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Each member of the Rienzi family was sure that returning to the country house that summer would be special. It certainly was for father Vittorio, recovering from a heart attack. It was too for daughter Eleonora, hoping to finally continue her relationship with the handsome Antonio, and mother Marinella, intent on reviving her rather tired marriage. And it was especially so for 15 year old Matteo whose winter had been spent dreaming of the young and beautiful Fiorenza. The return to the old house was heavy with hope and expectation, but none of them could have imagined that it would change their lives so dramatically. Quell'estate is redolent of adolescence, packed with dreams, hopes and fears.


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Rehabilitation Services at Vanderbilt are provided in multiple inpatient and outpatient settings including the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt Childrens Hospital , Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute , Vanderbilt Dayani Center , Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center , Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Vanderbilt-Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital . Professionals represented in our rehabilitation programs include Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapy Assistants, Certified Athletic Trainers, Speech-Language Pathologists, Audiologists, and Neuropsychologists. These professionals participate as essential members of various multidisciplinary teams providing care based on best practices and with a focus on the patient and family. Our programs in rehabilitation extend to our community for continuous learning and support of future professionals. With over 70 contracts to professional schools across the United States, we provide training for over 50 occupational and physical therapy students and 60 audiologist and speech-language pathologists annually. We host many continuing education workshops annually. A majority of these are open to a variety of medical professionals as we strive to share our knowledge and remain current in the latest therapy techniques, theories, and regulations that govern our practice.
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German meteorologist and geophysicist
Alternative Title: Alfred Lothar Wegener
Alfred Wegener, in full Alfred Lothar Wegener, (born November 1, 1880, Berlin, Germany—died November 1930, Greenland), German meteorologist and geophysicist who formulated the first complete statement of the continental drift hypothesis.
What is Alfred Wegener best known for?
German meteorologist and geophysicist Alfred Wegener was the first person to formulate a complete statement of the continental drift hypothesis. Previous scientists had explained the separation of the modern world's continents as having resulted from the subsidence, or sinking, of large portions of an ancient supercontinent to form the oceans.
What were Alfred Wegener's contributions?
Wegener noticed the similarity in the coastlines of eastern South America and western Africa and speculated that those lands had once formed a supercontinent, Pangaea, which had split and slowly moved many miles apart over geologic time. He also pointed to closely related fossil organisms and similar rock strata that occurred on widely separated continents.
How did Alfred Wegener impact the world?
Wegener published his theory in full in 1915, but his contemporaries mostly found it implausible. By 1930 it had been rejected by most geologists, and it sank into obscurity for the next few decades. Wegener's impact was finally felt when his theory was resurrected as part of the theory of plate tectonics during the 1960s.
The son of an orphanage director, Wegener earned a Ph.D. degree in astronomy from the University of Berlin in 1905. He had meanwhile become interested in paleoclimatology, and in 1906–08 he took part in an expedition to Greenland to study polar air circulation. He made three more expeditions to Greenland, in 1912–13, 1929, and 1930. He taught meteorology at Marburg and Hamburg and was a professor of meteorology and geophysics at the University of Graz from 1924 to 1930. He died during his last expedition to Greenland in 1930.
Like certain other scientists before him, Wegener became impressed with the similarity in the coastlines of eastern South America and western Africa and speculated that those lands had once been joined together. In about 1910 he began toying with the idea that in the late Paleozoic Era (about 250 million years ago) all the present-day continents had formed a single large mass, or supercontinent, which had subsequently broken apart. Wegener called this ancient continent Pangaea. Other scientists had proposed such a continent but had explained the separation of the modern world's continents as having resulted from the subsidence, or sinking, of large portions of the supercontinent to form the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Wegener, by contrast, proposed that Pangaea's constituent portions had slowly moved thousands of miles apart over long periods of geologic time. His term for this movement was die Verschiebung der Kontinente ("continental displacement"), which gave rise to the term continental drift.
Wegener first presented his theory in lectures in 1912 and published it in full in 1915 in his most important work, Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (The Origin of Continents and Oceans). He searched the scientific literature for geological and paleontological evidence that would buttress his theory, and he was able to point to many closely related fossil organisms and similar rock strata that occurred on widely separated continents, particularly those found in both the Americas and in Africa. Wegener's theory of continental drift won some adherents in the ensuing decade, but his postulations of the driving forces behind the continents' movement seemed implausible. By 1930 his theory had been rejected by most geologists, and it sank into obscurity for the next few decades, only to be resurrected as part of the theory of plate tectonics during the 1960s.
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plate tectonics: Alfred Wegener and the concept of continental drift
In 1912 German meteorologist Alfred Wegener, impressed by the similarity of the geography of the Atlantic coastlines, explicitly presented the concept of continental drift. Though plate tectonics is by no means synonymous with continental drift, the term…
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In 1912 the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed that throughout most of geologic time there was only one continental mass, which he named Pangaea. At some time during the Mesozoic Era, Pangaea fragmented and the parts began to drift apart. Westward drift of the Americas opened the Atlantic Ocean, and…
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Centre transfers money in farmers' bank accounts under PM Kisan
By Online Desk Last updated Apr 2, 2020
The Central government of India, as promised says that it has transferred Rs 5,125 crore under the flagship direct income aid initiatives PM-Kisan since the coronavirus relief package was announced, while the goal is to pay the April-July installment of Rs 2,000 each to nearly 9 crore farmers instantly, the front-loading release of the money which was otherwise to be transferred by mid-April latest.
Rs 1.7 lakh crore were said to be donated for the poor and vulnerable sections of the society. Under the PM Kisan scheme, all the beneficiary farmers are authorised to receive Rs 6,000 annually in three equal installments as direct income aid.
More than Rs 58,300 crore has been shared in the bank accounts of 9.07 crore, 8.13 crore, 6.7 crore and 5.25 crore farmers (not mutually exclusive sets) as first, second, third and fourth installments of PM-Kisan, respectively since the scheme was initiated in 2019. In the beginning, the scheme was meant to reach out to only small and marginal farmers, but was then spread to all land-owning farmers with a few exclusion criteria.
Nearly 11 crore farmers are estimated to be helped till FY21 ends. Until now, the government has approved data of approx. 9.4 crore farmers. West Bengal, with predicted more than 70 lakh farmers, is the only area beyond the ambit of PM-Kisan as it has disagreed to share and authenticate farmers' data.
While the Budget estimate for the scheme for FY20 was Rs 75,000 crore, the revised estimate is Rs 54,370 crore. The outlay for FY21 is once more Rs 75,000 crore.
Many of the land-owning migrant workers who have come back to their villages post the lockdown will also require this PM-Kisan facility. The government should fix a goal and transfer the amount within a week, said Pushpendra Singh, president of Kisan Shakti Sangh.
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Unlike some readers, I wouldn't call Sam Harris a 'racist' (religions or ideologies aren't races) or even a bigot. He thinks he's actually got a good argument when he calls for profiling by the TSA. On face value, his arguments might seem sound, perhaps even nearly convincing – even though there's a nagging feeling that what he's saying just isn't right. One of the problems is that it's sometimes hard to tell if that nagging feeling is simply an emotional reaction to something due to our need to be politically correct (which I would argue is rarely a good reason to make these sorts of decisions) or if it's because his argument is inherently flawed.
Fortunately, Bruce Schneier makes it very clear that it's the latter, and that profiling is A Bad Idea™. Security in general (computer or otherwise), is often a more difficult problem than most people will admit. When you start to add politics, social norms, a need and desire for tolerance, good will, personal freedom and a revulsion of tyranny it becomes a more complex. I'm glad that Schneier is as good at getting his ideas across as Sam is – it would be a shame for the better idea to lose out because it's not articulated as well as a bad one.
Despite this, I'm looking forward to hearing Sam's counter argument. However, since I wasn't convinced by his initial argument (and I find Bruce Schneier very convincing), I don't expect he will change my mind on this.
As an aside: This is an example of what I really like about the skeptical/rational community. Sam was willing and did post a counter argument to his (one that was devestating to his postion in my view) on his own blog. Good ideas are allowed to win in an open dialogue.Veritas rex.


