text:
Q: CSSTransition nodeRef for component with direct children I want to get rid of the warning on StrictMode for findDOMNode when using react-transition-group but I stumbled upon an issue.
My <Slide> component looks like this:
class Slide extends React.Component {
  nodeRef = React.createRef();

  render() {
    return (
      <CSSTransition
        in={this.props.in}
        timeout={ANIMATION_DURATION}
        mountOnEnter={true}
        unmountOnExit={true}
        classNames={{
          enter: "slideEnter",
          enterActive: "slideEnterActive",
          exit: "slideExit",
          exitActive: "slideExitActive"
        }}
        nodeRef={this.nodeRef}
      >
        {this.props.children}
      </CSSTransition>
    );
  }
}

It receives a Drawer element as children, the Drawer component looks like this:
class Drawer extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (

        <button onClick={this.props.onClose}>close me</button>{" "}

This is my drawer

    );
  }
}

I cannot wrap the children element with a HTML tag (to attach a ref
{this.props.children}
 because it breaks the animation of the content. (I'm using this for children that are different drawers with position absolute)
I've also tried with cloneElement but it still doesn't work (with the code from below it behaves like this: 1. in no animation, 2. out no animation, 3. in animation works but I get the warning findDOMNode so it seems that nodeRef is sent as null, 4. out animation does not work.
const onlyChild = React.Children.only(this.props.children);
const childWithRef = React.cloneElement(onlyChild, {
  ref: this.nodeRef;
});

Is there any solution for this situation? Thanks!

A: The problem is that nodeRef needs to point to a DOM Node, as the name suggests, in your case it points to an instance of the Drawer class. You have two options:

*

*Pass the ref through another prop, e.g. forwardedRef, and in the Drawer class pass that prop to the root element:

React.cloneElement(onlyChild, {
  forwardedRef: this.nodeRef,
})

*Convert Drawer to a function component and use React.forwardRef:

const Drawer = React.forwardRef((props, ref) => {
  return (

      <button onClick={props.onClose}>close me</button>{" "}

This is my drawer

  );
});


text:
Chris Edmond
< Back to our people
Background: Chris is a medical doctor with a background in Emergency Medicine, Cardiology and Occupational Medicine and is currently Medical Director of Occupational Health provider WorkHealth (Channel Islands) Ltd. Chris also continues a part-time role in the Cardiology Department at Jersey General Hospital and provides medical assessments for Social Security incapacity benefits. Prior to becoming a doctor, Chris attended Loughborough University studying Computer Science, where he quickly discovered his cricketing skills were not up to the required international standard to make the university team! After graduating he then had a short career in banking and healthcare management before retraining as a doctor and moving to the island in 2011 with his young family.
Interests: Chris has always been an enthusiastic amateur, having tried his hand at most sports but not been particularly successful at any. He does however retain a passionate belief that sport and physical activity are essential ingredients of good health and a happy life. Chris has a keen interest in community development and is an advisor to the Jersey Community Foundation. He believes in the power of sport to bring people together to build community, particularly at the grass roots and local level. Having attained a Blue Belt in Hapkido in his youth, Chris has recently taken up a Karate class with his children and is enjoying developing his skills alongside them!
'I passionately believe that sport and active lifestyles are essential to challenging the epidemic of chronic disease we face – not only by encouraging physical activity but also as an opportunity for social connection which can be life changing. I also believe that sport is for all, and that whatever your standard, fitness level, age or disability there should be opportunities for playing, coaching and volunteering that are open and welcoming for you. I am really excited to work with Jersey Sport to open up these opportunities for everyone.'
Catriona McAllister
Dan Garton
Children and Schools Officer
Martine Le Guilcher
Swimming Development Officer
Laura Riley
Cycle Training and School Events Officer
Phil Austin
Steve Law
Dawn Dauny
Finance & Booking Officer
Ed Daubeney
Mark Wanless
James Tilley
Head of Sport and Children
Elliot Powell
Children and Schools Manager
Kieron McGovern
Cycling Instructor
Antony Harkin
Physical Literacy & Community Coach
Ewan Davies
Community Coach
Dylan Buesnel
Sarah Militis
School Swimming Coach
Rob Armstrong
Jonny Heward
Elizabeth De La Haye
Move More Referral Instructor

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Texas Deserves a Secure Electric Grid: Part 4
In previous "Texas Deserves a Secure Electric Grid" Capitol Hall Reports, I addressed the clear and present danger of the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threat to the state of Texas. In these articles I highlighted how our Texas electrical grid infrastructure is vulnerable to an EMP attack or a geomagnetic storm event, the societal and economic benefits of hardening our electric grid from EMP, and most importantly the electric industry lobby's influential strangle-hold on elected officials that is preventing efforts to secure the electric grid at the national and state level.
Arguably, the three most important things necessary to sustain life today, in order of importance are: air, water, and electricity. Yes, in today's digitally driven world, access to electricity is more important to sustaining life for many people than food. However, electric company executives have historically sought to minimize the seriousness of what many experts believe is the single greatest threat to the continuing existence of America today: an EMP induced loss of electric power. Specifically, PanCo executives have spent billions of dollars on lobbyists who influence elected officials to stand against legislative action that would secure the electric grid from EMP and protect the citizens of Texas. In Texas, AECT distribute documents with false and misleading so called "facts" in an attempt to influence legislators to oppose our EMP protection bill.
As I have stated before, a plethora of comprehensive, academically vetted, and scientifically backed research has warned of the destructive societal capabilities of an EMP event. The 2008 report by The Congressional EMP commission highlighted the interconnectedness of our critical infrastructure apparatus and warned that the loss of the electric grid from an EMP event would send a wave of cascading failures throughout the remaining other 15 sectors (see graphic). Over a very short timeframe, every other critical infrastructure sector would cease to function properly or to even function at all. Without electric power, Texans would no longer access to even the most basic of life sustaining necessities.
U.S. Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies
(Source: Graham, W. R., Foster, J. S., Gjelde, E., Hermann, R. J., Kluepfel, H. M., Lawson, R. L., et al. (2004).Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack: Executive Report. Washington DC: Untied States EMP Commission.)
The concerns expressed by our nation's foremost experts on electromagnetic pulse and electric grid security have not swayed the electric industry lobby to implement any EMP protection efforts that jeopardize the industry's existing autonomy. Just last year, during the 2015 Texas legislative session, I witnessed first-hand the devious methods that were employed by the electric power lobby as they placed profits and shareholder interests above the public safety of their customers. On behalf of their electric industry employers, these lobbyist conducted an extensive misinformation campaign that led to the passage of a watered down version of Senate Bill 1398 in the Senate. Later the power companies' lobbyists were successful in getting it killed in the Houses' calendars committee.
The good news is our Lt. Governor has recognized the seriousness of the EMP threat by authorizing our request for an interim grid security study. Also, Governor Abbott has made securing our electric grid a priority item. We are very grateful and blessed to have this support from our Governor and Lt. Governor.
During this next legislative session, the outcome must be different. Texans must take a stand and no longer allow the electric industry to continue their dangerous game of Russian Roulette with our 21st century way of life.


Mr. John Louis McDonald, also known as "Big John", was born November 27, 1938 in Hamer, South Carolina to the late Robert McDonald and Geraldine McDonald Davis. John departed this life on February 3, 2019 peacefully, at home. He never met a Stanger and met many as he traveled as an avid fishermen.
John was preceded in death by two brother, Robert McDonald and Jesse McDonald; three sisters, Rhodie Lee McDonald; Susie Johnson, and Virgie Page; two sons, John Calvin and John Louis McDonald; his in-laws Haywood and Lizzie stocks; one son-in-law William H Cain Jr.
He leaves to cherish his memory, his wife of 58 years, Shirley McDonald; two daughters, Loretta Frazier (Greg) of Winston-Salem, NC and Shirley Marie Cain (special friend Derrick) of Lumberton; two brothers, Lawrence Davis (Teresa) and Jimmy Davis of Fayetteville NC; three grandchildren Erick McDonald (Nina), Chanel Cain, and Jontarius Cain; Six sister-in-law's, Shirley McCrae McDonald, Maggie Bell Smith, Minster Ann Whitted, Patricia Mclver (Thornton), Susan McNeill (Randy) and Julia Faye Stocks; one brother-in –law Gary Stocks (Jeanette); six great grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other, relatives, and friends.


text:
Q: In Sublime Text 2, how do I highlight any code which is between  I'm coding in php for a Wordpress project at the moment and using Sublime Text 2. It's great, however, I would love to be able to quickly see what is php and what is html (also javascript, but that is secondary).
Here is an example:

<?php
    foreach ( $team_users as $team_user){
?>
    <?=$team_user->display_name?>
<?php
    }
?>

If the background color would be different between what is php code and what is html it would make the code much more readable:

I know that in my example I could just echo out the header to lose some of the php tags, that's beside the point.
Any suggestions?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
http://media.blubrry.com/emerging_women_grace_and_fire/p/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/emergingwomen.com/downloads/audio/Grace_and_Fire_Rha-Goddess.mp3
21: Move the Crowd with Rha Goddess
Today my guest is Rha Goddess, founder of Move the Crowd.
Rha is a cultural innovator and social entrepreneur who brings over two decades of transformational "crowd rockin'" in the name of social change. As a world renowned performing artist and activist, her work has been internationally featured in several compilations, anthologies, forums and festivals. In her 30+ year tenure as a creative organizer Rha has shaped the face of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offender aid and restoration, mental health and youth and young women's empowerment. Rha Goddess was a featured presenter at the fantastic Emerging Women May 2014 Power Party in New York, NY.
In today's episode, Rha and I spoke about:
Her work with Move The Crowd and how she is creating a league of extraordinary creative entrepreneurs
What she means by culture, and how our culture is shifting to a more collective, creative and diverse expression
Working with the 'Global Diaspora'
Limiting beliefs common among entrepreneurs and her 6 steps for working with them
And finally, her sage advice for the Emerging Women everywhere
Chantal Pierrat: You're listening to Grace and Fire, brought to you by Emerging Women. Today my guest is Rha Goddess. Rha is a cultural innovator and social entrepreneur who brings over two decades of transformational "crowd rockin'" in the name of social change. As a world-renowned performing artist and activist, her work has been internationally featured in several compilations, anthologies, forums, and festivals. In her 30+ year tenure as a creative organizer, Rha has shaped the face of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offender aid and restoration, mental health, and youth and young women's empowerment. With Emerging Women, Rha Goddess was a featured presenter at the fantastic May 2014 Power Party in New York, NY.
In today's episode, Rha and I spoke about: her work with Move The Crowd and how she's creating a league of extraordinary creative entrepreneurs; culture, what she means by culture, and how our culture is shifting to a more collective, creative, and diverse expression; working with the global diaspora; limiting beliefs common among entrepreneurs and her six steps for working with them; and finally, her sage advice for Emerging Women everywhere. Here's my conversation, "Move the Crowd," with the strong and powerful Rha Goddess.
Hello, and welcome, Rha Goddess! How are you?
Rha Goddess: I'm well, so well. Thank you so much for having me.
CP: Every time I talk to you, I smile and laugh before we even say anything. Why is that? [Laughs]
RG: I feel the same way! [Laughs] I feel the same way. I just think it's the kindredness, you know? [Laughs]
CP: Yes! I'm just always so inspired by your spirit, which is interesting because you are an amazing business woman. You have this business called Move The Crowd—which we're going to talk a little bit more about, and your philosophy—but you're also a poet, a writer, a performer—a slam poet, nonetheless. In fact I was talking to one of our speakers, Dominique Christina, who's the Women [of the] World Slam Poetry Champion two years in a row, and she said you started this whole thing! That you actually created this women's slam poetry genre. And I've heard a couple people say that.
RG: I don't know if I created it, Chantal, but I will say that I've had the privilege of being one of the early players in the field, and I'm so blown away to see the way that the movement has blossomed, certainly over the last 15+ years. And Dominique is world-class in every sense of the world. I'm so happy that you all are continuing to engage her through Emerging Women, and again, I adore her. Amazing, amazing.
CP: Yes, you know, it's curious that you are, as an artist, as an activist, a humanitarian—usually when people are humanitarian, they're sort of creative types. They don't actually start companies that help people build businesses. It's not a natural paring, or maybe it is. Maybe it is and this is the future of business. So maybe you could talk a little bit about your history and how you came to be starting Move The Crowd and to be a leader in this genre.
RG: Absolutely. And before we sort of move off to the creative thing, I think there's a little bit of a mythology out there in the assumption that all creators are not entrepreneurial or all artists are not entrepreneurial. Artists are incredibly disciplined individuals. And you have to be, right? If you just think about, listening to Dominique, read her work, and what it [takes] to bring that level of lyrical brilliance, right? It's three minutes, right, or five minutes or less. It takes incredible discipline and incredible fortitude to be able to do that. So as much as I know we joke and often we talk about it in the context of our work that's created as well. We have this perception of not being entrepreneurial or not being so disciplined in ways that would lend themselves to our entrepreneurship. It's actually quite the reverse.
For me, Move The Crowd is really an integration of everything I've done over the last three decade, three-plus decades. The company combines my passion for leadership development, for economic empowerment and personal growth with my commitment to cultural innovation and vital transformations. This was everything I loved in one place. And the mission of the work is really to leverage this movement aimed at fostering a new way of handing our business, and that's what's most exciting to me.
I agree with you that it's not necessarily a normal thing you would see on an artistic resume, but what I will say is that as an artist, I have always been dedicated, committed to, and at work around culture. And capitalism is a culture. [Laughs] We talk a lot about it as an economic system, but it also is a culture. So culture shifting has always been a part of my work. So in that sense, I'm actually right at home fostering this new way of doing business.
CP: I'm interested—what do you mean by "culture"? It's such an interesting word. Is it community? Is it arts? What is it?
RG: That's a great question. So part of what we know about culture in the sort of traditional sense are rituals, customs, ceremony, food—these different dimensions of how we move in our lives. But it also is attitude, beliefs, perceptions, lexicon, behavior. And when we talk about shifting culture, those are the places that we really go to work.
And within the landscape of rituals and customs and traditions, there are certain things that foster and liven and empower communities, and there are certain things that challenge and disempower and disenfranchise communities. And there are rituals and customs and traditions that operate in that way as well. And so when I think about culture, it really is about the celebration of our humanity and it is about strengthening the kinds of traditions that enable more of us to thrive from a global perspective.
CP: And then, when you say "culture shifting," what do you think we're shifting out of and into right now, as a culture of business leaders and entrepreneurs?
RG: It's interesting because I think we can speak about it in the entrepreneurial context, but I actually think there's a larger global shift happening for us as a global community. And I describe it as one of moving out of the age of celebrity and into the age of citizen.
CP: Ha, yes! And not a moment too soon!
RG: Right, right! And what we know about the age of celebrity is it's been a lot about iconizing and idolizing people and certain types of behavior and certain ways of operating in the world. It's been a culture that has bred an incredible level of disparity, the haves and the have-nots, the beautiful people and the not-beautiful people, the worthy folks and the not-worthy folks. We can go on and on and on, and it's really bred, underneath it, these cultural wounds of scarcity and separation.
And I believe that the shift is into the age of citizen. I believe that more everyday people are far less interested in watching celebrities unravel and are much more interested in figuring out how they make their own unique brand of contribution to the planet. I think this new age is less about personal upward mobility and more about quality of contribution, and how do we not just have the right to "succeed," but how we have the right to make a difference. And that is what I believe we are now organizing ourselves around in this new cultural paradigm.
CP: And when you say "the age of the citizen," and talking about being able to express our uniqueness, are you talking about that also in terms of—because what I'm seeing is a lot more [of a] collective, relationship-based movement, as well. Is there room for that in this expression of the citizen? Or is it more—
RG: Absolutely. I think the fundamental opportunity of this new age is about unifying. But I do think that within that, understanding, what is it that we each have to offer? What is it that we each have to bring that makes a collaboration so exciting and so important and so necessary and possible? So it's this combination of, how do we work together, how do we understand—you know, if you think about any of our indigenous traditions, there were women who brought the tomatoes, there were women who brought the corn, there were women who brought the beans. Do you know what I mean? That was what made the stew possible, the beauty and the brilliance of our uniqueness coming together in this collaborative way.
CP: Yes, I feel like it's something that is held in the feminine, that our expression, our personal, individual expression, is also rooted in impact and giving and connection to others. Whereas in the masculine, the individual expression has more of an individual purpose to it, which is wonderful as well, it's just a very different feel. And I think that collective community—it feels like it's definitely coming from this rise in the feminine and more of a different approach than we've had in the past.
RG: It's our gatherer energy. We are communal by nature. That has been—our role throughout the centuries has been to care for the tribe. So we're always looking to the left and to the right [laughs] and it is ingrained in our being.
CP: Tell us more about who you work with in Move The Crowd. I always thought that it was interesting that you seem to work with—and I'll use this word—underrepresented clientele, people that are new to business, or a lot of people of color, younger people, Millennials. Tell us more about your clients and why you chose to work with them in particular.
RG: It's so interesting because I would say, Chantal, that we were the global diaspora, particularly of creative and cultural entrepreneurs who are looking to stay true, get paid, and do good. They're looking to marry values with economic sustainability and social impact, societal impact.
And I'm conscious about the reframe because I think that we as a nation are carried, still, from the very outdated perceptions about what the population of this nation looks like. It is rapidly changing, whether we are looking at the demographic shift that's happening with Millennials right now, whether we are looking at what has been called Census 2050 and quickly changed to Census 2040, this idea of "majority minority," and all of these conversations. But they're all pointing to the fact that we are undergoing a rapid shift in terms of the makeup of our country.
And I think that what we feel most proud about is that we get to help lead the way for more culturally relevant and creatively engaging professional development experiences. So we want to speak to the diaspora. It is our commitment to speak to the diaspora. And we also want to engage the multiple intelligences. So we're not just interested in people from the neck up. [Laughs] We want the whole being involved in terms of how we engage.
And our choice to work the creative and cultural entrepreneurs is because when we think about, again, this opportunity to really change the game and foster a new way of doing business in the world, we recognize that culture has been one of the landscapes that has been least activated and least touched. There's been a lot around policy, there's been a lot around regulation, there's been a lot around some of the traditional organizing within the context of economic development. We think that that's phenomenal work that's been happening, but there hasn't really been the cultural will to really look at, what does it take to foster an economy that can work for all people? And I think that's our commitment. We want to serve people who carry that commitment and who want to build ventures enrich the planet, as opposed to take from it.
CP: Right. It's funny, I think the diaspora is going to shift. Sometimes when I look at some of these TV anchors and I'm just like, "Oh my God," and they're super conservative and they just seem so outdated. It's funny to think that the people that you're working with would be the diaspora, you know? It feels like the future.
RG: Yes. It's the future and the present, right? The face of the new America is wildly diverse. It is multifaceted. It is multicultural. It is multi-perspective. It is multidisciplinary. We are becoming so much more out-of-the-box, and I think it's exciting. And our commitment to serve people who are playing on all of these edges is exciting to us.
CP: And tell me a little bit more about what you mean when you say "move the crowd." Movements—you know, just the concept of movement and how this plays into it.
RG: You know, we say "move the crowd," we mean just that. [Laughs] And it's really about transforming the mythology that success only belongs to a chosen few. I believe personally that there's far too much beauty, brilliance, intelligence, and magnificence in the world that we all can't thrive. For me, in the age of the citizen, it is about providing opportunities where more people can achieve their own unique flavor of success.
And again, like I said, I think it's rooted in contribution and less in just personal acquisition. And so for me, this idea of demystifying success and this idea specifically supporting the creation of more passion-driven, value-centric, and economically sustainable businesses is really the name of the game for us.
CP: You know, it's just such a compelling name, and it make sense when you're talking about cultural shifts. When I think of movements back in the '60s and the '70s, they all had a political agenda: "We need to change policy." And I feel like movements now are more cultural, and that they are just as powerful as changing policy, if not more so because the perspective changes.
And when the perspective changes, demand changes, the economy changes, as opposed to just—which, believe me, I'm so grateful for a lot of the policies and the laws that we have, so I don't mean to say anything negative about what's happened. But this concept of movement is shifting in a more of a cultural direction right now. That's what I see. You're in a really sweet spot here.
RG: Thank you for saying that. And I do want to say humbly that we do feel that. I think, and this is [something] my beloved Alan Jenkins, who is the executive director of the opportunity agenda would say, we need to move hearts, minds, and policy. I think that we particularly see the hearts and minds piece coming from a context of culture.
I agree with you that we also don't want to take away from anything that's come before us because I do think our movement builds on the legacy of work of people who are committed to triple-bottom-line businesses and people who are committed to a more just, harmonious, and sustainable planet. And I don't think that that movement is new at all. There's a long legacy of work that we're building on there.
But the other thing I will say I think is distinct about our movement in addition to the culture piece is the practical. That's also, how does philosophy meet everyday actions? And I think more and more the movements that are engaging folks today are really thinking about, how do you take it home? And how do you put it on the ground in your life? And, really, how does it become tangible for you as a place to come from?
CP: When you talk about the future—and I really appreciate that practice, by the way. I don't want to skim over that. I think there's a lot of theory and concepts out there, and once again, it's a nice way to bring it into the body, bring it into actual practice and everyday and usefulness. Very, very important, especially when there's so much concept about what the new economy is and what's the right business approach. So I super appreciate that.
And now, when you say the "future economy," what does that look like beyond triple bottom lines? Give me some hard—it is capitalism? Is it socialism? What are we talking about?
RG: I can't hold any one of those frames with any sense of conviction, quite frankly. If I'm going to call it and we get our way, we're moving toward an economy of transformation. And from my perspective, some of the attributes are that we're going to move from a place of being far more creative and cooperative than competitive. We're going to move from a place of being far more relevant to addressing the needs of our global society as opposed to the agendas of a select few. We're going to move to a place of being far more interconnected versus isolated and siloed.
And we're going to engage in multiple currencies. Money will be recognized as one currency, but it's not going to be the only currency, and it's certainly not going to have the kind of hierarchical ranking that it's had where it's literally been put before humanity. I think our humanity is coming back into the center, and I think that there are other currencies and resources and capacities that are going to be valued just as much as we currently value money.
So I think there is going to be greater balance and greater integration in the future economy. And I think more people are going to participate from a place of being healthy versus from a place of being broken. We don't really, in my mind, talk enough how wide the gap is, how really wide the chasm is between people who are thriving and people who are not, and how rapidly that chasm is getting bigger and bigger by the day.
I just recently had the privilege to give a commencement address at the ceremony for the School of Graduate Studies for Marlboro College. And I talked about the fact that the economists' indicator says that 43 percent of the 150 countries that they watch in terms of really understanding the global landscape of civil unrest, that 43 percent, 63 of those 150 countries have had social unrest this year, just this year. So there is a way that we are really working to unearth the ingrained inequity that has had our world economy on lock for a very, very long time. And I think that all of this upheaval is making a way for a new economy. And I believe and hope, again, if I have my way, that these elements are going to be incorporated in what we see in the future.
CP: Cool. May it be so, sister. Dang. We need it. I'm ready, I'm ready. What do you think are some of the limiting beliefs that tend to hold people back from being successful and thriving in their businesses? What do you see out there?
RG: Funny, the most common form—there are three I'm going to name. The most common one is, "I am not enough." And you can fill in the blank. Smart enough, capable enough, strong enough, connected enough, clear enough. This way that we individually perceive ourselves as somehow being deficit to whatever it is that we want to make manifested in the world. And that is uniformly, across the board, happening. Again, this is sort of a piece of culture, in recognizing and understanding the prevalence of how culture operates.
The other thing that we uniquely see across the board is this belief that if we do what we love, we'll starve. That somehow [laughs] we cannot have passion and love living next to our money, that in some way, shape, or form, we must sell out in order to make a living. And then I would say the third—we call these the "greatest hits," by the way, at Move The Crowd. We listen for what we call people's "greatest hits." [Laughs] You know, the things that operate all day long that are on heavy rotation in your life.
