In my previous blog on financial reporting I described steps 1 to 3, that make up the bookkeeping phase in which accounting records are created. But that looks at the past. It's already happened; it's done and dusted. Hence the joke that an accountant is like someone trying to drive a car by looking out of the rear window.
Directors and managers need to look into the future so they can make decisions that will affect what will happen, and achieve their aims. They can define what they want to happen – in a budget – and predict what is likely to happen – in a forecast.
This blog gives an introduction to forecasting, a key step in the preparation of management accounting reports.
Financial forecasts are sets of figures that are prepared to help managers understand what, at a given time, is likely to happen in the future. As a forecast is regularly updated, it is often referred to as a 'rolling' forecast.
A business that has regular board meetings updates its forecasts ahead of each meeting. The forecast is based on a numerical model of the business, often created in a spreadsheet. The person maintaining the forecast updates the historical figures to match the accounts. They then enter or adjust values or formulae for the future figures, depending on a series of assumptions.
In most smaller organisations, it is more important to forecast cash than profit and loss, or balance sheet. Running out of cash is a common cause of business failure.
A cashflow forecast can be a fairly simple stand-alone model. But a more rigorous approach is a 3-way forecast, in which Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and the Cashflow are integrated. A 3-way forecast uses a model that derives cash flow from the forecasted Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet. The P&L forecast figures can also be used to project what the P&L will look like at the end of the year.
A forecast is based on a defined scenario. A scenario is a set of assumptions; a collection of educated guesses about what may happen in the future.
Some businesses run several forecasts. One might be for the 'expected' scenario, which is the set of assumptions that managers believe, on the date of the forecast, is most likely to happen. But they could also prepare a 'pessimistic' forecast, in which they assume that sales will be only 50% of budget. That let's them keep an eye on what would happen in that scenario, and in particular see how quickly they would run out of cash.
The main advantage of a forecast, compared to a budget, is that its values are more likely to be closer to what will actually happen. That is because its assumptions are based on the most up-to-date information that is available.
Forecasts also have disadvantages. Unlike a budget they are a 'moving target'. So comparing actual figures against earlier forecasts has limited benefits. And forecasts can be time-consuming to prepare.
In the early stages of the businesses I run, I always create and maintain a simple one page spreadsheet cashflow.
It has a column for each month, and covers at least the last 12 months and coming 12 months. There are rows for the groups and accounts in which the cash transaction occurred. I match the groups and layout of the Xero Cash Summary report, so it is easy to import values from Xero.
After each month end, when I've reconciled the bank accounts in Xero, I update the spreadsheet's cash figures in the last complete month. I examine the values for future months and adjust them if needed, taking into account what happened in the previous months. Then I consider the implications for the business. When might we run out of cash? Can we increase income or reduce costs? Do we need to look for funding?
Realistic – Your forecasts will (almost certainly) be wrong, but you should check by how much. If the actual figures only differ by small amounts from the forecast ones, then the forecast is doing its job! But if actual results are often a long way from those that were forecast, then you should go back, work out why, and try to fix the forecast model.
Transparent – The key assumptions in the scenario should be clearly identified. This helps you and colleagues understand the basis for the forecast.
Graphical – It is hard to pick out trends, patterns and risks from tables of numbers. It is a lot easier if you can see key information in a graph. A time series plot of actual/forecast cash balance against time is a great way to visualise a cashflow forecast. If several scenarios have been forecast they can be shown in different colours.
Simple – KISS (keep it simple, stupid) – Don't make the model too complex! There is no point in having a very complex model that appears to shows precise results, when the uncertainties of the assumptions are large. An overly complex model takes a lot of time to maintain and is likely to have errors.
Useful – Your forecast should of course help you run your business. If it doesn't, then change the way you do it – or stop!
Here at Numerable we are planning to add forecasting to our Xero app. As with other features, we'll keep it simple and easy.
So keep an eye on our updates on www.numerable.io.


Take on the role of Buku, a young hero, whose mission it is to restore the stolen music of the world.
You may remember a few months ago that I reviewed a demo game for Android called The Harmony of Buku. Although the original release date was delayed by a couple of months, the full version is now available to download from Google Play for just 89p.
After playing the demo, my initial thoughts were very positive, because it fulfilled my nostalgic desire for a classic platformer from the nineties. As I noted previously, it is very reminiscent of the Crash Bandicoot series, and also shares some visual similarities with the Gameboy version of The Legends of Zelda.
The main question I have to ask is, have they improved on the minor criticisms I made about the demo - I.E. the awkward controls and camera angles? I will also investigate what new additions the full version has brought.
Let's begin with the positives. The camera has definitely improved. The game now automatically changes angles more smoothly, and on the few occasions that it does not, this is easily rectified by a simple tap of Buku's avatar in the left hand corner.
You have the choice of playing three difficulty levels, meaning whatever your gaming skills, there will be a challenge suitable for you.
New additions to the full version include Hohoba's shop. I knew a shop would be available in the completed game, but I had a bad feeling that this would be something where you have to spend real money. I was pleasantly surprised. No in-app purchases are required or offered. To buy things from Hohoba's shop you simply use the musical notes and treasures collected while playing the different levels of the game.
There are thirteen levels in total, plus three boss's to defeat. Although it is recommended that you play each level in order, you have the choice to play in the order you choose (within each boss room).
One of the unlockable features from Hohoba's shop is called 'Vinyl', which is basically a time trial, in which you try to beat the developer's fastest time. When in Vinyl mode, you are invincible (except for holes and water), so all you have to worry about is getting to the finish line. Along the way there are several coloured clocks that will pause the timer.
Now come the controls. Unfortunately, they haven't improved. I still really like the concept of an onscreen joystick, but despite being virtual, the joystick still feels sticky. There are some points when Buku does not react to your commands, and others where he starts moving completely of his own accord, running off into enemies, holes, and walls. It is not enough to stop me wanting to play the game, but irritating non-the-less.
For 89p, The Harmony of Buku is well worth playing, and I could easily see this as having been a game for Gameboy or Playstation back in the nineties.


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We seemed to make a big splash last year for the holidays with our digital message to readers. I thought it might be a good idea to revisit the main reason for the enjoyment – an appearance by Mr. Bingle.
It's OK if you don't know who he is; here's a little background on him as well as his story. He recently made his annual appearance in New Orleans' Christmas parade and is still owned by Dillards. Considering the cold weather, it may just be the type of thing to finish putting you in the right mindset for the season. Maybe you"l want to join his fan site as well.
So, you've already noticed the holiday music on Magic 96 and its website and the decorations out in stores. New to the "we haven't even hit Thanksgiving but it's Christmastime" file is the expansion of The Christmas Carolers into metro Birmingham and six other markets. So if you see some folks looking like they stepped out of Dickens' A Christmas Carol at your holiday party this year, that's why.