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import nhz.Account;
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import nhz.DigitalGoodsStore;
import nhz.NhzException;
import org.json.simple.JSONStreamAware;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import static nhz.http.JSONResponses.UNKNOWN_GOODS;

public final class DGSPriceChange extends CreateTransaction {

    static final DGSPriceChange instance = new DGSPriceChange();

    private DGSPriceChange() {
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Stop Patronizing Herbal Concoctions From Hawkers – NAFDAC
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against patronizing hawkers who sale herbal concoctions.
The NAFDAC DG Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the herbal concoctions starts growing bacteria if kept for four to five days.
She also said that even though the herbal concoctions have some medicinal properties, the bacteria can still be harmful to human health and possible kill the person if taken.
She added that some herbal medicines works, but they need to go through proper research to determine the level people can consume it.
She said;
"For the liquid herbal concoctions, especially after four or five days, it starts growing bacteria.
"Even if the herbal concoction has some medicinal properties, the bacteria will kill the person first that is taking it.
"Many of our herbal medicines work but we have to do a lot of research to show how they work, at what level are we supposed to be taking them so that it will not get to the toxicity level."
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If You're Along The Eastern Seaboard, Look Up! NASA Has A Light Show For You
Published January 29, 2013 at 12:10 PM CST
A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket.
If you're along the Eastern Seaboard tonight, it might be worth your while to look at the sky this evening.
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket that will release "two red-colored lithium vapor trails in space."
As Space.com reports, those trails might be seen across the Mid-Atlantic and perhaps as far north as Canada and as far south as northern Florida.
Space.com explains how these trails will produce a "night sky show:"
"The sounding rocket that will be used to create the two NASA-made glowing cloud trails will be a Terrier-Improved Orion.In this technology test launch, two canisters in the rocket's payload section will contain solid metal lithium rods or chips embedded in a thermite cake. The thermite is ignited and produces heat to vaporize the lithium.
"Once the vapor is released in space, it can be detected and tracked optically. The rocket will eject two streams of lithium which will be illuminated at high altitudes by the sun (which will be below the local horizon at ground level)."
In a statement, mission project manager Libby West said the launch is a test flight for two upcoming missions. It'll give scientists a view of two different methods for creating lithium vapor trails.
By the way, NASA says the "lithium combustion process poses no threat to the public during the release in space."
The launch is scheduled for 5:45 p.m ET, but the launch window extends from 5:30 p.m. to 6:50 p.m. The Wallops facility will update the mission status on its twitter feed.
Space.com has put together a nice city-by-city chart on where to look if you want to catch a glimpse of the action.


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by Vernon December 10, 2019
Is influencer marketing dead? Not quiet. It's alive and kicking, evolving and growing. Leading homegrown micro-influencer platform KOMACI Network Sdn Bhd (KOMACI) recently launched its new, self-serve platform—KOMACI+. The first-of-its-kind in Malaysia, the platform enables hassle-free micro influencer engagement with just a few clicks.
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At the official launch, KOMACI chief executive officer Ben Wong shared, "Influencer marketing is projected to become a USD5 to 10 billion market by 2020, worldwide. The region itself has grown 133 percent since 2018."
According to a report by influencer marketing platform Fohr, (Instagram) influencer marketing partnerships are by far the best performing platform for brands to reach new audience quickly.
With an average 3.21 percent engagement rate compared to 1.5 percent across all social networks, having a strong influencer campaign strategy is a real asset to brands. The report also revealed that micro-influencers have the highest engagement rates, averaging 7 percent. Micro-influencers also tend to post more authentic content, compared to macro-influencers who post more sponsored content.
More than ever, brands and businesses are investing a high portion of their budgets to influencer marketing. Why?Because when done right, it works.
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Ubisoft Sofia working on Assassin's Creed IV, is why Vita isn't getting its own game
Last year, Ubisoft put out Assassin's Creed III: Liberation alongside the console game. But there's no similar plan for Assassin's Creed IV.
Game director Ashraf Ismail told VideoGamer that Ubisoft Sofia – the team behind Liberation – is currently assisting with development of Assassin's Creed IV. So even though Liberation's sales were "fairly decent", the PS Vita won't be getting an Assassin's Creed this year due to the amount of resources AC IV requires.
"Liberation actually did very well – we're very proud of it. Sales were fairly decent. But the focus for us was Assassin's Creed 4, for current-gen consoles and next-gen consoles. From a resource standpoint, the team that worked on Liberation is actually working with us on AC4. They're developing a specific part of the game for us. The amount of people working on AC4, Watch Dogs – that's a massive game – the focus within Ubisoft right now is on these two games, and then you have The Crew and The Division as well."
Source (http://www.videogamer.com/ps4/assassins_creed_4_black_flag/news/ubisoft_explains_lack_of_assassins_creed_on_ps_vit a_this_year.html)
ze_topazio
What about the 3DS?
It becomes a full fledged game 3 months later
roostersrule2
It becomes a full fledged game 3 months laterWith sound too.
But no glasses free 3D.
Oleg l Kirrlov
So if you have another console why would buy AC4 for the 3ds. Sounds like a waste of $$
Not AC4, it would be "Assassin's Creed Winter is Coming™" a spin-off in Westeros.
I'd preorder that.
Spider_Sith9
No surprise. I long knew this when I found out the studio listings.
ladyleonhart
It doesn't necessarily mean there won't be one in future. I'm sure they just wanted to make sure ACIV is perfect, which doesn't surprise me at all given the number of complaints before it has actually been released. :eek:
See?? complaints can sometimes be good :P
Everyone's just spoiled. -_-
poptartz20
Umm... this makes me wonder how AC4 will be. It seems that they have pulled alot of resources into this game alone. If this helps with the overall quality of the game I really don't have a problem with no vita release this year.


