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Problems with H.B. 391
By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
H.B. 391 seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Utah. I am a lawyer in Washington State where we have a similar law. Our law is based on a law in Oregon.
Problems include:
1. HB 391, if enacted, will encourage people with years to live to throw away their lives.
HB 391 seeks to legalize assisted suicide for persons with a "terminal disease," which is defined as having less than six months to live. In Oregon's law, which uses the same definition, young adults with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, are "eligible" for assisted suicide. Such persons can have years, even decades, to live. See https://choiceisanillusion.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/a-2270-3r-memo-12-02-14.pdf "Eligible" patients can also have years to live because doctors can be wrong. See https://choiceisanillusion.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/terminal-uncertainty.pdf and https://choiceisanillusion.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/signed-john-norton-affidavit_001.pdf
2. HB 391, if enacted, will allow health care providers/institutions to use coverage incentives to steer patients to suicide.
In Oregon, that state's Medicaid Plan steers patients to suicide through coverage incentives. If HB 391 is enacted, Utah health care providers/institutions will be able to do the same thing. For more information about Oregon's situation, see the affidavit of Kenneth Stevens, MD, at this link: https://maasdocuments.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/dr-stevens-affidavit_001.pdf
3. Legalization is a recipe for elder abuse.
HB 391, like Washington's law, has no oversight at the death. No doctor is required to be present. Not even a witness is required. This situation creates the opportunity for an heir, or another person who will benefit from the patient's death, to administer the lethal dose to the patient without his consent. Even if he struggled, who would know?
4. Increased suicide
In Oregon, other suicides have increased with the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. See http://www.choiceillusion.org/2014/03/the-high-financial-cost-of-regular.html Legalization, regardless, sends the wrong message to young people that suicide is an acceptable solution to life's problems. Utah already has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation. See http://www.standard.net/Health/2014/05/22/Utah-suicide-rate-soars
5. Washington's similar law.
For a short article about Washington's similar law, please go here (non-lawyers tell me they like it): https://www.kcba.org/newsevents/barbulletin/BView.aspx?Month=05&Year=2009&AID=article5.htm
Labels: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Jeanette Hall, Ken Stevens MD, Oregon, Steerage, Washington
New England Journal of Medicine Article Misleading
I am a lawyer in Washington State, one of two states where assisted-suicide is legal. The other state is Oregon, which has a similar law. Lisa Lehmann's article, "Redefining Physicians' Role in Assisted Dying," is misleading regarding how these laws work.
First, the Oregon and Washington laws are not limited to people in their "final months" of life.[1,2] Consider for example, Jeanette Hall, who in 2000 was persuaded by her doctor to be treated rather than use Oregon's law. She is alive today, twelve years later.[3]
Second, these laws are not "safe" for patients.[4][5] For example, neither law requires a witness at the death. Without disinterested witnesses, the opportunity is created for the patient's heir, or someone else who will benefit from the patient's death, to administer the lethal dose to the patient without his consent. Even if he struggled, who would know?
Third, the fact that persons using Oregon's law are "more financially secure" than the general population is consistent with elder financial abuse, not patient safety. Do not be deceived.
[1] Margaret K. Dore, "Aid in Dying: Not Legal in Idaho; Not About Choice," The Advocate, official publication of the Idaho State Bar, Vol. 52, No. 9, pages 18-20, September 2010, available at http://www.margaretdore.com/pdf/Not_Legal_in_Idaho.pdf.
[2] Kenneth Stevens, MD, Letter to the Editor, "Oregon mistake costs lives," The Advocate, official publication of the Idaho State Bar, Vol. 52, No. 9, pages 16-17, September 2010, available athttp://www.margaretdore.com/info/September_Letters.pdf
[3] Ms. Hall corresponded with me on July 13, 2012.
[4] See article at note 1. See also Margaret Dore, "Death with Dignity": A Recipe for Elder Abuse and Homicide (Albeit Not by Name)," at 11 Marquette Elder's Advisor 387 (Spring 2010), original and updated version available at http://www.choiceillusion.org/p/the-oregon-washington-assisted-suicide.html
[5] Blum, B. and Eth, S. "Forensic Issues: Geriatric Psychiatry." InKaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Seventh Edition, B. Sadock and V. Sadock editors. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, pp. 3150-3158, 2000.
Labels: Bennett Blum MD, Elder abuse, Jeanette Hall, Ken Stevens MD, Lisa Lehmann, Margaret Dore, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, Oregon, Redefining Physicians, Washington
Euthanasia Bill Dead for Now


