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Opinion & AnalysisInternational
Venezuela: a Threat to US Energy Hegemony?
Raul Burbano argues the US 'concern' over Venezuela is all about oil, not democracy.
By Raul Burbano- Common Frontiers
May 18th 2017 at 11.28am
US InterventionOpposition Violence / Guarimbas 2017
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Since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1999, Venezuela has achieved impressive gains in health care, education, and reduction in poverty, while at the same time wrestled economic and political control from the country's elite. Today, soaring inflation, a shrinking economy and a hyper-politicized environment are contributing to unprecedented challenges economically and politically - threatening to undo some of the achievements of the past. These challenges can be attributed to many factors, some structural, such as an oil-dependent economy, and a complex monetary arrangement which has given rise to "bachaqueros" who resell price-controlled items at hugely inflated prices on the black market. Other challenges are more politically driven - they stem from the existence of a hardline sector of the opposition aligned with U.S. interests who oppose the Socialist government's policies of resource nationalism and wealth redistribution.
The international media with its biased coverage of the conflict in Venezuela has failed to adequately report on violent actions against government supporters by extremist sectors of the opposition. It has however, diligently perpetuated the opposition narrative that the crisis in Venezuela is the sole responsibility of the Maduro government, a dictatorship on the brink of collapse resorting to violence against peaceful protesters in a desperate bid to hold on to power. These allegations have little merit, and are similar to accusations made against former president Hugo Chávez. The hardline opposition has never accepted the electoral legitimacy of the Bolivarian governments, and its violent demonstrations have had the full support and backing of the U.S. government. In 2014 alone, U.S government documents show that Obama's administration channelled $5M dollars to opposition groups to help "strengthen" and "protect" democracy in Venezuela. The Trump administration, in turn, has provided unprecedented political support to jailed opposition leader, Leopoldo López , who has been found guilty of public incitement to violence and association to commit a crime. There has been close coordination between opposition-led National Assembly leaders and White House national security advisor H.R. McMaster on how to address the political impasse in Venezuela.
The international media also puts the blame for the economic crisis facing Venezuela firmly on the government's shoulders. They fail to mention the role of business producers of goods who regularly hoard basic items to create shortages and public discontent. Some believe the economic war contributed to the PSUV's defeat during the 2015 parliamentary elections - due to the lack of black beans. Black beans are a staple of the Venezuelan diet and for some time before election day these had disappeared completely but the day after voting they were back on supermarket shelves.
Similar to the crisis that precipitated the short-lived 2002 coup against Chávez, leaders of the hardline opposition have made it clear that their goal is "regime change". Henry Ramos Allup of the opposition Democratic Action party and former National Assembly president declared on the first day he assumed that position that they would remove Maduro from power within six months. The opposition referred to their march in October 2016 as the "Taking of Venezuela" (La Toma de Venezuela), an inflammatory title. During that march Jose Alejandro Molina Ramirez, a policeman, was killed by opposition gunfire and two others injured; which contradicts the opposition message that their marches are "peaceful".
Extremist Elements within the Opposition
The opposition has failed to penetrate beyond its narrow base which is predominately wealthy and middle-class Venezuelans. Their political demands for early elections do little to address the needs of the working class poor who are being increasingly affected by the economic crisis. A recent survey by independent polling firm Hinterlaces indicates that 66% of the population does not agree with the opposition focus on removing the president and feels it lacks any vision on how to solve the economic challenges facing the country.
Julio Borges, the president of the opposition controlled National Assembly, has openly called on the military to take action by becoming part of "the solution" and backing the opposition. He led the 2016, constitutionally illegal initiative to open a "political and criminal trial" against the democratically elected president, Maduro. He has consistently appealed to the Organization of American States to intervene in the internal affairs of Venezuela, even though this is expressly forbidden by that organization's charter, Article 1. of which states that: "The Organization of American States has no powers other than those expressly conferred upon it by this Charter, none of whose provisions authorizes it to intervene in matters that are within the internal jurisdiction of the Member States" .
In a bid to remove President Maduro, the opposition triggered a recall referendum which under the constitution allows for a recall of any elected official, including the president. Due to divisions within the opposition, they launched the signature drive too late in 2016 to have the recall vote in the same year which the opposition demanded. They also submitted a large quantity of invalid signatures including signatures from over 11,000 deceased persons and those of more than 3000 minors according to The National Electoral Council (CNE).
The hardline opposition inspired street protests have intensified in violence over the past few weeks, including deadly street barricades , setting of government food-storage building on fire with Molotov cocktails, an attack on a maternity hospital in the El Valle neighbourhood, violent clashes with state security forces, and attacks against government supporters. More than 42 people have been killed since April 4th many of them during violent opposition clashes with state security forces: eight people were electrocuted during a looting incident; five killed by state security forces; fifteen have died directly or indirectly as a result of the opposition protesters and the rest are still unaccounted for.
Recently, public workers at the Vice Presidency office and National Police Force along with others were targeted and their safety compromised when a group of far right hackers known as "Sons of Bitches" stole their personal data and made it public. This comes on the heels of the murder of two government workers shot dead by sniper fire while participating in pro government rallies, and the assassination of labour leader, Rexol Alexander Acevedo Navas, member of United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
A Strong Participatory Democracy
The opposition has sought to paint Maduro as a "dictator" who fears general elections. Venezuela has one of the strongest and most active democracies in the region having carried out 20 elections in 17 years (presidential, regional, municipal and referenda). It has a strong direct democracy that empowers grassroots groups through communes and communal councils. The councils can undertake community development projects as chosen by the community. Leaders must be elected by the community and decisions are made through popular assemblies. Currently, there are 46,566 registered communal councils in the country.
It was expected the country would hold regional elections in 2016 but the National Electoral Council (CNE) postponed them because of opposition demands to deal with the recall referendum. The opposition used the postponement to highlight yet another example of the lack of democracy in the country. Although President Maduro has called for regional elections, opposition leaders have responded with continued street protests.
During the 2015 National Assembly electoral process, the opposition expressed fears of unfair and rigged elections. They were joined by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro who condemned Venezuela's electoral process as "unfair" and anti-democratic. Yet the opposition alliance managed to win a stunning victory taking a majority in the National Assembly.
The opposition is demanding that presidential elections be moved up which some consider a violation of the constitution. A recent poll suggests that 65% of Venezuelans prefer to wait and have them in 2018 when they are scheduled to occur.
National Assembly in Violation of the Constitution
In January 2016, the opposition controlled National Assembly was held in contempt of the constitution by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) over fraud charges involving opposition deputies from the state of Amazonas who were recorded illegally offering payment for votes. When the TSJ ordered the National Assembly to hold elections to replace the corrupt deputies, the legislative ignored the order and refused to remedy the situation.
The most recent political impasse between the country's two major institutions took place when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Venezuela's state oil firm PDVSA, which was seeking to establish a joint venture with Russian oil company Rosneft to generate investment in the struggling economy. The opposition controlled National Assembly blocked the investment opportunity, while its president, Julio Borges, a leading opposition member of the Justice First party sent letters to investors and bankers, lobbying them not to invest or extend credit to the government. The TSJ ruling stated that while the legislature continues to violate the constitution, it would stand in where necessary to ensure the "rule of law" or until the situation is resolved.
The decision generated intense debate among many in Venezuela. Some, like constitutional lawyer Hermann Escarra and Ombudsman Tarek William Saab denied the courts acted unconstitutionally but others like Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz strongly criticized the ruling. Although the ruling was immediately reversed, the opposition still called for street protests, many of which turned violent.
Coincidentally, concerns over Venezuela's' joint venture with the Russian state owned oil company aren't unique to the Venezuelan opposition but also shared by the US administration. US senators Marco Rubio and Ben Cardin recently introduced legislation entitled "the Venezuela Humanitarian Assistance and Defense of Democratic Governance Act" to "help" the Venezuelan people overcome the crisis and prevent the merger with Rosneft. The administration sees the merger as a threat to their national energy security and fear the joint venture could allow Rosneft to gain "control of U.S. energy infrastructure". Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA, owns U.S. Oil Company Citgo based in Texas which has refineries, gas stations and infrastructure in the US. The legislation also earmarks $9.5 million for opposition groups working to "defend human rights" in Venezuela.
Opposition members of the National Assembly have begun to threaten Ombudsperson Saab unless he agrees to give them the green light to remove TSJ judges. The ombudsperson accused Freddy Guevara from the opposition Popular Will party of making "criminal threats" against his office. Multiple offices of the national human rights watchdog have been attacked nationwide and the local Ombudsman's office in Valencia was firebombed by "masked opposition militants".
Opposition Lacks Alternatives
Despite the economic challenges facing many Venezuelans, this opposition coalition, the Democratic Roundtable, appears to be narrowly focused on removing Maduro from office and "making the economy scream". Since taking control of the National Assembly, the coalition has put forward no real proposals to address the economic challenges facing the country. Instead, it appears they have used their legislative control to block economic initiatives intended to help the economy, preferring to create a climate of regulatory uncertainty to scare off potential investors. This could lead to the cutting off of access to foreign currency - undermining the economy further and forcing Venezuela to default on its international payments.