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Utility Customers in New Jersey Face Energy Use Mandate
August 24, 2022 June 11, 2020 by Taylor Patterson
This article was originally published on njspotlight.com on June 11, 2020.
Ambitious energy efficiency restrictions should speed state on road to clean-energy goals, curb emissions contributing to climate change.
Utilities in New Jersey will be required to reduce how much gas and electricity their customers use after the state approved a comprehensive program mandating those reductions as part of efforts to cut energy consumption.
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities' adoption of a new energy efficiency program is widely viewed as the easiest and least expensive way to help meet the state's clean-energy goals and to curb emissions contributing to climate change. The agency also aims to increase access to such programs to underserved communities.
Beyond cutting energy use, advocates say the program will reduce consumers' utility bills, curb pollution, particularly in low- and moderate-income communities, and create thousands of new jobs in a sector that already employs 38,000 in New Jersey.
NJ moves near head of pack
The proposal aims to vault the state, often derided as a laggard in helping residents and businesses to conserve energy, into having some of the most aggressive energy efficiency goals in the nation.
Within five years, electric utilities would be required to curb use by 2.15%; gas utilities, by 1.10%, each higher than the respective targets set under a two-year-old law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy. The law mandated at least 2% reductions for electric utilities and 0.75% for gas utilities.
"In the last few years, New Jersey has struggled to move out of the middle of the pack nationally on energy efficiency, but if the utilities are successful in implementing the order, that will change now big time,'' said Rachel Gold, utility program director at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
In its final form after more than a year of discussions with stakeholders, the program included significant changes from the latest straw proposal, largely bending to the arguments of utilities and environmental advocates who worried it had too many "disincentives'' that would discourage investments in energy efficiency.
In general, the program shifts to utilities the major role of delivering energy-saving programs to both residents and businesses. It also establishes a mechanism to recover those costs, and a system to help utilities recover them.
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The most significant change deals with what utilities can earn on their investments in energy efficiency. Under the final straw proposal, such investments would earn less for the utilities than other investments. The version adopted yesterday essentially allows a utility to earn as much return on equity (ROE) on helping consumers buy energy-efficient appliances as they would in replacing an aging gas main or substation.
The proposal also allows utilities to amortize those investments over 10 years instead of seven, as originally proposed, a change BPU staff said could reduce potential spikes to ratepayers. Some utilities had sought a 15-year amortization schedule.
BPU president Joseph Fiordaliso said the staff worked hard to incorporate the concerns of stakeholders who participated in the process. "For the most part, people will be more than satisfied with this proposal,'' he said.
To a large degree, that proved to be the case after an occasionally acrimonious process.
"With a lot of stakeholders at the table, the BPU went a long way to respond to and balance all those interests,'' said Tom Churchelow, president of the New Jersey Utilities Association, a trade group representing the state's seven utilities.
Dennis Hart, executive director of the Chemistry Industry Council of New Jersey and a member of an energy efficiency task force advising the BPU agreed. "They struck a pretty good balance among all stakeholders, including the concerns of large energy users who already are paying high energy bills,'' he said.
Rate counsel ready to 'make it happen'
Division of Rate Counsel director Stefanie Brand had endorsed much of the straw proposal, including its provisions on limiting how much utilities earn on energy efficiency investments and how they recover those costs, both of which were modified.
"Nobody got exactly what they wanted,'' she said. "Overall, it's an ambitious proposal. There's a lot of details to be worked out. We are ready to roll up our sleeves and make it happen.''
The final version of the program retained a so-called limited decoupling program, modeled somewhat after energy-conservation programs at South Jersey Gas and New Jersey Natural Gas. The board's order, however, directs its staff, utilities and Rate Counsel to see if agreement on a mechanism more in line with utility concerns can be reached.
Public Service Electric & Gas said the board's order seems to reflect a long-term commitment to energy efficiency by the state.
"While we see room for improvement in the areas of customer affordability and optimizing program length to sustain job growth, we were pleased to see the board make enhancements to the overall framework from prior proposals,'' said Michael Jennings, a spokesman for the utility.
PSE&G is a big proponent of energy efficiency, having a $2.5 billion proposal to invest over six years to reduce gas and electric use among its customers. The proposal has been pending before the BPU for a couple of years, having been delayed until the agency develops a framework for the new energy efficiency program.
Energy efficiency exit from pandemic
Both the utility and other advocates say energy efficiency could help New Jersey rebuild its economy after COVID-19, possibly becoming the backbone of a swift, equitable recovery, including among communities that have yet to benefit from the growth in the clean-energy market.
To that end, the agency is looking to make sure jobs in those communities materialize for residents. Fiordaliso also announced he intends to create an Office of Clean Energy Equity to develop energy efficiency programs in New Jersey's low- and moderate-income communities.
This article was originally written by Tom Johnson and published on njspotlight.com.
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Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Dispensation of two Catholics from the canonical form of marriage twice denied, 22 July 2006 and 23 August 2006, Private.
This request for dispensation from the Canonical Form for Marriage for two Catholics, one of the parties being recently received into the Catholic Church, is being printed since it seems to indicate an apparent change in practice of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
On behalf of Bishop _______, the Bishop of _______, I respectfully wish to request a dispensation from the canonical form of marriage on behalf of Albert _______, Roman Catholic, and Edith _______, Roman Catholic. The are both residents of the Diocese of _______ and had planned to be married at _______ Episcopal Church of _______. This is the family church of Edith, a former Episcopalian. They approached Father _______, associate pastor of St Xavier Church_______, [who] directed his request to this Chancery.
The reason for this request is that Albert, a life-long and practicing Catholic, had planned to marry Edith for several years. Recently, Edith decided to become a Roman Catholic and was received into the Catholic Church and Confirmed at Easter. Long before their now strong commitment to the Catholic Church, they made plans to be married at _______ Episcopal Church in _______, by the minister there who is a close friend of [Edith's] family. Also [her family] are very strong and practicing members of the Episcopalian Church. According to the parish priest, there was a good amount of opposition on the part of the bride's family to her conversion to Catholicism.
Because of the long-stranding wedding plans of Albert and Edith and with Edith's conversion just having taken place, the couple is most anxious to have their wedding recognized by the Catholic Church. However, to attempt to change plans now, or to arrange for a Catholic priest to witness the marriage would only further alienate Edith's non-Catholic family, although they are agreeable to having the Catholic priest present at the ceremony.
There is no danger of admiratio or scandal since the wedding is taking place in another town several miles from where the couple will live. Also, not many people other than Edith's immediate family are aware of her conversion. This arrangement is perfectly acceptable to Albert's Catholic family, who see it as a good sign of good will to Edith's family who have a difficulty understanding her conversion.
The wedding has been arranged for 1 October 2006.
I am encouraged to make this exceptional request by the knowledge that your Congregation permitted such a dispensation in a very similar case submitted by the Bishop of _______ [another diocese] in 1973 and recorded in the Canon Law Digest, volume 8, pages 818-819.
A copy of the bride's letter requesting this special consideration is enclosed for your information.
Because of the circumstances described above and because of the adverse attitude of the bride's family lest an already strained family relationship should be irreparably weakened because of the bride's recent acceptance of the Catholic Church, and for many other pastoral reasons, Bishop _______ strongly lends his support to the groom and bride in their request for a dispensation from the Catholic form of marriage.
The reply from the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments is dated 22 July 2006.
This Congregation for Divine Worship has received the letter of Fr. _______, Chancellor of he Diocese of _______, in which he requests a dispensation from canonical form of marriage on behalf of Albert _______ and Edith _______, who are both presently Roman Catholics, but desire to celebrate Marriage in the Episcopal Church. After due consideration of the circumstances described in the letter, this Dicastery has decided not to grant the requested dispensation, as two Catholic parties have the grave obligation to celebrate Marriage in the Catholic Church.
"Edith's family had long planned their daughter's wedding at _______ Episcopal Church, which has been their family church for several generations. The Catholic family of Albert _______ is overjoyed at the bride's decision to become Catholic. Aware of her family's hopes for the wedding to take place in their Episcopal Church, the Catholic family hoped that it would be possible to accommodate the wishes of the bride's family knowing that Edith _______'s family were not pleased with their daughter's decision to enter the Catholic Church at this time. [Albert's] family sought advice from their parish priest who contacted my Chancery Office for direction.
With the encouragement of my Chancery, the couple went ahead and planned the wedding in good faith and to the great satisfaction of both families. If these plans would have to be changed now, it would cause wonderment to the couple and their families as to why their request is denied while similar requests have been granted, it could lead to a certain and serious alienation of the families involved, and it could also leave both the parish and diocese legally liable for the expenses incurred.
Since the Congregation has granted the faculty to the diocesan Bishop of _______ to dispense two Catholics from the Canonical form of marriage in the past, and since the wedding involved is scheduled to celebrated on 7 Oct. 2006, and since the couple has done everything in good faith with the advice of their parish priest and the Chancery office, I kindly ask your Eminence to reconsider the Congregation's decision given in the recent letter received [Protocol _______] and to grant the faculty for me to dispense two Catholics from the Catholic form of Marriage, as was requested [the initial letter is cited]. Pastorally I feel that the circumstances of the present case and the precedence of the two prior granting of faculties to dispense that the granting of this request would be for the good of the Church.
If it is the desire of the Congregation that in the future this type of request should not be put forth please be assured that the wish of the Congregation will be so followed.
The response from the Congregation is dated 23 August 2006.
As requested in your letter of 17 August 2006, this Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has reconsidered the matter of permitting Albert _______ and Edith _______, both Catholics, to be dispensed from the canonical form of marriage.
This Dicastery has, however, been unable to find sufficient cause for granting the requested dispensation, and therefore, has confirmed its decision in the negative, communicated to your Excellency on 22 July 2006.
It is the earnest request of this Congregation that the couple be provided appropriate counsel to explain clearly the reasons why Catholics are gravely obliged to celebrate the Sacrament of Marriage in the Catholic Church.
Likewise, particularly in light of the short period which remains until the couple is to be married, every courtesy is to be extended to them to facilitate their marriage in a Catholic Church.
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Dispensation of two Catholic from the canonical form of marriage twice denied, 22 July 2006 and 23 August 2006, Private, CLSA, Roman Replies and Advisory Opinions, 2007, 33-37.


