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Q & A With John Gagliardi
By League of Fans On January 24, 2012
A League of Fans Special Feature
John Gagliardi
John Gagliardi is the head football coach at NCAA Division III St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. He's the winningest coach in college football history, with a 484-133-11 all-time record, including 30 conference titles and four national championships. He's the first active head coach to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Nevertheless, Gagliardi is known as much for his unconventional coaching methods as he is his remarkable coaching record. He successfully creates an environment that balances high expectations and fun. His only team rule is the Golden Rule.
Gagliardi's coaching methods have been summarized in a series of "NO's" that have been titled, "Winning With No." His "NO's" include:
No tackling in practice — players wear shorts or sweats.
No long practices – an hour and a half or less.
No compulsory weightlifting program.
No wind sprints or laps.
No blocking sleds or dummies.
No worrying about being different or unique.
No players cut (each year over 150 players turn out to be part of Gagliardi's program).
No special dormitory or training table – team eats with other students.
No dress code.
No whistles.
No yelling or screaming at players.
No resemblance to a boot camp.
No surviving without plenty of humor.
Gagliardi's St. John's program is the subject of the book, "The Sweet Season," by Sports Illustrated's Austin Murphy.
Gagliardi was interviewed by Ken Reed, League of Fans' Sports Policy Director.
Ken Reed: How did you get into coaching John?
John Gagliardi: It was by accident. I had no intention of becoming a coach. I was playing football at Trinidad Catholic High School in Colorado in 1943. World War II was going on and our coach got drafted and went into the service. Without a coach, the school was going to drop football. All the players wanted to keep playing. I was the captain so we talked the school into letting me be a player-coach. We ended up winning the championship that year.
KR: How did your unconventional coaching methods evolve?
JG: Mostly it's because of the way I started out with that Trinidad team. During that first season, as a player-coach, I approached coaching from a player's perspective, kind of as an intramural player might. If we didn't like something our previous coach did we simply didn't do it anymore. For example, at that time, coaches didn't allow you to have water during practices. When I took over, we drank as much water as we wanted. We eliminated most of the calisthenics. We just did what worked for us. When I got my first full-time coaching position at Carroll College (Montana), I looked at the things conventional coaches did and if I thought we didn't need to do something I got rid of it. I've never been an assistant coach. I've always just done what I like and it seems to work.
KR: Your teams don't tackle or do traditional scrimmaging in practices. Does this result in fewer injuries than other teams experience?
JG: We think that's true. We think we lead the world in fewest injuries. We've eliminated all-out tackle in practice. So, we've eliminated almost all practice injuries.
First, we eliminated tackling in practice. Then we were the first ones to wear shorts for practice. After awhile of not hitting during practices, we started wondering why we kept wearing full uniforms in practice. Then one day a couple players asked if they could wear shorts for practice. We decided to give it a try and we haven't looked back.
KR: You're famous for giving your players a lot of autonomy. For example, you give your quarterbacks the final call on what plays your offense will run. Have you ever wanted to take control and call all the plays like most traditional coaches?
JG: No, not really. The players play the game. We send in some plays but we let the quarterback have the privilege of changing the play if they think they have a better one.
KR: Your teams have short practices (an hour and a half or less). What is your thinking on that?
JG: We only practice what we do in games. We try to eliminate the unnecessary. We think there are a lot of unnecessary drills and things in the typical football practice. If you eliminate those things and focus on what's important – like running plays correctly — practices can be pretty short.
KR: You've coached a long time, do you still enjoy it?
JG: Yes, I do. I'll probably only coach for one or two more … decades that is! (Laughter). There are a few things I don't really enjoy. Recruiting bothers me some times. I like meeting young men and their families but in the offseason we end up spending more time with potential recruits than we do with the kids already in our program, the kids already on campus. Some times I envy high school coaches who basically have their rosters handed to them and can focus on coaching. But I still enjoy coaching. My philosophy is to enjoy it while you can. You never know what tomorrow might bring.
KR: What changes have you noticed in the world of football through the years?
JG: Well, for one thing, there are fewer authoritarian coaches around. But I think that's true of society in general. There are fewer authoritarian bosses and parents than when I grew up. Back then, everyone thought being the drill sergeant coach was the way to go. I never thought it was. I never responded to being hollered at. The players like the way we've done it through the years and I think the parents have liked it too.
I think the biggest change in the last 20 years is that everyone seems to be making football a year-round sport. And it's not just football, it's all sports. I think a lot of these coaches today have gone berserk. Kids are getting pressured to play just one sport. With club sports and travel teams it's become an arms race.
The best players we've had over the years have all played two or three sports. Today, coaches limit how many sports their players can play. We hope our players play other sports besides football but it's getting harder and harder to do because the seasons overlap more and more.
KR: What advice do you have for young coaches out there?
JG: I think the key is the Golden Rule. Treat kids the way you'd like to be treated. Coach them how you would like to be coached. We want guys to observe the Golden Rule. That will take care of most everything. That's our only rule. Find kids that don't need any other rules besides the Golden Rule. Those who need other rules won't keep them.
Also, it's important to focus on today, to focus on the next game. You can't change anything that happened yesterday. All you can do is prepare the best you can for the next game. That applies to life too.
KR: Did you parent the way you coach?
JG: Yes, definitely. I focused on the Golden Rule with our four kids. I never laid a hand on them. I never really told them what time they needed to be home. I basically trusted our kids to do the right thing. It seems to have worked out. Our four children have all turned out great.
KR: You'll have to do a book on parenting next.
JG: (Laughter) I don't think so …
KR: Thanks for your time John.
JG: Okay.


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An acquaintance recently told me about her experience investigating solar power for her home. A solar company told her that in order to go solar, she would have to cut down the trees that shade her house — an unfortunate trade-off. If your house is shaded, your roof is facing the wrong direction, or you're a renter, you join the many Americans who can't install solar power at home. What to do? Thankfully, depending on where you live and what your motivations are, there are lots of ways you can support the solar energy transition.
Revolving loan funds are not a new concept, but applying them to solar is. RE-volv, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, California, has pioneered a model that allows people to donate to its revolving Solar Seed Fund that finances solar projects for community-serving nonprofits and cooperatives. The idea is simple: each community saves money on its electric bill while paying back the cost of its solar array — with interest — over time. RE-volv reinvests the payments from one project into the next three or more.
If a nonprofit is interested in going solar mainly to decrease its electricity costs over the long run, its best bet is to buy a system outright. Of course, nonprofits are often cash-strapped and already rely on donations from supporters for their work. Everybody Solar is a nonprofit working to help other nonprofits raise the money needed to purchase solar energy systems and save money for years to come.
A very exciting development for the solar industry is the wave of organizations allowing people to invest money in solar energy projects and get it back, sometimes with a return. Groups in this space include Mosaic, SunFunder, CollectiveSun, Wiser Capital, and a few others.
"Solar gardens," or shared solar projects, allow people to subscribe to a solar energy project somewhere in or near their community. The energy produced by the solar array then gets credited to subscribers' electricity bills. The Solar Gardens Institute and Clean Energy Collective are two of the groups working in this space. In 2013, California passed a law, SB 43, that allows utility customers to sign up for shared solar projects.
In California, Illinois, Rhode Island, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, there is a policy in place called Community Choice Aggregation (CCA). Community Choice allows a city or county to set up an agency that's in charge of buying electricity for the community. The utility still delivers the power, but through a CCA program, the community gets to pick what type of energy it wants to buy — a great way to support clean, renewable energy. The real promise of CCAs is that the revenues from the sale of electricity stay within the community and can be deployed to build local clean power, creating local jobs and cost savings for customers.
In addition to all these organizations that make it easy for you to join the rooftop revolution, there's always the option of setting up your own community solar project. University Park Solar did this in Maryland by forming a limited liability company (LLC) to allow community investors to finance a local solar project. In addition, you can do what the Mt. Pleasant Solar Cooperative did. This group of neighbors in Washington, D.C., organized a group purchase of solar equipment to get a big discount. For more resources on do-it-yourself community solar, visit Solar United Neighbors.
When it comes to climate change, we don't have much time to switch from a fossil fuel-based society to a clean, renewable energy-powered society. In addition to fighting the dirty energy systems currently in place, we have to rapidly build the clean energy infrastructure we need, and that takes a movement. When I look at all the work going on around the country to build renewable energy in our communities, I see that movement taking shape, and it gives me great joy.
Author's note: I've made generalizations about the organizations mentioned for the sake of simplicity. To find out more about the organizations involved please visit their websites.