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Firms: Whistleblowing law firm chief fairly dismissed, tribunal rules
06 May 2019 9:42 PM | Jo Buckley (Administrator)
The chief executive of a high-profile law firm was not fired because he blew the whistle on financial problems at the practice, an employment tribunal has ruled.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/whistleblowing-law-firm-chief-fairly-dismissed-tribunal-rules
Law Society: Birmingham Law Society appoints youngest-ever president
Birmingham Law Society has appointed what is believed to be its youngest president in the association's 200-year history.
https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/legal/birmingham-law-society-appoints-youngest-16196993?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
Law Society: Academics and Law Society clash over in-house accountability
22 Apr 2019 7:13 PM | Jo Buckley (Administrator)
Leading academics at University College London (UCL) have clashed with the Law Society over a proposal by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to exclude heads of legal from its new framework for individual accountability in the finance sector.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/academics-and-law-society-clash-over-in-house-accountabillity
SDT: Solicitor sanctioned for role in fraudulent transfer of Islamic centre
A solicitor who recklessly facilitated a "dubious transaction" involving an Islamic community centre has been fined £20,000 and given a suspended suspension.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-sanctioned-for-role-in-fraudulent-transfer-of-islamic-centre
SDT: SDT to move to civil standard of proof
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) is to move from the criminal to the civil standard of proof and rejected suggestions that this will result in "easier prosecutions".
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sdt-to-move-to-civil-standard-of-proof
Firms: Solicitor convicted of subletting council home
A solicitor's conviction for illegally subletting his council flat has been upheld after he lost his appeal against a suspended jail sentence.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-convicted-of-subletting-council-home
SRA: Convicted solicitor MP to face disciplinary tribunal
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) confirmed today that it is prosecuting MP Fiona Onasanya after she was convicted of perverting the course of justice by lying about a speeding offence.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/convicted-solicitor-mp-to-face-disciplinary-tribunal
SRA: Brazilian Ponzi scheme solicitor struck off
08 Apr 2019 9:34 AM | Jo Buckley (Administrator)
A solicitor prosecuted for his involvement in a Ponzi scheme – and for the second time over the same set of facts – has this time been struck off.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/brazilian-ponzi-scheme-solicitor-struck-off
SRA: Tax fraud solicitor proclaims innocence as he accepts strike-off
A solicitor currently in jail for his part in a fraudulent tax evasion scheme has agreed to be struck off while insisting that he did nothing more than "major English law firms" do for international clients every day.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/tax-fraud-solicitor-proclaims-innocence-as-he-accepts-strike-off
SRA: SRA and BSB praised for enforcement processes
31 Mar 2019 9:59 PM | Jo Buckley (Administrator)
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has given both the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Bar Standards Board (BSB) a clean bill of health in the way they enforce their rules.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-and-bsb-praised-for-enforcement-processes

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Paul Maxwell Report
In an almost 50-year career writing and reporting on media, Paul S. Maxwell started and/or run some 45+ publications ranging from CATV Newsweekly to Colorado Magazineto CableVision to Multichannel News to CableFAX and The BRIDGE Suite of daily newsletters and research publications … many of which are extant. In between publishing stints, Maxwell served as an advisor and/or consultant to a number of major media companies and media start-ups including running a unit of MCI and managing a partnership of TCI and McGraw-Hill. A successful popular song lyricist writing and performing in the mid-Sixties, Maxwell also served as an Army artillery officer including in Southeast Asia. Maxwell was a founding Board Member of The Walter Kaitz Foundation; founding member of C-TAM; Cable TV Pioneer (1989) and former Member of the Pioneer Board; and a Board member of The Cable Center. In addition to his integral role in forming industry publications and associations, he is a recipient of the R. E. "Ted" Turner Innovator of the Year Award by the Southern Cable TV Association (1998); winner of the Vanguard Award for Associates & Affiliates by the NCTA (2000); and is a member of the Cable Center's Cable TV Hall of Fame (inducted in '04). He studied theology at SMU; studied journalism at the University of Colorado Graduate School of Journalism while learning to ski. Maxwell lives in Breckenridge with his wife, the former Evie Haskell. Maxwell is an accomplished skier, touring bicyclist, one-time lousy tennis player, avid sea kayaker and world traveler.


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Home » Careers » About CDO
CDO is staffed by seven attorney-counselors, each of whom has practiced law and can offer real-world insights into various career paths. They currently include a civil rights litigator, a former executive director of a grass roots advocacy organization for social change, a former government lawyer, a former partner in a large law firm, and a former small firm practitioner. Of the seven attorney-counselors, three specialize in public interest and government careers.
Targeted Career Planning
We can help you explore a variety of legal career options—both traditional and nontraditional—and determine how to pursue them.
Your career planning will have two elements:
Exploration — learning about the types of opportunities compatible with your talents, work style, and lifestyle
Job Searching — finding and landing specific opportunities
CDO's counselors are here to work individually with you on both.
Career Programming
CDO sponsors programs for all law students throughout the year on topics including:
The art of networking
Job-search techniques for the public and private sectors
Diversity in the legal profession
Various legal practice areas
On-Campus Recruitment Programs
In the fall and spring of each year, Berkeley Law offers an extensive recruitment program for both public interest and private sector employers that includes:
Mock interviews, to help you develop interviewing skills through simulated job interviews conducted and evaluated by practicing attorneys.
On-campus employer interviews. In the fall, more than 300 law firms, corporations, government agencies and non-profits interview second- and third-year students for summer and permanent employment. Most employers came from California, although firms from New York, Washington, and other cities around the United States, Europe, and Asia have also been represented.
Other job opportunities. Many employers—including some not represented at the on-campus interview programs—regularly solicit resumes from students to fill their hiring needs each year.
Summer and Postgrad Fellowships
Berkeley Law encourages students to explore public interest or public service work through the Berkeley Law Summer Fellowship Program, which makes it financially feasible for every J.D. student to spend the summer at a non-profit or government agency.
Berkeley Law graduates are competitive candidates for all national legal postgraduate fellowships. Our graduates are regularly chosen as finalists for and recipients of prestigious fellowships sponsored by the Skadden Foundation, Equal Justice Works, Soros, the Berkeley Law Foundation, and many others.
Two career counselors are available full time to counsel students who are interested in public interest or public sector employment, including extensive counseling, application review, and interview preparation for students applying to these fellowships.
Reciprocity Requests
Law schools, including Berkeley Law, use reciprocity to provide reasonable access to their career resources for law students and graduates from other law schools who agree to provide similar services. Read more.
For general questions, or if you don't know whom to contact:
career@law.berkeley.edu
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
(We are generally closed on Wednesdays from 11:00-12:00 p.m. for a staff meeting.)
Terrence Galligan
Assistant Dean
tgalligan@law.berkeley.edu
Prior to coming to Berkeley Law, Terry served as program coordinator at the Office of Public Interest Advising at the Harvard Law School. From 1994–98, he was a litigation partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis. While in private practice, he did extensive pro bono work for groups such as the Conservation Law Foundation and Children's Rights, Inc. He also helped organize a group of business leaders to provide support, mentoring, and summer jobs for students at a public high school in midtown Manhattan. In 1998, he served as associate independent counsel in the Whitewater and related investigations, focusing on appellate work in the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a 1988 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where he participated in the founding of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.
Terry is an active member of NALP, the National Association of Law Placement, and served as the organization's President from 2014-15.
Eric J. Stern
estern@law.berkeley.edu
Eric J. Stern is the Deputy Director of the Career Development Office at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. In this role, he supervises the CDO's Attorney-Counselors, manages the day-to-day operations of the CDO and is the founding staff advisor for Berkeley Law's First Generation Professionals group. Before transitioning to law school career services in 2006, Eric had a career in politics and advocacy—serving as one of six National LGBT Co-Chairs for the 2008 Obama-Biden Campaign and as a Political Adviser to the John Edwards for President Campaign. In 2003, he was appointed as the Director of LGBT Outreach for the Democratic National Committee, where he developed a national grass-roots infrastructure for the Kerry-Edwards campaign and served as an Iowa Regional Field Director during the general election. Eric received his law degree in 2002 from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. While in law school, he interned for the U.S. Department of Justice (Civil Rights Division); the Whitman-Walker Clinic; the Children's Law Center; and the Human Rights Campaign. After law school, he was awarded a Dorot Law Fellowship at the Alliance for Justice.
Melanie Rowen
Associate Director for Public Interest/Public Sector Programs
mrowen@law.berkeley.edu
Melanie joined the CDO after several years of practice in civil rights impact litigation and public policy advocacy. As a staff attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Melanie collaborated with a broad range of non-profit and government organizations and worked on numerous civil rights issues, including race and sexual orientation discrimination, prisoners' rights, and the rights of elders. Before joining NCLR, Melanie was a litigation associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. At Latham, she was heavily involved in pro bono work, including asylum representation and defending the rights of homeless individuals and low-income tenants. Melanie received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago, where for two years she did criminal defense clinical practice in both the juvenile and adult justice systems.
Valerie Castelo
Associate Director for Private Sector Counseling and Programs
vcastelo@law.berkeley.edu
After graduating from Stanford Law School in 2006, Valerie worked as an associate in the Palo Alto office of Cooley LLP specializing in securities fraud and complex commercial litigation. While at Cooley, she provided regular pro bono services through the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County's Housing Clinic and Project Homeless Connect in San Francisco. During law school, Valerie worked as a summer associate in the New York office of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and served as a judicial extern on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to law school, she was a paralegal and legal assistant in small law offices in Berkeley and Oakland. Valerie received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Political Science from UC Berkeley in 2002.
Sarra Ziari
sziari@law.berkeley.edu
Before joining the CDO, Sarra spent several years working in law school career development and university advancement (major gifts) at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Previously, Sarra was an associate (and summer associate) in the Emerging Companies practice group at Cooley LLP in Palo Alto, specializing in private and public company representation. She later was an associate in the Corporate group of Weintraub Tobin LC in Sacramento before transitioning to university work. Sarra served on the Board (including 2 years as Chair) of the Sacramento County Bar Association Business Section, where she organized continuing legal education, professional development, and networking opportunities for members. Sarra received her J.D. from UC Davis School of Law and her B.A. in English and Spanish Literature from UC San Diego. In addition to general private sector career advising, Sarra is particularly interested in coaching students to hone their networking skills and use self-assessment strategies to define and pursue their ideal legal careers.
Sara Malan
smalan@law.berkeley.edu
Prior to joining the CDO, Sara Malan served as the Managing Attorney at the AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP), where she spent over 13 years providing direct legal services to people living with HIV/AIDS and managed ALRP's robust law clerk program. Sara also has experience as an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University School of Law, where she taught a course on Lawyering Skills and Housing law. She is a graduate of both Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the University of San Francisco School of Law. Throughout law school Sara focused on public interest law, working as a law clerk for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Bay Area Legal Aid. She spent her initial years after graduation as an attorney in a small private firm gaining civil litigation experience.
Shannon Kahn
smkahn@law.berkeley.edu
Prior to joining the CDO, Shannon served as Associate Director of Career Services at UC Davis School of Law. She received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2008, where she served as Executive Managing Editor of the Columbia Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Robert W. Sweet, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then worked as an associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. During her six years at Debevoise, she represented public and private companies and private equity sponsors on a variety of restructuring transactions and advised several not-for-profit organizations on a pro bono basis. Shannon received her B.A. in Politics from Princeton University in 2003.
Grayce Zelphin
Director of Judicial Clerkships
grayce@law.berkeley.edu
Grayce's experience includes two federal clerkships: first, with the Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall of the Central District of California, and then with the Honorable Ann Claire Williams of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She has also practiced as a litigator at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and then at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.
Throughout her career in private practice, Grayce remained active in pro bono work, which included co-counseling with the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc.as well as the ACLU of Southern California.
Prior to attending Berkeley Law, Grayce earned a B.A. in Critical Race Theory: Public Policy & Law from UCLA.
Elizabeth Granlund
Employer Relations and Recruitment Programs Manager
egranlund@law.berkeley.edu
Elizabeth Granlund is the Employer Relations and Recruitment Programs Manager at the Career Development Office. Prior to joining the CDO, she was the Recruitment Coordinator at Skadden and DLA Piper for several years. She coordinated the summer associate program, on-campus recruiting efforts and professional development initiatives. Prior working on the law firm side, she was the Recruitment Coordinator and the University of San Francisco, School of Law and Whittier Law School in Southern California. She managed the On-Campus Interview Programs, maintained the online databases, engaged in employer outreach and helped develop alumni programming. She received her Master's degree in Organization and Leadership from the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in Psychology. Elizabeth enjoys working with students and providing opportunities for students to achieve their career goals.
Janine Nesset Tominaga
Career Development Operations Administrator
jntominaga@law.berkeley.edu
Janine joined the CDO after working in several departments at the law school. A master of organization, Janine ensures that the CDO runs smoothly by providing support for student programs, facilitating collaboration with other units in the law school, and assisting in a variety of tasks. She has brought transferable skills from her 30 years of work as a Public Health Administrator. Her work includes serving with the Government of Guam's Department of Public Health & Social Services and nearly 20 years of service as The Better Health Foundation's [501 (c)(3)] Founding Executive Director. Janine received her M.P.H. from UC Berkeley and her B.S. from Montana State University, Bozeman.
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Career Development Office
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Email: career@law.berkeley.edu