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They're Made Out of Meat
by Futurism Staff 4 years ago in scifi movie / extraterrestrial
They're Made Out of Meat explains why we have not encountered alien life.
"They're Made Out of Meat," by Terry Bisson, is one of the most influential stories in science fiction, and is regularly discussed in college classes about cognitive science, cosmology, and philosophy. The story consists entirely of two extraterrestrials having a conversation at a dinner. Their mission is to discover sentient beings capable of traveling faster than light, and offering them "first contact." Human-beings, as carbon-based life, befuddle the aliens. They cannot fathom how "sacks of meat" can be sentient. Disturbed by their discovery, the aliens mark the solar system has uninhabited, cutting off humanity from the galactic community. "They're Made Out of Meat" is regularly cited as an explanation to the Fermi paradox, the contradiction asking why we cannot see other intelligent life in the universe.
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"They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."
"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?"
"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."
"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."
"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."
"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."
"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they're made out of meat."
"Maybe they're like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."
"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take long. Do you have any idea what's the life span of meat?"
"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."
"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads, like the weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."
"No brain?"
"Oh, there's a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat! That's what I've been trying to tell you."
"So ... what does the thinking?"
"You're not understanding, are you? You're refusing to deal with what I'm telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat."
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?"
"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
"Thank you. Finally. Yes. They are indeed made out of meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."
"Omigod. So what does this meat have in mind?"
"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the Universe, contact other sentiences, swap ideas and information. The usual."
"We're supposed to talk to meat."
"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there. Anybody home.' That sort of thing."
"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
"I thought you just told me they used radio."
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"
"Officially or unofficially?"
"Both."
"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."
"I was hoping you would say that."
"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"
"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say? 'Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"
"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they can only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."
"So we just pretend there's no one home in the Universe."
"That's it."
"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you probed? You're sure they won't remember?"
"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."
"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream."
"And we marked the entire sector unoccupied."
"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"
"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again."
"They always come around."
"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone
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A team of space cadets making the most out of their time trapped on Earth. Help.
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Welcome to the next post in the Montessori Basics series! This one is an overview of basic materials for the toddler classroom. While Maria Montessori put 0-3 year olds in a subgroup of the 0-6 plane of development, most schools have an infant room and a toddler room, separating the environments. Children usually move to the toddler room from 18 months on up, once they are walking steadily.
The Montessori toddler classroom will be made up mostly of Practical Life materials, with many "pre-Montessori" materials that are typically used with this age group even in non-Montessori settings (puzzles, stringing beads, etc.) Cultural lessons are generally included in the language part of the classroom; this would include learning about weather, the calendar, and basic names of objects in the classroom and in nature.
As you read this list, you may be thinking, "But Lori, how do I use all these materials? And where can I find them?" Please look at the end of the list, where I show resources for finding toddler albums, lessons, and materials. I'm including every toddler resource that I know about, including some great blog posts; if you know of others, please email me.


