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Muthoot Finance Ltd is an Indian financial corporation and the largest gold loan NBFC in the country. In addition to financing gold loans, the company offers other forms of loans, insurance and money transfer services, and sells gold coins. The company is headquartered in Kochi, Kerala and operates over 4,400 branches throughout the country. Outside India, Muthoot Finance is established in the UK, the US, and the United Arab Emirates.

The company falls under the brand umbrella of the Muthoot Group. Its stocks are listed on the BSE and NSE since its initial public offering in 2011. The target market of Muthoot Finance includes small businesses, vendors, farmers, traders, SME business owners, and salaried individuals.

Corporate background

The company was incorporated as a private limited company on 14 March 1997 with the name "The Muthoot Finance Private Limited" under the Companies Act.

On 18 November 2008, the company was converted into a public limited company with the name "Muthoot Finance Limited". During the year 2009–10, the company added 620 new branches.

In July 2016, Muthoot Finance acquired 46.83% of the capital of Belstar Investment and Finance Private Limited (BIFPL).

In May 2018, Muthoot Finance acquired Muthoot Money, a Non Deposit taking Non-Banking Financial Company.

Awards and recognition
 Muthoot Finance won the Skoch Financial Inclusion Award 2013 in recognition of its major initiative in the area of 'Access to Banking and Financial Services' to the aam aadmi who had been excluded from the country's banking network for decades.
 In 2012, Muthoot Finance was voted the most trusted finance brand in India according to the Brand Trust Report 2012, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory. In the Brand Trust Report 2013 however, Muthoot Finance was voted second-most trusted finance brand in India, but it regained its place as India's most trusted finance brand in the Brand Trust Report 2014.
 In 2012, the company won the Asian Sustainability Leadership Award for "Best Rural Outreach.
 BFSI Award for the "Most Admired Loyalty Program" in 2012 at The Asian Leadership Awards heald at Dubai.
 Golden Peacock Award for CSR being conferred upon Muthoot Finance Ltd. in the financial services sector at the 7th International Conference on Social RESPONSIBILITY at the Dubai Global Convention 2012
 In 2013 company won the Golden Peacock Award "HR Excellence for 2013", which recognizes the continuing commitment by business to conduct itself ethically and contribute to economic development, while improving the quality of life of the workforce.

Philanthropy
All of the philanthropic activities of Muthoot Finance are conducted through the Muthoot M George Foundation, which also conducts tree plantation drives and offers scholarships to the needy on a regular basis. The company is also involved in various philanthropic initiatives, which focus on education through M George Foundation, environment, health, financial assistance and eco-friendliness. With the assistance of the Credai Clean City Movement, the company is associated with the concept of an E-toilet, which was a public sanitation initiative. Additionally, the company holds regular agricultural seminars by the name of "Ente Adukkalathottum" ("My Kitchen Garden") which educates farmers on the effects of pesticide residues in food and how to counter that for healthier living. It has also been actively involved in helping cancer patients, as well as individuals diagnosed with from kidney diseases, by financially covering medical expenses.

The company runs the Kochi Chapter of the "Horn Not Ok Please" initiative, which raises awareness on the harmful effects of vehicular noise pollution. The company has also launched a Centre for Promoting/Creating Road Traffic Awareness at the office of the Asst. Commissioner of Police in Kochi to help raise awareness about road safety and the prevention of traffic accidents.

In 2012, the Muthoot Group launched the first Paul George Memorial Tournament, which was aimed at Government School Children in the Delhi NCR region. The winners of the tournament were given scholarships.