On-Going Dialogue
Last year the intergovernmental regional organization, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) undertook to lead an initiative for national dialogue. The opposition set preconditions for dialogue with the government. As a demonstration of good faith and in stark contrast to the media narrative that the Maduro government is dead set against negotiations, he agreed to some of the opposition demands. The government released opposition leader Carlos Melo and two other accused of planning terrorist acts. The government agreed to the opposition's demand for Vatican participation in the dialogue, and that the talks be held in Caracas rather than the island of Margarita.
After several meetings the Vatican sponsored peace talks came to an abrupt end when the opposition walked out - accusing the government of negotiating in bad faith. In an open letter, the opposition made it clear that the chapter for dialogue was closed and would not be re-opened again. They called on their supporters to intensify street protests.
Most recently, the Pope called on all sides to engage in dialogue and to reject violence. He also criticized the opposition as "divided" citing their "resistance to dialogue".
The opposition coalition has been divided on whether or not to engage in negotiations, more extreme elements see negotiations with the government as treason. María Corina Machado, a former National Assembly legislator and founder of the US funded NGO Súmate criticized the opposition coalition for its error in engaging in dialogue stating "dictatorships don't hold dialogues" and called for street mobilizations.
Maduro continues to call for the opposition to resume negotiations and welcomes the Pope's offer to help mediate. The opposition has refused to engage, even after the government fulfilled another one of their demands for dialogue - calling for the CNE to set a date for regional elections.
Constituent Assembly
In a bid to address the country's political standoff, Maduro has invoked article 347 of the constitution calling for a National Constituent Assembly which will be responsible for re-drafting the 1999 constitution. The assembly will be composed of 500 directly elected delegates, half of which will be elected from among the country's social movements. Part of the goal seeks to institutionalize important aspects into the Magna Cara such as building a "post-petroleum" economy to address climate change and new expressions of local government.
Opposition leaders criticized the initiative, accusing the president of trying to outmanoeuvre them in the legislature. Despite the staunch criticism, the opposition had in the past advocated for a Constituent Assembly as a solution to resolve the country's problems. Opposition leaders like Henrique Capriles, Leopoldo Lopez, Freddy Guevara and Maria Corina Machado, all signed a joint statement demanding a Constituent Assembly be called.
The majority of people in Venezuela want to move forward in a peaceful manner to resolve their differences while demanding respect for their sovereignty. However, extremist elements in the opposition have declared themselves in open rebellion against the democratically elected president, rejecting further negotiations and calling for street mobilizations. The International media and their unconditional support for the opposition is fueling the fire, telling half-truths and inadvertently condoning violence and exacerbating the conflict.
By making Venezuela ungovernable the opposition coalition is betting on foreign interference to pressure the government to resign, thus allowing them to regain power - something they have failed to achieve democratically at the ballot box for the past 17 years.
Raul Burbano is the program director of Common Frontiers, a multi-sectoral working group which confronts, and proposes alternatives to, the social, environmental and economic effects of economic integration in the Americas.
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Thomas Yellowtail's life and work
This site includes Thomas Yellowtail's biography, photos, online articles, slideshows, links, and more.
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Biography of Thomas Yellowtail
Born in 1903, Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail was a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life in the 20th century. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hunters, and medicine men who knew the freedom and sacred ways of pre-reservation life. As the principal figure in the Crow-Shoshone Sun Dance religion during the last half of the 20th century, Yellowtail has perpetuated the spiritual traditions of his Crow tribe as one of the last living links to the pre-reservation days. But his legacy is not limited to Native Americans because his principles and his message benefit anyone searching to find a balance in this fast-paced technological society. Through his writings we can reexamine the premises and orientations of both cultures.
Yellowtail died at age 90 in 1993. He was one of the most admired American Indian spiritual leaders of the last century, although he was not the most prominent member of his immediate family. Historically, the Yellowtail family is the most famous Crow family of the twentieth century. His older brother, Robert Yellowtail, was the first Native American superintendent of a reservation and was selected as Commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Eisenhower, although he declined the appointment. Yellowtail Dam and Yellowtail Reservoir in Montana are named after him. Susie Yellowtail, Thomas Yellowtail's wife, was the first Native American registered nurse, a tireless advocate of Native American issues and is already enshrined in the Montana Hall of Fame in Helena, Montana. Among many other awards, in 1969 Thomas and Susie Yellowtail were jointly awarded the honor of "Indian of the Year" by the All-American Indian Day Committee. While Yellowtail was most well known in Native American circles, he has become well know partly because of his outspoken wish for more respect for our fellow man, earth and God. Yellowtail's prayer concerning this wish opened the 100th Anniversary Parliament of the World's Religions held in Chicago in October, 1993, which was attended by over 5,000 spokespeople from different religions from around the world. Yellowtail's opening prayer there did not receive the media attention attached to the closing prayer of the Dalai Lama, but Yellowtail's last public act aimed at a broad audience.
In February 1993, when Yellowtail received the Montana Governor's Award for the Arts in recognition of his work in preserving the traditional culture of the Crow tribe, the program for the award ceremony contained the following quotation:
"This man is outside of time as we know it, centered in the spiritual world. Thomas Yellowtail has perpetuated the spiritual traditions of his Crow tribe as one of the last living links to pre-reservation days. But his legacy is not limited to Native Americans because his principles and his message benefit anyone searching to find a balance in this fast-paced technological society."
The story of his life and his descriptions of the Sun Dance religion are revealed in the book Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief, edited by Michael Fitzgerald . It was published by the University of Oklahoma Press (1991) and is now in its 5th printing. Extracts from this book appear in World Wisdom's anthology Every Branch in Me . He also contributed a foreword to the bestseller, Indian Spirit .
The Sun Dance Way is a documentary produced by World Wisdom. Gordon Tootoosis (Legends of the Fall) brings to life the voice of Thomas Yellowtail as he describes the mysterious and ancient Sun Dance ceremony as part of this 2 DVD set. Native Spirit: The Sun Dance Way is the companion book to this documentary, featuring over 100 color and sepia photos and a biography of Yellowtail.
Books/DVDs containing the work of Thomas Yellowtail
Thomas Yellowtail's contributions to World Wisdom projects include:
Native Spirit: The Sun Dance Way, author: Thomas Yellowtail, recorded and edited by Michael Fitzgerald, 2007.
Gold Midwest Book Award for "Culture"
Silver Midwest Book Award for "Religion/Philosophy/Inspiration"
Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for "New Age/Metaphysics/Spirituality"
The "Introduction" to Indian Spirit: Revised & Enlarged (edited by Michael Fitzgerald and Judith Fitzgerald)
Gold Midwest Book Award for "Religion/Philosophy/Inspiration"
The Sun Dance Way (DVD), directed by Jennifer Casey, produced by Michael Fitzgerald, 2006.
Official Selection for the "Montreal First Peoples' Festival"
Official Selection for the "American Indian Film Festival"
Native Spirit (DVD), directed by Jennifer Casey, produced by Michael Fitzgerald, 2007.
Official Selection for the "Talking Stick Film Festival"
The "Introduction" in The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy (by Frithjof Schuon)
Chicago Book Clinic Honor Book
DESI Award for Excellence from Graphic Design USA
"Loss of Our Traditional Values" in Every Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man
"Make Your Choice" in The Betrayal of Tradition: Essays on the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity (edited by Harry Oldmeadow)
"Always Praying and Thinking of God" in Pray Without Ceasing: The Way of Invocation in World Religions (edited by Patrick Laude)
Thomas Yellowtail's Writings Online
Crow Sun Dance Chief and Medicine Man Thomas Yellowtail (1903-1993) wrote this introduction to Frithjof Schuon's book "The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy" to attest to the authenticity and truthfulness of Schuon's writings and paintings found in this book. Yellowtail details his long relationship with Schuon and goes on to point out that Schuon captured the spirit of the olden-days Indians in both his paintings and his prose.
The Introduction by Thomas Yellowtail to "The Feathered Sun" by Frithjof Schuon The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy (World Wisdom 1990) Yellowtail, Thomas Art, Spiritual Life
Introduction to Indian Spirit Indian Spirit: Revised and Enlarged Yellowtail, Thomas American Indian
Articles on Thomas Yellowtail
Introduction to Native Spirit: The Sun Dance Way Native Spirit: The Sun Dance Way Medicine Crow, Joe American Indian
Photographs of Thomas Yellowtail
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Grand entry of the Whistling Waters clan of the Crow tribe at a pow-wow in Lodge Grass, MT, July 4, 1991. From left are Thomas Yellowtail, Joe Medicine Crow and Michael Fitzgerald.
This is a photograph of Thomas Yellowtail holding a sacred pipe bag that originally belonged to Black Elk, the famous Sioux holy man. Black Elk gave the pipe bag to Joseph Brown in 1947, Brown gave it to Frithjof Schuon in 1949 and Schuon then gave it to Yellowtail in 1953. It remained one of Yellowtail's most prized possessions until his death in 1993. Read footnote 15 on pages 16 and 17 in an interview in the online journal Vincit Omnia Veritas with Michael Fitzgerald, Yellowtail's adopted son, for more details on this story..
Michael Fitzgerald, Thomas Yellowtail and Susie Yellowtail, at the Yellowtail home in Wyola, Montana, Summer 1971
Slideshows on Thomas Yellowtail
• How can we understand Native American traditions?
• What is the Sun Dance Religion? Video Presentation
• Noble Faces, Strong Voices: Exploring "The Spirit of Indian Women"
• The Modern Pow-Wow and Tradition
Online Resources about Thomas Yellowtail
Professor Rodney Frey' homepage on the University of Idaho's website has an interesting page on Thomas and Susie Yellowtail. The page includes some biographical facts, Frey's personal remembrances of these two important American Indian figures, and links to some online audio files of Yellowtail in an interview and telling the story of Burnt Face.
See the Thomas Yellowtail page at nativespiritinfo.com. Yellowtail's contributions to this unique video project are highlighted on this page, but there are several other places on the site that have more images of the late great Crow Sun Dance Chief, so look through the other pages as well.
There are a number of video clips of Thomas Yellowtail speaking on our website, on our American Indian Resources and Wisdom page. Other prominent Indian elders' comments are also available through that page.