CP: [Laughs]
RG: We call them your greatest hits. But I would say what's probably the third most common greatest hit is that people won't like us, the fear that if we get too successful or too good or too amazing or too wonderful, that we're going to lose people. And not just the external scrutiny that we've come to see, the sort of great American past time of ripping people down in the public form. But we're going to lose people we love, like our spouses or our parents or our brothers and sisters or our closest friends.
And those three fears tend to keep so many of us paralyzed and not really going for what it is that we know we're being called to. There are others, but those are the three most common that we encounter in our work.
CP: And do you see some playing out more prevalently in some of the women that you work with?
RG: Yes, I'm going to say the last one, certainly.
CP: Wow, interesting!
RG: The fear of loss. Fear of loss. And again, not that we don't see the other two. We absolutely do, and again, those play out universally, but there is something about our belief that if we stood in our full power, we would be alone. That tends to keep a lot of us stuck or small.
CP: That is just so deep, I don't even know where to—I mean, because it's ringing, it's deep down there. That is not something I want to put on my list of my greatest hits, but yet as you say it, there is something—I mean, I'm resonating with it. I'm definitely resonating with it. It's just an interesting concept that I haven't—so the idea is, just to dig a little bit more into it, is that people won't like us anymore? Or that we will forget them and move on? Or we will be a different person?
RG: Yes, it's so funny. I think it's less that we'll change. It's more that the people around us will see us grow and evolve, and they will change in reaction to what they see. Because they've become very comfortable with us being a particular way. I'm talking to my women who are the super givers and nurturers and caretakers, and for those women, anything within a 20-mile radius of them has it pretty good. [Laughs]
CP: That's right! OK, I get that now.
RG: And if you become more committed to building your own vision and your own passion, it means you've got less time to help everybody else work their thing out. Fixing and caring for and taking care of can sometimes also be a way that we condition ourselves to believe we get love or we need to get love. We need to do these things to get love. And so often it's like, "Who will love me if I'm not running around doing all these things for people?" It's sort of this way that we set up this quid pro quo.
So standing in our power means setting boundaries, sometimes. Standing in our power means being willing to go for the bigger piece. Standing in our power means being to really be rigorous about the question of why we're here and what it is we are to contribute, whether if it's a societal framework or not. And so I think that for women it's difficult because we provide that connective tissue for so much of what's around us, that when we make a shift, everybody does feel it. And there's a lot of concern about what that means.
CP: Right. I'm curious to see [if] you yourself—because, God, you seem so invincible and strong. When you talk, you never—for instance, there are some women who have this have this habit of [upward inflection] ending with a question? You never do that. You are like, "I'm saying this, and I'm putting my foot down." Like I feel you rooted in every sentence you say. Have you ever had limiting beliefs early on in your journey? And how was your way out?
RG: I mean, had? [Laughs] I believe to be human is to have them. And to have them is to be human. What I will say that I've done, and what has made a difference for me, has been 1) being willing to confront them head-on and really smoke them out.
We have a whole body of work that we do in our curriculum with entrepreneurs where we really go in, we go into the garden with the shovel, digging for the weeds. [Laughs] We're coming to pull the weeds! For some of us, it's like you walk in our garden and it's really apparent. They're growing wild and free and crazy. For others of us, we've got a beautiful oriental rug on of them, we've got a gorgeous couch or chaise lounge, a beautiful lamp. They're hidden and they're not conscious.
And so the first piece of work [is] we really walk folks through a six-step process, but the first piece of work is the awareness piece and really being willing to be lovingly rigorous with identifying what those conversations are. And the value to that is that when they come up, you actually can see them operating.
And you can't do anything until you see, right, Chantal? We can say whatever we want to say, but the truth is you don't see until you see. And the first opportunity for liberation is awareness. And once you can see them operating—I know for me, once I could see them operating, I actually could slow it down a little bit and go, "Whoa, I'm doing that thing again," or, "Whoa, I'm saying that thing again to myself." And then what I really asked myself was, "Was that what I want to do here?" Or, "OK, I see myself doing that, I forgive myself," [laughs] "and now I'm going to do something different or I'm going to course-correct."
[So it's about] this awareness piece and also the acceptance piece, which needs to come before the opportunity to sort of move, to accept that, "Sometimes I can be worse to myself than my own worst enemy with some of the things I say to myself." And the opportunity to accept that and face that and confront that and start to heal that and forgive myself around that. Pivotal. Pivotal. Because, of course, the first time we see it, the next knee-jerk thing that we want to do is to beat ourselves up about it, which only makes us feel worse, which only digs the hole deeper.
And so there is a real process, a real step-by-step process that was completely life-changing for me—it's what we teach in our work—to shift it, and it's what I have, over time, been able to practice. So my conviction doesn't come from this place of not being human or being better than anybody else. It comes from hours and hours and years and years and decades of practice.
CP: I really appreciate that step, practicing the step of forgiveness and that you didn't just gloss over it. Because it's so easy, especially in this—you know, when you really want your business to work and something comes up and it's so easy to just go to the positive, "No, I can do it, I can do it!" and just push away. Once I've got the awareness, I'm moving into this positive affirmation manifest mode.
RG: Not so fast.
CP: Right. I really appreciate that you're slowing that down and bringing in the, not just the awareness, but the step of self-forgiveness and the acceptable.
RG: Yes. I'm going to give you the six steps, just because we're here and whoever may be listening, this may be helpful. The first step is awareness. The second step is acceptance—also really important. That's where you talk about the pushing away. "It's not me, I'm just [overreacting], or they're just overreacting." All those reasons that we want to distance ourselves from the unpleasant, especially as women because that's our conditioning. So second step is acceptance. How do you be with it? Really confront it and be with it.
Third is forgiveness. And then the fourth is new vision, which is about the new commitment. So, "OK, I'm clear, I don't want to do that anymore. Here's what I do want to embrace. Here's what I do want to believe. Here's what I do want to hold on to." Right action [is] step number five. And then step number six is celebration.
CP: Oh, nice.
RG: And I can't tell you how important the last one is. Because we get it, and we're on to the next and on to the next. And then we kind of look up and wonder why we don't feel acknowledged or don't feel appreciated or don't feel taken care of. And I'm going to say, be it big, be it small, celebrate every single victory, because you see your progress and you get to own your progress. So when you're back in those situations, you get to go, "Wait a minute, time out. I've got a new commitment." Or, "I've got a new attitude. We ain't doing that." [Laughs]
So even in the celebration, it gives you greater capacity to course correct when those situations arise again. And you can be tempted to go into old habits, always stopping or always thinking or always being. So awareness, acceptance, forgiveness, new vision, right action—so you act consistent with the new vision—celebration.
CP: Nice. One of the things that you are strong about in your business philosophy is authenticity, and that authenticity actually will augment your business. And I would like to hear a little bit more about that, especially in the context of the actual business of selling and marketing.
RG: Yes. So another cornerstone of our work is something we call an L3. And I think you remember when we did the wonderful Power Party in New York with Emerging Women, I walked your gorgeous women through a mini-version of this work. The L3 stands for how you live, how you love, and how you lead. And it is our way of getting to the heart of your vision, your mission, and your purpose.
So when we talk about authenticity, the question that we ask in our work is, "What is the context that guides how you live, move, and have your being in the world? And to what degree have we had an opportunity to really touch the true essence of who we are, of ourselves?" Because that's what gives you access to authenticity and integrity.
And so when you start to think about it in a sales paradigm—it's so fascinating that you're asking this question because our theme of the month this month is "represent" [laughs] and it's a combination of the L3 and USP. [Laughs] Right? And actually, when we teach USP—which is Unique Selling Propositions, so funny that you should ask this—we begin with having out entrepreneurs develop their L3.
Because the authenticity of your being, your core being—and I'll sort of give you the elements of the L3 so this will make sense as we turn to the USP part. The core elements of the L3 are: how you live, [which is] about what you value, what's most important to you on the planet, the kind of world you want to see, the kind of values you want to live by. How you love is about your gifts, what you're here to bring. So it's the unique combination of your talent, your skills, and your abilities. And then how you lead, which is about your purpose, is about what you're here to effect on the world. What is the passionate impulse that's guiding you toward that opportunity or that challenge that is facing humanity, that you want to be the one to engage in an address?
And so your L3 is like a thumbprint. There are no two L3s alike. And we walk our entrepreneurs through a process where they actually develop a declaration. So it's the articulation of the essence of who they are. And when you come from that place, you being to look at, "Well, why am I creating this offering? What is the impact that I want to have in the world? Who are the people I most want to serve?" So you're asking different kinds of questions than, "Do I look good? Is my logo hot?" [Laughs] And I'm not saying you shouldn't have a hot logo, let's be clear! I'm not saying you shouldn't have awesome coloring.
But the interrogation comes from a place of spirit as opposed to ego. And it's less about looking good and more about making a difference and having an impact. And when you sell from that place, right from the love, how you love, what you have to offer and what you want to impact and your values, what you care most about, and the intersection of those three things, you have the opportunity to strike a chord for people who care about what you care about, with people who need what you have to offer, with people who are passionate about and part of the difference you want to make.
And so you attract people from that place. Your speaking looks different. Your market copy looks different [Laughs] Do you understand what I'm saying? When you're coming from that place, you're inviting people as opposed to manipulating people to engage with you. And you're also honoring whether or not it's a match. So you're interviewing your clients as much as your clients are interviewing you. Why? Because you don't want to make any promise you can't deliver on. That's the authenticity, that's integrity. That's coming back to your values.
So if that is ingrained in how you market and how you sell, you have a different experience of the process. And your client, or your prospective client, has a very different experience of you and what you have to offer in your company because you're coming from that place.
CP: Right. Well, it's just so interesting, that concept of interviewing your audience instead of pushing information out. It's more of a co-creation.
RG: Yes!
CP: And I think that's part of the new economy that you're talking about. This is shifting. I see it happening. And the people [who] are doing that, I'm like, "Oh, I like this! I can't really put my finger on it, but I like it." I feel invited, somehow.
RG: Yes, it's about partnership. It's about partnership. Business is about partnership. It's about being in relationship, in relationship to everything and everyone in a way that honors and uplifts and expands the quality of experience for everyone and everything involved. That's a place to come from when you're building your business.
CP: We are at the end, so I'm going to ask you one more question here as it pertains to women in our Emerging Women audience. Our audience is, in general, I'd say we're about 60 percent entrepreneurs, but 40 percent executives—people that work for bigger companies. I have a hunch that a lot of those executives, or a percentage of them, actually want to leave their jobs and become entrepreneurs. And we'll be finding out more about that.
But what advice would you give for somebody who is in that situation, whether they're an entrepreneur now and they want to change their business, or they're an executive and they want to become and entrepreneur, or they're a woman who's ready to make a huge change but there's a lot of fear. I know I went through this when I left my fabulous, fabulous job and mentor to start Emerging Women. I would have loved to have heard from you the advice that you would have given me at that time. And I think there are a lot of women in this position.
RG: Yes. There are three things that I'm going to offer up as a way to begin to make the turn. The first thing I want to invite you to do is to carve time and space to nurture the dream. Write about it, draw about it, paint about it, support yourself in being able to help crystalize and bring into manifestation. And we talk about the different ways that we can kind of take things from the ethereal into the material. It's through writing, through speaking, through sharing, through articulating, that things begin to be make manifest.
So first thing is to create space. It can be a weekend—doesn't matter. But you're carving time for yourself, and that time is specifically earmarked to nurture the idea, to nurture the dream. If you're sharing the dream—this is really important—you are only sharing it with people who you know are going to be good stewards—you know what I'm saying—of what you're creating.
CP: Yes, very good feedback, thank you.
RG: Do not cast pearls—we all know that saying. [Laughs]
CP: Before the swine!
RG: Do not cast pearls, right? So if you have confidants who can hold the dream with you and be your cheerleaders—a lot of women are forging sacred circles now, and I'm so thrilled. I mean, in every facet of our community, women are forging sacred circles, and I'm going to say that this is a perfect place where you all get to be the keepers of each other's dreams here. So that's the first thing. Create space to cultivate the dream. If it makes sense in circle and community, lovely.
The second thing I'm going to say is begin to show up in your present scenario as your whole self. And I say that because oftentimes, Chantal, what happens is people get mad at their jobs. Do you hear what I'm saying? And when you're mad at your job, you show up a particular way, don't we? The opportunity is to outgrow the experience of the job. And you don't do that by constricting. You actually do it by expanding. So the opportunity is to actually excel in such a way that you actually outgrow the experience.
It may sound counterintuitive to do that and cultivate the dream, but you'll begin to see what I mean when I give you the third one. Because if you see excelling at your job as preparation for running your business, there's a whole other opportunity and skills that you get to bring to bear. Within excelling at your job, you do want to start to think in an entrepreneurial way. And I'm going to say to you that probably most of your executives are already starting to think in that way, if they're not already, because, certainly, they've achieved a certain level of success within the structure.
But you do want to begin thinking about, "What is your unique brand of leadership? What is your unique brand of contribution? And how are you delivering that in the context of the company, and how is that currently benefiting the company in the context of the things that the company holds near and dear?" So as you begin to—and you're also results-oriented.
Again, like I said, your executives might guess this, this is all, "Amen, amen, amen." But, if for whatever reason some of your executives are hearing this and they see the opportunity to re-shift or recommit or recalibrate, you're about the results. You're honoring, of course, in the process. You're honoring, of course, in your leadership. You're honoring, of course, in your work. And you're also very much committed to what it is that you want to deliver. Because these are the things that are going to serve you in whatever it is that you're building, whatever it is that you're creating.
And then the third thing I'll give you—I'm only going to give you three, there's many more I could give you, but three is what I think makes sense in this context—write the resignation letter. Date it. Hold it. You'll know exactly when it's time to hand it in. But write the letter, because universally, it's symbolically recognizes your full intent to make that pivot.
CP: Fabulous. That's a strong one. Thank you so much, Rha!
RG: So welcome! My honor and my privilege, Chantal. Just to your amazing women, thank you for all that you're already doing to make our world better.
CP: Right back at you. Thank you so much.
RG: Thank you!
One thought on "– 21: Move the Crowd with Rha Goddess"
Norma J says:
Thank you Rha and thank you Chantal. It's been quite some time since I've been so powerfully moved from my core. What was presented here in this interview spoke to those aspects of myself desiring to truly transform what I can be within myself and how that can contribute to our world.
Rha, you are masterful in your communication of speaking heart into words that not only make sense and inspire but that resonate with those chords within others. Sometimes we just need to hear it spoken, those knowings that have been hiding within us. You gave mine a voice so I could hear and now be more aware, more accepting, more forgiving and create more new vision, right action and celebration.
And as a woman of color and a performing artist, it was especially supportive for me to hear the particular language, ideology and support of cultural values that you weave, encourage and uplift in your focus and work.
I feel a new courage bubbling inside with the conviction and faith that I don't have to leave any part of me behind, that I can show up, fully intact with my heart, my values, my experience, my talents and my unique magic and while I'm celebrating all that, I can powerfully effect the world by fully being who I am.
I know I'll be listening to this podcast over and over again, to hear what I might have missed and to continue to deepen what has so strongly resonated with me. . And I will be checking out Move the Crowd to learn more and sharing it all with friends and co-horts. You couldn't know this but I was asking for exactly the kind of help this podcast has offered to me today. Right timing for sure! I love when that happens:-)
Thank you both for sharing who you are with our world, for acting on your faith and convictions and inspired hearts. And thank you so much for making all this so available and inspiring to the rest of us.
In Spirit,