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In an effort to support transparency and verify authenticity, DSN implemented a new standard for the 2011 ranking, which we have continued each year since: the Revenue Certification Form (RCF). In addition to an updated profile, each company is asked to submit an RCF signed by the CEO and CFO or designated agent. Some privately-held companies choose not to participate in the Global 100 process, and therefore do not appear on this list. We encourage all companies to submit the required forms.
The following contains the ranking for the 2014 DSN Global 100 (based on 2013 revenues), our annual list of the top revenue-generating direct selling companies in the world. The list is published in the June issue of Direct Selling News.
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The ultimate body sculpting dress, our midnight blue viscose knitted V-neck dress is a wardrobe essential. Textural panels sculpt the figure whilst side rib details slim the waistline. Rib detailing on the back frame the shoulders and add a sporty feel. Silk tulle sleeves offer ethereal arm coverage and a beautiful contrast to the sculpted body. Team with statement earrings and make this your go-to party dress.
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In May 1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts heard weird music while on the dark side of the moon, and they didn't tell anyone about it. Nasa's Unexplained Files take a closer look into what is still an unsolved mystery. For nearly an hour, the 3 Apollo astronauts were without radio communications to earth while they passed on the far side of the moon. When the radios were supposed to be silent, the crew started hearing some very concerning noises come through the radio. Noises that sounded like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, and they didn't know what to do or say.
"It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music," says an astronaut.
"Shall we tell [NASA] about it?" an another asks.
Of course now, it seems like this event should have been something that the astronauts told the people on earth about, but at the time, they were concerned about being grounded. In the race to the moon, astronaut crews feared anything that would keep them from going on another mission. So in what might have been a bad decision, they kept this secret for most of their lives.
The Cassini Spacecraft picked up sounds similar to what the Apollo astronauts heard but this was due to the fluctuating magnetic field on Saturn. This solution doesn't bring an answer to the question of what exactly the astronauts heard on their radio because of one big difference, the moon has no magnetic field.
The only leading theory as to what the sounds could have been is that it was an unique form of static, but the astronauts aren't convinced. As a crew, they were trained to be prepared for radio static and even heard static on their journey, but it was nothing close to the alien-like sounds heard on the dark side of the moon.
The mystery remains unsolved, and it is certainly one that has conspiracy theorists across the globe wonder what could be out there. The real question may be, who is out there?
Nasa and scientists around the recordings maintain that there must be a logical scientific answer to what the noises were. More than likely, this strange music isn't the only secret hidden throughout the NASA archives. The problem is, there is simply so much data hidden throughout the archives that it is often hard to determine what is important and what isn't.
There are still a lot of mysteries in space, and it is up to engineers and scientists to discover them. If you have any theories as to what the noises could have been, post them below.


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Police seize control of Kerdasa, a major general killed
September 19, 2013 News
Deputy head of Giza Security Directorate was shot dead during a successful police campaign to regain control of the Kerdasa district of Giza on Thursday, a security source told state-run news agency MENA.
Major General Nabil Farrag died as soon as he reached Haram Hospital shortly after he was shot in the right side of his body.
Another 4 recruits were injured, a source told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Due to their efforts, Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said that the police forces have now completely taken control of the Kerdasa area of Giza on Thursday. In coordination with army forces, the police carried out a plan to control who enters and exits the town.
State TV reporter said 48 suspects wanted by security were arrested in the raid. He noted that three of those took part in the attack on Kerdasa police station: Ahmed Eweis, who is accused of killing the station's chief, Alaa Bahloul, who killed the chief's deputy and Sayyed Abdel Hai, who planned the assault.
The reporter added that nine police officers were injured when a grenade was thrown at them by an attacker who managed to flee while his companion was arrested with six other grenades and a machine gun.
The police are still monitoring some terrorist elements in the area, while the special operations forces are currently surrounding the homes of suspects accused of killing and torturing the officers at Kerdasa Police Department during the horrifying incident that took place in August and left 11 officers dead.
The minister explained that the Interior Ministry formed an operations room to monitor the fierce confrontation between the police forces and the armed elements standing on rooftops, but the forces managed to control the situation.
The security forces has arrested 28 suspects so far, some of whom were shooting at the army and police from rooftops and mosques minarets.
The Interior Ministry appealed to residents of Kerdassa to help the forces reach terrorist suspects involved in the incident of the attack on the police department in August.
The ministry also called on citizens to leave any areas where confrontations between the forces and the suspects take place.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm and MENA


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Q: How to get list of all files from OneDrive Business using c# Rest API? I want all files available on OneDrive Business.
I am referring OneDrive v2 api..
I want to display this list of files in my application.
Also is there any way I can filter files by type like photos,videos,documents?