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After a gap of several months, April will see the Community Lunch Club returning to the Cross Guns Inn in Pant.
Pant Lunch Club started back in 2017 to give local people an opportunity to meet, socialise and enjoy a communal meal each month.
The idea behind the concept was to give people in the village, and further afield, an informal way to meet up with other people, without having to join or become a member of a formal club. People will just be able to turn up at the Cross Guns in the village and meet other people.
Over the past few years, the Lunch Club had attracted more than 40 people each month under a number of different managers at the pub. But it was cancelled a year ago.
Now Stephen and Melissa who took over the pub in January have announced a date for its return.
Said Melissa: "When we took over at the Cross Guns at the start of the year, we asked locals what they wanted and the Lunch Club was one of the things people in the village mentioned.
Everyone is welcome, regardless of age and it is hoped that it will be popular with parents who are at home during the day, the self-employed and retired people. Pant has a great community spirit, but for many people it is a bit daunting going out on their own, for whatever reason, and Pant Lunch Club is being launched to make it even easier to meet up with neighbours, friends and colleagues in a welcoming atmosphere.
Pant Community Lunch will be available between 12 noon and 4pm. Booking not essential, but might be advisable.


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Memorable Manitobans: Edith V. Paterson (1905-1995)
Edith Paterson
Musician, journalist, historian.
Born in Ontario in 1905 and raised in Saskatchewan, she came to Winnipeg with her husband who worked for the Bank of Commerce. She studied with Herbert Sadler and obtained the LTCL diploma in 1942, when her examiner was Healey Willan. She subsequently served as organist at a number of churches in Winnipeg, gave piano lessons and acted as accompanist at the Winnipeg Music Festival.
She joined the Winnipeg Free Press in 1958 and, in 1969, began her weekly local history column "It Happened Here." She published a number of books on Manitoba history including Tales of Early Manitoba (1970), 100 Years Pictorial History of Winnipeg (1973), Tales of the Early West (1978), and histories of the Grace Hospital, Winnipeg Police, and Winnipeg Construction Association. She also presented a television show "Memories of the Past." She was President of Penhandlers in 1966. She retired from the newspaper in 1976. She received numerous awards for her historical work, including the McWilliams Medal in 1969 for her columns in the Free Press and a Heritage Canada Communications Award in 1977. She was a member of the Historic Sites Advisory Board of Manitoba (1971-1974).
After her husband John Paterson (?-1975) died, she married George Patrick Risk (1901-1985) in 1977. She died on 25 May 1995.
Obituary [John Paterson], Winnipeg Free Press, 8 November 1975, page 44.
"Risk – Paterson," Winnipeg Free Press, 8 January 1977, page 53.
Obituary [George Patrick Risk], Winnipeg Free Press, 26 February 1985, page 58.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 27 May 1995.
We thank Sharon Light for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Keith Davies Jones and Gordon Goldsborough.
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Verein zur sozialen und beruflichen Integration e.V.
The VSBI was founded in 2005 to develop and implement innovative ideas for the support of people with disabilities for their independently living and full inclusion in the society and employment. VSBI is providing them services to support the access to personal budget and personal assistance and is running bigger offices in Merseburg (Saxony-Anhalt, seat of the VSBI) and in Erfurt (Thuringia).
With the FairSharesLabs project the VSBI is looking for new experiences and opportunities concerning self-empowerment, self-involvement of social segregated persons like people with disabilities, long-term unemployed or seniors in social and blue economy under FairShares ethical rules conditions and through implementing a living lab together with collaborating partners in Erfurt, especially with Plattform e.V.
VSBI is providing them services to support the access to personal budget and personal assistance.