Reason the first: White and Dark Chocolate and Peppermint Cheesecake. Reason the second: World Peace Cookies. Reason the third: Chocolate Chunkers. If those three reasons aren't good enough for you then you have a heart, (and stomach) of stone and I feel sorry for you. The following three recipes and filled to the brim with chocolaty goodness and are begging to be eaten with reckless abandonment.
For the Tall and Creamy Cheesecake, Dorie gives a basic recipe, provides numerous alterations and encourages you to make up your own. I took her suggestion for marbled cheesecake one step further by adding white chocolate and peppermint extract to half of the batter. I'd like to say this was my idea, but really I just stole it from page 230, (of Baking: From My Home to Yours, where else?) where it's Dorie's favourite switch up for her Basic Marbled Loaf cake. And did I mention this is one of the most luxuriously smooth cheesecakes I've ever tasted? It was dangerous for me to have in the house. I couldn't even freeze it to keep myself from devouring it because I liked it frozen too!
The Word Peace cookies are nothing new to me, (hopefully not to you either, they've certainly made the rounds) I've even gone so far as to make World Peace cookie ice cream and they're always good. I made this batch to bring into work with me for two reasons: 1- If they're believed to be good enough to instill world peace then I figured they should certainly work for smaller scale goodwill projects too. My thoughts were that if I brought them into work the bosses might tell me I don't actually have to do anything other than bake for them. Or maybe my co-workers will take over my work so that I can become the team baker. So far that hasn't happened. Sigh. 2- One of the people at work can't eat eggs so he previously hadn't been able to sample any of my baked goodies. The World Peace cookies don't have eggs so they were perfect for him and he appreciated the effort.
Posted by Brilynn at 10:24 a.m.
Your blog is not good for me to read at breakfast time! Now I want cheesecake instead of oatmeal.
Ok, so I admit it. I have two logs of WPC dough in my freezer. I'm addicted to them. I love the dough, I love the cookie, I love making the cookie. I even adapted the cookie recipe and made an almond version of them. And now you tell me there is a Dorie cookie to give World Peace a run for their chocolate??!! Well, let's see here, I just added this to my week of baking schedule.
Ooohhh, Dorie - my best friend in the kitchen!! I have seen the World Peace Cookies make the rounds - why haven't I made them yet???!!!??
so funny because last night i made the world peace cookies too (and wrote about them on my blog)...but i wasn't crazy about them. i don't know who dorie is but oh my, those photos and that cheesecake looks incredible!
OOOOOH that all looks so good! lucky lucky :):) i've heard so much about these world peace cookies i get the feeling i'm being sent a message!
Yes, what is not to love about Dorie? It all looks wonderful.
wow! all of these look great!
Incredible . . . yes now I'm thinking cheese cake would be just the thing for breakfast.
They all look amazing! But who is Dorie?
That cheesecake looks to die for!
I've not decided what to make for supper tonight yet (and time is fast running out) but I do want desset. All looks yummy, I'll have to look at that cheesecake I can't recall that one, and choc - mint is a favourite!
I made the world peace cookies this weekend (after seeing your post), they are SO good! Thanks for inspiring me to make them!
I love the WP cookies, they never last!
Your photos are mean, I wish I could take a bite!
Dorie did it again! Thanks for the three Dorie recipes, all of them look amazing!
BTW, I'm still using the wooden salt cellar you made for me for BBM! I love it!
I know I need to get Dorie's book now....there are just way too many things you've made that look so delish.
Question - how do you manage to eat all the wonderful things you make? I always seem to want one of everything I see on your foodblog!!
I've only just started reading your blog and I'm already hooked! You are an amazing baker and I'd love to link to you from my blog . Would that be okay with you?
I don't know how to make all of this and stay alive. Seriously! I would love to make all of the things on your blog, but I just couldn't have them around.
I try taking things to work, but after awhile, people get tired of be bringing goodies. (I don't know how).
I have honestly never heard of peace cookies. Where have I been.
i keep reading about dorie's book and you make it really difficult for me to resist buying it! i have never even heard of WPC, but they sound like a great idea to me. not sure what to make first, though!
Brilynn, reading your articles about Dori Greenspan's recipes, looking at those photos and reading about your encounter and lunch with her convinced me to buy her book. Should be here next week. I try not to make too many desserts at home, and Im always fiddling with them to make them healthier, but I promise not to do that the first time around with Dorie's, even if that means it takes me a long time to work through the book as I balance it out with gym time;).
I cant wait for it to get here so I can try out a recipe!