A: The OneDrive REST doesn't return the descendants of collection, we need to iterate each folder to show the children of folders. And you can refer to here to list the children of one item.

Also is there any way I can filter files by type like photos,videos,documents?

Yes. Items have Facets that provide data about the item's identities and capabilities. Folders have a folder facet and files have a file facet. Images have an image facet in addition to their file facet. So we can use these facets to restrict the file type we wanted.
For example, below is an example of filtering search results for only items that have a file and image facet.
Request:
GET /drive/root/view.search?q=vacation&filter=image%20ne%20null%20and%20file%20ne%20null

Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: length

{
    "value": [
      {
        "id": "0123456789abc!123",
        "name": "Vacation.jpg",
        "image": { },
        "file": { },
        "searchResult":
        {
          "onClickTelemetryUrl": "https://bing.com/0123456789abc!123"
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "0123456789abc!456",
        "name": "Summer.jpg",
        "image": { },
        "file": { },
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Larry Larson Music Store
The store is currently operating by appointment only. If we don't answer, please leave a message on our store line (818)244-7608 and we will call you back to schedule service or purchase. Same day service is often an option!
Our teachers are giving private lessons using Skype and Facetime. We are accepting new students!
If you would like to come to the store for a purchase or rental, or you need your instrument serviced or repaired... please call 818-244-7608. If I don't answer, please leave a message. I will do my best to respond in a timely fashion.
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Craig Rogers
(Heavy Metal & Rock Guitar, Ukulele)
Craig Rogers is a Los Angeles native and grew up immersed in the local music scene. His life as a musician began by playing guitar in various bands in the L.A. area. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music, He began teaching private guitar lessons as a way to stay connected to the excitement of learning while continuing to gig with bands. Having been a songwriter, he later turned his efforts towards music for Film and Television. His compositions and playing are influenced by diverse flavors including rock, funk, jazz, electronica and heavy metal. He has scored and performed on a number of full-length independent films, trailers and written cues for networks and programs which include ABC, ABC Family, Discovery Channel, HBO, PBS, E Entertainment, Style Network, History Channel, Oxygen Channel, Comcast Sports, Versus and Fox Sports. His music and playing is used in media all over the world including France, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, and beyond. Craig's goal as a teacher is to help students realize their ambitions on the guitar while providing a solid musical foundation. His specialties are hard rock and heavy metal, among other styles, and welcomes students of all ages.
Leota Rhodes
(Voice, Violin, Viola)
Leota Rhodes is a working actor, singer, and teacher in Los Angeles. She has a bachelor's degree in Theater from The University of California, Irvine, with an emphasis in Musical Theater, and is currently pursuing a secondary degree in music production.
Leota Rhodes has performed in theater and musical theater shows across the globe, including Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. She has also trained in music improv at UCB in Los Angeles.
Leota works with students of all ages, backgrounds and levels. Many of her students are actors with no vocal background, and some of her students are classical or operatic singers who want to work on acting and expressing themselves musically for a better overall performance.
Leota can teach any student to be more expressive and comfortable with their voice. Each week she works on techniques to improve voice placement, as well as proper breathing techniques so you don't hurt your voice even when you're sick! Whether you want to improve your high range into the classical soprano or coloratura or find your big belt, she will get you there in a healthy and safe way!
Christian Porro
(Guitar, ukulele, flute and piano)
Christin Porro is a Los Angeles native. Growing up in the Glendale area, Christian started playing instruments from a very young age. He picked up the guitar at the age of 13, after playing the flute since the age of 9. Christian studied flute at the Colburn School of Performing Arts before graduating from the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA. Christian is currently the lead guitarist of the Los Angeles based alternative rock group, Kid Planet. Specializing in Rock, Blues and Metal, Christian's music expertise has a wide range, where he also shares a passion for Jazz, Classical and Latin music. He's excited to continue his journey as a music educator, instructing in guitar, flute, basic music theory and composition, while continuing to inspire novice musicians to pick up an instrument.
Massimo Sammi
(Classical/Blues/Jazz Guitar, Piano)
Massimo Sammi is an award-winning composer, arranger and guitarist residing in Los Angeles. An Italian born, naturalized U.S. citizen, Sammi in 2007 won a scholarship to study jazz guitar, composition and improvisation at the New England Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Charlie Banacos, Ran Blake, Ken Schaphorst and Michael Gandolfi, graduating with top honors in 2011.
While in Boston, in 2009 he released the CD "First Day", an improvised storyboarding of the movie "A Beautiful Mind", featuring him on guitar.
Over the past two decades Sammi has proven his versatility as a composer and performer, writing for a variety of ensembles, instruments and styles. Sammi made his debut as a film composer in 2009, scoring the documentary "Written in Stone", which premiered at the 2010 Boston International Film Festival.For more information about Massimo you can click here:
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Scott hails from Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Picking up guitar at the age of 13, he began his lifelong journey of learning music. After playing in rock and roll bands of the 1960's, Scott came to California in the early 70's, and started working at Cal-Arts. This gave him the opportunity to study world
music, classical guitar, electronic music and jazz improvisation. Later, classes and workshops at UCLA and USC helped round out his musical education.
Scott has performed throughout the Los Angeles area in bands (The Brainiacs, Technocats, Pearl, Boyd Brothers Band, Pacific Standard Jazz Trio) and community groups (The Los Angeles Mandolin Orchestra, University Synagogue Chamber Orchestra, Casa Italiana Opera Orchestra). For many years, you could find him at the Hollywood Farmer's Market on Sundays playing bluegrass music.
Musical styles Scott enjoys playing are bluegrass and old-time fiddle, classical, jazz standards, blues, rock and classic country. Instruments played include guitar, mandolin, violin, bass, drums, tenor banjo. He is currently performing with Umbral 2.0, a local Latin flavored group playing music of Cuba, Brazil, Spain, Mexico and all points in between!
Scott loves to share what he has learned from teaching students of any level and is ready to help anyone find their "voice" on their chosen instrument. Each lesson is tailored to achieve the goals a student wishes to master, whether it be improvisation, sight reading or learning a new instrument. Above all the focus is on FUN!
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Leigh began playing trombone and guitar at the age of ten. At fifteen, Leigh was invited to join the Junior Youth Symphony in Seattle, where she performed on trombone for one season. After high school, Leigh studied music and education at Principia College, in Elsah, Illinois and graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. In 1997, Leigh accepted a teaching job at Fair Oaks Academy in Altadena, California. In 1999, Leigh decided that the school needed a band. With Larry's help, she developed an instrumental music program for the 2nd-8th graders at the school. Leigh learned to play every band instrument in order to teach them to her students. In 2001, after hearing Leigh's students play, Larry asked her to come teach at the store. Over the years, Leigh's school jazz bands have performed to rave reviews in Glendale, Tujunga, Altadena and Los Angeles. Leigh teaches recorder, flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, baritone horn, French horn, tuba, concertina, and beginning accordion.
Leigh has had great success working with children (5 and up) and adults. "The key to success is starting them out young on a simple instrument. I usually have them learn recorder or ukulele first, and then, when they are competently reading music and playing difficult rhythms, I can switch them over to a more complex instrument like saxophone, trumpet or violin. It is amazing how talented and skilled young students can be. Some of my ten year olds know more than I knew, and are playing better than I did in college!"
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The workplace environment is constantly evolving along with the technology, social and demographic aspects impacting on it. The 21st Century is dominated by one constant – change. Previously accepted attitudes and behaviours at work are no longer effective. Skills that enable workers to hit the ground running coupled with essential behavioural attitudes are now in high demand.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) was mandated at the International Labour Conference as far back as 2005 to address the issues of: employability, education, training and skills as well as the school-to-work transition. Governments were urged to focus on policies that strengthen the link between education and training systems and the world of work in order to address the mismatch between educational outcomes and labour market requirements.
Findings of an independently conducted 2009 study commissioned by Edexcel on Effective Education for Employment (EEE), indicated a significant disconnect between academic achievements and employer expectations in the workplace. It was found that there was a disconnect relating to skills as well as behaviours in the workplace.
"Following the findings of the EEE study it became clear to Edexcel that we had to develop a set of qualifications that would help bridge the gap between formal education outcomes and what was expected in the workplace," comments Jonathan McGill, Edexcel Southern Africa Development Manager.
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Specific behaviours are becoming increasingly necessary to work effectively as a member of a team, to adapt to changing circumstances, to manage stress, and to form constructive relationships. By assessing and developing these key behaviours EBW helps employees become more effective in their roles, as well as benefiting employers by enabling them to get the most out of their employees through increased efficiency and productivity.
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"The BTEC EBW suite of qualifications can be tailor-made to fit a company's specific requirements and is designed to address the needs of South Africa's workforce thereby strengthening our country's skills pool," adds McGill.