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Reprint, Winter 1984
Bernard DeVoto's The Course of Empire, originally published in 1952, was lauded by historian Henry Steele Commager at the time of its publication as "the best book that has been written about the West since Webb's Great Plains." A new paperback edition of this book has just been published by Nebraska [$12.95]. Also available as a Nebraska paperback is George R. Stewart's The California Trail, a description of the early wagon trains along the hazardous route to California in the 1840's [$8.95]. A third Nebraska reprint is Absaraka: Home of the Crows, the experiences of an Army officer's wife on the plains in the 1860's, the wife being Margaret Irvin Carrington [$21.50 cloth, $6.95 paper]. Another work involving the opening of the wilderness, in this case the opening of the Appalachian frontier, is Harriette Simpson Arnow's Seedtime on the Cumberland, a new edition of which is now available from Kentucky, with a foreword by Wilma Dykeman [$28.00 cloth, $13.00 paper]. With an election year upon us, it is scarcely surprising that there should be a new edition of Stephen J. Wayne's The Road to the White House: The Politics of Presidential Elections, a basic guide to the strategy and tactics of winning the presidency [St. Martin's, $13.95 cloth]. And with greater interest than ever before in the role of the woman candidate, Beacon Press has issued a reprint of Ruth B. Mandel's In the Running: The New Woman Candidate, which the Washington Post described as "a fine testimony to a growth industry: women as political partners" [$9.95 paper]. A third book dealing with contemporary politics is Paul C. Light's The President's Agenda: Domestic Policy Choice from Kennedy to Carter (with notes on Ronald Reagan), a Johns Hopkins reprint [$20.00 cloth, $8.95 paperback]. Two new Vintage Books are Kevin P. Phillips' Post-Conservative America: People, Politics, and Ideology in a Time of Crisis [$6. 95] and Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans: Black Experience and American Culture [$6.95]. Yale has published a paperback edition of John R. Stilgoe's Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845, a work which received the 1982 Francis Parkman Prize for literary distinction in the writing of history [$12.95]. Touchstone has reprinted Irving Howe's national best seller, World of Our Fathers, an account of "the journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they found and made" [$12.95]. Other Touchstone reprints include William L. O'Neill's A Better World, The Great Schism: Stalinism and the American Intellectuals [$9.95], Michael Novak's The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism [$9.95], Clarence Darrow's Attorney for the Damned, a selection of excerpts from the great defense lawyer's famous cases, edited by Arthur Weinberg [$9.95], and William Broad and Nicholas Wade's Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science, which Science magazine called "utterly fascinating reading" [$6.95]. Touchstone has also reprinted Norman Podhoretz' controversial account of Why We Were in Vietnam [$5.95].
LIVES & LETTERS
Considered one of the finest British biographers of our time, the late Cecil Woodham-Smith won international acclaim for her account of the life of eminent Victorian Florence Nightingale when it first was published in 1951. "No reader will doubt that this is the definitive biography of Florence Nightingale," declared the Chicago Sunday Tribune at the time. Atheneum has just issued a reprint of what the Atlantic Monthly deemed "a distinguished and fascinating book" [$11.95 paper]. Also available from Atheneum is a new edition of Frederic Morton's The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait, which the New York Times Book Review called "the epic of the Rothschilds" upon the book's publication in 1961 [$9.95]. When George F. Kennan published in 1967 the first volume of his memoirs, covering the period of his life from 1925 to 1950, The New Republic predicted the autobiography might prove to be the "single most valuable political book written by an American in the twentieth century." A second volume, covering the period 1950—63, appeared in 1972, and both volumes have been reissued as paperbacks by Pantheon [Vol. I $8.95 and Vol. II $7.95]. Another Pantheon paperback is Robyn Davidson's Tracks, the story of one woman's solo trek across 1,700 miles of Australian outback [$3.95]. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, a biography of one of the giants of contemporary philosophy, won both the 1982 Alfred Harcourt Prize in Biography and Memoirs and the 1982 Kenneth B. Smilen/Present Tense Literary Award in Biography. Yale has now published a paperback edition of this much acclaimed work [$15.95]. One of America's outstanding experts on China is retired Harvard scholar John King Fairbank, whose Chinabound: A Fifty-Year Memoir has just come out as a Harper Colophon Book [$10.00 paper]. Vintage has reprinted Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson [$4.95]. Kent State is offering a paperback edition of Freeman Champney's Art & Glory: The Story of Elbert Hubbard, pioneer of modern advertising [$7.95]. A new Touchstone Book is Barbara Learning's Polanski, A Biography: The Filmmaker as Voyeur [$6.95]. A new Bison Book is Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones' The Negro Cowboys, an account of the 5,000 black cowboys who worked as ranch crews in the cattleman era of the West [Nebraska $7.95 paper].
Vincente Blasco Ibañez' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse has gone through 187 printings in hardcover since it first appeared in 1918 as one of the first great works of fiction to come out of the First World War. Now Carroll & Graf have published a paperback edition of this famous novel [$8.95]. Although her life was tragically short—she was only 34 when she died of tuberculosis in France on Jan.8, 1923—Katherine Mansfield has attained a lasting reputation as one of the great short story writers of this century. All 88 of her stories have been collected and published in a single volume in approximately chronological order by Ecco Press [$11.95 paper]. As a part of its Neglected Books of the 20th Century series, Ecco has also reprinted Camilo José Cela's The Hive, a novel of life in contemporary Madrid [$6.95 paper]. Harper Colophon Books is offering a trio of novels by Aldous Huxley, the trio being Antic Hay [$5.50], After Many a Summer Dies the Swan [$4.95], and Chrome Yellow [$5.95]. Another recent Harper Colophon Book is Bobbie Ann Mason's highly acclaimed Shiloh and Other Stories, the first published collection of a young American author [$5.95]. Vintage has reprinted V.S. Pritchett's Collected Stories, a selection of 29 stories by one of the great contemporary British writers [$8.95]. Another Vintage offering is Charles G. Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, with an introduction by Edward Hoagland [$3.95]. When Alvah Bessie's Bread and a Stone came out in 1941, the Chicago Daily News called the novel "a powerful book." This novel about a murder and about an American loser has been reissued by Chandler & Sharp [$7.95 paper]. Godine has come out with a paperback edition of William Maxwell's Time Will Darken It, one of the earlier novels by the longtime New Yorker editor [$9.95]. Bison Books has reprinted Wallace Stegner's The Big Rock Candy Mountain, a novel about life in the West in the early 20th century [Nebraska $9.95 paper]. Another new Bison Book is Frederick Manfred's Scarlet Plume, a novel about the Sioux uprising in Minnesota in 1862 [$8.95 paper]. A recent New Directions Paperbook is poet Dylan Thomas' romantic adventure story of mid-19th-century Wales, Rebecca's Daughters [$5.95], A new addition to the Pantheon International Crime series is James McClure's The Gooseberry Fool [$2.95 paper].
When A. J. P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War came out in 1961, it caused a storm of praise and controversy and has since been recognized as a classic: "the first book ever to examine exclusively and in depth the causes of the Second World War and to apportion the responsibility among Allies and Germans alike," according to one blurb. A new edition of this first revisionist study of the background of the world's greatest war has been published by Atheneum [$9.95 paper]. Cornell is offering a paperback edition of Joseph F. O'Callaghan's A History of Medieval Spain [$21.95]. Columbia has reprinted J.M. Thompson's Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire, a work considered the standard biography of Napoleon III of France [$9.95 paper]. John Lofton's Denmark Vesey's Revolt: The Slave Plot that Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter has been reprinted by Kent State [$7.95 paper]. Grove Press has a new edition of Hitler's Secret Book, the Nazi dictator's top-secret blueprint for world conquest, with an introduction by Telford Taylor [$7.95 paper]. Harper Colophon Books has republished Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko's The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny [$8.95].
LITERATURE IN GENERAL
Richard Howard's translation of French poet Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal won an American Book Award and is widely regarded as the definitive translation of the complete text of The Flowers of Evil. Godine has come out with a paperback edition of this work [$13.95]. A recent New Directions Paperbook brings back into print the 1975 Oxford edition of Stevie Smith's Collected Poems [$11.95]. Johns Hopkins has reprinted John T. Irwin's American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance [$8.95 paper]. California is offering The Illustrated Pepys, a selection of excerpts from the famous diary, edited by Robert Latham [$15.95 cloth, $9.95 paper]. Macmillan has a paperback edition of The Book of Irish Verse: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from the Sixth Century to the Present, selected and introduced by John Montague [$7.95]. As a Bison Book, Nebraska is offering Ernest Hemingway's Complete Poems [$5.95 paper]. James L. Kugel's The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History is now available as a Yale paperback [$10.95]. Two recent Cornell reprints are Gerard Genette's Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method [$24.50 cloth, $8.95 paper] and Jonathan Culler's The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction [$7.95 paper]. St. Martin's has published a new edition of the famous Edward FitzGerald translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám [$8.95 cloth]. Minnesota has come out with a second revised edition of Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism [$29.50 cloth, $12.95 paper]. Among the new Vintage books are works by two contemporary poets, the respective works being C.K. Williams' Tar [$5.95] and Frank Bidart's The Sacrifice [$5.95]. Louise Glück's first collection of poems, First-born, has been reprinted by Ecco Press as a part of its American Poetry Series [$5.95 paper]. California has come out with a new, expanded edition of Czeslaw Milosz' anthology of Postwar Polish Poetry [$25.00 cloth, $6.95 paper].
For those who love good food, Knopf is offering a banquet, namely, a paperback edition of the two-volume work, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck [$12.95 per volume, $25.95 boxed set]. In the department of trivia, Harper & Row has come out with a reprint of Harry Haun's The Movie Quote Book [$9.95 paper]. Holt, Rinehart & Winston has published a completely revised edition of Theodore Caplow's Managing an Organization [$19.95 cloth].