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Rochelle Weber: Character Interview Kristen Jensen of The Thin Person Inside
Q: What's your story/back story? Why would someone come up with a story about YOU?
KJ: I guess the reason people would want to interview me is because of the unique way I met Sean Wesley. His manager pulled strings to get him into treatment at the Danville, Illinois, VA because he was having trouble staying clean after he ODed during a recording session. I was there to address my food addiction. I weighed three-hundred pounds when we met. Who'd ever expect a rock star like Sean to fall for someone that fat?
Q: Can you tell us about your hero?
KJ: Sean's tall, and drop-dead handsome with black hair and incredible blue eyes. He's one of the lead singers of The Haystack, and I was in love with his music long before I met him. He's kind, and intelligent, and incredibly brave. Can you imagine a pianist making a comeback after losing a hand?
Q: What problems do you have to face and overcome in your life?
KJ: Having been morbidly obese most of my adult life was a pretty big one, pun not intended.
Q: Do you expect your hero to help or is he the problem?
KJ: Sean and I support each other. We have different addictions, so we're not binge buddies. Although, he says he was a fat kid and he has to watch his food, so I guess I'm a good influence on him.
Q: Where do you live?
KJ: My apartment's in Rantoul, Illinois. It's about 125 miles south of Chicago, ten miles north of Champaign, and forty-five miles northeast of Danville. I was raised in Chicago, but rents are less down here and I'm close to my daughters.
Q: During what time period does your story take place?
KJ: You would call our romance a contemporary one.
Q: How are you coping with the conflict in your life?
KJ: Aside from having had a heart attack recently, I'm doing okay. I've lost about a hundred pounds so far and I'm still losing. I work out along with Sean when he does his physical therapy, and I'm healthier than I've been in over twenty years. My kids aren't embarrassed to be seen with me anymore.
Q: Those're all the questions we have for you. Thank you for speaking to us.
KJ: You're welcome. I really think Sean is much more interesting than I am. After all—he's the rock star.
THE THIN PERSON INSIDE
Kristen Jensen, a Navy veteran, tips the scale at a crippling three hundred pounds. In desperation she asks her VA therapist if she can go into addictions treatment with the guys where she meets Sean. With black hair, blue eyes, and a perfect body she figures the reason he's speaking to her is that she's the only other person in the room.
The Haystack told their lead singer, Sean Wesley, to get clean or get out. But none of the big-name clinics worked. Sean's a Desert Storm vet, so they send him to a VA in the middle of nowhere. When he meets Kristen the first day, he thinks it's tragic such a pretty girl's trapped in a huge body. And her honesty, intelligence, and bravery are even more impressive. Sean's drawn to Kristen, but she's had decades to build layers of defense.
***** Amazon Review by Heather Haven September 12, 2015
Well done, Ms. Weber.
This is a raw and revealing account of addiction, with a sweetness to it that pulls the reader in from the first. http://www.amazon.com/review/RJPHI5QOBJPTH
Sean Wesley went into the snack room to help himself to coffee and a roll. He'd probably gain weight while he was here without his personal trainer and weight room. He'd been a fat kid—always the last to be chosen for games, and stuck in right field when he did play. He'd been saved from a life of obesity by a growth spurt in his late teens, a judge who gave him a choice between jail and the Marines, and switching addictions from food to booze and then cocaine.
By rights, Sean shouldn't be at a VA facility. Celebrities like him usually got sober at places like the Betty Ford clinic or Hazelden. Actually, he'd come from Betty Ford, but he'd still felt shaky so his manager, Don Nelson, had done his homework. Danville, Illinois, was in the middle of nowhere. The program was different, based on Rational Emotive Therapy, and Sean was a veteran. While he made too much money to be treated at the VA, there's money and then there's money. Sean had money—the kind that opens doors and breaks down barriers. The kind that makes even the Federal Government say, "We'll see what we can do," and then do it.
So here he was in the middle of a cornfield in bum-fuck Illinois at a shabby old VA hospital. An enormously obese woman came into the snack room interrupting his reverie, and Sean thought, That could've been me. What a shame—she's so pretty."
Kristen noticed the table of goodies and the drop-dead-gorgeous man perusing them in the break room when she went in there to put her lunch in the refrigerator.
"Want one? I heard they send 'em over every morning. I guess they're yesterday's leftovers."
That's right. Offer sweets to the fat lady. She managed a tight grimace. "Thanks, but I'm here because I'm a food addict." She held up her orange.
"I'm Sean." He prob'ly wouldn't give a fat chick like me a second look anywhere else. Still, what is it about men with black hair and blue eyes that makes me go all mushy?
"I've heard of food addicts, but what makes ya call yourself that?"
"When my kids were little, I left them without a babysitter while I went to the store and wrote a rubber check for ice cream and M&Ms. I'd say I've been about as desperate for my fix as any addict or alcoholic."
"Wow! Yeah, I guess so." He held the door for her as they exited and then followed her into the Day Room.
Kristen sat on a love seat, taking up the whole thing, while Sean sat in the chair on the other side of the end table next to her. They were the only two people in there since there were classes going on. She was sure the minute other people came out he'd find someone else to talk to. She pulled out her crocheting. She was fairly certain Eric would propose to Viki at Christmas and had already begun work on a tablecloth for them. She worked on it a minute and then decided to be polite. "So, what's your drug of choice?"
"Cocaine. I've been clean a coupla months, but it's hard ta stay clean."
"I've heard that. I was at a halfway house fundraiser and they said it takes something like over a year for cocaine to completely leave the body, and during that time a person can still have random cravings. They were raising money for an extended treatment program."
"That explains why I've been having such a hard time. I hope this treatment helps."
People started coming into the Day Room from classrooms just down the hallways. Several of them gave Sean and Kristen curious looks. Yeah, what's a great looking guy doing sitting with a fat chick?
Rochelle Weber Biography
Rochelle Weber is romance author, a Navy veteran, and holds a BA in Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. Her two previous novels, Rock Bound and Rock Crazy are available in all formats.
Ms. Weber has over twenty year's editing experience and publishes the Marketing for Romance Writers Newsletter, winner of the 2013 and 2015 Preditors & Editors Readers' Polls for Best Writers' Resource. She battles bi-polar disorder, quipping, "You haven't lived until you've been the only woman on the locked ward at the VA." She lost about a hundred-fifty pounds and has kept it off for about three years, and has incorporated these experiences into her books. Ms. Weber lives in Round Lake Beach, Illinois. She has two married daughters, eight assorted grandchildren and step-grandchildren, and a cat who has her very well-trained.
Contact Rochelle At:
Website: www.rochelleweber.com
Blog: http://rochelleweber.blogspot.com
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Q: JQuery disables all hyperlinks I am puzzled why adding JQuery 1.1.10 disables all the links on my web page.
In my script I have methods like this:
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e.preventDefault();
dataslide = $(this).attr('data-slide');
goToByScroll(dataslide);
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... but they are only bound to some specific links. However it appears that ALL links in the page gets disabled. Any clues? Thanks.