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Superman (1978): DC Comics. Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman and Marlon Brando
Superman. 1978. DC Comics. Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman and Marlon Brando
It was no easy task bringing DC Comics' most prized character to the big screen in the late 1970's. However, after acquiring the rights, changing the writers, director, stars and the production schedule numerous times, Superman (1978) was finally released to fanfare. For the time period (and even now) the special effects were breathtaking, the story was solid, the direction was exact, Gene Hackman became one of the screen's greatest villains, and the film's star... relatively unknown Christopher Reeve, owned the part that would define him for the rest of his life. Some Old Hollywood faces signed on as well... with Marlon Brando as Jor-El, Superman's father, Glenn Ford as Mr. Kent, and 1930's child star Jackie Cooper playing the editor of the Daily Planet. It was the prototype superhero movie, and by default, the template for many superhero films that followed... a true Classic of the genre.
Having sentenced three criminals to oblivion, Jor-El (Marlon Brando) is unable to convince the council that Krypton is about to be destroyed...
Superman. 1978: Marlon Brando
Fearful for the welfare of his son, Kil-El, Jor-El sends him off into space towards the distant planet Earth, where Kil-El will find a suitable environment and his dense-molecular structure will give him super-abilities. He also hopes that his son will use his powers to become a savior for Earth. Three years later, Kil-El crash lands near the rural town of Smallville, where he is found and adopted by the Kents. They name him Clark. The Kents soon discover that Clark is not like the other children...
Superman. 1978
Clark realizes it as well, and heads off to discover who he is. A crystal leads him to the Fortress of Solitude, where images of Jor-El inform him of everything he needs to know...
He is now comfortable with the powers that set him apart. He is now Superman...
Superman. 1978: Christopher Reeve
He gets a job at the Daily Planet newspaper, disguising himself as the bumbling Clark Kent...
But when someone needs rescuing, Superman responds. He also catches the fancy of co-worker Lois Lane (Margot Kidder)...
But while all this was going on, villain Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) has bought up a bunch of desert land, hoping to destroy California and be the owner of new valuable beachfront property. And he's just getting started...
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[. . .] Marshal Sergei Biryuzov, who was the Soviet Rocket Forces Chief at the time, brought a market research team that arrived within Cuba. He told Khrushchev the missiles could be hidden and camouflaged through the palms (Correll, 2005).
The Cuban leadership was further upset as September came along as the U.S. States Congress accepted the U.S. Joint Resolution 230. This resolution basically stated that Congress's solution to evade the development of an externally-assisted military structure (Bligh et al., 2002). On the day that, the United States introduced a significant military exercise within the Caribbean, titled the PHIBRIGLEX-62, Cuba denounced globally that this move was like a purposeful aggravation and proof the U.S. having the intention to once again take over the region of Cuba (Blight al, 2002).
Khrushchev and Castro decided to place proper nuclear missiles privately in Cuba. Similar to the perspective of Castro, Khrushchev felt that the potential of U.S. taking over Cuba was looming, and thus to get rid of that link for Russia from Cuba to the western territory would do great injury to the communist cause, particularly in Latin America. He stated he desired to face the American democracy "using more than mere words, and instead use an aggressive action and the most logical aggressive action was the use of missiles (Weldes, 1999). The Soviets were able to sustain the level of secrecy by encoding their overall plans and getting approval from Rodion Malinovsky as well as Khrushchev for those plans across the first week of July.
The Soviet leadership was sure of the fact that, according to their thought of Kennedy's insufficient confidence throughout the Bay of Pigs Invasion, he would evade any form of clash and recognize the missiles like a fait accompli (Absher, 2009). On the eve of September 11, the U.S.S.R. openly cautioned that the U.S. strike on Cuba or on the Soviet ships transporting supplies towards the island would be interpreted as an invitation to war (Absher, 2009). The Soviets continued on with their Maskirovka program to hide their actions in Cuba. They frequently refused that the use and engagement of weapons within the region of Cuba was aimed to be offensive in character. On September 7, the Soviet Ambassador stationed within the U.S. States -- Anatoly Dobrynin assured the U.S. States Ambassador for the UN -- Adlai Stevenson -- that the U.S.S.R. was delivering a range of merely defensive weaponry within Cuba. On September 11, the Telegrafnoe Agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza (which is a Soviet News Agency also known simply as TASS) stated expressively that the U.S.S.R. didn't have any aims or requirements for introducing an offensive nuclear missiles strike on the state of Cuba. On October 13, Dobrynin was asked by former Undersecretary of State -- Chester Bowles -- about the aims and intentions of the Soviets for placing the offensive weaponry and gear within Cuba. He refused to have any aggressive plans (Blight et al., 2002). And again on October 17, the Soviet embassy representative Georgy Bolshakov sent President Kennedy a "personal message" from the Russian leader -- Khrushchev -- where he reassured him that "on no account would surface-to-surface missiles be delivered and/or engaged in Cuba" (Blight et al., 2002).
As soon as the month of August in 1962 started, the U.S. States suspected the Soviets of creating missile facilities in Cuba. Throughout that month, its intelligence services collected details about sightings by ground experts of Russian-built MiG-21 martial artists and Il-28 light bombers. There was evidence of a number of U-2 spy planes found S-75 Dvina (NATO designation SA-2) surface-to-air missile industries that work coherently placed and working across eight differing regions in Cuba. The CIA director at the time -- John A. McCone -- grew suspicious with this chain of activity. Delivering antiaircraft missiles into Cuba, he believed, was logical only when Moscow intended for their services to defend basics for ballistic missiles targeted in the U.S. States (Allison et al., 1999). On August 10, he authorized a memo to President Kennedy by which he stated his suspicions of the Soviet networks and their intention to probably planning the engagement of ballistic missiles within Cuba (Correll, 2005). On August 31, Senator of the state of New York at the time -- Kenneth Keating -- who most likely attained all his evidence and confirmation date from the Cuban exiles within Florida (Correll, 2005), cautioned on the Senate meetings that the U.S.S.R. might be creating a missile base within the vicinities of Cuba for aggressive purposes (Absher, 2009).
Air Pressure General Curtis LeMay showed a pre-invasion strike plan and intention to President Kennedy in the month of September, while, on the other, the spy plane tickets and smaller military clashes for the U.S. forces at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base were the topic of frequent Cuban diplomatic protests to the federal government (Absher, 2009).
The fact was that the very first consignment of R-12 missiles surfaced on record around the evening of September 8, then another on the day of September 16. The R-12 missile had been the very first fully-functionaly intermediate-range ballistic missile for the Soviets. It was also the very first missile that was mass-created at that expansive level and, it was also the first Soviet missile used that had a thermonuclear warhead. It had been just one-stage, transportable, surface-released, storage liquid propellant fuelled missile that may bring or transport a megaton-level nuclear weapon (Correll, 2005). The Soviets were in the process of constructing a total of nine different sites, six of which were being constructed for the R-12 medium-range missiles (NATO designation SS-4 Sandal) and three designated sites for R-14 intermediate-range ballistic missiles (NATO designation SS-5 Skean). The former would be spread across 2,000 kms (1,200 mi) while the latter would be spread across 4,500 kms (2,800 mi) (Correll, 2005).
The American Democracy feared the Soviet growth of Communism, however for a Latin American nation to freely support using the territory of USSR was regarded as unacceptable, because of the Soviet-American clash. This kind of participation would also openly challenge the Monroe Doctrine a U.S. States standard which, while restricting the U.S. States' participation with European colonies and European matters, alleged that European forces should not have participation with states within the Western Hemisphere.
The U.S. States had been embarrassed openly through the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961 that was lead by President Kennedy against the CIA-trained masses of Cuban exiles. After, former Leader Eisenhower told Kennedy that the failure from the Bay of Pigs will encourage the Soviets to behave differently and more defiantly (Absher, 2009). The half-hearted strike had also encouraged the likes of Nikita Khrushchev and the advisors with the idea that Kennedy was indecisive, youthful, intellectual, and ill-prepared for making decisions in emergency situations (Absher, 2009). U.S. covert procedures that were ongoing in the year 1961 were primarily using the futile structure of Operation Mongoose (Absher, 2009).
Additionally, Khrushchev's perception of Kennedy's limitations was completed and supported through the President's soft response throughout the Berlin Crisis of 1961, especially regarding the issue of the Berlin Wall. Talking with Soviet authorities as a direct consequence from the crisis, Khrushchev understood several reasons why Kennedy did not have a powerful background, nor, in most cases, did he possess the courage to endure a significant challenge. Also, he told his boy Sergei that on Cuba, Kennedy will most like first create a fussy interaction, take it a few notches, but then, finally agree to the terms that Khrushchev would set (Rodriguez, 1989).
In the month of January 1962, General Edward Lansdale referred to the intentions to overthrow the Cuban Government inside a top-secret report (partly declassified 1989), addressed to President Kennedy and authorities associated with Operation Mongoose (Absher, 2009). CIA agents, specialists or "pathfinders" within the Special Activities Division may be transported into Cuba to handle damage and association, inclusive of aspects of radio broadcasts (Rodriguez, 1989). In Feb 1962, the U.S. States released a blockade against Cuba (Rodriguez, 1989), and Lansdale also exhibited a supporting 26-page, highly-classified timetable for implementation of the overthrow of the Cuban Government, mandating that guerrilla procedures were to be practiced from August and September. This timetable also stated that in the very first few days of October the intention was to freely revolt against and overthrow the Communist government in the region " (Absher, 2009).
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using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using System;

public class ControllerManager : MonoBehaviour {

    private static ControllerManager instance = null;

    public static ControllerManager Instance {  get { return instance; } }

    private string[] joystickNames;
    private int joystickArrayLength; //Size of Input.GetJoystickNames()

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (instance == null)
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        else if (instance != this)
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    }

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
        Debug.Log(joystickArrayLength);
    }

	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {

        //Updating the controller array
        joystickNames = Input.GetJoystickNames();
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	}
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AD's residences are brand enhancers. This extensive house is no different as it reflects its owners penchant for warm and generous entertainment. Conceived as a party venue which must also function as a private house while providing the necessary seclusion and security for its private spaces, the house does not reveal all its features from the front approach. The play of rhythm and proportion can be better experienced from the pool side acts as the primary party space.
All the three living rooms on the ground floor open up on to a generous porch, giving guests a variety of spaces to socialise.
Interior and exterior lighting from floor lights in the entrance hall to the lighting in the powder room were all designed by AD Consulting.