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Ipag > News & Insights > Climate Change and Banks' Risk Management: Can It Affect Investment Decisions?
Climate Change and Banks' Risk Management: Can It Affect Investment Decisions?
By Miriam Breitenstein, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Duc Khuong Nguyen, IPAG Business School, France; and Thomas Walther, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
In a recent article, International Banker reported on the joint open letter of the governors of the Bank of England and Banque de France calling for more action from central banks, but also private banks, against climate change, therefore fostering awareness of the corresponding risks involved with climate change for banks. While those climate-related risks can be categorized into physical risks (resources availability, physical damage) and transitional risks (changes in technology and policy), the nature of their impacts on banks' operations, balance sheets and performance is not yet understood in a holistic manner.
What we certainly know is that, without good management of climate risk, banks' risks rise in a climate-led business environment. The growing societal concerns about the harmful and disastrous effects of climate change and the new regulations put in place have led banks around the world to gradually adopt environment-friendly policies through, among other strategies, their CSR (corporate social responsibility) rules and practices. However, the sustainability of "just being responsible" is no longer sufficient. Proactive actions are urged to cope with the severity of climate change and the increase in the total risk of financial institutions and firms.
Our recent systematic literature review about environmental hazards and risk management in the financial sector shows that firms that are strongly committed to environmental responsibility and performance see their risks reduced. As a matter of fact, investing in a non-environmental firm drives up a bank's risk. Thus, not only a bank's investment decisions but also operations can have a substantial impact that matters for combating climate change. This so-called "impact investing" brings more than just the financial dimension into an investment decision and also analyses the environmental, sustainability or corporate governance aspects of the firms to be funded. More interestingly, it is also recognized as the new frontier for the global community of investors who look beyond financial returns and seek to widen the impacts of their investments. In its recent report of April 2019, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)—an industry network of more than 1,300 impact investors worldwide—estimates the current size of the global impact-investing sector at US$502 billion.
Since the roots of environmental risk management can be found in concepts such as corporate environmental performance (CEP) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, strong, fundamental knowledge on the relationship between environmental hazards and financial risks is typically needed. This is especially important in theory and in practice, because it outlines the consideration of environmental hazards in current and past financial performance, and thus gives incentives to assess and manage environment-driven risks.
Our analysis finds that CEP positively affects not only market-risk measures but also performance measures such as shareholder value. Directly proxying environmental hazards corroborates these outcomes and exhibits negative impacts on market-risk measures. This aspect of research provides evidence for the dependency of a company's financial risk on environmental concerns and its engagement in environmental responsibility, consequently pronouncing the necessity of environmental-risk management in the financial sector. Striking was that the combination of environmental concerns (instead of environmental engagement) and financial risk was rarely investigated, calling for future research on this subject. As for banks, they need to understand more completely the characteristics of climate-related financial risk and to adequately estimate and assess the financial consequences of environmental hazards.
Banks' current practices of climate-risk management need structural adjustments to match investors' views on climate risk and impact investing. This could be done by especially quantitative and qualitative interviews, such as the research by Philipp Krueger (University of Geneva), Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) and Laura T. Starks (University of Texas). It shows the development of climate-related financial-risk awareness and engagement in assessment approaches among investors and analysts, who now believe that the financial risks originating from environmental hazards have already begun to materialize and that this will have financial implications for their portfolios and the corresponding portfolio firms.
A further subject of investors' concern is the risk of assets becoming stranded for different electricity-industry sectors. Common assessment approaches can be found in carbon-footprint and stranded-assets analyses, portfolio diversification or ESG ratings. However, the limitations of disclosures restrict the possibilities of assessment of carbon footprints, return-impact measures, scenario analyses and stress testing. Thus, investors and analysts are hindered in employing more sophisticated and comprehensive analyses.
The current challenges remaining for not only banks but also regulatory bodies are the disclosure of standardized, publicly available data concerning companies' exposure to environmental concerns, suitable assessment and pricing instruments.
Close attention must be paid to climate-risk assessment approaches. In this regard, assessment approaches—and anticipating risk—form another central subject of necessary academic and professional research but have been greatly restricted until now. The development of climate-risk measures and portfolio strategies is relevant to investors and analysts, as they face challenges in the assessment of environment-driven financial risks. Research shows that carbon-risk measures (such as beta carbon) depict company- or sector-specific carbon-emissions sensitivity and can be considered in analysts' forecasts, investment and portfolio-allocation decisions. Hedging strategies following ESG-based, low-carbon-weighting index-tracking portfolios show that these portfolios can successfully hedge climate-change news and achieve the same or even improved risk-return performances.
At the moment, it appears quite complicated to assess climate change and environmental hazards from a bank's perspective. The little toolset that is available draws mainly from measures such as carbon emissions. However, environmental hazards come in different guises, such as real estate's proximity to the sea or increasing risks of drought for agricultural sectors. Thus, it remains still completely unclear how especially the physical dimensions of climate change will affect the operating and financial performance of banks.
Overall, banks' operations and performance are significantly affected by environmental hazards stemming from climate change. In addition to proactive behaviour that gets them ahead of climate change, they really need to develop efficient assessment methods to effectively reduce their risks, considering a long-term view and taking into account more dimensions than just their carbon-dioxide footprint. Last but not least, their position in the frontier between the economy and financial markets would help them counter climate change by changing the behaviour of their clients toward more environmental protection.
Reference link: https://internationalbanker.com/finance/climate-change-and-banks-risk-management-can-it-affect-investment-decisions/