A: by e.preventDefault(); it stop their default behaviour
reference event.preventDefault

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Gemstone Therapy 101: A Foundation Manual provides the essential framework for applying gemstone energy medicine. It presents the skills, knowledge, and experience that form the core of all other gemstone therapy protocols. Those who are interested in gemstone therapy practitioner certification and/or learning the advanced gemstone therapy protocols must master these basics.
This 284-page updated manual details Level 1 Gemstone Therapy protocols, supplementing what you can learn at workshops or at home with the accompanying DVDs. The purpose of Level 1 Training is to empower you to become comfortable applying the tools of Gemstone Therapy in self-therapy or for another person to meet any personal challenge or life issue that may arise. This manual will also prepare you for advanced Gemstone Therapy training.
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If you've been reading along and following the 2017 Catholic Reading Challenge, then you know that I've been sharing what I'm reading for each category throughout the year. It helps keep me on track, and I hope it helps inspire you toward your reading goals for 2017!
I'm going to tell you from the get-go that this might be the most impactful book on my spiritual life that I read this year, perhaps in the last few years. So, here's the plug that made me want to read it in the first place: Elisabeth was the devoted wife of Felix Leseur, who was an adamant aetheist for their entire marriage. After her death, he discovered all of her journals (the contents of this book). In reading them, not only did he convert to Catholicism, but he became a Catholic priest! After his conversion, he compiled Elisabeth's journals and various correspondence into this book, travelled around sharing her story, and had her cause opened for canonization.
I read this book with a group of ladies from my parish this summer, and I think we would all say that we were profoundly impacted by Elisabeth's humble spirituality, profound love, and immense wisdom. There is so much that I could say about her writings, but I am just going to highlight for you some of the major themes along with corresponding quotes from her journals.
Elisabeth suffered greatly in her life, primarily from her many health issues that plagued her at various points. Ultimately she died of cancer. There were many periods when she couldn't leave her home due to her physical condition. She also suffered emotionally from the inability to have children, though she was a dedicated spiritual mother to all of her neices and nephews. But there was another suffering that she experienced — the pain of loneliness in her Catholic faith. Her husband, and many of their good friends, were antagonistic or indifferent to her religous beliefs; and this weighed heavily on her heart, particularly in the case of her husband.
I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to call my sorrows (be they great or small) "dear companions" yet; may God's grace get us there on this side of heaven.
Another theme of her diaries, which she emphasizes over and over in various ways, is the call to silence in regard to the interior life. This woman was so wise in recognizing when in our lives we should speak and when we should be silent. Generally speaking, she advocated for keeping quiet about the lights given in the interior times of prayer with God. To her these moments of one-on-one communion with God were not for sharing with everyone else, they were for savoring as the intimate treasures of the interior life that they were.
I have one final thought to share, and that is how Elisabeth Leseur so beautifully articulates the path to living an intentional Christian life. She says, "We should make each day a resume of our whole life by filling it with prayer, work, and charity." A resume of our whole life. If someone took a snapshot of my day, would it look the way I want my whole life to look? The truth is, if my day isn't the picture I want to be remembered for, then my life isn't going to be either. Why? Because we only have today, this moment. Our daily living is what makes up a lifetime. If we want lives marked by prayer, good works, and love of souls, then those are the things that should mark our daily living. May our days represent the lives to which God has called us.
What Catholic memoir or autobiography did you read for the #2017catholicreadingchallenge? If you are posting your pick on social media, remember to use the hashtag!