Dr Rukia Baruti is the founder and Managing Director of AILA. She is also the Secretary General of the African Arbitration Association (AfAA). She specialises in international investment law, with a particular focus on Africa. She also sits as arbitrator in arbitrations conducted under various arbitration rules. Rukia was listed in The Lawyer magazine's 'Hot 100', in recognition of her pro-bono work for Africa. She holds a PhD (Hons) from the University of Geneva, a first class LLB (Hons) degree from the University of London, an MA in Diplomatic Studies and a Graduate Diploma in International Studies with an emphasis on public international law and international relations. Prior to founding AILA, she practised law at SJ Berwin's International Arbitration Group in London where she was involved in the arbitration and litigation of commercial disputes, a majority of which were international in nature.
Debbie Emmanuel is Head of Africa and the Middle East at the British Arab Commercial Bank, London. Her role is to originate and execute both traditional and structured trade transactions. She has worked on various transactions across industries - oil & gas, metals & telecoms - in many of the countries including Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Kenya, South Africa, and Ivory Coast. The deals have involved both financial institutions and corporates (local and international) on bilateral and syndicated bases. Prior to J.P Morgan, Debbie worked at Standard Banks' Structured Trade and Commodity Finance team. In the course of her time at Standard she worked in their London, South Africa and New York offices. Debbie holds a Bsc in Computer Science from the University of Sussex and an MBA from City University Business School.
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Studio - Steinway Recording
Musicians, bands and projects with whom I have worked and collaborated with over the years have given me an very rich and diverse experience of being a modern musician. Based on a solid educational background and varied early musical experiences I have found each successive experience ever illuminating on what music can be and is. At the same time it has been an endless source of inspiration for my own projects and composition.
Whether it is as a seasoned performer on world tours and studio sessions, an engineer and/or producer of quality albums or an experienced teacher I count myself lucky in having had a career thus far that has been as varied as it has been interesting.
Being a musician in our times requires a whole set of skills and adaptability to any situation. With the recent creation of my own purpose built studio facility Steinway Recording I have been able to unify many aspects of my career. I was recently described as a 'Tonmeister' by a notable composer in the studio and while I have no formal Tonmeister qualification my many years experience as a player and technician place me firmly within that sphere. Steinway Recording is rapidly building a reputation as the studio of choice for many classical, jazz and mainstream projects.
2021 - present. Joined Fish and his band for the fantastic mini UK tour last November. While there are no appearances scheduled for 2022, 2023 may well be a busy year!
2021 - present. First met Carol Decker in the mid 1990's on writing sessions and have worked with her in various guises ever since. It was a no brainer when Carol called me up to play in TPau!
2014 - present. Joined Deva Premal & Miten, featuring Nepalese bansuri maestro Manose. Their worldwide concerts and best-selling albums have introduced millions of people to the joy and depth of meaning found in spiritually based songs and chanting mantras from the Eastern meditation traditions.
2016 MD for the legendary Rita Coolidge on her UK and Ireland dates. The fantastic band included Hamish Stewart, Jeff Allen, Michael Bailey and John McKenzie.
2014 Toured with John Harle and Marc Almond on their Tyburn Tree tour - a project about the dark side of historical London. A fantastic experience of musical crossover really succeeding.
2008 - present. Pianist on many tracks for Simon Harris' amazing Unidentified Flying Project. Working alongside Omar Hakim, Pino Palladino, Wayne Krantz, Keith Carlock, Robbie McIntosh and other great musicians the project is soon to be released.
2000 - 2013 Joined Joan Armatrading's band full time, touring all over the world with her.
1995 Teamed up with Jacqui McShee and Gerry Conway to write and record our album About Thyme. Featuring many guests with whom we have worked this project later became Jacqui McShee's Pentangle. The latest album Live 1995-2011 was released in 2011 and is available from the band's website. The band regularly tour (well, not at the moment..!)
1990 Started working with John Martyn and for 19 years was full time in his band until his death in January 2009. Played on all and co-produced several albums since Cooltide in 1990. Being part of the John Martyn band was more a way of life than a gig!
1989 Joined Julia Fordham's band for her Procelain tour and have performed with Julia at various times ever since.
1986 Won a place at Berklee College Of Music in Boston, USA and awarded the Chick Corea Half Tuition scholarship. Coming back to the UK in 1987 I studied at Goldsmiths College in London gaining a BMus (hons) degree in 1991.
1984-6 Among many bands was Savajazz where I met percussionist and lifelong friend Miles Bould. We have been in several bands together and have collaborated on many projects ever since. Our own project Peoplespeak has seen two albums released – Peoplespeak and Gracenotes. In 1992 Peoplespeak collaborated with US vibes player Mike Mainieri and his band Steps Ahead on their Yin-Yang album.
1984 Via my brother I met guitarist Dominic Miller who needed a keyboard player for his new project Iguazu. An album was in the process of being recorded and there were dates at the 1984 Edinburgh Festival. Through Iguazu I met many great musicians including Scott Firth, Dave Heath, Andy Barron and Taj Wyzgowski, and was soon very busy in bands around London.
1981-4 A levels at Newark Technical College followed by a year self-employed building speakers and flight cases. Moved to London to pursue music full time.
1976-81 Toothill Comprehensive School, Bingham, Notts. Played first trumpet in the Toothill Dance Band run by the legendary teacher Colin Smith MBE, another great inspiration in my musical life. Out gigging for dances every weekend of my school life provided a solid foundation for later touring! Met drummer Chris Wallington at school. We would jam on Saturday afternoons and listen to records that Chris bought every weekend. These sessions provided much of the music that has been a constant influence to me ever since - Weather Report, ECM Records' artists, Miles Davis, John Martyn, Frank Zappa, Crusaders, Steely Dan (I could go on!).
1974-81 East Notts Saturday Music School. Tutors included the great William Moss - a truly inspirational teacher who gave so much energy and passion in his teaching of piano and what music means.
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Don't You Forget About Me
30 years ago, one of the best movies was released:
Yep this baby.
Now I know you all are thinking, but it says March 24, 1984. That's the time in the movie, the film was actually released February 15, 1985.
This film was written by John Hughes in just two days and completely shot in sequence. What also is really interesting about this film is that Hughes actually allowed a lot of ab-libbing in the film. Such as Brian's reason for a fake ID- "so I can vote"; the whole scene when they are in a circle sharing their feelings; and even the fist in the air by Judd Nelson at the end of the film. Now that last scene is extremely iconic, just like the song "Don't You Forget About Me". This song was especially written for the film and was turned down by a quite a few artists, like Billy Idol, to finally be performed by Simple Mind. Of course it became a huge hit for the band and is covered by millions, including Billy Idol. I guess he changed his mind.
So some of you many not be aware of the story, so here is a brief recap.
Five very different students have been sentenced with detention. We have Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy), "the basket case" who just came for fun; Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez), "the athlete", who received detention for bullying a kid; John Bender (Judd Nelson), "the criminal", sent there because of his acting up; Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald), "the princess", caught skipping school to go shopping; and Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall), "the brain", who brought a flare gun to school.
In the beginning everyone abides by their cliques, Claire and Andrew sit together as they are on the highest level of the totem pole, while the rest sit by themselves. At first they keep their distance and Bender riles everyone, but through the course of the day they all bond together sharing their most personal secrets and working out their dysfunctions.
Allison feels ignored and therefore is a compulsive liar and a klepto, seeking out attention. Andrew hates his overbearing father who is always pressuring him. That is one of the reasons why he was bullying another kid, his father said he wasn't being manly enough. Bender is abused by his father and ignored the rest of the time. Claire feels confined by the role she is in, as everyone sees her a certain way when in reality she has hardly ever dated and is a virgin. Brian feels so pressured by his family to be perfect and get into a good college, that he contemplated suicide over getting a bad grade in woodshop. Through these discussions, everyone feels much better and is much happier. But at the same time they feel sad and scared that once they are back in school Monday they will no longer be friends and things will continue as they have before.
Before the day ends, they hook up the sound system and have a big dance. Claire and Bender pair up and so do Allison and Andrew. Poor Brian gets stuck writing their detention assignment.
In the end Claire gives Bender one of her diamond earrings so they'll never forget that moment. Allison steals Andrew's Captain letter and the two kiss, while Brian gets nothing (poor nerdy guy). And the film ends with Bender's triumphant arm thrust and Simple Mind's Don't You Forget About Me playing in the background.
Now I love this movie. Like freaking love it.
And watch it over and over.
I mean how could you not love it and the messages it covers? First of all you see that labels are nothing, just things we create ourselves to make us feel accepted, when in fact there is a little of everything in all of us.
We all have insecurities:
And that we all are strange. Nobody's perfect or has it all together.
Yep, I just love this film.
In fact, I am such a fangirl over it that in one of my college courses, a group of us became such great friends and were all so different, yet the same, that we named our collective "The Breakfast Club". Yep, my fangirl was showing.
So of course being a huge fan, when I saw a quiz to see which character I was, I had to take it. And I got:
To see who you are, click here.
Now this surprised me as I would have thought I'd get the Basket Case, Brain, or Athlete before I ever got the Criminal. But, and you guys will laugh at this, a few weeks ago (and right after I took this quiz) I was watching this film with four other friends. We started teasing my friend Gabe that he was Brian the Brain. He started joking that our friend Stephanie was Allison the Basket Case. Then we all started pairing up people and characters. Laurence did sports so he became Andrew the Athlete. And even though Jack was a boy, we decided he was Claire the Princess, or Prince in his case. And that made me Bender the Criminal. In fact, that night I was wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and black boots; not the exact ones Bender wears, but pretty darn close. Now whenever I see Jack, I always joke around that he's my girlfriend, or woman as I feel Bender would say.
So this is one fantastic film that I strongly suggest you view. If you've never seen it, get a copy and do so as soon as possible. If you have, another thousand viewings is what I recommend. 🙂
For more on The Breakfast Club, go to I Can See Your Beauty: The Breakfast Club (1985)
For more on Judd Nelson, go to I'm Going Down the Tubes: Making the Grade (1984)
For more about the '80s, go to In Love With the '80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)
For more quizzes, go to Shall We Dance?: What Happens in Vegas (2008)
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2 thoughts on "Don't You Forget About Me"
Bibliophile96 says:
I love this movie as well! When it comes to my favourite movies of 1985, it's up there with "The Goonies", "The Color Purple" and of course, "Back to the Future"! Out of all the characters, I identify with Brian the brain, but I also have a few basketcase tendencies!
Moreland says:
I always liked Andrew and Allison, but Bender has really grown on me through the years. Judd is just the best.