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According to the World Health Organization's 2006 report Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments, almost one-quarter of the global disease burden can be attributed to environmental factors. In addition to broad contributors to health such as income, social supports and health services, environmental factors include chemicals and contaminants in our air, soil, food, water and the products we use.
Patients from across Ontario are referred by their physicians to the Environmental Health Clinic at Women's College Hospital in Toronto for assessment of chronic conditions linked to environmental factors. Dr. Alison Bested, one of the clinic's doctors, said some of the most common diagnoses found in referred patients are myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS).
Dr. Bested and Dr. Lynn Marshall, also from the Environmental Health Clinic, gave a presentation on environmental health issues at Medical Grand Rounds on May 19, 2010 at Women's College Hospital.
ME/CFS, fibromyalgia and MCS were diagnosed in 440,000 patients in Ontario in 2005, Dr. Bested said, adding that Canada loses an estimated $2.5 billion per year in productivity due to ME/CFS alone.
Environmental illnesses may begin after an incident such as a viral illness, motor vehicle accident or chemical spill, but may also arise after multiple exposures to various factors over time. Clinicians who diagnose and treat these conditions require a detailed patient history, including asking the patient about their home, their community, their job and hobbies, their personal life, their diet, and what medications they take.
Because of the multiple issues involved in environmental health, it's important to identify the most common hazards and potential hazards that may be present, where those hazards come from, who may be affected, and ways to protect ourselves, Dr. Marshall said.
If it seems that environmental illnesses are more common now than they were a century ago, that may be true. Dr. Marshall explained that World War II was a change point, when chemists became adept at synthesizing chemicals during the war effort.
'There were brand new chemicals we'd never been exposed to,' Dr. Marshall said.
New chemical production has continued over the past 65 years. In Canada, between 500 and 1,000 new chemicals have been examined for their health and environmental effects every year since 1994. However, prior to that, thousands of chemicals were used in high volumes for 20 years or more without being screened for toxicity. When some of these chemicals were eventually tested, they were found to have toxic properties, Dr. Marshall said.
Children, infants and developing fetuses are the most vulnerable to environmental toxins because they take in more of them, relative to their size, than adults. At the same time, their physiology is still developing, and so they may be unable to break down toxins and get rid of them as readily as adults.
People are exposed to chemicals in the environment through three main channels, Dr. Marshall explained: by eating or drinking them, through skin contact, and by inhaling them in the air.
Groundwater can become contaminated through many routes, from many sources. Contaminants can come from landfills, industrial or farm waste such as sludge or manure, sewer and septic systems, contaminated lakes or rivers, or wastewater ponds. They can seep down into the water table through permeable soil, cracks in rock, gravel, cracked sewage pipes and even wells drilled for drinking water or for testing groundwater.
Water can be contaminated with microbes such as bacteria like E. coli or campylobacter, viruses like Norwalk or hepatitis A, protozoa like giardia or cryptosporidium, and toxic types of algae. Chemicals that can leach into water include industrial chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and heavy metals such as lead and mercury.
Similarly, foods can carry bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, can be exposed to radiation, and can contain chemicals ranging from PCBs and pesticides to heavy metals.
Dr. Marshall explained that some fruits and vegetables tend to have higher pesticide levels than others. The highest levels are often found in strawberries, bell peppers, spinach, cherries, peaches, cantaloupe, celery, apples, apricots, green beans and cucumbers. Produce on this list is the best place to spend extra on organic products.
Fruit and vegetables that tend to have the lowest levels of pesticide include pineapple, plantains, mangos, bananas, plums, kiwi, blueberries, grapefruit, avocados, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, broccoli, onions and cabbage.
Some contaminants, such as mercury, become more concentrated as they move up the food chain, a process called biomagnification. For instance, when mercury escapes from industrial processes into wastewater, it ends up in our lakes where it is taken up by algae. The contaminated algae and other small organisms that eat algae are then eaten by small fish. Larger fish then eat the small fish. The larger fish are then eaten by people. By eating the larger fish, we are consuming all the mercury from the algae, the small fish and the larger fish, and it has become more concentrated at each step up the food chain. Certain fish that are large and live a long time – such as marlin, shark, swordfish and certain species of tuna – have higher mercury content than other fish.
Consumer products can also affect our environmental health. Products that we use to store and cook food and drinks, to make toys and furniture and build homes and vehicles often contain plastic. Some plastics contain harmful additives such as bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates that may leach from products such as baby bottles, food can linings, toys, bibs and teething rings. Other toxic substances that can leach from some types of plastic include cadmium and lead.
Personal care and cleaning products can be a source of inhaled irritants and toxins, Dr. Bested said. Ingredients in perfumes and scented products have been linked to asthma symptoms, and sometimes appear on lists of hazardous or toxic chemicals.
Going outdoors for a breath of fresh air isn't always a solution. Industrial processes and transportation result in emissions of smog-producing pollutants such as particulates, ozone, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide.
People who have the highest health risks related to air pollution include those with respiratory or heart conditions, elderly people, those who do sports or strenuous activities outdoors, and children.
We can't control all of the elements of our environment, but there are some practical steps that can be taken to improve environmental health, Dr. Bested said.
These steps help to keep intake of toxins to a minimum by reducing exposure to harmful or potentially harmful chemicals, by diluting their concentration in air, water or food, and by substituting safer alternatives.


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NMMU PART OF NEW VARSITY SPORT EVENT
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JUST when you thought your sporting Mondays had ended, the company that gave us Varsity Cup is now offering us a vibrant televised university sporting contest for athletes, Varsity Sports Athletics.
And Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is among the top university contenders.
Starting on Monday 15 April in Stellenbosch, there will be nine men's events, 9 women's events and two mixed relays.
It will include medley events in which participants may find themselves racing against the opposite sex but this is all part of the fun of the new competition.
"I know that this initiative is not only going to benefit our student athletes but it will be a huge injection for Eastern Province athletics," says NMMU's athletics sport manager Nellis Bothma.
A number of NMMU athletes who performed particularly well at the recent under 23 SA Athletics Champs in Pretoria will be competing in the three-event series around the country.
They are gold medal winners Ischke Senekal (shot put 15.26m), Magdaleen Louw (hammer throw 52.52m) and Chad Herman (javelin 74.70m).
All three achieved personal best distances and broke Eastern Province records for their own disciplines. Ischke also took the silver medal for discus (48.70m) in another new EP record while Chad qualified for the World Student Games later this year.
"The new competition is going to be exciting because of the various rules for the competition," says Bothma.
Team members, for example, may only participate in one event and one relay, and medley events will mean that men will race against women although distribution of the sexes will be even.
After the live 7pm to 8.40pm action at Coetzenburg Stadium in Stellenbosch, the action moves to UJ Stadium in Johannesburg on Monday 22 April and finally to Tuks Stadium in Pretoria on Monday 29 April.
The universities involved are: University of Stellenbosch (Maties), University of Johannesburg (UJ), University of Pretoria (Tuks), North-West Univeristy (Pukke), University of Free State (Kovsies), University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Tshwane University of Technology (TUT).
Varsity Sport, the company behind the successful Varsity Cup competition, introduced Varsity Sport sevens rugby and beach volleyball in December, and will introduce woman's hockey, soccer and netball too.
The women's hockey will start as soon as the athletics competition is finished.
"Our mandate is to showcase untapped university talent and ultimately helping to build South African sport," says former South Africa rugby captain Francois Pienaar who is CEO of the company behind the initiative, Advent Sport Entertainment and Media Pty Ltd.
The event will be screened live on SuperSport.
For more information on NMMU or visit their website www.nmmu.ac.za
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Holmes & Watson [Eng] Mly/Chn Sub *** << Rating X16 - Suitable for persons aged 16 and above. No children under the age of 16. >> This humorous take on Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mysteries follows master detective Sherlock Holmes and his esteemed partner, Doctor Watson, as they solve mysteries and cases in London in the most comical ways possible.


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Евгений Георгиевич Трубицын (1911—1986) — советский партийный и хозяйственный деятель, Герой Социалистического Труда (1981).