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The Violence of Bigots; the Devil's Pox on the Skin of America
October ended painfully: an anti-semitic attack in a Pittsburgh temple killed eleven; a racist attack at a Kentucky grocery store killed elderly African-Americans. Though hundreds of miles from here, friends and colleagues had losses. Close friends were married at that Pittsburgh Temple.
We missed the Sunday interfaith memorial in Albany but joined the Monday gathering at Temple Gates of Heaven in Schenectady. Approaching it, I saw friends who'd been Peace Corps Volunteers. Our job had been to extend this country's hand of friendship to peoples abroad. Now we shared the pain from prejudice at home.
Schenectady Clergy Against Hate organized the memorial for a standing room only crowd, to share our grief for the dead, the injured, their families, and our country. The Clergy Against Hate consists of many denominations of Christian, Jewish, Islamic and eastern faiths, all of whom mourned the losses and stood for a world of love and concern. Minister Jonathan Vanderbeck, of Trinity Reform Church, told us "We stand against hate and oppression," adding "that really carries throughout all our religious traditions."
Our country included people of multiple faiths, origins, and languages from its founding. America's revolutionary armies included free and enslaved Blacks, as well as Jews who had first settled in the colonies under the Dutch.
The Founders described America as a beacon shining a path from wicked, murderous hate elsewhere to an enlightened place of brother- and sisterhood. A "hundred years war" had scourged Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. Thirty years of religious war devastated it in the seventeenth century. A global seven years' war reached us as the French and Indian War. America's Founders struggled to protect us from the killing, unifying us into one enlightened country, where we could learn to live with and benefit from each other.
Even before the First Amendment prohibited any establishment of religion or interference with each other's freedom of religion, the Constitution made three references to religion, reading "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States"[1] and providing for a secular affirmation as an alternative to each provision for an oath.[2]
The Founders welcomed and encouraged immigration in order to people the continent. Most understood freedom and human rights as universal. Prominent members of the Constitutional Convention led anti-slavery societies. Southern insistence on slavery postponed the extension of freedom to all until the Civil War, after which the opening words of the Fourteenth Amendment were "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Think about the importance to America of that commitment to universal human rights. By coming here, immigrants from all over the world not only shared the effort and ingenuity that built our country, they showed by their presence that others could see themselves in America. Feeling that bond, civilized countries repeatedly allied with us to protect their freedom and ours. America helped create the European Union in order to bury centuries of warfare among European countries, uniting historic adversaries lest they fight again, and pull us into yet another World War. America led in developing international institutions and alliances which project the power of American ideals to protect us and much of humanity.
Racists claiming to represent the real America, are instead ripping out the veins and arteries that power our country. They're doing the devil's work to destroy all that has been great about America.
So don't forget to vote – we've got work to do.
— This commentary was broadcast on WAMC Northeast Report, November 6, 2018.
[1] Par. 3 of Article VI.
[2] Art. I, §3; Art. II, §1; Art. VI, §3; and the 4th Amendment.
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Response to School Shootings
After this latest school shooting with 17 dead, I've read wonderful pieces by people who lost loved ones to guns, and banal pieces by wonderful writers whose imaginations were fried by the horror. What's left? Sometimes I try to convince, or fire the choir. Here I'm trying to understand why we can't put the guns away.
There are many strands in our struggle over guns.
Some decided the Civil Rights Movement justified refighting the Civil War. There's literature at gun shows and conclaves of gun owners that would be out of place anywhere else.
Some associations, like the NRA, respond to their most committed, and extreme, members. The NRA's extremists found a way to hold and even enlarge their membership while pushing it further toward the wrong – the opposite of left is certainly not a synonym for correct.
Some politicians have been scaring people for decades. It's us against them and support your police – hardly an issue until it's used to justify shooting some people in the back – that's against the law for everyone else and I can't support so-called "law enforcement" that shoots people in the back.
Let me suggest another. The Founders' divisions persist. The Founders talked and wrote about the general welfare, the opposite of selfishness. They did not glorify freedom from regulation. The record shows amazing levels of social regulation – and by the way you couldn't keep ammunition in your house – it belonged in armories. The Founders believed in social responsibility, though they certainly did not always act the part.
On the other side, their "Don't Tread on Me," patriotic slogan is now taken as an emblem for extreme libertarianism. I've seen people so sure of their right to do whatever they wanted that they were outraged when cutting their driveway through a neighbor's property and cutting down her flowering bushes drew a very angry response. And once the Revolution ended British restraints on westward settlements, the former colonists couldn't wait to snatch Indian land across the Appalachians. Indians didn't count any more than slaves did; in fact Indians were often enslaved as well as exterminated. If "we" want something, and "we" can get it, then "we" should take it. "Don't tread on me."
Many schools reduced violence by banning guns, but many gun enthusiasts think more kids with guns would make schools safer. Many cities reduced violence by keeping guns off the streets. To a carpenter problems can look like nails; to orthopedists problems can look like broken bones; to gun owners ….
The tools we hold invite the responses we make. They dis or disobey us, here's my tool and it makes these surgical cuts in your internal organs. So as innumerable old western movies celebrated, you had to "hang 'em up." (Whoever thought those movies could teach us anything?)
It's not just macho culture; not just about gender or sex. It's about getting what we want, controlling the world, not sharing or living in it.
Trayvon Martin never threatened George Zimmerman even if he convinced a bizarre jury that he was in reasonable fear, but Zimmerman had a gun which made it easy to shoot a man in the back. That's a piece of "American culture" I can do without. I much prefer people with the decency and the wisdom to try to live together in peace, paz, pacem in terris, shalom, salaam – peace in any language and the peace that we claim in all faiths.
— This commentary was broadcast on WAMC Northeast Report, February 20, 2018.
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Democracy and Public Investment
What democracy can do is obscured by today's free market, anti-regulatory, anti-government rhetoric. That rhetoric creates real winners and losers, but taking it at its word, it's based on an everyone-for-him-or-herself form of individualism. It asserts that our successes and failures are almost solely the result of our personal abilities and denies that what we accomplish always rests in part on what society gives us.
That flatly contradicts reality. This country blossomed because we worked together, with a spirit of cooperation. Cooperation that made associations, large businesses and elective government possible.
Everyone-for-him-or-herself-alone ideologues shouldn't blind us to the public role in development. America's Founders knew they needed government. As aptly described in the show Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris and their colleagues understood the importance of a banking system and had government create it. Across the thirteen original states, Founders used government to open transportation to the west. Washington himself was deeply involved in efforts by Virginia and Maryland. When New York, which had a sea level path to the interior, finally built the Erie Canal, it set the path for industrialization and settlement for a century and a half, and made the North into the powerhouse that won the Civil War.
Today we've lost a shared sense of the public investments necessary to continued development, and the foundations of American success are falling apart. Bridges take unsuspecting occupants into the rivers and ravines below. Water systems deliver lead, mercury, and an armory of toxins. Sewage systems poison rivers, people and the living things that depend on them. Trains crash for lack of decent equipment. The electronic grid barely carries ordinary loads. The next solar storm can take the electrical and internet grids down, bringing the country to a lengthy stand-still. American colleges and universities have been the envy of the world but stripping their resources will ensure their replacement abroad and with them the R&D that has been central to American leadership. We are the wealthiest of countries but too cheap to fund our infrastructure, terrified that taking care of America would actually put people to work, or that public spirit in building and rebuilding America will help someone else's business.
The best stimuli for business are investments in the capacity of the public, infrastructure for getting things done, and rules that create a common floor of good behavior. The idea that everything depends on lowering taxes is pure garbage from people who want their winnings the easy way – by taking them away from the people.
Trump promised to put infrastructure in his budget. It's hard to know whether he'll keep that promise, whether enough Republicans will follow him, or whether it would include anything more than a wall on the border or brick and mortar repairs. Public investment could make infrastructure better and more resilient, as so dearly needed in Puerto Rico and on the coasts. Public investment could go well beyond controversial minimum wage laws by offering decent, useful, jobs at livable wages. Public programs could improve the private market by creating a model to compete with, like the public health care option that Obama tried to get.
Madison, Hamilton and their contemporaries had a much more patriotic and mature understanding of what American progress depended on – the people, the whole people, not just a few plunderers appropriating for themselves what should be our birthright.
— This commentary was broadcast on WAMC Northeast Report, Jan. 30, 2018.
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Sloppy Thinking About Gun Control
After the car ran down people in lower Manhattan, I read an article about making streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with the author's suggestions but I want to make a point about arguments for and against. One could say that people with bad intentions will just find other ways to kill lots of people. True or false? Actually it's completely misleading. How many people with bad intentions will find other ways and how many won't? How many people will do as much damage to as many people and how many won't? The statement that some will doesn't tell you. And the claim that all will is pure nonsense.
In the early 70s, I was a manager of the New York City legal services program, then known as Community Action for Legal Services or CALS. We had twenty-two offices around the city. All of them were in the poorest and most crime-ridden areas of the city. And in those pre-computer days, many of them had IBM Selectric typewriters which made our staff much more efficient but were expensive. Some thieves craved them. In our East New York office there had been a series of burglaries. After each we hardened the office against further break-ins. But those thieves were determined. Unable to get through the doors, they blew a hole through the wall and took the typewriters.
Obviously some thieves will use explosives. Should we have concluded that we might as well remove the locks on the doors of our twenty-one other offices? Plainly no. Nor would I recommend that you remove the locks from the doors of your homes. Nor would I recommend that you take all the shades and drapes down became peeping toms will find a way around them. Thinking about problems without examining how many, and what proportion of people will do how much damage is just sloppy thinking.
The NRA tells us that bad people will get guns. That statement is neither right nor wrong. If they mean some bad people will get guns no matter what we do, that is clearly true. But if they mean that whatever measures we take will not reduce the number of bad people who can get powerful weapons, that is clearly false. And they can't tell us anything realistic about the proportions because they convinced Congress to block research into the effect of possible regulation of weapons. So they make sloppy statements hoping you'll be taken in.
The Founders of our country were not so sloppy and they did lots to regulate guns – the most significant of which was to prohibit people from keeping ammunition in their homes. Ammunition exploded and caused fires so it had to be kept in public armories. Regulation mattered and they knew it.
So when people try to tell you what regulation will or won't do, don't let them pull the wool over your eyes with sloppy nonsense. Some regulations work better than others. That's a valuable subject of research and study, not an occasion for sloppy all-or-nothing claims.
— This commentary was broadcast on WAMC Northeast Report, Nov. 14, 2017.
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Trying Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
It seems clear that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev exploded bombs at the Boston Marathon. Although some wanted him tried as an enemy combatant outside of the requirements of the Constitution, the Obama Administration has brought charges in the federal courts.
It's fascinating how some Americans treat our Constitution. On the one hand, many people make a fetish about what the Founders thought and did in the eighteenth century, and on the other many, often the same people, argue that the Constitution is simply irrelevant, doesn't apply, can safely be ignored or forgotten.
Let's get past that one quickly. Although the evidence so far does not fit the definition, the Constitution has a very clear notion of what to call Americans who adhere to our enemies – "traitors." Read the rest of this entry »
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>In my house, we say travel is our vice of choice, which means a voyage takes precedence over trinkets, gadgets, fancy dinners or fashion. Apparently we are not in the majority because in late March, the U.S. Passport office announced that the applications for passports dropped by 25% auguring that many consumers have decided to dedicate their hard earned dollars to other corners of the market.
My neighbors and I are all tightening our belts and staying up nights worrying about mortgages, groceries and college tuition. My little family is not flourishing the way we were a few years back, but still my dreams wander to travel and the huge benefits I accrue from far-flung trips.
I just returned from ten days in Tunisia. This trip was fueled, on the surface, by a writing assignment on a wonderful former fashionista who now works teaching design and business skills to artisans in the developing world. Inspirational stuff right there, but what made it mind expanding and debt worthy, were the conversations I encountered in every corner of the small Islamic country of Tunisia.
Conversation was facilitated because French is a common language. Most Tunisians possess a basic grasp, lingering as a shadow from French colonial times, and I have my exuberant, rudimentary high school Francais. I love to talk and somehow people babble back: shop keepers, taxi drivers, waiters and the artisans in the market. For me this is the miracle of travel.
Yes there are deserted Roman cities, which inspire with efficiency, and the elegance of design from over two thousand years ago. The palimpsests of central heating, non-skid streets, theatrical acoustics and gob-smacking, mosaic beauty are reason enough to travel to Tunisia, but for me it is the conversations that glue us to each other as members of a tribe that is larger than country, religion, gender or ethnicity.
We are human. We long to connect. So when a cab driver in Tunis took me back to my hotel after a day ogling mosaics at the Bardo museum, I was overjoyed when he turned off the engine and asked if we could talk. He wanted to know why Americans have such a negative image of Arab people. Did all Americans really think that all Arabs were terrorists and evil? It was heartbreaking and important.
I told him that many Americans, know that good and bad people populate all countries, all races and all genders. I told him I believed that more things connect us, rather than separate us. Maybe it is conversation in the present tense and the simple vocabulary from which I carefully parse my words, but there was a power to this conversation that doesn't happen when we banter at a dinner party or yell back at the evening news.
When I was attending the workshops that Aid to Artisans sponsored in Tozeur, a small walled city in the south, I had another opportunity to converse. I rose early one morning and hired a caleche pulled a scrawny horse named Pamela Anderson and driven by Petit Omar.
I had read about the distinctive brickwork that faces many buildings in the medina and the newer city and I wanted to see the brickfields.
So we clomped along talking about farming, and the fancy hotels that had closed down because of the dwindling economy. I learned how dates are hand fertilized, how the lettuces are planted under the massive date trees in the oasis where 200,000 palms flourish. "Is farming like this where you live?" We talked about family farms and factory farms, and as we trotted along a dirt road, little kids and adults waved, yelling OBAMA! OBAMA! They knew I was American and I was happy to be embraced for a potentially positive administration.
When we arrived at the brick fields Pamela Anderson pulled up under a tree. I walked over to inspect the wood forms, but the barefoot worker only wanted to talk about Obama. " Are you as hopeful as we are?" he asked, "Do you believe this will change the world?" I hedged my bets, as I am not sure what one man can do. I said that, but then I realized that the conversations, which inspired me in EL Kef, Tunis, Dougga, and Tozeur all took, place one on one.
It saddens me that travel is so expensive and often seen as an expendable luxury, because I see travel as the staff of life. For me, money spent traveling comes back ten fold. The lessons learned and the goodness spread returns and multiples back home.


Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity releases a press stated which stated the FG's determination in bringing relief to recently rescued Boko Haram captives and to ensure their well-being in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in the Northeast, the Federal Government has conducted an on-the spot assessment at the camp in Bama.
At the visit, the delegation led by the Presidential Special Adviser on Social Investments, Mrs. Maryam Uwais restated government's firm commitment to bringing relief to the thousands of recently rescued Boko Haram captives currently hosted in the IDP camp in Bama, Borno State.
"We're here to see for ourselves the situation on the ground here," she said.
The delegation, which included senior officials of the Borno State Government, officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, the State Emergency Management Agency, and representatives from the United Nations, was taken around the camp, home to 25,000 adults and children, by the Brigade Commander of the 21 Armoured Brigade, Bama, Colonel Adamu Garba Laka.
The Commander highlighted the challenges faced by the camp, including shortages of medical personnel, shelter, water and sanitation facilities. Mrs Uwais commended the military for their gallantry and dedication to securing and caring for the displaced persons.
Acknowledging that "this is a crisis situation", she assured that the Federal Government would work with the State government, international community, local partners and civil society groups to ensure that all the needs of the inhabitants of Bama camp, and the several others like it, are speedily met.
Speaking during the visit, the Borno State Health Commissioner, Dr Haruna Mshelia, said that 1,800 of the most vulnerable persons in the camp had been relocated to Maiduguri for medical attention and specialized feeding, and that the relocation is ongoing.
He added that a permanent health team had been working in the camp since May 2016, and that the existing team still required a lot of support.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on IDPs, Dr Mariam Masha, assured that, alongside the humanitarian work, the Federal and State Governments are also focusing on the longer-term work of ensuring that the reconstruction and resettlement is effectively hastened to enable the IDPs return to their homes and communities, and rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
She added that as the military continues its task of liberating hitherto isolated communities from the grip of Boko Haram, the scale of the humanitarian crisis is certain to increase, and called for increased support from all partners and stakeholders.
The six year old insurgency by Boko Haram has already resulted in the displacement of more than two million people across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. In the third quarter of 2015, the Nigerian military launched Operation Zaman Lafiya Dole, and followed this up at the end of April with Operation Crackdown, intended as a final onslaught against Boko Haram in its Sambisa Forest base.
The immediate outcome of this determined push has been the liberation of tens of thousands of people from areas previously in Boko Haram captivity. In recent months, no fewer than fifteen new camps have emerged in these newly liberated areas, including the one in Bama.
Together, these emergency camps hold more than 200,000 people. Having been held for extended periods of time in areas hitherto isolated by Boko Haram, malnutrition problems brought in while in captivity has now emerged as a challenge that requires urgent humanitarian attention as the rescued persons from the liberated communities arrive in the IDP camp.
The development agencies and local partners have continued to support governments' efforts to address the welfare needs of the displaced persons, but every time new communities are liberated, hordes of hitherto unknown captives are rescued.
To that end, the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Health this week declared a nutritional emergency in Borno State, and mobilized a rapid response team to coordinate efforts to ameliorate the situation.


I ordered some clothes from a well-known online shop last year. One of the pieces I ordered was a cardigan shirt. When I received my cardigan shirt, there was a hole that was cut all the way through both the front and the back of the shirt.
A closer look at the hole.
I had a book of fabric swatches that I bought a couple of years ago. I didn't need a lot of fabric, so this was perfect. I picked this turquoise leaf and flower print, and by chance I had some matching thread.
I've also had this vanishing fabric marker that I bought a while ago. I put it to good use.
I drew a heart around the holes in the front and back of the shirt.
I worked on the back of the shirt first, in case I messed up it's not as critical, since it was the back of the shirt. I pinned the flower fabric behind the shirt.
Then I started slowly sewing the heart. I took it really slow and occasionally lifted the presser foot so I can adjust the direction of the fabric while I sewed the heart.
When I was done sewing all the way around the heart, this was what it looked like.
Then, I took a pair of sharp scissors that I use for cutting thread and fabric, and cut the inside of the hole out. I started with the hole that was on the shirt and worked around the heart, leaving a 1/4 inch margin on the inside.
After I cut the heart out, you can see the turquoise flower fabric underneath!
I repeated the same process with the front of the shirt. Now I had confidence that this will turn out okay!
After I was done sewing the heart, I cut out the heart , just like I did before on the back of the shirt.
The front of the shirt was done too! Looked pretty good to me.
I have washed the shirt since then and everything looks fine. Now instead of a run-of-the-mill cardigan shirt (that had holes in the front and the back), I have a unique shirt that nobody else has! It wasn't too hard and I'm very happy with the results.
Great job! See, I would have returned it because I would never have come up with such a cute idea. TFS.
Looks great! I would have returned!! Or maybe make them give you a discount off future purchases?!
This is so cute! Thanks for the inspiration!


This has been very demoralizing.
I've been playing through an entirely new game, from PoE1 to 2, and within Deadfire I have been supporting the Huana and thoroughly exploring all quests and factions.
I finally push to Magran's Teeth after exhausting anything I could do in Act 2, including both major DLC, and am ready to begin the final faction quest for Onekaza. I finish the quest and return to her... only to get completely roadblocked. She has no option to begin the push to Ukaizo, instead still speaking as though I've yet to complete the Wahaki tribe quest when I long finished that up.
Searching for answers has lead me to find this has been a known and reported bug since May last year. At least. Why is this bug still not fixed? Even doing one of the supposed workarounds - being, kill the Wahaki chieftain - did not work to fix the issue. The only other method I've heard of is killing all the Crookspur slavers later, but given how far I've gotten in my game since then, that is not an option save replaying the entirety of Deadfire over again. Normally, that would not bother me - but to be forced to do so because of a bug that has remained unfixed for months now is just absolutely crushing.
Why is the Huana faction still bugged like this, after so long? To my knowledge, RDC and VTC are not bugged in this manner, nor are the pirates. Why only this faction? And why has it not been fixed despite what looks to be a fair amount of reported cases?
Is there any way to actually force this quest to flag so I do not have to replay all of my progress to this point just to get around it?