Super Lawyers, an affiliate of Thomson Reuters, selected 31 Robbins Geller attorneys to its San Diego Super Lawyers® list for 2016. Specifically, 18 of the Firm's attorneys were recognized as Super Lawyers and 13 of its attorneys were selected as Rising Stars. Additionally, more than 75 attorneys were ranked as top lawyers in the securities litigation, class action and mass torts, antitrust litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and appellate practice areas.
The magazine recognizes attorneys who have distinguished themselves for their high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement in their legal practices. Each year, no more than 5% of lawyers are honored as Super Lawyers and 2.5% are named as Rising Stars in each state. The annual selection is made through a statewide survey of lawyers, independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer reviews within each practice area. The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers magazines and in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers across the country. Each of the Robbins Geller attorneys selected as Super Lawyers and Rising Stars have achieved significant victories in many of the Firm's cases, recovering hundreds of millions of dollars for defrauded shareholders and consumers.


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Synopsis: Sigourney Weaver portrays Elaine Barrish, a divorced former First Lady and Governor of Illinois, as well as the current Secretary of State. While the lead character does have some similarities to Hillary Clinton, Weaver has said in interviews that the show is "very much about families who have been in the White House and the price they've paid for being in the White House and the fact that families who have been in the White House often try to get back in the White House or continue to try and get in the White House.
Elaine Barrish Hammond
Susan Berg
Douglas Hammond
T.J. Hammond
Margaret Barrish
Bud Hammond
Writers: Not Available
First Aired: Not Available
Creator: Not Available
Season | 6 Episodes
No. of Episodes: 6 episodes
Years Active: N/A - N/A
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Band: Rory Gallagher
Label: Capo
Title: Notes from San Francisco
Band:Rory Gallagher
Title:Notes from San Francisco
Reviewed By:Spencer Robertshaw
Label:Capo
Format:CD X2
It was a massive loss to the music world when Rory Gallagher (2nd March 1948 – 14 June 1995), died from complications after a liver transplant in 1995 at age of 47. He influenced so many of our top guitarists that there are monuments to him all over the world.
This double album, originally recorded in 1977 and 1979 respectively, consists of entirely previously unreleased material and is a must for Gallagher and rock fans.
The first CD consists of a 1977 studio album, which, recorded in a San Francisco studio, was shelved in 1978 and lead to the dissolving of Gallagher's band. Gallagher was not happy with the mix thinking it too complicated (An interesting side note is that the producer was Elliot Mazer who pushed the faders on Neil Young's 'Harvest'). Throughout his career he had self doubt regarding his performance and an obsession to detail, as have done many of the great creatives in history.
The second CD is taken from live performances at the Old Waldorf, San Francisco 1979 and combines a four night show into one CD. Gallagher went through a a massive enlightenment after seeing the Sex Pistols at The Winterland Ballroom in 1978. It made him wish to return to his roots and to display the same raw energy that the Sex Pistols had shown him.
2011 arrives and the album is finally released having been remixed by Gallagher's own bloodline and his nephew Daniel Gallagher. The live recording was added to the release to give an idea of what Rory was trying to achieve at this important time in his career.
The studio CD has Gallagher playing guitar like only he could. The guitar players that I can hear hidden deep in his fretwork include Gary Moore, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. No wonder Hendrix called him the best guitarist in the world. This release finds Gallagher firing on all the cylinders he can get his hands on. It has fantastic fretwork and his fingers fly up and down his guitar neck from one end to the other with a sense of timing that you would relate to a classical pianist. The vocals are rock and roll, nicely hoarse with a good top end.
The live album is similarly packed with energy and great guitar solos. His fingers on this sound as if each single one had a 'hand' of its own as they hammer and run through the scales with great personality.
If you like this genre of music you are in for a massive treat. This is probably the best hidden secret in guitar led rock for decades. Enjoy!
01) Rue The Day
02) Persuasion
03) B Girl
04) Mississippi Sheiks
05) Wheels Within Wheels
06) Overnight Bag
07) Cruise On Out
08) Brute Force & Ignorance
09) Fuel To The Fire
10) Follow Me
11) Shinkicker
12) Off The Handle
13) Bought And Sold
14) I'm Leavin'
15) Tattoo'd Lady
16) Do Your Read Me
17) Country Mile
18) Calling Card
19) Shadow Play
20) Bullfrog Blues
21) Sea Cruise
Commenting On: Notes from San Francisco by Rory Gallagher
Unreleased until now studio and live recordings from the late Rory Gallagher, which proves to be probably the best hidden secret in guitar led rock for decades
Notes from San Francisco - CD X2


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Місте́рія ( — таїнство, таємний релігійний обряд на честь якогось божества) — західноєвропейська середньовічна релігійна драма, що виникла на основі літургійного дійства.

В основу містерії різдвяної та великодньої покладено біблійні сюжети. Виникнувши у XIII столітті, вона поширилась у XIV—XV століттях в Італії, Англії, Німеччині, Нідерландах, Франції у вигляді масових видовищ.

Містерія інсценізувала народження, смерть і воскресіння Христа. Ці три події християнської історії були їх композиційними центрами, навколо яких компонувалися безліч інших євангелійних епізодів (про прикликання апостолів, вилікування хворого, зцілення німого, тайну вечерю).

Містерія успадкована Київським шкільним театром. Традиційними містеріями були анонімні «Слово про збурення пекла», «Дѣйствіє на Рождество Христово», «Царство Натури Людської», «Мудрость предвѣчная», «Властотворний образ Человѣколюбія Божія» та інші. У них автори дотримувалися композиції середньовічного типу з притаманним їй неквапливим розгортанням довільно розміщених подій. Виділявся також центральний епізод, якому підпорядковувалися всі інші.Активно використовувались у містерії алегорія, заміна містеріальних персонажів алегоричними постатями при збереженні містеріальної послідовності. Наприклад, у «Торжестві Єстѣства Человѣчеського» Адам і Єва перетворюються на постаті Відчаю, Плачу; Сатану замінюють фігури Ласощів, Нестримності тощо. Містеріальний сюжет міг замінюватися в окремих випадках не тільки біблійним, а й світським, зокрема історичним.