text:
Katherine McGrath
Known for Cheers (1986), The Immaculate Misconception (2006), Hill Street Blues (1987), Frasier (1994)
Dec 11, 1944 (age 74)
The Immaculate Misconception (2006)
Mildred Flanagan Mildred Flanagan See fewer
Frasier (1994)
(TV Series) - Linda (1 episode, 1994) Linda (1 episode, 1994) See fewer
You Can't Tell a Crook by His Cover (Jan 27, 1994) Season 1, Episode 15 - Linda Linda See fewer
Trying Times (1989)
(TV Series) - Mother St Helen (1 episode, 1989) Mother St Helen (1 episode, 1989) See fewer
Death and Taxes (Oct 26, 1989) Season 2, Episode 3 - Mother St Helen Mother St Helen See fewer
Scandal in a Small Town (1988)
(TV Movie) - Verna Verna See fewer
Hill Street Blues (1987)
Dogsbreath Afternoon (Mar 17, 1987) Season 7, Episode 18 - Mary Mary See fewer
(TV Series) - Desiree Harrison (1 episode, 1986) Desiree Harrison (1 episode, 1986) See fewer
The Book of Samuel (Dec 11, 1986) Season 5, Episode 11 - Desiree Harrison Desiree Harrison See fewer


In 1926, His Majesty the Imam Yahia, king of the usually closed and forbidden mountain land of Yemen in southwestern Arabia, inaugurated a royal postal service for the first time, without benefit of outside postal advice and completely unaware of the fact that there was anything in the world called philately. Only eight years before, Yemen was still partly occupied by Ottoman troops, whose forerunner postal service (Hodeida, Taiz and Sana'a cancels on regular Turkish stamps for indifferent and irregular mail to Turkey, mostly by the military) had not been available to the population at large.
Two basic stamps, a "1/2 of 1/8 imadi" (5c U.S.), and "1/8 imadi" (10c US), corresponding to small pentagonal silver coins of the realm (40 bogash—1 imadi—80c U.S.) were produced locally by locking 20 individual cliches together in a single frame for each master sheet.
Both stamps showed two crossed Yemeni daggers or "Jambiyas" and Arabic inscriptions, with the value spelled out on the left dagger blade. Both were simply black on white, but to avoid confusion due to the lack of clarity of the inscription of value, the low value was eventually painted over with an orange wash, thus creating Scott's No. 2 and completing the first, or "Jambiya", set of three stamps, which were imperforate and ungummed.
A sewing machine perforation was subsequently applied to some of the sheets at a nearby local tailor's for the benefit of postal patrons and post office clerks.
Cancellations were simply enlarged versions of habitual Arabic personal seals, with ornate entwined letters, giving the name of the town, the inscription: "Post and Telegraph" (they were also used for telegrams, as the Turks left a pretty complete telegraphic network throughout formerly-occupied parts of the country) and the year date. These "seal-type" cancels are still used today for telegrams and are occasionally struck on modern stamps during temporary lack of postal cancellers proper.
30 post offices, mostly set up in existing telegraph offices, used the Jambiya stamps and seal-type cancels between 1926 and 1930, and the Yemen Post went merrily on its way, still without outside notice or philatelic ramifications.
The cat got out of the bag with the appearance of the low value stamp on Yemen newspaper wrappers addressed to India, Egypt and Syria—sometimes with additional Indian stamps affixed in Aden, sometimes without additional adhesives—and the issue was first brought to philatelic attention by N.N. Marino and Frank H. Oliver of Bright and Sons stamp firm, in London.
By December of 1926 both English and American stamp journals or columns had noted the Jambiya issue and its seal-type cancels, but very little information about them or the country's postal service was available until 1930.
Charles R. Crane, America's first great philanthropist to interest himself in the Arab world, had, in the meantime, sent mining engineer Karl S. Twitchell, as a sort of private Point IV technician, to advise the Imam's government on development projects. Twitchell, on hearing of the Imam's desire for international recognition of his sovereignty, suggested that joining the U.P.U. would help.
In 1930 Yemen followed this suggestion, and Yemenite representatives in Germany prevailed on the German Republic's stamp press to provide the country with an issue of gummed and perforated stamps, on regular German government watermarked paper, in U.P.U. colors. At the same time metallic cancellers, in both Arabic and English, with date wheels running up through the 1940's, were provided for the 30 existing Post Offices.
Subsequent general issues were variously printed in Berlin, London, Paris, Philadelphia, Vienna and Rome, with over a hundred now listed by Scott and Gibbons. However, there was no corresponding general replacement of the original German cancellers, whose latest available foreign date figures were used in 1949. Makeshift repairs, replacements, and new cancellers for newly-opened offices, on a piecemeal and non-uniform basis have subsequently created a chaotic situation insofar as Yemen P.O. cancels are concerned.
In a 1952 series in MEKEEL's, entitled "Stamps of Arabia Felix: Postal Issues of the Kingdom of Yemen", the writer listed all 30 known post offices for the first time.
In 1946-47 the late Brigadier Glynn Grylls, of England, in several issues of the London "Philatelist" described and illustrated both seal and foreign-type cancels and listed 12 post offices of identifiable places, for which he had cancellations on piece or on cover, and mentioning eight others whose locations were unknown to him.
In 1953, while in Yemen, the writer sent a new series to MEKEEL's, published in the spring of 1954, entitled "The Yemen Post Today", in which Yemen's 63 then-functioning post offices were listed, in their Arabic order, as certified by the Postmaster General's Office.
During the past three years the writer has managed to dig up nearly 30 additional post office names, some of them new offices, others officially reported to the U.P.U., others representing reopened offices which had been dormant in 1953, and others pretty much of a mystery, but all having at one time or another applied cancellations to postal paper.
Of this "complete" list of 90 post offices, which are given below in English alphabetical order, the writes now has 46 identifiable cancellations (marked on the list with asterisks) on cover or on piece, plus a dozen unidentified additional varieties, which boosts the actual number of Yemen post offices to over 100.
Some of the principal types of standard postmarks are illustrated herewith, but as time goes on and more of the decrepit old German cancellers fall to pieces (as that of Mokha did in the hands of the writer, on 3 December, 1953, as he endeavored to cancel a batch of Christmas cards with it), all kinds of weird and unorthodox contraptions are bound to appear, creating confusion compounded. A few of these makeshift concoctions are also reproduced with this article.
Where dates are legible (few, if any with changeable foreign dates will show dates after 1949) more confusion is bound to ensue, for the Yemen Post still uses (largely for accountancy purposes) the defunct Imperial Ottoman civil calendar, long abandoned by Turkey itself.
This was the current dating system when the Imam inherited the remnants of the Ottoman civil service in Yemen in 1918, and as the Turkish bureaucrats knew of no other Moslem solar calendar, those who formed his primitive postal system in 1926, inflicted it on Yemen.
The idea of applying a colored wash to the surface of already-printed stamps also came from the Turks, who has used it on their 1863 issue.
Originally this dating system started with the then-applicable Moslem year date, based originally on the Christian year 622 A.D., the date of the flight of the Prophet Mohammed from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijra. But as the Moslem calendar is a lunar one, which gains about eleven days a year on our solar calendar, this neo-Hijra calendar soon fell behind the regular one and is now three years behind (i.e. 1372 instead of 1375 A.H.).
Worse, it starts each year from the first of March. Then again, instead of using the Moslem names of the months, or the Arabic civil month names, it mixes the latter with Arabic-spelled foreign months, as follows: "Mart" (March); "Nisan" (April); "Mai" (May); "Huzairan" (June); "Tammuz" (July); "Augus" (August); "Ailul" (Sept.); "Tishrin-Awwal" (Oct.); "Tishrin-Thani" (Nov.); "Kanun-Awwal" (Dec.); "Kanun-Thani" (Jan.); "Shubat" (Feb.).
These are spelled out or abbreviated right after the day of the month figure and appear second from the right on all date lines. Sometimes they are represented by a figure always starting with March as "1", April as "2" etc.
Going by this system, the date on which the article is written would read "7 Huzairan 1372", corresponding to the Moslem date "7 Dhulqu'adah 1375" and to the Arab civil (Christian-style) "15 Huzairan (June) 1956".
In other words, the Turks used the Moslem lunar month day figures (29 or 30 to the month), the Arab civil or foreign month names, and the Hijar year date, now three behind. How they adjust the civil months which have 30 or 31 days instead of 29 or 30, in order to keep up with the sun calendar each year, is just another one of those little mysteries of the Yemen Post with which this writer has not yet caught up.
The writer has long supported Postal Adviser Mustafa Kablawy's efforts to get postal officials to junk the Ottoman civil date system in favor of either the straight Hijar dates or Hijar plus Christian-type ones, and to order a uniform set of cancellation devices, but apathy, lack of foreign exchange, and a general tendency to solve difficult and perplexing problems by slipping the pertinent papers under the carpet of the royal diwan for an indefinite period, has consistently defeated our combined efforts.
Modern adaption of seal-type: Similar to Beit al-Faqih "crescent" type of 31mm seal cancel of 1926 but larger 35mm). See Illustration # 4: Khamar).
Without upper and lower semicircle lines, but lettering still following round contour of outer circle 33mm (See Illustration # 5: Zuhrah).
same, but with lettering straight across, parallel to date band, 33mm (See Illustration # 6: Ta'iz); with lines of date band curved upward and down and in center, above and below date (See Illustration # 7: Zabid).
Makeshift provisional types: Clumsy imitations of German cancellers, but with very narrow or with vertical slugs in center, (5mm) date band, usually empty and date figures, if any, at right and left ends; upper and lower semi-circles filled with parallel vertical lines; English letters of town name very crudely shaped and cut, with numerous errors, 35mm (See Illustration # 8).
Spelling of the town names in English letters, at the bottom of most cancellations, vary from German to French to English to versions of unknown origin, Also, the prefix "al-" (the definite article) which is always written in the Arabic version of proper names taking the article, is not always included in the English version. The Arabic "al-Hodeida", for example, invariably appears as "Hodeida". The local dialect, which renders "Q" as "g" in "golf", among other things, also show a tendency to creep into the spelling at the bottom of the new makeshift provisional cancels, Thus, "Gaedeh" for "al-Qa'aidah", etc.
One thing is for sure—there's never a dull moment on collecting Yemen postmarks!