An issue with the F-35's ejection seat has grounded lightweight pilots from flying the aircraft, according to a report by Defense News. The issue was uncovered during testing in August and the restriction (of pilots weighing less than 136lb) is reportedly only an interim measure until the manufacturer – Martin-Baker – can develop a solution to the problem in cooperation with the F-35's Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin. Fighter ejection seats are supposed to be capable of accommodating pilots weighing between 103 and 246lbs.
The Air Force could deploy F-35As as soon as they reach Initial Operating Capability (IOC), according to the head of the aircraft's Integration Program Office. With the Air Force scheduled to operate a squadron of operational F-35s by the beginning of August 2016, the three missions likely to be tasked to these 12 to 14 aircraft are close air support, interception of enemy aircraft and suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD). The first of these is becoming increasingly controversial, given the Joint Strike Fighter's fist fight external link with the combat-proven A-10, while SEAD is closer to the original mission set intended for the F-35.
However, the Air Force first needs to rectify its current poor availability rate before IOC and deployment of its F-35s can take place. The Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS) is proving to be a problem for the Air Force and will likely be the most significant obstacle ahead of achieving IOC next year. Despite recent software upgrades, the ALIS system is proving to be a sticking point, with an accelerated production schedule likely to place increasing logistical demands on both the supply base and Air Force.


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The ancient Bards encoded their knowledge of the natural world of animals and plants and the power to heal, order and judge into teasing riddles that were told or sung, not written down. They believed they had powers of divination, shape changing and the ability to travel to the 'other world'. Inspiration and vision are the foundation of Celtic myth. In this book Claire Hamilton captures the enchanting and often strange beauty of the tales they told. She recreates the experience of the Celtic listeners of long ago by framing the myth with the teller and teller with his or her audience who would have listened spellbound as this higher knowledge was handed down.
Publication date 16 Oct 2008
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An original and compelling retelling of some wonderful stories by an accomplished mistress of the bardic art. Unusual and refreshing, the book provides within its covers the variety and colour of a complete bardic festival. - Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, University of Bristol Claire has captured the essence of the 'Otherworld' held within these old tales and spun her own wonderful spell out of them. The result takes the reader on a completely captivating and magical journey - Philip Carr-Gomm, Chief of OBOD (Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids Of all the books I have ever read that retell the ancient myths this one is my favourite. It is as if the Bards themselves are whispering words from the past, rekindling the fire beneath the Awen's brew for a new generation. - Damh the Bard An important work that offers new insights into the role of the archetype in present-day spirituality. - Professor John Clarke, Kingston University, London. Brings the Celtic and Druidic narrative alive - Scientific and Medical Network
About Claire Hamilton
Claire Hamilton is a writer on Celtic and Arthurian mythology and spirituality. She runs workshops, which explore the dramatic presentation of myths through narrative, poetry and music. She lives in Monmouthshire, Wales.


With inspiring power couples such as President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, Will & Jada Pinkett-Smith, Jay and Bey, D.Wade and Gabrielle Union — just to name a few — we have several dope examples of partnerships that elevate the beauty, joy, and power of Black love.
This has inspired TheBlackManCan to host The Power Couple Brunch to go behind the scenes of Black Couples, the way we rarely see them portrayed and/or celebrated.
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A number of years ago, Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, M.D. began his research on a hormone called "Human chorionic gonadotrophin", his research became a significant breakthrough on how we can control the body to burn fat. This process is short, safe, predictable and easy to do. You will either complete a 23 or 40 day protocol. We have seen people during this 23 or 40 day protocol lose up to 2 lbs of fat a day.
Most people tend to keep the weight off long term. This is accomplished by a resetting of the metabolism and balancing of the Hypothalamus and Pituitary glands. Cravings for high carbohydrate and junk food seem to disappear. It is that simple and very effective. We have seen up to 4 pounds a day at times during this process and tremendous reshaping of our bodies to feel great and look like a younger you!
The protocol starts with 2 days of eating as much food as possible, especially foods that are high in fats and starches. The purpose of this is to ensure your body's normal fat reserves are full. Most people starting the Fat Release System have done some dieting, often a LOT of dieting, and your normal fat reserves may be depleted. Your body needs these normal fat reserves, especially the structural fat around your organs, before starting the weight loss protocol.
Phase 1 continues for the first two days of the program while taking the homeopathic HCG drops. The reason for this is that it takes having the Homeopathic HCG circulating in your body before your brain starts signaling your body to release its stores of long term fat (LT fat). During these two days of overeating to build your normal fat reserves, it is common for most patients to gain weight. This is a sign your body is rebuilding some necessary normal fat reserves. This weight gain is extremely important since your body will need that normal fat for protection later on. The more weight you gain in this early phase, the more severely your normal fat was depleted.
What makes this program so unique, is that you will not only lose pounds but also inches, as your body re-sculpts itself!
Once on Phase 2, most people will average one pound of weight loss per day. More weight may be lost in the earlier phase of the program, and possibly less in the later phases, depending on how much weight you have to lose. Men usually lose slightly more weight than women.
The protocol continues for at least 23 days, up to a maximum of 40 days during Phase 2. When you stop taking the homeopathic HCG Diet drops at the end of Phase 2, the restricted calorie diet needs to be continued for an additional 3 days because there will still be HCG in your system continuing to liberate stores of LT fat. If you resume a normal calorie diet too soon, you will gain significant amounts of weight. After the three days of reduced-calorie eating are complete, you may resume eating a normal level of calories, but you cannot eat any starches or sugars for 3 weeks.
The Fat Release System is either the 23 Day Protocol (1 oz bottle) or the 40 Day Protocol (1.86 oz bottle), whichever you use depends on how much weight you would like to lose. Both the 23 and 40 Day Protocol will do all 3 phases of the program.
This phase consists of the first 2 days. Build up normal fat stores by eating a diet high in calories and fat. Eat as much as you want and whatever you want. Eat every few hours. Take Homeopathic HCG directed.
This phase consists of the next 21 days or 38 days (depending on if you chose the 23 or 40 day Protocol). Two meals of 3.5 oz of protein, plus vegetables, fruits, small amount of grains. Take Homeopathic HCG directed.
For 3 weeks, eat as much as you want. However, you are not allowed to eat starches and sugar.
As you can see, this system isn't all that complicated but it does require a change in your eating habits.


AKM implements tests to fit the purpose of the verification, with reference to industry standards such as JEITA, JEDEC and AEC-Q100.
Also, with reference to JEITA EDR-4708 (Guideline for LSI Reliability Qualification Plan), which was newly established in April 2011, we have added and are placing importance on a test method to suit the failure mode, with the purposes of improving the accuracy of reliability predictions and improving the ability to detect failures for each failure mode.
AKM can consider referencing other standards as needed.
- Verification that all required elements and parameters identified at the planning stage have been satisfied.
AKM implements the qualification when the necessary requirements decided at the product planning and design start stages are satisfied.
- Family qualification: We analyze the differences between the relevant product and existing products for which reliability qualification has already been completed and for which there are sufficient proven results in mass production. This reliability qualification can then be applied if it is possible to view the relevant product as a family device of the existing products.
The distribution of failures is divided roughly into the three areas of early failures, operation period failures and wear-out failures. It is possible to show the relationship between the instantaneous failure rate and the actual usage time as a bathtub curve, as shown in Figure below.
It is also possible to know the failure distribution from the Weibull distribution profile parameter m.
"Tests done at stress levels which exceed the specified values of the standard conditions, to reduce the observation time for the item's reaction to stress or to increase the reaction during a given time.
Note : In order to maintain the appropriateness of the testing, the accelerated test must not alter the basic fault modes, the failure mechanism or the relationship between these two.
Accelerated testing is a method that focuses on a specific stress in the usage environment. Testing is performed with stricter conditions to accelerate the failure phenomena physically or chemically, so that the failure rate and life under normal conditions can be estimated in a shorter period of time (or with a reduced number of test samples). However, there are limits to the acceleration possible at the product level, so it is not always possible to recreate the targeted failure mode. We also perform highly accelerated tests at the element level using TEG (Test Element Groups).
The above four models are considered when carrying out the product reliability tests and validation.