Див. також
 Містерії
 Елевсінські містерії

Джерела
 Місте́рія — С. 451  // Літературознавчий словник-довідник за редакцією Р. Т. Гром'яка, Ю. І. Коваліва, В. І. Теремка. — К.: ВЦ «Академія», 2007

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — REstore, part of Centrica Business Solutions, has been recognized as one of the winners of the Grid Edge Innovation Award presented by Greentech Media.
Acquired by Centrica in November 2017, REstore is a leading demand response technology and solutions provider specializing in monetizing customers' energy strategy through ancillary services such as frequency response and capacity markets. Supported by REstore's virtual power plant (VPP) capabilities, the acquisition now combines these AI-technologies and algorithms with the company's existing automated demand response capabilities and energy insight solutions to help organizations maximize the power of energy flexibility. The business forms part of Centrica Business Solutions global distributed energy offer, which provides energy insight, asset optimization and energy solutions to large energy users.
The Greentech Media Grid Edge Innovation Awards recognize the top companies or projects that are driving change in the electricity system. The 10 winners of this year's Grid Edge Innovation Awards involve innovative applications of grid edge technologies, and were nominated and voted on by energy industry stakeholders, including the team of analysts at GTM Research.
Recipients will be honored at this year's Grid Edge Innovation Summit June 20-21 in San Francisco, which brings together top talent and expertise from around the world of distributed energy. Jan-Willem Rombouts, co-founder of REstore, will be present to receive the Grid Edge Innovation Award. He will also serve as a panelist in a session on managing virtual power plants. In addition, Centrica Business Solutions North American Senior Vice President, Stephen Prince, will serve as a speaker in a session on managing the distributed energy resources (DER) life cycle.
Centrica's REstore business has successfully launched a 32MW 'virtual power plant' comprising one of Europe's largest battery storage facilities and a portfolio of industrial assets.
Operational since April this year, the 18MW battery storage project with Tesla has been pooled with flexible load and generation from a series of industrial customers to deliver flexibility services to the European transmission grid. The facility is located in Terhills, a luxury holidays resort in a National Park on the Dutch-Belgian border.
For a full list of recipients of Greentech Media's Grid Edge Innovation Award, go here: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-2018-grid-edge-innovation-awards.
Centrica Business Solutions is part of Centrica plc – an international energy and services company dedicated to satisfying the changing needs of its customers. Centrica Business Solutions has been established to help customers gain competitive advantage from energy, building intelligent end-to-end energy solutions that power performance, and resilience. Through Centrica we also provide energy trading services, and supply energy through Direct Energy in North America, British Gas in the UK, and Bord Gàis Energy in Ireland. To learn more about Centrica Business Solutions, please visit: www.centricabusinesssolutions.com.


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Metsä Group (previously Metsäliitto Group) is a Finnish forest industry group present in about 30 countries. Metsä Group's core businesses are tissue and cooking papers (Metsä Tissue), board (Metsä Board), pulp (Metsä Fibre), wood products (Metsä Wood) as well as wood trade and forestry services (Metsä Forest). Metsä Group's sales totalled EUR 6.0 billion in 2021, and it employs approximately 9,500 people.

Metsäliitto Cooperative, the parent company of Metsä Group, is owned by nearly 100,000 Finnish forest owning members.

History
Metsäliitto Cooperative, the parent company of Metsä Group, can trace its origins back to the cooperative movement which started to establish itself in Finland at around the beginning of the 20th century. Operations started with shared sales, and Metsäliitto Oy, established in 1934, continued this at first with timber exports. Metsäliitto, which became a cooperative in 1947, started its industrial operations through its own sawmill business, expanding to the chemical forest industry in the 1950s.

The Finnish forest industry grew and internationalised at a brisk pace from the 1960s, becoming one of the pillars of Finnish well-being and prosperity. Metsäliitto's operations also expanded. Important milestones for Metsäliitto included the founding of Metsä-Serla as a result of the combination merger of G. A. Serlachius Oy and Metsäliiton Teollisuus Oy in 1987; and the many growth and development steps in the pulp industry within Metsä-Botnia Oy.

During the strong growth period at the beginning of the 1990s, Metsäliitto continued to make major investments in Finland, but, like many other companies, also aimed at foreign markets. At the beginning of the 2000s, Metsäliitto was an international forest industry group with more than 25,000 employees in dozens of different countries. As a result of strong structural changes during the past few years, the Group is now a more compact entity aiming for growth in selected business operations. However, the basis for its operations still lies in the cooperative concept and acting in the best interests of Finnish forest owners.

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Pulp and paper companies of Finland
Renewable resource companies established in 1947
Finnish companies established in 1947
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Is A Career In The Beauty Industry Right For You?
Beauty is more than doing hair, makeup, skincare, and nails. Beauty is an art form. Instead of using canvas and paints, you use live human beings to bring your vision into reality. Most of our students have a passion for beauty and a burning desire to create something beautiful using tools and products. Do you love doing hair? Is makeup your palette to the world? Or maybe you love skincare and love making people look beautiful. If so, a career in the beauty industry may be your perfect fit!
What Can You Do In The Beauty Industry?
The list is actually endless! There are people that have even taken their cosmetology license and opened very successful pet grooming businesses!
Which License Is Best For Me?
There are several licenses you can get in the industry. You just have to decide which one meets your goals, your time frame, and what you really want to do.
Cosmetology licenses trump most other licenses. When you have your cosmetology license you can do it all, makeup, skincare, hair, and nails. This is very appealing to most employers because they can hire a cosmetologist and let them do it all instead of hiring two or three other people. But, getting your cosmetology licenses takes time and passion! It is not a quick process. At Aveda Institute Maryland we have a few options to get your cosmetology license!
Daytime Classes- This 10-month program is the quickest way to get your license. You go to school Tuesday-Saturday, 8:45 to 4:30.
A total of 1500 hours must be met before you can graduate and get your license.
You must complete 600 hours before you can graduate and get your license.
Choosing a school can be a very personal choice. It is a unique experience that is different for everyone. You may need a school that is close to home, or maybe you want a school that focuses on a certain brand. Whatever your reasoning is, you need to explore all of your options. In fact, that may be what lead you to this article. So why Aveda?
Aveda is one of the leading industry companies that is paving the way to natural beauty products. They are made from pure, natural, organic and responsibly sourced ingredients. Aveda is also a global pioneer in sustainable business practices, such as manufacturing with 100% wind power, and using recycled materials and soy ink for packaging and printing. Last but certainly not least, Aveda fundraises through special product sales and Earth Month initiatives that raise millions annually for clean water. Honestly, I think our mission says it all!
Aveda students are preferred hires, meaning you can get a job even before you graduate. In school we are taught the Aveda difference, such as rituals, comforting tea, and all of our students are taught how to work in a salon while working on clients. Aveda takes beauty school to a higher level. Aveda is not just found in salons though, as an Aveda graduate, you could find yourself working during fashion week in New York, London, or even Paris. You could even be doing red carpets and styling A-List celebrities! The possibilities are endless when you graduate from Aveda.
Regardless of what school you choose, there are things you need to do when taking a tour of the campus!
Ask questions, a lot of questions. Don't be afraid to talk to your admissions counselor. Make sure the program is right for you and your needs!
Talk to other students that are in the program. Ask them how they like the school, what their schedules are like, or any other information you would like to know. Current students have the inside scoop on the school and can help you decide if it is right for you!
Ask about financial aid. So many people think they can't afford school but there is a lot of financial aid and scholarships available but you have to ask.
Do not schedule a tour during lunch. Make sure the students are there so you can see the place in action. While touring watch to see if the students are busy, if they are learning, how many teachers are there, is there one-on-one attention, and most importantly, is the salon clinic floor busy? Those questions are very important and should be answered through your tour!
If you have a passion and drive to make people beautiful then it is! We can help you decide when you take a tour of our campus. You can call us at 410-838-0845 or contact our admissions counselor via email to set up an appointment. We can't wait to talk to you and get your career started in the beauty industry!
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Apple trees are grown for the fruit, they also have great flowers and make excellent small shade trees.
Some growers prune in late winter to maintain a smaller tree.
They vary greatly is flavour and sweetness, as well as texture. Many of the common varieties seen in supermarkets and shops are also suited to the home garden.
Specific varieties have been developed for tropical and sub tropical areas and these include.
With 100s of named varieties available, including Dwarf varieties as well as type specifically suited for cider the range is huge.