Is Essential – as you cannot live without water so you cannot have spiritual life apart from the Spirit of God Jn 3:6 – once you are saved you need to be filled with the Spirit to keep from becoming spiritually dehydrated Eph 5:18 – our bodies are approximately 85% water and thus the Spirit of God needs to be full in our lives – far too many Christians are spiritually dehydrated – Bro. Dickman used have to tell me to tank up because when we were working hard it was often easy to forget to drink water – as you work for the Lord you need to remember to tank up on the Spirit!
Is Everywhere – since the Holy Spirit is God he is omnipresent – as water is available to men all over the earth, so the Holy Spirit is available even in the closed countries of the world – we need to be conscious and prayerful about where he is working and where he wants us to help his men who are working there – we need to realize that he is working here in Corpus Christi through us in a very special way right now and we need to be available to him to do all that he wants to do.


Oakland Unity Middle School is a public charter middle school authorized by the Alameda County Office of Education serving grades 6-8. The school is developed by school and teacher leaders at Oakland Unity High School (OUHS), in partnership with its parent Oakland-based nonprofit corporation Unity Schools.
The school opened in August 2015 and currently enrolls 150 students. OUMS uses the demonstrably successful model of OUHS as a guiding framework, building from the success and lessons learned from OUHS' ten years of achievement and service to East Oakland families, with programmatic modifications made to best serve the needs of younger students.
It is the mission of Oakland Unity Middle School to prepare its students for a rigorous high school environment and ultimately admission to and success in college and the career of their choice. OUMS offers a rich curriculum centered on Habits of Heart and Mind that prepares students to successfully meet the University of California A-G requirements in high school. This curriculum has an emphasis on basic skills and core subject matter in English language arts, mathematics, social studies and science, the arts, and a comprehensive support program that promotes healthy youth development, including preparing the students to apply their knowledge and skills for the benefit of the community and environment.
Oakland Unity Middle School is a school where all students acquire the core skills necessary for academic achievement and, ultimately, for success in today's global, multicultural and multilingual society. With unwavering high expectations for all stakeholders, OUMS provides a high quality college preparatory middle school option to East Oakland families whose educational program and structured environment will effectively prepare students for success in rigorous high school coursework. Integrated into this educational program will be an ongoing emphasis on the development of life long professional skills and Habits of Heart and Mind that will develop and empower students' and families' capacity to support sustained success through higher education, career, and beyond, helping families to recognize and build upon their assets so that they can obtain their future goals. OUMS will balance these ambitious goals by developing and nurturing a valuable school experience that is rich, enjoyable, and memorable.
Recognizing that our students and families have many needs to be met in order to effectively access our educational program, OUMS will provide social/emotional and mental health support, both individually and in small group settings, a nutritional program that couples access to healthy food with a curriculum to support students' awareness of all aspects of health and nutrition. OUMS aims to become not just a school but also a community center where students and families could receive physical and mental health services and adult education. We want to offer an even more robust selection of afterschool programming to address the need for quality and safe extracurricular opportunities for youth.
We value the "family" feel that comes with being a small school. Our average class size is 20 students. All OUMS staff know your child's name and take responsibility for his or her success.
Our strict rules and structures help to create a safe environment where students can thrive. Frequent communication with families ensures that we can solve problems together.
We offer academic tutoring for students daily. In order to help our students be their best academic selves, we also offer social-emotional counseling and a strong Advisory program.
We maintain a comprehensive support program provided through a partnership between the school, the families, and the community, assures that students have the support they need to focus on academic growth.
We offer learning experiences that allow Unity students to achieve their leadership and academic potential and become creative critical thinkers, compassionate human beings, and effective participants in a multicultural democratic society.
Every student is assigned a teacher as an advisor when he/she enters OUMS. For the student's tenure at OUMS, the teacher/advisor serves as a mentor and advocate for the student and guides him/her toward successful completion of middle school and high school, while encouraging each student to aspire to graduation from a four year college.
OUMS's SHARP Habits of Heart and Mind provide guiding principles for students, and integrate our educational philosophy throughout our curriculum.