Hey guys? How is everyone?
I am back with the last look in this fashion edition. I hope you enjoyed all of them. If you didn't read them, the first look is here and the second is here.
Which was your favorite of all these three knitted sweater editions? Feel free to tell me below.
As always, thank you for reading and God Bless.


text:
National Bank of Egypt (NBE; ) is a bank founded in Egypt in June 1898, and is the country's largest bank (2013) in terms of assets, deposits, loans, bank-capital, number of total branches, and employees.

NBE has 540 branches within the country, assets of £E 366,6 bn., total deposits of £E 312,7 bn., and total loans and advances of £E 114,7 bn.
As of 2007, the National Bank of Egypt accounted for 23% of the Egyptian banking system's total assets, 25% of total deposits and 25% of total loans and advances. NBE also financed about 24% of Egypt's foreign trade during the year. NBE also accounts for 74% of the credit card market and 40% of the debit cards in Egypt.

According to the July 2007 issue of the Banker, in terms of total assets, NBE ranks 226th among the top 1000 world banks and ranks 3rd among the Arab banks.

History

19th century
During the 25th of June   1898, Sir Ernest Cassel (50% ownership), the three brothers Joseph Suares (1837-1900), Raphael Suares (1846-1909) and Felix Isaac Suares (1844 - 1906), Moise Cattaui (25%) and Constantine Salvagos of Alexandria (25%) established the National Bank of Egypt (NBE), though Cassel remained in England.  NBE established an agency in London.

20th century
1901 NBE opened a branch in Khartoum. It obtained a privileged position as banker to and for the government and acted as the semi-official central bank. Over time, it added further agencies and branches in the Sudan.
1902 NBE established the Agricultural Bank of Egypt.
1906 NBE established the Bank of Abyssinia in Addis Ababa. The bank received a 50-year monopoly and was the Ethiopian government's fiscal agent as well as the sole issuer of currency.
1925 Lloyds Bank transferred to NBE the branches in Cairo and Alexandria that it acquired with its purchase of Cox & Kings in 1923 and from the Bank of British West Africa.
1931 The Bank of Abyssinia was liquidated and the Ethiopian government established Bank of Ethiopia to replace it.
1936 Agricultural Bank of Egypt was liquidated.
1940 All the staff and the Board of the bank were largely Egyptian.
1951 A decree gave NBE the status of the Central Bank for Egypt.
1957 The Banking Act confirmed the status of NBE as Egypt's Central Bank.
1959 The government of the Sudan nationalized NBE's assets in the Sudan, using them as the basis for the new central bank, the Bank of Sudan
1960 The Egyptian government nationalized NBE and created a separate central bank.
1961 Citibank sold to NBE its Egyptian assets and liabilities. Citibank had entered in 1955 but was forced to leave by the nationalization decree.
1975 Chase Manhattan Bank (49%) and National Bank of Egypt (51%) established Commercial International Bank (CIB).
1976 NBE, together with 19 other Arab and four US banks, established Arab American Bank as a wholesale bank operating in New York.
1982 NBE established a subsidiary in the UK.
1987 Chase sold its shares in CIB to NBE and CIB changed its name to Commercial International Bank, SAE. Partial privatization in 1993 and a GDR issue in 1996 reduced NBE's share to 34%. NBE established a rep office in South Africa and a banking subsidiary in London, which took over the assets and operations of NBE's previous subsidiary and its by then two branches there.

21st century
2000 NBE established a NY branch to take over the business of Arab American Bank.
2005 NBE acquired Mohandes Bank, which had been established in 1979 as a commercial bank. It also acquired Bank of Commerce and Development, known as "Al Tigaryoon".
2006 NBE opened a representative office in Dubai.
2008 NBE upgraded its representative office in Shanghai into a branch.

Overseas operations
NBE has one subsidiary external to Egypt, within London, Britain, the only subsidiary of the bank.

United States operations of the bank, commencing at some time during 2001, are directed from within an office of  the Black Rock Building located on 40 East, 52nd street of New York City

Branches in New York and Shanghai, and representative offices in Johannesburg and Dubai

Awards
Best Banking Performer, Egypt in 2016 by Global Brands Magazine Award.