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#include <errno.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <glib.h>
#include <glib/gstdio.h>
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <webkit/webkit.h>

#if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2, 14, 0)

static void test_network_request_create_destroy()
{
    WebKitNetworkRequest* request;
    SoupMessage* message;

    /* Test creation with URI */
    request = WEBKIT_NETWORK_REQUEST(g_object_new(WEBKIT_TYPE_NETWORK_REQUEST, "uri", "http://debian.org/", NULL));
    g_assert(WEBKIT_IS_NETWORK_REQUEST(request));
    message = webkit_network_request_get_message(request);
    g_assert(!message);
    g_object_unref(request);

    /* Test creation with SoupMessage */
    message = soup_message_new("GET", "http://debian.org/");
    request = WEBKIT_NETWORK_REQUEST(g_object_new(WEBKIT_TYPE_NETWORK_REQUEST, "message", message, NULL));
    g_assert(WEBKIT_IS_NETWORK_REQUEST(request));
    g_assert_cmpint(G_OBJECT(message)->ref_count, ==, 2);
    g_object_unref(request);
    g_assert_cmpint(G_OBJECT(message)->ref_count, ==, 1);
    g_object_unref(message);

    /* Test creation with both SoupMessage and URI */
    message = soup_message_new("GET", "http://debian.org/");
    request = WEBKIT_NETWORK_REQUEST(g_object_new(WEBKIT_TYPE_NETWORK_REQUEST, "message", message, "uri", "http://gnome.org/", NULL));
    g_assert(WEBKIT_IS_NETWORK_REQUEST(request));
    g_assert_cmpint(G_OBJECT(message)->ref_count, ==, 2);
    g_assert_cmpstr(webkit_network_request_get_uri(request), ==, "http://gnome.org/");
    g_object_unref(request);
    g_assert_cmpint(G_OBJECT(message)->ref_count, ==, 1);
    g_object_unref(message);
}

static void test_network_request_properties()
{
    WebKitNetworkRequest* request;
    SoupMessage* message;
    gchar* soupURI;

    /* Test URI is set correctly when creating with URI */
    request = webkit_network_request_new("http://debian.org/");
    g_assert(WEBKIT_IS_NETWORK_REQUEST(request));
    g_assert_cmpstr(webkit_network_request_get_uri(request), ==, "http://debian.org/");
    g_object_unref(request);

    /* Test URI is set correctly when creating with Message */
    message = soup_message_new("GET", "http://debian.org/");
    request = WEBKIT_NETWORK_REQUEST(g_object_new(WEBKIT_TYPE_NETWORK_REQUEST, "message", message, NULL));
    g_assert(WEBKIT_IS_NETWORK_REQUEST(request));
    g_object_unref(message);

    message = webkit_network_request_get_message(request);
    soupURI = soup_uri_to_string(soup_message_get_uri(message), FALSE);
    g_assert_cmpstr(soupURI, ==, "http://debian.org/");
    g_free(soupURI);

    g_assert_cmpstr(webkit_network_request_get_uri(request), ==, "http://debian.org/");
    g_object_unref(request);
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    gtk_test_init(&argc, &argv, NULL);

    g_test_bug_base("https://bugs.webkit.org/");
    g_test_add_func("/webkit/networkrequest/createdestroy", test_network_request_create_destroy);
    g_test_add_func("/webkit/networkrequest/properties", test_network_request_properties);
    return g_test_run ();
}

#else
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    g_critical("You will need gtk-2.14.0 to run the unit tests. Doing nothing now.");
    return 0;
}

#endif


Simmer on LOW for an hour or so.
Serve over organic Pasta and sprinkle with Nutritional Yeast Flakes (or Parmesan Cheese). Garnish with a sprig of Parsley or Basil.
Start the meal with a fresh, organic salad of romaine, arugula ,sliced cucumbers, green onions or radishes, banana peppers, cherry tomatoes and Italian Dressing… Bon Apetit!


Wren Kitchens, established in 2009, is a family owned manufacturer and retailer of fully built kitchens. Since 2009 we've hatched over 50 showrooms nationwide, offering the largest range of UK manufactured kitchens for every budget, from Extra Value to luxury Linda Barker ranges.
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The ability to Imagine is the most extraordinary asset, and yet so few people know how to use it! When you can access and activate this incredible skill, you open yourself up to a whole new reality. Creating the ability to Imagine means that you awaken your innate power to destroy the limits that previously kept you stuck, small or forgotten. Dreams become possible, goals are achievable and success and happiness become available for the taking.
Remember, when you master the ability to Imagine, you create a direct path to your potentiality…. all that you're here to be!