Having just returned from 3 breathless weeks in India, and having spent much of it interviewing or working with social purpose ventures from a range of sectors, my head is full of social impact-type thoughts. I had the great privilege of working with early stage social entrepreneurs in Mumbai working on solutions to problems as diverse as farmer suicides, violence against women, emotional intelligence, and waste management. Each of them had incredible social impact even if they were not always aware of just how diverse and far-reaching that impact was.
One of the most predictable conclusions of our interviews (conducted for the purpose of developing a simplified, user-friendly social impact framework for early stage social entrepreneurs) was that organisations whose primary impact was environmental had embedded fairly robust quantifiable measures of their impact, and this data was collected on a regular operational basis. Where they were weaker was how their organisational activities impacted on beneficiary groups, where such outcomes were largely qualitative and more difficult to capture. The maxim that what is easiest to measure gets measured clearly holds true in many of the cases we encountered.
Related to this was the desire but the difficulty of capturing what we might call "soft" or second-order outcomes such as dignity or self-esteem. This was crystallised in the case of the organisation Sampurn(e)arth, which specialises in end-to-end waste management solutions. Sampurn(e)arth employs female waste pickers from a federation they have set up in partnership with the Stree Mukti Sanganatha (Women's Liberation Group). While there are several waste management ventures in Mumbai, no other organisation works with waste pickers in the way that Sampurn(e)arth do. The impact of offering waste pickers dignified, regular, skills-based and fairly remunerated work is more difficult to capture than reductions in carbon emissions (and attribution is a killer here) but it is such a significant outcome that it simply has to be expressed.
More generally, organisations – regardless of whether they collected impact data regularly or not – did not use that data very well. Neither did they store it particularly well, all of which begs the question of why do in the first place? My intuitive belief is that being seen to collect data is a powerful driver of such behaviour, but the advantages of using such data to meet strategic objectives (performance measurement, mission alignment, stakeholder reporting) was neither well understood by any players in the field, whether social enterprises or incubators.
We also found that many organisations failed to recognise the diversity of their impact without prompting to reflect on what they actually do, and perhaps most importantly, who they work with. This is expressed through my twin concepts of social impact "partners" and social impact "ecologies'. One organisation, which seeks to provide emotional support to children in schools who have suffered trauma, regularly refers the children they work with to other organisations who serve other needs (physical health, group activities etc). Though such referrals do not translate into increased revenue or extend the scope of their impact, it does extend impact along the "depth" axis. Without such partnerships beneficiary groups would receive incomplete services, and these joined-up ecosystems release value through referrals. While conventional social impact measurement frameworks emphasise the need to isolate impact -what have you changed that you can prove you did alone? – social impact assessment 2.0 needs to think more carefully about the ways in which organisations create impact through partnerships, and about the distinction between scope and depth impact.
We also encountered practical obstacles to social impact assessment. Firstly, and most obviously, early stage social entrepreneurs lack the resources to carry it out on any more than an annual basis. They also lack the knowledge to do it properly. Some of this is a supply problem; I'm not sure the sector has yet cracked the best way to make Theory of Change models relevant to social purpose ventures regardless of their sector or intervention-type. The demand side is also real too. Many social ventures assume they know what they seek to change without needing a lesson in it, and that's understandable. But there's a problem when social impact is assumed and poorly understood – many organisations simply fail to think through their impact in a holistic way, and so they project a partial image of their impact when the reality is often much richer.
Secondly, social enterprises, like mainstream enterprises, give priority to other reporting formats: financial and operational. For social impact reports to be recognised as a sector standard, they will have to be correspond to operational reports in some way, otherwise they will be relegated to a distant third since they are not (currently) regarded as a necessary form of accountability. I personally don't think this is impossible: output data forms the backbone of operational reports and can be transferred to social impact reports.
Beyond these issues is an underlying aversion to comparison. Many organisations have a quantified base figure in mind when they think about social impact assessment (and it is measurement rather than assessment they have in mind) which they feel leaves them open to comparison with other organisations even if they are not ordinarily comparable. This is a legacy of social impact assessment 1.0, which was geared towards the holy grail of a definitive numerical expression of impact. Social impact assessment 2.0 has the potential to allay some of these concerns, but it is fairly deeply entrenched, and the influence of earlier quantifying, individualising frameworks remains strong.
What needs to change is a realisation that keeping one eye on social impact is integral to the operational success of social enterprises -large or small.


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Thomas J. Sugrue (born 1962, Detroit, Michigan) is an American historian of the 20th-century United States at New York University. From 1991 to 2015, he was the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum. His areas of expertise include American urban history, American political history, housing and the history of race relations. He has published extensively on the history of liberalism and conservatism, on housing and real estate, on poverty and public policy, on civil rights, and on the history of affirmative action.

Early life

Sugrue was born in 1962 in Detroit, Michigan and lived there until the age of ten, when his family moved to the suburbs. He graduated from Brother Rice High School (Michigan) in 1980 and from Columbia University (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1984, with a degree in History. One of his mentors at Columbia was James P. Shenton. From 1984-1986, Sugrue attended King's College, Cambridge University on a Kellett Fellowship and earned a B.A. (honours) in British History and the Doncaster History Prize of King's College. He earned his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1992 working with Stephan Thernstrom and Barbara Guttmann Rosenkrantz.

Academic
Sugrue began his teaching career at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He has also been a visiting faculty member at New York University, Harvard University, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Sugrue's first book, The Origins of the Urban Crisis (Princeton University Press, 1996) was widely acclaimed. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in History, the President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association, the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History, the Urban History Association Prize for Best Book in North American Labor History, and was selected as a Choice Outstanding Book. In 2005, Princeton University Press selected Origins of the Urban Crisis as one of its 100 most influential books of the preceding century  and issued it as a Princeton Classic. Sugrue has also edited two other books, W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and the City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), with Michael B. Katz, and The New Suburban History (University of Chicago Press, 2005), with Kevin M. Kruse. His 2008 book Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History  and a main selection of the History Book Club. He is also author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race. His most recent book is These United States: The Making of a Nation, 1890 to the Present with Glenda Gilmore. He is currently writing a history of the rise and transformation of the real estate industry in modern America. He has also published essays and reviews in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, London Review of Books, Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Detroit Free Press. In 2010 he served as a guest-blogger for Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic.

Sugrue has won fellowships and grants from the Brookings Institution, the Social Science Research Council, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was an inaugural Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellow,
and was in the first class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2015. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Institute for the Humanities, and is the Walter Lippmann Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. In 2013-14, he served as President of the Urban History Association. In 2016, he received an honorary doctorate from Wayne State University.

Background

Sugrue is active in civic affairs. Most notably, he served as an expert for the University of Michigan in two federal court cases regarding affirmative action in the undergraduate and law school admissions--Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003. He served as vice chair of the City of Philadelphia Historical Commission from 2001-2008.
Sugrue is a popular teacher—winner of two teaching awards—and mentor to many dissertation students. He is also a well-regarded public speaker, having given more than 300 talks to audiences at universities, foundations, community groups, and religious congregations throughout the United States and in Canada, Britain, France, Argentina, Japan, Israel, and Germany. Sugrue has appeared in several television series and documentary films.