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Naqshbandiya Foundation for Islamic Education
The Naqshbandiya Foundation for Islamic Education (NFIE) is a non-profit, tax exempt, religious and educational organization dedicated to serve Islam with a special focus on Tasawwuf(Sufism),
Shaykh Muhammad `Uthmān Sirāj al-Dīn al-Naqshbandī R.A (1896-1997)
Shaykh Muhammad `Uthmān Sirāj al-Dīn al-Naqshbandī(1896-1997)
Muhammad `Uthmān Sirāj al-Dīn ibn Shaykh Muhammad `Alā al-Dīn al-Husaynī was the Shaykh of the Naqshbandī and Qadirī Sufi Orders.
He was born in the village of Bayāra in the Halabja region of Iraq in 1896(1314).
He was raised into a home with an environment of `ilm, piety and `ibāda. His father had taken special care in training him with both the outward and inner branches of `ilm more so after he had observed the boys zeal and readiness and after some karāmāt were witnessed. He was known for his exemplary behaviour and conduct with the `ulama and the awliyā. From a young age he was inclined to the pristine teachings of Islam and he loved the recitation of the Qurān.
He studied Tajwīd under the renowned Egyptian Qārī, Shaykh Mustafā Ismā`īl. In addition he studied the art of public speaking and learnt the essentials with regard to leading a congregation in Salāt. He studied the various Islamic Sciences in the way the `ulama did. In addition he had also studied the various Arabic Sciences and Persian at the Bayāra and Durūd Schools.
After his father's demise in 1953 (1373) he took over his duties and engaged in advising and guiding the people. He was very familiar with Prophetic and Herbal Medicine and thus treated many people. He was familiar with the herbal names in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian and Latin.
He remained in Bayāra until 1958 when he travelled to Iran where he found an environment and an atmosphere more conducive to the Islamic teachings and advising people in matters of Islam. Here many `ulama gathered around him.
He established a school that accommodated 450 students who all studied the Islamic sciences at his expense. Under his supervision more than 100 such schools were established in the region and during his stay in the area more than one million Muslims had attached themselves to him. These people adhered to the recitation of the Qurān and the litanies of the Naqshbandī Order.
After the revolution of 1979 he returned to Bayāra but after the war between Iraq and Iran had erupted he moved to Baghdad. In 1988(1409) he moved to Turkey where he settled in the village of Jamshet in Istanbul where he remained until his demise in 1997(21 Ramadān 1417). He is buried in the Naqshbandī Zāwiya in Istanbul.
He was known for his adherence to the Qurān and the Sunna and his compassion and service to all Muslims. Sometimes as many as three hundred people would visit him and every one would leave with some gift be it some honey, fruit or something else. He assisted the poor and destitute and regarded himself as a servant of the poor.
His nephew mentioned that in 1989 he was blessed with a daughter and after one month she developed a growth at the back of her neck. This growth increased and the doctors were certain that she would require an operation once she is about two years old and able to bear the anaesthetic. The father was concerned when this continued to increase in size and he went to his uncle, Shaykh `Uthmān Sirāj al-Dīn to request him to supplicate to Allah for the young girl. The Shaykh advised him to change her name and he mentioned some of the negative effects associated with the name. the name was changed to Māriya al-Baghdādiyya and gradually within five days it disappeared.
Some of the books authored by him are:
Tafsīr Sūra Wa al-Tīn
Sirāj al-Qulūb
Risāla al-Shihāb al-Thāqib
Al-`Itiqād al-Rasīn wal-Yaqīn billah
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Translated by Shoayb Ahmed from Nathr al-Jawāhir wa al-Durar fī 'Ulama al-Qarn al-Rābi' 'Ashar by Dr Yusuf al-Mar'ashlī 2/2091 .
Dr Yusuf al-Mar'ashlī mentions that the Shaykh passed away in 1418
Source: https://seekerofthesacredknowledge.wordpress.com/biographies-of-awliya-allah/shaykh-osman-sirajuddin/
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Arts & CultureBooksFall Literary Review 2018 issue
James K. A. Smith's Theological Journey
Patrick Gilger, S.J.October 18, 2018
James K.A. Smith is the author of dozens of articles and more than a few theory-laden books dealing with political theology and phenomenology. But it is a rarer talent, the capacity to make clear to many the importance of ideas usually reserved for the few, that is causing his star to rise (photo courtesy of James K. A. Smith).
The taut line stretching away from the glass doors of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., had an air of solemnity about it on a gray August morning earlier this year. The voices of those awaiting entrance were a notch quieter than normal: the excitement of a theater before the lights are dimmed; the volume of a church before the opening song. Many wore their Sunday best.
Two Vietnamese women in slim silk dresses stood next to one another midway down the line. Just in front of them stood a West African girl in a vibrant pink hijab who chatted animatedly with her father and an older white woman sporting a bob haircut and sensible shoes. Farther back in the line stood an Iraqi man in an immaculately pressed beige suit, his wife and three children nearby. They were among the 200 people waiting in line to process, one by one, into the building to begin the ceremony that would make them citizens, full members of these United States of America. Two-thirds of the way down the line, with his wife Deanna, their daughter and a few friends, stood James K. A. Smith.
Smith is a small man with an athletic build. His thinning hair is cropped close on the sides. He has a broad, warm smile and wears a long goatee of the kind seen on indie-rock bassists or youth pastors. For the morning's naturalization ceremony he was wearing a fitted, blue striped T-shirt and pink sneakers with orange stripes ("I didn't have any red, white and blue shoes," he said with a grin). His normally bright eyes were still sleepy.
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Smith, 48 and the father of four grown children, is a professor of philosophy at nearby Calvin College. He is the author of dozens of articles and more than a few theory-laden books dealing with political theology and phenomenology. But it is a rarer talent, the capacity to make clear to many the importance of ideas usually reserved for the few, that is causing his star to rise. Most noteworthy is a concept he has coined himself and developed in a trilogy of books: cultural liturgies. The phrase gives name to an idea: that what we do teaches us how to love. It is meant to help us see how repetitive practices—like shopping or binge-watching or decorating our Christmas trees—point our hearts in a particular direction and by doing so tell us who we are and where we belong.
Like all those with whom he processed into the Ford Museum, Smith was there to swear an oath, to "renounce and abjure all allegiance...to any foreign prince" and declare "true faith and allegiance" to the Constitution and laws of the United States. He was there to participate in one of our country's most powerful cultural liturgies, one that transforms foreigners into Americans.
This would have come as something of a shock to his younger self. Smith was born a Canadian, in the small town of Embro between three great lakes: east of Lake Huron, north of Lake Erie, west of Lake Ontario. During Operation Desert Storm, and under the influence of the famous theologian Stanley Hauerwas of Duke University, his repugnance to the Pax Americana ran high. The whole thing "just looked like creeping American imperialism," he had told me the day before. "Alternative communities—the politics of Jesus—that sounded exactly like what I wanted to sign up for." In the years since, Smith has spent much of his energy thinking about alternative communities and the politics of Jesus—about what role Christians should play in the American political project. Dissatisfied with both the Christian right's efforts to retake the political center through alliance with the Republican Party and with the Christian left's efforts to baptize the secular status quo, he argues that safe passage between that Scylla and Charybdis needs to be charted not just for individuals but for the church. It is this navigational chart that the concept of cultural liturgies is meant to help us plot. If we are honest, Smith argues, when we look at our lives, we will see two things: first, that all of us are already involved in liturgies that are shaping our hearts, and second, that we might not like what these liturgies are doing to us.
Recognizing how the collective practices we engage in are liturgical, how they slide under our thick rational skins and teach us how to desire, is James Smith's specialty.
For Smith, as for Hauerwas or John Milbank, responding to this crisis of formation has led to a surprising conclusion, especially for a Protestant: that we need to re-emphasize the liturgical practices that make the church the church. If the church is going to have any chance to influence what we love, he argues, it has to construct "counter-liturgies" capable of reforming and reorienting hearts that have been taught to love riches or honors or anything else—even the nation—above the triune God.
In the auditorium of the Ford Museum, songs were sung: the national anthem, "God Bless America." The country's colors were marched in and out in reverent silence by a girl scout in her green sash. The Hon. John T. Gregg presided in his black robes. The Oath of Allegiance was administered. And through some performative magic, this group of individuals—who moments before had little in common—became part of a people.
It was a moving liturgy. But recognizing how the collective practices we engage in—from our addiction to our iPhones to the adrenaline drip of the 24-hour news cycle—are liturgical, how they slide under our thick rational skins and teach us how to desire, is James Smith's specialty. If there is someone who ought to be inoculated to the power of the liturgies of the state, it is he.
As we walked out of the auditorium into the hallway where the new citizens were registering to vote, he turned to me. "That was more moving than I expected it to be," he said. Then he smiled a bit wryly. "Or I should say: I was more moved by it than I wanted to be."
To be honest, I replied, so was I.
Conversion of Heart and Mind
Jamie Smith knows the day he became a Christian. It was Sept. 10, 1988, the day after his 18th birthday. He was alone, kneeling at his bedside. There he prayed a classic evangelical sinner's prayer, the kind that begs for forgiveness and asks that Christ be the center of one's life. After the prayer, "I had an overwhelming sense of Jesus kneeling beside me," Smith told me, "one of the few really tangible mystical experiences I've ever had."
This is not an easy story for a professor of philosophy to tell in our secular age. Because stories about Jesus run counter to another story that enlightened modernity tells about itself. It's an "I once was lost, but now I'm found" story, but in modernity's telling the old song's roles are flipped. Now the story goes: Once upon a time we were lost in the naïveté of religious belief—we believed that spirits moved the winds that formed the hurricane, that a moral mistake brought on bronchitis. Now, thank Reason, we know the truths of science, have seen the electric light and left myths behind in the medieval dark.