My favorite bit is a charmingly flabbergasted fellow named Arnie Weiss, who is interviewed along with his wife while visiting the Capitol and watching the spectacle from the gallery. Less amusing is the fact that the State Reps apparently turn the official chamber cameras elsewhere while they busily break their own rules.
An apparent end has come to the interesting religious drama that's been taking place between the Catholic Church and a Quebec-based sect called the "Community of the Lady of All Nations" or the "Army of Mary": after decades of steadily worsening relations and finally a formal condemnation, the Catholic Church has now officially excommunicated six nuns who refused to recant their heretical dedication to the sect.
I've had a hard time finding out what the specific "gravely erroneous doctrines" were that the group promulgated, primarily because most of its writings are in French. But its founder, who may or may not have claimed to be a "mystical incarnation" of the Virgin Mary (when she's not appearing on garage doors I suppose), certainly seems like the sort of unpredictable charismatic that would threaten the official order. Who knows though: had she been a mite more cryptic and less eager to wander outside of church doctrine, she could have ended up as a modern Lúcia Santos (and then promptly locked away and forbidden to speak to the public).
Ironically enough, one of the central credos of the group is basically "an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope"… but clearly Pope John Paul II was not eager to return the favor. And especially with their longtime foe Cardinal Ratzinger being later elected as the new Pope Benedict XVI, it was only a matter of time before the sect was decisively crushed.
Wired has a nice little promotional interview with Oliver Sacks about his new book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Every since devouring his The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, I've been a devoted fan of Sacks' work. Human experience and the mind are profound mysteries, and Sacks has always been one of their best and most insightful explorers.
As a doctor who deals regularly in bizarre and obscure disorders of the brain and nervous system, Sacks provides readers with the sort of insight that can only come from reflecting on truly altered mental perspectives: what would it be like to lose your sense of having a body in space? To truly have no ability to form new memories? To suddenly and shockingly be convinced that your own leg is something so alien and offensive that you actually try to push it out of your hospital bed so as to be rid of it? To have your brain split in half and find one hand undoing the buttons on your shirt that your other hand had just finished buttoning?
When I despair at the sheer vacuity of supernatural "explanations" for our minds, experiences, and feelings (or tire of empty or unintelligible concepts like "souls" and "free will") it's someone like Sacks that I can turn to for relief. There are no proud claims of final answers. There are instead intriguingly robust and meaty pieces of the puzzle, and much more satisfying for all that.
So, as I said about economist author Steven Landsburg, Sacks provides a truly "high-information content" product: one's money's worth of surprise and insight packed into nearly every page. Man Who Mistook… comes highly recommended, and I can't wait for his latest.
It comes up constantly. Without a god, without an afterlife, how can life have any meaning? Atheists and agnostics have traditionally responded with impassioned, often simply fantastic essays about the meaning they do find in their lives. You would think that would be answer enough: a brute reality that defies all the accusations.
And yet, hostile theists are rarely convinced by this: they paint such expressions as, at best, their fellow human beings illicitly "stealing" the fruits of their own supposedly special ideology. They want to know, they demand to know how this meaning can be "justified," implying that they possess the one unique answer themselves.
How can folks find meaning without God? Instead of another appeal to empathy with my own story, I want to strike at the heart of the argument itself.
Meaning without God? The question itself is both backwards and premature. To see why, we must ask how one supposedly finds meaning with God. I won't, in fact, be arguing that one cannot. Rather, my contention is that any believer that seriously tries to answer this question will be forced to admit that the philosophical liberties and assumptions they make to reach their sense of meaning are no more or less justified than those they ridicule as insufficient or unjustified in non-believers. We are all inescapably in the same boat when it comes to meaning and purpose.
Hoo boy. Iran's "President" Ahmadinejad claims that his country doesn't "have homosexuals like in your country." Considering that gay people in Iran face execution and torture, I really and truly wish he was right.
Some minister in Arkansas named John Terry is under the impression that atheists' primary mission is, like his, to convert and evangelize people. Nope, not mine at least.
The thing is, in the end, I don't judge people to be less of a human being they you hold or even push beliefs I think are silly or unjustified. What you do matters morally, of course, and there's plenty of fights to be had over that, but even the most devoted, obsessive believers are generally still folks with whom we can all share that proverbial beer, or at least iced tea, with. Everyone ultimately lives an ordinary life.
But there is something that will make me think less of you as a person: if you don't regularly listen to This American Life. It's completely free. It's an hour out of your life that will make you laugh, cry, and understand our common humanity a little better every week. Tales of ordinary people, ordinary lives, told in an extraordinary ways.
You won't go to hell for not listening, like John Terry thinks you will for not believing. But man, you'd be a fool to miss out. And you can't have any of my iced tea.
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The idea for the Chocolate Museum Zagreb was born after a family visit to a European chocolate museum.
After leaving the museum, our then 11-year-old daughter uttered a devastating sentence: "This was so boring" .
We used the eight-hour drive to our home to talk about what we would like to see in one such museum. We thought about the expectations of our almost four-year-old son, all the way to our expectations as parents. We mentioned more interactive content, an abundance of easily accessible historical information, a hand-picked chocolate tasting offer, a unique story that needs to be clear.
We reduced it all to a few conclusions: we all wanted to have a complete experience, satisfying all our senses and follow a given narrative through the story of chocolate history. We wanted to be taken on a journey, listen to the rainforest when we talked about the Aztecs, sit on a baroque sofa when we learned about hot chocolate recipes at European courts and enjoy ruby chocolate as we entered the 21st century.
Why is this important? Because it illustrates the idea behind the Museum. The goal of the Chocolate Museum Zagreb is to be both educational and fun, to provide information, culture and knowledge in a way that will not be boring and pretentious.
We want to engage our visitors to truly dive into a new and exciting world. The Chocolate Museum Zagreb is first and foremost a place of growth for all its stakeholders – both visitors and employees. The goal is for all of them to create interest in chocolate on their own initiative. Children should tell their friends about the fun using cocoa bean grinders, adults should share pieces of trivia with their colleagues, parents should be happy to expose their children to quality content.
The Chocolate Museum Zagreb aims to build a new generation of "cultural consumers", visitors who are demanding, who have little free time. Our task is to offer them an enriching experience that will be worth their time.
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The Mission of the Chocolate Museum Zagreb
Our mission is to enrich visitors and employees by taking them on a journey through the world of chocolate, immersing them in its cultural, historical, and social aspects, thus creating an experience for all the senses. After such an experience, everyone should be fulfilled and go home with a smile because they had a good time, were culturally enriched, and further educated.
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Our vision is to offer a formative experience to all our stakeholders, bringing museums, culture, and education closer to a new generation of visitors. We want to show that culture and education can be fun, accessible, and appealing to everyone.
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How To Locate Indian Girl Online
In 1992 Asha Sinha a 1982 Batch IPS Officer became the First Woman Commandant in the Paramilitary forces of India when she was posted as Commandant, Central Industrial Security Force in Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited. Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya the second Lady IPS Officer of India belonging to the 1973 Batch turned the first Lady Director General of Police of a State in India when she was appointed DGP of Uttarakhand Police.
Indian Women Exposed
The novelty of the farmers' protest in India is the cross-generational, cross-gender and cross-geographic mobilization of citizens who clearly imagine in people power and the necessity for mass participation. Women, both within the rural and urban areas, have joined forces to make their voices heard. Women are working collectively to juggle their presence at the protest with the want to care for his or her families and tend their farms while the men are out protesting. They have additionally ensured that there's a regular provide of rations and basic requirements at the protest sites. The visualization of feminine protesters in media reports is important.
According to UNICEF's "State of the World's Children-2009" report, 47% of India's women aged 20–24 were married earlier than the legal age of 18, rising to 56% in rural areas. The report additionally showed that 40% of the world's youngster marriages occur in India. The map shows the comparative rate of violence against girls in Indian states and union territories in 2012. Crime fee data per a hundred,000 ladies on this map is the broadest definition of crime against women under Indian regulation. It includes rape, sexual assault, insult to modesty, kidnapping, abduction, cruelty by intimate companion or family members, trafficking, persecution for dowry, dowry deaths, indecency, and all other crimes listed in Indian Penal Code.
Form Of Indian Woman
With regard to decorate, a sari and salwar kameez are worn by women all over India. Despite common perception, the bindi on the brow does not signify marital standing; however, the Sindoor does.
There is currently no particular law in India against sexual assault or harassment, and only vaginal penetration by a penis counts as rape. Those who molested the girl in Guwahati can be booked for "insulting or outraging the modesty of a woman" or "intruding upon her privacy". It was just a few days later, when the clip had gone viral and had been picked up by the nationwide channels in Delhi, that the police have been shamed into action. By then, Guwahati residents had taken issues into their women in india own arms, producing an unlimited banner that they strung up alongside one of many city's arterial roads that includes screen grabs of the main suspects. Six days after the assault, the chief minister of Assam, the state the place Guwahati is located, ordered the police to arrest a dozen key suspects. He met the victim and promised her 50,000 rupees (£580) compensation. When the police eventually turned up, they took away the lady, who is 20 or 21 .
In 1994 the Indian government handed a law forbidding ladies or their households from asking concerning the sex of the infant after an ultrasound scan and also expressly forbade docs or any other persons from providing that data. In follow this law is extensively ignored, and ranges of abortion on female foetuses stay excessive and the intercourse ratio at start retains getting more skewed. In India, the male-female intercourse ratio is skewed dramatically in favour of males, the chief reason being the excessive number of ladies who die before reaching adulthood. Tribal societies in India have a much less skewed sex ratio than different caste groups. This is in spite of the fact that tribal communities have far lower income levels, lower literacy charges, and fewer enough health services.
Deepika Patar, 24, a journalist on the Seven Sisters newspaper in Assam, says metropolis buses had been infamous for gropers. "If girls are standing up because there aren't any seats, males typically press up in opposition to them, or contact their breasts or bottom," she explains. A glance at the Indian media reveals the range of abuse suffered by the nation's women on a every day basis. Today it was reported that a woman had been stripped and had her head shaved by villagers near Udaipur as punishment for an extramarital affair. In Uttar Pradesh, a lady alleged she was gang raped at a police station – she claimed she was set on by officers after being lured to the Kushinagar station with the promise of a job. One of probably the most highly effective ladies in Indian politics, Sushma Swaraj rose to the position of the Minister of External Affairs of India, turning into only the second girl to don the role after the late Indira Gandhi.
The documents had been stolen from Harvard's website, the place the college made them publicly available. This type of cybercrime entails hackers breaking into pc networksand locking digital info till the victim pays for its launch. Recent high-profile attackshave solid a spotlight on this rapidly increasing felony business, which is based primarily in Russia. Each of the individuals Ms. Razdan enlisted received an official trying e-mail from HarvardCareer.com with an online link to addContent a suggestion.
After studying she had been tricked, Ms. Razdan retreated from public view. She turned to the Indian police, who've begun their own investigation but have not made any findings public. "We take customer privateness very seriously and don't focus on customers' account particulars until supplied with a courtroom order," mentioned Dan Race, a GoDaddy spokesman. But the tech companies whose platforms had been exploited stated government companies had not played a role. By December, Ms. Razdan began to get annoyed at what she thought was flakiness. She reached out to officers in Harvard's human sources division. She then emailed Ms. Dench's office directly, asking concerning the canceled video calls. [newline]Ms. Razdan was sent a sheaf of types, all on Harvard letterhead, for her visa utility, wage funds and medical insurance.
In some tribes the lads additionally collected the supplies and prepared the dyes. The sorting and coloring of the quills, the dressing of the skins, the drawing of designs and the embroidering were exclusively the work of girls. The quills have been carefully sorted according to measurement and length and saved in small instances made of the bladders of elk or buffalo. The dyes were compounded of roots, bark, buds or vegetation and a number of uniform colours secured; principally green, blue, black, yellow and red. The pure white quill was used for borders and backgrounds in designs.
With greater than eight million teams across India, the government is now utilizing SHGs as a supply channel for government services aimed toward girls. These efforts might be bolstered by initiatives to help ladies transition from working within the informal financial system to leading small- and medium-sized businesses, which have been proven to gasoline financial progress. As protest against farm legal guidelines enters 100th day, a minimal of 248 farmers have died on New Delhi's borders, organisers say. Nearly 75 p.c of rural ladies in India who work full-time are farmers, according to the anti-poverty group Oxfam India, and the numbers are anticipated to rise as more men migrate to cities for jobs. Many travelled with the hundreds of male farmers who arrived at the protest sites in late November and have since organised and led protest marches, run medical camps and large soup kitchens that feed 1000's, and raised calls for for gender equality. — Showing details of sleeve fringe and technique of attachment.The quill worker's artwork is unique in America and due to this fact demands a word of clarification and description.
In many North American societies, clan membership and materials items descended through women. For instance, the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederation all practiced matrilineal descent. Clan matrons selected men to function their chiefs, and they deposed chiefs with whom they have been dissatisfied. Women's life-giving roles additionally performed a component in their political and social authority. In Native American creation stories, it was typically the girl who created life, via giving delivery to kids, or via the usage of their very own our bodies to create the earth, from which plants and animals emerged. It is hard to make any generalizations about indigenous societies, because North America's First Peoples consisted of tons of of separate cultures, each with their very own belief techniques, social constructions, and cultural and political practices. Evidence is particularly scarce about women's everyday lives and obligations.
Very few men have been in a position to compete with them on this sphere as a end result of the women have pure tendency to serve and clear. It is thus natural tendency present in girls which motivated Florence Nightingale to make nursing popular among the ladies of the higher classes in England and in Europe. She showed the greatest way to women type how nobly they can serve humanity in the hours of sufferings and agonies. It is a fact that women are intelligent, hard-working and environment friendly in work. They are striving very onerous to succeed in highest effectivity and perfection within the administrative work.