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DCSS School Police On the Job??
Approx. 200 DCSS School Police Officers. 2 Chiefs (yes, two chiefs for one department). 9 Detectives. 4 Admin Assistants.
Computers stolen so often Tony Hunter automatically replaces them and doesn't even keep track on how much it costs the system. School air conditioning units stolen without investigation. MARTA Police Officers catch truant DeKalb Alternative School students with DCSS School Police nowhere to be found.
No return on investment. Mediocrity Defined. Simply Embarassing.
(And I still don't know what the heck they do during the summer and holiday breaks).
Break-ins plague Chamblee Charter high school
Nearly a dozen break-ins have plagued the school in recent months with thieves walking away with computers, keyboards, calculators and other electronics and equipment.
Five of the thefts occurred over the Labor Day holiday weekend and six over the Columbus Day weekend, according to Channel 2 Action News.
The targets have been the 32 mobile classrooms students and teachers have been using as the construction continues around them on Chamblee Dunwoody Road.
Teachers in the classrooms are increasingly frustrated over the thefts. They say they want to feel secure and want assurances that the district is doing all it can to prevent future break-ins. They are also concerned the missing equipment won't be replaced.
District spokesman Walter Wood said a dollar figure has yet to be attached to the missing equipment, but he said the district is taking steps to increase security. He said additional patrols are being made and motion sensor alarms and new fencing locks are being installed.
ruuuuun! run away! now!
This really has gotten ridiculous. Henderson MS was robbed of many, many computers and other tech items. Some guy was caught fencing one of the laptops, but I don't believe it was ever traced to the original thief. Also, last summer we had serious issues with thefts of new AC units for the copper. Nobody seems to have ever been caught doing any of this. Worse, the schools are told that the system is self-insured and there is no money for replacements. (Maybe King & Spalding could lend some... JK.)
What the heck does two chiefs and 9 detectives do? What is the mission of the DCSS Police? I'm glad we have security personnel in the Middle and High Schools. However, if there is a problem with break-ins shouldn't the DCSS Police set-up a post, around those PORTABLES with an officer, to help protect the property?
Maybe we need to start insuring the property that taxpayers have paid for. Maybe we should fire the two chiefs and hire ONE that can do the job. Once again it's a DCSS trait, too many chiefs and not enough officers. Sound familiar? All this is just another money grab by the friends and family of DCSS. How many friends and family of BOE members and the "sit up here" staff are employed by the DCSS police force? I'm just asking......
@AMG re: high school security
Lakeside, which has the largest student population (roughly 1935)and construction galore, has an SRO assigned that's on the K9 unit. He is out of the buildig every Wednesday for training and most of Friday. In addition, he has to leave campus to do the routine lockdowns throughout the county. Students quickly learn his patterns and when he's there and when he isn't. Since he is there less than half the time, they can't count on him in an emergency. I hear the campus security staff isn't physically capable of handling an emergency. If there is a real emergency and it goes poorly, DCSS likely will find themselves with more lawsuits.
oops...meant "building"
What do you mean Tony Hunter replaces them? Is this the friends, family and politics game? Briarlake didn't have any of ours replaced. Henderson Middle hasn't had any of theirs replaced. Which school has? He can't pick and choose which school gets "special" treatment.
Wow! At our middle school we have two full time security personnel. I assume they fall under the DCSS Police Dept. During the lunch hour an additional Police officer stands at the ready in the cafeteria.
I wonder why we need more security at a Middle School and not at a large High School, currently under construction? Can someone explain the policy of policing DCSS properties, administration and students?
Your infromation is either dated or wrong. DeKalb County according to the US Census is 270.9 square miles. The school system has 143 schools and centers to protect not counting some other facilities open and closed. That's is less than one officer per square mile or one and one third officer per facility. In order to provide round the clock live protection of one officer one would need 4 plus officers at each site (7*24=168; 168/40=4+). The school system budget posted on their web site says that Investigative services division of 8 detectives amounts to 5% of the total budget (p 828). The budget is a million dollars less than it was two years ago and 85% the budget goes to either SROs or Campus Supervisors assigned to specific school locations. Their primary duty in a 40 hour work week is to provide security when students, teachers, or the public is in the building. The budget also does not list the word "chief", there is a director of public safety and a listing for an interim director of public safety. The web site for public safety only lists the interim director as a contact. With over 143 locations and opportunities for theft and a staff that can only cover the facilities when they are opne because student safety is more important than anything it is no wonder that there is some theft. With 8 dectectives to stake out 143 locations one might be hard pressed to be in the right place at the right time.
BhutrasGolly said...
Sound to me like School Watch could provide a useful service by watching a school.
How odd that so many laptops are disappearing from our schools. I'm not hearing that these kinds of break-ins and burglaries are happening to this level at regular businesses around the county. There are laptops just about everywhere. Why do the ones at schools continue to disappear?
hey Bhutras! There are several of us that do watch the school property where our kids attend. We even help keep it clean and nice. Plus, there are several of us Moms and Dads who helped set up and train the DCSS employees how to use the technology they have access to. The folks at the Palace can't seem to have any training time available for the people that actually use the technology.
Hopefully someday we can have a real IT Dept. One that will be held accountable, because the current one seems to be failing, according to Dr. Atkinson.
I wouldn't be surprised if the burglaries that we have experienced from AC units, to lap tops, to computers, projectors, calculators, and the works, is not an inside job.
At Anon 3:04pm Student safety might not be such a problem if discipline was actually handled and children who did not come to school to learn were sent to an alternative location and out of our public schools. Officers wouldn't need to be at schools 24/7, just actual security systems and cameras working in the schools and outside. Paying a company to monitor the schools after hours would be way cheaper than paying a person's salary and benefits. I've seen better security for CRCT tests this past year, than the expensive equipment that will not be replaced when stolen. Which will better our children's learning?
@ Atlanta Media Guy A real IT department will not be found at DCSS until the friends and family members are gone. They control way too much of what happens are in their positions for the salaries and benefits and not for the children. I don't see a real IT department where teachers are actually trained to use the equipment that we have for some time to come. We've spent millions already on programs that do no do as they were touted, and no one has lost their job for making such a purchase-which would happen in the private sector. The training that I received while at DCSS was the worst that I had received in my tenure as a teacher. Most of the time those doing the training knew about what I did about computers, which isn't much.
Spending more money on IT which is a broken department in my opinion, isn't going to make matters better until the problems with the department and better trained people are running the department. Not sure that will happen with Atkinson. I'd honestly much prefer to be letting people go, and paying their salaries for the remainder of the contract and looking for new people, than waiting to see what is going to happen in the spring and wait for the rumor mill to begin. If she showed that she was going to make change, I believe that SPLOST would win hands down. Right now I am not so sure.
Hey Anon October 20, 2011 3:04 PM,
-So what do school police officers do on all the days when school isn't in session (summer, breaks, holidays, etc.)?
-How many computers have been stolen from DCSS facilities over the past two years?
-How many HVAC units have been stolen from DCSS facilities?
-You can list all the square miles DCSS owns, but SRO's NEVER EVER walk around the entire grounds of DCSS Facilities. The homeless encampment at Cross Keys is example No. 1. There are area's throughout the grounds of my neighborhood school that have never ever been walked by a SRO.
-How does the School Police Dept. patrol all the non-school properties, like Heritage, where the back grounds have teenagers openly drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana.
-What are the training and fitness requirements? Are SRO's actual police officers who went through an academy? Is there one SRO who can run a mile under 10 minutes?
-Why does the MARTA Police Dept. catch truants DAILY from the DeKalb Alternative School, and those same MARTA officers state they get no help from DCSS School Police Dept. staff?
Hire retired police to be SRO's. Pay them a great hourly rate, but do not pay them benefits and pnsions as most are only needed for the 180 school days of the year.
Post online every crime and theft committed at a DCSS facility.
Have the School Police Dept. head speak at two to three BOE meetings per year with a report.
Post the fitness requirements of SRO's, the detectives and School Police Dept. Staff (please tell me there are fitness requirements!!).
Explain what in the heck the 8 detectives actually do, and why DCSS has double the size school police dept. of Gwinnett's, which is a much larger school system.
Explain why this department is untouchable budget and staff-wise?
Shine some sunlight on this deaprtment!
Gene Walker's son is a SRO. That department needs a full forensic and personnell audit, and new leadership, but it ain't going to happen with Gene Walker around.
Megan Hayes-Golding said...
I'm all for scrutiny of way resources are used throughout DCSS, including the police force. However, I have to ask: why was expensive tech equipment being stored over a holiday weekend in portable classrooms?
I teach in another DeKalb high school that recently underwent construction. Our teachers were required to bring DCSS equipment into the building any time they left the portable. Computers and projectors were carted in and out several times a day. It sucked. We were frustrated at carrying a laptop in a bag to come inside and use the restroom. But at least the stuff wasn't stolen.
C'mon Chamblee, be smart. My grandma could open the locked door of a portable classroom. Don't leave expensive stuff out in those rooms.