This is the story to which we have grown accustomed. But it is not the story Smith told me as we sat at a table in a coffee shop not far from his house the day before he became an American citizen. In his story, reason and religion are not adversaries but companions. "When I became a Christian," he said, "it was an intellectual light. It tripped this hunger to learn that I didn't know I had."
At first he fed this intellectual hunger by studying what was closest at hand: the Bible. He studied it weekly for more than a year with a member of his future wife's family. They were "very, very conservative evangelicals from the Plymouth Brethren," a low-church, Pentecostal brand of Christianity. But they not only taught him, Smith says, they "enfolded me into a community of care that felt like home."
"Like any young, earnest evangelical convert, I thought I was called to the ministry. So I went to Bible college to prepare for that," he told me. In his case, this meant the Brethren-affiliated Emmaus Bible College in Dubuque, Iowa. And although he went to prepare to be a pastor, it was at Emmaus that he began to fall in love with philosophy.
Emmaus College consists of one large building. In its basement is the library. This is where, for the entirety of his freshman year, Smith spent his free time. "I was alone that year," he said, "and all the journals were down in this dark dungeon in the basement. So, I would just hide out in the library at night and gobble up anything I could." Of the texts he consumed, the one that had the greatest impact was the inaugural issue of the journal Faith and Philosophy (whose editorial board Smith would join in 2006). The lead article in that first issue was written by the famous analytic philosopher and longtime Calvin College professor Alvin Plantinga. It is entitled "Advice to Christian Philosophers."
In that essay, Plantinga makes a simple, quite radical, argument: Christian philosophers ought not be bound by the perspectives of the secular academy but instead should be guided by their own worldview. "The Christian has his own questions to answer, and his own projects," Plantinga wrote, and "these projects may not mesh with those of the skeptical or unbelieving philosopher." Christian philosophers would be better philosophers, in other words, if they were more integrally Christian.
But Plantinga did not intend for Christian philosophers to "retreat into their own isolated enclave[s]." Instead, they should think about problems of general concern, about how the mind works, or how we know what we know, from the bedrock of a Christian standpoint rather than from any supposedly neutral place.
Over the years Plantinga's essay has served as a mission statement for many young Christian philosophers, and for Smith, reading it at night in a dim basement library in a small town in eastern Iowa, it was like flipping on a light switch. "I realized that maybe my calling wasn't pastoral," he told me. "Maybe it was more academic."
Restless Scholar
For Smith, this academic calling has meant stepping into the heat of contemporary debates not just within the academy but in the wider public realm as well. And while there have been some missteps—his Twitter presence has been a bit caustic at times—this kind of variety plays to talents both natural and cultivated. This is, in part, because Smith is something of an occasional thinker, getting captured by a new idea and following it until his itch is satisfied. "I have a certain intellectual A.D.D.," he laughed, "I keep changing the conversations that I'm in."
He has written, for example, a lengthy introduction to the Radical Orthodoxy movement that shows its resonances with his own Dutch Reformed tradition. Another of his books, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?, attempts to bring postmodern luminaries like Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault to church. And his forthcoming On the Road With Augustine is a "travelogue of the heart," in which Smith shows how Augustine's own restlessness might still resonate with spiritual seekers some 16 centuries later.
James K. A. Smith: "My work has always reflected questions that come from something other than puzzles the academy has given me."
Smith admits that this intellectual restlessness worries him at times. But it also means, he told me, that "my work has always reflected questions that come from something other than puzzles the academy has given me." His first book, for example, entitled The Fall of Interpretation, tackles a deeply philosophical question: Is it a problem that everything we read, even the Bible, must be interpreted? His answer is no. He tries to show that interpretation is not a curse caused by the fall of human beings from grace but instead a gift of creation. And while he engages here with philosophical giants like the German phenomenologist Martin Heidegger, he is equally focused on a problem closer to home: fundamentalist religious traditions for whom all interpretation is suspect.
"I wrote the book," Smith explained to me, out of the "painful experience of getting kicked out of the Plymouth Brethren that I was converted into, [a tradition that] did not have room for a range of ways of understanding the Christian faith." (He still remembers a letter from one of his Emmaus professors calling him "a student of Judas Iscariot.") Similarly, the idea for his second book, Speech and Theology, "came to me in a worship service at a Pentecostal church."
But these kinds of Christian interventions in the academy are only one prong of the approach laid out by Plantinga. The other involves thinking not for the ivory tower but for the church. And for Smith this meant becoming something that is both envied and looked at askance within the academy. It meant becoming a popularizer, a public intellectual.
Still, it is "something that fits him well," said Mark Mulder, chair of the sociology department at Calvin College and a close friend of Smith. "Jamie's always thinking, always making connections. When he's going to a film, it's billable time." But he's also someone who is "not afraid to ask a question that reveals his ignorance," said Mulder. "He's curious, and he has a humility about that curiosity that I think is very attractive."
Matt Walhout, a longtime professor of physics at Calvin College, told me that Smith made an intentional choice to find a new audience for himself, to write specifically for the church. "Professional academics are all writing for one another," Walhout remembered Smith telling him. "Somebody's got to write for the church." For Smith, though, writing for the church has ended up looking less like defending dogmas than paying attention to how God was already at work in the world, particularly in the lives of his children—or his students.
In 2011 Smith decided his senior undergraduate seminar would read only one book: Charles Taylor's 900-page opus A Secular Age. It was an audacious choice, but one that paid off. "To my students' astonishment (and mine), as they made their way through the book, lights went on for them," Smith later wrote. "It's like he's reading our mail," he recalled one student telling him.
Seeing how Taylor's thought gave both the doubters and the believers in his classroom a navigational chart for understanding their own experiences helped Smith to realize how important A Secular Age might be—and not just for those who had four months to wade through it. So Smith decided to write what has become his most popular book to date. How (Not) to Be Secular, subtitled "Reading Charles Taylor," is a 150-page jaunt through Taylor's massive tome.
In our conversation, Smith remarked that he admires Taylor because he "thinks for the world. To me," he said, "if there's a philosophical chapel, he gets the first stained glass window." And Smith has previously noted of his time with Taylor that what is most striking about him "is that hope is his dominant posture." It is a posture that Smith hopes is coming to dominate his own life as well.
Hope in an Age of Fractured Order
That argument over how—or whether—hope is woven into the counter-liturgies of the church lies at the heart of Smith's most public controversy: his break with "the Benedict option" and with the progenitor of the idea, Rod Dreher.
Dreher, a longtime blogger for The American Conservative, has been piecing together the strategy of the Benedict option for years. The Benedict option advocates withdrawal from the culture wars that the Christian right has been waging for decades in order to focus on building communities in which, as Dreher puts it, "Christians can be formed in the orthodox faith." As he envisions it, these are communities that erect a high boundary between the church and the world—one that can give Christian communities space to be themselves.
Both James K. A. Smith and Rod Dreher call for greater awareness of how power structures like the state and the market shape our desires without our knowledge.
The resonance with Smith's concept of cultural liturgies is not illusory. Both call for greater awareness of how power structures like the state and the market shape our desires without our knowledge. And both look to ancient models of what it means to be a person or a community in order to push back against those power structures. For some time these overlapping aims led them to think together about how the church could respond to such problems. They were, as Dreher has written, friends.
But that friendship met an abrupt end in March of last year, when Smith published a short review in The Washington Post of three books on what he termed "the new alarmism"—one of which was Dreher's The Benedict Option. "These books are intended for choirs," Smith wrote, "they are written to confirm biases, not change minds." To this critique of the "bitterness and resentment" he saw animating these books, Smith added a more serious theological concern: that this alarmism amounted to a refusal of hope. "What sticks with you when you walk away from these books," Smith concluded, "is [their] bunker mentality."
Dreher's response was not long in coming. Later that same day he published a voluminous reply expressing his anger at Smith's evaluation, particularly in light of what he said were two years of private correspondence from Smith praising the Benedict option. In the end, he attributed Smith's criticisms to the fact that Dreher had decided not to distribute the book with Smith's own publisher. "Smith's nasty attack," Dreher concluded, "makes me wonder if he's trying to put some public distance between himself and us."
Indeed he was, as Smith would clarify just a week later in a more lengthy review. There Smith argued that the church's tactics in our time should be drawn less from St. Benedict than from St. Augustine. And Augustine, Smith wrote, held that the church ought not to withdraw from the world but stay "in the mix of things, among those in error." This call to fidelity in the midst of a sinful world certainly includes a Benedict option-style emphasis on liturgical practices, but for Smith this is done with a different style or tone, one that attracts outsiders rather than rallying insiders. As Smith wrote, it means a church that does not withdraw but leans "out boldly and hopefully into the world for the sake of our neighbours."