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International Trademark Association Unveils New Website
New York, New York—June 25, 2020—The International Trademark Association (INTA) today unveiled a new website, marking a major milestone in the Association's multiyear digital transformation.
Visitors will find the website more user-friendly and easier to navigate. The site also features enhanced search capabilities, greater member access to their personal INTA-related information, and new content sections. Specifically, "Perspectives" highlights features, interviews, and Law & Practice articles, and "For Consumers" presents basic information about brands and trademarks in a language that resonates with consumers.
"The ultimate goal is really to provide an even better service to our members and to add value to the community," said INTA CEO Etienne Sanz de Acedo. "Society is changing, technology is advancing, and our members are evolving. We need to evolve as well. When we talk about digital transformation, it's really about the people and the processes. It's about the service we provide to our members, and it's about projecting ourselves into the future."
INTA's digital transformation is one of the objectives of its 2018–2021 Strategic Plan. It developed the new website after significant input and suggestions from its Board, Advisory Board, members, staff, and digital agency.
Another significant aspect of the Association's digital transformation is its increased focus on virtual meeting and conferences, and increased webinar offerings. Its recent shift from in-person to all-virtual events is in response to health and safety concerns as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier this week, INTA successfully held its first all-virtual conference, the 2020 New York Conference: Brands for a Better Society. In November, it will host its first-ever all-virtual 2020 Annual Meeting & Leadership Meeting; registration opens in early July.
About the International Trademark Association
The International Trademark Association (INTA) is a global association of brand owners and professionals dedicated to supporting trademarks and related intellectual property (IP) to foster consumer trust, economic growth, and innovation. Members include more than 7,200 trademark owners, professionals, and academics from 187 countries, who benefit from the Association's global trademark resources, policy development, education and training, and international network. Founded in 1878, INTA is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Brussels, Santiago, Shanghai, Singapore, and Washington, D.C., and representatives in Geneva and New Delhi. For more information, visit inta.org.