Биография
Евгений Трубицын родился 29 октября 1911 года в городе Горловка (ныне — Донецкая область Украины). В 1938 году окончил Днепропетровский институт инженеров железнодорожного транспорта, после чего работал на железной дороге слесарем, помощником машиниста, инженером, начальником паровозного депо.
Во время Великой Отечественной войны работал на Томской железной дороге. Персональное звание — генерал-директор тяги 2-го ранга. После войны работал на различных железных дорогах, в 1955—1960 годах руководил Кировской железной дорогой, в 1960—1961 годах — Калининской.

С 1961 года Трубицын был первым заместителем Смоленского совнархоза, а с января 1963 года — первым секретарём Смоленского промышленного областного комитета КПСС. Когда промышленный и сельскохозяйственный обкомы были вновь объединены, Трубицын занял должность второго секретаря Смоленского обкома КПСС.

С августа 1965 года Трубицын руководил Приволжской железной дорогой. 12 апреля 1967 года он был назначен Министром автомобильного транспорта и шоссейных дорог РСФСР, а 2 июля 1969 года — Министром автомобильного транспорта РСФСР. К тому времени в автомобильной отрасли СССР назрел серьёзный кризис — многие машины подлежали списанию, их количество превышало количество поступающих от промышленности, в результате чего в 1965—1967 годах численность автопарка Министерства снизилась на 6 %. Трубицын внёс большой вклад в развитие автомобильного транспорта. При нём развернулось активное строительство и расширение производственной и технической базы автотранспортных предприятий, автозаводов, научно-исследовательских и учебных заведений. В автотранспорт впервые были внедрены современные достижения науки и техники, в том числе автоматизированные системы управления и электронно-вычислительные машины. Усилиями Трубицына была создана система международных автомобильных перевозок, объединение «Совтрансавто» и Ассоциация Советских автомобильных перевозчиков. В годы его руководства Министерством был принят Устав автомобильного транспорта, Правила перевозки грузов, пассажиров и багажа. Благодаря его инициативе был учреждён профессиональный праздник День работников автотранспорта, а также знак «Почётный автотранспортник» и звание «Заслуженный работник автомобильного транспорта».

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 2 апреля 1981 года за «выдающиеся трудовые достижения, досрочное выполнение заданий десятой пятилетки и социалистических обязательств» Евгений Трубицын был удостоен высокого звания Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Серп и Молот».

В ноябре 1983 года Трубицын вышел на пенсию. Проживал в Москве, скончался 2 марта 1986 года, похоронен на Кунцевском кладбище Москвы.

Был депутатом Верховного Совета РСФСР и ряда областных советов, членом ЦК КП Карело-Финской ССР и ряда обкомов. Был награждён четырьмя орденами Ленина, орденами Октябрьской Революции, Трудового Красного Знамени, Дружбы народов, рядом медалей и знаком «Почётный железнодорожник».

Имя Трубицына присвоено Смоленскому автотранспортному колледжу.

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Железнодорожники СССР
Министры автомобильного транспорта РСФСР
Вторые секретари Смоленского обкома КПСС
Первые секретари Смоленского обкома КПСС
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LiveTime Software's Support and Help Desk Provides Seamless Migration to Full ITIL Service Management Compliance
Now available with customizable workflows, single sign-on capabilities, and a 50 percent performance increase across all platforms.
Newport Beach, CA, September 6, 2006 -- LiveTime Software, a leading provider of J2EE-based service management software, today announced immediate availability of LiveTime Help Desk 4.0 and LiveTime Support Desk 4.0. Both products now incorporate the same core technology platform that powers LiveTime's flagship ITIL product, LiveTime Service Manager.
Both products provide transparent migration to the company's full ITIL-compliant service management offering, LiveTime Service Manager. "This is the first enterprise application in the industry that allows customers to migrate from a help desk or support system into a complete ITIL service management system by simply replacing the license key, noted LiveTime CTO, Dr. George Vossos. "No database changes are required, which allows organizations to seamlessly migrate to full ITIL functionality as needs dictate or budgets allow."
Major enhancements include:
Customizable Incident Management workflows
Single sign-on (SSO) allows immediate access without repeated logins
Performance increase of over 50% across all platforms increasing the number of concurrent users per machine by a factor of 2.
Incident Analysis enables users to select from a list of proposed solutions for an incident.
Projects enable incident templates to be grouped together with Quick Calls to speed profiling of common tasks
SLA contracts can now apply to incidents, clients, or organizational units, so a single agreement can cover all items owned by a user, a department, or a company as necessary
SLA Breach codes are now incorporated so that technicians can justify and explain breaches when certain milestones are reached
Enhanced knowledge base enables articles to be grouped so that all related articles are available when browsing solutions.
LiveTime Help Desk and Support 4.0 adhere to ITIL best practices and support the three core processes of incident, configuration and service level management. This provides a unique approach for companies wishing to adopt best practices but which are not yet ready for full service management including problem, change and release management.
LiveTime continues to embrace open standards with this release and supports all major browsers available such as FireFox, Opera, Netscape, Safari, Konqueror, Internet Explorer, and others. The release also includes support for MySQL 5.0, 5.1, Postgres 8.1, and Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 in addition to the current legacy support for these and other major databases.
About LiveTime Software
LiveTime Software, Inc. is a vendor of ITIL-compliant, Web-based service management, help desk, and support automation software for medium to large enterprises. For more information visit http://www.livetime.com