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Chaos canyon is complete! It took many hour long sessions of non-stop building, but it's finally here.
It has the same loadout as Happy Home in arcade/classic rounds, and some structures are built with smaller bricks to make them easier to destory.
It's not 100% accurate to the real Chaos Canyon, but it feels the same for sure.
Get it from the Roblox pack or the All Maps pack.
Kaje's Castle is also a playable map now.
Get it from the Default Ports pack or the All Maps pack.
The Pyramid's loadout also now contains spears instead of bows, and the Bedroom now has a proper image that's been put in the OP.
- Fixed force2teams config setting doing nothing.
- Killstreaks have had many tweaks, including using center print instead of bottom print in places, and lower requirements for messages to appear.
- Fixed Big Boned, Blockland Bug, and Revenge achievements.
- Removed bouncy ray and shotgun.
This is very likely to be the final version, there seems to be no major bugs left. Be sure to notify me if you find something wrong with the gamemode though.
My next focus will be making more parts of this gamemode into standalone add-ons, such as the modified grapple rope, the admin tags, etc.
This is very likely to be the final version, there seems to be no major bugs left.
This is not linked with any updater stuff. If you care enough about the gamemode though, you can activate email notifications for new posts made in this topic, through the button.
- Many features from the DeathMatch main version have been stripped out.
- Addons included in the gamemode are no longer used, except for the akimbo rocket launcher which can be disabled.
- Non-default items have "proxies," they're replaced by default items when spawned or given to players.
- Maps made for the main version of DeathMatch should be compatable.
it's deathmatch without all the fluff. it's very basic but it's as default-style as you can get. it's also perfect as a base to work off of when creating a new gamemode.
use notepad++ (or another text editing program) and edit the gamemode's internal files.
otherwise, you'd be """making""" a gamemode through limited options. if you want something like this, you have slayer. support_preferences is also a gamemode editor by your definition there, so you have that. not to mention you have an entire events system. you can make some pretty neat stuff with those.
I remade e1m1 if you want to use it. It's not the best, but I did what I could. Obviously you can modify it to your liking.
How do you add maps? I tried adding them to saves folder, and add-ons folder.
Put the maps into your add-ons folder like you would with speedkart tracks.
Forums are back, now I can post the change logs for the updates I did.
Removed pref-changing commands to simplify things - you now need to use Glass or RTB to change the prefs.
Left-handed rocket launcher doesn't play the weapon switch sound anymore. This is to be consistent with akimbo guns and other weapons.
Restored events from full version, but they do nothing. This is so maps will load better.
Restored health indicator from full version.
Restored bottom print map loading message from full version.
The lite version has also been uploaded to Glass. It's under review currently.
By the way, you can always submit bugs and maybe even pull requests through the GitHub, would be VERY helpful!


If you find that at any time you need to edit or cancel a payment request, you must first Rescind the payment. Payments can only be Rescinded if they are in the Pending or Draft status. This article will walk you through Rescinding your payment request.
1. To view your Dashboard, select the Direct Pay tab on the far left-hand side of your screen.
2. Once on your Dashboard, locate the Payment you would like to edit or cancel. Select the drop-down arrow next to View and select Rescind Payment.
3. A pop-up will appear asking if you are sure you would like to continue. Select Yes, Rescind Payment.
4. You will notice your Status has changed from Pending to Rescinded.


Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Gabriel.
Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the right side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.
Offside, Arsenal. Alexis Sánchez tries a through ball, but Aaron Ramsey is caught offside.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eric Dier.
Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the centre of the box following a fast break.
Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Victor Wanyama.
Attempt blocked. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Olivier Giroud.
Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mesut Özil following a corner.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Olivier Giroud.
Delay in match Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) because of an injury.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Hugo Lloris.
Attempt saved. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Attempt missed. Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Alexis Sánchez.
Attempt missed. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Granit Xhaka following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey with a cross.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Aaron Ramsey.
Attempt saved. Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.
Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Davies following a corner.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Arsenal 0. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Penalty conceded by Gabriel (Arsenal) after a foul in the penalty area.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Arsenal 0. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.
Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.


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Home / Companies / News / HCL Tech appoints Fabiano Funari as Brazil head to fuel growth in Latin America
HCL Tech appoints Fabiano Funari as Brazil head to fuel growth in Latin America
1 min read . Updated: 19 Aug 2021, 08:16 PM IST Livemint, Edited By Vivek Punj
HCL Technologies said its existing customer base will also benefit from expansion in Latin America. (MINT_PRINT)
HCL Technologies employs more than 800 people across its national headquarters delivery centers in Brazil, and services more than 30 clients in the country
HCL Technologies has appointed Fabiano Funari as the country head for Brazil. The appointment is meant to drive growth for the company in Latin America. HCL Corporate Vice President Anil Ganjoo will serve as the corporate sponsor for the region.
With Funari's appointment, HCL continues to widen its global footprint, provide digital transformation services across all industries and add to its customer roster, the Indian IT major said in a statement on Thursday. Its existing customer base will also benefit from HCL's expansion in Latin America at a time when global connection has become crucial, it further added.
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"I'm excited to lead and be part of HCL's dynamic team in Brazil, a country that's home to innovative firms eager for a technology company to provide world-class solutions," Funari said. "With HCL's presence in Latin America, we'll be able to continue to deliver top services to new and existing customers."
Funari joined the HCL Technologies to spearhead the company's growth across all industries and capabilities in Brazil. The company employs more than 800 people across its national headquarters in Sao Paulo and delivery centers in Sao Paulo, Sau Leopoldo and Curitiba. HCL services more than 30 clients across Brazil.
Funari has held leadership positions at various global technology companies. He has a successful track record in sales and service delivery and a deep understanding of the local marketplace, including its needs and unique characteristics.
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Q: PHP Imagick setFont not working in web but works in console Here's the Code:

/* Create Imagick objects */
$image = new \Imagick();
$draw = new \ImagickDraw();
$color = new \ImagickPixel('#000000');
$background = new \ImagickPixel('none'); // Transparent

/* Font properties */
$draw->setFont("annabelle");
$draw->setFontSize(80);
$draw->setFillColor($color);
$draw->setStrokeAntialias(true);
$draw->setTextAntialias(true);

/* Get font metrics */
$metrics = $image->queryFontMetrics($draw, $text);

/* Create text */
$draw->annotation(0, $metrics['ascender'], $text);

/* Create image */
$image->newImage($metrics['textWidth'], $metrics['textHeight'], background);
$image->setImageFormat('png');
$image->drawImage($draw);

/* Save image */
file_put_contents('imagick_test.png', $image);
?>

And ImageMagick configuration file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<typemap>
   <include file="type-dejavu.xml" />
   <include file="type-ghostscript.xml" />
   <include file="type-windows.xml" />
   <type name="annabelle" family="annabelle" glyphs="/home/nginx/testing/annabelle.ttf" />
</typemap>

If I call this in console mode by: php -f test.php, it's OK. But when I accessing by web interface: http://test-srv/testing/test.php, It raise an exception:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'ImagickException' with message 'The path does not exist: /home/nginx/testing/annabelle' in /home/nginx/testing/test.php:15 Stack trace: #0 /home/nginx/testing/test.php(15): ImagickDraw->setfont('annabelle') #1 {main} thrown in /home/nginx/testing/test.php on line 15
I tried use setFontFamily() instead of setFont() like this:
...
/* Font properties */
$draw->setFontFamily("annabelle");
$draw->setFontSize(80);
...

Or using the font file instead using font name in setFont() like this:
...
/* Font properties */
$draw->setFont("annabelle.ttf");
$draw->setFontSize(80);
...

The image created like this:

The right one should like this if I run the code in cosole:

A: Well, I get the answer.
I've upgraded php from 5.5 to 5.6, than I found Imagick module disabled so I re-emerge Imagick with PHP_TARGET="php5-6" (I'm running gentoo). But I forget restart php-fpm service. After I restart the service, it runs right.