Selected works
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996, Princeton Classic Edition, 2005, Princeton Classic Paperback, 2014)
W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy (1998), with Michael B. Katz
The New Suburban History (2005), with Kevin M. Kruse
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008)
Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (2010)
These United States: The Making of a Nation, 1890 to the Present (2015)
Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization (2017), with Domenic Vitiello
Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America (2020), with Andrew J. Diamond

External links
Sugrue's website
A Century in Books: Princeton University Press, 1905-2005
The Vital Thread of Tom Sugrue," Penn Gazette, May/June 2009

References

1962 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Historians of the United States
Labor historians
Urban historians
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Harvard University alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Miller Center Affiliates
Writers from Detroit
Bancroft Prize winners
Historians from Michigan
American male non-fiction writers

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Why Now is the Perfect Time to Start B2B Marketing on LinkedIn
Dec 4, 2014 By Danny Iny
If you're a B2B marketer, you're probably already on LinkedIn. With 313 million active members (more than Pinterest and Instagram combined) and 173 thousand new members signing up every day, LinkedIn is the best social network for B2B connections. But if you think it's a big platform now, you haven't seen anything yet. The social hub for business is growing fast, but it wants more.
With their recent acquisition of a B2B startup named Bizo, LinkedIn has stated a goal of $1 billion annual revenue from B2B services by 2017. Their most recent quarterly report came in at about $115 million revenue, so that translates to 250% growth every year for three years.
What does this mean for you as a B2B marketer?
It means if you're not already using LinkedIn, then drop everything and start learning. It's about to get really, really big. And with the B2B marketing tools it's acquired with Bizo, LinkedIn is about to become an even more powerful place for you to sell your B2B services.
What is Bizo & Why Did LinkedIn Buy It?
Acquiring Bizo is an integral part of LinkedIn's plan to become more than just a social platform for content marketing. A recently leaked insider document from LinkedIn says, "Our long-term ambition is to build an integrated marketing and sales platform that provides a simple and effective way to reach audiences, nurture prospects, and acquire customers."
But before we talk about the future of LinkedIn, let's understand the history of Bizo.
Bizo started in 2007 as an ad platform specifically designed for B2B marketers. It was like Google AdWords, exclusively for B2B. Since then, the Bizo network has grown to 120+ million business professionals from around the world. That includes an astounding 90% of the US business population. However, this sizeable audience isn't the only reason LinkedIn wanted the startup.
What Tools Make Bizo Better Than Other Ad Platforms?
Even though Bizo started as a simple ad platform, today it's so much more than that.
At its core, Bizo's biggest selling point is its unique ad-targeting technology called Bizo Multi-Channel Nurturing (BMN for short). BMN was developed to address one of the biggest hurdles in advertising today – tracking and retargeting users across multiple devices and platforms.
But, that's just the beginning of what Bizo can do. Here's a cursory list of some of the other tools you'll find in their advertising suite:
Advanced audience analysis and demographic targeting
Customizable ad content depending on where a prospect is in your sales funnel
Conversion tracking and ROI calculation for both paid and organic social media campaigns
Split-testing and retargeting across multiple devices and platforms
Automatic integration with both LinkedIn and Facebook ads
By now you've probably figured out that LinkedIn will be using Bizo to beef up their advertising platform, but what specific new tools can you expect to see?
How Will Bizo Change the Way You Use LinkedIn?
If you're anything like me, the above list of features looks like a pile of meaningless gibberish. Even if you're a B2B marketing guru, you probably need some help seeing exactly what these tools can do for you. How will things like Multi-Channel Nurturing allow you to generate more leads for your business?
Imagine this real-world scenario:
Today, 100 different prospects visit your business's website. You have a clean design with a clear and compelling call-to-action, so 10 of them complete your lead-gen form and get into your sales funnel. Most of us would be thrilled with a 10% conversion rate, but what happens to the other 90 prospects?
Normally, nothing.
However, Bizo gives you the tools to keep engaging with those 90 lost prospects even after they leave your website. Their advanced social targeting and user tracking make it easy to intentionally show prospects your message whether they're browsing Facebook on their iPad or doing research on their laptop.
And what about those 10 prospects who turned into leads? You can maximize your sales by showing them custom-targeted ads depending on where they are in your sales funnel, even if they never come back to your website.
What Specific New Tools Will LinkedIn Adopt?
LinkedIn acquiring Bizo brings together the best of both worlds. You get the advanced automation, data management and multi-channel targeting of Bizo, paired with the enormous audience and publishing capabilities of LinkedIn.
But what will this acquisition mean for you in the real world? How will it change the way you use LinkedIn?
Of course, LinkedIn just acquired Bizo a little over a month ago, so a lot of this is still speculation. However, there are a few key tools that we're sure to see integrated into LinkedIn's platform:
Larger Display Advertising Network – Bizo has their own display ad network, similar to what Google AdSense does for Google AdWords, which will almost certainly get incorporated into LinkedIn.
Integrated Facebook Advertising – Again, Bizo has built-in Facebook Ads integration and social media ROI calculation. We expect both features to make it into LinkedIn.
Sales Funnel Tracking – When you use LinkedIn Ads in the future, you'll be able to track a prospect's progress through your sales funnel and customize your message depending on where they are in the sales process.
Improved Demographic Targeting – LinkedIn Ads already has great demographic targeting if all you care about is targeting LinkedIn members. However, Bizo's expansive pool of data will help LinkedIn optimize their demographic targeting as they scale up into a larger and more diverse ad network.
Multi-Channel Nurturing – To tie it all together, LinkedIn will of course adopt the trademark BMN technology to allow advertisers to track prospects' activity across multiple devices and websites.
The Future of LinkedIn
If you want to know where LinkedIn is going next, Bizo CEO Russell Glass said it best: "LinkedIn's mission is to connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful, while Bizo's is to help B2B marketers get to the right people… Combining forces will accelerate our ability to execute the huge opportunities ahead."
From now on, LinkedIn isn't just a social network. It's an interactive platform for B2B marketers to engage professionals. They already have all the bricks needed to create the world's premier B2B marketing platform – Bizo's suite of advanced advertising technologies is the mortar that will hold it all together.
Now that you know why it's essential to start using LinkedIn for B2B marketing, there are three things you should do right now:
Optimize your LinkedIn Business Page for higher visibility.
Grow your professional network and familiarize yourself with LinkedIn's current advertising platform.
While you're waiting for Bizo's tools to integrate with LinkedIn, start seeking customers in relevant LinkedIn groups.
Whatever you do, make sure LinkedIn is a top priority for your B2B marketing campaign. Trust me, it'll pay off.
This article was originally published by Firepole Marketing
Author: At StartupBros, Will Mitchell loves teaching aspiring entrepreneurs to seize business opportunities like LinkedIn's Bizo acquisition. Check out our free entrepreneur's manual if you'd like to learn how to thrive in tomorrow's business world.
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Danny Iny (@DannyIny), a.k.a. the "Freddy Krueger of Blogging", is the proud founder of Firepole Marketing. He's also the author of the Amazon best-selling book Engagement from Scratch!, the Naked Marketing Manifesto, and the Audience Business Masterclass. In addition to all of the above, Danny is a super-friendly guy who makes a point of responding to emails and messages within 24 hours—so follow him on Twitter @DannyIny, Google+, or just send him an email and say hello!