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Presiding bishop, House of Deputies president review Executive Council meeting
(11/01/07) Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson review the work and decisions of Executive Council at...
Leaders call on Episcopalians to heal 'pain of racial injustice, division'
By: Episcopal News Service
[Episcopal News Service] The leaders of the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops and House of Deputies March 12 issued a letter "to welcome sisters and brothers in both Houses and ultimately all Episcopalians to join us" in the ministry of racial justice and reconciliation, as called for...
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[February 26, 2016] The following are the opening remarks of President of the House of Deputies http://houseofdeputies.org/ the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings at the Executive Council http://generalconvention.org/ec of The Episcopal Church, currently meeting through February 28 at the American...
Executive Council Gay Clark Jennings House of Deputies President of the House of Deputies
The following are the opening remarks of President of the House of Deputies the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings at the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, currently meeting through November 18 in at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum Heights, MD.
The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings President of...
By: Office of Public Affairs, By: The Public Affairs Office
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and President of the House of Deputies the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings have issued a letter calling on Episcopal congregations to participate in "Confession, Repentance, and Commitment to End Racism Sunday" on September 6.
The letter...
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Deputies re-elect Byron Rushing vice president, unopposed
By: Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal News Service – Salt Lake City] The House of Deputies on June 29 re-elected Byron Rushing for a second term as vice president. He was unopposed.
Deputy Sarah Neumann of Massachusetts nominated Rushing. President of the House of Deputies the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings suspended the...
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"We don't seek solutions whose only virtues are that they save us time, save us energy and save us money," the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies said in her sermon to the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church on June 26. "We seek solutions that serve the...
General Convention 2015 Gay Clark Jennings House of Deputies President of the House of Deputies
"We've got a lot of work to do in the next nine days," President of the House of Deputies the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings said in her opening remarks to the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church on June 24. "Not just meetings and hearings and legislative sessions, but also listening to...
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs press release] The Episcopal Church House of Deputies Committee on the State of the Church has issued a statement following the conclusion of its work for the triennium:
The House of Deputies State of the Church Committee (SOTC) has concluded...
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has written to the House of Bishops and President of the House of Deputies the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings has written to the House of Deputies outlining details of elections and confirmations that will occur during General Convention....
General Convention 2015 House of Deputies
The following are the opening remarks of President of the House of Deputies the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings at the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, currently meeting through March 21 in Salt Lake City, UT (Diocese of Utah).
Executive Council opening remarks March 19...
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The Catch turns 40: How Dwight Clark snagged glory, held onto it forever
Sports // 49ers
Scott Ostler
Dwight Clark climbs on a charter plane leaving for Pontiac. Jan, 18, 1982.
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Wide receiver Dwight Clark of the San Francisco 49ers leaves a Dallas defender in his dust after making "The Catch" to defeat the Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in the 1981 NFC Championship Game on January 10, 1982 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Arthur Anderson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption ***
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 1982, file photo, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark makes "The Catch," on a pass from Joe Montana that tied the game late in the fourth quarter against the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC championship football game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. With "The Catch" that sent San Francisco to its first Super Bowl and "The Blown Call" that kept New Orleans at home, NFC championship games have two seminal moments that rank with just about any in postseason history. (Phil Huber/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)
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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana stands next to a statue of wide receiver Dwight Clark commemorating "The Catch," which was unveiled along with a statue of himself, before an NFL football game between the 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams in Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. Clark caught a touchdown pass, known as "The Catch," from Montana in the NFC Championship game to beat the Dallas Cowboys on Jan. 10, 1982. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
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SF 49ERS DWIGHT CLARK MAKING " THE CATCH " 49ERS VS. DALLAS COWBOYS, 10 JAN82, 1981 NFC championship game in San Francisco. Photo by John Storey/ San Francisco Examiner/Bancroft Library
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When the football gods decided to bestow everlasting glory on an athlete with a random moment of triumph, they picked the right guy in Dwight Clark.
"The Catch" celebrates its 40th anniversary Monday.
Clark embraced that moment the rest of his life. More importantly, he shared it. Each of the 1 million fans who approached Clark over the decades to gush over "The Catch" was treated as if he/she was the first.
A less-gracious person might have finally snapped. Look, pal, I'm not the 49ers' version of "Rudy." Did you know that I caught a few other passes?
Indeed. In that '81 season, Clark led the 49ers with 85 catches for 1,105 yards. In the next game, the Super Bowl, he caught four passes. The following season, Clark led the NFL in receptions. In his nine-season career, Clark caught 506 passes for 6,750 yards, 13.3 yards per catch. Former 49ers running back Frank Gore has a term for players like Clark: baller.
One could argue that without Clark, the whole crazy Bill Walsh experiment does not achieve liftoff.
The day Dwight Clark met Willie Mays, the men who made The Catch for their teams
Three great catches: Recalling the 49ers' historic defensive-back draft of 1981
Still, what many fans remember about Clark's career was "The Catch." But if you stopped Clark in an airport or busted into his meal at a restaurant to tell him what "The Catch" meant to you, he repaid you with a brilliant smile and a gracious "thanks."
I didn't cover the 49ers during Clark's career, but I got to know him in the last few years of his life, mostly from running into him at Warriors games. At first I wondered why he was so nice to me, a guy never involved in the 49ers' glory days. It was like I was his pal. I finally figured it out: That's how he was with everyone. He liked people, he was interested in people, and he had easygoing charm coming out his ears.
In his last year, Clark hosted a lunch every week with different groups, mostly former teammates. One such get-together was with sportswriters with whom he'd been friendly over the years.
Clark was a really good storyteller. For a couple of hours, his stories and memories and laughs flowed. He gave a hilarious account of how he came to be wearing a gaudy fur coat during the 49ers' first Super Bowl victory parade.
It wasn't his coat, Clark explained, he wore it as part of some kind of promotion, and he was chagrined at how cheesy and over-the-top it looked.
But that fur coat was like his moment in time, "The Catch." He didn't ask for it, but he wore it beautifully.
Deep thoughts, cheap shots & bon mots ...
• No shortage of motivation for both teams in Sunday's 49ers-Rams game in Los Angeles. The Rams wouldn't mind knocking the 49ers out of the playoffs, especially after George Kittle's comments that the 49ers own the Rams because they outhit 'em. Deebo Samuel's got a beef with Aaron Donald, and Donald has to be embarrassed about how ordinary he has been against the 49ers. Jimmy Garoppolo, in his last ever 49ers' regular-season game, would love to etch "6-0 vs. Rams" onto his 49ers' tombstone.
• I won't say Kyle Shanahan's gamesmanship regarding his starting quarterback was a waste of time, because it probably made Shanahan feel he was playing every angle. But the Rams ignored it all and prepared to face Garoppolo and/or Trey Lance. That said, I will give Shanahan credit for confusing the Rams if his starting QB is Robbie Gould.
• If hanging on the rim after a dunk, Tarzan-swinging into a 180 turn and launching yourself back toward the free-throw line becomes an Olympic event, Gary Payton II will be a gold medalist. In the meantime, wouldn't he be a great role player on the U.S. Olympic basketball team?
• Will the Nets tank down the stretch, shooting for a low playoff seed so they can open every series on the road, where Kyrie Irving can play?
• The NFL instituted a new rule for the combine, prohibiting team officials from asking certain questions of potential draftees. Now teams will have to find another way to determine a player's sexual preference, or if his mother is a prostitute.
• Underplayed sports story of the week: Jeremy Faison, a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, tried to pants a basketball ref. Faison was attending his son's basketball game, between two Christian high schools. After a skirmish among players, Faison charged onto the court, confronted a ref, and tried to yank down the ref's trousers. Hasn't cancel culture gone too far when you try to cancel a ref's pants?
• Please don't mention that incident to Draymond Green.
Scott Ostler is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Email: sostler@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @scottostler
Scott Ostler has been a sports columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle since 1991. He has covered five Olympics for The Chronicle, as well as one soccer World Cup and numerous World Series, Super Bowls and NBA Finals.
Though he started in sports and is there now, Scott took a couple of side trips into the real world for The Chronicle. For three years he wrote a daily around-town column, and for one year, while still in sports, he wrote a weekly humorous commentary column.
He has authored several books and written for many national publications. Scott has been voted California Sportswriter of the Year 13 times, including six times while at The Chronicle. He moved to the Bay Area from Southern California, where he worked for the Los Angeles Times, the National Sports Daily and the Long Beach Press-Telegram.


My Paperwhite won't charge or turn on. Sad.
I would mount the new fan in the original metal part. If you can't get the screws to line up you could use really good glue to hold it. The Dollar Tree has really good contact cement if you live near one. As long as the fan can spin freely and it's near the original location you should be fine.
When I charge my vivotab k0x for 8 to 16 hours the led stays solid orange. When I press the power button for a couple of seconds the led blinks 3 times, whether charging or not. Inserting a paperclip into the reset switch hole does nothing, holding the power button and the volume down button does nothing. What do 3 blinks indicate?
Do you know where I can buy the LCD replacement part?