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Did you know baboons have a snake phobia? That hippos mate in the water because they're too heavy to do the deed on dry land? That zebras, wildebeests, and antelope will not defend their young if they come under attack?
These are just a few of the facts our driver-guides regaled us with as we ventured into the wilds of the plains in southern Africa.
• Zebras, wildebeests, and antelope will not defend their young because they have no horns and are defenseless themselves. They abandon their young and use their speed to save themselves.
• In the wild, giraffes munch on the leaves of any given tree for only 5 to 10 minutes before moving on to another. The native trees have adapted to prevent their own demise by producing chemicals which make their leaves unpalatable to the hapless giraffe after a few minutes.
• Nature takes care of its own. The babies of three-toed birds can see and fly at birth; the young of four-toed species are born blind and can't fly until they're two weeks old. The reason? Three-toed birds can't perch in trees and, therefore, must feed on what they find on the ground where they're vulnerable to predators. Four-toed types can perch in trees where they're safer.
• Jackals always run in pairs.
• Warthogs can run faster than lions. They take daily mud baths which provide protection from the sun, bugs, and parasites. Their color changes with the soil they bathe in.
• Elephants also take mud baths, primarily to keep their skin from drying out. They typically live from 60 to 120 years. Baby elephants can walk within 30 minutes of birth, but reach their full height only after 20 or 30 years.
• Elephants mourn their dead. After a death, the herd stays near the body for awhile, then moves on; later, after the dead animal's flesh has been consumed by scavengers, the herd returns and scatters the bones.
• The darker the mane of a male lion, the healthier he is and the more attractive to females.
• Crocodiles grow up to 17 feet long and can stay underwater for up to an hour. They prefer deep water where they can ambush their prey. They lay and incubate their eggs from October to December. If the temperature is high, most of the eggs produce males; if low, most are female. The reverse is true for tortoises.
• When a hippo dies, he lies with his feet in the air.
• The red-billed ox pecker hangs around with the hippos and eats the parasites who live on hippo flesh.
• The dwarf mongoose and the hornbill also like to share space. The mongoose digs up insects for himself and the hornbill, and the hornbill alerts the mongoose to predators.
• Leopards are solitary animals; they live 15 to 20 years and often drag their kill up into a tree.
• The pennant-winged nightjar is the most unusual bird we saw. Flying only at night on long floppy wings with appendages dangling from their wing tips, they swoop through the night sky with mouths open as they gather insects out of the air.
• The large termite mounds (some more than 6 feet tall) which dot the landscape serve many purposes. Natives eat the termites and crush the rock-like mounds for use in building. After being crushed, the material is mixed with grass, water, and elephant dung, which serves as a permanent insect repellant. The mixture is poured into forms where it hardens into concrete blocks. Later, mortar is made from the same materials and used to bind the blocks together.
• The baobob tree (which looks like a Dr. Seuss creation—fat trunk topped by undersized, scraggly branches) can live up to 4,000 years. Seeds of the tree are made into coffee, leaves are used as spinach-like vegetable, and the bark is woven into baskets.
• The woolly caper bush has edible blossoms and is believed to keep bad spirits away. But wait! There's more! The roots are used as substitutes for Viagra.
And thus concludes our fascinating facts.


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Dr. Isabel Keith Baker (May 27, 1929 - September 2, 2019) was a former educator in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Throughout her 43 years as an educator, Baker taught in several Oklahoma schools, retiring as Professor Emeritus from Northeastern State University in 1994. Baker served on the Oklahoma State University A&M Board of Regents from 1991 until 1999. She played a major role in the renovation of Willard Hall, the home of OSU's College of Education. During her career and throughout her life, Baker has been recognized as a champion of gender equity. In the 1980s, Baker ran for Congress and was defeated by Republican candidate, Tom Coburn.

Early life
Isabel Keith was born in Oklahoma in 1929, the daughter of two teachers. She attended school in the Tahlequah area and graduated from high school when she was only sixteen years old. During the Depression her family became very close and had to rely on one another to survive. Baker enjoyed riding horses and performing music with her family during her childhood. Her father eventually stopped teaching and worked for a construction company, sending checks back to his family, in order to provide for them better. Baker had one sister and one brother, both older and since deceased.

Her future husband, Tim Baxter, lived down the road from her family's farm and once he returned from the war, the two attended Northeastern State University, taking many of the same classes. Once they married, Baker became pregnant while still in college, and a rule existed at the time that stated pregnant women could not finish their internships. She hid her pregnancy from her supervisors and graduated without any repercussions. Baker graduated with three degrees, one in home economics, speech and drama, and education. She later became a reading specialist.

Career
Baker entered the workforce while continuing to take night classes from Oklahoma State University for her master's degree. Both Baker and her husband worked on earning their master's degrees together in order to earn a larger income and to have the ability to provide for their children. In 1954, Baker received her degree and began to teach, later becoming the principal and superintendent of schools. The couple taught in Sapulpa and Shidler before returning to Tahlequah to take care of Mr. Baker's ailing father. They stayed in Tahlequah until they left to work at Morehead State University. The university offered Baker a position that paid double her salary in Oklahoma, so she accepted.

Baker and her husband worked there for three years until they were offered sabbaticals to return to Oklahoma and finish their doctorates. Once they earned their degrees, they returned to Morehead State to pay them back. Eventually they returned to Oklahoma where Baker was offered a position at Oklahoma State University and also served as project coordinator for the OSU Teacher Corps Project.

OSU A&M Board of Regents
Baker was named to the OSU A&M Board of Regents and served for eight years. She was involved with creating an alternative admissions program for OSU that allowed opportunities for students to attend the university even in their ACT score was not high enough. The program would accept students that took summer school and made above a "B" average. Baker served as chairwoman several times.

Renovation of Willard Hall
Baker was concerned with getting OSU's College of Education to pass the NCATE (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education) standards. She found that the reason for their failure to pass was not due to the excellence of the professors or programs, but instead that the college did not have a centrally located place for the dean, faculty, and head of departments. Instead, they were scattered in numerous places across campus. The committee searched the campus and eventually set out to restore Willard, previously a girl's dorm titled WOW (Women of Willard). Since renovating Willard and re-purposing the building as the home for the College of Education, the program has passed NCATE standards without trouble.

After her time serving with the OSU A&M Board of Regents, Baker had the opportunity to return to Northeastern State University where she eventually retired as Professor Emeritus in 1994.

Awards and recognition
Baker's career and achievements have received numerous awards throughout the years, including:
Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame inductee (1997)
Oklahoma Mother of the Year (1998)
OSU's College of Education Hall of Fame inductee (2005)
NSU's President's Award for Community Service (2006)
NSU Centurion (2010)

References

External links
Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame Oral History Project -- OSU Library
Oral History Interview Video -- Dr. Isabel Baker
OSU Agrees To Cutbacks Administration Faces Overhaul -- News OK
Meet Native America: Bill John Baker, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Support Mounts to Drop Wrestling at NEO -- The Oklahoman (March 5, 1994)

1929 births
2019 deaths
Northeastern State University alumni
Northeastern State University faculty
Oklahoma State University alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women

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Eleven years ago during Christmas, Martin Banks' family was thrown into the streets by wealthy landlord, Edwin Hartwell. Now this holiday season, Fate has handed Martin an unexpected gift. Vengeance. Defeating Hartwell at cards gives Martin the chance to financially ruin the man—but damn, instead of money, Hartwell offers his daughter as payment. And double damn, Martin stupidly accepts. How did retribution turn into seduction? Martin refuses to let himself fall in love, so there must be rules to this game.
Desperate to save her father from ruin, Livvy Hartwell agrees to accompany Martin as his paramour. She long ago accepted that a penniless bluestocking like herself had no chance for a well-suited marriage. If a few passionate months with a man like Martin is all she'll ever have as far as romance, it's an opportunity she will take. But she must guard her heart. He might be handsome as the devil and tempting as sin, but she can't be a typical mistress and doesn't want Martin to call her such. In fact, she has a list of rules.
~ Evening meals should be eaten together to converse about the day's events.
** **~ Adventures are required—particularly indoors—and will be greatly appreciated.
The Gentleman's Seduction by Lauren Smith Be still my heart. Martin Banks was a man on a mission. When he was seventeen, he and his family had been thrown out of their house due to not being able to pay a debt owed to Edwin Hartwell. It literally killed his mother and they had to somehow survive. Fast forward sixteen years and Martin has worked hard and become a wealthy man. Livvy Hartwell is the young beautiful daughter of Edwin and in a desperate move she ends up with Martin as "his mistress" to pay a debt her father now owed Martin. Such a wonderful story as only Lauren Smith can tell. The characters came alive and I felt for them both. Martin was such a wounded soul who needed healing and Livvy was full of life and such a good person. I loved when she thought "I have to stop reading Gothic novels. Her fantasies were starting to affect her rational mind" Can these two find love together? How does the blue rose play into their story? A must read to find out all the answers and sigh as you turn to the end. This was part of the Rogues to Lovers Collection!