When Smith speaks of his conflict with Dreher, he chooses his words carefully. "I'm sure you can see all kinds of overlap between us," he said, "as do I. If I reacted strongly to The Benedict Option it's because I felt like there was so much at risk about that shared project being wholly identified with a reactionary posture.... I just think it's so crucial to not jeopardize the opportunity of seeing something attractive that draws people. I might be overreacting," he told me, "but I don't want that to be the obstacle to somebody hearing the Gospel of grace. That's what I'm worried about."
Smith's worry comes from two core convictions: one about where the church's mission begins, and another about whether grace is active outside the walls of the church. The first problem with Dreher's proposal is that it starts from an analysis of the decline of culture—from the problems going on outside the church—rather than "being catalyzed internally by the logic of mission." If the church begins by looking at what is wrong elsewhere rather than to what it is called to be itself, Smith thinks, it has started off on the wrong foot.
But secondly, this does not mean that everything is all right. Smith's effort to show how the cultural liturgies of the state or the market (de-)form our desires runs too deep for such pollyannaish affirmations. Instead, the church must look for the cracks in the secular worldview. And doing this requires both trust and hope, trust that grace is common to all persons, and hope that "the Spirit is operative in spaces and places and institutions outside the church."
Like Dreher and other theorists of the end of our liberal order, Smith thinks these cracks are already showing. "People are exhausted," he told me. "I already see manifestations and artifacts of people saying, 'This isn't working.'" But rather than cause for alarm, Smith sees opportunity in such exhaustion. What worries him is that this opportunity will be lost, that every expression of Christian formation will be, as his review said, "confused with Dreher's unique brand of resentment."
It is true that Smith has not always been so open to seeing grace in the world. This is the same man who once wrote that "what appear to be instances of mercy or compassion or justice outside the body of Christ are merely semblances of virtue." It is understandable that Dreher feels that something has changed. It has.
"What I started to realize," Smith explained to me, "was that these alternative communities start to look increasingly like enclaves for people who have the privilege and luxury of being able [to withdraw]. And the people who get left behind are, it turns out, black and brown." For Smith, being responsible for the world ends up looking less like withdrawal or revolution and more like the plodding work of reforming institutions—even, with its flags and pledges and parades, the institution of the state.
James K. A. Smith: "I think that practices of friendship are my kind of Benedict option."
"Institutions are still some of the best ways we care for the vulnerable. Government is a creational good. I do think you need an account of how [government] is disordered," he said, "but I've realized that it would be a failure to love my neighbor to not remain invested in the state, even if that looks like prophetically challenging where it's going. In the Trump era, this is particularly hard."
"I don't know how to say it," he finally sighed. "Anger is not quite the word, but Dreher's position, it's just...not attractive. It's a saber-rattling, a whipping-up of a crew that already agrees with you. And I just felt like there was a lot at risk—because he's going overboard, and because he's being so widely listened to," he said. "Does that sound too strong?"
"In the meantime, I think friendship is going to do a lot of work," he told me after a moment, "I think that practices of friendship are my kind of Benedict option."
Families and Friends
There are dozens of practical reasons why Smith and his wife decided to subject themselves to a liturgy of the state on a gray morning this past August: because they plan to stay at Calvin College, because their children are at home in Grand Rapids, because it will simplify their complicated travel schedules. But there is a story that lets these practical reasons make sense, that supports them and gives them shape. For Smith, this is a story of roots, of having them ripped out and—slowly, painfully—learning to regrow them.
That story goes like this: Smith comes from a fractured family. He has been estranged from his father since he was 13 and has not seen him in 26 years. His mother displays his books on a mantel at her house, but has not read them. And still, for the past 28 years, he has been married to Deanna, whom he has known since they were in the fifth grade. He is much of who he is because of her, because her family became his—until that family also fractured. They had their first child when they were 22 and slowly learned how to love something else more than oneself. But building the community that is a family does not always come naturally; it has to be learned, practiced until it seeps into us.
This is especially true for those who come from broken homes. As his friend and colleague Matt Walhout told me, "Jamie doesn't exactly have a lot of long-standing models within his family for what healthy communication looks like. He and Deanna had to figure that out." And figuring that out meant expanding their nuclear family to include what was missing; in particular: parents. Of these they have, over the years, adopted a handful.
"What God has given us in the church," Smith said to me, "has been replacement parents. Everywhere we've lived we've had folks who are there for us. It saved our lives."
It was one of the first of these replacement parents, a woman named Karen, who years ago began to help Smith see how deeply he had been hurt by his own father. She "was one of the first people to confront me," Smith related to me. "For some reason, I remember this phrase: 'a petrified heart'.... I have been hurt so profoundly by a father who left that I had created this stone case to protect myself. But then I couldn't breathe, and I couldn't relate. If I remember my own journey to emotional wellness, Karen was a big part of it."
And so was Deanna. Learning to be a father himself has meant "me apprenticing myself to Deanna," he said; "she's so emotionally healthy that she kind of primes me." Which makes all the more sense if Smith's academic work is correct. Because then, as his cultural liturgies trilogy argues, we would be aware that our thoughts are conditioned by our loves. And that those who rule our hearts—our children, our partners, our Gods—shape our thoughts.
James K. A. Smith: "People are not going to be argued into the kingdom of God."
"Look, people are not going to be argued into the kingdom of God," Smith said. "The irony is that I'm a philosopher who thinks that you woo people and move them more with literature than syllogisms." With literature, that is, and with institutions—especially institutions like the quaint, white-shingled, slightly run-down Sherman Street Church that he and Deanna attend on Sunday mornings.
Smith and I had walked through it the day before he became an American citizen. The nave is made of dark wood, and the pews form a half circle around the ambo where the sermons are delivered. The light that falls through the high windows is stained blue. It is an uncomplicated space, a surprising one from which to undertake the audacious task of shaping hearts fit for the kingdom. Smith seemed at home there.
It is not the kind of place stories are written about. It's just a place where friends meet, where worship happens. "It's just this ho-hum place," Smith said, "where we're all learning how messy and hard it is to just be a community—and then to be a community for a community."
"Do we have what it takes to pull off the most beautiful thing that will win over the culture?" he wondered aloud. He paused a moment before answering. "The short answer is no," he finally said, "but can God in his grace use our efforts? Absolutely. Without question. We have a role to play."
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Patrick Gilger, S.J., is pursuing a doctorate in sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is America's contributing editor for culture.
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What a welcome break, and uplift, from the Catholic Uncivil War. I would like to add a remarkably Platonic statement made by my sister-in-law, a high school graduate. She said, "When you turn 35 you realize that you don't know your husband at all, and you don't know your children either. They are strangers to you. You think you know them but you only know your concept of them, a shadow of who they are. You have to begin all over again, really paying attention to them, observing them with love, listening to them, learning how to be friends with them." My brother, her husband, a good person who admits to being more superficial than his wife and children, is now the only practicing Catholic in his family. He is at peace with their atheism but sometimes has felt excluded from their deep spiritual bond. His only son, an accomplished creative professional, recently went through a long process of dying. His atheist daughter and wife went through the process with great spiritual strength. My brother did too, turning to Mary for comfort and to his faith. I was somewhat helpful over the phone, reminding him of some of the hope to be found in his Catholic religion (which I have left behind).
I am perfectly open to the possibility of an afterlife--I have had visits from my dead parents and from ancestors I never met. Some of these visits conveyed complex, highly specific information that turned out to be correct. In one visit, a spiritual truth, "He/She lives" is, I was told, is expressed in the language of numbers, as 525. I told a neighbor couple about this dream, bet 525 on the Numbers, and they called me late that night to tell me that 525 had come in. I bet modestly, and won modestly.
I was raised under a deep influence of how my parents talked about the dead, "They're in the other room. They're there when you need them. They're waiting." It is a very old West of Ireland belief, now rare. It is not a particularly Catholic concept, even though they were faithful Catholics (but believing that all religions are family tradition religions, and can confer grace, because God cannot be owned by anyone or any pope). I see no reason why nature, having evolved human consciousness, could not have evolved a way for that consciousness to perdure. I also do not see why an afterlife would require the existence of God.
This article was most welcome. It stimulated thought, especially about how the market and the state, and family of origin too, and friendships, and simple rituals, affect our beliefs, often in ways we are not fully aware of. Sadly I see the rather rabid devotion of so many public Catholics to a feral form of capitalism to be the true face of the Catholic religion in the USA.
Caterina Smith
Thank you for this rich and surprising article, my first introduction to Dr. Smith and the fascinating notion of cultural liturgies which make sense in relation to my studies, in fine art and architecture, of the way form (and medium, or embodiment if you will) does not necessarily always follow function (as the slogan once went) but can shape function, emphasis, and meaning. Interested now in looking into his "trilogy." Very much appreciate America's literary special issues.