It's not just the IBMs, CAs, Suns and other heavy hitting IT firms that talk about authoritative data sources and roles-based policies. Johnson Controls, probably best known for wide-ranging building automation and physical security solutions, is talking "integrated identity management access control architectures" and their potential for improving security while cutting costs.
Brandon Arcement, manager, global security technology for Johnson Controls, gave a webinar in early May entitled "Enhanced Identity & Compliance Management Delivered Through Systems Integration." His audience: physical security specialists. His key point: linking logical and physical identities across disparate systems saves time and money while improving security and increasing compliance.
As part of our effort to explore physical/logical identity management convergence, Security Squared's Sharon J. Watson talked with Arcement on May 19 to learn more about Johnson Control's perspective on converging identity management across the IT and physical security worlds.
What follows is an edited, abridged transcript of our conversation.
Sharon J. Watson: What kinds of customers typically are you talking to about this kind of integrated access control architecture?
Brandon Arcement: The ones that really feel it, that know there has to be a solution out there, are the ones with a lot of disparity in their access control systems, or a lot of manual processes and a lot of labor spent managing identities. Those are the ones that feel it the most and say, gosh, there's got to be a solution. But quite honestly, there's value in it even for those customers who may not realize they have an issue. There's an ROI for [them]. A lot of people didn't even know they could be saving money, they didn't realize how much money they were spending.
SJW: That [description] sounds like it could apply to health care, airports--I see you've done work at Toronto Pearson.
BA: If you look at airports, most have one physical access control system but if you look at where they get their identity information from, an airport always has several if not hundreds of employers within that facility. You have all the restaurants, the different airlines, people who work for the city, people who work for the airport, they're all different HR systems or IT systems in different employers. So the airport [operator] has to get that information from everywhere, and it's very tight security as well. There are a tremendous amount of manual processes, so [an integrated identity management architecture] makes a lot of sense for airports.
Quantum Secure did that identity management overhaul [at Toronto Pearson] with Deloitte, but we're also working very closely with Quantum Secure. We've also done a lot of security work at Toronto airport, they're a big customer of ours on the more traditional security end, access control and CCTV.
SJW: You've talked about a single authoritative source of identity data. Do you find in this space you're competing with people like Sun, IBM, CA and Unisys, others that are talking about identity management and user provisioning?
BA: Not yet. And I'll tell you why: because we have the security domain expertise that they don't have, and they haven't really moved down into this space. We're not really moving up into that space yet. What we are doing is utilizing that infrastructure they've sold to many of our customers to manage identities across the IT space, to provision access control privileges as well.
They haven't shown much interest in moving to the physical security space, and they offer great value for the customers in the IT space. We aren't really moving there. We're just leveraging what they're doing there to expand it into the physical security realm as well.
SJW: Let's dive into that more. As I've been talking to IBM and Sun and researching provisioning on the IT or logical side, they do a lot of work on assigning logical access rights to someone, the applications they're allowed to get into, even down to a page of an application or a specific function. Typically, are you taking and tapping that policy data for your purposes?
BA: Sort of. They have a database that holds all the identity information, like your name, pay grade, title, who you report to, geographic location and so on. Based on those, they then set up rules that provision access for the IT space generally. What we can do, using vendors like Quantum Secure, we can take that identity information from a Sun, Novell, IBM, and use it to provision access across the physical space as well. It's an automatic connector that just pulls that information. We set up rules for how we're going to provision physical access control very similar to how they [provision logical access] in the IT space.
So just like you said, they can provision access down to the page or the link or the button, everything within the application is configurable. Same thing in the physical access control world. We can provision access down to the facility, to the building, to the door, to a specific area.
SJW: Are you getting any sense that folks on the IT side could get that granular too? Could they build that access into their databases, so it becomes the single source of all the access data, logical or physical?
BA: I know those companies you're talking about understand the IT world, they understand identity management there, but I don't know that they've had a focus on physical security, that they have the domain expertise to really tie into physical access control yet.
SJW: If you are able to be real granular in how you provision physical access, you could do interesting things integrating with the logical system, like denying [logical] access if a certain physical indicator isn't there--like they didn't swipe their badge at a particular door. When you get into that realm, which are the players who get the value picture?
BA: You really have to engage all stakeholders in a project like this pretty early on. IT is involved in almost every project we do now. It would be abnormal for IT not to be involved. Physical security is involved. There are other players, like risk management, business continuity, HR folks are sometimes involved. It can get pretty broad.
It can depend on the vertical market as well, depending on who else the end user thinks needs to be involved to create those policies.
SJW: How involved can that get, creating the policies and creating the ID data?
BA: They're two separate things. First there's cleansing the data. Your name exists in so many different databases [in so many variations] that if you're going to integrate them and combine them you have to make sure [the name] appears the same in all those databases--so that data needs to be cleansed. That can get pretty involved. There are some tricks and IT scripts you can use to ease that pain, but it's something to be aware of going into the project.
Then the other issue was creating the rules. You can get really in-depth and get hung up on creating the policies. What's important is that you install an infrastructure and an architecture that allow you flexibility to create and customize rules (see illustration, left). You'll probably know about 50% of [the rules] off the bat. There may be things you want to add and tweak down the road. So at the end of a year, hopefully you're 75% of the way there. Two years, you're 95% of the way there. So it's really the architecture and infrastructure that allow you the flexibility to create and customize the rules. But you won't get 100% of the policies put in right off the bat.
There will be things the customer will think of that they hadn't thought of before because the previous technology didn't allow it.
SJW: Do you have any examples of that, functions or capabilities [integrated physical/logical access management] gives them they didn't have before?
BA: One key thing is the ability to share real-time data across disparate systems. Before it wasn't something you thought of because the technology just didn't enable it, you couldn't fathom it--like not being able to log into a computer unless you're physically in the same location as your computer. You couldn't share data real-time like that [before] so it really wasn't easy to imagine that being possible.
An example might be a customer right now manually has to check whether a person has been to training before allowing them onto the factory floor. They have a training database, so they may always have done that process manually. They didn't think to integrate it into the provisioning process. But now they have a system that allows for automatic real time checking of that database, they might go back and say, we'd like to pull this into the mix now and during our provisioning process, do one more check against this training database and automate that as well. That's an example of something they might not think of when we first do the installation. They may buy the systems and the integration for a totally different reason, to solve some other pain point, but as they move down the road, they find out what's feasible.
SJW: Let me go back to something: I understand you work to create the rules for the physical access. Could you foresee a point in time where...logical and physical provisioning could get tied closely together -where a person is assigned logical role X, these physical access rules are associated with logical role X, so we can assume if person gets logical role X, they should get physical role B.
BA: That's exactly right. I talked earlier about how we can grab from Sun or IBM or Novell information like name and physical location, but it's really configurable. We could only grab the name and this field X. And X is the role assigned by that system. Then we can just say, when it's X in this system, assign physical access privileges B. So we can grab as much or as little information as is in that system or we can grab information from multiple systems.
So physical access privileges can be automatically given based on one field...or we could give you physical access control privileges based on 50 different characteristics: title, pay grade, physical location, first name starting with the letter S and also information from that IT system regarding the privileges you have for logical access.
Often times, especially large organizations, they don't have just one IT system, they have multiple systems. You might be grabbing it from multiple places.
SJW: In a situation like Toronto Pearson and others with big disparate employee bodies to credential, I'm guessing some of those smaller businesses [under those roofs] might not have much of an identity management system but you'd still need to bring them in somehow.
BA: They still have some way of managing identities, though.
SJW: The image that came to mind was the little floral shop that's always inside a hospital lobby. I suppose as hospitals get more security conscious, those people might need badges, and it strikes me your system could be the primary ID point for people in those situations.
BA: That's exactly right. There are really two types of identities in a hospital or an airport. There are what we call the trusted ones, the trusted identities that exist in the logical access control systems or that come from that authoritative data source, that HR system, that IT system.
Then there are also untrusted identities. They may be visitors, temporary contractors, or the floral shop people. Those are the ones that haven't gone through the background checks or the drug screening or all the other different things that authoritative data source [required] to let them in. So those untrusted identities should probably have a separate process for being added to the system.
SJW: As physical and logical IDs get more converged, it seems being able to authenticate that identity is truly who you think it is becomes more important. What are you are seeing in terms of two factor or multi-factor authentication or what you are recommending as secure and practical to implement?
BA: In the airports, you see multifactor a lot, and you see card and pin used most frequently. The only other way to use multifactor is to use card and biometric, and we're seeing that quite a bit. There are a lot of airports that are doing that. We did a tremendous amount of work at Seattle-Tacoma airport where they have hundreds of biometric readers [and do] card and biometrics.
As biometric technologies get less expensive and the need to manage identities and know exactly who is where--not just that they have a card and PIN, but who they are--becomes more important, I think you'll see that proliferation.


The MHMS is responsible for raising the health status of the people of Kiribati, which is accomplished through the provision of comprehensive health services via health promotion, prevention and curative measures.
The MHMS's vision is for a "healthy population that is well supported by quality health services" and its mission is: "To deliver a safe quality service through hospital, public health and nursing services".
The Ministry provides three services - Hospital (Curative) Services, Public Health Services and Nursing Services. Each of these services is headed by a Director. The overall administrative and operations of the Health Services are overseen by the Secretary of Health and their administrative team.
The Public Health Division is responsible for primary health care and basic health services, nutrition promotion, environmental sanitation, maternal and child health services, school health services and health promotion.
The Health Promotion Unit has the overall role of coordinating the planning and implementation of different projects to promote health. This is done in close collaboration with various other units within the Ministry as well as other external stakeholders to promote the health and well-being of the Kiribati people.
The mental health service health service currently includes an inpatient service as well as an outpatient clinic.


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Q: Sorting values of an array type in RDD using pySpark I have an RDD containing values like this:
[
   (Key1, ([2,1,4,3,5],5)),
   (Key2, ([6,4,3,5,2],5)),
   (Key3, ([14,12,13,10,15],5)),
]

and I need to sort the value of the array part just like this:
[
   (Key1, ([1,2,3,4,5],5)),
   (Key2, ([2,3,4,5,6],5)),
   (Key3, ([10,12,13,14,15],5)),
]

I find two sorting methods for Spark: sortBy and sortbyKey. I tried the sortBy method like this:
myRDD.sortBy(lambda x: x[1][0])

But unfortunately, it sort data based on the first element of the array instead of sorting the elements of the array per se.
Also, the sortByKey seems not to help cause it just sorts the data based on the keys.
How can I achieve the sorted RDD?