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[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v3.0.1...v4.0.0)

**Closed issues:**

- Support hapi v17 [\#20](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/issues/20)

**Merged pull requests:**

- Add support for hapi v17 [\#21](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/21) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v3.0.1](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v3.0.1) (2017-06-06)
[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v3.0.0...v3.0.1)

**Merged pull requests:**

- Update `hapi` to skip vulnerable versions [\#19](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/19) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v3.0.0](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v3.0.0) (2017-06-06)
[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v2.0.6...v3.0.0)

**Implemented enhancements:**

- Update tests and dependencies [\#18](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/18) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v2.0.6](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v2.0.6) (2017-06-03)
[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v2.0.5...v2.0.6)

**Fixed bugs:**

- Account for broken payloads before stream-specific validation [\#16](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/issues/16)
- Skip validation of broken payloads [\#17](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/17) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v2.0.5](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v2.0.5) (2017-02-17)
[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v2.0.4...v2.0.5)

**Fixed bugs:**

- Flaky tests run without file fixtures available [\#14](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/issues/14)
- Fix file fixtures availability [\#15](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/15) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v2.0.4](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v2.0.4) (2016-10-25)
[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v2.0.3...v2.0.4)

**Merged pull requests:**

- Update dependencies [\#13](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/13) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v2.0.3](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v2.0.3) (2016-07-07)
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**Merged pull requests:**

- Simplify test suite [\#12](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/12) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v2.0.2](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v2.0.2) (2016-06-03)
[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v2.0.1...v2.0.2)

**Merged pull requests:**

- Update dependencies [\#11](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/11) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v2.0.1](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v2.0.1) (2016-04-01)
[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v2.0.0...v2.0.1)

**Merged pull requests:**

- Fix documentation TOC spacing [\#10](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/10) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v2.0.0](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v2.0.0) (2016-04-01)
[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v1.0.2...v2.0.0)

**Closed issues:**

- Update houdin to version 2.x.x [\#8](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/issues/8)

**Merged pull requests:**

- Update dependencies [\#9](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/9) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v1.0.2](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v1.0.2) (2016-01-17)
[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v1.0.1...v1.0.2)

**Merged pull requests:**

- Update dependencies [\#7](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/7) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v1.0.1](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v1.0.1) (2015-12-20)
[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/compare/v1.0.0...v1.0.1)

**Closed issues:**

- Update package dependencies [\#4](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/issues/4)
- Update package keywords [\#2](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/issues/2)
- Fix broken link in the contribution guidelines [\#1](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/issues/1)

**Merged pull requests:**

- Update dependencies [\#6](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/6) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))
- Fix broken link in the contribution guidelines [\#5](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/pull/5) ([ruiquelhas](https://github.com/ruiquelhas))

## [v1.0.0](https://github.com/ruiquelhas/thurston/tree/v1.0.0) (2015-12-19)

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Q: Accessing ID inside decider and worker in AWS SWF I am working and AWS SWF and wanted to create a workflow such than I can pass an ID during starting of execution and be able to access that in my decider and activity worker.
I am not able to find any documentation related to that.
I am implementing workers and deciders in python using BOTO library.

A: You actually cannot create a workflow execution without specifying a workflowId according to the documentation of start_workflow_execution method.