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Livia Firth's Green Carpet Challenge spotlights ethical and sustainable fashion.
by Marie Therese Batt
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The Venice Film Festival is more than a celebration of cinematic achievements. Thanks to Livia Firth, wife of Colin Firth and founder of the eco-friendly consultancy company, Eco-Age, this Italian film festival has also become a platform to raise awareness for sustainability and ethics within the fashion industry.
At a small, private lunch in Venice last Friday, Firth announced Eco-Age's collaboration with Chopard, a luxury jewelry brand, known for their interest in sustainable fashion and artisanal work.
Chopard will not be designing haute couture gowns. Instead, they're behind the trophies to be presented at the award ceremony on September 24th.
Chopard's Green Carpet Challenge statuettes are rich with meaning
Chopard creative director, Caroline Scheufele described their collaboration as an honor, and stated that "these awards are closely aligned with our values at Chopard…it was only right that the statuette should reflect the values at the heart of the event."
In contrast to the famous Oscar statuette, these awards are female-inspired to represent "all the women employed in the manufacturing pipeline from Italy to around the world, from Bangladesh to Cambodia," according to Firth.
Along with the figure of a woman, the statuette also features a pomegranate, which has been connected to the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, ink, medicinal characteristics, but to Patrick Kinnoth, an artist who's preparing the grounds for the award ceremony later this month, the pomegranate "represents imaginative abundance together with indisputable beauty, inventive usefulness, and sustainability."
Green Carpet Challenge winners must meet tough criteria
These statuettes will be awarded to ten, lucky winners at La Scala, in Milan, Italy.
According to Eco-Age's principles, winners will be judged on tough criteria, including transparency, child labor, fair working conditions, traceability, pollution, preservation, and animal welfare.
Winners are revolutionaries in the fashion industry
During the intimate lunch held at the Venice Film Festival last week, it was announced that Sardegna-based artisan, Chiara Vigo, will be one of the recipients of the newly-designed Chopard statuettes.
She is believed to be one of the few, remaining harvesters of the highly-valued sea silk, Bisso. It's derived from mussel saliva and according to Firth, it is "more precious than gold."
It is conscientious, slow fashion-forward individuals like Vigo whom Eco-Age wishes to award, not only because of the rarity of their product. But because by awarding these leaders, Firth and her organization are helping to raise greater awareness and respect for the efforts and commitment needed to change the world of fashion.
Influencing the fashion industry takes time and audacity, as does encouraging the consumer to switch from knock-offs to a true value.
At the Green Carpet Challenge award ceremony coming this September, Firth's organization will serve as a much-needed catalyst to an industry stuck in a vicious cycle.
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Q: Subquery returned more than 1 row I have a line of code that should have an output of dates but it says on my SQL report:

subquery returned more than 1 row

Here is my code:
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    + "contract = (SELECT disdate FROM embarkationdetails "
    + "WHERE vsl375.crewid = embarkationdetails.CrewId)";

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A: The subquery you have in UPDATE doesn't work this way - it is supposed to only return one value, and that single value is then written in every target row (in you case, all rows). It is not evaluated for each target row.
Depending on the DB type you're using, you could use UPDATE ... FROM (note that this is not a standard SQL syntax) or MERGE to do what you need.
MERGE INTO vsl375 tgt
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