A: Try something like this:
rdd2 = rdd.map(lambda x: (x[0], sorted(x[1]), x[2]  ))

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from os.path import abspath
import re
from sys import argv

def find_used_variables(text):
    variable_re = re.compile('\${([a-z_]+)}', re.MULTILINE | re.IGNORECASE)
    return variable_re.findall(text)

def find_variable_values(text, variables):
    values = {}
    for variable in variables:
        variable_re = re.compile('SET \(%s (.+)\)' % variable,
                               re.MULTILINE | re.IGNORECASE)
        values[variable] = variable_re.search(text).groups()[0]
    return values

def replace_variables(text, values):
    for key in values:
        text = text.replace('${%s}' % key, values[key])
    return text

def main(template_path, defines_path, output_path):
    with open(abspath(template_path), 'r') as template_file:
        template = template_file.read()
    variables = find_used_variables(template)

    with open(abspath(defines_path), 'r') as defines_file:
        defines = defines_file.read()
    values = find_variable_values(defines, variables)

    output = replace_variables(template, values)
    with open(abspath(output_path), 'w+') as output_file:
        output_file.write(output)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(argv[1], argv[2], argv[3])

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// Sites ID
$id = \csphere\core\http\Input::get('get', 'id');

// Add breadcrumb navigation
$bread = new \csphere\core\template\Breadcrumb('admin');
$bread->add('content');
$bread->plugin('sites', 'manage');
$bread->add('remove', 'sites/remove/id/' . $id);
$bread->trace();

// Get RAD class for this action
$rad = new \csphere\core\rad\Remove('sites');

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"Finally a glimmer of hope from Libya. I was very pleased to receive the news of the declarations by the parties concerned in Libya of a ceasefire aimed at creating the conditions for the pursuance of dialogue", said Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni. "Despite the multitude of difficulties still to be confronted and identified, we are one step closer to resolving Libya's political, security, institutional and economic crisis, which can only be achieved by involving all components of Libyan society in overcoming the differences", the minister added. "Italy will continue to extend the maximum support", Gentiloni concluded, "to the mediation efforts of Special Representative Bernardino Leon and to all Libyan parties that contribute in earnest to the formation of a national unity government and to the cessation of all hostilities".


Handguns are made for killin', ain't no good for nothing else..
Pistols can be separated into two different categories: slow, heavy pistols like the 14mm Pistol best suited for targeted shots using crit-related weapon perks on one side, and fast shooting "light" pistols like the Colt M1911 on the hand, best suited for targeting limbs or simply shooting the torso with a good rate of fire and preferably a high base crit chance.
Due to the changes in animation times, Pistols can shoot about three times as fast as they used to, making torso-spamming a viable tactic even in real-time. With a good variety of different pistols, every character can be sure to find a useful pistol for him, be it as a primary weapon or a sidearm.
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The Youngstown State women's soccer team host Milwaukee on Friday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. from Farmers National Bank Field in the Covelli Sports Complex. On Sunday, Sept. 16, the Penguins will travel to Bowling Green to take on the Falcons at 1 p.m. from Mickey Cochrane Field.
YSU lost 1-0 to Purdue Fort Wayne on Friday, Sept. 7 and lost to Robert Morris by a score of 2-0 on Sunday, Sept. 9.
Friday's matchup with Milwaukee will be the Lace Up-Go4TheGoal Pediatric Cancer Awareness Game and will also feature AVI Concession Dollar Dog Night and a water bottle giveaway.
The Panthers enter the contest with a 6-0 record which includes a 3-2 win last time out against Iowa State. Haley Johnson leads Milwaukee with 11 points on three goals and five assists. Goalkeeper Elaina LaMacchia has a .66 goals against average and has made 20 saves in 541 minutes in net.
This is the 18th meeting between YSU and Milwakuee in a series that dates back to 2001. The Panthers own a 15-2 record against the Penguins after defeating them 2-1 in overtime last season. YSU's last win came at home in 2014 when the Penguins won 3-2 in overtime.
Bowling Green enters the contest with a 1-3-1 record, but will play DePaul on Thursday prior to their matchup with the Penguins. Nikki Cox is the leading goal scorer for the Falcons with two goals on the season.
This is the seventh meeting between YSU and Bowling Green in a series that dates back to 1997. When the teams last played in 2011, Bowling Green won 2-1 at Farmers National Bank Field.
Senior defender Madison Hughes has been a staple on the back line since her freshman season. Hughes has started in 60 career games and is currently 4 starts away from entering the Top 10 in matches started all-time at Youngstown State.
The Penguins travel to Northern Kentucky on Saturday, Sept. 22, to take on the Norse at 4 p.m. from NKU Soccer Stadium.


The recent move by the Bank of Japan to take further measures to accelerate the rate at which it ramps up its balance sheet took almost everyone - market watchers included - completely by surprise. The consequence was reasonably predictable - the yen has once more fallen strongly against almost all major currencies - and most notably against the USD - and Japan's main stock indexes are sharply up.
On the other side of the balance sheet the cost of imported goods - and especially energy - is expected to rise, real wages are likely to continue to fall, and ex-tax inflation looks set to remain moderate, possibly around 1% - short of the 2% objective but comfortably away from deflation.
Meantime this week's GDP figure show's that the country fell back into recession again in the third quarter with a 1.6% annualized drop following one of 7.3% in the April-June period. The headline number makes it likely Abe will go ahead with snap elections in December, and indeed postpone the second stage of the consumer tax hike which was due to be implemented next autumn.Obviously, if what you are trying to do is stimulate inflation then sending the economy regularly into recession by weakening consumption isn't going to help.
But what all these conflicting signals underline is the lack of clarity about just what the principal objective of Abenomics actually is. Simply creating inflation cannot be the goal. If it is achievable on a sustained basis this inflation has to be a means to something else. For Paul Krugman that something else would be a lowering of the real interest rate via rising medium term inflation expectations. This lower real rate would - so the theory goes - stimulate investment in capital goods and hence provoke an ongoing (and self sustaining) recovery in the Japanese economy after years of sub-par growth.
But what if Alvin Hansen was right, and in economies suffering from structurally weak consumer demand linked to ongoing demographic dynamics (and not simply a balance sheet recession) the principal determinant of productive investment decisions is not the cost of capital but corporate profitability and the anticipated size of the future market? In this case even success on the inflation expectations front would probably not deliver the expected recovery.
And there are downside costs. While financial markets boom, the living standards of the majority of Japanese families continues to fall as real wages drop month after month. It's hard to see consumption booming in this case. Then there is the debt: gross government debt current stands at around 245% of GDP.
It is often argued that in a country running a current account surplus and using its own currency such debt doesn't represent any special problem. I for one remain unconvinced that this is the case. This debt level, among other issues arising, effectively rules out any eventual "normalization" in interest rates since the servicing burden on the government would just be too high. But then - as some argue - this may now be old hat, since the Wicksellian natural rate of interest in Japan may have turned permanently negative. If this is the case, however, why try formulate policy on neo-classical lines working towards a "classic" recovery? A recovery which may never come. If the natural rate is permanently negative we are hardly standing on the ground over which the traditional liquidity trap theory was built.
But it isn't only me who has doubts. Multilateral institutions like the IMF and the OECD also do. That is why they have been conducting debt sustainability analyses, and arguing for the consumer tax hike. Naturally proponents of the timidity trap suggest that such moves to bring Japanese government debt under control is a mistaken sequencing of priorities. First get sustainable inflation going, then get a self-perpetuating recovery, then address the debt the argument goes. But doesn't this beg the question of whether the objective is, in fact, attainable.
The late Karl Popper started to think about what distinguishes science from other social practices by confronting the apparent "irrefutability" of ideological systems like marxism or psychoanalysis. The problem with such world views is that they never seem to be testable, there is never any clearly identifiable fact "in the world" which can refute them. The "timidity trap" argument gives me a horrible deja vu feeling in this sense. Each time things don't work out as planned what Mr Abe and Mr Kuroda have to do is more of the same, no matter if you blow Japan clean out of the water, since the only reason the recommended recipe hasn't worked to date is that the balance sheet expansion and the associated stimulus haven't been big enough. I think it is time Paul came of age intellectually speaking and started to identify for us some concrete indicators which could prove his hypothesis wrong if they moved in the expected direction without producing the expected result, and stop telling us repeatedly that he has normally been right.
What if the Japanese economy simply can't sustain the desired inflation anymore, what if the historical epoch during which that expectation was feasible is now over? Obviously it isn't difficult to generate a certain amount of consumer price inflation if you raise consumer taxes, and again you can also get it if you devalue your currency, and keep doing so. But as we are now seeing, you do need to keep repeating the moves. There doesn't seem an underlying mechanism there waiting to be kick-satrted.
Without more tax hikes last April's increase will simply drop out of the inflation data by the time we reach next spring, and absent the implementation of the Abenomics 2.0 yen devaluation the currency-depreciation-induced inflation was already dropping out. The first round of Abenomics took the yen from 75 to 100 to the USD, the current bout has now taken it to around 115, but to keep injecting inflation in this way Kuroda would have to keep increasing the rate of balance sheet expansion on an annual basis and the yen would have to keep falling to lower and lower levels.
In a globalized economy currency depreciation is a zero sum game. One man's inflation is another's deflation. The so-called "foolproof path" is only really effective in the case on a single economy (or currency area) but not in the face of a generalised problem. Under current circumstances those whose currencies are forced upwards simply import the deflation/disinflation that is being exported by the the devaluers and on and on we go.
Paul Krugman has been pretty vocal in decrying those who have seen inflation where it wasn't, but what if he himself is falling foul of his own trial-by-fire in seeing inflation where it isn't in Japan inflation expectations? What if the drop in Japanese trend growth is long term and continuing, then why should we really expect the Abenomics experiment to work?
As Gavyn Davies pointed out in a recent FT blog post, over the years growth expectations for developed economies have persistently turned out to be too high. Three of Davies' colleagues at the research firm Fulcrum have examined the behaviour of long run GDP growth in advanced economies, and using customized versions of dynamic factor models they have produced a set of real time estimates of long run GDP growth rates.
As they also state, the aggregate G7 result is a composite of widely differing trends at the individual country level. As can be seen from the chart below, the Japanese case is a particularly clear one (the blue lines mark one and two standard error bands).
As it happens, Gavyn Davies' post produced a particularly poignant and cutting response from Paul Krugman - What secular stagnation isn't - in which he argues that secular stagnation "is not the same thing as the argument..... that the growth of economic potential is slowing". He suggests that this "is a really important distinction, because secular stagnation and a supply-side growth slowdown have completely different policy implications."
"If labor force growth and productivity growth are falling, the indicated response is (a) see if there are ways to increase efficiency and (b) if there aren't, live within your reduced means. A growth slowdown from the supply side is, roughly speaking, a reason to look favorably on structural reform and austerity."
"But if" - on the other hand - "we have a persistent shortfall in demand, what we need is measures to boost spending — higher inflation, maybe sustained spending on public works (and less concern about debt because interest rates will be low for a long time)."
Perhaps the key word here is "shortfall". Shortfall relative to what? To what it was in the past, or to potential demand now. If it is the latter, then there must be something at work now, something beyond simple demographic and productivity dynamics (and the mountain of government debt), that is holding growth back. If that is the case, it would be interesting to know what that "something" was. Since otherwise Japan seems to be heading deeper and deeper into a very risky experiment based on a misunderstanding about what the problem facing the country actually is.
The above analysis is based on arguments fleshed out in much more detail in my "mini book" the A B E of Economics.