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A section of Israeli-West Bank barrier located on Route 443 (Israel), near Jerusalem. Israelis say the barrier has saved many of lives since its erection, but proponents of the divestment resolution at last week's Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly only addressed hardships the Palestinians endure. (Wikipedia photo)
A sharply divided Presbyterian Church (USA) voted 333 to 331— with two abstentions — to reject a resolution to divest funds from companies doing business in Israel last Thursday at its 220th biennial General Assembly in Pittsburgh.
The controversial divestment resolution was replaced with an alternative resolution emphasizing positive investment in enterprises that would help grow the Palestinian economy. The resolution for positive investment passed the G.A. with a vote of 369 in favor, 290 opposed, and eight abstentions.
A slim majority of G.A. commissioners voted against the divestment resolution despite the recommendation of the church's Middle East Peacemaking committee to pass it.
The vote came after nearly three hours of G.A. debate, preceded by several days of debate within the committee. While some members of the church urged the commissioners to vote against divestment for the sake of Jewish-Presbyterian relations, and to avoid partisanship, others resorted to a vitriolic lexicon, accusing Israel of "apartheid," and "ethnic cleansing."
The majority of commissioners, however, formally rejected the "apartheid" label in a 463-175 vote on Friday. The Middle East committee opposed the label, saying that while Israel's policies were wrong, they did not fit the United Nations race-based definition of apartheid.
The divestment resolution was directed against three companies purportedly doing business in Israel: Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions. Proponents of divestment say that Caterpillar supplies the bulldozers and earth-moving equipment used by the Israel Defense Forces to clear Palestinian homes and orchards; that Hewlett-Packard provides biometric monitoring at checkpoints and information technology to the Israeli navy; and that Motorola supplies surveillance equipment to "illegal settlements" in the West Bank, and communications equipment to "occupation forces."
Brian Ellison, chair of the Mission Responsibility Through Investment Committee, told the G.A. that divestment was a "last resort" after years of engagement with the companies failed to influence them to "refrain from using their goods and services for violent acts."
Ellison pointed to "the Israeli military occupation," the "separation wall" in the West Bank, and Israeli checkpoints as "inconvenient, humiliating, and discriminating" to the Palestinians.
Ellison failed to mention that Israeli lives have been saved by the erection of the security wall and the checkpoints. In 2002, the year before construction of the wall began, 457 Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists; in 2009, eight Israelis were killed by terrorist attacks.
While G.A. moderator Jack Baca emphasized that divestment "is in no way meant to express contempt for Israel or condemnation of our Jewish brothers and sisters," the mainstream Jewish community, did, saw the resolution as exactly that.
"Clearly, we have seen some mission networks and advisory committees and other institutions [in the Presbyterian church] in a comfort zone with anti-Israel, anti-Jewish animus that we hoped had died with Father Coughlin," said Ethan Felson, vice president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. "Our primary focus before the General Assembly was in communicating how dire we saw this."
While a potential Presbyterian divestment from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions would have no effect on the companies' bottom lines, the significance of such a symbolic move by a mainline Christian denomination would not go unnoticed by those behind the BDS (boycott, divest, sanctions) movement, whose ultimate goal is the delegitimization of Israel as a Jewish state.
The BDS campaign began in 2001 at the United Nations Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, where political NGOs organized around what they called "the apartheid strategy" in an effort to brand Israel the new South Africa. The BDS campaign aims to appeal to the genuine humanitarian sentiments of grassroots groups that are generally unfamiliar with the intricate details and history of the issues in the Middle East, presenting a one-sided, pro-Palestinian narrative. The targeted audience finds it easy to support any movement that ostensibly opposes apartheid, discrimination, inequality and colonialism.
While a divestment action against just a few companies — like the one proposed by the Presbyterians — may appear to be limited in scope, once a mainstream church comes on board, those behind the BDS movement expand the message to the world that the church also agrees that Israel is an apartheid state, according to the website of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Mainstream Jewish groups thus view even limited divestment from Israel as a very serious matter, and were poised to react accordingly if the vote had gone the other way for the Presbyterians last week.
"Obviously, we would have been in a stage of 'no business as usual' had [the divestment resolution] passed," Felson said. "That was not a threat; it was just a broad-based understanding of a reality, not by fiat, but organically."
Many Presbyterians understood the potential fallout of a vote in favor of divestment.
"No one cares about our symbolic gesture," Matthew Miller, of the Presbytery of Prospect Hill, told the G.A. "The unintended consequence of a divestment strategy will alienate our interfaith Jewish partners in this country. It will privilege the Palestinians' suffering over the suffering of the Israelis. This is not a course of action that will have its symbolic effect."
On the other side of the debate, the language became inflammatory, as Raafat Zaki, synod executive of the Covenant, accused Israelis of "ethnic cleansing," and "apartheid," and Moufid Khoury, a commissioned lay pastor in Lehigh, referred to the Israeli "occupation" as "the worst form of terrorism," saying that it was Israel's actions "that inspired the terrorism of 9-11."
"Obviously, the Presbyterian church is very divided," said Jeffrey Cohan, director of community and public affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. "And it is vividly apparent that there are packets of institutionalized anti-Zionism, and in some cases, anti-Semitism within the Presbyterian church. On the other hand, last night's vote for positive investment gives us something to build on with our Presbyterian friends. At the same time, that's going to be very challenging if the Presbyterian church doesn't do something to address some of those internal issues."
Cohan pointed to several pro-divestment organizations, including a fringe Jewish group, "that went to incredible lengths to lobby the General Assembly here in Pittsburgh. The fact that they would be that committed to demonizing Israel was really breathtaking. It was disappointing to see the Presbyterian General Assembly highjacked and turned into an anti-Israel bash."
The anti-Israel sentiment stems from the national level of the Presbyterian church, according to Rabbi Alvin K. Berkun of Pittsburgh, immediate past chair of the National Council of Synagogues, who addressed the Presbyterian committee on Middle East Peacemaking Issues last week. Evidence of this anti-Israel sentiment is the people that the national level of the church chooses to send to the committee to serve as "resources" while deliberating divestment.
Those resources — which included Anna Baltzer, a national organizer with the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation — presented a "skewed" perspective of the situation in Israel, Berkun said.
"Their (the Presbyterians) sympathies are clearly in the Arab world, because that is where they missionize," Berkun said, adding that divestment would most likely be on the agenda again at the next G.A. in 2014.
"I think they're going to come back for more," he said. "And unless the tone changes from the top, we're going to have a tough time."
While the Committee on Middle East Peacemaking presented 10 separate resolutions to the G.A. regarding Israel — and debated the issue for several days — it presented no resolutions and engaged in no debate regarding any other Middle Eastern countries that have been accused of persecuting Christians, e.g., Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, or Pakistan.
It is precisely because Israel is open to hearing the protests of the church that may be why it has been singled out, speculated Rev. Sheldon Sorge, pastor to the Pittsburgh Presbytery, who also sees the issue of divestment as one that will not go away anytime soon.
"We have no assurance that anyone in Syria is even listening to us, or any of the other countries," Sorge said. "The difficulty for Christians is we have no way of getting their ear. But with Israel, we have the ear of people who are listening, and maybe we can make a difference."
Sorge sees the closeness of last week's vote as indicative of the dilemma the church faces in feeling loyalty to both Jews and Palestinians.
"I think it indicates we are very much torn between our friendship with the Jewish community and Israel and our friendship with the Palestinian community," Sorge said. "It is difficult to be caught in the middle. The vote is very revealing of how difficult it is. On any given day, it could have gone the other way. I hope everyone hears very seriously how close we are to the tipping point either way. I hope nobody sits secure."
In fact, on Friday, the G.A. voted 457-180 in favor of a resolution boycotting "all Israeli products coming from the occupied Palestinian Territories" and for "all nations" to prohibit settlement imports. The resolution singled out Ahava, a skin care company, and the Hadiklaim Israel Date Growers, which both have factories in West Bank settlements.
The PC (USA) is the only mainstream Christian church in the country that is so close to voting in favor of divestment. Similar resolutions have been handily rejected by the Methodists, the Lutherans and the Episcopalians, among others.
"The key leadership of the church needs to address why this denomination stands so far apart, not leading the pack, but falling astray," Felson said.
But, at least for now, the PC (USA) has found a way to pursue peace and build bridges rather than take a stand that, without question, would have severed its ties with the Jewish community at large.
The adapting of the alternative resolution for positive investment "allows Presbyterians to be true to our calling as peacemakers," said Russell Sullivan Jr., TEC of Carlisle. "This will sustain our positive relationship with both Palestinians and Israelis, and stand with everyone in the Middle East who desires peace and justice."
It is Presbyterian leaders like Russell on whom the Jewish community will rely to help spread the message that buying into the divestment movement is not a path to peace.
"We are positive about the nature of those who came to the General Assembly who have, time after time, heard their better angels and rejected the partisanship placed before them," Felson said.
(Toby Tabachnick can be reached at tobyt@thejewishchronicle.net.)