References

Bibliography

External links

National Bank of Egypt Official site

Banks of Egypt
Banks established in 1898
Egyptian brands
1898 establishments in Egypt
Former central banks
Government-owned companies of Egypt
Government-owned banks

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Bulgaria's Retail Sales grew 2.1 % YoY in Feb 2019, compared with a 2.7 % increase in the previous month. Bulgaria's Retail Sales Growth YoY data is updated monthly, available from Jan 2001 to Feb 2019, with an average growth rate of 6.3 %. The data reached an all-time high of 23.5 % in Jan 2007 and a record low of -12.5 % in Jan 2010. CEIC calculates Retail Sales Growth from monthly Retail Trade Turnover Index. The National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria provides Retail Trade Turnover Index with base 2015=100.
What was Bulgaria's Retail Sales Growth in Feb 2019?


text:
Experts hail success of World Water Congress
Home > News & Events > News > Experts hail success of World Water Congress
Contact: Liz McRobb | Gordon Downie | Fiona Parker
The XV World Water Congress, which took place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in May, sought to explore Global Water as a resource for economic, social and environmental development.
Among those who took their place in the impressive speaker line-up for the five-day event were water sector experts from leading UK law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn. Partner Gordon Downie chaired a special session entitled 'The Search for Legitimacy – The Roles of Regulation and Competition.'
Among speakers taking part, there was a broad consensus that regulation in the water sector was justified because the sector was monopolistic in nature; public interest needed to be considered – safety of supply of water and sewerage services; and due to major market failures. Click here to read the notes from the session.
Shepherd and Wedderburn Associate Fiona Parker presented a talk entitled: 'Competition without Privatisation: The Scottish Water Model', in which the following questions were addressed: "Is it possible to have useful competition without privatisation? If so, how?" The notes from this session can be viewed by clicking here.
Gordon, who hailed a "truly outstanding group of speakers", talked about the challenges around providing citizens with secure, sustainable and affordable water services and how there is a huge governance challenge faced by societies across the globe with regards to water services.
He added: "The Congress presented Shepherd and Wedderburn a unique opportunity to share and exchange ideas with leaders in the fields of water governance and regulation. We enjoyed making valuable new links over the course of the week."
Public and private financing of water and sewerage infrastructure: Lessons and experiences from the UK


text:
Rio Grande Recycling Corridor launches 'Know What to Throw' campaign by: Allison Keys
By: scswalc
In: SCSWA News
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Rio Grande Recycling Corridor is a group made up of recycling and solid waste agencies from Las Cruces to Santa Fe. They recently launched a multi-faceted public education "Know What to Throw" campaign teaching New Mexicans how to recycle.
As part of the campaign, the group released their version of myth busters to dispel misbeliefs about what it takes to recycle and what you can recycle. KRQE News 13 anchor David Romero spoke with the executive director of the Rio Grande Recycling Coalition, Sarah Pierpont, and director of the South Central Solid Waste Authority, Patrick Peck to discuss the campaign.
Sarah explains that there are many myths about recycling with one of them being that recycling doesn't matter. "There's so much investment of time and energy and resources for our cities and communities to divert that material from the landfill to the recycling," said Sarah. "It's a commodity, and markets want that commodity to make new material."
Recycling that is contaminated is no longer a commodity and turns the recycling into trash. For example, if a greasy food container it placed with recycleable paper, the paper now has residue on it that makes it unable to be recycled.
It's easy to recycle as most communities in New Mexico offer curbside recycling. The Know What to Throw campaign helps residents learn how to recycle right and offers an interactive map showing recycling services across the state.
For additional information about recycling services, visit the New Mexico Recycling Coalition's website.
Original link: https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/rio-grande-recycling-corridor-launches-know-what-to-throw-campaign/
Previous Post: Shredded tires being utilized at county landfill By Cassie McClure and Suzanne Michaels
Next Post: Coalition aims to inform NM how to 'recycle right' by: Patrick Peck