The machine analogy of the brain has been as largely followed in modern cognitive neuroscience as used to be the analogy of the mind as a suite of organs in phrenology. simply because the phrenologist may insist that every organ needs to have its specific functionality, so modern cognitive neuroscience is devoted to the suggestion that every mind area should have its primary computation. In After Phrenology, Michael Anderson argues that to accomplish an absolutely post-phrenological technology of the mind, we have to think again this dedication and devise another, neuroscientifically grounded taxonomy of psychological functionality.
Anderson contends that the cognitive roles performed through every one quarter of the mind are hugely quite a few, reflecting assorted neural partnerships tested lower than various conditions. He proposes quantifying the useful homes of neural assemblies by way of their dispositional traits really than their computational or information-processing operations. Exploring larger-scale matters, and drawing on facts from embodied cognition, Anderson develops an image of considering rooted within the exploitation and extension of our early-evolving ability for iterated interplay with the realm. He argues that the multidimensional method of the mind he describes deals a far better healthy for those findings, and a extra promising highway towards a unified technological know-how of minded organisms.
The brain's energy is proven and touted each day in new experiences and examine. And but we have a tendency to take our brains without any consideration, with out suspecting that these lots of hard-working neurons would possibly not continuously be operating for us. Cordelia advantageous introduces us to a mind we'd no longer are looking to meet, a mind with a brain of its personal.
This ebook addresses vital findings, assumptions, difficulties, hopes, and destiny instructions at the use of complex study thoughts to review the moment-by-moment psychological strategies that take place whereas a reader or listener is knowing language. The middle ideas are eye monitoring and ERPs, with a few extensions to others comparable to fMRI.
The Neuroscience of Language places forth the 1st systematic version of language to bridge the space among linguistics and neuroscience. Neuronal types of observe and serial order processing are offered within the kind of a computational, connectionist neural community. The linguistic emphasis is on phrases and trouble-free syntactic principles.
First is the use of a culturally specific, acquired representational system—language—as a coding resource, and second is the application of a particular learned skill—silent inner speech—as a storage medium. These two together imply the third borrowing—of the neural resources used to support the first two functions. And note that all of this 26 Chapter 1 borrowing is done in support of what is likely an enhancement of a basic evolved function for storing small amounts of information over short periods.
These two together imply the third borrowing—of the neural resources used to support the first two functions. And note that all of this 26 Chapter 1 borrowing is done in support of what is likely an enhancement of a basic evolved function for storing small amounts of information over short periods. This raises the obvious question of whether and to what degree evolutionary pressures might have shaped the language system so that it was capable of just this sort of more general cognitive enhancement (Carruthers 2002).
First, evolvability appears to require that these tools be Neural Reuse in Brain Function 7 separately targetable by selection pressures (Barrett & Kurzban 2006); and second, the demand for immediate and efficient real-time operation points to massive parallelism. Together, these considerations appear to require a functional architecture featuring modular, separately modifiable nearly decomposable subsystems. Below I recount some of the evidence that the brain is not built this way and so return to the important issues of functional efficiency and evolvability at the end of the chapter.


Because I'm working so hard on the story Sugarbutch Star: Matt part two, I haven't been writing much else (and it's still not done – hopefully later or tomorrow!).
So, here: hopefully Mr. Maddow can entertain you for a little while. Interesting gender dynamics between these two, hmmm?
nnngh. yum. i love both of them so much.
i love how she gives a little judicious nod after taking a sip… yep, another perfect cocktail!
that's DOCTOR Mr. Maddow to the likes of us. see you at the widowers' club.
Him calling her 'pal' was somehow the best part of that. I don't know why.
Sir Maddow is so adorable she gives me a crush on Jimmy Fallon, too! It's like a butch sister act!
As the proud possessor of a wife who makes me the most delicious classic cocktails, I like to think that now — should Rachel happen to pop by for dinner — I can be confident that we can respectably host her.
That said, I am a fan of Chartreuse on the rocks, which may make me a little more butch than Mr. Maddow. Ha!
I love how nervous she renders almost every guy who interviews her! It's like they're all checking their balls behind the desk to make sure they're still intact, still biologically relevant in a world where Monsieur Rachel Maddow, through the sheer power of her butchness, can transform a cocktail that shares a name with many a Bichon-Frise into THE MANLIEST DRINK. Also, the phrase "EVERYONE can drink a manlier drink!" is my new rallying cry at parties.
What Lena said. My only savior here is that I can cook, and my beloved does not really fancy mixed drinks. Thank GOD. My goose is cooked enough as it is.
Next post Sugasm #161: better late than never!


