is thus far the best guide to the subject of the country's leftist turn since Cochabamba). The result was the leftist upsurge that resulted in a near revolutionary situation in 2005, followed by the election of Evo Morales.
The decline of union reps over the last 25 years is worrying, but it is explainable. In 1970 there were around 200,000 stewards in Britain; by 1984 they had reached the 335,000 mark. This dramatic increase was due to the rising levels of militancy and the growth of trade unionism in the white-collar sectors—local government, civil service and health. There then followed a sharp fall in union membership and an even bigger fall in the number of shop stewards. As Ralph Darlington points out, recent estimates vary considerably: some believe that the number of stewards in 2004 was around 100,000, others as high as 200,000. Whatever the truth, it is a serious decline and one rooted in the defeat of key sections of the working class in the 1980s and the decline in industries with strong union representation.
The problem therefore is not wholly dissimilar to that in Bolivia, as a combination of defeats and the re-composition of the class has left the organised core of the working class slump to less than a third. Is there a case for an outreach campaign here? Surely there is. It would make perfect sense for the unions to be engaging in a mass recruitment drive on the basis of resisting the attack on working class communities. Organising and reaching into new workplaces would solve a number of problems. It would it do what mergers and so on have failed to do, in halting the decline in union density. It would help overcome the division that the Tories and Liberals are trying to create between public and private sector workers. And it would also be an important chance to articulate the union's case to members of the public well beyond those who attend organising meetings or protests. Ideally, such drives would involve the full range of anti-cuts bodies and activists. That, I think, would be an appropriate merger between the indignados and rank and file militants of the UK.