text:
Tales from Faerie — Conclusion
Posted on 11 February , 2012 Updated on 22 May , 2012
Continued from Part V… or Start from the beginning…
My journey was uneventful, and the road was clear. I passed through Feldland and through the settlements of my own people. Faren welcomed me at Tælongaad with a feast and a day of celebration. During the evening meal, however, fate finally became clear, and the prophecy of the Ellathe fulfilled itself. The river overflowed his banks and formed a body with which to speak to us. Terrifying the city as he trudged down the main road, he came to us in the misty form of fog and rain. 'Peace has deceived you!' The words thundered through the courts of Faren, 'You have neglected the defenses of the land, and the traitor among you has made his move. The evils of this land have been awoken, and your fate has been sealed. Tharen, move now to defend your land; I will divide the East from the West, yet each of you shall have his own evils to suffer.'
We took up our arms and Faren sounded the alarm for the city. The soldiers raced to removed their swords and teach their arms to once again wield a blade. The old men fitted their scabbards with belts that allowed for the years of non-combat. The fair-skins took up their own weapons, yet they stayed in their own homes and waited for the unseen danger. Eagles were seen circling the skies, yet these were strange to our eyes. The mountain-dwelling eagles of the East, their loyalties had not been strong to our people. Falcons and hawks from my own land flew into the sky to meet them, and a battle in the air soon began. It is a terrible thing to see such creatures of majesty and grace torn and bloodied, but the eagles were powerful and much larger than their more nimble brethren. My birds were soon overcome and forced to return to the forests to nurse their wounds. Word came that the high kingdom was besieged, and my brother's people were seen marching through the North with an army of mountain-creatures and fell beasts. The one who shall not be named made his way through the settlements of our people, destroying what he could not have for himself. With fire and sword he campaigned through the North. Peace had deceived us, and our own brother was the traitor who was foretold by the Ellathe.
The countryside was razed and all that was beautiful was made dangerous to the unsuspecting. My brother had learned much in his solitude in the East, and not least of all, he coveted the beauty of old. Far from a hideous sight, his armies were marvelous to behold. In fact, their armor made one feel that no evil could ever come from that grandiose sight. Their swords were made with the upmost skill, and the intricate designs brought wonder even to those whom the blade was piercing. The creatures that accompanied my brother brought a sense of dread, but the fear arose from their perfection. The great lake-creatures and mountain serpents entranced my people as they appeared from amidst the ranks of the fell army. The eagles were majestic and breathtaking as they soared above the battlefields, calling orders and reporting to the officers. Soon, the beautiful legions reached the banks of the river. The river is very old, and he is loyal to my father. He stopped the advance of the bright army, but the nameless one soon found a path across the sea. The great creatures of the mountains swam through the sea, and my brother's army soon found ships to cross the bay.
The beautiful army soon reached the gates of Tælongaad. The grand city was impermeable to attack, and the army could do nothing against the great walls. The fair-skins, however, held no loyalty to Faren's people, and they soon turned against the land which had become their home. The gatekeepers were slain and the arts of the fair-skins held back the city guard. The bright army marched into Tælongaad unhindered, and the conquest of the West was complete.
Faren was brought before my brother from the East. The council was short, and as Faren valued the life of his people over the majesty of his lands, he was exiled to the far West. The ships of the Tælon set sail on the next day, and Faren, the son of the High King of the Empire of the Three Kingdoms, sailed into the West and out of my realm of influence.
As I stated before, I had hastened back to my own lands to prepare to defend my people. The men of my land were well-practiced in the art of defense and subtlety. The bright army had not been able to pass into the Southernmost part of my kingdom. The fields were guarded by my men, and the keepers of the forests would not allow the entrance of the fell creatures. Soon, however, my brother turned his attention once more to my land. He marched on the river and the forests of the South. He could not, however, pass the river, nor could he gain entrance to the forests.; therefore, he cursed the land with false beauty and serenity. He commanded everything that had life to cease growing. He used words far older than our people to stop the advance of time, even to reverse it. Over the land of Tharen he placed a curse that appeared to us at first a blessing, but just as he could not enter, we have not leave to exit. Time does not pass in this land, neither does aging or sickness or death occur. All who stay in this land will age in years, but will stay well in mind and body. As soon as one exits this realm, however, the curse of the ages will be broken, and his true age will take its toll. We are forever cursed to stay in this land forever. If we cross the halfway point of the river to the West, we return to the clay that we were formed from. If we venture past the beauty of the northern fields, out of the forest to the South, or into the mountains of the East, the same fate will befall us. Peace was ever our blessing, as now it is our curse.
Many centuries have passed since that time, and we are sure that our brothers have since passed out of this world. Yet we are cursed to remain in this world, weary of the perfection and peace that surround us. This is why our songs vary in in tone and cheer. Our mirth cannot last for long before the sadness of that which we lost overtakes us. The lands beyond the curse have since become pits of beautiful evil and wonderful snares. For a time, travelers from abroad continued to venture to the coast to trade or buy, but news of the dangers that lie herein soon spread to the world. The Three Kingdoms once more became one. The realm of a beautiful evil. A land of the fell light. Deception and lies are the language of the land, and none who enter may exit unchanged. The armies are massing in the East, and I'm sure that the bright armies will one day embark on a campaign of terror, but for now, they sit, wait, and grow evermore powerful and deceptively beautiful. So now, my good traveler, you know our story. Leave us to our fate and leave this land. The river will soon calm his wrath, and the path will be once more opened to you. Take it to the South, perhaps you will escape the evils of this land. Trust nothing that is fair, and beware of the creatures that patrol the borders."
Thus my encounter with the Fields of Time ended. I headed back into the Western and Southern lands, convinced that this would not be the last time I would hear of the Three Kingdoms and beautiful armies of light and deception.
Thus concludes the first major piece of Faerie that I've written. I hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to critique and/or ask questions. I plan on writing more like this in the future, but I probably won't post to this blog. If you liked the story, please share it with others who you think will enjoy it!
This entry was posted in Series and Serials and tagged Adventures, Awesome, Conclusions, evils, Faerie, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Final Part, Flowers, Forests, George Macdonald, Tolkien, Tragedies, Woods.
Tales from Faerie — Part V
Posted on 9 February , 2012 Updated on 22 May , 2012
Continued from Part IV… or Start from the beginning…
The years stretched on and the abundance and prosperity of the Tælon began to take their toll. The lords of the cities and keepers of the books began to find more use of tailors than fletchers. The chefs of the cities were not lacking, nor were the products of their kitchens. Swords were not allowed to become rusty, for the High King had warned against the slacking of the guard. The young men, however, became content with the pleasures of court and home, and the older men retired from soldiery and chose to study the arts of farming and the making of money. Merchanting became an occupation more desired than knighthood, and the values of nobility and honor slowly began to give way to the vices of fortune-seeking and pleasure. It was at this time that the fair-skins began to appear. Similar to our people in most ways, these men were thin, tall, and long-faced. They did not hold the values of our people, and they cared only for the money that could be made from their crafts, but oh! The crafts that they could make! They were glorious; they were beautiful; they were terrible."
Tharen stopped. His voice was now cracking slightly, as he continued:
"The men brought with them great gems and wonderful stonework. They produced boxes that opened on command and swords that could not be removed from their sheathes except by their owners. The fair-skins brought these toys and the Tælon were enraptured. They allowed the foreigners to live in the city and settle amongst their own people. Faren was at first concerned, but he could find no apparent wrong with the men. Although they were greedy and dark, they broke no laws of the land. Their skill at metallurgy far surpassed that of Faren's people. Their knowledge and control of the ancient skills was also great. No Tælon man ever entered the house of a fair-skin without his consent. The fair-skins delved into the rock to the South of Tælongaad and built their houses completely from the cold, dark stone of the earth. The fair-skins' homes contrasted as widely with the white sea rock of Tælongaad as the fair-skins themselves did with the Tælon. The Tælon learned to live with the newcomers, but the peace and joviality that first filled the streets were becoming concepts of the past. Faren's visits came to our woods and fields less frequently. My own kingdom knew little of the fair-skins, for they despised the open fields, and the keepers of the forests did not suffer them to enter. Messengers of our people would often venture into Tælongaad to learn of the news of the world and inquire as to the health of my brother.
It may seem to you that I have been negligent in my storytelling. I assure you, however, that I have not forgotten my father; soon after dividing his kingdom among his sons, he decided to journey down into the Southern lands. Deep in the South is a small kingdom of the Ellathe. The Ellathe are the oldest of this world, barring the One and his servants. Being like men in appearance and manner, they do not fear death at the hand of time. They are knowledgeable in the ancient arts and can foresee much that might come to be. Seldom do they interfere in the domains of other races. Content to dwell in their homes of nature, formed for them by the Celapth,[1] they remain hidden except to those who are friends. My father fought in the Ellathian council that first purged this land of the fell creatures which had overtaken it. The high race of men we are called by the Ellathe. It is said that we have their blood in our own, but those stories are much farther back in time than our lore now reaches.
The peace in our land was temporary. The eldest of the Ellathe warned my father of a people who would come upon our land and receive welcome. Our rule dictates that we are to turn away none that come in peace. Peace is a blessing with two faces. Both are fair, but the fairest of faces can mask the darkest of hearts. It was concerning fair-skins that my father now sought council. My father took with him a consort of royal high-guard and a few of my huntsmen. Gifts were not required, for nothing crafted by men could match the marvels of the Ellathe. My father granted to me the power of the high throne, and I managed the affairs of the imperial city. Unsettling reports of strange happenings began to reach the city from the East and South. Settlements began to report missing livestock and entire fields of damaged crops. Creatures of the tales of old were even reported to have been seen, although these stories were dismissed as the delusions of worried villagers. Marauding men of the sea began to land and trade with the fair-skins, who had no loyalties but to the strongest and highest paying trader. Faren attempted to stop this practice, and he even banned the pirates from entering Tælon. He could not patrol the entire coast, however, and the settlements of the West began to grow evermore dangerous. After a time, I decided to venture into the West to discern how best I could aid my brother.
[1] Ellathian word for the servants of the One. The Celapth stayed loyal to the their maker, but others broke from his plan and created their own machinations.
This entry was posted in Series and Serials and tagged Adventures, Awesome, Faerie, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Flowers, Forests, George Macdonald, Imagination, Tolkien, Tragedies, Woods.
Tales from Faerie — Part IV
Continued from Part III… or Start from the beginning…
Tharen paused for a moment and cleared his throat. His youthful appearance clashed with his claims of royalty and ancient heritage, yet I could not help but feel that he was telling the truth.
A Map of the Three Kingdoms
"In the far West was the pride of Faren's realm: Tælongaad, the city of the glistening walls. This was the seat of his land and the fortress into which he had poured all of his craftsmanship and creative abilities. The great pearl and coral gifts from the sea had been set up in the walls as decorative and imposing displays of his city's craftsmen. The crowning accomplishment was a statue of a great white horse. The men worked for 10 years on the shaping and details of the horse. The pearls were cut to perfection and polished to reflect the passersby. The statue was placed in the center of the city and rimmed with a fountain that was kept ever flowing by a water sprite whose service Faren had won in one of his quests.
The Tælon became adept seafarers, and many set off and formed their own colonies on distant islands. Reports even came back that a land larger than that of the Three Kingdoms had been found, and that people who spoke our own language were dwelling there. The tales of old were rekindled in the hearts of our elders, and stories of how we came to dwell here began to be retold in the meeting places. The northern port became a well-known trading hub, and the races of men and others sailed from miles to trade and buy the crafts and horses of Tælongaad. We praised the One who sent us here, and peace continued its work of contradiction.
Of my land, there are many tales. My people did not dwell in any particular strong city or fortress. We preferred to wander through the wood and settle for a year or two in a pleasant field as the fancy took us. The creatures of that day were not violent, neither did we worry over any enemies, for we knew the woods better than any other. I lived for a while with my father in the High Kingdom, learning what there was to know of our lands and history. I studied the lore of our people and learned of the One who created and molded the lands. I learned how he made servants of great power to whom he granted the living and non-living clays. I was taught how they created all of the living creatures, save the Ellathe, yet the animals had not life until it was breathed into them by the One. I shuddered when I was told of the evil that also sprang from those days. How the One, by granting freewill to his servants, not only created those who could love Him, but also those who could despise His might. I learned the concept of evil, and I wondered in my mind how any could turn against a Creator and one who loved them. I rejoiced that my father had purged this land, and I took comfort in the fact that the spirits and beasts that keep and roam the lands are benevolent and good.
Many things I learned, and wise I considered myself. Yet I was a warrior who had fought only in the training grounds. I had no experience with actual evil, and I did not perceive that subtlety was counted among the greatest of the skills of the Fallen. As I have said, I was often visited by the keepers of the forest. These creatures were formed by the servants of the One to keep the woods and guard the great forests from harm. They are wise and exceedingly old. Of them I learned the old arts and ancient skills. My people were able to vanish in the forests and make nearly any useful thing from the dead branches of a tree. Great cities we built in the forests, and pets of falcons and hawks we made for ourselves. Faren would often travel down the river that you crossed on your way here. I would tell him of a new lore or skill that I had learned, and he would relate to me the latest news from afar. During the early years, our other brother would often join us and tell of his discoveries in the arts of mining and metalworking. He would bring with him jewels and swords and shiny things for our children to play with. As the years progressed, however, came less frequently; eventually, he completely ceased his visits.
Faren and I would sometimes travel to our brother's halls. Underground in the North-East, my brother had created a vast network of tunnels and caverns that served as roads between his stone cities. He had numerous mining pits in which he was delving for all manner of precious materials. He had made alliances with the mountains and keepers of the great lakes. Of these creatures, however, little is written. Even smaller still was the trust which was granted them by Faren and myself. Still, our brother assured us that everything was going well. One day, he announced that he would be abroad on travels for some time, and that any visits by us would be met with futility. It is at this point that we now, in hindsight, count our brother as the one who shall not be named.
This entry was posted in Series and Serials and tagged Adventures, Evil, Faerie, Fairy Tales, Fields, Flowers, Forests, George Macdonald, Realms, Spirits, Sprites, Streams, Time, Tolkien, Woods.


text:
Motion to Dismiss Foreign Corporation Denied by District of Delaware
Posted byYoung Conaway Staff May 2, 2008 Posted inJoseph J. Farnan, Jr.
A foreign corporation manufactures in a foreign country products alleged to infringe a U.S. Patent. They provide modules to original equipment manufacturers here in the U.S. who then incorporate them into products sold to consumers through retailers across the country and on the Internet. The foreign corporation also owns directly and indirectly subsidiaries which are Delaware corporations. Are these contacts with Delaware enough to establish personal jurisdiction over the foreign corporation? Judge Farnan recently answered that question in the affirmative in his decision denying a motion to dismiss filed by defendants in LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd. v. Chi Mei Optoelectronics, Corp., et al., C.A. Nos. 06-726-JJF, 07-357-JJF, Memo. Op. (D. Del. Apr. 29, 2008).
Jurisdiction under the Delaware Long-Arm Statute was proper because the foreign corporation, Chi Mei Optoelectronics, "acted in consort" with the original equipment manufacturers here in the United States to place products containing the allegedly infringing modules into a national distribution network which ultimately allowed some products to be sold in Delaware. Id. at 12. The fact that there was a "middle man" through which the defendant sold its product did not protect it from the possibility of being subject to jurisdiction of the Delaware court. Id. Furthermore, the plaintiff, LG.Philips provided "sufficient evidence" of revenues from sales of the accused products in Delaware. Id. The Court noted and "found instructive" the defendant's failure to provide any evidence rebutting the "factual presumption that a portion of [their] large revenues from the United States market are the result of products incorporating its … module sold in Delaware…" Id.
Jurisdiction also comports with Due Process, because given the defendant's contract with its original equipment manufacturers (and one major one in particular), the substantial quantities of modules it ships to the U.S. to be incorporated into end products and sold in retail stores here, and the size of its business, Judge Farnan found it "far from a stretch to conclude" that the modules would end up in Delaware. Id. at 14.
For a copy of the opinion click here.
No Disqualification for Firm that Assisted Patentholder and Accused Infringer
Joseph J. Farnan: Subpoena Dispute Leads to Ethics Hearing