Volunteer attorneys are available for advice and representation at Old St. Mary's Church every 3rd Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Generally, services are available to those whose income does not exceed 175% of federal poverty levels, so for a family of four the income for eligibility is about $3400 per month.
Lawyers are available for matters such as guardianship, adoption, divorce, landlord/tenant, consumer problems, wills and bankruptcy. Call 312-332-1624 for an appointment, asking to be scheduled for the Old St. Mary's Clinic, or just come in any 3d Saturday at 9:30 a.m. The law clinic is located at Old St. Mary's, 1500 S. Michigan, enter under the blue awning just south of the church.
The Old St. Mary's Law Clinic is sponsored and supported by Old St Mary's and St. Thomas the Apostle churches and by Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation. The clinic is held on the third Saturday of every month at Old St. Mary's Church in the South Loop. It is staffed by 32 volunteers, including 23 attorneys, eight intake workers, two of whom are social workers, and an administrative assistant.
Each month five or six attorneys and three or four intake workers see about ten clients. The attorneys provide follow-up services to those clients after the initial interview. Attorneys are scheduled to come once every three months and intake workers come every other month.
Since its beginning in February 1988 at Visitation Church in Englewood, the clinic has provided services to more than 2,500 clients from the South Side and the greater Chicago area. Many of the cases are in the area of family law, with a heavy concentration in minor and disabled adult guardianships. Other cases handled include landlord-tenant problems, consumer complaints and collection defense.
Administrative support, training materials and malpractice insurance for the clinic are provided by Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation, an organization made up of about 3,000 volunteer attorneys providing services to the poor in Chicago.
The clinic has been very successful in its more than twenty-eight years of operation. It provides much needed legal services to the community and it provides the volunteers with an opportunity to use their professional skills in service to the poor.
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Our version of the classic Mexican cocktail has a fruity finish.
Prickly pear and grapefruit juice work well to complement a good tequila in this desert thirst quencher.
A spicy take on a Bloody Mary, with tequila instead of vodka. The chile salt makes enough for about 6 cocktails.
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Also known as horchata, this milky drink is just the cooling antidote for a spicy Mexican meal.
Mezcal, tequila's moody brother, ditches its rough reputation and stars in this spring-fresh cocktail.
Like tequila, mezcal is made from agave, except the plant is roasted in a stone-lined pit. The result: an overt smokiness that packs a bold punch. Enjoy mezcal's unique flavor profile in this twist on the negroni.
Take super-smoky mezcal, throw in a hit of cherries, and you've got one bold drink.
The secret to a good mojito is lots of fresh mint. Habana Restaurant in San Francisco goes through 100 pounds of mint a week to make 1,000 mojitos.
Levende Lounge, also in San Francisco, crushes even more fresh mint leaves for each drink.
Inspired by both recipes, we developed this simplified home-style mojito that follows their minty lead.


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61st Meeting of the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health | NCCIH
Advisory Council 61st Meeting
Speaker: National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NACCIH)
Date: February 3, 2017 - 09:45 a.m. ET to 3:05 p.m. ET
Location: NIH Campus, Building 31/6C Conference Room 10 31 Center Drive Bethesda, MD 20892
NIH Visitor information
8:30 a.m. This session of the meeting is closed to the public in accordance with the provisions in Sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5, U.S.C. and Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).
Partap Khalsa, D.C., Ph.D.
NCCIH Director's Welcome and NCCIH Report
Josephine Briggs, M.D.
Update on NCCIH Vision for Training and Career Development
Lanay Mudd, Ph.D.
Update on Communications Strategies and Tools To Enhance Scientific Literacy
Shawn Stout, M.F.A.
Council Operating Procedures
Partap Khalsa, D.C., Ph.D., D.A.B.C.O.
Panel Discussion: Current Directions in Integrative Medicine and Integrative Health
Ralph Snyderman, M.D., Janet Kahn, Ph.D., and Eric Schoomaker, M.D., Ph.D.
NIH Communications Briefing
John Burklow
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Associate Director for Communications and Public Liaison
Martin Goldrosen, Ph.D.
National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health
Janet Kahn, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
The University of Vermont's College of Medicine
Eric Schoomaker, M.D., Ph.D.
Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Ret)
Professor and Vice Chair of Centers and Programs
Department of Military and Emergency Medicine
Ralph Snyderman, M.D.
Chancellor Emeritus
Duke Center for Research on Personalized Health Care
Science Writer/Editor
2017: June 2, October 6
2018: February 9, June 1, October 5
National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NACCIH)
NACCIH Roster


Crude oil rose in New York, poised for a third weekly gain, after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said prices may reach $85 a barrel by the end of the year as demand recovers and supplies shrink.
Oil surged to a seven-month high yesterday and gasoline climbed after the bank increased its year-end forecast from $65. The dollar's drop over the past six weeks has boosted crude prices as investors buy commodities as an inflation hedge.
Crude oil for July delivery rose as much as 71 cents, or 1 percent, to $69.52 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was at $69.40 a barrel at 11:20 a.m. Singapore time. Yesterday, the contract rose $2.69 to $68.81, the highest settlement since Nov. 4 and the biggest gain since May 18. Prices are up 4.6 percent this week.
The U.S. Dollar Index, which values the greenback against a basket of international currencies, has dropped 5.5 percent since May 7, while crude has gained 22 percent.
Oil posted its biggest monthly gain in a decade in May on speculation a global economic recovery will trigger a rebound in demand. This increase is a "prologue" to a price recovery in the second half of the year as the global economy stabilizes and crude inventories decline, Goldman said.
"As the financial crisis eases, an energy shortage lies ahead," Goldman analysts Jeffrey Currie in London and David Greely in New York wrote in a research report e-mailed yesterday. The bank set a 12-month price target of $90 a barrel, up from $70, and forecast $95 for the end of 2010.
Goldman's New York-based energy equities research team, led by analyst Arjun Murti, in March 2005 predicted a "super spike" in prices. In May last year, Murti said oil may rise to between $150 and $200 a barrel within two years. The team revised its forecast after prices then slumped from a record $147.27 in July.
Gasoline for July delivery rose 2.09 cents to $1.9830 a gallon at 11:27 a.m. Singapore time. Yesterday, it gained 6.05 cents, or 3.2 percent, to end the session at $1.9621, the highest settlement since Oct. 9.
Travelers taking to U.S. roads during the Northern Hemisphere summer typically cause a spike in gasoline demand. Motor fuel consumption last week jumped 2.2 percent from a year ago because of more driving during the Memorial Day holiday, MasterCard Inc. said on June 2.
A government report on June 3 showed that U.S. crude-oil inventories unexpectedly rose last week as fuel consumption dropped.
"Fundamentals are still weak in the oil market, with crude inventories in the U.S. at 19 year highs and the International Energy Agency last month revising down their forecast of world oil demand," Ben Westmore, a minerals and energy economist at National Australia Bank Ltd. in Melbourne, wrote in a research report e-mailed yesterday.
Brent crude for July delivery rose as much as 59 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $69.30 a barrel on London's ICE Futures Europe exchange. It was at $69.16 a barrel at 11:31 a.m. Singapore time. Futures rose 4.3 percent to end yesterday's session at $68.71 a barrel, the highest settlement since Oct. 21.


CONFLICTING INTERESTS—DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO CLIENTS—When the interests of two clients of a law firm become divergent in regard to the matter being handled by the firm, the law firm may not represent one client against the other.
H died in Arkansas, where his will was probated by the Arkansas firm of North & East. The Texas firm of West & South handled the Texas ancillary proceeding. H's children, Ha and Ho, were the executors in Texas as well as in Arkansas. All claims have been paid and the estate is ready to be closed. Ha and one devisee disagree with Ho and two devisees as to the method of settlement and distribution. West & South agree with the position taken by Ha; may they represent Ha and the one devisee against Ho and the other devisees in forcing settlement and distribution of the estate?


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In the case of an emergency, dial 911 on any phone. This will connect to police, fire and medical response.
During your time in the United States, you may need to seek medical attention. The health care system in the US can be complex and expensive, so it is important to make note of the various options available to you for medical care. A hospital emergency room tends to be the most expensive and a routine doctor's office visit the least expensive. Your health insurance policy will describe the co-payment and out-of-pocket expense expectations for each type of medical care, based on your condition.
In the event of a life-threatening medical emergency, you should dial 911 on any phone to connect to emergency medical, police, and fire response.
A hospital emergency room (ER) is your best option for medical care in the event of a major emergency such as a head injury, loss of consciousness, severe shortness of breath, etc. However, visiting the ER for non-emergency medical care (such as a minor illness or injury) can lead to long wait times and higher out-of-pocket costs.


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