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Building a Quantum Engineering Undergraduate Program
Asfaw, Abraham and Blais, Alexandre and Brown, Kenneth R. and Candelaria, Jonathan and Cantwell, Christopher and Carr, Lincoln D. and Combes, Joshua and Debroy, Dripto M. and Donohue, John M. and Economou, Sophia E. and Edwards, Emily and Fox, Michael F. J. and Girvin, Steven M. and Ho, Alan and Hurst, Hilary M. and Jacob, Zubin and Johnson, Blake R. and Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel and Joynt, Robert and Kapit, Eliot and Klein-Seetharaman, Judith and Laforest, Martin and Lewandowski, H. J. and Lynn, Theresa W. and McRae, Corey Rae H. and Merzbacher, Celia and Michalakis, Spyridon and Narang, Prineha and Oliver, William D. and Palsberg, Jens and Pappas, David P. and Raymer, Michael G. and Reilly, David J. and Saffman, Mark and Searles, Thomas A. and Shapiro, Jeffrey H. and Singh, Chandralekha (2022) Building a Quantum Engineering Undergraduate Program. IEEE Transactions on Education, 65 (2). pp. 220-242. ISSN 0018-9359. doi:10.1109/te.2022.3144943. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20220210-721846000
Contribution: A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. Background: The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require both quantum-aware and quantum-proficient engineers at the bachelor's level. Research Question: What is the best way to provide a flexible framework that can be tailored for the full academic ecosystem? Methodology: A workshop of 480 QISE researchers from across academia, government, industry, and national laboratories was convened to draw on best practices; representative authors developed this roadmap. Findings: 1) For quantum-aware engineers, design of a first quantum engineering course, accessible to all STEM students, is described; 2) for the education and training of quantum-proficient engineers, both a quantum engineering minor accessible to all STEM majors, and a quantum track directly integrated into individual engineering majors are detailed, requiring only three to four newly developed courses complementing existing STEM classes; 3) a conceptual QISE course for implementation at any postsecondary institution, including community colleges and military schools, is delineated; 4) QISE presents extraordinary opportunities to work toward rectifying issues of inclusivity and equity that continue to be pervasive within engineering. A plan to do so is presented, as well as how quantum engineering education offers an excellent set of education research opportunities; and 5) a hands-on training plan on quantum hardware is outlined, a key component of any quantum engineering program, with a variety of technologies, including optics, atoms and ions, cryogenic and solid-state technologies, nanofabrication, and control and readout electronics.
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© 2022 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Manuscript received August 3, 2021; revised November 19, 2021; accepted November 28, 2021. Date of publication February 4, 2022; date of current version May 5, 2022. This work was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant EEC-2110432. The work of Alexandre Blais was supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. The work of Lincoln D. Carr, Hilary M. Hurst, Eliot Kapit, and Theresa W. Lynn was supported by NSF QLCI-CG under Grant OMA-1936835. The work of Sophia E. Economou, Steven M. Girvin, and Thomas A. Searles was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) under Contract DE-SC0012704. The work of Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin was supported by NSF C-ACCEL under Grant 2040581. The work of H. J. Lewandowski was supported by NSF QLCI under Grant OMA-2016244. The work of Corey Rae H. McRae and David P. Pappas was supported by NIST NQI and QIS efforts, as well as the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS) under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359. The work of Spyridon Michalakis was supported by Caltech's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Physics Frontiers Center under Grant PHY-1733907. The work of Michael G. Raymer was supported by the NSF Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), led by the University of Arizona under Grant NSF-1941583. The work of Mark Saffman was supported by NSF QLCI-HQAN under Award 2016136. This article was presented in part at the Quantum Undergraduate Education & Scientific Training (QUEST) Workshop and at the SPIE Photonics for Quantum Symposium. (All authors contributed equally to this work.)
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